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Page 8 Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana Thursday, September 9, 1982 Briefs: Divers Seek Ship Wreckage POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE. Calif. (UPD Divers have detected the presence of "magnetic anomalies" on the floor of Drake's Bay and underwater archaeologists will use heavy equipment to uncover them next week. The National Park Service said divers using hand-held underwater metal detectors confirmed the presence of what they think are shipwrecks during a two-week survey of the waters 35 miles north of San Francisco. A 33-foot Coast Guard vessel with high technology equipment aboard and a computer loaned by Texas were combined to "map" the bottom of the crescent-shaped bay, which is believed to be the graveyard of up to 60 vessels, including a three- masted Spanish galleon sunk in a storm 400 years ago.

Liddy May Bite Bullet Again WASHINGTON (UPD The government is moving to seize profits from G. Gordon Liddy's books, movie rights and lectures to collect the $23,813 unpaid balance of the Watergate mastermind's $40,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Royce Lamberth said the Justice Department obtained a court order Wednesday to attach earnings from Liddy's two books, sale of the movie rights to his bestseller and fees from his lecture circuit. Liddy has paid $16,187 on the fine, and has made no payment since Aug.

1981, officials said. Liddy worked for the Committee to Re-elect the President and was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the 1972 Watergate break-in of the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Washington. No Charges Planned In Death KINGSPORT, Tenn. (UPD Because a dying patient asked his nurses to pull the plug on his respirator, they won't be prosecuted, officials say. Thomas Hoover, 54, dying of what the hospital would only describe as lung disease, had the legal right to decide to stop his life support system, said Sullivan County District Attorney General Carl Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick's office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation refused to identify the nurses involved with Hoover's death. Investigators said two nurses were involved one pulled the plug while the other watched. The respirator was apparently turned back on after Hoover died, investigators said. After spending seven weeks in intensive care, Hoover asked to be taken off the respirator, according to the results of an investigation revealed Wednesday by Kirkpatrick and his staff. Films Set Box Office Record HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Moviegoers shelled out $1.4 billion in the past 15 weeks to see this summer's string of motion picture blockbusters, the most successful Hollywood box office season in history.

The main reason was the popular "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial," which earned a whopping $240 million, 18 percent of the total summer take. Other summer blockbusters were "Rocky III" with $111 million; "Star Trek II," $76 million; "Poltergeist," $65.7 million; "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," $60.7 million; "Annie," $52.7 million and "Conan the Barbarian," $50 million. Other hits were Clint Eastwood's "Firefox" and "An Officer and a Gentleman," both $45 million, along with "Friday the 13th Part 3," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and The Sword and the Sorcerer." Three Face Murder Charges NEW YORK (UPI) Jail guards kept a suicide watch today on three young male prostitutes waiting to be returned to Florida to face first-degree murder charges in the sadistic slaying of the University of Florida's "junk food professor." The three, including a 15-year-old, waived extradition at a hearing Wednesday after they were arrested with the help of New York's homosexual community, police said. Officials said the blond, boyish suspects were scheduled to return to Gainesville today to face first-degree murder charges in the weekend killing of Howard Appledorf, 41.

Viet Children To Emigrate WASHINGTON (UPI) State Department officials say they have received unofficial and unconfirmed reports from Hanoi that the Vietnamese government is willing to let children of American and Vietnamese parents emigrate. An official said Wednesday that the unofficial report came from a group of American members of the World Church Service who met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach Aug. 23 in Hanoi. Members of the group quoted Thach as saying Vietnam will permit 63 chilren of mixed parentage to emigrate immediately. Editor Gets To Root Of Evil YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (UPI) Veteran Youngstown Vindicator political editor Clingan Jackson knows grass roots when he sees them.

Jackson became suspicious of people who were walking near 23 acres of land he had recently purchased. When he investigated he found what he believed to be marijuana plants. Police summoned to the property found that the plants would produce up to 400 pounds of dried marijuana, with a harvest value of. $600,000 to $800,000. Police crews began uprooting the plants, some of which were eight-feet tall.

UPI Miss California Debra Sue Maffett Swimsuit Winner In Miss America Pageant Miss Kentucky Captures Talent Prize In Pageant ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) Miss Kentucky, Gwendolyn Suzann Witten, won the first of three talent competitions at the 1982 Miss American Pageant, singing a semi-classical' an- rangement of the song "And This is My Beloved" from the Broadway musical "Kismet." The tall, University of Louisville music graduate charmed the panel of seven contest judges and a convention hall audience of about 8,700 people with her rendition of the song, expressing the deep feeling of a woman for her lover. Miss Whitten, wearing a white chiffon gown, broke into tears as master of ceremonies, Gary Collins, announced her name as winner Wednesday night. "I was excited, scared and happy," Miss Whitten said later. "And I always cry.

I am real sentimenlal." In Ihe earlier swimsuil compelition, Miss California, Debra Sue Maffett, bested 16 other women. Miss Maffett, 25, of Anaheim, a Lamar University graduate who has started her own modeling agency, wore a snow white swimsuil in the competition. The tall blue-eyed blonde wants to be a professional singer and talk show hostess. Miss Whitten, 23, of Vine Grove, intends to obtain a masters in vocal performance and hopes to sing with an opera in the fulure. Her father is a maintenance engineer and her mother is a bank cashier.

She has one 16-year-old sister. Ms. Whitten, who has participated in pageants since she was 16 years old, said her song had no special significance. "I just like it and I just really think it fits me," she said. "I think I -can do better, but I think I really had my heart in it tonight." Miss Maffett said she wore her "good luck" swimsuit for Ihe compelilion.

"This suil is an old one, given to me by a friend, Ava Duckett, in Beau- monl.Texas, back in 1978," she said "It is old and kind of worn out but I would not change it for the world." Mistress Called "Prostitute" LOS ANGELES (UPI) Alfred Bloomingdale's widow insists her lale husband owes nothing to his mistress, saying the palimony suit filed by the former model should be dismissed because she had only an "unenforceable contract for prostitution." The attorney for socialite Betsy Bloomingdale said Wednesday the contracls between Vicki Morgan, 29, and the 66-year-old multimillionaire were primarily for extramarital sex and thus were "unenforceable and illegal." "Morgan is saying a mistress has the right of support even though she has remarried two times and Bloomingdale has died," attorney Hillel Chodos said in his appeal for a dismissal. "She wanls larger amounls over a longer period of lime than a wife. li's an absurd idea." "In plain English what this case is all about is mistress' rights," he said. But celebrity attorney Marvin Mitchelson, representing Miss Morgan, told the court the contracts were not explicitly or primarily for sex. Neither Miss Morgan nor Mrs.

Bloomingdale appeared in court for the' brief hearing. Miss Morgan filed a $5 million palimony suit in July against Bloomingdale, the department store heir and a member of President Reagan's "kitchen Cabinet," for breaching con- tracls for lifelong support. Bloomingdale died of cancer Aug. 20. Miss Morgan, who claims she and Bloomingdale had a 12-year affair, later amended the suit to include a $5 million action against Mrs.

Bloomingdale for forcing her husband to halt support payments to Miss Morgan. In a sworn statement attached to her attorney's arguments against dismissing the suit, Miss Morgan did not deny she had a romantic affair with the millionaire but claimed she never agreed to perform "sexual services" for money. "He told me many times that what he wanted from me was affection and understanding," she said. "And I gave Alfred thai affection and understanding for 12 years, and with it, the emolional comfort thai he desperately needed." First National Bank of Logansport says: DON'T YOU THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOGANSPORT OOWKTOWN NOATHIIM UXWNWOrTMALL OALVESTON TWELVE MILE CASS COUNTY 4-H CLUB PANCAKE DAY SaturdaySept, 11 th 4-H Community Center 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Children under Enjoy all the pancakes you can eat, sausage, orange juice, milk and support the 4-H Association program to develop its fairground facilities. Co-sponsored by Cass County 4-H Association and County Chamber of Commerce Founder Of CBS Retiring, Almost NEW YORK (UPI) William S. Paley, who founded CBS in 1928 and brought such stars as Jack Benny, Lucille Ball and Walter Cronkite into millions of American homes, says he will resign when his current term expires April 20,1983. Paley, who will be 81 Sept. 28, said Wednesday Thomas.

H. Wyman, CBS president and chief executive officer, would succeed him as chairman. But even in ending 55 years of personal control of the network, Paley will not retire. He said he would become a partner in the Whitcom Investment Company which owns one-third interest in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. Paley said he will remain with CBS as a consultant, retain his $340,000 a year salary and keep nearly 2 million shares of CBS stock worth an estimated $74 million.

Published reports have estimated his personal wealth at more than $500 million. Paley, the son of a cigar merchant from Philadel- William Paley Thomas Wyman Stepping Down Successor phia, bought out the financially ailing Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System for $400,000 in 1928. He started a 16-station radio chain that prospered and expanded because of Paley's ability to sign the brightest stars in the entertainment business and build a news operation second to none. Even in 1930, he foresaw the power of television. He signed such talents as Benny, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason and the CBS network was rated No.

1 for two decades. CBS ran successful shows that became classics in the television industry, including "I Love Lucy," "Gunsmoke," "The Ed Sullivan Show," and "All in the Family." He also helped build the strong tradition in news by hiring Edward R. Murrow and Cronkite. Paley gave up his position as chief executive to John D. Backe in 1977, although he retained his position as chairman.

Backe was dismissed in 1980. Tactics Change In Cancer War SEATTLE (UPI) Researchers are changing tactics in the war against cancer by stepping up the effort to find chemicals that prevent it rather than trying to eliminate all agents causing the disease. A variety of substances such as beta carotene in carrots and selenium in most foods already are under investigation and scientists report an increasing number of other natural and synthetic chemicals are being studied as possible cancer preventers. "I'm very excited about it," said Dr. Vincent DeVita, who as director of the government's National Cancer Institute is the head of the nation's effort against cancer.

"It seems to me we have a lot of information that suggests we're going to be able to interfere with cancer," he said Wednesday at a briefing at the 13th International Cancer Congress. DeVita said the cancer institute has increased its support of such studies after "a little twisting and turning of our machinery to get it pointed in the right direction." "Most of the emphasis in preceding decades was on removing the initiator from the environment," he said. "That turns out to be very difficult although it's a worthwhile attempt. It turns out there are many more things around that with promotion (of cancer)." Dr. Lee W.

Wallenberg, professor of laboratory medicine al the University of Minnesota, said in an opening session of the congress that some cancer- preventing compounds suppress the cancer process and others "simply block the cancer-producing agent from ever hitting its target He said his laboratory has found two naturally occurring constiluenls of coffee that appear to be able to prevent cancer in rats. They are kahweol palmitate and cafestol palmitate. Wallenberg said the studies, still in the early stage, indicate the two compounds produce "a panorama of protective effects." "It's as if you rang a bell and suddenly you had all kinds of things coming aboul," he said. "They're exlremely interesting compounds." But Wallenberg said researchers have nol invesligaled Ihese chemicals for any adverse effecls when used in large amounls. "It's going to take us some time to find out what their real implications are for man," he said.

"Once you find an inhibitor, then you have lo explore il very extensively lo make sure you're nol dealing with something which might have an unexpected toxic or adverse side effect." An estimated 8,000 health professionals from 95 countries are expected to attend the cancer meeting. It runs through next Wednesday and more than 4,000 reports on all aspects of cancer will be presented. Crime Reports Scary SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Reading about crime in newspapers scares citizens as much as being exposed to it, particularly if they are well-educated whites, a new study concludes. Arizona State University sociologists sludying crime stalislics and crimes reported in local papers in 1979-1980 found although the crime rate increased only slightly, newspaper coverage of crime spurred added awareness and fear among residents. Most affected by crime reporting were well-educated whites, possibly because they more often read newspapers, the researchers said Tuesday in presenting the results of the study to the 77th Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.

For minorities and the less well-educated, the lack of confidence in police outweighs fear of "crime waves," they said. 'Whatever the cause, local media suddenly 'discovered' in early 1980 thai Phoenix was being savaged by crime," me report states, even though instances of criminal victimization remained "constant" in the same period. FULLY COOKED HAM SLICES LB. GRADE "A LARGE EGGS 31812th STREET LOGANSPORT. IN.