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Show Sunday, March 5, 2006 HERALD Biographies See SSRSaaN OREM 224-8206 hint at the oddities mysteries of Congress SPANISH FORK 798-1200 Whytrust your hometo anyoneelse? Other real estate companies are coming and going! 7 Choose the companyyoucantrust: Over 26 years of making dreams cometrue! * 26 years with the same broker & management rs with the same name & ownership * 26 years in the same location * 26 years of excellence in serving Utah County Douglass K. Daniel THE ASSULIAl of these awardwinning professionals? PRINCIPAL BROKER | ASSOCIATE BROKER WASHINGTON — Former Sen. Arthur Brownof Utah is a footnote to history — moreinteresting than most, though, because a womanclaiming had fathered twoofherchildren gunned him down in a hotel room in 1906. Brown's entry is among the 12,000 or so— from Aandahl to Zwach in the Biographical Fay JONES RanbyLove * Company Wide I *€ Mark les Agent of the Year ny Wide of the Year Buyers Agentof theYear + OremOffice Markeing Agent of the Year + OremOffice Listing Agent of the Year Directory of the United States _ Congress, 1774-2005, the defini- “AL & TK PLANT Larry VEST + Company Wide «Company Wide tive reference book about federal lawmakers, now online for thefirst time. Theentries in the directory’s 16th edition,the first update + Orem Office Listing Agentof the Year Top Sales Agent of the Year JEFF « Spanish Fork Office TopSules Agent of the Year + Spanish Fork Office Marketing Agent of the Year MENDENHALL HALES since 1989, were written by con- gressionalhistoriansto provide basic information — dates, plac- es and positions — rather than personalstories. Occasionally, though,startling tales appear amid the plain facts. Jeremiah Haralson, once an Alabamarepresentative, is listed as having been killed by “wild beasts” near Denver Bos Lewis * Spanish Fork Office Listing Agent of the Year RoBIN GUNNELL ELAINE STRATFORD BOBBI ROBERTSON * Orem Office + Orem Office Buvers Agent of theYear _[apryE. * Spanish Fork Office Buvers Agent of the Year Buyers Agent of the Year KELLER _ * Orem Office around 1916. He was oneof at least six formerslaves who servedin either the House or the Senate. Michigan Rep. William Wedemeyerdrownedin 1913 after he fell into a harbor while on an official visit to Panama. His body was neverfound. A former representative from Indiana, GRANT ; LEaviTT * Spanish Fork Office Joseph L. White, was shot to death while on a businesstrip to Nicaraguain 1861. He was buried there. Anair of mystery surrounds some membersof Congress becauseso little is known about them.Congressionalhistorians aren't sure when more than 100 of them were born and whenat least 49 of them died. “For mepersonally, some RoBiIN GUNNELL Jit LEVINGSTON Bos Lewis ELAINE STRATFORD Gwen TAYLOR RaNbyLOVELESS Rita HALes Fay JONES ~ DEBBIE O'BRIEN AL & TK PLANT CaRL THURGOOD DEBBIE VALGARDSON Larry KELLER ! Bossi ROBERTSON Larry VEST of the mysteries often center on their burialplaces,”said . Betty. Koed,the assistant Senate historian and co-editorof the directory with House historibal publications specialist Andrew Dodge. China’s leaders pledge help for poor Elaine Kurtenbach THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANGHAI, China — There arenoofficial statistics tallying thetoll in suffering, but by most accounts, after nearly two decadesof neglect, Chinais confronting a rural healthcrisis on a monumental scale. Upto 90 percentof the 800 million people in China’s coun- KATHLEEN Curtis Grant LEAVITT LoritMaze HEATHEROSMOND PAM PEDERSEN CYNTHIA DEVERAUX-RESS SUZANNE RICHMOND tryside lack affordable medical care. Children go unvaccinated. AIDSpatients can get free drugs, but can't afford the monitoring and additional medicine they need. “Most of the peoplein rural areas dare notto see a doctor whentheyget sick simply because they cannotaffordit,” said Zhang Deyuan,an expert on rural problems at Anhui so GENE BOHN LUANN GRAZZINI Katuy JOHNSON CHERYL LEVI Search Over14,000 Properties Online recs osmondrealestate.com HEATHER SARGENT DEBRA SHAKESPEARE ANN WILSON University. About 70 percent of China’s population of1.3 billion getless than 20 percent of spending on medical services, hesaid. Communist leaders are now promisingto rebuild a rural health care system that has fallen apart with the decline of farm cooperatives during two decades of economic reform. It’s part of a packageofpolicies to redress the huge gap between China’sfast-growing cities and the rural areas whereprotests over poverty andcorruption are spreading. Suchissues are expected to ‘ dominate the annual meeting of China's parliament, opening on Sunday. A plan issued last week by the Cabinet promises that by 2010, “farmers can expect safe, effective, convenient and lowcost health services,” with an extra $1.1 billion in new spending to guarantee treatment to anyonein the countryside, and a propag: campaign featuring smiling farmersand heroic doctors is under wayto lure city-trained physicians to rural posts, |