Monday, December 30, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
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BY PETER WEBB
United Press Correspondent
Bon, Germany Every month
about 500 Communist spies cross
the Iron Curtain border between
Western Germany and the Soviet-controlled
East Zone.
They range from underground
couriers for the illegal West Ger
man Communist party to a
"corps d'elite" of agents who
specialize in top-level espionage,
kidnaping and in the past, at
least murder.
This is a country where, as
someone once remarked, every
fifth man may be a third man.
Most spies cross the 500-mile
East-West border under the guise
of innocent businessmen, politi
cal refugees, students, or East
Germans visiting relatives in the
West.
Behind them is the shadow of
former East zone state security
Chief Ernst Wollweber, who
himself once sabotaged Franco-
Big Year For TV,
Movie Stars Mark Year
With Marriages, Splits
By VERNON SCOTT
United Press Hollywood Writer
Hollywood W The year 1957
was big for TV, worrisome for
movies, and busy for the stars
who trouped the world keeping
their names and faces before the
public.
Some made headlines by
getting married.
G Marlon Brando startled Holly
wood with his surprise trip to
the altar with Anna Kashfi Jo
anne O'Callaghan?. Bing Cros
by's May-December nuptials with
Kathy Grant raised numerous
eyebrows.
Also wed duringthe year were
Susan Hayward and attorney
Eaton Chalkley; Natalie Wood
and Robert Wagner, Sophig,
Loren and 'Carlo Ponti; Shelley
' Winters and Anthony Franciosa;
Henry Fonda and Italian baron
ess Afdera Franchetti; Rex Har
rison and Kay Kendall; and
Merle Oberon and Mexican in
dustrialist Bruno Pagliai.
Bad Teamwork Y-ar
Separations, marital and oth
erwise, also made news. It was a
rugged year for teams. Martin
and Lewis broke up as well as
Abbott and Costello. The Lib
erace brothers, Smiley and
George, went their separate
ways.
Marriages hit the rocks. Rock
Hudson and Phyllis Gates saw
their lawyers, as did Esther Wil
liams and Ben Gage. Among oth
er shattered marriages were the
Jeff Chandlers Ginger Rogers
and Jacques ergerac, Ingrid
and Rossellini; Lana Turner and
Les Barker.
Also shedding mates were
Mickey Rooney, Gene Kelly and
Diana Dors. Q
Kim Novak gave thev wolf
pack hope by splitting with long
time boyfriend Mac Krim. May
be she couldn't take the name
Kim Krim.
It was a bumper year for
babies. GaleP Storm. Rosemary
Clooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs.
Jackie Cooper, Gina Lollobrigi
da, Pier Angeli, Yvonne De
Carlo, Ann Blyth, Vera Miles
and Mrs. John Kerr all wel
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Civil War, and whose organiza
tion now controls a vast net
work of spies.
According to reports reaching
the West, Wollweber, a fleshy,
balding man, has ostensibly
gone into retirement to prepare
plans for a Communist "Joint
Intelligence Council" for the en
tire satellite empire.
But while or if he is tem
porarily absent from the scene
the work of his agents goes on.
Cloak-and-Dagger War
It is a cloak-and-dagger war
that seldom obtrudes above the
seemingly-placid surface of West
German life.
Last year, however, 6.200 per
sons were arrested in West Ger
many for activities endangering
the security of the state.
Recent arrests included a Bad
Godesberg boardinghouse keep
er whose rooms, occupied by
minor diplomats, were wired for
sound to an attic tape recorder.
comed newcomers.
Marilyn Monroe lost her ex
pected baby.
Death took its toll among TV
and film folk, too.
Louis B. Mayer, one of Holly
wood's great pioneers, died dur
ing the year. Humphrey Bogart,
Oliver Hardy, Louis Calhern,
Norma Talmadge, William
Eythe, and character actor Gene
Lockhart also met death.
Biggest news from Hollywood
in 1957 was the Confidential
magazine scandal trial which
rocked the town. The trial, how
ever, did not live up to advance
notices as only two stars Mau
reen O'Hara and Dorothy Dan
dridge appeared in court.
Marie McDonald caused an
uproar when she allegedly was
kidnapped and abandoned on
the Mojave Desert.
Jayne Mansfield broke innum
erable hearts by announcing her
engagement to muscleman
Mickey Hargitay. Rita Hayworth
admitted she plans to marry pro
ducer James Hill. And Zsa Zsa
Gabor managed not to become
engaged to anyone.
Most significant news of 1957
was Desi Arnaz' purchase of
RKO studios to make video
films. The handwriting was on
the studio walls it read: "Look
out for TV in 1958."
Veneta Man Jailed
For Still Operation
Eugene IIP) Lane county
deputies and federal revenue
agents arrested a Veneta resi
dent, Gilbert Strasen, 44, Satur
day afternoon on charges of
operating a moonshine still in
his home.
Strasen, a mill worker, was
taken into custody as he worked
at a Venota lumber mill. Offi
cers found a still and about 30
gallons of mash in a locked back
room of Strasen's home on Bol
ton rd.
He was booked on a charge of
illegal possession of liquor
mash, and held in Lane county
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The tapes were shipped weekly
in soup tins to East Berlin.
Another local arrest was a
waiter in the Bundestak Parlia
ment Restaurant. According to
intelligence sources, some 5,000
spies and counter-spies are be
reqon s Vital Statistics Said
Little Changed Durina
Portland IP) The State Board
cf Health today placed a statisti
cal stethoscope to Oregon for its
annual checkup and found the
patient about the same size as
a year ago, slightly less active,
and a bit sickly.
Board statisticians revealed
that the state's estimated popu
lation had undergone a "very
slight increase," reaching 1,737,
470 on July 1 of this year, com
pared to 1,734.650 the previous
July 1, for an increase of 2820.
From there on, the Board sum
marized these changes in Ore
gon's vital statistics: Births down
slightly; deaths up slightly; mar
riage and divorce both down
slightly, and no change in ma
ternal deaths. Communicable
disease deaths, however, showed
a sharp increase and were attrib
uted principally to pneumonia
deaths resulting from the influ
enza epidemic. The increase in
that department was an estimat
ed 15 per cent over 1956.
Accidents About the Same
Heart disease, both the num
ber and the rate, were expected
to decline slightly this year
from 1956. Cancer deaths will be
slightly higher than the 2410
such deaths that occurred in
1956 but the cancer death rate
is expected to remain about the
same as?ast year.
Accidental deaths claimed
1057 lives in Oregon in 1956 and
the Board of Health said that
figure would be virtually the
same for 1957 when final tabula
tions are reached next week. Di
seases of early infancy will be
down substantially and suicides,
between 200 and 205 of them,
will be about the same as last
year.
Commenting on an estimated
20 per cent increase in pneu
monia deaths, the Board said the
1957 total is expected to be
about 550, compared with 453 in
1956.
"This increase," the Board
said, "is associated to a great ex
tent with the influenza epidemic,
although many of the deaths are
probably among older people
with pre-existing chronic illness
complicated by flu."
The Oregon birth rate this
year is expected to be the low
est since 1946 21.9 per thou
sand population. While Oregon's
birth rate has been decreasing,
the national rate has generally
increased since 1950. The Board
expects 38.000 resident births
during 1957. In 1956 there were
Accidental Gunshot
Hits Karrisburg Girl
Corvallis IIP) A six-year-old
girl was critically wounded Sat
urday night when a gun acci
dentally discharged in the hands
of her 15-year-old brother at a
home seven miles south of here.
Benton county sheriff's deputies
reported. She was reported in
"fair" condition today.
Vera D. Anglin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anglin,
Harrisburg, was struck in the
right temple by a .22 caliber
bullet. The gun was held by
Perry Anglin, her brother, depu
ties said.
Deputy Sheriff Wayne Yates
said the accident occurred at
the home of another son of the
Anglins, Roy, about 8 p.m.
The girl was taken to a Cor
vallis hospital, but later trans
ferred to Sacred Heart hospital
in Eugene where a brain special
ist was available.
Two More Penguins
Die at Portland
Portland (IP) Two more of
Portland's penguins died Sunday
as plans were made to send two
more experts here to help save
the 29 remaining South Pole
birds.
An adelie penguin here and
an emperor penguin at Vancou
ver, B.C., died Sunday bringing
to 12 the number of deaths from
aspergillosis, a fungus - caused
lung disease. One other penguin
choked to death.
Dr. Carlton M. Herman, head
of the disease control section of
the waterfowl division of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
indicated he would be willing to
fly here to help try to save the
birds. He said he would proba
bly bring Dr. W. J. L. Sladen of
Johns Hopkins university with
him.
A tank car full of salt water
will be given the penguins
Tuesday as one of a number of
remedies suggested to save
them.
The first commercial sugar
World was in San Domingo
where Negro slaves were im
ported to cultivate the fields.
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lieved to be working in the vici
nity of the federal capital.
Most sensational case in recent
years was Soviet MVD assassin
Nikolai Khokhlov. He gave him
self up in 1954 to Western auth
orities after being ordered by
Moscow to murder Russian em-
38,423 births for a rate of 22.2.
The national rate last year was
25.3.
Marriages Below U.S. Rate
The Oregon death rate this
year will reach 8.9 per thousand
or 15,400 resident deaths. Last
year there were 15,328 such
deaths for a rate of 8.8. The na
tional rate last yearEwas 9 4.
Oregon's marriage rate is sub
stantially below the national fig
ure and the divorce rate substan
tially higher. '
About . 10,400 persons will
have been married by next Tues
day night for a rate of 6 mar
riages pec one thousand popula
tion. The rate last year was 6.1
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Chicago Dr. William L. Thomas, in a warning to the Ameri
can Anthropological association that the world's natural resources
will never hold out at the present rate of use:
"In a few thousand years, our era will be referred to as the age
of waste."
London English newspaper correspondent Patrick O'Dono
van, in relating his experiences as a Christmas guest in the village
of Stone Ridge. N.Y.:
"No one mentioned Mr. Dulles, or the War of 1812, or thought
it anything but entertaining to meet a foreigner, or complained
about the taxes or agonized over Socialism. There are people who
dislike Americans. ... They should come here (Stone Ridge) in
winter time."
Moscow A. Glagonravov, one of the Soviet's chief earth satel
lite scientists, in summing up Russia's scientific achievements in
1957: ;
"The future of Soviet science is closely tied with the conquest
of the cosmos. As Tisulkovsky (a 19th century Russian scientist)
predicted, Soviet man will become a citizen of the universe."
South Bend T. Coleman Andrews, former Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, describing inflation as a more serious threat to
the nation than "a whole sky full of Sputniks":
- "Inflation is probably the most insidious evil with which or
ganized society ever has had to contend."
MEETING ON GROUNDS of Imperial Palace, Tokio, Ja
pan's royal family greets photographers for annual New
Year's picture. From left: Crown Prince Akihito, Princess
Suga, Empress Nagako, Emperor Hirohito and Prince Yo
shii, who is petting Akibito's dog, Anastasia. (International)
The Family Council
Editor's note: Che Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a summary of an actual report The Family Council does not jive
advice; it merely reports on problems that have keen dealt with by
responsible acencies and counselors.
Oscar N. My wife can't set
up a home.
Emily N. I want a home the
whole world will admire.
Oscar N. My wife is really
driving me crazy.
We were married two years
ago and have been trying to set
up a home ever since. So far we
are still dining on the bridge
table, trying to make do with
some old lamps and broken-down
chairs our parents gave us when
we started our married life on a
shoestring.
The trouble isn't money. I am
making a good salary and we can
buy on time. The trouble is that
my wife just can't make up her
mind about anything. Once or
twice she has gone so far. as to
order something, and then she'll
think it over and call the store
and cancel.
I say we should call in a dec
orator and let him do whatever
he wants, but Emily says she's
got to have it just right and she
doesn't trust anyone else.
Emily N. I suppose the whole
nroblem is my perfectionism. I
do want a home the whole world
will admire. I want it to be so
beautiful everyone will just gasp
when they see it. But it's hard
to judge in advance just what
will have the most beautiful ef
fect. All my friends seem to" have
different ideas of what is nice
and my mother and mother-in-
law are at opposite poles in tneir
taste. Thev all try to help me,
but they only succeed in mixing
me up. The other day my motner-in-law
had the nerve to say that
I don't want to make a home
igre leader Georgi Okolovich
with a device for firing a bullet
concealed inside a ciagrette
packet.
Ranged against this army of
Communist spies are two main
West German counter - intelli
gence organizations the Fed-
Past Year
and the national rate was 9.4.
Also by next Tuesday night
some 5650 persons will have dis
solved their marriages for a di
vorce rate of 3.3. The rate last
year was 3.4 and the national
rate 2.3 per thousand population.
Other statistics in the health
report: 10 maternal deaths (esti
mated) for 1957 and 11 during
156; fetal deaths (stillbirths)
slightly under the 1345 record
ed last year; heart disease, 6046
deaths last year, slightly fewer
this year; strokes, 1880 deaths
last year, virtually no change
this year; disease of early in
fancy, 475 expected this year,
against 522 last year.
because I'm so slew about it.
I try so he rd to do this job
j well,' yet everyone is beginning
to laugh at me. Sometimes I feel
like calling the whole thing quits
and just walking out. It looks as
though I am failing as a wife.
.
The Council Establishing a
home is generally considered as
important an assertion of femi
ninity as earning a living or
starting a career is of mascu
linity. Most women feel they need to
do a successful job in this realm
in order to have any sense of
satisfaction with themselves.
However, Emily's desire for "a
home the whole world will ad
mire" is a bit excessive. This,
plus her confusion at the oppos
ing ideas of her mother and
mother-in-law and her friends,
indicates she has a very weak
sense of her own feminine per
sonality. It is not a simple con
fusion in taste, but a lack of con
fidence in her own feminine
judgment.
This impasse has led Emily to
the point where she openly ad
mits "I'm failing as a wife." We
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eral Bureau for the Defense of
the Constitution and the Security
Office of the Federal Criminal
Bureau.
Budget Small
Headquartered in Cologne, the
Federal Bureau for the Defense
of the Constitution, which creat
ed its own sensation three years
ago when its chief Otto John
defected to the East, employs 425
persons and has an annual bud
get slightly in excess of 2,830,
000 marks $673,800, which might
seem paltry to the budget of the
FBI.
Closely allied with this organi
zation is the Security Office of
the Federal Criminal Bureau,
which acts partly as its execu
tive arm as well as being res
State of Mind Said
To Condition Drinker
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York HP) Here is some
science for people who would
like to drink socially but remain
reasonably sober New Year's
Eve:
The number of drinks it takes
to make a man drunk is some
how related to his state of mind
at the time he took the first one.
. The man whose state of mind
is one of realized stress, tension,
and fearfulness, is more likely to
be sledge-hammered by less alco
hol than the man whose mind is
at peace.
It is true that drinking alcohol
in a stuffy room where atmo
spheric oxygen is lower than, it
should be increases the intoxiat
ing power of the alcohol.
Suggests Water Mix
Champagne intoxicates quick
ly because it is carbonated. By
this token, whiskey and soda
are more quickly intoxicating
than whiskey and tap water.
While it is true that food with
alcohol makes the alcohol less in
toxicating, the "food" does not
include fruits. Eating a compar
able quantity of fruit, makes the
drink more intoxicating.
These helpful hints were taken
from a scientific treatise of Dr.
Joost A. M. Meerloo of New
York for the technical journal,
"Postgraduate Medicine." He
was pointing out that "tolerance"
for alcohol and drugs not only
varies widely among individuals
but also can vary widely for any
one individual, depending upon
his inner and outer circumstanc
es at the moment.
Leave Room If Dizzy
He was seeking to explain
why these variations are so.
"Oxygen lack" was easy to ex
plain, because oxygen -helps to
"burn" alcohol in the body.
Dizzy drinkers in a stuffy room
feel less dizzy almost at once
when they get into the outdoor
air.
Food in the stomach helps
slow the intoxicating process be-
would suggest that she shun such
destructive notions and make up
her mind to get down to business
read some books, take a decor
ating course and .then, on the
basis of real knowledge, come to
a decision and stick to it. '
Emily should remember that
she needs to create an oasis of
peace and comfort for herself
and her husband, not a show
piece for the world at large.
(Copyright 1957, General
Features Corp.)
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are shown on Christmas day receiving their beautiful New 1958 Ford Sedan
which they won at the Fortune'Service Station. Mr. Loonstyn is a maintenance
engineer and was driving a 1953 car before winning the new Ford sedan. "I
never won anything before in my life," was all that Mr. Loonstyn could say
when he found he had the winning ticket.
Fortune Service Stations give a Ford Sedan Free every 60 days.
Tickets are given free at Fortune located on the Point where So.
Central joins So. Riverside Ave. in Medford.
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ponsible for bodyguard services
to the West German president
and chancellor.
Not all espionage is connected
with political secrets, military
intelligence and whispered con
ferences in small back rooms.
There is also the industrial
side. West German authorities
report that the East German
Communists have built up an
effective organization which is
stealing industrial processes
from the West and turning them
to their own use. '
At the last East zone Leipzik
fair, they say, West German busi
nessmen saw Communist ver
sions of stolen Western products
being offered for sale abroad at
well below world market price.
cause it slows the rate of alcohol
absorbtion into the blood. But
fruit steps up body chemistry's
fermentation . processes which
adds to the total amount of al
cohol involved.
As for carbonation, whether
in champagne or in soda it
helps hurry alcohol out of the
stomach and into the intestines
from whence it is absorbed into
the' blood.
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Newport Holdup
Attempt Thwarted
Newport, Ore. (IP) A young
Navy officer missed getting shot
by about a foot late Saturday
night as he thwarted a holdup
man who tried to rob his father-in-law's
general store about four
miles east of here, state police
reported.
Lt. (jg) Larry McArthur and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Pete
Rassmussen, went to the door of
the store about 11:45 p.m. to
answer incessant pounding. The
holdup man, wearing blue jeans,
stepped into the light and put
the barrel of a rifle into the
door ahead of him.
McArthur stepped in front of
his mother-in-law, pushed her to
the floor, took hold of the bar
rel and shoved, at the same time
slamming and latching the door.
McArthur hit the floor him
self as the gunman fired a shot
which went through the wood
en door and wound up in a re
frigeration unit. It missed Mc
Arthur by about a foot, officers
said.
Officers said the ho'dup man
t scaped.
About three billion tons of
land material are dumped into
the world's oceans every year by
rivers, winds and other natural
agencies.