The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 1

Weather Hi Lo 53 Complete details are on 2A Today Sunny Hi Lo I Sunday Sunny Saturday Sljc Macon (Mejrap I) Our 170th year Number 98 Macon Telegraph Publishing Co Macon Ga April 8 1995 Home edition El 6 sections 52 pages 35 cents VKTTi jj Haas leads Jay Haas shoots an 8 un der 64 and takes the lead at The Masters a tournament his uncle Bob Goalby won 27 years ago IE Nicklaus frustrated Jack Nicklaus is left frus trated by a 78 equaling the worst round he has ever shot at the Masters IE Macon wins Andruw Jones hits two home runs to lead the Macon Braves to a 10 1 rout of the Asheville Tourists in the South Atlantic League IE Bonds denied IRSOjb A federal judge says im prisoned former Warner Rob ins police officials George Johnson left and Gary rost aren't likely to get a new trial on appeal IB Monopoly ends A newly signed law elimi nates the monopoly on the training of local school boards IB Natiohworld I i Career days Some companies are changing Our Daugh ters to Work activities after critics charge discrimi nation against boys 7C Sex offenders States are pressured to re quire sex offenders and child molesters to notify police of their homes for at least 10 years after leaving prison 5B Religion New Mormon leader Gordon Hinckley has been sustained as the new leader of the 9 million mem ber The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the 15th leader of the Mormons The church has had two presidents die in less than a year the most rapid turnover in its 165 year history 1C Healy series James Healy the oldest son of Michael Healy and Mary Eliza Healy became the first black Catholic Bishop in the United States but in that role he encountered racial discrimination 1C Ingram goes to his death in chair By Eric Velasco The Macon Telegraph JACKSON Defiant and angry to the end Nicholas Lee Ingram was put to death in elec tric chair riday after making his final statement by spitting at the warden Ingram 31 was pronounced dead at 9:15 pm after a day of appeals that left him alternately elated and pensive as he waited to hear wheth er he had won another stay of exe cution for the 1983 murder of JC Sawyer in Cobb County Nicholas Lee Ingram The con demned man was allowed to walk into the death chamber on his own He used his hands to slightly lift himself in to the large oak elec tric chair sitting in the middle of the cramped death chamber Warden AG Thomas read the execution order as six burly correc tions officers strapped Ingram tight ly to the chair At first Ingram looked ahead with an icy stare then he moved his head as if sur veying the witnesses Ingram showed no expression as the execution team attached leather straps to his waist elbows wrists and ankles When Thomas asked Ingram if he had a last statement the inmate quickly spat in direction and said nothing When asked if he wanted a prayer said in his behalf Ingram merely closed his eyes Guards then attached the elec trodes to his head and covered his face with a leather apron The electricity a four second jolt of 2000 volts followed by 1000 volts for seven seconds and 208 volts for two minutes was turned on at 9:06 pm fists clenched tightly and he jolted back into the electric chair His attorney Clive Stafford Smith leaned forward in his pew one of three in the witness room and covered his eyes with his hands Stafford Smith cried to him self and at one point opened his fingers to look into the execution chamber Other witnesses in the room in cluding several Cobb County offi cials showed no visible reaction After a six minute cooling down period two physicians examined In gram to make sure he was dead After the second doctor checked for a heartbeat he nodded at Thomas approximately 9:15 on April 7 1995 the court ordered execution of Nick Ingram was carried out in accordance with the laws of the state of Thomas said as Please see INGRAM 7A Gingrich gives WR letter TV air time By Joyce Bailey The Macon Telegraph WARNER ROBINS Steven ranzkowiak skipped his riday night martial arts class The jit ters had set in and his shot at stardom was coming up The 7 year old Warner Robins first grader was a local guest of honor for a television viewing of House Speaker Newt speech riday night The talk opened with a reference to a let ter Steven wrote the lawmaker in January The letter Gingrich said was one of hundreds of thousands that his office received from Americans who share the Re publican ideas for put ting government into the hands of the people During the telecast Gingrich held up the letter along with drawing of President George Washington and a fami ly portrait A silence fell on the home of Pam and Dale Bohannon as the broadcast began and Steven set tled down and listened as intent ly as the grown ups mostly reporters and Houston County Republican Party members is said Pam Bohannon chairwoman of the local party and his family will get to meet Mr Gin grich in Savannah next month for the state (Republican) con Before the broadcast Steven said think this is the strang est thing that ever happened to me I like (Gingrich) so much that he could be my next door Please see 7A Danny GlllelandTbe Macon Telegraph Steven ranzkowiak holds Sara a newt while two pet hermit crabs crawl on the bed in front of him I Harvard rescinds admission to honor student who beat her mother to death five years ago The Associated Press BOSTON Gina Grant seemed to be the perfect candidate for Harvard Univer sity: an IQ of 150 honor society member tennis team co captain tutor of underpriv ileged children Now Harvard has taken back its offer of early admission after learning that Grant bludgeoned her mother to death with a lead crystal candlestick five years ago deal with this tragedy every day on a personal level It serves no good purpose for anyone else to dredge up the pain of my Grant said in a statement especially distressed that my college career may now be in jeopardy The university would not comment on Gina Grant I case acknowl edging only that an early admission offer had been rescinded Spokesman Joe Wrinn said riday that Har vard occasionally with draws such offers be cause of a sudden drop in a student's academ ic performance or be cause a student lied on the application The Harvard application asks whether a student has ever been on probation Grant had been on probation until she was 18 as a condition of pleading no con test to the September 1990 killing of her mother in Lexington The university did not release application attorney Margaret Bumham said Grant was not obligated to disclose something that happened when she was a juvenile Bumham said in a statement that she hoped Harvard would reconsider She did not mention any possible legal action After the killing Grant now 19 moved to Cambridge to live with her aunt and uncle She began attending Cambridge Ridge and Latin High School in 1992 Offi cials there said Grant is a student in good standing but would not comment on her academic record Grant received her acceptance letter in January from Harvard In the following Please see SOMEONE 7A Gingrich: We must remake government GOP contract just a beginning speaker says response 6B The Associated Press WASHINGTON In a prime time prerogative nor mally reserved for presidents House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared riday night the Republican Con tract With America was only a beginning and sum moned the nation to help remake the federal In a nationwide televised speech from his Capitol office Gingrich said the time had come balance the federal budget and to free our chil dren from the burdens upon their prosperity and their Gingrich the architect of last GOP takeover in the House added govern ment is out of touch and out of control It is in need of deep and deliberate Democratic leaders re sponded sharply from an ele mentary school classroom in suburban Virginia If Republi cans get their way said House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri some kids get school lunches next year cut them to fa vor tax breaks for the wealthiest he said Added Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota: Republicans shown their true loy alties: to the forces of privilege and power who need no help and deserve no special Earlier in the day speaking to newspaper editors in Dallas President Clinton pledged to work with Republi cans but said have no there will be some ve toes as well speech was the final act of a 94 day drama in which the new Republican majority brought 10 ma jor bills to the floor of the House and passed nine of them The list included a tax cut changes in the wel fare and civil justice systems tougher crime measures now pending in the Senate and a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution which fell one vote shy in a Senate showdown Only a proposal for term limits failed in the House and when he got to it in his speech Gingrich shrugged and said failed Earlier in the day Gingrich joined dozens of Republi can lawmakers in a rally on the steps of the Capitol to celebrate completion of the Contract made Promises was their slogan prime time speech marked the first time a congressional leader of either party had received net work coverage for a prime time address to the nation CBS CNN and CSPAN were televising the 30 minute speech while NBC and ABC were sticking with their regular programming The silver haired Georgian perched casually on a desk as he spoke with an American flag serving as a backdrop His normal rat a tat speech was slowed for his millions of listeners In his speech Gingrich offered few policy proposals although he said one congressional office building Rep Newt 3 3 1 A 4 1 4 i zJI Please see GINGRICH 7A Almanac 2A Ann Landers Dear Abby 4C Business 7C Comics 6C Crossword 7D Horoscope 7D Obituaries 4B Religion 1C Sports IE Straight talk 2B Television 4C Theaters 5C Autopsy finds that Tifton girl got a fatal dose of painkiller The Associated Press TITON A 3 year old girl who died in a chair had been given enough painkiller to kill an adult an autopsy found But an attorney for Dr Mari lois Laster of Tifton who has been blamed by state authorities for the death disputed the finding and maintained that the dosage was within safe limits The autopsy results were in cluded in an amendment to ad ministrative charges brought against Laster by the state Board of Dentistry in the January death of Charity aith Mitchell violation of minimal stan dards of acceptable and prevail ing dental practice (Dr Laster) injected or caused to be injected into system a lethal amount of lidocaine which au topsy records indicate caused her death by acute lidocaine toxici the amendment says Egg hunt planned because adults older children pose danger to youngsters By Sheron Smith The Macon Telegraph Last year once the mad scramble for Easter eggs was over Sherri Hill walked away with tears in her eyes The executive director of Kids Yule Love which sponsors the giant egg hunt for children at Central City Park each year knew there was no way the event could be held in 1995 just got to be too Hill said riday sad to say but no way to control kids and parents who take down other children on their way to an Although the organization may try to sponsor other Easter activities in the future Kids Yule Love decided to end the egg hunt because of the dangers posed to children Hill said the event got bigger each year about 10000 children and parents showed up in 1994 to hunt for some 30000 eggs and crowd control became im possible despite the presence of law enforcement and numerous volunteers It help that some older children and parents behaving like children pushed smaller youngsters aside to get to the plastic eggs filled with candy Last Please see ADULTS 7A A Localstate Religion Index.