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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHDC1995-007 Newspaper Article 04/18/1996 and 08/05/1996null, testified that Cherry was shot after kicking in thefront door and taking a couple of steps into the living room. "He kept on coming, and the other guys kept on conning, s❑ Alvin shot him," Hurt said. 2 masked men rob Back Yard Burgers Two masked men robbed a Lit- tle Rock fast-food restaurant Tues- day night, taking an undisclosed amount of money, police said. An employee at Back Yard Burgers at 45M W. Markham St told police the pair entered the restaurant about 9 p.m., holding • handguns. The men ordered an employee to open the safe, de- manded all the money, then fled out the back door, police said. The robbers were described as black men about 20 years old. one stands about 6 feet and ' weighs about 150 pounds. He wore a white mask, a blue hat and a blue Notre Dame athletic jacket and carried a silver pistol. The other stands about 6 feet A and weighs about 275 pounds. He :wore a blue mask, blue pants and carried a .22-caliber revolver. Employees gave detectives a videotape of the robbery. Teen carrying gun on campus arrested A 14year-old Jacksonville stu- dent was arrested on campus Tues- day afternoon for carrying a hand- gun onto school property, police said. The youth told police he found the gun in the grass near a school bus stop in Mc.Almont, picked it up and carried it to school. Linda Wilson, assistant principal at Southside Junior High, told police she received an anonymous tip Tuesday that a student was carrying a handgun. Wilson pulled the youth from a classroom and when she asked if he had a gun, he handed over a 280-ealiber pistol. The youth was taken to Jack- ionville police headquarters, where ze was charged as a juvenile, police ..-: A '-'he various pas 0.... already intimated to you the iparties to the founding of them aphical discriminations. Let me nnrQ comvrehensive view, and ■+=F++vyc�s ana clients of a Little Rock lawyer filed a countersuit Wednesday in Pulaski County Circuit Court al- leging he sexually harassed them. The defendants, all Pulaski County residents, also contend that Everett D. Martindale lobbed a pre-emptive strike when he sued them for slander one week earlier, before they could file their lawsuit against him. Jodi Skelton and Brandi Brad- bury contend that Martindale's persistent actions forced them to resign last year, and thus consti- tuted wrongful discharge. Zelda Edwards Robinson and Debi Nowlan Keltner, farmer divorce clients, allege that Martindale breached their trust by groping and fondling them. Martindale's suit, filed on valentine's Day, alleged the four joined in a "civil and criminal conspiracy" to extort money and damage him personally, profes- sionally and financially. The women's attorney, David Ivers, is asking that Circuit Judge David Bogard sanction Martin- dale. The suit contends Martini -- dale filed suit "namely to harasp these women further and cause unnecessary delay and needless increase in the cost of litigation.'.' The women's suit was filed in. circuit rather than federal court because Martindale's firm is too small to fall under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Also, Ti- tle VII covers only employment, and Martindale's former clients and employees are also alleging invasion of privacy, infliction of emotional distress, and battery. LR panel to .spend $5,000, on study of restoring home. The Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission de- cided Wednesday to spend up to $5,000 for a study on the cost to re- store a historic home. The house, -known as Curran Hall, is across the street from the downtown post office. in Little Rock - The commission is considering opening a visitors' center there and authorized up to $5,000 to hire an expert to gauge the cost of making the structure habitable. Richard A. Stephens & Associ- ates appraised the home at $48,000. But Barry Travis, execu- tive director of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, said he isn't sure how much it would cost to restore the 153-yea>- old building, which is falling apart. Unofficial estimates range from $150,000 to $700,000. The house at 615 E. Capital Ave. is owned by the Averell Tate Trust, Joan Huot of Lowell, Mass., and Fred Tate of Los Angeles. Huot controls the Tate Trust. The owners have asked the city for permission to demolish the house so they can sell the proper- ty. Little Rock Historic District Commission members postponed a decision -on the demolition re -- quest until they can see how the city's interest in using the build- ing works out. Travis said the city. Faces a May 2 deadline. Groups to assist heart patients, kin Baptist Medical Center is form- ing support groups, called Heart to Heart, for people with heart Problems and their families. One group a.m. to noon l the last Frimeet day of each month beginning Friday. A second group will meet from 5.15 to 6:15 P.M. the last Tuesday of each month begin- s ning Feb. 27. Both groups will meet in the. Health Management Center at - the hospital. The group will address how.. heart disease affects the entire: family. Since seating is limited, partie ipants must register by calling: 227-8478 or (8W) 262-0054. morality La A R. - -- - . government. The rule indeed e t �s offree more or less force to every specie government. Who that is a sincere friend illusion which expt;rUCLIU� •- :' which a just pride ought to discard... . O �..� 'CD CCD "CD M fD "�' o,. .y."'!. 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M o ro C CD�d . co �- cr Ln (DMs 0yy' Dcn nor 1 "'i �' CD `Y CD O M� C' C• "! Cn :C CD o-•t w W `C vi VJ i�i� •p-y CCU 3;� t 2111.9 THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1996 Arkansas Democrat 7V(te�- Panel. nuts un %48 -000 to -try to- save historic Curran Hall BY i7MNY SHAMEER Democrat Cdy t W Reporter A city commission has put up money- to buy historic Curran Hall in an attempt to save it from demolition and turn it into a visi- tors' center. The Little Rock Advertising and.. Promotion.. Commission au- thorised spending $48,000 Wednesday to fund the city's ac- quisition of the 153-year-old houso through condemnation. But finding an estimated $622,755 to renovate the dilapi- dated house at 615 E. Capitol Ave. is another story. Tlie commissioners, who over- see the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, said that agency has neither the time nor the money to handle the renova- tion attempt. So the panel decid- ed to ask others to lead that ef- fort. Cheryl Nichols, Quapaw Quar- ter Association executive direc- tor, told commissioners that her board- has - volunteered her,- to help them in the effort. Funds could come from sever- al sources: grants, the federal government, corporations and fund-raising campaigns, commis- sioners said. Getting the renovation money together could take two. or three years, they said. The house has three owners: the Averell Tate Trust, Joan Huot of Lowell, Mass., and Fred Tate of Los Angeles. Huot and Tate are Averell Tate's children. Huot is the trustee of the Averell Tate Trust. The owners tried to sell the Rock spills onto MacArthur Drive building and property through the real estate firm of Flake, Ta- bor, Tucker, Wells and Kelley but were unsuccessful. Thinking the chances for a sale.would be better if the house was torn down, the owners' attor- ney, David Couch, asked the city for a demolition permit last fall. The Little Rock Historic Dis- trict Commission put Couch's re- quest on hold in November 1995, after learning that the conven- tion bureau was interested in turning the house into a city visi- tors' center. On March 19, the city Board of Directors unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing City At- torney Tom Carpenter to begin the process of acquiring the house once money became avail- able. Thanks to the commission's vote, that money became avail- able Wednesday. Mayor Jim Dailey, who sits on the advertising and promotion Coohdars Elm, 's Arkars Democrat-Gaxe teMRK MONTGOMERY commission, cast one of the votes, even though he had' pledged the previous night to ab- stain from voting on any matter involving the FIake firm, in which his brother-in-law; Hawk: c- Kelley, is a partner. : After the commission meeting Wednesday, Dailey said :Ire,; hadn't known the Flake firm wad handling the property. .; f �-' He added that he may not au-,�; tomatically disqualify himself. at ter all from voting on matters. i#_ -, volving the Flake firm, as long as: he knows the firm won't gain fi- nancially and the public doesn't :"- raise questions about a possible" conflict of interest. . ° � John Flake, the principle!- partner in the firm, said his tour- pany won't earn anything if the city acquires the property-- . through condemnation. The company would get. a commission only if it's able to sell the property on the open market. Walker asks panel to improve schools, in poor parts of LR. BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat -Gazette Education Writer A civil rights attorney for black families in the Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit urged a citizens' committee Wednesday to consider "shoring up" schools in east and central parts of the city instead of closing them. In a wide-ranging presentation to the Little Rock School Dis- "They have to be superior schools," Walker said about re- designing the incentive schools. "Put labels on these schools 0- ` will set up different expect%' about them and make desegi._ tion a more likely result." As for the district's hope for winning release from federal court supervision, Walker said that would be detrimental to black children who aren't doing