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grand entryway opens to 2500 Officials seek relief for voters Lines hampered August election the most unique and dramatic anywhere "You can go look at a lot of other zoos around the country and around the world and you wont find anything like this" said anything and Hackett said the city would match those funds on a 2-to-l basis Gov Ned McWherter confirmed earlier reports in The Commercial Appeal on Thursday night when he announced the zoo will receive a total of $5 million from the state by 1994 Azeo 'Ace' Torre the New Orleans architect who designed the entryway attended the event Friday morning and said Satified the drawings he 1 1983 have been solidl-bricks and cement He called the entrance one of Hackett described the colorful 40-foot-tall wall as a "facade of greatness" and called on the zoo staff city officials and private supporters to make the inside of the zoo as spectacular as the outside "The real challenge is behind the entrance" he said during a 15-minute ribbon-cutting ceremony "Well make the Memphis Zoo the world-class zoo that the citizens of this community deserve" Zoo boosters have raised S6 million toward their $8 million goal in private contibutions Torre whose architectural firm i Consortium Ltd specializes fn zoo renovations very pleased with the way it turned out and I'm dad so many people here like he said About 4000 people Including McWherter attended an outdoor party to celebrate the completion of the zoo entrance on By Dave Hirschman Ttw Commercial Appeal About 2500 visitors streamed through the Memphis Zoo's and entryway Friday mom-g taking advantage of free ad-union during the gate's grandopening celebration Mayor Dick Hackett said he ex pects a million people a year to through the Sl-6-million in-style gate and "Avenue Animals plaza when the $30 million zoo expansion and renovation is complete in 1991 Firebombs are blamed in death of man 87 By Mike Fltzgibbon The CommereW Appeal At least two Molotov cocktaillike gasoline bombs were tossed into an East Memphis home early Friday killing an 87-year-old man Police say the death of Albert Cohn apparently resulted from a ible involving a woman squabbl and the son Howard Cohn 27 who lived with his father at 1025 Walthal near Park and Highland The younger Cohn is not a suspect in the case Police arrested a 26-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man but neither had been charged Officers said the woman called the house after the squabble making threats According to police Howard Cohn was awakened by screams from his bedroom about 330 am When he entered the room the younger Cohn said he saw two burning bottles on the floor He grabbed one took it into the bathroom and threw it in tiie sink or toilet He returned to the room and found it engulfed in flames He itside where i he tried to get to his father through a window He told officers he could see his father roll to the floor amid the flames Police reports indicated the fire which caused an estimated $22500 damage to the house apparently was ignited by two bot tles of gasoline or some other Die liqui flammable liquid Neighbors said they were awakened about 4 am by Fire Department vehicles and ambulances Mildred Reeves who lives two houses from the burned house said she knew the elder Cohn for 20 years and said he was very frail and "could barely creep around He was a real nice gentleman one of those courtly type of individuals you don't see rperson in the house with Cohn and his son However there were no other fatalities officials said Relatives of Sheneika Byers 9 gather Friday near where she and Doris Johnson 10k were swept Search to resume for missing girls By Terry kecter Th Commercial Appeal Election officials and Shelby County legislators Friday began searching for ways to avoid repeating problems encountered in the Aug 2 election Officials said some Memphis voters had to wait in line up to three hours to cast their ballots in the election earlier this month The ballot featured a record number of offices and brought record lines at the polling places State Sen Steve Cohen (D-Memphls) chairman of the Shelby County legislative delegation was joined in the roundta ble discussion by 10 other legislators the local Election Commission members State Election Commissioner David Hill and City Council member Mary Rose McCormick Cohen asked those attending to nuke recommendations for legislation to be introduced to the General Assembly in January A special committee was named to review recommenda tions and prepare proposed legislation It will be composed of Cohen state Rep Karen Wil-" tphis) Roscoe Dixon (D-Memphis) and a number of private citizens including a representative of the League of Women Voters Those at the Friday meeting agreed that the voting problem becomes severe every eight years when the judicial races appear on the August ballots Shelby County Election Commission Chairman Pleasant Jr said the short Nov 6 ballot should present no problem State Sen Jim Kyle (D-Memphis) warned that it would be a mistake to attempt to pass legislation designed only for Shelby County when the voting problems extend across the state Cohen asked Election Commission members to particularly explore the possibility of renting electronic voting machines from other states and the possibility of satellite sites for in-person absentee voting All in-per-son absentee voting is now conducted at the commission's downtown offices The roundtable discussion included: Purchasing additional Shouptronic voting machines Staggering terms for the judges with some judicial elections every two years which would probably include extending some current terms because they could not be reduced ffom the eight years the judges were just elected to serve Staggered elections during the year with judical elections in March or April and other races decided in August or with some judicial races in August Please see ELECT Page B2 Contributors rescue ailing bicycle dog Boy the bicycle-riding dog was on easy street Friday gotten through his first heartworm treatment he was recuperating in dean air-conditioned quarters several animal lovers had called to donate money toward his hospital bill and his owner had come to see him and talk over old times Boy is the mixed collie that normally rides on the back of A bicycle and shares the street precarious way of life Friday however he was in the Memphis Animal Clinic after being diagnosed as having heartworms -The treatment runs about $150 and Tanner had little hope of raising the money However several people called the clinic and pledged donations after The Commercial Appeal carried a story Thursday explaining the 1SSS re going to do our pari too so it looks like Boy will be i Undercurrent swept away two swimming in the Mississippi Thi Merry Lewis a zoo cashier for 13 years said she and her coworkers will benefit the most from the new entryway There are six cashier stations built into the base of the wall and all are equipped with central air and heat old offices had wall units and they were always too hot or too cold" she said were drafty and you were all by If These are much larger yourself and they have room for two le I think well like it here just By Jerry Holt away by the Mississippi River often plays hide-and-seek and freeze tag with him Ms Young could not be reached for comment Friday but is expected to arrive in Memphis from Joliet as soon as she can get money for bus fare said Anna Mae Brown her mother Ms Brown said she thinks Doris is dead but family was more hopeful About 10 of Sheneika's relatives gathered near the old John Edgar Point early Friday waiting for news of the whereabouts came down here to look We been down here since 7 this morning sitting around looking said and rai mother Erma Jean Jones all we can Ms Jones said she under- Please see GIRLS Page B2 Dave Darnell Elvis fans Lana Ellis (left) and her daughter Nicole 18 of Brazil Ind visiting Memphis for Elvis Presley International Tribute Week enjoy one of the many Elvis stories recounted Friday by friends of the rock and roll legend at Humes Junior High School Presley graduated from Humes formerly a high school WfMever In the mid-1980s Newman appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and was featured in Discover magazine His machine won the endorsenu of some scientists and captured By Carolyn Acree The CommareW Appeal A second long day of searching Friday failed to turn up any evidence of two young girls carried away by currents in the Mississippi River Thursday afternoon Meanwhile the families waited for news and described one of the lost children as a student who makes straight A's and the other as outgoing Doris Johnson 10 and Sheneika Byers 9 were caught in an undercurrent while trying to help one another get back to shore Thursday medics to the scene of an emer- if Wednesday and Thurs-it the crew got only two ble stories for the program ht use one of those stories but they had high hopes for Friday night "It being Friday night we have high expectations we will get something because there is a signficant rise in the number of traumatic cases accidents and unfortunately shootings and stabbings" said director Bob Reid The segment which probably will run 10-12 minutes hasni been scheduled but should run sometime this fall Rescue 911 airs at 7 pm Tuesdays on CBS I filming in Memphis been notified about the search and were keeping watch too The girls who did not know one another appeared similar in relatives said personality i Doris was in Memphis visiting her grandmother at 603 Danny Thomas Friends and relatives described a child who was outgo- inland zestful i likes to play doubledutch jump rope sing dance roller skate and "go places" relatives said She was on her second visit to Memphis Doris and her five brothers and sisters live with their mother Emma Young in Joliet 111 She is about to enter the sixth grade and she likes math and spelling She was to turn 11 next month younger brother Chris was in Young 8 Doris He said Friday with sister By machine solved He said he also married the mother The Mississippi elfare Department took custody of the girl and her 3-year- old brother shortly afterward he and the woman he said and have since divorced Through it all however Newman has Mpt pushing for acceptance of his machine Newman said God blessed him with persistence and that he was meant to bring this technology to the world afternoon They had been playing with friends near a city drainage ditch near the old John Edgar Point when they went too far out into the water Crews from the Coast Guard the Memphis Police Aviation Unit and Memphis Police Harbor Patrol searched a nine- mile stretch of the river south of the ditch until about 5 pm Friday but found no evidence of the girls harbor patrol LL Jim Hays said Police fear the girls drowned but Hays said the search will resume today and again on Sunday if nothing is found He said authorities south of Memphis as well as towboats in the area had a messenger boy with a very important Newman said Last year Newman said he married an 8-year-old girl because of that message God gave him a sign to tell Christians to love Muslims he said Newman felt the marriage was appropriate because Muhammad once had a wife that By Tom Walter The Commercial Appeal The television show Rescue 911 is in town riding with Mem phis Fire Department paramedics a and taping at the Medical Center at Mempl why: The Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center is one of the busiest in the country the show shot in Memphis before and it canjget it background tape dm vis International Tribute Rescue 911 focuses on people who are helped because someone called 911 The TV crew goes with para Miss man By Lennart Larason Tha Commercial I Joseph Newman says a man on a mission to save the world The inventor gained national attention in the mid-1980s with a machine that he said would save the world from reliance on petroleum-based fuels His much-publicized court battle to win a patent for his machine ended in failure but he's still promoting energy still pushing his invention And still trying to save the world Newman 54 lives in Lucedale Miss about 30 miles from the coast He said Thursday in a telephone interview that he was chqsen by God to warn people about the Iraq conflict which ne said will be the of The conflict could have been avoided he said if authorities had accepted his energy i chine and ended the liance on Mideast oil ma re- taken care said Dr Stephen Tower who began heartworm treatments- and said the dog ought to remain in the clinic for the next few weeks say he should be ready to get back on the bicycle by Oct 1 he said- Tanner spent an hour with his dog Friday and said they'd been through a lot together since he acquired Boy as a puppy and began carrying him around on the back of his bike ft fewman said the marriage was never consummated however and officials had it dis- 14 Please see ENERGY Page B2 i- 4.