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1 The Tampa Tribune's New Port Richey Port Richey Hudson Holiday Dade City Zephyrhills TAMPA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1976 SECTION TT fl? 7 Uaims weivs coverage nxcessivv II OLQJiyjlfUlsT Site To 1 i I 1 I for the abbey from the Bank of Pasco County without notifying abbey officials. The information also alleges Carney used forged documents to obtain the loan and deposited $25,000 of the loan in a false bank account. In November, Circuit Judge Lawrence Keough granted a state's attorney motion to take handwriting samples from Carney. Carney refused to give the samples, claiming they would violate his constitutional right not to incriminate himself. Russ never has appeared at any of Carney's hearings, and instead has represented his client through written arguments and motions.

Carney has filed a motion asking the court to declare him indigent, which would make him eligible for a court-appointed attorney. publicity about the Carney case has "saturated Pasco and surrounding counties." Carney currently is in the Pasco County jail. His bail has been set at $200,000 on the bezzlement charge and $2,500 on a charge of writing a bad check for advertising in a Dade City newspaper, Carney was brought to Pasco County in Oc-, tober after he waived extradition from Minneapolis. where he was ariested Aug. 18.

The arrest was made about three weeks after Carney disappeared from Pasco County. He disappeared two days after an audit of abbey accounts showed some money was missing. THE INFORMATION charging Carney with grand larceny alleges he obtained a $60,000 loan Carney is accused of embezzling more than $250,000 from the Leo abbey, whre he served as business manager until last July. He is to go to trial on a charge of grand larceny Circuit Judge Ray Ulmer Jr. yesterday scheduled a 'two-hour court session Jan.

19 to hear six motions filed in Carney's behalf by Russ. In addition to the motion for a change in venue, pending are motions to dismiss, obtain a statement of particulars, suppress statements, suppress tangible evidence and receive authorization to hire expert witnesses at state expense. IN THE MOTION for a change of venue outside the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Russ states that By BRAD BOLE and CURTIS JORDAN Tribune Staff Writers DADE CITY Accused embezzler.John Peter Carney yesterday filed a motion to have his trial held outside the Sixth Judicial Circuit. The motion, filed by Orlando attorney James Russ, claims the area news media "has engaged in massive, pervasive and prejudicial state-; ments" against Carney. THE MOTION for a change of venue also argues the news media has saturated the area -with excessive pretrial publicity about attorney Russ and that area sympathies for the Order of St.

Benedict at St. Leo would make it impossible for Carney to get a fair John Peter Carney charged with grand larceny v. here Is Deputies Search Woods For Missing Girl I S.4 9 It its. mm 1 f' I i i A i j. -l rf; 4 -4 t' '( By GEORGE BAXLEY Tribune Staff Writer BROOKSVILLE A massive ground search conducted in a five-mile wooded area east of here yesterday afternoon failed to turn up any clues in the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl eight days ago.

More than 50 Hernando County deputies and civilian volunteers turned out yesterday to scour the woods surrounding the KOA Kampgrounds, R. 50 East, from where the girl disappeared Dec. 31. THE SEARCH was conducted by Hernando County Sheriff Melvin Kelly as parents and brothers of the missing girl stood by. Elaine Zeigler, 15, of 16279 Stage Coach Drive, Warren, Ohio, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Blaine Chalker was reported missing at 6:44 a.m. Jan. 1. Sheriff Kelly said the delay in conducting the search was because there has been no' concrete evidence of foul play.

"WE DON'T conduct intensive ground searches for every missing teenager," hesaid. The sheriff said, "the case appears to be somewhat typical of some missing teenagers, most of whom turn out to be runaways." However, he said another area search will be conducted Saturday, if the girl is not located by then, when more people are available and not Sheriff Kelly said the parents told him the teenager was last seen about 10:30 p.m. Dec. 31 when she left to take a shower and dry her hair. Kelly said the family went to bed, not realizing until the next morning the girl had not returned.

THE SHERIFF said the parents had stopped at the camp for a couple of days previously enroute to south Florida on a holiday vacation. They checked into the campground earlier Dec. 31 on the way back to their Ohio home. Sheriff Kelly said the girl was described by her parents as a model teenager who had never dated and to their knowledge knew only one' person in this area. .1 v.

Ntt Aim. tfk K.Jitto&x&i. 15-Year-Old Elaine Zeigler (Left) lias Been Missing Since Dec. 31 Hernando Sheriff Melvin Kelly (right) is directing search party. feet 2, and weighs 110 pounds.

She has hazel eyes and straight, long blonde hair. When last seen, Elaine was wearing jeans and a blue denim blouse with blue and white checks. Yesterday's ground search started at 1 :30 p.m. and ended just before dark. Participants included Hernando County deputies, members of the sheriff's posse and civilian volunteers from the Radio Emergency Action Communication Team (REACT) and the Citizen's Band radio club.

Most of the searchers kept in constant contact with walkie talkies and other radio equipment, just in case a clue was discovered. ported missing from the area the same night the girl disappeared. KELLY SAID the teenager reportedly knows how to operate motorcycles since she has one at her Ohio home. Chalker, her stepfather, was scheduled to report for work in Ohio Monday. However, yesterday he said he will remain at the rural Hernando County campground until the girl is located.

Since her disappearance, other family members have joined the Chalker family here all awaiting some word about the blonde teenager. Chalker has had his car brought here from Ohio. PARENTS TOLD officers the girl is 5 Ihe.p3t?nts'5ls6 sid there had been no family argument or other problems before the girl disappeared. A search of the immediate area the same day the teenager was reported missing failed to reveal any clues, the sheriff said. Sheriff Kelly said the girl's purse, money and all personal belongings other than a hair dryer were left behind in the travel trailer.

The hair dryer, which she carried with her to the showers, has not been found. Kelly said one item of information leads him to suspect that the girl might have run away: a motorcycle was re Tribune Photos by Mitch Kezar Sheriff Melvin Kelly (Right) Instructs Searchers as picture of Elaine Zeigler is, gassed around. Parks Board To Ponder 2nd District Court Voids Pasco County Drug Case Green Key Plan Today bought methylenedioxy amphetamine (MDA), a controlled drug, at Schultz's and Meyer's mobile home Jan. 1,1975. Early Jan.

2, a few hours after the reported buy, sheriff's deputies, acting on a search warrant, searched the mobile home, found quantities of that drug and marijuana, and arrested Schultz and Meyers on separate charges of possession of the drug and marijuana. THE TWO charges were dismissed in June, but Schultz and Meyers were arrested again Aug. 14 on charges of possession and sale of MDA on Jan. 1, the day the informant reported making the purchase. LAKELAND The trial of Michael W.

Meyer and Dale James Schultz on Pasco County drug charges was barred by the Second District Court of Appeal here yesterday. In a split decision, the court issued a writ of prohibition sought by the pair against Pasco Circuit Judge Lawrence E. Keough. BASIS OF the appeal was a contention that trial was barred by the "speedy trial rule," which requires persons charged with felonies to be brought to trial within 180 days of being taken into custody. Judge John M.

Scheb, who wrote the appeal court decision, said in his review that a confidential informant for the Pasco County Sheriff's Department NEW PORT RICHEY The city's parks and recreation board will consider the new "Green Key Master Use Plan" at 9 a.m. today in the recreation center as the final step before City Council consideration. Today's meeting comes on the heels of a Pasco County Parks and Recreation Board approval of the plan by a 4-1 vote in Dade City Tuesday night. Dissenter in the county parks board vote was Rita Rucks, Zephyrhills, who spoke against continued maintenance costs. Some revision of the proposed plan, prepared by Chuck Nelson, Parks and Recreation Director for Pasco County and Kurt Conover, Parks and Recrea tion Director for the city of New Port Richey, was made Tuesday night.

County parks board members deleted provisions for paving the proposed parking area and Green Key Road and shortened a proposed 700-foot seawall by about 100 feet to save a large clump of mangroves on the northwestern shore. Nelson said yesterday the proposed deletions would not materially affect cost estimates of about $154,000 for the project. "It's like a chain reaction. If, we save something on the paving, we will haVe to move one building and extend the boardwalk in another area. We will break about even." he said.

Pasco Blacks Protest Phasing Out Moore-Mickens School By JIM DAWKINS Staff Writer DADE CITY The phasing out of the only remaining former all-black school in Pasco County is being met with protest." Dade City Councilman O. K. Mickens and The Rev. A. H.

Howell told the school board Tuesday the black community is definitely opposed to phasing out Moore-Mickens Middle School. NEGRO community feels they're being robbed, you're moving everything good out," Mickens said. "Our people have lost in the last five years what it took SO years to gain," he said. A side effect of integration, Mickens said, is that schools that were previously black community schools are and refurbishing Moore-Mickens if it were to stay in operation as a school. n- "Our new elementary schools are only costing $15 million (to build)," Weightman said.

School officials repeatedly stressed the board has no choice and that the decision will not be changed. Black representatives repeatedly stressed residents do not want the change. "IT'S TIME to listen," Mickens said. "Your system has Mickens said before integration the black schools were the focal point of communities, but now there are both black and white parents, students busing in and a lack of interest. "You can't develop better citizens when you take everything good from them," he said.

A retired educator, Mickens was formerly principal of Moore-Mickens School. derstood by the public is that the grades also are being reorganized. From the Dade City-Lacoochee student body, kindergarten through sixth graders will go to Cox Elementary, Pasco Elementary or the proposed San Antonio school. The seventh and eighth graders will go to Pasco Junior High. The ninth through 12 grades will go to Pasco Comprehensive High School.

The Moore-Mickens school will become the "Moore-Mickens Education and will house adult education and federal programs, he said. Currently, all sixth and seventh graders in the Dade City-Lacoochee area attend Moore-Mickens. WEIGHTMAN SAID the state Department of Education indicated at least $1 million would be needed for remodeling With the phase-out of Moore-Mickens school, the last former all-black school will no longer even be a school, he said. Citing petitions he said 997 residents had signed, The Rev. Mr.

Howell said both "black and white" are opposed to the change. HOWELL SAID he had been asked to relay to the board that those protesting "have memories like elephants." "I guess that's a threat," board member Agnes Deal said. Mrs. Deal did some protesting of her own in citing she is the elected representative from District 1 where the school is located, and no one had contacted her. "This is the first I've heard of it," she said.

The Moore-Mickens school is scheduled to be phased out as a school and converted into an adult education center. SCHOOL SUPT. Thomas Weightman said what is not un PASCO.