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ISSUE 511FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1993 — Thursday, June 3, 1993

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Thieves smash through walls destroy safe • By Rhett Watson

• DALLAS COSSAR puts on a bright face over 'renovations'to his real estate office.

Queensland's top Guide here for Hobby Horse YEPPOON'S annual hobby horse derby has developed such a reputation it has even attracted the State Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association "to come a have a look". Ann Fletcher and her husband Glyn will drive from Brisbane today to watch the festivities of the Keppel Coast girl guide's annual fund-raiser. It is believed to be the first time a State Commissioner of the association has visited the Capricorn Coast. Fletcher is the highest ranking guide leader in Queensland. The derby was named Community Event of the Year in 1992 and attracts huge numbers of entrants in both the Hobby Horse Cup and the Powder Puff Plate. Keppel Coast district leader Coleen Bignell said the club had invited the commissioner to the event and she was only too pleased to attend. "She had heard a lot about the hobby horse derby and wanted to come along and mingle," Bignell said. "She will speak briefly before the match-race between Member for Keppel Vince Lester and Livingstone Shire chairman Cr Barbara Wildin. "But basically she just wanted to come along and watch the fun." • CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

THIEVES helped real estate agent Dallas Cossar last Wednesday night when breaking through a wall to enter his office ... he said he was thinking of another door just where they did their damage. Thieves broke into three offices at the Queen Street office blOck breaking doors, a safe. a wall and louvres. The building was entered from the rear by forcing one door to solicitors' office Rinkevich and Stickley, and climbing through a toilet window adjoining Dallas Cossar Real Estate and insurance agents and part-owner of the building. John Rhodes and Associates. The thieves made three separate attacks on the walls until they managed to break through the gyprock into Mr Cossar's office. Their first try was unsuccessful when they found rockblock behind the gyprock in the split-level building. On their second attempt, they came up against the leg of Mr Cossar' s desk ... and a power point. Mr Cossar said if the thieves had touched the back of the power point the police might have found them easily ... lying on the ground. On their third attempt a filing cabinet was in the way but they were able to move it. The hole was about 35cm in diameter. "They must have been after money and nothing else because nothing was touched on my desk," Mr Cossar said. "When I arrived in the morning my desk was the Same as I had left it the night before," he said. "Even the calculator was untouched." "They went through my files and looked around but none of us here are cash businesses so we don't have money on the premises." Solicitors Rinkevich and Stickley and Insurance agents John Rhodes and Associates were also broken into. Rinkevich and Stickley's back door was forced and a safe was cracked.

Rinkevich and Stickley principal Warren Rinkevich said he was lucky the thieves hadn't resorted to vandalism when there was no money. John Rhodes and Associates' door was forced and the thieves damaged a wall attempting to get through to the solicitor's office. Nothing was stolen from the office and Mr Rhodes said damage to the three offices would be as high as $25(X). "We were lucky there wasn't more damage," Mr Rhodes said. Yeppoon Library was also broken into on the same night and a small amoun t of money was stolen. Thieves entered the library by forcing a window. Yeppoon Police are still investigating the breakins and want people who might have seen anything unusual on the night to phone them on 39 14(X). Police said two cars stolen last week from Rockhampton were found in Yeppoon on Friday. A utility stolen last week from Arthur Street. Yeppoon, was found in Cooee Bay. A service station was broken into on Saturday night and thieves made off with some stock. Police said they had a busy weekend with a number of disturbances including one in front of a nightclub when a person kicked in a car door. Yeppoon Police has received reports lately of some prowlers in the Lammermoor Beach area. Yeppoon Fire Brigade was called to a car tire at the end of Arthur Street, near the basketball courts. on Tuesday. Apparently smoke had begun billowing from under the car's bonnet after oil from the steerine box dripped onto the manifold. A fire brigade spokesman said the smoke had stopped when they arrived. Emu Park Fire Brigade and Police and Yeppoon Coastguard reported a quiet week. Yeppoon Ambulance will not be affected by 40 state-wide sackings of administrative staff. officer-in-charge Neil Hickson said yesterday.

LATE NEWS' CR Hubert Murray has lodged a rescission motion which halts any proceedings on the 'Hot Potato' issue. Yesterday, chamber president Don Fee presented council with a petition signed by most Yeppoon food traders.

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•-THIS is the mess that confronted Rinkevich and Stickey Solicitors' staff last week when thieves destroyed a safe spreading concrete everywhere.

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• THIS safe put up a good fight but thieves made it yield its contents.

Founder of Coast scouts dies suddenly • By John and Suzv Watson THE man who brought the Scouting movement back to the Capricorn Coast died on Wednesday in Clermont Hospital. Bill Miller. formerly of Taranganba Road, Taranganba. unexpectedly lost a long battle with cancer. He was admitted to hospital feeling sick but not so poorly as to cause alarm. Apparently he slipped into a coma and died shortly after. Bill Miller, a man who loved to bang out tunes on a pianola while friends gathered round and sang. is responsible for the Scouts now operating on the Capricorn Coast. The Coast went many years without a scout troop after an earlier group had disbanded and its assets were transferred to Rockhampton. Bill Miller saw the need for a scout group in Yeppoon and was the prime mover in setting up a steering committee which made a feasibility study. Elected chairman of that committee, he was tireless in bringing together the people who, not long after, formed Yeppoon Scout Group. He was appointed Group Leader of the new scoutgroup and gave itsuch solid foundations that, within a com parati ve ly short space of time. a Scout Hall was built on land in Cooee Bay on land that he saw set aside by Livingstone Shire Council before he retired. His foray into scouting was not an unusual task for Bill; years earlier he had set up a committee for a survey of child-care needs on the Redcliffe Peninsula which resulted in be tter facilities for that area. Bill Miller, a high-ranking Australian Taxation Office employee for many years. took early retirement and went into a private accountancy practice in Clermont. After successfully operating in that field, he sold out and became a stock and station agent. He is survived by his widow. Kay. and son and daughter. Robert and Keny.

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