AMONG CURRENT course selec-
tions at Oregon State University’s
Food Science and Technology
department is a one-credit class,
“The Maraschino Cherry”.

Lecturers presenting the course
were two retired professors who
returned especially to talk on the
history of the maraschino cherry.
Said course professor Ron
Wrolstad, “i think the students were
just awed to have these professors
there.”

Charlotte, North Carolina —
Amil Dinsio, 58, filed a $15 million

lawsuit in May against the United”

Carolina Bank from his federal
prison cell in Loretto, Pennsylvania,
where he is serving four. years for
robbing the bank in 1992.

Sentencing guidelines call for
consideration of the amount of
money involved in the robbery, and
Dinsio accused the bank of fraudu-
lently inflating the amount, result-
ing in his spending an extra 16
months in prison.

“The Missouri Pacific Railroad
announced in August that it had paid
an undisclosed amount of money to
the families of a Mexican couple to
settle their, wrongful-death lawsuit.

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The two undocumented immi-
grants were hit by a train and killed
when they stopped on the tracks
near McAllen, Texas, to rest. Law
enforcement officials said immi-
grants often rest on railroad tracks
where they are safe from border
patrol heat sensors.

During the third week in June,
reporters in Indiana and Rhode
Island coincidentally published fea-
tures about local collectors of out-
houses.

Huntington's Hy Goldenberg
collects actual privies, and now has
12, but Virginia Williams collects
only photographs of them, of which
she now has about 100.

In August, a San Francisco
insecticide company sponsored a
contest to demonstrate its pest con-
trol prowess and selected as its win-

ner the home of Rosemary Mitchell, .

in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a sufficient
challenge.

Entomologist Austin Frishman,
a.k.a. TV's Dr. Cockroach, began
work on the home after estimating
that 60,000 to 100,000 cockroaches
lived there. Mitchell said, “I keep a
pretty clean house,” but admitted
she had to check the bed thoroughly
every night and shake the shower
curtains off every morning.
Frishman said he has seen a lot
worse and rated Mitchell’s house
only a “3” ona scale of | to 5.

Cheshire, Connecticut — Carla
S. Koch filed a lawsuit last month
against the municipal dog-obedi-
ence school for an incident last year
in which she slipped in a puddle of
dog drool and broke her ankle.

She said the school should have
had a mat on the floor.

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