Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 25, 1992 TAG: 9203250262
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"I am very well. God bless you," she told a reporter. The 81-year-old Roman Catholic nun, who was hospitalized in La Jolla, Calif., in December with pneumonia and congestive heart failure, is busy answering letters, meeting with people and attending prayer sessions.
"She is back to her normal routine," her secretary said. "She is up before 5 a.m. and goes to the chapel to attend the 5 a.m. prayers."
\ Claudette Selph, training to be a sheriff's deputy reserve in Tulsa, Okla., missed a class on handcuffing, so she hired her husband as a tutor. Big mistake.
John Selph, a Tulsa County commissioner and a deputy reserve, closed a cuff on his wife's left wrist. Then, he spent an hour trying to get it off.
No luck.
He called other deputies, but they couldn't explain why his key wasn't working.
Selph finally took his cuffed wife and the rest of the family to the sheriff's office. Lt. Roger Fetterhoff had the cuffs off in 30 seconds.
Selph found out that only one of his two keys worked. He tried only the wrong one.
"I was just ready to get those cuffs off, even to the point of going to a welder," Claudette Selph said. "It makes you feel like strangling your husband."
\ "Roots" author Alex Haley, whose ancestors came to the United States on slave ships, will be posthumously honored with a 1992 Ellis Island medal.
Natalie Cole, Mickey Mantle, Ret. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Phil Donahue, Olympia Dukakis and Arnold Schwarzenegger are among others chosen this year, said William Fugazy, chairman of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. "These outstanding Americans represent the ethnic diversity of our nation and exemplify the hard work, love and values that have made it special," he said.
Others to receive the medal April 26 will be Gay Talese, Connie Chung, Keith Carradine, Elie Wiesel and Secretary of State James Baker.
by CNB