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a A A li 6 ff THm Omy BmnHnml Sunday July- 7 1 985 The KlocCxios Boy mauled by dog dies after life support pulled i The 5-year-old boy was attacked by a Doberman while playing in a babysitters yard. The dog, which had no previous history of viciousness, has been impounded. Wednesday, as well as his kidney and liver were failing. State law guidelines require evaluations at 24 hour intervals for patients on life support systems. Kevin was pronounced brain dead this morning.

Brain death means function of the brain has been impaired to the point that heart beat and respiration could not be maintained without artiflcal means and that there is no hope brain function will be restored, Deger said. The child was pronounced brain dead at 9:17 a.m. Saturday. After physicians consulted with Kevins parents, "it was decided he be taken off life support systems. His heart stopped at 11:02 a.m., Deger said.

The dog, which had no previous history of viciousness, has been starts Monday, July 8th Noon to 6 P.M. (Ends Saturday, July 13th, 6 P.M. DENVER A 5-year-old Engle- wood boy mauled by a dog in the back yard of his babysitters home was taken off life support systems and pronounced dead Saturday morning, a Porter Memorial Hospital spokeswoman said. Kevin Miller, 5, has been on life support systems since his arrival at the hospital Monday. He, underwent surgery twice to repair damage done when the babysitters Doberman pinscher ripped his throat.

Kevin, the son of Carla Miller, was attacked by the 5-year-old Doberman as he and an older brother and' sister were playing in the yard at the babysitters home. i 4 Mew i Beauty star now reigns as motivator Saaoolatod Hospital spokeswoman Karen Deger said the boys neurological condition had deteriorated since .10 OFF 20 OFF 30 OFF 40 PEE 50 OFF 55 OFF. MONDAY 12 to 6 TUESDAY 10 to 6 WEDNESDAY 10 to 6 THURSDAY 1 0to6 FRIDAY 10 to 6 SATURDAY 10 to 6 1 it Incredible Savings On Quality Oak OConnor S. Bent Kroehler Allen Smith Others. Many items are one of a kind.

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DENVER When she was 20, the Denver newspapers gushed over the hometown blonde beauty queen." Today, the slightest glint of ice comes into her Aegean-blue eyes when she hears that phrase. The remarkable smile never goes away, but it is obvious Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur Atler could have lived quite well without the nonsense that went with being Miss America 1958. "It never was a beauty contest," insists the woman who got onto the Miss America track almost by default and later made it clear to pageant officials she never wanted to pose in a swimsuit again. Today, the title is motivation queen. Long before the Me Generation of the 70s discovered self-help, Marilyn Van Derbur had made a business of it.

For many years, she was the nations highest-paid female public speaker. She may still be, but she doesnt discuss speaking fees. In 1982, it was $2,000 a shot, several times a week, nine months of the year. She heads the Marilyn Van Derbur Motivational Institute in Denver. It offers a library of Marilyn Van Derbur motivational films, considered the head of their class by corporate leaders and high-school counselors.

Television stations can buy 75-second spots of inspiration to inject hope into their newscasts. An aura of too-good-to-be-true seems to run through her life. For 48 years, Marilyn Van Derbur (its just Marilyn, has grabbed hold of each day and wrung more from it than many get from a week, a month or a year. As a child, she was a standout ymmiir swimmer and an honor student at all levels of school who went on to Phi Beta Kappa when she returned from her year-long reign. As host at later Miss America pageants or in television specials she was able to astound co-workers and crew members by nevfer needing cue cards.

In her talks, she often speaks of the success and failure found in every life. This is the real theme of her work: that people can be motivated to do their best in part by learning that others arent always what they seem, that even the most successful have failed, and failed big, at some point Her listeners know that a newspaper editor once told Walt Disney he had no drawing talent, that Babe Ruth had a record for strikeouts as well as homers. "I could take a couple of hours and give you support for this but generally speaking, I believe there's plenty of evidence that most people who excel do so because theyve had a handicap, she says. Hers was shyness numbing, agonizing shyness. She became good" at public speaking, Marilyn says, because she feared it so much.

Going on to be what Andy Rooney calls his favorite Miss America of all time, Marilyn unknowingly began shaping her future. Marian McKnight of South Carolina, Miss America 1957, had dazzled crowds with her Southern-belle style. Marilyn found her a hard act to follow. It wasnt enough for me to just stand up there, smile and say, "Thank you for having me here today. Some before me had been able to do that and make it sound like a lot more.

I couldn't When I got somewhere to speak. Id already been there 50 to a hundred times before. I worked hard Man is killed by stray bullet during party Womens Sportswear 25 to 50 off Mens Suits and Sportscoats 25 to 50 off Wire checEi Colorado Springs No progress seen in murder cases Investigations into the slayings of Denise Davenport daughter of Grand Junction resident Hal Davenport and Aurora model Vicki Carpenter have not yet led to arrests, despite optimistic predictions several weeks ago. A Weld County undersheriff announced May 30 that an arrest would be made in the Davenport case within 10 to 14 days. About a week later, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Black said a jailed sus-" pect in a Fort Collins burglary case could be considered a sus-.

pect" However, no arrest has ever been made. Davenport 20, a student at University of Northern Colorado, was last seen Feb. 24 when she left a Greeley shopping mall. Her nude, decomposed body was found April 20 floating in the South Platte east of Greeley. The body of Carpenter, 24, was found weighted with concrete in a Cherry Creek spillofT April 2.

She had disappeared earlier after leaving a modeling job in East Denver to go to Aurora. According to Arapahoe County Investigations LL Don Klein, there are no suspects and few leads in the Carpenter murder. DENVER A 62-year-old Denver man died after he was struck by a stray bullet that officials believe was Tired randomly into the air by an Independence Day celebrant elsewhere in the Park Hill commu-nity, police reported Friday James Winston Tommy Thompson died after being taken to Denver General Hospital late Thursday. Police LL David Michaud said a bullet struck Thompson in the lower left side of his neck, and based on the angle it hit it was coming from almost directly overhead. Michaud said based on the trajectory, police might be able to backtrack to the area where the shot was Tired, and if the person who Tired it can be located, charges of reckless endangerment or crimi- nally negligent homicide could be possible.

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