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Show ji ' - ,w!!r l'M i DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, AAAY 17, 1973 E 1 1 Having $40,000 saved my life says TV actor Scott Bj Vernon dav The nutse drives him to the bt ach for the sun or to the Arizona boidei to visit friends (I PI) if f Arquette chinned himself on ilie siwll trapeze above his HOLLYWOOD -l- I don t know how 1 d get ah ng without that fella, Cliff said I pav him $100 a day Weve become fast fi lends hospital SSSand fell bach on 1 m the pillows eve burning, there' rqnette, the Charley getting Weav- was lying m his small apartment rccov enng from a near fatal heait attack and stroke flat er uf television, The stroke is what kept me on mv back for six ;r7T f.v'ar Were it not for his wealth he admits he d be ItuuHhat I heart attach ah ut a year ago," he said, and the stroke two weeks I spent more than la'er $40 In hospital and doctor 000 recover asked one bids o I of the doctors whaCjvoultl have happened to me if T didn t have the money to pa for all those things, and d have died he tufd me Cliff broke into wheezy laughter He , is 100 oounds he was when lighter ifiafi And .ti when after eight norths away from The .Squares gam show he has retuiried to the NBC Holly-vuo- d pro-gia- a a d ' I m only fi7 v ears old Proud of it And I'm walking amund'a little bit with the help of. a biace and a cane But I'm going to keep woihmg at these exercises until I tan walk wiljjpyt help 1 ' gaSuoip drinking and smoking Ten en yeais ago, so I m pi etty heaitny But the stiuke did one thing for me, it cured my fear of death I m ready any time But I m not m a hurry iquettc said he had re- ceived .some 200000 letter s and gej-we- ll cards from fans duimg the past year and only now is catching up oh 'reading therrr alt , IleEhas plen'y of time The Hollywood Squares tapes- - all five daytime and its show on a single one pnnre time da egclfweek " schedule leaves Cliff fiee to pursue his own interests the other six days He has a male nurse with him every The -- he won't retire. legular left ode is still para-lveCant move he sa.d nn arm or my leg verv well But I will, don t you worrv Mv Cliff Arquette says months But I decided I w asn't going to be a cripple The only thing that worried me was w helium 1 d suffered any bi am damage But I'm brighter than I Was before The doctors gave me all kinds of tests and and I came out 100 per cent I get so nunv right on Hollywood Squaies because I actually know 50 per cent of the facts involved Horse sense takes caie of an- other 25 per cent, and I just plain don t know the remain mg 25 per cent. Cliff arises at S am to watch the Today Show and then fixes his on breakfast Theieafter he attends to business Im not thinking about retiring, he said Charlie Weaver's I still own Museum1 of the Cn ll American W ar m Gettysburg (Pa J and its thnvmg Last year 380 000 people went through it at head $1 a - Efuitt3ianii(!iiSfe Muni i (VI ( mw SMcaT.. u qZ ItenSliEaU'o M (2 iMaeniHauiSii iEGimsniinifgsaii) to mqi p gaesaitauvnaare Iass r vjj i 5) 53Mt tof sAfiOKV. fI0H(33ai0l 333! 410 ,;ll F llSto i 7B!jarsar' riP p5 3isnan .alchoi IE13IB H sl (J (j (Bap QiErtinii d 3 u 7! : QsflMGEaaigassa X''1 USSr t3TTT STi. A-- ill t tj' 2cnn3ni0iaHEi Jr.: . GSSliMl31in333S - tJHD . y. i 4P 3Sp (ijjjjhy SKS SEK0 P0III3 etE0!3itr' i - a 0 dep law) saw 'Sic.v 33201 fc ffit3it03S3H3!p 31 GQ imI? rJ c) " ifflS--' -- c raESlEUEElh ilj 47e1if6ffRn?ci is& Gir B'(3ESfi0lIiS3y emm i' (Ml6S3G0l!EEi 3t3JM)(EG!IiK3IEn 5P DIP :- |