Winchester Star (Newspaper) - July 31, 1996, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 24 32 SECTIONS VIRGINIA JULY 1996 6673200 25 CENTS Security Guard Is Target of Blast Probe Officials Question Hero of Olympics Park Bombing By MITCHELL LANDSBERG AP National Writer ATLANTA FBI agents today searched the apartment of an Olympics security guard first praised as a hero in the Centennial Olympic Park has now emerged as the prime target of their FBI agent Don Johnson and four others ar rived at Richard Jewells apartment at 9 Johnson knocked on the identified him and all five went They did not show a search warrant at the But FBI Special Agent in Charge David Tubbs confirmed later that the group had a search He that the investigation was Jewell has not been placed under ar rest and he has not been charged with any Tubbs a security guard credited with sav ing lives before Saturdays bombing by spot ting the bomb in a emerged on Tuesday as the prime target of the in into the Mobbed by reporters as he returned home from FBI he emphatically denied setting the Im I didnt do he insisted before going into the Tubbs said news media and residents were being moved away from the immediate Shortly 12 more agents arrived in FBI vans and started escorting neighbors one dressed in her We emphasize that neither the issuance of a search warrant nor the execution of it con evidence of Tubbs A search warrant is an order of the court to search a particular location to determine if relevant evidence is He added that many potential suspects have been investigated and cleared in the past few On Tuesday a beefy 33 yearold with a checkered law enforcement appeared on Today show to recount his heroic See Blast Page A7 Associated Press Richard Jewell is surrounded by reporters and photographers after his questioning by the FBI in Atlanta on FEC Sues Christian Coalition Panel Groups GOP Aid Violated Election Law By WILLIAM DOUGLAS Newsday WASHINGTON The Federal Election Commission filed a law suit against the Christian Coali tion on saying the group violated election law by aiding Republican presidential and con gressional The filed in District alleges that the nonprofit organization founded by evangelist Pat Robert son and headed by Ralph Reed used its voters telephone banks and mailing lists in parti san efforts to get Republicans to the polls in elections in 1992 and The coalition describes itself as nonpartisan and educational in The FEC suit said the coalition used its resources to help the can of former President Jesse House Speaker Newt and the failed Senate bid in Vir ginia of figure Oliver The FEC says the coalitions activities for particular candidates should have been reported as in dependent expenditures or contributions to the campaigns that In the money the in coalition spent on the Republican candidates is an il legal corporate ac cording to the Coalition officials said on Tues day that the with its million members and mil lion is a nonpartisan The Christian Coalition has abided by both the letter and the spirit of the Reed said in a written We are abso lutely and totally confident that we will be fully vindicated and the courts will affirm that people of faith have every right to be in volved as citizens and An FEC panel of three Demo crats and three Republicans au the suit on May The suit asks the court to impose prevent the use of corporate money to promote candidates and force the coalition to disclose the money it spends on Part of its strength comes from its The coalition is set up as what the tax code calls a social welfare meaning its primary purpose is promoting the public and not partisan Sec Coalition Page A6 INDEX Dear 8 Frederick 14 6 Sports 23 TV MISS YOUR PAPER Call 6673200 THE FREDERICK COUNTY FAIR Star Photos by Scott Mason performs to a sea of umbrellas at the fair on Tuesday For a see Page She Wants to Be a Princess Caitlyn Brooke Hermosillo Had A Definite Goal Tiny Miss Title By KERRY LYNN FRALEY The Winchester Star Make no Caitlyn Brooke Hermosillo was in it for the The Frederick County 4year who took the Tiny Miss Frederick County Fair title on Tuesday has had dreams of wearing one for as long as her mother can When she grows she wants to be a said Amy who said she didnt have to do anything to prepare Caitlyn who goes by the nickname Caity for the She was born I wanted said unashamedly pointing to the rhinestone tiara she earned with her It was second chance at a her mother At age she participated in ren Countys where she was the third This Caity said she had no doubt shed finish though the win took her moth er by Numbered 24 of the Caity was the last one up in each leg of the which was 10 minutes early in hopes of beating the the little 4 and down the run way of the south lawn pavilion They then took turns walk ing down with tions to pause before the three judges on their way back to the See Tiny Miss Page A3 Rachael Elizabeth Shirley left and second Whitney Marie Alley Tiny Miss Frederick County Fair Caitlyn Brooke Hermosillo poses with first New Rule Lets the Girls Be Little Girls By KERRY LYNN FRALEY The Winchester Star Making their way down the runway Tuesday all 24 of the contestants in the Tiny Miss Frederick County Fair Pageant looked like cute little not miniature beauty Thafs how it should said pageant director Wilma who feels sequined high heeled and faces dont belong on the 4and 5yearold That was the whole point of this said a former Miss Frederick County Fair who has directed the Tiny Miss pageant since its start 14 years We wanted it to be a not a beauty Last the pageant committee decided to cut the glitz from Tiny Miss by banning elaborate pageant Parents were told to dress their children in their Sunday best or be dis The change was announced at last years pag eant to give parents plenty of time to Orndoff All of this years contestants she dresses were the popular though some little girls donned other red solid or pastel We told them a year in so that said who was relieved the tran sition went so Not only the new rule also puts contestants on an equal she since the pageant dress es arent an option for many See New Rule Page A3 Schedule Today 9 Youth sheep 4 Gates contest 6 Rides and concessions open chick en and beef barbecue dinner apple contest South egg toss South Frederick County Sheriffs De Canine Demonstration Grand 8 Demolition Derby Enchanting Illusion magic show South Thursday 9 4H and FFA market hog show pig drawing follows pel show Pet 4 Gates contest Grand 6 Rides and concessions open chick en and beef barbecue dinner animal sounds contest South 8 Modified Truck and Tractor Puli Admission in per pertain additional fees are required for carnival midway some and Democrat Gains in Senate Poll But John Warner Maintains Big Lead over Mark Warner By The Associated Press RICHMOND The good news for Mark Warner is he trails Re publican John Warner by nine fewer percentage points than he did a month ago in the Mason Dixon Research The bad news for the Democrat who is trying to unseat the popu lar incumbent is that John Warner was the choice of 53 percent of those surveyed during the compared to Mark Warners 28 Mark who made million in the cellular telephone has seen the margin narrow after he began a pouring his own money into an unusual summer advertising The statewide telephone survey of 833 registered voters from July 2628 showed John Warner with solid loads in every geographic region and among both men and Black who comprised 16 percent of the sur favored Mark Warner 47 per cent to 22 The overall results were well outside the polls margin of error of plus or minus percentage The Warners are not The June done shortly after John Warner won 66 percent of the vote over GOP primary challenger James Miller showed the senator ahead of Mark Warner 58 percent to 24 John Warner this month also enjoyed his highest favorable name recognition marks in the poll since January Fiftyfour percent of those See Poll Pane AG Cool Weather End Unusual July By DON WORTHINGTON The Winchester Star Those wanting hot and humid summer weather will have to look to the as the areas forecast continues to call for rain and unseasonably cooler tempera The and humid weather has moved somewhere Weather Service meteo Chris Strong snid this morning from his Sterling Its in the Southwest of the United The Northeast and north central part of the country are dominated by ivin A cool front moving eastward from Ohio and is ex to keep area temperatures in the ilth was 84 with a low o accord ing to official records at Julys usual temperatures are in the but mercury reached that level only three times this on the and The month was unseasonably wet this Tuesdays series of thunderstorms and showers satu rated the area with inches of It was the fourth time rainfall topped an inch during uc ficc July A7
