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MARINE. Cpl. Corban
“ Backstrand, .24,. stationed

‘near Hiroshima, "Japan, won:
- a dare in June while out with
friends: :-

» The U. $: soldier stuck his

“head in front of a moving

cargo train and was knocked,
‘unconscious.

injury after a stunt
by <deéjays at-radio ‘station

“KQCC EM of Rock Island, .

Illinois.

a ten of stairs. When he did ‘

no fit, inside’ initially,.. he

dered: Held P. P Welagold
0 provide'$500,000 in res
i customers . who:

s ‘the. “lottery: ;

new ai ients welcome

good-luck key chains and
baubles, and “cosmic protec-
tors” that were merely solar
powered calculators, to guar-
antee them a “93%” chance
of winning lotteries.

News of the Weird's first
report On the art of butter-
sculpting in 1993 covered
works at state fairs in
Pennsylvania and Minnesota
and a Buddhist monk’s
Tibetan yak butter sculpture
loaned ‘to a Chicago muse-
um,

In August of this year,
Norma “Duffy” Lyon scuipt-
ed a life-size butter cow for
the 37th straight year at the
Towa Stare Fair. As her tradi-
tional second butter subject
at this year’s fair she chose to
portray the stoic “American
Gothic” farmers. A few years
ago, her second subject was

. singer Garth Brooks.

‘Identical twins John and

‘William. Bloomfield died of
heart attacks minutes apart at"

age 61 in Australia.
In- Madisonville,

. Kentucky, twins Welbert and
= ens Cannon, © 20,. were
‘both hit by a freight train
; just two miles from the spot

where their father was fatally
hit by a freight train in 1987.

And*in July." in, Los’.
; . Angeles;: ‘Mr. Avi Gesundheit
: Passed | away. © ;

Owensboro, ‘Kentucky —

Road . Department | driver —
‘Sam -Holinde, driving his 20-

jump truck: across: a
bridge’ with a “limit 3-ton”

sign, got. about halfway’.
-across before the bridge col”

lapsed.
The ‘fall was short, and

. Holinde suffered only s minor
injuries. ~

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‘for appt. call

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