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2 A Monday, August 13, 1990 HattlMburg AMERICAN The gal Pad South Mississippi on the record. IT 17 Troy Glenn Carter, 22, of Route 4, Box 214, Laurel. Laurel police investigated a one-vehicle accident that occurred on Saturday at about 8:30 p.m. on 12th Street at 13th Avenue. The driver of the vehicle was Joseph L.

Welborn of Route 7, Box 325, Laurel. Donna Porter of the same address, a passenger in the car, was injured in the accident. Officials at South Central Regional Medical Center said she was treated there and released. Compiled by Melinda Gholson dence on west Sixth Street. Officer Joe Ashmore later recovered the go-cart in a ditch at the corner of North and West streets.

Assorted clothing and jewelry was reported missing from the Ronie Street residence of Pamela Woullard Sunday. The items were valued at $900. Two television sets, a jam box and stereo equipment were reported missing from the McLelland Street residence of Andrew Anderson Saturday. The items were valued at $1,000. A wallet was reported stolen Saturday from the South i6th Avenue residence of Martha Scranage.

Money was reported stolen Saturday from the Concart Street residence of Ruth Strahan. Nothing was reported missing Saturday after illegal entry was gained into Southern Cleaners on South 27th Avenue. A television was reported stolen today from the Nuggett Village apartment of Charlie McGee. It was valued at $450. Thirty-two cassette tapes were reported stolen Saturday from the auto of Johnny Johnson on West Fourth Street.

A radar detector was reported stolen Saturday from the auto of Chris Nolan on North 39th Avenue. A purse was reported stolen Saturday from the auto of Kim Tucker on North 38th Avenue. Assorted clothing and other items were reported missing Satur HATTIESBURG Hattiesburg police said seven auto burglaries, four grand larcenies and two burglaries were reported over the weekend. Detective Bob Hopkins said one person was arrested Saturday at about 6 p.m. at mart after attempting to steal a bicycle.

"Two subjects cut the chains holding the bicycles and attempted to ride away with two," Hopkins said. "A juvenile was arrested in the case. The other suspect escaped." In other reports: Two bicycles were stolen from Quik Pic on Bay Street Sunday. A go-cart was reported stolen Sunday by Ann Temple, who said the go-cart was taken from a resi day from the auto of Amy Smith while it was parked at Sharkey's. Assorted items was reported stolen Saturday from the auto of Joyce Hicks on North 31st.

Avenue. A purse was reported stolen Saturday by Patty Richards while it was parked at Sharkey's. A purse was reported stolen Sunday by Carmen Jnnik from her auto parked on Fairmont Street. Compiled by Nikki Davis Maute JONES COUNTY The Jones County Sheriff's Department investigated a number of complaints on Sunday, among them: two cases of 911 abuse, one burglary, one child neglect, one obscene phone call, one accident, two assault charges, one disturbance, two drunk drivers, one fight, one suspicious person, one runaway and one accident with injury. Two arrests were made on simple assault charges.

LAUREL Laurel police arrested Calvin Jordan, 32, of 226 Garfield in Laurel over the weekend on a grand larceny charge. He was released on $2,500 bond. Laurel officials picked up three men on Department of Corrections warrants. The men had been out on bond and were brought in due to Department of Corrections orders. They are: Tony Curtis Bilbrew, 20, of 734 South Magnolia; Adolph Barnett, 23, of 140 Elm and Two convicted in 12-year case Study: Fetuses react to speech an Ji iiiMiiiiiitiii i- 55.000 REWARD 9 I SAN FRANCISCO (AP) For more than a decade, Rose Hoffman nosed around biker bars, braved threats and talked to virtually everyone she met in an effort to find her son.

Her quest ended this month when three men were convicted of sodomizing and murdering 20-year-old Gus Hoffman Jr. and stealing his motorcycle. His mother's ordeal began in 1978, when the young man didn't return to his San Jose home the night of July 4. "We're a very close family, and when your son doesn't come home all night, you right then know something is definitely wrong," Mrs. Hoffman said.

"I would brag he was home every night, and I would say at least I know where he is." Hoffman was last seen on his rebuilt Harley-Davidson motorcycle at a San Jose intersection. Witnesses said he was being chased by two other motorcycles and a car filled with people. Neither his body nor the motorcycle was ever found. Immediately after their son's disappearance, the Hoffmans hired private investigators, sent out fliers and offered rewards. Mrs.

Hoffman, now 55, began checking out biker bars and other places for BOSTON (AP) Yuppie mothers-to-be who try to put their children on the fast track by talking to them in the womb may be on the right track. Studies have found that starting in the womb, babies recognize speech as a special sound and distinguish between spoken passages, Anthony DeCasper, a psychology professor at the University North Carolina at Greensboro, said Sunday. DeCasper described research involving a group of women who were in their 32nd week of pregnancy. Researchers asked the women to recite a particular paragraph of a children's story three times in a row each day until the birth. Three different passages were used, but each mother recited only one.

About 52 hours after birth, the babies were given a special nipple and earphones. By altering their rate of sucking, they could choose to hear a woman reciting either the story their mothers had recited, or one of the other stories. They chose the familiar story, DeCasper said. "We're talking about recognition of linguistically relevant speech sounds," he said. "The implication is that fetuses heard, perceived, The case had been assigned as well to police, who didn't find much.

But Mrs. Hoffman kept dogging them to pursue the case. On her own, she learned that a man named Michael Lee Stevenson might have had something to do with her son's disappearance. She said she was threatened and told to stop asking questions. In 1987, the San Jose Police Department's homicide chief, in an attempt to close the books on old cases by assigning them to night detectives, gave the case to Sgts.

Jack Baxter and Jeff Ouimet. They took it from there. A key prosecution witness turned up: the ex-wife of suspect Richard Morris Dollar, who said she witnessed the attack. But Stevenson, in whose garage the assault is believed to have occurred, was shot to death in 1986 by an elderly man after trying to shake down the man's son, Shearer said. In 1988, Dollar and two other alleged motorcycle gang members were arrested in Gus Hoffman's slaying.

Dollar, 34, Michael Allen Hodges, 38, and John Michael Stelle, 49, face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole at sentencing Oct. 17. 2 AP pholo ROSE HOFFMAN poses recently with a flyer that was used during the search for her son 12 years ago. After years of investigating Gus Hoffman disappearance herself, Mrs. Hoffman's persistence was finally rewarded with the conviction of three men in the 1978 assault, robbery and murder of her son.

Tamil gunmen kill 173 ARACHNOPHOBIA THE TWO JAKES PG-13 3 00-500-7 00-9 00 9:30 FLATLINERS YOUNG GUNS II 00 9:00 PG-13 A story in Saturday's American incorrectly identified the Bassfield mayor as Robert Blount. Blount's first name is Buford. Also, Lawrence County was misspelled. listened and learned about something about the acoustic structure of American English." In another study, 24 newborns were exposed to the sound of a heartbeat or a woman speaking, DeCasper said. They were able to choose which ear would hear the sound by varying the frequency at which they sucked a pacifier.

Babies chose to hear speech in the right ear and the heartbeat in the left ear, said DeCasper. So they were already processing speech differently from other sound, he said. "What it shows is, at birth, there is some 'knowledge' of the language of the culture," said DeCasper, who spoke in a presentation and an interview at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Mriganka Sur, of the department of brain and cognitive science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the idea that the result shows specialized processing of speech sounds "makes a lot of sense to me." It reflects specialization in the brain's two halves, called hemispheres, he said. That probably is driven by genes, although the experience of hearing speech before birth may also play a role, he said.

AP photo The highly publicized Baby dispute four years ago in New Jersey centered on a child conceived with a surrogate mother's egg and the sperm of a man hiring the surrogate. The man's wife had no biological ties to the child. Like Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate mother in the Baby case, Ms. Johnson said she saw the surrogate contract as a financial opportunity. "I thought I could save up some money, get a car, and put myself through (graduate) nursing school," she said.

Her lawsuit will contend the couple lost interest in her pregnancy, gave her no emotional support, were late with her monthly payments and failed to buy her a life insurance policy the contract required. "They never held up their end of the deal," she said. "They were showing their irresponsibility and the fact that they would not be attentive parents. To me, this is fetal neglect." iy 1 -11 II Moslems and stepped up patrols. Victims were given a mass burial.

Brigadier Upali Seneviratne, the top army officer in the eastern province, said at least 40 Tamil gunmen attacked the villages. "They broke into three groups and shot at everybody in sight," he said. He said the dead included 29 women and 31 children, one of whom was a 9-day-old girl. After a 90-minute raid on Eravur, the gunmen moved to adjacent villages, the officials said. The villages are clustered on the east coast, 125 miles east of Colombo.

On Aug. 3, gunmen raided another eastern village and massacred 140 Moslems in two mosques. The incident set off a chain of vengeance killings. On Sunday, Sri Lankan police shot and killed 15 Tamil rebels after the guerrillas killed four Moslem farmers in Sammanturai, officials said. Six soldiers died in a rebel attack in northeastern Talaimannar on Sunday.

We We We government says Tamils suspect them of siding with the army. Elsewhere in Sri Lanka, military officials said rebels suspected of being Tamils ambushed a truck in the northeastern Trincomalee district at dawn and killed 15 Sinhalese. On Sunday, at least 15 Tamil Tiger rebels, four Moslems and six government soldiers were killed in separate incidents. A Tamil politician said Saturday's attack on Moslem villages was in retaliation for the killing of 33 Tamil villagers by Moslems earlier the same day. The People's Front of Liberation Tigers, the main Tamil rebel group, denied involvement in the massacre.

At least 538 people have been killed on Sri Lanka's east coast in the past 10 days. The victims include 363 Moslems, 100 Tamils and 75 Sinhalese, military officials and politicians say. In Eravur, tension lingered as the military lifted an overnight curfew HATTIESBURG ERAVUR, Sri Lanka (AP) -White flags of mourning today fluttered above Moslem homes in five fishing villages where Tamil gumnen massacred 173 residents with machine gunfire and machetes. Military officials raised the death toll as families brought in more bodies from the stricken villages after the Saturday night massacre. It was one of the worst eruptions of violence in this island nation's escalating ethnic conflict, which pits Tamil separatists against the Sinhalese-dominated government.

Although Moslems claim neutrality in the 7-year-old civil war, the all movies $1.50 each. Return Thursday! tAfefa Video MOSELM WOMEN wail for dead relatives, among 119 Moslems hacked and shot to death by Tamil rebels in the eastern coastal town of Eravur, Sri Lanka Sunday. Surrogate mother sues couple to keep baby Steer This Way by BOBBY MEELER Double the effectiveness of your headlights by switching to halogen lamps. Light output is superior without increasing the strain on the car's electrical system. Danger sign: an oily green puddle on the garage floor may mean your car is leaking brake fluid.

Have the car brought to a fusted mechanic immediately to have the system checked. Ignition wiring, hoses and fan belts are all low-cost items that are inexpensive to replace-- and a nuisance if they fail suddenly. Check regularly as they start to show wear. If you stop to help at the scene of an accident, park several yards beyond the accident and turn on your flashers. That's safer than pulling up behind the accident, or across the road.

The truth about seat belts: they are necessary for every trip, even close to home at less-than-highway speeds. Statistics indicates that 75 percent of accidents happen within 25 miles of home and at speeds of less than 40 miles per hour. AUTO REPAIR The truth about good auto maintenance: find a good mechanic and let him take care of your car. You'll like the service at Courtesy Ford Isuzu. Hattiesburg, MS rt- CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBERS 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Anna Johnson, 29, intends to sue the couple, identified only as Mark and Chris, for custody, child support and damages for emotional distress. She said she would file the suit today in Superior Court. Ms. Johnson signed a $10,000 contract to have the couple's embryo implanted and bear the child to term. She was hired because the biological mother had undergone a hysterectomy.

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