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Toy Purchases Expected To Hit
SI. 5 Billion; Highest in History
Thursday, November 29. 1958 V..lL i L
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Setting Forest Fire
New York (U.R) The biggest
stack of toys and games in his
tory more than $1 ' billion
worth will be nestled under
" this year's Christmas trees.
Industry spokesmen said this
whopping expenditure will ac
count for the bulk of this year's
total toy sales, which are ex
pected to approach $1.5 billion.
The 1956 volume. will be some
12 per cent greater than last
year, they added.
Consumers are in a spending
mood, a fact that has kept the
economy boiling in 1956. Total
retail sales in 1956 are expected
to be in the neighborhood of
$192 billion a new record high.
Gilbert G. Southwick, presi
dent of the toy manufacturers of
the U. S. A. Inc., said the
average toy buying family will
spend around $30 this year.
Santa Claus' huge toy pack
will include -the usual assort
ment of dolls, soldiers, electric
trains, plus a raft of new outer
space and atomic paraphernalia.
Children in the two to six age
Value of Farm Assets
Expected To Reach
Record High Jan. 1
Washington (UJ) The Agri
culture Department said Wed
nesday the tbtal value of farm
assets' next Jan. ' 1 will reach
an all-time high of $176 billion,
an increase o( $5.6 billion in a
year.
The department said the pro
prietors' equity, what's left after
debts are substracted, on next
Jan. 1 will be a record $155.9
billion, an increase of $3.9 bil
lion. The balance sheet of the na
tion's agriculture was - worked
out i the department's publica
tion, "The 1957 Agricultural
Finance Outlook."
Utile Change' Predicted
Qepartment economics predict
ed "little change" in the fin
ancial situation of farmers as
a group during the next year.
They said farm debts probably
will continue to rise, and values
of farm assets' also may rise,
although a slowing down may
occur in the rate at which farm
real estate values are rising.
In another publication, "The
Farm Income Situation," the de
partment said farm income has
turned upward this year after
four consecutive years of de
cline, and predicted "some furth
er increase" in 1957. Frederick
' T. Waugh, head of the depart
ment's Agricultural - Economic
Division, has said the 1957 rise
will be about 5 per cent over
1956.
Net income for the first nine
months of 1956 was up 4 per
cent over 1955. It was at an
annual rate of $11.7 billion in
the first three quarters, compar
ed with $U3 billion for the
whole" year 1 955.
Real Estate Value Shown
An Agricultural Department
balance sheet showed the value
of farm real estate at $106.4 bil
lon, up $3.7 billion, or 3.6 per
cnt, frorn the first of this year.
Nn-real estate assets were
valued at $49:2 Billion, up $1.9
billion, or 4 per cent. Financial,
r liquid, assets, were listed at
$20.4 billion, up $200 million,
or 1 per cent.
The liability side of the ledger
put the farm mortgage real
estate debt at $9.8 billion, up
$800 million, or 8.9 per cent;
the non-real estate debt at $8.2
billion, up $300 million, or 3.8
per cent: and loans held and
guaranteed by the Commodity
Credit Corp. S2.7 billion, up $800
milion, or 42.1 per cent.
Boy Sets Car Afire;
Baby Sister Killed
Sunland, Calif. (U.R) A
panic stricken mother saw her
22-month old daughter burn to
death Wednesday after her 4
year-old son threw lighted
matches In the family car, po
lice reported.
The victim was Susan Bor
deau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald F. Bordeaux of nearby
Sun Valley. Officers said Mrs.
Bordeaux left the children in the
car while she shopped in a mar
ket. A clerk in the market noticed
the car was in flames. Mrs. Bor
deaux ran outside and had to be
restrained from entering the
burning car.
bracket will receive 50 per cent
of all the toys and games pur
chased this year, he said.
Southwick attributed the an
ticipated rise in toy sales this
year to increases in consumer
income and population, and to
the exodus to the suburbs which
provides more room to play.
Benjamin F. Michton, chair
man of Ideal Toy Corp., said
"child population, a major fac
tor in toy sales, is over 49 mil
lion and another record was
broken this year in the number
of new births."
He said another factor behind
the industry's rising scales is
the SI billion of Christmas club
savings which shoppers have at
their disposal.
Dolls Still Tops
Michtom said dolls will lead
the toy parade again in 1956.
But that unexplainable facina
tion men and boys have for toy
electric trains continues undi
minished. Lionel Corp. said it
expects sales of train squipment
to approach $50 million.
Lionel President Larry Cowen
said enough sections of track
will be sold this year to extend
from New York City to Los
Angeles.
Of this year's total toy sales,
about $100 million will be spent
on games, said Robert Barton,
president of Parker Brothers.
one of the biggest publishers of
games.
He pointed out games are
favorites with both children and
parents. "Games differ from
toys in that toys are played
with; games are played against,"
he said.
San Diego, Calif. (U.R) A
16-year old Indian boy has con
fessed '.to setting a 44,500-acre
forest fire which burned to
death 11 firefighters.
"I just got a crazy idea to
throw a match in the grass to
see if it would burn," Gilbert
Paipa. a high school student,
told Elwood Stone, U.S. Forest
Service fire investigator.
The boy was arrested Wednes
day at the Pine Hills fire camp
where he had been employed as
a firefighter two days ago. The
Forest Service said he confess
ed to tossing a match last Sat
urday in grass near a cabin
on the Inaja Indian Reservation
where his family has lived for
two generations.
Paipa was turned over to au
thorities here. Stone said a
felony complaint was being
sought from Deputy District At
torney Claude Brown. .
Dorsey's Funeral
Held in New York
New York (U.R) Band
leader Tommy Dorsey will be
buried today at Kensico Ceme
tery, Valhalla, N.Y.
Funeral services for the "sen
timental gentleman of swing"
will be held at Campbell's Fun
eral church.
At Greenwich, Conn., Police
Chief David W. Robbins said
Wednesday that Dorsey's death
at his home there early Monday
was "clearly accidental" and
that a "highly personal note"
left to his estranged wife had
no relationship to his death.
Eisenhower Appoints
Refugee Chairman;
Endorses Salk Vaccine
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) President
Eisenhower today selected a
former Republican congress
man, Tracy S. Voorhees of New
York, to head the new Ameri
can refugee and rehabilitation
program for Hungary.
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty said one of the reasons
for selecting Voorhees was the
fact the President wanted to be
sure "that the Hungarian refu
gees are taken care of in hous
ing, food and enployment."
Former Army Man
Voorhees, a former Army
colonel,- was a special assistant
to Army Secretary Robert P.
Patterson during the Truman
administration.
The President Wednesday
night announced Salk anti-polio
vaccine has become plentiful
enough for use by adults. He
urged persons between 18 and
35 years old to take advantage
of the new supply.
Mr. Eisenhower gave his per
sonal endorsement of use of the
vaccine, on the basis of a re
port to the White House by
Marion B. Folsom, secretary, of
health, education and welfare.
"Secretary Folsom's report on
fhe Salk polio vaccine deserves
the attention of every young
adult of every parent in
America," the President said.
Urges Prompt Use
"I join with Secretary Folsom,
the surgeon general of the Pub
lic Health Service and the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis in urging that the vac
cine be used promptly before
the next polio-Tnyelits season
arrives."
Folsom reported that about
17,000,000 doses of vaccine are
"lying unused in the hands of
the manufacturers" and said
"additional vaccine is stock
piled in drug stores and physi
cians' offices."
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Astoria (U.R) Dan Thiel,
Astoria oil distributor, was chos
en yesterday by the ' county
courts of Clatsop and Columbia
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Morse To Return
To Oregon Tonight
Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.) is scheduled to '
return to Oregon tonight, land-!
ing at the Portland International i
airport at 9:15 p.m. I
Th senior Oregon senator was j
summoned to Washington short- j
ly after he won reelection this i
month to attend a special meet
ing of the senate foreign rela
tions committee.
He will tour the state for the
next two weeks before returning
to the nation's capitol.
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,s Around Hollywood
Hollywood (U.R) Neither,
9 tmmigration troubles nor med
9 ical school will keep an India-
born student
named Kuldip
Sfngh from
becoming the
next Lewfence
Welk, or Lib
erace in Amer
ica. Kuldip, as
T V viewers
know is the
Aline Mo.br boy . makes-good-in-America
dream come
true. A short time ago he was
an unknown student. Today the
hn4some, 23-year-old Hindu is
a recording star besieged with
TV and move offers all be
cause he appeared as a con
testant on a quiz sflow.
The student, whe never had
sung in public before, obliged
''ith tune on (Sroucho Marx TV
show. Overnight he signed with
RCA-Victor to record songs. He
was rushed onto the George
Gobel show and did. a return
performance on the Marx pro
gram at the demand of 8.000
viewers. He has counted 10,000
fan letters (mostly from middle
aged women) and already has
65 fan clubs around the country.
Unfortunately, the smiling
Kuldip was so busy answering
fan letters he forget to apply
to the Immigration Service for
a work permit. He was in this
country on a student visa. He'll
have to leave the United States
by Dec. 15, but he can re-enter
on a vistor's visa. A spokesman
at the Immigration Service says
Kuldip probably will get one." '
"I hope I will be able to
come back," sighed Kuldip.
"The people of America like
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By ALINE MOSBY
me, and that is bigger - than
anything in the world."
Although Kuldip appears dis
tressed about his standing with
the government, he also is over
whelmed by the change in his
life. Last month he was living
in a $75-a-month boarding house
near Los Angeles State College
and living on a modest allowance
from his father, a merchant who
moved to Trinidad from Kash
mir, India, when Kuldip was
three months old.
New Apartment Occupied
Now Kuldip has moved to the
bustling Sunset "Strip" area
where most Hollywood bachel
ors live. - Today he appeared
right at home among TV work
ers as we lunched in a restaurant
across from NBC.
At one point a middle-aged
woman spied him and cried,
"Oh, you're the cute doctor
who sang on TV!" Kuldip shook
her hand -professionally as if
he'd been a crooner since Frank
Sinatra cut his first bow tie.
The ex-student has no regrets
about abandoning a medical ca
reer in which he's invested four
years and taking up the uncer
tain world of entertainment.
"I am so happy singing," he
said with expressive gestures
and an angelic smile. "Such
beautiful letters I get from peo
ple!" .
His name, he carefully ex
plained, is pronounced "Cool
Dip Sing." ,
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