Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 19

January 20 199 Birmingham Post-Herald Making a Difference D2 Deaths D3 Classified D4 Jg 'B a 3 Tuesday It SS GRAVE Update Addie burial site still a mystery Tm debating whether to keep this up (Addie Mae Collins) could be anywhere' Jim Stokes hired to exhume remains of the 14-year-old girl killed in the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing By Lewis Kamb Btrmfagham Feat-Herald Mortician Anthony Pace reached down into a rusty white casket Monday and fished out a dental plate from the watery grave below "Whoever this is had dentures" Pace called up to a crew of anxious laborers leaning an their shovels: "This gonna be the right one then" said a disappointed Jim Stokes manager of Superior Concrete and Vault Company He knew 14-year-old Addie Mae Chilins was far too yang for false teeth when she was put to rest somewhere in Greenwood Cemetery nearly 35 years ago: For the second time in a week Stokes and his 4 1 northeast of Adcfie Mae's marker However that gravesite revealed the remains of someone much -c older It's starting to get an my nerves" Stokes saidA as his crew shoveled clumps of red clay back into the grave 1th too rough wurttog fa this kind of weather going from spot to spot on someone's rec- But recollection is all anyone has to go ongiven Greenwood's wretched upkeep and poor record keeping over the years Omsirilman Aldrich Gust said "You can locate graves in the proximity of i where you think they are' Gum said "But mil you had a marker that was permanent ith too hard to tdl where anyaneh buried" tJ Please tn to GRAVE page D2 SHELBY COUNTY crew failed to locate the body of Adche Mae one of four little girls killed by the infamous KluKlux Klan bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1961 When Adffie Mae's family hired Stokes to exhume her body Jsa 12 a marble headstone bearing the girth name fadicated the task would be a simple one Instead crew uncovered an empty burial dot and a mystery that has put the family's plans to place Adcbe Mae in an Elmwood Cemetery mausoleum on hold Relying upon the memory of an aging ex-cemetery waiter Stokes and his crew returned to Cfreemvood Monday to probe a greveaite just ENVIRONMENT PlfejMlnlgJ fed3 fePdS'S Bowen sought in slaying of ex-wife 'Ti sip ik) ikd By William SiagletoaUI JjJ Birmingham Port-Herald A Westover man has been hufictedfl by a Sbeiby County grand jury far IncH tentfanal murder in the slaying of hir ex-wife I Conservationists pushing to protect pristine lands Dugger and Blue the roadless The AMOciatedPrea TALLADEGA NATIONAL FOREST With the long-term future of Alabama's roadless arras undecided conservationists are rdying on the US Forest Serviceh local land managers to prevent logging operations or road construction on the pristine lands: A 1 think they need to take a policy of protecting roadlea areas until their plan is redone" said biologist Ken Willis public lands coordinator far file Alabama Euvinn-mentalOoundL Environmentalist are optimistic because laws call far studies before fagging or road-building operation can occur Inside national forest areas Still Alabama has just two designated wilderness areas the Cheaha Wilderness along the crest of file Talladega Mountains andtheSipsey Wilderness in North where special managemeut Mountain Oakey Mountain Mountain are regtona of Talladega National Forest that conservationists would ike to keep JEFFERSON COUNTY Buckelew to speak: Jefferson County Cbmmisrian President Mary Buckelew will give her annual Stale cf the CbmtT addreson WedmSayBuckelew wfll rive the speech at a 7-JO am breakfast meeting tf The Birmingham Area Chamber cf Commerce at The Harbert Center 2019 Fourth Are North Mrs Bucfcdew to expected to review what's happened in the past yekr and preview what's to come far Jefferson County Johnson GADSDEN Mm stopped (ram Jumping off bridge: A Gadsden mao says it wa Hodls work" that he wai Ale to atop a deaf man from jumping off the Meighan Bridge Kenneth Walker 39 was walking to work when he uw the man standing on fifa concrete on the outside of the bridge's railing He was facing the highway about to jump off backward Walker reached the 26-year-oid man pulled him to safety and giddM him off the bridge: By then police had arrived An interpreter was called who bund out the man had apparently tweiww iltwpnnifcwf at thp giwip home where he lives Walker said be dickit know the man was deaf and mute until he read It in the newspaper Be said heh been walking to work ever since a friend wrecked his car If I had nre car I might not have seen him or I'd have been coining by later" be said FUUce LL Harley Ortchens said of Walker 1 wish we had 10000 mare like him in Gadsden" The Associated Press SHEFFIELD Mm charged In shooting death: A Muscle Shoals man on parole far a drug offense is accused of fatally shooting a Ryeardd woman Zoilia Demis "Don" Oliver 57 was charged Monday in the Sunday night death of Teresa Brackk Officials said the two were acquainted and apparently had argued earlier Sunday Police Chief Doug Aycock said Brackin was shot in the head and the chest apparently while she was bathing Investigators say Olivo contacted at least two people Sunday night to tdl them about the Sheffield police arrived at 1 home and found her body Muscle Shoals police took Oliver into custody Aycock nui uuver admitted bring at house Sunday night and said the two were struggling over a gun when it went off The Associated Press MOBILE 1 Dr Maumenee dies at age 84: Dr A Edward Maumenee of Mobile who became an internationally known opthalmoiogist has died at his home in Point Clear of natural causes He was 84 His wife Sue said Maumeneeh health had been failing far several weeks Maumenee became prominent through working attheWumerOphihalmolagical Institute at the Johns Hopkins Univenity School of Medicine in Baltimore He received a plaque of honor in the 1970s from President Richard Nixon far his work far preventing blindness Maumenee was born Mobile and graduated from the University of Alabama and its mefical school si the 1930s After serving In the Navy during World Warn he was chairman of the ophthalmokgical department at Stanford Medical School from 1948 to 1955 The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM Pfg up for adoption: Officials at BJC Animal Control Services say they hope someone will step in as a pig parent before they must auction the animaL The black-and-white pig was picked up far harassing dogs more than a week ago: Animal control workers said they've become attached to the pig but they must auction the animal by noon Wednesday because Animal Control Services is allowed to accept only does and cats "This is the cutest UtUe thing you've ever seen" worter freida Cargo said "You think How can a bog be cutef but shell just wag her tail like a dog We love her to death" Cargo said the pig eats afood and drinks a lot of water nal Control Services director Steve Smith said he doemt know if the pig was a pet or a farm animaL "We have her picture on the desk" Cargo said 1 would take her home with me if I had a dace" Associated Pros iMmT iFMfayandEUm WB pnpars Ms aseOm Tiny on be moMM 325-2344 and Jerry Lee Bowen 50 surrendered" this morning at 8J5 ajn at the Shelbru County Sheriffs Department accord tag to a press release from Sheriff James Jones "A careful and patient examination1 of all posdde suspects fafbrmatiofy leads statements and physical evidence toad to but om conclusion" Janes said "Jerry Bowen was responsible far1 the death of Brenda" 4 Brenda Breckenridge Bowen 44 appeared in January 1907 and her car1-was found abandoned on a togging about fire miles awgy Her body was later found on March 29 in the Coosa River wrapped to a green sheet and kggtag chains Judy Breckenridge: the victim's sis-' tertolaw laid the past year has been hard on the coupfa's two children jfr "TbeyVe never totally recovered be- cause nothing has ever been settled' shesakL attorney HX TSanqpt Ooo-will said his client told him he wss going to turn himself in today Janes said his officers hare tried far' a year to question Bowen about his ex- i wife's death but Bowen had refused fa apeak with them on the advicq of hip attorney Friday officers went to Bo- home and workplace in Vestsvfa Hills but missed him both place! "We felt like he had known we wera- looking far him We have reason to be-" Here he knows about the indictment Jones said Bowen could not be reached far comment However he was expected to 4 booked toto the Shelby County jail nd with the chance to be released cn band "We hare to see what the band is sq1 ex-wife was reported mfatf tog in January 1997 Shelby County deputies and church members from New life Aoembly of God fa Westover seardied nearby woods after her 1991 Honda Accord was discovered -later that day nearly 200 feet offj Shelby County 51 about 5 miles from her residence More than two months later her body wai found in the Cboaa Hirer near Chfidenburg Authorities said the bofy had been weighted down to keep it at the bottom of the river The Associated Press contributerP to this report IV9 Mi JI 3nS wA mu JZZ status is in effect Adjacent to file wilderness areas are pristine arras with the "roadless Dugir Mountain Oakey Mountain and Blue Mountain all in Calhoun and Cleburne counties They make up about one4enth of the Talladega National Forest's 200000 acres Please tare to FORESTS page D2 Above Ken WiBs a natural resource planner and biologist crosses a mountain stream on Oakey Mountain In Taladega National Forest Conservationists want to i Km mountain keep ttior roamess At left couple takes a break from traveting to enjoy the view of Dugger Mountain 'You have to paperwork something to death In order to save a little land for generations to come you have to do in-depth studies which should be common sense1 Francine Hutchinson member of the Alabama Environmental Council DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Christmas fund closes shy of $1 00000 goal Siegelman proposes tougher penalties V-s 'A i s- 4 A AC "jK art A -is aV- FUe photo LL Gov Don Siegelman wants lawmakers to stiffen penalties for those commit cowardly of domestic violence His proposal announced Monday In Huntsville Montgomery and Tuscaloosa Includes mandatory jal time for repeat offenders The Binningham Fost-Herald1! 1997 Goodfellowi campaign (dosed Monday with i total of $94723 just $5277 short of the $100000 goaL This marks the tint time in the program's 62-year hfatory that the goal was not reached but GoudfeDows still managed to hety everyone on file list this Christmas The Goodfellows fund is used to purchase and distribute Christmas gifts Goodfellows far thousands of underprivileged child- to the Birmingham arra High Scfixl Ro bel Goodfdknras't 3250 in memory of Dr and Mri1 AW Davidson 3200 from Mr! md Mre LK ti from Jim and i Carol Filler 1260 from Conge Jonei El1 40n from Jane Haight There is still time to help with 1997 Goodfellows campaipL Send your tax-deductible cfofao- tknstoc nr Goodfellows PH Box 2554 Birmingham Ala 35294 categories of crime such as assault harassment and stalking Under Sfagei-mank proposal domestic violence would be a crime category of its own which would allow for distinct sentencing provisions Among those provisions would be mandatory jail time far repeat a minimum of 48 homi In misdemeanor cases six months far low-level felonies and a year and a day in more Many abusers take violent habits from one relationship to mother said Harry Renfroe a domestfavUence invertigator far file Madison County district attorney's office Please tmte TOUGH page D2 TheAaaodaledPKa HUNTSVILLE LL Gov Don Sfa-geiman is asking file Legislature to enact tougher penalties far domestic violence snd make it easier for victims of dattag violence to get protection Siegelman held news conferences Monday in Huntsville Tuscaloosa and Montgomery to promote a package of bills he iipushing in the current legislative sesskn "Women and children continue to live with fear for their own lives in the very place where they should feel most safe Siegelman said "Increasing penalties far those who commit these cowardly acta of violence fa a poaitive step toward eofing the cycle of violence" Currently domestic violence chargfs fall under several different Among the fast HwaHm to this fund was $1000 from file United Parcel Service and UPS employees in the Alabama District Other donations were $20 from Mr and Mrs George to honor of grandchildren Frank Coley and Mary Margaret Hand $100 from the Vestavia Hills.