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RAIN 07/31: Burnt, altered and preserved



Dallas Morning News 7/30/00
Park board violated records act, AG says
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/121079_tswfiller2_30m.html

Associated Press
GALVESTON– Galveston's Park Board of Trustees violated the Texas Open Records 
Act when it denied a newspaper's request to release documents about the 
distribution of beach user fees, the office of Texas Attorney General John 
Cornyn has said. 
On March 9, The Galveston County Daily News had sought release of the 
documents. 
The documents played a significant role in the board's decision to settle a 
lawsuit against Bettah Beach, which is contracted by the board to manage R.A. 
Apffel Park. 


Czech News Agency 7/28/00
Brno Archive collects testimonies on transfer of Germans
http://www.centraleurope.com/czechtoday/news.php3?id=183809

BRNO, Jul 28, 2000 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) The Archive of The Town of 
Brno has been collecting documents and testimonies on the transfer of Germans 
from Brno at the turn of May and June 1945 on whose grounds the statement of 
the municipal council will be drafted, archive director Frantisek Novak told 
CTK today.
Brno councillors decided to establish an expert group to draft the statement 
after the Youth for Intercultural Understanding civic association had called 
on the town to apologise to transferred Germans.


Atlanta Journal Constitution 7/30/00
After centuries of obscurity, slaves take on identities
Historian’s vast Louisiana research put on CD-ROM
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/news_93382ce6
f502e1df008f.html

David Firestone
New York Times
New Orleans --- From the darkness of history they emerge out of a silver 
spinning disc: two black slaves sold by a sugar plantation owner named Levi 
Foster on Feb. 11, 1818, to his in-laws. The first slave, named Kit, was 28, 
and was sold for $975. The other, named Alick, was 9, and was possibly Kit's 
son. He was sold for $400. 
For nearly two centuries, the names of those two slaves were lost in time, 
along with the names of tens of thousands of others who worked the sugar and 
cotton fields of Louisiana and made fortunes for their owners. Their 
identities, scratched with quill pens on transaction records of human 
property, have moldered in the basements of parish courthouses for more than 
150 years, virtually untouched by researchers usually put off by the 
difficult French and Spanish script. 


Spokane Spokesman-Review 7/30/00
Slavery’s first census
History of Louisiana slaves finally emerging
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=073000&ID=s832623&cat=

by David Firestone 
New York Times


San Jose Mercury News 7/30/00
Long-lost slave data astonishes historians
http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/slaves30.htm

by David Firestone
New York Times


Computer User August 2000
The Virtual Filing Cabinet
Internet document repositories offer diligent researchers nuggets of 
information
http://currents.net/articles/1908,5,15,1,0801,00.html

by Cary Griffith
Shortly after the Web was born, the volume of Internet content easily 
outstripped the Library of Congress, a library whose mandate is to acquire 
every published work in the world. The Library of Congress has long realized 
it cannot completely realize its mission. But that mandate is being partly 
realized on the Internet. 
While the Web is many things to many people, it has often been described as 
the largest library in the world. In actuality, it is more like an endless 
sea of libraries, each of which houses a special collection. Today these 
special collections are more often referred to as Internet document 
repositories.


Detroit News 7/28/00
Feds raid councilman’s house
FBI seized financial documents in ongoing investigation into Warren government
http://detnews.com/2000/metro/0007/28/c01-97232.htm

by Hawk Fracassa
Warren -- FBI and IRS agents have raided the home of Councilman Daniel 
Woodhouse, as part of an ongoing federal grand jury investigation of Warren 
government. 
Eight agents seized ledgers with bank statements, VISA bills, airline ticket 
stubs and other records in the July 10 raid, according to documents filed in 
U.S. District Court. 
The court file is sealed, but a July 7 search warrant obtained this week by 
The Detroit News shows agents were most interested in seizing Woodhouse's 
personal computer and his credit card and phone bills. 


Mobile Register 7/30/00
Openness of Fairhope’s public records questioned
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Jul2000/28-a392558a.html

by Lori Moore
FAIRHOPE -Three Fairhope residents seeking documents on city activities and 
expenditures said their requests for public records have gone unanswered for 
months. 
One of them, Eric Dyas, has taken his effort to the next level. The president 
of the Citizens Watch Foundation, Dyas said he sent letters this week to the 
state attorney general and the Alabama Ethics Commission asking for help in 
obtaining the documents he requested from the city. 
Dyas said those records would help determine whether Mayor and Utilities 
Superintendent James P. Nix showed favoritism in the way sewer service was 
provided to some citizens - including a City Council member. 


Bergen Record 7/29/00
Blasts from the past
http://www.bergen.com/yourtime/atomic29200007291.htm

by Bob Ivry
We've all seen the footage: An unsuspecting house, in the middle of nowhere 
in the middle of the night, suddenly gets hit by a massive wave of wind, 
buckles, and tears away from the ground -- the victim of an atomic bomb test. 
We've all seen it, but most of us would have to confess that we haven't given 
a thought to the poor guy who held the camera. 
"It's the same way with war photography, or video of a guy in a shark cage, 
or film of people stranded on Everest," says Peter Kuran. "Whenever the 
people we're seeing in the video are in danger, chances are the photographer 
is, too." 


Sydney Morning Herald 7/29/00
Hatfield case told subpoenaed documents were destroyed
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0007/29/text/national16.html

by Stephen Gibbs
A university counsellor said yesterday that a colleague told her two years 
ago he destroyed documents subpoenaed for the murder trial of Irena Hatfield.
Ms Claudia Michels said Mr Shunyam Peinecke admitted in April 1998 he had 
burnt records of counselling sessions between himself and Mr Atticus Busby.


Sydney Morning Herald 7/28/00
I burned trial papers and lied, says psychologist
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0007/28/text/national7.html

by Stephen Gibbs
A university counsellor has admitted destroying documents subpoenaed for 
Irena Hatfield's murder trial and having perjured himself 56 times about the 
files.
Mr Shunyam Peinecke told the Supreme Court yesterday he had burned 13 records 
of counselling sessions he held with Mr Atticus Busby in 1996.
The psychologist then admitted previously telling "lie after lie after lie" 
under oath by repeatedly denying destroying the documents since 1998.



Halifax Herald 7/27/00
Scrapbook captures Murray memories
http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooks/jul27_murray.html

by Stephen Cooke
Hopefully Anne Murray has limber wrists, but considering the amount of time 
she spends on the golf course, that shouldn't be a problem. 
The Maritime music legend returns home to Nova Scotia for two special 
appearances this week to sign copies of her new book, the Anne Murray Centre 
Scrapbook, a 96-page paperback overflowing with photos and memorabilia 
stretching from her Springhill childhood to her acension to the world stage 
as one of the best-known voices in popular music. 


Fox News 7/27/00
Archiving today’s digital culture
http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/072700/library.sml

by Stephanie Izarek
NEW YORK — From cave paintings and stone etchings to manuscripts and books, 
people have always left their mark on history. 
But in a society where information is directly tied to media that quickly 
becomes obsolete, how do we preserve our "culture" for posterity? 
The 10,000-year Library Conference, hosted by The Long Now Foundation and 
Stanford University Libraries in early July, discussed how today's archival 
institutions will cope with preserving multimedia content such as digital 
audio and video files, photography, databases, Web pages and even links to 
related content. 



St. Louis Post 7/28/00
Bureau County sheriff indicted for allegedly falsifying campaign documents
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/StateRegion/861C192F39A35DEA86256
92A007D16BB?OpenDocument

by John O’Connor
Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A Bureau County grand jury indicted Sheriff Greg 
Johnson Friday for allegedly falsifying documents relating to a 1998 
motorcycle raffle to raise campaign funds.
Johnson, 46, of Princeton, who has been embroiled in a series of personal and 
professional problems for more than a year, faces two counts of mutilation of 
election materials and one count each of perjury and official misconduct.



Peter Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com

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