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Eugene, Oregon
orrp
MkroDhooes Use
Approved
Former U. S
Attorney
' By Paul Jenjdn
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Gave Okay
By JOHN CHADWICk
WASHINGTON 11 Rnhert M
M i y i w
. EDITH DAMEYVOOD, owner
prepares a sandwich for one
who habitually frequent her
the general run of citizenry
farmers and professional men.
Before purchasing the Silver
Nook Edith was chef at the Hose
Hotel for 19 years, where she ca
tered to a far different trade. But
I'll bet they didn't like Edith any
better than her present customers
do. who like her plenty. They like
her saucy waitresses, too. I guess
I'd better sign off or I'll have
them liking everybody.
Court Of Appeals
Upholds Guilt
Of Puerto Ricans
WASHINGTON The U. S.
Court of Appeals Thursday upheld
the conviction and prison sentences
given four Puerto Rican fanatics
for shooting up the House of Rep
: resentatives March 1, 1954. Five
lawmakers were wounded, but all
recovered.
In a unanimous decision, the
..court rejected all points raised by
t-outtrdppoinled counsel for . the
Puerto Ricans and commented
"Their guilt was clear and their
convictions must stand.
The court specifically upheld
V. S. District Judge Alexander
HolUoffs refusal to order a psy
chiatric examination to determine
the Puerto Ricans' mental com
petency to stand trial, and his re
fusal to submit to the jury the
question whether the defendants
were sane when they fired their
pistols into the crowded House
Chamber.
Three Puerto Rican men received
prison sentences of 25 years and j
lolila Lebron, who said she was
their leader, received a sentence
of 16 years and 8 months to 50 j
years.
The difference in the sentences
resulted from the fact that the trial
jury convicted the men on five
charges of assault with intent to
kill and five charges of assault
with a dangerous weapon, but con
victed the woman only on the dead
ly weapon charges.
C. Hammond Breaks
Arm; Condition Good
Chester Hammond. 2548' N.
Stephens St., Roseburg was re
ported in good condition at Doug
las Community Hospital Thursday
where he was to undergo surgery
on his broken left arm.
Hammond, 42, entered the hospi
tal Wednesday afternoon. Details
concerning the accident were un
available. He is employed by Rose
burg Lumber Co.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
George Howson of Sacramento,
celebrating his 100th birthday, says
he made one bad mistake in his
long life. He quit work at 90.
He added:
"That's too young to retire. I'd
have gone on working if people
weren't so touchy about hiring old
men."
Food for thought:
Maybe if the minimum wage fix-
ed bv law weren't so hiKh. people
wouldn't be so touchy about hir-
...k imu men. mm u o.. K nierav ! Americans of "a postal card Switz-
mert. And old women. And handi-i At the finish of his program, the 1 erlanri " and aimed himself at
capped women. native Swiss had his near-capacity j showing his audience that' Swilz-
I nder our American system it s audience of distinguished Rose-ierland -i5 (ar more na ju5t
quite all right to require by law burg citizenry of the knife and nation of cowherders and cheese
that relatively high wages must . Fork Club Wednesday . evening 'SSJSSSSEXZJ
be paid to able-bodied and compe-: crooning and keeping musical time Though his native land is 200
(Continued on Paae 4 Col. )
The Weather
Fair tonight and Friday,
foggy Friday morning.
Highttt ttmp. last 24 noun
Lowest timp. last 24 hours
Highest limp, any Oct
Lowtst ttmp. any Oct. .....
Prtcip, list 24 hour
Pracip. from Oct. 1
Precip. from Spt. 1
Efkst from Spt. I
Sunstt tonight, 5:34 p. Ait
Sunrise tomorrow, 6:25 ,M
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and chef of the Silver Nook-
of a varied lot of customers
restaurant. These consist of
business men, laboring men,
Source Of Oil
Found In Sewer
System Located
Source of a quantity of oil found
in the Roseburg sewer system Tues
day was found by city employes
Wednesday afternoon, according
to Acting City Manager Kenneth
Meng.
The trouble originated at Ump-
qua Dairy, where a leak developed
in a line in the company's system
to pre-heat crude oil. The oil went
into a sump and from there into
the sewer system.
The sewage disposal plant super
intendent noticed the oil and sew
age was bypassed into the South
Umpqua River.
Meng said the company was un
aware that oil from its plant wrm
going into ine sewer system and
the preheating operation was clos
ed down until repairs were made.
He pointed out that "oil is dyna
mite to the plant." If it had been
run through the plant, there would
have been a possibility that the
plant would have been closed for
a couple of days while basins were
drained.
Oil gums up basins and other
units of a sewage treatment plant
and the local plant would have had
to be scrubbed had the oil been
sent through.
Contrary to earlier reports, the
city would prosecute violators of a
city ordinance, prohibiting dump
ing of oil into sewers, only if the
art was found to be malicious,
Meng said.
Supreme Court To Rule
On Radio, TV Ownership
WASHINGTON tjh A decision
barring the Federal Communica
tions Commission from fixing an
arbitrary limit on the number of
radio and television stations owned
by one person will be reviewed by
the Supreme Court.
lp for review will be a ruling
of the IT. S. Court of Appeals on
a suit involving the Storer Broad
casting Co., owner of ultra hiijh
frequency television station KPTV
in Portland, Ore.
Storer attacked the validity of
the ECC ruling. The U. S. Court
of Appeals here struck down the
limitation rule. This decision then
was appealed lo the Supreme
Court and on Monday the court
announced it would review the
case.
Swiss Yodeler, Lecturer
Entertains Knife, Forkers
At Dinner In Elk's Ballroom
; By JIM VANCE
; Between choice morsels of Swiss
culture. Swiis democracy and
I Swiss cheese, loni l-auer. Switz -
i erland's public-relations conscious
yodeler and lecturer, reualrd the
air-conditioned walls of the Elks'
Ballroom with echoes of Alpine
ihr ion losi MimiiM.s.
Instructing his listeners to yodel
had been part of Oauer s advance
bill, and yodel he crowd did.
tor himself, the American visit-
or caroled numerous Swiss ballads
oc.pt in Ihe different tvpes of dance i te European country make 65 per
, rhythm; polka, waltz, schottische, cpnt of ,ne woria"s watchei. At
"and accompanied himself with any thl5 p,,inti Gaucr pMell , ,witrh
53 one of three accordion-type instru- and d,spaved an alarm - clock
- 96 ments. The most popular of these, I wristw atcb"
- M he said, is what i called the "hand- j And he discouraged all joking of
harmonica. Swiss" navy, "Switzerland has a
is message oi tne awisi
an v iiiiiik oul a winu-iiMt-u irciuit-.
It ' 0e a :pi Itoty-teane
hour.
Established 1873
Pee Wee Program To
Board's Action
Keeps Activity
Through Year
Continuation of the Pee Wee ath
letic program in Roseburg's School
District 4 will go ahead "as plan
ned" this year.
School board members meeting
Wednesday evening so directed
Supt. "M. C. Deller. Lengthy dis
cussion preceded the board's ac
tion. The local stand comes following
recent issuance of new athletic
regulations by the state depart-1 with his attorney, Ray B. Comp
ment of education. These regulation, to hear the indictment read
tions, adopted Sept. 21. cover all ? to him.
phases of grade school sports ac
tivity. They stress curtailment in
regard to tournaments, trophies
and tackle football. The local Pee
Wee progra m has been in ex is
tence for seven years and includes
such events as the recent Jam
boree. Deller pointed up that it is a
supervised, planned program.
Chairman Mary Roberts read
aloud four letters regarding com
petitive sports in elementary
schools in the district. Each favor
ed continuance of the program
and, in general, agreed its discon
tinuance would be a "big mistake."
The board's stand is strongly
backed by school principals and
other personnel. Recommendations
for the Roseburg Administrative
Council (principals and others)
read by the superintendent cover
t five areas. They are:
(1) Ail principals want tackle
football in the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades;
f9. Knntha haskpthall anrf tnft.
ball will be played only by fifth, j
and sixth graders on tnc exponent
system. (This would mean drop
ping the program in grade four.)
(Continued Ok Page 2 Col. 1)
Address Renumbering
In City Nearly Finished
The renumbering of Roseburg
addresses Within the city limits
Will be completed today, according
to Kenneth Meng, city engineer
and acting city manager.
The city program to syslemize
street numbering and street des
ignations will be virtually complete.
Only about six street names still
have to be changed, Meng said.
He asked that persons to whom
new street numbers haven't been
assigned to call the city engineer's
office. He also asked that people
bear in mind that all addresses
within the city now bear direction
al prefixes NE, SE, SW, NW
and W.
Renumbering of addresses out
side the city limits will begin soon
Meng said addresses on arterial
arterial
streets will be changed first. The
city engineer's office will assign
alt new numbers outside the city
after county and cily engineers
complete renumbering of present
addresses.
FLIES BACK EAST
DENVER i.fi Dr. Milton S.
Eisenhower, the President's young
est brother, headed back east by
plane Thursdy after a hospital vis
it with the chief executive.
Accompanied by Sherman
Adams, the President's top aide.
Milton took off from I-owry Air
Force Base for Harrishurg, Pa.
He is president of Pennsylvania
State University.
Adams is returning to Washing
ton for a cabinet meeting.
!nini! in descriptive and Swiss-ae-
cenled phrases: 'I want to make
i a mosaic of Switzerland that is al-
1 together authentic. . .1 don't want
j to be an artist. . .1 don't want lo
be a yodeler. . .1 just want to be
another Swiss."
He described Ihe impression of
,inl(.s smaer tnaD thr United
, Slate!1 ..)t ls a greal jndstrla
j country and a leading exporter of'
machines and engines."
The name Switzerland "is for
I nrerision " The nennl. nf thai hi.
naVy 220.0OO tons of merchant
fleet afloat.
But above
all the
alcrial
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28 Pages ROSEBURG ORECON THURSDAY OCTOBER
Secret Indictment
Names Wcodworth;
Arraignment Set
A 30-year-old Roseburg man, se
cretly indicted by the grand jury
on a charge of negligent homicide,
is scheduled to make a plea at
9:30 a.m. Friday in circuit court.
He is Clcmore Charles Wood
worth of 2126 Hollis St.. charged
in connection with a traffic ac
cident south of Koseburg on Sept.
13 which claimed the life of T. V.
trmy) Gurney, 62, Winston.
Woodworth was released under I
$3,500 bail bond Wednesday after
noon after he appeared in court
The indictment charges that the i
death of Voltaire Gurney resulted i
directly from '"injuries caused by
negligent driving ot tne defend-
ant
A warrant was served on Wood-
worth earlier in the day at his at
torney's office by the slate police
officer.
At the time of the fatal mishap,
officers said Woodworth's car ap
parently skidded out of control as
he came up behind a line of traf
fic on Highway 99.
The car skidded across wet
pavement and into the path of the
car driven by Gurney, police re
ported. The driver of a car behind
Gurney which rammed the wreck
was not injured but both Wood
worth and Gurney's passenger,
George Goodman, were hurt in the
accident.
Drain Man Burned
By Electric Flash
DRAIN ( A flash at the
Bonneville Power Administration's
sub-station here " severely burned
the operator, James C. Stewart,
eany inursuay.
Stewart, 65. who was to retire
in January, was alone at the time
nut two passers by saw the flash
from a 34,500-volt line and investi
gated. Stewart, unconscious, was
taken to a Cottage Grove hosnital
wnere ne was reported suffering
from severe .burns on the arms,
back and hips.
Service to the Douglas Electric
Co-operative was out tor nearly
two hours and to the city of Drain
for some 2(1 minutes.
Morse, Ellsworth Billed
For Separate Meetings
Two nationally-known political
figures will speak to Douglas Coun
ty residents Thursday evening.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore) Is
featured spokesman at the initial
i fall dinner meeting of the Riddle
Chamber of Commerce. The sen
ator will be heard following the
dinner which starts at 7 p.m. at
the Riddle High School.
Rep. Harris Ellsworth fR-Ore)
will report to members of the Hose
burg Lions Club at their dinner
session which starts a( 6:30 n.m.
The Lions will meet at the Hotel
umpqua.
Christmas Seal
The Douglas County Christmas
Seal sale conducted by the Oregon
Tuberculosis and Health Assn. gets
under way Nov. 16, according to
information released Wednesday.
Some 20 chairmen from through
out the county were in Roseburg
to participate in an all-day work
shop devoted to the seal campaign.
The slate Christmas Seal chairman
for the association. Miss Jean La
Neve, directed the session.
She placed special emphasis on
the progress in treatment of tu
berculosis. The average cost for
individual patient care is still 515.
004), she said.
'"Farly diagnosis and treatment
is imperative." she said, "and it
is to this end the association is
working."
She said the primary purpose of
the association was to educate the
public and to increase the number
of chest X-rays and tuberculosis
tests. She stressed yearly visits to
the family doctor as the best wav
of detecting tuberculosis in its ear
ly stages.
Mrs. Edwin L. Tauscher, execu
tive secretary of the county
group, noted that 20 cases of IB
were discovered in Douglas County
in She reported two deaths
resulting from the disease.
HEADS LEGION
MIAMI. Fla. (vPi J. Addington
fAdd) Wagner, 41, a Battle Creek.
Mich., attorney, was elected na
tional commander of the three mil
lion member American Legion
Thursday.
Wagner, a Navy veteran wound-
! d 10 tne Pacific, won by an over
whelming margin in a roil cau
t vote.
White House
Makes Public
Letter To Russ
DENVER im President Eisen
hower, in a letter to Russia's
Premier Bulganin, couples a for
mal U.S. offer to accept a Soviet
military inspection plan with a new
plug for the Eisenhower "predis
armament' program.
The convalescing President's
brief note, made public bv the
Denver White House late yester-
day. underscored the administra
tion's continuing hope the Soviet
Union eventually will go along with
his proposal that the United States
and Russia exchange nuutarv blue
P"nls and aeree
on reciprocal
aerial inspection
At the same time, apparently
in a move to keep that hope alive,
Eisenhower reiterated that this
country is willing to combine his j
plan and the Soviet program with
a view toward disarmament in the
long run.
In a Sept. 19 message to Eisen
hower, five days before the Presi
dent was stricken with a heart
attack. Bulganin found much fault
with the Eisenhower plan first set
forth at the Big Four summit con
ference in Geneva last Julv.
So much fault, in fact, that ad
ministration officials reportedly
concluded at the time that Bul
ganin had chosen either to miss
or ignore the essence ot the Eisen
hower plan that it would be a step
toward disarmament and not dis
armament itself
But if the Kremlin leader did
choose to miss or ignore that ba
sic point, Kisenhower in his reply 1
quite clearly chose to overlook the
fact, presumably in the hope tne
Soviet Union eventually will come
arnund to endorse his nronram.
Making no mention of Bulcanin's
blunt criticism of his proposal, the
-resKtent iook noie oi me r Te
nner's assertion that the Eisen
hower plan was getting careful
study by the'Sovict high command.
" . . .1 am encouraged, ' JMSen
hower wrote, "that you "are giving
such full consideration to my Gen
eva proposal.
Herbert Coss Purchases
Roseburg Diesel Service
Herbert Goss, owner of the Goss
Welding Service, has purchased
the Roseburg Diesel Service, 2140
N. Stephens St., he announced to
day. The change of ownership was
effective Wednesday.
Both businesses were located in
the same building, former owners
of the diesel service were Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Boy or. They plan lo
move to California, the combined
business will he known as the
Goss Welding Service.
the companv will continue truck
work, building up machinery, weld
ing and all kinds of machine re
pairs. DAY CELEBRATED
NEW YORK l The 4(i.)rd an
niversary of Christopher Columbus'
uiscovery or America was cele
brated Wednesday.
in jncw York 7.,000 persons
marched up Fifth Avenue in ob
servance of the historic event.
. ' " iii Tit. ... .- ,r., .... . -..TA-.lT&tJr.p, Jf f iftf in fcr'Mil Hill III mil .l
CHRISMAS SEAL DRIVE PLANNERS Advance plans for the coming Douglas County
Christmas Seal sale were made in Roseburg Wednejdoy at a workshop conducted by Miss
Jean LaNeve (left), state seal chairman for the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health Assn.
Also present were: Mrs. William Hutch, county seal chairman (front, center); Mrs. Ed
'win L. Tauscher. county executive secretary for the association (right) ; and Dr. Donald
M. Jeppeson, ossociotion president for the county. (Paul Jenkins Picture).
13, 1955
le Continued
- 4
BERNARR MACFADDEN
. . . physical culturist dies
Bernarr Macfadden
Ends Colorful Career
At Age Of 87 Years
JERSKY CITY. N.J. i-Bernarr
Macfadden, colorful exponent of
rugged living who regarded old
age as "just a bad habit," is dead
at 87.
The onetime millionaire publish
er died last night at Jersey City
Medical Center after an attack of '
jaundice. I
his physician said the attack,
which brought him to the hospital
last iriday, hart been aggravated
by a three-day fast. The death
certificate listed the cause of
death as "cerebral thrombosis."
From a sickly child. Macfadden
built himself into a hardy physical
specimen and amassed a fortune
estimated at- one time at 30 mil
lion dollars.
However involved In' re c e n t
court disputes with his second and
"rd wives, he listed his income
- " a year aiier iacs.
Macfadden once was publisher of
such magazines as Physical Cui -
lure. Liberty and True Storv. and
his former newspaper holdings in
cluded the New York Evening
Grafic, the Detroit Daily, the Phil
adelphia jncws and the New Haven
Times.
During his vigorous lifetime,
Macfadden was wed three times
and had a total of nine children.
(Continued on Page 2 Col. 6)
Herman Abercrombie, 22,
Asks Preliminary Hearing
Herman Norton Abercrombie,
22. Koseburg, was released on $1,
000 bail Wednesday after he ap
peared in district court lo face a
charge of contributing to the de
linquency of a minor.
Abercrombie asked for a prelim
inary hearing, and Judge Warren
A. Woodruff set Oct. 17 as the date
for one.
The defendant was arrested by
the sheriff's ollice after it was al
leged the young man left with
17-year-old girl and married her
when she did not have parental
consent.
Sales Date Set
PRICE 5c
Truman Scores
Legion's Stand
Against Unesco
MIAMI, Fla. I The Ameri
can Legion went "haywire" when
it asked that this country with
draw from the United Nations Ed
ucational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, Former President
Harry S. Truman said Thursday.
By an overwhelming voice vote,
Ihe Legion called on Congress
Wednesday lo do away with the
U.S. National Commission for
UNESCO. Such an action would
virtually put a stop lo U.S. partici
pation in the world organization.
"The Legion doem't know what it
is talking about," Truman com
mented in New York. "They have
gone haywire the last three or four
years. They don't know what they
are doing."
The former President, a Legion
naire himself, noted that a six
man Legion committee had given
UNESCO a clean bill of health.
This committee, headed by Past
Commander Ray Murphy, an lo
wan now living , in Manhassett,
N.Y., found that UNESCO was
neither Communistic, atheistic nor
in lavor ot world government. As
(Continued on Page 2 Col. 8)
Lumber Trucker
Is Injured When
Trailer Ditches
A Myrtle Creek lumber truck
driver, Charles Eilenberger, was
hospitalized Wednesday evening
when nis loaded semi-trailer tup
ped into a ditch on Ncr.h Myrtle
Hoad about three muei from Myr
tie Creek, according to state po
ller.
Officer said Eilenberger receiv
ed a severe cut on his left arm.
shock and other injuries. Appar-
I faily he ,ost "P'rol of the rig and
M r7un, " haT curv . iVhe"
carried the cab with it
The cab was heavily damaged
when it landed on its top in the
ditch.
In Roseburg, one minor traffic
accident occurred. Police cited Wil
liam Ernest Butler. 67. Kohlhagen
Apis., for failure to yield right-of-
way. Onicers sain he hacked out
of a driveway on Rose Street near
Washington and collided with a
Consolidated Freightways truck
driven by Robert Blanchfield, 34,
Sutherlin. The accident was al 2
p.m. Wednesday.
CONTRACT AWARDED
PORTLAND A $4,338,085
contract for the final major work
of The Dalles Dam on the Colum
bia River has been awarded to
Guy F. Atkinson Co. and Ostrander
Construction Co, on a joint bid,
the Army Kngineers reported Wed
nesday, The chief part of the work is
construction of a closure dam con-
meeting the east end of the power
I house with the Oregon shore,
Completion date is August, 1957.
242-55
Cowger, former asst. U.S. at
torney, testified Thursday he
agreed to permit a University of
Chicago research team to record
jury deliberations in a condemna
tion case he was prosecuting for
the government in May, 1954.
Cowger, i Topeka, Kan., lawyer,
told the Senate Internal Security
Committee that he was asked in
the chambers of Federal District
Judge Uelmas Hill if he had any
objection lo a recording being
made.
"At the time I stated I did not."
said Cowger, who served as as
sistant U.S. attorney in Kansas
from March, 1954 until the follow
ing November.
Earlier, William C. Farmer, the
present U.S. attorney for Kansas,
and his predecessor, George Temp-
leMiueu. mey iirsi learned of
Ihe recordings when they were
played in the annual conference of
the 10th Judicial Circuit in Estes
Park, Colo., last July.
This s the second dav of the
hearings. At the close of "the first.
Sen. Eastland (D-Miss) said he and
Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) favored mak
ing it a fclonv to Dlace rernrHin
devices in a jury room. Eastland
is chairman of the subcommittee.
University of Chicaen I.aui Schnni
officials testified Wednesday that
v iiii-i juukc urie runups ot the
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, as
well as Judge Hill, had consented
to a microphone being concealed
in the jury room in Wichita, Kan.,
in five or six civil cases as part
of a study project aimed at
strengthening the jury system.
Templar was the first witness
called Thursday and testified that
"upwards of 75 to 100 persons
were present" when the transcrip
tions of the jury proceedings in
Wichita were played back at the
judicial conference in Estes Park.
SP Workman Hurt
InYoncalla Fire
A Southern Pacific molove re
ceived severe burns, but quick lo
tion prevented a serious lire at
xoncaua Wednesday mgqt.
A section hand, Samuel Miles,
26, drove to Cottage Grove Honpi-
lhi aiier ne was uurneu in a lira
at a work train on a siding in Von
c&lla, police said.
Another SP workman, Ben Gra
ham, received a slight burn on one
hand, but was not treated by a
physician. Miles received second
and third-decree burns of both
hands and his rieht side. Den.
Sheriff John McCool of Drain aaid.
ine jnenn s office and stale po
lice are alill investigating the lira
because of the possibility it start
ed as someone was attempting to
steal gasoline from a car in Ihe
work train.
Fire Chief Stacy Adams said
his firemen were called about S
p.m. The car in which the fire
started contained about 1.200 sal
Ions of gas and 200 gallons of kero
sene. Quick action by SP employes
and the firemen kept damave
slight. The only damage was
where flames burned across the
floor of the car, Adams said.
Miles apparently was burned as
he tried to toss a burning can of
gasoline out of the car. Employes
began using water to prevent
spread of the flames, then the fire
department brought the situation
under control. Ine worlc train is
hooked up with the city water sys
tem. Adams pointed out.
Beaten Itinerant Found
By Roseburg Resident
KLAMATH FALLS im An
itinerant farmhand was found beat
en, near death, alongside Southern
Pacific Railroad tracks here Wed
nesday. Railroad employes said the man.
Identified as Garland Taylor. 49.
apparently was one of 10 or 12
who had attended an all-night wine
drinking party in a nearby hobo
jungle.
Two tarm workers, uuy
Lyons, Roseburg, and Vincent Mai-
laker, Nan rrancisco, were want
ing along the tracks when they
saw Taylor laying amid two dozen
empty wine jugs. He had lost an
eye, his face was badly cut and
he had been beaten on the head,
lie was taken to a hospital where
doctori held little hope lor his re
covery. Police were looking for others
who attended the parly.
Oregon 8-40 Unit Wini
Trophy For TB Work
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. W The
Agnes Allen Trophy for outstanding
work in primary tuberculosis in
children was won by the Oregon
unit at the 8 and 40 convention
here.
The S and 40 organization is the
women's division of the American
Legion 40 and 8.
Mrs. M. Stephen llunniciitt of
Muskogee, Okla., was named
president.
National poetry day, open
ing Oct. 15, should spur com
petition for fast bucks, if not
enduring fame, by composing
olluring yen for television
commercials.
i Levity Fact Rant
j By L. F. Reizenstein