[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          REPORT FROM INDIANA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dickey). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McIntosh] is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. McINTOSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give my weekly report from 
Indiana. Every weekend, Ruthy and I travel around the Second District 
from Richmond to Muncie, to Anderson, to Greenfield, and Greensburg. So 
often people share with me amazing stories about their friends and 
neighbors and the things that they are doing in their communities. 
These individuals are good people who make our communities a better 
place to live. They give us hope for the future and our best days are 
yet to come.
  In my book, these individuals are Hoosier heroes, Hoosier heroes 
because they set examples for all of us to live by. But more 
importantly, they make us proud.
  Today I would like to share a special story about a 10-year-old boy 
name Dustin Sagester. Now, Dustin comes from Greensburg, IN. Our 
parents' generation probably would think that Dustin's story is, well, 
frankly, a little bit normal. But today, in today's world, it is far 
from normal. Dustin Sagester found a wallet down on North St. in 
Greensburg. Inside that wallet was $500 cash.
  Mr. Speaker, the owner of the wallet, who lives in a neighboring town 
of Columbus had lost his wallet 4 days earlier. The owner had given up 
on the wallet. He had given up on all hope of ever collecting that 
$500. The owner was Jason Humphress. He frankly said that he had 
written it off. But you know what? Little Dustin Sagester never looked 
inside that wallet.
  He walked right into a local store, billing store, and he turned it 
in. He turned it in so that the rightful owner could have his wallet 
back. His parents, Don and Tressy, taught him that when you find 
something that does not belong to you, you do not keep it and say, hey, 
it is my lucky day. You recognize that it belongs to someone else. Your 
new-found luck is somebody else's misfortune.
  They taught Dustin that you do your best to find the rightful owner, 
and that is exactly what Dustin did. He did not know that there was so 
much money inside. He just knew that the wallet and whatever was inside 
was not his.
  Mr. Speaker, I share this special report from Indiana because the 
people of Greensburg have recognized Dustin as one of their heroes, and 
I want my colleagues and all of the American people to know that Dustin 
is a Hoosier hero. I share this story because I think it is time that 
we all learn that we have to follow those basic moral values that our 
parents taught us so long ago, and that Dustin sets an example for the 
young people of this country.

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  That is my report from Indiana for this week, Mr. Speaker.

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