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Show D7 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, January 14, 1996 ‘Neuticle’ Implants Give Manly Pride Back to Dogs In December, Independence. Mo,, veterinarian R.D. Holder performed the first testicle implant on a dog whenheinserted FDA-approved Neuticles into a 110-poundrottweiler. Holder and Gregg Miller had invented the im& plants so that male dogs that have been neutered still could walk around with testicles after the surgery. (Miller said he got the idea when he saw how “‘frightened” his own dog looked when he returned from being neutered.) INEXPLICABLE Security worker Steven Rad- NEWS OF THE WEIRD come back for trial?’ According to the Springfield Journal, Hocq replied, “I would.” (Holmes then doubled the proposed bail, to $250,000.) asked the direct question: made the bail amount If I lower. would you flee the area and not er as you reported. That is the penses trouble with you tabloid jour ists. the facts are just not impor @ From an October letter to the @ In December, a jury in Washington. D.C., awarded $175,000 to be CHUCK SHEPHERD payouts that go beyond actual exeditor from Bruce C. Brenizer. convicted murderer, to the Wisconsin State Journal, the daily tant to you.” newspaper in Madison, which had cluded his half-sister, not his half brother tory in the @ According to Guard in Eugene (Ore.) Regi July, convicted con man Anthony Fiederer started the local Alz- MaryJo Smith, whosaid shefell published a news story on him: off a parking-garage ramp at a hotel while rushing to a luncheon featuring Hillary Rodham Clinton. Only $7,500 was for medical am frankly disgusted with the sloppy and sensationalistic reporting that appears in your paper. Youarecorrect in suggesting that I was responsible expenses. Smith is the wife of Republican U.S. Sen. Robert Smith of New Hampshire, whorecently “I for the death of myfather, his live-in girlfriend and her three children. But I was never charged with the murder of myhalf-broth- voted for legal-reformlegislation that would reduce such large (The Journal re- plied: “Mr. Brenizer is correct The five peop! e murdered in heimer’s Foundation in 1993 and raised $36.000, of which $200 went toward Alzheimer’s re search and $14.000 was allegedly i that Fiederer ylvement satisfy a dling and t funds to make titution to victim WEIRD HOMICIDES Constance Agne: Miller, 60 gged with beating her to death in Erie, Pa., legedly becau: in Idn't stop call In September, Mark E. Mire was convicted in Baton Rouge. embezzledby Fiederer. The new o death a man in ‘ause the man had ‘as ugly disclosed to television's Geraldo Rivera in August that he has spent around$20,000 on plastic surgery to make himself look like actor TomArnold. He said he figures another $10,000 might complete the job. A womanin Pearl River, La reported to police in October that someonebrokeinto her houseand took nothing, but put her kitchen garbage out on the porch and cleaned all of her ashtrays. And in Woodbridge, N.J., in July, a resident reported that someone broke into her house and took nothing, See more of the ones you love. but moved a TVset into the den and a camera from onetable to another. In an October interview with the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, U.S. Rep. Frederick Heineman said his combined congressional salary and pension income of $183,000 a year makes him merely “‘lower-middle class Said Heineman, “When [ see someone whois making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000a year. that’s middle class.” @ During an October robberyat Super Jim’s grocery in Chicago. employee Vincente Arriaga was shot by therobberat a distanceof 20 feet. 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