■ f — MANCHESTER HERALD. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1988 Slick: Downriver Health: Nicotine gum helps smokers quit / page 7 Names in the News towns get ready as well give the land back to the Hogan, who played a rogue for oil / page 5 Cotby donation abos.” crocodile hunter in the comedy W inner East Catholic wins 2nd straight / page 15 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The four-hour program was “ Crocodile Dundee,” was not Bill Coaby has donated a total of broadcast live around the world. available for comment. 91.3 million to Florida A&M “ People Just have to learn in Unlveralty and three other histor­ this country that the tenp ‘abo’ is Singing praise ically black colleges, a university offensive and they shouldn’t use it ■pokesman announced. when talking about aborigines,” NEW YORK (AP) - Enter­ Cosby presented a $325,000 said Gary Foley, an aboriginal tainer Melba Moore sings high rtieck to Florida A&M President activist. praise for two high school stu­ Frederick Humphries after Aborigines, Australia’s origi­ dents chosen to represent the dinner at the actor’s New York nal inhabitants, number about 1 United States in an international City townhouse, university spo­ percent of the 16 million popula­ choir at the 1988 Winter Olympics kesman Eddie Jackson said tion. They have vowed to disrupt in Calgary, Canada. Tuesday. the bicentennial, calling it a Jennifer Johnson and John Cosby and his wife, Camille, celebration of invasion. McVeigh “ will represent us beau­ Mmulmtn Hrralft Ann-Margret Shandling Mnnchester - A City of Village Charo) also gave $325,000each to Howard Aboriginal Affairs Minister tifully,” when they perform with University in Washington, D C., Gerry Hand agreed Hogan’s representatives of 30 other coun­ Shaw University In Raleigh, N.C., during a television program remark was offensive. tries in the Coca-Cola World and Central State University in marking the country’s “ I don’t go much on Mr. Hogan, C3iorus at opening ceremonies Feb. 13, Moore said. Thursday, Jan. 7,1988 30 Cents Wilberforce, Ohio, according to bicentennial. I don’t think he’s done much for Jackson. Hogan, interviewed on “ Aus­ the aboriginal people, so I don’t Moore helped select McVeigh, a tenor from Hebron, Conn., and Humphries said Cosby made tralia Live — A Celebration of a have anything good to say about Johnson, a soprano from Cedar the gift last month but asked that Nation,” said Australians would him,” said Hand, who has Joined HEBRON’S JOHN McVEIQH & JENNIFER JOHNSON City, Utah, from among six an announcement be delayed. become so fed up with bicenten­ aboriginal groups in boycotting .. posing with singer Melba Moore (center) nial celebrations that "w e might the bicentennial events. finalists in an audition Tuesday. Snow, ice “ It was a wonderful evening,” said Humphries, who was not told in advance what Cosby would donate to the university. Cosby gave $1.2 miiiion last year to Fisk University. hit South The star of "The Cosby Show” holds a bachelor’s degree from Temple University and a docto­ 3 MILLION DOLLAR rate in education from the Uni­ Deaths mounting versity of Massachusetts. as cold persists Feeling better M ^ I C P By Scott Williams NEW YORK (AP) - A new­ The Associated Press found ability to express anger has left Ann-Margret feeling better A powerful storm piled up snow and glazed roads about herself, the actress says in with ice across the South today, stranding hundreds of the current issue of “W” travelers and closing schools and offices, while a cold magazine. wave kept much of the nation in its Arctic grip. “ A few years ago. I woke up Since Saturday, the weather was blamed for 27 extremely angry. There were a deaths, including 15 by exposure. Thousands of bunch of reasons, personal homeless people flocked to already crowded shelters, things,” the 46-year-old actress prompting authorities to open armories and state said. “ I finally started speaking buildings. m y mind. Wednesday’s storm headed east today after “ I f I was angry, I talked about dumping about a foot of snow from Utah and southern it, instead of keeping it inside,” Colorado across Oklahoma and southern Kansas to she said. “ I can’t live with that parts of Arkansas, and closing schools as far east as the any more. I Just talk to the person Carolinas. I ’m angry with, and then it’s over. Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, and northern Mississippi got lesser accumulations. Heavy ice and “ I’m a hundred times better snow accumulations coated highways in northern now than I was,” she added. Texas and Louisiana. The actress was interviewed in The storm spread snow across the South, closing Toronto, where she is filming "A schools, roads and businesses in Alabama and New Life,” a movie starring, EABANCE--' Georgia. First lady Nancy Reagan canceled a directed and written by Alan D«vld Kool/M«nchmt*r Htrald scheduled trip to Nashville, Tenn., where more than 5 Alda. inches of snow fell. ■ d a YS ONL Y! IN THE SPOTLIGHT — Former Manchester resident John singers chosen to represent the United States in an international Much of the East was under winter storm advisories Shandllng on Fox chorus at the Olympic Games next month in Calgary, Canada. through Friday. McVeigh talks about his newfound fame Wednesday during an “ We’re not recommending travel unless it’s life or LOS ANGELES (AP) - Come­ interview at RHAM High School in Hebron. McVeigh, a Story on page 3. death or God’s will or something like that,” said state dian Garry Shandling’s hit show l im it e d 17-year-old RHAM seniorwho now lives in Hebron, isoneof two Highway Patrol spokesman Lee Lamlrand in Okla­ is moving to network television in SALE STARTS homa City, where a record 11.9 inches of snow closed March. Fox Broadcasting says. TIME Will Rogers World Airport overnight. The airport The award-winning “ It’s Garry reopened one runway this morning. Shandling’s Show,” which was State Transportation Director Neal McCaleb de­ clared a storm emergency Wednesday and hired rejected by the major networks THURSDAY... Tests dispute claims of bad water private contractors to help keep the roads open in what before it became a hit on the he called the “ third 20-year storm” in a month. Bv Nancy Concelman Showtime cable channel, will join “ If the wind comes up, we’re in a woridof hurt,” said Manchester Herald F o x ’s Sunday night lineup on Paul Gray, a Kansas Department of Transportation March 6, Fox announced 9:30 am SHARP!! superintendent. “ We can keep the snow plowed if we A resident of the Park Chestnut Tuesday. don’t get wind. We can plow snow, but we can’t plow condominium compiex on Park and The shows will be repeats of visibility.” Chestnut streets claims that she and those presented on the Showtime On Wednesday, subzero high temperatures lingered EVERYTHING MUST about 27 other residents have gotten sick pay network, which will retain across Minnesota, Wisconsin, northeast Iowa and from high copper ieveis in the drinking exclusive rights to the fresh Indiana, and s in g l^ ig it highs prevailed in Illinois and water there, even though town and Shandling programs, said Show­ BE SOLD!!! central New England, but light winds prevented deadly private tests show the ievel of copper time spokeswoman Lauren Loff. wind chills. and other chemicals and materials are Like the old “ Jack Benny The snowstorm shut down the newly convened OUR MAIN WAREHOUSE IS PACKED within the normal range. Oklahoma Legislature until next week, and state Show,” it features the star talking Louise Turgeon, 31, of 134 Park St., TO THE WALLS,...OVERSTOCKED agencies began sending home non-essential employees to the audience about his show. said she’s quit drinking the water after at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The show was turned down by suffering for about six months from WITH 3 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH “ To my knowledge, there’s not a shovel available in the networks before its 1986 debut memory loss, cramps, nausea, vomiting the state,” said David Shumake of Horn Seed Co. in on Showtime. p OF TOP NAME BRAND MAJOR and diarrhea. Turgeon said she’s also Oklahoma City. “ We have sold steel shovels, plastic, It has been honored by the taking vitamins designed to help flush ® a p p l ia n c e s c o l o r s s aluminum ... anything that can move any volume of International Film and Televi­ , TV , VCR , the copper out of her system and feels snow is gone.” sion Festival of New York for ' MICRO WA VES A ND MORE. better. In Texas, more than 7 inches fell over northwestern outstanding programming and But results of water tests done in areas. The snow in Dallas forced officials to cancel October and November by the town voted the best comedy series of classes. 1987 by the Television Critics Water Department and a private lab Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas’ hired by ’I^rgeon show copper levels in Association. It has been nomi­ Love Field remained open but thousands of passengers the drinking water to be below 1 nated for five ACE cable awards, II SAVE 5%,040% waited for flights that either were canceled or delayed to be announced Jan. 24. milligram, the state and federal recom­ mended limit for copper in drinking Please turn to page 18 water. However, results from the tests Little recognition GIGANTIC ^A VINGS ON AMERICA'S differ widely. Results of copper tests from the f a v o r it e t o p NAME BRANDS FOR David Kool/Mancheatar Herald BISMARCK, N.D.