Intelligencer Journal from Lancaster, Pennsylvania • 56

1 F-8 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1990 THE BACK PAGE INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL, LANCASTER, PA. NEWSMAKERS Debbye Turner Lisa Bittinger Miss America says entrant missed point pity for Miss West Virginia Lisa Bittinger, who didn't make the top 10 in the finals and then groused about the Atlantic City, N.J., contest. "I feel sorry for Lisa," Turner said during a speech at West Virginia University in Morgantown on Monday night. "She missed the point entirely about Miss America. "The point is, isn't it great that in America a black, a Korean, a Japanese, a kidney transplant and a 95 percent hearing impaired (person) can become Miss America and achieve success?" said Turner, who is black.

Turner, 24, is a senior in veterinary medicine at the University of Missouri. Miss America Debbye Turner said she has only FARM AID IV: Singers Willie Nelson, John Willie Nelson on your land," said Nelson, the chairman of Farm Aid. The use of pesticides is contaminating the water and killing populations of rabbits and horned toads, Nelson said. "If you can't drink the water, you shouldn't eat the food," he said. Lt.

Gov. Frank O' Bannon, the state's commissioner of agriculture, joined Gov. Evan Bayh in appearing at the news conference but said most Hoosier farmers don't share the musicians' views on getting rid of farm chemicals. "Most of our production farmers have to look at the bottom line to stay in business," O'Bannon said, "but they want to do it in an environmentally sound way." The first three Farm Aid concerts raised more than $12 million, of which $9 million has been distributed to more than 100 farm organizations, hotlines, churches and service organizations in 41 states. Mellencamp and Neil Young are preparing for the fourth Farm Aid concert in Indianapolis April 7, but their reception from the farming establishment may not be terrific.

The three called a press conference Tuesday and attacked corporate interests, slow-to-change government farm policies and the use of chemicals in agriculture. "We're here to call attention to the fact that in Willie Nelson order to farm these days, before you can get a loan you have to pois- IMPROBABLE STORY: The improbable story of a lawyer with no writing experience ending up writing a hit television series is just what happened to David E. Kelley, the 33-year-old executive producer and script writer for "L.A. knew the character names went in the middle of the page. That was about it.

I was a complete novice," Kelley said recently in Los Angeles of the days in 1983 when he decided to write a script. He wrote it out in longhand, while working for a law firm in Boston, then spent $1,200 for a word processor and typed it out "two fingers at a time." "I remember thinking all I want out of this is to make back the money for the word processor." The rest is show biz. His script was optioned to eventually become the film "From the Hip," which starred Judd Nelson. In the meantime, the option was enough to get him an agent and an interview with the people looking for someone with legal experience to work on what ultimately became NBC's Emmy Award-winning series on lawyers. STILL DRAWING A CROWD: Officers responding to a report of a street disturbance in Muhammad Ali South Bend, Ind.

found former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali at the middle of the crowd, police said Wednesday. "When the officers arrived, they found it was just a group of juveniles talking to a celebrity," Capt. Eugene Kyle said. Ali, who suffers from a brain disorder, had Floyd Bass, groundskeeper of Ali's estate near Berrien Springs, as his spokesman. Bass explained Ali was asked Muhammad Ali several weeks ago to visit the West Side home of a teen-age girl who has cancer.

After visting the girl's home Tuesday evening, Ali decided to mingle with youngsters in the neighborhood, said Bass. Ali and officers who responded to the disturbance report then agreed to play a practical joke on those at the Central Police Station. Cpl. John Collins brought Ali into the station in handcuffs, claiming he had arrested the ex-fighter. After everyone had a good laugh, it was handshakes, autographs and photographs for the police NO KIDDING? Men playing a kid's game Average current salaries of professional athletes 1.

NBA player $14,400 per week 2. MLB player. $9,600 per week 3. NFL player $5,800 per week 4. NHL player $4,200 per week Source: Sports Features Syndicate Submitted by J.J.

Landa, Boxes, Mont. Have an item for No Kidding? We'll pay you $5 if published. Send it to the Intelligencer Journal Features, P.O. Box 660. Maple Shade, NJ 08052.

Include name, address. telephone number and source. Treatment could save 5,000 victims of colon cancer BOSTON (AP) About 5,000 people with advanced operable colon cancer could be saved each year by treatment with a medicine used to deworm farm animals, a researcher says. About one-third of newly diagnosed patients with this stage of disease have been put on the drug since its benefits were announced by the National Cancer Institute last fall. A detailed report on the treatment is being published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, and doctors said they hoped this information will convince physicians who are still skeptical.

"With publication in a prestigious journal, they will review this information and decide it is worth trying," predicted Dr. Michael Friedman, chief of the cancer institute's therapy evaluation program. The treatment, which combines the veterinary drug levamisole and the standard cancer medicine fluorouracil, is the first chemotherapy approach shown to help people with the most advanced form of colon cancer that can be removed surgically. The therapy was tested on 1,296 colon cancer patients in a study directed by Dr. Charles G.

Moertel of the Mayo Clinic. Over three years, the treatment reduced cancer recurrence by 41 percent, and it lowered the death rate by one-third. In October, the cancer institute wrote letters to about 35,000 doctors outlining the findings of this and a smaller, earlier study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Levamisole is not commercially available in the United States for human use. However, since May the cancer institute has distributed it without cost to physicians who wanted to use it for colon cancer.

Moertel said that about one-third of potential patients are getting it this way. Another one-third with advanced operable colon cancer are enrolled in experimental drug studies, and some of them are also receiving levamisole as well as other medicines. Moertel said some doctors are probably not using the medicine because of the extra paper work necessary to obtain it for patients, while others were reluctant to adopt the therapy until they saw detailed results. "The data in this large trial are just overwhelmingly convincing," he said. Last week, the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended that Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. be given permission to sell the medicine for routine use. Eva Kemper, an FDA spokeswoman, said Wednesday that final approval should come within a month or so. Of the 110,000 Americans diagnosed with colon cancer annually, about 22,000 have stage disease. Their cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes but can still be removed surgically.

Moertel said that 95 percent of stage patients should receive the two-drug combination. Studies are also under way to see if the treatment saves the lives of people with less advanced colon cancer that has spread into the wall of the colon but not invaded lymph nodes. Woman hurt in Rt. 30 crash tried to brake, police said. A Lancaster woman was admitted to Lancaster General Hospital Wednesday night with fractured ribs, a broken hip and other complications after an accident on Route 30 East.

Pauline Teaman, 89, of 164 S. Eastland Drive, ran into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed for the traffic light on Route 30 at Harvest Road, East Lampeter Township police said. The tractor-trailer, driven by Robert Pelarski, 53, of Riverview, was driving westbound. Witnesses said that Teaman, driving a 1981 Dodge coupe that was demolished, appeared not to have. LANCASTER FORECAST Mostly sunny today.

High in mid50s. Becoming partly cloudy tonight. Low in upper 30s. EXTENDED FORECAST Chance of showers Friday evening. Fair Saturday.

Cloudy Sunday. Daytime middle 40s Saturday. Upper 30s Sunday. Morning low in low 30s Saturday. Upper 20s Sunday.

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Low minus Fort Kent, Maine. High 85 at Fort Myers, Fla. High Low Intell Recording Station 52 Ephrata 52 Lancaster (Last Year) 38 30 High for the Year 66 on January 18 Low for the Year 23 on January 14 Average for the Day 39 23 All-Time High This Date 63 in 1938 All- Low This Date 17 in 1935 HOURLY TEMPERATURES 1a.m. 1 p.m................50 2a.m. ..............42 2 p.m................50 3a.m.

..43 3 .50 4a.m. 4 p.m................52 5a.m. ..42 5 6a.m. 6 p.m................50 7a.m. 7 p.m................50 8a.m.

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12 noon ..............48 12 PRECIPITATION (Intell Recording Station) Yesterday None Month to Date .88 of an inch Year to Date 5.63 inches Departure From Normal Month to Date Plus. 18 of an inch Year to Date Plus 1.83 inches Greatest Feb. Total 7.94 inches in 1986 Least Feb. Total .31 inches in 1980 WINDS (Lancaster Airport) Prevailing Direction NW Avg. Velocity 10 mph Character of Day Partly Cloudy SUN a.m.

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Feb.9 Feb.17 Feb.25 Mar.3 Manor Cinemas gets set to open with seven screens and wide seats $3 million complex will open on Friday John Drybred Intelligencer Journal Staff With an emphasis on comfort and design, Manor Cinemas will open seven new windows to the entertainment world on Friday. Seven screens in seven auditoriums will make up the new $3 million movie theater complex in the Manor Shopping Center. Scores of workers were making last-minute improvements to the complex in the southwest corner of the recently-refurbished shopping center when a tour of the facility's interior was taken this week. Directing the tour was interior designer M. Elizabeth Poole, York, and two of the New York theater corporation's partners, Warren Wurtzburg and Stewart Epstein.

"She has done an extraordinary job for us," Epstein said of Poole's design efforts. "We're almost amazed at how wonderful this place has turned out to be." A tour of the interior of Manor Cinemas proved his accolades to be justified. Although finishing touches still had to be applied, Manor Cinemas gave every indication of being first-rate in most aspects of comfort and convenience for the theater audience. The decor is pleasing to the eye and theme coordinated throughout. It ties in nicely with the general design of the entire shopping center.

The lobby, concession area and restrooms seem large and accomodating. The auditoriums are of different sizes. All are designed to give audiences a maximum movie experience in an atmosphere of intimacy and Above all, the firm-but-soft teal green seats seem large enough to accommodate a relatively large person comfortably, and are spaced far enough apart to allow moviegoers room to cross their legs without strangling themselves. Epstein explained the seats are about 22 inches wide and are spaced about 36 inches apart base-to-base from the rear of the theater to the front. "This gives you full seating comfort," he said.

Some auditoriums are built with narrower seats that have only 34 inches between the ones in front and behind them, giving the theater owner an extra row of seats to sell. "But the extra two inches we have here makes everyone more comfortable," said Epstein. He and Kaplan shopped all over the country for seats with straight, flat surfaces on the backs and undersides the Intelligencer Journal photo by Barry Zecher Elizabeth Poole, designer of Manor Cinemas, tries a seat at one of the new theaters. 50 percent of children in some Romanian hospitals have AIDS BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) Romania's epidemic of AIDS among children has stricken up to 50 percent of youngsters in some hospitals and orphanages in Bucharest and two other cities, the health minister said Wednesday. Minister Dan Enachescu blamed ousted Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's health policies and his ban on contraception.

Enachescu told a news conference that Romania has about 74 confirmed cases of AIDS, including 50 in children. About 600 Romanians carry the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV which causes AIDS, he said. He did not say how many people were tested for the virus or how many had died of the dis- WEATHER ease. He said that among some orphanages and hospitals in Bucharest, the Black Sea port of Constanza and the Danube port of Giurgi "there is between 15 and 50 percent" of children who have the AIDS virus. Other towns, however, have reported no cases and a nationwide survey must be conducted for a more complete picture of the epidemic, Enachescu said.

Enachescu said that because of Ceausescu's ban on contraception, there are 14,000 abandoned children in Romania. Many were given small blood transfusions to treat malnourishment, and the transfusions proved to be a main source of passing on the AIDS virus, he said. More CINEMAS on E-1 U.S. WEATHER Yesterday's weather conditions High Low Precip Otik Allentown 55 36 .02 cloudy Anchorage -01 -23 cloudy Atlanta 65 52 .16 cloudy Atlantic City 59 30 rain Baltimore 57 39 cloudy Boston 47 28 cloudy Buffalo 41 30 .01 rain Chicago 42 33 .01 cloudy Dallas 72 36 cloudy Denver 61 25 cloudy Harrisburg 55 cloudy Honolulu 79 .07 clear Los Angeles 62 clear New Orleans 68 rain New York 53 cloudy Orlando 81 cloudy Philadelphia 59 35 cloudy Phoenix 70 cloudy Pittsburgh 48 cloudy San Francisco 56 clear 57 .04 cloudy WORLD WEATHER Yesterday's weather High Athens 48 Beijing 36 Bermuda 64 Cairo 61 Frankfurt 52 Jerusalem 48 London Mexico City 75 Montreal 36 Moscow 36 Nassau 78 Paris 59 Rio 95 Rome 63 San Juan 86 Sydney 75 Tokyo 46 conditions Low Otlk 36 rain 19 cloudy 59 cloudy 46 cloudy 32 clear 37 cloudy clear cloudy cloudy clear rain clear 32 clear cloudy 66 rain 41 rain REGIONAL WEATHER Poconos Mostly sunny today. High near 50.

Increasing cloudiness tonight. Low in upper 30s. Mostly cloudy Friday with a 50 percent chance of rain. High in upper 40s. New Jersey Shore Mostly sunny today.

High in upper 50s. Tonight, mostly clear. Low in middle to upper 30s. Increasing cloudiness Friday. High near 60.

Delaware-Maryland Sunny and mild today. High middie 50s. Fair tonight. Low 35 to 40. Partly sunny and continued mild Friday.

High middle 50s. TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK Seattle International Falls 1, Portland Billings Cooler 1 Rapid City 30 Minneapolis 40 08 Boise Boston a 1 Detroit Chicago Salt Lake New York Omaha 50. City San Cincinnati Washington Francisco D.C. Denver 50 Vegas 32 St. Louis Charlotte Los 3 Angeles Phoenix Oklahoma Memphis Albuquerque City Atlanta Dailas New Warm Orleans Houston Orlando Miami RAIN THUNDERSTORM Weather Central, 1990 SNOW SLEET Forecasted highs and lows for Thursday Pennsylvania Scranton New York City Wilkes-Barre 50.

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