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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 38

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20B THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sat April 1 1972 Pablo Casals Graces Concert With His Favorite riir (Charlotte (Observer Spotlight uiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii Why Does It Rain Knight Newspaper! Wire PABLO CASALS whose visits to the United States are few took up the cello and played what he called one of his favorites Casals appeared on the Arizona State University campus this week during a benefit concert to raise funds for an International Cello Library being established here He received five standing ovations one as he played Of the which he composed Earlier in the concert he conducted the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra in to the United another of his compositions Casals also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Arizona State When Out? By Pat Carter Copy Desk Chief Pablo Casals In Arizona Entertainer Gary Lewis pleaded innocent in Van Nuys Calif Municipal Court to a charge of possessing dangerous drugs The 26-year old singer son of comedian Jerry Lewis was arrested March 23 after a quantity of pills were found in his car police said Judge Edward Davenport ordered Lewis to return May 2 when a trial date wall be set Dr Maurice Rosenberg physician testified that he had written a prescription for 60 sleeping pills in January after the entertainer com plained of not being able to sleep Rosenberg described the capsules as barbiturates ing their undivided attention to Captain Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans things manage to ricochet off walls doors mysteriously slam commodes flush by themselves toasters burn toast and sound of crunchy cereal meanders up the stairs and into my bedroom and under my pillow like looking into a one-way mirror all these sounds get to me lands had ruled last October in favor of Ms Lennon The daughter Kyoko currently is believed in the custody of her father Antlinnv Cox who obtained a divorce from Yoko Olio in early 19b!) Filipino Reenacts The Crucifixion CARY GRANT wnn the first round in a child custody dispute with his former wife actress Dyan Cannon The Feminine Touch A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has upheld a lower court's ruling that granted Yoko Ono Lennon wife of ex-Beatle John Lennon legal custody of her 8-year-old daughter by a previous marriage A US district court in Charlotte Amalie Virgin Is- When Miss Cannon leaves for New York next month to make a movie she must leave them S-V' ar-nld daughter Jennifer with Grant Los Angeles Suprnor Court Judge Jack Rvburn ruled it wmuld not be good for the girl who has just begun school to be removed from California for a long partner Tanya Padgett Ann Arbor has three women on regular patrol duty (AP Photo) Patrolwoman Tommie Stewart (left) frisks a suspect before making an arrest in Ann Arbor Mich Looking on is her while my screams of protest go unheard hear me hollering for you to be quiet I was I fume at the boys after falling down the stairs and barging through a labyrinth of race car tracks on the den floor uh Daddy we wus watching Mister Moose and Bunny Rabbit and Bunny found out where Captain Kangaroo hid the carrots and the Ping-Pong balls fell on hiz head my 5-year-old breathlessly chronicles mean you were hollering in your my wise 7-year-old questions and then cringes as I move men-ancingly into striking distance the peanut butter jar doing on top of the I ask having noticed the change in decor from Early American to Sticky Sludge for our pipes up the Tiniest Terror is my bowling ball on the kitchen I ask quietly knowing that all things are revealed unto those who ask and wait told us not to bounce the basketball in the says the Tallest Terror as if that somehow explained the bowling ball chirps Tiniest with a handful of marbles approaching the bowling ball can put the marbles into these holes and keep until you need And you know something? right You can get 5 marbles each into the two finger holes and three log rollers will fit into the thumb holes and the very next time looking for a place to keep your marbles Because just between you and me I lose mine every now and then Bobby Fischer To Make Own Plans For Mateli Challenging Russian For World Chess Title Bill Grant agmed to take the girl to New York for visits at least twice during the four to six weeks that Miss Cannon will he filming there and to take Jenmfpr to visit her thnje pet dogs every day Miss Cannon 34 won custody of Jennifer when she and Giant 68 were divorced four jcais ago But she may not take the child out of California without court permission Aisociated Pra Knight Newspapers Wire A bearded Filipino wearing what he described as a wig topped with a crown of thorns had himself nailed to a wooded cross Friday to re-enact the crucifixion for the fourth year in a row Juanito Piring 30-year-old father of four said he had made a lifetime vow to suffer the crucifixion of Christ every Good Friday He hung for a few minutes on a cross in a dry rice field in San Pedro village about 45 miles north of Manila Naked to the waist he was tightly bound with ropes to the 10-foot-long cross held aloft by a jostling crowd His outstretched palms were bleeding at the spots where two-and-half-inch steel nails were driven through by an appointed torturer dressed as a roman centurion When he was brought down and the nails pulled out Piring lost consciousness did it to fulfill a Piring said before he was crucified will always do it every year whenever I can It gives me a feeling of in Belgrade and Reykjavik Iceland The newspaper the Daily Pohtika also said its editor had been told by Edmondson by telephone that Edmondson believed Fischer had no inten tion of playing Spassky for the title Edmondson denied the latter report saying it it was completely false Fischer declined to comment on the reports A Belgrade newspaper reported earlier Thursday that Fischer had repudiated an agreement Edmondson reached for the players' share of the 24 game match to be played NEW YORK Ed-mondons head of the US Chess Federation who has been negotiating arrangements for Bobby world championship match with Boris Spassky says Fischer had informed him that he would conduct his own negotiations Edmondson denied however that he expressed any opinion that is may have changed his mind about meeting Spassky the Russian world champion LC MMSi: Those Self-Selecting Public (2D Surveys Not A True Gauge yf lk nlllkiA XU Qc 1 of the was trum pulbic largely responsible for the death of the magazine after its disastrous prediction that Landon would beat Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election By IN What is wrong with so many and is that they are based on a self-selecting public Let me explain what is meant by this technical phrase Recently the League of New York Theaters commissioned a survey to learn if Manhattan theater-goers are satisfied with the new 7:30 pm curtain time for weekday evening performances replacing the old 8:30 curtain Sydney Harris QD The magazine canvassed its own readers plus citizens drawn from the telephone directories and automobile registration lists But (his was a self-selecting Public since it ignored ail those without telephones and automobiles QD They distributed 2830 questionnaires to audiences at 20 separate performances of IS Broadway shows A substantial majority of the interviewees supported the earlier curtain which said (he league president firm statistical confirmation of the preference for the 7:30 Growing Up Go(Vs Way Painful Job Thus the 2830 persons were a They were people who had decided to attend the theater even with an earlier curtain and are not necessarily representative of the whole group of actual and potential theatergoers Mind you I am using this merely as an example of sta-t i i a 1 shortsightedness I have no interest or preference in the curtain times on Broadway nor am I implying that most people want an early curtain All I am suggesting is that such surveys prove far less than they imagine Failure to include a rull spec- By BILLY GRAHAM When the election returns were in Roosevelt had swamped Landon and the "Literary sank under the weight of the egg on its face Researchers and statisticians have learned a lot since then especially about the need for "true randomness" in polling a public yet when a serious survey of New York theatergoers omits the people who have stayed home it is hard to believe we have a "firm statistical anything except 2830 votes in a void a useful thing to remember in this heady election year Go Bright and Bare! But there is a serious flaw in this reasoning The questionnaire included only those theater patrons who were attending plays it paid no regard to those who might have stopped attending because of the inconvenience of the 7:30 curtain I am a teen-age girl who really has a problem and the problem is me I know the only peace and happiness is found in Jesus I have accepted Him but lately I've been depressed and seem to be losing out in my walk with Him My mind Is too much on matt rial things I know this is wrong but 1 can't seem to control it BW SD Run away to the sun in this 100 cotton brightly coloured halter dress Just a quick little zip a tie around the neck and you're ready1 Looks so delicate yet washes by hand or machine Red White Navy White Sizes 5-1 3 Senior Forum By PAUL HIGHTOWER SHOPS You like other young Christians are having Growing up physically or spiritually is sometimes a painful process But accept this as normal and natural in your development Christ commands full commitment and this is painful to the natural man He wants to be Master of your body Paul said keep my body under and bring it into subjection" I Corinthians 9 27 He also wants to be Master of your social life "Whether therefore ye eat or drink whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of I Corinthians 10:31 Christ wants to be Master of your heart They called him and He seeks to master our lives to be king of our hearts It is always with pain and reluctance that we surrender the domain of our hearts to Christ but the rewards are tremendous will be happy to provide me $15000 in his will I told him perhaps but that I would like to see the will About a week later he came to me with a copy of what he said was his revised will It clearly stated that I would get the $15000 on his death provided I remained with him until he died What do you think of the proposition? Mrs A Not much The man could burn the will the day you moved in and write another one He could do this without telling you It is better that you and the man go to a lawyer and draw a contract that guarantees you the money promised But do you really want to go into this sort of an arrangement? Friends and children going to think it's platonic (If your question can be answered in this space send it in) I have been acquainted for some time with a retired widower He is a nice man seems comfortably fixed and has a pleasant home This man tells me he doesn't wish to remarry but that he sorely needs a housekeeper He wants a woman who will live in but his intentions are strictly platonic He says he cannot afford to pay this housekeeper a salary but will provide good room and board and take care of routine medical expenses This proposition has been made to me and moved by it because if my living expenses were taken care of my small pension would see me through fine But I have hesitated because the proposal is so unusual As a result of my hesitation the widower has now told me that while he can't pay me a salary he QD ROCK TRYON MAU-GAS10NIA -fORiST CIIY-PARK ROAD -CG TSWOLO ll Huff.

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