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GOOD MORNING Motorcycle sells for $580,000 at auction AUBURN — A century-old motorcycle sold for $580,000 at the Worldwide Auctioneers sale Saturday night. A bidder whose name was not disclosed bought the 1910 Winchester motorcycle made by the well known firearms company. A similar 1909 Winchester failed to sell for a high bid of $520,000. Auction company co-owner John Kruse said his company was trying to make a package dealer with the buyer of the 1910 bike. “We’re trying to sell them both, so they’ll end up together,” Kruse said after the auction. For the second year in a row, the sale took place in the National Auto & Truck Museum. The museum sold an experimental 1967 Cadillac Eldorado from its collection for $22,ooo. Richard Rawlings, star of television’s “Fast ’N’ Loud,” was a runner-up bidder on the museum’s car. He sold an unrestored 1919 Nash for $11,000. Other top sales were a 1933 Auburn V-12 for $250,000, a 1947 Rolls-Royce for $240,000 and a 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible for $195,000.
Child found dead in pickup truck TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Police are trying to determine what happened before a 3-year-old child was found dead inside a pickup truck parked where the toddler’s father works. Vigo County Coroner Susan Amos tells The Tribune-Star an autopsy is scheduled for Monday, and preliminary results may be available the same day. The high in Terre Haute was 95 degrees Friday.
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Tricia Zeller, top, and Joan Zeller of Varna, Ill., wave as they parade down Jackson Street in a 1935 Auburn Speedster Saturday. See more photos of the parade on page A10.
Festival parade ties families BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — For the Folcks and the Eddys, driving in the Parade of Classics at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival has become a family tradition. The Folcks, with their roots in Steuben County, squeezed into a pair of Cord Phaetons that have been in their family 40 years for Saturday’s ride through the streets of Auburn. A grandson drove the Eddys’ 1934 Auburn on the parade route, taking time off from duties at his grandparents’ Auburn Hotel. “For us, it’s poignant,” said Jeff Folcks, who now lives in southern California. “We grew up with cars.
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History Channel series to feature classic car festival BY DAVE KURTZ dkurtz@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — This weekend’s Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival will be featured on The History Channel next spring, using scenes recorded Saturday, a producer said. The new “Magnificent Motorcars” series will devote one 30-minute episode to cars built by the former Auburn
Automobile Co. and the festival and museum that honor them. Greene HD Productions of Texas interviewed classic car owners Saturday in Auburn and will return Tuesday and Wednesday to shoot scenes in the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Producer Brian Greene said the series will focus on “cars that have stories to tell — rare SEE HISTORY, PAGE A8
WASHINGTON (AP) — Delaying what had loomed as an imminent strike, President Barack Obama abruptly announced Saturday he will seek congressional approval before launching any military action meant to punish Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons in an attack that killed hundreds. With Navy ships on standby in the Mediterranean Sea ready to launch their cruise missiles, Obama said he had decided the United States should take military action and that he believes that as commander in chief, he has “the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization.” At the same time, he said, “I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course and our actions will be even more effective.” His remarks were televised live in the United States as well as on Syrian state television with translation. Congress is scheduled to return from a summer vacation on Sept. 9, and in anticipation of the coming debate, Obama challenged lawmakers to consider “what message will we sent if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price.” SEE SYRIA, PAGE A8
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In the line of duty Response that injured Steuben deputy wasn’t out of the norm BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
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The frightening thing is, it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. A Steuben County Sheriff’s Department deputy was injured late in the evening on Aug. 24 in southern Steuben County while responding to an emergency call just over the line into DeKalb County. Reserve Deputy Adam Meeks, 34, of Fremont, sustained head, ankle and wrist injuries in the crash on S.R. 327 , just north of Steuben C.R. 400S, while he was traveling south to assist DeKalb County police with an incident at about 11:40 p.m. “This is what we do,” Steuben County Sheriff Tim Troyer said. “These are the kind of calls we respond to all the time.” Deputies and the Indiana State Police were responding to the Story Lake area after a 911 call reported a man with a gun threatening to shoot people at a large gathering, Troyer said. When Meeks, in his patrol car, crested a hill and encountered another southbound vehicle entering the road, the deputy tried to avoid a collision with the passenger vehicle. Meeks went partially off of the east side of the road and began to lose control. The deputy then drove back across S.R. 327 and off the west side of the road, striking a tree.
“That’s the stuff that keeps me awake at night. They work for me and I feel responsible for them.” CHAD KLINE
Don Lauer DeKalb County Sheriff
• Meeks was pinned in his car for more than an hour, requiring extrication by responding fire rescue crews. Once extricated, the deputy was flown from the crash site to Parkview Trauma Center in Fort Wayne by Samaritan Helicopter. The Indiana State Police is investigating the crash and had not issued a report as of Friday morning. Meeks’ condition improved through the week, and by Saturday afternoon he had been released from the hospital and is now recuperating at home, according to Troyer. It’s the kind of incident that weighs on even veteran police supervisors.
A Noble County Sheriff’s Department cruiser operates with lights flashing. Responders face risks every day when responding to emergency calls.
“It becomes very personal,” Troyer said. “These are real people with real lives and families.” In fact, the deputies in a relatively small department like his become a family themselves. “There are some parallels,” Troyer said. “You deeply care about these individuals.” Having someone in their charge face serious injury is every police supervisor’s nightmare. “That’s the stuff that keeps me awake at night,” DeKalb County Sheriff Don Lauer said. “They work for me, and I feel responsible for them.” Noble County Sheriff Doug Harp used to command his county’s SWAT team. Part of his job was to say which member of the team would head through a door first into a dangerous situation. “That was always a tremendous responsibility to me,” Harp said. An incident like Meeks’ crash affects every member of a department.
“The point of your vulnerability is driven home,” Troyer said. “This can happen to us. This is real.”
A routine call The incident that set Saturday’s events in motion turned out to be not a big deal — at least in the grand scheme of things, police said. A man allegedly assaulted another man. A third person tried to intervene. The fight moved from one area at a Story Lake mobile home park to another. The first 911 call said a large number of people were fighting. At 11:40 p.m., it’s not hard to imagine the incident as being mistaken for something it wasn’t, police said. According to Lauer, the first call came to his county’s dispatch center at 11:29 p.m. describing a fight involving multiple people, SEE DEPUTY, PAGE A8