European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes . Foxfire7 teacher pleads guilty to molesting child by the new York times Atlanta a Eliot Wigginton the Georgia school teacher whose students produced the Foxfire Book an acclaimed series of journals about their local culture surrendered to the authorities thursday one Day after pleading guilty to child molestation. Wigginton 49, was indicted sept. Is but had vigorously maintained his innocence until now. Since the indictment however prosecutors made known their intention to produce More than 20 people to testify that Wigginton molested them As children from 1969 to 1982. On wednesday Wigginton appeared in a nearly empty courtroom in Clayton ga., 100 Miles North of Atlanta and entered a guilty plea to a single count of molestation. Named for a phosphorescent Lichen common to the mountainous North Georgia area Foxfire began As a single student produced Magazine and journal in Wigginton s High school English class at Rabun county High school in the late 1960s. It sent the students out to interview their neighbors and examine their communities. It eventually grew to an Enterprise that sold More than 4 million books worldwide inspired a Broadway play and created a network of More than 1,200 teachers in about a dozen states who promote the journals As learning tools. Bruce Maloy Wigginton a attorney said the teachers admission was also a deeply personal coming to grips with his problems and a result of his growing concern about the effect of the accusations and any protracted trial on the non profit Foxfire fund a $1.2 Mil lion a year program that promotes his ideas. With his surrender thursday Wigginton begins a one year sentence which he will serve in the 36-inmate Rabun county jail. Afterwards he will face 19 years probation. The sentence also requires that he pay for counselling for himself and for the victim. It forbids him to teach again. The allegations Stem from a May 10 incident. A 10-year-old boy said Wigginton fondled him at the Foxfire Complex where the fund maintains offices and offers programs for teachers and students during an overnight stay. Doing a double take a Squirrel takes a close look at a sign outside the mar up a ramp to the window ledge of the building. The Little shall Center in Vancouver wash., recently As it climbs critters use the ramp to reach peanuts left on the ledge. Third teen arrested in sniper attacks by the new York times Jacksonville Fla. A police have arrested a third member of a youth gang in sniper and Rock throwing attacks on motorists along a stretch of interstate 295. The attacks prompted the american automobile association to Issue a rare warning last week advising its members to avoid the stretch of 13 Miles of interstate that forms a Beltway around Jacksonville. Jim Mcmillan the Duval county sheriff said thursday that the third suspect Jason Dixon had been charged with stealing a car used by two teen age boys charged in one of the attacks. The boys a 16-Yearold and a 17-year-o d whose names were not released were arrested this week. They were charged with attempted murder in the shooting last july of Debra Lewis 38. Lewis jaw was broken and she suffered permanent hearing loss when she was shot by someone in a passing vehicle. Authorities said thursday that Dixon 19, was with the boys on the Day of the attack on Lewis. Mcmillan said the 16-year-old had also been charged in August with conspiring to shoot a Motorist in another incident on 1-295, the sheriff identified All three Young men As members of the English estates posse. Investigators said the attacks May be part of a gang initiation rite. Trial ordered in torture chamber deaths san Andreas Calif. Up1 accused mass murderer Charles no was ordered thursday to stand trial on charges that he killed 11 people at a sex torture chamber hidden in the Calaveras county Foothills. Justice court judge Douglas Mewhinney found that there was enough evidence linking no to the slayings to warrant a jury trial. He will be arraigned in Superior court dec. 2, defense lawyer James Webster said no was not sur prised by the ruling following a five week preliminary hearing that feature a harrowing videotape showing no and his alleged accomplice Leonard Lake tormenting kidnapped sex slaves at a Cabin near Wilseyville. No 31, is accused of killing u people at the Cabin with Lake during the mid-1980s. He is also charged with a 12th murder in san Francisco. Lake swallowed a cyanide Pill and died when police questioned him about the slayings in 1985. _ saturday november 14,1992 court curbs transplants of brainless infants organs from wire reports Tallahassee Fla. A the Florida supreme court said thursday that organs May not be taken for transplant from infants born without fully developed brains As Long As the infants Are legally alive. The court based its definition of death on heart and lung activity. The unanimous ruling came in the Case of baby Theresa an infant who lived nine Days after being born March 21 without a Skull and with Only a brain Stem that kept her heart and lungs working. The baby a parents Justin Pearson and Laura Campo of Coral Springs had wanted the girl declared legally dead so her organs could be used in transplants to help other babies. Cells appear to Burn out san Francisco a alzheimer a and Parkinson a disease May appear when the a a fireplaces that Power brain cells gradually Burn out a researcher reports. The fires Are smothered by a lifetimes accumulation of genetic mutations explaining Why the two brain diseases occur late in life said Douglas Wallace of Emory University in Atlanta. On thursday Wallace reported evidence from autopsies of 173 brains that mutations in mitochondria a which Supply Energy to cells a Are More common in victims of alzheimer a and Parkinson a disease than in others. A a there a been no Way to explain late Onset disease a Wallace said in an interview at the annual meeting of the american society of human genetics where he reported his findings. Colonial Era remains found St. Mary a City my. One of three colonial Era Lead coffins has been found to contain the Well preserved remains of a woman and scientists Hope the find will Tell them More about the lives of the Early colonists. The remains revealed wednesday could be those of Anne Wolseley wife of Philip Calvert the Maryland Colony s first Chancellor and its governor briefly in 1660-1661, said Henry Miller chief archaeologist on the project. Wolseley is believed to have died about 1680 in her late 40s or Early 50s. Calvertis remains Are thought to be in the third and largest of the Lead coffins yet to be opened. The third coffin contained an infants Bones. An attempt to extract unpolluted 17th-Century air from one of the coffins before it was opened was inconclusive. Anti  Law overturned Salem Ore. A an anti homosexual measure passed by Oregon citizens four years ago is unconstitutional an appeals court ruled thursday. The initiative known As measure 8, repealed an executive order by former gov. Neil Goldschmidt protecting state workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation. The measure placed on the ballot through citizen petitions violated rights of free expression a three judge panel of the Oregon court of appeals ruled. The office of state attorney general Charles Crookham is considering an Appeal. Mob Leader needed Chicago a Joseph a Joey the Clown Quot Lombardo May have had a Job waiting for him when he got out of prison Friday a published report said thursday Lombardo 63, who also is known As a the icepick a is Likely to become the new head of the Chicago mob the Chicago Sun tunes said. Lombardo was sentenced in 1986 to 16 years in prison for conspiring to skim $2 million from Las vegas casinos. He served the term concurrently with a 15-year sentence for conspiring with former teamsters president Roy Williams to bribe former sen. Howard Cannon d-nev., to Block a trucking deregulation Bill. The Chicago mob needs a new Leader because of the death of Tony a big tuna Quot Accardo a recent string of Federal convictions of mob leaders and the 1 scheduled gambling trials in California next year of. Sam Carliss and John a no nose Difronzo now i the Chicago outfits top men