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...image of Christ people said they were seeing on a tank at ADM on Ohio 12, the Review Times called upon an area artist to outline the image with the assistance of Rita Ratchen, the first area resident to report the phenomenon. It took artist Don Droll, 421 W. Fremont St., approximately three hours to produce his outline, done with India ink on a clear overlay covering the photograph. The outline more clearly indicates where the Christ image is said to appear, including the small child many people have trouble discerning." (The small child showed up later; Rita Ratchen does...
...told them stories. About 1 million of the bears have been sold at a price of $60 or more. But Teddy has been suffering some breakdowns. Many customers and retailers have complained, and about 35,000 Ruxpins have been returned to stores or the manufacturer, Worlds of Wonder of Fremont, Calif. The company, though, maintains that the percentage of defective Teddys is below the industry norm and that the newest bears have been improved...
...wealthy San Diego real estate investor, was a key witness against four organized-crime leaders from Chicago and one from Cleveland in a four-month federal trial that ended last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...
...conduct their shadowy business. Suffering from emphysema and clutching an oxygen bottle, Williams, 70, was testifying in the trial of nine alleged Mafia leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City. They are charged with a conspiracy to skim some $2 million in profits from the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas. Prosecutors contend they used a $62.5 million loan from the Teamsters' fund in 1974 to buy the casinos and operate them under the name of the Argent Corp...
...jail for public drunkenness, hanged himself with socks taken from a sleeping cellmate. A 16-year-old pallbearer at his funeral became the second victim, using a pair of sweatpants to hang himself from a tree. In turn, one of that youth's mourners became the third victim. Says Fremont County Coroner Larry Lee: "It seems to be a copycat, domino kind of thing...