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8A (Efjf Atmiaton tar Monday, Jan. M78 Ella Fitzgerald aids orphange People in the news check from Miss Fitzgerald came in the mail as a "complete surprise" Friday. Miss Fitzgerald sang at a gala here last July to raise funds for the orphanage. About $5,000 was raised then. OSTEND, Belgium (AP) -Singer Ella Fitzgerald has donated $2,000 to the "Ibis" orphanage to help Belgian children, directors of the announced.

They said Sunday that a JOE ZIC Can Make It Easier On You! By ROBIN N. WOLFORD Star Staff Writer Two former Anniston residents are in the news one as a member of a Tennessee state health program and the other as a newly promoted colonel in the Army. Douglas Allen Kirk has transferred to the Department of Mental Health in Nashville, as a planning coordinator for the alcohol and drug abuse program. He formerly served as a counselor for the disability determination section of the Social Security program in the department of education, a post he held for seven years. Kirk's new responsibilities will require drawing up a state plan of alcohol and drug programs.

Kirk is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. D.I. Kirk of Anniston. He and his wife, Catherine, live in Nashville with their son.

R. Grant was promoted to colonel in the Army Dec. 1. The Attalla native has received several awards during his military career, including the Legion of Merit with an Oak Leaf Cluster," the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal and the Air Medal. Grant has served in more than nine offices of the Army, Including intelligence research officer and accounting officer.

A former employee of The Anniston Star's advertising department, Grant is married to the former Joy Ann Little. They have two children, Jim and Donna. 4-Draw Vickie Braden, Belinda Gay Powell and Bruce Scott smith, all of Oxford; David Lamar Bradley, Teresa Lynn Coppock, George Coleman Day, John Lawrence easterwood, Karen Lee Howell, Miriam E. Jackson, Lori Jayne Jones and Kenneth Timothy Landers, all of Jacksonville; Eleanor Schulz Champion of Heflin; Teresa Ann Cheatham of Wellington; Jimmy Wade Collins of Lacey's Spring; Venia Marie Everett of Pisgah; David Wayne Ford, Mary Susan Harvey, Donna Caswell Massey, Mary Jo McKinney and Andrea Mitchell Rice, all of Anniston. Susan Virginia Howard of Arab; Gloria S.

Joyner of Ohatchee; Angela Jane Kines of Cedartown, Janis Kay King of Un.nn Grove; Rebekah Kelley Marsh and Terry Sue Scott, both of Guntersville; Marilyn McCoy of Fort McClellan: Gretchen Chapman McCrelles of Horton; Lona Virginia Melton of Sterrett; Danny Martin Mince of Fort Payne; Joyce Evangeline Morgan of Columbus, Ga. Billie Ann Pinckard of Troy. Carole Sue Pitts and Kristy Ann Smith, both of Binriinghinn; Beverly Jean Prince of Gadsden; Cheryl Anne Renfroe of Piedmont; Kathy Marlene Rowe of Cedar Bluff; Deborah Jean Smith of Odenville; Patricia Anne Smith of Valley Head; Karen Sue Spivey of Childersburg; Terry B. Scott of Decatur; and Virginia Dianne Williamson of Albertville. Four women have been chosen as class beauties at JSU and will be featured in the school yearbook.

The Mimosa. They are Elaine Barnes, a freshman from LaGrange, Beth Meadows, a Huntsville sophomore; Laura Poe, an Odenville junior; and Gayle Mitchell, a Calera senior. "Mr. and Miss Friendly" also have been chosen at JSU. Cedric Fuller of Huntsville and Sheila Austin of Birmingham won the honor and will be pictured in The Mimosa, Among the candidates for the Miss Mimosa crown at JSU are Cheryl' Burgess of Alexandria and DebbieWallace of Anniston.

Miss Mimosa, the most coveted beauty title at JSU, will be selected this week. The winner will be featured in the school yearbook. The Mimosa. Metal BJ LsuA LA SPIVEY SLEDGE GRANT FULLER AUSTIN WALLACE BURGESS VSmmmmmmA XV 1 L4JA LC Filing Cabinet I 95 Low Joe Zic Price POE MITCHELL MEADOWS BARNES "Instant Instantaneous Delivery" JOE ZIC Office Equipment and Supplies 1201 Noble St. Anniston Dial 236-6396 Students in American Universities and Colleges.

They are: Dewey Barker and James Van Hall, both of Weaver; Donna Kaye Bennich of Hartselle; Two persons involved in higher college education also are in the news. The Rev. Frank Sledge, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Roanoke, has elected to a four-year term to the Judson College Board of Governors. The women's liberal arts college is an agency of the Alabama Baptist State Convention. William Whartenby, a freshman at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, recently received a Ruth and Herschel Seder Fund Scholarship Whartenby, an electrical engineering major, is the son of Mrs.

Franklee Whartenby of Jacksonville. A student at Wheaton College in Illinois has been named to the dean's list for the first quarter of the academic year. He is James Clay Weatherly, son of James Weatherly of Anniston. Karen Sue Spivey of Childersburg was awarded an academic scholarship to Jacksonville State University by the Birmingham Chapter tpi the American Society of Women Accountants. A senior, she-is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. H.C. Spivey. Forty-six students from JSU have been selected as members of Who's Who Among itro- mrMotoi totttceco vaintas is coanfiaiB: a lot of nay feeliim abouit smmkiii it had taste. And a lot less tar than what I'd been smoking.

"As far as "I like to smoke, and what I like is a cigarette that isn't timid on taste. But I'm not living in some ivorv tower. I Visitors pay their repects at grave of Elvis Presley 9,600 fans are on hand to mark Elvis's birthday I'm concerned, when I switched hear the things being said against high-tar smoking as well as the been Elvis' 43rd birthday. Presley died Aug. 16 of a heart ailment.

The Sex Pistols whose fans to Vantage, 1 changed to a cigarette I could enjoy. By The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. Rock music symbolized by sideburns and safety pins met in Memphis when Elvis Presley fans gathered to observe his birthday the same weekend the Sex Pistols introduced the city to punk rock. Some complained about consumer ripoffs, but in the end the dead king of rock 'n' roll drew more of a crowd than the living, breathing British rockers, now on a U.S. tour.

Security officials at Grace-land, the mansion where Presley lived, died and is now buried, said 9.600 fans showed up during the weekend to commemorate what would have again. What's being done in his name isn't first class. I don't even think it's fourth class." More than 1.000 floral arrangements including a wreath of red and white carnations from Colonel Tom Parker, the architect of Presley's career were sent to the mansion. Doreen O'Brien. 22, and her brother, Tim.

14, drove from Los Angeles to see the grave-sites. "I came just to be close to him," said Miss O'Brien. "I consider myself more a friend than a fan because I didn't love Elvis just because he was good-looking or talented. I loved him because he was a warmffiend-ly, good-humored and loving sometimes adorn themselves with safety pins stuck through their ears or cheeks drew an audience of 650 and had a tough time holding on to that. Many in the audience walked out minutes after the show began Fri-dy night.

'IThis is gross," said Missy Bynum, 23. of Memphis, watching lead singer Johnny Rotten blow his nose without benefit of handkerchief. The Elvis faithful attended revival-like gatherings to remember the king. Two separate events were staged "Remembering Elvis" at the fairgrounds and "A Tribute to next guy. "And so I started looking.

For a low-tar smoke that had some honest-to-goodness cigarette taste. "It wasn't easy. The low-tar cigarettes I tried tasted like chalk. And high-tar cigarettes were starting to taste rougher as I went along. "Then I tried a pack of Vantage.

It was smooth yet 1 Rick Lawrence 'Jffli' 1 Metairie. Louisiana Elvis" at the Cook Convention Center. At the fairgrounds event, jy i I which cost $4 to enter, Pres- AOCZ Keeping IC a nisi lusiuiiiitcu vduuidl of his beds were on his apartment and one display. Regular, Menthol, Honor given Totie Fields LAS VEGAS (AP) Totie Fields, the comedienne who made a nightclub and theater comeback after a leg amputation and a string of other medical maladies, has been named "Entertainer of the Year" by the American Guild of Variety Artists. The guild, which has been presenting entertainment awards for eight years, also selected Miss Fields as female comedy star of the year.

Other 1977 awards were announced previously. The awards ceremony, hosted -by comedian Jackie Gleason at Caesars Palace fiere7 will be hv PnCTV nit Ian and Vintage 100s. The convention center exhibition, brought to Memphis by promoter Ed Say of Columbus, Ohio, offered fans copies of a home movie of the Presley funeral for $33, and candid photographs of Presley concerts in several cities. Admission was $2.50. A number of complaints about the quality and nature of the exhibits were reported, and Dick Grob, chief of security at the Presley mansion, said he was sorry that "the people feel they're getting ripped off." 'Everytlg-Ivhr'tfldwar first class," Grob said.

"I've NEW YORK (AP) Mayor Edward Koch says he likes his three-room Greenwich Village apartment better than Gracie Mansion. So he's moved out of the official mayor's residence. "Gracie Mansion's nice, but it's like a hotel," Koch said over the weekend. "I rattle around there." Koch, a bachelor, moved into the 14-room mansion after taking office a week ago The residence, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, was built in 1799. It has a staff of four kitchen and nouse Workers.

Koch said he will live in his apartment overlooking Washington Square Park and use A lot of tastewithout a lot of tar. Warning: Tfje Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. seen him stop in the middle of a song that wasn't right, apolo- FILTER: 11 mg. 0.7 mg. nicoiine.

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