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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, November 13, 1990

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 13, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 Man won t see chosen Bride until to show Lake Charles la. A it pays to advertise. Just ask John Young a lonely 45-year-old manager of a convenience store from Clearwater fla., who plastered a wife wanted signs on the Side of his car. After receiving Calls from women in 22 states and two Canadian provinces Young has picked Marilyn Dozier of Lake Charles As his intended. But they wont meet until dec. 5, when they Are scheduled to appear on the Phil Donahue show in new York City. A a in a 45kind of a homebody a Young said saturday in a Telephone in pro wish 4ke Charles american j a to meet someone who s not a Yuppie All wrapped up in a Whiz bang social  f Young began his unusual advertising Campaign about three months ago but Tew people noticed it. For two months there was no reaction. Then a reporter for the Tampa Fla Tribune wrote about him and the Story was picked up by the associated press for it printed in newspapers throughout the United states and Canada. Dozier an employee of transit aviation at a Boeing co. Plant in Lake Charles said she saw a Story about Young in her newspaper on oct. 9 and thought about it for about a week before deciding to a Call up this nut and see what he a  after several Days of Busy signals she said she finally got Young. A hello. This is Marilyn Dozier in Lake Charles la.,�?� she said. A have you found any woman who wants to marry you yet a they talked for 45 minutes during that first Call. Since then Dozier said they have talked for two to four hours every night. A the is an intelligent person with a Good sense of humor a said Dozier who has a 19-year-old daughter. She had planned to Fly to Florida on wednesday to meet Young but Donahue changed those plans she said. Young had been talking with four National television shows that wanted him to make an appearance and he finally decided to accept the invitation from the Donahue show. Young said that when he told the Donahue people he and a woman from Lake Charles had decided to meet they offered to Fly both of them to new York City provided the couple meet for the first time on stage recorded before a television  Brothel auctioneers Hope to Corral Large turnout Mustang Nev. Apr a bit of most everything will be for Sale when the Mustang ranch Brothel Falls under an auctioneers Gavel tuesday from household items to Gaudy relics of americans Best known sporting House. A we highly encourage the neighbourhood Yard Sale enthusiast to come out and make a bid on anything they May want a said internal Revenue service manager Dierdre Pagni. Pagni said that its hard to predict what the turnout will be for the bankruptcy auction. A a we be never done this with the Mustang ranch before a she said. The event is expected to draw curiosity seekers As Well As serious bidders. Irs agents padlocked the 104-room bordello on sept. 21, three Days after the property owned by Joe and Sally Conforte was forced into bankruptcy liquidation. The government Hopes to recoup a portion of the $13 million in Back taxes it says is owed by the can Fortes. The auction was advertised in newspapers around the country. The irs Hopes to get at least $1.8 million largely from the Sale of the ranches real estate holdings. Two buildings that make up the ranch compound will be sold separately As will a 60-unit trailer Park in nearby Lockwood and the 440 acres surrounding the Brothel 10 Miles East of Reno just off interstate 80. So far the Brothel has piqued interest As a potential nursing Home a Halfway House and a Home for wayward girls. A religious group also has inquired about the property although the irs has remained mum on details. Tuesdays auction is expected to include some items unique to garage sales. Amid the lamps couches and bottles of booze Are Large paintings of nude women a painting of Conforte boxes of condoms and framed posters pointing to locations of Nevada Slegal bordello. There even is a picture of heavyweight Boxer Oscar Donavent who was gunned Down at the Gates of the ranch in 1976 by Conforte bodyguard Willard the co Fortes started the Mustang ranch illegally at first in the 1950s. In 1960, local authorities proclaimed it a Public nuisance and burned it to the ground. But a decade later Conforte won approval from Morey county to operate the Brothel paving the Way for legalized prostitution in most Rural Nevada counties. County commissioners last month revoked the permit allowing prostitution at the Mustang ranch saying they would never again endure the circus atmosphere that has surrounded it the past 35 years. Potential buyers take a tour of Mustang  news advertises for sales Force new York apr the daily news stepped up its efforts sunday to create a network of people across the City to sell the newspaper in the face of an aggressive Boycott Campaign by striking workers. The paper ran a full Page and saying it had a immediate needs for individuals who want to own operate and direct their own work Force Selling  the and said in Large letters a unlimited  meanwhile strikers fanned out to Start distribution of what Union officials said were a million copies of an eight Page free newspaper titled a real news. All the stories in a real news were written by daily news writers who have been on strike since oct. 25. A we wanted to show that the striking employees Are the heart and soul of the daily news. Capable of producing a better Quality paper than the Scab rag Jim Hoge is putting out right now a said striking columnist Juan Gonzalez about the daily news publisher. Gonzalez coordinated distribution efforts at the newspaper Guild Headquarters sunday. Gonzalez said a real news is aimed at giving the strikers version of the labor dispute. The articles detail the history of the strike incidents that have involved violence interviews with news vendors and profiles of striking Pressman and Drivers. A real news will be handed out monday and tuesday at churches hospitals hotels housing projects and subway stations Gonzalez said. Striking staffers sunday distributed a real news at giants stadium in East Rutherford n.j., and dropped off bundles toothed strikers and individual unions. The news has published each Day during the strike but circulation has been a major problem with some vendors refusing to sell it and others claiming they got no deliveries. Some vendors have claimed threats by striking Drivers. Hoge said last week that 600,000 papers were printed each Day. Pre strike circulation was about 1.09 million. Sundays edition of the news quoted one newsstand operator Luis Rivera As saying that customers were intimidated by two men who came in went through stacks of papers and checked the papers everyone was Reading. A everyone was scared a Rivera said. Strikers on the other hand Are protesting Security forces hired by the daily  Cross to underwrite cancer research by the new York times 1 he Blue Cross and Blue shield Assoc a non has agreed to pay a major share of the Rossof a clinical study of an experimental Rac Vance breast cancer the Chicago based health insurance organization said its decision marked the urst time a private health insurer had agreed to pay for studies of experimental met Zicai procedures or treatments. A study of 1,200 women will evaluate the combination of a risky and stir exper mental procedure using the patients one marrow and Large amounts of can be lighting drugs. The experiments will be carried out in selected hospitals throughout the country under the direction of the National cancer Institute in Bethesda md., officials of the Federal cancer Agency and Blue Cros Blue shield said sunday. Blue Cross Blue shield officials said the Cost to the insurer would be at least $10 million during the three to four year period of the study. The decision came after Blue Cros Blue shield said it had been sued by More than a dozen people and consumer groups seeking the experimental therapy which costs up to $125,000 per patient. Blue Cross Blue shield lost More than half the suits and had to pay for the treat ment. The decision comes amid growing pressure on health insurance carriers to contribute to the costs of evaluating experimental procedures and treatments for otherwise untreatable fatal conditions. And it follows the recommendations of a committee appointed by the presidents cancer panel made earlier this year. Many experts have called for More careful evaluation of expensive new therapies to help control soaring health care costs. The decision by Blue Cross Blue shield which claims More than 72 million subscribers could encourage other insurers to pay for experimental procedures. Costs for experimental procedures Are borne largely by the government research oriented hospitals private foundations and patients. Insurance companies have refused to pay the costs of experimental care although Many have paid indirect costs such As for Hospital stays when infections and other complications result from experimental procedures and therapies. The Auto logos transplant procedure involves removal and storage of about 2 pints of the patients Bone marrow. Then Large amounts of cancer fighting drugs Are injected into the veins of the cancer patients to kill malignant cells that have developed resistance to Standard chemotherapy  
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