2-THE SELMA TIMES JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1981 -The Daily Record Police report Two charged with rape Two Selma men were arrested early today by Selma police in connection with the reported rape this morning of a 24-year-old Selma woman, according to Selma police. In addition, a Selma man has reported that he was robbed of $230 at knifepoint, and police said no suspects have been arrested in connection with the armed robbery of McGaha's Foodland Grocery Store Thursday. According to W.F. Zachry, Oscar James, 24, 1827 St. Phillips and Lorenzo Alexander, 24, 906 Hood were arrested at 4:44 a.m.
and charged with rape in connection with a complaint by a Selma woman. The woman said the men pulled up in a car beside her at the intersection of Church Street and Small Avenue and forced her into the car, took her to a local motel and raped her, Zachry said. Zachry said the incident allegedly occurred between 1 a.m. and 4:40 a.m. today.
The men were being held in the Selma City Jail this morning. Bond had not been set, Zachry said. Cal G. Hatfield, 2229 Selma told police that two men flagged him down on Broad Street and asked him for lift to Maplewood Trailer Park. said when they got into his vehicle, they placed a knife blade to his throat and forced him to take them to the south end of Hood Street, where he said they robbed him of $230.
No suspect had been arrested by this morning in connection with the armed robbery of Foodland, 1007 Broad St. According to police, about $2,000 was taken in the robbery. Incidents reported to police from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. today included a number of battery thefts reported by Ann Pickering, 2-C Cloverdale; Crandle Dodd, 5-C Valley Creek Homes; and Jack King, 1115 Philpot Ave.
In addition, William Shoner said someone took the hubcaps from his vehicle, and Brenda Morris said someone scraped the 1982 sticker off her vehicle's license plate while it was parked in the Gibson Shopping Center parking lot. Burglaries were reported by: Fuller Building Supply, where it was reported that a hole was found in the rear door of the annex and change was taken from the drink machine. Geneate Brown, who broke into the service station said, someone, determined amount of beer and soft drinks. Lewis Stone, 113 Sewell who said someone took an air conditioning unit out of a (Continued from Page 1) with the current budget mood, success "is not likely," Walters said. If federal funds are not available, the agency will seek start-up money from private sources, he said.
"I imagine with private funding, we will be starting at a lot smaller scale and beginning at a much slower pace," Walters said. "But we're starting it one way or another. At what rate we begin it, I won't know until we know what money is available." A number people have already indicated a willingness to help with the program, including local ministers, a psychiatrist and volunteers, he said. The psychiatrist would work with the nursing staff and volunteers, helping them learn "how to deal with death and dying, how to help families and the patients adjust," he said. Ministers would' help in much the same way, but would probably also work more closely with individual patients, Walters said.
The volunteers would "be doing some lay counseling and just be a shoulder to cry on, if someone needs it." Volunteers would also assist families by running errands, sitting with patients to allow family members a break from that responsibility, baby-sitting while older family members leave home for short-term medical treatment, and similar duties, he said. "We have found out, through working with the patients we have now, that families are usually. extrememely eager to keep patients at home if they have some support once they get them there," Walters said. "It can seem like an insurmountable thing, but if (Continued from Page 1) as a last of the problem" in resolving Alabama's prison dilemma. James said if Graddick has any reservations about the release of any individual inmate, he should say why.
"Otherwise," said James, "I'd like to see the attorney general get some convictions in this can perform a real service there." The governor planned further comment at a news conference at his state Capitol office this afternoon. Graddick's petition also asked permission to intervene in the lawsuit as "common law representative of all law abiding citizens of this state who are potential victims of crimes which are likely to be committed by those felons" to be released. Graddick asked U.S. District Judge Robert Varner to stay his order which calls for the release of 400 inmates on July 24. The order also grants early parole review for another 50 inmates, including at least.
two former death row inmates. If the judge refuses to withhold the order, Graddick said he will appeal immediately to higher courts. "We want to test this federal judge's authority in the Supreme Court for releasing convicts convicted in state courts," said Graddick in Mobile. At the news conference and in his court petition, Graddick said James, as courtappointed receiver for the prison system, failed to offer alternatives to the mass release of inmates. The petition suggested the use of "temporary housing," including tents and trailers, with National Guardsmen called out Selmian.
(Continued from Page 1) the 4th Judicial Circuit, said District Attorney Roy Johnson has asked all sheriffs in the district to check the list for other potential errors. Three other prisoners from 1 Dallas County who are serving their terms in the Dallas Russell will not hear Porter suit window of the house. Thefts were reported by: Brad Jones, 7 Luker Circle, who said his motorcycle brake down on the bypass and when he left to get belp, someone took it. -Juhette Tyson, 5 Selma Square Apartments, who said someone took her child's bike. Theft of services was reported by Andrew Richardson, who said that while he 1 was checking water meters, he found that the meter at 2807 Perham had been taken out and the water hooked directly.
Police arrested Dorothy Edward, 34, 2807 Perham and charged her with theft of services. Criminal mischief was reported by Richard Oaks, 319 King who said eggs had been thrown on his vehicle. Harassment was reported by a resident on Alabama Avenue who! said someone has been trying to force his way into the house. Fire calls THURSDAY Reported by the Selma Fire Department 12:50 p.m. Highway 14 East, truck hit gas meter, broke gas meter but no fire.
2:39 p.m. Selma Avenue and Washington Street, car fire, heavy damage to car. Helen S. Johnson Helen S. Johnson died Thursday in a local hospital.
Graveside funeral services were to be held at 2:30 p.m. today in Old Live Oak Cemetery with Lawrence Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Johnson, who was the 1 wife of the late Herman R. Johnson, was born in Macon, and moved to Selma after a long residence in Nashville.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Schuster Siegel, Selma; a son, A.R. Johnson II, Milwaukee; and six grandchildren. Births THURSDAY New Vaughan Hospital Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Maresette, a girl. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Dickey, a boy. Hospitals THURSDAY Good Samaritan Hospital Weather ADMITTED: Frank Acoff, Missie Moore, grade.
they know some sort of organization is out there who will help and they won't be totally on their own, most families would probably much prefer to have the patients at home." "It's the same with the terminally ill. It's a frightening thing, and most everyone has difficulty facing death to begin with. But if you know once you get the patient there you will have nurses come in to help you, ministers to talk with you and volunteers to sit with him, that can make having him at home a lot easier thing to adjust to," he said. The need for a hospice program already exists, he said, citing American Cancer Society estimates that 340 people will die of cancer alone in the seven-county area this year. "Those 340 are going to die this year, whether we're there, the ministers are there resort to guard the inmates.
The judge ordered the release of 400 to ease a backlog of 2,100 state inmates held in county jails, many in jampacked cells. The judge said it amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment" of many prisoners. James all but defended the judge's Wednesday mandate as the inevitable result of years of overcrowding in the state penal system. "We are not going to stand in the prison house door," said James' press secretary, Chris Bence. Graddick, however, said James failed to use his "immense and highly-flexible powers to enforce the law and keep the peace." Graddick's comments also drew immediate verbal fire from an attorney representing inmates, Ralph Knowles of Tuscaloosa.
He said it was "just the latest of Attorney General Graddick's irrational acts to gain media attention." "This is a serious lawsuit with serious rights involved on all sides," said Knowles. "Instead of helping in this process, Graddick has in fact been making matters worse." He said Graddick in recent years has put "irrational pressures" on officials, in the Legislature and elsewhere, to pass laws and take actions putting more people behind bars for longer periods of time. The attorney general, said Knowles, "is a major cause of the problem. We'll take the proper legal action to respond." Meanwhile, state Department of Corrections spokesman Ron Tate said prison officials should complete their manual review of all the inmates on the list accompanying Varner's order by this weekend. County Jail are also included on the list, according to Sheriff W.D.
"Cotton" Nichols, but local officials said all are nearing completion of their sentences. Jones would not have been eligible for consideration for parole for several more years, Russell said. Russell added that prison officials are now checking the lists manually. Sylvester 1 Brown, Brenda Lee. DISCHARGED: Lucille Moore, Angelee Snow.
New Vaughan Hospital ADMITTED: Mrs. James Weedon, Herman Lee, William Smiley Mrs. Jimmy Dickey, Annie Kirkham, Winston Ansiesson, Mrs. Ester Phillips, Mrs. J.M.
Seymore, Mrs. Roy Dunning, Mrs. R.D. Chance. DISCHARGED: Mitt Crowe, Mrs.
David Justice, Frederick Young, Mrs. Jimmy Davidson and baby boy, Mrs. Larry Carroll and baby boy, Mrs. Gary Hay, Mrs. Ivan Boley Jr.
and baby girl. Weather Local weather will continue to be hot and humid through Saturday with a 20 percent chance of rain today, tonight and Saturday. High today Low tonight High predicted Saturday High Thursday Low Thursday night River level 18.46 and rising The Alabama and Northwest Florida extended forecast for Sunday through Tuesday calls for continued hot days and warm nights. Widely scattered mainly afternoon and evening thundershowers. Highs in the 90s.
Lows in the 70s. The agricultural forecast predicts rainfall amounts in the next 36 hours near a quarter-inch. Drying potential will be high today and Saturday. Lowest relative humidity near 45 percent both days. Near 10 hours sunshine today and Saturday.
Light dew this morning and Saturday morning drying off by 8 a.m. each day. cartoon by Cynthia Newberry, third or anyone else is," he said. "We're just looking for a much more humane way of dealing with things than what is available now." The hospice program will provide an alternative to long-term hospitalization for patients who have reached the point where curative care is no longer an option, he said. "The average terminal patient, after he has reached the point where they are no longer doing curative types of care, has no place to go," he said.
"In the hospital, he is subject to all types of lab work, vital signs checks every few hours, and other things that don't serve any useful purpose for a terminally ill patient." But there is no alternative, because hospitals are usually not geared for "palliative care," Driver inattention tops list TI Selma police investigated 220 traffic accidents, most involving persons between the ages of 25 and 34 and occurring on Friday afternoons, in the city limits during the first quarter of this year, according to a report released by Police Chief Jack Hughes. From Jan. 1 to March 31, no fatalities were recorded, but there were 19 injuries reported. Nineteen of the accidents occurred at night, and 179 happened on dry roads. The total number of vehicles involved was 422.
Alcohol was involved in 20 of the accidents which resulted in four injuries, and driver inattention accounted for 53 accidents, while failure to yield -of-way accounted for 46. Two hundred fifty-three of the drivers involved were male, while 142 were female, the report stated. In addition, most accidents occurred between 2 and 4 p.m. on Friday. Noah Webster Before Noah Webster compiled his dictionary, he produced one of the most useful volumes ever printed in English the Blue-Back Speller.
Unscrupulous publishers pirated the Speller, and reprinted it without payment or credit. This led Webster to devise and champion the federal copyright law. which Congress enacted in 1790 to protect the rights of authors. By JEANETTE BERRYMAN Times-Journal Writer Dallas County Circuit Judge Edgar Russell has recused himself from hearing suit for declaratory judgment filled by former Selma City Council President Bill Porter. Russell said he "should not and will not hear the case" because he is a resident of the Mayor (Continued from Page 1) "but there's nothing I can doe about it." Reaction from white council members was mixed.
Proponents of the measure, including Peeke, George Swift, and Ward 2 South Councilman Johnny Brislin, were pleased with the action. Council members Cecil Williamson and Rita Franklin urged the mayor not to call the special election until the legal status of Peeke's presidency is resolved. Smitherman said he would proceed with the election because "the legal action has nothing to do with the ward vacancy. It has to do with the presidency." The law, sponsored by state Rep. Noopie Cosby of Selma, provides for special elections to fill council vacancies in all Class 5 municipalities when the council is unable to fill the vacancy within 60 days.
Under the law, which affects Selma, Prichard and Decatur, two provisions were established for council vacancies which have existed for more than 60 days. If the vacated term has less than six months remaining, the council is to appoint a successor, with the mayor voting in case of a tie. If the term has six months or more remaining, the mayor "shall call for a special election to fill the vacancy." Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, election law changes in Alabama and a number of other states must be approved by the Justice Department. Smitherman said the federal action on the special elections bill was "the first city of Selma and Ward North, which was represented by J.B. Peeke until he assumed the presidency upon Porter's resignation.
Porter's suit requests ruling on whether he is still the legal president of the city council. The basis for the request is Peeke's de facto status, which stems from the time I can remember they have approved something without sending it back for Swift said the special election will "solve a lot of problems" by ending the 5-5 deadlock on the council. Votes on a number of questions, including attempts to fill the vacant Ward 2 North seat, have deadlocked along racial lines. "I didn't see how they (Justice Department) could not approve this bill," Swift said. "I felt all along there was no way they could deny people the right to elect their own representative." Mrs.
Franklin said she favors an election, but believes Peeke is still the councilman from Ward 2 North. "I'm all for an election, but not when you have already got a duly elected person serving," she said. "We can't have two representatives from Ward 2 North," Williamson said. "We already have one person The World 1. "Oh! What a Beautiful Mornin' was first sung on stage by (a) Gordon MacRae (b) Alfred Drake (c) John Raitt 2.
The original inhabitants of Morocco were (a) Romans (b) Bantus (c) Berbers 3. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in (a) 1938 (b) 1949 (c) 1956 ANSWERS 54 vote which gave him the pro tem post in October. That vote was not adequate under: state law, which requires a six-member majority 1 to elect: council officers. Porter's case will now go to Dallas County Circuit Judge J.C. Norton, Russell said.
If Norton recuses himself from the case, a special judge. could be requested to hear it, Russell said. representing that district, and that's Mr. Peeke. Councilman is his only legally elected office." Peeke's only comment about the Justice Department decision was, "That's great." Rutledge said the Justice Department "did only what the state of Alabama asked." "I feel the bill is uncalled for.
Because we rejected the (white) nominee, they said, 'We'll get a bill and do it without you," Rutledge said. "It's kind of like 'If you don't do what I want, I'll get a stick and make you do WEEKEND SPECIALS SMA RTF 6-32 OZ. CANS CS. $7.89 co*ke, Sprite Tab, Mellow Yello 2 Liter Bottles $119 HI-DRI TOWELS CLOROX 1 Gal. Reg.
1.34 which is treatment to ease an illness without curing it. Hospice programs usually serve patients whose life expectancy is 6-8 months, Walters said. Patients in the program are no longer undergoing active treatment, because there is "no doubt" about the inevitability of their death. But some treatment for relief of pain or to make an illness easier to live with is often provided, he said. PILCHER McBRYDE 101 BROAD 875-7208 SIZZLING RED HOT SALE! Special Greatly Reduced Prices In Every Department WOMEN'S MEN'S JACK WINTER SUITS Entire Stock: SPORTSWEAR One Limited Group Quantity $3995 Reg.
To $140.00 Jackets, Skirts Pants, Blouses Sweaters KNIT SHIRTS by Many Turtle Styles Bay 88 PRICE Just Reg. $18.00 Received Henry Racks Sportswear Racks Up Of To SPORTSWEAR OFF 1 Reg. Many Grp. SPORT to Short 2-pocket $23.00 Sleeve styles SHIRTS off CHILDREN'S LINEN'S DRESSES WHITE SALE SPECIAL Entire BLANKETS Stock Children's PRICE All Entire Sizes Stock off Reg. To $22.00 GIRLS KNITS SHORT SLEEVE 00 One SHEER Group Floral PANELS 150 Ret.
To $12.75 3 60x84 One Group ea. Reg. $9.00 GIRLS KNITS BEDSPREADS LONG SLEEVE Entire One Group Reg. to $11.00 99 Reg. Twin To $65.00 Price, Stock ea.
Visa Wm. Master Card Master Card Henry Express Express VISA Selma Mall.
