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THE IOLA REGISTER, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1999, PAGE 7 Tribute U.N. room as comfortable as possible because we knew she wouldnt be leaving. KAREN PLANS HIS tribute to Eleanor, scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bowlus Center, to be a celebration of her career as a dancer and actor, as a life mate to Buster and as a friend to many.

Hell show a 20-minute film, Karen said, and talk a little before and after. Not much, though. I think Eleanors life speaks for itself. The stuff we were able to find, I think, is funny and moving, Karen said. Its Eleanor.

I think shed like it, which is something I thought about all the time I was working on the tribute: Will Eleanor like this? Karen continues to be active in the movie business. He just completed Any Given Sunday, a movie about professional football scheduled for release on Christmas Day. Its star-studded cast includes A1 Pacino, and its directed by Oliver Stone. His wife, Francesca, is a producer and director, who is planning soon to direct The Silver Bridge, a post-World War II story about an Italian veteran who struggles to resume normalcy after returning home. Prayer Second guilty in murder BRYAN, Texas (AP) After a second white supremacist was convicted of dragging a black man to his death, relatives of the victim applauded the verdict and looked toward the penalty phase.

Family members of James Byrd Jr. hugged law enforcement officers outside the courtroom following the guilty verdict against Lawrence R. Brewer. He faces a sentence of life in prison or death. Whatever they come up with we will accept that, of course, said Byrds sister, Mary Verrett.

I want to see the ultimate penalty. Brewer, 32, showed no emotion Monday as a jury found him guilty of capital murder in the torture slaying of Byrd in Jasper last summer. The jury returned immediately to begin hearing testimony on Brewers punishment. The hearing was to resume today. Brewers former prison buddy, John W.

King, 24, has been on death row since his February conviction in Byrds slaying. A third man, Shawn A. Berry, also 24, is awaiting trial. Prosecutors said they believe the three men killed Byrd to promote their fledgling white supremacist organization the Confederate Knights of America and initiate Berry into the group. with the United States and Britain alone among the five permanent members in demanding that any easing of sanctions be conditional.

Russia, China and France the other three veto-wielding members have expressed sympathy with Baghdads call for an immediate easing of the sanctions. The United States has lessened clout because it owes the United Nations more than billion and thus far has not been able to pay the arrears. If a sizable installment isnt made by years end, the United States could be in the embarrassing position of losing its vote in the General Assembly. Its Security Council vote would not be affected. The Clinton administration has pledged to pay the arrears, some of it dating to the 1980s, but has been blocked repeatedly by the GOP-led Congress.

The most recent dispute is over efforts by Rep. Christopher Smith, and other House conservatives to link the payment of arrears to restrictions on family-planning programs abroad. On the issue of Iraq, the United States has signaled willingness to consider some easing of sanctions to allow more food, medicine and certain other goods to reach the long-suffering Iraqis. But it and Britain insist that Iraq allow weapons inspections suspended in late 1998 to be resumed as a precondition. This is an extraordinarily difficult issue, said a senior administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.

The consensus has broken down. FYI Legal publications must be in the Register office by 12 noon the day before date of publication. (Legals longer than five pages should give three working days notice.) (Continued from page 1) Francesca, have been here before. He and Eleanor traveled to Iola in 1994 for the second Keaton Celebration and the three returned in 1995, the centennial of Busters birth. Local organizers often point to Eleanors attendance those two years as a key to the celebrations ongoing success.

It added credence, legitimacy to their effort to further Keatons popularity and to popularize silent films with todays movie fans. For Karen and Eleanor, the trip was just fun. They treat us like royalty, she would say on more than one occasion. KAREN MET BUSTER in 1957, but he had admired the comic genius work for years before he met him. Buster was my idol, he said.

I adored him from the time I was a child. Keatons heyday was in the late 1910s and 20s when he was among the top silent movie actors and filmmakers. The advent of talking motion pictures, as well as personal problems, put him in the background by the 1950s. Karen was a stage actor and producer for summer stock managers on the East Coast. He learned that Keaton, who was keeping busy entertaining in Europe, might be available to work.

I went to the managers, and Buster wasnt exactly in the mainstream, you know. In fact, some of them thought he was dead, Karen said with a laugh. Some, however, agreed to employ Keaton. Karen contacted him, asked him what hed like to do and Keaton said hed always wanted to play the lead in Merton Of the Movies. The lead character, however, was a 20-year-old man, so Karen sought and obtained permission from the plays authors to rewrite the script to fit the older Keaton.

Karen took a supporting role, and their friendship was born. Eleanor, who married Buster in 1940, also became fast friends with Karen. He lived in the East and traveled often to California to visit the Keatons. In 1959, when Karens son Reed was born, Buster was his godfather. On Feb.

1, 1966, Karen was hosting the television show Direction 66 and Reed, then 7, called him on the set. He said, I know youre working now but as soon as youre finished, call me, Karen said. We finished about 6 that evening, and I called him. He said, We lost our (Continued from page 1) worst diseases in the developing world. No country can break povertys bonds if its people are disabled by disease and its government overwhelmed by the needs of the ill, the president said.

Clinton also said U.N. members share an obligation to stop the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. In particular, Clinton urged world leaders to keep pressure on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to abandon his suspected weapons program. Now we must work to deny weapons of mass destruction to those who would use them, the president said. For almost a decade, he said, nations have stood together to keep the Iraqi regime from threatening its people and the world with such weapons.

Despite all the obstacles Saddam Hussein has placed in our path, we must continue to ease the suffering of the people of Iraq, Clinton said. At the same time, we cannot allow the government of Iraq to flout 40 and I say, 40 successive U.N. Security Council resolutions and to rebuild his arsenal. But the Security Council remains deadlocked on Iraq, be a plaintiff if a lawsuit were to be filed. The kids already can pray, Weston said.

Theyve got absolute freedoms. Im not sure why this has become an issue. She said she hopes the board backs away from any kind of policy and allows students to practice their faith without holding anyone captive to do it. This is not constitutionally sound, she said, her voice quivering. No one should have prayer forced upon them because someone decided it was time to pray.

years This (Continued from page 1) try to find a legally defensible policy that would make prayer possible in some fashion. School board member Phil Douglas voted to keep the policy, saying that fluctuating court decisions banning school prayer should not affect the boards decision. ACLU attorney Jim Lawing did not comment. Becky Weston, whose daughter attends the high school, was the only one to speak out against school prayer during the meeting. She contacted the ACLU last week and agreed to Si We wish to thank each and everyone who made Moran Day one of the most memorable days of our lives as the grand marshals of the parade.

Archie 8l Marie Rosebaugh a Were In The Process of Putting Together OUR 9TH ANNUAL ILLUSTRATED SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Of Our Businesses, Professional People and Industries James Karen Buster today.1 Shortly after, Eleanor traveled to New York City to spend time with Karen and his family. Her efforts to preserve, even enhance, her late husbands popularity began immediately, Karen said. We loved Eleanor so much for herself, for her work and for what she did for Buster, he said. Eleanor is credited time and again, by friends and family, authors and scholars, and most import, by Buster as the guiding force behind the resurrection of his career in the 1950s and 60s. He wouldnt have made it without her, Karen said.

She was a wonderful woman. WHEN ELEANOR was diagnosed with cancer, she was concerned most about the effect her illness might have on others, Karen said. She knew she was strong, but she didnt want her friends views toward her skewed by the disease. She told people she had had cancer but that it was cured, and all it was after that was arthritis, Karen said. She knew what was happening because Buster had gone through the same thing.

She didnt want people to know because they would change toward her. Eleanor and Karen had planned to attend the 1998 Keaton Celebration here, he said, but her illness prevented the trip. She tried very hard to get out there, but she finally said, I just cant make Karen said. Festivalgoers were treated to a videotaped greeting from Eleanor. Her zest for life, courage in fighting her health problems and caring for her Iola friends were evident.

Shortly after, Eleanor entered Motion Picture Hospital for her final two weeks of life. Karen and Francesca brought photographs and other furnishings from Eleanors home to make the hospital who would bring local groups together. ODonovan said that was up to people in the community. He likened the project to a chamber of commerce focused on childrens needs. A chamber of commerce is interested in the financial aspects of a community, of bringing people and businesses to town, ODonovan said.

Connect Kansas would set outcomes (goals) for children in the community and sell a community as a good place for children to be. Sen. Emert speculated that funding for the program would come from the settlement with the major tobacco companies. A childrens cabinet appointed by the governor will recommend how the tobacco money will be allocated, he said. The next step in developing the program is to create local councils of those who deliver welfare services to children.

No one among the handful of local people at Mondays meeting could say when or if that would happen here. Connect Kansas is the brainchild of SRS, which put together data books for each southeast Kansas county. The books were available at the meeting. Allen County is among those that Sen. Emert represents in the Senate.

ODonovan replaced SRS Secretary Rochelle Chronister at Mondays meeting. Chronister was unable to attend because she broke a tooth at lunch Monday. SHOP THE CLASSIFIEDS This Was Last Children years sales calls are once again reflecting the popularity of this annual section, as the spots are filling up fast. As in the past, this years edition will go to all regular subscribers of The Iola Register. PLUS 3,000 FREE EUTRA CIRCULATION to non-subscribers in the Iola, Gas, Humboldt, LaHarpe, Moran and Colony areas.

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(Continued from page 1) agreed. Nanette Kemmerly-Weber, Allen County attorney, told ODonovan that she thought the project duplicated some of what had been done in the overhaul of juvenile justice and that it was, in fact, a transfer of responsibility from the state to counties. And we dont have the resources to accept the responsibility, she said. ODonovan disagreed, tactfully, with Webers assessment. He said that he understands that the systems in place to deal with children are working, but what Im saying is they can be improved.

Sen. Tim Emert of Independence said the point of the new approach in Connect Kansas was to draw community groups together to determine the scope of local problems and then find solutions. You cant find two communities in Kansas much more similar demographically than Iola and Independence, but each has different problems, he said. Emert said the welfare experiment was not like juvenile justice programming. There are no law changes involved and no mandates, just opportunities to do things for children, he said.

Chuck Apt, city attorney, also was skeptical. Apt said he also thought that approaches developed during the overhaul of juvenile justice system would be duplicated by Connect Kansas and asked If you have not been contacted, dont wait. Call Mark or Janet at 365-21 1 1 as soon as possible to get full information about the edition. This years deadline for reserving space is Friday, October 1 The Iola Register Phone (316) 365-2111 302 S. Washington.