The Saturday Telegram Robert Hughes, associate editor Page 2 Saturday, April 4, 1992 ECOND FRONT AAF District 3 convenes; student competition held Advertising clubs from the Carolinas and Virginia converge on Rocky Mount for their annual conference. By TOM MUKPHY Starr Writer The Third District of the Ameri can Advertising Federation kicked off its annual spring con ference in Rocky Mount Friday The conference, which continues today, encompasses all of the advertising clubs in North and South Carolina and Virginia. Comprising local advertising federations and A 1)2 clubs, the AAF is divided into 15 districts nationally. It is anticipated that 150 to 200 advertising professionals from all major markets in the three states of the Third District AAF will be in attendance. This year, the National Student Advertising Competition for the district was held Friday at the Sheraton Gateway Centre Colleges and universities participating included Appalachian State University, College of Charleston, William Mary, James Madison University, Liberty University State University, Old Domin ion University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of South Carolina, US(7(oastal Carolina, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University Participating students expressed excitement about the event, emphasizing that it is a learning experience leading to careers in advertising Competitors presented various details of a VISA marketing ad campaign, with individual win ners afforded opportunities to continue on as far as national competition in Portland.
Ore Steve Williams, an Appalachian State University junior, said "Participants must submit a complete ad campaign on VISA, including marketing This com petition is comparable, from my point of view, with an internship "I'm learning the business outside the classroom. This is the first year for ASU in this and we're happy to be competing with the larger schools." Danny Lucey, an ASU junior, feels the competition is beneficial "It's a hands-on experience learning situation that will benefit when I get out the adver Using field. Brent Hodges, a junior at Coat tal Carolina, emphasized that the competition has been a positive experience 'It's definitely helped to learn to sneak before people, and to develop mv marketing ideas and skills Hodges also plans a ca reer in advertising One of the schools will be selected by a team of judges to represent the third district in the National Student Advertising Competition, which will be held in June in Portland, Ore Winning this competition at the district level is one of the most coveted honors an AAF college chapter can receive The spring conference is the highlight meeting where recognition for achievement is given to clubs, colleges and universities participating in the annual competition and to participants of the Third District ADDY Awards competition. The Third District ADDY Awards will be at The Playhouse today at 6 p.m. The winning print and broadcast entries will be on display.
These are advertisem*nts which a team of judges has determined to be outstanding advertising produced in i'J91 North and South Carolina and Virginia. 1 4 Triangle East has hosting honor By TOM MURPHY Staff Writer Triangle East Advertising Marketing is hosting the Third District of American Advertising Federation's annual spring conference this weekend in Rocky Mount. This is the first time in the over 50-year history of the organization that the conference has been held in this city. Officials of the Third District AAF include Donald H. Williams president of Lewis Advertising Linden Adams, current governor, who is from the Roa tion and each of the district's 25 ad federation and AD2 clubs are asked to enter.
Judges for this year's competition are from Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, Calif. Major sponsors for the event for Rocky Mount include Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Branch Banking Trust Hardee's Food Systems the Rocky Mount Telegram and Whiteco Outdoor Advertising. Numerous other sponsors are also participating in helping TEAM serve as host club for the event. Burning for you A lone man keeps an eye on a burning weather on the way, many city residents pile of leaves in Rocky Mount Wednesday prefer to burn their trash and leaves rather while smoke rises into the air. With warmer than let the city pick them up.
Gottti will appeal conviction, but don't bet on a win convicted of a crime, he was still ruled "house counsel" of the Gambino crime family. Then the prosecution eliminated Gotti's second choice, lawyer James LaRossa, by including him on its witness list. LaRossa was never called to testify. Glasser barred all but one defense witness from testifying. The judge's refusal to allow a defense expert on government tapes to testify after the prosecution called their witness V.
I-' TelegramDavid Chiclll The dismissal of a juror the day before deliberations. Indications were that the juror believed an FBI agent was making hand signals to a government witness during testimony. "Soon as they think a juror likes us, boom, they're gone," was Gotti's assessment of Juror No. 3's dismissal. "His case is different than any other person under the same circ*mstances," said Marvyn Romberg, a veteran Queens lawyer.
fixed-rate mortgages averaged 8.96 percent this week, down from 8.98 percent last week. It was the second straight small decrease since rates hit 9.03 percent during the week ending March 20. Top policy-makers at the Federal Reserve voted in February against moves to lower interest rates in general, according to minutes of the meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee met again this week, and analysts believe the sentiment at those closed-door discussions was the same. Weak gains Meanwhile, employers reported only a weak seasonally adjusted gain of 19,000 jobs in March.
Job growth in February, earlier estimated at a vigorous 164,000 jobs, was revised down to 107,000. Retail trade showed the largest job losses of any sector, 24,000, but that followed a gain of 124,000 in February. Auto industry employment was up by 6,000, but manufacturing overall edged down 3,000. Construction posted a job gain of 10,000. Unemployment rate holding steady NEW YORK (AP) There's no question John Gotti will appeal the verdict that tarnished his Teflon image, or that he has plenty of legal grounds.
But how do defense lawyers assess his chances of winning? Don't bet on it. "Let's start with this. The batting average for the government on appeals is between 95 and 98 percent' said Martin Adelman, chairman of the State Bar Association's criminal justice section. i noke Valley Advertising Federation; John Moore, incoming governor and currently a member of the Wilmington Advertising Federation; Anna H. Smith, current treasurer and a representative of the Fayetteville Area Advertising Federation.
Suzanne Berardi is serving as the TEAM Spring Conference chairperson and heads a committee of members from the local TEAM organization. Each year the Third District AAF conducts an annual Club Achievement Awards Competi "I'm not one of those who's entirely cynical, who says the court never gets past the name on the cover," Adelman added. "Tony Salerno had one overturned last year although you could point out he's still serving 100 years on another." Gotti is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars if his attorneys can't convince the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the mobster was somehow wronged at his murder and racketeering trial. injuries on her wrist and shoulder.
According to a warrant, Ms. Johnson was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and abdomen with a butcher knife and assaulted her with a broken broom handle. A neighbor across the street said Ms. Johnson's screams woke her up about 5 a.m. Thursday.
Drug bust nets ex-college head FAYETTEVILLE The former chief financial officer of Fayetteville Technical Community College and his wife were arrested Thursday on drug charges, narcotics agents said. Raymond Eugene Parker, 42, was charged with trafficking in marijuana by conspiracy, pos 1 "He's got a great shot in the Supreme Court of Cuba," said Gerald B. Lef court, a Manhattan defense attorney. "Sometimes they say certain-named defendants, no matter what their issues are, make bad law." Which doesn't mean Gotti has no issues to appeal. The main points for any possible reversal: U.S.
District Court Judge I. Leo Glasser barred Gotti's attorney, Bruce Cutler, from representing him. Never charged or The Associated Press session and transportation, a spokesman for the Fayetteville-Cumberland Narcotics Bureau said. Deborah Spivey Parker, 40, was charged with trafficking in marijuana by conspiracy and possession, he said. Sixty-one pounds of marijuana were seized at the scene of their arrest in a shopping center parking lot about 6:30 p.m., the spokesman said.
Another 13 pounds of marijuana was found in a rental locker listed in Mrs. Parker's name, the spokesman said. Escapee found; partner killed FAYETTEVILLE Prison escapee Glenn Edward Jacobs was arrested Thursday near prompted an explosion from defense lawyer Anthony Cardinale. Glasser held Cardinale in contempt. "I felt this was a call an awful lot of judges would make the other way," Adelman said.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Malo-ney, in his final address to the jurors, told them they would be "less than human" if they did not fear Gotti. Defense attorneys demanded a mistrial; Glasser denied the motion. rate is the same as February's, the highest since July 1985 and 1.9 percentage points above the rate at the start of the recession in July 1990, the Labor Department said. Analysts said it is not unusual for employment increases to lag behind an economic rebound.
Businesses often delay hiring workers in the early stages of a recovery, relying instead on overtime until they are confident the turnaround can be sustained. Most economists expect the unemployment rate will begin to improve by summer, but few anticipate it will be much below 7 percent by the end of the year. "This is not good news from George Bush's point of Economists may say the recession has bottomed out but that won't get many People have to see more than this," said economist Robert G. Dederick of Northern Trust Co. of Chicago.
Other developments In other economic developments Friday; The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said 30-year, more than 30 video poker machines from neighborhood businesses and charged 21 people with gambling Thursday. The sheriff's department started the investigation in February after receiving complaints from a woman that her husband had lost his money gambling and from angry parents. "There were two working teenagers who lost their weekly earnings," said Alexander County Sheriff Ray Warren. UNC school gets $2M gift CHAPEL HILL A Chicago couple has pledged a $2 million gift to help build a new clinical teaching facility at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Wedding day hoop-la WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's unemployment rate held at 7.3 percent in March, the worst in nearly seven years, the government said Friday, underscoring the halting pace of the economic recovery.
The number of unemployed people stood at 9.2 million, also unchanged from February. That's 2.5 million more than when the economic downturn began in July 1990. The job market has failed to rebound so far despite signs of life elsewhere in the economy, including increases in retail sales, fac-tory orders and housing construction. "What we're seeing is a relatively flat economy. It's certainly not continuing to fall, but we're not seeing any substantial improvement either," said economist Robert LaLonde of the University of Chicago.
"We're not like the Titanic going down in the storm. It's more like our engines have shut down and we're stranded on the ocean." Same as February The new seasonally-adjusted Wallace, S.C., a week after the bullet-riddled body of the man he escaped with was found in a river. Jacobs, 29, was arrested about 5 p.m., Cumberland County sheriff's officials said. He escaped Feb. 27 from the Sanford Correction Center, where he was serving a 20-year sentence for second-degree murder.
Jacobs was brought to the Cumberland County Jail Thursday night, Capt. Art Binder said. He will be returned to the North Carolina Department of Correction. Video poker games seized TAYLORSVILLE Alexander County authorities seized Kim Holler of Greenwood, puts her veil lis. Ever the good sport and realizing the atop a basketball Friday.
Holler will wed fact of "Hoosier Hysteria" Holler will let Gregg Gillman on Saturday just as the Duke- Gillman bring a TV to the reception to allow Indiana Final Four game tips off in Minneapo- everyone to see the game. N.C. briefs Man charged following death WINSTON-SALEM A Winston-Salem man was charged with murder and assault after his girlfriend was stabbed to death and her daughter was injured. Willie Ervin Fisher, 30 was charged with murder, first-degree burglary and assault with a deadly with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury. Killed was Angela Johnson, 29, who died in the emergency room of Baptist Hospital about 7 a.m.
Thursday. Her daughter, 13-year-old Shemika Shree, was in satisfactory condition with Hill School of Dentistry. E.B. "Bud" Tarrson and his wife, Linda, have pledged the gift over five years. The $13 million addition to the school will be named after the couple, university officials said Friday.
The gift, the largest ever to the School of Dentistry, is one of the top individual pledges to the $320 million Bicentennial Campaign for the school. Tarrson, a member of the school's fund-raising steering committee, is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of the John O. Butler a Chicago-based maker of toothbrushes, dental floss and other dentistry products. Tarrson attended the University of Illinois at Champaign, From wire reports.
