Chillicothe Gazette from Chillicothe, Ohio • 14

14 Chillicothe, Ohio Gazette Tuesday, December 6, 1983 New season is not bad, but it could be better Without cast Steinbeck work would be hollow 'M Jg I "Lou Grant" more than it needs another "Hill Street Blues." Over at "Whiz Kids" continues to get disappointing ratings, but week in and week out, this is a breezily engaging show about a gaggle of adolescents united by their reliance on a computer: "Our Gang" goes digital. The plots are repetitious there's always some sinister company hiding behind a facade of respectability but the youngsters are chipper and believable, and the scripts a pleasing step up from childishness. By BILLHAYDEN Gannett News Service Without the likes of Donald Sutherland, Ten Garr and Tuesday Weld, the "The Winter of Our Discontent," CBS, tonight at 9, would be a hollow shell, a sketchy outline of what has been called John Steinbeck's "most serious, bitter and angry" since be wrote "The Grapes of Wrath." As it is, the two-hour drama contains some substance to go with the form. It is Sutherland's understanding of the changes and pressures his character faces that gives not just his performance, but this version of "Winter" a sense of purpose. Through him, the audience gains a sympathetic, preceptive feel of the importance of family and individual dignity.

He portrays Ethan Allen Hawley, the descendant of a once-affluent New England family. His inheritance is little more than his name and his principles. HE'S A quiet, easy-going man, very much an innocent. He's content to be a clerk in the grocery store his family once owned. He is leery of the modern world and the shady business practices he sees around him.

This doesnt mean he has no dreams, no ambition. Watching wife Garr count pennies and listening to the children Kirk Brennan and Amanita Hyldahl complain, he deeply feels the hardships imposed by the family's lack of resources. He decides to improve matters by buying back the family store from elderly Sicilian immigrant Michael Gazzo. For the necessary loan, he approaches banker E.G. Marshall, who places a condition on handing over the money.

Marshall plans to build a large shopping center on the land running between the grocery and the house of Sutherland's best friend, Richard Masur. AH Sutherland has to do is get Masur to sell the house. The house, however, is the only worldly possession Masur, the town ly languished at the bottom of the weekly Nielsen ratings. But the show has -enough smarts, stars and sex appeal to be a hit. THE problem is NBCs clumsy scheduling.

"Yellow Rose" did very well in its special Sunday night premiere, and Sunday night is where it belongs. It's a Sunday kind of show an updated and more adult "Bonanza," which galloped around happily on Sunday nights for years. NBC made a stupid blunder putting "Knight Rider" on Sundays, because this is a family show only for families in which no one has passed the age of 13. NBC's "Bay City Blues" has slunk into limbo. In their rave reviews, TV critics often called upon the word "quality" to describe the series.

Yes, it had quality in its acting, writing, and direction. But it also proved to be a depressing downer. There was no joy, or very little, in Mudville or rather Bay City, where the Class AA -baseball team of the title led its dreary existence. Certainly any TV show with even half a brain ought to be encouraged, but by imitating "Hill Street Blues" with "St. Elsewhere" and then "Bay City," NBC seems to be saying that the only viable kind of one-hour weekly drama is the sad-faced format that i keeps 42 stories going at once.

TV needs another By TOM SHALES Washington Post The midway point in the new TV season is not that far off, and soon the networks will settle into their annual holiday rerun lull. The time has come for a TV critic to sit back, take a deep breath, kick off his shoes, drink a few curse his wretched lot in life, and fall fast asleep. And then, when he wakes up, it's time for him to stop, look, smell the roses, and more to the point, ponder the new shows and where they stand. It's also time to take back some of the mean things he said at the start of the season and replace them with other mean things he's thought of since. How bad a season is.

it? Not as bad as it might have been and not nearly as good as it ought to be. Of the 22 shows that premiered in September and October on the three networks, five have been canceled or exiled to that mysterious land called "Hiatus," whence few return. Another 14 of the new shows can delicately be said to be in trouble. Some of the better new shows are getting terrible ratings and some terrible new shows are thriving like pigs in grease. One of the most frustrating also-rans is NBC's "The Yellow Rose," an attempt to do a sprawling clannish soap opera with a little class and intelligence (and a terrific cast).

In its Saturday night time slot, it has consistent All THEATRES "SKOAL" MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS JMnffiS2.S0CWMnaS1.0e No OmUtm's fkktti on (I) ratatf Mm. Search For The Mother Lode (PG) (AP Laserphoto) Donald Sutherland stars as Ethan Hawley, the struggling scion of a once prosperous New England family, and Teri Garr plays his wife, Mary, in "The Winter of Our Discontent." drunk, has left. Rather than sell, he deeds it to Sutherland as a gilt. The machinations and the pursuit of material gain are changing Sutherland from a contented family man. These changes are noticed by Garr's best friend, Weld, who decides to make the most of the circumstance for her own benefit.

When the intricately constructed web of schemes begins to unravel with unforeseen results, Sutherland realize she can blame neither circumstance nor anyone else. He is the one who must determine his own fate. It is his responsibility and duty to regain the personal integrity he has compromised. Cross Creek mm 'Final Terror' mjm Rumble Fish () Movie offers some strange nostalgia Movie review The money-sewing, ert2rgy-sivift offer to ByMIKE HUGHES Gannett News Service The movie "Final Terror" offers us some strange nostalgia. For decades, Samuel Arkoff served up Grade-D movies from his American International Pictures.

The subjects ranged from bikers'to beachboys to boos, but some things were constant: They were always cheap and usually bad. Then Arkoff sold out and everything changed. AIP became Filmways which became Orion which became classy. And now, at 65, Arkoff is back, making movies independently. "Final Terror" amounts to an propriate return: It's cBeaparia" 6arF' without trying to be.

THE OLD Arkoff films left room lines, meandering cameras, and more. Unfortunately, this is no high-class It's a story about four rangers and four young women who plan a pleasant weekend in the forest, but are carved up one-by-one by a disagreeable person who strews body parts. This is the kind of movie that never explains who all these people are or why two of them have British accents. It also doesn't explain why anyone, in the midst of all this, would wander off to the latrine alone. The problems the confusion, cheapness, grossness overcome some Ultimately, "Final Terror'! is 'a movie -only interior secretary James Watt could love.

It shows that forests aren't much fun after all. for talented young upstarts like Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern. "Final Terror" did the same. The cast is filled with good people who got better roles while this film was waiting on the shelf: Rachel Ward Adrian Zmed Darryl Hannah and John Friedrich (Ward's boxing brother in "Thorn There's a terrific music score by Susan Jensen, and an earnest-e4fort "byilpr Arthur Davis? Davis seems convinced he's doing a Bergman drama. He fills "Terror" with overlapping dialogue, mumbled ptblic wticfs 4 fcouce of Filing Accounts I Common Pleas Court, Probate Division i Rom County.

i State ot Ohio Whereas, accounts have been filed and vouchers have been exhibited in the office of said Court in settle- ment by the Administrators of the Estates of the follow- dig named deceased persons, to-wifc 82 E-235, Clementine Hughes Tootle, Partial Account; 77 E-336. Lenore Faulkner, Final and Distributive Account; SO E- 188. Ruth A. Netf, Partial Ac count And by the Guardians of the following named per. sonsVto-wit 82 GM-11.

Ralph Mathew Overly, Second Account; 79 GM-16, Leslie McConahay, Second Account; 78 GM-31, David Joseph Miller, Fifth Account; 78 GM-32, Shelley Ann Miller, Fifth Account; 80 GM-15, Stephen Dane Iseman, Second Account; 80 GM-16, Alissa Iseman, Second Account; 80 GI-25, Charles P. Corathers, Third Account. And by the Executors of ihe Wills of the following named persons, to-wit: 82 E-S7, Sue Dunlap Marr, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-137, Verner Moore, Final and Distributive Account; 82 E-314, Virgil L. Search, Final and Distributive Account; 82 E-433, Thetta E. Newklrk, Final and Distributive Account; 79 E-426, Mayme Martin, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-219, Merril Watdren', Final and Distributive Account; 81 E-110, Janet I.

Penwell, Final and Distributive Account; 63 E-176, Roy E. tee, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-13, Hubert B. Moss, Final and Distributive Account; 79 E-231, George H. Gearhart, Partial Account; 83 E-18, Howard W. Bookwalter, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-163, Gladys M.

Hatmaker, Final and Distributive Account; 81 E-237, Jane K. Bradley, Final and Distributive Account; 81 E-28, Joseph Lee Heskett, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-276, Adrian E. Ater, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-165, Dorothy B. Worf, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-55, Donald B. Friedli, Final and Distributive Account; 83 E-278, Joseph E.

Willis, Final and Distributive Account. And by and Trusteeships of the following named persons, to-wit: 80 T-5, George A. Cooper, First Account; 79 T-7, Julia Posey, Second Account; 81 T-11, Frank J. Grabill, First Account; 78 T-5, James E. River, Seventeenth Account.

Notice is hereby given that said accounts are now on file In the office of said Court, being suspended for confirmation, and persons interested in said accounts or any Item thereof, may file written exceptions thereto, at leas five days prior the 9th day of January, 1984, when the same will be heard or continued from day to day until concluded. GERALD E. RADCLIFFE, JUDGE Common Pleas Court, Probate Division Ross County, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 ffcSZfl 1ZB. DELINQUENT TAX NOTICE As prescribed by Sec. 5721.03 of the Ohio Revised Code, I hereby give notice of the forthcoming publication in this newspaper of the Delinquent Tax List of lands in Ross County.

Effective this year, 10 interest now accrues on Delinquent Taxes. Taxpayers may enter Into a written contract with the County Treasurer to pay delinquent taxes in five installments. No further Interest would accrue during the term of the contract. The Ross County Treasurer's office is open from 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday to accept payments on delin-quent taxes.

The Treasurer's office is located in the Ross County Court House, corner of Paint and Main Streets, in Chillicothe, Ohio45601. David A. Ringer Auditor Ross County 1969 12JU1 City of Chillicothe Office of The Purchasing Agent Chillicothe, Ohio Sealed proposals will be received by the Purchasing Agent of the City of Chillicothe, Ohio, at her office, 35 S. Paint Street, Administration Building, Chillicothe, Ohio until 12:00 O'clock Noon, E.S.T. December 13, 1983 as authorized by Ordinance No.

75-83, for the following: ITEM: Petroleum Products Proposals and copies of specifications may be obtained at the Office of the Purchasing Agent, 35 S. Paint Street, Administration Building, Chillicothe, Ohio. Each bid must be accompanied by a surety bond or cash In the amount equal to at least ten (10) percent of the total amount of the bid, or by certified check, on any solvent bank for an amount equal to ten (10) percent of the total amount of the bid and made payable to the order of the Director of Public Service, City of Chillicothe, Ohio, In lieu of a bid bond. The City of Chillicothe reserves the right to reject any or all bids, waive any Informalities in tame, or lo accept any bid or combination of bid deemed most advantageous to City's In-, terest. Drewey Scaggs Director of Public Service K-845 1129,12:6 tltilall I0W jO BE CD0SED! Because- And, items you purchase that will make your home more energy-efficient may also qualify you for Federal income tax credits.

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