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3k INSIDE: Thevis mansion is heart of luxury home project 2B Wrap-up on 1986 Legislature 10B-1 1B World news 14B It SECTION Sfjc2VUania 2ountalD THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, MARCH 9. 1986 i Harris expected to ttame school superih By Prentice Palmer Staff Writer Ed Deaton of Columbus, former president of the Georgia Association of has also been men-i tibned as a possible replacement I lanta and Ronald Etheridge of also are considered top by. officials: dose tor the jf education community. Sen. John Foster, chairman of.

i the Senate Education Committee, is amdng those pushing Crews. "I've asked him not to say 'no' to the I i Ji Ed Harris, whCchaired the commission for Gov. Harris, said all three meet a crucial test for the job they are familiar with QBE. Other potential candidates include LaGrange school superintendent Dr. Cal Adamson, who for years was an associate state school superintendent under McDaniel.

i Three current associate superintendents also are considered possi secretary, scotched speculation that Harris might appoint -a caretaker until the flections, "The governor would expect his ap-'" pointee to be a candidate for a full four-year term" this year she said, adding that "electabUity" will be a factor. Ms. Morgan refused to comment on possible appointees, even though a long list of candidates had surfaced by Friday afternoon. "It is inappropriate to speculate on a replacement at this time, and those who are doing so have no tact," she said. i Most of the names are being suggested by lawmakers and people in the education community and are connected with Harris QBE program, a multibillion-dollar plan to upgrade Georgia's education system over the next several years.

Gov. Joe Frank Harris will move quickly to fill the job of state school superintendent with someone who is familiar with the Quality Basic Education program and who has the expertise to win a statewide political campaign, aides and sources close to the governor say. Charles P. McDaniel, who had served as superintendent for nine years, died in his office Friday of an apparent heart attack. He was 63.

State law requires that the governor appoint a superintendent for the remaining 10 months of McDan-iel's term, and that a permanent replacement be chosen in the 1986 general elections. Barbara Morgan, Harris' press job," said Foster, who served on the Education Review Commission. Foster and Rep. Larry Walker, I Gov. Harris' floor leader in the House, predict the governor will move fairly quickly to fill the va-1 cancy, even though day-to-day oper- ations of the agency are left to the six associate superintendents.

Harris, however, will not be rushed into making a choice. "HeV says he will take all the time he needs to make sure he makes the right decision," said Ms. Morgan. 4 TOP CANDIDATES: Alton Crews, Atonzo Crim, Ronald Etheridge. Alton C.

Crews, a member of perjntendent of schools In Gwinnett the governor's Education Review County. Commission, which came up with Two other local school superin- the QBE plan, emerged as a leading tendents who served on the review candidate for the vacancy. He is su- commission, Alonzo A. Crim of At ble replacements. They are Werner Rogers, H.F.

Johnson and Bill Gam-bill, who is charged with implementing QBE. Gambill is also Gov. Harris' a fact that some feel will keep him off the final list of candidates. i 7 Grizzard iv3: a 7. Shopkeepers riled over rasM of robberies I Recent slayings have store owners vowing armed defense A i ft mi I feu.

By Michael Moss Staff. Writer Martha Matich likely was counting the day's re 4 yuji 4 Prices down, service up Now that there is plenty of oil again and oil prices have plummeted to new lows, I've noticed some distinct changes at my local service station. About the only service that had been rendered me before was there was a kid named Arnold to take my money for the gasoline and sell me paper towels to clean off my 1 1 drove in the other day, however; and Arnold ran out to greet me. A It was the first time I had seen him when he wasn't wearing his Walkman and listening to his favor- ite punk rock group, Sickening Imbeciles, and sporting a T-shirt that read, "You Obviously Have Me Confused. With Somebody Who Gives A Damn." "Fill it up, Mr.

Grizzard?" he said quite cheerfully. "Have you been sniffing gas fumes again, Arnold?" I asked. "No, sir," he replied. "We just want you to know how much we appreciate your business Want Abdul to clean your windshield?" "Who is Abdul?" guy who just came to work. He used to be a sheik, but when the oil prices dropped he lost his sheikdom and came to work here.

"Hey, Abdul! Get out here and clean the man's windshield." 'Abdul came out of the garage where he had been washing a car by hand. "A thousand pardons," he said to me. "It pleases me greatly to have the opportunity to clean your windshield, and could I interest you 1 NICK ARKOYOStaff ALL BUT READY TO ROLL: Seeking a Fulton County Health Department permit, McKinley Campbell discovered that regulations cover pushcarts and restaurants but not his truck, which, complete with kitchen sink, cost him $29,000. 1 piann top Giift c3g took ceipts at Chapman's convenience store in rural Newton County when gunfire shattered the front door. Moments later she lay dead by the counter, Her 11-year-old niece, Lisa Chapman, was found in the'restroom where she apparently had fled.

Lisa died later, in a medical helicopter, after being held by her father one last time. Lisa couldn't speak of the terror that ended her life Thursday night. She had lost too much blood. But others, aref asking why, over and over, especially because the two) were only the latest victims in a rash of violent armed robberies in the metropolitan Atlanta and Athens areas that has sent authorities scrambling for suspects and store owners vowing an armed defense. This past week, shopkeepers were robbed and fatal-ly shot in Athens and Cherokee County.

They preceded by just hours the killings at Chapman's store, in which i police have charged two suspects, including one man 1 whom law authorities were evaluating as a possible ft drug and weapons informant. ji Atlanta's community of Korean grocers have report- Jj ed more than 30 robberies since the beginning of the rear, several of them involving violence. They say at east 30 more went unreported. current rash of robberies has carried over from laslj year, -when non-fatal armed robberies increased 20 percent in metropolitan Atlanta, according to the Metro Commission. i 3 Theisjumpi has, some law enforcement authorities feeling a "We get halfway through one and we've got anoth-j said Cherokee County Sheriff Bo Ballard, who is vestigating last Wednesday's murder and robbery of i shopkeeper Ruth DeHart, the second fatal robbery in 1 Cherokee this year.

Some veteran retailers said they have their ownS ideas of how to solve the problem. 'f We're going to have to take the law in our own hands," said Frank Butz, 60, a Covington store owner 4 whd never had been held up until two weeks ago, when two people rushed into his store intent on robbery. He was lucky. As he walked into the store, the robbers fled. Police gave chase and caught them across town.

Butz said that in the next such attempt he would shopt at the robbers if he had the chance. "I'll give them the money, but they're not going to get out the door," Butz said. "As soon as they turn their back, I'll drop them right there on the floor. Then I'll fight with the courts over who was right." Armed robberies in the five-county metro Atlanta 'i area have increased dramatically in all but Clayton Health regulations don't cover rolling kitchen, so vendor urged to sell fruit in a clean, one-owner camel at a- Campbell said. "I told them if I'd wanted to sit in one location, I would have gone out and bought me a fears his investment is down the drain.

"I'm about to lose my home," he said, standing in his rolling kitchen parked outside his southwest Atlanta home. "Mr. Campbell's vehicle, from what I can gather from what the Fulton County Health Department is saying, falls kind of into a no-man's land," said Alice Johnson, service coordinator for the city of Atlanta's Action Center. "His vehicle and what he would like to do with it falls into a gray area that's not specifically covered in Fulton County regulations." Charles Summers, chief sanitarian for the county Health Department, said vendors can sell from more than one location, so long as they obtain inspection permits of $50 each. They also must get permission from the property owner.

Campbell's idea, it seems, falls through a crack in county regulations that provide for everything from pushcart fruit sales to full-fledged restaurants, but don't mention' his particular sort of traveling hot dog truck. Campbell paid $29,000 in August for a truck complete with a sink and running water, freezer, four steam bdilers, a beverage dispenser and its own But Health Department officials have told Campbell that he cannot roll, at least not the way he wants to. Under county regulations pertaining to outside food service units such as pushcarts his mobile kitchen has to have a base of operation with stationary kitchen and cleaning facilities, and he has to sell from fixed locations. Campbell argues that he has cleaning facilities on the truck and can get it cleaned every day. He wants to cook on the truck' itself.

But most importantly, he wants the freedom to travel where the public is. "They want me to sit in one: loca By James Alexander Jr. StaH Writer 1 McKinley Campbell, who lias been in the food business: for many of his 41 years, thought he had hit upon a great idea last summer; when he mortgaged his home and bought a self-contained rolling kitchen, He wanted to beat the major fast food chains to man-on-the-street hot dog sales by outfitting' his truck to sell hot food anywhere anybody wanted it, like the ice cream man. But instead, his entrepreneurial zeal has him in a pitched battle with the Fulton County Health Department. In effect, he wants to do something Fulton County doesn't have regulations to cover.

Therefore, the county can't issue a permit for it. Therefore, they won't let him do it. once-in-a-lifetime price?" Arnold filled my car with gasoline, checked my oil and checked' the water in my radiator. He also filled my windshield cleaner container and polished my hood ornament with the towel Abdul had been wearing around his head. Abdul, meanwhile, not only cleaned my windshield, he even beared down on the spots where bugs had splattered themselves.

He also checked the air in my tires, and came off $50 on the price of the camel and threw in a Rolex watch. Arnold also brought me a handful of road maps and told me I could take all that I wanted free of 9B See VENDOR 13B See; STORE Prosecutors words set stage for appeals which he referred was more than 100 years old, or that Georgia law now makes it perfectly permissible for jurors to show mercy, no matter what the circumstances of the murder. Huff had misled the jury on the issue of mercy and that was "undeniably wrong," the 11th Circuit ruled. -Increasingly, death penalty challenges I UIIMPIBUI III 3 tl jj- -f Closing remarks often cited in death penalty challenges By Ann Woolner Staff Writtr It was decide whether, Henry "Arthur, Drake should die for the crime oir murder, and it was no time for jfetp' more thaii 'slckiy -Sentimentality," special prosecutor Bryant Huff argued. "The false humanity that starts and shudders when the ax of justice charge.

'Eastern United States' is a very popular item with our other customers," he said. I was flabbergasted at such treatment. This Is how I had remembered service stations when they actually were "service stations." "What do I owe you?" I asked when Arnold and Abdul couldn't think of anything more they could do for me. me check," said ''Arnold?" "We're currently getting 82 cents a gallon, but if you'll wait a minute or "two, that will go down. We're having a gas war with the guy down the; street.

He'll go to 81 any second and I'll have to counter with 80." I made a phone call and finally bought at 78. "See you dipsticks, later," I said as 1 drove away. By the way, anybody know what a camel eats? have focused on what the prosecutor says, or fails to say, to the jury in closing argu death penalty chal-. lenges', have on what' prosecutor says, or fails to closing arguments. ments.

Over the past 18 months, federal and state appellate courts have ruled on the issue in about 20 death penalty cases, according to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia. Defendants in those cases were de scribed in a variety of ways. "Less than Last spring," nine years after the jury gave Drake the death penalty, a federal appeals court set it aside. While he quoted Justice Henry Kent McCay accurately, Huff had not mentioned to the jury that the justice was long dead, that the case to is ready to. strike is a dangerous element for the peace of society." 4 Vt Jhe words, Huff told the werev' those of "the justice of the Supreme Court' of Georgia" ruling in a previous case.rv.---' See APPEALS 9B CRY ANT HUFF: Appeals court ruled special prosecutor misled Jury on Issue of mercy.

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