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2A NAPLES DAILY NEWS Fri Fab 25 1577 McCain Denies Improprieties People in the News Farish had never requested fa-vorable treatment from McCain After the hearing ended at 4:45 pm EST McCain said glad that this stage of the proceedings is over so I can go back to my McCain lives in Orlando and is a partner in the McCain and Browd law firm that has offices in Orlando Fort Pierce and Miami WEST PALM BEACH Fla AP) Former Florida uslice David McCain denies committing the alleged improprieties cited by the Florida Bar as reasons lor him to lose his license to practice law McCain made the denial Thursday as his two-week disbarment hearing came to a close Referee Jack Wayman a Jacksonville attorney will consider the evidence and testimony given during the last nine days and will make his recommendation to the Florida Su-oreme Court McCain denied charges made by former campaign aide David Smith Smith a former lawmaker from Fort Lauderdale testified Monday that McCain had received a cash contribution in 1968 from Hollywood attorneys Joseph Varan and Steadman Stahl Jr Under questioning by his defense lawyer Robert Beckham of Jacksonville McCain said he had never met with Varan and Stahl while Smith was present "Did you ever receive from them a large envelope containing cash?" asked Beckham "No sir" was McCain's reply The bar charged him last year with six counts of corruption influencing lower court cases election law violations favoritism and other misconduct counts Before the bar rested its case chief bar counsel Bernard Dempsey Jr of Orlando called assistant bar counsel Wilson Foster Jr Foster testified that Robert Montgomery the attorney for West Palm Beach lawyer Joseph Farish Jr had told him last January that he agreed with the bar's position that McCain had shown favor itism to Farish Farish was the principal figure in the Bar's charges that McCain showed favoritism while he was a jurist cannot state that Mr Montgomery said to me in specific words that Mr Farish had received favoritism and partiality from Mr McCain but what I can say is that he agreed with me that his client Mr Farish had received favorable Foster said However Foster quoted Montsomerv as saving that Story Irks Wallace's Brother MONTGOMERY Ala (LPI) The brother of Gov (iHirite Wallace Thursday demanded retraction of a ladies' Hume Journal story about his sister-in-law Cornelia Wallace which he claims libeled him fcrald Wallace hinted he may sue the magazine if his rtsjm-M is denied The Journal quoted Mrs Wallace as saying "Gerald spread rumors that I have slept with every state trooper around All that's been written and rumored has done a lot of damage to my reputation and it has caused dissension between George and me DAVID MCCAIN hearing doses The referee gave attorneys ments from witnesses who for both sides until March 4 to didn't attend any of the hearing take depositions or sworn state- sessions Gays Slap Back At OJ Champ Excessive Water Drinking Is Fatal jects to my fellow The telegram was sent by Barry Drucker president of Tele-Tactics a New York television production firm sincerely regret that the extensive national publicity arising from the controversial political activities you have been engaged in prohibit us from utilizing your services" the telegram said Bab Green Miss Bryant's husband and business manager said the proposed show was to be a talk-and-variety series underwritten by a major manufacturer of sewing machines He said the pilot was to have been filmed next week "They had told her that a contract for the entire series was coming down in the mail and everything was honky-dory" Green said asked her to call a very important guest to line her up for the Green said the guest was First Lady Rosalynn Carter and that Miss Bryant and Mrs Carter had discussed the posai-bilty of an appearance during a MIAMI (AP) A leader of homosexual community disputes singer Anita Bryant's claims that pressure from gay activists caused her to lose a chance at a television series wants to cause gays to lose their jobs and she complains because she lost a job" Bob Kunst said "The lady is a The latest round in an increasingly bitter dispute began Thursday when Miss Bryant a vocal foe of an ordinance which bans discrimination against homosexuals in housing and employment called a press conference Declaring that "the blacklisting of Anita Bryant has begun" she released a telegram from a producer who cited "extensive national publicity'' for the cancellation of a prospec-tice television series "This telegram tells the Miss Bryant said destroys the dream (hat 1 have had since I was a child a dream to have a television series of my own to entertain MIAMI (AP) A Massachusetts woman with the IQ of a genius died from drinking too much water up to four gallons a day a medical examiner says Friends said that Tina Christ-opherson 28 of Cambridge Mass drank the water in an effort to "cleanse her of what she suspected was stomach cancer The disease killed her mother almost four years ago Authorities said Thursday that Miss Christopherson died Feb 18 from intoxication" "As far as I know it's the first case of its Deputy Medical Examiner Dr Ronald Wright said A hospital cardiologist said that water intoxication "was an incredibly slow and painful way to bring on death" Rick Pfahming and Cheryl Collins two of the young woman's friends in Miami described Miss Christopherson as "looking pregnant from all that water" Pfahming said he was fascinated with the amounts of wa ter she drank She had been hospitalized earlier this month at Jackson Memorial Hospital and diagnosed as a chronic schizophrenic Her friends took her back to the hospital Feb 17 However the crisis intervention center at the hospital was filled and Miss Christopherson was given a prescription for tranquilizers and turned away the hospital said Pfahming said the prescription was never filled because "no one had any money" She died the following day in Coral Gables Hospital Wright said the woman "destroyed her body's chemicai balance with her excessive water drinking" As a result her tissues swelled particularly the lungs which was followed by a heart rhythm disturbance Wright said Miss Christopherson had gone to Sarasota Jan 10 to visit an aunt Dorothy Newman for three days "Tina has been in and out of institutions She has this thing Senators Really Far Right and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina had 100 per cent conservative records last year according to the American Conservative Union Helms and Thurmond both Republicans were joined by 14 House members with perfect scores the ACU said Thursday To be considered conservative the ACU said a lawmaker must vote on at least 70 per cent of the relevant bills By that yardstick only 133 House members and 25 senators measured up Burnett Joins "Medical Alert' HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Entertainer Carol Burnett who is allergic to some medicines Thursday become the millionth member of Medic Alert a nonprofit foundation that issues bracelets alerting doctors to special conditions should a person lose consciousness Diamond To Present Oscar HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Neil Diamond will present the Oscar for best song at the annual Academy Awards ceremonies March 28 the movie academy announced Thursday Jack Ford Set for "Stones" NEW YORK (UPI) -Rolling Stone magazine has tapped the 24-year-old son of former President Gerald Ford as assistant to publisher Joe Armstrong The magazine said Jack Ford will join Rolling Slone's New York marketing and advertising staff on March 4 and that he ultimately will hold a "senior on the new outdoors magarine Outside slated for detut in the fall Ford's employment was negotiated by the William Morris Agency which represents the entire Ford family Race Driver Sues Speedway LOS ANGELES (UPI) Race driver Parnell! Jones and partner Velko Miletich filed a $21 million libel slander and breach of contract suit Thursday against Ontario Motor Speedway and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner The suit charged the speedway broke an agreement to keep secret talks regarding equipment rental to the raceway and that a reporter for the newspaper wrote a story quoting a raceway official falsely implying the two men had stolen speedway equipment TINA CHRISTOPHERSON hared cancer about water diets" Mrs Newman said After a short visit to Jamaica Miss Christopherson moved to Coconut Grove Her father Robert Christopherson of Cleveland said he was shocked and depressed but added he had not seen his daughter In years didn't see her In he said "I stand to see her in death Tina's ashes are to be scattered at Inverness Fla today alongside the grave of her mother Ward Christopherson who died in July 1973 ROBERT GRAHAM Crumbling Cracker" Book Edition To Benefit College State Auto Inspection Gets Inefficiency Tag cause special collections librar- MacDonald averaged three ian Laura Monti asked him in books a year in his first 20 1962 to donate his papers to the years of writing but he says university slowing down He had 36 published books at "It's getting more difficult the time but he said it was six for me to please he years later before any other said "With Condominium university thought to ask for there were a lot of false his papers "Anastasia" Gets New Support MUNICH West Germany (AP) There is new support for American Anna Monahan's 50-year-old claim of being the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II Moritz Furtmayr one of West Germany's best-known forensic identity experts says he has positively identifed Mrs Monahan 75 as the grand duchess by comparing a picture of her right ear with a picture of the right ear of Anastasia GAINESVILLE Fla (AP) -The University of Florida library was the first to ask mystery writer John MacDonald of Sarasota for a collection of his papers and he's about to return the favor He will introduce his 66th book Condominium with a special edition of 1000 copies at a benefit in Daytona Beach on March 26 Each couple paying $50 will receive an autographed copy of the special edition Proceeds will go to the university library here Publication date is a week later MacDonald 61 said In an interview that he has a soft spot in his heart for the library be tal of five hours In line at two different auto inspection stations in Dade County "I found surly inspectors badly designed driveways that provide no exit for people already in line Inconsistent inspection standards and government vehicles clogging the lines during public business hours" Graham said system is a total waste of time money and gasoline for very dubious public benefit" Graham said "The set-up Is rude ineffective an TALLAHASSEE Fla (AP) Sen Robert Graham says he wants to present a Cracker to the state's auto inspection system for bureaucratic bungling and obvious Inefficiency Graham D-Miami said Tuesday he was introducing a bill to abolish the inspection system although he still was exploring possible alternatives to take its place Graham said his ire at the process was raised when he took his own car to be Inspected recently and spent a to ANITA BRYANT called hypocrite agreement had been reached Miss Bryant 37 and the mother of four children was Miss Oklahoma in 1856 and was second runner-up in that year's Miss America contest She later appeared as a singer on several television shows and represented soft drinks and the Florida citrus industry in television ads She appeared last month at a Dade County Commission heap ing to testify against the ordinance It passed but Miss Bryant and other opponents formed a group called "Save Our Children Inc" 7AM EST I- h- 77 WEATHER FORECAST LOCAL FORECAST Haley "Embarrassed Over Novel today and southeast 16 to 15 mph Saturday Naples high Thursday eras 62 less 18 Rainfall was J2 inches Generally fair through Saturday Highs la the upper TBs te lew 61s Lewe tonight In the mid le upper 66c Variable wiude 16 mph TEMPERATURES WASHINGTON (AP) -Alex Haley says he's uncomfortable with all the at- uncomfortable tention he has received for writing the family chronicle that became a phenomenally popular television show "I feel almost embarrassed when someone comes up and says you did he said "I was simply the channel the conduit" Haley said other blacks have traced their ancestry back to Africa but that his book goes further back is more carefully documented "and It was done by someone who happened to be a writer" Haley chatted with Smithsonian Institution officials and a few others at a luncheon following his lecture before an overflow audience there Wednesday night NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 2977 253 CLOUDS Satellite photo taken at 4 am Superior An extensive area at cloudlnesa EST shows a bread area of eleudlaess related to a frontal and low pressure system covering the Northern States from the New dominates much of the Southwest while Englend Area westward through the Dakotas cloudiness is also still In evidence over the and which Is associated with an extensive Pacific Northwest low pressure system centered near Lake un Carter Pleads Inexperience WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter pleaded inexperience when a teletype message he sent to Paris came out garbled on the other end During his visit to the State Department on Thursday Carter sat down at a State Department teletype machine and punched out his message to an employe in Paris EXTENDED FORECAST 3024 and cooler by TUESDAY Highs In the 76s and low 66s Sunday and by Tuesday mostly SRs north sad 76s south Lowe la the 46s and 56s north and 16s and 66s south PENINSULA FLORIDA Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with scattered showers mainly north portion Sunday and south portion Monday Tuesday fair Warm Sunday From Page One GOP NATION'S WEATHER upper Great Lakes region with some (reeling rain across Maine Vermont and New Hampshire Rain continued across the remainder of the North Atlantic coastal Continued mild weather was causing flooding today acroos the upper Ohio Valley the lower Great Lakes region and sections of Pennsylvania New York West Virginia Vermont and Ohio In flome areas of the Northeaot the ararmer air was accompanied by heavy rain Numerate Ice jams have formed In the upper Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes which are producing some flooding Flash flood watches continued across portions of western Pennsylvania western New York West Virginia southwest Vermont and eastern Ohio Snow is widespread across the northern Her of stales (ran the eastern Dakotas to the HE CITED statistics that the US has 6 per cent of the world population but uses one third of the energy supply wasting about half of that As former FBI special agent Devine's input has been seen as valuable for the select commission to investigate assassinations threatened with being abandoned Devine said that continuing the commission would "serve no useful purpose" because "it won't change" findings on who assassins were BOTH DEVINE and A rends praised former President Gerald Ford's efforts at healing the nation's wounds in the wake of resignations by former vice-president Spiro Agnew and former president Richard Nixon "This country has suffered a severe trauma We have come through a tragic discouraging and traumatic experience without revolution without unrest and without bloodshed We owe a permanent debt of gratitude to the man who helped keep this country together" Divine said Freezing rain warnings continued screes Maine and New Hampshire with a winter storm warning across Vermont A travelers advisory covered eastern North Dakota and gale warnings were posted across most at the Great 1 thtt Temperatures acmes the nation at 2 am EST ranged from nine above sen at bath International Falls Minn and Lewiston Maine to 17 at both Key West Fla and Waco Texas UN WtAlHIt WEATHER Friday night will find rain along the North Pacific coast changing to anew Inland across the upper Rockies Rain or ohowera will else accnr In the area from the lower Plains and Gulf coast northward Into the Tennessee valley except for seme possible snow In parts of aorthern Texas Elsewhere mostly fair weather Is forecast.