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Show All The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Saturday, May 27 1995 Notices Phony Evidence lison Mutler ly taken Nov. and foreigners drawn by tales of Count Dracula found only a dank, medieval castle and homemade Dracula sweaters Now,a lifeless state tourist industry is trying to infuse new blood into the Dracula trade. and on Thursday, opened the world’s first Dracula congress “Tf tourists want hands rising out of coffins we'll give it to them,” said tourism minister Dan Matei Under communism, Romania triedto distanceitself from one of the world’s most enduring myths, and dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who saw his nation as a modern industrial powerhouse, went so far as to ban the Bram Stoker THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fight it, an expert says. David Kingsbury of Johns Hopkins University said Friday that breaking the DNA code for the bacterium Hemophilus influenzae “will help us know how all bacteria work “From a fundamental biological viewpoint, this is of great significance,” said Kingsbury, head of the human genome databaseat Hopkins Tworesearchers, J. Craig Ven- ter of the Institute for Genomic Research in Gaithersburg, Md., and Hamilton Smith of the Hopkins School of Medicine announced this week that they had found the complete sequence for the DNA for Hemophilus influenzae. This was the first time that the entire genome for missing a court hearing and re- mained behind bars throughout thetrial. The police report did not mention any photos taken by Raley’s The photo security guards, and prosecutors never raised the ue during pre- liminary hearings. Then. on the day ofthetrial Scott produced a photo showing a shopping cart containing bottles of scotch, gin and brandycovered by a newspaper. The photo was study. “Chills went up and down our spines when werealized that you could see Mother's Dayin the ad. said defense attorney Theresa Marks. “The district attorney turnsfive shades of pale. He runs upstairs and gets his provided by Michael Quinn, then a Raley’s The Associated Press In Brasov, a Romanianpeasantcashesin on the Dracula legend by displaying portraits of Vlad the Impaler and Bran castle. endfor tourists are new, and visitors to Transylvania today still may find their vampire fantasies disappointed. ‘We came to see Dracula, reputed for his love of blood, who slept during the day and roamed at night,” said James Mitchell, a retired Scottish police officer who visited Bran castle, falsely reputed to be Dracula’s castle. Within sight of the castle’s gothic turrets, women in heads- paler, who imposed his rule by impaling and otherwise cruelly treating robbers and cheats. Stoker based his Dracula on Vlad, but enriched the figure with vampire tales from Romanian folklore Reportedly, Vlad spent only a fewnights at Bran castle. The castle did not appear in Stoker's writings at all But whentourists started showing up in the 1970s, Communist officials grudgingly put together carves and thick wool stockings a Dracula tour that promoted the sell hand-knit sweaters with Bran castle and the words, “Dracula Romania” for $15 apiece — the only available souvenirs. “We're a wee bit disappointed,” said Mitchell’s wife, May Part of the problemis that, for Romanians, Dracula is not Stoker’s count atall, but a 14th-century Romanian prince, Vlad the Im- fallacy by including the 14th-cen: tury fortress. Some myths endure, however. Nicolae Paduraru, head of the Dracula Transylvania Society who campaigned 10 yearsforthis week's congress, said “there is no use trying to explain that Vlad the Impaler was not a vampire Dracula hasa life of his own.” security guard and now a Pleasant Hill police officer trainee. Prosecutors charged that by covering the bottles, Baxter had madeit clear sheintendedto steal orders. the liquor and was not in an alco- comes down, and dismisses the case.” Baxter, who could have received up to six years in prison. was promptly released from jail holic daze, as the defense contended. In the defense summation Marks told jurors: Youshould picbe very suspicious Through her lawyer, she refused comment Thursday now shewas concealing this stuff when that was never mentioned before The juror whose suspicions paid off for the defense has refused interviews and asked not to be identified The prosecutor, Contra Costa Deputy District Attorney Gregg Scott. said the photo is being in- vestigated and he could not commentfurther. “Tt appeared the evidence had Thieves Chat on CB; Promptly Get Busted THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NORTH BEND, Ore. — Two truckers whochatted on citizens band radio about how they stole wooden pallets were overheard by a police officer and arrested Sgt. Kent Sandberg wasparked on a roadside when the trucks drove byand heheard a conversation on Channel 9, reserved for emergencies. The drivers talked about whether the cop they passed knew the 15 wooden pallets they were hauling were stolen. When they considered returning the pallets, Sandberg broke in, saying, “Youshould.” Expert: Breaking DNA Code Will Help Battle Disease WASHINGTON Learning for the first time the entire DNA code for a free-living organism will help science solve basic puzales about disease and how to Initially released pending trial she was jailed in February after When the jury asked for a magnifying glass to examine the photo, prosecutors and defense attorneys quickly conducted their own book that created the Dracula leg- gether,” said Chelsea Quinn Yar- lo, about 15 miles from San Francisco. Sheis accusedofnot paying forsix bottles of liquor worth $86 forstrawberries that contained an unlikelyprice for November. The juror realized that she had seen the ad on May 10, the day before the trial started tation as the land of vampires, bro, a novelist from Berkeley Calif., who has written nine books about a character based on an 18th-century French count. But efforts to revive the Dracula leg- > r, 47, was arrestedonpet- y charges on Nov. 22 ata Raley’s grocery store in San Pab- showed a newspaper with an ad BRAN, Romania — Romania for decades shrugged off its repu- Its Dracula congress opened in Bucharest, thecapital, with about 25 academicsand scoresofinternational journalists debating subjects ranging from the arcane (“Dracula’s role in Gothic literature”) to the bizarre (“Psychic Vampire: America’s First Vampire Holiday”) Then, it is off to Transylvania for a mock witch trial and a masked ball at Bistrita Castle, an eerie structure 200 miles northt of Bucharest where Stoker +t his novels. “It's a great idea to get the myth, the man andStokerall to- 22. “I was so shocked shoplifting trial noticed something suspicious in a crucial prosecution evidence photo supposed- SSOCIATED PRESS: the vampirelegend. Marks said. IATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Wilma Baxter is a free woman because strawberries don’t sell for 69 cents a pound around Thanksgiv ing. Three hours intodeliberations. a sharp-eyed juror at Baxter's Country Tries to Turn Dracula Lore to Loot end. The efforts never quite succeeded in putting an end to people’s curiosity, and Romania is taking a fresh stab at promoting Montero, Land Cruiser Highest on the List of Most-Stolen Vehicles Case Dismiss ed When Juror Romania Takes Stab At Tourism you just bought. Chances arebet ter than average that it will take a nut you oneday. A long An insurance group says the Montero from Mitsubishi and Land Cruiser made by Toyota rank first and second on newest list of vehicles with highest theft losses The main reason, says Kim H zelbaker, who headed up the studyfor the Highway Loss Data Institute: stolen luxury sport-util- ity vehicles often are exported to Central and South America wheretheyare seen as status sym bols and reliable means of transport in the sometimes rugged conditions of the Third World They're worth quite a bit of moneyin these other countries he said. A Land Cruiser selling for $40,000 new in the Unit States, he said, would fetch $60,000 used in Latin America where newcars often carry pro: hibitivetariffs. To a greater orlesser extent, he said, other vehicles with the most frequent claims and highest payouts also are in hot demand abroad. 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Venter and Smith announced the accomplishment Wednesday night at a meeting of the Ameri- can Society for Microbiology Kingsburysaid that by knowing the sequence of such organisms, scientists now will be more able to find weak points in a microbe’s structure and to develop drugs that exploit those weaknesses One important prospect, he said, is to learn whyonestrain of bacteria can be so dangerous while its closerelative is benign. ‘We don’t really understand what makes one strain more virulent than another,” said Kings- bury. 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