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2 A Monday, September 25, 1989 Hattiesburg AMERICAN People and Places Here Elsewhere. Beauty visits land of Oz Evert keeps grip on racket 1, A5FEN, WW. (AH -Evert is learning to relax, but she isn't ready to trade in her tennis racket for a fishing rod. "This demands too much patience," Evert said last week during a fly-fishing expedition to the Roaring Fork River with husband Andy Mill. Despite talk that Evert, 34, wnnlri mil It miits after her NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass.

(AP) Newly crowned Miss America Debbye Turner made the first public appearance of her yearlong tour at a new suburban mall where she was, welcomed by characters from "The Wizard of Oz." Turner, who represented Missouri when she won the crown Sept 16, was escorted by Evert Turner it' quarterfinal loss in the U.S. Open earlier in the month, she is looking ahead to an exhibition Tuesday with Martina Navratilova in Seattle, weekend matches in Philadelphia, and a trip to Tokyo where she'll play in the Federation Cup, the women's equivalent of the Davis Cup. "You can see I haven't quit, not yet," she said. "I think I got retired a little bit against my will. What I said was I wouldn't play any more Grand Slam events, and people took it from there.

"IU probably play off and on until March or April. I haven't come to terms with the finality of it yet." But dropping off the big tournament circuit does leave room for other activities, Evert said. "I like hiking and biking and skiing. I think I'll be skiing more now that my legs aren't so valuable." As for fishing, "I think I could do it maybe every couple of weeks, but not every day like Andy." Boone breaks jaw in fall A the lion, tin man and scarecrow Saturday during her visit to the Emerald Square Mall, which has an Oz theme. She turned down date requests and spoke of her desire to become a veterinarian as she signed autographs.

"She's a gorgeous girl," said Barbara Dumont of Plainville. "I knew she would win." Turner make a point of playing down being the third black Miss America, but some admirers volunteered that they found it significant. "I think the racism in this country is terrible and it's great that white people have her to look up to," Dumont said. "Look what a mixed line this is. This is great." Pickup lines groomed Barr NEW YORK (AP) Roseanne Barr attributes her caustic wit to her responses to pickup lines from cocktail-lounge patrons, and says a painful childhood helped make her one of TV's funniest personalities.

"I wouldn't be making a lot of money and be very happy now if I had grown up content and sheltered," Barr said in her autobiography, "Roseanne: My Life as a Woman." Excerpts appear in this week's People magazine. The star of the television series "Roseanne" says she grew up as an outcast, the daughter of Jewish liberals in a working-class section of Salt Lake City. "Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings I was a Jew: Sunday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon we were Mormons," she said, explaining that her mother wanted her to become a Mormon while her grandmother wanted her to remain Jewish. The dual allegiance "made for a complete and well-rounded sense of paranoia," Barr wrote. To be accepted, she became the class clown until age 16, when she was hit by a car and, traumatized, spent eight months in a psychiatric hospital.

At 18, Barr said, she fled for Colorado and met Bill Pentland, a "gorgeous hippie" hotel clerk. They married two years later. Barr described the next six years as "The Queen of the Barefoot and Pregnant." With three children, Barr became a hostess at a cocktail lounge. Customers "would come on to me with the usual male flirtations, and I would respond with the meanest comebacks imaginable," she said. or BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

(AP) Singer Pat Boone broke his jaw in a fall from a bicycle. He should be out of the hospital within a few days, authorities said. Boone, 55, was hurt Saturday evening when the front tire of his bicycle hit a grating and nauaaA him a Inaa nnnfml oaiH police Lt. Miles Lee. Boone He was in good condition at UCLA Medical Center, being treated for the jaw injury and a cut above his right eye, hospital spokesman Richard Elbaum said Sunday.

Boone enjoyed a series of hits during the 1950s with covers of "Ain't That A Shame," and "Tutti Frutti," "Love Letters In The Sand" and "April Love." MISS THOMPSON, a 10-year-old student at Lilly Burney Elementary School in Hattiesburg, holds 11 young gray rat snakes that hatched recently at the University of Southern Mississippi's John M. Frasier Museum of Natural Science. The museum's fall lecture series begins Oct. 1 Army Reserve taps Morgan with prestigious service honor Morgan, a Jones County native, has been employed for eight years at South Central Regional Medical Center in the Dietary Services Department and has served in the United States Army Reserve for 10 years. Battery, Third Battalion, 83rd Artillery, was recognized for his outstanding service in Battalion Maintenance for work in mechanics.

The award is given each year to an individual who displays outstanding ability in his battalion. Madison Morgan an employee of South Central Regional Medical Center, recently received an outstanding service award from the Army Reserve during summer camp exercises held July 29 through Aug. 12 at Camp Shelby. Morgan, who serves in Service Something wrong? If you spot a factual error in the American, we would like to know about it so we can correct it. Please call, the same day or the next day if possible, between 2:30 and 5 p.m.

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Horsefeed 50 lb. Bag $4.50 GOLD WEDDING BANDS M9.99 ROGERS JEWELRY 606 Main St. 583-0284 Forrest Co. Farm Co-op 582-3545 GRACE TEMPLE INVITES YOU TO LOCAL CHURCH '89 NEW YORK (AP) The moment the elevator door opened, Clareise Jones sensed the danger. She sidestepped a mound of garbage and shone a light into the basement corners.

"We don't want to stay here too long," she said. She tiptoed in, and immediately found evidence: fresh rat droppings. Over there, she said, spotlighting two holes in the floor. "Rat burrows." And there, a dead rat. "Nasty," Jones said.

"Very nasty." Jones, poking into dank places in the largely toney Upper East Side this day, is one of New York City's 22 rat inspectors. Rats live in every area of the city, surviving off abandoned food from the slums and in the sewers to the swanky suites and Strawberry Fields of Central Park. No one has taken a census, but a conservative count puts the rat population at one for each of the city's 8 million human residents. Some experts say it may be as high as four or five rats per person. The numbers indicate New York is a rat paradise, and those whose job is to rid the city of the nocturnal rodents agree.

That doesn't mean the rat killers haven't made progress. Three hundred rat bites are recorded annually now, but that's down from about 750 a year two decades ago. The rat control program has won praise from experts, and officials from cities in Europe, Asia and elsewhere in the United States have come here for training. "The New York City program, for all of the problems that come with large cities, has one of the finest targeted urban rat control pro grams in the nation," said Jerry Hershovitz, a public-health administrator for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, who worked with city rat control programs before federal funds for them were cut several years ago. Solomon Peeples, New York's pest control director, calls himself a "professional killer, a hit man." "I kill rats," he said in his deep baritone.

"The four-legged kind." Peeples oversees about 1,000 full-and part-time workers and a budget of $10 million a year. His crusade started about 25 years ago when as a health inspector he went on a call to a rundown Brooklyn apartment. "This small, innocent child had been bitten by a rat on his wrist," he said. "Something all of a sudden hit me. I decided I was going to do something about this." St.

Louis Sun lifts off today SEPTEMBER 23-27 SPEC AL GUESTS ST. LOUIS (AP) The St. Louis Sun, trying to start from scratch and buck the trend of newspaper mergers and shutdowns, hit the streets early today to a curious and eager community. The debut edition of the tabloid newspaper featured a photograph of a bright sun rising over the Gateway Arch. The lead story was the launch of the newspaper, and its headline was "St.

Louis, We Have Liftoff." The Sun is trying to become the first major newspaper to start from scratch and make a profit since Newsday successfully did it on Long Island nearly 50 years ago, planned to "hawk" newspapers today in front of its downtown offices. Already, the Sun has attracted 55,000 subscribers nearly twice the level company officials had been aiming for after a month of publication. Advertising space in the inaugural edition was sold out. The Sun started printing 200,000 copies of the newspaper about 9:30 p.m. Sunday night, three hours earlier than its planned deadline, in order to meet expected heavy demand.

The 1-day-old Sun will be competing with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which will be 111 years old in December. said Ralph Ingersoll II, chairman and chief executive officer of New Jersey-based Ingersoll Publications which owns the Sun. Ingersoll, who is moving to St. Louis from Connecticut, will be editor-in-chief.

"I think it's pretty clear that print has a good future. I haven't the least doubt the St. Louis Sun will be profitable. It's one of the lower risk ventures we've undertaken," he said. "This newspaper will be successful if it's relevant.

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