Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 6

a PAGE IIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD Mandey Nnmto 6 1967 City To Accept Pipe Lana Gift (Officially) BY DICK JOHNSON City Council Tuesday will officially and legally accept from Pipe and Foundry Co the gift of some 20 acres in East the site of the proposed high school stadium Meanwhile Architect Edgar Batson said final plans for the stadium are being developed but he has "no idea" when they will be finished The city has already appropriated more than 0600000 tor the long-awaited project which was first approved by voters in a 1960 bond issue i The land located on Oporto-av near the National (Guard Armory has already been cleared and a topographical map has been drawn Mr Batson said a topographici How To Hire An Architect1 I- 5 In airport affairs City Councilman Alan Drennen Jr said his aviation committee' has been discussing the best way to hire an architect for the proposed fll million improvement program at Municipal Airport Mr Drennen also said his committee has been discussing tor three weeks alternate methods of financing the project and Aviation Director Waverly Johnson has been working dn a projection of estimated revenues when' tjie prograni la completed i A report will be made soon to the council Drennen skid mentioning Nov as the tentative date Birmingham (right) and Joe Corley Atlanta Ga trade kicks On the right Lott Opelika (floored) loses to Larry McClure Marietta Ga and a bunch of splinters from three big boards at Sunday's Alabama Karate Championship Tournament at the YMCA Meanwhile in the center! Gary Pilgreen CRASH! WHAM! To the blood-curdling tune of a "kiai" (Japanese form of a rebel yell) Ron Epstein Birmingham (left) makes six little boards Atlantan (Bop!) Wins Karate (Whap!) Title Veterans Day Viet Veteran Coming For Ceremonies i T-38 is the rugged reliable F-5 Freedom Fighter used primarily for close support of ground troops attacks on communications and supply lines and interception of enemy aircraft A mock-up of the X-15 rocket plane will also be on display (Women's Army Corps) will also play in the parade It is the only Women's Band in the Armed Forces and is stationed at Ft McClellan The Air Force's double-duty supersonic jet trainer and fight er-interceptor aircraft the T-38-F-5 Freedom Fighter will be on display at Woodrow if I' Council members will be asked to appropriate 4500 to pjpy tor a night watchman for the Civil' Defense Emergency Operating Center-parking facility which Is under construction next to City Hall The salary appropriation comes in a total $85400 amendment to the city's now $23 million-plus budget for 1967-68 Another new appropriation is $66000 for Spain Park Nursery in Shelby County This brings to some $286000 the total cost of the project which includes four greenhouses The Spain Park facility replaces the city's old nursery on the Green Springs Highway (- Speed Zones To Be Boosted Speed sones on parts of 22 city streets will be increased 'Tuesday 7 These include higher speed sones for four of 'the city's new reconstructed streets 20th-st Ensley Jefferson-av Center Point Highway and Vanderbilt-rd 1 Jefferson-av 8'i 20th-st Ensey will have speed limits of 35 miles per hour I 1 Vandorbilt-rd from East Lake-blvd to Canal-av will have a 40 miles per hour limit and Center Point Highway from Red Lane-rd to Roebuck-dr will have a 45 miles per hour limit1 From Roebuck- dr to the city limits on the Center Point Highway the limit will be 50 milef per hour 1 Night Watchman Asked Business broke hoards and sparred off (the last causing a few minor accidents) Karatrists are allowed a little light contact in their sparring Mrs Parks said "but sometimes it's a little lighter than others" Her husband wounded a couple of toes when his opponent blocked a kick "Well with those size 12 feet you offered a good tap get" Mrs Parks told him Overall tournament champion was Larry McClure Atlanta Ga John Milner was runner-up The Alabama Karate Club received the best club award An award for leadership went to Lott Bar-tee Opelika Joe Corley and Jack Rrook Marietta Ga won the sportsmanship awards BY WILLIAM RARCIIFT While most other persons were planning a restful quiet afternoon with the family Gary' Pilgreen Sunday morning prepared for the afternoon by wolfing down three eggs six biscuits and five pieces of sausage along with gravy and honey Pilgreen is assistant director of Sunday's Srcond Annual Alabama Karate Championship Tournament held at the YMCA Tournament Director Hank Parks also had a pretty big breakfast according to his wife Martha Karate an ancient Oriental art of weaponless self defense requires a lot of protein At the tournament Pilgreen Parks and a number of ka-rate-lnvers went through dancing motions of their art Vulcan Materials Earnings Decline ON DISPLAY HERE The world's first supersonic jet trainer the T-38 Talon a counterpart to the F-5 fighter-interceptor will be on display at Woodrow Wilson Park Friday and Saturday as a port of the Notional Veterans Day activities Wilson Park Saturday as a activities "The "Trainer" version of this multi-purpose aircraft the T-38 was the first supersonic trainer phased into the Air Training Command's pilot training program The fighter version of the Friday and part of the Middle Circus of show business after vaudeville closed Charlie back in the "good old days" of the Panlages vaudeville circuit was a song-and-dance man How did Charlie start with the circus? Well he was all but broke as a vaudeville entertainer that was when this entertainment medium was dying out when he saw an ad in a newspaper It read: Young man with a typewriter free to travel with the circus" He bought a typewriter In a pawnshop for $9 He's been with the circus since Moving a circus today from city to city is expensive business says Charlie although at one time Ringling boasted that it had 101 train cars Today Ringling Bros has 24 railroad cars although as Charlie quickly adds: publicity agent is given the right to stretch things a bit We say we have around 30 cars" Guidance Counselors To Attend Meeting More than 400 guidance counselors from state high schools and colleges will attend a breakfast meeting of the Health Careers Council of Alabama and the Alabama Hospital Assn at the Tutwiler Nov 17 Dr William Hawley 2914 Carlisle-rd council vice president will head the meeting held to discuss recruitment of health field personnel he said showing at Atlanta's Fox Theater was supposed to be a premiere technically it because there were simultaneous engagements id the Technicolor picture in a three-state area Alabama Tennessee and Georgia Birmingham's Empire Theater is now showing Rosalind's picture and it's the kind of scrcei) entertainment that is tailor-made for Miss Russell's screen talents The winner of Birmingham's "Miss Rosie contest" Judy Alford of Gadsden a Samford University co-ed had a ball at the premiere even though she didn't win the BY DICK COOPER Lt Gen John Throckmorton former deputy commander under Gen William Westmoreland in Vietnam will be among the distinguished guests at the Veterans Day ceremonies this week in Birmingham Gen Throckmorton will be the featured speaker at the World Peace Luncheon Saturday at the Tutwiler at noon Another guest will be Maj Gen Joe Calvin Lambert commanding general IV Army Corps headquartered in Birmingham who arranged the of the to be held at noon Saturday Many of Birmingham's churches along with the Protective Life Insurance Co will ring their bells in tribute to valiant men whose lives became the supreme sacrifice tor the preservation of our liberty" Joseph A Serna national commander and chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be the speaker at the National Veterans Awards Dinner at 7 pm Friday at the Tutwiler Among the Air Force dignitaries- will be Chaplin (Maj Gen) Edwin Chess chief of chaplins Department of the Air Force Maj Gen Jack Donohew Commandant Air War College (AU) Maxwell AFB Montgomery and Maj Gen Reid Doster chief of staff Alabama National Guard Birmingham The Third Army Marching Band recognized as one of the finest hands in the Southeastern United States will participate in the parade at 2 Saturday The 14th Army Band Park Tower Apartments Started Construction -of a new luxury apartment building Fark Tower estimated to cost $2750060 was started this past week on Birmingham's Southside officials said Sunday The building site is at 2705-2711 Highland-av The 107-unit structure will he basically all gas equipped including gas heating and cooling Each apartment will have individual control for both heating and cooling the year round officials said The construction will be fire and sound proof Each apartment will have wall-to-wall sculptured carpeting and a private balcony patio or roof terrace officials said Arrangements have been made to provide accommodations at one fixed price per-month including all utilities except private telephones Leasing arrangements will he announced soon officials said The mortgage is being handled by Realty Mortgage Co as correspondents for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co Construction financing is by the First National Bank of Birmingham Architects are R' Brandon Crawford and Associates and the contractors are Hoar and Son Inc Hicks To Head Tulane Alumni Dr James Hicks 2732 A i on-rd Birmingham has been elerted president of Tulane University Alumni Assn He succeeds Douglass Fereret New Orleans architect Dr Hicks who received his medical degree in 1944 from Tulane served on the executive committee of the Birm-ingham-Tulane Alumni Asst) during 1962-63 Charlie's Name Is BY EMMETT WEAVER P-H Amusements Editor Charlie's middle name is He's had it in his blood for 33 years and he's likely to be enamored of the tor another 33 Charlie Schuler Ringling Bros and Rarnum Bailey's advance agent's annual visit here can be predicted almost to the day But while most people would be content to sit behind their office desk Charlie thinks nothing about driving a 15-hour stretch 800 miles from Baltimore to Birmingham Each year he arrives ahead of the circus to make preparations and lay important groundwork ahead of Big Show" When the spotlight goes on for the 1967 edition of Greatest Show" at the Municipal Auditorium Nov 14 Chap lie will have played an important behind-the-scenes role Plans Route One of Charlie's many jobs is to plan the route of the circus railroad train There are many details involved in unloading the show This year's Birmingham show is coming from Charlotte "If a certain piece of equipment isn't unloaded correctly it can mean that the show won't go on and that means a lot of lost money" said the circus veteran who lives in Baltimore Md (when he isn't traveling 20000 miles a year) and who started in this phase MACY'S MARCHER Sara Sedwick alto saxophonist in the Ramsoy High School band has been chosen to play in McDonald's All-American High School Band in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade She is shown with George Broussard Ramsay band director i ings As the Salesman Sees It Or As the Buyer Likes It" Mazzara To Address Management Club Vincent Mazzara a past president of the Birmingham Assocation of Home Builders will address the Bessemer Industrial Management Club Thursday He will discuss the (home building industry and Ijow it affects the local and national economy 3 Salesmen red Jack A Bonner Thomas and Jimmie Reagan sales representatives of Durr Surgical Supply Co have been named "certified by the American Surgical Trade Assn at a Chicago HI meeting Garage Disappears CHARD England (UPU-Regular as clockwork civil servant Paul Winstanley padlocked the door of his rented garage to make sure his car wouldn't be 'stolen It wasn't But Friday the block of three garages disappeared It turned out they had been sold and the new owner had called with a truck ahd taken them away TAKES 'VITALITY' That's what film actress Rosalind Russell says an actress needs during week-end visit in Atlanta Ramsay Girl To Play Sax In Macy Parade weather reduced construction activity and strikes" cut Vulcan Materials Co sales and net cranings in the third quarter ended Sept 30 according to a company report issued this week-end Third quarter net earnings were $3871000 compared with $4677000 last year the report -said NAA Computer Discussion Set Birmingham members of the National Association of Accountants will present a panel discussion "The Influence of Computer Processing on Management Nov 15 to Beta Alpha Psl national honorary accounting fraternity members at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa Don Young University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center controller will be moderator of the panel Pepperell Names Milford William Milford Fair fax has been named quality control supervisor at West Point Fairfax Mill according to plant manager Charles Pease Mr Milford was previously a graduate trainee at the mill Stamps To Speak Stamps will address the Purchasing Agents Association of Alabama Thursday at the Thomas Jefferson Mr Stamps Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co marketing manager will present a two-part program "Industry and the Telephone in the Year 2000" and "Sell- the mentally-unbalanced does the movie get off the track and take on a tinge of soap opera with polite suggestions of a luxury-class "Snake Pit" also marks another movie-making milestone and one long overdue It re-unites Miss Russell with Brian Aherne who portrays her understanding attorney Married to Broadway producer Frederick Brisson since 1941 Roz still keeps the girlish figure and how she does it is a mystery Maybe it's what she calls "vitality" something she lists as a requirement an actress must have even above talent I SECOND PURPLE HEART Sgt Robert Perryman Birmingham Man Given 2nd Medal A Birmingham man Marine Sgt Robert Perryman has been awarded his second Purple Heart medal for wounds received in Vietnam The sergeant who attended Shades Valley High' School before entering the Marine Corps in 1965 has been in Vietnam almost a year "He was quite cheerful and in good spirits even while he was in the hospital" said his mother Mrs Odell Perryman The 20-year-old Marine was trying to get a wounded comrade to safety when he received his first medal He was wounded in the stomach according to his mother The second award came after Perryman was returning to his unit and his vehicle was ambushed Perryman attended Cahaba Heights Junior High School and played both football and baseball there prize a Hollywood trip She was one of the girls to meet Miss Russell at the airport In she plays a madcap millionairess who speeds along in her Ferrari stands on her hflad and performs other forms of unorthodox behavior much to the consternation of her two adult daughters- played hy Audrey Meadows (excellent in an acidic -role) and Vanessa Brown Roz breezes through with a Mame-like halo especially early in the film Only toward the end when becomes imprisoned in a rest home or asylum for 'Roz Brims Over With Vitality a spot in Macy's famed Thanksgiving Day parade in New York Miss Sedwick has been selected to play in the McDonald's All-American High School Band The band is composed of 100 high school musicians an average of two from each state George Rroussard band director at Ramsay said The alto saxophonist plays chair" in the Ramsay band and has been in the all-city and all-state bands Faul Lavalle former director of the Cities Service Band of America is director of the band The musicians were chosen by the hand dirctors advisory board which Rraus-sard said includes college hand directors from across the nation Miss Sedwick is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Sedwick She will receive an expense-paid trip to New York Permits Irksome' GANGTOK Sikkim (AP)-India is considering doing away with entry permits required of foreigners planning to visit Darjeeling the hill station just south of Sikkim A tourism official said the permit system was Sara Sedwick 17-year-old Ramsay High School senior has tooled her way right into Jeff State Offers New Proaram Aid for workers in the mental health field a new practice in the realm of education-'' is being offered by Jefferson Stale Junior College school officials said The' college has initiated a two-year program in Mental Health Technology that is designed to meet demands for workers in the mental health who ore on los than the professional in order to free professional workers for more complicated activities The two-year program consists of seven quarters including courses in psychology and sociology courses specific to the mental health field and enough other basic education courses to comprise one-third of Hie Associate Degree in applied science The program is open to all high school graduates who have acceptable scores on the General Education Development Test given by the BY EMMETT WEAVER P-H Amusement Editor ATLANTA Nov 5 General Sherman may have set the torch to Atlanta' during the Civil War but it was film star Rosalind Russell who kindled a warm glow in hearts over the week-end is that rarity of Hollywood today She is witty gracious charming and above all quick with the answers The star whose hair is now greying in spots dominates Ross Hunter's new Universal comedy -drama Although the week-end I.