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4 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Tuesday, August 11, 1992 linking Glen Cove, IS illegal aliens with employers 3 People LOS ANGELES (AP) A man who authorities say thinks he is married to Janet Jackson has pleaded innocent to mailing the pop singer threatening letters. Frank Paul Jones, 33, of New York City could get up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the federal charges. He entered his plea yesterday. Authorities said Jones sent the year-old Jackson up to 40 letters in the past six months. In them, he allegedly threatened her, her boyfriend, her brother Michael, movie director John Singleton and President Bush.

"He thinks he's Janet Jackson's husband," said Assistant City Attorney Holly Beckner. Jones was arrested June 22 in the driveway of the Jackson family compound in suburban Encino. He is being held without bail for trial Oct 6. rr MONROE, Mich. (AP) Recently crowned Miss Michigan Terri Sue Liford has another reason to celebrate.

Tests confirm that her Hodgkin's disease, a form of Liford lymphatic cancer, is in remission after months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment A CAT scan was the final exam in a batch of tests Liford underwent recently, said Riki Liford, the pageant winner's mother. Earlier tests showed her prognosis to be good, but the CAT scan was needed to confirm results. Though she won't be considered completely cured for about five years, Liford is done with treatment and only has to see doctors occasion- seekers go away, so it may as well help them link up with employers. The chamber of commerce, city council, contractors and job seekers have embraced a plan in which the town, working with a Hispanic advocacy group, is creating and financing an employment office for the Central Americans. They are attracted by jobs tending the expansive lawns of mansions in Glen Cove, formerly the home of Morgan, the Woolworths and other leading industrialists and businessmen.

The town also has middle-class homes and a small public housing project. In 1989, Glen Cove passed a traffic ordinance making it illegal to solicit in the street The aim was to drive away the job seekers, but many stayed and the town was unable to bar those remaining from standing on the sidewalk to seek work, said Mayor Donald P. DeRiggi. "They remain and it's apparent raccoons and seem friendly or aggressive. Raccoons have surprising strength and razor-sharp teeth, and rabid ones can attack and infect other animals and humans.

A man and woman were bitten by a raccoon that crawled down a chimney and into their bed. A boy swimming in a pond couldnt escape when a rabid beaver came after him and took a bite out of his rear end. GLEN COVE, N.Y. (AP) As the early morning sky lightens over Glen Cove, a town with more than its share of multimillion-dollar estates, illegal aliens seeking day labor begin to gather in the cool shadows along a shopping street The job seekers, most from El Salvador or Honduras, arrive singly and in small groups, on foot and in battered cars. Some sip coffee at Carmine's Deli from "I Love NY" paper cups.

All keep a sharp eye out for landscaping and construction contractors who drive by looking for workers. In two hours, more than 50 of the job seekers few of whom speak English and most of them illegal aliens are crowding a two-block stretch of Cedar Swamp Road. Some shopkeepers feel they deter customers, and one even periodically sprays them with a hose. But the town of 24,000 on Long Island Sound has decided it can't make the job Rab les in BOSTON (AP) Rabies is spreading northward among raccoons along the East Coast and people are being warned to regard the animals as a threat no matter how adorable they may look. "People stay away from a dog that looks like Cujo," said Faye Sorhage, New Jersey public health veterinarian, referring to the Stephen King novel about a rabid dog.

"But I had a report of a woman who saw a sick raccoon and put it in her purse to take home." No people have died because of the outbreak, but thousands have had to receive rabies shots after being bitten, according to health officials. The epidemic began in 1977 when raccoon trappers in Florida, where rabies is common, shipped animals to West Virginia. Since then the virus has reached Connecticut and continues to spread northward at about 25 miles a year. After the virus hit New Jersey in 1989, reported cases there of rabies in animals went from an average of about 50 per year mostly in bats to 983 last year, mostly raccoons. "They've adapted almost as well as pigeons to the cities," Sorhage said.

Rabies is spread through saliva and attacks the central nervous system. An infected person should be fine if he or she receives shots, which are much less painful than those administered in the past. But there is no known cure once a person shows symptoms of the disease. Health officials warn people never to approach a raccoon or other wild animal, especially if it is acting unusually affectionate an infected animal may lose its fear of humans NNCC courses focus on ranchers, horses Bizarre $2 million bank heist in Thailand reported bok International Ltd. has dumped its "Dan and Dave" ad campaign now that the Olympics are over and neither decathlete is a winner.

Reebok spent about $25 million on the ads about the rivalry between Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson for the title of world's greatest athlete. It turned out that honor went to Robert Zmelik of Czechoslovakia. Johnson got the bronze. Earlier, the athletic shoe company had to make adjustments when O'Brien failed to qualify for the Olympic team. Ads broadcast during the Olympics featured both athletes, but had them poke fun at each other rather than focus on competition.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Gov. Ann Richards' latest idea has people buzzing. In the garden of the Governor's Mansion, among the asparagus and asters, is a guber natorial beehive Richards that was established six months ago at Richards' behest "It's a nice part of a complete garden," said Kent Metzer, the mansion's horticulturist and beekeeper. "It's a real gentle colony." Richards has kept honeybees before, Metzer said, and is well aware of their usefulness in pollinating crops as well as providing honey. The bees help pollinate the garden's flowers and other nearby plants.

They've shown an attraction to the Mexican heather. And taxpayers wont get stung in the process: The hive was purchased with $250 in campaign contributions, according to one of the governor's press aides. Gen. Somsak Saibua, who is leading the investigation, said Wednesday that eight more suspects are at large. Laotian authorities have arrested 13 people, according to the Bangkok English-language daily Vm Nation.

A Thai provincial governor said Dr. Siho Bannawongse, the deputy governor of Vientiane, appealed for help in tracking down $2 million in stolen U.N. aid. But U.N. officials in Laos, disclaimed the booty.

According to diplomats in Vientiane, the money may have been part of an interbank transfer between Vietnam and Laos, or may have come from a private aid organization. Laos, with a population of 4.1 million and annual per capita income of about $200, received $628 million in foreign aid last year. Other Thai reports claim the money was U.S. aid funds flown to Laos from Vietnam, but did not explain why the aid would be in $100 bills transferred from Vietnam, a country against which the U.S. maintains a trade embargo.

The arrested Thais said their Laotian cohorts have the rest of the money. But the Laotian suspects claim the Thais have it. The Thai newspaper Matkhon reported one of the men arrested, Udom Matheekun, said he was asked to drive a getaway car from Laos to Thailand. He said he was told he would be stealing a secret U.S. file from the Laotian national bank and would be paid $160,000 if the scheme succeeded.

Somsak added a further tangle in the tale Wednesday when he announced that Thai police broke the case after undercover drug agents were tipped off about an attempt to smuggle heroin and U.S. dollars across the border from Laos. Somsak said one of the Thai officers arrested, Capt Pallop Polyiam, was tracking a smuggling operation and could not be charged. But authorities suspect that Pallop helped hide the $1 million. ally for checkups.

The 24year-old won the Miss Michigan pageant in June. She was making an Upper Peninsula visit over the weekend and was unavaiU able for comment Her mother conveyed the family's joy. "We're extremely happy," Liford said. "Ecstatic is the word." Liford competes for the Miss America crown Sept 19 in Atlantic City, NJ. LOS ANGELES (AP) The Barbra Streisand Foundation has donated $52,000 to nine charities to help with the post-riot rebuilding.

In May, the organization donated $50,000 to two charities. The lastest donation was announced yesterday. The riots were touched off by the acquittal of four policemen April 29 in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King. The violence left more than 50 people dead and hundreds of businesses gutted in South Central Los Angeles. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

(AP) Former astronaut Alan Shepard says he can't decide whether his golf game is better on Earth or on the moon. "I can hit it farther on the moon," said Shepard, who played the first lunar golf game during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. "But actually, my swing is better here on Earth." Shepard played yesterday in a celebrity tournament Golf on the moon is easy because there's no air and less gravity, said Shepard, the first American in space. The only problem is that the pressurized spacesuits are so cumbersome that lunar golfers must get by on a one-handed swing, Shepard said. STOUGHTON, Mass.

(AP) Ree- border. Television broadcasts showed amazed Thai policemen counting thousands of $100 bills piled in neat stacks. Beyond that there are only unconfirmed and often contradictory reports on what happened. Some reports in the Bangkok press have described the robbers as officials at Laos' national bank. Others have them wearing Laotian military uniforms and last seen driving from Vientiane toward the Mekong River border.

Thai authorities say they have arrested three suspects, identified as Thai policemen, but these were probably not the robbers. Police Maj. has been a self-supporting tourist attraction since it was founded in 1952, according to Lawler. It currently attracts 600,000 people a year, many from Europe and the Pacific Rim. Lawler, who has been advising Dingle for the past couple of years, said there's no doubt that the Nevada desert zoo, with its international emphasis, likewise would be successful and self-supporting.

"I can't see how it wouldn't be," Lawler said. "A quarter- to a half-million visitors a year would be the reality within two to three years of its opening." He said the hard part would be attracting start-up funding. Dingle said he can't predict the final cost of the zoo, as it would be "an ongoing, never-ending process. The first phase, probably the North American and part of the Australian sectors, would cost about $10 to $15 million. Most of that would be spent on buildings.

Animals are not a major problem." BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) It may not involve the high-level dirty dealings of larger overseas bank scandals, but the Thai media and investigators are just as puzzled over a bizarre $2 million bank heist Explanations of the June 28 robbery in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, variously involve the United States, the United Nations, Vietnam and Thai drug agents. All that is certain is that three men waylaid a bank van in the sleepy former French colonial town, and that the stolen funds were in U.S. currency. About half the money was recovered Monday near the Thai-Laotian they're going to remain and we are now looking to manage that group in a more acceptable way," DeRiggi said. "We're hoping this will be an answer." The town is using $25,000 in commissions from bond sales to set up the job office in a leased trailer on a former used car lot in an industrial section.

The mayor acknowledges that illegal aliens will inevitably be among the job seekers who meet contractors there. But DeRiggi said it's not up to local government to enforce immigration laws. "That is up to the Immigration and Naturalization Service to enforce," he said. "We had periodically called them and their answer to us was that they're terribly overworked. "We cooperate and if we know of a situation where a person is undocumented, we can contact the INS.

But we can't question somebody and say 'OK, let me see your A philanthropic group is giving $7,500 to hire an outreach worker for the office, said Pascual Blanco, the executive director of the Hispanic advocacy group, La Fuerza Unida de Glen Cove. Blanco expects the office to open within a couple of weeks. He hopes that by having contractors meet job seekers, they will be less likely to take advantage of the workers. Some have failed to pay them after a day's work. "They've got rights like anyone else, even though some of them are illegal aliens," said Terry Perez, a La Fuerza Unida leader.

loped a quick, basic program for any MS-DOS computer that will enable individuals to keep horse records including registration numbers, breeding records, sires and dams, breeding and foaling dates and maintenance records such as shoeing, vaccinations and worming. Students will be provided with a disk containing the program for personal use. In addition, several non-credit community service workshops are scheduled including Bryan Neubert Colt Training Clinic from 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 5 to Centered Riding with Diana Wood from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Oct Dressage and Jumping Clinic taught by Ernie Herrmann from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct 17 and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Oct. 18; and Horsemanship and Creative Solutions to Special Problems with Horses taught by Bryan Neubert from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 5 to 8. Information is available on these courses by consulting a fall schedule or calling NNCC Student Services at 753-2102.

London, England ultimate warrior cm i i Las Vegas man eyes big biological park Northern Nevada Community College plans to offer several courses of interest to ranchers and horse enthusiasts during the fall semester, announced Joyce Shaw, NNCC staff writer. NNCC instructor Glenn Tenney will present "Computer Accounting for Ranchers," an eight-week, two-credit workshop from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursdays beginning Oct. 22. The class will introduce fundamentals of accounting for the financial affairs of a ranching business using a commercial accounting package.

Dr. Boyd Spratling will conduct an extensive discussion of the problems encountered before, during and after weaning periods in a five-week, one-credit workshop titled CowBoys N' the CalfHood. The class will meet frbni 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Sept. 23.

NNCC computer instructor Les McKenzie will offer a non-credit one-day workshop titled Computerizing Your Horse Records from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 14. McKenzie has deve I womi wrestumV Njv.

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