NEWLYWEDS AND TRAVEL Hold off on the honeymoon One of my kids read the last column before it was printed. “Mom, what's this about not travelling the week after you get married? You and Dad took a honeymoon, didn't you? Was itawful?” Well. we didn't exactly take a honeymoon. We travelled, but it was sheer necessity — and it was great fun. But. we didn't spend a lot of money, it was short — six days — and we had a purpose for the whole thing. Bnef explanation: Got married in Medicine Hat on Labor Day weekend, had to be in Vancouver by the !4th to go back to school. No money. Had to drive my car plus assorted breakable wedding presents from there to here. Many people spend a fortune on three weeks in paradise after a wedding. The logistics of a big white extravaganza can require the skills of Cecil B. deMille. The “stars” scuttle off amidst a storm of confetti to by Ba rbara McCreadie Se a busy airport, a nine-hour flight and their first look at Don't talk dirty to the police CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) - An elderly man who kept telephoning female police dispatchers and making sexual suggestions finally got a date — with an arresting officer. Police spokesman Lt. Frank Hunt said the 67-year- old man began calling the police emergency phone number about 3 a.m. Wednesday. telling the female dispatchers “what a great man he was sexually”. Hunt said after four or five calls in the next three hours, a dispatcher finally pretended to go along with the man’s requests for an intimate rendezvouz. The man eagerly gave his name and address and 20 minutes later was arrested and taken to the city jail. Charges of harassment were pending. First church of the witch ATLANTA (UPI) - The Ravenwood Church of Wicca, whose members call themselves witches and warlocks, is exempt from property taxes as a religious orgamzation, the Georgia Supreme Court says. The court's 4-2 ruling upheld parts of a Fulton County Superior Court tuling and vacated other parts of the decision in a dispute between the county and the Ravenwood Church Members of the Wicca Barbara McCreadie ‘> President church do not use curses or hexes, the court said, but base their beliefs on the existence of a primordial supermatural force. It ts not a Christian faith, although its members adopt moral teachings of Christ, and the Wiccans do not belive in the devil The court siad the Ravenwood Church is orgamzed as a non-profit corporation and has been declared tax exempt by the Internal Revenue Service Meet Europe. All she sees is a guy with jet-lag who can't stand the food. All HE sees is a cranky broad with museum-itis who Squeezes the toothpaste from the middle. It doesn't seem to matter how long — or how well — a couple has known’ each other beforehand. Something about the ceremony makes strangers of us all. By postponing a wedding trip, quaintly known = as “honeymoon”, the newlyweds have a chance to: - buy two tubes of toothpaste - write “thank-you notes” for seven toasters and five coffee makers - return all but one of each to the stores - take a deep breath and relax In years of writing a travel column I've heard all the stories about travel disasters. The “newlywed” ones top them all! How about the bride who forgot to pack her “pills” and couldn't get the prescription refilled until she went through a physical examination the following Monday from a_ strange doctor? Or the groom who lost the airline tickets? In Venezuela. The bnde who told me about the sunburn eptsode in Maui contemplating divorce. 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