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The Evening Sentinel "Cumberland County's Home Newspaper" CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1969 [[image]] THORPE'S DAUGHTER ARRIVES-Grace Thorpe, daughter of legendary Jim Thorpe, famed Carlisle Indian, arrived yesterday for the Project Jim Thorpe Day proceedings slated here tomorrow. She is shown at the Indian Cemetery at Carlisle Barracks, looking over the stones of her famed father. Michael Sheaffer, chairman of the Carlisle Jaycees project, guided her on her tour of Carlisle today. Sentinel Staff Photo ---------- Scene Is Set Tomorrow For "Project Jim Thorpe"; 5,000 Signers Sought By WAYNE CASKEY Sentinel Staff Writer His mother called him "Bright Path." The King of Sweden called him the greatest athlete of the century. He was born in Oklahoma but he single-handedly made Carlisle famous (though he’s not even mentioned in a local Chamber of Commerce list of famous Carlisle persons). Everybody knows about Jim Thorpe. He excelled in anything he wanted to. He played football against an Army team with a chap named Dwight D. Eisenhower in the backfield. "Super-Star" We have sports stars, and in recent years we call the really outstanding ones "super-stars." Even super-star was inadequate for Jim Thorpe. Carlisle's Jaycees tomorrow will begin a drive to collect 5,000 signatures on a petition asking the Amateur Athletic Union and the Olympic Committee to restore the honors won in the 1912 Olympics but later lost because of a so-called professional baseball tryout. Daughter Arrives Thorpe's daughter, Frace, arrived in Carlisle last night from her home in Phoenix, Ariz., to take part in tomorrow's project. Thorpe's football teammate, Gus Welch, and his wife are coming to Carlisle today. The first 2,500 signers of the petition will receive souvenir buttons inscribed "Carlisle, Pa., Recognizes Project Jim Thorpe 1969." Jaycees will be att the MJ Mall, Carlisle Plaza and downtown from 1 to 5 p.m. tomorrow soliciting signatures. Carlisle High School's much honored band will also take part, appearing and playing in front of the old Court House from 2 to 3 p.m. The souvenir booklet will go on sale at 1 p.m. Eleven action photos of Jim Thorpe appear in it. The movie "Jim Thorpe-All American" will be shown tomorrow night at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at the CHS auditorium. Thorpe's daughter will speak to the audience at each performance. The movie is free to the public. Numerous Displays Jim Thorpe photos, stories, mementos and souvenirs are on display at place around town including Blumenthal's and Kronenberg's according to Michael Shaeffer chairman of the project. Several persons have already contributed money to the project, endorsed by Governor Shaffer, who proclaimed May 10 as "Jim Thorpe Day." The governor said that "despite the fact that Thorpe was stripped of the honors and trophies he own at the 1912 Olympics by the AAU for a breach of his amateur status, his innocence of the wrong and his worthiness of maintaining the trophies were apparent." It must be clear to the whole world at this very late date in 1969 that no one else at the 1912 Olympich was capable of winning them. In This Edition Church Directory ....... 14 Classified Ads .......... 10,11 Comics ............... 13 Deaths ............... 6 Editorials ........... 4 Sports ............ 8,9 Women's Features ...... 3 Jaycees Receive Support To Plan On Thorpe Trophies Letters, notes and telegrams from all parts of the USA and Canada are arriving at the Carlisle Jaycees' office. All are in support of "Project Jim Thorpe," a goal to have the world's greatest athlete reinstated to his amateur status and to secure the trophies he won in the 1912 Olympics. Here is a copy of a telegram received here today from Philip Martin, chairman of the United Southeastern Tribes, dated Atlanta, Ga. "The United Southeastern Tribes, comprised of the eastern bank of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, the Choctaw tribe Mississippi, and the Iccousukee and Seminole tribes in Florida, wholeheartedly support the efforts of the Carlise, Pa., Jaycees in the Jim Thorpe project to be initiated on May 10, 1969. "This project will designate May 10, 1969 as Jim Thorpe Day in Pennsylvania and will attempt to secure the 1912 Olympic trophies and/or have Jim Thorpe reinstated by the Amateur Athletic Union and the Olympic committee as the rightful owner of the trophies. "The United Southeastern Tribes feel that this is a fitting tribute to a great American Indian athlete and would like to have the athletic memoribilia recognized." - HOLDS HEARING HARRISBURG (UPI) - A public hearing will be held Mary 23 by the Senate State Government Committee on the Shafer administration's public employe bill. Sen. Richard Fram, R-Venango, said Thursday the hearing is being conducted at the request of the governor and that "leading national experts" may testify.
