European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine the rebirth of new York times John Russell sme Tania fishing shanties 1amile on the ice from Boyne new York times a town built All on was born in the great depression of the 1930s and died in the affluent it has been resurrected in the current like the the new sme Tania is a Community of shanties built on the ice of Lake a Quarter of a mile put from Boyne a Small Community in Northern its sole Industry is fishing for smelt by Hook and line through the just As it was 45 years the a Small Silvery fish that helped keep so Many people nourished in the 30s and disappeared from the Lake in the this the fish have supplementing larders in an area suffering unemployment rates of 20 to 30 percent and offering an excuse for a nostalgic Winter festival that recalls the original depression smelt Anias shanties were and Are mostly on room huts with floors of ice about six feet they Are built Over holes Cut through the ice so that lines can be dropped through the water almost to the Lake most shanties Are though some were All the owners needed was a handful of a few Toby some a Hammer and an and the Job was because the fishing is still done at shanty dwell ers also need an old stove today they use propane Gas stoves an electric Light some wire and an Auto Mobile there were about 300 shanties on the ice in the Origi Nal As against 60 and about half of their owners supported themselves and their families wholly by Selling the smelt they smelt sold for a Penny apiece in the old and the average nightly catch was 100 ten thousand smelt were shipped from Boyne City each which meant a daily income of to this City of some who otherwise depended almost entirely on earnings from the Short summer tourist but a Dollar a Day would keep a family off about 1937 somebody thought it would be fun to organize the fish shanty Community along regular Muni Cipal and before sme Tania attracted nation wide it was a great spoof which gave the people something to laugh and gossip said Kate director of the Boyne City chamber of com by the time of world War the smelt had begun to by 1957 sme Tania itself faded fish biologists at the Michigan department of natural resources speculate about Why the smelt come or do not come through the Channel from Lake but no one really understands Howe the smelt Are Hack again this year and Are expected to stay around for another the area has become a popular Winter ski resort and the construction of several Small factories has Broad ened the areas economic but the fishing villages revival is based at least in part on the i dont think anybody is depending upon catching smelt the Way they did 45 years Schafer but i am sure quite a few Are augmenting their food Supply by the shanties began to reappear at the Start of the shortly after it was discovered that the smelt had re soon afterwards Boyne City officials and the chamber of Commerce hit on the idea of making Smel Tania the Centrepiece of the cites first three Day Winter which began they decided to put up a Small a jail and a City All modelled on structures in the original the festival included an ice fishing with prizes for the biggest the biggest Perch and the largest total weight of All smelt caught by a single also on the program was a Cross country ski a Snow sculpting a five mile slide and Glide relay Cutter and Sleigh rides and a raffle contest with a fish shanty As the Schafer said in answer to a question we did not have a smelt Queen As they used to in the original three weeks mayor Keith Fitzpatrick of Boyne City signed a proclamation officially naming William mayor of the Deputy police chief of the old is the Only official of the original sme Tania still As his first under Bill appointed Nord Sci Roeder chief of under Bill refused to say what he would do As mayor or what duties Schroeder would you Tell As Little As possible on this he in it pays to be we dont announce we dont Promise he did that he had recently bought a pail of smelt Fot which he said works out to 5 cents a the 53rd hostage United press International Cynthia Brown a woman who wanted a career in journalism but never succeeded in moving beyond the fringes of the pro is now one of the biggest stories in the the 53rd has flown Back to the United states after being held for nine months in an Irani an accused of freelance journalist Cynthia some of her acquaintances said Dwyer is an intelligent and gifted woman who is not afraid to speak out for what she believes is others claim she is a who bounces from cause to cause in search of Max a former state department official and now Washington correspondent for the Buffalo eve Ning described her As Well meaning but very she called herself a freelance journalist when she went to but had no commissions to write stories when she left her Home in search of a minister who met her in Tehran described her As an emotional so sympathetic to the iranians that she wept bitterly in a restaurant As she described atrocities that had been inflicted on the country under the late she cried so much i was a bit said the Charles who led a group of clergy men to Iran in March was born into a family of teachers in Little her Mildred and Louis were As were her her is chairman of the English department at the Buffalo state but Cynthia Brown Dwyer spent most of her life Pur suing a writing she was editor of her High school paper in and of the paper at Hendrix col lege in the Small methodist school from which she graduated with a degree in following Dwyer took graduate courses in social work at Washington University and later attended Radcliffe College in where she took a publishing she then moved to where she was employed As a copy editor for encyclopedia Britannica and science and other chicag based during her time in Dwyer was married and her Mildred says her daughters first husband was in the publishing february 1981 but declined to reveal his she met John a Mil mannered English schol in Chicago in the couple moved to Buffalo two years later where Dwyer went to graduate school and then took a Job the dwyers have three Dan and from the time she arrived in the Buffalo Dwyer was Active in Liberal she made several unsuccessful attempts to find a Ca reer for working As an assistant editor for the a Liberal Magazine in but was Paul the editor of prometheus books in Buffa remembered Dwyer As an expert grammarian and manuscript editor during her time at the Kurtz and other friends of Dwyer attempted to deter her when she decided to go to Iran and report on the iranians Side of the Story she obtained a press pass from a county sheriffs office As a reporter for the but representatives of that publication say Dwyer no longer had any connection with the she borrowed Money from her Mother and left on april she was arrested May 5 in front of the iranian newspapers accused her of collaboration with armed groups for the release of the reports from people who met Dwyer while she was in Iran suggested that she fell in with some Young iranians who got her free rooms at a Tehran and convinced her they were plotting to free some of the both Mccarthy and Moore have suggested that Dwyer was entrapped by iranians who presented them selves As anti Khomeini revolutionaries with a plan to free the Mccarthy said Dwyer contacted him to ask for help in getting in touch with the an aircraft Carrier then in the persian the reporter said he begged Dwyer to go saying she was in grave jeopardy and her family missed but Dwyer he the stars and stripes Page 13