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nawaii iriDune-Heraid, Friday, September 2. 1983 fc bums gam Friday report Child murderer executed Chief Paul: Triiants beware execution told him that Gray was dead within two minutes. But it was not until 12:47 a.m. that the chamber was cleared of gas and Gray was officially pronounced dead. Gray was the eighth man to be executed since the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty was lifted in 1977 and first in Mississippi since 1964.

He died for the murder of Deressa Jean Scales, whose face he held in mud until she suffocated after he sodomized her. In Dallas, her father, Richard A. Scales, said, "I am glad he was finally executed, but glad is a bad word. I feel like justice should have been carried out years ago." Outside the gates of Parchman prison, a small band of Amnesty International protestors lit candles and prayed for Gray at the moment of his death. Gray turned to poetry and religion before his death.

He ate a "hearty" last meal of pizza brought in by his ministers and burritos, retried beans, tacos, enchiladas, rice, strawberries, salad and milk. The six clergymen who ate with him then gave him a Protestant communion. The Rev. Joseph B. Ingle said that before guards came for him, Gray hugged the clergymen and told them goodbye.

PARCHMAN, Miss. (UPI) Jimmy Lee Gray, who smothered a 3-year-old girl in a mud puddle, died struggling and moaning for his breath in the gas chamber today and a prison official says the grisly execution indicates a need to "refine the process." State Corrections Commissioner Morris Thigpen insisted the two-time murderer, his seven-yearlong legal battle finally ended, died "a prompt and easy death." He said the agonized contortions, prolonged groans and convulsions that wracked Gray, 34, in the gray steel gas chamber for at least eight minutes were only the reflex movements of a dead body. Thigpen also said the execution indicates "we need to refine the process" so as to subject witnesses "to as little gore as possible." Gray's head was straining back against a steel pole dnd his contorted face was turned toward witnesses when they were ordered out of their mosquito-filled observation room. Executioner T. Berry Bruce, a school custodian who has handled every one of the 32 executions in the 4-by-4-foot chamber since it was built in 1955, was in full view of Gray through a window when he pulled a lever dumping white cyanide chrystals into a pan of acid under the condemned man's seat at 12:10 a.m.

CDT. A wisp of gas like white smoke curled up between Gray's legs and his agony began. Thigpen said two outside doctors observing the Police Chief Guy Paul announced that begirning Tuesday, Big Island students found off campus without a legitimate pass will be stopped and appropriate police or school action will be taken. Paul said that as a result of truancy enforcement between the Hawaii County Police Department and the Department of Education, absenteeism in Big Island public schools was reduced by 1.3 percent during the 1982-83 school year. "With this positive result, Hie Hawaii County Police Department in Cooperation with the Department of Education, Hawaii District, will again join efforts in attempting to further reduce absenteeism from all public schools by enforcing the truancy law during the 1983-84 school year," Paul said.

He said options available to police when students are found truant include arrest and return to their respective school for appropriate school action. Direct flights to Kona observed Mayor Herbert Matayoshi has declared the week of Sept. 4 as the "United 301 Los Angeles-to-Kona Week," commemorating United Airlines' inaugural flight from the mainland to West Hawaii. United Airlines will begin its daily direct service to Keahole Airport WednesdaywithaDC.10FUght301willarriveat2:05pjn. On its inaugural flight, the plane is expected to carry some 250 passengers.

After unloading, the plane will fly to Hilo Airport for refueling and will pick up passengers before heading for Los Angeles ami Chicago. Escapee heads for home A JIMMY LEE GRAY struggling for breath Thigpen at first announced that doctors monitoring Gray's heartbeat via a remote stethoscope reported the condemned man's heart stopped at 12:18. But later he said the two doctors told him that "within 30 seconds after the fumes began to come up from beneath the chair, Mr. Gray appeared to lose tonciousness. "He had doubts, fears and uncertainties but he also had a deep and abiding faith that carried him through," Ingle said.

When he killed the child. Gray was on parole after serving seven yeajs of a 20-year sentence for killing his girlfriendm Parker, Ariz. HONOLULU (UPI) Abused state prison inmate John Sholtes headed for Tennessee Thursday thanks to his family and an anonymous donor. Sholtes, who was acquitted of an escape charge last week, paid $350 in traffic fines in state District Court to clear the final hurdle for his departure. Reagan: Soviets are lying 'flagrantly' Reagan rejected official explanations offered by the Kremlin, which Friday acknowleged firing "warning" shots at an unidentified 1 Courts WASHINGTON (UPI) A grim and blunt President Reagan accused -the Soviet Union today of "flagrantly" lying about the downing of a Korean passenger jet and said the world must not be silent about what, he called a callous "terrorist act." "This event shocks the sensibilities of people everywhere," Reagan said before boarding Air Force One in airplane.

The Soviets said the jet left Soviet territory and disappeared from view of its fighter planes. i Ll i "What can we think of a regime that so broadly trumpets its vision of peace and global disarmament and yet so callously commits a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives of innocent human beings," the somber president said as he stood, holding the hand of his wife, Nancy, before television cameras at Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California. In some of his sharpest anti-Soviet rhetoric to date, the 72-year-old Reagan pointed to a "stark contrast between Soviet words and deeds" and intimated the jetliner incident will chill superpower relations for some time just as the administration seemed headed on. a course toward Waipio Valley man gets six months David Kaai Batalona, 29, of Waipio Valley was placed on probation for five years and ordered to spend six months in jail after pleading "no contest" to theft and firearm charges. Batalona was convicted of the theft of personal property from another man in July 1981.

He also was convicted of possessing a rifle between October 1982 and January 1983 after having previously been convicted of a felony burglary. He was ordered by Circuit Judge Ernest Kubota to pay restitution to the theft victim and to spend time in jail on weekends and non-working days. In another case, Lawrence Abiley, 23, an inmate at Oahu Prison, received a five-year suspended prison term for possessing marijuana at HUo Jail Nov. 9, 1982. Judge Shunichi Kimura suspended the new prison term on the condition that Abiley does not possess contraband in prison.

California en route to Washington. He, scheduled an emergency evening meeting of the National Security Council at the White House to consider possible retaliatory steps and arranged to brief congressional leaders over the weekend. Denouncing the Soviet attack, which sent the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 and its 269 passengers and crew plunging into the North Pacific Wednesday, as "a barbaric act," Reagan repeated his demand for "a truthful accounting of the facts." 1RL1EK ATTACKED An artist's conception of the Soviet attack on a irean Airlines 747 shows the Soviet Sukhoi Su-15. a single-seat twin-engine win-jet interceptor. improvements.

credibility when they so flagrantly lie "What can be said about Soviet about so heinous an act?" he asked. Corrections SEOUL, Korea (UPI) South Korea demanded today that Moscow apologize for shooting down a Korean Air Lines jumbo jet, compensate the families of the 269 victims and punish those responsible for the "brutal act of barbarism." President Chun Doo Hwan declared three days of national, mourning for the victims and ordered all flags flown at half staff South Korean chief demands Soviet apology during the period. In his first official response to the incident, he demanded a formal Soviet explanation of the attack that triggered condem-snati'ons from around the world." In his first official response Jo the incident, he demanded a formal Soviet explanation of the attack on the plane. "I solemnly declare that the Soviet authorities should thoroughly investigate the incident, -disclose the truth to the world and apologize," Chun said in a statement. Chun said the Soviet Union, as a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization is under obligation to fully cooperate and endeavor to ensure the safe navigation of civil airliners.

Weather Stock report More news oh HawTel request A story in Thursday's edition about Hawaiian Telephone Co. asking the State Public UtiUtiesCornmission for approval of a new "usage sensitive service" charge schedule did not mention that both businesses and residential customers would pay additional charges of 2 cents per call and 1 cent a minute during the peak hours. Calls before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m. would be half that charge.

The information was inadvertently dropped for space reasons. Petition misnames tax official Leslie Brown, an appraiser at the County Real Property Tax-Division, was reported as Lester Brown in a Thursday story in connection with a complaint by a group of taxpayers against the tax office. The misspelling appears in the written complaint filed with the County Prosecuting Attorney's office. Safety contest runner-up A story in Wednesday's edition identified the runner-up in the Senior Citizens pedestrian safety invention contest as Frances Borsdorf because of information supplied to the newspaper. The name should be Florence Borsdorf.

Today's noon D-J averages 1213.01 556.04 129.62 480.58 6.20 2.72 0.25 2.20 up up Off up Hilo, Puna, windward Kohala and Hamakua brief showers this afternoon, a few showers tonight and sunny periods Saturday after some morning showers. Kona and Ka'u cloudy this afternoon with showers along the slopes, mostly fair tonight and mostly sunny Saturday except for afternoon cloudiness with showers over the slopes. Tradewinds are at 10 to 20 mph; No marine warnings are in effect. BIG ISLAND WEATHER DATA 30 Indus 20 Trans 15Utils 65 Stock Stock list HIGH TIDES 12 a.m. Saturday 12:48 p.m.

Saturday SUNRISE 6: 05 Saturday MOONRISE 12: 19 a.m. Saturday LOW TIDES today Saturday SUNSET 6:35 today MOONSET Saturday Obituaries RAINFALL 24brs Year-to-date Normal Trace 42.05 84.29 0.01 0.29 Lyman Field Albrtson.tO MCKMI2.M AllidCp3.40 53i MotjllCorpl IP, AllnChalm it's Nashua Akoal.20 NatOiit2.M 31'. NortonSI.M 30' AmCin2 0 M. OccdPtl.SO 2s Am Motors i. OwcnlHI.M 3l'i ATTS.tOa tS'i PacGEl.M IJ, AI1Rcl2.40 PacLiMfl3 J3i, Avcol.20 2, PacPL2.lt 22' Bnkaml S2 it Pan Am Air 71, BthlS(I 23' Penney 2 1 54'2 Boeing 1.40 3 PepsiCo l.2 34J.

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24. Woolwhl.M it OManvil 12' GrandAu 2t If. Piihonua Waiakea Uka Keahole Airport New York Handy and Harman 417.50 up 0.90. Engelhard, base price for refining settling and unfabricated gold 417.50 up 0.90 per troy ounce. Selling price, fabricated gold 438.38 up 0.95 per troy ounce.

Silver prices NEW YORK (UPI)-Handy and Harman today quoted silver at $12.17 per fine ounce off $0.02. Engelhard Corp. quoted a base price for industrial silver of $12.26 off $0.04 and a price for fabricated silver products pf $13,118 off $0,043. Metal prices NEW YORK (UPI) Latest metal market prices as quoted Friday by the American Metal Market, authoritative metals publication: Aluminum, primary, 99.5 percent plus pure 50-lb. ingots 76.00 c-lb.

Antimony, domestic, refined in alloy, $2.00 lb. Copper, electrolytic, delivered U. S. 76.625-79.00 c-lb. tead, common, U.

S. primary producers 19.00-23.00 S. non-primary (secondary) producers 24.00 lb. Magnesium, 99.8 percent, ingot 138.00 c-lb. Manganese, 99.9 percent, boxed regular 66.00-70.00 c-lb.

Nickel, electrolytic cathodes, f.o.b. Port Colborne, $3.29 lb. Palladium, N.Y. Am. Met Mkt.

dealer $149 per troy ounce. Platinum, soft, 99.5 fine, producer per troy ounce. Steel, No. 1 heavy melt scrap Pittsburgh per gross ton (consumer buying price); Am. Met.

Mkt. composite scrap price $76.83 per ton. Tin, N.Y. Am. Met.

Mkt. ex-dock 610.25 c-1b. Tin, N.Y. Am. Met.

Mkt. alloyer price 653.00 c-lb. Titanium, aircraft quality, 8l inch round rotating billet, f.o.b. shipping point, $12.60 domestic sponge 99.3 percent lb. Tungsten powder (H-Red), 99.9 percent minimum pure $11.14 per lb.

Zinc, prime western, U.S. 46.00-46.75 c-lb. 0.00 TEMPERATURE Maximum Minimum Robert Francis Butterworth Robert Francis Butterworth of Kailua died Wednesday at Kona Hospital. He was 56. Born in Hollywood, Mr.

Butterworth was a carpenter. Funeral services are pending. Dodo Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Butterworth is survived by his wife, Patricia Butterworth of Kailua; a son, Michael (Mary) Butterworth of California; two daughters, Pamela Hailston and Carrie (Jess) Weed, both of California; his mother, Virginia Butterworth of Kona; a sister, Kathleen (Paul) Enriquez of Oregon; and a grandchild.

Robert Maxon Harrington Robert Maxon Harrington, 71, of Kailua died Saturday, Aug. 20, at Kona Hospital. Born in Wisconsin, Mr. Harrington was a musician and a member of the Musician's Union of Los Angeles. A memorial service will be held at Mr.

Harrington's residence in Kalaoa at 11 a jn. Sunday. The Memorial Mortuary Kona branch is handling arrangements. Survivors include a son, James Harrington of Arizona; two brothers, Jack (Freda) Harrington and Eugene (Ruth) Harrington, both of Arkansas; and three grandchildren. Masami Yamamoto Funeral services for Masami Yamamoto, who died Wednesday, will be held at the Hawi Jodo Mission at 4:30 pjn.

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