European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday september 14, 1986 City celebrating original Uncle Sam s birthday of i  r.,, of n Parish priest from press dispatches in a City where Cien the garbage trucks hear his nickname. Troy  residents  preparing to celebrate the 220ih birthday of Sam  meat Packer a whole nation came to Call  Uncle Sam Wilson a Troy resident most of his life who died in 185-1 at the age of 88. Is credited with inspiring the red White and Blue striped figure who sym Hoti is the i United slates in cartoons around the world. Even if you go to Russia they know who he is. Opening night hug actor Gregory pack and actress Lonette Mckeo embrace at new Fork s wests de Artt theater where lady Day at Emerson s bar & Grill opened again. Peck offered to produce the show after seeing Mckeo Star in a production last june. And this is the Only place he really called  said Shirley Kelly a founding member of the Uncle Sam Monument committee that organizes a Parade in his Honor each , Wilson was bom in Arlington mass. And came to upstate new York when he was 23, but he settled Down for Good in Troy and is buried in Oakwood cemetery on a Hill overlooking the City. By an act of Congress Troy was declared the Proge Nitor of America s National Symbol on sept. 15,1961. Not until the . Bicentennial however did Troy residents begin to celebrate his birthday in any big Way. Nobody seemed to know that Troy had some thing to be proud of Kelly said. Since Congress said he was ours a group of us got together and said let s have a Parade " it started Voith a modest procession in 1976. This year s events include fireworks concerts and a Chick in Barb que party for 20.000. During the War of 1812, Wilson worked with a food wholesaler to Supply the army with meal packed in White Oak barrels according to historian Thomas Gerson who wrote a Wilson biography. On each barrel they stamped the initials a us. Although the second set of initials stood for the United Stales soldiers from the area began to spread the word that they stood for the popular local Busi Nessman Uncle  York gov. Daniel Tompkins used the Nick name in a speech and it was picked up by newspaper political cartoonists who created the White bearded character. Church rejects $ 1 million author priest Andrew m. Greeley said Friday that profits from his Best Selling novels will be used to Start a is million fund for. Inner City schools because the roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago refused the Money. It s probably the first time in history the Church has turned Down a million dollars Gree Ley said. It s an historic event but 1 Don t think i want to be remembered in history for  All royalties from his autobiography which is to be published this week will go to his Greeley Catholic inner City school fund Grce Lcy said. This fund is my Small Way of repaying the Church which helped educate me As a Young boy in the same Way that the University of Chicago contributed to my scholarship As an adult Greeley said. He said he is guaranteeing is million by 1990 regardless of How confessions of a Parish priest Sells in 1984 he gave the University of Chicago $ i 25 million to establish a chair in Catholic studies. The Rev. James Roach vicar general for the Arch diocese said the archdiocese rejected g  clays offer of is million which was made in july through a Chicago Law firm. He did not say Why it was turned Down. The reasons for declining the gift Are a private matter Between a Bishop and one of his priests. Roach said. We can appreciate the in plus and by regret that we  unable to accept it at this time. Grec Lcy s career As a sociologist and author has often put him at Odds with the archdiocese and us Leader Cardinal Joseph Bernard in. Greeley 58, a priest for 32 years writes in his novels about priests lives religion love and sex. Tom mix rides again forget Roy Rogers Rory Calhoun or John Wayne. To those attending the seventh annual Tom mix fan Roundup in Dubois pa., the idol of radio and the Silver screen was the most enduring Western Star Ever to sad dle  you talk about Western stars the first person you think of is Tom mix not John Wayne. John Wayne is at the Bottom. Tom mix is at the top said Hal verb 56, of san Francisco. Verb and other Tom i fans from across the country and even a few from Europe began stampeding into this can. Trial Pennsylvania Tow thursday for a four Day Festi Val honouring the film Star. Mix s publicists often claimed he hailed from the West but most festival participants Are certain he was born in nearby mix run in 1880 and moved Todd Bois at age 8. Several old timers in town recall seeing mix As a Young boy. He used to ride the cows Back from the pasture to the  said . Nelson 82. I always said that s where he Learned to ride. He had no bridle no sad dle. Me just Rode  while some of his fans remember growing up watching some of mix s More than 370 movies and listening to his radio shows others became captivated by the celluloid Cowboy Well after his death in 1940 in an automobile Accident. Tom mix was a Cowboy but he never shot any body on film not like today s westerns where you see blood running Down the streets said mix look alike Serge Darrigrand. 51, of Onsted mich., sport ing two genuine Pearl handled revolvers. 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