48 ~ Wednesday, October 6, 1993 - North Shore News

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In August, Judge Robert
Schillberg released shoplifter
Leroy Kelley without penalty in
Lynnwood, Washington, even
though Kelley had just pleaded
guilty to stealing two packs of
Marlboros from a Safeway store.
Schillberg fined Kelley USSI,
which the judge then paid out of
his own pocket, because he
believes, ‘“‘the store is more
culpable than (Kelley) is'' for scl-
ling cigarettes in the first place
since they are such dangerous
products.
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Also in August, the National En-
dowment for the Arts (NEA) hur-
tiedly withdrew funding it had
granted to three California artists
after the agency came under criti-
cism from a New York Times
report. Artists David Avalos,
Elizabeth Sisco and Louis Hock
were participants in the NEA-
funded ‘‘La Frontera/The
Border”’ project. Their art con-
sisted of passing out signed $10
bills to illegal immigrants to
demonstate to citizens the impact
that aliens have on the economy.
Said one of the artists, about the
project, it is about ‘the interac-
tion of physical space with intel-
lectual space and civic space.”
Said a day Jaborer-recipient,
“People don’t usually give us
money.”

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Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) agents recently raided a
store in Columbus, Ohio that had
an inventory of ear.candles, which
are hollow candles that, in theory,
will Joosen hard-to-remove wax
from a person's ear. (The candle
is placed in the ear and lighted o4
top. The oxygen sucked from the
hollow canal creates a vacuum
that loosens the carwax.) The
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the effectiveness of the candles
had been demonstrated.

James Cramer, 25, and Rudolph
Warren, 24, were arrested in
August and charged with four
robberies of Buffalo, New York
banks. The pair came to the at-
tention of police when officers
made a routine traffic stop on
Warren, who was alone and driv-
ing Cramer's car, Warren reached
into the glove compartment for
the car’s registration papers and
handed them to the police, in-
advertently including the holdup
note the two had been using. It
read: “I have a gun. Put all the
money in the envelope quickly!”’

‘In Rome, Georgia last fall, Rusty
Strickland, 23, was sentenced to
12 years in prison when a
substance the police said was co-
caine was found in plastic bags in
his home. At the time, Strickland
begged for the police chemist to
analyze the contents, The chemist
affirmed that the substance was
cocaine. After Strickland had
served six months of his sentence,
police chemists ran another test
and found that all the bags con-
tained was soap. The original
chemist, who had sworn in court
that he had tested the bag but had
not, was fired.

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Take a 1994 Hyundai Elantra Am for a drive this Friday
with Greg Wilson in the auto section.
Greg will give you the goods on the latest
vehicles to hit the showrooms,
from high performance sports cars to family sedans.
Spend a few minutes kicking the tires ona
Hyundai Elantra with Greg this Friday.

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