European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday december 28,1989 faces n places so so Gabor honoured for her Fine whine from wire reports actress Zsa Zsa Gabor raked in 11 Voles in a nationwide poll to pick the year s top whiner. That made her inc Winner Over today show Host Bryant Gumbel former first lady Nancy Reagan and Tammy Faye Bakker wife of former pal ministry Leader Jim Bakker. Gabor was picked top whiner and honoured on National whiners Day tuesday apparently because other complaining before during and after her trial for slapping a police officer in California. Forty five votes from around the country we recast in the contest conducted by family Circle mag Azine. The results were announced by Kevin c. Zaborney who says he invented whiners Day four years ago because of his experience working in a fast food restaurant. Tuhcic was a girl who would whine Aboul every thing and  he said. There arc people who arc whiners and she was a whiner. Jokingly i said there should be a National whiners Day zab Poncy picked the Day after Christmas already traditional Day for whining about the misfit pre sents under the Christmas tree. Congressman eager to run a Rockhill Texas congressman says he would like to run against those who arc whispering he should retire because of his age in a Foo Trace not an election. Rep. Ralph Hall 66, said the rumours he will retire after his fifth term arc simply not True. He said he is still in great shape. I run a mile and a half and do too sit ups a Day he said. As Long As i m healthy and my wife s healthy i intend to stay in  and to those who started the rumours Hall said Challenge them to a race whoever they  Blaze Starr treated Well former burlesque Queen Blaze Starr is still seeing stars after a whirlwind trip to new York for the pre Miere of  a film based on her love affair wit former Louisiana gov. Earl k. Long. I Felt like Cinderella after inc Ball when i got out of the limousine and boarded the plane Home Starr said from her House in Eldersburg my. She has resumed her Job Selling homemade jewelry at a local shopping mall. Every time we stepped out of the hotel we stepped into a stretch she said of her five Day visit to new York last week. Nobody Calls them  Starr did All she could in new York to promote the movie from which she will earn 4 percent of the profits. She participated in 14 straight hours of inter Gumbel Bakker Reagan Gabor views along with actors Paul Newman and  and director Ron Shelton. Many critics have praised the movie but decried its historic inaccuracies. For one the movie has Long dying on Starr s Lap when he actually suffered a fatal heart attack nowhere near his sweetheart. Starr said when she heard of Long s death she flew to Baton Rouge where his body Lay in state. "1 walked into the Capitol with a single red Rose in my breasts. I did t look right or left As i walked tothe casket she said. Then 1 pulled out the Rose and said this is for you Earl i knew that s what he would  sex ballplayer hits 100 the oldest living former major league baseball player celebrated his 100th birthday 77 years after playing in his Only season. Happy 100th birthday to the oldest Yankee waste inscription on the cake presented sunday to Paul f. Otis or. At a nursing Home in Duluth minn.,where he lives. He s in Good spirits said his son Paul Otis jr.,71. He s been getting Calls from All Over the country wanting information and autographs and All this sort of  Otis spent just a month with the Yankees predecessors the new York highlanders in 1912. He played briefly and was sent to the minors where he broke his ankle finishing his playing career. He moved to Duluth that fall and entered the insurance business. According to baseball researcher Jim Ogle Oti swill be Only the third sex ballplayer to reach the Cen Tury Mark. Ralph Darwin Miller who played in 1889and 1899, died at age 100 in 1973. John Francis Daley a shortstop with the St. I Juis Browns in 1912, was 101 when he died in 1988. Film leads to reunion six of the seven o Kelley Brothers who fought to remain together after their Mother died their father abandoned them and their Home burned Down held a reunion on the set where their Story is being filmed. During an interview for the television show entertainment tonight the Brothers were asked How the movie will affect them. Well get some publicity but in a couple of months it will be Back to Normal said Michael 15. After news of their family disaster put the Brothers from Rural Gainesville ga., in the spotlight in 1986 and 1987, they received More than $200,000 in Cash and gifts and a contract for the made for Lyle vision movie fire in the  a contractor also built them a four bedroom House on the farm where they had lived in a trailer. But last year Terry o Kelley now 22, relinquished custody of his four younger Brothers saying tensions Between the siblings made it impossible for him to continue As a single Parent. The film stars actor Rick Schroder As Terry who was at his Mother s deathbed when she asked him to keep the boys together. Cold wafer Nof cold feet Dave Zebluk says he swims Only once a year the Day after Christmas so he likes to make it last. That s Why he was the last person out of the water tuesday during the annual Polar Bear swim at Nanaimo. A town on Vancouver Island in British co Lumbia. The 35-year-old spent 30 minutes in the 50 dog acc Waters of departure Bay. "1 started four years ago or More and i just keep doing it he said As he dried off before heading for a hot tub set up on the Beach. The 196 participants who braved the Chilly Waters ranged in age from 2-Ycar-old Mary Rice to 76-year old Patrick o Rooney. It s fun but i think they re crazy said Esthe Mcdonnall 12, who was visiting from Australia. Tired Barr alters schedule comedian Roseanne Barr who last week called offer wedding has postponed four live performances and cancelled a fifth because she is exhausted. She is at Home and has not been hospitalized said spokeswoman Lisa Kasteler. On thursday Barr pulled out of five shows at the Circle Star Center in san Carlos calif., because her doctor has insisted thai in order to preserve her health she reschedule All current engagements the Ater spokeswoman Susan Pfeifer said. Four shows starting thursday were reschedule for late february. The fifth show a new year s eve performance will not be rescheduled. Barr 36, last week called off her january wedding to Tom Arnold a former consultant to her television sitcom  she said Arnold had entered an alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic. Dear Abby outraged in Reno wrote that her sister in Law had a spoiled 2-year-old daughter who threw temper tantrums in order to get her own Way so she consulted a paediatrician. He advised her to splash cold water on the child s face to bring her out of it. You recommended getting an other paediatrician. Why that was excellent advice. In the 1930s, three of us girl cousins who were As close As Sisters had baby boys within a few months of each other. We were also neighbors and the boys were raised like Brothers. One Day my 2 i year old son had a temper Tantrum and proceeded to beat his head against the floor until his nose bled. I panicked and consulted our family doctor. He told me that the next time the child had a Tantrum i should pick him up put him face Down in the sink and turn cold water on his head just enough to shut him up. I followed his advice and it worked. My cousins dear Abby followed that advice and it worked for them too. Today one son is a successful cattle dealer another is a physician and my son is a nuclear research Engineer. . In Arizona dear . Yours was Only one of an outpouring of letters telling me that my advice was All wet. Read on dear Abby 1 support the paediatrician s cold water treatment. Thirty three years ago when our eldest son was 3 and having temper tantrums i was nine months pregnant with our third child. Our paediatrician suggested the cold water splash and it worked splendidly. The child was sufficiently shocked by the wordless treatment and the tantrums ceased immediately. He turned out quite Well. Today he is an orthopaedic surgeon. Chuckling in Northbrook ill. Dear Abby i disagree with your advice to change paediatricians. What better Way is there to get a child s attention without raising your voice or using Corporal punish ment splashing cold water in a child s face is not cruel or violent. If More frustrated parents used this method of Calm ing a child Down it could reduce child abuse. Cheryl in Roswell a. Dear Abby i m a 42-year-old lawyer and the father of three. My Mother told me that when was i was about 3 years old i was in the Kitchen screaming kicking and giving her a bad time. My father head the Racket in the next room came into the Kitchen got a bucket. Tilled it with cold water and emptied it Over my head saying this should Cool him off for a  Baltimore attorney dear Abby obviously you have never seen a Small child lose control during a temper Tantrum. I have. The child becomes so hysterical he cannot catch his breath then he turns purple and passes out. It is very frighten ing. Bless that doctor who suggested splashing cold watering the child s face. It s better to interrupt the Tantrum before the child gets completely out of control. It also beats the other alternative giving in to the child s every whim in order to avoid a Tantrum. No More tantrums in Texas