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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Thursday, November 23, 1995 B2 Rewards and posters yield little in search for boy Metropolitan Area News in Brief Conservationist confirmed as Pa. cabinet secretary A longtime conservationist yestfer-, day became Pennsylvania's first sec-retary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the new state agency charged with man told authorities she sold him Police say time is an enemy. the woman Tina Vanderhorst says drove away with him. The mother described the woman as black, 5-foot-4, and of medium build. She wore a cream-colored jacket and a maroon shirt and had designer fingernails.

She drove a light blue four-door car, with a license plate beginning with "AL." Now, all that detectives can do is hope the description will click with someone and they'll get a call. People with any information have been asked to call the Homicide Division sister would never do anything to hurt that boy." The Vanderhorst family has posted a $1,000 reward for information, but no one has come forward. Neither has anyone responded to the posters with Ke-Shaun's photograph that were distributed along the East Coast and in neighboring states by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "It's a little odd we haven't heard something," said Police Capt. Jim Brady of the Homicide Division, which is handling the case.

With so little to go on, investigators hope Ke-Shaun's story might get onto national television. Representatives of America's Most Wanted have contacted them about broadcasting a brief spot on the missing child and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, dealing in infants, and corrupting the morals of a minor. A preliminary hearing is set for Wednesday. Ke-Shaun is still missing. And that, his aunt said, is the most important part of the story not that her sister used crack, or that she had three other babies who died, or that the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office is reviewing those deaths, all of which were attributed to sudden infant death syndrome.

"I really do believe that he's alive," Kim Vanderhorst said. "I know my if -i ili i iiiiwiMMirVVrrnii Ke-Shaun Vanderhorst, in 1994. Open or Closed for Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday, Nov. 23 and 24, 1995 PENNSYLVANIA NEW JERSEY Thursday Friday Thursday Friday Banks Closed Open Closed Open Savings loans Closed Open Closed Open Federal agencies Closed Open Closed Open Federal courts Closed Open Closed Open State agencies Closed Open Closed Open Localstate courts Closed Open Closed Open Liquor stores Closed Open Optional Open Postal service None Normal None Normal UV3 IT Wpli fit Hv In Philadelphia SCHOOLS: Public and parochial, closed Thursday and Friday. CITY AGENCIES: Closed Thursday, open Friday.

DISTRICT HEALTH CENTERS: Closed Thursday, open Friday. LIBRARIES: Closed Thursday, open Friday. RECREATION CENTERS: Closed Thursday, open Friday. TRASH AND GARBAGE COLLECTION: None on Thursday. Normal Thursday routes will be serviced Friday; Friday routes will be serviced Saturday.

ZOO: Closed Thursday, open Friday. PARKING: Regulations suspended Thursday, enforced Friday. MUSEUMS: Academy of Natural Sciences: Closed Thursday, open Friday. Afro-American Historical Cultural Museum: Closed Thursday and Friday. Franklin Institute: Closed Thursday, open Friday.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Closed Thursday and Friday. Independence Hall and Liberty Bell Pavilion: Closed Thursday, open Friday. Maritime Museum: Closed Thursday, open Friday. Mummers Museum: Closed Thursday, open Friday. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Closed Thursday, open Friday.

Thanksgiving Day Parade Route The 2 -year-old's mother for drugs in September. By Lea Sitton INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Ke-Shaun Vanderhorst vanished twice: first, from his North Philadelphia home and then from the headlines. "I know a lot of people forget," Kim Vanderhorst said Tuesday about her 2-year-old nephew, last seen Sept. 26. "I don't see how they could It's as if he doesn't exist." Ke-Shaun's mother has told police that she gave her son to a strange woman, who then handed her $500.

Tina Vanderhorst, 31, said she spent the money on drugs. She has been Philadelphia Museum of Art: Closed Thursday, open Friday. Please Touch Museum: Closed Thursday, open Friday. University Museum: Closed Thursday, open Friday. Transportation PENNSYLVANIA: SEPTA's Regional Rail, City and Suburban Transit lines will operate Thursday on Sunday schedules, with additional service on the Market-Frankford and Broad Street Lines for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Regular schedules will be in force on SEPTA lines Friday. Two children, ages 1 1 and under, may ride free with each fare-paying adult. NEW JERSEY: PATCO trains will operate Thursday on 3 Sunday schedule with extra trains from 8 a.m. to noon to accommodate parade-goers. For information, call 609-772-6936.

NJ Transit buses will operate on Sunday schedules. For information about specific routes, call 800-582-5946. On Friday, there will be no express trains on PATCO. Trains will run every 10 to 12 minutes from 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

For information, call 609-772-6936. N.J. Transit bus Routes 400 and 409 will operate on a holdiay schedule. Other buses will operate on Saturday, holiday or mixed weekday schedules. For information about specific routes, call 800-582-5946.

tities of cocaine and heroin beginning in 1984. During the height of Garcia's operation in late 1992, officials said, his group was grossing as much as 580,000 a week. Officials said Garcia traveled weekly to New Jersey, where he bought one to three kilograms of cocaine. The drug was then brought back to one of at least four properties in North Philadelphia, where it was diluted with baking soda or Mannite and bagged into individual portions for sale. The indictment said Garcia used his son and five others as street ing of the drugs.

In addition to controlling the neighborhood around the 2900 block of North Third, Stella and Birch Streets, Garcia also "rented" rights to sell drugs on his turf to other gangs for $1,000 a week. Garcia also hired enforcers to maintain control of his area. The indictment alleged he hired Ismael Rosado as an enforcer for his organization. Prosecutors have ailed that Rosado, who has also pleaded guilty to drug charges, shot and wounded two people for selling something other than Garcia's own brand of drugs on his so-called "turf." -if aging state parks and forests. John C.

Oliver 3d, 56, who had Been acting secretary since Aug. 1, was sworn in by U.S. District Judge Wil- liam L. Standish to head one of two cabinet-level agencies that evolved from the July 1 breakup of the Department of Environmental Resources. The Senate confirmed him Nov.

13. The agency has nearly 1,300 full-time and 1,400 seasonal employ-: ees and a $177 million budget. Oliver said the department's top priorities were improving and re- storing state park and forest facilities, building an identity for' the agency, promoting community conservation partnerships, conserving the natural integrity of the state parks and forests and encouraging tourism. Change in immigration law opposed by ethnic coalition Thirty-one local groups have band-, ed together in a multi-ethnic coali- tion to oppose legislation that would, restrict legal immigration into the country. In a statement, the Coalition Against Restrictive Immigration teg-' islation said, "Powerful isolationist and xenophobic lobbying groups now seem to have the ear of Congress in a way hardly imaginable in the past." The group said it was trou-; bled by a bill now in the U.S.

Senate that would limit the ability of immi-grants to bring other family bers here. "There simply is no evidence to support the contention that the cur. rent number of legal immigrants' presents an undue burden on our nation," said the coalition, which." represents a broad spectrum of eth: nic, religious and legal rights organi- zations. t- Early gift free rides on PHLASH, Welcome Line The city, SEPTA, the Center City District and Hecht's Department Store are sponsoring a free holiday shuttle service that will run Satur-' days, beginning this weekend, through Dec. 23.

h. The free rides, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., will be available on select PHLASH buses and Welcome Line trolleys. Specially designated PHLASH buses will run on Chestnut and Walnut Streets between 12th and 18th Streets. Riders also hop aboard the Welcome Line shuttle, which runs, on, 11th and 12th Streets between Nobje and Bainbridge Streets.

Man jailed for buying liquor for teen who died in stunt A northwestern Pennsylvania man will spend at least three months in jail for providing alcohol to a teen- ager who subsequently died while imitating a movie stunt two years ago. James McKalip, 30, pleaded guilty in September to a charge of furnish- ing alcohol to minors. Venango County Judge H. William White sen- tenced him Tuesday to three to 24 months in jail and ordered him to pay $800. In October 1993, Michael Shingle--' decker, 18, lay down on the center line on busy Route 62 in Polk, about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

pickup truck struck and killed A second boy, Dean Bartlett, 17. was badly hurt. The two had seenthe. stunt in the movie "The Program," In' which college football players tried to prove their toughness. After teenagers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey imitated them, the Walt Disney Co.

reedited the movie, deleting the1 highway scene. 2 Delaware men charged in unrelated homicides Two Delaware men were in cus- tody yesterday, charged with first-, degree murder in the stabbing deaths of two women in unrelated slayings, New Castle County police said. James M. Hodges, 22, of Newark, was being held at Gander Hill Prison in Wilmington, charged with killing Buffy M. Davis, 22, who was found stabbed to death Tuesday night in a trailer they shared.

Edward B. Manning 3d, 46, was also, being held at Gander Hill for the Tuesday night slaying of Bonnie Call, 20. Her body was found in the Newark apartment she shared with, Manning and her mother, who found her body in the living room about 9:45 p.m. Police are continuing an investigation into both slayings, but said they, were unrelated. Police said Hodges and Davis had a 3-year-old daughter, who is in the custody of relatives.

Thev did not know where the girl was when her mother was Pope names NJ. bishop head of Wilmington Diocese Pope John Paul II has named a New Jersey bishop who helped organize, the pontiff's recent U.S. visit to lead the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wil-' mington. Bishop Michael A. Saltar- elli, 62, has been an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J.

since July 1990. He succeeds Bishop Robert E. Mulvee, who was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of," Providence, R.I., in February. He Will -be installed as bishop Jan. 23,.

1996. -t at 215-686-3335. "The investigation is active," Bra dy said, "and if we were to get any information, we would certainly run on it." Still, time is an enemy. "The longer it gets, the more diffi cult, and hope begins to dim." And while CARS hopes to prevent all pedestrian-auto accidents, it has targeted children, in part because "that tugs on people's heart strings more than something like a 'Don't Hit Patti' she said. A difference in the borough is already evident, said Mayor Alfred W.

Murray, who is also head of the Public Safety Department. "I've already seen an impact from this group on the community," he said. "This group helps bring a greater awareness of the dangers of residential speeding." Dexter and CARS have started to receive recognition from local groups for their efforts. Tuesday night, the borough commission unanimously passed a resolution supporting the objectives of CARS. "We're all in a hurry, we can all be preoccupied, but no destination is worth taking a life," Dexter said after accepting the certificate presented by the commissioners.

2 slayings Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. disclosed that Fairley had called him from jail, saying: "I know what I've done. I want to own up to what I did." Castor said yesterday that the conversation, although useful in the preliminary hearing, would be of "minimal significance" at the trial. A forlorn-looking James Mander-ach husband and father of the victims sat in the back row of the courtroom yesterday, his eyes red, his expression blank.

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Hi 1 'l ruJt 1 CHESTNUT ST. liiJ i 11 II 1 walnut st. II The Philadelphia Inquirer TOM GRALISH Having made the trip all the way from Brownsburg, members of the Brownsburg High School Marching Band at least got a chance to check out the Art Museum area while rehearsing yesterday. The band will be among the participants in Philadelphia's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. Group flags residential speeders The Philadelphta Inquirer Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day Parade, billed as the nation's oldest, runs along this route from 9 a.m.

until noon, and will feature 15 floats, 13 marching bands, eight giant helium balloons and Santa Claus and his reindeer. It will be broadcast on WPVI-TV (Channel 6). A traffic death in Audubon brought grassroots action. Caution signs and pledge cards are spreading. Drug kingpin pleads guilty to all 45 counts since its inception.

To date, 144 people have pledged their support of CARS by buying a $15 caution sign and signing a pledge card promising not to speed. The pledge card is a small token with great meaning. By signing, its carrier pledges accountability and self-awareness and most important, never to speed on any street in any town. The yellow-and-black signs, two feet tall and a foot wide, bear the message "Be Alert Children" and show one child kicking a ball and another riding a bicycle. The signs and pledge cards work together to remind drivers of the danger of excessive speed, said Patti Dexter, a mother of four who spearheads the group from her home.

not guilty in hold Fairley. Said Egan at yesterday's arraignment: "It seems to me that the district attorney will be arguing that they didn't have enough evidence to arrest him but they did to search him. Those two things are incongruous." Egan said that because of the deal, would ask that a jury be chosen from another county. He added that would seek to suppress statements Fairley made to authorities during questioning and after his arrest. At Fairley's preliminary hearing last month, First Assistant District By Lisa Kozlcski INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT It's been five years since a child was killed on the streets of Audubon a long time, considering that automobile accidents are a leading cause of childhood death.

But some concerned mothers want to make sure that it never happens again. Recognizing the danger of a car speeding down a residential road, a half-dozen women have decided to form their own grassroots group. Their goal: to raise awareness of the hazards of speeding and protect pedestrians from dangerous drivers. The group Citizens Against Residential Speeding, or CARS has made quite an impact in this small borough during the two months Fairley pleads FAIRLEY from B1 month-old daughter, Devon, on Sept. 10 as the two shopped in the College-ville store owned by Fairley's mother.

The child's body was found within hours of the killings in Valley Forge National Historical Park, but the mother's body remained missing for more than 24 hours. At the time of the deal, Marino said he needed to get to Manderach's body quickly to preserve critical forensic evidence. Without the deal, Marino said, he did not have enough probable cause to he he KINGPIN from B1 His attorney, Joseph C. Santagulda, said Garcia seemed to have difficulty understanding the concept of the criminal-conspiracy charge, which holds Garcia culpable for the acts of others who did sell heroin who worked for him. "It's OK," said Garcia, pleading guilty to the heroin charges.

In addition to the prison sentence and' fines that Garcia faces, the guilty plea requires him to forfeit to the government four North Philadelphia properties that investigators say were used by his drug traffickers. April 27 in a dramatic morning raid in which 400 federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers, supported by two National Guard helicopters, swept through a two-square-block neighborhood around Garcia's home. As the raid was occurring, U.S. Attorney Michael R. Stiles was announcing to reporters the indictment of Garcia and 33 alleged members of his drug organization, including his son, Efrain Garcia.

Federal prosecutors said Garcia used his home as the headquarters for the drug ring, selling large quan I.