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...your "Resorts" story of May 24, about Paleface Sam Banowit's Palm Springs springs, one of the Agua Caliente Indians stated that Mr. Banowit was "the first Jewish Indian in the country...
...thing, the Indians were not allowed to lease their lands for more than a five-year period; it was not until 1959 that Congress changed the terms of the grant, allowed 99-year leases. First man to take advantage of this new dispensation was Paleface Sam Banowit, who trekked out from Chicago, took a look at the spring, and committed $1,000,000 to the proposition that the flow of water could be enlarged sufficiently for a public bathhouse. When the drilling yielded enough thermal stuff to float the Spanish Armada, Sam had the water filtered through 20 miles...
...Stepdown Tubs"), there are four outside pools, three of them simmering at more than 100°. To their boiling depths come crowds of celebrities, and not only show-business types but also such solid citizens as Steelworkers Chief David McDonald, Golfer Gary Player and Joe DiMaggio. Late last month, Banowit opened the Palm Springs Spa Hotel and Mineral Springs, a $2,500,000 edifice touted simply as "the most beautiful bathhouse in the world...
Fourteen Agua Caliente families now enjoy a handsome income from the rentals paid by the spa. But the tribe sees this as merely a beginning. Following Banowit's lead, developers have been clamoring for other patches of Indian-owned property scattered through the resort. Each of the more than 100 members of the tribe figures his share of the once scruffy acreage is worth at least...
...Banowit is not doing badly, either. In token of gratitude, the Agua Calientes inducted Big Sam Banowit into the tribe. "He's the first Jewish Indian in the country," said one tribesman...
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