10 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, January 30, 1950
Joyce Ann's Asthma Trouble
Gave Her Dad Idea f or Gadget
Washington, Jan. 30 U.R) Joyce Ann Herr was born with an
$1,500,000 Fire Flames were still burning in the packing
plant of Goleta Lemon association, at Santa Barbara, Calif.,
after a $1,S00,000 fire swept the structure. In addition to
building, lemons valued at more than $100,000 were burned.
(AP Wirephoto)
LOST IN SHADE OF RUSSELL FIGURE
Jack Beutel, Who Played
Opposite Jane, Is 'Found'
By BOB THOMAS
Hollywood, Jan. VP) Hollywood's forgotten man may final
ly be remembered.
He is Jack Beutel, who seemingly had the leading role in "The
Outlaw," but who got lost in the bountiful shade of Jane Russell.
Under contract to Howard Hughes for nine years, he has worked
In only that one picture.
But now hehears that he may
finally do another. He has been
reported chosen to star in a foot
ball picture and a western. "All
I know is what I read in the pa
pers," he sighs.
The only real indication he
has received was a telephone
call from a Hughes executive
New Year's eve.
"Mr. Hughes wishes you a
happy New Year," said the
voice, "and wants me to tell you
to get ready for some work. Mr.
Hughes expects to make a lot
of pictures this year."
If Beutel isn't ready for work
now, he never will be. He has
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Big Man: wnen Lowell
Stockman (above), republican
representative from Pendle
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ing of the American Retail
Lumbermen's association 1 n
New York City he wore the
costume of the storied Paul
Bunyan. Stockman stands six
feet, five Inches and weighs
S70 pounds. (P) Wirephoto)
been taking dramatic lessons
ever since he signed with
Hughes in 1941. In fact, except
for making "the outlaw" and
some appearances, that is all he
has done for his weekly pay
check. That check has continued to
come in, even during the three
and a half years Beutel was In
the navy. It is another example
of the uniqueness of the Hughes
operation.
"I haven't seen him In four
years," said the actor of his
employer. "And I never talk to
him on the phone except
through his staff.
"I've even gone off to South
America or Canada without
telling him and it doesn't
seem to matter. Yet ne seems
to know everything I'm doing."
Beutel's Hollywood career
even began strangely. He got
fed up with a dull insurance job
in Texas and came to Hollywood
with $65 in his pocket. He was
flat broke when he tested for
"The Outlaw." Director Howard
Hawks asked him if he could
use 50.
"Cents or dollars?" asked the
broke actor. He could have
used either.
Beutel didn't even meet
Hughes until after he had won
the Billy the Kid role. After
the picture was made, Beutel
Was rankled because the boss
wouldn't allow him to take
some nice picture offers. Then
Hughes told him:
"Look, I'll make you a big
star. I can promise you that,
But you've got to do It my way.
I can let you take these offers
and you'll burn yourself out in
a year. If you stay with me,
you'll have to wait. If you don't
want to wait, you can have your
contract right now."
Beutel chose to stay and wait.
And wait and wait.
"Hughes was right; I was Just
a kid then," said the actor, who
is now 82 and several pounds
heavier.
But now he would welcome a
role, any role except that of
Hollywood's forgotten man.
Middle Grove Clubs Start
Campaign for New Building
Middle Grove, Jan. 30 The Middle Grove Associated Clubs
held Its first meeting of the current year with the newly-elected
presldont, Gil Blnnkenship, In charge.
Mrs. Cleo Keppinger was presented with a gift in appreciation
for her work. She has served as president ever since the club
was formed two years ago.
The purpose of the club Is to
raise funds for a hall to be built
at the corner of Sllverton road
and Lardon road. The rioperty
has been -donated by Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Fletcher as a
memorial to his grandparents.
The club Is a consolidation of
the youth, educational, church
and social groups In th Middle
Grove area. Regular meetings
are held every third Fricay of
the month at the toiiool house.
New residents are eordlaily In
vited. Committees are:
Ways and means: George Har
dy, chairman; Norman Fletch
er, Cleo Keppinger, Earl Malm,
L Dow.
Membership and hospitality:
Mrs. Lewis Patterson, chairman;
John Van Laanen, Vera Bassett,
Mrs. Dan Scharf, Jim Schardlne,
Ted Kuenzi.
Program:Mrs. Norman Fletch
er, chairman; Mrs. George Har
dy, Charles Wenger, Miss Cor
delia Wilkin, Henry Sprick, Mrs.
Joe Slimak.
Building: Norman Fletcher,
chairman; George Hardy, Ted
Kuenal, Earl Malm, Cleo Kep
pinger, John Van Laanen, Er
nest Crum.
Kitchen: Mrs. Vicar Wagers,
chairman; Mrs. Robert Fromm,
Mrs. Emery Goode, Jack Wikoff,
Paul Bassett, Ernest Crum, Es-j
Two Local Students
Join Future Teachers
George Fox College, New-
berg, Jan. 30 Two students
from the Salem area, Kenneth
Miller, senior, son of Mrs. Ethel
B. Miller, 365 McGilchrlst
street, and Bill Hampton, sopho
more, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam E. Hampton of Independ
ence, have recently joined this
school's newest organization, the
Amos Stanbrough chapter of
Future Teachers of America, the
fourth such college group in the
state of Oregon.
The new chapter, organized
only last month, was named in
honor of the school's oldest liv
ing graduate class of '93 who
is retiring this year from the
teaching field after 52 years'
service. Miller and Hampton
are two of 20 charter members
of the group, which is spon
sored nationally by the National
Educational association.
Salem Heights
School Notes
By JOHN HARVEY
The school lunch room gave
the fifth grade enough cans for
all the pupils to make waste
baskets.
Geraldlne Rose won honorable
mention for the fourth grade in
KOAC's "Land of Make Be
lieve." David Bradshaw tied for
first and Jeanette Harrison won
honorable mention, both being
fifth graders.
Judy Laetsch was out of school
with earache. She la In Mrs.
Green's first grade. The chil
dren In this room did ceramics
Friday. They painted window
scenes.
The third grade put on an as
sembly Friday. It was about
holidays In 1950. Children of
that grade are studying about
Oregon.
The first issue of the Salem
Heights School Journal was
published last week. It had
three pages.
Staff members, all sixth grade
pupils, are John Hammerstad,
editor; Donna Zeh, reporter;
Jerry White, artist; Julian
Thurston, cartoonist; L o r e 1 1 a
Bates, assistant editor; Jerry
Carlton, sports editor, and Carol
Marggl, Nancy Steen and Julia
Rich, printers.
The school Is collecting toys
to Be sent to needy children in
Europe,
xne nun grade pupils are
writing letters to the fifth grade
In Greenville, Okla. They are
telling all about' Oregon.
The fourth grade is finishing
a study of the dry desert land
regions.
allergy that gave her constant misery from asthma.
The child is six years old now, and although she is not yet as
foxy as the other kids in her set, she has shown much improve
ment. Thanks to her daddy
It all happened like this, and
let's get the record straight right
now: Her pop is claiming no
'cure" for asthma.
Joyce Ann was a normal child
at birth, but at the age of six
months she developed the
wheezes and roughs common to
asthma. Her dad, Paul A. Herr
of Neffsville, Pa., took her to
specialists on allergies.
They tried a change of diet.
They took away soft foods, and
re-jiggered the milk formula.
They started moving furniture
out of the house, thinking that
some of the overstuffed chairs
were bothering the child. The
family even removed the feathers
from all the pillows in the house
and replaced them with cotton.
By the time the baby was
three, she couldn't run 10 feet
without coming up short of
breath. Finally an eye, ear, nose
and throat man was consulted.
He asked one simple question:
"What is the relative humidity
in your home?"
Herr, a short haired little fel
low who calls himself "half a
scientist," took an instrument
reading at' home and found the
humiditv to be around 18 per
cent. The doctor said to get
that up to 50 percent.
Herr, now with the Lancaster
Engineering Corp., did things the
hard way. He boiled water on the
stove in the kitchen. He set two
electric burners in the living
room and kept water bubbling
on them. He put a hot plate in
Joyce Ann's room and set a pan
of water on it. He got his nu
midity. Inside of two weeks, the child
was beginning to show improve
ment, (many doctors have con
tended for a long time that regu
lated humidity relieves asthma.)
The little girl turned out to be
a sort of means to an end for her
dad.
Herr was in town recently to
see the patent people about push
ing his new humidifier past the
patent applied for" stage. Me
got some encouragement.
His gimmick looks some
thing like an air-conditioner and
at present is designed to serve a
home Instead of an apartment,
although the latter may come in
later. The principle, or objective
of the Instrument is to atomize
water at a high pressure break
ing the drop of water (maybe
spraying is a better word) Into
the air.
Inventors don't like to give
away their secrets, but Herr went
so far as to say that his gadget
is equipped with a pump which
builds up a pressure of 200
pounds per square inch enough
to get the moisture around the
house.
If the humidity is right, the
sufferer from asthma is eased,
he claims. The machine works
automatically and almost thinks
for itself. It adjusts itself to the
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Klcen.
Junior entertainment: Mrs.
Clarence Irving, chairman; Don
Bassett, Gordon Fromm, Jack
Wikoff, Jr., Don Blankenship.
Publicity: Mrs. Ernest Crum,
chairman; Mrs. Cleo Keppinger,
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Catalog of resources: Mrs.
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William Kaufman, Mrs. Phoebe
Wagers, Mrs. Jim Schardlne,
Mrs. Ben Roner.
After the business meeting
was a program presented by
Gaylee Keppinger, Leigh PIck
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temperature outside. Don't ask
technical questions, All that is
Herr's secret.
Herr, incidentally, claims
there is a close link between
little kid s and little chickens.
'Chickens have asthma and
colds, too," he says.
He thinks his invention would
be a great boon to the poultry
people. An egg is put in an in
cubator where the humidity is
86 per cent and when the chick
pecks its way out of the shell it
is exposed to an atmosphere with
only 15 per cent humidity, Herr
claims.
"Its the same as with humans,"
he says "the respiratory tract is
dried up. But if you put a good
humidifier into the chick house
I think you'd have a lot more
chicks grow up into eatable
friers or fat laying hens."
The department of agriculture
is looking into the humidifier.
Italian Girl Seeks
American Husband
Atlanta, Jan. 30 (U.R) A 26-
year-old Italian girl with a"nim-
ble" figure wants an American
husband.
Liliana Biagi, of Florence,
wrote the Atlanta Constitution
that her dream "is to have an
American husband nd live in
America but I don't know no
one, so it is very difficult for me
to realize what I think.
"So I write you," she added.
iviayDe your newspaper can
help me find an American hus
band. My height is 1.60 meters
(approximately five feet five
inches) my hair is black and my
figure is nimble . . ."
Liliana came right to the point.
"I think I have all the things
that a husband may be wanting.
I like sports and music and I
amuse myself at the theater or
by walking. I love babies and
want to have only nine."
She gave her address as Cas
tello, Flredke, Florence, Italy.
j-
Air Agreement Planned
Manila, Jan. 30 (U.R) A for
eign office spokesman said todav
an Australian mission will ar
rive here next month to conclude
a reciprocal air agreement with
the Philippine government,
The treaty will be signed in
Manila. Preliminary negotia
tions for the treaty have already
begun.
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Heavier Than Usual Air force's new high-speed penetra
tion jet fighter takes off on test flight at Edwards air force
base, Calif. Designated the YF-93A, the plane was developed
by North- American Aviation and is heavier than most cur
rent fighters. The fighter is powered by a turbo-jet engine
with 6250 pounds of thrust, further increased with an after
burner. Sweptback wings have span of 39 feet and fuselage
Is 44 feet long. (Acme Telephoto)
Judith Coplons Attorney Walks
Out on Her During Interview
By LEO TURNER
New York. Jan. 30 (U.R) Judith Coplon, her espionage con-
sDiracv trial in week-end recess, held a press conference Satur
day during which her mother bolted from the room nearly in
tears and her attorney, Archibald Palmer, displayed tne vocal
talents that got him cited for contempt of court during her
Washington trial.
During questioning about herl
romance with Valentin Gubit
chev, the glamorous former gov
ernment girl was asked if she
thought her Russian former boy
friend who is co-defendant In
the espionage trial was a spy.
Miss Coplon's answer was in
audible to reporters.
said had been her romance with
the Russian engineer. She em
phasized repeatedly that she did
not consider it had been furtive.
The avowed purpose of the
conference, was to explain why
her mother had not attended her
trial here as she had in Wash
ington. The reason, Judith said,
was that Mrs. Coplon had lost
11 pounds since Judith's arrest
and the death of her husband
early last year.
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Palmer, standing next to her,
wheeled and shouted at her:
That's a sarcastic answer.
Don't get sarcastic with these
men."
'But I didn't answer," Judith
replied.
"I heard you. It was a sar-
oastic, ridiculous statement."
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"Don't argue with me, say it
was ridiculous. Say It was
ridiculous," Palmer shouted.
"All right, it was ridiculous,"
Judith agreed.
"I always told you you were
a damn fool at time?," Palmer
said, stalking from the room.
Before this argument de
veloped, Judith told of what she
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