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Radios F ass TV In Retail Sales , St iil H as Audience By WILLIAM EWALD Uniled Press Correspondent rew Y orK hp I his is na- 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 2nd SECTION Attack on Boy Starts One-Man Delinquency Crusade in Ohio Columbus, Ohio OP) A one man crusade against juvenile delinquency has stirred up a hornet's nest here. Walter Franc, retired pres ident of a furniture concern, launched his attack after his 16-year-old stepson, John Larcher, was badly beaten by a gang. "It was one of the most hor rible shocks of my life," said Franc. "I thought heinous crimes like this happened only in slum areas or in the" biggest cities, not in neighborhoods such as ours." Franc hired attorneys who contacted a private detective to investigate the operation of the gang in the wealthiest part of Columbus. The detective found that the eight-member gang had , consistently high quality. i showcases offbeat features in- Over at NBC radio, there is j eluding "Biographies in Sound." i the u-oelronH "Mnnitnr" u.-hirh Tho Wph alsn rarrips Tlnh Hone. tional television week, a dandy j draws bushels of listeners. NBC's Groucho Marx, "The Telephone occasion for looking at radio, inightirae show, "Nightline," Hour" and "Grand OT Opry." Or even listening to it. Right now, radio, aw. come on, you remember radio that's tele vision without old movies is outselling TV as a gadget by about two to one. CBS Radio, an outfit with an interest in such things reports that in the first 31 weeks of this year 7,740.000 radios were bought as against 3,119,000 TV sets. As an attention getter, of course, radio has been upstaged by TV. According to Nielsen Re search, the average evening sponsored network show reached five and one-half million fam ilies in 1949, but now reaches less than one million. The average daytime network show has dropped off, too from three million homes in 1949 to less than a million and a half. Still Has Audienca Still, radio has not lost its ability to pull in a mass audi ence. Some 89 out of every 100 radio homes tune in to the magic box sometime during the week. In fact, recent Nelson figures show that in the course of a week, more than 40 million fam ilies bend an ear toward the radios in their homes. , There's no doubt that another huge hunk of time is spent lis tening to radio in places un measurable in cars, at the beach, picnics, and so forth. There are, for example, more than 38 million radios in auto mobiles alone a figure more than the total number of homes with radios only 10 years ago. There are also about 10 million portables floating around. As far as programs go, radio still beams out plenty of goodies. The Mutual Network has a "Ho ratio Hornblower" series with Michael Redgrave and a "Lives of Harry Lime" thriller with Or son Welles. Mutual also features "Bob and Ray" in five 25-minute shows each week which is al most as much comedy as TV now offers in a month. CBS radio is really perking It recently completed a multi million dollar deal with one mo tor company that'll bring Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Arthur Godfrey to radio fans. CBS radio also offers a Stan Freberg comedy show each Sun day that hits a pretty high aver age in funniness. The CBS stable also houses such money-winners as "Gunsmoke," "The Mitch Mil ler Show," "The Robert Q. Lewis Show," and CBS Radio Work shop." The latter effort is of One of radio's prize quality ef forts is in the ABC stable the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts now 27 years old. "The Break fast Club" is still going, too, at , ABC, a favoritp sino io-ji So, this TV week you might "y giving raciio an extra whirl. There is still plenty of life left m the old gadget. 4XT Mr Price 10 Cents Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1957 Pages 1-6 Search Starts For Lead In 'Diary of Anne Frank1 By VERNON SCOTT United Press Hollywood Writer Hollywood (IP) Master movie maker George Stevens launch ed a worldwide search today for a girl to play the title role in "The Diary of Anne Frank He is looking for the "living counterpart" of the martyred teen-age heroine who wrote the touching story of her life hiding from the Nazis. "I'm not trying to build a star," says Stevens. . "I'm not looking for an actress, either. We hope to find a girl between ,the ages of 13 and 18 with the basic qualities of Anne Frank. "She must be wistful, thought ful and precocious. Her person ality should be at once appeal ing, sympathetic, gay and opti mistic." Director Seeks Help The director asks everyone who knows a youngster who fits the qualifications to write him in care of 20th Century-Fox Stu dios, Hollywood. Studio repre sentatives will attempt to check out every lead. "Our search is especially in tensive in Amsterdam where Anne wrote her diary, New York and Tel Aviv," he added. "But we are not limiting the search. A speech accent is all right, but the girl must speak fluent English." Stevens went on to say that he will distribute photographs of Anne to give people an idea of the type of girl he wants. He admits, however, that physical resemblance to the original Anne Frank is secondary. Unexperienced Girl Sought "We considered stars for the role in the beginning," he said, "but decided against it. Susan Strasberg who played the role on Broadway and Natalie Wood were among them. Now we defi nitely want a girl who has had no acting experience at all. "Every intelligent human being is capable of playing one role to perfection. Just as it is said that everyone has one great story to write." Stevens traveled to Amster dam earlier this summer to talk to Anne's father, Otto Frank. Both men agreed that casting the lead role was the single most important element of the film. "We won't turn a camera until we find the right girl," Stevens concluded. !i Tuff lex . I , Ironing Board fl F Fad & Cover Est (Q (p)c ! CO) 2 SET l! . : i : I broken into a vacant house and turned it into a headquarters for card games, beating .up boys, planning auto thefts and destroy ing property. Good Families All the gang members were from well-to-do families. One of the two who severly lacerated Larcher's face had been a din ner guest at the Franc home a few nights earlier. The report of the gang and its operations shoe ked the com munity. Police officials, juvenile court authorities, county com missioners and social workers took up the case. Local police said the juvenile court was too lenient. Juvenile court representatives said they were not a law enforcement agency. There was no place to send the boys, they said, except to an already overcrowded in dustrial school. Pros and Cons Franc himself was f 1 o oded with mail and telephone calls. Some cheered him, saying it was about time the authorities were made to crack down on de linquents. Other callers were outraged that Franc would call the boys criminals. Franc replied that he, person ally, had no ready-made solu tion to the juvenile delinquency problem, He said he was con cerned about the "extreme lax ity" on the part of juvenile auth orities. His main interest in the mat ter, he said, was in bringing to justice the two boys who at tacked his son. His second in terest, he added, was to bring about a change in the attitude of juvenile authorities. "They seem to have a turn-the-back attitude," said Franc. He added, "I only wanted to live peacefully and leave other people alone. Then, out of the clear sky, this thing conies along." Unique Collection Of Farm Machinery Thrills Visitors Fulton, Mo. m A collec tion of antique farm machinery, powered by steam engines, snort ed to life not long ago, in an old fashioned threashing bee. , The outmoded steam engines belong to Ed M. Peacock, who has scoured the countryside for 10 years looking for relics for his collection. Old-timers and youngs ters alike flocked to see his collec tion of 12 engines, many still in top-notch operating condi tion, and to watch engineers put the machines through their paces. For two days, the machines clattered over Peacock's farm near here. In one demonstration, the engineers had to steer their machines onto . a teeter-totter constructed of weoden beams, the object being to test the ability of the drivers to balance the engines. Always Searching Another contest required the engineers to drive the machines over a small pyramid of wood en blocks. In still another test, horsepower was measured by connecting a belt between the engine and a Prony break. Largest of Peacock's engines is a Reeves compound steam engine. Built in the 1890's, it's one of two such in the nation still in operating condition. Other museum-type pieces on display were an old-time five- bottom plow, a corn-cutter and seeding machines. Peacock spends much of his time now rummaging tnrougn barn lots in search of discarded machines and repairing broken j parts to put them m working condition. The real satisfaction comes, he said, when the indicator on the steam pressure gauge begins , to move and the smoke starts to billow out of the once-rusty en eine. PER31ANENT military force in UN to preserve peace is requested by Dag Hammar skjold, secretary general, in press conference in New York. (International) Columbia Commission May Draff Compact Reno, Nev. (IP) A special action committee of the Colum bia Interstate Compact Commis sion Saturday recommended the agency begin work immediately on a further .study and draft of a new compact. The recommendation was the final order of business for the two-day commission meeting. Earlier, members had voted to hold their next session Oct. 14-15 in Spokane, Wash. The action committee recom mended a study of several mat ters aimed at giving the commis sion more authority under the proposed new compact. It said preliminary drafts should be drawn to the standing commit tees and then submitted to the commission for approval. A new compact would require final approval of the legislatures of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming. These are the seven states which comprise the Co lumbia Interstate Compact Com mission membership. Gibraltar (IP) Two more Russian warships passed through the Straits of Gibralter to join the growing number of Soviet vessels in the Mediterranean Saturday. AROUND THE WORLD IN . . . Dover, England (IP) Three men and a dog left here Sunday in a 12-ton yawl on a voyage they hope will take them around the world in the next four years. Bernard Yendall, 27, said he and his two crew members aboard the 29-year-old "Maryann" have only enough supplies to last a few weeks. They plan to take jobs at ports of call to make their "way. FIREMEN'S HOMEWORK Union, S. C. (W Firemen Bud Keisler and Robert Bla lock should have stayed home. The two alarms received during the day came from their homes. Sawdust Telephone 2-2111 MEDFORD FUEL GO. g ism. aat W 38 & E f 8 t I r Th, 1 if) 1 S ( f s ( e one bourbon most in demand because Its the finest ! i 5 a OLD i LIGHTER...MII1DER.... 86 PROOF The superb quality of milder, 86 Proof Old Crow has made it America's most popular bourbon! 86 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 46 Qt. 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USE NEWBERRY'S LAY AWAY PLAN ffMffolTfi Sixth & Central J By ALFRED LEECH United Press Correspondent Chicago HP) An estimated 1,746.000 dustmops were shaken in Chicago last week, and housewives should' cut it out. The place is dusty enough. So says Bernard Cozette, technical director of Service master, a national organization devoted to digging up dirt. In addition to the dust mops, Cozetfe said, about 630,450 householders burn trash in their back yards at least once a week, besmirching the atmosphere even more. All this dust and dirt stirred up by housewives mingles with the dust and dirt provided by nature and industry. , Some Areas Worse The result: A staggering 124 tons of "particulate matter" for every cubic mile of atmosphere over this fair city. And some places are even worse. Detroit for instance is plagued with 152 tons of particles per cubic mile. Los Angeles has 118 tons and New York 108 tons. The cleanest sizeable city lis ted in the study was Minneapolis with 53 tons. Houston had 57 tons, Washington 58, Atlanta 61, Portland 64. Kansas City 65, Cincinnati 78 and Philadelphia 83. What goes up '' must come I down, Cozette said, and all this dust eventually falls to the j ground. A goodly amount drifts into your domicile. Suggestions Offered It may even cause your hay fever or asthma, Cozette said. He offered these suggestions to householders: Keep your furnace in good order. Wash your dust mop fre quently and empty your vacuum cleaner into a paper sack, not 1 onto the ground. Don't burn rubbish if the city has a pickup service. Edmund Kosciucha, combust-1 ion engineer, said a backyard in cinerator can raise more dirt 1 than a: blast furnace, per ton of material burned. Even Mother Nature helps to make it a dirty old world, Coz ette said. From April through Septem ber she fills the air with untold tons of pollen and dust. 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