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Margaret O'Brien Credits Television
fof Change From Child To Adult Roles
By WILLIAM EWA.LD'
Unitfd Pv9s Corrsepondent
New York iIJ The corn
ballest of all the cornball images
ever manufactured by tije mov
ies may well have been the one
of Margaret O'Brien, standing
lone, solemn - eyed and straw
hatted, with a mammoth hollow
of a strain station. It was, oh
sob, a heart-tugger.
It is an image that Miss
O'Brien, a lady pushing 20, re
gards now with some distaste. It
is an image that TV is helping
her to bury.
"One of the most difficult
things about having been a child
actress is trying to convince peo
ple that you are no longer a
child," said Miss O'Brien as she
fluttered her dark lashes at a
plateful of manicotti. She had
ben rehearsing for a "Kraft
Theatre" opus, "Come to Me." J the child movie stars who came
She said she was hungry.
Out of Awkward Age
"The wonderful thing about
TV," she said between forkfuls,
"is that it has given me a chance
to get out of the awkward age
something the movies couldn't
do for me. No movie producer
could really afford to take a
chance at handing me an adult
role.
"But TV has changed all that
and all within the past few
weeks. It started with a 'Suspi
cion' show at the beginning of
the season in which I played a
woman. Then there was a 'Play
house 90' and a 'Climax' in
which I played wives. In this
'Kraft', I get another chance to
act I'm playing an ugly sister
who's not quite right in the head.
"I'm far more fortunate than
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Blocdmobile Sets Visit
Mr
By HELEN BOTTEL
Cave Junction The Red Cross
Bloodmobile will be at Cave
Junction Nov. 13 for the first
time in more than a year.
Mrs. Henry Floyd, Red Cross
chairman for the valley, said the
local quota is 125 pints. Donors
are asked to be at the American
Legion hall between 10 a.m. and
2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13.
Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Stem visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Saylor
and daughter, Allyson, of Scotia
They also visited their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Gordon Stem, and their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs
Joseph Sutton, of Eureka.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Liss
were honored last week at a
farewell party given at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Piper.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Petsch, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Owens,
Mr. and Mrs. Don Fulk, Mr. and
Mrs. Qrville Meredith, Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Steimer, Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Wes
Vahrenwald, Dr. and Mrs. Jos
eph Meyer, all Illinois Valley,
and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Whitcomb
of Grants Pass.
Mr. and Mrs. Casey Piller of
Kerby were called to Eugene
Monday by the death of Piller's
step-father, Edwin Schultz, who
died of a heart attack, f
Mr. and Mrs. George Savage
had as Thanksgiving dinner
guests their daughter, Mrs. Leroy
Welsh and granddaughter, Char
lene Welsh, of Mountain Home,
Ifo., who will stay at the Savage
home in Kerby until after Christ
mas. Other Thanksgiving guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Bud Savage.
Jess Gilchrist of Gold Hill, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Baldwin and
son, Jimmy, of Crescent City,
George Stanley of Gasquet,
Calif., and Carl Wieting and his
nephew, Jim Billi, who was
home from Oregon State college
for the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Turnbull and
son, Darell, were Thanksgiving
guests of Mrs.' Hattie Evitt and
her son, Jay.
The Ed McDonalds spent
Thanksgiving with their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Silvan Emerson, at Willow
Creek, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Skrecky
and sons, Douglas and Gordon,
Mr. and Mrs. John Wilber and
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wilber were
Thanksgiving dinner guests at
the Earl Boyd home on Westside
rd.
At the Cecil Wilhelms' for
Thanksgiving were Mr. and Mrs.
Bud Hoskins and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Boyd and
family spent the holidays at San
ta Rosa, Calif., at the home of
Boyd's cousin and family, Mrs.
E. J. Berthaud.
Mrs. Jack Spitz, chairman of
the child welfare committee for
the American Legion auxiliary,
said about S50 was gained for
local children's aid at the auxil
iary card party Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strickland
have moved back to the Illinois
Valley. They spent several
months) in Grants Pass this winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Wilson in
cluded in their Thanksgiving din
ner party at Shadowcroft lake
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Burch and son,
Jim, of Cave Junction; Miss Lura
Black, special education teacher
for city schools in Eureka, and
Miss Charlotte Thompson, school
nurse at Crescent City.
(Jtr. and Mrs. Bert Johnson of
Siskiyou Mountain camp had as
Thanksgiving dinner guests Mrs.
Johijsbn's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
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Jewel Brewer was elected No
ble Grand of Marguerite Rebek
a lodge 111 at a recent meeting.
Officers include Edith Heiden
reich, vice grand; Sophia Bunch,
secretary, and Lena Payne, treas
urer. Installation will be in January.
before me and all because of
TV. Shirley Temple never had
anything like TV to make that
transition to adulthood. Neither
did so many others."
Miss O'Brien, who 'won an
Academy Award at seven and
who earned S5.000 a week at the
peak of her career, looks back
with some detachment on her
roles in such Flickers as "Meet
me in St. Louis," "Journey for
Margaret" and "Jane Eyre." She
did the straw-hat bit in "Music
for Millions."
Child Acting Half Good
"In terms of my career, I
think being a child actress is half
good and half bad," she said as
she worked through some garlic
bread. "It's harder to get people
to accept the fact you're older,
but it's good because it helped
me as an actress.
"People think because I start
ed at four-and-a-half I was a born
actress. But there's no such
thing as a born actress. You have
to work to be any good. I can
remember as a child the endless
hours and hours of rehearsal
just to get a scene or even a line
right."
She ordered brandy pudding
and tea for dessert and tackled
both with dainty gusto..
"Regrets. No, I have no regrets
at all about spending my child
hood as an actress. My mother
made sure that I played with the
other kids in the neighborhood
and I got the same kind of allow
ance that they did.
"If I had a daughter of my
own with talent I'd offer her the
same choice my mother offered
me. If she enjoyed acting, I'd
let her act. If she didn't, she
wouldn't have to. But I don't
think there's anything neces
sarily bad about child actors. I
don't think you have to become
spoiled. The only important
thing in life is not to be pushed
into anything. That's what makes
the difference."
Wednesday, December 4, 19S7
HURRICANE LASHES ISLANDS Royal palms wave
wildly in Honolulu as heavy winds and rains lashed the
city. Hurricane Nina,. Hawaii's first recorded hurricane,
bypassed Honolulu despite the flag warnings flown over
this waterfront bulding.
PROSPECT
300-Pound Bear Killed
Holiday guests at the Paul
Glines home in Cave Junction
were Mr. and Mrs. Alan Markley
and the Glines' son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Roland
Holm. Gary and Thomas, and
Miss Myrna Kellogg.
Mr. and Mrs. Les Henry and
son, Jack, spent Thanksgiving at
Salem with Mrs. Henry's brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
O. C. Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. James Allen of
the Siskiyou Aerial project had
as Thanksgiving guests Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Tubman of Grants
Pass, Bob Scofield of Galice and
Miss Nada Derry of Roseburg.
Grange Notes
CENTRAL POINT GRANGE
The Central Point Grange
will meet in regular session Fri
day, Dec. 6.
The recreation committee ad
vise low heels for mixers and
square dancing which will fol
low the meeting. Benton Boyce
will furnish the music.
JUVENILE GRANGE
At the last regular Juvenile
Grange meeting held on Nov.
15 the following officers were
elected for the coming year:
master, Carol Foote; overseer,
Russell Frink; lecturer, Frankie
Mengel; steward, Jack Arrell; as
sistant Stewart, Bobby Kuest;
chaplin, Janet Barber; treasurer,
Judy Gebhard; secretary, Caro
lee Kuest; lady assistant, Judy
Frink; gate keeper, Ray Arrell;
Ceres, Meredith Jense; Flora,
Bobby Jane Darras; Pomona,
Elaine Young;- and musician,
David Foote. Installation will be
held Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. in the
Central Point Grange hall.
Juveniles will meet Friday,
Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. They will have
charge of the display table for
subordinate Grange for this
meeting and each Juvenile is to
bring a homemade Christmas
card or something he has made
at school to display.
BY GENEIL SPRUILL
Prospect Harley Pressley
and Chuck Hooper of Prospect
and John Galauich of Shady
Cove had a successful bear hunt
in the Union Creek area Nov.
24. Two hours later the hounds
treed a bear. Then what they
thought was going to be fun
turned out to be quite an ordeal.
Galauich shot the bear from a
distance of 70 yards below the
three. Pressley was at the base
of the tree. . f
Galauich seriously wounded
the bear but the bear came down
the tree toward Pressley and
dogs. Pressley then emptied his
six shooter, but it did not phase
the bear.
The bear then charged Press
ley, but was distracted by the
hounds, which were mauled
while Pressley was reloading his
gun.
Galauich rushed in and killed
the bear which weighed approxi
mately 300 pounds.
Jack Ross of Prospect left
Nov. 29 for Portland to ac
company his brother, Don, of
Brookings who has been con
fined to a Portland hospital due
to a lung ailment.
A six-foot culvert three miles
south of Prospect on Highway
62 has been completed, and will
now take care of flood .water.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Shoe
maker and son, Gary, of Yreka,
Calif., former residents of Pros
pect, were visitors over the
Thanksgiving holidays at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Mather.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross and
three children spent the holiday
week end in Bend at the home
of Mrs. Ross's parents.
Visiting in Prospect at the
home of her parents during holi
day week end was Mr. and Mrs.
James Martin and son, Billey.
She is t he daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Canary.
The Christmas party for the
Prospect Home Extension Unit
will be held at the home of
Mrs. Willard Huffman Wednes
day, Dec. 11, at 10:30 a.m. A
ham dinner will be served.
Members are asked to bring
secret pal gifts and a 50 cent
exchange gift.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moore and
daughter of Lakeview were
week end visitors at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyde Moore and
family.
Miss Ladonna Gould went to
Woodland, Calif., to be with her
parents for Thanksgiving. Wen
dell Bates was with his folks in
Portland.
The Prospect Gun club will
sponsor a country store and
Turkey shoot Sunday, Dec. 8.
The Cub Scouts will be serving
food. There will be rifle range,
shooting gallery and trap shoot.
Clarence Neville, who is at
tending college at Corvallis,
spent the Thanksgiving holiday
at the home of his parents.
Guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Del Orgain were Leon
Love of Trail, Mrs. Myrtly Den
ton of Ashland, and Mrs. Dolly
Love of Medford.
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Baltimore (TP) The Rev. Jo
seph J. Ayd, 76, professor emer
itus of sociology at Loyola col
lege, died in his rectory offices
here today of a heart attack.
Maryland Penitentiary for 38
years and had accompanied more
than 50 condemned men to the
death chamber. He won com
mutation in 11 cases and once
won freedom for a man condemn-
Father Ayd was chaplain of the j ed to die
Hollywood (IP) Producer
Jack L. Copeland thinks. "Hell's
Five Hours" will be shot in the
proper atmosphere. He said the
film would start production next
Monday in the city of Los An
geles' steam plant in the San
Fernando Valley.
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made a fine weekend for several
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