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3D) DearAbby 2D Bridge 2D Health Notes Horoscopes 4D Comics 5D Television 6D NEWS-PRESS LIFESTYLES EDITOR: KEITH GIBSON 3354367, MoiL-Fri. 9 aJiw-5 pjn. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1991 The Naples Tropicod Festival invites artists and photographers to capture the image that will represent the event on posters, postcards and calendars. Finalists will be exhibited at the festival and the winner will get $500.

Deadline for entries is Jan. 15. To find out where to get entry forms, call 262-6141 The Cape Coral family whose Christmas display is legendary will repeat it after a 1-year hiatus, all For a Good Cause39 WNPL now has news at 10 Where there's living will, there's a way i to get legal help By JOHN HOPKINS News-Press Staff Writer rrr i y' V-'' V' What if you were in a terrible accident and only remained alive because modern technology had invented machines that could breathe for you or keep your heart pumping? The scenario is real to some Florida residents who must face the burden of deciding whether to let the machines keep a loved one alive or to unplug the machines and bring about all-but-certain death. Under Florida's Living Will Act of 1 984, people can make that life-or-death decision and possibly save their families the anguish of making that choice under duress. Now, a federal law takes effect Dec.

1 that requires hospitals, nursing homes and other health-care agencies that use Medicaid and Medicare to inform patients of their rights to a living will and health surrogates upon admission. The Florida law states that to exercise the Irving will, a person must be irrevocably ill, relying on an artif ical means for life support Also, two physicians must agree there is no hope for recovery. "I'd say that everyone over 18 should have (a living will)," said attorney Julie Osterhout, who is organizing countywide seminars on the living will Tuesday. "With younger people, it's hard to reach us sometimes because we don't think that anything will ever happen to us." Craig Bair, community relations director at Cape Coral Hospital, said health-care facilities support living wills. "This is just like a (regular) will everyone should have it," said Bair, whose hospital is publishing a booklet on "Advanced Directives," which includes living wills.

Anyone interested can stop by the main hospital building and pick up a copy, he said. Debbie Wiles, risk manager at Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center, said her hospital will assist patients in filling out the forms after December. "There are circumstances where we may need someone else to make our decisions," Wiles said. To make people more aware of the living will and their rights as patients, the Lee County Bar Association is sponsoring 1 7 simultaneous seminars throughout the county. Osterhout, who chairs the county bar's Senior Citizens Committee, is organizing the seminars.

Living wills are not expensive, costing less than regular estate wills, Osterhout said. Bill Berman, president of the Hemlock Society of Lee County, said his organization of fers living wills free to society members and for $3 to non-members. Berman equates living wills with an insurance policy. "It's like fire insurance for your house. You don't take out the insurance while your house is on fire," Berman said.

"You take it out TOM KANE News-Press The WNPL-TV (channel 46, Naples) news team features (from left) sportscaster Fred Beck, anchors Jean Jadhon and Ray Collins and meteorologist Bill Zeliff. LEWIS GRIZZARD Random thoughts from a renegade POOR Lewis' Occasional Almanac: My friend Ernie wants to know if it's called Daylight Savings Time, what's the time we have now? Daylight Wasting Time? cm The best line about baseball uttered during the World Series did not come from Minnesota or Atlanta. It came from country western artist Bill Anderson, who was a guest on the pregame show for the GeorgiaVanderbilt football game in Nashville. Anderson was asked if he played baseball in high school. "I was a pitcher at Avondale High," -Whispering Bill said.

Next question was, "Did you have a fast ball?" He answered, "I threw so slowly they sold advertising on the side of the ball." JOKE OF THE MONTH: A guy from Southwest Louisiana is in court for shooting a blue heron, an endangered species. His judge is a strict environmentalist. The judge says to the defendant, "The blue heron is an endangered species. Why did you shoot one of them?" The defendant refused to speak. So the judge said, "You know that I could put you in jail and fine you a thousand dollars.

I want to know why you shot the blue heron." The defendant still refused to speak. The judge then said, "I hate to do this. But I've got to know why you shot that blue heron. If you'll tell me, I'll let you of on probation." So the old boy sat up and said, "Well, Judge, it's like this: If you cook one of them blue herons just right, they taste exactly like a bald eagle." Columnist Mike Steed, of the great borough of Bowden, whence came many of my relatives, has a great thought about a new nickname for the Braves. "It should be a name that would offend no one," he said.

"Or it should offend those nobody cares about. It should also be a name that would strike fear in the hearts of everyone. How about the Atlanta Lawyers?" Inquiring minds want to know: Has there ever been at any time in history, five U.S. presidents alive at the same time? We've got four Reagan, Nixon, Carter, Ford and Big George. We await the answer.

No, we don't need any gun control in this country. Just look at the killings in Texas and at the University of Iowa. Guns don't kill people; it's idiots with guns that kill people. FOR THE RECORD: Jesse Jackson has decided not to run for president again. The Cleveland Indians have decided not to run for the American League pennant again.

Elizabeth Taylor has now been married five more times than I have. The Braves drew 500,000 more fans for their parade than did the Minnesota Twins, who beat the Braves in the World Series. Of course it was about 1 2 degrees in Minneapolis and 72 in Atlanta. Who's the real winner here? It's deer season. Deer hunters are always telling you, "If we don't kill the deer, they'll all starve to death." So why don't we just take them some food? Lewis Grlzzard is a syndicated columnist.

NEW See WILL, page 4D NEW LEAOtJ AD0UT LIVIFJG 17ILLS Channel 46 early to think small in big way By KEVIN LOLLAR News-Press Staff Writer ERE'S something new for Southwest Florida television: A local news show that concentrates on local news. And at 10 p.m. Anybody tuning into WNPL-TV, Anyone interested in obtaining a living will can contact their attorney or the Hemlock Society of Lee County (482-6077). Local hospitals should also be able to provide Information on living wills. The wills should be signed by two witnesses and the Hemlock Society recommends having the forms notarized.

The Lee County Bar Association will hold free seminars on living wills and health-care surrogates from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the following locations: FORT MYERS Red Coconut RV Resort, 3001 EsteroBlvd. Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center (room A-200), 2727 Winkler Ave. Lee Memorial Hospital, 2776 Cleveland Ave. Berkley Place, 36 Bark-ley Circle.

Presbyterian Apartments, 1925 Virginia Ave. Dr. Ella Piper Center, 1771 Evans Ave. Waterford Place Retirement Center, 8351 College Calusa Harbor Retirement Center, 2525 E. First St.

Gulf Coast Hospital, 13681 Doctors Way. CAPE CORAL Lake Kennedy Senior Center, 400 Santa Barbara Blvd. Gulf Coast Village, 1333 Santa Barbara Blvd. NORTH FORT MYERS North Fort Myers Senior Center, 5170 Orange Grove Blvd. Del Tura Country Club, 18621 N.

Tamiaml Trail. SANIBEL Sanibet Community Association, 2173 Periwinkle Road. PINE ISLAND Greater Pine Island Civ ic Association Building, Pine Island Center, 5630 Pine Island Road, Bokeeiia. i LEHIGH ACRES Christ United Methodist Church, Corner of Homestead Road and Lee Boulevard. BONITA SPRINGS Bonita Springs Recreation Center, 26740 Pine Ave.

the 1 0 p.m. time slot for news. It was a matter of statistics and demographics. Statistically, according to Nielsen's HUT (Houses Using Television) survey, levels of television watching drop from 56 percent at 10 p.m. to 34 percent at 11.

Demographically, Naples just isn't a late-night market. "This is an older area, and we think 1 1 is too late for them," Collins said. "Many of our residents come from the Midwest, which has 10 o'clock news, and they like their news earlier. The feedback we hear on the street is, 'Hey, it's about Joining Collins, a former WBBH reporter and Tampa radio voice, are: Co-anchor Jean Jadhon, by way of Sarasota and Syracuse, N.Y. Sportscaster Fred Beck, who comes to Naples from Fort Wayne, and Sioux City, Iowa; Meteorologist Bill Zeliff, WBBH's first meteorologist back in the mid-1970s.

Evan Bacon and Doug Alexander, two former WEVU reporters who take over on weekends with Bacon at news anchor and Alexander in sports. Cameramen Scott Latshaw and Tom Cunningham also used to work at WEVU. Collins says the market itself let him put together a good news team. "So many people want to live in Naples that I was deluged with resumes and tapes from people in larger markets," he said. "I had more than 1 00 resumes and tapes, so I could pick and choose." Channel 46's 10 p.m.

newscast, which went on the air late last month, might see a report on a minor car crash in Naples instead of yet another full-blown story on the Middle East peace conference. "I want to lower the threshold of what makes news," says Ray Collins, WNPL's news director and anchor. "We're going to cover the stories nobody else bothers with, focus on the little stuff. We'll let CNN and the networks handle the national and international news." This doesn't mean that WNPL doesn't have any national or international news. The station will have it but in an easy-to-take capsule form.

Nor does WNPL compete directly with local newscasts on WINK-TV (Channel 11), WBBH-TV (Channel 20) and WEVU-TV (Channel 26). "The other three concentrate on Fort Myers and Lee County and treat Naples as an afterthought," Collins says. "For us, Naples and Collier County will be the primary focus. We're not redundant. We're filling a niche that's always been there.

We're the first guys on the block." They're also the first guys in this area to jump into Imagine: Lennon guitar expected to fetch $300,000 By MARC RICE The Associated Press SOME STRINGS Beatles memorabilia than for the king's. "I think the Beatles created a phenomenon in rock 'n' roll," he said. "Elvis, of course, was the American father of rock 'n' roll, but the Beatles created the phenomenon. "This guy (Lennon) didn't die of an overdose. He's a martyr, a rock 'n' roll martyr.

The name's still magic." The items associated with Lennon, who was gunned down in New York in 1980, are expected to draw the most attention. Besides the guitar, there's a harmonica Lennon used in recording the Beatles' first album, a cigarette lighter, personal letters, autographed photographs and gold records. Also available: sculptures, rare concert programs and a record-store display promoting the Beatles' 1965 "Rubber Soul" album for giving! Or Just groovy If paying up to $300,000 for a John Lennon guitar hits a sour chord, consider that guitars of other dead rock stars recently brought in similar bids. Auctions overseas featured a Jiml Hendrix guitar that sold for $248,000 and a Buddy Holly guitar that went for $300,000. An Elvis Presley guitar, which he used In early Sun Records sessions, was sold by another Atlanta auctioneer in early October for $160,000 about half what had been anticipated.

ATLANTA Money can't buy you love, and love can't buy you a Beatles guitar. So bring money. Otherwise, forget about fetching any of several hundred Fab Four artifacts to be auctioned in Atlanta Thursday and Friday. An acoustic guitar used by John Lennon in the group's pre-Beatlemania Liverpool days is expected to be the priciest item. The auction house undaunted by the recent auction of an early Elvis Presley guitar that sold for half of the anticipated top bid sees the guitar bringing up to $300,000.

"We thought it (Lennon's) could bring in seven figures, but with the market being what it is today and the depressed economy, I think It will bring in the $200,000 to $300,000 range," said Ted Tzava- 1 rt ras, president of Great Gatsby's auction house. Tzavaras said the market's better now for See LENNON, page4D Items owned by Paul, Rlngo, George and John bring big bucks. UmmiikmH -1 11 Mil Till rnliii 4Mff tiA. Aflwiwi 4.