Syracuse Herald Journal (Newspaper) - September 20, 1998, Syracuse, New York Hitman VOL. 118. NO. 36.153 SEPTEMBER THE 8 1996 The Herati FINAL EDITION nun Weems takes 10 til u IDE 05 Poll finds opinions about recovery oy El What the FBI learned may save D1 GOOD MORNING TODAY'S TODAY'S a few Warm and showers high low 52. Much a shower high low 44. clouds and high low 40. Partly sunny and high 63. low 46. The Associated Press NICOLE was crowned Miss America 1999 last night during the eant in Atlantic N.J. Third storm victim A Clay woman hit in the head by a tree during the Labor Day storm cleanup died B1 Catholic Charities birthday Catholic Charities which serves families of all faiths marks its 75th B1 Scout leader tossed The Boy Scouts have thrown out leader Dave Rice because he wants the group to end its exclusionary policies toward Lover now a hero Manuela Simon Bolivar's was once a disgrace in Latin she is now a Hie Sunday Driver Visit Watkins Glen State a watery legacy from the Ice Cook of tiie week In the Potucek two heads are better than Renting I Pet owners face many challenges when it conies to dealing with anxious Editorials Senators killed vital finance while the Starr report grabbed nation's Personal Connections T Meet new Into Real Parade Magazine Stare magazine Guide II photographer DAN executive director of Oakwood Cemetery surveys damage from the Labor Day City ponders sprucing up plan The Labor Day storm downed trees in Tree experts say it's time for some tough By Gloria Wright Staff In the wake of the Labor Day storm which destroyed tens of thousands of local tree experts want to forever change the way we plant and think The County Planning Agency is preparing a tree recovery plan that could establish guidelines for the types and locations of trees planted on public streets and Planners could borrow from which drew up a master plan outlining what public trees can be planted where and set up a routine pruning and maintenance Or they may steal some ideas from where volunteers plant public trees using a cheaper planting In Onondaga any plan should in- clude maintenance schedules for public trees and suggestions on how private owners should said horticulturist Terry Ettinger and other local tree For No more tall trees under power Norman A. a retired forestry professor at the State University College of Environmental Science and said sions open to anyone interested in The storm brought not only destruction but almost don't want to say that be- cause so many people suffered so much said Lyle a landscape ar- with the city of Syracuse ment of Recreation and Youth it's it's done Now we have opportunities to redesign or re- think what we do in the Time to plan Ettinger and others believe it is time for Syracuse to have a master plan both to recover from the extensive storm damage and to prevent it from happening The city of Syracuse alone lost an mated Thornden wood Cemetery and upper Onondaga park three landscapes listed on the National Register of Historic Places were and an 200-year-old Northern Red Oak in a North Syracuse grove fell and is no long-term strategy in neea lake a iong hard look at what needs to be de- a long-term management plan and provides us with an opportunity to create a more attractive in the long less expensive urban he But master plans can do more harm than Richards plans done by a few people out widespread input don't he hate to see us contract with some out- side firm to come in and draw up a It was a disaster In the city of Syracuse spent million on a downtown revitalization that Page All Minoa shows heart in homecoming Former coaches bring colleague home THOMAS SHELDON i the services for The former OllU Ml 1994 and was buried In I Sheldon ted the effort to bring Freeman home to Community of athletes believed one of their own deserved more than a grave in By Mike Fish Staff Writer When Charles Freeman died four years ago at only one mourner showed for his He had no known He was buried in a grave in And his sentence said nothing of his basketball heroics as player and coach for Minoa High School in the 1920s. But the people of Minoa didn't forget More than 20 former Minoa athletes and in- people he had never united to give Freeman the resting place he They bought him a new casket 1C-U at St. Mary's Cemetery in On more than 30 people gathered to mourn deserved said Tom a former Minoa this group of men and women bring him Hazel Greiner Gallery 86 years was there She played on the Minoa High School varsity basketball team coached by Freeman in 1927-28. who also played for was So was Larry a Minoa star who played for the Syracuse Nationals and the Philadelphia 76ers and coached the Milwaukee Costello's played with and his Minoa Mayor John who never met said he was awed by the is something that is he told those gathered around the the type of thing that doesn't happen all But this is what happens in Freeman was born June and spent his childhood at the House of a Syracuse He was placed with Charlie ton's family in Before ing to school each Freeman did chores around the Sutton dairy And after he starred in Everyone called him No one today remembers exactly how he got the The Suttons took in another Raymond He could throw a could catch said Russ a Minoa High School student a few years younger than the and Clinton side sees possible backlash GOP takes a risk airing grand jury news services WASHINGTON House officials braced for a new blast of damaging revelations from the re- lease Monday of President ton's videotaped grand jury high school tandem in Onondaga County at the A. Ray a former Minoa High School wrote in his 1986 One in a Freeman was even better on the basketball court From 1920-24 he starred on four Minoa High teams that won four Onondaga County League The 1923-24 team won mony and reams of graphic al involving his affair with Monica The volumes of sexually explicit a Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee send America into a In sharp contrast to the two-part rebuttal issued to the first round of disclosures from the independent Kenneth W. White House officials were hoping for the release of material to blow up in the hands of House Republicans who its speedy The spectacle is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. The hour grand jury to be aired on several broadcast is expected to show Clinton as the public has never seen in a testy encounter marked by Siarr In addition to the pages 01 ments are to be including transcripts of Lewinsky's grand jury testimony and her interviews with the which provide ex- tremely explicit details of their sexual episodes and telephone con- Gauging reaction Members of Congress wait with some apprehension to see how the public will Lawmakers from both parties expressed fears that public opinion could turn against them with an election at Rep. Lindsey a member of the Judiciary said he fears a public backlash if Americans decide that the GOP has gone too Rep. Barney also a committee said the Republicans are releasing a one- sided case against Clinton in hopes of creating a drumbeat for his im- they want to do is get this negative material about BUI ton he to the polls Americans are unhappy with how Congress is dealing with the according to a new Thirty-eight percent of those surveyed by Fox News said they approve of the course of the and 50 percent proved of congressional The poll was taken before the House Judiciary Committee voted to make public Clinton's mro testimony and pages of terial supporting the report of the independent Kenneth But the number of Americans who think President Clinton should resign is ing to a Newsweek A week 39 percent thought he should in the poll released 46 thought so j u also louna 41 percent believe I Congress should begin I ment 35 percent thought 11 v c uue uitu iosi a team in the state HOWE CALL J NEWS
