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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, December 13, 1955
Around Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood (U.P.) A year ago
Zasu Pitts lay in a hospital re
covering from a serious operation.
Today, inspir
ed by her re
c o v e r y, she
wants tr give
up her usual
fluttery come
dy roles and
come back as
a dramatic ac
tress. "I had can-
Aline Mosby cer," big-eyed
Zasu said frankly. "I went to a
doctor for a check-up and there
it was.
"A friend told me, 'You'll be
depressed for about a year after
the operation. And then you'll
come -back.' Sure enough, a few
weeks ago I suddenly felt won
derful! I'm very enthusiastic
about a lot of projects."
Miss Pitts is not closing the
door to comedy just so she does
not draw sterotyped "Pitts
parts." But her main project is
to win dramatic parts "the type
Thelma Ritter does."
"I had one dramatic TV role
In my hands once but they gave
it to Lillian Gish," she said. "I
get so stymied. I just want to be
human in my roles."
Most fans think of Zasu Pitts
as a funny woman. But students
of the silent era remember
"Greed," one of Hollywood's
greatest films directed by Eric
Von Stroheim and starring Miss
Pitts as a beautiful heroine (and
lovable Jean Hersholt as the
villain).
She fas a dramatic star until
she appeared in "The-Dummy,"
an early talkie with Frederic
March and Jack Oakie.
"I played a stupid "gun moll
and kept saying 'Gh, my dear.'
It was funny and that was my
downfall," she reminisced.
"Next I was in 'Farewell to
Arms' with Lew Ayres. I was
supposed to be dying of a broken
heart. But at the preview the
audience laughed at me. So they
had to cut me out of the picture."
Miss Pitts reluctantly stayed a
comedienne "in everything but
the newsreels" in Hollywood
and on the stage. She did comedy
n many TV shows, including
"TbsMan Who Came to Dinner,"
and clowned in the last "Fran
cis" mule movie.
New Lease on Life
Then came an unsuccessful
play, her trip to the hospital,
and a new lease on life. Last
month she returned to work with
Buster Keaton in a "Screen Di
rectors' Playhouse" drama to be
telecast Dec. 21.
Miss Pitts and her stockbroker
husband live quietly in suburban
Brentwood. They have a son in
Santa Monica and a daughter in
Pasadena who often borrow the
actress as a baby-sitter.
"I've had a wonderful life,"
she smiled. "Maybe I was getting
smug about it and thafs why
this operation happened. It made
me stop and think how grateful
I am."
Council of Europe
Ministers Meet To
Discuss Cold War
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Paris U.R) Foreign min
isters of the 14-nation Council
of Europe met today to map new
Wester strategy to combat the
Soviet Union's apparent deter
mination to revive the cold war.
The meeting at the Chateau de
la IiQiette raised the curtain on
a weeklong series of conferences
among the member nations of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization. The United States
wffl. be represented by three
cabinet ministers at the NATO
council meeting opening Thurs
day. The conferences are aimed at
stepping up Western defense ef
forts and bolstering European
unity in the light of the failure
of the Big Four Geneva foreign
ministers conference and the
current violent ariti-Western out
burst of the Kremlin bosses.
Key Items
The key items at the one-day
meeting of the Council of Eur
ope include:
1. German unification and
European security.
2. Admission of new members
to the council, particularly Aus
tria and Yugoslavia.
3. Refugees and over-popula
tion problems.
4. A report on progress made
in the field of European econ
omic integration with special
pjsis on a study of a Eur
opean atomic pool.
Wednesday, the seven-nation
Western European Council of
Foreign Ministers will confer
and the finishing touches to the
reappraisal of Western policy
will be made by the NATO min
isters council.
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles, Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson and Secretary
of the Treasury George W.
Humphrey are scheduled to par
ticipate in the three-day NATO
conference.
Coos Bay Locals
Accept WageJncrease
Coos Bay (U.R) Five locals,
representing about 1300 mem
bers of the AFL Plywood Lum
ber aad Sawmill Workers Un
ion, have voted to accept an em
ployer offer of an average 8J4
cent per hour wage increase
effective Dec. 1, 1955, it was
rpnortpd torlav.
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TVirt nvoconf enntrnrte Ann t
expire until next April 1; . .
The remaining Coos Bay area
members of the union, represent
ing 3000 men in 15 additional
operations, will vote during the
next two weeks.
Applications For
Civil Service Jobs
Applications for several civil
service positions are being ac
cepted. The Portland field board of
examiners of the department of
agriculture are taking applica
tions for engineering aid (agri
culture) and soil conservation
aid. The positions open are in
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wash
ington and Alaska.
Applications also are being
accepted for communications
coding clerk and traffic clerk
in various federal agencies in
the Washington, D.C., area.
Additional details on the posi
tions may be obtained from
Chester W. Silliman at the post
office building here.
Applications for examinations
for irrigation operator, super
vising irrigation operator and
watermaster for employment by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and other federal agencies in
Idaho, Montana, Oregon and
Washington.
Forms may be obtained from
the local post office or the ex
ecutive secretary, department of
interior, northwest board of the
civil service examiners, post of
fice box 3537, Portland.
Wreckage of C54
Found in Morocco
labat, Morocco (U.R)
Spanish search party today
found the wreckage of a U.S.
Air Force C54 plane in the Riff
mountains of northern Morocco
and the bodies of all eight per
sons aboard.
The four engine transport
plane crashed Monday night
near Ketama, an isolated vil
lage in the Spanish zone.
A Spanish military patrol lo
cated the wreckage. It reported
to the headquarters of the 17th
U.S. Air Force division here that
there were no survivors.
The plane went down while
on the way from the United
States to Wheelus Air Force
Base at Tripoli, Libya.
There was no immediate ex
planation as to why it crashed.
It had made radio checks with
Gibraltar and Tangier and was
flying at a steady 10,000 feet.
Casablanca radio first reported
the plane missing.
Two heavy truck and two am
bulances of the 17th Air Force
division left Rabat for Ketama
after the first report of the crash
reached here Monday night.
American authorities said the
wreck lay on a nearly inacces
sible slope high in the rugged
Riff mountains, whose peaks are
blanketed by the year's first
snow.
THINGS TOUGH ALL OVER
San Francisco (U.R) Police
were on the lookout today for a
bank robber who" apparently
hardly makes expenses. The
thief broke . into a downtown
branch of the American Trust
Co. over the week end and es
caped with $3.
New Year's Day, Independ
ence Day, Labor Day, Thanks
giving Day and Christmas Day
are the only holidays celebrated
by all 48 states.
Dr. Hcrlock
As We Live
A Compromise is Often
The Only Real Solution
Compromises are not usually
a good solution to any problem.
Sometimes, however, they are
the only way out.
(Q) "I am 13 years old and in
the eighth ' grade. Most of my
girl friends are two or three
years older
than I, so na
turally I try
to act like
lhem. I guess
I succeed pret
ty well as peo
ple often lake
me for 16 or
17. Most of my
girl friends
have boy
friends and I felt left out, so I
got one too. I sincerely like the
guy, we have lots of fun to
gether, and now we are going
steady. My parents don't ap
prove of him because he is 16
and I am only 13. Now it is very
hard for me to get . along at
home. No matter which way I
turn, I will hurt someone or
lose my friends, so what do you
think I should do?"
J. L.
(A) Have you tried to explain
you must do what the girls you
go with are doing or they will
drop you and then you won't
have any friends? .Your parents
know your girl friends are older
than you. If they did not want
you to dress and act like these
girls, they should have discour
aged your friendships with them.
Of course, you are much too
young to be going steady with
any boy, especially one who is
three years older than you. Your
parents are right about this.
However, this does not mean you
should give up the friendship
of this boy. I am sure your par
ents would not expect that un
less they have some reason for
disapproving of him.
On the other hand, you should
be seeing other boys and having
dates with those of the same age
group - as your friends. If you
By ELIZABETH HURIOCK, PH.D.
are willing to compromise here
to please your parents, I am sure
they will be reasonable and com
promise with you and will not
disapprove of your friendship
with this one boy.
(Copyright 1955,
General Features Corp.)
LOCKING her heart against
all hope of romance in ex
change for $300 a month for
life is decision of Frances
Miller, 48, of Los Angeles.
Strange bargain is demanded
in will of the late Percy Mar
tin. Miss Miller (above) and
. Mrs. Helen Dill, 53, accept
legacy of loneliness in Los
Angeles. ( International)
Gift Certificates for
Chateaus and Ranches
New York (U.R) Previews
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ing house, today offered to sell
gift certificates to anyone want
ing to give a French chateau or
a Wyoming ranch as a Christ
mas gift.
"People don't often give real
estate for Christmas just be
cause it's been difficult to put
a house under the Christmas
tree," the agency said.
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vice in Oregon and Washington,
D. C, as a member of President
Eisenhower's cabinet.
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The resolution was adopted
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