Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 279, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 July 1981 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 28,1981

People in the news Capt. Kangaroo 'incredibly lucky' NEW YORK Bob Keeshan, whose “Captain Kangaroo” is the longest-running network show in the history of television, is confidently planning to begin his 27th year on the air at the end of September despite the heart attack he suffered a few days ago. Keeshan, still hospitalized in Canada, is out of intensive care, according to a spokesman in New York, and doctors have found very little residual damage from the coronary which struck while he was on a plane headed for Toronto. “He was incredibly lucky,” the spokesman said. “Aboard the plane were two heart specialists on their way to a convention. and they were at Bob's side from the moment of the attack. ” Keeshan is expected to return to New York by the middle of August, but it is difficult to predict exactly when he will be able to resume taping his morning show. There are enough "Captain Kangaroo” segments in the can to last until Sept. 25, when the show will end its hourlong telecasts. The following week, Keeshan is being shifted to a 7 a m. tEDT) starting time for a 30-minute show to make room for an expanded CBS morning newscast which will begin at 7:30. Keeshan also is to do commentaries on a new CBS afternoon magazine series, offered him by the network to soften the blow of his own show being cut in half. Whether the veteran entertainer will be up to doing both shows, or even his original, is still unknown. “Bob will just have to play it as it goes,” the spokesman said. NEW YORK (AP) CBS anchorman Dan Rather is being sued for $2.5 million by a process server who claims he was “unlawfully detained” at the network's studios after he handed Rather a subpoena. Carl Kornbluth, a licensed process server, was “accosted” by at least 10 people and questioned for 35 minutes after he issued the subpoena July 14, his attorney claimed Monday. “You don’t fool around with a process server,” said the lawyer, Donald Nussbaum. Nussbaum said the subpoena instructed Rather to appear at a hearing concerning Writers Guild arbitration. Also named in the suit filed in state Supreme Court were CBS Inc. and several other employees. CBS disputed the lawyer’s version of the incident. Spokeswoman Ramona Dunn said Kornbluth was questioned for 10 minutes because newsroom employees were angry he had "slipped past security.” Ms. Dunn said Rather was preparing his evening newscast when Kornbluth entered the office unannounced. She said CBS employees stopped him and asked him who he was as he abruptly left. • New York Mayor Edward I. Koch said Monday that he almost choked to death at a Chinatown restaurant Sunday night, but was saved by a dining companion who performed the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge a piece of food that had stuck in the mayor’s throat. As a result of the experience, Koch said he would seek to have the New York City school system make training in the lifesaving method compulsory in public schools. Koch, who has a special fondness for Chinese food, said he was eating sauteed watercress when “I suddenly realized I was choking.” “I coughed and I couldn’t breathe,” he said. He turned to his companion, David Margolis, the president of Colt Industries. tapped him on the shoulder and mouthed the words “I am choking.” As the mayor rose from his chair and raised his arms, Margolis stepped behind him, placed a fist under the mayor’s diaphragm and squeezed, dislodging the food. “It is a very frightening experience,” said Koch. • Sports stars do it, other celebrities do, too, so why not the pope? That, apparently, is what Pope John Paul II wanted to know when he got a look at the Vatican’s projected 1981 deficit of $25.6 million. To help close that financial gap the Vatican has now moved to cash in on the pope's personal popularity by hiring Mark McCormack as the exclusive dealer for papal souvenirs during the pope’s visit to Britain next year. McCormack, whose Cleveland-based International Management Group has represented such sports stars as Muhammad Ali and Bjorn Borg, expects no difficulty in marketing the pope. Indeed, he said he was hired after the Vatican noticed how much money was being made on souvenir sales during the pope's 1979 trip to Ireland and decided to get that it should benefit from such sales.

Dr. Demento

Disc jockey still crazy after all these years

By YARDENA ARAR Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) The man looks sane enough, his eyes a mild blue behind wire-rimmed spectacles, his face framed with bushy brownish-gray hair and an impressive beard. But put him in top hat and tails, let him loose on the radio airwaves with his huge collection of oddball records including such hot tunes as “Fish Heads,” “Pencil Neck Geek” and “Junk Food Junkie” and you can see why he’s known to millions as Dr. Demento. The “Dr. Demento Show,” celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, consists of four hours of musical zaniness syndicated weekly to about 100 radio stations across the nation, and some foreign countries as well: It was banned in Iran by the Ayatollah Khomeini. There already are two Dr. Demento LPs, the doctor’s personal appearances draw crowds, and a merchandising deal with 20th Century-Fox may soon put his hirsute face on lunchboxes and the like. A network television show is being discussed. Dr. Demento wasn’t always so popular, and he wasn’t always known as Dr. Demento (although nowadays he says only his mother still calls him by his real name, Barry Hansen). But his passion for records of all eras and all kinds goes back to his childhood.

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CHET ATKINS: Goodbye to RCA

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Entertainer Chet Atkins, known as “Mr. Guitar,” says he won’t renew his contract as an executive with RCA Records' Nashville division. Atkins, 57, associated with RCA for more than 25 years and vice president of the local division since 1966, said he would continue as a performer and producer. “I am not totally severing ties,” Atkins said Monday. “I’ll still turn out a few albums annually and produce studio sessions for Perry Como, Roger Whitaker and some others. I’ve been thinking about this for some time.” He said he “told the bosses in New York four or five months ago that I didn’t want to renew” when his contract expires this week. Atkins, elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973, said he eventually wants to open his own office and perhaps a museum in a building he owns along Nashville’s Music Row. “Tell the friends and neighbors, ole Chester will still be around probably more visible but not in an executive suite,” he said. • NEW YORK (AP) A former ambassador to Great Britain says this week’s royal wedding will help Britons “bring their nation together despite their recent economy problems and racial troubles.” Kingman Brewster, 61, ambassador under former President Jimmy Carter, compared the celebration of Wednesday’s marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer to America’s Bicentennial in 1976. “Just as the Bicentennial helped this nation get past Watergate and Vietnam, (the wedding) gives the (British) people a chance to express their affection for an absolutely wonderful couple and, through them, to express their pride in their nation as a whole,” Brewster said. Brewster was not invited to the wedding. • In recent seasons, Rosalind Elias, the Metropolitan Opera mezzo soprano, has spent considerable time wearing a luxuriant beard as Baba the Turk, the bearded lady of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress.” Baba was the vehicle for Miss Elias’s 1975 debut at the Glyndebourne Festival south of London, and she repeated the role there is 1977, in a televised production. She’s also sung the role in Paris. Miss Elias once more donned her beard to play Baba last week at the Santa Fe Opera, and will be seen there again Wednesday night and for three performances next month. She was asked the other day if she was getting tired of being the bearded lady. "No, it’s still exciting,” Miss Elias replied. “I’m of the opinion that every woman should try wearing a beard. They grow on you.” • One of the perils touring concert pianists face is discovering that the piano they are to play on is wanting. Alicia de Larrocha told Monday about a particularly antique instrument she had to play Sunday night in a recital at the John Drew Theater in East Hampton, N.Y. Somehow Miss de Larrocha got through the recital, a sort of warm-up for her appearance Tuesday night at the Mostly Mozart Festival in Avery Fisher Hall. Afterward she was told there would be an effort to restring the old piano and get it back in condition. The pianist replied that perhaps it would be best to abandon that project, and simply buy a new piano. “I explained,” she said, “that you can give a 92-year-old man a new heart, new eyes, new arms and a leg, but no matter what you do, he is still 92 years old.”

As a youngster in Minneapolis, he listened to his father’s Spike Jones records, and he began his own collecting when he started taking a bus to school and passed a store with a sign reading “Used Records “I always thought records cost a dollar, and I couldn’t afford that with my allowance, but 19 cents That was a little closer,” he says. By the time he was in high school, his extensive collection earned him his first disc jockey work at sock hops, and his first on-air experience came at Oregon’s Reed College, where his “Musical Museum” show was an embryonic version of his current program. But when he tried to get a summer job, “it turned out that commercial radio and I were not quite ready for each other. The only firm offer I got was to play classical records all night at a religious station for a dollar an hour.” He drove a taxi instead, and then got his master’s degree in folk music studies at UCLA, intending to become a college professor. But while working on black music reissues for Specialty Records, he got a job on a now-defunct “underground” FM rock station, KPPC. There he earned his nickname from a secretary who told him he had to be “demented” to play the bizarre records he had accumulated. “I’ve been demented ever since,” he says with a smile.

Supermarket Shopper

Twice is nice' is smart refunders' creed

By MARTIN SLOANE There is a saying among experienced refunders: Never throw away an empty box until you have used it at least twice. This is good advice. A company may request a Universal Product Code symbol for a current refund offer and then ask for the net-weight statement from the same box for another offer two months from now. MRS. EUGENE POLLACK OF Bristol, Pa., used four Universal Product Code symbols from Celeste Pizza-For-One to get a $2.75 refund. Then she used three net-weight statements from the same boxes to send for another $1 refund two months later. She also got double value on the 25-cent coupons that she used on her original purchase. So, she made a profit of $2.19. We call that a home run! “This is what saving, sorting and sending is all about,” says Mrs. Pollack. “And it is well worth it.” Virginia Karlson of Lindenhurst, N.Y., used a 4.5-pound box of Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix to take advantage of three offers. FIRST THERE WAS A $1 REFUND offer that asked for the box bottom. Next there was another $1 refund offer that required the ingredient statement and two other proofs that she had in her collection. Finally there was an offer of a purchase-price refund in exchange for the box top. “That one box helped me get $4.29 worth of refunds,” she says. “And my family got to eat a lot of delicious pancakes for nothing. SAVING ALL THESE BOXES can turn you kitchen into a gold mine. But it also takes a lot of space. Here are some tips on keeping your collection of proofs of purchase within reasonable limits: -Collect only the “big four”: Box tops, net weight statements, Universal Product Code symbols and proof-of-purchase seals. -Reduce the bulk of these packages by carefully peeling the label portion of the package from the cardboard layer behind it. -Keep only 10 proofs from each product. Trade any additional proofs with friends. IF THESE STEPS FAIL YOU, be creative in looking for more storage space under the cellar stairs, on top of the kitchen cabinets and under tables with long skirts. *** REFUND OF THE DAY Write to the following address to obtain the form required by

B.J. Becker

Time for bridge bidding quiz

You deal and open One Heart. Partner responds One Notrump. What would you bid now with each of the following five hands? 1.4 AJ7 <?KQJB 0 J 94 4K98 2.4Q9 <?AQJ42 OKJ6 4AJ3 3.45 <?KQ9B74 OAK 2 4KJ6 4.4J64 <?AKJ62 OK7 4QJS 5.4AQ8 'v’ QJB73 OAKJ 4K6 1. Pass. Partner’s notrump response shows 6 to 9 points, and you therefore know immediately that the 26 points normally required for a game are lacking. So, having spoken your piece, and with perfect notrump distribution, the best

Worry Clinic

By George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D

Alma’s brain gets daily exercise by the game she plays with her husband. Stroke patients and residents in Nursing Homes also whet their wits by this daily contest! CASE Y-680: Alma T., aged 59. recently had a stroke. "Dr. Crane,” her devoted husband began, “she has recovered to the point she reads and watches TV. “And can hobble slowly by means of an aluminum onearm walker. “But she seems to have lost most of her former interest in the tomorrows. “Instead, she looks at the photographic albums she compiled concerning her parents, as well as our children when they were young. “So I decided to try your plan of helping point her thinking FORWARD into the future. “On our 40th wedding anniversary in June, I used some of our savings to buy 100 shares in each of 6 companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. “Then I told her I’d let her draw one of the stock certificates from a big cardboard box while I’d draw one, etc. “Thus, we each ended with 100 shares apiece in 3 different companies. “So we have had a lot of fun seeing who wins each day. “For we make our guess as to whether the Dow Jones average will be up today or down; then listen to John Chancellor on his evening newscast. “If she says it will be ‘Down’ then I usually say ‘Up’. “But if she says ‘UP’ then I demand that she decide

thing to do is pass. 2. Two notrump. This is an invitational bid showing 17 to 19 points. It asks partner to pass with 6 points but to carry on to three notrump with 8 or 9. With 7 points, partner exercises his judgment. 3. Three hearts. This is also a game-invitational bid, but here the stress is on suit play instead of notrump. Three hearts may be passed if partner has minimum values for his notrump response. If he does pass, you are unlikely to miss a game. 4. Pass. It is tempting to bid two hearts, but that would not

whether it will be up as high as 5 points or exceed that number. “In fact, we changed from our former TV Newscaster because he often failed to state the Dow Jones figure for the day! “Dr. Crane, you once suggested that when the weatherman cites the atmospheric temperature, he should immediately add the economic climate by telling the day’s Dow Jones figure! “For that Dow Jones is more important than the thermometer reading since it determines whether employment is likely to go down or up! “But to get back to my contest with Alma regarding our 300 shares in different companies, we make a little game out of adding up the net increase (or decrease) in each of the 3 sets of 100 shares we hold in our 3 different companies. “Sometimes we put a quarter apiece into the ‘pot’ and whoever gains the most on his stock for the day, then wins the 50 c . “For variation, we make the loser forego his coffee at dinner, for our physician has told us to quit caffeine as much as possible. “Alma retains her agility at arithmetic, so she enjoys this daily computation of her gains vs. mine. “This little game is fun and stimulates her to think FORWARD, as well as whetting her arithmetic skill. “Now she eagerly looks forward to the delivery of our newspaper and giggles with glee if she wins our daily game!” ( Alwayi write to Dr Crane. Hopkins Bl<l9 , Mellott, Indian* 47?5«, enclosing a long stamped, addressed envelope and ISC to cover typing and printing costs Vhen you send lor one of his book'Ms )

this refund offer: Simonize Super Poly $2 Refund, P.O. Box 6260, Chicago, 111. 60677. Send for this refund form by Jan. 1,1982. *** CLIP N’ FILE REFUNDS Miscellaneous Food Products Clip out this file and keep it with similar cash-off coupons - beverage refund offers with beverage coupons, for example. Start collecting the needed proofs of purchase while looking for the required refund forms at the supermarket, in newspapers and magazines, and when trading with friends. Offers may not be available in all areas of the country. Allow 10 weeks to receive each refund. Dream Whip and Strawberries Refund Offer. Receive a 50cent refund. Send the required refund form, the, package top from any Dream Whip Whipped Topping Mix and the register tape showing a purchase of one container of fresh strawberries. Expires Dec. 31,1981. Durkee Famous Foods. Receive a 75-cent refund. Send the required refund form and the name "Durkee from two packages of Durkee O and C Real French Fried Onions. Expires Dec. 31,1981. La Choy Soy Sauce Offer. Receive a bottle of soy sauce. Send the required refund form and the complete label from one La Choy Sweet and Sour Oriental (with chicken or pork). Expires Oct. 31,1981. Morton House Sloppy Joe Recipe Sauce. Receive a sl-off coupon. Send the required refund form and front name panels from three cans of Sloppy Joe Receipe Sauce. Expires July 31, 1983. Mr. Marinade Recipe Booklet Offer. Receive a recipe booklet and 25 cents in coupons. Send the required refund form and the net-weight statement from the front label of any Mr. Marinade bottle. Expires March 31,1982. Ortega Refund Offer. Receive four 25-cent coupons. Send the required form and box bottoms with Universal Product Code symbols or net-weight statements from any four of the following: Ortega Taco Shells, Ortega Taco Dinner, Ortega Taco Sauce, Ortega Taco Seasoning Mix. Expires Sept. 30,1981. Patio Burrito Free Offer. Receive a burrito coupon. Send the required refund form and the complete empty package from one Patio Burrito. Expires Sept. 30,1981. Smucker’s Message Board. Receive a message board. Send the required refund form, the Universal Product Code symbol from the front label of any Smucker’s Pickels jar and a check or money order for sl. Expires Dec. 31,1981.

be the winning bid in the long run. This is basically a partscore hand, and the only question is whether one notrump will be easier to negotiate than two hearts. Granting that there are hands partner could hold where two hearts would prove safer than one notrump, the fact remains that such hands are in the minority. Partner is likely to have 7 or 8 points, and these added to your 15 should produce seven tricks in notrump. The fact that you provide an honor in every' suit should also influence you to pass.

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5. Three notrump. With 20 high-card points facing at least 6, it is clear that you can’t afford to simply invite a game by bidding two notrump or three hearts, since partner might pass. Three notrump is the obvious choice for game, but a good case can be made for jump-shifting to three diamonds (forcing). The advantage of this bid is that it gives partner a chance to bid three hearts, enabling you to continue to four hearts, which might prove to be the best conxact.

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