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Expectant mothers get
parking perks at stores
Senior citizens defend
their homes and lives
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — Perched over a
pair of parking spaces, the smiling stork on
the shiny new sign offers a surprise for dri
vers who think they have just scored a
prime spot near the supermarket door:
“New and expectant moms only.”
Take another lap around the parking lot
— spots for mothers are multiplying from
Georgia to Texas and Arkansas to Illinois.
“You’re carrying all this weight around,
you’re not feeling as good as you usually
do," Caroline King of Atlanta said, who is
eight months’ pregnant with her second
child. “I think they are great.”
“We think that for those who are handi
capped and pregnant it’s the right thing to
do,” Brent Scott, a spokesman for the
Cincinnati-based — and mom-friendly —
Kroger stores said.
This feathered figure is the guardian of
the latest in parking privilege, but not every
one is necessarily feeling generous about it.
“What about people with warts on their
feet?” E. Scott Gellar said, 55, a psychol
ogist who studies motorists and their be
havior. “What about the elderly? Walking for
some of us older folks isn’t easy either.”
Why not hemorrhoid sufferers? Or peo
ple suffering bad-hair days?
Wait just a second — if anyone needs
parking privileges it’s the parents of tod
dlers, Joanie Randle of Athens, Ga.said,
the mother of four children aged 4 to 9.
A Publix Super Market manager in At
lanta got the idea from a Cuban grocery.
Kroger stores copied it from a supermar
ket in Colorado. And Venture discount
stores, based in O’Fallon, Mo., have them
throughout the Midwest.
MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Four in
truders forced their way into the home of
75-year-old Dorothy Cunningham and 61-
year-old Marty Killinger late one night,
struggling with the women and demand
ing their car keys.
They did not realize they were dealing
with the “pistol-packing grandmas.”
“I was raised in the Tetons, and whenev
er I wasn’t herding sheep or cattle or work
ing in the fields, I’d take a .22 rifle and tar
get shoot,” Cunningham said. “I'm not afraid
of guns, and I know how to use them.”
A 20-year-old and three teen-agers were
arrested on suspicion of burglary and at
tempted robbery.
Cunningham and Killinger got some offi
cial attention of their own.
“Henceforth, Dorothy Cunningham and
Marty Killinger will be known as the Pistol-
Packing Grandmas,” Grant County Sheriff
Bill Wiester said Friday during a little cere
mony at the county courthouse. “This is a
clear message to criminals that senior citi
zens won’t tolerate this type of behavior
from these young punks.”
Cunningham said someone knocked on
their door Tuesday night, asking to use the
telephone.
When Killinger unlocked the door, a man
pushed his way in and began demanding the
keys to her car.
“I picked up the phone and realized the
lines were cut, then I knew this was serious,”
Killinger said.
While Killinger argued and struggled with
one of the intruders in the living room, Cun
ningham got her Lugerfrom her bedroom and
ordered the young men to head for the hills.
“I said some strong words to them that
I don’t usually use,” she said. “I told them
to get out or I’d shoot and kill them.”
► This day in history
Today is Monday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 1997. There
are 317 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.
In 1801, the House of Representatives broke an elec
toral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, elect
ing Jefferson president. Burr became vice president.
In 1817, a street in Baltimore became the first to be
lighted with gas from America’s first gas company.
In 1865, Columbia, S.C., burned as the Confederates
evacuated and Union forces moved in. (It’s not known
which side set the blaze.)
In 1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the Na
tional Congress of Mothers, was founded in Washington.
In 1904, Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly”
received a poor reception at its premiere at La Scala in
Milan, Italy.
In 1933, Newsweek was first published.
In 1947, the Voice of America began broadcasting to
the Soviet Union.
In 1964, the Supreme Court issued its “one man, one
vote" decision, ruling congressional districts within each
state had to be roughly equal in population.
In 1972, 25 years ago, President Nixon departed on
his historic trip to China.
In 1988, Lt. Col. William Higgins, an American offi
cer serving with a United Nations truce monitoring
group, was kidnapped in southern Lebanon (he was lat
er slain by his captors).
Today's birthdays
Actress Kathleen Foreman is 78. Margaret Truman
Daniel is 73. Actor Hal Holbrook is 72. Singer Bobby
Lewis is 64. Actor Alan Bates is 63. Football Hall-of-Famer
Jim Brown is 61. Actress Mary Ann Mobley is 58. Singer
Gene Pitney is 56. Actress Brenda Fricker is 52. Actor
Richard Karn (“Home Improvement”) is 41.
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