Daily Herald (Newspaper) - October 5, 1995, Chicago, Illinois Move June Cleaver Comparing a family to a family shows how much we've changed SUBURBAN LIVING F2 50Cents Thursday WEATHER Rain likely Today will be cloudy and windy with rain likely late in the day and a high near 65 Chance of rain is 60 There will be occasional ram tonight with a low near 55. INSIDE President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton greet Pope John Paul Pope arrives in Pope John Paul II began his visit to America Wednesday with a call to bolster the United Nations so it may better help the cause of peace Page 3. Country celebration Brooks Dunn were named best vocal duo for the fourth straight year at the 29th Annual CMA matching a long-standing record 3 FOX V ALL Fake ID crackdown False ID cards recovered at a party in South let police help Indiana and al officials in a crackdown on two fake shops Page 15 CONSTABLE Shining through Leroy Keyes played football for Purdue University and once lived in the shadow of O.J. But he didn't need to claim celebrity status to shine Back Page INDEX Movies 4 7 7 days to kickoff What's it like dunng a typical week on a high school football Anything but typical ask the players and coaches We did In we spent seven days observing tne rebuilding Prospect ball program under new coach Jim Turn to Section 2. Howling Hurricane Opal hits Florida Panhandle Associated Press Fla. Hurricane Opal thrashed the Florida dle with howling wind gusts up to 144 mph flooding knocking down piers along the beaches and ing more than terrified ple to flee inland At least one son was whose storm center hit the Air Force's Hurlburt east of just after 5 p.m. go was one of the strongest storms to hit the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Camille killed 256 people in 1969. which left 10 people dead in spun off at least seven and caused flooding from storm surges of up to 15 feet The storm's first U S. victim was a 76-year-old woman whose mobile home in Okaloosa County was de- by a think this one is going to clean our said Tom who fled gave us a deep respect for knowing when to he referring to the hurricane that forced a similar dus two months At 10 p.m. Chicago Opal was about 70 miles south of Ala. Maximum sustained winds had dropped to about 100 mph and forecasters said the storm gradually would weaken through the night as it headed toward southern Alabama at about 22 At least were evacuated from a 150-mile stretch of Florida's Gulf from Pensacola to Wakulla Beach south of as the ninth hurricane of the Atlantic storm season closed in Thousands who waited too long to evacuate were trapped in their homes Those who did flee bottled up traffic on U.S 29 the main route north toward Alabama and on eastbound Interstate 10, where traffic crawled at 5 are turning around and going back said Tom the emergency ment director for Santa Rosa we're asking people who have not yet left their homes to stay An estimated people sought refuge in 42 emergency Several shelters in cambia County reported food and one shelter de- signed to hold 500 people was filled with more than 900. Justice Stroud and his family found themselves trapped on Pan- ama City a barrier because the roads were too ed to extensive damage on the Stroud still getting a lot of the electricity is out and we're losing some of the See OPAL on Page 3 The sailboat Cookie Cutter takes a hit from heavy at a marina Wednesday as Hurricane Opal began bearing down on the Florida ASSOC. prats PIW THE SIMPSON ACQUITTAL Jurors say case against Simpson just didn't add up Associated Pi LOS ANGELES One cop another was a the gloves didn't Simpson's hands and one was planted on the grounds of his estate so son had to be a juror said Brenda a black er technician from South Central Los said a glove found behind son's sion was key to her decision to vote to acquit Simpson on charges of killing ex- wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald planted Moran signaling she agreed with the defense contention that son was framed by rogue The juror discussed the case Simpson was not It was not I didn't have enough evidence to convince me he was Brenda juror with more than 100 who were assembled on the roof of a Beverly Hills parking garage because there L wasn't enough room inside the offices of Moran's Another black Gina said a straw poll taken less than an hour into was 10- 2 in favor of One ot those voting guilty was black or Hispanic and one was she The next vote was Rosborough said on that jurors had lot of able doubt from the about the including the he committed such a bloody then there should have been more blood in that Bronco than this just little speck that we See SIMPSON on Page 7 breaks silence on talk show Associated O.J. Simpson Juror Brenda bottom right in and her attorney Robert M. bottom left in speak to approximately 200 reporters during a news conference in Beverly Hills Associated Press Photo LOS ANGELES Speaking out for the first time t mce his 0 J Simpson assailed prosecutors and tators Wednesday foi distorting the trial evidence to inake him look bad basic anger is hese Simpson said in a phone call to King Simpson also was asked by King about son's reunion with his two small dren been S without elabora ion Simpson's surprise phone call came dunng King's i with lead defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr Simpson called to r to a woman who called n asking about prosecution claims that a shadowy figure seen moving across the driveway of son's house was Simpson re- turning from an npt to hide See on Page 7 O.J. Simpson Simpson's legal problems over yet Coverage begins on Pa Why blacks celebrated the An essay to help whites understand Students at Augustana College in Rock Island were representative of the racial division of reaction to Simpson's acquittal Associated Press Photo ByR EUGENE Retired Courts People need to set aside their bi- their their ceptions about this this de- Just picture if this case involved a white like Joe Joe Montana or even Babe Ruth This athlete's married to a black and then he's accused of killing Now picture that the jury is most ail and one of the tral figures in the case is a black an in- who says he was con- Because the reaction to the Simpson jury's verdict was so diverse between and we asked former Criminal Courts Judge R. Eugene to explain to white suburbanites why many blacks cheered the verdict and reacted the way they cerned about the safety of the and that's why he scaled the fence outside the athlete's not because the athlete was a And that's this black in- comes across a piece of evidence that fell it didn't have any stains around it was ered with and lal er it didn't fit the athlete Then the officer made 12 hours See Gting bottom Eagle grocery store to close Oct. 29 BY MELISSA RAMSDELL Daily Herald Staff Writer The Eagle grocery store in will dose on Oct. 29 because of lagging company officials The which has about 60 has been the anchor store for Shopping ter since March 1983. is just an elimination of an unprofitable piece of our tion to help the more profitable said Jaqueline a spokeswoman for Eagle Foods in Debowski said the retail market led executives to agree to shut the main reason is which impacts greatly on profitability in our she Some employees at the dale store will move to other Eagle Elgin's Gromer grocery store faces uncertain future Page 5 Debowski Others will receive severance dissipate out to other area area Vice President John Blakeley will go to some will go to McHenry others will go to Employees with more seniority likely will displace who have fewer years of experience in those does have a domino she Blakeley said Eagle has not found another business to take the space when they vacate the will continue our obligation for the he said Greg who owns dale Shopping said he was not aware that Eagle was closing but added that its has not expired will probably sublet he not going to pay the kind of rent they're paying to let it sit there Blakeley said the Carpentersville store needed some to remain competitive would not have been a return on the he an older feci Eagle will also cl a store in on Ort 29, Debowski
