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Show EEE A8& The Salt Lake Tribune VIRGINIA Tuesday, December1, ABONitoan Echoes of Blasts Haunt Virginia Town Bombs disguised ¢ common objects havekilled one woman, maimed another THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS LOUISA, Va. — year after thefirst in a series of booby-trap bombingsthatkilled a young womanand maimed another, even somethingas inconsequential as a golf ball ‘an instill fear in this small town. was golf ball in my back said as she sat inside Louisa Outdoor Sports revesmiei 2-year-old grandson, Levi. “But I “Sometimes I walk out after work and see that chunk missing out ofthe cement over whereit happened and I think about it. How many people must 0by that andfeel the same way?” live several miles from any golf course, so it wasn’t in expected object, so I didn’t touchit ‘That probably seems silly,” she said. “But when beautiful grandson like this one, you can't 1 No arrests have been madein any ofthe bombings, which may beconnected. Investigators have said theyhave no suspect andhaverefused to speculate on a motive On Dee. 3, 19 7, a pregnant TammyLynn Baker and hernear-termfetus were killed by a bombblast outside her apartment. Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobaceo and Firearms believe she picked up a household object, probably something that loo! od like a strongbox months ago and seven miles awayin il, John Thompson found a tackle box in his eway, carriedit inside and openedit with his the Rev, Mike Thompson. A bombinsidepar- ly detonated, burning the two men ty minutes later in Louisa, a few blocks from where ker was killed, Bane’s husband. Russ, was standing inside the couple's store when he hearda blast and cries for help. He ranoutsideto s on Brewer onthe ground in the parkieg lot of a Pizza Hut Brewer was bleeding heavily, critically wounded by a bomb that had apparently beendesignedto resemblea flashlight and had been eft in the parking lot Extra... Extra... Read All AboutIt! $1,250.off each digital cic % «2 with the touch aire ord ony FIT OO Mmcwegee ete Wee 2 Education Pays Off With Fewer DUI Deaths in Virginia THE WASHINGTON POST Fewerpeople are dying in Vir- ginia traffic crashes caused by in- toxicated drivers, a trend that highwaysafetyofficials attribute to better education and tougher tionwide, drunken-driving fatali- ties dropped 32 percent from 1987 to 1997, according to the National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration. But federal officials still esti- matethatthreein every 10 Amer- drunken-driving laws During the past decade, alcohol-related road deathsin Virgin- icans will be involved in an alco- 522 in 1988 to 302 in 1997, ac- their lives. “Morepeople are killed in traf- ia havedeclined 42 percent, from cording to Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles records. Na- hol-related crash at sometime in fic crashes between Thanksgiving and New Year's than during any other time of the year,” said BrendaAltman, state chairman of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Altman lost her older sister in a 1988 crash blamed on a drunken driver and still wears a leg brace from her injuries — and she doesn't want anyone else’ to go throughsimilar trauma ‘With a designated driver,” she said, ‘we can all be home forthe holidays with our loved ones.” Pizza Hut manager Brewer and the Thompsons survived. though Brewer's hand was mangled “Sometimes I walk out after work and see that chunkmissingout of the cement over whereit happened and I think about it. Howmany people must go bythat andfeel the same way?” said Deborah Shifflett, a manager at the PizzaHut. “But you have to go on. Youhave to work.” Thesuspicion that Louisa has a serial bomber has made such simple things as community cleanup drives more difficult, said Greg Ferguson, town manager. Someofthe1,350 people ofthis community 50 miles northwest of Richmonddidn't participate in a recent trash collection drive because it would have meant picking up unfamiliar objects, he said In September,theschools held awarenesssessions for studentson the dangers of picking up unfamiliar objects. “It wouldbe so nice to haveit over with and the peoplecaught. Things would be much calmer around here,” said Sandra Robinson, who has two schoolagechildren andlives in the apartment complex whereBakerwaskilled. “I'm still cautious about the kids going outside. I've told them, ‘Don't touch. Do not pick up anythingat all.’ ’ PACSUNSnag Hearing Aid Sale Extravaganza! Super eee) DeborahShifflett ik - CeeieeeeleMonela aeratories hearing instrumentdiscount applies off suggésted retail tolseleLUUMeLMOLULCoglMaoULUolaameetol MeatTala] ereTao and multi-memory circuits. 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