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Top Teenage Singer Has Name Trouble MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Monday, April 14, 1958 3 Hollywood ft? Top teen-1 age singer Molly Bee doesnt have the simple name she seems to have. Her mail is addressed often to people like Buckboard, Driftwood, and Surfboard. "My real name is Mollie Jene Beachboard," the pretty, pony-tailed 18-year-old said. "I guess lots of fans know that, and somewhere the name gets twisted. Beachwood is a common occurrence. "And Molly Bee as a name seems to cause confusion, too. Some letters come in for Molly Bs and Molly C's." Petite Miss Bee, a window on the mysterious teenage wor'.d, said she faithfully an swers all her mail and she gets quite a chunk of it, mostly from other teenagers who want her picture and want to ask her about Tom my Sands. "I went to work when I was 10 years old," she said. "I lost a few years when I would have known how they think. Now in their letters I find their wonderful thoughts. They have some wild, fascin ating ideas. "I also learn about their favorites. They like Tommy Sands yes, we have dated and really dig Ricky Nel son." Miss Bee, a blue-eyed, honey-haired charmer with the bubbling vitality of a happy, energetic teenager, said lots of teenagers want to know how to emulate her career in TV, movies and now in night clubs. "I tell them to sing when ever and wherever possible,' she said. "Any public affair like a local fraternal club or something is fine. You de velop poise or something anyhow, you get to figure that something's going to go wrong with the lights or mu sic, and you get to expect it. j You find after a while that I whatever it is, it won't throw you." i Most of her mail lately has come in because of two mov ies she has appeared in "Summer Love" and "Going Steady." Her proponents say she has been on TV more than anyone in the country except for Arthur Godfrey. She began on TV at the age of 10, had her pigtails clipped on the screen when 15 and is still going strong at 18. Her TV credits include Tennessee Ernie Ford's show, Pinky Lee's program and spots on shows such as Ed Sullivan, Spike Jones and Jackie Glea son. Her current records are "I'm Going Steady With a Dream," and "Teenage Love." The teenager appears un spoiled by her success. She still has to be in by 12:30 a.m. and her widowed mother in sists on meeting all her dates before they take Molly out. "This is no problem," she said. "They like mother lots of times they come just to see her. We double date. Mother's very popular, and while she'll let me stay out later than 12:30 a.m., I worry about her sometimes. "If mother's out, I just can't go to sleep until I know she's home." Miss Bee, who doesn't be lieve in going steady, lives with her mother and two bro thers in a three-bedroom-and-den home in the Burbank area. The family, came to California from Oklahoma via a Tucson, Ariz., ranch. "I guess I have only one real worry now," she said pensively. "My name again. I went from Beachboard to Bee, and now my agent thinks it should be changed again. He thinks 'Bee' sounds too young. Oh, dear." Unique Club Set Up To 'Love Neighbor' By PAT GRAY United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) Leon Ack erman, wealthy Washington realtor, has founded a unique new club with a simple motto: "It is my intent never to resent." There are no dues, no initia tion fees, and membership is open to anyone who wants to live up to the slogan. Membership consists only of a card signed by the member and countersigned by Acker man. He figures there are 25, 000 members now; he has mailed out that many cards since founding the club. There is no "expulsion" from the club. But members automatically suspend them selves "each time they resent to the least degree." -Have No Choice Ackerman, who is firmly convinced that people have no choice in the H-bomb era ex cept to "love their enemies,' founded the club a year ago appropriately on St. Valen tine's Day. His inspiration was the widespread response to full- page newspaper ads extolling the virtue of loving one s neighbor which he has placed from time to time in news papers from coast to coast. Ackerman has three offices in Washington, a big Florida real estate development, and a smaller one at Ocean Beach, Md. The money spent on his ads and on the anti-resentment club, he said, comes from busi ness porfits. A member of Ackerman's office staff said the realtor has an "uncanny sense" for plac ing his inspirational newspa per ads. He places them at random at different times in areas where he feels they will do the most good. The staff member said peo ple call and write constantly to tell Ackerman they have really benefitted from such messages as "Love Thy Negh- bor," and "Resentment Is the Root of All Evil." Many, he said, also have complicated Ackerman on the "Layman's Prayer" which ap pears on the back of the mem bership card for the Anti-Re sentment club. It reads: "Father, may we be ever mindful that it is in loving our fellow man that we truly love thee." Headliners Club Confers Award On Defense Dept. Atlantic City, N. J. (IP) The National Headliners club conferred 22 awards Saturday for journalistic achievement in 1957. One of the prizes went to the Defense Department for "the excellent job it did in providing films of its missile projects." Vincent rr. Newton, manag ing editor of the Tampa Trib une and chairman of the free dom of informaton committee of Sigma Delta Chi, the pro fessional journalistic frater nity, will present the awards and make the principal speech. About 125 persons will attend the session. The awards were decided upon by a panel of newsmen in the newspaper categories, the public scervice award went to the Philadelpha In quirer for its series "today's world-page three." This was a full page relating to curent events. Other award winners were Burris Jenkins Jr., New York Journal American, editorial cartoons; Kenneth J. Barnard, Narragansett (R.I.) Times, the ater and TV columns; Dorothy R. Powers, Spokane, (Wash.) Spokesman - Review, feature writing; William Bien, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, spe cial feature columns on busi ness and financial matters; the Southern Illinoisan, Carbon dale, 111., for its story on the Illinois tornado; the staff of the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot for its feature, "Chirst mas Day Page One;" Robert Hewett, Minneapolis Star Tribune, reports on life in CommurLt Europe. Picture awards went to Bill Beall, Washington (D.C.) Daily News, a Scripps-Howard pa per, human interest; Pat Can dido, New York Daily News, spot news picture; Arthur Rickerby, United Press, sports. Harry Grayson, of NEA, was honored for distinguished sports writing and columning. 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