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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1950
ArJnnt Defense Plan Here to adopt a defense plan of the
12 Atlantic Pact nations, a group of foreign and defense min
isters meet during a reception at the Foreign Office in Brus
sels, Belgium. Left to right are: Robert fcchuman, French
foreign minister; Paul Van Zeeland, Belgian foreign minister;
Count Carlo Sforza, Italian foreign minister; U.S. Secretary
of State Dean Acheson; D. V. Stikker of The Netherlands and
British Foreign Secretary Ernest 3evin. (Acme Telephoto)
Teaching by Television Fast
Being Developed in Baltimore
Baltimore, Dec. 21 WV-Teaching by television long a cher
shed dream of educators and TV executives has moved closer
to becoming a workable reality through use of the "split screen"
technique.
This two-way television permits teacher and pupils, miles
mart, to see. hear and talk to
iach other.
It retains the personal contact
jlement in teaching something
;hat most television-education
programs now lack.
The method was demonstrat
d here yesterday by ,a sixth-
jrade geography teacher and
zlass for persons attending a
TV-education clinic sponsored
by station WBAL-TV.
There was a camera and re
:eiver in front of both the in
structor, Mrs. Barbara Long, at
the studio and her students at
the school. In that way, Mrs.
Long could ask and answer
questions and observe her pu
pils' reactions.
On the TV receiver, the split
screen technically known as a
"horizontal wipe" showed both
Mrs. Long and the students.
Since the program was carried
on the station's regular channel,
that permitted anyone sitting
at home to check up on TV-education
at work.
After class, the pupils were
eager to express their enthusi
asm lor learning by television.
Some spoke of how it would help
"sick boys and girls who can't1
go to school, but are able to read
and write and study.
One boy remarked:
"If this keeps up, they'll have
one teacher teaching ten class
es.
Adults at the clinic also fore.
aw useful applications for the
technique.
Charter Heslep, chief of the
atomic energy commission's ra
dio and television branch, felt
it would be a valuable means of
instruction in fields relating to
atomic energy now that much
material on the subject has been
declassified.
Interest in the method also
was shown by representatives of
the armed services and the U.S
department of education and
delegates from several eastern
cities who attended the clinic.
However, some TV producers
saw hitches. They said "intellec
tual actors" and "TV school
marms" would be needed to add
showmanship to the teaching.
Plans were made to set up a
middle Atlantic states television
council, made up of representa
tives from the Philadolphia-Bnltimore-Washington
area, to
develop and improve education
al programs.
Representatives of television
stations appeared cnlhusinstic
even though such programs arc
on a non-profit basis. Stations
normally provide the air time
and schools the program with
Truman Message
Sent Servicemen
Washington, Dec. 21 VP) Pre
sident Truman's holiday message
to members of the armed forces
says their mission "is to strength
en and to give hope to all who
seek peace on earth."
The brief message, released
last night, concludes:
' May the real spirit of Christ
mas abide with you, and may all
of us, in concert with all free
peoples, come nearer in the new
year to realizing man's ultimate
dream of liberty, justice and
freedom."
Legion to Collect Toys
For Children Overseas
Washington, Dec. 21 UP) The
American Legion announced to
day that its second annual drive
to collect Christmas toys lor
children overseas will begin Dec,
26 throughout the nation.
The drive brought in 3,000,-
000 toys last year for European
children. This year it will be en
larged to include the Philippine
islands and the children of vet
erans fighting in Korea.
The rose is regarded as the
flower for June and the pearl
or moonstone as the birthstone.
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Con Composer
To Win Pardon
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 21 UP)
Frank M. Grandstaff, who com
posed the 70-page "Big Spring
Cantata" in his prison cell, soon
will be a free man.
It is believed he will be the
first ever pardoned as an habi
tual criminal in Tennessee.
Before an announcement by
Gov. Gordon Browning last
night, the 49-year-old convict-
composer faced the prospect of
spending the rest of his life be
hind prison walls.
Browning said, "I am giving
lim a pardon to let him get out
f the state. All the matters for
which he was convicted were
very small offenses and I am not
tisfied to leave him there.
The governor said he would
sign the pardon papers today or
tomorrow. He added he under
stood Grandstaff will go to In
diana or Texas.
The cantata was the key that
unlocked prison doors for
Grandstaff's week of freedom in
ig Spring, Tex., in October,
1949. It was inspired by a book
written by Druggist Earl Philips.
Grandstaff was guest of honor at
the Big Spring centennial.
Grandstaff's record shows 20
offenses, mostly larceny. It was
Memphis larceny that brought
im the life sentence 10 years
ago.
Grandstaff said the first thing
he'll do is go to the Catholic
cathedral here "and drop down
on my knees in prayer. Then
I'll get in touch with the girl I
should have married 30 years
ago. Then 1 11 go to see my mo
ther again."
The "girl," he said, is Mrs.
Mildred McConkey of Fort
Wayne, Ind. He said they plan
to marry.
Movie Divorces Outnumber
Marriages Three to One
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
(United Preu Staff Correspondent)
Hollywood, Dec. 21 (U.PJ Love took a lacing in movie-star cir
cles this year, with divorces outnumbering weddings almost 3-to-l.
The local divorce courts looked like one-night stands as glamour
girls whirled in to give their spouses the legal heave-ho.
While the judges got dizzy trying to keep up the pace, blonde
Betty Hutton bounced into
court, divorced Ted Briskin,
dated a gang of local swains, and
then decided she'd rather be
Mrs. Briskin again.
She and her husband strug
gled along with a "commuter's
marriage" between Hollywood
and Chicago, where he works,
until the second week in De
cember. Then she announced
she'd been right the first time
and got ready to file for another
divorce.
Biggest surprise of the year
was Barbara Stanwyck's an
nouncement last week that she
was divorcing Robert Taylor af
ter 11 years of what everybody
thought was perfect bliss. Their
pals said the marriage fizzled
because Barbara got fed up with
being a "telephone wife.
"They never could get togeth
er, a confidante explained.
They were always separated by
an ocean or a mountain or the
gate of some movie studio."
...
Petite Nancy Sinatra made
headlines when she won a legal
separation from Frankie-boy,
plus one-t h i r d of his million
dollar earnings.
She said Frankie wouldn t
come home nights and was rude.
She didn't mention Ava Gard
ner, whose romance with the
bow-tied crooner had been mak
ing round-the-world gossip for
months. The day Nancy won her
freedom, Frankie held hands
with Ava in a New York night
club.
Bette Davis dumped husband
No. 3, William Grant Sherry, in
Mexico. Actor Gary Merrill did
the same thing to his wife. Then
Bette and Gary said "I do" be
fore a Mexican judge.
A week later, Bette s ex-mate
ankled down the aisle with the
nurse who used to take care of
the Sherry's three -year-old
daughter.
Martha Vickers announced she
couldn't get along any more
with Mickey Rooney and hired
lawyer, making it the third
divorce in a row for Rooney.
But she indicated divorce plans
were being dropped so their ba
b y ' s Christmas wouldn't be
spoiled.
Evelyn Keyes divorced Direc
tor John Huston, Kirk Douglas'
wife set him free, and Jackie
Coogan's wife became his third
"ex."
Jack Carson's wife waited
four years, decided he wasn't
coming back home after all, and
told it to a judge. Wanda Hen-
drix, the tiny actress who mar
ried the nation's most decorated
soldier, sobbed real tears on the
stand when she said she and
Audie Murphy couldn't make a
gc of it.
Other glamour couples who
split up included Ann Dvorak
and Dancer Igor Dega, the Louis
Haywards, the Robert Montgom
erys, Janet Blair and Lou Busch,
Groucho Marx and Kay Gorcey,
Joan Blondell and Mike Todd,
Benay Venuta and Armand
Deutsch, Myrna Loy and Pro
ducer Gene Markey, and Faye
Emerson and Elliott Roosevelt.
Arline Judge out of pictures
but not out of husband-material
divorced her sixth and was
rumored to have her eye on No.
7.
And, as the end of the year
rolled around, the "Battling
Hiltons" were headed for the
divorce courts. Luscious "Liz"
Taylor and Nicky Hilton, Jr.,
after seven months of wedded
misery, promised each other
their freedom for Christmas
presents.
Shirley Temple, divorced from
John Agar in 1949, decided just
a year later to score one for
marriage. She wed Millionaire
Charles Black, a television ex
ecutive, in a surprise ceremony
last Saturday, only 10 day after
her divorce from Agar became
final.
Margaret Truman
Plans Radio Contract
New York, Dec. 21 VP) Mar
garet Truman is negotiating a
long term exclusive contract
with the National Broadcasting
company for both radio and tel
evision appearances, Charles
Barry, vice president In charge
of the NBC radio program de
partment, announced today.
A contract has not yet been
completed, but the theatrical
trade paper, Variety, said Miss
Truman would receive $4,000
for each appearance with an in
come approaching $200,000 an
nually when her program moves
over all NBC AM-Video circuits.
Miss Truman, other than her
singing, recently appeared in
the field of comedy when she
traded humorous remarks with
Mistress of Ceremonies Tallula
Bankhead on the NBC Sunday
night radio program, "The Big
Show."
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Carol Shorey.
Snow Men: Jon Eyerly, Ar
thur Young, Billy Johnson, Otis
Ellis, David Austin, Jimmy
Sauires, Marvin Lester, Jack
Johnson, Mike Eyerly and Roger
Heyden.
There will be several musi
cal numbers between scenes.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. Santa Claus will visit
as a final attraction.
Street Roller Hits Boy
Portland, Dec. 21 VP) A heavy
street roller one of those used
Comes Home Mrs. Betty
ann Culver, 30, stricken with
polio last July, Is wheeled for
Washington's Union station by
her husband, Sidney Culver
(left) and her father, Basil
O'Connor, president of the na
tional foundation for infantile
paralysis, as she arrives from
Warm Springs, Ga., where she
has been undergoing treat
ments. She will spend Christ
mas with her five children at
the family home near Win
chester, Va. (AP Wirephoto)
Roberts School
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Roberts The children of Rob
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Christmas play, "Peter Rabbit
and the Christmas Spirit", on
Thursday evening, Dec. 21, at
8:00 at the schoolhouse. The fol
lowing children will character
ize the colorful tnree-aci musi
cal play:
Sally. Joan Srieed; Mother.
Berneice Beals; Peter Rabbit,
Stevens Eyerly; Mr. McGregor,
Donald Miller; Jack Frost, Paul
Mullican; Snow Queen, Sandra
Shorey; Mother Rabbit, Sherry
Filsinger; Santa Claus, Vernon
Papenfus; Frost Elves: Richard
Mullican, James Sneed, Kenneth
Graves, Oliver Holcomb, Silas
Ellis, Gary Filsinger, Gary Scha-
fer, Joe Curtis, Keith Austin,
Bernard Papenfus, Jimmy Os-
born,. Bobby Snook and Gary
Kleen.
Snow Fairies: Marcella Nor-
west, Vernita Norwest, JoAnne
Squires, Alice Lockhart, Judy
Danna, Karalyn Jenness, Dor
othy Lockhart, Sandra Ellis,
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