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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes saturday. December 7, 1985 races places with Luck hell get a museum Knock Wood Kurn press dispatches kill maj int is sir Ppd arc Lully around the  and weathered picket of Redwood Burl bubbly in Apoc ill Juilu in fir  crowded the dim lit shed in Bandon. Ore. If i Una ii bucket this Wood will All he scattered around. Ind there in t an  lie said. A he j my new people All the time or said hut they Don t irow ans More go Driftwood .11 least nut since Ilie area Timber ind Umry ha1-diminished. "1  to consider the fact of who. Is join in Dillus if i Don t yet in  he added Don t have an  interested in it or who knows anything about in or cares about it l a just turned 74 and i be bad Lour heart  before he Dies  wants to see i Driftwood a Lei Tion preserved in a museum. Lie marked collecting 25 ears ago when he left the Limber business around Kush Hurt and moved to the my Jim a in t Rei on coast to Cross rhododendrons with the native a Alea. I lie hybrids did t pan out. But the be Ich combing did. Sow Jim s having trouble coming tip with a place for ins museum there s a ii Ood building downtown but the Guy wants $10.001 for   said it s just not available to me Bui i by a lottery ticket every now and  i was i he a one collecting  he  of the Driftwood dial fill s his House. Yard and a shed where cabinetmaker Mike Smith turns some of it into finely crafted furniture. The beachcombers collected in just to sell to me i never bargained with the beachcombers. That Way i d pet first crack at the Good   is located in a natural scoop formed by Cape a Apo that grabs things out of the Pacific Ocean As storms drive through from inc South and West. Hut the a taxi pieces just Aren t washing up on the Beach the Way they used to says magnets. Hard times hit the Timber Economy that built Ore gon s South coast forcing Many of the Mills to shut and drying up the sources of much of the Driftwood. Magness Learned to value things others threw away White growing up poor in Dayton u Willamette Valley farming town. When we picked potatoes they always left the Little ones for us to Lake Home he said. They made better eating than the big ones  some of his collection is stored with friends including a piece he turned Down $3,500 for Aboul 10 years ago the Driftwood is inside his House Loo. A Star shaped pattern of White Cedar Root leans against a Wall near a pile of Redwood planks with a quilted Grain drying on the living room floor. Magness divides people into two kinds. The upper 10 percent who appreciate really Fine Wood and the lower 90 percent who Don t. You can Tell someone who really loves Wood he said. They la move their hand right up to it like they re going to ouch it. Then Slop just  to Cable awards presented Tienda Jackson was named Cable television s actress of the year fur her portrayal of soviet dissident Yecina Banner in Fie Home Box office Rio vie Sak Bill Magness stands with some of the Driftwood he hat collected in the past 25 years on the Oregon coast. Zharov which was selected Best movie. Sakharov also won for directing and writing in the awards for Cable excellence announced two Days after Bonner icel the soviet Union for medical treat ment in the West. Her husband Andrei Sakharov. Remains exiled in the Soviel City of Gorky Shelley Duvall and Joe Piscopo were hosts for the awards show. Art Carney was named Best actor in a movie or minis pics for the undergrads on inc Disney Channel. Other acting awards went to Alan Bates for an englishman abroad on the arts & entertain mini Channel James Coco for Ray Bradbury theater on Hob and Philip Charles Mackenzie for Brothers on Showtime. Ann Bell was selected Best actress in a drama series for Tenno on the arts & entertainment Channel Amy Madigan was Cho in Best actress in a theatrical or dramatic series for Hob s the laundromat and the Best actress in a comedy series award went to Lucy Webb for not necessarily the news on Hob. Tina Turner was named Best performer in a musical special for Hob s Tina Turner private dancer and Piscopo was chosen Best performer in a comedy special for Hob s the Joe Piscopo  the 1985 Competition Drew 792 entries from which 223 were nominated by panels of judges in septem Ber. The winners were chosen by judges meeting in next York los Angeles ind Washington. Atm series May be sued Mary Tyler Moore returns to television next week As a Chicago newspaper columnist in a new series but a local publisher says he s considering Legal action against the program. Mary debuts next wednesday is set at a fictional daily newspaper called the oni Cago Post which happens to be the name of a monthly newspaper Alderman Richard Melj has published for two years. If the network and atm enterprises inc., the show s production company Don t cease and desist from airing the program. Mell said he plans to Pur sue the Mailer in court. This is just a Way of saying. Wait a second. A trademark is the fundamental right of a person in this country who is starting a Small business for protecting himself from inc big Guy. " Mell said. The big Guy just wants to come in and step on  Moll s paper distributed free with an estimated circulation of 40,000, is protected by Federal and state trademarks he said. Larry Bloustein vice president for Public relations at atm in studio City calif., said attorneys have advised him not to comment because of possible Liti gation. X. 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