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Erma Bombeck2 Horoscope6 Bridge People Tucson Citizen- Thursday March 29 1990 FEATURES EDITOR BRUCE JOHNSTON 573-4832 By DAN SORENSON Citizen TV-Radio Writer Boxer Hagler wife end 7-year marriage BROCKTON Mass Fortier boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler and his wife Bertha have agreed to a divorce settlement NeithcJHagler 35 nor his wife would reveal details of the agreement which was I reached Tuesday Their seven-year marriage will end sfefficially in three months Bertha Hagler had been seek- ing a $4 million settlement glad it's all I Hagler said as he left the courtroom Bertha Hagler 36 had tes-i fified the former champion I hit her in the face and punched her in the ribs hard enough to make her knees buckle in 1987 the year he lost the middleweight title to Sugar Ray Leonard Hagler denied striking his wife Staff changes hurting Channel 1 3's news operation observers say Several years of fierce competition hard work and lots of money turned TV network affiliates into serious news gatherers but news budget slashing at KOLD Channel 13 has cost that station more than 50 employees in the last nine months and -hurt its chance to win the local TV news ratings war KOLD has been hemorrhaging experienced employees since mid-1989 when the station was sold by the large Knight-Ridder media chain to News-Press Gazette a small Missouri chain of newspapers cable TV systems and small-market TV stations For the last several years KOLD was in a struggle for second place in the local news ratings race with KGUN-TV Channel 9 It sometimes even nudged the dominant TV news operation KVOA-TV Channel 4 out of first Many observers including past and present employees competitors and local media experts say the personnel turmoil has damaged the quality of news programming They point to lapses in coverage embarrassing moments when the new inexperienced staff seemed to be in over its head and technical rough spots Much of the blame has been pinned on the loss of experienced staffers and their subsequent but often belated replacement with much less experienced people Tennis star King hall WASHINGTON Tennis star Billie Jean King and poli- tician Barbara Jordan will be two of the next four members i'of the National HaU of Fame The four were chosen from ia field of about 1000 nomi- nees Sally Parr the executive director said yesterday The four are: The late Margaret Bourke-White a photojour-jnalist who worked for Life and Fortune magazines I King who was ranked jthe No I tennis 'player four times in her carreer and is the first woman athlete to earn more than 1 00000 in a year Florence Siebert a medi- lea! researcher who in the isolated and purified liprotein paving the way for I a(n accurate test for tubercu--losis 1 1 Jordan a Texas Demo-Jicrat who served in Congress ffoml972 through 1978 She was the first woman and the Tirst black to give the keynote -address at a national political convention Unprecedented changes Since NPG took over the station more than 50 KOLD staffers including more than 20 news department employees have quit been fired or pushed out the door The personnel change is unprecedented Never have so many people quit or been fired when a Tucson station changed owners Typically though not always station managers usually are replaced But seldom does a change of ownership cause firings below the department head level Under NPG nearly every department head was fired or fled The changes went all the way down to the on-air staff The most obvious departures to viewers were those of veteran news anchor Vic Caputo and sports anchor Kevin McCabe who were fired and news anchor Debra Davison who quit when her contract ran out in January Without exception the past and present employees interviewed for this story said they viewed the personnel and operational changes under NPG as being motivated by the station interest in saving money Not one of those who were fired said they were told that they were fired because of unsatisfactory job performance John MacGregor an NPG broadcast executive who is interim station manager declined comment on any of the firings decisions not to renew contracts or to discuss personnel changes in even the most general terms Like his predecessor ex-station manager Mike Norten MacGregor insists that NPG is committed to its news operation and has done nothing to weaken it Conditions getting better Current news anchor Geoff Oldfather said that since Norten has left that some things have improved Oldfather said the best sign that the attitude toward news at LEAN continued3B 1 MARIO AGUILARTucson Citizen KOLD anchor Geoff Oldfather said the station is becoming less worried about the bottom line 1 i A- gone VicCaputo News anchor Kevin McCabe Sports anchor Debra Davison News anchor JimWeider Reporter Gina German! Reporter Art Navarro Reporter Pat Evans Weekend weather anchor Comedian lex-wifewants $3M LOS ANGELES Andrew JjDice ex-wife is seeking I $3 million in a palimony suit against the foul-mouthed co-jihedian' The suit filed Wednesday! by divorce attorney Marvin I Mitchelson seeks half of property holdings I which Mitchelson estimated $6 million L- Kathy Swanson fuer wife claims their 1986 divorce settlement granting her $18000 in alimony de-frauded her of half the cou- II accumulated possessions "Shg was basically Mitchelson Jsaid of the relation-? Ship which spanned five I years of living together and years of marriage agreed when he hit it big that lhey would share the I The complaint also alleged Clay threatened Swanson with violence if she contested their divorce Neither manager nor his publicist returned phone calls i ir expletive-laden rou-l- fines have prompted record stores to yank his recordings i Citizen file photo Anchor Vic firing was not done gently Work (what else?) No 1 stress 'There are so many demands on our time today that we don't have any leisure time 0 r- DrPaulJRosch American Institute of Stress Public speaking made respondents sweat the most 54 percent followed by job interviews 49 percent asking for a raise or promotion 40 percent and first meetings with potential romantic partners 39 percent The president and police officers were seen as having the most stressful jobs 24 percent followed by surgeons 14 percent definition of stress is something that gives you the feeling of being out of control And today there are more and more things over which we have relatively little says survey consultant Dr Paul Rosch president of the American Institute of Stress in Yonkers NY not external events that are stressful how you perceive them This is something you can control are so many demands on our time today that we have any leisure time No one has enough time to get their work done and enjoy he says Gannett News Service Work is the biggest source of stress in lives a nationwide survey indicates In the survey of 501 adults 36 percent cited work as their main source of stress followed by money 22 percent children 10 percent health 7 percent marriage 5 percent and parents 5 percent Having car trouble headed the list of situations that are sure-fire causes of stress 37 percent That was followed by being late for an appointment 29 percent and being unable to fix something around the house that breaks 21 percent 1 Only one-fourth live relatively stress-free lives only 5 percent said they had no stress at all in their daily lives and 19 percent said they had a little By contrast 26 percent said their lives were very stressful and 31 percent said they experienced stress everyday lJulia Roberts great in Woman tomorrow's Citizen: Julia Roberts lights up the screen in but has to overcome a trite ygmal ion-like plot says film critic John Jennings Other findings in the survey conducted by Research Forecasts Inc for Mitchum deodorant and antiperspirant: 50 percent said their lives are more stressful today than five years ago 3 1 percent said less The most popular stress-relievers were listening to music 75 percent friends 71 percent romantic partner 66 percent exercise 56 percent and sleep 53 percent M0RRQ 4 i QJ) l' fc- ITI-Lir-IL- IIM Out of the hospital too early? Cancer patients are being discharged from hospitals quicker and sicker and the burden of care is shifting to the family A University of Pennsylvania researcher who studied 233 patients and their caregivers found that 10-20 percent were fed by family members through tubes several hours each day 31 percent had died within three months and 52 percent required reho-s spitalization i i Most Oscar films months away from release Most gf the films nominated for or receiving Academy Awards will take their time before arriving on video Buena Vista Home Video is rush-releasing "Dead Poets next week "The Little Mermaid" which won'awards for score and song arrives in May i Miss Daisy" still in theaters twill not arrive until at least September "My Left Foot" is expected in early ssummer and "Born on the Fourth of July" fhits stores this fall Film tribute to The Primavera Film Women Who Darp Series -presents a film by Czech director Jan Svank-majer that combines live action and animation to pay tribute to in Wonderland" When: Tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm Where: The Screening Room 1 27 Congress St Admission: $3 at the door i Movie times 3B "EZ2BEZT (L Flowers for memorable mothers I- 800-FLOWERS wants to honor 800 memorable moms With flowers on Mother's flay 1 To enter send information ba her career attributes and faults and how her guidaneg lessons and wisdom have changed lives to: Mothers Who Matter Most 485 Madison Avenue Fourth Floor New York NY 10022 Also include favorite flpwer -Ji f'! Citizan til photo Dan Aykroyd Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman -4- A f-.