European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 27, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7house whip defends checks to colleague Washington a rep. David e. Bonior donated $1,000 apiece to 23 fellow House democrats in june As he campaigned to succeed William Gray As majority whip records filed with the Federal election commission show. Bonior d-mich., elected to the houses third ranking leadership Post last month said he was not trying to buy support with his donations to fellow representatives Campaign treasuries. A a in be Given contributions to other lawmakers since in be been in the leadership Back in 1986,�?� the year he was appointed chief Deputy whip Bonior said. A when you re in the leadership its just something you do a he said. A you go to Peoples districts and Campaign for them and if they have debts you help them. Its just something in be done and i intend to keep  Bonior a Campaign organization wrote $1,000 checks to 21 House members on june 12, As rumours swirled that Gray a resignation was imminent according to a financial report filed with the Fec. Later that month two other lawmakers received $1,000 apiece. Gray d-pa., delayed until june 20 an official announcement that he would leave Congress to become head of the United negro College fund. Bonior was quietly lobbying colleagues for support Well before then. He said there had been speculation about Gray since Early this year. In the voting july 11 to select a whip Bonior Defeated rep. Steny h. Hoyer d-md., by 160-109. Both sides said Bonior a Early organizing was crucial. Hoyer also has Given Money to fellow congressional democrats. Although he made no donations during the Campaign he has not criticized Bonior for doing so. A we feel its really not an Issue a spokesman Charles Seigel said. Bonior said several of the lawmakers to whom he donated voted for Hoyer a and i knew that was going to  among them was rep. Jolene Unsoeld d-wash., spokesman Doug Levy said. A it was known fairly Early that she was supporting or. Hoyer a who gave Unsoeld $1,000 for her 1990 Campaign Levy said. It is a common practice for lawmakers to contribute to fellow members of their own party. Bonior said he received $90,000 from colleagues in his most recent re election Campaign in Michigan. No serious Effort has been made to limit such donations Between individual lawmakers. However the Senate voted in May to halt a similar practice by some in Congress forming political action committees to raise Money for like minded colleagues. The ban on so called a leadership Pacsy was included in a package of proposed Campaign reforms. The House is expected to take up its version of the legislation this fall. Bonior said he probably would support reforming a or even Banning a leadership pics but not contributions Between individual members of  oath keeps woman from touching funds mount Olive . Cap a nearly 40 years ago Wayne county seized half of the 20-acre Dairy farm where Marie Louise Lewis lived with her parents and offered them $10,000. Lewis now 84 and impoverished is still honouring a family pact. She considers the Money tainted and wont touch it even though interest earnings have boosted the compensation to $45,000. The county wanted the land to build a school. But Lewis claims the seizure was part of a fierce Campaign of harassment dating Back to the civil War. A they wanted to wreck us a she said. A they wanted to take everything we  Lewis rarely ventures into this Rural town of 4,800 in Central North Carolina. Many residents Are unaware of the grudge she bears. The lewites were blackballed by the locals from the beginning she said because the family was descended from Pennsylvania quakers and was Republican in what was a democratic stronghold. And the antagonism continued through the years she said recalling nightly cattle raids and other acts of vandalism. Lewis Hasni to forgotten the old round Oak top table where the family sat before a crackling fire and took a vow to refuse the Money. A it was cheerful a she recalled. A papa said a lets make a vow of it a and he put out his hands and Mother took one hand i took the other and with the three of us holding hands we vowed we would never touch that  she a the Only one left to keep the oath and though she needs $2,000 for Cataract surgery she would rather go Blind than break the Promise. A i will stand by it come hell or High water a she said. The family fought the farm seizure in state supreme court and lost said David Brantley Wayne county a court clerk. Over time the compensation has become one of the largest in the states escheat account a Reserve for lost forgotten or refused Money. A no i will never accept it even if they throw me out in the Road a said Lewis whose will is said to prohibit impoverished Marie Louise Lewis 84, stands on her family a property part of which was confiscated years ago by Wayne county ., for a school. Relatives from claiming the Money. Hunched on a piano Stool on the front porch of her tumbledown farmhouse Lewis surveys what remains of the family Homestead a decrepit Wood House and an Orchard so overgrown neither Light nor wind disturbs the Pecan and fruit Trees. The property lies a few streets from the town Center but it seems like another world untouched by time. Mount Olive Junior High school stands on what was once the farms other half. Lewis said she never was tempted to take the Money even when the Federal government suspended her social Security payments in the mid-1980s, claiming she was ineligible because of the Money. The payments were resumed after the Case was heard in . District court in Raleigh Brantley  Kings Queens crowned in new Jersey Cape May . A the International Clamshell pitching club of Cape May scraped up enough shells for its 46th annual tournament but enthusiasts had to use plastic ones for practice. A we no longer have enough real shells to afford the breakage a said Rich Reinhart who has been pitching shells at new jerseys southernmost Beach since 1971. He said Beach replenishment projects had covered up the chief trove. Sundays tournament Drew 110 entrants including a woman from Australia. The game is similar to horseshoes with players tossing the shells close to or into 5-Inch-wide holes 25v6 feet apart. The Best players can land a Shell in the Hole 50 percent to 75 percent of the time unless its Windy Reinhart said and these were sundays winners a menus singles a Art Naclerio of Pelham Manor n.y., won his fifth title defeating Reinhart in a repeat of last years final. A women a singles a defending Champion Betty Ann Saraceni of Cherry Hill won her third title beating Donna Owens of Haverford a. A women a doubles a Sheryl Carlson of Wilmington del., and Dolly Jacobson of Media a. A menus doubles a Charles Boydjr. Of Wilmington del., and Jim Mitchell of Haddonfield. The City sponsored event awards trophies to the  locate remains of California girl 3 san Bernardino Calif. Up detectives using specially trained search dogs found a slain 3-year-old girls dismembered remains encased in Concrete and scattered in a Remote Mountain area authorities said sunday. Alicia Armstrong was killed by her Foster father Craig Armstrong a six year Veteran san Bernardino police officer who hanged himself one Day after videotaping a confession in his lawyers office. Armstrong had reported the girl was kidnapped from the Inland Center mall on july 28, just hours after he killed her in an apparent Case of discipline that a got out of hand a police said. The 29-year-old officer was on administrative leave from the police department when he hanged himself in the garage of his in Laws Home aug. 16, shortly after detectives named him the prime suspect in his Foster daughters disappearance. Armstrong a lawyer gave police the officers videotaped confession the following Day. In the two hour tape Armstrong said he spanked the girl after she went into the family Kitchen about 2 . July 28, punched her in the stomach dismembered her and scattered the parts in Riverside and san Bernardino counties. Initial efforts to find the girls body turned up nothing in the places Armstrong mentioned on the videotape police said. Search dogs were brought in and the animals helped detectives find the body parts scattered in a Remote Mountain area near Idylwild on saturday