European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes saturday june 13,1987 races places top chefs Honor Beard with Fine food from press dispatches about 1,000 people crammed Rockefeller Plaza in new York City on thursday night to pay tribute tothe Laic James Beard and american regional cooking by gorging on Down Home delicacies from girls to wild mushrooms no Chili shaped chocolates. It really shows How far the Young american chefs have come said Dean fearing chef at the mansion on tunic Creek in downtown Dallas. Women in evening gowns and men in tuxedos lined up in the kitchens of the Rockefeller Center restaurants wailing to Tasie Salmon from washing ton stale grit cakes from North Carolina and crab from Louisiana. Outdoors in a 2.800-Pound Barbe Cue pit thai had been lowered Fey Crane into the Plaza spareribs sizzled above the  third annual american chefs tribute to James Beard was a s35q-a-plate dinner to Benefit meals on wheels a program Beard helped found to provide meals for the Home bound elderly. To All is stations were set up by chefs judged to be among the country s Best. Each participant was selected by a panel of judges based on the Nomi Nal ions of More than 500 food writers and critics. Beard who died in 1985, pioneered the move to work with fresh local ingredients and influenced Many of Ilie chefs performing thursday. Some went to great lengths to ensure their food was  raspberries served on Nancy main s tapioca Zagaglione custard for instance were picked wednesday in Washington stale. Such chefs As Paul pin Lhomme of new Orleans a jute Forgiano of new York and Alice Waters of Berkeley calif., starred at the first two tributes. Pray and play for golfers in what May be a nationwide first religious serv ices Are being conducted sunday mornings on the first Tec at Oak Pointe Golf club in Brighton mich., for golfers who feet guilty about skipping Church. Jim Dewling. The coif professional at Oak Pointe and the Rev. David w. So Ink Pas or at Chilson h ills Church of Brighton came up with the idea. They decided Ihal if you can t bring he golfers to Church then bring Church to the  services which began last month will continue through the  conducts non denominational religious services on the first Lee at 6 30 . Each sunday rain or Shine. Dew ing said they re for ail golfers who want to Pray and  who s in your yearbook save your High school yearbook la May become valuable especially if you have a classmate like famed Rock v roller Elvis Presley. The Lata Santei Beard in Hll Iti Truiett a yearbook signed by Presley sold at a new York City auction thursday for s 1,200, according to auctioneer Herman Darvick. The 1953 annual fro Humes High school in Memphis teim., was inscribed Best Luck 10 a swell Guy  a 1930 Union High school yearbook from Whit tier catif., hat includes a speech about the Constitution by graduating senior Richard Nixon sold for $660, Darvick said. Also the Dixon 111. High school yearbook from 1927, which includes Ronald a Span s photograph sold for s400, Darvick said. A 192? grand rapids Mich South High school yearbook with football Star Gerald Ford pictured sold for $200, and a 1947 Blum High school yearbook from Wapakoneta Ohio with Neil Armstrong pictured sold for $ 175. Lots of cicadas for a Beetle Susan Kelly won a 17-year-old Volkswagen decile in the controversial Cicada weigh in contest by collecting 11 pounds of dead , a resident of Hyattsville md., won the Cicada Mobile wednesday. Radio station Wpc pm of nearby pm Belt had announced the contest three weeks ago to see who could collect the most cicadas dead or alive As a humorous Jab at the Pesky insect that shows up every 17 year to male and then die. But animal rights advocates heard of the contest and complained of cruelty to cicadas. The complaints led the station to change the rules and allow Only dead cicadas to be entered. After they shed their shells the 2-Inch-Long Cril this resemble giant flies. This particular Breed makes a loud and constant sound that is soothing to some but annoying to most. The top 40 station offered a Bug Zap Light to the second place finisher and a Case of insect Spray killer As the third it acc prize. Nixon to undergo surgery former president Richard Nixon will undergo prostate surgery within a week a staff assistant said thursday in new York. The former president is expected 10 enter a Hospi Tal within the nest seven Days and remain there for week said assistant Kathy o Connor. She would not identify the Hospital. The enlarged prostate was discovered during Aroutine physical in january and Nixon s doctor advised him 10 have in removed sometime this year she said. A Biopsy performed  after the physical showed no sign of cancer. Nixon decided to undergo the operation now be fore the fall deadline for his new Book to be entitled"1999," o Connor said. In the Book which he is writing for Simon & schuster Nixon will outline what he thinks american foreign policy should before the next a Colury. Vonno fever in Vens bar a polyester Magenta dress once worn by wheel of Fortune letter Turner Vanna White is on display at a Seattle espresso bar where patrons May touch in for 25 cents. We have Vanna fever said Jack Kelly part owner of Uptown espresso a Coffee and juice bar. We re having a lot of  the espresso bar put the dress on display sundays a promotion hoping to attract the television celebrity Star when she visits a nearby Bookstore. People plunked quarters in the Jar to touch the dress modelled by a mannequin. The Money will be donated 10 a children s Hospital. Kelly said he obtained the dress through the cof fee bar s cabinetmaker whose Girlfriend s father bought ii at an auction for $700. It s Magenta with a Little Orchid on the front and a plunging neckline with gathers around the Knees very sexy very hoi Kelly said. Where women Rule the time is just before world War the place a Small town in the Blue mountains near Sydney Australia and the Story is Colleen Mccullough at her warmest and most lighthearted. The ladies Otmis Sabonghi is on the one hand a classic fairytale and on fhe other hand a wickedly accurate picture of life in a place where men May dominate but women Rule. The ladies of miss Longhi is available at stars and stripes shopping Center bookstores