Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 70, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 November 1990 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC November 24,1990

People in the news Scratched eye idles Billy Idol LOS ANGELES (AP) BiUy Idol canceled four concerts in Europe this week when grit got under his contact lenses and scratched his eyebaU. The rock star, coming back from a serious motorcycle accident, is in the second week of his “Charmed Life” European tour. He resumed performing in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday night, wearing a patch over his injured eye and sunglasses to protect himself from the bright stage lights, said spokeswoman Sharon Chevin in London. The injury occurred during an outdoor show in Oslo, Noway, last Saturday, said another spokeswomsin, Sarah McMullin, in Houston. Idol canceled concerts in Gothenberg, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Brussels, Belgium. He was to make up the Brussels concert today and plans to reschedule the other shows, Chevin said. The European tour started Nov. 14 in Helsinki, Finland. • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) country singer Johnny Paycheck, best known for the working-class anthem “Take This Job and Shove It,” has filed for bankruptcy. Paycheck sought protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Charleston, according to court documents filed Nov. 16. The singer, whose real name is Donald Lytel, is serving a 7- to Q’/t-year prison sentence in the Madison Correctional Institution in London, Ohio, for aggravated assault. Paycheck’s court filing listed more than $1.6 million in debts, most owed to the Internal Revenue Service. No assets were listed. He was sentenced to prison last year after being convicted of shooting and wounding a man on Dec. 19,1985, in a Hillsboro, Ohio, bar. He is eligible for parole in December 1994. • MIAMI (AP) Two members of the singing group Menudo, which once was active in Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign, were fired hours after their arrest for alleged marijuana possession, a spokesman said. Sergio Gonzalez, 18, and Ruben Gomez, 16, were arrest ed Thursday at Miami International Airport, Metro-Dade police Lt. James Kaelin said. Oscar Llord, general manager for Miami-based Sonoitone Music, said Friday the Puerto Rican-based group’s management had fired the singers. Menudo was on a stopover en route from Mexico City to Venezuela when a U.S. Customs Service dog sniffed out the marijuana, Kaelin said. Customs agents confiscated about 1.6 ounces of pot from Gonzalez and 1.3 ounces from Gomez. They were charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. Members of Menudo, which loosely translates as “small change,” are replaced with younger members as they get too old to appeal to their pre-teen and teen-age audiences.

Dear Abby

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DEAR ABBY: This is for “The Lonesome Caretaker,” who cared for her husband who had Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years. She is to be commended for her loyalty and devotion. It is a 11 too common for one person to bear the burden of caring for an ailing spouse, parent or loved one with little help from other family members. We have a fairly new help group in Gadsden, Ala. We caregivers meet with other caregivers, exchanging information and finding comfort in the company of others who share the same kind of loneliness and problems. We have a gentleman in our group who has taken care of his wife for 16 years. (She suffers from Alzheimer’s.) We call our group “W.1.M.,” which stands for “Women in the Middle.” Anyone wantinginformation on how to start a W.I.M. group in his or her area should send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope to: Women in the Middle Inc., P.O. Box 2811, Gadsden, Ala. 35903. This group is not exclusively for women it’s a support group for the entire family. We call ourselves “women” in the middle because caregiving the never-ending laundry, cooking, cleaning and nurturing that go along with caring for those who are unable to care for themselves

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LOS ANGELES (AP) South African playwright Athol Fugard, who calls on the young of his nation to lead the battle against apartheid, took his message to U.S. high school students, some of whom were skeptical. A group of students from Dorsey High School critiqued Fugard’s play “My Africa! My Children!,” after viewing a show this week at the Henry Fonda Theatre. The play centers on three South Africans a black teacher and two gifted students, one black, the other white. “How can you, as a white man, speak for black people?” a black student asked Fugard. “I accept no limitations on my imagination,” he said. “The mission of artists is to transcend the limits of human experience and go anywhere.” • BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) David Lynch, the creator of the offbeat TV series “Twin Peaks,” says he peppers the show with references to his native Montana because the state is “just a part of my life.” “I only spent a couple of months (in Montana) actually,” Lynch said in a recent interview. “But I’ve always heard stories from my dad about Montana.” Lynch moved with his family from Missoula to Sandpoint, Idaho, while still an infant. But his parents still own a cabin in Whitefish, Mont. His grandfather homesteaded near Highwood, Mont., and his father was bom in Fort Benton, Mont. He said “Twin Peaks” is a town that could be anywhere in Washington, Idaho or Montana. Although the show often dwells on the darker side of small-town existence, he said he chose the Northwest setting because of its “underlying strength and wholesomeness.” “I hope that the Northwest stays pure and that people protect what they have,” Lynch said. • HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) Former President Carter says the pen is mightier than the peanut. Carter revealed Friday that he’d recently paid off a $1 million debt on his family peanut business in Plains, Ga., with proceeds from book sales. “We’ve had very good income off the sales of our bodes,” Carter said at Hofstra University, where a three-day seminar on his administration began Friday. “They’ve all been best sellers.” Carter’s books include “Why Not the Best,” “A Government as Good as its People” and “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.”

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has traditionally been the role of women. Please print this, Abby, and spread the word. CAROL J. HAMILTON, COLLINSVILLE, ALA. DEAR CAROL: Your letter could not have been more timely. Congress has officially designated Nov. 24-30 as National Caregivers Week. Thank you for alerting other caregivers that there is strength as well as comfort and camaraderie in organizing. ♦ * * DEAR ABBY: I have been a church pastor for many years, during which time I have officiated at hundreds of weddings and attended almost as many wedding receptions. Some of

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