| OCR Text |
Show 4A The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday, September Parents Who Wouldnt Take Stand Against Son Will Likely Be Jailed The parents of a charged with murder will probably go to jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury, now that an appellate court has refused to hear their case, their attorney said Tuesday. Randy Schaffer said he would surrender his clients, Bernard and Odette Port, to the Harris County Jail when he is ordered to do so. He had expected that order Tuesday, but a clerk with state District Judge I D. McMasters court said she did not receive necessary papers from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in the mail. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday refused to hear the couples argument that they should not be held in contempt for failing to testify before a grand jury investigating the June 7 slaying of mail carrier Debora Sue Schatz. Schatz disap HOUSTON (AP) teen-age- r Teachers Return To Classes In Michigan 12, 1984 peared while delivering mail in the Ports neighborhood. Free on Bond The Ports son, David, is free on $20,000 bond on a murder charge filed in Schatzs death. The Ports, who are Jewish, argue that their religion prohibits them from bearing witness against their son. McMaster had found the couple in contempt last month, the second time the Ports were cited for refusing to testify. On June 27, the couple spent six hours in jail after State District Judge William Hatten found them in contempt, but the Court of Criminal Appeals, the states highest criminal court, threw out Hattens action on technical grounds. The couple has been free on personal recognizance bond pending their appeal. Schaffer said he would turn in his clients when he received an order from McMaster. But McMaster cannot issue that order until he receives the Court of Criminal Appeals denial of Schaffers request for bond. A clerk who asked not to be identified said that denial did not arrive Tuesday. Schaffer said he will take his battle to the federal court system next. A brief Schaffer filed with the Court of Criminal Appeals contended, Jews are obligated to obey the commandment to Honor thy father and mother. Should Win Bail Judaism imposes a reciprocal obligation on the parent to honor the child, it continued. Harris County District Attorney John Holmes said he had little doubt the Ports would win bail from a federal district judge. jJ 4 i By The Associated Press Nearly 2,000 teachers headed back to schools in Michigan on Tuesday, while 650 teachers staged a one-da- y walkout in California. Elsewhere more than 5,500 teachers remained on strike nationwide, affecting more than 100,000 students. Teachers returned to class in Grand Rapids, where school officials had been using substitutes, administrators and parent volunteers to avoid canceling classes for about 36.000 students. The Grand Rapids Education Association and the school district reached a tentative settlement Monday during a meeting in Detroit with a state mediator. San Teachers in the Ramon Valley Unified School District stayed away from schools in Danville, San Ramon and Alamo, Calif., on Tuesday after contract talks broke down Monday. They planned to return to work Wednes- ' 1,850-memb- er fc r, f: i 14,000-stude- i. day. Jury Mulls Case Against Sect Members - Christian sect that rarely allows members to discuss their beliefs in public. A jury TuesALBION, Ind. (UPI) day weighed evidence against a fundamentalist couple who prayed, fasted and quoted Scripture but never called a doctor when an infant daughter became sick and died of meningi- tis. I i Jurors retired to deliberate at 11:33 a.m. EST after a two-da- y trial that included an unusual 45 minutes of testimony and closing arguments from the defendants. David B. and Kathleen C. Berg-man.Ligonier, Ind., charged with reckle$s homicide and child neglect, belong to Faith Assembly, a secretive n, didnt kill my daughter, the mother told jurors in closing arguments. I gave her to the Lord to heal. The Bergmanns are the third and fourth members of their northeast Indiana-based church to go on trial in the state in the past month. Faith Assembly preaches reliance on prayer and faith in God for healing. Its members refuse all conventional medical care. Contest Officials easily curable respiratory infection that developed into pneumonia because of lack of treatment. The Bergmanns, who acted as their own attorneys, testified in a brief defense Tuesday morning. - CITY, N.J. (AP) -S- America crown because thallegations were dropped, Associated The cause of death was listed as bacterial meningitis, produced by an NEW YORK (AP) NBC will slightly modify its policy on projecting Election Day results, but the congressional committee that has been monitoring the networks says the change still doesnt address the real issue: that citizens in the Midwest and West might be swayed from voting by television. NBC News President Lawrence K. Grossman told NBCs affiliates last week that the network wont call the winner of the presidential race in any individual state until most of the polls in that state have closed. In 1980, the three major networks used their exit polling information and key precinct data to make early forecasts for individual states. The change, however, wont pre- - hoplifting charges once filed agfinst Miss Ohio will have no her chance to compete for thdiss 11-d- con- test Officials said Tuesday. fijss America pageant counsel Leonard Horn said he consulted withC the Miss Ohio, M&psa Bradley, as well as from her state pageant and wither attorney. Horn said he no action should be taken because the charges were dropped. Bradley, who had entered a plea of no contest to the charges on the advice of her attorney, said she did not Commit any crime. The Miss Ohio pageant officials had a full review of this. Do you think I would put myself through alLof this if I was guilty? she asgeid at a news conference . $adley was charged with two counts of petty theft, or shoplifting, after two incidents Nov. 6, 1982, involving department stores owned by the F.& R. Lazarus Corp. and M. ONeils Co. in Ontario, Ohio, her attorney, D. Kim Murray, said in a offi-ciq- Capistrano Press Loserphoto Its Not Football and the beginning of school ROSEBURG, Ore. are both sure signs that falls arrived, but in Roseburg, theres a third indicator. When the swifts begin swarming around the power plant chimney, in preparation for their migration to South America, residents know its autumn. Panel Not Happy With New NBC Election Policy Supportive Of Miss Ohio ATLANTIC The Bergmanns were charged in the June 7 death of their illdaughter, Allyson, after an ness that included fever, listlessness, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, a stiffened neck and a distended abdomen. Negotiators in Macomb Countys Anchor Bay district ended a strike by approving a tentative contract early Tuesday, averting a threatened sympathy walkout by teachers in 16 nearby school systems with more than 57.000 students. In Illinois, teachers strikes in eight districts affected 32,000 teachers and 59.000 students, including 200 teachers who walked out of schools in Sterling, shutting down classes for 4,000 students. In New Jersey, 383 teachers returned to classes Tuesday in Somerville and Bellmawr, where about 3.000 students had been idled. A strike in one other district was keeping 1,200 other pupils away from their classes. ja telephone interview from his Mansfield, Ohio, office. Bradley was accused of taking a pair of slacks, a sweater, a brooch, a scarf and a turtleneck from the stores, Murray said. Heart Recipient Doing Well, Doctors Report FRANCISCO (UPI) - The first victim to be Melissa Bradley Cleared of Theft Charges The case originated in municipal court in Ontario, Ohio, where Bradley pleaded innocent. The case was then transferred to the municipal court in Mansfield, where she lives, Murray said. She again pleaded innocent to both charges in that court but entered a plea of no contest on Dec. 15. 1982, Murray said. Murray said he recommended the plea because she was innocent,' a trial would have brought tremendous media coverage, and her father was recovering from heart surgery. Municipal Judge Ralph E. Johns said that after Bradley entered her plea of no contest, she was placed in a diversionary program, a . court-supervise- NBCs Election Night projection came at 8:15 p.m. EST, ABCs at 9:50 p.m. and CBS at 10:15 p.m. The subcommittee contends the projections kept some voters away from the polls and had an influence on local elections on the West Coast. Last June, the subcommittee asked broadcasters to voluntarily refrain from characterizing or projecting election results before all the polls have closed. Grossman said during committee hearings that it is not right to withhold or deny current election information from all the people in order to get a few to vote who otherwise may not choose to bother. M.S. Rukeyser Jr., executive vice president for communications at NBC, said Tuesday that NBCs Election Day policy is the same one adhered to in this years primaries, when NBC, ABC and CBS did not make outright projections for any state until the vast majority of polls were closed in that state. Rukeyser said the policy modification does not change fact that if the entire East Coast goes for Reagan and gives him enough electoral votes to win the election, then we will still project the outcome while the polls are open. If we didnt we would not be doing our job journalistically. Rukeyser said that the data used for projections is available to many sources. Activity Ban Is Lifted At Mount St. Helens - A VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) ban on activity around Mount St. Helens was lifted Tuesday as domebuilding inside the crater tapered off, authorities said. But a scientist said that while the rate of dome growth had slowed, the potential for rock fall was likely to continue within the crater for several days. Mike Doukas of the U.S. Geological Survey added that the possibility of a large collapse of material within the crater "is less likely. The removal of the ban meant that logging and pumping station crews could return to the area. probationary d vent NBC from projecting the national winner while polls on the West Coast still may be open, and thats the main concern of the House subcommittee on telecommunications. "Im not sure how much of a change it really is, Ellis Woodward, spokesman for the subcommittee, said Tuesday. It would appear to me that NBC is still going to project a winner in the presidential election before the polls are closed in California and Washington state. The subcommittee, which is chaired by Rep. Timothy E. Wirth, has been critical of the networks for announcing that Ronald Reagan would win the 1980 election while polls in the West and Midwest were open. According to Woodward, program, for 90 days. The case against her was dismissed March 28. 1983. 24 HOUR COsoaMas .... fPOaos For the Fastest Way to Physical Fitness for Men & Women SAN cardiac-arrekept alive by a partial artificial heart until a donor heart was available for a transplant was doing well Tuesday, doctors said. st Ronald Meehan, 47, Sausalito, Calif., was reported in serious condition but gaining strength, and doctors said his new heart was working well. The artificial blood pump offers hope for some 50,000 to 75,000 Americans who, while otherwise healthy, suffer a heart attack and will die because a heart donor is not immediately available for transplantation, said Dr. J. Donald Hill, the surgeon who performed the transplant. By allowing time for the body to be sustained while the search is made for a donor heart, these people have very good chances of going on to live a productive life, he said. Statistics now show that 50 percent of heart recipients are living five years after transplantation. Meehan had been given the Left Ventricular Assist Device when his own heart was hopelessly damaged by a cardiac arrest Sept. 1. He underwent transplant surgery Sept. 8 at Pacific Medical Center. d device implanted in The Meehan bypassed bis heart chamber and substituted for the natural heart while he was awaiting a donor heart. Los AngeIt came from a les man killed in a street mugging. Doctors said this was the first reported successful use of the artificial blood pump as a bridge between critical heart failure and heart transfist-size- plantation. Such pumps have been used on a of people temporary basis in scoresthe natural around the world to assist folheart while it regains strength heart surgery. lowing open Join Today and Receive TWO Memberships for .;M Price of ONE! Limited Numoer Lady Nautilus 75 Aerobic Class work 24 hr Instruction Lady Nautilus " Sun tanning Nutbery Jacuzzi Sauna , t S i Lifecycle Heart Mate CALL TODAY & RESERVE YOUR MEMBERSHIP rrwntwrtvp to At Both Locations 8600 SO. 1300 E. 566-720- 1 3474 SO. STATE 262-431- 5 Dlended by Archibold Louder 1964 Louder s Scotch . 60 P'oof O Company, Ltd.. Glasgow, Scotland. Established 1834. Dier-de- Scotch Whisky Hirom Walker Incorpofo'ed Farmington Hills Ml |
