European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday. September 3,1995 Yoko Ono Center Check ered coat and Little Richard on Ono s left lend the ribbon cutting Friday. Party weekend in Cleveland launches Rock Hall of Fame byjoe Pareles new York times Cleveland with pomp and feedback the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum was inaugurated Friday. For this civic ceremony Jim Ihen Drix played the National Anthem and Bob Dylan was quoted with reverence. As a big red ribbon was Cut by an Assembly that included Little Richard and Yoko Ono speakers blared the rolling stones it s Only Rock and Roll out i like it in a celebratory Parade a High school band marched to the tune of respect and an Elvis puppet 16 feet tall swivelled Down the  took More than a decade of fund raising and 592 million in Public and private contributions but Rock n Roll now has the grandest institution in its history you arc changing the map of America Ono proclaimed. You Are chancing the map of the world/1 the Parade and ribbon cutting were the beginning of a weekend Long party that was to include an All Star concert at Cleveland stadium on saturday night. The concert which was expected to last four to six hours was planned As a larger version of the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremonies which bring Rock s elders together with those who have Learned from them. Bruce Springsteen was expected to sing with Jerry Lee Lewis Johnny Cash was to join John Mullen Camp,"and.dozens of other performers were to pay tribute to their influences and sing ducts with their heirs., " around the City Rock became a costume party. At Jine downtown hotel the stall was dressed As pop stars with Madonna working the registration desk and Little Richard parking cars. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum is a 150,000-Square-foot building on the Shore of Lake Linean assemblage of Geometric shapes designed by . Pei. It sets out to be both a tourist attraction and a scholarly resource Rock is an Art form that has been with us now for Over 40 years Dennis Barrie the museum s director said As he inspected the exhibits thursday. It has produced great musicians and great poets and has had an Impact on everything from racial attitudes to clothing to drug use. It deserves to have its history and creators and perpetrators looked  in its planning stages the museum faced Skepi cism not Only from those who Felt Rock a Roll was too frivolous for study but from those who feared Cleveland firefighter John Virzi impersonates Elvis Presley to raise Money for Charity Friday at the City s Parade for the new Rock Hall of Fame. That institutionalizing Rock would defuse its rebel Lious Energy. Museums should not have  deadly Barric said. We want to convey some of the Energy and magic and attitudes of the Art form. Having a museum does t Rob the music of its future. It just pre serves its  he added Rock has always been trouble and has always been controversial. This is not a sanitizing of Rock n Roll and not a nostalgia trip without really looking at the  Mart guilty under spouse abuse Charleston . A f the first person convicted under the new Federal Domestic violence Law a Man who prosecutors say beat his wife bloody then drove around with her in the trunk of his car. Was sentenced to life in prison Friday. Christopher Bailey 35, of St. Albans was convicted in May of kidnapping and of violating the 1994 Vio Lence against women act. He received the maximum 20-year penalty for violating the Domestic violence la a and a life sentence for kidnapping the year old Domestic violence Law makes it illegal to Cross a state line to abuse a spouse or Domestic part Ner. Rev  said Bailey beat his wife stuffed her in the trunk of their compact car and drove aimlessly across West Virginia and Kentucky for six Days before taking her to a Hospital. I have rarely seen if Ever a crime that was More heinous said . District judge Charles Haden ii. Sonya Bailey remains in a coma and has been unable to Tell investigators Shat happened during the Odyssey Chris Bailey has made my daughter a vegetable said Elena Campbell Sonya Bailey s Mother what he did was worse than  want everyone to Sec what condition this wife beater left my daughter in v Bailey s brother David Bailey said the verdict will be appealed. ."-7,They never accused him of assaulting his wife. They never showed an assault weapon. So where is the crime he asked. It s entirely probable that Sonya Bailey fell and Cut her head and when he woke up he saw her and panicked the Federal Law Calls for up to 20 years in prison for inflicting a life threatening or permanently disfiguring injury and life in prison if  or partner Dies of the abuse. ".,doctor fired for botched surgery 1 new York a doctor who botched a brain operation on the Mother of site of India s top movie stars was dismissed Friday from his Job As head of ecu a surgery at the memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center. A. -. A. ,., y it was the second surgical procedure or. Ehud Arbit had bungled in the past six months the cancer Center said in announcing his dismissal. Arbit mistakenly operated on the healthy right lobe of 59-year-old Rajeswari a 7appaniwhen he was sup posed to remove a tumor from her left lobe Ayyappan who is the Mother of Sridevi one of in Dia s most popular film stars was transferred to new York Hospital within Days of the mistake and. 40 per cent of her tumor was removed during a second opera Tion there. She was released from new York Hospital on july 18. Officials would t say if she suffered any permanent damage. The cancer Center said Arbit also mishandled an operation in december 1994. He was supposed to remove a cancerous lesion from the left Side of a patient s brain but entered from the right and found nothing. A Sec Ond surgery was necessary woman 72, May lose Home Over grandson s pot Garden Spokane Wash. A a 72-year-old woman with Flowers on her porch could lose her. Home because of forbidden plants in the basement.  officials say that one of Florence Hart s grandchildren grew the marijuana but that she knew about it and looked the other  want to seize her $50,000 Home As a drug re lated asset and sell it at auction with proceeds Given to drug enforcement  has no criminal record and was not arrested when a regional drug task Force raided the Home april 13. Agents found 126 plants mostly behind a make shift curtain and locked door a scale special lights and packaging materials. Investigators believe the operation netted $150,000 to $200,000 Over More than two years