European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday september 11,1990 Fords boyhood Home still looking for buyers from wire reports former president Gerald r. Fords boyhood Home in grand rapids mich., that has stood empty for nearly 20 years will be sold because efforts failed to turn it into a museum. A a it a almost a lost cause a said Steele Taylor chairman of the grand rapids arts and museum commission. A we can to get anybody interested in fixing it the veterans administration acquired the four bedroom House in 1972 when the owner defaulted. Three years later after Ford became president the a donated it to the City. The commission had trouble raising the estimated $51,000 to renovate the Home into a museum because Ford lived in at least eight Homes in grand rapids said Jim Kratsas curator of the Gerald r. Ford museum. City records show Ford lived in the White two Story House from 1923 to 1930, from the time he was 10 years old through his Junior year at the grand rapids South High school. In a 1989 letter to museum director Timothy Chester Ford wrote1. A i have no objection to a in fact i endorse the museum officials have asked the City a historic preservation commission to designate the House As a historic landmark to protect it from demolition. Helena Jones 86, who has lived next door to the Ford House for 20 years said sentimentality aside she Hopes the House gets sold. A the Wasny to president that Long a Jones said. A a we be got enough things named after Quot another Dinosaur fan former lbs Anchorman Walter Cronkite says he has something in common with every a red blooded human being a a fascination with dinosaurs. Cronkite was doing his part last week to publicize the great beasts of the past spending time in Bynum mont., to film a documentary series on dinosaurs. A a it a a fascinating project a he said As an International Crew filmed a segment Northwest of great Falls. A a it a some thing that i think will make an Impact in the four hour series produced by Canadian British and German television will be shown in the United states on a Cable Channel about a year from now. Cronkite 73, spoke with owners of the Bynum Rock shop who found the Bones of baby dinosaurs that led to discovery of a key Fossil site. The Crew also has filmed a Fossil dig near Circle mont., where the most Complete Skeleton of a tyrannosaurus Rex was discovered two years Honor actor Lou Diamond Phillips latest role is causing controversy among navajos but South Dakota Sioux Are honouring the multiracial actor for his portrayals of american indians. The Sioux have Given Phillips 28, Star of the 1987 film a la Bamba a the honorary name a is barkeeper a publicist Eddie Michaels said. The tribe will officially Confer the name on Phil Phillips lips at a ceremony later this year in the Black Hills of South Dakota Michaels said. The watchdog group the american Indian registry for the performing arts has challenged the casting of Phillips As a Navajo policeman in a film based on author Tony Hillerman a novel a the dark wind.�?�. Phillips who played a mexican Indian in a Young guns and a Young guns ii a has said he is part Cherokee filipino scottish Irish hawaiian and hispanic. Bonnie Paradise director of the american Indian registry said last week that Phillips had not provided documentation of his laughs columnist Art Buchwald who has received about every writing award a political satirist can has been selected to receive the 1990 world humor award of the workshop Library on world Humour. The award will be presented sept. 25 at a luncheon ceremony at the National press club in Washington . . Cummings founder and president of the workshop Library said Buchwald a unanimous selection a Are Ili Smil new miss America a Marjorie Judith Vincent of Oak Park iii., gambol on the Beach at Atlantic City n.j., sunday morning Only hours after being named the 64th miss America. The 25-year-old third year Law student at Duke University whose parents came to the United states from Haiti said she chose the plight of battered women As the platform she would like to emphasize during her reign. Fleets the High esteem in which he is held around the Buchwald is syndicated in More than 550 newspapers and is a pulitzer prize s taxing Choice now he can vote. Paul Anka Canadian born songwriter and 1950s teen age idol finally became a . Citizen after All those years living in Las vegas Nev. The 49-year-old Star became a citizen last week in Federal court there. He said he had a desire to become an american because a after paying a million in taxes every year i figured it was time to give me a right to do every thing. I thought it was about time i feel part of the leaves Hospital the heir to the British throne says he feels a a awful after surgery to repair the Royal right broken in a june 23 Polo Accident. Prince Charles emerged from the Queens medical Center in Nottingham on saturday leaning heavily on a Cane after a we Klong stay to recover from the surgery. Doctors removed a Bone from his hip and inserted it and a Metal plate in his upper to promote Healing. Asked How he Felt the Prince said simply a awful a then smiled wryly and got into a waiting car with his wife Princess Diana. East awl it til dear Abby in a not writing for advice i need a favor. A couple of years ago someone wrote to you complaining because she resented being told by total strangers to it was obviously written by a person like me who has a naturally sad face. I was bom with this face and although it May look sad it does not reflect my mood. I can be Happy As a Lark yet someone will say a they a cheer up. Smile. You look so sad a this drives me up the Wall. When that article appeared in your column i Cut it out and handed it to the first person who told me to smile. She happened to be a Good Friend of mine. When she read it she thought it was so great she asked if she could keep it to put in her scrapbook so i let her have it. How i wish i had made some copies of it before i gave it away because i am still being ordered to smile. I Hope you can find it. I would love to see it run again. In a sure there Are other people this applies to. . In Brookfield wis. Dear Abby dear . That a a smile letter was not hard to find. Many readers wrote to say they identified with it. Here it is dear Abby i wish people would Stop telling me to smile i can be walking Down the Street humming a song to myself perfectly Content with the world when someone will say a Why done to you smile a it makes me feel awful i think to myself a gee do i look that bad a there must be a lot of other people out there who have had this happen to them. Maybe we just have sad looking faces but it sure does no to make us feel any better. Its really an insult Abby you could do All of us a big favor if you a ask your readers to say a have a Nice Day a or make some other pleasant comment. Anything even just a hello a would be better than saying peo Smi id love to see this in your column. Then maybe Ople would think twice before they ask someone to Ile. A insulted dear insulted done to let it get you Down. These Are the same people who say a gee you look also no compliment it May be comforting to know that most serious thinkers scowl and frown unconsciously when they Are deeply immersed in thought. And while a smile May be a prettier a folks who go around smiling All the time for no Good reason at All Are often followed by a non smiling Man with a Butterfly net. Have a Nice Day. Dear Abby i was so amused when some of your readers mentioned How Little it Cost for them to be delivered into this world. I think i May hold the record. I was bom around 4 . On oct. 22, 1921, in Hartford City ind. The delivery was at Home. When my father asked the doctor a How much do i owe you a the doctor replied l drove Over Here on a Flat if you la change my tire we i Call it a Margaret Ballenger Roadamle la Fontaine ind. Dear Margaret congratulations. I doubt if anyone can top that. Universal press Syndicate
