Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 332, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 September 1985 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, Saturday, Sept. 7,1985

People in the news Remember victims of unemployment, 'Boss' urges crowd

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Bruce Springsteen, the musical chronicler of working-class America known to his fans as “The Boss,” rocked a sold-out Hoosier Dome and 52,000 fans, urging them to remember the victims of economic strife who couldn’t attend the concert. “This is a song about living in the shadow of a dream.” Springsteen said before launching into a haunting version of “The River,” a song about being young and unemployed and trying to establish yourself in the world. Springsteen noted the problems of the unemployed in Gary and in other industrial centers in introducing one of the few songs he performed that he had not written himself, “This Land Is Your Land.” The introduction was met with roars of approval from the crowd. The New Jersey star played a three-hour show, broken up only by a half-hour break and several appeals on behalf of a local food bank and the Citizen’s Action Coalition, a consumer watchdog group. Springsteen donated $15,000 to the Gleaners Food Bank and SIO,OOO to the Citizens Action Coalition of Indianapolis. At times, roars of approval from the fans made it difficult to understand the lyrics of his songs, which often tell of the problems of blue-collar America. Traffic around the Hoosier Dome was snarled for hours before the 7 p.m. concert, and ticket scalpers worked the crowds gathered around the downtown facility. The going rate for tickets three hours before the show was between SSO and $75, several unofficial ticket sellers said. Two students from St. Joseph’s High School in South Bend said they almost cried when they found two tickets in the second row for S3O each. “He’s sort of like Elvis Presley in our time,” Carrie Seitz, 17, said of Springsteen. “He’s clean-cut too.” Miss Seitz and her companion, Angie Linhart, also 17, said they skipped classes Friday to catch a bus to Indianapolis. Two Cincinnati residents stopped in Indianapolis on their way to Chicago with the hope of obtaining tickets. Joe Scott, 27, said he saw Springsteen twice in Ohio last summer. His companion, Amy Carr, 20, a University of Cincinnati student, said she was going to her first Springsteen concert. They obtained their tickets from a scalper at S6O apiece, Scott said. “He started at $l5O, but I worked him down,” Scott said. “He said, ‘l’ve got a family at home to feed,’ so I settled for $60.”

Primary first step to third term

Koch faces Big Apple voters Tuesday

By MITCHELL LANDSBEHG Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) The mayor of New York stood in front of home plate at Yankee Stadium, scanned the crowd, and made a startling declaration. “I simply want to say to you,” he began. “If you didn’t know it before, you’ll know it now. I’m Italian! ” The crowd, assembled for the Yankees’ Salute to ItalianAmericans, roared its approval. The next day, Edward I. Koch slipped into a Latin American guayabera shirt for the annual Ecuadorian parade in Queens. Then he put on an Indian shirt for the Indian parade in Manhattan. “I am a son of India,” proclaimed the man who calls himself O’Koch every St. Patrick’s Day, “and I go to every Hispanic parade.” In New York City, that’s called politics. Tuesday (Sept. 10) is Election Day in New York, and Koch who actually is the son of eastern European Jewish immigrants is running for a third term. It has been a campaign the Founding Fathers never could have anticipated. City Council President Carol Bellamy, Koch’s main opponent in the Democratic primary, has compared the campaign antics to the television program, “Family Feud.” Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., another key challenger, says it reminds him more of “The Honeymooners,” with Koch and Bellamy doubling for Ralph and Alice Kramden. Farrell, the candidate chosen by a coalition of black leaders, says he feels like “the other fellow in the living room with a fighting couple.” Bellamy apparently agrees she tried to kick Farrell out of the house. After she challenged his nominating petitions, Farrell was ordered off the ballot, then back on, then back off again, and finally back on. Koch, who stood to benefit by a split in the opposition, was indignant that Bellamy would interfere in the ballot process. Bellamy recalled that Koch had done the same thing in the past. “Assume that I did it,” Koch told City Hall reporters. “Assume that I was as bad as she is. Should you replace me with someone who is as bad as I am?” Koch, who in the past has called Bellamy a “horror show,” likes to remind people that he once made her cry. Bellamy, who says she didn’t really cry, calls Koch “a fraud and a phony.” The campaign hasn’t been entirely personal. There have

THE FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane

"The organ at the ballpark is more fun."

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SPRINGSTEEN: 52,000 in Hoosier Dome

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Spanish bandleader Xavier Cugat, the “King of Rumba,” says he plans to wed a sixth time, this time to his secretary, nurse and friend. The 85-year-old musician announced Friday that he would marry Ivonne Massanes in his native Barcelona. No date was given and Miss Massanes’ age was unavailable. Cugat has had a history of heart attacks and high blood pressure, having been hospitalized several times since he retired in 1978. He was dubbed the "King of Rumba” when he introduced the sultry Latin dance in the United States in the mid-19605.

ED KOCH : A showman's knack

been issues, many of them serious: the city’s desperate housing situation, its derelict transit system, crime, education, race relations. For months, Bellamy has attacked Koch at every turn, accusing him of dividing the city and favoring wealthy suburbanites over the city’s own residents. “Ed Koch is a bandit,” she says. “He’s robbing New Yorkers of jobs.” But Koch has a showman’s knack for diverting the city’s attention from the serious issues. He wrote a best-selling book, “Mayor!,” which provided the material for an offBroadway play. The play is not necessarily flattering to Koch, but he professes to love it. A recent poll showed Koch leading his opponents by a margin of 67 percent to 19 percent for Bellamy and 6 percent for Farrell. The mayor has an unorthodox campaign style. He doesn’t ask for votes he demands them. “It is not enough to say you are voting for me,” he tells audiences. “You must pledge to vote.” He then commands everyone to raise their right hand and repeat his pledge. Amazingly, they do it, chanting in unison: “I eolemnly pledge , that on Sept. 10...1 shall rush to the polls ... and vote for Ed Koch ... so help me God.’’ “That’s pure Ed,” said his campaign media adviser, David Garth, who seems vaguely puzzled by his client’s campaign. “Every time I see it, I go in the corner and hide. And the people all igh and seem to like it.”

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