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A-10 Monday, Jan. 21 1991 Santa Cruz Sentinel Angry woman turns table on ki V. i i i i Service hole. con men i horVc Uitl cashier's checks with check, and placed the buyer. After reporting the theft to the Sacramento County Sheriffs Department, Leiman was still so angry that she set out to lure the con man back.

Friends ran bogus ads for diamond rings, but he didn't resurface. Then, desperate for cash, Leiman decided to run an ad last week to sell another of her rings. Incredibly, a man she believed was her bad-check artist responded. "I couldn't believe that this guy was this careless," she said, pointing out that the phone number was the same as the one she used in her first ad. "I instantly recognized his voice." Leiman said the caller gave her the same story about how he and his sister were buying the ring for their mother, and he suggested a cashier's check, even though she said she preferred cash.

After a quick call to sheriffs deputies, an undercover officer was sent to meet the potential gem buyer Wednesday at the Black Angus Restaurant on Watt Ave. There, the undercover officer handed over a diamond ring, received a fake $6,500 cashier's Obituaries Vivian M. Kievlan Services will be Tuesday for Vivian McNeill Kievlan who died Friday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 66. A native of Missouri, she moved to Santa Cruz as a youngster.

In 1941, she graduated from Grand view High School in Grandview, Mo. and served in the U.S. Navy until 1944. Ms. Kievlan then attended San Jose State University.

In 1958 she moved to Vernal, Utah, Vivian Kievlan where she was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. Ms. Kievlan returned to Santa Cruz in 1968 and was the first woman letter carrier to retire from Santa Cruz after serving 27 years. A member of l.C.F.

and the CB Windjammers Club, she was also active in the Scotts Valley Little League Snack Bar. She is survived by her two daughters, Virginia Bowen of Oklahoma and Dianna Murphy of Scotts Valley; two brothers, George R. "Bud" Kievlan of Santa Cruz and George E. "Gene" Kievlan of San Jose; two sisters, Margaret "Peggy" Nulph of Bonny Doon and Frances Mastin of Morgan Hill; mother, Theresa Kievlan of Santa Vital statistics lnnk-alike the imprint of banks such as Wells Fargo, River City, Bank of America and Sacramento First National, Cramer said. As the crowning touch, the fake checks were run through a "check protector" machine, which prints the dollar amounts in raised letters, Cramer said.

The fraudulent checks were so realistic that they even fooled bank officials, who initially accepted the checks until it was later discovered that they were printed on the wrong paper and did not have the required magnetic ink. Leiman, though still out the first ring, said she was "totally elated" by the arrests. "I vowed that I was going to get these guys," she said. "I had my credit on the line, my resources tied up. I just decided that this was going to come to a stop.

"I was so happy to see these guys brought to justice. It was like a high. It was such a rush. I wanted to get my hands on them so bad." Since the arrest, Leiman said, "My friends have been calling me 'Dick I've been answering my phone 'Hello, FUNERALS 1979, brother, Lawrence Kievlan in 1926 and her grandson, David Mikel Bid In 1990. Native of Missouri.

Aged 66. Services will be conducted at Normans Family Chapel (Gary Benito, Director) 3620 Soquel Dr. Soquel, Tuesday January 22, 1991 at 2 p.m. Friends may call at Norman's Family Chapel Monday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.

Interment will be private. Contributions preferred to Hospice Caring Pro-iect, P.O. Box 670, Aptos, 95003. Goodbye Letters to Vivian would be appreciated from family and friends. HUSKEY In Miami, Florida, January 16, 1991.

Mrs. Velma R. Huskey. Survived by her husband, Harry Huskey of Santa Cruz; three daughters, Carolyn Louise Dickinson of Salt Lake City, Utah, Roxanne Louise Dwyer of Miami, Florida and Linda Louise Retterath of Santa Clara; one son, Harry Douglas Huskey, Jr. of Santa Cruz, also survived bv five grandchildren, Jeffrey Alan Dickinson, Jennifer Ann Dickinson, Philip Matthew Dwyer, Jacob Douglas Huskey and Noelle Elizabeth Huskey.

Native of Houston, Ohio. Aged 73. Services will be conducted at Messiah Lutheran Church, 801 High St. Santa Cruz, Monday January 21, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Friends may call at Messiah Lutheran Church on Monday morning from 10 a.m.

until service time. Arrangements under the direction of Norman's Family Chapel (Gary Benito, Director) 3620 Soquel Dr. Soquel. Contributions preferred to Messiah Lutheran Church, 801 High St. Santa Cruz, or the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home, co Messiah Lutheran Church.

3620 SOQUEL DRIVE SOQUEL 476-6211 You are welcome to write about your loved onet In an "In Memorlam" or "Card ol Photos or picture! can be Included. For details call Leslie Blanklnshlp at Santa nu Srntmrl Classified Department 423-4242 Ext. 296 VOLUNTEER CENTER Santa Cruz County (408) 423-0554 Arlington field trip has special meaning Charles Anthony Owen, 31, of San Francisco, under arrest. Detectives believed the check scam was the work of more than one person, so they searched the restaurant parking area and arrested Randall Steven Green, 34, of Sacramento, who was waiting for Owen. Both were booked into the Sacramento County jail on fraud and theft charges and were being held in lieu of $50,000 bail, said Detective Bill Cramer of the Sacramento County Sheriffs Department's Financial Crimes Bureau.

Cramer said the arrests may have cracked a ring that has left a string of fraud victims stretching from the Mother Lode to the San Francisco Bay area. Deputies believe Green and Owen and possibly a third person committed nearly 20 bad-check thefts, skinning people for expensive furs, jewelry, watches and, in one case, a zebra-skin rug. The two men, who apparently based their operation out of Sacramento, used very high quality photocopy machines to manufacture FUNERALS his three sons, Gary Cramer of Santa Cruz, Stephen Cramer of Capitola, and Lindsey Cramer of Santa Cruz. He is also survived bv six grandchildren and two sisters, Fern Tobey of Santa Cruz and Geneva Brown-ridge of Valleio, and by numerous nieces and nephews. Mr.

Cramer served In the U.S. Army during World War II, in the 7th Armored Division during the Battle of The Bulge under General Patton. He was a native of South Dakota, age 80 years. Resident of Santa Cruz since 1946, he worked for Hocom Floor Coverings for 30 years. He was an avid youth baseball fan and was scorekeeper for the games for many years.

He enioyed gardening and spent his retirement years at his home and garden, his greatest enioyment. Services will be conducted at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 2500 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz on Wednesday, January 23, 1991 at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Ron Thompson officiating. Santa Cruz Memorial Park Funeral Home in charge of arrangements, Douglas Martine, Service Director.

Private Interment in Santa Cruz Memorial Park Mission Mausoleum. Contributions preferred to St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 2500 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. 1927 Ocean Street 426-1601 NOD MANS family chapel KIEVLAN In Santa Cruz, January 18, 1991. Vivian "McNeill" Kievlan.

Survived by her mother, Theresa Kievlan of Santa Cruz; two daughters, Virginia Bowen of Oklahoma and Dianna Murphy of Scotts Valley; future son inlaw, David Birt; two brothers George E. "Gene" Kievlan of San Jose and George R. "Bud" Kievlan of Santa Cruz, two sisters Frances Mastin of Morgan Hill and Margaret "Peggy" Nulph of Bonnv Doon; three grandchildren, Danny Demos, Shellie Murphy and Mikel Murphy, also survived by nineteen nieces and nephews. She was preceeded In death by her daughter, Mary Beth McNeill in 1954, twin sons, Danny and Denny McNeill in 1963, father George R. Kievlan, Sr.

in LIC McClatchy News SACRAMENTO Diamonds are forever. And so is Erin Leiman's anger. Duped out of a $6,000 diamond, the Sacramento woman was ready to snare the con man when, she says, he tried to pull his scam again. This lesson in victim's revenge began about two weeks before Christmas, when Lehman advertised her diamond wedding ring for sale in the newspaper classifieds. A man responded to the advertisement and agreed to pay Leiman with a $6,000 cashier's check for the 2.5-carat, Marquise-cut, diamond ring.

Leiman, 33, reasoned that a cashier's check which is guaranteed by a bank was as good as cash and handed over the ring. But the deal unraveled a week later when her bank told her the cashier's check was bogus and that it was freezing her accounts to cover the fraudulent document. "I was totally devastated. It was right before Christmas, and it really wrecked my world," said Leiman, a single mother of a 6-year-old girl. "I had to go out and borrow the money.

I was really in the Clerence D. Conner Purple Heart awarded to Californian The Associated Press IN SAUDI ARABIA The U.S. military is awarding its first Purple Heart in the Persian Gulf war to a Navy medic from Southern California who was hit by Iraqi shrapnel fire, officials said Sunday. Corpsman Clerence D. Conner, 19, of Hemet was recovering after having a jagged piece of metal removed from his right shoulder.

"I'm damn proud of him," said Marine Brig. Gen. Thomas V. Draude. Conner will receive the award upon his return to the United States, officials said.

The serviceman is among 460,000 U.S. military personnel in the allied forces arrayed against Iraqi soldiers. Conner was with a Marine unit near the Kuwaiti border when he was wounded after the war broke out Thursday. His unit was trading sporadic fire with Iraqi troops just across the border in Kuwait. The Purple Heart is a U.S.

military decoration awarded to soldiers wounded or killed in action during wartime. Its SANTA Cruz; and three grandchildren. Services will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Norman's Family Chapel, 3620 Soquel Soquel. Friends may call between 5 and 8 p.m.

Monday at Norman's Family Chapel. Interment will be private. The family prefers contributions to the Hospice Caring Project, P.O. Box 670, Aptos, 95003. Good-bye letters from family and friends also would be appreciated.

Arthur R. Bachler Graveside services will be Tuesday for Arthur R. Bachler, who died Jan. 12 at his home in Santa Cruz. He was 80.

A retired building contractor and native of Minneapolis, Mr. Bachler lived in Torrance for 12 years before moving to Santa Cruz in 1961. He was a World War II veteran and received a Purple Heart. He was a member of V.F.W., Grey Bears, and the Eagles. He is survived by his three brothers, George Bachler of Big Lake, Edward Curtis of Port Charlotte, and Fred Curtis of Eden Prairie, two sisters, Mary Bachler Zeck of Cherokee Village, and Shirley Schar-noski of Milwaukee, Wis.

Graveside services will begin at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Soquel Cemetery, 3680 Old San Jose Road in Soquel. White and Wessendorf Chapel is in charge of arrangements. The family prefers contributions to a favorite charity. ed that the shrine would ever receive the body of a serviceman killed in the Persian Gulf war.

"I don't think this war will last that long or be that inaccurate to have an unknown soldier," she said. For Kristin Progule, Sunday was the last of a four-day trip to Washington, an annual event that happened to begin this year the morning after the United States sent its missiles into Iraq. Ten of the 96 students scheduled to travel here were kept at home by anxious parents. Others watched their mothers and fathers weep tears that clearly went beyond those of a routine parting as the children boarded the bus to the airport. They went to the Smithsonian Institution and the Supreme Court, saw pandas at the zoo and monuments in the moonlight.

They sat in the Senate Chamber, even though the lawmakers were in recess, and looked at the White House, which was closed for security reasons. But the trip had a special significance, coming in the first week of the first war of their lives. At the Vietnam Memorial, its shiny black surface etched with names, one girl cried "for no reason," she said, and another cried because her grandfather had been killed in Southeast Asia. Kristin said that despite all the television specials she had seen, "I never realized how many people had died till I saw it, and it's a scary thought to think it could happen again." On Saturday near the White House, the eighth graders stood on the fringes of an anti-war demonstration in which the well-behaved crowd was estimated at 25,000. Kristin said she was impressed by the seriousness of the protesters, but insulted when some of them told the junior high students they were "too young to understand." sought to diffuse the controversy by leaving the party around 11 p.m.

and visited the home of a girlfriend. The suspect, a 20-year-old man, reportedly showed up at the residence and after a brief confrontation, punched the girl in the mouth, after she tried to apologize for the earlier dispute. Deputies said the woman sustained some cuts and they are seeking an arrest warrant for battery in connection with the case. mm FUNERALS WHITE WESSENDORF Funeral i Parlour 423-4800 138 Walnut Avenue Santa Cruz 111 Years of Service BACHLER January 12, 1V91. Arthur R.

Bachler, 80, a retired building contractor. Preceeded in death by his wife Beth three years ago. A native of Minneapolis, Minn. He lived in Torrance for 12 years before moving to Santa Cruz 30 years ago. Art was a World War II veteran, holder of a Purple Heart.

He was a member of V.F.W., Grey Bears The Eagles. He is survived by 3 brothers, George Bachler, Big Lake, Mn. Edward Curtis, Port Charlotte, Fl. Fred Curtis, Eden Prairie, Mn. 2 sisters, Mary (Bachler) Zeck, Cherokee Village, Ar.

Shirley Scharnoski, Milwaukee, Wi. Also their families and many friends. Graveside services will be held on Tues. January 22, 11:30 a.m. at Soquel Cemetery, 3680 Old San Jose Road, Soquel.

Arrangements entrusted to White Wessendorf Chapel (Eric Bianco, service director) Contributions to your favorite charity are preferred. Santa Cruz Memorial Park Funeral Home At his home in Santa Cruz oajanuary 18,1991 after a brief illness. Mi-not Cramer. Survived by his wife of 48 years, Helen Cramer of Santa Cruz, and by We last cleaned for you on Hard to be By JANE GROSS The New York Times ARLINGTON, Va. From the steps of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 14-year-old Kristin Progule looked out over the rolling lawns of Arlington National Cemetery and the files of white marble headstones lined up in military formation to the horizon.

"There are no words for it," she said, her face mottled with emotion and her eyes damp. "It's like they're all numbers instead of individuals. If I had the time, I'd read every one of the stones and lay something on them to let them know we were here." Kristin was watching the hourly changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with the rest of the eighth grade from the Paul Revere Middle School in Houston. The students were on a field trip. Here too were scores of other tourists, those who might have come anyway on a bright Sunday, warm as early spring, and those who visited because it seemed a fitting gesture in these early days of war in the Persian Gulf.

Most of the 612 acres of Arlington National Cemetery were quiet on Sunday morning, but for the cawing of crows. There are no burials on weekends, and pathway markers direct pedestrians to the major sites. Along the way, fathers explained to their children how to tell the ranks of the dead by the number of stars on the headstones, and guides urged their followers to stay off the grass. Among the visitors at the tomb was a small boy named Timothy, who had so enjoyed a field trip here last week that he brought his mother back to show her the guards who keep 24-hour vigil and to tell her that their 21-step march in front of the tomb represents the 21-gun salute that is the highest military tribute. Timothy's mother, who would not give her name, said she doubt JEFFREY TALMADGE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Humble time for Specializing in Home Remodeling EXTENSIVE REFERENCES CREATIVE IDEAS PLANS RESPONSIBILITY SERVICE DOWN TO THE LAST DETAIL When You're us SANTA CRUZ RUG, CARPET UPHOLSTERY if) DKAPERY 'MT CLEANERS 4TYf2 You're invited JJm to visit our Dlantl CRUZ SINCE 1947 Song prompts assault 476-9034 458607 423-5235 or 423-3834 1521 seabright ave FREEDOM The Sheriffs Office is investigating the apparent assault in Freedom Saturday night of a 17-year-old girl by a man whose song she did not like.

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