Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 11

niESiNllERyi) FRIDAY SEPT 23 1988 SECTION CLASSIFIED ADS B-4 CROSSWORDS B-7 BLOOM COUNTY B-8 JUMBLE PUZZLE aB-10 Moore: Force decision on Enropa Star AVID PUHDYSUN HERALD PHOTOGRAPHER Gulfport Mayor Leroy Urie presents a certificate of honorary citizenship Thursday to a delegation of Chinese scientists Chinese scientists visit By MORGAN FALKNER STAFF WRITER East met West on the Coast on Thursday when a group of Chinese scientists visited to explore the possibility of technology transfer agreements with Mississippi come here seeking friendship and Hu Wei a chemist said through an interpreter "We hope to promote technology development and therefore economic development The four visiting scientists were wrapping up an 18-day stay in Mississippi after having traveled the state with officials for the Institute for Technology Development' Sally Bay Cornwell vice president for technology transfer said the hope is for an ongoing cooperative effort between China and Mississippi Mississippi stands to gain most from Chinese expertise in coal power generation she said most advanced in that area she said after a news conference in Gulfport ahead of almost everyone else in the world Thursday morning the group toured the Sten-nis Space Center to see the possibilities of using commercial space technology applications Specifically the group was interested in discussing the possibility of using data culled from space for agriculture purposes At the news conference Gulfport Mayor Leroy Urie and Mississippi Power Co President Alan Barton met with the group 4 interested to see if there's some way to use their technology or contribute to said Barton who also serves on board of directors According to an ITD news release the group paid its own way Cornwell said that indicates seriousness on the part of the entourage to work Coast closely with state scientists brought with her particular scientists who specialize in areas interested Cornwell said Other scientists making the trip were Yuan-Hua Xu who conducts research into semiconductor physics Ke-Huan Xu an engineer specializing in acoustics and Maosong Yen who studies electric power systems and automation Cornwell said the seed for establishing contact with the group was planted eight years ago by ITD President David Murphree who met a number of Chinese scientists at an international conference in Boston Over the next few years Murphree traveled to China seven times to firm the relationship and assist in the signing of one of the first industrial agreements between the United States and China The judge said he was still waiting for the cruise attorneys to submit their findings a position statement of legal arguments that he will review before making a decision The state has already presented its findings He expects to receive cruise line attorney Joel findings next week he said want to give everything priority However there is a lot going on other than he said Blass said he had been waiting to receive the findings before submitting his which he plans to have in by the end of next week Warren said that around Aug 1 the attorney office filed papers supporting the stand with the Harrison County Circuit Court Although Thomas did not rule Warren said it at least made Thomas aware the issue was alive Push from attorney office office notified Thomas on Tuesday that the petition would be filed with the state Supreme Court Warren did not know when the Supreme Court would act on the petition but he thought it would be soon If justices rule in favor they would give Thomas five days from the ruling to decide the case Legalized gambling the issue Warren said Moore is concerned that the state of Mississippi should have control over what it rightfully owns namely the entire Mississippi Sound Warren said When Supreme Court justices noted that law enforcement officials have patrolled the questioned area in the past he said that indicated they probably would support that the area belongs to the state want to enforce Mississippi Warren said the Legislature wants to legalize gambling in Mississippi OK By TERRY CASSREINO CAPITOL BUREAU JACKSON Attorney General Mike Moore has asked the state Supreme Court to order a Harrison County judge to decide if the Europa Star can have gambling in the Mississippi Sound Moore in a petition Wednesday asks the justices to compel Circuit Judge James Thomas to decide on the 9-month-old case Moore who was unavailable for comment thinks Thomas has had enough time (Thomas) simply not doing Assistant Attorney General Jim Warren said he rules that part of the Mississippi Sound is not part of Mississippi fine appeal The Europa Star a 167-foot day-cruise ship that features gambling for entertainment is operating in the Sound under a preliminary injunction Thomas issued in December At issue: whether the state has jurisdiction over the Mississippi Sound Moore contends the state does Europa Cruise Lines contends state jurisdiction stops 3 miles south of the mainland and 3 miles north of the barrier islands The ship now operates between the mainland and the barrier islands Running into delays Thomas had asked the state Supreme Court to rule on the case this summer Justices declined and sent it back to Thomas for a decision and noted that agencies such as the Bureau of Marine Resources have long regulated the Sound But Thomas has made no decision Thomas noting that the Europa Star decision was only one of several thousand cases on his docket said he had discussed it with Moore told him that when I had the opportunity I would review it and I simply have not had that he said tf mwHERE TO goto pitch in Mmm 1000 volunteers to blitz beach trash Lie detector heats up pesticide spill probe v- 8 a-ny the Point bn the west end of Beach Boulevard in Pascagoulaglf Belle Fontaine Beach 8 am the lighthouse Water towerat the end ofSt-Andrews Golf Courseon Belle Fontaine Beach Drive! Ocean Springs 9 am the pier entrance to Ocean Springs Harbor and at the entrance to the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory' -a afthrbA a vV i a By MIKE STOBBE STAFF WRITER On Saturday the Marine Trash Task Force is going to hit the beaches Eighteen Mississippi business industry civic and government groups have formed the task force in the Take Pride Gulfwide trash cleanup About 1000 volunteers have signed up to pick garbage off the nearshore and barrier islands and areas of the Hancock and Jackson county beaches Harrison County beaches are maintained by the county and will not be picked up The effort is part of a five-state same-day effort to clean up the shores of the Gulf of Mexico make people aware of the garbage out said Linda Skupien spokeswoman for the task force are two things trying to she said short-range goal is actually cleaning the beach from a sensitive environment that can entrap and endanger all ma sippi Waste Management of Mississippi and Gulf Coast Waste and Disposal Inc she said Skupien said all Coastians are asked to help out see that in only a few hours fill a dumpster and then it will hit them that God the next day there'll be enough to fill the dumpster Staff writer Sharon Stallworth contributed to this report of the employees taking the lie detector test unless they volunteered and added that he heard some took it unwillingly because they feared losing their jobs if they take it Gulfport Police Detective Glen Terrell told the commissioners it would further the investigation if the commissioners would take the polygraph test was no kid from down the street who had nothing better to Terrell said of the dumping was a grudge act He said there are no suspects at this time Because the motion to take the polygraph test did not pass unanimously the test will not be administered to any of the commissioners Instead Terrell will meet with each one individually to discuss the case About 1200 gallons of a Baytex solution were dumped from a storage tank behind the commission building on Hewes Avenue the first weekend in August The spill killed 150 birds along the canal was found at the home there of another illegal alien Mitts said she believed the investigation started in June and ended July 29 She said 30 stores in Mississippi were cited for not having the paperwork on all employees since the law went into effect She said she think store managers deliberately hired illegal aliens but said that when a manager needed someone to work had them fill out an application and if they had a car they put them to At least used Mitts said everyone is checked out 100 The required forms simple to fill out butiwill be time-consuming because of the volume Mitts said rine inhabitants long-range goal is to partid-' pate in data she said' The Center for Environmental Education a non-profit foundation based in Washington DC is providing data sheets and information cards for the deanup Garbage pickers will work in two-person teams one to collect garbage and one to note on the card what is being picked up (cards) will be sent to the center and they will analyze the she said Data from the deanup she said will provide the first detailed information taken on Gulf Coast garbage in the last 10 years More than 15000 volunteers are expected to participate in Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Florida The task force movement began last year when the Minerals Management Service of the US Department of the Interior organized a Gulfwide meeting last year at Nichols said this thing goes off the air Amsouth will lose quite a bit of money So to advantage to work this Amsouth he said has agreed to provide up to $35000 a month in operating capital to keep the station running Jackson attorney Stephen Rosenblatt who represents Amsouth was optimistic that an acceptable debt reorganization plan will be worked out A meeting of creditors has been scheduled for Oct 27 in Jackson WXXV which Rosenblatt said had fallen several months behind on its mortgage payments first encountered financial problems a year ago Four-0 find enough buyers when it made a $275000 public offering of WXXV stock By METRIC POCKINS STAFF WRITER After having taken lie detector tests about a dozen employees of the Gulf Coast Mosquito Control Commission are not suspected in the dumping of a mosquito pesticide into a Gulfport canal in early August officials said But a motion by Commissioner Hayze Lawhom of Pascagoula suggesting that the nine commissioners also take a polygraph test sit well with fellow Commissioner Wayne Berry of Long Beach Lawhom introduced the motion at Tuesday meeting of the board of directors like to tell you up front that not going to take a polygraph Berry said getting into the witch hunt thing if they have legitimate grounds to suspect a commissioner If we say yes to testing the commissioners then next would be the Board of Supervisors Berry said he had objected to any been illegal aliens but most of its stores were cited for not complying with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 The act requires employers to complete immigration forms within three days on employees hired since Nov 6 1986 A $181000 fine could have been imposed but it was negotiated down because the company cooperated with the INS investigation Mitts said she was notified of the fine Sept 15 She said the company has not paid the fine yet I would say we are going A New Orleans newspaper said the investigation of began during anothej case when an illegal alien working for in New Orleans Bankruptcy action halts WXXV auction Gulfport pizza franchise fined for not filing immigration forms People who went to the meeting from each state induding Mississip-pians from Gulf Islands National Seashore and the state Bureau of Marine Resources organized smaller cleanups last fall and this past spring is the largest effort Skupien said Garbage will be placed in bags and dumpsters donated by BFI of Missis Street violence Man shot while stopped at Biloxi intersection B-4 Cocaine seizure Arrests of two men driving on Interstate 10 net $25000 in cocaine B-4 Olympic show One of the most anticipated head-to-head battles of the Olympics is tonight B-2 i By MORGAN FALKNER STAFF WRITER The auction of Coast television station WXXV has been staved off with the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers by the owner The bankruptcy was filed earlier this week at the US Bankruptcy Court in Jackson and prevented the scheduled Sept 27 auction in Biloxi Attorneys for the owner Four-0 Inc and the mortgage holder Am-south Bank of Birmingham Ala agreed that it was in both interest to keep the independent station on the air Amsouth is pumping money into the station to keep it operating said Jackson attorney Robert Nichols (Amsouth) have quite a bit By GENE SWEARINGEN STAFF WRITER An illegal alien working at a Pizza store in New Orleans led to a $20000 fine against RPM Pizza Inc of Gulfport after an investigation showed that most of its stores in two states were not complying with federal immigration law payroll supervisor Sherri Mitts said: there was one found in Mississippi but I think they were all in Louisiana There were others that quit once we were told that (the Immigration and Naturalization Service) was doing an Fewer than 10 of the 3000 employees are believed to have.