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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 4, 1997
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Company finds pirate ship
At 20 feet under, vessel is thought to be Bluebeard's
RALEIGH, N.C. — Treasure hunters have discovered what they believe is Blackbeard's flagship nearly three centuries after the pirate ship went down.
The Associated Press
"We've not found the smoking blunderbuss yet, but we have found artifacts to make us think this may be Queen Anne's Revenge," said Jeffrey Crow, director of the state Division of Archives and History.
The wreck was found in November by Intersal Inc., a treasure-hunting
company, in just 20 feet of water in Beaufort Inlet.
"If you could have seen through that dirty water, it was right there," said Intersal's Mike Daniel.
Queen Anne's Revenge, flagship of the fearsome English buccaneer Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, sank in 1718 after running onto a sandbar. So did the Adventure, a sloop in Blackbeard's fleet that went to its aid.
The wreck site is dominated by a mound of cannons encrusted with coral. Queen Anne's Revenge is thought to have carried up to 40 cannons, and their position is consistent with a ship that ran aground and tipped to one side, Daniel said.
A blunderbuss barrel was brought up from the wreck, along with a bronze bell dated 1709, a 24-pound cannonball and a sounding weight.
Phil Masters, president of Intersal,
said the discovery ended a decade of
research he had done in American
and European archives.
Internal used hundreds of old nautical charts to find the wreck.
All of the artifacts will be kept by the state. Intensal expects to recoup its $300,000 in expenses by selling book and film rights. The site and an area 300 yards around it were declared off-limits to boats and divers yesterday.
"He created a menacing image," Masters said of Blackbeard. "He talked with everyone he met about being in league with the devil — that he was the devil's brother. Blackbeard, to me, was the first great practitioner of psychological warfare."
Records do not indicate he killed anyone until Nov. 22, 1718, when he
Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
was trapped off Ocracoke by British warships. During that battle, in which he killed some British soldiers, Blackbeard was shot, stabbed and his throat was slashed. His head was cut off and hung from the bowsprit of one of the British ships.
Certified? OK, you may kiss the bride
The Associated Press
That question could make the difference between receiving a marriage license or remaining single if some state lawmakers have their way.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — They have got the ring. They have set the date. But have they discussed their marriage plans with a counselor?
Hoping to stem the divorce rate, some states are considering legislation that would force couples to get premarital counseling before walking down the aisle.
Missouri, Michigan, Arizona and Florida all have legislation pending or in the works that would make marriage licenses more difficult — or even impossible — to get without proof that the couple has seen a counselor.
"If we stop one divorce, it would seem to me that it would be worth trying," said Missouri state Rep. Tom Hoppe, D-Kansas City.
The bills are aimed at protecting children's welfare and decreasing states' financial obligations in the aftermath of divorce.
Michael McManus, president of the Marriage Savers Institute in
Bethesda, Md., said about one-tenth of couples that took premarital compatibility tests discovered irreconcilable differences and broke up.
"The engagement process should be rigorous enough that weaker couples will break up on their own," he said.
Counseling makes them stop to look beyond just the romantic aspects of marriage, said the Rev. Reg Larson, a counselor and associate pastor at the Assemblies of God in Grandview, Mo.
Larson said counseling sessions addressed issues ranging from sex to managing household finances. Couples are taught how to communicate and disagree constructively.
"I don't think they should require you to get counseling before you get married," said Crystal Brown, 23, of Jefferson City as she stood for her final wedding-gown fitting at a bridal shop. She joked that if lawmakers really wanted to open couples' eyes, they would require the couples to live together before their wedding days.
Marsha Richeson, Missouri lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union, agreed the state government should not interfere in a couple's
decision to marry.
States, though, often shoulder the burden of supporting children or tracking down parents who don't pay child support after marriages break up, said Linda Kokas, an aide to Michigan Ren. Jessie Dalman.
Dalman, a Republican, offered a premarital counseling bill that passed in the state House last year. Couples that did not receive counseling would have been required to wait 60 days for a license. The legislation died in the Senate, but Dalman plans to reintroduce it this session.
Couples would pay for the counseling unless they could prove they were indigent.
Under Hoppe's bill in Missouri, county commissions would determine acceptable counseling programs. Counseling provided by a religious organization would qualify.
Hoppe said he would amend his legislation to waive the counseling requirement for couples that could not afford it.
Another Missouri representative, Republican Sam Gasik, has introduced legislation requiring a 30-day wait for a marriage license for cou
Michael McManus
Marriage Savers Institute president
ples who don't want to go through counseling.
"All of us could use better guidance in marriage because your life sure changes after a divorce," Gaskill said. "It seems like this is a real simple approach to solve the problem."
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Regulators approve new style of radio
WASHINGTON — After five years of work, federal regulators approved a plan yesterday that would bring a new form of news and entertainment to people who spend a lot of time in their cars.
The Associated Press
The Federal Communications Commission's action creates two licenses for CD-quality digital radio that is transmitted nationally or regionally by satellite.
Like cable television, customers of the new service, at
least three years away, probably will have to pay to listen. The broadcasting industry opposes the action, saying it is a threat to local radio service.
To receive the service, a customer would need a special radio and a tiny disc-shaped antenna. Ideally, a single radio would receive both the new service and local broadcast signals.
The FCC will auction the licenses beginning April 1. The four companies expected to bid are CD Radio of Washington, American Mobile Satellite Corp. of Reston, Va., Digital Satellite Broadcasting of Seattle and Primosphere of New York.
Meter feeder gets fine
"I did nothing wrong. I stand on that," Stayton said after being sentenced for interfering with an officer. "I wouldn't offer an apology because, in my heart of hearts, I know I didn't do anything wrong."
Women who broke obscure ordinance ordered to pay $500
Her brief stay behind bars turned Stayton into something of a folk hero. Headlines called her the meter-feeding granny, she received $350 from people donating to her legal abuse fund and a church group that has been anonymously feeding parking meters for years printed up T-shirts that read: Sylvia Stayton ... guilty of kindness.
For the 63-year-old grandmother of 10, it was the final indignity after she was handcuffed and arrested on Oct. 24 for feeding change into two parking meters despite an officer's warning she was breaking an obscure city ordinance.
Prosecutors bristled at the attention and yesterday accused Stayton of grandstanding.
"Every time the cameras popped up, there she was," said prosecutor Ernest McAdams Jr. "She could have pled to a parking fine. This is what she wanted."
Stayton faced up to 90 days in jail and a $750 fine on her conviction of obstructing the official business of a police officer — that is, writing parking tickets. A jury acquitted her of disorderly conduct.
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Sylvia Stayton's random act of kindness will cost her more than the dime and nickel she plunked in other people's expired parking meters. She was fined $500 yesterday.
Municipal Judge John West rejected a final request to throw out the conviction and imposed his sentence without explanation.
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