The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 154

On the TV Scene KCPT-TV Auction Will Have The Usual and the Unusual plane to an undisclosed destination (heaven perhaps? In addition to all of this of course the auction will feature the usual selection of appliances jewelry furniture bicycles antiques artwork (so far totaling $10000) and novelty collector's items However if the auction Is set apart from other similar fund-raising projects it Is In its impressive selection oi trips and its number of celebrity outings For example one of the top items Is lunch with Gov Christopher Kid Bond as well a tour of the mansion and capitoL also a scheduled lunch with Sen Thomas Eagleton in the Senate dining room (cocktails to be option of the senator) For bidders seeking dinner rather than lunch the auction will include dinners with Marilyn Maye Mr and Mrs Hank Stram Len Dawson Mr and Mrs Jorge Mester and if you prefer to dine alone a meal a day for the rest of your life through the purchase of coupons donated by several local restaurants And then there are the trips: To Spain (the Costa del Sol for two weeks in October) to Hawaii (a week at the Hilton Hawaiian Village) to New Orleans (all the coffee you can drink and a tour of the plant there eat your heart out Mrs Olson) to Acapulco (a penthouse condominium for one week) to Florida (a villa with maid service in Port St Lucie) to Arizona to Colorado and to Wisconsin (a weekend at the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva) On the other hand If you want a little excitement but are too fatigued from watching the auction and don have the strength to leave home you can always bid on a long distance phone call from Walter Cronkite The CBS anchorman has volunteered to place the call alter his regular evening newscast on a night of the winning choice And no time limit to the conversation So count your pennies and make sure your phone bill is paid The KCPT-TV auction promises to have something for everyone The bidding will commence (at 7 pm Friday on channel 19) with Mayors Charles Wheeler and Richard Walsh auctioning off the first bid board of goodies The auction will continue until midnight and then will resume (on both Saturday and Sunday) at 7 pm with channels 2 and 9 simulcasting the proceedings from 9 to 10 pm Saturday and channel 4 airing a half-hour at 9:30 program from 10:30 until 11:30 pm Sunday pm Sunday while channel 5 will carry the By Joyce Wagner The Star Television Ectttoc With the KCPT-TV channel 19 auction only five days away items are pouring into the warehouse faster than you can shout "fidelity polygraph In fact If the Inventory Is any criterion the 3-day bazaar promises to provide not only much-needed funds for the local PBS affiliate but also a weekend of madcap television programing Leaving no prospective donor untapped auction volunteers have amassed an unbelievable bundle of biddables for Kansas first public television auction The items are numerous and varied impressive and in some cases downright weird For instance a local private eye has donated four sessions with his lie detector a counseling service has contributed six sessions for either personal or marital help and a local mortuary is considering a donation of two above-ground crypts (For the person who likes to have the bases covered at all times the aforementioned items probably could be purchased as sort of a package deal That way if the polygraph test detects a problem that the six counseling sessions fail to alleviate well Also under consideration by the auction committee is the donation of a vasectomy the offer of an 8-foot-tall chunk of marble large enough for some industrious sculptor to reproduce the Venus de Milo with both arms) and the desire of a lonely private citizen to auction himself off for a dinner and a night on the town with "someone interesting" Other less fantastic but still unusual items on the weekend agenda include: An hour's worth of Vic and Sade radio tapes an antique switchboard from Ionia Mo central? Give me the hardware store eight hours in a tape recording studio 100 pounds of peanuts the $500 stud services of a 4-legged English Thoroughbred a case of tiger's milk (for purrrfect health) and (for the brave) aerobatic flying over Kansas City with a professional stunt pilot (duration of flight to be option of bidder) Viewers also will have the opportunity to bid on dinner and cocktails in Ewing stadium box the opportunity to throw out the first baseball at a Royals game choice) a trip to the Omaha race track a pair of mink shorts (two years out of hot-pants style but never used) and a dinner flight with Morgan Maxfield in his private SPECIAL 15 YEAR 'WRITTEN FACTORY GUARANTEE 4 FT MODEL SPECIAL CALL FOR FREE HOME OEMONSTHATION OR MAIL tHISCOUPON Visit Kansas City's Only Indoor Display Of OPEN SUNDAY 10 TO 6 WEEKDAYS 10 TO 5 Esther Williams Says "Don't Buy Until You See My Life Size Display of All Aluminum Pools SWIMMING POOLS TWO LOCATIONS 4023 NORTH 6021 TROOST OAK TRFWY 361-6777 454-8686 OUT OF TOWN CALL COLLECT OPERATOR ON DUTY 24 HRS 7 DAYS COMPLETE LINE OF POOL SUPPLIES 6021 TROOST I am Interested in having your representative give me free home demonitration nam ADDRESS CITY PHONE I BEST TIME TO CALL IS Gov Kit Bond Marilvn Maya and Len Dawson re among the celebrities who have volunteered Welcome to din wih hos bidding the highest price for the opportunity on KCPT-TVs first auction DIOS "9 Market Place" 7 pm to midnight Friday and Saturday Ch 19 Dawson will also appear as an auctioneer.