Panama City News Herald (Newspaper) - June 26, 1986, Panama City, Florida News f Panama City 1986 becoming a random 1 Panami pages jailer found guilty of BORNHOFT 4 Editor Prosecutors failed Wednesday in a second attempt to win a conviction for alleged inmate abuse at the Jackson County Jail as Circuit Judge Robert McCrary declared a mistrial in the case of Gordon Hartley jury was unable to reach agreement on whether Hartley had ted the felonious fense of aggravated child but did the sergeant guilty of malpractice by a a second-degree The latter offense is punishable by a fine of up to and up to 60 days in In the offender loses his job as a I'm a little bit disappointed in the Assistant State Attorney Jim Dunning said after the jury was hung jury is like a tie in it's like kissing your mother or your Dunning said he is to try the case but said that decision ultimately will belong to State Attorney Jim contacted Wednesday afternoon at Jackson Hospital where he is recovering from and sustained in an auto accident Tuesday said he had not had a chance to talk to Dunning in but would expect that we will take the charge back to especially since this was the first case we brought against this Floyd smiled broadly as he left Circuit Griffith if we have to do this Reminded that Hartley had been convicted of Griffith a second-degree misdemeanor it's not as serious as the other - Three weeks before congressional negotiators begin writing a compromise the top item on their agenda has been protect the middle we treat middle-income families is going to be probably the most issue for the Rep. Dan chairman of the House Ways and Means said 59, declined any He had joked with friends and relatives during recesses throughout the was tried on charges filed in connection with the disciplinary restraint of inmate M. Johnson during the evening and early morning hours of Sept. 19-20. correctional officers on duty that night testified Tuesday that Johnson called a female jail employee a and was subsequently handcuffed behind his back and secured to the bars of a holding cell with a device known as a transport officers testified that Hartley was present when Johnson was None of the corroborated the testimony of who said Hartley yanked on the transport chain lifting the inmate's hands above his back and his feet off the floor and leaving him in a stooped officers Charles Mann and Lucy Mae Britt testified that Hartley never touched the transport Officer Freddie Roulhac testified that he did not recall exactly who restrained only that he was 19 was the first night on the job for Britt and who had been employed at the jail for about three testified Tuesday that Johnson was restrained twice that Mann took credit for chaining 16 at the to the bars of the holding cell after Johnson a in his Mann testified that shift supervisor Hartley orchestrated Johnson's punishment after the inmate swore at Mann said Johnson was released from the bars and at Hartley's told us we didn't have it done Mann said about he was going to show us how to do his closing argument Griffith pointed to inconsistencies in the See 2A OKs military aid for into summer Laura youngsters keep cool by getting have the advantage of a yellow water slide sprayed with water But Christopher mat. The boy is yellow because of the Hanley and in reflection of the sun off the - The House heeded President Reagan's pleas Wednesday night and narrowly approved million of mostly military aid to rebels fighting to overthrow the government of chamber approved the plan by a vote of 221-209 for million worth of military hardware and million in non-lethal That reversed the House's narrow defeat of a similar package three months the the U.S. government for the first time would openly give military support to the rebels known as and permits the CIA and Pentagon to manage the contra The rebels had been covertly supported by the CIA from 1981 to 1984. a much was made of million in non-lethal aid previously provided the Opponents of further aid said large amounts of that money ended up in the pockets of the Honduran military and in bank accounts in the Bahamas and the Cayman the debate covered familiar Reagan's supporters said military aid was essential to curb communism and restore democracy in Nicaragua while opponents said the administration had failed to pursue a peaceful outcome through summing up the Rep. Thomas said that by approving military aid the United States would be on what would be a virtually unprecedented action the United States would be undertaking a proxy war a government with which we technically are at peace and technically have diplomatic leader Bob Michael of Illinois urged his colleagues to abandon have the guts to nurture democracy and fight communism in our hemisphere not he battle took on a 2A middle-income top tax think the House is a bit better in that Senate Majority Leader Bob with Rostenkowski on Good Morning America Dole stopped short of saying he would like to see negotiators depart from the structure in the Senate to for greater relief for the middle all of us want to keep the rates as low as we Dole agreed but are areas that to have to negotiate in order to keep those rates that lot of middle-income people are going to be surprised that they will have to pay more tax under the Senate said Janice M. senior tax manager for Seidman Seidman accountants in New the yuppie couples with lots of major deductions people in their 20s to 40s whose only See 2A 2C 3-14C and 6A 1-5D For Hie are who have David drowns while swimming in writer strong undertow caused by stormy weather in the Gulf of Mexico apparently led to the drowning of a North Carolina man Wednesday morning while swimming with his wife off Panama City Police Chief Lee Sullivan said Jimmy Lewis 46, of Seven was swimming about 50 feet from shore at Beach when he was caught by undertow around 10 said Brown's wife was able to reach the beach and call for pulled Brown from the and lifeguards from the Police Department and Ed's Beach Service attempted to revive Brown until paramedics Sullivan was taken to Bay Medical where he was pronounced said the Browns were staying at a summer cottage See 2A Hurricane Gulf Coast residents prepare for evacuated from platforms in the landed via helicopter in Texas of workers fled their offshore rigs and residents boarded up beachfront businesses Wednesday as Hurricane Bonnie swept toward the Gulf the first blast of the 1986 hurricane forecasters said Bonnie was a small hurricane its 75 mph winds barely classifying it as such the storm was gaining power as it churned across the warm Gulf of Mexico toward this island was expected to strike land sometime and few people were taking the storm think it's dumb to stay if it gets that said Richard who was boarding up his home in Pirate's Beach on the west end of Galveston Several of stayed during but they're all going this warnings flew along a 270-mile strip of coast from west of Morgan to Gale warnings and a hurricane watch were posted from the mouth of River to Port 10:30 p.m. Bonnie's 25-mile-wide eye was near latitude 28.6 north and longitude 93.1 about 115 miles southeast of It See 2A
