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Local HistoryBooks C-8 Sunday, May 12, 1991 May 12. 1991 Best Sellers Recycling on agenda for historical society meeting ARCHIBALD McKINLAYcoiumnist Fktion eks on list 1. LOVES MUSIC, LOVES TO DANCE, 1 By Mary Higgins Schuster, $21.95.) Two Manhattan women, doing research into personal ads, get caught in the snare of a serial killer. 2. THE FIRM, by John Grisham.

(Doubleday, $19.95.) 9 A young lawyer learns that the firm he recently joined is engagedin secret, possibly illegal activities. 3. THE SEERESS OF KELL, by David Eddings. 5 (Del Rev Ballantine, $20.) The fifth volume in the "Mal-lorean" fantasy saga. 4.

HEARTBEAT, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, A chance meeting of a man and a woman, both with successful careers in television, enables them to solve their marital and romantic problems. 5. IS FOR HOMICIDE, by Sue Grafton. 2 (Holt, $17.95.) The private eye Kinsey Millhone on the trail of two perpetrators of an insurance scam.

6. ASPEN GOLD, by Janet DaQey. 4 (Little, Brown, $19.95.) A woman returns to her native Colorado to face a choice; fame in Hollywood or love with an old flame. 7. 4 (Random House, $23.) Life as lived by writers, critics and book editors in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and in Manhattan.

8. OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! by Dr. Seuss. 59 (Random, House, $12.95.) Verse and pictures. 9.

THE DRUID OF SH ANNARA, by Terry Brooks. 9 (Del ReyBallantine, $19.95.) A new volume in a series about the fantasy land of Shannara. 10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT, 3 By Lawrence $21.95.) The temptations experienced by an insurance company investigator probing a millionaire's murder. Time listings are based on computer-processed sales figures from 3,000 bookstores and from representative wholesalers with more than 28,000 other retail outlets, including variety stores and supermarkets.

The figures are statistically adjusted to represent sales in all such Nonfiction Wees on list 1 NANCY REAGAN, by Kitty Kelley. 3 (Simon Schuster, $24.95.) An unauthorized biography of the former First Lady. 2. YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS 7 TO WNAGAIN, By Julia Phillips. (Random House, $22.) Life in Hollywood as experienced by an Academy Award-winning producer.

3. IRON JOHN, by Robert Bly. (Addison-Wesley, $18.95.) 2 The passage of the male from boyhood into manhood, as practiced and cherished in various cultures and centuries. 4. MOVING PICTURES, by Ali MacGraw.

3 (Bantam, $20.) The film star of the 1970s looks back on her checkered career. 5. LIFE IS TOO SHORT, by Mickey Rooney. 4 Villard, $22.50.) The autobiography of the film star. 6.

A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES, 6 By Albert Hourani. (BelknapHarvard University, $24.95.) A comprehensive account from Mohammed's time to the present; the work of an Oxford scholar. 7. MY FAVORITE SUMMER 1956, 2 By Mickey Mantle and Phil Pepe. (Doubleday, $18.95.) The recollections of the New York Yankees' star center fielder and home-run hitter.

8. THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE, 3 By Alex Kotlowitz. (TaleseDoubleday, $21.95.) The story of two brothers growing up in Chicago's mean streets. 9. SLEEPWALKING THROUGH HISTORY, 6 By Haynes Johnson.

(Norton, $24.95.) A social history of America during the Reagan era. 10. IN OUR DEFENSE, 8 By Ellen Aldermanand Caroline Kennedy. (Morrow, $22.95.) How the Bill of Rights affects Americans' lives today; outlets across the United States. An asterisk before a book 's title indicates that its sales, weighted to reflect the book-selling industry nationally, are barely distinguishable from those of the book above ally became plant manager, brought sheep up from his Rensselaer farm that kept the lawn trimmed neater than a golf green, and greener than most.

And Henry Reitz, a flower-loving police chief, planted the south embankment into Kew Gardens West. Some of you will remember his scripted "Amaizo" in flowers. But what is a glade without music? So, in 1932, "to teach colored men in the plant who wished to study some band instrument," the paternalistic Daly hired Walter Mays, a talented musician. This quickly led to a 40-piece band decked out in spiffy blue and gold uniforms, including berets. Daly donned one of the berets whenever the band played at Amaizo celebrations, such as the annual picnic (called a in the Garden of Daly, the annual Christmas party for employees and their families, and many other special occasions.

When, for example, Daly took over an entire golf course in Lakeside, for a management outing, he brought his pride-and-joy band with him to parade and play throughout the course and environs throughout the day. But the band never played in Whiting's big parade, and for the rest of Raymond Daly's reign, which ended with the start of World War II, there was more than Wolf Lake between Whiting and the Amaizo plant. bushels of corn a day doubled to 16,500 in 1914, and doubled again to more than 35,000 by 1937. And the number and variety of plant facilities, equipment, products and functions grew accordingly. But Daly's Amaizo was more than a factory.

It was a family that enjoyed steady jobs and liberal benefits within a pleasant outdoor environment. He even provided grounds and materials for employees to build a major recreation center, naturally named Daly Hall. What's more, he transformed the plant grounds into, if not a garden of Eden, at least a great place to have lunch. The landscaping began in 1931 when he turned a. slough into a sunken rock garden that was brilliant with flowers through three seasons.

The garden was set off by a fine lawn, fastidiously manicured, thanks again to employee participation. Fred Frankenfield, who eventu If the in color of the 90s is green, the in thing must be recycling. For a change, I'm up to date. By the very content of these columns, I surely must be one of the leading recyclers of the Calumet Region. Now I plan to go further.

Before one of The Region's most discriminating audiences, I will recycle what I've already recycled. Next Saturday evening. May 18, for the Whiting-Robertsdale Historical Society's annual dinner at the Community Center, I hope to deliver a recycled package of recycled information in an unspeechify-ish form. The recycled package of recycled information is dusty data I collected several years ago for a pictorial history of Whiting-Robertsdale, a book similar to Twin City, which I wrote about East Chicago. Alas, the Whiting-Robertsdale book died aborning, and until now the area's secrets have been safe with me.

On Saturday, though, we shall see. Meanwhile, let us preview one of those secrets and see where it leads us. As you probably know, Whiting is not only named for "Pop" Whiting, a trainman killed in a crash there, but is a descriptive name. Whiting has never been a place to learn about African-American culture. Indeed, Whiting was popularly known as a sundown town, and some old timers go so far as to say that a black person actually broke the law by just being in Whiting.

You can imagine, then, the enthusiasm with which Whiting leaders, in the 1930s, greeted Raymond E. Daly when he proposed that an all-black band march in Whiting's holiest of civic celebrations, the Fourth of July parade. Daly was lord of a 100-acre fief-dom in Roby called Amaizo, on the north side of Wolf Lake A 6-foot-3, 225-pound Irishman from Chicago, he stood ramrod straight, occasionally wore a beret and commanded all he surveyed. As one historian described him, Daly was a cross between Caesar and Cecil B. DeMille.

"He blustered, but he was tough and fair," Roy Pohndorff, a 42-year employee who now lives in Tucson, said recently. i "He regularly fired Jim Dudick-er, a foreman, and then would pick up the next morning and drive him to work. When I came to Roby fi -sh from Williams College, Daly to id me, 'You can live like a king in Chicago on $50 a month, but if you have any idea of getting rich quick, forget "He was likable and even lovable, and could get close to you and con you. Once, after a shift, we suddenly had to get an order of grits out to Piel Brothers Brewery in Indianapolis. So, with a combination of authority and charm, he rounded up the office help to do it, and had Jack Conley, the switchman for the Pennsy, hold the train until we were finished." Daly took command of the Roby plant in June 1910, shortly after it began squeezing corn.

Under Daly, the Roby plant grew rapidly but soundly and began the tradition of perpetual updating that has kept the plant modern to this day. During Daly's 30-year watch, the Roby plant grew ten-fold in acreage, and its initial output of grinding 8,000 'Sailor's Holiday' is overly long journey SAILOR'S HOLIDAY: The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula By Barry Gifford Random House, 344 $20 By RICHARD DYER The Boston Globe LA sl rwrY mi -So Be more comfortable and save energy The new Good Cents Program from NIPSCO can help keep fortable year-round. One of our Good Cents representatives will check everything trom windows and doors, to your home more comfortable year-round, and save you insulation even your heat money on your heatmgand cooling bills? A Good Qents home saves energy too! ing and cooling equipmentand much more. If you make the recommended energy improvements, your home will receive official Good Cents Certification, and you'll be on your way to savin? money on your enemy ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME IUIPSGB Improve the value of your home. A Good Cents Certification can increase the value of your home by increasing energy effi-ciencv and by making your home more comfort wmmMmmmr mils.

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