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Birmingham Post-Herald, Wednesday,

September 19, 1990

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month. Eto~ah Cou~ty Chief Deputy Sheriff Kirby Johnston said Melame Lowery, 35, remained in custody. She was arrested earlier this month and charged in the slaying of minister Jackie Ray Lowery, 47. He apparently was fatally shot at home on the morning of Aug. 24. His body was then taken to a dump on Ford's Valley Road near Hoke's Bluff and set afire. Mrs. Lowery is one of three charged in the death. Robbie Howard, a 19-year-old neighbor, was released last week on a $25,000 bond, and a 15-year-old charged in the case remains in the Coosa Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Anniston.

Education board candidate named

MOBILE - Republican Party officials nominated former Public Service Commission member Jim Zeigler as the Gap challenger for the state Board of ~d~cation ~eat held by Democrat John Tyson Jr., who IS vice president of the state school board. Tyson has held the seat representing Mobile, Baldwin and Escam~ia counti~s for 10 years. Mobile County Gap Executive Committee Chairman Rusty Johnston announ~ed Zeigler's nomination Monday, the deadline for parties to pick their nominees for the Nov. 6 gene~al ele~tion ballot. Zeigler, 44, replaces Gap candidate Lila Dexter, who earlier withdrew.

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School Superintende people will attend ope schools Oct. 1, 2 and 4 fund-raiser. Sang hosted the kil yesterday, which brin! to raise money througl It is important to : involved in public edu do that is to ask them 1 Elementary schools middle and junior high on Oct. 4. The schools will op being skipped because night, Sang said.

Moody's mental state to be tested

Walter Leroy Moody Jr., a suspect in the December package bombing that killed U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Vance in Mountain Brook, must undergo psychiatric testing, a federal judge in Macon, Ga., ruled yesterday. U.S. District Judge Wilbur D. Owens Jr. ordered that Moody, who is being held in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, be examined within 30 days to determine if he is competent to stand trial on charges unrelated to the bombings. Owens has set a Nov. 26 trial date. The evaluation was requested by federal prosecutors; who said Moody's mental health history from 1967 to 1988 indicates "there may be reasonable cause to believe" Moody suffers from a ~ental disease, Moody and ~is wife, Susan, a:-e named m a. 13-count federal indictment accusing them of perjury, bribery and obstruction of justice. The charges stem from Moody's unsuccessful attempt to overturn a 1972 ,bomb p~ssession conviction. Moody, 56, of Rex, Ga., IS the chief suspect in two bombings in December. One killed Vance and the other killed Savannah lawyer Robert Robinson. No charges have. . been filed in those bombing cases. .

NTSB releases plane crash report

DOTHAN - Federal investigators cited a loose fuel strainer and a lack of proper maintenance in their report on a fatal air crash that killed three Georgia men and injured a child in rural southeast Alabama one year ago. The National Transportation Safety Board's finding on the crash were sent to the agency's Washington office, which could list probable cause of the accident in about two months said NTSB investigator Scott Strickland of Atlanta. The Sept. 17, 1989, crash near Gordon killed the pilot and aircraft owner, Roger K. Parmer, and passengers Edward B. ,.Prather and Kenneth S. Partridge, all of LaGrange, : ' :,Ga. Parmer's 6-year-old son, Brandon, received only ? -" '. minor injuries in the crash and was rescued by : _ passers-by.

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, GADSDEN - Etowah County District Judge Wayne . Owen yesterday set a $90,000 bond for a Hoke's Bluff woman charged with murdering her husband last

,Group discusses use of park trails

By James Ross
Post-Herald Reporter

A meeting to air disagreements between trail bikers and others who :. use the trails at Oak Mountain State , Park left no one completely satisfied '.,..;.last night. '

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"It's not that we have anything against" people who ride mountain bikes," one woman said. "We just "don't want you on our trails." \ She spoke for mimy of the people . who ride horses on the trails at Oak - Mountain State Park. '. While she was only one of about 40 people at the meeting, she expressed

the. feelings of many others. Many . someone wants to pass and vocally tralls at the park are inadequate and: warning others as you approach from behind. few people want to share what's left. N . . . "Maybe there should be a trail b 0 d~clslOns were made last night Just for bikers," said ,Tony Pliar ut a sign-up sheet was passed for who says that he rides daily. "Ther~ p~ople ,wh? want t~ join a planmng committee. ',' are a lot of trails for hikers and just one that bikers can use, but still a 'lot Haden Montgomery, park superinof people use that one for hiking." , tendent" said he was encouraged by He said things have gone well for the me~ting. him when he's used the trail. "I.think it was a very positive ~'I've. not h~d a~y problems using ~eetmg. Everybody expressed their the trail. Trail etiquette just needs differences of opinion." to be practiced." . "We defi~itely have to get more' He said trail etiquette includes volunteers mvolved in maintenance' moving over when you see that' of the trails."

Whitney Smith 'tu "He apparently wa: fast and entered a cUI , could not negotiate at said sheriff's Lt. M.V. S Smith's car ran off struck a concrete for turned Shell said S~ ' '