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Friday, November 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
FBI agents kill bank burglar in suburban KC parking lot
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Genseeo, Kan., man wanted in several rural bank burglaries was shot and killed by FBI agents yesterday afternoon in the parking lot of a suburban Kansas City apartment complex.
FBI spokesman Max Geiman said about 10 agents had gone to an apartment building in Grandview, where he was killed by Wyne Porter, 37, leave the building.
Grandview police were not involved in the incident, Geiman said, and the police department referred all calls to the FBI. No
When Porter fled in a car, agents chased the car on foot until it hit a parked car, Geiman said. Geiman would not say when Porter was shot or the circumstances of the shooting. He also would not say whether Porter had fired at any agents or whether he was armed.
FBI agents were injured.
Porter was taken by helicopter to St. Joseph Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A federal warrant had been issued Sept. 17 for Porter's arrest on charges of burglarizing the Farmers State Bank in Beaver on June 22 and the Hudson (Kan.) Bank on Aug. 27.
From the KU Weather Service
Porter was indicted on the burial charges on Oct. 20 by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kan. He was thought to have been involved in several other bank burglaries in central and eastern Kansas, officials have said.
Two persons who witnessed the shooting said FBI agents converged on Porter from several vehicles and shot at him as he fled in the car.
looked out his window, he said, he saw numerous FBI agents chasing the car and firing at it.
Tom White, 22, heard the shots from his apartment on the second floor of the building. When he
"The FBI didn't tell anyone in the building that it was going to happen, and there are a lot of kids that live near here," he said.
Geiman said the FBI does not routinely notify neighbors when an arrest is expected to occur.
Porter had eluded Kansas law enforcement authorities and FBI agents Sept. 28 when they tried to arrest him near Marquette. However, officials arrested Porter's brother, 33-year-old Danny Ray Royer, who also was charged in the two bank burglaries.
Federal authorities said they had linked the Porter brothers to a string of bank burglaries dating to January 1986 in central and eastern Kansas. In many of the cases burglaries disconnected the alarms but botched the job once inside.
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Amnesiac begins to recover in Wichita
The Associated Press
WICHTI, Kan. — Tim Paquette said he recognized his wife and mother right away when he was reunited with them early yesterday at a Wichita hospital, but he said he's still working on putting pieces of his life back together.
Paulette, 28, doesn't know how he wound up in Wichita and at Wesley Medical Center. He came to the hospital emergency room Nov. 10 after wandering the streets of Wichita for a day and a half, complaining of sore muscles to recall anything about his personal life.
The hospital staff had been calling him Henry, but by Wednesday they'd found out who he was and that he was from Lacombe, a town of about 5,000 in Alberta, between Edmonton and Calgary.
"I have my life back," his wife said at a news conference yesterday afternoon.
They contacted his family, and his wife, Corinne, and mother, Sylvia, arrived about 4 a.m. Thursday for a reunion.
Paquette's mother expressed thanks to the people of Wichita for all they had done for her son.
The two women brought along some pictures, which Paquette said helped him recall a couple of new things. He talked by telephone with one of his three children.
The Paquettes said they hoped to return to Canada today. Terri Giles, executive secretary in corporate communications for the hospital, said officials weren't yet sure whether Paquette would be ready to leave by then.
Larry Pankow, a psychiatrist and the attending physician, and psychologist John Valusek said they recommended that Paquette should continue treatment when he gets home. They said there was no sign of trauma that might have touched off his amnesia.
Officials are trying to trace the origin of a red baseball cap with the words "Giant Travel Center" on it. Paquette acquired the hat sometime during his memory loss.
When Paquette got to the hospital, he told doctors all he could remember about his past life was working with cattle in the snow. Finding his identity took a week of talking with doctors, nurses and patients and poring over atlases and lists of proper names.
Valsuke and Pankow worked as detectives, trying to extract information from skimpy
clues. They suspected their patient might be Canadian because he said he had played hockey, knew a little French and could name the Canadian provinces.
Paquette remembered the kinds of horses he used to ride and the ranch where he once worked before he remembered his name.
On Wednesday, officials found out that Paquette was last seen casing his paycheck at a Calgary bank on Oct. 29. The next day, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers found his car, with the keys in the ignition, by the Calgary railroad station. Valusek said.
The breakthrough had come Tuesday when Paquette said he remembered driving a truck into a ranch, past a sign reading Dale Meade. Limousin.
Remembering that Limousin is a type of cattle, Valusek made 30 or 40 phone calls; a call to the Canadian association of Limousin breeders got im the location of the ranch Paquette had remembered.
The ranch's owner, Mel Gosling, said a man matching Paquette's description had worked there recently.
"That was the beginning, finally the unfolding of the memory pattern," said
Can you say 'detente'?
Mister Rogers greets Soviet counterpart
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Public television's Mister Rogers welcomed his Soviet counterpart, Tatiana Vedeneyeva, to the neighborhood yesterday in language that both U.S. and Russian children could understand.
"They call it puppet detente," Fred Rogers, creator and host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," told Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinini before greeting 30 Soviet and U.S. children invited to the embassy for the occasion.
Rogers, whose program has aired on the Public Broadcasting System for 20 years and ran on other networks before that, visited Moscow for two weeks in September and taped an episode of the Soviet children's program "Good Night, Little Ones" with Vedeneyeva, its host. The episode is to air later this year on Soviet TV.
On Monday, Vedeneyeva will visit the set of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" in Pittsburgh to tape segments that will be used March 7-11 in Rogers' program.
Vedeneva speaks only a few words of English, and Rogers said that he speaks even
less Russian, but he said that the two can communicate with children of both countries through their actions and through those of puppets, which are used extensively in both programs.
The message of the exchange is that there are adults all over the world who care about each other.
To the three rows of attentive children, many of them dwarfed by their adult-size chairs, the Soviet ambassador said: "Your concerns are the same. It's important for you to be friends, friends across the borders."
Fourteen 3- and 4-year-olds were brought from a local day care center to join 16 Soviet children, who recited poems in English, sang in Russian and danced for their guests.
After the welcoming ceremony, the children gathered around Vedeneyeva to be entertained by her puppet, a gray bunny named Stepa.
Vedenevaey, who said that she had a young son, declined to tell reporters how old she was. She told the children knew my true age. She might not feel that important from me.' she said through a translator.
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