St. Lucie News Tribune from Fort Pierce, Florida • 5

The Tribune Monday May 1 8 1 998 A5 In The News My line Eatery longtime customer who prefers turtle and rattlesnake has spent days listing and researching the collection which he predicted could net more than $1 million by the time the last dusty relic is sold Mrs Allen plans to stay in the area after the auction is over hoping to find several acres on which to retire She is preparing for one last bluegrass-accompanied fat-fried tea-sweetened farewell on May 30 the day before closing "They're going to remember the fun and the feel which is different" Mrs Allen said welling up at the memories And she said going to remember my husband who never met a times a week and drive to Lake Okeechobee to catch Mrs Allen said "He said we open our own catfish place and you can eat all you Crowds clamored for plates of catfish and fried green tomatoes Hired hunters searched the swamps for delicacies rounding up snakes rabbit and quail Carl would stalk the gators himself before the state regulated them And then the armadillo "I know why he started that but I think there was a gov-emor at the time who loved' Mrs Allen said "He was just searching for something unusual because we are unusual" Chiles was so fond of the sig nature catfish and swamp cabbage that he took Carl Allen to Miami during the 1972 Democratic National Convention to throw a fish fry for nearly 300 people "He was a real Chiles said go over to eat at the cafe and he would hardly let me eat because he was talking so Soon customers will have a shot at the peculiar art when it goes on sale An auction of the 7000-plus items that line the walls and ceilings is set for July 7-9 Collectors are expected from across the United States hoping to take home one of the hidden treasures that has been bolted to a paneled wall for decades Auctioneer Randy Kincaid a ning plots in between the music 5 like a soap Hill said "If you listen on day one you better ask your friend what talking Hill tries to get listeners involved in the show Listeners have several chances to get their voice on the air with shout-outs another term for saying to your friends on the air Hill even i lets listeners decide what will happen on the show For example late one weekday Hill got frustrated with 18-year old Reginald Mitchell the show's intern Earlier the Port St Lucie High School student had accidentally disconnected a few callers "Should we keep him or kill Hill asks on the air choosing on the fly to take the first 10 callers to decide Reggie's fate Hill is joined by his friend Kevin Howard who works in radio advertising and Florida band member Lou Witherspoon who stopped by to promote the his first full-length CD The three phone lines immediately clog with callers The first two support Reggie "Cause the one young lady says But on the third call Reggie's luck runs out "Kill a young man says Hill King Reggie and Lou shout in unison leaning back into their chairs Wait the young man says He was just kidding "Give the brother a the caller says Hill really going to kick Reggie off the show But callers taking any chances Howard says something about the people out there being "full of of Hill says done re-wrote the book of With six "keep votes firmly cast Hill gets back to placing another song from the Florida Boyz and Reggie relaxes Hill says his primary goal is to keep the listeners amused "If they can just smile for five minutes I did my Hill said "I entertained that Cancer Rrom A1 impressive when the drug is giy-en at earlier stages of the disease before it has moved beyond tfie breast and lymph nodes "There is absolutely no ques-of I tion that there will be a lot of use of this drug once it's said Dr Larry Norton of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City one of the doctors who tested it Herceptin is made by Genen-tech Inc which financed two studies presented at the conference by Slamon and Dr Melody Cobleigh of Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center in Chicago Slamon recommended that breast cancer patients ask their doctors to check them for HER-2 since this is not routinely done Although the drug will not be routinely available until it wins Food and Drug Administration approval small amounts are distributed through a lottery run by the National Cancer Institute Those interested in entering the lottery for Herceptin can obtain information by calling the National Cancer Institute at 800-4 -CANCER before While in 1996 the South experienced a 11 percent rise in the total of the seven crimes this time each region saw an overall decline The Northeast where crime soared the most in the late 1980s saw the biggest drop 6 percent The South was down 4 percent and the Midwest and West dropped 3 percent each Cities of all sizes suburbs and rural areas reported overall drops Cities of 250000 to 1 million people reported a 5 percent drop Suburban counties were down 3 percent rural counties 1 percent The smallest urban drop was 2 percent in smaller towns under 10000 population Aside from a few spots where often-erratic rape figures rose the only noticeable increases were a 1 percent hike in violent crime in rural areas led by a 6 percent increase in robbery There also was a 4 percent surge in auto theft in rural areas "Rural areas are lagging because they are the last front in the 1980s crime wave that started with crack in the big cities and put guns in the bands of kids in gangs and outside said professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh Since October four school- nrom A1 Miami for one last meal "We wanted to eat here once more before it said Ann Reed of Cocoa Beach finishing off a plate of catfish and beans "Their fried green tomatoes are what draws Carl and Jewell Allen have fried up everything from rabbit to quail to turtle at all brought in by hunters The Allens started with a bait-and-tackle shop on the property But epicurean fancies led her husband in a new direction "I loved to eat catfish three Crime From A1 crime was reversed by the arrival of crack cocaine Reno said With crack came gangs that recruited teens and armed them with guns prompting other kids to arm themselves in defense or emulation The next problems could come from cyberspace or abroad Reno said "The gun may become obsolete as people learn how to hack through and accomplish thefts and scams through the she said "International crime is going to be more on our radar screen than ever before as people become more Reno and other experts credited a wide range of reasons: Aging of the 76 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1962 out of their crime-prone years reduction in crack-based violence community policing and aggressive police action to remove guns from the streets stiffer prison sentences greater community involvement with juveniles and broader prevention efforts for kids at risk of being lured into lives of crime The good news on crime appeared to reach even farther into every sector and region than repetitions if needed BED3aBED8BED8BEDS related shootings in small towns Edinboro Pa Jonesboro Ark West Paducah Ky and Pearl Miss have left 11 dead and 25 wounded In each case at least one teenager was charged "Many small towns especially in the southern areas are playing catch-up with the big said professor Jack Levin director of the Program for the Study of Violence at Northeastern University in Boston "These small towns thought they were immune from teenage violence and pre- pare for the A major factor in the larger big city decline in murder was aggressive police action to take guns away from kids and off the streets Blumstein said He cited stop-and-frisk programs in New York City gun-surrender bounties in Charleston SC and "various coordinated efforts by law enforcement and social service agencies to let gangs know violence be tolerated as in Boston and other Levin added that "in the past five years inner-city neighborhoods have made a concerted successful effort to address crime particularly juvenile 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working for the Christian-format WCNO 899 FM in Palm City There's more to WJFP than Hill and the afternoon slot The Kassises said they started WJFP because there was a gap in programming for the area's black community Depending on the day and time listeners might hear gospel rap news from Haiti love songs this top 40 songs or a mix of the latest dance music playing the station's phones are usually ringing with requests for information music or just an opportunity to comment on the show tried having a phone answering service from the phone Ray Kassis said as two phones rang simultaneously blew it He said that 31000 people listen to Fort Pierce signal alone Joe was a large part of that success After he left Ray Kassis thought of Hill who worked with him in radio years ago "(Hill) is about as unpredictable as any radio announcer can he said Hill a tall heavy-set 34-year-old man with sleepy Gregory Hines-type eyes sit still even though sitting most of the day His hands are usually turning a microphone on or off loading a disc or lining up promos or music on the WJFPs computer Between adjustments talking to studio guests or planning the next on-air "bit? of comedy "Literally what watching is flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Hill said "This is how radio used to These days nearly all large radio stations rely on computers The music is scripted and requests are played usually only if they coincide with already scheduled to play Hill said This ties the hands of DJs who have little say in played Instead independent consultants pick the songs often following other leads As a result many radio stations all over the country sound alike "I want to ever work for a corporate radio station -said Hill spent most of his career doing just that computer can also run the station for hours But Hill and the other DJs try to avoid tising it for that purpose Most of (he time it just takes care of playing promos from businesses that financially support the station It takes about $12000 a 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