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► » -tty**' 2d / &£- ' wefißb JRZ jfc“ ,r *■ j| z’j fw z/W* pc9 /v ** ’*’»'' ■«, *®*-iT,“ iJ’TLjW 1 » jp * wuy -wO*. Ar* * * NEW ORLEANS, La.—The re-enactment of the Battle of Destrehan has the look of realism complete with flags and musket-fire. Robert Williams (right of center) heads a Showbeat TV tackling tough themes of late By Dick Kleiner HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) - There may be more “Roots” coming along eventually. David L. Wolper, who put together the splendid eight days that ABC telecast recently, says there could be more on the way. “I have the rights to the en tire Alex Haley book,” he says “And the book tells the story of nine generations of Haley's family, but the telecast only covered five generations. So there are four left. “And I’ve also already ac quired the rights to Haley’s follow-up book, about his You Pay SIOO Over Cost At Cronic Chevrolet Feb. Only Atl. Phone 522-2272 K/asbiiigtoii's Birthday gale> ODDS & ENDS BROKEN SIZES 58 Pair M. Shoes mss 12 95 60 M. Shirts $12.95 4 95 Group M. Suits $*9.95 59’ 5 Sieveless Sweaters 3’ 5 Group Knit Shirts s*'9s 7 50 Were Men s All Weather Trench Coats $70.00 35 00 As Always - Pant/Shirt Outfit 25 00 Easter Boys 3 Pc. Suits lust Arrived 49’ 5 130 N. Hill St. ▼ Re-enactment search for his roots. 1 think both of those will make big TV projects." Wolper says that making and then seeing “Roots” on television was a funny feeling He had been deeply involved with the project for two solid years — and then it was over in eight days. “It’s not like doing a movie or a TV series,” he says. “They both last for a while. But this was over so quickly, and it had represented such a long period in my life.” Wolper is one of those who believes that TV is doing better things today than are the movies. “Movies to make money group of volunteers who make up “D” Company of the 2nd Maine Calvary that re-stage battles aroung the South. (AP) today,” he says, “have to be sensational. But television is able to tackle more serious and thoughtful themes, more provocative themes. “Take biographies. Movies used to do them, but no more, except for an occasional Pat ton’ or ’MacArthur’ or the offbeat things like “Lennie.’ No, today it’s television that is doing the filmed biographies.” ♦♦♦ A long time ago, I became friendly with Tommy Leonet ti, who was then a hot and ris ing young singer. Now I have met his step-daughter, a ris ing young actress. Kimberly Beck is a regular on ABC’s Rich Man, Poor Man series. She plays the daughter of a lady lawyer, a young girl with problems who may or may not turn out to be a hooker. Leonetti became her step father ten years ago, when he married her mother. “I really love him,” she says. “He’s sort of like a guru. Ask him anything, and he’ll have a book for me to read about the subject.” Leonetti and his family, in cluding Kimberly, spent three years in Australia. She was 12 to 15 at the time. He had a show there, and became a big star in Australia. For Kimberly, those three years in Australia were a tur ning point in her life. “I had always been a misfit as a kid,” she says. “I had KIMBERLY BECK been sick — rheumatic fever — and I had been raised by my grandmother. My mother was an actress — Cindy Robbins was her name — and was so busy with her career that she didn't raise me. “But, in Australia, she was always there. That was the first time she really took care of me. I was still something of a misfit, as the only American, but it wasn't so bad.” As solace, while in Australia, she turned to religion, and was a devout Roman Catholic. “Then, one day,” she says, “I had to say an Act of Contri tion. I made up my own, and the priest didn’t like that. It suddenly hit me, like a slap in the face, that religion is wrong. I still firmly believe in God, but not in religion.” {NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l Power company is wary ATLANTA (AP) - Demand on Georgia Power Co.’s gener ating capacity is “no longer even remotely approaching critical,” the president of the utility said But Robert W. Scherer told the Atlanta Civitan Club that “the situation could change dramatically if the weather should turn extremely cold again and if unexpected me chanical problems arose.” Generating units which had mechanical difficulties during the coldest period of the winter have been repaired, he said, but not before some customers had to do without power as long as 45 minutes at a time Jan. 17. Because of the cold winter, Scherer said the company is trying to avoid disconnecting residential customers for non payment. “Our managers have been instructed to take partial payments when it is neces sary,” he said. Ellis Island From 1892 until 1954 the Plymouth Rock for at least half of the immigrants to the United States was Ellis Island in New York harbor. There the new ar rivals were screened to deter mine whether they were en titled to land. Those who were too sick, too old or too weak to support themselves were turned back. In 1911, some 13,000, about two per cent, of the year’s arrivals were turned away. Water shortage California family struggles ALBION, Calif. (AP) — Rich and Mirna Sharp and their two children are preoccupied with finding enough water for the essentials of life. They try to make do with four gallons a day. “You don’t wash much of anything like windows or floors. When the kids go to a house with water, it’s hard to get them to remember to flush the toilet,” says Sharp, whose family is one of 19 in this Pacific coastal village of northern California, Albion is about 150 miles from San Francisco up the rug ged coast of drought-hit California, and its 70 residents have been without a firm water supply for a year. The drought has been intensified because a privately owned waterworks that supplied the village was allowed to fall into disuse after the owner died two years ago. Local efforts are under way to reactivate it. The Sharps go to Mima’s family home elsewhere three £wmm lioino at low BdSSCtt < Amaretto AMARETTO "all wood” luxury bedroom. The — proportions are just right’ The style will let you J L fTv ~ ‘~"‘^T == _ ' decorate with your favorite things for the rich tra | N I iffTH hr { 11 II I ditional look you want. So many feature's you will F. Id tv, ? Zfll H <1! 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Drink lots of beer and soda pop.” Gloria Petrykowski finds herself in a similar fix: “You don’t flush toilets, you can’t clean your house, you shower at other people’s homes where they have some water to spare, you use bathwater to flush the toilet.” Mrs. Petrykowski, who heads a committee to return a steady water supply to Albion, said, “There’s no water in the firehouse itself. They have to go a mile for water, and that’s a ‘one-shot.’” The people of Albion have learned not to bother going to Mendocino, 10 miles away. People there are also having it rough and the laundries have long lines all the time.
