Here's a Fellow Who's
Unworried About Diets
By BOB
Hollywood Iff) In these
timet when everybody and his
brother ara worried about
diets, it'a refreshing to meet a
roan who la zti and doetn't
care.
He la Jack Leonard, 350
pounds of TV and night club
comic who scoffs at other mor
tals who exist on yogJrt and
wheat germ. He snorts:
"Me eat four ponds of water
cress for dinner? I'd die first!"
Jack la a steak-and-cheese-cake
man and In large quanti
ties. He remains on an ample
diet that sustains his 56-inch
waist Yet at 42 his blood pres
sure remains low, and he can
keep up in a swift dance rou
tine with Gene Nelson.
"Sure the doctors have told
me to cut down the weight,"
he admitted.' "So far I've out
lived two of them. So it may
be unhealthy to be fat. All I
know is that there are a lot of
thin people in cemeteries.
"A lot of people worry them
selves to death . about their
weight They go on diets that
kill them. Me, I just enjoy it
i When I go, it'll be ala of me.
"I like food, that's aU. Some
people eat or gamble. I have
no bad habits, unless it's eating.
I wake up some mornings with
a food hangover, the same as
some people get 'em from
drinking."
Leonard said he comes from
a family of fat people, and they
generally live to a normal OS
or so. He cited the slogan at a
fat men's store' where he buys
some of his clothing in New
i York. It reads: "If everybody
, in the - world were fat, there
i wouia oe do ware."
"That's the truth," he added.
i"Look at me, I never get into
Tany trouble. I can't fight and
I can't run!"
i Leonard, who was a star
'singer and knockabout dancer
in his youth admitted he would
be losing his trademark if he
."reduced.
"It's commercial," he agreed.
"Besides I have an extensive
'.-wardrobe I would have to
throw away. I'm a nut for
clothes; I guess that's because
I was too poor to buy good
clothes when I was a kid. I've
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The bulbous
for his first film. "Three Sailors
and a GlrL" He credits TV
for the Job, aa well as his cur
rent prosperity.
"The studio saw me play a
sailor on Jane Froman's show."
he explained. "They sent for
me sinescope ana I was hired.
At a healthy atlDtnd. 1 mlpht
aaa. i baa to ooitDon 14
weeks of night club and theater
dates to come out for the pic
ture. 'TV has done a lot for ma. I
had been in the biulnru
long time and worked un ' tn
$ 1,500 a week. ' I might have
gotten higher during the war,
but I took 3Vi years out to en
tertain troops. After two yeara
in TV. my salary is up to 33,500
a ween.
Leonard is known nn th
night club circuit as the top
insulter. . Once he had a leth
argic audience In Boston. He
snapped: "If Paul Revere was
riding tonight, he'd ride right
inrougn this town."
To a similar group of Phila
delphians: "You haven't been
paying attention, but I'll get
my revenge. I'm vnin n
solder the Liberty Bell."
in Washington, D.C., he once
made a crack about nimr h
Washington monument as a
dart This drew an irate call
from a hlitnriral ancUtv Txta.
ard stood on his right to free
speech and added:
"Besides, I'm a Lincoln man."
Actor Dick Powell in
Serious Condition
Santa Monica, Calif. VP)
Movie Actor Dick Powell is re-
cuperatin in St John's Hospital
alter two operations, but his con'
dition is still serious.
Powell, portrayer of detective
roles and at one time a top sing
er In films, suffered a ruptured
appendix and was operated upon,
a studio representative said.
Complications followed . the ap
pendectomy and further surgery
I became necessary.
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After the Battle Mrs. John Chambers of Baltimore holds
an eleven-pound 3 -ounce bonefish, largest caught la Bermuda
waters this season, after 40-minute fight
Walker and Farmer
Have Polk Salary Bill
A bill increasing salaries of
some Polk county officials has
been introduced in the senate by
Sen, Dean Walker of Indepen
dence and Rep. Frank Farmer
of Rickreall. Because of the de
sire of the Polk county budget
board to fix permanent salar
ies for county officials, the sal
ary scale proposed is based on an
increase over the low salaries
paid back in 1943. Approval of
the Increases waa given by the
budget committee following
public hearing.'
The proposed salary scale pro
vides the following annual sal
aries: County Judge from $2,000
In 1943 to $4,600: county com
missioners from $6 a day to $13
a day for each day employed in
transaction of county business;
county treasurer. $1,500 to
$3,300; county clerk from $2,100
Federal and Stale
TAX RETURNS PREPARED .
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STAYTON LEGION DINNER
Stayton The Stayton Ameri
can Legion Post and auxiliary
will observe the birthday of the
Legion with a pot luck dinner
Wednesday, March 4. :
a- ONLY ffnnjyn 7TO fftmSh 770
yjenmsons means
Hold Rites lor
Frank Purdy
Woodburn Frank Purdy of
Ml Front St, Woodburn. who
died Feb. 23 in the Silvertoc
hospital, was born in Oshkosh,
Wis- June 13, 1877, and came to
Woodburn from Nebraska In
1939.
Surviving are the widows Lud-
mills, of Woodburn; two sons.
Mark J. Purdy, Mt Angel, and
Arthur H. Purdy, YamhlU; a
brother, Manuel A. Purdy of
Primrose, Neb.; three sisters,
Katherlne Ray, Boise, Idaho; El
len Woten, Couer d'Alene, Ida
ho, and Ethel Cox, Fullerton,
Neb.; 13grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
Recitation of the Rosary was
In St Luke's Catholic church at
7:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27,
Requiem mass was at 9 a.m. Sat
urday, Feb. 28, in St Luke's
church, followed by burial in
Mt Calvary cemetery at Mt. An
gel under the direction of the
Ringo funeral home.
Those from out of town at-j
tending tha funeral were Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Cox, Bremerton,
Wash., Mr. and Mrs. Jay Noakes
and family, Harlston, Ore., Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Carpenter, Mr.
and Mrs. Laurence Harrahill and
family, Mrs. Monica Kasner and
family, Mrs. Ida Aylward, Mr.
and Mrs. Connie Boisk, all of
Vancouver, Wash., Mr. and Mrs.
Val Wolf and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Watts, Portland:
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Mrs. 'Evelyn Staub, San Louis
obLT, Calif.; Mr., and Mrs.
Frank Flamme, Albany; Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Brain, Newberg; Mr.
and Mrs. William Harrahill, Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Lalts and Judy,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Holier, Mr. and
Mrs. Art McVeigh, Miss Nova
DeRose, Silverton,
Active pallbearers were Wil
liam Scott, Eugene Pelts, Oliver
KesteU, Willis Melsenheimer, Fe-
U Koffler and Richard Foltx.
Honarary bearers were Harry
KeatelL John Kosse. Charles
Brandt, Anton Lang, Elmer Mels
enheimer and William Feltx,
Auto Theft Ring Paid
Off in Dope, Claim
Los Angeles lT The county
grand Jury has returned Indict
ments against three men accused
of operating an International
auto theft ring that paid off In
narcotics.
The three, Frank H. Teller, 29;
George. H. Saenz, 24, and Ar
mando Garcia, 23, were accused
of conspiring to sell automobiles
and of conspiring to .violate state
narcotic laws. $
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Capital Journal, Salem, Ore.,
Holdups Take
On Wrong Man
San Francisco A punc
tured, but persevering Pakistani,
angered and bloody from three
bullet wounds, sent two would
be robbers fleeing from his
apartment house last night
Ahmed, Gee. 49. had lust fin
ished collecting Ms rents when
two men burst Into his apart
ment and announced It was a
holdup.
Ahmed started to speak, but
one of the men shot him In the
shoulder with a .33 caliber re
volver.
- This only angered Ahmed,
who rushed forward. The other
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robber clubbed him with a pipe.
But Ahmed cam on and an
other shot creased his head.
As be reached the door, tha
gunman backing up . now
fired a third time, hitting Ahmed
in the elbow.
This time the pair had enough.
They fled from tha building,
with Ahmed chasing them up
Mission street '
A passerby spotted Ahmed's
bloody condition and called an
ambulance. Doctors at Mission
Emergency - hospital said he
would recover. . -i
Tha bandits got away.
George Washington, gener
ally an Impressive figure of a
man, was particularly tro
presslv on horseback.
Sheridan .