European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 12, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 that resume looked Good too Good Juneau Alaska a mayor Donald Jame said he was suspicious of Carl Keyser or. Shortly after Keyser took Over As City administrator in the Southeast Alaska town of Kake. I could never Trust him James said tuesday. Even told him myself. I told him there s something there that s just not James had Good reason to be suspicious. Nearly every aspect of his resum6 was not True District attorney Mark Ells said. Officials filed a first degree theft charge against keys or last week alleging Keyser falsified his resume and obtained about $28,000 in salary moving travel another work related expenses from the town. Keyser a Huntington w.va., native was held tues Day in lieu of $ 10,000 bail at the jail in Petersburg. The City Council hired Keyser in Early october on the basis of glowing recommendations from references on his impressive four Page resume. Two months later officials Learned Kake was just the latest and most Remote Stop in Keyser s Cross country government career a career which officials say was based on phony resumes and bogus reference Calls. Kake is a fishing and Timber town of 665 residents mostly tlingit indians about 75 Miles South of Juneau on the Northern tip of Kuprean of Island. It is about Asfar As Keyser could have gone from his last Job a six Day stint As City manager of Pikeville by. And re main in North America. Keyser left the Kentucky Post in August after the news Media uncovered discrepancies in his resume. Kake officials hired him in october unaware he was wanted on a fugitive warrant from Pikeville. They also did not know Keyser had pleaded guilt last january to a Misdemeanour perjury charge for lying in sworn statements while applying for the Job of police chief in Oak Hill Fla. Among the references Keyser listed on his resume was Al Haines City manager of Beaumont Texas. Haines said he knew Little about Keyser and did no recall Keyser asking him to be a reference or Kake officials calling him. James said he called the references listed on the re sume but he now thinks the people answering the Calls were impostors arranged by Keyser. It seems like it was set up he said. Keyser 34, declined a request for an interview. How Ever in a tearful interview two weeks ago with Peters Burg radio station Kusk he maintained his innocence and suggested he was a victim of a conspiracy in Pike Ville. Pikeville charged Keyser with theft by deception for failure to reimburse the City for $697 in travel expenses. He said he would have returned the Money had official asked. Keyser s resume listed master s and Bachelor s de Grees in Public administration from la Salle University in Philadelphia. He also listed experience As a Consul Tant to the International City managers association and the International association of chiefs of police. Officials say there is no record that Keyser attended the University or worked for the associations. In octo ber the City managers group issued a warning Abou Keyser in its newsletter. That warning led Kake officials to investigate keys or. He was fired and arrested on theft charges in Decem ber. Teacher suspected of taking bets at High school los Angeles a a High school English teacher has been arrested on suspicion of taking sports bets of up to $20 apiece from students police said. Vice officers on Friday arrested Charles Hammond,54, at John h. Francis polytechnic High school in the suburban san Fernando Valley for investigation of bookmaking capt. Rick Dinse said tuesday. Ham mond was freed on $500 bail. Police said Hammond took bets on professional sporting events. The wagers were placed on school grounds during lunch Breaks and after school police said. Police said however that they had not determine exactly How much Money was involved. Bookmaking records were seized on Campus and i Hammond s Home where officers also found cocaine paraphernalia and a Small amount of marijuana dins Esaid. The records we got from him Are quite extensive it. Brad Merritt said. But so far we have no indications there was anybody else was accepting wagers and making Money off of them. He was involved in All sports so whatever sport was in season he would accept school officials said Hammond has been transferred to a non teaching position. Teachers found guilty of gambling on school grounds or gambling with students Are subject to discipline ranging from a letter of reprimand to dismissal said Ada Treiger a school District attorney. Hammond s attorney Donald Wager said the teacher had Only made a few bets with friends and never with students. He has not engaged in any bet Ting activity that is not common with the vice officers. Or other officers or kids Wager said. 2nd earner Battle group sail into Mediterranean Gaeta Italy a the aircraft Carrier Theodore Roosevelt and the 12 ships in its Battle group sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Early wednesday the Nav said. The arrival of the Roosevelt gives the United states two Carrier Battle groups in the Mediterranean. But it. Ray Kempis to a spokesman for the . 6th Fleet said the Roosevelt is basically a re placement for the Carrier John f. Kennedy which officials expect to return to the United states. The Roosevelt group arrived a week after two f-14s from the Kennedy shot Down two libyan Mig-23s Over International Waters North of Obruk Libya. Tensions Between the United states an Libya already were High after the United states raised the possibility of attacking an alleged chemical weapons factory Southwest of the libyan capital. Libya contends that the United state Sis provoking confrontation by sending the Roosevelt to the Mediterranean an claims the ship will be used to attack Libya. Kempisty said the two Marine amphibious groups that sailed from the United states with the Roosevelt were still at Rota Spain but soon will follow the Carrier group. The Roosevelt is accompanied by six destroyers two cruisers a frigate an am munition ship an Oiler and a repair Navy said earlier that there were about 15,000 sailors and marines wit the Carrier group. Kempisty said he believed that figure included the Marine amphibious groups and said he did not know the figures for the Carrier group alone. Kempisty said it was the first visit tothe Mediterranean by the Roosevelt and the Leyte Gulf an Aegis guided missile Cruiser. He said the Roosevelt was carrying about 80 aircraft including the new a 18s, which he said can function both Asan interceptor and a bomber. He said that All aircraft carriers carry some attack planes and that the Fa-18s were not added to the Roosevelt for this cruise. Ton of trouble Crocodile trapper Breck Caldwell hat rangers. The Crocodile weighing More of Brisbane Australia and John lever than a ton had been sighted cruising from Khorana Crocodile farm Kneel the River and there was concern for the beside a 16-foot-Long monster captured safety of people in the area. The reptile alive in Proserpine River by wildlife has been sent to the Khorana farm. . Spreads late Yule cheer at children s clinic in Poland Krakow Poland up about350 patients at the american childrens Hospital got a late Christmas treat tues Day gift packages from Walt Disney productions of california.. Ambassador John Davis or. And his wife distributed the gifts accompanied by direct9r Jan Grochowski in the Haematology dialysis and rehabilitation wings of the Hospital. The smiling children responded by singing polish and american Christmas carols. The packages which were flown unfree of charge by pan american world airways consisted of coloured pencils paints colouring books illustrating Walt Disney films and Small cups emblazoned with Mickey mouse As a magician. The project was begun by Cha Leswick director of the . Information Agency after his visit in March 1988,which signalled closer .-polish relations
