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Tuesday, September 2, 1975-THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS-5
GLENDA TOTH; MARK SANDERS
LINDA KAY GAGNON; JIM FLEMING
KITTY TENNEY; MICHAEL KUBIN
LAURA PERDUE; TIMMY MARUSAK
OTHER ATTRACTIVE CONTESTANTS and their escorts (see above) were the court of Queen Pam Mitchell
of St. John's Bazaar.
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By EARL ARONSON
AP NEWSFEATURES
With spring approaching, how
would you like to try to beat
Mary Pinkley’s record-size, 17-
foot 3-inch sunflower?
The giant sunflower Mary
raised in Richfield, Minn., last
year exceeded the previous 16-
foot 2-inch speciman listed in
the 1974 Guinness Book of
Records.
Mrs. Lucille Pinkley, Mary’s
mother, said, “I didn’t even
think the plant was going to
live. It was so weak we had to
prop it up with a lollypop
stick.”
Started indoors in May, the
lfttle plant was moved outside
in mid-June. By July 1, it was
barely four feet tall.
Mary’s dad, Jack, decided
then that the struggling plant
needed help. He gave it a dose
of the tomato plant food (Pre-
cise by 3M) that he was using
in his vegetable garden.
Not long after that he had to
use a ladder to fasten the top of
the rising flower to its support-
ing pole.
The sunflower was part of a
school growing project under-
taken by the 10-year-old Mary.
She potted three seeds but only
one came through.
Mary won first prize in the
class project, a pair of binocu-
lars.
Featured Plants and Seeds
Among items featured in 1975
catalogs:
Kelly Bros, Dansville, N.Y. —
Burning Bush, for brilliant hed-
ges; tree peonies with blooms
up to eight inches, from Japan;
Blue Bird Althea, up to eight
feet tall; Dwarf Potentilla, low-
spreading, 12-15 inches tall with
bright yellow blooms; Gable’s
Pioneer Azalea, very hardy.
Jackson & Perkins, Medford,
Ore. — Roses Spellbinder, the
company’s Rose of the Year,
hybrid tea, changes from ivory
time, long, oval buds, clear
pink, winner of the Japanese
Rose Society certificate of mer-
it.
Star Roses, Connard Pyle,
West Grove, Pa. — Red Foun-
tain, ever-blooming climber;
Sonia, grandiflora, luminous
pink.
New Garden Book
“Nature’s Colors,” by Ida
Grae (Macmillan Publishing
Co.) is a guide to dyeing, using
nature’s products, actually a
recipe book of dye colors from
American plants. In the well-il-
lustrated book, the ingredients
have been scaled down for
preparation in the home to
■yield a quart of dye instead of
a pound. There are illustrations
of dyed cloth, yarn and plants.
You will be introduced to the
historical background of dyeing
and dye processes and supplies.
An authority of plant dyes,
Ida Grae also tells you the sup-
plies needed to do it yourself.
MARY AND FRIEND
tinged with pink to deep red;
Red Reflection, hybrid tea red
with lighter reverse; Summer -
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McPhee
Educates,
Entertains
PIECES OF THE FRAME.
By John McPhee. Farrar,
Straus & Giroux. 308 Pages.
$10.
One of the great pleasures in
reading at random is to come
across a piece that not only is
beautifully written but also edu-
cates and entertains at the
same time. To come across a
whole book of such pieces is the
highest stroke of luck. Such a
book is John McPhee’s “Pieces
of the Frame.”
Whether discussing modern
canoe races, firewood, quarter-
horse racing or basketball,
McPhee consistently is a
delight to read as he weaves
fact-crowded sentences into a
superb exposition that leaves
the reader happier and smar-
ter.
The bulk of the 11 pieces
which make up this collection
originally appeared in The New
Yorker magazine and reflect at
its best the high writing stand-
ards that magazine has held for
so many years now. In “Trav-
els in Georgia,” McPhee details
a trip through the backwoods of
Georgia in company with a
couple of nature lovers seeking
to preserve the state’s natural
beauty and, while he makes a
strong case in favor of pre-
servation, he also studs his text
with such stunning sentences as
“The darkness in there was so
rich it felt warm.”
“The Search for Marvin Gar-
dens” is a finely crafted con-
trapuntal piece in which
McPhee moves from para-
graphs about the game of Mo-
nopoly to scenes showing what
the streets used in the game
are like in Atlantic City today.
The use of contrast here is
most forceful. As for the title,
“Marvin Gardens is the one
color-block Monopoly property
that is not in Atlantic City.”
It’s in Margate.
Whether discussing the Loch
Ness monster and the cult it
has attracted in “Pieces of the
Frame” or Scotch whisky as it
is made in Scotland in “Josie’s
Well,” McPhee is a most enter-
taining writer.
Phil Thomas
AP Books Editor
‘Reaper
Harvests
Fascination
REAPER: The Story of a
Gang Leader. By Gary Hoenig.
Bobbs-Merrill. 168 Pages. $6.95.
Specifically, “Reaper” is the
story of Georgie, dropout, drug
addict, South Bronx gang lead-
er. Generally, it is the story of
life in the meanest streets of
the nation’s largest city. On
both levels it is consistently in-
teresting.
Gary Hoenig spent over a
year with a gang in the South
Bronx gathering the material
for this book and he did his
homework well, although there
are areas of interest of which
too little is said. For example,
Georgie’s older brother, al-
though coming from the same
background of drunken mother,
runaway father, tenement envi-
ronment, managed to break
away from his surroundings
and go on to become a worker
with computers. How come he
managed to get out and
Georgie didn’t? Hoenig doesn’t
say, and it is granted that this
study is about Georgie, but it
would have been interesting if
Hoenig had speculated, at least,
on the matter.
Despite this, the picture he
draws of Georgie and street life
as seen through the eyes of this
young man who was to rise
from shambling drug addict to
leader of the “Reapers” is an
engrossing one. Hoenig has a
knack for catching the boredom
which seems to occupy so much
of the lives of the gang as they
wait around day after endless
HAPPY GROUP — Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mitchell, their daughter, Pam, who had
just been crowned queen of St. John Bazaar, and her escort, David Maliska.
RECORDS
Vinton’s Comeback Is Ethnic
By T.J. LOGUE
Associated Press Writer
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) -
Singer Bobby Vinton, the local
boy who made good, was faced
with oblivion a year ago. His
records weren’t selling. Nobody
seemed to care that “Roses
Were Red,” or velvet was blue
or he was “Mr. Lonely.”
But his mother’s admonition
to pay more attention to his
roots helped him find the ve-
hicle he needed to re-establish
his musical identity.
“I was a big hit in Italy and
South America and I did a lot
of singing in those languages,”
Vinton recalled during a recent
11-concert, sell-out engagement
in Pittsburgh, 25 miles from
Canonsburg.
“I used to brag about my
success over there and my
mother would sit there and
fume.
“ ‘Why don’t you spend more
time with your own language,
Polish?’ she told me.”
With nothing to lose, he tried
it. The result was a German
folk melody with Polish and
English lyrics called “My Melo-
dy of Love?’
Vinton recorded it, sinking
$50,000 of his own money into
it. Six record companies turned
him down before ABC finally
took the risk.
“I guess that’s the biggest
Polish joke of the year,” said
Vinton, referring to the 1.5 mil-
lion records those six com-
BOBBY VINTON
panies lost in sales.
He now has two LPs out on
ABC Records, “Melodies of
Love” and “Heart of Hearts.”
Vinton said the millions of
white ethnics in America —
Poles, Italians, Slavs and
Greeks — were ready to sup-
port a singer who was willing
to admit he was one of them
and proud of it.
Even closet ethnics, including
some of Vinton’s own relatives,
who hid their Polish ancestry
for fear of social reaction and
discrimination, began showing
up at folk festivals and seeking
out others from their fathers’
lands.
JOPLIN OPERA
HEADS FOR BROADWAY
HOUSTON (AP) - The Hous-
ton Grand Opera’s production
of Scott Joplin’s only existing
opera, “Treemonisha,” will
play at the Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts in Wash-
ington for three weeks, starting
Sept. 4, and move to Broadway.
It will open Sept. 25 at the
Uris Theater. The engagement
is projected for a six-week run.
day for something to happen.
Occasionally something does
happen, usually bad, usually
violent. A brutal attack by an-
other gang, the spilling of
blood, and then, once again, the
days of monotony.
“Reaper” isn’t the only book
written about a youth gang
leader, but it is one of the more
truthful, and interesting, ones.
Phil Thomas
AP Books Editor
‘STUCK’ WITH WINNING
TORONTO (AP) — Jarrold
Organ, a university student
with a job at Toronto’s Green-
way Raceway, was working the
$10 parimutual window when a
customer asked for an exactor
ticket on the last race.
Organ punched the ticket but
made a mistake on the horses’
numbers. The customer asked
him for a new ticket and Organ
was stuck with the original.
The horses on his ticket came
home first and second. His win-
nings: $3,501.
“I really believe in it now,”
said Vinton. “In the beginning,
all I wanted to do was sell
records. But now, I’m believing
myself and I really am con-
cerned with ethnic people and
ethnic groups.”
Vinton’s father, a locally pop-
ular band leader, anglicized the
original Lithuanian family
name, Vintula, to Vinton. Stan-
ley Robert “Bobby” Vinton Jr.,
still “Stash” to some of his
hometown friends, was raised
in an ethnic neighborhood by
his Polish mother.
He went to a Polish grade
school and his first professional
job came at age 14 when he led
a polka band at a small town
American Legion hall. He be-
came leader of a band in high
school because the Vinton fami-
ly could supply both music
stands and instruments.
That ensemble helped pay his
way through Pittsburgh’s Du-
quesne University, where he
studied oboe and was gradu-
ated with a degree in arranging
and composition.
After a six-month stint in the
Army, the inspiration for one of
his biggest hits, “Mr. Lonely,”
Vinton resumed his career as a
bandleader but the time of the
dance bands had passed. Vinton
cut a couple of sides for Epic
as a singer. One was “Roses
Are Red,” which sold three
million copies in 1962. Vinton
followed it with a string of hits,
among them “Blue Velvet,”
“Mr. Lonely,” “There, I’ve
Said It Again,” “Please Love
Me Forever,” “Blue on Blue,”
“Tell Me Why,” “Every Day of
My Life” and “Sealed with a
Kiss.”
“A year ago if I’d have said I
was Polish, you wouldn’t care.
But they care now,” said Vin-
ton, fingering a Polish good-
luck charm around his neck.
“The Polish people have a
spirit and a pride now they
never had before. But more so,
I see that all ethnic people
have a pride in their back-
grounds.”
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TED D. SMITH
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