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Page 6 JOHNSON CITY PRESS Sunday April 28 1991 TH- Man bound to grand jury An Singers survivors filesuif against owners of aircraft in slayings ployees "Don was a professional (who) had over 17000 hours of flying time and knew his business Duncan said "This was a tragedy but it is my belief my pilot aid nothing wrong and the plane was fine" He cited taped conversations released by the Federal Aviation Administration that reveal Holms contacted a government flight service specialist for departure procedures three' times before his pre-dawn takeoff Transcripts show the specialist agreed when Holms asked whether he should fly below 3000 feet three minutes and then crashed The lawsuit seeks $10 millioh in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages for the 33-year-old singers husband Lany Wallace It also seeks $2 million in compensatory damage for her parents James and Hazel Evans of Garland Ms McEntire a country-western singer said the musicians deaths were like losing family members The musicians and crew were en route to a concert in Fort Wayne Ind and had Kst left Brown Field north of the exican border before the crash Joseph Duncan owner of Duncan Aircraft defended his em The Associated ftess DALLAS A singers family has filed a $22 million wrongful death lawsuit against the companies that chartered and owned a plane that crashed in California killing the Garland woman and six other members of Reba McEntires band Paula Kaye Evans parents and husband filed suit in Dallas County district court Friday against Dallas-based Prestige Touring which chartered the jet and Duncan Aircraft Saids of Venice Fla which owned it Documents filed in the lawsuit allege Duncan Aircraft was negligent in employing Don Holms and Chris Hollinger the pilot and co-pilot because the two were not well trained and did not accurately plan their flight The two along with Ms McEntires road manager also died in the crash The musicians plane slammed into 3566-foot high Otay Mountain about 25 miles southeast of San Diego on March 16 Prestige Touring is accused of negligence for chartering the Duncan twin-engine jet "That mountain was pretty visible said attorney Windle Turley "The NTSB (National Transportation and Safety Board) has not issued a report yet but essentially the pilot took off flew i he Associuiud DUNLAP A Georgia man has been bound over to the Se- County grand jury on irst-degree murder charges in thd deaths of a couple whose bodies were found stuffed in the trunk of their car Edward Allen Wooten 30 of Rossville Ga is accused along with Cheryl Holland 29 of killing her aunt and uncle March 2 stealing stacks of money from their home and dumping a car containing their bodies into the Tennessee River The bodies of Clarence "Joe Harvey 57 and his wife Mattie "Teah Harvey 54 were found April 16 in their Oldsmobile at the bottom of the river at Bridgeport Ala General Sessions Court Judge Hollis Barker on Friday bound Wooten over to the grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated robbery Authorities believe Ms Holland remains at large Wooten was questioned twice in the case because of discrepancies found in his original story He said he and Ms Holland were in Knoxville the week the Harveys were killed but Ms Hollands employer said she was working that week Wooten and Ms Holland lived together in a trailer in Rossville Ga Wooten then gave three different statements to investigators David Emerin an agent with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations read the statements during Wootens preliminary hearing Friday ft Field of stairs Elizabeth Ehitcomo of Ripley Fla creeps down the steps of University of Mississippis stadium where her brother operated at quarterback during the schools Black and Gold football game (AP LaserPhoto) Custom Decorating JCPenney SAVE 30-40 ON CUSTOM WINDOW TREATMENTS Pur Custom Decorating Services include an assortment of lovely window treatments rugs and more CALL OUR DECORATING STUDIO TODAY SAVE 40 Save on the Petits Fours Collectiop of beautiful English floral motifs and tailored stripes With 8 patterns and 48 colors it's the perfect fabric for draperies bedspreads pillows and more! 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