European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday septembers 1987 the Star Sand stripes Page 3 Man s acquittal starts Melee in Tenn. Court Decatur Tenn. A the sheriff imposed a countywide curfew Here wednesday following a wild my acc in a courtroom after a not guilty verdict was handed Down in a murder Case the Tennessee Highway patrol will continue o keep Walch around the area said Meigs county sheriff  Mckenzie who cancelled Days off for his staff i think things arc under Contra now. But the thing about this is in could erupt at any Lime or any place he said. Cool Heads will have to prevail or there la be More  the hour Long Melee occurred wednesday night Atic county courthouse when Jerry Allen was acquitted of first degree murder and two counts of assault officials said. About 200 people including relatives of Allen and die dead Man rioted in the courtroom when the ver dict was announced breaking windows throwing chairs and lunging for the jurors and Allen witnesses said. Another 200 people waiting outside the courthouse began shouting and cursing authorities said. Allen 27, and members of his family will remain under police Protection indefinitely at an undisclosed location outside of town and jurors at his trial also will be guarded Mckenzie said. A 10 . To 6 . Was imposed through monday. When people around Here Are fighting among themselves the stuff is very serious. Family tics arc taken very seriously. Hey get violent he said thursday. Al least two people were treated at an area Hospital in the aftermath but no charges have been filed yet pending an investigation of Licitis said. Paul v. Isom circuit court clerk said the normally sleepy City of 1,190 along the Tennessee River has been thrown into a tumult by the disturbance i m afraid there la be reprisals from what s happened Isom said. It s a really Touchy situation. You be got big families on both  the tension during Allen s three Day trial apparently was prompted by a longstanding feud Between Allen and the Man he was charged with killing Eddie Leeanderso 25, officials said. The two fought at a party about five years ago and had been enemies Ever since authorities said. Jerry alien who was acquitted of first degree murder wipes away tears after a riot broke out Over the verdict. This is Small county. Most everybody knows every body else. You might Call in an extended family and All of them were interested along with their friends an friends of friends said Frank. Harvey assistant District attorney. Roger do up another prosecutor said Allen testified that he lived in fear of Anderson and shot him and two other men March 27 at the Dew drop inn in self de sense. The two surviving victims Tim Keaton 23, and Mike Roberts 21, testified they did not threaten , one produced a pistol from inside his shirt and put it on the bar during a period when Allen briefly left the tavern Delp said. Isom said he does t expect Allen to Ever return to Decatur which is the Only incorporated town in this 19 a Square mile coun by of about 7,400 people. Hell never come Back. I d say a lot of his family won t come Back i can t Sec any of them wanting 10 live Here after this he said. . Francophone speak their mind at Summit Quebec a As a French speak ing Power the United slates does not rank with France Canada or the other 35 nations attending this week s Franco phone Summit. But americans Are nevertheless represented. From colourful cajun country in Loui Siana and new England s sedate Hills delegations representing More than a million americans of French descent a Especial observers at the meeting. We have Only one thing in common and that s the language said real Gil Bert of new Hampshire son of an Asbestos Miner from Quebec and president of action for Franco americans of the Northeast a lobby group. He made the comment after learning that a coup had ended the Rule of one Summit guest president Jean Baptiste Ragaza of the Central african nation of Burundi. Set Story Page a Gilbert lobbied for an unofficial role at the Summit because this is the first time we be been recognized As a Franco phone  the 18-member delegation is headed by new Hampshire Cov John Sununu a French speaker of lebanese extraction. Culture minister Noclla Leblanc and state sen. Allen bares of Lafayette head the seven member Louisiana group which is promoting Trade educational and cultural exchanges with Quebec and other francophone partners. Invited to official ceremonies and Din ners but excluded from formal talks atthe second Summit of the world s French territories both . Groups see benefits in promoting francophone Solidarity and Pride. The average Franco american has to come to grips with his identity said Paul pare executive director of the Man Chester n.h., group. Our association has taken a Radical  studies indicate Franco americans re main locked in a Blue Collar world be cause of discrimination and Low self esteem he added. Our tradition is Catholic and conservative it values the family and a caring society we produce nurses and priests and nuns. We also have Ore de Rivra like Quebec but that s All been neglected Lafayette on the other hand staged its first French festival this year with 37 countries represented and Hopes More tourists will come to try cajun cuisine. Canadians can visit us in Winter and Well All come up Here in summer said june Taylor Louisiana s director of intergovernmental affairs French is a powerful Force in the world and it s something unique we Havein Louisiana said bares whose Mother s forefathers were French acadians expelled from Eastern Canada by the Brit ish in the 18th Century. Many ended up in Louisiana where t million of the 4.5 million population is of French origin. Cajun is a corruption of acadian. About half inc cajuns still speak French at Home and a 19bs Law required All Public school systems to pro vide French classes. We re trying to gel into the Stream of things he said of participation in la francophone a Loose Assembly of nations from Belgium to Vietnam where French is the first or second language. Next year a French language Cable to station with programs from Quebec and Europe will reach Louisiana. Quebec will help finance a French contest for students in the Northeast said Gilbert noting that new England and new York slate have 3.2 million people of French descent. About 600,000of them speak French at Home. Some live in French majority towns near the Maine new Brunswick Border while others settled in Boston suburbs or fled to Burlington vt., after an abortive 1337 French uprising in Canada. Mercy Type shooter gets 10 years probation Shumar Fla. Up1 a 7s-Ycar-old former City commissioner who shot his ailing wife claiming he wanted her to die with dignity was Given 10 years probation by a sympathetic judge. Circuit judge Robert Barron put Clark t. Browning on 10 years probation wednesday and ordered him to stay away from his wife Connie 66, who survived the gunshot and is now in a nursing Home. Browning a former Rity commissioner in nearby Valparaiso had pleaded no contest to the May 12 attempted murder of his wife who had been in and out of comas since she was admitted to fort Walton Beach s Humana Hospital april 6 because of a heart attack. He contended he wanted her to die with dignity Browning was visiting his wife in the cardiac unit when he shot her once in the Chest with a ,22-Caiiber pistol. Two other patients four nurses and other medi Cal staff members were in the room at the time. Witnesses had said Browning calmly unloaded the gun and handed it to a Hospital technician. The judge released Browning after determining he was not a threat to the Community and placed him in the custody of a Friend. The fort Walton sheriffs department said it Coc lid Rcd it a mercy Type shooting somewhat similar to the Case of Roswell Gilbert a retired Engineer serv ing a life sentence for the rim degree murder of his terminally ill wife in South Florida he thought that she could be no belter off that there was no Hope for her. It was a mercy Type thing a sheriff s investigator said of Floc Browning Case