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A5 Community Northwest Wedissdsy, Apr! 13, 1S52. CcrvsTa Czn-Tmn, Corwa Ort. fV IP at 3 GENEROUS PonTions UZXEH SKPY 1 4 i. aw mi mnrcs 753-1 4-44J CyCsn DSioj Graft Pass CWy Cj DIAMOND RING CENTER Diamonds Watches Jewelry Hummel Figurines Gifts v.i if Vour Full Service Professional Jewelers NOTHGATE SllCWWIGCfWF.K 9t( IU.CA ST T2 welers audience decide one is true," said Gomez, who has between IIS3.C00 and $250,000 to spend (or each 10 minute segment Some segments explode with their own energy, like a four-car chase Gomez choreographed through the streets of Henderson, to re-enact a robbery in a storm of gunfire for four cameras. 'To me.

It was like little kids in the sand box," Gomez said. It was a chance to cut loose from a regular diet of one-camera shoots, to play with the pop and flash of television. More frequently, he Is in Florida, recreating heartbreak. "There's a lot of money in Florida, a lot of retired money." he said. "When you have a lot of retired money, you have vultures and con men to prey on them.

They con 'em, marry em and kill "em." It brings Gomez, who interviews all participants, face to face with a lot of tragedy. "I like action stories that involve those really powerful negative elements of human nature," said Gomez. "Those are the hardest ones to deal with psychologically, because I have to deal with grieving parents. But maybe I can help them deal with the have to client shop. I have one -client" The client, Cot-rove-rairer Proxticwt lac.

of Eurtank, produces "Unsolved Mysteries." Producers fax research reports outlining story lead and listing telephone cumbers cf key players to Wolf Creek. Gomes reviews the material and spends a couple of scout days on location, intm icwir-3 participants and unfolding story details, i Then be returns to Wolf Creek to write a shooting script When that la approved, he's back on location, casting local actors and actresses and snooting the reconstructed case over four days. "I got a reputation as a guy who could take footage and make it say something," Gomez said of his early days in television when he edited medical and educational films. "1 got into directing by being an editorial director. I never forget that I'm an editor out there." The story of Tommy Gibson, the missing Azalea, youngster, was an Ideal "Unsolved" drama.

Police speculate his father, a former Douglas County deputy, killed the 2-year-old boy- The family maintains Tommy was kidnapped. "You show one story, then you show the other and you let the built its imputation recreating -real whndbrits. TSia ra.Ur.3s agree if is a "Vtzzlvti" lh i.i national prime time rai.r.;:s tbrou-h January, making it NDC'a vond most poplar strics afttr "Cheers." Gomez has been with the program since it went on the air, weighing fact against could-have-been as a fredance director who confounded the industry Just as he was focusing on the big time. Cut to 1SS4. Gomez had climbed from Loyola University graduate to television editor with a reputation for fixing stories to director.

Fed up with the feeding-frenzy attitude cf Lea Angeles, he escaped to Wolf Creek in northern Josephine County. iiiS colleagues thought he'd stepped into oblivion. "Somehow they didn't believe that I really left" Gomei said. "It took a year of working at KOBI before I started getting calls." At the Medford television station, he hosted "Dialing for Dollars," sold air time, reported news stories and directed the late news program. Gradually, producers rediscovered him and Gomel now finds himself In a unique freelancing situation.

"In the past four years. I haven't had to pick up a phone to look for work," he said. "I don't WOLF CHESS (AP) the (as ir-sduae tetps (or Dan Gomez, it tSe of a new advcr.iare. Somrt: cs it calls him to Sai-pan in western Pacific to track the faisd trad of vanished aviatrix Amelia Earhart Or to the of solera New Mdso ta r.r.s far ciurs about the iSsapearaKe of millions of dolors tf r.a'd from Vkto-rio. Or oil ta Florida ta stalk a con v.zn en the lam.

Twelve to IS times a year, Go ri is summoned from hia rural Creek home to lead IS millisa television viewers into th heart cf an unsolved mystery. "Ucsclvei Mysteries' is importer Gomes, mho has directed segments of the popular NEC television series for four seasons. "It's important ta the way ta Minutes or '2020' ia important "Criminals gt taken off the street That sounds corny, but Ua true. I'm not a cop, but aome days I feel like one." About 23 percent of the wanted men and women shown on the aeries are captured or surrender. About one-third of the lost loves and broken families are reunited.

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Meteorites belong to the owner of the land where they fall from the sky, and in this case that's the U.S. government Applegate Lake is located on the Rogue River National Forest. Last weekend, Wolf took his rock to Eugene, where meteor expert Dick Pugh took a look at it Pugh teaches science at Cleveland High School in Portland and is a member of the Smithsonian Institution's fireball network. "I am not convinced it's a meteorite, but I do think it ought to be tested," said Pugh. He recommended Wolf send it to the Smithsonian, where a small piece would be cut off to examine the composition of the metal under a high-powered microscope.

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