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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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State Briefs
Arrests made in
prostitution case
DULUTH (AP) - Two
suburban Atlanta women
- including one who police
identified as a former
Penthouse Pet - have been
arrested for prostitution in a
case in which “dates” could
cost as much as SIO,OOO,
authorities said.
Lisa Ann Taylor, 42, was
arrested Wednesday at her
million-dollar home in the
exclusive Sugarloaf Country
Club area.
She was charged with
violating the Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act. She also
was charged with prosti
tution, keeping a place of
prostitution and conspiracy
to possess cocaine, District
Attorney Danny Porter said.
Her alleged partner,
Nicole A. Probert, 30, of
Lawrenceville, Ga., was
arrested on the same charg
es, Porter said. Both women
are cooperating but police
had to force entry into
Probert’s home with a bat
tering ram.
Both women are suspected
of participating in prostitu
tion in Gwinnett County and
other states, Porter said.
“A ‘date’ can cost as much
as $5,000 to $10,000,” Porter
said. “Eight-hundred to
SI,OOO for the prostitution
act is the bottom-line price.
They have a large number of
customers. ... It’s not street
prostitution.”
Porter said the women had
plans for a “date” at Taylor’s
home before the arrest.
The district attorney
said the arrests came after
receiving a tip from The
Gwinnett Daily Post. The
newspaper was told about a
Web site that detailed com
ments about services from
call girls who operate in U.S.
cities. The newspaper sent
the information to Porter’s
office in early November.
Taylor, who goes by the
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name Melissa Wolf on the
site, boasts that she is
“North America’s Most
Published Centerfold and
one of Penthouse Magazine’s
Most Published Pets” on her
personal Web site.
Duluth is about 22 miles
northeast of Atlanta.
Jan. 31 deadline
set for plant
AMERICUS (AP) - A
financially troubled auto
parts company has set a
Jan. 31 deadline for closing
a southwest Georgia plant,
a move that would cost 350
jobs, state labor officials say.
Economist John Kooti,
dean of the business school
at Georgia Southwestern
University, said the plant
closing would be a major
setback for Americus and
surrounding Sumter County,
where manufacturing has
traditionally provided some
of the more desirable jobs.
“It will be very signifi
cant for a small economy
like Sumter County,” he said
Thursday. “Manufacturing
is a big part of the economy
and, of course, normally they
have higher wages.”
Collins & Aikman, a
Michigan-based compa
ny linked to a securities
fraud probe, has informed
the Georgia Department
of Labor that it will close
the plant by the end of the
month, unless another com
pany buys the plant.
Georgia Labor
Commissioner Michael
Thurmond said he wants
workers “to know that
they’re not alone in dealing
with the problem.”
Labor Department rep
resentatives will meet with
company officials Thursday
to discuss worker servic
es such as unemployment
compensation, job-search
assistance and retraining,
Thurmond said.
The company was formed
in 1891 as an upholstery
manufacturer and now pro
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vides automotive flooring,
fabric, instrument panels
and other equipment for
major automakers around
the world.
The Americus plant, which
makes plastic bumpers and
other plastic accessories for
vehicles, is one of 45 Collins
& Aikman plants in North
America.
The company filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy pro
tection last year. A prosecu
tor confirmed last month
that its former chairman
and CEO, David Stockman,
a top official in the Reagan
Administration, is a target
of an investigation into pos
sible financial fraud at the
company. Stockman’s law
yer says he does not believe
charges will be brought.
The company announced
in mid-November that it
was trying to sell all of its
factories and assets around
the country because of its
financial problems. Some of
the company’s plants have
attracted buyer interest,
but not the Americus plant,
company spokesman David
Youngman said.
Youngman said the com
pany will continue efforts
to sell the Americus plant,
but may have to transfer
equipment to some of the
company’s other plants or to
other suppliers to continue
production.
Man pleads guilty
to molesting girls
ATLANTA (AP) - A man
who was accused of molest
ing young, female relatives
and posting it on the Internet
has pleaded guilty.
Steven L. Pease plead
ed guilty Tuesday to one
count of rape, one count of
incest, two counts of aggra
vated child molestation, twq
counts of aggravated sexual
battery and three counts of
child molestation.
One of the relatives, a
12-year-old, reported that
Pease had raped her from
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Rome 68 45 pt sunny
Savannah 76 57 pt sunny
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Statesboro 76 57 pt sunny
Thomasville 79 62 rain
Valdosta 79 60 cloudy
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Phoenix 60 38 sunny
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Washington. DC 68 47 pt sunny
March through August. She
told authorities she reported
it to a friend’s mother after
seeing her 7-year-old sister
coming from Pease’s bed
room with her pants down.
Alpharetta police said
Pease videotaped the sexu
al abuse for viewing on an
Internet video chat room.
Most of the abuse happened
while the girls’ mother slept
or while she was working
three jobs to support the
family, Alpharetta police
spokesman Justin Wilson
said.
Fulton County District
Attorney Paul Howard’s
office said prosecutors will
seek a life sentence for Pease
when he is sentenced Jan.
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DOT to restore communities
erased from highway map
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Po Biddy
Crossroads will be back on
the map. So will Hopeulikit
and Doctortown.
From Abbottsford to
Zetella, the 488 communi
ties wiped from this year’s
version of the state high
way map will be restored,
the Georgia Department
of Transportation said
Wednesday.
“These communities are
as much a part of the fabric
of our state as our major
metropolitan areas,” said
Vicki Gavalas, the depart
ment’s spokeswoman. “The
department will provide the
public with a map that not
only reflects Georgia’s eco
nomic evolution, but also the
historical significance of its
many communities.”
The towns were erased
from the map after the
transportation department
decided it wanted a clearer,
more legible version of the
map to hand out for free at
visitors centers and tourism
hotspots.
The move led to an outcry
among some small-town offi
cials, who said the erasure of
places like Cloudland, Poetry
Tulip and Chattoogaville
were an insult to rural resi
dents.
It also prompted a response
from the highest reaches
of state government. Gov.
Sonny Perdue said in a letter
to transportation officials
released Wednesday that his
office was deluged with calls
from residents concerned
about the cartographic con
fusion.
“I myself have heard first
hand from Georgians about
their concerns regarding the
economic and societal impact
the state’s actions will have
on small communities,”
Perdue said in the letter,
which urged the transporta
tion board to reconsider the
changes.
Carrie Hamblin, a trans
portation department
spokeswoman, said the
decision applies to both the
large-print and regular text
versions of the map. She said
the maps are usually printed
in the summer, but that the
department is trying to get
an earlier printing date.
Dennis Holt, who is lead
ing a community effort to
restore the name of western
Georgia’s Hickory Level, cel
ebrated the decision.
“It’s wonderful,” he said.
“It shouldn’t have happened
to begin with, but we’re glad
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they put it back to how it
should have been.”
Mapmaking criteria vary
by state, and a little house
cleaning over time is not
unusual. But other states
said it is almost unheard
of to see hundreds of com
munities given the boot in
a single year. Even Rand
McNally, which as North
America’s biggest commer
cial mapmaker sells its maps
at gas stations and book
stores, said a change of just
a dozen place names on its
state maps is rare.
News of the cartographic
change prompted a flood
of map-related letters and
phone calls to the governor’s
office, as well as a number of
complaints from legislators,
said Bert Brantley, Perdue’s
spokesman.
State Sen. Tim Golden, a
Democrat who represents a
swath of south Georgia with
at least two towns missing
from the map, was one of
the lawmakers who said the
towns should be restored.
“I think for both historical
reasons and tourism, why
not leave them on the map?”
he said.
Gavalas, the transit
department’s spokeswoman,
said she regrets that any
rural residents feel slighted.
“That certainly was not our
intent,” she said. “Indeed,
our only intent was to make
the official state map a more
easily read resource.”
Still, Holt said he’s wary
of another attempt to ax his
town of 1,000 from the map
again.
“We’re glad that they’ve
seen the light and put it
back on there,” he said. “Our
concern is: Will they do this
again? We’ll be waiting, we’ll
be watching.
“We’ve been here 178
years. I’ve been here 30 of
those. And we’re not going
anywhere.”
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