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The Sioux City Journal, Wednesday, March 16, 1994 A1 3 NationWorld How does it feel to compete as an Olympian? Karlos Kirby, a native of Clive, Iowa, demonstrated outstanding effort as a member of the United States Bobsled Team at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. He shares his unique experiences in this last-in-a-series postcard to Iowans. Pandering laws apply to sex church LOS ANGELES (AP) A self-proclaimed priestess who claimed her religion required her to have sex with parishioners isn't exempt from state pandering and prosecution laws, a judge ruled Tuesday. Mary Ellen Tracy, leader of the Church of The Most High Goddess, and husband Will Tracy, claimed they were victims of discriminatory prosecution. Superior Court Judge Madeline Flier denied the couple's motion for a ruling in their favor in their lawsuit against District Attorney Gil Garcet-ti.

Flier ruled that the Tracys had no standing to challenge the law. Tracy, also known as Sabrina Aset, was convicted in 1989 of pandering and prostitution. She acknowledged having sex with her followers and receiving money, which she said was given as a church Two Loch Ness researches say this famous 1934 picture of the purported "Nessie" is a fake. The photo was made from a toy submarine fitted with a neck and head. (AP Photo) Famous Loch Ness I HTM I I vaiuj, rm a olII 'a 4L t5 'A I tf o.

A All nf iia at Rlno Crnee anH Rltip Qhtolrl nf Tnwa cnltttp I Karlos for his determination, pride and sportsmanship. These qualities took him all the way from Iowa to the F-s SVjV 1 994 Olvmnir Winter Games and we were croud to cheer him on. llV5 1. BlueCrossBIueShield I tkXi fi i Des Moines, Iowa An independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association 1994 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa if t-'' picture is LONDON (AP) The purported Loch Ness monster pictured in a famous 1934 photo was just a toy submarine fitted with a fake sea-serpent head, two Loch Ness researchers say. Reseachers Alastair Boyd and David Martin claim one of the conspirators in the hoax told them about it just before he died in November at "the age of 90, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

The photograph, depicting a sea beast with a hump back and long neck, was attributed to Robert Wilson, an eminent London gynecologist. He said he took it April 19, 1934, after his companion saw a commotion in the water and shouted: "My God, it's the monster!" The London weekly newspaper said Boyd and Martin learned that Wilson was part of a hoax hatched by his friend Marmaduke Wetherell, a filmmaker and self-styled big game hunter hired by the Daily Mail in 1933 to hunt Nessie. Wetherell's son Ian and stepson Christian Spurting were also in on it. Boyd and Martin said Spurting, a skilled model maker and the last surviving conspirator, told them he built the model for the 1934 photograph at Wetherell's request, the newspaper said. Spurting created a "monster" one foot high and 18 inches long; it said.

The keel of a toy submarine was fitted with lead to malce the model ride steady in the water. The fake Nessie was taken to Loch Ness in Scotland to be photographed in authentic surroundings. The Daily Mail ran the photo as a world exclusive, arousing huge interest. Some researchers used the picture to back claims that Nessie is descended from plesiosaurs, large reptiles Mom blacks out, LOS ANGELES (AP) A 9-year-old boy grabbed the wheel of a runaway van after his mother blacked out, weaving through freeway traffic not sure which hard-to-reach pedal to step on. David Dillman managed to drive the van for a quarter mile before stopping safely, perhaps the result of a little training on his mom's lap when he was 7.

"I just kept blinking that my mom was going to die, and I just had to get the van over to the right-hand side," David said. "I was weaving in and out of cars, and none of them slowed down." Mm offering. NOW OPEN KEMEJVltJEK WHEN "ly old fashioned ICE CREAM SHOPPE 2040 SO. LAKEPORT (LUNCHEON SPECIALS) 0 5riT.fflttiTiE T- WW- A Points on 3CcVl rnwi snamrocic (hum vS -t vW (. Al fU -r 1 i I THE JUDDS THEIR FINAL CONCERT a fake with small heads and long necks that died out 65 million years ago.

The hoax has not dealt a fatal blow to those who seek the truth behind the Loch Ness legend or those who profit from the world's curiosity. "It's a breakthrough" in the scientific research, said Dayid Cotton, chief general manager of the Loch Ness Center at Drumnadrochit, which welcomes tourists to an exhibition on Vesearch and theories about the "monster." "This head has always been a wild card to us. It was the only sighting of its sort and always caused us enormous problems," he said Tuesday. "Our resident biologists have never been happy about this." It did not fit in with the majority of reliable sightings, Cotton said. And because the photo was taken so long ago on a film plate rather than a modern roll of film, it could not be subjected to ultraviolet tests or computer enhancement, he added.

Other theories include one that Nessie may be a big Baltic sturgeon. The Times of London on Monday quoted Adrian Shine the Loch Ness Project chief, as saying he accepts the report of the hoax but that the hunt for Nessie will go on. "Eyewitness accounts still suggest that there is something powerful in the loch," Shine was quoted as saying. The Loch Ness Monster legend dates to 565 when St. Columba is said to have rescued a farmer from a monster's grasp.

The first locally recorded sighting, reported by the Inverness Chronicle newspaper in 1 868, spoke of a huge fish. Nearly a million tourists visit Loch Ness each year hoping to catch a glimpse of Nessie. While there, they pump $37 million into the local economy. boy, 9, steers Mary Dillman was at the wheel Monday morning in the fast lane of the San Diego Freeway when she passed out, said Officer Todd Sturges of the California Highway Patrol. David, who was in the front passenger seat, unbuckled his scat belt and grabbed the wheel.

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