The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 13

Sunday, May 25, 1986 The Pittsburgh Press A13- Hand Jrom page A12 2 DAYS ONLY! HOLIDAY SALE new in Pittsburgh and I want to get out and meet people I wouldn't otherwise meet day of goodwill, good intentions and good planning brought call after last-minute call to the "Hands" office. Norbert DuBois of Mount Washington registered for a line late Thursday afternoon after calling in and asking for a place in "a section of the city I don't usually get to. I'm "I want to be part of this because it's a way to counter the apathy that seems to have set in to people's social attitudes. It's a way to say you care." fflL 4V DOCKSIDES For The Entire Family vices at food and shelter projects already in place, says Ms. Green.

The remaining money will be given out as grants to groups that submit proposals for review to the board of USA for Africa, the parent group for 'Hands." Local coordinators plan to stretch surveyor's tape across some intersections to substitute for hand-holders, so as not to disrupt traffic, but even so, many roads in the area are expected to be closed temporarily. Pennsylvania Turnpike traffic will be slowed from 3 to 3:15 p.m. at the Beaver Falls, Irwin and Breezewood interchanges. Mayor Richard Caliguiri will stand in front of the Aviary on the North Side. Children from the Children's Festival also will stand on North Side, while people in the ethnic costumes of 25 countries will stand and play folk instruments in the line outside of the Folk Festival at the Convention Center, Downtown.

The hungry and homeless also will be inline here. Blocks of 25 tickets for the line were mailed to 400 food banks in the area. If Pennsylvania fills its stretch, it will succeed where other states already have conceded they failed. David Fulton, a spokesman for the Hands Across America national office in Los Angeles, estimated that at least 3 million people have signed up for today's event Anticipating problems, the Coca-Cola Co. and the Georgia Textile Manufacturers Association contributed 2,000 miles of red-and-white rope to help close gaps in the line.

And organizers in several states accepted offers of everything from tractors to cows as substitutes for people. Yes, cows. In rural Maryland today where volunteers were hard to come by a kindhearted someone will stand alongside a milking cow singing "Hands Across America," "We Are the World" and "America the Beautiful." No, no. The cow won't sing. The kindhearted someone will at the strike of 3 p.m.

when radio stations around the country signal the start of the singalong. In Arizona, as a symbolic gesture, helicopters will hover above a 94-mile stretch of desert that "Hands" abandoned because of the health risks. Though the line will pass within blocks of the Burkoff home in Point Breeze, they planned to drive to Baltimore to stand in line with other family members. "It's a real interesting opportunity to do something positive," says John Burkoff, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He, his wife, Nancy and their children Amy, 13, and David, 9 will be among 11 family members gathering at the home of Burkoff's sister's family.

Another sister and her husband planned to come in from Chicago and Burkoff's mother and will arrive from Detroit. "We all get together maybe once a year normally, so when my sister suggested we do this it was a wonderful idea. All of us wanted to be a part of it," Burkoff says. "We know we'll have the grandparents in the center with kids on each side, but then the next issue is deciding who gets at the end and holds hands with strangers," says Burkoff. "I also don't know these songs we'll be singing, but I figure the kids can carry us." The chance to be part of a national CHILDREN'S I Sugg.

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