Orange Leader, The (Newspaper) - December 20, 2003, Orange, Texas Christmas cards throughout the Accent ORANGE LEADER 128 354 December 2003 2 Sections 20 50 Cents Teenage drug use continues decline WASHINGTON AP American teenagers are cutting back on their use of illicit drugs and but alcohol consumption is holding the govern ment An annual survey of 12th graders done for the Former JP Bartie resigns By Angela Weaver Southeast Texas News Service Citing a desire to pursue other political for mer Precinct 8 Justice of the Peace Thurman Bartie has resigned his judicial Texas law requires me to resign my judicial position before I may pursue other political Bartie said in a letter to to the I write to tender my resignation as Justice of Peace Precinct Texas so that I may pursue such His letter was short and to the including that his resignation should not be con strued as acceptance of the State Commission on Judicial Conducts recommendation that he never serve in a judi cial capacity again on the basis of judicial miscon With the commissions recent appointment of seven appeals court judges to serve on a tribunal to hear Barties objections to the commis sions Seana executive director of the said the case will still go We still go Willing It Barties resignation has no impact on the case we have against We can pur sue him as a judge or a former We hope the order will be that hes barred from being a judge in the she Thats whats only thing on the Bartie did not return calls for comment An evidentiary hearing on Barties conduct was called after an incident in May 2002 See Page 2A Department of Health and Human found declines in many kinds of drugs for high school stu especially for Ecstasy and the Bush adminis tration said the annual sur vey funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse Leader Online Please visit our website at Weather SUNNY Today will be sunny with highs in the Please see Page the complete weather Index 2A Opinion State Sports Features Comics Entertainment showed an 11 drop in illegal drug use in the past two slightly sur passing President Bushs goal of a 10 percent reduc tion during that The known as Monitoring the tracked drug use and atti tudes among stu dents from 302 There was one troubling sign slowing declines in the use of certain drugs by eighth graders and a slight increase in their use of said Lloyd who directed the study by the University of Institute for Social We should take this as a little warning because eighth graders have been indicative of things to come in the Johnston In there was an overall increase in the illic it use of the synthetic painkillers OxyContin and Leader photos by Brandon Thibodeaux Mable below has more than 112 buildings in her miniature Christmas along with dozens of trees and hundreds of She began the collection in 1986 and it grows every w WORLD This is a little subhead to tell about this womans and her houses This is a little subhead to tell By Royal Hopper III The Orange Leader Mable living room is always full during the It has dozens of pine hundreds of people and 112 buildings of all Durio has spent more than 16 years collecting ceramic hous miniature figures and model Christmas trees for a Christmas village that covers most of her living room and part of the Every Christmas my boys ask me what I want for and I say a house or then they ask Durio The village sits on simulated snow on stairstep shelves in a half circle that up most of her living The figurines playing in the snow cost more than by Train stations stand next to a ski which is near a blacksmith a a police sta flour mill and a beauty See Page 2A reflective of pat terns seen in the general The survey showed a dif ferent picture of drug use from another poll of teens that also is used to measure the effectiveness of White Sec Page 2A Redistricting map given preliminary approval AUSTIN AP The Department of Justice cleared a Republican backed congressional dis map just hours after a federal panel ruled that redistricting is permissible under state The DOJ evaluated the map to see if it adhered to the fed eral Voting Rights a law that protects minority voting Its unfortunate that the Bush Justice Department ignored the Voting Rights Act and tion from minority leaders in said Gerry a Democratic attorney chal the map adopted by lawmakers in The proposed map es over million Hispanics and African Americans just so Republicans can get seven more seats in The approval comes as a federal panel in Austin hears legal challenges by Democrats to the new which gives the GOP as many as seven additional seats in the delegation ruled 1715 by Republican Rick Perry said the DOJ decision vali dated our efforts to draw fairer districts that reflect the voting patterns of Republicans hold every post and rule both the state Senate and As the Department of Justice senators and representatives carried out their constitutional responsi this year in a fair and legal Perry Secretary of State Geoff Connor saying in a statement that the state pro vided sufficient proof that the proposed congressional districts do not deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race or We will now wait to hear from the panel regarding the federal court case brought against the new he See Page 2A Overwhelming generosity Privacy flu outbreak give childrens hospitals tough time accommodating some requests CHICAGO AP Some are deluged with too many Teddy Others have to turn visitors Its that time of year when childrens hospitals are overwhelmed with gifts and calls from people whod like to deliver them person This holiday hospital officials say new federal privacy regulations and a particularly nasty flu bug have made it even tougher to fulfill all the requests they Robin Krawchuk ran into the strict rules when she asked to deliver toys to patients at Childrens Hospital of where she was a leukemia patient several years I wanted to do it to repay people that did it for says the And its talking to the kids and seeing them and just walking in there with a big bag of The hospitals staff com promised by having her deliver the toys to their The girl did a nice says Jackie spokes woman for Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin in suburban But the reality is most when theyre in the hospital these are really So a visit by someone they dont know even if its a kid who went See Page 2A AP photo Robin Krawchuck stands in the middle of a large pile of pre sents that she and her family plan to deliver to sick children for the Sunday in a survivor of has raised over 850 gifts for sick but has run into strict hospital rules when trying to personally deliver toys to patients at Childrens Hospital of where she was a leukemia patient several years
