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(The Charlotte Observer TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15 2000 SMITH URGES GAMBLING BAN Former UNC coach Dean Smith and US Sen John Edwards want to make it illegal to bet on college hoops and other amateur athletics 2B -jiti i Legislative commission studying electncal hears about consumers 2B deregulation nsk to HAVE A STORY IDEA? PHONE: (704) 358-5040 FAX: (704) 358-5036 EMAIL localcharlottecom INTERNET: wwwchar1ottecom Cannth will sell house Dannye Komine -lp Powell lawyers agree of his finances lawyers said their client who appeared in court in an orange jail jumpsuit wants to support Chancellor He has another son Rae Carruth Jr in California and is behind on those child-support payments aware he needs to sell his house and liquidate his assets to support his attorney Kenneth Spaulding told Evans Outside the courthouse Spaulding added: wants to Former to examination By ERIC FRAZIER GARY WRIGHT and LEIGH DYER StaffWriters Former Carolina Panthers player Rae Carruth needs to sell his house and liquidate the rest of his dwindling assets to pay child support for his son Chancellor lawyers made the disclosure Monday while consenting to the appointment of an indepen dent overseer in the child-custody and support lawsuit brought against him by Cherica parents The overseer called a receiver will examine finances and help liquidate his assets Lawyers for Cherica parents Saundra Adams and Jeffrey Moonie have said they believe Carruth has been open in disclosing his assets Elizabeth No answers in death Hodges a Charlotte lawyer has agreed to act as the receiver for free She will inventory assets oversee preparation of his 1999 tax returns and arrange to put his house on the market said lawyer Billie Ellerbe Hodges is to report to Mecklenburg District Judge Yvonne Mims Evans by Feb 23 Carruth and three other men are charged with murder in Cherica fatal shooting on Nov 16 She was pregnant with son Chancellor who was later delivered by emergency Caesarean been ridiculous getting to the point the delivery trucks want to come down here he said Drivers say Park It! a private company that enforces parking regulations uptown for the city has dramatically increased the number of tickets it writes since the first of the year The problem has been particularly bad on Family mourns amid inquiry at group home By JOE DEPRIEST and CRISTINA BREEN StaffWriters MOUNT HOLLY Sabrina Day was remembered Monday as a girl who liked movie idol Leonardo DiCaprio alternative music and her black lab named Starla Family and friends some frustrated and baffled by her death last week in a Charlotte group home packed the 150-seat chapel at Carothers Funeral Home on Monday Sabrina was a kid a young girl who had a lot of life and a lot of said the Rev Brian Correll youth pastor at Victory Hill Baptist Church in Dallas where the 15-year-old was a member Police said Sabrina a former student at North Gaston High School died after she was restrained by three staff members at My House Officials at the group home for emotionally disturbed teens denied the girl was improperly restrained but have not commented further One of the officiating ministers Mark Campbell remembered her before the service as a church member with and seemed to come with a lot of said Campbell Victory Hill pastor enjoyed coming to Sunday school and mjp COMMENTARY A love lost can at times be beautiful Charles Schulz gave longing a good name The shy creator of who died in his sleep late Saturday keeps company with other greats whose unrequited love fueled creativity Edgar Allan Poe for instance Dante and Keats If you saw the rerun Sunday you heard Schulz talking about the woman who rejected him Her name is Donna Johnson Wold and Schulz fell in love with her when he was working at the Arts Instruction Schools Inc in Minneapolis Donna worked in accounting and he used to scribble drawings on her calendar The day he went to New York to sign with the syndicate that would publish he bought her a ring She rejected him for another man Schulz never got over the blow Donna evolved into the red-haired for whom Charlie Brown is always pining She once said she saved every strip featuring the little girl She also said she had no idea in the 1940s that Schulz would hit it so big If married him maybe he have Hearts that break Think of Dante and Beatrice Supposedly the blunt-tongued Italian poet met Beatrice briefly when he was 9 He saw her only once more She married someone else So did Dante Yet Beatrice who died at 24 inspired Dante the rest of his life He immortalized his passion for her in Divine as she leads him through the intricacies of Paradise toward divine love Then Poe At 27 he married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm who died at 24 If Virginia had lived we might not have the wistful poem Nor some of his famous stories that involve digging up corpses inspired say critics by an unconscious longing to see his mother again who died when he was 2 Hope springs eternal And Keats Well the chap who said that the elusive Fanny Brawne kicked his heart around like a football Keats never won his beloved Fanny and he was dead of tuberculosis at 26 By then given us such lines as thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into And: melodies are sweet those unheard are Surely no coincidence that the mothers of Poe Keats and Schulz each died young creating the vacuum in which longing first crawled and breathed its sad breath mother died at 48 when he was 20 He once told a reporter that he traced his agoraphobia to her death Despite the ache is there benefit to longing? For the reader absolutely Maybe even for the creator who gives longing a whiff of the sublime Think of Charlie Brown trapped in his own inadequacy forever failing to kick the football forever trying again Never a hero he keeps possibility alive and squirming As does the little red-haired girl If unattainable then perfect love is always out there young and fair for you for me For all of us You can call Dannye at (704) 358-5230 or e-mail her at move forward to make sure his children are Last week lawyers filed documents showing the 26-year-old wide receiver had a net worth of almost $480000 including about $175000 in bank accounts the day Adams was shot They said the documents showed Carruth had no financial motive to kill Adams contrary to her assertion that Carruth worried about money and child support during Cherica pregnancy attorneys Frank Por- Please see CARRUTH page 5B Search for girl to pick back up 9-year-old missing from her bedroom By AILEEN SOPER Staff Writer SHELBY A 9-year-old girl was reported missing about 6:30 am Monday when her mother went to wake her up for school and found she had disappeared from the bedroom she shared with her 10-year-old brother deputies and family members said By dark a 12-hour hunt by ground and air for Asha Degree had turned up nothing leaving searchers and relatives desperate for answers are canvassing every possible said Bob Roadcap chief deputy with the Cleveland County Office now we have The search focused on the area near the house on Oakcrest 12:30 am Street just north Monday of Shelby The site is off NC 18 in a quiet modest neighborhood of ranch-style brick houses Two motorists told authorities they may have seen Asha walking on NC 18 between 3:30 am and 4:15 am officials said Authorities called off the search at nightfall and said likely to resume today at dawn They put out a statewide bulletin for Asha Roadcap said there were no signs of forced entry at the Degree residence and that family members heard nothing unusual during the night Authorities said the family called police shortly after they realized the child was missing parents were cooperating fully with investigators he said They were being interviewed late Monday night at the Office by deputies and agents with the State Bureau of Investigation authorities said is a suspect right Roadcap said Roadcap who has worked with the Office for five years said he had never seen a child so Please see ASHA page 4B Duckworth wanted the play to be factual as well as entertaining Audience members chuckled when early settlers quipped about building a house the Bank of America building is and when present-day businesspeople fussed over whether to call the heart of the city uptown or downtown tried to pick out things that are interesting to children as well as she said With all 120 third-graders having at least one line the play covered broad territory The time travel included Conrad Reed the boy who started the Please see PLAY page 5B Emily Bennett (seated) mother of 15-year old Sabrina Day said Monday she was and hurt" over her death last week in a Charlotte group home service for Sabrina was at Hillcrest Gardens Cemetery In Mount Holly Please see SABRINA page Parking tickets pinch delivery drivers 3B got one driver who is threatening to quit because had five or six tickets and they come out of his said Jimmy Harwell route manager for Coca-Cola Bottling Co George Photopoulos manager of the French Quarter restaurant on Church Street says loading zones are too small and their 15-minute time limit too short By DIANNE WHITACRE StaffWriter Truck drivers say the city has stepped up ticketing in uptown Charlotte loading zones and is making it harder to deliver They complain the size of an important loading zone has been reduced on Church Street and that the 15-minute limit on deliveries is impractical JOHN SIMMONSStaff Church Street near Latta Arcade said Mark Whittington an uptown delivery driver who has gotten two $25 tickets this week big buildings have docks but these restaurants Whittington said going to run the businesses Doreen Szymanski of Charlotte Please see TICKETS page 5B ter the queen of England The queen dressed appropriately in royal blue robe and tiara responds with delight: one day this little hick town will amount to And so began a play on local history at Charlotte Country Day School performed earlier this month by the third-graders Drama and music teacher Bonnie Duckworth wrote and directed the play which was designed to match the studies on Charlotte-area history She gathered information for the play from the curriculum library and the Internet IN THE CLASSROOM: Charlotte Country Day School Student actors bring history to life Third-graders present story of Charlotte By CELESTE SMITH StaffWriter They started in the late 1400s with the Catawba Indians eight boys dressed in ethnic wrap vowing to treat the land and each other with respect The drumbeat faded the light dimmed and time jumped ahead three centuries to the mid-1700s The Catawbas made way for the early settlers third-graders with Magic-Marker goatees and green kerchiefs They decide to name their new land Charlotte Town af Teacher Marsha Hodgin spruces up the mustache of Lee Godfey dressed as a 1920s Charlottean between performances of Salute to a play starring Charlotte Country Day third-graders.