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Monday, March 17, 1986
Celebrations across country start early for St. Pat's Day
The Associated Press
St. Patrick was toasted with parades, parties and even a chili cook-off this weekend, as celebrations began in honor of the patron saint of the Emerald Isle.
Parades were planned for today.
SI. Patrick's Day, in New York.
Chicago and Savannah, Ga., but plenty of folks, of Irish descent and otherwise, celebrated early.
Almost 4,000 partygoers jammed the streets of Shamrock, Texas, on Saturday for the Panhandle town's 40th annual toast to the slave-tainted missionary. In Los Angeles, a dispute in City Hall resulted in two parades,
and Georgia kicked off a weeklong celebration.
The Texas festival had more of a drawl than an Irish brogue. Leprechauns shared the spotlight with cowboys as this year’s theme was “An Irish Salute to Texas.”” The state’s Sesquientennial
Instead of corned beef and cabbage, there was a chili cook-off, featuring 36 varieties of chili. Apparently, not too many people minded: $800 was raised for the Shamrock band through sales at $1.75 a bus.
The Irish eyes of Memphis, Tenn.
celebrated Saturday with a parade;
instead of what used to be known as the St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl. Floats, police escorts and Navy and Marine Corps drill teams replaced outdoor beer stands that fueled some less formal marchers in the past.
The biggest parade around New Orleans also was Saturday, in the city's Irish Channel. Thousands of people lined up in the neighborhood near the river, where Irish immigrants once settled.
Georgia's weeklong celebration began Saturday with a parade in Atlanta featuring clowns, color guards, Irish setters and Irish wolfhounds.
NASA's next teacher-in-space ready to fly on future mission
The Associated Press
McCALL, Idaho — The woman who was the No. 2 choice as the teacher-in-space is ready to ride the next available flight and starts work this week on space agency educational programs.
Barbara Morgan reports today to NASA's Education Affairs Division in Washington, D.C., said Ed Campion, National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman.
She will provide a teacher's view on how the branch can use interest in the space program to help teachers lure children into math and science.
"It's like combining the first best job in the world, which is teaching here in McCall, with the second best job in the world, which is being an astronaut," Morgan told pupils during a recent trip back to McCall,
where she teaches second grade.
Morgan was to have shared the assignment with Christa McAuliffe, the nation's first space-bound teacher, who was killed when the shuttle Challenger exploded Jan. 28. Morgan had trained with McAuliffe and the six other members of Challenger's crew.
"We were real good friends and coworkers, and I loved her very much." Morgan told her hometown newspaper, the Central Idaho Star-News, during a two-week vacation from NASA training and other duties following the shuttle accident. "It hurts real badly, and I'm sure it will for a long time. But I can still feel real positive about it."
Morgan, 33, lives with her husband Clay, a novelist and smokejumper, in
a two-story cabin on Payette Lake just outside of McCall. They were married in 1978 and have no children.
Future shuttle flights are on hold pending completion of the investigation into the explosion, but NASA announced Feb. 13 that the teacher-in-space program would proceed and offer the opportunity to ride on a shuttle.
She said that same day in Boise that she was ready to go any time NASA scheduled the flight.
"We have the opportunity to teach an entire generation a very important lesson. The Challenger's mission was the schoolchildren's mission," she said then. "Their whole orientation to space and to life depends on what happens next. They are waiting to see what adults do in situations like this one."
Lawyer seeks deal in Belushi case
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The attorney for the woman charged in the drug-overdose death of comedian John Belushi wants prosecutors to drop their insistence on prison time in fight of a lenient plea bargain they made in a similar case.
Howard Wetzman, attorney for Cathy Evelyn Smith, last week cited a deal cut by the District Attorney's Office with a neurosurgeon charged
with second-degree murder by killing his addict-wife with an overdose of Demerol, a painkiller.
Prosecutors allowed Stephen Levine, 42, to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and five lesser counts in a bargain that guaranteed he would not serve any prison time.
Prosecutors said Levine gave his wife more than 225 Demerol prescriptions, made out to a fictitious patient, in the last 14 months of her
life. Myrna Levine, 32, died in May 1984.
Smith, 38, a former backup rock singer and heroin addict from Toronto, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Belushi, who was found dead of an overdose of heroin and cocaine in a Sunset Strip bungalow in March 1982.
Smith admitted in a taped interview that she injected the comedian with heroin about 20 times in the last 24 hours of his life.
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