Northwest Arkansas Times from Fayetteville, Arkansas • Page 9

Area Newt In Brief ARSON CHABGID Jerry Lawrance, 11, Urry Harrison, 17, and have been charged in Washing ton Circuit Court with dettber. ately burnfaf Lawrence's IMS automobile near the a County line on Sept. It. AUTOMOBILE SAID STOLEN Willard Johnson of South 71 Auto Sales reported the theft of a 1958 model Chevrolet to the sheriff's office Friday. Hie automobile was described as i four-door hardtop with white top and a brown body.

SATISFIED CUSTOMER Fayetteville police are looking for the man who took a maroon 1964 Chevrolet from Phil lips Motor North College for a ride around the block Thursday afternoon and failed to return. PLEADS NOT GUILTY Guy H. Jonei 24, of 1900 N. Garland pleaded innocent in Fayetteville Municipal Court Friday to charges of dis- chanpng a firearm within the city limits and wounding a doe owned by Mr. and Mrs.

WUHam Williams. 'BIG RED' BUSY "Big Red the Razorback mascot, has returned to residence in Hog Heaven here, after a busy first full season with the Razorbacks. UA Sports Publicity Director Bob Cheyne says he made several appearances over Arkansas, travellad to the HemisFair and the Jaycee convention in Phoenix, Ariz. He's a "family man," too, having aired two Utters of red Pigs II in one and 10 in the other. He appears in his gold-gilted mobile cage at all Razorback football games.

LAST DAY FOR TAXES Oct. 1 is the final day to pay 1967 real and personal property taxes and 1968 improvement district taxes without penalty, according to Washington County Collector Sarah B. Walker. NEW EATING PLACE Another eating establishment of the drive-in type is construction on North Street, across from Oak Plaza Shopping A sign has been placed on a lot at Dickson and Church signifying a restaurant will be built there. ALLEYS REPAIRED City crews have been "plug.

ging" teeth jarring in the alleys. Fair And Cool Arkansas will continue to en- Joy fan- weather tonight, but there's a possibility of COUNCIL DINNER SET The Northwest Arkansas Council for Exceptional Children will sponsor a dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30 at the Southwest Junior High School in Springdale. a Clark, consultant for special education with the Vocational Rehabilitation Service, well be guest speaker.

All parents are urged to attend and the public is invited. COMMITTEE TO MEEF The Juvenile Court Advisory Committee will meet Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 12 noon at the Holiday Inn in Fayetteville. DOGPATCH TOUR PLANNED A conducted tour to Dog. patch, U.S.A.

is on the agenda for Saturday, Oct. 5 for members of the Fayetteville Com Adult Center. WALLACE MEETING SET The Wallace for President Club will meet Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at campaign campaign head- nn-Club bus.

headquarters, Ave. 8W N. College SCHOOL BOARD SESSION The Fayetteville School Board will hold its regular October meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, in the school administration building.

NEAIUNG COMPLETION Kroger's new shopping center on U.S. 71 north rapidly is nearing completion, and there are signs that the proposed mall in the same general vicinity may be getting under a soon. EDA Approves $53,791 Grant For District A grant of $53,791.50 has been approved by the Economic De velopment Administration, DC partment of Commerce, to thi Northwest Arkansas Economii Development District. The grant will enable the dis trict to continue planning economic growth and develop ment in a nine-county sector fo; one year. The approval was announce today by Sen.

J. W. Fulbrigh and Congressman John Pau Iimmerschmidt. The district is headquartered in Harrison and executive rector is Donald R. Raney.

The rinoipal growth center of the district has been designated the FayetteviUe-Springdale area. The counties encompassed are 'arter, Benton, Boone, Carroll Madison, a i Newton. Searcy and Washington. The district will provide $17,930.50 to meet the $71,722 total cost for continuing the program for one year. The district staff conducts research, planning, counseling and promotional activities, and works i other local, state and federal developments in the area.

Indianapolis, cloudy 76 Jacksonville, clear 88 Juneau, cloudy 50 tansas City, clear 83 -os Angeles, cloudy 84 WORKSHOP SCHEDULED Miss Elanor King, associate professor of dramatic arts at the University of Arkansas, has scheduled University Dance Workshop auditions for Saturday, Oct. 5. The dance auditions will be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the auditorium of Old Main, Room 106. GAS WAR ENDS The Fayetteville area's gasoline war apparently has ended-in a truce, anyway.

Prices a back to normal after dropping approximately 10 cents a gallon for most grades of gasoline. The latest war was several In a series this year. NOVEL ABOUT AREA "The Fern Gatherer," a novel by Belva, Clayton, formerly of Lincoln and Prairie Grove, has been published by the Carlton Press. Tht novel Is about the In ttM Bwty Indians Human Beings, Too OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The image of the "drunken Indian'' is no more accurate than picturing today's Indians "as all living in teepees, ready to scalp someone." This view by Dr.

James Hall. Indian resources director at the University of Montana, was rtiared Friday by other Indian headers interviewed at the Na- Congress of America Convention here. "Hiey said there is a drinking problem among many Indians, )ut no greater than among whites and Negroes in a similar environment unemployed poorly educated, badly housed and despondent over the future. The leaders said the image began about 100 years ago when whites plied Indians with liquor to take their land and then to keep them quiet on unsatisfactory reservations. ers moving in late Sunday.

It mil cool with tonight's low in the Ms. Elsewhere, showers THE WEATHER Elsewhere By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS High Low Pr. Albany, clear 72 41 Albuquerque, clear 82 Atlanta, clear 82 Bismarck, rain 70 Boise, clear 77 Boston, clear 66 Buffalo, clear 63 48 .24 Chicago, clear 74 Cincinnati, clear 75 Cleveland, clear 65 Denver, clear 83 Des Moines, rain 73 Detroit, clear 71 Fairbanks, cloudy 58 Fort Worth, clear 85 Helena, cloudy 61 Honolulu, cloudy 90 are forecast in the central i with snow at the higher altitudes. It will be cooler in the northern aad central Rockies and wanner in the upper Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes. (AP Wlrenhoto) AHmiMM T1MW, Sopt.

Typicol Old World Celebration Altus Revives Lost Heritage At Grape Festival By PETE YOUNG ALTUS, Ark. (AP) Shades of a nearly tot heritage revived today residents of Altus gathered atop St. tfary's Mountain to celebrate he harvest of the grapes and he wine to come. Like their ancestors did at Melderwil, Switzerland, the townsmen a on the mountain in costumes of ethnic old identities sculptured in Europe. Festivities began with tours of the Wiederkehr Wine Cellars and conclude with an old- ashioned dance, including Swiss polkas.

Entertainment includes a hot air balloonist exhibition typical of European village celebra- Sbns, the crowning of the grape larvest queen, a talent contest and fireworkers display. Authenticity is the mark of he festival. There are no carnival rides or wild animals. Only merrymaking that, for a night. could rival the gayest festival of the old world.

Behind the celebration re- riyed four years ago by Al Yiederkehr is a history of Swiss mmigrants settling in the Boson Mountain Range of an Ar- tansas River Valley railroad and mining town. Altus was the Latin name given by the railroad because it was the highest point the train out of little Rock could go toward Fort Smith before turning back. John Andrew Wiederkehr was one of many Swiss families to decide in 1880 that the area resembled the Alpines of home and settled to renew farming traditions they had left in the 'd country. And like any self-respecting European, Wiederkehr began making wine for the family's meals. So did his Swiss neighbors, whose names also survived in the world of wine- Post brothers and Sax, also of Altus, for example.

With no liquor store about, miners and others began to turn to the Swiss community for alcoholic beverages, which were mostly wines, made from persimmons and wild blackberries. Local success spurred many of the wine makers to turn to grapes, the nectar of vintage wines. Soon the region took to mass grape growing. The prohibition era nearly devastated the wine industry. The Wiederkehr's turned to raising table grapes.

But the art of making wine was neve- lost and it revived when prohibition ended. Today, 90 per cent of Arkan sas' native wines are produced within a four-mile radius of Altus. The grape festival returned in 1983 when Al Wiederkehr, attempting to buy wine grapes on the national market, encountered buyers and sellers that considered the Ozarks for hillbillies--not wines of distinction. A quick investigation by Wiederkehr revealed that a wealth of heritage blended from the Italian, German and French ancestry typical of Switzerland belonged to the community of 392. Tomstones in the hillside cemetery bore the same surnames as those on stones centuries old in a moss-covered mountainside at Meiderwil.

The Catholic Church in Altus was built from sandstone quarried nearby. Its walls bear NORTHMINSTER CHURCH (United Presbyterian) MEETING AT PRESBYTERIAN-CrMISTIAN CENTER MORNING WORSHIP 9:43 A.M. CHURCH SCHOOL AT 11:00 A.M. REV. ROBERT E.

OSBORNE, PASTOR NURSERY CARE PROVIDED murals by a German painter. From the vineyards of Wiederkehr's, one can see Order of St. Benedict Monastery, carved a century ago from native stone. At the festival, guests and local families are encouraged to wear lederhosen (deer-skin shorts) and other items of Swiss garb. Games and German, French and Italian drinking and festival songs have been introduced.

The number of visitors at tba festival grows each year. They come to enjoy the scene and the fruits of the vine, both the grape and its fermented juices. Wiederkehr, satisfied with his festival and his wine, says, "If we're hillbillies, then we're Swiss hillbillies." First Negro Member PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP)The Jefferson Hospital Board of Governors has selected Dr. Lawrence A.

Davis, president of Arkansas AMN College, as its first Negro member. Davis was named to the board Thursday night. THE BIBLE SPEAKS KHOO 1440 kc Sunday. 9i15 a.m. Tha KMo Spooks To YM run wMki emtrttnt "MAKING RIGHT DECISIONS ON THE JOB" SERMONS-SUNDAY, SEPT.

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