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Bi THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS FRIDAY JULY 7 1995 ffisr dateline mid-south Police locate car College the security depart- SElided i 1 11 wheelchair gone ised to provide a replacement The 1984 Oldsmobile wheelchair The Blanco family traveled to Memphis from Lima Peru in July 1993 so Juan Diego Blanco 10 could undergo leukemia treatment at St Jude Radiation therapy he under went in Peru left Juan Diego unable partially paralyzed and unabl to speak eat or walk unassisted St Jude provided the customized wheelchair to help Juan Diego sit property A stroller also provided by St Jude was recovered Thursday Blanco said Ark transit system to challenge ruling to reinstate driver Cutlass was repeated stolen Monday from outside the Memphis home across from John Kennedy Park Blanco said it was found abandoned late Wednesday in North Memphis morning we went to see the car It was so hard to see the car in that Blanco said noting' that the windshield locks steering column and other components were missing or damaged She is unsure if they will repair the vehicle The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 704 filed suit after the agency fired the driver identified in court records as Jane Doe in 1991 The union contended she was not fired for just cause In its June 28 ruling the appeals court said that while it questioned whether a person can drive a bus under the influence of drugs it was dealing with the particular issues in the case The bus drug policy covers about 150 drivers and mechanics Five employees including the subject of the lawsuit have been fired under the policy instituted in January 1991 as required by federal transit administration regulations CATA added random drug testing this year to comply with new federal regulations fails to find to lost girl red older Ford pickup with a white camper shell driven by a bearded man was seen at the field that night Morgan and the pickup disappeared about the same time Best said that except for the pickup all vehicles at the field that night have been accounted for The Fox television program Most Wanted planned to air another segment Two attempted abductions the weekend of disappearance involving a bearded man driving a red Ford pickup have led police to believe the same person may ici- be involved in all three inc dents Police said they have received about 2000 leads The leads have led to about 10 arrests unrelated to disappearance The search command center can be reached at (501) 632-3333 The Fort Smith state lice headquarters is re at (501) 783-5195 side Wednesday morning A CAT scan confirmed that she had suffered a stroke After she began losing consciousness Allen decided to operate During about four hours of surgery ne removed dead portions or the brain and parts of a iand parts of blood clot Allen said the stroke was due to a drug Mrs Gore was given at a Carthage hospital to dissolve blood clots Mrs Gore was born in Dresden Tenn She worked her way through law school as a waitress and practiced law in Arkansas briefly before returning to Tennessee and marrying her husband She was one of the first fe- i) if I I 2 arrested after shots fired in parking lot By Toni Lepeska Tha Commercial Appeal A 25-year-old and a teenager were arrested Thursday after an exchange of early morning gunfire between police and a group of young men in a North Memphis apartment parking lot No one was hit in the incident outside 723 Wells shortly after midnight Officers heard shots being fired behind a building while they were at the apartments investigating the shooting of a 14-year-old They ran toward the gunfire rounded a comer and saw a young man holding a rifle a police arrest report says A woman and her 8-year-old son were crouched nearby shielding themselves from stray bullets Drop your Officer Tilton yelled to the gunman the report says The gunman turned and fired a shot Tilton then fired two shots at the gunman who dropped the rifle onto the sidewalk and rah as others who had been with him scattered the report says Police arrested a 25-year-old man whom the report identi- fied as the gunman and a 17-year-old whom officers found in an apartment rest of them got police Maj Rodgers said The gunman told police he was shooting at a white car carrying the person who shot the 14-year-old the report says Officers see the car The 14-year-old was hospitalized Thursday in noncritical condition Some of the shooters apparently knew him Rodgers said No charges had been filed Thursday From Page B1 Spider can take four or five days to develop and eventually land the patient in the hospital he said Even without such a massive response the brown recluse bite can take six to eight weeks to heal not sure a whole lot you can to treat a brown recluse bite Meridian said Doctors often prescribe antibiotics to prevent infection and recommend keeping the wound dry Me lerigian said patients should return to the doctor if the tissue damage spreads or if they develop fever chills or fatigue The effectiveness of other treatment is debatable Merigian said Sometimes damaged tissue around the bite is surgically removed Dapsone a drug used to treat leprospy is sometimes prescribed But Merigian said he believes the potential side effects outweigh its demonstrated usefulness Luckily most spiders have fangs too short or too fragile to pierce human skin But Breeden warned that spotting one brown recluse spider probably means its siblings are elsewhere in the house Merigian recalled an 18-year-old East Memphis patient he treated for an apparent brown recluse bite The family eventually hired an exterminator who treated the house killing 50 brown recluse spiders he said $75000 per officer The rest will be paid by state or loca funds Deputy Director William Oldham said the department specifically requested 20 new Memphis officers under the COPS AHEAD (Accelerated Hiring Education and Deploy ment) program of the matching fund require ments we knew how many we could he said The program developed by the Justice Department under the 1994 Crime Bill provides grants to law enforcement agencies that serve populations of 50000 and more An estimated $105 billion has been committed to hire 20000 more officers in cities and counties across the nation according to the announce ment but By Mary Powers Tha Commercial Appeal Memphis police recovered the car stolen from outside the home of a Peruvian family in Memphis for medical treatment but the youngest customized wheelchair had disappeared from the trunk Teresa Blanco whose wheelchair had been locked inside the car said Thursday that St Jude Research Hospital administrators prom Funeral homes to pay fines of $27500 The Associated Three Tennessee funeral homes have agreed to pay $27500 in fines to settle claims that they violated a federal rule giving consumers the right to itemized price lists of services attorney general also announced legal action against four other homes under the consumer protection laws The proposed settlements are the first to emerge from a joint federal and state crackdown on funeral homes that fail to comply with the Federal Trade Commission regulation the agency said Thursday Under the crackdown authorities are sending test shoppers into funeral homes across the country to determine whether the businesses are providing the price lists a key Eision of the Funeral The defendants in the FTC cases all from Nashville will aspects FTC st said Federal court approval is required The settlements are with: Buena Vista Funeral Home Inc and its officers John Bratten and John Bratten Jr $4000 penalty LOV II Inc operating as Lewis and Wright Funeral Directors and its officers Richard A Lewis and Irving Sanchez III $7500 penalty then Patton Brothers Funeral Homes and its officers Katharyn Patton Alfonso Patton and Mary Kathryn Patton $16000 penalty The Tennessee Attorney Office also brought vn ru- cases against: Woodlawn neral Home Inc and Hamilton Mortuary both of Nashvillej Williamson Memorial Home LLC of Franklin and Jennings Ayers Funeral Directors Inc of Murfreesboro Jodie Bernstein director of consumer protection at the FTC said compliance with the rule remains low despite efforts to educate funeral homes and more than 40 law enforcement actions involving them From Page B1 Gore brain grows smaller each hour President Clinton said in a speech to the National Education Association of this morning Mrs Gore is doing much better She is a remarkable The Vice President and his wife Tipper flew from Washington on Wednesday to be with his mother Gore canceled his out-of-state plans for the rest of the week and will spend the weekend in Tennessee attending a fund-raiser festival and family conference Gore declined to speak with reporters Thursday but his spokesman Lorraine Voles said the Vice President obviously better today after receiving such good From Page B1 Law declaring that customers who shut the doors completely would be asked to leave Other bookstores flatly ignored the law overbroad and violates equal Memphis BWe lawyer Frierson Graves Jr 'said of the law Graves tried to block the law late last week Representing the corporate owners of the bookstore at 5937 Summer an adult bookstore in Shelby County Graves and Michael Pleasants filed a request for a temporary injunc- bicycle patrol to our current security said Northeast President Joe Childers Childers said that many cities universities and shopping centers are moving in this same direction Louisiana State University ral began using bicycles seve years ago and Jackson Miss recently put their downtown foot patrol on Childers said When the bicycle patrol begins in the fall Childers said the school will be using student security to patrol the campus Cycling will be voluntary for current mil-time security but new employees will be required to cycle he said Cartwright 'Presidential gets term OXFORD Patrick Michael Mitchell the bank who donned rubber masks of ex-presidents during his robberies was sentenced Thursday to five years on escape charges The sentence is in addition to a 30-year term Mitchell is already serving on bank robbery charges Mitchell also faces jail time in Canada and Arizona Mitchell 52 was convicted on federal charges of attempted escape in May He was accused of being involved with three men attempting an escape from the Lafayette County Detention Center by sawing out an air duct Deputies and federal marshals discovered the escape in progress on Oct 24 1994 Authorities said the escape plan was similar to ones Mitchell had used effectively in Canada and Arizona Mitchell the subject of national television profiles and a book was in Mississippi be cause he was captured attempt-bank jn Southaven ing to rob a on Feb 22 1994 Associated Press Officials mull fees at park GATLINBURG Elected officials from several communities near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park met to discuss ways of raising money for the most- visited national park other than charging entry 1 Park superintendent Karen Wade has floated the idea of charging admission to offset an increasing visitor load and con gressional budget cuts The city of Gatlinburg sponsored a picnic on Wednesday for local officials from around the region where many of the local economies are heavily dependent on the tourists lured to the area by thepark The local officials agreed to help but they want to stop short of charging admission to local residents For many of them the park is 1 the land the former homestead their parents Or grandparents grew up on ana they want to pay to visit it said some officials Other suggestions at the meeting were to charge for the use of picnic areas raise the fees for park campgrounds lobby Congress to keep campground fees in the park now going into the general treasury and use municipal funds to help pay for services that the park service provides Associated Press Lawsuit targets Thompson funds NASHVILLE John Jay Hooker filed a lawsuit in Davidson County Circuit Court Wednesday seeking to limit Sen Fred Thompson (R-Tenn) to accepting contributions for the 1996 election only from Tennessee voters like him to do is renounce these out-of-state contributions Renounce them Take money only from his own constituency in Tennessee and great lei can said Hooker A two-time Democratic nominee for governor Hooker also ran for the Senate last year Thompson who was traveling Thursday was not available for comment Hooker filed a similar federal lawsuit last year against former Democratic senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee and the man who defeated him in November Sen Bill Frist (R-Tenn) A federal judge ruled against Hooker but the case is on appeal to the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals Hooker said the difference in his lawsuit against Thompson is that it has oeen filed under the Tennessee Constitution rather than the US Constitution Associated Press Adult bookstore owner files suit LITTLE ROCK The owner of an adult bookstore has filed a lawsuit claiming that an ordinance regulating the location of sexually oriented businesses Violates his constitutional right to free speech In a suit filed Wednesday in V-S District Court Arlan Harris also said the city's refusal to let him operate his store at two proposed locations amounts to a condemnation of those brties and violates Little land-use plan se pi The ordinance prohibits sexually oriented businesses within 750 feet of schools a variety of residential zones public parks hospitals historic properties other sexually oriented businesses or houses of worship 1 The ordinance was ui US Dist Judge Stephen Reasoner in January 1993 but he said at die time that he believed the ordinance was enacted to suppress protected speech The Associated Press Mom-to-be admits slaying child 2 1 LITTLE ROCK A woman Who is 8 months pregnant pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday in the death of a 2-year-old child Brenda Kaye Cooley 24 of North Little Rock was sentenced to 30 years in prison Cooley who has one child is expected to give birth to her second at the Pulaski County jail before beginning her sentence at the state prison Cooley pleaded guilty in the 1993 death of Raylon Bailey the daughter of her boyfriend and his former girlfriend Deputy Prosecutor Terry Raney Ball said Cooley told police she was babysitting the Child just hours before child was found dead in bed Ball said Cooley admitted having swung the child causing her to hit her head against a shaking th wall and admitted child The Associated Press I i' Need for vessel delays ferry start HICKMAN Problems finding a suitable vessel have delayed the planned startup of fhe Hickman-Dorena ferry across the Mississippi River and officials now say the ferry wont start until next summer Fulton County Judge-Executive Harold Garrison attended a meeting last week in Missouri in which it was decided to order new equipment rather that buy used equipment Officials from both states will draw up specifications for the new barge and tugboat The Mississippi Comity (Mo) Port Authority the lead agency involved in reviving the ferry service will use a federal grant to fund construction of the forty- 1 The states of Missouri and Kentucky have agreed to donate $75000 each to subsidize the service until it can become a profitable venture Recently the port authority hired Larry Claghorn of Columbia Miss to run the operation i Claghorn has more than 25 years of maritime experience Cawley Greenville issue of bonds GREENVILLE The Green-Ville City Council has voted to ii issue $15 million in general obligation bonds to pay for water and sewer improvements to annexed areas i The bond issue will not result in a tax increase officials said Instead it will be paid off from revenues from a 135 percent that the sewer rate increase city passed this spring Councilman Charles Moore pointed out that the city will still have to complete the sewer and water project even if the tond issue is defeated as it was promise made during the 1980s annexation hearings However without selling bonds the project would take longer Associated Press College security moving in new way i BOONEVILLE Starting with the fall session at Northeast Mississippi Community LITTLE ROCK (AP) The Central Arkansas public transit system will challenge a state Court of Appeals order to reinstate a bus driver who was fired after testing positive for cocaine use Attorneys for the Central Arkansas Transit Authority will ask the appeals court to reconsider its ruling from last week and also will ask the state Supreme Court to review the case Failure to challenge the ruling could jeopardize CATA's drug policy and impair the ability to monitor and discharge employees attorney said Hal Kemp Last week the court reversed Pulaski County Chancellor Robin decision favoring the transit authority which requires employees returning to duty after a 14-day absence to take a drug test Ark search truck linked ALMA Ark (AP) Authorities conducted an air and ground search Thursday morning for a vehicle believed to be related to the disappearance of 6-year-old Morgan Nick of Ozark turned out to be Alma Police Chief Russell White said later Thursday The search was concentrated in eastern Crawford County he said Meanwhile police continued to ask an anonymous tipster onymous who provided information last prov nth to i month to call back need her to call White said can call in anonymously We just want to ask her a couple of White refused to say what information the caller provided in the first call Arkansas State Police Lt Dale Best said officers need more information from whoever called 911 from the 1700 block of Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith about 11:30 pm June 19 Morgan disappeared June 9 a baseball park from an Alma She was last seen emptying dirt from one of her shoes A dull- Former US senator Albert Gore Sr spent the night in the hospital and was also in better spirits Thursday morning Voles said The Vice youngest daughter 15-year-old Sarah also spent Pauline Gore uaiu also Mrs Gore Mrs Gore was brought to the hospital early Wednesday after suffering a heart attack on Independence Day at her home in Carthage about 50 miles east of Nashville She was recovering well from the mild heart attack but began complaining of a headache and weakness in her left tion A Circuit Court judge fune30 re jected that request June Judge Robert Lanier said the will cause no permanant damage to the bookstore He also said could recover the money it lost if that store or another one in the state succeeds in having the law declared unconstitutional Such a case is pending in fed- eral court in Knoxville The law sponsored by Sen Carol Rice (R-Clarksville) should curtail crime traffic and the spread of sexual diseases around bookstores and movie houses supporters say The law bans enclosed booths stalls and partitioned rooms used for viewing movies male graduates from Vanderbilt University Law School is a very strong lady for 1" "fl 82-year-old for any JfOllCC Allen said is really a very remarkable It also sets their hours of operation at 8 am to midnight Monday through Saturday A $500 fine awaits violators The District Attorney office in Memphis plans to prosecute defendants arrested by the police said one of its attorneys Jim Beasley an assistant district attorney general said Thursday that he expects Memphis police to enforce the law know of any reason I why the city he said a lerks at the bookstores refused to answer a questions They also declined to disclose the names of the owners of the stores mjtmmrns at-ir tv -Marffr-gmu.