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Newspaper
Sun Journal
Location
New Bern, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1994
Page
4
North Carolina skies will be mostly cloudy in New Bern with showers and thunderstorms likely today and tonight. Highs reach mid 80s, lows in the low 70s. Clouds spread northward with central and southern showers and storms today, statewide tonight, highs low to mid 80s, and tonight lows mid 60s to mid 70s along the coast.
Goldy Willis Hardesty 88 of Winston Salem died Saturday at home. A Centenary United Methodist Church member and retired New Bern schoolteacher with over 30 years in the district. Services Tuesday at 2 p.m. Pollock Wells Best Chapel. Burial New Bern Memorial Cemetery. Survived by brothers C Paul Willis and Robert L Willis, sister Inez Willis and other relatives.
Maurice Baribeau, 56, in southern Maine decorates his home starting 13 days before Independence Day with a different flag each day from the original 13 colonies to the 50 star banner. He displays presidential portraits, posts a presidential board, and times flag changes with daily history cues while blasting patriotic music from a Statue of Liberty speaker as crowds photograph the yard and fireworks honor John Adams.
Walter Sutton Sr., 84, of Philadelphia and a New Bern native, died Friday at Graduate Hospital. Graveside services are set for Wednesday at Evergreen Cemetery. He leaves a son Walter Sutton Jr. and a daughter Marsha Sutton of New York, two sisters Viola Jones of New Bern and Pearlie Mae Aldridge of New York, and several grandchildren. Viewing at Oscar's Funeral Home Tuesday evening.
The remnants of Alberta drive gusty winds showers and thunder storms across the Southeast with heavy rains in parts. A frontal boundary from the mid Atlantic to the Great Lakes through Minnesota spurs more showers and storms. A second system from the Northern Plains spawns storms from eastern Dakotas to the Texas Oklahoma Panhandles. Marine forecast offshore Virginia Beach to Little River Inlet shows southwest winds 15 to 20 knots and seas 3 to 6 feet. Albemarle Pamlico sounds see southwest winds 10 to 15 knots and seas 1 to 2 feet.
Brief summary of yesterday's national weather: high temperatures and low readings across regions with measurable precipitation. Forecasts anticipate continued conditions today including sunny or partly cloudy skies, with potential fog in some areas and occasional showers.
A Gallup poll for America's Talking NBC finds two thirds of 1,013 adults interviewed by phone June 17-19 view themselves as extremely or very patriotic, while 28 percent say somewhat patriotic and 7 percent not patriotic. Margin of error is ±3 points.
Richard Thomas French, 18, of New Bern died Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, from a drowning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cotten Funeral Home.
Los Angeles police received a red stained kitchen knife reportedly found by a woman near O J Simpson s residence. Officials photographed and examined it while noting it may not be the murder weapon linked to Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman s June 12 killings.
Charlie Mae Sawyer Tatum 69 of Manhattan N Y formerly of Maribel Bayboro died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital New York City Funeral set for Wednesday at 2 p m with Rev Abner Baits officiating Burial in the Sawyer family cemetery Survived by son Alexander Tatum Staten Island N Y daughter Jacqueline Tatum Thompson Manhattan brother Guion Marine Sawyer Maribel sisters Annice Sawyer Britthaven Pamlico Pearl Avery Brooklyn N Y Ruby Sawyer Maribel and others listed with Rivers Morgan Funeral Home
Julia Fortesque Saleeby 70 of New Bern died Sunday at Pitt Memorial Hospital Greenville Graveside service today at 11 a.m. Greenleaf Memorial Park Rev Michael Oliver officiating Survived by son Albert Saleeby Jr Myrtle Beach three daughters Lynda Julie Yvonnee seven grandchildren Cotton Funeral Home 10 to 10 30 a.m. today.
Lisa Wood Briggs of Grantsboro was charged Saturday with breaking and entering forgery and uttering and is held on a $1,000 unsecured bond for a first appearance in Craven District Court Tuesday. A New Bern Rest resident was raped at knife point by a male resident Friday. A second female resident, Lillian Brooks, accuses the same person of assault and threatening conduct. Roy Holt, area supervisor, has notified families but no charges decided yet. Information comes from public records. arrests do not prove guilt.
James E. Hap Tucker of Raleigh, 79, died Friday. He practiced law with the N C Attorney General's office and firms including Ward and Smith and Hunton and Williams. Retired, he served as counsel with the N C State Bar and Barrow and Redwine. Graveside service Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Oakwood. Survivors: Lena Tucker widow, Bibi Tucker daughter, Tom Tucker son, two sisters. Visitation today 6 to 8 p.m. at the residence. Memorials to Boys and Girls Homes of N C.
A man was beaten with an unknown object Saturday around 11 15 p m at 1000 George Sr New Bern Police say James Alton Keech 44 of 614 Glen Drive was listed in stable condition at Craven Medical Center Sunday
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