Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 31, 1990                   TAG: 9003310403
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"There's a good possibility of fishing trips in the local area," said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater after officials of the three jurisdictions gave Bush the licenses at a White House presentation.

Since he's been in the White House, Bush has fished extensively in Maine - both from his powerboat in the Atlantic off his vacation home in Kennebunkport and for freshwater fish in the nearby Kennebunk River.

The president fished in Wyoming last year during a visit to Grand Teton National Park and in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast near Corpus Christi during a year-end vacation.

Presenting Bush with the fishing licenses were Elizabeth Haskell, Virginia secretary of natural resources; Torrey Brown, Maryland Department of Natural Resources; and Ben Williams, manager of fishing licenses for the District of Columbia.

White House aides said Bush hopes to fish in the Potomac River, the border between Maryland and Virginia, as well in some of the trout streams near Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains.

Little Richard claims if it weren't for skin color, he - not Elvis Presley - could have reigned as the king of rock 'n' roll.

"If I was white, do you know how huge I'd be?" Little Richard questioned in the April 19 issue of Rolling Stone. "I think Elvis was more acceptable being white in that period. I believe if Elvis had been black, he wouldn't have been as big as he was."

The rock pioneer, who recorded classics such as "Tutti Frutti" and "Lucille," says he can recall being upstaged only once during his flamboyant 43-year performing career. The man who did it: the late Jimi Hendrix.

"He was my guitar player, and you know, we didn't know he could play with his mouth. One night I heard this screaming and hollering, and they were screaming and hollering for him!" says Richard. "I thought they were screaming for me. But he was back there playing the guitar with his mouth."

Ted Turner credits his Cable News Network with Ted Turner awakening him to world problems.

"Until then, I was more interested in myself and my family," Turner told students at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., which he attended from 1951-56.

After starting his 24-hour TV news station about 10 years ago, Turner told the students, he figured he'd better keep up more with the world's activities.

"And I came to the conclusion after studying it on my own that we had made a terrible mistake getting involved in the arms race."

Of even greater concern, Turner said, are world overpopulation and threats to the environment from business and industry.

"I now look on development as bad," he said. "When I see a new building going up, it makes me feel bad."