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1 STA HIT COL Pj-- f S Candidate profiles 1 pv r-- Meet the candidates I I -- S of the Sixth Ward on Page 1 6 TE HI5TCHIC. V-- SOCIETY T & LOWRY ST. -- nv . UUBIA, BO. 65201 Don't be fooled $ Learn April Fools' Day w& I origins in Sunday's Vibrations p 7Ul Ycsir No. 170 (. tunt Varnhil ll'sSa: unla. Munh.' il. I7 16 1- - !.) Cents Engineers disagree on Sturgeon dangers ByMflteDeMott Missourian staff writer The Environmental Protection Agency's handling of the Sturgeon chemical spill has come under sharp attack by an environmental engineer. The engineer says the agency is not moving fast enough, nor does it have the ex-pertise to handle the problem. The EPA strongly disagrees. D. W. Ryckman, a consultant hired by Norfolk and Western Railroad to examine the spill site, said Friday there is an environmental health hazard to the Sturgeon community as well as to all persons who have come into contact with the spill area. Harry Gilmer, an EPA chemical engineer, said there is no danger to the people of Sturgeon and that the EPA has and will continue on a long term basis to monitor the health of the com-munity. " I feel appropriate steps are being taken. Work is proceeding and is being adequately handled," Gilmer said. Ryckman's other criticism was that runoff from the chemically contaminated area and especially the two polluted ponds will spill into nearby Saling Creek and eventually reach the Mississippi River. The toxic chemical orthochlorophenol spilled into the area following a Jan. 10 Norfolk and Western train derailment. Sturgeon residents were forced to evacuate their homes in the early morning bitter cold for almost two days. Containment of the two ponds and control of runoff water is also the major concern of the EPA, Gilmer said. The EPA engineer, who has been involved with the Sturgeon crisis since the beginning, said there is currently no discharge from the area into the creek and estimates that 99 percent of the toxic material has been removed from the area. Gilmer said that as a result of his inspection Tuesday the simple earth dikes built by the railroad to stop further pond discharge have been reinforced with an additional two feet ( .6 meter) of packed earth and clay. Ke said the improvements raised the level of the dike an additional two feet ( .6 meter). Ryckman also criticized a lack of adequate structures to divert runoff from reaching the spill site, but Gilmer disagrees. " Diversionary devices are in the process of being completed to prevent runoff from reaching the area." Gilmer said. Ryckman is president of Ryckman's Emergency Action & Consulting Team, a St. Ixmis- base- d firm brought in Monday by the railroad to investigate the extent of toxic con-tamination and to make proposals for site restoration. The consultation was completed Friday. " We brought them in to hear their expert opinion and we got it." Lou Phelps, a Norfolk and Western Railroad spokesman said. The railroad has since brought in another consulting firm from Ohio to serve in the same capacity. Phelps said. Ryckman said the containment of the two ponds should have been taken care of at the time the derailment occurred. " You can't take 80 days to find chemicals in a pond. There should have been containment of the entire area on Jan. 11th, with constant monitoring of the stream," Ryckman said. Insigfet Extension takes M. U. to public By Kathy Brady Missoorian staff writer Ten percent of the University's operating funds are spent for programs that often are invisible - at least on the four campuses. The money is spent on extension services; a $ 28- miIlion- a- y- ear division offering expert advice, short courses and correspondence programs to " spread the knowledge" gleaned from research to Missouri citizens who are not formally enrolled at the University. The Extension Division, with its roots in farmers soil, rural homemakers clubs and 4-- H youth groups, has centers located in all 114 counties and the city of St. Louis. Advice on agriculture and home economics is complemented by programs to help small businesses and communities solve their problems. In 1977- 7- 8, extension programs of-fered enough courses to fill the schedules of 22,000 full- tim- e students. Extension is unique because those enrolled in its programs are not working toward academic degrees but toward increasing their economic and personal well- bein- g, says Carl Scheneman, University system vice president for extension. But at a time when every University dollar spent is scrutinized closely, top- lev- el officials now are asking if the extension program has grown too big. Does the knowledge extension brings to the private citizen justify its cost? Farmers applying knowledge provided by agricultural extension specialists sometimes raise their in-comes $ 6,000- 57,0- 00 a year. But the benefits are often intangible, Scheneman says. Small businessmen might increase production efficiency, young mothers may follow good nutrition rules and a youth may overcome shyness through 4-- H activities. " These are hard things to sell somebody," Scheneman says. In recent years, federal and state funding increases have not kept up with inflation. About 100 members of the extension field staff have been cut in the pass three years. Almost 100 more jobs will be eliminated in 1979- 8- 0 if proposed federal and state budgets are approved. President Carter's 1979- 8- 0 budget ( See GRASSROOTS, Page 11) BfHBBWBIliWiwB Paula and Timothy Lee read to their daughter, Dawn Marie, 5, while their 2- mont-h- old son, Christopher, sleeps in a crib at a high school which has become a Red Cross shelter due to radioactive leakage from a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. UPltekp!" 0 Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Family awaits news; evacuation called off FALMOUTH, Pa. ( UPI) Mark and Julie Sipling shuttered themselves Friday morning inside their farmhouse half a mile from Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, pacing nervously in the kitchen and listening for the latest civil defense bulletin on the radio. Their packed bags, valuables secure in a strong box, sat in a corner while 13- month- - old baby daughter Debbie sucked on a bottle of punch, quietly looking at the adults seated around the large kitchen table drinking coffee and talking. " My husband and Merle Geber ( owner of the farm) were making a big joke out of it yesterday ( Thursday) to keep from getting scared," Mrs. Sipling said. " Today, we don't have to make any jokes. We are all very scared." Gov. Dick Thornburgh said late Friday no evacuation will be necessary from the area around the power plant. Thornburgh also lifted a recom-mendation that people living within ten miles of the nuclear site remain in-doors. The governor, who delayed a news conference three times while he conferred with Denton, said however, that pregnant women and pre- scho- ol children living within five miles of the plant should remain out of the area until sometime Saturday. A major concern of the Siplings and others in the immediate area of the plant was the stillness in the air. A gray, misty overcast hung over the site. No winds had blown all morning and some expressed concern the radiation from the plant could " just hang over the area without blowing away." The mood earlier in the morning was relaxed around the plant site in this usually quiet Pennsylvania Dutch contryside with its rolling hills and rich farmland. NRC sees melt- dow- n dangers Engineers will try to ' cool' reactor WASHINGTON ( UPI) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday the Three Mile Island atomic power plant in Pennsylvania faces " the ultimate risk of a melt- dow- n" the most serious type of nuclear catastrophe within the next few days as engineers try to cool down the crippled reactor. Dudley Thompson, a senior official in the NRC office of inspection, said the threat is posed by a steam bubble inside the reactor that could increase in size as pressures within the reactor are lowered, leaving the core without vital cooling water. " We are faced with a decision within a few days, rather than hours f on how to cool down the" core)," Thompson told reporters at an NRC news center. " We face the ultimate risk of a melt-down" depending on " the manner we cope with the problem. If there is even a small chance of melt- dow- n, we will recommend precautionary evacuations." When a reactor core loses its cooling water, temperatures caused by uranium fuel can increase high enough to melt the reactor core and at worst melt through the thick protective concrete shell of the containment building. No such accident has ever happened. But if it did, NRC officials have said, it ( See SOME, Page 11) Sixth Ward candidates take differing stands By BJ. Martin Missoorian staff writer If, as one Sixth Ward candidate says, " people are afraid of the unknown," voters in that ward may be somewhat frightened. Clyde Wilson, the councilman they have elected four times, is running for mayor, and none of the candidates seeking to take his council seat resembles him or any of the other candidates very much. The candidates have been reluctant to directly criticize each other, but there are substantial differences in their approaches to election issues. One such difference is downtown parking. All the candidates agree there is now inadequate parking area downtown, but there the similarity ends. Lew Stoerker wants the city to erect a combination underground multi- lay- er parking complex and park downtown. He says the extra business it would encourage because of its attractiveness and considerable parking capacity could help subsidize its cost. Dan Viets says the city could not afford to build such an expensive facility. He advocates maximizing CBMPW6N 79 existing on- stre- et parking areas downtown and supports city purchase of the defunct Wabash train station area for parking. Ruth Eason thinks the parking garage would be a " good idea," but adds that she, too. questions its economic " feasibility." On the subject of the rental housing ordinance, the differences are more pronounced. Some city officials have called the law " impossible to enforce" with present manpower, but representatives of tenants rights groups insist it is too important an ordinance to be tabled. Viets advocates strictly enforcing the ordinance, believing it is necessary to protect the rights of renters. " It's a positive, enforceable ordinance." he says. Mrs. Eason says " more teeth are needed" in the ordinance to protect both landlords and renters. She believes there are enough city em-ployees to renew inspections of rental property even more frequently than at present, but says the city is not working up to its capacity. Stoerker does not support active enforcement of the ordinance as it stands and offers a much different approach to monitoring renter com-plaints. He says that, since most complaints come from students, students themselves should establish a committee to review housing com-plaints and decide if they should be referred to the city administration, thus reducing the city's workload. " Why couldn't students police their own housing?" he asks. " I would if I ( See CANDIDATES, Page 11) Robbery victim no hero, follows orders of gunman By Laddie Hirsch Missoorian staff writer Dave Dunn acted by instinct Thursday night when he saw a masked man with a gun approach him as he got into his car at 9 Dorado Drive. " I jumped in the car, pulled the door shut and locked the door," said Dunn. " He ran up to the side of the car, crouched and held the gun pointed at me and said, ' Get out of the car or I'll shoot you,' or words to that effect" The armed man ordered Dunn back into the house which he said is owned by Dr. Roy Stambaugh, a physician, who is away on business. Dunn, 35, of Ashland, is Stambaugh's business manager. Two men, Ben Ames, a pilot, and Mark Cory, who looks after the house, live there now, said Dunn. Neither was home at the time the robbers confronted Dunn. During the next 20 minutes Dunn found out exactly how it feels to be robbed. He was or-dered to lie on his stomach with his hands behind his back. He felt his hands and legs being bound with tape by an accomplice of the armed man. Dunn then was put in the dark as the accomplice stretched aluminum duct tape over his eyes. When the tape on his eyes did not stick the first time, the robber was quick to dispel any notions Dunn might have had about escape or resistance. " He wanted to impress upon me the fact that his gun was loaded," Dunn said. " He got behind me where I couldn't see him and he held the gun with the chamber open to show me that there were bullets in it I wasn't going to be any hero to try to tell him that the gun wouldn't work very well that way." As the robbers were leaving, the man who first had approached Dunn told him to wait a specified time before he made an attempt to get free and call the police. Dunn said he did as he was told. " The guy said. ' We're going to leave this way and you wait 10 minutes before you get up,' " Dunn said. " Yeah. I waited, absolutely." Dunn said he called the police at about 7: 30 ' p. m. and they arrived quickly. Police still were with him just two hours later when two arrests were made in connection with the robbery. Police arrested Duane R. Schierbaum. 23, and Joy Lynn Watson, 22, both of 704 Hunt Ave., at Skaggs Thrifty City. Schierbaum was charged with armed robbery and fraudulent use of credit cards and is being held on $ 17,500 bond. Miss Watson was charged with fradulent use of credit cards and is being held on $ 2,500 bond. Police said the pair had been under surveillance on suspicion of other robberies. Police said Dunn's credit cards had been used at two stores in the Parkade Plaza and were being used at Skaggs when the suspects were apprehended. In addition, a third suspect, Kevin Cooley. 22, was arrested Friday by Columbia police and charged with armed robbery. Cooley, who also lives at 704 Hunt Ave., is being held on $ 15,000 bond. Dunn said he made a tentative identification of the man who robbed him in a police line- u- p Friday. Dunn said he is not sure exactly what items were stolen, but said the robbers took his wallet containing cash and credit cards, and a .22- calib- er handgun. " Whoever trussed me up was pretty good at it." said Dunn. " They taped my arms very tightly. I would say they were not rank amateurs. That seemed very apparent. That guy handled that gun like he'd been doing it all his life. " They really seemed slick. They were very careful about what they said. They didn't mention any names. They didn't shout at each other they were careful to whisper. " They started rummaging through the house and they started going through my pockets took my wallet and took my keys then they started rummaging through the vehicles. There just wasn't anything worth taking." There was a Mercedes, a- Dats-un 280-- Z and a Corvette parked in front of the expensive home near American Legion Park, and a Cadillac parked in the garage. But the robbers chose to leave those, said Dunn. ' They were looking for cold cash or jewel or something of that nature," said Dunn.
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Item.Transcript | 1 STA HIT COL Pj-- f S Candidate profiles 1 pv r-- Meet the candidates I I -- S of the Sixth Ward on Page 1 6 TE HI5TCHIC. V-- SOCIETY T & LOWRY ST. -- nv . UUBIA, BO. 65201 Don't be fooled $ Learn April Fools' Day w& I origins in Sunday's Vibrations p 7Ul Ycsir No. 170 (. tunt Varnhil ll'sSa: unla. Munh.' il. I7 16 1- - !.) Cents Engineers disagree on Sturgeon dangers ByMflteDeMott Missourian staff writer The Environmental Protection Agency's handling of the Sturgeon chemical spill has come under sharp attack by an environmental engineer. The engineer says the agency is not moving fast enough, nor does it have the ex-pertise to handle the problem. The EPA strongly disagrees. D. W. Ryckman, a consultant hired by Norfolk and Western Railroad to examine the spill site, said Friday there is an environmental health hazard to the Sturgeon community as well as to all persons who have come into contact with the spill area. Harry Gilmer, an EPA chemical engineer, said there is no danger to the people of Sturgeon and that the EPA has and will continue on a long term basis to monitor the health of the com-munity. " I feel appropriate steps are being taken. Work is proceeding and is being adequately handled," Gilmer said. Ryckman's other criticism was that runoff from the chemically contaminated area and especially the two polluted ponds will spill into nearby Saling Creek and eventually reach the Mississippi River. The toxic chemical orthochlorophenol spilled into the area following a Jan. 10 Norfolk and Western train derailment. Sturgeon residents were forced to evacuate their homes in the early morning bitter cold for almost two days. Containment of the two ponds and control of runoff water is also the major concern of the EPA, Gilmer said. The EPA engineer, who has been involved with the Sturgeon crisis since the beginning, said there is currently no discharge from the area into the creek and estimates that 99 percent of the toxic material has been removed from the area. Gilmer said that as a result of his inspection Tuesday the simple earth dikes built by the railroad to stop further pond discharge have been reinforced with an additional two feet ( .6 meter) of packed earth and clay. Ke said the improvements raised the level of the dike an additional two feet ( .6 meter). Ryckman also criticized a lack of adequate structures to divert runoff from reaching the spill site, but Gilmer disagrees. " Diversionary devices are in the process of being completed to prevent runoff from reaching the area." Gilmer said. Ryckman is president of Ryckman's Emergency Action & Consulting Team, a St. Ixmis- base- d firm brought in Monday by the railroad to investigate the extent of toxic con-tamination and to make proposals for site restoration. The consultation was completed Friday. " We brought them in to hear their expert opinion and we got it." Lou Phelps, a Norfolk and Western Railroad spokesman said. The railroad has since brought in another consulting firm from Ohio to serve in the same capacity. Phelps said. Ryckman said the containment of the two ponds should have been taken care of at the time the derailment occurred. " You can't take 80 days to find chemicals in a pond. There should have been containment of the entire area on Jan. 11th, with constant monitoring of the stream," Ryckman said. Insigfet Extension takes M. U. to public By Kathy Brady Missoorian staff writer Ten percent of the University's operating funds are spent for programs that often are invisible - at least on the four campuses. The money is spent on extension services; a $ 28- miIlion- a- y- ear division offering expert advice, short courses and correspondence programs to " spread the knowledge" gleaned from research to Missouri citizens who are not formally enrolled at the University. The Extension Division, with its roots in farmers soil, rural homemakers clubs and 4-- H youth groups, has centers located in all 114 counties and the city of St. Louis. Advice on agriculture and home economics is complemented by programs to help small businesses and communities solve their problems. In 1977- 7- 8, extension programs of-fered enough courses to fill the schedules of 22,000 full- tim- e students. Extension is unique because those enrolled in its programs are not working toward academic degrees but toward increasing their economic and personal well- bein- g, says Carl Scheneman, University system vice president for extension. But at a time when every University dollar spent is scrutinized closely, top- lev- el officials now are asking if the extension program has grown too big. Does the knowledge extension brings to the private citizen justify its cost? Farmers applying knowledge provided by agricultural extension specialists sometimes raise their in-comes $ 6,000- 57,0- 00 a year. But the benefits are often intangible, Scheneman says. Small businessmen might increase production efficiency, young mothers may follow good nutrition rules and a youth may overcome shyness through 4-- H activities. " These are hard things to sell somebody," Scheneman says. In recent years, federal and state funding increases have not kept up with inflation. About 100 members of the extension field staff have been cut in the pass three years. Almost 100 more jobs will be eliminated in 1979- 8- 0 if proposed federal and state budgets are approved. President Carter's 1979- 8- 0 budget ( See GRASSROOTS, Page 11) BfHBBWBIliWiwB Paula and Timothy Lee read to their daughter, Dawn Marie, 5, while their 2- mont-h- old son, Christopher, sleeps in a crib at a high school which has become a Red Cross shelter due to radioactive leakage from a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. UPltekp!" 0 Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Family awaits news; evacuation called off FALMOUTH, Pa. ( UPI) Mark and Julie Sipling shuttered themselves Friday morning inside their farmhouse half a mile from Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, pacing nervously in the kitchen and listening for the latest civil defense bulletin on the radio. Their packed bags, valuables secure in a strong box, sat in a corner while 13- month- - old baby daughter Debbie sucked on a bottle of punch, quietly looking at the adults seated around the large kitchen table drinking coffee and talking. " My husband and Merle Geber ( owner of the farm) were making a big joke out of it yesterday ( Thursday) to keep from getting scared," Mrs. Sipling said. " Today, we don't have to make any jokes. We are all very scared." Gov. Dick Thornburgh said late Friday no evacuation will be necessary from the area around the power plant. Thornburgh also lifted a recom-mendation that people living within ten miles of the nuclear site remain in-doors. The governor, who delayed a news conference three times while he conferred with Denton, said however, that pregnant women and pre- scho- ol children living within five miles of the plant should remain out of the area until sometime Saturday. A major concern of the Siplings and others in the immediate area of the plant was the stillness in the air. A gray, misty overcast hung over the site. No winds had blown all morning and some expressed concern the radiation from the plant could " just hang over the area without blowing away." The mood earlier in the morning was relaxed around the plant site in this usually quiet Pennsylvania Dutch contryside with its rolling hills and rich farmland. NRC sees melt- dow- n dangers Engineers will try to ' cool' reactor WASHINGTON ( UPI) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday the Three Mile Island atomic power plant in Pennsylvania faces " the ultimate risk of a melt- dow- n" the most serious type of nuclear catastrophe within the next few days as engineers try to cool down the crippled reactor. Dudley Thompson, a senior official in the NRC office of inspection, said the threat is posed by a steam bubble inside the reactor that could increase in size as pressures within the reactor are lowered, leaving the core without vital cooling water. " We are faced with a decision within a few days, rather than hours f on how to cool down the" core)," Thompson told reporters at an NRC news center. " We face the ultimate risk of a melt-down" depending on " the manner we cope with the problem. If there is even a small chance of melt- dow- n, we will recommend precautionary evacuations." When a reactor core loses its cooling water, temperatures caused by uranium fuel can increase high enough to melt the reactor core and at worst melt through the thick protective concrete shell of the containment building. No such accident has ever happened. But if it did, NRC officials have said, it ( See SOME, Page 11) Sixth Ward candidates take differing stands By BJ. Martin Missoorian staff writer If, as one Sixth Ward candidate says, " people are afraid of the unknown," voters in that ward may be somewhat frightened. Clyde Wilson, the councilman they have elected four times, is running for mayor, and none of the candidates seeking to take his council seat resembles him or any of the other candidates very much. The candidates have been reluctant to directly criticize each other, but there are substantial differences in their approaches to election issues. One such difference is downtown parking. All the candidates agree there is now inadequate parking area downtown, but there the similarity ends. Lew Stoerker wants the city to erect a combination underground multi- lay- er parking complex and park downtown. He says the extra business it would encourage because of its attractiveness and considerable parking capacity could help subsidize its cost. Dan Viets says the city could not afford to build such an expensive facility. He advocates maximizing CBMPW6N 79 existing on- stre- et parking areas downtown and supports city purchase of the defunct Wabash train station area for parking. Ruth Eason thinks the parking garage would be a " good idea," but adds that she, too. questions its economic " feasibility." On the subject of the rental housing ordinance, the differences are more pronounced. Some city officials have called the law " impossible to enforce" with present manpower, but representatives of tenants rights groups insist it is too important an ordinance to be tabled. Viets advocates strictly enforcing the ordinance, believing it is necessary to protect the rights of renters. " It's a positive, enforceable ordinance." he says. Mrs. Eason says " more teeth are needed" in the ordinance to protect both landlords and renters. She believes there are enough city em-ployees to renew inspections of rental property even more frequently than at present, but says the city is not working up to its capacity. Stoerker does not support active enforcement of the ordinance as it stands and offers a much different approach to monitoring renter com-plaints. He says that, since most complaints come from students, students themselves should establish a committee to review housing com-plaints and decide if they should be referred to the city administration, thus reducing the city's workload. " Why couldn't students police their own housing?" he asks. " I would if I ( See CANDIDATES, Page 11) Robbery victim no hero, follows orders of gunman By Laddie Hirsch Missoorian staff writer Dave Dunn acted by instinct Thursday night when he saw a masked man with a gun approach him as he got into his car at 9 Dorado Drive. " I jumped in the car, pulled the door shut and locked the door," said Dunn. " He ran up to the side of the car, crouched and held the gun pointed at me and said, ' Get out of the car or I'll shoot you,' or words to that effect" The armed man ordered Dunn back into the house which he said is owned by Dr. Roy Stambaugh, a physician, who is away on business. Dunn, 35, of Ashland, is Stambaugh's business manager. Two men, Ben Ames, a pilot, and Mark Cory, who looks after the house, live there now, said Dunn. Neither was home at the time the robbers confronted Dunn. During the next 20 minutes Dunn found out exactly how it feels to be robbed. He was or-dered to lie on his stomach with his hands behind his back. He felt his hands and legs being bound with tape by an accomplice of the armed man. Dunn then was put in the dark as the accomplice stretched aluminum duct tape over his eyes. When the tape on his eyes did not stick the first time, the robber was quick to dispel any notions Dunn might have had about escape or resistance. " He wanted to impress upon me the fact that his gun was loaded," Dunn said. " He got behind me where I couldn't see him and he held the gun with the chamber open to show me that there were bullets in it I wasn't going to be any hero to try to tell him that the gun wouldn't work very well that way." As the robbers were leaving, the man who first had approached Dunn told him to wait a specified time before he made an attempt to get free and call the police. Dunn said he did as he was told. " The guy said. ' We're going to leave this way and you wait 10 minutes before you get up,' " Dunn said. " Yeah. I waited, absolutely." Dunn said he called the police at about 7: 30 ' p. m. and they arrived quickly. Police still were with him just two hours later when two arrests were made in connection with the robbery. Police arrested Duane R. Schierbaum. 23, and Joy Lynn Watson, 22, both of 704 Hunt Ave., at Skaggs Thrifty City. Schierbaum was charged with armed robbery and fraudulent use of credit cards and is being held on $ 17,500 bond. Miss Watson was charged with fradulent use of credit cards and is being held on $ 2,500 bond. Police said the pair had been under surveillance on suspicion of other robberies. Police said Dunn's credit cards had been used at two stores in the Parkade Plaza and were being used at Skaggs when the suspects were apprehended. In addition, a third suspect, Kevin Cooley. 22, was arrested Friday by Columbia police and charged with armed robbery. Cooley, who also lives at 704 Hunt Ave., is being held on $ 15,000 bond. Dunn said he made a tentative identification of the man who robbed him in a police line- u- p Friday. Dunn said he is not sure exactly what items were stolen, but said the robbers took his wallet containing cash and credit cards, and a .22- calib- er handgun. " Whoever trussed me up was pretty good at it." said Dunn. " They taped my arms very tightly. I would say they were not rank amateurs. That seemed very apparent. That guy handled that gun like he'd been doing it all his life. " They really seemed slick. They were very careful about what they said. They didn't mention any names. They didn't shout at each other they were careful to whisper. " They started rummaging through the house and they started going through my pockets took my wallet and took my keys then they started rummaging through the vehicles. There just wasn't anything worth taking." There was a Mercedes, a- Dats-un 280-- Z and a Corvette parked in front of the expensive home near American Legion Park, and a Cadillac parked in the garage. But the robbers chose to leave those, said Dunn. ' They were looking for cold cash or jewel or something of that nature," said Dunn. |