Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi (2024)

April 26, 1988

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Sun Heraldi

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Biloxi, Mississippi

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Tuesday, April 26, 1988

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3

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niESiilKUMj) A 3 TUESDAY APRIL 26 1988 Pilots say LA has safest airport Three still missing from damaged sub In addition to Los Angeles International the airports listed as the five least safe were National New LaGuardia and in a tie San Lindbergh Field and Staple-ton International In addition to the Texas airport listed among the five safest facilities were Hartsfield-Atlanta International Dulles and SeattleTacoma the survey conducted by The Atlantic Constitution The newspaper in February and March polled 2200 pilots who hold air transportation certificates asking them to list in no particular order the five safest and least safest airports The newspaper reporting the survey results in its Monday editions said 1360 pilots responded The report did not include how many times a particular airport was named broke out in the forward battery compartment he said The USS Petrel arrived on the scene Monday afternoon but Navy officials said any decision to board the submarine was being delayed until today "The decision made was that no one goes until the experts declare the ship free of dangerous fumes this morning Long said The Petrel based in Charleston SC was alongside the submarine with a line attached to keep the submarine from drifting Long said "They are waiting until daybreak to commence any operation No one has boarded the vessel at this Long said Also steaming to the scene was the salvage ship USS Hoist from the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk The explosion occurred Sunday afternoon in the battery compartment while the Bonefish was submerged on a routine training mission said Borton QUESTION Continued from Page A-l members of this court to reconsider an interpretation of a civil rights statute that so clearly relfects our earnest commitment to ending rarial discrimination and in which Congress so evidently has The majority said the dissenters were making it sound like the court was overturning the 1976 decision have of course done no such the unsigned order issued by the majority said "It is surely no affront to settled jurisprudence to request argument on whether a particular precedent should be modified or The North Carolina case argued last Feb 29 now will be held over until the next term beginning in October A ruling is likely in 1989 Voting to rehear the case were Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Byron White Sandra Day Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy Scalia and Kennedy were appointed by President Reagan a critic of some high-court rulings he considers too liberal Brenda Patterson a black woman wants to use a post-Civil War law to force her employer McClean Credit Union to pay actual and punitive damages for alleged harassment Lower federal courts said the law the Civil Rights Act of 1866 is designed only to ban racial discrimination in hiring firing and promotion not racial harassment Ms Patterson still could charge racial harassment under a 1964 civil rights law But the more recent law provides that those who win their cases in court may collect back pay not potentially big awards as compensation for emotional and mental suffering Civil rights groups say the more limited 1964 law may not be a sufficient deterrent to harassment Arthur Spitzer legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union here said the action will have psychological civil rights decisions now may be considered open to he said action suggests there are five solid votes to reconsider key precedents he added Spitzer also said that if the court limits the scope of the 1866 law it may encourage defendants in bias cases take a harder line to say instead of settling out of court The court agreed to use Ms appeal to reconsider a 1976 ruling called Runyon vs McCrary that held that racially segregated private schools violate the 1866 law The statute was enacted to ensure that recently freed slaves would enjoy all the rights of citizenship The 1976 decision has given civil rights groups an important legal weapon to fight racial bias by permitting them to use the law as a basis for lawsuits against private individuals schedule addition that served to underscore the fact that Dukakis has all but concede'd the black vote to Jackson Black voters make up about 10 percent of the Democratic primary vote in the state and polls and politicians seemed to agree that while it is likely Jackson will win in Philadelphia with its heavy black vote Dukakis will pile up huge margins over his only remaining challenger elsewhere in the state A statewide poll released Monday done over the weekend for two Pennsylvania television stations by KRC Research of Cambridge Mass showed Dukakis with a 57 to 31 per-cent lead over Jackson with 12 percent undecided The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent For Jackson the results were part of a trend that some aides said had him looking to a strategy that concentrates more on getting his message across than on winning votes lowed to discuss the Wood said discuss her case at Wood said she and Krecic were friends in jail and "shared the love of the Former Harrison County Jail prisoner Beverly Goodman testified that Perry and Duncan lied about statements they said Krecic made because they thought they could get out of jail sooner if they helped prosecutors and because they like Krecic Perry and Duncan who was later moved from the jail in Biloxi to one in Rankin County corresponded to get their stories straight on what they would say Krecic told them said Goodman who is on probation for burglary Goodman testified that she spent time in the Rankin County jail with Duncan said she hoped it get found out that she Goodman said said she wanted to see Anita Krecic faces the death penalty if convicted in the case cause he said Rose 54 was given no chance to defend herself think she acted properly and did the proper things in the 16 years that she was Necaise said The supervisors have reserved the entire day for the hearing board President Bobby Eleuterius said "We have an open mind going into the Eleuterius said "I think she has seven witnesses Now time to hear her side of Several of the supervisors have said the hearing will be held behind closed doors because it is a personnel matter State law permits the supervisors to discuss personnel matters in private Necaise prefers an open hearing been out there in the paper before" he said we might as well have it all out Eleuterius has no objections to an open hearing my he said they request an open hearing I certainly have anything to Survivors include three sons James Taylor of Chicago William Taylor of Euclid Ohio and Robert Taylor of Ocean Springs two sisters Mrs Mary Rosanna Repine of Port Charlotte Fla and Mrs Lucille Mulzer of Arcadia Calif seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren Visitation will be held tonight from 6 until 9 at Funeral Home in Ocean Springs The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 am at the funeral home chapel followed by burial in Serene Memorial Gardens Stewart Goff WADE Stewart Goff 87 17301 Bela Roper Road Wade died Saturday April 23 1988 in Pascagoula Mr Goff was a Baptist Survivors include his wife Mrs Beulah Mae Goff of Wade a son Wiley Stewart Goff of Big Point one stepson John Miller of Georgia a sister Mrs Erett Woodco*ck of Helena three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren The funeral will be held Wednesday at 11 am at Funeral Home in Pascagoula where friends may call from 9 until service time Burial will follow in Johnson Cemetery Samuel Byrd PASCAGOULA Samuel Byrd 81 1302 Cherubusco St Pascagoula died Sunday April 24 1988 in Pascagoula Mr Byrd was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of First United Methodist Church in Pascagoula He was preceded in death by his wife Mrs Leona Byrd and a daughter Dolores Vaughan Survivors include one daughter Mrs Bonnie Boyette of Pascagoula a sister Mrs Sue Baker of Fort Worth Texas one brother Floyd Byrd of Gautier seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren Visitation will be held tonight from 6 until 9 at Funeral Home in Pascagoula Graveside services will be Wednesday at 2 pm at Cemetery in Vancleave Ms Vivian Buehl PICAYUNE Ms Vivian Marie Kennedy Buehl 64 of Yuba City Calif died Friday April 22 1988 in Yuba City Ms Buehl was the owner of a printing shop in the Los Angeles area before moving to Yuba City where she had lived for 40 years She was a native of Alabama Survivors include sisters Addie Miller of Picayune Pauline Berry of Yuba City Edith Lenain of Kenner La Daisy Rigney of Buckatunna Mae ZueUte of Blakely Ga and a brother Vernon Kennedy of Grove Hill Ala Memorial services will be held today at 10 am at St Episcopal Church in Marysville Calif Ullrey Memorial Chapel in Yuba City is in charge of arrangements report to the supervisors the death of a resident violating county purchasing procedures taldng food from the county home making employees sew for her and her husband on county time and failing to notify the supervisors when residents were discharged Two attendants from the home have been suspended for abusing residents Alice Saucier was suspended in March pending the outcome of the sheriffs investigation Mary Myers was suspended on Friday by District 4 Supervisor Philip Allen who oversees the home across from his office The supervisors are expected to review suspension today Saucier denies abusing residents Myers has refused comment on the charges against her At the hearing Wednesday seven witnesses will speak on behalf said attorney Albert Necaise of Gulfport He refused to name the witnesses Necaise requested the hearing be home chapel followed by burial in Evergreen Cemetery Harry Rauch GULFPORT Harry Rauch 76 607 Franklin Ave Gulfport died Saturday April 23 1988 in Gulfport Mr Rauch a native of Portsmouth Ohio was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati School of Pharmacy and a retired pharmacist He had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and in the Merchant Marine He was a member of the Church of Christ Mr Rauch was a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and was preceded in death by his wife Mrs Evelyn Porter Rauch Survivors include a daughter Mrs WR (Gina) Johnson of Orange Grove one sister Mrs Helen Nicholson of Cincinnati and one grandchild A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 2 pm at Riemann Memorial Funeral Home US 49 North in Gulfport where friends may call from 1:30 until service time Mrs TJ Barrett LONG BEACH Mrs TJ (Lennie) Barrett 87 7 Woodward Circle Long Beach died Monday April 25 1988 in Long Beach Arrangements are incomplete at Riemann Funeral Home in Gulfport Myron Jeffery OCEAN SPRINGS Myron Jeffery 53 13004 Hanover Drive Ocean Springs died Sunday April 24 1988 in Ocean Springs Mr Jeffery a native of West Virginia was a plannerscheduler and procedural analyst for Mississippi Power Co in Escatawpa He was a retired Air Force master sergeant a veteran of Vietnam and a member of First Baptist Church in Ocean Springs Survivors include his wife Mrs Rosemarie Jeffery a son Dean Jeffery three daughters Mrs Patricia Simon Mrs Caroline Warner and Miss Natasha Jeffery all of Ocean Springs his mother Mrs Erma Jeffery of Biloxi a brother Charles A Jeffery of Gulfport and three grandchildren Visitation will be held tonight from 7 until 10 at Riemann Memorial Funeral Home Beauvoir Road Biloxi The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 am at the funeral home chapel followed by burial with full military honors at Biloxi National Cemetery Mrs Roselle Taylor OCEAN SPRINGS Mrs Roselle Taylor 78 of Ocean Springs died Sunday April 24 1988 in Ocean Springs Mrs Taylor had lived on the Coast for 26 years and was a Methodist She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Ocean Springs and a former member of the Gulfport American Legion Mrs Taylor was preceded in death by her husband Slator Taylor Sr By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Pilots responding to a survey on airport safety rated Los Angeles International the most dangerous in the nation and Dallas-Fort Worth International the safest it was reported Monday However many of the pilots said the main factor governing airport safety is people and that can vary at any facility at any time according to HOME Continued from Page A-l faced 21 residents between the ages of 50 and 95 lived at the home Three residents have since been removed by family members The supervisors have placed a moratorium on admitting new residents Under Rose current and former employees claim that elderly residents were beaten drugged cursed denied meals as punishment and forbidden to walk around freely or take afternoon naps The county Sheriffs Department is investigating the charges and will tum over the results to the district office The charges of abuse have not been addressed by the supervisors Instead they fired Rose for failing to BITUARIES Benjamin Henderson BILOXI Benjamin Henderson 59 of Mobile Ala died Monday April 25 1988 in Biloxi Mr Henderson was an Army veteran and a retired Merchant Marine Survivors include a brother Joseph Henderson of Mobile The body was sent from Riemann Memorial Funeral Home Beauvoir Road Biloxi to Radney Funeral Home in Mobile for services and burial i Clayton Beasley BILOXI Clayton Beasley 72 of Biloxi died Sunday April 24 1988 in Biloxi Mr Beasley was a Baptist Survivors include a sister Mary Malone of Trenton Tenn and one brother Lee Beasley of Belair Beach Fla Burial will be in Biloxi National Cemetery Funeral Home in Biloxi is in charge of arrangements Henry Smith Jr BILOXI Henry Smith Jr 61 70 West End Homes Biloxi died Saturday April 23 1988 in Biloxi Mr Smith was a Navy veteran and a member of New Bethel Baptist Church in Biloxi Survivors include five sisters Mary Brooks Clara Parker Minnie Rucker and Dianne Wright all of Biloxi and Evelyn Gibbs of Memphis Tenn The funeral will be held tonight at 6 at McDaniel-Richmond Funeral Home in Biloxi where friends may call from 4 until service time Bunal will be Wednesday at 11 am at Biloxi National Cemetery Mrs Nora Eubanks GULFPORT Mrs Nora Mae Eubanks 70 207 Kent Ave Gulfport died Sunday April 24 1988 in Gulfport The body was sent from Riemann Funeral Home in Gulfport to Webb Funeral Home in Meridian for services and buriaL James Killegrew GULFPORT James Philip Killegrew 81 of Gulfport died Sunday April 24 1988 in Gulfjport A native of Newark NJ Mr Killegrew had been a Coast resident for 61 years He was the owner and operator of Building Materials in Gulfport for over 40 years and served in the Coast Guard for three years Mr Killegrew was a member of the Joe Graham Post 119 American Legion Loyal Order of the Moose chapter 1359 Independent Order of the Odd Fellows and a life member of Elks Lodge 0978 in Gulfport A substaining member of the Boy Scout of America Pine Burr Council he was the sponsor of several youth soccer teams and the Boys and Girls Ranch He was an honorary member of the Mississippi Sheriffs Association and a Presbyterian Survivors include his wife Mrs Helen Tucker Killegrew of Gulfport one daughter Miss Lenrose Killegrew of Meridian and a sister Mrs Frank (Rosemary) Blackmarr of Gulfport Visitation will be tonight from 6 until 9 at Funeral Home in Gulfport The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 am in the funeral By DW PAGE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NORFOLK Va One of the last diesel-electric submarines lay on the surface tied to a rescue vessel Monday after underwater explosions and a toxic fire injured 22 sailors and left three missing The 30-year-old USS Bonefish its remaining crew evacuated to shore bases floated alongside the submarine rescue ship USS Petrel about 160 miles off Florida said Lt Cmdr Aaron Long a spokesman at Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk There was no apparent danger that the submarine which carries only conventional weapons would sink said Chief Petty Oflfirer Terry Borton a fleet spokesman It was not known if the missing men were aboard the sub or in the water Long said preliminary indications pointed toward a series of explosions including one in the battery compartment but he said he was unable to say precisely where the other explosions occurred on the ship The fire VOTE Continued from Page A-l discrimination The decision in Runyon vs McCrary adopted in hundreds of lower court cases since has become what one civil rights lawyer called "a major strand of the civil rights enforcement Four justices said announcement could shake faith in the court alone will tell whether the erosion of faith is unnecessarily said Justice John Paul Stevens a swing vote who most often sides with the liberals in the meantime some of the harm that will flow from order may never be completely undone Ira Glasser executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union agreed message is a new court and previous rulings are up for he said "If this decision possibly can be overturned perhaps a lot more are endangered The three Reagan appoin-' tees Justices Sandra Day Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy joined Chief Justice Wil- liam Rehnquist and Byron White in voting to restudy the 1976 decision Joining Stevens in dissent were Justices William Brennan and Thur-good Marshall the leading lib- erals and Justice Harry A Blackmun another swing vote Will there be five votes to overturn the 1976 precedent? Rehnquist long the most DUKABCIS Continued from Page A-l good as a policy but there must be always flexibility in the policy We ought to take every initiative we can to gain the freedom of the American hostages in Eight Americans are held by Moslem extremists in the Lebanese capital Nevertheless if Dukakis like Bush is a runaway winner in Pennsylvania that may forecast the start of a de facto general election campaign well before anyone had anticipated Dukakis already devotes much of his rhetoric to attacks on the Reagan record and has in- KRECIC Continued from Page A-l day later in Memorial Hospital at Gulfport The defense lawyers contend that fear of Hansen drove Krecic to take part in the shooting and a subsequent escape which led the couple through Harrison County and into Hanco*ck Rocky Hill Community After being seated in the witness stand about 4:30 pm Hansen stared 1 at Krecic before being questioned Krecic smiled at him you shoot state Trooper Bruce Ladner on April 10 Stegall asked Hansen later in questioning "I plead the he said Hansen was advised by his attorney not to 1 answer questions because of appeals pending in his case District Attorney Glen Cannon maintains that Krecic urged Hansen conservative member and White a conservative with a generally liberal voting record in civil rights cases dissented from the 1976 decision They are two likely votes to overturn Scalia is considered as conservative as Rehnquist and a third vote to overturn The keys may be the votes of who in recent years has shown greater independence from the conservative bloc and Kennedy whose impact to date has been minimal because he only joined the court in February Kennedy won Senate confirmation after nomination of Robert Bork was rejected critics in the Senate and among civil rights organizations said they feared his replacing centrist Lewis Powell on the court could threaten 30 years of civil rights precedents In its first seven years the Reagan administration has had little success persuading the court to adopt the conservative agenda: outlawing abortion restoring prayers in public schools and curtailing affirmative action Kennedy whose views on such matters are unknown is viewed as a staunch conservative but less ideological than Bork The concerns voiced during the Bork nomination fight were echoed Monday however Calling Kennedy the key to a the Glaser said had an extensive record of dvfl rights animus and Kennedy did not But this Richard Carelli has covered the Supreme Court for The Associated Press since 1976 creasingly turned to direct criticism of Bush as welL Monday Dukakis stressed his themes of jobs and economic opportunity before about 50 blacks in a North Philadelphia church Once again as he has across this state with its pockets of economic deprivation the governor emphasized his Massachusetts record telling the voters that his administration has cut the rolls of long-term welfare recipients by 30 percent in just four years with its job training and placement program The jobs he said average $13500 a year at the outset not a ransom But 111 tell you a heck of a lot better than welfare at least a first step on the way out of poverty the governor declared as some in his audience nodded approvingly The campaign decision to have the governor visit the church was made just 36 hours earlier a last-minute mill U'l'lUVflJ IMIiJUIUIUIUlUlllilfill to shoot Ladner Prosecutors relied on testimony from two former Harrison County jail inmates Marie Perry and Barbara Duncan to support that aspect of their case Perry testified Saturday that Krecic confided during one conversation in jail that she told Hansen shoot the pig Duncan testified she overheard Krecic make a similiar admission to former cellmate Toni Wood Perry who has been convicted of manslaughter and faces current felony charges and Duncan who has been convicted of 39 counts of uttering forgery are now being held at an undisclosed prison Stegall summoned Wood and two more of former cellmates to rebut and testimony Perry and Barbara Duncan are lying Swarthout told jurors in his opening arguments Wood who was released on probation last week after serving time in jail for possessing cocaine testified that Krecic ziever discussed her case informed me she was not al- FUNERAL HOMES INC Prearranging can be as individual as you are For more information call: Gulfport Biloxi Ocean Springs 8650090 374-5650 875-1266.

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