Bedford Gazette (Newspaper) - January 20, 1997, Bedford, Pennsylvania Everett grapplers beat county Page Bedford Countys Own Daily Newspaper 35 Published Continuously Since 1805 192 102 January 1997 MONDAY Today is the holiday vance in honor of the Martin Luther King All federal offices and state offices will be and there will be no mail Most area schools will also be A Johnstown accused of various sexual turns himself in to the state police in William Vernon has been charged with two counts of five counts of sexual four counts of involuntary deviate sexual eight counts of corruption of four counts of aggravated indecent three counts of harassment and one count each of statuary sexual assault and His victim was a 14yearold At 5 on Peifer turned himself in at the Bedford Pennsylvania State Police bar He was arraigned before Dis Justice Erika McVicker and placed in the Bedford County Bond was set at His pre liminary hearing is scheduled for 22 at District Jus tice Calhouns Monroe Township meeting on hog operations is The informal public information session is scheduled for 8 at the Elementary School in Saturday night was Weather Ann Kemp of she mea sured Saturdays low tempera ture at 6 Kemp notes precipitation and major weather occurrences to Penn State Uni A car caught on fire Sunday evening in Hopewell Town Six Mile Run Fire Department responded to the call at The owned by Holli Brown of caught on fire while traveling on state Route mile from the borough of Fire chief Tim Hinish said Brown had problems with her call earlier in the Firefighters were able to keep the fire in the engine No injuries were Deaths Obituaries on Page 12 Nora of Glencoe RD of George of Bed ford RD Weather REGIONAL Weather Baer given 25year prison term Lance William of was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the slaying of fellow Marine Lance Juan Baer also received a dishonor able forfeiture of all pay and reduction in rank to the lowest enlisted The sentence was handed down on Saturday by a three woman jury of Marine officers who deliberated for just under two Baer pleaded guilty 15 to unpremeditated murder and six other He faced a maxi mum sentence of life in Baers Howard Luke of said he estimates Baer will be eligible for parole in 7 to 8 Luke said Baer will probably serve his sentence at the Dis Fort Leaven Military prosecutors dropped charges of conspiracy to commit murder and carrying a concealed The remaining charges Baer pleaded guilty to were conspiracy to commit aggravated conspiracy to commit aggravated kid napping and conspiracy to commit Baer and three other two of whom already pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to life in a military were charged with the May 7 killing of of Los Lance corporals Darryl of Russell and Michael of Hay were sentenced to life in the Disciplinary They will be eligible for parole in ten Antle said Pereira instigated an assault on Guerrero that left him Pereira owed the vic tim Guerrero was beaten with a baseball shocked with a stun gun at the base and taken to a wooded area about three miles from the base and according to base Antle told the court that Baer was less involved in the attack than the other Pereira pleaded guilty to con to commit premeditated murder on Hail to the Chief Clinton holds high hopes for second time around WASHINGTON AP On the eve of his second President Clinton celebrated with excited supporters Sunday and maybe this will be better the second time Bundled against icy tens of thou sands of visitors thronged the capital for music and Eager to recreate the asm of four years Clinton urged revelers to have a good I hope every day for the next four years you will be immensely proud of what you did to make this day come he told a Democratic National Com At noon repeating the ritual that opened his Clinton will stand before hundreds of thousands of people at the west front of the Capitol and recite the of Presi dent Al Gore will take his oath minutes before the president The capital was alight with parties on inauguration The biggest of all was a Holly gala for the president and Hillary Rodham Clinton at USAir They brought along their 16yearold Youre three of the coolest peo ple I cohost Whoopi Gold berg cooed to the The guest list also fea tured Mikhail Can dice Aretha Franklin and Michael At the close of the Clinton joined the artists onstage and thanked them for helping launch his second we will not just cel our democracy we must renew Clinton Then we get on with the good work of preparing our country for a brand new Clinton will be the first Demo crat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected to the White House for two consecutive But unlike his fresh start four years ago when Democrats con trolled both houses of the president begins his second term facing an unfriendly lican House and Senate as well as legal and ethics investigations that could ensnare his adminis In an the president said he hoped his inaugural address will set a tone that will help flush the poison out of the atmosphere and get people to photo Vice President Al Gore and President Clinton attend the Presidential Inaugural gala Sunday at USAir Arena in thinking about the folks that sent us all Gathered with Clin ton recalled the darkest days of 94 and 95 after Democrats were devastated by Republican victo ries that gave them control of Even he believed his presidency would get a second he And Ive run my last the president told the DNC But we havent done all the work we need to do for our country for the 21st We have to maintain both a commitment to progress and a commitment to The first was heartily applauded at a ing gathering of supporters of Democratic women Introduced as our leader and our role Clinton praised the humanization of politics as demonstrated by the campaign focus on family Her appearance before the List lunch helped add to the groups political war Clinton campaigned to be the first president of the 21st centu and his inaugural address was expected to stress the challenges Youll hear the president talk about what a truly special moment this is in our going from one generation to the White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles said on Meet the I know you all heard him talk incessantly dur ing the campaign about this bridge to the 21st Tomor row I think youll hear him talk more about what the American people need to do to prepare our selves to go across that in an interview with The Washington spoke of the ethics controversies sur rounding both the White House and Capitol He said we spend in general a disproportion ate amount of time on all this kind of TODAY Mostly cloudy with scattered High near Wind west 10 to 20 Tonight Mostly Low 15 to TOMORROW Sunny and High in the mid OUTLOOK Wednesday Breezy and mild with a chance of rain showers late Low 25 to High 40 to Thursday Rain showers changing to snow show Morning high 35 to Evening low 25 to Friday A chance of snow Low in the upper teens to lower High in the upper 20s to lower Clinton popularity at its peak WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Clintons popularity has hit its highest level since early in his first according to a but many Americans say they doubt he will rank high among presidents a century from Fiftyseven percent of those questioned in the Newsweek poll said they liked the way Clinton is doing his That equaled the 57 percent approval recorded in March Clintons third month on the The new poll said 34 percent disapproved of Clintons perfor and 9 percent had no But 49 percent of those ques said 100 years from Clinton is more likely to be ranked among the bottom 10 presidents than among the top Only 37 percent said he would be in the top The rest didnt hazard a In historian Arthur Schlesinger published the results of a survey of 32 They ranked Clinton as low Twentyseven presidents were rated above him and 11 below Two William Henry Harrison and Zachary were not rated since they died in office very early in their In the Schlesinger only three presidents Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were rated taken Thurs day and involved 750 people and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage photo President Clinton had plenty to be happy about at Sunday nights gala opin ion polls put his popularity at the highest level since early in his first He also spoke of how he could promote Gores hopes of winning the presidency in The best thing that I can do if he decides to run for president is to make sure that he succeeds as vice to give him the oppor to do things and let him do Clinton The last day of Clintons first term began with a trip to Falls Church in suburban Virginia where the president and first lady attended services hosted by his hometown the Rex Home of Immanuel Bap tist Church in Little The Clintons later went to the church they usually Foundry United Methodist Church in where the congregation prayed for the presi The senior the Philip told the We dont just inaugurate two but a whole There were antiabortion protests near the White House and the Washington church ser vices attended by the About 50 members of the Chris tian Defense Coalition held large signs depicting pictures of abort ed fetuses and a large banner reading The Children of The protesters won court permission to demonstrate along the inaugural parade route after the government tried to keep them In an essay to be published in Mondays Washington Clinton expressed hope that the United States will move into the next century in the right with respect and all our citizens feeling that they are part of our national After Mondays Clinton will turn to problems fac ing his The presi dent will meet with economic advisers on Tuesday and issue a call for Republicans to work with him to balance the He also will use a meeting of the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday to issue a call for tougher campaign The fourth Marine accused is Lance Alejandro of San Puerto His court martial is scheduled to begin Luke said it was clear to the members of the jury that Baer did not intend for Guerrero to He entered into an agreement with the other and his part of the involvement was to beat Guerrero Luke He never believed Guerrero would die as a result of the He agreed to get on a but didnt know where the final desti nation would Shuster among most loyal to party WASHINGTON AP Lest cynics suggest that reelection politics drive how congressmen two Pennsylvania Republi cans say their penchant for party disloyalty last year stems from a desire to do their job Phil English and Jon Fox had almost solidly backed Speak er Newt Contract With America when they arrived in Foxs party loyalty fell to 77 percent and to 81 percent in according to a study by Congressional Quarterly So why buck the party one out of every five opportunities Both insist they were trying to fulfill their constituents desire for mod The turnaround allowed the pair to rebut attempts to link them with brand of a strategy that apparently given their narrow reelection Yet both consider their voting patterns more than an aber He never bucked the party to simply get a different voting English spokesman Doug Graham Every one of his disagreements were based on matters of English represents a Democrat district in northwestern Fox pointed to his voting record as a sign of his fit with an inde suburban Philadelphia his winning by fewer than 100 votes I am an independent Republi can who has been with the main stream of Montgomery Fox promising to do more of the same this year without offer ing many Terry a political analyst with Millersville Univer said the shift toward inde appeared to mark Foxs and return to their fun on Page 12 The party line and who crosses it By The Associated Press Party loyalty scores last year for congressional as calculated by Congressional Quarterly maga zine SENATORS Arlen 64 Rick 93 REPRESENTATIVES Tim 62 John 65 Mike 66 Frank 70 Ron 75 Jon 77 Paul 77 James 78 Paul 78 Phil 81 Curt 85 Bob 86 Joseph 87 88 William 88 BUD 93 William 94 x Bob 95 Thomas 96 George 96 Chaka 98 x did not seek
