Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 17

Jin 1 1 i 4 NT X' Si V- si EDIBLES, ART DOMINATE FESTIVAL Delectable marine life and beautiful crafts await visitors to the Pensacola Seafood Festival, 3B WAR MEMORIAL MOUSY SOUGHT The deadline for Korean War Memorial donations is almost here and the fund is short, 5B REPUBLICANS SEEK SPECIAL SESSION State GOP senators say they want to develop their own strategy for dealing with Florida's $622 million budget shortfall, 9B Newsjournal Pensacola, Florida TO REPORT A LOCAL STORYt 435-0684 Sunday, September 29, 1991 I TT BRIEFLY 100 jobs on the line in HRS District Adm. Kelso to speak at Lex decommissioning Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, chief of naval operations, will speak during the Nov. 8 decommissioning ceremony of the USS Lexington.

jjm i 1 he ceremony I I 1 will hfi at 10 n.m. nual $3.6 million budget is funded by HRS. The agency provides workshops job and housing placement and schooling services for mentally retarded people in the county. Like other agency heads, Conneely isnt sure where cuts will be made. The agency may look at cutting transporta-tion programs for some of its clients, he said.

Cuts in previous years have not forced the agency to eliminate any services, he said. This year, he's not sure that cuts can be avoided. "We're just kind of bracing ourselves' he said. The meeting is not a public hearing. Members of the HRS Interim Planning Body will review suggestions from employees about how to make cuts.

A final report will be drafted for Schembera to bring with her to Tallahassee on Wednesday when district administrators from around the state meet with Williams. A variety of agencies that HRS contracts services from could be hurt by the cuts. "We're worried," said John Conneely, executive director of the Association for Retarded Citizens of Escambia County Inc. He said 42 percent of the agency's an HRS District 1, said she originally thought the cuts might involve up to 50 jobs. After further study, though, the number is closer to 100, she said.

Those jobs come from a list compiled by state HRS Secretary Robert Williams. Williams' list is based on a $300 million list of possible cuts. He was in Pensacola last week, urging HRS employees to help him decide which cuts to make to come up with the necessary $230 million. Officials from District 1 which includes Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties will meet at 8:30 a.m. Monday at Shoney's restaurant on North Davis Highway.

A '1 A- Model-plane flier has date with other aces in California skies Officials meet Monday to decide what to do By Sara Lamb News Journal Health officials will meet Monday over breakfast to decide how to slice up a budget pie that shrunk last week, threatening 100 jobs in Northwest Florida. Because of a state revenue shortfall, the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services budget was cut by $230 million, which means as many as 1,000 jobs could be affected statewide. Chelly Schembera, administrator for hi 1 A--- lilliiSApK A AAA A Northwest Florida Modelers, estimated that 250 model airplane hobbyists live in the Pensacola area. His plane cost about $5,000 and 300 hours to build a cooperative effort with Dudley's employer, Radio South, he said. The planes will compete in three categories distinguished by speed gold, silver and bronze.

Dudley expects his plane to compete in the gold category because it can go as fast as 120 mph. Dudley could win a first-place prize of $4,500. "Winning is not important to me at all," he said. "I want to participate and to bring my airplane home in one piece." Six planes will be in the air at any given time during the races, Dudley said. "So, there's a very good possibility that the planes might run into each other.

This definitely requires a tremendous amount of skill," he said. Although some people think he is "crazy to spend hours building a plane only to crash it later," Dudley said he enjoys the challenge. "When we build the planes, we know they're inevitably going to crash at some point, you know, anything could happen. But that's part of the challenge." When he flew his first model airplane at 15, it crashed in about three minutes, Dudley said. "I ran it into the top of some trees." By Shrona Foreman News Journal Ken Dudley's hankering for model airplanes started when he was 15.

Now, Dudley, 29, will put his hobby to the test when he competes in the RC Unlimited Pylon Races a radio-controlled airplane race. Dudley's "Kick TireLight Fire" a replica of a P-51 World War II fighter plane will compete against at least 60 other model airplanes, said Loraine Har-tranft, event coordinator. The name for Dudley's plane originates from his flight training days when impatient pilots would say: "Just kick the tire and light the fire." The two-day event, sponsored by the newly formed RC Unlimited Racing starts Saturday in Madera, 20 miles from Fresno. The competing models, which are all scaled-down versions of full-size planes, will be controlled by a radio device, Har-tranft said. Dudley and his wife left Saturday night for their three-day drive to Madera.

But that doesn't bother the avid hobbyist whose passion for model airplanes puzzles some of his friends. "Without exaggeration, I've had hundreds of model airplanes. I used to build them in high school and college. I've probably crashed about four," said Dudley, a pilot who also flies full-size planes. Dudley, vice president of the at the Allegheny Pier at Pensacola Naval Air Station.

The World War II veteran has been the Navy's only training carrier since 1962. It stopped serving as a landiner Kelso platform in March and was removed from service because of maintenance problems. Education reformers to meet in Pensacola The Florida Commission on Education Reform and Accountability will meet in Pensacola on Monday to discuss education reform. The group also will conduct a public hearing from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in Washington High School's cafeteria.

The commission will host a public hearing for Santa Rosa County residents from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Berryhill Administrative Complex, 305 Berryhill Milton. Commission members plan to use the public's concerns and suggestions when making recommendations to the State Board of Education and the Legislature. The commission is a product of the Florida School Improvement and Education Accountability Act of 1991, designed to improve student performance by involving educators, parents, business people and community members in planning. The law, in full effect by 1993-94, will give schools more control in decisions on how their students can best learn.

Forum to be shown via satellite Tuesday 5 Local residents can watch the seventh annual Quality Forum live via satellite on Tuesday at the West Florida Regional Medical Center. The forum, organized to emphasize the importance of quality in business, will be held in New York. It will be broadcast from 9 a.m. to noon in the i Health Education Center Auditorium i at West Florida Regional Medical Center. The speaker will be John F.

Akers, I chairman of IBM and of National I Quality Month 1991. Executives from BMW, JC Penney Whirlpool Corp. and Ricoh Co. Ltd. also will speak.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. For details, i call494-4100 or 494-4960. Receipts will bring money for Habitat Scotty's will donate $10,000 worth of building materials to Habitat for Humanity affiliates that collect $100,000 in Scotty's register receipts between Oct. 1 and April 1992. All four stores in Pensacola and Milton are participating.

Receipts can be dropped off at the Habitat office in Suite 362 of the Blount Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Register tapes can be mailed to Pensacola Habitat, P.O. Box 13204, Pensacola, Board meeting times changed to evenings Starting Oct. 24, the Escambia County Commission will meet in the evening for action on planning board and zoning board of adjustments issues.

The meetings on the fourth Thursday of each month will be at 5:30 p.m. on the third floor of the county courthouse. Meetings will include an open forum at the end of the session for residents to address the board. CORRECTION Today is the last Sunday the downtown Pensacola Public Library will be open. Starting Monday, the main library wi'l be closed on Sundays and Mondays because of Escambia County budget cuts.

The Tryon Branch also will be closed on Mondays. That location never had Sunday hours. The starting date of the new hours was incorrectly reported in Saturday's News Journal. CLARIFICATION Cutlines accompanying the Amelia Earhart story in Saturday's News Journal stated the photos were taken in 1935. They were taken in 1937, as indicated in the story.

A. Jerry KovachNews Journal Orlando Grimes, standing, watches as model airplane builder Ken Dudley of Pensacola attaches the wings to his airplane, which can travel at speeds up to 120 mph. He will test his skills in a national competition next weekend. A Pastor supports world regime led by Christ By Craig Myers News Journal Like the Soviet Union, political systems will con- tinue to fail until God's worldwide kingdom is set up, a Worldwide Church of God speaker said Saturday. "There is a serious and urgent need for a worldwide government said Ray Wooten, pastor of Birming- ham and Anniston, congregations of the church.

"The solution is a government headed by Jesus Christ." I Wooten spoke Saturday to about 7,500 Worldwide Church of God members at the Pensacola Civic Center during their continuing Feast of the Tabernacles. Meetings resume at 10:30 a.m. today. Wooten told the assembly during a two-hour session Saturday that they were being prepared for leadership roles in that coming kingdom of God. 1 Unlike man's governments which have failed from ancient Egypt to the recently crumbled Soviet Union God's kingdom will not fail because it will be built on love, Wooten said.

1 "Love never fails. Why do world governments fail? Because they don't have love. God's kingdom will be a rulership of love," Wooten said. Even the United States, which he called the world's I greatest democracy, eventually will collapse, Wooten said. 1 Governments are born and die in a cycle that begins with faith, leads to abundance, and eventually col- lapses into selfishness, Wooten said.

I "Great kingdoms come and go and the USA is destined to do that, too. We don't want to see it, but we i already see the signs," Wooten said. Wooten called U.S. politicians modern day "Phari- sees" the religious leaders of ancient Israel con- demned by Christ for their hypocrisy. I "Do as they tell you, but not what they do," said-' Wooten, quoting the Bible.

Sightings spark new interest in area skies By Keith Phillips News Journal GULF BREEZE For UFO watchers, the thrill is far from gone. In fact, sky watchers have had a special treat lately a new sighting to watch and wonder about. The new object is described as an elliptical ring of brilliant white lights. "It looked like a beautiful pearl necklace. That's exactly what it looked like," said Boots Eckert, a member of the Mutual UFO Network.

The sightings have drawn new crowds to the foot of the Pensacola Bay Bridge, a prime observation spot. "After word got out that the ring was showing up, we had huge crowds down there," said Vicki Lyons, a network member. "There seems to be more and more people coming down there every night from Gulf Breeze and Pensacola. And once they see it, they come back." The ring has been observed at least six times since Sept. 5.

It has been seen hovering, moving rapidly through the sky and even doing a barrel roll, witnesses said, Even old hats at UFOs like Ed Walters are impressed by the ring. "It looked like a bright light twinkling twinkling diamonds," he said. "It See SIGHTINGS, 2B SI Charlie SteedNews Journal Ray Wooten, pastor of the Worldwide Church of God congregations in Birmingham and Anniston, called Saturday for a worldwide "government headed by Jesus Christ." He spoke before 7,500 church members at the Pensacola Civic Center..