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1 rT 0 4 P' IJNSID i) anas-af jt! i' -I Imagine Ana lander Businas Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials C4 El 04 C2 C2 D3 uii Feces end pieces -Cl FeetumtMMM Cl Lotteries A2 Metro3teteDl fi i 1) rOOpW SpOftSlMMWtMMMMM B1 TeievisionC3 Homewood woman works decorator magic with lots of imagination Cl J- 1 WHNIHHNN Birminsliam Post-Herald THURSDAY October 271994 35 Cents Unemployment rates September 1994 report compartd to August Birmingham area 'mH0 Area rate hits a 25-year low in September 4- UtON PIJ St -A MJ A area in December and another Supercenter in Homewood's Wildwood Centre early next year The River-chase store will replace a Food World but will employ more people Campo an electronics chain that is opening stores in Wildwood and Birmingham's Eastwood Festival Centre also has reported problems with finding enough job applicants Normally when the chain opens a new store it can find enough job seekers within a few days But it recently had to continue its recruitment efforts here for three weeks Please tun to JOBLESS page AS interest among job seekers for highest paying jobs 1 typically those In manufacturing Bruno's Inc spokeswoman Catherine Byrd said managers at company supermarkets in the area reported seeing some tightening of the labor market is becoming more of a she said The managers are increasing recruitment efforts and interviewing more applicants to assure an adequate pod of potential employees for vacancies she said The challenge of finding employees is heightened for by the addition of two new stores The company will open a Supercenter in Riverchase By Patrick Rnpiukl Port-Herild Reporter The Birmingham unemployment rate fell in September to the lowest rate in 25 years SS percent The rate waa 48 percent for Birmingham in August The low rate appear tote good new for jobseekers but could be the start of problems for employ en vying for qualified workers Although no one is declaring a labor shortage a spot check of aeveral retailers found aome that were beefing up job-recruiting effort! to meet their anticipated labor needs At the same time there appean to be heightened 7te Birmingham area corns Jefferson Shelby Blount and St Cblr counties Note: Roues mtbctaeeaonalN actuated mtee Source: Alabama Department of Industrial Relatlono Staff graphic big TV deaM Grandson looks after cemetery WBMG parent firm is sold Tiracy AlbuoPost-Hcrsld By Nick Patterson Port-tkn Id Reporter On a rainy Saturday afternoon in mid-October the-Union Hill Cemetery is a dreary place But to Kenny Brown it is a home away from home Brown 41 of Fultondale is no uL A welder and runner with a ghoul A welder and runner with a folksy drawl Brown voluntarily has become caretaker to Union Hill Kenny Brown clears leavea from the road to Union HUI Cemetery Brown has been taking care of the old cemetery since 1882 of ives Cemetery for mare than a decade The graveyard near UR 280 on Hollywood Boulevard on a little sliver of Birmingham that is nestled between Homewood and Mountain Brook is the resting ilace of kin going back to Civil War The five-acre site holds the remains of Watkinses Rileys Byerses and Chamberses among others And while Union Hill holds Confederate and Spanisb-American War dead people are still being buried there as recently as last week in plots that were sold the headstones and foot-stones some intricately carved others humble and old-fashioned Brown can point out the sites where he has had to fight those who would desecrate this place fixed steps and built handrails He built and erected a new iron sign which sits at the eastern end of the little road that runs through the cemetery And he built gates at each end about two I got it to where it was years Your Town By David Ryaeckl Prt-Hnld Reporter The Retirement Systems of Alabama will be the major financial backer in a $7114 million deal struck by Investors yesterday to chase Park Communications Inc a media empire that owns Birmingham's WBMG-42 In another example of the $14 trillion pension monetary strength it will lend two Southern investors $5734 million to buy all nine Park television stations 22 radio stations and 10 newspapers A spokesman said it will not control any of the company's assets and is only providing money that will later be paid back with Interest Investors are being given what amounts to i mortgage with the media company's assets used is collateral looked like a good investment for the said spokesman Marc Reynolds the kind of thing we do" If approved by the Federal Communications Commission Investors Donald Tomlin a financial planner in Columbia SC and Gary Knapp a securities brokerage dealer in Lexington Ky will control the publicly traded company John Florid a Washington DC attorney who represents the prospective buyers said they became interested In Park shortly after it went up for sale In March Stockholder approval is expected Eighty-nine percent of the stock is committed to the deal since it is controlled by the estate of founder Roy Park who died in October 1993 Hoyle Broome vice president and general manager of WBMG referred calls about specifics of the deal to headquarters in Ithaca NY Please tan to WBMG page A9 1 An act of honesty draws the appreciation of the fofcs in the Marshall County town of Union Grove plflpg looking prrtty Brown said hen he brought his grand- Then mother to look at it "The look on her face when she saw it was worth every bit of it And when she died we buried her Now with rain dripping steadily He has chased off directly or toot lovers roasting mi on my granddaddy's and overgrown There was water draining across his grandfather's grave and trees grown up and headstones It broke his heart Brown said from the oiks Brown can point to iararied where his grandmother laid if just stop as 1 got a breath in crying as long 1 got i luxury cars parked there by valets He has witnessed drug drops and he has fought off a late-night mugger But Brown keeps coming back maybe because he undertook the cemetery's care a a promise to his grandmother A man who normally avoids my body this place look like thueveri Brown said Kennv Brown leans against one of hie favorite tombstones in the Union HiN Cemetery ae he recalls the history of the ok) graveyard and the reetoratione ho hae done to tt rigid next to her husband There! Union hearsay "Way Indians had it the railroad had it then the cemetery" Brown said Larry Kilgore whose grandmother is buried at Union Hill has heard those stories But he doesn't know whether they are true Please tan to PROMISE page All Living up to his promise required working in the cemetery every day before work and all day Saturdays and Sundays He had about five helpers but Brown know much about cemetery repair when teitarted Brown cut down trees trimmed hedges and mowed grass He replaced headstones and landscaped with railroad crossties He diverted rainwater that would puddle on top figure out how to do stuff get around old people and ask them how to do stuff For Instance you can fix a headstone with Bando be said asked him to take her to visit her graveiite Brown say no 1 But when they arrived they found a mesa The cemetery was "I read a lot and I would read Parrish police hope that curfew will curtail crime Skepticism greets new peace plan standing The town By Steve Joynt Poet-Herald Reporter Thomas said has to protect the motorists but it also has toprotec protect those throwing the rocks Human Society fears for cats and dogs on Halowaan Story page AID On Halloween night in the small Walker County town of Parrish the There have been a fur amount of AMtUrtPm JERUSALEM Next summer Natan Barton becomes a soldier The peace with Jordan could make his three yean in uniform easier windows broken over the last couple of months the mayor said and everyone ha taken that a a warning or any bewitching hour will come early By 9 pm the police will make sure all the rombies and monsters are off the streets "If I have to 111 haul out a school bus and fill it up with violators and drive them to the county Jail" Parrish Police Chief Jim Hanaley said on much Crimea other big city Handley aid This just and toilet ana But the fresh-faced youth and his schoolmates studying the text of the Israel-Jordan agreement in their 12th-grade class were wary i far they said peace yesterday So far they said peace i Four dan from now the entire Parrish police force of tow officers eggs per though 'The mischief gamut "Rocks and the said "People throw them at cars from both sides of the and bust out the windows You'd be Is just paper while terrorists stalking their streets are real Getting young Israelis to believe in peace is not easy Military serv Willi be out enforcing a Halloween night curfew passed earlier this issguw vasiwwi that this Halloween night wa going to be especially bad "People are arming he ala "I want somebody shooting a 13-year-old because he The curfew Handley said allows the police to round up the offenders before they have a chance to (rick up the first rock People out for legitimate reasons shouldn't have a problem Handley aid not going tojump on every little bitty tiling Thomas aid "And we felt uke this give plenty of time for the little fellows to go oat and do their thing IsraeV students In Jerusalem's Gbnnasia Ivrit High School study the text of the Israel-Jordan peaca treaty Most of these students wM Join the miltary after school schools to let students watch yes- Palestinian school children also ice' is a rite of passage Peace on the other hand has always been a driving along and the next thing you'd know got a brick in 1992 May We had a i your lap In 1992 Mayor Marcel Thomas aid "We had a near riot on the west month by the Parrish town council Violators could be fined a much a $500 and could be sentenced to a much a six months in jail The curfew wa in reaction to problems this town of lea than 2000 has experienced the last several years on Allhallows Eve "I'd say for our sixe got a terday's signing on television vague elusive concept The Education Ministry aware side of town Some guy had Ms window broken and he stopped and started shooting at some of the kids were skeptical yesterday worried that the Israell-Jordanlan deal would leave them in the cold Please tn to PLAN page A9 Schools with no televisions had to let classes out early that peace must not Just be signed 1 to the public ordered all 4 4 i 7.