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Gannett Westchester NewspapersMonday, May 26. 1986 A Section Celebrities turn out to do their share -7- v-. rx vs1-? Art 'v ki Y-m 5 couples tie knot in long line The Associated Press Five couples tied the knot Sunday while joining the Hands Across America line, and another couple rushed from the altar to get in line. Two couples were married along the route near Phoenix. Tim Madril and Barbara Jo Peak tied the knot along Interstate 17.

while Ernest Settle and Carol Ayotte were married near a Circle convenience store off 1-10. In Twin Lakes, Ohio, school-icher Keli White. 32. and. truck iver Doug Roose, 35.

were married in the middle of the road, seconds after the Hands event ended. The bride wore a white wedding gown and her groom a black tuxedo as the Rev. Arthur Stennett of Cortland Lutheran Church performed the rites in the middle of the road. When traffic interrupted the line in Pittsburgh, former Steelers' running back Franco Harris strode alone into the road to slop it. Somebody had to wait," he said afterward.

This is too important. If people find it difficult to give 10 or 15 minutes of their lives, then that's their problem." Actress Shari Belafonle-Harpcr was on the West Coast and her singing dad. Harry Belafonle. was on the East. Brooke Shields held one hand in New York and one in New Jersey.

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Dave Parker and five Pirates players joined hands with hundreds of Little Leaguers across Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium before the Reds-Pi-rates game. In Dallas. Cowboys runnipg back-Tony Dorset! joined Tony At Disneyland. 1,320 employees wearing Hands Across America T-shirts. formed lines extending inward Jrom both sides of the park, meeting in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle where Mickey Mouse joined both ends.

Minnie, Goofy and Pluto were there, too. It's a great unifier. It's a wonderful spirit," said Groom, who was in CTinton. New York and California, of course, had many of the heavyweights Miss Welch and Vereen at the Pacific end; Yoko Ono. Helen Hayes and Lily Tomlin at the Atlantic.

But if you had hoped to grasp someone famous, you may have been disappointed: Some celebrities held hands with For example. Ms. Ono was linked to her son, Sean Lennon, who was linked to Liza Minnelli. There were folk singers Peter. Paul and Mary in New York and Judy Collins in Tennessee and country stars such as Chet Atkins.

And there were those who rely on more than song to persuade. The Associated Press If altruism isn't draw enough. Raquel Welch or Tony Bennett might do. Dozens of celebrities, from sluggers to killer whales to Mickey and Minnie, were among the star-studded links in Sunday's Hands Across America chain. America, you look beautiful today.

This is what America's about," Ben Vereen said from Long Beach, one end of the line that reached to the Atlantic Ocean in New York City. Savvy organizers of the fundraiser for America's hungry and homeless provided celebrities in some spots where they might not be homegrown. Imported to Kentucky Malcolm Groom and Christopher Durham, of the daytime soap opera "Ryan's Hope." HANDS, From page one Pnoto by Hay Wews raised in White Plains, passes out pamphlets about Hands Across America. NYC, From page one Reid said he didn't expect his day-to-day life of sleeping in stairways and begging for money to be improved by Sunday's event. I think for a lot of people this is just a party.

But I hope for some it will open their minds and make them more aware of the homeless of this city. he said. To tell you the truth. I wonder if the money will wind up in the right place, if it will go to the people who need the help. I just hope the money doesn't end up in the pockets of people who don't need it." Reid said he constantly found himself in trouble while he was growing up in White Plains.

My adopted father died when I was 10. It hit me bad. After that, I had a lot of -problems. I really don't know what will happen to me down the road. I hope I amount to something positive.

gets depressing sometimes. For now. thought I live day -to day. I don't worry about tomorrow until tomorrow gets here. When he had handed out his last pamphlet, Reid looked at the wall of people forming lines between 57th and 72nd streets.

I don't like crowds." he said. "Im not sure I'll gel in. line. But I probably will for the spirit of the thing." Elsewhere along the highway, music was blaring and emotions were soaring as the time neared to join hands. Many people carried American flags or dressed patriotic colors.

Others lifted signs from their home states and cities. Joan Newman, her two daughters and some friends from Michigan. drove in from Huntington, Com-, early Sunday, packing a chicken and potato salad lunch. "We all come from middle-class families where there always was food on the table." she said. We became aware of the homeless and wanted to do something about it.

I think this will; help make people aware of the problem. It's something that always will exist. You can't wipe it all away. But this is a start." For Marilyn and Arthur Stagg of White Plains, Hands Across America was the 1960s peace march they never attended. We had little kids then, so we couldn't get involved, although our hearts were with them," said Mrs.

Stagg, a comptroller for a design company. This was a strong sign of unity. I think it was wonderful." Farther down the West several Chinese businessmen from. Peking were forced to change their travel plans when their bus to Kennedy Airport, couldn't make, it through the crowd. I think it's a quite good idea." said one of the men.

shocked bythe massive turnout as he stood outside the Vista Hotel. But first of all, the government should do something because America is so rich. It is unimaginable that so many pecfple are homeless and hungry here. China is not as rich as America. But there are not so many hungry people." A few minutes before 3 p.m..

Hands Across America volunteers raced down the West Side Highway, informing stagglers that -the time was near. Like New Year's Eve celebrants, the crowd waited anxiously. Then it was time to begin. Staff writer Lisa Faye Kaplan contributed to this report. So many Americans are still sure that no one is hungry or homeless today.

she said. "We have to convince these people that many Americans today still live with little food and without homes." Near Canal Street. April Vander Veen. 19; of echoed a sentiment of many along the route when she described the event as something for Americans instead of for everybody else." At the foot of Battery Park, only a few feet from the Hudson River and overlooking the Statue of Liberty, stood 6-ycar-old Amy Sheryrood. the East Coast's first link in the human chain.

In pigtails and a Hands Across America T-shirt that flowed to her knees. Amy had been living with her mother in a city welfare hotel until they recently found an apartment in Brooklyn. Also standing near the line's start was New York Mayor Edward Koch. Cardinal John O'Connor and Gov. Mario Cuomo.

A few hands away from Cuomo stood Westchester County Executive Andrew P. O'Rourke. Cuopno's likely Republican opponent in November. The New York chain featured movie stars, and actors, including Harry Belafonle; Yoko Ono and her son. Sean Lennon, actors Sam Wa-lerston and William Hurt, and actresses Lily Tomlin.

Helen Hayes and Glenn Close. "I can't believe it. When I get home. I'm going to faint." said an unidentified woman afr she held Waterslon's hand. I can't believe it either." Wa- ington portion of the line.

He's a phony, he's not sincere," said Walter. He gives a little and he takes a lot Walter said he believes the lot of the poor has worsened dramatically since Reagan took office, particularly in Yonkers. Yonkers is like New York now." he said. You see people everywhere, sleeping on the streets. Anthony Burton said Hands Across America might, very well Get great 1 persed the crowds.

Everyone, left slowly, reluctantly, emotionally drained. It was just terrific." said Bob Wolff, a 37-year-old Chappaqua resident who linked hands on 42nd Street and 12th Avenue. A few feet away. Laurie Candii. another Chappaqua resident, compared Hands Across America to a 1960s love-in.

She, too. was enthusiastic. It was just incredible." she said. Organizers agreed. Speaking in Battery Park min-.

utes before the extravaganza began, orga.iizer Ken Kragen called the turnout overwhelming" and added: I'm euphoric." New York organizers had reason to be ecstatic. Assuming four feet per person, organizers had inilally calculated that 15.840 people would be needed to cover the route from Battery Park up West Street. 12th Avenue and the Henry Hudson Parkway to the George Washington Bridge. Hoping to raise -more money, organizers increased the New York goal to 38.000 people. But Sandra Silverman, a Hands Across America spokeswoman, estimated the New York link of the chain Sunday at 150.000 to 200.000 people.

Across the. nation, a flood of last-minute volunteers who had swamped Hands Across America telephone lines during the past few days weren't enough to fill all gaps in the chain that was to stretch from New York to Long Beach. POOR From page one project before Sunday, and those who were questioned its potential payoff. I think it's great, but how can it help me?" wondered Howard Hill, a 29-year-old Yonkers native who said he graduated from the Westchester Business Institute in White Plains last year. HIT1.

who has been staying at the shelter since his landlord evicted him after a recent dispute, said 'Hands- Across ''America organizers Jk2Z-y ear-old woman suffered severe bruises to her left thigh. She said she was hit by a piece of wood that came through the boat." McGuire said. Her 20-year-old brother was complaining of back pains and another 9-year-old relative who had -been knocked- down was being treated for cuts and bruises on his face. McGuire said. Beverly Griggsby.

the evening administrator at Lincoln Hospital, said one woman was treated and released and another was undergoing diagnostic testing. David Early, the assistant administrator at Columbia-Presbyteri-an Medical Center, said one male and three females were being treated for very minor injuries." but he did not believe any would be admitted. Officials said about 600 passengers were aboard the Circle Line, which has several cruises daily around Manhattan. Calif. Sponsored by USA for Africa, the foundation that distributed $44 million for famine relief in Africa after last year's recording.

"We Are the World," Hands Across America was designed to raise more than 350 million for programs to feed and house America's hungry and homeless. Nearly 5.5 million people were to pledge $10. $25 or $35 each and form a chain that would snake 4.152 miles through more than 500 cities and towns, over two deserts, 10 rivers and one mountain range. Though the chain had its missing links, the event will almost certainly break the record for the largest participatory event in the history of the world, organizers said. The 1986 Guinness Book of World Records states that the largest previous human chain stretched 64.8 miles on Oct.

22. when 170.000 to 220.000 West German demonstrators held hands to protest the American stationing of nuclear missiles in West Germany. But people swarming to the New York route were not concerned with breaking records. 'I'm here to help the many who need help so desperately." said John Overmayer. a 79-year-old retired construction worker from Brooklyn who is confined to a wheelchair and was positioned -near Battery Park.

As the minutes ticked toward 3 p.m.. Theresa Fulcher, a 23-year-old secretary from Greenwich. chided the many who doubt that hunger and homelessness exist in America. "should help affirmative action and job programs, programs where the poor can help themselves. But he said he suspected the money would go to the people they want to help first poor whites." Hill, like all but two of the men at the shelter Sunday, is black.

Another man at the shelter, who, would identify himself only as Walt ter, was sharply critical of President Reagan, who appeared on television several times standing between two children in the Wash Transit Authority buses were provided at the park to return the remaining passengers to 42nd Street and 12th Avenue, the Circle Line berth. One passenger who said she was a registered nurse. Heidi Sanders of Alabama, said she too saw the boat hit the old railroad ties used as pilings. She said she and two friends helped treat several passengers, who had lacerations and cuts across their foreheads, but they did not have a firsL-aid kit until one of the injured passengers went to get one. Patten denied that the crew did not assist the injured but confirmed that the crew did not have any first aid training.

He said his crew's reaction was "very good everybody on board is hot used to trouble, but they are ready." The Associated Press and staff writer John Aicotl contributed to this report. terson replied. Then the countdown began. Five. four, three" Kragen yelled into a microphone at Battery Park as everyone grasped hands, two.

one. the song We Are the World" surged from the crowd. As far as the eye could see. the thick human chain swayed to the music. Many closed their eyes, many dabbed their eyes, no one missed a word.

Small American flags'" rose from many hands. The response to the next song, Hands Across America," was not as startling, because few people knew the words. They continued swaying, but usually out of sync, as they listened to hundreds of transistor radios broadcasting the events For the finale, America the Beautiful." the crowd was again one. Even some motorists stuck in traffic because of the blocked streets weren't upset. Bob Mills, 19, lounged on the hood of his car, which was caught in a huge line of stalled traffic at the corner of 12th Avenue and 42nd Street This is the best party I ever had in a traffic jam." Mills said.

The simplest, most pointed" explanation for the massive show of support came from a rather unlikely source. This is America and we care about America." said Brendan Manning. a member of the Hells Angels. New York City chapter. Heavily tatooed and wearing a leather jacket.

Manning joined other Hells Angels in the chain near Canal Street help the poor if they do the right thing with the They should buy up some of this housing they're knocking down and Have welfare run it for the poor." said the 33-year-old yonkers resident. Burton said he was a skilled carpenter but. like several others at the shelter, claimed it made no difference. I've got plenty of skills," he said. But they always say there's no work." prints with Your pictures are special.

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As many as 20 of the 600 people aboard were hurt when the boat struck the Willis Avenue Bridge, located between Manhattan and the Bronx, officials said. Frank Keam. 21. of Hastings-on-Hudson was 'taken to Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx with a fractured skull, police Raymond O'Donnell said. Jim McGuire, an administrator at Jacobi, said Keam was sent up to the neuro-surgical ward, and surgeons were deciding Sunday night if surgery was needed.

McGuire added that three family members, none of whom was identified. were being treated at the hospital. After the accident, the boat continued north along the Harlem River and docked at Roberto Clemente State Park, where the injured were treated by Emergency Medical Service crews before being taken to nearby hospitals. O'Donnell said there were 20 injured, but meiltrat service officers at the park said there were 15 injuries, with another three people declining to go to hospitals Coast Gikai IVtty Oflitvr Kandy Midget! said the boat, the Circle Line 12. hit a sea wall of pilings that holds up the middle of the bridge linking East llarlem with the South Bronx, lie suid the injuries were caused by flying Umbers that were shattered by the impact- It appeared the boat was led astray by the tide at the bridge.

Police Inspector William Maughan, as he stood by the boat at the park, said the ship's left rear side swung out and hit the The ship's captain, Patrick Patten. said he was proceeding north toward the Bronx side of the bridge and saw his craft getting closer to the center span. I wheeled out of it, not, thinking I would touch but we touched some of the pilings that had been damaged from the bridge, some of the wood was sticking out." Patten said. "The bridge just crumpled instead of us just glancing boom! You could see the pilings on the deck. he said as he filled out a police accident report in the boat's pilothouse.

Patten said that as soon as I got a report there were people injured. 1 made the call" for assistance and docked eight to 10 minutes after the accident at the state park, the nearest berth. Patten said he had piloted the Circle Line boat for four years. The injured passengers were on the redf main deck of the double-decker boat, the rails of which were, left smashed and twisted by the crash. 'Patricia Ward, a spokeswoman for North Central Bronx Hospital, said two of the injured-passengers, both female, were listcil in stable condition.

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