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Inside the News State Opinion • Tom Mather unleashes his load State* Toddler pedals to grandma's Ten-year-old Bobby Brown enjoys his summer vacation. ^^^ Nation • Ravens' uniforms will be unveiled w s Page 3 Wednesday, June 5,1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 134 The News' Tribe's PR director shares Olympic Torch ^ Briefs to pass ^5 stories at Breakfast in BG through Lost alligator found ELYRI A, Ohio - That was Joe Boyle no lawn ornament outside a The BC News Bowling Green house Monday morning - it Atlanta 19% was a live alligator. When Albert Belle is your star, "He was sitting on the lawn just hanging out," said being the public relations direc- animal warden Doug Giglio- tor isnt so easy. Ql. "He was just trying to Bob DiBiaslo, public relations Torch will be run across get home, like a lost dog." director for the Cleveland In- Glgliottl slipped a leash dians, deflected most questions campus June 8 around the alligator's neck about the Indians' rambunctious 3:48 Portage and brought it to the police outfielder, but said he expects station while authorities Belle to be back In the home 4:30 Right on Wooster tried to figure out who own- whites - despite the current ed it. breakdown In contract negotia- At first, police thought tions. 4:42 Left on Mercer onto BGSU campus the gator was Coco, a 33-inch reptile that appar- "Albert has a commitment to ently snapped a leash and the organization and we have a 4:50 Left on Poe by Ohio Dept. Transportation fell out of the back of its commitment to him," DiBiasio owner's truck along Inter- said Friday In a "Breakfast In 5:02 Right on Main state 480 in North Olmsted BG" speech at Olscamp Hall on May 20. DiBiasio shared anecdotes 5:42 Perrysburg But when police called about his duties as PR director Coco's owner, Baldo Cam- and his personal Interactions The BG Ncwi/Joc Boyle pana, he said his alligator with celebrities visiting Jacobs had lost part of a claw. The As part of its 15,000 mile journey from Los Angeles to Field. John Moore, interim vice president for academic affairs, inspects alligator found Monday had former Indians fantasy camp players Tom Walton, editor of the Atlanta, the 1996 Olympic Torch will pass through Bowling all its claws intact. The most powerful southpaw in the free world has one of the Toledo Blade, and Larry Weiss, director of alumni affairs. Walton and Green June 8. The alligator's owner Weiss claim the titles of former players from their fantasy camp ex- The torch will arrive in Bowling Green around 4:30 by bi- claimed his missing pet weakest pitches in baseball, ac- periences. Monday afternoon. Police cording to DiBiasio. cycle. It will be carried through the campus and town by run- did not have the man's name President Bill Clinton, a left- "When we were in the tunnels, catch to get ready for his starting ner. The torch will then be taken to Perrysburg on bike. or know how the animal es- hander, threw out the first pitch he said he was nervous and didn't performance, and tried to recruit The Olympic Torch Relay, which began in Los Angeles caped. at the new park, and DiBiasio want to bounce the ball into home Manager Mike Hargrove's son to on April 27, will conclude July 19 at the Opening Ceremony of said Clinton's delivery was In plate," he said. toss the pill around with Clinton. the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The torch, which is taking an Powell wants Clin- question before he reached the DiBiasio asked the Chief Exec- 84-day journey to Atlanta, will reach Bowling Green on day 43 ton to wave welfare mound. utive if he wanted to play a little See INDIANS, page three. requirements MILWAUKEE-Retired Gen. Colin Powell said Wis- consin's welfare plan await- Rapist Prisoners raising ing President Clinton's ap- proval can "break the cycle of welfare dependency" while caring for children. Pearson pups to be guides Powell, in a telephone Interview Monday with the Wisconsin State Journal of James Hannah puppies to be guide dogs for Madison, said he hoped The Associated Press the blind as part of a communi- filing ty service project. Clinton would waive federal welfare requirements so DAYTON - Ohio prisons are "We love them," said William the plan can take effect. going to the dogs. James, an inmate who helps Wisconsin Works, also Behind the chain-link fences care for a 3-month-old, choco- known as W-2, would re- appeals and razor wire of the Dayton late-colored puppy named Polo place the current welfare Correctional Institution are at the medium-security Dayton program, Aid to Families Labrador retriever puppies prison. Joe Boyle with Dependent Children, that offer warm and fuzzy af- "Some of the hardened crim- with jobs and job training. The BG News -Republican Gov. Tommy fection to even the coldest of A prisoner at the Dayton Correctional Institution works with one inmates. See PUPS, page four. Thompson visited the White Convicted rapist Eric Pearson, of the dogs being trained to be guide dogs for the blind. House last week to ask for with at least 25 years in Wood the waivers. On Friday, Re- County Jail on his hands, has be- publican House leaders said >gun to file appeals on his three If Clinton doesn't sign the convictions In Wood County. wavers soon, they will try to "Let's face it," Mayberry said. pass a bill to allow the pro- Local group takes stand for children gram. "What else does he have to do for "It sounds very exciting, the next IS years?" an effort on the part of Gov. Pearson was convicted in April Joe Boyle Thompson and other of the 1993 rape, felonious sexual The BC News leaders to break the cycle of penetration and kidnapping of a welfare dependency and to University student on the west About 40 people from Bowling do it In a way that takes Into side of town. Green sat down for about 10 consideration the need for hours to take a stand for children child care, education and Friday night. training," Powell said. The Stand "for Children, in Critics of W-2 have ar- "What else does he Washington D.C. Saturday, at- gued that there are too few have to do for the tracted around 6000 people, ac- jobs at adequate wage cording to Associated Press wire levels to handle all the re- next 15 years?" reports. cipients whose AFDC would end. Alan Mayberry According to Maria Simon, local organizer, Ohio was expect- prosecuting attorney ed to have the largest contigent. Cupid has been "We represent all B.G. and found most of Wood County. We have LONDON - Lost for two While Pearson's victim could librarians, children, parents, centuries, Cupid has now not identify him, DNA samples teachers and students going to been found - in an English taken fron her clothing proved to stand for children," Simon said. garden. be a positive match to Pearson. For years, the 4-foot stat- When Simon first heard of the ue was thought to be a gar- Pearson's lawyers, Stanley event, she decided it might be den ornament. But Sothe- Needles and William Stephenson, fun to attend. Upon further con- by's said this week It was a hotly contested the use of DNA sideration, she decided others in long-lost work by the evidence against their client, Wood County might enjoy the 18th-century artist Antonio claiming there was a "large" pool opportunity also. Canada, worth upwards of of Individuals whose DNA would "I got inspired to go, and there $l.Simlllion. match Pearson's. was a lot of interest, so we de- It will be auctioned July 4. The Jury thought otherwise, cided to go," she said. "The statue had been convicting Pearson of all three Annie Saunders, candidate for painted white and was charges In little less than three Fifth District U.S. Congress, said covered in moss and dirt," hours. said Sotheby's Conrad her daughter felt very strongly Webb. Mayberry said Pearson's ap- about the event and decided to at- The BC Ncwi/Joe Boyle During two centuries in a peal comes as no surprise to him. tend. Parents and children board a bus for Washington around 11:30 p.m. Friday. They expected to reach series of gardens, Cupid "Pearson has appealed his "Standing up for children - the capital in the late morning and leave in the early evening. had lost his hands, and a prior rape convictions, and the this is our future and we need to romantically vital organ. appeal Is paid for by the tax- take care of them," she said. They'd rather build prisons than Linda Hernandez, of the Wood "I'm a grandmother.