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Show , . 4 ..-. r; Simmmmiht is SwmwM Jackson's undercover pup rounds up wayward hounds for ride to the pound The local police will remember the episode also. They received a call that a body was lying next to the green church near the MammothJune Mam-mothJune Lakes Airport. Law officers of-ficers found a casket, not a body, at the church. When a deputy nervously nervous-ly lifted the lid, he found sawdust in the box. The casket was a prop in the TV episode, which is about a U.S. serviceman ser-viceman who dies in a mysterious mission in Southeast Asia. Council hears racial complaint Racial tensions may be developing develop-ing in Mammoth, judging by a report at a recent city council meeting. Councilman Terry Gard-. Gard-. ner reported women claim they have ' M been accosted or solicited by groups of male Mexicans while leaving Mammoth stores. Councilman Greg Newbry said if complaints continue, the Border Patrol may be called, since it is assumed many of the Mexicans are illegal aliens. He added, however, it is unfair to single out the Mexicans when the town has illegals of several nationalities. Assistant Sheriff Bruce MacAfee said he has to enforce the law, but the majority of the council said immigration im-migration raids were not the answer. The president of the local restaurant association, Roger Egan, said his group will work toward developing a code of ethics for employees. He said Mexicans are willing to do many restaurant jobs that are "not romantic." Jackson Hole News The dogcatcher is a canine cop Jackson Hole You have to wonder if the dogs around Jackson Hole feel betrayed. Here they are, trying to stay out of the local pound. And one of their own a pooch named Lacey is rounding them tip for the animal control officer 1 ivr. Lacey works with city dogcatcher Mary Lou Meeks, riding in the truck and keeping her eye out for stray mutts. Once she spots one, she is released from the cab, runs up to the dog and tries to get its attention long enough for Meeks to collar,, he animal. Sometimes she'll even bring the dog up to the truck. " "" She has made some remarkable "busts" on the job. Once she single-handedly single-handedly rounded up six ' dogs. Another time, she was able to catch a husky on a leash by grabbing the leash and hanging on. - J'J'' The partnership beganirwnen Meeks answered a call .abouik a "mean and vicious" dog. But the dog, Lacey, was shaking in a corner and was only mean out of fear. She had been abused by her owners U , . The two became partners and close friends. And the dog got its name after a friend joked, "How are Cagney and Lacey today?" A grateful Meeks says, "She's cut down some of those 440-yard dashes by a long way." Suspect's condo may be seized Federal authorities say they ' plan to seize a condominium in Jackson after its owner is tried in Denver on charges of distributing huge amounts of cocaine. Gary E. Mintz and two other men t were indtete bf fedal "gran-! "gran-! jury Oct.-25 on charges of running a drug ring that smuggled 850 pounds of cocaine worth about $38 million into the country. The condominium at Teton Shadows probably always has been used by the owner for rentals, according accor-ding to the manager. It would be seized after Mintz goes to trial, which is not expected to begin for about six months. The property would be taken under a year-old federal law that allows the government to seize property pro-perty used in committing a crime or that is the "fruits" of a crime. Read, Spot, read! Spot loves Buckey! Jackson Hole A romantic man in Salt Lake City Ci-ty has begun a campaign to get his Wyoming sweetheart to the altar. Utahn Ben Barto placed a flower-decorated flower-decorated ad in the Jackson Hole Guide saying, "Spot Loves Buckey. Will you marry me? " i Barto said the couple had a "little falling-out." She left him in Salt Lake City, after a three-year relationship, rela-tionship, and moved back to her home in Driggs, Wyo. If the ad doesn't work, he will implement im-plement Stage Two putting up two 15- by 3-foot banners. He might even set one up across the road she has to drive to take her son to school. When asked why he is going to such lengths, Barto said, "She's the only person that's ever made me feel like the man I want to be." States files suit against saloon j The State of Wyoming has filed a civi' action against a local bar, alleging it sold liquor to a. minor preceding the auto-accident death of a Jackson teenager last summer . The suit seeks to revoke the ! license of the Mangy Moose saloon. It charges a minor purchased . alcohol there and took it to a private party at Teton Village, where it was ' used in a concoction called "jungle punch." .... Later, said the suit, one of the teenagers that drank the ' punch engaged in a game of high-speed car tag along Teton Village Road. His vehicle left the road and one of the passengers, 17-year-old Sandi Visnich, was killed. One of the Mangy Moose owners would not comment on the action, except to say the bar guards against sales to minors as well as or better than other bars. Jackson seniors remember comet With the imminent arrival of Halley's Comet, the Guide found a few Jackson natives who saw its appearance ap-pearance in 1910. Mildred (Mickey) Buchenroth, 87, recalled her father got the children out of bed and told them about the significance of the comet, ". . . but being just a kid, I asii'UwjNjrSPglL. m. u , ... , Lenora Quinn saw the comet with her family in Ogden, Utah, and remembered that it looked enormous. enor-mous. The person who should have the clearest memory is Nellie Sporn, who was 22 when the comet passed, but her recollection is vague. Instead, In-stead, she said, "I do remember clearly watching the turn of the century cen-tury come in. We all stayed up 'til midnight, and it was a big deal." 'Riptide' washes in for location shots Mammoth Lakes Mammoth was used as a location loca-tion for filming an episode of the series "Riptide." The guest star in - the story, James Whitmore, owns a second home in the area. Whitmore was directed by his son, James Jr. And the production looked even more like a family reunion when you consider that Whitmore's son, Danny, is a snow ranger at the Mammoth Ranger District. |