Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 1

Soup's on at Alecia's D1 Bo's journeys bring him to Legion Field Cl IS Birmingham HaNTrl HOWARD Final Edition WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 1986 25 Cent i Libyans can stay but Reagan issues warning Tourists con got insurance to cover trip losses due to terrorism Story page D2 Britain braces for terrorist attacks poll reveals anti-US sentiment are trying to build a Libya on our doorstep" Meanwhile yesterday The London Times reported that Col Moammar Khadafy appears to have lost sole control of the Libyan government after the US bombing raid last week and now seems to be sharing power with four other military officers five-man junta of military officers appears to be governing Libya in the aftermath of the American air raid a collective leadership which includes Col Khadafy as the nation's nominal leader but which has divested him of his exclusive control over the the newspaper said The report by Robert Fisk from the Libyan capital of Tripoli said that in the reported new administration Khadafy now performs the tasks of a figurehead rather than the sole political and military leader" Please tarn to LIBYA page A2 WASHINGTON President Reagan warned would-be terrorists last night that history is littered with wreckage of regimes who made the mistake of underestimating the will of the American people" In a tough-talking speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation Reagan also contended that the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua is to build a Libya on our doorstep" The president's speech was delivered a few hours after the administration disclosed that it had considered but decided against expelling Libyans from the United States in case the meaning of last events are still unclear to those who would terrorise and murder Americans let me explain once Reagan said believe me far from being belligerent or warlike clearing np misunderstanding on this point is precisely the way to avoid conflict not cause it foreign power should mistake disagreement for disunity or disputes for decadence Those who are tempted to do so should reflect on our nrtional character on our record of littering history with the wreckage of regimes who made the mistake of underestimating the will of the American people their love of freedom and their national valor" In his speech- Reagan linked resistance to Libyan-backed terrorism to his campaign for more aid to rebels seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government He said hope every member of Congress will reflect on the fact that the Sandinistas have been training supporting and directing as well as sheltering terrorists and in this sense they By AJSRoss Scrippa Howard Su Priariaro Kumiatr LONDON That this country has been thrust into the front ranks of the fight against international terrorism is quickly apparent at Heathrow airport Stern-faced police with Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine guns patrol the passenger terminal Every 10 minutes the public address system warns "No unattended baggage is to be left at any time All unattended baggage which is not claimed immediately will be removed" Cars left alone for more than a few minutes outside the terminals are towed away by yellow-dad police officers Flights can be delayed for hours Suspicious packages have resulted in the evacuation of passenger terminals several times since Thursday's discovery of a time bomb about to be loaded on an El A1 flight very touchy very jumpy" said a clerk at the airport information counter Please turn to BRITAIN page A2 Bond sale Missing girl is still talk of town two years later By Michelle Berman Pwt-Hfrald Reporter GREENVILLE Her picture stares out at you from a number of windows along Greenville's main street But it's been nearly two years since anyone in town has actually seen Sherry Lyiui Marler the pudgy 12-year-old nicknamed Farmer? But many remember that day in June when the air was heavy with the scent of honeysuckle and sweat as if it were yesterday when Sherry virtually disappeared from the south Alabama town of Greenville You see children just disappear off the streets of Greenville is the only disappearance from Greenville in my entire life" said Capt Thomas Tutchtone of the Greenville Police Department But Sherry hasn't been heard from since June 6 1914 Her story will be featured tonight on III: Have You Seen this which airs at 9 on NBC-TV going to be hard to said Sherry's stepfather Raymond Stringfellow they came down to film it it just about broke Sherry woke up with the sun on June 8 1984 when she heard her stepfather putting coffee on in the kitchen She had been sleeping on the living room couch having given up her bed to a visiting relative Stringfellow 82 farms about 400 acres of wheat corn soybeans and oats on several different plots of land in the area That day the combine needed fixing and he also bad to go into town to extend a farm loan at the bank Sherry came Into the kitchen and started pulling on her shoes Stringfellow said said to her are yon and she uid It was about a week after school let out for the summer and the beginning of every child's favorite season Sherry espe not cure for prisons By Frank Bruer Put-HeraM Mnolamnwy Bwni MONTGOMERY Alabama prisons have received a S0 million shot in the arm from a bond ule this week but officials uy the money will not be a permanent cure for problems facing the prisons A financial group headed by Goldman Sachs I Co was the successful bidder to buy the bonds at a net average interest rate of about 74 percent over the 20-year life of the bonds The bonds were sold by the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority as a means id funding facilities for an additional 3J250 inmates in state prison The funds will be used to complete one facility under construction in Bullock County build two new ones in Barbour County and add modular replacements at four existing prisons Corrections officials uid the projects will boost the prison capacity by 38 percent from 8974 to 12224 Of the bond money 853 million will go to the Bullock Country Correctional Facility 5 miles east of Union Springs More than 3123 million already has been spent on that minimum and maximum security prison that eventually will have capacity for 800 inmates Initially capacity will be 840 including a 140-bed psychiatric unit Two new prisons will be built in Barbour County A 15 million facility will be constructed I mile west of Clayton with initial capacity of 800 and later maximum population of 850 prisoners It will home both maximum and minimum security inmates and have support facilities for medical treatment education and recreation In the same county where Gov George Wallace was born another 20 million prison will be located near Clio That will house minimum medium and maximum security inmates Like the one near Clayton it initially will handle up to 600 prisoners with later capacity for 850 The other four projects will expand the capacities of three existing prisons and replace facilities for a temporary prison Those will include: A work release addition to Kilby Correctional Facility 10 miles east of Montgomery At a cost of 916 million it will house 200 prisoners A 82 million addition for medium and maximum security inmates at GK Fountain Trusty Facility 8 miles north of Atmore Increasing the capacity of Kilby Correctional Facility from 710 to 860 at a cost of 816 million including 811 million from the bond issue and 8500000 from Department of Corrections capital improvement funds Replacing temporary facilities at Staton Correctional Facility Annex near Speigner in Elmore County The bousing for the medium and maximum security prisoners will cost 89 million Of that 85 milium will come from the bond issue and the other 84 million fjym departmental capital improvement-winds Please turn to PRISONS page A2 Bjr Rka KrtM Raymond and Betty Stringfellow talk about search for daughter since she disappeared in Greenville two years ago suckle that grows like weeds" Greenville Camellia City" is a fairly quiet place Tutchtone who was in the police department when Stringfellow reported his stepdaughter missing about noon that day uid is not like Birmingham or any other big city If you wu to see somebody you know you'd find out quick who it Not only could no one recall seeing any specific strangers in town the day Sherry disappeared no one could recall seeing Sheny Tutchtone uid The FBI which investigated the case in the beginning has turned it over to the Greenville police said Ed Bazar supervisor of the Montgomery FBI office Please tars to SHERRY page A8 cially loved the summer because it gave her a chance to do what she liked best: wot on the farm was a tomboy and didn't like school Her pride and joy was that she could operate the Stringfellow uid any of my kids could be a farmer it would be Stringfellow has three children Lorn a previous marriage His first wife died in 1978 and he married Betty Marler 35 in 1979 He says he loves Sherry and her brother Larry 17 like his own Stringfellow uid he and Sherry worked on the combine briefly that morning then visited several fields to check on the crops The last time be saw his stepdaughter she was in the city parking lot behind Jernigan's Furniture Store was full of dust and didn't want to come inside the bank with he uid gave her a dollar for a Coke but when I came back she was Just about everyone in Greenville has a theory about what happened to Sherry If she were abducted by force Stringfellow uid the person "would have to have a good bold on her They'd have to wrastle her down because she wu rough She could knock a boy down easy" Most likely he believes Sherry may have gotten into a car with someone she knew Local authorities find it hard to believe the girl was kidnapped have a hard time believing that she wu snatched off the street by a perfect stranger in Police Chief Lfliizo Ingram uid With its large park in the center of town covered in flowers and the Latest animal mutilation gives Guntersville pause She pointed to a precise circle cut out of the chest and uid she found the heart sliced out and a small slab of meat missing over the ribs She uid the cut was clean much too clean for buzzards was just a little itty-bitty puddle of red she uid cupping the palm of her hand isn't a drop of blood on the ground 'cause they know how to do it like a doctor they get all the Missing loo were the cow's vagina and me small teat taher udder 7 Please turn to MUTILATION page A2 About six months ago residents uy three goats were found in a similar condition in Guntersville Early Monday morning after a stormy Sunday night Mrs Caswell walked out to her pasture in the southern part of the county to check on her cows After crossing a stream by tightroping a bridge composed of two swinging cables one for the hands and one for the feet Mrs Caswell uw a cow lying motionless with her week-old calf nudging its mother's limp head thought the buzzards have got Mrs Caswell uid yesterday never dreamed of anything like Mrs Caswell ia a deer-hunting cap Road Runner jacket and tennis shoes: stood pointing at the carcass GUNTERSVILLE After Kate Caswell discovered a mutilated cow in the pasture she tends its heart and sexual organs removed with surgical precision she wu so angry she picked up some rocks and hurled them at buzzards hovering above Then the spunky 88-year-old stopped and wondered what kind of person would do such a thing She isn't alone The discovery of the mutilated cow Monday done in a way often connected with devil worshipers is not the first such mutilation incident to have occurred in Marshall County in northern Alabama Almost one year 4ft farmer foundQs cow dead in his Afield with only the sexual organ and a tongue missing.