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A7 IPoopl Friday, March 6, 1992, PALLADIUM-ITEM Capsule captivates local man Everyday People By Rachel Sheeley New Paris woman has book out The 20-by-10-by-10-foot crypt, under Phoebe Hearst Memorial Hall, is a remodeled swimming pool that rests on bedrock and has granite walls lined with porcelain enamel plates embedded in pitch. The crypt was sealed in 1940 with a stainless steel door donated by American Rolling Mill in Middleton, Ohio. A Cincinnati company, John Van Range fabricated the art deco-style door. On a recent visit to his daughter, Petry visited the crypt site. "I actually touched that great door," Petry said.

Beyond the door are thousands of items sealed in airless, seamless stainless steel containers lined with asbestos and glass. Ar-cheologist Thomas Kimmwood Peters and many people helped Jacobs fill the crypt. Books, books, and more books: The written material in the crypt includes encyclopedias, histories, scientific works, newspaper special editions, travelogues, models, phonograph records, books, drawings, photo attracted attention with its 50th anniversary, was created in 1936 by Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, then university president, to preserve contemporary records for posterity. He wanted to preserve every feature of the civilization of his day for the people of the future because there is so little accurate information about ancient civilizations.

Jacobs decided in 1936 the crypt should be opened in 8113 6177 years after the year it was created. That is the same number of years that had passed since 4241 B.C., the first fixed date in history, until 1936. Paul Stephen Hudson, Oglethorpe registrar and history lecturer, now looks after the crypt. Hudson has been corresponding with Petry since Tubesing introduced them. When Hudson wrote a 50th anniversary history, he sent Petry a copy.

"When I got started reading this, I couldn't put it down and say I won't read any more," Petry said. Crypt in remodeled pool: By RACHEL E. SHEELEY Palladium-Item Virgil Petry of Richmond is fascinated by a Georgia time capsule. How in the world did a Hoosier get interested in the Crypt of Civilization, a large time capsule at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta? "One day about three years ago I saw a short item in the Palladium-Item about it," Petry said. He called his daughter, Pamela Tubesing, who happens to work at Oglethorpe, and learned that her office is in the same building as the crypt's caretaker's office.

Tubesing then started sending her father information about it. Petry is fascinated with the unusual crypt because he. thinks other people would be interested, if they knew more about it. A little bit of everything: In addition to a great deal of written material about world history and life in the late 1930s, the crypt contains a package of assorted hair pins, a fishing rod, a grape- Gwen Main has published a book, "This Far by Faith." Main, 49, of New Paris, Ohio, is the wife of Stephen Main, general secretary of Friends United Meeting. She said the book is the 30-year story of her and her husband's life from the night they met in 1961 until he became general secretary.

"I wrote the book originally because I wanted to encourage young couples to do what we did he went back to school after we had a family that it was not too late to do something like that. It was pretty much a faith journey," she said. "I wanted our four children to know why some things happened the way they did." Main, the grandmother of six, said she first wrote the book for their children in the late 1970s, then made it into a program for church women's groups and finally worked to get it published during the past two years. The book is available for $8.95 at the Quaker Hill Bookstore in Richmond. A public autograph party for Main will be from 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, March 8, at Lynn Friends Church. Jean Harris: Letters from behind bars Jump to visit When Jack Everly Jr. says "jump" his father, Jack Everly Sr. of Richmond jumps on a plane to visit to his son. That's because Jack Jr.

is busy as the principal conductor for the American Ballet Theater in New York City. Jack Jr. is now in rehearsal for the ballet's performances in Chicago, which open March 16. "I'm just glad to get a chance (to visit him)," Jack Sr. said Tuesday, before he left.

"He called Sunday and said, and whenever he says I go." During his visit, Jack Sr. expected to take in a Broadway show and attend the ballet's rehearsal. "I goto rehearsal. You talk about athletes being shape, these guys and gals are really in shape," Jack Sr. said.

Jack Jr. has been principal conductor for the ballet for about five years. He got his start with Carol Channing's "Hello Dolly" and has worked on many other productions. "He's doing all right and I'm very proud of him," Jack Sr. said.

After Chicago, the ballet will play in the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and then at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. By LISA FAYE KAPLAN Gannett News Service BEDFORD HILLS CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, N.Y. If Jean Harris ever leaves prison alive and the 68-year-old says, "Don't bet on it" she'll order all her favorite foods, if she remembers what they are. And she'll go hear Bobby Short sing "Just One of Those Things," if the crooner hasn't died or retired by then.

"I want to look out a window that doesn't have bars on it," says Harris, continuing the "to do" list she has been refining for 11 years. "I want a home I can fix the way I want, a place where you don't have to walk sideways to get into bed." Harris, who won't be eligible for parole for another four years, has just completed her third book from prison, "Marking Time: Letters From Jean Harris to Shana Alexander" (Charles Scribner's Sons, The book, written as letters to her champion and biographer Shana Alexander, is "simply a day-to-day record of what I experience," says Harris, "what I think about, and how I spend my time." Crime holds interest: A lot of time has passed since the Madeira School headmistress became one of the nation's most famous murderess. And her crime still captivates. On March 10, 1980, Harris, then 56, packed a revolver and left the posh boarding school she headed outside Washington, D.C. She drove to Purchase, N.Y., crept up a winding staircase to a darkened bedroom, then shot and killed her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet Doctor" Herman Tarnower.

The cardiologist had been romancing a woman in her 30s while he was romancing Harris. Harris was desperately depressed from amphetamine withdrawal (pills Tarnower had illegally given her for years) and claims she was trying to kill herself when the doctor intervened and three .32 caliber bullets went into his body. graphs, motion pictures of everything from historical events to medical procedures, an apparatus for teaching the English language in case it is no longer spoken, seeds, fruit and vegetable models, clothing, jewelry models, artificial flowers, and more than 640,000 microfilm pages from more than 200 works, films, pictures and recordings. No jewels or precious metals were included, to discourage thieves. "They thought of everything," Petry said.

Location known worldwide: To ensure that the crypt is opened on time, its exact location was sent to places like universities and monasteries throughout the world to be safely stored for the future. For more information, contact the International Time Capsule Society, Oglethorpe University, 4484 Peachtree Road N.W., Atlanta, GA 30319. To get a brochure listing the crypt's contents, contact University Communications at (404) 261-1441, Ext. 329. 3 f'K i iV Gannett News Service about her life in prison.

wretched enough in jail. "Of course I'm sorry that Hy is dead," she says. "I've said 1,000 times that I was responsible and that I'm terribly, deeply, tragically sorry I guess (they want) some kind of abject apology, crying, shrieking, a Greek tragedy, which just isn't in me. The fact that I've gone on with my life makes them think I'm not sorry. But that wouldn't have done Hy any good, to spend 12 years in here wringing my hands and saying, 'Mea out, the "gift" I thought I was giving my mother, I gave to myself.

My mother died suddenly six months after she retired. The memories I have from our lunches together are treasures to me. I live in peace now at peace with myself for having "righted" things with my mother, and at peace with my caring husband and two beautiful children. DAUGHTER, HAMPTON, MASS. DEAR DAUGHTER: Though you learned it rather late in the life of your mother, you finally learned that the best gift a person can give is a part of themselves: time alone and one's undivided attention.

band of NASA "teacher-in-space" Christa McAuliffe has remarried. Steven McAuliffe, president of the New Hampshire Bar Association, married Kathy Thomas, a reading teacher for the Concord School District. Both are 44, and each have two children, ranging from ages 12 to 20. i Virgil Petry hopes others will catch his excitement about a 1936 time capsule. fruit corer, a denture upper, a package of corn pads, a package of curtain rings, an obstetrical model, a Lincoln Log set, a typewriter, a container of beer, two dice, three lipsticks, six Artie Shaw recordings, 18 toy soldiers, plus thousands of other items.

It was sealed on May 25, 1940 and is known as the "grandfather of all time capsules." It was mentioned in Family Circle magazine's Feb. 18 issue in conjunction with the International Time Capsule Society. The society, headquartered at Oglethorpe, is dedicated to tracking down time capsuled long buried or lost as well as cataloging new ones. Anniversary drew attention: The Crypt of Civilization, which Back then, virtually no one believed her not the lip-smacking press, giddy over details of middle-aged love gone wrong; not the jury, who found Harris guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced her to 15 years to life; and certainly not the people, who love it when the high-and-mighty fall and rejoiced when "Queen Jean" got her comeuppance. Queen has aged: Well, the queen is now pushing 70, is silver haired and one of the oldest inmates at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, about 30 miles north of New York City.

Harris has gotten used to prison's monotony, minutiae and manifold indignities, such as the "strip-squat-cough" searches she endures after every, visit with family or friends. "I would rather be the one searched than make my living (searching)," Harris says with the same crust that helped convict her. "What a miserable way to make a buck." Harris, however, can't manage her memories. "I keep busy," she says, twisting a tissue in wrinkled hands that are modestly manicured. "That's the answer to everything.

I'm'' lucky I can write. Whether people think it's good writing or not, at least it's an outlet." Prison days run together: Harris, petite and slightly stooped, had arrived 45 minutes late to be interviewed in a cramped, littered room. "I mixed up my days," she says, something one assumes happens a lot in prison. When Harris first became a guest of the state, correctional officers and inmates were determined to dethrone Queen Jean, she says. "They all expected me to be bitchy as hell and treated me as though I were, before they found out that I'm not." Eventually, Harris found her niche teaching parenting classes to inmate-mothers, who are allowed to keep infants with them.

She learned to mind her own busi- day, and tough it out. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned loyalty and commitment? SEMPER FI, JAPAN DEAR SEMPER: Unfortunately you see only the anguish the men endure; be assured there are a great number of wives and "Bodyguard," stars Costner in the title role, with Whitney Houston playing a singer stalked by a crazed fan. Some scenes are being shot on private property at secluded Fallen Leaf Lake, near South Lake Tahoe. Producer Jim Wilson said most residents "have been wonderful. I'm sorry one or two feel the need Dear Abby fZJJ By Abigail 'ir Van Buren Read about Jean Harris Want to learn more about Jean Harris? Look for these books: "Marking Time: Letters From Jean Harris to Shana Alexander," Jean Harris (Charles Scribner's Sons, 'Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr.

Herman Tarnower," Shana Alexander (Little, Brown and Company, 1983). "They Always Call Us Ladies: Stories from Prison," Jean Harris (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988). "Stranger in Two Worlds," Jean Harris (Mac-millan Publishing Company, 1986). "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet," Dr. Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker (Raw-son Wade, 1979).

GANNETT NEWS SERVICE ness and to get along by going along and by going to bed early. But Shana Alexander says prison has been hard on her friend, who has suffered two heart attacks during her incarceration. Harris disagrees. "Shana feels sorrier for me than I feel for myself," she says. Time for reflection: Harris says Bedford Hills has given her "a much broader picture of the world than I had before." "I'm alone in that cell from 7:30 at night to 7:30 in the morning," she says.

"I used to fight for an hour like that when my (two sons) were growing up. Now I've got a lot of time. And I enjoy it." So prison has given Jean Harris time, knowledge and perspective. And now she'd like to go home. "I wonder how much longer girlfriends "toughing it out" and waiting faithfully until their men come home.

And by the way, Semp, there are female Marines "toughing it out," too. DEAR ABBY: As a child, I did as I was told, followed all the rules and was a model student. I went a bit astray as a teen-ager. I turned my back on family especially on my mother, who raised me after my father died. After seven years of mostly heartache with my first boyfriend, I jumped into a relationship with a man who turned out to be both mentally and physically abusive.

I was scared and didn't want anyone to know the terror I Hot stuff to protest." Ravishing Roseanne NEW YORK A thinner Roseanne Arnold gazes from the April cover of Ladies Home Journal with a new hairdo and makeup, courtesy of the magazine. The 5-foot-2 sitcom actress says she's lost 70 pounds and plans to Jessup recovering Richard Jessup, formerly of Richmond and now of Toledo, Ohio, is recuperating from surgery at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland. Jessup had one of his lungs lung removed Thursday, Feb. 27, and is recovering well, said his daughter, Susan Jessup Svihlik. He was to return home Thursday.

Cards can be sent to him at 1240 Champe Road, Toledo, OH 43615. Many military spouses stay faithful while partner away Jean Harris has written a book they'll keep me here," says Harris. "I don't want to be delivered in a basket to my children." Still no clemency: Public opinion seems to have shifted to Harris's side. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who has denied Harris's application for clemency three times, receives a dozen letters each month supporting early parole.

Still, Harris has detractors, tough-on-crime folks who think she's not sorry enough for Tar-nower's death or hasn't been was living in. When things got so bad that my life was in danger, I literally escaped from him. I went back to my mother. We did a lot of talking and I did a lot of apologizing. Together, we rebuilt the bridges I had burned.

During the next four years, we developed a wonderful relationship, and my mother became my best friend. When she retired (after 3'2 of those four years), I didn't have enough money to give her a big gift, so I gave her an invitation to have lunch with me every Tuesday. (By then I was working full-time and living on my own.) This gave us guaranteed time together on a regular basis. As it turned lose 40 more. She also says she's had breast reduction surgery and plans to have more children.

"I've always wanted more kids. As long as I have kids around, I'll be young," the mother of four said. McAuliffe remarries CONCORD, N.H. The hus Class meeting When Ron Edwards of Richmond decided to give some antiques to the Levi Coffin House in Fountain City, he had no idea the memories he would stir. Saundra Jackson, Coffin House Foundation secretarytreasurer and Dick Norman, tour guide and board member, visited Edwards to find out about the donation and saw a photo of Edwards' mother, a teacher at Lynn school, with her third-grade class.

Surprisingly, Jackson and both of Norman's children, William R. Norman Jr. and Donna Jean Hutchens were in the class picture, too, sharing Edwards' mother as a teacher. Jones wins Eddie Jones of Richmond recently took first place in the custom division of the Indianapolis World of Wheels custom vehicle show with his 1990 Har-ley-Davidson motorcycle. Jones said he got lots of help during the show from his four staff members.

He participated in his first custom show in November 1991 and plans to show his motorcycle at the upcoming World of Wheels show in Fort Wayne. DEAR ABBY: As a platoon commander stationed in the Far East, I see firsthand the effects of separation on a relationship. None of my young Marines are permitted to bring wives or family with them on a one-year tour. It would seem that the wife would understand this time apart as an unfortunate reality of the job. However, a week does not pass that a Marine doesn't receive a "Dear John" letter or phone call.

I have nothing but contempt for these women. If they could only be here to see the anguish these men endure. These women must show the same courage their husbands and boyfriends do every Palladium-Item wire reports No bombs please SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. -Filming for Kevin Costner's latest movie ran into rough waters, with some neighbors protesting plans to shoot a lake scene in which a skiff is blown up. The film, tentatively titled "Everyday People" appears in every Monday, Friday and Sunday on the People page.

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