MONDAY September 18, 1995 page 6 COWBOYS BEAT VIKINGS IN OVERTIME MESSENGER 350 Vol, 119 No. 86 -1 Section 10 Pafcs MARSHALL, TEXAS. i 0- .4 I I .1 1 1 shot to death -Dor: q. TERRI LANGFORD Associated Press 1 McKay Everett Two women caught with bogus bills M- WEEKLY FUN The fellowship of her weekly, art classes dents Lorraine McNabb, front, Joni Woodruff, left, McAlis-is what Linda Mosher McAlister says she looks forward to ter, center, and Maxine Shulse. (PhotoSheiiy jone) each week at the Marshall Civic Center.
Pictured are stu- Art teacher finds fulfillment CONROE Twelve-year-old Samuel McKay Everett would not have thought twice about letting Hilton Lewis Crawford into his family's home. Yet Crawford, a close family friend and the man McKay called "Uncle Hilty," has been charged with abducting the boy from his Conroe home. On Sunday, Crawford directed police from his jail cell to McKay's remains some 250 miles away. Early Sunday, police recovered McKay's body, hidden by high weeds near Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin off Interstate 10 west of Lafayette. Crawford, charged Friday with aggravated kidnapping, has not admitted to the boy's killing or kidnapping.
But initial evidence points to Crawford's masterminding an apparent kidnapping scheme to pay off mounting debts. Unidentified sources told the Houston Chronicle in today's editions that McKay died of two gunshot wounds to the head. Police will not confirm the cause of death, pending an autopsy later today in Louisiana. The ordeal for McKay's parents, Carl and Paulette Everett, began Tuesday night when they returned home from an Amway meeting in Conroe to find their only child missing. Mrs.
Everett sells Amway products; Everett is a local builder. Hours after McKay's abduction, his family received a call from a woman demanding a ransom of $500,000 in $100 bills, police said. The Everetts did not pay it and went public with their plight on Thursday. Authorities do not believe the family's failure to pay the ransom led to the boy's death. "I don't think that had anything to do with it," Montgomery County Sheriff Guy Williams said.
Police will not say what led them to arrest Crawford on Friday. But they did say Crawford lied about several points of fact when he was questioned about his whereabouts leading up to and shortly after McKay's disappearance. Court records relating" to the See Everett3 Shelly jones News Messenger 11:30 a.m. and p.m. at the Marshall Civic Center.
"They can paint on anything they want to," said McAlister, as she looked around the room. One woman, who has traveled with her husband each week from Rus-ton, for seven years to participate in McAlister's classes, sat painting a nativity scene on a gourd. Another was painting a picture of the family homestead on an antique pan used by her father to "pan" gold. While still another woman on the other side of the room painted a barnyard scene on a door off her kitchen cabinet. See Art3 McAlister now lives in Longview, but teaches painting classes each Thursday in Marshall.
As the wife of the late James Mosher, she lived in Marshall for about 10 years and has taught classes at Red River Pottery, Marshall Pottery and Pottery Village. Her works grace the walls on murals at Marshall's elementary schools and in the nurseries of four local churches, said Mosher, who will shyly say "I don't know how to paint. "I just get in there and it happens," she said. McAlister's Marshall classes are held each Thursday from 9- what she calls her God-given skills. Her paintings have graced all sorts of objects, from t-shirts to gourds, to floors and even commode lids.
"I've made so many mistakes," she said in an art class Thursday at the Marshall Civic Center. She tells story after story of teaching classes in the most unlikely spots such as a deserted barn using bales of hay as chairs. "I would get in this rattly old Pinto and take off across West Texas and teach people how to paint," she laughed. It was in those early years that she would often teach in "a town a day." SHERYALD CURBEY Weivs Messenger A Shreveport, bank employee and her friend were arrested by Marshall police Sunday afternoon after they reportedly were using counterfeit bills at area businesses. Kelly Guilliams, 36, and Melody Ann Gilmore, 36, were charged with forgery of a governmental financial instrument a third-degree felony.
"Guilliams works for the Premiere Bank in Shreveport in the Loss Prevention Department," said Lt. R.D. Henderson of the Marshall Criminal Investigation Division. "Sunday, she and her friend took some work back to the bank and saw the money lying there on a desk and she took it. She knew it was counterfeit." Henderson said the women came to Marshall and used one bogus $100 bill at Wal-Mart to buy kitty litter and used another $100 counterfeit bill at Burger King.
"They didn't have any problems using the first two bills. Then, they went to the Fina station on East End Boulevard and got some gas and tried to pass See Bills3 County budget will fall, but local taxes will go up GAIL BEIL News Messenger What started as a way to cure a bit of jealousy has turned into a way of life for artist Linda Mosher McAlister. "I was always jealous of the paintings I saw in people's but could never afford them," said the former Marshallite of why she began painting at the age of 30. She said she began trying to copy some of what she saw and would paint on old boards she found. That was 25 years ago.
She since has taught painting across Texas and even helped send her children to college with 'See You at the Pole' Wednesday "See Yqu at the Pole," the world's largest simultaneous youth prayer event, is expected to draw more than 100,000 high school and junior high school students throughout Texas to pray around their schools' flagpoles at 7 a.m. Wednesday. In Marshall, about 200 students are expected to participate at prayer rallies at Marshall Junior High School and Marshall High School. The MJHS prayer rally will be at the front flag pole, as in previous years, but the rally at MHS has been moved to the flag pole at Maverick Stadium to accommodate more students. Adults are also asked to come to the old Harrison County Courthouse at 7 a.m.
to pray, in support of the teens' efforts. There will also be a "Pole-A-B ration" at 7 p.m. Wednesday on the west side of the downtown square, with special music planned. Last year; about 250 attended the evening event. Leading praise and worship at the Pole-A-Bration will be "Autumn Rains," a contemporary Christian group from East Texas Baptist University.
The group includes drums, keyboards, and two guitars, with Bruce O'Leary, Steven Jody Woolverton, Chris Clark and Shaune Martinez as members. United Way effort has long way to go SHELLY JONES News Messenger Women's Center of East Texas, American Red Cross and Child Protective Services. "Please help us help others," McClurg said. For more information, Call average home in Harrison County is valued at $38,000 new taxes would add $5." The drop in mineral-related tax revenue also caused the Marshall Independent School District and others to raise taxes as well. The City of Marshall, which draws its ad valorem taxes from residential and industrial properties, saw enough of an increase in property values it was able to lower ad valorem' taxes slightly.
There are some bright spots in the county budget as proposed unless you are one of the poor souls who got stopped on Interstate 20 for speeding. The amount of fines for 1995 has increased greatly. Gilstrap said it's because the Department of Public Safety identified Harrison as a county with an inordinate amount "of interstate traffic and boosted the number of DPS troopers. They, in turn, boosted the income from traffic tickets. The actual cost of prisoner care has dropped was well, due in part to new service fees for prisoners being charged by the sheriff, but mostly thanks to the farm in Eastern Harrison County that prisoners now plant and harvest.
"And we're being told by people at the state level that in the next year or two, state jails will be full and we will be back to where we were in terms of income for keeping state prisoners," Gilstrap said. The public hearing for the 1995-96 county budget begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday on the third floor of the Harrison County Courthouse. The budget will be acted upon immediately following the public hearing. Anyone wanting to look at the line items in the 18-page document can obtain a copy of the budget in the County Commission office on the third floor of the Harrison County Courthouse.
Harrison County Dollar-wise, the Harrison County budget to be considered by the County Commissioners Court Tuesday is less than the budget was for 1994-95. The Road and Bridge Department gets less for equipment and supplies, Sheriff Bob Green gets only three new cars instead of the five he requested, and nobody gets a raise. In 1994-95, the adopted budget of $13,572,948. The 1995 proposed budget is $12,792,361. That's the good news.
The bad news begins with falling taxes from dropping mineral values and an unanticipated loss in state revenue for the Harrison County Jail. Both items put a serious dent in the amount of funds to keep the county going next year. The bottom line, though smaller, is going to take more taxes to support. County Judge Rodney Gilstrap, whose duty it is to propose a budget for consideration, admits he would rather not discuss the inevitable tax increase. "The current tax rate is 32.9 cents per $100 valuation.
The effective tax rate what it takes in taxes in 1995 to provide the same revenue as in 1994 is 33.3 cents," he said. But, Gilstrap said, just adopting the effective tax rate will not be enough that big gap in what was anticipated from the state for prisoner care $800,000 versus what Harrison County received $400,000 has to come from somewhere. Therefore the ad valorem tax proposed will be 34.3 per $100, an increase of 1.4 cents. "For a $75,000 home, that's about $10 a year, less if it's homesteadcd," Gilstrap said. "The United Way There are only two weeks left until the proposed end of the 1995-96 United Way fund drive, and organizers fear the $125,000 goal will not be met.
"Initial contributions are coming in and we need everyone in the community to do what they think the can do and help us help the people in the community who really need it most," said Liz Lee-McClurg, drive chairman. "Our time is half-way up and we need to get our contributions in so we can finish up." The drive is currently at 6.3 percent of its goal, with a total contributions this far of $7,810, said McClurg, thanking those who have already donated. The United Way will benefit 22 organizations this year. Some of the organizations include Camp Fire, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the Harrison County Food Bank, 125,000 100,000 75,000 50,000 25,000 GOAL: $125,000 CLASSIFIED ADS "Don't dare paint your house until you've checked out our warranty by GLIDDENI.C.I. it's Call' us at 938-0123 for details before you paint your house again! TOM LIZ SOLOMONS MARSHALL PAINT DEC.
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