
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, June 19, 1990                   TAG: 9006190163
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PEOPLE

Hank Williams' long-lost daughter is delighted the U.S. Supreme Court thinks she should have the chance to fight in court for royalties from some of her late father's country music hits.

The high court, without comment, on Monday let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Cathy Yvonne Stone, 37, is entitled to have her legal fight put before a jury.

The court also rejected an appeal by country singer Hank Williams Jr. that sought to reverse an Alabama Supreme Court ruling declaring Stone a legal heir to the elder Williams.

Stone was born in Alabama in 1953, five days after Williams died at age 29. Her mother, Bobbie Jett, and Williams had signed an agreement months earlier in which he acknowledged he might be the father.

Gloria Estefan of the Miami Sound Machine, who broke her back in a bus crash in March, says she had always feared becoming an invalid.

"I've had a premonition all my life that I would become a burden to the people I love," the 32-year-old singer said in the June 25 issue of People. "That's why when we began building our house [in 1987], I had an elevator put in."

Estefan said when she was lying in her tour bus after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer March 20, "I thought, `Here it is. This is the thing I've been waiting for.' "

The singer has been working out on exercise machines three times a week and has recovered to the point she can put on her shoes by herself.

Richard Dysart, who plays a senior partner on NBC's "L.A. Law" television series, encouraged real-life Kentucky lawyers to do more volunteer legal work.

Dysart, who plays Leland McKenzie on the series, was the keynote speaker at a Lexington banquet for the Kentucky Bar Association.

Dysart also played McKenzie in a 30-second public service announcement taped Friday for the KBA. Dysart did the tape free in hopes lawyers will follow suit and perform more volunteer legal work.

"I say if it gets one Kentucky lawyer to go out to a senior citizens center and show someone how to fill out a government medical form, it's worth the effort," Dysart said.

by CNB