davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1961-03-10


TG5ZATBD
Saturday
Double Feature Day
Metro presents
1st Feature
|TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE
End Feature:
Fox presents
Thigh POWERED RIFLE"
SUM- Mon.- Tues.
M. G. M. presents
PLEASE DON'T EAT THE
DAISIES"
In Cinemascope and Color
Doris Day, David Niven,
Janis Page
It's all about love and marriage
(. and how to mix the two /! !!
This is the uproarious movie from
the Best-seller!
Also latest worldwide News
Tues. Evening at $50
Fox presents a hilarious program,
which will be of great enjoyment
to both, our English and Spanish
speaking audience.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF
c o NJ E D Y"
Will Rogers, Ben Turpin,
Laurel & Hardy, Carole Lombard,
Jean Harlow & Harry hangdon,
You'll shake with laughter
don't miss it !!
Wednesday
Double Feature Day!
Fox presents
TRAPPED IN TANGIERS"
Edmund Purdom, Genevieve Page
Gino Cervi, Jose Guardiola,
Antonio Moline
A story of the most hunted man
on earth, in the most dangerous
city in the world.
Fox presents
HTUAT Y TATTH
Willard Parker, Kent Taylor,
Joyce Meadows
This is an action-packed Cinema
scope Western.
Thursday Only
In view of the rather unpleasant
power failures during the showing
of the picture
HOME FROM THE HILL"
we shall have two more showings
on Thursday, March 10th at 5 JPN.
and $50 pm.
Emergency tickets issued during
any performance interrupted by
the various power breakdowns Of
Vicorp shall be honored for any
of the two shows!
Friday Only
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-04-08
The Merry Wives

The Merry Wives Social Club
was installed in March at the
home of Mrs. Edna .Jamison.
Mrs. Pelzona Robinson Installed
the officdrs for 1861. An inspir-
ing talk was given by the guest
speaker, Mrs. Maple Spearmon.
Mrs. Levada Dixon was mistress
of ceremonies for the evening.
The new officers are:
Mrs. Lillian Wardell president
Mrs. Matte Brown, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Gladys Gonsalez, sec
retary; Mrs. Cecilia Jamison
financial secretary; Mrs. Edna
Jamison. treasurer; Mrs. Edna
Slater, chaplain: and Mrs. Ger.
aldine Jones, business manager.
A lovely repast was served
with decor of blue and white.
Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Spear
mon were presented corsagcs
made by the hostess.
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-04-08
ATTENTION.!

There has been a lot of wrong
propaganda going around and I
would like to straighten it out.
The talk is concerning me 60
ing into taverns. This is my
Constitutional right. The Bible
says that "Jesus sat among sim
ners' and also, ''pick up your
cross and follow Me-"
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-04-08
AN OPEN LETTER
TO The PUBLIC

What did they do: Our past
presidents have done nothing
for the village or the people.
There were some that il you
wanted to go into the G. H. A.
you had to pay under the table
and then they used the money
for their own capital gain.
There were some that lived
in houses where their car costs
twice what the home was worth,
this kind of president doesn't
improve his home, how can he
help improve yours? You take
someone who talks LOUD, they
are dangerous. We have had
some presidents that couldn't
make a speech, that is an indi-
cation of the lack of education
to be a leader.
Now these former presidents
ere like crawfish, and it is a
trait of the deep South's teach
ings to all early slaves and
their children to never let your
brother RISE, but to pull him
back down. It has also been a
known fact that the man who
does the most, has many that
are jealous if him. Afraid they
ere that he is Going a job with
what they had a chance to do.
In the past, every president of
Robbins has fought against ev-
erything that would improve the
village or help the people, one
oood example was during the
WJP.A. we could have had wild
er streets, improved sewerage
and many other village improve
ments. During the days when
gambling was thriving the Pres
idents condoned this, and took
pay-offs to enhance their bank
accounts but not for the better
ment of the village. In these
: = - :
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-04-08

past presidents, we DON'T want
to repeat history These type
of past presidents want to know
where the money goes, because
when they were in office it
went into their bank account.
And they are of the belief that
everybody is a crook. And bp
all means, they want to get
their hands on the Utility Tax
money. Boy, would they have
a field day, that's good cold
cash.
We can at least see improved
streets, sidewalks, new Village
Hall and Fire Department, with
everybody rking together
that they could not stand.
If they went to something like
the Presidents Ball to represent
us, they would have been out
of place. We have haG enough
of incompetent presidents. And
when we have one that Went
to school two years longer thar
the previous one, that hurt
them. Now, that we do have
one who has, they are really
hurt. To you new people who
have bought homes in Robbins,
ask your neighbors who have
been here for a number of years
and see if our president now
isn't just what the doctor or
dered. If you go for the ole
presidents, we are going back
wards instead of forward, anf
you as young people don't wan
What the old settlers had to
encounter. All of the ole heads
hate one another. The young
ones are learning to stick to-
rether, which denotes education.
All of those wanting to see
books and courts belong to the
Id Robbins. Ask them to show
,ou books from their admins
ration and they would probably
20 to the can (jaiD for a long
long time. This president has
10 bank account or fine home
md is for the people. please,
when you go to the POLLS to
VOTE don't let them stick their
ands in that money, and be-
'ieve me. you won't get nothing.
The Phantom Writer
The Robbins eagle. (Robbins, Ill.) 1951-1963, 1961-04-08
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THE ROBBINS EAGLE
Saturday, April 8, 1861

That means that you can do
what He has done, an6 doing it
will verify that right will be
right and wrong will be wrong.
regardless of the geographical
location.
Rev. Willis Jones
Evening star., 1961-08-04
BIukiston
Isle Sought
ByMoryIond
By the Associated Press

Maryland Congressman have
redoubled their efforts to OBJ
tain a tiny island in the Poto-
mac River from the Federal
Government for a State shrine,
The island, st. Clements,
was declared excess for test
purposes by the Navy yesterday
and was turned over to the
General Services AdminiStra-
ton for disposition.
Senator Beall, Republican of
Maryla n d, Immediately an
nounced he would introduce a
bill calling for delivery of the
island to Maryland. Represent
ative Lankford, Democrat of
Maryland, previously had in
troduced similar legislation in
the House.
st. Clements, or Blakiston
Island as the Navy knew it, lies
about one-half mile south of
Cotton Point in st. Mary's
County.
The 70-acre island was the
site of the landing of Mary
lands first settlers in 1884.
The Navy acquired the island
in 1918 as a ballistic observa-
ton station in the down-river
test range of heavy artillery.
In 1884 Maryland erected a
40-foot white-stone cross on the
island as a landmark for all
watermen sailing the Potomac.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
Corcoron Offers Plan to Qualify
For 81 Million Art Gift 1t Rejected

lher Connecticut summer home
by District Judge Edward A.
Beard, president of the newly
former Friends of the Corcoran.
Judge Beard visited Mrs. Hell
pert last week end and brought
plans and a model of the pro-
posed temporary accommoda-
ton. His visit was followed by
a letter from George E. Hamil-
ton, jr., president of the Cor
coran, formally making the new
offer.
The dealer said she was "tre-
mendously impressed by the
enthusiasm and the knowledge
of art shown by Judge Beard" "
She added, however, that &C
ceptance of the new offer would
not be possible until she had
consulted all the donors, two
of whom are out Of the country
for the summer.
She said the four donors had
had a complete rejection" by
the Corcoran trustees and one
lof them had left for Europe
Evening star., 1961-08-04
Court Backs sLoWAimed
At GEM Liquor Store

The judge said the law does
not put OST out of business, and
that the store may utilize its
investment by opening its stock
to all customers and continue
to sell at prices lower than
other stores in the area.
While noting that his decis-
ion was not based on the motive
of the new law, Judge Powers
wrote that "OST Liquors, Inc,
is the target of this legislation
and that the true explanation
for the passage of, the legisla-
tion is that other licensees
urged the passage of the pro-
posed legislation on the Gen.
eral Assembly for the very
practical reason that the cut
rate prices of liquor at the
GEM store was economically
disturbing to other licences in
the area"
During oral arguments before
the court June 26, GEM attor-
neys said that if they lost the
case they would carry it to the
Maryland Court of Appeals.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Staff Writer

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
is still in the running for a
50 million gift of Goth century
American art originally turned
down by the trustees.
The spokesman for the four
donors, Mrs. Edith G. Halpert,
New York art dealer and one
of the donors, said today
the Corcoran trustees have
made a new offer to house the
collection separately, with a
separate curator and a separate
entrance on New York avenue,
until such time as a new wing
could be built.
It was the donors demand
for a separate wing that
caused the original rejection
of the gift. Estimates of the
cost of new construction varied
from Mrs. Halpert's $250,000
to the trustees 81 million.
Mrs. Halpert said the ques-
ton was reopened by a visit to
Evening star., 1961-08-04
BY JOHN NEARY
Star Staff Writer

Alexandria'S annual move for
an urban renewal plan will be
made before the city council
at 7::30 pm. Tuesday.
If this plan flops, as did the
one unveiled around this time
last summer, and the many
other plans before it, Alexan-
dria can forget the whole bust
ness, City Manager E. G. Heat
wole told the council in a letter
strongly supporting the plan.
The project is. aimed at raz-
ing and rebuilding the King
street business district near the
Potomac and wedding blight
from the surrounding residen-
tial neighborhoods.
The project is scheduled to
undergo Federal screening for
funding approval in three
months, six months behind
schedule because of local bud
getary foul-ups.
Howled Down
The 20-square-block project
is now under control of, high
gear committee of top city Of
ficials who took charge after it
floundered amid controversy
over the delay earlier this year.
Current planning on the
project began late last year,
Evening star., 1961-08-04

muttering, "The hell with it"
All donors, she said, are
anxious to have their consoli-
dated collections located per-
manently in Washington. Since
the Corcoran rejection, she
said, offers of new wings have
been received from several
American museums, including
two in Baltimore and Rich
Noting efforts in Congress to
help the Corcoran accept the
gift, Mrs. Halpert said almost
every major museum in the
country receives government
aid, usually from the city, with
out any interference. There's
no reason for the Corcoran to
be afraid of Federal funds, b"
she said.
The combined collections
would give the Corcoran a
spread of 20th-century Ameri-
can art equaled only by the
collections of two museums in
New York.
Evening star., 1961-08-04

A new law aimed at closing
the cut-rate liquor department
of a GEM department store
was upheld today by the Prince
Georges Circuit Court.
Judge Ralph w. Powers
ruled in favor Of the liquor
board, which held that OST
Liquors, Inc, located in the
GEM store at 2421 Chillum
road, Chillum, is operating in
violation of the law passed by
the 1861 Maryland Assembly.
Under the law, a package
store liquor license cannot be
used by an establishment that
restricts the sale of alcoholic
beverages to any specific group
or limited membership"
GEM patrons must be active
or retired Federal, State or
local Government employees, or
their families, and are en-
titled to shop at cut-rate prices
upon purchase of So member
ship card.
In his five-page opinion,
Judge Powers said that the law
is not essentially arbitrary and
cannot be declared unconstitu-
tional because it results in some
inequality.
Judge Powers disagreed with
arguments by Blair H. Smith,
attorney for OST, who claimed
the law, among other things,
was unconstitutional because it
was retroactive.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
AND THEY LIKE 1T
Tiny Tots Sample School

A piece of green crayon
whizzed through the air and
bounced off the head of s.
year-old James (June Bug)
Shuler.
The children in the class
room laughed merrily. They
were all learning how to go to
school.
Today is the last day for
some II crayon-lobbing, paint
Smearing, graham crackers
chewing preschool youngsters
attending the Tiny Tots
Camp" at the Scott Montgom-
cry School, 421 P street NV.
The camp is toe-wetting
sample of what school will be
like when the kids are old
enough to make the academic
plunge.
The boys put paper bags
over their heads and the girls
climbed into hula skirts for a
stage show before the board
of directors of Northwest Set
tlement House, sponsor of the
Six-week project, members of
Junior League, which provided
the money, and representatives
from the District public schools,
Recreation Department and
several UGF agencies.
From 9 am. to noon, five
days a week, the youngsters
have been. warming up for
school. Their ages are from 3
to 6 and a few of the 6-year-
olds already have had a year
of kindergarten. Many will be
coming back to the camp.
It was the first season for
the camp, which also includes
night classes for parents on
food preparation and home
games with their children. Miss
Antoinette Gardner, Settlement
House director, and Felicia
Glascoe, camp director, con-
slider the project a success.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Sunday Star Supplies
Answers to 5-Part Quiz

1. WHO ARE THE BROTHERS who exchange radio
greetings on the Potomac when the White House
Yacht Honey Fitz passes the SIS Mount Vernon?
See Potomac Pilots: The Brothers Slye" in SUNDAY
The Star Magazine
2. WHAT ARE THE MODERN DRUGS that are causing
automobile accidents for unsuspecting motorists?
Read Medicines that Menace Your Driving" in This
Week Magazine
3. WHAT TRUE-LIFE EXPERIENCE is involved as
Comedian Henny Youngman acts his first dramatic
role on television? See TV Magazine which each
week brings you television listings and more
pages in color
a. WHAT WILL THE NEW S1OO limitation on duty-free
purchases mean to the American traveller, and how
will it affect our friends abroad? Travel Editor Jack
Jonas brings you the answers in the travel pages
this Sunday.
5. WHAT'S AHEAD in cloth coat fashions? See the
special feature with color pictures in the Society
Home section of The Sunday Star.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-08-04
D. c. Budget
HeuringGets
Senate DleIuy

The hearing dates for the
District appropriations bill have
been set back to August 1917
because of the legislative log
jam, it was announced today.
The hearings had been sched-
uled to start Monday, but Sena-
tor Byrd, Democrat of West
Virginia, said today it will be
impossible for the Senate Ap-
preparations Subcommittee to
act before the 18th.
The hearings will be held in
Room F-39 at the Capitol.
Subcommittee Chairma a n
Byrd said the first two days will
be allotted to witnesses repre-
senting the District govern
ment. The third day will be
devoted to District citizens.
They will be permitted five
minutes each, and must present
in advance prepared state
mentS in seven copies.
These witnesses also were re-
minded they must apply be-
forehand for permission to tes-
tify. Application to testify must
be made at once.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
Alexandria to Weiqh
Urban Renewal Aqoin

after its predecessor went
down in noisy defeat.
That plan, drafted by a New
York consultant, was hooted
down by local residents when
it proposed Sprawling parking
lots and towering apartments
amid the city's cherished Old
Town district.
The New Yorker was by nc
means the first to try his hand
at shaping a new Alexandria.
An earlier design, similar to
the current proposal, was pre-
Sented for the same area, and
that was preceded by two other
plans for different areas OF
the city.
None ever got off the draw
ing boards.
Now, Mr.. Heatwole indicated
in his letter, Federal officials
are losing patience with the
city's flirtations with urban
renewal. Moreover, many Of
the new city council members
won their seats June 13 on
platforms either supporting or
pledging fast action toward
urban renewal.
Basic Desires
IT do not believe Alexandria
can afford another urban re-
newal failure" Mr.. Heatwole
told the council in the letter,
released yesterday, unless it
is the intent of the council
and the city to give up urban
renewal"
He told the councilmen the
current plan carries out the
basic desires of the council,
the citizens and the buSi-
nessmer, and that the approach
INDICATED will preserve the
colon'zl character of the Old
I,ort section Of the city"
He urged the council to back
the plan without modification
City share of the project cost
would total $2.3 million, urban
renewal director Martin Smith
told the council.
Before the project would
reach completion, Mr.. Smith
said, private capital totaling sic
million to $40 million and a
Federal contribution Of SAT-
million would be spent.
Carrying out the project
would mean relocating 1T
white families, 60 Negro fam
lilies, and 100 business firms.
The 40-acre project contains
492 buildings, 268 of them "de-
ficient," of which 253 would be
torn down.
The city's housing authority.
responsible for administering
Federal funds in the project,
is not allowed, under Virginia
law, to join in programs to ere
habilitate" deteriorating prop
erty,, only in bulldozer-type
projects.
To get around this, planners
carefully outlined two areas for
razing and rebuilding.
The plan recently won the
approval of a council-appointed
citizens advisory committee.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
Couple Hurt
In Fire;Just
Moved In

A couple who had just moved
into a third-floor apartment at
3166 Eighteenth street NV,
were burned in a fire there early
today, the husband critically,
before other tenants and fire
men rescued them.
Charles r. Blackburn, 40, sus-
tairIed second-degree burns on
the body, arms and face. After
once getting out of the burning
apartment, he returned to look
for his wife. He was removed
to Walter Reed Hospital from
Washington Hospital Center,
where his wife, Ella, 40, is being
treated for arm burns and an
eye injury.
When firemen answered the
first of two alarms at 4::26 am.
they found Mrs. Blackburn on a
roof to which she had climbed
from the bathroom window.
Firemen rescued her by ladder.
Moved in Yesterday
She told police she and her
husband moved in only yester-
day and retired about 11:3O
pm. When she awakened,
smoke was so dense in the
apartment she could see moth
ing, and after being forced
back by flames at the door,
climbed through the window.
Her husband meanwhile, went
through the flames.
On the second floor, Mrs.
Mary Rexroed told of being
awakened and, finding the
third floor ablaze, began call
ing to rouse the occupants.
II heard some noises and
pretty soon a man walked
through the flames and down
the steps," Mrs. Rexroed said.
His shirt was in flames. I
took a pillow and beat them
out, and asked him, Where is
your wife?'
With that he turned around
and walked back up through
the flames, but soon came back
again."
Helped by Brother
Mr.. Blackburn's brother
Harry, a Second-floor tenant,
went to his assistance then.
"His shirt was nearly burned
off him." the brother said. "I
tried to beat them out and
helped him downstairs. He fell
into a chair and I beat out
more flames"
The fire was confined to the
third floor, which was burned
out. There was water damage
to the second floor. The fire
marShal's office has not de-
termined the cause.
Mrs. Zelda Mulford, manager
of the building, lives on the
first floor. She said none of
the other seven tenants were
forced to leave the three
story structure.
Mr.. Blackburn is a carpenter
and a former Army man.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
The
Rambler
Learns About
Thuyendunegeu
By GEORGE KENNEDY

At luncheon the other day,
Joe Talbot, chairman of the
Tariff Commission, enter
tanned the members of the
round table with the incred-
ible story of Thayendanegea,
chief of the Mohawks during
the American Revolution.
After the war;" Joe con-
cluded, "the British invited
him to visit London, where
they made a lot of him. He
attended a masquerade ball
in Mayfair in full war dress.
When the Shah of Persia
objected to the Indians ap-
pearance, he tomahawked
and scalped him right on
the dance floor. If you don't
believe me, I'll bring in a
book to prove it."
That's how the Rambler
came to read Volume 16 of
"The Chronicles of Canada"
published in 1922 in Toronto,
a beautiful little book in blue
, limp-leather binding.
Thayendanegea, a full
blooded Indian who is known
in history by his English
name, Joseph Brant, had an
amazing story.
He could read and write
English as well as speak it.
AS a boy he had been sent to
the Congregational mission
ary school for Indians at
Lebanon in the colony of
Connecticut. The school was
established by DR.. Eleazar
Wheelock, who later founded
Dartmouth College for the
education of Indians as well
as whites. That accounts for
Joe Talbot's interest. He's a
Dartmouth man.
The author, Louis Aubrey
Wood, notes with some salts
faction that Brant, while
educated by dissenters, be-
came a communicate of the
Church of England.
Be that as it may, he con-
tinued to be quick with the
tomahawk.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
Tawes Will Support
90 Apportionment
But He Refuses
To Name Group
For New Study
By WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star Staff Writer

Gov. Tawes disclosed today
he will support reapportionment
of the Maryland Legislature in
1862 to give urban areas better
representation. He declined,
however, to appoint a commits
sion on representation prob
lens.
He revealed the plans in let
ters to the Montgomery County
Democratic State Central Com
mittee in which he declared
that Maryland cannot afford
a system that makes second
class citizens of its urban
dwellers."
Replying to the committees
request for a commission to
study redistricting, reapportion-
ment and the county unit
voting system, the Governor as
serted:
Fair System Needed
What we need is not more
study but action. I intend to
support a reapportionment bill
in the next session of the Cen
eral Assembly with all my
strength as Governor and my
position as leader of the Demo-
cratic Party"
He also observed that "the
maintenance of responsible and
responsive government is de-
pendent on a system Of fair
representation"
He added that Maryland
Democrats should work to Sc
cure a reapportionment of the
General Assembly so as to as
sure a fair representation in
that body"
He favored a reapportion-
ment bill by State Senators
Northrop and Pine favored dur
ing the past session of the Leg
islature, but the General AS
sembly, failed to pass it.
Regarding rediStricting, how
ever, Gov. Tawes said he pre-
ferred to await the decision
of the electorate"
Voters to Decide
Voters will decide next year
whether to approve creation Of
an 9th congressional district
composed of Prince Georges
and Howard Counties.
Other metropolitan counties,
including Montgomery, have
led a referendum drive, claim
ing their communities were by
passed in the search for better
urban representation.
Rural counties have long had
better per capita representation
than the populous metropolitan
areas.
The Governor also noted that
the county unit system of vot-
ing for State officials in pri-
is "antiquated" and has
sometimes resulted in the choice
of candidates who did not rep
resent a majority of the voters.
He told the committee that
reapportionment of the General
Assembly would do much to
eliminate that problem, and
probably would result in re-
examination of the county unit
system.
The Governor concluded his
letter to Montgomery by saying:
II believe in first things first.
I want a reapportionment bill
enacted in 1862" t..