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Show __The SaltLakeTribune NATION Saturd: Al4 Warner Bros. Animator Freleng Dies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents of two Illinois counties began leaving their homes to- ‘The Associated Press Friz Freleng and his characters take part in Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremonies in 1992. KansasCity for Hollywoodin the 1920s and went to work for Walt Disney. After several months, he left to work on the ‘Krazy Kat” cartoon series, then joined WarnerBros. in 1930. He became head animator for the studio’s new “Looney Tunes” short-film series and drew the first Warner cartoon, “Sinkin’ in the Bathtub.” In 1933, Freleng was madea director and oversaw Porky Pig’s debut‘Merrie Melodies” cartoon. “Friz was a great man, who put WarnerBros. animation together He was the guiding light who madeit all worthwhile,” Warner animator Chuck Jones said. When Warner’s animated studio closed, Freleng established Depatie-Freleng Enterprises, which madetelevision and theatrical short films. day as volunteers and prison inmates filled sandbags to hold back therising Illinois River and its tributaries. State officials expect water to top several levees by late next week, assuming no rain, but thunderstorms werein the forecast for today. Elsewhere, heavy rains swampedareasof central OklahomaFriday, stranding motorists on flooded streets, and Missouri prepared for another roundof problemsas that storm system 1aoved eastward. Families began leaving their homesFriday after authorities in Scott and Pikein west-central Illinois recommended voluntary evacuation of 400 people. “We've got several packing up and heading out,” Steve Bigelow, Scott County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency coordinator, said Friday morning. Evacuations may become mandatory if conditions worsen,he said. Threatened towns included Winchester, Naples and Glasgow in Scott County and Valley City in Pike County. Both counties are north of St. Louis in the west-central part of thestate. Just to the north, sandbagging continued in Meredosia in Morgan County. “They've got water right up to the edge of their business 13 Charged forFiling Fake Disaster Claims # ll Emergency Management Agency. “They're obviously sandbagging and pumpingfuriously, just like everybodyelse.” Tamminga said at least 520 prison inmates wereto help with sandbagging Friday, up from 430 Thursday. The Mississippi River crest has moved south of Illinois, but heavy rain during the weekend could start water levels moving upagain. The Emergency Management Agency was reopening its outpost in Collinsville and opening another at Tamms in Alexander County in anticipation of more flooding. In Oklahoma, water surged over roadsin rural and metropolitan areas of central Oklahoma during the morning deluge that droppedat least 3 inches of rain between 1 a.m. and 10 a.m. Norman reported 4.5 inches of rain since 7 p.m, Thursday. Another line of storms approached Missouri, also hard-hit by the Flood of 1995. “Tt remainsdiffieult to predict the precise impact on the river levels and projected flood crests,”’ National Weather Service hydrologist Jack Burns said. “However,it is likely river levels will remain high. And in some areas, additional flood crests will occur,” he said. (}\ cir THE ASSOCIATED PRESS » LOS ANGELES — Isadore ‘Friz” Freleng, animator of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and manylovable, idiosyncratic cartoon characters, died Friday, WarnerBros. said. He was 89. Freleng died at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medieal Center. No cause of death was released. During his 30-year reign at WarnerBros., Freleng gavelife to Sylvester and Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales and Yosemite Sam. He went on to create the Pink Pantherafter Warnerclosed its internal animation department in 1963. In all, the self-taught artist who specialized in frenetic action worked on some 300 cartoons. Freleng won Academy Awards for four of his Warner Bros. cartoons — 1947's “Tweety Pie,” 1955's ‘Speedy Gonzalez,” 1957's “Birds Anonymous” and 1958's “Knighty Knight Bugs.” He wona fifth Oscar for “The Pink Phink,” starring the Pink Panther. He also won three Emmys. Ofall the classic animated zanies he helped conjure up, Freleng once admitted to serving as the model for the gun-slinging, brazen Yosemite Sam. “I have the same temperament,” Freleng told The Associated Press. ‘I’m small, and I used to have a red mustache.” Freleng left his hometown of district,” said Chris Tamminga, spokeswoman for the Illinois THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Thirteen people have been charged with filing fraudulent flood- and earthquake-relief claims totaling more than $111,000, a federal prosecutor says. They were arrested Thursday, after a federal investigation into disaster-relief fraud. The group had soughtrelief for alleged property damage to cars, houses and apartment buildings as result of January's floods and the 1994 Northridge quake, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Hochman. Convictions could carry up to five years in prison, fines of $250,000 and three years’ supervised release, he said. 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