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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH June 23, 1981 3D Spiritual Side Of Former Villain' Close-Up Of Death: Murder Documentary At police headquarters a suspect, George Hunter, handcuffed to a desk, repeats his "rights" as they are read to him before questioning. Ford's brother, Kenneth Napper, a witness, recalls the final seconds of Eugene's life. "He fell back toward me I tried to catch him, but he kind of pushed me away. He tried to hold himself up, but then he fell on the floor Arizona Napper, Eugene's mother, agreed to be interviewed by Amme several days after the death of her son.

Mrs. Napper tells of rearing seven children by herself. Another son was shot to death during an argument in another city several years ago. "I think it was the neighborhood," Napper suggests. "If Eugene had been able to run around with better people, he would have turned out better.

But there was no choice, the way he was living. "I tried to teach my kids to love everybody." Ford was convicted of murder after being involved in a fight 11 years ago and had been released from prison two months before his death occurred. Detectives Jones and Cockell, who are black, speculate on the reasons for so many homicides in their area. "You wonder all the time why these arguments have to ensue," said Cockell. "Black-on-black crime.

To a degree it is frustration. When you're the low man on the totem pole When your back is against the wall, and here comes something else The KTVI documentary offers no solutions, makes no judgments, draws no conclusions. It brings to blood-stained reality, however, a statistic the sudden deaths of hundreds of human beings that many residents of the metropolitan St. Louis area have learned to take for granted. U'5 iLrxAiCr few days later, he ran into the Jew who said that he had returned to his synagogue.

"I told him that was a very Taoist thing to do, to be a Jew," Dhiegh said with a chuckle. The sessions at the bar also give him an opportunity to show his lost wax process for making sterling silver jewelry. About four years ago, he took up making jewelry as a hobby. Now he sells it to support the Taoist sanctuary. His newly acquired skill had a casual beginning.

He was at a shopping center and noticed a store that sold stones. He wondered who would spend money for an unpolished rocks. Dhiegh walked in, asked a number of questions and bought a tumbler. It is a jeweler's device that polishes rough stones and prepares them to be cut. Within a short time, his enthusiasm grew and he had acquired a small library of books about stones.

And under the watchful eye of a jeweler, he learned to cut them. "The first stone I cut was a $28 zircon. When I finished, I found it was worth approximately $200," he said. "I thought this is a nice hobby." He later learned to work with silver in the lost wax process. He brought along a sample case of silver jewelry, each piece neatly bagged in plastic.

Many of the designs are arranged around sayings from Taoist philosophy. There are lockets, amulets, bracelets and charms. As he studied the script for "Flower Drum Song," he decided to design a silver charm of a flower drum. "Maybe someone would like it a a memento," he said pulling it out of its case. Diegh was born in Spring Lake, N.

J. Since his move to Arizona in 1977, he has been less involved with acting. But his interests are as wide as the rainbow. He is an active member of the Arizona Governor's Film and Television Advisory Board and serves on the Arizona Office of Economic Planning and Development. Dhiegh finds pleasure in Chinese cooking, which led to an interest in a Chinese restaurant across the state in Scottsdale.

He advises on the preparation of Hunan and Szechwan cuisine. He also lectures on metaphysical and parapsychological studies. However, much of his time is taken up caring for a variety of unusual fowl and animals he raises. He has cockateels, geese, ducks, Chinese-painted quail, peafowl, doves, bantam chickens and pigeons and eight goats. As he talks about his collection, it is obviuns he is especially fond of his African pygmy goats.

He indicated with his hands that these little animals are about 18 inches tall and 20 inches long. "I fell in love with them and had to have one," he said. He firs saw a pair at a friend's farm. He later bought two standard goats. Shortly after that, he saw an ad selling the rare pygmy goats and bought a pair.

"Now I have eight goats," he said. "I never thought I'd own goats." And that sounds like a very Taoist thing to say. By Patrick Rice Of the Post-Dispatch Staff He has one of those familiar faces. With reason. Now past 70, Khigh Alx Dhiegh has been acting since the early 1930s.

When Orientals were rarely seen on stage or in movies, he was a regular. Khigh Dhiegh (pronounced Kuy Dee) was in the Broadway cast of ''Teahouse of the August Moon," and "Flower Drum Song," the movie "The Manchurian Candidate" and toured in the stage musical "The King and For a brief time in the winter of 1975, he starred in title role of a CBS private detective series "Khan." Still, trying to place him? He is probably best known as Wo Fat, a bad guy on the television series "Hawaii In real life, that scourge of the islands is a gentle philosopher. Dhiegh holds the title of servant, the highest ranking spiritual leader'and and rector of the sanctuary of an Arizona and Southern California community of followers of Taoism. With much majesty, Dhiegh steps onto the Muny stage this week in "Flower Drum Song." The stage has been transformed to Grant Avenue, San Francisco. Dhiegh plays Wang Chi Yang: an elder in Chinatown.

The silk-robed, gentleman tries to see that his American-bom soils follow tradition. That includes arranged marriages with nice girls from the homeland. Wang's puzzlement over what is happening to his sons in America is expressed in the song 'The Other Generation." He took time for an interview during a lunch break last week during Muny rehearsals. He received honor as as actor from his peers in 1961 when he received an OBIE award) as best actor fun his performance as Schlink in New -York's Living Theatre's production of Bertolt Brecht's play "In the Jungle of the Cities." However, the material he has been offered- is a stereotyped version of Chinese or Chinese-Americans "Many may recognfze the cultural inaccuracies in Westernized stories," he said. "But things should be expressed so the audiences understand them." He said that the trouble with fundamentalists in aethestics, religion or philosophy is that they "rob themselves of pleasure." That is what theater is for he said, "to please, to entertain." Too often self-appointed critics "fail to recognize the nature of the event" because they are so caught up in comparing it to something else.

"It. is this Western philosophy of absolutes. Black and whites. There are no grays. That is not so.

What is taste? An'electrochemical phenomenon which occurs in the mouth. Even there He lifted his spoon with a dab of plain unsweetened yogurt on it. "Some will say this is sour. Others don't." He reminded us that the Chinese drink no milk; and consider cheese rotten milk. "They think cheese is as awful tasting as Westerns consider By John J.

Archibald Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Nobody writes "murder mysteries" about the kind of killings that occur regularly in North St. Louis. Television or radio news rarely mentions them. When Eugene Ford became a victim last March 29, the incident rated 11 lines in the Post-Dispatch: "Eugene Ford, 26, of the 4400 block of Enright Avenue, was fatally stabbed about 2 a.m. Saturday during a fight in the 4300 block of Finney Avenue On KTVI at 9:30 tonight, after "Extra," Channel 2 viewers can stand in the shadows as two homicide detectives, Dick Jones and Larry Cockell, try to determine the circumstances that brought Ford's life to an end.

The documentary, titled "The Death of Eugene Ford," is done in cinema verite style, without commentary, except for a brief introductory statement by reporter-producer Rick Amme. "There are more than 200 murders every year in St. Louis," says Amme. "In nine out of 10 cases, both the victim and the killer are black We followed a team of detectives for three nights. Most of their calls were for such offenses as break-ins, disturbances, purse snatchings.

until this." The sound camera, operated by Ray Brodzinski, follows the police into the apartment on Finney moments after the tragedy. From time to time it is necessary for Jones or Cockell or a police photographer or some other official to step over or around Ford's sheet-covered body. Blood seeps through the sheet here and there. There is a close-up of the victim's outstretched hand at one point, a view of the knife apparently used in the murder. But only the very squeamish will be offended.

super handyman DEAR AL: Occasionally my automatic garage door opener gets a phantom signal and opens by itself. I have solved the problem by adding a regular wall switch within the wiring circuit for the system. When I'm at home, I turn the switch to the "off" position. It still doesn't solve the problem when I'm gone, but at least I have more security than I did. WESG.

Hn TWENTIETH CENTURV-FOM "A Khigh Alx QJiiegh as he appears in Dhiegh has pleasant memories jof acting at the Muny. He was here several summers in the 1950s when John Kennedy was executive producer, he recalled. Last winter, "Flower Drum Song" director. Edward Blum tracked Dhiegh down at home outside Tempe, Ariz. For the last four years he has been living there, raising a variety of goats, chickens afld other fowl, making jewelry and running the Tao sanctuary and writing books on the Taoist wisdom "I Ching As Dhiegh ate plain yogurt, he told us that part of the reason he agreed to take the role of Wang Chi Yang was that he wanted to eat dinner at the top of the Gateway Arch.

Friends told him that there was no restaurant, but he rode to the top anyway, laughing at himself. "There is not much room for anything much less a restaurant," he said. "Didn't they nave plans for a restaurant?" He has a special interest in Arch. Early in its construction, he slept near its base. On a visit here in the early 1960s, he had an unpleasant hotel room.

He mentioned it to Frank Moskus, who at the time ran the Goldenrod Showboat. Moskus invited Dhiegh to bunk in the showboat. "It was wonderful, a privilege to sleep on the boat," he said. This time he is staying on land with the Moskus family. He arrived before rehearsals began to see the family, the Moskus Ted DarganPost-Dispatch "Flower Drum Song." In Exile Bar, the Arch and take a house tour of turn-of-the-century neighborhoods.

One evening last week he led a discussion on metaphysics and "I Ching" at Moskus' bar. He plans to lead another session next Monday at 9 p.m. at the bar, 6920 Gravois Boulevard. The book, he likes to point out, is the "oldest continuous written wisdom in the world. No other body of wisdom is known to have been written down 4,000 years old.

"I made notes, but I hope It will not be a lecture but a rap session," he said. All are welcome. There is no such thing as a member of the Taoist group, he stressed. "We are not concerned with conversion. We live in a universe where there is no error, no perfection.

Everyone is right. One person's right may differ from another's. A person cannot be other that what he is. Nothing is abnormal. You come in harmony with yourself.

Relate to people whom may differ with you. You may be as much in error as they are." A Jew and a Christian who used to attend his gatherings when he was based in Southern California each stopped attending the same month. Some months later, he encountered each of them individually on the street. The Christian looked sheepish and apologized for not attending, but said he was now going to Christian services. Dhiegh assured him that it was fine to seek a way he was comfortable with.

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