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A LOOK AT THIS MORNING S HEADLINES
Marie Callender, famous for
her delicious pies, died of
cancer Saturday
LACH NA HILLSCalif (AP)
— Marie C-allender. namesake
of n restaurant chain and
frozen-entree business that
evolved from a pie shop she
opened in a Quonset hut in
19411. nan dtuq. Shu was 88
Callender had iwim ill with < ancer and
died Saturday at Rossmoor Ki^nm v Resi
dential ( ominumtv. said ()rnnge (lountv slier
iffs l.t Lynn Nehring
Her name was synonymous with mouth
watering pies
"You mention pies and nine of 10 people
will think Marie Callender." said Leonard
Drey nr. the chief exet utive and president
ot Marie Oillender Pie Shops Im. in Orange
"Our recipes are ail based upon her nngi
nal onus."
The restaurant chain has Ho units, most
ly in California It also has locations in Ari
zona. Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho. Illinois.
Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico. Oregon.
Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin
In 1986, Callender's only son. Donald Cal
lender of Indian Wells, sold the company
which by then had annual sales of $i7r> mil
lion — to Rumnda Inn.
"It's really a rugs-to-riches story, an Amer
ican dream story,” said Gerald Tanaka, senior
vice president of the company, now held
by New York-based Wilshire Restaurant
Group Inc.
She got into the food business in Califor
nia by chant e, answering an ad for help at
a delicatessen.
The owner then opened a snack stand and
wanted to still pies. Callender began making
them with her mother at their home, she
recounted in 1986.
The owner invested in a bakery, but she
tired of the workload there and threatened
to quit The owner instead suggested Cal
lender take the oven, start her own pie busi
ness and sell him the pies. Callender recalled.
Thousands come to Denver Zoo
to say goodbye to Florida
bound polar bears
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And Snow. t-year-old polar
b*wrs that had < aptivated (>»i
orado sitn e their birth at the
Denver Zoo. were shipped off
to riorum on zvuminv niter tnousands lined
up to say goodbvts
Zoo workers had fed !ht> cubs by band ami
played ami swam with I hem for months after
they were born Nov t>, r)lM Klondike hits
grown to IDO pounds. Snow weighs J6U.
I hoy have taken over our liv es, changed
thorn forever," said Angola Baier, the zoo s
marketing director Not i tingle department
of the ZOO was loft imtomJlod hv these guys
The bears left on a chartered plane for Sea
World in Orlando. Fla., whore the Wild An
tu exhibit awaits thorn it's a bigger and more
high-tech homo than they had at the Denver
Zoo
"Wo an1 going to miss them, hut they have
a nil o facility down there, a good (tehavioral
enrichment program," said Cindy Bickol. zoo
nursery keeper
Fans gave the bears a setuioff Saturday, lin
ing up two hours before the zoo's gates
opened at to a m.
"I just wanted to say goodbye." said Mar
cia Smith of Denver
Winners of New York City
marathon pay tribute to
memories of father, sister
NKW YORK I Al’) A Mexii an man pay
ing tribute to his late father won the New York
City Marathon amid n-cord cold temperatures
Sunday, while a Kenyan woman running in
memory of her sister i optimal the women's
division.
German Silva was the first repeat chain
pion in 10 years. Tegla Loroupe won ihu
women's division for the ond consecutive
year.
Violence in Algeria escalates
with onset ot nation's first
round presidential elections
.-u i.it k.v Algeria !At )
Seven people have heen
killed and id least 40 others
wounded in escalating vio
lent e Ix'forn tins weeks pres
idonttal «!t*t tion in a nation
ton* t>\ uvil war
A car bomb exploded Saturday near the
city halt In Quled Yau he in southern Alge
rta. killing five people anti wounding 40.
source* in the t apital said Sunday
Also Saturday, o member of President
Liamine /.eroual s i ampaign staff was shot
to death in Djelfa, southwest of Algiers and
a supporter of presidential candidate Said
Sadi uas fatally shot in the town of Tinni
line
V'ioiem « has increased dramatically in
Algeria with the approat h of Thursday's
first round presidential vole Extremist
groups trying it) topple the government and
install Islamic rule have threatened to kill
voters
Most of tiie political opposition is hoy
cutting the election, de< taring it a charade to
prop up Zeroual's military-backed adminis
t rat ion
Algeria has been wracked for nearly four
'ear-. In m Islam it insurgent y timi ticgnn hi
January 1092. when the government can
celed legislative elections that the main
opposition party the Islamit Salvation
Front was poised to w in.
More than 40,000 people have been
killed, and the Front is now banned.
/.eroual is expet ted to defeat his three
challengers to win the first round If he does
not get more than 50 percent of the vote, a
runoff will lie held I)e< 15.
/eroual » lliam iJiulluugur is Sheik Mail
foudh Nnhnnh, 33, a moderate Islamit
activist
11-year-old genius
gets graduate degree
to be game show host
Ml IRFRKFNBORO. Twin. (AP)
— Why waste time? Now that 11
vear-old Michael Kearney lias
graduated from college, he's
working on a graduate degree.
All in preparation for becom
ing a game show host.
"lie could Ik* Mozart, Einstein.
We have no idea," said Kevin
Kearney, father of the bos with
the 300-plus IQ. "Right now he
wants to be a game show host.
That's n passion we have to
at :i opt.”
Michael was the youngest
child on record to enter college
— age 6 1/2 — and the youngest
to graduate — age 10 — when he
got his degree in anthropology
last year at the University of
South Alabama.
On Friday. Michael announced
plans to attend Middle Tennessee
State University, which has
offered him something similar to
a full-time graduate assistantship
The real thing might violate child
labor laws
Michael plans to start school
in January. He hasn't decided
what he'll get his degree in.
"dug. glug, glug." he said in
response to a question about
whether he would join a frater
nity. 'TU bring the Kool-Aid."
Michael and his sister Maeghan.
who is finishing high school at age
9, were mostly home-taught by
their parents. Michael began
spouting algebra while a toddler.
“He's been trying to take over
the family since he was 3," his
father said. "1 used education as
a scam, to divert him so Dad
could stay in charge '
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Parents have party,
buy Purple Heart
for 6-year old son
PALM BEACH, Fla (AP) — A
dozen veterans protested outside
the home of a couple who threw
an elaborate military-style birth
day party for their 6-year-old son.
who had bought him a Purple
Heart for $50.
"It made me angry when I
thought of my dad and everyone
else who laid in the jungle or the
snow, suffering, to get that
medal,” said Harry Willette,
whose father received the Purple
Heart in the Battle of the Bulge.
Hill and Robin Liming weren't
around for the Veterans Day
protest Instead, Chris Noel, a for
mer radio show host for the
Armed Forces Network, inter
vened on their behalf Her pro
gram "A Date With Chris"
cheered American troops in Viet
nam.
She said the bantings were sor
ry and that their son. Chase,
would never wear his medal She
said Robin (.anting admitted she
made a mistake
Now, Noel said, the Lantings
want to join forc;es with their crit
ics to ban the sale of Purple
Hearts and help a local shelter for
homeless veterans. Both sides
planned to meet Monday.
The Oct Tl party cost S6.000
and included National Guards
men and militarv vehicles.
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