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for longest-running program
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v ST. LOUIS — The longest-
running television show isn’t
, Johnny Carson or any network’s
version of the evening news, it’s
a,religious drama called “This Is
the Life.”
M The Sept. 20 edition of the
shpw will open its 30th year on
the air. The program has ex
panded greatly since its begin-
.nings when the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod, head
quartered in St. Louis, set aside
$75,000 to explore ways of using
television to spread the gospel.
Jan Naji, who manages mar-
keting and promotion for the
show, said it now reaches up to
49 million people a year and has
an annual budget of $2.5 mil
lion.
Naji said the show is pro
duced on the West Coast,
where crews and actors and
actresses are more readily avail
able. And she said many of them
benefit by working on the
series.
“Many actors, actresses and
crew members find after work
ing on ‘This Is the Life’ they
have strengthened their faith,”
she said. “Many of them go back
to church.”
Naji said the goal of the prog
ram is to spark interest in
Christianity by showing “real-
life situations with such subjects
as wife abuse, child abuse, and
alcoholism.”
“The show always comes to
the conclusion you have life in
Christ,” she said.
Naji is Lutheran but said
being a member of that faith is
not a requirement for working
on the show.
“Many of the crew members
and actors and actresses aren’t
even Christians,” she said. “We
even have a few Jewish people
who work with us.”
Alleged suicide investigated
Inmate testifies at inquest
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LOS ANGELES — A man who
spent several hours in an adjoining
cell with former Long Beach State
football star Ron Settles, who sub
urban police said hanged himself
with a jail mattress cover, has tes
tified at a .coroner’s inquest the
cells didn’t have mattress covers.
Settles was arrested June 2 and
charged with assault with a deadly
weapon on a police officer, posses
sion of cocaine and refusing to
identify himself. Three hours after
he was booked, he was found
hanging in his cell with a mattress
cover around his neck, police said.
Bernard Bradley, arrested on
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March 30 — three days before
Settles — said he distinctly re
membered having a conversation
with a man who was released from
cell No. 1 in the suburban Signal
Hill jail — the same cell in which
Settles was found hanging — the
day before Settles arrived.
“I was talking with the guy and I
told him there wasn’t a mattress
pad or a blanket in my cell, ” said
Bradley. “He told me there wasn’t
a cover or blanket in his cell
either. None of us were ever
issued mattress covers. I never
saw one in that jail. ”
Bradley was taken out of the
police station and into a Long
Beach court for arraignment about
2 p.m. on June 2. Settles was
found dead, police said, about 3
p.m.
“On my way out I walked past
Settles’ cell,” Bradley said, “and
he was sitting on his bunk, leaning
back against the wall. I looked in
and talked to him for a minute,
and I’m absolutely sure there was
no mattress pad on that bunk.
There was nothing on that bunk. ”
Bradley also supported claims
of Settles’ relatives and friends the
21-year-old football star would
never have considered taking his
own life.
“He was asking me about how to
get out of jail, posting bail and all
that,” Bradley said. “He said he’d
never been in jail before and he
was scared. He wanted to get out
of jail. He sure never talked about
killing himself.”
During his booking, Settles was
severely beaten about the head
and neck by at least two Signal Hill
policemen. Chief Gaylord Wert
initially said Settles had only been
struck on his thigh with a night
stick when he became violent in
side the police station, but later
recanted the story and admitted
the beating occurred.
Earlier in the day, a witness to
Settles’ arrest said two police offic
ers put their guns to Settles’ head
while picking him up for a minor
traffic violation.
Gloria Zabala said she witnei
sed Settles’ arrfest while wait®
for a bus on a busy street. She*
Officer Jerry Lee Brown, theme
arresting officer, asked Settles foi
his driver’s license and car regb'
tration but the football star rs
fused to give him either.
An argument then
Zabala said, with Brown at one
point calling Settles an ‘‘asshole'
Moments later, another patrolcu
arrived at the scene and twomott
officers walked to Settles car. Af
ter a brief “tug-of-war” with Set
tles trying to keep his car dow
closed and the officers trying It
pull it open, she said, Setdem
dragged out of his car.
“Then the two officers drew
their guns and placed them ®
either side of his head,” Zabali
con tinned. “The guns were ri$l
against the man’s temples.”
Settles was then hanductiffed,
put in the second police car anil
taken away, she said.
Woman says coal mining
is easier than waitressing
United Press International
SAINT CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio
— After waiting on tables, Linda
Sabo has found coal mining a piece
of cake — despite the pits, the rats
and the pinches from co-workers.
A veteran of more than three
years at Saginaw Mines, Sabo, 38,
is now the only woman at that
mine and one of the few women
miners in Ohio. She hasn’t just
adjusted to the grimy, back-
bending work 4^5 miles under
ground. She likes it.
“Waitressing is much harder,”
she says. “You have to take a lot of
abuse from the customers and the
boss. They make you work over
time all the time, for no extra
money.”
As a waitress, Sabo says, she
cleared $65 every two weeks, plus
maybe another $100 in tips. Min
ing six days a week, she takes
home $725 every two weeks.
There’s the sense of pioneering
too. “It’s funny how people react, ”
she says. “I bad to fill out some
papers for a loan and the guy goes,
‘What do you do?’ I said, ‘I’m a
coal miner,’ and he says, ‘No, not
what your husband does. You! ”
Sabo met the man who became
her third husband at the mine.
She says meeting Ray Sabo was
one of the fringe benefits of the
job.
“I had to win him over,” she
says. “The first time we met he
told the boss, Don’t ever put me
with her again.’
“It was a Saturday and we were
doing dead work, cleanup. It was
my first time and the boss was
overly protective. You have to lift
these heavy bags of rock dust and
throw it around, but he told me to
just sit down and have some
coffee.
“I kept saying ‘Shouldn’t I be
doing something?’ and he said,
‘No, no. ’ So, I’m sitting there com
bing my hair and he (Ray) is sweat
ing his head off throwing dust
around.”
Sabo remembers Ray “was the
only man who never cussed at me.
He never mistreated me. If some
one else pinched or slapped, he
told them they were rude and
ignorant. ”
Sabo, the mother of six chil
dren, has gotten good at coping
with rude behavior. She laughs
about “dirty old coal miners” and
shakes her head over the men who
“turn off the lamps on their hats so
you can’t see who it is. Then they
run up behind and pinch you on
the breast or the rear.”
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When a miner on a earlier shi!
hung a nude pinup in the shuttlt
car, Sabo just penciled in a dreu
She nicknamed the miner who In
sisted on calling her “Pus,
“Boots.”
She mostly avoids going to tin
bathroom underground, howev
er, where the ladies’ room consisti
of a curtain in an unused section
“At first it bothered me, espe
cially the language," Sabo says
“But you got to let it pass. Ifyoi
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“It is tough. But women can lie
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“I’ve got muscles,” she says
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lunch sandwich and recites what
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