11, 1990 The Birmingham News SATURDAY, Birmingham Post- Herald PAGE 7B NEWSBRIEFS METRO Cable woes disconnect phone customers A damaged telephone cable that services about 1,500 South Central Bell customers in parts of Mountain Brook and Cahaba Heights left some of them without phone service. Cleve Earnest, spokesman for the telephone company, said the utility received about 100 reports of disconnected telephones after the cable got wet. He said the cable was damaged when a contractor was digging at the corner of Crosshaven Drive and Overton Road where the cable is located. Earnest said workers are repairing the cable and all phones should be working again by Friday evening. STATE PSC postpones hearing on Caller ID plan The Alabama Public Service Commission has postponed until Sept.
5, a hearing on South Central Bell's request to provide controversial Caller ID services. The hearing had been set for Wednesday in Montgomery, but has been delayed due to a request from the attorney general's office. The AG's office is intervening in the case, said PSC spokesman Jim Tolbert. Caller ID, which has generated some controversy around the nation on privacy issues, would allow a person to see the number of an incoming call on a special phone, or special device attached to a regular phone. Closing arguments set in Rudolph hearing HUNTSVILLE (AP) Eight days of grueling testimony have ended in Toronto for former Huntsville rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph, and closing arguments are scheduled Monday in an immigration hearing focusing on his wartime past in Nazi Germany.
Testimony in the hearing at the Immigrations Centre wrapped up late Thursday, and when the closing arguments are completed, Rudolph is scheduled to return to Germany and begin a three-week wait for Canada's ruling. Rudolph said the prolonged proceedings have exhausted his finances, affected his health, and caused bills, medical appointments and other pressing matters to stack up in Germany. Jack Pollard turns sights on House seat LUVERNE (AP) Jack Pollard, who lost the Republican race for governor, will get another chance at public office in the Nov. 6 general election. When Pollard, 61, of Luverne qualified to run against Gov.
Guy Hunt in the June 5 Republican primary, he also signed up for the House District 90 seat covering Crenshaw and Butler counties. "I knew, because of the lack of money and the amount of time it would require, it would have taken a miracle for me to win the governor's race," the state Highway Department employee said. "Of course, that miracle didn't happen, and since no one else qualified for the House seat as a Republican, I could run for both seats." State law allows a candidate to run for two offices, provided the candidate's name appears on the ballot only once, he said. Since no one else sought the Republican nomination in District 90, that race did not appear on the June 5 GOP ballot. Pollard faces Democratic incumbent Charles Newton of Greenville in the general election.
Newton, 43, owns Newton Oil Co. NEWS STAFF SIKORA Shafer keeps his barn sale open every day. In Raymond Shafer's barn everything carries a price but the music and the dog By Frank Sikora News staff writer FORT PAYNE The sign on the front door warns: This place guarded by pit bull with AIDS. But about the only dog one finds around Raymond Shafer's "Barn Sale" near Fort Payne is a big, friendly Labrador retriever. The big Lab is not for sale, but about 1,000 other items are.
Located just off U.S. 11 about five miles south of Fort Payne, Shafer's place is a repository for old collectible items and some antiques. But there's more here than just searching for old bottles, iron pots, clocks or a used U.S. Mail storage box. Every other Saturday night Shafer, 62, and some friends get together for some sure-enough country music.
"I used to drive a truck, but I also played some guitar," he said. "I played back in the 1950s with a group called the 'Rainbow Ranch I still like to play, and so do some other retired musicians." The group includes former backup musicians for such stars as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Mel Tellis. "I tore the barn down and put up a little building there so we could get in out of the rain when we played," Shafer said. The building is a plain frame structure about the size of a small house. "We can get about 40 or 50 people inside, and some stand outside," he said.
Some customers come for the music, not bargains The musical get-togethers are getting to be popular, and many people come to hear the music rather than browse for collectibles. "We don't charge anything," he said. "These guys are retired, and they're not interested in working. They just like to get together and play. It's all free.
Sometimes we'll bring some old folks out here from a nursing home so they can listen." The music, he said, is the kind you might have heard back in the 1950s when "Grand Ole Opry" or "Louisiana Hayride" were heard on Saturday nights. "But we also play some western swing and some other stuff," he said. The next performance is set for tonight, he said. But if you come another day and no one is around, just wait, Shafer said. He'll be back shortly.
"I'm open seven days a week," he said. "I've had people come here from a lot of states. Most of them are wholesalers who find something they want and buy it to go sell someplace else." And is there really an AIDS-infected pit bull inside? "Oh, yeah," he said, grinning. "Oh, Book lauds Montevallo as bargain in education WORLD DEDICATED RECYCLING: Brian really gets into his recycling work. into a barrel of glass Friday to bags away from the Homewood Alabama man pleads innocent in murder DEATHS Andrews, Robert Earl Blackerby, William Spruiell Jr.
Brown, Mrs. Hortie Gray Carson, Mrs. Lothenia Christenbury, Mrs. Ruby B. Coleman, Mrs.
Zola Mae Gardner, Mrs. Frances Reid Gray, Morris Pryor Gregory, Mrs. Ruth Elizabeth Hanson, John N. Haynie, Mrs. Lillian Nivens Houston, Mrs.
Elaine Hood Brown Manning, Robert P. "Bob" Merrell, Herman Miller, John Lightfoot Ill Norman, Roderick A. Persons, Lawrence Longshore Prescott, Luther E. Rice, Mrs. Ola Mae Roberts, Mrs.
Minnie Roberts, William Herman Sanders, Mrs. Corona B. Solowes, Dan ROBERT EARL ANDREWS, 51, of Los Angeles died Tuesday. He was a native of Birmingham, attended Patterson Elementary School, was graduated from Parker High School in 1957, and was a former member of Groveland Baptist Church. He was employed with Hughes Aircraft.
Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Smith and Gaston, Southside, with burial in Zion Memorial Gardens. Survivors: sons, Kenneth B. Andrews, Chicago, and Gregory T. Andrews, Los Angeles, daughters, Miss Sheri Andrews Agard, Newport News, mother, Mrs.
Lula Andrews, Birmingham; brothers, the Rev. William Andrews, Vancouver, and Franklin and Marvin Andrews; sisters, Mrs. Carolyn Burnett, all of Birmingham, Ms. Wanda Mensah Andrews, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Barbara Washington, Oklahoma City.
WILLIAM SPRUIELL BLACKERBY 65, of Birmingham died Friday. He was a member of Huffman United Methodist Church, was owner of Custom Framing Shop, and was a veteran of World War II. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Roebuck Chapel, with burial in Forest Hill. Survivors: wife, Mrs.
Ann Blackerby; son, the Rev. William S. Blackerby Birmingham; daughter, Mrs. Kathy Puckett, Dade City, sister, Mrs. Ouida Kinzey, Birmingham.
The family suggests memorials be made to the church or American Heart Association. MRS. HORTIE GRAY BROWN, 78, of Birmingham died Wednesday. She was a native of Marengo County and a member of Rising Star AME Zion Church. Funeral will be at 11 a.m.
today at the church, with burial in Shadow Lawn, Bushelon directing. Survivors: son, Southern Gray Brown; daughters, Mrs. Delillian Turner, Mrs. Patricia Moore, and Mrs. Jacqueline Eldridge, all of Birmingham; brothers, Mose and Henry Allen, both of Orville, and Nelson Allen Birmingham; sisters, Mrs.
Clara Belves, Mrs. Bernice Sharp, Mrs. Pearlie Mae Hayes, Mrs. Mildred Richardson, Mrs. Johnnie Mae Culpepper, Mrs.
Mary Dawson, and Mrs. Theresa Hunter, all of Birmingham. MRS. LOTHENIA CARSON, 60, of Birmingham died Thursday. Graveside service will be at noon Sunday at Grace Hill Cemetery, Smith and Gaston Northside directing.
Survivors: uncle, Steve Bell, Birmingham; aunt, Mrs. Rosa Mount, Opp. MRS. RUBY B. CHRISTENBURY, 86, of Birmingham died Thursday.
She was a member of East Lake United Methodist Church, Daughters of the Confederacy, and was retired from the Social Security Administration. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Forest Hill, Roebuck Chapel directing. Survivors: daughter, Mrs. Shirley Burns, Atlanta; son, Richard Christenbury, Birmingham; brothers, J.B.
Barnard, Florida, and Dean Barnard, Birmingham; sister, Mrs. Rosalie Smith, Montgomery. LASS 45 ew RAN NEWS STAFF TAYLOR Conservancy Recycling Center. at left, is working with cans. and aluminum cans can be gulation slaying of his estranged wife and was freed on $100,000 bond, authorities said.
ROBERT P. "BOB" MANNING, 73, of Homewood died Friday. He was a retired steel salesman, was currently employed with Reynolds Drugs, Homewood, and was a member of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and Homewood Elks Club. Rosary will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Valley Chapel.
Funeral 10 a.m. Monday at the church, with burial in Elmwood. Chapel. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Dorothy R.
Manning; sisters, Mrs. Frances Doub, and Mrs. Margaret Susan Vincent, both of Chattanooga, and Miss Mona Manning, Oak Ridge, brother, William W. Manning, Chattanooga. HERMAN MERRELL, 89, of Wylam died Thursday.
He was a retired Navy lieutenant and retired from Long Beach, police department. He was a member of Wylam Baptist Church and the Independent Order of Foresters. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Angwin Ensley, with burial in Oakland Cemetery. Survivors: wife, Mrs.
Florine Walker Cratz Merrell; daughters, Mrs. Cheryl Tebo, Red Bluff, and Mrs. Johnnie Mae Kirkpatrick, Birmingham; sons, Lyle Merrell, Napa Valley, and C. Eugene Cratz, Loundenville, N.Y. JOHN LIGHTFOOT MILLER II1, 54, of Vicksburg, died Friday.
He was a native of Greenville, a former resident of Birmingham and a graduate of Southern University, where he member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. today at St. James Episcopal Church, Greenville, Mortimer National Funeral Home, Greenville, directing. Survivors: wife, Mrs.
Gilda Fae McCool Miller; sons, John L. Miller IV, Pensacola, stepson, Mark K. Shurden West Memphis, daughter, Miss Carolyn Elizabeth Miller, Memphis, stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eustis, Greenville; brothers, Chester Johnson and Michael Miller, both of Baton Rouge, sisters, Mrs.
Laura Siriani, Angeles, and Mrs. Susan Darby, Jasper. The family suggests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society. RODERICK A. NORMAN, 25, of San Francisco died Thursday.
He was a native of Jefferson County and attended Phillips High School. He was an Army veteran and was employed with the Veterans Administration. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, with burial in Zion Memorial Gardens, Perryman and Son directing. Survivors: mother, Mrs.
Fredonia B. Norman, Birmingham; father, Edward Norman Richmond, brother, Edward Norman Jacksonville, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Burch, Birmingham, Mrs. Bertie D.
Norman, Richmond. LAWRENCE LONGSHORE PER- SONS, 73, of Birmingham died Friday. He served in the Army from 1940 to 1964. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St.
Michael's Episcopal Church. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Edwina Persons; daughters, Ms. Laura A. Williams, Ms.
Cynthia P. Key, and Ms. Caroline 0. Persons; brother, Albert C. Persons, all of Birmingham.
The family suggests memorials to Christian Children's Fund. Hoover died Friday. He was graduated from West End High School and the University of Alabama. He was a member of Shades Mountain Bpatist Church, and former executive director of the Better Business Bureau. He was a veteran of the Korean War, was a colonel retired from the Army Reserves, and was a member of the Hoover Zoning Board.
Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Southern Heritage, Ridout's Southern Heritage directing. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Mable P. Prescott; son, Bruce Pre- LUTHER E.
PRESCOTT, 59, of Robert Doyle, director of admissions at the University of Montevallo, is ecstatic about the book. UM got mentioned in the just out Looking beyond the Ivy League, by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope. The writer calls the small, state-supported university a bargain with "the advantages of a good private college at a fraction of the cost." Doyle said he is thrilled not only because UM got included in a list of 200 colleges (along with Birmingham-Southern College, Tuskegee University and Spring Hill College in Mobile), but because it's a benchmark for the Montevallo campus. The book tries to help people find a college right for them. At Friday's board of trustees meeting, the university also passed a $21.4 million 1990-91 budget, which includes $10.2 million from the state, about $1.5 million more than the Legislature allocated in UM officials also reported that it expects enrollment number to hover around last year's 3,175 students.
Steve Visser Robertson of the Alabama Here, he digs Craig Underwood, transfer some Newspapers, glass Library location left at the library. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Michael Hutchins, extradited Thursday from Alabama, pleaded innocent Friday to a charge of murder in the stran- MRS. ZOLA MAE COLEMAN, 81, of Bessemer died Tuesday. She was a member of Christian Walk Church, Bessemer.
Funeral will be at 1 p.m. today at God's Church, Bessemer, with burial in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, McCalla, R.L. Lumzy directing. Survivors: sons, Walter Coleman, ton, Erskin Coleman, Birmingham, and Herman Coleman, Oakland, daughters, Mrs. Lillian Boykin and Mrs.
Jo Ann Greene, both of Cleveland, Mrs. Maggie Thomas, Detroit, Mrs. Mildred Hall, Lansing, and Mrs. Marva C. Benjamin, Okemos, sister, Mrs.
Juliette Thomas, Bessemer. MRS. FRANCES REID GARDNER, 71, of Montevallo died Thursday. She was a member of Montevallo First Baptist Church, the American Legion Post 96, and Silver Club. She was retired secretary of the vocational home economics department at the University of Montevallo and was also secretary for Future Homemakers of America.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Rockco's, Montevallo, with burial in Montevallo Cemetery. Survivors: niece, Ms. Pat Reid Hughen, Selma; nephew, John Alex Reid, Mobile. MORRIS PRYOR GRAY, 95, of Bir- mingham died Thursday.
He graduated from Vanderbilt University and University of Michigan, was a member of Birmingham Unitarian Church, and was teacher for the Birmingham Board of Education. He was former president of Birmingham Education Association, was former editor of Birmingham Teachers Bulletin and former president of Birmingham Teachers Credit Union. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. today at Elmwood, Elmwood Chapel directing. Survivors: daughter, Mrs.
Joanne Englebert, Birmingham; sister, Mrs. Scott Greer, Indiana. The family suggests memorials be made to the church or American Cancer Society. MRS. RUTH ELIZABETH GRE- GORY, 92, of Birmingham died Thursday.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond. Woody Funeral Home, Richmond, directing. Jefferson Memorial, Trussville, handling local arrangements.
Survivor: son, Todd R. Gregory, Birmingham. The family suggests memorials be made to the Leukemia Society. JOHN N. HANSON, 63, of Harpers- ville died Thursday.
He was a refrigeration repairman. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. today at Bolton Brown Service, Columbiana, with burial in Harpersville Cemetery. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Dixie Hanson; daughters, Mrs.
Shirley Giband Mrs. Diane Otting; sons, Wayne Hanson, all of Rome, and Bobby Hanson, Plant City, sisters, Mrs. Hertlene Hough and Mrs. Eunice Dawson; brothers, Gene and Charles Hanson, all of Centre, Huey Hanson, Gadsden, and Thomas Hanson, Plant City. MRS.
LILLIE NIVENS HAYNIE, 91, of Chelsea died Thursday. She was a homemaker and a member Liberty Baptist Church. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. today at the church, with burial in the adjoining cemetery, Bolton Brown Service, Columbiana, directing. Survivors: sister, Mrs.
Tera Otta Nivens Thomas, Jackson Gap; brother, Walter Jackson Nivens, Alexander City, MRS. ELAINE HOOD BROWN HOUSTON, 85, of Hammond, died Thursday. She was a former resident of Bessemer and a member of First Presbyterian Church, Hammond. Funeral will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Brown Service Bessemer, with burial in Valhalla.
Survivors: sons, Dr. Milton P. Brown, Memphis, and Dr. W.L. Brown, Hammond; sister, Mrs.
Virginia Moon, Hueytown. scott; daughter, Lynda P. Myers, both of Hoover; brother, Dr. Cecil Prescott, Montgomery; sister, Mrs. Fannie Mae Morris, Birmingham.
MRS. OLA MAE RICE, 82, of Huey- town died Friday. Funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Brown Service West, with burial in Cedar Hill. Survivors: daughters, Mrs.
Gwen Wright, Duluth, and Ms. Jerry Wright, Hueytown; son, Ray Rice, Hueytown; sisters, Mrs. Estelle Melton, West Blocton, and Mrs. Bobbie Boley, Fultondale; brother, Albert Parks, Pensacola, Fla. MRS.
MINNIE ROBERTS, 98, of Trafford died Friday. She was a lifelong resident of Trafford and member of Locust Fork Church of God. Funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Messmer, Warrior, with burial in Trafford Cemetery. Survivors: daughters, Mrs.
Lucille Copeland, Marysville, and Mrs. Ida Butler, Old Town, Fla. WILLIAM HERMAN ROBERTS, 66, of Calera died Thursday. Funeral wili be at 2 p.m. today at Rockco's, Montevallo, with burial in Leach Cemetery, Calera.
Survivors: wife, Mrs. Evelyn G. Roberts: sons, Doss McGiboney, Calera, Kencaid Roberts, Thorsby, and Bobby Roberts, Jemison; daughter, Mrs. Teresa Ellison; brother, Clyde Roberts, both of Calera; sisters, Mrs. Opal Parvin and Mrs.
Calrencie McMurry, both of Birmingham. MRS. CORONA B. SANDERS, 71, of Birmingham died Wednesday. She was retired switchboard operator from St.
Vincent's Hospital and was a member of Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at JohnsRidout's Southside. Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Oakland.
Survivor: granddaughter, Mrs. Monica Franks, Olympia, Wash. DAN SOLOWES, 36, of Birmingham died Wednesday. He was a lifelong resident of Jefferson County, a selfemployed painter and a member of Garywood Assembly of God. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m.
today at Crestview Memorial Gardens, Crestview, Adamsville, directing. Survivors: daughter, Miss Judy Solowes, Tuscaloosa; son, Jason Solowes, Tuscaloosa; mother, Mrs. Hazel Boyd, Brookside; father, Paul Solowes, Nauvoo; sisters, Mrs. Judy Gooch, Graysville, Mrs. Sue Kittle, Brookside, and Mrs.
Paula Barnett, Adamsville; brother, Dwight Solowes, Brookside. THE REV. CECIL TUCK 85, of Leeds died Monday. He was a native of Alexander City, retired from Fontaine Trucking and Equipment Co. and a member of Russell Height Masonic Lodge 665.
He was chaplain and state general of the Charity of Benevolent Donations Society Lodge 4 and was associate pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Leeds. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at the church, with burial in Moton Hill, Poole directing. Survivors: wife, Mrs. Clemnie Lee Tuck; son, Cecil Tuck daughters, Mrs.
Mary Tuck Hughes and Mrs. Patricia Tuck Simmons, all of Leeds; sisters, Mrs. Mary Ellis, Mrs. Nellie Slaughter, Mrs. Maggie Hare and Mrs.
Hazel Smith; brothers, Kaiser, Jesse James and James Christian Tuck, all of Alexander City. 0 Obituaries, are published without charge each day as a public service. Many funeral homes supply these notices to The News. Readers. also can supply the information by calling 325-2445.
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