The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 7

Monday October 171988 Macon gdtRrapI) jiJ News LocaiState Bill IS Boyd On hunger Just in case it slipped past you Sunday was "World ood I see any street banners saying so Neither did I see any benefit 'music concerts on television to raise money happening America? Do we spend millions of dollars buying a record called "We Are the even as people are starving to death? Escapee from Macon prison captured 2 hours after break By Oby Brown Macon Telegraph and Newt An inmate at Central Correc tional Institution who escaped late Sunday morning was cap tured about two hours later John Charles ordham was returning to his cell from a prison yard when he bolted and scaled a 12 foot fence climbed through two strands of razor wire then cleared another 14 foot fence Warden Truett Goodwin said just took off and cut a to the fences the warden said Guards in towers yelled to ordham to stop and they fired shots from their posts Goodwin said But the 33 year old DeKalb County resident made it to the woods behind the prison suffer ing serious cuts in the process the warden said Prison staffers set out after ordham with bloodhounds Offi cials called for assistance from the Bibb County Office and the Georgia State Patrol and both agencies responded quickly Goodwin said The State Patrol even made arrangements for use of a helicopter Goodwin said but (See ESCAPEE page 2B) Macon TV station investigating porn cut in during World Series Macon Telegraph and News When WMGT broadcast of the World Series Saturday night was interrupted by flashes of a graphic steamy sex scene shocked and angry viewers calk'd the Macon station When they get through nearly two dozen people called the Macon Telegraph and News Some of the protesters said the scene played for 20 to 30 seconds showing a naked man and woman having sex "It lasted long one viewer said of what she called a disruption of the second inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers Oakland Athletics game As the scene flashed baseball voices could be heard in the background The scene apparently was a clip from a black and white pornographic movie but the station would make no such confirmations late Saturday Channel 41 officials are still investigating the inci dent But late Saturday a technician was suspended pending further inquiry into the evening's programming diversion station manager LA Sturdivant said A preliminary investigation showed that a switcher technician on duty turned on a signal from a Band satellite onto the air replacing the normal KU band NBC broadcast Sturdivant said The broadcast of the illicit programming lasted three to five seconds Sturdivant said disputing what a majority of callers said He said he didn't know the name of the film shown "It's being treated as a serious matter" he said The interruption apparently occurred only in the (See PORN page 2B) slopped on 4 Landfill deal caught in quagmire of suit involving soured financing Atlanta giving trash hard look Interstate he drove 18 years above the I Brooks she hunger She's a dietician at Hunt Specialty School in Macon She grow up in wealth but she said she never was in danger of starving either Kim is 29 now and the mother of A' Well Kim West of Macon about to let this day pass without saying and doing something for hungry Americans I told her that I would help spread the word After all my own daddy an Oklahoma sharecropper feared droughts and starvation more than anything else on the face of this earth I know that any of our family starved to death before or after his death in 1945 Oh sure I wore shoes with soles so thin that I stepped on a dime if had one and tell you whether it was heads or tails Yes I wore clothes that make it to the rack in the Goodwill store today And yes I certainly ate a lot of gravy and biscuits But we starve However I want to get back to Kim West and her thoughts on energy a relatively new process that i complex and expensive Such facilities burn waste creating in th process a form of energy that can be sold is going to be our first look at th' Courtney said in a recent interview we can identify a feasible process we ma look into a further Amons the other disoosal techniques under study are compacting and shredding Court nvy naiu there is a consensus among omciais mi existing landfills are filling up and space new facilities is getting more difficult to com by but there are no firm figures on ho much waste is generated in the area Cou (See TRASH page 2B) that new venture capital must now be according to docu ments filed by auconniere and Middle Georgia Waste The dispute is only the latest entanglement that has snared au conniere and Middle Georgia plans to export trash to the midstate Other set backs include: On Sept 28 an administrative law judge in Atlanta ruled that a solid waste permit granted to Middle Georgia Waste for the proposed Macon County dump was invalid because of a state law banning landfills within three miles of a historic site Although the administrative rul ing is not legally binding it is the first time a state official has said that the law applies to the pro posed Macon County landfill which lies 2'2 miles from lhe Andersonville National Historic Site And on Oct 4 the Wilcox County Commission voted to stop negotiations with Middle Georgia Waste on a proposed commercial landfill for that county Avon Buice an attorney hired by au (See QUAGMIRE page 2B) The Associated Press ATLANTA With space for potential landfills diminishing in heavily populated metropolitan Atlanta officials are looking at the political and financial costs of alternative waste disposal methods including a system that would convert waste into energy The Atlanta Regional Commission is about to begin a study of waste disposal systems that should produce a package of recommen dations by ebruary said Dick Courtney chief of land use and public facilities planning division Though the study to focus on Atlanta and ulton and Cobb counties will consider numerous alternatives Courtney said special attention will be given to recycling waste to chronology of woes Here is a chronology of Middle Georgia Waste's landfill woes: June 19 1987: Middle Georgia Waste incorpo rates Officers consist of two daughters' and a son in law of Ronald auconniere a Perry busi nessman whose commercial landfills in Bibb and Sumter counties had several code violations July 21 1987: Macon County commissioners sign a contract with Middle Georgia Waste to ship baled garbage into abandoned mines in the county Under the 10 year contract Macon County would receive 25 cents a ton for the garbage if MGW secured a state permit by July 21 1988 September 1987: auconniere negotiates with ulton County and Jacksonville la officials to ship their excess garbage to Macon County Jacksonville officials express interest but they say MGW must obtain a permit before the deal can be closed November 23 1987: Middle Georgia Waste signs an agreement with two Georgia businessmen Herman Klein Jr and Karl Stehr to finance the landfill operation MGW gets a $300000 loan along with a promise to provide up to $47 million in venture capital Under the agreement MGW (See WOES page 2B) Angry family pickets city to oust chief By Stuart Leavenworth and Eric Velasco Macon Telegraph and News PERRY When Ronald aucon niere and his family decided they wanted to put a huge commercial landfill in Macon County to take trash from the Atlanta area they turned to two well heeled Georgia businessmen to help finance the venture But according to court docu ments the deal has apparently soured The two businessmen say they want to end the financial partner ship and they are now suing auconniere and two Perry based companies auconniere Industries Inc and Middle Georgia Waste Inc the landfill company his daughters own In a complex arrangement Per ry businessman Herman Klein Jr and Atlanta entrepreneur Karl Stehr agreed last November to finance the project They prom ised to provide auconniere and his family owned Middle Georgia Waste up to $47 million in loans rnz1 finnnoino in flvrhonoo fnr Ci The Associated Press 1 ATLANTA About 100 demonstrators gathered share of the profits according to a outside Pretrial Detention Center Sunday to pact signed by Klein Stehr and protest what they said was the refusal of the city to let daughter Jeanne a jailed Catholic priest celebrate Mass I Moyer The priest Rev Norman Weslin Colorado Springs I a awsuit jiecj recently in Colo was one of more than 300 persons arrested Oct 4 I Houston county superior Court at three Atlanta abortion clinics on the first day of a I ejn and gtehr charge that au week of protests I conniere and Middle Georgia The protest was in the form of an ecumenical church I Waste did not pay back an initial service led by Catholic priests and Protestant ministers 1 j3000qq Oan Wjth interest by July representing a variety of denominations I as speCjfje(j jn a separate There was no visible police presence I agreement signed in December The ministers some of whom were jailed during the I auconniere and Middle Geor demonstrations or a similar series of demonstrations I waste have countered that sit ins last summer said the alleged refusal was a I Klejn and stehr djd not live up t0 serious breach of freedom of religion I their part of the bargain so the Norman said in a written statement read to the I company was not required to meet group that he has been in solitary confinement since he I deadjne tried to celebrate Mass for prisoners Oct 11 I He rejected a city argument that he is free to leave I A May attempt by Klein and jail at any time I Stehr to pull out of the deal "I cannot in good conscience pay a bail bond for I caused great harm to Middle attempting to save a life If I am released on my I Georgja Waste Inc due to the fact (See MASS page 2B) Kim West two children And she sees something very disturbing something up close and very real that most people never see: honest to goodness hungry children are children right here in Macon Ga who get their only good meals in this she said gesturing to the lunchroom where 350 children had just finished lunch If like that here My mind flashed back to those TV ads that show masses of starving people do I know about world she said repeating my Elisa oster question what I read about it never been out of this country but I know there are places where mothers see four or five of their children starve to death before they grow up But hunger right here too and where I want to Actually she already has All last week she conducted a food drive and even though many of the families that send children to Hunt are poor donated enough food to prepare perhaps 150 meals She says she will continue the drive for a few more days and then deliver all of the food to Mulberry Street United Methodist Church which operates one of only two places in town where street people can get a hot meal But the past week may have been more of an education for the students at Hunt Specialty School than anyone expected On riday Kim made an appearance in each classroom just before lunch She explained the menu for that day explained hunger and how widespread it is" she said I told them that thev would be eating Third World country food and 1 associated press told them millions of people in the nrioct world would be very thankful to Demonstrators pray ior jail priest have what they were going to have i i for lunch rice blackeyed peas 1OO protest city denial baked sweet potatoes But how many of them dumped of jailed priest Mass ineir nays intu inc mot gatuav can they saw? was so proud of Kim said a single one grumbled or fussed And they ate the She voiced one other hope these children grow up maybe remember what hunger is and remember to help those who are But then Kim showed me a reminder that help for hungry people wait She handed me a clipping from the Aug 8 issue of Newsweek I looked at the hungry faces and a quote jumped out at me: lucky My husband died Now we can get Social The woman who said that wasn't starving to death in Africa She was starving to death right here in this country I want you to think about that while I remind you that Kim food drive will last through this week By Dan Maley Macon Telegraph and News A family of pickets paced the sidewalk in front of Macon City Hall Sunday afternoon challenging Po lice Chief Jim qualifications for his job after reports that he was stopped for speeding and tested for drunken driving earlier this month "I think he should be fired to be totally picket organizer Mike Goble said concerns me is it doesn't look like any action will be taken against Chief for what happened he said Goble was joined by his wife Joy Goble his daughter Melissa his sister Elisa oster and his father red Goble Mike and Joy Goble who are registered nurses said they decided to protest Brooks' behavior because seen the damage drunken driving can do seen a lot of people killed and hurt and a lot of families in said Joy Goble who worked at the Medical Center of Central Georgia for be said Brooks was 75 near Perry Oct 8 as back to Macon from a barbecue in Vienna Houston County deputies said their radar showed Brooks was MARYANN BATESMacon Telegraph and News going 95 mph in a 65 mpll ZOne 11 1 A puitauic dicunurocnoiiifc uvttt (left) and Joy Goble protested official inaction on driving case at City Hall Sunday 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