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Jockey Who Won $96,000 on Quiz
Shows Now Broke But Not Worried
Cdiiar's note: This is the
oBk4 im a series of thiee
evfeicfes on the incredible life
tf jockey Billy Pearson who
&aa. $96,000 on quiz shows
Sub ibaa six months ago and
90 if at broke.
By HAL WOOD
Veited Press Correspondent
San Mateo, Calif. OJ.PJ "I'm
broke, sone broke," groaned
little Billy Pearson as he rolled
out 0 bed, holding his head in
his hands because of a hang
over. "But I'm not worried. I've
made $100,000 or more at vari
ous times in the past and I'll
do it again.
' In fact, I wish I had a quarter
for every time I've been broke.
I'd be able to retire."
This is the same Billy Pear
son, the personable little jockey
who won 596,000 on quiz pro
grams less than six months ago
and won the hearts of America
with his knowledge of art.
Sasy Money
How could the little fellow
spend that much money, more
than many people make in a
life span, in such a short while?
Most Americans in Iran Feel Risk
Assumed Outweighed by Work
Editors: The following story on
ti:e United States Technical Assist
ance Program in Iran was written
for United Press by the program's
director Clark s. Gregory of Saint
Johns, Michigan. He had just re
(uraed from directing the search
for Mrs. Anita Carroll, who with
her husband,. Kevin, Brewster Wil
son and two Irian employees was
killed by Baluchistan bandits.
By CLARKE S. GREGORY
Wriltem for United Press
Tehran U.R) Two Iran
ians and three Americans were
killed in the recent tragedy in
Baluchistan.
It is true that American per
sonnel of the U.S. Technical As
sistance Program assume certain
occupational hazards in a less
8?veloped country such as Iran.
But most Americans feel the
risks assumed are more than off
ftt by the satisfaction of work
gell ctone.
Wore than 90 per cent ask to
tfcturn to Iran for a second tour.
Dtey do not fear the physical
Steiger and will state freely
Pbre is no more danger in Iran
in other countries wnere
cme United States provides
Jahnical assistance.
it is the fear of people who
Iuv never been to Iran" and
gptao neither know the country
ser its hospitable people that
3Bkes it difficult for the United
States government to recruit
technical and other personnel to
wbsndle the vital task of aiding
9fcan's development as a strong
attend and ally.
Back Stairs: Hagerty Seen
By MERRIMAN SMITH
Press White House Writer
Washington (U.R) Eack
tfairs a$ the White House:
'Speee Secretary James C. Hag
erty ns to be easing up a
bit in his policy covering publi
city about President Eisenhow
er's -domestic and personal staff.
Not too long ago Hagerty was
dead set against letting report
ers have any access whatever
to members of the staff. But
recently he has approved inter
views and magazine articles in
volving some of the lesser known
White House personnel.
Robert Redmond, the White
House gardener, is a recent case
in point. A year or so ago, Hag
erty refused to let anyone inter
view Redmond, but the garden
er has figured prominently in
two -magazine articles in recent
weeks.
Magazine, Newspaper
Writer Dies in N.Y.
New York U.PJ Alice
Rohe, well-known newspaper
and magazine writer, died Sun
day after a brief illness.
Miss Rohe was bureau chief
In Rome for the United Press in
1914, the first woman to hold
such a position with an interna
tional news organization. She
also was the first woman to in
terview Benito Mussolini after
his rise to power in Italy.
A native of Lawrence, Kan.,
and graduate of the University
of Kansas, Miss Rohe began her
career on the old Kansas City
World and also did feature writ
ing for the Kansas City Star.
Fire Kills Woman
Af Home in Rainier
Rainier U.P.) Mrs. Mamie
Robbin.s 66, '-burned to death
early Sunday when fire destroy
ed a frame home near here.
Her husband, Chester Robbins,
73. suffered burns and cuts when
he broke a bedroom window in
a futile rescue attempt. He and a
grandson, Melvin, 14,.were sleep
ing in a front bedroom when the
fire started, apparently from an
overheated oil stove.
Robbins went around the
house and tried to get his wife
out of the back bedroom but was
unable to climb through the high
window to rescue her.
"It was easy," he laughed.
"Uncle Sam took about half,
and I spent the rest on high
living. Besides, I had acquired
a lot of experience in the past
on how to spend money."
So this is the story of William
Pearson, the 36-year-old racing
rider who makes and spends
money as though it was going
out of style.
Married to a beautiful Span
ish girl for 12 years, Billy has
toured the world riding at every
conceivable type of race track,
and gambling where he could.
"When I say I'm broke," he
smiled, "I mean as far as cash
goes. I've got between S150.000
and S200.000 worth of art in
my La Jolla, Calif., home. Of
course, I'll never sell that un
less we are starving."
Back on the Ponies
Did he buy the home after he
won the $96,000?
"Yep," he snapped. "But I
didn't pay cash. Just made a
down payment. I'm making
monthly payments like every
body else."
Pearson, right now, is back at
Bay Meadows race track look
We want people with a pio-
neering spirit. Tney are pioneer
ing in a new land where the op
portunities and needs are great
to help Iran develop itself.
We have had difficulties in
staffing certain field positions
because of their isolation and
lack of comforts, social life and
schools. It's not a comfortable
life and our people must be dedi
cated to their task.
Huge Program
The U.S. Technical Assistance
Program in Iran is one of the
largest in the world. It could not
be operated if the advisers were
confined to Tehran.
We have more American per
sonnel working on technical and
development projects than in
any other country 270. All
work closely with Iran techni
cians and officials as advisers
and teachers, since the programs
are really one of cooperation.
We are helping make better
friends and strong and pros
perous allies with the same re
spect for freedom as we have in
America.
The United 'States has spent
$105,826,000 in the last six years
for. technical and development
work in Iran. This aid has been
a vital factor, in assisting Iran
to attain political stability. Since
the fall of former premier Mo
hammed Mossadegh, Iran is
solving its oil problem and is in
the Badhdad Pact and in a firm
Early spring brings thousands
of visitors to Washington and a
boom for sidewalk photograph
ers in front of the White House.
These lensmen have a cute
trick designed to save film.
They rarely make an actual
exposure when they first snap
a tourist, but instead click a pen
cil or coin against the side of
the camera to simulate the sound
of a shutter. If the tourist indi
cates an interest in buying a
picture, the photographer sug
gests "shooting another one"
with the White House in the
background.
Another sign of spring is the
heavy flow of college students
who, through their senators or
congressmen, arrange audiences
with key members of the White
Rattlesnake Hunters
Probe for Reptiles
Okeene, Okla. (U.R) More
than 500 heavily clothed adven
turers poked through the hills
around Okeene Sunday with
forked sticks in the annual dis
turbance of the local rattlesnake
population.
Neither cold weather nor ap
proaching snow could deter the
International Association of Rat
tlesnake Hunters in their annual
foray into the Gypsum Hills of
Salt Creek Canyon.
The hunters got 987 snakes.
The snakes got one hunter, Eldon
Buddy Martin, 17, of Okeene,
who was expected to recover
fully.
Some 18,000 rattlesnake fans
showed up for the hunt, of whom
527 were registered hunters. Six
teen states and Switzerland were
represented.
The total of 957 snakes hauled
in weighed approximately 1,500
pounds. "Last year, during warm
weather, about 2,500 were
caught.
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A
ing for mounts to ride at S35
each. He doesn't expect to get
rich again riding the ponies. In
fact, he never did get rich that
way. He is a good jockey, but he
would be the first to admit he
doesn't rate in the class with
Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Longden
or Willie Shoemaker.
"I'm back here because this is
my business," he says. "I like
the thrill of riding. And I like
the people in the race track busi
ness." The $35 per mount is strictly
chicken feed for Billy. He spends
that kind of money on tips.
Bum Tips
In fact, just the other night
he spent what he said was his
"last hundred dollars" entertain
ing his friend, Jockey Ralph
Neves.
"Ralph was to ride a horse
named Heller the next day," he
said. "So I thought if I wined
and dined him, he might give
me a tip on the horse. He told
me Heller didn't have a chance.
And you know what happened,
of course. Heller won going
away. It just proved you can't
trust your friends."
alliance with the West.
The basic assistance programs
have been to establish demon
stration projects requested by
Iran in various fields, plus train
ing Iranians and finally inter
gration of work-trained person
nel into the ministries.
Thus the training is passed on
to others and becomes of lasting
value to Iran and her people. At
the same time we have tried to
instill in the Iranians the value
of mutual cooperation and trust
which is essential in any develop
ment program.
The Iranians have accepted
this and in the past three years
more than 12,000 villages have
been developed cooperative "do
it yourself" programs for village
improvement ranging from safe
water supply to road building.
Disease Rate Down
These first demonstrations re
sulted in the reduction of ma
laria from as high as 90 per cent
in some areas to 2 or 3 per cent.
and in improved education and
agricultural production in many
crops. They now have been in
tegrated into the regular work
of the Iranian government.
Due to the initial successes
which were largely a product of
the zeal and untiring efforts of
workers like Carroll and wu
son, the Iran government has
taken action in many fields and
asked us for advisers. Iranians
are now taking over.
Easing Up
House staff,
Hagerty, for example, has
been seeing two and three groups
of college students daily. He
makes a few advance remarks,
then submits himself to ques
tioning. Hagerty says the ques
tions put by students frequently
are tougher than those of pro
fessional reporters,
Most of the students are more
interested in foreign policy than
any bther aspect of government.
For the young men, this may
reflect an underlying interest in
the draft and how 'the world
picture may affect their chances
of going into service without
completing their education
If ever there was an example
of safe and slow, and boring,
auto travel it was the Presi
dent's motorcade to Gettysburg
last Friday.
His driver stayed within the
speed limits like a man with
out-of-date license tags.
The Montgomery county (Md.)
police, who a week earlier had
slowed reporters from 70 mph
to the legal 55 mile limit, were
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All southwest Washington will
have reason to join in the Mason
County Forest Festival's 13th
annual celebration this year.
Once more the Shelton schools
will present an outdoor pageant
of forestry progress, on a mam
moth scale.
The dates of the evening per
formances are May 23 and 24.
And on Saturday, the 25th, a pa
rade with features from five
counties, portraying the present
and visualizing the future of the
region's forest industry, will
stomp, rock and roll through
Shelton town.
Mason county people will also
be celebrating the 10th anniver
sary of the Shelton Cooperative
Sustained Yield Forests, in
which Simpson Logging com
pany and the U. S. forest serv
ice are a giant team.
Eastern Grays Harbor county
has a share in this, too. The
big news of the season is that
the allowable annual cut on the
area of cooperation the "Shel
ton -Working Circle" has been
increased from 100,000,000 board
feet to 135,000,000 board feet.
400 More Jobs
An addition of 400 jobs to for
est industry employment within
the working circle is a possi
bility, with 35 per cent more
wood for manufacturing uses.
However, officials have empha
sized that the national market
demand for forest products must
take a long swing upward before
a substantial increase in produc
tion can be justified. 1
The prospects are fair, despite
the hangup of home building
and the tightness of mortgage
money. The competition is. ex
panding, of course north, south,
east and at home in the North
west. There's the big new saw
mill on Willapa Harbor, and the
new pulp mill on Grays Harbor,
among many new developments
of the kind. No well informed
forester of today fears for future
log supply. The raw material for
lumber, plywood and pulp is
growing aboundantly nation
wide. On national and state forests
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Pass-power octanes in powerful
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WOFTHl7oWSi
S?01H STEVENS
in the comraercial category na
ture is growing wood at a rate
that amazes. The allowable cut
is being increased on those areas
of which the Olympic National
forest is one.
Records of growth on the
Washington State Sustained
Yield Forest No. 1 are "almost
unbelievable," according to the
managing forester, T. S. Good
year. On a 60-year basis, the al
lowable cut has been held to 90,
000,000 board feet per year for
the commercial forest of 185,-
274 acres of state-owned land.
The rate of growth has been 2,
215 board feet per acre on well
stocked areas more than dou
ble the old estimated potential
growth rate of 1,100 board feet
per acre.
Bumper Harvest
The trouble we now face is
the one that the major prophet
of American forestrv. W. B.
Greeley, warned us on again and
again, for 40 years. The danger'
he said, many times, was that of
increasing tree crops and har
vests nation-wide, without at
the same time securing the mar
kets for bumper log and lumber
harvests.
Now this is a very real prob
lem facing the Simpson Logging
company in relation to the in
creased allowable cut in the
Shelton Working Circle. Where
are the markets for increased
production?
A mighty West Coast lumber
salesman has pointed out that if
modern forestry practices had
been in force in the Lake State
pineries all the way through,
from 1860, lumber from the
West Coast would have had lit
tle luck in competition for the
Midwest and Eastern markets.
But fire ran free for scores of
years in the Midwest Pines. Kill
ing new growth, it cleared much
heavy competition out of the ma
jor markets for Oregon and
Washington lumber. But now
the pines are growing like crazy
from Thunder Bay to Thief Riv
er Falls!
All Denmark is now covered
by a television network.
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with pass-power octanes
is a new
high-hbrsepower cars,
Monday, April 8, 1957
Oakland Teamsters
Oppose Beck's Choice
Oakland. Calif. OJ.P.)
Some 5,000 members of Team
ster local 70 Sunday appointed
union business agent William Ca
bral to oppose a Dave Beck ap
pointed secretary treasurer in
the local's forthcoming elections.
The election, to be held in
May, is the first in over six
years. The local was put under
trusteeship in 1949 by Beck, the
union's international president,
when one of the officers was ac
cused of embezzlement.
Cabral opposes Frank DeMar
tini, the present secretary treas
urer. William Simpson, an Oakland
truck driver and William Rod
gers, a former trustee of the
local who was allegedly fired
last year by trustee William J.
Conboy, will oppose each other
for president.
SHE HAD TO SEE
Glasgow, Scotland (U.P.)
Curious public utility inspectors
who tried to find out why elder
ly Mrs. Chrystal of Inverboyndie
used only six cents worth of
electricity in three months re-
ported today she uses the electric
light only at dusk so she can see
to light her oil lamps.
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Stock Car Crash Kills
Crawley, La. U.PJ A stock
car nnvptl Kir flprald Jones. 25.
of Houston, Tex., skidded from
a racing strip into a group of
parked cars Sunday, killing one
person and injuring eight.
The victim was Mrs. Watson
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