The York Dispatch from York, Pennsylvania • 7

wynnr 9 wm ww THE YORK DISPATCH WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15 1997 A7 are ur tr like to describe it as a super-HMO or says Jay Bloom Pet founder and chief executive officer He says he got the idea after his golden retriever needed a $3000 hip replacement that covered under the insurance policy he held on the dog submitted the bill to my insurance company and instead of reimbursing me they said (the condition) was Bloom says wanted to see what else covered There were several thousand When Kelbi recently needed dentistry including several extractions Steindecker made the appointment without delay Without the plan might have waited a few says Steindecker who saved $140 on the $560 doggie dental bill Steindecker signed up with Pet Assure which offers a 25 percent discount on veterinary services for dogs cats birds and reptiles Membership costs $99 a year for the first pet $79 for each additional pet In return the plan has no deductibles pre-existing conditions increased premiums for old or sick pets or benefit limits spends about $1200 a year on food and services for their pets according to the Pet Products Manufacturers Association Most will spend $575 medical care before making a decision to end treatment or put down an ailing animal according to a recent survey by DVM Newsmagazine a veterinary monthly have insurance Does it pay for itself? No but not why I have says Jeffrey Del-otte the pet attorney who is a Pet Assure client as well as provider Clients of Pet Assure based in Dover NJ get their discount on items ranging from surgery to pet food purchased at certain stores Clients also get up to 50 percent off from participating groomers trainers boarding houses dog walkers cat sitters therapists even a pet lawyer The discounts come from the providers themselves Pet Assure returns 50 percent of its gross membership sales to the veterinarians while other participants simply get free advertising The average dog or cat owner By JANINE ZUNIGA The Associated Piess NEW YORK Dana Haddad Steindecker likes to believe no limit when it comes to medical care for her 5-year-old Maltese Kelbi Of course also no limit to the cost why Steindecker 'joined a new pet HMO a membership program that offers discounts for pet health care Now the 25-year-old real-estate agent says she think twice before taking her dog in for routine checkups vaccinations even flea baths tiUi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Clinton appears frustrated as he answers questions yesterday in Brazil about the fundraising investigation White House turns more over to GUILTY In bizarre cult killing Continued from PageAl is sentenced this Friday Wetzel County WVa prosecutors expect to take a guilty plea from Whitehurst or schedule her for trial In September 1996 Cooper and Whitehurst were indicted by a grand juiy on felony counts of murder and conspiracy- After more than 2000 hours of investigation that included a detailed examination of the 11-volume 8000-page diary Cooper left inside the remote cabin where body was found Wetzel County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Lemon still know exactly how or why Good was slain Cooper 40 who has multiple aliases that include David Freeman (the name police had as they searched for him last year) say much last Friday when the judge asked him for a statement as he entered his plea he said was and I think this is a quote We or I was there and we did not help him realizing the condition he was said Lemon was as evasive as you can Theories no proof: Lemon said his case is purely circumstantial even getting Cooper to say that he and others were at the scene of the murder was considered a breakthrough have no direct evidence of either (Cooper or Whitehurst) doing anything Before this plea we even know they were he said Lgmon said one key piece of physical evidence is a 45-caliber Ruger handgun that Good purchased Aug 11 1993 about the time he died He thinks the gun purchase was a sign that relationship with Cooper had deteriorated the theory that (Good) confronted (Cooper) about all his money (being) gone and something happened and he ended up dead with a fractured Lemon said think he got killed because he wanted to know what happened to his he said The weapon was recovered as police arrested Cooper in Sterling Va (an hour west of Washington DC) on May 18 1996 just 12 hours after a segment on the case aired on girlfriend Whitehurst remained at large for several months afterward but eventually turned herself in VIDEO Leads police to suspect Continued from PageAl Employees identified the man in the Aug 20 video as the man who robbed the store on Aug 21 giving police a pretty good lead Springettsbury Township Police distributed the tape to area police departments and made a connection in Baltimore County where police recognized Garner whose distinctive appearance includes a cleanshaven head a goatee and a missing front upper tooth Last week police issued an arrest warrant for Garner 34 with a last known address of 5306 Ethelbert Ave Baltimore He was picked up in Baltimore County yesterday and remains incarcerated somewhere in Maryland awaiting extradition here charged with four counts each of robbery theft receiving stolen property false religious twist to the tale Lemon said evidence in the diaries that suggests Cooper may have expected Good to resurrect from the dead And there are entries related to another resurrection vigil this one in Pennsylvania Lemon said Cooper remains married to a woman in Pennsylvania but he did not have her name and was uncertain where she lives He could not provide other details about the Pennsylvania resurrection vigil or say whether or not it occurred at the Airville farm Burglar tipped police: body was discovered in November 1994 probably a year and a few months after his death and several months after investigators think Cooper and Whitehurst moved out of the cabin An astonished burglar stumbled across the body in the basement and immediately left then called it in to police anonymously adding that he take anything from the scene As for the money from sale of the farm Lemon said investigators tracked the share of it Much of1 it went to buy the land and pay cash for the bulldozer and backhoe Household expenses also ate a good deal of the rest Lemon said though (Good) was quote-unquote under a spell or confined to the cellar (Cooper) would send him to the store with a grocery he said Harold and Rachel Good were stunned that when they examined the cabin there was no evidence that their son had ever lived there no mail no personal belongings nothing with his name on it nothing in his handwriting They sold the cabin and now waiting for the legal cases to finish up so that they can reclaim body and give him a proper burial Perhaps then they can begin to put the horrible details behind them time you think sort of going to forget about it then something happens and it keeps opening the wounds said Rachel Good Lemon too is ready to put the case to rest He said it made history in Wetzel County: been practicing law for 25 years This is the strangest case ever been prosecuted in Wetzel County And been the longest and most CARRIER Saves a life Continued from PageAl is expected to recover Stough said Stough said gratifying to think she may have helped save life What Stough did is not unusual said senior clerk Bob Wickline He said the US Postal Service has a program called Carrier Alert where carriers are trained to watch for anything unusual on their routes When mail piles up in the box newspapers go uncollected at the door drapes or blinds that are usually open remain closed or someone who normally waits for his mail fails to appear it can indicate a problem particularly with an elderly customer are very habitual and when things are different or out of place it can be a signal that something is Wickline said Lemon speculated that Good may have been by Cooper which led him to sell his Air-ville farm for $13 million in the early 1990s and use his one-third share to move with Cooper and Whitehurst to a remote cabin on about 200 acres near Folsom WVa not far from southwest corner stepmother Rachel Good said the family sure exactly when Cooper moved in with Tim Good in Airville but Cooper soon impressed them all with his mechanical ability was a very good repairman so he would overhaul the tractors and things like Rachel Good said was very knowledgeable but he just seemed to have a spell on Good spent most of the money from the farm sale to purchase the land and cabin in West Virginia as well as a backhoe and bulldozer in 1991 But he lived in the austere and sparsely furnished cement-floor basement while Cooper and Whitehurst filled the upstairs with such luxury items as a Ja-cuzzPand an elaborate stereo system diaries found in a locked gun safe in the cabin basement indicate the group was absorbed in some sort of unconventional religion but Lemon able to link them with any known group nor were experts he consulted at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary They employed their own calendar which prosecutors decoded by comparing diary entries about hunters with the West Virginia hunting season The group apparently read Tarot cards daily and made daily measurements of the azimuth to mark the passing seasons Lemon said Cooper treated Good like a slave ordering him to perform menial tasks and withholding food for days at a time He even gave Good a new name: Alex St Johns The diary entries left behind in the cabin end a month before Tim Good died Lemon said he suspects there may be diaries that chronicled last days alive but if they exist never been located by police Good may have been dead for some time before Cooper and Whitehurst did finally leave the cabin Lemon said investigators recovered receipts and beer packaging that date to after death and someone clogged air vents a sign that body was beginning to smell In another bizarre pseudo imprisonment and terroristic threats and one count of criminal conspiracy Police also anticipate charging Garner as a fugitive from justice to bring him back to York to face the charges A female accomplice been identified partly because she in the store the day before the robbery Garner and his accomplice are accused of taking $2000 in jewelry from the store and $32585 in jewelry from three clerks who were working at the time of the robbeiy Garner allegedly used a small handgun herding four employees into a back room while threatening to shoot them if they cooperate He handcuffed two employees around a handicap rail in a bathroom then handcuffed the remaining two employees together Garner allegedly removed jeweliy from three female clerks then fled with his female accomplice By JOHN SOLOMON The Associated Piess WASHINGTON The latest round of White House fund-raising tapes shows Presi- dent Clinton thanking a controversial Democratic moneyman i and provides a glimpse into another event that investigators allege involved foreign money The White House late yesterday turned over to House and Senate investigators the video and audio tapes for more than 100 fund-raising events including some of the most controversial of first KINSLEY investigators to illegally divert Teamsters union money into the re-election campaign of Teamsters President Ron Carey A 1994 event inside the White House involving a controversial Thai business consultant whose donations have been returned The individuals spoke only on condition they not be namedThe majority of the tapes the individuals said were from events Clinton attended in traditional hotel ballroom settings away from the executive mansion tested anew they were there once before what would you When informed of the selection of the Kinsley site today Walter Powell president of the staunchly preservationist Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association said the Levan site might not be so bad site closer to town is better than one outside of he said Powell said he still has about the park proposed partnership is an issue that should go to the American public and be financed by that he said Ironically Kinsley almost get in on the bidding process at all according to Monahan Last spring the park service extended the deadline for submitting proposals from April 11 to May 9 apparently at request Monahan said the extension was improper He would not say whether he plans any efforts to block selection Monahan has spent more than $100000 developing his plan and last spring created a nonprofit organization the National Museum of the Civil War Foundation to operate the park service complex He said representatives from Kinsley visited the site he had initially proposed Staff writers Michael Cleary and Christina Gostomski term More were expected to be released today Individuals familiar with the list of tapes told The Associated Press they included: A February 1996 Asian-American dinner at a hotel that Clinton attended and which netted $1 million Republican investigators believe foreign money was used to illegally reimburse donors at that event A June 1996 luncheon with a campaign consultant now convicted in a conspiracy the battlefield boundary and near the Levan property That proposal drew such a storm ox protest from neighbors preservationists and nearby businesses that the park service quashed the plan and opened it up for bidding Monahan said the choice of project baffles him He said his proposal would have put the park service complex on 282 acres he nonetheless plans to develop into a hotelconvention centerIMAX theater compound at routes 30 and 15 It would have had about 50 acres of parking are they going to put that kind of parking at the Levan Monaghan wanted to know According to USA Today officials said the Kinsley plan offered the park service a better financial aeal In exchange for building the project Kinsley would be permitted to build profit-making commercial facilities had put a development plan on the old Fantasy land site which is next to site that has been selected" he said That plan was rejected because purists and preservationists (complained about) disturbing of views and use of the site is at the intersection of (routes) 15 and 30 not within the boundaries It does more to preserve the integrity of the field than any other Monahan said He said he be surprised if preservationists pro I Getting park project Continued from Page A 1 either because a leaky water cooler had fried the telephone system at the main office The park service plans to announce the final choice next 'week Park service officials want to want to reveal the identity until a contract is signed David Barna a park service spokesman in Washington said two weeks ago "USA Today reported that Kinsley who submitted a proposal in conjunction with a for- profit branch of the National Geographic Society would build a visitor centermuseum complex on the Levan property A check at the Adams Courthouse shows that property to be just under 74 acres It lies between the two-lane Baltimore Pike and the equally narrow but more winding Taneytown Road am shocked that they choose a plan that will -put this center on hallowed ground within the permanent boundaries of the Robert Monahan one of three other bidders for the project said this morning Monahan said that three ago when he proposed a partnership with the National Park Service he planned to put his center on the former Fanta-syland property also within ft 1 I.