The THURSDAY February 24 2000 Goodland Daily News 50¢ Volume 68, Number 39 Twenty-eight Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735 weather Santana report 65° favorite at noon Today • Sunset, 5:32 p.m. for music Tomorrow • Sunrise, 6:25 a.m. Veteran sweeps list • Sunset, 5:34 p.m. Midday Conditions on Grammy show • Soil Temperature 45 degrees • Humidity 21 percent to cap his comeback • Sky partly cloudy LOS ANGELES (AP) — The come- • Winds southwest 18-28 mph back of Carlos Santana is triumphantly • Barometer 29.63 inches complete. and falling The guitar great, who had just one • Record High 73° (1981) minor Grammy to his credit in a 30-year • Record Low -16° (1960) career, won eight on Wednesday, tying the record set by Michael Jackson in Last 24 Hours* 1983 for most trophies in one night. High 63° Santana’s awards included the top hon- Low 33° ors, record and album of the year. Precipitation .17 inches Santana brought grace, humility and spirituality to a show full of glitz and Northwest Kansas Forecast glamor. The 52-year-old musician Tonight: Mostly cloudy; 50 percent known best for his breathtaking guitar chance of thunderstorms; low mid work said he set out to make “Super- 30s; winds southwest 20-30 mph. natural” a radio-friendly record to Tomorrow: Partly cloudy; high 45-50; spread a message of hope. Farewell, winds west 15-25 mph; low 25. “If I can do it, people from the ghet- tos, the barrio, the shantytowns can do Extended Forecast it,” the Mexican-born Santana said. “I Saturday through Monday. Satur- know, because I came from there.” Cowboys, day: dry; high 55; low 25. Sunday: Other top winners at the 42nd annual dry; high 70; low 25. Monday: dry; Grammys included the soul trio TLC, high 65; low 30-35. who won two Grammys — for best good luck! (National Weather Service) rhythm ’n’ blues for their frank put- Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. down of men, “No Scrubs,” and best One of the largest crowds for a * Readings taken at 7 a.m. R&B album for “Fanmail.” “No school sendoff in recent memory Scrubs” was also named best R&B gathered this morning at Max song. Jones Fieldhouse to the Good- Eminem won two awards, for best land Cowboy wrestlers as they rap solo performance and best rap al- headed for the state tournament bum. in Wichita. The Goodland High Country’s leading ladies, the Dixie cheerleaders (top) led the group Chicks and Shania Twain, won two in cheers and there were smiles Grammys apiece. George Jones, who all around as the wrestlers were local had a near-fatal traffic wreck last year, greeted and congratulated. won best male country vocal for Wrestler Joey Smith (right) joked markets “Choices.” about the upcoming tournament Tony Bennett, now 73 and enjoying and teammates Curtis Swager Noon his own commercial resurgence, took and Alex Evert (in the back- Wheat — $2.23 bushel the Grammy for traditional pop vocal ground) waited to get in the cars. Posted county price — $2.14 for his tribute to Duke Ellington. Photos by Tom Betz Loan deficiency payment — 31¢ “This is my ninth Grammy, and boy, The Goodland Daily News Corn — $1.70 bushel I just feel like going back in the record- Posted county price — $1.81 ing studio and coming up with another Loan deficiency payment — 18¢ one,” he said. Milo — $2.61 hundredweight Christina Aguilera staged a mild up- Soybeans — $4.25 bushel set for best new performer over fellow Posted county price — $4.31 teen queen Britney Spears. Aguilera Loan deficiency payment — 58¢ said she was so sure someone else Millet — $3.80 hundredweight Sunflowers See MUSIC, Page 7 Oil current crop — $5.80 cwt. Loan deficiency pmt. — $3.92 Confection current — $13/$8 cwt. Pinto beans — $12 (new crop) City starts Autopsy report rules (Markets provided by Mueller Grain, Sigco Sun, Frontier Equity Co-op and Prairie Pea and Bean. These may not be closing figures. ) special run youth’s death a suicide By Tom Betz verbal contact at these times, and that The Goodland Daily News when we went back at 2:18, he found afternoon to get junk A month after he was discovered Zuniga hanging. hanging in his cell in the Sherman Dr. Jennings arrived at 2:40 a.m. She By Janet Craft County Bastille, the official autopsy pronounced Zuniga dead, and the pro- wire The Goodland Daily News filed Tuesday declares the death of cess of gathering evidence and taking Tirso E. Zuniga, Jr., 18, as a suicide. photographs was begun. A letter about Late news Do you need to get rid of some junk from the that can’t be put in city dumpsters? Reports indicated that the youth had a page and a half long was found signed Associated Then the city has a deal for you. been “huffing” paint with a “wannabe” Chucho. Press It has started a special pickup pro- gang and possibly smoking marijuana A note was found written on a shelf, 1 p.m. gram, where residents can call to have before his arrest. His sister said she “Can’t be nobody but me that all I could crews pick up stuff that can’t go in thought he just couldn’t face the fact be. Can’t be who you want me to be cuz dumpsters. There is no charge, because that he probably had earned a trip to that ain’t me.” It was signed brown NATO wants the cost is included in the price you pay prison by trying to escape from police. clown 2000. for trash pickup. The report signed by Dr. Sue Jen- Zuniga’s sister, Josie Hernandez, Items not allowed in the trash dump– nings, deputy coroner, details the inves- now in Mexico, said “Chucho” was a more troops sters include tree limbs, appliances, tigation into the death, and includes a family nickname, and she thought the WASHINGTON — Respond- lawnmowers, metal, unpainted or un- report from Dr. Lyle J. Noordhoek, who “brown clown 2000” was his nickname ing to a call by NATO military finished wood, furniture and tires. performed the autopsy in Hays, and in the South Side 13, a gang that she commanders to reinforce the The service is available to everyone Kansas Bureau of Investigation Special knew he had been involved with. peacekeepers in Kosovo, France is except businesses, landlords, contrac- Agent Delbert Hawel, who found no Hernandez said a copy of the letter preparing to dispatch an additional tors and tree cutters, who have to haul signs of foul play. given to the family was a rambling mis- 600 to 700 soldiers, and U.S. Ma- their own junk. You can be fined for Dr. Jennings’ report said the body sive which seemed despondent, but yet rines may follow. putting forbidden items in the dump- was found in his cell by Sherman somewhat positive about his future. A U.S. official said Wednesday sters. County Deputy Sheriff William Knitig “He wrote about moving back to that allied political authorities at Crews make the special Tuesdays at 2:18 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21. He was Texas and getting together with his girl- NATO headquarters in Brussels and Wednesdays, and if you call early hanging from a piece of bed sheet friend,” Hernandez said. “It wasn’t were considering whether 1,200 enough, they usually come by the same looped in a vent. Police officers and much of a letter of good-bye, and it extra peacekeepers may be needed day. emergency medical technicians were didn’t say anything about what he was in addition to the contingent of There are four categories, and the called. planning to do.” French soldiers. crew pickup up one each week in rota- Goodland Police Officer Brad Parker The autopsy said there was physical The official said a U.S. Marine tion, appliance sand metal items the arrived within three minutes, along evidence that Zuniga had been a paint unit was among several allied first week of the month, limbs and with Officer Doug Storie. The body puffer, and after his arrest on Jan. 14, forces designated for potential use branches the second, unpainted wood was facing the wall and the feet were when he had attempted to escape and as reinforcements in the ethnically the third and furniture and old tires the City crewmen Randy Stasser (left) and Robert Reed showed some of touching the ground with the legs buck- was recaptured, he had been transferred divided Serbian province. fourth. the items they picked up Wednesday in the city’s special pickup program. led. to the Goodland Regional Medical Defense Secretary William There is a $6 fee for pickup of appli- Stasser began working for the city when the program started in January. He was cut down and cardio-pulmo- Center for evaluation of having with- Cohen said no decision had been ances which still contain refrigerant. A Reed was moved into the new job after working for the city for 23 years. nary resuscitation was administered to drawal symptoms from the paint. made on whether more American fee is charged for tires, based on their Photo by Janet Craft/The Goodland Daily News no avail. He was kept for observation over- troops would go. He said that size. Tires must be separated from their Deputy Knitig said that when he did night and sent back. A drug screen from would be decided after it was clear rims, and fees need to be paid at the city able at either the city office, 204 W. To schedule a pickup or for ques- rounds at 12:15 a.m., Zuniga was on his the hospital revealed some THC (tet- what NATO commanders needed. office before the pickup will be made. 11th, or the power plant office, 1701 tions, call Cindy Crutcher at the power cot writing. When checked at 1:25 a.m., Special pickup schedules are avail- Cherry. plant at 899-4539 or 4530. he was in bed. Knitig said there was no See DEATH, Page 7