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Carney, Bursfyn Win 'Godfather, Part II' Top Motion Picture LOS! ANGELES (UPI)- "The Godfather Part II," actress Ellen Burstyn and comedian Art Carney won Oscars Tuesday the 47th annual Academy Awards presenta- lions. "The Godfather Part II" was the big winner of the evening with seven awards, including a father-son victory for Francis Ford Coppola, as director, and his father, Carmine Coppola, taking the Oscar for best original dramatic score. Miss Burstyn, who had been nominated twice before, won her first Oscar for her performance as a house-wife- turned-singer in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More." Carney, Jackie Gleason's sidekick on television for years, embellished his reputation as a dramatic actor in "Harry and Tonto," playing an indomitable widower who late in life treks across country with his pet cat. "Towering Inferno" was runner-up in total Oscars with three awards. The winner of the best supporting actress award was Ingrid Bergman for her performance as a a religious zealot in "Murder on the Orient Express," her third Oscar.

Winner of the best supporting actor Oscar was newcomer Robert De Niro for his portrayal of the younger Don Corleone, originally played by Marlon Brando, in "The Godfather Part II." It was the first time in Academy annals that an Oscar-winning movie was followed by an Oscar-winningsequel. "TheGodfather," won best picture award in 1972. The Oscar for best song went to "We May Never Love Like This Again," the theme from "Towering Inferno," with the Oscars being collected by Al Kasha and Joel Hirshhorn, who wrote the music and lyrics. "Closed Mondays" won as best animated short subject, "One Eyed Men Are Kings" as live action short and "Don't" as the best short documentary. "Earthquake," which employed a low frequency sound wave system to vibrate seats and give moviegoers a small taste of what an earthquake feels like, won the best achievement in sound award and also a special award for visual effects.

A special award also went to French film maker Jean Renoir, son of the master painter of that name, for his contributions to film making and John Wayne gave anottier honorary award to director Howard Hawks. I'UYGKOUNI) DAILY NKWS, Thursday Morning. April HJ. 1'JTS I'aficill What's Happening in Television Agriculture t'niti'il I'ITSS International Former Detroit lineliacker Alex Karras will portray George 1 a i a in "Babe." a two-hour ('US-TV special on the life of Uahr Hidrikson Xaharias. Columbia Pictures Television will produce Maxwell An- tliTson's "Valley Forge" as (tie first Hallmark Hall of Kami' drama fnrllu' ITO-Vii season via N'HC.

Henry Mancini will compose Ihe theme for "The lilue Knight" television pilot starring George Kennedy as Ihe hero of the Joseph Wambuagh novel. I'alaneo stars in "lironk." a television pilot written by Carroll O'Connor of "All In The Family" fame. Ilicli Little signed with NBC- TV to star in a projected weekly comedy series for the season. Halls Vibrate With Scandal A I WINS FOUR--The personal family of Francis Ford Cnppuh won four of seven awards presented to "Cnd- II" al the Academy Awards Tuesday night. (UPI Plmto) CELLIST-Bruno Di Ceeco will be featured cellist with the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra when it performs at the Okaloosa-Wallon Junior College American Arts Festival at 8 p.m.

April 17. Di Cecco is coordinator of strings at FSU school of music, liad advanced study in cello at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Home, Italy, under a Kullbrighl Scholarship. He has served as cellist with the New England String Quartet, and as solo cellist with the Connecticut Symphony, the New Haven Symphony and the Springfield Symphony. Parents Are Uptight Over Joplin Book HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. (UPI) A book in the high school library portraying the tortured life of the late rock singer Janis Joplin has sparked a parent campaign against obscenity in this tiny New England mill community.

A couple circulated a petition in the town of 2,778 and gained more than 180 signatures objecting to "taxpayers money being used to buy obscene bonks and books with obscene language in them." The controversy erupted when one of the four children of Bernard Nickerson and his wife arrived home with "Janis" by David Dallon. Nickerson objected to the "considerable amount of bad language" in the biography. "The parents are paying for these books even though they wouldn't buy them," said Nickerson. "They say its censorship, but if movies can be rated and and if that isn't censorship, why is this considered to be?" The School Committee for the regional high school of 425 students told Nickerson a parent and only a parent "not the school or restrict his or her access lo library materials and service. The board is atlenipting lo balance its responsibilities to all persons involved." The Committee on Review of Questionable Books plans lo review "Janis" and other controversial books and report to the School Committee in May, said Superintendent Neil Cross.

Earlier the committee found the language in "Janis" was not obscene in context. "The board felt Ihe books should be reviewed by people who conceivably could come up with a true evaluation of the books," Cross said, upi 04-08 02:25 ped I. (ienrge Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Harry S. Truman will be the subjects of Ihree dramatic specials for America's bicentennial year on MiC-TV. CAP Holds Interviews Applicants for public service employment positions will be interviewed by Community Action Program Inc.

(CAP) from to 5 p.m. through Friday at the CAP office 40 Beal Pkwy, S.W., Fort Walton Beach. The positions to run through June 30 are for a foreman for substandard housing survey team and nine team members, two bus drivers and paralegal aid according to CAP officials. Firms Saigon Sailings SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Two San Francisco steamship lines have suspended service to Saigon 'because war risk insurance rates have skyrocketed. American President Lines and States Steamship company said 'he suspension of service to the port al Saigon was temporary, but wouldn't say just when service would be renewed.

Officials of the two said insurance on their vessels has multiplied 17 limes since early last year in direct correlation to North Vietnamese insurgance into the South. One official raid about a year ago. insurance costs were 20 cents per $100 value on a vessel. As of last -week insurance was increased to $3.50 per $100 valuation. lil'SSIAN I I I i SAN FRANCISCO I Tlu'Sovii'l Union's most famous folksinger, Liidniila Zykina.

sand three groups of songs in concerts here. She is one of Ihe mosl honored artists in her country, having been awarded the Lenin prize. Ihe highest honor bestowed upon a Soviet A Unique American Pastime Old Funnies Are Worth Money WICHITA, a A The "funnies" have been a part of American life since the )890s. And many generations grew up on the humorous or Biting-reflections on the daily scene the creators of comics captured with their pen-and- Jnk. However, there is more to comics than the fun originally set down.

For example, collectors of original comics are very serious and so are the prices they are paying to enhance their collections. Up until three years ago there were only a handful of collectors. It was a low key hobby. Acquisitions were made by trading wilh other collectors wilh very liltle money changing hands, one collector reported. Now, even prestigious art museums are bidding for the besl in comic arl.

Libraries and universities are adding original carloons to their art collections and the entire field of comic art collecting has burgeoned. In ad- dilion (he Museum of Carloon Arl, in Greenwich, was dedicated in 1974 and.has a continuing exhibition of current and historical cartoons and comics. How has this art form which millions enjoy daily in Iheir newspapers and magazines gained such respectability? Richard Marschall, associale editor of United Feature Syndicate, attributes this to the fact thai "the comic strip is uniquely American and definitely a distinct art form. the i a i a i of literature and art into one unit." As with other forms of art Ihe best of comic art has stood Ihe lest of time, explained Jim Ivey, Orlando, collector. Through the years, he said, certain strips stand out.

"For instance, George Herriman's 'Krazy Kat, 1 Winsor McCay's 'Little Nemo in and 'Prince Valiant' by Hal Foster. Roy Crane's use of double tones is unsurpassed in Ihe 'Wash Tubbs' strips." Ivey's collection numbers about 2,500 original works and includes examples from 40 countries. A political cartoonist for Hie Orlando Sentinel-Star, Ivey has confined his collecting to one good example of each artist's work and favors political cartoons. "Most collectors are interested in comic strip arl, though. Not loo many persons collect political cartoons." With the increased demand, it is only natural that prices would keep pace.

But more than just demand determines the cost of comic art. Surprisingly, age has little to do with its value. "Like any other art it finds its own level things that are very rare, of course, are higher cost. The New York galleries are charging at astronomical levels," he explained. The uninitiated might think that the supply would be rather limited "Not so," said Thomas Peoples, Newspaper Enterprise Association vice president and director of comic art in Cleveland, Ohio.

He reports that NEA has about a five-year supply of originals on hand. "For many years syndicates have sent original strips to persons requesting them at a nominal cost. Or, a collector might have clipped a strip from the paper, accumulating a con-. tinuous series over a year or more. These things have found their way into the market place," he explained.

For about $10 a collector can acquire one of the original NEA daily strips. Sunday strips run about $25, he said, and added that he hoped requests were for private collections and not speculation. Current selling prices by syndicates for such favorites as Blonuie, Peanuts and B.C. are about $50 or $60. However, Peoples said, a price can't be put on the NEA original "Wash Tubbs" strip by Roy Crane because there just aren't any on It might have been 1927, but Wash Tubbs is caught up in a common male diien, ma choosing between women.

Drawn by Roy Crane, Wash Tubbs strips are priceless in comics market. HKI.EASE WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 11 WASHINGTON TUBBS II By Crane the market. The same is true of "Out Our a by Jim Williams. "Interestingly, 'Alley 'Out Our Way' and 'Captain Easy' were sustained at a high level by artists who were longtime associates of the creators or assistants," Peoples said.

Unlike other fields of collecting, he continued, age has very little to do with the price. Thus, you i i a i of '-Bonehead Ben" by Walter Wellman circa 1909 valued at f36 while Sidney Smith's "The Gumps" of the 1930s will command about $250. Comic strip history dates back to 1893 when Jimmy Swinnerton drew the first continuing comic feature, "Little Bears." The first successful daily strip was Bud Fisher's "Mutt i Jeff," first known as Mutt" in 1907. "Yellow Kid" was the first color Sunday strip, beginning in 1696, by Richard Dutcault. Ivey explained that the early comic books first reprinted Newspaper strips.

This is still being done in Europe where American strips are published in albums. HD plans to reopen his Cartoon Museum this spring so that collectors, art aficionados and noslalgia buffs can indulge wilh delight in Ihe comic strips of yesteryear. Twelve of these are still running today, many with i artists and title changes. They arc Barney Google (as Smith), Bringing Up Father, Captain Kids, Gasoline Alley, Li'l Abner, Mandrake the Magician, Moon Mullins, Mutt Jeff, Smilly, Tarzan, Wash Tubbs (as Capt. Easy) and Winnie Winkle.

Hob Hope, an NBC star for 25 years, signed wilh the network for seven prime-time specials during the 11)75-76 season and additional appearances (or the following two years. Character actor Sid Gould, a veteran (if Ihe "Lucy" Ic scries, landed a come dy role in "The Sunshine Hoys" starring Waller Mallhau and (Icorgc Hums. William Dcvano will star npposiLe George C. Scott in the Iwo-hour CMS-TV movie, "Fear on Trial George C. Scott ciUTK 1 out of brief retirement from acting lo star in "Fear On Trial," a Iwo- hour television movie for CHS.

PciniriMitil Picture's will make a feature movie of Ihe WASHINGTON (UPD-Gov; defunct television scries "Star er TMt investigators have Trek," which remains one of ncorered evidence of after- pnpular syi mcjliOLsnnws. Department and also are probing allegations female A11C-1 developing James workers ran a prosmution i ng A. Michcncr "Hawaii into a s( 0 Csnlan said Tuesday. "Novel For Television" ap- Tilc sex rlmiors hav proximalely 12 hours in length een pr0 ved, however, the to he aired over a period of spokesman added. several weeks.

L.l,. Free, assistant director of the department's Offica-of Edward AsneV of the "Mary Investigation, said the gam- Tylcr Moore Show" and bling and drug information was StrulhiTsof "All in Ihe Family" turned up in November and willcoslar in "Hcv. I'm Alive," was referred lo the District of an ABC-TV movie. Columbia police. Free said one employe was The three-pan, six-limir arrested and two others re- "QHVH" cmirlronm drama signed "during the early stages starring Men Leslie nf investigation." Caron and Ln- liemick.

will U- Chilr cs llll a rcDL-Ucd on ABC-TV inan for tllc l)lslrlcl of iipLcUcaonABL i April Columbia police, said the police derailment liad found no 5:50 AM 5) NEWS WEATHER 5:55 AM (5) MOBILE COUNTY EXTENSION REPORT (7) MUSIC 10) ADULT BASIC EDUCATION 13) SIGN ON 6:00 AM (4) IHE REED FARRELL SHOW 5) PUBLIC AFFAIRS (7) DAYBUSTERS 13) TODAY SHOW 6:25 AM 1 ADULT BASIC EDUCATION 6:30 AM 3) ARTHUR SMITH SHOW 4) THE MORNING FARM SHOW (5) PARTYLINE 6:40 AM (4) DAILY DEVOTION 6:45 AM (4) CARTOONS 6:55 AM (10) CHANNEL 10 FARM REPORT 7. -00 AM '3) (7) A. M. AMERICA '5) CBS NEWS 10) (13) TODAY 7:25 AM LOCAL NEWS 10) TODAY ON THE GULF COAST 7:30 AM WEATHER TODAY SHOW 7:50 AM (5) LOCAL WEATHER 7:55 AM (5) CBS MORNING NEWS 5:00 AM 4) (5) CAPTAIN KANGAROO 10) TODAY SHOW 8 A I I AM (7) NEW ZOO REVIEW 10) (13) TODAY 9:00 AM 3) THE FRAN CARLTON SHOW (5) THE JOKER'S WILD (13) CELEBRITY SWEEPSTAKES 9:30 AM THE NEW ZOO REVUE (5) GAMBIT (13) WHEEL OF FORTUNE 10:00 AM ROMPER ROOM (4) (5) NOW YOU SEE IT (10) (13) HIGH ROLLERS 1 0:30 AM (3) (7) THE BRADY BUNCH (4) (5) LOVE OE LIFE (10) CONCENTRATION (13) HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (4) (5) CBS MID-DAY NEWS 11:00 AM (3) (7) PASSWORD (4) (5) YOUNG AND THE RESILESS (10) 13) JACKPOT 11:30 AM (3) (7) SPLIT SECOND (4) (5) SEARCH FOR TOMORROW (10) (13) BLANK CHECK 12:00 ALL MY CHILDREN (i) GENE RAGAN FARM REPORT-NEWS (5) WOMAN'S WORLD (7) TELEVISIT (10) GULF COAST TODAY (13) GALLOPING GOURMET 1 1. oU (3) (7) LET'S MAKf: A DEAL (4) (5) AS THE WORLD TURNS APP SURVIVE A MARRIAGE 1 :00 PM (3) (7) $10.000 PYRAMID (4) (5) THE GUIDING LIGHT 1:30 PM (3) (7) SHOWDOWN (4) (5) EDGE OF NIGHT (10) (13) THE DOCTORS (3) (7) GENERAL HOSPITAL (4) (5) THE NEW PRICE IS RIGHT (10) (13) ANOTHER WORLD 2:30 PM (3) (7) ONE LIFE TO LIVE (4) (5) MATCH GAME '75 3:00 PM (3) (7) THE MONEY MAZE (4) (5) TATTLETALES (6) MOVIE (10) (13) SOMERSET (11) SESAME STREET 3:30 PM (3) MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW (4) ANDY GRIFFITH (5) BIG SHOW (10) GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (7) ALL MY CHILDREN (13) HIGH CHAPARRAL 4:00 PM (4) BAPTIST MESSAGE KAIHY'S KARTOONS (10) MERV GRIFFIN SHOW 1 1 MR.

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Rut so far, he stressed. "our investigation has not substantiated any acts of prostitution." Free said the investigations to date have produced "no indication that any organized ring is involved" in any of the alleged activities. He added lie believes the affair was "relatively minor." He said the gambling was "mostly shooting dice'and the drug matter seems to have involved marijuana." Funeral Notices EKiabeth I. Rcger Mrs. Elizabeth L.

Reger, 86, oi 104 Calhoun Destin, diedat 5:30 p.m. Tuesday Ina local hos- pital. She was born in New Jersey and had resided in Fort Walton Beach for the past six months. She was formerly ot Franklin, N.C. Funeral services will be held at graveside in Beal Memorial Cemetery with the Rev.

Jimmy Spikes officiating. Burial will be in Beal Memorial Cemetery with McLaughlin Mortuary directing. Mrs. Reger is survived by her husband, William D. Reger and son, William L.

Reger, both of Deslin; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Frank N. Holcombe Frank Holcombe, 51, of 11 Sherwood Road N.W., Fort Walton Beach died at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at his home. A native of North Carolina, he had resided in Fort Walton Beach for 1he past four years and was an insurance agent lor the Long Insuraco Agency.

He was a member of Ihe Fort Walton Beach Rotary Club. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday from the McLaughlin. Mortuary Chapelwith the Rev. Joe Holden officiating.

Burial will follow in Beal Memorial Cemetery with McLaughlin Mortuary directing. Mr. Holcombe is survived by his widow Mrs. Roberta L. Holcombe ot Forl Walton Beach; two daughters, Mrs.

Sharon Knapp of Meadville, and Miss Cheryl Holcombe of Fort 1 Walton Beach; two sons, Wil. liamM. Holcombe and Frank.M. Holcombe Jr. both of Fort Walton Beach; mother, Mrs.

Clyde M. Holcombe of Statesville, N.C., three brothers, James B. Holcombe, Norris H. Holcombe and Samuel F. Holcombe and a sister Mrs.

Mary Absher all of Statesville, N.C., and two grandchildren. Alto Hilton Alto Hilton, aged 58, ol 34) Highway 90 West, Creslview, passed away Tuesday morning in a local hospital. He was born in Baker, and was a farmer and a lifelong resident of Okaloosa County. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday (rom the First United Methodist Church in Crestvlew with the Rev.

James N. Love officiating. Burial will follow in the Live Oak Memorial Park Cemetery with McLaughlin Funeral recting. The remains will lie in state at the one hour prior to the services. He is survived by his wife Connie Hilton, one daughter, Mrs.Melba H.Chllders.andone sister Mrs.

Alice. Hilton Bosley all of Crestvlew, and Ihree grandchildren. I 1.