European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Of age 4 the stars and stripes . Friday january 8,1993 adopted son learns mom is Home alone suspect Aurora Iii. Up a the 19-year-old son of a woman who is accused of leaving her two Young daughters Home alone White vacationing in Mexico has criticized his natural Mother. But Jose Montanez Given up for adoption when he was 4, says he would like to meet her anyway. Montanez said he Learned Sharon schoo was his biological Mother from his Uncle who adopted Montanez after schoo said she was unable to care for him. Quot that Home alone woman that a your natural mom a a Montanez said his Uncle told him in a Telephone Call Quot i looked at her and looked at her on the television and i said whoa that s my mom a a he said his adoptive father who is imprisoned on drug charges is the brother of his natural father Benito Montanez who died in a fire. Montanez in an interview with Usa today said he irl 16, to go free after Killi abusive father Anadarko Tokhi. A a 16-year-old girl accused of killing her father who she said had abused her for years will serve no prison time under a plea agreement approved wednesday. Lillie Joe Powell will plead guilty feb. 23 to a charge of first degree manslaughter. She will be sentenced to 88 Days in jail time she has already served. Powell admitted shooting her father aug. 26. Urcla lives and expert witnesses testified that Billy Ray Powell a retired army Drill sergeant physically sexually and emotionally abused his daughter the Case Drew National attention and a Boston Man who insisted on anonymity posted a $10,000 Bond nov. 23 so the teen Ager could be freed. The girl who lives in the Community of Cement also will be required to serve five years of supervised probation and get four years of psychological counselling unless released sooner by a psychiatric professional. Caddo county District judge James Winchester act Cep cd the 12 terms in the plea agreement but. The judge said he plans to add a provision controlling proceeds from any Book or movie rights to the Story. Cement mayor Jerry Dallas said in november that he had received Calls from Hollywood movie production companies asking about the girl. Also at wednesdays hearing a maternal aunt of Billie Joe Powell a who lives in Texas was named temporary guardian. One of the plea terms is that the teen not live with her Mother Charlotte Powell lawyers said permanent guardianship would be settled in february. The girl had been in the temporary custody of a teacher who took school assignments to her in jail. She declined to comment on the agreement. But lawyers sides said they were pleased. Has hid no Contact with his Mother and is Quot a Little bit glad she did no to raise me. I was raised nevertheless he said he would like to meet her. Quot i say anything. Id just stand there and took at her. And to a give her a hug if Shell take it a Montanez said. Schoo 35, and her husband David 45, Are accused of leaving their daughters Nicole 9, and Diana 4, Home alone while they vacationed in Mexico. Police got involved when a smoke Detector in the family a St. Charles Home about 50 Miles West of Chicago went off and Nicole called 911 for couple was excused from a court hearing on child abandonment and other charges tuesday because of death threats against them and their attorney and a bomb threat at the older daughters school. The girls Are in Foster care. It we a i enter the King the first Day postal cover of Elvis Presley is to go on Sale today at Graceland in he background in Memphis ten no a where Elvis Presley lived before his death. A commemorative stamp sporting a picture of Quot the King is to be released at 12 01 . At Graceland. Nationwide sales Are to begin at noon. Jazz Pioneer dizzy Gillespie Dies at 75 Englewood . Apr be Bop Pioneer dizzy Gillespie who helped popularize jazz wit 1 his bulging Cheeks and Bent trumpet died wednesday. He was 75. Gillespie died while sleeping in a chair at Englewood Hospital where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer said publicist Virginia Wicks. His music compiled in the recent release duty s diamonds was a keying on a stereo in his room when Gillespie he died Wicks said. He last performed in Public at a Seattle nightclub in late february she said. \ Gillespie turned jazz in new directions in at least two ways a As a founding father of the by Bop and As a Collaborator with cuban musicians who gave african american music a latin beat. Gillespie is generally credited with coining the term Quot by Bop when he tried to describe the sound of the new beat which employed Complex new rhythms and chords. A Gillespie wrote or co wrote Many songs that became jazz standards. While his bulging Cheeks defied conventional Wisdom about the proper technique for blowing a Horn Gillespie said they worked for him. Quot my Cheeks just started Quot expanding and 1 just went along with it a he once said. As for his Bent Horn he said the origin was an Accident in 1953, when another player tripped Over his trumpet stand and Bent the Bell upward at a 45-degree Angle. Gillespie liked the sound it gave him and used Bent horns the rest of his career. He was born John Birks Gillespie on oct 21, 1917, in Cheraw s.c., the youngest of nine children. His father was a bricklayer and Amateur musician. His first instrument was the piano. But when he was in the third Grade he fell in love with a Friend s new trumpet and played it whenever he could. Misleading claims linked to silicone ii from wire reports Washington a a congressional report says misleading claims by manufacturers and government inaction left women uninformed about the risks of silicone gel breast implants. A top health official says the companies Are under investigation. The report praised specialists at the food and drug administration for trying to bring attention to the problem but it said they were Quot repeatedly undermined Over a period of 15 years of decision makers within the Quot that pattern continues to the present Day a the report said. The report attributed the of Day a Slot response largely to lobbying efforts by plastic surgeons and manufacturers As Well As being kept in the dark about possible health problems appearing in the companies own studies. Vatican books on loan Washington a the Library of Congress which has More than 15 million books of its own is borrowing a few from the Vatican Library in Rome a including a 470-year-old volume of love letters from King Henry Viii of England. It Why would the Vatican Library keeps love letters of the much married Monarch they Are the originals of 17 notes from Henry to Anne Boleyn later his second Queen. They belong to a loan exhibition called Rome reborn that opens saturday just off the Library of Congress Century old great Hall. The occasion Marks the Halls reopening after three years of restoration. The Rev. Leonard e. Boyle the Vatican Library a prefect said the letters must have been stolen and then sent on to the Vatican. Gene linked to diabetes Boston a scientists have linked a particular Gene to the common inherited form of adult diabetes. But they say the Gene is probably not the cause of the disease just a signpost of it. Finnish researchers reporting in thursdays new England journal of Medicine said they found that a specific form of this Gene occurs in 30 percent of diabetics but Only 8 percent of no diabetics. The Gene controls the Way muscle stores sugar. The adult form of diabetes sometimes called no insulin dependent diabetes afflicts about 10 million americans. It runs in families but is a Complex disease. Experts suspect several genetic variations May be responsible for it. Steps taken to shield dogs Toledo Ohio a officials have warned residents of East Side neighbourhoods to keep their dogs inside following the fatal shooting of one dog and the wounding of two others. Diana Murphy supervisory investigator for the Toledo humane society said wednesday that neither a motive nor a suspect had Bee found. The shootings occurred tuesday in neighbourhoods that Murphy said were accustomed to hearing gunfire. Honoree held in theft Washington a the 19-year-old Man arrested for illegally driving the car of former District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry is a gospel Singer whom president Reagan honoured with a National youth hero award in 1986. The Man Tyrone Ford has performed at the Kennedy Center acid at Wolf trap and at age 12 directed three Church choirs. News articles note that he attended barrys inaugural party in 1986. Barry reported his Chrysler new yorker stolen on monday just hours after he parked it at the City office building for his first Day As a newly elected City Council member. Court records say that Ford had a marijuana cigarette faced with cocaine in his pocket when he was arrested and that he tested positive for drug use. He was charged w Ith unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and cited for driving without a permit. Barry was in no hurry to reclaim the car saying lie first wanted police to inspect it thoroughly. Barry was convicted in 1990 on cocaine Possession charges and served six months in jail
