Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 19

Birmingham PuMfawld Mewdoy Nwnmbw 26 1990 -C3 -I- Salvation Army wants volunteers Canadian joins most wanted Canada and United States From Staff aadPrem Reports A member of Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive list has gone international with his entry on the UA list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives Patrick Michael Mitchell 48 barn in Ottawa has been wanted in that country for escaping from prison where he was serving a 30-year sentence for importation of narcotics and possession of stolen property In the United States Mitchell is known as a prison escapee and a suspected bank robber he has no direct ties to Alabama he is wanted for a robbery in Florida and he is extremely said FBI special agent Tom Moore of the bureau's Birmingham office Mitchell escaped from the Arizona State Prison in Florence in November 1987 He was serving a sentence on a conviction of armed robbery Quake threat not shaking Fulton Gonzalez said that out of 55 locations throughout Birmingham the organization only has enough volunteers to work at 35 of them As of Friday the organization was 25 percent behind in donations compared with last year during the same period Last year the kettle program raised 8144000 and was able to assist over 25000 people in the Birmingham area This year the organization'! goal is to raise 150000 going to be quite a task playing catch up between now and tb end of the Christmas i the said Gonzales said the slow start in collections could be an indication of a sagging economy Goodwill From page Cl people thought that Vint couldn't do said Goodwill Job Coach Travis Fletcher who worked with Sampson daily just give up I kind of knew where he was coming from I know what it is to go without food His situation really touched my heart" Sampson is no longer lonely He Peace From page Cl you believe strongly in what doing then you go even if you are scared "When you have nuclear weapons and chemical biological weapons out there in the field waiting to be used you have to do everything possible before you even think about armed she said Rate are also champion swimmers They can swim a half-mile before drowning and can even do it upstream if they have to and can tread water for three days They also can stay underwater for 30 seconds on repeated dives why it does no good to flush them down the Smith said A lot of their survival skills come from observing other rats But some of their combat knowledge is passed on from generation to generation the milk there is information being passed on to her infante about what to avoid and how to stay Smith said A me soft spot is its inability to vomit Smith said Most of the rodent poisons on the market today take advantage of this flaw by using a time-released poison to kill the rat By Bruce Alford Pstf-HeraM Reporter The Salvation Army is short of its most valuable resource people bad news for area commander Maj Henry Gonzalez who must muster support for the Salvation annual Christmas kettle collections The 99-year-old kettle program will be celebrated in a kickoff ceremony at 11:30 am tomorrow at in the Riverchase Galleria's food court area year it's more difficult to find Gonzales said "The kettles have become part of the sights and sounds of Christmas and we hope the day will never come when this tradition must end because of lack of ICrimestoppers The crime: Eighteen-year-old Darachia Watte of 3932 Todd Ave was fatally shot about 10:45 pm on Saturday Oct 27 while in front of 4325 50th St Southwest The dues: A witness told police she heard three or four males arguing outside her house just before she heard two gunshots Then she heard footsteps running south Watte had been shot in the chest The reward: Crimestoppers will pay up to $1000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for this shooting death If you have Information about this or any other crime telephone Crimestoppers at 254-7777 Your call will be confidential You do not have to give your name to collect the reward Crimestoppers is sponsored by local law enforcement agencies the Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce and Chevron UJLA Rate are hard to kill because of their amazing survival techniques They can escape from almost any closed space by gnawing through walls insulation wires and even lead pipes have teeth that constantly grow so they gnaw on things to keep their teeth Smith said Their teeth can exert up to 24000 pounds of pressure that makes them powerful he said Rats also can compress their bodies to the size of a quarter so they can squeeze through tiny spaces They have been known to fall from five-story buildings and sup vive And once on the ground they can jump 2 feet upward and 4 feet horizontally from a standing start is a lot of Gonzalez said know which way the economy is going to go The money garnered from the kettle collections will be used to buy food for the hungry and homeless as part of the Salvation winter relief program Gonzalez said more food and shelters are needed to house people during January February and March A UJS Army band ensemble will play music at the kickoff The ceremony will also include singing of traditional Christmas carols and a ribbon cutting Bell ringers will be needed until Christinas Eve Anyone needing assistance or wishing to donate their time as a volunteer should contact Gonzalez at 328-5656 calls Fletcher and he lives with a family in north Birmingham that gives him the love he never had while growing up Richard Parker a manager at said Sampson is well-liked by employees and customers and that they are pleased with his progress Sampson said gotten this award because I worked hard and I did the best I could do They wanted me to reach this goal I had a few ups and downs but they helped me to make it Fellowship of Reconciliation will continue to travel to Iraq as long as the Middle East crisis exists Ms Douglass said She said Americans cannot trade any US currency with the Iraqis because of the trade embargo So the negotiating group will be guests of an Iraqi committee called The Committee for Peace Friendship and Solidarity The committee will furnish housing and food Ms Douglass said she may consider writing a book about her journey Besides being a pest to average citizens rate cause profound economic problems It is estimated that 20 percent of the food crops never reach the table because they are eaten or destroyed by rats said Smith who wrote a paper in graduate school about the economic effects of rats Rate also are responsible for killing more people than all the world wars together The plague or in the Middle Ages killed millions of people in Europe Asia and Africa Its cause: diseased fleas that traveled from me place to the next on the backs of rats are flexible and adaptable and they can live just about anywhere" Smith said that mean we do everything we can to get rid of the center of his chest and five dots on his left thumb He may have a disfigured or crippled right hand and a disfigured left leg and may be wearing a full beard and mustache Mitchell has worked as a salesman and may claim to be in the real estate business He has love of horses and betting on bones He has used Social Security numbers 436-72-7851 and 438-72-7891 Anyone with any information about Mitchell's location is asked to call the local FBI office In Birmingham that number is 252-7705 Co in Tupelo got me a four-wheel-drive If the roads fall in just going to lock it in and keep on When Justice and Joe Thomas 34 were at Grocery one day last week they were getting ready for a hunting trip not a disaster Dick Wright head of the Fulton-Itawamba Emergency Management Agency is doing his part Personally Wright tends to make light of the quake forecast a 50-50 chance I'll go out here and get killed in an automobile Wright said Still Dec 3 will be not be a typical day for him Rats From page Cl The rat found most in urban areas like Birmingham the Norway or brown rat has been around since at least 1551 That date was when the first record of its appearance was made in Europe (No rate are native to North America All were brought over with immigrants) The Norway rat is about 10 Inches long It has an average lifespan of one year but it can have four to seven litters during that time producing as many as 75 babies seems Smith said a pair of rate are capable of having 15000 descendants in one Milch Patrick Michael Mitchell is wanted in On Feb 15 of this year federal authorities issued a warrant charging Mitchell with bank robbery in Tallahassee Fla Mitchell the 432nd fugitive to be placed on tbe Top Ten list has been described by the FBI as a narcotics user armed and dangerous and an escape risk He is white 5 feet 9 inches tall 165 pounds with a muscular build He has light-brown hair blue eyes and a fair complexion He has a scar between his eyebrows tattoos of on his upper left arm a cross on will strike the New Madrid fault within 48 hours of Dec 2 or 3 A quake along the fault zone could be devastating to much of northeast Arkansas northern Mississippi western Tennessee and be felt in as many as four other states Tbe residents of Fulton a community of about 3800 tucked among the pine forests of northeastern Mississippi are cautious about embracing forecast At the same time reluctant to discount the likelihood of an earthquake rattling their home town tell me tbe roads are going to fall said Tim Justice a 40-year-old employee of Cooper Tire claimed in letters that the killing was an act of self-defense Jury selection starts today in the murder trial of William Lee Slagle 43 Slagle is charged with munler in the Sept 21 1989 slaying of Rex Bartley Copeland 20 a Samford debater and prelaw student After the killing Slagle was a fugitive until his surrender at the Shelby County Jail on April 3 While a fugitive the college professor mailed letters to Alabama from Nashville and Los Angeles claiming he killed the student in self-defense officials said Demo quit yet HUNTSVILLE The chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party said he has no definite plans to leave the post early but will likely reassess his role next spring Willard Hurley a Birmingham bank executive was picked in August tor a four-year term as party chairman with the backing of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Paul Hubbert He said he wants to to determine what the state Democratic Party ought to be Then Hurley said he will re-evaluate his plans see if I can do what the party needs to be done over the next four Both of the two party members most mentioned as possible successors to Hurley state party Vice Chairman Patricia Edington of Mobile and state Democratic Executive Committee member Jack Drake of Tuscaloosa said they would seek the post if Hurley resigns SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF DISTINCTION (life ONTHE VINeI is simply divine Fridays in KUDZU Birmingham ftwl-llfrakl AHodatad Pros FULTON Miss Randy Ray stocked his basement full of canned goods and bottled water despite an earthquake 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