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Show ___ TheSaltLake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, December31, 1995 Denver Postal Worker Armed With Sex Device Arrested On Dec. 7, in Denver, postal clerk John Pitney, 50, having ar- “visit” from the late John Wayne NEWS OF THE WEIRD exhibiting “some bizarre behavior,” according to a co-worker, was put on administrative leave and ordered out of the building. in a dream.) o WEIRD GEOGRAPHY Russia: In October, the Russian Space Agency announcedthat the However, he attempted to come three men aboard the space sta- rived at work wearing a dress and back in two more times — having augmented his wardrobe with a gorilla mask anda strap-on sexual device — and wasarrested. Police found several gunsin his truck. a SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION Laina Baumann, 17, was crowned the 60th queen of the ams ea CHUCKSHEPHERD term in the Florida House washis Opposing a gun-control ban — a position commanded during a tion Mir, scheduled to return to Earth Jan. 13, would not come homeuntil Feb. 21, reportedly because Russia lacks moneyto finish building the rocket to replace them. The month before, the Moscow electricity company cut off power for four hours to the central command for the country’s strategic nuclear-missile forces because of overdue bills. And amongthe unsuccessful parties in the December elections was the Subtropical Russia Movement, whose platform included demands for a year-round temperature of 20 degrees C and a plan to importheat from centralAsia. o BRILLIANT MINDS AT WORK Terence Cunningham, a Palo Alto, Calif., Unitarian, embarked earlier this year on whathe estimated was a $70 million fundraising campaign to build a rocket ship and lunar landing vehicle for the purpose of placing an indestructible copy of the Holy Bible on the moon. There, Cunningham told the newspaper Mountain View Voice, the Bible would be preservedagainst tamperingorin ease civilization is destroyed on Earth from plagues, wars, or, in his words, “acts of God.” = NO JUSTICE IN AMERICA? In March eight Connecticut legislators became ill with diar- rhea at a reception sponsored by lobbyists for the Connecticut Food Association. THINNING THE HERD Thebese Rankin, 29, was shot to death in October in Providence R.I allegedly by Al fred ( Amoury. According to a witness Amoury and Rankinhad an argu ment about more or less, who was a punk and who wasn't NEW RIGHTS Hong Kong High Court Judge RaymondSears ruled in Novem ber, on a petition from a drug trafficker, that a prison’s practice of removing the hor: e-racing re sults from daily newspapers be fore distributing them to inmates violates prisoners’ human rights Charles County Fair in LaPlata, Md., in September. Because the county has been a leading tobacco producer, the pageant winner has long beenreferredto officially as Queen Nicotina. Early in 1995, billionaire foam-cup manufacturer Kenneth Dart moved from Michiganto the countryof Belize for the purpose of avoiding U.S. income taxes, and movedhis wife and kids, and his company(which hestill runs), to Sarasota, Fla. Belize then inquired of the U.S. State Department whetherit would be permitted to establish a consulate in Sarasota, Fla., probably run by Dart, who would thus be permitted to live with his family without paying U.S. taxes. (In September, The Washington Post reported that the State Department would probably turn Belize down.) M@The Beijing Youth Daily newspaper reported in October that a 20-year-old student who had received among the highest grades of anyone in his province had beenturned downbytwo universities solely because he was born with a misshapen face. One university official said the man’s ugliness “could influence the studies of other students.” Min 1983, a Denver trucking company, American Shippers, was hired to transport nine cartons of smoke-detector parts — which contain tiny amountsof radioactive americium 241 — to Los Angeles. After the trucks were loaded, the sale was canceled, and he seller went bankrupt. Because of Colorado and federal nuclear regulations, American Shippers ould not get a permit to dispose of the parts. The company has been negotiating with state and ederal agencies for 12 years now vhile the truck stays parked. In jovember, a state agency saidit ould cost the companyat least $40,000 to unload the truck. @For schemes reminiscent of the plot of the movie ‘‘Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls," three men pleaded guilty in New York City in Septemberandfive others were indicted in separate swindles of the Republic of Nauru, an affluent island of 7,000 people north of Australia. The schemes involved the island's incredibly rich deposits of high-grade phosphate madefrom bird droppings. @South Korea's Supreme Court ruled in September that men and women who have the same last name can henceforth marry each other provided they marry first outside the country The ban on same-name marriages had severely limited marital choice; for example, 43 percent of the population are named either Kim,Leeor Park. Win September, while war raged in the adjacent former Yugoslavia, three mediums lured 1,500 people to an airfield near Sofia, Bulgaria, in a welcoming party to greet eight spaceships that were to land and help the country pay its foreign debt (about $13 billion). A half-hour after the scheduled landing, the mediums announced that warplanes in the area had scared the spaceshipsoff. oO DEMOCRATIC PROCESS In September, the Sunnyvale, Calif., City Council barred one of its own, council member Frances Rowe, from CityHall at all times except when attending council meetings. She had been fired by the council in 1994 from her post as mayor because of allegedly abusive behavior toward city employees and, according to the council, still wouldn't stop. She also was barred from calling city employees on the phone. TONIGHT!! A NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS DowntownSalt Lake City 4:00 p.m. to midnight Children 12 and under free when accompanied by an adult. Gallivan Utah Center Plaza noon to Ice-skating midnight (half price with button) 7:00-8:00 Great Basin Street Band* 8:30 Outrageous Parade arrives 8:45 9:00-10:00, 10:30 11:00-11:55, midnight 12:15-12:30 carnal Theat apitol Theatre 4:00-11:30 9:00-10:30 10:30-11:30 Utah's Birthday Bash Insatiable* Outrageous Paradearrives Salsa Brava* Fecwarcel grant; and a man who said he used to be in the broadcasting business Salt Lake Art Center 4:00-11:00 KIDSPACE 4:00-1:00 Feature Films for Families 4:00-5:00 Cops & Robbers* 5:30-6:30 G. Brown Quintet* 7:00-8:00 8:30-9:30 10;00-11:30 4:00-11:00 (level two) Visual Arts Exhibit Children’s Dance Theatre** Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.** Blaine Gale/Silent Movies 4:00-5:00 5:30-6:30 7:00-8:00 8:30-9:30 Maggie Beers & julie Mark 10:00-11:30 Michael McLean with spec ial guest John Batdorf* Faith Temple Choir* Steinway Hall (156 S. Main Street) 4:00-5:00 Dan Waldis & Jim Stout* 5:30-6:30 Marjorie Janov & Steve Emerson* 7:00-8:00 Lynnette Thredgold* 8:30-9:30 10:00-11:30 Jeffrey Price Musical Theatre Intimate Opera ity & County Building 4:00-11:00 Arts, crafts, finger puppets, flag maki ing, paper sculpting, face painting and other activities; Centennial exhibit and tours of this historical building Cottonwood* Kismet** The Available Space (264 S. Main Street) 4:00-4:45 Loose* 5:00-6:30 Contemporary Poetry by Utah's Finest Stefene Russell, Sundin Richards, Richard Cronshey, Alex Caldiero Thirsty Alley* 7:00-8:00 The Wordsmiths*** 8:30-10:00 10:30-11:30 Elbo-Finn* Storytelling Festival The $300,000 north Florida Kerrigan was sold at auction in January 1995 for $100 because Kerrigan had refused to pay 2,500 of a $4,000 bill for carpeting that had a small blemish. Two months ago, Kerrigan said the problem was the bad legal advice he got from lawyer Joe Scarborough, who nowis amember of the U.S. House of Representatives. (The highlight of Kerrigan's one 5 (SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE) Dan’s Food Stores Crossroads Plaza i = Nordstrom eigen The Gallivan Utah Center Buttons are also on sale atall majorFirst Night venues beginning at 4:00 pm. Your button is your admission to all First Night activities occuring at ten locations in downtownSalt Lake City. OUTRAGEOUS Parade! Bring your family, friends, and neighbors, along with all the OUTRAGEOUS accessories you can think of: drums, horns, hats, noisemakers, flash lights, flags, and dancing shoes. We'll provide the 5 music, the searchlights, the fireworks, the Chevy, the Chinese Dragon and an armadaof gi puppets! There will be two parades, one at 8:00 pm and one at 10:00 pm. Meet at Main Street and South Temple and march with us! (200 South closed to through traffic.) SPONSORS The Downtown Alliance y i ¢ TAH oi SALT LAKE COUNTY until he wasshot in the head and fell into a coma for three months homeof formerstate Rep. James *Music **Dance ***Literary/Theatre i i s Buttons are onsale at the following locations: KIDSPACE Annex: face painting, magicians, jugglers, mimes, clowns,arts,crafts, and more! String Fever* Dikayl* Ed Pratt & Steve Flygare* Sweet Loretta* The Off Broadway Theater (272 S. Main Street) Velcro Poetry*** Quick Wits 7:00-9:30 Utah’s Poets Read the Classics 9:30-10:30 A Christmas Carol*** (spoof) 10:30-11:30 Quick Wits Howard Johnson's 7:00-10:00 Hansen Planetarium F 4:00-10:00 SpaceTime Utah stars, special effects and 3-D laser showsevery half hour Corliss and Friends* Zion Tribe* Ce Salsa Brava* @ Among the unsuccessful can- didates for mayor of Augusta, Ga., in November was a man who claimed the coating on utility poles causes brain cancerin children; a man whospenta total of $5 on the campaign but blasted the Coca-Cola Co., which he said had promised him a $50,000 BUTTONS: $5.00 each Presented by the DowntownAlliance [Ai SE INTL SLC Redevelopment Agency Private Eye Weekly Alphagraphics Blue Cross Blue Shield of Utah Granite Furniture Kennecott DumkeFoundation Franklin Quest Questar Vision International Pro-Form SouthwestAirlines Toyota Dealers of Utah Utah Power Pepsi Cola |