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Turn to page 2A for additional weather Information. ABC anchorman Frank Reynolds dies Wednesday, July 20, 1983 OKLLD DAILY Good afternoon! Voluma 44 Numbmr 176 OPELOUSAS. LA. 1983 Th Doily World Nwspoprt all rights rtswved 35ctntt The World Today State trooper John Hebert. "We ran the tag number and found it registered to Chester Perry.
They want to talk to Michael. I don't know whether they've charged him or are going to charge him." The search focused on Texas highways in the hours after the killings because a neigh- bor quoted Perry as saying he was heading I for Tijuana, Mexico. The victims were identified as Chester I Perry, 49; his wife Grace, approximately the same age; their grandchild Anthony Bonin, and cousins Bryan LeBlanc, 22, and Randy Perry, 19, who apparently were asleep when shot. Jefferson Davis Parish Chief Deputy Ted Gary said preliminary tests indicated the victims might have been dead as long as 72 hours. Neighbors told authorities they heard gunshot-like sounds coming from the parents' home on Sunday, the last day the suspect was seen in Lake Arthur.
Officials of the Segura-Matthews Funeral Home in Jennings said the bodies would be taken there today after autopsies were conducted in nearby Lake Charles. The suspect was described in police bulletins as a white male, slender, 5-11, 160 pounds, with short brown hair in a ducktail and a light beard. He was believed to be driving a 1980 Oldsmobile Regency and carrying a .357 magnum stolen from his father's house. Authorities said all the victims were killed by gunshot wounds. Chester Perry was found crouching behind his television (Please see Killer, page 12A) LAKE ARTHUR, La.
(UPI) Authorities launched a nationwide manhunt today for a young man with a history of mental illness suspected of shooting his father, mother and three other relatives in the head at close range. The gunshot-riddled bodies of a man, his wife and their 2-year-old grandson were discovered in their southwest Louisiana house Tuesday. The bodies of two cousins were found at another residence two doors away. Authorities said the victims might have been dead as long as 72 hours and said neighbors heard what they suspected was shooting at the parents' house around noon Sunday. State troopers issued a nationwide alert for Michael Owen Perry, 28, of Lake Arthur, who authorities said called himself Zuick Ma and recently had his name legally changed from Eye to Michael Owen Perry.
Officials said Perry had been committed several times to state hospitals for psychiatric problems. Officers pumped tear gas shells into the home of Perry's parents when they were told an armed man was hiding inside, but it turned out to be empty. Tear gas also was sent into Perry's trailer, located behind the house. Police switchboards were clogged with calls from people claiming the suspect was in their attic and virtually the entire town of Lake Arthur converged on the victims' houses in shock as word of the violence reached relatives and friends. "We got a description of a vehicle," said jl I i (--- LSUE funds vetoed Gov.
Dave Treen today vetoed a $355,000 parking lot project at Louisiana State University at Eunice, The veto came on two line items In the capitol outlay One appropriation was for $90,000 for the parking lot and a second was $265,000 for a service street, exterior lights and sidewalks. The vetoes are part of the governor's plan to balance the state's $5 billion budget. Gas kills youth Methane gas fumes have suffocated a 17-year-old worker who fell Into a full grain elevator and forced the hospitalization of a deputy attempting to rescue him. Eric Granger of Jeanerette Tuesday slipped eight feet Into the nearly full 60-foot elevator used to store corn silage for cattle feed, Iberia Parish deputies said. Flaming wreck kills natives Nation Opelousas Obituaries on page 3A Photo by Billy McCarthy HOUMA An Opelouas native and her 23-year-old daughter perished in a fiery two-vehicle accident Monday on Highway 1 in Leeville.
Marlene Moory Marmande, 45, a resident of Houma was reported dead at the scene. Her daughter, Maria Marcelle Marmande, 23, died the following day at Jefferson Davis Hospital in Gretna. The eight-year-old son of Mrs. Marmande, Mitchell Marmande of Houma was listed in critical condition in Jefferson Davis Hospital today. According to State Police Troop Mrs.
Marmande and two of her children were Hot job heading north on the highway when their vehicle collided with a van driven by Kent Hornback, 15, of Golden Meadow. The gasoline tank of the van ruptured and both vehicles burst into flames, police reported. Marcia Marmande and Mitchell Marmande were taken to Lady of the Sea Hospital in Leeville and then transferred to Jefferson Davis. Temperatures today should reach into the 90s accompanied by a usual south Louisiana selge of humidity. Maybe one of the hotter Jobs in town Is Chad Fontenot's roofing work.
Fontenot was seen Tuesday afternoon mopping up as he took a break from nailing shingles. Housing starts down Enthusiastic builders started housing construction In June at a pace 92 percent ahead of last year, the government says, but the industry Itself Is resigned to a recovery dampened by high Interest rates. The Commerce Department says housing starts showed a slight 2.9 percent drop from May's levels. Deadline nears The deadline for releasing papal assailant Mehmet All Agca in exchange for the kidnapped daughter of a Vatican messenger arrived today as the Vatican led negotiations to save her life. The city's leading newspaper said it would meet another of the kidnappers' demands by publishing their "manifesto." Student test scores move up 1 1 1982's results, with St.
Landry's averages showing anywhere from a 2 to 3.5 point increase in math and reading scores for 7th and 10th grades. Writing tests were given in selected parishes but comparisons were not available for the sample assessments. The assessments measured progress in several basic skills areas. Rebecca Christian, state assistant director of testing, said comprehension and study skills showed improvement in most test results, with slight declines this year in 10th graders' ability to solve math problems. The tests were developed by state educators specifically for Louisiana schools.
St. Landry Parish's public school students exceeded statewide averages in math and scored near statewide norms in reading on recent state assessment tests for 7th and 10th grade students. Local students joined kids statewide in showing a gradual increase in performance on the tests, developed by the state's Department of Education. The tests were based on minimum standards expected in the state's curriculum program structure. Increased scores also parallel gains in ACT (American College Test) and SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores by Louisiana students, and also a reduction in remediation at state colleges, according to Robert Gaston, assistant state superintendent of education.
St. Landry 7th graders scored an average of 80.5 percent on reading tests, while statewide students averaged 81.8. But 7th graders here scored an average of 71.9 on math assessments, surpassing the statewide average of 68.1. Parish 10th graders averaged 78.1 percent correct on the reading assessment, while statewide the average was 78.6. Local 10th graders scored a 72.0 average on math assessments, exceeding the statewide average score of 71.3.
Scores locally and statewide improved on Refuse to resign Reps. Daniel Crane, and Gerry Studds, both refuse to resign despite the furor over their sexual encounters with teenage pages and today's vote on reprimands by the House. Several congressmen have demanded harsher punishment than the equivalent of a congressional wrist-slap recommended by the House ethics committee. Year delay seen Confidence man may be World NFL star utility work At on Flemin arv Martial law plans The parliament called a two-day meeting beginning today to finish plans to lift 19 months of martial law. Approval of the laws was expected with little dissent, despite a growing awareness among Poles that restored civilian rule would be a continuation of martial law disguised as something else.
fndex 34 Pagea Two Section AcadianaStyle. Page 2, 4B Classified. Pages 10-11B Editorial Page 4A Entertainment Page 8B PageSA Sports Pages 7-10A NATCHITOCHES, La. (UPI) Detectives have tentatively identified a man accused of posing as basketball legend Bill Russell in a bizarre investment scam as former NFL star Marv The strange new twist in the case was announced Tuesday by city police, who said efforts were continuing to positively identify the suspect through officials of the football league. "He did advise me that he was Marv Fleming the football said police detective Larry Vaughn.
"But we still have no solid proof that he is. I'm not going to make a statement that's definite untill'm 100 percent sure." Vaughn said the man admitted under questioning he was indeed Fleming and had once played for the Green Bay Packers and the Miami Dolphins. He said the man looked like a photo of the former NFL player and was wearing some jewelry shown in the picture. "There is a very, very strong resemblance," the detective said. "The time we showed him this picture was the time he told us he really was Marv Fleming.
He wasn't wearing any Super Bowl rings, but of course he was posing as a basketball player." Fleming was the starting tight end for the Miami Super Bowl teams of 1971, 1972 and 1973 after: coming to the Dolphins in a trade with the Packers. He appeared on television last month during a Joe Namath football camp in Connecticut. Sheriff's deputies said the 6-f oot-4 suspect went so far with his Bill Russell charade as to tell his would-be victim a voluntary operation had cut him down from his once-imposing height. "She thought the basketball player was much taller," said spokesman Russell Roge. "He told her he had an operation in which they removed 10 inches of bone out of his legs so he could fit in his Mercedes Benz." Detectives said the man explained his lack of resemblance to the former NBA player and coach by saying he had had an accident recently and was forced to undergo plastic surgery.
The suspect identified himself as Russell but was (Please see Confidence, page 12A) and how much those repairs will cost before financing can be planned, said Lonnie Bewley, bond counsel, to the council Tuesday. "You've got to have a three to five year construction program planned" before a bond issue can be put to voters, Bewley told the council. Bill Jarrell, city engineering consultant, gave the council a priority list that shows repair of the city's deteriorated sewerage collection system, now underway, is Opelousas' most urgent need. The system suffers from cracked pipes that take in excess rainfall, a problem that leads to sewer backups. That work is being financed with $350,000 from a recent $850,000 city bond sale, but that's only for repair of lines under city maintenance.
(Please see Year, page 12A) i By Joe Bordlee III Daily World Staff Writer A bond issue for major sewerage and water system rehabilitation, and possibly for a street overlay project, won't be ready for Opelousas voters until sometime in early 1984. The City Council, meeting on the bond proposal Tuesday for the second time within a week, agreed with its bond attorney that more groundwork is needed before an -accurate cost can be set on the projects. Cost estimates on the sewerage and water project have ranged as high as million. That cost may be increased by a major street repair project that will be a logical follow-up to the sewerage and water system overhaul. But the city needs to chart a firm course on what it needs to repair.
