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The Paris News, Dec. 8, 1982 The Paris News. Dec. 8, 1982 15C Jobs keeping politics well oiled in Chicago CHICAGO (AP) Timothy P. Sheehan sums it up in four words.

"I have nine jobs," the gray-haired, genial Irishman and former congressman says glumly. "Nine jobs in 77 Sheehan's voice trails off. He gestures in futility. In this city of hard-nosed patronage politics, few more pitiable remarks could be heard from a man whose task is to deliver votes. Public payroll jobs collecting garbage, prosecuting winos and turning keys in the county are what make Chicago's Democratic machine run.

In the Northwest Side's Ward, Democrats command an estimated 500 jobs. City Hall hands them down to Committeeman Roman C. Pucinski, who passes them on to the precinct captains, who spread them among their helpers. By election day, almost everybody seems to owe somebody something. But not Tim Sheehan.

He's not a Democrat he is the 41st Ward's Republican com- niitteeman. "You just can't do it," he says. Nine jobs. The only story is that it's better than no jobs." Kepublicans offer the spoils as the main reason for the low estate of their party SNL viewers give Kaufman in Chicago. Consider: When party leaders met Tuesday to pick a mayoral candidate, they were presented not with a list of distinguished civic leaders but four unknowns, one an unemployed philosopher, another a former professional clown whose friends call him Spanky.

Retiring state Rep. Bernard Epton finally was induced to run in the April 12 election. "The worst thing that could happen to me is if I win," Epton chortled. The Democratic candidates for mayor are incumbent Jane M. Byrne, Cook County State's Attorney Richard M.

Daley and Rep. Harold the ax NEW YORK (AP) Viewers of television's "Saturday Night Live" apparently used up all their charity when they voted by telephone to save "Larry the Lobster." In a second call- in, they gave comedian Andy Kaufman the ax. Viewers voted the comedian off the NBC-TV show for good Saturday night in a live call-in reminiscent of last year's vote that saved a live lobster named Larry from the boiler. Kaufman, the star of NBC's "Taxi" whose stage act. includes wrestling with women and an Elvis Presley impersonation, has appeared 14 times on the late- night show.

SNL viewers voted 195,544 to 169,186 to ban Kaufman from a 15th appearance. The viewers' verdict didn't sit well with the SNL announcer. He closed the show with, "This is Don Pnrdo saying, 'I voted for Andy 77 years old and still jumping QUINCY, Fla. (AP) Birthdays make 77-year-old Harry Reynolds jump for joy from about 3,000 feet while wearing a parachute. The retired insurance salesman, now an airport manager, has marked his last six birthdays by jumping from airplanes.

"It was a nice ride," he said after his latest leap Wednesday. "I feel real good." Reynolds spent much of his early life skydiving with touring aerial shows. "When I realized you could make $50 a jump, I figured I could quit work," he said. "I was making $50 a jump when some men were working for a dollar a day." Reynolds' son, Kenny, who helps to manage the airport, said his father will keep skydiving "until he's 101." But the elder Reynolds' plans are more short-term. "My son and my grandson are going to jump with me next year," he said.

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22. Republicans haven't elected a mayor in 57 years. Democrats hold every seat on the 50-member City Council. The GOP lost its last U.S. House seat here in 1958 when Pucinski beat Sheehan.

And Republicans are loathe to mention the last time they came close to electing a congressman. That was 1978, in the South Side's overwhelmingly black 1st District, when an affable undertaker and left-wing activist, A.A. "Sammy" Rayner, got 44 percent of the vote. Had he won, he would have been one of the most liberal men in the House by any yardstick. "Frankly, I just used it (the Republican Party) as a label to get on the ballot," Rayner confesses.

There is reason to suspect that a poverty of patronage is not the only reason for the travails of Republicans here. For one thing, Chicago is a labor town and 40 percent of the populace is black. With brief interruptions, blue- collar workers usually have tended to be Democrats, and blacks here converted in large numbers from the party of Abraham Lincoln to the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt starting in 1933. That year, Democrats smashed the Republican machine of Mayor William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson and replaced it with one of their own.

That merely made Chicago like other industrial cities in the North Democratic. But in the last decade, the machine has been breaking down and independent Democrats, as much opposed to City Hall- as Republicans, have been winning elections without using patronage. To Republicans, though, the prime cause of their woes has been the lack of payroll jobs. They point out that their mayoral candidate won 21 wards in 1963 and they still held 17 City Council seats as late as 1955. The virtual wipeout of the Chicago GOP since then, declares John J.

Hoellen, a surviving party stalwart, was caused by "the total abuse of patronage that and the almost obscene use of political money." Many well-heeled Chicago businessmen, often Republicans in their private sentiments, have abandoned the city GOP, prefering to stock the coffers of Democrats who can win. "The WASP business establishment in this city doesn't contribute," Hoelien says. "It invests." Hoellen has had a personal taste of the GOP's agony. In 1975, he headed a party committee searching for a mayoral candidate and got stuck with the nomination. Not only was he crushed by his Democratic opponent, Richard J.

Daley, but he was driven out of what had been the only Republican aldermanic seat. "I had to be defeated at all costs," Hoellen says. "I sacrificed myself on the altar of impossibility." Why do the Republicans go on? "I suppose in part," Hoellen says, "it's because the governor (a Republican) has appointed me to the Chicago Transit Authority board, and because I enjoy public service." Another reason, clearly, is that the Republicans want to hang onto their smattering of city votes in statewide elections. Assorted schemes have been proposed to resurrect the party. Two years ago, it sounded out former Chicago Bears linebacking great Dick Butkus about taking on U.S.

Rep. Marty Russo, D- 111. He mulled the idea and sent his regrets. Hoellen favors setting up a municipal government that would rope in the affluent, Republican suburbs. City Hal! doesn't even bother to scoff.

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And around towns such as La Grange, Warda, Dime Box, Winchester and Swiss Alp, which were settled by Wends in the last century, there is nothing mysterious about them. But outside this area, hardly anyone is familiar with the proud group that has been all but assimilated into American culture. Their assimilation is so complete that in 1982, Wends farmers, store owners, restaurateurs, landowners, schoolteachers and church pastors are indistinguishable from the very people they once hated and fled Prussia to escape. The Wends fled Prussia to avoid becoming "Ger- manized," only to move to Texas and then intermarry with the numerous German immigrants they had as their new neighbors. Unlike the Amish and other religious groups that stayed together in one small region and worked hard to preserve their heritage, the Wends have all but vanished into Americana.

Their language, Wendish, a Slavic mixture of Polish and Czechoslovakian, remains alive only among a handful of older individuals. The very heartland of the area settled by the Wends is a mile from here, set in a grove of trees off a narrow farm road that snakes past oil derricks and farmhouses to the tall, white, solid structure of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, which was built in 1871. Not far from the church, with its balcony pews, raised pulpit, irreplaceable chandeliers and thick walls, sits the Wendish Museum which has, out front, a sign stating "Witaje Knam!" That's Wendish for "Welcome!" The museum's hand tools, colorful costumes worn by mannequins, aging primers and books, lanterns and farm implements, kitchen gear and memorabilia make up a considerable portion of all the remains of the U.S.- Wendish heritage that hasn't crumbled into dust over the decades. Also in the small complex, between the museum, church and Wendish graveyard is the St.

Paul's Lutheran Church school, a two-classroom structure that has 66 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Among them are many descendants of original Wendish settlers, but when they were asked if they could speak to whatever extent the Wendish language, not a single youngster said he could. The school's principal, Dan Engler, pointed to a small, glass-enclosed area, near the front entrance, that contains the students' Wendish heritage a few prayer books, primers and pieces of reading material, printed in the Wendish language. "That's all there is," says Engler, whose school is supported jointly by members of St. Paul's congregation and a 6-year- old oil well that earns $1,000 to $1,500 a month.

Socha says the Wends were more or less serfs in Upper Lusatia, a region of the present East Germany that is bounded by the countries of Czechoslovakia and Poland, and the cities of Berlin and Dresden. In the 1800s, the Wends lived in small hamlets, spoke their own language and were diehard Lutherans. Their situation began to change, Socha says, when their forces were defeated by Napoleon's French troops at the'Battle of Bautzen in 1803. Thereafter, the Prussians decided to better their position, so they freed the serfs, reinforced their army and, in 1817, turned the tables on the French by beating Napoleon. This led to the formation of the Prussian Union.

The Prussians, says Socha, carried matters a step further by calling for a merger of the evangelical, orthodox and reform Lutheran factions and said that, henceforth, there would exist no distinction among the groups. This didn't set well with the conservative, orthodox Wends, who then numbered 50,000 to 100,000 and were disinclined to give up their Kraft Orange Juice $179 64 oz Bottle 1 Hy-Top Sweet Peas Garden Hy-Top Cut Green Beans SUSS: Dairy Pride Homo Milk Hy-Top Golden Corn 47 ON 3 CANS. Whole Kernel Or KERNEL I Cream Sweet st le i 6-5 To oz Cans Or Lowfat Baking Bargains! Candy Vanilla Wafers Hy-Top 12 oz Box Gal Jug Limit 2 Jugs At Sale Price-All Others Reg Price Plain Chocolate -fr I With Peanuts 16 oz PKg Minute Maid Reg Or More Pulp 12 oz Can Orange 99 Cake Flour 1" DS A Ckpll $199 1C WllCII nrnnuularv riatac (Chopped si.89) iiniineiiary uaies pitud Nestle Choco Bake Baker's Chocolate Baker's Chocolate s.m is PetRrtz Dish 12 oz Pttf From Florida 89 Strawberries ioozct 99 $9 A 19 Jumbo Aunt Jemima Buttermilk Or Original 10 To '7O (Or Reg Cinnamon Or Raisin) u.5 OI Pkf COCOnUt Tropical Isle 6 oz Pkg 59 Items Available In Stores With A Tasty Bakery Buttermilk Bread LO ,79 Christmas Coffee Cake wOOKieS Bells Trees 11316 OteBQ $169 Cherr pie $269 Dozen jjjfj Party Trays Pastry. Sweet Bread Or $795 Quantity Rights Reserved None Sold To Dealers rookshire's FreshProduce Russet Potatoes U.S. No.

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Between the time they left Lusatia and their arrival in Galveston on Dec. 14, 1854, about 75 Wends had died of childbirth, cholera, old age and more. They reached the Gulf Coast just in time for another epidemic yellow fever and fled Houston, leaving handful of weary Wends behind, for the wooded, rolling hills of what is now Lee County. Socha says the Wends, whose hopes had been buoyed along by glowing reports they'd received the previous year from Wends who had come to Texas, arrived at the Colorado River and found land selling for the lofty price of $1.50 an acre. They couldn't afford it, Socha says.

So they settled for 50-cent- an-acre, stony land and eked along, living in dugouts and shanties during a three-year lega! process before they finally were declared owners of the property. Ted Lammert, 74, a retired schoolteacher in Katy and president of the Texas Wendish Heritage Society, says his ancestors had so much trouble getting their initital crops going they had to live off then- plentiful game and every so often traveled by wagon to Houston and Mexico to swap cotton for groceries. They'd barely arrived, says Lammert, before the Civil War began and Confederate recruiters began trying to conscript young Wends into the Southern army. Since they'd fled Europe to avoid slavery, says Lammert, the Wends were far from pleased to be forced into service to fight on behalf of a cause that called for the continuation of slavery for blacks. "They stayed on the farms dressed up as women to avoid recruiters, and others went to Wisconsin to avoid the draft," Lammert says.

Meanwhile, the Wends, who had fought against relinquishing their Wendish language in favor of the Prussian-endorsed German, themselves surrounded by German immigrants and German- speaking neighbors. "The very language they despised in Europe suddenly became very helpful to them," says Lammert. "And the German people in Giddings owned land right next to them, and they were no better off than the Wends. So they got along. And a lot of them started intermarrying with the Germans and forgot they were Wends." Over the decades, Wen- dish settlers moved to the Port Arthur area to work in refineries, others spread to Austin and Fort Worth, and still others went back to the Houston area to find jobs.

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