European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes us. Wednesday october 26,1994 Indian tribe donating $10 million to museum Washington a the smithsonian institution will get the largest single Cash donation in its history $10 million from the Mashantucket Pequot tribe Towel build Art american Indian museum. The Small Connecticut tribe wants to share the riches from its giant Casino and Bingo Complex Richard Hay Ward chairman of the Pequot tribal Council said Mon day.". " /. V. A i guess you could Call us wealthy people Hayward said at a news conference we were wealthy before we had Money because we had a love of the land and we Hada love of our ancestors and our the National museum of the american Indian will help preserve that culture and give indians Hope Hay Ward said. \ athe museum the smithsonian s 15th, is scheduled to open in the last vacancy along the National mall in 2001. When i first heard that the last space on the mall in Washington was going to the native Arneri cans it jus made me feel proud Hayward said. I m sorry it did t happen a Long time ago. The recognition to native Ameri cans is Long overdue museum director w. Richard West . Told the tribe an entire nation shall be forever in your the largest previous gift to the smithsonian was $7 Mil lion donated by the Lila Wallace Reader digest fund in 1992 for a National jazz Celebration. The Pequot gift to be spread Over 10 years brings total private donations for the american Indian museum to $31 million. That s More than Halfway to the fund Rais ing goal of $60 million for construction and the museum s endowment. When Congress created the museum in 1989, it Man dated that Only two thirds of the construction Cost $73.4 million could come from Federal funds. Hayward said sen Daniel Inouye a Hawaii a museum trustee approached the tribe in March and suggested the $10 million donation far More than the be quote had Given to any cause before. I was numb Hayward said. Last week the tribal Council agreed to give the full amount. .--., -. A Hayward noted that the Pequot were almost wiped out by the English in 1637 and have endured a Long history of hardship. The tribe struggled to support itself for decades before turning to gambling. Hayward said that his grandmother had no electricity running water and that outhouses were common on the reservation into the Early 1960s. Now the 320-member tribe runs the largest Casino in North America employing 10,000 people. It is planning its own museum and cultural Center in Mashantucket. In the. Stars and stripes 10 year Sago oct. 26,1984 feb agents posed As crooked businessmen and bugged a pasta importer s offices to get indictments against the entire top Echelon of one of new York City s top five organized crime families authorities said. "20 years ago oct. 26,1974 with the testimony of prosecution witness John Dean nearing completion judge John Sirica ordered that transcripts of White House tapes be Given to former president Nixon in preparation for his possible testimony in the watergate cover up trial. 30 years ago oct. 26,1964 South Vietnam s High National Council appointed Phan Khac Suu a civilian As provisional chief of state. 40 year Sago t. Al fac -.---_. Oct. 26,1954 the search for a . Air Force c-47, lost in route from Rome to Lyon France with 21 people aboard was broken off be cause of darkness. I world War ii i 50 years ago today oct. 26 Japan s Imperial Fleet learns it suffered a disastrous defeat in the failed attempt to attack the americans Leyte invasion Fleet in the Philippines. In four Days of combat the japanese lost four aircraft carriers three battleships 10 cruisers and 10 destroyers. The americans lost one Large Carrier. Two Small escort carriers four destroyers and two submarines. Source. 2 1 94 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a Concord . Apra Bies killed at least one Kitten from a pet store and Visi tors who came to the shop and played with felines May have been exposed to the disease. A Kitten from the Concord aquarium and pet Center devel oped seizures last weekend was euthanized and tested positive authorities said monday. Three Kittens that died at the store Dur ing the first week of october weren t tested for rabies. Authorities fear several Hun dred people May have been exposed to the disease because kit tens were allowed to roam the exposed to rabies store and play with visitors state Public health spokesman Steve Tomajczyk said monday. They urged people who even handled a cat at the shop since sept. 19 to see doctors so they can decide whether to get shots. Officials also Are trying to track Down owners of at least 32 cats sold since that time. People can get rabies by being bitten by an infected animal having an infected animal s fresh saliva get into broken skin like a scratch into their Mouth nose Reyes. rabies is almost always fatal if left untreated. 24 injured As two buses collide Philadelphia a a school bus collided with a transit bus going the wrong Way Down a one Way Street monday injuring 24 peo pie.-. " ,. \ most of the injured were elementary school pupils who were treated for bumps and bruises and released. The bus from the Southeastern Pennsylvania transportation authority was travelling the wrong Way on the one Way Street As it re turned to the garage with no passengers officials said. The Driver will be suspended and subject to a drug test authority spokeswoman Marge Sullivan said. The school bus Driver was in stable condition at Temple University Hospital. The transit bus Driver and another adult on the school bus were treated and released. The school bus was carrying children from the Lawton and Sullivan elementary schools in North Philadelphia. Alain Robert of France Scales the Side of a 48 Story building in Manhattan on monday. . Skyscraper new York a a Frenchman was arrested monday for scaling a 48-Story Manhattan office building three months after pulling a Simi Lar stunt in Chicago Alain Robert 42, of Valence France Man aged to scale the building at Park Avenue and 40th Street by hand although he had Strung up a safety rope for insurance said detective Joseph Mcconville a police spokesman. Robert was charged with reckless endangerment and Crimi Nal trespass both misdemeanours. A tenant on the seventh floor of the office building called police after seeing Robert pass by a window about 11 a.m., police said. By the time the climber reached the roof officers were wait ing to arrest him. In july the Frenchman used Only gloves to shinny up a pipe running up the face of a 40 Story building in Chicago. He was charged with criminal trespass. Chippendale s founder hangs self in jail i of am Rupi is a Tho f,.r. Of a. I ,. Los Angeles a the founder of the Chippendale s male strip tease shows hanged himself in a jail cell Mon Day hours before he was to be sentenced for arranging the murder of his business partner authorities said. Somen Steve Banerjee 48, was found hanging by a torn bed Sheet from a coat Hook in his cell at the metropolitan detention Center said jail spokesman Venoard Mcfadden. He was alone in the cell and hanged himself Between 3 and 4 a.m., authorities said. Banerjee had been treated for mild de pression a few times in the 13 months he had been at the prison Mcfadden said but there was. No indication he was suicidal. To appeared to be fairly stable men tally Mcfadden said. It s very unexpected and Banerjee was to have been sentenced monday for arranging the murder of Nick Denoia an emmy winning director who helped choreograph the Chippen Dale s show. Denoia the former husband of actress enter o Neill was shot in the face at a new York City office on april 7, 1987.prosecutors accused Banerjee of hav ing Denoia killed because of a Legal Dis Pute Over the show s touring rights he pleaded guilty in August to racketeering and murder for hire charges in a Deal with prosecutors that would have brought him at least 26 years in prison. In Exchange the government dropped charges accusing Banerjee of trying to kill three former employees who joined a rival dance troupe. The former gasoline station owner turned a failing los Angeles disco into a Gold mine in the late 1970s when he began featuring a male exotic dance night Tor women Only. Chippendale s went on to be featured on calendars playing cards and other merchandise. I
