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Robert Strom Latest in Long Line Of 'Quiz Kids' Who Made Good By WILLIAM EWALD Unifed Press Correspondent New York ttJ.PJ Robert trom, ie 10-year-old who has won Si92,t00 on "The S64.000 Questiw," is the latest of a Ion? line af oroer "Quiz Kids" who have nybe god. Roi w;jp t the TV version of "Quiay" irom March to Sep temi$SB. TjfSS Last January, Rob appeVBff an CBS-TV's "Giant Step" gar carried off a college schofcao&Qi. Re's currently shoot ing tops 9 truarter of a million dolls Juestion." Ncfe $ ffe other 200-odd gradwgtjfe cdc "Quiz Kids," a shoy if oca an on radio and TV fetf 4 jsars, were able to pick CQ Much loot in one quicfr jostote as Rob. But the recorf& ww that the alumni of "Qui stills" have done pretty well teat themselves since they shucked their knee pants. Pertaps the most famous grad is Smylla Brind who was born in Vienna and schooled at Par is and other waystops. You know her as Vanessa Brown. Babbles in Politics Miss Brown, who was gradu ated from UCLA in 1950, has dabbled in movies, TV and poli tics. She has appeared in such flickers as "Tarzan and the Slave Girl," "The Heiress," "The Late George Apley" and "The Foxes of Harrow." Her TV credits include "Lux Video," "Leave It To The Girls" and a stint on "My Favorite Hus band." Last August, she turned up at the Democratic conven tion in Chicago as a worker for Adlai Stevenson. Joan Bishop, who appeared 31 times on "Quiz Kids," is a sing er. Among her early claims to distinction growing a full set of teeth at eight months. Joan, 30 and single, has sung with the San Carlo Opera com pany and in such NBC-TV pro ductions as "War and Peace." A mezzo soprano, Jean also has appeared as an entertainer at the hotels Pierre and Henry Hudson in Manhattan. Associate Producer Harve Fischman, who le'ft the show in 1946 after 181 appear ances, went on to take a degree in theatre arts at UCLA. He has worked as an associate pro ducer on the shows of Red Skel ton, Robert Q. Lewis and Johnny Carson. He's married, lives in Manhattan and is now a free lance writer. Jack Lucal, who made 66 ap pearances on "Quiz Kids," serv ed in the Army in Germany, spent two years at Harvard and was graduated from George town. He had been in training with the Jesuit order and is cur rently teaching in Ethiopia. Claude Brenner, the South African boy with 69 appearances got a master's degree from MIT in aeronautical engineering and works in Boston for a research firm. Entered Foreign Service Cynthia Cline got a master's degree at Northwestern where she was a Phi Beta Kappa. She taught college English for a while and is now married to a PH.D., Henry Garrett Crume, who works in Rochester, N.Y., for Eastman Kodak. Dick Williams, a math whiz who was on "Quiz Kids" for 212 shows, got his B.A. at the University of Chicago in two t " A Ik I WINNING $32,000 on New York TV quiz show, Robert Strom, 10, has earned to tal of $192,000, highest amount ever won by single individual. (International) MUST BE A SHOCKER Hollywood (U.R) Warner Bros, believe it is the first film studio to insure ' itself against a possible "shaky" production. The studio announced today it has taken out earthquake insur ance on the film, "Pal Joey," now being filmed in San Francisco. years, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and got a B.S. from Purdue in Engineering. He was in the Army for two years and has since entered the foreign ser vice. And, of course, Joel ' Kupper man, who was on "Quiz Kids" 400 times, the high mark for the show. Another math expert, he went on to the University of Chicago and, when last heard from, was a teaching assistant. He's now 21. "None of us have ever heard from Joel at all," says Joan Bishop. "He turned out to be the Garbo of our group." Eisenhowers Lead Easier Parade Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower led an Easter parade here Sunday. The First Lady wore a new outfit by two of the nation's top designers at Easter services in the jampacked Reid Memorial church here. She wore a black and white silk print dress and jacket by Molly Parniss and a white silk, flowered hat by Sally Victor. Her outfit also included white gloves, black sheer stockings, and black pumps. Her corsage was white orchid. -' The President wore a single breasted oxford gray suit, white shirt and silver-gray tie. Economic, Technical Israel Aid Resumed Washington (U.R) The United States is resuming econ omic and technical aid to Israel. The aid is a continuation of the assistance program which the United States cut off last Oct. 29 when Israeli forces at tacked Egypt. The State Department an nounced on March 14 that talks on resuming aid would begin soon. Saturday, a spokesman for the department said the talks are now under way both here and in Tel Aviv and that "the American aid program to Israel is being resumed after a stop page of more than five months." r . - ' WfJIZI STEVENS- J. Neils Lumber company for esters started gathering evi dence against Klickitat county porcupines in 1941. In due course the company's chief for ester, Elmer Lofgren, and Ar thur K. Crews, of the federal wildlife service, produced a plan for porcupine control. There was a large place in the plan for the evergreen lads from the University of Washington the forestry students. It was a real rough plan in deed from the porcupine's point of view, but it promised protec tion to young, growing pine trees in the areas of rodent de struction. Study plots had been marked and damage measured within their bounds. Dean Gor don Marckworth of the U. of W. college of forestry reported: In short, porcupines were skunks with quills on 'em. Rough Treatment "It was found that the dam age and kill ran on an average of 21 per cent in the attack areas," the dean reported. "Ten per cent of the trees were more than one-half girdled and 11 per cent were completely girdled, with some plots running as high as 30 per cent damage and kill. This was war in the woods. "The foresters' battle plan was for eradicating the porcu pines by poisoning. Holes were bored in the narrow edge of 2x4 blocks into which was packed a mixture of salt, strychnine and vegetable fat to keep the porcupine - attracting salt from being washed away or being dissolved by the atmos phere. "The blocks were nailed up in porcupine 'resting trees,' out of reach or range of game ani mals, placed under old build ings, always nailed to founda tions or floor posts, or placed in the dens generally found in rock fissures. More than 450 blocks were placed in the forest by the summer of 1947, thereby giving treatment to about 100, 000 acres. The porcupine popu lation in the treated area was soon reduced by over 400. ani mals. Costs for full control were about six cents per acre." The Menace Grows At the 1956 Washington For estry conference, with , Dean Marckworth presiding, a report was made on the porcupine situ ation in the pine forests by George A. Herion, logging man ager of the J. Neils Lumber com pany. He reported that 5,000 porcupines had been killed in the company's forests since 1946. Yet damage had jumped tre mendously in the two past years. "We have found that a single agency cannot , control porcu pines within the boundaries of a given working area," Herion said, "if the surrounding terri tory serves as a breeding ground and a place of refuge for the rodent predator of the pines. A lot of theories have been formu lated, and backed up by field observations, as to why the por cupine is increasing in number and is causing so much destruc tion . . . Public Informed "The general public needs to be informed of our problem and what porcupine damage and destruction means to us and to them. There are many miscon ceptions and much misguided sentimental hogwash concerning the porcupine. It has even been suggested that porcupines be captured, trained and educated so as not to eat the bark of the ponderosa pine? Release these trained porcupines and they will instruct and train others to ob stain from eating young pine trees!" Logger Herion had loads of valuable and intriguing informa tion to add to the earlier studies by Dean Marckworth and his lads on the truly hellish porcu pine problem. At the same meet ing Forester Royce Cornelius of the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany had unpleasant stories to tell of heavy damage to young trees by bears, rodents and game animals in the Douglas fir reg ion. Fire, budworms, . beetles, bears, porcupines, mice holy old mackinaw, what next! THIS ONE HIT HOME El Centro, Calif. The recently-purchased home of Mark Me Clellan was condemned by the city building inspector's office because it was "falling apart." McClellan is Imperial county building inspector. J2-jr ..-'V-'- :r-- '-;-.-( v. - -i W Monday, April 22. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Loneon Papers Show Difference in Number London !U.R) ' London's three afternoon newspapers appeared on the streets about noon Saturday, each carrying a banner headline describing the same police chase of a stol en truck. "Eight Police Cars in Lon don Chase," announced the Evening Standard. "Nine Police Cars in Chase Through City," said the Star. "12 Cars in Chase," declar ed the Evening News. Eddie Fisher Does Show After Accident Las Vegas, Nev. '(U.R) Sing er Eddie Fisher went through with his scheduled performance Sunday night at the Tropicana hotel after being "shaken up" in an automobile accident in front of the swank resort. Police said Fisher was at tempting to make a left turn when his car was struck from behind and pushed into oncom ing traffic, hitting another vehi cle. He was treated by a hotel physician who said the crooner suffered no major injuries but was "severely shaken up." Queen Serenaded by Throng on Birthday London (U.R) Queen Eliza beth, who had planned to cele brate her 31st birthday anniver sary in private Sunday, was ser enaded by about 5,000 persons who jammed the east. terrace of Windsore castle to sing "Happy Birthday to You." The queen's official birthday anniversary will be celebrated June 13. The royal birthday an niversary is always observed in June because of the more favor able weather for parades and outdoor ceremonies. Bermuda restricts automobile travel to 15 miles an hour in towns and not more miles in the country. than ,20 "Rose" Centerpiece ju 7022 An unusual combination of filet crochet and regular crochet gives a beautiful and different effect to this "rose" centerpiece. It's a fascinating design to work on! Pattern 7022: Crochet direc tions for 19-inch doily in No. 30 cotton; larger in string. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11. N. Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER. A bonus for our readers two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book for 1957! Plus a wonder ful variety of designs to order crochet, kniting, embroidery, huck weaving, toys, dolls, others. Send 25 cents for your copy of RECKLESS SAILING Tokyo U.R) A ship collided with a bus Sunday. The Saku rajima Maru, a training vessel, rammed into a bus parked at the end of a pier, breaking a win dow in the bus Stockton (U.R) Police and San Joaquin county sheriff's deputies held 16 persons on nar cotics charges following a series of raids which began Friday night and ended Saturday. this exciting NEW needle book now! aw GBGSjQD TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN ELECTRIC COMPANY, 214 W. Main Phone 2-5211 I START NOW Save H HoK Your, PROTECTION New phone numbers for ftiedfordl ... Saturday nigErf ? 11 Same time numbers change in Ashland, Gold Hill, Jacksonville and the new Phoenix-Talent Exchange is his PROFESSION Saturday night at 11, Medford changes to new phone ' numbers. The new numbers you'll be dialing are in your new phone book. Medford's new numbers will start with prefixes: SPring 2 and SPring 3. We've mailed you a new number sticker for your telephone, along with infor mation about the change. You'll find that dialing the new numbers is easy. To call SPring 3-10S0, for instance, just dial the prefix S-P-3 . . . then 1-0-8-0. Saturday night at 11, Phoenix and Talent served by a new telephone office get new numbers, too. So will Ashland, Gold Hill and Jacksonville. It's all explained in the pamphlet we've sent you. Please read it. More toll-free dialing starts Saturday night. Starting Saturday night at ll you'll be able to dial toll-free from Medford to Phoenix-Talent, Ashland and Gold Hill. That's in addition to Jacksonville, Central Point and White City, which you already dial toll-free. From other points in the Medford-Ashland area, the toll-free dialing range expands, too. To see where and how you can dial toll-free... look at the pamphlet, or the map on Page 2 of your new phone book. All the men in this picture work for you. They're profes sionally trained to protect you. 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