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I I I I I I CIMAL E4 Monday, Oct. 16, 2000 Suspect accused of 4th death South Carolina man was already thought to have killed three women. ASSOCIATED PRESS Augusta Police have attributed a fourth slaying to a South Carolina man already accused of killing three Augusta-area women, including a Fort Gordon soldier and a teenager who was killed 10 months ago. The latest victim, who authorities said was an unidentified woman 17 to 21 years old, was found in a wooded area near Harlem in Columbia County. "Based upon the information gained during the investigation thus far, we can conclude at this time that the body that we found was that of a female who was killed by Reinaldo Rivera," District Attorney Danny Craig said.

Craig said Rivera gave the location of the body to Richmond County authorities, who relayed the information to Columbia County sheriff's investigators. The prosecutor said the woman was believed to be an employee of an Augusta telemarketing company and was last seen in July. An 18-year-old South Augusta woman is the only known survivor of Rivera's attacks, police said. Though the Associated Press' policy is not to publish the identities of rape victims, Chrisilee Barton said she wanted to share her story. Barton said Rivera raped and stabbed her three times with a steak knife on Tuesday.

Barton told The Augusta Chronicle Saturday that she was approached by Rivera in the parking lot of a Huddle House restaurant. Rivera told her he owned an escort service and modeling agency and that he wanted to take a picture of her, Barton said. "I knew he wasn't what he said he was, but for some reason I went along with it. I can't tell you why," she said. Barton invited Rivera back to her house where he raped and stabbed her three times in the throat, apparently with a plastichandled steak knife he took from the kitchen, she said.

"I honestly think that he thought I was dead," Barton said. "But it was like the good Lord kept touching me, giving me life." After Barton was discovered, she worked closely with investigators to locate Rivera, who was found in a South Carolina motel room Thursday. A native of Madrid, Spain, the 37-year-old Rivera lived in LAW AND ORDER Boy hit by cop car improving he 8-year-old boy who was struck by a police cruiser Saturday is say still his in the condition pediatric is improving. intensive care Meanwhile, unit, but the hospital police are officials investigating the accident, including whether the officer had his lights and siren on when the cruiser struck the boy. Jarred Quales is listed in stable condition at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital.

Jarred was crossing the street with three other people when he was struck by the police cruiser around 11:30 a.m. Saturday on Moreland Avenue. Officer John Quigley, an Atlanta Police Department spokesman, said that, despite some statements to the contrary, he believes the police car had its lights and sirens activated. "It is not uncommon that witnesses have differing versions or perceptions of what they believe occurred," Quigley said. "That's what an investigation is for." He said the officer driving the car could not avoid hitting Jarred.

The car the officer was chasing was later captured and its two occupants arrested. Graniteville and Columbia, S.C., and Fayetteville, N.C., before moving to North Augusta, S.C. He has worked as a tire inspector at an in Aiken for the past years. He and his wife, Tammy, have two children, ages 5 and 7. Rivera apparently attempted suicide before police found him while investigating Barton's assault.

He was moved Saturday morning from Medical College of Georgia Hospital to the Richmond County Jail, where he is being kept in an isolated cell and is under a suicide watch. Investigators in Georgia and South Carolina are collaborating, hoping to link DNA samples from Rivera to still more unsolved homicides and assault cases. Rivera already faces murder charges in the deaths of Sgt. Marni Glista, Tiffaney Wilson and Melissa Dingess. The skeletal remains believed to be those of Dingess, a 17-yearold from Graniteville who disappeared 15 months ago, were found Friday in woods off I-20 about seven miles east of the Savannah River.

Rivera was charged Friday in the 1999 death of 18-year-old Tiffaney Shereese Wilson of Jackson. FORSYTH COUNTY Motorist killed when car crosses into traffic A 29-year-old Forsyth County man was killed Sunday morning when his car crossed into oncoming traffic on Ga. 9 and struck another car head-on. Police believe Jasmin Curtovic of Cumming may have fallen asleep at the wheel shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday morning, near the entrance of North Lanier Baptist Church, officials from the county sheriff's department said.

Curtovic's northbound car crossed into southbound traffic and struck a truck driven by Israel Valdez, 27, of Buford. Valdez and his passenger fled the scene, sheriff's officials said, but both were later found by police. Valdez was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and not carrying a driver's license. Curtovic was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which is being investigated by the Georgia State Patrol. It is the ninth traffic fatality in Forsyth County this year.

Spotlight: Little action on vacant houses By March 1992, the property was boarded up and the grass cut. In 1995, the front door was damaged and the yard was overgrown and "very tall." In 1997, the city received a complaint about the property, but took no action. The next notation was from last month. On Sept. 27, housing enforcement director Carl Smart instructed an inspector to "please check status of this case ASAP, this morning; and call me on cell phone There was reportedly a rape of a little girl there this But 789 Pond Street's experience with city housing enforcement is no aberration.

In spring 1998, a series of articles in the Journal-Constitution found that: 10,000 homes and apartments in the city were vacant and decrepit; the backlog of unresolved housing code Continued from E1 violations was at and more than one in four of those cases had been on the books for five years or longer. Since then, the city has added 16 inspectors and four housing code officers. The caseload has eased, and "I think there has been substantial progress," Smart says. But we still have too many vacant houses that are magnets for drug sales, prostitution and other community-debilitating crimes. What will it take to make a dent in this problem? Leadership on all levels, and not just when the TV cameras are rolling.

"I think it's unrealistic to think we're going to get rid of' vacant, debilitated housing, Smart says. "We've got to manage it, control it. It's going to take working with neighborhood groups and leaders to get some things done." This year, the Legislature authorized local governments to WATERING BANS Georgia weather forecasters and state environmental officials say this is the worst two drought since record keeping began in 1895. Government officials hope the restrictions below will prevent the necessity of more drastic measures in the future. Hours during which watering is banned: 24 hours CARROLL Weekdays; outdoor watering permitted on weekends only, from midnight to 8 a.m., even-numbered: addresses on Saturdays and odd-numbered addresses on Sundays.

COWETA 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.; odd-numbered addresses water on odd days, and even-numbered addresses water on even days. NEWTON 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.; odd-numbered addresses water on odd days, and even-numbered addresses water on even days. FULTON (outside Atlanta city limits) 10 a.m.

to 10 p.m.; odd-numbered addresses water on odd days, and even addresses water on even days. ATLANTA FAYETTE BARTOW FORSYTH CHEROKEE GWINNETT CLAYTON HALL COBB HENRY DEKALB PAULDING DOUGLAS ROCKDALE 10 a.m. to midnight; restrictions WALTON Sources: Individual counties, municipal governments Staff The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA Eddie Lomax, 77, commercial chemist By Erin Behan When all the other kids in his neighborhood were getting BB guns for Christmas, Eddie Lomax was getting a chemistry set. "Every year he'd get one that was more advanced," his friend Dr. James R.

Cleveland said. By the time Mr. Lomax entered Booker T. Washington Lomax High School, he was acing his class chemistry experiments, and all of his friends were yearning for a peek at his lab reports. One of the first AfricanAmerican commercial chemists in the Southeast, Mr.

Lomax worked for more than 30 years at Puritan Chemical an industrial cleaning supply company. He retired in the 1980s as head of its chemical department, his great-niece Angie Dutch of College Park said. Mr. Lomax served in the Army during World War II before graduating with a bachelor's of science degree in chemistry from Morehouse College in 1948. He earned a master's degree of science in chemistry from Clark Atlanta University in 1951.

The funeral for Eddie Lomax 77, of Atlanta is 11 a.m. today at Big Bethel AME Church. He died Wednesday at Crawford Long Hospital from cancer. Carl M. Williams funeral directors is in charge of arrangements.

An Atlanta native, Mr. Lomax was heavily involved in the city's life and was appointed to the board of trustees for Southwest Community Hospital in 1970. The hospital opened in 1964 as the only black private hospital serving Atlanta. "He was very committed to the black community, and he thought it was very important to have a good hospital own community," said his great of his work to upgrade the hospital's facilities. Mr.

Lomax was also a member of several clubs started as social outlets for black professionals like himself, such as the Harlan Terrace Community Club and the Pine Acres Town and Country Club. "He wouldn't just be a member of a club, he'd be the president, treasurer, secretary," Mrs. Dutch said. "He'd develop it if it didn't exist." Mr. Lomax started a multiple sclerosis support group when his first wife, Jacquelyn Lomax, was diagnosed with the illness.

Even after she died, he continued to attend the meetings and offer his assistance, his great-niece said. As president of his 1941 high school graduating class, Mr. Lomax helped to organize the group's outings. He was a member of Morehouse's national and local alumni chapters and recently donated $65,000 to the school's science department. "He had the charisma, versatility and finesse to do whatever was necessary for the community," said Marvin Favors of Atlanta, a founding member of the Good Guys Club, of which Mr.

Lomax was treasurer. Other survivors include his wife, Lucille Bankhead-Lomax of Atlanta. Our obituary policy The Atlanta Journal-Constitution strives to make this list a complete record of deaths in the metro area and of selected deaths from elsewhere. Please ask your funeral home or cremation society to call us at 404-526-5342, or fax us at 404-526-7517. These listings are free.

For a Family-Placed Death Notice, for which there is a charge, please have your funeral home contact our advertising department at 404-526-5271. THE WEB: You can accesss news obituaries at www.ajc.com DEATHS AND FUNERALS ATLANTA MILWEE M. DEAL, 90, died Saturday. Funeral, I a.m. Tuesday, A.S.

Turner Sons. HAZEL GAINES, 81, died Saturday. Funeral plans will be announced; H.M. Patterson Son, Oglethorpe Hill. HAZEL LEE HESTER, 88, died Saturday.

The body was cremated. Funeral plans will be announced; National Cremation Society. BARTOW COUNTY RAYMOND L. KINNAMON, 75, of Cartersville died Saturday. The body was cremated.

Memorial service, I I a.m. today, Carmichael Funeral Home, Smyrna. CLAYTON COUNTY THOMAS NASWORTHY, 51, of Jonesboro died Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. today, Southside Chapel Funeral Home.

COBB COUNTY OLIN C. HENDERSON 90, of Kennesaw died Sunday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home. LLOYD EUGENE SIMMERMAN, 69, of Marietta died Friday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Roswell Street Baptist Church; HayGantt Funeral Home. BERTHA L. SPAIN, 90, of Acworth died Saturday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

today, First Assembly of God Church, Notasulga, Medford-Peden Funeral Home. GREG M. WILLIAMS, 39, of Marietta died Saturday. The body was cremated. Memorial service, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home. COWETA COUNTY TOSHA BLACKMON, 20, of Newnan died Saturday. Funeral plans will be announced; Sellers-Smith funeral home. DEKALB COUNTY HORRACE "BILL" BILBREY, 74, of Decatur died Friday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

today, A.S. Turner Sons. DOUGLAS COUNTY DOROTHY VIRGINIA EPPS, 72, of Douglasville died Wednesday. The funeral was Saturday; Whitley- Garner at Rosehaven. DANNY RAY HEAD, 52, of Douglasville died Sunday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Hightower's Memorial Chapel. AUDREY HELTON, 73, of Douglasville died Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Whitley-Garner at Rosehaven.

FORSYTH COUNTY DAVID ROBERT HOWSER, 49, of Cumming died Saturday. Funeral, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Christ the King Lutheran Church; L.W. McDonald Son Funeral Home. LILLIAN LaPERCHE, 78, of Cumming died Sunday.

The body was cremated. Funeral plans will be announced; Cremation Society of the South. HELEN FOUCHE RUZICH, 92, of Cumming died Saturday. Funeral plans will be announced; L.W. McDonald Son Funeral Home.

BILL STEWART, 79, of Cumming died Saturday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Church of the Good Shepherd; L.W. McDonald Son Funeral Home. GWINNETT COUNTY HERBERT A.

SPIES 76, of Lawrenceville died Sunday. The body was cremated. Funeral plans will be announced; Cremation Society of the South. HALL COUNTY CURVIN THOMAS PITTS, 78, of Gainesville died Saturday. Graveside service, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, West View Cemetery; Ingram Funeral Home. PAULDING COUNTY RODNEY WAYNE JOHNSON, 31, of Hiram died Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Whitley-Garner at Rosehaven. FAMILY- PLACED DEATH NOTICES ALLEN Edna 0.

Allen, of Hapeville, died October 13, 2000. Surviving are her son; James Douglas Allen, Hapeville, grandchild; Christopher Allen, Clarkesville, TN, brother; Bill Parrish, Rome, sisters; Evelyn Pendley, Rome, Jean McLaughyn, Cartersville, nephew and niece; Tommy 'and Florence Trapp, Cumming, and several other nephews and nieces. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday October 16, 2000 at Hapeville First Baptist Church with the Reverend Francis Gibson officiating. Interment, Westview Cemetery.

Donehoo- Lewis Funeral Home. Family owned and operated since 1934. (404)-761-2171. BOCOCK Memorial services for Mrs. Barbara Barcia Bocock, age 80 of Atlanta, will be held Thursday, October 19, 2000 at 7:30 p.m., Christ the King Cathedral, 2699 Peachtree N.E.

National Cremation Society. 770-923-2940. BRAY Mr. Roservelt Bray of 336 Wellington ST, SW, Atlanta, GA 30310, passed away October 14, 2000. Funeral arrangements announced later.

Sellers Brothers, Inc. BROWN Homegoing services for Mrs. Trudie Brown of Decatur, GA, will be held Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 1:00 p.m. at the chapel of Donald Trimble Mortuary. The Reverend Nathaniel H.

Black officiating. Interment, Kennedy International Memorial Gardens, Ellenwood, GA. The family will receive friends this evening, Monday, October 16, 2000 at the chapel from 7:00 p.m.8:00 p.m. She is survived by two daughters, Geraldine Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

Bennie Paige (Rosie); son, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Palmer; twelve grandchildren, twenty-three greatgrandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Pearlie Wallace and Ida Mae Robinson; brother, James Thrower; and a host of other relatives and friends. Family and friends are asked to assemble at the residence at 12:00 noon. Donald Trimble Mortuary, 1876 Second Ave.

404-371-0772-3. CAMP Geneva age 92 of Lawrenceville, died October 2000. Graveside services will be held 11 AM, Tuesday at the Duluth City Cemetery. Rev. John Baker officiating.

Mrs. Camp was a native of Duluth and had retired from Southern Bell Telephone Company after 43 years of service. She was also a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and was once a member of Brookhaven Baptist Church. Survivors are nephew, David Warnock and wife, Betty and children, Chris, Lindsey and Mark. R.T.

Patterson Funeral Home, (770) 448-2441. CARLSON WENDY WARE CARLSON Age 40, of Lawrenceville, died October 13, 2000. She is survived by husband, Gary Carlson, Lawrenceville; sons, Alex Smith, Nicholas Carlson both of Lawrenceville; mother, Patricia Ware, Nashville, TN; sister, Cindy Ware Harrison, Kennesaw; grandmothers, Margaret Ware, Atlanta; Alice Murphy, Huntsville, AL; nieces and nephews, Jennifer and Christopher Bradley, Kimmie Harrison all of Kennesaw. A native of Fulton County, Mrs. Carlson was a director of a non-profit organization at the Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta.

Memorial services will be held at 2:30 PM, Wednesday, October 18, 2000 at the Jimmy Carter Library, Carter Center, Atlanta. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to a trust fund for Alex Smith and Nicholas Carlson at any Suntrust Bank or to the Carter Center in memory of Wendy Carlson. Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Lawrenceville, (770) 962-3100. Continued on E5 UPDATE Georgia Transmission Corp. has delayed choosing a route for its transmission line in Rabun County (Spotlight, Sept.

25). After a meeting with Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor and state legislators, the company said it would give locals enough time to do a study of possible alternatives. A group formed by Buzz Williams of the Chattooga Conservancy has hired an expert to study the issue.

But Williams says time is running out and he's having trouble getting the needed documents from GTC. The company is using its power of eminent domain to build a 115-kilovolt transmission line through the middle of the county. The plan is opposed by the County Commission, the chamber of commerce and economic development authority. set up citizen-led code enforcement boards that could decide fines, liens and even when houses need to be torn down. Fulton County, believing it will produce speedier results than the courts, is using the board to monitor i its unincorporated areas.

The City Council has tabled a resolution to create one in Atlanta, Smart says, so the housing division can do more study. For Robin Carmichael, there's no time to study the problem. He and other Vine City residents have started tracking down owners of vacant property in their neighborhood. They've tried cleaning up overgrown yards. "If the city can't move expeditiously, guess what, we're going to do it for them," said Carmichael, who grew up in the area, moved away and moved back with his two young children a year ago.

"We can't afford to wait. For rat infestation or what have you. For another child to get hurt. THE WEB: To see our 1998 report on the backlog of housing code enforcement: www.ajc.com/spotlight/ ETHEL MOON CAPES, 84, of Covington died Saturday. Funeral, I 1 a.m.

today, Caldwell Cowan. WILLIAM HOLLOWELL COLLINS 83, of Athens died Sunday. Funeral plans will be announced; Bridges Funeral Home. JEWELL JUNIOR DYER, 64, of Franklin died Sunday. Funeral, 4 p.m.

today, McKoon Funeral Home. JANICE McDOUGAL, 49, of Winder died Friday. The funeral was Sunday; Carter Funeral Home. LORETTA L. RAY, 61, of Covington died Saturday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Snapping Shoals United Methodist Church; Caldwell Cowan. LORRAINE DODSON THRASHER, 91, of Flovilla died Friday. The graveside service was Sunday; Haisten Funeral Home. ANGELLINA DIAHLEE ELIZABETH WOOLSTON, 6, of Winterville died Saturday.

Funeral, 3 p.m. Tuesday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Athens Stake Center; Bernstein Funeral Home. AVIE BROCK WORTHY, 88, of Cedartown died Sunday. Graveside service, 11 a.m. today, Polk Memory Gardens Cemetery; Gammage Funeral Home.

ELSEWHERE WILLARD NEWELL BASCOM, 83, of San Diego, a pioneer in ocean exploration who plumbed the depths for shipwrecks, diamonds and scientific treasure, has died. Vincent Canby, 76, New York Times film, theater critic NEW YORK TIMES New York Vincent Canby, whose lively wit and sophisticated tastes illuminated film and theater reviews in The New York Times for more than 35 years, died Sunday at the ColumbiaPresbyterian Center in Manhattan. He was 76 and lived in New York. The cause was cancer. Mr.

Canby was the ubiquitous, anonymous man in the aisle seat, taking it all in tonight for a million readers tomorrow. As senior film critic for The Times from 1969 to 1993 (he began reviewing films for the paper in 1965) and then as a theater critic, Mr. Canby delivered trenchant insights, sober judgments and wry humor in reviews for the daily paper and in longer analysis pieces for Arts Leisure on Sunday. His writing was often an entertainment itself: conversational prose that conveyed a bracing disdain for sentiment, a clear eye for meretricious art, rapier cuts for pretentious fools and finetuned praise for artistry, all in a monologue. His scholarship and cultural perspective were never flaunted but were as solid as his journalism.

Mr. Canby's film work thousands of articles and essays that made up the bulk of his criticism was a virtual catalog of the cinematic arts in its most robust era, from the French New Wave and the rise of American independent cinema to the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster and the advent of videocassette recorders and 25-screen theaters. Along the way, he championed the work of a diverse group of filmmakers, including Spike Lee, Jane Campion, Mike Leigh, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Woody Allen and James Ivory..