European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday August 19,1988 Valerie Valone of Fredonia ., pauses by the grave of Elvis Presley at Graceland mansion in Memphis Tenn. Even $ 1 million does t get Elvis to show up at anniversary party Beverly Hills Calif. A a radio station offered a $ 1 million Reward for proof Elvis Presley is still alive on the 11th anniversary of his death tuesday but Only impersonators and fans of the King showed. How Many believe Elvis is still alive asked Karla radio disc jockey Charlie tuna As the crowd gathered outside a local diner de Deb epics which serves up burgers and malts in 50s tradition. He was greeted by applause and cheers fro about 150 of the late Rock n Roll great s fans but the Only Elvis present was Impersonator Paul to land 27, of san Pedro who arrived wearing a White pantsuit with red and Gold spangles. A waiter with a Pompadour Hairdo and shaking maracas also appeared. Tuna said the event was inspired by Gail Brewer Giorgio s recent Book is Elvis alive which Dis Putes that the entertainer died of heart disease on aug. 16, 1977. So we decided $1 million might put an end to All the speculation he said. The Reward would be exchanged for seven Days Worth of exclusive inter views for the station he said. Sue Wiegger president of the los Angeles Chap Ter of a National Elvis fan club said she does t believe Presley is still alive. I just believe that woman is making Money atthe expense of other people s feelings she said adding that Elvis fans have had a hard time Deal ing with the his spirit s Here and will always be Here said fan Gail Herrington of suburban Valencia. In Presley s Hometown of Memphis Tenn., on tuesday fans lined up to pay their respects at the Singer s grave. More than 70 stands of Flowers Many shaped like guitars or hearts lined the walk to Presley s grave. This is the next Best thing we re going to get to seeing Elvis said Graham Knowles an Elvis fan who travelled from Leeds England to Memphis. Stateside woman in Swaggart Case sentenced Gretna la. A Debra Murphree who say she posed nude for evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was sentenced wednesday to six months in jail in an unrelated prostitution Case. Murphree 28, was arrested sept. 21 at a Motel i suburban new Orleans. She pleaded guilty to a Mise Meanor charge of prostitution May 20, three months after she identified herself As the woman at the Center of the Swaggart scandal. Swaggart never acknowledged any encounter wit Murphree but tearfully confessed from the pulpit that he had committed unspecified sins. District judge Wallace Lebrun said that under Testate s multiple offender Law he was compelled to sen tence Murphree to jail because of three prior convictions in prostitution cases. Murphree who did not speak during the Brief hear ing was put in the custody of deputies. Obviously she committed the crime said defense attorney Tom Weymann. But it s a Shock Given the he said he would Appeal. Weymann said Murphree had begun to turn her life around since the Swaggart incident became Public. Shehad returned to her Hometown of Patoka ind., where she was living with her parents and three children Ages 7, 8, and 10. She was making arrangements to return to school to study Interior design her lawyer said. The incident rocked Swaggart s $140 million a year evangelical Empire and Cost him his credentials As minister of the assemblies of god when he refused to Stop preaching for a year. Murphree sold her Story about the Swaggart encounter to Penthouse Magazine accompanied by a series of explicit Black and White photos showing the poses anythings she said Swaggart asked her to do in the Motel room. School water Bill overflows because of running toilet Nicollet Minn. A an $8,000 water Bill run up by a toilet that flushed non Stop for several weeks will be paid by the school Board says chairman Bill majority of Board members thought we should pay it Hohenstein said after tuesday s Nicollet school Board malfunctioning toilet which has been fixed is located in a school building now used for storage. The building was supposed to have been checked regularly Hohenstein said. Doctor finds pizza cutting hazardous to health Boston a every occupation has its special hazards it seems even slicing pizza. In a letter in thursday s new England journal of medi Cine a doctor describes a Case of pizza Cutter s he said he decided to bring this to the attention of the medical world because of the ubiquitous demand for pizza in Western or. H. Royden Jones or. Of the Lahey clinic medical enter in Burlington mass., wrote that pizza Cutter s palsy is a weakness of the hand Muscles. It comes from pressing the handle of a roller Blade pizza Cutter into the Palm while slicing pizzas putting pressure on the ulnar diagnosed the problem in a Man whose hand was so weak that he had trouble putting the key into his car s ignition. This palsy is relieved by using another cutting instrument Royden reported. Symphony airs new music belonging to Mozart new York a music lovers who attended thursday night s performance by the Chicago sym phony winds heard the american premiere of a new work of Mozart s. Then again maybe not. The question of the authenticity of the score wind band arrangement titled Harmonie Musik which is part of Mozart s opera the abduction from the Seraglio remains the topic of scholarly debate. The piece was discovered last year in West Germany by Bastiaan blon Hert a dutch musicologist. In a letter to his father dated july 20, 1782, Mozart wrote that he hoped to Complete a wind arrangement of the opera quickly or else someone will step in front of me and reap the the copy found in West Germany is not in Mozart handwriting. Nor is it in the handwriting of any of the copyists Mozart was known to employ. Guards Metal detectors proposed for Schools new York a worried by an increase i weapons found in City schools schools Chancellor Richard Green has proposed buying hand held Meta detectors and hiring new guards to make unannounced checks in five High schools. The plan would Cost $2.8 million far less than the$9 million estimate for an earlier plan calling for walk through Metal detectors Green said at a news Confer ence wednesday. The first proposal was deemed to costly he said. Green said More than 150 students were found carry ing guns during the past school year. The total number of weapons Possession incidents last year was 1,960, com pared with 1,495 in the 1986-87 school year. If the plan is approved by the Board of education students who carry weapons or assault staff will be transferred to one of five outreach centers currently used for counselling dropouts. The Metal detectors also will be used there. Heart patients drug increases risk study says Boston up a drug used to reduce the risk of subsequent heart attacks in patients Apt to suffer them can actually increase that risk if the heart muscle was damage Din a previous attack researchers reported wednesday. A study conducted from 1983 to 1987 and published in this week s new England journal of medi Cine has found the drug dil Kiazem the most commonly used heart attack medication can be life threatening to patients suffering from lung congestion caused by a weakened heart muscle. Or. Arthur j. Moss clinical professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester medical school in Roches Ter ., said his study recorded the drug s effect Over 2 a to 3-year periods on 2,466 heart attack patients from 38 hospitals in the United states and Canada. Of the group 1,234 received 240 milligrams of the drug each Day while 1,232 were Given a Dummy drug. The researchers found a higher rate of subsequent attacks among 490 dil Kiazem patients who suffered from pulmonary congestion blood backing into the lungs because of a weakened heart muscle. A higher survival rate was found among 1,909 patients without lung congestion who were Given Dilia zem Moss said. The drug is designed to relieve the heart by blocking Calcium from entering the heart muscle cells thereby reducing the vigor of the heart s contraction. If the heart does t pump Well at All adding Dilia zem makes a bad situation worse Moss said. He said the findings More clearly define who Ca Benefit from dil Kiazem and who should avoid it. The drug is produced by Marion laboratories Kansas City to
