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THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1957 - 9

OLD BARBER CLOSES SHOP HERE

Buffalo Bill Didn't Tip

By WALTER LITTELL
Salvatore Trapani, who once cut Buffalo Bill's hair, closed his shop here Saturday and called it a day after 63 years of barbering. 
Mr. Trapani, 76, carefully tucked his straight razor, scissors and comb for the last time into the frayed leather case his shoemaker father had made for him when he became a barber at 13 in Cininna, Sicily. Then he locked the door of 1138 Florida-av ne and walked home to retirement. 

MANY ON HAND
Neighborhood friends and old-time customers were on hand to reminisce with the small, spry barber, who has served many families for five generations.
"Salvatore, you're the best barber I've gone to," said Robert A. Humphries, president of the R. A. Humphries and Son real estate firm.
"I came to you on Dec. 23, 1908, when you had the place across the street where the Chinese laundry now is. I was drumming coffee and tea for a New York merchant. I've been to other barbers, but you're the best."
"You don't ask no questions and you cut the hair like I want you to," said Henry Weehauser, a house painter, who has been Mr. Trapani's customer for 37 years.

EMIGRATED AT 22
Mr. Trapani emigrated to America when he was 22 and for a time worked in the Pennsylvania coal fields. He came here shortly afterwards and soon was operating his own three-chair establishment.
One of his earliest patrons was Buffalo Bill, who passed thru Washington in 1914 with his Wild West Show.
"Cutting his hair was no different from cutting anybody else's," Mr. Trapani said. "There were mobs of children out in the street watching while I trimmed his goatee. He didn't tip me but I expected a couple of tickets to his show. He didn't give me any."
A hair cut in those days cost 15 cents, a shave ten and a neck shave five. Every man had his own shaving bowl and Mr. Trapani, who would start the day at 7 a.m. and work far into the night, often wielded his razor by gaslight.

BETTER TODAY
"It was hard work then," he said. "A lot of physical labor, a lot of work with the scissors. Barbers are better today because they've got better equipment."
Mr. Trapani married in 1906 - his wife, Catherine, died five years ago - but only two sons out of the nine children he raised became barbers. They are Joseph, who runs the big barber shop at the Navy Yard, and Salvatore, who worked with Mr. Trapani in the Florida-av place. 
Mr. Trapani will live with his two unmarried daughters, Mary and Josephine, at 2835 30th-st ne.
"Salvatore, I brought you all these brochures about Florida. Why don't you go down there instead?" Mr. Weehauser said.
"The only Florida I know is Florida-av," Mr. Trapani said.

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Mr. Trapani and his oldest customer, R.A. Humphries.

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Japanese Reds Mark 39th Year

TOKYO, July 15 (UP) - The Japanese Communist Party, comparatively quiet in recent years, marked its 39th birthday yesterday with a rally attended by some 2000 party members. 
Party first secretary Sanzo Nosaka berated the "pro-American policy" of Japan's government and charged the government is trying to revive "militarism."

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Boys Will Be Boys

HATFIELD, England, July 15 (UP) - Boys here celebrated the opening of their new school swimming pool yesterday by throwing headmaster Kenneth Hutton into the water as he was making a speech to distinguished visitors.
"Very funny," he said afterwards. "I was wearing a new suit."

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New Twist

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 15 (UP) - Richard Kosina, 28, had a new twist when arresting officers seized him for operation of a "moonshine still" in his basement here.
"I made the stuff," Kosina said, "to mix with gasoline for my outboard motor."

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He Closed the School

Witness Describes Tension At Clinton

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 15 (UP) - The embattled principal of an integrated high school told today how tension "inside and outside" the building forced him to suspend classes last November.
D.J. Brittain Jr. testified at the contempt of court trial of John Kasper and a group of Clinton defendants who were reduced from 15 to 14 today when a young pregnant woman was excused. 
The Clinton defendants were rounded up last November about the time Mr. Kasper, a roaming segregationist, was on trial in Clinton on a state sedition charge.

PROBLEMS
Mr. Brittain testified that in late November and early December "we had more internal, concentrated problems than at any other time" in the school which was integrated for the full year.
"People were coming in and out of the building, threatening students," Mr. Brittain said. "There were complaints from teachers, from white students and from Negro students."
On Dec. 4, when a white Baptist minister brought six Negroes back to school and was beaten for it minutes later, tension outside the school building became so serious that the principal decided the "safe thing to do would be to suspend classes," Mr. Brittain said.

CLOSED
"I called the local school superintendent and he said if I thought it was the right thing to do I could dismiss the students.
"We closed at noon that Tuesday and stayed closed for the rest of the week."
Mr. Brittain will not return to the Clinton school for the fall term. He plans to take advanced courses at New York University and will be replaced as Principal by W. B. Human.
The government charges that the Clinton residents conspired with Mr. Kasper at this time to interfere with the high school integration thru intimidation and picketing. Judge Taylor had issued an injunction against such conduct.

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