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1 1 i ih mm mmm mmm A-2 Saturday, January 2, 1988 The Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, La. Hunter: finished last work around Thanksgiving cities, including one extended by former surgeon from Pensacola, has one of the most extensive collections of Ms. Hunters' works. "She is a tremendous inspiration to people of her race she had tremendous artistic talent," he said. Ryan said that Ms.

Hunter was talented in areas other than painting, including cooking, quilting and different types of handwork. "Anything that they showed her or she could figure out, she would do with her hands," he said. One of the things Ryan appreciated in Ms. Hunter's life was how she remained the same despite her growing fame. He offered as an example invitations that Ms.

Hunter turned down to visit other in her trailer in Natchez on a weekly basis, said that although a subject for a painting might be requested, no one was ever sure what Ms. Hunter would paint. "You could go and say 'Would you paint me a and you'd come back and she'd say 'It wasn't in my head. I painted a "You couldn't always be sure she would do what you wanted," she said. Ms, Brittain recalls that Ms.

Hunter enjoyed painting at night. When painting she used a piece of scrap lumber or paneling as the palette for her "gigantic piles of paint" I think most people like paintings that are very clear and vivid," Mrs Brittain said, commenting that Ms. Hunter did not often mix colors. fl Continued from A-l her painting." Mrs. Williams' enthusiasm for the artist was not lost on Mrs.

Brittain. "I've been collecting since I was a little girl," she said Included in Mrs. Brittain's collection of more than 500 works is a drawing dating back to 1939. Ms. Hunter completed her last painting a few days before Thanksgiving.

The painting, which was purchased by Mrs. Brittain and her husband, is of a zinnia bouquet. "They (the flowers) are bright yellow, blue, red. It's bright," she said. Mrs.

Brittain, who visited Ms. Hunter "She went through stages pink, yellow, green I think by whatever paint was available," she said. Recalling her as a "very frail and very small" person, Mrs. Brittain said that Mrs. Hunter did all of her cooking and housework herself until almost up until the time of her death.

Mrs. Brittain said the artist had been ailing since just before Thanksgiving. She suffered from severe arthritis, and eventually stayed in bed and quit eating. "She loved to tease to pick at those who knew her she was full of little devilments," Mrs. Brittain said.

"The little children enjoyed her as much as adults," she added. Dr. Robert F. Ryan, a retired plastic President Jimmy Carter. Ms.

Hunter, who never traveled more than 100 miles from her home, instead would extend invitations for them to visit her. "She had a great presence. She knew who she was and what she was and what she was doing," he said. Ryan also noted the "humorous" elements in her paintings. He cited as examples a 10-foot rooster, a baldheaded bride and a cross painted on an outhouse instead of a church.

"She had a great love of people and humanity She's really going to be missed," he said. Superpower: renewed gesture IRS: Bakkers got benefits without PTL board approval I Continued from A-I year, and their December summit in Washing weapon arsenals is seen as more troublesome to achieve because it requies stringent verifi Continued from A-l including those involving regional conflicts. With the televised exchanges, the two leaders renewed a goodwill gesture first accomplished in 1986. But the Kremlin vetoed Reagan's attempt to repeat the message exchange last year in the wake of bruised superpower relations after the failed Reykjavik summit. Despite sore points over such issues as the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, or Soviet demands that Reagan drop his space-based missile defense, the good feelings in the wake of the latest summit propelled the new exchange.

Both men said they looked back on the past ton, as a first step toward a world with fewer nuclear weapons. Both nations, once allies, could work to resolve other differences as well, they said. "The past year ended with an event which can be regarded as a good omen," Gorbachev said. "We are entering the New Year with hope for continued progress, progress toward a safer world." Reagan called the accord banning intermediate-range nuclear weapons "a history-making step" toward reducing nuclear arsenals, but added that it was "just a beginning" since the knottier problem of cutting strategic, or longer-range weapons, was still on the table. The pact to slash by half the strategic cation, or anti-cheating, measures.

The president inserted in his address a promotion of his space-based Strategic Defense Initiative. "Both American and the Soviet Union have an opportunity to develop a defensive shield against ballistic missiles, a defensive shield that will threaten no one," Reagan said. "For the sake of a safer peace, I am committed to persuing the possibility that technology offers." Although the Reagan administration contends the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty permits the testing and development of certain technologies for SDI, the Soviets have continued to express their opposition to such tests. Purchasing: heaviest loser was DeSoto Parish He also issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the IRS from revoking PTL's tax-exempt status through May 1. "We are in the process of making application for a new tax-exempt status for the reorganized PTL," Leggett said.

"When the reorganized PTL goes in May 2, we want to make sure it has tax-exempt status." The IRS said the PTL board did not always know what was going on, but said it was the board's responsibility to see that the ministry operated in a way consistent with its tax-exempt status. The IRS said the Bakkers received at least $10.86 million from PTL during those years, but only $1.5 million could be considered "reasonable" compensation for what they did. For example, in 1984 IRS listed more than $1.36 million in payments to Bakker, of which it considered $133,100 to be reasonable. Bakker's salary alone in that year was $228,486.16. His bonuses totaled $640,000, the IRS said.

In 1987 Bakker received more than $2.97 million, including in salary and more than $1.16 million in bonuses. The IRS said $177,156 was reasonable. Bakker, who resigned last March after being caught in a sex scandal, received $8.28 million his last four years at PTL. Mrs. Bakker, who appeared with her husband on the PTL television show and helped in his appeals for donations, collected $1.28 million in those four years, $728,215 of which the IRS said was excessive.

million in excessive compensation between 1981 and 1987, of which $9.36 million went to the Bakkers. The IRS report said the "amounts paid to or assets transferred to or for the benefit of Jim Bakker more nearly resemble the distribution by a wholly-owned corporation of its net earnings as a dividend to its shareholder rather than as a compensation for services actually provided." In return for the privilege of tax exemption, federal law prohibits churches and charities from allowing individuals to take money except as reasonable payment for goods or services. Leggett said the Bakkers, who founded PTL and resigned last year, collected the excessive pay and benefits without the approval or knowledge of the PTL board. The Bakkers are spending the winter in a house in Palm Springs, where a telephone call was answered by a man who identified himself as a family friend named Bob. He relayed a request for comment to the Bakkers, then said they did not want to discuss the matter.

James Toms, an attorney in Hendersonville, N.C., who represents the Bakkers, said Friday he had not seen the report and could not comment on it Judge Rufus Reynolds approved a reorganization plan on Dec. 22 that divides the television ministry and Christian theme park in Fort Mill, S.C., into for-profit and non-profit Continued from A-l decline in wage and salary income, eight south Louisiana parishes were among the 10 with the greatest losses although the heaviest loser was DeSoto Parish in northwest Louisiana. DeSoto Parish's wage and salary income in 1986 was 44.6 percent lower than in 1981, Michael said. He said the rest of the bottom 10 looked like this: Assumption Parish lost 39.7 percent; St. Charles, 39.5 percent, Terrebonne and St.

Mary, 37.4 percent each; West Feliciana, 36.7 percent; Catahoula, 36.7 percent; Iberia, 32.2 percent; Jeff Davis, 31.3 percent; and Plaquemines, 26.2 percent. "If you look at it, there was not an awful lot of hurt in north Louisiana," Michael said. "One parish that was hurt was Claiborne, but they have a lot of oil and gas there. Caddo has a lot of oil and gas, but it's not as important to the total economy and Caddo was not hurt as much." Claiborne saw after-inflation wage and salary income fall 16.7 percent in five years. In Caddo Parish, after-inflation wage and salary income fell less than one-half percent during the period.

Word: a life sentence for the term 'safe sex'? "Orientate is another example of the trend toward polysyllabifica-tionizing," according to the hunters. "Garageable," as in "the new Chevy Astro is roomy inside yet fully garageable." "Task," as a verb. The hunters said the word was "first heard in Washington, D.C., and quickly transmitted in grant applications and legislative directives to the rest of the country." "Living in poverty." The phrase was nominated by Linda Flusher of Ohio, who said: "I am not living in poverty. I am poor and living in Columbus." we'd rather ignore." "On a roll" as in "That's his third touchdown tonight. He's on a roll." Being on a roll is fine for hamburgers, hot dogs or sesame seeds but not people, the hunters said.

"Irregardless" for regardless. The group called use of irregardless "an irritating irregularity." "Cutting edge" as in 'the cutting edge of fashion or research." Jack Dietrich of Albuquerque warned, "Excessive use suggests banishment before someone is slashed to ribbons." "To grow cut flowers." The group said, "If this is a scientific breakthrough, banishment is revoked." "Orientate." The group said "orient" is the correct word. Continued from A-l wide group of thousands of people who pay $5 for a lifetime membership, have been publishing their list of banished words since 1976. The word sleuths take written submissions from Nov. 15 to Dec.

15. Peter Skinner and Trudie Mason of Montreal nominated "safe sex." They suggested that the phrase be sentenced to life in prison with Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a syndicated sex adviser. Also on the list this year are "Womanizer." The hunters wondered if anyone could be a "manizer." "Alternative lifestyle." John C. Sherwood of Marshall wrote: "Every way of life is an alternative.

This phrase is just a safe description of something FREE BIBLE Services for former NSU grid coach today Upon request we will mail, free of charge, a New Testament marked with the plan of salvation. Write Cedar Grove Baptist Church Rt. 2, Box 159-B. LecomDte. Louisiana rV TODAY BOTH STORES 1 TNiinnA A i rv a wirsni a aaaii lmKKVV ALEAAINUKIA WALL NATCHITOCHES Services for former Northwestern State University head football Coach George Doherty will be at 10 a.m.

today in Immaculate Conception Catholic Church with the Rev. Harry Barker officiating. Burial will be in Memory Lawn Cemetery under direction of Blan-chard-St. Denis. Doherty, 67, of Natchitoches died of a heart attack Thursday afternoon.

He took the 1972 NSU Demons to an 8-2 record, winning the initial Gulf South Conference and GSC and Louisiana Coach of the Year honors in the process. He retired after the 1974 football campaign at NSU. He came to Northwestern as defensive line coach in 1967 after serving on the staff as defensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech for 10 years. Prior to that he coached at Minden High School and at Stamps High School in Arkansas. Doherty was an all-state tackle at Canton High School at Canton, and went to Tech in 1939, winning all-conference mention with the Bulldogs in the early 1940's after serving in the U.S.

Army. He graduated from Tech in 1944. Doherty signed a professional contract with the old Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League, and was Rookie Lineman of the Year in the NFL during his first season. He moved to the Buffalo Bills of the All-American Football Conference and played for two years, serving as team captain. Survivors include his wife, Mary Doherty of Natchitoches; one son, George Michael Doherty of Lafayette; one sister, Josie Grace of Canton, one brother, Paul Doherty of Natchez, and one grandchild.

The family requests that all donations be sent to the NSU Athletic Department where a scholarship fund has been established in Doherty's name. SHOP OUR MALL STORE rfiffl TOMORROW 1 2:30 UNTIL 5:30 Altfuniria Bails tM 8alK (USPS 013-100) January 2, 1988 -No. 291 Published every morning, except Christmas Day by McCormick and Compony, Inc. 1201 Third St. P.O.

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