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6B The Daily News, Lebanon, Pa Sunday, September 17, 1989 ig birds bringing in big bucks rodents. Ostriches need about a quarter-acre apiece, compared with cattle, which need two acies each. They live 70 to 100 years, producing eggs for about 40 years, Owen says. Raising ostriches did take a little getting used to, though. Theyre strange animals, Shelton says.

You cant lead them, you cant herd them, and theyll eat anything. In fact, Owen says someone onqe inspected the stomach of a dead ostrich and found a 3-foot length of rope, a pencil, a comb, three gloves, a handkerchief, an alarm clock key, a bicycle valve and seven coins. ostriches Shelton in herefords, Owen in grain. Owen also has raised catfish and Christmas trees. The two were considering llamas before they set sight on their first ostrich.

Although the ostrich is accustomed to living on arid plains, it has adjusted well to Missouri weather and didnt even mind last winters snow. They stayed right out in it, Shelton says. They only came in (to the stable) one night the night it was 15 below. Owen and Shelton feed their birds a mixture of corn, trout chow and rabbit pellets, as well as scraps of fruits and vegetables. The birds also forage for grass, insects and small Mint nj, hj lL I jLS-et? Yb 3' ml 10 males and eight females.

Right now theyre selling the offspring to other ranchers and to gentleman farmers who like the exotic. But eventually they plan to raise ostrich chicks and process them for their hides and meat. The hide is the main byproduct, says Shelton, but right now, at $5,000 per chick, no ones butchering them. Owen says there are only 3,000 to 4,000 ostriches in the United States, and only 100 to 200 of those are adult breeding pairs. This all leads to a current shortage of quality breeding stock as well as a very, very excellent market for future production birds, he says.

Ostrich hide, which is used for boots, purses, belts and other accessories, can sell for $30 to $35 a square foot, Shelton says. South Africa the ostrichs native home is the worlds largest producer of ostrich hide, but federal trade sanctions have stemmed the supply. We were importing about 100,000 hides a year. But the boot manufacturers weve talked to could use twice as many, Shelton says. The meat, which Shelton says is as tender and tasty as filet mignon and lower in cholesterol than chicken, is beginning to show up in gourmet markets.

Neither rancher has been known to bury his head in the sand when it comes to trying something new. Each had successful businesses in the St. Louis area before turning to Hem) illy mum The Associated Press A pair of ostriches keep an eye on the Loutre Valley Ostrich Ranch near Montgomery City, Mo. A pair of breeders can command $50,000, say owners Mickey Owen and John Shelton. By LORI DODGE Associated Press Writer MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo.

(AP) Mickey Owen and John Shelton are ranchers, all right, but dont look for cattle on their spread. Ostriches are their game. Their Loutre Valley Ostrich Ranch near this eastern Missouri town has prompted a few raised eyebrows and is known in the area as that big bird ranch. Shelton offered his hand to Caesar, a prize 9V2-foot, 450-pound ostrich. The stubbly-headed creature inspected his hand through his long, girlish lashes then reached out and nipped the palm.

Thats a friendly peck, Shelton says. But they can clamp down. They also have a powerful boot. They kick forward, Owen says, like a kick boxer. Owen and Shelton are fledglings at ostrich farming, still in their first year.

They grow on you, Owen says as the long-legged creatures crowd around him at the edge of their pen, weaving and bobbing and clacking their wide flat beaks. You think, Oh my God, what a gaudy-looking thing, but they grow on you. Its a ready-made industry, says Shelton, reeling off the prices that ostrich hide, meat, eggs and feathers command: Breeding pairs can sell for $50,000, chicks for about $5,000 a pair, and a female ostrich can lay about 40 eggs a year. Owen and Shelton have a stable of When Lorenz Hart was collaborating with Richard Rodgers, their choreographer, George Balanchine, fantasized that one day publishers would print Larrys lyrics without the music as a book of verse or poetry. Two generations later, Knopf published The Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart.

Alan Jay Lerner, whose lyrics include My Fair Lady, Camelot and Gigi, considers it pointless to try to judge which of the old masters was best. He called them all master craftsmen and added: I am exhilarated by the gaiety, style and surprising passion of Cole, overwhelmed by the wonderfully slangy sentimentality and ingenious versatility of Ira, touched by the disarming simplicity of Berlin and forever impressed by Oscar Ham-mersteins dramatic ability. Cole Porter, who wrote more than 800 songs, was lucky to live in an era that was, as John Updike pointed out, a heyday of light verse when newspapers and magazines published Don Marquis, Louis Untermeyer, Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, E.B. White, Morris Bishop and Phyllis MeGinley. Updike said that wit of a specifically literary sort lies behind Porters sophisticated references and outrageous Song lyrics no longer sing 20 OFF Maternity Dresses And Jumpers lU One Big Week! Hurry In! Choose from knits, challis and rayon blend dresses in a variety of styles, prints and colors that will make you look your best! We have career and casual looks, so youre sure to find just what youre looking for! WED RECENTLY Sabrina J.

Mirabella and David B. Moyer were married Saturday, August 26, 1989, at 4 p.m. in the courtyard of the Lantern Lodge, Myerstown. The Rev. John Lose officiated.

The bride, of 105 Main Myerstown, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gino Mirabella, Norwood, N.J. She is a graduate of Northern Valley High School and Paul Smiths College, and is employed as head chef at the American House Restaurant, Stouchsburg. The groom, of 105 W.

Main Myerstown, is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Luther Moyer, 525 Hilltop Road, Myerstown. He attended Elco High School and is self-employed. Following the ceremony, a reception was held in the convention center of the Lantern Lodge. and savings.

Most schools offer a pooled income fund, in which a number of individual donations are combined and invested cooperatively. Another possibility is a deferred payment gift annuity, which lets younger investors donate now and receive annual income payments after retirement. Charitable gift annuities like Elsie Welters are irrevocable; the university owns the principal while guaranteeing an income for life based on a fixed percentage rate. Others, like the revocable charitable remainder trust, lets donors control principal and add, withdraw or transfer funds at any time even opening a bank account in trust for the university. trtftrmuiitmmM Compare George Michaels I Want Your Sex with Cole Porters Youre the top! Youre the Colosseum Youre the top! Youre the Louvre Museum Lyricists of the past polished their poetry until you could see your face in it.

In 1934. Ira Gershwins "The Babbitt and the Bromide was included in Louis Kronenbergers Anthology of Light Verse, along with the works of Eugene Field and Hilaire Belloc. That marked the first time American song lyrics were given literary status. In recent years, Oxford University Press has published two significant volumes of humorous poetry: American Light Verse and English Light Verse. Besides Gershwin, the American volume includes lyrics by.

among others, Johnny Mercer. While Mercers lyrics include Blues in the Night, Lazybones, and Too Marvelous for Words, the anthology sandwiches him between Theodore Roethke and Peter de Vries with: Glow little glow worm, fly of fire; Glow like an incandescent wire. Glow for the female of the specie, Turn on the AC and the DC WEAVER KREIDER Announcement has been made of the engagement of Elizabeth Ann Weaver to Jonathan Pearse Kreider. The bride-elect, of 230 Penn Avenue, Ephrata, is a daughter of Ruth and Richard Weaver. She is a 1985 graduate of Lancaster Mennonite High School and a 1989 graduate of Eastern Mennonite College.

Her fiance, of 260 E. Main Camp-belltown, is a son of Pat and Ellis Kreider. A 1986 graduate of Palmyra Area High School, he is a senior at Eastern Mennonite College. A wedding is planned for September 29, 1990. Computers aid fashion ITHACA, N.Y.

(AP) Computerization in the garment industry has given new meaning to the term software make that softwear and apparel design students at Cornell University are now learning to design and cut patterns on machines similar to the ones they will be using as professionals. A computer program normally used by architects and engineers, AutoCAD, has been adapted to work with the soft lines and design requirements of clothing This microcomputer more affordable than the huge computer systems in large apparel firms enables students to carry out the entire gar-ment design process, from preliminary sketches to pattern layouts, or markers. Traditional paper pattern making requires slow, meticulous cutting and taping. Lisa Gedzelman, a senior apparel design student from Chappaqua, N.Y., sas the computer eases this job Revisions to my skirt and short-sleeve jacket outfit that would normally call for recutting the pattern by hand were quick and easy on the computer. The computers were installed in 1988 ith a grant from Project Ezra, an $8 million IBM program providing computers for use by Cornell.

Cornell may be the only one that is taking the designs to the garment stage. says Anita Racine, senior lecturer in' the textiles and apparel department, who teaches the class in computer-aided design. Trusts, annuities allow retirement flexibility LEBANON SCHOOL DISTRICT ADULT EDUCATION OCTOBER 16, 1989 through DECEMBER 18, 1989 The Adult Education program will be held at Lebanon High School, 1000 South Eighth Street, every Monday evening, October 16, 1989 through December 18, 1989, from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. The classes are sponsored by the Lebanon School District and are open to persons 18 years of age or older.

Possible courses include: Beginning and Advanced Typing Computer (Basic) Word Processing Conversational Spanish, French, German History of Lebanon County Backpacking Home Improvement Shorthand Bookkeeping Additional subjects will be offered if interest warrants. The cost will be $35.00 for all registrants. The fee for senior citizens, with identification, will be $15.00. Registration will be held at Lebanon High School Guidance Office from Monday, October 2, 1989, through Friday, October 6, 1989, from 9:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.

Evening registration will be held Monday, October 2, 1989 from 8:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. in the Lebanon High School Guidance Office. By CONNOISSEUR A Hearst Magazine Digital processes and multiple- track devices make this the golden age of audio, but lyrically it is strictly the Styrofoam era. Technology can now grant any cats mating yowl the resonance of a late Mahler symphony, according to an article in Connoisseur, but to compare Billboards Top 40 with songs by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and the Ger- shwms is to confuse jingles with wit and technique with tune.

Some pop rhymers have produced indelible phrases. Several of Bob Dylans works are blowing in the wind 20 years later. Jim Croce's meaner than a junkyard dog presents an entire character in six Kris Kristoffersons Freedoms just another name for left to lose has lost none of jits trenchancy. But can anyone remember the second or third lines of these songs? ADVERTISEMENT Diet Pills Sweeping U.S. Doctors Invent Lazy Way to Lose Weight U.S.

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W771. cr-M DID YOU BUY PANASONIC OR TECHNICS PRODUCTS IN 1988? YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO REFUNDS IF YOU BOUGHT ANY OF THESE PRODUCTS BETWEEN MARCH 1, 1988 AND AUGUST 31, 1988: By The Associated Press You have property you want to continue living on, but you also want to settle the question of who you give it to when you die preferably maximizing its value and minimizing taxes. Or possibly you need greater current income and look to your assets as a source, but you find that the capital gains penalty will prevent their profitable sale. What to do? Charitable trusts and gift annuities made to institutions like schools are one legal way to have your cake and eat it, too. Alf and Betty Thompson still live on their lakefront property in Illinois, even though they have deeded it to Millikin University in Decatur.

We spent 25 years building up our land and didnt want to just let it go, says Alf Thompson. While we did get a gift tax deduction, the more important benefit for us was helping Millikin carry on our development here. The Thompsons have planted hundreds of trees, shrubs and flowers on the property, which has grown from 12.5 to nearly 20 acres since they deeded it to the school. With their blessing, Millikin already is using it for meetings, and the land will be turned into a retreat for the school when the Thompsons die or give up life tenancy. If Elsie Welter had sold her 25 acres of land and an apartment house in Minnesota worth $500,000, she would have failed to realize a profit because of the capital gains penalty.

So instead she established a charitable gift annuity by donating the property to her alma mater, Concordia College in Moorehead, Minn. That way, she supported one of her favorite causes, education, and at the same time got a large tax deduction and continues to receive guaranteed annuity checks from the school. If Elsie had sold her real estate outright, the capital gams tax would have been tremendous, says John Pierce, director of planned giving at Concordia It would have cut her earmng power incredibly. The annuity gives her the cash flow to continue living life the way she wants to People who want their assets to go to colleges can use charitable trusts and gift annuities to donate money, property, or appreciated securities while continuing to receive income from those assets during their lifetimes. Most universities have planned giving offices to advise and help them manage donations so they can take advantage of tax incentives D.C.

brought lawsuits for consumers in their states against Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (Panasonic) claiming in some instances consumers were overcharged for Panasonic and Technics products at retail stores. Under proposed voluntary settlements in those cases, you may be entitled to a refund if you bought the products listed between March 1, 1988 and August 31. 1988 You must complete and mail in a claim form by November 2, 1989, to be eligible for any refund. On request, a claim form will be mailed to you. To receive a claim form, please write to: Panasonic Antitrust Settlement Fund Administrator, P.O.

Box 96678, Washington, D.C 20077. Or call 1-800-553-1739. When requesting a claim form be sure to include your return address. The legal rights of Panasonic and Technics buyers will be affected by these settlements. If you bought Panasonic or Technics products during the time period listed above and you do not want to be bound by the settlement you must expressly exclude yourself and you will not get a refund.

To exclude yourself you should contact the address shown above. To protect your legal rights, please act now. By order of: Shirley Wohl Kram, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York..