European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday february 5,1989 a take i Al no puss no Purchase says House agent from press dispatches Figaro the cat is for Sale and the House goes with it the owners insist. It really is a Case of no puss no Purchase sales negotiator Richard Taylor said after a flier on the four bedroom House was printed with a picture on the front of Figaro an elegant Black and White per Sian cat. The victorian House in Market Drayton England carries a Price tag amounting to $236,250, but prospective buyers Are warned they cannot buy it unless they agree to take the cat. The flier from realtors describes Figaro As a Large Friendly cat and the Sale As an offer to bring music to your the elegant feline comes Complete with a free hold victorian residence of character in order to keep him in the style to which he is accustomed the flier said. Owners Peter Glanfield a business consultant and his wife Valerie said Figaro adopted the House several years ago and he Felt it would be unfair to separate the cat from the Large Garden. When surveyors go to the property we Don t know whether to Tell them to Check Over the House Orthe cat Taylor said. Fans Honor afe buddy Holly thousands of buddy Holly fans from All Over the United states and great Britain braved numbing cold last week to remember the Day the music died. For More than a decade the faithful have flocked to the surf ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa site of Holly s last gig for the annual sock hop to Honor the Man who changed the face of Rock n Roll with his inventive lyrics irresistible melodies and inimitable Texas twang. Holly and fellow Rock n rollers Ritchie Valens and . Big Hopper Richardson died feb. 3, 1959, when their Small air plane crashed in a blinding Snow storm in route to their next concert in Fargo . The ballroom was the site of the All night sock hop Friday to Mark the 30th anniversary or that fateful Day. Women wearing Saddle shoes Bobby socks and poodle skirts and men with White socks leather Jack ets and to shirts with rolled up sleeves milled about As 1950s and 60s music blared in the background. My mom grew up with this music and she always played it around the House. I never got into that loud banging kind of music said Tamera Tammy Krie gel of Grinnell Iowa. She was t even born in 1959 she s 28 but has been coming to the Holly reunion for the past five years. Valerie Glanfield holds her cat Figaro. The Walls of the 50-year-old ballroom Are lined with portraits and posters of Holly. A 6-foot Tombstone etched with the names of the dead and the words their music lives on stands just inside the Entrance. In the lobby a 30-year-old edition of the Mason City Iowa Globe Gazette shows six grisly Black and White pictures of the wrecked air plane and photos of Holly and Valens. Making Rock n Roll Legal a Minnesota state senator has introduced a Bill to repeal a 1923 Law that he says if enforced would have caused the arrest of almost every dancing teen Ager in the state at least since the Dawn of Rock n Roll. The old Blue Law among other things requires that Public dancing places be brightly illuminated. It outlaws dances that Are indecent and immoral or Are characterized by immodest motion of the body and prohibits Public dances from 1 . To 6 . And from 1 . To noon on sunday. What we be in effect been doing is practising behaviour that s not Legal said state sen. Jerome Hughes 59. It was Hughes daughter Maggie Towle who brought the archaic Law to his attention. She s the associate administrator at the c9ffman memorial Union on the University of Minnesota Campus where officials have puzzled Over then ignored the statute for years. I can Tell y9u right now that the number of dances with Bright lights at Coffman is none Towle said. Here comes Princess Anne Royalty watchers who could t get enough of Prin Cess Diana s visit to new York can catch a glimpse of Princess Anne when she comes to the United states for the 1989 Volvo world cup equestrian Competition. Buckingham Palace confirmed last week that the 38-year-old Princess fourth in line to the British throne will visit the Competition. It will be held april 12-16 at the Florida state Fairgrounds Bob Thomas equestrian Center in Tampa Fla. According to Winkie Howell a member of Tampa s world cup committee the Princess usually appears at the finals. He said her anticipated visit Points up the magnitude of the world cup to peo ple who Are not familiar with Back to the future Back Universal pictures plans to produce two Back to the future sequels this Spring and summer starring Michael j. Fox who had the role of the Young Tim traveler in the original 1985 hit. Robert Zemeckis who directed the first Back to the future will return behind the cameras for both follow ups the studio has announced. Most of the original co stars including Lea Thompson Christo Pher Lloyd and Tom Wilson also will be reunited. Filming of the first sequel will begin feb. 20. The two sequels Are scheduled for release in the Winter of 1989 and the summer of 1990. The consecutive filming schedule will keep production costs Down and take advantage of an extended opening in Fox s Busy schedule said Tom Pollock chairman of the Mca motion picture group. Fox currently stars As Alex Keaton in the Abc situation comedy family the original Back to the future in which Fox journeyed Back to the 1950s and had to make sure his parents fell in love so that he could continue to exist has grossed $350 million in its Domestic and International theatrical release. 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