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10A The Paducah Sun Thursday, July 27, 1995 Whitfield building hefty '96 war chest 'John Doe' prisoner released Continued from 1A i t' if r--y i i I 1 7 i individuals, $93,785 from 124 political action committees and $2,624 from six political party committees. The report shows that 70 percent of the itemized individual contributions of $72,042 came from outside the 31-county 1st District. Of $93,705 received from political action committees, only $500 came from a PAC based in the 1st District. However, others represent firms or special interest groups with ties to western Kentucky. His expenses for the six-month period were $12,058.

Associated Press Fighting execution Mumia Abu-Jamal (center) arrives Wednesday at Philadelphia's City Hall for a hearing on his attempt to block his Aug. 17 execution. The ex-journalist, condemned to die for the 1981 slaying of a police officer, has gained a global network of supporters who consider him a victim of a racially biased judicial system. Prosecutors stand by evidence and witness testimony they believe is iron-clad. Woman refuses to testify in trial of congressman ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO A woman who accused U.S.

Rep. Mel Reynolds of having sex with her when she was underage but later recanted was jailed Wednesday for refusing to answer questions at his sex-abuse trial. "I respectfully refuse to answer," Beverly Heard said a dozen times when asked about the relationship, repeatedly invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. It was a confrontation the former campaign worker had been trying to avoid since January, when she stunned prosecutors by recanting her story that Reynolds lured her into a sexual relationship when she was 16 and 17 years old. Her claim led to indictments against Reynolds last August on sex-abuse charges.

Prosecutors, who questioned Heard, now 19, outside the presence of the jury, were trying to find out if she would go back to her original story and recount how the congressman approached her in June 1992 and began a sexual affair. Finally, Suria ordered Heard held in jail until Thursday, when she will have another chance to answer the questions. Study finds state's taxes competitive Continued from 1A no more than a $60 tax cut for any individual taxpayer, Jones said it was an important token to show concern for the poorer people in the state. Jones said he was assured the commission's recommendations would deal with tax breaks for the poor. Lear, who had objected to Jones' idea, said he was not opposed to a tax cut but wanted to let the commission embrace the entire tax code.

"The issue was how was the best way to move forward and accomplish comprehensive tax reform," Lear said. But getting the legislature to go along may be another matter. Republican gubernatorial nominee Larry Forgy has said he is not interested in any package that would include increases in any taxes, only tax cuts. Democratic nominee Paul Patton has endorsed several individual tax cuts but has been reserved about an overhaul. And Senate President John "Eck" Rose has said no reform that includes a tax increase for anyone can pass the legislature.

Tax rate down from last year ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFORT, Ky. The state property tax rate for 1995 will be 16.7 cents per $100 assessed valuation. The rate last year was 17.2 cents. The rate is revised yearly because state law allows a cumulative increase in property tax revenues of only 4 percent per year. U.N.

leader allows air raids on Serbs in a brown and tan backpack and small blue and white duffel bag. Although he declined to be interviewed, he did answer brief questions posed by reporters waiting outside the jail. Speaking in a soft, polite voice, he told reporters he was heading for New York where he had family, but he wouldn't elaborate further. When he was arrested on the hitchhiking charge, Willis said he had experienced car trouble "was coming from out West" but wouldn't say where in the West, nor would he say where he had car trouble. Shelia Coltharp described Willis as a "model prisoner.

He never asked for as much as a Tylenol." She asked him if he wanted a meal before he left, but he declined. She also asked where he was heading. "He said, but he wouldn't say where that was," Coltharp said. County Attorney Gayle Robbins said Willis showed no emotion when the judge told him he was being released. "He didn't show any reaction or expression of any kind," Robbins said.

Lisa DeRenard, the public defender representing Willis, had motions pending Wednesday for a change of venue, to stay all proceedings pending appeals and asking Buck and the county attorney to recuse themselves from the case, Robbins said. Those motions became moot when Buck released Willis, he said. "We'll never know his motive" for refusing to identify himself, Robbins said, noting that it is the strangest case he has had in 13 years as a prosecutor. Willis left Mayfield with more money than he had when he was arrested, thanks to the generosity of people who left donations for him at the jail, Robbins said. The case became unusual when Willis first appeared in district court and refused to identify himself, prompting Buck to hold him in civil contempt of court.

He had appeared in court once or twice each week thereafter but always refused to state his name, Robbins said. Willis was identified June 23 after Illinois State Police Trooper Eileen Rouchard saw his photo on WPSD-TV and recognized nim as a man she had arrested for hitchhiking in Johnson County in 1990. Robbins said the case will have some benefits: "People will know that when they come into Graves District Court, they are expected to identify themselves, not for incrimination, but for the processing." Shuttle has new O-ring problem ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -Few, in or outside the space program, have forgotten the loss of Challenger nearly 10 years ago by the failure" of a rubber O-ring seal. Last week, NASA discovered that a critical O-rine seal in a booster rocket had Deen singed slightly by gas from burning solid fuel during Atlantis' launch in late June.

The situation worsened Wednesday when NASA confirmed a similar thing happened during Discovery's liftoff two weeks ago. COLD WARM STATIONARY Pressure i I IU7IWriUVViTT The Accu-Weather forecast I I 10s' -Os 08 10, r--Bandparate IJ FT I $HT IW 7 IV ytu FRONTS: T-T- Continued from 1 A head into the 1996 campaign." He said his success in raising funds is also indicative of support for Republican programs to cut spending, reform welfare and balance the federal budget. With the filing deadline for the May 1996 primary elections six months away, no major opponents for Whitfield have formally stepped forward, His 47-page finance report shows receipt of $72,042 from 311 Contributors to Here is a list of individual contributions of $250 or more: William A. Taggert, an Arlington, consultant. Amos Shelton, owner of LWD in Calvert City.

Philip Myers, owner of Myers Lumber Co. in Mayfield, $450; Robert Blanchett, attorney for the Association of American Railroads in Washington, $250; Dr. R. Kirland, a physician in Potomac, Md $500; Jerome Conlon, a business executive from Park Ridge, $500; Thomas Wilson, an Arlington farmer, $600; Charles L. Grizzle, a Great Falls, business executive, $250.

Also, Tom Lewis, owner of Mayfield Loose Leaf Tobacco, $500; Christopher White, a Dublin, Ohio, business executive, $500; Niels Holch, an Arlington, attorney, $500; Martha Ann Gibbons, an Arlington, lobbyist, $500; Jon Gustafson, a Murray physician, $350; Harold Doran a Murray bank executive, $400; Hunt Smock, a Murray businessman, Jennye Smock, a Murray home-maker, $500; Michael Buxton, a Washington attorney, $250. Thomas C. Ferguson, a Washington consultant, $250; Carol Hallett, an Alexandria, consultant, $250; Ken Foster, a Washington business executive, $250; Craig Potter, an Alexandria, Va executive, $250; Larry Ayres, an Alexandria, consultant, $250; David Murchinson, a retired resident of McDaniel, Md $500; James Ziglar, an official with Pain-eWebber in Potomac, $500; Alicia Smith, a Washington executive, $250. Also, Hector Alcalde, an Arlington, consultant, $250; Brown Badgett, a Madisonville coal operator, Helen Badgett, a Madisonville homemaker, Joseph Badgett, a Madisonville insurance agent, $500; Rogers Badgett, a Madisonville executive, Bentley Badgett II, a Madisonville coal operator, Mildred Baird, a Sturgis homemaker, $300; Sondra Baird, a Morganfield teacher, $250; Nelda Barton-Collins, a Corbin health-care executive, $250; John Bode, an Alexandria, Va attorney, $250. Also, Betty Bowles, a Madisonville executive, Donald Bowles, a Madisonville executive, Frank Brancato, an Owensboro attorney, $250; George Crounse, a retired barge operator in Paducah, $300; Charles Davis, a Sturgis accountant, $250; Eberly Davis, a Sturgis attorney, $250; Dennis Dement, a Madisonville coal operator, $400; Robert Morgan, a Sturgis businessman, $250; William O'Brien, manager of the BFGoodrich plant in Calvert City, $250; Pat Parrish, a Paducah executive, $450.

Also, Richard Rohrbach, an Arlington, executive, $500; Diana Siler, a Sturgis teacher, $250; Paul Siler, an Evansville, coal executive, $250; G.L. Simpson, a retired resident of Greenville, $600; Donald Pearlman, a business owner from Bethesda, $250; Ann Veneman, an Alexandria, executive, $250; Jay Vroom, a McLean, executive, $250; David Springer, a Washington executive, $250. Also, Howard Hills, a Washington attorney, $550; James Free, a Washington executive, $250; Jack Copeland, a Washington consultant, $250; Owsley Frazier, a Harrods Creek executive, Emily Gable, a Frankfort homemaker, Philip Garnett, a Hopkinsville farmer, Leslie Greenwood, a Central City homemaker, $500; William Greenwood, a Central City insurance ex- ecutive, $500; Dr. William Guyette, a Salem physician, $500; William Hale, a Mayfield banker, $250; Dr. Kember Heine, a Sturgis dentist, $250; Oda C.

Inglis, an Earlington engineer, $300; Eddie Jones, a Henderson attorney, $300. Also, Barclay McCoy, a Madisonville executive, $500; Douglas Moore, a Paducah consultant, $400; Ama Sprague, a Sturgis homemaker, $250; Davis Sprague, a Sturgis LYN McDANIELThe Sun 300 400 500 HIGH V.HI. 1500 2000 2500 3000 including Serb anti-aircraft batteries, artillery, command posts and supply dumps. U.S. diplomats are seeking approval from NATO to bomb all areas that Serbs hold in Bosnia if the Serbs attack Gorazde, Assistant Secretary of State Richard E.

Holbrooke said Wednesday. In Washington, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia. The 69-29 vote was enough to override a promised presidential veto. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted to lift the embargo.

Sen. Wendell Ford voted against the measure. The bill would require President Clinton to end U.S. support for the U.N. arms embargo after the withdrawal of U.N.

peacekeepers from Bosnia or within 12 weeks of a request by the Muslim-led government there for i their departure. But it first needs approval in the House and must survive a presidential veto. The Bosnian government has long argued that the embargo prevents it from defending itself against better-armed Serb rebels. In Bosnia on Wednesday, the government appealed to neighboring Croatia to help defend Bihac. Whitfield farmer, $250; Harold Wagner owner of Wagner Consulting in Paducah, $400; Hilde-.

garde Wesley, a Morganfield homemaker, $450; Mary Whitfield, a Hopkinsville medical receptionist, $300; Norman Weidmer, a retired resident of Hopkinsville, $300, and Larry Wilcher, a Scottsville attorney, $400. The following are $500 contributions from Washington-based political action committees, unless listed otherwise: Federal Express, American Sugar Beet Growers; Phelps Dodge Employees Fund, Phoenix; Food PAC; Florida Sugar Cane League, Clewiston, Fla; Freeport-McMoran Citizenship Committee; NRA Political Victory Fund, Bill McCollum for Congress, Winter Park, Fla. Also, Caldwell Republican Club, Princeton, $50; Christian County Republican Party, Hopkinsville, $750; National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican National Committee, $1,257 in in-kind service; PAC, New York, United Technologies Bell South Telecommunications, Pepsico, Louisville, UPS, Atlanta, CSXT, $7,000. Also, Norfolk Southern, Norfolk, Conrail; Barnett Bank, Jacksonville, NAIB, $600; Loes-Lorillard, New York; NWOTA, Chicago; BN Rail, Fort Worth, Texas; Union Pacific Fund for Effective Government; Rail PAC; Dickstein, Shapiro Mor-in; STC PAC; USTEAM, MCI, $300. Also, Chambers Employees; EIA Waste; Realtor PAC, National Auto Dealers Association, $485 in in-kind donation; Seaboard, Shawnee Mission, NAN, Des Plaines, Health Trust, Nashville; Ashland Oil, Ashland, FED Louisville; American Commercial Lines, Jeffersonville, Coal PAC; National Food Processors.

Also, General Electric; ABA-Bank PAC, NAB; RJR, WSR, Atlanta, EM, Louisville, Kentucky Utilities, Lexington, Sealand Employees; Power PAC; American Sugar Cane League, Thibodaux, Arthur Anderson; NALU; Cosmetic-Toiletry Fragrance; LDS Communications, Jackson, FED; Ice Cream Mix Cheese, SURE, Louisville; CARE; NDMA; Autozoners, Memphis, Podiatry PAC, Bethesda, Also, Bell South Communications, Birmingham, Coopers and Lybrand, APT, Alexandria, Ernst and Young; ConAgra; Health Insurance; AANA CRVA, Park Ridge, Wilco; ATO, Arlington, Campaign America; Council; National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare; New York Life, New York; CIGNA TPEL, Cleveland, Air Products Political Alliance, Trexlertown, ASA, Park Ridge, MERCK; ZENECA; WMX, Oak Brook, BEF, Calvert City. Also, American Crystal Sugar, Moorhead, ED PAC, Detroit; Kemper NFIB, Nashville, SB-PAC; AHCA; CITI ITT Hartford Insurance; NAMIC; Insur; Tobacco Institute; American Occupational Therapy, Bethesda, Television and Radio PAC, Glaxo; PTC-PAC, Richmond, AFLAC Columbus, USAA Groupe; JES; Phillip Morris, Associated General Contractors; Farm Credit. Also, Tenneco Employees Good Government Fund; Committee for Responsive Government Dominion Resources AWO-PAC, Arlington, American Hotel-Motel, $350; Petroleum Marketers Association of America, Arlington, UE PAC, Kalamazoo, PAC, Princeton, N.J.; Panhandle Eastern; CON, Pittsburgh; DIS PAC; Pfizer, New York; Southern Company Services; AL Power, $250; Southern Nuclear, $250; Comcast, Philadelphia, MAPCO, Tulsa, Columbia Employees, Charleston, W.Va.; Team Ameritech, NYNEX; GAS, Arlington, and SP PAC. July 26 Pittsburgh Cincinnati Evansville Mt. Carmel Ht.

Chg. Rn. 16.8 0.4 0.36 26.5 0.45 13.9 4.7 0.4 0.00 17.9 0.5 0.00 12.4 0.1 0.00 11.5 0.3 0.00 24.4 0.0 0.00 15.9 0.09 22.9 0.3 0.58 16.4 0.4 0.94 24.0 -0 2 0.00 6.9 -0 3 0.25 Nashville 40 Chattanooga .35 Florence ..35 Ky. Dam Upper PADUCAH ....39 Cairo .45 St. Louis 30 Cape Girardeau .32 Memphis 35 LAKE STAGES Smithland 324.2, below 302.4,-0.6 Kentucky 359.4, 0.0 below 301.2,-0.7 Barkley 359.4, below 302.7,-0.5 LAKE TEMPERATURES Barkley Lake 85" Kentucky Lake 85' Continued from 1 A "safe area" fell.

The U.N. statement said "an attack by the Bosnian Serbs on Gorazde should be met by a firm and decisive response, including through airstrikes." Leaving the decision to U.N. military commanders on the ground would enable (juick and effective air raids without the "bureaucratic fuss and delay" that has plagued previous calls for the use force, one NATO official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Gorazde is the only remaining U.N.-declared "safe area" in eastern Bosnia. Zepa fell to the Serbs on Tuesday.

Bosnia's outraged government has blasted the United Nations for failing to defend the Isafe areas" it nad promised to protect. In Washington, President Clinton welcomed Boutros-Ghali's statement, saying, "It shows that he, too, is concerned that the United Nations cannot express a commitment to protect the security of people and then walk away from it." NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes briefed Boutros-Ghali by telephone after the NATO meeting, U.N. spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said. NATO has prepared a list of possible targets around Gorazde, 1995 1 TODAY'S OUTLOOK 1 r-J h'ZT for noon, Thursday, July 27. Partly sunny, hot and humid today.

"'7 "1 I 1 i -i High 90-95. Increasing cloudiness "IT SUNNY -'--V 2oT 30, "4oo 60, 70s 80s 90s ibos'noJ tonight. Low in lower 70s. Tt ,7 'WSf' high temperature zones for the day. FRIDAY 9368 t)AT (H) i x.

PTLYCLDY SPRINGHELDIL bv MmV Tf rvrftS PTLYCLDY tA'ThUV 8971 37 CLDV 'n-1 bfK SATURDAY PADUCAH 71 -P I I LITTLE ROCK NASHVILLE i '1 273 PTLYCLDY g570 'jSfzk' glL- Ua l7" LONGITUDE Figures show today's expected high and overnight low expected tonight. EB LH E3 E3 HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY Via Associated Press 0.09 3.15 LOW Accu Weather, Inc. 9271 cX PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY TEMPS 2 a.m. 76 8 a.m.

72 2 p.m. 81 8 p.m. 75 SUNSET 8:08 tonight SUNRISE 5:57 tomorrow 84 PRECIP MONTH HIGH POLLEN 35 100 LOW MOO. 72 MOLD loo 2288 500 JOOO' RECORDS 200 NATIONAL SUMMARY: Much of the nation will have hot weather today with the core of the hottest weather located in the Southwest, where most locations will top 100 degrees. Thunderstorms will be on the prowl across many of the Eastern states and also in portions of the Midwest.

The Pacific Northwest will have comfortable weather. 43 LOW MODERATE Measured at Paducah by Dr. Bradley Rankin HIGH V. HI. (Partlclesfcubic meter) 1952 1962.