European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes monday september 30, 1991chain symbolically opens King museum Memphis Tenn. Apr participants Cut a Chain rather than a ribbon saturday to open a museum at the Motel where civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. Was slain. A let the chains fall with a tremendous thunderous crashing to the ground to set our minds and hearts free a said state judge do army Bailey a Leader of a 10-year Effort to build the museum. The crumbling Lorraine Motel where King was shot in 1968, was bought at a foreclosure auction in 1982 by citizens who turned it into the National civil rights museum a reminder of one of the bleaker sides of americans past. But it is much More than that. It is an emotional study of a struggle for human dignity a Monument to the thousands of people Black and White whose sacrifices changed a nation. And there is plenty of evidence of Sac Rifice including news films showing Young protesters beaten for sitting at an All White lunch counter. A you Start to wonder even though you lived through it How it could have been a said visitor Nellie Powell. A How could someone hate so  focused on the 1950s and �?T60s, the museum includes displays tracing the King struggle for Black civil rights from the Days of slavery. Much of the museums Story is told through photographs drawings and written sketches. But visitors Are surrounded at times by the sights and sounds of struggle in the streets. Video screens with newsreels of the Day give an very All too real feeling of the hate and violence demonstrators endured. A video screen overhead shows news clippings of demonstrators being taunted and attacked. A a it a painful for me to watch a Powell said during a pre opening tour of the museum Friday night. A i done to get angry. Its just painful that people could be so  the $9.2 million museum was financed by state and local taxpayers with help from private contributors. The citizens who led the Effort have signed the museum Over to the state which will maintain it. The museum is to be supported through donations and a charge for admission. One exhibit is patterned after a Montgomery ala., bus with statues of Rosa Parks and an angry Driver ordering her to move to the Back. Parks arrest for ignoring that order in 1955 led to a bus Boycott that set the stage for similar protests across the South. Museum visitors getting on the bus Are told by an increasingly insistent recording to move to the Back. The museum tour winds up at a video screen on which visitors can Call up speeches and television interviews of King and others involved in a sanitation workers strike that brought him to Memphis. A few Steps further is a replica of the Motel room where King spent his last hours and of the Small Balcony where he was felled by a Bullet. James Earl Ray a Missouri prison Escapee pleaded guilty to the murder and is serving a 99-year prison  Man contends Earhart photo taken before disappearance Choctaw Beach Fla. A a photograph that two researchers believe shows Amelia Earhart survived after her plane vanished in 1937 was taken before she disappeared a Florida woman said. Joyce Anderson said the photo a unveiled sept. 11 in Honolulu a is the same As one taken by her late father Walter e. Peterson or. Two Earhart researchers offered the photo As evidence that Earhart was captured by the japanese after her plane crashed Over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to Fly around the world. A no Way a Anderson was quoted As saying in saturdays Pensacola news journal. She said she saw a newspaper photo showing the Short haired Earhart wearing a Short sleeved shirt and looking downcast and thought it looked familiar. An identical photo was among a series her father took after Earhart a plane car wheeled while attempting to take off from an Airfield in Hawaii. Peterson had been stationed at the Airfield while in the army air corps. Anderson Wasny to sure exactly when the photo was taken but the mishap was reported March 21, 1937, More than three months before Earhart disappeared. Joe Gervais a retired air Force Pilot from Las vegas and Rollin Rineck of Kailua Hawaii claimed the photo was taken on the Western Pacific Island of Saipan after Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished july 2,1937. Gervais said he believes Earhart was a spy for the . Government returned to the United states with a new identity after the War and died in new Jersey in 1982. Anderson who lives in Choctaw Beach and her sister Linda Reynolds of Mobile ala., said they saw the picture and seven others their father took of Earhart Noonan and their plane while growing up in Mobile. Anderson said she got the photos when her father died four years ago. She said he apparently did no to save the negatives. �?o1 wish my dad were alive for All of this a she said. A the would get a big kick out of  is confident Philippines will let her return husband s body Honolulu apr Imelda Marcos said saturday she plans to return to Manila this week with the body of former philippine president Ferdinand Marcus. Marcos speaking at a news conference on the second anniversary of her husbands death in exile seemed confident she would be Able to take Marcos body Home to the Philippines on Friday. She briefly prayed at Marcos crypt As supporters tourists and the Media looked on. But Franklin Drilon spokesman for president Corazon Aquino said the government will suspend Landing rights of any Airliner carrying Marcos Oody to the Philippines without permission. Sources in Manila said Friday that the . Government did not plan to renew a prohibition on airliners leaving Hawaii with Marcos body but there has been no official announcement on whether the ban will be extended. Marcos lawyer James Linn has said he does no to want the former philippine first lady to return until december after philippine parties choose their candidates for the May presidential election. A i done to think she can get a fair trial in the Philippines a Linn said at the news conference on saturday. A she would be better advised to return after Aquino is out of  Marcos said she requested an Extension of an entry permit from Aquino a government but has received no answer. The permit expires saturday. A if they do not extend the permit other plans must be made a Linn said. In july the philippine government lifted its five year ban on members of the Marcos family who left the country during the 1986 a people Power revolution that toppled the former strongman and propelled Aquino into office. But Aquino has said the ban on the body would remain in Force. The government issued a one Way permit allowing Marcos to come Home to face tax charges. She said she would not return without the body of her husband. Marcos has been indicted on seven counts of tax fraud and Drilon said she could face arrest upon her arrival. But bail for such charges is ordinarily Small and convictions in such cases Are rare. Imelda Marcos kneels next to the coffin bearing the remains of her husband Ferdinand Marcos. Site of ancient Indian Village unearthed in Virginia by the Washington Post the site of an ancient Indian Village believed to have been charted by capt. John Smith the famous English explorer has been discovered in a secluded area of Southern Fairfax county va., an archaeologist said. Smith supposedly was saved from execution by the Indian Princess Pocahontas. The site is one of the biggest archaeological finds in the Northern Virginia area and provides clues to How indians in the area lived and their Contact with european settlers county archaeologist Michael f. Johnson said. A historic Indian Sites Are rare a Johnson said. A to find this is out of sight. For Fairfax county this is As important As its going to  Johnson displayed pieces of Potter arrowheads  other artefacts found on the private stretch of land along the Occoquan River that he said led him to believe he had found the Dogue Indian Vil Lage of Tauxe nent that Smith had marked on one of his maps about 1608. A historically it is the first town or Village of this area if this is it and in a pretty confident that it is a Johnson said. Theresa Singleton associate curator of historical archaeology at the smithsonian institution said tracking Early explorers is difficult but if Johnson a can actually show where there was Contact with Early English settlers it is significant because it could illustrate what Early interactions were like. Although numerous Indian Village Sites have been found in the United states Singleton said each discovery is noteworthy because it tells More about everyday life hundreds of years ago. A any time somebody finds a site that a important she said. Indian artefacts have been found 400 feet into the Woods beyond the narrow Shoreline suggesting the Village was Large Johnson said