European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7german Art stashed in Texas report says new York apr a collection of medieval artwork and manuscripts missing from Germany since the end of world War ii apparently was stashed in a Small Texas town All this time the new York times reported. In an article thursday based on interviews with Art experts lawyers and residents of Whitewright Texas the times said former army officer Joe t. Meador somehow managed to get the priceless artworks to Texas from que Linburg an ancient Castle town in Saxony Anhalt state now in East Germany. Shortly after Germany surrendered in 1945, the treasures were hidden in a mine Shaft near que Linburg. They disappeared a few Days later after american troops took Over the area. Meador who died in 1980, was a first lieutenant with the 87th army Field arty which occupied que Linburg and guarded the mineshaft the times said. A it was one of the worlds greatest Art thefts a said Florentina Wutherich for Mer Deputy director of the Institute for Art history in Munich. The army investigated the theft but dropped the matter in 1949 when que Linburg became part of East Germany. The newspaper quoted an unidentified source As saying the treasures Are in the vault of the first National Bank of Whitewright which is located in North Texas. John r. Farley president of the Bank declined to comment on the matter the times said. Meador a one time Art teacher who returned to his Hometown to run his family a hardware store reportedly would show his employees elaborate and richly bound Gold and Silver manuscripts according to a former employee. The treasures include a a Small Silver reliquary inlaid with enamels and precious stones with Side panels of carved Ivory. A a liturgical Ivory comb. A a manuscript dated 1513. A several Rock Crystal flasks and Gold and Silver crucifixes. Some of the treasures were gifts from Kings and emperors who ruled numerous German states in the ninth and 10th centuries. One of the treasures an elaborately illustrated ninth Century version of the four gospels in a jewel encrusted Gold and Silver binding was recovered in april by a private West German foundation. The organization the cultural foundation of the states paid a $3 million a finders feel to a lawyer for an american seller. The transaction was recorded in Switzerland so the americans name would never be revealed. Three years after Meador died his brother in Law Don h. Cook of Mesquite Texas sought to have two medieval manuscripts evaluated John Carroll Collins a Dallas estate appraiser told the times. The newspaper also reported that de chord h. Turner director of a research Library at the University of Texas at Austin said Jack Meador Meadors brother visited him in late 1985 or Early 1986 and showed him slides of the manuscripts and tried to sell them. When Turner asked him How he had acquired the manuscripts Jack Meador said he had inherited them from his brother who had a found them in the Gutter in Germany the times quoted Turner As saying. Later John s. Torigian a Dallas lawyer who represents Jack Meador tried to sell the que Linburg manuscripts to Turner and to a rare Book dealer in Paris the times reported. Manuscript experts believe Torigian was the agent who sold the four gospels manuscript last year to a bavarian Art dealer who in turn sold them to the West German foundation. Cook and his wife Jane Meador Cook declined to discuss the matter. Jack Meador referred All questions to Torigian who did not return the newspapers Telephone  Troy guns pm Down in his Hometown Woodstock 111. Apr Dick Tracy came Home wednesday night. So say the people of Woodstock 111., population 13,000 and Home to Chester Gould creator of the comic strip shooting to be this Summers blockbuster movie. Wednesday was Woodstock a Day. A special preview took place wednesday night at the Woodstock opera House to give the town its first peek at the celluloid Tracy that squeaky clean jut Jawed Good Guy who has been cowing bad Guys like no other Copper since 1931. The Walt Disney co. Film starring Warren Beatty and Madonna opens nationwide Friday. Five Hundred moviegoers paid $100 each to attend the sold out Woodstock performance with Gould a daughter Jean of Connell. Proceeds will Benefit the Chester Gould memorial Library a a Small town museum planned to commemorate the late cartoonist and his famous characters like 88 keys mumbles breathless and prune face. A if i had asked you four months ago to meet me Here in this theater to watch a Disney movie and listen to the mayor talk at 100 Bucks a head you a have run me right out of town a said mayor Jim Shoemaker. A but Here you Are. We re going to have a memorial  some who attended the showing said the movie was like a Roger Rabbit in reverse a with real actors playing against cartoon backgrounds. A the cinematography is phenomenal and Madonna is great a said Bob Billimack a real estate broker from Woodstock. A it was fabulous a said another resident Betty Hamilton. A i was never a Dick Tracy fan but now i am. In a going to go Back and read All the comic  the show culminated a week of Dick Tracy Days in this town 50 Miles Northwest of Chicago. On wednesday Tracy a trademark yellow Fedora was everywhere. Even am Ore Bank president James Brown had one on his conference table. A we were Dick Tracy a Bank a Brown said sporting his Tracy to shirt. W n of s v s v it s it \ v it Ltd / x s \ s 4 1/ Ltd is v % a it a it / / n Quot so a it it s a from left influence big boy prune face and the kid aka Brothers Michael Greg and Tom bag linger and  Dan Caufield turn out for the Dick Tracy premiere. Brown allowed As How business might be a Little slow for Woodstock so crime stoppers a Tracy a Junior police brigade Bent on wiping crime off the map. A not Many bad Guys Here in Woodstock a he said. A a we be never had anything that a very dramatic happen in the  Black haired steely eyed Dick Tracy first appeared during the depression the first comic to deviate from the a a funniest approach and venture into graphic violence. Gould created a and knocked off a enough bad Guys really bad Guys for Woodstock and the whole country. A i told myself a in a Gonna draw a Guy that shoots them a a Gould said before his death at age 84 in 1985. A it was kind of Nice to have a cop who would shoot first and ask questions  Don Peasley who knew Gould for 40 years said his Friend was proud of the Law and order values Tracy represented. A you never had any court trials in Dick Tracy a bragged the 67-year-old chronicler of local history. Indeed some newspapers have found the strip too violent. In 1981, a Harrisburg pa., paper dropped Tracy and another strip saying a these strips Are not marginal a violence is the sole reason for their existence. Terrorism is grist for their  nonetheless Gould is a Woodstock hero. A Woodstock is very proud to have had Chester Gould As our citizen a said Clara Cavallaro Peterson organizer of Dick Tracy Days. Peterson a registered nurse and co owner of a local miniature Golf course said persistence was the key in persuading Walt Disney co. To show one of the films previews in Woodstock. But keep it straight its just a preview. Disney officials were Adamant that the real premiere a stars 3,000 invited journalists and All a was to be thursday at Florida a Walt Disney world. Woodstock does no to mind. A we have potted Palms and a roped off red carpet a Peterson said of wednesdays Benefit performance. A some people have even rented limousines for fun. A we got the movie a that Sall we Ever . Universe indicted for importing steroids Springfield mass. Up a the reigning a emr. Universe and a emr. American bodybuilding Champion was indicted for illegally importing steroids shipped trom Belgium in a Box marked a Xmas gifts a authorities said  c. Dufresne 24, of Hampden mass., was indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to import steroid drugs receiving merchandise contrary to Law and Possession with intent to illegally distribute anabolic steroids said assistant . Attorney Bertha Josephson. The indictment handed up late tuesday alleges i Tresne travelled to Belgium last october to  $500 or about 5,000 doses of anabolic steroids and to arrange for the muscle enlarging drugs to be shipped illegally to the United states. A the package arrived on or about Jan. 5, 1990,�?� Josephson said. A the package was marked a Xmas gifts. Toys a and arrived at the . Post office in Hampden. Or. Dufresne then transported the package from the Post office to his Home at 41 Walnut Street in  Dufresne won the or. Universe title awarded by the North Atlantic bodybuilding association last october during a Competition in London records indicate. The indictment alleges he travelled that same month to Belgium allegedly to make the Deal to Purchase and ship the steroids. Dufresne allegedly attempted to import at least 19 different types of anabolic steroids a six to be taken by injection and 13 for Oral consumption the indictment states. Dufresne is Only the second Man to win the or. Universe and or. America titles in the same year records indicated. He was not immediately available to comment on the charges. A this is one of the first prosecutions in new England under a Law enacted in 1988 that prohibits the distribution of anabolic steroid prescriptions by someone other than a physician or pharmacist a Josephson said. If convicted Dufresne faces up to 13 years in prison and fines of up to $260,000, Josephson said. No arraignment Date had been set she said. The Case was investigated by the . Customs service and the Hampden police department