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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1977)
Bigfoot ‘sitings’ spur search in South Dakota Area residents claim they’ve spotted footprints too big for any other critter i LITTLE EAGLE, S.D. (AP) — Residents of north-central South Dakota are searching for a crea ture resembling Big Foot, the elu sive monster said to inhabit the forests of the northwestern United States. In a copyrighted story published Thursday, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported numerous sight ings of the creature have been re ported in the Little Eagle and McLaughlin areas. The most recent sighting was made Wednesday night near Little Eagle, a village about 25 miles northwest of Mqbridge. "Some people drove into a yard and saw him with their head lights,” said Ralph Taken Alive of Little Eagle. “He was standing near some pigs and chickens they had pen ned up. 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He stepped beside the footprint and hardly made an im print at all. I guess he (the man) weighs about 240 pounds.” The creature left footprints about two and a half inches deep, according to the men's descrip tion. A spokesman for the Corson County sheriff’s office in McIntosh says no official investigation is being made by that office into the reported sightings, but there have been reports to the sheriff's office that the creature has been seen killing cattle and roaming in the Little Eagle area. So far no one has been hurt — either by the creature or in the hunt for him — said Eifenbraun. A report that a man had a heart at tack after being surprised by the animal is not true, he said “There have also been stories going around of people finding animals which have been killed, but we don't have any proof of any of them." The Bureau of Indian Affairs in Fort Yates, N.D., is investigating reported Big Foot sightings in that Emerald Graphic area. The head of that effort, Ber del Veo, was not available for jxjmment. She’ll go to jail before she pays DALLAS (AP) — She II go to jail or give up her land, says Emily Cooper, but she won't pay $3,342 in property taxes to Polk County. Cooper, 50, says it’ll feke force to drive her from her three bed room home and 115 acres west of Dallas, a community about 15 miles west of Salem. She hasn’t paid taxes since 1973, on the farm and a separate duplex in Dallas, but paid taxes for eight years before that. Her t property was assessed in i»/ o ai $39,060. She told reporters she will "fight to my death to own what I paid for." "I bought and paid for this land in full almost 12 years ago. Why should I pay someone for my right to own it?” she asked. “They could take away my property tomorrow" she said. "What I’m interested in keeping is the freedom God gave me." i ne propeny tax system is op pressive, she says. ‘This property tax started with someone, and I suppose it can end with someone, ’ she said. "She's a beautiful lady, but I don't understand her," said the Polk County treasurer, Joe Coc hrane. “We aren't trying to be hard nosed, but the state law spells it out," Cochrane said. “I don't like to pay my taxes either.” BLM pays counties $110 million WASHlNu l UN (Ar) — uregon counties which receive money from timber sales on Oregon and California lands (O & C counties) will be the recipients of $100 mill ion from Bureau of Land Man ayemeru umuei s>cti«b uns> year, nearly double last year’s payment. The BLM released $100.3 mill ion to 17 western Oregon counties this week. 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Of the total $110 million, Benton County will receive $3.1 million; Clackamas, $6 million; Columbia, $2.2 million; Coos, $6.5 million; Curry, $4 million; Douglas, $27.6 million; Jackson, $17.2 million; Josephine, $13.3 million; Klamath, $2.6 million; Lane, $16.8 million; Lincoln, $400,000; Linn, $2.9 million, Marion, $1.6 million; Multnomah, $1.2 million; Polk, $2.4 million; Tillamook, $600,000; Washington, $690,000; and Yamhill, $790,000. Fridav. Sent«mh»r an ibw
