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i 4 s. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Saturday, Jan. 18, 1986 Page 1-B VV Jv. J'V J' Roswell theft suspect with AIDS will not be extradited ron hudspcth By David Corvette Staff Writer An AIDS victim wanted on car theft charges in Roswell is a free' man after police decided his disease made him too dangerous to extradite from Florida, authorities said Friday. Police in Statesville, N.C., where the man is wanted on bank fraud charges, also have chosen not to pursue warrants against the man, and police say the case illustrates the growing fear law officers have of dealing with AIDS victims.

home of a friend near Kissimmee, according to Capt Jack Pate of the Osceola County Sheriffs Department Georgia and North Carolina authorities had placed a lookout for Houston on a nationwide computer network. But after learning Houston suffers from acquired immune deficiency syndrome a deadly disease that disrupts the body's ability to fight infections Georgia and North Carolina told Florida they didn't want him anymore, Pate said. "It's one of those things I guess "We don't need to have him infecting other people, not for a lousy auto theft charge that he's probably going to get probation for anyway," said Maj. L.L. Lanier of the Fulton County Sheriff's Department, whose personnel would have had to pick up the suspect.

"What if that man said, Tm going to bite you'? I'd shoot him first, not out of hatred, but out of fear and panic," Lanier said. William David Houston, 34, who gave police a Statesville address, was arrested Wednesday at the you consider a part of the Pate said of the decision not to pur-v sue Houston, "but you still don't like Houston was released Thursday from custody in Florida, and his whereabouts are unknown. He technically remains charged in both Georgia and North Carolina, authorities said, but he would have to enter, one of those states voluntarily in order for the charges to take effect "I'm not even sure my city would let me arrest him," Roswell police Detective Les Warden said; "(AIDS) is a problem not a lot of police agencies have dealt with. I've heard you can't get it from incidental contact, but who wants to take a chance?" Statesville police Lt. P.B.

Hil-lard said the Irdell County district attorney made the decision not to extradite Houston there to face charges for an alleged bank scam that netted $700. That's not enough to justify the expense of giving him special medical treatment, Hiljard said. I mm NQN-PCB Queen's booty being showcased during exhibit Frank Sinatra bought a ship's urinal from the Darcy family collection. Richard Nixon purchased a tap from the Queen Mary. Lee Radziwill bought a lamp from Aristotle Onassis' yacht.

Beginning next Thursday at the Pierremont Plaza Hotel formerly the Sheraton on West Peachtree is a four-day exhibit and sale of more than 3,000 Darcy family artifacts from the Queen; ships of the world. The dis-" play is valued at $1 million and includes everything from ship's clocks 5 to deck chairs from famous ocean liners. Watched the Chicago Bears doing the "Super Bowl Shuffle" on MTV the other night and I couldn't help but wonder what Norm Van Brocklin would think? Whatever happened to Madonna? Does anyone care? So far the grand addition to boost the Braves from the world of mediocri- ty is one catcher. Don't think that will get it. I suppose we really are our bumper stickers.

Rick Ellis saw a Porsche parked, at West' Paces Racquet Club with the stick- er: "I Work, My Wife Plays," and then drove on through throngs of traffic in Cobb County where he spotted a van with the sticker: "Urban Assault Vehicle." And if we aren't in a traffic jam, we're in front of a TV set, 'which accounts for a sticker spotted on Roswell Road with a CBS logor "Rather Bi i COMING THRU IN 0V AMAH Murphiy putg' parkway bilfc on the road Speaker shuns compromise on condemnation measure By Hal Straus SiaffWriter Bypassing efforts to draft a compromise bill, House Speaker Tom Murphy introduced a measure Friday that would create a commission of statewide elected officials with the power to condemn public land needed for the completion of the Presidential Parkway. Although Murphy's proposal met with objections from Lt. Gov. Zell Miller and the state Department of Transportation and only lukewarm support from Gov. Joe Frank Harris it did not appear that the dispute would help those seeking to block the parkway.

"I think the bill will solve the problem we've got," said Murphy. "The state needs to be able to complete projects." Before a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling, DOT and other state agency officials believed that they had the right to condemn land owned by local governments in order to build projects such as highways and prisons. 1 ased." Patients who walk into 0 ft 1 the offices of Marietta orthodontist Wendy Katz do a double take. There sits a Cabbage Patch doll complete with braces Johnny Esposito, who aptly describes him-' self as "an old-time saloon will be back in business come March. He'll open a nightspot on Copeland Road and says "it'll be a little bit of everything.

A little bit of food, a little bit Italian, a little bit American, a little bit of entertainment, a little bit of dancing." He'll call it Esposito's. NICK AttKOY07Saff Bill Bailey, owner of Southern Creations on Ralph McGill Boulevard, is flanked by some of his creations. Bumper crop of slicker stickers Mobile medium has replaced roadside signs as advertising symbol But the court ruled last summer that under current Georgia law, the DOT did not have the right to con- demn parkland owned by the city of Atlanta that lies in the path of the proposed Presidential Parkway. In response to the ruling, Harris, Murphy and Miller agreed in December that a panel of state officials should be given the authority to resolve condemnation questions, ac- cording to Rep. Larry Walker (D-Perry), the governor's House floor leader.

ill a- L-Jte Zell Miller "Herb" advertising campaign to the rear end of America's automobiles with a recent bumper sticker that allows the motorist to declare "I Am Not unseen "nincompoop" in the television commercials who has yet to taste a Whopper. Designing colorful bumper stickers with trendy messages is an everyday, task at A Ha-Lo Advertising Specialties in Atlanta, says marketing coordinator Emily Robinson, who describes her clients as "high-caliber-type See STICKERS, Page 7-B By Ron Taylor Staff Writer Like the protest generation itself, the bumper sticker, that 1960s medium of free-thinking messages, is adapting to material America. While motorists still display: occasional moods of discontent and sarcasm on their vehicles' bumpers, the stickers increasingly sing the praises of some product or enterprise. Officials at local radio station Y106 ordered 50,000 bumper, stickers to announce the station's arrival to the driving public when it first hit the airwaves a few months ago. And Lt.

Gov. Zell Miller had stickers printed for a giveaway promotion at his radio station, WZEL, in Young Harris. Cheshire Pet Supply offers optional bumper stickers to pet owners at its Toco Hills store declaring that either an owner's dog or an owner's cat "spends his allowance at Cheshire Pet Supply." Bumper stickers, says Charles Kramer, an independent Atlanta advertising sales executive, have replaced the roadside Burma Shave signs as America's ubiquitous symbol of advertising. Burger King has taken its popular Kemp trial recesses after attorney falls ill The three were working toward a compromise bill that the DOT could also support, say Walker and others, until Murphy decided Wednesday to go it alone. "The speaker, I think, just got tired of waiting for something to be worked out and introduced what he wanted," said Sen.

Nathan Dean (D-Rockmart), the governor's assistant floor leader in the Senate. Murphy's bill would create a commission made up the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state auditor and the commissioners of agriculture, insurance and labor. Reaction to Murphy's proposal was mixed, Harris "is satisfied with the speaker's bill for the time being," said Barbara Morgan, the governor's press secretary. While the governor wants a group of state officials empowered to resolve condemnation questions, it could be a different group than the one proposed by Murphy, Ms. Morgan said.

Miller was more critical, saying the condemnation of public land should be put before the existing State Properties Commission. That commission is chaired by the governor and includes the secretary of state, the state auditor, three members appointed by the speaker and three appointed by the lieutenant governor. "That's the logical place for it, rather than creating a new commission," said Miller, who also argued that a body with most of its members appointed rather than elected would be less susceptible to pressure "from a vocal minority." See PARKWAY, Page 3-B PULSE OF PEACHTREE: The fabled Cameo Lounge, a mecca for years for street people across from the bus station, fell to the wrecking ball last week and no longer will winos and transients be able to partake of the "Red-Eye Special" prominently advertised there for years. WSB's Bobby Harper recalls riding by the place one afternoon and his eyes nearly filled with tears at the sight of a man on crutches making his way up the sidewalk. Then, suddenly Harper realized what you see is not always what you get.

The man was drunk, not crippled. He swayed to and fro, but used the crutches to keep his balance, and then kicked open the door of the, tavern a free crutch, and disappeared inside for one more. Not far from there, at the building at Luckie Street and Inter: national Boulevard which was once the offices of Columbia Pictures and RKO Studios, an interesting venture opens in the next few days. It's called Club Rio, catering to our town's Latin community, and featuring rhythms ranging from Conga music to the Tango. It's the project of the family Fernandez, sisters and brothers Kathleen, Ma-ble and Julian, the latter a neon artist who's decorating the club into a touch of downtown Spain.

Openings are everywhere. Daniel Senne, former maitre d' at Pano's Paul's and Hugo's, opens his res-. taurant, Mirabelle, Tuesday on Sha-dowlawn Avenue in Buckhead in the house once occupied by Darcy's. Richard Blair was in Rome, Italy, in the American Cafe and walked into the restroom to find scribbled on the walls: "Go You Hairy Dawgs! Beat Auburn." Obviously, a bit of graffiti prior to Bo Jackson's visit between the Hedges. Williams Seafood, the Savannah-based operation, opens its second Atlanta location Monday on Alpharetta Highway in Roswell.

Town character Art Leo says there's no way Don King's hair could be natural as he claims. "He puts so much mousse on he's been elected to the Canadian Parliament," Request for postponement until Tuesday is granted' By Kevin Sack Staff Writer The Jan Kemp trial recessed prematurely Friday afternoon when defense attorney Hale Almand apparently became ill shortly after one of his clients took the witness stand. After a conference in the chambers of U.S. District Court Judge Horace Ward, another defense attorney, H. Randolph Aderhold, told the jury that Almand was suffering from nausea and was too ill to continue.

Ward granted Aderhold's request that the trial be postponed until Tuesday, despite protests from Dr. Kemp's attorneys. "He heard the same testimony you did. I guess it made him sick," Pat Nelson, one of Dr. Kemp's lawyers.

Virginia Trotter, University of Georgia vice president for academic affairs, had been on the witness stand about 15 minutes and was answering questions about her duties. She had just told the jury that. UGA has no policy allowing preferential treatment for the children of employees when Almand became sick. Dr. Kemp's lawsuit contends that she lost her job as a developmental studies English professor because she protested preferential treatment given to athletes and other special-case students Now a professor at Southern Technical Institute in Marietta, Dr.

Kemp is seeking reinstatement to her job as well as actual and punitive damages. The defendants in the case are Dr. Trotter and Leroy Ervin, the university's assistant vice president in charge of developmental studies. decision to free Wilcox in '72 slaying Vaidostans disagree with outdoor advertising firm owned by Wilcox and his father, E.K. "Foxy" Wilcox.

The judge also ruled that police officers used threats and coercion to obtain statements from witnesses. The 34-year-old Wilcox was released from prison on bond Dec. 30 pending an appeal Of Owens' deci-, sion by the state attorney general's -office. Wilcox has returned to his home town of Valdosta to live, but is currently on vacation in Florida. The judge's 72-page ruling, which the Wilcox family paid to have published in full earlier this month in the Valdosta Daily Times, has prompted fresh outpourings of anger among jurors in the case, law enforcement officers and family members of the victim.

And Wilby Coleman, Wilcox's attorney conceded that "the commu i By David Beasley i Staff Writer VALDOSTA, Ga. Frances Mays wonders if she sat through a 10-day trial for nothing, and James E. Hendricks feels like a federal judge is telling him that "I don't 1 have sense enough to serve on a Relatives of Hellen Hanks, a 1972 Valdosta slaying victim, say a ruling last month by U.S. District Judge Wilbur Owens overturning the 1982 murder conviction of prominent Valdosta businessman Keller represents a failure in the American legal system. And one irate local resident has said in a newspaper letter to the editor that citizens will have to form vigilante groups "if they want justice done." The reactions of shock and outrage were brought about by Owens' nity is not jubilant over the decision." A strong sentiment in this city of 43,000 people about 20 miles north of the Florida line, is that federal judges should not second-guess a local jury's verdict "Why do we need a jury of 12 people when a judge is going to make all the decisions?" asked Mrs.

Mays, a Hahira civil service worker who served on the Wilcox jury. "I'm not ashamed of the verdict I felt like it was a good verdict and he received a fair trial." Hendricks, also a juror in the case, objected in particular to a passage in Owens' ruling in which the judge held that it "insults rational thought" to convict Wilcox of murder based on the testimony of the state's key witness, Ed Wrentz. Wrentz 'testified under direct exami nation that he helped Wilcox dispose of Mrs. Hanks' body. But he recanted the statement on cross-examination.

"Apparently, Judge Owens is the only rational person in the state of Georgia," said Hendricks, who noted that the Georgia Supreme Court earlier upheld the murder conviction. 7- In Interviews this week, relatives of Mrs. Hanks said Owens' ruling, which if upheld by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will bar the state from retrying Wilcox, represents a failure in the American legal system. "Justice was not served in the case," said James Hanks, the victim's husband.

"I can't understand why, when See WILCOX, Pa)e 6-B Vi PEOPLE SPOTTER: Don King and Eldrin Bell partying at Creek-side Cafe. Today's birthdays: Shields, 52; Kenny Cheek, 30; Buddy Fowlkes, 59; Mike Todish, 31; Carol Tobin, 28; Nancy Strickland, 25; Elaine Bryant, 30; Jim yl Cook, 29. After four years behind bars, Keller Wilcox was released from prison Dec. 30. Dec.

20 ruling that the state failed to Drove that Wilcox killed Mrs. Hanks, a 35-year-old secretary at an.