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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1996)
Honest driver returns tens of tfeotisaeds of dollars left in cab MANILA, Philippines (AP( — Fw drive ihe straight and nar row like Kmilto Ad vincula Aiivim uU a Manila < ah dri ver. earned praise Iasi weak for turning in about 2 million pesos ($77,000) in cash and jewelry Mi in his cab by a San Francisco tourist Then the madia discover**! it was Ihe second such act of honaaty lor Adviraula. a father of three who lives in a slum in suburban Manila In itnw. Ad vim ut* turned in 2JI million pesos ($06,000) that another tourist left in his cab President Fidel Kamo# pro poved today that Ihe Depart maul of Tourism rncogBlce Ad vincula as an "outstanding Filipino “ Officials have given him an unspecified reward and a m lioUrdup kr his three children r t THAN FICTION Homeless man was plugged la,' bet aew he’s behind bars NOVATO. Calif (API — Horn*!*** and living along a highway. Neal Berry spent nit meager naming* on a portable computer nihn than rani Chary slept in a lent on a mat tr«M taken man a trash bin Bui ha had a laptop computer and a ctlluiv phone with modem, which enabled him to tonne* t to a computet bulletin board, voice mail and a pager service — all paid for out of hi* f« an hout salary as a shipping and inventory clerk On Friday, however, he was arrested ami accused of stealing heavy duly industrial batten** from the state inatpontiion agency to pernor hta equipment Highway worker* Mid they found (lie baituriM when they •tumbled onto hi* atmptite "I fust found ihe batteries." Berry told the Son Fmncixco Examiner in • fatihouae inter view. Apparently someone ei*e put them there • few month* ego. I found them end •letted using them ” Berry, 22. **id he choee to temp hr the highway after fail ing to find an affordable apart ment when he moved to the area in J »**. **ln Novato, you can't even find a •ingle room the! coat* le*» then $500 a month.' be •aid ' If 1 were to have an apartment, t wouldn’t have had any furniture. I'd |u*t barely be able to eat It would have sucked up all my income " Instead, he spent £2.000 tor a Toshiba laptop computer and $$oo no a mortem Each month he spent $3$ for •n account with a computer bulletin bmud with e-mail $*a CM) hi* c ellular phone (Mil. *W few membemhip at a gyro where he took xbowerx; 142 tor a «t«w age »hed (or cirri ban and other pouaultmi be wsa afraid to keep in the tent, and St3 for a mailbox On llna. ha made more friend* in a month than be had all year, he xaid *‘t've never been to Jail before." be aaid "Bril there la a bright aide: three hot* and a cot at taxpayer expenae " Ernie and Bart stolen from sfiow; Miss Piggy damaged ERFURT, Germany (API — Min Piggy wa* under police protection Monday, after her colleague* finite and Bert were *1 winded Thieve* knocked through a wall and plundered an axhibit of original Muppei puppet* mrtn^il Sunday at the Krfwl Cardan Show They also imuhni a iiiat* case. trying to rip Mia* Piggy from her die play. but were untiKxaulul Wo Hava no* ye* determined bow eslenslve !ho damage wu" to Mitt Piggy, said exhib H organ!** Adolf Hlaarhka Mias Piggy was plated in polka naatmfy Monday The trio went among Ml orig inal Moppets tanled by a thin iab firm for the exhibit in Erfurt. 110 mtlaa northeast of Prankfurt The Ernie and Bert puppet* were valued at $120,000. 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I Legal Services staff members are experienced, qualified professionals. > Legal Services are FREE to current fee-paying U of O students Contact Legal Service*, EMU, Room 334 (Third floor atoov* tha Raft Bowl) Or call 346-4273 to aet up an appointment WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES The MMivffltflOtf ASUO Programs Finance Commute®, which antfuM* three student senators recommends how madepw tee* imiotw attocated to student groups next year OftOAMCATlOM £_ Black taw Studarttt AaaajMon Mi * rn'n n r iF*^ i rt Scmnc« Cantaf Oub AMOUNT “ S 2.135 | 12 AH ' TWO imsr .% 843 CMAMOt LAST YEAH ♦ 232% "♦MFC” Monday ghion IN# eieofc Money grv*n to dele • 217474 • 230,Ml KIM MX t" tiwinw PFC: ODE requests, gets same funding as last year ■ Continued from Pag* 1 received $14,962. much of which will go toward the main tenant:* of a new long house that will he i (instructed during sum mm "We plan to keep it as a new facility,' said lash Norris, last year's NASD co director He added that their current long house* are in poor condition and two have been torn down The PPt: gave $2,135 to the Black law Students Association, an Hu reuse of 23 2 percent The BL5A is expanding its activities beyond what it has done in th«* past, said association co-chair women Tashaaya Warren 'These are not the traditional thing* the Hl-SA do**,'* she explained to tho PFC. 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