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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday september 7,1989 faces i places bargain $ 1 houses at air base unlikely to attract any buyers from wire reports for Sale 450 units of old military housing at West Over fab in Chicopee mass., at $1 Tor each two Ihrck and four family unit. The hitch they must be carted off by dec. 15 and rehabilitated at an estimated Cost of $77,000 each. I d be shocked if we got any offers Community development director Thomas Haberlin said tues Day. They arc not Worth $77,000." but before the City can demolish the vacant apart ments to develop the surplus base property stale regulations require that every Effort be made to sell them he said. The units arc not in very Good condition but we thought we ought to give it a shot even though it is unlikely that we will find someone with a use for them agreed Allan w. Blair president of the West Over metropolitan development corp. The corporation is a regional group that has been working for 15 years to develop the base property declared surplus by the military when it scaled Back the former strategic air come base. Blair said the 38-year-old housing was very mod est even in its salad Days and has been vacant since it was abandoned in 1973. Before they can be lifted you have to run steel rods through the Walls to hold them together and then you have to set them Down very precisely be cause the utilities Are uni through the Walls and you have Only a 4-Inch margin of error he said. After weeks of advertising the development group has gotten inquiries about just two units Haberlin said. So far though no deals. World s heaviest billboard the folks who want to keep Ogallala neb., a Nice place to live and play in have a Large and heavy message for visitors to one of Nebraska s most popu Lar outdoor attractions. Leave Only your footprints please is painted in Blue and White on a 150-foot-Long Concrete Bunker in Lake Mcconaughy s Martin Bay two Large White footprints lend emphasis. Sponsors Hope to have the edifice cited As the world s heaviest billboard by the guinness Book of world records said Gayle Mason coordinator of make Ogallala Beautiful. It s the first major tiling that you Sec when you enter the North Side of the Lake across Kingsley dam she said. And it very definitely proclaims that we mean business. We want people to take care of the Lake and respect its natural  the anti litter message was painted by the civic group for the thousands of labor Day weekend Visi tors to the Western Nebraska Lake. It adorns a 12-by-150-foot Concrete slab used As part of a Railroad trestle to unload train cars filled with Rock used in the dam s construction. Sajak to marry Model talk show and wheel of Fortune Host Pat Sajak will marry 24-year-old fashion Model Lesly Brown in january. Sajak 42, and Brown met about a year ago at the opening of the nightclub champions of Irvine in suburban Orange county calif., Sajak spokesman Bob Burton said. The ceremonies will be in Brown s Home state of mar land according to Burton. He said it s the second marriage for Sajak and the first for Brown. Ernest headed overseas Jim Varney Ernest to fans of his movies commercials and to show is taking his Nosy know it All character abroad. Next year Ernest a Worrell will be showing up in advertisements television shows and films in Europe Asia Canada and Australia. Ernest whose signature phrase is know what i mean. Vern is returning from a nine month hiatus from commercials and he s sporting a new contract. Varney hit his stride in advertising pitching a variety of products. The emmy winning actor Nas appeared in hundreds of commercials in about 150 . Television markets. The shakespearean trained actor one time feared the character would be overpowering. I was a Little sensitive at one time. I fell like that character was overshadowing everything else i would do. But you can t argue with Success Varney said. Varney who lives on a farm North of Nashville _enn., said the Chara familiar to everyone. Gospel singing Abby Singer Amy Grant no longer worries about having All the answers. Her goal is simply to write better  Grant has become somewhat of a dear Abby to her fans Many of whom consider the Nashville Tenn born gospel pop artist a personal Friend. She gets about 150 letters a week from fans Many seeking advice. She said she tries to answer most of the letters herself but sometimes asks friends or family to help. If a fan asks her advice on a situation she has never experienced or is unfamiliar with for example she said she feels inadequate to answer it. Judith Howarth opera Date with Star delights British Singer Judith Howarth a promising 27-year-old British Soprano who Learned to sing in a salvation army choir is heading to Seattle to appear in a concert with opera Star Placido Domingo. It s a great Opportunity. I m absolutely delighted to be going and to be invited by such a great artist Howarth told the associated press on tuesday at the Royal opera House in London. At the Seattle opera House on Friday she will sing four love ducts with Domingo from operas by Gaetano Donizetti Giuseppe Verdi and Letro Mas Cagni As Well As three other Arias. No i Don t feel nervous she said. It s other people who say of goodness you re singing with Domingo i m doing what i love to do  Howarth s Only previous appearance in the United slates was a Brief one in the Tanglewood festival in their production of Oberon in 1986. 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