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Aug. 18, 1983 MinneapolH Star and Tribune mm sisu Lost Woody Guthrie tunes generate hunt Associated Prett Portland, Ore. In 30 days and for about 1300 back In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 30 songs for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), among them "Roll on, Columbia" and "Pastures of Plenty." But as many as half 'of the songs have been lost since Guthrie recorded Jhem on acetate 78s In the basement of the federal power agency's building here. Now, the BPA is trying to track them down. chapter of life in the Pacific Ilorthwest was so brief, yet it had so frgich impact," said BiU Murlln, an St agency audio-visual specialist who Is trying to locate the sheet music or recordings of the missing songs.

Guthrie met BPA officials in 1940 In where they were editing a film on Columbia River hydroelectric projects. A second film was planned for the next year. "He heard about what we were doing and came around and inquired," Stephen B. Kahn of Carmel, who was then the agency's assistant information director, recalled this week in a telephone interview. "When we came back to Portland he followed us back, and he brought his guitar along and proceeded to per-.

form," Kahn said. Kahn was so Impressed that he sent Guthrie to Paul J. Raver, the agency's administrator. The folkslnger "thrilled him for an hour with his playing and singing, and Raver approved his appointment for 30 days for $300," Kahn said. Pour Guthrie songs were used In the film "The Columbia" "Roll on, Columbia," "Pastures of Plenty," "The Ballad of Grand Coulee Dam" and "The Biggest Thing that Man Has Ever Done." But apparently no one kept a list of all the songs, and some of the ace- tates were lost "He wrote some songs that weren't quite so hot," said Kahn.

"You can't expect 30 hit tunes in 30 days." 4 With the agency's 50th anniversary coming up in 1987, "We discussed the idea of filling in some of the holes in the Woody Guthrie story," Murlln said. The songs would be used in an exhibit So far, Murlin has located 13 of the recordings including, he said, the only known one Guthrie did of "Roll on, Columbia." Guthrie, an Oklahoma native whose songs included "So Long, 'It's Been Good to Know You" and "This Land Is Your Land," died in 1967. wmsm nase 4C. ICOLEMAN: Salary may hoist others' pay Continued from nase 1C -1 JI i i il' ui Continued from page 1C IT em tlllifltiy rrri Joan Stoffnd sense to come In from the rain. Since Cora-Ann Mihallk $100,000 a year to Channel 11.

"WTCN has a long ways to go to catch up to Channels A and 5 and if he's the person who can help them do it then he's probably worth any amount of money," Fitzpatrick said. "If he can get people to tune in, that translates into enormous amounts of money." Pierce, a redhead who was runnerup in a Miss California contest is a native of Exeter, Calif. She has a degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University and worked at several small radio and television stations in New England and Virginia before becoming an anchor at KSEE-TV in Fresno, near her hometown. Channel 11 will upveil a new set the night that Magers and Pierce first go on the air. A hole has been cut through a wall of the station's Golden Valley studio so that forecaster Paul Douglas can stand outside in the weather when he wants to.

Let's hope he has enough John Bachman said the tests of Magers, which were done without identifying him by name, elicited "overwhelming, positive responses" from viewers. "People seemed to feel he really knew what he was talking about and that he had an excellent on-air presence," Kirby said. The station's interest in Magers was confirmed when it learned that a San Francisco-based television talent service ranks Magers as one of the -most promising anchors in the country. Don Fitzpatrick, head of Don Fitzpatrick and Associates, said Wednesday that his service ranks Magers in the top five percent of 1,372 anchors working in 150 markets who were studied by his company last year. "He's a good reporter and he's a real journalist" said.

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of Shakopee on Hwy. 169 "11 News," WTCN's awkward title for its news programs, will be changed next month to (Why couldn't you think of this?) "News 11." Kirby said research showed the' audience would be more comfortable with "News 11." WCCO-AM's popular afternoon announcer, Dan Hertsgaard, is on a medical leave for treatment of depression and anxiety. Hertsgaard, 36, took a similar leave three years ago for psychiatric treatment. Station officials say that who began his leave in June, plans to return to WCCO but that no date has been set It's also not certain that he will return to his old Ho-3 p.m. weekday slot.

"Hertsgaard Joined the station in 1977. after jumping from KSTP-FM where he was a morning announcer. confirm that stuff anymore," he said. "I realized that the best way to respond to it was to ignore it. "Given my Irish love of combat to have refrained from fighting any editorial columnist, bishop, wise person for eight months Is high virtue.

I hope that God is noting these things, giving me full credit for it as I earn my way out of hell." Ffenaissance 'Festival King Henry beckons you filled with pleasures and Fyne handcrafted wares. Pariah image hard to I fith all of this, other Twin Cities I television anchors should be. i WTCN's new owner, the Gannett 5 broadcasting Group, is paying Stagers and Pierce hefty salaries nat might have a ripple effect at 4her stations. 5 WCCO-TV'S Dave Moore and Pat Biles have been regarded as the Sighest paid anchors in town, with ehch thought to earn more than i 6 00,000. But Magers, coming to a 5 station that has only about one-third as many viewers as WCCO, will also bis paid in excess of $100,000.

And Cferce will receive that much by the end of her 3-year contract ffltirhv whit rpfiisino in rilvulo Hia exact amount of Magers' pay, I 'St would be wrong" to report 0 said that it as less than six figures). those kind of bucks, being paid at a 5 station that has traditionally been a distant third in the ratings, may infjate anchor salaries at the other actions in town. Imagers has a reputation for being Selling to tackle the reporting end of jastory. He graduated from the Slniversity of Washington in 1976 ad also has a law degree from Hjunline University. Sile in law school, Magers spent -two years doing odd jobs around the newsroom at KSTP-TV where big Jfcjother Ron was top anchor.

(Ron Magers is now an anchor at WMAQ-wtvthe NBC-owned station in He then got a Job as a grfporter at a Portland, station where he worked for two years btore taking an anchor-reporting at KGTV in San Diego in 1981. Sogers and Pierce were selected by JWJCCN as the result of audience research conducted by the station to who would have the Jgdngest appeal to viewers. Kirby REE LE "Continued from page 1C Te truth of Greeley's Image of himself as a pariah is hard to confirm. Officially the Chicago archdiocese classifies Greeley as a priest in good standing." Of course, 'diocesan officials may be hesitant to gtangle with Greeley, "Who wants to b1 a character in his novels?" said "dfie Chicago wag. Michael Farrell, Trends and feeviews editor of the National Catholic Reporter, thinks Greeley exaggerates the numbers of his enemies.

"I think he Is a fellow who does not give himself all the credit he deserves and does not appreciate the number of people who appreciate him. There are a great -many people who do not appreciate him at all, but he does get that out of perspective." Combative, bright, quick-tempered, Greeley is determined to keep on writing novels such as "The Cardinal Sins" and "Thy Brother's Wife" and his latest, "Ascent Into Hell," no matter what it does to his reputation. "Novels are the best way in the modern world to talk about religion," he said. "For most of human history religion has been on by stories. Jesus was Mlmarlly a storyteller.

I think the cf owds followed him because he told fsome interesting stories." who often turns out 20 to 30 "piges a day on his word processor, "doesn't tell just any stories. "Ascent Ito Hell" Is about Hugh Donlon, a Sptiest who wrestles with his lust for woman, Maria, then finally succumbs to the enchantments of ClSz, a socially nun. 1 (f-eeley's description of the beginning of the affair offers a Effevor of the book's prose: her bedroom he kissed her and mdbwly opened the buttons of her His hands slipped to the belt 3e kissed her again, Her lips surrendered. She was his for atever he wanted. fathers Liz's child and marries Jjli.

He leaves the priesthood for the Will Jones after tatnighl g2t Will Jones column, will resume Aug.25. I making faces at the little kids. I always go to the cry room (for Infants and young children) before and after mass and say, 'OK, who made the most noise here Everybody wants to compete." He wags his hand so hard in imitation of the children that a I waiter comes over. If Greeley is being sincere, then he will continue to be discontented for a long while. Not only did his columns and other nonfictlonal writings bring down the wrath of the late John Cardinal Cody, but Cody's successor, Bernardin, has been giving Greeley the cold shoulder, too.

Tapes that Greeley made available to a researcher showed Greeley fantasizing a plot to discredit Cody with a public scandal and replace him with Bernardin, a sequence that vaguely came to pass, to Bernardin's great embarrassment can sympathize with the bind he's in," Greeley said of Bernardin. "That he has this priest who was loyal to the priesthood and loyal to the church but does an enormous number of controversial things with which he doesn't want to be Identified. I don't like being ah outcast in my own diocese with both the archbishop and with the clergy, but I can understand it and I can live with it" -i For all his wealth and prominence and pose of wry insouciance, Greeley does not seem a happy man. There is a bitter chord that runs through his remarks, that Often vents itself at those who attack him. And lately he has even begun denying himself the pleasure of fighting back.

"I just don't reply to sets Italian record Steven Spielberg's "E.T." has set a box office record in Italy, drawing more than 1.9 million moviegoers and producing a total revenue of 8.8 billion lire ($5.7 million), the largest in 10 years, the trade magazine II Giornale Dello Spectacolo reported Wednesday. TV Week, Sundays IMrWM I drink, engaging entertainments. Adults still only $7.95. children 5-12 $4.00 under 5 free Advance tickets available at Twin Cities Fotomats. Dayton s.

Donaldsons 4 ilii OUTLET OUR SEVENTH YEAR BROOKLYN PARK VILLAGE NORTH CENTER fcooktyn 8ld. 77th Av. 566-2681 rfl 9 am to 7 pm VNflV miles HOURS: HAR 2100 commodities market, and when a plane crash kills his wife and children, he finally accepts the gift of God's grace Maria. The story, Greeley says, is a religious parable. Maria, who appears on the cover with a crucifix dangling down her decolletage, represents God's grace.

Donlon has been trying to do justice by pleasing his parents and working hard at being a priest and he learns that God's grace in the shape of Maria is freely given and not earned. "Ours is a God who loves us the way that Maria loves us, implacably, irredeemably forgiving and Implacably loving," Greeley said. He, writes about sexual passion because It "is a reflection of God's passion for us," but his novels, he feels, are not particularly erotic or titillating. Is Hugh Donlon's story that of an Andrew Greeley dissatisfied with his vocation? No, Greeley insists, it's a work of imagination. "I've always liked being a priest I think if a man is happy in the priesthood, then the struggle with celibacy is probably roughly the same as a happily married person's struggle Is with fidelity that is to say, sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's not, but it's never impossible.

"I think for a priest celibacy becomes impossible when he doesn't like the work, when the satisfactions of the job do not compensate for the sublimation." Although he spends most of his time not being a priest he is a sociology professor at the University of Arizona, a senior study director at Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, a syndicated newspaper columnist in addition to being a novelist Greeley claims it Is the opportunities on weekends in Tucson to do some parish work that stir his heart "I like teen-age dances, I like doing confessions, I like preaching. I like most of the things that a parish priest does. I'd be completely happy doing those things for the rest of my life." He leans back, and his blue eyes register his wistf ulness. "It's the people, I guess. For me, the best part of it Is standing out in the back of the church before and after mass In -Tucson it's usually the 5:30 mass on Saturday afternoon and talking to the people and kids especially as they come in and out COMFORTERS, BEDSPREADS, BATH TOWELS, SHEETS, PILLOWS, KITCHEN TOWELS, MATTRESS PADS, RUGS, TABLE LINENS, SHOWER CURTAINS, BATH ACCESSORIES.

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