European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes tuesday november 12, 1991 gone with the wind still a Best seller Richmond a. A avid fans of gone with the wind Memorabilia gathered in the one time capital of the confederacy for a conference that was part lecture series part Bazaar. More than half a Century after Margaret Mitchells 1936 Book and the 1939 movie about lost love and lost grandeur in the antebellum South the Story still inspires passion a and sales. A a it a such a self renewing thing. Every time i see the Book or the motion picture i think a maybe it will end differently. Maybe Rhett wont leave her a a said John Wiley who organized the weekend conference which ended sunday. Wiley editor of gone with the wind collectors newsletter has 300 copies of the Book in a dozen languages along with ticket stubs Beach towels and colouring books. A you name it i have it or i want it a he said. A signed first edition of the Book can Cost As much As $7,000, and an original movie poster with Clark Gable cradling a swooning Vivien Leigh can fetch $3,000. J a a it a a multimillion Dollar Industry a a said Herb Bridges a retired Atlanta postal worker who has what is regarded As the worlds largest collection of a wow Memorabilia. A a there a always a new music Box a figurine  about 100 conference participants mostly Middle aged women travelled from As far away As California and Kansas. Many stayed at the historic Jefferson hotel where a according to local myth a the sweeping Central stairway inspired the movie set. Conference lectures filled quickly. Wiley had to turn away dozens of people who wanted to hear talks like this one fiddle Dee Dee fifty years of me a a guide to Madame Alexander Scarlett dolls. Vendors sold buttons painted plates dolls books plaques and a Host of other Memorabilia. Barbara Stewart of Potomac md., shopped for More collectibles. A i started with a gone with the wind room in my House 10 years ago a she said. A now i have a gone with the wind  Wiley attributed the movies Appeal to the romanticized vision of the old South it presented a All Moonlight and magnolias Prim ladies and courtly gentlemen. A people Are still captivated by that whether it was real or not a he said. Scarlett a much ballyhooed sequel by Alexandra Ripley published this year got a thumbs Down from attendees Wiley said but he added that a it Wasny tas bad As i  a Egypt comes to Memphis the new Pyramid rises in a glow of lights near the mis Cost $62 million and houses a 20,000-seat Arena for Sis Sippi River in Memphis Tenn., where it opened sat holding sports and stage events. At its base the facility urday. The 32-Story, stainless steel covered Structure covers an area the size of five football Fields. Cost of two Nasa Craft in Sun project doubles jealous gunman kills wife 3 others himself in Kentucky Harrodsburg by. Apr a Man followed his estranged wife As she drove to a restaurant with acquaintances and killed her and three others before committing suicide. Tina Keck whose father was among the dead saturday said the gunman Robert Daigneau was consumed by jealousy. A the was very jealous and she had left him and he thought she had a Date a Keck said sunday. Donna Daigneau 33, had noticed her husband following the car in which she was a passenger. So the cards Driver who also was killed drove to where the police station had been and honked his Horn. The station had been moved however. Robert Daigneau drove up beside them jumped from his pickup truck and shot at the cards occupants said Keck whose Mother Ann was in the car but Wasny to injured. Police chief Tim Bryant said Daigneau fired six shots into the car with his .357 magnum. In addition to Donna Daigneau the dead were Keck a father Palmer Rousey 48, of Danville Fred Alsman jr., 48, of the St. Louis suburb Webster Groves to. And Thomas Bannister 38, of Cahokia 111., Fayette county Deputy Coroner Johnny Leach said sunday. Daigneau had fled by the time police arrived Bryant said. State police said a police officer noticed Daig Neaus truck in Lancaster and followed it. Before the officer got out of his Cruiser Daigneau shot himself in the head As he sat in his truck police said. Washington a a $70 million Cost overrun has doubled the Price of two Nasa spacecraft being developed to study the interaction Between Earth and the Sun according to a report published sunday. Costs Are projected to reach $140 million for the spacecraft named wind and Polar said aviation week Magazine. They Are being built for use by the 17-nation International solar terrestrial physics program. Launches of the two spacecraft scheduled for 1992 and 1993, will be delayed five to six months the Magazine said. The scientific Survey had planned to integrate data collected by wind and Polar with that from several other spacecraft and the launch delays could effect the results. Nasa officials confirmed the Cost increases and said some had been anticipated. Katherine Schmoll an assistant associate administrator said that although Nasa knew there would be Cost increases when it signed the contract to build the two spacecraft a we did not know what they would  the Overall program involves a total of eight spacecraft being developed by the United states Japan and the european space Agency. Total costs Are expected to run about $2 billion. The overruns and delays were attributed to a number of problems including a the retirement or promotion of experienced managers. A More than 100 costly design changes. A the inability to use As Many off the shelf components or designs As planned and difficulty in shielding the spacecraft from recording their own magnetic signatures. The space research program is intended to collect data on solar Phenomena the solar wind Earth a magnetosphere and their interactions. The various spacecraft involved will be stationed Between the Sun and Earth around Earth and behind Earth relative to the Sun. The plan is for the space vehicles to obtain data from key regions simultaneously. Elvis Home Graceland becomes historic first e Memphis Tenn. A Elvis Presley a Fame Hasni to lasted for 50 years but the head of the National Register of historic places decided the Singer and his Home had a exceptional  Graceland the House the King of Rock a no Roll bought in 1957, was named to the National Register of historic places last week. Its very very rare that a site is laced on the Register when its the ome of a famous person whose achievements Are less than 50 years old a said George Berklacy chief spokesman for the National Park service. The listing also Means Graceland is the first site on the National Register to Honor anyone in Rock a no Roll Berklacy said. The Park service administers the Register of 57,000 Sites including George Washington a mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson a Monticello. Presley bought the two Story neoclassical House on what is now Elvis Presley Boulevard in 1957 for $100,000. He died in the House on aug. 16,1977. A i think that a kind of a validation of everything we be tried to do with Graceland a said Jack Soden executive director of Elvis Presley enterprises. A a we be said from the beginning we wanted the presentation of Graceland to be one of historical significance that a Guy who changed the world lived  but Soden said he had been gun shy about chasing the historic designation after the . Postal service rejected the idea of a Presley commemorative stamp. Instead 22-year-old Jennifer Tucker of Memphis who needed a project for her bachelors degree in historic preservation asked for the listing. Graceland is Memphis biggest tourism draw. It attracted 670,000 visitors in the year ending june 30