| Auctions offer a little bit of everything
When Larry Hendricks arrived at the auction on Howell Street in Cape Girardeau on Sunday, there was one item he was prepared to bid on. It was a shiny red Fender Stratocaster electric guitar that caught Hendricks' eye in the classified ads of the newspaper. The guitar was listed among other items that were auctioned off at the former residence of Maxine Crow, who passed away in February. Bill Crow of Dallas decided to auction off most of his mother's estate, which he had inherited, to "get it out and get it done in one stop." "Since I don't live here locally, I don't have the ability to market everything out piece by piece," he said. "Auctions are a very pleasant and easy way to dispose of a wide variety of property. Whatever it brings, it brings and it all goes away that day." Among the items at Sunday's auction were a large assortment of glassware, vintage radios and quilts, antique mirrors and a couple of unusual items like nautical star navigation tools.
Ex-Wakayama governor admits rigging bids
Former Wakayama Gov. Yoshiki Kimura pleaded guilty at the first hearing of his trial at the Osaka District Court on Tuesday to rigging bids and accepting 10 million yen in bribes in connection with prefectural public works projects. Kimura, who appeared in public for the first time in about five months since his arrested, said: "I deeply regret betraying the trust of prefectural residents. I'm really ashamed." According to the indictment, Kimura, 55, rigged bids on two prefectural tunnel construction projects and a sewerage construction project, which were all bid for on Nov. 11, 2004, in favor of a consortium of three general contractors in conspiracy with others accused in the scandal, including Satoaki Mizutani, the former treasurer of the prefectural government, and Chikanori Hioki, a former adviser of major contractor Obayashi Corp.
Bidding farewell to a great place to
Wow, this is really hard to write. I knew how invested I was in this community and in this paper, but I didn't know it would be this hard to say goodbye.
It seems like only yesterday that Peter Starren called me into his office to offer me this job.
It was the start of the most exhilarating chapter in my long career. I was equally scared and excited about coming to the The Record-Courier, but things really didn't gel until I got my "Dream Team" all in place.
Being able to work with the likes of Kurt Hildebrand, Joanna Reeves, Alice Price and Tony King, along with the wonderful people that make up the rest of The Record-Courier staff has been my greatest joy and I will miss them all more than they know.
It's very rare in this business to work with a whole group of people that has the same love of their community and their paper as you do.
Art Porn for $12 Million: How Sotheby's Sets Auction Prices
April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's will offer a Gerhard Richter painting of naked prostitutes at more than twice the artist's auction record next month in New York. A Mark Rothko picture owned by David Rockefeller is also being pitched at double the painter's previous peak. The No. 2 auction house said the prices reflect what buyers paid for similar works in private transactions. It shows how auctioneers are taking their cue from a few wealthy collectors outside the public salerooms, and increasingly depend on a group of billionaires to keep values escalating and their commissions mounting. Richter, whose collectors include Ronald Lauder and the Guggenheim Museum, used pornographic photographs to create his 1967 black-and-white painting, ``Zwei Spanische Akte (Osterakte),'' now on show at Sotheby's in London.
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