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Special Events and Tuesday through Saturday, WAL Upper Level
Deadwood, S. D. , retains TIPPFCANOF: AND PERU BIKE RIDE, 10 a.m. ® Gallery, 120 S. St. Joseph.
today, meet in Tippecanoe, Ind. 331, eight miles south DISCOVERY HALT. MUSEUM, 1 to 4 p.m.today, 10
spirit of gold rush of Bourbon; bring food and water for 80-mile ride; a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to
sponsored by Michiaana Bicycle Association. 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 120 S. St.
Joseph.
CORN AND SAUSAGE ROAST, 4 p.m. Friday, 100 This calendar has been compiled by the
Center, Mishawaka. Michign Arts and Sciences Council, Inc. FERNWOOD, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, today, 10 a.m. to 5
By Ron Davis Material to be listed should be received at p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 1720 Range Line
KAMM'S BREWERY ARTS and Crafts Festival, 10 least 16 days prior to the week in which the Road, Niles; recent paintings by Ruth Kjaer Nelson.
a.m. Saturday, 100 Center, Mishawaka. event occurs. For further information, call
IN THE ANNALS of the Old West with his back to the door. With 284-9160 Monday through Friday from 8:30 MIDWEST MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 1 to 5
notorious towns became symbols Hickok distracted by the game a am. to 3 p.m. or moil information to Box p.m. today, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Satur-
ot that rip-roaring, often lawless drifter called "Crooked Nose" 1543, South Bend, 46634. Times provided day, tree admission 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday; 4"9 S. Main
era. Names like Dodge City, Jack McCall crept up behind the Muse are those prevailing in the community in which Elkhart.
Tombstone, Abilene and Virginia dangerous gunman and put a bul- g the event occurs.
City immediately conjure images let through his brain "Wild Bill" MUSIC UNDER THF. STARS, 8 uni Tuesday, My and AND Iy, 10 a. GALLERIES, 1 a 5, St.
of gunfights and barroom brawls. slumped over dead still clutching McNaughton Park Elkhart; Elkhart. Municipal Band today and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. daily, St.
But none of the legendary towns the cards dealt to him moments - - concert. July 8, 1979 Mary's College; student and faculty exhibits.
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of the West have a more exciting earlier. The hand he. held, black
» """"'""r' MICHIANA POPS with Robert Price, harpsichord- ART CENTER MUSEUM SHOP, noon to 5 p.m.
past than South Dakota's famed aces and eights, has been known
Black Hills gold town, Deadwood as the "Deadman's Hand" ever N 7:30 me. Wednesday, Library Reflecting Pool, today and Tuesday through Saturday, 7 to ; p.m.
In the spring of 1876 cries of since. Ironically, onlookers said it a Notre Dame. Thursday, Century Center, art y ret. Joseph; gifts,
sp g Films mu3eairl lterna and works Of art by area artist
"gold!" echoed through pinedot- was Wild Bill's" first winning
,r _ "" "THE, ROOTS OF THE NATION," 2:30 and 4 m.
fed Deadwood Gulch. A town hand in an hour in the game. b -„' N p- NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL, SOCIETY
sprouted up almost overnight as McCall was tried and set free toy, Rum Village Nature Center, 2626 S. Gertrude,
thousands of fortune hunters by a miners' court, leading some $ a, 'heater sponsored by South Bend Recreation Commission Museum, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday,
today,
flocked into the area. In less than historians to believe that Ilickok's 112 S. Lafayette; "flats Are Back" women's hats from
a week 7,000 people left claims at murder was a conspiracy by min- 4 "GENERATION GAP?" 7:15 p.m. today, Dunes "THE GOLD RUSH," 7:45 p.m. today, Little Thea- 1864 to 1954.
Custer City, site of the earliest ers who feared he would try to 4 , Summer Theater, Michigan City; a musical review. ter, Northside Hall, IUSB; Chaplin's satire on greed
Black Hills gold discovery 60 clean up Deadwood as he had and corruption SPENCER GALLERY, 9 a.m.Saturday,9 p.m. Monday
miles to the soutJt,to try their luck Abilene. McCall was later retried "I D0, I DO!" 2 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Wednesday P ough briday, 9 a.m. to l .aym. E., Mi Mishawaka-
at Deadwood Word read be- and hanged in Yankton, S.D., after through Friday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Enchanted Hills "UNDER THE COVERS—American Quilts" and Penn i rary, 209 Lmcolnway E., Mishawaka; por-
g Playhouse, Syracuse. "Leisureland USA," 1:30 p.m. Monday, Senior Citizen traits and landscapes in oil and acrylics by Floyd
yond the Black Ili]]s like a prairie boasting in a bar that he had killed
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fire and within months the popula- the fastest 'gunman who ever �I Center, 604 E. Jefferson. Wenrick, oils and etchings by Lea Goldman.
lion of Deadwood and neighboring lived. p ` "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST," 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Whitew ea Gulch had swelled to Walking the streets of Dead- Recording Studio, Century Center, participation thea- "BUTTERFILES ARE FREE," 7 and 10 p.m. ELKHART COUNTY HISTORICAL. SOCIETY Mu-
White, wood the modern visitor can still I ter for children, presented by Theatre Lady. Wednesday, Engineering Auditorium, Notre Dame. seum, 1 to 5 p.m. today, 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Rush
Memorial Center, Ind 120, BrisloL
Not everyone who came to feel the rousing atmosphere that
Deadwood was a prospector. must have existed there 100 years "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU," 2 and 8 p.m.
lilt � y" COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 2 to 5
Gamblers, prostitutes, traders ago. Reminders are everywhere. Ygl� !W �T Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 6:15 and 9:30 Lectures, Meetings, Seminars
and professional criminals also Man of the boil on Main St., f�' $ 'i"+` P. Saturday, Canterbury Summer Theater, Michigan p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Satur-
Y dings °� I City. FRET: ADULT READING, MATH, G.E.D. Pro- day, 312 E. 8th, Michigan City; American Glass and
came to strike it rich, but by including the No. 10 Saloon, have <i "w'''I VY9I I�WY�WV gram, 8 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, 5 to 8:30 CCA Students' Show, closes Wednesday; William Ho
means other than prospecting for been reconstructed to bring back k 1 4 M� p.m. Monday through Thursday, 307 Central Career �h rents and 30 paintings b Andreenke.
gold Soon the streets of Dead- the days when the fastest gun was "CHICAGO," 5 p.m. today, Barn Theater, M-96, Center, 317 W. Washington; for more information call g p Y
wood were lined with saloons, the only law for miles around. Augusta, Mich.- 232-5749.
brothels and gambling houses ca- In the reconstructed No. 10 Sa- THE ART GALLERY, 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through
feting to the unsavory appetites of loon visitors will find the blood- * "NO SEX PLEASE:, WE'RE BRITISII," 8:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 317 Broadway,
the new he n s populace. Claim stained chair willHic i was sitting d- 'Tuesday through Friday, 7 and 9:45 Saturday, Barn "I'LL QUIT TOMORROW," ADAPT program of the Niles; William Simpson prints, drawings and paintings.
Theater, M96, Augusta, Mich. Mental Health Center, 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, St. James
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jumping and shootings became when he met his end And they can Cathedral, 117 N. Lafayette. GALLERY IN THE GARRET, noon to 6 p.m. today,
commonplace. One newspaper watch the modern version of the _ 10 a.m. to 9 m. Monday through Saturday,
account of the period claimed top gun in Deadwood, Joe Barce- "BLACK ,TACK RIDES AGAIN," 8:15 p.m. Thurs- p. y gh y, l00 Center,
there was a "murder a day" in lone, put on trick shooting exhibi- day through Saturday, Little Theater, Northside Hall, WOMANSHARE, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, YWCA, 802 Mishawaka; Nora Wilson works.
Deadwood tions daily. Barcelone did the IUSB; resented b IUSB Players' Guild N. Lafayette; support group for abused women
Y ( A MONUMENT NOW stands in Deadwood to the memory of legendary lawman and p y y THE ARTWORKS GALLERY, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
No formal law enforcement ex- trick shooting in several of Clint gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok, who was murdered at the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood Aug. 2, CHESS, South Bend Chess Club, 6 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday throughSaturday, 916 E. Wayne; unique and
iste d in Deadwood during its for- Eastwood's popular"man without "LI'1'1'LF: RED RIDING HOOD," 2 p.m. Thursday y m q
mation because the town was to- a name" western movies.) 1876. Hickok and other well known western characters, Calamity Jane, Preacher Smith, and Saturday, 7:15 p.m. Friday, Dunes Summer Thea• Wednesday, South Bend Public Library, 122 W. Wayne. functional pottery, imports, gifts, jewelry and works of
Gated illegally on Indian land. But Potato Creek Johnny and Seth Bullock, are buried in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery. ter, Michigan; children's theater. art in other media by area regional and national
MICHIANA CAMERA CLUB, 10 a.m. Saturday, artists
there was, for a short time, a VISITORS CAN also witness a front gate, Potowatomf Park Zoo.
calming influence on the rowdy reenactment of ,Jack McCall's Deadwood's past from the discov- Crazy Horse near Custer. three different fares based on "J.B.," 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, O'Laughlin
mining camp — famed lawman, capture and trial. Performances ery of gold to Poker Alice dealing At the Hickok Monument vacs- seating arrangement. First class Auditorium, St. Mary's College; a modern poetic treat- THE CORNER G ALLERY, 9 a.m. l 5 ut Monday
Plymouth
gunfighter and gambler "Wild begin at 8 p.m. nightly (except five card stud in the Gala Dance tioners can catch a ride on a repli- passengers paid $60 and sat-with ment of biblical Job. Museums and Galleries through Saturday, 201 N. Michigan moouth
Bill" Hickok. "Wild Bill" rode into Sunday) during the summer Hall Saloon. At each scene taped ca of the Deadwood Stage, which their backs to the driver. Second
Deadwood in June, 1876, hoping to months with McCall's capture on voices add realism and allow the carried passengers between class paid $50 and faced forward: "DAMN YANKEES," 8 p.m. today, O'Laughlin Au-for d SaturTREday,
DAME ART GALLERY, 1 to 5 p.m. today REMB art
by l VERMEER & WELLING Art day
relieve the prospectors of some of Main St., and then move to the Old wax characters to tell their own Deadwood and Cheyenne from And third class sat in the middle ditorium, St. Mary's College; benefit performance for and Saturday, 10 a.m. l0 4:95 p.m. Monday through original art by local artists; 8:30 to 5:30 Monday
their gold at the poker tables. His Towne hall on the corner of Sher- story. 1876 to 1887. The original stage can for $25. Birthright of South Bend, by N.D.-S.M.C. Theater. Friday; French 18th and 19th Century paintings, Amer- through Friday and Thursday until 7:20 p.m.; 135 S.
stay turned out to be much longer man and Lee for the trial. Across the street from the wax be found at the '76 Historic Mu- Deadwood's cemetery, Mount ican art from the permanent collection, recent acquisi- Lafayette.
than he had planned Also located in the Old Towne Museum a beautiful monument seum located on U.S. highway Moriah, sets high atop a hill over- "SALUTE TO HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS," 7:30 lions, 19th and 20th Century photography, Persian
Hall is the Ghosts of Deadwood has been erected to "Wild Bill." 14-A in east Deadwood, along with looking the city, another inter- p.m. today, 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Wagon antiquities. CALICO GARDEN CRAFTS GALLERY, noon to 6
ON AUG. 2,1876,Hickok strolled Gulch Wax Museum, which tells This superb stone bust of the west- hundreds of other horse-drawn esting stop for history buffs. Wheel Playhouse, U.S. 30 E., Warsaw, p.m, today, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday,
into the No. 10 Saloon and was the history of Deadwood with wax ern hero was created by famed vehicles of the era. Mount Moriah serves as the final ART CENTER, Japanese prints and Northern Indi- 100 Center, Mishawaka.
invited to join a poker game. lie figures. The lifelike figures are sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who Riders on the modern day resting place for many notewor- "SLEEPING BEAUTY," 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Satur- ana artists, noon to 5 p.m. today and Tuesday through
was normally a very careful man displayed in authenic-looking is also carving a mountain monu- Deadwood Stage all pay the same thy western characters including day, Children's Theater, Enchanted Hills Playhouse, Saturday, 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Warner Gallery; Notre AMISH ACRES, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m, today, 9 a.m. to 8
but on this occasion he sat down scenes depicting major events in ment to the great Sioux chief fare of $2, but in 1876 there were "Wild Bill" Hickok, "Calamity" Syracuse. Dame visiting artist exhibition, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. today p.m. daily, one mile west of Nappanee.
SIXTEEN The South Bend Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 The Sobth Bend Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 NINE
for a site. South Bend was chosen because of the
Indiana Toll Road nearby and because of facilities at
Notre Dame for large banquets. µ
South Bend Chamber of Commerce people and the `y
convention headquarters hotel staff helped the plan-
ning committee schedule activities. Letters sent to
manufacturers, distributors and importers of limited
edition plates invited their participation in the pro-
gram. » .,
"In the beginning stages, we were worried that not
JI enough companies would participate," Witime says, `
It "but by the first of May we were getting calls from so
many that we became concerned about not having
enough space."
The convention's basic format has remained largely
unchanged. "We always have the beautiful exhibits of
the manufacturers, however, our principal emphasis is
.W on providing collectors with opportunities to acquire
information about limited editions from manufactur- A
ers, artists and other collectors," Winnie says.
p ' "We like to offer a mixed agenda to keep things
v interesting." Educational seminars are presented by
lit artists and plate manufacturers, many of whom come
fi
t from Europe. Each seminar is repeated two or three
times daily so everyone who wants to can take part.
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AS A HIGHLIGHT of the 1976 convention, plate
collectors watched sculptor Laszlo Ispanky create an
' original piece, "God of Thunder," in the Notre Dame
` f Athletic and Convocation Center.
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Last year Irene Spencer of California and Jahn
` McClelland of Connecticut, using models from the -•''•
DR. JOHN EMRICH, right, and Andres Tzing Mendoza, his paramedic, inspect patients' x-rays at Dr. audience, painted portraits at the convention, and this Store in New Carlisle is headquarters for Watson's Collectors' Club.
Emrich's clinic in Santiago Atitlan, one of Guatemala's poorest villages. Emrich, from la Jolla, Calif., and year more than 40 artists will be on hand at the Membership totals more than 2,800.
two Guatemalan doctors are the only physicians for thousands of sick people in the area. Emrich's By Tad Bartimus convention in Century Center, several of whom will be
competition is ignorance and witch doctors, the odds against him overwhelming. He says he stays because painting and creating other works of art.
he feels he's needed, and because his efforts give him personal satisfaction. Also last year, the Bendix Theater was the site of a
special seminar, "The Legend and Treasures of Tu- - t
tankhamm" featuring a series of limited editions t
created for the Fgyptian government by the Edward b k 1 r Pix i
Yank cou le fights to save lives in Guatemala highlands , MarshaHB°ehrnG°.
p g Joyce Zielinski of Watson's Collectibles has been the t
convention chairman since 1976. "This year's program - r'
"
JOHN EMRICH never has to wonder Medical School. His patients seldom see Their lives changed direction just be- the lowest per capita income in the an exciting art form using poured pewter,
Lhe Unit-
what his 14-hour workday will bring. He him in anything but jeans, a work shirt fore Emrich's last year of medical ed States, it didn't take long for us to get she said. Artist Georges DeLodzia will demonstrate
knows it will be tuberculosis, hookworm, and boots. school. homesick new medium, uniting oil painting and pewter,homesick for Guatemala. We realized AI III '
measles, malnutrition, late-night knocks Ile has 3,000 families in his records that the need here is greater than any- which gives vibrance and reality to sculptured animal "
the some of the cards re resent 10 or 12 "I had a friend working on the Navajo where in America." figurines, she explained. "'This will be the first time
at his door. ,
P reservation in New Mexico and I went that the collectors will be seer a demonstration of
members o
seeing
r who be of one family. Although h:m- ;m i h have lived in 'Emrich is an American doctor out to help," recalled Emrich, his deeply Since 1975 the F r c s e this kind."
has rejected antiseptic citadels of mod- rich and two Guatemalan doctors are the tanned face intent in the candlelight of Santiago Atitlan, a town of 22,000 people li
ern miracles and Medicare fora rimi- Y P Y 'ciani for thousands of sick on the ed a of Guatemala's mile-hi h More than 90 exhibitors will participate in the con-
e
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p his family's table. "I was really put on g g
live clinic in one of Guatemala's poorest people, he is philosophical about the bur- the spot, had to deliver babies by myself, Lake Atitlan and at the base of the vention, occupying 150 exhibit spaces. "In 1975 we had �y}
one 16 exhibitors, and this e p
mountain villages. An American doctor den and has come to terms with the local cope with emergencies, try to save peo- 10,264dool Volcano Toliman. Y year we have had to turn
attitude toward death. His corn- many away," according to the chairman.
who has traded $25 office calls and people'sple's lives with nobody to depend on but Its steep cobblestone streets are lit- I
Thursday afternoon golf for 70 patients Petition is ignorance and witch doctors. myself. I liked it." tered with garbage. Many Indians live in Convention entertainers sometimes get into the ar-
every day except Sunday who pay 25 thatched-roofed houses, cook with wood tistic act. In 1977, Red Skelton provided comedy as well
cents each— if they can afford it. "WE'RE NOT GOING to see the re- The Emrichs— including son James, tires, grind corn on shone mallets just his own line of limited edition plates.
Susan, a 31- ear-
Emrich and his wife Sus Y sults of our work in our lifetime," says now 13, and Amy, 9 — returned to the
Emrich, 35. "I treat the outside the front entrance. Even the
old biologist who has become a self- people for pass- reservation in 1971. He worked for the stone houses, laboriously built boulder by Last year Jonathan Winters entertained for conven- w� ,•
lies, TB, pneumonia, and do the best I Public Health Service, and she set up a tion delegates in the Notre Dame ACC. Scheduled for
taught nutritionist, say they came to the boulder, have earthen floors. Most of the
can. We're working re family planning, day-care center for the tribe. In 1973 they this year is the revue, "Here's Entertainment," star-
cool southern use with
to live in a two- and some people are receptive. But there planned an extended vacation in South village women are barefoot and dressed ring Rosemary Clooney, Rose Marie and Joanie Som-
room stone house with a hot plate be- in handwoven blouses and sarong skirts.
cause "we like it here. The people are are enough people who think it is a gringo America. They got as far as Guatemala, 'Their babies are tucked into shawl mers, backed by the Frankie Ortega orchestra. Bob
plot to wipe out the Indians to counteract where John decided to substitute for s on Crosby and the Bobcats will play for the Friday night
friendly, the need is great, nobody both- much of the good. Lentil we eliminate another American doctor who wanted to their backs. They wash their clothes, hair dance. '
ers us." and children in the lake, acatch-basin for
malnutrition — which means getting go home on leave. They fell in love with raw sewage. During the December-to- In 1973, Winnie Watson started a tradition by opening s
Almost none of their neighbors can more money to the Indians — we aren't the country but returned to the States in
read or write, and it is passively accept- going to have much of an impact." 1974 to work for a year to repay student May dry season, dust swirls rafter-high her home to visiting conventioneers, as a place where
ed that one baby in four will die before Emrich stays because he feels needed loans. through the streets and grit blankets they could meet and talk informally. Displayed t �I
his first birthday. — and because his efforts give him per- everything. throughout the house is her magnificent collection of TWO BLOCKS FROM
Dr. Juan, as the Indians know him, sonal satisfaction. "AFTER LIVING AMONG these poor But the vista is breathtaking. Ringed 400 limited edition plates. the store is Winnie
doesn't express himself easily, but he's Ile grew up in La Jolla, Calif., and got people, going back was really a head by mist-shrouded volcanos, the late after- Built in 1881, the house is perfectly situated in iJew Watson's home, built in
taught himself Spanish and enough of the his undergraduate degree at San Diego trip," recalled Susan, a dignified woman noon sun drenches the hills in a purple Carlisle's Victorian atmosphere. Just two blocks away 1 881, with a cupola
Tzutuhil dialect to find out where it hurts. State University in 191 the same year with long black hair which is beginning to light. 'The wind in distant pine trees is the store, its interior lined from baseboard to ceiling that gives a sweeping
hasn't worn starched whites since he and Susan wed after a chance meeting show streaks of gray. "Even though we touches off a gentle murmur which with limited edition collectors' plates, and inside an-
Ile
residency days in Honolulu in 1970, the on the beach. She had just moved from went to Rio Arriba County in northern echoes across the lake like a pagan sigh. tique sideboards are some of the most delicate and view of the surrounding . F
year after he was graduated from UCLA her hometown of Honolulu. New Mexico, at that time the place with A few tourists take the 11/2-hour scenic intricately designed figurines ever created. countryside.
TEN • The South Bend Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 The South Bend Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 FIFTEEN
T r boat trip across the lake from the resort Last year running water and electrici- cents a day per child. That is still more kind of image in the pictures."
i town of Panajachel. They seek bargains ty were added to their rented dwelling than many can afford" The Erririchs have made peace with
.% from the withered Indian women who one end of a five unit stone house built the Indian attitude on death Intellectual-
"' )$ spend hours weaving intricate costumes around a communal yard where a pig UNDERNOURISHED INFANTS ly, they know that many babies could
like those worn by their ancestors for and chickens forage. come in daily for six months- Mrs. Fro- have been saved with more food and
I generations. Every morning Emrich walks two rich selects them on the basis of need better medicine. Emotionally, they ac-
But sales are few, so even infants have blocks to the out-patient curse he over. and the willingness of their mothers to cept that they can't change the world by
sees on the west side of the town plaza. follow her menus. She judges progress themselves.
learned to beg from the visitors. P ) g P � �'
tl lip to 50 patients already crowd his wait- the child's monthly weight gain. "When the people you live with say
THE. POVERTY AND primitive living ing room and spill over into the street. "In the States most 21,�,-year-olds 'This is the kind of world we live in, one
of hunger er and illness and poverty,''- ' -- �; don't seem to affect the Emrichs. Their He begins his day with a brief conference weigh about 3.5 pounds. Here mine weigh anB po rty,' then
house and clothes are clean lit simple. with two paramedics he trained to follow between 18 and 22 pounds. I have a 5%- pretty soon you start to take on that
Their food is the same as their neighbors' up on tuberculosis patients' treatment year-old who weighs 25 pounds. But I attitude too," said Mrs. Emrich "Indi-
- refried beans, tortillas and a few ve- and their year long series of shots. figure that by the time they're G they've vidual fife isn't really a big deal here.
getables — but they can afford eggs and Mrs. Emrich takes the family van to made it. It's really survival of the fit- "If one family member is hopelessly
wr meat twice a week. her one-room nutrition center a mile test." sick with something that's going to cost a
from town. The center has a hammock, Dr. Emrich's next project will be to lot of money, they just let him die. If you
a Except for a few Guatemalan military wood burning stove, a small crib and organize a children's outpatient clinic. become psychotic, you've got two weeks
officers and government officials who woven mats on the concrete floor. Twen- He also wants to train more paramedics to get over it before your faintly stops
have palatial vacation homes on the edge ty to 30 infants eat, sleep and play at the and add classes in family planning. San- feeding you Often relatives won't send
a of the lake, the Enuichs are among the center during the day Mothers take tiago Atitlan, despite its high infant mor- someone to a hospital because N the y
town's most affluent resMents turns, supervising tality rate, has a 3.5 per cent annual died them it would cog a hot of money to
Emrich earns $950 a month from Pro- "Thurty per cent of the population here growth rate. tribe the officials to bring him home and
' x ject Concern, a San Diego-based non- is under six years of age," says Mrs. "The hag problem is illiteracy," says buy a box to carry the body in.
profit humanitarian agency which also Emrich. "I try to teach the mothers how the doctor. "Less than 10 per cent can "They figure the Sick person will die
supports Susan's nutrition clinic and the to get enough calories and protein into read. You can't even depend on visual anyway, it might as well be a cheap
town's 17 bled hospital. their kids to keep them alive on rune or 11 aids because they fail to decipher any death"
'ADORATION' is sculptor Robert Brown's contemporary recreation, as a CONVENTION CHAIRMAN Joyce Zielinski arranges porcelain figurines of
nine-inch collectors' plate, of a 39-inch round plaque by I Sth Century artist Laszlo Ispanky at Watson's store. Ispanky was a special guests at the plate
Andrea Della Robbie in the National Museum in Florence, Italy, collectors' convention in 1976 and created a sculpture there.
Watson's store and was hearing the innumerable ques- tors, but there remained a thirst among both for more.
Plate collectors lions which collectors asked about plates. Audrey Traxler believed that a national convention,
With new plates being issued every month, mforma- with manufacturers and importers exhibiting new edi-
(Continued from page 13) lion derived from the dealers' grapevine was some- lions and telling about their future plans, would be of
times inaccurate. Louise Witt's "Wonderful World of great value to everyone concerned
occupied by the Masons who held a Wyear lease," Plates" with annual supplements was reliable as the Watson's Collectibles and Watson's Collectors Club
says Mrs. Watson. "We were lucky, however. The basic source of information for both dealers and collec- made plans to co-host the first convention and looked y i$
lease ran out last year and the Masons decided to build
new facilities across town.
"Our staff has grown from seven people in 1974 to 3..5 !' "
today. We have 10 phones, each with 10 buttons. And g ^
I'm happy to say the buttons are lit from the time we
walk in each morning to when we leave at night."
In 1972, the Watson's Collectors Club was organized.
As the collectors became better acquainted, it. was
obvious that they enjoyed being together and discuss-
i
ing their hobby.
"I held off on organizing the club as long as I could," e
Winnie laughs. "I thought it was a good idea, but I also
knew it would mean a lot of extra work writing a club
bulletin and conducting a meeting every month On the A
other hand, I was often telling the same story over and a
over each day as customers asked about a new series g c
being produced, so I thought I night save some energy
by making one speech a month to a larger group." , v
Since then, members have met in New Carlisle on a xY
the third Tuesday of every month to see the latest
editions of plates on display and to show each other I a
some of their more unusual ones.
Glen Watson deed in 1973. Two years later Winnie �'
closed the drugstore business, forged ahead in her new
enterprise and branched out into selling plates by mail
order. As her mail order business grew, so did enroll- F t J �
ment in the club, and as enrollment grew, so did
business. Today Watson's Collectors' Club has more i V ` d t ,, w.� M ; • e
than 2,800 members.
"Interest was beingexpressed From all corners of
P KITCHEN CABINETS
the world," she sai "and we felt that we had to do 6+"d d in Watson home were +- R
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something to bring these people together." x "` •s�
painted by a local
THE IDEA FOR the first plate collectors' conven_ artist to resemble SUSAN EMRICH GREETS village women and children at the nutrition center she runs in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. Mrs. Emrich and her husband,
tion came from Audrey Traxler of LaPorte, one of the scenes from limited Dr. John Emrich, have traded the American way of life for a rustic life style among neighbors whose world is one of hunger and illness and poverty.
club's charter members. She had joined the staff at edition plates. go But, say the Emrichs, "the people are friendly, the need is great."
FOURTEEN The South Bend Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 The South Bond Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 ELEVEN
South Bend convention grows asplate-collecting addictions reads
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Thousands coming; ► . .
h,k;.� — "�T^• ,;: New Carlisle store M IF • �,,. T,:•••,+
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where it all started
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y Brooke Klott
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SOME 4A0 PLATE COLLECTORS will stage their
annual migration to South Bend this week. From all parts of the continental United Skates, and from I Cana-
da, � 4 a � A;n r da, Europe and as far away as Australia, they will ;
l come to the Fifth International Plate Collectors' Con-
°^ vention here Thursday throagh next Sunday.
What are plate collectors and why do they congre-
gate yearly in this particular place?
r The answers to those questions are favorite topics of
,
conversation for Winme Watson, who makes both a
hobby and a business of collecting plates at her home
and shop, Watson's Colleetiales in New Carlisle.
"A plate collector," she zxplains, "is a person who
has a compulsion to buy lb-Ated edition plates. Some-
times described as having °plate fever' or as being a
'plate-aholic,' he will live on bread and water in order
to save money for adding to his collection.
"A collectors' plate is a limited edition art object, "
usually made of porcelain er china. Its value is deter-
mined by the reputation of the manufacturer, the a,
' artist's popularity, the 8111 i*ct matter, the number of
* plates issued in that series,and, of course, the mar-Winnie Watson selects the plates and other collectibles that are displayed in the store. She manages a ket's reaction to it."
g 35-member staff. Watson's has been selling�collectors' plates for eight
years, and it was through Niknnie Watson's enthusiasm
and organizational skills that the first plate collectors' e=
0 ,o 1, W convention took place here in the summer of 1975.
t ,c Thirteen hundred manufacturers, retailers, dealers,
1 artists and collectors came to see the latest editions
' Y pexpected Wlson says even more than
,e '. and to trade later. Mrs. W
RS 1P VYJJn �. 1
ast ear's 4,500 are to attend the convention
� � '' " � 7r "•t`" �' �h"Iq this week Watson's front showroom houses lithographs and figurines. The business evolved from a typical small-town corner drugstore.
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,too ,, , yg - �„ 1 ' / WINNIE WATSON'S transformation from ordinary
W. „ � ti�sa;, '+, � � v"a �� wj shopkeeper to leading retailer of collectors' plates
came accidentally. She and her late husband, Gle
IM Y � u� ' g 3�.�
� , "� FFMM i "� began my own collection and felt compelled to share
. owned the corner drugstore in New Carlisle. They this wonderful hobbywith everyone I met. Think of all '
t �' �j,y, a .# enlarged it and added a gift department specializing in the things people collect — and I don't mean to knock
�. p lams and decorative accessories for the home. After them really — but barbed wire, matchbook covers, .
M several years, however, collectors' limited edition
' of beer cans and then think
plates began edging out the other gift items. . . . uds plates. They're so
la
"We began to build up our plate department, and beautiful.
The first collectors' late ever issued was manufac-
through informative newspaper ads, established a
rep- Lured by a Danish firm, Bing and Grondahl, in 1895. 1t$ ,
utation for havingan unuEuall large selection of Called "Frozen Window," it sold in the U.S. for 50
them," Mrs. Watson says. "We wanted to attract cents. Today this plate is bought and sold for about
Philosophy that if you build a better mousetrap, people
$3,000
collectors from nearby towns, and I was sold on the r
+..,
.
Not all first editions appreciate to thistent
will beat a path to your door" ex , of
They did. Collectors started coming from such titles
course, but many now selling for$10 and up can double "
or Indianapolis trip le the original investment, according to Mrs.
m .
as Chicago, Detroit, Fort Wayne and
i Po to
Watson, and in the meantime, she says, "you have an r ,
buy and visit with other plea. collectors. object of beauty which can be enjoyed and displayed in } > ¢
Looking back, it took a 1 tt of nerve go into the your home." She stresses that a true collector acquires T a e r
plate business the way we di(," Winnie recalls. "For 20 plates for the aesthetic reward rather than for mone- « ^A xh v
y.•, years, we had worked long 1t ird hours in the drugstore tarYgain.
seven days a week We had repaid all the money we s
originally borrowed to go knt+ business and had finally 46
IN THE LAST eight years, Watson's Collectibles has s ki
made the last mortgage pays tents on the store and ourMlkr: .<`
had phenomenal growth and until recently was burst- g
home. At last we could relay, take a trip to Europe, ARTIST GEORGES DELODZIA, right, will demonstrate the art of uniting
work shorter hours and a o' our home and garden. ing at the seams. "The second floor of the building was
•� g pewter and oil painting a the plate collectors' convention in South Bend.
The ruby-carpeted main showroom of Watson's Collectibles surrounds the customer with limited editionplates. "After I had discovered limited edition plates, I (Continued on page 14) With him is Victor A. Noel, Schmidt Brothers Co. executive vice president.
TWELVE. The South Bend Tri'l+une, Sunday, July 8, 1979 THIRTEEN