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MOM SM''" ST. PETERSBURG TIMES L-J V-3 CU V-JVJ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1977 GOP gets a Reagan pep talk By WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM Pmrlurj Tlm tri Wiltr WILL 50,000 FLORIDIANS sion Chairman Paula F. Hawkins sat nearby in evening attire, Reagan said Carter typifies Democratic politicians. "They play Scrooge on the political stump and then Diamond Jim Hrady when they get in office," he said. THE DINING Republicans cheered when Reagan criticiyed Carter's effort to fight inflation and government bureaucracy.

Hut his largest ovation came when he spoke against the Panama Canal treaties. He has been a leading opponent of the treaties since the 1976 presidential At a late afternoon press conference, Reagan accused Carter of "deliberately rewriting history and distorting farts" when explaining the treaties to the American people. "That treaty is fatally flawed," he said, because it doeB not adequately explain how the United States could hold the canal in the event of a Panamanian takeover, "I'M NOT SLAMMING the door on them (the Panamanian government)," Reagan said. He said he simply wants the United States to restudy that part of the treaty. Saa REAGAN.

2 ES party pride and to help stat Republican workers rebound from the 1976 presidential loss. "You're pretty enthusiastic to be an endangered species," the brown-suited Reagan said. With gas torches illuminating the luau complex at Disney World's Polynesian Village hotel, Reagan, 66, launched a frontal attack on President Carter's policies. When it comes foreign policy, Reagan said, Carter "doesn't know the difference between being a doormat and a diplomat." While State Sen. Henry Sayler, St.

Petersburg, and Public Service Commis ORLANDO Between the humming ukelele airings uf a Polynesian combo and a luau dinner of beef teriyaki, former California governor Ronald Reagan pep-talked several hundred Republicans Thursday night at Walt Disney World. The address opened the 1977 Southern Republican Conference, a three-day gathering of party leaders from 13 states in the Southeast. REAGAN, THE movie star turned national politician, was called on to whip up St Ptrburg Tiniat Boy hospitalized after being locked in car for 5 hours Unitwf PrM International .4 "VI By DICK BOTHWELL St Ptrburg Tnna Stff Wntaf Fifty-thousand Floridians are going to quit smoking, as of today and in the near future. Who says Edw ard L. Coker of Tampa, director of public information for the American Cancer Society's Florida division.

His statement came during Thursday's Great. American Smokeout, a massive effort to encourage Sunshine State residents to stop polluting their lungs and Florida's air, in that order "QITT for HIM to say," most of the Americans who still smoke might grunt, rememliering how they've tried to stop and couldn't (although two thirds want to shed the habit). What does Coker, no smoker he, base his ambitious prediction upon? Californians, that's what. "California did this project ldst year." he says. Convicted killer delivers warning, slashes chaplain By SUSAN DENLEY 8rPtf tburg Twn Staff Writf CLEARWATER John Joseph Reilly II, serving a life sentence for the ritual slaying of his girlfriend last March, slashed a prison chaplain's throat on Halloween, apparently because he thought it would guarantee him the death penalty.

Two days before the attack, he mailed a letter detailing his murder plan to the Pinellas judge who had re fused to grant his pleas for execution. The chaplain survived the razor blade attack and Reilly is in solitary confinement at Florida State Prison near Starke while officials decide what to do with him. PRISON OFFICIALS say Reilly asked to go to chapel Halloween morning. There, he read the Bible for 4f) minutes, then pulled a pencil studded with a razor blade and slit Chaplain J. Larry Shook's throat.

The cut barely missed the 52-year-old Shook's jugular vein but required 12 stitches. The Bradford County state attorney's office is investigating the incident, but no charges have been filed. Several days after the attack, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge B.J. Driver received a seven page letter from Reilly detailing his plans to murder the chaplain. The letter apparently was delayed la-cause it had insufficient postage.

Driver said Thursday he feels the letter "speaks for itself." He said that by law, he cannot make Reilly's sentence harsher. Reilly is appealing the sentence to a higher court. In the letter, Reilly takes Driver to task for refusing to give him the death penalty after he pleaded no con test in July to the brutal stabbing of 24 year-old Clearwater resilient Vivian French. Driver sentenced Reilly to life in prison, he said, lie-cause although Miss French was stabbed 3D to 40 times, she died with the first knife thrust and the slaving therefore was not heinous enough to warrant execution. AT THE TIME, Reilly, who sometime calls himself Jesus Christ and sometimes Satan, begged to be executed.

In other letters and in statements made in court, the 25 year old man indicated that he believes he is on a Messiah-like mision that must end in execution. In his latest letter to Driver, he refers to himself both as a "prophet of God" and as a "sorcerer's apprentice." "I lielieve you are aware I am in quite a perdicament (sic)," Reilly says in his letter. "I honestly thought you would grant me my death and I was quite sur prised when you sentenced me to life As previousl stated, I want to make it so that the judges have no alter native other than the death sentence. "What can 1 do that would make you folks feel good about murdering me?" Reilly said he has thought of writing the judge "in detail how I murdered my lover and after reading the account you would puke and then accuse me of being the most decadent individual and then get a mob to burn me at the stake." Sea REILLY, 2 r' I i I OCALA A 3-year-old boy was hospitalized with a 106-degree fever and possible brain damage after he was linked in a car for five hours while his half-brother went hunting. Eric W.

Gustafson, the son of Eric and Shirley Gustafson of Ocala, was in poor condition Thursday at Munroe Memorial Hospital. DOCTORS SAID they believe Eric sul'lered heat prostration and possible oxygen starvation as he sat in the closed car Tuesday, A large dog also left in the car died. Marion County Sheriff Don More-land said a felony charge of aggravated child battery was filed Wednesday against Eric's half-brother, Kenneth J. Wiater, 19. Wiater, a farm worker, is scheduled to appear Nov.

28 in Marion Circuit Court. His bail is set at Moreland said he delayed filing charges until he reviewed the case with the state attorney's office. "It's one of those strange, tragic cases where our officers just aren't sure whether it's totally an accident or whether there is legal negligence," Moreland said. OUTSIDE temperatures rose from 46 to 70 degrees between 7:30 a.m. and noon Tuesday while the child was left in a car beside State Road 4t) and the Oklawaha River.

"It was probably the clooed car," Moreland said. "The heat can really build up in them. And, of course, the air can really get bad with both a boy and a dog breathing it. "It's really a tragedy. Just a bad thing to hapen." The child's temperature was M6 degrees when he was admitted to the hospital.

DEPUTIES SAID there is no evidence that the boy or the dog had struggled to escape from the car. They said Wiater told them he returned from hunting to find Erie unconscious and the dog dead. Wiater sought help at the Silver Springs Boat Basin, where bystanders took the brothers to the hospital. Hospital authorities called the sheriffs department. Sheriffs ('apt.

Gerald King said Eric's mother had given Wiater per mission to take the boy hunting. "They found that one out of every 1U people who signed pledge cards stojijied. Well, we're looking for 5UI.000 pledges in Florida. II we get the same quit rate, we'll have 50,01 X) new noil smokers." The movement is rolling, Coker adds. "Minnesola'sdivision ol the American Cancer Soci- ety started it, around 1172," he says, "''alilornia picked it up last year This year, 10 stales including Florida are participating COKER'S OFFICE in Tampa was compiling campaign reports Thursday afternoon from stale of fices.

"In Perry," he says, "volunteer workers had a big bonfire of smoking materials in front ot the Chamber of Commerce. In Daytona Beach, high school biology teachers are giving an extra credit to kids who sign the pledge cards, available at ACS offices and various chains such as McDonalds and 7 Eleven. "Jack Harris on FLA was a-king people who are stopping to i ail him and tell him how thev felt, after their morning cup of coffee. And DJs are challenging I other DJs lo quit, mayors are making proclamations, 1 I so on." The Great American Smokeout is only the U-gin ning, a kick off event for the Cancer NHietv's five- year anti-smoking program. The goals are: Reduce the number ot adults who smoke by 25 per cent, cut smoking among young people 50 per cent, and urge government and industry to 1 cut toxic element in cigarette siimke bv 5o per cent compared to today's levels Suppose you quit and are tempted to go back.

hat then" "Call your local unit ol the Aiiicrii.in Camer nh-ety." says Ed Coker "We give free quit smoking clinics (JUTTING SMOKING was Topic A in Florida Thursday. And the general leeling was that it is easier said than done. At one St. Petersburg office, 10 slaves of Demon Nicotine swore oil Thursday morning They were encouraged by a nonsmoking colleague who had brought a delicious assortment of nibbles olives, cheese, sausage, almonds. Available ONLY to smokers who agreed to stop.

No less than In did so. and fell upon the giiies Bv that aftern.in.all but three had reverted to their cigarette pulling "I decided I better have a cigarette or I'd bite off my tongue," said one hat slider Another smoker wh" quit for five hours rewarded fiersrll bv buving a ar of boots St, 11 another doubled her cotfre consumption Iwlore lighting up Smokers generally were busy defending their habit Thursday. 'Thev offered a wide assortment ol excuses under the heading, hv 1 Smoke" "Just to bother people." "I have some rights, too don't get drunk, 1 chase men, I gotta have SOME vice "At least I'm not smoking jol "MY DAD STARTED sin. king nonfilters when he was 14 Now he's so. Hnd he's belter health than 1 am Meanwhile, bai on Central Avenue in downtown St Petersburg, several stores engaged in a cigarette prue war made it harder for smokers to quit Kress and Co, Waigret-n Drug Store, and Thrifty Discount Store were selling ugarcttes at 49 tents a paik 'Thursday alternooii.

well below the normal price of 65 or cents a pack And sales were booming Si PtMK9 Itm lort Warm skies for the beach babies Making footprints in the sands of time is St. Petersburg's Jeffery Earley, 1 ably supported by father Randy. They're taking advantage of pleasant weather at Pass-a-Gnlle beach maybe so JeHery can see where the sandman gets that stuff he's always bringing. Merchants briefed on ways to stop shoplifters Nationally, shoplifting costs marchanta and consumers (4-billion annually. In St.

Petersburg, the yearly tab is 146,600. businessmen with figures on some of the losses they take: Nationally, shoplifting costs merchants and consumers $4 billion annually Sticky fin gers stole $253 million last year in Florida and in St Petersburg. "What we bave to do is apprehend and prosecute i shoplifters)," Ms. Myers said- She suggested that store security statters ap proach a suspected shoplifter when he is about to leave the store or alter he has walked out. Do not tell a suspect that he is under arrest, Ms.

Myers told the businessmen. Call it "lawful detention" instead, she advised. Then, she add ed, the security staffer should call the police, BEFORE APPROACHING a customer, however, the security Btaffer should le alwolute-ly certain that shoplifting has occurred, she stressed. Otherwise, the store might risk a lawsuit. Saa SHOPLIFTING.

2 lifter and carry all bags usually sold during Christmas. fitting girdle and bulky topcoats Switching pricetags from one piece of merchandise to another Watching a film ml -hopliftuig appropriately titled Stuky the buines men also learned alsio' iimU "ftt in thwart'ng shoplifters1 io-k'ti television, hked display cases fir expensive items, mirrors, checkers to monitor the dressing rooms, sensing devices and alert emplovees. Consumers ultimately pay the losses that shoplifters and bad check passers inflict on businessmen, said Herbert Poulson, acting di rector of the city's crime prevention office. Patti A Myers, a crime prevention staffer and former security specialist at a department store, said businessmen try to recoup part of their shoplifting and had-chet loows with a 3 to per cent markup on merchandise. SHE THEN shook some of the yaw.iing By JOHNNIE ROBERTS (I Pifc Imlim" Nini With the Christmas shoplifting season just around the corner.

St. Petersburg shopuwners should keep their eves on the customers who look at other people in the store instead of the merchandise. More than likely, the customers who look furtively from face to face instead of at the merchandise are potential shoplifters. THAT ADVICE CAME Thursday at a seminar for 100 merchants and bankers on how-to curb shoplifting and bad checks. The seminar, sponsored by the Pinellas Sun-coast Chamber of Commerce and the St.

Petersburg Office of Crime Prevention, aim) described common techniques used by experienced shop lifters: Boxes empty gift-wrapped boxes with spring trap doors through which the shoplifter can slip purloined items. Bags carried into the shop by the shop Times DIGEST City unveils hiring goals thin in this regard and relied too muth on Fuel adjustment bonus to drop electric bills Electric bills fo Florida Power Corp custom wll up down an average $1 4 7 nent month thanks to greater operating efficiency at the utility r. Crystal fW nuclear plant After a b'yj fuel adjustment credit in November Honda Power announced Thursday that December electric bills will ca'ry a $4 8 1 fuel adiostmeni bonus, December credit ll eceed this month creaM bv $1 4 7 on the eveat customer 11 000 kilowatt hours, bill The November ciecM was $3 34 on the 3v scje bid public health nurse he, lied most ot the sc fusil 8t6 pupils fur nits Principal John Wuer Sd'd Thursday that tour more chilihen had been sent home making a total 0 45 cases Correction. Section A Pc ijs County sheriM detect ve tesi I.p,! 3 Cie.wa'er aluminum plant worker was t'ymcj 1 work up coot aije to kill himse't when he cnene,) Ve on Viiow employees last month A headline Thursday aitnbuied the oetettive statement to someone else Inside Newt of St. Petersburg and Pinellas A grecs prod aj-p ctvei or recea'tm rw-Mxs fi.1 3 News of Business A hush hush visit e.

-sr Gma" ma- le.t a turtne pla- s' 4 5 By PATRICK McMAHON It ftwto Tim luff A five year plan to hire and promote more blacks and women in St Petersburg city government wa presented to the Citv Council Thursday City Manager Raymond Harlwogh unveiled the city's new affirmative plan, which calls for hiring a fuT.time employee to "monitor the effectiveness of the plan." In addition, the plans also percent age hiring foals for minority male, minority fen, lies and whit fe male in most i mssi firatittn of olv g.ivnimen! One urpn is that the report say city already has reached its for the hiring of minority for police uffi cer and firefighter ptwitmns, but pledge a "continuing effort" The biggest change from the city's current l. profile affirmative action program is the new affirmative sction tfficer, Har-baugh said "I think mavbe I it tir MafT a huie department heads, he said I his perhaps was not his major conern" and the hiring and promotion of blaik and women was considered only "as a sideline 'The goals set out in the plan are listed in penenugr terms for broad categories used bv the Equal Employment Opportunity Comn.is-ion. There are no specific number of employees noted in the re.rt. nor are there depigment bv department totals or g.ls For ir, statue th report said that for the id'eg officials and administrators." .1 4 per rent now are imiio'itv he for an iftctea ot 1 per t.Ha vetr i i per (en of ire ad numerator be rrmontv male hit this dov." the said. "i put some fqwsifit down without p.ivmg the total numlers trre I n-kel the to put together a rtao-tu pr See AfflRMATlVE.2 Head lice reported Forty enr cases of hf ad lte d-scoveed Ve Vsdav at F.ne.

as Central Eentary School :ot.sMi.t the 9 oo't reak a school this year A nurse 'o the Pmei as County Meaiih Dec-aMmpnt. sd 1 1 cases at anothe school two 39c hud been tho prevtooS h'Cjh The children treit sent home s'ter pa-ett votjrteers fasted fcv a Unve-ied by City Manayaf Raymond Harbaug" tecitv Nriny pian ts pcaotge rwmg goals far rrtmoritv maws mmof iry females aoj white femes rt Cls'fcton Cjty government.