sign in sign up
<<
Home , Bat Masterson, Isaiah Dorman, Jane Blalock, Nat Love

Today in the. GuaEta ByD C BUSINESS WORLD

(UPI) -- The dollar opened at record levels today as another week of trading opened in Europe. Gold rose slightly in London and was unchanged in Zurich. GAZETTE The dollar was up against the German mark, Swiss, French and Belgian francs, London pound and Italian lira. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Gold opened at $300.50 an ounce in Zurich, unchanged. In London, it was $300, up 75 cents from Friday's close. The London gold price was fixed at $300, up 75 cents. London mid-morning spot silver was $6.10, up one-half cent. 'f- ol. 40 - No. 29 U.S. Navy Monday, February 11, 1985 (AP) -- The Conference Board's monthly survey indicates that consumer confidence in the economy rose sharply last month. The January survey found that nearly 22 percent of those DRUG AGENT MISSING IN MEXICO asked believe business conditions will improve over the next six months, and an even greater percentage, 29 percent, ex- Believed to be kidnapped by drug traffickers pect their family income to rise over the period. (AP) -- According to a for lunch, and has not been According to Feldkamp, (AP) -- Gasoline prices in the *pokesman for the U.S. U.S. have dropped steadily Drug seen since. "It's the first suspected over the past three months, but oil industry W enforcement Administration, analyst Dan Feldkamp says an eyewit- kidnapping of a DEA agent in Lundberg says they could be on the A DEA agent in Guadalajara, rise again. Lundberg ness told the DEA yesterday Mexico." says an increase in wholesale prices is to blame. His Mexico, has been missing that "four armed men" were latest survey shows while the average price since Thursday, and is be- of gas dropped seen abducting Camarena and Feldkamp said that since in the past two weeks, wholesale prices increased. The lieved to have been kidnapped "throwing him into a car in Camarena's reported abduc- nationwide average price for by drug traffickers. a gallon of regular leaded Guadalajara." tion, additional agents have self-serve during that time was $1.01. DEA spokesman Robert He says there has been no been rushed to Guadalajara, Feldkamp identified the contact or ransom demand located about 280 miles west missing agent as Enrigue from the suspected kid- of Mexico City, to help Camarena, More cuts from 37. He says nappers, who he says are be- local police search for the military budget, Camarena left the DEA office lieved to be drug traf- missing agent. *irsday to meet his wife fickers. Foley says trim $15 billion (DPI) -- The number two Dem- military, after inflation. Artificial heart against beliefs ocratic leader in the House Foley made his comments says he would like to see yesterday in a broadcast in- Implant candidate's wife $15 billion cut from Pres- terview, on NBC, that also hesitant ident Reagan's proposed de- featured the Assistant (UPI) -- Doctors in doubts about such an im- Mrs. Levels suggested that fense budget for fiscal Senate GOP Leader, Alan Louisville, Ky., are still plant. implanting 1986. an artificial Representative Thomas Simpson of Wyoming. considering whether an Ohio Jean Nevels is the wife of heart is contrary to her re- Foley of Washington said a Despite being from dif- man should get the world's Wilburn Nevels, 59, who suf- ligious beliefs. "I'm a "fair, more evenhanded bal- ferent parties, Foley and third artificial heart im- fers from heart disease. ance Christian and so is my hus- of cuts has to be de- Simpson expressed similar plant. They live in Cleves, Ohio. band, and that thing's not veloped." views on several issues in His wife expresses serious In an interview with UPI, God-made, it's man-made." Reagan included $314 bil- the budget debate. Doctors at Humana lion for the Hospital Pentagon in his Simpson said Congress may Audubon have said strong nearly $874 billion spending be able to trim government family support is one of the plan. That is nearly a six- programs if there are reduc- most important qualities for percent increase for the tions in the defense budget. any implant candidate.

AROUND THE GLOBE

(UPI) -- Saudi Arabia's King Fahd is ex- (UPI) -- An Ethiopian woman who investigates pected to push for a new -led child abuse cases for the state of Mass- Middle East peace effort today when he meets achusetts says she will return to her home- with President Reagan at the White House. land this week to open an orphange after 15 It is the Saudi ruler's first official visit years in the U.S. Enkutatash Kebede of to Washington since assuming the throne in Winchester says she made the decision fol- 1982. lowing a recent visit to the famine-ravaged African nation. (UPI) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrives in West Germany today (UPI) -- In an apparent move to rejuvenate where he will meet with his West German China's Communist Party, the official press counterpart and later hold a joint news con- announced today that some 900,000 members ference. In a speech delivered yesterday in have retired since 1982. The Peoples Daily Munich by his aide, Weinberger defended Newspaper says the elderly cadres have been President Reagan's "Star Wars" anti missile replaced by sone 80,000 young and middle- system. aged educated members, who have been pro- moted to leadership posts. (UPI) -- Two members of Congress say if President Reagan wants to join them on (UPI) -- A former high-ranking Soviet dip- cutting the budget he has to be prepared to lomat says more than half of the Soviet dip- cut defense spending. GOP Senator Alan lomats in City work as spies. Simpson of Wyoming and Democratic Congress- Arkady Shevchenko, in his memoirs in Time man Thomas Foley of Washington said yester- magazine, charges the Soviet KGB is waging a day, efforts to freeze Social Security cost- ruthless campaign of sabotage in the United of-living raises will be linked to cuts in States. the Pentagon budget. (UPI) -- Federal agents say they hope toys (UPI) -- The Reverend Jesse Jackson says in and clothing belonging to a five-year-old , black Democrats must will confirm whether she is the kidnapped look at their loyalty to the party and leave daughter of a Venice, Calif., couple. Of- it if they are being taken for granted by ficials sent the items to a laboratory for the Democratic leadership. The cival rights analysis. The FBI says the girl may have leader accused the Democratic Party of trying been kidnapped in 1981. A 58-year-old to "prove its manhood to whites by showing drifter in Anchorage, Alaska has been charged its capacity to be unkind to blacks." with molesting the child.

This week's flight schedule

+S For week of Feb. 11 - 15

DATE i - AIRCRAFT DESTINATION DEP. ARR.

Tue. 12 727 (MAC) Kingston 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. Tue. 12 727 (MAC) Norfolk 4:15 p.m. 6:59 p.m. Wed.1 13 C-12 (R&R) Puerto Plata 8 a m 9 a 0 a.m. 7 .I.m i1 TIhu. 14 C-141 (CARGO) Roosey Roads 10:10 1 a.m. 1:10 p.m. Fri. 15 C-12 (R&R) Puerto Plata 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 1Fri. 15 C-12 (R&R) Provodentiale s 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 1Fri. Fashion Show 15 727 (MAC) Kingston 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. lFri. 15 727 (MAC) Norfolk 4:15 p.m. 6:59 p.m. IN FASHI, RM2 Cuttes festivities that are going Mathis struts his style at a 1NNote: on this month to help It is important that all EMLs be completed properly fashion show at the CPO Club celebrate iincluding Black History sponsor's arrival date on sstation. Forms must be Saturday night. The fashion Month. (Photo by PH1 (A/C) ii n triplicate. (carbon copies only). show was part of the John Howard) RICH HERITAGE; BLACKS

By Master Sgt. Rudi Williams

White men who were trappers, explorers, adven- tureres, frontiersmen, homesteaders, mission- aries, soldiers, and cowboys in the early Ameri- can West have been glorified and lionized in mo- tion pictures, television, and print. The same is true of some Indians, such as Chief , and . But what about black Americans and other min- orities in the old West? Even today, only a handful of blacks or whites know there were gun- slinging, rough, tough black and black counterparts to Tom Mix, William "" Bonney, , Frank and , the Dalton brothers, Will Rogers, and countless others. Yet, many blacks worked with and were friends of these men, performing the same feats --good and bad. "The story of black people was ignored when historians told of., Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, Sitting Bull, General Custer and ," William Loren Katz wrote in his 1973 book, "The Black West." "Yet, blacks are mentioned in explorers' diaries, government reports, pioneers' reminis- cences and frontier newspapers. They also appear in sketches by Charles Russell and Frederic Rem- ington, and in early photographs by professional and amateur cameramen, military and civilian. Like other Americans, they helped shape our many frontiers." . FOAR SLAVE Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was Thousands of blacks headed westward after the one of the best known promoters of the Emancipation Proclamation. They faced the same Silver screen stereotypes idea that the West was a land of hardships and took the same risks as everyone opportunity for black settlers. Pap led else in settling and taming the West. Some mommmo many of the 20,000 blacks to during worked side by side with whites, but only a few the Exodus of 1879, and is also credited became foremen or trail bosses. Nearly one cow- For many years, the life- colorful cowboys in the with founding Baxter Springs and Dunlap boy in three was either Mexican or black. blood of the Hollywood movie West. He earned the nickname Colony. industry was westerns. But of "," natural- blacks were most often cast ly, in Deadwood, S.D., on in trifling, ignominious July 4, 1876, when he dis- roles -- cooks, maids, but- played outstanding skills in lers, mammies, stableboys, riding, roping, throwing, and other characterizations saddling and bridling an un- that usually protrayed them broken horse, and target as lazy, shuffling, child- shooting. ish, laughing-dancing- Born a slave in singing buffoons. in 1854, Love migrated west to Dodge City at the age of When stories of legendary 15 in pursuit of his child- Bat Masterson hood dream of becoming a flashed on the silver . screen, his real life Love worked the ranches of friend, black cowboy Nat the panhandle, sharp- "Deadwood Dick" Love, was ening his shooting skills nowhere to be seen. Neither and becoming expert at read- were any of the other black ing cattle brands. He and cowboys who were to be found other rode the in Dodge City, Kan. at the famous , herd-. time of Masterson's adven- ing steers from Texas to the tures. north. In his 1907 autobiography, One of his greatest feats "The Life and Adventures of was completing a 12-hour, : Better Known in 100-mile ride on the back of Cattle Country as 'Deadwood an unsaddled horse. Dick'," Love claimed to have Love, who was fluent in also been a friend or ac- Spanish, rode the trails un- quaintance of Frank and til 1890, when he went to Jesse James, psychopathic work as a Pullman porter in killer William "Billy the the "iron horse." Kid" Bonney, and other well- Many black cowboys were known white figures of the forced into other occupa- time. tions when the West became Love was one of the most more populated with whites.

AAL2 HIS MNY ACKIMLISIHNIS, Jim also a trader, scout, explorer, trapper, Beckworth discovered an important pass Indian fighter, and businessman. through the Sierra Nevadas. Beckworth was

His fame faded B

Countless novels, comicbooks, and movies Known as "The Famous Mulatto of the have depicted famous Indian fighters and Plains" for his courage and daring on the scouts, but Jim Beckwourth, a black man, frontier, Beckwourth was also an Army scout isn't one of them. A reporter who knew during the Third War in Florida. He Beckwourth in 1860 described him as "the later became a trapper and gold prospector, most famous Indian fighter of his traveling extensively throughout the West. generation." He also carried mail between Monterey and Skilled with the gun, bowie knife, and Southern . tomahawk, Beckwourth was adopted by the Crow In 1850, Beckwourth discovered an Indians, married a chief's daughter, and important pass through the Sierra Nevadas, a became a tribal leader. The Indians renamed few miles northwest of what is now Reno, him "Morning Star," which was later changed Nev. He led the first wagon train of to "Bloody Arm" after his participation in settlers through "Beckwourth Pass," which, many battles against the Blackfeet. along with a mountain peak, valley, and nearby town, still bears his name. Beckwourth became a living legend as a trader, scout, explorer, trapper, Indian UONE (F TE MST (IIFI, (D IxBOYS in the fighter, and businessman. But he wasn't the Old West was Nat Love, whose autobiography, only black trapper who ventured deep into "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better the wilderness seeking skins and pelts. Known in Cattle Country as 'Deadwood Dick'," There were also such black mountainmen as never became famous. Among his real life George and Stephen Bonga, Edward Rose, Peter friends: Bat Masterson. Renne, and Allen B. Light. IN THE OLD AMERICAN WEST

Lip biting finish

The same obscurity that sprawling 101 Ranch in Okla- -- lot befell Beckwourth followed homa, described Pickett as rider Bill Pickett, "the greatest sweat and dirt the originator of bulldog- cowhand that ever lived -- ging, until he became the bar none." irst black man to be elected to the National Cow- Pickett spent 10 years boy Hall of Fame (in 1972). traveling across the United Pickett was the first cow- States, South America, and boy to master steer wres- Great Britain with Tom Mix, tling, or bulldogging -- the Will Rogers, and William feat of chasing a steer on "Buffalo Bill" Cody in Wild horseback, leaping out of West shows. the saddle, and throwing the Mix and Rogers often steer on its back with bare served as Pickett's assis- hands. Pickett took it a tants, but they, along with step further -- his finale Buffalo Bill, became famous was biting the cow's upper in show business while lip and raising his hands in Pickett received little no- the air. He took on a Span- tice outside the rodeo cir- ish fighting bull in Mexico cuit. He died in 1932 on his City in 1908. 160-acre ranch in Oklahoma According to Katz, Zack after being kicked in the Miller, owner of the huge, head by a horse. B

RaED RIDER Bill Pickett was the first first black man elected to the National cowboy to master steer wrestling and was the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

He knew horses

Cattle rustler, rodeo clown, prospector, and bronco-buster, Isom Dart never made it to the silver screen or pulp nov- el, but it was said "No man understood horses better." Katz quotes a westerner as saying, "I have seen all the great riders, but for all- around skill as a cowman, Isom Dart was unexcelled.He could out- ride any of them; but never entered a contest." i - Dart was shot in the back awl - i; '' T'_

Indian interpreter CUMBOYS! More than 5,000 black cowboys rode the rough and rugged cattle trails in the spirit of tough-minded "last General 's independence that the stand" against the Indians is forever country was built upon. recorded in history, and many movies have been made about the incident. But the black frontiersman who rode with Custer as an Indian interpreter on that last operation H remains virtually unknown. He was guide, scout, and rider Isaiah Dorman. Before that fatal day in 1876, Dorman I carried mail in the between River outposts. He was also a guide na survey project for the Northern Pacific S ailroad. Dorman had lived with the Sioux, married T an Indian woman, and learned their language. He was allegedly a good friend of Chief Sitting Bull. Legend has it that the Sioux 0 didn't scalp or deface his body out of respect for their longtime friend. There were thousands of other black R frontiersmen and women whose lives would make fascinating Western fiction and whose exploits would fill history books. But their Y stories are never likely to be told.

Photos reprinted

courtesy Adolph Coors Company, 1983

SETTLERS! Thousands of black settlers helped turn the harsh American prairie into a fertile and rich resource. SPOR TSWORLD WEST DEFEATS EAST 140-129 Record crowd turns out to watch the All-Stars

(AP) -- They love their With the win, the East in the 35th NBA All- basketball in the state of snapped a five-game closing Star Extravaganza contri- Indiana and yesterday, a streak in all-star competi- buted their effort to record crowd turned out to tion, a streak which co- charity. The players con- watch the West outscore the incided with the arrival of tributed their cash shares East 140-129 in the thirty- Larry Bird on the NBA scene for the game to "Interaction fifth NBA All-Star game. A at . Detroit's Isiah Ethiopia," a group coordi- crowd of 43,146 was on hand Thomas was high scorer for nating relief activities for at 6- the Hoosier Dome in the East with 22 points, the stricken African nation. Indianapolis, the largest- while Bird finished with 21. The winning players ended ever turnout for an NBA For the West, San up contributing $2,500 per game. Antonio's George Gervin man, while the losers anteed The biggest all-star followed Sampson with 23 up $1,500 apiece. The NBA turned out to be the biggest points and "Magic" Johnson supplemented the $48,000 put contributor. Houston's 7-foot- of the Lakers contributed 21 up by the all-star players, 4-inch Ralph Sampson scored a points and 15 assists. with another $52,000, game-high 24 points and The crowd erased the old bringing the total donation hauled in ten rebounds for NBA attendance high of to $100,000. the West and earned most 41,163 on Feb. 4, 1969, for a The charitable contribu- valuable player honors. regular season double-header tion was the brainstorm of Sampson scored eleven of at the Houston Astrodome. all-star Alex English of the his points in the fourth The previous high for an Nuggets. English quarter, as the West broke all-star game was 31,74. at hopes to organize other all- from a 97-92 lead at the end the Silverdome in Pontiac, star games this summer with of the third quarter to its Mich. in 1979. proceeds also earmarded for final eleven point margin of It is worth noting each of Ethiopian aid. victory. the 24 players who took part Yellow Jackets assume first place Georgia Tech drops Wake Forest (UPI) -- In , the field. Heels moved to 18-5 for the tenth-ranked Georgia Tech With the win, Tech im- season, while the Ti gers Yellow Jackets dropped Wake proved to 18-4 overall and slipped to 14-7. Forest 94-75 and in the pro- 7-3 in the ACC. cess assumed first-place in At Baton Rouge, La., Hawks pounce Bruins the Atlantic Coast Confer- fifteenth-ranked North ence standings. Carolina carried the ACC (UPI) -- Chicago kept its John Salley's 27 points banner with success, as the winning streak alive under led the Jackets, who had Tar Heels declawed Louisiana the direction of General five players in double State 75-70. Brad Daugherty Manager Bob Pulford, who figures. Mark Price and led the 'Heels with 19 took over as coach last Yvon Joseph supplemented points. week. Salley's effort with 18 North Carolina rallied The Black Hawks' 4-3 vic- points apiece. For the from a ten point first-half tory over Boston made it game, Georgia Tech shot a deficit to win the game. three wins in a row under sizzling 59 percent from the With the win, the Tar Pulford and gave Chicago a weekend sweep over the Top-seeded tennis players lose Bruins. ripped Hartford 10- in Delray Beach, Fla. tournament 4. (UPI) -- The $1.8 tennis pionships, Mike Leach Vancover downed Winnipeg tournament at Delray Beach, knocked off tenth seed Jimmy 5-3. Fla., lost Toronto completed a few seeded Aris. a week- Nice players in competition yes- Second seed Chris Evert end sweep over Montreal 3-2 putt! terday. in overtime. Lloyd reached the quarter- IN 7HE IK)LE! Chris Burt Association's organizational Kathy Rinaldi surprised finals by ousting ninth seed Philadelphia nipped the sinks this 15- footer. If meeting Sunday, February eighth seed New York Rangers 3-2. j Zina Garrison in Kathy Jordan. Seventh seed you are ages 8-19, come to at approximately 2:30 p. straight sets. Hana Mandeikova eliminated rallied to the Yatera Seca Junior (Photo by JOSN Jerome Sanda) Bettina Bunge beat four- Mary Joe Fernandez, 13. beat Pittsburgh 4-3. teenth seed Pam Casale in Tenth seed Carling Basset three. stopped Gabriela Sabatini, In men's action at the In- 14. ternational Players Cham- SPORTS DIGEST LOCAL SPORTS I i Open Water Scuba Course. WANTED: Fishermen and women NHL There will be a one week for the Greater GTMO Rod and GOLF Scuba Course starting today Reel Club's Fishing (UPI) -- Mark O'Meara is on a roll. O'Meara (UPI) -- Tony McKegney of the Minnesota through Feb. 17. Graduates Tournament from Feb. 15 to picked up his second straight PGA win with a North Stars will miss not only the All-Star will be certified as PADI 18. There are four one-shot victory over Craig Stadler in the game but will probably miss the rest of the Open Water Scuba Divers. catagories with . First, Hawaiian Open. O'Meara entered the final season. McKegney, the Stars' leading goal Call Guy Womack at 4600 Second, Third place money round with a four-shot lead but needed a scorer, suffered a shoulder separation in a DWH/3452 AWH or Bill Mimiaga winners going for $700 in birdie on the seventeenth to claim the weekend loss to St. Louis. The North Stars at 2121 DWH/2542 AWH for prizes. Call John at 3956, $90,000 top prize. Stadler earned $54,000 say he will undergo surgery and be out six details and schedules. Bob at 2898, Horace at 2678 after firing an eight-under-par 64 over the to eight weeks. Minnesota winger Steve or any other club member for final 18 holes. O'Meara now leads the 1985 Payne will take McKegney's place on the A your $10 ticket. money list with nearly $184,000. Star team. Do you want to sharpen up SKIING your dive skills, learn new The 6th Annual "FASCO (UPI) -- Patty Sheehan called it a "classic ones and prepare for PADI Open" will be February 16, confrontation." She battled (UPI) -- Skiier Jonas Nilsson claimed Rescue Diver and Divemaster? 17 and 18. This is a team over the final 18 holes in the Sarasota Sweden's third straight World Championship The Padi Advanced Open Water event open to 40 teams. Classic in Florida and came away with a one- Men's Slalom title at Borimio, Italy. Course is the answer. Class Entry fees and for more shot victory. Sheehan shot a six-under-par Nilsson upset Luxembourg's Mark Girardelli begins Feb. 18. Contact information contact Mr. Shaw 66, but heard the footsteps of Lopez the in the final race of the 10-day World Alpine Paul Cunningham for further at Golf Course Pro Shop 2519 whole way. Lopez carded a 68 and just Ski Championships. Nilsson just missed a info at 2882 DWH and 2862 DWH. missed forcing a playoff. Sheehan won bronze medal last year at the Sarajevo AWH. $30,000. Lopez took home $18,000. Olympics. RAC/NG Anyone interested in (UPI) -- One fan at Sarasota got closer to coaching or officiating in the action than anyone else in the gallery (UPI) -- Auto racer Terry Labonte warmed up The public is invited to a this year's T-Ball program when a ball hit by Betsy King landed in her for the Daytona 500 by winning a 50-mile Smoker hosted by the should contact T-Ball lap. Grace Symansic, 69, of Englewood, race at the speedway. Labonte took home the Marine Barracks at 6 p.m., Commissioner Mike Wolford, Fla., says she had lost sight of King's $50,000 prize for first place and an addi- on Saturday, Feb. 16. at 2271 AWH. Let us make second shot on the sixteenth hole when sud- tional $15,000 for leading certain laps. Admission is free. Food and sure that the little denly she was holding it. Symansic was sur- The Daytona 500 is set for Sunday. Glenn drink will be available. baseball stars get the prised but not hurt. King, forced to take a Sears of Apex, N.C., took first in a second Interested boxers should opportunity to enjoy this drop, bogeyed the hole and finished tied for race at Daytona, the Arca 200. Sears, contact Capt. Dunnagan by great sport and become ready third with Jane Blalock. driving a Pontiac, clocked nearly 130 miles Feb. 15 at 2587. to move up as they mature. an hour.

4 AONDMY, FEBRUARY I/, 1985 GUdHT4AMO 904/1 YOdZETTE