Wednesday, May 4, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
*Texas officials allege cattleman
falsified tests from infected cows
■NACOGDOCHES (AP) — An
■st Texas sale-barn owner allegedly
Hp-eed to buy four sick cattle from a
CJ»te livestock inspector posing as a
rancher trying to dispose of stock in-
c&tecl with brucellosis.
E.V. Hamby, owner of the Nacog-
tfoches County Livestock Sale Barn,
allegedly substituted blood samples
Of a healthy cow for an infected one
and registered the sale under a ficti-
■us name in the transaction last Oc-
jjtpber, inspector Joe Kelsey said.
■Kelsey had driven four cattle to
rhom
the sale barn and included one in
fected cow to see if it was possible to
sell a cow with brucellosis, called a
“banger,” Kelsey said.
Hamby assured Kelsey that bru
cellosis-infected cattle could be sold
without notifying the state and with
out quarantining the rest of his herd,
as required by law, Kelsey said.
“They encouraged me to come
back,” Kelsey recalls. “They just said,
‘Bring all your cows back, and we’ll
make sure the state does not know
you had any (bangers) or that they
were your animals.”’
Officials allege that Hamby, his
barn manager, Emmett Case and the
veterinarian, Dr. Raymond Fowler,
conspired to falsify blood tests from
infected cattle.
Kelsey alleged that when he ar
rived at the arena, Hamby instructed
an employee to register tne cows un
der a fictitious owner’s name, and
when the blood tests were run, work
ers substituted blood from a healthy
cow for the banger’s sample.
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By George Watson
Staff Writer
■n an effort to prevent minors from driving while in
toxicated, a Texas A&M professor has helped develop
an alcohol awareness program aimed at minors who
have been arrested on alcohol-related charges.
■)r. Maurice Dennis, professor of industrial educa
tion and director of safety education, said he hopes the
program makes an impact on the minors before they
risk driving while intoxicated.
■‘We have statistics that show minors are more likely
to he killed in alcohol related accidents than older driv
ers,” Dennis said. “We’re just trying to keep that from
occurring.”
In the five-hour class, emphasis is placed on identify
ing the effects of alcohol on the body, the reasons that
an individual chooses to drink and the penalties asso
ciated with DWI and MIP (minor in possession) arrests.
Bob Wiatt, director of University Police, said he fa
vored the program’s goal of educating and rehabilitat
ing minors to teach them the penalties of alcohol-re
lated crimes, and said the program might become a
requirement for convicted MIPs.
“I am not familiar with the content of the classes, but
I have spoken with Dr. Dennis and a few judges about
having tne class become part of some sentences involv
ing MIPs,” he said.
Of 120 alcohol-related arrests made on campus be
tween September 1986 and August 1987, Wiatt said, 26
were for DWI. Since last semester, the UPD has made
88 alcohol-related arrests — 27 for DWI, he said.
The College Station Police Department made 229
DWI and 257 MIP arrests in 1987. The Bryan Police
Department arrested 491 people on DWI charges in
1987. The number of MIP charges was not available.
Registration for the alcohol education program is in
the industrial education office in Harrington Tower.
Two weeks later, Kelsey picked up
a $1,000 check for the four cows,
completing Texas’ first undercover
operation aimed at exposing an al
leged brucellosis fraud conspiracy.
The Texas Animal Health Com
mission began the inquiry last sum
mer, then the Texas attorney gener
al’s office, the state Board of
Veterinary Medicine and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture joined
the probe.
Brucellosis, once a health threat to
animals and humans, is mostly an
economic menace to ranchers. Peo
ple may contract the disease from
unpasteurized milk or goat cheese,
but face no risk eating meat from an
infected cow.
Lawyers in the state attorney gen
eral’s office went to court Jan. 21 to
get a temporary injunction against
the sale barn and veterinarian.
A trial on a permanent injunction
against the sale barn is pending in in
Nacogdoches County, where the
case was transferred.
Lawyers said Juanette Ellis, 42,
Fowler’s former assistant, volun
teered to testify after realizing she
had been infected with the human
equivalent of brucellosis, apparently
while testing cattle under Fowler’s
supervision.
Case and Fowler both denied be
ing involved in a conspiracy.
Hamby said that on the day of
Kelsey’s sting there was an accident
in the laboratory, and an employee
substituted blood from a healthy cow
for the cows Kelsey brought in.
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KKeyes and Tamburello plan to
continue the program, which is now
in its first 10-week session. In the fu
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program for women at A&M who
are involved in violent relationships.
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sinessAdrP at ‘ on i n their next session, which
movedtoL’ffh start sometime in June, but they
said men referred to them by the lo
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dent in educational psychology.
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ranging in age from 3 to 8 years old,
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discussion similar to the program
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Jackson said she is interested in
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