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The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 21

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The Town Talki
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Alexandria, Louisiana
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aittaniria Bails Scam al! Tuesday, November 27, 1984 Ho C-5 4 Left-Faced Might Mean Great Music MADISON, Wis. (UPI) Beethoven probably never knew it, but he was left-faced, and left-faced people may be predisposed to making great music, a psychology professor says. karl U. Smith," emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin has linked dominance of one side of the face and musical talent and he says it might support the theory that musical ability is inherited. Smith studied the faces of hundreds of people, using visual observation and computerized analyses of lip, tongue and jaw movements.

"My results confirmed that all persons have a sort of facial fingerprint or distinctive way in which they use one side of their face, just as they have distinctive patternes of (right or left) handedness," Smith said. Nearly 90 percent of all the people he examined were right-faced. When he turned to musical artists, he found that 98 percent of the opera singers he examined were left-faced. "In fact, of the talented musicians I observed, almost all were left-faced," Smith said. He studied pictures of Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt and Wagner along with videotapes of eminent living musicians from country to classical.

He found the vast majority to be left-faced. Smith found that in right-faced people, the right brow is higher than the left and dimples and wrinkles are less pronounced on the right side. "Facedness is clearly noticeable in infants, which n.eans that it develops 2-3 years before handedness," Smith said. "This suggests that facedness is related to how the brain develops right after birth, which indicates that certain traits are inherited." 1 Smith conceded his study was not conclusive and said further research was needed. Funeral Slated For Man Killed 20 Years Ago HOUSTON (UPI) Several lawmen, a medical examiner, a reporter and a judge brought together by the death of a man they never knew now will serve as his pallbearers 20 years after he was murdered.

A farmer found the body June 11, 1964, about 5 miles north of Richmond on the edge of Farm Market 369. The man had been dead only a few hours. His head was cut off at the shoulders, his hands severed at the wrists and his legs sheared off at the knees. The rest of the man's body never was found. He never was identified and never claimed.

Leads in the case have slowed to a trickle, and Harris County Medical Examiner Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk recently suggested he be buried. Jachimcyzk, a Catholic deacon, will conduct the ceremony Wednes-. day in Richmond. Pallbearers will be Lt.

R.L. "Tiny" Norton, who was Fort Bend County sheriff when the murder occurred; Cecil Wingo and David Gary, investigators in Jachimczyk's office; Texas Ranger Milton Wright; former newsman Will Sinclair; and Sam Robertson, an associate justice of the 14th Circuit Court of Civil Appeals, who was a prosecutor in 1964. The murder victim was dubbed Stubby by the men who tried to find his killer. There were few clues to his identity he was Caucasian, around 50 years old, about 5-foot-6 and 160-175 pounds. He had a fractured sixth right rib, some adhesions on his lungs and a cyst.

"We did not find a cause of death in the part of the body that we'd gotten," Jachimczyk said. "We obviously know this is a homicide, but we don't know thecause of death." Stubby was embalmed and kept in a refrigerated vault in the county morgue. Many people viewed the torso, but he never was Identified. One woman who claimed she knew the man later recanted her identification. "We had numerous people that tried to claim or identify him, but we never were able to determine just who he was," Norton said.

"We were able to determine a hell of a lot of people who he That apparently was the reason the body was dismembered, and Norton and Jachimczyk believe the murder was a mob killing. "At that time they were having quite a bit of underworld problems up north, and my own personal opinion is that he was found down here by some of the mobsters and assassinated," Norton said. "This has all the earmarks of a gangland killing and a deliberate attempt that the body be found immediately, but not be identifiable," Jachimczyk sa. "We also know this was not a surgical dissection, not someone knowledgeable in anatomy. It was a relatively crude decapitation and removal of identifiable parts." The man's legs may have been removed because they could have provided a clue to his identity beyond footprints a scar or tattoo or deformity of the leg below the knee.

Officials had planned all along to bury Stubby, Jachimczyk said, but investigators involved in the case were convinced a solid lead would be found. One assistant medical examiner who since has died once vowed he would not die until he had identified Stubby. "We had intended to do that (burial) all along, but we had constantly worked on it off and on and we still had hope," he said. "We've exhausted all leads. We followed many, many leads over the years.

We think we've gotten as far as we can, and we hopefully now can give him a Christian burial." Better Not Cry Joey Mayer (right) yanks at Santa's beard to rived in Salinas, during the weekend and get his attention while Joey's brother, Garrett, was beseiged by hundreds of youngsters. (A I wants no part of the jolly gent. Santa Claus ar. Photo) Doctor's Epitaph: 'Rather Be Go! fin Monday there's a lot to be learned from a game of golf. "Life, like golf, can always be better.

You should never be content with what your are be better," Buck said. True to his word, Buck still takes golf lessons when he vacations in Florida. "I'm still working on my game," said Buck, who plans to keep drilling golf balls "as long as I can stand." amateur, the seniors championship and the national dental championship. Buck has already installed a headstone at Oak Grove Cemetery for him and his wife, Letitia. He said the idea for the light-hearted inscription was inspired by the epitaph on comedian W.C.

Fields' grave: "I'd rather be in Philadelphia." A lifelong golfer, Buck said BATH, Maine (UPI) A retired dentist who wants to be remembered for the way he spent his leisure time rather than his working hours has made up a gravestone that reads: "Rather be golfin'." "When people see this, I hope they won't feel so bad about my leaving this world," said Leonardo E. Buck, 68, who has won several golf titles, including the Maine CETA-VKS Ovar 3,000 to Rant Video Movie Center n. 1101 MicAitwDr I IUI IUIIM III 'Pizza on Patrol' Helps to Protect Neighborhood lit any abuse." "The radio helps," said Rascal House manager Robert Chorba. "He (the driver) can just turn on his lights and make a lot of noise and commotion. Just the truck pulling up and stopping, these guys (suspects) will take off." The two drivers, who are not policemen, are on the road from 10 a.m.

to midnight and said they have reported a number of activities, mostly suspected car thefts. "This is a deterrent, just like seeing a policeman in uniform," Frangos said. cers at his businesses to cut down on the number of alleged prostitutes and drug dealers who hung around the neighborhood. That didn't deter vandals and car thieves, so he gave his regular drivers two-way radios and instructed them to report anything suspicious to his security guards. "I think as a business you have to be concerned not only what goes on inside your store, but in the front of your store and on the side of your building," said Frangos.

"You need to protect the hopeful customers from CLEVELAND (UPI) Those little tri-col-ored trucks tooling around the Cleveland area day and night deliver more than pizza the drivers aLso serve up an occasional criminal. "Pizza on Patrol" is in its third month of operation, and Michael Frangos, who came up with the idea, hopes the informal patrols will help rid the area of vagrants and car thieves. Frangos, owner of the Rascal House a combination rock video club and pizza parlor near the Cleveland State University campus hired off-duty policemen as security offi 2 Men Arrested for Hunting 'Bare' SPECIAL $25. (, With Thu READING I U. Ad I AM NOT COMMON KAMI, WT WAS OKH WITH A GOO GIFTED POWF TO HHP HUMANITY I Will NOT ONIV Tfll YOU Of YOU MOWtMS, UT HHP YOU SOIYI THEM I Will TEU YOOK PAST AS YOU AlONE KNOW IT.

VOU PRESENT AS IT IS, AND YOUH FUTURE TO COME I GUARANTEE HUP IN LOVt, MARRIAGE, BUSINESS MEAITH. I WHl HttP YOU OVERCOME DRINKING. GAMMING OR A IOVYD ONE I Will CAU YOUR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES NAME WITHOUT ASKING A GtC WORD AND OIVE 1UCKY NUMUIS AND days one visit wu convince you i am GOO SENT 473 9654 PAor Arthur Or After a short chase, the two were arrested and jailed on a charge of being disorderly persons. Police said the men are 21 and 24 years old and are from southern Michigan. They were not identified.

There was no immediate official explanation given for their hunting attire or lack thereof pending further investigation and a court MIO, Mich. (UPI) Oscoda County authorities have arrested two men for hunting bare. That's "hare" as in naked, not "bear" as in the four-legged variety. The sheriffs department said someone called early Sunday saying they saw two naked men carrying rifles just "south of downtown Mio. Deputies checked it out and, sure enough, found two men toting rifles and clad only in tennis shoes.

A I Begin Your Holidays With ill entoi French Quarter! December 7-9 flufiw Sholloy ford ft Joy Chavolwr Tewr Tew iKerti We'll Guide You Personally! (Friday-Sunday) rf fflB-J. View the lovely Plantation Christmas Decorations at The Mayer Phantom Caller Strikes Again ARLINGTON, Texas (UPI) -The phantom telephone caller has struck again, this time affecting a university sophomore who received a $33,533 telephone bill that suggested she reached out and touched people all over the United States and seven other countries, according to telephone company records. But Carol Kuhler. 19, of the University of Texas-Arlington, denies she spent all semester on the telephone. "My mother is the only one I ever call and she lives in Dallas," she said.

Kuhler speculated that a telephone' calling card she had applied for was either stolen from her mailbox or mailed to the wrong person. The phantom caller, who apparently shared the card with a number of friends, placed hours of calls the first week in October to Indonesia, Bangladesh, Italy, Sweden, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan and other nations, Kuhler said. All the calls were made from pay phones, making them almost impossible to trace, she said. About two weeks ago she received a 254-page bill from Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. totalling $33,533.52.

She said the bill weighed so much, it required $2.52 in postage. Madewood San Francisco Destrehan House Longue Vue House Gardens. Christmas Shopping At UPTOWN SQUARE Show Dinner In The Blue Room Of The Fairmont Hotel CALL 9 445-461 Out-Of-Town 1-800-223-8056 ACBSAFFIUATE "ONdOf WEST HONKOt.

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