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

DATE: MONDAY, August 9, 1993                   TAG: 9308090003
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE

One day when he was out hunting, he simultaneously killed a bear and a moose with his double-barreled shotgun. Then he discovered that a cleaning rod from his gun had landed in a stream and speared five speckled trout. He cleaned the fish and inside one of them found a 1913 Liberty Head nickel. He later sold the nickel for $10,000. And that's the truth. Well, more or less.

Sound like a tall tale? That's because Faurot is the "greatest Liar in central Illinois" - a title he won Saturday at the Heritage Day celebration in Pontiac, Ill. He said he was surprised he won. "I didn't think I was that good of a liar." His wife laughed at that. "She says she knows better," he said.

Susan Dey, who has played TV roles ranging from a teen-age pop star to a sexy lawyer, won the part of the adoptive mother who recently lost the highly publicized Baby Jessica custody case.

Dey will play Roberta DeBoer in the ABC television movie scheduled to begin filming next week in Vancouver, British Columbia, producer Robert Frederick said. He said the movie would air in September.

First daughter Chelsea Clinton got a taste of life as an astronaut at the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., and couldn't escape the limelight even though news photographer were kept at bay during graduation ceremonies. Chelsea, 13, picked up her camp diploma and an award for her team's performance on space shuttle simulators.

Reporters and photographers were kept about 70 feet from the stage as the campers collected their diplomas, but Chelsea appeared blinded and stumbled twice amid an explosion of flash bulbs from cameras aimed by other campers and photographers from the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.