The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 57

mwmtam £Ja THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Tuesday March 28 1986 SC tC 'J Homicide Suspected In Death Gibson 4 of Charlotte re wouldn't comment on speculation among Investigators that Rowell had been raped of the things these tests will he Capt Sonnie Dover said investigators have one and have drawn few conclusions death but that treating It as a body was found about 3 pm Friday by Bobby Truesdale according to a police was lying on the living room floor and were in disarray the report said had no knife or gunshot wounds but a bruise on her mouth the report said Sale By BRIAN MELTON Rock HR Buroow ROCK HILL A woman whose body was found in her Rock Hill condominium last week died of asphyxiation and her death is being investigated as a homicide officials said Monday The body of Dorothy Frlzzette Rowell 26 was found Friday afternoon at 443 Willowspring Ln In the Willowbrook development An autopsy was conducted Saturday at Piedmont Medical Center On Monday York County Coroner Jim Chapman took the autopsy specimens to the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) headquarters In Columbia Gantt Tells Council He Violated Policy Chapman Rock Hill one said Police arrested no about the homicide" her boyfriend report She her clothes The body there was 30 to 50 Off All Merchandise This storewide clearance is to make room for our large shipment from France England coming in April MahoganyCoUectio Soiithwood Reproductions 1 530-A Providence Rd Charlotte GRAND OPENING SPECIAL 10 OFF EVERYTHING! The station Is not on the air but a Raleigh broadcasting chain Capitol Broadcasting has already acquired an option to buy it for $3 million Gantt who purchased his stock for less than $45000 would be paid about $450000 on the sale Gantt told council members that they could investigate be happy to consent to he said But speaking in a matter-of-fact voice Gantt also said his violation of the ethics policy was inadvertent and denied that he had tried to hide his interest in Metro-Crescent Gantt said he had listed the company in a questionnaire for The Observer last year and that his involvement had been mentioned in newspaper legal ads and articles No council member showed interest in pursuing the matter these few minutes" council member Charlie Dannelly said "Mr Gantt has told us everything that could be known about Council members are required annually to list all businesses they own or in which they are an officer or director The purpose is to make public any possible conflicts of interest all human and we all forget" said council member A1 Rousso who added that he recently got a letter from the IRS saying he may have failed to file a tax return To celebrate the Grand Opening of our new Charlotte Store at Hwy 51 Park Rd at K-Mart Shopping Center Pineville NC we're offering 10 off our already low diacount frame price! We have the answer to all your framing needi with thousands of ready-made frames a wide variety of custom frames posters original oil paintings and more So come to Frame Warehouse where always guaranteed the quickest service the best variety and the lowest prices in town! 10 Grand Opening Sale good with this ad thru April 5 1986 FRAME WAREHOUSE Frame Almost Anything For Next To Nothing or OPEN AT MAST SHOPPING CEINTER HWY 5 1 6 PARK RD PINEVILLE 5 Convenient Locitions 4626 South Blvd (Jum of WoodUwn Rd 322-OVH tnd 5100 Independence Blvd (Across from TGI Fndsv Sc Town St Country Ford) 565 2795 Hours 10-7 Monday Friday 10-6 Saturday 1-6 Sunday Also in Greensboro Raleigh it Chapel Hill Bargas Center Framts And Labor Net hnlaJeJ ValtJ With Other Special Of feet Vna MasterCard 6 Chotte Frtiome By TED MELLNIK Staff Wrttar Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt told city council members Monday he had violated the ethics policy by falling to disclose his ownership in a new Belmont television station But council members declined to investigate and said they considered the matter closed think a case of no harm no said council member Richard Vinroot "Bag During a part of Monday's city council meeting set aside for hearing from citizens Gantt said he found Friday he had failed to list his part ownership of a broadcasting company on a report of his holdings Gantt said the company was started in mid-1984 to apply for license to a television station should have been listed in my 1985 disclosure and and it was Gantt said We failed again to list it in The company now known as Metro-Crescent Communications Inc was added to disclosure form Friday The form also lists Gantt Huberman Architects where Gantt is a partner Gantt is treasurer and owns 15 of stock The minority-run company has won the federal license for television station WMHU (Channel 46) in Belmont Bennettsville High School By LYNN INGRAM LANEY Special Correspondent BENNETTSVILLE Bennettsville Mayor Jennings Owens is urging consolidation of Marlboro high schools a move he says would improve the schools and help attract new industry Consolidation has met with considerable opposition from residents of the smaller towns in recent years but Owens feels opposition is dwindling general feeling in Bennettsville is for he said Monday although there used to be strong opposition in other towns I feel that changing People are seeing the need and benefits of consolidation "Every Industry group that comes to Marlboro County asks first about your In addition to attracting new industry consolidation would make it easier to provide well-trained employees for business Owens said job picture is changing so rapidly that got to have a strong advanced vocational training program for these kids to get a Trials Of 2 Set For April In Rock Hill Rock Hill Municipal Judge Charles Chiles said Monday that jury trials for Phillip Shaver and Rock Hill police officer SW Mothershed would be held In about a month Shaver was charged with disorderly conduct March 17 after a fight at the Rock Hill Mall Mothershed was charged with assault and battery after Shaver complained that the officer beat him unnecessarily during the arrest Quote doing much better than we originally anticipated We have proven careful management can achieve productivity with a minimal impact on overtime" Lexington County SC administrator Gordon Hartwig speaking of a US Supreme Court ruling requiring public employees be paid time-and-a-half for overtime Official Leaving NC officials said Monday they had recruited David Eldridge assistant director of the SC Development Board to become NC Commerce Department assistant secretary and director of economic development The post ranks below only those of NC Commerce Secretary Howard Haworth and Gov Jim Martin a spokesman said Buncombe Man Missing NC and Tennessee authorities searched Monday for a Buncombe County auxiliary deputy whose burned car was found Sunday near Johnson City Tenn Buncombe County officials said Bobby Joe Hensley 40 was last seen at 11 am Saturday at his Weaver-ville home Hensley has worked as an Asheville building inspector since 1973 Footnotes York School Board To Meet: The York School Board will meet at 8 tonight to name a replacement for Supt Tom Pettit 60 who announced his resignation in December from the 3800-student district The meeting will be at the York Education Center on Spruce Street Fanners Market To Reopen: The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market on Yorkmont Road will reopen on a Tuesday through Saturday schedule starting next Tuesday Hours will be 8 am to 5 pm Stun Gun Legislation Backed: Sen Tim McDowell D-Alamance said most legislators supported changing NC law to consider stun gun holdups armed robberies Current state law says a thief using a stun gun during a holdup would not be committing armed robbery SC Man Dies In Wreck: Kevin Monroe Kensey 18 of Irmo SC died early Sunday when the car in which he was riding struck a tree on SC 6 in Lexington County SC Highway Patrol troopers said Female Chief Breaks Tradition Priscilla Freeman Jacobs followed in her footsteps but broke Indian tradition the first female chief of the 1400-member Wacca-maw-Siouan Indian Tribe in Columbus and Bladen counties succeeding her father the late Clifton Freeman Sr three brothers who operate the logging business in Bolton were too busy to accept the chieftaincy she said She will be installed as chief at the Frontier Fort Pow-Wow May 23 to 25 In Wilmington Some Indians might not like having a female chief but Jacobs rejects any fears people know me and they know what I stand Medicine Chest Cancer Expert To Speak: Dr Oward Ozer an authority on cancer research will speak tonight at Mecklenburg fundraising crusade for the American Cancer Society from 5 to 7 pm at Carowinds Pavilion For information call 376-1659 9 am to 5 pm Research Lab Opens: A research laboratory devoted to fighting cancer in children opens today at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia The lab is a cooperative project with Richland Memorial Hospital Farm Forum Record Peanut Crop: AL Madre and Sons Farm in Elizabeth City has set a NC peanut yield record averaging 6873 pounds an acre in 1985 said Gene Sullivan NC State University extension peanut specialist Edited by Andria Krewson (701) 366-6474 BIG SAVINGS ON NEW SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS YOU'LL LOVE! 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almost he said Marlboro County has a vocational school in Bennettsville has an excellent curriculum but we take full advantage of he said because students in high schools in Wallace Clio McColl and Blenheim must spend about half of the school day on buses to and from the vocational school In addition Owens said some of the smaller high schools have very excellent teachers in specialized areas but there enough students there to take full advantage of them so they have to teach something else part of the time Consolidation would allow us to have all these good teachers in one place and they could teach in their area of expertise full Owens said a move for consolidation would have to come from the county school board but he felt obligation to present the facts as I see them when the development board says not going to get jobs until you Improve the schools and that got to have a training program for those new industries I feel an obligation to inform The 5500-square-foot facility was in 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