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roll rh-Lji THE TAMPA TRIBUNE uuuisudu Section Saturday, October 20, 1 984 Appeal to voters made from both sides of fence On a three-city campaign swing for Walter Mondale, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young criticized President Reagan before an audience teacher union representatives in Tampa. Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, a surgeon at Boston University Medical School, touted Reagan's accomplishments Friday during a Women for Reagan-Bush '84 rally. By BECKY RICHARDS Tribune Staff Writer Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson says she's like a mustang running free on the plains of Texas where she was raised: "I will not be bridled, I will not be bossed." That determination helped her in 1951 to become the first black woman to be graduated from Harvard Medical School.

She is now a general surgeon at the Boston University Medical Center and professor of surgery In the university's School of Medicine. She has been a leader in the national fight against abortion as a founder of National Right to Life Inc. and its president from 1975 to 1978. She opposes the Equal Rights Amendment because "it has very little to do with equal rights. It's unnecessary because there is no inequity built into the Constitution." Her eventual goal is to "be the Republican in the (U.S.) Senate from Massachusetts." She plans to challenge Democratic Sen.

Ted Kennedy and What she wants most now, however, is for President Reagan to be re-elected Nov. 6. "Mr. Reagan is the first president who managed within his first 400 days, or the first few months, to accomplish more than 90 percent of the promises he made during the election," Jefferson told several hundred gathered in Tampa Friday afternoon for a rally sponsored by Women for Reagan-Bush '84. "The candidate which the Democratic party has put forward (Walter Mondale) has some idea that people can't remember what happened in 1978 and 1979," Jefferson said from a podium in See RALLY, Page 2B state political director Elaine Stevens told the gathering not to be discouraged by news accounts quoting polls that show Reagan far out in front in Florida.

"The media is running a mind game again," Stevens said. "We have to determine if their perception is going to be our reality." Young's theme was the same as he urged the many ministers in the audience to encourage their congregations to vote for Mondale in November. "This is our election," Young said, noting if Mondale loses, "He goes on into a law firm and makes more money than he's ever made." Blacks, however, will have to endure Reagan policies for another term, he said. "We can't wait for Mondale and others to come and tell us (blacks) what to do and organize us because they don't know," Young said. "Our job is to get 40 percent of the white vote to go along with our 11 percent." Speaking to the teachers union and during an interview, Young said he is not disturbed by polls showing Mondale and running mate Geral-dine Ferraro still trailing Reagan and Vice President George Bush.

"First of all," he said, "I don't believe the press. They've never been right in (predicting the outcome of) any of my elections." Though he believes the polls to be inaccurate, Young cautioned, "They're accurate if people believe they're true." Mondale campaign literature dis- By STEVE PIACENTE Tribune Staff Writer I Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young told an audience of teacher union representatives Friday that educa- tors are doing more than their share under the Reagan administration, "and not getting what you deserve it." -Young, on the first stop of a three-city campaign swing for Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, predicted a strong I showing by Mondale in Sunday's cru-' cial debate against President Rea-; gan in Kansas City, and said Amer- ica's interests in El Salvador and jj Nicaragua are "disintegrating." Young, preacher, former Geor- gla' congressman and former U.N. ambassador, blasted Reagan on everything from failing to balance the federal budget to not spending enough time In church. "I think we have to raise real questions about a man who talks about religion all the time but doesn't go to church," he said. Reagan has said he doesn't attend services because he fears threats on his life might jeopardize i the.

safety of others. Young was the keynote speaker at the Florida Education Associa-' tion-United convention at the Tampa Airport Marriott Hotel. Before leav- ing for stops in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, he also addressed a mostly black audience at the New Salem Primitive Baptist Church. Before Young spoke, Mondale Tribune photos by AUGUST STAEBLER Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, above, spoke at a rally in Tampa of Women for Reagan-BUsh '84.

Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young campaigned in Tampa for Walter Mondale. tributed Friday portrayed Reagan as an enemy of public education. One leaflet said he has, among other things, reduced education spending by $5.6 billion; sought elimination of the federal Department of Education; encouraged prayer in schools; supported tuition tax credits; cut back on school lunches; and eliminated a variety of student loan programs. Mondale wants to increase education spending by some $10.5 billion, $4.5 million of which would be used to establish a fund which See YOUNG, Page 2B ill State representative found innocent of bribery charges The prosecutor said it was too soon to know how the acquittal of state Rep. Jack Tobin will affect the cases of four others, including Winter Haven consultant Douglas Darden.

By CHERYL NORDBY SCHMIDT Tribune Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE State Rep. Jack Tobin was acquitted Friday night of charges he sold his vote while a city commissioner in the south Florida town of Margate. A Circuit Court jury of three women and three men found Tobin, 43Jinnocent pfsix counts of bribery "annsii coiis'orTlMawfflf-cemDen- book Tobin said prosecutors should go after rapists and murderers not politicians. 'Politicians are not said Tobin, a Democrat who is seeking re-election Nov. 6 to his Florida House of Representatives seat.

Prosecutor Martin Jaffe said it was too soon to know how Tobin's acquittal will affect the cases of four other men charged with crimes by the same grand jury that indicted Tobin in June. One of those men is Douglas Darden, a Winter Haven resident and president of Envisors an engineering consulting firm. "Obviously it (Tobin's acquittal) can't help those other cases," Jaffe said. Richard Gerstein, Darden's attorney, was unavailable for comment Friday night. Earlier Friday See INNOCENT, Page 2B "Tire proclaimed while being hugged by his wife and two children.

"I've said since the 14th of June that I was innocent." Comparing his experience at the hands of the state government to the Woman, 71, scared to death' by police seeking drug suspect I Stefsnie returns Walter Reed, left, and son Michael, right, i welcome Stefanie 'Leigh Reed back Friday afternoon from the University of Minnesota Hospital. Her grandmother Irene Miller, center, and her mother, Judy Reed, second from right, accompanied the 19-month-old 'Brandon girl from the hospital. A Plant City woman says policemen seeking a man who lived in another apartment ordered her from her home at gunpoint. By CACY CAPEL Tribune Staff Writer PLANT CITY Plant City police ordered a 70-year-old woman out of her home at gunpoint last June after apparently mistaking her apartment for that of a drug suspect, the woman has told the Tribune. The man police were looking for was arrested later, but charges were dismissed last month after his attorney convinced a judge the warrant was defective, in part because the her bedroom, the police ordered her out of the house with her hands up, Pope said during two recent interviews.

At the time, Sprouse, then 24, lived in an apartment adjacent to See POLICE, Page 2B suspect's residence was the second entered, according to court records and attorneys involved in the case. Marjorie Pope, now 71, said police entered her half of a duplex at 205 S. Waller St. on June 14 while looking for a man named Michael Sprouse. When she turned to go into Tribune photo by DAVID POLCYN Inside Vietnam memorial replica on display at fairgrounds 4 fr.

am Filming at the Ritz Tampa residents took their places before and behind the camera Friday during the filming of a cable television movie at the Ritz Theatre in Ybor City. Some came to find the names of loved others came, but couldn't bring themselves to look up the names of those they can't forget. the memorial that went on display at the Florida State Fairgrounds. "I think this is going to help a lot," Ruth Hawley said. "There's something about seeing his name and putting your hand on Lawrence Hawley, she explained, was 26 and the father of a 5-year-old boy in 1969 when he was drafted into the Army.

He had been in Vietnam as an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division only 19 days when he stepped on the land mine that killed him. His parents found his name Friday just like other1 parents and relatives and wives and war buddies find names at the actual memorial. They consulted a guide who was armed with a book that contains all the names and their locations on the wall. They asked directions to the panel, looked at each one until they See MEMORIAL, Page 6B 4 1 1 Correction A recent story on Elton John's canceled Oct. 12 concert contained a number to call for more information.

That number was published in error. The latest information is that the Sun Dome concert has been rescheduled for Nov. 1 8. All tickets from the canceled show will be honored. Refunds are available at the place of purchase until Nov.

1 By ED DEITZ tribune Staff Writer Retirees Ruth and Chester Haw-fey of St Petersburg say they'd like to visit Washington, D.C., to find the inscription of their son's name on the polished black granite walls of the Vietnam War Memorial. But they say there won't be any regrets if they can't make the trip because they found their son's name. Friday on a photographic replica of Tribune photos by SUSAN KIRKMAN For William C. Hage, and for many others, a visit to the Vietnam War Memorial evokes both memories and moments of grief. H-c!.