European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 28, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Don f be cruel All Shook up tans beg radio Trinton. N j. Ado ens of Presley fans rallied outside a radio station saturday to protest plans to move a weekend program of his tunes to Mon Day morning oblivion and replace them with polkas. It is an outrage for fans people Don t think that we said a woman who identified herself Only As a devoted she was one of More than 20 people who called the associated press at the Behest of a Tom am disc jockey Rockin Ron Cade who has been Host of the saturday morning show for All of its seven years. Cade. 33. Said the station s manager pave him no official explanation for the decision to shift the three hour Silvis and friends show " from 10 . Saturdays to he same time monday when most Presley fans would be at work. The majority of people who have made this show successful arc no longer going to be Able to listen said Cade. Station manager Mark Scott. 32. Said the program generated less than one fifth of the advertising revenues the polka program nets though it is an hour longer. It s pretty highly rated but not always do ratings translate into big Scott said. Lie said he decided to make the switch to offer More religious programming on sunday when the polka pro Gam has been aired. He said he might negotiate with Cade for another time Slot As popular As saturday morn Ings. It s certainly not a ratings problem. This is the High est rated show on this radio station said Cade adding that it has about 25,000 listeners from northeastern Philadelphia and Central and Southern new Jersey. He said the show was not having trouble obtaining sponsors and noted that of about 500 people who called the station saturday to voice their opinions on the programming change Only one favored he switch to polka music. Our sales manager said he got some letters from people in Colorado new York and Florida said Cade. And they can t even hear the the show which was launched two years after pres Ley died on aug. 16, 1977, will have its Hist weekend broadcast on nov. 2. Some of the More than 35 people who picketed the station s studios carried signs quoting pics Ley songs. Said one i m All Shook up. Don t be cruel. Keep Rockin Ron on another sign honk if you love had the Drivers of passing cars and buses blowing their horns one of the demonstrators Dawn Burdick. 40, of Tren ton said. Saturday s our Day. The radio really keeps us said Burdick. Adding that she and most of her friends who listen to the show work weekdays and won t be Able to tune in on mondays. Cade said he had not yet decided whether to continue doing the show if it moves to mondays. I be taken a lot of Pride in building an audience and i Don t know if i want to be a part of the Blowout he said. Aids suspected As reason 2 men bound together at Waist make suicide jump new York a in a room Deco rated with fresh Cut Flowers two men shared a final bottle of wine tied them selves together at the Waist and then plunged from their 35th-floor luxury apart ment evidently choosing instant death Over the slower ravages of aids. Officially neither the police nor the med ical examiner s office would say whether the men who took their lives thursday were ill with acquired immune deficiency syn drome. But one detective who declined to be identified said that it was known that at least one of them had the incurable disease. A published report quoted another Anonymous police source As saying the men s Doc tors and medical records confirmed that both were victims of the disease. Charles Villalonga 43, an agriculture department Market specialist in washing ton and Gilbert Rodriguez 44. Were bound together by a Silken Sash. Villalonga be came too ill to continue commuting to work last March. Rodriguez a Potter artist and part time chef moved in w Ith Villalonga and his wife Connie about five years ago according to building service employees. The Villalonga were original tenants in the 10-year-old Ruppert Yorkville towers a 1,200-Apartmcnt Complex at third ave nue and 92nd Street said a former building manager. The double suicide was a very violent statement said Joseph Rispoli a chiropractor. The men hit the pavement below Rispoli s second floor window s. They could have done themselves in in their own apartment. Obviously they were trying to say Charles was seriously ill but he never disclosed to me that he had aids said neighbor Maurice Farber a psychology professor at the University of Connecticut and author of a 1948 Book theory of Sui Farber said he tried to Comfort mrs. Villalonga after police summoned her Home from her Job As a private nurse. I said did Charles get a bad diagnosis ? and she said yes. But 1 did t ask what he said. Neither of the men w As known to Agen cies offering aids victims counselling or referrals such As the Gay men s health crisis and the National Gay task Force. There have been cases of suicides of aids patients in various places around the country said a spokesman for the task Force. I know there have been some in san or. Stephen Caiazza a doctor who treats aids sufferers said he sometimes raises the subject with his patients to get it out in the open and talk about he said thursday s suicide was not unusual except in the sense of the drama with which it happened. But in terms of suicide per be and aids it s it is a very real legitimate problem one that has received no attention like the other issues he said. Charles was a very Nice Guy the kind who would Stop by just to see if everything was of. With Rny school and my work said Lance Augustin an employee for nine years in the building s Valet service. I heard the detectives on the Telephone afterwards describing the room with the Flowers and the bottle of wine he said. Villalonga kept an apartment in Washington while working there said George Kelhart who shared an office with him in the agriculture marketing service. Kelhart said Villalonga had lost a lot of weight and stopped seeing a Washington doctor in favor of one in new York. The doctor was doing a lot of tests. I never knew of any results Kilhart said. He just indicated the doctor still did t know what his problem he loved Art he loved Beautiful things. He had a wonderful stamp collection said another co worker Helen Root. He was a very wonderful can Vitamin c help aids tight Portland Ore. Up two time Nobel prize Winner Linus Pauling longtime Champion of Vitamin c to fight colds said Large doses also May be effective against the deadly a ids virus. Aids is caused by a virus and since Vitamin c inactivates viruses it would seem that in Large doses Vitamin c might work to prevent the disease Pauling told a press conference saturday at Reed College. Pauling who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 and the peace prize in 1962, explained that Vitamin c builds up the body s immune system while aids Breaks Down the body s resistance to germs and renders sufferers incapable of fighting disease and infections. Pauling a Portland Ore., native was the guest of Honor saturday night at the 20th presentation of the Linus Paul ing award for outstanding achievement in chemistry sponsored by the american chemical society. The prize was awarded to or. Harold Schraga a Cor Nell chemistry professor who has conducted pioneering research on protein molecules. Firing squad is 2nd Choice of killer Salt Lake City a an inmate sentenced to death for killing an attorney during an escape attempt chose the firing squad Over lethal injection when he was sentenced saturday. I d prefer to die of old age your Honor but if that am t possible i la Lake the firing Ronnie Lee Gardner 24, told 3rd District judge Jay Banks when asked to choose the was set for dec. 20, but there is an automatic stay pending the mandatory Appeal to the Utah supreme jury sentenced Gardner to death after Svi hours of deliberation. He will be the youngest Man on Utah s death Row. Swiss helicopter crash kills 3 Bern Switzerland a a military helicopter crashed after grazing a Mountain Ridge in dense fog near the Central Swiss town of Roth Entrum injuring the Pilot and killing the Ali acc passengers aboard it the Swiss de sense ministry said. Upon hearing the sentence. Gardner put his arms around his defense attorneys then turned to the prosecution table said. Are you Guys Happy and winked. Members of his family including his wheelchair bound Mother and his Nephew and stepsisters cried a the verdict was read. As the judge was about to schedule the execution Date Gardner said. Could we do that today your Honor please i d like to get this Over Banks also imposed two sentences of five years to life for attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping and two terms of one to 15 years for escape and Possession of a dangerous weapon with the escape term to be consecutive and the others concurrent. Gardner already is serving a life sentence for the slaying of a bartender after an escape. Gardner was convicted of killing Michael Burdell Dur ing an unsuccessful escape attempt on april 2 that began when a woman handed Gardner a gun As he was being brought into the courthouse. Guest speaker at . Cardinal John o Connor of new York greets Nobel peace prize laureate Mother Teresa at the United nations. In a speech before he ., the 75-year-old nun known for her work with the destitute in Calcutta India called abortion the greatest destroyer of she urged governments to remove their pro abortion Laws. Tube Assembly also viewed the premiere of the 90 minute movie Mother
