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Making Comeback
3y GAY PAULEY
UPI "Women's Editor
Nt:w YORK (UPD You may
remembeiMtuth'Slenczynska from
the headlines nf nnnlhpr era.
-She was the fat little girl who
at eight' made a' spectacular
American debut as a pianist, who
was naued by some critics' as
"another Mozart," and who went
on tq ,eaj;n. as much as $3,500 for
a jingle appearance and more
tlian a million dollars in her brief
career. ,. , . , '
She was the child whose father,
a frustrated musician, claimed he
willed her to be a genius and
who, . she . claimed, ran her life
witiYa ; tyrannical sternness and
pocketed ; all, the proceeds from
lier Sellout; American and Euro
pean "lourW.i'She was the girl who
know 200,.musical compositions
from memory, studied with Ser
gei Rachmaninoff and Artur
Schnabel,and once filled in when
a, Paderewski appearance was
cancelled.,
That -! watf- Ruth Slenczynsk.
child -prodigy, whose career cild
od with the" start of World War
II, in 1940, when she was 14.
Vcll, (his;' -prodigy is Hack "as
a. musician;-' not a curiosity," she
said, in an'.,interview Wednesday,
o'l'night slie appears at Town Hall
2S years' to the day after her
American debut. Then begins a
tour which will take her to 56
cities, in 20 states.
' Today, she is an attractive,
dark-haired voman-' of '33.' She's
just tinder five 'feet in height,
weighs 103 pounds "five pounds
less than, when I last played jat
Town Hall," she "laughed.. "At
eight, I weighed 108; at 14,
wore a size 16 dress; now I buy
fives and sevens. .
"I was fat because my father
believed that fat was healthy."
"Now," sho said, "I'm a firm
believer in cottage cheese." She
added that it was not so -much
diet but "abject' poverty" which
slimmed her down. -"I had "a
choice of leaching music and eat'
ing," she said, ','or practicing and
not eating." "
What of the years in between?
The pianist said that in 1940
she returned to her native Sacra
mento, Calif., 'determined to live
a life without her 'father's dom
inance. She was accepted as a
freshman at thp ' University of
California, but 'her father refused
tu my nui lumuu.
She worked her way through
school, as a psychology major,
with jobs as junior librarian,
gymnasium assistant, and pianist
for a post-graduate music course
In 1044, she eloped to Reno with
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' GRAND OPENING Burleigh Hyde, left, and Tom Fitzgerald
J talk over the grand opening of their new Richfield tervlce
i station in' Island City, Friday and Saturday, A number of mer
' chandise gifts are to be awarded at the gasoline station locat
i ed in the heart of the community town.' Hyde is the distributor
i of the gasoline and Fitzgerald has leased the newly built station.
Multipurpose Development,
Utilization Of Resources Urged
SALT LAKE CITY (UPD The
Idaho-. - Reclamation Association
Wednesday told the Senate interior
and .'.Insular development ' and
utilization of the natural resources
of wilderness areas should be
multipurpose. ,
Fr0d M.'. Cooper, president of
the Association, said his group
opposed the wilderness preserve
tion bill , because it has a single
purpose, The in ensure would
place certain federally-owned wil
derness' areas into a national wit
derness preservation system.
"No one can doubt that the
fundamental purpose of this leg
islation is to make the preserva
tion bf the wilderness areas para
mount iq' all other uses and any
otherj,; use", is purely incidental
Cooper ; said. Other purposes
must be safeguarded and they
are not in the proposed legisla
tion," ho said. "Since the preser-
VA Unit Makes
951 Loans
In October
SALEM (UPD The Oregon
Department of Vetorans' Affairs
made 051 farm and home loans
In October amounting to $9,703,;
250. It was .the highest month in
the Department's history, Direc
tor H.rC. Saalfeld said Wednesday
Theu'revious high was in July,
1957. when 506 veterans borrowed
$5,5116,250. -,
The . October record ' resulted
from t?io sale of 20 million dol
lars in bonds in September which
enabled the Department to cut in
to its backlog of some 1,600 loan
applications held up for luck of
funds during the past year.
The Department had reached
the constitutional limit of bonds
it could issue to obtain loan
funds, until,, the new higher state
assessed valuation, announced in
August, raised that limit by about
69 million dollars.
Most of the increase came from
the action of the Multnomah coun
ty assessor , in raising that coun
ty's assessed valuation.
Saalfeld said the Department
will issue another block of bonds
us soon as the market is favor
able. .
American Flag To Fly
Over English Shelter
FALMOUTH, England (UPD
The American flag that flew over
the U. S. naval base here through
World War II is back to help this
English town cekibrule (Ameri
can Independence Day. It was re
turned by Cnidr. C. L. Ashley,
wartime commander of the base
and Row a patient at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Md.
The City Council said the flag
would be - flown .Inly 4 over a
beach shelter the Americans left
as a memorial. -
vation of wilderness areas is par
amount, it would prevail If there
was any conflict with any other."
O. T. Hansen, Idaho state min
ing engineer, testified that the bill
was "likely to bottle up many
minerals of high military and
strategic value" in Idaho.
Earlier; hearings were held in
Bend, Ore., and San Francisco.
The hearing was conducted by
Sen. James E. Murray (D-Mont.),
chairman of the Senate Committee.
Most of the testimony today was
against the measure.
One of the comparatively few
witnesses to testify In favor of
the bill was William L. Reavley,
western field representative for
the National Wildlife Federation
at Salt Lake City. He said his
group believed "that any undue
delay or drastic changes in the
wilderness preservation idea is
avoiding the inevitable. The great
American public, true to its every
tradition, demands 1 the kind of
America the wilderness bill pro
vides." . ; .
Keith Williams, executive sec
retary of the Montana Farm Bu
reau Federation, said farmers
and cattlemen of his slate "view
with alarm expansion of federal
government to increase control of
land." Spokesmen for Idaho and
Colorado Farm Bureau Federa
tions also opposed the measure.
Umatilla Man Killed
In Highway 30 Wreck
UMATILLA (UPD Henry Nick-
ert, about 55, Umatilla, was fa
tally Injured Tuesday night when
the car in which he was riding
collided with one driven by Ralph
Roland Anderson, 34, of Pendle
ton,' on U.S. Highway 30 one mile
cast of the Stanfield junction.
State police said Anderson, who
had parked his .car off (he south
side of the highway, was swinging
into the lane ot trntnc when a
car driven by Mrs. Bessie Agec,
56, Umatilla, struck it. Nickert,
riding with Mrs. Agee, died eh
route to n Umatilla hospital. Mrs.
Agco was treated at the hospital
for facial cuts. Anderson was
uninjured.
Singer Plans To Let
Wife Sue For Divorce
HOLLYWOOD (UPD - Sinner
Eddie Fisher, 30, plans to let his
wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, 26,
file for divorce.
Attorney Martin Gang, Fisher's
attorney, denied reports .the
young smger would seek n
"quickie Mexican divorce in or
der to marry actress Elizabeth
Taylor, 26
Fisher has said from the slnrl
that ie wpuld wait for Miss Rey
nolds, to initiate the divorce ac
tion, Gang said. "There has been
absolutely no change in plans."
it was not known when Miss
Reynolds would begin divorce
proceedings, Gang said.
a fellow student, and apparently
this was the final break 'With her
father. She said he ordered her
out of the house and apparently
never" forgave her when he
died seven years later, his will
left nothing ' to her.
" She Veturned to work when her
husband went into the Army
teaching piano at Mercy College
of Music, Carmel, Calif. The mar
riage ended in 1951, and it was
then she resumed her piano stud
ies. The pianist said there no longer
is any bitterness toward her fa
ther "I figure he would be
proud of me," she said, "but if
he were alive I would not have
the courage to ' do' what I'm
doing.",, ' ' '
Other parents can learn a les
son from her case history, she
said. "If a child is gifted, in any
direction music or mathemat
ics ' don't push him. Just en
courage him. And give a child
music for .the love of ft. :don't
get off the road as ' my father
did." ; ',; "' -Y v Y
She's convinced that prodigies
are born, not. produced. "You
can't .make a thistle bear
peaches," ' she laughed. - "But
neaehes cultivated will produce
better."
Observer, La Grande, Ore., Thurs., Nov. 13, 1958 , Page 6
Three Mountain Climbers
Climb Face Of El Capitan
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK.
Calif. 'I UPD Three intrepid
mountain climbers scaled the 3.-604-foot
perpendicular face of El
Captain early Wednesday to be
come the first to climb the granite
monolith from that direction.
The climbers, . who have been
working on their project for more
than a year, irehed their way up
the final 175 feet during the night.
aided by headlamps similar to
those used by miners, with bat
teries attached to their belts. -
The trio had halted near the top
Tuesday night and returned to
their camp on a narrow ledge at
the 2,100 foot level. But during
the night, possibly because they
feared bad weather, they braved
belo'W-freezing temperatures smd
frost as they curved footholds o
enable them to cover the final
yards. ,
The climbers were Warren Har
ding, - 34, West Sacramento;
George Whitmore, 27, Fresnb, and
Wayne Merry, 28, San Jose.
They made it to the top of the
sheer cliff on the 13th day bf the
present assiialt on the,- granite
giant which rises 'stnght up for
3,604 feet from the flour of Yost
mite Valley. The top of the mono
lith is 7,64 feet above sea level.
The trio was met at the top by
two companions, John Whitmer,
32. San Jose, and Ellen Searby,
24, Palo Alto, and by national park
ranger Rick Canterson, 26. These
three had taken the relatively
easy seven-mile climb up the back
of the mountain.'
The skyscraper-steep face of the
mountain had never been scaled
before.
Whitmer and Miss Searby
caused a flurry , of excitement
Tuesday when they were on the
top of the monolith and a figure
was spotted from the valley within
50 feet of the summit. However
it turned out that Whilner had
descended that far to drop a line
to the climbers.
Tn disust the three mountain
ee refused the offer and said
they wanted to make It all the
wav on their own.
Whitmer and Miss Searby be
long to the climbers' support par-
t5The ascent was made by giv
ing pitons and expansion bolts jn,
to cracks in the sheer face of the
granite. At places it was neces
sary for the group to swing out
over space as they passed across
overhangs with the nylon rorids
and other climbing gear.,
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