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

DATE: SATURDAY, July 7, 1990                   TAG: 9007070318
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN

Since the "Godfather of Soul" is within 1 1/2 years of parole eligibility, he meets a requirement for extended work release, during which he could live at home, said Francis X. Archibald, spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

The possible move would take at least one month "but nothing has been done. He hasn't completed the paper work yet," Archibald said Thursday.

Brown, 57, a two-time Grammy award winner, has been at the Lower Savannah Work Release center since April 14 on a limited work-release program. He began serving concurrent six-year sentences in December 1988 for failing to stop for police, aggravated assault and weapons violations after a two-state, high-speed chase.

\ Tom Stafford, 60, and Deke Slayton, 66, former U.S. astronauts, will rejoin cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov, 56, and Valery Kubasov, 55, at the Kennedy Space Center on July 26 to celebrate the only international joint manned space mission.

The third U.S. participant in that flight, astronaut Vance Brand, 59, commander of the grounded Columbia Astro-1 mission, may participate if his schedule permits, said a NASA spokesman.

The Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft docked July 17, 1975, and during the next two days the crews visited each other's ships, shared meals and performed joint scientific experiments.

\ Vice President Dan Quayle rarely goes hungry on his trips outside Washington, an aide said.

Quayle made a surprise stop Thursday at a supermarket in North Little Rock on his way from Little Rock Air Force Base. He visited with shoppers and Kroger employees, signed autographs and ate a doughnut from the store's bakery.

"Now we can make it through the day," Quayle said after downing the chocolate-covered doughnut.

The vice president "gets a list of all the places along the route - restaurants, grocery stores and that sort of thing - then he usually goes over the list on the plane and decides where he wants to stop," said an aide.

\ Bill Monroe, founder of bluegrass music, is making the move to the big screen.

A film crew from Caporeale Studios of Cincinnati is in Nashville interviewing friends of the Grand Ole Opry great and gathering film footage for a documentary on Monroe's life.

"Bill's somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 years old," said studio official Tom McGrail. "He's afraid he might not be around much longer, and he's looking at this as his legacy."

Monroe, who turns 79 in September, will be filmed performing this weekend at the Long Hollow Jamboree, the Grand Ole Opry and at a bluegrass festival today at the Opryland U.S.A. theme park.