Body of woman dead
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Mass. (AF) — One
neighbor
Adelu
Gabourv's
hnd
A
lawn
mowed for her. Another took
i are of a pile of mail. A utility
company was t ailed to tend to
her broken pipes
All the while, the 73-year-old
recluse lav dead, for probably
four years, in a pile of trash on
the kitchen floor. Authorities
found her hotly Monday with a
phone nearby, as if she had lieen
trying to make a call when she
died.
"She didn't want anyone
bothering her at all." said an old
friend, Juno Tsiokas. "She just
wanted to be left alone. I guess
she got her wish, but it's awful
ly sod."
Neighbors had inquired about
(labours about four years ago,
after they notired she was miss
ing Hut one of her brothers,
with whom she wasn’t dose,
told police she had gone into a
nursing home.
"A brother had located a
woman with the same last name
and assumed it was his sister. It
wasn't." said police Gapt. James
Gallagher.
With the search for Gaboury
ended, neighbors began to tend
to her two-story house that
stood out in its decay in a mid
dle-class neighborhood of the
central Massachusetts city.
Thu mailman kept delivering
her mail through a slot in the
door, until neighbor Mi< haul
Crowley noticed a pileup. He
opened the door and hundreds
of pieces of mail fluttered into
the yard. Crowley notified
police, who had the deliveries
stopped. Subsequent mail was
stamped return to sender
Next-door neighbor Kileen
Dugan, assuming Gaboury was
in a nursing home, started pay
ing her own grandson $10 twice
a month to mow Gaboury s lawn
because the property was such
an eyesore.
A utility i otnpany was i ailed
to shut off the water when
Dugan's son noticed (labours s
pipes had frozen and sent water
spilling out the door
No one could imagine
Gaboury was inside Fven when
police searched the home Fri
day. after a neighbor com
plained about it as a health haz
ard. they missed her badly
dec (imposed body in 0 feel of
trash
Authorities still suspicious
returned Monday for another
look, and found the body
Police said they believe
Gahourv died of nnlural t noses
four vears ago. when her bank
transactions ended The state
medical examiner's office was
investigating
A brother. Joseph Gahourv.
70, of bast Brookfield, said the
familv hadn't been close since
their mother died in 1070 Hut
he told the Won ester Telegram
.Si Gazette, "Someone should
have noticed something before
now."
Gabourv apparently had
worked at a nursing home and
had been living with a male
companion until he died six
years ago Florence Stearns,
administrator of the Anna Marie
Rest Home, said Gabourv
worked there as activity director
for about two years, leaving in
1986 after problems arose over
her absenteeism
Stearns said she knew little
about Caboury except that sin
had formerly worked on a cruise
ship.
"She was rather a private per
son." Stearns said. "She kept
her own affairs to herself."
l ew others knew much about
Gaboon. who lived on the street
for 40 years
"My himrt bleeds for her. but
you can't blame a soul." said
Rose Girounrd, who lives u< ross
the street "If she saw you out
there, she never said hello to
you."
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Justice may delay court order
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Clinton admin
istration asked a Supremo Court justice on Tues
day to delay a lower court order banning dis
crimination against homosexuals in the military.
The emergency order, if granted, would enable
the Defense Department to implement its new
policy on homosexuals, which states that recruits
will not be asked their sexual orientation but
that openly declared homosexuals will not be
permitted to serve.
The Justi<x> Department filed its request to Jus
tice Sandra Day O'Connor, requesting a partial
stay of a U S. District judge's order while the
administration appeals it. The aim is to limit the
judge's ruling to Navy Petty Officer Keith Mein
hold. a gay sailor discharged from the military
in August 1992 after he disclosed he was homo
sexual
The department contended in its application
that l!.S District Judge Terry Hatter Jr "dear
ly erred with respect to issues of great impor
tance" when ho ruled .Sept. SO that the Penta
gon could not deny enlistment or promotion, or
* hange enlistment status or duty assignment
because of someone's sexual orientation
The Pentagon has instructed units to suspend
the ban on homosexuals in the military while it
pursues the case.
"The entry of a nationwide injunction in this
non-class action conflicts with decisions of tins
court and numerous courts of appeals holding
that an tnjutu lion mnv not he broader than ne<
esxary to provide rt*Iit>f to the party before the
court." tiie Justice Department said.
The Human Rights Campaign Fund, an
BO,OOO-momber gov rights lobbying orgauiza
tion. criticized the government’s application as
unnecessary.
’ This is not an emergency," said spokesman
Gregory King in Washington. "Judge Hatter's
ruling has been in effect for three weeks with
no decline in morale or unit cohesion."
Hatter, who earlier declared that the ban on
homosexuals in the military is unconstitution
al. also prohibited the military from creating
or keeping records of a service member's sexu
al orientation
Thu fudge. of I .os Angeles, threatened to
impose fines of .it least $10,000 a dav it the Pen
tagon fails to comply
The nth t' S Can tut Court of Appeals refused
on Oct H to suspend the decision while it con
siders the Pentagon's appeal The appellate
court is s< heduled to hear the appeal in Decem
ber.
Mmnhold riled a law suit challenging the ban
on homosexuals, and Hatter ordered him rein
stated Inst November
The Clinton administration had planned to
implement a new "don’t ask. doll t tell, don t
pursue" polii \ ou Oct 1. tint tli.it policy has
been placed on hold
Truckers find support for likely strike
I’HOMNIX (AIM - |im Bowman has sumr advic <■■
if his fellow inn kors go on strike " fell vour mom
ma to stock up on groceries fiei uuse there won t
he anything in the stores "
Bowman's wife. Doris, has passed out fliers at
trot k stops across the country to garner support lor
a nationwide industry shutdown Nov It !’ I nu k
ers are also spreading the word on (Ji radios and
a network of toll-free numlmrs
Hig trucking companies and the I eamsters union
oppose the effort organized by independent tru< k
ers to protest rapidly rising diesel fuel prices
Independent trill ker Bob Mackin is one ol those
ready to park his lH-wheeler fora week Mackin
sav s rising fuel prices amount to a $ 10.000-a-vear
pay cut
"This w ill lie a lug bite in lily pocketlxiok. but it s
worth it." Mackin said
It s unclear how many of the nation s estimated
4 5 million truck drivers including as many .is
500.000 independent owner operators might par
ticipate.
In the past, wildcat attempts to halt truck traffic
gained sparse support
Spokesmen for the Americ an Trucking Assoc i
,ittolls, whit li represents big lm< km>* t oinpnnies.
ami llit? teamsters. w hit h represents about 100.0(H)
long-haul drivers, said they o|)|iost> the plan and
espet I few employee drivers In lake part
(till ihf Owner Operators Independent Drivers
Asmk lalinns. a (dam Valley. Mo., group that rep
resents jo (ion inde|»endent truckers. is getting main
supportive I alls, said 1 tnld Spoilt or. eset utive vit t?
president
Noun- protest organizers sav lliousantls of inde
pendent operators. who account tor inut li ol tin’
long-haul truck Irnffit . art) exput it-tl to pull their
rigs oft the road lor a few days
"You bettor tell your momma to slot k up on gro
ifries bet ause it's gonna happen, and there won't
la- anything in the stores." said How man. an inde
pendent trie ker from (.reenville. I e\as
Diesel prit.es jumped at the beginning of tins
month w hen the federal fuel tux rose t I tents a gal
Ion and federal t lean .nr rules required refiners to
replat e their old protlut t with t leaner burning, low
sulfur fuel
Shortages of the new fuel and distribution prob
lems ha ye added to the |>ru e spiral, the American
Petroleum Institute said
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