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Rosie the Ribiter, trailed by frog jockey Lee Giudici, leaps for a world record distance of 21 feet, 5 % inches during the annual Calaveras County Jumping Frog
Pair draw prison terms, fines in bogus rabbit-breeding scheme
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Most of the investors from 19 states bilked of millions of dollars in a rabbit-breeding ranch scheme were poor people trying to earn enough money to make ends meet, a federal prosecutor says. David A. Maddux of Ten Mile was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison and fined $5,000. His wife, Wilma J. Maddux, received a five-year term in the pyramid scheme from September 1980 to March 1983. U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar also ordered Maddux, 40, to pay $29,675 and Mrs. Maddux, 44, to pay $3,100 in restitution. Harold Stuart, a U.S. Postal Service inspector who investigated the case, estimated as many as 750 people in 19 states were cheated of up to $2 million for the breeding stock and another $2 million for equipment in the scam. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Mac Coon said many of the investors lost farms and were financially destroyed when the couple skipped town in 1983 and reneged on promises to buy back rabbit pelts and meat for annual profits as high as $45,000. “They preyed upon rural people, trusting people,” Mac Coon said. “The typical victim was poor with barely enough money to live on and they were
8 finalists for Teacher of the Year INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Eight finalists will be honored in this year’s Indiana Teacher of the Year program, Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans says. Evans announced Tuesday that the program has been expanded this year to recognize eight, instead of four, finalists, and to honor up to five teachers with special mention plaques for exceptional achievements in curriculum innovation, community contribution or other areas. The program, sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education and Indiana Farm Bureau, is designed to recognize the best licensed classroom teachers in state-accredited public or private schools. The award winners and finalists will be selected by a committee that will include at least one teacher previously honored in the program, representatives of education professional organizations and Department of Education consultants who are former teachers. Nominations will be submitted by local school superintendents. The teacher of the year will receive a SI,OOO prize, the runner-up will gel SSOO and each of the other finalists will receive SIOO. The prizes and special mention plaques will be given by the Indiana Farm Burea. The winners of the awards will be announced in November. The program is part of the national teacher of the year program sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine, the Council of Chief State School Officers and Encyclopedia Britannica.
Jubilee at Angels Camp, Calif. Rosie beat out several dozen other croaking competitors during the weekend competition. (AP Laserphoto)
looking for a way to make themselves money.... Many were old and sickly.” Many of the victims also had to borrow money, mortgage property or use life savings to purchase the rabbits and equipment, he said. “That’s what makes this more heinous than the numbers indicate,” Mac Coon said. The Madduxes were named a year ago in a 34-count federal indictment. They were arrested last January in Columbia, Mo., at a motel where they were selling fur teddy bears and fur coats. In an agreement with prosecutors last month, Maddux pleaded guilty to 12 mail fraud counts and his wife pleaded guilty to two mail fraud counts in superseding federal informations. They each received the maximum sentence recommended by prosecutors. “Mr. Maddux callously and systematically defrauded hundreds upon hundreds of people who could scarcely afford to be victimized by his rabbit franchise scam,” Mac Coon said. “In some 19 states he left a trail of human suffering.” Lloyd Levitt, Maddux’ attorney, said the rabbit ranch scheme began as a legitimate business that grew too fast for him to handle.
Chilean troops respond
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Soldiers backed by tanks occupied downtown Santiago, crushing a planned protest march against military rule and scattering hundreds of dissidents. Guerrilla bombs later knocked out power to more than half of Chile’s almost 12 million people. Police said a teen-ager was wounded and 121 people were arrested in the unrest Tuesday. The Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a Communist-led band named for a Chilean independence hero, said it planted the bombs that blew up three power pylons south of Santiago late Tuesday to support the downtown demonstration. Thousands of soldiers sealed off Santiago’s main boulevard by mid-afternoon and some of the troopers fired automatic weapons into the air to stop hundreds of people from gathering for the rush-hour protest.
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“It wasn’t a fly-by-night operation,” Levitt said. “It just got very big very quick and he couldn’t control the operation.” Maddux acknowledged that fraud did occur but told the judge his wife should not be held accountable. “She was only involved simply because she loved me,” he said. R. Dee Hobbs, Mrs. Maddux’ attorney, also said his client “was not a prime mover in the operation. ” “I just made some mistakes,” Mrs. Maddux said. But Mac Coon said Maddux “has made consumer fraud his way of life” and that his wife was an active participant in the scam. The state won a $615,000 judgment in the case in Knox County Chancery Court in October 1984 and is trying to recover some of the money from the sale of the furs from Missouri, said Rufus Beamer, a Knoxville attorney handling the case. The states involved in the scheme were Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri and lowa.
The National Workers Command, a center-left labor coalition, had called on all Chileans to join in its “March for Peace, Liberty and Democracy.” Police barred all traffic from the planned three-mile march route along Bernardo O’Higgins Boulevard, and downtown subway service was suspended.
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Indiana gets AIDS grant INDIANAPOLIS (AP) received needed help in its war against AIDS with the awarding of a $156,000 grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Ted Danielson, the State Board of Health’s assistant commissioner of health management, said the funds would be used to bolster AIDS education programs and to establish a program to keep track of testing for the deadly disease. The latter program will record the number and results of tests for AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. “We’ll be able to continue what we’re doing and add some new services as well,” Danielson said. The grant is about $34,000 less than the state had sought, Danielson said. Indiana still needs additional funding for its alternative AIDS testing program at Indiana University Medical Center and at other sites, Danielson said. That program, which runs out of funding in July, offers tests for the AIDS virus and counseling and other services to high-risk individuals. Danielson said if no additional funding is found, “we would have some real problems continuing it.” Some testing and support sites would have to be closed and services curtailed at other sites, he added. From 1982 to May 13 of this year, 84 people in Indiana have been diagnosed as having AIDS. Of those, 45 have died.
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