Casco Bay Weekly : 4 October 1990
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Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1990) Casco Bay Weekly 10-4-1990 Casco Bay Weekly : 4 October 1990 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1990 Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 4 October 1990" (1990). Casco Bay Weekly (1990). 36. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1990/36 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1990) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Greater Portland's news and arts weekly OCT. 4, 1990 FREE As goes the economy, so goes the ad business. As goes the ad business, so goes the 'Express The death of the Evening Express noon paper's demise to "changing lifestyles." The Guy By Wayne Curtis down. Way down. Gannett Co. ruefully admitted that, in the age of televi As New England's economic malaise deepens, ad In the first issue of the Portland Express, founder A sion and video, the Evening Express no longer plays vertising in the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Portland W. Laughlin wrote that his new endeavor would "steer much of a role in daily life. Press Herald and the Evening Express is drying up. clear of such things as have in the past been unprofitable Gannett evoked remembrances of the Ward Cleaver With three papers in a sinking raft, the weakest simply to us." The year was 1882. era, one in which the breadwinner enjoyed the evening got thrown overboard. Buta century and several owners later, unprofitability paper each night, wreathed in pipe smoke and sitting in The death of the Evening Express is a clear public finally caught up with the 'Express. On Sept. 25, the Guy his favorite armchair. And Gannett is right: that era is indicator of economic hard times. Gannett Publishing Company announced that the final over. But it is onl y the highly visible tip of the advertising Portland Evening Express would roll off the presses But the 'Express has been losing ground for years. iceberg. Lower ad budgets are contributing to tougher next February, marking the end for a paper that has been Ward Cleaver has been gone for years. times, not just for the media, but for the people who losing circulation for a decade. Another, much more bottom-line reason why Gannett produce the ads as well. Publisher Jean Gannett Hawley attributed the after- might be closing the 'Express: advertising sales are Continued on page 6 DIWId Neufeld m_es a large gesture before the small audience at the N_ England Storytelling festival. CBWrrorl« HllTberi Big story for a small audience INSIDE By W.D. Cutlip was held Sept. 28 through 30 in Scarborough. It was a memorable occasion, a glorious opportunity for NEWSBRIEFS pages 2-4 TALK pageS H the Twelve Apostles ever stage a reunion in people hereabouts to put down their knitting and AD BIZ page 6-9 Scarborough, the odds are fair to good that the city their TV Guides and do Something worth doing. will tum out a decent-sized crowd to welcome them - 'TULERS pages 10-11 Perhaps 500 people eventually came - mostly from VIEWS page 13 maybe even 300 people, if the weather is good. H the out-of-town and out-of-state. It was historical. It was 10-DAY CALENDAR page 14 event were scheduled to coincide with the Second magical. It was anything but a series of dull repeti SCRlEN page 16 Coming of Christ, then so much the better. The photo tions of dusty bits of folklore. It was first-class FUNNY FOLK page 17 opportunites alone would lure the selectmen. entertainment, a good place to be on a damp week DOGSPORTS page 22 But it seems nothing short of the above will draw end. It was the place to be, man. PUZZLE page 22 the locals out, to say nothing of the hothouse flowers The question is: where in the hell were you? CLASSIFIEDS page 24 who apparently occupy the rest of southern Maine. POOKpage27 The first-ever New England Storytelling Festival Continued on page 10 • 2 0.= Bay -Wukly members of the Miss Reba ° "We're extremely disap: had been arrested previously pointed," said Jane Ann when federal agents boarded McNeish of the Maine Lung it during a refueling stop in Association, who added that TOPPINGS Atlantic City, N.J. The captain federal health officials may DROP ME ALINE... ON ANY was secretly assisting the soon upgrade cigarette , PIZZA smoke to a Class A carcino Montlon coupon DEA. PROGRESSNE CARDS, GIFTS + WRAP when calling. gen, similar to asbestos and Not to be combined According to Morris, the with other offers. MMP routinely assisted the benzene. DEA in coastal smuggling cases in the 1970s and early Maine hospitals 1980s, but there haven't been any recently. '1t's an eXciting pained by $9.4 A review of the top news stories affecting Greater thing to be involved in and it million loss Portl.nd: September 25 through October 2, 1990. certainly is an interesting Maine hospitals suffered a change from what we combined $9.4 million loss in AN OLD FRIEND normally do," said Morris. 1989, four times the $2.5 At Less Crossing guard found guilty of million loss of 1988. 'This is Than attempted murder Portlanders the fourth consecutive year of The school crossing guard who drew a small caliber, semi caught in Brennan a downward trend and it One automatic handgun from his pocket and fired at a 14-year-old doesn't bode well for the future," said James Hamar, Year ... Portland student was found guilty of attempted murder on pardon flap Director of Communications Sept. 27 by a jury in Cumberland County Superior Court. Charges by the McKernan at the Maine Hospital Defense attorney James Bushell argued that his client, James re-election campaign that Association. "I'm concerned F. Murphy, was innocent by reason of insanity when he shot at former Governor Joseph Melba wa .. a beautiful killen. that access to heal th care is at The firs! one chosen from Ihe liner. Clifton Drake III on March 30. Police reports and testimony Brennan played politics in She was playful and her fuzzy black. coat was risk, particularly in the indicate that the day before the shooting, on March 29, Murphy doling out pardons near the thick and soft. Her tiny round baby face W3!1 smaller, rural hospitals that endearing. Her people loved to watch her frolic watched Drake, who is black, and his white girlfriend shoving end of his second term have aoout. But al 7 months she became pregnant and each other jokingly at the bottom of Munjoy Hill near the 7- caught some Portlanders in experienced $5.8 million of Revlon hcr people. who didn't want kittens. turned her out. the overall loss." Now al less than a year of age. she is up for adoption, Eleven. "Leave her alone, nigger," Murphy reportedly said, the glare of unwanted not as a kinen but ao; a cal. angering Drake, At the same intersection the next day, Murphy publicity. Hamar said the hospital Lipstick revenue losses stem from She has come a long way. Her adult features are fine and Drake shouted at one another until Drake crossed the street Among those receiving and sculpted. 10e clumsy cute prancing of the kitten pardons were associates of "rigid" revenue caps im has been replaced by the graceful saunter of a cat. and came toward Murphy. The crossing guard then shot at 50 She is litter trained and housebroken. The events Drake and missed, hitting the side of the 7-Eleven. When Drake Bruce Taliento, one of posed by the Maine Health of thc 1a... 1 few months have left her a little cautious Portland's youngest mayors, Care Finance Commission, and confused. She had given her devotion 10 people tried to fire again, the bullet jammed. Bushell argued that who had for some reason deserted her. BUI she can who became a special inadequate Medicare reim lOOoFF ·· . Murphy was insane at the time of the shooting and therefore easily be won over. And she has acquired many assistant to Finance Commis bursement and loss of valuable social graces. incapable of forming the intent to kill the teenager. "He didn't think he was shooting at an orange. He didn't sioner Rodney Scribner in the population in the rural areas. -----.-~-------------------------- li£i. ·'Utl· ,'ij(·);J·t':JM4 Before you decide on a kitten or a puppy, remember in Ihree months Brennan administration On the expense side, he -Artist's Proofs -Quick Business Copies you will have a cal ordog. Take a look at the older animals at [he shelter. think he was holding a pencil," said Deputy District Attorney Revlon Nail Enamel They have a 101 to offer. Laurence Gardner, who prosecuted the case. Gardner argued before being indicted in 1980 explained that smaller -Student's Reports -Family Photos that while Murphy was clearly "a racist, an anti-semite and in a $280,000 insurance scam. hospi tals are stretched &Nail Care misogynist," he was sane enough to intend to shoot and kill Robert Franciose, one of financially to train and keep w~ health-care providers and to g£figJJl!!IgP'JM~ggLM-1!r:i€ Drake. those convicted with u4rurna1 Refuge League Taliento, won a pardon in provide 24-hour emergency Baxter Shelter Along with attempted murder Murphy was found guilty of 774-4455 ) 449 Stroudwater.