European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 a a a k the stars and stripes tuesday october 16,1990 faces a no places my Ona res for a Day planning a lawsuit Wall Streeter hits greed from wire reports Thelma and Charles Bellows of Kawkawlin mich., Are not about to walk away from the $10 million they thought they had won last week. Mcdonald a restaurants announced mrs. Bellows As a big Winner in its a Jmc millions contest on Friday and then a few hours later announced the 49-year-old Mother of five had been disqualified because a daughter works at one of the company a restaurants. Contest rules bar the immediate family of Mcdonald a employees from participating. Mrs. Bellows said saturday she was too emotional to talk about the wild reversal in her fortunes but now she and her husband Are planning a lawsuit to Challenge the decision. The Bellows daughter Charlene Saunders works at the restaurant where the winning ticket was obtained but did not actually hand it to her parents. Bellows a 52-year-old Carpenter said he does not believe the Rule applies to him and his wife since Saunders is married and not living at Home. A a she a no longer our family. She has a family of her own a he opens festival the tale would have been perfect if she had kissed Kermit the Frog but it was Mickey mouse who welcomed Britain a Princess Alexandra to a storybook Day in Costa Mesa Calif. The first Cousin of Queen Elizabeth ii on saturday opened the festival of Britain two weeks of cultural Exchange in Orange county. The Princess reviewed processions of Rolls royces and bagpipers in Clits then visited food 50oths Selling British delicacies ranging from the Alexandra curries Learned in the colonics to the Good old fish and chips of Home. Actress Julie Andrews was on hand to kick off nine Days of screenings of films for which British actors were nominated for or received Academy awards. She was hostess at a a Mary Poppins Tea party before a screening of the film that won her an Oscar for Best actress in 1964.indians to adopt Costner As thanks for his sensitive portrayal of their people the Sioux nation will adopt Kevin Costner As a brother of site Gleska College where he and his Crew were Given a crash course in Lakota the Sioux language. As the co producer director and Star Costner shot most of his new film a dances with wolves a in South Dakota the heart of Sioux country. The College is on the Rosebud reservation in rapid City. About 30 percent of the film is in Lakota with subtitles. Jim Wilson the co producer and Mary Mcdonnell the co Star will also be adopted into the billionaire australians richest Man Media magnate Kerry Packer has pledged $2 million to the ambulance service that saved his life last week officials said sunday. Packer will pay half the Cost of equipping All ambulances in new South Wales with heart revival machines similar to the one that restarted his heart after he collapsed and his heart stopped beating while he was playing Polo. Packer telephoned the offer to new South Wales Premier Nick Greiner from his Hospital bed in a Sydney Hospital where doctors said he was making a a remarkable As a result All the states general purpose ambulances will be outfitted with hear Start 300 machines at an estimated Cost of $4 million ambulance superintendent Val Mcmahon said Only 300 of the states 900 ambulances Are presently equipped with the machines because of the Cost involved. He estimated packers gesture would save 1,000 lives a year. Packers wealth was estimated by australian business review weekly last month at $1.67 coming up Abc television will try to soothe bruised feelings in Cleveland stemming from a joke in a promotion for the situation comedy a coach a mayor Michael r. White said. Robert a. Iger president of Abc entertainment promised to air an apology the night of oct. 22, when Abc broadcasts the Cleveland Browns Home game against the Cincinnati bengals a statement by Whites office said saturday. When the Browns played the Broncos in Denver on oct. 8, the network broadcast a Brief promotion for actor Jerry Van Dyke who plays an assistant College football coach on the series commented that even if the Browns beat Denver they would still lose a because they have to go Back to White sent a letter to Abc calling the remark insensitive and disrespectful to the City. A any comedian or comedy show that uses Cleveland As the punch line for a joke has never visited our City and is relying on what has been for years the Crutch of feeble comedians a White said in the letter. Igers letter explained that Van Dykes joke was done a in character and that no malice was intended. Iger noted that two weeks earlier during a monday night football broadcast Van Dyke made the same comment about Buffalo . A we firmly believe this incident should be kept in the proper perspective and Given the problems existing m the world today we urge you and the citizens of your Fine City to take this in the lighthearted spirit in which it was meant a Iger wrote. The incoming chairman of the new York Stock Exchange took to the pulpit in a new York Cathedral on sunday to denounce the materialism of the 1980s and the Gap Between Rich and poor. During his 25-minute Sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the divine William h. Donaldson who will take office formally in january called the 1980s a decade in which a it was easy to see How Good things were for some people and even easier to not see How bad things had become for but it should not be left to the captains of Industry and government to reverse the tide of selfishness and greed Donaldson 59, said. A it is a spirit that must Spring from the individual not the employee manual a he said. He urged everyone from the a chairman of the Board to the janitor to communicate As individuals and share their talents to promote Well being in the City. His appearance in the pulpit stemmed from a rally at the Cathedral last May during which mayor David Dinkins called on civic leaders to help restore Faith and Community in the City. Donaldson a Sermon was the first in a series of weekly sermons by Public figures called a dialogues for Healing and joins protesters Allen Ginsberg the beat generation poet activist visited with about a dozen people camping at a Seattle Park to protest . Military involvement in the Middle East. Ginsberg led the group in a minute Long meditative chant Friday evening and said meditation or a pc entering helps one Deal with the anxiety of crisis and conflict. The protesters have camped since aug. 26 at Gas works Park renaming it peace works Park. Ginsberg who teaches in Boulder colo., heard about the Vigil at a Seattle poetry Reading. A such a Vigil As this depends for its Long Range _ Ginsberg Success on being user Friendly and Friendly to the outside world a he said. A but How do you cultivate that friendliness and maintain a lonely Vigil a Vigil organizers have said they will stay at the Park until the departure from the Middle East of . Troops. Dear Abby this is for a sur americano who wanted to know if he should Tell his family that he had tested his positive for the aids virus. I cast my vote for a resounding yes our son tested positive nearly three years before he Felt any ill effects from the disease. I his Mother Learned about his illness Only 23 Days before he died. He had lost a Little weight a that Sall. When he first Learned that he tested positive he told his sister who was his Best Friend. He swore her to secrecy because he did no to want to worry me. I could never understand Why he had episodes when he would run a High fever miss a Day or two of work and be Fine the next Day. He had his own Home so i did no to know the suffering he endured. If Only he had told me perhaps i could have helped him physically and spiritually. He needed no financial help because he was a very successful decorator and had the Best insurance available. God took him from us a year ago. I know that he thought it Best that i did no to know but it Hurt me More not knowing. He deprived me of the dear Abby Opportunity to Tell him How very proud i was of him and How much i loved him. Still grieving dear grieving my readers voted overwhelmingly in favor of telling the family. Read on dear Abby in response to a sur americano so letter wondering whether to Tell his family that he had tested positive for aids i can offer the viewpoint of a family member who Wasny to told until it was too late. It my dear Cousin chose to Tell Only his parents and siblings and then Only after the aids virus Nad become Active. By the time he died i could Only guess Why he was ill but Felt helpless not being Able to Cross the line that he had drawn Between us. I respect my cousins right to make this decision but knowing now that he was Gay and died of aids does no to cause me to cherish his memory less. However Many things continue to haunt me a the visits i would have made the things i might have said the understanding that was never achieved. Was he ashamed or did he think i would be ashamed was it really necessary for him and his immediate family to be so isolated Dunn his final ordeal my Choice As a family member would have been to know the truth however painful and to have dealt with it. It would have been far better to have been there a offering words of love knowing i did everything i could a than to have been shut out. Hurt in san Francisco readers the few letters i received advising a sur americano not to Tell his family were different variations on the same theme dear Abby before giving a sur americano any advice i would have to know what kind of relationship he has with his family. If its anything like mine i would vote no. Here a my Story i am a Gay male. In be always been a Good son and did no to want to live a lie so when i was 17, i told my parents i was Gay hoping they would not judge me. Our pest came with me for moral support explaining that no one chooses his or her sexuality a it is something inborn in All of us. They refused to believe him. Instead they quoted scripture labelled me a sinner and told me i was no longer their son. I envy my Gay friends whose parents accept and love them just the Way they Are. Unfortunately i Wasny to that Lucky. Resigned in Richmond a. C Universal press Syndicate
