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Spite, revenge, competition?
Houston Chronicle .;,, ·:: v 5unday. March 26. 1978 Service just
Opinions on motives are varied plain 'trashy'
for rash of gay community fires HUTCHINSON, Kan. (UPI) - A local
man has a surprise for the city Trash Ser!
IY .JJ\f BARl,OW vice.
Chroniclr Staff
Pl>()IObV Q,w>(I No11ncf' . ChrO•ltCle :st,.fl
Gary Nachligal, chagrined over what
he calls the city service's trashy habits,
waited for the city's annual spring
cleanup before springing his surprise.
He has left a pile of rubbish at tile
street curb in front of his home thitt is
about 50 feet long, 4 feet high and 6 feet
wide.
The pile represents a year's worth of
garbage he's stored in a shed behind his
home.
"About a year ago, I got mad at the city
Trash Service;· saiq Nachtigal. "It
seemed like they couldn't dump a trash
can without getting it all over the yard.
"So I quit placing my trash can at the
curb. Now they·re going to get it all at
once
Puerto Rican
Speculation continues as to the ongm of fires
which destroyed the Silver Bullet. at 1005 Califor-nia.
damaged another bar catering to homosexuals
and two apartments in the Montrose area.
party splits
on statehood
Arson mvesllgators are probing a series
of unsoJ,·ed fires that have hit a number of
llmi>ton bars catering to homosexuals.
So Jar no one has been injured in the
hres. mostly in the Montrose area. but
damages have amounted to thousands of
dollars. Opinions on lhe motives for the
fires are varied
·fn that part of town.· said L. H. Mi·
keska. chief arson investigator of the
Houston r'ire Department. "there are so
many motives - jealousy. competition.
spite and revenge.type fires.··
\i1chms of the fires and gay activists
here say they believe the fires may be the
work of persons opposed lo the homosexual
life-style
Dan Roberts. co-owner of the Silver Bui·
let at 1005 California. which was destroy.
ed by fire in February. blames hale
campaigns ··we·re the last minority
group to hate.·· he said.
The mghl of March 8 was the latest
spate of such fires. Set afire that night
,.-ere two garage apartments in lhe Mont·
rose area. as well as Mary·s Lounge. 1200
Westheimer
The fires. which occurred in an 83·
minute span. involved either disabling a
gas meter and selling il afire. or. in the
case of the lounge. selling afire a contain·
er holding the gas meter. The fire at the
lounge was also the first which occurred
dunng business hours. About 30 persons
escaped safely from the lounge. which
had only damage to a oatio.
Other unsolved fir · nclude three al the
Second Sun. . estheimer. the scene of
ar<on m ~ and 1976. and the Club Steam
B~th of Houston al 2205 Fannin on May 25.
t977.
Mikeska said arson aimed al gay bars
h~s been a problem since 1968. al~gh
··there was a slack period from 1 to
1977 ... Currently. eight investigators are ~
working on the fires. he added.
Pat Duckett. assistant chief invesliga·
tor of the arson squad which has 34 inspec·
tors and six supervisors. says that m
several of the cases his staff has good
leads.
While not ruling out some. sort of antigay
movement behind the hres. Duckett
says there may be other motwes.
.. 11 does look like an organized eff0.';t 10
get rid of the gays:· Mikeska said. But
you might have three fires in that area
one mght. set by someone else. There are
nnnv d1lterent motive~ There is a hell ot
a '1oi of compet1t1on m the g~.Y busmess
and a lot ol monPv to be made
munity. Flock said. but they are not the
only ones worried.
.. Our straight neighbors are in a panic.··
fearing that they loo will be hit by rirebugs.
either on purpose or by accident. he
says.
Robert said that if the fires continue.
someone is sure to die.
.. The fire al Mary's Lounge was the
first when the place was open." he said.
.. If 11 had been one of the big clubs. everybody
could not have gotten out. That's the
Une poss1b1llty investigators have considered
is that an organized crime group
from outside the city may be setting the
fires in order to gel rid of some competition
before making a move into the city
Jim Flock. a former advertising executive
and the other co-owner of the Silver
Bullet Club. agrees that it 1s profitable to
cater to gays.
··There are probably 235.000 homosexuals
in this city:· he said. "They don·t
ha1·e anything to spend their money on
except lhemselyes. There's millions of
dollars spent in bars.
"But I don·t think any or our competi·
lion would consider us enough competitition
to do something like this. I don't think
any or them are willing to commit a
crime.··
Ray Hill. an activist in the Houston Gay
Political Caucus. said that unlike many
other cities. bars here catering lo
homosexuals are not owned by any particular
group
··1 have iust a gut level feeling it's more
to do with the radical bigot extremISt
rather than organized crime." Hill sa1d of
the fires.
.. If the Silver Bullet had been beating
out its competition. that might have been
allowable: · he said. adding that this was
not ~case
e ~,e; ~~Roberts. was the
e of •·" ~.1or hres. m October of last
and on J.., 10 Both fires did minor
damage. and res'"'<! m the bars fire
insurance bemg cancelt. Before more
insurance was purchased. t .. ,. eon Feb.
14 gulled the place. which on l[;y nights
had as many_ as a 1.000 patrons '''le and
on a-tear patlO.
Roberu., Flock. Hill and others say i"·
believe the arson squad is trying its be':.
to solve the serie~ (\f fires .
.. we·re unsatisfieo \\\at no one has been
caught ... Flock said .. But -.,~ realize what
a hell or a task we're up agam"' ··
The fires have affected the &•.• com·
scary thing. That's my fea~; If it contin-ues
someone will get lulled. . .
R~gardless of the fires. Hill said, the
homosexual community will keep its bars.
addmg that two benefits have already
been held to help raise money to rebuild
the Silver Bullet
O'Neal lo star
LOS ANGELES (AP)
- Ryan O'Neal will recreate
his starring role
from .. Love Story" in
Paramount"s "Oliver's
Story ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (UPI) - Puerto Rico's
Democratic Party has turEd intn a battleground in the
contest between advocates d. starehood, Jed by Franklin
Delano Lopez, advocates d. Puerto Rico's present commonwealth
status, and support'ers of independence.
The issue, at least as lar as the party is concerned, is
headed for a unique elEction this Fall that is being billed
as the first of a series d. plebisCites <lll the island's
eternal status question.
'Gay Rights' Law Nears
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An ordi- sion, adding San Francisco to a list
nance banning discrimination or more than 40 cities that have
against homosexuals in employ- such ordinances on the books.
ment. housing and public accommo- Mayor George Moscone is expect-dations
needs only the mayor's sig- ed to sign the ordinance.
nature before it takes efrect in this The ban is similar to a county or-citv
where an estimated one in sev- dinance repealed last year in Miami
en ·res1dents is a homosexual. after singer Anita Bryant led a sue·
The Board of Supervisors gave fi. cessfui repeal campaign that
nal approval to the ordinance Mon- brought gay rights to the nation's
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Pqe3 Community New<
NEWS AT· A GLANCE I!
Sundov. April 16. 1978 Houdnn Chronicle
Only minor battles remain
Gays find European climate more liberal
BY ROBERT MUSEL
United Press International
Alter all, had not the great Queen Empress herself
denied their existence?
LONDON - Queen Victoria was definitely not amused.
In fact she refused absolutely to beheve the extraordinary
clauns her advisers were making - that there were
women in the world who loved other women rather than
men
It was in Victori•'s reign that one of her w1tllesl subjects.
Oscar Wilde, went to Jail for dalliance with a young
man He called it poetically "the love that dares not
speak its name."
As her diaries attest, the Queen's healthy interest in
sex ran in only one direction, and Prmce Albert must
have been the hardest-working consort in Europe. Her
Imperial Majesty consequenUy did not choose to accept
that there was any possible alternative.
That was long ago. These days homooexual love nol
only speaks its name. it often shouts 1l. Gay clubs. maga.
zmes. welfare orgaruzallons and pressure groups make
certain all over western Europe that everyone knows
gays demand the same rights and privileges accorded
heterosexuals
So it was m Britain - according to the Campaign for
Homosexual Equality - that relations between males
were until recent years a matter for prosecution (and
persecution) while lesbians were free to conduct themselves
with each other as they wished, subject only to the
laws of pub he decency.
And m most places they either have them or are ap·
proaching the desired standard. though many minor battles
remain to be won
In Amsterdam. once the European capital of the gay
movement. a spokesman for the Culture and Relaxation
Center, which has 5,000 gay members. estimated that 20
percent of landlords still reject lu)<>wn gays and 30 per
Judge issues
DA suspension
PALESTINE. Texas (AP) -
East Texas Dist Atty. Billy Ray
Green has been ordered suspended
from ofhce
State Dist Court Judge Don-ald
Carroll ordered the susl'<'
ns1on Monday pendmg a
trial on the merits of a petltton
to remove Gretn TJlat •
petition wos fileil hy Andl:ri<on
County attorney Alex ~amer
Green ts appealing both hts
pubhe lewdness conv1cuon
and an ensumg disbarment,
but ~td he would begin
removmg personal belongings
from h1'- office withm the
next few days. He said he
thought Carroll's order ultimately
would be overturned
Green's d1str1ct mcludes
Anderson, Henderson and
Houston Counties.
Songwritt>r di<>s
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - George
C. Cory, 55, who wrote the the music
for "I Left My Heart In San Francisco,"
has been found dead of a drug
overdose in his luxurious apartment.
Mamie dedicates hospital
Mamie Elaellffww helped dedicate an
SU mllllon addition In Phoenix, Artz., to
the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital
named for her late husband, former
President Dwlpl D. EIMUower. Built
In 1971, the hospital sits on land donated
by Bo• Hope and hlB wife, Dllloftll, who
live here. Hope was master of cer<>monles
at the dedication. Accompanying
the 81-year-old Mrs. Eisenhower was her
grandson, Da'11.d ElleWwer, and his
wife, Jillie, daughter ot former President
~NIDll. Guests Included Gov. FA....
G • ..._ Ir. and Waller 4-
""'1;, former United States ambassador
to Great Britain.
Kansas Acting
To Turn 'Wet'
TOPEKA. Kan (AP)
- Thr Kansas LegislaturP
took ;.n historic
step toward Riving
state C'ii.ize>ns a mt)a
sure of liciuor by the
drink Thursday night
when the St•natr ronc-
ur1·rd in a Hou~r
am••!ldJTl•nt to a bill alJ.
owing re~taurants to
st>rvc mixt>d drink'>
Th;,t sent the bill to
Go,· R~bert F l!Pnncll
Female •fir!-tl'
Col. Margar<t A.
Brewer has hr~n
named by Prcliiidcut
Cart<'r to beromr the
fJr&t woman gentral in
th• M• rlne Corp•- ~he
will be the Marln•s' dlrcccor
uf lnformatlon.
Warning planned
for pain killer
ua,e1». ma,, •. lrouhle
in \orth Dakota'!
GRAND FORKS. ND. CAP>
Covrrnors of Minnfl'so1a .tnu.,.Nortl\
Dakota are mcetin}t to discuss complaints
that dikes built by Minnesoca
farmP1 s in thr fted River \'all(•\'
are increasing fluorl rrohlem~ in th~
f'oi·th Dakota pa:·~ d thr vaJlf'\
3rd indictment for Peron
A Buenos Aires, Argentina, federal
judge Thursday handed down the third
Indictment to be brougllt ag•inst former
president Iollel Peru, this time on
charges ot abusing her presidential
powers. The latest order for preventive
arrest was handed down by Judge Galllerm•
Klvanola based on a decree signe<l
by Peron turning over a downtown building
used by the Interior Ministry to her
own Justiclallsta Party. Peron, who ts
being held a prisoner In a house at the
Azopardo Naval Base 18'.) mUes soutn of
Buenos Aires, bas already been Indicted
on charges of fraudulent use of stale
charity funds.
Commander IThitehrod di"s
Commander Ed1>vd Wbltehu.d, re
tired cb.1irman of Schweppes U.S.A. Ltd.
woo.e familiar beard and dry Er.g:;,;h
demeoncr helped sell his company's
tome ·.1;:Jter to American.~. has di(VJ fn
Enpj~nu, the company announCt.~d in
Nr«v York Monday. He was 69. WtJtehen1,
who died Sunday in Pctersfi<•ld,
Eu.;Iand, became known in the Unf!ed
States through television commrrclaL'
and other advertisements wh.ich m3dC
him a ix>rsonlfaction of the mixrr.
Stunt flier killed
l'raak Tallmaa, about 59, a veteran
Hollywood stunt flier who new every
type of aircraft from World War I biplanes
to supersonic jets, was killed LO
the crash of hlB tw!JH>ngine plane In the
Santa Ana Mountains near Irvine. Calli.,
it was reported Sunday. Tallman was
seriously injured in 1974 in the c..-ash of a
World War I biplane he was flying in a
scene for the movie. "The Great Waldo
Pepper." He had been a ruer since the
age 16. He was a lieutenant commander
in the U.S. Nav-y in World Warn.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government plans to
order manufactw'Crs of the most widely used prescript!~
pain killer to warn physicians the drug should not
be". taken with alcohol, tranquilizers or other depressants.
A spokesman for the Food and Drug Admlnlstratioil
said Monday the warnings will be required on
package inserts accompanying Darvon and similar
products cootainlng the generic drug propoxyphene.
The brand name product is manufactured by Ell LUly i
Co., which recenUy added the warning to Its labels, but
the FDA's order also will apply to 16 firms that produce
aenertc versions ot the drug.
Syphilis among gays decreases
AUSTIN CAP! - Thirty-seven percent of Texas men
who were treated for syphihs last year reported
homosexua I contacts as the source or the disease. the
State Health Department said. This was 3 percent below
the 1976 figure. The department attributed the 37 percent
rate to tis venreal disease information campaign among
homosexuals and satd the rate should not be taken as an
1nd1cat1on or the number of homosexuals in the state.
cent of employers do the same
The situation IS different m Soviet Russia where (for.
getttng the much honored Tchaikovsky and others of his
inclination> the Sexolog1cal Center of the Leningrad
Health Department as recently as 1974 hsted homosex·
uality as "a serious disease." TI1cre's a f1ve·year jail
sentence for relations even between consenting males.
though m the Soviet Union as m the west. lesbians can
love "free of charg•." as a Soviet lawyer put 1t.
Smee the general emancipation of gays II\ the 1960s,
Amsterdam, despite its p1oneermg. has not maintained
its lead The new gay capital IS Zurich. a fact that does
not seem in accord with the staid stereotype of the Swiss.
And other cities are qwckly catching up
A study of the gay s1tuatioo m Europe produced the
following summary:
Any country that. like France. has so many homosexual
greats (Andre Gide et a)) is bound to treat the sub1ect
casually. and that is the case. Gay candidates campaign·
ed in the recent election for the right to marry. lesbian
candidates argued for what they called lesbian nghts
Homosexuality as such is not punishable under French
law
In the Netherlands. homosexuality was legal only for
consenting adults of 21 until 1971, when the law was
changed to brmg it into lme with the heterosexual law
permitting relallons with consenting minors of 16 and up
The Swiss penal code also makes no mention of
homosexuality. thou~h corruption of persons under 16 is a
crune. Zurich. Basel and other Swiss German towns have
many gay clubs for both sexes and Geneva has a number
of gay bars and al least one lead mg lesbian hangout
Although many Italians still consider them a 1oke.
h<omosexuals in Italy have attamed a degr<'<' of social
acceptance that would have seemed inconceivable 2fl
year:-; a~o. nwre are no 5peclfic laws agail1$t homosex.
uals m Italy. but police can charge them with obscene
acts ma pubhc place or corruptuog m1n<>rs
Austria has 41 declared meetmg places for gays -
bars, restaurants. coffee houses, and sauna baths \' en
na leads the nation "1th 12 of the spots Since a re>·tston
of the law m 1971, homosexual relattons between 'tlen
over 18 are not a crime. nor are relations between C'On·
senting Juveniles. Corruption of a minor by an adult
carries a one· to five.year jail term There IS no law
relating to women
Scandmav1an homosexuals cC1ncede the rhm:ite 1s as
hberal for them as anything outside of Arr.sterd"m or
Zurich. but they still feel they are sub1ect to restrictions.
In Sweden. gays carmot get home loans or marry. The
Swedish Parhament had a committee that mvesugaled
the gay sJtuation with a view to elunmattng discrumna·
hon. and. as a result of 11s report, the h<>mosexual age of
consent was reduced to 15 - the same as for heterosexuals
The homosexual age of consent m Denmark IS also IS.
A len¢hy study of the situation by the newspaper Extrabladet
concluded the DaniSh pubhc has become accus·
tomed to homosexuals and accepts them apathetically
Norway's homosexuals are also more or less acc-eptcd
by the pubhc and have had their own assoc1at1ons smce
1948 to defend and extend their right,. One of the few
restrictions on them 1s that they cannot marry
Britain has handled homQSCxuality as ii has treated
almost every other social change m 1ts history First
there is the shock" horror! sen>ahon' phase featured m
the more spectacular newspapers. Once that wears off.
common ~DSP takes over
Homosexual relations were once a crime but now are
acceptable between consenting adults over 21. The gays
are demandmg that the age of consent be dropped to 16.
the ag• for heterosexual relations
Lesbians in Britain want th<> right to marry. and to
emphasize the pomt some of th<-m have borne children by
art1hcrnl msemmatton. Their chances are not rated high·
ly. but that's because of the social climate- not because
the great-great-granddaughter of the disbelieving Victoria
sits on the throne.
EXPRESS-NEWS-Saturday, April 15, 1978
Bishops Label
Gay Acts Sinful
NEW YORK (AP) -
Thr Standing Confer~
nce or Orthodox
Bishops says .. p~rsons
who embrace homosex·
ua1 hfcstyles are not
qualifi<'d to teach children
or act as spiritual
lradcrs. ··
In a rC'solution adopted
at their spring meeting,
bishops heading
Eastern Orthodox
churches totalling 5
million American members
said secular pressures
seek to establish
homosexual lifestyles
as being of t"tiual worth
to marn.1t:t ..
Althougn offo1ing
symp<1lh.1r- <tnd pa.s1oral
a.ss1stancC' to those
with homosPxual <'Onditions
beyond th('fr con ..
trol, the bishops said
ScTiptu1 <' and church
tradition condemn
··voluntary homosexual
acts as sinful."
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They're behind
ERA movement
Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss chats
with Marlo Thomas, center, and Loren Bacall during an ERA
fund-raising cocktail buffet at Tavern on the Green in New
York's Central Park Monday night. -AP Laserphoto.
Houston police deaths
to he probed by D.A.
HOUSTON (UPI) - Dist. Atty. Carol
S. Vance said Monday his office will
make an independent investigation of
all slaymgs by police officers and no
longer rely exclusively on the police
department for case facts.
"I have a lot of confidence in the
Internal Affairs Division (which now
investigates such cases) and we will
still rely heavily on them," Vance said.
But from now on, he said, "We will
do our own, independent investigation
as well."
INSTEAD OF relying on civilian
witnesses' written statements to police,
a prosecutor will interview the wit·
nesses personally and encourage the
grand jury considering the case to hear
their testimony, he said.
The policy of the district attorney's
office is to present directly to the
grand jury all facts concerning the
death of citizens at the hands of an offi-cer
and let it make the determmahon
about charges.
IN THE PAST, the grand jury usually
relied only on the written statements
of civilian witnesses and heard live testomony
from police officers.
Vance said the prosecutor will dou·
ble check and supplement the pohce
department investigation by making
sure all the scientific evidence is collected
immediately.
Vance's decision came after recent
criticism of the district attorney's off.
ice for its handling of two police shootings.
In one case, five officers were
cleared in 1975 for the fatal shooting of
Billy K. Joyvies, 18. In the second,
Patrolman D.R. Mays was cleared a
year ago of killing Randall Webster, 17.
Under the new policy, Vance said,
he will personally review each case
involving a police shooting of a citizen,
then assign it to one of his three felony
division chiefs.
Reagan Might Run
TOKYO (UPI) - Former California Gov, Ronald Reagan said
Tuesday he hasn't ruled out the possibility of making another try for
the presidency in 1980.
"It's too early to tell who the candidates will be in 1980," Reagan
said In an interview with the newspaper Yomiuri.
"To speak irankly, I haven't closed my own door."
Rites slated for Friday
for Gen. Lucius D. Clay
CLlY
CHATHAM, Mass. (UPI) - Retired Army Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, the commander of U.S. military
forces in Europe after World War II, will be buried
Friday at his military alma mater of West Point,
N.Y.
Clay, 80, died late Sunday at his Cape Cod home.
As commander in chief of the U.S. European Command
and military governor pf the U.S. Zone In
Germany under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clay
helped foil Soviet attempts to shut off Allied access
to Berlin in 1948.
He directed the mas&ve airlift that sent 2.4 million
tons ot food and coal into 1he war-ravaged former
German capital for 16 months.
Former Chancellor WlllY Brandt said, "Clay was
Instrumental In defeating the Berlin blockade and
helping the Federal Republic of Germany develop a
solid democracy."
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday
at the U.S. Military Academy. Burial will. be'ln West
Point National Cemetery.
Dog lover ioins
the 'other side'
WARWICK. R.I. <UPI! - Two
years ago Carel A. Callahan punched
a dog officer in the nose because
she felt he was mishandling a dog.
Another time. she broke into the
pound and spirited away a dog she
felt was being mistreated.
Now she's going over to the other
side.
She becomes the city's new head
of the Animal Control Division Monday.
in charge of dog officers. She
was appointed to the $12,000 a-year·
post by Police Chief John F. Coutcher.
"No one can question her concern
for animals." he said. "Even people
who don't like animals would agree
she's the right person."
Sinatra honored
Frank Sinatra was honored in Jerusalem
for his financial backing of Hebrew
University with a formal dinner given
Sunday by several members o! parliament.
Earlier, the singer dedicated the
Frank Sinatra International Student Center.
His donation, he said, was par Uy to
make up for his lack of schooling. The
singer came to Israel Friday with 150
other U.S. donors, including actor Gregory
Peek and Ed McMahon of the television
Tonight Show. His visit included a
private meeti.!'g with Prime Minister
Menacbem Begin.
Ex-beauty queen hunted
Police Sunday scoured England for a
former American beauty queen who
jumped bail and disappeared to avoid
trial for kidnapping a Mormon missionary
an£1 forcing him to have sex with
her. Scotland Yard said there was no
trace of Jeyce McKinney, '!1, and Keith
May, 24, her alleged accomplice. They
are accused ot kidnapping Kell.II Andersen,
21, of Orem, Utah. Anderson was
McKinney's lover nelore becoming a
missionary in Englana.
Cigarette smokers
addicted, says doctor
NEW YORK (AP! -Cigarette smokers
are addicted to nicotine physiologically,
and they smoke to prevent withdrawal
symptoms. not because smoking is
psychologically gratifying. says Dr. Stanley
Schacter. a Columbia University psychologist.
When they switch to low-nicotine
brands. they smoke more cigarettes or
puff them more to get the amount of mcotine
they are accustomed to. he says.
Some evidence indicates heavy smokers
of low-nicotine cigarettes run higher
health risks than light smokers of highnkoline
cigarettes. Dr. Schacter writes m
the Annals of Internal Medicine.
A new hairstyle
Cher Allman In a recen't pose displays her new
balrstyle. Cher, who bas gone lhrough many
changes recently,· t!ecllled to cbang" <her most
famous trademark - bet bait.
AP l.nerphoto
Innocent?
Richard Nixon
re.pea ts hls &!ilsertlon In
his forthcoming book
that an Illegal act Is legal
If a president does
It, ABC News says.
AP L9Mf'photo
Church splits
Television evangtlst
Garnrr T .. d Armstrong
has announced that the
World-.. lde Church of
God, rourtd<·d morr
then 411 years a110 by
his father, wll! seperate
Its function from Ainbassadnr
College, Its
edueatlonal wing.
U.S. warned on polio shots
GENEVA, Switzerland !AP) - The
World Health Organization warned the
Umted States to step up vacrinations
against polio, saying that if the population's
immunity against the disease is not
sustained, "epidemics are certain to
recur ...
Screenwriter dies
Screenwriter Michael Wilson, who won
an Academy Award for "A Place in th~
Sun" but was blacklisted in Hollywood's
anti-Communist !ervor, died Sunday
alter suffering a hea1i attack in Beverly
Hills. Wilson, 63, spent eight years in
France alt.er the blacklisting, under
which artists silspected o! being sympathetic
to Communism were denied work
in the movie industry in the 1950s.
Newsweek editor dies
Dwight Martin, a senior editor of New·
sweek magazine and a former foreign
cotTespondent who .overed the Korean
War and the Berlin crisis, died Sur.clay In
New York of a heart attack. He was 57.
A uative of Washington, Martin began
his journalism career at 17 as a copy boy
on thP Washington Post.
P&11eS
Community News
THE REEL THING •.•••••••••••••• Zac Sterling
Well, the Academy Awards are over, and I'm
still alive. I've survived another year •
To those of you who screamed with joy when
Peter Firth lost, thinking I would pull
through with my suicide threat, I'm happy
to say that when ANNIE HALL started winning
the major awards, it helped to heal my
wounds and discomforts about Peter. He will
see his day, and his performance in EQUUS
is a thousand times better and more complex
than Jason Robards' in JULIA. The fact that
he is not a "pc>pular fa'Ce"lso to speak,)
in Hollywood, and the film he was nominated
for was not as common and every day tired
as JULIA, makes me understand (but not condone;
Jl1is loss. The Academy is notoriously
known for giving sentiment awards over talent.
But this year, by giving awards to
"Annie Hall," Diane Keaton and Richard Dreyfuss,
they chose fresh new talents, over
old and boring faces. I do feel a touch
sorry for Richard Burton, who ~ at his very
best in EQUUS, This was also his seventh time
to be nominated. It seems they are never going
to actually give him an Oscar.
I am extremely happy that THE TURNING
POINT did not win even one award, (It's
nominations were more than it's worth,)
As for the Academy Award Ceremony, itself,,,
it seemed somewhat usual. The dull
and silly musical numbers in the beginning
were nothing but time fillers, All everyone
really wants to know is who won.
For a while the ceremony almost seemed
like a telethon. Two documentaries about
handicapped children were awarded oscars,
and the first song nominee, "You Light Up
My Life," was sung by Debbie Boon, while
eight little deaf gir~s "sang" the song
in sign language. I kept waiting for the
telephone number to appear on the screen
so I could send in my donation.
As a matter of fact, all the "Best
Song" nominees were quite a mess, Jane
Powell did a senior-citizen, slowed down
version of The Waltz from "The Slipper &
the Rose," and Aretha Franklin took the
liberty of completely changing the melody
of "Nobody Does It Better." ("You Light
Up My Life," by the way, was the winning
song; just as I predicted,)
I guess it is my turn now to step in and
say what I though of Vanessa Redgrave's acceptance
speech, upon recieving her oscar for "Best
Supporting Actress." I know that I must be the
only one who feels this way, (or so everyone
keeps telling me,) but I thought she handled
it tastefully and it was beautifully worded,
I was certainly embaressed for Paddy Chayevsky,
who later publicly "served" Vanessa,
claiming that for Ms, Redgrave to have given
a simple "thank you" would have been sufficient.
Well, as I see it, for him to have
kept his ugly mouth shut would have been
sufficient, Chayevsky, (winner of awards
for his ludicrous screenplays of NETWORK
and THE HOSPITAL,) has always been out-spoken,
but he had no right to say what he did.
No matter how hard I tried,
I just could NOT make PETER
FIRTH win for EQUUS.
In case you are unfamilier with the incident,
Ms. Redgrave financed and narrated a documentary
titled THE PALASTINIANS, For this,
the Jewish Defense League, after unsuccessfully
demanding that 20th Century Fox never
again hire her for a picture again, protested
outside the auditorium, with 400 persons,
demanding that she be stricken from the nominee
list, She thanked the Academy members
for "standing firm" on their vote. She spoke
of the "witch hunt" days of the MacCarthyNixon
period, an~ though hissed at by a few
members, recieve~ rave applause at the end
of her speech, For Me, Redgrave to have ignored
the incident would have been unthinkable.
Everyone knew what was happening, and
she was not about to act as though they didn't.
As for Chayevsky- I would have to something
foul to express my feelings about him at this
moment, so I will just pass the thought,
As the awards soared on, I was upset to see
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS only win 2, but I was happy
enough every time STAR WARS beat out over
JULIA and THE TURNING POINT. (Needless to say,
they are n~two of my favorite movies.)
RICHARD DREYFUSS wins
"Best Actor of the Year"
for THE GOODBYE GIRL.
When Woody Allen won "Best Director" I
flew to heaven and back. I never expected it.
I was just certain it would be that ever
grumpy Herbert Ross, I swear, that man has a
chip on his shoulder that is just incredible,
Of course, I predicted Spielberg, but I'm
pleased with Allen. ANNIE HALL went on to win
"Best Picture," .screenplay, and "Best Actress"
for Diane Keaton, whom I love to death, She
was incredible ~n both ANNIE HALL_and LOOKING
FOR MR. GOODBAR.
-- Richard Dreyfuss got the "Best Actor"
oscar for THE GOODBYE GIRL , and though I was
pulling for-Burton, Dreyfuss is definetely my
second favorite. He seems to be a wonderful
person,
I can't believe that MADAME ROSA
(practically unknown except to New Yorkers,)
won "Best Foreign Film" over popular contenders
such as A SPECIAL DAY, IPHIGINEA,
and THAT OBSCURE-OBJECT OF DESIRE. Lat~ly,
the Academy members have· started choosing
the most obscure nominee as the winner.
Everyone was shocked last year when SEVEN
BEAUTIES and COUSIN, COUSINE both lost out
to the (then totally unknown) BLACK AND
WHITE IN COLOR. Leave it to the Academies
to throw ·atleast one surprise every year. ·
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JACKSONVILLE, FLA. dust bef9re Christmas, Dan Scarborough,
the senior state senator from
northeast Florida, was entertaining
some friends in his family's sprawling
ranch-style home.
He was in fine fettle. In another two
days, there would be a big party to celebrate
the Scarboroughs' 25th wedding
anniversary. He had a close-knit family.
His telephone and communications
businesses were thriving. He'd gotten
n percent of the vote in the last e lection.
Some friends thought the 45-yearold
Democrat would surely make it to
the governor's mansion one day-and
then, maybe, even Washington.
At 11 :30 p.m., he was called to the
telephone. It was Sheriff Dale Carson.
"Senator, I got some bad news for
you," the sheriff said.
"What is it, Sheriff?" Dan asked.
"I've got a warrant for your son and
daughter's arrest."
· He was told that his daughter Lynn,
20, and son John, 24, were involved
with an alleged cocaine ring. Lynn was
named in four counts of conspiracy to
commit a felony, John in one count. A
trial is expected this spring.
The alleged ring included Linda Blair,
the 18-year-old actress who was possessed
by the devil in the film The Exorcist.
Except for her, however, not a
single person arrested fit the image usually
associated with the superjet, "fastlane"
set.
'Cadillac of drugs'
Called the "Cadillac of drugs," cocaine
through the years has been for
those who could easily spend $1SOO to
$2000 for an ounce-especially celebrity
artists, writers and performers like
Louise "Mary Hartman" Lasser, rock
star Gregg Allman and Tommy Rettig,
who was the child star in Lassie. Vivid
descriptions exist of fantastic parties
where the precious stuff was set out like
sugar in bowls.
CommurJf! News
The Houston Post
APRIL 16, 1978
A promising career for Florida State Sen
Dan Scarborough(/) may have been nipped
One Familv's Hanle
Auaiast C1eai1e
by Bernard Gavzer
Elite users of the past included Queen Victoria,
Pope Leo XIII, Robert Louis Stevenson
Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sig'.
mund Freud, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Errol
Flynn.
Cocaine-also called "coke," "C," "snow"
and "toot"-is a white powder that when ingested
(usually by inhalation) produces a sensation
of well-being and seems to overcome
fatigue, hunger and thirst. Its most potent attraction
is its alleged power as an aphrodisiac.
Frequent· inhalation can damage nose membranes.
The National Institute of Drug Abuse
estimates that 1 million Americans use cocaine
at least once a month.
It all begins with the coca bush, which
grows on the slopes of the Andes Mountains.
The leaves are picked and processed into
powder, which is moved along smuggle1s'
routes from South and Latin America toward
the U.S. Banned here, it wholesales for as
much as $4S,000 a kilo as it enters the Miami
area, America's cocaine gateway.
The Jacksonville case casts cocaine in a new
light. The people involved are not celebrities,
rich or remarkably accomplished. They are, in
fact, the people of Anytown, U.S.A.
Of the 33 indicted, only two were in their
30's; the rest, in their 20's and teens. They included
a diver, a marine dealer, a dog handler,
a college student, a typist, a meat cutter,
a shipfitter, a laborer, a broker-trainee, a City
of Jacksonville Beach employee, an electrician,
a car salesman, a truck driver, a busboy,
a carpenter, a secretary, a printer, a talent
agency employee.
The case demonstrates that cocaine has
reached America's ordinary people, raising a
possibility that many families like the Scar-t
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by the• arres~dHris qaughter Ly(ln and son
John (T) ,;or part ln alleged coc~itle ring
•.le
boroughs may find themselves dealing with
what Dan Scarborough calls a "nightmare."
'·There's not a parent of teenage children
in Florida today-in America today-who
doesn't live in constant fear about kids smoking
marijuana or using drugs," he said. "We
all of us face the nightmare that these young
adventurous people may end up being treated
as hardened criminals."
Non-addictive but dangerous
The penalties for cocaine are very much
like those for heroin. While cocaine is not
addictive, the law calls it a dangerous drug.
In Florida. conviction on a charge of conspiring
to commit a felony can lead to a maximum
prison sentence of five years-a frightening
prospect for any parent.
For the Scarboroughs, there seemed the
possibility of another penalty: damage to a
promising political career.
Dan Scarborough weighed that question.
He tucked a_ wad of Red Man chewing tobacco
into the right side of his mouth, placed
a cowboy-booted foot against a wastebasket,
settled in his swivel chair and said: "It's pos•
ible I been hurt. It's possible I been bad
hurt."
Maybe this cocaine case would be no more
threatening to his future than his support of
the Equal Rights Amendment or of marijuana
decriminalization. Then it became clear that
he was thinking more of his son's future than
of his own, since he hoped that John might
follow him into public office.
"Now, this is going to be a hell of a cro55
for him to bear, even though it is clear to me
he is as innocent as a glass of milk and a piece
of pie," Dan said.
All parents' live
in constant fear'
of drugs
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The night the sheriff called, there was
some shock for Dan's family. But for
Dan it was very much like hearing the
second shoe drop. He'd already heard
that Lynn and John might in some way
be tangled in a drug investigation. The
tip, he revealed, came from a man who
told him, "There's a guy in police intelligence
around the shop who likes to
brag and said he'd seen some confidential
file that your son is under surveillance
by the narcotics squad."
Dan called John and Lynn into his
office. "Some people told me you may
be fooling around with some things you
ought not to be," he said. "If you are,
you better quit it. If you're not, it's good
advice anyhow."
"Dad, we're not;'' they said. And Dan
believed them.
Signs of suspicion
A few weeks later, the senator's administrative
assistant noticed that a
photographer had been hanging around
the building where Scarborough has his
legislative office and his businesses.
Both Lynn and John work there for their
dad's companies.
"I called the undersheriff, John Nelson,
and told him I'd heard my children
may be under suspicion of some kind,"
the senator said. "I told him I was interested
in finding out if there was any
substance to the rumor and if there was,
I'd bring my kids down to the state
attorney's office right then. I wasn't interested
in squashing anything. I told
him I'd rather keep my kids out of trouble
1han gel them out of trouble. He
said he'd let me know."
Nelson never did, he said. And the
kids again said they were doing nothing
wrong. And Dan believed them.
Even after the arrest, Dan believed in
th~ir innocence.
Dan's wife, Virginia, also felt something
was wrong about the charges after
she talked with Lynn.
"I know this child very, very well, and
I know she's innocent," Mrs. Scarborough
said. "I can't believe that she
could look me straight in the eye and
say, 'I love you' and 'not to worry' and
'I've done nothing wrong' if it wasn't
the truth."
But the state and federal governments
say there's a strong case, that it's not just
a group of young people experimenting
with cocaine. ,
Capt. John McCormick, head of th'e
Duval County sheriff's vice squad, said:
"When you get into certain quantities,
such as ounces, you are not talking
about personal use. And when you find
arrangements for picking up and transporting
and collecting, and seize ringleaders
with three pounds of cocaine,
""nmmunlty News
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Excepting film star Linda Blair, the 33
indicled were just uordinary people."
you have more than a·casual deal. You
have a ring."
Robert Ginley, head of the Drug Enforcement
Administration's Jacksonville
office, said stale and federal agents discovered
the extent of the network
through court-approved telephone
wiretaps. He said the central figures
were George "Eddie" Mangum, 25, of
Jacksonville; Garland Wade Atkinson,
28, and Andrew lnglet, 24, both of
Houston, Tex.
What were the roles of Lynn Scarborough
and Linda Blair?
McCormick and Ginley were guarded
about details, but Ginley said, "Lynn
Scarborough has been out to Houston.
She stayed with Atkinson. As for Linda
Blair, she made a deal to buy three
ounces of cocaine."
Blair came for funeral
Any connection between Lynn and
Linda Blair seems to h<ive been coincidental.
Linda Blair came to Jacksonville
in late October for the funeral of Ronnie
Van Zant, lead singer of the Lynyrd
Skynyrd rock group, who was killed in a
plane crash. Lynn, one of the band
members' girlfriend, had gone to pick
up Linda as a favor. That apparently is
the only contact the two ever had.
Of the four Scarborough children,
Lynn is the one things always seem to
happen to. Vickie, 22, who is now married
and has a home on the Scarborough
property, and Karen, 18, are described
as outgoing and clownish "like
their dad." John and Lynn tend to be
quieter, reserved, like their mother. All
four, said Mrs. Scarborough, were average
students at Nathan B. Forest High
School. John was well-regarded as an
athlete. He married young, has a 3-yearold
son and supposedly is patching up
his broken marriage. Despite her reserve,
Lynn was elected president of the
senior girls' class.
"When she was a toddler;' said Mrs.
Scarborough, "she had serious eye surgery.
Then we almost lost her when she
had spinal meningitis at the age of 12.
If something bad could happen, it
would usually happen to Lynn."
On the insistence of their lawyer,
neither john nor Lynn would speak of
what had happened. Neither, so far as
could be determined, shows any evidence
of sudden or unusual affluence,
as might be expected of people involved
with a ring dealing in a substance
that costs 10 times more than
gold.
John Scarborough, who works for his
dad, has a base pay of $1000 a month,
plus commissions. If 1978 is a good year,
he may gross $15,000. Lynn gets $700 a
month as a secretary in her father's business.
She lives at home.
"On a Wednesday before payday
they'd be borrowing $4 or $5 gas money
from me," said Mrs. Scarborough.
Invisible profits
Even one of the alleged ringleaders,
Mangum, shows little evidence of
money. He lives in a small ramshackle
house off.a dirt road.
What if evidence shows John and
Lynn were criminally involved?
"What do you do if you find out it's
not like they told you?" Dan said. "You
don't give up on them, you don't quit
on them, you don't love them any less.
Man, you suck it up and go do the best
you can.11
He said John had worried about the
impact this might have on the business,
and even on Dan's political career.
"That worried John because he calls
on heads of companie<. I told him not
to worry," Dan said. "As for my business,
I've been making my income public
since running for state office. My last
return shows I'm worth about half a
million dollars. Now, I began 20 years
ago come June with $500 and three little
kids. If need be, I can do it again."
There were hints from some of the
lawmen that Senatat Scarborough
might not like to hear what's on the
wiretap tapes. Did that mean there
could be something damaging? No,
they said. Embarrassing I Maybe.
"There's nothing I can think of that
would do that to me," the senator said.
"No way. There is nothing that troubles
me. I sleep at the foot of the cross."
Virginia smiled wanly at Dan. As she
looked at the embers glowing in the
fireplace, she said, somewhat wistfully:
"I somehow think that this isn't happening,
that none of this is real, that I'll
wake up and find out that all of it, every
little bit, has been just a bad dream:·•
Slavery Charge Hits Landlady
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey
woman was arcused ThursdRy of enslaving
residents in her Trenton boarding
home and using violence to force them to
work for her and to perform sC'x acts.
A federal grand ju.ry made the accusations
in a nine-count indictment against
Jean Douglas. 40, proprietor of the Doug·
las Boarding Home, which was op~ned in
December 1971 and closed in May 1976
when a local bank foreclosed on the mortgage.
Mrs. Douglas was charged with involuntary
servitude. a little-used fede-ral
law dating back to the post-Civil War Reconstruct
ion era.
The grand jury said Mrs. Douglas held
seven boarders pri~oner in her boarding
home and forced two boarders to go to
her Willingboro ho1oe to work as her private
slaves. It said one resident was held
in slavery from October 1972 uhtil her
death in November 1975.
Two of Mrs. Douglas· boarders were induced
into slavery at a Bristol. Pa., facility
after the Trenton home closed, the
grand jury said. The Bristol home closed
in August 1976.
The grand jur}' also said a female resident
of the Trenton home was forced to
perform sexual intercourse with male
boarders.
Federal authorities said Mrs. Douglas
used ··intimidation. violence and imprisonment"
to keep residents at her home,
but they would not elaborate.
If convicted on all charges against her,
Mrs. Douglas could he sentenced to a
maximum 45 years in prison and fined
. $45,000.
Mrs. Douglas was a defendant in a 1975
civil suit brought by one of the residents,
who said she escaped from enslavement
at Mrs. Douglas· private residence. The
64-year-old resident, whose blind husband
died at the Trenton facility, was
awarded a $60,000 judgment against Mrs.
Douglas. according to her attorney,
Dennis Brotman.
Brotman, formerly of the Trenton Legal
Services, said his client charged in
her suit that she had been beaten, forced
to work and her welfare checks taken and
forged. Brotman said his client, who had
a heart condition, also was forced to sit
in an unheated garage at the Willingboro
home in the winter. ·
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Sexchang:1
funding eyed
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government
will review whether Medicare should pay for some
sex-change operations, says the secretary of
health, education and welfare.
Joseph A. Califano Jr. says he has ordered his
health financing chief, Robert Derzon, to set up a
panel of experts to review whether transsexual
surgery is medically necessary in certain cases.
Medicare, which picks up hospital bills for the
elderly and disabled, does not now pay for sexchange
operations.
At issue is whether such procedures involve
proven techniques. A spokeswoman for HEW's
Health Care Financing Administration, Pat Schoeni,
said the U.S. Public Health Service has considered
transsexual surgery to be new and experi·
mental a nd that its safety and effectiveness were
not proven.
Medicare, run by the federal governme nt, does
not pay for unproven techniques.
Califano, addressing a convention of news paper
editors, denied a report that Medicare had agreed
to pay for a $5,600 sex-change operation for a dis·
abled San Diego man, Robert Bennett, who now
calls himself Bobbie Lea Bennett.
Bennett, 31 and confined to a wheelchair, says
he has lived like a woman for the last three years
and wants to undergo the surgery.
Community News
DROP EVERYTHING
Raid nets 80
pounds of pot
Narcotics detectives paper bag,. three large
said they confiscated 80 plastic bags, a cardboard
pounds of manjuana box and a plastic contamFnday
night in a raid on er. I GETTING BIGGER.!:
GETTING BETTER.,11
ANNOUNCING
OuR NE.w GAME & LouNGiE.
an ~;ast Side home. A pistol also was con-
Narcotics detective fiscated, Dawson said.
Ronnie Dawson, who Held in lieu of $50.000
obtamed a search \\ar- bond, set by Night Magrant,
went lo the resid· istrate Mike O'Quinn, was
ence with four other o!fic- Armando Tijerrna. 28, of
ers and said U1cy dis· the 200 block of Kipling
covered the pot m brown Avenue.
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Gay leader is sentence<l
Austin Country
705 Red River
Charles ~dward SpurgPon. 28.
president of the Oklahoma City G:ty
Task Force, today was awaiting
transporta tion to the Oklahoma
State Peni tenriary following his
plea of guilty to <'harge~ of embezzlement,
writing bog.is chPcks anri
failure to return rental property.
Spurgeon was to have gone on trial
for the four charges but befo!·e
the case was called, he pleaded
gmity before Special Judge Cres ton
GAY SWITCHBOARD
The Apartment
2828 Rio Grande
Hollywood Club
304 W. 4th
Private Geller
709 E. 6th
Pearl St. warehouse
1720 Lavaca
CLUB BATH
308 w. 16th
B. Williamson.
As!-; ist;int District A1 torn<'Y Ed
Geary said that SpurgPon told him
he had spent some of ttw money for
a camp~ign aga=n~t anti-homo!'oiexual
Jear!~r Anita BryaPt.
H~ wa<; sentenced to five yca!'s in
prison but three yt!ars were SllS·
pended.
The judge also ordered him 10 r<'·
pay $6,616 a1 the rate of $111 per
month.
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GYPSY'S GIBBERISH ............ from Austin
3aw ERNESTINE and HOT CHOCOLATE wrecking
:LUB AUSTIN the other night before their
terrific show at THE AUSTIN COUNTRY ... hi
girls, your performance was really great
and we appreciate you! GLENDORA, TERRY,
a~d Niss Gypsy terrorized the tubs for a
whole week ... we thought a few times that
~ADAM was going to evict us! Miss Gypsy
was festive, festive, festive one night!
She turned nine tricks that night at the
tubs ... must be a one-night record! Sore
for days! GENE E (STCN), what's this we
hear about your teaching Philosophy here
in Austin? We didn't know you had it in
you ... or have you? SPLASH lJAY at Hippie
Hollo~1 was a roaring success ... all those
magnificent nude men. Thank you AUSTIN
COUNTRY and NEW APARTMENT LOUNGE for the
day! BOB KONRAD (New Apartment), you is
fantastic! Welcome DAVID to the PRIVATE
CELLAR .... great new blond barmaid! Gypsy
is single again (ju5t for the time being
MIKE--till you get your head together) ..
couldn't handle that curfew shit! I met
ROSEBUD the other day ... what a true love
you are! You, too, TOM! JOHN R, did you
really co~e to Austin with Preston as an
inseparable package plan from Lubbock ...
tee hee. MIKE, my love, I'm glad you're
back from California ... not only were you
missed (by me), but I never suspected it
was you who called me from Palm Springs!
BILL P (Now Apartment), I can explain at
least six of those bruises ... ! should be
able to .... ! picked you up off the floor
at THE AUSTIH COUNTRY twice that night ..
and so did several others .... you were so
festive, girl! MADAft: MICHELLE, how very
fickle you are. FRENCH DRESSING gave a
marvelous performance the other night at
THE AUST!N COUNTRY, twice. Thanks again
BK! Don't you just love a queen who says
she's straight while she's banging you??
How rude! He said the cabbie made a big
mistake by taking him to the tubs! Somebody
posted my column on the wall at the
tubs with a note saying to be "CAREFUL!
GYPSY MAY BE LISTENING". I really don't
miss much, do I? MADAM ~ICHELLE, who do
you say has silicone tits? Do you know,
STEVE? CHUCK and JI~ (TWT-Houston) were
terrorizing CLUB AUSTIN over the weekend
and were very welcome guests .. thanks for
visiting with us, guys. A few drinkiepoos
with PRINCE VARK I the other day at
Abel Moses, hoping a chance meeting with
THE BIG F. Daylene was on her way home
to dinner ~ith PRINCE LOR!, DUCHESS RAT
I, and GRAND DUCHESS GAG I. Understand
RAT was chef that night! Where's PRINCE
PAM I these days? Really enjoyed reading
ZAC STERLING's column last issue! Can't
wait to see some of the movies you write
abcut, ZAC! Have any of you read PLAYBO~
interview with anita bryant yet? It's a
living, breathing riot .... you don't have
to look at those grotesque pictures, but
do read the interview. TERRY C, please
don't bang on my door at the tubs when I
have a trick! He was afraid you were my
lover. Took me half an hour to get him
settled down again! GLEN S, have you yet
found a man at the baths short onoLlgh to
use his shoulder as a balance beam? You
scared the shit out of one guy the other
night doing pirouettes in the whirlpool!
I hear Miss Gypsy got really trashed the
other night at THE NEW APARTMENT LOUNGE.
Sitting on top of the bar, yogi position
in flame red short shorts! Isn't she an
absolute troll? One of my nearest, and
dearest friends, GLENN, (formerly of the
PRIVATE CELLAR) left last Sunday for San
Francisco. He'll really be missed by us
fans, as well as by WOODY (I think). BOB
C, we haven't seen much of you lately at
the tubs, but hear you went to Dallas to
recuperate. Ladies will kindly refrain!
When in San Antonio, check out my friend
GENEs new tubs, all new EXECUTIVE HEALTH
Community News
CLUB ... should be hot! Open just in time
for FIESTA. PRIVATE CELLAR'S GEORGE D.,
you're quite welcome, but you've done so
much for us, too! Happy to hear you are
going to do more ... bon apetit! Speaking
of good eating .. thanks CHUCK and KENT of
ZIPPY'S RAINBOW for the T-shirt, and for
the fabulous food .. especially the Sunday
Special (which I cannot spell)! BRANDY,
do I hear wedding bells? Remember what
you pulled in Monterey and San Francisco
won't you girl? DAVID M of the PRIVATE
CELLAR, is WONDER CLIT ... especially with
his socks off! DAVID ED (Private Cellar
giant) ... can't remember why we broke up,
except that I'm a Size Queen! Thanks for
the tab, BRIAN, but I am still trying to
collect TERRY and GLEN's share so that I
can pay you! ALEX, so you and MM are to
try it again? Lots of luck, fellow! You
got more guts than I do. Hear ROBBIE is
on his way to San Francisco, but made it
only as far as Houston. CHARLIE, thanks
for the Peonies! Call me when Magnolias
bloom, OK? BOB KONRAD (New Apartment) I
hear you've been seeing the same guy for
two weeks now ... THAT has to be some kind
of record for you ... before now it was. at
most ten days! METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH, AUSTIN, 614 East 6th Street, has
services Sundays, noon and 7:30 p.m. and
your attendance would be appreciated! My
dear friend RAY M asked me to invite you
all next Sunday. That Sunday Special at
ZIPPY'S RAINBOW is called Rijsttafel ....
thanks, CHUCK! RODNEY (Zippy's), did you
once spread bad Ton my sister DONNIE ...
barred from Hippie Hollow, indeed! Sorry
about that DAVID M ... it's WONDER CLIT. ..
not Super Clit! TIM (Austin Country), I
love your new puppy, PRIAPUS ... how very,
very apropos! JESSE (Austin Country), I
want to know why your lover divorced you
after Mardi Gras! Who DID you trick with
in Lafayette? Are you moving to Houston
soon and if so which of those two lovers
are you taking in Houston? Why did MISS
B&B go Miller Lite over her turntable? I
would love the answer to that one. Miss
Gypsy actually witnessed (no 1 ie) BRANDY
and TIM bumping pussies the other night!
And behind the bar at THE AUSTIN COUNTRY
where the men are supposed to be men! On
the subject of TIM, someone told me that
he was seen rubbing his ass while he was
talking about a Great Dane! Maybe great
big dogs turn him on like they do FIFI ..
how's Pease Park, Mike? Speaking of big
dogs, hi BUTCH and DAVID. Oh, ain't she
j u s t not h i n g th i s wee k? S.h e ' s go i n g to
win the title of MISS SHIT DISTURBER, or
she'll quit writing this tasteful column
immediately! SAM (FRENCH DRESSING), how
very tasteless .. . GLENDORA SHAW? Guess we
all get horny on occasion! Speaking of
FRENCH DRESSING, we are thrilled to hear
about CLAUDE's new film role! Congrats,
Claude! Hear that you looked more like
Midler than Midler! Fantastic new drink
in town named after me ... ask for a GYPSY
next time you're at THE NEW APARTMENT or
at THE PRIVATE CELLAR ... if you think you
can handle it! Well, we love you anyway
SAM! Speaking of Sams, hope SAM T feels
better now ... we miss you! JOHN POWPOW, I
really enjoyed dinner with you on Sunday
at BEAN'S ... saw ROGER at the Cellar last
night ... what a cutie! Had lunch with OUR
MISS BROOKS at Steamboat Springs Tuesday
so I could get caught up on all the late
T from the Geriatric Set ... simply devine
lunch, Brooks! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MONA RAY
and many happy returns! Saturday, May 5
GYPSY'S FIRST ANNUAL HANGING OF THE B's!
The B's, of course, are BOBBY KONRAD and
BILL POCK of THE NEW APARTMENT LOUNGE ...
The Hanging is in celebration of the B's
birthdays ... so come to THE APARTMENT and
help Gypsy hang Bobby and Bill. MIKE S,
you would be so easy to love .. I'm trying
not to!
Love, Gypsy l 'Dildo
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Writer Says
Anita Fears
Assassination
CHICAGO (AP) -
Anita Bryant expects to
be assassinated by
homosexuals, according
to a writer who interviewed
her for Playboy
magazine.
Author Ken Kelley
said in observations ac"
ompanying the inter,
·iew in the May issue
that hP believes Miss
Bryan rs fear · i8 realistic.
Miss Bryant made no
statement in the intei'\"
iew C'onrerning a poss
i blC' assassination
attempt, but Kelly, 26,
said Monday that "We
talked about it a lot, especially
after she got a
pie in the face in Des
Moines. She said. 'At
least it was better than
a grenade.
'Expect Anything'
"I askl!d her if she
expected a grenade.
She said she must expect
anything at any
time," he said.
In the magazine, Kelly
writes, "During the
past 12 months, she has
weathered bomb
threats, snuff letters
and numerous close
calls with mayhem. But
she has learned to take
it in stride.''
Kelley, who traveled
last rall with Miss
Bryant and her husband-
manager, Bob
Green, said, "Bob has
learned to cover his investment
by smothering
his wife with security
guards. But, in his
own words, ·Let's face
it - when some mili·
tan! homosexual kills
Anita, the guy will be
an instant hero.'"
Penalty Asked
In the interview,
Miss Bryant said homo•
exual behavior should
be prosecuted as a felony.
ln some places it is
not a crime and in oth·
en; it is a misdemeanor.
"Any lime you water
down the law, it just
makes it easit:?r for immorality
to become
tolerated," she said.
Kids show due
LOS ANGELES (APJ
- CBS will add a new
c hildren's show called
"30 Minutes" in SeptPmber,
patterned after
"60 Minutes."
Restroom
watcher
nets two
A police crackdown
on suspected homosexual
gathering places in
downtown Oklahoma
City public buildings
continued today, as undercover
officers arrested
two men on
lewdness complaints.
Booked about 11:30
a.m. on complaints of
offering to engage in an
act of lewdness were
Gayle Gene Clanahan,
32, of 9520 Ridgeview,
booked on a complaint
or offering to engage
in an act of lewdness,
and Glen Earl Schroll,
48, of 2120 SW 76,
booked on a disorderly
conduct complaint.
Investigators said
the suspects were arrested
by detective Ken
Smith after they allegedly
made lewd offers
for oral sex inside
a public restroom at
City Hall. City Hall and
the Oklahoma City
County Library at NW 3
and Robinson were
Tuesday targets in the
crackdown.
Arrested Tuesday on
similar complaints
were Robert Glen Dale
Draper, 38, of 216 NW
13; Isias Arce Perez, 45,
of 800 S Walker, and
Merle Wayne Woods,
38, of 1821 NW 29.
Detective Sgt. Jim
Clark, sex crimes unit
supervisor, promised
more arrests to clear
downtown suspected
gathering points for
homosexuals. He said
the crackdown is expected
to move into
northwest Oklahoma
City parks if complaints
continue.
Eva Jo Stancil, a 22-year-old
blonde chosen to represent Alabama
in the Miss U.S.A. pageant,
faces federal drug charges and is
appearing in the contest in
Charleston, S.C., by permission of
a federal magistrate.
Irregular verbs
There are more than
4.000 irregular verbs in the
Finnish language.
B.N.
Host relurninl!: The addresses are as follows:
LOS ANGELES (AP)
- Steve Martin returns
to NBC's "Saturday
Night Live" for another
turn as host April 22.
ABC Television Network
1330 A.venue of the Americas , N.Y.N.Y.
10019
CBS Television Network
51 W. 52nd. St. N.Y.N.Y. 10019
NBC Television Network
30 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y.N. Y. 10020
Sound-Off The Houston Post/Sun., Ap•. 16, 1978/
Anita Bryant, orange
juice, i.Ininortality
Today (April'4) started beautifully with Post in hand
... Then ... with the ingestion of my daily tumbler
of Florida orange juice, Anita Bryant spoiled
everything.
She consigned me, all of my coreligionists, and perhaps
2 billion unsuspecting adherents to various other
beliefs, to HEIJ.. A one-way ticket with no intermediate
stopover in purgatory. This was really the day that
was.
I confess that lack of future contact with Anita in the
upper regions will cause me little pain, although her
orange juice, then presumably cohabiting heaven with
her, would come in handy in the hot place.
There are compensations. In the netherworld I'll get
to rub elbows with Plato and Aristotle, Confucius,
Mahatma Gandhi, great artists of antiquity, and nameless
architects of oriental temples and long-abandoned
ancient cities.
Down below there will be saltier characters, too, of
both genders. Just imagine eavesdropping a conversation
between Attila the Hun, Cleopatra, Lucretia Borgia,
and the Marquis de Sade!
Farewell forever, Anita ..•
Robt. G. Levy
651 Strey Lane, Houston, Texas 77024
• Grand inquisitor
An unfortunate aspect of many people who call themselves
Christians is that they tend to react violently
against people who disagree with them. When such peer
pie occupy positions of power and influence, they
endeavor to translate their attitudes into deeds. Such is
the cause of such bloody tragedies as the Spanish Inquisition,
the Crusades, the witch-burnings of Salem and
the ... persecution of the Jews.
Sadly, civilization has not passed beyond such monstrous
insanity. America has its own grand inquisitor
in ... Anita Bryant. Breathing ... brimstone, this unlikely
crusader has ... been venting her spleen against
homosexuals. In return she has received much deserved
scorn and contempt.
Now ... homosexuals are not alone as objects ol her
floly wrath. Jews, Moslems and indeed all who do not
bow down before her peculiar God are destined for the
fires of hell.
The handwriting is on the wall. After the children of
Sodom are slaughtered in Anita's program, the children
of Israel and of Mohammed are next.
Mark Whittington
4810 O'Meara, Houston, Texas 77035
• Sages, snakes
... Anita Bryant says her religious beliefs convince
her that Jews, Moslems and persons o! other faiths who
do not accept Jesus as their Savior will go to hell.
Even in Paradise, I won't have an opportunity to talk
with . . . Albert Einstein . . . or Thomas Jefferson.
Miss Bryant does not say whether there will be
snakes in heaven for the benefit of the snake-handling
hillbilly fundamentalists in some parts of Appalachia.
J. B. Leftwich
'310 Taggart St., Houston, Texas 77007
•Fanaticism
. . . Anita Bryant . . . considers herself another
Mohandas K. Gandhi ID IMS, a photo
by Margaret Bonrke-Whlte
help in cutting out the goats.
. .. She, unlike our Lord, can see no good in
"Samaritans."
Yours in Christ, and in refusal of fl).naticism.
PatKochera
210 Renoir, Houston, Texas 77079
•Instead
H Anita Bryant was a true Christian, instead of a
hatemonger, she would welcome death, to meet her
creator, instead of fearing death by assassination.
Dal'ldP.Ip ...
"Carrie Nation" and is pleased to give the Lord some 2705 Sunset, Houston, Texas 77005
Pqell
CUllENT CINEMA ...
IPHIGENIA (U) Directed by Michael Cocoyannis
With the popularity of free-wheeling, nonthinking
films such as "Star Wars" and "High
Anxiety," which are made strictly for fun,
it's nice to have a "thinking man's" picture
out, even if IPHIGENIA is not a complete
success. The ~illll was nominated for "Best
Fore0ign Language' Fmlm" at this years Academy
Awards. The film lost, however, to an unheard
of film, "Madame Rosa."
Michael Cocoyannis has filmed two earlier
Greek tragedies, "Electra" in 62, and "The
Trojan Women" in 71. IPHIGENIA is based on
the play, IPHIGENIA AT AULIS by Euripides,
and quite often, the film seems somewhat
stagey. Of course a lot of the acting is
(overly) melodramatic, but you must take
into consideration the time and place.
Cocoyannis has not made his own version,
he has kept it in its nearly exact original
writing, And for that he is to be commended.
The story concerns the demand, by the
Greek fleet, assembled to sail for Troy,
that'Agamemnons' daughter be sacrificed and
killed. In their belief that her death will
bring wind for their ships to sail by,
Iphigenia is brought to her father, by her
mother, under the impression that she is to
marry Achilles, a young, attra?tive ~ero. In
actuality, of course, her marriage will be a
wedding with death. In feeling _sor:ow for
the beautif ul 13 year old, Iphigenia, one
cannot help but feel that Euripide? sto:y is
somewhat ludicrous, and that the films intentionally
depressing mood i s a bit much.
Irene Papas is impressive as the mother,
though occas iona l l y she is forced to.deliver
a rediculous line, which prompts unkind and
nervous laughter from the audience.
As Agamemnon, Costas Kazakos, is rough
and unloving. He cares for his daugh~er,
possibly, but the Greek fleet come first,
and though he contemplates the deci?ion of
the sacrifice, you are always certain that
his final decision will result-in death for
Iphigenia. . ..
The most brilliant of the cast is Titiana
Papamoskou as Iphigenia. Her beauty and inno~
cence is incredibly touching. Her performance
is the most controlled, making her role seem
the most natural.
IPHIGENIA is the best screening of this
type that I've seen. However, its long length
and numerous boring sequences go on too ,long
and keep it from being the perf~ct ~icture
that it might have been. In seeing it once,
one can marvel at its eagle-sharp photography
and the sensitiveness of its tittle character.
But to set through it another time, would be,
quite frankly, a chore. (**t)
"CROSSED ~" Directed by Richard
Fleisher, based on Mark Twain's THE
PRINCE & THE PAUPER (PG)
I have to admit right out front that
when I was a child, Twain's PRINCE &
THE PAUPER was one of my favorite -
stories, Also, when I was ten, I discovered
a musical movie titled OLIVER!
and from that point on, Mark Lester,
who played Oliver Twist in the film,
(he plays the prince AND the pauper in
CROSSED SWORDS ,) became my idol,(or
hero, whichever you prefer,) and OLIVER!
will always be one of my very all time
favorite movies, So, in reviewing
~:~1r=o=:5uc~n i
\
My god, what has happened to Mark
Lester! In his youth, his looks personified
perfection. Perfect facial features,
perfect blonde hair, perfect innocence.
Now he's twenty years old and he's about
six feet tall, and weighs about 60. I
swear he is so skinny that he looks like
a polio victum. His door knob looking
knee caps simply beg to be turned. His
acting performance here fluctuatess between
clumsy and just plain awful. Can
this be that beautiful, promising little
boy from OLIVER! ?
The film is creatively photographed,
and it captures the period wonderfully.
But into this is th~own the most rediculous
all~star cast· ever assembled.
Ernest Borgnine, Rex Harrison and George
C. Scott are at their all time low.
Raquel Welch is the token woman, though
her character isn't even remotely believe- 1~
able. Oliver Reed is the best 'of the mess, t
(he played Bill Sykes in OLIVER!) but he
can't begin to save it.
Actually, reviewing this is hard on
me- I've been anticipating its arrival
for over a year - and I thought I would
love it, (I wanted to.) But it is, I
regret to say, the pits. (0)
"RABBIT TEST" (PG) Directed by Joan Rivers
Either Joan Rivers doesn't write her own
j okes when I see her on television talk
shows, or she didn't write this film.
The credits say she did, and I just can't
believe it. I have always felt that she
~B 8 the greatest female . comic in America.
But her new movie, RABBIT TEST is in-concievably
unfunny and nauseating.
The film should have been titled RABID
TEST, as I would rather suffer through
rabies twice, than set all the way through
this even once.
Billy Crystal (of SOAP fame,) is
Rivers' starring victum, and though he's
charming and sensitive, his "throw-away"
one-liners are far from showing any talent
Rivers throws so many silly gags at
her audience in every second, that I had
just flat o.d.'ed after the first tnirty
minutes. I saw the next thirty minutes
in a disbelievable coma. All of middle
class America was laughing a~ound me,
but I was just amazed at their stupidity.
To save my life, I just could not find
any of it funny. It was just one little
skit after another, no worse or better
than T.V. 's "Hee Haw" and "Laugh-In. "
After one hour, I could stand no
more, and fled from the theatre, and as
I walked out I could hear the audience
laughing. And for just a moment, I imagined
them "to be laughing at me. Joan
Rivers had played an ultimate joke on me:
She had tricked me into se·eing her film.
Too nervous to walk very far,(be- ~
cause I get upset when I think about
there being movies that bad,) I snuck
into the theatre next door, where a
very familier favorite of mine was playing
to a practically empty house,(even
though it had won "Best Picture Of the
Year" at the Academy Awards four nights
earlier,) All I can say is, thank god
for people like Woody Allen and Diane
Keaton, and movies like ANNIE HALL.
For those of us who are amune to a
"television society," movies like this
are all that keep us from going totaly
insane. (0)
Page 12
Flying finish
for Liberace
Bergen in love with O'Neal
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Candice Bergen has been
signed to star as the love interest in "Oliver's Story,"
the sequel to "Love Story" starring Ryan O'Neal.
Edward Binns will play Phil Cavalieri, the father
of Jenny, and Nicola Pagett plays a young designer
who also becomes involved with O'Neal.
Anthony Quinn is starring in "The Passage," now
filming in Tarbes, France.
Ul\IJU:\
I ilwrtu'f' and Ju-. tor·
1nt..•r 1·ti;i11ff4·ur dan:lt..•cl
till' aml!Plll'l' al lht• I.on
tlon l'~dla<l1um \\1th bul 11
1 lwir ptano play tnc; ~lllll
tiH.'11" outflt:-
\'t•gas perfurmant't•s.
\\(IS drt..'SSl'd \JI a duplil'atr
or the glitkr tali:-;
outr1l thal tlw Am<•nt·<rn
sl~ff sportl•cl for !us part
of ~1onllay 111ght's show.
l'IH'C. "lie IS my proh.\g(,'
and ht• t~ also lcarmng
how to bt• a show-off
llhe nw"
Quinn plays a French shepherd who guides a scientist
and his family through the Pyrenees Mountains
after their escape from a Nazi concentration camp.
\'11h.·t· l'~1nkll \tho
11s1•<I to dn\ l' I .1ht•J'att•s
Huli'-1-Hoyt'l' ftlr Ills La...,
"Vmu~ used to pliiy
b)' l'<tr. but I taught h1111
to n~Hd muslt"." Ubt.~ral'C
ronf1drd to the aud1-
L1bt\racc rnallt• tus
final l>ow 111 a wlutc
O::ilnth l'io<1k, and ln
slylc - flying <.llTOSS the
stagt• Pt•tcr Pan faslnon
SUSf)('fldtlcl frOlll WU't.'.
LIBERACE
... dazzled
LINDA BEATS
DRUG CHARGE
Donny bares
lwolates
ST,\:\lH);Hl. t.'nnn - Drug
pos:--t.·~~1011 rhargt·~ ha\ l' IJt..•t·n
drop1u.·d ag<1m.4 ~ll'fn•:-.s
I iml" lllnir. ''ho h:1~ a~n··
l'd. 111 turn. to t•nn.JI 1mnt:..·d1ah1\\
rn an an·t•ll•r:ilt•d rdiab1-
l1ti11111n 1lrogn1111
!\11!-.S Blair. HI. wa:-, eha1-g..1li
w11h pO:>Sl's1011 ur amplw·
li-lllllll\'S. l'lliH.'f' Salli th(?\
round 1 he drug m her pur~e
\\.hl'll !ht•\ arn•:-,lNI hl'r at ht>r
\\'1lton. ( ·01111.. honw on a
Flond<i fug1t 1' c '' a1T<.111l la~t
Dt•c. :!O.
M1~ Bla1r"s law\·ers obo flJ.
t•d 1wt1tions agamsl thl'
atlrcss' cxtradltion to Florid:.i.
where she fates thargt•s of
tonsptracy to bu:; or sell
coeaine.
lLt·:~ ~~LM\U
M•11l1·fi-n>l'lt>d entert
~llfWI' 0111111v /\:an•
will wear two dilfer·
cnl hats duruig his
next two visits to
Cleveland.
"When I come to
Cleveland May 9. I'll
be wearing my bas~·
ball entrcpr ~ncur s
hat. and when I'm
here May 14, 1'11 have
on my conductor's
vest," Kaye said Mon.'
day.
Tatum is a BIG girl now
1973
She's almost
grown up
1978
Actress Tatum O'Neal has matured lnlo a )Oung woman. almost at the blink or
an e)'elld. The picture al lrlt sho1<s her in "Papt'r Moon," eenler in "The Bad
Ne\\s Bears:· and as 15-)ear-old spending Saturday night at a ~~~}~W°J<P~]~~~s.
Too Tired to Love
Soap Suit
Is Scrubbed
A preliminary injunction suit filed
against KSAT-TV for airing the controversial
program "Soap" has been
dismissed in federal court.
U.S. IJistrict Judge John H. Wood
Jr. dismissed the case Monday after
KSAT executives announced they
would not pick up the show for
summer re-runs because of its poor
ratings.
Farrah, prince chat
Actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors at·
tended a royal charity show Sunday at
the London Palladium and renewed a
friendship with Prince Charles, whom
she first met in Hollywood. "I find him 'to
be very intelligent, and very charming. I
think the best thing about him is that he
makes you feel comfortable," F'awcett
said after speaking with the prince back-.
stage. The wife of actor Lee Majors later
attended a party with the show's stars,
comedian Bob Newhart and singer John·
ny Mathis. Prince Charles also attended
Ford credits 2 Rogerses
Actor Glenn Ford says humorist WUI
Rogers and cowboy movie star Ros
Rogers helped him into the Hall of Fame
of Great Western Performers. Ford, who
was inducted in Oklahoma City during
the Western Heritage Awards banquet of
the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, said
Roy Rogers taught him how to shape his
hat, and the late humorist taught him
how to ride a horse. Hif it hadn't been for
Will Rogers and the man that made my
hat, I wouldn't be here tonight," F'ord
said. Roy Rogers and his wife Dale
Evans, who were inducted into the hall
last year, attended the banquet, at which
their portrait was unveiled. Gene Aniry,
outgoing president of the Cowboy Hall's
board of directors, presided over unveiJ,,.
ing of the portrait, painted by Eve!'P•t
Raymond KinsUer.
Ringo Starr said in Chicago that the
BeaUes never will sing together again.
"We've all gone oor separate ways," he
said, "and we're too far apart, musically,
ever to get together again."
It's Time to Say So Long
Whether you're approaching
the end of ::i marriage, a
'en dose friendship or a
love al'fair, the signs or rigor
mortis are mueh the same.
\\'l1Pn th\•sf' s1~ms appear. 1f ~011
n•c ·"l)..!'l!"~P ~tH•m rn 111rn•_ you ean rCl'dll<'C'
till' t'i.11.~11inat t·osls ~1r .1 <l(•t(.•noratml.!
n•1a~1011s!Hp. s,I\ s Wom;.m's Da~
Ir .1 :dat•o11:-.h1p J!-i doomul. 1ms'.p11n·
11:... -)H' rm1 nril~ pn•lnngs !lw ag«!l~
1:11<!1111.. s hn 1g a ci;iri1y. a dt>fm1t1\c•1!t''"
hdl m·1K1•s n,•\1i ct1n•c!lons JlOS.."'lhl1'
How to tell when Ws over? Mere arc
srvrral of the signs·
• Whfln you'rC' bor("d most of the
t 1111£". Rort"dom 1s usually th<' ftrst and
most df'ad1y sign of trouble.
In lovr or marnagr. it's usually
rannlrnntv that brC'C'dS boredom. But In
f1wn<lsh1r}, bon•dom 1s hkl·l~ to be> thf"
n•sulh of d1ffrnng dt•\·c·lopm<'nl
• Wht•n C•f1(' 1w:-son attac·ks ltw othi•
r's splr 1ma}-!t'. h! .. : .. -.;aullmg md1ndual
diar<i<'h.'nstit's Th,•sn. thP1:-:· s :1n• n11t
JUst agamst "hat :t fll't"son <hl\'S. liul
\\ h;H 1 ht• pt•r-.;1m \-.;
-\?JI! thf'S(' uuh<'lmC'nh ;1n~ thffi.,,:ult to
shrug off - they seem lo be based on
strong evidence; they are made by a
~rson in a position to know; and they
are repeated often.
• When you start keeping stnct
aC'rounts. In any closr relationship.
keeping accounts' 1s a bad sign. "What
ha\'{" you done ror fll(' lately?" IS a
hostilC' question.
• When you no longer fPf'l anything
at all. The loss or frf'lmg 1s one of the
:-;artcll'.'"il symploms or lhl"' 'l.'lld
• Whc·n lh" r('lationsh1p hnngs out
tht' worst m vou Each or us has 1 hr
pokntial for bemg many dtfr<'f('>Ot pt.'r-sons,
and the person we become
depends a lot on our associations.
• When you'd rather be alone or with
someone else. Dreading going home,
puttmg off seeing a fnend, or avoiding
intimate dinners - these are all signs
or the end.
It's important to know when ondipg a
rt'lationshtp wili solvr a probll'm and
"'-h<'n 1t will not. th(' nrttrlP ron<"ludes,
pomtmg out that you do not S<'parate
w1ttiout pam. Rut without separation
rrom an untenable situation. you cannot
grow
Pa_se 13 Community Newa
Piono-wiz Liberace is.swept off his feet by the " Darling of the Discos," 6 -foot,
6-inch Sterling St. Jacques, at o recent disco fashion segment f ilmed for television
at a Los Vegas hotel. The segment will be aired in Moy on the show
"Dinah!" At right is the show's hos.fess, Dinah Shore, dancing to the latest disco
beot.
The Miehigan state
GOP has invited Zsa
Zsa Gabor to be a speeial
guest. at a $ i ,OOO-aplate
fund raising dinntr
Thursda~· in Dear~
born.
Theater Changes
NEW YORK (AP) - October 1951, will bo
The Fine Arts Thea ter converted into a c hap·
here, which opened in PL
Get-Well Calls Deluge
John Wayne's Hospital
BOSTON (AP ) - Government leader s a nd c elebrities
from around the world a re bombarding
Massachusetts General Hospita l with goodwill
telephone calls for actor John Wayne, who is recuperating
from heart surgery.
Martin Bander, hospital spokesman, said Thursday
that Wayne's sons refused to permit identification
of any of the callers. He said Wayne was not
able to answer the phone and that his sons spoke
to callers.
Wayne, who has starred in about 200 movies,
most with western or war themes, underwent surgery
Monday for replacement of a leaky heart
valve. He was in satisfactory condition under intensive
care Thursday.
Remick robbed
Actress .Lee Kemick told police Thursday
that fl, 700 in caSh was stolen from
her hotel room while she was out to dinner
and shopping. Remick, who is visiting
from her home In London, said she
left the Beverly Hills Comstock Hotel,
which is located In West Los Angeles, to
go to dinner and later shopping Wednesday
night. When she returned, the money
was missing, she said.
'Evita' roles filled
Singer-actor David Essex wHI play
slain Latin American revolutionary Che
Gnenra and actress Elaine Paige will
play Eva Peron in the musical "Evita,"
based on the life of Argentina's Eva
Peron, it was announced Sunday in London.
The musical, to be directed by
Broadway's Harold Prince, wlll open
June 21 at the Prince of Wales Theater.
•P u .. rpholo
Case defrrred
A toraine possession
(>harge against R<'lrt-ss
Gail ~'ishrr has been
deferred tor a.t least si'.\
months while sht particlpatrs
iu a drug dlvt>rslon
program.
AP L•Mrpholo
Claim won
Prlsellla Presi•y has
won her $750,000 divorce
claim a.galnst the
estn.tt" of hrr former
husband, Elvis rreslf'y,
but details of the agre•m
en t were not
rf'lf'ased.
'King and I' now belongs to star Lanshury
By WILLIAM GWVER ner and Constance Towers. in the gentle sarcas
1
m of Shall I Tell You
NEW YORK (AP) - The King and I now
belongs, radiantly though briefly, to that
Broadway musical queen, Angela Lansbw-y.
With lilting charm and folksy ease, Lansbw-
y is now appearing at the Uris Theater in
the Rodgers-Hammerstein opus.
Her appearance is the top trump in a
shrewdly diplomatic ploy by the management
to keep public interest high during a tbree.!'
eek vacation of the show's stars, Yul Bryn-
Brynner's regular understudy, Michael What I Think Of You .
Kermoyan, takes over, and stellar attention For his part, Kermoyan avoids carbon
is shifted to the plot's heroine. replica of Brynner, dispiays a lusty, sonorous
Lansbw-y, simply by her presence, alters baritone In Puzzlement and after some
some of the realtionships between the imperi- apparent early nervousness became a co.nous
ruler of Siam and the English schoolm- vincing oriental despot. The couple's big
arm he had hired to teach bis three-score off- number, Shall we Dance? could improve with
spring. a bit more practice and finer timing.
Lansbury's most endearing talent is conta- Brynner and Towers return May 1, to eel.,.
geous warmth, and that quality shines out brate the show's first anniversary.
triumphantly in all her hall dozen songs, even
AP '-"etpholo
Suit filed
MARLINE DIETRICH: SHE DEFIES THE INROADS OF TIME
Claudine l,on11~t goes
to court In Aspen, Colo.,
this week to Aue another
resident for aiie11:<'d
non·payment or a loan.
The late Bill Elliott
Elliott was bom Gordon Nance in
Pattonsburg. Mo .. on Oct. 16. 1903. He
began riding horses at the age of 5 r his
father worked for the Kansas City
stockyards J and participated in
numerous rodeos as a teen-ager. He
decided to give show business a try,
enrolled in the Pasadena Community
Playhouse and appeared on the screen
in the late 1920s and early '30s in bit
parts. In WIS he was given the lead in
a serial ca/Jed " The Great Adventures
of Wild Bill Hickock." Beginning in
1940. Elliott was listed amoni: the top
10 cowboy stars for 14 consecutive
years, and when Don "Red" Barry
relinquished the role of Red Ryder, it
was Elliott who replaced him. His last
film was a 1957 detective melodrama
called "Footsteps in the Night." Elliott
died on Nov. 26, 1965.
Sophia Loren
Charge Hits
Sophia Loren
ROME (AP) - A
Rome prosrcutor issued
an anest wa:--rant
Saturday for film prnducer
Carlo Pl11:ti and
filc>d eharges ;:μain~1
llis wife. actres~ Sophi:1
L oren. in connf'ct ion
with the aJIC>gcd ille~al
transfPr of money out
of the couno ~'·
The l talian-born couple
arc both French citizens
and live in Paris.
F rance does not extra<
lite its ci t ilen!:> for
prosecut ion in 01ht·r
countries.
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Well D a v 1 d
Soul. who
p lays Hutch in 'Starsky
and Hutch,' has returned
to work after
back surgery
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Grand Jury Indicts
Former FBI Leader
Former FBI chief indicted
WA81Jl:'li(;To'lo (.\P) - 1''nrmer YBI Olre<'tor L. Patrltk Gray 111
•n<I IW•l <'th~r kty l'RI offi~ial~ l't r• indl~ted t-0day In eonneetion with
bu r~dU -..iretapplo~s and brf>aki1ts.
\ttorn•·y Ge-nt"ral Grifftn H. lJt>lt , annouu<"lng the- iodi('tment~ at a
nt>-"'~ <·ooff'renN•, ~aid the f"bargett arnNe from l'~BI atotivities ~ar lier in
tbt' ~~NHl-e wht-:t the agtHH'Y "'a"' pursnlng radical fugitives.
CUBA'S NEW
SEXIAWS
L Patrick Grav 111
Before Fidel
Castro
started to
communize
Cuba in 1959, Havana was
well-recognized as a city
of sin and sex.
Castro put an end to most
of that. He outlawed gambling,
prostitution, public
displays of homosexuality,
and the cultivation and
sale of drugs.
Now that he has opened
up Cuba to Americans and
other tourists, and 'Cubans
will come into increasing
contact with foreigners,
Castro has established a
strict penal code designed
to keep his people on the
straight and narrow.
Cuba's new penal code
says the death sentence
may be meted out to those
guilty of having carnal
Muriel's Bill
Supported
By Actor
WASHINGTON (AP)
- Actor Eddie Albert
and Se.;. Muriel Humphrey,
D-Minn., joined
forces Thursday to
boost a federal nutritional
program for infants
and ei<pectant
mothers .
. Mrs. Humphrey, the
grandmother of 10, said
she has introduced a
bill to extend the Special
Supplemental Food
Program for Women,
Infants and Children
(WJC).
WJC provides low-income
pregnant women,
new mothers, infants
and children under age
five with supplemental
foods high in iron, protein,
calcium and vitamins.
The bill would authorize
$650 million for
the upcoming fiscal
year, compared to $440
million this year.
relations with a girl under
12; committing violent pederasty
with anyone under
16; committing rape, piracy,
genocide, terrorism,
robbery, or hijacking.
A man found guilty of seducing
a single girl under
age 18 can be sentenced to
nine months in jail unless
he marries the girl. Public
displays of homosexuality
are punishable by a $400
fine and nine months in
jail. Possession of marijuana
can bring an eightyear
jail sentence; so,
too, can the conducting of
any gambling enterprise
for profit .
Americans who remember
pre-Castro Cuba should be
advised that it ain't what
it used to be. What it
offers is sun, · sugar, and
Comnunism in the Caribbean.
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MOTHER LAGUNA
GREETINGS FROM THE SPARKING CITY
by the bay
"The Boys in the Band" promises to be a
sell out. It is causing quite a stir among
the conservative folowers of Anita,
The JOLLY JACK has expanded their hours
to take advantage of the free concerts
being given across the street on Saturday
afternoons . The crowds dont seem to be
helping the boo~-store business a lot;
guess we ' re just not far enough out of
our closet to be seen going into a
' dirty bookstore' in broad day light by
a crowd .
The move of C. C.' s only show bar into
the downtown area is certainly an irjprovem
emt both in location and facility,
It puts them within walking distance of
the other bars , the best crusing in to\'In
and soon will be handy for a 'hot bath '.
Speaking of \7hich , everyone is a - tv1itter
with the news that we'll soon have a Hea
1th Cl ub here . It isnt a day to soon to
suit this correspondent.
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Bob Hayes held
in cocaine raid
DALLAS (CPI\ - Former Dallas Cowhoys widP
l'l"<'('i\.'cr Rr.b Ha \'l'S and another man were~ :tITC'SfPd
C"arly Thurscia.v and charged with rhe sale or
cn<'aine.
HayC"s. 35. and Bob Adler, 29. \Vel'c arr0sted at a
~or·th Dallas hom" hy sub11rban Addision policP
nfficrrs and investigators of the Dallas County
Specialized Ci-ime Division.
A spokflsman said the arrests culminated a
three-month invcst:gation by a Dallas undercover
officer assigm'c.J to thC" Acidision Police DepartmPnr
Hay~s. vice president of Dycon International
Inr .. was charged with 1hree coimts of the sale of
c-oeaine and one count of possession of a rontrollfld
substance.
Adler, a Dycon salesman. \\·as charged with one
~ount of the .sale of col."aine and one count of pos·
se%inn Of rocainc.
Bond \\."'ls set at $10,000 for eat"h man.
H:1yC'S, who playC'd colh~giatc hall ;it Florida
A&Vi. ii:; tht> Cowboys· all·tim~ lC'arler in sroring.
Snake
bite no
.jo ke!
P:iOENIX. Ariz. (AP)
- A mailrnnn who w,1s
bit:E n t·y a rattlt>!i1nake
eoilPd in a U.S. niaiil.•ox
in Apa<'he Junctioii
sdys rhe apparetlt
Apnr!, Ft'IOl rl\.V p:·;4nL
'\"fl., nr• .~okr
··Ifs a d11mh -.;;tunt for
anyone to ouli,"' Rohert
Little of Globe said
Wedne:.;d:ly. Littlp was
bit~en on rhe h:11lfl Sat4
urday an,; !;p;•nt 1wo
ctays in a F'ho0nix hr•spita
1 for obsC'n"ltion.
'"HP wac:; in there
wh~n l rPachNl in to
get th~ mail.'" Little
said. ··He bit me and I
jerked my hand back
and he was still hung
up h:v onP rang."
Little said he
"stomped" the 5nake to
death, placed i! in his
r.11\l! truck and t!rove to
Phoenix, whC"1 e postal
officials took him to the
hospital.
There was no way ~he
snake could have got-
1en into the: mail box hy
itself, Little said, becriusf'
the mailbox 1s
the "letter drop·· kind.
!
AP laMrphoto
Spouse sues
Television comedian
Chevy Chase has been
sued for divorce by his
·wife, actrtss Jacqueline
Carlin.
Edith rri/kie dies
Edllb Wlllkie, the 87-year--0ld 1<idow of
1940 Republican presidential candidate
Wendell WUlkle, died Sunday in Indianapolis,
Ind., at Methodist Hospital, a
nurse said. Willkie was hospitalized after
falling in her home here and hreaklng
her hip on Easter. but Barb Borne-r, a
nurse, declined to discusi:: the exact
cause of the death. Wilkie's husband died
in 1944.
E. Jerome Molry, one of three generations of
licensed plumbers, is leaving the pipe circuit to
compete os o closskol pianist in the prestigious
T choikovsky International Piano competition in
Moscow. H~re Molry practices for the urcoming
contest ot Son Francisco "s Old first Chvrch.
Commanlty News
SHE WANTS TO RETURN HOME
Muriel Humphrey Declines Race
ST. PAUL, Minn.
(/IP) - Sen. Muriel
Humphrey said Saturday
she will not run for
the remaining four
years or her late
husband's Senate term.
"I want to return
home to Minnesota at
1 he end of the interim
period in November
and resume life as a
private person, with
ample time for my
home, family and
friends," Mrs. Humphrey
said in a speech
given at a fund-raising
dinner for the Minnesota
Democratic-FarmerLabor
Party.
The decision ended
weeks of speculation
concerning Mrs.
Humphrey's political
plans and opened the
door for a group of
Democratic hopefuls
who are seeking the
Senate seat Mrs. Humphrey
took after her
husband, Hubert H.
Humphrey, died earlier
this year.
Vice President Walter
F. Mondale, a political
protege of Humphrey,
was a surprise
guest at the dinner.
Mondale kissed Mrs.
Humphrey on the cheek
as a crowd or Democ
r a tic supporters
roared approval.
Mrs. Humphrey said
that although she is
quitting p ublic office,
she will not be leaving
public life. She said she
will continue to work
-NEWS-Saturday, April 15, 1978
White said
wrong1• n
force use
The Republican candidate for district attomey
~·nday demanded District llttorney Bill White quit
using his investigators as his "private police force."
Marc Davidson. who is unopposed for the GOP
nomination. said the use of taxpayers' money to
protect White's campaign signs is illegal and an
abuse of authority.
White. he said. was clearly wrong in telling
investigators they had the authority to shoot P".ople
tnmpcring with his signs. The law. he explained,
provides for the use of deadly force only where the
investigator is threatened with death or serious bodily
injury.
Davidson called on White to correct his statements
before the the climate he created results in tragedy.
Wlute's misuse or his investigators and provocative
'tatements about shooting people caught tampering
w1lh signs show bad judgment and a misunderstandmg
of the law. Davidson said.
E,·cn if the investigators arc working on their own
t 11nc. Davidson said. they·rc still using county eqwpment
for White's polilical purposes.
for the party and to
speak out on issues that
concern her.
Mrs. Humphrey also
mentioned her desire to
work for the expansion
of the Hubert H. Humphrey
Institute of Public
Affairs. A $20 million
fund-raising effort
is under way to build
the institute at the University
of Minnesota.
Mrs. Humphrey was
appointed to the Senate
Jan. 25 by Minnesota
Gov. Rudy Perpich, 12
days after Humphrey
died of cancer.
Under state law, the
appointment lasts until
a winner is picked in a
November election for
t he remainder of the
term.
Perpich, in announcing
the appointment
last January, said that
he received no commitment
from Mrs. Humphrey
as to whether she
would run and that she
was free to make her
own decision.
"That's a long time
away. I have no idea,"
said Mrs. Humphrey
when asked then If she
would would run this
fall.
Her husband had
served 23 years in the
Senate, had been vice
president and was the
Democratic nominee
for president in 1968.
Rep. Donald Fraser,
D-Minn., has been campaigning
hard for the
Humphrey Senate seat.
Clayton Moore, the masked lone Konger who
fovght for law and order in the television series,
is suing Wrather Corp. for $30 million, charging
non-payment of earnings.
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LOS ANGELES (UPIJ - Ned
York, the actor who was freed after
being arrested as a suspeu in the
··Hillside Strangler .. case. ple£tded
inno<'cnt Wednesday to a chan~P pf
marijuana possel-'sion.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)
- James Brolin wilt
star in "Night of the
Juggler."
Man falls
23 stories
VANCOUVER, British Columbia
(AP) - A 24-year-old man was in
stable condition today after falling
23 stories from an apartment window
ledge into a swimming pool, police
said.
Police said Patrick Kouchnire
was on the ledge either trying to
scare or impress his girlfriend
Wednesday night when he slipped
and fell 208 feet into about 3 feet of
water at the pool's shallow end. Police
said his girlfriend. who was not
identi!ied, was trying to get him off
the ledge when KouchiWre fell. APUMrphoto
"He must have kicked against the
building when he fell," a police
spokesman said. "He landed in the
pool, which is eight feet from the
building."
Debts owed .. ~
Former Georgia Gov. Singer guilty
Hospital officials said Kouchnire
suffered internal injuries but no
broken bones.
Lester Maddo¥ owes
about $Ut,Ht In cam·
paign debts. Friends
are trying to help him
raise the money.
Singer Jerry Lee
1..-e\\ois has been convicted
In Memphis of driving
while under the lnfluenee
of drugs.
Carter's 'No' Really
Means 'Don't Know'
WASHINGTON (A?) - "Do you definitely
plan to run for re-election?" President
Carter was asked Tuesday
"The answer is no," ~.aid Carter "I
don't definitely plan to run for re-election.
I've not addressed that question at all."
White House press secretary Jody Powell,
asked later whether the p.resident was serious
about his 1980 plans, replied "! don't
know,·· then went to question Carter.
"Hc just said he had not made up his
mind," PowelJ reported subsequently "He
just has not thought about it."
Charo given
Cugat divorce
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Latin
entertainer Charo was granted a divor·
ce Friday from bandleader Xavier
Cugat in a brief closed-door session in
District Court here.
Charo, who cited incompatibility in
riling for the divorce. married Cugat in
Las Vegas on Aug. 7, 1966.
Terms of a property settlement were
not disclosed.
Charo appears at the Sahara Hotel on
the Las Vegas Strtp
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Texas Rangers' broadcaster Dick Risenhoover. 51, died of cancer Saturday
morning iust eight hours before the club's opening game against the
Yankees. He was admitted to hospital in mid-March.
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For a number of years now my wife
and I have lived in Southern California,
the land of white sand beaches and sunkissed
navels. We went to a Hollywood
wedding the other day and the bride
wore a veil so long it almost covered
her slacks.
And, you should see Beverly Hills on
trash pickup day. It looks like a sidewalk
sale at Tiffany's.
Prosecutions rose
27 percent in 1977,
1• nvest1• gators say
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Cheating
Uncle Sam is getting more popular,
and the man who is supposed to
stop it says the problem is that "n<>body
complains" when the government
is ripped off.
Justice Department investigators
say federal fraud prosecutions in
1977 increased Tl percent over 1976,
compared to a 1.6 percent increase
in criminal cases generally. The figures
do not show how much of the
increased fraud was against the
government, but the investigators
are sure it is on the rise.
The General Accounting Office is
preparing a report for next May
that will show eight federal pr<r
grams totaling $?.SO billion a year
are losing 1 percent to 10 percent in
ripoffs.
Assistant GAO Director John Ols
said no one knows the exact percentage,
but if 10 percent is correct,
that means the cost to taxpay.
ers is $25 billion a year.
"WE ARE TRYING get a handle
on the whole thing," said Mark
Richard, chief of the Justice Department
fraud section. "The biggest
problem is that when the con·
sumer is victimized, he complains.
When the government is victimized,
nobody complains."
The department is pushing agen·
cies that administer big programs
to check more closely, he said.
The fraud section, set up in 1955,
for a dozen years had only six or
seven lawyers. It now has 4-0. They
are hunting for the big frauds in
federal housing, Veterans Administration
housing and schools, Medi·
caid and job training and kickbacks
in General Services Administration
and Federal Highway Administration
construction.
New types of frauds crop up all
the time. Federal disaster relief has
produced so many that the Justice
Department is considering setting
up a strike force to keep track of
them.
MOST CULPRITS are outsiders
who get no inside help, he said. In
five years there were 841 convictions
in the FHA home mortgage
program, only 110 of them government
officials.
Big operators falsify credit reports
and certifications that homes
are up to standard. The little guys,
borne buyers, are victims along
with the government. They make
ideal witnesses at trial time.
"I think: with computers we can
reduce the ease with which people
are able to commit fraud against
the government," Richard said.
"We are going to spot the simple
crimes with computers but we are
not going to catch the truly sophisti·
cated operator by merely relying on
computer technology."
THOMAS HENDERSON, chief of
the public integrity section, said
official corruption may be
increasing.
With the help of the State Depart·
ment, Henderson is going after officials
who commit frauds on foreign
soil.
"Even though it costs a lot of
money, the importance is deterrence,"
he said.
Page 20 Community News
Music Hall, Rockettes
• . .
given one-year reprieve
NE\\' YORK (AP) - It was just after midnight
36 Rockettes had turned in their sequined
~Jippers and were preparing to move from chorus
line lo unemployment line.
But there were no pumpkins. "We·re in
business." announced ballet captain Rosemary
Novellino. "Radio City Music Hall has been
saved."'
- cashiers, ushers. projectionists. 1hey all pulled
together.··
The trrms of the agreement provide for Rockefe>
ller Center to manage the facility during the
next year. The state has allocated $500,000 to help
cover operating costs during the interim period,
and another $2 miJlion in standby money.
AP LIHrphoto
In eleventh-hour bargaining between Rockefell<:>
r Center Inc .. owners of the 6.000-seat showplace,
and the state's Urban Development Corp.,
New York state agreed to foot the bill for one year
of operation.
The art deco palace, which had been scheduled
to close after its final Easter show Wednesday
night, has lost millions of dollars in recent years
because of declining attendance. Rockefeller Center
predicted the theater will be $3.5 million in the
red this year.
The state put up an additional $200.000 10 fund a
non-profit UDC subsidiary, to be headed by Lt.
Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak. \\lhich will study ways
to provide revenue for the music ha11. One proposaJ
cal1s for a 20-story office towel' to be built over
the six-story theater.
The interior of the music hall includes the
wortd·s largest stage.
Radio City Music llall Rockctte Phyllis Wujko
yeUs with delight after announcement tha.t a way
had been found to keep Radio City Music Hall
open.
Under the agreement, Radio City Music Hall
will be open today. The Easter show, featuring the
high-kicking Rockettes, and the film ··crossed
Swords,·· will run until a new stage show is readied.
l{aren Quinlan alive
··It's a relief of tension,·· said Kita BourofC, a
music hall singer for six years. She stood quietly
weeping after the agreement was announced at a
party held for the Rockettes one floor below the
famed Rainbow Room in the adjacent RCA Building.
after 3 years i• n co1na
l\fo,·ie rights bought
··we·ve been since January fighting against all
odds. We stood out in the cold getting signatures
on petitions. Everybody did everything together
NEW YORK (AP) - CBS has paid
S35 million for the rights to show
the Ch·il War saga '"Gone With the
Wind .. 20 times in the next 20 years,
the largest fee ever paid for the
television rij{hts to a movie.
'Bedpan watch' fails
Larceny charged
A,. LaMrphoto
CHESAPEAKE. Va. (AP) - A
Portsmouth man who has been
unable to cough up or otherwise
produce a stolen diamond ring he
swallowed last week has been
charged with grand larceny.
A detective who had assumed
that a ··bedpan watch'" would produce
the ring in a few days grew
weary or waiting for the evjdence
and served the warrant Wednesday
on David Abbott, 24.
The ring was taken from a
Churchland area apartment ear-
Mom credited Unemployment statistics
Lena Horne says It's "a matter of
geneology," that al age 68 she bas
been named one of America's 11
most beautiful women. "My mother
was a great beauty."
Latest figures from the Bureau of Labor
Slalislics show that among the to largest
slates in Jl<lpulalton Texas has lhe smallest
percentage of unemployment. 4.7 percent
of the total work force in March. New
York had the highest unemployment rate.
8.3 percent.
'Golden Years'
Grate on Bette
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - "Nuts to growing old,"
says actress Bette Davis, who turned 70 on
Wednesday.
'"Don't you ever believe that life begins at 40 or
that it"s wonderful to be 70. I'd give anything to be
30 again. Every so often somebody asks me if rve
had my face lifted. I always tell them, 'Would I
look like this II I did?'"
Mis~ Davis, who has spent 47 years in films,
appN•red In three films during the past year:
Disney's "Return From Witch Mountain," tho television
(ilm '·Harvest Home .. and thP all-st:tr Agatha
Christie mystery "Death on the Nile," her 85th
movie.
ly last week.
Detective Jim Widdifield said
that when he approach~d Ahbott
to question him last Wednesday,
Abbott swallowed the $1,500 ring.
X-rays taken at Chesapeake
General Ho5pita1 disclosed the
ring had lodged in Abbott's intestinal
tract, Widdifield said. Ab·
bott has agreed to have addi·
tional X-rays made of his abdomen,
and even undergo surgery,
if necessary, to remov<' the ring,
Widdifield said.
KAHEN ANN QUI'.'L.\:"
... still lhing
ERA proponents zero in on Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Time
is running out on the Equal Rights
Amendment. With less than a year
until the March 22, 1979, deadline
for ratification, its supporters have
zeroed in on Illinois with money,
lobbyists and volunteers to try tc
win over the only major North~rn
holdout state - heeding signs that
the proposed constitutional amendment
to ban sex discrimination is
foundering.
Roh Reiner free of family
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rob Reiner. who recently
left "All in the Family," stars in "Free Country," a
comedy series for ABC.
Remer will play a dual role, as a young 1mm1grant
at the turn of the century and as the immigrant in bis
80s. As the elderly immigrant he sets the stage and
concludes each episode.
Mayor cancels TV appearance
About hl"r everpresent cigarettes: "The only
thing I worry about is dying without a cigarette in
my mouth. People have suggested that I gh·e up
smoking-, to which I answer, 'Whatever for~"''
Bette Davis, shown in a 1977 photo, celebrated
her 70th birthday Wednesday. 'It's just another
birthday. A btg one, I'll admit, but I don't believe tn
birthdays,' she said.
CLEVELAND, Ohio CAP) - Mayor Denms J Kucinich
canceled a televised state-0f-the-city address scheduled
for 'ntursday, saying he did not want to appear to be
trying lo influence a recall petition drive against bun
The recall drive was set off by his dismisal of Police
Chief Ridlard D. Hongisto and subsequent allegations of
abuse of power. The mayor has apparently gotten inw
fudtur !rouble by calling the 33 City Council members "a
bunch of buffoons."
I
?ollov.· .'.llon~;, reRriond, ""!IS Ls all I ask
of .you. 'f1his -:ts n peoples colutiJn.
"110 i.n ;:Jan Antonio Covernrnen t c.i rcles is
doin~ their job, as it is 3U~~S8 to he
done ?
1'!' ·;.ss arc l;he people who <'eRerve YOU'?
support at_ elec t"L?n t~m;,- .. Jf; '; ''.'.DC . i.mpo;-
rtar1·1, ~~o t 1 ·~ ·1 !"~on_· 0 '1 ·1. • • _; l_.'.l LJ rJr~ tn0
u~o~-1~ ~u·1~·in·orfi~~ ·~l·~, ,r,~ ~ro~ <loin~
·,;ihat, YOH he Lt~x-pay~; ~a;s f~r. • 0
If you. have problems with Gity, Gounty
or State Government afiencies, lt could be
there are others of u~ who share the same
problel11s. Think about it, a t·'.ASS of voice
s raise~ in protest is much more effective
than crying in one's beer or complaining
to ones neighbor or friend. :mITl':
Lorlay, virite your protest , let your voice
be heard, let your wants be known.
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How Texans
voted
Posl Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Here is how Texans in Congress
voted last week on selected major issues:
SENATE
1) To approve a multi-billion dollar emergency !arm
ftd bill (raising 1978 grain and cotton price supports
clnd providing incentives to reduce planting) which the
Carter administraticm opposed as inflationary. Ap-proved
4~.
2) To table and thus kill an amendment to the second
Panama Canal treaty that would have deleted the
provision committing t.ie Ur.itecl States to build any fu.
ture Central American canal through Panama. Tabled
494a.
Tower R·Wlchlta ~all~
8enben. O·Hou11<m
HOUSE
I) To approve a three.year extension of Small Business
Administrntion loan programs, totaling $2.65 billion
in !isc«l years t9SO, 1981 and 1982. Approved 311). 72.
2) To pass a !llnlti·billion dollar emergency farm aid
bill (raising 1978 ~ain and cotton price support• and
providir1g incentives t() reduce p!anting) which the Carter
administration opp.1Sed as inllationary. Rejected 268-
150.
3) To permit House and Senate negotiators on President
Carter's energy program to continu~ meeting behind
closed doors undrr administration auspices instead
or holdi•ig all sessions in public. The vote was a parlia·
mentary maneuver to force the negotiators into the
open. Defeated 371-6.
4) To authorize President Carter to nearly double the
si7.e of his top personal staff from 55 to 100 at pay levels
of $42,500 a year or more. The measure would also permit
the hiring of an unlimited number of aides below
that pay level, an unlimited number of consultants and
an unlimited staff for the wives of the president and
vice president. Passed ~134.
I . Arch"r ~ ~OUilOll Bro1.•., :..-eec1umon1 y N ~ y
Bur!c~on, t'-An,ori y Cottlns, R·Oa1111s N N N Ce L~ Gario D·Mluton y y E'tkh<trdt, C+louston A N y Gammagt, 0-Houston A A x Gon1ale1, 0.SIHl A11tonio y N y Hall, O·Marsh•ll y H N Hightower, 0-Vernon y N N Jer<lan, 0-~ou~lon y N y K.uen, O.L1m:clo . N y ICr.,egu, D·NP.w &r11unle1, . Mahon, 0-Lt.bb(,.;:.. v A 0 N y
Mt.1ftC.(,[)..0111liu. N N y M1lfo:d, 0-Grand Prairie y N y
Pickle, O·Aus11n y N y
Poa~,0-Waco y y y y
A:oOfl'ls,, O·McK;nney A y . Tu9ut, D-Coll~e Station H Wtiire, O·EI Pu'I A 0 A A y y H y Wflson,D-L111Ju" y N y Wrl!lftl. O·i;url Worth y N y
Vcning, D·C0<pus Christi y N '
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PARIS NEWS 225-9339
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Strange
Ways
Of Our
World
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an ASS \'/hen you run in to one , ·" i th YCI.;;?
past track record it :::lioul<i he a cinch.
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Concratulations or condolences to Jac~1e
in c.c. ~iICH ever fits .
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hone·.r? , !e:..-~t tir.e you'l.l loo~>-:
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do you think ~u idy 'oes hir; i1i1-:i11<r- , at mar·y 0llE-~:--1 Jounr·e ,
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hot little oueens who B~ST be lenvin~
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that 1 s the Ol:LY thine every boc:y i'l Lo':!
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shop lift:Lnr; a C3.n of Vienna Sausa~;e .
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1 ~ ours
1 the FRIENDLY S td 1 d" Hank Williants
I ~OU a e . '' h 0 m e s~ Th De EhTeRadO IoTf a( UgrPoIu) p -of ~ ~ union officials says the movie in works
~ 0 f t h e ~ 40-hour workweek is
~ ~ out of date and that NASHVILLE, Tenn.
~ shortening the (UP I) Warner S workweek to create Bros.Inc. Is planning a
.,-: jobs would not feed movie based on the life
~ ~ inflation. of famed country music
~ ~ The group, the All singer Hank Williams
~~ R 0 u g h R ·, d e r s ~ ~~~~~Sn t~~~:~~t~ee~. SrT~~lll~fdr:::· ~~l~~~~.
-{, ~/. ~ • \ ~ today hosted a meeting once called the "hlllbll·
~ in suburban Dearbocn ly Shakespeare" of
S so officials from 15 country music, was the
unions across the na- author of many classic
~ tion could map strate- country tunes including
1 ~ gy for the drive. "Lovesick Blues,"
~ 1 ,V ~ The goal of the drive, "Jambalaya" and
~ r'"l 1"' ~ which began when the "Your Chea tin' Heart."
~ committee was formed He died of heart fail-
~ ~ las.t fall in Detroit, is to ure at the age of 29 In
L ~ cut unemployment, thebackseatofawhitl'
,1,4. said Frank Runnels, Cadilhc conv~riible Hunk Williams Sr.
with it.
"(He was) the kind of
hick that comes from
so far back In the country
tbat you're like a
damn whipped dog people
kick around In this
business," said
William's friend, Vic
McAipln, a Nashville
songwrl ter.
Hank Williams Jr.,
also a singer, said the
movie will be nothing
like "Your Cheatln'
Heart," a 1964 film
starring George Hamil·
ton and Susan Oliver.
~ committee c hairman Jan. 1, 1953. Heavy
~ and president of UAW drinking com bined
~ ' b k ~ Local 22. with drugs apparently him seven standing
~ B U D DY 5 a c ~ injected for back pain ovations the first night
~ were reported to be a he performed.
S ~ <:ontra('( signed contributing factor in The skinny, s im,pfe
"This one wlll make
that other thing look
like a cartoon," Williams
said. He said he
believes the movie will
go into production this
summer and said the
script was being written
by Paul Shrader,
author of the screen·
5 3 3 5 0 4 9 ~ play for "Taxi Driver." LOS ANGELES his death. songwriter wau
~ - (AP)-Ron Howard of Because of his drink- overwhelm~d by his as-
~ S ~-i~::ctI co~:;;,~~· toh:e~ ~'::~n:~n::o%" ~h:d s~:: :~~n~~~e;u~~=~s c:::,~
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S o p e n · 3 P. M • SS ~~~0 f~~0~~c~~ w~::.c~~~ ~h~~: ~~:n:r~~~ 0:::~ -------- - -
first a movie called ----------
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Ford hikes price on 3 autos
Ex-First Lady
In Drug Center
'MED/CATION PROBLEM' BATTLED
DETROIT (Al')
Ford Motor Co. announced
Monday a 1.9 percent
price boost on the Ford
Pinto and Mustang !I and
Mercury Bobcat cars.
The price increase,
averaging $94 per model,
is the second on Ford's
small cars in three
months and follows the
lead of Japanese and Ger·
man a utomakers. The
new prices take effect
immediately.
The action puts the
slicker price of the bot·
tom-line Pinto Pony
above $3,000 for the first
Star selected
LOS ANGELES
Ford Enters Drug Center (AP)-Kr isty McNlchol
will star In NBC's "The
Summer of My German
Soldier," In which s he
plays a n Ame r ican
J ewish girl who hides
an escaped Germ a n
prisoner of war.
l.01\G SEACH, Calif.
(AP) - fo'ormer first
la~y Betty Ford was ad·
mi:tcd to Lhe alcohol
an<l drug rehabilitation
ccnt<'r of LC"ng Beach
Naval Hospital Monday
for treatment of what
officials described as a
"problem with medication.'"
sidious t hing and I
mean to rid myselr of
its damaging effects ...
licer of the hospital. He
denied that ~.!rs. Ford,
60. was in any .,.,·ay addicted
to drugs.
~[· '
Mrs. Ford, who has
suffered for several
years from arthritis,
said in a prepared
statement, ··rt's an in-
"She has developed a
dependence she is
trying to overcome,"
said Dr. James Zimble,
acting commanding of·
Zimble refused to say
what medication was
involved or how long
Mrs. Ford would be hosp
italized. "It's very
premature · to discuss
a nything but her statement,"
said Zimble,
adding tha t her "condit
ion is fine."
Fore Hike OK'd
WASHINGTON (AP)
- The Civil Aerona u-
1 ics Board authorized
U.S. domestic scheduled
airlines Thursday
to increase their basic
rares 3 percent effect
ive May l.
Nixon signs autographs
Richard Nlnn, on his first visit to
__ New York since his re-election campaign
of 1972, signed autographs a nd chatted
!I.· amiably with reporters as he left his
hotel Sunday. He told the reporters they
should get double-time pay for working
- - on Sundays. He also said the New York
Mets are the No. 1 baseball team in his
book. The former president, wife Pal,
daughter Tricia, and son-in-law, Edward
Cox, left in a motorcade escorted by Secret
Service agents. Reporters followed
the entourage to East River Drive but
were blocked by the last auto in the J--.-motorcade.
Econmny 'hemorrhage' seen ----:-w ASHINGTON (UPI) - The nation
( faces an economic " hemorrhage" in 1980
- a still recession and a 10 percent or
more inllation rate - unless President
Carter reduces federal spending, former
White House economic adviser Alan
Greenspan said Sunday. Carter is expected
to announce an anti-inflation plan in a
speech Tuesday to the American Society
of Newspaper Editors. Aides have said
• strategy does not include new proms
-Out stresses voluntary restraint.
ut unless his program successfully
federal spending, "We may well
a real recession in 1980 a nd 1981 "
· d Greenspan, chief economic ad~
rmer President Gerald Ford.
Kirby p9sts bond
Out of. sight
After six weeks in jail in Las Vegas on
a drug dealing conviction, comedian
GC<lrge Kirby posted $50,000 bond and
was released pending appeal. Kirby, 52,
had been behind bars since he was sentenced
Feb. 28 to 10 years in prison.alter
he was convicted of selling $26,000 worth
of high-grade heroin to an undercover
agent. Kirby surrendered his passport
and agreed to report to the U.S. Marshal's
office once a week. U.S. District
Judge Reger Foley reduced the bail from
$100.000 earlier this month after Kirby's
attorney, Roberl Keld, died of a heart attack
following the trial.
There are some people who just hate to say " no" to any
question. and they will give a ny sort of far-fetched an·
swer to avoid the word. It may have been one of these
who called a local eye doctor's office the other day to
make an appointment for his wife.
··Has Dr. X ever seen your wife before?" the doctor's
nurse inquired.
··Uh-well, only at a distance," the man told her.
Billy Carter
in hospital
PLA11\S. Ga. (Al') -
B1llv Cartrr was admitted
lo · Amrncus-Suml<'r
County ilosp1tal on Mon·
day. thl' hospilal admln· l i~trator. said. hut !us doc·
tor r<'fusC'cl to say what
was wrong\\ 1th h11n.
Adm1111strator .11111
Gnmth conftnnrd that
Cartl'r. the president's
brother. was admitted to
the hospital Sunday night.
Or Paul Broun reruM'd
to (·ommrnt on Carter's
c:omhtion. saying a state·
mrnt would be released
Tu(•sday.
Medicaid Pays
Sex Changes
TRENTON. N.J. (AP)
- The New Jersey
Medicaid program has
paid for sex change operations
or two men
\1,•ho met requirements
that arc ··fair. er1uitable
and that protect the
public dollar," says the
dit·ector of the program.
Dr. J.C. Elreme. medi·
eal director. said the
rost of 1 he two opera~
tions ""'" ~7.000.
time- at $3.049. Ford said
the Pony remains the
cheapest car In the
country.
Piiot shoots
crazed horse
SYDNEY, Australia
(AP) - An air1ine pilot
shot a crazed race horse
which seriously Injured
itself while being flown
frow New Zealand to
Austra lia.
Ansett Airlines said
Princess Amura, a 4-yearold
filly, was one of I5
horses aboard the plane.
Places To go
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