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G6 Albuquerque Journal Friday, December 22, 1995 IN BRIEF Scandal-Related Van Gogh Shown Shoen, the eldest son of U-Haul founder L.S. Shoen. Marquis, a Santa Fe car salesman, pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter and burglary as part of a plea bargain and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. Eva Shoen's husband and her inlaws offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the "person or persons responsible for her brutal murder." But L.S. Shoen said last year that he might not pay the reward because he was not satisfied Marquis was the killer.

i U.S. Customs Seizes 44 Pounds of Heroin NOGALES, Ariz. The U.S. Customs Service has reported what it said was its biggest heroin seizure ever in Nogales 44 pounds of "Mexican brown heroin" found in a vehicle at the Mariposa Port of Entry. The heroin, concealed in false compartments in the fenders behind the car's front tires, was found Monday by Alex, a drug-sniffing dog, the Customs Service said, Ernesto Villasenor-Ganona, 33, a Mexican national who lives in Los Angeles, was arrested and was being held Wednesday in the Federal Correctional Institute in Tucson.

The Customs Service did not provide an estimate of the value of the seized heroin, but said "very pure" heroin can have a street value of up to $1 million a pound. 's i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS mate the value of the painting. The last Van Gogh sold, "Thicket," fetched $26.9 million at a Sotheby's New York auction in November. The center said other holiday items, tha should be kept out of a child's reach include angel hair, batteriesChristmas tree ornaments, concentrated food flavorings, Christmas tree preservatives, aerosol snow spray and evergreen scent spray. Border Patrol OKs Payment to Family AMARILLO The U.S.

Border Patrol has agreed to pay $40,500 to a farm worker's family whost $6 million lawsuit accused four agents of constitutional abuses. The federal lawsuit, filed in December 1994, was settled Monday. Jesus Ramon Hernandez and Maria Antonio Martinez-Hernandez of Spearman alleged they and their three children were illegally stopped on Interstate 40 near Amarillo almost three years ago. The agents were "pushing, hitting, violently banging objects, verbally abusing, falsely arresting, falsely imprisoning and terrorizing" the family, according to the lawsuit. The Texas Rural Legal Aid office in Plainview, which helped represent the family, said Monday's settlement requires the Border Patrol to display a poster in the Amarillo Border Patrol office advising individuals of their right to make complaints.

No Reward Prompts Tipster's Lawsuit TELLURIDE, Colo. A tipster who turned in the man who confessed to killing U-Haul heiress Eva Shoen at her home in Telluride is suing her relatives for failing to pay the $250,000 reward they offered in the case. Kelly Lemons, of Farmington, N.M., is the brother-in-law of Frank Marquis, who admitted killing Shoen on Aug. 6, 1990. Lemons told authorities in 1993 Marquis had told him about killing "that woman up in Telluride." Eva Shoen was married to Sam Air Forco Pilot Survives F-16 Crash WiNSLOW, Ariz.

An Air Force fighter plane on a training mission from a Phoenix-area base crashed Thursday in a desert area southwest of this northern Arizona but the pilot ejected safely, authorities said. pilot identified as Lt. Col. Joseph A. Abbott was in good condition but was being held overnight for observation at Luke Air Force Base Hospital, base officials said.

Abbott is on temporary assignment tc Luke from Cannon Air force Base near Clovis, N.M., said Staff Sgt. Rolla Sutmiller, a Lukfe spokeswoman. His F-16 was on a mission over Winslow with another plane, whose pilot reported seeing a parachute open before the fighter went down near the Coconino County National Forest at 10:20 a.m. The plane was assigned to the 62nd Fighter Squadron from Luke, which is located in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. Sutmiller said that a board of Air Force officers will investigate the crash.

Poison Center Issues Holiday Warnings Plants, tree ornaments, colognes and mistletoe. They're more than just signs of the holiday season says the New Mexico Poison Center. "Some of the many festive yet potentially hazardous objects that come into a home during the holidays include plants, toys, tree ornaments, foods and alcoholic beverages," said William Trouimah, director of the center. The center said alcohol is a serious poisoning threat to children during the holidays. Besides liquor, alcohol is also contained in colognes and after-shave lotions.

The center's list of holiday hazards also includes decorations such as mistletoe, holly and Christmas berries all potentially poisonous to children. By Jenifer Chao The Associated Press AMSTERDAM, Netherlands A Van Gogh painting dating from a sex scandal in the artist's life is being shown to the public for the first time. Woman Digging Potatoes" was known to exist but had been in private collections until recently donated to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The museum did not identify the donor but said the person has lived in the Netherlands for several decades. The oil painting, measuring 12.4 inches by 16.1 inches, shows a black-clad and somber-faced woman working in the fields with a pitchfork.

It is typical of the figure studies the Dutch impressionist drew dujing his stay in the southern Dutch town of Nuenen between 1884-1885, at the beginning of his artistic career. Painted against a gray and brown background, the picture was likely executed in 1885 during the potato harvest, which started around the beginning of August and ended in September. But experts have ruled out September, since, by then, Vincent Van Gogh had been forbidden to use peasant women as models after one became pregnant. The local pastor "pressured his church members at that time not to pose anymore for the artist," the museum said in a profile of the painting that went on display this 1 A willingness to ON MUSEUM'S WALL "Peasant Woman Digging Potatoes" Is typical of Vincent Van Gogh's early figure studies. 4 I I If lis (.

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