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Europe's Six-Nation CoaD, Steefl Pool ' Completes Transition' Period By CHARLES RIDLEY United Press Correspondent Luxembourg W Eur ope's first great step towards economic and political in tegration the six-nation coal and steel pools has come of ge. Its five-year "transition" period is over. The mighty economic ven ture, which has been dubbed "the great European revolu tion of our time," is fully launched. . As of Monday, France, Ger many. Italy. Holland. Belgium I in broad terms the directors and Luxembourg had fully of the most daring economic evolved a single market for half of Western Europe's coal and nearly two thirds of its steel. They had torn down na tional tariff barriers, quota and currency restrictions, car tels "and price-rigging which have hampered Europe's econ omy for centuries. Comparatively minor prob lems, such as that of high priced coal in Belgium,' re mained to be ironed out. But Mr. Adams and Eve Offers Untenable Assumption Show Folk Are Top Breed Br WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York !W "Show People Are No People," an acquaintance of mine used to croon to a tune by Irving Ber lin. There was considerable truth in his contention. Ac tors, for the most part, are not for real. Off-stage, they are a pretty uninteresting bunch and many of them seem to spend a good deal of time huddled around the chilly fire of their own egos. There are exceptions, but I would say most actors I have met have struck me as a kind of re tarded breed of adult. Habit Carried Over A TV producer I once in terviewed put it this way: "All of us like to stand on our heads when we're kids it gets us attention. The pecu liar thing about actors is that they stand on their heads during adulthood." Which brings us to "Mr, Adams and Eve," a CBS-TV series that operates on the as sumption that show folk are witty, brilliant and almost un bearably chic (to be chic in show circles means you kiss instead of shaking hands when introduced). It is an untenable assump tion, one that even the fawn ing movie fan magazines have largely abandoned. But How ard Duff and Ida Lupino, who play the leads in "Mr. Adams and Eve," seem to have failed to receive the word. They go on perpetuating the myth that in Hollywood everyone is just mad, mad, mad, utterly mad, do you hear? Impossible To Accept And, of course, as a result, the series is impossible to ac cept. It is not for real. It is a series purportedly about show folk, but it actually is peopled by phony characters involved in phony situations, all of it peppered with phony dialogue. It is a nonsense series and its "fun" is ersatz. Tuesday night's plot was typical and I won't even bother to recount it except to say. that it was a "fun" excursion into astrol ogy with Eve (Aquarius) and her husband (Saggitarius) But let's face it, like almost all the installments in this series, it was strictly Taurus the Bull was missing and asked offic ers to look for it. EXHIBIT A Tallahassee, Fla. (W Police hope it won't be too difficult to trace a $5 bill stolen from Charlton Pierce. It bears the autographs of Gov. and Mrs. Leroy Collins, Congressman Bob Sikes, for mer Govs. Fuller Warren and Millard F. Caldwell, and for mer Acting Gov. Charley E. Johns. The Channel Swim CBS-TV's i'To Tell The Truth" proved again Tuesday night it is the least painless of the panel shows. Virgil Earp, the nephew of Wyatt Earp who bowed in Tuesday as a contestant on CBS-TV's "The $64,000 Question,", en gaged in a odd bit of chit chat with Hal March he con fessed to shooting a man back in 1895. Arthur Godfrey will' try to stimulate interest in his qBS-TV "Talent Scouts" by giving away a $5000 prize to the month's top talent. FIREFIGHTERS VS. LAW Superior, Wis. (IP) A truck bound from one Canad ian city to another by way of Wisconsin caught fire Tues day. But firemen had to wait until a customs official gave approval before they could break a seal on the truck and get inside to fight the blaze OUT IN THE COLD Pensacola. Fla. HP! Palmer Jarrell has no liome, he reported to the sheriff somebody stole it. The sher iff's office said Jarrell report ed his $3,500 house trailer HE'S NO LETTER WRITER Los Angeles (IT) After having heard nothing from his brother for nearly 50 years, Frank Kluge, 76, a re tired Chicago steelworker, met him in Union Station on Tuesday. The brother, 71-year old Leonard, said there had been nothing wrong "I guess I'm just not much of a letter writer." SORE FINGER EXPLAINED Hollywood OP) Rugged Clint Walker returned Tues day from a promotional tour of Texas with a sore trigger finger. "Not from shooting," Walker explained. "Got it signing autographs." experiments ever attempted in Europe could justifiably claim to have carried out the necessary "adaptation" which they faced when the "Schu man Plan" pool was launched in 1952. It was at 3 o'clock on the morning of Feb. 10, 1953, that the five-year "transitional" period for adapting the vari ous national economies to the integration scheme started. At that hour, a coal train drab and unexciting like any other drew into Luxembourg station. It came from the Ger man Ruhr and was headed for industrial Lorraine, in France. A brief informal check, a blast on a whistle, and the train continued on its way across three countries. For that train, and the others which followed, there were no frontiers, no customs and no variation in prices in side and outside its country of origin. The common coal market was opened, and iron and steel followed shortly thereafter. Radical Act The act of putting together the heavy industry resources of a six-nation community of 160 million Europeans as populous as the U. S. was as radical as anything Eurqpe has known since the industrial revolution changed the face of the world. Not only was it a mighty economic step but it was a move pregnant with possibili ties for long-dreamed-of Eu ropean political federation. When France's then Foreign Minister Robert Schuman first presented his brain child May 9, 1950, he said the pool ing of French and German heavy industry would make another war between the two countries "not only unthink able, but impossible." By placing their coal and The Family Council Editor's note: The 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 renort. The Familv f"min-ll Hopc not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. steel resources under the jurisdiction of a high auth ority, which has suprana tional powers, the six mem ber countries also undertook to surrender part of their jealously-guarded sovereignty. IT'S ALL OVER Manila OP) Japanese of ficials expressed optimism to day that two World War II stragglers would soon come out of their hideouts on Lu band Island for repatriation to Japan. A Japanese mission dropped packages Tuesday into the jungle area where the stragglers have been hiding since the war. The packages contained letters from their families, photographs, medi cine, cigarettes, food and an imperial message declaring the war ended Aug. 15, 1945. Also included was equipment with which the stragglers could signal their whereabouts and their desire to be repatriated. Largest of cats next to the lion, the male tiger may meas ure more than 10 feet from nose to tail tip and weigh as much as 650 pounds. , M ' V- L-j ., -r - r - 'A LONG, LONG, YEAR' Australian war trifle Mrs. Florence Doering smiles on arrival in San Francisco, en route to Oroville, Calif., to begin a court fight for custody of her two children. The 36-year-old blonde said "its been a long, long year" since she last saw the children spirited back to America" by her husband from Australia where Mrs Doering had taken them after living in the U. S. with her ex-soldier husband for eight years. With Mrs. Doering is her attorney John McDonald. , Wednesday, February 12, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FTVsi The Colony and Protector ate of Gambia, Britain's old est link to west Africa, com prises little more than a broad river with narrow strips of land on each side, the Nation al Geographic Magazine says. Leading exports are peanuts, palm kernels and beeswax. Sun Life of Canada Pays S34 Million in -Policyholder Dividends; U. S. Sales Up Company sells total $917' million new life insurance in '57; $7 billion life insurance now in force; $155 million paid to policyholders in 1957. 1 Higher policyholder dividend payments and a new sales record for the Sun Life Assurance Com pany of Canada are among the highlights of the year announced by George W. Bourke, President, in his review of the Company's business for 1957. During 1958, Sun Life will pay out $34 million in dividends to policyholders, an increase of $2Vi million over the amount paid out in 1 957. New life insurance sold in 1 957, amounted to $917 million, largest amount ever sold by any Cana dian company in one year and an increase of $63 million over the old record set just a year ago. A substantial proportion of the new business originated in the United States, where Sun Life has 36 of its insurance in force. Included in the new business total was $243 million of group life insur ance. Sun Life's insurance in force now exceeds . $7,749,000,000, more than twice the amount in force ten years ago. Life insurr ance and annuity business com bined is now the equivalent of $10,150,000,000 of life insur ance. BENEFIT PAYMENTS The Report also reveals that $155 million in benefits was paid out to policyholders and benefi ciaries in 1 957. Of the otal $49 million was paid to beneficiaries of deceased policyholders, repre senting a substantial contribution to family welfare. Living policy holders and annuitants received $106 million. Payments to policy holders and beneficiaries since the first Sun Life policey was is sued in 1871 have now reached $3,295,000,000. Mr. Bourke referred to the cur rent level of death rates in the United States and Canada. Almost 60 of Sun Life death claims incurred during 1 957 were due to disorders of the heart and circu latory systems. The proportion of claims due to cancer 19 of the total represented the second major cause of death. There Is an obvious need for extensive medical research and the Sun Life is continuing to make contributions for this important study, he said. "I believe that the better In formed people become h to the benefits of life insurance," Mr. Bourke said, "the more insurance they will buy and the more they will insist on programs carefully designed to cover their fundamen tal insurance needs. These needs are still so far from full satisfac tion that we can look forward wrth every confidence to the continued growth and prosperity of our business." A copy of Sun Life's complete 1957 Annual Report, including the President's Review of the year, is being sent to each policy holder, or may be obtained from C. E. Jones, P. O. Box 1123, Medford, Oregon. edv. fashion's finest fabrics Wards sanforized denim Isabel R I can't feel the same about Ted. Ted F. Neither of us was responsible. Isabel R. I always knew I can't hold liquor, so I know I should never have drunk as much as I did on New Year's eve. Anyway, I did and now I can't forgive myself. I went to a party with a young man who had asked me to marry him. I was seri ously considering marriage to him. But when I was drunk, I went too far with him and now I don't know what to do. It was an awful experience and I hate myself and I don't like him any more. Ted still wants to marry me and I suppose there is more reason now than ever why I should. But I just can't feel the same toward him. After all, he took advantage of me in my drunken state. That wasn't right. He was more in command of himself than 'I was. Ted F. As Isabel points out, there is more reason now than ever why we should mar ry. She is a really nice girl and she won't be able to face herself unless she does marry me. I did not mean to take ad vantage of Isabel. After all, I was drunk too. Neither ofrus was really responsible. The way I see it, this was just an unfortunate accident Isabel snouid not judge me by that one incident. I am seriously in love with her and I'm sure I can make her hap py. There are two other men who want to marry Isabel, but I am sure she could never be happy with either of them after what has happened be tween us. She is now just fighting the inevitable. The Council: An unfortu nate accident? We doubt it Drinking isn't accidental, nor are most of the actions that follow. More often drinking is used, quite consciously, to remove inhibitions and to ab solve the drinker of. responsi bility for doing exactly what he has determined to do be forehand. What possessed Isabel to take this step with Ted? Prob ably a combination of fear and curiosity. Certainly there was no love or desire for mar riage involved. Naturally, the results were "awful." What possessed Ted to take this step with a girl he wants to marry and claims to love? Possibly despair at not being able to really win her affec tions and possibly a desire to trap her into a marriage des pite her reluctance. Is there now "more reason than ever" why this couple should marry? We can't give a flat yes or no to that ques tion. One thing is sure, how ever Ted and Isabel should not go to the altar in their present frame of mind. Isabel should recognize that she can't place the blame for what took place on Ted alone. And Ted should recognize that his own responsibility was not trifling, either. -But they need more than a com mon sense of guilt as a basis for their marriage. They need to find some real unselfish love for one another plus a mature desire to create a happy life together. Isabel and Ted have a long way to go in understanding. They should consider some talks with their clergyman. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) mf.m now crease-resistant!. ' SlLUlP Less work means extra leisure hours nIj . j lVWKA V Jk -yfiijf J Now! Less work for you! 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