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Lee sheriff candid·ates speak to Optimist Cl1 By RICK HAMMOND Daily Journal
Five of the nine candidates who already have qualified to run for Lee County sheriff in the fall took the opportunity Wednesday to speak to the Tupelo Optimist Club and offer their views on how to improve county law enforcement. The Optimist Club is a civic organization that focuses on the Election '91 needs of young people in the community. Because one of the programs it supports is the " Just Say No" anti-drug
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campaign, Optimist members invited the sheriff candidates to give them their views on crime in Lee County. Democrats Buddy Bell, Robert Herring, Wayne Hunt and incumbent Sheriff Jack Shirley and Republican Kerry Slack told club members that a consolidated city/ county jail, stricter drug enforcement and a reduction in property crimes are at the top of their agendas. The Optimist Club said the four other candidates - Bubba Homan, Gary King, Walter Smith and Russell Ethridge - were invited to speak, but declined. Buddy Bell , a former Shelby County, Tenn., Sheriff's Department deputy and Lee County Sheriff's Department deputy, now serves with the Tupelo Police Department. Bell, like all the candidates, endorses a
consolidated jail to house city and county criminals. "I've seen it before and a consolidated system could work here," Bell said. Herring, Slack and Shirley agreed, but said the sheriff's department should not necessarily be responsible for the jail. Shirley opted for an independe.nt jail administrator, and his idea was echoed by Slack. '' A consolidated jail would be a smart move, but I think a jail administrator hired to handle the jail would be best," said Slack , a former commander of the Tupelo Vice Narcotics Unit and former criminal investigator for the District Attorney's Office. " I would ask that it be recognized as a regional corrections center that could hold federal and state prisoners, and we
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could get grants - federal and state instead of taxpayers." Herring was critical of the current county jail. "The Lee County Jail is completely obsolete at this time," said Herring, who served two previous terms as Lee County sheriff from 1972 to 1976 and 1980 to l 984. ''It was just about obsolete when they moved into the building. Instead of duplicating services in the city and county, we should get together on one jail .'' Shirley agreed, noting that he has spoken in the past with Tupelo Police Chief Billy White about consolidating the jails.
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Congress chided for not meeting 100-day challenge
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By BRIAN FRIEDMAN
MOSCOW - Russians chose a president Wednesday for the first time in history, and early returns showed reformer. Boris N. Yeltsin leading by a large margin in the biggest and richest Soviet republic. A victory would enable Yeltsi n to accelerate his drive to turn state-run farms and businesses over to private owners. It also would fortify his position against Soviet Boris Yeltsin President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who has never faced a popular election. First returns from the Soviet Far East showed Yeltsin ahead of · his principal challenger, former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, who had the support of the Communist Party and favors a gradual shift to a market economy. In the Pacific city of Yuzhno-Sakalinsk, Yeltsin won 57 percent, to Ryzhkov's 16 percent, according to the independent Russian Information Agency. Yeltsin won about 81 percent of the vote from sailors aboard navy ships in the Pacific and Indian oceans, and about two-thirds of the vote among fishing fleets off Nakhodka on the Sea of Japan, the state Tass news agency reported. Yeltsin, who faced five challengers, was predicted to win about 60 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff election. By 5 p.m. Moscow time, 64 percent of the republic's I 05 million eligible voters had cast ballots, said Vasily Kazakov , chairman of the Russian Federation's central election commission. He told Tass numerous violations were reported at the 98,000 polling stations in the republic, which encompasses IO time zones from the Pacific to the Baltic Sea. Residents of Leningrad, meanwhile, voted in a referendum on whether to return the city's name to the pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. The Communist Party has campaigned against the change, saying it would dishonor World War II veterans and Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin. A beaming Yeltsin was greated by chants of " Victory! Victory!" from scores of supporters as he voted in Moscow. After dropping his
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Gentry Sillfps, left, and Calvin Agnew, both of Baldwyn, wait for assistance Wednesday at a car wasn on the corner of South Green Street and Cliff Gookin Boulevard in Tupelo. The pair were having cars cleaned for Miller's Used Cars in Baldwyn when the cars suddenly were crushed by a flying truck. Tupelo Police Sgt John Mabry said the 17~year-old driver of the pickup truck ran a stop sign and appa-ret'ltly was speeding when he hit an uneven section of pavement and his truck became airborne, landif:)9 rin the unoecupied Buick. The driver was taken to North Mississippi Medicat Center and tretited for minor injuries, Mabry said. No one else was injured.
WASHINGTON - President Bush, fighting the public perception that he spends too little time dealing with the nation's domestic problems, said Wednesday that he has sent " literally hundreds" of recommendations to Congress and he chided lawmak"I thought a hu nd red ers for not meeting his I00-day challenge to enact transportation days was pretty reasonand anti-crime legislation. I wasn't asking " I thought ·a hundred days was able. pretty reasonable ," Bush said, re- Congress to deliver a hot ferring to the deadline he set in a pizza in less than 30 March 6 address to Congress. " I wasn't asking Congress to deliver a m inutes." hot pizza in less than 30 minutes." - George Bush ''It is now clear that neither (bill) will reach my desk by Friday,'' the I 00th day , he said. " I am disappointed, but frankly I'm not surprised." The president's speech, delivered to about 1,000 invited guests on the White House's south lawn, sought to focus blame on the Democratic-led Congress for the policy gridlock on domestic issues such as civil rights , health care and housing. But he avoided any overtly partisan barbs, never referring by name to the Democratic Party, which controls both houses of Congress.
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Volcano spews again; villagers flee on water buffalo By EILEEN GUERRERO Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines - Tremendous explosions rocked Mount Pinatubo anew on Wednesday, shooting streams of ash and steam 15 miles high and sending molten rock down the steep mountain slopes. Thousands of primitive Aeta tribesmen fled the lush , green slopes on buffaloes and oxdrawn carts after stones as big as a man's head rained down on them . Only one death was reported from the eruptions, the largest at Pinatubo in more than 600 years. A Filipino serving in the U.S. Navy was killed Wednesday when his car skidded on an ash-sl ickened road north of the Subic Bay Naval Base and crashed into a bus. His name was withheld pending notification of
kin. Delfin Garcia of the Philippine Institute of Vulcanology and Seismology said the volcano was entering "an episode of big eruptions" that would continue indefinitely. Assessing the damage was problematic the institute said the volcano remained so dangerously active that nobody could get closer than 12 miles for a closer inspection.
At a refugee center in Olongapo, 35 miles southwest of the volcano, survivors told of the sky growing dark, then of hearing a tremendous explosion followed by a rain of ash.
About 10 miles to the east, hundreds of Americans fled Clark Air Base, which was evacuated by nearly 15 ,000 American military personnel and their families on Monday . Some opponents of the U.S. military presence have speculated that the speedy evacuation was prompted by the possible existence of nuclear weapons on the base. The U.S.
" There was panic everywhere," said Manuel Romualdo. "Children were crying. We had to grab whatever we could." Ash fell over about seven towns in Zambales province west of the crater and the San Miguel naval installation, which the United States turned over to the Philippines this year but where many Americans assigned to the
military, however, never confirms or denies the presence of such weapons. More than 19,000 Filipinos have been evacuated from three provinces near the volcano's slopes.
Subic naval base still live. Ash was so thick that at noon, motorists were driving with their headlights and windshield wipers on. Workers used giant rakes to clear ash from city streets. The huge plume could be seen in Manila, 60 miles to the south. The cloud drifted westward into the South China Sea, raining ash over a wide area of southern Zambales province on the western slopes of Pinatubo. Moments after the first explosion, sirens wailed at Clark Air Base, and 600 of the 1,500 Americans remaining there fled eastward to safety. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Ron Rand said 900 Americans , mostly security personnel , remained at the 130,000-acre base.
Corinth radiologist makes long-distance diagnosis via TV By BILL SUMRALL Daily J ournal
CORINTH - TV Guide magazine·s June 15 edition contains the report of a bit of long-distance diagnosii. by a Corinth radiologist. Last spring, Dr. Albin H. Steiner said he was watching a financial program on CNN that featured business reporter Jan Hopkins as one of the panelists. Steiner, a diagnostic radiologist for the past 30 years. works at Magnolia Hospital in
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Corinth, McNairy County General Hospital in Selmer, Tenn., and Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. '' As I watched the show, I thought I saw a small nodule or lump in her thyroid gland,'' Steiner said during a telephone interview Wednesday. He didn't think it was any of his business at the time - after all. Hopkins wasn't his patient. But, as it happened. he was recording the program, since he was in and out of the room.
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In March , he was looking for a tape on which to record another program and came across the tape with the CNN financial program on it. Steiner said he had since forgotten all about spotting the small lump until he viewed the tape. This time, Steiner watched the tape in slow motion and confirmed the presence of a suspicious lump in Hopkins' thyroid gland. Steiner said he told his wife and asked what he should do. She suggested he write Hopkins a letter, just in case she didn't
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know about the lump. Hopkins called some weeks later to express her appreciation. Steiner's letter prompted Hopkins. who had indeed been unaware of the lump , to make an appointment with an internist, who confirmed its presence. She is currently undergoing treatment. " We are hoping it is a benign lesion," Steiner said. Turn to DIAGNOSIS on Page 13A
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The closing bell will still sound at 4 p.m. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, but for the first time business will reopen by computer for an extra hour and 15 minutes. The nation's largest stock market is extending its business day with two after-hours sessions to trade stocks at the da 's closin prices.
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Weather A little sun, a little rain ............................ 7C Today, partly cloudy and humid with ~ scattered thunderstorms and highs near 90. Chance of rain is 40 percent. Tonight, scattered thunderstorms with lows in , , , , , the lower 70s. ' ' ' ' '
Yugoslav premier cautions republic .......GA Yugoslavia's premier told lawmakers Wednesday that the republic would face harsh economic and political consequences if it declares independence.
Northeast Mississippi dignitaries gathered Wednesday to reaffirm their highways commitment.
Nation Rendezvous could trigger UFO sightings .... 2A The bright planets Venus, Jupiter and Mars will appear to rendezvous in the evening sky for the next week, a rare spectacle that may trigger reports of UFO sightings. Anyone on Earth who looks to the west during the few hours after sunset through June 21 will see the planets within 3 degrees of each other - roughly onethird the width of a fist held at arm's length against the sky.
Got room for a baluchithere in your basement? A rhino in your rec room? The folks at Morrill Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus are looking for a place for their 18foot-tall baluchithere, a reconstruction of a prehistoric rhinoceros. "We're planning to declare the exhibit a surplus," said William Splinter, interim vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies. Because it is 65 percent to 70 percent asbestos, the rhino will be enclosed and cut into seven sections to get through a museum's doors, said Hugh Genoways, director of the University of Nebraska State Museum. If it finds a new home, its frame can be reassembled and a new fiberglass skin can be created. Splinter hopes to find a museum interested in using the rhino's postremoval remains to rebuild it. No removal date will be set until efforts to relocate the rhino have been exhausted, he said.
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