Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 42, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 October 1981 — Page 8

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 24,1981

BRYANT GUM BEL: Replaces Brokaw People in the news

Gumbel to join Today Show'

Bryant Gumbel is about to prove that a good sports reporter can make the transition to a non-sports job without too much trouble. Although no signatures have been placed on the formal contracts, NBC is putting out the word that Gumbel, one of that network’s principal sports voices, is about to be named co-host of the morning “Today Show.” Look for him to succeed Tom Brokaw alongside Jane Pauley on the weekday news-and-information program. According to reliable NBC sources, Gumbel, 32, will join Pauley as a “Today” co-host right after New Year's Day. Meanwhile, Chris Wallace, 33, will become the program’s chief news anchor and Washington-based interviewer. The starting pay for Gumbel is estimated at $500,000 a year. In winning the grand sweepstakes to succeed Brokaw, Gumbel came from way off the pace to whip an outstanding field of contenders - White House correspondent John Palmer, newsman Bob Kur, New York-based correspondent Bob Jamieson and Wallace himself, who at one point appeared to be the front-runner for the post. NBC insiders say Brokaw will leave “Today” about a week before Christmas, with Gumbel joining the program right after the holidays. Brokaw, of course, is headed for a co-anchor assignment on “NBC Nightly News,” where he’ll team with Roger Mudd. • COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) Although Johnny Carson led his alma mater’s rooting section, the men from Norfolk High School weren’t the mighty Carson football players when it came to the gridiron. The Panthers lost to the Columbus High School Discoverers 9-3. But the host of television’s popular “Tonight Show” still had something to shout about Friday night as he finally became a cheerleader for his high school one of his teenage dreams. The last Norfolk-Columbus game Carson saw was in his senior year. “It was 20-7 Norfolk,” Carson said. “I had to look it up.” Carson, in Nebraska the past week for filming of the NBC-TV special “Johnny Goes Home,” said he failed three times as a student to make the Norfolk cheer squad. But Friday his 56th birthday the school he graduated from 38 years ago let him don its colors and chant, “Stomp ’em, Panthers, stomp ’em. Stomp ’em, Panthers, stomp ’em.” At halftime, he was given an 8-foot birthday cake shaped like the state of Nebraska. Carson was surprised by the appearance of his brother Dick and sister Katherine, who were flown in for the event. The night was cold in his former state. How cold was it? Well, it was so cold that Carson headed for his heated trailer after about 25 minutes of leading cheers in the 30degree weather. • NEW YORK (AP) A man convicted of harassing Caroline Kennedy with demands for marriage was ordered Friday to stop communicating with her, but he vowed to defy the order. Kevin King, 35, of Palo Alto, Calif., had been scheduled for sentencing in Manhattan Criminal Court by Judge John Bradley, but Bradley postponed it to Oct. 31 to give the Probation Department more time to prepare a sentencing recommendation. Bradley convicted King last Friday of criminal trespass and aggravated harassment of Miss Kennedy, 23, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Onassis. Miss Kennedy lives on Manhattan’s upper West Side. King, a graduate of law school who acted as his own attorney during his one-day trial, remained in jail, unable to post $25,000 bond. He faces a maximum prison sentence of two years. In court Friday, Assistant District Attorney Allen Buonpastore said Miss Kennedy’s lawyer told him the young woman had received a letter from King since his imprisonment and was “very upset.” • Mickey Colarusso and Mickey Visk, owners of a tavern called Mickey’s Mousetrap in Colonie, N.Y., are bowing to Walt Disney Productions in a dispute over the Mickey Mouse trademark, which the company owns. The two Mickeys, whose tavern is near Albany, have agreed to drop the Mickey from their sign. They also agreed to paint over the face of a mouse on the sign that Disney Productions contended looked too much like Mickey Mouse. The mouse on the sign wore a jacket and top hat until Disney Productions lodged its protest. The bar owners had it changed, adding a mustache and sunglasses on the mouse, but that did not satisfy Disney. Further, “Even though my name is Mickey and my partner’s name is Mickey,” Colarusso said, the Disney lawyers insisted that the bar’s name be changed. “We’re giving in,” he said, “because we don’t have the time or money to battle an organization as big as Disney.”

Hospital notes

Putnam County Hospital Dismissed Friday: Jim Jordan, Hila Brattain, Minnie Smith, Phyllis Schilling, Noma Fenwick, Lucille Mondragon, Karen Kirby, Ralph Lopossa, Ruth Sargent, Abraham Lewis, Carol Beaman, Dena Doan and son, Ron Ellis, Wanda Glaze, and Diana Wilson. Birth: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Knapp, 926 N. Madison, Greencastle, a boy. Dole to speak at statewide GOP banquet Sen. Richard Lugar will be hosting a statewide dinner on Nov. 14 with the guest speaker of the evening being Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. Republican County Chairman Albert Solomon says Dole is an excellent speaker and will provide an entertaining and inspiration message to all who attend. Tickets for the Nov. 14 dinner, which will be held at the Indianapolis Convention Center at 7 p.m., may be obtained by phoning Bob Evans at 653-3141 or Solomon at 522-6740. Volleyball canceled Women’s recreational volleyball at the Greencastle High School has been canceled for Monday. Play will resume on Monday, Nov. 2.

Dear Abby Bridal or baby shower for bride?

DEAR ABBY: I recently received an invitation to a bridal shower for the daughter of a friend, whom I haven’t seen in a while. When I arrived at the party, I found a very pregnant bride-to-be (at least six months along) opening her bridal gifts in a maternity dress! No one seemed to know anything about a wedding date, or if there is even to be a wedding. I feel that I was ripped off. What is your opinion of this? CAN’T BELIEVE IT DEAR CAN’T: After writing this column for 25 years, I can believe anything. Life for some is one big, convoluted three-ring circus: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the teething ring! * * * DEAR ABBY: Some time ago you had a letter in your column from a 52-year-old woman who had been married to a 60-year-old, well-to-do man for five years. She said the man knew he was impotent when he married her a fact he did not tell her because he didn’t want to lose her. She said he was a wonderful, generous man and she wanted for nothing except the physical side of marriage, but she had fallen in love with another man whom she’d marry in a minute, but she didn’t want to hurt her husband. Abby, if this woman ever leaves her husband, please put him in touch with me. I have searched for years for an impotent gentleman. I would greet him with open arms and love and cherish him forever. I am not an old maid. I’m a widow. My children are all on their own and are not in any way dependent on me. I’m free, white and 55. I’m also an R.N. and would dearly love to spend the rest of my life with a generous, well-to-do gentleman who can live without sex. So can I. AVAILABLE IN ARIZONA DEAR AVAILABLE: Wish I could help you. If there is an “1.A.” (Impotents Anonymous), I haven’t heard of it. ** * t DEAR ABBY: My 39-year-old bachelor son is hooked on cocaine. He sold a very successful business 10 months ago and hasn’t worked since. He lives with me and pays me S2OO a month. I don’t want his money, Abby, I just want him to shape up. I haven’t been nagging him to get a job because he blows up if I mention it, but I just can’t take any more of his Jekyll-Hyde personality. I’ve thought of giving him an ultimatum: Either go to work somewhere or get out. I’m so desperate, I’ve even thought of suicide. I’m 62,1 still work, and I feel like a complete failure as a mother. His father and I separated when he was 3.1 never remarried or dated. I was a very religious person, but I don’t even have the strength to pray anymore. I’m afraid if I ask him to leave he may end up even worse than he is now. Help me. DESPERATE MOTHER DEAR MOTHER: Find the strength to pray. There is power in prayer. Don’t turn your son away. You must get him into a drug rehabilitation program. Your clergyman or Family Service Association can direct you. Since the thought of suicide has occured to you, call your local suicide prevention center and ask for help. Please, don’t give up. Write again after you have acted on my advice and let me know hbw you are. I care. * * * Do you hate to write letters because you don’t know what to say? Thank-you notes, sympathy letters, congratulations, how to decline and accept invitations and how to write an interesting letter are included in Abby’s booklet, “How to Write Letters for All Occasions.” Send $1 and a long, stamped (35 cents), self-addressed envelope to: Abby, Letter Booklet, 12060 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 5000, Hawthorne, Calif. 90250.

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Fumes are fatal to 2 at Danville DANVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty furnace caused the death of a 64-year-old Danville woman and her son, the Hendricks County coroner said. The bodies of Frances Bradford and William Kirchener, 46, were found Friday morning in the woman’s rural Danville home, officials said. Investigators said a neighbor became concerned when she heard Mrs. Bradford’s electric alarm clock buzzing for more than an hour. The neighbor called a co-worker of Mrs Bradford’s, who came to the house and discovered the bodies, the coroner said.

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tomato pie or that you won’t. Your com plaints, if any, will be routed to the ladies who said this is the way you should do it. I’m a little puzzled since the size of the five or six green tomatoes was not specified. If those you select are too large,

Obituary Marshall D. Montani

Marshall D. Montani, 84, Reelsville, passed away Thursday in his home. Born in Indianapolis May 1, 1897, he was the son of Dominic Montani and Raffaella Gioscio. An Indianapolis native who lived there 60 years, he was a retired grocer and dry cleaner. He was a member of Annunciation Catholic Church in Brazil, Reelsville Lions Club, and was an organizer, treasurer, and member of the board of directors of Reelsville Water Co.

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Who was that hooded man securing a transmitting tower high atop the Putnam County Courthouse? Unknown to most people, the worker certainly kept persons around the Greencastle square entertained Friday with his aerial surefootedness. Maybe not the lonliest man in town, but he was surely the bravest, especially in light of the chilling wind. (BannerGraphic photos by Becky Igo).

Arts and Crafts show set Nov. 7 The 1981 Arts and Crafts show will be held Saturday, Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Community Building at the fairgrounds in Greencastle. The show is sponsored by the past presidents of the county extension homemaker clubs. COUNTY EXTENSION clubs will be displaying crafts, demonstrating various making of crafts where possible and either selling or providing free of charge craft-making instructions. Area craftsman and artists can reserve a booth for $5. They are asked, however, to maintain their display for the entire day. Commercial craft shops are also invited to have a display booth. Demonstrations by craft shops are deemed a welcomed attraction. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on reserving a booth, interested parties are asked to contact either Mrs. Noble C. Fry, Route 1, Box 17, Roachdale, or Mrs. Grace McKeehan, 525 Anderson St., Greencastle.

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