Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 24

43 Pensacola News Journal Thursday, March 24, 1988 Jgp Student drivers might Cemetery for is hounded by coon dogs vandalism COCA COLA CLASSIC, DIET COKE, CAFFEINE FREE COKE, DR. PEPPER or SPRITE outer need to show they read Educators seek incentive for literacy i )' EA. MILLER, LITE or GENUINE DRAFT $(o)99 12 OZ 24 PK. 12J EA. CANS tesad FREEDOM HILLS, Ala.

(AP) The faithful coon dogs buried in the world's only coon dog gTaveyard may need the help of some patrol hounds to keep vandals at bay. Caretakers of the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard on a 10-acre mountain site say vandals have targeted the unique coon dog tombstones and have littered the tourist attraction with beer and soda cans. "It used to happen just once in a while," said William 0. Bolton of Russellville, who has served as secretary-treasurer of the Tennessee Valley Coon Hunters Association for 30 years. "But it's happening more frequently." Bolton said in a recent interview that members of the association, which leases the land for the coon dog cemetery, have tried to keep the graveyard in good shape.

"But we can't be there all the time," he said. "It's going to take more patrols of the area and catching and fining someone to stop it." BUSCH cr NATURAL LIGHT ,2 24 PK CANS EA. driver exam, Bachus said. State Rep. Steve McMillan, a Bay Minette Democrat who serves on the task force and chairs the House Education Committee, said he will introduce the driver's license bill in this session of the Legislature, with an effective date of 1991 or 1992.

"If you give these kids advance notice, the word will spread real fast," McMillan said. "I don't want people on the road who can't read road signs." Backus said the state must take swift action to address the illiteracy problem because nearly half of Alabama's adults lack a high school diploma. "We need a dramatic change by the 1990 census. We cannot afford for the statistic to be out in the public domain that half of Ala-bamians don't have a high school education," he said. The task force's other recommendations included getting the governor to declare it a state priority to reduce the state's student dropout rate.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) One of the best ways to reduce Alabama's illiteracy rate would be to require every 16-year-old to be able to read before getting a driver's license, a state task force recommended Wednesday. "There is a driving ambition to be able to drive We think it will be a great incentive to stay in school long enough to learn to read and write," said Ben Backus, of the state's Education for Economic Development Task Force. Backus, director of educational institution affairs for Alabama Power joined other task force members Wednesday in presenting the group's recommendations to Alabama legislators. The recommendations ranged from mandatory schooling for welfare recipients without a high school education to requiring inmates to read and write before leaving prison.

According to statistics from the state Department of Public Safety, 38,111 people between 1982 and 1987 could not read the state's "These are medals you get for being in that area during the war," he said. "This is just as important to me as a big award. It just took me 43 years to get mine." He was a second-class petty officer by the time he celebrated his 17th birthday the legal enlistment age and was in charge of a landing craft in an amphibious unit during two invasions, including Okinawa. But getting the medals was a Navy veteran gets medals 43 years late different matter. Stanford said his ordeal began when his military 'records were lost while he was being transferred from the Aleutian Islands to Sidney, Australia.

Stanford's brother, Jimmy, an Air Force man, told Stanford that "As much as I love the Navy, I should write them every six weeks until they did something. When he saw the package, "I thought maybe they had called me back into the Navy," he said. The graveyard took form after Underwood buried his coon dog Troop at the site on Labor Day 1937. Over the years it became a tradition for hunters to bury their favorite hunting hounds in the graveyard, with some writing elaborate epitaphs and marking the graves with wooden crosses or spectacular stones, including statues of dogs. According to a Sunday report in the Times Daily of Florence, a limestone memorial built in 1960 and featuring two dogs treeing a raccoon was damaged and will have to be replaced.

The newspaper also said pictures of dogs buried at the cemetery have been stolen or destroyed and that grave markers have been damaged. He said some people have suggested erecting a tall fence around the graveyard, which is located in northwest Alabama's Colbert County. But he said a locked fence would discourage visitors, who have been drawn to the site by news media reports dating back to the early 1950s. "I've learned the patience of Job," said Stanford, 62. "I had just about given up when I found them in the mail.

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