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WEATHER
Mostly sunny, windy and
warm. High 82, low 62.
More on 8B.
TRAFFIC WATCH
The left lane of
southbound Interstate
35E from Camp Wisdom
Road to Interstate 20 will
be closed from 7 a.m. to
2 p.m. Saturday.
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Noteworthy
Police choir
tunes up for
Normandy
Dallas police are preparing
to invade Normandy. Or least
the officers who can sing.
The Dallas Police Choir has
accepted an invitation to travel
to Normandy, France, in June
for the 60th anniversary of the
D-Day invasion.
The gig is a natural fit,
given the group’s traditional
repertoire. The choir, made up
of 17 officers and five police
retirees, is widely known for
its patriotic performances,
said Sgt. Paul Morris, choir
director.
‘This is a fantastic
opportunity for the choir to
honor the soldiers who gave
their fives in the pursuit of
freedom,” Sgt. Morris said.
“It is also an opportunity to
represent the department and
the city of Dallas in an
extraordinary manner.”
Jason Trahan
Inside
Man gets death
in Subway slaying
A Dallas County jury delib-
erated less than two hours
Friday before sentencing
Terry Edwards, 30, to death
in the killing of 26-year-old
Mickell “Mickey” Goodwin
duringa July 2002 robbery
of the Subway shop on Lake
June Road. 2B
CPS had looked into
injured boy’s family
Child Protective Services
officials said Friday that
the family of a 2-year-old
boy hospitalized for a
fractured skull, multiple
bruises and internal bleed-
ing has.been investigated
for possible abuse several
times before. 2B
Patrol program set
for Lower Greenville
Publicity.and increased
vigilance appear to have
driven a pair of muggers
away from Lower Green-
ville, but that won’t deter a
plan to hire off-duty police
to supplement neighbor-
hood patrols, a business and
residential coalition an-
nounced Friday. 5B
Briefs................... 2B
Lottery.....................................................2B
Scouts........................................... 2B
Mercedes Olivera......................................3B
Obituaries................................................4B
Overnight.................................................7B
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Saturday, November 22, 2003
OVERNIGHT
Josh Rouse gets
crowd in the mood
Singer-songwriter Josh Rouse’s
smooth tunes turned Thursday
evening into Couples’ Night at the
Gypsy Tea Room. 7B
■ Delinquent ticket payers may get Thanksgiving visit
Holiday could be real
turkey for violators
By MICHAEL GRABELL
Staff Writer
Some Dallas residents may be eat-
ing humble pie instead of pumpkin
pie Thursday. The city marshal’s office
has a bone to pick with them.
To ease a backlog of hundreds of
thousands of warrants, the marshal’s
office is planning a Thanksgiving Day
crackdown on people who haven’t
paid their traffic tickets or who have
other misdemeanor violations.
“We are going to have a Thanksgiv-
ing Day initiative,” Mayor Laura Mill-
er said Friday. “We’re going to send our
marshals down to their homes and
say, ‘Come on down for turkey’ ”
She said she hopes the threat of
marshals knocking on their doors on
Turkey Day will goose violators into
paying their fines next week. But the
city marshal’s office is keeping details
of the sweep under wraps.
Sgt. Don Peritz of the Dallas County |
sheriffs office said holidays are an op- I
portune time to serve warrants because |
that’s when people are home. But it can
also be hazardous.
“Any warrant service is dangerous. I
It’s even more dangerous on the holi-
days when they’re enjoying that time
with their families,” he said. “No one |
wants to spend the holidays in jail.”
To pay an outstanding ticket, peo-
ple can go to Court and Detention Ser- I
vices at 2014 Main St. or the Lew Ster- I
rett Justice Center at 111 W. I
Commerce St. during regular business
hours or check www.dallascityhall |
.com
E-mail mgrabell@dallasnews.com
Defense rests
in Delapaz trial
‘Long, winding road’
never materializes as
lawyers call only 1 witness
By ROBERT THARP
and MATT STILES
Staff Writers
Mark Delapaz’s attorneys prom-
ised to take jurors down a “long,
winding road” in their defense of the
former Dallas narcotics officer ac-
cused of lying in a series ofbogus drug
busts.
The defense team’s witness list
boasted 65 names, including former
Police Chief Terrell Bolton and Dis-
trict Attorney Bill Hill, while lead at-
torney Paul Coggins pledged to high-
light his client’s character and
reputation as a “cop’s cop.”
But after calling just one witness
to aide Mr. Delapaz, defense attor-
neys abruptly rested their case when
court convened Friday afternoon.
Seven days into a trial that was
scheduled to stretch more than 15
days, U.S. District Judge Barbara
Lynn instructed jurors to return
Monday for closing arguments in the
case.
Mr. Delapaz, 36, faces up to 10
years in prison if convicted of violat-
ingthe civil rights offour people by ly-
ing in reports and causing their false
arrests.
In opening remarks at the start of
See DEFENSE Page 5B
Mark
Delapaz, a
former
Dallas
narcotics
officer, is
accused of
lyingina
series of
bogusdrug
busts.
Jacquielynn Floyd
Holiday
guilt —
already?
Some people down the street
from us put their Christmas
lights up this week. I have to
admire their efficiency — getting it
done while the weather’s still nice
and the kids are in school — but
the sight of it hot-wired my dor-
mant holiday angst and brought it
roaring to life.
Mental-health professionals,
or perhaps German philosophers,
probably have a specific technical
term to denote that before-the-
fact guilt you experience in antici-
pation of the many things you’re
not going to accomplish. I get it
earlier eveiy year.
It’s torture. House by house,
my neighbors will start disman-
tling their fall harvest displays —
cunning arrangements of scare-
crows and gourds and bales of hay
— before I ever got around to buy-
ing a pumpkin. By this time next
week, their yards will be show-
cases for twinkling lights and
backlit reindeer and elegant nativ-
ity scenes.
They’ll probably be gathered
around their pianos, singing carols
and drinking hot spiced wine,
while I lie exhausted on the sofa in
the wake of hosting a Thanksgiv-
ing meal, most of which I plan to
buy carryout.
I know I shouldn’t generalize,
but it’s women who usually come
down with this complaint. Men
experience guilt, of course, but
they rarely feel guilty about not do-
ing things they haven’t not done
yet.
I’m already full of bitter re-
morse over cards not sent, cookies
not baked, parties not hosted and
relatives not visited. I’m embar-
See HOLIDAY Page 2B
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See KIDS Page 5B
Good Shepherd have been learn-
ing about gratitude, in part with
a curriculum developed by Dal-
las’ Thanks-Giving Square Foun-
dation. Over the last several
weeks, the students have com-
pleted the typical November ac-
tivities: making turkey center-
pieces, studying the voyage of the
Mayflower, dressing up like Pil-
grims.
They’ve talked about how
they can include gratitude in
their everyday lives. The lessons
have helped teachers at Good
Shepherd remember that, some-
times, it’s the simple things that
F
Good
Shepherd
third-
grader
Price
Nagler
makes sure
he leaves a
clean plate.
Photos by MEI-CHUN JAU/Staff Photographer
Good Shepherd Episcopal third-graders Jess Clay and Lauren Waymire enjoyed the school’s Thanksgiving feast on Friday.
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School’s lesson on gratitude
gets top-notch effort from kids
By KENT FISCHER
Staff Writer
Headlines are heavy with
American casualty reports and
celebrity scandal. How hard it
must be to teach virtues such as
gratitude when the world seems
to be cracking apart.
Luckily for teacher Lauren
Steele, children teach her.
“The things that my kids say
they’re thankful for — a pat on
the back, warm clothes — leave
me humbled and grateful,” said
Ms. Steele, a third-grade teacher
at Good Shepherd Episcopal
School. “I get tears in my eyes just
talking about it.”
All this month, the students at
Historic home donated for preservation
Black Dallas
Remembered gets
State-Thomas property
By NORMA ADAMS-WADE
Special Contributor
Jubilant descendants of pio-
neer black families from the early
State-Thomas community re-
turned to their old neighborhood
Friday and celebrated a home-
coming.
Officers of Black Dallas Re-
membered, a nonprofit historic
preservation group, accepted the
donation of property that includes
a ranch-style home and duplex
that will be a museum, research
center and showplace, where
small groups can work on history
projects and visitors can tour the
facility, the group said.
“We are so thankful,” said Dr.
Mamie McKnight, Black Dallas
Remembered founder and execu-
tive director. “We don’t know if we
deserve this [gift] or not, but this
has been our year.”
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The property at 2605 Thomas
Ave. at Routh Street is a 2,900-
square-foot showplace home built
in 1956. The four-bedroom house
belonged to Rosa Viola Hill-Smith
and TH. Smith. The late William
H. Hill, a businessman and former
teacher in Sherman, bequeathed
his sister’s property to the preser-
vation group. Mr. Hill died in Au-
gust 2002 at 83.
Behind the house is a duplex,
which was built in 1925 and faces
Routh Street.
The main house is fully fur-
nished with many amenities that
signified the well-to-do lifestyle of
pioneer black families in the area,
including crystal chandeliers, an-
tique furniture and velveteen wall-
paper. The donors even left family
memorabilia and photographs
throughout the house.
The event also marked the
opening of the group’s Hill-Smith
Family Heritage Library and Re-
search Center in the State-Thomas
Historic District, which some
See BLACK Page 3B
TOM FOX/Staff Photographer
Jennie HiR (right) of the Hill family talks with Mamie
McKnight, Black Dallas Remembered founder, at the home.
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