Gettysburg Times (Newspaper) - February 13, 2001, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania VOL NO 38 PI PROMISES Page A1O 000577 DOCUMENTS DIV 300 N WASHINGTON ST GETTYSBURG Page B1 BUSH VISITS MES FEBRUARY TUESDAY WEATHER Mostly sunny Highs near 50 Light northwest wind becoming cloudy with rain likely after midnight Lows in the mid to upper 30s Chance of rain 60 percent cloudy with rain showers likely Highs in the upper 40s Chance of rain 70 cent Extended forecast Wednesday a chance of rain showers Lows in the lower 40s partly cloudy Highs in the mid 50s a chance of rain Lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s partly cloudy Lows in the 30s and highs in the 40s partly cloudy Lows in the 20s Highs around 40 partly cloudy Lows in the 20s Highs around 40 Americans place education far ahead of tax cuts WASHINGTON Americans place education as a top priority for President well ahead of a federal income tax a new poll shows Half of the people surveyed in the Poll said improving education should be a top priority for the Bush and three in 10 said reducing income taxes should be the highest goal Almost four in 10 said the main focus should be on keeping America balancing the providing military security and dealing with energy problems The Bush administration has been moving ahead aggressively on both education improvements and tax cuts The public remains divided on whether they admire Bush Those who think he is to be president have increased from half in the fall of 1999 to two-thirds now Four in 10 think he does not understand complex up from a fourth a year ago The number who say he does remains at six in 10 Bush's job approval rate was 57 about the same level Clinton had when he first became but slightly below the rate Clinton had in the mid 60s when he left office Bush's personal approval was at substantially er than who ended his presidency with people split about evenly on him personally Most of Bush's personal ratings were similar to ratings he got during the with people saying he is a strong and decisive leader by a margin Bush should have more ence on the direction of the try than the Republicans in 44 percent while 31 percent felt the congressional Republicans should have the influence The margin with con- gressional Democrats was ly smaller with 48 percent ing Bush and 41 percent choosing Democrats The poll of adults was taken Friday through Sunday and has an error margin of 3 centage points INSIDE r Innocent man who spent years on death row released Earl Washington Jr VIRGINIA Va A man who came within nine days of being executed was freed Monday after DNA tests cleared him of a 1982 murder to which he confessed glad to be said a grinning Earl Washington who had been in prison since 1983 not Largely illiterate and with an IQ of Washington confessed to the 1982 rape and slaying of Rebecca Lynn Williams though no fingerprints or biological dence tied him to the crime He came within nine days of being executed in the electric chair in 1985 but was granted a stay A 1993 DNA test cast doubt on his guilt and prompted Gov L Douglas Wilder to com- mute his sentence to life in 1994 Last additional DNA tests found genetic material belonging to two other and Gov Jim Gilmore pardoned Washington Now Washington plans to live in a Virginia Beach ment run by a support center for the mentally disabled He is under supervised parole for unrelated burglary and wounding convictions Washington is among 95 ple on death row who have been 10 of those through DNA said Barry one of his lawyers Six states North Maryland and Indiana have launched capital ment studies looking at issues ranging from the quality of defense lawyers to the overall functioning of the death said Paula Bernstein of the Death Penalty Information Center Earlier this the Virginia Senate unanimously backed legislation that would wipe out the limit for con- inmates to present new evidence of innocence The sure is before the House Since the death penalty was reinstated in Virginia has executed 81 second only to Texas Washington said he celebrated his release with chocolate nuts Asked what his plans were for his first full day of he would like to sleep all day Lila a spokeswoman for the said no one has been implicated in Williams slaying Borough to ask county for cut of pillow tax M BY BETH KANAGY Times Staff Writer Gettysburg Borough Council will ask Adams County Commissioners for its of the During Monday night's lar council the board agreed to send a letter to the commissioners outlining its position on the tax The tax is a two percent levy on the cost of a hotel or motel room rental It will be tered through the which will keep 25 percent of the col- tax Seventy-five percent will go to the Convention and Visitors Bureau Councilman Len Andrews proposed the borough ask the county for 47 its 25 percent because 47 percent of the hotel and motel rooms in the county are within the borough Using as a projected income from the Andrews said that would go to the county and should be the share what we con- at least we should get our fair share of the pillow said Andrews Councilman Jamie Fleet noted that the county may use its share for historic grants to municipalities with police and economic development we have a plan to do all said referring to the Interpretive Plan Borough Manager Charles Sterner encouraged all council members to appear before the county commissioners at their Feb 21 meeting that also apply to county for their funding New Oxford provides one percent of the hotel rooms to the they should get one cent of the said Sterner Council also endorsed projects to be funded by community Development Block Grants Monday night The borough had to COUNCIL on Page Museum QvU War wave in the during day ceremonies of the new National Civil War in Harrisburg on Monday another photo on Page Mount Joy officials voice concerns about proposed golf development BY ED REINER Times Staff Writer A letter sent to the developers for the proposed Golfing Community at the Links of Gettysburg was the topic of discussion Monday at the workshop meeting with the Mount Joy Township supervisors Mark a consultant from HRG and Mount suggested they look at 16 items that concerned him in the nance drafted by attorney John White for the golfing community The supervisors were concerned about the center being posed was a conceptual Developer Rick Klein said 1 think everything was up for negotiation If it bothers them we are going to reconsider and that's what we got out of The supervisors wanted to know when the hotel was going to be built Will it be built first and then the residential or would the house be built In the Mount Joy Comprehensive Plan it is written that no development or ing can change the integrity of the scape The supervisors wanted to know what the use will be for the along with the dimensions and how many rooms the whole concept of the ference center a negative in accordance to the rest of the White asked The fear of the supervisors is that the hotel will be built first and then the es will come 20 years later don't think the supervisors are dead set against Dayhoff said is concern with the hotel and com- area being out in the middle of a Supervisor George Scott suggested they make a flow chart detailing what will be built first and when should an ordinance that a certain amount of houses have to be built before the commercial Scott said The original plan was for a golfing com- munity being built without commercial property The goal of both the supervisors and Klein is to preserve open space Some of the concerns for the residents and the supervisors is the increased fic There was a local traffic study com- according to will not be effected by the golfing community with the this may become a concern until the size and shape is defined we clarify the MOUNT JOY on Page Napster must stop trading in copyrighted material Napster suffers a setback In ongoing dispute Events in the Napster saga May 1999 Napster Inc is founded by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker Dec Recording Industry Association of America sues Napster in federal court in San alleging copyright infringement April Heavy metal rock group sues Napster for copyright infringement and racketeering Rapper Dr Ore files suit two weeks later May 3.2000 drummer Lars and the attorney produce hst of more than Internet user names of people the band says are sharing their songs using Napster May 5.2000 U.S District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel rules that Napster is not entitled to harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act July 2000 Patel grants the request for a preliminary injunction and orders Napster shut down July 2000 The U.S Circuit Court of Appeals stays the lower court ruling tat raised about the merits and form of injunction Oct Appeals court hears oral arguments BY RON HARRIS Associated Press Writer Napster announces partnership with German media giant Bertelsmann AG to develop a distribution system that would guarantee payments to artists Under the Bertelsmann agrees to drop lawsuit against Napster and make its music catalog available to white gaining the to buy a stake in the service Feb Appeals court says Napster must stop allowing music fans to use its service to stale copyrighted material A judge panel allows Napster to remain m business but lete a tower court judge to rewrite her injunction that ordered Napster to shut down pending a trial in the music industry's lawsuit Source ft wn AP win AP SAN FRANCISCO Napster must stop allowing the millions of music fans who use its free service to share copyrighted a federal appeals court ruled Monday The panel allowed Napster to remain in business but told a lower court judge to rewrite her injunction that ordered Napster to shut down pending a trial in a lawsuit filed by the recording industry The 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals also said Napster must lock out those users who exchange copyrighted songs without permission The appellate court had er issued a stay of the injunction This is a clear said Hilary president and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America court of appeals found that the injunction is not only but required And it ruled in our favor on every legal issue pre- Napster can stay in business until U.S District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel retools her which the appellate court's page opinion called In after the thousands of Napster users were still trading music files on just one of the company's more than 100 servers The panel said Napster may be liable if it does not actively hibit its users from swapping protected material Rather than placing the entire burden on the court said the industry must warn Napster that copyrighted work is on the service before the company is found liable Page Bobby A's Grill Bar Serving Valentine's Day Dinner Reservations Encouraged To Celebrate Adams County's The Bicentennial Pictorial Has Been Seduced To Avail At Gettysburg Times 18 Carlisle St Or 1570 Fairfield Rd Make Your Reservations Now For 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