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Griffin Daily News Saturday, March 19,1977
Gunman wounds 2;
takes 2 hostages
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A
gunman shot and wounded two
people, then took five others
hostage in an apartment, police
said. Three children were re
leased after daybreak today,
but the gunman continued to
hold two mothers.
Police said they didn’t know
what sparked the incident, but
said one of the women was a
girlfriend of the gunman, iden
tified by officers as Alcee Sim
mons.
Police said Simmons’ first re
quest was for a six-pack of beer,
but Police Chief James York
refused to supply it.
A police “hostage negotiating
team” was on the scene.
“It’s been a long night and
he’s getting tired and that’s
working for the police right
now,” said police spokesman
Bruce Henson.
Police identified the remain
ing hostages as Twinity Du-
Bose, 26, and Pat Carson, 25.
Earlier, Mrs. Dußose’s chil
dren, Michael, 5, and Denard, 9,
and Mrs. Carson’s son, Hershel,
7, were released by Simmons
after negotiations with police, a
spokesman said.
The incident began at about
10:30 p.m. EST at the Catalina
Ixrdge Apartments in this Cen
tral Florida city, police said.
“Police received a call in ref
erence to a shooting,” said
‘Tomato’
attacks man
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A to
mato four feet high and four feet
wide “attacked” a man in
downtown San Diego but pass
ersby paid little attention.
It was only a prop for a new
motion picture.
"Attack of the Killer To
matoes” is being filmed by a
local company. Director John
Deßello described it as “a mu
sical comedy, disaster, horror
film.”
IN MEMORY
In memory of my husband,
John M. Pierce, who passed
away 2 years ago, March 20,
1975.
There’s an open gate
At the end of the road
Through which each must go
alone
And there is a light we
cannot see.
Our Father claims His own:
Beyond the gate my loved
one has
Found happiness and rest
And there is comfort in the
thought
That a loving God knows
best.
Wife: Mrs. Kathleen T.
Pierce
Sister - Mrs. Louis Moore
Daughter - Mrs. Jeanette
Coker
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Henson. “When they got there,
they found that there was one
man holding five people in an
apartment."
Louis Smith, 40, and Patricia
Truss, 26, were listed in satis
factory condition at a local hos-
People
Cyrus Eaton, Jr,
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cyrus Eaton Jr. has confirmed
that he is negotiating to build and operate a S2OO million
tourist resort on Cuba’s northeast coast.
Eaton, son of industrialist Cyrus Eaton Sr., returned
recently from a visit to Cuba. He said Friday that a
decision on whether to proceed with the 3,000-room resort
probably will be made this summer.
He noted American travel restrictions to Cuba were
lifted Friday, and he said the island has a shortage of hotel
space.
Eaton said the resort would be owned and operated
jointly by his firm, Tower International Inc., and the
Cuban government.
Tower is a division of Clayton International Industries
Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, which Eaton owns. He said all
business dealings with Cuba were being handled through
Canada.
The U.S. government still prohibits trade with Cuba.
Alan Jay Lerner
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says the average person
would be doing well to be as “poor” as playwright and
lyricist Alan Jay I-erner, who claims he does not have the
money for alimony and child support.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Beatrice
Shainswit says Lerner has not documented his asserted
poor financial position “except for his concurrent con
fession that his income for 1976 has dwindled to a mere
$250,000 and that he still has an estate in Oyster Bay, L.1.,
which is on the market for sale.”
She has ordered a special referee to determine Lerner’s
“true assets and true income and true financial con
dition.”
Micheline Lerner, former wife, has sued him
for more than $12,000 in arrears covering a three-month
period from December through February. The two were
divorced in Nevada in 1965.
Since the couple’s divorce, Justice Shainswit says,
“has luxuriated in a lavish life style, meandering
his way through two subsequent marriages.”
Ex-President Ford
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Tanned and relaxed, former
President Gerald R. Ford was introduced to a meeting of
ski industry representatives as “the most famous skier in
the world.”
“As every president knows, skiing is a lot like being
President of the United States,” Ford said when his turn
to speak came. “You start at the top — and after that it’s
all down hill.”
Ford stopped off on a trip with his wife and daughter,
Susan, from Vail, Colo., to their home in Palm Springs,
Calif. He addressed the annual Ski Industries America
(SIA) trade show Friday.
Ford then played a round of golf at the Desert Inn
Country Club, and the family members were guests of
honor at a private dinner and cocktail party in a pen
thouse suite at Caesars Palace. Then they attended Frank
Sinatra’s early show at the hotel. After the show, the
Fords chatted backstage with Sinatra.
At the ski industy meeting, Ford lauded the sport and
avoided politics in most of his 10-minute talk. He did, how
ever, repeat his hint that he may run again for the
presidency in 1980.
“You’re looking ahead to next year just as I may be
looking ahead to 1980,” Ford said.
pital. Both were shot, police
said.
Officers rushing to the scene
began evacuating the complex,
and by this morning, most resi
dents had been removed from
their apartments.
Congo
president
killed
LONDON (AP) — President
Marien Ngouabi of the People’s
Republic of the Congo has been
killed in an apparent assassina
tion, the British Broadcasting
Corp, reported Saturday.
The BBC’s African monitor
service said the president’s
death was announced on the of
ficial Brazzaville Radio in the
Congo capital. The broadcast
said Ngouabi died fighting at
the hands of a suicide com
mando.
The BBC said other reports
reaching Paris from Africa in
dicated the 39-year-old presi
dent was shot Friday by an
army officer at staff headquar
ters. No further details were
given.
An 11-man military com
mittee has assumed control of
the West African nation, and a
nationwide curfew has been im
posed, the BBC said.
If the sun stopped shining, it
would take the atmosphere
about two weeks to lose its heat
supply. The oceans would take
about 5,000 years to lose their
heat.
Psychologist helps snake phobia victim
RENO, Nev. (AP)-King
Kong tapping at your window or
Alfred Hitchcock’s birds
scratching at your screen door
are enough to give anyone
nightmares, but probably noth
ing frightens humans in the real
world more than a snake.
Just ask Nancy Adams. The
26-year-old master’s level psy
chologist counsels people who
are deathly afraid of snakes.
“I think part of the reason for
a fear of snakes is that you
never expect to see them,” Miss
Adams said. “I don’t care what
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you see, if you don’t expect to
see it you’re going to jump.
“There are some people who
are incapacitated by their fear
of snakes,” she continued. “Of
ten it is characterized by night
mares or really strong physi
ological arousal and fear.
“I think most people have
fears of one kind or another,”
she said. “It’s just difficult to
understand the intensity of fear
some of these people have.”
Since last June, Miss Adams
has worked under a federal
grant counseling persons with
snake phobia. Sessions are held
at the University of Nevada.
Since then, she has counseled
approximately 40 persons from
the Reno area in an effort to
cure them of their snake fears.
“Quite a number of people are
afraid of snakes to the point
where it interferes with their
enjoyment of life,” Miss Adams
said. “They’re not comfortable
hiking or camping or going to
the zoo or seeing a picture of a
snake,” she added.
“We’re helping people to re
duce those fears,” she said. “I
think it’s very realistic but the
types of people we work with
are people who have fears so
severe that it really interferes
with their enjoyment of life.”
People who sign up for Miss
Adams’ counseling service usu
ally tremble at the sight of any
snake, whether it be a venom
ous water moccasin or a harm
less garter snake.
And, she noted, the persons
seeking help have ranged in age
from 14 to 65 and she has
counseled as many men as
women.
Miss Adams blames parents
the news media and myths as
major reasons presons develop
fear of snakes.
“I think a lot of fear comes
from parents,” she said.
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