European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 24, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7 famed actress Dewhurst Dies in . At 67 South Salem . Up a Colleen Dewhurst the award winning stage and screen actress died at her Westchester county farm the medical examiners office announced Friday. She was 67. Dewhurst Winner of two Tony awards and three emmy and whose recent portrayals included roles in the Julia Roberts movie dying Young and the Murphy Brown television series was pronounced dead by her personal physician at 10 55 . Thursday said Jan Stutts a spokeswoman for the medical examiners office. The exact cause of death was not immediately known. Born in Montreal the daughter of a hockey player Dewhurst moved with her family first to Boston and later to Milwaukee. As a child she resolved to be a Pilot and later a journalist before taking up acting. She dropped out of Milwaukee Downer College a girls school after one year and worked Odd jobs in new York City while training for the stage. Dewhurst made her acting debut in 1946 in the Royal family and in 1952 won an obie award in an off Broadway production of Eugene of Neillis desire under the elms. But the actress described those Early years As a murder a and worked As a receptionist an elevator operator and on a Telephone switchboard Between roles in summer Stock from Tennessee to Maine and bit parts in new York. In the late 1950s, she joined a group of unknowns a Joseph Papp George c. Scott and James Earl Jones a in the Shakespeare workshop. The actress would end up twice marrying and divorcing Scott. She was professionally reunited with Papp 20 years later playing Gertrude in Hamlet for his shake award winning actress Colleen Dewhurst in her role As Carlota Monterey of Neill died thursday at age 67. Speare in the Park production. Her most recent new York appearances were on Broadway in 1988 As Mary Tyrone in of Neillis Long Days journey into night and As Essie Miller in a wilderness and As of Neillis wife Carlotta Monterey of Neill in my Gene a one woman play by Barbara Gelb at the new York Shakespeare festival in 1987. Auditors say 1990 census contained millions of errors Washington apr congressional auditors give the 1990 census Low Marks for accuracy saying the National head count contained up to 25.7 million mistakes. Millions of people were counted twice listed As living in the wrong place counted when they  have been or not counted at All the general accounting office said in a report issued thursday. The Gao accepted the census bureaus estimate that its 1990 population count 248.7 million fell 5.3 million people Short of the True population. Blacks and hispanics were said most Likely to be missed by census takers. But the auditors said that number a obscures the True magnitude of the error in the census because while millions of persons were missed by the census millions of other persons were improperly  the High error count underscores a need for census Reform auditors said. The auditors said 10.2 million people were counted a in the census when they  have been and 15.5 million were missed by counters. The Gao in june had issued preliminary findings that the census contained .14.1 million errors. The number does no to include mistakes such As counting people at the wrong address. The Agency a final report broadened the definition of in error to include mistakes such As counting a family As living in their Florida vacation Condo rather than their Home in suburban Detroit. Where a person is counted As living is important because the census influences political Power and billions of dollars in Federal spending. The higher an areas population the More representatives it sends to Congress and the state legislature and the More Federal Aid it receives. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher in july decided against correcting the census. He said efforts to do so might backfire and make the count less accurate. That decision Drew protests from big cities and Stales that stood to have higher population counts if the census was corrected. More than 30 governments and organizations have joined in lawsuits seeking to Force the government to replace the census count with an estimate. Retired sergeant major pleads not guilty from wire reports Washington a a retired army sergeant major pleaded innocent thursday to murder charges in the shooting death of a Security officer at the Walter Reed army medical Center. Howard Mcallister 47, intends to rely on an insanity defense his attorney Robert Mance told . District judge Royce c. Lamberth. Mcallister a former patient at the Walter Reed Hospital who retired from the army in july was charged with the july 24 shooting death of Security officer Alyce Forney and the wounding of 1st sgt. Richard Thomas Myers. Authorities said Mcallister shot the two men As they tried to evict him from a Barracks at the medical Center. Teachers reject Thomas Washington the executive Council of the american federation of teachers announced its opposition to supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas 6n thursday. Senate hearings on president Bush a nomination of Thomas a Black member of the . Circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia Are scheduled to begin in september. Thomas would replace retired Justice Thurgood Marshall the Only Black Justice to Ever serve on the court. Aft president Albert Shanker said the executive councils vote was in Accord with earlier opposition expressed by the Al Cio in that Thomas record a shows he would not support the aspirations of working people minorities and Trade  a furthermore a said Shanker a there is nothing in Thomas Short judicial career that leads us to believe that he will Rise above his judicial biases or be Able to offer the insights required of those who sit on the nations highest  Uncle Sam cashes in los Angeles a the Federal government is the proud owner of a one third interest in a highly profitable gambling Casino in what is described As the largest seizure Ever under racketeering forfeiture Laws. A jury found that $12 million of the $22 million used to build the bicycle club in suburban Bell gardens came from Florida drug deals. Last month a . District judge in Florida Norman c. Roettger ruled that former banker m. Dale Lyon knew the clubs financing came from drug Money and ordered him to forfeit one third of his interest. Other partners recently agreed to give up a portion of their interests before a civil hearing began. The Federal government is expected to reap about $500,000 a month in profits for As Long As it owns part of the club. Diarie Cossin a spokeswoman Lor the . Attorneys office in Miami said the government would eventually auction its share. The club was seized under the racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act. Although games of Chance Are illegal under California Law Casino card palaces have flourished under Legal interpretations that consider certain card games a matter of  dropping Confederate Flag on insignias Columbia . A boy scouts of America is eliminating the Confederate Flag from its insignias in the South after an 18-year-old White member protested its use was offensive to Blacks. In response to a letter from Paul Hudson chief scout executive Ben h. Love announced the organization no longer would use the Confederate Flag during official activities. A the recommended Flag for display is the Flag of the. United states of America a love said aug. 6. The Flag had been used in ceremonies and on badges and other Memorabilia across the South and was prominently displayed at annual meetings of the Dixie Fellowship attended by Honor scouts from South Carolina Georgia and North Carolina. A the amount in which the Confederate Flag is shown during these events is very prominent a said Hudson a scout since age 7. A no ones wearing White hoods on their Heads but it almost looks like a desegregation rally or something. Its really a pervading  Hudson said he wrote a letter of protest to the National offices in Irving Texas because he believed the Flag discouraged Blacks from participating in the boy scouts. Less than 5 percent of the 600 scouts at the Fellowship convention were Black. A i realize its probably More difficult for Blacks to speak out against the Flag a said Hudson. A in my Case my family has been in the South for about 350 years owned slaves and fought for the South. Nobody can say in a indifferent to Southern culture Quot said Hudson. A too often people try to defend the Flag on those grounds and that a really not what its about at  the National office had received several complaints about the Confederate flags use but it was Hudson a letter that spurred the official change Blake Lewis National boy scouts spokesman said wednesday. Bill Loeble a Volunteer responsible for the Dixie Fellowship said the flags display was a tradition but the group will abide by National policy forbidding its use. A a there a certainly nothing intended by it a Loeble said. A a it a just a Symbol that has been used for years and  Austin China an adult adviser who is Black said the real problem lies in what the Flag symbolizes. A if an individual wants to Fly the Flag Over his House or put it on his truck it does no to bother me. That a his Choice his right a said China 34, a 10-year Veteran of scouting. A but when its flown As a representation of an entire group and in a a part of that group i say  it does offend me a he said