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The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 10

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10 Th Indwi-Jounwl, Or nwood, 8.C., My 31, 1889 People in the news Hank Williams9 daughter to make singing debut The actor's spokesman, Sandy Bresler, has declined comment. Bottoms, 37, made his film debut in 1971 in the movie "Johnny Got His Gun." His other films include "The Paper Chase" in 1973 and "Invaders From Mars" in 1986. Guitarists try to pick a record NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Chet Atkins and his fellow guitarists will try to pick their way to a world's record Friday when they gather at two shopping malls to play the same song simultaneously. They hope to establish a record for most guitarists playing one song together.

They also are out Jump rope for heart nationwide student activity that is designed to teach students the importance of caring for their hearts at an early age. Special prizes are given to the boy and girl raising the most money. Lakeview students raised a total of $1,300 during the event. (Lakeview photo) During the weeks of May 8-12 and May 15-19, Lakeview Primary students participated in the American Heart Association's "Jump Rope for Heart." Students obtained pledges from their parents and friends for jumping rope during their physical education classes. "Jump Rope For Heart" is a MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(AP) A woman who went to court to prove she's the daughter of country music legend Hank Williams Sr. will make her professional singing debut Sunday at a festival honoring her late father. "I'm going to do it for a tribute to my father," said Cathy Deu-pree Adkinson, who was born in Montgomery five days after Williams died on Jan. 1, 1953. As a professional singer, Mrs.

Adkinson is using the name "Jett Williams," which combines the last names of her parents. Mrs. Adkinson plans to sing several of her father's songs at the Hank Williams Memorial Association's annual music festival Sunday in Evergreen, 75 miles southwest of Montgomery. She will be accompanied by two members of his original Drifting Cowboys band. She was born Antha Belle Jett, the daughter of Nashville, secretary Bobbie Jett, with whom Williams lived during the summer of 1952 but never married.

An Alabama judge ruled in 1987 that Mrs. Adkinson is Williams' daughter. The only child from Williams' two marriages is entertainer Hank Williams Jr. Hometown to honor humanitarian Thomas MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Danny Thomas' humanitarian work as founder of the St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital here will be recognized this week in Toledo, Ohio, where the entertainer was raised. CHET ATKINS playing one song together. Prince pilots namesake airship CIRENCESTER, England (AP) Before christening an airship, Prince Charles took over the controls. Once on the ground, he named it the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales was the pilot of the $4.65 million airship Tuesday for 20 minutes of an hourlong flight.

At the Kemble Royal Air Force base near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, the 40-year-old heir to the British throne performed the christening cermony, smashing a bottle of champagne on its side. The airship captain, Peter Hemming, said the prince was an "absolute natural" as pilot. "He is of course an experienced pilot in his own right and he took to it very well," Hemming said. Hollywood bad guy finally leads parade FRANKLIN, Neb. (AP) Pierce Lyden, a Hollywood bad guy who never won a fight or kissed a leading lady in four decades of western films, had a good role for a change: hometown hero.

But he wasn't wearing a white hat. Wearing a black hat and packing pistols, Lyden rode down Main Street in a horse-drawn carriage Monday as grand marshal of a parade in his honor. "I'm dumbfounded by the overwhelming response," said Lyden, who was born in Hildreth 83 years ago and graduated from high school in Naponee. Both towns are near Franklin, which is in south-central Nebraska, a few miles from the Kansas border, "I never thought this recognition would happen to me," Lyden said as he signed an autograph for a young fan. Shakespeare still tops list of required high school reading to prove that there really are 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville as the Lovin' Spoonful declared in their 1966 hit record, "Nashville Cats." Nashville's guitarists will meet at Hickory Hollow and Rivergate malls.

Atkins will lead the guitarists at Hickory Hollow and guitarist Harold Bradley will conduct those at Rivergate 25 miles away. There will be a telephone hookup between the two so that each group can be cued simultaneously. Atkins, known as "Mr. Guitar," and Bradley will decide Thursday on the song. The 1988 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records does not list a category for most guitarists lately accused scnoois of watering down curricula and retreating from the classics.

Such charges gained currency in the recent best-sellers "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, and "Cultural Literacy," by E.D. Hirsch. The study also showed, surprisingly, that public, private and Catholic high schools are assigning nearly identical books, said Applebee. At the 80 Catholic schools surveyed, the top-10 list included the same books as public schools, but in different order. "Huckleberry Finn" ranked first, followed by "The Scarlet Letter" and "Macbeth." "Macbeth" topped the list at 86 private schools surveyed.

Unlike public and Catholic schools, that top-10 list included Homer's epic poem, "The Odyssey," but omitted "Of Mice and Men." The report replicated a similar survey 25 years ago by the Educa-tional Testing Service. Shakespeare dominated the list, as he does now. "Romeo and Juliet" replaced "Macbeth" in first place, apparently boosted by the popularity of the film version. "Silas Marner," by George Eliot, was the only book showing a dramatic change in popularity. The 19th century novel about an old miser who turns to a more human life through his love of a little girl ranked third 25 years ago, but dropped off the top-10 list in the latest survey.

The survey had a margin of error of 3 points. The Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature is a research center funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts. DANNY THOMAS HOT. ii i I I "J-1 I vrt .91 1 Ml 45 NEW YORK (AP) High schools are requiring students to read almost exactly what they did 25 years ago: heavy on Shakespeare but light on works by female and minority authors, according to a survey.

Eighty-four percent of public high schools assign students "Romeo and Juliet," the tearful Shakespearean play that tops the list of required works, according to the nationwide survey by the Center for the Learning Teaching of Literature at State University of New York at Albany. But only one of the top 10 most frequently assigned works was by a female author "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee. No works were by minorities, according to the survey of 322 public schools, 80 Catholic schools and 86 private schools conducted last spring. "I think the survey shows schools are still very much concerned with emphasizing good literature. They continue to assign classics complemented with modern and accessible works," said the survey's author, Arthur N.

Applebee. "At the same time, it's disturbing that there are essentially no books by minority authors working their way into the canons, and little representation of women." Following "Romeo and Juliet," 81 percent of public high schools required "Macbeth." "Huckleberry Finn," the classic Mark Twain novel, was the third most assigned work, with 70 percent requiring it. The rest of the top 10 were, in order, "Julius Caesar," by Shakespeare, "To Kill A Mockingbird," "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, Shakespeare's "Hamlet," "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding. The most frequently assigned books by minority authors are Lorrainne Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," required in 19 percent of schools, and Richard Wright's "Black Boy," required by 7 percent, the survey found.

Applebee added, however, that commonly used high school literature anthologies frequently include works by minority and female authors. The survey appeared to answer conservative critics who have 0 I fi FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE Of NEWS, SPORTS, FEATURES, and ADVERTISING. Subscribe To The Medical College of Ohio at Toledo will present Thomas an honorary degree Friday during commencement ceremonies, according to a statement Tuesday from the Memphis hospital. Thomas, best known for the television comedy "Make Room For Daddy," founded St. Jude in 1962 and regularly makes personal appearances on behalf of the institution.

The hospital is a leading biomedical research center dedicated to finding cures for childhood cancer and other catastrophic children's diseases. Prosecution drops charges against Bottoms VENTURA, Calif. (AP) A prosecutor said charges won't be filed against actor Timothy Bottoms, who was booked after a motorist told authorities that the actor confronted him with a gun. "He did have a gun, but he didn't display it in a rude, angry or threatening manner as required," said Deputy District Attorney Don Grant. Bottoms was booked for investigation of brandishing a gun on a road, a felony, and carrying a loaded weapon, a misdemeanor, after the motorist told the California Highway Patrol he was confronted by the actor on U.S.

101 on May 10. The decision not to file charges against "The Last Picture Show" actor was made last week, Grant said. Bottoms had a pistol and ammunition in his station wagon when it was pulled over by officers, but the weapon wasn't loaded, Grant said. The Index-Journal History project Michele Burrous and John Mosley students at Greenwood High School display their National History Day Project, "A Starry Night," depicting works and events in the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Michele and John are first place winners in the senior division and will take their project to the national competition at the University of Maryland on June 15.

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"They come in swarms and have a tendency to swarm around your head. They seem to like to bite where clothing fits tightly, like if you've got a sleeve, they like to burrow in and bite there. "Of course, they'll bite everywhere," Dill said. Black-fly experts and victims in Maine say their state may suffer more of the pests than any other in the region, although New Hampshire state entomologist Ziegfried Tnewke said the flies can be a nuisance throughout all northern states, and even in the Midwest and parts of the West. Thewke said there is no way to tell bow many black flies will infest an area in a given year.

Other experts say years of low moisture may have fewer flies, although they will always be present. The flies are at their worst in wooded areas with lots of clean, running water. And they are faster than mosquitoes when it comes to biting. "A black fly will come whizzing along and land and attack, quickly," Tnewke said, adding that a ftfw types of black flies give the whole group a bad name. "There are 30 some species of black flies heie in New Hampshire, but only four of them bite humans," he said.

The first few tend to come out in early May, and the swarm can be in full swing toward the end of the month, sometimes hanging around as late as November. "Sometimes we just have to wear bug nets, head nets, gloves, longsleeve shirts and insect repellent, naturally," said John R. Moring, an associate professor of zoology at the University of Maine. "If you're new in Maine, or a baby, sometimes you get a worse reaction." The insect repellent, called "fly dope" in Maine, can have its bad side effects, however. For example, some types melt plastic.

"If you have plastic lenses on your glasses, you can find your fingerprints on them, and you can find your hands sticking to the steering wheel," Moring said. People fight the flies in many other ways, with varying degrees of success. "I don't condone this, but a lot of people will smoke big cigars," Moring said. "The smoke keeps them away." Others use vitamins or" yeast tablets, believed by some to make the body odor unattractive to the flies. At the Sgarloaf USA resort in western Maine, officials have taken a more aggressive approach.

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