European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday february 7,19b7 fowl play in Frisco no it s not x Duck Hunter s Nightmare just in Eye catching gimmick to Decoy in spectators it a sporting Roods and boat show currently being held in the cow Palace in sin Francisco. The giant Model Mallard Duke measure More thin 27 feet Long and is pow ered by in outboard motor. Author s order to prohibit sequel to novel is gone with the wind Atlanta a will Scarlett o Hara find a new love will Rhett Butler learn to give a Damn some of the greatest unanswered questions in Amer ican literature May soon be answered. The estate of Margaret Mitchell author of gone with the wind who adamantly opposed a sequel is working with a new York literary agent on an authorized novel continuing the Story of Scarlett and Rhett. The Book could be published As soon As next year and a sequel to the blockbuster 1939 movie is Likely to follow said t. Hal Clarke an Atlanta attorney who sits on a committee that represents the Mitchell estate in decisions concerning gone with the  Clarke said thursday that Stephens Mitchell the author s brother reluctantly agreed before his death in 1983 thai the Mitchell family must proceed with a sequel even though it would go against his sister s wishes. Stephens Mitchell a real estate attorney knew that if the family did not act. A flood of unauthorized sequels would be released when the gone with the wend copyright expires in 2011, Clarke said. Margaret Mitchell who died in 1949 at age 48, probably would support the decision he said. I now think she would in Light of inc present Day Circum stances have changed her mind Clarke and the two other attorneys on the commit tee All named by Stephens Mitchell in his will have engaged the William Morris Agency to search for a novelist to write the sequel. They Hope to reach a decision on a writer within a few weeks he said. Selection of a publisher would follow and Clarke said it May take a year to gel the Book in print. By contrast Margaret Mitchell a former reporter for the Atlanta journal sunday Magazine took 10 years to Complete the Book the Only one she published. Gone with the wind fans will have to wait awhile to learn whether Scarlett and Rhet whose Rocky marriage ended in separation at the conclusion of inc novel Are reunited in the sequel. Clarke said he had not discussed the plot with the Agency although the committee and the surviving members of the Mitchell family Stephens Mitchell s two sons will review proposed plots before Publica Tion. He said no title has been chosen. More than 25 million copies of gone with the wind have been published in 27 languages making it one of the Best known works in american fiction. The civil War Saga won a pulitzer prize for Margaret Mitchell in 1937. She rejected suggestions that she write a sequel. Many others have attempted to do so but they were unauthorized and were nol allowed Clarke said. Shortly before Stephens Mitchell s death he began a Legal Battle with Mem distributor of the 1939 David o. So Znick film Over rights to a film sequel. Although he died before the Case was decided a Federal court ruled in 1984 thai the family held sole rights to any sequel and tire ruling was upheld on Appeal. Stateside Happy face Road signs of d by Federal officials Lansing Mich. A smiling fact signs Don t meet Federal regulations but Michigan can continue to use them to Marie motorists Progress through Highway construction zones n Highway official says. Motorists apparently understand the message that s tried to be conveyed said Jerry Poston of the Federal Highway administration s Lansing office Poston said his office asked Michigan transportation officials to document the signs Success because technically they Don t conform to the manual of uniform traffic  the yellow and Black signs believed la be the first of their kind in inc nation feature a frowning face at the beginning of Road work and a smile at the end with progressively happier faces Between them City mayor spends night walking in vagrants shoes Atlanta a mayor Andrew Young spent a night dressed As a Street person and wandered his City unrecognized sleeping in a shelter Tor the homeless and accepting a handout to ease his hunger. I had t had much to cat Young said thursday in an Abc to interview. And that Bologna Sandwich was  Young ventured into the streets along with a reporter for web to who also posed us a homeless person for a series broadcast last week. Hidden cameras Fol Lowed them and a videotape of the mayor s night As a vagrant was shown nationally thursday on Abc. He said fatigue overcame his feeling of uneasiness about sleeping m a shelter i really was afraid of the shelter he said. When we finally got Here 1 was so tired 1 got my pad and hit the floor and i was asleep right  daughter of journalist jumps to her death in . New York a the 25-Yejuxild daughter of journalist author Shana Alexander jumped to her death thursday police said. Kathy Alexander jumped either from the roof of the Park Avenue apartment building or from a window of the 21 is floor apartment she shared with her Mother said police officer Peter o Donnell. Kathy Alexander had been under a doctor s care for psychiatric problems o Donnell said. Shana Alexander is the author of several books including very much a lady the Story of Jean hams who is serving a is year to life prison term for the 1980 murder of scary Dale diet Developer or. Herman Tarnower and anyone s daughter the Best Selling account of the Patty Hearst Case. Fugitive from Alabama getting a Lucky break Montgomery Ala. Up a College janitor who was for 30 years a fugitive from an Alabama Road gang will remain free because authorities can t find the papers they need to extradite him. James Mason was serving an 11-Ycar prison sentence for robbing a finance company when he escaped in 1956. He went to Lorain county. Ohio and evidently has led a blameless life there As a Jani Oral Oberlin College Mason 54, was ticketed for driving without a License in Elyria Ohio in october and a routine computer Check determined he was a fugitive from Justice in Alabama. Mason has been awaiting extradition Back to Alabama since then but Alabama officials now say they cannot bring him Back because they have lost the paperwork. A spokesman said that before a suspect can be extradited the suite attorney general must give the governor inc original warrants and indictments. Liberace burial delayed pending test for aids los Angeles a officials thursday rejected the death certificate of Singer and showman Liberace delaying burial until completion of an investigation into allegations he had aids. Praise Collier spokeswoman for Liberace s family said two Public memorial services will be had for lib erace including a service Friday in a Palm Springs Church and one feb. 12 in Las vegas nov. The  wednesday at age 67. California Law requires coroners to investigate deaths suspected of being caused by contagious Dis ease. It is policy in Riverside county where Liberace died to investigate a fails that occur in be Home or without a physician present. This is a Case that should have been reported to the Coroner s  said Coroner Raymond Carrillo. The county health department refused to accept the death certificate when officials there Learned the Coroner s office had not been contacted. Or. Ronald Daniels said inc cause of death was cardiac arrest due to congestive hear failure brought on by subacute  an Inola Malion of he brain. Spokesmen had denied a published report Iha Liberace had Aqui Reil immune deficiency syn drome. Carrillo said that if there nil is blood in the body tests would look for evidence of aids. If the body has already been embalmed tissues could be used for the lest he said. Assuming if it tests positive for inc aids virus in does t mean he had aids. He could be a Carrier Carrillo said. The rejection of the death certificate will delay Bur Ial Carrillo said. Dick Fisher a spokesman Al Forest Lawn memorial Park in Hollywood Hills said lib Cratt will been bombed Alan Udo tils Mother and brother but he would nol say when. Collier refused to say whether there would be a funeral ice Vic