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8 THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1986 Newsmakers ALVIN CHILDRESS AND SPENCER WILLIAMS JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP John Cougar Mellencamp CHILLICOTHE. Mo. A i Rock singer John Cougar Mellencamp. whose album "Scarecrow" chronicles the hard times facing American farmers, will appear here next month on behalf of protesting farmers, officials said. Mellencamp: his violin player.

Lisa Germano: and mandolin player. Larry Crane, will perform May 7 outside the Livingston County Farmers Home Administration office, said Robyn Riggs of the Howard Bloom Organization, a New York publicity company. Mellencamp hoped the appearance would call attention to the serious credit needs of many farmers and their need for higher prices. Ms. Riggs said Monday.

She said there would be no admission charge. Farmers have demonstrated daily in front of the FmHA office since March 17. protesting farm conditions in general and demanding that the office supervisor be fired. Donald C. Guy CONCORD.

Mass. A i Donald C. Guy. an Associated Press photographer and newsman for nearly 30 years, has died at age 72. Guy.

a photojournalisi who specialized in science reporting, died Saturday Emerson Hospital. His major assignments included a flight over the South Pole with explorer Paul Siple in 1956 and an expedition to the Antarctic with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1957. during the First International Geophysical Year. Guy joined the news cooperative's Boston bureau in 1943 as night editor of the photography department, after working briefly for The Standard- Times in New Bedford. and ttie Rutland Vt.

i Daily Herald. He became head of the department a few years later and held that position nearly three decade, 5 while writing news and science stones He wrote about the Soviet Sputnik launches in 1957 as they became known through the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory in Cambridge. Mass. and organized photographic coverage of the America's Cup races in Newport, R.I. A native of Middietown.

Guy attended Dartmouth College and Boston University, and did graduate work in English and philosophy at BU and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In J970 he became a regional reporter, retiring three years later He was made an honorary member of the New England Associated Press News Executives Association in 1974. Besides his wife. Cynthia. Guy- leaves two sons, a daughter and four grandchildren.

The Miller Quintuplets AURORA. Colo, i AP) Taking care of quintuplets is a day-to-day thing, says Greg Miller at the first birthday of his four sons and daughter. "Something new happens every day," Miller said at Monday's party for Michael. Tyler. Joe.

Timothy and Mailory at the Aurora Birth Center. Miller's wife. Kathy. gave birth to the quints at at Denver's St. Joseph Hospital the night of April 21.

1985. The parents were expecting just four new arrivals because Timothy had not been detected by ultrasound. When the d'octor said. --Wait, there's another one." we were laughing. We thought it was a joke." Mrs.

Miller. 29. recalled. Now. the Millers drive a large van with five baby seats, go through 210 diapers a week and enlist the help of volunteers to take care of their brood in their hometown of Bennett, east of Denver.

Ernest P. Worrell WASHINGTON (AP) That character Ernest P. Worrell has popped up at the White House of all places looking for his next-door-neighbor Vern. "I figured maybe Vern was here. We were just going to go check out that Smith Brothers Museum.

And. besides that, he's got my lunch money." said Ernest portrayed by actor Jim Varney. "Vern" is the fictious neighbor Worrell usually addresses in his numerous television commericals. Varney was introduced to the White House press corps Monday by spokesman Larry Speakes as the deputy assistant to the president for economic policy. "You all look awful familiar." Varney told the reporters for the "briefing." "Were some of you on the Greyhound with me and Edna" 1 he asked.

Did he have any thoughts on the rise of the yen? "I get a yen every now and then." Lynn B. Johnston WASHINGTON i A i Cartoonist Lynn B. Johnston, who draws the "For Better or for strip, has become the first woman to win the National Cartoonists Society's annual Reuben Award. The Reuben, the group's most prestigious award, is named in honor of the late Reuben "Rube" Goldberg, a cartoonist for Hearst Newspapers who died in 1970 at age 87. Others who were awarded prizes Saturday were: Dick Moore, who won best story for "Gasoline Alley;" Gary Larson, best syndicated panel.

"The Far Side:" Jim Davis, best humor. "Garfield:" Don Wright, best editorial cartoonist. The Miami News: Mort Drucker. best special feature. Mad Magazine; Don Orehek.

best magazine gags. Playboy and Good Housekeeping; Bill GaHo. sports. New York Daily News: Dick Ayers. best comic book.

"Ghos- trider;" Chuck Jones, best animator; and Arnold Ruth, advertising and illustration. Esquire magazine. Robert F. Overmyer SPACE CENTER. Houston (AP) -Robert F.

Overmyer. who flew on two space shuttle missions, including a Spacelab flight, has become the second astronaut to announce retirement plans since the Challenger explosion. NASA officials said. The 49-year-old Marine Corps colonel will retire June 1. John Lawrence, spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's astronaut office, said Monday.

Lawrence said Overmyer had not said why he is retiring. Don L. Lind announced in mid- March that he was retiring as of June. Alvin Childress INGLEWOOD. Calif.

(API -Actor Alvin Childress. who held a title role in "Amos Andy" and defended the television comedy from charges it stereotyped blacks, has died at the age of 78. Childress died at St. Erne Sanitarium "Saturday after a long illness, said Lauren Terrault. a spokeswoman for the facility.

Childress. who played taxi driver- narrator Amos Jones on the popular but controversial CBS-TV program in the early 1950s, also appeared on such later series as "The Jeffersons" and "Sanford and Son." Civil rights groups protested "Amos Andy" for fostering demeaning racial stereotypes, but Childress once said: "I didn't feel it harmed the Negro at all Actually the series had many episodes that showed the Negro with professions and businesses like attorneys, store owners, and so on, which they never had in TV or movies He also said in a 1975 interview that he enjoyed acting, "but it's a mess, and I've never recommended it to anyone." Childress played a projectionist in the 1975 film "The Day of the Locust." and appeared in the 1976 movie "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" and "The Main Event" in 1979. Childress graduated from high school in Meridian. and attended Rust College. Coming to New York in 1931.

he first appeared on Broadway in "Savage Rhythm." He later joined the Federal Theater when it was formed and worked as an instructor with the American Negro Theater. Childress, who earned a bachelor's degree in sociology, worked as a social worker for Los Angeles County after "Amos Andy" was canceled by CBS "Amos Andy" began on television in 1953 after a long run as a popular radio programs. The show, set in Hariem. featured an all-black cast and focused on the escapades of Andy, a good-natured soul, and George "Kingfish" Stevens, a schemer who usually was looking for ways to make a fast buck Stevens was head of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge, where he held the position of "Kingfsh." and he usually involved his lodge brothers in his schemes. Stevens referred to Andy, a likable, gullible lodge brother, as the "big dummy." and frequently tried to swindle him.

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