European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday. January 13.1987 faces n places match made in Sicily has lasted for 80 years from press dispatches he recur cd to his Nalic Sicily 8 1 years ago to claim his Bride and Lake her Back w ii him 10 Ameri Ca but her parents walked. She was after All. Only 15 years old and his first Cousin besides. Sa1rto� cd o. Ihen 23. Agreed 10 obtain n papal dispensation 1o marry his Cousin Pron Denali and to Wail until she was 16. Now he s 104 and she s 96 and icy arc happily married and living in los Angeles. Nil monday will be their 80th wedding anniversary. They arc the oldest and longest married couple in  pan daily dipper a member of e band of Trench to Winters who go in the water every Day of Rife year is dried off by a Wett Bun Tod up Mead after taking a dip in the Angl ii Channel near Dieppe the air tamper Alwe Wai 23 degree at the time. California Ami the second Mai per in thai category in the country according 10 the marriage encounter Organ Iraklion of san Diego. It was a match wedding. The family helped put it together said Gus Casio. 69, the eldest of the Cai los five children. The family plans a Garden Narv saturday to Cele brate the 80-year marriage that Lias produced five children five grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. About 100 guests arc expected. Gus Caito 3 retired Bank of America employee living in our link said his father emigrated to America from Sicily in i1ws with his sister and her new husband and started working in the fruit and vegetable business. He returned Home briefly to follow inc custom of choosing .1 wife subject to approval of her parents. No real courting was involved. When he left for America he was 16 and she was Only about 8." Gus Caito said of his Mother and father. He just knew her. They used to play together As kids. When he decided that things were going pretty Good for him he decided to get married and he remembered this Little girl thai tic thought he would like. But they never corresponded or anything like  after they were married icy moved to Ontario n.v., and sinned a company that became one of the largest fruit and vegetable operations in thai area Gus Viilo said. Bad was the founder and he head and we Curc proud of that. They were so dedicated for i As children he said. We had hard times during the depression. It was t easy. We always had enough food on the Able. We always had clean clothes. But we had to be very careful about what we  and it was a traditional household. Salva orc was up at 3 . To head for the produce warehouses while Providenzi cooked cleaned and sewed dresses for their four daughters for a Man who Only went 10 school for three years in Sicily he did Well Sard Cailo he s self educated. He never went to school when he was Here. He Learned the language basically by himself and Cluid actually read and write from the sounding of the  Casio retired and he and his wife moved to los Angeles in 1948. The business closed in 1955. Caito said both his parents have trouble recalling things because of heir advanced yen re and declined to permit an interview with them. They need a lot of caring they nerd attention. My listen arc very devoted to them. My dad walks around the House and lakes a Little walk said Caito his Mother uses a Walker. No expert on marriage Oprah Winfrey the Host of a syndicated talk show gave a speech at a bridal fair in Little Rock Art but wondered Why she had been invited. I be been told to talk about marriage Hul i m thinking about How id gel married myself t May ask these women for pointers she said. She said she accepted the invitation saturday to thank the Eily for making her show a hit. Some people visit the cities where their shows Aren t doing Well she said. Trial s negative. I visit where we arc doing Well to thank those  the Oprah Winfrey show has grown to rival Phil Donahue s show in less than a year to knew people would like it because it s what i would watch if i were out there watching  she said Winfrey who was nominated for an Oscar for her firs film role in the color purple recently completed filming native son based on the novel about a Young Black Man who is coerced into killing a White woman. Seger takes anti drug stand Singer Bob Seger says it took in years from the Lime he wrote his Ami drug song american storm until it appeared on his latest hit album like a Rock but inc wait was Worth it. Every now and then you be got to stand up and be counted about something. Bui 1 have no desire to be a dilettante and do benefits said so Ger during a visit to Phoenix ariz., with his Silver Bullet band for two weekend concerts i be never had a problem Sega wild drugs or booze. My father was an alcoholic so i sort of had a Wall up against it. Bui you can l be in his business without running into it said Seger 41. "1 always made sure 1 worked with people who were drug free because otherwise 1 could t depend on them. For me i think work itself is a  Broadway columnist stricken Long time Broadway gossip columnist Earl Wil son was in a coma and listed in critical condition sunday after suffering a stroke according to a Hospi Tal spokeswoman in yorkers by. Wilson 79, who also suffers from Parkinson s Dis ease a degenerative disorder of the nervous system was admitted to St. Joseph s Hospital dec. 14 after catching pneumonia and having a stroke. He ended his 40-year career in March 1983, after completing his 11,424th ust night with Earl Wilson column. Wilson had written three columns a. Week for the new York Post and the Reid newspaper service. Foundation and Earth top 10 bestsellers 25% off or More on available titles from the new York times bestsellers listing at most stars and stripes shopping Center bookstores