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FOUNDED I85O People Lifechangers to sponsor dance Page 15 Versace says Miller, Fleming are improved Page 18 New senior baseball league begins Wednesday Page 19 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 13 Tuesday, Oct. 31, 1989 Elks sets annual cancer fund-raiser The Kokomo Elks Lodge has scheduled its yearly cancer fund dinner-dance party Nov. 15 to raise money to fulfill its pledge to the Indiana Elks Association. Dinner will be served from 5:30 followed by dance music by Double Play until 10:30 p.m. Minimum donation for the dinner-dance is $11 per person.

All checks should be made payable to Elks Cancer Fund. The Indiana Elks Association has donated more than $2,500,000 to Indiana University Medical Center and Purdue University to aid in the fight against cancer. Reservations due for award dinner Reservations should be made by Thursday for the Exchange Club banquet honoring Peggy Ragland of Kokomo. Peggy is being honored with the club's Book of Golden Deeds award for her community service efforts and her contributions in the recovery of her husband, Russ Ragland, from a severe head injury. Speakers at the dinner will include Kokomo businesswoman Janice Fleenor Smith, the Exchange Club member who nominated Peggy for the award; Margaret Johnson, executive director of the Kokomo-Howard County Chamber of Commerce; Dorothy Fordyce, administrator of Americana Healthcare Center; Linda Ferries, People section editor of the Kokomo Tribune; former Kokomo Mayor Stephen J.

Daily, vice chancellor of external affairs at Indiana University- Kokomo; and Russ. Peggy, who owned Ragland StainedGlass from 1973 to 1988, is admissions director for Americana Healthcare Center. The evening at the Elks Lodge is to begin with a cash bar at 6:30 p.m. Monday followed by the awards banquet at 7. Tickets are $15 per person or $25 per pair.

To make reservations, call or 452-0055. Maplewood official is guest speaker Shareem Anderson, counselor for Howard Community Hospital's Maplewood Services, will be guest speaker Wednesday at the Woman's Center lunch hour program. Anderson's speech is titled, "From Addiction to Intimacy Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Relationships." The program is free and open to the public. It meets from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the Woman's Center offices south of the hospital.

Participants are invited to bring a sack lunch. For information, call 453-8099. Second infant CPR class has started Howard Community Hospital's Woman's Center inpatient services offers a class free on "Infant CPR." The purpose ig to teach families skills that may save a child's life. Because the class is filled for the evening session, a 1 to 3:30 p.m. class has started.

The class meets Wednesday in the OB Classroom, second floor of the main hospital. To enroll, call 453-8448. Nurses to have education seminar Registration deadline is Thursday for the next seminar for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses sponsored by Howard Community Hospital. The session will be Nov. p.m.

in the basement of Howard Community Hospital. Cost is $5. Presenter will be Patrick B. Morrow, registered representative of the Kokomo Financial Group. His subject will be "Financial Strategies for the Nursing will include tax breaks, individual investments and making financial decisions.

To enroll, call 453-8483. 'Unforgettable 1 women sought Midwestern women, ages 18 to 80 or older, can win $5,000 and an appearance in a Hook's-Revlon ad by entering the Hook's Unforgettable Women Contest. Entry details are available at all Hook's Drugstores. In addition to the grand prize winner, a first-prize gift certificate of $500 will be awarded, redeemable at Sycamore Shops. There will be 10 second-place prizes of $200 and 50 third-place prizes of $100.

Entries will be accepted through Friday. Contestants must submit with the entry two photographs and an essay of 100 words or less why they consider themselves "Unforgettable." For information, call Hook's at 1-353-1451 or Bert Miller at Revlon at 1-299-7215. Only guilty need fear BERKELEY, Calif. If any Halloween witches and goblins should hex you, don't worry if you've done nothing to harm them. That's the word from Zsuzsanna Budapest, a Hungarian-born witch who has spent almost 20 years trying to revive the Wiccan religion of goddess-worship practiced by ancient European women.

"We think if you attack the innocent, it won't work," Ms. Budapest said in an interview. But it's very different when you hex the guilty, she says. To do that, you don't even need to believe in hexes. "Anyone can cast spells," she said.

"No guru is needed. Just get hold of the knowledge and use it. Belief is beside the point, too. When you cast a spell, performing it according to some specifications, you are riding natural forces. You don't have to believe in gravity; it just happens that way." Ms.

Budapest, who left Hungary at 19 after that country's 1956 uprising, is now out to provide the world all the specifications it needs. Her new book, "The Grandmother of Time" (Harper Row, $13.95) is out just in time for Halloween, crammed with spells and other witchery, ancient and modern. But this is one witch who doesn't dress in black or ride out on a broom from her base in the East Bay hills behind Oakland. She travels the country on jet planes, looking as hip as any 52-year-old could, wearing a blue denim skirt and blouse outfits with pink shoes and scarves, her gray hair cut fashionably short. "I learned I was a witch when I entered a nunnery in Hungary at age 6, just after World War II," she said.

"My mother was a witch and she put me there because only the Christians had food at that time. There they told us what to believe in and that we had sinful, black hearts. I learned I was not a Christian. "'Witch' was just something Mother called us," she added. "She was a pagan.

She prayed to the winds and meditated every day. I learned witches worship nature and Christians worship statues and buildings." What is a witch today? Ms. Budapest, who continually leads workshops on the subject all over North America, defines a witch as "One who thinks Mother Nature is goddess and that there is no end to nature. A witch is someone who works with natural law and celebrates the seasons, not political events. For us, the equinoxes are bigger than Labor Day or the Fourth of July.

They influence our bodies, the food chain, even the light in the world." Ms. Budapest is convinced that hexes work as long as the guilty are the ones getting hexed. Unlike satanists, who preach that a spell can be cast to affect anyone who believes in it, Ms. Budapest says her hexes work even if the target doesn't know about them. She claims credit for the downfall of the "Trailside Killer," who raped and murdered several women on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais north of San Francisco in the early 1980s.

"I got him," she says. "After the hex, he started to make mistakes, like leaving his glasses at a crime scene and leaving behind an eyewitness at another, and they caught him. If you have a righteous cause and some natural tool, you can send a force against someone just like photons through the universe. That person will make mistakes and get caught. Psychic self-defense is just as important as physical self-defense.

"Every woman I know who has been raped and then turned her rage in this direction has caused the rapist to get caught. One even totaled his truck after he was hexed." But woe to the witch who casts a spell against an innocent party. "That comes back on you tenfold," warns Ms. Budapest. "Natural law says with an innocent person there is no momentum, so the hex comes back on you tenfold.

Natural law is our police." Modern witches like Ms. Budapest also have no use for "New Age" thinking. In her book, Ms. Budapest recalls a workshop conducted by New Agers who told the women present that people "always create their own "What about abused children and rape victims do they create their own reality?" she asks. "New Age is a hodge-podge culled from a lot of old religions.

But they go only so far that they take no real risks. They want nice crystals and pat explanations. But we put our necks on the line when we say we're witches." Ms. Budapest has been arrested twice in witchcraft-related episodes, once for trespassing on a Seasons' greetings frightful The night is a little darker. Black cats appear on the doorstep, interestingly enough, just after the neighbor disappears from the yard.

Trees seem to have long fingers hanging down to snatch you up. And the moon doubles in along with the and the abandoned house down the street. Suddenly, you realize that you forgot to get the mail! Malibu hillside and once for fortune-telling. "It's amazing how the goddess religion survived more than 600 years of persecution," she said. "It's always been good business to persecute witches, and it still is.

In the Middle Ages, the accuser would get 10 percent of any admit- ted witch's property and the church got 90 percent. We had good land and livestock. "Today you can discredit someone by calling her a witch; you can cost people their jobs and isolate them. So it's still good business and they're still doing it." Spell-maker puts hex on unhappiness By Scripps Howard News Service A sampling of the spells listed in Zsuzsanna Budapest's "The Grandmother of Time" (Harper Row, To keep a lover true: Gather a handful of linden flowers, sweet basil, bayberry, ditanny of Crete and powdered cloves. Grind and blend into a fine mixture, burn on charcoal.

Burn mixture every night before going to sleep. This incense can also attract a lover to you if you're alone. To find a job: Begin at the waxing moon after using some form of divination (Tarot is suggested) to match your talents with reality. Plan strategy. Purchase yellow candle and write your name on it three times.

Make list of jobs you desire, using colorful ink on high-quality white paper, including desired annual income. Burn yellow candle a short time each evening for seven nights while imagining yourself happily employed and getting raises. When candle is burned down, collect remnants and, without being noticed, leave a little in the flower pots of offices where you are seeking a job. Your job will manifest within a moon. To increase your business: Gather cubeb berries, yellow dock echinacea and augustifolia herbs.

Mix a little of each into sandalwood powder and burn some each morning and night on charcoal while chanting: "Augusta, Increaser, make my business grow as you grow your best corn! I am doing business in the uni- verse and I am willing and ready to receive your wealth." Your business will flourish. To help angry couples kiss and make up: Sprinkle the herb black cohosh around the bed where the couple sleeps, saying "Angry soul and painful heart, change into white doves and fly!" three times, while visualizing the couple smiling. If this doesn't work, urge them to get counseling. To keep a wandering lover at home: Mix one teaspoon of the herb yerba mate (Paraguayan tea) into a cup of boiling water. Allow to simmer.

Add a little pure honey and try to have your mate drink it. If he or she protests, hide it in wine or coffee. Before offering it to the wandering lover, Trick-or-treat timely tradition The more I learn, the more I realize I sure have forgotten a lot. For example, I know I've read somewhere how Halloween got started. But I don't remember.

It probably was some bright kid who jumped out of bed one Oct. 31 morning and said, I know. Tonight I'll dress up in a costume, bang on doors, and shout 'Trick- or-Treat! Give Me Something Good to And another great holiday was born. Halloween has changed a lot over the years. Sometimes I feel sorry for some of today's trick- or-treaters.

I mean, who wants to eat candy that has to be X-rayed for razor blades? Halloween was a lot more fun back in the '60s, when I was a kid. Armed with a flashlight and my big sis, I had no fear making my rounds in the five-and-dime's latest version of a Halloween costume for girls. Of course, it helped that Dad followed us from a respectable distance. At the end of the night, around 9 p.m., we'd come home, dump our loot out on the floor, and carefully examine it. We weren't looking for tampered treats, but our favorites.

We'd keep the Milky Ways, 3 Musketeers, and Hershey Bars. And the occasional prized dime. Then we'd turn over any- By Nancy Elwell thing we didn't particularly like to Dad. You see, my dad was a man ahead of his time. He was the first on our block to be in favor of recycling.

He figured Halloween was as good a place to start as any. Especially since the only kids who rang the doorbell after our bewitching curfew were the older kids who didn't live in our neighborhood anyway. Now that my husband are parents, we're developing our own traditions. Somewhere along the line, I made the fatal mistake of letting my children know that I can sew. Just give me a Simplicity pattern and months later (or years, if I can still remember what I was supposed to be sewing,) I'll give you back a finished garment.

One year, my older daughter decided she wanted to be her favorite cartoon character, Rainbow Brite. So we went to the local fabric store and found a pattern which consisted of several hundred pattern pieces. Actually, it was only 37. Even at minimum wages, that outfit should cost more than what we paid for our first house. But I gave it to her for a hug and a kiss.

About the same value, in my opinion. I do think, however, that we need a constitutional amendment that declares once a sewing pattern is made in the image of a cartoon character, and nationally distributed, that character is never to be dropped from the Saturday morning cartoon lineup. After all, I've seen more good costumes go to waste than flags burned. When I tried convincing my younger daughter to wear that costume which would now fit her perfectly, she said, "Rainbow who? I want to be a bunny." I keep hoping that whatever my kids decide to be for Halloween, it won't require extensive sewing. Because I have limited work space as well as limited patience for retyping my articles, my sewing machine has been replaced by a computer.

And the computer doesn't even sew. This year, I'm lucky. Our odds-and-ends closet (more precisely, our odds-and-ends house) has produced bunny ears from a previous Easter. All I have to do is find a cotton tail and a carrot, and it's one down, one to go. The other daughter has (finally) decided she wants to be a witch.

I lucked out here too. We went to the mall to look. I had planned on visiting the fabric store there, but it had moved out. The mall's drugstore, however, had brewed up a ready-made witch's costume. Now that's what I call progress.

So, on Halloween night, this Mom will man the front door to give out treats. My kids will be armed with flashlights and each other, with their dad following closely behind. At the end of the night, before9p.m., they'll bring their treats home, dump them on the floor, and look for their favorites. Then they'll give the rejects to their Dad for recycling. The moral of this Halloween story is: If you want the good stuff, don't be late.

At least, not past 9 p.m. Some things never change. Isn't it nice? (Elwell, a 1974 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, lives in Kokomo with her husband and two daughters. She can be contacted in writing through the Tribune.) whisper over it: "Warm seed, warm heart, (name) and (your name) never part." Legend says this will make all his or her desire to wander without you simply stop. If this doesn't help, get a more faithful mate.

To stop slander and gossip: Write the name of the person slandering you backward nine times with red ink on a very small piece of white paper. If you don't know who it is, write "whoever is slandering me." Burn a small amount of powdered cloves each morning and night for seven days in a row. On the last night, burn the piece of paper with the name on it along with the powdered cloves, then cast the ashes into a living body of water. The gossiper will stop or will not be believed. You creep out to the mailbox, brush away the spider webs, and cringe as the box creaks open.

It is then in the dark, with the wind howling around you, that you sense it is in there. Disgusted, and yet appalled, yet drawn you are faced with yet another tasteless Halloween card from that person that keeps insisting they are a relative. Frightening! Batty as it may seem, it is estimated that 28 million Halloween cards will be given this year. Hallmark Cards Inc. alone will offer more than 300 different designs.

The first Halloween cards were made in 1908 and from then until now the symbols of this scary seasons have delighted children and adults. While most of us know the symbols that mark the beginning of the holiday season, most of us have only a ghost of an idea where these haunting items come from. Hallmark, which makes use of many Halloween symbols in its greeting cards, actually has people to research these symbols of the darker side. According to their research, Halloween is a mix of both pagan and Christian superstition. For Catholics in the eighth century, All Saints Day (also known as All Hallows Day) was celebrated on Nov.

in ancient Celtic tribes, it was the first day of the new year. The tribes that inhabited Wales, Ireland, and some areas of Scotland belived the night before All Hollows Day was the night spirits of the dead walked the earth and witches and goblins were the most mischievous. The researchers have been busy scaring up some facts about these fiendish symbols. Irish children would carve out the centers of rutabagas, turnips and potatoes and place candles inside and put them in windows to scare way evil spirits. They told a story of a miser named Stingy Jack, an Irishman who was turned away from heaven because of his stingy ways.

Then he was banished from hell because he tried to trick the devil. As a final gesture, the devil threw Jack a glowing goal from the fires of hell. Jack made a lantern by placing the coal in a turnip. He uses the jack-o'-lantern to light his way as he still wanders the earth trying to find a place to rest. Cats, another popular Halloween symbol, have been thought magical longer than there has been a Halloween.

Two thousand years ago, the Druids believed cats were humans changed into animals by evil powers. And what could be more like a fiend than any other living creature? With their fearsome looking faces and sharp teeth, it's the bat. Gliding though the night, hanging upside down with their wings wrapped around them like little witches, bats have been linked with the evil and the unknown. And how can you have Halloween without witches? Since earliest times, the witch has symbolized the evil spirits and the magic that make this holiday unique. Their name comes from the Saxon word "wica," which means wise one.

Belief in magic was one way that people could understand and try to control nature in earlier times. Those Hallmark researchers even found out the meaning of the colors black and orange. Orange and deep yellow are the colors of the season's many ripe fruits, vegetables and grains. Orange also represents the color of the fires that burned on Oct. 31 to keep evil spirits at bay.

And, as everyone knows, black is the color of the night. And in the darkness, everything is a little more frightening. Happy haunting. (Goff is a Tribune staff photographer and writer. She can be reached at the newspaper office.).