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The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 19

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The Timesi
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Shreveport, Louisiana
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19
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Wright was arrested Dec. 3 by a Nueces County deputy constable who spotted him trying the doors of a jewelry store. An inquiry to the National Crime In-, formation System was answered by 20 feet of computer paper showing a 19-year record of petty crime, jail terms, 43 different aliases and nine Social Security numbers. News accounts about Wright reached Shreveport, where 67-year-old Wilma Wright has awaited word from her son, Joe Boyd Wright, since he ran away 20 years ago. receive Wright's mug shot from the Corpus Christi police files in hopes of identifying her brother.

"I just want him to come home." Mrs. Wright said Thursday that she's sure she has spotted her son working in Shreveport a couple of times in the last five years. Jack Wright was last seen Wednesday, when Dallas County authorities bought him a bus ticket to Corpus Christi and gave him $5. Nueces County officers had taken him to Dallas when it was believed he was John Monroe Smith, wanted for violation of probation on a 1982 automobile theft conviction. His fingerprints did not match Smith's, however.

"We tried to rap him any way we could," said Sgt Charles Deshazo of the Dallas County sheriff's fugitive division. "We couldn't hold him because he wasn't wanted anywhere else." Deshazo said he assumed Wright re turned to Corpus Christi. "He was raising hell about wanting to go back to Corpus Christi," said Deshazo. "He was telling us the truth that he wasn't Smith." Mrs. Warren said published accounts of the aliases Wright used included some family names, One of the many of Wright's birthdates, she said, "lacked one day of being his favorite sister's birthday." But it was Wright's age and physical appearance that provided the most hope to Mrs.

Warren. "They said he was a white man, 36 years old with brown hair and hazel eyes," she said. "I know I could identify him if I could see him." Mrs. Wright said she has tried to find her son for years. "It would be the best Christmas resent I could get if he would come ome," said Mrs.

Wright. "But I've said that every year since he's been gone." Warren of Shreveport, said that a Dec. 10 Shreveport Journal story about Wright's flair for names "made the hair rise on my head. The more I read, the more I thought it was him." Mrs. Warren said her brother left the family's home in Delhi 20 years ago saying he would change his name and "never come back." "He said, 'Y'all will never be able to find me said Mrs.

Warren. "He said he was going to change his name. There were so many kids and he was in trouble so much. He said Wrights never get a job in this town." Wright was almost 16 when he left home. A year later, the first entry was made on Jack Wright's criminal record.

"I want to find him for my mother's sake," said Mrs. Warren. "It's got her old, not knowing whether he's dead or alive." She said Thursday that she hopes to 1F1SESH CEAWHSIHI LIVE BOILED Professor: People can prevent nuclear war OF THE SEASON Throgmorton, a sociology professor "Believe that peace is possible FROM OUR FARMS! do included informing yourself read, discuss, question. Another is to resist nuclear arms expenditures, he said, suggesting that if one is opposed to the government spending billions of missiles, arrange it so the government gets fewer of your tax dollars. This can be arranged, he said, by maximizing your deductions to a tax-free liability.

Make donations to your favorite charities; buy books, read them, then donate them to a library; shelter your tax money so that it goes to support the causes you support. social scientist, I do, in fact, see the quest of peace as viable, something that can and must be The international rnivsment, which the professor supports, objects equally to the implementation of nuclear weapons in the United States, Russia, China, Israel or Pakistan. After believing that peace is possible, Throgmorton said, the next most important step is to pray. Other measures listed, and there were many, as examples of things to at Centenary, is also the regional representative for Ground Zero, a group that promotes debate about the arms race. He told the group, "It's up to us to demonstrate that peace is not an obscure abstraction that peace is a reality.

As long as we see it as an abstraction, we are doing it an injustice." As an example, he said, consider the length of the U.S.-Canadian border and yet there have been no wars along that region. It shows that peace is possible; even peaceful coexistence among antagonists is possible, he said. "As a that may be one of the most important things I say tonight," said Dr. David Throgmorton addressing an group session at St. Joseph's Catholic Church last night.

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