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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday. August 3, 1989
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WASHINGTON (AP): Jury finds Korean air crew guilty
— A federal court jury Wednesday awarded $50 million to the
families of 137 passengers killed when a Korean Air Lines plane
strayed into Soviet territory and was shot down six years ago All 200
people aboard, including then-U.S. Rep. Larry McDonald of Georgia,
were killed in the Sept. 1, 1983 disaster. The jury of three men and
three women awarded the $50 million as punitive damages two hours
after returning a verdict that KAL had committed willful misconduct.
The jury concluded that actions by KAL’s crew aboard Flight 007
were a cause of the aircraft’s destruction by a missile-firing Soviet
fighter plane. Several family members clapped their hands when the
finding of willful misconduct was announced, and one woman in the
front row wept. Without the finding of willful misconduct, the
families would have been limited to compensation of $75,000 per
passenger, a figure set under international treaty George Tompkins,
a lawyer defending the airline, said the company will appeal
Wednesday’s verdict.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
•Athens Pro-Choice Action
League will have a general
meeting Monday, August 7 at 7
p.m. at Athens Regional Library
on Dougherty St. Activities will
be planned in response to the
recent Supreme Court decision.
Talk will concern contacting
legislators and the November
march in Washington D.C. Call
353-0488 for more information.
•Athens Folk Music and Dance
Society will meet August 8 at
7:30 p.m. on the 1st floor of the
Tate Center.
•Cocaine Anonymous meets at 8
p.m. every Tuesday at Charter
Winds Hospital, 240 Mitchell
Bridge Rd For more information
call 546-7277.
Events
•The Summer Division of
University Union will sponsor
midnight movies at the Tate
theater tonight through
Saturday. Pink Floyd’s 'The
Wall” will show tonight. “A
Clockwork Orange” will be
shown Friday and Saturday
nights. Admission is $2.
•Athens Folk Music and Dance
Society will sponsor “Caddy
Wompus" August 5 at 8 p.m at
the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship Hall, 834 Prince
Avenue. Susan David is calling
for the dances. Beginners are
welcome Call 543-2027 for
further information.
•The East Georgia chapter of the
American Red Cross will conduct
a blood dnve Monday, August 7
at Conner Hall from 9:30 a.m. to
3 p.m.
•The Northeast Georgia
Community Mental
Health/Mental Retardation and
Substance Abuse Center will be
holding Compeer training at the
Northeast Georgia Center, 1247
Prince Avenue on August 7 and
14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m
Compeers can spend as little as
one hour each week with a
Mental Health client in some
mutually enjoyable activity to
help change the isolation some
mentally ill people feel. For more
information call Bette Nielson at
542-9739.
•The Gnt Art Gallery will be
featuring Beth Youman’s
photography through tonight.
Opening August 4 through
August 17, the featured art will
be photography by Peter, Paul
and Marybeth.
•The State Botanical Garden of
Georgia is presenting
“Colorscapes" by Judy Bolton
Jarrett August 4 through
September 28 at the Visitor
Center/Conservatory Complex.
The works consist of watercolors
of landscapes using flowers and
unusual perspectives. Miniature
paintings will also be included
•The Downstairs Restaurant Art
Gallery will display Bailey
Shutt's recent paintings through
August 16.
•An exhibition, “Lost And
Found,” featuring sculptures by
Tom Hancock will be inown
through September 15 at the
Tate Center Gallery.
•Athens-Clarke Heritage
Foundation Art Gallery is
hosting a collection of
photographs featuring Athens'
historic Cobbham district The
exhibition closes August 30.
• Aurum Studios Ltd., 125 E.
Clayton St., is presenting
"Southern Architectual
Watercolors” by Ann Breedlov
Powers until August 31.
•The Loef Gallery At Park Plaza,
320 E. Clayton will show
"Visions of the Journey,"
watercolors, oils, printa,
ceramics, sculptures, jewelry,
fabric designs and stained glass
artworks by local artists. Artist-
of-the-Month, Christopher
Augur, from Orleans, France,
will also have his batiques on
display.
•The Georgia Museum of Art is
presenting an exhibition through
I August 20. “Visions of Nature:
English Romantic Prints from
the Permnnent Collection" will
include works by William Blake,
J.M.W. Turner, John Martin,
John Sell Cotman, David Lucas
and Samuel Prout.
•The Georgia Museum of Art is
j presenting the 41st Biennial
Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting through
August 20. The presentation
contains the works of 18
Southeastern artists, including
five Georgians. The museum is
open Monday through Soturday,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1
| a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is fret*
Announcements
•The American Language
Program of the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education needs
host families for international
students from August 16 until
J September 11. During this time
all University dorms will be
closed. For more information,
call 542-4095 or 542-6685.
•Athens Pence Coalition will be
I traveling to the Savannah River
| Plant in Aiken, S.C. on August 6
I for the Hiroshima Day Vigil
I organized by Greenpeace. To
I obtain more information, or a
I nde to SRP, call 353-7528 or 353 i
! 7920.
i # The Athens Aren Emergency
Food Bank, Inc. is appealing to
the community for fo«>d
! donations and volunteers for
both the store operations and the
renovation project each Saturday
morning between 9 a.m. and
noon until the project is
I complete. The renovation project
involves upgrading the new
facility on 640 Barber St.
Financial contributions may be
made and volunteer services
indicated by writing to the Food
Bank, P.O. Box 769, Athens, GA
30603. Food may be delivered to
the Food Bank between 9 a.m.
I and 1 p.m., Monday through
Friday. All contributions, food
donations, financial gifts and
j volunteer expenses are tax
| deductible.
i •Summer volunteers are needed
to tape college textbooks and to
read for students with visual
I disabilities. If interested, please
contact Handicapped Student
Services at 542-8719.
I •International Education
I Forum, a non-profit
j organization, needs host families
for English speaking students
| from Europe and Asia. These
students will be arriving soon in
j the U.S. to attend high school
and need to be placed with
families immediately. For more
| information call Stephanie
I Kurtz, 1010 Windbrooke Ct,
Watkinsville, GA 30677, 769-
9750 or 1-800-346-2826.
| •Community Connection
] announces the establishment of a
support group for single women
who are raising children alone
and know the problems of
receiving public assistance and
child support from ex-spouses If
you want to meet with other
I women who have had these same
I problems to work for
| improvement of the system, call
I 353-1313 weekdays 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. for more information.
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Athens station ‘sounds better’ from far away
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Associate Editor
Ha\e you noticed that 104.7 on
the FM dial sounds clearer and can
be heard throughout North
Georgia?
Janet LeCroy, station office
manager, said WAGQ is now
MusicRadio WALR 104 7; a station
targeted at listeners between the
ages of 18 and 54
Ring Radio Co. of Atlanta pur
chased the station in April for more
than $15 million, I^eCroy said.
WAGQ, the station previously
owned by McClure Broadcasting
Inc. of Columbus for ten years, was
aimed at a younger audience be
tween the nges of 18 and 34, she
said.
The change in ownership has not
only meant a switch in the target
audience, but also in frequency, Le
Croy said.
“We’ve gone from 50,000 watts
to 100,000 and now reach all of
North Georgia,” she said
Although the station in Athens
is in use, WALR broadcasts out of
Atlanta, LeCroy said.
‘We’ve gone from
50.000 watts to
100.000 and now
reach all of North
Georgia.’
—Janet LeCroy,
station office manager
Charles McClure, president of
McClure Broadcasting Inc., which
owns four radio stations, said the
company had to sell the station be
cause the signal couldn't be in
creased without violating Federal
Communications Commission
rules.
“We had another station in
Canon, Georgia, and under com
mission rules you can’t overlap sig
nals.
‘We needed to sell one (station)
because an increase in signals
would cause an overlap and we
couldn’t have them both,” McClure
said.
Robert Jackson, Ring Radio Co.
president, said, “What the station
offers is a tremendous opportunity
to sell commercial airtime to a tre
mendous list of advertisers.”
Jackson, a 1970 graduate of the
College of Business Administra
tion, said, “It just gives us a much
broader market to compete for ad
vertising dollars.”
McClure, a 1947 graduate of the
College of Journalism and Mass
‘It just gives us a much
broader market to
compete for
advertising dollars.’
—Robert Jackson,
Ring Radio Co.
president
Communication, said he would like
to come back to Athens.
LeCroy said that the station had
received positive input from
Athens residents, including both
students and adults in the area.
“I think the change has gone
very well," she said. “One of the
reasons for that is the increase in
power ”
Thomas St. call box
Solar phones improve night safety
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
Creatures of the night, beware.
Nine solar call boxes were installed in University
parking lots last weekend to provide quick assistance
to people in distress.
The call boxes, similar to those in New York City’s
Central Park, are cellular telephones which are di
rectly connected to the police department.
Warren SafYer, University assistant public safety
director, said the call boxes could be used for two-way
communication with a police dispatcher or a one-way
distress signal activated when the system is opened.
He said with the use of call boxes, police assistance
should arrive in as little as two minutes.
Softer said the nine call boxes and n base station
were purchased for a total of $47,000 from GTE Cel
lular Communication Company, a subsidary of Bell
South Mobility.
Joanne O’Donnell, general manager of external af
fairs for Bell South Mobility, said the call boxes are
both AC and solar powered and that the alarm is trig
gered whenever the box is opened. Therefore, police
will be notified even if the victim doesn’t stay around
to make the call.
The boxes will be important not only because they
will greatly reduce police response time but because
they will act as a deterrent to crime, she said.
While the systems are being used in New York City,
at the University of Texas, at Baylor University and
by some highway patrols, this is the first system of its
kind in the Southeast, O’Donnell said.
Softer said the nine locations for the boxes were
chosen because they were determined by the public
safety department ns high risk areas. They include:
the Greene Street lot, 3 phones; the faculty lot on East
Campus Rond, 2 phones; the Candler lot, Hull Street
lot, Boggs Hall lot, and Russell Hall lot, one phone
each.
‘The main benefit of the phones being cellular is
they are mobile, and we can take them up and move
them to wherever we deem them most useful as situa
tions change. We can’t do this with hard line phones,”
he said.
The University will be charged 50 cents a call and
the phones will operate 24 hours a day, all year,
Sailer said.
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