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Show I'jce A2 THE DAILY HHRA1.D. 1'r.m.. I i.ih. Iridjy. December 5. I W - : GRIFFIN, Ga. (AP) Oh Christmas tree, how lovely is dental retainer? your "It's $200 I'm not going to throw it away," Chris Ferguson explained after putting the retainer on her holiday spruce. ''I tied a red ribbon on it. It's pink, it's shiny." Her tree also is decked out with kudzu, soap and chicken which complement wire strings of lights and boughs adorned with bows. She tops the tree with a traditional angel. "The rule is, there are no rules. It's your tree," Ms. '- - - . - ; . I Associated This tree has a twist ; ; Ferguson said Wednesday in ; the Griffin Daily News. To make her garland, she twisted gold-- . chicken around wire painted T ribbon. Kudzu, a vine, adds to the festive look. cream-colore- d Prisoners to spell it out '; " " T PENDLETON, Ind. (API Some prisoners here are mindand all ing their P's and Q's the other letters of the alpha-- ; bet. Twenty inmates at the Pendleton maximum-securitprison are prepping for a spelling bee. "We want (the inmates) to be able to do some of the same things they'd have done if they'd stayed in the public school system," prison teacher y Peggy Gisler told The Daily Ledger of Fishers, Ind., in a story published Wednesday. The contest is part of an annual spelling bee sponsored by Topics Newspapers of sub- urban Indianapolis, and uled for Dec. sched- The 20 17-1- inmates will stay at the prison and compete only among themselves. Press Writer It was the fingernails. "Our Tiffany chews her fingernails so bad I have to slap her hand and tell her, 'Don't do that, honey,'" Moshier said. "Rut this child had fingernails." The child was About a dozen 4- - and children at Victory Christian School collected an estimated 50,000 pennies to raise money for school projects. They returned from Thanksgiving break to find wooden piggy their bank gone. Executives at Gloucester County Federal Savings Bank learned about the heist from a customer. The bank said this week that it would replace the $500. it's important to give back to the community that supports us," said bank President Robert Ahrens. dent. The two girls were misidenti-fiein the emergency room. The mistake was not confirmed until Tiffany Moshier regained consciousness four days later. "She just kept saying her name," Moshier said through tears Thursday. "I started to shake." DECATUR. 111. (API-Fi- res, fires everywhere caused one woman to ask for more police surveillance in her neighborhood. Now she's accused of setting a blaze at house. her Pat ty Jones was charged s' : 1 ," '.. . T 'in d Source of confusion The girls were riding in a pickup truck when the driver collided with another truck. After a relative of the pickup driver who knew the girls conat fused their identities Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Miss Getty's body was released to the medical examiner under Moshier's name. -old bags first black bear By DAVID REED Press Writer BUCHANAN, Va. Like girls, Victoria many Falls enjoys cheerleading and playing with dolls. But what really makes her happy is tracking bears through rugged mountains behind a pack of howling dogs. On Monday, she bagged her first bear. "My dad picked me up and hugged me I was real excited and so was he," Victoria said Wednesday. "I was real proud of my dog Rattler. He's the one who treed the bear." When Victoria caught up with her dog, who was barking up a pine tree, her father let her shoot the animal with a State Arson suspected ; Tuesday with arson and ivsi-dential burglary after police saw a woman enter a closed porch at the house next door to and saw smoke pourhers later. minutes out ing The family was not at home at the time. Jones was among residents who spoke to the City Council last month about the arson scare in her neighborhood, where about 15 fires have been reported since Sept. 28. .' M .. I'LL NEVER 6ET THE HAN6 OP MAKING 80U15. The next day, Mrs. Moshier went to the medical examiner's office with her sister to look at a photo of the dead girl, whose face was badly disfigured. Moshier said she had doubts about the true identity of the received clothes and jewelry from the funeral home last Friday, she knew they weren't her daughter's. Then when she saw the body for the and the fingernails first time that afternoon, she knew immediately it wasn't her body after seeing the photo, but was too traumatized to press the issue. "My sister grabbed me and hugged me and said, 'She's gone and you have to accept that,"' she said. Moshier didn't. When she department spokesman Rich Jefferson said no one at the agency can recall a person that young killing a bear in Virginia before. Karen Moseley was standing behind the cash register at Hilltop Market, where, game shot in Buchanan is checked in and weighed, when the Falls' family pickup pulled up with a du. d black bear in the back. Mason Falls, Victoria's grandfather, walked in pioudly and announced, "This young lady would like to check in a day-to-da- By RON WORD u Associated Press Writer . Health On The Line. Baby's vacation. "He's responding nicely. I don't think there will be any complications," said Dr. Charles Burger, pulmonary medicine specialist at Mayo who is treating Clinic-Jacksonvill- e, Care d Yourself Can Take Core of Your Baby. rrinr irMrriTirnfnrr Billy Graham his right lung is clearing, his fever has subsided and his white blood count is back to normal. "I'm pleased how he is doing the famed Rochester, Minn, medically," Burger said at an clinic. afternoon news conference. 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"The launch of this fund today ... shows that this region antibiotics. is a priority for the U.S. private Graham is conscious and alert sector as well as the American and has been walking around in said (leorge his hospital room, where pots of government," of the Overseas head Munoz, flowers and cards from Investment Private have poured in. federal The Corporation. When he developed a lung is a agency infection, his doctor told him to government entity providing go to the nearest Mayo facility. investment assistance to U.S. Graham has been a patient of businesses in developing the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota nations and insurance against since the early 1950s and dedirisks. cated the local Mayo Clinic political when it opened in 1986. Graham founded his Billy THE DULY HERALD Graham Evangelistic 1555 Nunli Frceikm Doulcvard Association in Minneapolis in Bi 717, Pnno. Ulah MfiO.WH JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Billy Graham has pneumonia and is responding well to treatment, his doctor said Thursday. The evangelist was hospitalized Wednesday night for treatment of the respiratory infection, which he developed during a Caribbean grandmother, said the girl learned to shoot a few years "But she's been going huntsince she ing with her was able to sit up in the truck," she said. The bear has been skinned and the meat is hanging in the family barn. The hide and head will be mounted for Victoria. face." y progress. "If he continues to improve, it will only be a few days," Burger said. He Graham's said Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurological disorder, was not related to his illness and will have no effect on the treatment of his pneumonia. Graham is being treated with The Rev. bear." Ms. Moseley said: "I said, 'Say what!" I thought he was kidding." The bear shot in the Jefferson National Forest a few miles from Victoria's house weighed 175 pounds, which is about average, Ms. Moseley said. Victoria's Falls, Becky ago. On Sunday morning, Tiffany Moshier spoke. Her words devastated Kuthy Getty, who had spent four days at the hospital praying for the girl she thought was her daughter. Getty has blamed the hospital for the misidentification and bristled at suggestions she should have realized Tiffany Moshier was not her daughter because the girl's face was not badly injured. have officials Hospital expressed regret for the mistake, but said they followed proper procedures for identifying patients. They fnid Tiffany Moshier's face was slightly swollen, but still recognizable. Mrs. Getty has said she had no reason to doubt the information she was given. Moshier said she understood why Getty might have been confused. "You get to visit only 15 minutes every several hours, and the room is full of monitors and tubes," she said, her lower lip quivering. "You hold her hand and watch the monitor because you can't bear to look at her Evangelist hospitalized for inflammation of lung U.S. launches decision on his fund for Africa be a " "' game Don't Put Your days to Christmas HRISTOPI1KR BERKEV The Associated Prcs: C Fatal mistake: Kathy Getty, center, sits flanked by her two sons, Nathan, left, and Brian, right, as she daughter, Tiffany. Tiffany was killed in a car accident last displays a 1996 portrait of her Wednesday and then misidentified in the emergency room as her best friend Tiffany Moshier, who survived the accident. paw-pa- 20 shopping - rifle. "We feel ' 3Oi Tiffany Getty, Tiffany Moshier's best friend and one of two people killed in a Nov. 26 car acci- Class's pennies pinched stolen. 0. ter. Associated MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. 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