ee te ee Frage 10, The Herald, Thursday, February 16; 1904 Sec Eb, wa get "ye Di Ob DOE PAC slivomtcies. Bete du ea ? Whliney Brinnen, left, a grade 11 student at Caledonia ,, Secondary, and Linda Fowle, a grade 12 student at Mount | Elizabeth Secondary School in Kitimat, will be performing : a flute duet at the Pacific Northwest Music Festival. ~The: Tel ate a LE ee tpn bis \ -years. melcy ier an ee etal or girts have been play ing the flute for approximately seven Whitney is currently playing on the Provincial Honour Band in Richmond, B.C. and Linda. is hoping to make music ‘a career. Abs Lok en ees VANCOUVER (CP) — A year ago, Randy Scocch’s future tooked bleak. Lying in his. hospital bed, he couldhardly draw upon enough ‘energy. to lift a fork to his mouth. * Now, Scooch is itching to take on life like any ° other 26-year-old. He became British Columbia's first heart. ‘transplant recipient Last March 18, On Sunday, -, :he celebrated two birthdays with his family in Richmond — his 26th and his first since the ‘transplant. ~ "Its hard to put everything in perspective -these days, because so much has happened, 7 che says. “I don’t want people to look at me and ‘say, 'poor guy, at least he’s doing all right. i Well, I'm not some poor guy. doy got problems like everybody else. I worry *° ~ “about getting a job’and I worry aboul the fe ~* But I’m just as healthy as the next guy. wy jaans are to get a job. That’s about it. But hat’s quite a task these days.” t Scooch’s ordeal began about four years ago, ith what he-thought wis a severé cold. He oughed a lot, was having trouble sleeping and, gouldn’ t breathe properly. : : When the “cold” persisted, he visited a _ pecialist who ordered an electrocardiogram. The next day, he received two telephone calls is ROME (cP} -— A hard: line faction of the {list Red Brigades has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's killing of Leamon Hunt, the ‘American head of the multinational force in the. final peninsula who was ambushed outside his ome. ; k The slaying has given investigators ‘‘clear ndications” of a comeback ‘by the feared Hed ‘Brigades, a police source said today, = The terrorists shot out the bulletproof win- dows of Hunt's car with submachine-guns * Wednesday night and killed him at point-blank ‘yange. “) The attack was claimed by the Fighting ‘Communist party, a Red Brigades . faction. Police said they considered the claim credible, In Beirut, meanwhile, a shadowy Lebanese group also claimed responsibility for Hunt's murder. : 4 handwritten statement dated Wednesday |. “Edwards Botte 454 g a (t Ib.) fine « one telling him ne was accepted for ajob as ~ Regular Drip or Extra Fine - , oO . . . : heels 7 a a . ra Red Delicious — Golden Delicious | an apprentice, glass.cutter and the other from his doctor, ordering him to the hospital. im-- mediately. “Scooch was told he had ideopathic congestive - cardiomyopathy, or. progressive deterioration of the heart muscle, He was able to lead a. reasonably normal life for a time, with drugs ~ used to treat heart problems, but by Christmas . 1983 the search was on for a transplant.’ “In the hospital, 1 just kept getting weaker 7 and weaker, 1 was so scared.” - His parénts, whe were with him around the. clock during his five-month stay. in the hospital, - had to constantly massage his’ ‘ankles fo ‘prevent blood clots from forming. - . ' Seooch was finally accepted’as. a heart transplant candidate at University Hospital in London, Ont. Because of the rigors, of the ° operation and of life itself after the transplant, Scooch had to force himself to gain weight and . strengthen his muscles, ; NEW ATTITUDE. ¢ . f. ““T also had to’ start taking a more posilive attitude toward my chances of. living," he said, “If L.didn't want to live, if 1 wasn't willing to. give it my all, -why should I be given anew. heart and nat someone élse who wanted it -more?” Seooch’ snew heart was implaited March 18 - Red Brigades claim responsibility _ and delivered to a news agency today said the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Detachments , look responsibility. The note said the killing was carried oul ‘by ~ the Martyr Nabil Hamdash Unit to avenge . victims of recent U.S, naval bombardments of". anti-government positions near Beitut, “We consider this operation as a warning Lo all NATO forces in Lebanon,” the statement : said. ‘They should withdraw from our land and waters as soon as possible or many NATO heads will be rolling inside and outside — Lebanon, . .' Hunt, the 56-year-old civilian director- general of the - Multinational Foree «and - Observers that patrols the Sinai, was pronounced dead in hospital | an hour after the ; attack, “The operating method of the attack had the . Commercial Grade Spartan Apples Ibs. . for’ aa Scooch finds new Tease. on: life. “at ‘Univetsliy Hospital. ‘Four ‘surgeons, two - . anesttietists and nurses led by heart surgeon Dr. Neil McKenzie performed the delicate six- ” hour operation, which was paid for by the B.C." medical’ Services plan. Scooch returns to London next month for his yearly check-up, Although Seaoch is $ susceptible to colds because. of daily doses of anti-rejection drugs that lower his white blood cell count, he lifts: weights,’ ‘swims, bicycles and exercises at least once. a week. at a nearby community centre. * “Tm. -suppased’ to exercise every day for the ‘rest of my life, the ‘doctors told me when T left London," he said. “L wish I could say I do but -let’s just say I do it as mitch as J can." . An: admitted Chinese food: ‘fanatic, Scooch » finds thé idea of cutting oul all fatty, irted foods atid cholestrol distressing. - ’ “Tm a bit overweight right now, but I'm sute | rl Jose’ gpme weight. during my stay. in Lon- don, h he’ said.- ~ " Scooch said, he! ‘Ss supposed ta- ‘welgh ‘about 120° ; pounds ‘but. weighs 140 pounds. “Because my ‘* medication-caused some thinning of my bones, my-optimum weight .is suppised to. be lower : than normal. " stampof the Italian leftist terrorist gang,” * said : the Italian police source. ¢..- The source, a high-ranking official of Italy's 8 anti- terrorist ‘police DIGQS, added weight to reports in recent weeks that’ leftist terrorists _ Were planning a comeback. : Those reports | included -a warning by! repentant | Red ; Brigades guerrilla” Reberto | Sandalo, who tolda television interviewer early this month the pang was planning an attack in Rome, . The attack. on Hunt was the first major . assault against an American:official in Italy since the Red Brigades kidnapped US. Brig.-- Gen James Dozier. in 1931. The NATO official was freed by a police raid. 42 days later. Hunt was the first American othicial and the : seventh diplomat murdered by terrorists in Italy since 1976, when Hunaim Hatem, a Syrian : Embassy official, was killed. . . Fancy Grade | B.C. Grown .1 Litre tetra brik " White Way "Were ‘darkened: cS ‘Broadway darkened ‘ their: « Marquees - Wednesday. -- . Merman command: ‘of the musical stage in 1930. As a 2iyear- ; - old neophyte in Girl Crazy, - Goes . Hattie in 1940, Annie: Get. . ‘television “Blue Label for entertainer. Ethel Merman, the: late: singer” whose clarion voice’ brought _ her fame ‘on: ‘slage.. and » screen for more than. ‘halt a century. - : “Ethel . Merman ‘wag? dear friend, one with whom‘ “1 started. .on. Broadway nearly 60 yedrs ‘ago. in Red, "Hot and” Blue,?”-said Bob Hope. “Show- business. has lost one of its: “greats.” mo Merman’ "was found. dead ‘of natural: causes” Wed- nesday, at “her, Manhattan ; apartment: sald. Dr.. Elliot Gross,. the \city’s- medical examiner, She died without ever taking i a music lesson. in memory of the star, all ‘ theatres’ for one minute. at. 8 p.m, -brought: down the - house... with such songs as There's - No Business Like - Show - love-struck girl, 5 oy ‘WON: TONY AWARDS. Merman won two Tony... awards, in 1951 for-Cal] Me “Madam and a special Tony: . _ ini 1972 honoring her entire: ; gareer, alae ‘Her four. marriages erided: in: i divorcee. The second, ..o Hearat :. executive Robert Bevitt : in 1942,"-lasted . 11. yearsand the last, to Ernest © Bargnine in 1964, rain only 38: lays, She and Hollywood ‘agent! ‘William Smith were married fora year in 1840. and‘her other husband was~ Robert. Six, . an — airlines:.: executive: she. wed in 1953: and shed:i in 1961. foe Merman ‘had. a son, -: Robert Levitt’ Jr. of New’ _ York, and a daughter, Ethyl Six, who comimilted suicide “show time... Merman. waa. known. for’ - _ her pipe-organ voice, which in 1967, ; =" Born Ethel Agnes . “Zim Z ‘Queens, “Merman beak 3 : es in Ma afler recelving: ; year-old: ‘woman playing a ‘a a commercial diploma from William Cullen Bryant high school. - She . _gupplemented - ‘her ‘earnings with: local night jobs asa singer and a brief movie stint with Warner Bros. studios in New York. Late in 1929, she got .a ‘nightclub job on the same bill, with Jimmy Durante's ‘act ~- Clayton, Jackson and foliowing Durante. The | summer she played the . Brooklyn: Paramount, where .. producer Vinton “Freedley heard’ ‘her ‘and * thought Gershwin might - like to also. Gershwin did and hired her. for Girl Crazy. ‘Merman’s bady will ; be cremated: but a funeral home spokesman said no information will be released . about’ possible. memorial services because “the. -son mermann in Astoria, _ wank it strictly | private,” Business and her avorite, | Got Rhythm. | She had imdergone brain. . surgery ; _ April. - at " Roosevelt’ ‘Hospital, here, . she* ‘had. regularly. visited - “once a ‘week. ta’ cheer: up. the. a bedridden; °. \.>- Composer Irving: Berlin, | ho wrole Annie Get Your, Gun for” Merinan, - “said: greatest,” an A REAL.PRO_ . Sid Caesar, who appeared with Merman. in the film It's “8 Mad,: Mad,.. “Mad, Mad World, ‘said: “she WBS an idol of mine. When I was first starting in, she was the queen of musicals, She was so full of life — a real pro." . first -- took Starring Ginger. . Rogers, Merman had one song and made the most. of it + the show-stopping I Got Rhyth- '; m. Her success continued in. Buch clsasies as, Anything 4984, “Panama Your Guri in 1946 and Call Me Madam in 1950. She also made two-later New York . Slage appearances — in a ._ Jimited-run revival in 1966 ‘and as the wind-up star’ of * Hello, Dolly! in 1970. ; She had 14 movie credits © between 1934 and 1976 and appeared. on a number of specials. Her movies. included, the film versions of Anything Goes, Cali Me Madam, Alexan- . der’s Ragtime Band, .No Business Like Show Business and a non-singing “part in it's a Mad, Mad,- Mad World, “T never took a Singing, | dancing or acting lesson in my hfe," Merman once. said. “George Gershwin told me, ‘Don’t ever take a music lesson, Ethel,’ All 1 | have done since is belt out the songs.” One of her later returns to” the New York stage was for the 1966 revival of Annie Get - Your Gun, received with Prices effective tlt Sat. Feb. 18-1984 In Your Friendly, . Courteous Terrace Safaway Store. CANADA BAFEWAY LIMITED sor all About PEOPLE - Prince: Charles was in "i Coventry, England, touring an ute” rere eth. - plarit with his wife, Diana, when some friendly ‘blue-collar ribbing turned him several shades of pink. The couple, expecting their second child in September, -: were watchin machinist Terry McCauley when the prince - "She. was “absolutely the. 8 H y - said: “You're doing good work, Production’s going well," -MeCauley replied: ‘Your production line is going well, : too,’ sending the royal helr into a pronounced blush, ; Dob’ Seale who gained notoriety as a radical black‘: activist i in. the 1980s, says his A?-year-old son plans to join the U.S. Army. “I think it’s fine,” said Seale, now 47 and about to publish va cookbook, “Whether he's in the army or in a job, he still has a social structure to deal with. Is it different torun into racism in the army or here on the streets?" ‘Seale Sayshe has volunteered to help Jesse Jackson in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination but ~ hasn't received-a reply. My name isa a tough piece of history for them," he says, 4 ‘Singer Roy “Orbison was released from an Edmonton hospital Wednesday after a month-long stay for tests and - treatment of respiratory. problems. i Orbison, 47, entered hospital Jan. 13 after * ‘a to-day “engagement at a local hotel. The Nashvitle singer, best known. ‘for the 1960s hils Pretly . Woman and Only the Lonely, had been ordered to rest while. . undergoing extensive, tests; said William - Dartnell,” executive director of the hospital. | a ™ = Wade. Boggs, a superstitious third-baseman with Bostori Red Sox, had decided to seek a salary of $717,000 because - his favorite time to run before a 7:35 p.m. game is 7:17 p.m, - Remarked teammate Bob Stanley: ‘The ball club must be happy that the games don’t start al 9:30," Meanwhile, Willie Horton, a former slugger with Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners, has filed for bankruptcy. ° Horton, 40, and his wife, Gloria, made the move through a ‘court in Seattle to consolidate debts and arrange a ° repayment schedule, He listed about $133,282 in debts,” _» $160,000 in assets and sought 4 $34,000 exemption. - Horton, six hits short of 2 ,000 in an 18-year major league career, recently became a minor-league hilling instructor for Oakland A’s, but said in a recent interview he still hopes _for another. chance in the big leagues. "T could still do as good a job as 70 per cent of the people cout there,” Horton said. “I know I could," Horton played for Detroit from 1963 to 1976, including the 1968 World Series, which saw him immortalized in a famous - great-moments-in-baseball play. With Detroit desperately needing a win, it was Horton’ 8 throw from left fleld thal nailed St. Louis Cardinal speed: * ster Low Brock at the plate, shifting momentum ‘to the Tigers for their ‘eventual come-from-behind win in the -_ Series. . ina pkg: aver 4 5 aie fo ib .