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Child returned
after ordeal
with kidnapper
MESQUITE (AP) — A state case
worker’s hunch and a missing-chil
dren flier led to a tearful reunion of
a mother and her baby son who had
been kidnapped from his home
when he was just 18 days old.
Alisha Wetselline-Rodriguez held
her son, Eric, for the first time in
more than 14 months Wednesday
and was so excited she could barely
speak.
“I understand he has to get used
to me,” Wetselline-Rodriguez said as
she cradled the boy dressed in red
overalls and a striped shirt during a
visit to the home of the boy’s foster
parents, John and Diane Noster, in
Mesquite.
For months after Eric was kidnap
ped from the rear of his home on
Dec. 9, 1986, Wetselline-Rodriguez
would call police and receive the
same message: Nothing yet.
The frantic mother resorted to a
nationwide search using fliers and
contacts with child-welfare agencies.
Her sister, Veronica Yanez, said
she even prodded local radio sta
tions to play the song “Somewhere,
Out There,” and dedicate it to the
missing boy. »
A few months after his kidnap
ping, Edica Flores of Dallas took Eric
to a local Catholic church and told a
priest that a woman she met in a
park nine days earlier had asked her
to take care of the child for a week
while the woman went to Houston to
seek work.
The woman never returned, and
Dallas County Assistant District At
torney Beverly Storey said efforts to
find the woman have failed.
The church turned the child over
to the state on May 4, 1987.
On Christmas Eve, Texas Depart
ment of Human Services worker,
Mary Forrester, noticed a striking
similarity between a picture of Eric
on a missing-children flier and an
abandoned child who had been
turned over to the agency.
Then the identification process
began.
“It was a one-in-a-million case,”
Forrester said. “I wasn’t even sup
posed to get the case, but another
worker was overloaded. And when I
first saw the flier, I threw it away.
Something made me go back and
look at it.”
Forrester said the boy would have
been eligible for adoption in Novem
ber, but she postponed that process
because she had a feeling about the
case.
Family Court Judge Harold
Gaither Jr. on Wednesday returned
the boy to Wetselline-Rodriguez’s
custody after reviewing evidence
from blood tests and testimony by a
Department of Human Services ca
seworker.
The Noster family, who has nur
tured the boy for 10 months and has
been there for his first steps and first
birthday, will keep the boy for an
other week, giving him a chance to
grow accustomed to his mother.
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Sunset Today: 6:25 p.m.
Sunrise Friday: 6:46 a.m.
Map Discussion: Rain will extend from the lower and middle Mississippi Valley to
Northern Florida, the Carolinas, and the Mid-Atlantic Coast with thunderstorms
from Alabama to Virginia. Snow will extend from Eastern Kentucky and Southern
Ohio to New Jersey to Maine. Snow showers will accompany the low pressure
system over Nebraska. Rain and rain showers will extend along the frontal system
in the Pacific Northwest with snow in the higher elevations. Fair to partly cloudy
skies will prevail over the remainder of the nation.
Forecast:
Today and Tonight. Mostly cloudy early with decreasing cloudiness through the
day with a high of 67 degrees and northerly winds at 8 to 14 mph. Tonight will be
fair and cool. Low of 67. Winds east at 5 mph.
Saturday. Partly cloudy and mild. High of 74. Winds southeast at 7 to 12 mph.
Weather Fact: Cap cloud — An approximately stationary cloud or standing cloud,
on or hovering above mountain peaks. It is formed by the lifting, cooling and
condensation of humid air forced up over the peak. Also known as “pilous."
Prepared by: Charlie Brenton
Staff Meteorologist
A&M Department of Meteorology
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Faculty/Staff
Dr. Larry E. Fink, an English teaching assistant, has been named to the Har-
din-Simmons University English Department faculty for the coming school year.
Dr. Roger Schultz, associate professor and director of theater, has been
named University Theater Educator of the year by the Texas Education Theatre
Association.
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Aggie Cinema Member of the Month.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Mayor Kathy
Whitmire has asked 16 city depart
ment heads, including the police and
fire chiefs, to report with plans to cut
spending to help close an $ 1 1 mil
lion revenue gap by June.
This year’s revenue shortage is
due to rapidly escalating employee
health insurance costs and overesti
mation of court-generated revenue.
recommendations, due Monday, will
be.
The administration was expected
to move swiftly to deal with the reve
nue shortage in the current fiscal
year, which ends June 30.
“I’m asking them to develop some
options,” Whitmire said Wednesday.
She said she has no idea what those
Whitmire revealed Tuesday that
the administration expects a $42 mil
lion shortfall in 1989just to maintain
current service levels and restore to
employees the 3 percent of their sal
aries that was cut in 1986.
Whitmire has instructed the po
lice and fire departments to cut then
spending by $ 1 million each in 1988
“We’ve been asked to look at what
it would take to meet that target,
Police Chief Lee P. Brown said. “We
have not been asked to lay off any
one. We’ve been asked to respond to
a target figure.”
But Brown repeated his warning
from 1987’s budget planning ses
sions, saying 91 percent of his de
partment’s budget covers personnel
costs and he has little discretion in
where to cut back.
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