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'hhs 1 El Paso TimesO June 19, 1990 Bostion 0 2D Television 4D Columns 5D Comics 8D Business Living section editor: Josie Cantu-Weber, 546-6154 I jVwt Las Cruces debuts Options abound for those fretting over their married name new TV station The area's newest television station, independent Channel 48-KZIA in Las Cruces, is telecasting from 8 a.m.-midnight daily. Former women "seems to come down to where you find your identity marriage and family, or work outside the home." Lisa Welcher took her husband's name with no difficulty, "I don't have to worry about being my own person," says Welcher, 26, a civil servant in Indianapolis. "It is really not a big deal. I have a brother to carry on the family name." Women in their late '20s "are Please see Name 3D "There is room for all the choices women can make," says Michele Weber Hurwitz, who married last year and uses her own name as a middle name. The decision "is a happy medium," says Hurwitz, 30, a public relations specialist in Elk Grove, 111.

"I had a professional name. I bought my home in my own name. But I also wanted to be connected to my husband. I wanted to reflect both roles." Such women "do not want to Gannett News Service To change or not to change last names that is the question for many June brides. They ponder whether to keep their own name.

Or to hyphenate and use both hers and his. Or to tread the traditional track and simply take his. Back in the '70s, choosing a name was a political statement. But in the '90s, the name of the name game is options. be dictated to," says Janet Chan of Self magazine.

"Their choice of a name today is seen as less loaded. It doesn't mean you're liberated if you keep your own name, or a shackled romantic if you take his." Options abound today. Rhonda Saferstein married last year and kept her name. Her 11-week-old baby is Jacklyn Gail Saferstein-Hansen. "I never in my life thought about changing my name," says Saferstein, 34, of Omaha, who has left the work force to care for her family.

"I am proud of my name." Her husband, Jeff Hansen, 34, says, "We are both equals. We both wanted to keep our names. Why not share both names with our baby?" The Census Bureau does not track how women deal with names at marriage. And nobody is really researching the field, Martha Farnsworth Riche of American Demographics says. But the key for most '90s KDBC anchor Bill Mitchell handles the news at 6:30 The station will air all MSU basketball games, Southwest Conference ball and basketball games and San Diego Padres baseball games.

Sales manager Sam Kobren said the channel soon will join the Las Cruces cable as Channel 12. Channel 4 hires new top executive El Paso television station Channel 4-KDBC (CBS) has announced Gary Sotir will be the station's new vice president and general man owhis tat some body ores ager beginning July 5. Sotir II 1 1 14 8 .1 'I 'fc-ii was the general sales manager for the past two years in Columbus, Miss. Sotir is replacing Hugh Roche, who resigned to become the vice president and general manager of WMBB-TV in Pap-ama City, Florida. 'Dick Tracy' nabs m.

ml .1 top box-office spot I. i HOLLYWOOD A week end raid by "Dick Tracy" netted an estimated $22.6 million in box office receipts, including $1.2 mil i lion in sales for T-shirts that 3 .1 served as tickets at midnight openings. The total led all other movies for the I' weekend but was lower than the early receipts of some recent blockbusters. Disney stock fell on the news. The "Tracy" debut put the cuffs on Warner Bros.

"Gremlins 2: The New Batch" finished fourth with $9.8 million for its first weekend. Simon to perform at Mandela rally At the request of Nelson Mandela's daughter, Paul v.j St. mm 1 Simon will perform Saturday at the Boston rally Mandela's freedom from 27 years of imDris- 4 'J Jay Bryant El Paso Times Clarence E. Stierwalt, left, talks with Shelia Gray her sons Seth, second from left, and Jacob in Memorial General Hospital. Las Cruces brothers visit elderly 1 W2 1 i I.

msm mS SImon onment for his anti-apartheid leadership. For the occasion, Simon is reuniting with La-dysmith Black Mambazo, the South African group which helped him record his "Graceland" album. They also joined him during the "Graceland" tour in Zimbabwe. Apartheid laws prohibited the concert in South Africa. Foster ready for director's chair Jodie Foster's much-discussed first turn as a director has been set for a mid-July start.

Orion's "Little Man Tate," which will be filmed in Cincinnati, has Jodie and Dianne Wiest aboard as stars, but the central character a boy genius is still to be cast. MedofT and a friend had been checking up on each other until the friend moved to Arizona. Medoff was afraid that if she had an accident while her son and his family were out of town, no one might find her for a while. The idea of having one of their boys make checkup calls to an elderly Eerson appealed to the Grays, who omeschool their sons and take care of Robin Gray's 93-year-old grandmother, an Alzheimer's patient who is in a wheelchair and on oxygen. Having the boys' great-grandmother move in with the family has made the children more aware of the needs of the elderly, Sheila Gray said.

"It's important for kids to see the seasons of life and not turn their backs on the elderly," Robin Gray said. "Some character qualities we want to build into the boys are love for Please see Brothers 30 By Becky Powers Special to the El Paso Times LAS CRUCES Ten-year-old Seth Gray and his 8-year-old brother, Jacob, have undertaken an unusual project: checking up on the elderly. The Las Cruces brothers began last fall by making daily calls and occasional home visits to three elderly people: Thelma MedofT, 70, and Clarence and Ellen Stierwalt, both 81. Since then, Clarence Stierwalt has been hospitalized three times for lung and arthritis problems, and Ellen Stierwalt, a stroke victim, broke her hip. So now instead of phoning daily, Seth visits the Stierwalts in the hospital and nursing home every other day.

It all started when a relative asked the boys' parents, Robin and Sheila Gray, if one of the boys could phone Medoff daily. Jay Bryant El Paso Times NBC says no to ads Seth Gray, 10, pushes Ellen Stierwalt in a Las Cruces nursing home. His brother, 8-year-old Jacob, follows behind. M.C. Hammer isn't just your average rapper featuring Fox stars Burger King thought it had a whopper on its hands when it landed "The Simpsons" for a summer promotion, including TV commercials.

But top-rated NBC will not run the spots, which are slated to begin in July. NBC Vice President Curt Block says the network's policy "is not to accept commercials featuring characters from competitive programs while they are in character" or commercials that make a blatant mention of a competing show. "The Simpsons air on the Fox network. Times staff, wire reports The latest in ecotourism: turtle watching Associated Press JUPITER BEACH, Fla. -She rose out of the sea at midnight and carefully dug a nest in the sand as her ancestors have done for about 90 million years.

Only this time, the giant loggerhead sea turtle had an audience. Two-dozen flash-popping, oohing-and-aahing beach-goers encircled the 200-pound turtle and gaped as she slowly deposited more than 100 eggs the size of ping-pong balls into a hole in the sand, covered them and lumbered back into the surf, never to see them again. "It's almost a religious experience. Maybe it's a female thing, but I empathize with the turtle. All that multiple labor," said Sue Sheehan, 44, a teacher from nearby Jupiter who brought her mother from Phoenix, Defunitions ByJaekWohl Associated Press Turtle watchers in Jupiter Beach, ogle a loggerhead sea turtle as she lays her eggs.

Associated Press M.C. Hammer is determined to break out of the rap pack. "(I'm) an entertainer," Hammer declares. My music has as much singing and dancing as any other pop record. I want to be a pop star." He may just do it.

He's an enthralling dancer, with a uni- quely melodic sound, his distinctive "diaper" harem-type pants, and a sprawling business empire. His second album, "Please, Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em" has sold close to 3 million copies. It is No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart the only other rappers to do that are Tone Loc and the Beastie Boys. "Rap, in the way I'm presenting it, has no limitations," Hammer, 27, says.

He feels typical rap isn't musical enough; rather than "sample" bits from others' hits, he prefers to recycle entire melodies. His Can't Touch This," the No. 8 pop and No. 4 black single, is a virtual copy, musically, of Rick James "Super Freak." His next single, "Have You Seen Her," is a re-recording of the Chi-Lites 71 hit. His approach has drawn detractors.

Some rappers "don't like me Too Short, Easy N.W.A. So what? I make music that sounds good to me." His main appeal, though, is his dazzling dance-oriented videos. His 6-foot, 180-pound body is amazingly limber. His dancing inspired by James Brown is such an integral part of his act, he's taken out On tour, too, Hammer varies from most rap acts. He's backed by a live band and won't use the turntables and prerecorded tapes that accompany most rap acta.

"People have known rap shows as being boring. We need to get away from the one-dimensional, walking-Bide-to-side and grabbing-the-crotch kind of stuff, and work on putting on quality live shows." upscale (up'akal) awareness and aiding research about the endangered sea turtles, which seem to face threats from every corner. But the watches also have raised concerns among some biologists who want to minimize human impact on the skittish turtles and prevent Please see Turtle 3D to see turtles give birth behind the Jupiter Beach Hilton. The women were among thousands of locals and tourists taking part in turtle watches on Florida's East Coast last week during the peak of the May-September nesting season. Biologists credit the night watches with raising What dieting people always seem to see.

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