Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 72

1 6D DETROIT FREE PRESS-THURSDAY. AUGUST 21, 1986 FT 1 fo) 1 5 1 1 Heal Ar I Shine In) ulmj For some, it's already begun id Jrn ri zrnj vt i i ii.i -r. The State Fair doesn't open until Friday, but for close to 500 folks, it's already under way. The 500 from concessionaires to exhibitors of home canned goods have been at the State Fair Grounds this week working 24 hours a day to get the 138th annual fair off without a hitch Friday morning. What will they have to show for the effort at 10 a.m.

Friday? More than 120 concession stands, 9,000 livestock exhibits, 7,000 produce and arts displays and 120 agricultural goods. The fair begins Friday and runs through Sept. 1. A well-deserved salute to the unlikely soldier Word has arrived from the West Coast that Hennessy's kid has been named first captain of the adet corps at West Point. An interesting turn of events when you consider that the long-standing military tradition of the Hennessys reached its proudest point when Tom was promoted to private first class after three years in the Army.

But there it was, a story in the Long Beach (Calif.) Pi ess-Telegram reporting that John Tien, 22, has been chosen to lead the U.S. Military Academy's 4,500 cadets, a singular honor held in previous times by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Gen. William Westmoreland, among others. JOHN IS THE SON of Deborah Hennessy and the stepson of Tom Hennessy, who worked at the Free Press from 1975 to 1980, first as a reporter and city desk editor and later as sports editor.

He is now a local columnist on the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, and his columns often appear on Saturday on the Free Press' Feature Page. Before he came to the Free Press, Hennessy Work is going on around the clock to prepare the State Fair Grounds at Eight Mile and Woodward for Friday's fair opening. Photostory by Pauline Lubens 'v i tl published a newspaper in Pitts I' I "'I I burgh called the Forum, an alternative publication that was never, it is safe to say, solidly in support of established r-, cv fx K. As far as the Forum's atti tude toward the military was concerned, Hennessy said: "I don't think we ever got around to supporting it editorially." John Tien 1 I LA (Ei Mike Wedel, 1 9, of Niles, takes a break while standing in front of the Hofbraus House. In fact, when John told his parents that he wanted to go to West Point, Hennessy said he turned to his wife and said with a smile: "Where did we go wrong?" "Now," Hennessy said, "nobody can say anything bad about West Point around me." Hennessy, who helped raise John since the boy was four, said it took John a couple of hours to recover from the news.

"But after a while," Hennessy said, "he told me he thought it was probably time to get back down to Earth, and he went out in the yard and picked up the dog poop. He understands that around home he's got the same rank he's always had." I REMEMBER JOHN as a quiet, polite kid with a great smile. He was a student at Grosse Pointe's Pierce Middle School and Grosse Pointe South High School before he moved to California with his family after his junior year. After he graduated from high school he applied for and got an appointment to West Point. "He had to go for two months of summer training before his first year," Hennessy said.

"The fact that they call it 'Beast Barracks' gives you some idea of what it's like. "After those two months he called and said it wasn't for him and he was coming home. I think being 17 had something to do with it" John enrolled at the University of California-: Irvine, where he spent two years before deciding that he wanted to go back to West Point. "He had to repeat the whole process again," Hennessy said, "and, historically, the acceptance rate of dropouts who reapply is not high. "We told him that if he wanted to reapply, he'd have to do the paperwork himself this time, that his mother was not going to do it for him." But his mother did do it, and John got accepted and started at the beginning.

Now he's the top cadet, a senior and a civil engineering major carrying an A-minus grade point average. "Last summer he took special training at the French Commando school," Hennessy said. "He came back with all kinds of patches with skulls on them and mottos like 'Land Soft. Kill "And one of the first things he says to me when he gets home is, 'Why don't we go over to Lakeview and see "101 I think he'll make a fine soldier. It' A' IT h.

mm mm U) fl lJ Vrr Workers set up a ride called the Mat-terhorn, at left. La Vaughn Walker, 13, of Detroit, above, blows up balloon animals. Don (Smokey) Prough, of Pontiac, sits on a carousel horse while helping to unload them and set up the carousel. briefly: Hefner faults pornography report Lockhoins names 8 faces Tax reform, not jumping, is their style Winfrey Show," which debuts Sept. 8 in Detroit on WXYZ-TV (Channel 7Y SUED: Singer Julio Iglesias, by a hotel security guard in St.

Louis who claims the singer karate-chopped him on the neck. Iglesias spokesman termed the claim "incredible." Edited by MARTIN F. KOHN From stall and wire reports BLASTING: Playboy executive Christie Hefner, the administration's pornography commission. It ignored statistics that show most adult-oriented material is non-violent, she said. Results include censorship and lower sales of Playboy, she said.

MOVING: Dianne Hudson, producer of WTVS-TV's (Channel 56) "Detroit Black Journal," to a new job as associate producer with the Chicago-based "Oprah "LORSTTA TRI6S HARP. IT ISN'T MER FAULT THAT AHC HA6NT SAI0 EVERYTHING THERE 16 TO 6AY." iil VST- Easy rider MISSING FROM the cover of Time magazine this week are Rep. Dan Ros-Itenkowski and Sen. Bob Packwood, ar- chitects of the new tax bill. The Illinois -Democrat and the Oregon Republican 'posed for an unnamed photographer with the Capitol as a backdrop; Rosten-kowski even was persuaded to stand on an equipment case for a better angle.

But the end came when the photographer asked the two to jump in the air In elation. "Come on," Rostenkowski re-portedly said, leaving the scene. "What the hell does this guy think he's doing shooting a Toyota commercial?" A drawing graces the cover instead. SIGOURNEY WEAVER is out of the mainstream while her movie "Aliens" is doing booming business. She Weaver: Stellaaa Rostenkowski: No jumping Littlesun Bordeaux, whose ethnic origins are Sioux and Jewish, is Uffjr iv Philharmonic, former director of the Israel Conservatory in Tel Aviv and a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music.

The Israel Philharmonic Is scheduled to perform at Meadow Brook Aug. 28, under the direction of Zubin Mehta. THE NEW CHIEF of the Strategic Air Command says he never expected the Air Force to be his life's work, and entered Air Force" ROTC in college to avoid the draft during the Korean War. "As a boy I never wanted to fly," said Gen. John Chain.

The Korean War was on when Chain entered Ohio's Denison University. "I went through ROTC basically to stay out of the draft," Chain said. "If Denison had had Navy ROTC, I might have wound up being a sailor." Chain is a 30-year Air Force veteran. The Strategic Air Command is headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, in Omaha. DAVID BALDWIN was waiting on a customer earlier this week when he looked up and saw a crowd of about 40 people come into his electronic equipment store in Worcester, Mass.

He buzzed the assistant manager for help. In the center of the throng was singer Stevie Wonder, who had been performing in Worcester. He stopped by to pick up some headphones, Baldwin said. is at the Williamstown Festival Theater in Massachusetts playing Stella Kowalski in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," opposite Christopher Walken as Stanley. An undisclosed ill entertainer of the year in the annual Country Music Association awards.

They are: Ricky Skaggs, who will perform at 2 and 8:30 p.m. Tuesday; Willie Nelson, who will perform at 8:30 Aug. 29, and The Judds, who will perform at 3:30 and 8:30 Aug. 30. The other finalists are Reba McEntlre and George Strait, but they won't be at the fair.

Winners will be announced Oct. 1 3 in a live CBS-TV show from the Grand Ole Opry. THE SON of the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir has applied to become a cellist for the Bismarck-Mandan (N.D.) Symphony Orchestra. Menachem Meir says he wants to play in the United States to be closer to his two sons, who are students in Pittsburgh. About 25 other people are vying forkthe job.

Meir is a member of the Israel takes a camel ride in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the day before his bar mitzvah at the Wailing Wall. Historians have taken exceptions to earlier reports that Bordeaux is a descendant of Chief Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse had no chijdren, they say. AP Photo ness forced Weaver to miss Tuesday's opening night, but she was reported able to continue Wednesday. ocvcdii rmiMTRY music stars due to perform at the Michigan State Fair will arrive with added prestige: They ve been nominated for the top honor.