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The BG News Friday, September 10, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 13 Briefs Weather Area crash claims another life by Chris Hawley and Joe Peltier Tkc BC Ncwi/CkrU Hawky The BC News Cooling down a bit: Friday, mostly cloudy, A Weston woman died and two breezy and cool. Decreasing men were injured Thursday in cloudiness In the afternoon. the Bowling Green area's second High in the mid-60s. North- fatal auto collision in less than west winds IS to 25 mph. two weeks. Chance of rain 20 percent. Ruth Mays, 73, Weston, was Friday night, mostly clear killed when the car she was rid- and cold. Low in the lower ing in struck another car at about 40s. Saturday, mostly sunny. 3:59 p.m. near the Interstate 75 High in the mid-60s. entry ramp on U.S. Route 6, just south of Bowling Green. Her husband, Raymond O. Mays, 74, was driving the car and was in critical condition at Wood Outside campus County Hospital at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The driver of the other car, Todd Waingrow, 20, of Why not us?: Toledo, was in stable condition. He was charged with failure to ATHENS, Ohio - A Hong yield and vehicular homicide. Kong newspaper publisher Both Mays and Waingrow has agreed to donate $1 mil- seemed shaken following the col- lion to Ohio University's lision, investigating officer Ser- journalism school, the uni- geant Rex Russell said. versity announced Thurs- "Both men were pretty much day. beside themselves," he said. Sally Aw Sian, executive Ruth Mays is the second per- chairman and group manag- son to die in a traffic collision in ing director of Sing Tao Ltd., the Bowling Green area since the will donate the money to the beginning of this month. On Sept. endowed professorship of 1 a car killed motorcyclist Tho- the E.W. Scripps School of mas C. Norwood; the driver of Journalism, said Ralph the car has been charged with Izard, the school's director. vehicular homocide. "The journalism school According to the Wood County has expanded its interna- Sheriffs Department, Mays' car tional journalism program. was westbound on Route 6 when Sheriff's deputies, a funeral home employee and a member of the the second fatal collision In the Bowling Green area In a little more This allows us to continue Center Township fire department examine one of the cars in- than a week. that expansion," Izard said. See CRASH, page 9. volved In a fatal collision south of Bowling Green Thursday. It was Aw was awarded the jour- nalism school's Carr Van Anda award in 1988. The a- ward, named for the former Students managing editor of the New York Times, is awarded U.S. choppers kill Somalis yearly for journalism con- x tributions. Women, children attacked as ' last resort'' at peace anxious by Reld 6. Miller In the courts: The Associated Press and children joined in the attack children who were actively en- by the United Nations for a series to eat at with grenades and small arms, gaged as combatants as well," of assaults that have killed 48 Anna B. Perry, 62,214 Na- said Maj. David Stockwell. Stockwell said. "Whoever was peacekeepers and wounded more poleon #3, the driver in- MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Stockwell, the chief U.N. mili- behind the walls was shot at." than 175 since May. new hall volved in the traffic acci- - American Cobra Helicopters tary spokesman, initially said a "There were some people Stockwell said he had no in- fired on Somali women and chil- mob of women and children was swarming on the roadblocks, but formation on the number of So- by Lawrence Hannan dent in which motorcyclist general assignment reporter Thomas C. Norwood died, dren Thursday In what the swarming over the U.N. vehicles not directly on the vehicles... and malis killed or wounded, but told appeared in Municipal Court United Nations claimed was a when the helicopters fired on the helicopters shot down the reporters, "What I am acknow- Wednesday for arraign- "last-resort" effort to keep them them with 20mm cannons. middle of the road to persuade ledging is that if you go out there By now most students have ment, but she did not enter a from killing peacekeepers. Later, he said the women and people to leave," Stockwell said. tomorrow, you may find some been in Founders Residence Hall plea. Nearby residents said the children had joined militiamen in The incident was sure to fire women and children casualties." to have a look around - and visit Instead, she requested an street was littered with the bod- attacking the soldiers from be- the debate in the U.S. Congress The report of scores of Somalis Founders Keepers, the building's attorney and one was ap- ies of as many as 100 Somalis. A hind walls lining the route of over American involvement in killed could not be independently dining hall. Since the beginning pointed to her case. U.N. spokesman said a Pakistani their withdrawal and were clam- Somalia and to add fuel to the ar- confirmed. Stockwell acknowl- of the academic year, the hall has Perry has been charged soldier was killed and three bering over roadblocks in their guments of some U.N. members edged that U.N. troops and tanks, served more students than dining with vehicular homicide. Americans and two Pakistanis way. that the United Nations has lost armored personnel carriers and hall officials expected. Her intial appearance in were injured. "The women and children were sight of its humanitarian mission helicopters used "heavy casu- The large number of cus- court with an attorney is The peacekeepers had come combatants," Stockwell said. in the country. alty-producing weapons" in de- tomers in recent weeks was a scheduled for Sept. 15, at under fire from heavy weapons "When the helicopters came in, Stockwell blamed the attack on fending themselves. surprise, according to Ann Berts, 8:30 a.m. in Municipal Court. by Somali militiamen and were they shot at the gunmen behind the forces of fugitive warlord Founders food service manager. The night time accident trying to withdraw when women the walls, and the women and Mohamed Farrah Aidid, wanted See SOMALIA, page 10. The dining hall served about took place Sept. 1 on West 15,000 people the first week it Poe Road. opened and 18,000 the next week, she said. "We expected [that] a lot of Judges to go to school: people the first few weeks would Clinton hypes restructuring come out of curiosity, but the Two Wood County Court AP Photo/Karen S.ndvlck numbers so far have exceeded of Common Pleas judges by M.R. Kropko our expectations,"Betts said. will be attending a confer- The Associated Press Many students seem to think ence in Columbus on the the food at Founders taste better conduct of court proceed- than food served elsewhere on ings. CLEVELAND - President campus. Judge Gale Williamson Clinton said Thursday it ought "We have introduced a few and Judge Charles Kurfess to be up to communities, not new Items," Betts said. "For the will attend the Ohio Judicial the federal government, to fig- most part, [however,] the food at conference Sept. 8 -10 in ure out the best way to use Founders is the exact same food Columbus. government aid. that is served elsewhere on cam- Kurfess said the confer- Clinton and Vice President pus. It's even cooked with the ence will focus on aspects of Al Gore held a rally at the same equipment." court proceedings. Church Square Shopping Jane Schimpf, director of food "The education aspects Center, citing the development operations, said the pizza and for the next three days will as an example of successful Chinese wok items, which are be on evidence," he said. public-private partnership. At available everyday at their indi- "Judges are called upon to the rally, Clinton signed an or- vidual food stations, are reasons make evldenclary decisions der establishing the Communi- for the significant number of all the time." ty Enterprise Board. customers at the dining hall. There will also be a dis- Clinton and Gore are travell- In contrast to Founders, some cussion about domestic re- ing the country to promote the other eating facilities have lost lations Issues that his court administration's plan for re- customers this year, Schimpf referee will also attend, he structuring the federal bu- said. said. reaucracy. The Union appears to be the According to Kurfess, the The Cabinet-level enterprise dining area which was most af- Ohio Judicial Conference Is board is intended to make it fected, with less customers than set up by law and common easier for states and communi- normal, she said. pleas Judges from through- ties to get federal backing. However, Schimpf said there is out the state will participate. "Cities will say what they no reason to be concerned that want done, and my Cabinet will other dining areas would close.