Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 4

rniESiTNHERm FRIDAY JAN 23 1987 An4 BBLL Usey voices objection to ignored bills into a speech in favor of the faQ which would let voters decide whether to caD a convention to rewrite the state constitution Usey has complained writing to the chairmen of the Universities and Colleges and the Constitution committees about biDs they lave not brought up far faninn He warned that if more taDs are not given attention in those committees he might force the biDs they vote out for fiiD Senate consideration to be read on the Senate floor a tactic that could delay tie legislative process "We hope the House committee will see fit to give the fan body the opportunity to vote on the Chism said Despite reports that the committee was leaning 96 against the bill House Constitution Committee Chairman Charlie Capps of Cleveland said earlier this week that most of his committee is stiD undecided Capps has promised to bring the bin up for a vote in his committee But if the vote comes to tie-breaker he has said he win vote against the measure These senators voted against the convention referendum bill on final passage Thursday: Anderson of Jack-son BID Canon of Columbus Buddy Gresham of Greenville and Henry Kirksey of Jackson Sens Crook and Charles Nix of Bates viDe paired their votes with the votes of two other members because erf absences canceling out the paired votes Kirksey offered an amendment that would have postponed the entire issue of a constitutional convention until two years after the records erf the now-defunct state Sovereignty Commission were made public The Sovereignty Commission was a state panel devoted to defending the state against desegregration The commission kept records erf investigations on individuals which have been sealed from view by the Legislature for decades A federal court suit seeking disclosure of the records is now pending Kirkses amendment failed on a voice vote document might defeat the whole reform Carmichael said Gov Bin ADam whose constitutional study commission late last year completed its work by calling for a constitutional convention hailed the Senate passage of the bdl as a move that "reflects and mirrors what the people of Mississippi want and a chance at least to vote on a constitutional ADain said the vote showed that state officials "have more faith in the people than we have had a lot of times in the past" Former Gov JP Coleman who headed study commission and had unsuccessfully tried to get a constitutional convention called in 1957 said his first reaction to news of the vote was "real always felt really and truly that people when given die facts and given a chance to think you can depend on their good Cole- man said proud erf the Senate aid I hope the House will do the What the House Constitution Committee will do with a similar measure has ADain and other proponents of a new constitution worried "I sense that getting it out erf the (House) committee is going to be a real ADain said Gubernatorial aide Brad Chism who has led the lobbying efforts in the House committee for the bill said that he and other proponents have been urging members of the House committee both and privately not to kill the biH Usey told the Senate that the constitution requires committees to judge aD biDs they receive Usey also said that the Constitution Committee in the last four years had released 12 amendments that were not controversial "We have had government of the people and fin: the Usey said "We have got to have government by the On Wednesday Usey had threatened to invoke a rate that would force the reading aloud cl the convention referendum bilL Instead Usey worked his complaints funeral home at 9:40 Saturday for a 10 am service at Gafilean Lutheran Church Burial will follow in Biloxi Cemetery Nall White Sr GULFPORT Neil WMte Sr 68 of Gulfport died Wednesday Jan 21 1987 in BfloxL Mr WMte a lifelong resident of Gulfport served as a Major in the Army Air Corp during World War II A graduate of the University of Mississippi Law School he retired as an attorney He was past president of the Gfeat Southern Country Chib and he was a Presbyterian Mr White was preceded in death by two sons Walter White and John White Survivors indude five sons Neil White Jr of Madison George WMte James Norman WMte and Adam White afl of Gulfport and Michael WMte of Treasure Island Calif four daughters Mrs Margery Lindsey of Huntington Beach Calif Mrs Martha Barker of Louisville Ky Mrs Hazel DePieme and Miss Nan White both of Gulfport a brother Knox WMte of Gulfport 13 grandchildren and one great-grandson The funeral will be at 3 pm today at Lang Funeral Home in Gulfport where friends may call two hours before service time Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery Mrs Geraldine Melton GULFPORT Mrs Geraldine Melton 48 2700 Kelly Ave Gulfport died Thursday Jan 22 1987 in Gulfport Arrangements are incomplete at Lang Funeral Home in Gulfport Robert Roy GULFPORT Robert Roy 72 106 Chastity Drive Gulfport died Wednesday Jan 21 in Boca Raton Fla Mr Roy a native of Birmingham Ala retired as a salesman from Wigley and Culp after 20 years He was a Navy veteran of World War II Survivors include a son Robert Roy of Boca Raton and three grandchildren The funeral will be at 2:30 pm Sunday at the Riemann Funeral Home in Gulfport The family prefers memorials to the American Cancer Society John McCarty GULFPORT John McCarty 61 of Gulfport died Wednesday Jan 21 in Baton Rouge La Arrangements are incomplete at Funeral Home in Gulfport Raleigh Murray PASS CHRISTIAN Raleigh Murray 78 of Pass Christian died Thursday Jan 22 1987 in Gulfport Mr Murray a former resident of Hattiesburg operated Blue Gables Motor Court in Hattiesburg from 1938 until 1964 He was a member of Air Stream Travel Chib Mr Murray is survived by his wife Mrs Nell Hill Murray of Pass Christian The body was sent from Funeral Home in Gulfport to Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home in Hattiesburg for services and buriaL The funeral will be at 11 am Saturday at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home where friends may call after 10 am Burial will follow in Roseland Park Cemetery The family prefers memorials to the American Cancer Society Alfred Serlo Mrs Helen Serlo WAVELAND Alfred Gilbert Serio and Ms wife Mrs Helen Arnold Serio both of Waveland died Thursday Jan 22 1987 Mrs Serio died in Waveland and Mr Serio died shortly after in Gulfport Continued from Page A-l in my judgment the abolition of Crook offered an amendment to exdude the sections of the current constitution dealing with the state Bin of Rights and the judicial branch of government from any revision That amendment failed 12-34 with aU Coast senators voting against it While Crook was concerned with the far-reaching power delegates would have another senator was worried that minorities would not have enough dout in the writing of a new constitution Sen Doug Anderson of Jackson offered an amendment which failed on a voice vote to allow Gov Bill ADam to appoint 20 members to the convention to ensure that blacks and women had adequate representation Coast senators split on the amendment calling for artide-by-article approval Voting for it were Sens Lotos Fortenberry erf Pascagoula Steve Hale of Moss Point Gene Taylor of Bay St Louis and Bob Usey erf Gulfport Against it were Sens Tommy GoDott of Biloxi Martin Smith of Po- plarville and George Smith of Gulport Meridian businessman GO Carmichael former gubernatorial candidate and a longtime proponent of a new constitution praised the artide-by-artide option the way it should be They've done right Making voters just take or leave the entire Continued from Page A-l dosed for four hours until crews managed to dear one runway at 9:30 am Washington National Airport managed to stay open for two hours before dosing indefinitely at 10:30 am Shortly after noon in the New Carrollton station of the Washington Metro rail system JoAim Stokes 24 of Greenbeh ML gave birth to a 7-pftmid baby girl Shafietta Mane Stokes By early evening the storm had become a blizzard in aD of Connecticut and and Rhode Island and most of Massachusetts The weather service says a blizzard means that winds of 35 mph or higher considerable snow and visibility near zero are likely The storm came on the heels of one that killed 42 people this week and last across the Southwest and Plains SnowfaD accumulations as of midday included 14 inches in Surry and Yadkin counties NC 12 inches in Hickory NC 8 indies in Cordelia Ga 6 inches in at Washington National Greenville SC Lewisburg WVa and Clay County Ala 5 inches in Richmond Va 4 indies in Knoxville Term and Charlotte NC and 2 to 5 inches in the Atlanta area An inch feO in Montgomery Ala the first snow there in almost two years GainesviDe Ga recorded 6 indies in its first measurable snowfaD since Feb 6 1983 CLASH Continued from Page A-l the convent occasionally to pray When she heard about the shooting she rushed back to the palace About 500 troops including national police and marines were lined up eight deep waiting for the peasants at the Mendiola Bridge 300 yards from Malacanang main gate The bridge was the site of several bloody civilian-military confrontations during the 20-year rale of ex-President Ferdinand Marcos As the front ranks of marchers approached police fines they began chanting and join! be Marchers linked arms across Recto Street and began pushing against the front fine of brown-uniformed troops of the Integrated National Police deployed in front of the bridge The police behind long plastic shields shoved the marchers back a few steps But the protesters then surged forward The police feD back STRONG Continued from Page A-l and agreed to the disciplinary action Saxon said that he and Police Chief Tommy Moffett decided to recommend that punishment be modified because of Strong's 11 years of service reviewed the entire thing and decided that in the 11 years been with us done a kit of good valuable Saxon said "We want to do something that would cause a man like that to resign or leave the department I necessarily think the original punishment I was too harsh but he (Strong) agreed to this and we thought it would help us get on with things and get this equation behind Strong refused to comment Thurs JACKSON During Senate debate over the constitution referendum biD Thursday Sen Bob Usey of Gulfport voiced a protest against legislative committee chairmen who ignore biDs referred to their panels Usey asked the newly-named Constitution Committee chairman Sen George Guerieri of Southha-ven to caD up a bDl he said has been studs in the committee for at least two years The bill which Usey coauthored would let citizens petition to put proposed laws on statewide ballots mmm Rosco Benward BILOXI Rosco Benward 59 1209 Lee St Biloxi died Tuesday Jan 13 1987 in BfloxL Mr Benward was a member of Sunrise Baptist Church in Ocean Springs Pass Point Social Club VFW and Oddfellows Eureka Lodge 4884 Survivors indude his wife Mrs Jane Benward of Ocean Springs four sons Richard Benward Rosco Benward Jr and Cleo Joseph Benward aD of Ocean Springs and Wallace Ray Benward of San Diego CafiL two daughters Mrs Martha Cambridge of Hanover Germany and Ms Virginia Benward of Biloxi a sister Mrs Beatrice Harris of Biloxi and five grandchildren The funeral wDl be at 7 pm Sunday at McDaniel-Richmond Funeral Home in Biloxi where friends may caD after 3 pm Burial wiD be at 10 am Monday in Biloxi National Cemetery Elvin Hayden BILOXI Elvin Raymond Hayden 66 of Biloxi died Wednesday Jan 21 1987 in George County Mr Hayden was re tied from civil service at Keesler He was a member of Bay View Baptist Church 32nd degree Mason Fellowship Lodge in Biloxi Wahabi Shrine Temple Scottish Rites and Gulf Coast Rattlesnake Association Survivors include his wife Mrs Lula Mae Hayden of Biloxi three sons Larry Hayden and Jeffrey Hayden both of Biloxi and Raymond Hayden of Agricola three sisters Mis Edward Lovelace of Lucedale Mrs Josephine Toche of Ocean Springs and Mrs Eugene Saphronic Williams of Mobile Ala three brothers Elmore Hayden of Seattle Wash Elton Hayden of Lucedale and JW Hayden of Florida and eight grandchildren Visitation wiD be tonight from 6 until 10 at the Howard Avenue chapel of Funeral Home in Biloxi The funeral wifl be at 2 pm Saturday at the funeral home chapel followed by burial in Seren Memorial Gardens Willi Craig BILOXI Willie Craig 84 of Biloxi died Thursday Jan 22 1987 in Biloxi Arrangements are incomplete at the Howard Avenue chapel of Funeral Home in Biloxi Floyd Premeaux BILOXI Floyd Anthony Premeaux 56 of Biloxi died Thursday Jan 22 1987 in BfloxL Mr Premeaux was an offshore seismograph operator for an oil company He was a member of St Catholic Church Biloxi Mens Chib and Fleur de Lis Society He was preceded in death by Ms wife Mrs Helga Caesar Premeaux Survivors include three daughters Sherry Befl of Ocean Springs Sylvia Premeaux of Gulfport and Gina Jacobs of Biloxi a brother Raison Premeaux a stepbrother Shelton Langfinaes both of Biloxi and three grandsons Visitation wifl be tonight from 6 until 9 at the Howard Avenue chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Biloxi with recitation of the rosary at 7:30 pm A procession wiD leave the funeral home at 10:15 ara Saturday and go to St Catholic Church for a Mass to be celebrated at 10:30 am Burial wiD follow in Southern Memorial Park JB Ferrlll JB Ferrifl 80 of Biloxi died Thursday Jan 22 1987 in Bilmri Mr Ferrifl a member of Galilean Lutheran Church in Biloxi retired from the Marine Conservation Commission He was a lifelong resident of the Coast and was preceded in death by Ms son Gerald Ferrifl Survivors include Ms wife Mrs Wflfie Mae Ferrifl two daughters Mrs Brenda Pelaez and Mrs Deanna Hungerford afl of Biloxi three sons Robert Ferrifl of Mobile Ala Tom Ferrifl and Steve Ferrifl both of Bilan two sisters Mrs Levina Stevenson of Biloxi and Mrs Florence FauDmer of Mobile a brother Carl Ferrifl of Biloxi 18 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren Visitation will be tonight from 6 until 10 at the Howard Avenue chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in BfloxL A procession will leave the Mr Serio 66 and Mrs Serio 58 were both natives of New Orleans and longtime residents of Waveland He retired from Heafthco Dental Supply of New Orleans He was a Catholic Mrs Serio was of the Christian faith Mrs Serio is survived by a son William Robert Arnold Jr of Bay St Louis three daughters Mrs Dennis (Susan) Whittington of Sfidefl La Mrs Paul Wolf of Baton Rouge La and Ms SharonJ Arnold of Waveland a sister Mrs Travis (Shirley) Soloman of New Orleans and five grandchildren In addition to his stepchildren and stepgrandchfldren Mr Serio is survived by Ms mother Mrs Ethel Serio of Waveland two brothers Francis Serio and Anthony Serio both of Waveland seven sisters MS Grace LeGros of Waveland Mrs Anna ML Wilcox of Flint Mich Mrs Ethel McCredie of Whittier Calif Mrs Corafie Babineaux of Slidell Mrs Catherine Fredericks of Pearl River Mrs Mary Anderson erf Houston Texas and Mrs Patricia A Matthews of Jackson A joint funeral will be held today at 2 pm at Riemann Funeral Home in Bay St Louis where friends may call two hours before service time The couple wifl be buried in Wavdand Cemetery Mrs Ethel Florence MOSS POINT Mrs Ethel Hancock Florence 87 5506 Elder St Moss Point died Wednesday Jan 21 1987 in Grand Bay Ala Mrs Florence had fived in Moss Point for the past 45 years She was a member of East Moss Point Baptist Church Survivors include a son Frank Florence of Moss Point a daughter Mrs Nobie Ralston of Ocean Springs four grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren The funeral will be at 2 pm today at Holder-Wells Funeral Home in Moss Point followed by burial in Union Cemetery Mrs Marechalneal Hatton WOODSTOCK Ga Mrs Marechalneal flatten 77 of Wood-stock Ga died Thursday Jan 22 1987 in Marietta Ga Mrs Hatten a native of Stone County was a member erf Mississippi City Baptist Church and the Coast Chapter 51 Order of Eastern Star She was preceded by death by her husband Everett Hatten Survivors include a son Paul Hatten of Woodstock three daughters Mrs Jo Aim Howard of Atlanta Ga Mrs Beth Martin of Balboa Canal Zone Panama and Mrs Mary Webb of Gulfport three brothers Grady Williams of Dallas Texas ET Wflfiams of Leaf and Battle Wiliams of Alberta Ala a sister Mrs Mary Ellen Bond erf Wiggins and four grandchildren Visitation will be tonight from 7 until 9 at Riemann Funeral Home in Gulfport The funeral will be at 2 pm Satuiday at the funeral home chapel followed by burial in Sumrall Cemetery near Perkins ton Reginald Blalze HOUSTON Texas Reginald Blaize 75 of Houston Texas died Thursday Jan 8 1987 in Houston Mr Blaize a native of Pass Christian was a graduate of St Stanislaus School in Bay St Louis where he was named to the 1974 School Hall of Fame Survivors include his wife Mrs Vivian Goodwin Blaize of Houston and two sisters Miss Julia Blaize and Miss Regina Blaize both of Bay St Louis Services were held at Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston PA Waggoner Jr RIVERSIDE Calif PA Waggoner Jr 66 of Riverside Calif died Sunday Jan 18 1987 BfloxL The body will be sent from Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Gulfport to Arlington Mortuary in Riverside Calif for services and buriaL 20s for the next several nights By the weekend temperatures could increase according to Pence but more rain also could come Power was knocked out to more than 90000 people in Georgia Alabama arid South Carolina as snowladen tree limbs collapsed onto utility fines Jacknifed tractor-trailers Mocked part of Interstate 40 in western North Carolina while parts of three filter-states shut down for a time around Birmingham Ala as four inches of snow made driving treacherous In Shelby County just southeast erf Birmingham Chief Deputy James Jones said deputies had to transport nurses to hospitals and nursing homes In North Huntingdon Township Pa however a union representing road crews and other municipal workers struck in a contract dispute leaving two supervisors to dear 125 mites of road Elsewhere arctic air moving over the Great Lakes on Thursday triggered snow over the upper Midwest and sent temperatures sharply downward More than 8 filches of snow feD in Iron County Wis and at least that much was expected in parts of Michigan Wind chills hit 40 below or lower in parts of northern Minnesota In Florida as temperatures in the north dropped to near freezing tornadoes reportedly touched down in the Tampa and New Port Richey areas but no damage was reported Alabama also braced for wind chills of below zero as skies cleared and winds picked up behind the storm have been stationed around the palace since coup rumors circulated last weekend Mrs Aquino who came to power 11 months ago after a civilian-military uprising forced Marcos to flee to Hawaii expressed shock over the triflings She announced creation of a special commission under retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Feria to investigate the clash and promised to punish those responsible She said the military commander of the capital region Maj Gen Ramon Montano would be placed on leave during the investigation Montano defended his actions and Mamed the demonstrators for provoking the dash Presidential spokesman Teodoro Benigno said three members of the security forces were wounded by buflets and one was struck by a stone far as we are concerned we exercised maximum tolerance Montano said Backing up the troops were two water cannon and eight fire trades But they were not used against the crowd warehouse window and saw Peresich cutting cocaine with a razorMade on a mirror and saw Jaber and the other three men Barton WiUiams Joseph Bosarge and Gary Drone afl of Biloxi snorting the powder into their noses Strong that he intend to let Peresich go free but intended to use him as an informant in other drag cases He admitted that he told Peresich to leave and to surrender himself later at the police station but said he tefl Jaber that he could leave Strong said that Jaber left along with Peresich after Strong went bad: into the warehouse to look for evidence The five men are charged with possession of cocaine a felony punishable by three years in prison The men are out of jail under bond County Proseaitor Gaston Hewes said Thursday that none of the men has waived preliminary hearings but no hearing dates have been set Schools shut down in Mississippi Alabama Georgia the Carofinas Virginia the District of Columbia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania and Connecticut along with the legislatures of South Carolina and Delaware In east-central Mississippi two inches of snow feD Wednesday night The weather service said that while most erf the snow melted quickly on streets and roads temperatures dipped to below freezing around sunrise and caused some roads to ice over Along the Coast heavy rains left rivers at or near flood stage The Pascagoula River near MerriD was two feet above flood stage Thursday afternoon according to Jackson County Disaster Services director Hank Turk Turk said flooding would primarily affect same areas that always including the Cedar Creek area and some fishing camps on the east bank But he said that the river will have two crests as runoffs continue to swell the river He said the river wifl not begin to recede until Monday Harrison County Civil Defense director Wade Guice said that the Biloxi River was several inches below flood stage and was expected to cause only minor flooding on River Road near Orange Grove For a day or two the Coast should get a respite from the heavy rains but not the cold Pence said A dry mass of arctic air began to move into the Coast Thursday night and was expected to bring temperatures in the about 10 yards Stones flew from among the marchers Suddenly marines in fuD battle dress deployed behind the police opened fire with M-16s first into the air for about two minutes then into the panicked crowd far three more minutes The firing continued while people ran into the street to drag the dead and wounded out of the firing fine Some demonstrators continued hurling rocks at the police When the firing ceased four jeeploads of police raced forward scattering the remaining demonstrators with volleys of tear gas The broad intersection in front of the bridge was littered with shoes staves jackets and banners abandoned in the panicked dash for cover A cardboard placard splattered with Mood said "Stop Three men sprawled motionless dead or wounded near a corner face pressed against the pavement One was gasping the only sign of fife Marines are not usuaDy assigned guard duty at Malacanang but they day Moffett who was at home side referred questions to Saxon Strong who on Jan 12 refused to accept a demotion and chaDenged police officials to fire him later changed his mind and decided to take the matter to the Civil Service Commission Strong was placed on side leave Jan 13 after he submitted a statement saying that he has an umbilical hernia and would not be fit for duties until he had an operation But Saxon said that Strong reported for work on Jan 15 and was assigned to fight duty in the records division The controversy began Jan 9 about 10 pm when Strong who was on his way to a drug raid at the home of someone he called "amjor drag answered a caD about a burglary in progress at the Cap Engine Rebuilders warehouse Strong said he looked through a FUNERAL HOMES INC Use your existing Insurance crcttit with our prearrangement plan For more information call Gulfport Biloxi Ocean Springs 865-0090 374-5650 875-1266.