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"bicrvcr, La Grande, Ore., Iff V -W-F-SV NEA Tlpkof WEDDING FORTHCOMING Steven Rockefeirer, son of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, is shown with his fiancee Anne Marie Rasmussen in Kristiansand, Nor way, during a news conference. Steven, 23, told news t men that he and Anne Marie, 21, a former maid in the Rockefeller household, plan to wed on August 22. PRETTY ANNE MARIE READY FOR LIFE AS A ROCKEFELLER (EDITOR'S NOTE: In lest than three weeks a young wom an from a tiny Norwegian town will marry one W America's most eligible bachelors. What kind of a girl is she What has been her family and educational background? In the following dispatch, United Press Interna tional gives you a brief life story of the girl soon to become a member of one of Ihe richest families in America.) KRISTIANSAND. Norway 'UI'l I'rctty Anne Marie Hasmussen faces a lot of problems Cinderella never dreamed of when, on Aug. 22. she becomes a Rockefeller. She already has had a taste of one problem the publicity that accompanied her romance with Steven Rockefeller, and. by her own admission, she was "scared stiff.1' More problems arc on the way when Anne Marie leaves her home in the quiet town of SoRnc to set up housekeeping in a New York apartment. But friends ,jilL tell you. she is a stable, well adjusted girl, with old-fashioned thouKh by no means outdated values, a id she is quite ready to take on the chal lenge. Anne Marie was born 21 years ago on the island of Boroeya out side Tvedestrand. where her fath er had a household goods store. She moved to Sagne. on the south ern tip of Norway, after World War 11. Anne Marie loves good music and art. DON WILSON IS TURNING BULK Y TALENT TO DRAMA HOLLYWOOD ' VPI ' Jovial Don Wilson, longtime '2" years', announcer for Jack Benny, is turning his bulky talent to drama this week in a segment of TV's "Den'h Valley Days." Not Hint the hefty Wilson has n't branched mil in Hie nasi, lie's apieai cd in movies without benefactor Benny, but always playing an ninourccr. This time Don portrays a con man parad ing through the Old West dis guised as a preacher "It's a very fat part," said fat Don. "I hope this departure will ocn new avenues of perform ing. It's just possible the charac ter I'm playing will become the lead in a new series. I want people to Lok on Wilson as something more than an announc er.1' Appears in November The show, tilled "Gates Ajar Morgan," hits the airlun.es next Novernber. Between now . and then Wilson will he seen regu larly on Benny's program i "I began with Jack on radio in 1934," he recalled. "My work was restricted to announcing and reading commercials. As wc moved along Jack made me a regular member of the cast a character. For 17 years 1 was voted most popular radio an nouncer. "It's been many years since I've done outright commercials on the show. Now I guess I qualify as an 'actor.1 "All of us with Jack are for tunate to have been associated wilh such a great guy. He's al ways interested when we do oth er things. ' Portly Don was eneour.:ed by Ponnv aarlii.r Ihic vr:ir lihpn hp and his actress wife appeared to gether in " The tireat onasnans at the Laguna Beach Playhouse. It started him off on the dra matic kick. 'Television has worked a hard ship on :iiiiiounrcrs," lie said ' Were typed as coinineieial Wed., Aug. 5, 1959 Pae 3 "You can keep your rock and roll as far as I am concerned," she says. "When I dance, it is in the old fashioned way." Some reports would have it that Anne Marie grew up in an overly strict. Lutheran home, dim ming her capacity for a good time. But Anne Marie denies this. "I like to have fun and 1 think I am a natural Norwegian girl," she says. She has the sparkling blue eyes and blonde hair to prove her point. Anne Marie has had compara tively little formal education. She attended a rural elementary school for seven years. In 1956 she went to New York to study English, spending two years at a supplementary school. Her quest for work to pay for her studies took her into the Rockefeller home as a maid. There she had her first introduc tion to Steven. She also worked in a department store and an in-su-ance company, returning home last April. 'Chn HIH rni kimu much " .Ste ven recalled. "But she took special lessons each night and was rather good after eight months. Anne Marie knows what dras tic changes face her in marriage to a Kockefeller, but she doesn't intend to let her new life affect her sense of values or her appre ciation of where she got them. "Whatever happens and what ever my station in life will be, I will never forget the heritage I bring with me from my father and mother, she said. pitch artists and that's it. "In radio an oi us useo. 10 unrk steadily nlavine hundreds of roles. Our voices were such that we weren't identified with rnir regular iobs. "Harry Von Zell, or the old Burns and Allen show, became a lorrifir rnmnfli.'in in his ' own right. He has established himself as a perforrpcr wno can no any thing. The late Bill Goodwin was ..nnihi.r iinnnimrpr who switched to playing comedy, straight roles nnd drama. Wagons Head For Glimpse Of Columbia ARLINGTON LTI Oregon's 193!) Centennial pioneers traveled due west today headed for a wag on train encamoment four miles east of here and their first glimpse of the Columbia river. Tonight's encampment will be made overlooking the river. Tuesday night the wagon train camped on the football field of L'nion high school in Boardman and lunch and buffet supper was provided by Boardman residents. Barge Trip Ray Waters, shipyard master of the Pacific Inland Navigation Company of The Dalles. Tuesday outlined the train's barge trip down the Columbia Monday. He said the barge, a 220-foot lone and 22-foot wide converted LSM. would leave The Dalles city port dock at 8 a. m. Monday and the barge s expected time of ar rival at Willamette park in Port land w as about 10 p m. Tentative plans called for a chicken dinner to be served while the barge is in Bonneville locks Waters said the barge Tuesday carried 920 tons of wheat from The Dalles to Portland, last com mercial haul before Hie wn,"niv .Iraiel di.wmiver. THAT ISN'T MY BROTHER, THAT'S ME Don't Blame Sen. Kennedy For All Of The Confusion WASHINGTON IPI Ono thing is sure. The electorate is aroused about the pending labor reform bill. This is not to say that it is informed. Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, went on Jack Paar's TV show re cently and told late night viewers the bill ought to be passed and to write their congressmen about it. That's what they've been doing, too. But members of the Senate, which passed the bill long ago by a vote of 90 to 1, are beginning to wish Kennedy had been more specific. It's the House of Representa tives that hasn't yet voted aye. Even Sen. John F. Kennedy iD-Mass i. Bob's brother and co- sponsor of the Senate bill, has been flooded with mail. Some of it commands him sternly to vote for his bill. The senator feels that some of the letter writers might have been a little more tactful. These are the ones who are demanding a vote for "Sen. bob Kennedy's bill." Thousands of Letters Other senators have been hear ing about it, too, counting their mixed-up mail in the thousands. House members, of course, are getting their share of letters. And everybody says they're go ing to do something about it. The House Labor Committee, which approved a modified ver sion of the bill 10 days ago, fi nally has got out its formal re port to the House. This of course is where House members learn what's in the bill. The question, though, is which part of the report should they read? Although the committee voted for the bill 16 to 14. only S of the 30 members now come right out and admit that they like it. In addition to a non partisan. non-controversial and reasonably enlightening analysis of the meas ure prepared by a staff member, the report includes a "statement" an "additional statement, and 'additional, dissenting, and sepa rate" views, with some members signing more than one of the to tal of 10. The whole thing is so perplexing committee clerks felt it wise to index the 106-page vol ume. Explain Votes After approving the bill at a closed session, committee mem bers jostled each other hurrying to the press gallery to explain why they weren't for it. Chair man Graham A. Barden (D-N.C.) who voted aye, said the bill was no good and refused to give it his name. Rep. James Roosevelt D- Calif.) voted against it because it was anti-union. Rep. Carroll D. Kearns iR-Pa.) voted against it because it was pro-union. r Have You heard abmt LasttngStar a NEW CARPET by LEES at DOUKICKIIS'AAAD'C I I aaai made of Never before has there been a carpet like it anywhere at any price. Lees Lasting Star is a genuine breakthrough in carpet engineering a designers dream come true. You can be sure of performance. See it "torture tested". Open from '8:00 'til 5:?0 .a ..rani Rep. Carl D. Perkins iD-Ky.) said the bill "has many good provisions." He voted against it. Rep. Peter Krelinghuysen Jr.. iR-N.J.i called it "woefully in adequate." He voted for it. So if Jack Paar'i public is con fused, who is to blame them? Certainly not Sen. Kennedy. He's getting inured to confusion. On a plane trip the other day a lady passenger eyed him awhile, simpered a little, and finally got up courage to say, "aren't you Mr. Kennedy?" He admitted mod estly that he was. Mixed-Up Lady "I'm so delighted to meet you,1' said the lady. "1 watch you on TV at those labor hear ings. I wanted to tell you what a wonderful job you are doing, trying to got Jimmy Hoffa!" "Thank you ma'am," Kennedy JAPAN HAS'NT FORGOTTEN LAUNCHING OF ATOMIC AGE By ARNOLD DIBBLE UPI Staff Writer TOKYO (UPI I Japan has not forgotten not by a long shot that 14 years ago this week the atomic age was launched with the death of 78.150 persons in Hiro shima. Japan. But slightly, ever so slightly. public opinion is changing. The Japanese still are horror- stricken over that first atomic bomb strike on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. where, in addition to the staggering death toll, 37, 425 persons were injured and 13,- 083 were listed as missing. The Hiroshima attack was fol lowed three days later by the sec ond atomic bomb attack on Naga saki in which 73,884 persons were killed. Five days later Japan sur rendered. Many Still Dying The Japanese are hardly al lowed to forget the twin horror because many still ure dying of the diseases caused by atomic radiation and this always makes news in Japan. But the fervor ai'ainst atomic weapons is slowly calming. In Japan, the only country ever to suffer atomic warfare, the anti-nuclear weapon campaign has not always been in sole pos session of the Communists and their fellow travelers as has been the case in many other countries. Indeed, Tory Party leaders, from Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi on down, have issued statements from time to time deploring atomic weapons. Japan s united Nations delegation has been in the forefront of the campaign to out law atomic tests. This year, two significant events have taken place which have great bearing and effect upon public opinion so far as it regards the anti-nuclear weapons campaign. - ts 4 IT DUPONT 501 CARPET I,UL',W w Thafi Then. "I'm sorry." she said. "I realize now. But I've seen you too. in the paiiers and magazines. And 1 know how happy you must be with your wife and those lovely children out on the farm in Vir ginia." "Thanks again," Kennedy said "Thai's Bobby, too." "Well, I'm awfully sorry to have mistaken you,' she said as the plane drew up to the ramp. "But will you be seeing your brother" "Yes, I wUI," the senator said. "Well, take him a message for me. Tell him I'm for him. und 1 sure hope he gets the Democrat ic nomination for president." "That," Kennedy said, "isn't my brother. That's me!" They arc: 1. The Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly voted to cut off subsi dies to the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs which is holding its annual meet ing In Hiroshima this week. 2. Tlie leaders of the council agreed to draw up plans to op pose the revision of the U.S.-Ja- pan security treaty as part 'of its anti-nuclear campaign. The first move shows clearly that Japanese government offi cials at last are beginning to dis associate themselves from the council. The second move shows just as clearly that the left-wing ers finally have captured the group. By mixing up Ihe anti-nuclear campaign wilh the U S -Japan se curity treaty revisions negotia tions, the council leaders have of fended a large segment of Japa nese public opinion who feci strongly that there is no connec tion between the two issues. The leftist leadership of the anti-bomb council has become so pronounced that it has offended many sober. middle-of-the-road backers it once had. Hit Security Revisions These left-wingers are trying to peddle the line that revision of the security treaty will open up Japan for the introduction of nu clear weapons. This, according to Tory leaders and Americans who should know, is patently false. Actually, although it never has been defined publicly or official ly, American officials are leaning more and more toward the idea that it would be better ta keep nuclear weapons out of Japan. The reasoning is simple. In case of war, U.S. forces the Navy possibly excepted do not need bases in Japan. What they do need is the vast Japanese in dustrial complex, the only major etm e said, "but that's not me. my brother. Bobby." Kmbarrassed silence. HAS EVERYTHING! PRICED RIGHT for YOU BOHNENKAMP'S Country Club Set Labels Ike's Entourage the 'Panzer Division' By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI Staff Writer President Eisenhower has sumed another snort skeet shoot - ing. He has a fine range back of his nouse at Gettysburg with all the proper equipment for flinging clay pigeons into the air electron ically. He takes his stand with a shotgun and bangs away. The President has an excellent shooting eye and if he kept up the sport with any consistency, those who have seen him blaze away at quail in South Georgia say he'd be better at it than he JANET LEIGH IN BETTER SHAPE NOW THAN BEFORE HOLLYWOOD il'PIi Janet live around the house 1 didn't Leigh, starring in her first movie since the birth of her baby eight months ago, is in better shac (36 23-36) than she was before the stork began flapping around. The blonde, beauty obv iously didn't al low motherhood to louse up her curves. Husband Tony Curtis, who slopped by her dressing room for a quick kiss, observed, she has the best figure in town. She gets more wolf whistles now than when we were first dating." Janet, dressed in a skintight leotard, unhesitatingly agreed. . "Four years ago my measure ments were 36-23-35," she said, "but I was top-heavy. It's not just the bust, waist and hip meas urements that count. Before my two children were born I had a very narrow rib cage, which means I looked as if I were all chest. Co-Stars With Husband "Now I taer down gradually to my waist. 1 look belter both in and out of my clothes. The whole Mrs. Curtis package is wrapped in 110 pounds of curves, supported by a pair of the shapeliest steins in Cinema City . Moviegoers will be able to ogle Janet for themselves later this year when she and Tony co-star in "Who Was That Lady" for Columbia Pictures. It's the cou ple's fifth picture together. "I gained only 10 pounds while I was pregnant," Janet chat tered on. "That's the secret. Most wom en are afraid they'll ruin their figures by having babies. Well it's not what a girl does after the baby arrives. It's a matter of staying in condition while they're expecting. Careful Of Diet "I was careful of my diet and ate very little salt. After my daughter Jamie was born I start ed ' playing tennis, and within three weeks I could wear all my clothes. Fortunately, I'm so ac- industrial complex in Asia. Thus, if this industrial complex could be spared by the simple expedient of keeping Japan barren of nuclear weapons and bases, many U.S. thinkers believe it should lie done. And most Japanese heartily agree. jjiw ' wipe away-even' W - -BS&m No,h8ddln V, tZt2xiKu& m -rrtM3t&v Touohest carpet v . I 5Sa' :-''i.41 tae aienlfti .... 1 ffelifW resist soli as 1 NYLON rJ-! n. nth.r ;,m 1 is at golf. The President plays the Gettys burg Cluh course on weekends as an honorary member, but he's, in the process of getting a resident membership for his son, John, who now makes his home in Gettysburg with his wife, Barba ra, and their four children. The club members are natur;il ly happy to have their course honored two or three times a wk by the President playing their layout. His entourage of electric golf carts and accom- I panying Secret Service agents have to lake exercises. "Too many women decide they will be lazy during pregnancy. They just lie around and expect other people, including their hus bands, to wait on them." "Nowadays maturity is the most important element on the screen, and In-coming a mother makes I lie difference. I don't have to wear low-cut dresses any more to prove I'm sexy or to make people aware I'm a woman. Tony reapearcd to escort his wife to the set. "I heard your last remark." he grinned. "And baby, you're livin' proof Hut womanhood is here to stay." 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