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CHAMBERLAIN: Broadway return? People in the news Funt 'candid' about 'ripoffs' “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt says he is “outraged” by ripoffs of his 35-year-old idea by shows like “Johnny Carson’s Greatest Practical Jokes,” and “People Are Funny” on NBC and ABC’s “People Do the Craziest Things.” Funt went so far as to hire famed attorney Edward Bennett Williams to fight NSC and Carson. That court action is probably dead but Funt is still steamed. “Some of those shows have stolen our basic ideas, frame for frame,” he said yesterday from Hollywood. “But as we learned, protecting an idea is one bitch of a thing to do, unless you’re ready to spend SIOO,OOO up front, and wade through courts for six years.” His quicker revenge has been a two-page ad in this week’s Variety. The ad’s headline exclaims: “Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.” In the text of the ad Funt writes, “The networks have enough time and money to make you sorry you ever sued. ...But if Johnny can scrape up a few bucks, and if (NBC entertainment president) Brandon Tartikoff wants a piece of the bet, I’ll wager ‘Practical Jokes’ will be nowhere in a year.” NBC has no comment on the Funt ad or accusations. But Funt is filled with venom for “Practical Jokes.” “Who can fake a performance better than an actor?’ he asked yesterday. “Who knows better about suspicious lighting, places to hide microphones?” Are the celebrity candids faked? “That’s what those bastards would like to catch me saying,” Funt said. Funt, 69, said that in the history of “Candid Camera,” no one before Carson tried so brazenly to rip it off. Funt says a young Johnny Carson was turned down as host of “Candid Camera” in 1947. “Knowing the kind of guy he is,” Funt huffed, “I don’t think he ever forgot that.” • NEW YORK Richard Chamberlain, who has rarely appeared on the New York stage, is planning to come to Broadway next fall. He will star in Thomas Babe’s new play, “Born Every Minute,” which will be directed by Robert Allan Ackerman. There is a Chamberlain-Babe- ‘ Ackerman connection that goes back to 1978, when the three did Babe’s “Fathers and Sons” for a brief run at the ' Public Theater and then reopened the play in Los Angeles. “Tom wrote ‘Bom Every Minute’ with Richard in mind,” Laura Kramer, the producer, says. The play is set in Boston in 1948 and concerns the rise and fall of a man who promotes a get-rich-quick scheme. “The play is very much a period piece very charming, romantic and funny,” says Ackerman, who has directed four plays by Babe. “This is very different from Tom’s other plays. It is more grounded in realism. It is not as psychologically oriented. This is more story oriented.” • LONDON (AP) World and Olympic ice dance champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skated skillfully around reporters’ questions about possible wedding plans as they returned home to Britain. Forcing their way through a crowd of reporters and photographers at London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday, the international stars were asked repeatedly if they were to be married. “That’s for the future,” said Dean. “We don’t know what will happen.” “Not at the moment,” added Miss Torvill. Earlier this month, the couple tried to scotch all rumors of a possible engagement while vacationing in Barbados after their gold medal performance at the world championships in Ottawa. Looking tanned and relaxed, Miss Torvill, 26, and Dean, 25, needed a police escort to get to a waiting car at Heathrow as they were besieged by the press. They have arranged a series of charity and exhibition shows over the next two weeks, including two performances in their home city of Nottingham. DETROIT (AP) Pop singer Jimmie Ruffin told officials he completely forgot that he was carrying a loaded revolver in a bag at the airport, but his faulty memory got him arrested and jailed overnight. Ruffin, 47, was released from the Wayne County Jail when county prosecutors declined to issue a warrant after questioning him, said Charles Marr, a prosecutor’s office spokesman. He was arrested at a security checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday as he was about to board an American Airlines flight, said Lou Sugo, spokesman for the Wayne County Road Commission, which runs the airport. “He was at the X-ray gate when his shoulder bag was found to contain a loaded revolver,” Sugo said. “He said he had completely forgotten about the weapon being in the bag.” . . Marr said Friday the incident remains under review by the prosecutor’s office and charges could be brought later. Ruffin, whose Motown song “What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted” has made him a star in Britain recently, posted SSOO bond on an unrelated charge of non-payment of child support.

State veterinarian under

suspension during probe

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Robert D. Orr has put state veterinarian Lowell Hinchman on an indefinite paid leave as investigators attempt to unravel allegations of wrongdoing in Indiana’s cattle disease control program. Press secretary Mark Lubbers said that bits and pieces of the probe may be resolved separately, but he added that it may be as long as a year before the full impact of the investigation is felt. “It is very complicated and fascinating,” he said. Although the governor has nc legal authority to hire or fire the state veterinarian, Orr ordered the suspension Friday after consulting with Attorney General Linley E. Pearson. The State Board of Animal Health could have taken action against Hinchman, but doing so would have required a full hearing that might have jeopardized the civil and criminal investigations, Orr said. Earlier this week, Orr asked for Hinchman’s resignation. The 66-year-old veterinarian refused, but agreed not to return to work until further notice. Lubbers said Hinchman’s suspension was necessary because “whoever is in charge out here must be in a position to cooperate fully with the investigation.” Lubbers added, “There’s no evidence that we’ve seen that

State mental hospitals need improvement, report says

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A state report says some areas of Indiana mental hospitals that are approved for federal Medicaid funding don’t fully meet federal standards. The new report says such areas have remained certified through a series of extensions on compliance deadlines, waivers and appeals. “Certification has not meant that facilities are not deficient in the area of care or treatment,” according to the report prepared by the state’s Legislative Services Agency. “State institutions have been and continue to be deficient in numerous areas, involving staffing, programs, medical procedures, etc.” According to the report, Indiana has 1,777 certified beds for the mentally retarded and other developmentaUy disabled persons, compared with 2,224 in 1980. The state has 580 certified beds for the mentally ill, compared with 1,738 in 1980. The report attributes the decreases

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Dr. Hinchman has done anything criminally wrong. But it’s clear that things have occurred while Dr. Hinchman was the state veterinarian that shouldn’t have and things that should have happened didn’t.” The animal health board met in an emergency closed-door session Friday morning where members were briefed about the governor’s action. When the meeting was opened to the public, the board appointed Dr. James Shuler, a veterinary epidemiologist at the State Board of Health, as acting state veterinarian. Knowing that Shuler cannot serve as veterinarian indefinitely, the board named a search committee headed by chairman Dale Hendrickson to find someone to handle the job on a permanent basis. State and federal investigators have been looking at records in 10 counties to determine if Indiana’s S3OO million dairy industry is theatened by brucellosis, a disease which causes birthing problems in cattle. Humans can contract brucellosis through unpasteurized milk from infected dairy cattle. The disease, once widespread in the livestock industry, has been brought increasingly under control by state and federal programs. Neither Lubbers nor Orr aide Kendall Cochran would disclose the extent of the investigation.

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in certified beds to factors including decertification, renovation, and building closings. The 348-page report, which will go to an Indiana General Assembly committee for review, identifies waiting lists at mental illness hospitals. As of last January, there were 174 people waiting to enter those facilities, it says. “These lists force staff to treat patients rapidly and then release them sometimes prematurely to accommodate other individuals," it said. On leaving the hospital, such patients often return to families who cannot cope with the illness or to other inadequate facilities. As a result, “patients frequently return to the hospitals, while others end up in correctional facilities.” The report says that 16 percent of the patients discharged from Central State Hospital in

But Cochran said “it goes a good bit farther” than just the brucellosis eradicatiion program. Lt. Ken Hollingsworth of the Indiana State Police said authorities were looking into reports state officials provided ear tags to cattle dealers for their personal use; that veterinarians falsified vaccination tattoos on cattle that hadn’t received shots; and that official animal health records were falsified. Investigators reportedly are focusing on North American Cattle Corp. of Grand Rapids, Mich., which allegedly leased infected dairy cows to milk producers. A spokesman denied the charge Friday. “What makes the North American Cattle Corp. successful is that qualified farmers select the cattle they lease using the same judgment they would as if they were buying the cows themselves,” Tom Lemon, senior vice president of farm operations for North American told a news conference in Fort Wayne. Lemon quoted Floyd Bowman, veterinary compliance officer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Indiana, as saying North American Cattle has always complied with health standards and has often provided records that exceed regular requirements.

Indianapolis in 1982 were readmitted within the year. A major reason patients return to the hospitals is lack of suitable living arrangements in communities, the report says. The report adds that underfunding of services and outdated or ambiguous state laws are hindering efforts by the Department of Mental Health to administer services. But the report praises numerous department initiatives undertaken by Mental Health Commissioner Dennis Jones. For example, it said, the department is making muchneeded efforts at increasing community living arrangements for the developmentaUy disabled. Instead of just concentrating on group homes, the department also is looking toward foster care arrangements and financial support to families who agree to keep the individuals in their homes.

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Joe Liffick (left), a Greencastle High School senior, has been selected to receive a Talent Grant Scholarship for the Packaging Technology program during the 1984-85 academic year at Indiana State University- To receive the grant, students must enroll with a major in ISU's School of

Ball State hunting president MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - One candidate for president of Ball State University has bowed out leaving two for consideration by a search committee, school officials said. Dr. Lee B. Jones, vice president for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Arizona at Tucson, became the second candidate to inform the presidential search committee he’s withdrawing his name. Jones was one of four semifinalists named in March. Ball State President Robert P. Bell is retiring June 30. On Saturday, the board of trustees is scheduled to interview two semifinalists who have visited campus before, Dr. John E. Worthen, president of Indiana University in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Lee Douglas Badgett, special assistant to defense secretary Casper Weinberger and former commandant of the Defense Intelligence College.

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Technology. The Talent grant has a value of approximately $2,800, according to industrial arts instructor Russ Hessler, seen congratulating Liffick. Liffick is the son of Dennis and Wilma Liffick, Route 1, Fillmore. (Banner-Graphic photo by Becky Igo).

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