The ITEM Sumter, S.C., Saturday, December 10, 1994 Page 1 13A FROM PAGE 1A Ouster of Elders pleases Republicans FROM PAGE 1A coming chairwoman of the Senate Labor and Human Committee, called Elders' ouster, "necessary and long overdue," Said Rep. Marge Roukema of New Jersey, the most senior Republican woman' in the House: "Great, what took her so long?" However, the Planned Parenthood Federation, which advocates birth control to. limit population growth, said Elders "brought to Washington a welcome dose of real-world wisdom that raised the stature of the office." As surgeon general, Elders had a bully pulpit in the administration to espouse her views without a lot of actual control over federal health programs or policy. Her firing resulted from her remarks Dec. 1 at a World AIDS Day conference in New York, when she was asked her views on masturbation.
She said, "As per your specific question in regard to masturbation, I think that is something that is a part of human sexuality and it's a part of something that perhaps should be taught. But we've not even taught our children the very basics. And I feel that we have tried ignorance for a very long time and it's time we try In a telephone interview from her, home outside Washington, Elders said she had intended to relate her belief that students should be taught that: tion is a natural part of human, sexuality not that youths should be taught how to masturbat*. "Heavens, no. That's not what I was trying to say," she sajd.
"You can't teach people how to do that, just like you can't teach them how to have sex." Elders, 61, said she was not bitter, although she expressed surprise over the way her remarks were interpreted. "People have taken a lot of things I've said in a most unusual way," she said. The White House learned of Elders' remarks Thursday and verified what she had said. "The president feels that's wrong, feels that it's not what schools are for and it's not what the surgeon general should say," Panetta said. In a written statement, Clinton said differences with Elders "have made it necessary for her to tender her resignation.
Those statements in no way diminish her devotion to her work and the enormous positive impact she has had on the problems she tackled and the people she served." Jury to be chosen at random today FROM PAGE 1A read Tucker a statement that explained his rights. And, they testified, Tucker signed the statement and then verbally acknowledged that he understood it. Finney argued that the men did not ask Tucker if he could read and that they didn't directly ask him if he understood that by signing the document he was waiving his right to have an attorney present. Also taking the stand was Sara Carver Price, the police chief of Maggie Valley, N.C., where Tucker was arrested after being apprehended. Kolb submitted as evidence a statement from Price that described Tucker's arrest and other details of his early incarceration following the arrest.
Finney also requested that her statement not be allowed as evidence. Cooper said he would consider the arguments and testimony and make a ruling today. Meanwhile, trial preparation moved ahead on other fronts. At about 12:45 p.m. Friday after four and a half days the slow process of selecting a jury pool finally appeared complete as Cooper qualified the last of 35 potential jurors.
But three hours later Cooper announced that one of the 35 had run into unexpected problems arranging supervision for her children during the trial. One more juror was qualified Friday at about 6 p.m. to ensure the court would have a full pool of 35 from which to select a jury this morning. The jury's 14 members will be selected randomly at 10 this morning. The jury will contain 12 members and two alternates and will be sequestered for the duration of the trial.
Testimony is likely to begin Sunday, though it was initially expected to begin earlier this week. Once the trial starts, it is expected to continue without a day's break until its conclusion. Cooper is expected to sequester the jury at a local motel during the trial. STATE South rises again this time in D.C. By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The South is rising again on Capitol Hill.
Conservative Southern Republicans intent on shaking up Congress are chasing away the ghosts of the powerful Southern Democrats who once dominated the landscape. top three leaders of the new House are from the South, as "are the chairmen of some key committees. In the Senate, a Mississippian ousted a Westerner from the No. 2 leadership post. The strict Senate seniority system, meanwhile, will put elderly Southerners in charge of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees.
The regional resurgence signals changes in both politics and 1 policy. There are more Southern Republicans than ever, and they often reflect the country's most conservative leanings on fiscal and social issues. The November midterm elections were a breakthrough for Republicans in the 11-state South from Virginia to Texas. The GOP now holds a majority of Senate and House seats in the region 64 of 125 in the House, 13 of 22 in the Senate. "They've never been able to achieve that before.
And there's still considerable potential for more Republican seats in the South," said Earl Black, a Southern politics specialist at Rice University. Some Southerners say it's taken over 100 years for their region to forgive the Republican Party for the Civil War and its. aftermath. Disillusionment Clinton administration reworking budget plans FROM PAGE 1A matic signal yet that he is moving to the center in response to the election losses Democrats suffered in November, Facing Republican control of the House and Senate next year, Clinton's Office of Management and Budget has been searching for ways to make the president's annual budget a vehicle to, regain the initiative on cutting the costs. of government and making it function better, With Republicans already promising to slash government spending, the country is facing the unusual prospect that both parties could attempt to outbid each other.
for the mantle of champion budget cutter. Carol Cox Waite, president of the bipartisan Committee Responsible Budget, which has urged deficit reduction for years, said she was encouraged that politicians may have finally gotten the message from the voters. "If politicians don't respond. correctly, then I think the voters will be ready to change the folks who are making the decisions once again," she said. However, each Cabinet agency has its own constituency that is certain to bring heavy press a sure on Congress.
Transportation officials have protested that their agency covers too many vital regulatory. functions, especially, dealing with air safety, to be eliminated. District to consider requests W. Davis and board member Barry Reynolds also attended, she said. The 90-minute meeting was called "very professional" and "organized" by both sides.
Teacher representatives read statements detailing their concerns about safety at the school and enumerating the steps they want the administration to take, Ray said. Ray said she told the teachers that their proposals have all been considered by the district before. "All their points were well-taken and will certainly be considered and addressed at an early date," she said. Ray said the district has already contacted companies about the cost and requirements for a new intercom system and that "I foresee the purchase of hand-held metal detectors." The intercom would allow teachers to talk to Energy officials say that their biggest function, managing the government's nuclear weapons program, would have to be continued. and that there has been longstanding reluctance to give that job to the Pentagon, said that HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros this week.
offered the White House a set of counterproposals that would include steep cuts in certain housing programs but would "save HUD as, a separate Cabinet agency. FROM PAGE 1A the school office from their classrooms, Ray said. The metal detectors would be used to check students for weapons randomly or if there is probable cause. The teachers also asked that a panel with school officials and perhaps parents be formed to review students who have been recommended for expulsion, Elmore said. Currently, the assistant superintendent for administration reviews the cases alone and recommends to the district's board of trustees whether a student should be expelled.
"They want school administrators (who' work in the schools and know what goes on) to have more say in the process," Elmore said. Ray said she is "not opposed" to the idea of changing the expulsion process. As for guards, Ray said, the school has hall monitors now, but they do not have formal law enforcement training. Ray said purchases of a new intercom system and metal detectors are merely awaiting funds because they have already been approved by the district board as part of the district's five-year strategic plan. Ray said she could change the expulsion process alone, but said a decision to hire guards with police-type training, guns and uniforms would "certainly" go through the board.
Bonnie Disney, a Sumter High teacher and the district's teacher of the year for 1994, said after the meeting that "everybody went away from the meeting with the understanding that these things need to be looked "I believe that the position of the teachers are the same as the positions of the district personnel," Disney said. Ray said the teachers said they would send a representative to speak to the board of trustees, but Ray said she did not think it would happen at the next board meeting on Tuesday. Society must address violence, teacher says FROM PAGE 1A "We have a very intelligent, sometimes loud, faculty," she said. "Many of us would feel good speaking up and facing the music if we felt comfortable about doing it. Dr.
Starr and his administrative staff do a really good job," she continued. "I would hate to see them in the public's eye be the sacrificial ones in all of this. And we (teachers) do our jobs and take them seriously. But sometimes we feel like, not that our complaints aren't taken seriously, but that they're not acted upon." "Sumter High is an innovative school," she said, and most teachers wouldn't mind if the school took an innovative stance in its approach to school violence. She said Sumter High teachers wanted to invite the district's trustees and members of Sumter County Council to Friday's meeting.
Sumter 17 Superintendent Dr. Andrena Ray, however, told the school's 140-something teachers that having a quorum of either of those public bodies would mean the media would have to be allowed in, the teacher said. Ray told them the district's trustees would have to first discuss the teachers' concerns before possibly taking the discussion to a wider audience, the teacher said. Only two trustees, board Chairwoman Margaret W. Davis and Trustee Barry Reynolds, attended the forum.
Society as a whole doesn't want to talk about the real extent of school violence or about taking stern steps to curb school violence, she said. That's got to change, she said. She said schools are violent to a certain extent because they reflect society, as people often say. But, actually, she said, schools haven't kept up with society. "In society, you see armed guards, you see policemen standing around at the mall at night.
We're behind society on that now. A lot of the fear is that we don't want to admit that we're sending our kids to what may be a dangerous place. That sounds bad. But kids who are going to school to learn, who have a serious interest in school, wouldn't be threatened by policemen. I think it's only the kids who have something (to fear) who would be afraid of having a policeman there." Also, a call-back intercom system would have allowed the study hall substitute to call the office Thursday, and the injuries to one or two of the teachers might have been prevented, she said.
Communication is difficult between school officials at Sumter High partly because the school is SO large. With a body, Sumter High is the state's largest single-campus school. "An intercom system would offer immediate help," the teacher said. "Some parts of the school are very remote The substitute teacher couldn't let anyone know (what was going on). She had to run for The girl with the knife was finally stopped near an office area during a class change as students were coming out into the hallways, the teacher said.
"Many students witnessed this. Dr. Starr is the hero here. She slashed at him three times. He finally pounded (the knife) out of her hand.
The administrators at Sumter High, I feel like, are the best in the state. All of them would step in front of a student or a teacher, to save their life, if they had to." Some students who have been from school just shouldn't be allowed back in, she said. "I feel sometimes that the 'save every child' policy goes too far. But we've got good kids who do wonderful things. We have great kids and a wonderful staff." Kids talk about guns and weapons, but "I don't think there's a terror going through our school," she said.
"They're intimidated more than afraid. I think there's probably an alarming number of guns taken to school every day in most public schools." Ray seemed genuinely concerned Friday, though, the teacher said. "They told us they would back to us. We made it very cle. we want immediate action.
We don't want them to put it off." She said the teachers are waiting to see what the administration and the trustees will do. "I think until we can see them do something, we're going to be tentative. I know we had their attention today. I guess that makes us feel a lot better about what may happen. When you have about 143 people in this town standing together and speaking together, that's really saying something." And the teachers were united when they spoke, she said.
"More than any time since I've been there, it was with one voice." Fleiss' sister to be key witness against 'Hollywood Madam' LOS ANGELES The younger sister of convicted Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is set to be a key witness against her sister and father in an upcoming federal trial, court papers show. The papers filed by federal JIMMIE DWYER SR. By JOHN HORN Associated Press Writer Jimmie Dwyer Sr. died Friday, Dec. 9, 1994, in Summer Arms Apartments.
Born in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Joe and Queen Esther Logan Dwyer. The family will receive friends at the home of his sister, Virginia Robinson, 241 Brent Sumter. Services will be announced by Job's Mortuary of Sumter. SARAH C. BRADLEY Sarah Coleman Bradley, 98, widow of Furman A.
Bradley, died Friday, Dec. 9, 1994, at a Florence nursing center. Born in Darlington, she was a daughter of the late Andrew and Margaret Pack Coleman. She was a member of Smithville Evangelical Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Hagard F.
Bradley of Sumter; four daughters, Mary Anderson of Manning, Eleanor Truett of Sumter, Roberta Hinson of Bedford, and Minnie Kinlaw of Florence; a brother, Byrd T. Coleman of Sumter; a sister, Edna Williams of Florida; 27 grandchildren; and a of great She was preceded in death by two sons, Albert Bradley and Charles Bradley. Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of El- NATION with Democrats began with the civil rights movement, and has gradually trickled down from the presidential to the congressional level. The trend has been reinforced by what some see as a reversal in party roles.
The GOP, long faithful to business interests, is now viewed by many as a populist party. And its increasing social conservatism in recent years is compatible with prevailing Southern cultural attitudes toward religion, the military and other institutions. At the head of lineup are incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and incoming Majority Leader Richard Armey of Texas, both of them Northern transplants who represent affluent suburban districts. The other rising Southerners in the House include Tom Delay and Bill Archer of Texas, the No. 3 House leader and designated chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, respectively; Bob Livingston of Louisiana, incoming chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Floyd Spence of South new chairman of the newly named National Security Committee; and Larry Combest of Texas, incoming chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
On the Senate side, Trent Lott of Mississippi ousted Alan Simpson of Wyoming for the No. 2 whip job. But Lott, like his ally Gingrich, has a national, rather than Southern, vision of conservatism. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, 92, is a 40-year veteran who'll chair the Senate Armed Services Committee. The other Southern chairman will be North Carolina's Jesse Helms, 73, who is inflaming political passions as he prepares to head the Foreign Relations Committee.
prosecutors this week reveal that Shana Fleiss will be called as a prosecution witness to show jurors how Heidi Fleiss and pediatrician father Paul Fleiss allegedly concealed the ill-gotten gains of Heidi Fleiss' prostitution The U.S. attorney's office, which is prosecuting the Fleisses for money laundering, tax evasion and bank fraud, says Shana Fleiss' more-Hill-McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. Freddie Gaymon and the Rev. Randy Green officiating. Burial will follow in Sumter Cemetery.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at Elmore-Hill-McCreight Funeral Home from 6 to 8 p.m. today and at other times at the home of Raymond Truett, 100 Macy Sumter. Memorials may be made to Smithville Evangelical Baptist Church in care of Jimmy Baker, 225 Pinecrest Drive, Sumter, S.C., 29153. Elmore-Hill-McCreight Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.
103 S. Washington died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1994, in Ellicott City, Md. The family will receive friends at the home. Services will be announced by Palmer Memorial Chapel of Sumter.
CATHERINE G. MITCHELL Catherine Grooms Mitchell, of JAMES WASHINGTON SR. LAKE CITY James Washington 62, of Lake City, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 1994. Born in Williamsburg County, he was a son of the late Daniel bank accounts were used to launder the prostitution profits.
She also can help prove Paul Fleiss lied on tax forms, prosecutors claim. The papers also reveal that the government attempted to negotiate a plea agreement with the three Fleisses. No agreement has been announced, and an attorney for Paul Fleiss said none will be Washington and Maebell Washington. He was a member of Greater St. Stephen Baptist Church of Lake City.
Survivors include his wife, Leola Juanita Washington of Miami; two sons, James Washington Jr. of Spokane, and Franklin Washington of Miami; five sisters, Sallie Myers of Lake City, Pearlie Mae McKnight of Miami, Emma Lese Martin of New Jersey and Peggie Pendergrass and Sarah Washington, both of Kingstree; two brothers, Frank Washington and Eugene Washington, both of Kingstree; and four grandchildren. Services will be held at noon today at Greater St. Stephen Baptist Church with the Rev. Samuel Burgess officiating.
Burial will be in White Oak Cemetery in Cades. Green's Funeral Home of Lake City is in charge of the arrangements. HAYES SANDERS JR. SUFFERN, N.Y. Hayes Sanders 89, widower of Mettie Dais Sanders, died Monday, Dec.
5, 1994, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y. Born on Nov. 27, 1905, in Sumter County, he was a son of the late Hayes Sanders Sr. and Hettie Young Sanders. He was a member of Mt.
Pisgah Baptist Church and owner of Sanders reached. Shana Fleiss will testify under a limited immunity grant since she had been targeted earlier by federal investigators. Fleiss was convicted of three counts of pandering on Dec. 1 and faces a minimum jail sentence of three years. She and her father are scheduled to go on trial in federal court in late January.
Auto Repair in Rembert for 40 years. Survivors include a son, Herbert Sanders of Bronx, N.Y.; two daughters, Alma Sanders Roman of Pomona, N.Y., and Virginia Jean Brown of Sumter; two brothers, Harry Sanders of Washington, D.C., and Walter Sanders of Rembert; five sisters, Annie Murray of Florence, Levenia Heriot of Bronx, N.Y., Pauline Herrington of New York City, Isadore Boykin of Philadelphia and Sallie Tarver of Columbus, Ohio; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at, Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Rembert with the Rev.
Marvin Hodge presiding, assisted by the Rev. Willie Dennis. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. The family will receive friends at 5785 Thomas Sumter Highway in Rembert.
Memorials may be made to the Mettie and Hayes Sanders Memorial Scholarship Fund, care of Martha Wright, 4050 Peach Orchard Road, Dalzell, S.C., 29040. MayPalmer Memorial Chaporman Sumter is in charge of rangements..
