Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 72, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1979 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, November 27,1979

People in the news 'Mork' concedes Sunday spot NEW YORK (AP) ABC, facing a stiff challenge this season from CBS, has rejuggled the time spots for two of its most successful comedies. "Mork and Mindy” and “Laverne and Shirley" and plans to premiere six new series after Jan. 1. The network, an overwhelming winner in the televison ratings competition last season, also said it will drop three series Blue." The new ABC shows include two half-hour comedies, two hour-long comedy-drama programs and a new one-hour detective series, as well as a Sunday evening show the network calls "informational.” The "informational” series, "Incredible Sundays,” airing at 7 p m. EST. will star John Davidson and Jim Palmer, the Baltimore Orioles’ pitcher. ABC says the magazinestyle show will feature “stranger-than-fietion happenings and remarkable people.” “Incredible Sundays” will be followed at 8 by “Tenspeed and Brown Shoe,” starring Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum. “Mork and Mindy,” which had been losing its timespot to CBS’ "Archie’s Place," will give up its Sunday-at-8 position in favor of a spot on the schedule Thursdays at 8. "Laverne and Shirley" will move from Thursdays at 8 to Monday night at the same time, to be followed at 8:30 by a new half-hour sitcom, “One in a Million.” starring Shirley Hemphill as a Los Angeles cabbie who inherits millions of dollars. Dennis Weaver, who starred on CBS’ "Gunsmoke” and NBC’s "McCloud.” returns to prime-time as a detective in “Stone.” Weaver’s new show will be broadcast Monday nights at 9. “Family” returns to the lineup at 10. filling the void left by the end of ABC’s “NFL Monday Night Football” season. Another half-hour comedy, “Goodtime Girls,” set in the 19405, will air Tuesday nights at 8:30, and “B A D. Cats,” the adventures of young officers with the Burglary Auto Detail, will be broadcast Fridays 8-9 p.m. • SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) A trial date of Jan. 9, 1980, has been set for blond actor Jan-Michael Vincent, who pleaded innocent to charges of growing and possessing marijuana. Vincent, who co-starred with Burt Reynolds in the movie “Hooper,” was charged with one count each of cultivating and possessing marijuana. He remained free on bail following Monday’s Superior Court arraignment. Vincent waived his right to appear at a planned series of pre-trial hearings, and will next appear in court for the trial. Vincent also starred in “Big Wednesday” and “White Line Fever.” • Monday morning, on her way to film a television commercial for her Broadway play “Romantic Comedy,” Mia Farrow dropped off a prescription to be filled at a drugstore near the film studio. When she returned to pick up the medicine, Miss Farrow noticed a familiar slip of paper with a familiar signature her own Scotch-taped to the drugstore’s window. It was her prescription receipt. “It’s happened before, when I was filming ‘A Wedding’ in Waukegan, 111.,” the actress said. “But that time the druggist put my ‘autograph’ on the prescription under glass and had it framed. In New York I rated just a piece of Scotch tape.”

House Call

Bronchiolitis in infants

By G. Timothy Johnson, M.D. Dear Dr. Johnson: What is bronchiolitis? - Anne N., Greeley, Colo. Dear Anne: The suffix “itis” means infection or inflammation. When it’s attached to the word “bronchio” -- the small air passages in our lungs - - it means inflammation of these passages. (Bronchitis refers to inflammation of the larger air passages, the bronchi.) Bronchiolitis is usually seen in infants under 2 years of age. It is often serious, and is responsible for many of the severe respiratory problems that require the hospitalization of very young children. The problem, basically, is that a young child’s very small air passages are easily constricted when they become inflamed. This narrowing makes it difficult for air to flow in and out of the lungs. And this, in turn, causes the classicial symptoms -- wheezing, labored breathing and a rapid breathing rate -- as the lungs attempt to overcome the problem. The symptoms are so similar to asthma attacks that bronchiolitis may at first be confused with asthma. Unlike asthma, however, bronchiolitis tends not to recur. If the child has recurrent attacks, asthma becomes a more likely diagnosis. Treatment of bronchiolitis is largely supportive - meaning administration of fluids and oxygen. Since the problem is almost always caused by a virus, antibiotics are usually not needed. Fortunately, most children recover without serious problems.

Dear Readers: As I have pointed out before, it is important that women who might be pregnant (meaning any sexually active woman not using contraceptives) should alert their physicians to this possibility before undergoing tests that involve radiation. Even though the risk is negligible, it is often possible to avoid even small exposures if the doctor is aware that pregnancy is possible; often, it is wise to do a pregnancy test -- just to make sure -- before ordering an x-ray. Unfortunately, many women

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In early 1963, a comedy album called “The First Family” broke records for single-album sales, eventually totaling more than six million copies. Its irreverent portrayal of John F. Kennedy and his family catapulted a clean-cut New Englander named Vaughn Meader to fame and prosperity as the first of a string of professional presidential impersonators. The president’s assassination later that year threw the nation into turmoil and Meader’s life with it, as “a living reminder of a tragedy,” he said Monday from his hometown of Waterville, Me. Two marital breakups, drug abuse and drinking problems took him in later years to “rock bottom,” he said. However, a bearded 43-yeas-old today, he sees the glimmer of a career revival in offers he says he has to recreate his act in the mode of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. “I’m not crazy about doing it,” he said. “Nobody will ever know I can do anything else.” He has been spending his time as a singer and composer of country and Western tunes, working up an act he will bring to New York’s Lone Star Case on Sunday. A “Kennedy connection” nevertheless remains a possibility, he said. “I’ve recorded a single, ‘Getting Ready for Teddy,’ and I’m trying to secure interest with a record company or the Kennedy camp. “It’s not an imitation,” he hastened to add. LOS ANGELES (AP) Erik Estrada fans, relax. The darkly handsome bachelor, one of the most eligible in Hollywood, is still eligible, friends say. Marriage reports began flying Monday when a deputy county clerk in Las Vegas said she was pretty sure she recognized Estrada as the man who took out a marriage license Sunday. The man getting a license to marry Joyce Miller of Beverly Hills was wearing dark glasses, but Alberta Yanke said she recognized the smile of the star of the television series “CHiPs.” However, Estrada’s sister, Carmen Estrada, said she was having lunch with her brother and his friend, Joyce Miller, at the time Estrada was reported to be in Las Vegas. Miss Estrada said her brother and Ms. Miller are “just friends.” Estrada was unavailable for comment, but Karen Hacker of the actor’s management firm, said, “I got it right from the horse’s mouth. He denied the whole thing. The story is a complete hoax...”

undergo radiation only to discover later that they were indeed in the very early stages of pregnancy. Obviously, it would have been better not to expose the growing fetus to radiation. In a recent medical article, some radiologists suggested that signs should be posted in radiology and nuclear medicine departments to alert women to the importance of letting their doctors know they might be pregnant. At present, the only course we can follow is to consider any woman of child-bearing age (who does not use con-

entries to a hand can occasionally be solved by careful manipulation of the cards. In this deal, for example, South can make all 13 tricks if he plays properly. This may not seem to be a vital matter, since the contract is only three notrump, but anyone capable of making all the tricks with this layout can be said to be very well versed in the art of manufacturing entries. West leads a heart and South sees there are two spade finesses to be taken, and diamond and club finesses as well. The difficulty is that there are four finesses to take, but only two apparent entries to dummy for the purpose. However, all the finesses can be accomplished by making judicious use of the low cards. South wins the heart and plays the club seven to the ace. He then returns a low

traceptives) to be pregnant until proved otherwise. (Knowing what to do and what not to do is the secret of living with arthritis. Dr. Johnson’s comprehensive guide, “Coping with Arthritis,” explains the why, when and how of medication, exercise and rest programs. For a postpaid copy, send $1.75 to “Arthritis,” c/o this newspaper, P. 0. Box 259, Norwood, N. J. 07648. Make checks payable to Newspaperbooks.) (c) 1979 by The Chicago Tribune

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