RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                       MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           CC: RAD Information Net

Day/date: Wednesday, March 21, 1990

INCIDENTS

90-40 - Organ Pipe Cactus (Arizona) - Body Found

While on a routine patrol in the park on the 17th, Border Patrol officers
discovered human remains near Eagle Pass. They also found clothing remnants
and a variety of other items, including a toothpaste tube with Spanish
wording on it. Initial investigation indicates that the remains are those
of a Mexican national who perished while trying to cross into the United
States. Park rangers and Pima County officers are investigating. (Dwayne
Collier, SOAR, via CompuServe message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRD, 2:30 EST,
3/19/90).

90-41 - Great Smokies (North Carolina/Tennessee) - Drug Arrests

A two-month long investigation into drug dealing at the Oconaluftee Job
Corps Center resulted in two arrests on March 17th. Rangers had received
information that two drug dealers were to arrive from Atlanta to sell
marijuana to Corpsmen on pay day and staked out the location where the
transaction was to take place. The dealers arrived as planned and sold a
Corpsman $200 worth of marijuana in twenty small packages. Two other
Corpsmen then approached and purchased some of these packages. When the
rangers moved in to make the arrest, the dealers fled the scene in their
vehicle. They committed numerous traffic violations in their attempts to
get away, but were stopped and arrested in nearby Cherokee, North Carolina.
A drug-sniffing dog was brought in from the Swain County Sheriff's Office to
search the car, and discovered another 26 packages of marijuana. The drugs,
some cash, and the car were seized. The two men (one of whom is a minor)
will be charged under 21 USC, and two Corpsmen will probably be charged at a
later date. The investigation is continuing. (Bob Marriott, Acting CR,
GRSM, via CompuServe messages to RAD/SERO and RAD/WASO, 4:30 EST, 3/19/90).

90-42 - Death Valley (California) - Fatality

On March 17th, a motorcyclist was killed instantly when he hit a passenger
sedan head-on near Mormon Point. The four occupants of the sedan were
seriously injured in the collision. No further information is currently
available on this incident. (Dale Antonich, CR, DEVA, via CompuServe
message from Herb Gercke, RAD/WRO, 2:30 EST, 3/19/90).

OFFICE NOTES

1) R&R Uniforms has moved to a new facility. Although most of its telephone
numbers remain the same, the telefax number has changed. It is now 615-248-
3437. Please pass the word on to you park AO and/or uniform coordinator.
[Bill Halainen, RAD/WASO]

2) The following information has been provided by Ticketron concerning the
necessity for changing the "900" telephone numbers for making reservations
at parks on the Servicewide reservation system and the procedures to be
employed, to resolve related visitor complaints. Please insure that all
campground rangers and fee supervisors have this information as soon as
possible:

AT&T has informed Ticketron that the "900" numbers previously assigned to
Ticketron Phone Charge do not coincide with AT&T's computerized billing
software requirements. AT&T can not therefore charge the fees that
Ticketron had properly applied for ($.75 for the first minute, plus $.50 for
each additional minute). AT&T admits full responsibility for this mistake.
As a result of their error, every person who called the old "900" numbers
was automatically overcharged. AT&T has notified its billing offices
nationwide to issue credits to those persons. In the event that customers
complain of not having received the proper credit, advise them to notify the
AT&T billing officer. That number is 1-800-222-0300.

Effective immediately, AT&T has assigned new "900" numbers to Ticketron for
NPS campground reservations. These numbers are 1-900-370-5566 (all parks
except Yosemite) and 1-900-454-2100 (Yosemite). Persons calling the old
"900" numbers will be referred to one of these two numbers, and will also be
informed that they are not being charged for calling the old number. This
message will be in effect for at least six months. New, brown color 1990
Ticketron camping reservation brochures are being printed and will be
distributed as soon as possible. Please refrain from issuing the old, green
color brochures, or note the above number changes in them before handing
them out. Phone charge fees remain as noted above - $.75 for the first
minute, and $.50 for every minute thereafter.

Customers who have not received complete satisfaction from AT&T should
address their correspondence to Mr. Thomas A. Largi, Director of Park
Reservation Services, Ticketron, 411 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack, New
Jersey 07601. [Wes Kreis, RAD/WASO]

STAFF STATUS

Dabney in Denver, Loach and Healy at NIBRS meeting in Williamsburg, VA.


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