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Sweetwater Reporter
Thursday, May 12, 2011 ■ Page 3
Obituaries
MATEO CABALLERO
MATEO CABALLERO
Mateo Caballero went to be with the lord on May 10,
2011 at 4 a.m. at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene.
He was surrounded at his bed side by his daughters,
Rosa, Sylvia, Margie, Mickey, Matilda and granddaugh-
ter, Sandy.
Mateo Caballero was born in Kennedy, Texas on March
n, 1923. He was 88 years old. He lived a happy life in
Sweetwater for 44 years. He was
a loving and wonderful husband,
father, grandfather, great-grand-
father, brother, uncle and friend.
He was a member of Highland
Baptist Church. He married Maria
Limones on Sept. 5,1942 in Violet,
Texas.
His is survived by his four
sons, Daniel Caballero, Sr. and
wife Maria Cano of Abilene, Elias
Caballero and wife Alma of Welch,
|| Samm Caballero and wife Velma
of Abilene and Arnold Caballero
of Sweetwater; his nine daugh-
ters, Amanda Flores and husband
Manuel of Sweetwater, Elida Garcia
of Galveston, Rosa Castereno and
husband Juan of Sweetwater, Connie Montemayor of
Abilene, Gloria Hernandez and husband Joe of Roby,
Silvia Picon of Abilene, Margarita Ramos of Sweetwater,
Mikeila Molina of Sweetwater and Matilda Caballero
of Sweetwater. He has three sisters, Maria Caballero,
Bertha Caballero and Janie Villareal. Mr. Caballero
has 52 grandchildren, 100 great-grandchildren and 18
great-great grandchildren. He was loved by all and will
be missed so much.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Felix and
Petra Caballero; his wife, Maria L. Caballero; a son,
Alcario Caballero; a daughter, Alice Leyva; four broth-
ers; and two grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Joe Caballero, Lenard Delgado,
Gabriel Molina, Angel Caballero, Micheal Gomez and
Jason Montemayor. Honorary pallbearers will be Johnny
Castereno, Daniel Caballero, Jr., Robert Garcia, Ezekiel
Molina, Jimmy Joe Barboza and Jonathan Castereno.
A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday,
May 12, 2011, at McCoy Chapel of Memories. Funeral
services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday May 13, 2011,
at McCoy Chapel of Memories, with Rev. Keith Clower
officiating. Interment will be at Sweetwater Cemetery,
under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.
TONY WAYNE FISHER
A memorial service for Tony Wayne Fisher, 42, of
Sweetwater, will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 14,
2011, at Word of God Church in Sweetwater with Rev.
Dale Stowe officiating.
Fisher died Monday, May 9, 2011, at Nolan Nursing
and Rehab in Sweetwater.
GLENN BOND FITZGERALD
Funeral services for Glenn Bond Fitzgerald, 90, of
Sweetwater, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May
14, 2011, at McCoy Chapel of Memories. Interment
follow at Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of
McCoy Funeral Home.
Fitzgerald died Wednesday, May 11, 2011, in
Sweetwater.
Prosecutors seek Dallas
man's exoneration
DANNY ROBBINS
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP)
Thursday may be the
day Johnny Pinchback
becomes an innocent man
in the eyes of the law for
the first time in 27 years.
Prosecutors are sched-
uled to ask a judge in
Dallas to rule Pinchback
innocent of aggravated
sexual assault, making
him the latest person to
be exonerated as a result
of DNA testing in Dallas
County.
District Attorney Craig
Watkins said his office will
ask for a ruling of inno-
cence for the 55-year-old
who was sentenced to 99
years in prison in October
1984.
If exonerated, Pinchback
would become the 22nd
person cleared through
DNA testing in the county
since 2001.
"Thanks to the thor-
ough investigation by
our Conviction Integrity
Unit and the continuous
advances in DNA technol-
ogy, Johnny Pinchback
will regain his freedom,"
Watkins said in a written
statement released by his
office Wednesday.
Two teenage girls
claimed Pinchback raped
them in a field as they
were walking home from
school. The girls' identi-
fication of Pinchback for
police and again during
the trial was the key evi-
dence in his conviction.
However, an investi-
gation initiated by the
Innocence Project of Texas
led to tests on body hair
cuttings from one of the
victims that showed the
DNA of another man.
Natalie Roetzel, the
chief attorney for the non-
profit organization, said
Pinchback got a break
because such cuttings don't
always yield evidence of
DNA and no other mate-
rial from the rape kit could
be located.
"We got very lucky that
they were able to find sem-
inal fluid on the cuttings,
which is rare," she said.
Roetzel said Pinchback's
belief in his innocence
was noticed in prison by
another man who felt the
same about his own Dallas
County aggravated sexual
assault conviction. That
man, Charles Chatman,
was exonerated in 2008
and then began lobby-
ing the Innocence Project
of Texas on Pinchback's
behalf, she said.
"He was persistent in
calling me and saying,
'Look at Johnny's case,"'
Roetzel said.
She said Chatman
has purchased a suit for
Pinchback to wear at the
hearing.
Roetzel said the excite-
ment Pinchback feels
about his pending release
is tempered by the notion
that he was wrongfully
imprisoned for so long.
"He's obviously very
excited," she said. "But
he's also calm, because
he's known for 27 years
he's not the man who did
these crimes."
Diary: Bin Laden eyed new
targets, big body count
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep in hiding, his terror
organization becoming battered and fragmented, Osama
bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to
hit the U.S., officials say, citing his private journal and
other documents recovered in last week's raid.
Strike sir: slier ities, bin Laden suggested. Target
trains as well as planes. If possible, strike on significant
dates, such as the Fourth < July and the upcoming 10th
anniversary of the attacks of Sept, 11, 2001. Above all,
kill as many Americans as possil: in a single attack.
Though ie was out of the public eye and al-Qaida
seemed to be weakening, bin Laden never yielded coi
trol of his worldwide organization, U.S. officials said
Wednesday. His personal, handwritten journal and his
massive collection of computer files reveal his hand at
work in every recent major al-Qaida threat, including
plots in Europe last year that had travelers and embas-
sies on high alert, two officials said.
They described the intelligence to The Associated
Press only on conditi on of anonymity because they were
not authorized to talk publicly about what was found in
bin Laden's hideout. Analysts are continuing to review
the documents.
The information shatters the government's conven-
tional thinking about bin Laden, who had been regarded
for years as mostly an inspirational figurehead whose
years in hiding made him too marginalized to maintain
operational control of the organization he founded.
Instead, bin Laden was communicating from his
walled compound in Pakistan with al-Qaida ; offshoots,
including the Yemen branch that has emerged as the
leading threat to the United States, the documents
indicate, Though there is no evidence yet that he was
directly behind the attempted Christmas Day 2009
bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner or the nearly suc-
cessful attack on cargo planes heading for Chicago and
Philadelphia, it's now clear that they bear some of bin
Laden's hallmarks.
He was well aware of U.S. counterterrorist efforts
and schooled his followers in working around them, the
messages to his followers show. Don't limit attacks to
New York City, he said in his writings. Consider other
areas such as Los Angeles or smaller cities. Spread out
the targets.
In one particularly macabre bit of mathematics, bin
Laden's writings show him musing over just how many
Americans he must kill to force the U.S. to withdraw
from the Arab world. He concludes that the smaller,
scattered attacks since 9/11 had not been enough. He
tells his disciples that only a body count of thousands,
something on the scale of 9/11, would shii U.S. policy.
He also schemed about ways to sow political dissent
in Washington and play political figures against one
another, officials said.
The communications were in missives sent via plug-in
computer storage devices called flash drives. The devic-
es were ferried to bin Laden's compoun by couriers, a
process that is slow but exceptionally difficult to track.
Relay
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American Cancer Society (ACS) office at 325-691-1519
with any questions
"The American Cancer Society Relay for Life offers
an opportunity for survivors, current cancer patients,
friends, family, anyone really, to come together in the
fight against cancer," said Charlie Peek, 2011 Relay for
Life Chairman. "Many of the participants are cancer
survivors who serve as reminders that our community is
not immune to this disease and we can actually help our
friends, families and neighbors who have been touched
by cancer."
All are invited to attend the luminaria ceremony,
which takes place after sundown to honor the commu-
nity's cancer survivors and caregivers. While remember-
ing those lost to the disease, participants circle the track
lined with glowing luminaria (candle lanterns) while
the names of survivors and those lost to the disease are
read aloud. Luminaria nay be purchased for any dona-
tion amount. Please call Amber Gee at 325-436-1827 for
purchases or inquiries.
Using Hearts and Feet for Fight Cancer
Funds raised at Relay for Life will enable the American
Cancer Society to support local services and resources
for cancer patients and their families. Proceeds raised
in Sweetwater, Texas, stay in the West Texas Region
of ACS. Funds also support critical lancer research
and community education programs designed to teach
people how to reduce their risk of developing cancer.
Relay for Life events take place in more numerous
communities throughout Texas, raising money for the
fight against cancer.
To locate a Relay for Life event and fine out who
you can get involved, visit www.RelayForLife.org; call
1-800-ACS-2345, available 24 hours a day, seven days a
week; or visit www.cancer.org.
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, com-
munity-based, voluntary health organization dedicated
to eliminating cancer as 1 majoi health problem dv
preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffer-
lg from cancer through research, education, a vocacy,
and service.
Intelligence officials have not identified any new
planned targets or plots ir their initial analysis of the
100 or so flash drives and five computers that Navy
SEALs hauled away after killing bin Laden. Last week,
the FBI and Homeland Security Department warned law
enforcement officials nationwide to be on alert for pos-
sible attacks against trains, though officials said there
was no specific plot.
Officials have not yet seen any indication that bin
Laden had the ability to coordinate timing of attacks
across the various al-Qaida affiliates in Pakistan, Yemen,
Algeria, Iraq and Somalia, and it is alsc iclear from
bin Laden's documents how much the affiliate groups
relied on his guidance. The Yemen group, for instance*
has embraced the smaller-scale attacks that bin Laden's
writings indicate he regarded as msuccessful. The
Yemen branch had aire; ly surpassed his central opera-
tion as al-Qaida's leading fundraising, propaganda and
operational arm.
Al-Qaida has not named bin Laden's successor, but all
indications point to his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri. The
question is whether al-Zawahri, or anyone, has the abil-
ity to keep so many disparate groups under the al-Qaida
banner. The groups in Somalia and Algeria, for instance,
have very different goals focused on local grievances.
Without Laden to serve as their shepherd, it's pos-
sible al-Qaida will further fragment.
British officials said the Americans had shared some
information about the bin Laden cache but there had
been nothing concrete yet to indicate his stamp on any
of the recent terror attacks or plans in Britain — includ-
ing a European plot last year involving the threat of a
Mumbai-style shooting spree in a capital. Those officials
spoke on condition f anonymity to discuss matters of
intelligence.
Britain's two largest terror attacks and plots — the
2005 suicide bombings and the trans-Atlantic liquid
explosive plot to blow up several airliners in 2006 —
both had trails that led back to Pakistan and al-Qaida
figures, but there was never a direct link to bin Laden
hi mself.
Most of the recent plots, including the slabbing of
a lawmaker last yoa . have been traced to al-Qaida in
Yemen and cally the radical American-born cleric
Anwar al-A\vlaki 3ritish officials have said
One British official said counterterror authorities had
not been tracking bin Laden as they had other terrorists
deemed more directly involved in operations — which
may have been a mistake, from what they are now learn-
ing from bin Laden's own words.
RPMH
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care professionals and their services that keep our com-
munities healthy. What began in 1921 as the brainchild
of a magazine editor who wanted to educate the public
about the work of hospitals, National Hospital Week has
become one of the nation's largest healthcare celebra-
tions.
"National Hospital Week is about recognition of
healthcare providers and valuable services hospitals
provide to ensure a healthy community," said Donna
Boatright, chief executive officer at RPMH. 'There's
no eed to travel great distances for healthcare when
Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital is right around the
corner and is one of the best hospitals in a rural Texas."
The healthcare provider's de Ucation has been tested
over time, yet they remain resilient. Despite one of the
most challenging economic climates since the Great
Depression, RPMH continues to thrive and adap to
new technologies and treatment options to provide the
healthcare services in Nolan County.
Boatrigl said that many people in the community
are not fully aware of the breadth of services available
to them, but with a newly redesigned website, RPMH
hopes to change that.
It is important for members of our community to
know that we have the ability to care for them with
state-of-the-art equipment here at their local hospital,"
Boatright explained. "We have equal capabilities of
diagnosing and treating patients as other hospitals miles
down the highway. T e only difference is we're right
here—closer and ready to serve you."
iacli department and service offered by RPMH exem-
plifies what has become the hallmark of the healthcare
in the community. The combined synergy amongst the
medical, office and support teams results in the highest
quality of care and service to each patient
"During National Hospital Week, we would also like to
express our sincere appreciation to the professionals at
Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital who have introduced
us to the true wonder of medicine," said Boatright.
"When people care, miracles occur."
About Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital Rolling
Plains Memori; Hospital provides healthcare for those
in the communities they serve. Founded in 1976, Rolling
Plains Memorial Hospital offers a wealth of medical
services including: 24 hour emergency care, advanced
radiology services including CT scanning and MRIs,
outpatient lab, physical therapy, surgical services, swing
bed services, patient education, and more.
MIDDAY ON WALL STREET
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Change
DOW
12,570.06
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NASDAQ
2,834.75
-10.31
S&P
1,335.89
-6.19
General Motors
31.19
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Ford Motor Co.
15.25
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AT&T
31.40
+0.02
Pepsico, Inc.
70.11
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1 S<i Corp.
14.48
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Archer-Daniels
32.10
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GE
19.93
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Deere & Co.
89.79
-1.50
McDonalds Corp.
79.79
+0.28
Chevron Texaco
101.85
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Exxon Mobil
80.26
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Fst. Fin. Bnkshs.
54.34
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Coca-Cola
67.29
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Dell
16.67
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SW Airlines
12.08
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Microsoft
25.21
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Sears Holdings Co.
77.65
+0.17
Cisco
16.85
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Wal-Mart
55.30
+0.13
Johnson & Johnson
65.99
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