Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 364, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 October 1985 — Page 7

People in the news Humperdinck subject of suit LEBANON, Ind. (AP) A vice president of Starlight Musicals Inc., says he released a false press statement when British singer Engelbert Humperdinck failed to appears as scheduled for a 1982 performance. Robert L. Young made feis comments Tuesday before a Boone Circuit Court jury in an SBOO,OOO lawsuit filed against the British singer by the Indianapolis company. Young admitted releasing the statement under questioning by Humperdinck’s attorney, Louis “Buddy” Yosha. Young told the six-woman jury that the press release indicating Humperdinck would perform for the second night of a two-night engagement was erroneous because he knew at the time there was a possibility that Humperdinck could not perform Humperdinck’s doctor had told Young that the singer was physically unable to sing the first night, but any opinion regarding the second night’s performance depended on results of X-rays, Young said. The X-rays were scheduled for the morning of Humperdinck’s second date at Starlight. Instead of having the X-rays taken, however, Humperdinck flew to Los Angeles. The company is seeking $300,000 from Humperdinck, saying the singer breached the contract by failing to perform. Additionally, Starlight is asking for $500,000 in punitive damages, alleging Humperdinck knew he had a health problem that could potentially conflict with the Indianapolis shows. Before his arrival in Indianapolis, Humperdinck had canceled one appearance during an engagement near Chicago. The Indianapolis cancellation not only affected Starlight’s credibility and reputation, but it had an adverse effect on ticket sales during the 1982 summer season that included appearances by Steve Lawrence, Edie Gorme and Wayne Newton, Young said. “Loyal fans turned on us,” said Young. “They didn’t buy the sickness. ... They held us responsible. What hurt the most was Humperdinck leaving town and them being cheated of the chance to see him,” Young said. • WASHINGTON CAP) Soviet-born teen-ager Walter Polovchak, who chose life in the United States over life with his parents in the Soviet Union, is now an American citizen. Polovchak took his citizenship oath Tuesday night in a Capitol Hill ceremony. More than five years ago, Polovchak, then age 12, ran away from home rather than return with his parents to the Soviet Ukraine. In contrast to his parents, who disliked their brief taste of American life in Chicago, Polovchak said he enjoyed U S. freedoms. “I knew what I was doing,” Polovchak, now 18, told an audience of about 200 well-wishers. “I'd been living under communism for 12V 2 years and after six months in a free country, the difference was pretty obvious.” • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Sonny Lemaire, bass guitar player for the country group Exile, will keep playing in spite of casts placed on both wrists when he broke bones in a touch football game three weeks ago. He did not realize the wrists were broken until X-rays were taken Monday. The casts are flexible and he will continue to play guitar with the group, Robin Wolkey, a spokeswoman for the group, said.

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(which is also U.S. 231) on Monday, Dec. 2 during its tree-lighting ceremony culminating the annual Lights of Love project. The ceremony will run 6:30-7:30 p.m., according to Jane Weiser, who represented the League. -HEARD THE MAYOR announce that representatives from the State Board of Health have agreed to come to Greencastle on Oct. 24 to “renew discussion” about the Southside Interceptor Sewer project. -Referred a petition from DePauw University, represented by attorney Cy Young, to the City Plan Commission for its recommendation. The petition asks the vacation of an alley behind the old Sigma Nu house at College Avenue and Seminary Street. During the process of selling the house to the Delta Zeta sorority, DePauw officials discovered that the building encroached into the alleyway (which is not a through alley). The area of vacation, Young said, involves .0012 acre. -Heard five residents of East Franklin Street-Mr. and Mrs. Floyd O’Neal, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Huter and Ken Heeke-ask that the street light recently removed from their area be reinstated. More than a city block is now in total darkness at night,

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Singer Peggy Lee likely will spend a week to 10 days in the hospital after a four-hour double-bypass heart operation that followed four previous rounds of minor heart surgery, her doctor and daughter said. Miss Lee, 65, was in satisfactory condition after the Tuesday surgery at Touro Infirmary, where she checked in Sunday with chest pains, hospital officials said. The Grammy Award-winner should spend a week to 10 days in the hospital, then head back to California, said Dr. Tom Oelsner, an internist who has been treating Miss Lee since Sunday. She should be back to normal in two to three months, he said. Winner of a Grammy in 1969 for “Is That All There Is?” Miss Lee has a long list of hits, including “Manana,” 1948; “Fever,” 1958; and her first, with the Benny Goodman Band in 1942, “Why Don’t You Do Right?” • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Actress Jessica Lange, who plays singer Patsy Cline in the movie “Sweet Dreams,” will have a chance to pay her respects to the late country star. Ms. Lange will join singers Loretta Lynn and Anne Murray on the nationally televised Country Music Association awards show Monday night to salute Miss Cline, who died at age 30 in the crash of a small plane in 1963, an association spokeswoman said. The show will be telecast on CBS. e INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A laywer for the estranged wife of Indianapolis Colts owner Robert J. Irsay says his purchase of a sl.l million suburban estate would violate an injunction barring Irsay from disposing of his assets. Irsay, through his lawyer, Peter F. Lovato, confirmed his agreement to buy the 38-acre estate but denied it violated the injunction. Bernard B. Rinella, the Chicago divorce lawyer representing Harriet Irsay was quoted by the Indianapolis Star today as saying he may seek an order holding the team owner in contempt of court. The lawyers and Indianapolis real estate sources said Irsay has agreed to purchase the estate from well-known Indianapolis auto dealer Charles Stuart, the Star reported. “I got an injunction prohibiting Irsay from disposing of his assets, and I think this might violate that order,” Rinella said. Sources in Indianapolis and Chicago confirmed that Irsay borrowed the money from his football club to pay for the property, the Star said. “He said he would pay cash. There will be no mortgage,” said a source familiar with the transaction which is scheduled to close in about a week.

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residents said, citing safety factors. Councilman Albright said he has talked to Bob Hutchings of Public Service Indiana about moving the light. Mayor Warren said the light was moved to its present location (near the Arlington Street intersection) at PSl’s suggestion. -APPROVED THREE ordinances (1985-24, 25 and 26) as forwarded by the Plan Commission. Unanimously passed on first reading, the ordinances, respectively, deal with public structures as an allowable use as a special exception in all districts; public schools as an allowable R-l use, while deleting private schools and making university uses allowable in the R-2 district; and defining accessory structures and their use. -Passed on all three readings Ordinance 1985-21, transfering $2,000 in Cumulative Captial Improvement funds for remodeling of the police station to accommodate central dispatch. -Recommended that a handicapped parking space be provided in the DePauw lot adjacent to Larrabee Street for Stephanie Pearson, a 29-year-old polio victim who recently moved into the neighborhood. DePauw spokesman Fred Silan-

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der, in the audience concerning another matter, gave verbal approval of the request. -REAFFIRMED THE 1981 leaf burning ordinance, which allows for burning of leaves only after the mayor has issued an emergency order and given at least 24 hours notice. Burning then has to be supervised by an adult and done only between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Council, however, stressed that it prefers bagging leaves to burning. Glenn Baker of Baker’s RemoveAll will pick up bagged leaves, the mayor said, if they are separated from trash and garbage. Under the terms of Baker’s trash contract with the city, he will accept up to 10 units of trash per household per week. -Gave verbal approval to Councilman Bob Sedlack’s resolution commending the unbeaten, No. 8-ranked Greencastle High School football team for its performance and urging them on to the Class 2A championship in the Hoosier Dome. Several members of the team were in attendance with John Franklin’s GHS government classes Tuesday night. The next regular meeting of the Greencastle City Council is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11 at City Hall.

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