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MMTORLD THE JOURNAL TIMES PAGE 3A FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1998 BRIEF Tornadoes loll 5 in southern states Nashville declared a disaster area IHalofboys in Arkansas shooting is delayed Kmqht flutter Newspafiers NASHVILLE. Tenn. AP) -Tornadoes tore through Tennessee and Arkansas Thursday, blowing out windows in hundreds of buildings and ripping off roofs in downtown Nashville and splintering mobile homes in rural areas. No deaths were reported In Nashville, but four people, including a little brother and sister, were killed before dawn by tornados in rural parts of Arkansas and Tennessee. One person was killed when a twister touched down in the evening in Tennessee near the Alabama border.

"People heard it but couldn't see it," Manila, firefighter Michael White said of the early-morning twister that was cloaked by darkness and sheets of rain. "It passed probably 400 yards from my house. There was so much lightning and rain I didn't see anything." A cold front that stretched from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Valley was responsible for Thursday's severe weather across much of the South and Midwest. The earlier storm hit Manila, in northeastern Arkansas about 230 miles west of Nashville, about 3 a.m., killing Casey Lomax, 2 12, and Brittni Lomax, 5. Their parents were injured.

An hour later, a tornado spawned by the same storm killed Paul and Peggy Kolwyck in Roellen, about 50 miles east of Manila. Their bodies were found 200 to 250 feet from their trailer home, which was torn apart. One person died when a tornado hit Wayne County on the Alabama border at about 6 p.m. No other details were immediately available. Thursday afternoon two tornadoes struck Nashville.

About 100 people were injured, police and emergency management officials said. A man who was hit by a falling tree in Centennial Park was seriously hurt. Cecil Whaley of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said most of the injuries were from flying glass and none was believed life-threatening. The twisters knocked out power to about two-thirds of the downtown, and extra police were called in to guard against looting. Whaley said the first tornado touched down west of downtown at about 3 30 pra.

and then skipped across the city for 3 or 4 miles. A second struck east Nashville. About 300 buildings were damaged, Whaley said. Gov. Don Sundquist declared Nashville a disaster area.

Several state buildings were damaged, including the Capitol and the James K. Polk office building. The Tennessee Oilers' football stadium, which is about one-third complete, also was damaged. Outside Nashville, 13 homes were destroyed and 130 homes were damaged, Whaley said. The twisters were part of a series of storms that hit Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan late Wednesday and Thursday.

More than two dozen people were Injured in the earlier storms, and 65 railroad cars were knocked off the track near Flora, 111. A tornado in eastern Michigan cut a ft-mile-long path through Sanilac county. Damage to more than two dozen homes was reported. Associated Press Salalna Bate, 9, of Bradford. takes a moment to rest while helping relatives seairch through wreckage of their Manila, home.

A tornado struck the northeast Arkansas town early Thursday leaving two children dead and injuring about 20 others. More storms cut deadly paths in other states stretching from the Great Lakes to the South. Secielazyj 3)ciy Napalm-cariyiiig train turns back to California 240 Old Main Street 633-6666 FAX 633-9400 Tea cups packed with moss and crowded with luscious little blooms, a vase made for a single perfect blossom, cymbidium orchids so beautiful even the A judge has delayed until June 17 the trial of two boys accused of killing five people in a schoolyard near JoneJboro, and removed from the case the co-counsel for one of them, Circuit Judge Ralph Wilson said Ohio lawyer Tom Furth, who has appeared on national television several times since he entered the case at the request of Mitchell Johnson's father, had not been acting in the best interest of the juveniles. Mitchell, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, are accused of ambushing their classmates and teachers with high-powered rifles March 24. The shooting at Westside Middle School left four students and a teacher dead.

Nine students and a teacher were wounded. Judge Wilson said he feared that sensitive information from case files might be presented on national television if Furth remained an attorney of record. He said he told Furth when he removed him from the case, "We don't try cases in the media in Arkansas." Furth and Johnson did not return phone calls Thursday, but Bill Howard, the public defender for Mitchell Johnson, said he thought Furth might appeal the judge's ruling. The action came during a status conference between the judge and the attorneys in his chambers Wednesday. Howard said Judge Wilson moved the trial date from April 29 to June 17 because prosecutors and defense attorneys are still negotiating the conditions under which psychiatric examinations will be given to the boys.

No decision has been made on who will perform the mental testing and where lt will be done, Howard said. "I don't know how realistic it was gonna be to get the evaluations done and ready by April 29," he said. The boys have been in protective custody in the Craighead County Detention Center since their arrests just minutes after the shootings on March 24. The mental tests could be held there or in a clinical setting, Howard said. With regard to the judge's removal of Furth from the case, Howard said: "The two most important aspects of the judge's ruling are that he (Furth) will not be sitting at the defense table and that he will not have unlimited access to the client.

"But I am not clear whether he intends to continue participating in the case," Howard said. Furth's background and his penchant for publicity troubled both prosecutors and defense attorneys in Jonesboro. During a recent interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, Furth and Johnson said that Mitchell had been sexually abused at a Minnesota day-care center about seven years ago. But, later, Johnson said he was mistaken about that and, although he reiterated that his son had been molested, he said that the abuse did not occur at a day-care center. During the ABC interview, Furth also acknowledged that he was accused several years ago of having sex with a 16-year-old girl and that he had pleaded no contest to a charge of interfering with the custody of a minor.

He also admitted paying the girl's parents $100,000 to avoid future legal problems based on the relationship. You'll start saving money when you subscribe to the Journal Times. Call 634-3333 for home delivery. Cherished Bfcdi delivery man will weep. And those are Assocutttd Prma Students from Mt.

Pleasant, cry as they tour the remains of the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building, the site of what some have called this country's most severe domestic terrorism act. The two students are port of their school band which will perform at the third anniversary ceremony of the bombing Sunday. Officers suspected In loggers' deaths MEXICO CITY (API Six police officers were being sought Thursday for questioning in the shooting deaths of five loggers in central Mexico. Four suspects are state police officers and the other two belong to the federal investigative police, the Morelos state government said. All six have not reported for work since the multiple murder April 5.

The suspects were Identified by the 9-year-old brother of one of the victims. Authorities said the youth witnessed the killing. Morelos state criminal Investigators also found a blood-stained police truck allegedly used by the attackers. Authorities said bullet fragments recovered from the victims' bodies were apparently fired from an assault rifle and a revolver assigned to two of the policemen. The loggers were apparently cutting wood illegally In a forest high in the mountains on the border between Morelos and Puebla states.

Fruit companies upset with lawyers MEXICO CITY (AP) Two U.S.-based fruit companies said Thursday that lawyers were to blame for pressing a pesticide lawsuit that has prevented bananas from being shipped out of Nicaragua. The Standard Fruit Co. and Dole Foods said banana shipments have been held up at Nicaragua's borders by a judge's decision last week to place a lien on the companies. The judge was ruling on a lawsuit filed this year by 2,000 workers at 12 banana plantations that seeks $10 million in damages for health problems they claim were caused by the use of pesticides. Last year, responding to a 1992 suit, Standard Fruit agreed to pay $22 million in compensation to employees in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador and the Philippines.

The companies claimed the new suit was filed because lawyers kept much of the previous settlement money, distributing an average of only $100 apiece to workers. Nicaragua to probe its army finances MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -Following complaints by retired officers of pension fund mismanagement, Nicaragua announced Thursday it will carry out a probe of army finances. A series of complaints by retirees who said they receive only 35 percent of their wages not the 100 percent granted to retirees in the past led the federal Comptrollers Office to announced the probe. The army hired a U.S.-based accounting firm in 1997 to review its finances, but the probe did not meet government requirements, said Agustin Jarquin, the country's comptroller. Brazil ups its minimum wage BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) The government raised the monthly minimum wage on Thursday to $114 from $106.

The increase will take effect on May 1, a year after the minimum wage was last readjusted. CfierusJi Tor cl lifetime oes Oklahoma and Kansas. It was held overnight Wednesday in Kansas City, Kan. The Navy decided Thursday to send the shipment to China Lake Naval Weapons Testing Center, about 120 miles northeast of Los Angeles, for storage until a company is found to "treat it or process it," said Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr.

Jon Smith. Members of Congress from Indiana and Illinois had protested the original shipment, saying the Navy was trying to force the project ort an unwilling public that associates napalm with brutal images of Vietnamese villages and burning victims. The Navy, through a series of public hearings in the Chicago region, tried to calm fears, explaining the viscous mixture of polystyrene, gasoline and benzene is far less volatile than gasoline and not explosive by itself. The Navy and Battelle Memorial Institute, an Ohio company that holds the main napalm recycling contract, said a long-term solution isn't far away. a Planners, Inc.

WASHINGTON (AP) A railcar carrying 12,000 gallons of napalm headed back to California Thursday after political protests prompted an Indiana company to back out of a Navy deal to recycle the jellied gasoline. Despite the hubbub, the military was getting calls from companies that want to take over the job of destroying 3.3 million gallons of the firebomb and flamethrower fuel stored at a naval weapons station near San Diego since its use was banned in the Vietnam War. Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon told reporters it could takes weeks, however, to approve a company for the job that was rejected Monday by Pollution Control Industries of East Chicago, which held a $2.5 million subcontract in the $24 million napalm recycling program. The plan is to ship the napalm to a recycling plant batch by batch over a two-year period. The first shipment left California Saturday, traveling the rails through parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, First Financial Secretary's Day buffet.

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