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MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The
owner of a day-care center and
her husband are among 10 peo
ple indicted for using the business
as a front to distribute millions of
dollars worth of marijuana.
The indictment comes two
months after the last of eight
others accused in the conspira
cy to run drugs from Houston
to Mobile pleaded guilty in
federal court.
The Mobile Register reported
on the 31-count indictment un
sealed recently by a federal judge
in Tuesday’s editions.
Prosecutors believe Marc-
shall Taylor Sanders, her hus
band and others plotted to es
tablished Wee Care Daycare
Learning Center on Mobile’s
Broad Street to hide profits
from marijuana sales.
Prosecutors say more than
two tons of the drug were smug
gled between 1995 and early this
year. The indictment alleges
participants are guilty of drug
trafficking, money laundering,
racketeering and perjury before
a grand jury.
Named in the document are:
Sanders; her husband Tommie
Lee Sanders; Joseph Patterson;
Byron York; Clarence Hughes;
Byron Moncrief; Barry Lamar
Riley; Sharon Williams; Maria
Childress and Norman Whit
lock.
The Sanderses are from
Prichard and the others are Mo
bile residents.
The Sanderses, Patterson and
Williams were being held in
Mobile County Metro Jail
Monday and were scheduled to
appear before U.S. Magist
William Cassady Tuesday.
At least five of the other
fendants had not been arre
late Monday, said acting!
Attorney Ginny Granade.
defendant might be incus;
out of state, she said.
Apparently, none of the
defendants had lawyers
Monday.
'The eight who pleaded g
earlier in the case are schedule:
l>e sentenced in latejuneaud.l
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located on Interstate lOnai
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consultant. Perry’s consulting
jobs have included many inter
nationally known companies
such as the Perot Systems in
Dallas, the international insur
ance agency Lloyd’s of London,
the National Institute of Build
ing Science and the State Farm
Insurance Agency.
Perry also authored articles
for scholarly journals and a few
books on the subject of wind en
gineering. Shortly before his
((
His students were
'his lifeblood and
his passion.”
— Dr. David G. Woodcock
architecture professor
dqath, he finished his book enti
tled Wind Engineering Practice:
An Application to Building Design.
.He also held faculty positions
at the University of Idaho, Wash
ington State University, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Califor
nia State University and the Uni
versity of California-Berkeley.
Stubbs said Perry will be re
membered for many accom
plishments but mosdy for his en-
th'usiasm for knowledge and life.
“It would have been easy for
Dale Perry to rest on his laurels,
but he was a teacher’s teacher —
and his students were his
lifeblood and his passion,”
Woodcock said. “His dedication
to excellence was always s
matched by his willingness to
mentor, guide and advise.”
' > Stubbs said that Perry has
family in Utah and is survived
by his wife, children and grand
children.
Disease
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Another possibility is that it
would arrive with animals being
shipped here from a country that
has the disease.
“This is nearly impossible,”
Faries said. “Since we aren’t al
lowing animals from those
countries. Also, it is standard
procedure to quarantine animals
for at least a month once they ar-
lUNETEENTH
Continued from Page 7
Then came a fashion show of
West African dresses featuring
senior citizens. Several of them
on walkers or canes strutted and
pushed down the catwalk to joy
ous applause.
“The kids today need to be
thankful,” said Helen Bible, 82,
one of the women modeling a
dress. “They look up to the ath
letes, but they shouldn’t forget
what happened a long time ago.”
The significance of the day
was not lost on some of the
youngest in the crowd.
“The day is about the free
dom of my people,” said sixth-
grader Travanti Allen, 11.
Several community speakers
were on hand to offer thanks
and praise.
“We got the information,
they say, two and a half years
late, that the others got it before
us,” said Roger Woods, director
of Out, But Not Free, a non
profit education outreach or
ganization. “But thank God
almighty we got it!”
So far, Texas is the only state
that recognizes Juneteenth as an
official holiday, but it increas
ingly is being celebrated in oth
er parts of the country.
rive to see if they are sick.”
The last possibility is that a
traveler brings it to the United
States on their clothes. Faries
said this also is very unlikely
since people touring infected
countries are made to walk
through disinfectant and they
“would have to hurry and book
it back to the U.S. and to a farm
and then be around the animals
enough for them to catch it be
fore the virus dies.”
“Any place where you have a
politically conscious African pop
ulation and culturally conscience
African population, (Juneteenth)
is being celebrated,” said
Kwame-Osagyefo Kalimara, a
history professor at Morehouse
College in Atlanta, where June
teenth celebrations have oc
curred for at least seven years.
Residents in Mississippi, Al
abama, Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Georgia, South Car
olina, Colorado, Florida, Cali
fornia, New York and Utah also
are commemorating the holiday.
It’s observed in about 200 cities
nationwide, and on the Nation
al Mall in Washington, D.C.
Historians said it was 136
years ago Tuesday that a Union
general went to Galveston to in
form slaves there they were free
— years after President Lincoln
signed the order that freed them.
Eighteen-year-old Monick
Bryant sat on a lawn chair in front
of her cousin’s Austin house as
children played around her and
the smell of barbecue from the
nearby grill filled the air. For
years, her family has come to
gether to celebrate Juneteenth.
“If the freedom never would
have happened, where would
we be today?” she said. “It’s not
just for African Americans
though, it’s for everyone.”
Perry
Continued from Page 7
None of the bills Perry ve
toed Sunday, the last day the
governor could sign, veto or let
legislation become law without
his signature, can be overturned
because lawmakers have ad
journed for the session.
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Lare-
do, and Rep. Garnet Coleman,
D-Houston, authors of a bill
that would have restructured the
It is also a slap in
the face to the chil
dren of Texas who
need Medicaid, to
the families of
Texas that need
Medicaid. ”
— Sen. Judith Zaffirini
D-La redo
state’s medicaid program said
Perry’s veto of their bill “was an
other victim of the Father’s Day
massacre.”
“Quite frankly, we believe
that the veto is not only a slap in
the face of the many, many peo
ple who worked to develop this
very important bill, but it is also
a slap in the face to the children
of Texas who need Medicaid, to
the families of Texas that need
Medicaid,” Zaffirini said.
“I cannot remember feeling
so angry. I cannot remember
feeling so insulted,” she said.
The lawmaker said the au
thors had never considered a
veto since the governor and his
staff had only voiced “very mi
nor concerns”
Her legislation would have
shifted the Medicaid program to
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the state’s health department to
the Texas Health and Human
Services Commission and would
have consolidated administra
tive tasks.
T he state would have saved
$416.8 million over five years by
eliminating repetitive paper
work, streamlining staff and
services and gaining better con
trol of the budget process, said
Coleman.
The governor said in his veto
proclamation, an explanation of
his reasons for vetoing a bill, diat
the bill would detract from the
“primary focus” of the commis
sion to manage Medicaid and
implement other legislation. He
did say that he supported the re
structuring of Medicaid.
He did say that the commis
sion could pursue other propos
als in the bill after holding pub
lic hearings and studying the
fiscal impact.
Legislation that the governor
did sign on Sunday included
bills that create the office of
Rural Community Affairs to fo
cus on rural issues, raise the
speed limit to 75 mph on some
rural stretches of highway and
protect consumers from un
wanted telemarketing calls.
Other legislation the gover
nor signed off on included bills
that set up a program to increase
enrollment in nursing education
programs, have the Texas De
partment of Transportation use
federal money to make sure ele
mentary school areas are safe for
bicyclists and pedestrians, and
require Texas health insurers to
cover new forms of birth control
that include Norplant, in
trauterine devices, diaphragms,
Depo-Provera and emergency
prophylactics. Contraceptives
that terminate pregnancy would
not be covered.
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