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FAMILY LEISURE THE ARTS section JUNE 27 1977 ST. PETERSBURG TIMES linns DICIEST Somebody up there likes this man PETER D. GnunGiiEn 1 r. ft'. A Crime pays for collared tourists If you're an American going to Canada this summer, watch out.

Winnipeg police plan to stop cars with U. S. license plates traveling north on Highway 75 between the U. S. border and Winnipeg.

If the occupants of the stopped car plan to spend a few days in Winnipeg, they may be "arrested," charged with tourism, and "sentenced" to a night in a luxury hotel, dinner and a tour of the city. Winnipeg police and the Jaycees are cooperating in the tourism promotion scheme, with "arrests" scheduled to begin in July. But plan your caper carefully. The police plan to arrest only one carload of tourists each week. The great scrimshaw scam A snaggletoothed whale swimming somewhere in the great oceans should be happy to know that justice has been served along with a summons leading to the arrest, trial and sentencing of a whale tooth seller.

Donald Kostecki, a Chicago curio dealer, was arrested after he allegedly sold three sperm whale teeth to an undercover U. S. Customs Service agent. A number of the dealer's stock of whale teeth had been carved into intricate figurines worth as much as 1 ,000 each to collectors. Kostecki pleaded guilty to receiving animal parts through interstate commerce and sellng them in violation of the Endangered Species Act.

A federal judge gave him a two year suspended sentence and confiscated 1 1 ,000 worth of whale and hippopotamus teeth, turtle shells, elephant and walrus tusks. Do it yourself labels A new government program for labeling consumer products went into effect last week. The Commerce Department project is designed to help shoppers compare products by providing labels which show how well the product performed in tests developed by the National Bureau of Standards. The use of the labels is voluntary and so far no manufacturer has offered to participate. But in case they ever do volunteer, the standards bureau needs to know the best method of testing each product.

If you've got any testing suggestions, write to the Secretary of Commerce, Washington, D. C. 20230. Tell as much about the product as possible, including problems in choosing among brands on the market. And someday you'll actually see a performance label on a product.

Maybe. Flying saucers have made a soft landing in John Reeve's heart. His critics think he's crazy but he simply points to the heavens and calmly retorts, 'They'll find out know 1 was with those space people. They came here. They got me.

I flew in outer space. I walked on the moon. I know what it is. I felt the pressure. I didn't dream it.

I walked on the soil of the planet Moniheya. I don't care who says I'm crazy. Someday, it will all come out and they'll put me in the hall of fame with the astronauts. John F. Raavat Tha whola world is crazy but ma and you and I hava my doubts about you.

iign hanging in John Reeves' living room. BR00KSVILLE A few miles outside this peaceful Hernando County town rests perhaps the strangest flying saucer in the world. A mass of boards tacked to screen, plastered with tarpaper and torn cloth, decorated with broken glass, twisted rope and frayed wire, it sits on a hillside which slopes northward from Highway 50. It looks like the fossilized remains of an old Flash Gordon prop or maybe something the Swiss Family Robinson nailed up in a weekend. It St.

Petariburg Tinrn STEPHANIE JAMES John F. Reeves keeps a constant vigil on the skies in anticipation of further visits of men from outer space. is both eerie and funny, a work of surreal art and a pile of junk, a home for lizards and field mice, and a monument to a man who says he has been to the moon and Venus and back. The flying saucer has been there, up on concrete blocks like some old junked car, since 1967 when John Frank Reeves finished its construction. A tourist attraction, according to John, but the (five-second interval) flashing red and white lights managed to stun more than one late-night motorist along this lonely stretch of Rt.

50. It was John's joke, his way of getting back at all the people who called him crazy. A TORNADO happened by in 1971, however, and since then, John has had to keep the saucer's door locked, for fear that some child or tourist might be injured in the disrepaired remains. Still, sagging on end and roof collapsing in the middle, it stands. Like the strange tales of John F.

Reeves, the trips to the moon and Moniheya, the plaster footprints, the moon dust, the Frisbee which he says dropped from the sky and the spacemen who go bump in the night around his property, it stands. If you look at that saucer and listen to John Reeves long enough, you'll believe anything flies. March 2, 1965 Looking for snakes in a wooded area west of Brooksville, John F. Reeves ran into a spaceman and a bluish-green, reddish-purple spaceship, he says. For about an hour, Reeves conversed with the spaceman with hand language and was allowed a peek inside the enormous ship, says.

The spaceman, who looked human GLORIA STEINEM except his eyes were wider apart, warned Reeves not to tell anyone about the encounter and said the ship would return in 29 days. After the ship took off, Reeves found a few sheets of strange paper inscribed with space writing. "I went home and I laid in bed and I shook not so much from seeing the spaceman, but from what people might say if I told what I saw," remembers Reeves. "When I finally told someone, it was like a carnival out here, more people driving up and down these old dirt roads than go down U.S. 19.

My life hasn't been the same since." No, John Reeves' life has not been the same. But then again, his life never has been the same. The list of professions he admits to during his 78 years is amazing. Stevedore, boiler boy, sewing machine salesman, baggage master (the only accident he was ever involved in was a Denver, train wreck; he did not hurt his head), early movie actor (used to arm-wrestle Will Rogers; Jimmy Cagney put a tattoo on his left arm) cabinet maker, longshoreman and yodeler with the Sons of the Pioneers (good buddy of Roy Rogers). He was a proficient writer of "roller skating rink music" and has copyrighted lead sheets to prove it.

"I never believed in flying saucers until 1965 because I never saw one," he says, in a voice both frustrated and resigned. "Why they picked me, I'll never know. I never asked 'em. There isn't a week goes by that someone doesn't come up to me and do this (he swirls his index finger around his ear). I don't pay attention to it.

They'll find out some day." Among the pulps and the science fiction freaks, John Reeves is known as the "Dean of American UFO Contactees." Despite the fact that the Air Force has termed all three of his major encounters "hoaxes," he stands by a story so precise and detailed, delivered with such understatement and belief that one finds it difficult, even painful to refute. A sign in front of his house proclaims: FLYING SAUCER AREA, HOME OF See REEVES. 4-D f'fff af-S Iff 1 l'-rtM 4. -v h. f- -I- i Feminist opposition toughens i Opposition to the women's movement has hardened in the last five years, according to Gloria Steinem, founding editor of Ms.

magazine. "We've had a lot of consciousness-raising but institutional change hasn't really happened. The gains of the last seven or eight years were made in part because we were not perceived as a serious threat," she says. "Now we are very much perceived as a serious threat and therefore the right-wing opposition to the movement, which controls many state legislatures and religious movements, is very forceful, very focused." On the other hand, support of Ms. magazine seems solid.

The magazine has doubled its circulation to 500,000 and quadrupled its advertising revenues since its founding five years ago, according to publisher Patricia Carbine. 111 -It Reeves, above, shows a model he made of the flying saucer that landed and left behind the messages. At right, one of two written messages that Reeves says were left by visitors from outer space. The U. S.

Air Force confiscated the writings for analysis but could not decipher the characters. -tr lit rW "Ir IVirV.itl. a li. -11 .1 Peter Frampton, the hottest solo rock act, has a date at Tampa Stadium, but without proper security there may not be a concert. Keystone Kops return to Detroit They may look like reruns of the old Keystone Kops comedies, but the three policemen dressed in authentic old-fashioned 1910 uniforms in downtown Detroit are packing modern revolvers and walkie-talkies.

The three officers hammed it up for passersby doing doubletakes at the high-domed helmets and long navy blue tunics trimmed with big brass buttons and brass-buckled belts. Police officials say the new-old uniforms are meant to make the officers seem more approachable and friendly. RICH STECK BOB ROSS ft- Insecurity and the art of concert promoting Will there be a Peter Frampton concert at Tampa Stadium on Sept "No," says Dee Anthony's secretary. "We have a concert until someone tells me otherwise," says Bob Pierce. "I just don't know what's going on," says Marjorie Sexton.

Who are these people, and what's the problem? First, there's Frampton, He's the hottest solo act in rock today. The attractive, sweet-sounding Englishman was booked into the Tampa Stadium for Sept 3. THEN THERE WAS the Led Zeppelin fiasco June 3 you remember with a rain-out, a riot and lota of bad vibes afterward. Amid the fallout was a pronouncement by Tampa Mayor William Poe that city policemen would never again be permitted to serve as security guards at Led Zeppelin concert Tampa and Hillsborough County law enforcement agencies have not yet announced whether they will participate in future stadium shows such as Frampton 's. And Frampton apparently is not willing to cool his high heels while local officials deliberate the matter.

Dee Anthony, Frampton's personal manager, was in London Friday and unavailable for comment, but a secretary in New York said that the Tampa gig had been Meanwhile, a committee of the Tampa Sports Authority continues to deliberate. The group will convene at 4:30 p.m. Thursday to make a "final decision" about rock shows at the stadium. "Until someone tells me WE have a concert," said Bob Pierce, Tampa Stadium operations manager, about the Frampton flap. "We have a contract and a $5,000 deposit from the promoter." But Pierce also readily admitted that without police security on hand, there is no way to put on a big concert If Frampton does pull out for good, there may be a rock alternative on that Labor Day weekend: Someone has asked the Polk County Commission to allow a festival-type event in the pastures near Lakeland.

We shall see Beatle bits Number 72 with a bullet on the Billboard singles chart this week is a tune called Seaside Woman by Suzy and the Red Stripes. In case you don't know yet, Suzy is really Linda McCartney and the Red Stripes are really members of Wings, the band employed by Linda's husband PauL The McCartneys, married eight years now, have three daughters and are expecting a fourth child in September Another former Beatle, George Harrison, is on a different matrimonial track: Wife Patti divorced him after a separation of more than two years. TV tout The MacNeil Lehrer Report at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 3 deserves a standing recommendation, any day of the week. Tonight the refreshing antics of the mime team Shields and Yarnell are a sure best bet at 8:30 p.m.

on Channel 13. At 9 p.m. on Channel 8 the NBC movie Terraces may offer entertainment value for adults, something in the nature, say. of a "high-rise Peyton Place." switched to Miami Stadium. She said she does not know why.

Frampton's booking agency, Premier Talent in New York, was no help. One spokesman said, "We have nothing for that date (Sept 3) yet." When informed that the Tampa concert had been announced in a national press release, a different spokesperson a woman with a British accent promised that "I'll get back to you." She never did and attempts to reach her again were fruitless. "I WANT TO PUT the show in the stadium if possible," says Ms. Sexton, owner of Gulf Artists, who is or perhaps was to promote the Tampa concert "But right now I'm being bombarded by other promoters who would love to get their hands on Frampton they want me to move the show. We should have had tickets printed by now, but we don't You can't have a concert without security.

And I can see the police department's side of it, too. But it's beginning to look as if we'll move the show. "I think it's disgusting," said Ms. Sexton, a veteran promoter, "that Led Zeppelin has done this to the local concert market" iaai.