Cars sport new ornaments by Pam Zubeck
Livestock act travels with Burtis Motor display cars featuring live cougars and lynx atop Lincolns and Mercurys. John Steele, 24, tours nationwide with four cougars and two lynx trained with affection methods. Insurance costs and safety measures noted, while owners praise the advertising impact of the show drawing up to 6,000 weekly viewers.
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Burtis Motor
John Steele
Garden City
Orlando
Fla
Lincoln-Mercury
Steele
Electrical wiring fault tied to 1978 electrocution case
Testimony compared Hesslink statements with earlier interviews about a 500 volt reading that could only occur with two connected wires. Witnesses discussed faulted wiring, lack of disconnect devices, and potential responsibility of Gigot employees if loose wires remained, with defense plans to rest after Landons conclude.
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Hesslink
Turner
Bob Landon
Landon
Kearny County
William Coerber
Coerber
Ron Mettler
Eaton
Colo
Mettler
Thomas Waller
Garden City Co-op
Waller
Daniel Landon
Jones
Daniel Ross Landon
Landons
Flooded Great Bend residents begin return home
Water from the Arkansas River and Walnut Creek receded as residents moved back to survey damage after more than 1,500 were evacuated. Officials reported most highways open, no serious injuries, and half of the 50 National Guard personnel released to decide on total withdrawal.
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Great Bend, Kan
Arkansas River
Walnut Creek
Great Bend
Kurt Crawford
Barton County
Debbie Boeken
National
Kansas
National Weather Service
Flood aid hinges on damage review in Great Bend
Only 649 flood insurance policyholders exist in Great Bend under the NFIP and federal aid depends on an official damage assessment and a presidential disaster declaration. Gov Carlin declared a state of emergency to mobilize resources as FEMA and Red Cross send crews and supplies for residents.
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Great Bend
HIIS
Herman Skaggs
Independence
Skaggs
Kansas
John Carlin
National Guard
Barton County
Steve Kinser
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Kinser
Washington
Fireman rescues toddler on fifth floor ledge in LA blaze
A firefighter tucked a one year old girl in his coat and helped her mother and grandmother reach safety along a two foot wide ledge on a fifth floor ledge as smoke filled a burning 200 room hotel. Twelve people had minor injuries in the fire confined to the second floor.
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LOS Angeles
James D. Bryan
Los Angeles Fire Department
Elizabeth Ann Foster
Helen Foster
Bryan
Ms. Foster
Violet Brown
Fire Department
Ted Aquaro
Indicted group tied to mail fraud in Kansas auto claims
Sixteen people including three attorneys three physicians two osteopaths and five chiropractors were indicted in Topeka on charges of using the mails to defraud insurance companies. The Operation MAIL Fraud probe involved undercover Postal Service inspectors and focused on false medical reports billings lost earnings and property damage estimates submitted to insurers. Eight indictments covered multiple insurers with counts per indictment.
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Topeka
Kan
U. S
James Buchele
Buchele
U. S. Postal Service
James H. Thompson Jr
William J. Moran
Donald L. Crow
Kansas City
Richard W. Niederhauser
W. L. Dixon
John H. Wells
George H. Taft
Kansas City, Mo
John Gamble
Kansas
American States
Travelers Insurance Companies
Commercial Union Assurance Co
Farmers Insurance Group
Luella A. Stiffler
Pomona
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