European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday november 26.1965 civic War brewing Over Sale of Tara s Model , a. Up civic groups and other would be buyers arc lining up like suitors of a Southern Belle for a Chance to bid on the building which was the Model for Tara Plantation Home of Scarlett o Llara in gone with the  in reality there never was a Tara. Not a real one anyway. But there was the Fitzgerald Homestead where author Margaret Mitchell s grandparents once lived and which served As a Model for Scarlett s Home in the novel. Now a civil War is brew ing Over who will buy the Structure. Linter Betty Talmidge. The sex wife of for Mer sen. Herman Talmadge. Who found the it Gerald Homestead Bough it and moved it to her property. She is not saying who will get the original Tara. "1 Ljusi going to Wail i be got to see it s going to be handled  said Talmadge who lives at Lov Cipy Plantation reportedly the inspiration for twelve Oaks the mansion Home of Ashley Wilkes in the novel. My dream would be to Combine both the Hollywood dream with reality Talmadge said. She declined to say How much in dollars and cents the dream is Worth. Tired of disappointing Georgia s tourists several groups Are planning museums Honor ing Mitchell her 1936 pulitzer prize winning novel and the 1939 movie. All the competing schemes plan to Grace some Section of Georgia with a real Tara. There s a certain Aura connected with that particular Book and movie that has brought so Many people around the world to Atlanta asking the one question. Where s Tara " said Richard Chatham Leader of efforts in Claylon county to buy the  but All that s left of the Majestic movie set Ore the wooden fixtures that once adorned a papier mache facade. The Fitzgerald Home Stead is just a run Down unpainted four room farmhouse. Both belong to Talmadge and she acknowledges she would like to sell them for the right Price to the right people. Clayton county Coweta county and at Lanta groups have All said Tara is rightfully theirs. Bidders acknowledge Tara could be a Gold mine to lure Florida bound travellers off interstate and shake Loose Yankee Dollar. The Clayton county buyers say it is Only right they should have a Tara because the novel sets the Plantation in their area. Coweta county disagrees. When i was growing up it bothered me that there never really was a Tara said Carolyn Busby of the Dunnaway Garden restoration group in Coweta county which wants 10 place Tara in an old Rock Garden setting. I be read the Book at least three times and i be seen the movie 17 times she said. "1 always thought about Tara being somewhere near Atlanta. I never realized it was in Clay Ion county until that was pointed out in an article. The Only Tara that Ever existed was the movie facade Busby said. If you wanted to be completely Correct it should be rebuilt on  Chatham of the Clayton county Effort agreed the Structure could be located any where if one chose to ignore literary history anybody can build a Tara if Mem gives them a right to do it Chatham said noting that Page 4 of the Book states that the Clumsy sprawling Tara was in Claylon county. Besides he said Mitchell s family donated part of the Fitzgerald land for a Claylon county memorial to the author which would include a working Plantation and a museum. Talmadge paid $1,000 in 1978 for the fit Gerald place which had belonged to Mitchell s maternal grandparents and moved it piece by piece to a held across from her Home. Earlier the same year she bought the re Mains of the David o Sci Nick facade for $ 000 from a Man who had bought it from Mem in the late 1950s when a Situ productions announced plans id destroy it. The Man Julian Foster had hoped to erect the Tara facade in Atlanta. But Mitchell family disapproved and he hid it in a North Georgia Bam for 20 years refusing to Tell anyone where it was. Although she shows off the old Fitzgerald place to visitors Talmadge will not let anyone Sec the remains of the Tara movie set and wid not Tell where it is hidden. I Don t want it to lose in Roi Ance she said explaining thai she wants people to a member it As a grand mansion not a few pieces of Woodwork. The Mitchell family has softened its stance and has Given Clayton county permission to build a museum in a dignified and truthful Way said Hal Clarke lawyer for the Mitchell heirs. Most people come to Atlanta expecting to Sec something connected with gone with the wind " Clarke said. It s a bit of a letdown when nothing is  sex rated no. 6 on Fop to listing of Fern givers new York up music is More of a thrill than sex. In fad most people get More thrills from a Good movie or opera a study released monday said. Avram Goldstein a Stanford University pharmacologist who studies the preparation qualities and use of drugs Analysed the responses of 250 people who were asked what gives them a thrill. Publishing his findings in the december Issue of psychology today Goldstein found that 96 percent experienced thrills in a Topolse to music far exceeding the rate for an expected thriller sexual  the thrilling sensation was described As feeling Akin to a chill shudder tingling or tickling. It is often accompanied by goosebumps a Lump in the Throat or weeping. Musical passages led Goldstein s list of top 10 thrill ivors then came a scene in a movie play Ballet or Boole great Beauty in nature or Art physical Contact with another person and a climactic moment in opera. Sexual activity was sixth with 70 percent saying it gave them a thrill. Rounding out the top 10 were nostalgic moments watching emotional interactions Between people viewing a Beautiful painting photograph or sculpture and moments of inspiration. Gobble gobble it s later than you think up Woholo Christine Robertl throws out feed for turkeys on her farm near by Only Mich. The Roperti family has been raising fur yes for 25 years and they prepare More than 3,000 of the Birds for each thanksgiving. Campus officials close newspaper after aids article by the associated press a College newspaper has been closed by school officials because of an article that graphically described sexual practices that avoid aids while a new Jersey inmate has sued the state demanding that prison ers be belter educated about the disease. Pace University Chancellor Edward j. Mortola said the nov. 14 article in the Pace press contained offensive material including four letter words and constituted Gross and inappropriate treatment of an important  the new York school confiscated 3,000 copies of he weekly student newspaper about half the press run. Said Brian Sook ram who resigned As editor last week after a faculty committee called for his ouster and froze the newspaper s operating funds. Sookram said his resignation was not an admission of wrongdoing but a move to break a deadlock that would have kept the paper shut Down at least until dec. 9, when the Campus s faculty Council was to vote on his dismissal. The paper could resume publishing in about a week after a new editor is elected school officials said. In new Jersey the stale Public advocate s office is considering joining n Feder Al lawsuit by a Rahway state prison in mate calling for better education about How aids is spread ant decking confidentiality of prison medi sul consultations said Gary Mitchell the office s director of inmate advocacy. Out of a Public relations concern corrections officials do not allow the dissemination of information on How to keep from contracting aids because the virus is most often spread through activities prohibited in prisons sexual Contact and the sharing of Needles through drug use Mitchell alleged. Mitchell said such activities nevertheless occur in prisons and inmates have aright to information. Corrections officials arc Aljo discouraging inmates who fear they might have contracted the disease from coming Forward because consultations with prison medical personnel Are not kept confidential he said. Inmates who do come Forward May to subjected to disciplinary action for eng aging in activities that spread aids he alleged. Corrections department spokesman James Stabile called the allegations unfounded adding that prison officials have periodically distributed pamphlets on aids to inmates. Among new Jersey s 14,000 inmates 94 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have been diagnosed since 1981 and 66 prisoners have died of the disease which Breaks Down the body s immune system. In Florida the governor s task Faccon aids recommended sunday that local police and health officials order Bathhouse and Peep shop owners to Slop sexual activity in those establishments or close them. Al their last meeting the panel had rejected this Slep which has been taken in new York and san Francisco. But dad county health department director or Richard Morgan told the panel Hal Al though Only one Bathhouse May still be operating in the Miami area Al least 22peep-houses arc open. Rampant Anonymous sex is going 0.1 in. Places which May be spreading aids he said. Meanwhile new York City health commissioner David Sencer said he Dis agrees with new state regulations prohibit ing certain sexual activities in Public places which have led to the closing of the City s sex clubs and Gay bathhouses. More attention needs to be paid to aids transmission among intravenous drug users he said adding that the num Ber of new aids cases in the City is aver aging Between 150 and 200 a month. Sencer said Little has been done about transmission of the disease by drug users largely because it is difficult to determine How to Stop them from sharing Needles aside irom educating them about the risks. Me said More needs to be done to treat drug addicts. In Baltimore on sunday 250 people at tended a prayer service offering support and compassion to aids victims. Sponsored by aids interfaith network of bal Vlf Sec inc service raised $975 to help aids victims