Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 13, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 September 1984 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, September 18,1984

People in the news Neurological tests FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was to return to New York today for further neurological tests, according to a television interviewer who talked to a doctor traveling with Ali. Ali, 42, underwent five days of tests at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center earlier this month and left last Tuesday for a business trip to Germany. Dr. Martin Ecker also said earlier tests showed Ali has minor symptoms” of Parkinson’s Disease, said interviewer Birgitt Wolff. Ecker was quoted by Wolff as saying that Ali would return to the hospital. A spokeswoman at Columbia Presbyterian said there would be no comment. The 30-minute interview, conducted Sunday, was broadcast Monday in parts of West Germany, France and Belgium, Wolff told The Associated Press by telephone. She described Ecker as a physician who was traveling with Ali, but is not his personal physician. Ali was quoted as saying, “I always feel tired but don’t feel pain at a 11... I don’t know exactly what it is.” The former champion’s speech has been noticeably slurred and slow for the past two years. Wolff quoted Ecker as saying, “We believe the disease was not inherited but actually could have come from boxing.” Merck’s Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, a reference book for physicians, listed “cerebral trauma” as one of many possible causes for Parkinson’s Disease. • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country singer Barbara Mandrell, “still in quite a bit of pain” after breaking her leg in an auto accident Sept. 11, faces more surgery for the injury this week. But her spirits got a lift Monday when she received a getwell card with 30,000 signatures attached. Baptist hospital spokesman Gil Cawood said the 35-year-old performer will have a pin inserted in her thigh bone. Despite the pain, Miss Mandrell is “doing a lot better,” said her spokeswoman, Jeannie Ghent. KFDI radio in Wichita, Kan., collected the signatures for the card for Miss Mandrell at the Kansas State Fair. • LATROBE, Pa. (AP) Arnold Palmer was out on the links as usual, but what he was driving home was an appeal for a donor kidney for a terminalty ill 5-year-old boy. Ryan Mickinak, who underwent an unsuccessful kidney transplant operation in March 1983, joined Palmer atop a tractor for a ride at the Latrobe Country Club after a news conference stressing the need for more organs for transplantation. “Hey I’ve seen you on television in commercials,” the excited child told the 55-year-old Palmer. Ryan’s parents, Richard and Elizabeth Mickinak of nearby Rector, had contacted the Make A Wish Foundation of Western Pennsylvania for help in promoting the need for donor organs. The foundation arranged for a news conference Monday and the chance for Ryan to meet Palmer. The boy suffers from nephrotic syndrome.

Broadway Beat

Mysterious eye condition plagues Barbara Stanwyck

By JOEY SASSO Barbara Stanwyck - one of Hollywood’s royal family - has battled back from an eye disease which could easily have left her blind. The 77-year-old actress has recently been released from Century City Hospital in Los Angeles where she was admitted for treatment of a mysterious eye condition that was severely affecting her vision. Concerned doctors put Barbara through a series of rigorous tests over a two-week period to determine the cause of her eye troubles. What’s more, they began treatments to prevent complications which could have led to blindness. She was finally released during the first week of May - her condition stabilized by the doctors’ treatments - with strict orders to return for follow-up examinations over the next few months. A hospital insider revealed, “She had a rough time. It was easy to sje she was very worried as the doctors did test after test. They made her wear a patch over her left eye. She had no visitors until the last Sunday before she left when Tina Sinatra came to see her.” The source also revealed that Barbara, who is suffering from a number of medical problems, had to have supportive treatments throughout her hospital stay. “She was on oxygen while she was here and the nurses kept a very close watch on her. She has some lung problems which, if they flared up, could be serious.” Indeed, ill health has plagued Stanwyck for a number of years. Her breathing problems - called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - have left her weak in the bronchial area which can leave victims wide open to colds and pneumonia. Friends of the star say she has had to remain homebound for years for fear that she might contract crip-

THE FAMILY CIRCUS 9 By Bil Keane

"Hi, Grandma! Wanna hear my Tarzan yell?"

MARY TYLER MOORE Asked husband out

NEW YORK (AP) Mary Tyler Moore says she was the one who called to ask her husband for their first date at 2 o’clock in the morning. The actress said she met Dr. Robert Levine, 16 years her junior, when he treated her mother for a bronchial infection. The day he sent her mother home from the hospital, she recalled, he told them to call him at home “any time in an emergency.” The “emergency” occurred just a few nights later when Miss Moore, feeling lonely, decided to telephone the young doctor. “I knew I wanted to see him again,” she said in an interview in October’s Good Housekeeping magazine. “I felt there was definitely a chemistry between us, but I thought he might be too intimidated by my public image to pursue it, so I did.” A few months later they were living together and a little more than a year after their first date they were married. She was 45 and he 29 on their wedding date, Nov. 23, 1983. NEW YORK (AP) Actor Tony Danza, whose new TV series starts this week, says he feels “like a jerk” after being sentenced to three years probation and 250 hours of community service for assaulting a guard in a restaurant brawl. In pronouncing sentence, Criminal Court Judge Richard D. Carruthers told Danza, 33, and co-defendant Albert Dinacori, 29, “You acted as buffoons.” The sentence stemmed from a fight at a hotel restaurant Feb. 3. Danza, a former boxer, stars in the new comedy series, “Who’s the Boss?” • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton may soon be joining millions of Americans for breakfast. The 16-year-old Miss Retton signed a deal Monday with Wheaties cereal and will be featured on the cereal’s packages, a General Mills official announced. Details of the agreement were not disclosed. The pint-sized athlete won the gold medal in the women’s individual all-around competition at the 1984 Summer Games, the first American woman ever to zin an individual Olympics gymnastics medal. She also earned two silver and two bronze medals.

pling pneumonia so severe it could cost Barbara her life. Says one friend of the star, “Now she lives every day with the fear of being sick. A simple cold could develop into a life-threatening illness -- she is very fragile as far as her health is concerned.” *** INSIDE HOLLYWOOD: Hungarian actress Eva Gabor wants to end her sexpot image once and for all. “I prefer scrambled eggs to sex,” claims the ageless glamor queen. “And I never wear black nightgowns. A woman should either go to bed in a high-necked nightdress or she should sleep in the nude,” Eva continues, giving her views on men, marriage, sex and other subjects in a recent interview. “People put too much emphasis on sex. Visually it is unattractive - and only beautiful when the two people concerned are truly in love. Young girls today don’t get romance. If someone takes them out to dinner they have to go to bed with them afterward. That’s why I prefer scrambled eggs,” says Eva. Omar Sharif is going to disappoint his female fans - he prefers playing cards to sex. With his sexy voice and liquid brown eyes, Sharif is many women’s dream lover. But they might change dream partners when they learn of the passions in Sharif’s life. Because he puts horses, cards, food, wine, books and films ahead of women and romance. “Everyone thinks I go around the world seducing women,” says Sharif. “I have never done that. In fact, I should think I have fewer girlfriends than anyone I know. And I don’t know any more about women than other men do. I would describe my sex life as pretty normal - even less than normal. You see, I avoid deep and lasting relationships. I’m frightened of them.”

"I'm looking for a chiropractor."

k. *' r ... f:

TONY DANZA Feels like a jerk

Peanuts

WHAT'sV THEY RE \ THEV THINK THAT THE KIPS CALL IT THE fJr 601N6 j TEARING THE \ SNORING SOUNP ABOVE “SNORING 6W05T:... AUON? A ROOF OFF OUR/ YOUR OLP PESK COMES NO ONE UIANTS TO 60 AMUSING, I LUEIKI? ( FROM THE AIR CONPITONIN6 THE BUILPIN6... .

Garfield

/IN ORPERTO PROPERLY PIET, \ / VOO MO6T LOOK AT \ I ) | YOU MOOT CHANGE YOOR I V FOOP PIEEERENTLY J \GARFIEL VI l EATING HABITS, GARFIELP J V. 1 j 1%, unite, s.-eiate me

John Darling

Beetle Bailey

WHAT'6- T AN ELECTRIC WELL, I'll BE RARNEP/ I'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN J

Buz Sawyer

Hi and Lois

IS THERE A SPECIAL REASON WHY' 1 HEARD A RIPICULOUS j . Y0 1 you TO iWGPECT TWIG r—' l RUMOR TWAT IT'S \ [1

Blondie

I'M GIVING ALVIN THANKS TO ALEXANDER, „ MUP TO NOW, W ( W |_IATS up,) (some new names/ ~T I'LL HAVE NAMES y ’ (my FIRST NAME ) > GUVS ? f 07 FOR MIS ADDRESS ) UT FROM A7DZM 5 - \ WAS YVONNE J jppV

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

X' / DON'T THEY \ ■*; f '?*' / SNUFFY A KNOW IT HINT ) /AN LOWEEZV ] V PERLITE '-* ':<r / HINT GOT NO ( / TO POINT? ) • 'B 'r 1

Redeye

'V, Cc\ / i I COULWT WA,T , WhAT RE I UNTIL 1 GOT MOME x y<9U ! TO TRV OUT MY NEW