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Selma Times-Joumal, Wednesday, June 21. 2000A3 Alabama water negotiator: Were through People the news the world to me. He taught me to be happy. They separated, she said, because we changed. I changed.

Are we happier by ourselves than we were together? Its not clear. deadline to agree on sharing water in the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa river basin. Carrie Kurlander. spokeswoman for Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, said the state still hopes to resolve the issue without returning to court.

Clearly we have been frustrated with Georgias inflexibility on this issue, but we are absolutely willing to sit down with anyone anytime to discuss the water talks, Kurlander said. The states have been trying for two years to establish a 50-year water allocation formula for the river basins. So far. they have not been able to agree even on the least amount of water that flows across state lines. Talks have stalled since Georgia refused to accept a Feb.

9 proposal by Alabama negotiators that called for an interim 10- to 15-year agreement. Georgia later responded with a counter proposal that Gov. Don Siegelman rejected. Kerr has said that two main sticking points are the amount of water that flows from Georgia lakes and rivers into Alabama during low-flow times of the year and the amount of water consumption in Georgia during those times. Alabama negotiators have said one of the main issues is how much water Georgia can use from the supply that flows into both states.

Alabama filed suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1990 to prevent Georgia from increasing the hundreds of millions of gallons of water it uses from upstream lakes. Two years later, Alabama and Georgia agreed to halt the federal lawsuit to try to negotiate a resolution. Campbell said Monday theres no chance the two states will end their feud before Aug. 1, and accused Georgia negotiators of having no interest in pursuing the talks.

I believe they think they're going to do better in court, Campbell said. NEW YORK (AP) Jane Fonda says she feels awful about posing for the famous photo with North Vietnamese soldiers in 1972 that sealed her reputation as Hanoi Jane. I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes, Fonda told The Oprah Magazine. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility.

It was the most horrible thing 1 could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless. Fonda, 62, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in the magazines July-August issue, also reflects on her separation from media mogul Ted Turner. Ted is a soul mate, she said. I care about him.

He means NEW YORK (AP) A1 Pacino, Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel have been chosen to lead the legendary Actors Studio. The three, all members of the theaters board, will replace Arthur Penn, who is leaving to become executive producer of the television series Law and Order." Penn will continue as president emeritus of the workshop. The workshop was founded in 1947 by actors Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford and by director Elia Kazan, whose lifetime achievement Oscar last year polarized public opinion over his role as an alleged finger-pointer during the McCarthy era. Kazan was a proponent of the Stanislavski system of acting, later refined into the Method by Lee Strasberg, artistic director of the studio from 1948 until his death in 1982 A NATIONAL VOTING RIGHTS MUSEUM INSTITUTE i-iiii MONTGOMERY (AP) Alabama has finished years of negotiations with Georgia over how to share water and is ready to take its case back to federal court, Alabamas chief negotiator said. "There are no negotiations going on now.

period." Alabama negotiator Jim Campbell said Monday. Georgia's chief negotiator. Bob Kerr, said he didn't know Alabama considered talks to be at a stalemate and thought negotiations would proceed after the states worked out details of a mediation process. If Alabama says theyre over, and theyre not willing to come back to the table, then I assume theyre over," Kerr said. Florida is also part of the water talks.

In April, the states set an Aug. 1 Sheriff: Man convicted of killing ex- wife on the run COLUMBIANA (AP) A man convicted in April for the 1997 murder of his ex-wife skipped a sentencing hearing Tuesday and left a note saying he was fleeing, said Shelby County Sheriff Capt. Chris Curry. Jerry Lee Bowen had been freed on a 1 50.000 bond June 1 4 when he was convicted of murdering Brenda Bowen. He was to appear at a sentencing hearing in Shelby County Circuit Court.

Bowen left a note for his sister indicating he had fled, said District Attorney Robby Owens. Sheriffs officials said a warrant for Bowens arrest had been issued. Brenda Bowen disappeared from her rural home in 1997. Her car had been found the day she disappeared in a nearby wooded area. Man killed in construction accident HUNTSVILLE (AP) A construction worker helping unload a truck wise rushed to 'death Tuesday when he was pinned between two one-ton bundles of steel rods.

Keith Michael Lueneburg, 24, of New Nope was employed by New Life Steel Co. of Atlanta. New Life is a subcontractor for The Robins Morton Group, which is building a parking garage for Huntsville Hospital. The accident occurred as a crane lifted bundles of steel rods from the bed of a tractor-trailer. Hospital spokeswoman Teri Bryson said Lueneburg was trying to separate the bundles.

Contributed Journal A group of 29 Girl Scouts from Miami recently completed a tour of Selma, including a visit to the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute on Water Avenue. Florida Girl Scouts visit Selma Now Accepting New Patients Dr. Glenton W. Davis M. D.

has returned to his practice full time. He also welcomes his partner Dr. Julio Delgado to Davis Family Medicine 223 Dallas Ave. Office Hours are 8 a.m. 5 p.m.

Monday Friday Walk-ins Welcome 874-0017 Providing health care for the entire family. traveling together for several years and have visited Orlando, Florida, Mexico, Savannah, Geqrfi jjj Canada and taken a cruse. Money for the trips is raised by the girls through Girl Scout cookies sales, Worlds Finest candy bar sales, fish fries and many other activities with parents also providing funds. The tour of Selma was arranged through the SelmaDallas County Chamber of Commerce and guided by Lauri Cothran, Director of Tourism for the Chamber. For further information about this tour contact www.Black HistoryTours.com.

Contributed Report Written for The Times-Joumal Selma was pleased to welcome a group of 29 Girl Scouts and their escorts to the city on Sunday, June 18. The group was made up of members of Troops 347 and 741 of Miami, Florida. The purpose of the tour was to learn first hand about the Underground Railroad and visit historic civil rights locations such as Selma. While in Selma the girls attended church at Brown Chapel, took the walking tour, visited the National Voting Rights Museum, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and toured the town. This extended bus tour, started in Miami, continued to Montgomery, and will move on to Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St.

Louis, Memphis and Atlanta. Selmas J.C. Penneys Store presented each of the participants with a special Selma commemorative T-shirt. Janice Coakley has been leader of Troop 347 for 10 years. Girls in her Troop are from grades seventh through 1 1th.

Nadine Blount is an 8-year leader of Troop 741 grades third through sixth. These Troops have been Exodus of administrators in Mobile reflects statwide trend Re-Elect MAYOR JOE 1 SMITHERMAN Kick-Off Rally Bar-B-Que Thursday June 22 5:30 PM Campaign Headquarters 121 Broad St. Public Invited www.smitherman2000.com Pd. Pol. Adv.

by Joe T. Smitherman ItvWilHe CAHABA TWIN THEATER BARGAIN MATINEE SHOWS IN M-H4 STR. STEREO Il Hvvy HU E.isi SHAFT (R) 7:00 9:30 BIG MAMMAS HOUSE (PG13) 7:15 9:45 No Passes imes Valid tor Wed t2 1 Draper, a former principal, predicted that the change in Alabamas tenure law is quickly going to push Alabama contract salaries to the competitive level. He said the highest paid high school principals in Alabama make in the 80s. Mobile is one of our lower paying systems," Draper said.

At least one school board member in Mobile sees the exodus of principals as an epidemic that will worsen as other, often smaller, districts pay more money. We just cant compete, Peggy Nikolakis told the Mobile Register for a story in Tuesdays editions. Thomas Langley, 50, an administrator who was principal at Vigor High School for nine years, said Mobiles system, which has 66,000 students, has got to be one of the lowest-paid in the state as far as administrators are concerned." principals. There is a nationwide shortage of school administrators, Draper said. It has driven principals salaries up in surrounding states.

As part of an overhaul of Alabamas educator tenure law this year, principals will start signing contracts with school According to boards. Dallas County Draper said Supenntendent school George Evans, administrators we have over half can collect of our principals Alabamas who have enough lucrative time in to retire. retirement after 25 years and take a job in a neighboring state. They can take a principals job in Georgia, get a $10,000 to $15,000 a year raise, and work another 10 or 15 years while you draw Alabama retirement, Draper said. MOBILE (AP) Ed Lathan, a Mobile County high school principal, doesnt dance around the real reason hes leaving his job to take a position at a private school.

Mobile County does a good job with curriculum, its just the money, said the 54-year-old, who has worked in Mobile system for 32 years. Lathan is among three principals and an administrator in Mobile Alabamas largest school system who have said in the last month that they are retiring or resigning to take other jobs. John Draper, who heads the Montgomery-based Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools, said many principals and other school administrators are moving to neighboring states to take higher paying education jobs. Draper said part of the reason is Alabama was the last state in the Southeast to move to contracts for FREE PIZZA! Buy any pizza with your favorite toppings get another same size with cheese one topping free! 875-8060 Huntsville family sues after family dog put to sleep Bear had been killed about a half-hour earlier. The shelters policy is to hold animals picked up by animal control officers for five working days.

representatives of the shelter on Dec. 20 and were told they could pick up their dog the next day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. When they arrived at the shelter about 3 p.m., the Parkers were told that STCHERYL CURTIS STRONG It HUNTSVILLE (AP) A Huntsville couple whose dog was put to sleep shortly before they arrived at the citys Animal Control Shelter is suing the city. Don and Madlon Parker are seeking 1 and any other damages the court may deem proper for the death of their 2-year-old male Rottweiler, Black Bear 1.

Bear had escaped from the Parkers' fenced yard on Dec. 11, 1999, according to their attorney, John Langland. The dog was properly licensed, registered and wore a collar with identification tags showing the Parkers as the owners, according to a lawsuit filed in Madison County Circuit Court on Friday. The Parkers spoke with Share in our love for Allan Hopkins kidney transplant patient Allan is scheduled for a second transplant very soon. The kidney will be donated by his mother ALLAN HOPKINS Thank you for taking the time on June 6th to go to the polls and vote for me.

Throughout my campaign. I have always considered myself as your candidate; now I ask you, the people of Dallas County, to choose me as your candidate for Circuit Clerk. Please, go to the polls again on June 27th, and this time, take a friend. If you don 't go to the polls this time, your vote on June 6th will he in vain. There is strength in numbers and we can surely make a difference on June 27, 2000.

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Chairman Donations Greatly Appreciated! Allan Hopkins Fund of SouthTrust Bank God Bless.