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ALL EDITIONS lfl-M The Arizona Republic PhMBfe, July 26, More nhonn The mpernntnral Booming business in occult Continued from Page M-3 cult phenomena in their 'homes, at work, indeed prac- vtically any place where scien- procedure has not dominated the proceedings. And I these witnesses can by no all be dismissed as -hysterics, kooks or superstitious illiterates. Here are two j- In a well lighted dormito- iry room at the University of in Laramie, four gifls stand around acardta- their hands resting lightly on the surface. The room brightly lit. Hair a dozen other students are present.

of them describes what 'happened: "We tried for a half hour every night for a week, all of 'us concentrating on moving table. The third night it began to jiggle; the fourth night it jiggled a little more. fifth night it moved, not a few inches, but all over room, backwards and wards. We had to jump out of its way. One of the girls got upset she burst into tears and ran out of the room." An Ossining, N.

woman attending a bridge party. She is worried for no reason she understands, gloomy, irritable, unable to concentrate on the cards. "Then all at once I felt better," she recalls. "In fact, I felt just marvelous, light headed, loving, totally relaxed. When I got home, my 7 year old daughter was there, still upset because two hours earlier she had gotten off her school bus and had almost been run over.

She was still hearing the screech of the car's brakes. "I know what time she gets off the bus after school. I know what time I suddenly felt so marvelous. They were '(he same time. Somehow I knew she was in danger and somehow I knew exactly the moment she came through 1 Of course, such inexplicable ioccurences are not new in jthis generation.

History is full them and previous genera- ons generally shrugged them jbff. What is new and it has developed in the past five years is a rebirth of interest in the causes and a willingness to accept the irrational as an answer. It may be that reality in an increasingly controlled and overpopulated society has become too unpleasant for many people to accept. "Mysticism is on the rise no question about that," says John Q. Anderson, a student of the occult and professor of folklore at the University of Houston.

"These are very, very complex times and historically you'll always find men turning to the mystic when their real world becomes a little too difficult to live in." Though many devotees of the occult claim to be religious people and some even consider themselves Christians, the classic religions will have none of their methods. Some clergymen see the rise of the occult as one more example of the contemporary drift from deeply felt religion. Others see it as just another excuse to kick over the traces. "Our tight, bureaucraitc and instrumental society," theologian Harvey Cox recently noted, is fascinated with "the slippery stuff that never found a place in it: astrology, madness, palmistry and mysticism, shoddy or serious." Since many of the practitioners are too shoddy to be believed, it is Impossible to estimate the exact numbers of those involved. But the us- sually practical people who Arizonan elected Theta Sig head Mrs.

Robert Lovell of Tucson was re elected vice president for members at large at the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi at San Diego recently. Other national officers include Lloyd Stewart, Fort Worth, president; Susan Alice Brown, Ames, Iowa, treasure; and Roberta Applegate, Manhattan, vice president for student chapters. Resolutions adopted at the annual meeting call for recruiting minority women into communications fields, filing briefs asking an end to discrimination in the all male Milwaukee Press Club. Mrs. Lovell, a free lance writer, is also president of the Arizona Press Women and past officer of the Tucson Chapter, Theta Sigma Phi.

run the occult stores are most convincing and nearly unanimous on one observation about their customers. "Most of them are young," says Donald Weiser who operates an occult book store in New York City. "These kids have money and freedom, and they're disgusted with what society has to offer them. Also, they've realized that drugs give them only a temporary lift or insight and what they look for in the occult is something more persistent." Predictably, a generation that experiments with narcotics would hardly balk at the classic potions of witchcraft and magic. One of the most renowned suppliers is Bichon's Drug Store in Houston, which ships its products all over the country.

Dried batwing is a particularly popular item; so is frogskin and there are frequent calls for rattlesnake tongue. For $1.60, a two-ounce jar of "evil-removing essence" can be purchased. The label is in the patent-medicines tradition: "Do you have evil or enemies around your home? A little of this powder burned every evening will clear up these conditions." With the exception of some satanic and witchcraft ceremonies, there is little that is the occult Associated Press OCEAN CITY, Md. guys come in and get 50 cents worth of gas, five times a day," reports Carla Brubaker, a 20-year-old bikini-clad gas station attendant. Miss Brubaker is one of several shapely girls in swimsuits who pump gas at a service station off U.S.

50 west of this resort town. The girls, who earn $1.75 an hour, rate the job as better than average for summer work. Lee Jackson, a co-owner of the station, said he first hired girls as attendants last sum- mer. He began with two, one of whom he married, and now Tnas eight girls working at the station. Using girls to pump gas, check oil and clean windshields has brought a reported 50 per cent boost in business.

Jackson attributes part of this to the girls' industry. "We like it, the girls like it and the company likes sell more gas," Jackson said. "They always are polite and you can't fool them on credit cards." Besides tiie frequency at which some customers stop by for small amounts of gas, Miss Brubaker said, there is sometimes another unusual side effect. men get out of their cars and come around to watch," she said. "I guess they have never seen a girl do that before." every woman, however.

"You couldn't be a dainty girl. It does get hot and dirty but it's fun," Miss Brubaker said. "When we check oil, old Gas station work isn't for ABWA to have two speakers The Metropolis chapter of the American Businesswomen's Association will have two speakers at their meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Beef Eaters Restaurant, 300 W. Camelback.

A representative of the Salt River Project will demonstrate chuckwagon cooking and Mrs. Gerald 1 from the Maricopa County Department of Public Welfare, will be the vocational speaker. Voodoo rites are still performed fairly openly in some areas. Espiritismo mediums continue to read palms and give advice from the nether world. Suburban ladies hold seances as a lark with a certain core of yearning seriousness underneath.

Only in the deepest reaches of the Pentagon does complete secrecy prevail. It is known that the military experimented hopefully in the extrasensory field for years. Demonstrably, however, the scientists have yet to find anything that might apply on the battlefield. "It's spooky to think of it, though," says one officer. "You get a whole platoon of GIs concentrating on making the enemy decide to lay down his arms and surrender.

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