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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 6, 1992 Victims salvage homes fa I A A request for emergency federal disaster assistance for Pinellas County wasn't expected until today or Wednesday. 'r T-; t-M I I I TT I air. Tornado help For tornado victims seeking assistance: The American Red Cross will open two special service centers starting today at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 8001 46th St. Pinellas Park and the Pinellas County Cooperative Extension Service, 12175 125th St. Largo.

Both service centers will be open from -noon to 6 p.m. today to provide tornado victims with assistance getting food, new clothing, rent, emergency home repairs, transportation, household items, medicines, tools and counseling. Starting Wednesday, service center hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

For residents who want to help tornado victims: The American Red Cross: 898-31 1 1 or The Salvation Army: 546-1349, 725-9777 or 822-4954. Seven local Kmart stores from Clearwater to St. Petersburg are collecting "Helping Hand" financial donations for local tornado victims. Customers who donate $1 toward tornado assistance will have a "Helping Hand" with their name printed on it displayed in the store window. All of the money collected will go to assist local tornado victims.

For more information, contact Nancy Bowen or Susan Sims at 442-1 151. By CARLOS MONCADA and JIM RILEY Tribune Staff Writers PINELLAS PARK Federal inspection teams Monday walked door-to-door through tornado-ravaged Pinellas County as many victims salvaged what they could from homes ruined by the weekend's killer storm. Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. C.W.

Bill Young urged Gov. Lawton Chiles in a telegram to expedite a request to President Bush for disaster assistance. But a request wasn't expected until today or Wednesday. Damage to homes and businesses topped an estimated $35 million, mostly within the cities of Largo and Pinellas Park and in unincorporated Pinellas, said Tom Gallagher, state insurance commissioner. In the Park Royale Mobile-Home Village, teams with Lessons Insurance companies apply lessons learned from Hurricane Andrew to the Pinellas tornado damage1 trained dogs hunted through rubble for a woman missing since her trailer was thrown 500 feet in Saturday's storm.

Officials feared she might be the fourth fatality, with three others having died of massive injuries. A body was found late Monday, but officials had not confirmed the identity. Officials estimated 138 people were injured. One man trying to clear twisted metal from a building's roof was seriously injured Monday morning when he fell 25 feet onto a concrete floor. Franciso Orduno, 32, of Sarasota was listed in stable condition late Monday at Bayfront Medi- See FEDERAL, Page 5 PALM TREE POLITICS Ray Locker Florida's GOP reps keep the faith on oil Conventional wisdom has it that Democrats are the ones who make dramatic stands on environmental grounds while a bill passes overwhelmingly without them.

And that happened Monday as the House voted overwhelmingly to approve a national energy strategy bill, 363-60. Six Florida Democrats voted against the bill. Great. But so did all 10 of the state's Republican House members. Not bad for members of a party whose president said he supports the bill, and at a time when President Bush needs all the help he can get.

They opposed the bill, because it failed to include provisions to ban offshore oil drilling in all Gulf of Mexico waters off Florida coasts. Tribune photograph by ALLYN DiVITO Joan Ahemus sorts through a friend's belongings along Elmhurst Drive in Pinellas Park. Tornado victims all around Pinellas Park continued digging out from the storm. mumm i hi. i i -i pi ii 1.1 il, ju 'im Son looks for mother amid ruins Now the bill moves to the Senate, which overwhelmingly passed its version by a lopsided vote earlier this year.

But U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Miami Lakes, will join forces with Nevada senators to filibuster the bill in hopes of killing it at the end of this session. .4 US I A I s-' XT 'V- 1 x( 9 -j -i- 1 V' By VICKIE CHACHERE Tribune Staff Writer PINELLAS PARK All day Monday they traced a grim path in search of Amelia Riehl, following the remnants of a quiet life in retirement that blew apart in the storm's fury. Ken Riehl was determined to find his mother somewhere in the twisted remains of the Park Royale mobile home community.

She had been missing since Saturday when she looked out the window, turned to her husband William and said, "My God, the wind is really picking up." Late Monday night, the body of an elderly woman was found by a search and rescue dog in about five feet of debris. The body was near where Amelia Riehl's son had found her bowling ball earlier in the day. Authorities will not identify the body until later today. A stricken Ken Riehl, of Long Island, N.Y., could only muster the words to thank the searchers who had worked all day. On Sunday, "Find your mother" was the first thing Ken Riehl's father had said to him when he walked into his hospital room.

William Riehl, 84, was found in a drainage ditch 500 feet from the couple's mobile home Saturday, badly cut but Tribune photograph by BRUCE HOSKING Ken Riehl, left, and Dave Duck look for Amelia Riehl, missing since a tornado ripped apart the woman's Ken Riehl's mother. The 80-year-old woman has been home Saturday. Duck is the woman's nephew. alive. found nearly 10 miles north in Clearwater, had said earlier in the day.

"I think she's Their double-wide trailer home was police said. in here. But I've got to resolve this for my split in two. One side landed a hundred The only trace 80-year-old Amelia dad's sake." yards away, the other side landed a few Riehl left behind were her possessions Pinellas Park fire, police and city yards beyond, next to a trailer where a scattered amid the ruins of other homes. neighbor died.

Pieces of their mail were "This has to be resolved," Ken Riehl See BODY, Page 3 Taped confessions played for juries in Culbreath Isles home invasion fendant to which it is assigned. Dawn Rainwater, a hair analysis Graham Nevada's senators don't like the bill's plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev. Graham, aides said, also has reservations about Yucca Mountain. "It's not good policy," an aide said. "The version of Yucca Mountain in this bill isn't the same as the earlier version.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said it won't have enough time to analyze the new provisions by Thursday." The filibuster also makes good politics. Senate tag team Graham and U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan, are close, and they agreed to help each other's position Graham on Yucca Mountain and Bryan on offshore drilling. If the two can run out the clock on this Congress with their filibuster by rounding up enough votes to stop a cloture motion a move to stop debate they can kill the bill and try for something better next year.

Congressional Democrats, their eyes on the presidential polls, like their chances of writing a new energy bill next year if Democrat Bill Clinton is elected president. "There's no way this bill would make it past Clinton," a Senate aide said. Chances are Graham and Bryan won't get enough votSs to sustain a filibuster. Their best hope is that the Senate finishes its other business and leaves the energy bill for last. Then enough senators will have to go home for the Yom Kippur break and decide voting to end debate on the energy bill isn't worth coming back to Washington.

That's the best Graham can hope for. What probably will happen is that most senators will stay near Washington during the Yom Kippur break, take care of other matters when they resume their session and round up the 60 votes necessary to kill a filibuster. Daddy pork U.S. Sen. J.

Bennett Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat and driving force behind the energy bill, has too many favors out to too many senators to not win a cloture vote. He controls a key appropriations subcommittee that dishes pork-barrel projects; cross him and a senator can kiss a water project in his state goodbye. One of the oil industry's biggest supporters in Washington, Johnston is a wily operator. If he had his way, the energy bill would have included a plan to take money from the trust fund built by drilling fees and distribute it to states with oil derricks off their coasts. Hmmm, that sounds like Louisiana.

What a coincidence. Opponents of that plan killed it during the House-Senate conference committee that also zapped the oil drilling bans. There's ample reason for drilling opponents to believe that a Clinton administration would be more sympathetic to banning drilling in the gulf. During campaign appearances in Florida Monday, Clinton and his running mate, U.S. Sen.

Al Gore of Tennessee, criticized Bush for threatening to veto the energy bill if it included the drilling moratorium. While that ban on drilling isn't in the energy bill, there's nothing stopping Congress from coming back next year and writing a new law to stop drilling. Judging from Monday's results, there are already the votes from Florida to get the ball rolling, including the 10 Republicans who made a symbolic stand to buck Bush on Jfshore drilling. as on codefendant Dennis Wayne Gonzalez. Gonzalez, 17, took the same stance in his taped confession played to a jury Friday.

The four are accused of breaking into the home April 21 and terrorizing the woman and her son while the husband was away. The husband and the victim are expected to testify today. The trial is being heard simultaneously by four juries, with each jury hearing only testimony involving the de- By ORVAL JACKSON Tribune Staff Writer TAMPA The taped confessions of two defendants and a detective's recollections of a third defendant's confession were heard Monday by juries in the Culbreath Isles home invasion-rape trial. In each instance, the defendant admitted participating in the house burglary and armed robbery. But Kevin L.

Thomas, 22, Michael R. Long, 24, and Rudy Barrientos, 17, each denied sexually assaulting a woman, blaming those'acts on the others, as well Dement Dennis Wayne of Law Enforce- ment, testified she blamed his compared hair codefendants. fragments obtained from the scene with samples taken from the four defendants, the victim, her husband and her son. Rainwater said two strands of hair See CONFESSIONS, Page 3 Clinton cuts path into Florida battling for historic GOP turf Mothers cling to memories of daughters By MIKE FRANKEL Tribune Staff Writer NEW PORT RICHEY They know the pain of driving by the post office in Land O' Lakes or the drug store in Carrollwood or the fast-food restaurant in north Tampa. That's where their daughters were last seen alive.

That's where, authorities say, their daughters were first noticed by Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. Bolin, 30, was convicted and sentenced to death last year in Hillsborough County in the brutal slayings of Natalie Blanche Holley, 26, of Tampa and Stephanie Collins, 17, of Carroll-wood. Today, Pasco County prosecutors begin outlining their case in the first-degree murder trial of Bolin in the Dec. 5, 1986, killing of 26-year-old Teri Lynn Matthews. Jury selection began Monday.

"I would hate to think what it would be like to be out there going through this all alone," said Matthews' mother, Kay Reeves of north Pasco. It has been almost six years since Teri Matthews disappeared. Now that the trial has arrived, she's back in her mother's dreams. "It's not unpleasant," Reeves said, "because she's alive." And if it isn't in her dreams, Reeves sees her daughter's image on the street corner in the back of a young woman with light brown hair. "You don't want her to turn around," she said, "because you want that face to be your daughter's." Reeves has endured Bolin's trials in Hillsborough County and has waited 21 months since the February 1991 indictment accusing him of killing her daughter.

Now, it is Reeves' turn to sit and watch and hear the details. Hoi-ley's mother, Natalie, and Collins' mother, Donna Witmer, will be in the courtroom by her See MOMS, Page 5 i Hi 1 1 1 i 5 1 '-w-: '-I ii i i By MICHAEL SZNAJDERMAN Tribune Staff Writer DAYTONA BEACH Presidential hopeful Bill Clinton cut a path on Monday through the heart of what has been Republican territory, in hopes voters will blaze a trail next month and put him over the top in Florida. "Republicans believe they own Florida in presidential elections," the Democratic nominee told the cheering crowd of about 2,000 at the Daytona Beach band shell. "Well, you can turn off the lights." Tim Phillips, Clinton's state director, put it this way: "We're going to stick the knife in," he said as reporters loaded onto the nine buses that made up the Clinton caravan. But as the one-day tour proceeded from this Atlantic Beach town through Florida's conserva-.

tive center to Orlando and Ocala there were signs that the tense battle for Florida's 25 electoral votes is far from over. At the oceanside band shell, anti-abortion protesters lined the street, while college-age Republicans sifted into the crowd, disrupting the rally with shouts of "four more years." At Orlando's Loch Haven Park, Democratic vice presidential nominee Al Gore asked the crowd to "shut the door on trickle-down economics" while supporters of President Bush shouted from the rear. Tampa Mayor Sandy Freed-man, Gov. Lawton Chiles and Govs. Zell Miller of Georgia and See FREEDMAN, Page 2 Bill and Hillary Clinton beam as they are introduced by Lt.

Gov. Buddy MacKay at a rally in Ocala Monday. Tritjne photograph by STEPHEN M. DOWEtL.