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12—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, T«xo», Friday, May 30.1980.
Red tape snarls last wish
By BARRY RENFREW
Associated Press Writer
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Mary
Marvich is 107 years old, and for £0 years
she’s been trying to become an American
citizen. But her last wish is being denied
because she can’t remember the name of
the wooden sailing ship that brought her to
New York Harbor in 1889.
Her daughter, Betty Nicoletti, says Mrs.
Marvich, who emigrated from what is now
Yugoslavia, has had numerous citizenship
applications rejected by the U.S. Im-
migration and Naturalization Service.
“It was always the same story. Without
the name of the ship she couldn’t become a
citizen,” Mrs. Nicoletti said. “We’ve tried
again and again to remember the name of
the ship. But she was only 16 years old
when she arrived and she was sick to death
on that boat for 12 days and 12 nights
coming over.”
Robert A. Hallowed, who heads the
immigration service in West Virginia, said
the ship’s name is needed to assure that
Mrs 'Marvich entered the country legally.
The case is being investigated, he said.
Several local and state political leaders
volunteered their help after Elizabeth Gill,
a Marion County commissioner, learned
that Mrs. Marvich was not a U.S. citizen.
Mps. Gill said she had recently asked
Mrs. Marvich what she wished for most
and was startled to learn that the old
woman was not a citizen.
“It’s her one wish before she dies. I think
it would be the happiest day of her life to
have that piece of paper,” Mrs. Gill said.
Mrs. Marvich worked in a cigar factory
in New York before moving to Penn-
sylvania where she met her husband. They
moved to Fairmont, W.Va., where she has
lived for 83 years and raised nine children,
Mrs. Nicoletti said.
Local residents call Mrs. Marvich
“grandmother.” She began seeking
citizenship before World War II. But after
failing several times to remember the
name of the ship or get an exemption to the
regulation, she gave up, Mrs. Nicoletti
said.
- “Her pride was hurt. We just didn't try
anymore,” she said.
At Mrs. Marvich’s 107th birthday party
last weekend, Mrs. Gill told friends and
community leaders of the wish. No»one
knew that Mrs. Marvich was not a citizen,
Mrs. Gill said.
West Virginia Secretary of State A.
James Manchin and former Gov. Arch
More, who attended the birthday party,
are among state political leaders who have
written to the immigration service and
President Carter asking that Mrs. Mar-
vich be made a citizen.
Special programming proliferates
Big three networks stuck
By PETER J. BOYER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Networks, networks,
everywhere. News networks,
sports networks, religious
networks, movie networks - a
new communications web, it
seems, is born every day.
Next Sunday, Ted Turner’s
24-hour-a-day cable news
network begins operation. On
June 9, something called In-
dependent Network News takes
its place in this world, offering
prime time network news to 30
independent TV stations around
the country.
Already operating are ESPN,
the all-sports cable TV network,
Home Box Office and Showtime
— entertainment cable net-
works — and sundry religious
networks.
On commercial television,
there are Operation Prime
Time, Golden Circle and other
ad-hoc entertainment networks
Each new web, in its way,
competes with the The Big
Three — ABC, NBC and CBS —
for audience.
The proliferation of these
networks speaks a challenge to
the domination of the three
major networks, and the ■
thinking that guides them. The
idea that the lowest common
denominator must be served —
the bottom line in big network
programming philosophy - is
being refuted with the birth of
each new programming
system.
This isn’t lost on the brass at
CBS, ABC and NBC. At their
recent affliates meetings here,
executives from all three
networks spoke of the matter of
the new technology and its
challenge to the status quo.,
Most of the talk was reassuring
rhetoric, of the “They’ll never
harm us” type.
But Fred Silverman,
president of NBC, got to the
heart of the matter. .NBC, he
said, must “take chances in
going for what truly is different
on television.
“And I will tell you right now,
our future in this business and
our survival in this business
depend on it. There aren’t just
two other networks out there,
there is a growing assortment
of new technologies, pay cable,
Apathy leaves Gulf Coast
area in hurricane danger
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
hurricane season is fast ap-
proaching, and the head of the
government’s weather agency
is urging residents of coastal
areas to take heed.
“I appeal to all Americans
who live or visit in vulnerable
areas to take this matter
seriously,” Richard A. Frank,
head of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration, said Thursday.
The hurricane season begins
Sunday and Frank pointed out
the potential for disaster is
enormous.
He said there were no major
hurricanes during the 1970s and
as a result millions of
Americans who have moved
into fast-growing areas on the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts have
never experienced a really bad
storm of this type.
That leads to apathy, Frank
warned, so that when a serious
hurricane does come people
may not be prepared or may be
unwilling to evacute if
necessary.
Historically, the United
States has experienced an
average of two serious
hurricanes every three years.
Although there is loss of life and
property damage almost every
year because of hurricanes,
there has not been a major
storm since 1969.
However, the normal pattern
can be expected to resume at
any time, Frank warned. "The
lack of major hurricanes was
fortunate for the 1970s, but it
will not be fortunate for the
1980s, when the hurricanes
come and we are not
prepared,” he said.
Most endangered are heavily
developed coastal areas, many
of which have limited access,
which would cause problems if
an evacuation were needed.
Thanks to improved methods
of prediction in recent years,
forecasters can now give about
12 hours warning of a hurricane
and as a result death tolls have
been declining.
But at the same time property
damage from the storms has
growing, large,, because
of increased development in
vulnerable areas. He projected Cerent - even if the dif-
losses of $15 billion or more in ference is something so small
the 1980s if it is merely a normal as the showing of an uncut film
decade for these storms. — will prosper.
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Our Daily Bread
Scripture Reading for Today: John 15:13-17
NEVER FRIENDLESS
I have railed you friends.
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| tor who was visiting the poor in a large city hospital.
A nurse asked him to talk to a sigk man in the ward
He was glad to do so, but was shocked by the fellow's ap-
pearance. His face was drawn and white. “Nurse, I'm afraid
he's asleep," said the minister. "No, he’s dying," she re-
plied. The clergyman read the card at the foot of the bed
giving the man’s name and age. Also written on it were
the words: "No friends." "What does this mean?" asked
the pastor. "Just what it says," answered the nurse. "If he
dies tonight, we won't know who to contact. He seems to
be alone in the world. Please speak to him." The preacher
bent over him and quietly recited the words of the old
hymn, "How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believ-
er's ear." Suddenly the man opened his eyes, and a joyous
whisper was heard, "Yes, Jesus is my Savior and my Friend."
The information card said "No friends," but it failed to
take into account the blessed companionship he enjoyed
with the matchless Son of God. This man knew that the
promise of his ever-present, unseen Friend was true, even
in the trying hour of death. He took literally the words of
the Lord, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”
(Heb. 13:5).
Loved ones may die or our dearest earthly companions
turn against us, but as Christians we have unlimited com-
fort. We enjoy the fellowship of the One who remains
closer to us than a brother.
Dear reader, if you've acknowledged Jesus as your Sav-
ior, you will never be friendless. _H G B.
Jesus is all the world to me,
I want no better friend;
I trust Him now, I'll trust Him when V
Life's fleeting days shall end. —Thompson
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and federal government.
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two biggies will, respond
remains to be seen. Silverman
spoke of developing and
broadcasting “the kind of
programs that are not available
elsewhere, and that other
services cannot provide.
“We must distinguish our-
selves with programs and
personalities that are unique to
us ... programs that say to the
public, ‘Don’t miss this; you
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Silverman’s examples were
the new “David Letterman
Show,” which begins next
month, “Speak Up America”
and other components of NBC’s
coming schedule. The same sort
of programming, in other
words, that gave rise to the
alternative networks in the first
place.
The Big Three are stuck. As
long as their business is the
business of providing the
highest possible number of
bodies to advertisers, their
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