Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 1, 1990 TAG: 9006010394
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The country singer's last Fourth of July bash was in 1987 in north Texas, where it drew only about 8,000 people.
Nelson's daughter, Lana Nelson, and Mayor Lee Cooke announced that the party will be revived this year in the city's Zilker Park.
Over the years, the picnic has been held in a variety of locations and sometimes marred by arrests and vandalism.
Cooke said his city would be happy to sponsor the event with the promise that $1 of every ticket sold would benefit a children's playground in the park.
Jay Leno will donate royalties from his book "Headlines" to a charity that helps children stricken with AIDS.
"My manager had a 3-year-old baby that died of AIDS and at the time people thought it couldn't happen to them," Leno said Wednesday.
Profits from the book, a collection of wacky newspaper headlines that has sold more than 250,000 copies, will go to the Samuel Jared Kushnick Foundation, founded by his manager, Helen Kushnick. Leno said he didn't know how much money was involved.
Kushnick's son died in 1983 after receiving an AIDS-tainted blood transfusion.
Paul Newman is not too popular with some timber workers who say they have a beef with Newman and Burger King.
Forty-three sales employees at Willamette Industries sent a letter to Boss Enterprises, which runs eight Albany, Ore., Burger King outlets, asking the company to stop using Newman's Own.
Newman's company donates profits to environmentalist groups who the timber workers believe want to take the food from their mouths.
Their May 16 letter cited Newman's narration of a National Audubon Society TV special last fall on a dispute between environmentalists and loggers.
"This show was pro-preservationist and for the shutting down of all logging in the Northwest," the letter read. "We do not feel it is right that we contribute to the demise of our industry."
by CNB