The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, September 12, 1949, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 194? PAGE SIX Arizona Girl Selected New Miss America By Hnnncn W. Nichols (Uhl'ltil 1'rMa Huff Cortvtiiondcnt) Atlantic City. N.J., Sept. 12 IP Jacque Mercer, pott Miss Amer ica of 1919, Is a pint-sized Arizonn ranch girl who can step right into a co-slnrring movie role with bobby-soxers' Idol Burt Lancaster. But the 18-year-old brunette, whose ambition is to be a "real dramatic actress" still was so flus tered today about winning the nation's most clamorous beauty crown that she still wasn't able to make up her mind to sign the contract. First the desert country beauty is going to indulge in the round of parties and personal appear ances that became her queenly obligation when she was crowned over 52 other aspirants at the an nual pageant here Saturday night. She leaves for New York today and next week will go to Milwau kee for the annual Outdoorsmen show. Then she will return to Phoenix Junior college to enroll for a limited course. Given Concessions one has official permission I from the college authorities to eliminate a few courses from her dramatics art schedule this year so she can properly discharge the obligations of Miss America. She will have a long itinerary that will take Tier from coast to coast, and a flock of endorse ments for concerns manufactur ing everything from lipstick to undergarments. All these will net her an eiti mated $30,000 in cash in-addition to her S5.000 scholarship which she'll use to study' dramatics, and the S3.000 car that went with her Miss American crown. j Jacque, who revealed her real ! name is "Jacqueline Joy" after ! her mother's favorite doll, told I how her father made her drive a . tractor in his cotton fields to earn enough money to go see a play : last year. " j Unly live feet four inches and weighing 106 pounds, the stage struck Miss America-to-be wrest -led the tractor and harrow for 75 cents an hour so she could buv a ticket to California. Tiny Figure Jacque, who measures a trim 34 inches around the bust and hips, is one of the smallest Miss Americas on record. She announced at once that marrige is more important than ? career. But lest people misunder stand her intentions, she empha sized later that they don't neces sarily rank one, two in the se quence which she'll follow. Her boyfriend, Douglas Cook. 19, of Phoenix, a classmate in her drama courses, was so happy when she telephoned him he was "swinging on a chandelier," she said. She "might" marry him some day, she said. - " Jacque, who neither drinks nor smokes, had more duties than driving tractors on her father's ranch. She also took care of chickens, ducks, geese, and tur keys and even was raising a pig until the porker died in a sum mer heat wave. Also winner of scholarships and prizes in the beauty pageant were runner-up Katherin Wright, Miss Mississinpi. Next in order were Trudy Germi, Miss Illinois; Syl via Canaday. Miss Colorado, and Jone Anne Pedersen, Miss California. Redmond Redmond. Sept. 12 (.Special) -Donald Wise, who is stationed at Ft. Warren. Wash., spent lust week end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. Wise. He accompa nied his parents to Mount Vernon to visit i elm Ives. Bon Davidson Is planning a Monday business trip to Klamath Kails. Cork and Ward poured the ce ment for the patio at the Ben Davidson, ranch Friday. C. K. Hagen built a shop for Davidson Inst week. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Thompson went to Portland Friday evening, i They planned to return Saturday I afternoon. Mrs. E. A. Sage and daughter, Alberta, wore Saturday shoppers in Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bossey and daughter. Joan, were Thursday visitors at the Clifford Dobbins home. The group enjoyed slide films shown by Dobbins. i Miss Barbara Neal will lie em-1 ployed as an usher at the Odeml theaters. She began work Friday ' night. , ', Tryouts for drill team major-, ettes were featured last week in ; the girls P. E. department. Final i selections will be made this week according to Miss Ruby Stephen-! son, drill team director. Plumes for the hats matching the uniforms tor the girls in the Redmond union high school drill team, have been ordered. The plumes will be attached to the hats at Ruby's sewing center. Redmond Christian church C. E. group held a joint rally meet-. ing witn the prineville group. Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Herbison accompanied the young people to Prineville. Rev. Swoard of the Burns Chris tian church was guest speaker. Miss Virginia Berg. Miss Emily Leonnig and Miss Margaret Holm ! were Bend visitors Saturday. The ! three girls are members of the! Redmond union high school fac-1 ulty. Mrs. Florence Radke, Miss j Ruby Stephenson and Miss Emily j Lconning were Thursday night , dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Norton. The group play ed canasta after dinner. Miss Doris Osenton. who was sponsored at Girls' State by the P.E.O.. gave a report of her camp activities at the first P.E.O. meet ing of the season at the home of Mrs. Bob Hutchins Thursday at S p.m. Mrs. Charles Duling. the for mer Iorna Mills of Bend, was guest of honor at a miscellaneous bridal shower at the home of Mrs. C. H. Simmons. Miss Dorothy Simmons 'assisted her mother with the entertainment. Miss Lois Simmons is spending several days in Portland this week. Redmond Toastmasters met at a 6:30 dinner in the Redmond ho tel banquet room Thursday eve ning. Dr. R. Christiansen served as toastmaster. M. A. Lynch spoke on "As I See It";' Mr. Van Hise on "The Three Dav Holiday"; Earle Hallock on "Traffic Prob lems"; George Holton on "Getting Along Together." C. E. Thompson read a poem dedicated to teachers which was written by Dr. R. W. Christiansen. Lou Ebert was gen eral evaluator and the special crit ics were C. J. Shively, William Olson, C. Charlesworth and C. E. Thompson. The Culver Civic club honored the Culver teaching staff at a re ception held in the high school ihursday night. Superintendent V. L. Anderson introduced the fac- Warn Stockmen ' Of Hard Winter Cheyenne, Sept. 12 dl- Wyom ing stockmen were w arned to pre pare for another hard winter as the final report on the state's par alyzing bllrzards pf '49 was re leased. Chairman Russell Thorp of the Wyoming emergency relief board told the story of disaster to hu mans and livestock In January and February storms and added this ominous warning: "It's not unusual for one hard winter to be followed by another." Th report said the '49 blizzards which swept Wyoming wore worse in intensity and "pure fer ositv" than all others, even the winter of lSSt87 which became legendary in the annals of the west. Statistically, the report said 16 lives were lost directly as a re sult of the storms, plus five deaths on the Union Pacific rail road of men working outdoors. Actual cost of the storms was es timated at "several million dol lars." Losses of cattle and calves were set at 41.000 head, or 4-1 per cent, and losses of sheep and lambs at 154,000 head, or 7.4 per cent. In addition to $374,000 spent by the relief board, federal expenses for snow-moving work was esti mated at $2,300,000, the Wyom ing national guard work at $12, 399.93, and the air guard at $17,-610. MORGENTHAU ILL New York,. Sept. 12 iu?) Henry Morgenthau Jr.t former secretary of the treasury, was reported im proving and in good condition to day at New York hospital where he is ill with pneumonia. Doctors said his wife, Eleanor, ill at the same hospital, was in critical condition. Her illness was not described. Write for Our FREE ' Toy Catalogue 1023 S. W. Yamhill Street PORTLAND 5, OREGON STOLEN TRAILER State police today are attempt ing to recover an all-aluminum trailer, reported stolen Sunday morning from Don Franks, of the Fall River ranger station. Franks described the trailer's California license as 441-840; se rial number 1 EC 118. He said it was equipped with a green duck cover. S-inch double suspension wheels, and a spare tire. It was taken from South Cen tury drive two miles from the ranger station Saturday. FREE CHRISTIAN" SCIENCE LECTURE in Prineville in Com munity Church, Third and Court Streets, tonight at 8 o'clock. Aus pices of Christian Science Society of Prineville. Adv. ultv and gave a brief explanation of the duties of each. Mrs. Dwight Macy served as chairman of the program committee. Mrs. Erwin Horney gave the welcoming speech. The ladies of the community served the refreshments. Darlene Fields. Ernie Magill, Carol Henderson, Ray i Dahlen. and Sharon Moran made up one yell team squad which entered competition against that made up of Joe Ward. Phyllis McGregor, Hazel Edwards, Anitra Sandwick and Bob Hershey. Tryouts for the two teams were held Friday. Each group will give a performance at the Redmond-Newport game at Redmond. Balloting will take place next week to determine the winning team. British Vessel Breaking Apart San Francisco, Sept. 12 '111 The 11,000-ton British motorship Pacific Enterprise began break ing apart today us heavy sens crashed over her hull, caught hard aground off Point A mm 100 miles north of here. The const guard reported her owners apparently had given up hope of salvaging her. A tug which had been standing by cut Its lines and headed back here. The Enterprise was groping down the fog bound const Friday morning with a cargo of grain, metal, canned salmon and I.- 500,000 foot of lumber en route to San Pedro, Callf.i from Seattle when she struck a submerged rock several hundred yards from Point Arena lighthouse. Capt. E. M." Gogle of Harwich. Eng., ordered a skeleton crew of 13 to abandon ship Saturday night. Earlier 40 other crew mem bers and live passengers mid abandoned ship. No one was Injured. The coast guaixi reported Draw ers were crasiilng over tno doomed vessel. They said the Enterprise is completely flooded and inside swollen grains of wheat strained against the ship's plates. IMMUNITY DEVELOPED Merced, Calif.. Sept. 12 'lit Merced county mosquitoes are so rugged they Just get a bit tipsy on DDT. Edgar Smith of the mosquito abatement district said DDT used to make the sturdiest mosquito larva kick up its heels and drop dead, but now thev only get a mild buzz out of DDT. "Repeated spraying of some parts of the county has built up an immunity in the posts against the insecticide." he said. Conservation Meetings Slated Supervisors of the Mid Stale soli conservation district this week will conduct a series of meetings with landowners ut the county, for the purpose of dis cussing conservation needs of the area, it was announced today. The meetings will be held In preparation lor the forthcoming election, at which landowners over the entire county will vole on whether or not to bo Included in the conservation district. The election Is scheduled for Septem ber 20, George Elliot will be in charge of the meetings to be held Sep tember 13 and 16, at the Eastern Star grange hull and the Clover dale school, roi'-ectlvely, and H. L. Fleck will conduct the meetings to be held September 14 nud 15 at Pine Forest and T u m a I o grange halls, respectively. All meetings w ill begin at 8 p.m. l'KKD IIELLltEKG DIES Astoria, Sept. 12 dli-Kied A. Hellberg, Astoria pharmacist and former state legislator, died Sun day at his home of cerebral hem miirhage. I le was 38. Hellberg served three terms In the Oregon house. Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results BE SI RE TO SEE "Smoothy" Glassow K1WANIS MINSTREL Sept. 18-18, Tower Theatre Jv X-Y4' I 'Maui . .;:, . . j V J 'i- ' '",'.-, . V,V Vn'k i k KXvk: . i- j v Anmvring promptly-nh'inii other a full minute to anauvr her call-are firel on Jame'e lit! vfanlt to tervice. How Janie helps herself to better service Howl You can again enjoy the original ANCIENT AGE full J yr old straight Kentucky bourbon The whiskey with Age ii its flavor. $475 45 ql ' STaltEflT ItlMIOII WHISIET. II HOOF. aHCIEHT 16E 1 1ST. CO., FIUII.FOIT, IT. iy-ywin T' """. ' ' '' j 1. "Allowing a llnlo time bowoen calls," say Junic, "gives others a chance to call me . . . and it's a nice party-line courtesy, too." So when she's getting tnc gang together for a picnic, or for any reason needs (o nuke culls in a row, she waits several minutes between each one. "It's simple to make friends with others on our line. I just use the telephone the way 1 like them tu." 3. Getting the most from the telephone and helping others get better service depends in part on every telephone user. Facilities have doubled in the West in ten years. Your telephone is today one of your most valuable servants . . . saving time, saving steps. And it still does iu job for just a few pennies a call. 2. Looking up numbors, Junir knows, is really important. "So easy to get them mixed up," she explains. "Why, I win just sure H.il" number wus 8H1 . . . hut when I called her I got (he drug store. Turned out her number was H-IIV So un less I'm really sure of a number, I'm going to look it up in the telephone book." That's a good tip for all of us tccn-iigers and grown-ups. 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