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I i Birmingham Post-IIerald November 11 Metro State 1 Classified D3 aUiV 1 1 fZ'Z itz 4if 3 Tuesday fc It-T Ba Update SCHOOLS i 0 1JQ I Tennessean city program on the lunch program fa 199946 and nearly $LS million in 1996-97 PmWwiM bvlnriwi nnyHanM gfrytoita hring fed free and too many workers an staffs Fulton said Fulton was able to bring the ovenpenfiog un- der control by fids spring Under Fulton's management the program came into compliance with federal regulations and is scheduled to show a profit of 6683436 for the 1198 fiscal yen By Elizabeth Wine Hrminghui Pori-Henid The Birmingham school board voted to hire an ndminiatratflr to take over the (Md Nutrition Program flrom the state Department of Education official who got it back on its feet after a rocky few years June Bivens Barrett currently director of child nutrition far file Hamilton County Toil school system wffl become the new director of the Child MILITARY Weekend warriors gas up aircraft out of Chnrioston SAL got 1 Birmingham-baaed KC-135 FAIRFIELD Fairfield restaurant rotated: fui anned man robbed a fast-food 1 restaurant ta Fairfield early this mailing Police said about H5 sin the man walked into the Mis Famous Recipe Chicken estaurant at S710 Ave in aRhfidd (the workei) luutfaought maybe he was there to get something to eat" said Fairfield Police Officer Thomas Martin The 'fftan pulled a gun an a female ggrter entered her to get money -f'jwut of the safe and then walked out nof the restaurant with mare than GoL000 Martin said "He walked calmly across the street and -U(Usappeared behind the Amoco Martin said wit Lewis Kamb BIRMINGHAM I Qrrf Blue started at store: A mall fire started at a Birmingham garage this morning Firefighters totitaguished the small blaze Which began about SJ5 un at the Wholesale Transmiadans Service at 435 Unhwfity Blvd Fire Engine OxNa 2 Chief James Lifter said "mostly supplies were damaged There was not that much structural Traffic on Interstate (5 South Just east of the one-floor tan garage slowed as pommuten watched white smoke billow from the building Lewis Kamb HUSISVSIE 2 plants fined for watte violations: SO Systems ho has been fined more than $50000 for violating hazardous 'waste laws at several of the plants in Huntsville and Lacey's Spring The Alabama Department of Environmental Management cited SO an lji 7mh I wmifaffairing company for 17 violations from an at the plants this spring The dotations ranged firam the "Jack of a working telephone in a pontainer storage area to spills at 1 hazardous-waste storage area and improper transfer of hazardous wastes ADEM fined JW the company $33000 on Oct 21 far the infractions at the Lacey Spring plant and (20000 on OcL 31 tor Qie other violations: S(3 President Gene Sapp 1 acknowledged that some ADEM regulations were broken IniS-H- Associated Press TIRE PUNTS Uhiroyal plans to move tire produotion to Alabama: In response to a strike at Uniroyal Goodrich pint in Indiana tire manufacturing officials say they wifl move two tire production lines 1 to Alabama Production of the BFGoodrichTA light truck tires fill be moved to plsnts in Opelika cr TasctlooH or both said Athene -j Kiris a Uniroyal Goodrich i She said there was Mbb timetable yet in place for the move Ms Karis said Alabama has rpwre than 3000 Uniroyal Goodrich employee! id Associated Press 'foEATH ROW Supreme Court review Aba yiNNifOR IVTIHw I BNVi All from an Alabama death row inmate convicted to the 1M1 IMutfer Marf killings wont be reviewed by the US Supreme Qourl The high court refused without comment Monday to review William Bushl Capital murder conviction Btafa Swas one of two men convicted the fatal shooting of Montgomery convenience store -ffclerk Larry Dondngues on July 26 11ML Bush has been convicted of the crime and sentenced to death "fairee times Hbflrfi two 'lcbnvictions were overturned by Appeals courts But Ms last onvictkn in INI passed muster jCwfth the Alabama Supreme Chart and then went to the federal courts for review Associated Press cr COMING Wednesday LiU Jjm UUalBk VmA PgBMg MuCIN repOTT6r TM prywil leeks In with 14 Gov Don 't I egeiman whole preparing to iJamealnthe Rnd out what Segeiman whole pn MfangeOovFob race Fkv I egeiman £wednm thinks the Issues are paper iPMhy and Brine They can be ial32MM4and to take over Nutrition Program In Hamilton County she is In charge of the nutrition of 82 schools wifii 45)00 students 1 think I can mare it (the program) forward by cm the lunchroom to the Integrating from damroom" Mi Barrett laid Monday Ms Barrett will take over a program pulled back into fiscal shape by Perry rultoo its director since Jan When Pulton took over the troubled program It was near bankruptcy The system of gas from 1 Beth Manning search ths sklss for a mititary said get cautious and obviously theret little bight You hare to have that to make yourself Ms Manning one of 173 members of the 117th Refueling Whig The 117th is one of numerous National Guard and Reserve until that are celebrating Veteran Day Veteran Day particularly sweet for the 117th which atiUna 83 Vietnam veteran on its current membership rolls said Mj Bo Pittman a public affairs office Up until about five years agrvthe 117th was an reconnaissance unit flying F-4 jets configured to photograph terrain features and enemy bdlitiea fa 1993 the unit received a new mbston and nine of the luge KC-135 jets The KC-135e were made by Boring and are bout the aame rise a Boring 707 They are capable of carrying about 200JM0 pounds or Aid Since 1993 members of the 117th have been to the Middle End Europe and other parti of the world refueting planes from all services "When we were flying the F-to we were always practicing to go to wu With the tankers we are flying red i I mtasions every Pittman aid Two of the llTtha tankers were involved to one of those real missions Saturday morning Hng off from Birmingham on a four-hour flight to refuel two large planet from Air Force bases In South Carolina and Nefararta Ms Manning was one of two boom operators an the tanker piloted by Capt Scott Johnson pilot for Untied Pared Service from Louisville Ky The copilot was Capt Roger Wood and the navigator wu 1st LL Mike Warren Staff Sgt Jerry Davia an employee of Goodyew in Gadsden was an board to asfifi Ms Manhg' who waa ody on only her second mission since giving birth to her son Luke 3 While aware of the dangers Davb said he not nervous when he towers the boom can't ever remember bring nervous during refueling The Air Force training they give you A C-141b transport a A more eagerly awaited board decision did not take place Monday The board tabled a controller-fill yeamund school calendar lotil new achool Superintendent Jafaony Brown officially takes over Jan 13 and andedde whether he tmik the system needs the new calendar Brown who signed a contract as the new superintendent tiib weekend finishing up hb tenure at the school system in the Du lls area 5 On fe4a V3- COURTS Trial for defense HP- in Chung slaying casg A vr By Jim Day BirmhirtaBPoatrBenU The Temessee trial of the man accused of be 1994 killing of a Vefiavia Hills High School student has been postponed while a pfidic defender leeks more information bom a wttnew who says a aecand suspect told him he killed the boy Robert Lawrence Simpkins Jr waa scheduled ofmnntarta a Vesta- (tissppeaied aftor'he leftior rind Jwl 211994 Two months later a tmfeey rural hunter found ChmgY body in the woods to i Humphreys County Tcobl about 50 miles west of Nashville throfi had bea slashed (faee-tione remain about bow and why be found hb way to tix remote spot hundreds of miles from home On Monday Mnpkiifi trial was postponed until February because' attorneys want to spend more time with a witness Stony Holly of Birmingham who has told tavatigdon that a second man told him he killed Chung according to George Sexton the Humphreys Oondy assistant dfirin attorney who is oroaecutinE the case LL Gntey of the Vefiavia Hflb Police Department said Holly had told invefiigaton in Jmuary 1996 that Jamie Cboley of Westmoreland Tena may have been involved ta Chungt slaying almost positive there waa more than oneperam invulved' Sexton said attorney Bob Stovall was unavafi-able to comment Monday on why he needed more time to question a witness who emerged etiriy last year version of events ta which he also said Cooley hb former roommate had killed Chung Prosecutors have not charged Cooley however ating a lack of 'Cooiey to testify i investigator County Sheriffs Deputes still holdout hope that against Ooaby after Shn- Please tan ta TRIAU page D3 TELEVISION Another manager at WBMG-42 leaves is' 4S k-f 9j Vh IJJif By Patrick RupiasU Binnkfiham PoatfiersU jnpr xfrr For file third time tills year a top manager at station fueling speculation WBMG-41 hM left tiie that a major shaken) might be fa the worta at the Birmingham televmnn stating WBSG'i local news pragrammfaf has trilled fa viewenhip ratings againt ttotbee Birmingham competitors WBRC- 6 WVTM-13 and WBMA-3340 The new general manager Eric Land has said one of his top priorities attracting more viewed the station newa broadcasts Reached at hb home Monday night Land confirmed that Join Williams the station production manager left the station Monday But be said Winiann1 ivyrtnre ad not mean other Denoted changes were forthcoming After fix months Oris Is Just the normal cone-Mww of changes that occurr said Land who bm-wm the fifikn president and general mni-ger ta March replacing Hoyle Broome Jr who ran the station for 17 yean Land said the fiation and its new owner Memk General Inc have completed an exhaustive research project and are now studying the dafaTo ee what (Unction of the station wibe taking was re4d- 1 change ft happen In the normal courae of any burinera? he saii fa to Broome ana Wilhun tiw th- tkn ules manager Mary Maynard left fab summer Land laid me left because she wanted to i General uaiy At the time the CBS affiliate In Jan-General executives laid Staff Sgts Jsrry Davis foreground and City-based Air Guard planes keep other aircraft flying BoblMcjFlaUnld aircraft be refusing Staff SgL JW Massey inspects Ilia tal of one of the tankers of the 117th Ground Grows Impact and test the aircraft before eaoh fight ta so extensive that you feel comfortable you can do your Davb said There are tunes at night when the weather bad and maybe you have a marginal receiver pilot when it can get tough" On Saturday Johnson and Wood took the jet np to shout ttjno feet md flew to a point over Sumter SXL near Cbiumbia where crew mem-ben watched as the other tanker refueled a C-141B Then Warren the navigator set the plane an a new course that took the tanker over La-Grange Ga-en route to a rendezvous over Talladega with the RC-135 bum Nebraska Plewe twite GUARD page D3 ByBob Johnsoa Blmhighsin Pori-Herrid Beth Morning sells mattresses at a family-owned businewln Cullman during the week (hi weekends she has a parttime Job out of this world Staff SgL Manning refuels jets for the 117th AirRefuriim ling Wing of the Alabama Air National Guard pretty ezdting wart considering about five miles high and traveling faster than 300 mph when she pumps jet fuel from a KC-135 tanker Into another plane so close she can almafi reach out and touch it Lying on her stomach looking out a large window in the in the rear of the KC-135 Ms Manning carfiully towers the boom ban her plane to an Input valve on top of an RC-135 jet 33 feet away A mistake and she could damage a multimilUon-dollar airplane or worse I always dangerous when two airplanes re flying in such dose proximity Mi Manning Staff SgL Bath Manning takas her post at a K-135's refueting boom She and another operator took turns Saturday they wanted the station to take a (fifferent focus Sadr 'A-.