Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 19, 1950, Page 19, Image 19

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Will Abandon Movies Colleen Townsend, 21-year-old mo
tion picture acress, holds a New Testament as she tells news
men in Hollywood, Calif., of her plans to quit the movies
and dedicate her life to Christianity. She intends to continue
in Hollywood until September, then enter a theological college.
She wants to work with orphans. (AP Wirephoto)
Pretty Colleen Townsend Ready
To Go Where Lord Needs Her
Hollywood, Jan.'lO (U.R) Pretty Colleen Townsend, who is trad
ing a promising movie career for religious work, said today she
thinks "Hollywood is a wonderful missionary field."
"But I don't care if my missionary work leads me to a foreign
land," the brunette actress said. "I'll go where the Lord needs
me."
When she told 20th Century
Fox studio she wouldn't renew
her contract after it expires
next month, her movie bosses
were "wonderful about it," Miss
Townsend said.
In place of fame and a big
pay check, the 20-year-old
screen player said she would
take a two-year religion course
at' a theological school. This
will be followed by work in
"Christian Education, either
Public to Hear
Building Plans
Some important moves will be
made next month toward a civic
memorial auditorium for Salem,
according to Bruce Williams,
president of the War Memorial
Auditorium association.
On February 1 plans will be
explained to the public at i
meeting sponsored by the asso
elation and its allied groups. W.
M. Hamilton, chairman of the
building committee, will discuss
the plans.
On February 15 Ormond R.
Bean, member of the Portland
city commission, will discuss
methods of financing the memo
rial. He has formed a plan for
financing a similar memorial in
Portland.
Williams announced that E.
Burr Miller had been appointed
chairman of a committee on lo
cation.
The association officers met
Wednesday night at the Supreme
Court building, and, will meet
there again next Wednesday
night.
Linn County School
Program Handicapped
Albany Winter tightened its
icy grip on Linn county Tues
day, forcing many rural schools
to close and virtually paralyzed
business throughout the entire
area.
Snow of fine, dry texture
started falling shortly before 10
a.m. Tuesday and by late after
noon had piled up three inches
on the six inches that had inter
mittently fallen since Saturday
night.
Schools at Scio were closed
because buses could not nego
tiate safely slippery roadways
and at Albany the North Al
bany school bus was sent from
here before noon Tuesday to re.
turn pupils to their homes in
northern Benton county before
threatened closure of roads may
occur.
Mennis Gets Check
For G.I. Insurance
Albany, Ore., Jan. 19 First
of the GI insurance premiums
reported to have been received
by an Albany ex-service man ar
rived Tuesday. A check for
more than S200 was made pay
able to Jack B. Mennis, 1530
Broadway. Last three numerals
of Mennis' serial number were
000. Mennis is a local distributor
for an oil company.
Torreya, known as gopher
wood, is native In America in
Liberty county, Fla., and the
southwestern corner of Decatur. I
county Ga,
teaching in churches or as a
missionary."
"I'm not giving up anything,"
she said. "I'm just going to do
something better, what 1 like
best, and what God wants for
me." ,
The magazine covers she
posed for to pay for her educa
tion paved Miss Townsend's
way into the movies. Since she
started in films she has
peared in three top roles.
Parts in "Chicken Every
Sunday" and "Walls of Jericho"
sityrociceiea tne vivacious ac
tress to the chance to play Dan
Dailey's girl friend in "Willie
Comes Marching Home."
one empnasizea there is
"nothing wrong with movies.
Until Miss ' Townsend. enters
school in September, she plans
to free-lance as a movie and
radio actress.
Theology first interested her
more than two years ago when
friends from Hollywood high
school persuaded her to join the
nrst Presbyterian church.
She went to "v a r i n ii b
churches" during high school
ana was a memDer of the Mor
mon Sunday school when she
attended Brigham Young uni
versity.
"This is no reflection nn Hol
lywood," the actress added,
"but Christianity has something
I want. I know I'll find true
happiness m it."
Navarro Holds Hollywood
Lovers 'Bunch of Bullies'
By VIRGINIA MacPIIERSON
Hollywood, Jan. 19 (OH) Ramon Navarro, the passionate lover
who used to make Mom weel like a kid again, said today Holly
wood's current "great lovers" are all a bunch of bullies.
Vulgar Bullies," he slurred in the soft Latin accent that had
ladies cooing on two continents in the 1920s.
"In my day we put a woman
on a pedestal, Navarro said.
We caressed her ardently but
tenderly. And when we did get
passionate, we did it reverently.
"Nowadays, bah! They grab
the leading lady, slap her in the
face, kick her, pull her hair, and
then growl: 'How about it,
keed?" "
The whole prospect horrified
the man who did his great-lov-cring
opposite stars like Greta
Carbo, Lupe Valez, May Mc
Evoy and Alice Terry. In those
days, he said, he didn't dream of
getting so familiar with the la
dies.
'If we had a sexy scene it was
always with the siren in the
movie," he grinned. "And then
if I do say so myself, we had our
moments. There was no John
ston office then. We could kiss
her as long as we liked."
In fact, said this ex-great-
lover, he kissed 'em so long and
so often that after a while he
didn't "like" it any more.
He is now starting a new ca
reer as a character actor. And
he'- doing it on one condition:
That he never, so long as he
lives, has to kiss a beautiful
lady again.
This is bound to come as a
great shock to a lot of mamas.
In the days of the torrid silents,
Navarro was their matinee idol,
the gay caballero.
He had but to bend over a
panting heroine with fove burn
ing in his dark eyes and every
horsewife in the country forgot
about the old man's thinning
hair and thickening waistline.
For 12 years he ruled the
Hollywood roost as the dark,
handsome and wealthy romeo.
Then, suddenly and mysterious
ly, he dropped out of sight.
"I was tired," he said simply.
"I had saved my money, and I
could afford to get out of the
business and look at it objec
tively. Don't get me wrong
Gangster Grabbed
After Long Search
Miami, Fla., Jan. 19 M)
Harry Fleischer, a member of
Detroit's notorious Purple Gang,
was held by the FBI today after
14 months' search.
Fleischer, 46, was arrested
yesterday on charges of unlaw
ful flight to avoid confinement
after conviction on a Michigan
robbery charge.
He was picked up by four
FBI agents while sunning him
self at Pompano beach, 35 miles
north of Miami.
Crawford H. Carson, FBI
agent in charge of the Miami
office, described Fleischer as
"one of the most badly wanted
men in the country." He said
the FBI had been searching for
him since November 1, 1948.
Fleischer was sprawled on the
sand in bathing trunks when the
agents closed in. He was taken
without a struggle and readily
admitted his identity.
when I express my opinions on
the lovers of today. Those are
just my opinions."
But he still thinks the boys
play too rough nowadays.
"Every woman wants to be
courted, gently and tenderly
and sentimentally," N o v a r r o
said. "How far can you get by
pushing their faces in? In my
day, if I had treated a lady like
that I would have been run out
of town.
"No indeed. You get much
better results if you kiss their
necks and their hands and their
ears. And for the screen, when
you work up to a certain pitch,
you leave the rest to the im
agination of the audience.
'Believe me, we got away
with lots more than way. But
we didn't offend anybody."
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Midwest Floods Grow Life jacketed flood worker looks
across the Saline river bridge near Shawneetown, 111., where
eight feet of water covers the highway. Evacuees shown on
the opposite bank are waiting to be removed to higher ground.
Shawneetown, one of many Midwestern cities periled by grow
ing floods, is dry but surrounded by water. (Acme Telephoto)
Farmers Told
To Make Haste
Farmers in Marion county
who want government price pro
tection for their wheat, barley,
oat and flaxseed were reminded
today that they have only a few
days left in which to take out
loans or purchase agreements,
January 31 is the closing date
for making applications for
loans and signing purchase
agreements for these crops ac
cording to W. M. Tate, chairman
of the county PMA committee.
County loan rates for these
crops are: wheat, $2.01 per
bushel; oats, 71 cents per
bushel; barley, $1.23 per bushel;
flaxseed, $3.80 per bushel.
Tate emphasized that ade
quate storage is essential in or
der to obtain the benefits of the
price support programs. Com
modities under loan must be
sealed in approved storage facili
ties. Commodities protected by
DUrchase aerepmpnls arp thn
farmer's own responsibility, but
any part later delivered to the
government must meet certain
grade standards in order to re
ceive the support price.
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Capltat Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 19, 195019
Warn of Russ
A-Plane Efforts
Washineton. .Tan 10 aim u.
government's top aviation scien-
hsis nave warned congress that
Russia is expanding its efforts
to produce high-speed, long
range aircraft for atomic war
fare. In its 35th annual report, the
national advisory committee for
aeronautics said tnat ther I o
"Sense Of lirfflni.v" nhnnt
country's efforts to maintain its
initial advantage in the develop
ment or long range Bombers and
supersonic fighters.
As a result, it rain Hula
basic research is being used up
as last as American scientists
can rroduce it.
"The stakes are high," the
sam. Supersonic speed
in military aircraft is essential
tO the Success nf air nttnnli- no
well as air defense. In the age
01 atomic bombs it appears that
no nation can win a war with
out control of the air."
President Truman forwarded
the report to congress.
"False Pretenses"
Berlin. Jan. 19 (U.R) A nnn
Berliner filed suit for divorce
from his bride of one day and
accused her of "false pretenses
and non-existine facts" hfraiKo
she wore falsies, the newspaper
uer ADend reported today.
Buys Back
Own Agate
Newport Beach, Calif., Jan. 19
P) This story is mildly rem
iniscent of the man who cut
open the fish and found the dia
mond ring he had dropped over.
board the year before. . . .
Twelve years ago, Fred L.
Kennedy was standing on a
wharf on Petosky Bay, Mich.,
when he spied a large and color
ful agate, lying on the bottom.
Into seven feet of water he dove,
came up with it.
But a few weeks later, a burg,
lar stole the polished stone from
his Petosky home.
The other day, visiting a gem
shop near here, he spotted it
again.
This time he had to buy it.
Election in Greece
Postponed 2 Weeks
Athens, Greece, Jan. 19 (Pi
Greece's general election for a
new parliament has been post
poned two weeks, until March S.
Originally scheduled for April
the election date has been ad
vanced to February 19 by the
new premier, John Theotokis,
after a dispute over the election
date resulted in the fall of Pre
mier Alexander Diomedes' coa
lition cabinet.
The present parliament wa
elected March 31, 1946.
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