Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 11

SECTION a IB 1 1 'v 4 TELEVISION B4: COMICS B-5 EDUCATION NEWS B-6 PUZZLES oB-9 4- FRIDAY APRIL 21993 MiuiLwi i n- i i i 4 4 theSunHerald Meeting focuses on problems of violence drugs By MARK SECHEWS the parents do not pay attention to The meeting was called by the North Gulf- port Civic Chib and was held at the -headquarters on Martin Luther Kingl Boulevard The speakers which also included CL' Luckett principal of North Gulfport 7th and -8th Grade School and the Rev Eddie Sorrell of the Church of Christ said many North Gulfport children need role models and need i Please see GULFPORT B-2 answered too slowly and that gang members rule the streets at night destroying property shooting guns and intimidating residents would like to report something but for fear of their lives they report crimes to me or anyone said Gregory Buckles manager of the LC Jones housing project in North Gulfport Buckles also said some parents do not send their children to the Boys and Girls Club in North Gulfport because parents were not certain their children would be safe from gangs there Price has suggested putting a substation in LC Jones project They said it might help deter criminals and would offer swifter responses to calls The substation would be paid for through a federal housing grant Head said Parental guidance Parker said many children in North Gulfport do not receive adequate guidance from parents sad We have children down there who cannot bathe themselves properly because escalating violence and drug trafficking in their neighborhoods depend just on law enforcement Either you are with us or against us and to sit here and try to criticize us it just Deputy Barbara Parker said during the a meeting of law enforcement housing officials and citizens But residents complained that requests for police patrols were not answered or were THE SUN HERALD North Gulfport residents complained Thursday night that the Harrison County Sheriffs Department has not been working hard enough to make their neighborhoods safe But Sheriff Joe Price and deputies told the 100 or so residents at the North Gulfport Civic Club that it needs their help to curb Spring vacation Just the break needed for teste Casino wants Back Bay parking By UTT1CE BACON If we had it before spring break it would be kind of hard to concentrate because you're ready to get out Derrick Belton Fernwood student THE SUN HERALD Thousands of Coast students and teachers get out for spring break today but educators say spring fever will not hurt Stanford Achievement Test scores Teachers say the break will give students a chance to relax and may actually improve test scores feel like they are getting rested and then they are coming back said Sandra Cassiby a second-grade teacher at West Elemen-tary in Gulfport About a week after students return from the break they will face the Stanford a 12-part national exam that measures math and reading skills Although the state department of education only requires testing of fourth- sixth- and eighth-graders some school districts such as Gulfport test all their students The state department required test dates are for April 19-30 but each district has scheduled its own testing days during that time period Spring favnrT Harrison County Superintendent of Education Henry Arledge said he does not like testing around spring break because it hurts the scores the tests are given before spring break the students are thinking just want a break Just leave me he said given after the break the kids are out for a week and they tend to forget some Femwood Middle School principal Robbie Farris agrees with Arledge saying testing at spring break has its pros and cons go play and vacation and they forget a he said by the same token they are refreshed when they Students in Harrison County will have a week to Jlitch the spring bug and get back into action students in Hancock and Jackson had -spring break in March 1 "4 the tests were immediately lowing spring break say yes affect said Dianne Robbins testing coordinator for Long -Beach Middle SchooL we have a week to get them back into the! i Students say they will be ready Students are not sweating the test either yet Most plan to spend the break relaxing and hanging out with -friends the test a week after spring break that will give us time to said Andrew Watson an-eighth-grade student at Femwood Please see TEST B-2 DAVID PUROYTHE SUN HERALD Rachel Noble an eighth-grade student in Carol class at Femwood Elementary in Biloxi works on math problems to prepare for the Stanford Achievement Tests The Biloxi Planning Commission is expected to decide in two weeks if it should recommend that the City Council allow a a 400-space casino parking lot in a mixed residential and commercial neighbor hood on Back Bay Property owner Ray Skrmetta requested permission for a parking lot along both sides of Davis Street on the south side of Bayview Avenue to be used by his tenant Boomtown casino Residents have said they are worried about traffic congestion from the casino The Skrmetta family promised a privacy fence and landscaping to reduce noise The Skrmettas also offered to block off Davis on the south side of the parking lot to keep traffic off that street where Moore Commu-v nity House a day care center is located i- LEE Coast has a rock station WQFX-FM formerly Foxy 96 and Mix 96 is now Rock 967 The classic rock format hit the air April 1 and response has been said Jim Carlow general manager of Surf 107 1-FM and vice president of new owner Southern Horizons Broadcasting Corp Carlow said the classic rock programming is another -form of adult contemporary a harder version of Rock 967 features music by such artists as The Doobie Brothers The Allman Brothers The Doors and Styx LACY Pearl River supports theme park The Pearl River County Board of Supervisors on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting the general concept of a theme park as proposed by Stephen Guice of Diamondhead The resolution also pledges the cooperation in drafting a bill to be presented to the 1994 Mississippi Legislature to create an improvement district for the park Guice has sought such a park in Harrison and Hancock counties where the supervisors have taken no action and in Jackson County where supervisors are studying the proposal DOCKINS Fordice vetoes tax bill JACKSON Gov Kirk Fordice was forced to veto a bill Wednesday that would give an income tax credit on inventory taxes because lawmakers inadvertently could cost the state treasury about $50 million Fordice said he the bill which was part of his legislative Fordice program but could not sign it Sen Bill Minor D-Holly Springs said the mistake meant businesses could have taken a credit on all income taxes paid in Minor chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said there was no chance to make changes in the bill The bill would have allowed businesses beginning in January to claim the inventory taxes paid as a credit on income taxes owed the state ASSOCIATED PRESS Woman convicted in stabbing VICKSBURG A 30-year-old Vicksburg woman has been convicted of manslaughter in the stabbing of another woman at a fast-food restaurant A Warren County jury deliberated for just an hour before convicting Janice of the Oct 12 1992 stabbing of Shirley Williams at the Taco Caso in Vicksburg According to court testimony the two women had been arguing for some time before the fatal stabbing testified Wednesday that Williams had harassed her for months after she developed a relationship with the father of 16-year-old son was released on $50000 bond until sentencing ASSOCIATED PRESS Recycling conference Monday Coastians can learn about what is necessary to make recycling projects work at a national interactive teleconference Monday People wanting more information or to ask questions may attend the teleconference between 1 and 3 pm in the Civil Defense office of the Harrison County Courthouse in Gulfport The program is called America Beautiful Presents Recycling Realties: A National Town and will cover recycling perceptions versus realties and alternative community lyaste management programs sharoNTebner i FCC says radio station within guidelines Regulations do not govern interference of PA systems McCoy said In February churches within a mile of McCoy said the station tion if it interfered with By KEN FINK would be in viola the signals of other stations However FCC rules do not apply 1 to devices not meant to act as receivers' offer no protection for any audio interference they are McCoy1 said recommended to the station that it would be a good public service to get the the station reported picking up country music on their PA systems during services The station also interfered with office intercoms and Dictaphones had to turn our intercom said attorney Jim Compton who represents Nativity BVM and has an office near the station have to believe a universal problem in this geographic receiver and they are not supposed to do said Jack McCoy inspector for the enforcement division of the FCC you often have a broadcast station sitting in the middle of WWXX 925 FM a 6 000-watt country channel broadcasts from the 10-story Gulf Towers Apartments on US 90 Most stations have towers outside populated areas THE SUN HERALD WWXX an FM radio station in Biloxi that interferes with the public address systems of nearby churches is within operating guidelines a Federal Communications Commission investigation has found (PA systems) are acting as a Please see RADIO B-2 I i i "ji-jjrS- 'T-ji-' Pascagoula New! OrieanFand MobileliAii'iai By JIM HANNAFORD i-TOE SUN HERALD i Stealing a line from Star Trek Kryske said: Was boldly going where no one had gone before and what doing at the Naval StationWe have a''r! Sutoook togo 'W Drberville relied on the stars and instruments such as a sextant to find the New WorldyThugh Nayy ships today are equipped with high-tech navigation equipment Larry Kryske sees $ome similarities between himself! and Pierre LeMoyne Sieur the French ex- plorer hewiH portray later this month during an annual celebration in Ocean HtThey havein common a itary background and world Kryske? a California native and history buff whb lsti aboard the USS Parsons: bommanderof Navyhomeportrelishes pmejwi had no electronic navigational equipf that worked south of the equator Kryske sakh He and David Fausnaugh of Ocean Springs prised personality and interest' in the community! pictures Thursday dressed the fancy velvet-and-Jt are other reasons he was chosen as sakl John 2 brocade uniforms that are part jof the annual re-enact- VallM- president of the 1699 Historical Committee Past of landing in l699 eventsjif have inchided a Cxingressman a Sena- i April toiy a former astronaut a governor and other state and Fausnaugh a retired Air Force and avil service wocfclocsd public ier is playing the role of Jean Baptiste Sieur de BienviUey really gotten involved inthecommunity since ne Larry Kryska win portray Pierre LeMoyne steur 4 HERB WELOVTHE9MN HERALD He sreally gotten mvdvedm the community since he ijnyJCysm wM portray Piem LeMoyne Sieur brother to two of a1iinoved here (in late Vallor younger dlberyilleAThe were part -1990) said-'l (fttieryflle lefland Deyid FBusnaugh wHI be Jean aew of about 200 that darned this area ter France and retiring mAugust and he Wants tbmeJackBBsctiste Sieur Bienville during ceremonies to cofonies in preseiffy Ocean -Springs-r ---x' soon started rL fc: -1.