Their daughter, Claudia Perry, was told by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program that she needed to provide birth and wedding certificates of all the family members eligible for compensation, as well as death certificates of the parents.

She sent the original copies, as instructed, to the federal office and the Mangums' children were compensated for their parents' medical and funeral expenses.

But when Perry attempted to get the important documents back, she ran into a bureaucratic brick wall. Her husband, Newell Perry, called the office several times and was told, basically, the documents were in the mail. But they never came.

It went on for more than a year and the Perrys became frustrated since their children planned a big party to celebrate their 50th anniversary and wanted to display the wedding certificate that remained stuck in federal bureaucratic limbo.

So two weeks before the anniversary party, the Perrys called the office of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who was instrumental earlier in setting up the downwinders' compensation program.

That was the key. All the documents arrived in the mail July 22, one day before the big anniversary party.

Corrections: Wednesday's column told the story of the 12-year-old All-Star baseball players from Rose Park whose van broke down Sunday near Mesquite, Nev., on the way home from a regional tournament in Scottsdale, Ariz. They were rescued by a Mesquite police dispatcher and her son who gave them a ball and sleeve to hook the trailer carrying their luggage and equipment to a rented truck so they could get home in time to prepare for another tournament in Price this week.

The mistake was that I called it a Little League tournament. It was the Cal Ripkin tournament, a division of the Babe Ruth League.

Also on Wednesday, I described linguist John Henry Jorgensen, who is acting as a consultant to Hasbro to translate its FURBY doll's Furbish language into English and other languages, as director of BYU's Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts. He was a research assistant there, never the director.

Rest of the story: At the Champions Golf Challenge earlier this week, comedian Bill Murray chucked a half-full plastic bottle of Coke to a fan, missing him and hitting another spectator in the mouth. It cut the guy's lip open.

Murray saw what happened and immediately crossed the spectator ropes and went to the guy's aid. After seeing the damage (which was minor) he went back to his cart and got some ice and "Arnold Palmer's signature" - which turned out to be a can of Arnold Palmer Iced Tea that has Palmer's signature as its label. But Murray did sign the Coke bottle.

Murray then invited the guy up to the tee box to hit a shot. When a paramedic named Jerry arrived, Murray ordered him to take the fan to the nearest hospital to see a plastic surgeon. He told the fan, "You don't want to see some guy just out of college, or you'll end up looking like Jerry."

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