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Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999 LOCAL NEWS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 13 Belluardos sue son's killer and his family Don Plummer STAFF WRITER "Parents of a Cherokee County middle school student killed at his neighborhood bus stop have filed a $2.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against the family of their son's killer. The lawsuit filed Wednesday by John and Vickie Belluardo against convicted murderer Jonathan A. Miller and his parents has two goals, said Belluardo attorney L. Lin Wood.

Wood said the Floyd County suit seeks 1 to financially penalize Miller and his family and gain information that eventually may lead to a suit against the Cherokee school system. "The Belluardos have gone to the school board with a number of questions and have been turned away," Wood said. "Why was he not expelled? Did they any mandatory guidelines for dealing with repeated offenses?" vAster Miller, 15, was charged with the Nov. 2 attack (OTE) on 13-year-old Joshua Belluardo, a school principal testified that Miller had been repeatedly disciplined for violent behavior. The suit alleges that 14 of the 34 times Miller was disciplined over two years were for problems with other students.

On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge A.D. Kahn signed an order allowing R. Allen Miller and Robin D. Miller to be sued despite their having filed for bankruptcy protection before their son's trial.

The suit was filed in Floyd County, in northwest Georgia, where the Millers moved after their son's arrest. The Miller's lawyer said they "strongly deny the underlying claim" that they were negligent in preventing the attack. Wood said Miller's parents were named in the suit because they knew of his violent history and did nothing to change his behavior. Wood said no date has been set for a court hearing. Atlanta city workers demand bonus for all By B.

Hairston the Aviation Department. STAREAWRITER "We've got the most dangered sniviv ous job in this city," said Jackie than 50 city workers Smith, an employee in the packed the committee room at city's Public Works DepartAtlanta City Hall Wednesday ment. "But y'all just disrespect demanding that the City Coun- us. You don't even know we cit approve a $2,000 bonus for exist." all'eity workers this year. The Atlanta City Council 1 Members of the American voted in March to give a $2,000 Federation of State, County and pay raise to city police officers.

Municipal Employees Local In July, the council approved 1644vdaccused members of the an amendment to the city charcouncil's ter that allowed payment of a Committee of ignoring the $2,000 bonus to city needs of less glamorous city firefighters. workers in favor of police and At the time, council memfirefighters. bers who opposed the charter you can find it for them, amendment warned that the you can find it for us," said council soon would be Louis Monteilh, administrator approached by other city workfor APSCME Local 1644. ers wanting similar Chairman Lee Morris moved sions. On Wednesday, Councilthee committee meeting from woman Felicia Moore the overcrowded committee reminded the assembled workroom to the City Council Cham- ers that a majority of the bereto vaccommodate the work- Finance Committee had recomThe mood of the meeting mended against passage of the then turned from that of a charter amendment.

sedate, government proceeding The amendment passed the to, labor revival. council on Aug. 2. Nfgiwe decided we weren't A $2,000 bonus for the more going to do anything today, the than 4,000 city workers who do police can't run the city," said not work for the police or fire Perry Johnson, a city employee departments would cost the for 11 years who now works in city more than $7 million. School study group looks at leasing achievement gap By Doug Cumming and recognized the powerful STAFF WRITER improvement in minority scores that followed.

"You're a Geprgia school reformers public school, you have to take were faced with two roads those Mexican students, too," Wednesday for addressing said Mora. what some consider the state's "Hear, hear," cheered comonly real problem in education mission member Johnnetta the vast achievement gap Cole. Cole, former president of between middle class and poor Spelman College, had asked students. Mora what were the most The choice: To hold schools important elements of the to the same standard regard- Texas system driving the rise less of their students' back- in student performance among ground, or to consider race and minority students. Mora said it income when ranking schools.

was unquestionably the isolatnoBoth roads were laid out to ing of data by ethnic and members of the Governor's income status at each school, Education Reform Study Com- forcing the schools to pay close mission in Atlanta. attention to their lowest perThe achievement gap corre- forming groups. sporids to a great extent to the Gwinnett County is followgap between white students, on ing the other path. the one hand, and Hispanic and Gwinnett has cranked out black students on the other. statistics that chart what One path would be to follow teachers know instinctively: Texas, grading each school on The poverty rate of a school is how well it does for every type the strongest predictor of its of student, separating out the achievement.

Good schools measures for black and white, will achieve above that predicand poor. Principals and tion, and bad schools below it, teachers had complained bit- but poverty rates give you a terly for a couple of years when strong average. this system was imposed, said The correlation is so strong, Linda Mora, a newly retired Gwinnett found that adding official of the Texas Education race to the statistical formula Agency. didn't make much difference. Suburban schools that had So the gap is about income, not been proud of their high scores race, said Gwinnett's head of were suddenly faced with a low planning, Cindy Loe.

marko threatening real estate But where Gwinnett parts values, because, for example, ways with Texas is that it their Hispanic dropout rate plans to use poverty statistics was high, or black attendance to compare like-income rate was low. But they came to schools, not compare poor to accept the system, if not love it, rich. FOnt 11LO OBITUARIES ES The Atlanta Journal-Constitution record of deaths in the metro area where. Please ask your funeral home 404-526-5342, or fax us at For a detailed Paid Death Notice, tact our advertising department at strives to make this list a complete and of selected deaths from elseor cremation society to call us at 404-582-7517. These listings are free.

please have your funeral home con404-526-5271. DEATHS AND FUNERALS ATLANTA JACK HARPER DODD, 51, of Phoenix, formerly of Atlanta, died Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Phillips Chapel United Methodist Church; Rich Thompson Funeral Service, Burlington, N.C. VIOLA E.

LENTZ, 83, died Tuesday. The body was cremated. Memorial service plans will be announced; Wages Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain. ALICE M. WHITMIRE, 72, died Wednesday.

Memorial service, I p.m. Sunday, Horis A. Ward, Stone Mountain Chapel. KEYOMI LOUISE WOMACK, 17, died Monday. Funeral, 3 p.m.

Friday, Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Hopkins, S.C.; Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home, Columbia. CARROLL COUNTY INEZ WYATT BILLINGSLEY, 54, of Carrollton died Monday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Faith Missionary Baptist Church; Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel. JEAN BLACK, 81, of Marietta died Tuesday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home. REBA JEAN BROWN, 68, of Carrollton died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel.

SALLY LEE CRAIG, 41, of Carrollton died Wednesday. Memorial service plans will be announced; Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel. WILLARD N. ENTREKIN, 63, of Carrollton died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Friday, West Carrollton Baptist Church; Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel. MICHAEL GALLIMORE, 49, of Marietta died Wednesday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Roy Davis Funeral Home. L.

CHARLES HARDY 61, of Marietta died Tuesday. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Friday, Westview Cemetery; Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home. VICTOR CRUZ MUNOZ, 29, of Carrollton died Tuesday. Funeral plans, Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico, will be announced; Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel.

ANGELO DEVON SYKES 11, 7, son of Angelo Devon Sykes Sr. of Lithia Springs and Robbie Michelle Billingsley of Carrollton, died Monday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Faith Missionary Baptist Church; Martin Hightower Heritage Chapel. CLARA MAE AYERS TAYLOR, 95, of Temple died Tuesday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Jones-Wynn Funeral Home. CHEROKEE COUNTY MYRTLE LEE GARRETT CONNELL, 89, of Leesburg, formerly of Woodstock, died Tuesday. Graveside service, 2 p.m. today, Tripp Cemetery; Woodstock Funeral Home.

CLAYTON COUNTY ELZIE "JACK" BOWEN, 72, of Forest Park died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Parkway Garden Chapel. COBB COUNTY ZULA BROWNING, 91, of Simi Valley, formerly of Smyrna, died Sunday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Friday, Carmichael Funeral Home, Smyrna. MARTIN DAUER, 57, of Marietta died Monday. Memorial service, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, H.M. Patterson Son, Canton Hill.

REMELL M. MITCHELL, 72, of Marietta died Monday. Funeral plans will be announced by Hanley-Shelton, Marietta. CHRISTINE M. PHILLIPS, 66, of Marietta died Monday.

Funeral plans will be announced by Hanley-Shelton, Marietta. LINDA B. ROLLINS, 45, of Marietta died Sept. 14. Memorial service, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Georgia Memorial Park Funeral Home-Winkenhofer Chapel. EMMA S. WATKINS, 93, of Marietta died Tuesday. Funeral plans will be announced by Hanley-Shelton, Marietta. COWETA COUNTY RUBY GERTRUDE BRITTAIN McDONALD, 99, of Marietta, formerly of Newnan, died Wednesday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. today, McKoon Funeral Home. MARY INEZ McGUIRE, 78, of Newnan died Tuesday, Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Jones Funeral Home. DEKALB COUNTY JAMES RONALD LOVELL, 52, of Stone Mountain died Tuesday.

A private service is planned; Horis A. Ward, Stone Mountain Chapel. WILLIAM HAYNE MILLS 111, 69, of Decatur died Tuesday. Memorial service, 11 a.m. Friday, Shallowford Presbyterian Church; J.

Henry Stuhr Funeral Chapels, Charleston, S.C, DOUGLAS COUNTY CLAUDE MAYFIELD, 70, of Lithia Springs died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Hightower's Memorial Chapel. ZACHARY PAUL ROBERTS, infant son of Matthew and Chele Roberts of Douglasville, died Tuesday, Graveside service, 2 p.m. today, Sweetwater Cemetery: Jones Wynn Funeral Home.

FAMILY- PLACED DEATH NOTICES ALLEN FULTON COUNTY CLAYTON CAGLE, 11, son of Tim and Janie Cagle of Alpharetta, died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Northside Chapel Funeral Directors. DIANE SANDRA MITCHELY, 56, of Fairburn died Tuesday. Funeral, 11:30 a.m.

Friday, Wages Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain. PAULINE OZBURN, 93, of East Point died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Caldwell Cowan. BRIAN EDWARD WOOD, 22, of Manakin- Sabot.

formerly of Alpharetta, died Aug. 21. Graveside service, 3 p.m. Saturday, Green Lawn Cemetery, Roswell; Bennett Funeral Home, Glen Allen, Va. GWINNETT COUNTY GLORIA DALE BOWEN, 54, of Lawrenceville died Tuesday.

Funeral, 3 p.m. Thursday, Tom M. Wages, Oak Lawn Chapel. THOMAS B. CROUCH, 77, of Stone Mountain died Tuesday.

Memorial service, 11 a.m. Saturday, Horis A. Ward, Stone Mountain Chapel. BERTHA MAE TIMMS DOWDY, 103, of Norcross died Monday. The funeral was Wednesday; Bill Head Funeral Home, Chapel.

EUGENE GILBERT HERNDON, 70, of St. Augustine, formerly of Gwinnett County, died Wednesday. Memorial service, 3 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church of Lilburn; Tom M. Wages, Snellville Chapel.

PAULDING COUNTY ANDREW "A.J." JACKSON APPLEBY 66, of Hiram died Sunday. Funeral, 2 p.m. today, Sweet Home Baptist Church; Simpson Daughters Mortuary. GEORGIA TRACY DENISE BURDETTE, 31, of New Orleans, formerly of Greene County, died Monday. Funeral plans will be announced by Watts Funeral Home, Union Point.

WILLIAM C. "JACK" GRIFFETH, 85, of Bethlehem died Tuesday. Funeral, 3. p.m. today, Bethlehem United Methodist Church; Smith Funeral Home.

JERAMIAH EUGENE HOSEY, 55, of Franklin died Tuesday. Funeral, 3 p.m. today, Centralhatchee Baptist Church; Tom Stutts and Son Funeral Home. GLEN O. LONG, 74, of LaGrange died Monday.

The funeral was Wednesday; Striffler-Hamby Mortuary. LEWIS H. "BUD" McKENZIE, 73, of Montezuma died Tuesday. A private service is planned; Watson-Mathews Funeral Home. HOWARD A.

PERRY 82, of Winder died Wednesday. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Friday, Rose Hill Cemetery; Smith Funeral Home. ELSEWHERE BENJAMIN S. BLOOM, 86, of Chicago, an education professor whose research led to an upsurge in interest in early childhood education, including the creation of the Head Start program, died Monday.

HARRY CRANE, 85, of Beverly Hills, co-creator of Jackie Gleason's classic 1950s sitcom "The Honeymooners" and comedy writer for Red Skelton, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby and others, died Tuesday of cancer. CHARLES CRICHTON, 89, of London, a director of comedy films in the 1940s and 1950s who made a resurgence with "A Fish Called Wanda," died Tuesday. JANET ADAM SMITH, 93, of London, a biographer and former literary editor of the New Statesman magazine, died Saturday. Lewis 'Bud' McKenzie, 73, former state senator ASSOCIATED PRESS Montezuma Former state Sen. Lewis H.

"Bud" McKenzie, who represented a south-central Georgia district through the 1980s, has died. He was 73. Mr. McKenzie, who died Tuesday, represented the 14th District as a Democrat from 1980 to 1990. He also was elected city councilman and mayor of Montezuma, northeast of Americus.

Mr. McKenzie was born in Fulton County, but lived nearly his entire life in Macon County. He was a veteran of World War II and a graduate of Washington Lee University. He is survived by his wife, three children and four grandchildren. The funeral will be today at St.

Mary's Episcopal Church, with burial in Felton Cemetery. Mrs. Ethel Lee, 400 Ralph McGill Apt. 9-P, will be funeralized Friday, September 17, 1999, at. 2 P.M.

from Holy Temple Baptist Church. 1206 Metropolitan Ave. Rev. Nelson Clements Pastor. Interment Kennedy.

Survivors are: children, Mr. and Mrs. McArthur Robbins, Sr. (Ann), Ms. Regina Slaughter, Program Director of WYVE radio, Edna, Bobby, Bennie, Carles and Billy Allen; 30 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; 3 nieces; 2 nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.

The family will receive friends tonight from 6 P.M. until 8 P.M. at 2350 Wellborn Court (Lithonia). Please assemble at 2350 Wellborn Court at 1 P.M. Raleigh Rucker Funeral Home.

404-288-7015 PAULA GOULD Special Avis Aronovitz earned a master's at Syracuse University. Avis Aronovitz, wrote book on gardens By Kay Powell STAFF WRITER Avis Aronovitz wrote a popular book for Atlanta gardeners and gave the profits to the Atlanta Botanical Garden, plant organizations and researchers. Her "Gardening 'Round Atlan- ta" was printed in 1997, financed by her husband, pediatrician Dr. Gerson Aronovitz, when she had difficulty interesting publishing houses in it. The book has earned $20,000 for the botanical garden and is in its third printing.

"This is the book for the rank beginner or the new gardener new to Atlanta," an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Home Garden article said in 1997. Mrs. Aronovitz, 64, a DeKalb County resident, died of cancer Sunday at Piedmont Hospital. The graveside service was Monday. Green Lawn Jewish Funeral Directors was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Aronovitz earned a master's degree in plant science at Syracuse University. She was president of the Georgia Azalea Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society in 1996 and 11997, lectured extensively and had articles published in horticultural magazines. Mrs. Aronovitz had 20 other experts contribute to the encyclopedic book on gardening in Atlanta, each detailing specific plants from camellias to turf grass.

"I want to give people the very best plants for Atlanta, not what does well in North Georgia or South Georgia, but right here," she said in a 1993 interview while working on the book. Using a basic landscape plan drawn up by the late horticulturist Roy Wyatt, Mrs. Aronovitz's garden on a third of an acre in Briarcliff Woods became the testing ground for the book. "She learned through trial and error that Atlanta is very different" from Syracuse, N.Y., said her husband. "Today, we've got plants on top of plants." Mrs.

Aronovitz's garden will be included in the October tour of the Georgia Perennial Plant Society, he said. Working on her garden in her spare time, Mrs. Aronovitz for 20 years managed her husband's medical office. She was the coordinator for his research projects on infectious diseases. "The coordinator is critical, especially in blind studies.

She dispensed the medications, maintained the records. She was the humanistic side of the practice," said Dr. Aronovitz. "The patients loved her." "Avis was an unusual person in that she was very intense in all that she did. She was warm, kind, never sought the limelight but always got things done," said Liane Levetan, DeKalb County chief executive officer and her neighbor for 30 years.

"She was very, very generous with her time and her contributions of money to many charities. She was not a phony. She was sincere." Survivors other than her husband include four daughters, Betsy Aronovitz of Albuquerque, N.M., Pamela Aronovitz of Los Angeles and Tracy Dorfman and Caroline Adelman, both of Atlanta; a brother, David Yaffee of Syracuse, N.Y.; and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 600 Peachtree Battle Atlanta, GA 30327. AUTRY Dr.

Charles E. (Chick) Autry, of Stone Mountain died September 15, 1999. He is survived by wife, Betty G. Autry, sons, Gary Autry and Staci, Lawrenceville; daughter, Linda A. Carroll and her husband Tim, Stone Mountain; brother, Pete Autry, Conyers; sisters, Betty Roberts, Stone Mountain; Janie Spaulding, Dunwoody; grandchildren, Lori Tyson, Dallas, David Autry, Lawrenceville; two great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Services will be held Friday, September 17 at 2:00 at Wages Sons Chapel with Dr. Dan Parker and Eric Tyson officiating. Family will, receive friends Thursday, 2 until 4 and 6 until 9:00. In lieu of flowers those desiring please make donations to the Salvation Army or the American Cancer Society. Burial, Stone Mountain Cemetery.

Wages Sons, Stone Mountain Chapel. 770-469-9811. BENTLEY Celebration of life for Mrs. Ruby Copeland Bentley of 1001 Kipling Atlanta, will be held on Friday, September 17 at 12:00 noon at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 17 Meldon S.E., Atlanta.

Rev. 0.L. Blackshear pastor, officiating. Her remains will lie in state at the church at 10 a.m. Interment Lincoln Cemetery.

Survivors, one son, Dennis Bentley, sister, Theresa Denson, brother, Richard Denson, daughterin-law, Leola Bentley, six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends. The family will receive friends tonight at 7 p.m. at the residence. The cortege will assemble at 11:00 a.m. at the above residence on day of service.

Viewing, Thursday 9:30 a.m. 9:30 p.m. Goolsby Mortuary, 1375 Jonesboro S.E. 404-588-0128. BRADFORD Funeral services for Mr.

Howard T. Bradford will be held Thursday, September 16, 1999 at 11:00 o'clock a.m. at the chapel of Carl J. Mowell Son. Rev.

Earl Pirkle will officiate. Interment, Camp Memorial Park. Carl J. Mowell Son, Fayetteville. BUCHANAN Taylor Goss, a lifelong resident of the Atlanta area was born in Decatur, December 1, 1904 and died in Atlanta, September 14, 1999.

He was employed at J.M. Tull Metals for 4 decades. He retired 25 years ago to spend time with his family. A member of Druid Hills Presbyterian Church for 55 years, devoted father and grandfather, his greatest legacy is his family. He is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Elizabeth C.

Buchanan; sons, Robert Taylor Buchanan M.D. and wife Patricia, and William L. Buchanan, PhD and wife Linda, PhD; daughter, Elizabeth B. Sumner and husband Andrew, ScD; grandchildren, Erin Buchanan Haig and husband Brad, Bradley Taylor Buchanan, Brian Andrew Sumner, M.D. and wife, Marty, Todd Christian Sumner, Michael Taylor Sumner and Taylor Elliott Buchanan.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m Thursday, September 16, 1999 at Druid Hills Presbyterian Church, 1026 Ponce de Leon Atlanta. The family will receive friends at the church Thursday one hour prior to service time. Interment, will be at Arlington Memorial Park. Arrangements made by H.M. Patterson Son Historic Spring Hill Chapel, 1020 Spring St.

N.W., Atlanta, GA 30309 (404)876-1022. BUTLER 770-964-7833. CAGLE MR. CLAYTON (CLAY) CAGLE Age 11 of Alpharetta, died September 14, 1999. Clay was a good student and an avid golfer.

He played in the Atlanta Junior Golf League this year. He loved Holbrook Campground, swimming, and trips to the beach. Clay was most fond of his beanie babies, his pokeman, and his new golf clubs. His favorite pastime was using his model construction machinery and spending time with his family. He was a faithful Christian and the embodiment of all that was good.

Clay attended Castleberry Road Baptist Church. His sudden death leaves an unspeakable void in the lives of his family and all who loved him. He is survived by his parents, Tim and Janie Cagle, Alpharetta; sister, Rachel Grace Cagle, Alpharetta; grandparents, Charles and Bonnie Cagle, Alpharetta, J. D. and Lois Burger.

Woodstock, Ora and Betty Nations, Roswell, aunts and uncles, Charles Cagle, Alpharetta and Jimmy Burger, Woodstock; Jennifer Michael Bowling, Canton, Julie Mitchell Paulk, Lizella, beloved cousins, John will be James, and Jenny. Funeral services Michael, held Saturday, September 18, 1999 at 2:00 PM in the chapel of Northside Chapel Funeral Directors. Rev. James McGaha, Rev. Carl Jameson, Rev.

Danny Bennett, and Rev. Fred Howard officiating. Interment, Green Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, those who desire may Children's make Heart contributions Fund, First to the Clay Cage Colony Bank. 0.

Box 1067, Alpharetta, Ga. 30009. The will from 6 receive until friends 10 on Thursday and Friday family Funeral Directors, Chapel PM al Northside 645-1414. Qbits continued on E7 Hall Mrs. Lois C.

Butler died September 14, 1999. Surviving are husband, Mr. Horace Butler, son and daughter in-law, Kenny and Dena Butler, daughters and sons in-law, Patricia and Marvin Hicks, Ann and Junior Sheffield, Sandra and Eddie Florence, 11 grandchildren, 17 greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at 12:00 p.m. at the chapel.

Rev. Keith Ford, Rev. Ray Butler, Rev. Donald Lee officiating, interment, Baptist Rest Cemetery. Family will receive friends after 2:00 p.m.

today at the Higgins Son Funeral Home, Fairburn,.