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I PS Deja vu at ths movies: Summer films to feature familiar faces Talent on the track: Cental's Marshall displays versatility Sports Spotlight, 1C Lifestyle, IB MM ittle Creek MAY 18, 1989 25 CENTS "SERVING THE CEREAL CITY AND SOUTHCENTRAL MICHIGAN" A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 7,1 IN nnniTOi0 sh to to Mount Rushmore Conservatives pu The Associated Press promoter of to add "He seemed pleased" said: Tvrreneditor-in-chief of American Spectator magazine, monthly conservative review. Tyrrell sounds half serious and halfunserious about the idea. But people are taking him entire- -fy seriously, he said. Tom Griffith, executive secretary of the Mount Rushmore Society, said "It won't happen." The society raised the funds for the original proj ect 60 years ago. The feces of Jeffer-son, Lincoln and Tljeodore Roosevelt; drilled and -dynamited into a mountainside of the Black Hifls in South Dakota, are die largest carved figures anywhere.

"The simple fact is there is no more suitable -rock to carve 'anyone at Mount Rushmore," Griffith said from Rapid City, S.D. tWhy fool with a masterpiece? Would you paint another figure next -to the Mona Lisa?" Retorts Tyrrell: "Sm'aH-minded people, typical small-minded people." Tyrrell said he is creating a Committee for Monumental Progress to promote the idea. He said he has just written to Reagan "asking him to please consider allowing us to get a proper mold of his nose and at least one To test sentiment, the Young Americans for Freedom put a ballot into a fund-raising letter sent to 23,000 "average American citizens" and will promote the idea if the response is enthusiastic. WASHINGTON Some conservatives, certain of Ronald Reagan's place in history, are talking up the idea of finding a place for him alongside the granite faces of four great presidents "at Mount they think they've gotten a wink -from the man himself. At least Reagan smiled when an artist's sketch was presented last summer showing him alongside the Rushmore visages, says JEmmett Tyrrell a I Texas tragedy Mr h-'m JJmm A a 'test MSI GOP says Senate will support action The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Bush promises to veto "faster than the eye can see' a raise in the minimum wage, and Republican lawmakers are confident Bush will win his first domestic-policy clash.

"There are enough votes in the Senate to support a presidential veto," Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said Wednesday before the Senate gave 63-37 approval to legislation increasing the minimum wage tor the first time in eight years. (Both Michigan senators voted to approved the bill.) The Senate-approved plan would boost the hourly wage from $3.35 an hour to $4.55 by October 1991. It also would allow employers to pay a subminimum wage to workers with less than 60 We want to make it very clear this fight is not going to go away Edward M. Kennedy Mass. senator AP Photo Residents of Jarrell, Texas, pick up the pieces Wednesday after remains of a mobile home, where Sharon Thomas was killed, a tornado swept through their town, north of Austin.

The twisted stand as the woman's friends comfort each other. Story on 9A. Vandals strike again at historic cemetery days' total work experience. Bush had proposed raising the floor wage to $4.25 by January 1992 but only if employers could pay a subminimum to all new employees for six months regardless of their previous work experience. The president has said that provision is necessary to offset potential job losses, but Democrats have assailed it as a means of allowing employers to avoid paying the higher minimum wage.

Democrats pushing the measure vowed, nonetheless, to press their case. "We want to make it very clear this fight is not going to go away Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said after the vote. Moments later, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Bush will veto it "instantly faster than the eye can see." The president apparently won't get that chance until after Congress returns from a 10-day recess, which begins Friday.

By MARK SCHWERIN Staff Writer vandalism. An eight-foot fence topped with barbed wire was placed around the cemetery in 1985 when vandals caused $30,000 in damage. Trees and brush were cleared from the area to eliminate hiding places for vandals. I aling. Vandals also entered the cemetery and damaged about eight headstones on April 24.

A check of the cemetery two days ago revealed that as many as 20 headstones now have been yanked out of the ground or pushed over, Hought-aling said: "This is disgusting, to think they are desecrating this cemetery," he said. Vandals have added insult to injury at historic Harmonia Cemetery, located atop a hill in a remote Fort Custer area. The latest round of vandalism occurred in the past seven to eight days, according to Bedford Township Public Safety Director Robert Hought- The 147-year-old burial ground has a history of See CEMETERY, 2A $'1 xzz Station hopes Bush boosts ratings Country TTGday By MARK MAYES Staff Writer The Residents CkMce JIIHIOM90.5 111 pretty Mallemee said. In addition to the billboards; WNWN has been airing remarks made by Bush at the Country Music Association where the president called country songs "America's music." Mallernee said he checked with the. lawyers for Adams Outdoor Advertising, which erected the signs, about whether the station would need permission to use the president's likeness.

Mallemee said he was advised that, since the president has pub-: licly proclaimed his love for country music See STATION, 2A A drawing of Bush, with the White House in the background, can be seen on 50 12-by-25-foot billboards near Battle Creek Kalamazoo promoting the station. The billboards reading "Today's Country, The President's Choice" should remain up at least another month, Mallemee said The idea was thought up at a brainstorming session by radio officials about two months ago. Mallernee said he doesn't think people are confused into believing Bush is personally endorsing the station. "If there were (people who believed that), it would be 1 If George Bush's limousine was zoom-; ing down a road near Batde Creek, would he really have the radio tuned to WNWN- The station's president and general manager, Gary Mallemee, says if the president were within earshot, "WNWN would be his favorite station." The Coldwater country music station cannot claim the president actually would tune in, but Mallernee is still hoping Bush can help add some listeners to 98.5 on the FM dial til 1. 3 Staff Photo by Kevin Haw WNWN's billboard oh West Dickman Road heralds the president Ice 'bomb' slashes woman's roof Big Daddy too big to adopt Nation 2.9A Bridge 7B The Associated Press The Associated Press newsmaker Obituaries 4A People Sports 1-9C State 4.6-8A Television 6B Weather 2A World 2A Business 11A Classified 9-12C Comics 7B 10A Entertainment 8A Features 6B Horoscope 7B mfchfgan lottery lighter side Dr.

Barnardo's spokesman Pat Per- ry said Wednesday: "His weight could be a risk to the long-term welfare of a child who may already have suffered loss. This is a risk we cannot take." I Connick, who lives in Wallsend in northeast England, objected, "How; can my weight be an issue here? It is an insult and I just do not understand it" Perry said the agency "would bei glad to reconsider their application if! Mr. Connick agreed to diet" DETROIT Experts suspect an airplane inadvertently bombed a west side apartment building with a chunk of ice that smashed a 3-foot hole in the roof. Angela Ward 25, said she came home from work about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to find the ice on the floor next to her bed in her upstairs flat.

"I was thanking my father up in heaven all day long that I was not here," Ward said Wednesday. No injuries were reported, but damage to the roof and attic rafters was estimated at $2,000, said her landlord Howard Stewart. Ward retrieved a 10-inch-wide, 5-pound LONDON David Connick, at 5-foot-10 and 238 pounds, was told he'll have to lose weight before he could adopt a child. When Dr. Barnardo's, which runs Britain's best-known orphanage, informed 40-year-old Connick he was too fat to be a father, he exclaimed: "But I've got three children of my own!" Connick and his wife Jean, 38, have also successfully fostered 12 youngsters in 12 years.

But when they tried to adopt, Connick failed the medical test. ZINGER: 40-1-1-2-8 fragment and placed it in her freezer. The Federal Aviation Administration was to examine the ice today. The most likely of several theories about the ice's origin held that it fell off of an airplane. "Apparently it's a rather common occurrence," Redmond Tyler, a former Northwest Airlines spokesman, said Wednesday night from his home in Edina, Minn.

"What is uncommon is that it' hit a house." Ice can form on an aircraft when its exterior plumbing system vents become clogged. DAILY: 7 0 6 4-2-4-0 LOTTO: 1 6 12 18 22 31 weather Chance of rain Friday 2A 1989, Battle Creek Enquirer.