Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 19

19-A lM'lJi-Mkwtiis ti'Mib fete- DETROIT FRET PPESH Suml Au; VI 0j BobTalbert's rii7 Ochs Ringer songwriter -political activist, in February 1969: "I suspect that Richard Nixon, on a certain level, is totally insane, that a lot of people around him are insane, genuine lunatics. The people he hangs around with, like Billy Graham, their vision of reality Is gen-u i 1 distorted. They Freddie Prinze hot new Puerto Rican comic, on growing up in ghetto areas: "Eet's rough. Hey, man, I don't like drugs. I don't want a four-year-old junkie trying to sell me a rattle." Bob Hope "Patriotism is rampant In the United States today.

Patriotism is a lot like loving your wife. You don't run around the streets saying 'I love my wife, I love my but you do." John K. Galbrauh (Mi I -f If A 7 V. Hf7 1 1 economist, on economists and President Ford: "It's the natural desire of economists to spread the Impression that they have access to knowledge not open to other rvfionle. The nriest rffffflft t'0eS tne Sam tmnR WnM1 IRRUPT Via hacrwvnk frvr himRflf jl IIUIII ITl-lt 1 iiiritmif AP Phots VlOl some kind of special rela firmly ftfld religiously believe it.

I think Nixon is a fair representation of the kind of sick America that does In fact exist. This is a dying America. If he plays a brilliant sort of a computer game, then he may be able to hold it off for four years by doing a sort of backtracking patchwork when troubles come up." Margaret Mead "The United States has been using food the same way the Arab nations have used oil. We sold $20 million worth of food while people were starving. We have food, but we will only sell it to people who can pay ua in political coin." Nelson Rochefeller on giving son Nelson Jr.

a raise in his weekly allowance from 60 cents to $1: "We shouldn't give the kids too much. It can lead to unreasonable expectations." Chris Lcachman Beverly Harrell, candidate: "An upstanding, upright 7a Is If Campaigning oms luaaam -n -sr Nevada's-Political Be at ell oivs tionship with God. have no special insight into Gerald Ford's plans, just insight into the presidential personality. Ford doesn't appear to have any suicidal tendencies. The economy has no reputation for doing nice things for nice guys, so I suspect he'll go along with all the methods needed to fight this.

He has to get the Nixon advisers out of his system. It was relatively easy to get rid of the failed burglars, but Ford is still left with the failed economists." George Han ford vice-president of the College Entrance Examination Board: "Sports has become capitalism's current substitute for religion as the opiate of the masses. In almost any terms these days, sports has become a major, interest of society and most signs point to the likelihood that the level of Interest wiU increase in years ahead." Lillian Gish award-winning actress: "Part of the reason why I am an actress is so that I would never know what I'm going to do next, like a nine-to-five job, which I. had thought would be the death of me, and I still think it would be. I work much longer hours than that, but somehow you are still free, BY RICHARD E.

MEYER ri AMoclalfd Priu Writer I IDA JUNCTION, Nev. The woman rang the doorbell but didn't step inside. "I just stopped by to shake your hand and to let you know we're on your side," she said. "You have my vote The woman paused. and you have my husband's." Beverly Harrell thanked her.

She'll need every I i "The young people touch me very much. And they're moved by the old films. They remember them and they believe in them, and I think it's because they are more real, perhaps, to them than the films today. They dealt with character like Dickens did, instead of just mechanical plots, We used because it's by choice, and it's always an exploring situation, and I love working." Gail Parent author-TV comedy writer: "Everything written for television is Jewish. I iwear.

they're mostly Jewish writers. I'm talking about comedy again. It really has an ethnic quality 'cause underneath it all is the suffering. And fien It gets performed by Gentile performers who bring their tone and their ryhthm." Jerry Lou is on why the Jerry Lewis character is popular: "He is a nine-year-old kid. He's what everyone would like to be.

I've been nine for years and it's fun. Now if we can teach some of the adults to feel that way not to take things so darned seriously it would be a better world." to steal so much from Dickens; we should get back to that. Hard as it is, it is what we are, and we are all different. We ugly human beings, how beautiful we are." David Steinberg comedian: "You know what, I miss Nixon. Really.

I mean you pick up the papers today and there's nothing in them. No little new juicy item about what went on in the White House." Huffy Sainte-Marie Vred Williamson So Beverly Harrell figured she had a chance. This would be a good year NOT to be a professional politician, she thought and she isn't. It would be a good year to stay close to the people, she thought and she dors. "Meeting people as I do enables me to be a little closer to them than most other people.

Above all, it would be a good year for honesty. She would campaign as a madam and proudly. "I probably run the most honest business in the state I think people realize if I get up to the Assembly they don't have to worry, because no one could buy me. No one ever has, and no one ever will IN THE SEPTEMBER primary, she faces six other Democrats, including a school teacher, a former school superintendent, a druggist, a former car dealer. There are three counties in the legislative district, thousands of square miles to reach but a handful of registered voters she counted 31)0 voters in Esmeralda County, 2,700 in Nye County and about .1,700 in Mineral County.

One June 17, she moved the Cottontail, catwalks and all, off the government property and onto private land. She added a sixth house trailer. She decided against a campaign manager or press agent. She accepted only small contributions, which she calls nothing larger than $25. She left her motorcycles at home so she wouldn't look gimmicky, and climbed instead into her dune buggy and bounced out to the mines in the back country, talking to two sourdoughs here, three there.

At Goldpoint, 15 miles west, she even climbed down a ladder into a mineshaft to shake hands. She visited bars, grocery stores and restaurants in Hawthorne, Tonopah and Beatty. She campaigned at court houses, libraries and hospitals. She arranged speeches before civic clubs and anyone else who would listen. She went ranch to ranch, door to door.

She remembers one man, small and bearded, stopping her on the street. "Just a minute, Beverly." And he dug into his pocket and he pulled out an old beat-up wallet, just crammed full of things, and he pulled something out of the wallet, and he said, "You see that?" And it was a voter's registration. And he said, "I want you to know this is the first time since HMD something or other that I'm going to vote, and that's because of you." OF THE HUNDREDS of people she has talked to, a handful have said, "Well, I'll think about it." Only one has refused to talk to her. Beverly tells them she would push for construction of a subsidized cusfonVmill in the area, where the small miners could bring their ore. Ancl tax relief for senior citizens, and a state-run education program to control venereal disease.

Is she for statewide legalization of prostitution? "No, I think it. should be a county option." But Uncle Sam would get. his comeuppance. Reverly says she would work to force the federal government to turn its property in Nevada over to the state for distribution lo the people. "Did you know the federal government owns Rfi percent of the land in Nevada? I'd like to see the people get that land back." She joined 'our house trailers with what she calls, with a straight face, catwalks.

She installed a bar and rooms for a handful of girls. She advertised the airstrip as a convenience for private pilots. Her first day of business was Oct. 13, 1967. She was, she says, "thirtyish." She did well among denizens and tourists alike.

She added a fifth house trailer. She drilled a well. She built a front porch and stained it brown. She installed a library for her ladies "from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche," she said. She had business cards printed, with bunnies holding flowers and declaring that her establishment, bar and all, was open 24 hours.

And she advertised the talents of her half-dozen ladies with a rooftop fixture sporting six red lights. SHE ATTRACTED the attention, of, among others, Jack Anderson. He said in his column: The United States government, upholder of law, order and the public health, morals and welfare, was the landlord of a bawdyhouse. And, truly, Beverly was leasing land from the government. The Bureau of Land Management canceled her lease.

Beverly Harrell appealed, hired a lawyer and sued. U.S. District Court ruled against her. "They said I violated my lease because I ran a bordello Now keep in mind that I told them I was Beverly Harrell, that I owned the Cottontail Ranch, and that they gave me the lease knowing it was a bordello I did everything openly I did not misrepresent But still I lost the case." But "I am not a quitter. I will never give up," she declared.

"The next best thing that I can do is try another legal channel. The thought occurred to me that there was going to be an Assembly seat open up in my counties, and I said, 'Let me try for By now, the Cottontail Ranch had acquired a certain fame. There were the fancy Lear jets that frequented Beverly's airstrip. And the diesel trucks that honked as they drove past on U.S. 95.

And then there was the stir when a large firefighting plane lost both engines over Lida Junction. The pilot spotted Beverly's yellow wind sock and landed at the Cottontail, it seems it took the crew a full five days to make "Bless their souls," Beverly remembers. BY NOW, TOO, the denizens of the Ralston De-sort had developed a certain fondness for Harrell. "If you come to the front door, I don't care If the governor or who, she'll hustle you for all you're worth," says Jim Grogan, the saloon keeper. "But Beverly's always good for food, a little loan, watnr, help, whatever you need, if you come to the back donr." There was the time Jim Grogan wrecked his car and broke more bones than he thought people hark Reverly Harrell came by, traded some Yiddish jokes and brought him some chicken soup.

And there was the time Bill Bagdad, the probation officer, needed money for his Esmeralda County Youth Center. Beverly contributed. "Beverly is an upstanding, upright businesswoman in Esmeralda County," says. "That's how everybody regards her. It might be somewhat difficult to perceive In other parts of the country, but.

new man on the ABC Monday night football team of Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford: "I don't have many men friends. Eventually they think they've got to compete and that tears it. Women fall Into two categoriesfriends, and those I take to bed. They can never be both. Sometimes I wake singer-songwriter: "My vision of America has changed.

I used to think that if you brought the facts of injustice before the peoplesinging about them, or a hat people would do something to correct that injustice. But for the most part they don't do anything except talk about vote, ane mignt not 00 me oniy snaay iaay, or man In politics. But she's honest about it. Harrell is a madam. She runs a bordello.

And she says so. FIVE-FOOT, blue-eyed 'Beverly is a candidate for the Nevada State Assembly. Her chances? "Pretty fair, actually," allows Bill Bagdad, Esmeralda County probation officer, who stops in row and then at the Santa Fe Saloon in Goldfield, 15 miles up U.S. 95, for a beer. The Santa Fe is one of the better listening posts in these acres of sagebrush, mountains, old mines and ranches.

"She's a serious candidate," vouches Jim Gro-gan, proprietor. "In my considered opinion, she has a considerable chance." Grogan's eyes twinkle. "The nice thing about Beverly is that I don't think she would steal much." Prostitution is legal here. Nevada leaves outlawing It up to each of its 17 counties. Only two have Clark County, which is mostly Las Vegas, and Washoe County, which is mostly Reno.

Some, like Esmeralda, ban it from within five miles of their inhabited areas. Titian-haired Beverly Harrell came to Lida Junction, a fork in the road where U.S. 95 meets Nevada Route 3, seven years ago. It is in the middle of the Ralston Desert. Las Vegas is 2Y2 hours south, Goldfield a quarter of an hour north, and Lida, a town consisting mostly of a million-acre cattle ranch, iis 20 minutes west.

At the junction were a two-mile airstrip, a clump cf wind-bent trees and dozens of cottontail rabbits. Beverly is a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn, daughter of an upper-middle class family. She was educated at a private school and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She became a dancer, singer, played Broadway, off Broadway, in musical comedies, road companies, "Oklahoma," "Finian's Rainbow," As You Like It," "Snow White." And she went to Hollywood to become a star. "I RAN ACROSS a lot of people," she says.

And they all noticed Beverly had another talent. "They all said I had managerial qualities." So she started a system of call girls. With six or eight young ladies, she catered to movie actors, producers, attorneys, politicians and the police. "The upper echelon of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, you know." But life got complicated. "Nip and tuck with the gendarmes, you know." She opened the Cottontail Ranch at Lida Junction and called it "The Friendliest Place in Nevada." Of the 25 or 30 other bordellos in Nevada, rhe likes to think the Cottontail offers quality over quantity.

"I do not run a factory," Beverly Harrell says. Ml up and there are three chicks fixin' me eggs and bacon. They're friends and know I'm not going to bed with them, because that would change it. They wanna come around, drink some wine, sit in the sun, they can. Marriage? Never.

I'm a bad risk. I like pretty things too much." it. The fact that people arent going to war now is beautiful. I don't know if people should go to any war at all. But I can imagine what would happen if someone came up and pointed a gun at my puppy.

I'm sure I would kick him." Aug. 25-31, 1928 DSR ANNOUNCES EXPRESS LINES FCR WOODWARD AND FORT ALFRED E. SMITH LOSES SILK TOPPER; THROWN 400 YARDS BY HORSE WALTER HAGEN DEFEATS JONES AND WALKER IN PGA WJR KEEPS 'AMOS 'N' ANDY' ENGINEERS PROMISE PERFECT TICS FOR FOX THEATER BIAS FLOUNCE AND DIAGONAL NECK-I INF FDR NIGHT RORFS AND CADILLACS DETROIT'S POPULATION BOOMS TO 1,478,735 MGM FILMS 'TRADER HORN' IN DARKEST AFRICA COMMANDER BYRD OFF ON SOUTH POLE JAUNT TENNIS CHAMP HELEN WILLS SERVES HOOVER DETROIT TYPIST WINS GREGG TROPHY; AVERAGES 104 WPM IN NATIONAL Broke George Peppard to SAFETY TYPE GLASS TOR '29 LASALl ES 15 Nations Vow lo Keep Peace names faces tacts when he plays golf one of the few occasions when he wears glasses now. Tot Caught in Hed Tape Tiny Angela Alklns, born on a bridge over the middle of the Mississippi River, is a babe without a birth certificate. Officials of two states can't agree on which state she was born in.

Mrs. Mary Atkins gave birth to Angela in a car rushing from Bettcndorf, Iowa, to Lutheran Hospi-tal in Moline, 111. Actor George Peppard, star of the "Ranacek" television series, has told a California court commissioner he is quitting acting because he can't make enough money in it to pay alimony to his first wife. "I have reached a crossroads in my life," the 45-year-old Peppard said in a motion filed last week in Santa Monica, with Commissioner Jacqueline Weiss. "I am going to devote my time and effort toward becoming a writer, director and producer for motion pictures and television." Peppard claimed his total income since last March has been only $1,600.

"Banacek" was canceled earlier this year. Peppard said he had paid more than $307,000 to his first wife, Helen, since the couple separated 10 years ago. The actor has had custody of a son by the marriage, Bradford. 19, and is seeking custody of a daughter, Julie, 15. Peppard Was divorced from his second wife, Elizabeth Ashley, in 1971.

Burning Issue For his 55th birthday Saturday, members of his staff have given Gov. George C. Wallace of Ala- of State Frank Kellogg took their seats at the horseshoe-shaped table, then arose when M. Briand entered. The ceremony ended in f8 minutes.

Or.ly M. Briand spoke. Ordinarily he prefers to make an extemporaneous discourse, but this time he read his speech. The entire proceedings were bilingual. Not only the set address of the foreign minister was translated into English, but each phrase he uttered in reading the treaty and inviting the delegates to sign.

As the reading of the pact ended, the master of ceremonies and his adjutant stepped forward and spread the official text, bound in green leather, upon a small table placed within the curve of the horseshoe. Dr. Edouard Benes, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, was the last to sign. As he finished writing his name, M. Briand arose as a signal that the great international event had ended.

PARIS, Aug. 28, 1928 The Brland-Kellogg pact, by Which 15 nations renounce war as an instrument of national policy, was signed today in the Quai d'Orsay. Less than 10 minutes was required for the affixing of signatures to the instrument which, its sponsors agree, has an immense influence for world peace. Ancient ritual and intense methods modern publicity were mingled in the ceremony. Ushers, clad in blue and gold-trimmed coats, red velvet breeches and white silk stockings, directed the plenipotentiaries to their places and conducted guests to their seats.

A superbly uniformed Swiss guard led the solemn procession of statesmen from the reception room of Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, to the Clock Room, where the signing took place. The ministers including U.S. Secretary bama a number of gifts, including boxes of cigars and a brass cuspidor. The cuspidor would have come in handy had it been given to Wallace a few days early. Early this week the governor's wastebasket caught fire when he tossed a cigar butt in it.

An Eye on the Ball PRESIDENT FORD is trying out contact lenses, Imping they will improve his speechmaking and lower his golf score. Ford was fitted for a set of contacts Friday at a Naval clinic. White House physician William Lu-kash says Ford has trouble reading letters at a distance and felt that contacts would help him when he uses a teleprompter in his speeches. The nearsighted president will also use the con Bettcndorf police say the center of the Mississippi River is in Illinois, and thertore Angela was born in Illinois. Hospital officials say the boundary line extends to the Illinois shore and therefore Angela first saw the light of day in Iowa.

The hospi-tal plans to appeal to the lliinois Bureau of Vital Statistics for a ruling. Meanwhile, Angela is doing fine, just like her. two older sisters, neither of whom waited until Mama got to the delivery room. Mrs. Atkins gave birth to Tammy, now 4, in an ambulance.

Teresa, time Knt-M in a ltalhuoir af IVAnlina ntUnM.