European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 01, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday february 1,1990 faces n Uia Ces texan Penny Lang plans to pay every last Penny of her tax Bill from wire reports the City of grand Prairie Texas is demanding Penny Lang pay the rest of her tax Bill. And True to her name she s promised to pay it to the Penny. Actually that s All she owes. Lang moved to grand Prairie a Dallas suburb last month and the mortgage company that financed her House figured her 1989 City taxes at $229.18 and 83-1 Booths of a cent. The mortgage company rounded the figure to$229.18, which she paid. But the City s computer rounded up. To $229.19. The City has sent two notices of delinquency. They want their Penny Lang said. Ill give it to them i will. I la mail them a  City finance director Wayne Usry said the tax Billing program will be updated next year. The new program won t Bill for less than Sis he said. Usry said it costs the City Sis to s2s in staff and computer time mailing costs and paper to Bill a resident. He figures it has Cost the City $30 to $50 in Pursuit of its Penny. Lang said she would pay the Penny this week. Good thing too because if she chose to ignore the Bill based on the annual 37 percent interest and penalties the City charges delinquents in a couple of years she would owe 2 cents. Jennings gets diploma As a teen Ager. Waylon Jennings was too Busy singing to graduate from High school. But monday he received an equivalency diploma from Martha s. Wilkinson the wife of gov. I Wallace c. Wilkinson of Ken Lucky. Jennings 52, was a scan professional entertainer by his Early teens and a protege of buddy Holly. As a member of Holly s backup group he would have been killed in the Sam crash As Holly in 1959 had he not Given his scat to another band member. He went on to become a country outlaw singing a mixture of country pop and Rock music. Last fall Jennings he enrolled in a general educational development program on educational television after learning about it from mrs. Wilkinson. He passed the examination after studying tapes on his tour bus. Real Money of Burn two lost skiers near Kalispell mont., decided they had Money to Burn and the decision May have saved their lives. Don Wing and Jack Joneson both 29 and from Calgary Alberta strayed out of Bounds at the big Mountain ski resort saturday and got lost according to Flathead county sheriff Chuck Rhodes. More than 30 searchers set out in Waist deep Snow shortly after dark to find them. The skiers were found about 11 30 p.m., snug and warm beside the campfire they had started eight hours earlier by burning Dollar Bills Rhodes said. Woman of Lead orchestra Catherine Comet one of the rare Fermai orchestra conductors will be the new music director of the american symphony orchestra. Comet currently music director of the grand rapids mich., symphony will assume her new Job at the Start of the new York based orchestra s season in the fall. Founded in 1962 by Leopold Stokowski it plays an annual subscription series of concerts in Carnegie Hall. Born and educated in France Comet studied with Nadia Boulanger and Pierre Boulez and has con ducted several leading symphony orchestras. The american symphony s last music director John Mauceri left in 1986. We be used the last couple of seasons to try out people said Raymond t. Grant the general manager. Comet has conducted concerts with the orchestra in each of the last three seasons. Worm wedding vows family and friends went with the flow when Bill Heflin and Susan Davis exchanged wedding vows thigh deep in a steamy 110-degree hot tub. We wanted it to be something special we can look Back on and Giggle about Heflin said about sat urday s ceremony under a Gazebo behind his Home a Fremont calif., 25 Miles Southeast of san Francisco. Instead of a Tuxedo the 39-year-old Heflin wore a suit coat to shirt and Cut off suit pants. The Bride wore a Cream coloured Blouse a flowered Hairpiece and the Bottom half of a silk Sari Over Lycra shorts. I wanted to be formal from the Waist up informal from the Waist Down said Davis 35. Adding to the atmosphere were fragrant Gardenias floating on the swirling hot tub water Rock music and the wedding March played on a Harmonica by one of Davis daughters 9-year-old Jamie. I thought that maybe he d lost his marbles said Fay Bryan the Bride s Mother and one of 40 guests. "1 think it s going to be great for her  Hooser hog callers when members of the Monroe township ground hog society members meet in Alexandria ind., they shake hands and then snort at each other. The snort As a form of greeting is no laughing matter to a society in which members Wear fake fur and groundhog hoods with ears according to or. David Steele the group s historian. The society requires the 18 members to pass the snort test and take at least one snort a  the society was formed in 1929, but folded in 1935. With the discovery of some old society papers the group re emerged last january. Steele said that Many people can t understand Why grown Man wants to become a groundhog member although the civic group raises funds for Community projects in the Central Indiana town about 30 Miles cutest baby sixteen month old Andrew Payton neither of Pleasanton calif., Nomad earlier a cutest kid in the country by life Magazine and hit mom Robin Admire one of the photos in a five Page spread to be featured in an upcoming Vitae of the Magazine. Northeast of  year we have $1,000 to $1,500 to put Back into the Community. At the same time we get to act silly like Little boys he  to celebrate groundhog Day in proper style. On Friday at the society s annual swill break Aston groundhog Day member Sam lower will emerge from a groundhog Mound made of pipe Bushes and Canvas Only after hearing the group s chant groundhog groundhog we must know. Is it Spring or is it Snow Tell us Tell us we can t wait. Come on out you  Lucille Ball movie planned lbs said monday it has commissioned production of a to movie about the late Lucille Ball whose i love Lucy series in the 50s helped boost the net work to High ratings. No actress has been chosen to play Ball a spokesman said. The film covering the period when Ball was mar ried to bandleader Pesl Arnaz will air during the 1990 91 season. Ball died in april at the age of 77. Dear Abby sorry. I disagree with your compliance with the pair who wanted to sell si00 tickets to a sporting event to their co work ers for $400. First of All. People who buy More tickets than they need to a sporting event theater Rock con Cert Etc. Are preventing others from acquiring tickets at the stated Price. This May be of under Raissez Faire capitalism but it strikes me As unconscionable and greedy. Second some cities have ticket scalping ordinances that make it a Misdemeanour to sell tickets above the stated Price. Your comment the Early Bird gets the  was off the Mark. It would have been better to suggest that the co workers simply treat the Early Birds to a Nice dinner to compensate them for their legwork rather than encourage the Early buyers to seek an unscrupulous profit. Jerry p. In Seattle dear Abby dear Jerry where were you when i needed you yours was one of the few printable letters i received in response to my inspired ? answer in which i failed to mention that in most states scalping is illegal. Dear Abby i am a 15-year-old girl. A few months ago my 13 month old brother Ricky had a life threatening Acci Dent. Managing to get out the front door unobserved he walked behind my mom s Van just As she was pull ing into our garage. Mom did t see Ricky so she pressed the Button to close the garage door then she went inside. After looking for Ricky for about five minutes we heard my sister who was outside scream. Mom and i ran out to see Ricky s head sticking out from under the garage door when we got him out he was Limp Blue and not breathing. We thought he was dead. After a two week ordeal at Loyola University Hospi Tal Ricky came Home and is As alive As Ever. He was expected to die or at least have severe brain damage but he is perfect. I would like to thank the Loyola University Hospital staff our neighbor sue Waile who administered Carall our friends and relatives and most of All god for giving our family of seven a second Chance with our Littlest. Abby please Tell your readers to be careful with their garage doors and to always watch them go Down. I Don t want anyone else to have to go through what we did. You May print my name. Lindsay Mitchell Naperville ill. Dear Lindsay thank you for writing. I alerted my readers to this Hazard a few years ago but your letter will remind them that electrically operated garage doors can kill a child or a  Abby i am a widow. After 46 years of marriage i lost my precious husband. Now on the Issue of what i prefer to be called i could t care less. I Don t care what people Call me just so they Call me come to see me and include me. I have never known such loneliness in my entire life. So Call me what you will but please Call me. Mrs. . Hill c Universal proft Syndicate