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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1977 Qtyr flontgonvrg The Passing Throng PAGE 11 Oy Phillip Hau ls Advertiser State Editor Rucker Hopes to Dress i v. Treasure More Fancily FT. RUCKER I But, they're trvinn to solve the credit to the nation." Tolson said nc millionaire who keeps his fortune buried in coffee cans, the Army Aviation Museum at Ft. Rucker is housing $45 million worth of historical aircraft in four ramshackle wooden buildings. Mind you, the museum's directors are not eccentric millionaires.

They just don't have any place else to exhibit the valuable collection. problem, says retired Lt. Gen. John J. Tolson, president of the Army Aviation Museum Foundation and a former commanding general of Ft.

Rucker. On June 3, the museum association's board of directors, composed of 20 retired military officers and business and political leaders, will announce plans for raising $4 million to build a museum "that is a The museum, which traces the history of Army aviation from balloon observation flights during the Civil War through the Huey Cobra of the Vietnam War, "is not just a little museum here at Ft. Rucker. It's a national museum," Tolson stressed. Therefore, the museum foundation is talking about going nationwide with its proposed fund raising campaign "to accomplish what we Achtnur rtuxm by Phillip KaW With Crowded Army Aviation Museum Instrumental in helping Howell has been Mrs.

E. A. Eastman, who has devoted many hours to the museum since her husband was killed 'n Vietnam. want," noted director Wilmer Parker of Ozark. The first thing the foundation wants is $1.5 million to start the museum.

Last year, Alabama voters turned down a $2 million bond issue to build an aviation museum. Now, the foundation is taking a hard look at "having it as a government museum," like the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla. The Navy museum opened April 13, 1975, in a $1.8 milliont structure hat was built with donations from area businesses and the national aviation industry. It took nine years to raise that money, according to museum director Grover Walker. The museum, which is housed in a foot air-conditioned Butler building, has displays similar to the Army museum everything from the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic to the first Sky-lab command module.

Unlike the Army museum, the Navy museum has ample room to display its aircraft and is more comfortable to visit than the steam bath-like museum barns at Ft. Rucker. Despite the museums' differences, both attract about the same number of tourists nearly 200,000 annually. If the Army Aviation Museum, which is already among the top 10 tourist attractions in Alabama, can be placed in a nice building in a good location, it will have "a big Impact" on the Wiregrass economy, Tolson said. The man responsible for making the Army Aviation Museum into the tourist attraction it has become is retired Lt.

Col. Bill Howell, who recently retired after more than 10 years as the museum's first and only curator. During his decade tenure Howell put together aviation displays "not just of interest to old aviatiors in the Wiregrass, but to all people," noted Tolson. Among these displays are many experimental and prototype aircraft, Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur's Bataan aircraft, and the first "Army One" Presidential helicopter, which Howell piloted for President Eisenhower.

Members of the Army Aviation Museum Foundation in addition to Howell, Tolson, and Parker are: retired Lt. Gen. Robert R. Williams, president of Bell Helicopter International and a former Rucker commander; Maj. Gen.

Delk Oden, another former Rucker commander; Birmingham banker W. D. Ma-lone Dothan businessman Jim Loftin; Dothan Mayor Jimmy Grant; G. Marvin Lewis a Dothan bottling company executive; R. O.

Nichols, an Enterprise auto dealer; Ray Fitzgerald, an Enterprise real estate agent; Enterprise Mayor Don Donaldson; M. McCullar of Enterprise; Fred Donaldson, an Enterprise insurance agent; Ozark businessman C. F. Garrett; Ozark Mayor Tom Goff; Ft. Rucker banker J.

0. Townsend; Ozark attorney Bryant F. Williams Daleville Mayor Gene L. Hughes; and Ozark Spacious Displays at Naval Aviation real estate agent Douglas Brown. Elmore Approves Raises for Employes Rir WIT GAV npnniTfw By WILSON Metro News In Brief DEPRIEST SECOND) FRONT; Gambians Visit Tuskegee To Lecture on Culture Advertiser Staff Writer WETUMPKA-The Elmore County Commission agreed at its meeting here Monday to raise the sala--ries of circuit clerk employes by $200 a month and limit the the number of employes in the office to five.

In other action, the commission approved a plan for rebuilding part of the courthouse for the district court, agreed to hire an assistant county engineer trainee and set the price a garbage truck now on loan to Autauga County. Carl H. Lancaster a Montgomery architect, submitted the draft plan for remodeling the courthouse to meet the needs of the new district court. Lancaster estimated the cost of remodeling the second floor of the courthouse, including his fee, at $23,142. He said he would have final plans ready for advertising for bids within two weeks.

He said the remodeling job would take about two months. The commission agreed to hire Bob Shaw as a trainee for assistant county engineer at a salary of His salary will be paid from state and county funds on a 50-50 basis. When Elmore County decided in September, 1976, to have its garbage picked up on a contract basis, it had a number of dumpsters scattered across the county and a 1974 dumpster-truck. The truck was recently loaned to Autauga County and Probate Judge Jim Corley has asked the Elmore County Commission to set a price on it. The commission set the price at $12,000.

The commission also agreed to recommend Probate Judge Ed Enslen for the "Outstanding Service to County Government Award" presented annually by the Association of County Commissions of Alabama. Wetumpkan Bound Over By PHYLLIS WESLEY Advertiser Staff Writer Like his ancestor Kunta, Saim Kinte has come to America, but unlike his ancestor, Saim will return to his homeland. Saim Kinte is part of a cultural mission visiting the United States from The Gambia in West Africa. He and his colleagues hope to educate the American people about Gambian culture. Saim grew up in the village of Kinte Kunda, which in the' Mandinka language means the "home of the Kintes." "I think Alex Haley did a tremendous job in portraying real life," Saim said.

"I saw the first four hours of the movie made from the book and read the book in the Reader's Digest form." Kinte said that black Americans would have been interested in Africa without the publication of "Roots. made it abundantly clear that we all share a common heritage," Kinte said. Kinte also shares a common heritage with many Alabamians, both black and white. His father is a farmer in The Gambia and depends heavily on groundnuts as his principal crop. Groundnuts are peanuts.

"We were especially interested in coming to Tuskegee and to Alabama and Georgia since we have so much in common," Kinte said. "We also hope to learn from George Washington Carver's work." The Gambia's economy is agriculturally based with heavy dependence placed on peanuts and cotton. Soybeans are also becoming an important crop, and are presently grown for local consumption. Kinte now teaches at Yundum Teacher's College in The Gambia. While traveling with the cultural mission he will lecture on the origins and essence of Mandinka customs and rituals, the Kinte migrations, and "Democracy, the Strongest of Gambian Traditions." The mission will arrive in Montgomery Tuesday afternoon and will present demonstrations and discussions begin ning at 1 p.m.

at Alabama State University. Included in the presentations will be Dr. Lenrie Peters, a poet and novelist, talking about African literature; Bakari K. Sidibe head of The Gambia Cultural Archives, talking griots and the oral tradition in African music; Charles Thomas, secretary at the President's Office, talking about the impact and significance of "Roots" in the Gambia context. Also, two half hour Gambian documentary films will be shown.

There will also be exhibits of Gambian arts and crafts including jewelry and delicate silver filigree work, wood carvings, leath-erwork, tie-die material, batiks, dash-lkis, daggits, aninas, appolos, forocks and other men's and women's fashions. Gambian musicians will also be on hand to play Gambian musical Instruments such as a griot, hallam, cora, and balafon. Tuskegee and Banjul, The Gambia, are sister cities through the Sister Cities International Town affiliation program. Adamson is accused of WETUMPKA James Owen Adamson 19, was bound over to the grand jury in Circuit District Court here Monday on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, grand larceny and escape in connection with the March 10 shooting of Elmore County Deputy Sheriff J.D. Wade.

escaping from a work detail on Alabama 191 near Tallassee about 1 p.m. March 10, stealing a van and shooting and wounding Wade when stopped later in the day on Alabama 63. Adamson was recaptured two days later in a Lake Martin cabin. Beer, Cigarettes Stolen Thefts reported to city police a large amount of beer taken from one establishment along with a large quantity of cigarettes from another. Police reported entry was made through the front door at George's 2529 Highland Ave.

Seventy-two cans of assorted beer, a small, radio and money from the cigarette machine were taken. Also reported Monday was the theft of 1,840 packs of cigarettes from the Raceway Service Station at 4302 Mobile and the theft of a brown Boston bulldog from Ted Luster at 2816 Spann Place. A UM Plans Business Program The Auburn University at Montgomery School of Business will hold its annual "Businessman-in-Resi-dence program Wednesday and Thuraday. Men and women from the Montgomery business community will lecture and answer questions in classes related to their fields. Among the approximately 50 participants in the program this year will be state auditor Bettye Frink; L.

E. Stollenwerck, president of Bes-Pak and Charles W. Jones, president of Ring Around Products Inc. Mathews To Address Group Dr. David Mathews, president of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, will be the guest speaker at the spring meeting of the Montgomery Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.

Mathews has been named recipient of the "Alabama Administrator of the Year" Award sponsored by the Montgomery chapter. He is scheduled to speak Tuesday on "Problems and Opportunities In Administering Large Bureaucracies." The dinner meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Ra- Gue are welcome- acC(ing tea chapter spokesman. The cost is $6. Benefits Mailing Change Planned and 8ervice iniI1Vetera'" Administration education pro-grams will receive their monthly GI Bill checks at jKend of the month instead othe begLtgX The change in GI Bill payment procedures, effec-tive June 1, will eliminate the VA's prepayment of monthly GI Bill checks, according to Wiley H.

Park-man, director of the VA's Montgomery Regional Office. "This will have most noticeable effect on veteran-students continuously enrolled this summer," he added. "They received their last VA check under prepayment on May 1, covering their May enrollment. Their next check, for June, won't be issued until July 1." Lab Proficiency Test Scheduled Applications to take the exam should be made to the Bureau of Licensure and Certification, Alabama Department of Public Health, 654 State Office Building, before June 24. Hour and location of the exam will be announced after applications are received.

Cytotechnologlsts screen pap smears to dit.f cancer cell, and other "poSlnfS ttat pap smear, can be applied to unV and urine "caT ca? m0re knn test 6 Junk' Turns Into Profit condition with the exception of a bullet hole in the windshield. Sanitation Department Supt. Alan Yarbrough glanced at a pan, used at the landfill, and said he'd be happy "if we get half what we gave for it." It cost the City $350 and wasn't in the best condition and Yarbrough seemed surprised by talk about what one man was consid ering. "If he bid $1,200 for lt they ought to box nun up ana snip nun over yonder," said "yon- mrprougn, matting it clear that der" was Brvce. By ALVIN BENN Advertiser Correspondent ALEXANDER CITY City Hall had a "yard sale" last Monday and it proved to be quite profitable.

The items weren't much to look at and the primary color was rust, but about a dozen people turned out and paid nearly $6,000 for them. Somebody bought a bush hog for $10. Somebody walked off with genuine police car for $530 while somebody else got a dump truck for $201.50. It was the City's first surplus sale and it was a junkman's delight. Charles Phillips, a Kellyton businessman, admired a big pile of scrap iron and walked around to inspect it "Boy, he's in hog heaven now," said a friend, who stood nearby.

The bids were opened by City Clerk Steve Stark with assistance from Angle Peters, the municipal bookkeeper who scribbled down the prices with one hand and tried to keep her long blonde hair out of her eyes as a spring breeze filtered through the City Shop where the sale 'took place. In addition to the dump trucks and bush hog, other items up for grabs, in When it was all over and done with, cluded a Dodge pickup body, asphalt plant, generator, clark mule and a three-wheel motorcycle, once used by the Police Department and found a few weeks ago parked at the shop. It was, in so many words, a lot of junk valuable junk. "It was taking up needed space and was depreciating in value," said Mayor Jack Bush, who stopped by to see how the bidding went. "Some of the items have been on the lot for 20 years.

Yard sales are the thing today and the City's having its own with scrap iron and outdated, unusable vehicles." Bush said the City was "killing several birds with one stone." "We're not only ridding ourselves of some eyesores, but we're also recycling these rusty items into new vehicles. What we're doing is turning a liability into an asset in the form of cash." Those who had the high bids had three days to remove the items from the shop. One of the poBce cars had 32,000 miles of wear and tear while, behind a delapi-dated truck, mis a blue Buick confiscated during an aborted holdup attempt It appeared to be in fairly good the total take was $5,730.75. ft. 4 -l -J'" "'jj I Phillips lost out in his bid to buy the pile of scrap.

James Dark bid $650 which was $50 higher than Phillips. In all, there were 26 bids, ranging from the $10 for the bush hog to Dark's $650 One man, Gary Ellison, bid $2,640 for everything, but the items were sold individually. "I think we generated a little bit of money for the City," said Stark. "I was surprised to get that much. I was hoping to get $4,000." 8 Sample of Junk for Sale.