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there's been a corporate takeover of Girl Scouting and that Girl Scouts are losing their way."
• In New York, an alumni group is suing to block the sale of Eagle Island Camp, originally built for former Vice President Levi Morton in 1902. Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey advertised the 31-acre property for sale in 2011 and recently lowered the asking price to $3.25 million.
• Last month, a judge ordered an Alabama council to turn over documents to critics fighting its plan to sell 88-year-old Camp Coleman.
• The council had initially demanded that the group pay $22,000 for staff time and copy charges, but the judge called that excessive. Opponents recently succeeded in electing 11 members to the 29-member council, and now hope to keep it open.
• Jim Franklin of Birmingham got involved after his 8-year-old granddaughter, who rides horses there, came to him in tears.
• "Everybody, including me, started out saying this is just about our camp. It's not," he said. "I've talked to folks in Ohio and Iowa and Michigan and New York, and all of a sudden everybody has realized, 'Wait a minute, we've got a national problem here.'"
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Monday, May 27, the 147th day of 2013. There are 218 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On May 27, 1933, the Chicago World's Fair, celebrating "A Century of Progress," officially opened. Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released.
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• On this date:
• In 1861, Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, ruled that President Abraham Lincoln lacked the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (Lincoln disregarded the ruling).
• In 1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.
• In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, N.J.
• In 1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
• In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to (Continued on page 33)
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