Huey

Milton Albert StuckStore owner, electricianMilton Albert Stuck, a retired businessman from Pikesville, died Thursday after his station wagon was struck in a collision on Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore County. He was 78.A high school dropout during the Depression, Mr. Stuck owned a hardware store in the early 1950s and later founded an electrical contracting firm, which he ran for 15 years before retiring in 1980.A native of Baltimore, he grew up in Pimlico and attended Forest Park High School.

Pint-sized and big-mouthed, 8-year-old Huey Freeman is black, angry and has had it up to here with white people.He and his family have just moved from inner-city Chicago into a white suburb and, well, let's just say that the adjustment to a life of big lawns and middle-class living has been a bit rough on Huey and little brother Riley lately."

THE LATEST release by Huey Lewis and The News is called "Hard At Play," and this summer's tour, which stopped at Merriweather Post Pavilion last night, certainly justified the title.Lewis and his five cohorts got off to an unusually slow start, playing a pair of unfamiliar new tunes ("Build Me Up" and "Time Ain't Money"), but once the group slipped into matching gold and silver sequined sport coats and did a pair of barbershop quartet tunes a cappella, the crowd and Lewis worked each other into a sinewy frenzy.

The truth about Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton probably lies somewhere between two plays staged here, just a few weeks apart.The two are Robert Alexander's scathing indictment, "Servant of the People: The Rise and Fall of Huey P. Newton," currently at Arena Players, and Roger Guenveur Smith's more sympathetic "A Huey P. Newton Story," which played Center Stage's Off Center Festival in late January.Though the timing of these productions is most likely coincidence, choosing Alexander's hard-hitting -- and often violent and profanity-strewn -- script during Black History Month is a daring move on Arena's part.

"A Huey P. Newton Story," starring Roger Guenveur Smith of Spike Lee's new film "Get on the Bus," will be produced at Center Stage, 700 N. Calvert St., Oct. 31-Nov. 2, as part of the theater's cutting-edge performance series, "Off Center."Smith has also appeared in "Frederick Douglass Now," "Christopher Columbus 1992," and "Inside the Creole Mafia."After its Center Stage run, "A Huey P. Newton Story" will move to Washington before its 1997 opening at the Public Theater in New York."A Huey P. Newton Story" earned three NAACP awards: Best Actor, Best Playwright and Best Production.

Tree roses look like children's drawings of plants, with their straight trunks, bushy green balls at the top and colorful blotches of blooms. They look like lollipops, fantasy plants: Tree roses dotted the Red Queen's croquet court in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." They are frivolous, but formal, like a party dress."Standards" is the technical term for roses and other plants trained to grow on tall, bare stems. That kind of training is atopiary technique that has moved in and out of garden fashion for thousands of years, as formal gardens and natural landscape styles have replaced each other in an endless cycle.

Behind a rusting fence in Dundalk, an ungainly yet enduring symbol of the Vietnam War awaits its coming-out party.When springtime arrives, the olive-drab shell of a Huey helicopter -- which once faced the ignominy of being used for target practice -- will be restored by members of Chapter 451 of the Vietnam Veterans of America and placed on an elevated base in front of the chapter home in southeastern Baltimore County. "We're putting the helicopter on public display because we're proclaiming we're Vietnam veterans, and for some of us that has taken a very long time," said Dennis Noah, who served as a Marine Corps medical corpsman in heavy combat and now is an international banker in Baltimore.

Joe Scarda is coming from Los Angeles with a couple of jugs of prime tequila and his 23 air medals. Larry Tweedie, a former pilot, is expected from England. And a retired general will visit from Virginia to speak of brave young men he commanded in those flying machines nicknamed Huey.From far and near, hundreds are expected to attend today's dedication in Dundalk of a noble old Huey helicopter -- a battered Vietnam veteran once destined for the scrap heap -- now handsomely restored and intended as a future educational exhibit of America's most unpopular war.In its restoration, which many said was impossible, some see a healing of the human spirit for vets who rescued the helicopter from an artillery target practice range.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Just after dawn, men with shovels and a backhoe began digging in the Weiss family plot in Roselawn Cemetery.After almost three hours of careful digging, a rusted steel vault was uncovered, and its dome was lifted to reveal a collapsed cypress coffin.Inside the coffin were the remains of Dr. Carl Weiss, who has long been believed to be Huey P. Long's assassin -- and, a scholar hopes, the answer to one of Louisiana's most riveting mysteries.Weiss, a respected doctor, was shot to death by Long's bodyguards just after Long was fatally wounded in a state Capitol hallway in 1935.

An Annapolis aircraft manufacturer has signed an agreement with a division of General Electric to jointly refurbish Vietnam War-era helicopters for foreign governments.UNC Inc., which has administrative offices on Admiral Cochrane Drive and 33 plants in 17 states, designed a modified UH-1 "Ultra-Huey," the single-engine gunship and personnel carrier used in the Vietnam War.GE Aircraft Engines is to manufacture T-700 turboshaft engines that reduce operation and maintenance costs for the craft.