The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 10

4-ti THE BAY 1OWN SUN Sunday, January 8, Louisiana Prison Camp Like 'Hogan's Heroes' LAFAYETTE. La Snhntt THE BA.YTOWN SUN LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) "Hogan's Heroes" the TV comedy about American soldiers in a German prison camp during World War II might have been true to life had it been set in a Louisiana camp for German prisoners of war, says a professor at Southwestern' Louisiana University. At a camp in Gueydan, prisoners are said to have manned the machine guns in guard towers while their American guards enjoyed a Christmas party, said Dr. Matthew Schott, a history professor who began research about German POWs three years ago.

Schott said he also has heard that POWs ordered to pick 100 pounds of cotton a day in Ruston got off more lightly by training a big dog to jump into their bags before weighing. Schott and Rosalind Foley, a Lafayette novelist who suggested the project when she was collecting background material for a book, interviewed 25 of the former Lousiana POWs in Germany last October. "We went there to see how much the verbal accounts we collected from Louisiana people had been exaggerated," Schott said. "Frankly, we were skeptical about stories of prisoners of war guarding themselves and sneaking out of camp to meet the local girls. "But after asking the Germans, it happen? 1 and hearing their responses, we can only conclude: Such things did happen." Schott said up to 50,000 German prisoners including many who had been in Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps spent time in Louisiana.

Big Brother Watching At Supermarket HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) It's 1984, and just as George' Orwell wrote, citizens are reminded Big Brother "is watching you" at a supermarket. The market named Big Brother was the target of pranksters with a literary bent, who draped painted sheets bearing the. words "is watching you" under the. store's sign.

That completed the phrase Orwell used in his 1948 novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four," about a totalitarian government that dominated every aspect of life. Since the addition was made New Year's Eve, shoppers for groceries have expressed apprehension, says store manager John Mines. "A lot of people don't know what in the world it means and they think we put it up here, but we didn't," Hines says. "For a while, I thought about offering a reward to identify who did it. Then I got to laughing and now I just may leave it up there all year-' long.

"To me it sort of' says, hey, 1984 is here, and some of the things George Orwell warned about are coming to pass, and it's also free advertising," he said. Don Everly Doesn't Miss His Success NEW YORK (AP) "Do I miss the success? Not really," says Don Everly, the older of the Everly Brothers who rocketed to fame in the '50s and now are looking for a comeback with a concert broadcast, and maybe a video disc and tour. Don, now 46, and brother Phil, 44, famous for such hits as "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie" and "Cathy's Clown," broke up in 1973 when Don put down his guitar and walked off stage, but got back together for a concert in London last September. concert will be broadcast Jan. 14 on Home Box Office.

"Time has taken care of a lot of things in my life," said Don 1 in an interview Wednesday. "We've resolved our personal differences. I am; really happy now in my life, in my career. "Do I miss the success? Not really." "Only Texas and California harbored more of them," said Schott. "There were never more than 20,000 in the state at one time, but the authorities moved prisoners around the U.S.

frequently during the war." He said camps at Livingston, Ruston and Fort Polk housed 4,000 to 4,500 POWs each, and 50 side camps around the state held 100 to 1,150. The Germans, whose field work placed them side-by-side with black fieldhands, often reacted to condemnation of Hitler's belief in Aryan supremacy and anti- Jewish policies by pointing out that white Americans discriminated against blacks, said Schott and Ms. Foley. "Ironically, the Germans developed quite a rapport with the blacks, and we've learned that they sometimes had sexual relations with black women," said Schott. He said Ms.

Foley interviewed, the former camp guards and planters who had employed them, and got in touch with the former prisoners who had returned to Germany, as well as interviewing them. Schott found and went through written records and reports, including those by the groups such as the YMCA which regularly inspected the camps to make sure the rules of the Geneva Convention were being upheld. As a matter of fact, many U.S. civilians and soldiers complained that the POWs got more and better food, drinks and cigarettes than they did, Schott said. At Camps Polk and Ruston, the prisoners reportedly dined on delicacies including excellent German pastries.

Camp Liv- ingston had a library of 10,000 books, most of them German textbooks. Camp Polk, where the American actor George Montgomery was an officer, had a big orchestra and an elaborate theater where Helmut Wildt, a leading actor in Berlin's Schiller Theater, got his start. Most of the wilder stories came out of the smaller camps, where POWs were sent to help harvest rice, sugar cane and cotton and do other jobs that ranged from kitchen chores to helping maintain Louisiana's levees, said Schott. The reports included stories that Germans regularly slipped through the barbed "wire at Franklin for romantic trysts with local girls, and that men in several camps brewed liquor and made radios. "With a few exceptions, the prisoners felt they were treated better as prisoners by the U.S.

Army than they were in their, own army," Schott said. One dark side of the prison camps was that camp commandants sometimes allowed hard-core Nazis to discipline fellow prisoners, and Nazis persecuted anti-Nazi Germans. There were four murders at Camp Livingston, "where the Nazis seem to have been in power," Ms. Foley said. But most of the memories were fond both among the POWs and the people who hired them at 80 cents an hour.

They more than upheld the idea behind Ms. Foley's book: a Louisiana rice farmer of German descent who had been poorly treated as a POW in Germany "comes home to find well-treated Germans working for his family farm." Save 115 to on everything you need to start off the new year. 14.99 save over on Verdi Trieste shoulder tote S30 value Nylon. carry-on S50 value 21.99 garment bag S60 value 25.99 S75 value 32.99 28" pullman 585 value 36.99 twin Springmaid's "Silk poppies" sheets and cases reg $8 Brightens any bedroom. Blue and pink on ecru.

full reg. S11 7.99 queen reg. $16 12.99 king reg. S20 15.99 std. cases reg.

$8 6.99 pr. king cases reg. S97.99pr. colorful ruffled, round tablecloths $26 value By Blue. Rust.

Navy. 20" round table 25" high. Of sturdy particle board 4.99 Cannon' "Hastings Royal family bath towels 57 value cotton. Blue. Beige.

Clay. Peach. Pink. Cornsilk. hand towel 55 value 3.49 wash cloth 2.75 value 1.89 I 14.99 save on "Fluer" dinnerwarej byJ.G.

Durand reg. S2O Service for 4. Includes: 4 dinner plates, 4 dessert plates, 4 cups and saucers. Clear. Scalloped edge.

Embossed, floral pattern. Accessory pieces also sale priced. special purchase on reversible comforters $4O value Twin and full. Extra plump. Attractive florals reverse to solids.

queen and king S60 value 27.99 6.99 save S3-S4 on Dacron II bedpillows reg. $10 Standard size. DuPont fiber filled. Machine washable and dryable. queen reg.

S127.99 king reg. S149.99 7 f.yy twin eyelet border "Elegance" sheet set S36 value Wondercate' Egg shell. Flat and fitted' sheets. Pillowcase. Full size S47 value 24.99 Queen size S60 value 34.99 King size S79 value 44.99; 9.99 save $5 on Durand decorative storage jars reg.

14.99 Set of four 2 litre, litre, 1 litre, litre. Jardiniere or spice pattern. With rubber gasket Decorative, yet useful. 9.99 special purchase Springmaid Darby sheets $20 value Queen or king size. Brown, blue and cream floral pattern.

No iron Tranquility. std. or king cases S14 value 9.99 pr. 14.99 save $5 on Bates Super Rib bedspread reg. $20 Twin size.

All cotton. Warm. Lightweight. Washable. No iron.

Durable. English rose. Natural. Sky blue. entire stock of regular price boys' socks Casual and dress socks.

By Trimfit. Colored solids and white tube socks. In sizes 7-8y 2 THE FAIR ADVANTAGE: FASHIONS You CAN AFFORD Sate prices continue thru January 31. Grand Opening Cute Classy Beauty Styop Professional Hair flail Care Owner-Fabia Ann Vail 9 am-6 pm OPENS JANUARY 9,1984 Walk-ins Welcome 4518 Ponderosa Boytown 424-4644 Not Secret Anymore Sunday, January 8, 1984 5-B Indian Restaurant Called One Of Best EL PASO (AP) It looks more like a small town diner than a nationally acclaimed restaurant, but top food critics have proclaimed the Tigua Indians' small eatery in this West Texas city one of the best in the nation an honor that surprised even the tribe. "For so long now it's been one of the best kept secrets in Texas," says tribal superintendent Ray Ramirez.

"All we had eating here were tribe members and tourists. If you went out and asked people in El Paso about the Tiguas' restaurant, they'd probably give you a blank stare. But that's changing now." The restaurant, which currently is just an extension of the Tiguas' gift shop, has been cited by a national magazine and two national restaurant reviewers as "the place to eat certain regional foods," Ramirez said. People Magazine rated the restaurant's chile the best in the nation and the latest edition of Jane and Michael Stern's "Good Food: The Adventurous Eater's Guide To Restaurants Serving America's Best Regional Specialities" lists several Tigua dishes as the finest in the country. "It's just great," Ramirez said, adding that the kudos have helped the tribe bring in hungry patrons.

"But it's something that came as a surprise to us," he said. "We knew our food was good, but we didn't think anybody else knew it because they didn't know where we were. This really has been something we're proud of." The Tiguas opened the restaurant a couple of years ago to help fund tribal programs, Ramirez said. "We never dreamed it would become such a big hit," he said. And in anticipation of more customers, and to keep up with the image of being nationally renowned, the tribe plans to open a new restaurant one with a little more atmosphere and charm in a 250-year-old Jeans to Sheets to luggage.

Saturday or Monday entire stock of regular price Teen form bras Her first bra. Of stretch nylon or poly fiber-, In many styles. "Gro cup." White or beige 28-34. save S4 on men's Levi's Boot Cut jeans reg. $19 Indigo denim.

cotton Riverts. Stitching. 5-pockets. Levi's quality. Levi's fit.

28-38. Ooff entire stock of men's regular price Van Heusen Long sleeves and legs. Coat style. Adjustable waist band. Solids and fancies.

Easy care poly-cotton. S-M-L-XL off nylon tricot Gilead sleepwear Pajamas. Long and short gowns and robes. Smooth. Feminine.

Lavished with lace. Sizes 32-40. S-M-L. entire stock of regular price girls' legwear Socks and tights. By Trimfit.

Cable and crew socks. In solids, stripes, prints and argyles. Great colors! 2 off men's Hanes Red Label underwear cotton. In packages of three. 28-42.

S-M-L-XL. T-Shirts reg. 9.79 7.34 briefs reg. 7.59 5.69 boxers reg. 9.69 7.26 A-Shirts reg.

7.59 5.69 entire stock of Burlington men's socks Dress socks. Casual socks. Sport socks. Nylon. Orion.

Cotton Qiana. In many colors. One size fits all. off Cross Your Heart by Playtex All of your favorite styles at a great savings. 32-38 A-B-C.

off entire stock of regular price girls' slips, panties By Her Majesty. Cotton. Nylon. Poly-cotton. In white or beige.

Some with lace trim. 4-14. Regular price merchandise indicated by prices ending in .00. 2 oft Wane's pantyhose and knee highs Sheer sandalfoot. Light support.

Control top. In barely there, town taupe and little color. AB-CD-EF. all styles of regular price Bali bras All your favorite Bali bras at a savings! Support with comfort. Of smooth tricot with underwire.

In A-B-C and cups. THE FAIR ADVANTAGE: FASHIONS You CAN AFFORD Son Jocinto Mall 10-9 Bay Plaza Center 10-6. Sun. 12-6 San Jacinto Mall 10-9 adobe building which now houses the tribe's museum. "We're going to make it a garden restaurant," Ramirez explained.

"It'll be enclosed, but will have a clear covering so you can see outside and the sun can come in and there will be plants in here." The current restaurant now seats about 110 people, who eat at small tables covered with rust-colored fabric and paper placemats. "We want the new one to be a little more classy to make it a place to come to, not just a place you eat at because you're already there," he said. The Tigua tribe has been struggling to survive financially for the past several years. Projects such as the restaurant, gift shop and a chili processing plant in nearby Fabens, Texas, were initiated to help the tribe pay for its programs. The restaurant has been a profit-maker for the Indians Man Plays Lead Role In 'Dolly' LONDON CAP) Critics were ready to say "Good-bye, Danny!" to the first female impersonator to play the lead in a major production of the musical "Hello Dolly!" Martin Hoyle, in the Financial Times, wrote that Danny la Rue "merely appropriates the role and plays it, if he'l! excuse the expression, straight.

Never Dolly, he remains a man showing off an inexhaustible supply of frocks, sometimes fleetingly resembling Lucille Ball in a panic." "There is unlikely to be any more miserable theatrical travesty this year than the sight and sound of la Rue speaking, singing, and dancing his way through the role of Dolly Levi," wrote Nicholas de Jongh in The Guardian. De Jongh said that la Rue the wiliful impression of a drag queen on a rather down night." adding, "No expense seems to have been spared on la Rue's sixfold sequence of feathered headdresses or lilac and crimson gowns: all spectacle without substance." Irving Wa'rdle in the Times commented that "the task of preserving a female mask, chin up, teeth gleaming, denies him any change in facial expression." Only John Barber gave the la Rue the'critical OK. In the Daily Telegraph, he called the production "less a show than a ritual celebration. It is certainly fascinating to see what the male star does when dolled up." Filing To End On March 5 Residents of Harris County Fresh Water Supply District No. 27 may file for candidacy for four district positions through March 5.

Elections will be held April 7 to elect four district supervisors and one tax assessor-collector. Three supervisors will serve two-year terms and one will serve a one-year term. The tax assessor-collector will serve a one-year term. A District No. 27 resident and landowner who is 21 or older may apply at the district office at 5534 Wade.

Bay Plaza Center 10-6, Sun. 12-6.