Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 7

'yyj February 1 1997 (Eht Bgromham Krtpe SATURDAY Birmingham Port-Herald METROSTATE PAGE 7A it jfe ti'iV Ji "1 i V'V- :1" 2 arrested in slaying of nursing home director DOTHAN (AP) Dothan police have arrested two men on capital murder charges in connection with the murder of a nursing home director Jerry Bryant 27 and Ricky Vickers 29 were arrested Wednesday and charged with capital murder Dothan police LL David Kirkland said Both men are charged with the shooting death of Donald El Hollis 27 who wu abducted Tuesday in Dothan Hollis wu an admissions supervisor at Hairy County Nursing Home hi Abbeville According to police reports Hollis wu driving with his cousin Burt Brantley when Hollis stopped and picked up a third passenger The third passenger forced Brantley out of the car at gunpoint and left with Hollis car wu found abandoned behind an apartment complex and his body wu found in Jackson County Fla Tuesday afternoon An autopsy performed by a Jackson County medical examiner determined Hollis died from multiple gunshot wounds Vi i VT" 1 -sr cwtrON' county i SQUAD 335K35J 1 Absented i a --V- is From Page 5A Other counties that uw dramatic drop-offs were Bullock which went from a 19 percent absentee figure in 1994 to 5 percent in 1996 Henry from 13 percent to 7 percent Lowndes 16 percent to 7 percent Wilcox 18 percent to 5 percent and Winston 15 parent to 6 percent One traditionally high-absentee county Perry held relatively steady In 1994 28 percent of the Black Belt 4895 votes were absent In 1996 absentee votes made up 22 percent of the 5903 cast One explanation may lie in the efficient vote turnout efforts of veteran Perry politician Albert Turner and his Perry County Civic League But the Nov 5 election saw two contested county commission races including one for Turner's District 1 seat which he retained and Republican and Democratic face-offs in two countywide races In a reversal of the trend another traditionally high absentee county Sumter had a 10 percent absentee turnout last year compared with 7 percent in 1994 NEWS STAFF PHOTOSTEVE BARNETTE Members of the Chilton County Rescue Squad regroup Friday afternoon alter searching for Brenda Bowen i 1 i 1 i Search for Westover woman concentrated in dense woods VA to care for people suffering from major injuries from trauma such as gunshot wounds and automobile accidents he said He said VA officials are considering steps to ensure that veterans are taken to emergency rooms that can best treat them "What is the appropriate level of he asked "We are addressing that" From Page 5A not likely the service will be contracted out And he said there have been problems with emergency care too The Birmingham VA has been receiving major trauma cases that would be better served by other emergency rooms he said The Birmingham VA operates a Level 3 emergency room and a Level 1 emergency room is better equipped By Nancy Wlsteeh News staff writer Millions of dollars in brand new reductions! Wherever she went we know she didn't go on her -own not dressed Inappropriately as she was without even a coat James Jones Shelby County sheriff i When evidence technicians examined the car' he said was apparent that someone had taken measures to be sure that we would not be able to get any UMful prints from it" Efforts Thursday and Friday were directed closer to the Bowen home with divers from Cahaba Valley Fire Department Columbiana and Pelham's Blue Water Park probing the muddy bottoms of three private 50off low Leaf Creek Jones said that volunteers from several churches stopped early morning commuters along Shelby County 55 and 51 Friday morning to distribute flyers about Mrs Bowen's disappearance "We figure that the same people would be passing there Friday morning as on Tuesday he said "and hoping maybe one of them saw something that will help The missing woman was last seen by her daughter at 7:40 am Tuesday and was discovered missing around noon he said The divorced mother of two is a sales representative at Brown Lumber Co in Columbiana and a leader of the ministry at New Life AsMmbly of God Jones described her as "a deeply religious The search teams will form at 9 am today at Union Methodist Church on Shelby County 51 Jones said "We will keep looking as long as people are willing to come out and until we find some indication id what happened to he said The aearch for a missing Westover woman began its fifth day today with efforts concentrated mainly in dome woods near her home Shelby County Sheriff James Jones said more than 100 volunteers turned out Thursday and again Friday to look for clues in the disappearance of Brenda Joyce Breckenridge Bowen 44 who vanished from her spacious country home on Shelby County 438 Tuesday morning apparently clad only In night clothes "Wherever she went we know she go on her own not dressed inappropriately as she was without even a Janes said Searchers found Mrs gray Honda Accord Tuesday night stuck on a muddy logging trail some 200 yards off a dirt road about a five-mile drive from her home "We are pretty sure now that the car was a Jones said noting that Marchers on honeback and on foot had made a thorough search of the woods around the car 1 our original low prices in every department! 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