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8 Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, July 4. 1976 1776 suecial number for new citizens We've never looked back, says Irish immigrant Army's clarinet player is blowing his own horn At 11 a. m. Sunday 1,776 immigrants to the United States will become American citizens in r. patriotic blow-out in Soldier Field that will be unusual even for Chicago.

The Army band will play. Mayor Daley will speak. Prayers will be offered. And a bank of federal judges will swear in the new citizens, who come from every part of the world and range in age from children to a 90-year-old woman. Here are the stories of two of the new citizens.

1 WHEN THE 81st United States Army Band rips into "The Star Spangled Banner" Sunday at the massive swearing-in ceremony of new citizens, the anthem will have special meaning to a young clarinet player in the band. He is Sp. 5 Hong Yul Kim and he will just have become an American citizpn. For Kim, 30, a thoroughly pleasant man with a quick and hearty laugh, citizenship is not exactly the culmination of a long and fervent dream. He had been getting along quite well without it for most of his life.

A member of the Army for almost four years, he lives at Ft. Sheridan on the North Shore with his wife and three children in cozy, modern quarters. He says he likes Army life and his work in the band so much he is contemplating becoming a 20-year man. BUT KIM is still very Korean. And part of being Korean is the tradition of the son being responsible for his family.

As a U. S. citizen, Kim now will be able to bring his mother and sister to America. "Now, I can take care of my family," he said. "There are more benefits here more freedom." Kim has been in the U.

S. since 1971 when he arrived in Columbus, Ohio, hoping to go to college. But "I had no money and my English was slow and I didn't have American high school," he said. He also hoped to open a restaurant, but ended up working in one of those huge Hawaiian-Oriental places that specialize in "mystery drinks." There he met a general in the Army who asked Kim if he would like to join up. Since he had six years of experience playing in the Korean navy band, he enlisted, became a bandsman, and was promptly sent back to Korea where he played in the 8th, U.

S. Army Band. NOW HE is in America for good. "I like it. So far, so good.

Sometimes I get lonesome. My mother and sister are in By Dorothy Collin WHEN JUNE MARIE PEARCE is sworn in Sunday, the United States will not only gain a new citizen but Mayor Daley will gain a new vote. And an Irish one, at that. "Daley is my favorite man," laughed Mrs. Pearce, who will be sworn in with her husband, Michael.

"Now I can vote for him." The Pearces have been in Chicago for 16 years so they aren't exactly newcomers. And they weren't part of any poor or tired or huddled mass that passed by the Statue of Liberty. But like many immigrants they came to America in search of a better life. Mrs. Pearce says she is sure they have found it.

"WE CAME because of my husband's work," she said. "He thought he could do better here, and he has. We've never looked back." Mrs. Pearce said she was homesick at first, but her husband, a cabinet maker, "fell in love with this country the day he arrived" from Dublin. Now, they "wouldn't leave for anything." "The people are so friendly here, really friendly," she said.

When the Pearces arrived in the United States, their problems were eased considsrably because they had relatives here, because they spoke English, and because they were Irish and had come to Chicago. "We had no trouble adjusting," Mrs. Pearce said, "We found the Irish people in Chicago are very much like the ones in Ireland." In fact, the Pearces transition into American life was so smooth, Mrs. Pearce, a jolly woman with a fast I wit, has trouble remembering if they even had any problems "except with the weather." THE PEARCES decided to become 1 U. S.

citizens because "we thought, 'Well, we're going to stay in this coun- they passed the citizenship test on dance around Chicago." It's nation's birthday, and we're celebrating try and it's the right thing to They also decided "for the kids' sake. It's their home now. And this country has been good for us." Partially because of the "kids," all seven of them, Mrs. Pearce delayed becoming a citizen. "An uncle kept after us, telling us to get it done," she said.

But each time she thought of taking the citizenship test "there was a new baby and I put it off." She and her husband finally passed the test on March 17, which fittingly enough was St. Patrick's Day. "I felt so good," Mrs. Pearce said. "I felt like a new person.

I felt like doing a dance around Chicago." AFTER SHE and her husband are sworn in, the family and their friends will celebrate first with a mass said in their South Side home, and then with a huge party "a wild Irish party." Among the guests will be Mrs. Pearce's mother, who came from Ireland to see her daughter become an American. To make the day complete, Mrs. Pearce would like to shake hands with the mayor, who is scheduled to speak at the naturalization ceremony. "I went to the St.

Patrick's Day parade and hoped I would get to shake his hand," Mrs. Pearce said. Then, laughing at the memory, she said: "The only one I got to shake hands with was Mickey Rooney." min Spock will address a rally. PBC leader Jeremy Riflin, whose group seeks to break what it sees as big business' stranglehold on the economy, estimates the rally will attract up to 150,000 persons. Chicago is peculiarly low on Bicentennial events.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE the swearing-in of 1,776 new citizens in ceremonies at the Chicago Stadium and a 45-minute fireworks display in Milton Olive Park on the lakefront, which city public events director Col. Jack Reilly maintains "will never have been surpassed in the United States." The Chicago Historical Society is sponsoring an "Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration" in back of the Lincoln Park museum, with concerts, a patriotic oration by Rep. Sidney Yates Chicago, and free admission to the museum. The International Trade Exposition is going on at Navy Pier. Elsewhere in the Chicago area, Park Forest is holding a jazz concert in its Park Forest Plaza, with pianist Art Hodes presiding.

HODES WILL also provide background for those who feel the call to stardom. There is a jazz competition for anyone interested all they must do is play one of the following numbers: "When the Saints Go Marching In," "I Got Rhythm," "Indiana," or "Hello, Dolly." Attorney Marvin Rosenblum is conducting his scaled-down version of Hands Across America, in which Chica-goans will join hands for six miles on Chicago's South Side. Elsewhere in the state, Springfield is offering a sound and light show, based on Abraham Lincoln's life, and a fireworks display. Gov. Walker will attend.

Meanwhile, 25 could-be frontiersmen who are re-enacting the journey of George Rogers Clark are to arrive Sunday in Kaskaskia. The taking of Fort Wagon train reaches race up Bee Hill. It's a quarter mile high and very steep. The time is usually around seven minutes, and a Chavez has won it every year," she said. IN SOPCHOPPY, population 461, Sunday's daylong schedule features the Florida State University Flying High Circus, students who conduct a trapeze and juggling act.

The Swamp Hollow Sky Divers will be down from Tallahassee, and Hank Locklin of the Grand Ole Opry will be on hand for music. "We've also got a Bicentennial fireworks display," said Bill Stevens, project chairman, and fire chief, public works director, and public utilities director in the tiny Florida Panhandle town. "We're doing a good 45-minute show," said Stevens. "We have about 400 pounds of fireworks $700 worth." IN BREMEN, there will be a tug of war using a hawser from the lobster boats anchored in the Muscongus Estuary, as well as a country dance "mostly Virginia reels, Lady of the Lake, and Texas Star," said chairman Iris Gibbs, who regretted that thj planned colonial dinner had to be called off, and that the local fiddler left town. In Swanzey, N.H., folks plan to arise at 4 a.m.

Sunday and hike up Mt. Caesar for a religious service by the Rev. Gary Wheirwein. They will attend a 6 a.m. pageant in the Potash Bowl, a natural amphitheater that seats 1,100.

"Then we're finishing with a pancake and sausage breakfast, catered by the National Guard," said First Selectman David M. Perry. AT FORT McLELLAN, in Alabama, seivicemen will watch a 50 cannon salute to the Union, eat from an 8-by-10-foot birthday cake cut by Maj. Gen. Joseph B.

Kingston, post commander, and later enjoy canoe racing on Yahou Lake, a fishing contest, and a wiener and lemonade cookout. In Tazewell, events open with a 4 Hcng Yul Kim Korea. My good friends are in Korea, but He has made new friends at Ft. Sheridan, tiiough. One day last week they ere sitting at Kim's table, eating a delicious Korean meal, prepared by friends and relatives celebrating the coming naturalization ceremony.

His commanding officer, WO Albert French and Sergeants John Andrews and Robert Williams, all fellow band were there. They lalked about politics and prejudice. Kim said he was going to register to vote, bi wasn't sure who he was for though he had heard President Ford was doing a good job. And he talked with Williams, who is black, about the subtle and not so subtle feelings of prejudice they have encountered. BUT KIM is an optimistic man.

He wants to fit in with everyone. He wants to be American, but still retain his Korean heritage and culture. He wants his children to grow up with the best of both cultures. Doroth Collin freely countrywide worship service, then an old-fashioned chicken and black-eyed pea picnic, with old-timers from the hills playing mountain music with dulcimers, German lutes, banjos, and guitars. There will also be a black history presentation.

Tazewell nestles in the Appalachians, and is extremely proud of its mountain crafts, sonje of which appeared in the Foxfire books. The highlight of the day, is the presentation of such crafts as apple head doll making, chair bottom making, long rifle shooting, and leather hand tooling. "We're a little closer to history here," said Ewell Templeton, Bicentennial director in the 175-year-old town. "We haven't progressed in ideas as far as our more affluent brothers up North." IN FORT KIPP, Bicentennial chairman Joseph Red Thunder came to the phone off his tractor. He is a Sioux Indian, and owns and farms 1,500 acres of wheat.

He said 2,000 Indians from the Fort Peck reservation, mostly Sioux and Assi-niboin, will spend Sunday doing "fancy" tribal dancing, including "rabbit" dances, "eagle" dances, "round" dances, and the "kohonni" all to the beat of drums. Navajos and Apaches from Arizona will attend the weekend long pow-wow, exchanging such gifts as Hudson Bay blankets and shawls. FOR FOOD they are slaughtering seven head of cattle, and the quartered meat will be passed out for people to cook on their own campfires. Red Thunder was asked how he feels about Indians celebrating the Bicentennial. He said he knows Indians have not been treated fairly, but he has recently converted to Catholicism and thinks "we shouldn't oppose.

We should celebrate with the white people. "The government is beginning to hear our voice, and I think in the next hundred years it will improve for Indians." Twickler, an organizer of the event. "We're hoping the 10 minutes will go very fast." TO HELP PASS the time, participants are being urged to bring radios along with them so they may listen to WBEZ 91.5 FM, which will broadcast patriotic songs and readings for the affair. People are to sing along with the music and listen to the readings. When the time is up, they can go bacjc to whatever other festivities they planned for the day, Mrs.

Twickler sid, fortified in the knowledge that they took time to join others in "a line of urty of affirmation of their country." Rosenblum plans to leave the human chain as son as it breaks up a.d board a n'ane fr California to start his vaca-Ibn. "AS I FLY west," he said, "I'll look out at ell those miles and imagine what it would look like if people were holding hands down there." Once in California, he plans to spend his time boosting plans for a cross-country human chain to be formed before the end of the Bicentennial year. 4 Michael and June St. Patrick's Day, Marie Pearce: When she felt "like doing a Kaskaskia from the British on July 4, 1778, by Clark's men marked the only Revolutionary War engagement in Illinois. IN BOSTON, the hoary vessel U.

S. S. Constitution will sound a 21-gun salute, the first time her guns have been fired in 100 years. In St." Louis, there will be an air show at the city's Gateway Arch, as well as an evening carnival at which a composer named Ralph Jones III will play his "Circuit Tree Special." According to a press release "electronic instruments were installed in the trees of Kiener Plaza, with sounds activated by the body heat of the audience." In Miami, 7,000 new citizens will be naturalized. BUT THE real Bicentennial story is in the byways and small, mostly forgotten towns of America.

Here is how a sampling of them are spending this Sunday: Glen Rock, is going with an Old-Timers Baseball Game. In case you didn't know it, the little southeastern Pennsylvania town is the home of Clifton "Lefty" Heathcoate, who played for four major league teams from 1918-1932 and, according to town Bicentennial Chairman Daniel Mays, "he holds a record thai, is unique in major league history." The record? He was swapp: by the Cardinals for Max Fleck of the Cubs between games of a 1922 doubleheader. He and Fleck are the only two players ever to have played for two teams in one day. "Baseball has always been a way of life here," says Mays. "We've got a history of a sandlot team playing in Vallev Force competition for 94 years.

SCOTCH PLAINS, N. is staging an old-fashioned ox roast, using 600 pounds of charcoal, and will serve the meat with cucumber salad, baked beans, stone ground bread, beer, and sarsapar-illa. "We're trying to have a colonial meal," said chairman Neva Sachar, "just like they did here in 1783 to celebrate the official ending of the Revolution." BOB AND NORMA Spring, of Seattle, are spending Sunday In Kotzebue, Alaska, above the Arctic Circle. He is a photographer and she is an author. The Eskimos of the little town are holding their annual games, which include a blanket toss, which involves a group bouncing someone a walrus blanket, firemen-style.

Highest bouncer is the winner. The game, Mrs. Spring says, began out of practicality in the days when Eskimos needed to see over ice floes to spot game. "The sharpest -eyed hunter was bounced in the blanket," she says. Other games include the "knuckle" hop walking balanced on your knuckles a seal-skinning contest, the Eskimo high-kick in which one must kick a suspended tether ball with both feet, a muktuk eating contest, and the most intriguing of all the "ear pull." "Each contestant holds onto the other's ears," Mrs.

Spring says. "Then they pull as hard as they can. First one to yelp loses." IN BISBEE, a copper mining village, which once was the main junction on the route frcm San Francisco to El Paso, and was the site of many a raid by Cochise, townspeople are holding mining games. Mrs. Edie Valencia, Bicentennial chairman of the town of 8,500 on the Mexican border, says she expects the Chavez family David and Ricky-will dominate the events as it has the last 12 years.

"They're especially good in the foot AP Airepnoto Continued from page one sives linked by 16 miles of wiring will be detonated at the Tidal Basin. To head off any questions, no, the Argentine Firecracker will not be there. New York will have a patriotic fireworks extravaganza of its own, when Ma-cy's Department Store and Disney Productions collaborate Sunday evening on a $100,000, 33-minute "Salute to the Glo-j rious Fourth." Some 17,000 tons of red, white, and blue explosives will be set off at the Statue of Liberty as an enormous flag is borne aloft by helicopter. MAJOR PARADES Sunday are being held in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, where the county is conducting an eight-hour, 10.8-mile event billed as the longest in the nation. 1 The Los Angeles parade ran into a snag, however, when Beverly Hills and Santa Monica declined to cooperate, although they are part of the route.

The entourage will have to disassemble and pick up again. Two protest groups are planning demonstrations in Philadelphia, including the "Rich Off Our Backs Coalition," comprising six leftist organizations, and the "July 4th Coalition," made up of gay activists, black radicals, feminists, Puerto Rican nationalists, and American Indians. "Off" has a parade permit, but must stay 12 blocks from the center of the i city. The "4th group lost its original route when angry homeowners objected to a march through their neighborhood. They will hold a rally instead.

Mayor Frank Rizzo has blamed the threat of violence for a significant decline in the expected numbers of tourists visiting his city. IN WASHINGTON, the People's Bicentennial Commission has scheduled a Sunday march from the Jefferson Memorial to the Capitol grounds, where the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Operation PUSH, actress Jane Fonda, fighter Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Dr. Benja Monday also a holiday for many in city ALL GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS In Chicago, along with most businesses, will be closed Monday in observance of the nation's 200th birthday. Because the Fourth of July falls on Sunday, most government agencies and businesses have set aside Monday for an extra holiday.

Among government offices to be closed are both federal buildings, City Hall, the Cook County Building, the Civic Center, and the State of Illinois Building. Postal officials announced there will so mail delivery Monday, and postal pickup will be done on a holiday schedule. HOLIDAY SCHEDULES also will be followed by the Circuit and Federal courts, and police announced that holiday parking rules will be in effect Monday. The Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry said that all of the 585 firms it surveyed planned to be closed Monday. The firms include banks, retail outlets, manufacturers, wholesale firms, and utilities.

Hands across America falls far short of goal By Jon Van SUNDAY'S INDEPENDENCE Day festivities won't find Marvin J. Rosenblum home sitting on his hands. He'll join thousands of others on Chicago's South Side, holding hands. He's only sorry it isn't millions. Rosenblum, you'll recall.

Is the fellow who proposed that America celebrate its Bicentennial Independence Day by forming a human chain from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. BUT HIS "HANDS across America" idea bogged down, and the best Rosenblum can come up with for Sunday is a six-mile stretch of hand-holders starting at 79th Street and running down Kedzie Avenue to 119th Street and west to Crawford Avenue. This line and another two-mile chain in Palos Hills are expected to involve 10,000 people, 150 to each block, from 2:30 to 2:40 p. m. Of course the participants plan to do more than just hold hands.

"It would be kind of difficult to just stand there for 10 minutes, holding hands with nothing to do," said Shirley I The official Bicentennial covered wagons from every Saturday after each completed its cross-country state in the union gather at Valley Forge Memorial Arch journey to the historic site in Pennsylvania..