(Iowa City, Iowa), 1976-05-03
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - AttorDeyI for RhodeD aid the procedure will be paper ... made aDd we have to blow for bIUioo, aaid he baa obtaiDed pbotoitatic Noah Dietricll,lIIlIIed In a purported will much the ame a It wa In La Vepa 011 certaiD tbat It II at leal eIIbt or IIiDe eop6ea 01 lICIIIle PIIs 01 the crudely al executor of billionaire Howard Friday, wbeo aImilar petltioIII were filed ,..,. old. I don't WIIlt to 10 mto court writtea 1IWIIIICript, .pparently • novel HuabeI' state, plIDbed to file for with the county clert aDd a May 21 aDd have IOIDeOIIe ten me tbat PIpei' wa to Plogrell by Huabel. probate 01 the will 011 Moaday aDd a~ bearin& date wu let. made III 1m." "I am not IUrpriaed at Ita exlateDce," poIntment 01 DietridI a executor In Loll "Probate hal alreIdy been opeoed In Tbe will, fOUDd Iut Tueeday In the Salt Attorneys vie Loll Aagelel and an acImIDItrator a~ aaid the 87-year~ former top H\IIbee AnI-· Lab City olftceI 01 the CburdI of J_ Meanwhile, Dietrich aaid be had pointed, 10 It II abtolutely necw.ry that OuiIt 01 Latter-day SeInta (Mormoo) , aide. ". wu not previously .ware of ita exlatence, but I have DOW teeD copls 01 it ltudied c:opieI 01 PIIs 01 a baDdwrltteo we ,0 to court," RhodeD aaicI. "Pre wu dated IIardl II, 1". DWIUICript believed to be put ola DOVel vIoualy, there wa bO will. Now there II." RbodIa uk! be alIo needI to obCaIn • and I believe It to be ,enuine. Huabel did by the late recluIe and that after COlI After fUinI the PlperI, Rhoden aid bIa H\IIbeI death certificate. many tbiDga I wa not .ware 01." IUItIDg with former Hugbee aide Robert next .tepa will center OIl stahl!",!", "How do we blow tbat man buried m Dietrich aid the repeated mlapelu". for A. Maheu be belleved the manUlCript proof that the will wu pemaed by Huabea HOUItoa II really Howard H\IIbee?" be and grammatical errorl In tbe I probably wu authentic. .Dd that the wealthy ecceatric wu liked. "I'm DOt ... to take any IDIIIUICrtpt "are characteristic 01 other I' Attorney Harold RhadeD aald Sunday mentally competeat .t the time be cb.nces. I'm .ntlclpating .11 the tbiDp be wrote." that petitiOlll to be flied MODday are executed It. queationa that are ... to be liked aDd I Dietrich, who originally doubted the Intended to wrest CODtrol 01 the state In "I'm 10l1li to get • number 01 beDd want IJIIWeI'I before I etep Into !be court- autbellticlty of the will beca~ 01 the California from HugbeI' couaIn, Richard writing expertI topther," uId Rhoden. room.,t numeroua mlapelliDp It CODtaiDed, uld Hughes' estate C. Gano, wbo wa named by a Superior "And IIOI1Iethinc hal to be dooe about Dietrich, who could lUll .boat $40 be coaaulted with Maheu after looking at Court judge a temporary admlDltrator analYJinl the paper the wiD wa writteo million a executor 01 an lltate copiel of the manlllCript PIIs aDd both of the state. on. We have to determine wben that sUmated at between 11 .' biIliaD to $2 belleve the manUlCript to be ,enuine. "Iowo's 1fIHIIE altemative newspaper" Vol. 108, No. 199 Monday, May 3, 1976 Iowa City, Iowa 52240 10c Pride and prejudice In• the River City COUl'Ie aberration - but a normal abberatlon. taIIt was reuonably rare. By BEAU SALISBURY me; ThIs is for all of you, too. Speak up." Iowa City Recreation Center, not to Of they are normal, natural. shifted mention SkatelaDd out In Coralville.) It Becauae they aren't lOme kind of theyj "It's a conscloUlnell-raiJing thing, U Women were noticeably abient. At the Staff Writer The .udience In Its seats, of dreams banal a that .00000," the man from Midwest Gay Pride Conference, .1m00t "The Hber.tion of holllGlexuals can looting at one another. No one uid was. confIueoce bomoeexuals, mOltiy they are peopJe, with feen and male, from around the Midwest - such much like anybody else. In fact, after a Chicago aald. KIa name II Ward, he'l • the only women to be found In the Union only be the work of homORxuals. anything. The man in the Mexican places as Chicago, Ann Arbor, Mich." day spent wanderlna around the COIl TV light\ni technician. He worD for were down on the first first floor, -Kurt HWer, GermaDY, 1121" wedding shirt gJanced around, wait\ni, a beginning his Madison , Wile., and Lawrence, Ken., ference. watching, trytng to learn, the Independent producers 011 such projects studyinl for flnaJa. "They (gay women) (gralOt. 011 the Iowa State Drlye-In Balik smile to curl around lIpa. were repreaented, alOlll with more midnight stop at Maxwell's Saturdey as productlOlll for ABC', "Wide World of are very keen on separation right now," IMdIdlDlI) He started to speak ..,In, in his almOlt monotone, b4rely audible above the familiar towns such as Ames, Des aeemed weird. After the open ex Enterlainmeat." "The whole thing is to one Iowa City man uid. "There's no way "In the '508 you couldn't be py - only swish of the air conditlonin, system in Moines and Fort Dodge. And why Iowa presalons of affection, the constricted get people thInkIna," he said. we can get them Involved." He pointed shy." the Union lliinois Room. City? "Beca\llle we Were Invited here," emotions and f.mlliar, favorite "msat To get peopJe thInkIna, yes. To create a out that the gay women had "their thing" -Uly TomllD, DetroK,1t75 The Midwest Gay Pride Conference, by .s one man from Chicago said. Indeed. one of Iowa City', favorite I\Udllapots community, in a manner of lpeaking. the previous weekend. He went on to The man in the Mexican wedding shirt now an annual, expected event in Iowa The first thing one noticed II the nor • shocIt - l eeeming .berration. Although the conference wei labeled deplore the "Hitler-lilte attitude" on the bad been talking, softly, almOlt In a City, was held over the weekend at the mality of the persons involved, which II, Of course, many "straight" (in the eellle "Arts aDd SkiIlI: The G.y Experience," part of lOme gay women in the com monotone, for half .n hour before he Union and other places around town. of course, only natural and reuonable If of being heteroaexual) penoDI would mOlt of the dl.acuaalon aeemed to center munity. "It's very dlscoura,lng looked up. "You know. this isn't jUit for (Such as the Unitarian Church and the one sOOpa 00 tbinIt about it for a moment. label the acene at Maxwell'. an on buildina a community - mOlt of the aometimes," was all he could uy. talk got down to politlca. "ThIa II really But for moat of the two and a half days, .bout freedom," another peraon from the conference was a thlna of joy, a Chicago explained. "It'. temporary respite, as the man caDed it. For two and Beverly Sill. on opera respite from the norm, you know. It's a half daya men walking arm In ann was very heady stuff to feel free to express the normj men touching phyalcally and your affectiona in a society that attempts verbally was accepted, encouraged. LIke 00 deny that freedom." the man from Fort Dodge, who said he That WII the feelina underlying the was the only gay perIOD he knew at Iowa 'God's gift a singer's singer' events In the Unlon. MoaUy unspoken, Central Junior College. He said be knew ••• . but there. We are amo", our oWn. It wu . there mUit be bt.'ler gay perlOll8 in Fort a strong enough feeuna to make a Dodge - they had to . be there, ByBOBJONES unlversity titled - and · the not.o held court, periodically OasbIDg her ~ Beverly SilJa to the Met - after a 10", "straight" perIOD feel like the outcast. ltatlatically - but he had no idea how to Unlvenky Editor moneyed or titled - were out in lordly bright-lights smile during a cordial standing tilt with Met manager Rudolf "So you work for the paper," ..Id one reach them, how to establlah a com This weekend was one grand IOIree for force 00 watch her maneuver over the exchange with the audience. BIn,-where abe debuted as p.mlraln a man, hometown unknown, "that', too munity In Fort Dodge - bestlon of .11 many people, and opera megastar baroque terrain 01 RoIIIIni, Handel and Sbe talked about the spectslshe taped new production of RoIalnl's "Siege of had." that'alowa. JUit before he left, he caDed Beverly Silla was clearly the belle of the Uazt. In the end, in return, abe got three with Carol Burnett, which wiD air Deltt CorInth." ("I could never have handled It wun't all conaeDIUI - not aD a the conference one of the greatest thInp bell. standing ovatiOlll and, everybody's cup 'l'hankqivlna. She recaJls that wben the pressure of the Met circus" before utopian bonding together In frlendlbip that had happened 00 him. "All upper like Matronly plump and beulng up of tea, a bouquet of long ..temmed red Burnett first alked her to give song-and that point, Me uld FrIday.> and brotherhood that the romantics this II enough to a1moat make you fGrlet handsomely under a luxuriant mane of 1'OIe&. dance a try, she uld no. "I didn't know In October 1855, abe made her debut among us lilte and want to lee. In one all the lonely tims." comet-red hair, the coloratura soprano 'I1Ie audience's hieratic abeeo came how 00 do thoae tbInp," she uid.