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I Elms' drug seand violence Associates tell all in new book. Page 6. wrap SS Final Wednesday, August 17, 1977 6 Sections GO if Heart attack is cause of death I5e Full page of Elvis pictures Presley's life as an entertainer is reviewed in pictures on the Back Page. Gene Siskel "If Elvis Presley was the king of rock 'n' roll, he also was a prince among moneymaking movie stars." Gene Siskel, The Tribune's movie critic, assesses the star's film career. Page 10.

Aaron Gold The Tribune's Tower Ticker columnist talks to show business personalities, including Ann-Margret and Mae West who knew Elvis. They tell of the loss of a dear friend, a great entertainer, and an.all-time drawing power. In Tempo. Ln 0 from a capacity crowd during an kas mm -A ij i ft' ill li iiii v. miiifti wmmm fii isps From Tribune Wire Services MEMPHIS Elvis Presley, the 42-year-old king of rock 'n' roll who revolutionized popular music, died Tuesday afternoon of heart failure.

Dr. Jerry Francisco, medical examiner for Shelby County, said the cause of death was "cardiac arrythmia," an irregular heartbeat. He said "that's just another name for a form of heart attack." Francisco said the three-hour autopsy uncovered no sign of any other diseases, and there was no sign of any drug abuse. Presley was declared dead at 3:30 p.m Chicago time at Baptist Hospital, where he had been taken by a fire department ambulance after being found unconscious at his 18-room Graceland mansion. DR.

GEORGE NICHOPOULOS, Presley's personal physician, said Presley was last seen alive shortly after 9 a.m. Nichopoulos said Presley had been taking a number of appetite depressants, but he said they did not contribute to his death. Presley's unconscious form was discovered in a bathroom at his white-columned mansion by Joe Esposito, his road manager, A girlfriend, Ginger Al-den, 20, was at the Nicho-poulous said. A Baptist Hospital spokesman said Esposito began resuscitation efforts and called for Nichopoulos and an ambulance. NEWS SPREAD THAT Presley was Continued on page 10, col.

1 evea 131 st Year No. 1977 Chicago Tribune Elvis Presley acknowledging the cheers -50 Miles-i i Tribune Mao Column 1 The world's worst poet didn'tknowit The best at being bad, hes now become a fad By James 0. Jackson Chlcaoo Tribune Preu Service DUNDEE, Scotland One hundred years ago this summer an impoverished weaver, sitting alone in shabby Dundee room, felt overcome by what he called "a strong desire to write poetry." The weaver, named William McG-onagall, was by no means the first man ever to be visited by the muse. Nor was he the last. But the poetry inspired by that summertime urge made McG-onagall immortal: it is the worst ever written, in any language, at any time.

He stands unique and unchallenged as history's worst poet, and during this centenary year of his Inspiration there has been a worldwide revival of interest in the man and his work. SCHOLARS IN THAILAND have translated the best of his bad ditties; professors in Kiev, Hong Kong, Bucharest, London, and Lansing, have ordered copies of his works for use in their literature courses; dinners have been staged in his memory; a monument is being commissioned, and his doggerel has been recited and read in smoky pubs from Glasgow to Sydney. "The man was unique, there's no doubt about that," said William Smith, a Dundee printer who is the leading expert pn McGonagall and his works. "There's a perfection, after all, in being Continued on page 4, col. 1 Aberdeen eriS" 6jf i SCOTLAND sgpg Butchers ignore night sales issue, push for 32-ari-hour pay increase 'King' slips away, but legacy lingers Lynn Van Matre I 1 By James Strong Labor editor UNION NEGOTIATORS for 10,000 Chi-cago-area butchers will make no attempt to restore the 25-year ban on night meat sales but are demanding roughly $2 an hour in wage hikes in new contract talks, The Tribune learned Tuesday.

An industry source said supermarket chains are holding off any major meat price hikes until after a new contract agreement is reached. Those predicted increases will reflect added overtime costs for evening meat sales as wel) as pay and fringe benefit increases for butchers. It was also learned that R. Emmett Kelly, head of Local 546, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's union, has quietly retired following rank-and-file protests to the recent agreement, mediated by Mayor Bi-landic, that ended the ban on meat sales after 6 p.m. Although supermarket chains had predicted lower meat prices when the night ban was lifted, anticipating increased meat sales, the city's consumer sales department told The Tribune that prices are higher then they were a year ago but have been stable in recent months.

SOURCES SAID both union and supermarket negotiators agreed last April in Bilandic's office that the issue of night meat sales would not be a part of bargaining on the new three-year contract. Union members later charged that they failed to get adequate compensation in the deal and that the ratification vote to end the ban was rigged. The appearance in the Chicago Stadium on butchers complained that only a few months remained on the existing which twill expire Sept. 24, and that the ban could have been traded off for higher wages and Improvements in fringe benefits. The agreement, which went into effect the day before the mayoral primary, allows stores to sell meat after 6 p.m.

if one journeyman butcher is on duty at time-and-a-half overtime pay. Similar or better offers had been turned down in the past. Fred Clavio, secretary-treasurer of Local 320, said the agreement was not politically motivated to enhance Bilandic's election but was in response to legislation pending in Springfield. The legislation didn't pass. IN A LETTER to members several weeks ago, Kelly, who is more than 65 years old, disclosed his retirement as the secretary-treasurer of Local 546 after nearly four decades as the unrivaled union boss.

Without a vote of its 5,000 rank-and-file members, the union's executive board installed John E. Boyd, who never before held office within the local, as Kelly's successor. Previously, Boyd had been a vice president of the international union's retail department. Kelly's retirement and Boyd's leap to union leadership has established Boyd as the incumbent and has given him a distinct advantage over possible rank-and-file challengers disgruntled over the union's leadership. As chief negotiator for the unions in current contract talks, Boyd is expected Close-up wiui v.

Dorothy Collin pointed custodian of a child's legal' rights. HE WAS telling the Judge he was going to file change of venue motions to remove cases from her court, cases such as the one involving the little girl. He was going to file because of an amazing tragicomedy that had gone on for almost four hours before this case, tragicomedy which was the result of the dispute between the judge and the state's attorney's office and the Department of Children and Family Services. Oct. 14, 1976.

Tribune Photo by Val Mazzeno to push for hefty increases this year to solidify his claim as Kelly's successor. SOURCES ALSO told The Tribune that the Illinois Food Retailers Association, representing owners of about 540 food stores, has refused to sit alongside industry negotiators for the major chains because of the chains' accommodations to the union on night sale requirements. The association, though willing to bend to the overtime provision, had insisted on flexible working hours to avoid absenteeism and increased costs. Bargaining is expected to intensify in the next few weeks before the September deadline. BUTCHERS CURRENTLY are paid $8.40 an hour and $12.60 an hour after 6 p.m.

The union reportedly is seeking additional fringe benefits described as "substantial" and a new eye-care plan. Since individual departments in supermarkets are expected to absorb their own costs, an industry source said any increased labor costs, on top of market fluctuations, must be reflected in higher prices later this year. Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Wednesday: Partly Sunny; high near 75 124 northwest winds 15 to 20 miles 24 to 32 kilometers an hour. Wednesday night: Fair; low 55 to 58 13 to 15 C. Thursday; Mostly sunny; high near 75 24 C.

City's highest ozone reading-Tuesday was .049 parts per million. Map and other reports on page 10, Sec. 3. This dispute grew out of the death of Tina Marie McCord, who was fatally beaten while living in a foster home. At a hearing on her death Judge Hooton said she had "no confidence in DCFS." That statement caused the state's attorney's office to ask for changes of venue for 30 other cases, contending the judge was prejudiced against the When the change of venue motions came before Judge Hooton Tuesday morning, she ruled against them.

She ruled against them without allowing the state's attorneys to argue their case. She ruled against them saying she was not prejudiced against the people of the state and that the state's attorney didn't represent the people, anyway. She ruled against them saying such "wholesale motions" only disrupt the court and that the court had to tend to the needs of parents and children. "I THINK THIS court has been harassed enough," the judge said. "I Lynn Van Matre is The Tribune's rock music critic.

THE KING is dead. His crown had, of course, been askew for some time. His hips, whose gyrations scandalized a nation 20 years ago and gave him the nickname "Elvis the Pelvis," were no longer so trim. The chin under the lips whose "sexy" sneer had launched a million squeals had begun to double. But to many, Elvis Aron Presley remained "the king of rock 'n' roll." In latter years his concerts had begun to border on self-parody, and compared to many of today's rock stars, Elvis Presley, even at his most torrid, was tame.

But his impact on popular music was like a kick in the head from a blue suede shoe, and he remains one of the seminal figures in the sound called rock 'n' roll. ROCK 'N ROLL, of course, did not spring forth full-blown. Its roots are in black music, rhythm and blues "Race music," as it still was called in the 1950s, when musical styles, like the social structure of the country, remained largely segregated. White singers sang "white big-band stuff. don't think you are doing enough for the children." And then the judge spent two hours taWng each case on which a motion had been made and threatening the state's attorney who had signed an affidavit connected with the motion with contempt of court.

Meanwhile, one of the children for whom the court expressed concern was sitting outside with her mother and social workers and "Wee Wisdom" book, waiting for someone to call her case. Even for the Juvenile Court it was incredible. THE COURT HAS long been a shunt, ed-away dumping ground where the bad kids and beaten kids that no one wants to think about go before Judges often held in low esteem and are represented by young, often naive and inept state's attorneys and public defenders. Only once in awhile does the public Adults keep arguing; children await justice Rhythm and blues was something else: funky, more emotional. Suggestive.

Elvis Presley was white but he sang black. He had always liked rhythm and blues, just as he had always liked country and rockabilly music, and the two styles melded in his delivery. But in 1953, when he parked his Ford pickup outside the Memphis Recording studios, a subsidiary of Sam Phillips' Sun Records, Elvis Presley was merely a 19-year-old Tennessee truck driver with two goals: The first, and immediate one, was to cut an acetate record of "My Happiness" and" "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" total cost, $4 to give his mom for her birthday. His second, longer-range ambition was to own the coolest car in town, prefer- Continued on page 10, col. 1 pay attention to the court, and that is when something happens, such as the death of Tina McCord.

In fact, next door to Judge Hooton's courtroom, which was filled with reporters, was another courtroom where the McCords were to appear. In the corridor, crowds gathered to watch the television crews who were waiting for the McCords to say a few words. The McCords, you see, have become stars since their child died, despite the fact they have neglect charges pending against them. NO ONE was there with cameras and lights later in the day when Judge Arthur Hamilton quietly heard other cases involving children and their parents and the hurts they can cause each other. No one was there when he listened to social workers and state's attorneys, and public defenders, and Guardian Ad Continued on page 5, col.

3 THE LITTLE GIRL with the pink bar-rettes sat on the bench in the courtroom, swinging her feet, waving her "Wee Wisdom" book, and watching the adults gathered a few feet in front of her. They were gathered in Judge Mary Hooton's court in the Cook County Juvenile Court to decide whether to return the little girl to her They were gathered to decide important things about the little girl's future and her mother's, to talk about problems in the past that involved neglect and drugs and alchohol. They were gathered to decide about the little girl's life. But the adults seemed much more interested in arguing with each other. It was an argument that has been going on for days involving Judge Hoo-ton, the state's attorney's office, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services DCFS, the public defender's office, and, now, setting off the latest battle, the Guardian Ad Litem, the p- 4 '1'.