Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 276, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 July 1988 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC JULY 30,1988

People in the news Crystal Gayle on the banks of the Wabash WABASH, Ind. (AP) All eyes in town are turned on country singer Crystal Gayle, who returned home this week for the first time in nearly a decade. Miss Gayle, 37, known for the hit “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” will be grand marshal of the annual Canal Days Parade on Saturday before playing two benefit concerts. Miss Gayle, who lives in Nashville, Tenn., arrived midweek to visit family and friends. “I’m planning on visiting some of the old hangouts and maybe reliving my childhood a little,” she said. Miss Gayle, youngest of eight children including singer Loretta Lynn, released the first of several hit albums in 1974, including “Talking in Your Sleep.” • CINCINNATI (AP) A movie filmed partly in Cincinnati about the 1919 scandal in which Chicago White Sox players allegedly threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds makes its premiere Aug. 24 in suburban Cincinnati. Parts of the movie “Eight Men Out” were filmed during the past year in Cincinnati’s downtown and the neighborhoods of Walnut Hills and Over-the-Rhine. Other scenes were filmed at Bush Stadium in Indianapolis. Movie director John Sayles, producers Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sanford, and executive producer Barbara Boyle are to attend the premiere showing, spokesmen announced. The Orion Pictures film stars Christopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen and D.B. Sweeney. • BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Actress Jill Ireland says she was “abolutely terrified” when she learned for the second time that she has cancer, four years after losing her right breast to a malignancy. Miss Ireland, 52, who is married to actor Charles Bronson, said Friday she was diagnosed this week with a localized malignancy in her lymph nodes, but it is not spreading and she will fight it with radiation and a technique called visualization. The cancer was discovered when Miss Ireland so. ~'\i treatment for what she thought was a strained shoulder. Miss Ireland wrote a best-selling book, “Life Wish,” about her 1984 bout with cancer. She said her new book, “Life Lines,” will appear in March.

Dear Abby Letter gets point across to moochers

DEAR ABBY: The letter from “On the Seashore,” who complained about well-heeled moochers, reminded me of the way my late sister dealt with those leeches. She had a plan that never failed. I’ve concocted a letter like the one she would use. The names are fictitious, of course: “Dear Janice: Harry and I are thrilled to learn that you and Bob are planning to visit us. We look forward to seeing you and hearing about your latest trip to Europe. We know that you wouldn’t dream of imposing on us knowing how cramped we are, but we will gladly make a hotel reservation for you. In keeping with your expensive taste, I recommend The Paymore Plaza. It may not compare with the Ritz in Paris, or the Excelsior in Rome, but you’ll find it adequate and surprisingly reasonable with rates that start at only $165 a day. And for S2O per person, its limousine will pick you up at the airport. However, you may want to rent a car if you plan to do some sightseeing here. There are several car rental offices right at the airport how convenient! “It’s so sweet of you to want to include us in your travel plans. Please let us know when you’ll be here so we can make all the necessary arrangements for you. Love, Denise” Abby, if this doesn’t work, nothing will. I hope you print this, as many of your readers will want to keep it on their writing tables or next to their phones. 0.G., ANYWHERE, U.S.A. DEAR 0.G.: Should anyone

THE FAMILY CIRCUS @ By Bil Keane

“There she is Old Ironsides.” “If its sides were iron wouldn’t it sink?”

WILLIE NELSON Subject of protest

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) Hundreds of police from at least four states picketed a concert by country-wes-tern singer Willie Nelson, protesting his support of an American Indian activist convicted of killing two FBI agents. “We don’t take lightly anyone who supports cop killers,” said Wayne Sacco, president of the Rhode Island Fraternal Order of Police. About 600 people participated in Friday’s demonstration, an officer in charge of crowd control estimated. Police officers and FBI agents from Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut took part in the protest. Alxiut 50 people, including Indians from several tribes wearing animal skins and ceremonial costumes, held a counterdemonstration nearby. Nelson performed at a concert in California last October to raise legal fees for Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life sentences for the 1975 murder of the two FBI agents on a South Dakota Indian reservation. Peltier’s supporters say he was framed because of his leadership of the American Indian Movement, and are seeking a new trial. Similar demonstrations are scheduled for Sunday in Boston and for Aug. 27 in Charleston, W. Va., where Nelson is to sing. • NEW YORK (AP) Hot-tempered actor Sean Penn won’t face criminal mischief charges, but he says he’ll pay for repairs to a news photographer’s car that he kicked. The 27-year-old actor was accused of giving the boot to the driver’s side door of New York Post photographer Paul Adao’s car on July 3. Adao said Penn attacked him as he sat in the driver’s seat photographing the actor and his wife, the singer Madonna, as they left a case. During a five-minute hearing Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court both sides agreed to drop the matter, and Penn said he would pay damages. Adao said it would cost Penn about SBOO to fix the car door. He said Penn would also pay the cost of renting a car while Adao’s auto is being repaired.

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Abigail Van Buren

ever write a book titled “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,” your suggested letter should be included. * * * DEAR ABBY: Last March you published a solution to a letter concerning a woman who was asked to return a piano to her friend’s daughter 36 years after the friend gave it to her. The reader advised handing the relative a large “storage” bill along with the piano enough to cover the cost of a new instrument and insist on cash. Your response: “What a great idea. Judge Wapner, move over.” Your readers may not know that there are alternatives to going to court to settle minor neighbor or family grievances. One alternative is to use a community volunteer mediation program. Disputes over fences, loud music, barking dogs, or between landlord/tenant or business/consumer can be settled for free or very inexpensively by the parties involved meeting with

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neutral, impartial mediators who assist them in coming to a mutually satisfactory agreement. As both parties have negotiated their disputes themselves, the compliance to the agreement is very high. On “People’s Court,” Judge Wapner makes the decision for the parties, whereas in mediation, the decision is made by the parties. Mediation can be fast, convenient, confidential and free in many communities. For information on a local program, call the information and referral agency sponsored by the United Way or check the Yellow Pages. SUE NELSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WEST SUBURBAN MEDIATION CENTER, HOPKINS, MINN. DEAR SUE: Live and learn! Thank you for a helpful public service. Since the name can vary from community to community, another way to get in touch with your local volunteer mediation program is to telephone the local public defender’s office and ask for the legal aid/mediation source in your area. * * * Everything you’ll need to know about planning a wedding can be found in Abby’s booklet, “How to Have a Lovely Wedding.” Send your name and address, clearly printed, plus check or money order for $2.89 ($3.39 in Canada) to: Dear Abby, Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, 111. 61054 (postage and handling included).

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