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Show ABOVE THE T OVE MATCHES are made in heaven, they say, but the Kings-land, Kings-land, Ga., chamber of commerce recognizes no divine patent. That organization has set up a marriage production Une patterned after motorcar mo-torcar manufacture and is out after aU the business. "We can turn romantic ro-mantic alliances out faster and cheaper than the angels can," the civic betterment boys declare. Any chamber of commerce worth the polish on its spittoons is always on sharp lookout for new industry for its town. But most of them use no imagination they try to attract i Drass toundries, steel mills, boiler plants, gas works, fertilizer factories factor-ies and other unpleasant businesses. business-es. Not so, the Kingsland promoters. promot-ers. What is more unique and romantic ro-mantic than a splicing shop? Even the ads of this municipal matrimonial agency are intriguing. Handbills urge: "You-all get married! mar-ried! Any time all time day or night. Kingsland, closest Georgia town to Florida. State-approved premarital b 1 o o d tests." These handbills are distributed mostly in Florida where it takes three days by law to whip up a mess of marriage. mar-riage. In Kingsland, the entire operation opera-tion ring, blood test, license, ceremony cere-mony takes less than an hour. If you wish to kill an entire evening, the promoters will throw in a honeymoon honey-moon in a local hotel. The whole package costs about $15. The nuptial knot industry does not require elaborate and delicate machinery and a lot of different raw materials in shojjt supply. The manufacturing process consists of fitting together two exceedingly simple parts a bride and groom of which the supply is unlimited. Ten bucks from groom to preacher oils the machinery. Even an unskilled un-skilled minister can complete the operation in seconds. The marriage mill does not contaminate con-taminate the community with factory fac-tory smoke, although some smoke will arise from the finished product when domestic friction sets in. There is no labor problem because the ministers in long supply are not organized. They can't get together to-gether on anything except fried chicken. The only drawback to the industry is that the by-products of the manufacturing process (inlaws) (in-laws) are worthless. |