European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I m not a musician not a Singer but. I know How to sell  by Rebecca Morehouse Nana staff writer Eddy Arnold worked in a Tennes see Sawmill As a youth. He knows the Damp oppressive heat of a Cypress swamp in summer without a touch of air stirring. And he knows what a mule looks like i slowed with  but for this easy smooth As Cornsilk Singer those Days Are Long since past and he is now Riding High. He playe Carnegie Hall last year to Huzzah from new York s toughest critics. Hemings with symphony orchestras spreads his wings in finance and has been urge to run for governor of Tennessee. Yes Frank Clement wanted me Torun As his successor he said. He could t have been More serious. He spent several nights trying to convince me but 1 did t really think i would enjoy it. Did you Ever hear Frank speak i heard him the other night and he Goton those draft card burners and he really ripped  Eddy has Blue eyes and a courtly manner when he wants to remove his jacket he first asks if it s All right. He talks quietly but his walloping laugh could shake a Possum from a Persimmon tree. I had my dubious feelings Abou Carnegie Hall he said. I d never been in that place even until i went in for rehearsal. Then talking to the stage hands i got a pretty Good feeling about it. When i sing with a symphony or Chestra i always make them a Little speech. After All Here Are 75 or 80 me from a different world who know Little or nothing about me. So i say i will Tell you Quick i am not a musician and i am not a Good Singer but i am a per former. I know How to sell it " indeed he does. He is one of the 10most popular recording artists of All time having sold More than 40 million albums and singles make the world go away is one of his biggest  started to sing in High school at dances and Candy pulls Arnold  first professional singing was on a radio station in Jackson Tenn. I also worked As an ambulance extra then got paid 25 cents a Call and a free Rooming the funeral Home. It took me eight years to make the first record and twas the latter part of the second year before i had a hit that s How much Ilove you in 1946. I was born on a farm near Hender son Tenn. It was my father s farm which he lost and then we rented it. I slowed and Cut Cypress Trees i was Strong As an of in those Days. I had Only one year of High school. I m not going to say it would have been impossible to finish i wish i had but i quit to work in a Sawmill. I have educated myself going through life but i think some of taking private lessons in math  although he seems to be every where clowning with Dean and Danny on to singing at fairs giving concerts he said he will work at singing Only 65 Days in the next six months. How will he spend the rest of his time at my office Honey Chile in Brent Wood Tenn., taking care of my other Little businesses. I belong to a Syndicate that builds apartment houses and i m vice president of a Small Utility com Pany and other Little things. I Don t find the pleasure in business that i do i singing but it s something i can have to occupy my mind and earn som Money when i can no longer sing. That time will come. I have watched too Man performers throw their Money  Eddy lives on a farm near Nashville with his wife of 25 years Sally. I met that Little woman in a five and ten cents store in Louisville ky., working behind the soda Fountain. I was working at a radio station in Louisville Honey i be been around. Well started throwing passes at her right away but it did t do any Good. I had to marry  by Jack Schreibman a staff writer the raised my children Here. I m m. Not going to move says the enemy in one of the longest and least successful Battles Ever fought by the . Navy. The Navy wants to buy port Chicago,Calif., and Clear it out. They fear the town and its 2,900 people would be wiped out if an explosion should take place on the nearby Navy ammunition loading piers. Many of the residents however scythe Navy might As Well save its breath. This is the first Home i be known said a waitress. No sir i m not afraid it s As dangerous on the Road said a Workman. I was born Here. I m staying Saida housewife. For the sixth time in 15 years the Navy is trying to buy up the Hamlet and get its inhabitants to  than 200 million pounds of bombs and other High explosives70 per Centof it Vietnam bound Are loaded annually at piers 4,400 feet North of the Village s main Street. The Navy expresses fear that a single explosion could erase port Chicago. If the Navy fails this time said Anavy spokesman they la try again next year and keep  in the background of recent inconclusive House armed services com Mittee hearings on the Navy s request to acquire port Chicago was the july 17, 1944, blast that killed 322 people an injured 490. No one in port Chicago itself was killed but nearly every building in town was damaged and everything within1,000 feet of two exploding ships was pulverized. The blast did $12.5 million property damage. About 3.5 million pounds of ammunition went up. The Navy says today under current loading procedures a least nine million pounds of High explosives would blow and take port Chi Cago with it. This Community lies hard by Suisun Bay 35 Miles Northeast of san fran Cisco. Driving into the town Mai Street stretches straight ahead All four blocks of it with two dozen  everything looks As if it needs repair. Streets and sidewalks Are in bad shape. Not Many people stir along the 400 Yards of main Street at any  will Tell you that the Navy s Campaign to pack port Chicago off lock Stock and greyhound bus depot has depressed real estate and made people unwilling to make any improvements. On the East Side of the Street sit the ancient and battered port Chicago theater Joe Meyer ," said an elderly smiling gentleman leaning against the ticket window taking the Sun. I m Joe  stood under a marquee that read write congressman Waldie. Don t Lethe Navy buy port  that s right said Joe. I Don think people should sell. It s a land grab that s what. A year after we Regone they la have Concord Industry in  s accusation echoed an Oft heard theme in town that the City of Concord two Miles away wants port Chicago out of the Way so that Industry can be moved in to the enrichment of Concord. That s not True said Don Loken general manager of the Concord Cham Ber of Commerce. It is True that wit port Chicago gone Industry could be located outside the two mile Navy Buffer zone but certainly not where port Chicago is few. That would be  j Meyer sail he was t the least Dis Turbed Oyer he Navy stand that he and everything else in town would be vaporized. I Don t believe it he said with some heat. Why i remember Back in 1944, at the time of the big explosion i had 195 pc ple in the movie and they did t even Inow about  Sai the name of the film was China which starred Alan Ladd an they were bombing Burma at the  actually his memory has dimmed somewhat. News reports at the time said one Wall of the movie House caved in and Meyer up in the projection Booth was gashed by a beam. Down the Street at the Bay Point cafe after port Chicago s for met name Irene Bateman waited on the counter. S be said she was not inter ested in  be got is House Here the first one i be Ever i i in my life and i m not not going of move said the plump housewife  t she mind living on a lot of dynamite Well at least i d go fast she said  fellow named Bill at the counter piped up i think you re in More danger on the freeways than in port  at the hardware store mrs. Willia Sorrick the clerk said with finality i Don t want to move and my Home in t for Sale. I be lived Here 28 years. I be raised four children Here. I  across the steaming hot Street some workmen were having Beer at the co Lumbia inn. The owner tending Bardin t want his name used. I think we ought to move he  whole town could go i know that. And the younger people who want to stay Why they should be thinking of the future of their  else Down the bar said Money and politics that s All it . L. W. Lessley at Home in one of the 800 residences considered a Parton port Chicago said i was born Here. I want to  for added support of their arguments Many Point to the 750-Pound bomb that ignited near the piers in Earl june and killed no one. The naval weapons Center at Concord which controls port Chicago loading said the bomb by some quirk burned but did explode. Five men were Hurt. Or. And mrs. M. B. Danno who own320 acres just East of port Chicago want to sel1 mediately. They have a attorney Julies Bancroft who said at the a Shiffon hearings the dangers const Petit the need for action is  t a opposition to the Navy s request for r0 million to buy port Chi Cago is rep Ujj James r. Waldie a Calif. His District includes port Chicago audits 554 regime red voters. Waldie was the Navy to move the ammo Piei i a mile offshore to Roe Island. The Wavy said it would Cost to much Requie double handling of lethal cargo and would Block ship traffic. Navy can t Budge port residents Flor the it i i i is a Lemml. Xm2jrff-i&vrrff&#b. Port Chicago Calif., sprawls sleepily by the Navy s ammunition piers in an Ideal position to get blown off the map if an explosion were accidentally . Yet its citizens such As theater owner Joe Meyer continue to resist the Navy s efforts to buy the town and move out its residents. A 12 the stars and stripes Sej famber 29, 1967 the stars and stripes Pago 13