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Immigration indictmentsA woman arrested for

picking up immigrantswho had entered thecountry illegally via theSan Ygnacio area hasbeen indicted.

A grand jury chargedJulissa Jimenez, 42, onOct. 14 with one count ofconspiracy to transportundocumented immi-grants within the UnitedStates and two counts oftransport undocumented

people for money.Jimenez pleaded

not guilty to thecharges Oct. 16.Each count couldbe punishable withup to 10 years inprison.

Jimenez has a fi-nal pretrial confer-ence Dec. 14.

In court state-ments, Jimenez said aman contacted her topick up immigrants atthe riverbanks. Jimenezexpected $100 per immi-

grant smug-gled.

Her arrestdates back toSept. 27.

Thatmorning,Texas De-partment ofPublic Safetytroopers re-quested as-

sistance from U.S. Bor-der Patrol on a trafficstop.

Troopers had pulledover a 2008 Ford F-150

for speeding and a defec-tive tail light, accordingto a criminal complaintfiled Sept. 29.

Authorities then dis-covered that the driver,Jimenez, had picked upfive immigrants in theSan Ygnacio area, re-cords state.

Court documents fur-ther state the immi-grants admitted to beingMexican citizens with nolegal documents to

Woman pleads not guiltyBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

JIMENEZ

See WOMAN PAGE 10A

A man from Zapata whowas arrested for transportingCentral Americans was indict-ed recently in a Laredo feder-

al court.On Oct. 14, a grand jury

charged Hugo Jaquez-Ramoswith conspiracy to transportundocumented immigrants

Zapata manexpected $400

per person

See ZAPATA MAN PAGE 10A

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

The Zapata CountySheriff ’s Office announcedMonday they had imple-mented a Teddy Bear Pro-gram, officials said.

“With a purpose inmind to protecting thewell-being of our children,The Iron Horse Disciples,a local motorcycle minis-try, and Sheriff Alonso M.Lopez, have joined effortsto launch the Teddy BearProgram,” the Sheriff ’s Of-

fice said.Sheriff ’s officials said

they intend to reduce psy-chological trauma experi-enced by children during atraumatic situation.

“All patrol units willnow carry teddy bears, sodeputies arriving at emer-gency incidents can usethem to comfort children,”authorities said.

“Teddy bears are provento have a calming effect byproviding comfort and giv-

ZAPATA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

See CHILDREN PAGE 10A

Zapata County Sheriff Alonso M. Lopez holds stuffed animals dur-ing the announcement Monday of their new Teddy Bear Program.

Courtesy photo

Program aimsto comfortchildren

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

AUSTIN, Texas — Tex-as Gov. Greg Abbott onMonday embraced crack-ing down on local govern-ments that ban policefrom asking about a per-son’s immigration status,after previously sayinglittle about contentious

“sanctuary city” policiessince taking office.

His sup-port followsconserva-tive activ-ists criticiz-ing the Re-publicangovernorfor not pri-oritizing

term has become short-hand describing citiesthat provide refuge topeople living in the coun-try without legal permis-sion.

“Texas must pass lawsthat prohibit any policyor action like yours thatpromotes sanctuary to

get-tough immigrationmeasures early in histerm. It also follows theDallas County jail recent-ly deciding it would nolonger honor all detainerrequests from federal im-migration agents in thenation’s seventh-largestlockup.

“Sanctuary cities” hasno legal meaning, but the

‘SANCTUARY CITIES’

Gov. Abbott speaks out against policyBy PAUL J. WEBERASSOCIATED PRESS

See ABBOTT PAGE 10AABBOTT

Three years ago, the lit-tle girl would hide under atable when confrontedwith reminders that bothher parents were in pris-on.

Now almost 10, she’s aconfident, popular student,and ace recruiter for theprogram that helped her,says Daniel Howell, a casemanager for New HopeOklahoma. It offers after-school programs, weekendretreats and

UNITED STATES

PARENTS IN PRISON

Trinity Sorrels, 8, hides behind her backpack after answering a question for the class during a NewHope after-school program at Mark Twain Elementary School in Tulsa, Okla., Thursday.

Photo by Sue Ogrocki | AP

See PRISON PAGE 10A

Challengesabound for5 millionchildren

By DAVID CRARYASSOCIATED PRESS

PAGE 2A Zin brief WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

Wednesday, October 28Pumpkin Patch, First United

Methodist Church, 1220 McClellandfrom 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Public invited;admission free.

The American Cancer Society2016 Relay for Life of Webb CountyKick-off Rally. Firefighters Union Hall,5209 Tesoro Plaza from 6 p.m. to 8p.m. Cancer survivors, caregivers, andteam captains are invited to attend.For more info, call Laura Nanez, eventlead, at 286-6955 or Diana Juarez,staff partner, at 319-3100.

Thursday, October 29Pumpkin Patch, First United

Methodist Church, 1220 McClellandfrom 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Public invited;admission free.

TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara Plan-etarium shows. 6 p.m.: Cosmic Adven-tures; 7 p.m.: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side ofthe Moon. General Admission is $4 forchildren and $5 for adults. Admissionis $4 for TAMIU students, faculty andstaff. For more information call 956-326DOME (3663).

Friday, October 30Pumpkin Patch, First United

Methodist Church, 1220 McClellandfrom 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Public invited;admission free.

10th Annual Make a Wish Foun-dation Radio-thon hosted by Big Buckcountry 98.1. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. infront of Macy’s home store in the mall.Call 712-9474 to pledge or renew yoursupport. For more information pleasecall 235-0673.

Saturday, October 31Operation Feed the Homeless,

hosted by the Laredo Free Thinkers, atJarvis Plaza at 3 p.m. Please volunteertime and/or food, drinks, clothing-,books, etc. For more informationplease visit/message the Laredo FreeThinkers page on Facebook.

Pumpkin Patch, First UnitedMethodist Church, 1220 McClellandfrom 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Public invited;admission is free.

Books-A-Million 2nd Annual Zom-bie Walk inside Mall del Norte. From 2p.m.–4 p.m. We invite you to join usfor story time, crafts, games, and final-ly, the Zombie Walk. At 3:30 p.m., wewill gather all participants at the frontof the store, where we will begin thewalk, acting like zombies, with intervalsof music and dance. We will walk fromthe Sears store to Macy’s CenterCourt, returning back to Books-A-Mil-lion. For more information, please con-tact Jessie Hernandez at 324-8205.

Monday, November 2Chess Club meets at the LBV–In-

ner City Branch Library from 4–6 p.m.Free for all ages and skill levels. Basicinstruction is offered. Call John at 795-2400x2521 for more information.

Tuesday, November 3Take the challenge and climb the

Rock Wall. Free. All participants mustbring ID and sign release form. 4 p.m.to 5:30 p.m. at LBV–Inner City BranchLibrary, 202 W. Plum St. Call 795-2400, x2520.

The Alzheimer’s support groupwill meet at 7 p.m. in meeting room 2,building B of the Laredo Medical Cen-ter. The support group is for familymembers and caregivers taking care ofsomeone who has Alzheimer’s. For in-formation, please call 956-693-9991.

The Les Amis Birthday Club willhave its monthly meeting at the Rama-da Plaza at 11:30 a.m. Hostesses areLily Garza, Aurora Miranda and Ma. Eu-genia Garcia. Honorees are MarthaRangel Bennett, Amparo Garcia andImelda Gonzalez.

Thursday, November 5Rummage Sale, First United

Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1120McClelland from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pub-lic invited, and admission is free.

Friday, November 6Rummage Sale, First United

Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1120McClelland from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pub-lic invited, and admission is free.

Saturday, November 7Rummage Sale, First United

Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1120McClelland from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pub-lic invited, and admission is free.

Monday, November 9Chess Club meets at the LBV–In-

ner City Branch Library from 4–6 p.m.Free for all ages and skill levels.

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 28,the 301st day of 2015. There are64 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On Oct. 28, 1965, Pope PaulVI issued a Declaration on theRelation of the Church withNon-Christian Religionswhich, among other things,absolved Jews of collectiveguilt for the crucifixion of Je-sus Christ.

On this date:In 1636, the General Court

of Massachusetts passed a leg-islative act establishing Har-vard College.

In 1886, the Statue of Liber-ty, a gift from the people ofFrance, was dedicated in NewYork Harbor by PresidentGrover Cleveland.

In 1914, Yugoslav nationalistGavrilo Princip, whose assas-sination of Archduke FranzFerdinand of Austria andSophie, Duchess of Hohenberg,sparked World War I, was sen-tenced in Sarajevo to 20 years’imprisonment. (He died in1918.)

In 1936, President FranklinD. Roosevelt rededicated theStatue of Liberty on its 50thanniversary.

In 1940, Italy invadedGreece during World War II.

In 1958, the Roman Catholicpatriarch of Venice, Angelo Gi-useppe Roncalli, was electedPope; he took the name JohnXXIII. The Samuel Beckettplay “Krapp’s Last Tape” pre-miered in London.

In 1962, Soviet leader NikitaKhrushchev informed theUnited States that he had or-dered the dismantling of mis-sile bases in Cuba; in return,the U.S. secretly agreed to re-move nuclear missiles fromU.S. installations in Turkey.

In 1976, former Nixon aideJohn D. Ehrlichman entered afederal prison camp in Saf-ford, Arizona, to begin servinghis sentence for Watergate-re-lated convictions (he was re-leased in April 1978).

Ten years ago: Vice Presi-dent Dick Cheney’s top advis-er, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, re-signed after he was indictedon charges of obstructing agrand jury investigation andlying about his actions thatblew the CIA cover of an Iraqwar critic’s wife. (Libby wasconvicted of most of thecounts brought against him,but had his 30-month prisonsentence commuted by Presi-dent George W. Bush.)

One year ago: A video wasposted online by a groupcalled Hollaback! showing ac-tress Shoshana Roberts beingverbally accosted by men asshe silently walked throughManhattan over a 10-hour pe-riod; the video “went viral,”spurring outrage and sparkingdiscussions about the perva-siveness of street harassmentthat women face.

Today’s Birthdays: Jazzsinger Cleo Laine is 88. Musi-cian-songwriter Charlie Da-niels is 79. Olympic track andfield gold medalist CaitlynJenner is 66. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is 60. Theformer president of Iran, Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, is 59. Ac-tress Daphne Zuniga is 53. Ac-tor-comedian Andy Richter is49. Actress Julia Roberts is 48.Country singer Brad Paisley is43. Actor Joaquin Phoenix is41. Singer/rapper FrankOcean is 28. Actor NolanGould is 17.

Thought for Today: “If lib-erty means anything at all, itmeans the right to tell peoplewhat they do not want tohear.” — George Orwell (EricBlair), English author (1903-1950).

TODAY IN HISTORY

Wealthy investors shot skeet with Sen. TedCruz in Park City, Utah, earlier this month.Conservative lawyers gathered in a clubbyWashington restaurant last week to raisemoney for his presidential bid. And on Mon-day, billionaire technology entrepreneur Dar-win Deason and five other wealthy Texansannounced that they were coming aboardhis campaign.

For all his bashing of “billionaire Repub-lican donors” who “actively despise ourbase,” the anti-establishment senator fromTexas is being bolstered by his own robustbase of wealthy contributors. Cruz raised$5.2 million through the end of Septemberfrom supporters who gave him the $2,700maximum — making him No. 2 in the GOPrace for large donors, after former Florida

governor Jeb Bush, according to an analysisby the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Insti-tute.

Cruz’s unorthodox campaign has hit on afundraising formula that no other candidatehas been able to match: raising millionsfrom a robust base of grass-roots supporterswhile building a substantial network of richbackers.

The senator’s quiet fundraising prowess —he has collected $26.5 million to date — couldhelp give him staying power in what is sureto be a hard-fought battle for the GOP nomi-nation. The structure of his donor baseclosely resembles that of President Obama,whose vaunted fundraising operation in-tensely focused on low-dollar givers as wellas major bundlers, bringing in a record $783million for his 2012 reelection.

AROUND TEXAS

In this Monday photo, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a news conference in Houston.Cruz and the other Republican presidential candidates are getting ready for the third GOP debate today, in Boulder, Colo.

Photo by Pat Sullivan | AP

Cruz’s fundraising strengthBy KATIE ZEZIMA AND MATEA GOLD

THE WASHINGTON POST

Man gets 12 years insmuggling conspiracy

MCALLEN — A McAllenjudge has sentenced a 19-year-oldman to 12 years in prison afterbeing convicted in a conspiracyto illegally smuggle people intothe U.S. that resulted in thedeaths of two in a rollover crash.Juan Manuel Garcia of SullivanCity pleaded guilty to conspiracyto transport people who are inthe U.S. illegally and to the trans-porting of people illegally in theU.S. that resulted in death.

Batman painting expectedto bring more than $100K

DALLAS — A painting depict-ing Batman that pop artist MelRamos traded to a man for astack of comic books more thana half-century ago is expected tobring more than $100,000 at auc-tion. The 1962 painting titled “ASinister Figure Lurks in theDark” will be offered by HeritageAuctions Wednesday in NewYork City.

Woman found slain nearminivan had been stabbed

DALLAS — A man acquittedof sexual assault this year hasbeen charged with the fatal stab-bing of an 18-year-old Dallaswoman left to die near a creek.

Zoe Hastings was on her wayto church Oct. 11 when shestopped at a Walgreens to returnRedbox movies. A witness saw aman argue with her, then forceher into her minivan. Her bodywas found near her crashed vehi-cle the next day.

Central Texas state parkreopens after wildfire

SMITHVILLE — A CentralTexas state park has reopenedfollowing a wildfire that burned7 square miles before being fullycontained over the rainy week-end.

The Texas Parks & WildlifeDepartment Says Buescher StatePark in Bastrop County wasopen Tuesday but trails wereclosed due to wildfire damage.

Man who inspired film‘Bernie’ to return to court

CARTHAGE — The manwhose murder conviction in-spired the dark comedy “Bernie”is scheduled to return to courtfor a pretrial hearing as he triesto stay out of prison.

The hearing for Bernie Tiedeis set for Tuesday in the EastTexas town of Carthage. His trialscheduled for January will havea twofold purpose: a sentencingphase for his murder convictionand a trial on theft charges.

Texas trooper seizes morethan $2.7M in heroin

AMARILLO — The Texas De-partment of Public Safety says atrooper conducting a traffic stopin the Panhandle discoverednine bundles of heroin worthmore than $2.7 million in a back-pack. DPS says a trooper pulledthe driver over Sunday afternoonon Interstate 40 about 30 mileseast of Amarillo.

— Compiled from AP reports

Walgreens to buy Rite Aid for $9.41 billion

NEW YORK — Walgreens con-firmed Tuesday that it will buyrival Rite Aid for about $9.41 bil-lion in cash, creating a drugstoregiant with nearly 18,000 storesaround the world.

The deal comes less than yearafter Walgreens bought Euro-pean health and beauty retailerAlliance Boots. Besides its name-sake stores, Deerfield, Illinois-based Walgreens also ownsDuane Reade stores in the U.S.

Walgreens said it will pay $9for each share of Rite Aid Corp.That’s a 48 percent premium toRite Aid’s closing price of $6.08Monday.

Vegas cryotherapy spahad no license

LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegasspa where an employee wasfound frozen and dead inside aliquid nitrogen chamber used for

cryotherapy treatments wasn’t li-censed by the state to performcosmetic or other procedures, au-thorities said Tuesday. The dis-closure followed the death of 24-year-old Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion, who was found Oct. 20in a chamber used to provide the

increasingly popular but largelyunregulated treatments for painand other conditions.

“When they found her, shewas rock solid frozen,” AlbertAke, the dead woman’s unclesaid.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

In this June 20, 2011, file photo, a woman exits a Rite Aid store, in Philadelphia.The Wall Street Journal said Walgreens Boots Alliance is in advanced talks to buyRite Aid. Walgreens declined to comment Tuesday, when contacted by The AP.

Photo by Matt Rourke | AP file

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A man was recently ar-rested for attempting totransport eight people sus-pected of entering thecountry illegally, accord-ing to court documents.

Jorge Hector Salinas, ofZapata, was charged withtransporting illegal immi-

grants.On Oct. 19, agents re-

ceived information of hu-man smuggling activityreported in the DoloresCreek area. A criminalcomplaint filed Oct. 20 al-leges that a U.S. BorderPatrol agent observed sev-eral people running out ofthe brush area and jump-ing inside a red 2012 GMC

“Salinas admitted thatthe eight (undocumentedimmigrants) were going tobe transported to the H-E-B grocery store on U.S.83 in Laredo, Texas, or toan area in the vicinity ofthe H-E-B,” states the com-plaint.

(César G. Rodriguezmay be reached at 728-2568or cesar@lmtonline.com)

males from Mexico andone male juvenile from Pe-ru — were found insidethe Sierra.

Salinas allegedly agreedto make statements inpost-arrest interview. Heallegedly admitted to pick-ing up the group on U.S.83 in Zapata. Records statehe expected a payment of$175 per immigrant.

conduct an immigrationinspection on the occu-pants. When agents ap-proached the vehicle, Sali-nas stated he was a U.S. ci-tizen and apologized forsmuggling people in hisgirlfriend’s vehicle, ac-cording to court docu-ments.

A total of eight illegalimmigrants — seven adult

Sierra.An agent followed the

Sierra to conduct a vehi-cle registration check, butthe driver accelerated. Re-cords state the Sierra hadthree people in the bed ar-ea of the Sierra and sever-al other people in the rearpassenger area.

The agent activated itsunit’s emergency lights to

Man arrested for transporting illegal immigrantsBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

District Attorney Isidro R.“Chilo” Alaniz made a quickstop Tuesday at Zapata NorthElementary and Zapata SouthElementary schools for a drugawareness event.

He shared with students the

meaning of Red Ribbon Week.During Red Ribbon festivities,

law enforcement agencies honorthe memory of slain Drug En-forcement Administration Spe-cial Agent Enrique “Kiki” Ca-marena.

Camarena worked in Guada-lajara, Mexico, and kept track ofthe country’s biggest marijuana

and cocaine traffickers, accord-ing to the DEA.

Camarena was kidnapped onFebruary 7, 1985. His body wasdiscovered March 5, 1985, statesthe DEA.

His death fueled a movementthat would later turn into RedRibbon Week.

“Each year, during the last

week in October, more than 80million young people and adultsshow their commitment to ahealthy, drug-free life by wearingor displaying the Red Ribbon,”states the DEA.

Further, Alaniz spoke to stu-dents about making good choic-es to keep their mind and bodyhealthy.

Huggy the Bear came out toentertain students with energet-ic dancing moves. Huggy’s mottois “Give hugs not drugs.” Beforethe event ended, Alaniz led thechildren on an oath to be drugfree.

(César G. Rodriguez may bereached at 728-2568 or ce-sar@lmtonline.com)

As a part of Red Ribbon Week festivities, District Attorney Isidro R. “Chilo” Alaniz visited Zapata North Elementary School on Tuesday.

Courtesy photo

District attorney visits Zapata schoolsBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SEND YOUR SIGNED LETTER TO EDITORIAL@LMTONLINE.COM

The voters, especiallyon the Republican side,seem to be despising ex-perience this year andare looking for outside-rs. Hence we have therise of Donald Trumpand Ben Carson. Peoplelike me keep predictingthat these implausibleswill collapse, but so far,as someone tweeted,they keep collapsing up-ward.

But imagine if we hada sensible Trump in therace. Suppose there wassome former general orbusiness leader with im-peccable outsider statusbut also a steady temper-ament, deep knowledgeand good sense.

What would that per-son sound like? Maybesomething like this:

Ladies and gentlemen,I’m no politician. I’mjust a boring guy whoknows how to runthings. But I’ve beenpaying close attentionand it seems to me thatof all the problems thatface the nation, twostand out. The first isthat we have a polarized,dysfunctional, semi-cor-rupt political culturethat prevents us fromgetting anything done.To reverse that gridlockwe’ve got to find somepolicy area where there’sa basis for bipartisan ac-tion.

The second big prob-lem is that things are go-ing badly for those inthe lower half of the in-come distribution. Peo-ple with less educationare seeing their wagesfall, their men drop outof the labor force, theirmarriage rates plummetand their social net-works dissolve.

The first piece of goodnews is that conserva-tive and progressivewriters see this realitysimilarly, which is a rarething these days. Thesecond piece of goodnews is that we havenew research that sug-gests fresh ways to ad-dress this problem, waysthat may appeal to bothDemocrats and Republi-cans.

The studies I’m talk-ing about were done atHarvard by Raj Chetty,Nathaniel Hendren andLawrence Katz. Theylooked at the results of aClinton-era programcalled Moving to Oppor-tunity, which took poorfamilies and movedthem to middle-classneighborhoods. At firstthe results were disap-pointing. The familieswho moved didn’t seetheir earnings rise.Their kids didn’t domuch better in school.

But as years went byand newer data accumu-lated, different and morepromising results camein. Children who wereraised in better environ-ments had remarkableearnings gains. The girlsraised in the betterneighborhoods weremore likely to marryand raise their own chil-dren in two-parenthomes.

The first implicationof this research is thatneighborhood matters alot. When we thinkabout ways to improvethe lot of the workingclass, it’s insufficient tojust help individuals andfamilies. We have to im-prove entire neighbor-hoods.

Second, the researchreminds us that to im-prove conditions for theworking class it’s neces-sary to both create jobsand improve culture. Ev-ery time conservativessay culture plays a largerole in limiting mobility,progressives accusethem of blaming the vic-tim.

But this researchshows the importance ofenvironment. Theyounger the childrenwere when they movedto these middle-class en-vironments, the moretheir outcomes im-proved. It’s likely theybenefited from being inenvironments with dif-ferent norms, with moreinformation about howto thrive, with few trau-matic events down theblock.

I know the profession-al politicians are goingto want to continue theirwars, but I see an oppor-tunity: We launch a se-ries of initiatives to cre-ate environments of op-portunity in middle-,working- and lower-classneighborhoods.

This will mean doingsome things Republicanslike. We’ve got to devolvea lot of power fromWashington back to localcommunities. Theseneighborhoods can’tthrive if they are not re-sponsible for themselves.Then we’ve got to ex-pand charter schools.The best charter schoolsradiate diverse butstrong cultures ofachievement. Locally ad-ministered social entre-preneurship funds couldhelp churches and othergroups expand their in-fluence.

This will mean doingsome things Democratslike. We’ve got to reformand expand early child-hood education pro-grams, complete withwraparound programsfor parents. They wouldturn into communityhubs. Infrastructure pro-grams could increaseemployment.

Basically we’ve got toget socialist. No, I don’tmean the way BernieSanders is a socialist.He’s a statist, not a so-cialist. I mean we haveto put the quality of thesocial fabric at the cen-ter of our politics. Andwe’ve got to get personal-ist: to treat people as fullhuman beings, not justeconomic units you fixby writing checks.

Then we’ve got to getintegrationist, to inte-grate different races andclasses through nationalservice and school andrelocation vouchers. Andfinally, we have to get alittle moralistic. Thereare certain patterns ofbehavior, like marryingbefore you have kids andsticking around to par-ent the kids you con-ceive, that contribute tobetter communities.

Look, I don’t know ifI’m red or blue. If youwant a true outsider,don’t just pick someoneoutside the political sys-tem. Pick someone out-side the rigid partisanmentalities that are thereal problem here.

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DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Everyone knows aboutcornbread, Paula Deennotwithstanding, but“sweet milk?”

Yup, sweet milk. Coun-try folks used to distin-guish between the states ofmilk with those designa-tions. Understand, ofcourse, that “sweet”doesn’t imply adding somekind of sweetener, artificialor otherwise, to the milk.

Sweet milk is the milkessentially as it comesfrom the cow, minus thecream, as opposed to but-termilk or clabbered milk(known by Miss Muppetand the Spider as “curdsand whey” or to today’scustomer as sour cream).Today’s version of sweetmilk, I suppose, is wholemilk. You know, as in “reg-ular” and “traditional” or,well, whatever.

Oh, one more clarifica-tion on clabbered milk. Ac-tually, if you let milk set insomething like the oldchurns that were made ofglazed pottery, then you’dget curdled milk or clab-bered milk. It was consid-ered a treat if not a delica-cy.

Ol’ Uncle Edward Ezell,of whom I have written be-fore, referred to sweet milkin an interview in 1958 asone of his secrets to oldage (he was 88 at the time).

Meaning he didn’t touchcoffee, tea or any of thosevile, evil, sinful alcoholicbeverages that “ruinyoung folks’ lives.” UncleEdward rated tea and cof-fee right up there withbeer and whiskey. I’ve al-ways suspected, however,that he kept a jug of mus-cadine grape wine hiddenin his well house (to youcity folks, that’s a struc-ture covering a waterwell).

He wrote a “news” col-umn in my hometown pa-per, the Teague Chronicle,about the news of thecrossroads community ofLuna (about which I’ve al-so written).

But, back to cornbreadand sweet milk.

I learned at a young agethat there were manythings in the householdfrom which to construct ameal without benefit of astove much less a micro-wave oven. Uncle Edwardwould be puzzled by thatterm although, in the1950s, his house became“electrified” along with allothers in Luna and sur-rounding area as the Rural

Electricification Associ-ation was created to pro-vide electric power to ru-ral areas.

Anyway, one of themeals a 5- or 6-year-oldcould “create” in thosedays was a glass of crum-bled cornbread and “sweetmilk.” It’s very good, espe-cially if your cook/mom/wife has a cornbread reci-pe that has a little sweeten-er in it. A chunk (with thistype of bread, there’s nosuch thing as a “slice”) ofcornbread, crumbled up ina tea glass with “sweetmilk” poured in it over thecornbread, creates a mealthat could be a dessert.Take a spoon and dig in.It’s “plumb good.” Maybeeven larruping good.

Such meals grew out ofcountry/rural necessityand ingenuity. For growingboys just home fromschool and stomach-growl-ing hungry, cornbread andsweet milk hits the spotand provides enough ener-gy to play ‘til you drop or‘til supper, whichevercomes first. (If you grewup eating cornbread andsweet milk, chances arethe midday meal was “din-ner” and the evening meal“supper.”

And, what would youcall a meal at which youwere served ham, bacon,

sausage (ground and sea-soned, country style), eggsand biscuits (whaddayamean toast! Yeesh) andgravy. Home-baked breadslike cornbread and bis-cuits were regular countryfare. A loaf of store-bought,sliced “light bread,” as wecalled it, was the “ruin-ation of our women,” ac-cording to some old coun-try heads. Whaddaya meanyou don’t bake (in additionto working in the field,milking the cows, sloppingthe hogs and oating thehorses)?

Two bread “dishes/meals” that were my favor-ites though were biscuitsand cream gravy (with abreakfast meat) or baconand eggs with biscuits andsome of Mother’s home-made grape or blackberryjelly. With the biscuits andgravy, you can follow Ten-nessee Ernie Ford’s soppydirections: “Take a biscuitand put it on the northside of the gravy and dragit south.” Mmmm.

But, for dinner or sup-per, cornbread and milkwill stick to your ribs …permanently.

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity (country) news-paper editor-publisher ofmore than 50 years experi-ence. He can be reached atwwebb1937@att.net.

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Cornbread and ‘sweet milk’:Another country delicacy

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015 Zentertainment PAGE 5A

LOS ANGELES — As aresident of parched Califor-nia, Angela Bassett is usedto playing water warden athome.

“I’m a mom with (twin)kids, 9-year-olds, trying toteach them how to washdishes, how to washclothes” in a time ofdrought, the actress said.“And to turn out the lights.I feel like the father figurein ‘Long Day’s Journey in-to Night,’ saying, ‘Turnthat light off !”’

As the director of “WaterApocalypse,” she’s talkingto a bigger audience aboutwater crises here andaround the world and thetechnological advances thatmay help resolve them.

The hour-long programis part of “Breakthrough,”a six-part series on scientif-ic innovation from film-making partners Ron How-ard and Brian Grazer.

“Breakthrough” debutsSunday (8 p.m. Central) onNational Geographic Chan-nel with “Fighting Pandem-ics” and concludes Dec. 13with “Water Apocalypse.”

Bassett, who also turneddirector on this year’s TVmovie “Whitney,” wasamong the Hollywoodnames invited to takecharge of one topic from anarray that included energyalternatives and brain re-search.

It’s the scientists andothers doing innovativework in those fields thatare the stars here, not thefamous directors — butHoward and Grazer saytheir creative talents werekey.

The goal was to look ateach subject “in a reallypersonal way. That’s whywe partnered with these

storytellers who are veryhumanistic and passionateand know how to connectwith an audience,” Howardsaid.

Bassett said she’s notpresenting herself as an au-thority.

“I see myself as going inwide-eyed and trying tolearn something. Going inwith wonder, going in withquestions, and hopefully wecan come away with a bitmore understanding,” shesaid.

The big-picture approachof “Water Apocalypse”takes in a remote Ethio-pian village where an Ital-ian architect, Arturo Vitto-ri, is trying to help resi-dents conquer a lack ofaccessible, safe drinkingwater by building a uniquewater-collecting tower.

“Decoding the Brain,”the Nov. 15 episode from di-rector Brett Ratner (“X-Men: The Last Stand,” the“Rush Hour” franchise), in-cludes Dr. Steve Ramirez’sstudy of how to implant orerase memories to poten-tially benefit those with

post-traumatic stress disor-der.

“The Age of Aging,”which Howard directed, in-cludes researchers who be-lieve that the field’s greatachievement would be ex-tending the human “healthspan” — the period of lifespent without disease — asopposed to our life span. Itairs Nov. 29.

Why did he assign him-self that subject?

“It’s not quite as cine-matic in some ways,” How-ard said, “but I felt it wassomething that we’re allthinking about. What doesit mean to people in their80s now? What does itmean to younger people?”

Grazer, who detailed hisown questioning approachin the book “A CuriousMind: The Secret to a Big-ger Life,” said the seriesparallels his films withHoward, such as “Apollo13,” that offer “the experi-ence of entering a worldthat has a problem and hasa solution in it. We likethose thematics.”

The pair also had tower-

ing figures includingThomas Edison top ofmind with “Breakthrough.”(GE, created by an 1892merger of Edison’s firmwith a competitor, joinedwith National Geographicon the series and its scien-tists’ work is included in it,although not exclusively.)

“Looking back, we knowwho the giants were,” How-ard said, adding that“Breakthrough” could endup “catching one of thosegiants in action today.”

Although such progressis more likely to becomeapparent in retrospect,Howard said his “Age ofAging” was lucky to record“scientists in motionachieve a goal that is a sig-nificant part of the chal-lenge.”

No spoilers here; How-ard didn’t elaborate.

The other episodes andtheir directors:

“Fighting Pandemics,”Sunday, from Peter Berg(“Ballers,” “The Left-overs”). Follows those whojump into action when Ebo-la or other outbreaks occurand who are searching fortools to counter HIV, influ-enza, malaria and otherkiller diseases.

“More Than Human,”Nov. 8, from Paul Giamatti(“Sideways,” “AmericanSplendor”), about the merg-er of biology and technolo-gy, including research thatcould help people withtraumatic spine injurieswalk again.

“Energy From theEdge,” Dec. 6, from pro-ducer Akiva Goldsman (“IAm Legend,” “Fringe”).The scientists and engi-neers behind alternativeenergy projects, includingthe National Ignition Facil-ity that’s attempting to cor-ral the energy of controlledfusion, are the focus.

Hollywood stars align for tech series ‘Breakthrough’

Arturo Vittori and his team of Ethiopian architecture students as-semble stages of the water tower Vittori designed.

Photo by Brendan Bannon/National Geographic Channels | AP

By LYNN ELBERASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Popularonline media sites Buzz-Feed and Vox say they maypull out of the SXSW Inter-active festival held in Aus-tin, Texas, after the festivalcanceled two panels relatedto gaming and online ha-rassment, citing threats ofviolence.

The tech festival, heldannually in March, attracts33,000-plus attendees from82 countries and is part ofthe larger SXSW festivalthat also includes music,film and educational con-ferences. The gathering hasa looser reputation thanbigger tech conferences likethe Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas and theMobile World Congress inBarcelona, but it has be-come bigger and more cor-porate in recent years.

In a blog posting Mon-day, SXSW Interactive Di-rector Hugh Forrest saidthe festival was cancelingtwo sessions for the 2016event: “SavePoint: A Dis-cussion on the GamingCommunity” and “LevelUp: Overcoming Harass-ment in Games” becausethe panels garnered threatsof “on-site violence relatedto this programing.”

“Maintaining civil andrespectful dialogue withinthe big tent is more impor-tant than any particularsession,” Forrest wrote.

Both panels are relatedto the online campaigndubbed “GamerGate” thatbegan last fall, duringwhich women were ha-rassed for criticizing thelack of diversity in the vid-

eo game industry and wom-en’s portrayal in it. Neitherof the panels mentions Ga-merGate specifically.

The “SavePoint” talkwas set to discuss the “cur-rent social/political land-scape in the gaming com-munity” and the “LevelUp” panel included severalwomen who have been sub-jected to the harassment.

On Tuesday, three execu-tives at BuzzFeed, whichhas had a major presenceat the festival over the pastseveral years, sent a letterto director Forrest sayingthey would “feel com-pelled” to withdraw Buzz-Feed staffers from the pan-els they are on or moderat-ing if the panels aren’treinstated.

“Digital harassment — ofactivists of all politicalstripes, journalists, andwomen in those fields orparticipating in virtuallyany other form of digitalspeech — has emerged asan urgent challenge for thetech companies for whomyour conference is an im-portant forum,” the letterstates.

Vox Media, the companybehind popular sites includ-ing food-focused Eater, vid-eo game blog Polygon, andother news and tech sites,released a statement sayingit would not participate inthe festival “unless its orga-nizers take this issue seri-ously and take appropriatesteps to correct it. We willwork to find an alternativeforum for this conversationand invite others who feelthe same to join us.”

SXSW did not immedi-ately respond to a requestfor comment.

BuzzFeed, Voxcould pull out

of SXSWBy MAE ANDERSONASSOCIATED PRESS

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES National WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

WASHINGTON — Striv-ing to end a cycle of crisis,congressional leaders andthe White House unitedTuesday behind an ambi-tious budget and debt dealaimed at restoring a sem-blance of order to CapitolHill and ending the threatof government shutdownsand defaults until well aftera new president takes of-fice.

The outgoing Housespeaker, Republican JohnBoehner of Ohio, preparedto push the deal throughhis unruly chamber onWednesday as his last actbefore departing Congressat the end of the week.

All but forced to resignunder conservative pres-sure, Boehner was nonethe-less going out on his ownterms. The budget dealstands as an in-your-face re-buttal to his hardline antag-onists, on Capitol Hill andoff, who angrily oppose

spending increases andcompromises with Demo-cratic President BarackObama.

They seethed but ac-knowledged they were pow-erless to stop an agreementall but certain to pass withvotes from Democrats and asizable number of Republi-cans. Boehner brushed offtheir complaints, declaringthat he intended to makegood on his promise toleave a “clean barn” for hissuccessor, Paul Ryan of Wis-consin, who is set to get theGOP nomination for speak-er on Wednesday and winelection on the House floorthe day after that.

“I didn’t want him towalk into a dirty barn fullof you-know-what. So I’vedone my best to try to cleanit up,” a good-humoredBoehner told reporters aftera closed-door gathering ofHouse Republicans, his lastsuch weekly meeting afternearly five years as speakerand a quarter-century onCapitol Hill.

During the meeting, Re-publican lawmakers had aparting gift for Boehner: agolf cart with Ohio licenseplates reading “MR SPKR”.

Boehner told them hehad a gift in return: thebudget deal.

The deal would boostmilitary spending as soughtby defense hawks, even as itwould take away the threatof “fiscal cliffs” by a GOP-led Congress in the middleof a campaign season whereRepublicans are aiming for

the White House and tryingto hang onto their slim Sen-ate majority.

Struck over recent daysin closely held talks withWhite House officials andtop House and Senate lead-er of both parties, the agree-ment would raise the gov-ernment debt ceiling untilMarch 2017, removing thethreat of an unprecedentedand market-rupturing na-tional default just days fromnow. At the same time itwould set the budget of the

government through the2016 and 2017 fiscal yearsand ease punishing spend-ing caps by providing $80billion more for militaryand domestic programs,paid for with a hodge-podgeof spending cuts and reve-nue increases touching ar-eas from tax compliance tospectrum auctions.

The deal would also averta looming shortfall in theSocial Security disabilitytrust fund that threatenedto slash benefits, and headoff an unprecedented in-crease in Medicare premi-ums for outpatient care forabout 15 million beneficiar-ies.

Obama said the budgetdeal “reflects our values”and responsibly pays for in-vestments in the middleclass and national security.

“It’s an actual bipartisancompromise, which hasn’tbeen happening in Wash-ington a lot lately,” the pres-ident said.

Said Vice President JoeBiden: “It will prevent us

from lurching from crisis tocrisis.”

Congressional Democratshave pushed for months forsuch a deal, bottling up rou-tine spending bills in an ef-fort to produce negotiationsthat would result in in-creased domestic spending.

With resignation, one ofthe conservative rebels, Rep.Thomas Massie of Ken-tucky, complained of thedeal and Boehner: “Wecan’t stop it. He’s in leaguewith the Democrats.”

But Massie also said that“it’s a long game” and thatconservatives are winningthe war after forcingBoehner to resign and cow-ing his heir apparent, Ma-jority Leader Kevin McCar-thy, into dropping his candi-dacy. That caused a powervacuum that threw theHouse into pandemoniumfor much of this month, un-til GOP leaders prevailedupon a reluctant Ryan, theparty’s 2012 vice presiden-tial nominee, to seek thespeakership.

No shutdown: Congress, Obama back dealBy ERICA WERNERASSOCIATED PRESS

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, walks to a meeting on Capi-tol Hill in Washington, Monday.

Photo by Carolyn Kaster | AP

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is de-fending police officers who have come under intensescrutiny amid a breakdown in relations between lawenforcement and minority communities, and says po-lice can’t be expected to contain problems the rest ofsociety refuses to face.

Obama was traveling Tuesday to Chicago to ad-dress the International Association of Chiefs of Po-lice, which is meeting in the president’s hometown.In excerpts of his prepared remarks released by theWhite House, Obama said society expects police tocontrol societal ills stemming from unemployment,substandard education, inadequate drug treatmentprograms and lenient gun laws.

“Too often, law enforcement gets scapegoated forthe broader failures of our society and criminal jus-tice system,” Obama said. “I know that you do yourjobs with distinction no matter the challenges youface. That’s part of wearing the badge.”

Obama’s tribute to police comes amid a nationaldebate that took shape following the deaths of un-armed black men in Florida, Missouri and else-where, giving rise to the Black Lives Matter move-ment. Last week, Obama defended Black Lives Mat-ter and said its activists are illuminating a legitimateissue that black communities face, but on Tuesday,Obama sought to avoid making it about police versustheir communities.

“I reject any narrative that seeks to divide policeand communities they serve — that frames any dis-cussion of public safety around ‘us’ and ‘them,”’ Oba-ma said. “A narrative that too often gets served up tous by cable news seeking ratings, tweets seeking ret-weets, or political candidates seeking some atten-tion.”

Yet the president’s show of support for police cameas the White House sought to distance Obama fromcomments made by his FBI director, James Comey,who said last week that police anxiety over cellphonecameras and viral videos partly explains why violentcrime has climbed recently in several large U.S. ci-ties. White House spokesman Eric Schultz told re-porters traveling with Obama that while crime hasspiked in some places, it’s decreased in others.

“The available body of evidence does not supportthe notion that law enforcement officers around thecountry are shying away from doing their job,”Schultz said.

Obama’s speech to police chiefs aims to bolster hiscase for fairer sentencing laws, part of a broaderpush by the president for a more effective criminaljustice system. In his prepared remarks, Obama saidhe has no sympathy for violent offenders and hasseen the havoc wreaked by drugs. But he said Amer-ican prisons are packed with non-violent offendersand that it’s possible to fight the drug trade “withoutrelying solely on incarceration.”

Following this month’s deadly shooting at an Ore-gon community college, the president also planned todiscuss steps to reduce gun violence, such as requir-ing background checks for every firearms purchase.The police chiefs’ association supports such checks.

“Fewer gun safety laws don’t mean more freedom,they mean more fallen officers,” Obama said. “Theymean more grieving families, and more Americansterrified that they or their loved ones could be next.”

President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One,Tuesday, at Andrews Air Force Base.

Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP

Obama sayspolice oftenscapegoated

By DARLENE SUPERVILLEASSOCIATED PRESS

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— The Cassini spacecraft isabout to get an icy showeras it orbits Saturn.

On Wednesday, Cassiniwill storm through a jet ofwater vapor and frozen par-ticles erupting from thesouth pole of Enceladus, oneof Saturn’s many moons.The spacecraft will zoomwithin 30 miles of the pole,providing the best samplingyet of its undergroundocean.

Cassini will be traveling19,000 mph, so it should takejust an instant to penetratethe plume.

A global liquid ocean isbelieved to exist beneath thefrozen crust of 300-mile-wideEnceladus. Wednesday’s divewill be the deepest one yetthrough the continuousplumes, making the enter-prise a bit riskier than usu-al.

Launched in 1997, Cassiniis not equipped to detect life,but scientists hope Wednes-day’s flyby will provide cluesas to the possibility of it.

NASA program scientistCurt Niebur considersWednesday’s feat “a very bigstep in a new era of explor-ing ocean worlds in our so-lar system.”

Other probable extrater-restrial ocean worlds: Sat-

urn’s largest moon, Titan; Ju-piter’s moons, Europa, Gany-mede and Callisto; andpossibly dwarf planets Plutoand Ceres, among others.

“These are worlds withhuge bodies of liquid waterunderneath their surfaces,bodies with great potential toprovide oases for lifethroughout our solar sys-tem,” Niebur said Monday.“It’s a journey in understand-ing about what makes aworld habitable and wherewe might find life, and wherewe might one day live our-selves.”

Researchers are eager tonail down the chemicalmakeup of Enceladus’plumes. They also hope toconfirm whether the erup-tions are tight columns or

curtains of jets runningalong fractures in the southpole.

In particular, the space-craft will be looking to iden-tify hydrogen molecules inthe plume, which wouldhelp quantify hydrothermalactivity occurring on theocean floor. That, in turn,would help characterize thepotential for life in thisslightly salty ocean.

If life exists — and moremissions would be neededfor confirmation — it mightrange from microscopic al-gae to little fish, the scien-tists said.

The action unfolds lateWednesday morning East-ern Time; it will take sever-al hours to confirm successand start returning the in-

formation.Spilker expects it will

take a week to get a quicklook at the scientific dataand many more weeks for aproper analysis.

Close-up pictures of Ence-ladus should be ready muchsooner. Cassini will snap pic-tures of Enceladus before,during and after the closeencounter. The images willbe smeared because of Cas-sini’s speed, but the teamhopes to remove the blursand have some dramaticshots by Thursday night orFriday. Saturnshine — akinto our moonshine — willprovide the only lighting forthe cameras.

This will be the 21st flybyof Enceladus by Cassini.“It’s not our last, but argua-bly this one is going to beour most dramatic,” saidproject manager Earl Maize.

Cassini has come closerto Enceladus — skimming151/2 miles above the sur-face in 2008 — but neverdipped so low through aplume.

Scientists were tempted tofly even lower Wednesday,but did not want to wastefuel. Cassini’s orbit aroundSaturn will not be disturbedby the plume penetration,they asserted. The U.S.-Euro-pean spacecraft has twoyears of life remaining be-fore it plunges into Saturn’satmosphere and vaporizes.

Spacecraft nears Saturn’s moon

This July 27 photo made by the Cassini spacecraft shows the moonEnceladus orbiting the planet Saturn.

Photo courtesy of NASA | AP

By MARCIA DUNNASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBIA, S.C. — TheJustice Department openeda civil rights investigationTuesday after a deputyflipped a student backwardin her desk and tossed heracross the floor for refusingto leave her math class.

Federal help was soughtby Richland County SheriffLeon Lott, who called whathappened at Spring ValleyHigh School in Columbia,South Carolina, “very dis-turbing” and placed SeniorDeputy Ben Fields on leave.

The sheriff ’s departmentsaid no one was hurt, butthe confrontation promptedoutrage after it was record-ed and shared online. Onestudent said it startedwhen the girl refused hermath teacher’s request tohand over her cellphoneduring class.

During the momentsposted online, Fields warnsthe girl to stand up or beforcibly removed. The offi-cer then wraps a forearmaround her neck, flips herand the desk backward on-to the floor, and tosses hertoward the front of theclassroom, where he hand-cuffs her.

A second student was ar-rested for verbally object-ing to the girl’s treatment.Both girls were chargedwith disturbing schoolsand released to their par-ents. Their names were notofficially released.

The second student, NiyaKenny, told WLTX-TV that

she felt shehad to saysomething.Doris Kennysaid she’sproud herdaughter was“brave enoughto speak outagainst whatwas going on.”

Lt. CurtisWilson con-firmed that Fields is whiteand the students involvedare black, but told The As-sociated Press in an emailto “keep in mind this is nota race issue.”

South Carolina’s NAACPpresident, Lonnie RandolphJr., denied that, saying“race is indeed a factor.”

“To be thrown out of herseat as she was thrown,and dumped on the floor ...I don’t ever recall a femalestudent who is not of color(being treated this way). Itdoesn’t affect white stu-dents,” Randolph said.

Tony Robinson Jr., whorecorded the final mo-ments, said it all beganwhen the teacher tried toconfiscate a phone the girltook out during class. Sherefused, so he called an ad-ministrator, who sum-moned the officer.

“The administrator triedto get her to move andpleaded with her to get outof her seat,” Robinson toldWLTX. “She said she reallyhadn’t done anythingwrong. She said she tookher phone out, but it wasonly for a quick second,you know, please, she was

begging, apol-ogetic on whathappened andeverything.”

“Next, theadministratorcalled DeputyFields in ... heasked, ‘willyou move,’and she said‘no, I haven’tdone anything

wrong,’ Robinson said. “When I saw what was

going to happen, my imme-diate first thing to thinkwas, let me get this on cam-era. This was going to besomething ... that everyoneelse needs to see, some-thing that we can’t just letthis pass by.”

Districts across the coun-ty put officers in schools af-ter two teenagers mas-sacred fellow students atColumbine High School inColorado in 1999. Schoolsnow routinely summon po-lice to discipline students.

“Kids are not criminals,by the way. When theywon’t get up, when theywon’t put up the phone,they’re silly, disobedientkids — not criminals,” saidJohn Whitehead, founder ofthe Rutherford Institute, anonprofit civil liberties andhuman rights organization.

Police officers should beposted at entrances to “stopthe crazies from getting inthese schools,” Whiteheadadded. “When you have po-lice in the schools, you’regoing to run into this —having police do whatteachers and parents

should do.” The Rev. Jesse Jackson

called the video a “nationaldisgrace.”

“This man should be ar-rested, charged, fired andsued,” Jackson said on hisway to Columbia. “The de-partment should be sued.”

Mayor Steve Benjaminalso called for an independ-ent investigation. SchoolSuperintendent DebbieHamm said “the districtwill not tolerate any ac-tions that jeopardize thesafety of our students.”School Board ChairmanJim Manning said “there isno doubt that the video isextremely disturbing. Theamount of force used on afemale student by a maleofficer appears to me to beexcessive and unnecessary.”

It was an “egregious useof force,” ACLU of SouthCarolina Executive Direc-tor Victoria Middleton said.

Fields has prevailedagainst accusations of ex-cessive force and racial bi-as before.

Trial is set for Januaryin the case of an expelledstudent who claims Fieldstargeted blacks and falselyaccused him of being agang member in 2013. Inanother case, a federal jurysided with Fields after ablack couple accused himof excessive force and bat-tery during a noise com-plaint arrest in 2005. Athird lawsuit, dismissed in2009, involved a womanwho accused him of batteryand violating her rightsduring a 2006 arrest.

Feds probing student’s arrestBy MEG KINNARD

ASSOCIATED PRESS

FIELDS

Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

HOUSTON — Ryan Mal-lett finally ran out of chanc-es in Houston and was re-leased by the Texans onTuesday.

The Texans released thequarterback after he missedthe team’s charter flight toFlorida this past weekend.

They announced the de-cision on Tuesday and alsoplaced Arian Foster on in-jured reserve, a day aftercoach Bill O’Brien said hewould miss the rest of theseason with an Achilles ten-don injury.

The 27-year-old Mallettsaid he missed the flight be-cause of traffic and he tooka commercial flight to meetthe team in Miami, wherethe team was blown out 44-26 and fell to 2-5.

“You’ve got to be ontime,” Mallett said after thegame. “That’s not the lead-ership role I need to exhib-it. I need to be better.”

It wasn’t the first timehe’d missed a team activity:He overslept and missed apractice in training camp.The aftermath of that inci-dent was documented onthe HBO Series “HardKnocks” this summer.

“I wouldn’t even try tocall him,” O’Brien is filmedsaying to a staff member.“Just let it go. He’s 27 yearsold.”

In another scene a con-versation between Mallettand general manager RickSmith in Smith’s office isshown.

“My phone turned offman,” Mallett said. “I’m notabout to (lie to) ... you likethat. I made a mistake. Thetiming ... looks so great. Iwent and got a batteryalarm clock so it won’t hap-pen again ... when I wokeup I was like: ’You’ve got tobe kidding me.”’

Mallett was in his secondseason in Houston after be-ing traded from New Eng-land in August 2014 afterspending three seasons asTom Brady’s backup.

Appearing on Boston ra-dio station WEEI on Mon-day, Brady was asked if Mal-lett was: “that big of aknucklehead when he washere or is that just some-thing that happened inHouston?”

“I’m not sure,” Bradysaid after a long pause. “I’vealways — Ryan and I havealways had a great relation-ship. It’s — you hate to seethat stuff because it’s not

how it should be.” Brady was then asked if

anybody on his team had ev-er missed the charter flight.

“I don’t know,” he said. “Ithink so at one point. I don’tremember who it was. Butit’s rare.”

Mallett lost the startingjob in training camp, buttook over in the seasonopener after Brian Hoyerstruggled. Mallett startedthe team’s next four gamesbut led the Texans to justone win as he threw twotouchdown passes with fourinterceptions. He wasbenched in favor of Hoyer inthe middle of his fourthstart against Indianapolison Oct. 8.

After he was removedfrom the game, TV shotsshowed him pouting on thesideline and frowning afterat least one score by theTexans, behavior he waswidely criticized for.

The Texans will nowhave to find a backup to re-place him because Hoyer isthe only quarterback re-maining on the active rosterwith Tom Savage on injuredreserve. Zac Dysert is theonly quarterback on Hous-ton’s practice squad.

The Texans (2-5) host Ten-nessee (1-5) on Sunday.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: HOUSTON TEXANS

Texans cut ties with QB

Once the team’s starter, Houston’s Ryan Mallett has been released by the Texans after the quar-terback missed a flight.

Photo by Wilfredo Lee | AP

Mallett released after missing flightBy KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

8A THE ZAPATA TIMES International WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

TOFINO, British Colum-bia — Investigators are try-ing to unravel the mysteryof what caused a whalewatching boat to capsize offVancouver Island in seem-ingly calm weather, killingfive British nationals in-cluding a father and histeenage son. A fishermanwho was among the firstrescuers on the scene of-fered a clue, saying a survi-vor told him that a suddenwave capsized the boat.

A search continued for amissing Australian man.Twenty-one people wererescued.

The British ColumbiaCoroners Service on Tues-day afternoon identifiedthe five victims, two ofwhom were British nation-als living in Canada. Theyare David Thomas, 50, andhis 18-year-old son Stephen,from Swindon in southernEngland; Katie Taylor, 29,of Whistler, British Colum-bia; Nigel Francis Hooker,63, of Southampton, Eng-land, and Jack Slater, 76, ofToronto.

The Down Syndrome As-sociation UK said in astatement that DavidThomas was a “huge sup-porter” of the organizationand “one of the drivingforces behind the SwindonDown’s Syndrome Group,where he was a trustee.”

Stephen Thomas, whohad Down Syndrome, “wasa very talented young manand a gifted photographer,”the association said in astatement.

“His love of photographystarted when he was eightyears old. We were all de-lighted when Stephen’sbeautiful image MoraineLake won the national MyPerspective photographiccompetition last year,” theassociation said.

“All of our thoughts andcondolences are with theThomas family at this ter-rible time,” the group add-ed.

Microsoft UK said DavidThomas was an employee.“Our thoughts and deepestsympathies are with theirfamily, friends and David’scolleagues and we will bedoing everything we can tosupport them,” the compa-ny said.

Investigators will reviewthe weather, wreckage andthe maintenance history ofthe 20-meter (65-feet) Levia-than II to determine why itcapsized Sunday afternoon,

said Marc Andre Poisson,Director of Marine Investi-gations for Canada’s Trans-portation Safety Board. Hesaid the investigation couldtake months.

A senior employee of Ja-mie’s Whaling Station, thecompany operating theboat, said the vessel sankso quickly the crew didn’thave time to issue a may-day call. The crew shotflares from the waterwhich attracted the atten-tion of local aboriginal fish-ermen who rushed to helprescue people, said CoreneInouye, the company’s di-rector of operations.

The boat capsized abouteight nautical miles (14.7kilometers) off Tofino, apopular destination forwhale watchers.

Fisherman ClarenceSmith said he was reelinghis lines for halibut whenhis friend saw a flare shootin the sky. They raced tothe scene in their smallboat, and saw people in liferafts, in the water, and onrocks. They first helped aman who was clinging tothe side of the boat, takingeight minutes to get himon board. He was unre-sponsive, and tangled in aline.

Then they rescued twowomen who were clingingto each other, and finallygot 10 people on the life raftonto their boat.

The bow of the Leviathan II, a whale-watching boat that capsized onSunday, is seen Tuesday, near Vargas Island before it was towed.

Photo by Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press | AP

Father and sonamong 5 killedin boat sinking

By MANUEL VALDES AND JEREMY HAINSWORTH

ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — Bacon, hotdogs and cold cuts are un-der fire: The World HealthOrganization threw itsglobal weight behind yearsof experts’ warnings anddeclared Monday that pro-cessed meats raise the riskof colon and stomach can-cer and that red meat isprobably harmful, too.

Meat producers are an-gry, vegetarians are feelingvindicated, and cancer ex-perts are welcoming themost comprehensive pro-nouncement yet on the re-lation between our modernmeat-eating lifestyles andcancer.

The WHO’s Internation-al Agency for Research onCancer in Lyon, France,analyzed decades of re-search and for the first

time put processed meatsin the same danger catego-ry as smoking or asbestos.That doesn’t mean salamiis as bad as cigarettes, onlythat there’s a confirmedlink to cancer. And eventhen, the risk is small.

The results aren’t thatshocking in the U.S., wheremany parents fret over

chemicals in cured meatsand the American CancerSociety has long cautionedagainst eating too muchsteak and deli.

But the U.N. agency’sfindings could shake uppublic health attitudes else-where, such as Europeancountries where sausagesare savored and smoked

ham is a national delicacy.And they could hurt the

American meat industry,which is arguing vigorous-ly against linking theirproducts with cancer, con-tending that the disease in-volves a number of lifestyleand environmental factors.

While U.S. rates of coloncancer have been declining,it is the No. 2 cancer forwomen worldwide and No.3 for men, according to theWHO.

A group of 22 scientistsfrom the IARC evaluatedmore than 800 studies fromseveral continents aboutmeat and cancer. The stud-ies looked at more than adozen types of cancer inpopulations with diversediets over the past 20 years.

Based on that analysis,the IARC classified pro-cessed meat as “carcino-genic to humans.”

Processed meat linked to cancer

Eating processed meat can raise the risk in humans of getting co-lon cancer, a report by the World Health Organization said.

Photo by Andy McMillan | New York Times file

By ANGELA CHARLTONASSOCIATED PRESS

MINGORA, Pakistan —As the death toll in themassive earthquake thatstruck the remote HinduKush mountains soaredabove 300, officials on bothsides of the Afghan-Pakis-tan border warned onTuesday that casualty fig-ures will likely leap oncerelief workers return fromvillages so remote theycan only be accessed onfoot or by donkey.

Rescuers in both coun-tries were struggling toreach quake-stricken re-gions as officials said thecombined death toll fromMonday’s earthquake roseto 376.

Authorities said 258 peo-ple died in Pakistan and115 in Afghanistan in themagnitude-7.5 quake,which was centered in Af-ghanistan’s sparsely pop-ulated Badakhshan prov-ince that borders Pakistan,Tajikistan and China.Three people died on theIndian side of the disputed

region of Kashmir.The earthquake, with

its epicenter close to theBadakhshan district ofJarm, damaged many ofthe few existing roads, offi-cials said. Dropping aid byair will be the only way toreach many of the needy,but those operations werenot likely to start formany days until surveyteams on foot return andreport on the damage.

The Pakistani townclosest to the epicenter isChitral.

Monday’s quake shookbuildings in the capital, Is-lamabad, and cities else-

where in Pakistan and Af-ghanistan for up to 45 sec-onds in the earlyafternoon, creating cracksin walls and causingblackouts.

The earthquake de-stroyed more than 7,600homes across Afghanistanand injured 558 people, ac-cording to a statementfrom President AshrafGhani’s office after he hadmet with disaster manage-ment officials. He orderedthe military to make as-sets available for the reliefeffort.

Badakhshan Gov. ShahWaliullah Adeeb said

more than 1,500 housesthere were either de-stroyed or partially de-stroyed. The province’s ca-sualty figures of 11 deadand 25 injured “will riseby the end of the day, oncethe survey teams get tothe remote areas and vil-lages,” Adeeb said.

Food and other essen-tials were ready to go, hesaid, but “getting there isnot easy.” Many people instricken areas were sleep-ing outdoors, bravingfreezing temperatures forfear of aftershocks.

Afghan authorities saidthey were scrambling toaccess the hardest-hit ar-eas near the epicenter, lo-cated 73 kilometers (45miles) south of Fayzabad,the capital of Badakhshanprovince.

Badakhshan is one ofthe poorest areas of Af-ghanistan and frequentlyhit by floods, snowstormsand mudslides. Its valleysand mountains make ac-cess to many areas byroad almost impossible atthe best of times.

Rescuers scramble after quakeBy MOHAMMAD YOUSAF AND LYNNE O’DONNELL

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Pakistani boy examines a house damaged by a massive earth-quake in Mingora, the main town of Swat valley, Tuesday.

Photo by Naveed Ali | AP

MEMBRESÍAS GRATUITASDriscoll Children’s

Health Plan ofrece membre-sías gratuitas para Boys &Girls Club a niños y niñasque estén registrados enHealth Plan de Driscoll. Es-pacio es limitado. Para soli-citar más infromación llameal (956) 765-3892.

DESFILE POR NAVIDADLa Cámara de Co-

mercio del Condado delCondado de Zapata invita alDesfile de Navidad y Encen-dido de la Plaza del Conda-do. Se invita a que se re-gistren para participar en elevento llamando para deta-lles al (956) 765-5434. Eldía del desfile la alineacióniniciará a las 5 p.m. enGlenn St. y 17th Ave. (de-trás de Our Lady of Lour-des Catholic Church. Eldesfile dará inicio a las 6p.m. y proseguirá por 17thAve. hacia el Sur sobre USHwy 83 tomando a la iz-quierda sobre 6th Ave. paraconcluirlo. Posteriormenteserá el encendido anual delárbol de Navidad en la Pla-za del Condado, seguido deentrega de regalos por San-ta.

ACTIVIDADES EN PUERTO ISABELCelebración del Día

de los Muertos se realizarádel 10 al 31 de octubre, enhorario de 4 p.m. a 11 p.m.en 317 E. Railroad Ave. Ha-brá música, baile, vendedo-res, exhibiciones, activida-des, música y concursos dedisfraces.

Recepción para Artis-tas de la Galería se realiza-rá el viernes 30 de octubre,de 5 p.m. a 8 p.m. en losMuseos de Puerto Isabel yen la Biblioteca Pública dePuerto Isabel. El evento esabierto a la comunidad yse les invita asistir disfraza-dos. Se ofrecerán refrige-rios por el Día de los Muer-tos y Halloween.

SEMANA DE LISTÓN ROJOEn el marco del Mes

de Prevención de Uso deNarcóticos a nivel Nacional,se celebrará el evento “RedRibbon Week” del 23 al 31de octubre.

El evento representa uncompromiso nacional paracrear conciencia y evitar eluso de narcóticos, entre es-tudiantes.

Durante la semana serealizarán diferentes activi-dades para concientizar alos estudiantes.

Para realizar donacionespuede ponerse en contactocon Norma González lla-mando al (956) 765-8389.Lo recaudado será destina-do a comprar obsequios pa-ra los estudiantes.

TEMPORADA DE CAZATamaulipas tiene en

vigencia la temporada decasa de la Paloma Huilota,anunciaron autoridades delEstado. La temporada con-cluirá el 8 de noviembre.Igualmente se aclara que latemporada de caza de laPaloma de Collar y la AlaBlanca ya concluyó.

NOCHE DE CASINOEl Club de Leones de

Zapata invita al evento Ca-sino Night Fundraiser quese realizará el sábado 14 denoviembre de 7 p.m. a 10p.m. en el Holiday Inn Ex-press de Zapata. Habrá re-frigerios, bebidas, fichaspara apuestas. Los estilosserán Blackjack, Texas Hold‘Em, Roulette y Craps. To-dos los juegos serán al es-tilo de casino (no dinero).El boleto es de 30 dólarespor persona, y puede ad-quirirlos en Zapata Cham-ber of Commerce. Las ga-nancias beneficiarán la 4ªEntrega Anual de Pavos enNavidad por parte del Clubde Leones de Zapata.

Agendaen Breve

AUSTIN— El gobernador de Te-xas, Greg Abbott, acogió el lunesuna medida para acabar con los go-biernos locales que prohíben a lapolicía preguntar sobre el estatusmigratorio de una persona, luegode no comentar mucho con respectoa las políticas de ciudades santuariodesde que asumió el cargo.

Su apoyo se da luego de que acti-vistas conservadores criticaran algobernador republicano por no darprioridad a la lucha contra la inmi-gración ilegal desde el comienzo desu mandato. También se da luegode que la prisión del condado de Da-llas decidió recientemente que nocumplirá con todas las solicitudesde detención de los agentes federa-les de migración en la séptima cár-cel de mayor tamaño en el país.

"Ciudades santuario" no tiene unsignificado legal. Se utiliza típica-mente para describir a los gobier-

nos locales que brindan re-fugio a las personas que re-siden en el país sinpermiso legal.

"Texas debe aprobar le-yes que prohíban cualquierpolítica o acción que brinderefugio a personas que es-tán ilegalmente en el esta-do", escribió Abbott en unacarta dirigida al jefe de po-licía del condado de Dallas,Lupe Valdez.

El portavoz de Abbott, John Wit-tman, confirmó que el gobernadorquiere el tema en su escritoriocuando la Legislatura retome sesio-nes en 2017.

Pese a las abrumadoras mayoríasrepublicanas, la Legislatura de Te-xas no ha podido aprobar propues-tas de ciudades santuario en tresperiodos de sesiones consecutivos,incluyendo el de 2011, cuando el en-tonces gobernador, Ricky Perry, lodeclaró como prioridad durante suprecampaña a la Casa Blanca, y el

de este año, cuando líderesdel movimiento Tea Party to-maron el control del Senadoestatal.

Pero el tema ganó aten-ción nacional hace unos me-ses después que una mujermurió baleada en San Fran-cisco por un ciudadano me-xicano que había sido excar-celado pese a que las autori-dades migratorias solicitaron

mantenerlo detenido. La semana pa-sada en el Congreso, senadores de-mócratas bloquearon una propuestarepublicana que sancionaría a lasjurisdicciones que no compartan in-formación migratoria o no coope-ren con las solicitudes federales. LaCasa Blanca amenazó con un veto.

En septiembre, Valdez dijo que lacárcel de Dallas ya no alargaría ladetención de sospechosos que estánilegalmente en el país y son sospe-chosos de crímenes menores. La ac-ción del demócrata emula las decientos de condados y ciudades de

todo el país que han restringido laparticipación del programa de fede-ral del Servicio de Control de Inmi-gración y Aduanas.

Abbott, quien buscó agresiva-mente el voto hispano el año pasa-do, había intentado evitar una pos-tura pública en un tema que los de-mócratas acusan de antiinmigrante.Había eludido preguntas sobre lapropuesta al decir que daría un vis-tazo a cualquier proposición y dijoque las ciudades santuario son unsíntoma de que el gobierno federalno ha asegurado la frontera.

Sin embargo, su postura no gene-ra sorpresa luego de que aprobó 800millones de dólares en seguridadfronteriza durante su primer presu-puesto. Los demócratas acusaron aAbbott de aprovecharse del senti-miento actual de los votantes con-servadores.

"Intenta ser el Donald Trump deTexas", dijo el representante estataldemócrata, Rafael Anchia, cuyo dis-trito incluye la prisión de Dallas.

‘CIUDADES SANTUARIO’

Solicita leyPOR PAUL J. WEBER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABBOTT

Zfrontera PÁGINA 9AMIÉRCOLES 28 DE OCTUBRE DE 2015

El lunes, la Oficina del Fiscal del Condadode Zapata anunció que ha implementado el“Teddy Bear Program” (Programa Osos dePeluche), dijeron oficiales.

“Con el propósito de proteger el bienestarde nuestros niños, Iron Horse Disciples, unministro local de motocicletas, y el AlguacilAlonso M. López, han unido esfuerzos paralanzar el programa ‘Teddy Bear’”, dijo la Ofi-cina del Alguacil.

Oficiales del Alguacil indican que intentanreducir el traume psicológico experimentadopor los menores durante una situación trau-mática.

“Ahora, todas las unidades de patrulla con-tarán con osos de peluche, para que de estamanera los oficiales que lleguen a incidentesde emergencia puedan usarlos para confor-tar a los menores”, dijeron autoridades.

“Se ha comprobado que los osos de pelu-che tienen un efecto tranquilizante al propor-cionar consuelo y dar a los niños algo tangi-ble que sostener durante tiempos de crisis”.

Los oficiales del alguacil creen que lososos podrían ayudar a los oficiales y meno-res a establecer un lazo. Igualmente, las auto-ridades dijeron que creen que los osos pue-den diversificar la atención del menor del in-cidente traumático.

“A pesar de que (la Oficina del Alguacil)no solicita donaciones para este programa,aceptamos con gusto los donativos de osos depeluche nuevos o en buenas condiciones dela comunidad, grupos cívicos y negocios”, di-jeron oficiales.

(Localice a César G. Rodriguez en 728-2568o en cesar@lmtonline.com)

OFICINA DEL ALGUACIL

Programabusca darapoyo amenores

POR CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Se intenta reducir eltrauma psicológicoexperimentado por losmenores durante unasituación traumática.

Dos municipios fronte-rizos fueron declarados enemergencia por parte dela Coordinación Nacionalde Protección Civil de laSecretaría de Goberna-ción (SEGOB) de Tamauli-pas.

Los municipios fronte-rizos de Reynosa y RíoBravo, México, fueronafectados por las rema-nentes pluviales del hura-cán Patricia.

La declaración se for-malizó el domingo 25 deoctubre en San Fernando,Tamaulipas, México, du-rante la reunión itineran-te del Grupo de Coordina-ción. La declaración fueemitida por SEGOB alre-dedor de las 8 p.m. del lu-nes 26 de octubr, señalaun comunicado emitidopor el Estado.

Debido a las lluviasque se presentaron elviernes y sábado en losmunicipios, se presenta-

ron inundaciones y en-charcamientos en 52 colo-nias de Reynosa y en 9 deRío Bravo, indica el comu-nicado.

Tras la declaración, losmunicipios recibirán re-cursos del Fondo para laAtención de Emergencias(FONDEN) y contarán conlos apoyos necesarios pa-ra atender las necesidadesalimenticias, de abrigo yde salud de la poblaciónafectada, señalaron auto-ridades.

HURACÁN PATRICIA

Declaran emergencia en ciudades fronterizasTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El lunes, SEGOB emitió una Declaratoria de Emergencia para losmunicipios fronterizos de Reynosa y Río Bravo, México. La decisiónfue tomada durante la Reunión Ordinaria del Grupo de Coor-dinación Tamaulipas, el domingo en San Fernando, México.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

Ahora, el municipio deMiguel Alemán, Méxi-co, cuenta con nuevas

instalaciones para el Sistemapara el Desarrollo Integral dela Familia (DIF).

Las nuevas oficinas, ubica-das en Puerto de Chetumal No.130 en la Colonia San Germán,fueron inauguradas el lunesdurante la ceremonia de inau-guración, presidida por An-drea Aguirre de Cortez, actualpresidenta del DIF. El Alcalde,

Ramiro Cortez Barrera, reali-zó el corte de listón.

“Para mi es un honor pre-sentar este nuevo edificio queservirá para fortalecer la in-fraestructura de esta institu-ción que se identifica por aten-der las necesidades de la po-blación”, dijo Aguirre deCortez. “Todas las personasque acudan ante nosotros co-mo servidores municipales,tendrán un lugar digno y am-plio, ya que la construcción deeste edificio no fue un gasto,sino una inversión a favor de

la comunidad.El desarrollo del proyecto

tuvo una inversión de 4 millo-nes de dólares.

“La sociedad requiere demás líderes que antepongansus intereses y vean realmentepor los mas necesitados”, sos-tuvo Aguirre de Cortez.

Durante la ceremonia, Agui-rre sostuvo que realizará todoel esfuerzo necesario para ha-cer llegar mas programas quefortalezcan a la familia y prin-cipalmente a los más necesita-dos, indica un comunicado.

MIGUEL ALEMÁN, MÉXICO,

NUEVAS OFICINAS

La mañana del lunes, se inauguraron las nuevas instalaciones del Sistema DIF de Miguel Alemán, México, ubicadasen Puerto de Chetumal No. 130 en la Colonia San Germán.

Foto de cortesía

Aguirre: Comunidad tendrá lugar dignoTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

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within the United Statesand transport undocument-ed immigrants for financialgain.

Records allege Jaquez-Ra-mos intended to drop offthree immigrants fromHonduras and El Salvadornear Guadalupe Street, nextto a Church’s Chicken inLaredo.

He expected a payment of$400 per person, states thecriminal complaint filedSept. 18.

U.S. Border Patrol agents

said they encountered Ja-quez-Ramos on Sept. 15while performing their du-ties on Zapata Highwaynear Laredo. Agents con-ducted an immigration in-spection on the occupants ofa 2014 Dodge Durango.

Authorities identified thedriver as Jaquez-Ramos andthe passengers as his chil-dren and three adults. Hewas referred to secondaryinspection, where agents de-termined the three adultswere illegally in the coun-

try, records state.Jaquez-Ramos allegedly

stated he was transportingthe immigrants from RioGrande City to Laredo formoney.

If convicted, Jaquez-Ra-mos could face up to 10years behind bars. He plead-ed not guilty to the allega-tions Thursday.

Jaquez-Ramos has a finalpretrial conference Dec. 14.

(César G. Rodriguez maybe reached at 728-2568 or ce-sar@lmtonline.com)

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ing the child somethingtangible to hold duringtimes of crisis.”

Sheriff ’s officials be-lieve the bears could helpdeputies and childrenbond. Also, authoritiessaid the bears will diverta child’s attention fromthe traumatic incident tothe comfort of a teddybear.

“Although, the (Sher-

iff ’s Office) does not so-licit for donations forthis program, we gladlyaccept donations fromthe community, civicgroups and businesses ofnew or fairly new plushteddy bears,” officialssaid.

(César G. Rodriguezmay be reached at 728-2568 or cesar@lmton-line.com)

CHILDREN Continued from Page 1A

people in this state illegally,” Abbottwrote in a letter to Dallas CountySheriff Lupe Valdez.

Abbott spokesman John Wittmanconfirmed that the governor wantsthe issue on the table when the Leg-islature returns in 2017.

Despite overwhelming Republicanmajorities, the Texas Legislaturehas failed to pass sanctuary citiesproposals in three consecutive ses-sions. That includes 2011 whenthen-Gov. Rick Perry declared it apriority during the run-up to hisWhite House candidacy, and thisyear, when tea party leaders wrest-ed control of the state Senate.

But outrage reignited nationallythis summer after a woman was fa-tally shot in San Francisco by aMexican national who had been re-leased from jail despite a federal de-tainer request. Last week in Con-gress, Senate Democrats blocked aRepublican bill that would havepunished jurisdictions that don’tshare immigration information or

cooperate with federal requests. TheWhite House had threatened a veto.

In September, Valdez said the Dal-las jail would no longer extend thestay of suspects who are in thecountry illegally and suspected ofminor crimes. The move by theelected Democrat follows hundredsof counties and cities nationwidethat have also restricted their par-ticipation in the contentious detain-er program run by U.S. Immigra-tions and Customs Enforcement.

Big-city sheriffs have often toldTexas lawmakers that sanctuarycity laws would impose a chilling ef-fect in immigrant communities anddissuade them from seeking help orhelping police solve crimes.

Abbott, who aggressively courtedHispanic voters last year with anemphasis unmatched by a Texas Re-publican since George W. Bush wasgovernor, had largely ducked takinga vocal position on an issue thatDemocrats say is anti-immigrant.He had deflected questions about

proposals by saying he would lookat any bill and described sanctuarycities as a symptom of the federalgovernment not securing the bor-der.

His stance, however, is unsurpris-ing as a Republican who approved arecord $800 million for border secu-rity in his first budget. Democratsaccused Abbott of seizing on thecurrent mood of conservative vot-ers.

“He’s trying to be the DonaldTrump of Texas,” said Democraticstate Rep. Rafael Anchia, whose dis-trict covers the Dallas jail.

JoAnn Fleming, an influentialTexas conservative activist who ad-vised the lieutenant governor thisspring on legislation, said there wasdisappointment that Abbott had notused his “political capital” beforebut was optimistic now.

“Governor Abbott and his staffare very aware of where the Texasgrassroots think about this item.We’ve been very vocal,” she said.

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be in the United States. Troopers cited Jimenez be-fore agents took her into custody.

Records allege Jimenez has prior arrests.She was arrested March 19, 2001, for human smug-

gling. Laredo police arrested her Sept. 3 on twocounts of child abandonment.

(César G. Rodriguez may be reached at 728-2568 orcesar@lmtonline.com)

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summer camps for about500 Oklahoma children an-nually who have parentsbehind bars.

Nationwide, there arefew comparable programs,despite a vast pool of chil-dren who might benefit.

Child Trends, a researchorganization, released a re-port Tuesday estimatingthat 5 million U.S. childrenhave had at least one par-ent imprisoned — aboutone in every 14 childrenunder 18. For black chil-dren, the rate was one innine, the report said.

The report was based ondata from the 2011-12 Na-tional Survey of Children’sHealth — a phone surveysponsored by the U.S. De-partment of Health andHuman Services that col-lected input from parentsand other caregivers.

Experts who study thesechildren, or work withthem, say parental incar-ceration is distinguishedfrom other childhood woesby a mix of shame, stigmaand trauma. Research indi-cates that many of the chil-dren face increased risk ofproblems with behavior,academics, self-esteem andsubstance abuse — insome cases resulting incriminality passed fromone generation to the next.

Echoing recommenda-tions by other groups,Child Trends said prisonsystems, schools and com-munities could do more tosupport these children.Suggestions include im-proving communicationsbetween parent and child,making prison visits lessstressful, and educatingschool teachers on howthey can help affected chil-

dren overcome stigma.“Progress has been

slow,” said Child Trendsresearcher David Murphey,the report’s lead author.“This is a vulnerablegroup of kids that is oftenhidden from public view.We need to pay more atten-tion.”

In some places, that’shappening. Washingtonstate has won plaudits forestablishing child-friendlyvisiting areas in all itsprisons; so has a programin southeast Michigan thatfacilitates playful, 2-hourvisits between imprisonedparents and their kids.

As for New Hope Okla-homa, it has grown stead-ily over two decades whilerelying entirely on privatedonations, and there’s nowa waiting list for its pro-grams. Oklahoma has oneof the nation’s highest in-carceration rates; a taskforce calculated that onany given day, 26,000 Okla-homa children have a par-ent in prison.

“These children face os-tracism among their peersbecause of it — despite thefact that the child is totallynot at fault,” said NewHope’s executive director,Clayton Smith. “Theydon’t speak about it. Theydon’t want anyone toknow.”

The program seeks tofoster a camaraderieamong the children thatencourages them to shareexperiences and emotions.

Daniel Howell, the casemanager who works withafter-school programs inTulsa, recalled his encoun-ters with some of the chil-dren, whom he could notidentify due to privacy pol-

icies.“I really want to live

with my mom,” one boytold him sadly, “and I can’tright now.”

Then there was the girlwho entered the programas a 7-year-old and wouldhide when discomfited.

“We’d have to go sit un-der the table with her totalk to her,” Howell said.

“Now, she’s able to iden-tify her feelings, talk aboutit really openly with otherstudents,” he added. “She’sbeen a top recruiter, tellingfriends about New Hopeand what we do.”

While New Hope workswith children at a distancefrom prison facilities, Oak-land Livingston HumanService Agency’s programin Michigan unites chil-dren with their incarcerat-ed fathers in jails in Oak-land and Wayne counties,plus three state prisons.Visiting areas are decorat-ed and stocked with play-things, and music is pro-vided for twice-monthlyplay-oriented visits for per-haps a half-dozen familiesat a time.

Linda VanderWaal, theagency’s associate directorfor family re-entry, notedthat some jails in Michi-gan don’t allow contactvisits, while other facili-ties insist that child vis-itors remain seated.

“We move the chairsback so there’s room tothrow a ball,” VanderWaalsaid. “It’s fine if a dadwants to toss his kid in theair or wrestle on the floor.It’s a true play date.”

When the program start-ed 12 years ago, some cor-rections officials were hes-itant, she said, but the wa-riness dissipated as theysaw how participating par-ents adjusted more posi-tively after they were re-leased.

According to federal sta-tistics, only about 42 per-cent of incarcerated par-ents with children under18 get visits from thosechildren. Long distancesare a deterrent: A new re-port by the Prison PolicyInitiative calculates that 63percent of state prison in-mates are confined morethan 100 miles from their

families, often requiring afull day just to make abrief visit.

The issue of children’svisits is complicated. Somechildren are frightened bythe prison setting and rig-orous security procedures,yet there’s also a wealth ofevidence that many are re-assured when they can seeand hug an incarceratedparent.

Groups advocating forthese children urge correc-tions officials to ensurethat visiting protocols, in-cluding processing andsearches, are child-friend-ly.

In Maryland, a veteranadvocate says it’s a chal-lenge bracing children forthe visitation policy at theFrederick County AdultDetention Center. Theytalk to their jailed parentby phone from behind aglass partition.

“For a number of chil-dren, there’s anxiety wait-ing to go into the jail —some are scared,” saidShari Ostrow Scher, presi-dent of the Children of In-carcerated Parents Part-nership. “The lack of phys-ical contact with yourparents is hard.”

After 14 years of advoca-cy work, Ostrow Scher re-mains struck by the plightof the children she serves.

“If your parent is a sol-dier overseas, everyonesays, ‘Oh, you’re brave,”’she said. “When your par-ent is in prison, it’s thesame issue of loss and sep-aration, and in neithercase did the kid sign upfor this. But you’re notviewed in the same heroicway.”

Among the states, Wash-

ington has been at theforefront of efforts to en-hance bonds between in-carcerated parents andtheir children.

Jody Becker-Green, adeputy secretary of Wash-ington’s corrections de-partment, says one goal isto break the intergenera-tional cycle by minimizingthe emotional damage tochildren whose parents areimprisoned.

“These kids are over-looked and invisible in oursociety,” Becker-Greensaid. “They feel shame,they feel guilt in having aparent incarcerated.”

Unlike most states,Washington has a child-friendly visiting area ineach of its 12 state prisons— supplied with books andgames, cartoon characterspainted on the walls.

In another innovation,the corrections depart-ment inaugurated a three-day summer camp in Junefor children of inmates,with department person-nel serving as counselors.

Applications for spots atthe camp were submittedby the imprisoned parentsthemselves, and Becker-Green said there wereplenty of tears at thecamp’s closing ceremonywhen children read por-tions of those applicationsin which the mothers andfathers expressed devotionto their kids.

One of the camp staffers,Bea Giron, recounted howa camper said shewouldn’t want people toknow she had a parent inprison. The girl was askedwhy.

“Because they’d thinkI’m a killer,” she replied.

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Promise Foster, left, and Kyle Warren look at an object in a bag dur-ing an exercise at a New Hope after-school program in Tulsa, Okla.

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Marina S. Hernandez, 82,passed away on Sunday, Oct.25, 2015 at Falcon LakeNursing Home in Zapata,Texas.

Ms. Hernandez is preced-ed in death by her husband,Abelardo Hernandez; par-ents, Santos and Teresa Sali-nas; brothers, Alonzo (Ma-ria) Salinas, Jose EnriqueSalinas and sisters, Adelai-da (Higinio) Castillo.

Ms. Hernandez is sur-vived by her sons, AbelardoHernandez, Juan Jose Gua-dalupe Hernandez; daugh-ters, Martina Hernandez,San Juanita Martinez, Blan-ca Garcia, Maria Ramona(Daniel) Solis; 25 grandchil-dren; 38 great-grandchil-dren; sisters, Elma Guerra,Maria Teresa (Julio) Garzaand by numerous nephews,nieces, other family mem-bers and friends.

Pallbearers will beGeorge Benavides Jr., Ar-mando Chapa Jr., AlfonsoChapa, Ricardo Martinez,David Martinez, Avelardo J.Hernandez, Jose GuadalupeHernandez Jr. and Hugo Pi-chardo.

Visitation hours will beheld on Wednesday, Oct. 28,

2015, at 8 a.m. with a rosaryat 9:30 a.m. and a chapel ser-vice at 10:30 a.m. at RoseGarden Funeral Home.

Committal services willfollow at Zapata CountyCemetery.

Funeral arrangementsare under the direction ofRose Garden Funeral HomeDaniel A. Gonzalez, funeraldirector, 2102 N. U.S. Hwy 83Zapata, Texas.

MARINA S. HERNANDEZ

Sept. 29, 1933 – Oct. 25, 2015

Gilda P. Jasso, 74,passed away on Monday,Oct. 26, 2015 in Zapata,Texas.

Ms. Jasso is precededin death by her husband,Manuel D. Jasso Sr.; son,Joaquin Jasso and adaughter, Mirta A. Solis.

Ms. Jasso is survivedby her children, Cecilio(Tomasa) Jasso, Rosa M.(Homar A.) Solis, ManuelD. Jr. (Belen) Jasso, Rosa-rio E. Jasso (Fabian So-lis), Martin (Enedina)Jasso, Monica (Cesar) So-lis, Ninfa E. Jasso, GildaE. Jasso (Jose A. Prieto);grandchildren, EricaSaenz, Arminda Grant,Michelle Solis, Joni Solis,Enrique Solis Jr., CecilioJasso Jr., Joaquin Jasso,Erik Jasso, Alba Jasso,Cindy Nuñez, Homar So-lis Jr., Jose A. Solis, Jes-sica M. Solis, Hector So-lis, Virginia E. Solis,Manuel Jasso III, AmyJasso, Osvaldo Jasso,Paola M. Jasso, Jorge J.Jasso, Selina M. Solis,Crystal A. Solis, MartinC. Jasso Jr., Nancy Y.Martinez, Eva J. Garcia,Marimar Jasso, Mirna E.

Solis, Cesar Solis Jr., JoseF. Cruz, Araceli A. Bena-vides, Javier A. Jasso,Larissa L. Jasso and bynumerous great-grand-children, other familymembers and friends.

Visitation hours willbe held on Wednesday,Oct. 28, 2015, from 6 p.m.to 9 p.m. with a rosary at7 p.m. at Rose Garden Fu-neral Home.

The funeral processionwill depart on Thursday,Oct. 29, 2015, at 9:30 a.m.for a 10 a.m. funeralMass at Our Lady ofLourdes CatholicChurch.

Committal serviceswill follow at ZapataCounty Cemetery.

Funeral arrangementsare under the direction ofRose Garden FuneralHome Daniel A. Gonza-lez, funeral director, 2102N. U.S. Hwy 83 Zapata,Texas.

GILDA P. JASSO

Aug. 4, 1941 – Oct. 26, 2015

NEW YORK — Threeyears after Comcast beganoffering unlimited home-Internet usage, the cablegiant is moving in the op-posite direction. In moreparts of the U.S., it’s start-ing to charge heavy datausers extra.

The reason? Too manyof its customers are drop-ping cable and doing theirTV-watching over the In-ternet instead, a trendthat threatens to costComcast money. To recoupsome of those dollars,Comcast is experimentingwith caps on how muchdata you can use. Go overthe limit and you’ll see abigger bill.

Comcast used to capmonthly data use at 250 gi-gabytes, but ended it inMay 2012 in order to ex-periment with alternativesto a simple cap. That Au-gust, it capped monthlydata use for Nashville,Tennessee, customers at300 GB; going over thelimit costs $10 for every 50GB. The companylaunched a similar plan inTucson, Arizona, that Oc-tober — 300 GB for a baseplan, 600 GB if you signedup for a faster and moreexpensive connection.

By December 2013,Comcast had rolled outthe Nashville system toAtlanta and a handful ofsmaller markets, many in

the South. It also offered aslow Internet plan of 3megabits per second thatgave you a $5 credit if youused 5GB or less eachmonth, and charged you$1 for each gigabyte of da-ta over 5 GB.

This month, Comcastadded a twist as it expand-ed the cap into Miami,Fort Lauderdale and theFlorida Keys: Customerscan now pay an additional$30 a month for unlimiteddata. (In Atlanta, it’s $35 amonth.) At this point,roughly 12 percent of Com-cast territory is subject to“usage-based pricing,”MoffettNathanson analystCraig Moffett estimates.

Comcast’s Internet busi-ness is going gangbusters,although it continues toshed cable customers. Inthe third quarter, Comcastsaid Tuesday, it lost 48,000TV customers while add-ing 320,000 Internet cus-tomers. Revenue rose 8.3percent to $18.7 billion inthe July-September period,while net income dropped23 percent to $2 billion be-cause of a tax gain fromlast year.

The average householdwatches 240 hours of TV amonth, Moffett says; usingcurrent streaming technol-ogy, it would likely exceedthe Comcast cap by watch-ing the same amount ofonline video. (Comcastsays the 300 GB cap wouldlet you stream 230 to 575hours of video a month.)

How Comcastwants to meter

the InternetBy TALI ARBEL

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — U.S.housing appears to be insu-lated so far from the coolingglobal economy.

Home values and rentalprices are steadily rising,fueled by strong demandand a tight supply of avail-able properties, a pair of re-ports Tuesday showed. Thesolid demand drove salesgrowth early this year andspurred additional construc-tion.

The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city homeprice index climbed 5.1 per-cent in the 12 months thatended in August — a levelmany economists view asmore sustainable than thesharp double-digit gains atthe start of 2014.

And in September,median rents nationwiderose a seasonally adjusted3.7 percent from a year ago,according to real estate datafirm Zillow. As with homeprices, the pace of rent in-creases appears more stablethan the sharper increasesearlier this year.

Still, while three years ofsolid hiring and low mort-gage rates have bolsteredreal estate, further gainswill likely require betterpay for workers. Increasesin home values continue toexceed average annual earn-ings, which have risen just2.2 percent from a year ago.

For now, homes in techhubs with a high concentra-tion of good-paying jobs ap-

pear to be the main benefici-aries of rising prices. S&Preported that San Franciscoand Denver both enjoyed a10.7 percent year-over-yearjump in home values, thelargest of any city. Portland,Oregon’s annual gain of 9.4percent was the third-large-st.

“Prices are rising the fas-test in markets where jobgrowth and net migrationare the strongest and inven-tories are the tightest,” saidMark Vitner, an economist

at Wells Fargo Securities.“Portland is an excellent ex-ample.”

Those same metro areaswere among the leaders inthe rental increases trackedby Zillow. At the same time,those high rental pricessparked some new construc-tion, which has createdmore apartments and tem-pered the rental-price appre-ciation in recent months.

The median rent in SanFrancisco was $3,348 lastmonth, a yearly increase of

13.3 percent. The year-over-year increase in August waseven higher — 14.2 percent.

The housing market’soverall gains are defying theimpact of a sluggish globaleconomy. Falling commodityprices, weakened growth inChina, a struggling Europeand tumult in emergingeconomies such as Brazilhave hampered a world thatis still battling its way out ofthe 2008 financial crisis.

Not every area of theUnited States is benefiting.Rental price growth hasslowed in areas at the epi-center of the oil and naturalgas industry, according toZillow. Average oil priceshave nearly halved in thepast year to $44 a barrel.Houston’s rental costs areup 5.8 percent over the past12 months, down from an-nual growth above 6 per-cent. Price appreciation hasalso slipped in Dallas andTulsa. But the S&P indexshows that home valueshave advanced a solid 8.9percent in Dallas over thepast year, a sign of resil-ience in the heart of Texas.

US home values insulatedBy JOSH BOAK AND

CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERASSOCIATED PRESS

In this July 22 file photo, a "sold" sign is posted outside a HarborBeach neighborhood home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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12A THE ZAPATA TIMES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015