European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gordon Park s learning tree by Gene Handsaker a staff writer Gordon Parks is a professional photographer author poet com Poser and the first negro Ever signed to direct a major production for re lease by a major movie company. Hell direct the film version of his autobiographical novel the learning tree around fort Scott kan., Ina gust. Parks already has composed the film s musical theme and will writ its musical background. This is a tremendous breakthrough a thing we be always fought for he said of his directorial assignment significance to negroes. It might encourage other Black boys to say my god maybe 1 can be a director too " Parks 55, a medium sized Man witha grading Mustache and a born Story Teller s natural eloquence has been Alife Magazine photographer writer for 19 years. His cover piece on a Harle tenement family was in a recent Issue shortly before a Book excerpt Viet Nam diary by his writer photographer Soldier son David 24, appear Din look. The elder Parks a Minneapolis High school dropout has composed piano and orchestral works performed in Venice and elsewhere. I just picked up music like everything else he says. "1 was a natural piano  a pipe Tilting Back in a chair in his rooms at a Beverly Hills hotel he told of his unlikely beginnings childhood on the other Side of the tracks in fort Scott As the youngest of a dirt Farmer s 15 children six of whom survive. Strong influence by his Mother Sarah a religious woman who told him you can do anything a White boy  she advised him to make every experience his learning  traumas like seeing two negro women slash each other to death with knives and being locked by White morticians in a room with a train mangled Corpse. A Youthful enemy s knife Gash Leflore nostril still closed. In an eyelid Parks still carries a fragment of win Dow Glass from a clash with a White boy who called him Nigger  bartender waiter s Job enabled him to buy a $12.50 camera. A camera store in Minneapolis where he lived briefly with a married sister after his Mother died displayed his first three photo sin its window. This led to work As a fashion photographer photograph study on a Fellowship picture taking for the office of War information an the Job with life. Ever since he photographed Ingri Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on the Island of Stromboli for the Magazine Parks has wanted to direct. He has directed documentaries for educational television. Of his movie s cast of about 50, 10will be Whites. Does he anticipate difficulty no i be directed everybody for the Magazine All the big ones on the stage Ethel Barrymore Helen Hayes Edward g. Robinson. 1 told them the expressions i  How Are negroes doing in movies things Are opening up surely but not fast enough. Negroes Are being used inthe theater but outside of Sidney Poitier they somehow can t get break in  dear Ann Landers two years ago my husband s father passed away. My Mother in Law who had always treated him like dirt suddenly became the most grief stricken woman of the 20th Century. She cried screamed fainted fasted threw herself on everybody especially her eldest son my  biggest mistake of his life was saying to her at the funeral Don t worry. Mother you will never be alone. Youcan count on  she took him up on it right there and then and moved into our Home the following  could t Bear to part with her dining room set so min had to go. Her new Freezer and refrigerator which we could have used went to her Daugh Ter. She had such Strong sentimental attachments to her Pic Tures vases throw rugs another assorted pieces of trash that she had to bring them along. Our once Lovely Home now looks like a second hand junk shop 1 could stand it if All she ruined was the look of oui Home but she is ruining my health and my marriage and Page 14 our relationship with our Chil Dren. Although this woman has a Lovely Large room she is never in it. She sits in on every conversation and voices her opinion on matters which do not con Cern her. When 1 Call my husband she answers. When i Call my Chil Dren she answers. When 1speak to her she does t hear me. Please Tell me what to Domy Mother in Law is driving me nuts sinking fast dear sinking it Doe so sound like a drive to me lady it sounds like a putt. And Small wonder. Two years to a Long time to be imprisoned in you own Home. There is Only one solution to your problem find your Mother in Law another place to  Don t say you can t afford it. It s cheaper than sending you to a mental Hospital or maintaining separate roofs for you and your husband alter you be filed for a divorce. Dear Ann Landers my 20year-old daughter s expecting her husband Back rom Vietnam in May. She has no seen him in Over a year unfortunately she is pregnant an the baby is due just about the time her husband is schedule to come Home. He knows Noth  of his wife s  financial reasons Mary Anna is getting her maternity care at a military base. 1 understand from what 1 read the papers that the red Cross notifies the men overseas when they become fathers. 1 have begged my daughter to writ her husband and Tell him of her condition but she refuses to dose. I just hate to Nave the red Cross representative Tell Myson in Law be is a father when he knows the child can t Possi Bly be his. Is there any Way we can Stop the. Red Cross from relaying the message thank you for your assistance. Trouble in the family dear family oui daughter ought to discuss this problem with the chaplain of the Hospi Tal where she will have the baby. She should a Plain the circumstances and ask him to intercede on behalf of the Youngman. It would be it shuttering blow if he received the news i that manner. Copyright 1968. Pubic Ner hair Syndicate Thi stars and stripes did you know the greek Island of lesbos is Europe Oniest spot with Crete close behind pc s the British Consumers association says so in a Seni Day advice for its subscribers published in its monthly it cites statistics of the British meteorological office to but Crete has the highest mean temperature dim in october Holiday period and the Spanish Isle of Mallorca discrete s mean temperature for the six months is 73 72, fahrenheit. " lesbos has an average of 11 hours of sunlight a period Crete has 10 5-6ths by Way of comparison Brighton the Holiday resort of South coast has Only 6h hours of Sun on average and a mean temperature of 57. The French Riviera has 9 l-6th hour of sunlight on and a mean temperature of 68 but the association and visit ii British traveler would find the less fashionable coast of Languedoc Region to the West of the Riviera sunnier and Cam Erakly cheaper the farther South you go the More Chance you have of being Able to swim in Comfort even in the Spring or autumn the Souh coast of France has warmer water in May or october than Brighton has in the height of summer. Most other places in 2 Mediterranean Are warmer still you can find sea water at Tempo natures around 70 degree fahrenheit even in october. A a conducted tour to Bayreuth to the Organ recital May 25-26 for $18.50, includes bus transportation hotel accommodation with half pension arid two tickets for the recital. Yon will hear Bach s second Brandenburg concerto a Cembalo concerto in a major a Dorelu trumpet concerto and a special mass at the City Church by the conservatoire choir and a choral concert. Departures Are from Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Ask for descriptive literature on the above tour at the Taurus District special services Tours office . Farben building Apo 09757, phone Frankfurt military 8630 or civil 592450, or Contact the american Community Center Wiesbaden phone military 23651. The Hahn no open mess is sponsoring seven Day Tours on the italian riveria at Diana Marina from May 24 through sept. 13. The Cost of the tour la $55 with meals hotel and trans  More information Contact phone Hahn military 7566 or 7197, or civil 06543-2245. London is an exhibition showing How Britain s 700 his pric buildings and ancient monuments Are maintained will be on View at London s banqueting House Whitehall from May 23-june 12. Each year More than 10 million persons visit these National possessions that Are representative of every period from the Stone age to the reign of Queen Victoria. Goren on Bridge North 4k196vaq5 0 k 10 6 10 8 7 6 west4a983 Tain a club stuff on Dummy s hearts. He should have realize that his King of clubs was under no serious threat of attack for West was p r c t y. Marked with the three missing act a when he opened the Era Ding and East passed. It was extremely Lin Kcal 1therefore, that East could obtain the Lead to come Hiu in clubs and South would Lave been better advised to go about his work in a More relaxed manner. If he con Junues draw Trumps West will e unable to attack the club Suu 5be limited to the three aces. Copyright i9tt. The Chicago Tribune Friday May 17, 1968