32 - Wednesday, February 14, 1996 - North Shore News

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Compiled by A.P. McCredie

EULESS, TEXAS ~- Magazine
salesman Samuel A. Erby, 20, has
been charged with assault after he
attacked an 88-year-old woman,
teportedly because she declined to
buy a subscription from him.

And in Colorado, a 22-year-old
man working in his yard suffered a
similar fate when he declined to buy
a subscription from a Denver sales-
man.

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The New York Times reports on a
patent recently granted to Jeffrey
Holden of Humble, Texas, for a
decoy to ward off burglars.

The device is sinply’a face mask
of a person holding open a shutter
or blind and peering out. (The face
appears to have limited utility
because, unlike time-controlled
house lights, the face never moves
until the owner takes it down.)

In the last regular-season game
for the University of Virginia's foot-
ball team, with the score. tied, a
Virginia Tech player: intercepted a
pass and ran down the sideline to
the end zone to give Tech a 36-29
win. :

As the player ran.,past the
Virginia bench, the team trainer, Joe
Gieck, a member. of the trainers’
hall of fame, stuck. his leg out onto
the field but failed to make contact.
Gieck said he only ‘meant to “dis-
tract” the player, not tip him.

Concerned about the death of a
patient in 1994, the Tennessee
Department of Health began hear-
ings in October (continuing this
month) to determine the fi.ness of
dentist Stephen Cobble to continue
his Knoxville practice.

‘Former patients have testified
that Cobble: diagnosed their dental
problems by having his assistant
rub their backs, stomachs and arms;
injected patients’ pubic and umbili-
cal areas to sedate them; transferred
C-section scar tissue to treat a jaw
disorder; had a patient stand with
one foot on a stack of magazines
and try to swing the other foot
(which led to a diagnosis of a short
leg and a long arm); and prescribed.
a diet of beef, salt and at least two
eggs and a quarter pound of butter
daily.

Connecticut inmate Frank W.

Banks, assigned to a no-smoking
prison, was convicted in December
of mailing harassing letters to a
judge. ;
Banks ..sent the messages
because he thought threats sent via
the U.S, mail would cause him to be
sent to a federal prison, where he
could smoke.

And three stranded Alaska
hunters recently radioing for help
claimed they had been without food
for three days so the rescue would
be treated as an emergency. In actu-
al fact they had a week's worth of

food with them but panicked
because they had run out of ciga-
rettes,

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Oakhurst, California — The
owners of a new Chevron gas sta-
tion have received an official bless-
ing by Catholic Cardinal Roger M.
Mahony of Los Angeles, which
included the pumps, a snack area
and oan advertisement —_ for
Marlboros.,

And in Moscow, Father Matvei
of the Russian Orthodox Church
blessed the $30 million expansion
of a Coca-Cola plant.

Elle magazine reports on the ser-
vices of Eleni Santoro, a New York
City “psychic house cleaner” who
rehabilitates hard-to-unload reaj
estate by neutralizing the evil auras
and “balancing the energy” in the
house -- at $300 to $2,500 a job.

She specializes in homes in
which there had been a death or in
which the inhabitants fought a fot.

A full page of tetters from read-
ers in a recent issue of New
Scientist magazine report sightings
by London, England, subway riders
who say they saw pigeons board,
and disembark from, subway cars in

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“purposeful” ways that suggest they
have figured out where they are
going.

Products recently brought to
market: sandals, handbags and
accessories under the A-Bomb

label, from Tokyo's Mode et
Jacomo (whose public relations
director said she thought “A-
Bomb”, in English, signified
“cute"); the Peace Missile golf club
and companion putter, made from
melted-down Soviet Union nuclear
missiles; China’s Soft soap (and its

payment

rath of a salesman

competitor, Seaweed Defat Soap),
which according to the Preventive
Medicine Society removes body fat
in 76% of cases; and from the
Spencer and Fleetwood firm in
Great Britain, provocatively-shaped
noodles called Pasta Boobs and
Penis Pasta.

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