Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 23, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 September 1979 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, September 29, 1979

People in the news Even Hugh Hefner loses sometimes LOS ANGELES (AP) Singer-actress Barbi Benton, who gained fame as the girlfriend of Playboy Magazine editor-publisher Hugh Hefner, will marry a 39-year-old real estate executive next month, says a spokeswoman for the former Playmate. Miss Benton, a 29-year-old former Playboy centerfold model, will marry George Gradow on Oct. 14, the spokeswoman said Friday. Miss Benton has had numerous television acting roles and is working on her fourth record album. Gradow, a semi-retired attorney, is a leader in the Churchill Group, the larg&st owner of mobile home parks in Southern California. ELMIRA, NY. (AP) Country and western singer Loretta Lynn will take time off to rest after being treated at a hospital here for “nervous exhaustion,” says her manager. Miss Lynn performed two concerts at the Clemens Center here, but was not feeling well. On Friday, after feeling nausea and a headache, she went to St. Joseph’s Hospital and was treated for nervous exhaustion, said Stanley Douglas, hospital director of community relations. Ron Riley, Miss Lynn’s manager, said Miss Lynn would go to Las Vegas for a complete physical examination and rest. WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) Country and western singer Tammy Wynette is in satisfactory condition after undergoing a minor hernia operation at Underwood Memorial Hospital. Miss Wynette, of Nashville, Tenn., was performing in Devon, Pa., Friday when scar tissue from earlier surgery . began giving her trouble, said Nursing Supervisor Eileen Cardie. Her husband-manager, George Richie, rushed her to the hospital where she had been treated previously for stomach problems. Miss Wynette has canceled all performances through Oct. 13, and Mrs. Cardie said Miss Wynette, 37, would remain hospitalized about 10 to 14 days. Yale’s latest Chubb Fellow is Shirley Temple Black, who Friday wound up three days on the campus at New Haven, holding seminars with students and dropping in on classes. Even to this day, said the 51-year-old Mrs. Black, the fact that she was a child movie star helps her along in life. “Little Shirley opens up doors for Shirley Temple Black,” she said. “If big Shirley can’t produce, the doors close.” Mrs. Black, who served as a diplomat in the Nixon administration, recalled that when she met Nikita S. Khrushchev in California, he clasped her hands to his stomach and beamed warmly. “He and his wife loved the old movies,” she said. “It’s marvelous to have the link with the past where people have a friendly link with you.” • Since leaving the White House, Gerald R. Ford has become quite a man of property. He and his wife, Betty, had a house built in Palm Springs, Calif., and he recently said he was buying two radio stations with Leonard Firestone of the tire-manufacturing family. Now Ford has spent what an aide characterized as “no more than $300,000” to purchase a one-acre lot in Beaver Creek, Colo., a new resort area being developed near Vail. If the $300,000 figure is correct, it may be the most ever spent on a residential lot in Colorado history. The Fords already own a condominium in Vail, and it wasn’t clear what they planned to do with it. Apparently, they’re in no hurry to decide. Bob Barrett, the former president’s executive assistant, said Ford wanted to make sure Beaver Creek was fully developed first, and so doesn’l intend to begin construction for at least a year. “He’s 66 years old,” Barrett said. “He loves skiing. He’s not about to go into some confused environment that’s got a bulldozer blade sticking in his bedroom window.”

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In the nine years she’s served as a police decoy, Detective Mary Glatzle has been “mugged” more than 500 times, richly earning her nickname of “Muggable Mary.” With that kind of experience in her background, Miss Glatzle has a reputation for being unsurprisable, but Friday the Police Department managed to spring a couple of important surprises on her. She had been summoned to Police Headquarters to receive a promotion; that was no surprise. But downright amazing to her was the fact that, instead of being promoted from detective third grade to second grade, she was told she was skipping a grade and was now a detective first grade. In addition to a higher rank, that means Miss Glatzle gets a pay raise of about $6,500, to $28,000 a year. It was thus perhaps no wonder that she gave a big kiss to Commissioner Robert J. McGuire. He then informed Muggable Mary, who has received many commendations as a decoy cop, that she would be the first woman member of the joint FBI-Police Department bank robbery task force. BOSTON (AP) Rose Kennedy’s condition continues to improve after surgery to remove a damaged portion of her intestine, and she might be released as early as next week, says a spokeswoman for New England Baptist Hospital. Mrs. Kennedy, 89, was up and walking Friday, two days after the operation, hospital officials said. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., visited his mother Thursday and said she was in “fine spirits.” Mrs. Kennedy underwent surgery Wednesday. Doctors said she had suffered an inguinal hernia. • SAD NEWS: Jimmy McCulloch, 26-year-old former lead guitarist for Paul McCartney’s Wings rock group, was found dead in his London home Thursday night. An autopsy was planned. Meanwhile in Hollywood, Arthur Hunnicutt, a character actor best remembered for his roles in the Academy Award-winning movies, “Cat Ballou,” and “Harry and Tonto,” died of cancer. Hunnicutt, 68, appeared during the 1950 s in a series of Westerns and Civil War movies including “Broken Arrow,” “The Red Badge of Courage,” and “The Big Sky.” • Friday was moving day for Andrew Young, former chief United States delegate at the United Nations. He cleared out of the nine-room suite at the Waldorf Towers that has been maintained for many years by the State Department as the residence of the chief of the United States Mission at the United Nations. The move, a hotel employee said, took “a couple of hours.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) Had Johnny Carson had his way last spring, Monday evening’s “Tonight” show would have been Carson’s farewell to latenight. Instead, Monday’s “Tonight” is a hot-shot prime time special, after which Carson gets sent back to the late hours for at least a few more months. Funny how these things work out. It had been reported, back when Carson was saying he was tired and wanted out of his contract, that NBC’s biggest star wanted a shot at prime time, in TV movies and specials. NBC, perhaps as a peace offering, told Carson and producer Fred de Cordova they could do the 17th anniversary special in prime time. Monday’s show will be aired live to the East Coast, which Carson had wanted to do with “Tonight” a couple of years ago. That idea was rejected, partly because of the difficulty in rounding up guests at 8:30 p.m., when the show would originate from Burbank. Anyway, even if the prime time “Tonight” special is a concession to Carson, it doesn’t figure to hurt NBC. The anniversary show, featuring clips from shows past, always brings in big Nielsen numbers in its late-night slot. It makes you wonder why NBC hasn’t tried moving the show to prime time before. If this works, it would prove Carson’s worth in any time slot. “I personaly believe that anytime in the day, day or night, any show he’s in charge of would have a large and interested audience,” says Carson’s producer and pal, de Cordova. “It’s my belief that you can drop him anywhere.” As for Monday’s prime time chance and what it might mean for Carson’s future, de Cordova says: “There are so many imponderables about what might come out of it, I don’t even want to try to guess. I always say that I don’t care how long Johnny stays on ‘Tonight’ as long as its for as long as I live. I’d like to stay with Johnny as long as he wants me, here or elsewhere.” Anyway, there will be some vintage Carson on display including the famous Ed Ames tomahawk-throwing demonstration and a Burt Reynolds-Dom DeLuise whippedcream fight.

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