European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. March 30. 1988 the stars and stripes Page s punters fear colourful usage May be dyeing Chicago api april fools Day was he Date of the firs two save the Pun dinners Bill Rood Friday tails on april i this h or. Causing mass con fusion among punters. Instead the dinner is sharing april 4 with the of punning Day of inc Chicago while sox joked Joyce Hill or Thedin not Sorga Niico. Well both  hit scr is head or the Chicago Chap Ter of inc International save the Pun foundation. Why save the Pun because it s in danger of extinction she said. Bui chiller  it Clear during an interview Hal the Pun is very much alive at least in Hir conversation. Well have everything on the menu from Suup to nuts but we Promise not to serve soup to nuts Heisler said we would have he alphabet soup but we did t want guests groping for words More than 200 punters Are expected to attend the dinner at which the group will cd Librale tis \ oui anniversary and per Send its ii St Munster of the year award. We asked members to Send us la Cir votes and there were a great Many votes for president Reagan. They feel America is safer with a Ray gun in the while House said John Croshie founder and chairman of the bored at the foundation which he says a 78,000 members worldwide. Reagan did t win. But the identity of inc award s recipient is being kept a secret until the dinner. Crosbie a Toronto writer and marketing consultant said there also is a serious Side to puns. Statistics 1=11 us thai one in five people in the Ufi Ilerd slates and Canada to functionally illiterate and if we can get kids to Sec the fun there is with words we can gel them interested in  he Laid. Teachers and professors arc using our newsletters in inc classroom mid Selling students to enjoy  said Crosbie who publishes a newsletter for punters thai costs s19 a year. Heitler who leaches kindergarten at a roman Catholic school on the City s North Side said her pupi like puns and she uses them in thee Lagroom. Heiller who also works As a Clown magician and publicist thinks English is the Best language for punters be cause almost every word has a double meaning and punters Delight in twist ing the language. While she acknowledges Many people cannot stomach puns hit scr notes thai punning has been around for centuries and says he ranks of famous punters include Groucho Man Shakespeare and Quch Elizabeth i. Shakespeare had 1.062 puns in his  noted Casbie. Rare Poe first edition May auction for $300,000 new York Ai j a rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poe s first Book a collection of poetry written when he was 14, is to be auctioned by rotheby a which Calls it inc most Ciciline Book discovery in Many years in the 161 years since its publication Only 11 other copies of Tamerlane and other poems have been found. Published in 1827 by an obscure Boston Printer when inc Pool. Short Story writer and critic was is. It could bring As much is $ 100,000 at auction on june 7. This 2th copy of the Book was discovered by a Massachusetts Boot collector while he browsed through a bin of Early 2qih-Ccntury pamphlets on Fer Liliian and farming machines Al an antique Bam in new Hampshire. The Price was 115. Recognizing ira1 title from an article he had read the collector Comack a rotheby s for an inspection and appraisal. Ii was. Quite a  said Jay Dillon an assistant vice president in rotheby s rare books department. God in was thrilling Here s n fabulous Rainy. Famous to anyone when s Ever taken More than to courses in american  the Massachusetts Man who has been collecting work on local history for the past three years wishes to remain Anonymous Dillon said. Poe what was born in Boston in 1909, orphaned Wheir he was 1 i and raised in Richmond. Vs., had the volume published during a Short visit to Boston. The literary importance of the 40-Page Book which names the author Only As a bostonian is considered negligible rather the work s value has to do with the fart that it s the first work of one of America s greatest writers and a limited number of topics were printed. How Many a Etc printed one can guess Hul they Are All  Dillon said. "1 think the Range would be from 50 to 2 0.1 would be the Edgar Allan Poe collection  found by Choice. Amazed if More than 500 were  the softbound Book has us original Tea coloured paper wrappers and is in unrest red condition. The wrappers arc frayed As one would Cipech in a 161 year old pamphlet Dillon said. There s also a tight slain on the front cover running through the first few pages. Out the condition of a Book like this is not a matter of great importance among Conno Swu is. The question with this Book is How can you get one at All. 1 would prefer it to be in better condition. 1 Alto would prefer to have Poe s signature on  nine of the Oiler copies arc in Public institution. One is owned privately and the other s whereabouts is unknown. Dillon said. The first copy did t surface until 1859 when a bookseller in Boston sent it along with a consignment of books to an agent in London who promptly snatched in up for the British museum a second copy turned up 23 years later in a bookshop s sidewalk to. It Cost 15 cents and later sold at auction in ib92 for s 1,850. Other copies have surfaced Over the years through collections and dealers. The 11 the copy was discovered in 1954 and was auctioned by rotheby s in 1974 for $121,000. The poems included in the Book arc Tamerlane 1 and a group Poe called the fugitive  they arc to dreams visit of the dead eve Ning Star never again printed imitation Stan zas.11 poem a Wilder d  the happiest Day and the  the adolescent collection was not exactly the liter Ary hit of inc Day. One critic called it a Book the Antici read without praising and the ladies praised without 1 foe published two other volumes at poetry after Tamerlane in 1829 and 1 s31. Lie died in 1849. Fund drive planned for Black patriots memorial Washington map the Man who sparked the movement for a memo rial to Black revolutionary War veterans said monday he is ready to begin a 14 million fund Rai inf drive now that president Reagan has approved the Monument s general location in the heart of inc capital s tourist District. Reagan signed Lefi latian Friday Hal permits the proposed memorial to the  Black patriots who fought in the revolutionary War to be placed in area i which includes inc mall the Ellipse la Fayette Park and West Potomac Park project coordinator Maurice a. Barbora said. Barbrita said inc Nam step will be studying specific site plans being devel oped by three architectural companies and submitting the Best one to the National capital memorial commission. The commission and other agencies must recommend a site before it goes to the Interior department for final approval. Darby a a Virginia lawyer who has de voted himself to the manorial project said he Hopes to have Interior department approval and be Able to Start work on a design Competition in six months. Construction of the memorial must begin by the end of 1991 under an authorizing measure signed into Law in Laic 1986. Barbozas3idjuly4, 1991, is the target Dale for construction to begin. He estimated the memorial would Cost about $4 million and said he Eints to announce a major fund raising Effort with in several months legislation allowing he construction of the memorial was enacted in 1986, but an other measure was needed to allow it to be Buill in the City s Monument crowded area the memorial would be the first prominently displayed Monument in Washington dedicated to Blacks. Barbai Calls it a me Morial 10 the Universal concept11 of inc struggle for  . Sends Back 246 haitians Miami a a . Coast guard Culler turned Back 246 haitians aboard a 60-fool Motorboat spotted about 450 Miles Southeast of Miami a Little More than Halfway to the i my it Stales offi cers said monday. A coast guard let spoiled the miss Kay a . Boal from Louma la., on saturday morning said Petty officer Luis dial in Miami. A Cutler was dispatched to the boat and look the haitians aboard for inter views by immigration and naturalization service agents who were flown in monday said a cmdr Jim Simpson. Anyone with a Legal claim to enter inc United Stales will be allowed to do so but the coast guard generally turns Back 98 percent of inc passengers Simpson said. This is the first time in a Long Lime i can think of that we be picked up a .  boat he said. Officials were still checking record Lale monday to de Termine ownership. Sands of Tirifie in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 30, 194b Britain France China and Canada demanded Hal delegates from the United nations atomic Energy commission break off talks on Russia s scheme to prohibit atomic bombs. 30 years ago today. March 30, 1998 the state department said the United states was going ahead with scheduled nuclear tests in the Pacific despite soviet objections to inc use of United nations Trust territories Tor such purposes. 20 years ago today. March 30, 1968 fighting Between Jordan and Israel broke out an the Jordan River Frontier pushing the Middle East Loward possible full scale War. 10 years ago today. March 30, 1978 Paramount picture announced that it had reached an agreement o produce the motion picture Star trek tuning the original to stars