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Tops Among the Women Mrs. America (left) and Miss
America (right) give you bright smiles after their respective
victories. Mrs. America, Mrs. Frances L. Cloyd of San Diego,
Calif., was chosen at Asbury Pary, N. J. Miss America, Jacque
Mercer of Litchfield, Ariz., was chosen at Atlantic City, N. J.
(AP Wirephoto.)
NEW BEAUTY QUEEN STILL FLUSTERED
Miss America Gets Offer
To Star With Burt Lancaster
By HARMON W. NICHOLS
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 13 U.R) Jacque Mercer, pert Miss
America of 1949, is a pint-sized Arizona ranch girl who can
step right Into a co-starring 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 saf
flustered today about winning
the nation's most glamorous
beauty crown that she 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 crown-
. ed over 82 other aspirants at
the annual pageant her Satur
day night.
She left for New York yester
day and next week will go to
Milwaukee for the annual out
doorsmen show. Then she will
return to Phoenix Junior col
lege to enroll for a limited
course.
- She has official permission
from the college authorities to
eliminate a few courses from
her dramatic art schedule this
year so she can properly dis
charge the obligations of Miss
America.
She will have a long itinerary
that will take her 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 esti
mated $30,000 in cash in addi
tion to her $5,000 scholarship
which she'll use to study dra
matics, and the $3,000 Nash car
that went with her Miss America
crown.
Jacque, who revealed her real
name is "Jacqueline Joy" after
her mother's favorite doll, told
how her father made her drive
a tractor in his cotton fields to
earn enough money to go see
a play last year.
Only five feet four inches and
weighing 106 pounds, the stage
struck Miss America-to-be wres
tled the tractor and harrow for
75 cents an hour so she .could
buy a ticket to California.
Jacque, who measures a trim
34 inches around the bust and
hips, is one of the smallest Miss
America's on record.
She announced at once that
marriage is more important than
a career. But lest people mis
understand her intentions, she
emphasized later that they don't
necessarily rank one, two in the
sequence which she 11 follow.
Her boyfriend Douglas Cox,
19, of Phoenix, a classmate in
her drama courses, was so hap
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Miss America
Tells Her Plans
New York, Sept. IS l
Eighteen-year-old "Miss Ameri
ca" said today she isn't going to
match her curves against those
of "Mrs. America."
Jacque Mercer, Litchfield
Park, Ariz., wearer of the pul
chritude crown awarded at At
lantic City, N. J., last week,
told newsmen she isn't going to
take up the challenge of Mrs.
Frances L. Cloyd of San Diego,
Calif.
Mrs. Cloyd, named "Mrs.
America" at Asbury Park, N. J.,
las week-end, has said: "I'll
match my shape against hers
any day."
But Miss Mercer turned down
the dare. "I'm not a missus yet,
so I'm not going to compete with
her."
Besides, she added: "I've en
tered the highest kind of con
test there is and I'm not going!
to enter another as long as I
live."
Miss America wants to get
married but she isn't in any
hurry and she wants "to have
some kind of career on the
stage."
She has a principal boy
friend Douglas Cook, 20, a fel
low student at Phoenix College
but she has some others, too.
As regards Cook, she says:
"We're not engaged. We go to
gether because we have mutual
interests the theater, art and
music."
Modestly, she parried news
men's questions on how it felt
to be chosen America's prettiest
Miss. "I'm not the prettiest," she
said. "I'm just a typical average
American girl. That's why they
selected me. There were prettier
girls and more talented girls
than I in the contest."
Stray Horses Run
Loose Near Liberty
Perhaps it's just a prelude to
the Cody family reunion here
this week-end.
Though none of the Cody clan,
of whom "Buffalo Bill" was out
standing member, are yet here
for the reunion, Salem has al
ready received one touch of the
old wild west with some "wild
horses" loose in the Liberty dis
trict. Floyd R. McDowell, who op
erates a farm four miles south
west of Liberty reports that
some stray horses have been
roaming about his place since
Sunday and are still unclaimed
McDowell wishes the owner
would claim same immediately.
The horses are a bay and a
strawberry roan, both geldings,
one wearing a bell.
Capital Journal. Salem. Oregon, Tuesday. Sept. 18, 1949 7
py 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 the chickens, ducks,
geese, and turkeys and even
was raising a pig until the pork
er died in a summer heat wave.
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