Ledger-Enquirer from Columbus, Georgia • 18

THURSDAY JANUARY 22 1 987 THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER LIVING da oji i 8 By Joe Schwartz 'Ledger Enquirer A 't WtoSt 8B: j4jKA 'O A JTm Wsir W'hii'dB5k WvRKuOk 1 tj 7 ry I i JXfiiiBwE WSM rt HKfv ct WBa 223l1wlLx The WLTZ staff left to right: Richard Elliott Jodi Kennedy Jim Koger Nim Lipscomb Jo Ellen Knowles Kathy Kennedy Tim Espar and Kevin McLendon Wife Tells Lawyer Husband To Spill Beans About Assets Dear Ann Landers: I was disappointed by your advice to "rustrated the lady whose husband chose not to disclose the details of his financial worth Please reread her letter one paragraph at a time and make another assessment of that situation: Paragraph 1 She give her name and address because enough trouble Paragraph 2: Here we find the cause of the trouble: been man led 30 years and she ruts nagged him all the money fc Paragraph 3: By her own admission she has every thing she wants or needs Ah she has to do is keep house and stop nagging him Paragraph 4: He is a lawyer According to paragraph 3 he is both prosperous and generous Logic tells us that he knows what is needed to leave her financially secure in case he precedes her in death The professional expertise would ensure that his estate would be in order and legally correct He has told her not to pry into his financial affairs You advised her to do just the opposite: advice from a banker or an out of town Surely that would cast her in the role of tin adversary instead of helpmate and partner It would be the final straw alienate him and derail that ANN LANDERS 8t fc gravy tfatp the avaricious wife has ridden so long So dear Ann 1 say you goofed That woman may find out what she wants to know in the divorce court and live miserably ever aftei Thanks for letting me sound off lorida Man Dear lorida: start with Paragraph 4 You assume that just because a man is a lawyer his affairs are in order and legally correct Wake up Buttercup There are plenty of lawyers out there whose affairs are in a mess (Same story with physicians Often their families get the worst medical care and the doctors themselves in such great shape) I say a woman has the right to know about the finances If her husband refuses to tell her she is justified in suspecting something is amiss Ann Landers is a syndicated columnist You can write her at Box 11995 Chicago III 60611 No Respect 1 ic Iiimhmbbb WLTZ eels Like Rodney Dangerfield of Local News 0y Mick Walsh Skill Writer The numbers rarely change While each rating book contains a bit of suspense which avea newscast will tie No the bottom line for WITZ TV Channel 38 is predict ably the same dead last in the ratings at 6 pm In some respects the blame for Channel rock bottom news ratings ate symptomatic of man agement's overriding investment in other departments at the sta tion In some respects the single digit Nielsen numbers are indic tative of a viewing audience which allows habit and old loyal ties to operate the dials at 6 pm And in some respects Channel 38's news team is considered a lineup of lightweights a spoon ful of part timers mixed in with a portion of young idealists right out of journalism school News director Tim Espar the 38 year old father figure admits to lacking many of the implements needed to dig Chan nel 38 out of its hole fourth in a four station market at dinner time) but most concerned about another deficiency: Lack of respect a common concern in the tiny newsroom put out as good a product as either of the other two news said Espar our limitations We have a small staff (three full time reporters three part timers including sport scaster Jim Koger weatherman Bear and features re porter Kathy Kennedy and two photographers) WTVM has as many people in news as we do at the entire station Certainly unable to cover as wide an area as the others But the stories we do work are in many cases better than those of our Reporter Richard Elliott 23 says the Nielsen numbers (WLTZ garnered but four percent of the viewing audience in the No vember book) make him angry really bothers me is when we do an enterprise story and several days later Channel 9 or Channel 3 does basically the same story Who gets credit? They do Viewers know we broke it first only those in our business know Elliott and Jodi Kennedy also 23 often feel like excess baggage while on assignment are always coming up to me and asking if (WRBL reporter) Sam said El liot used to confuse (for mer Channel 38 reporter) Denise Moore for Janice Wages Of course that bothers lot of people still rec ognize said Ms Kennedy a native of Connecticut who joined the staff last summer em barrassing to show up at a story and have people talk directly to Sam Hall (WTVM reporter) and ignore me Photographer Kevin McLen See WLTZ Page 9 Hardaway Student to Perform at Recital Hardaway High School fresh man Dana Shehane was selected by state audition to play in the All State Piano Recital at the Georgia Music Asso ciation convention in Columbus Hardaway student Ruth Berger won a junior varsity speaker award at the West Georgia Col lege Debate Tournament Jan 10 A group of 24 students from Humanities classes spent Saturday Jan 17 ex periencing the arts in Atlanta The first stop was the High Museum where a special exhibi tion of paintings by contempo rary American artist Jacob Lawrence was featured along with the permanent collection A guided tour of St Cathedral gave the stu dents a first hand look at Gothic and Neo gothic art and architec ture After dinner the students and their chaperones attended a performance by the Atlanta Sym phony Orchesta The symphony orches tra will perform at the Georgia Music Association In set vice convention Under the direction of Dr John Dudd the orchestra was se lected from competition and is the only symphonic orchestra composed of winds strings and percussion from a single high school A special concert was given for parents faculty students and friends Tuesday in the school auditorium since the perform ance is open only to organization members William Pharris and Patricio Cobos of Columbus Col lege were guest conductors Pacelli High The Pacelli High VIP Club sponsored a Tourna Sixteen students wrestled TEEN TEMPO in 100 gallons of orange jello Jerry Oates and Steve Ivey from Oates Gym were the referees and Mark Northcutt was the an nouncer The theme for No vemberDecember was "Getting Along with Your Glenn Davis first baseman for the Houston Astros talked to Pacelli students about his life Sophomore Jenny Taylor was selected to represent Pacelli at the Hugh State Leader ship Seminar this spring She is president of the sophomore class a member of the Student Council and Key Club and has been a cheerleader for two years She spends part of her summers doing volunteer work in a nursing home Other finalists were Tannis Wipler and Jeff Blaney Representatives attending the state seminar have the opportu nity to be selected for the na tional convention in Denver this summer Brookstone School Pam Coffield chairman of the mathematics department and upper school teacher presented a segment of in the Schools: A Key to Revitalized 12 Mathematics at the American Statistical Associa Winter Conference in Or lando la in January Projects were conducted by Sally Cullen a senior Mark Lawrence a jun ior and Daniel Peiken a senior under the supervision of Helen Purks Norman McDonald and Klaus Baer swam in the Woodie Malone Invitational Meet in At lanta The Drama Department parti cipated in the state one act play competition at Georgia South western College (Americus) in January The play entitled "I Never Saw Another placed second in the competition after winning regional competi tion reshman Jenni Jordan was awarded the best actress for the state for her outstanding per formance The academic bowl team went to Taylor County High School in January for competition The two teams were led by Ben Lewis and Jim Lamb team de feated Taylor team The wrestling team placed second in the Pacelli Invitational Tournament Individual winners were Bill Adams Joe Binns Dean Dummitt Reggie Harris first place Trip Meine Allen Helms second place Pip Span dorfer Adam Webb fourth place Spencer High The Greenwaves basket ball team won the Shaw Christmas Tournament Players named to the all city team were David Harrison Darryl Ransom 1 Wanda Jackson and Rodney Har rell Harrell was also named most valuable player during the tournament Seniors whose stories were published in the Christmas Eve editions of The Columbus Led ger Enquirer included Laura La vigne Monica Mitchell and Anece Baxter The Industrial Arts Club had a Thanksgiving ood Drive col lected over $75 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and col lected food for needy families for Christmas Participants were Randall Asburry Randy McRae David Mathis Mike Easton Rob ert Angel George Sutton and See TEEN Page 9 Use Want Ads 571 8545 DESIGNERSTYLES ur Sale! 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