8 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, February 10, 1950
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Oregon Holstein Association Meets in Salem Annual meet
ing at the Senator devoted to business discussion, show circuits
and fair displays. Officers (from left, front row): Edgar
Grimes, president; J. W. Adamson, secretary treasurer; S. B.
Hall, director, Glen P. Ireland, vice president. Back row,
from left: Gerald J. Plowman,, field representative: James
S. Frakes, C. J. Berning, A. W. Lindlow, John Schild and
Walter M. Brog, directors. Brog is from Salem, Berning, Mt.
Angel. (Story on page 8)
'RAG MOP' TO RICHES
Mail Friendship Brings
Novelty Hit Tune to Top
By WILLIAM PEART
Oklahoma City, Feb. 10 (P) A couple of unacquainted western
music makers had a meeting of minds through the mails.
The results: "Rag Mop," novelty tunc not a western which
has bounced its way to near the top of the favorite song heap.
Johnny Lee Willis and Deacon Anderson are the cowboy-booted
gentleman listed as the song s
co-composers.
But the two probably would'nt
say "hello" if they approached
the same juke box at the same
time.
Wills' "hill-billy" band head
quarters in Tulsa. Anderson
steel guitar for a wstern swing
outfit in Baumont, Tex.
The Texan (Tcxans like to be
called Texans) wrote the song
the music and the lyrics. Then,
last fall, he folded it in an en
velope, addressed it to Wills, and
dropped it in a mail chute.
"He told Johnny Lee he was
to receive half the profits and
appear on the label as co-com-t)oser
if he could do anything
with it," O. W. Mayo, who
travels over the stale for Wills,
aaid here.
And Johnny Lee did something
with it.
"Neither he nor his band were
too excited over the tune at
first," Mayo says, "but Johnny
Lee and his boys began working
up an arrangement. They worked
on It for a couple of months,
until they smoothed it out to
where it was worth recording."
The song it uses letters to
pell "Rag Mop" was cut by
a Nashville, Tenn., record com
pany (Bullet). A publisher (Hill
and Range Songs) put it on sneci
music.
"It's really an old Negro blues
progression," Anderson has been
auoted as saying. "Someone sug
gested it be called 'Rag Mop'
o It was."
A musician in Beaumont who
once played with Wills sugges
ted that Anderson ship along the
song to him.
"They've had some conversa
tion on the phone since then
Mayo says. "And they've written
some letters. They ve never
met."
But when they do they can
warble the praises of "Rag Mop'
with great gusto.
And most of all they can talk
about the M-O-N-E-Y it has tun
neled into their wallets.
Donations Wanted
By Church Society
Woodburn The Assembly of
God Missionary society has re
sumed regular meetings and is
making quilts, mending clothes
and making clothes lor babies
The group meets every Thurs
day afternoon. This week the
meeting was at the home of Mrs
Norman Greer on South Settle-mier.
The women would appreciate
the donation of used clothing
Anyone having material may
notify Mrs. W. S. Miller or Mrs.
Lester Gibson and arrangements
will bt made to call for it.
Artists Win
13 Gold Keys
Salem high school art students
copped 13 gold keys in the fourth
regional scholastic art contest.
Portland high school entrants
won the highest number of keys
with a record of 105 to their
credit. Klamath Falls artists
were second with 27.
Salem high winners were
Helen Black, Jean Burroughs,
Vclma Carrow, Alene Delke,
Lanny Dibbern, Esther Graham,
Connie Jean Hilton, Louise Mat
ter, Jack Schrader, Leon Schroe-
der, Clifford Stolle, Jim Schull
and Murield Williams. ,
Gold key winners will be sent
to the national competition at
Pittsburgh, Pa. Winners at this
contest will receive cash awards
or scholarships.
A total of 52 baseball players
have been named to the sport's
Hal of Fame at Cooperstown,
New York.
$732 Million Bill
For Atom Bombs
Washington, Feb. 10 (IP) The
house passed and sent to the sen
ate late Thursday an emergen
cy $732,485,550 appropriation
bill which includes funds for a
speeded-up construction pro
gram by the atomic energy com
mission. Passage was by voice vole.
The bill authorizes the com
mission to contract for an addi
tional expenditure of $78,885,-
000 between now and July 1. It
previously had been given con
tract authority up to $387,189,
628. The commission asked for an
additional $87,650,000.
There were no details of the
AEC construction program ex
cept a brief explanation that it
would speed building already
started and provide for "a few
additional minor projects."
House appropriation commit
tee members said the new funds
is not connected with the hydro
gen bomb project.
Almost all the cash in the bill
is for the veterans administra
tion, which would receive $720,
000,000 for this purpose.
Other items include $11,682,
500 for the Tennessee Valley
Authority and $803,000 for wel
fare work among Indians.
BEWILDERING TO THE SEC
This Stock-Selling Scheme
Hunts 'Little Fellows' for Sales
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Feb. 10 UH) The Security & Exchange commission
can t understand why anyDoay connected wun me movies wouia
sell stock in a projected picture for as low as $10 a share and dis
courage more than two shares to a customer.
The SEC looked into the matter and, although hewildered,
okayed it.
Hollywood was just as mysti
fied.
Here was a motion picture in
which no producer, author, di
rector, or stars would get credit.
That isn't the way Hollywood
would do it, but Hollywood isn't
doing this one.
It is to be produced abroad
and is about the lift of Christ.
In simple, reverent form, the
drama will be portrayed against
the backdrop of our atomic era.
Three cameras will be used
simultaneously, there will be
screens three times large than
regulation and acoustics having
as many as 75 loud speakers.
Shooting will take place in
France, Italy, and Israel. Church
men everywhere already have
indorsed the idea of filming the
passion of Christ.
Selection of a cast has not
been easy.
The producers auditioned
more than 200 men before they
finally selected a 32-year-old
professor of philosophy at the
University of Paris to play the
role of Christ. A prominent
Hollywood actress offered to
play gratis the part of the
mother Mary. She was turned
down.
The man responsible for the
idea Is a dynamic young
Frenchman named Count
Georges De La. Grandiere,
who three times was a prison
er of the Nazis.
Independence Mr. and Mrs.
James Hart were hosts to the
Nesika bridge club members and
Dr. and Mrs. Elmer Ensz, Mrs.
M. C. Williams an'd Mrs. Thelma
Tallant as guests at a dinner In
Monmouth hotel. Following the
dinner the group went to the
Hart home where four tables
of bridge were in play. Hart
and Mrs. Tallant won the high
scores for the evening.
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The Count went to Holly
wood and tried to sell his idea
to the film moguls. The Count
went broke. He returned to
France and bicycled up and
down the land selling shares
of stock at $10 a share. It
looks as if he's going to make
it.
Here in America, where stock
in the film is registered, a few
have been allowed to buy more
than a single share. One was a
truck driver, who said he earn
ed $60 a week. He admitted he
didn't know much about fine
art, but asked for six shares.
A New Jersey bookie who
said he had had a "good week"
tagged a film agent in a hotel
lobby. He said he wasn't much
on religion but wondered if he
could have $?3n0 worth of stock.
He was allowed to buy five
shares.
A New York cop heard about
the movie and canvassed the
boys at the precincts and the
folks along his beat He came
up with $1800 and got 900
shares to distribute to his friends.
A seamstress from Saks Fifth
Avenue wanted to put up her
life savings $3,000 The agent
talked her down to $40.
A maid at the Ritz had $230
in cash in a paper sack and got
mad when the film man tried
to talk her into taking only
two shares.
Riley Speaker
Lincoln Dinner
Frank Branch Riley, Portland,
who is to give the address for
the Marion county Lincoln birth
day anniversary rally Friday
evening, is recognized as an au
thority on the life and times of
Abraham Lincoln.'
Mr. Riley's addresses on Lin
coln have been featured in an
nual observances of the birth
day in many Pacific coast cities.
Following his appearance at
an all-Seattle Lincoln day ban
quet last, year, the Seattle Times
said: '
"If he can be persuaded to
come again, it will be difficult
to find a banquet hall sufficient
ly large to accommodate the
crowd."
The local rally is arranged in
the Salem armory starting at 8
p.m. Friday. Invitation is ex
tended to all to attend, there be
ing no admission.
Free cider is to be served and
many other features are planned
to give the rally the flavor of
Lincoln's time.
"Something will be doing
every minute and everybody is
assured a good time," states
"We don't want anybody to
get rich," the man told her.
Like the rest, the agent re
fused to sell her any stock at
all until she had personally in
vestigated the See's okay.
Naturally, all of the $1,000,
000 film can't be financed by the
little man, but he'll have the
biggest share in it. Pride, too.
As one man put it:
"What a surprise my friends
will get when they hear I'm a
stockholder. It's a pleasant
thought to know I'm helping to
put a good, clean show on the
screen. I'm just a janitor."
Gene Maleckl, who is to be mas
ter of cermonies for the evening
and is arranging special program
details.
There are to be no long
speeches, the one talk of the
evening to be the address by Mr.
Riley.
Man, 69, Boasts
Two Sets Twins
Evington, Va., Feb. 10 VP)
"It really is something to have
four children in two years
especially, I suppose, for a man
of my age."
That was 69-year-old Luther
R. Moses speaking. And the re
tired local merchant beamed
proudly.
Then he pointed to two sets of
twins Lawrence Randolph and
Luther Robert, Jr., one year old,
and Linda Neil and Brenda
Gayle, two weeks old.
"Why, it was only a little more
than two years ago that I went
visiting with friends down in
Blanche, N.C. There I met
Odell," Moses said.
He pointed again to Odell,
his attractive 35-year-old wife.
"January sure has been our
big month," he mused. "Just
look."
He began to count off the
events:
January, 1915 Odell was
born.
January, 1948 He and Odell
were married.
January, 1949 The boy twins
arrived.
January, 1950 The girl twins
were born.
"I suppose it is somewhat of
a rarity," Moses observed. "I
suppose a person could almost
call it a curiosity.
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