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Vol 105 No 359 $100 Serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast for 104 Years ittfiaBia choice: A closer look at the candidates UseECIALlELECTIONa Moore abandoned a job he loved when he made decision to join race By TERRY CASSREINO and PATRICK PETERSON STAFF WRITERS For days Mike Moore wrestled with a decision consulted with friends family and state leaders and finally chose to run for the US Congress a job that would force him to abandon the job as state attorney general which he won in January 1988 the toughest thing I've ever done in my life Moore said last week at a press conference in Jackson in a job right now that I like more than anything ever Despite the struggle over whether to enter the special election for 5th District Congressional seat the 37-year-old Moore was the first Democrat to officially announce his candidacy two weeks after US Rep Larkin Smith died in a Perry County plane crash of the main reasons I decided to run was I felt in the long run that we needed the strongest voice we could get in he said that may sound conceited but I The Issues Today The Sun Herald profiles the three candidates In the race for the 5th District congressional seat On Monday we begin a series of articles on the issues that will face the winner The Sun endorsement appears today on A-1 6 Anderson balances Gulfport roots with recognition from DC work By PATRICK PETERSON STAFF WRITER Tom family tree goes back to roots But he is better known in Washington where he has built a career as a businessman and as Trent right arm The campaign strategy for Congress bets that that South Mississippians want a native who is already comfortable Capitol HiU In Ms first bid for elected office Anderson stepped into a candidacy prepared by Sea Trent Lott whose backing encouraged other party hopefuls to drop out for the race for the 5th District congressional seat Though support has become less evident as the campaign wears on Anderson has retained strong backing from Ms former boss through appearances in campaign commercials and from the Republican party Anderson has also been promised the support of Sheila Smith the widow of US Rep Larkin Smith who died Aug 13 in a plane crash Please see ANDERSON A-14 Taylor hopes his second attempt at seat will fill his ambition By TERRY CASSREINO and PATRICK PETERSON STAFF WRITERS For Gene Taylor winning the 5th District congressional seat would be fulfilling a dream that once slipped from Ms grasp guess pretty rare for a person to truly get a chance to fulfill his said the 36-year-old Taylor actually have the opportunity now certainly within Last November after a race in which he trailed badly at the start in both voter polls and finances Taylor won 45 percent of the vote about 10000 fewer than the late US Rep Larking Smith who died Aug 13 in a Perry County plane crash Taylor the Bay St Louis state senator who represents parts of Hancock Harrison and Jackson counties began his eight-year political career on the Bay St Louis City Council To make Ms congressional dream a reality the Coast Democrat must overcome political and financial obstacles Carrying an $8000 debt from the previous congressional election Taylor financially trails his opponents: fellow Demo- Please see TAYLOR A-14 Keeping the white sands white escape from nak youth center MOORE A-14 DAVID PURDYSUN HERALD PHOTOGRAPHER By JIM HANNAF0RD STAFF WRITER Six juveniles at the Harrison County Youth Detention Center overpowered two sheriffs deputies and escaped Saturday night injuring the two deputies and two Gulfport policemen who tried to apprehend them Five of the six were in custody Saturday night but the sixth remained at large The two deputies and two Gulfport policemen were treated and released at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport The male youths who ranged in age from 15 years to 17 years were rounded up separately about 1 V4 hours after the break-out The five were captured within a mile of the center located on Maple Street in Gulfport Each was charged with escape and aggravated assault on a police officer said acting Warden CapL Rick Gaston Because they are juveniles authorities could not release their names Meanwhile an angry Gulfport Po- Please see ESCAPE Back Page Please see 27 people dead in the Caribbean was blamed for an additional 21 deaths in the Carolinas Virginia and New York In Charleston the hardest-Mt city on the mainland many residents remained without electricity or telephone service Saturday Long lines formed at the few service stations that had generators to pump gas which reportedly was being sold for up to $450 per gallon The state already has requested federal relief les GRAND JURY COULD HEAR JAIL CHARGES By LOUISE TAYLOR STAFF WRITER A Harrison County grand jury that begins meeting Monday could be held over to hear from four deputy sheriffs who claim their fellow officers have abused cMldren held in the Youth Detention Center and have beaten adults in the Gulfport jaiL The four deputies who said they feared that the Department would cover up their claims or try to discredit them took their story to the American Civil Liberties Union in Jackson News reports appeared in The Sun Herald and other media Saturday and immediately created shock Please see JURY Back Page to a treaty on slashing long-range nuclear weapons Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A Shevardnadze who spent the weekend in talks with Secretary of State James A Baker III said the summit would be held in or early sum- Please see SUMMIT A-14 Campbell said Running water was restored to most places although residents were warned to boil it before drinking it and mail service could resume Monday Mayor Joseph Riley Jr said at a news conference Banks of pay telephones were to be set up in city parks John Hamilton right and John Unn try to put a large chunk of nylon Deer Island Hamilton and Linn are from Keesler and were among rope in one of the garbage bags they are using to collect refuse from several volunteers cleaning up beaches on the barrier islands Volunteers in 5 states pick shores dean Bush Gorbachev plan to hold first summit meeting next year By STEVE BRUNS MAN I first looked at the survey 65-mile anti-litter tion busters coordinated the big STAFF WRITER sheet this morning I thought patrol was part of a regional cleanup daylong push on the Coast way We find all this stuff on in which volunteers in five Gulf More than 22 tons of debris were Airman Thomas Vezie' scanned these But a lot of Coast states tidied up their state weighed by Saturday evening Bu- his survey sheet for a spot to record trash out Vezie said shorelines reau of Marine Resources spokes- an intact fluorescent light bulb More than l000 Coast resi- Marine trash is a growing prob- man Ron Grove said Officials pro-Vezie and 20 other Keesler Air dents mostly civilians showed up lem Officials estimate that 2 million ject 30 tons or more will pile up by Force Base students had already Saturday for the third annual Mis- sea birds and 100 000 sea mammals final count spied a big rusty barbecue grill and sissippi Coastal Cleanup The vol- died worldwide as a result of eating In 1988 about 1200 volunteers a sand-filled steel bathtub during a unteers picked up marine trash and such debris short hike along Deer south tourist debris from beaches on six Mississippi Marine Trash Task Please see CLEANUP A-14 shore barrier islands an informal group of pollu- Hugo damage may top $3 billion 51 counties ask disaster relief By BARRY SCHWEID ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JACKSON HOLE Wyo President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will hold their first summit meeting next year officials announced Saturday as the two superpowers completed a half-dozen accords and cleared a major roadblock get ice that was being distributed Authorities reported 20 incidents of looting and 30 arrests in North Carolina since Hugo struck 89 arrests were made in South Carolina including 27 in Charleston where the National Guard began patrolling Friday The troops will remain on the streets of Charleston as long as we need to to maintain the safety for South Carolina Gov Carroll At a Charlotte mall a panicky crowd hoping to get ice in a parking lot started pushing and shoving and police were called There were no injuries or arrests a riot but it could have been" said police Lt Mike Connolly was some pushing and shoving cursing just some hot At another mail motorists turned one lane of a road into a parking lot when they jumped out of their cars to sent 200 National Guard and other security officers to Charlotte and asked President Bush to declare a federal disaster area in 51 North Carolina counties Hugo meanwhile wore itself out over St Lawrence Valley after progressively weakening through Virginia West Virginia western Pennsylvania and western New York state The hurricane which left at least By BRUCE SMITH ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER CHARLESTON SC The city enacted an emergency law Saturday to stop price-gouging at newly reopened stores as residents waited in long lines for ice and food amid debris left by Hurricane Hugo Authorities said storm damage could top $3 billion In North Carolina Gov Jim Martin 1 Please see HUGO Back Page I it.