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Ill umllJP J- Reno Gazette-Journal COLUMNISTS 2E RELATIONSHIPS 3E TV LOGS 4E COMICS 5E THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1993 CATHERINE MAYHEW, LIFESTYLE EDITOR: PHONE, 788-6338; FAX, 788-6458 LIFESTYLE ST r- i Health Tip Got a fenced yard? if you do, Heidi, left, might be just the ticket. The year-old Queensland Heeler, a spayed female, weighs about 40 pounds and needs at least a 5-foot fence. She was rescued from Reno Animal Control by For Pet's Sake. Adoption fee is S25-S30. but can be waived for senior.

Details: 333-1885. (Photo courtesv 1-HR Foto, Meadowood.) Deck the halls with allergens. About 30 million Americans suffer from indoor holiday allergies. Some tips: Buy artificial trees; use lights or ribbons instead of evergreen wreaths; avoid spray "snow" and other products; shun poinsettias and dried plants which may collect dust or mold; and if you use candles, be sure they're unscentcd. ROLLAN MEJ.T0N One-point-five decades later, still columnizing Soon after the 15th anniversary of the Rollan Melton column, I shared memories with South Reno Rotary Club members.

Among them: Ernie Martinelli: "Rollie Melton's shorts won the 1988 Greater Reno Balloon Yerington's Walter Cox, now 93, once wrote me, "I like your column, Melton. Each one is better Commercial greetings. Recycled Paper Greetings has introduced a line of political cards, in shops now. Early favorite: "A Republican is someone who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." 'HPS' tf i i I. "The Disappearance of Christina." John Stamos plays a successful man whose life is suddenh turned upside down when his wife (Claire Yarlett) mysteriously disappears during a yachting excursion; when the Coast Guard can't find her body, he becomes the prime suspect in her murder.

9 to 1 1 p.m.. USA Network (cable). TELEVISION Last 'Next Generation' on horizon By Jefferson Graham GANNETT NEW SERV ICE The final episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" will be filmed in March. The next day, the cast will switch soundstages to begin work on a new "Star Trek" movie. Executive producer Rick Berman said the last "Next Generation" episode will be a two-hour goodbye for the crew but it also will introduce the concept for the third "Trek" sequel.

"Voyager." which will premiere in January 1 995 as part of Paramount's new TV network. "Voyager" will take place in the 24th century (the same time period as "The Next Generation" and the second "Star Trek" spinoff. "Deep Space on a new class of Starfleet vessel, the Voyager. In the story line, the heroes are chasing a renegade team of former Startleet officers when both ships land in a sort of Bermuda Triangle of space. "They end up in an odd and unique astronomical phenomenon," Berman said.

A captain ill run the spaceship, but Berman said the gender and ethnic makeup of the character has not been determined. Other spaceship inhabitants ill include a middle-aged Vulcan: a woman who is half human, half Klingon; a holographic character: and an American Indian from a tribe that left earth 1 50 years earlier to settle on another planet. Trekkers had seen the new "Star Trek" movie as an opportunity for the first "Trek" crew (including Kirk. Spock and Bones) to mingle with "The Next Generation" gang (Picard. Rikerand Worf.) But Berman said that's not the focus of the film, currently untitled.

Gannett News Service WARP OUT: Patrick Stewart's Capt. Picard is moving to the big screen. .7 around the world 1 ii TH BLONDN Just in time for Christmas. It's too late to get in at the bottom of the predicted next toy craze: Stock in troubled Lewis Galoob Toys doubled in October in anticipation of the release of ready? Biker Mice From Mars, due in stores this month. Remember, you laughed at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, too.

RENO CONCERT ALAN JACKSON When: Tonight. Opening act Turner Nichols hits the stage at 8 p.m. Where: Lawlor Events Center. Tickets: Call 784-4444. The elder Jackson, incidentally, actually did win the Philco mentioned in the opening line won a of Jackson's honky-tonk smash.

"Chasin' That Neon Rainbow." The radio, dug up from a garage, now is in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Jackson's musical and lyrical instincts are likely to one day earn him a plaque in that hall of greats. A Jackson country song never parodies the form nor falls back on corn. The country-purist line-in-t he-dirt declaration of "Don't Rock the Jukebox" typically sprang from Jackson's real world. It was inspired by his bass player's remark when Jackson bumped against a jukebox.

Jackson instantly heard the possibilities of the line as a broken-hearted plea not to play a rock song because "My heart ain't ready for the Rolling Stones." It's the same sort of everyday inspiration See JACKSON on page 6E The shot heard Like the startled reaction to a gunshot, it freezes us in time. Nov. 22, 1 963. Dealey Plaza. Dallas, Texas.

Many of us can remember where we were, what was happening in our lives when the news came President John F. Kennedy had been shot. As we approach 30 years since the JFK assassination, we want to hear your memories of this tragic and, many believe, pivotal -moment in U.S. history. Write down your thoughts in the space provided, or on a separate piece of paper.

Type, if you can. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. Send it to: JFK Memories Lifestyle Department Reno Gazette-Journal P.O. Box 22000 Reno, Nev. 89520 than the next." Mills Lane, then district attorney, about boxing champion Roberto Duran: "He's so mean I'd be afraid to prosecute Cox him.

Clark Santini was the mouth that roared and bored George Hamilton had a fantastic mind and an office desk resembling a dumpster. Bob Cashell, home from La Costa's Fat Farm, said hunger nearly made him eat a bar of soap Paul Laxalt nipped Monsignor Leo McFadden at a roast: "I've known this geriatric hippie many decades, and liked him for years." Bruno Benna, in column No. 1 (Oct. 8, 1978), defined the true Nevada conservationist: "Owns his own home at Lake After McFadden won $5,000 in a church raffle, the tall man stunned priest and parishioners, bellowing, "Congratulations, Reverend! I'm Bruno Benna from the IRS!" Memories: Chic Hecht, uttering his immortal nuclear suppository pratfall Joe Crowley's wife, Joy, stopping in mid-sentence of a saccharine Melton column about the campus leader: "Who wrote this, Joe? Your mother?" Cory Farley: "I sleep better at night, knowing Ronald Reagan is sleeping." From beloved Fallon sage Bert Crampton: "A writer of smut, to an editor wrotePlease publish my filthy enclosureYou don't have to pay me a dime for the stuffI just want indecent exposure." There was the case of the talking parrot, owned by Helen and Syl Petricciani. It engaged in this exchange with a dinner guest: Bill Raggio: How does it feel to have a state senator in your house? Parrot: Dumb Raggio: What did you call me? Parrot: Dumb Raggio: Did you hear that, Syl? Syl: Dumb Helen Petricciani, a half-hour later: Senator, is there anything special you'd like for dinner? Raggio: Yeah.

How about roast parrot? Back in the early '80s, the Rev. Bob Bowling had a house oft the fourth fairway of Washoe Municipal Golf Course. He was complaining that balls were flying into his yard. To which retired Chamber manager Jud Allen cracked, "Serves you right for having so many hookers in the neighborhood." In Winnemucca, they laughed when a rock 'n' roll musician got his hair caught in a door. Nearby, at Humboldt Fine Arts Gallery, a sign proclaimed, "I've been reading so much about smoking, drinking and sex, that I've given up reading." Quotables: "Chris Ault looks like Mickey Rooney.

May I adopt him?" Bob Hope, at Harrah's Reno. "I went up to the portrait bust of my father (Pappy Smith), put my hands on his bronzed face, and said, 'I love you, Harold Smith. "The greatest thrill was seeing my players come off the stage, holding their academic degrees." Coach Jake Lawlor. Photographer Don Dondero, with apologies to Ogdcn Nash, once wrote me: "I love a finished columnistI really, really doI don't mean one who's polishedI do mean one who's through." Rollan Melton is a Gazette-Journal columnist. His column appears Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays.

is But through others' eyes and ears, he's a pure-country torchbearer and undisputed heartthrob. His 1992 tour pulled in more than 1 2 million, second only to Garth Brooks among country tours, and his dozen big hits include such No. 1 country singles as "I'd Love You All Over Again." "Don't Rock the Jukebox" and "She's Got the Rhythm." His star rating kicked up a notch at September's County Music Association awards, where he captured Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year for "Chattahoochee." At the fan-voted TNN Music City News Awards in June, he aced out both Brooks and Vince Gill for the male vocalist and entertainer awards. Jackson's songs, many of which he wrote or co-wrote, are shot through with deep-country sounds and lyrics. "Chattahoochee" a reminiscence of growing up in the South was No.

5 on Billboard's country chart last week. His third album. "A Lot About Liv in' (And a Little 'Bout has sold more than 1 million copies. Such success has earned the 34-year-old Georgian a home on 1 0 acres in the Brentwood suburbs here and a back-yard fleet of new and meticulously restored cars and motorcycles. "He was a good boy," says Jackson's father, Eugene.

"He worked and saved his money and bought a '55 Thunderbird when he was 1 5. He counted every dime." Balancing act. Alan Jackson is learning how to juggle his roles of pure-country torchbearer and adored sex symbol. By David Zimmerman GANNETT NEWS SERVICE NASHVILLE Alan Jackson, a former shade-tree mechanic, is now a tall and lean hit machine. With an unrelenting string of smashes that began with the instant classic "Here in the Real World" in April 1 990, the 6-foot-4 native of Newnan, has moved unassumingly into country's front ranks.

Even now, he's often battled that his music clicked so big and that his Tall Blondness won an adoring female following. "I listen to Merle Haggard and I think, 'What do people like about Equally confounding, he insists, is his sex-symbol image. "I never thought I was hideous, but I never thought I was good-looking. It's a mystery to me. I see myself loping across the stage in some of those videos and I'm embarrassed." BOOKS Nevada Writers Hall of Fame inductees from two worlds, eras tephen Liu and Sarah FACT FILE RECEPTION When: 6 p.m.

Friday at UNR's Getchell Library. Tickets: $10. Call 784-6433. 1 MI: Winnemucca, scribes of the Silver State's present and past, will be inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame on Friday. The ceremony and reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

at the University of Nevada, Reno's Getchell Library. Liu has been on the Southern Nevada Community College faculty in Las Vegas since 1 973. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1982. In 1985, he received the Nevada Governor's Award for Literature. Liu's book, "Dream Journeys to China," was published in a bilingual edition in 1 982 by the New World Press in Beijing.

Born into the Northern Paiute tribe in 1844 in western Nevada, Sarah Winnemucca was given the name Thocmctony, which means "shellflower." At the time of her birth, the Northern Paiutes and the Wa-shos were the sole inhabitants of the land that is now western Nevada. Winnemucca's book, "Life Among the Paiutes," was published in 1883..