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xr section Weekly calendar Page6C The Evening Press Binghamton, N.Y. Oct. You still volunteer Page3C TT Scary fests Itp1 Hot 1 tips are planned for all ages By BARBARA BONANNO Halloween is the occasion for iAgencies to be matched with potential helpers St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Endicott has organized a unique community event: a Volunteer Fair to be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Nov. 5. Persons interested in offering their time and services are welcomed to meet with representatives of the various local organizations and agencies. masquerade balls, horror flicks, parades and haunted houses and Binghamton will have them all this Halloween weekend. Here's a list of upcoming events: The American Dance Asylum directed by Lois Welk, will present Make A Move, Make A Move at the Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences.

Performances will be held at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow through Sunday at the Sears-Harkness The vberaing their needs and requirements for volun- ater of the Koberson Center, 30 ront Binghamton. Tickets are $4 general admission and $2 for senior citizens and students. Miscarriages prevented by i white cell shot By HOWARD WOLINSKY Chicago Sun-Times Independent PrewStrvke 3 A newly developed immunization against miscar riage ended Sharon Leetham's heartbreaking string; of seven spontaneous abortions. This summer, Leetham, 36, of Murrayyille, 111.," became the first American woman to give birth; after receiving tranfusions with white blood cells Angela Leetham was born prematurely June 23.

When Sharon and Ray Leetham were married 16, years ago, they had wanted 12 children. Since their first three attempts ended in spontaneous abortions they adopted their son Lance, now 13. "After that, we found it was impossible to adopt another newborn," said Leetham, who works at book bindery. "So we kept trying to have children. I had four more miscarriages.

We had a funeral for, the last one." Leetham and her husband, a sheriff's deputy, had all but given up on having a child until a doctor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield told them a year ago about Dr. John A Mclntyre, an immunologist who had just arrived atj SIU. Mclntyre and Dr. W. Page Faulk developed the immunization against miscarriage in England.

2 "After all we'd been didn't know whatj to think," said Leetham, who started undergoing the treatment last December. But things began to look up for the Leethams.j Since 1980, the treatments have resulted in 17 births, in other countries, with four other babies now on the way. i The therapy is restricted to childless women who? have had at least three spontaneous abortions. Most women who have had spontaneous abortions, don't need the treatment because their miscarriages can be traced to anatomical defects, infection om Following the ADA final performance Sunday evening, a masquerade ball will be held at the Whitney Center for Dance, 28 Frederick Binghamton. Dance music will be provided from 9 p.m.

to 1 a.m., prizes will be awarded for the best and worst costumes and refreshments will be available. Tickets are $5. All proceeds will benefit the American Dance Asylum. For performance reservations or for information about the ball, call The Endicott Girl's Club is holding a Hal loween Party at 2 p.m. Saturday at the teers.

Refreshments will be provided. I St. Paul's Church is located at 200 Jefferson Endicott. For further information, call Martha I Fenty at 748-9192 or Rose Hardy at 785-6364. jNewlyweds ought to say 'I do' to an insurance policy review J'' If you're getting married, then you should try to I squeeze the words "review insurance" on your to do" list along with ordering the flowers and picking out the invitations.

That's the advice of the Insurance Information Institute. The institute, an educational and communi- cations organizations for the property and liability Insurance business, notes that many couples are not Jaware that a homeowner or tenant policy limits the jflollar amount of coverage for many personal be-, longings, including jewelry, china, silverware and antiques. For instance, many insurance companies have 'raised the limit for loss of jewelry to $1,000, but others still pay only $500, the institute warns. Policy for silver and silver-plated items usually are jiet at $1,000 although some companies will pay up to 2,500. If you are underinsured for such items, the insti- tute notes you can either increase the scheduled lim-Ijts your insurance company will pay for jewelry, silverware, or you can purchase a personal articles, floater.

A floater allows you to insure only those pieces of jewelry or wedding gifts you feel re- quire extra protection. Both the floater and increasing the limits of your policy are available for an annual premium of about $12 for each $1,000 of additional coverage. I For free copies of the institute's booklets, Home Insurance Basics and Taking Inventory, send a Stamped, self-addressed envelpe to the Publications I Service Center, Insurance Information Institute, 110 William New York, N.Y. 10038. otner causes.

The new treatment results from the discovery that' some miscarriages can be traced to the mother's, immune system. Some women expel fetuses just as they might reject a foreign object from their bodies: I Faulk and Mclntyre hit upon the idea for the white blood cell treatment while studying pregnancy as a' -model for "nature's perfect organ transplant." "In pregnancy, you take genetically dissimilar tis- -sue and put it for nine months into a host, the mother, and it isn't rejected. We wanted to see if we could learn why," explained Mclntyre. club, Riverview Drive, Endicott. ine tes-tivities will include dunking for apples, doughnut eating contests and a cupcake walk.

Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. The party is free for Girl's Club members and $1 for guests. For further information, call 754-0225. The New York Easter Seal Society, in conjunction with local Burger King restaurants, is offering parents a unique "treat" for trick-or-treaters. Special Halloween french fry coupons are available at local Burger King restaurants, at the cost of $1 for a book of 10 coupons.

Proceeds from the sale of the coupons will be given to the Easter Seal Society to be used for the benefit of disabled children and adults in the Southern Tier. The annual Halloween Parade will again color the streets of Johnson City from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday. The parade, which is being sponsored by the YMCA, the village of Johnson City and local service clubs, will begin at the parking lot behind the Marine Midland Bank on Main Street, travel up Avenue to Main Street, turn right on Main to Arch Street, cross the bridge and end at the Harry L. Johnson School on Harry Drive.

There will be a costume judging contest and doughnuts and cider for everyone. The Town of Union Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring a "Fantastic Fall '83 Family Halloween Parade" at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Families are invited to come in costume, ready to march. Prizes will be Church has created "three floors of terror" with its haunted house.

The house, at St. Cyril's School, 16 St. Cyril Binghamton, will be open to the public from 7 to 10 p.m. tomorrow through Monday, which is Halloween. Admission is $1.25 for adults and 75 cents for children.

For further information, call 722-9853. The Louis N. Picciano Boys' Club, River-view Drive, Endicott, will be holding its annual Halloween Party tomorrow. The evening will begin at 6 p.m., with a Halloween make-up session. From 6:45 to 7:15 p.m., there will be a magic show, followed by costume judging and refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.

The party is free for club members and $1 for guests. For further information, call 785-3328. The Boys Girls Club of Binghamton at 257 Washington Ave. has been celebrating Halloween all week. Today youngsters have been bobbing for apples in the swimming pool.

From 6 to 8 p.m. tomorrow, there will be a "horror film spectacu-lar" in the library with free popcorn and surprises for all ages. The club's Halloween festival ends Saturday with a members-only party for which a costume is required for admission. (How-See HALLOWEEN, 5C awarded in five age categories for the scariest, ugliest, cutest, best homemade, most original and funniest costumes. Free candy bags will be given out to all participants.

The day also will include apple dunking, relay races, free hay rides, a doughnut eating contest, games for all ages, a performance by the Maine-Endwell High School Band and an appearance by Jingles the Clown. Marchers will meet at 1:30 p.m. at Maine-Endwell Senior High School, Farm To Market Road, Endwell, and march to the Highland Park ballfield. For further information, call the Parks Department at 754-5595. The Syracuse Cinephile Society, in cooperation with the Cultural Resources Council, is holding its annual Halloween Horror Film Festival, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

tomorrow. In the frightening lineup are: Nos-feratu, The Man Who Laughed, Theater of Blood and Night of the Living Dead. The festival will be presented at the Carrier Theater of the Civic Center, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse. Tickets, which are $2.50 for the general public, and $2 for Cinephile Society members, can be purchased at the door. "Buck-a-Flick' tickets are not valid for this event.

For further information, call 315-425-2155. The CYO of St. Cyril and Methodius Their research focused on the tropnooiast, cells that form the placenta and the membranes sur-' rounding the embryo, which they believed played a major role in getting the mother's immune system to protect the fetus. The surfaces of frophoblasts have molecular! markers, known as antigens, that serve as "ID' cards" to distinguish the body's own tissues from in- vaders. jHecord review In organ transplants, if the donor and recipient! have similar antigens, odds are that the recipient See MISCARRIAGE, 4C Dteli it, li Movie review 'Zone' moves director to high-budget horror The Dead Zone' is I neat little thriller -Jr-s.

i' i i 1 I i i -( Trash It Up by Southside Johnny and the ukes. I By DAVID S. MANEY You have to feel sorry for Southside Johnny. He is blessed with one of the finest and most forceful blues Voices of any contemporary singer, but his records have simply never sold very well. More people prob-Jably have learned of him from his recent "Miller Time" commercials than from any of his seven previously released albums.

berg said The Dead Zone "is really a sweet sort of film with a bittersweet romance. "There are a lot of people I would not send to see Videodrome whom I would not hesitate to send to The Dead hesaid. Cronenberg is relishing his recent; rise to credibility and respectability, but he said he's going to fight any accompanying temptation to stop taking chances with his movies. "The reason I was drawn to Stephen King's work, and particularly The Dead Zone, is because his characters tend to be very naive and honest and open," Cronenberg said. "My charac-' ters tend to be very closed and twisted and more sophisticated in certain ways, which means they're less accessible.

"The movie is different in detail, which will greatly surprise those who've read the book, but I think we're extremely faithful to the tone of the book: And I think it's a real fusion of both of us." Cronenberg feels horror films have had to combat a bum rap in recent years. As for the impact of his type of horror films, Cronenberg said, "People need to be reminded of the things they're afraid of You need to confront things that are unavoidable fears. By JACK GARNER Gannett News Service TORONTO Once labeled "The King of Schlock Horror," David Cro-nenberg certainly has improved his image as Canada's most successful filmmaker. His eight low-budget movies (including Scanners and Stereo) have attained a reputation way ahead of most modern horror films. Though gory, his films offer a uniquely contemporary vision and original concepts.

Cronenberg was honored with a major retrospective at the recent Toronto Film Festival, and he's the subject of a serious book, The Shape of Rage The Films of David Cronenberg. Most importantly, the 40-year-old director stands at the eve of what many feel will be his breakthrough mass-market film, his version of Stephen King's 77ie Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is Cronenberg's first big-budget commercial film. "It's certainly the most emotionally accessible film I've ever done," he said. "At the early screenings women and men were crying at the end, and I've never had that happen before.

I'm really enjoying the affection and the tears." Though he said it has at least two intense and graphic sequences, Cronen The Dead Zone, rated is playing at the Crest theater in Binghamton. Admission is $4. By BERNARD DREW Gannett News Service David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone, which Jeffrey Boam has adapted from Stephen King's novel, is an unusual, fast-moving thriller even though it seems to be two separate stories connected by the same hero. Christopher Walken portrays a high school teacher engaged to Brooke Adams. One night he is involved in a head-on collision with a truck and goes into a coma that lasts five years.

During this period, Adams marries somebody else and when Walken comes back to life, it is discovered that he has clairvoyant powers. However, whenever he utilizes these powers he is seriously weakened. This causes him to go into seclusion. Tom Skerritt, as the sheriff of a nearby town, persuades Walken to help him find the killer of a number of young girls that has been plaguing the community for the past several years. Sometime later, Walken Is involved in a different incident.

Through a millionaire Walken has met, he's introduced to Martin Sheen, who is running a. Christopher Walken That's a shame, because it has forced him to do tsome things on his latest effort, Trash It Up, which are rather obvious attempts at shedding his old 3 li i J.J, jmage ior a more commercially i.no pun mienueu; pleasing sound. There is a lot of verv eood material on the album. but most of it would be much better if the new touches were absent. The mechanized clap sound, which tve've all come to hate from those putrid "Hooked grass-roots campaign for Congress.

Sheen seems quite popular. Not only is the millionaire behind him but so are Adams and her husband. But one day Walken has a disturbing future vision of Sheen. Walken has the power to look into the future but does he have the power to change it? That is the question posed by this neat little thriller. On records, and the other quasi-funk adorn inents seem merely out of place.

Southside Johnny's talents do occasionally over 'ride all the distractions, though, leading to such ex fellent works as My Baby's Touch, The Beast Within ana the title cut. Guitaristcomposer Billy Kusn does some nice work in both of his Dosts. but the band still sounded better when Bruce Springsteen was writing -Youth notes some of its material. Welcome to Southside time. He trashed this record up a little, but he still worth listening to.

Tomorrow jIn tomorrow's Living section, "Personal Style" will take you inside the Wilkes-Barre Boscov's, so Jou can get an idea what to expect from Bingham-tqn's newest department store. under the direction of renowned guitarist Edward Flower. Yelverton, a 1978 graduate of Susquehanna Valley High School, holds a bachelor's degree in music composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is the son of Helene and William Yelverton Sr. of Conklin Road, Conklin.

The Boston University Tanglewood Institute offers intensive summer programs for promising young musicians from throughout the world. Admission to all programs is highly selective and by audition only. compiled by Chris Tevyaw -fl I fcUMtoftft II -IMMlHwrf "Or--- i 11 i1 These students are among the 35,000 students nationwide honored by the Merit program for outstanding performance on the 1982 PSATNMSQT. Walter G. Smith of Harpursville Central School also has been designated a commended student in the 1984 National Merit Scholarship Program as have Siraj Ahmed, Peter J.

Grander, Joel N. Render, Kelley J. Stevens and John C. Teserovitch of Chenango Valley Junior-Senior High School. Although commended students will not receive further consideration for Merit scholarships, each has demonstrated unusual academic promise and will be honored with a letter of commendation.

Guitarist attends classes William Yelverton of Conklin was a participant last summer in a guitar seminar at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. The symposium is a study program offering private lessons and master classes Merit Scholarship names semifinalists Three Binghamton High School seniors are among the 15,000 young men and women across the country being honored by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) as semifinalists in the current Merit program. Based on their outstanding scores on a qualifying test, Carol E. Conk-lin, Sarah L. Shaw and Scott L.

Walter will continue in the competition for Merit scholarships to be awarded in the spring. Approximately 5,300 such scholarships, worth more than $18 million, will be awarded. The Merit program also recognizes commended students, those who scored within the top 5 percent of students taking the qualifying test. Designated as demonstrating exceptional academic promise are Binghamton seniors Amelia D. Agard, Geoffrey A.

Cashman, Amy C. Eaton, James M. Kresge, Sean M. McDevitt, Duane T. Pugh and Robert J.

Walikis. inside 1 3C jCflmics 7C Datebook 3C 2C "jfyou have a story idea, question or com-'merit regarding news for the Living sec Are you a notable youth, or do you have an item of interest to youth? Send the information to "Youth," The Evening Press, Box 1270, Binghamton, N. Y. 13902. tion, call Features Editor Bruce Estes or 1 William Yelverton to Tanglewood Assistant Features Editor Barb Van Atta at 798-1189 between 9 a.m and 4 p.m.

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