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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19
The Thanksgiving Turkey TypicoIy American

trip down the Mississippi
River in 1920, Audubon had
adopted the huge, handsome
bird, with the metallic green
and bronze plumage and
magnificent tail feathers, as
his personal favorite. As a
frontier shopKeeper in Hen
derson, KY, he kept a pet
turkey with a bright red rib
bon around its neck, which,
as he wrote in his journals,
would follow any person who
/ called it and became the IA
Vorite Of the village"
Audubon's decision to as
sign the turkey plate No.
in his massive work almost
priced it out of the market,
since he had painted the tur-
key lifeSize-all 4 feet of
him-and decided to do the
same with all the other birds.
The resulting volume, enor-
nous in size, had to sell for
$1,000 a copy. Today, how
ever, a single plate brings
$4,000 and more.
Place names like Turkey
Run. Indiana, Detroit's Tur-
key Island and Turkey Creek,
La, bespeak of the profusion
of turkey flocks in wilderness
America. but even in the
Pilgrims day the noble bird
was beginning to disappear
from Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire and Upper New
York State.
Danger
BY the time Audubon came
along, turkeys were selling for
8 cents a pound, some
times less. A first rate tur-
key, weighing from rs to 80
pounds, was considered well
sold when it brought a quar-
ter of a dollar" he sadly re-
ported.
For a time. the turkey was
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making an impressive come
back.
The first national wild tur-
key symposium, held at
Memphis. Tenn, in February,
1859, reported the wild turkey
population at 467,8O9 in the
81 States from which data
was available, an increase of
more than Is per cent over
the previous census.
And his domeSticated
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to fly. His SNUG expression,
when confronted with a high
flying species like the goose
or the hawk, seems to say,
They'll never get me up in
one of those things" Nature
equipped him with a sleek.
powerful body, but once do
mesticated he quickly goes to
pot and paunch.
A good talker, a good
mixer, an ebullient egoist
with moderate polygamous
tendencies, the turkey has a
thing about togetherneSs
that causes him to spend a
good deal of time in aimless
Socializing. The conduct of
the flock on such occasions
bears a striking similarity to
the suburban cocktail party.
The guests stand around
in noisy little groups,
prattling constantly and
shifting their weig hit back
and forth from one foot to
the other. As the party
progresses, the hens are
somehow thrown together in
an animated conversational
knot, while the toms slip
away to the fringes Of the
crowd, possibly to swap barn
yard stories.
For all his faults and fan
cies. the turkey is the noblest
expression of the American
wilderness, the biggest, the
bravest, the most beautiful
game bird in the world.
His place of honor at the
Thanksgiving dinner table is
richly deserved. He was an
American long before the pill
grims arrived and long be-
fore Columbus.
The Aztecs already had
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sailed by our doores," as
Thomas Morton noted in his
memoirs.
Still. despite "the great
store of wild turkeys, of
which they took many" as
Governor Bradford wrote in
his account of that first
Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims
had to flesh out the menu
with venison and water fowl
when too many Indians took
advantage of their invitation.
Benjamin Franklin was all
for making the turkey our
national emblem, rather than
the bald eagle. which he re-
garded as a thief and "a
rank coward generally
poor and very often lousy :"
More Respectable
THE turkey is in COM
parison," he wrote his sis
ter from Paris, "a much more
respectable bird and withal a
true original native of Amer
lea. He is-though a little
vain and silly, it is true, but
not the worst emblem for
that-a bird of courage and
would not hesitate to attack
a Grenadier of the British
Guards who should presume
to invade his farmyard with,
a red coat on"
Franklin's spirited brief in
behalf of the turkey was filed
too late to keep Congress
from adopting the bald eagle
as our national emblem, but
John James Audubon, the
great painter and ornitholo-
gist, made amends by giving
the turkey first place among
1000 specimens and 435
plates in his monumental
Birds of America"
Even before he embarked
on his famous bird painting
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in danger of joining the pas
senger pigeon, the pileated
woodpecker and the other
distinguished tenants of the
last wildness of the temper
ate zone in extinction, but
happily his fortunes have
taken a turn for the better.
Under the impetus of en-
lightened game management,
controlled hunting seasons
and carefully stocked forest
preserves, the wild turkey is
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brother, the one who usually
shows up for Thanksgiving
dinner. is doing even better.
This year the industry will
market 1O6,s72,O 900 birds, a IS
per cent increase over last
years record crop which
brought total cash receipts Of
S377 million.
What has the bald eagle
got to match that?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-11-19


Editors note-A good 100 years
before the Pilgrims sut down TO
thot celebrated feast in Plymouth,
the turkey wos we'll established on
the primitive menus Of America.
The bird has been delight to eye
and palate ever since, ond in the
opinion Of some was unjusflY
denied his big chance to odd
political recognition to sustronomic
success.
domesticated the turkey by
the time fernando Cortez in
1919 dropped into Mexico
City unannounced with 400
Conquistadors. Equal to the
occasion, Emperor Monte
yuma entertained them at a
turkey dinner in the royal
banquet hall that was also
attended by his two wives. %
concubines, 800 government
officials and 1000 guards.
This didn't qualify as the
first Thanksgiving dinner
since most of the guests had
to supply their own food in
stead of free loading on the
host. They arrived with
trussed up turkeys on their
backs as gifts to the royal
larder.
To Europe
Spanish explorers brought
the domesticated turkey
back to Europe, and from
there it eventually made its
way to England. The Pill
grims we're so intent on hav-
ing turkey at their first
Thanksgiving celebration
that they brought a brace of
them over on the Mayflower,
not knowing that the woods
around Plymouth abounded
in wild turkeys.
Great flocks of them have
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HUGH MuLLIGAN

By HUGH A. MULLIGAN
Associated Press Newsfeatures Write
From the halls of Monte
yuma to the table on Thanks
giving, the turkey has al
ways been a thoroughly
American bird.
Courageous. Freedom-lov-
ing. Gregarious. Vain about
his appearance. BoaStful in
the presence or women. In
clined to overindulgence and
overweight. Gifted with enor-
nous endurance but subject
to common colds and heart
attacks. On the whole. a
trifle pompous but utterly
fearless in defense of his
nest.
Like a good many other
Americans, the turkey Is q
nervous bundle of neuroses
who manages to Sublimate
his baser drives to the de-
mands of a highly conform
list society.
The gobbler, the male of
the species, is a good time
Charlie - or to be exact a
good time Tom who fancies
himself quite a lover. His
performance, however, is.
characterized by more talk
than action. Besides, the hen
is VIGOROUSLY jealous.
AS a father, the turkey is
an excellent provider but is
not considered responsible
enough by his mate to have
any real say in the upbring-
ing of the children. This
alone should make him elig-
ible for a TV situation
comedy series.
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American Traits

The turkey exhibits a num-
Der of other typically Amer
lean traits. He has a mag
nificent wing span but hates
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06
HkAASN9(lttll&g l&gi{& ig W
972G 41H1

"a champion is a constant
source of amazement to me, ;"
Bigsie said. Bigsie is our keep
er of the scratch sheet and
chairman of the twilight hour
discussion group, at the corner
of the bar. ''Not how a champ
ion is but why. A champs got
to suffer.
I'm thinking about this kid,
John Thomas, the high jumper.
The kid is a champion. He sets
new marks in his event. He gets
the high jump top billing over
the mile. He keeps coiling high
er and higher over that bar un-
til he hits the freakish height
of seven feet.
.'He opens brand new pack
age of human potential. The
gendarmes hear about his high
step and they re-measure the
height of the walls at Alcatraz.
He becomes the middle leg of a
triple parlay, between the four
minute mile and the nine sec
ond hundred.
''Then an elevator drops on
his foot. It's like the machine is
striking back because the kid
is muscling in on it's racket. For
a while it looks like the lad will
have to hang up his spikes and
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06
jim CROW
SEATS AT RUSK
ADDRESS

NEW YORK - The NAACP
has requested the Department
of State to require the Atlanta
Bar Association to "give public
assurance there will be no
segregated seating when Sec
retary of State Dean Rusk
addresses the lawyers group
there on April 20.
In letter to Secretary Rusk,
March 81, NAACP Executive
Secretary Roy Wilkins said he
found on an Atlanta visit that
the Negro community and a
surprising number of white
citizens" were disturbed over
the persistent report that your
address =. before the Atlanta
Bar Association will be to a
segregated audience"
Mr.. Wilkins noted that the
Atlanta Bar Association ga
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06

AS this edition of Harlem
USA is being written, we are
involved in the last minute pre-
paration for a two month Euro
pean trip. AS you read this, we
will be sailing over the bound-
ing main via the SIS. United
States. We have a frantic
schedule which, during the
month of April, includes visits
to London, Paris, Hamburg,
Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich,
and Munich. In May, we'll be in
places like Rome, Israel and
Denmark.
This column will be written
from various European cities
for the next two months, and
We'll try to give you intimate
word pictures of what it's like
over there, what changes have
come about since this writer
travelled in Europe as a guest
of the United States Engineers,
what well-known personalities
are there, working, living and
you have friends or relatives in
Europe who you'd like us to
contact and transmit a personal
message from you, just drop us
a line-to Harlem, USA, care
of this newspaper. Your letter
will be forwarded to us and
we shall try to deliver your
message for you and report
back to you. But you must
do this right away SO that we
will receive your letter in time.
We are looking forward with
spine-tingling anticipation to
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06

close his scrapbook. But the in
jury apparently heals and he
makes the triumphal entry in
to the Olympic arena, and is
beaten.
'Later, in this country, the
nineteen year old Thomas
jumps against one of the Russ
ians who had beaten him in
Rome. In three meetings held
on successive week-endS the
Russian scores three wins. In
these three meets the Russian,
Valeri Brunei, age 18, orbits to
the phenomenal heights of 7-3,
7-2, and finally, 7-3 II, to break
IL, 7-2 and 6-1O. He is beaten
fairly and decisively by the
young do it yourself astronaut.
II got no argument with that.
Thomas is beaten. l am sad be-
cause SO much tripe has been
spouted and sprayed about
Thomas losing because he lacks
CUTS. l still can't see how does
a man choke and still clear
seven feet. Brunei himself was
beaten in the Olympics by the
other Russian, Shavlakadze.
But that doesn't mean he chok-
ed. Just that he was beaten by
man that was better, at least
on that particular day.
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06
YOUTH HOLD
"RITES" FOR
jim CROW
OKLAHOMA CT

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,
A 50-car motorcade left the
University of Oklahoma at
Norman and proceeded here
recently for funeral services
formally "burying Jim Crow"
A black funeral hearse was
employed. Dutiful pail bearers
dressed in appropriate attire,
attended the coffin. The s'mour-
ners' did not seem sorrowful.
The last rites, held at the
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06
JOLLY TWENTY CLUB

The jolly Twenty Club held
a monthly meeting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
j. Hankins. A turkey dinner
followed the election of Off
GERS, Marceline Murray, pres
ident.
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06

thering is to be held in the Bilt-
more Hotel which recently
was the scene of medical
conference at which several
Negro physicians in attendance
were arrested when they pre-
sented themselves for luncheon
in between sessions of the med
ical meeting.
eve cannot imagine a more
disastrous blow to the image
o f the United States which
your Secretaryship is seeking
to project in the present world
situation" Mr. wilkins wrote,
than an address by the Sec
retary of State himself to a
professional society meeting
within the United States in
which the participants are
separated in seating according
to race and color"
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06

the European trip. 1t will be
different, visiting these count
ries as civilian. We remember
the picturesque beauty of the
English countryside, the charm
sof the farmhouses, the friendly
intimacy of the pubs, the twist
ing loveliness of little villages
with streets that slope down so
that you wonder if you should
walk down them or sit down
and coast.
In France it will be different.
There, the delicacy of hot bread
and the kind of meal over
which you can linger for hours
will add flavor to the trip. The
gold brown cognac in the cafes
on the Champs-Elysees and the
outdoor tables with umbrellas,
awning you from the sun, will
burn memories into the mind
which cannot be eradicated.
Then there is Southern
France-Marseilles, washed by
the blue of sky and the seaport
waters. There is Aries with
long, sun baked roads turning
away for miles between rows of
green, green trees, standing like
sentinels about a rastle.
So We'll discover new places,
new people, new ideas of the
Old World and We'll share
them with you.
If we chance to write some
thing you like-or dislike-drop
us line and say so. It's aWfully
lonely to write a letter to nice
people through a column and
not to hear a response.
foot of the capital, ended with
mass meeting during which
15-year-old Calvin Luper, MA
ACP youth council president,
called for 5000 new members.
This appeal came on the
heels of a series of sit-ins
against employment and eating
discrimination in John A.
Browns department store (the
city's largest) and Anna
Maude's cafeteria.
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06
CONTRACTORS
&
Sub-COntrdctOrs

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& DECORATING (DrywalD
4433 N. 7th Ave.
CONSOLIDATED METAL
PRODUCTS (SheetmetaD
1928 North 35th Ave.
DANIELS SHOWER DOOR
(Appliances)
6309 North 7th st.
FULLVIEW CORP.
(WindOWs & Glass Doors
1919 N. Black Canyon Hwy.
Homes Furnished
BY
T & S Furniture
Arizona sun., 1961-04-06
See

The most talked about homes i'm the
Valley! Built by WILLIAMS & JONES
Your choice of or BEDROOMS
baths, patio. Large kitchens with
BUILT-IN gas or electric range.
FORMICA kitchen sink tops with
built-in extra large cabinets
Evaporative coolers and central
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the many other features. SEE 1T
TODAY! Homes from $3.50.
$500 DOWn - $7I.OO per month
Sales By
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Model Home Telephone No. - BR 6-SI6I
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Evening star., 1961-09-04
SALES LIAISON
TRAINEE So 000

Office supplier needs business-type
man with selling or office back
ground to train for prestige posi-
ton. No degree. Call BOB GRAY.
All Woodward BLDG, ME. 6-4277.
(Emni AEcyl
Evening star., 1961-09-04
HELP WOMEN

CLERK, to work in lge. modern
hospital pharmacy. Pleasant work
ing conditions, interesting work,
some typing required. 4O-hr. week.
Apply Personnel Office, WASH
INGTON HOSPITAL CENTER. llO
Irving st. NV. between s a.m.-S
pm, Mon. Fri
Evening star., 1961-09-04
SALES
NATIONAL
MAJOR OIL COMPANY

Openings now available for
immediate employment in
sales department for sew
,er. men; college education
or at least 3-4 yeas in oil
industry sales or related
field essential. We are
looking for young agrees
sive men who will first be
exposed to all elements Of
oil marketing as q phase Of
their training period and
then be assigned as sales
supervisors in the Wash
tngton Metropolitan Area.
Full company benefits. COM
pAny car. expenses. etc.
Please provide resume. in
eluding education. sales
experience. military status,
etc. Our sales employees are
aware Of these openings. All
replies in strict confidence.
Write to Box 4s2-E, Star.
Evening star., 1961-09-04
Make More Money

PART TINE or FULL TINE selling
mutual funds with established
general securities firm: Free
needed Come to special meeting
Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 1880 pm, or
call Don Joy for appointment.
H. ?. WEEKLEY a. CO.
3402 CONNECTICUT AVE. NV.
EN-. 2-2034 EN-. 2-2O36
Evening star., 1961-09-04

CONTINUED on Next PaRe)
The Adak sun., 1961-07-10


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Evening star., 1961-10-21
Architects Sketehbook
Train Table

A train set takes up a lot
of space, frequently more
than is available in the
average household. The illus
tration shows one solution for
the space problem, providing
a 4-foot by 8-foot working
surface which can be neatly
folded away-with track and
most equipment still attached
into a wall cabinet only
l05s inches deep. The lower
part of the cabinet contains
shelves where coaches and
accessories higher than 8
inches can be stored when
not in use.
Not shown in the illustra-
ton is an alternate design
which enables you to mount
the cabinet on a wall i'm
mediately behind a single bed
so that when in use the
train board folds down
directly over the bed. This is
made possible by giving up
the shelf space under the
main cabinet.
Principal materials for the
unit as shown are one and
one-half sheets of 4-by-8 in
Evening star., 1961-10-21

TOday's Project: A space
saving fold-away train table.
Designer william Meyer
riecks of Huntington, N. Y,
explains:
If you have a young boy
in the house who hasn't yet
had the thrill of watching
a miniature train highball
around a figure-eight track,
chances are good that you
plan to give him a train set
this Christmas.
Owning a train can be one
of the great experiences of
childhood. Whether it actu-
ally becomes an instructive
hobby for the child, how
ever, depends to a great eX-
tent on what else you do
besides providing ira ck.
transformer, locomotive and
coaches.
without a place to mount
his track permanently, with
out an opportunity to build
upon his starter set, there's
little hope youthful attrac-
ton toward things mechani-
cal will blossom into con-
suIning interest.
Evening star., 1961-10-21
Mid-Centuy Buys
69-Acre Tract

Mid-Century, Inc, has sold
a 69-acre tract Of land along
Route 70-S near Muddy
Branch road, at Gathers
burg. to the Gaithersburg
Joint Venture.
Sale of the tract was ham
died by Market Realty Co.,
of Bethesda, who said the
price was approximately
$250,000.
Evening star., 1961-10-21
Florida Sales

General Development Corp,
the Florida community build
er. sold homes and homesites
at the rate of nearly $500, 1000
a day for each of the 80 days
in September, the firm has
announced.
Total volume for the month
was $8,663.472 in the COM
pany's eight communities in
Florida. General Development
is represented here by Sidney
2. MenSh g. Co., Inc.
terror plywood, one sheet of
L4-inch ply and another of
1s-inch cardboard, plus some
l-by-2 and 1-by-3 pine.
Evening star., 1961-10-21

9 individual exterior designs
all with hall The vorious models offer
and bedrooms; and 2 eeomie tile baths; splendid
living and firepIoees; dining rooms; fomy rooms
color eo-odnoted Gold Stor Cos Kitchen, that answer
womans fondest expeetotionso equipped in srond style
with top Of the line opponees and providing dining space for
the entire fomy front back porehes; full easements with
outside entrances.
Evening star., 1961-10-21
s21,oo0 $3.50
Maintenance free Brick and Aluminium Sdrnu

The YeOnas family Of home builders considers Mosby
Woods to be its finest achievement community blannns
When completed it nOW be a community of families that
c enjoy desirable facility for happy living Mosby
Woods is Of gently rolling, heavily Vooded land
that brovideS setting for the beautiful homes
building here. And building them prices S
moderate that little salesmanshib aUH be required When
Mosby Woods this week end, main problem
c be to decide which of the charming models choose
for family. To help you Decide haze completely
decorated four of basic model homes Sho,c YOU the
magnificent possibilities they provide for putting your
decorator ideas into effect OF particular you
is the fact that Mosby floods is close schools shopping
country clubs and churches of all denomnaions private
community pool and recreation wM be built ,vhh
memberships available all home buyers Mosby Woods.
Come to Mosby Woods and the hone the location and
the community you haze been searching for.
Evening star., 1961-10-21

DIRECTIONS:
From Memorial
Bridge Route 50)
proceed | mile
Vest Of Fairfax
Circle and turn
right at the MoSby
Woods sign.
, 1961-02-16

eoval, Bill No. 1917, Third Legislature Of the Virgin Is
ands Of the United States, Regular Session, 1860, To
Authorize a Program Of Emergency Housing within the
Island OF St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; to Authorize the es7
adjustment Of an Aided Self-Care Housing Program, and
10 Create a Special Temporary Committee therefore, and
for Other Purposes, which was passed by the Legislature
On May Is and presented to me for executive action on
May 16, 1860.
Section / of this bill authorizes the establishment of a
program Of emergency housing in ST. Thomas. This autho-
rization is already in effect and in operation under Act No.
361, of the Second Legislature, Second Special Session,
1858, which authorized the establishment Of emergency
housing wherever necessary in the islands!
Section / Of the bill also authorizes the establishment
Of rules and regulations to govern admission Of tenants
into emergency homes upon recommendation Of a special
temporary committee. This is in conflict with Act No. 361
which establishes a different procedure and, in my opin-
ion, a better and less complicated one for the same pur-
pose.
Section 2 Of Bill No. 1917 authorizes the Governor to
acquire lands or buildings to carry out the purposes of the
Act. This authority is already contained in Section 4 Of Act
No. 361.
Section 8 Of Bill No. l217 authorizes the establish
ment of an aided self-care housing program. This is an en-
tirely different program and, if legislation is necessary for
this purpose, it certainly should not be confused, either in
programs or in issues, with the emergency housing pro
gram.
Section 4 Of Bill No. 1917 which authorizes a%ppropria-
tons Tor emergency housing seems to be unnecessary as
appropriations have been made and are continuing to be
made by the Legislature for this purpose.
Section 5 establishes a special temporary advisory
Committee on Housing. / know Of no valid reason for the
establishment Of another advisory committee at this
time. We already have too many committees working on
projects which could more effectively be handled, as they
should be, by executive action. The officials named in Sec
ton 5 as members Of the Advisory COMMITTEES on Housing
are all availab le to the executive branch Of government
for consultation without the necessity Of formulating new
committee for this purpose.
For these reasons, | have dsapproved Bill No. 1917.
Sincerely yours,