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lO-C Saturday. Aug. 28. '65 DETROIT FREE PRESS ml iwiiiiis ssfSKmm ill 'fi iiBiiipiiilliiliK (ill AP Photo GOSPEL SINGER Steve Sanders, 12, of Centerville, has been chosen to sing the lead in "The Yearling," a musical coming to Broadway in December. With Steve here are Dolores Wilson and David Wayne, the show's adult stars.

The musical is based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' prize novel. Friends report that Steve is not at all awed by his success. Hefty Oldsters Evicted; It Takes Cranes to Do Job "ajiiniim iiiwM'mmmuKrn wimfn-imi i mm in mmjii m.ii urn iniimiiiir urW nnrir-f IHiiili'rtilri'iM urn ihmiiubiiii mini i AP Photos The lineup outside the Clark County Courthouse in Las, Vegas as couples beat the draft deadline Cwpidl Eeotts Drafft Dm EScsce aft Vegos Moving day at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo turned out to be a three-ton mess. Pharoah and Mary, two elderly rhinos who've been living in married bliss since 1935, fought fiercely when they were evicted to make room for two white rhinos which the zoo acquired recently. It took a 12-ton hydraulic crane, a 5,000 pound crate, numerous attendants, a dish of greens, a firehose and three hours to move the older rhinos into a new cage.

If Pharoah and Mary were sentimental about the old place, it was understandable They had raised two strapping sons there. Prospective honeymooners packed into the yards and halls of the Clark County Courthouse and police had to be summoned to control the crowd. One couple flew from New Jersey, another from Pennsylvania even brought along their parents to insure there would be no hitches over their getting hitched. At one point, 300 persons were waiting in line to be processed for wedding licenses. Taxicabs were lined along the streets in front of the courthouse to expedite the trip to the preacher.

ON THE AVERAGE, the license bureau here issues 10 licenses a night. Thursday night more than 100 were issued in less than four hours. The bureau is open 24 hours a day. Some girls cried, fearful that their fiances would be shoved out of line or miss the deadline. Authorities at one point ron-ridered holding mass weddings to accommodate as many as possible.

Many young men appeared to be belligerent when newsmen tried to question them and they declined to give thetr names. One youth spit in a newsman's face. "Sure I'm not ready to be married," said one youth, "but I'm not going to fight in some dirty jungle." Mused a Selective Service official "We only take 'em for two years. Marriage is a life sentence." LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPD An accommodating judge recounted Friday how he married 67 couples at the rate of one every three minutes as long as it takes to soft-boil an egg on a night when romance took a back seat to the draft.

"The ones that were more appreciative of the marriages seemed to be the parents, especially the mother of the groom," said Justice of the Peace James A. Brennan, who performed 67 of 171 marriage ceremonies in Las Vegas Thursday night. "I could have married them in mass ceremonies but they're people, not cattle." The reason for the haste was a presidential executive order issued late Thursday to make any man getting married after midnight Thursday eligible for the draft on the same basis as a single man. ONLY IN NEVADA can a young couple on the spur of the moment go before a preacher and be married. It is the only state where there is no waiting period or time-consuming blood-testing requirement.

Two youngsters who flew here from Santa Monica, were denied a wedding license because they forgot papers to prove their age. They waited for their parents to arrive. The parents got to the courthouse two minutes midnight. The girl cried. The boy walked out without saying a word.

x7 1' 1, TV, Lady Barkeeps Fight Ban Out in Calumet City, Chicago's perpetually wicked suburb, women bartenders have joined together. They have nothing tolose but their jobs. Police Chief Casmir Linkiewicz came up with a proposed ordinance which would prohibit the hiring of women bartenders. Seems the police are having trouble telling a lady bartender from a B-Girl. Out in force they came, from places like the Plantation, the Yo-Yo, the Mystic Chez Club and signed up attorney Anna Lavin to fight City Hall.

Rock of Ages Shu-be-doo Duke Ellington is going churchy, and on San Francisco's Nob Hill of all places. The giant of jazz announced that he'll produce a concert of sacred music In grace Epis IF'AMY PERSoM TUlNlKS THIS NWJ THE PBAFT, LET MIAA SPEAK. IMCHM OR. FORVE(HDU copal Cathedral Sept. 16.

Iot a jam session, he was quick to say, but "my greatest opportunity to say something." There'll be his full orchestra, a choir, and at least one dancer, and the theme will be, "In the beginning, God Grace Cathedral, incidentally, is the seat of the 10-county California diocese supervised by Bishop James A. Pike, whose outspoken liberalism is the source of constant controversy among Ellington wn iiM.ii.imi I fZ VMS WP 7 Bobby Fischer Soviets Lose In Wit War The cold war may be a chess game in which the United States is sometimes outwitted, but when it it comes to the real thing, we've just one-upped the Russians. Hero of the coup is Bobby Fischer, 23-year old American grand master and our boy in Havana during the Capablanca Memorial Tournament. Actually, Fischer isn't in Havana at all, but in New York. He has to play the game by cable because the State Department wouldn't let him go to Cuba.

After 43 moves, Russia's former world champion, Vassilly Smyslov, picked up Bobby's latest cable and threw in the towel. Earlier, Fischer had beaten Ger- manys Heinz Lehmann. his fellow churchmen. "The offering of sacred music by Duke Ellington and his musicians will be just that an offering of his talen to Almighty God," said the Very Rev. C.

Julian Bartlett, dean of the cathedral. Big Nude in Press Club People are always doing little things for newspapermen, hoping to take their minds off the low pay and poor working conditions. (Like the smart politician who filled the big press room water cooler with bourbon one Christmas.) Down in Mexico City, they're trying sex. Someone installed a larger-than-life nude statue of Ana (Gorgeous) Lepe, Miss Mexico of 1955, in the Press Club. On hand for the occasion were sculptor Manuel Romo, who says Miss Lepe has 'one of the most beautiful bodies in Mexico," and the body herself, her 40-24-3S dimensions sheathed in a white beaded dress.

"I like the statue so I am going to have a copy placed in my garden," purred Miss Lepe. "It satisfied my woman's vanity." LA At Reno the couples swarmed in on Archie Nixon, left, manager of the license bureau, up to the midnight hour. THIS WEIZK IN Needed: Gas War Facts A Memo from Miriani BY BILLY GRAHAM QUESTION Why Is it that when one gets older, one's faith begins to wane? It would seem that It would get stronger with age, but in my case this Is i not true. What can one do to restore a lost faith? ANSWER You have heard BY MARK BELTAIRE QUOTE OF THE DAY from Louis Miriani: "It does a politician good to take a sabbatical now and then and find out what the people 1 Jt0' of the little boy who fell out of bed, and when his mother asked why, he said: "I guess I went to sleep too close to wftere I BY JEAN FEARSON fr Pna Scianc Wrlttr AN OSTRICH with his head in the sand Is more likely to get his tail feathers zapped than one who is wrily watching and ready to trot. And a person who Is armed with the facts is more likely to make an intelligent decision than one who must rely on overworked emotions.

Both observation are applicable to our nation's development of gas and germ weapons. Reaction to the recent use of non-lethal gas warfare In Vietnam highlights both observations. got in." This is what Is wrong really think." Larry Sims of Lansing sends a card with the message: "May I be among the first to wish you a Merry Christmas for 1965, '66, '67, '68 '69. Also a happy lifetime. This is my five- with too many people, spirit ually.

We go to sleep too close to where we got in. Our spiritual life is a continuing, maturing Miriani process. Our souls need nourishment Just like our bodies, has worked up his material for his first history class Monday. An opening observation, to be attributed to a student: "I really enjoy your lectures, professor. Each one is better than the next one." Thought for the Day: An author nowadays is anybody who once worked for John Kennedy.

The Passing Parade An angry, bitter sound rasped the ears in the neighborhood of Yorkshire and Kercheval. It drew the kids with the inevitability of a fire siren and the street was filled with vehicles, including a snorkel. But there was not even the color of a blaze. The instrument was a power saw playing the requiem for an elm. Don Campbell led the troops from Shock Brothers (shock troops?) as they trimmed enough branches from the top so the huge tree's fall wouldn't take half the neighborhood with it.

A truck with a winch and line attached moved into Graydon Walker's driveway, and the troops shooed the kids away from Al Messiant's lawn across the street from the Mark Bowens' where the mercy killing was in progress. Campbell had carefully wedged a huge slice out of the east side and if they are not fed, they become weak and emaciated. In a Report The difference between "saints" and ordinary believers is Granzeier notes, "since research has shown that vaccine by inhalation is relatively inefficient Nevertheless, unless the United States develops similar offensive and defensive capabilities, our only defense against such an attack would be to escalate it to total nuclear warfare." Toxic weaponry, he believes, can be more humane than other instruments of war. As an example, he points out: 'During World War only 2 of the American gas casualties died, in contrast to 25.8 of the non-gas- casualties. Only 4.1 of the nonfatal causalties caused by gas were discharged as disabled, compared to 25.4 of those wounded by shells." The mustard gas used in World War I was a powerful incapacitating agent.

Most of the newer types differ from mustard by having shorter onset times and fairly short periods of incapacitation, Granzeier says. The Three Gases used by the U.S. forces in Vietnam, he reports, "are typical of the modern, more mild incapacitating compounds." There are, of course, exceptionally lethal agents at tho other end of the spectrum of gas and germ warfare. The dose of one of these, the chemical agent Sarin, thta would kill 50 percent of the men absorbing it is about 1 milligram, and there are 454,000 milligrams in a pound, Granzeier says. "The Vietnam Gran-zeier says, "turned the spotlight on a problem that actually Involves two questions.

First: Should the U.S. Government research and develop toxic weaponry to any extent at all? Second: If so, how much information should be made public? Answers to these questions may be neither simple nor popular. But they are clear. "It would be sheer madness for any country, knowing its potential enemies have stockpiled toxic weapons, not to follow suit. A counter weapon program would deter the enemy from initiating chemical or biological warfare.

"Also, toxic weapons would have to be understood thoroughly themselves before researchers could develop adequate defenses against them." The Russians he reports are known to have stockpiled thousands of tons of a lethal nerve gas called "Tabun." It would bo enough to wipe out hundreds of our major cities. It is believed that one out of every six Soviet soldiers is an expert in toxic warfare. As for self-protection, Russia has devised a spray vaccine against a variety of virulent diseases that might be unleashed against attack. Theoretically, several pounds of the vaccine could immunize the population of a large city simply by having its citizens breathe the spray in a treatment room. "The efficacy of such a vaccine of the Dutch elm-diseased victim, placed it on the falling zone to cushion the shock against the lawn.

A slight tug nobody hollered "Timber!" and the beauty that took more than a man's lifetime to reach so high and proud stretched pitifully across both curbs, sap flowing like blood from the stump. Even the kids were stilled for a moment by this brush with death that put a hole in their sky. Mailbaggage Charlotte Hester, Detroit: "This has been mentioned before but bears repeating. If you really want to impress any friends who may come to Detroit by air, put them in your car and blindfold them. Then drive them across the bridge or through the tunnel to Canada and take them several miles away from Windsor.

Turn the car around, take off the blindfolds, and let them drink in the Detroit skyline as you come back to it from Canada. They'll catch a glimpse of Metropolis rising from the plain that is breathtaking." John Sweeney, Hillsdale "It really makes me laugh fit to kill to see all the effort put Into trying to create real Bengals out of your tame Tigers. If I were running a zoo, I wouldn't give them room. Every time they even begin to seem to be making a run for anything, they stumble over their little toes and fall fait on their faces. Why don't they take up croquet or ping pong or something else that doesn't waste so much space?" is that the saints work at it The Bible speaks of our "voca tiom means "work." We are not saved because we work for Christ, but we work for Christ because we are saved.

Just as one cannot become an accomplished musician with year plan. See you in '70." Rex Edwards, hubby of labor leader Al Barbour's secretary, collects primitive irons, a far cry from the delicate gadgets mom presses shirts with these days, when she's not bridging it up with the other gals. Lou Berry had made an arrangement with his table partner at the Franklin Hills' stag to pool their winnings on the prize drawing. When Partner's number was called and he walked away with a wine-colored pullover, Berry was trying to decide whether to preempt the sleeves or the body. His indecision was short-lived.

The next number called was his, and he had a sports garment of his own. Former Detroiter Bob Maxwell now conducting the World Adventure program over WABC-TV in New York, living it up in a swank bachelor apartment on Madison Avenue. University of Detroit's Dr. Frank Arlinghaus, the Titans' top punster and groaner man, out practice, self-sacrifice, and dedication one cannot become an effective Christian without in the current issue of Industrial Research, which is refreshingly forthright, Frank J. Gran-zeier, research director for the magazine, says that enough data of our nation's gas and germ warfare program should be released to permit the public to: 1.

Consciously distinguish between lethal and non-lethal debilitating substances. 2. Examine both the tactical and strategic advantages of using toxic weapons. 3. Understand the controlled effects that are possible with chemical agents.

4. Realize that chemical and biological (germ) agents can be an effective force for peace. 5. Know that the Soviet Union has stockpiled enough nerve gas to wipe out most American cities. effort.

The Bible says, "Faith works is dead," and I guess that's why yours is dead. Re establish the habit of Bible reading, -prayer, and church going, and see If your soul doesn't begin to prosper. The Talking Point Sweet is the memory of labour past. EURIPIDES Bible says, "I would that thou wouldn't prosper even as thy soul prospereth..