A D V A N C E NEWS
SUNDAY, AUG. 4, 1968
M m las Plenty To Say
By IRA BERKOW
NEW YORK — (NEA) — The
bitter taste of his four months
with the Chicago Cubs still ling­
ers for Lou Johnson. When he
w as traded at the end ot June
to the Cleveland Indians, John­
son couldn't get away from the
Cubs fast enough. There were
two primary reasons.
PAGE NINE
Sorrento And isle Of Capri
Maintain 01 World Charms
went on the field, we were like From then on, we looked at
each other with daggers, then
this,” Johnson raised a fist.
Johnson’s falling out with turned away.
Durocher came at the beginning
“But the big cheese on that
B y Mrs. Franklin P, Little (densburg in population, but it be to swim in there.
of the regular season, after team is Ron Santo. He’s the
After
two months^ spent, it ;s strung for miles along abso­ We spent the rest of the day
Johnson had hurt his in-step in captain. And he doesn’t help
sometimes seems, largely on
lutely vertical cliffs, and con­ seeing Capri and Anacapri by
a base-running collision He was any. I once savi' him go into
buses, and two weeks of intense
sists
entirely of hotels, restaur­ funicular, bus, and foot, with a
out about a week. Johnson said Leo’s office after the lineup had heat, spent mostly in the apart­
beautiful house and garden be­
he heard Durocher say in an been posted and he was batting ment, we took off recently for ants overlooking the water, and
longing to the famous Swedish
interview', “We didn't get John­ seventh. He came out and he our first weekend in our new souvenir shops spilling into the writer Axel Munthe on one of
son to have him sit on the was batting fourth. He told me Volkswagon station wagon. We streets. There are more souv­ the highest points, ran into our
“A lot of young southern
,
„ jbench. If he’d spit some tobacco two weeks before I was traded drove to Naples though actually enirs per block, shiny inlaid fellow passengers on the ship,
players and Leo Duiocner, ijuice on the injury, he’d be all
tables, sandies and straw bags,
that I was going to go. The big we never saw Naples. W il than there are in all of Rome. as we do everywhere, and had
said Johnson. “Those southern)right ”
have to go back. Instead we
more clam soup at a flowery
players still don’t understand | ^ ' saw Leo in the club_ cheese.
went around the outskirts of the We took an elevator down the restaurant.
about the blacks and w rat this j[10USe
said Johnson,
cliffs
for
a
swim,
and
found
an
“These are not times for city to the beautiful peninsula
untouristy restaurant for din­ We drove home the autostra­
black athlete revolts all about. ,.and j asked him to spit some babying people and glossing ovda, a loll road identical to
And you can’t tell me these tobacco juice on my instep so {er things, Black players now of Sorrento and the Isle of Ca­ ner. It was on a rooftop with
American
turnpikes, through
orange trees and Chinese lanvery same guys aren’t the ones I could get back into the line-1 can do things that Jackie (Rob- pri.
the Rapido Valley. In the win­
_
.
,,
,
.terns,
and
more
of
the
seafood
who stand on street corners in up. He doesn’t like people j inson)
couldn’t doand say It is pretty and green south h w as reveling in.
ter of 1944 it was all mud and
sm all towns in Georgia and Ala­ talking up to him. I don’t care, j things
Jackie couldn'tsay.And
destruction, but it was lovely
of
Rome,
tomato
and
tobacco,
'pbe
hotel
had
a
notice
posted
bam a and those places and call I talk, talk, talk when I’m right. 11 got things to say and I’m
fieldswhich Mussolini had re-|that due to the water shortage, now, with tiers of rugged blue
people like me ‘dirty nigger.’ When I’m wrong, I shut up. I saying
them.”
reclaimed from swampland. |a]1 water would be cul off trom mountains on either side, dom­
“Durocher is a swell guy
There were long canalsparal-|U p .m. to B a.m., but by the inated by the Abbey of Monte
off the field. But on the field
leling
the road, with rows of | time we had gotten the children Cassino. It must have been hell
he is one horse-manure man­
to fight in, but it’s beautiful
trees whichreminded
usot |-0 bed we’d forgotten this, and
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ager. He’s a little dictator ”
France. Once we got to the we flopped
. . . down to read the scenery now, with grape vines
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Johnson, 34-year-old outfield­
coast at Terracina we stopped paper. The next thing we knew strung between the trees, and
er who came to the Cubs after
A
for lemonade and pastries at it was midnight, and we were white water buffalo, whose milk
a few fine seasons with the Los
a place built out over the sea. thirsty from the spicy fish stew, goes to make the real mozzarel­ TO PRACTICE LAW HERE - Edward Fane o f Schen­
Angeles Dodgers, sat in a New
From there down it was one and there wasn’t a drop of wa­ la cheese. We must come back ectady became an associate of John B. Leonard in the
York restaurant and discussed
dramatic view after another of ter until morning. Up bright and explore the hill towns and practice of law, at 615 Ford Street, July 22. Mr. Fane,
these contentions.
cliffs and coves and people (really bright) and early for a the rebuilt abbey.
who was graduated from Albany Law School in June, is
.“Randy Hundley (Cub catch­
swimming in the blue Mediter­ drink of water, a cocoa and One of Frank’s coworkers, a
er i and I had this thing going
ranean. Janet, who lives to rolls in our rooms, and then nice young American boy, was married to the former Susan Petters. The couple is re­
siding at 411 Riverside Avenue.
with quips. Sometimes racial
swim, kept saying, “Look, Dad­ we caught the boat for Capri. married Sunday to an Italian
dy, thrre’s a beautiful beach What a magnificent ride along girl, and all the office staff was
quips, Randy's from Virginia or
with hardly anyone using it. the coast and out to the speclac- invited. We knew it was to be a The “Sky Atlas," wish 1.870
somewhere and we wouid say—!
Let’s go down and populate it a |
- «beat mass-> in a semjnary photographs, if spread out,
let's see what can you print—I
little.” However tempting, there i
’
!chapel, but having nothing else would form a map of the heav­
yeah, here’s one. He once said j
wasn’t time. We’ll have to go. Everything
is superlative! to go on than other Sunday noon ens as big as a tennis court. Tbe
something about my hair. Ij
Manvell, R. “Ellen Terry”. back some weekend and just ]about Capri. It has the clearest, weddings we had seen outside (collection, in its fourth printing
LIBRARY HOURS
came back with, T don’t even
(The life o f one of th e great­ swim and explore the castles [bluest water, with the whitest churches, with dressy crowds ;in Augusl ]968i costs S2,500 a
Monday 1-6, 7-9
need a comb and my hair looks
By Vincent E. Rogers State
iwaves, the sheerest cliffs and around the bridal couple, I too:COpV.
the same. You need to brush Tuesday & Thursday 10-6 e st actresses — and women and Roman caves.
Veteran Counselor, New Yus k
Then
through
hot,
dusty
little
(sharpest
switchbacks,
most
)
went
off
all
gussied
up.
Mine
;
Wednesday
&
Friday
10-6,
7-9
of
her
tim
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yours and set it and you stilt
Slate Division of Vcic-rair ttowns, which were just as [brilliant flowers, prettiest shops: were the only gloves there, and;
Saturday 10-12:30
look like Casper the Ghost.’ j
Nulling,
A.
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of
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remembered
them,
toiwith
the
gayest
sports
clothes,
almost
the
only
hat.
This
is
surroamed
in
and
out.
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and ^niter I Monim),
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inside story oi Casserla, where he was station- and the most sensational views, prising since usually Italian!vj[ro]|cd around visiting with!
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southerners. They absolutely! (Happy Centennial Year,
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Rogers, W. D. “The Tvvi- ghetti in a courtyard under a [changed lo a smaller boat for stand about women tourists w p
didn't know how to take m e.; For* the many new visitors
They’d freezeup. Soon, I was Ogdensburg w ill have during jjght Struggle”. The Alliance cool crape arbor, with a chicken jthe Blue Grotto, and once there, iwith bare heads. Some even!yousness- A seminarian came neecj t |lan„e fil(, b
anri'th/nolitics strutting around. Craig was all tbobbed around for an hour, have signs posted forbidding1in and put new candles on the ^
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walking into the clubhouse 0111’ centennial celebration, £or pr0gr
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^ see i{!buinping olher boats full of,women to enter in sleeveless [altar and lighted them with
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and none of these white g u v s the library o i l e r s m a n y h is- 0£ development
.they
wrung
its
neck
on
the
spot.,
tourists,
while
waiting
to,
dresses,
or
a
guard
turning
jcij?arette
ligllter.
Friends
fid-1
benefit
from
the
pot kmc- IV
talked to me.
’ toric iacts and items relaUn£ :America.)
The waiter practiced his Eng-,change into still smaller boats, (them away. It was the first1-*
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eai’ly days of oux
got paler and paler! time in Rome I \ V felt o v e r - ! ^ with a tape recorder and law requ.res that th, pr,,
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dav. We were going terrible.
Leo called for a workout But ing
thee ihom e of Joseph tain Men” . (A guide in pic-[Frank exchanged wartime rent- [fo r e l finally saw a ticket taker (site, with my very American;in white shirts, open at the neck 10 / j 1
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m e wwas
as m
This [practiced on their drums and;nated
the veteran, even
is built in 1809 ture and te x t to the equip-, iniscences. He’d spent four jdrinking water from a bottle..1roll-up sleeve shirtwaists.
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they
may
include
a di­
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I had arranged a month before
xhen^in 1 ^ 9 ^ * b"e-! ment of the"trappers ’and* fur [years as a prisoner‘of war in Jand asked him for
(and [time "the clothes ranged from[eleclric guitars. It was the Ag-!“
tn go to Lexington, Ky.. myicame ^ 0gdensburg Public traders w h o opened the Old | the Slates. Frank had workedlheaven knows what exotic [sport shirt* m cnnventmnal •
*.4vorced spouse nr weaithy parnus Dei, etc. but so different !ent. GI insurance p.Micv benehometown, for the opening nf a ,Libr a r r ^ h e n V'1thV*'propM
e7ty !W e^rfrom ’tlm 182b’s to the; in one of the complex of build-[germs) to take a motion sick-;“Sunday clothes” to a longhair frevm anything we’d ever heard:ficiarv jis,mgs should'be re­
bank that I’m involved with. I
[ings around the Royal Palace in [ness pill. Eventually we did [type in front of me in an orin church. I'm not attuned to,vjewed pt.riodica]iV to make
had cleared it with Leo s e v e r a l ; '
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but rrather
weeks before. So they had the: oil
G tbe Rnsseel heir- • Sandulescu, J. “Donbas”, jhad his headquarters in the glit-1 ant chat with an American fam-| It was all obviously in reac- liked some of the more dignified sure they are up-to-dro.
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show up.
ontranfp Hisnlav roso al the across Russia.)
went through the gorgeous state [ing a red sun-hat from vendors ;vention, but we found the ■asu-l
“When I got back, Hundley jibrary r contains valuable
g ’g‘ t YV “The UnquieL aPartments in a Palace as Urge [in a rowboat. We all scrunched[alness very sincere, and liked; Finally the door closed b r i e f - v i c e Scholarships for Veter
Versailles. We loved the down in the floor of (he boat;(he young priest, and ihe ob-jjy and then reopened, and the Military Ballots for servicesaid, 'Well, the big shot returns Too c 0od m Dractice ’ items such as silver CUPS and Mmd’k iA ' fascinating biogra-,as
one in the Czech building at to go through the mouth of th e' vinusly happy couple, who chat- Ibride entered in a pretty and men and their iarruhe: are
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were all dressed in 18th cen-. surprisingly large, with the only , unusual ceremony.
(congregation participated in the the New York State D i v i s i o n of
you poor little white boys. 1 yets,
and an original painting are ihe tortured, agonized, tury costumes, and were cook-;light that refracted through the ; The chapel was square stuc-jceremony, in both English and Veterans' Affairs ior >VcterarE
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Kalian stable with its Holy [ and vou could see fish and rocks church here. There was only tape recording, the participants familv does not lose his right to
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I could really get him redU1'*''0!'
‘ " “ih
Family.
[far below in the clear, clear'one door, in a corner behind the Will never forget their wedding, vole in 1968 because r.e lacked
sometimes. But he never got !
ia 1337 and what Taylor, F . M. “The
Autumn. Sorrento is smaller than Og- water. How wonderful it would altar, through which everyone land neither will we._aMilitaryBallotApplication.
me red.” Johnson laughed. “No !events‘ took plaee at that Years".(Wise,warm-hearted!,
way. No way he could net me time | or diecommunity. Ex- observations on life are comred.
citing contests took place , bined w ith practical advice in
"I remember an incident the sucb as:
(this delightful book written
night Rev. King was assassina- wheelbarrow & Sack Races! to help mature men and wornen find triumph and joy in
ted. The blood had rushed to
q'ub Race!
their later years.
my head like it did when the
steam F}re Engine Trial!
President was shot. I was in
r T h e s leam fjre engines
another world. I didn’t want to of 0 g d _ y 0> i and Oswe- n p| Y I i m p t i n t l
talk lo anyone. Billy Williams gatchte No. 2 will give an I
.H H IL llU Il
Between The Bookends
“G e n tle m e n : S ta rt y o u r e n g in e s ... i f y o n c a n
an d I were waiting to g o down ex h ib it of th e ir pow er to e le -i
N pw c
P pT S O T IB Is
an elevator in our hotel ir, San vat e water on the west
side o f' UG1
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Antonio. The elevator opened tbe bridge!’*)
B y Rosina Powell
^nd there was Hundley and a
steamboat Excursions!
DeKalb Junction — Miss Ruth
couple other white teammates. and then to close the end o f
I knew if I got on, Hundley a perfect day. a display o f | Matleson and her brother Donwould make some crack that I Rn e -fire balloons” bright- aid attended the wedding of;
wouldn't like and I’d have to ened the sky!
James Caneen and Donna Ar-.
drag him off and beat hell out • Many of ‘the library's pa- genziana July 27 at Central;
of him right there. So I told trons would be surprised to ^Square, N.Y.
Billy we'd w ait for another ele- le a r n that th e
lib ra ry hasa n '
Mrs. Lenore E. Mattot is atvator. Wouldn’t you know, Hun- o rig in a l book published
m
dle.v went and told Leo that I 1604 — 16 years before th e, (;ond|f§ ^rTni^rritv
at
wouldn't ride 011 the elevator'Pilgrims arrival. Everyone is ,^>6 State Unv
y
with them.
.allowed to examine this book Polsclam_____
“So the tension built. Leo eat-,if desired. Just ask the clerk
led a meeting of the club to at th e main desk.
Elmer Elsey has recently
get the grievances out of our
In the spirit ofour centen- purchased the Bessie Spencer
guts. They didn't say anything., nial festival the public li- bome and plans to rent it to a
I knew it. They were toe chick- jbrary invites young and old member of the faculty of Heren.
alike to tour our library!
i mon-DeKalb Central School in
“But it sure wasn’t that
[ the fall.
Wanted: Boys and Girls
way with the Dodgers. Sandy
(Koufax) and me were beau­
tiful together. No racial prob­
Event. Story Hour - F u n ,: enjoying a tyu weeks vachon
lems with any of us. When we
fun, tun for all! ! !
(Hermon-DeKalb Central School.
'$% .% £E 'j£3r
■RECEIVES ROTC GRANT
— Lisle Bigelow, son of Mr.
*and Mrs. Lisle Bigelow, De'Kalb Junction, has been
awarded an Air Force
HtOTC assistance grant at
’Syracuse University. The
award w ill pay tuition at
Syracuse, laboratory and
college fees, bboks, and
living expenses. Mr. BigeJow, a June graduate of
’ ’Hermon - DeKalb Central
School, is also a recipient of
a New York Slate Regents
Scholarship.
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NEW BOOKS
Miss Helena McCarthy visited
AT THE LIBRARY
the Lloyd Powells July 30.
FICTION:
.. G" A m o n g ! ^ and Mrs. Charles Bush,
T h ie v e s’. (A novel which e x - lgr
t July 28 at their pri.
am ines our penal system and 1 ^ ^ at stony Brook HUntfin ds it badly in need of re-' clubnea,. st. Regis
Falls.
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pair, this te lls, the story o f 0
three men from very differ- The Hermon-DeKalb Central
en t worlds w hose paths con- School BaTld wm piay at the
verge inside the walls of a U Lawrence County Fair in
1S ® 0ild
Gouverneur, Tuesday, August 6.
_
MYSTERIES:
I
Jay, S. “Sleepers Can K ill”. | Guy Russo js staying at the
Lovell, M. “The Ghost o f Eunjce stone Rest Home on the
Megan”.
Old DeKalb road.
Stem, A. M. “Kill Is A FourLetter Word”.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dunkle:
WESTERNS:
;berg of Canton members of
Patten, L. B. “The R ed Hermon Chapter No. 108 Order
Sabbath”,
of the Eastern Star returned
NON-FICTION:
| July 29 from the Bazaar and
Little, T. “Modern Egypt” . Candy sa le at the Eastern Star [
(Sketches in the history of Home, Oriskany, N. Y.
I
E gypt from Pharaonic tim es
to the outbreak of World W ar
Miss Phyllis Bush, a senior at
II.)
j Hennon-DeKaib Central School,
Lounsbury, W. C. “T heatre, leaves August 5 for a two week
Backstage From A To Z”. (A summer session at Fredonia
concise encyclopedia of stage­ State University College.
craft — from alternating cur­
ren t to zoom lens.)
Ernst of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Macmillan, H. “The B last came to light in 1947, when a
o f War”. (A personal,
re- Bedouin shepherd boy stumbled
markably fresh account of | upon a cave holding a cache of,
how World War II was fo u g h t. ancient writings. They are [
and won 011 the political thought to be the 20th century’s j
’front.)
jgreatest manuscript find.
I
T h at w a rn in g tack ed on to th e
usual sta r tin g com m and at th e In­
dianap olis “5 0 0 ” Speedw ay m ade
it clear th a t th e se ca r s would n o t
start e a sily . E a ch o f the 99 cars
had b e e n id en tica lly “b u g g ed ”
with t e n m a lfu n ctio n s. So 198
high sc h o o l stu d e n ts began sp in ­
ning w ren ch es.
T h ey w e r e r a c in g fo r sch o la r­
sh ip s, p rizes and tro p h ies w o rth
$ 100,000 in th e P lym outh N a ­
tio n a l T rouble S h o o tin g con test,
an annual ev en t fo r A m erica ’s top
au to m ech a n ics stu d en ts.
F ir s t tea m to re sto r e its ca r to
p e r fe c t ru n n in g o rd er—in 42 m in ­
u tes, 33 seconds—vvas Jam es F o r-
b is and S ta n le y Choura, o f Galena
P a r k (T ex .) S en ior H ig h , in the
V o ca tio n a l d iv isio n .
P eter M ille r and D an iel Fowler,
o f G reenhills H ig h , C in cin n a ti, 0.,
w o n the In d u stria l d iv is io n in
4 2 :46. E a ch tea m claim ed a $3,000
co lleg e sch o la rsh ip , e a r n in g at a
r a t e of o v er $70 a m in u te.
T he 99 co m p etin g te a m s o f two
stu d en ts ea ch w ere w in n e r s in a
s e r ie s o f 76 region al elim in ation
co n tests in w h ich stu d e n ts from
5 0 states p a rticip a ted . A t th e local
le v e l, th e co n test in v o lv e d some
1 00,000
stu d en ts fr o m
2,000
schools.
A t s t a r t e r ’s s ig n a l, 1 9 8 b o ys r a c e
fo r t h e ir c a rs a n d s fa r l lo o k in g
fo r (ro u b le , w h ic h c a n be a n y ­
t h in g fr o m fo u le d fu e l lin e s t o
i m p r o p e r l y i n s t a l l e d p a r ls . O n e
b o y u s u a l ly c h e c k s e le c tr ic a l s y s ­
te m w h ile o th e r w o r k s on f u e l
s y s t e m . I n t e n s it y o f th e c o m p e t i­
t io n a s t e a m s r a c e t h e c lo c k a n d
e a c h o t h e r is s h o w n a s o n e b o y
se e k s to “ d e b u g ” a c a rb u re to r
an d a n o th e r g o e s a c ro b a tic in
c h e c k in g w h a t h e s u s p o c ls i s a
fa u lt y w ire . H a rd -to -s p o l m a l ­
fu n c tio n s h a v e
in c lu d e d p u r ­
p o s e ly - s h o r t e d s p a r k p lu g s a n d
i g n i t i o n p o i n t s c o a l e d w it h c l e a r
n a i l p o l i s h to p r e v e n t c o n t a c t .
A fter tire co n test en d ed , each
stu d en t w a s g iv en a c h a n c e to
d r iv e arou n d the h isto r ic speed­
w a y u nd er su p erv isio n . When
t h e y w en t hom e, each o f te n win­
n in g tea m s had sch o la rsh ip s, a
trop hy, to o ls, and a new P lym outh
en gin e, co m p lete w ith tra n sm is­
s io n and a ccesso ries, for u s e in the
sch o o l’s au to-m ech anics sh o p .
The p r o g r a m e n co u ra g e s stu­
d en ts to co n tin u e their ed u cation
in auto m ech a n ics. In 1 9 years,
n ea rly 1 5 ,0 0 0 hoys h a v e been
placed in fu ll or part t im e jobs as
a u to m ech an ics.