Shirley Temple Enjoys First
Film Freedom Since Age Four
By BOB THOMAS
Hollywood, June 21 m The long film career of 22-year-old
Shirley Temple has passed another milestone. She is now her
own boss.
The former screen moppet ended her contract with Producer
David O. Selznick and now will make her own decisions. It is
the first time she has been able T
to decide her film fate and she
says she's enjoying it immensely.
"I've read six scripts In two
weeks," she crowed. "I'm hav
ing I lot of fun."
From the age of four, Shirley
has always had her scripts pick
ed for her. She reigned as the
crown princess of 20th Fox for
nine years and brought in mil
lions for the studio by doing
what she was told to do.
Her box office pull began to
drop when she outgrew the "cute
little girl'' roles and in 1941 she
parted with the studio. After a
couple of pictures for MGM and
Edward Small she signed with
Selznick.
The producer brought her
back to popularity, not as a
moppet but as a shapely young
woman. Unlike Ingrid Berg
nan, Joan Fontaine and some
of the other rebellious Selznick
stars, Shirley seemed contented
under the producer's control.
There were never any public
arguments and the parting, said
Shirley was a friendly one.
I asked her what kind of pic
tures she wants, now that she
is a free agent.
"Anything with a good story,"
she answered. "I have found
two that I like. One is on the
'Rebecca' side and the other Is
about a young movie star. Both
are for major studios. And there
is a chance that I may play
a Japanese girl in a picture for
an independent producer."
She disclosed that she had an
offer to sign a term contract
with Warners. She turned it
down. "It's more fun to make
your own decisions if they are
good ones," she remarked.
Shirley appeared to be enjoy
ing her romantic independence
as well. Her boy friend from
Hawaii, ' Charles Black, is in
town and they are still dating.
"I'm very happy," she com
mented, without elaboration,
Dallas Tax Lew
Passes Easily
.Dallas A $113,791.89 tax
levy above the six per cent
-limitation for Dallas school dis
trict No. 2 for 1950-51 was ap
proved by a wide margin at the
school election Monday.
-Of 137 votes cast, only 22
were in opposition to the levy.
William B. Young, present
board chairman, was re-elected
to the school board by virtually
unanimous vote. Only three
ballots carried write-in names.
Young was the only candidate
who had filed. Election is for
a five-year term.
Insurance Firm
In the Pentagon
Washington, June 20 W
House investigators received tes
timony today that a private in
surance group was organized at
the Pentagon and operated from
there, making use of govern
ment telephones.
The witness, former Maj. Gen.
William H. Kasten, said the
group was founded in 1946 with
the approval of Gen Dwight
D. Eisenhower, then army chief
of staff.
Kasten retired army chief of
finance, is now the $12,000-a-
year secretary-treasurer of the
insurance organization, known
as the Armed Forces Mutual
Benefit association.
The association's membership
is limited to army officers. It is
now a $44,300,000 concern.
Kasten testified before a house
armed forces subcommittee
checking into the organization
and operation of the association
as part of its Investigation of al
leged irregularities at the army
finance center in St. Louis.
Kasten has been criticized ore-
viously by a house civil service
committee on grounds that he
managed an insurance business
for two years before he left the
army.
He told the armed forces com
mittee that the association, with
high ranking army officers as
directors, was organized on Dec.
5, 1946 "with the knowledge and
approval of the chief of staff."
Kasten said the association
was assigned one room and use
of government telephone, first
in the finance section's quarters
near the Pentagon and then in
the Pentagon itself after the sec
tion moved there.
He denied he used his regular
duty time for its management.
but said he did work at nights
and over week-ends. He said the
association paid for stationary
and postage and for secretarial
help.
The association moved from
the Pentagon to its own offices
in a Washington office build
ing in Jan. 1949, he said. It
now has an office staff of six.
The world's largest valve a
rotovalve is installed just out
side the west portal of the Mof
fat tunnel in Colorado. It con
trols the entire flow of water in
the trans -mountain diversion
through the tunnel to Denver.
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Hamshorn Herd
Wins Award
For distinguished success as a
breeder of Ayrshire dairy cattle.
Stephen Hemshorn estate, Mt.
Angel, has been presented the
'Constructive Breeder Award" by
the Ayrshire Breeders' association.
In order to qualify for this
honor, which is considered the
most coveted prize in dairy cattle
circles, it is necessary for the
herd to excell in production and
type, and in addition, a high
percentage of the herd must have
been bred and developed by the
owner.
The herd has been given an of
ficial classification score of .843
which places it among the top
10 of the breed on type charac
teristics. Ten members of the
herd were designated as "Very
Good', which is the second high
est score given any Ayrshire.
On a strictly twice-a-day milk
ing schedule, the entire milking
herd of 20 head averaged 10,194
pounds of 4 per cent milk. No
less than 100 per cent of the
herd has been bred and owned
by the Stephen Hemshorn estate
for at least four years. This Is
the third award of this kind
won by this herd.
WilliamWolsh Loses
School Board Race
Coos Bay, Ore., June 21 (U.B
John W. Nelson, Coos Bay in
surance man, defeated State
Senate President William E.
Walsh for a position on the Coos
Bay school board in an election
Monday night.
Nelson got 163 votes to 112
for Walsh.
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