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Dear Abby 11A Weather 12A POLL Are stronger high school graduation requirements To respond 1 Call 784-4636 ij To vote yes 404 i To vote 405 I See poll results Sunday Verse for today Keep awake therefore, for you do not kaow on wliat day your Lord Is coming. -Matthew 24:42 -f Idll EL PASO, Texas (AP) Aron Vigushin remembers how agitated the young American grew when Vigushin boasted about his prowess with a rifle. "He didn't like that I bragged about my success," Vigushin recalled. "He was hurt by a statement that somebody was a better shot than he was." The incident took place in 1960 on a rifle range in the Soviet city of Minsk. The agitated American was Lee Harvey Oswald, a 21 -year-old recent defector to the Soviet Union.

Three years later, Oswald would be accused of gunning down John F. Kennedy as the president rode in a Dallas motorcade. It wasn't until five or six years later that Vigushin learned that the man accused of assassinating the U.S. president was the same man he had known briefly in Minsk. Borrowed dog kills 5-year-old DeSOTO, Texas (AP) A 5- year-old boy was mauled to death by a Rottweiler his parents had borrowed to breed with their dogs, an autopsy showed.

Initially, police opened a homicide investigation into the death Saturday of Dusty the son of Pat and Pam Patterson, because of "question- -able-iHarkson But autopsy results released Sunday by the Dallas County medical examiner indicated all the injuries "were consistent with a vicious dog attack." The autopsy showed Dusty died of a lacerated trachea, according to Job McGuire of the medical examiner's office. DeSoto police said Sunday they were no longer investigating the death as a possible homicide. Pat Patterson told police he found his son lying in the back yard about 10:30 a.rn. Saturday. Next to him was a Rottweiler they had borrowed for breeding with their own Rottweilers.

DeSoto police said this was the third dog mauling death in Dallas County in 20 years. It was the second by a Rottweiler, they said. The dog was being quarantined in the DeSoto animal shelter, police said. Vigushin told The El Paso Times he doesn't remember much about Oswald, except that he never cared much for him. "He was maybe the first American I saw at all," said Vigushin, now a drafting instructor at El Paso Community College.

Americans were an uncommon sight in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, he recalled. Vigushin said he met Oswald through a mutual friend in Minsk. "I visited my friend's house because his sister played violin and I played violin. I saw him in this house," Vigushin said. He said his friend and Oswald were part of a small counterculture movement then developing in Minsk.

"My friend liked to read a lot. His interest was to learn something about.different countries. He read some Western books and liked to talk to Oswald about these things," Vigushin said. Vigushin said he soon grew uncomfortable around his friend and Oswald. 'I didn't like this movement at all," he added.

In the 30 years since their brief encounter, he says he has only vague recollections of Oswald. He said he has clearer memory of Oswald's Russian wife, Marina. "He was not attractive at all. We always wondered what Marina found hi him. We wondered, what does she have to do with this jerk?" Vigushin said.

Only their mutual interest in target shooting gave Vigushin and Oswald something to talk about. "He had his own rifle. In Russia it was unusual to have you own gun," he said. "We had to use guns provided by the shooting club." Photo fay-Rachel Thomas HELLO SANTA Ellie Bivens of Paris is ready to tell Santa Glaus what she wants for Christmas as the Jolly old elf made one hisjirst appearances in Paris this holiday season at the YWCA "Tinse! Tidings" craft fair. MARSHALL, Texas (AP) Susan Van Orden Kendrick Deroy Allen were neighbors at a Karnack mobile home park, so she thought nothing of giving him and two friends a ride from the fast- food restaurant where she worked.

But what Allen, on juvenile probation for assaulting her three years ago, and his friends really wanted was her parents' car, police said. And they were willing to kill her to get it, according to detectives investigating her murder. Investigators say the trio took Miss Van Orden, 16, to an isolated area Thursday night, shot her, beat her to death, took her parents' 1988 Ford Tempo she was driving, picked up two friends and headed west. They were bound for California, but got caught speeding early Friday about 90 miles away in Canton, police said. Instead of pulling over, they began a chase that ended in a wreck and the unraveling of the crimes.

Allen, 17, was charged with capital murder, investigators said Sunday. He was held without bond in the Harrison County Jail. Four other juveniles were being held in the Willoughby Juvenile Center in Marshall. "We are continuing our investigation to decide what charges will be brought (against the juveniles)," said CapL Keith Fletcher of the Marshall Criminal Investigation Division. The events of the case outlined by police are simple.

Thanksgiving night in Marshall was cold, as it was in much of Texas. Allen and his friends used the excuse of the low temperatures to lure their way into Miss Van Orden's car, said Marshall Police detective Billy Alford. "They asked her to give them a lift down the street. Once in the car they pulled out the weapon and abducted her," he said. By George Kimbrouah The Paris News HUGO, Okla.

Rabon's art students at Hugo Elementary School don't remember their teacher's nationally known singing group The Five Americans. But for Rabon and millions of others, vivid memories of the 1960s pop music group including their recording of "Western Union" will remain forever. "Western Union," written in 1967, came at the height of Rabon's musical career, selling one million copies. A framed certificate and gold record hang in the den of his home as a reminder of those days past. Rabon, whose parents were school teachers and administrators, has had a varied career.

He has taught art and has served as school principal at Goodland, Checotah and Cameron, in addition-to the time he spent as a professional musician. And he's now writing a book, All That GHtters An American Mike Rabon, a Hugo teacher, holds a certificate and gold record he received in the 1960s. It-hasn't always been a success, but it has been interesting. Mike Rabon Rock Odyssey, a biography detailing how he and four other students at Southeastern State College in Durant found overnight fame and an empty pocketbook. A 1961 graduate of Hugo High School, Rabon enrolled at Southeastern where The Five Americans was born.

"In the spring, we'd gotten a little band together We did a little picking; we enjoyed getting paid, but we'd play for free." Rabon said he talked the other members of the group in going to Dallas in the summer of 1963 to make a record. "We landed a job in a club," Rabon recounted, and it was there they met the son of a millionaire record producer. "He took us down there i (downtown) and signed us up," Rabon said, explaining they signed a 20-year musical contract. "We thought that was the right thing to do." That decision, however, turned out to be unwise. As time passed and as the group gained notoriety, Rabon said, "We had two hit records and we'd never seen a royalty check." Rabon, who played guitar, sang lead and co-wrote songs, said the group received cash advances from the producer, but that they never got even.

And in 1969, the group broke up. But The Five Americans had made a mark in the music industry. By the time they disbanded, they had recorded a number of hits and albums. Among them was "I See The Light," which sold 600,000 copies and made it to the Top 20 List in 1965, "Evol, Not Live," which sold one-half million copies, "Sound of Love," the fourth hit in a row for the group, and "ZIP Code," their last hit which was recorded in late 1967. Even though it has been 26 years since their last hit, their music is still on the air and available in record shops.

And in 1987 20 years after they disbanded the Fox Network filmed a reunion of the group at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas. Rabon also recorded a segment recently for ABC Radio, a nostalgia piece which included the song "Western Union." Other members of the group included Choctaw County native Jim Grant who now lives in Dallas. "I just got disgusted and came home," Rabon said, recalling the demise of the band. He moved back to Hugo, earned his master's degree from Southeastern and began his public school career. Rabon said his book, which is being published by Ken Brown of McKinney, Texas, is a "rise- and-fall story of five innocent kids in the record industry." The preliminary draft is complete, and it is hoped the book can be on the shelves in the spring.

"It's taken me 50 years to do all of this," Rabon said. "It hasn't always been a success, but it has been interesting.".