Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 65

Qlfmeu fTOte tad FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1991 CLEARWATER EDITION St. Petersburg, Fla. Traveling irsmemnioirDaDs royse comrHroveirsy Several groups say they do not like a funeral home company's sponsorship of one of the portable monuments. By RHONDA HOLIFIELD Tlmai Staff Writaf being used to sell burial plots. "Why don't they put it in a park? Why only in a cemetery for only three days? Why don't they have counselors out there for the stressed out veterans?" objected Mike Rose, president of the Suncoast Vietnam Veterans of Pinellas County, based in St.

Petersburg. "Our stance is that we don't want to have anything to do with a wall used to make money, using our brothers and sisters on the wall." That's not happening, said Charlie Pride, local coordinator for the "Vietnam Wall Experience," co-sponsored by Moss-Feaster Funeral Homes and Serenity Gardens Memorial Park. "Our company felt that there were so many people in the United States that would love to go to the wall. We just wanted to share that experience. We have no ulterior motive whatsoever.

"In no way, shape or form is the wall being used to sell plots. If anybody did that, they'd be out of here in nothing flat." Serenity Gardens, where the wall will be through Sunday, is owned by the Houston-based Service Corpo- Please see MEMORIAL Page 2 A Competition may be responsible for controversy over two mobile models of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on display in the county during the next week, says the man who began the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. "Getting young people and certainly the veterans of that war to see this replica is the point," said Jan C. Scruggs, who was the driving force to build the memorial in Washington. "A little squabbling among veterans groups is just a little diversion." Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which pays for the upkeep of the wall in Washington, will be at the memorial model in Largo today and Saturday.

However, some veterans groups in the area are worried that the model, which is set up in a cemetery, is Times photo JOAN KADEL FENTON Andrew Hixson wipes fingerprints from the model wall at Serenity Gardens in Largo. EDITOR'S NOTE BOB HENDERSON Despite cuts, search goes on Interviewing prospective teachers is on a smaller scale, a school official says. it By PATTY CURTIN JONES Tlmt Staff Writer i iniP'ny i While 300 Pinellas County teachers worry whether they will have jobs this fall, school officials are busy interviewing prospective teachers at Florida's college School officials say they continue interviewing because the system lacks black teachers and teachers of the speech impaired and emotionally handicapped and because they need a pool of applicants for when money is not so tight. Jade 3 i Knowing why 'nof is important Say 'no' to drugs. You can't say it enough.

At least twice in recent weeks, we have had color pictures on this page of kids proudly wearing T-shirts. But there's a lot more to this fight than just saying "no." Kids and parents need to fully understand why saying no is one of the most important things they will ever say. People who can help with that understanding will be out in force May 1 1 at a Say No to Drugs Festival in Clearwater's Coachman Park. This first such event sponsored by Clearwater's Police Department, Downtown Business Crime Watch and Sertoma clubs will include an arts and crafts showsale. But the emphasis will be on why people should say "no" to drugs.

The police will have a substance-abuse display and officers to explain it in detail. Straight and Operation PAR, two drug rehabilitation programs, will have booths, as will other agencies involved in drug prevention. Festival proceeds will be used to buy signs warning drug users and dealers that areas near schools, parks and public-housing complexes are drug-free zones where arrests and convictions result in tougher punishment. State law authorizes judges to come down harder on people involved with drugs within 1,000 feet of schools and 200 feet of parks, post-secondary educational institutions and public housing. These signs will be installed by Sertoma club members.

Also at the daylong festival will be Pursuit, a popular band composed of law enforcement officers; the Police Department's canine and SWAT units; and characters such as Muffy Mouse. Fifty to 75 artists and crafts people are expected for the show. Chairing the festival are Carol Horne-Warren of Lee Arnold Associates and Ella Smith of Florida Power Corp. Fund-raiser founder doing well Bill and Jeanette Hale were one of the five couples who nearly a quarter-century ago founded the omelet parties, those amazingly successful fund-raisers for the Upper Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens (UPARC). Tf1 Jade Moore, teachers union executive director, says recruiting now sends the wrong message.

TImat photos JOAN KADEL FENTON Students from the Pinellas County Jewish Day School speak before the Holocaust memorial. Moore, the teachers union executive director, said it sends the Please see SEARCH Page 2 Memorial attests to Holocaust horror By LISA GRACE LEDNICER Tlmt Staff Writer CLEARWATER Elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles of remembrance Thursday afternoon and recited the awful names: Auschwitz. Dachau. Bu-chenwald. Treblinka.

Ber-gen-Belsen. Theresienstadt. The camps where Adolf Hitler sent 6-million Jews to die. "With each passing day, the number of survivors who remain as witnesses passes," said Rabbi Arthur Baseman of Temple B'nai Israel in Clearwater. "We must make sure the abiding voice of eternity speaks for ever.

About 100 people attended a ceremony at the Belcher Road synagogue Thursday commemorating Yom Hashoa, or "day of remembrance" of the Holocaust. Baseman and students from the Pinellas County Jewish Day School in St. Petersburg spoke in front of the synagogue's Holocaust memorial. It depicts concentration camp survivors reaching out of fire to the sky. The students sang Jewish songs and urged the audience to remember what happened more Please see CAMPS Page 2 From left: Adolf Koenigsberg, Stanley Igel, Matilda DuBord and Caroline Mallah light candles during the services.

Mallah survived Auschwitz; her prison tattoo is still visible on her arm. TIMES DIGEST Maas Brothers store is for sale Federated and Allied department store chains are looking for buyers for Maas BrothersJordan Marsh store in downtown Clearwater. 1E Highland Games set for April 20 The 25th annual Highland Games are scheduled for April 20 in Dunedin's Highlander Park. Page 3 Corrections A 15-year-old from Clearwater High School was the first suspect in the theft of hood ornaments from an apartment complex on U.S. 19.

A story Thursday incorrectly identified the first suspect. Indian Shores hopes to renourish a 2.57-mife stretch of beach if the state and the Tampa Port Authority approve the project. A report in Thursday's paper gave an incorrect amount of beach property to be renourished. JByrons leaving, Phar-Mor moving in iii.iil i Ml The. Hales won be at those parties tonight and Saturday morning, possibly the first time they have missed, because they're at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, where Bill has undergone surgery twice in the past week for clogged carotid arter By TERESA BURNEY Tlm Staff WriUr HALE gone from Sunshine Mall for good.

Vega said the mall is still negotiating with the department store to lease space in the mall. Phar-Mor has a store now at Searstown shopping center across the street from Sunshine Mall on Missouri Avenue. Phar-Mor spokesman Jeff Durosko would not comment on the proposed move. Vega said mall owners have signed the lease and she expects it to be only a matter of time before Phar-Mor officials sign as well. If signed, the lease is scheduled to begin May 1.

In addition to the JByrons' space, Phar-Mor also plans to lease 6,000 more square feet on the south end of Sunshine Mall for a liquor store, Vega said. B.J. Brandt, a leasing associate with Realty Management which manages Sears-town, said she could not comment on what will happen with the Phar-Mor space if the discount store moves out. Sunshine Mall has begun a campaign to bring more anchor tenants to Clearwater's oldest mall and spruce up its image. Last fall the mall was painted on the outside and more renovations are planned for the inside.

Office Depot was recruited last fall as a tenant for the northern portion of the mall. CLEARWATER JByrons department store is moving out of the south end of Sunshine Mall and the Phar-Mor discount store is moving in, mall manager Kay Vega said Thursday. JByrons officials could not be reached for comment, but there are signs on the store's doors saying that the company was unable to renew its lease at Sunshine Mall and will close that store April 27. But that does not mean JByrons will be ies. Bill's son-in-law, John Simmons, called Thursday to advise that Bill had undergone his second round of surgery Wednesday morning, was sitting up by dinnertime that evening to everyone's amazement and is "feeling fine." John and his wife, Sara, even hope to be back in time for the omelet parties.

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