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RAIN 09/26 (Part 2): Lab work, paper flood and Kennedy limo



Daytona Beach News-Journal 9/25/00
Fisher museum use lab to make historical discoveries
http://www.news-journalonline.com/2000/Sep/25/FLA8.htm

News-Journal wire services
KEY WEST - Unlike the celluloid image of Indiana Jones risking life and limb
in pursuit of historical artifacts, Corey Malcom and his staff in the
archaeology department at the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum make their
discoveries within the controlled confines of a laboratory.
And simply because they don't dodge spears and battle Nazis during the course
of a normal work day, don't think these conservators of history are lacking
in excitement.
"We make just as many discoveries here in our lab as underwater," said
Malcom, who has been with the museum for 15 years.


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 9/25/00
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep00/vote25092400a.asp

by Tom Kertscher
Huge increases in what the city charges for voting records probably will be
rolled back as a result of a lawsuit filed by a former city comptroller,
officials say.
A full set of voting records, now priced at $1,675, probably will cost about
$360, said Special Deputy City Attorney Thomas Hayes. But first the lawsuit,
filed in June by former Comptroller James McCann, must be settled by a vote
of the Common Council, Hayes said.
McCann, who for two decades was the city's top financial officer, alleged in
his Milwaukee County Circuit Court suit that the city was price-gouging on
voter records.


Boston Globe 9/25/00
Gloria Steinem's papers show different side to feminist
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/269/region/Gloria_Steinem_s_papers_show_d:.sht
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Associated Press
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) Feminist Gloria Steinem's letters and other donated
material will help debunk public misconceptions about her as an ideological
enemy of men, say collection archivists.
''She and all feminists are lumped into this category of women who hate men
and burn their bras,'' Smith College archivist Amanda Izzo said Monday.
''She's going to be looked at more equitably.''
She helped inventory more than 300 boxes of Steinem material dating back more
than 50 years. It was opened to researchers last weekend for the first time
with seven other new Smith College collections of the women's movement.
''Any study of the 20th century is going to have to take in the women's
movement, and the Steinem papers are going to be at the center of any study
of the women's movement,'' said Marla Miller, a University of Massachusetts
historian who has reviewed some of the papers.


Lawrence Journal World 9/25/00
KU museum focuses on medical arts
http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/27776

by Mike Belt
Kansas City, Kan. - The small wooden box in the display case is open and
inside it are the tools of a Civil War surgeon.
A small hacksaw. A long knife with a thick blade and serrated edges. Smaller
but similar-edged knives. Something that looks like a miniature tomahawk.
"It's kind of gruesome," said Nancy Hulston, archivist at Kansas University
Medical Center.
Below, on another shelf is another box with dials and knobs and a cylindrical
metal piece connected to the box by a wire. It is an electromagnetic device
once used for "home and medicinal use," according to a booklet that
accompanies it.


The Advocate 9/24/00
Truth getting costly in East Feliciana
http://www.theadvocate.com/opinion/milford.asp

by Milford Fryer
The wheels are off the East Feliciana Parish public school system, and school
officials seem determined to drag the wagon rather than reinstall the wheels.
When school employees learned the system had taken money from a tax dedicated
for salaries and spent it for other uses, officials used a bit of verbal
legerdemain to explain it away. You see, they said, we paid salaries out of
those taxes, and money we were formerly using for salaries, we spent on that
other stuff. See?
Turns out a couple of salary taxes may have been used that way, and now the
state legislative auditor has visited to see if the school system crossed the
line by being cagey. The auditor's report is pending.


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 9/25/00
Ex-EPA lawyer gets probation for fake papers
Man pleaded guilty to falsifying documents in lawsuits over water rights
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep00/radell26092500a.asp

by Gretchen Schuldt
A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lawyer was placed Monday on one
year of probation for falsifying documents in lawsuits involving three
Wisconsin Indian tribes, then lying about the documents in testimony.
"I never dreamed this initial misrepresentation could burgeon into the
harmful nightmare that it did," Marc Radell wrote in a letter to U.S.
District Judge Lynn Adelman.


St. Louis Post 9/25/00
Building an onsite dam against a paper flood
http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/National/D560E3055E54C66386256965
007AAC4C?OpenDocument

by Ron Feemster
New York Times
When Mallinckrodt Inc., a St. Louis-based health-care company, sought Food
and Drug Administration approval for a diagnostic medical dye in 1998, it had
to submit 198 volumes documenting its clinical tests -- in duplicate. Each
book was 2 inches to 3 inches thick, and the company needed a truck to haul
them to Washington.
The FDA wants to dispense with all that paper by 2002, by accepting
applications for new drug approvals online. Because the clinical-testing
phase of new treatments can last for years, companies such as Mallinckrodt
are eager to convert paper documentation trails into electronic archives.


Cincinnati Post 9/23/00
Kennedy limo photos could be auctioned
http://www.cincinnatipost.com/news/auct092300.html

by Stephen Huba
Photos of the Cincinnati-made limousine in which President John F. Kennedy
was assassinated are part of the presidential memorabilia to be auctioned
next Saturday, pending Secret Service approval.
The photos came from the archives of the now-defunct Cincinnati auto
manufacturer Hess & Eisenhardt, said Michael Angelo Testa of Michael Angelo
Auction Co.
''I thought this was a little bit of history in Cincinnati,'' Testa said.
Hess & Eisenhardt, once based in Blue Ash, customized the 1962 Lincoln
Continental in which Kennedy rode in November 1963 on the streets of Dallas.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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