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morn The Morning News, Wilmington, Friday, Oct. 15, 1976 Page 15 The No-smoking wager offered employes to quit for 1 year hopefuls IF 5 sift ft I I 4 a 4t i SPRING GROVE, 111. (AP) A company president concerned about the health of his employes has opened a no-smoking pari-mutuel window for workers to bet up to $100 that they can shake the habit for a year. also put up $1,000 that will be split among those who quit for a year," said Jim Miller, head of Intermatic, a timer and heat- Liz Ray flops in stage debut ST. CHARLES, 111.

(UPI) Chicago critics agreed with first nighters yesterday that Elizabeth Ray, Washington's sex queen, bombed in her debut as an actress Wednesday night in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" Richard Christiansen, writ-; ing in the Chicago Daily News, said if Miss Ray had a I choice between being an ac-. tress and a typist (which she claimed she can't handle), 1 she should go for typing. Glenna Syse of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: her nervousness tended to make her answer doorbells before they rang." An actress? Miss Ray's squeaky voice and first night jitters kept her from being anything more than what she is: a good looking woman without talent. turn til I'! I Mi i i 8 fUV EX. 1 i i er manufacturer.

"We have 64 employes, 37 of them women, signed up in the program. And 39 of them, including 23 women, said they will bet on themselves to quit. The rest of the 64 aren't betting, but hope to share in the $1,000. "If they bet $100, for instance, and win, I'll pay them $100. The odds are good, and I would be a very happy loser.

If they can't quit, their bets will go to the American Cancer Society." He said the ages of those in the program range from an 18-year-old youth to a 65-year-old woman who has been smoking most of her life. Miller, who gave up smoking 20 years ago, said he was impressed that 64 had entered the program out of a total employment of 700. A year ago he offered overweight workers $3 for each pound they lost. Thirty-seven entered the diet derby and shed a total of $1,258 pounds. In an open letter to his employes, Miller said, "While I recognize that each of you has a right to live his life in any way he sees fit, I cannot help but ask that each of you who smokes reconsider his decision, taking into account the economic and medical results of his action If you are 35 and you live to be 65, you can expect to pay $12,000 of your earnings for cigarettes between now and then.

Virtually every smoker has convinced himself that 'someday' he is going to quit. That someday should be now. While the audience hoped lor a winning lottery ticket, the stage at yesterday's drawing lor a lifetime winner on the Market Street Mall was filled with another kind of hopeful the Democratic type. During the proceedings, Demo cratic Gov. Sherman W.

Tribbitt, a hopeful lor re-election, proiect- ed mirror images of Wilmington Mayor I nomas Maioney, a ate. Most of the Democratic candidates appeared for the snow, wtieh resembled a political rally more than a lottery show. (Staff photos by John MeUger) I Move, Evel! here comes Loyal James til Man, 69, gets season's 4th ho-hum hole-in-one WINDOM. Minn. (AP) A Minnesota man fired his second hole-in-one in a week yesterday and his fourth this season.

Three have come on different holes. William E. Tower, 69, had golfed since boyhood and never scored a hole-in-one until June 9, when he holed out on the 164-yard first hole at the Windom Country Club. He got his second hole-in-one on June 25 on the 176-yard ninth hole and he aced the same hole again last Saturday. The incredible fourth hole-in- people in the news- weather: pleasant 'si i their fund-raising efforts.

The federal money must be matched at least 3 to 1 by private money. Winnie-the-Pooh was 50 years old yesterday and has struck it rich in the land of opportunity. But Christopher Robin Milne, now a 55-year-old bookdealer in England, is not happy about how things turned out for. his stuffed bear. Walt Disney Productions bought the rights to Pooh and the other characters from the books the late A.

A. Milne wrote about his little son's toys. Merchandising rights, farmed out to Sears Roebuck, are worth $2 million to $6 million a year, a Disney spokesman said. "The exploitation of the books makes me sick it's a caricature," Milne said. "To me, Pooh is a toy I had as a child.

When he first appeared in print, the books were true to my idea of him But he has now gone well beyond that and become a cult." Don't expect to see a budding George C. Scott when Muhammad Ali makes his film debut next year. But take it from those who know portraying himself, will be Ali "The Greatest." "For his own WIIU could Dlav it better?" asked Ernest Borg-nine, who plays fight trainer Angelo Dundee in the $5-mil-lion production. Stavros Niarchos, the 67-year-old Greek shipping magnate, issued a statement this week concerning "reports circulating" that linked him with Princess Maria Gabriela tl '1 1 aii 7 Vnl Ali one yesterday came on the 164-yard No. 4 hole on the par 35 course.

Kudy Gordon, Dr. Cliff Donaldson and Dr. Lee Peterson witnessed the fourth hole-in-one. Country club manager William Utterback said each of the holes-in-one were witnessed by other players. Tower, a retired telephone company construction supervisor, is enjoying his remarkable success on the golf course less than a year after undergoing surgery three times for an undisclosed ailment.

sunny today, highs 60 to 65. Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Lows tonight 35 to 40, highs tomorrow around 70. Chance of rain 10 per cent today, 20 per cent tonight. Winds southwest at 10 to 20 m.p.h.

Delaware Bay: Fair through tonight, with visibility over five miles. Winds southwest at 10 to 20 knots today, becoming northwest tonight. Chesapeake Bay: Fair weather today, becoming partly cloudy tonight. Visibility at least five miles. Winds southerly at 10 to 15 knots today, becoming westerly tonight.

Highest temperature yesterday 63 degrees; lowest: 47 degrees. Highest humidity yesterday: 72 percent; lowest: 29 per cent. Precipitation in 24 hours ending at 8 p.m.: none. Sun rises today at 7:12 a.m. and sets at 6:24 p.m.

WEATHER ELSEWHERE Late afternoon temperature yesterday in key cities: Atlanta 73 clear, Boston 57 lair, Buffalo 47 cloudy, Charleston, C. 78 clear, Chicago 65 fair, Cincinnati 62 clear, Cleveland 51 lair, Detroit 59 fair, Indianapolis 64 clear, Knoxville 67 clear, Miami 80 partly cloudy, Nashville clear, New York 57 partly cloudy, Philadelphia 62 fair, Pittsburgh 54 fair, Richmond 67 partly cloudy, Washington 64 fair, Bismarck 52 dusty, Denver 71 clear, Des Moines 75 clear, Fort Worth 81 fair, Kansas City 77 fair, Los Angeles 70 hazy. Phoenix BO fair, St. Louis 70 clear, St. Paul-Minneapolis 73 lair, Salt Lake City 65 clear, San Diego 71 haty, San Franc Issco 62 clear, Montreal 41 cloudy, Toronto 48 fair.

igures show high temperatures lor area Dila Iron Ntttonjl Wejttwf Strvtce PITTSBURGH (AP) James Pyczynski calls driving "the most dangerous sport around," but yesterday he drove a hearse across a bridge and down four city blocks in Pittsburgh traffic blindfolded. It was no ordinary blindfold. Pyczynski's eyes were shielded with bread dough, a metal mask was placed over his face and a hood covered his head. And just in case someone wasn't impressed, he piloted the aging Cadillac funeral wagon through a human obstacle course on the city's North Side while still wearing the blinders. "You do this kind of thing very carefully," he said with a dry humor that probably comes with the profession.

Pyczynski, 23, is a daredevil illusionist. He likes to be called Loyal James. His driving demonstration was a publicity stunt for a Pittsburgh March of Dimes haunted house project, which annually raises almost $50,000 to finance research on birth defects. Last year Loyal James promoted the project and himself with a dramatic escape from a straitjacket while dangling from a crane 200 feet above Pittsburgh's Gateway Center. He also broke the world record for sleeping on a bed of nails, staying on a porcupine plate for 26 hours and 37 minutes.

"I want to be known for my stunts," the would-be Houdini said. "I'd like to be known well enough to get thrown into a river nailed in a box some day." of Savoy. She is the 36-year-old daughter of Italy's last king and the wife of Count Robert de Balkany of Paris, a Rumanian-born financier. Niarchos said he had known the princess for 26 years "and we remain excellent friends, as always." It was recalled that Niarchos issued a similar denial shortly before his 1971 marriage to Tina Liva-nos Onassis Blandford, who died in 1974. In conjunction with the announcement of the dismissal of Arthur R.

Taylor as presi dent of CBS Wiliam S. Paley, 75, declared he would relinquish his responsibilities as chief executive next April. Paley's decision was said Mrs. Paley by intimates to be not only because of his age but because of the illness of his wife, the former Barbara Cushing, long identified as as one of the ten best dressed women in America. However, a high-level clash between two powerful personalities led to Taylor's firing, industry sources said yesterday.

Princess Anne may be pregnant, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported yesterday. The tabloid said the 25-year-old daughter of Queen Elizabeth II could become a mother in late February and give the monarch her first grandchild. Buckingham Palace said: "We don't know whether the princess is pregnant or not. Presumably she be one day," The princess, fourth in line to the British throne, married army Capt. Mark Phillips, a commoner, Nov.

11, 1973. Supercook Julia Child reports in McCalls magazine that she doesn't know what last summer's White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth tasted like, "except for sampling two or three items with chef Henry Haller the Evidently the day before White House was afraid that people would think that money was being wasted and too much food was being cooked They're fearful of criticism We Mrs. Child and fellow reporters for PBS arrived dinnerless at 7 p.m. At around 11 p.m. we were finally given some tunafish sandwiches, but we didn't have any forks and we couldn't eat them because they had gotten all mushy and limp." In London, Roman Polanski, the film director, won a $165 judgment and an official denial of any evidence that his late wife, Sharon Tate, the actress slain by the Charles Manson "family," had ever practiced witchcraft.

The judge ordered that the $165 be paid by the News of the World newspaper to the Cousteau Society, as designated by Polanski, to settle his libel suit on his wife's behalf. President Ford gave a double salute to the arts last night at a formal White House dinner honoring his wife's one-time dancing teacher, Martha Graham. He presented the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian i award, to the 82-year-old dancer-choreographer. Ford also announced that he will ask Congress for $j0 million in federal grants over the next three years to help financially pressed art groups in Child Friday, October 15, 1976 Greater Wilmington, Kent and Sussex Counties, Eastern Shore: Sunny and pleasant today, high in the middle 60s. Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow.

Low tonight 45 to 50, high tomorrow in the upper 60s. Chance of rain near zero today, 10 per cent tonight. Winds light and variable today, turning southwesterly tonight at 10 to 15m.p.h. Southeastern Pennsylvania: Mostly sunny today, highs 60 to 65. Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow.

Lows 40 to 45 tonight, highs 65 to 70 tomorrow. Chance of rain 10 per cent today, 20 per cent tonight. Winds southwest at 10 to 20 m.p.h. Southern New Jersey: Mostly TIDES AT MARINE TERMINAL Hlflh Low Today A 4:45 12:07 Today P.M 5:14 12:01 HIGH TIDES TODAY AM Indian River Inlet (brldw) 1:25 1:36 Rehoooth Beach 12:44 12:55 CapeHenlopen 1:35 2:03 Breakwater Harbor 1:40 2:08 Mlsoilllon River 2:13 2:41 Bowers Beach 2:3 3:04 Woodland Beach 2:39 3:08 Reedy Point 3:54 4:23 Newcastle 4:24 4:53 Baltimore 12:21 12:09 Kent Island 10:25 11:27 Chesapeake City 2:39 3:08 todays forecast Rain Showers Stationary Occluded Gfflffl Cold Warm lottery Delaware Diamond Dollars: 722, 31261, 236542; weekly qualifier superdraw qualifier 236542. Maryland Numbers Game: 030.

New Jersey Pick-It: 767. Weekly: 330-100; finalist, 70661. w-'.