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ItrL jnvsftl Tourist talk A tax might bring in more vacationers Page 2 Ellatiii3 cdj i Sunday, June 1 1 986 AN EDITION OF THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Maureen Sullivan Eccentric left behind a trail of controversy -Vs. lh 'V "-T" -V- H. Stockton Massey in a 1968 photograph. H. Stockton Massey who died in 1982, was brilliant and charming but also paranoid and compulsive.

Revelations about his bizarre life and the people with whom he associated continue to pose questions. By WILLIAM MARCH Tribune Staff Writer DADE CITY When he was born on Aug. 13, 1930, H. Stockton Massey Jr. was heir to one of the largest fortunes in Dade City and scion of one of the town's leading families, a family that helped found the east Pasco citrus industry.

When he died in a Lakeland hospital in 1982 after squandering his money and impairing his health on alcohol and cocaine addictions, he left a $1.9 million tax bill, charges of insurance fraud and two broken families. Although many of Massey's friends are reluctant to talk about him publicly, some still speculate about the causes leading to the deterioration of a man whose advantages of birth health, superior intelligence, prominent family and considerable wealth should have made him a leading citizen. But even among those friends, Massey was not an easy man to know. He was an amalgam of eccentricities and inner conflicts, they say, driven by compulsions they sometimes couldn't understand. A photo of Massey taken in 1968, when he was 38, shows a slender man just over 6 feet tall with straight, thin, dark brown hair, a high forehead, close-set eyes with heavy brows, large ears, a prominent nose, and a closely trimmed full-face beard and mustache.

That man, friends say, was literate, articulate, intellectual, aristocratic, hypochondriacal and sometimes paranoid but still able to mix and talk with all kinds of people. He dressed conventionally in white shirts and ties but adopted a European fashion, unpopular in the United States, of wearing his ties loosely draped instead of knotted. He seemed to enjoy looking different from other businessmen. He was conservative in politics and sharp in business, but cynical about religion, tradition, his family and his wealth. He believed firmly in George Wallace, reincarnation and ghosts, including the one that reportedly haunted his home on U.S.

301 and became a Dade City legend. He told friends, who weren't sure whether to take him seriously, that he had "an old soul" and had been reincarnated many times. He surprised acquaintances with minute, detailed knowledge of history. He could quote long passages of the Bible and literature. But he also See MASSEY, Page 4 Untold rape a fact that matters My cousin, a junior high school student in New Jersey, was walking home alone after a softball game.

A guy followed her for a while and then jumped her and raped her. She never told her parents. They found out when she started to gain weight and it was discovered she was pregnant. She had the baby and gave it up for adoption. It's now more than 10 years later, and I've never talked to her about that day.

How do you bring up the topic even if you wanted to? I heard the details thirdhand from my mother. I thought about my cousin when I heard Pasco County Sheriff Jim Gillum patting himself on the back for bringing about a decrease in the number of rapes in the county after a yearlong enforcement of a ban against X-rated videocassettes. In 1985, the reported number of forcible rapes dropped 35 percent from 26 to 17 from the previous year. The key word here is "reported." My cousin's rape was never officially reported. She was young, scared, embarrassed.

She felt guilty because perhaps she could have prevented the whole thing if she hadn't walked home alone, if she had been able to run faster than the scum who attacked her, if she had screamed louder, if she hadn't "given in." The rape was never reported, which means in the eyes of the law it never happened. Experts say my cousin's story is all too typical. From being stalked to keeping it a secret, it's sadly typical. Sunrise of Pasco County, a private, non-profit sexual abuse intervention center, counseled 28 rape victims within a recent 10-month period. Only one of them reported the crime to the police.

"It's not the victims' fault," says Candy Slaughter, executive director of Sunrise. "It's the system's fault." If you are raped in Pasco County, you will not be examined and evidence will not be gathered in Pasco County because there is no facility for such work here. Instead, you will be transported to Pinellas County, which could mean four hours in traveling time from east Pasco. Slaughter estimates that you could spend from 10 to 14 hours from the time the assault ends until you are brought home. "A lot of times the victims say forget it," Slaughter says.

"There's not a lot of support. The police are doing their job, but they're not trained for this." Maybe some people would still like to think of Pasco as a sleepy little county unaffected by the monsters lurking in the outside world. They're wrong. "Pasco is really behind the times," says Slaughter. "But until it strikes home, people are just not going to do anything.

Death and sexual assault are two things people don't talk about. They tend not to think it will happen to them." Slaughter says people who move into the county "take it for granted" that such services as rape crisis intervention exist here, if they think about it at all. When something goes wrong, they quickly discover how wrong they are and how lacking Pasco is. In the meantime, Carole Daniels is "laying the groundwork" for SAVE Sexual Abuse Victim Examination in Pasco by soliciting proposals from mental health agencies that could perform the counseling and making arrangements with doctors and hospitals to perform the examinations. After a year's delay, during which the program" was shuffled between county agencies and faced a number of funding debates, July is now the scheduled start-up date.

Slaughter says an in-county program will help the rape victim step-by-step through the rape aftermath, making for a See SULLIVAN, Page 3 Ex-chief provided bodyguard Dade City Police Officer Doug Nickels spent a bizarre six to eight weeks in 1981 as companion to the eccentric Stockton Massey Jr. By DANIEL BERGER Tribune Staff Writer DADE CITY Doug Nickels' job with Stockton Massey was, in some ways, easy. Playing cards with the boss. Keeping him company. Watching the door.

Driving him around. Running errands. In other ways, though, it was a rough job one Nickels wasn't sorry to leave when it came time to go back to his usual line of work: being a sergeant at the Dade City Police Department. Nickels went on Massey's payroll in 1981 while he was on sick leave from the force, recovering from a broken leg he'd suffered when an unruly suspect hit him with a karate kick. His personnel file contains a commendation from the Dade City Commission for arresting the man despite the injury.

He went back to work as a police officer once he recovered, he says. The Massey position came up after Nickels was given desk duty as a dispatcher at the Dade City Police Department following his injury. "It was the Sunday afternoon immediately following the accident, (former Dade City Police) Chief (Norris) Nixon came in and said he didn't know how long he could use me on the desk dispatching. But he'd found me other employment until See NICKELS, Page 4 4 I A tribute to veterans Above, 3-year-old Jessica Hall pays tribute to the war dead with a flower she picked at Oakside Cemetery, where Memorial Day services were held Monday. At right, Marion Hartford of Holiday and her 6-year-old grandson, Teddy Ford, protect themselves from the heat during services at Meadowlawn Memorial Gardens.

7 rfM it Tribune photos by BOB WESTENHOUSER Elena's lesson changes this year's plans Inside Keep in touch with week's events "7 The Week in Review will bring you up to date on the week's most important stories. HlffifllGMIH SEASON for days. Now we're looking more realistically at the possibility of long-term sheltering." During Elena, Smith and other officials said, evacuees including diabetics and people with heart disease came to shelters with no medication or only a day's supply. Others showed up with no bedding, expecting to find cots. "There aren't that many cots on the east coast," Johnson said.

The length of last year's evacuation, plus less-than-adequate planning, contributed to shortages of food and trained volunteers in shelters, especially in east Pasco. Red Cross and county officials have trained 130 new shelter workers in the county, many of them See HURRICANE, Page 3 go to the shelter nearest their home. If it's full, they'll be directed to the next one. "Last year, most people didn't go to the shelter they were assigned to anyway," said Betty Johnson, emergency management director for the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council. "They want to go where their family and friends are.

If they go to a shelter they're familiar with, they'll get there quicker anyway." Evacuees are being asked to plan for a stay of one week in shelters, and to pack or plan in advance a list of items they will need especially medication and bedding. Last year, said Richard Smith, director of emergency management for Pasco County, "We were thinking in terms of a storm that would hit, make landfall and leave, not about a storm that could hang off the coast A Hurricane guide AA Section By WILLIAM MARCH Tribune Staff Writer Ah, the joys of a Florida summer. Lawns have begun toasting to a golden brown, roaches and fleas are peaking, and love-bug season is just ending. So it must be time for the hurricanes. Today, June 1, marks the beginning of the hurricane season, extending through Nov.

30. Last year's season, which saw a record-tying number of storms make landfall in the United States, wasn't kind to Pasco County. Hurricane Elena, hanging off the coast for a long weekend, forced evacuation of 112,000 Pasco residents the night of Aug. 31 and kept them in shelters for 42 hours. '4 Correction Dade City Police Officer Larry Frassrand passed on a torch to a Pasco County Sheriff's deputy Friday as part of the statewide Law Enforcement Torch Run.

A picture caption in Saturday's Tribune misidentified the runner as Dade City Police Officer Dale Neuner. Because of problems that cropped up during that evacuation, officials in Pasco and surrounding counties have changed some of their plans to handle the next one. They also are changing the advice they're giving residents. According to disaster management officials, three major changes will affect Pasco County: Residents of hurricane evacuation zones are no longer assigned to specific shelters or routes to take to them. Instead, they are instructed to 4.