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I school football coaches powder player REVOLTSSPORTS, 1 7 TPENSACOLA IT'S A DIRTY JOB FOR EITHER SIDE It's probably the oldest battle between the sexes who's in charge of keeping home-sweet-home 1D GM CHAIRMAN CALLS IT QUITS General Motors chairman Robert Stempel is forced to quit for failing to halt heavy financial lossesMoney, 3B (UXUIlIIIllSl. Tuesday, October 27, 1992 Northwest Florida Pensacola, Florida i a laanneu Newspaper Deputies await autopsy on car-fire victim Santa Rosa fire off icials hope tests will help identify body fi i' i Kit1' teer Fire Department. Deputies, volunteer firefighters and fire investigators sifted through the wreckage Monday "to see if there's any evidence that wasn't destroyed by the fire," Seevers said. "WE'RE TRYING to find anything that will help us as far as identifying the victim. "Also, we want to determine the origin of the fire and how it got started." C.C.

"Dusty" Rhodes, an investigator with the state fire marshal's office, said the cause of the fire could not be determined until lab results are finished. varre Volunteer Fire Department were called to the area of Fern Road and Sundown Drive by neighbors Sunday to fight a car and brush fire. Deputy Fire Chief Benjie Davis said the car was engulfed in flames and surrounded by the brush fire. Firefighters had both fires under control in about an hour and approached the car. "As we got close to the vehicle, the body was discovered reclining on the seat," he said.

"At this time the body was burned beyond recognition." "It was too late before we even got there," said Capt. Mike Howard of the Holley-Navarre Volun due today, he said. The body was removed from the wreckage of a 1981 Oldsmobile Omega on Monday afternoon. The car, which burned Sunday, was parked on a utility access trail off Fern Road in Holley-by-the-Sea, a sprawling south Santa Rosa subdivision. INVESTIGATORS KEPT the car under guard until Monday morning to allow it to cool off before examining the crime scene.

The car had out-of-state license plates, and investigators are trying to track the owner, Seevers said. Volunteers from the Holley-Na- By Keith Phillips and Nita McCleskey News Journal HOLLEY BY THE SEA Santa Rosa County sheriffs deputies are counting on the results of an autopsy to identify a possible murder victim whose severely burned body was pulled from the wreckage of a car. "There was absolutely no identification found at the scene," Sgt. Woody Seevers said. "At this time we're not sure if we have a Jane Doe or a John Doe.

"Right now it's being considered a homicide." Results of the autopsy, performed Monday afternoon, are JL Bruce GranerNews Journal Paul Norkus, left, FDLE crime scene analyst, and Santa Rosa Sheriffs Detective Don Bass sift through debris as the burned car is removed. TED rot WHERE'S MISSY ECK? Missy Eck was walking on Patricia Drive in west Pensacola about 8:30 p.m. June 25 when she 1 disappeared. Escambia County sheriff's investigators believe Missy became a victim of foul play. defend.

Baseball fans: If you call them, will they come? By Nathan Dominitz News Journal The Pensacola Baseball Fan Club is planting grass roots for its field of dreams: minor league baseball in Pensacola. The club, about 20 people from the Pensacola area, announced its existence Monday at Seville Quarter. The backdrop was a sign painted by students at Edge-water Elementary School. As in the movie "Field of Dreams," there was a corn field and baseball players, except their uniforms had "Pensacola written on them. The sign read: "If we ask them they will come." "This is our field of dreams.

I believe it," club member claim I Clara 0f J- Missy and her boyfriend start walking south on Patricia Drive from Clara Street More on the campaigns3-4A Associated Press Ross Perot took over a campaign briefing in Dallas on Monday and angrily repeated his suspicions that the Republicans had concocted a plan to smear his daughter and sidetrack his candidacy. He conceded that he had no direct evidence of any dirty tricks, and the press secretary to President Bush said Perot was "paranoid" and "crazy." Perot, whose surge in the polls after the presidential debates cut into Bill Clinton's lead over Bush, said he A2 Missy and her boyfriend part between Lenora and Santa Barbara streets IT fs Lenora Street TO JOIN People interested in the Pensacola Baseball Fan Club can contact Dan Broadway at 432-4311 or Howard Young at 438-4002. Season ticket pledges should be mailed to PBFC. P.O. Box 12241, Pensacola, Fla.

32501-2241. Dan Broadway said. "I've talked to too many people here who say: 'Why haven't we got a or 'Why hasn't somebody done something to get a This is doing something." Questions of which teams would be wooed, or how a sta- --4 'A I 'IT wv 5' Fairfield Drive v-i'Vi t7 i i fi "'J I i i a wfi Missy never reached her destination, a friend's house on Patricia Drive was trying to reduce the subject to a "one-day story" and return the debate to presidential issues. But his surprise appearance at his son's news conference, telecast live by CNN, caused a sensation as Perot discussed how he had been a victim of death threats, wiretapping and political tricks. The Bush campaign issued a statement saying it had never "attempted, Graphic-Ron Griswold, Photo-Dean SaitoNews Journal Perot directly or indirectly, to tap Mr.

Perot's telephones, disrupt his daughter's SwlDSSDinig dium would be built, will be answered later, Broadway said. What the club wants now are fans committed to buying two season tickets for two consecutive years at a reasonable and customary cost. No money will be just pledges of fan support. The club hopes to collect 15,000 to 20,000 pledges in time for a Nov. 12 press conference to coincide with a Pensacola meeting of professional baseball scouts.

Class AA Southern League president 'Jimmy Bragan, a past supporter of Pensa-, cola's pro baseball efforts, is expected to attend. The club will increase its exposure with advertisements in local media, as well as booths at festivals and shopping centers. "If you're a baseball fan and live in Northwest Florida or South Alabama, this may be a way to make it happen," Broadway said. Iwee3 By Lesley Tritschler News Journal In seven-tenths of a mile, Missy Eck seemingly vanished from the face of the Earth. About 8:30 p.m.

June 25, Missy and her boyfriend, Brian Kittle, were walking from his house at Patricia Drive and Clara Street to her friend's house almost a mile WEATHER Partly cloudy wedding, alter photographs of Mr. Perot or his family, or take any other action to interfere with the private lives of Mr. Perot of his family." Bill Clinton stayed far from the fray, describing the Perot-Bush episode as "strange." He said of the feuding, "Just let 'em go," and brushed off Perot's statement, quickly rescinded, that Clinton wanted to "go toward socialism." Polls show tight race in varying degrees Associated Press NEW YORK Days after President Bush dismissed "nutty pollsters" for depicting his re-election prospects as remote, new polls showing a tighter race have buoyed his supporters. Bill Clinton's lead over Bush ranged in samples last week from 3 to 19 percentage points. Some observations on the polls: Question: Has the race tightened? Answer: Yes.

Clinton's lead in voter preference on average shrank as Ross Perot picked up support. "People who are defectors tend to rethink. Some of the defectors tend to get loyal," said Andrew Kohut, who directs polls for U.S. News World Report magazine. Is Bush gaining on Clinton? Bush has been stuck in second, with his percentage of voter support in the low- to mid-30s for weeks.

But the spread between he and Clinton is shrinking. Attitudes toward Bush have not changed much. But the attacks on Clinton's character have taken a toll. Is the Perot phenomenon making the polls less reliable? "We just don't know how committed people are to what they're saying about this very quixotic candidate," Kohut said. Even though he takes a smaller bite from Bush's support than from Clinton's nationally, he could cost Bush a battleground state such as Texas.

Are there other reasons that the size of Clinton's lead changes from poll to poll? Each poll's method varies slightly. "The subtle differences in wordings and positions of questions can lead to differences of a few points where people are not firm in their positions," Kohut said. Rain chance, 20 High 77. Low 59. Details back of section INDEX of her destination.

He has a suspect, but he's looking for that one strand that can tie the witnesses' information and the physical evidence into an arrest and conviction. He believes someone knows what and he.wants that someone's help. "We're not getting a lot of volunteers to come forward," he said. "We're having to run them down. People don't want to get involved.

If it were their family, then they'd wish somebody would help." LISA JARMAN can't help feeling guilty, even though her mother, Judy, tells her she shouldn't. Jarman, 16, is the friend Missy was going to visit the night she disappeared. Missy and Jarman talked on the telephone just before Missy left Kittle's house. Jarman and her boyfriend offered to get Missy and walk back to Jarman's house together, she said. But Missy declined, saying she would walk with Kittle.

See FOUL PLAY, back of section 3B AC. 3D Ann Landers 2D Money Classified 5-8C Movies Oh God, I'll tell you, it just makes me sick when I think about it. This case will not stop. We will not stop our investigation. 9 Investigator Frank Fillingim slipped away from Missy.

Many posters have come down; her family is living privately with their uncertainty. But Investigator Frank Fillingim remains on the case. He believes Missy was killed and is determined to arrest the person who did it. HE KNOWS that some of the department's missing person cases probably are murders, and the killers have gone free. He does not want Missy's name among those files.

Step by step, he has tracked down witnesses who can place Missy along the route within a few doors down Patricia. Kittle told the Escambia County Sheriffs Department he walked part of the way with Missy, then went to look for a friend. MISSY, 15, has never been Comics 4D Crosswords Florida Nation news 2-5A, 8A Obituaries 2B Opinion 6-7A Sports 1-4C Stock markets 4-5B Television 5D World news 2A 5C, 2D 6B 2D 1-6D -1-2B 2B Horoscope Llfe Local Lottery 1992 Gannett Co. Inc. Eck seen again.

In the four months since her disappearance, posters have been distributed, public pleas for information have come from her family and law off icers have combed the densely wooded hills near Patricia. 1 Slowly, the public attention has Need assistance? News. 435-8600 Circulation 435-8686 Retail Advertising 435-8554 Classified Advertising 435-8585 INFORMATION HOT LINE 1-900-773-6000 List of services5C COMING WEDNESDAY: CANDYMAN A FIXTURE AT THE PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR.