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October 4, 2007 Front Page |
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Former Employees Charged With Embezzling Money From Baker Clinic
By Debby Schoeningh
Two women have been arrested for allegedly embezzling nearly $14,000, from the Baker Clinic while employed at the business.
Deborah Lynn Soliz, 36, of Redmond, Ore., was arrested Sept. 29 in Redmond and charged with five counts of theft in the first degree and five counts of computer crimes. She was employed at the Baker Clinic as a bookkeeper for approximately 3-1/2 years and left January of 2006. Soliz is being transported to Baker City this week for arraignment.
Nancy Lynn Giddings, 48, of Baker City was arrested Sept. 28 in Baker City and has been charged with two counts of theft in the first degree and two counts of computer crimes. Giddings was also employed at the Clinic as a bookkeeper after Soliz until November of 2006. She was arraigned in Baker Circuit Court earlier this week. ...Read More
Carl Kostol’s Experiences As A B-25 Bomber Pilot With The Flying Tigers In S. W. China During World War II
By Gary Dielman
Lt. Carl Kostol’s parachute jump from his fatally crippled B-25 bomber was short. He had purposely delayed opening his chute until the last moment, so that he would not be a target any longer than necessary for Japanese soldiers on the ground. The ploy worked but separated him from his crew, who had bailed out ahead of him. On August 17, 1944, their plane had been hit by anti-aircraft fire while bombing a railroad yard on the Yangtze River in central China. It would be a month before pilot Kostol was united with his crew, after they had made their separate ways, guided by Chinese guerillas, back to their base 500 miles away in southwestern China.
The pilot I’m writing about is lifetime Baker City resident and retired physician Dr. Carl Kostol. I first met Kostol in 1954, when Kostol, wife Virginia, and infant son Shot moved next door to my parents in the Grandview section of Baker City. As a teenager, I saw the Kostol family grow every couple of years to include Teresa, Chris, and, by 1961, Casey. As an adult with my own family, Kostol was our family physician. I got to know him socially in the 1970’s playing recreational YMCA basketball. Even at age 50, he had the smoothest and deceptively-fastest moves of anyone I’ve ever played And today, at age 85, Kostol is perhaps the youngest-looking and acting octogenarian you’ll ever meet. ...Read More
Forest Service Claims Authority Over RS2477 Roads In Wallowa-Whitman Forest
By Brian Addison
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Supervisor Steve Ellis directed his staff to contact The Record-Courier in order to correct what United States Forest Service spokesperson Katy Countryman called “confusion from letters in the paper,” regarding the national Travel Management Plan.
Some members of the community with an interest in keeping an RS2477 road open in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest have sent or are preparing to send petition letters to the Baker County Commissioners requesting protection from federal road closures through the county. Countryman indicated that county commissioners had not yet brought any petition letters of this type before the Forest Service. ...Read More
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