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One man’s neighbor is
another man’s bank
DALLAS — Ninety-year-old
Ramon Rodriguez thought a stub
born “No!” and a stern look might
discourage construction of a bank
where his modest little house
stands.
So much for the little man
standing in the way of progress.
The bank decided to go ahead
with the project anyway, without
the old man’s land, and simply
wrap the building, horseshoe
style, around the house Rodriguez
shares with his scruffy dog, Baby.
When Overton Bank and Trust
Dallas opens in mid-August, an
automated teller machine will
dispense cash 15 feet from where
Rodriguez sleeps. (He does not
have an account at Overton and
doesn’t plan to get one, either.)
Drive-through customers will idle
in front of his kitchen window. If
he wants to know the time or tem
perature, he can poke his head
out and check the 20-foot sign.
“I’ve lived here for 50 years, so
why do they think I’d move
now?” Rodriguez said as he rest
ed in a rickety rocking chair on
his front porch, less than 50 yards
from the busy Dallas Tollway. “I
don’t care what they’re building
— I’m not going anywhere.”
Suburban sprawl and expand
ing business districts are forcing
more people, often elderly, to
choose between staying in the
family homestead and getting out
of progress’ way. In Atlantic City,
N.J., an elderly widow is fighting
to keep her home from Donald
Trump, who wants to build a
casino on her land.
In Rodriguez’s case, more than
memories stand in the way of his
decision to leave the home where
he and his late wife raised four
children.
“They just haven’t offered me
enough money,” said the former
chauffeur. He said the bank’s best
offer was $68,000 — “a joke.”
“I know the house may not be
worth much, but I know that the
land, being right off this big road,
must be worth a lot,” he said.
The home, on one-tenth of an
acre, was appraised at $86,350 in
1996.
Jim Johnston, president and di
vision manager of Overton, said
the bank offered more than
$68,000, but he would not say
how much more.
He said the bank even offered
to let Rodriguez live there for the
rest of his life and pay his taxes,
too, if he agreed to sell the land
and let the bank have it upon his
death.
“We knew before the blue
prints were done that he might
not move. We’re not losing any
money because of this and we
hope to be good neighbors,” John
ston said. “He’ll be at the top of
our guest list for the ribbon-cut
ting ceremony.”
Do you think they’ll
cremate the pilot?
SAN ANDREAS, Calif. — The
body of a pilot who vanished 2
1/2 weeks ago, leaving behind
5,000 boxes of cremated remains
that he was supposed to have
scattered at sea, was found in the
Sierra foothills with a suicide
note that read: “I’m sorry.”
A gun was found next to the
body, and police believe Vieira
used it to shoot himself in the
temple.
Authorities used dental records
Wednesday to confirm that the
body found about 150 miles east
of San Francisco on Tuesday was
Vieira’s. An autopsy also was
conducted Wednesday, but the
coroner wasn’t sure when results
would be made public.
Vieira, 52, was last seen June 5,
the day authorities investigating
an overcrowded storage locker in
a San Francisco Bay area suburb
found it crammed with thousands
of boxes of human ashes.
More searches of storage space
rented by Vieira eventually yield
ed about 5,000 boxes of cremated
remains.
Vieira had contracted with
mortuaries beginning in the 1980s
to scatter the remains at $50 to
$100 a box. After he disappeared,
it was learned that since 1985, he
had not even been qualified to fly
solo.
Max Poehnelt, who believes
Vieira failed to scatter ashes of his
wife and son west of the Golden
Gate, said he had wanted to ask
Vieira why.
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“Can’t ask him that now,”
Poehnelt said.
“It’s kind of a shock to all of
us,” said Arnold Laub, a lawyer
who has filed a class-action suit
on behalf of the loved ones who
had arranged the scatterings at
sea. “That a man that was so in
sensitive to fail to distribute these
ashes would feel that it’s of such
significance when it was discov
ered to take his own life — there
must have been two sides to this
man.”
Vieira’s body was found 200
yards from his girlfriend’s station
wagon. It was face-down on a
pine-covered ridge in Calaveras
County. He appeared to have died
about two weeks ago, coroner’s
deputy Kevin Raggio said.
A suicide note signed by Vieira
found in the car read in part, “I’m
sorry for the pain I’ve caused.”
Eleven boxes of cremated re
mains also were found in the sta
tion wagon.
Vieira’s girlfriend, Denise Hem
bree, surrendered to police earli
er this month. Hembree, who
signed many of the certificates
claiming ashes had been scattered
properly, was released pending
further investigation.
No charges filed in
lunch line mishap
ARLINGTON, Va. — Prosecu
tors have dropped sex charges
against a 9-year-old boy who al
legedly rubbed himself against a
girl in the lunch line.
“We said, ‘Whoa’” Assistant
Commonwealth’s Attorney Evie
Lair said Wednesday. “We never
had any intention of prosecuting
this case.”
Police and school officials had
said the boy deliberately rubbed
his crotch against the buttocks of
a 9-year-old girl on March 11 at
Glebe Elementary School. The
boy’s family said he accidentally
brushed against her.
“I dare say I’ve done worse in
an elevator when I wasn’t looking
where I put my feet,” said the
boy’s lawyer, Kenneth H. Rose
nau.
The boy, whose identity was
withheld because of his age, was
charged with aggravated sexual
battery and could have been held
in a youth home until age 21.
The case had been scheduled
for trial July 8, but prosecutors
dropped the charges Tuesday.
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