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Winston Salem Journal Winston Salem NC Saturday June 7 1986 People JOURNAL WIRE REPORT Goodbye to Gimbels amous Store May Be Leaving Herald Square to Its Rival for 76 Years Bush Should Be Jogging for Years Vice President George Bush is no match for Imelda Marcos but he keeps collecting shoes his financial disclosure form revealed yesterday Bush an avid jogger baseball fan and hunter listed more than $3000 in sporting goods among the more than $27800 in gifts he received last year Among the sportswear were of running shoes from Jim Autry of Dallas two pairs of shoes from Peter Lunder of Dexter Maine two pairs of running shoes from the Nike Corp and 36 pairs of Nike running socks from Slane Hosiery Mills of High Point NC In 1984 Autry gave Bush 26 pairs of running shoes and another friend gave him gift certificates for two pairs of golf shoes Imelda Marcos in fleeing the Philippines with her husband left behind 2500 pairs of shoes Cuts Left Doctor Shaking The plastic surgeon who painstakingly tacked more than 100 stitches into a face in New York City after she was slashed with a razor said yesterday that her wounds were so horrifying they left him shaking Two men slashed Marla Hanson 24 early Thurs day in an attack that police said was arranged by her former landlord over an $850 security deposit he owed her The landlord Steven Roth 28 a make up artist was arrested as were the two men he allegedly hired to slash her Dr Ronald Levandusky said at a news confer ence in St Vincent's Hospital have never shiv ered looking at wounds the way I did with her When I finished suturing her up at 6:30 in the morning I sat down and I said to myself could men push a woman like this down and carve her face up with a Ms Hanson in a wheelchair accompanied Le vandusky Asked how she felt she said in a strong voice feeling Senator Garn May Donate Kidney Sen Jake Garn Utah said that he or one of his fc' St a GARN sons may donate a kidney to his ailing 27 year old daughter next year according to pub lished reports Susan Garn Horn who is married to a doctor and lives in Vienna Va suffers from pro gressive kidney failure the De sert News and The Sall Lake Tribune reported in Thursday editions The donor will be deter mined on the basis of the best match for Ms Horn the Tribune reported Ice Cream Company Is Target An American Arab group said yesterday that it is starting a nationwide protest against Haagen Dazs Co contending that the chairman of the ice cream maker is a financial backer of the radical Jewish Defense League The American Arab Anti Discrimination Com mittee alleged that Reuben Mattus founder and chairman of the ice cream company in Teaneck NJ has stated his support for the activi ties and of the Jewish organization founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane Mattus strongly denied that he is a financial backer of the Jewish Defense League Deaths Paul Stevens 65 a stage and television actor for almost 40 years of pnuemonia Patricia Wheel 61 a stage film and television actress for more than 40 years Shirley Leon Quimby 93 a profes sor emeritus of physics at Columbia University whose research in solid state physics led to the development of antimagnetic mine devices in World War II Henry Nash Smith 79 professor of English and a Mark Twain scholar at the Univer sity of California at Berkeley in a car accident Robert Edward Lang 70 the first director of Radio ree Europe and a former vice president of CBS News and ABC News of cancer This That President Reagan added some footage to the presidential bloopers tape yesterday by mispro nouncing1 the last name of Albert Camus the rench existentialist writer He was invoking Ca mus to urge the House to provide $100 million in military and humanitarian aid for the Nicaraguan rebels say ing spirit is of no avail against the sword but the spirit together with the sword will always win out over the sword Reagan pro nounced the name of the Nobel laureate as rather than Bucking ham Palace said yesterday Prince Charles will attend Har vard 350th anni versary celebration this September but Princess Diana will not accompany him Todd Bridges of the canceled Diffrent Strokes television series pleaded no contest Thursday to a charge he made a bomb threat against a man hired to customize his car He faces up to three years in state prison CHARLES ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK may no longer have to keep its secrets from Gimbels After 76 years of fierce but friendly competition the Gimbels department store is reportedly leaving Herald Square to its neighbor across the block in one of New York busiest shopping areas A six month search for a buyer to operate the famous outlet and a branch store as department stores was fruit less and the owner will sell both to a de veloper The New York Times re ported yesterday The newspaper said London and Leeds Corp would buy the stores for more than $130 million have no offer from London and Leeds Corp We have not sold the stores and we are still negotiating for the sale of those businesses with a num ber of Gene Russell manag er of public affairs for Batus Inc which has owned the Gimbels chain since 1973 said in a statement yesterday The Gimbels rivalry gave rise to the phrase tell a warning against giving secrets to the competition There are many theories on the ori gin of the phrase but according to the book Macy's Gimbels and Me by Bernice itz Gibbons comedian Eddie Cantor coined it Their competitive spirit was popu larized with the 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street in which Santa Claus steered customers to Gimbels for better prices or selection Gimbels was started by a Bavarian immigrant named Adam Gimbel who wandered the Mississippi River ped dling bolts of cloth and hairpins to fron tier women and later opened a pot and lace shop near the Wabash River in Vincennes Ind The first store to car ry the Gimbel name opened in Milwau kee in 1887 followed by a store in Philadelphia in 1894 son Bernard one of 14 children seven of whom became the famous Gimbel Brothers brought the name to New York in 1910 He built a 10 story emporium with three base ment levels boasting nearly a million square feet of floor spact? Bernard was convinced a large new store could compete successfully with in Herald Square since 1902 despite the worries of his six brothers that it was too large a gamble Under leadership new stores opened in several cities and the Saks ifth Avenue chain was acquired in 1923 Bruce Gimbel the great grandson took over as chief executive of Gimbel Brothers in 1961 He opened a second Manhattan store in the early 1970s in an attempt to cater to an af fluent Upper East Side as changed with the times and geared itself to a more afflu ent sophisticated consumer Gimbels apparently quite get the said abian Linden director of the Consumer Research Center of the Con ference Board who said the merchan dise remained If it closes Gimbels would join a number of department stores that have disappeared from New York City over the last 20 years including Klein and Best Co The Times said 5000 employees would be out of work in the metropolitan area if the Gimbels closings spread throughout the chain Llama Profits Are Up for Iowa armer ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER Iowa Llamas and os triches won't be the alternative crop to bail out most of troubled farmers but they are helping Bill Rector get by on his 1700 acres Rector gazed out over the pens on his farm about 15 miles north of Wa terloo ask 'What are they good he said just my hob by But now they are making me Rector paid $1000 for his first lla ma 18 years ago Now a mother and baby with the right markings and hair growth could bring $30000 to $35000 he said are probably as great an investment as there he said He recently bought four yearling males for $1000 each planning to hold them for a year and sell them for $8000 each His buyers generally are people who want the animals for pets Llama sales have financed expan sion into other animals Rector said Last summer he sold the grand champion female llama at the na tional llama show in Tecumseh Neb for $15000 llamas were what got me all the rest of the exotic animals Paid for my fence my he said Llama profits helped pay for five red necked African Messiah os triches ostrich flock is oije of only three he knows of in the United States and the birds can no longer be imported he said As if on cue one day the ostriches waded into a pond for baths They were joined by an emu a bird similar to but smaller than the ostriches They flapped and splashed running Canadian snow geese and wild turkeys from the edge our to five school groups tour his farm each year and people passing by often stop to look at the animals "Sometimes if I have time I go out and tell them about the Rec tor said I do even if I have the wife says an Rec tor said there a lot worse AP WIREPHOTO Bill Rector raises corn soybeans dairy cattle but he also has llamas and ostriches fe jB zi WWII Letters inally Come Home gala AP WIREPHOTO Michael Minguez and the 200 lost letters ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH Some of the World War II soldiers bound for battle on an unknown ship in 1944 probably make it home Neither did 200 or more of their letters until now are not just normal said Michael Minguez a Raleigh exterminator who stumbled across the bag of mail in the attic of an elderly customer last month are almost the last will and testament for some of those After receiving promises that the US Postal Service would attempt an extraordinary spe cial delivery effort Minguez turned over the letters to postal officials in Raleigh He said he usually minds his own business but he help but peek inside the mail bag when he found it in the attic The letters were Mail or Victory Mail unstamped letters from US servicemen in World War II A young relative of the homeowner apparent ly was appointed to take the bag to a post office while on shore leave Minguez said The details are obscure but the young man failed to carry out his assignment ear of reprisal and then neglect landed tto? bag in the attic Minguez saw himself as the guardian of the letters but hesitated to turn them over to postal officials because he feared they would end up in the dead letter office Assurances from the US Postal Service in Washington persuaded him to surrender them and the responsibility he felt for their delivery During the days he kept the letters Minguez said decency kept him from breaking the seals on them But a half dozen that had already been opened were irresistible guys kndw where they were he said only thing they really knew was everything that was near and dear to them was being left farther and farther and farther behind All the things they never got to say all their hopes and desires and dreams all the things they took for granted all that came spilling out in the The open letters are dated between May 9 and May 21 1944 just a few weeks before the Day invasion of Europe Her Pupils Call Her Ma Barker 10th Prison Class To Receive ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON She is just Professor Barker to scores of students at Bos ton University but to a few pupils within the steel walls of Norfolk pris on she is Ma Barker mother to colle giate outlaws one of us and one of said Ralph a product of the college prison program that Eliza beth Barker built and that graduates its 10th class today ive inmates will receive bache degrees joining nearly 50 other men who earned within the medium security prison work just as hard as other students No Mickey Mouse stuff no letting down Mrs Barker said fact they speak up so much you hardly know how to quiet them not the case on campus I as sure Ralph who asked to be identified only by his first name earned bachelor of liberal studies degree in three years at the prison He earned from Worcester Polytech 5 nic Institute in one year by attending class on campus during his one day a week furlough Climb Out of Prison Next fall he joins the Curry College teaching staff commuting from the prison halfway house where he is serving the rest of his sentence for a crime he declined to talk about He said he owed his climb out of prison to the woman dubbed Ma Barker after the mother made fam ous in the 1930s by her outlaw sons just like a mother to us not just because she taught us but be cause she has devoted part of her life to trying to help he said Mrs Barker 74 conceived the pris on program nearly 20 years ago dur ing a battle of brains between her students and a prison quiz team She was then coach of the BU lege one of several such school teams that went on television to outwit one another Eager for Learning A colleague suggested she train her team with Norfolk inmates who had attracted national attention for the quickness of their quiz team was so impressed with the bright fellows and it was so clear that they were eager for learning" she said She enlisted the support of John Silber the president of Boston Uni versity and she recruited professors to teach at least three classes per semester on everything from archae ology to zoology Such internationally acclaimed po ets as Adrienne Rich and Derek Wol cott also agreed to read at the prison never had a hard time finding she said "The people they teach are so Ralph said the tough college courses accustom inmates to work ing hard None of the graduates has returned to jail after their release prison offi cials said Sideshow JOURNAL WIRE REPORT Drought Brings Back Lost Ring LOUDON Tenn Thanks to the recent drought Roger Brewster has the Loudon High School class ring he lost in ort Loudon Lake 24 years ago The drought left the lake level way below normal and a man found ring lying in the dirt last month The finder Wally McMuiay a Loudon High graduate who now lives in Miami told school officials he found a 1960 class ring with a red stone and the initials carved in it School officials looked through old year books and matched the ring with Brewster who said it was returned to him in Brewster said he lost the ring in 1962 while waterskiing Dallas Seeks King Cockroach DALLAS An extended breeding season and deluxe growing conditions have given Dal las the dubious potential of producing the King Cockroach Two sister Dallas pest control services The Pest Shop and Bizzy Pest Control are offering $1000 for the biggest cockroach in Dallas a company spokesman said winning statistics also will be submitted to the Guinness Book of Michael Bonan said Thursday The contest runs through June 30 amazing the size of roaches already coming Bonan said figured with the mild winter and all the rain been hav ing this would be the buggiest year for Dallas in a quarter century and if we ever had a shot at the record it would be Plants Trees BURLINGTON Vt A man describing himself as the has claimed re sponsibility for planting evergreen trees in potholes in largest city The man told radio station WJOY on Thursday that he was vengeance against potholes because tired of seeing cars said James Condon the sta news director claims he wears a mask and gloves and did it around 2 Condon said He said the station then called police Police Lt William Lauare said officers found the trees at the three locations the man described to the radio station He said the potholes were surrounded with barricades Lauare said he did not believe the bandit could be charged for anything unless the trees were stolen Dentists Hold Smile Off PORTLAND Ore Oregon dentists are looking for some great looking smiles The best smiles will win free trips to the fair Expo 86 in Vancouver British Co lumbia The Academy of General Dentistry is ask ing people to send in pictures of themselves for Great Oregon Smile The pictures must be submitted through a dentist partici pating in the program "Show us your fair smile and win a vacation to Expo says the flyer announc ing the contest will be judged on their healthy appearance Winners will be announced June 20 at the annual meeting of the Multnomah County Den tal Society great looking smile is a bonus to any said Dr Ruth Kosmalski a spokesman for the academy Ball Game Canceled TRURO Iowa A softball game between Playboy Bunnies and their male counterpart Rabbits to benefit a school district has been canceled after objections from residents who said it would promote pornography just think we needed the said Jack Kinney head of the Interstate 35 School District booster club Kinney received calls from people who said his group was promoting pornography af ter an advertisement for softball game appeared in a school newsletter The advertisement said the booster club was sponsoring a slow pitch softball game fea turing Bunnies and Rabbits from the Play boy Club of Des Moines The game had been approved by the Board of Education Start Receiving Great Days in the YES! 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