European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday. January 31,1988 faces places Rural voters can f keep their choices secret Anim press dispatches As two of Only three registered voters in a Rural precinct. Roger and Janet Honey have a problem keeping their votes secret. The can to so now they Don t vote. A wife has been thanked on the Street for voting for a certain  Roncy said Friday. She did t announce who she voted for. She did t have to. In a Small comm univ it s very discomforting i guess to know that everybody knows everyone else,".aid Honey. 46. A Corn and Sov can Farmer who lives Halfway Between Islington and Sullivan in Central Illi  it s time to vote you have to make a Choice and sometimes you have to make a Choice against your  he said. At one time we had five friends running for three seats and that s not a comfortable  s Why the Moncys did t vote in a recent school Board election. They Haven t cast ballots in such elections for the past three years. "1 feel that we definitely do not have a secret bal  Roncy said. I feel that we do not even have to pull the curtain at the voting  i feel like we be been disenfranchised Well actually denied the right to vote in private said mrs. Poncy. 45. A self employed artist. The honeys in 1985 brought the problem to the at Tention of their state representative Michael talc who has proposed a Bill that would allow precincts with fewer than 25 voters to be merged with larger precincts. It s motherhood and Apple  he said. It s a Good government  going Back to fhe basics country music Singer Johnny Cash says there s too much High tech Schmaltz in the music Industry and he s doing something to change it. Cash said he and his wife. June Carter and Way Ion Jennings and his wife. Jess Colter will give three concerts this month featuring reduced prices and less  going Back to the basics we arc bringing a More intimate simple show with Little Flash and  c Ash said of the performances set for Norman okla. Columbia. To and Champaign  will be less lighting less sophisticated sound and instrumentation. We will do the songs thebans want to hear but Well do them without the High tech Schmall that has been the trend  tickets for the concerts will be $9.50 $3 to $6 less than the going rate. New fan of fhe opera actor Rod Steiger flew from California to London to watch his daughter Anna in her covent Garden debut in Richard Wagner s opera  asked if he was an opera fan. Steiger replied i am  two intermissions the opera runs 5 hours 10 minutes and the Story is heavy with ritual myth legend and Christian symbolism. I enjoyed it very much it requires a bit  Steiger conceded. I m a bit of a proletarian about opera. I prefer Puccini and the other ital  conductor Bernard Huitink in his second new production since he took Over As music director at covent Garden last september was cheered by a capacity audience for his direction of the orchestra. Benefit concert Sef nine year old Sharon baits who recorded the lady in waiting Britain s Duke and Duchess of York arrive at a London theater for a weekend movie pre View. The Duchess was making her first Public appearance since the announcement that she is expecting a child in August. Song dear or. Jesus about child abuse will join Randy Travis and other country music stars at a Benefit concert feb. 9.the concert at the grand Ole opry House in Nashville tcnn., will Benefit the Nashville Exchange club s Center for the prevention of child abuse. Also scheduled to appear arc the forester Sisters Johnny Rodriguez and John Wesley Ryles. Travis won four awards at the american music awards and is the country music association male vocalist of the year. Macbeth director fired Kenneth Frankel director of a pre Broadway production of Shakespeare s Macbeth starring Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson has been fired just in two Days after the show opened for a four week run in  is not a frivolous or flippant  said Barry Weissler the new York based senior producer. It s purely artistic and it was made because my wife and i arc not  it s Good we Don t feel it s gone far enough in plumbing the Depths of one of shake Speare s greatest  said he would decide on a replacement this , the associate director of the Long wharf theater in new Haven conn., would have made his Broadway directorial debut with  the production is headed for Pittsburgh. Toronto Boston and new Haven before opening on Broadway on april 21. Winner by default although Valerie Aquiningoc Gorman is certainly attractive it was her willingness to leave on a moment s notice that got her into the mrs. World con test in  was a contestant in the mrs. Guam world 1987 contest but she was not the Winner or even a  Crown went to Candace Torres who for per Sonal reasons declined to go to the pageant contest officials , Bella Perez franchise owner of mrs. Guam world turned to the first runner up. However she is pregnant and due to deliver any Day and the second runner up is also  time running out. Perez put the names of All the other finalists in a Box. The first woman whose name was drawn declined because of the Short notice. Then Gorman s name was drawn. The 23-year-old credit Union Teller and wife of a . Navy Man accepted and will compete with 40 other contestants for the mrs. World Crown on wednesday. Introducing. Leisure arts the Magazine on needlework that brings you that deep Down personal satisfaction that conies from creative expression. This upcoming Issue features 26 projects in Cross stitching knitting and crocheting and other select crafts. 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