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The Red and Black • Wednesday, January 24, 1990 • 3
Alabama junk dealer lunches with FBI
Under pressure
Pat James does her part at the Red Cross blood drive Tuesday at
the Coliseum.
The Associated Press
ENTERPRISE, Ala. - A junk
dealer offered prayers and cooper
ation to the FBI as agents searched
his warehouse and dug up his
septic tank Tuesday looking for ev
idence to help solve the mail bomb
killing of a federal judge and black
lawyer.
Wayne O’Ferrell ate lunch with
FBI agents and accompanied them
to his warehouse Tuesday af
ternoon, one day after about 100
agents and scores of reporters
turned 0’Ferrel!'s home and junk
business into the main focus of the
mail bomb investigation.
O’Ferrell, 46, a one-time rural
preacher, said he asked several
members of his church “to pray for
my family that we can get through
this thing and I’ve asked them to
pray for the FBI to find whatever
they are looking for."
FBI Special Agent Chuck Archer
of Mobile, at a news conference
Tuesday, said there have been no
arrests and that three search war
rants have been approved for
searches of property other than
OTerrell’s. He did not identify the
property. O’FerreU'B home, ware-
nouse and abandoned store were
searched Monday as a missing
typewriter was viewed as the main
object of the search.
Agents unearthed the top of
O’Ferrell’s septic tank Tuesday af
ternoon and began pumping out its
contents. Archer declined to specify
the type of evidence sought.
Later Tuesday afternoon the
FBI, along with U.S. Attorney Jim
Wilson of Montgomery and an
Army bomb squad, returned to
OTerrell’s sprawling junk ware
house once more.
Archer declined to describe
O’Ferrell as a suspect. “He is one of
O’Ferrell, 46, a one
time rural preacher,
said he asked several
members of his church
“to pray for my family
that we can get
through this thing and
I’ve asked them to pray
for the FBI to find
whatever they are
looking for.”
many people we have interviewed,”
said the FBI agent.
Court records show O’Ferrell,
who lives on a rural road between
Enterprise and New Brockton in
southeast Alabama, lost a case
heard on appeal by U.S. Circuit
Judge Robert Vance. The judge
was killed Dec. 16 when a package
bomb sent through the mail ex
ploded at his home in Mountain
Brook near Birmingham.
Robert Robinson, a black civil
rights lawyer in Savannah, Ga.,
was killed two days later bv an
other exploding package, and sim
ilar mail bombs were defused at
the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
in Atlanta, which Vance served,
and at NAACP headquarters in
Jacksonville, Fla..
Sources in the federal investiga
tion, who asked not to be identi
fied, confirmed published reports
that said typewritten correspon
dence in OTerrell’s court case ap
pears to match typewritten
correspondence sent by the alleged
mail bomber.
Georgia House committees talk anti-drug bills
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Committees of the
Georgia House cranked out more
anti-drug legislation Tuesday in
what legislative leaders nave
vowed will be a war against drugs
in the state.
The House Ways and Means
Committee approved a bill that
would allow the state to use the
sales tax as an additional tool to
punish drug dealers.
Under the measure, dealers
could be fined up to $100,000 and
sentenced to up to five years in
prison for failing to collect sales
taxes on drug transactions even
though such sales are illegal.
"It’s aimed at trying to get the
drug trafficker, and it’s aimed at
getting in his pocketbook,” said
Rep. Bill Barnett, D-Cumming.
The bill now goes to the full
House.
The House Industry Committee
approved a bill that would give the
Public Service Commission’s en
forcement personnel specific power
to make arrests when they en
counter drug cases on the highway.
Snoopy turns 40, that’s
280 in dog years
The Associated Press
PARIS — The French celebrated
Snoopy on Tuesday, saying that
happiness is a warm puppy-even
one that’s 40 years old.
The beguiling beagle who ap
pears in Charles Schultz’s comic
strip “Peanuts” was honored with a
blockbuster retrospective worthy of
the World War I flying ace, bird-
lover and faithful friend to that
round-headed kid.
Schultz, by the way, also was
honored. He was named Com
mander of Arts and Letters, one of
France’s highest awards for excel
lence in the arts.
‘Thank you for being the creator
of Snoopy, full of humor and with a
zest for life,” Culture Minister Jack
Lang told Schultz. “Your character
is both mythical and hedonistic
and he has taken over our collec
tive consciousness and become a
part of our everyday lives.”
Schultz, beaming but appearing
slightly embarrassed by the atten
tion, said that during Snoopy’s war
years when he battled the Red
Baron, he (Snoopy) once explained
how he learned to speak French.
“He said he had a small tourist
phrase book, but he told me you
only really need to know one word,
and that is, ‘Merci’, ” Schultz said
in English.
Ceremonies took place at the
Decorative Arts Museum, which is
honoring the whimsical dog with a
retrospective featuring Snoopy
memorabilia.
Eve Dutton, director of special
events at Determined Productions,
which co-sponsored the show with
the Paris museum, said Schultz
was “shocked” when asked to par
ticipate in the show, which opens
to the public Wednesday and runs
through April 22.
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