Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 17

wv.vywvTvnr..yv-rvr.'vrraraMCTT;tTWpsW' C' i Canoeing Down The Mississippi By JOHN SHUTTLE WORTH Cindy Cooper thought her tiusband, Steve, was 'joking our years age when he suggested that they canoe from their hoiqe -in Ohio to New Orleans just like the early settlers used to do. For 67 days they saw the heart of this country, as few people still see it, met hundreds of interesting people and had the time of their lives. Although the Coopers spent a total of only $200 during Iheir 67-day excursion, they invested somewhat more than preparation for the journey. Their $250, 17-foot, unxinkable oanoe was a gift. Our gear consisted of just a tent, extra paddle, life jackets, jumbo steeping bag, tarpaulin, cooking utensils, containers for fresh water, maps, camera and many odds and ends that we should have left behind.

Purchase only those things you are certain to need. Anything else you can buy along the way," the Coopers said. We did take extra clothes with us, far too many. Still, this is the one area where its better to overpack. Make sure you have at least one complete' change of dry clothing carefully stored away in waterproof bags at all times.

Otherwise, after the first heavy rainstorm, you may find yourself very cold and miserable, Mrs. Cooper said. We encountered what seemed to be vast weather and I suspect this would be llie case during e-ery season of the year. One day wed be hot in bathing suits and fierce colfl and wind would have us bundled in three layers of clothes the next. Hats are especially desirable for warding off both sun and rain and we went through five sets that blew away or were left behind." They carried plenty of matches in watertight containers and Sterno canned heal which they used to start driftwood a fid deadfall campfires along the way.

They ate mostly canned food and replenished their supply by periodically pulling up on a bank and shopping at Tiic- Cuopers cooked their evening meal and breakfast ashore and ate peanut butter-and-jel-ly sandwiches for lunch right in the canoe. The Coopers' gut their ater from towns along their route. They generally filled two five-gallon containers every two days. They portaged five times on the Mohican and Muskingum and once -on the Ohio. The two instances when they had to portage on the Mississippi were due, as they say, Wo sheer stupidity when we decided to take shortcuts that deadended into sand bars.

The couple usually paddled and drifted about 10 hours (30-40 miles) a day. They passed through rural, urban, resort and wild areas in Ill states and feel that they saw. some of this country's most beautiful scenery and ugliest pollution. They got to know llieni-sclves and each other as nev er before and feel that their adventure like the water on which they traveled was dynamic, unpredictable and grand. Tlicre are two main prem- iscs that one should accept before attempting a journey such as ours," Mrs.

Cooper said. One is: Do not plan. Plans mess up everything. Too many beautiful trips have been ruined planning when, where and what. Its better to let things happen.

The second rule is: Accept every offer of assistance or kindness. Whim people are doing something unusual, as we were, others are interested in becoming part of it We were offered free meals, overnight stays, water skiing ridqs, loads of beer, money, a jaunt to the county fair, barge tours, clothes, decent advice Sat. June 30, 1973 17-E Tht RnHhf MS TrikHMynSicatf At 63, Jimmie Stanislaus Builds Reputation as Singer IDIOT gAESPETr The Warehouse Way! Expect to Save 35 i Patrons demand tlie song twice, thrice each evening. A drink served at McGuons carries that-name. A couple of Oakland bars have borrowed the recipe.

The firm friendship between trombonist Murpliy and singer Stanislaus began when the furtner was a struggling young musician who washed cars to augment his income and the latter operated his shoeshine stand. Murphy made it big when he opened McGuon's. Stanislaus was a frequent visitor, and could be coaxed to the bandstand for a song, a la Louis Armstrong. He didn't always know the words, but lie made pretty sounds. Tuday Stanislaus appears to have it made.

On July 4. by invitation, the Turk Murpliy band plus Stanislaus will perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in New" York City. That same day the band will provide, music for dedication of the Louis Ann-strong Field in the Bronx. The open-air arena has been called Singer Stadium and is located in a neighborhood where the incomparable Salchmu resided, and where his widow now lives. The widow, Lucille, will lie at the ceremonial.

At the dedication songs Company here. He had a wife and daughter. A few years later lie' achieved his fondest ambition. He became a regular member of the Oakland Fire I)eiart-ment. Until a couple of years ago Stanislaus believed he had made his last good His job as a fire-fighter he's a hnsetnan assigned to Engine No.

31 on High St. near MacArthur Boulevard was secure. Oh, he devoted lots of lime to establishment-by his nephew, Greg Johnson, of a now flourishing lettering company hire, but that was a labor of love and of family. Then bandinan Turk Murphy, realizing his friend Stanislaus possessed a distinctive voice like Louis Armstrong's, plus a magnetic stage presence. convinced the fireman he should make a studio recording.

The number selected was Yama-Yaina Man, written more than a half century earlier, with catchy words and melody. Today, after about Hi months of twice-weekly per-, forinanccs at McGuon's and intensive traveling with the band. Yama-Yama is Stanislaus' identification, his melodic signature. By ALAN WARD Trihaae Staff Writer I When jimmffe was a boy, his mother Mar- gret looked affectionately into his eyes and said: Reinein-: her this, son. A good run is far, far better than a bad stand.

Since then Stanislaus has made a numlier of good runs and today, at 63, he is launched on another ramble one which has given him an Bay Area reputation and spread his name not only through the United Slates but into Japan and Mexico as well. Stanislaus, an Oakland fireman for 30 years, is a week-. end singer with the celebrated Turk Murphy bund which spe-- rialixcs in traditional jazz and holds forth at Earthquake Med oons in San Francisco. As a lad Stanislaus sold newspapers, ran errands and performed a variety of other tasks which brought needed cash into a fatherless household. At 16 he humic a professional prizefighter.

In his mid-twenties and after S6 fights he quit tho ring and opened a four-chair shoeshine-stand, moonlighting as a ga-: rage aide for the Yellow ('3b Fv a iJ RING FOES ONCE A VERY LONG TIME AGO Jimmie Stanislaus, George Sange laugh about it. FINAL CLEARANCE! MOVING TO 735-77th AVENUE OAKLAND This Month! We have toe much carpet our new 10,000 sq. ft. heme. Ridiculous prices on all qualities of carpet In stock.

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They fought Uinc tunes, all draws. could whip almost every-Issly else, but never Jimmie Slanislaus," says Sange, him-'self a top Popular with his fellow firemen Stanislaus is a gourmet cuuk, a competent fireman and gifted with a sense of laughter he is able to make frequent visits to distant points wifh the Murphy group by swapping on-job hours anil utilizing vacation time. He gists no special lime-off privileges, asks for none. However, it is understandable his superiors and working mates are happy with the favorable publicity Stanislaus creates for the department. After all, how many singing firemen are there in the cout try? He lives comfortably with his wife iif many 'years, Es-Ihvr, on Market Street.

Their two poodles, and ffoue, are well-mannered and immaculately groomed. The Stanislaus daughter, Bernice, is married to Uichard Silveira of Oakland. Compulsory retirement from the Oakland Fire Department will conic in 1975, but he'll continue to sing long as he is in demand. Said Turk Murphy: Jimmie will always be in demand, and should be belting out his jazz numlwrs for years. He's still making that good run his mother told him to make.

He'll never innkr a bad stand." made popular by gravel-voiced Armstrong will be sung by Oaklands singing fireman. Stanislaus knows all the words now. He has been singing them fur more than IK months at McGoons. White in the east the band will give concerts at C-orning, N. and Conn.

Last year Murphys ensemble, with Stanislaus vocaliz-ing, played siiecial engagements in San Diego, Tijuana, Phoenix, Florida and Japan. The last named tour was by invitation of the Japanese government. Most big Japanese cities were covered in three weeks. This year the group has provided song and music aboard tlie sleek passenger ship Spirit of London while cruising Mexican waters. In September the build will sail on the same vessel to Alaska.

Japan wants them again next year. beckons. As a kid in West Oakland this handsome, gray-haired minnesinger learned the rudiments of boxing the hard way on thu.Klreels. Showing promise, lie was befriended, trained and managed by the late Willie Carter, a popular West Oakland lightweight whose in Slants Ians was more paternal than financial. Tlie kid, too, was a nalu- ral lightweight.

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