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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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