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Beatrice Daily Sun, Beatrice, July 8,1977 Wolverton Mountain rises again By JOE EDWARDS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) Get out your gun, Clifton Glowers. Claude King still wants your daughter. For 15 years, King has been singing about the gun-toting Glowers and his pretty young daughter in the melodious ballad "Wolverton Mountain." The mountain melodrama continues because a rejuvenated King has re- recorded and re-released the 1962 song that sold 3 million copies. "The record was still selling and we felt it should be recut," the lanky King said after a recent recording session. "Johnny Cash recut 'Folsom Prison Blues' and it did better the second time." "The arrangement is a little different," he said.

"It's a modern, fresh sound. They did some things I liked with the drums and guitars. But we didn't change it so much that people will be offended." In the 15 years since the gentlemanly King made the song a classic, it's been recorded on albums by dozens of artists, including Bing Crosby and Nal King Cole. "I wish I had a way of finding out all the people, who have recorded it," said King, who lives in Shreveporl, La. "Years ago, way over 100 had recorded it.

My great-grandchildren will get checks from it. It's a standard like The song stayed on the charts for a year and was No. for months in Japan, Sweden, Denmark, South Africa and Germany. "The song meant everything to me," King reflected. "Who knows what might have happened to me.

It opened up avenues. "When I do a show, the people usually start yellin' for it. I usually do it twice; I do it and get it out of the way, then repeat it later." King, 44, just began recording again after a two-year hiatus. He's on a lesser- known label now after 14 years with a major company. "I've never had this much and enthusiasm," he said.

"I HaVe a fresh outlook on everything. It's like a guy taking a vacation. You get back and you've got the enthusiasm. That's the way to describe mvself. "You can get lost in the shuffle on a big label, but here you feel like you belong, like you're wanted." There will be no major changes in his style.

"I've always been partial to ballads and good story songs. It's what I really like. I guess it's because I was raised in the country and country people had a hard life. These songs relate to people and say it pretty well. Mountain" was a true story.

Sometimes these things are just waiting for you to use 'em." HOBBY STOCKS ONLY! 1-29 SPEEDWAY Nebraska City, Nebr. EVERY FRIDAY Gates Open 6 pm-Races Start 8 pm Motorcycle Races-Sun. July 10,4 pm OPENING JULY 11 INFANT AND CHILDRENS WEAR NANNY'S Kid Stuf 619 E. Court St. schedules appearance "Fernando" and "Gonna Fly Now" (Theme from will highlight the second concert of the Beatrice Municipal Band Sunday, July 10 at 8 p.m.

in the tabernacle at Chautauqua Park. The concert also will feature marches, overtures, folk songs, pop tunes and a medley of songs from the Broadway show "Westside Story." Band director is Robert Person. Sunday's concert program follows: "March of the Golden Brass," Cacavas. "Musette and March," Bach. "Lethbridge Overture," Ployhar.

"Fernando," Erickson. "S.I.B.A. March," Hall. Highlights from "Westside Story," Bernstein. "Close To You," Bacharach.

"Seals and Crofts in Concert," Cole. "Gonna Fly Now" (Theme from Rocky), Conti. "Washington Post March," Sousa. STOCK CAR RACES SATURDAY NITE July 9th 8 PM Adults $2.00 Children (Inert-Free BEATRICE SPEEDWAY Nebraskai finest Vi Mile Dirt Track Gage County Fairgrounds HOUSE FURNITURE AUCTION 1600 Market St. Beatrice, Nebr.

Monday, July 18,1977 Commencing at 6:30 PM 7 Room 2 Story Home Property Offered at 7 PM Legal Description: Lot 7 of Lot 8 Block 1 C. M. J. L. Root's Subdivision, Beatrice, Gage County, Nebr.

Subject to any easements or assessments of record. House consists of: 5 rooms complete bath on main floor, 2 roms on second floor, Porch, Part basement, City water, City sewer. House in fair condition. 7 fruit trees, grape vines, garden spot 2 sets of kitchen cabinets with sinks and wall cabinets to be sold separately after property sells. Terms: down day of sale, balance on or before Sept.

1, 1977 or when marketable abstract deed delivered. 1976 and all prior years taxes paid Purchaser to pay 1977 taxes. First National Bank, Beatrice, Nebr. Escrow agent. Down payment and final settlement to be made at the First Nattonal Bank, Beatrice, Nebr.

House shown by appointment. Any announcements sale day shall take precedence over any advertised statements. FURNITURE: Refrigerator; Gas range; Window air conditioner; Bedroom suite; Colored Television; Rug; Stereo record player (console); Davenport chair; Singer sewing machine (cabinet style) with chair; 3 bed complete; Radio kitchen table chairs; Coffee table and End talbes; Table lamps; Dishes; Cooking Utensils; Silverware; 2 Metal storage cabinets; Small electric appliances; 2 gas heaters; Pressure canner; Quilting frames; Fruit jars; Porch swing; Portable 2 burner gas plate; Foot locker; Luggage; 3 medicine chests; Hot water heater; Small portable electric washer; Tools; Pipe fittings; Garden tools; Lots of other articles not mentioned. ANTIQUES: Glass front cabinet; Wardrobe; Commode; Dresser; Round oak table chairs; Corner china cupboard; Picture frames; 2 large mirrors; Center table; Chest of drawers; Kitchen cupboard; Small cupboard; Lamp stand; Chair; Candelier; Dishes; Trunk; Guitar, banjo; Iron bed; jewelry boxes; Bird cage; Tin boxes; Books; Kerosene heater; Hall tree; fern stands; Ice box; Cream stirrer; Wash board; Stone jars; Bottles; Flower Pots; Push lawn mower; Other items not mentioned. TERMS: Cash.

All property bid in at bidder's risk and cannot be removed from the premises until settled for. (Not Responsible for Accidents) ALVINA MALCHOW Estate Phone 228-2327 Leora Bartlett Esther Barber, Personal Representatives Clerk, First National Bank, Beatrice Schultis Son and Wolken, Irvin Schultis, 1109 Fairbury, Nebr. Ph. 729-2435 Wayne Schultis, Diller, Nebr. Ph.

793-5533 Duane Wolken, Diller, Nebr. Ph. 793-5393 Welcome Singer launches 'hits for hearts' By JOE EDWARDS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) After three heart attacks, a mental breakdown, a conviction for bail-jumping and battles with drugs and alcoholism, Chuck Howard found meaning to life. Howard, 39, is using his talent as a country-pop songwriter and singer to fight heart disease, which he believes will claim his life in five years.

You could call his campaign "hits for hearts." Howard has donated all royalties from a song he wrote, "Life," to the Heart Foundation. He is hoping for hits off his current album, "Chuck Howard," that will make him a celebrity and give him a forum to speak against heart disease. "I want to try to get a hit record to get the money and power to fight this disease," he said in an interview. "If Hitler had been good, he'd have been great cause he had power." There's little wonder why he had three heart attacks in 1975. His 37 years were crammed with agony.

There was liquor, "a fifth a night." And drugs, "speed, anything I could get my hands on." Then there was the law stealing tires as a youngster, jumping bail, a suspended two-year sentence to the Ohio Penitentiary. "Sounds like a loser, doesn't it?" he asked. "I found out what life is about when I was about to lose it; I remember waking up and thinking, 'I'm Someone once said that you don't appreciate life till it's about over. Thai's what happened to me." At 20 or sp, he spent three weeks in a mental ward in Columbus, Ohio. "The law was chasing me.

I had gambled away a home and a car. I was a punk. I just couldn't deal with it." Writing music became his savior. In 1962, at 24, he wrote "A Thing Called Sadness," recorded by Ray Price, Kitty Wells and others. A few years later he contributed half the material on Ringo Starr's album "Beaucoup of Blues." Then in the early 1970s, he wrote the soundtrack for the film "A Walk On the Outside" and helped on the screenplay.

The three heart attacks followed. Awaking from one of them, he discovered a very painful tube against his jaw. He couldn't alert the nurse because he couldn't spell "jaw," having left school at 14. "I thought, 'You dumb ass, you're gonna die because you can't spell he recalled. Doctors have been vague, he said, about how long he has to live.

He had open heart surgery in Phoenix, after the third one. "I think I have five years. I'll take it. After all, I almost died. It's hard to keep dying out of my mind.

You get in a hurry to do a lot of things. "I want to live more than the normal man," he said. "I want to make people aware that heart disease is sneaky; it quietly stabs you in the back." Motion to transfer court case denied In Gage County Court Wednesday, Judge Paul Korslund denied a motion to transfer Ronald Stierwalt's case to the juvenile docket. The sixteen-year-old, of 1400 N. 10th, is charged with breaking and entering a building at 1800 N.

6th April 1. He will have a preliminary hearing, Friday, July 15 at 2 p.m. Bond set at $4,000 ($400 deposit) was continued. Kingdom growing for Miss Universe LOS ANGELES (AP) Like the United Nations, the Miss Universe Beauty Pagaent keeps getting bigger. With more new countries, there are more contestants than ever before in its 26-year history.

This year 84 beauties from around the world will compete in (he finals from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. CBS will present the Miss Universe Pageant by satellite from the Caribbean island from 10 p.m. EOT to midnight on Saturday. For those who think a beauty pageant is a beauty pageant, this one has a new texture. "It has a different look to it," said television personality Bob Barker, master of ceremonies for the Miss Universe and Miss U.S.A.

beauty pageants for 11 years. Singer Helen O'Connell will be hostess. "Girls in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant are for the most part in college. Seldom are any older than 22.

But at the Miss Universe Pageant the girls are as old as 28. Many are successful and well-known models in their own countries. A few are successful movie actresses in tlioir own countries." In addition, Barker said, "In the opening production number the girls appear in their national costumes. And many of the girls don't speak English. "I speak enough Spanish to get by, but if the girl doesn't speak English or Spanish when I interview the 12 seinifinalists I'm often reduced to sign language.

They turn out to be some of the most amusing interviews I've ever done on televison." At one pageant he asked Miss Japan, who spoke not a word of English, to explain the Japanese tea ceremony. "At rehearsal she did it very simply and quickly. But on the air this young lady told us the whole ceremony in every detail," he said. "It went on and on. Afterward, I said it obviously wasn't instant tea." Barter, who is host of "The Price is Right," also anchors the Pillsbury Bakeoff, the Indianapolis 500 Parade and the Rose Parade.

He -said he had never detected any political activism among the contestants, despite the fact that some come from countries unfriendly to each other. Barker said he usually flies to the pageant site about a week early to prepare for the telecast. "Unlike other shows that are completely spontaneous, this is carefully rehearsed," he said. "During the rehearsal I make it a point to meet and talk to every girl. One of my duties is to make the girls feel at ease.

Most have never been on a show of this scope before. I assure them that I will try to make them look as good as possible and smooth over any bumps." in this very stylized and theatrial version. It will be seen on NBC at 9 p.m. Monday under that network's program exchange agreement with the British Broadcasting Co. It is a rich production, artistically done, so that you can almost smell the dank alleys of Paris in the 15th Century.

Yet, it is a difficult story to follow. Only Inward the middle do the characters begin to fall into place. The viewer who slicks with it will be rewarded, as the pace quickens toward the violent climax. Warren Clarke stars as Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame, who responds to the scant attention paid him like a tail-wagging dog. Though dim- wilted, he perceives the evil around him.

Kenneth Haigh is the devious Claude Frollo, archdeacon of the cathedral and Quasimodo's foster father and protector. Michelle Newell is Esmcralda, the beautiful gypsy girl accused of witchcraft when she spurns I hi- lust of the aid. deacon. Duster crash kills pilot WOODBINE, Iowa (AP) A rural Whiting crop-duster died Wednesday evening in a plane crash five miles northwest of this western Iowa town. Tlie Iowa State Patrol identified the victim as Glen Garner wlio was flying (lie craft belonging to Western Iowa Sprayers of Woodbine.

Harrison County Sheriff Louit- Allstol said the right wing of Garner's plane- struck a tree before it crashed and burned. Garner was dusting a field on the Larry Guyett farm at the time of the Allstott said. There were no other injuries, he said, and the Federal Aviation Agenicy will investigate the cause of the accident. Vehicle homicide charged in fatality OMAHA, Neb. Kohl, 20, of Omaha, who was driving a truck involved in a fatal accident Saturday, was charged Tuesday with felony motor vehicle homicide.

Kohl was accused of driving his pickup truck past a stop sign. The truck was in collision with a car driven by Scott Alan Wolpa, 20, of Omaha, who was killed. Police said a test showed Kohl's blood contained .22 of per cent of alcohol shortly after the accident. Under Nebraska law, a driver is considered too drunk to legally drive if his blood contains more than .1 of per cent alcohol. BELLRINGER: The British production of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," from Victor Hugo's classic book, is the story of a bewildered innocent surrounded by corruption.

The symbolism fairly bounces off the makeshift scenery HOURS: Mondoy-frldoySAMtoBPM Is Open for Business A New' TRUE VALUE Hardware Store iviercnaiiuisG ia 0 We welcome your patronage and your suggestions. STORES Jolly Troll Stardust, Holton, Ks. presents THE "AMAZING RHYTHM ACES" special guest "Pott Co. Pork'N Bean Band" JULY 22, 8:30 p.m. Jolly Troll Stardust, 26 mi.

north of Topeka on 75 Hwy. Adv. $6.00 Day of Show $7.00 Tickets: Topeka, Joe Henrys- Brothers Sisters Lawrence-Keifs, Wamego-Quality Oil Manhattan-Record Shop, Aggieville Holton-Jon G. Music Mail order: Jolly Troll, Holton 66436 rooooexsoooooooe I I I I I I I I I I PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Ivan W. Hedge has faithfully served as a Trustee of the Village Board, Filley, Gage County, Nebraska for 37 years and WHEREAS, Ivan W.

Hedge has also served as Clerk of the Village Board from the year of Our Lord 1940 through 1976, and WHEREAS, Ivan W. Hedge has given unselfishly of his time, his wisdom and his influence in his service to the Village Board, Filley, Nebraska, and WHEREAS, all inhabitants of Filley and the Filley area, Gage County, Nebraska are indebted to Ivan W. and LaVada Hedge for their service and interest in what was and is best for Filley and the Filley community, and WHEREAS, P. J. Jurgens is Mayor of the Village of Filley, Nebr.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That we recognize and honor Ivan W. Hedge and LaVada Hedge by declaring July 10, 1977 an "IVAN W. HEDGE and further, that we commemorate such occasion by having an open house for the Hedges at the United Methodist Church parlor, Filley, Nebraska from 2:00 o'clock P.M. to 4:00 o'clock P.M. Sunday, July 10, 1977.

VILLAGE BOARD of Filley, Nebraska By P.J.Jurgens P. J. Jurgens, Mayor Read it July 10 in "FONZIE" The Curse That Plagues Henry Winkler The Fonz is inescapable; his face is on everything from T-shirts to lunch pails. Who and what is The Fonz? For Henry Winkler it is a monster; for the general public it's television's big hit Happy Days. Winkler, who trained at Yale University's drama school, finds that he is trapped in Fonzie's skin and wants desperately to get out.

He doesn't talk or act like The Fonz and is an articulate and soft-spoken man who is ambitious for a movie career. Now he hopes his new movie, Heroes, with Sally Field, will liberate him forever from the leather- look of the nevertheless delightful Fonzie. THE GREAT ANCESTOR HUNT Since Roots, the book, and Roots, the television smash hit, millions of Americans are rushing to discover their own origins. Genealogy has suddenly become the third-ranking hobby in the United States. A recent Gallup poll indicates that 69 percent of us are eager to know more about our ancestors.

Harriet Van Home, the well-known columnist, describing the craze for FAMILY WEEKLY, says that our libraries, town halls even cemeteries are being besieged by the new "explorers." Is this quest for roots merely a fad? Sociologists say no. Our lifestyle has bred a hunger to know who we are and where we came from, especially because we are a nation of movers, marrying and divorcing and obscuring the tracks we leave behind us. Helping Your Dog Live a Healthier and Happier Life Read all about it in FAMILY WEEKLY July 10 The Men Who Went to the Moon Where Are They Now? Read all about it in FAMILY WEEKLY July 10 Beatrice Daily Sun.