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8 JKAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Monday, May 5, 1958 Young TV Actress Active tn Church, Community Hollywood (IF! Life can be very, very busy for a 14-year-old actress who has appeared in ebout 250 TV shows and nine movies, organizes neigh twrhood kids in to a theatrical roupe, teaches Sunday school in her home and is now en gaged in a fund-raising cam paign for a hospital. Petite Beverly Washburn, born and raised in Hollywood, feels very urgently about her projects. The theatrical troupe was done for fun but soon will make a semi-professional ap pearance The Sunday school project came about when she recalled that during her "tender years" she had trouble understanding the adult language of sermons. The fund-raising campaign fol lowed a visit she made to chil dren's hospital in Los Ange les. JUST ARRIVED... anothtr shipment of NEW! PHILLIPS 66 AMMONIUM NITRATE FREE FLOWING! NO BRIDGING OR CAKING! EASY TO USE! UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION FOR EVEN CROP FEEDING! 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We take up a collec tion and give it to a church." The fund-raising campaign is still-in the planning stage Beverly says it's for Children's hospital and Orthopedic hos pital in Los Angeles. Hospital personnel are aware of her intentions. "I went in there to visit children with one of my teach ers," she said. "Golly, some of those pootiids. I began think ing about it. That's why we're going to take our troupe to children's hospital May 24 and try to entertain the kids and maybe raise a little money They really need a new wing at each hospital." Beverly said the campaign will dig up money through such performances, occasional TV appeals and possibly a door-to-door drive. She said her parents approve of her rojects which she always dis cusses with them first. She first appeared in a movie when she was six, "The Killer That Stalked New York." Her current film is "summer love," and her latest TV role is the Shirley Temple Storybook (NBC-TV) May 8 in which she plays the daugh ter of Rip Van Winkle. Beverly said her parents won't let her go out on dates alone until she is 15 or 16. "I guess maybe they're strict about some tihngs," she said, "but after I think about it for a "while, i realize they're right." The somewhat shy actress has her favorites. They in clude Rock Hudson and Mar lon Brando. "I tried to paper my walls with pictures of Marlon Bran do, but my mother thought it I wasn't a very good idea," she said. "I guess she was right. She's also like a lot of other teenagers, too, in her affec tion for a certain youth now in the Army. "Elvis?" she asked. "Oh, he's wonderful." TANKS CRUSH SOLDIER Goeppingen, Germany OP) U.S. Army Pvt. Paul F. Bushway, 20, of Waterbury, Vt., was crushed to death be tween two tanks during train ing exercises here last Wednes day, the Army announced Sunday. Air Force O.Ks Camp Adair Base : Washington (IP) The Air Force has recommended es tablishment of a 10 million dollar Bomarc base at Camp Adair, near. Corvallis, accor ding to Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.). The recommendation was made to the House Armed Services committee, of which Norblad is a member. The Oregon Republican said that if the project received congressi onal approval it would meal some 400 to 500 men stationed at Camp Adair and an overall payroll of per haps two million dollars. The facility would be in addition to a SAGE project al ready under way at Camp Adair. Wail Sfreef Seeks Answer To Complicated Economy By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) Wall Street is trying its utmost too find a simple answer to a very com plicated economy and stock market and hasn't had much luck in its search. 1 One of the more conserva tive experts says the street apparently has forgotten that if there were a simple answer, everyone would be a million aire. This much can be stated without qualifications: Every one in the financial district isn't 'a millionaire. Our expert of today who remains anonymous has been reading many market letters because he says he likes to know what his competitor? are thinking. In the process of this study of brokerage opinion, he con cludes that most of Wall Street has missed the boat. Slide Rules Don't Count "They've tried to take two and two and get four,',' he says. "They've tried to make the obvious tell a story in a complex business where slide rules don't count." S. B. Lurie, analyst for Jo sephthal & Co., does some thinking along this very line with trie remark there are no univacs in the street to give out glib answers to complex problems. Harry Truman Stresses To Lawyers Value of Fifth Amendment To Freedom Jefferson City, Mo.' (IP) Former President Harry S. Truman says the Fifth Am endment is "one of the best in the whole business" that has been added to the U. S. Constitution. Truman, addressing Satur day 81 attorneys admitted to the Missouri Bar, departed from his prepared text to say: "I'll bet half of the people in the United States don't know what the Fifth Amendment is." Then he read it from the Constitution and told his au dience it was "a tremendous amendment." Tax Cut Proposals Said Popular With Politicians New York dP Beating the drums for a tax cut has become one of the most popu lar instruments in the anti-recession marching band. Spokesmen for government, labor and business called for tax cuts of all kinds this week to get the economic symphony back in tune. Labor leaders renewed their plea for lower taxes, which they say will give con sumers more money to spend. Defense Bill Said Too Broad Washington (IP) House military investigators said Saturday, President Eisenhow er will get only half a loaf, at best, in his bid for congres sional approval of his con troversial defense reorganiza tion plan. Members of the House Arm ed Services committee, con vinced the President's bill was worded too broadly, said they would write their own legisla tion in more precise language. Chairman Carl . Vinson (D- Ga.) said he expected the 37- man committee would send a bill to the House floor for action before the end of the month. OFFICER RETIRES BELT Oxford, Miss. (IPi Dr. H. B. Howerton, a veteran of World War I, has discarded the Army belt he wore for 40 years. Howerton, a reserve of ficer, was issued the belt in 1918. He retired it after being issued a new one from the University of Mississippi ROTC unit. A number of congressmen also expressed the view that lower taxes on personal and corpo rate incomes would buoy the economy. The highly-regarded com mittee for economic develop ment, a private reasearch or ganization of businessmen and economists, urged Congress this week to map plans for a temporary 20 per cent in come tax cut if there 'are no "clear signs" of improvement in business this month. T. O. Yntema, vice presi dent of Ford Motor Co., said a temporary halt in withhold ing income taxes from pay checks would help end the re cession "quickly and decisive ly." Dr. Sidney E. Rolfe, econo mist for Cit financial corp., said repeal of excise taxes on automobiles would be one of the cheapest and most effec tive anti-recession measures. Train-Aufo Crash Leaves Five Dead Springfield, Ohio (IP) A New York Central Railroad train struck a station wagon late Sunday, dragging it 1,200 feet and killing five passen gers. The train engineer, Ekmer E. Hast of. Columbus, Ohio, said he saw the station wagon approaching the country road crossing but he thought it would stop. The dead were identified as Charles W. Dempsey, 38, Springfield, his wife, Dora, 35, and three of their four children, Donald, 9, Ray, 7, and Linda, 5. make yourself a Queen in your kitchen DURING The former President said Americans who are willing to scrap the ideals of the Con stitution are as dangerous as the threats of Communism. "Whether they know it or not, those people who believe in special privileges are en closing the Constitution in a mummy as dead as some old Pharaoh of Egypt." The Constitution, Declara tion of Independence, and Bill of Rights, he said, "es tablish a system under which man can be free and set up a framework to protect and expand this freedom, but they can live only as long as they are enshrined in our hearts and minds." Truman said the threat of totalitarianism and commun ism still menace freedom but said invasion and conquest by Communist ideals of right and wrong would be just as bad. He added that some Ameri cans who hate Communism "are unwilling to acknow ledge the ideals of the Con stitution as the supreme law of the land. They are the peo ple who believe it is too dan gerous to proclaim liberty throughout all the land," he said. "They want to change the preamble to read, 'Some of us Some of the people of the United States,' instead of 'We, the People. " Lurie says the market never accommodates every one, and "there is no rule which says the market must decline because slide rule comparisons suggest that it's vulnerable. "All of which points up the thought that it may take take complete universal dis couragement or an actual need for cash to topple over the apple cart. "Apropos the foregoing, people have money and mid dle class America is more re laxed than Wall Street." Reluctant Bills Also he finds evidence growing that the next overall, market phase may be cli maxed by a mass conversion of the reluctant bulls,- and a plainful withdrawal of the neophyte shorts. He believes that the upside opportunities should swell this month. But the investor won't have it easy. He'll have to be re lentlessly selective and real ize that it's pointless to debate the timing of the next bull market or worry about Oc tober in May. Lurie insists it's better to be right about the wrong stocks than wrong about the right stocks. The recession, Lurie finds, has certain similarities to its predecessors as well as many marked differences. He finds the nation mood more sanguine than that dis played in either Washington or professional Wall Street. "America," he said, "seems to accept the business read justment as something inevit able, something that can be kept in bounds, something temporary rather than perma nent. "This unique experience of belt tightening without panic probably stems from two con siderations: There is little fear of an other 1929-32 and properly so, for the social, economic, fi nancial and political back ground is so different, and (2) more immediately, the down ward trend has flattened out and there are constructive straws in the wind which sug gest that the recession will not snowball at this time." ouncil The Family C 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 ot an actual report. The Family Council does not give aavice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. 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This she was able to do, giv ing her children a fine home and background. They are all married now and have fam ilies of their own, and you would think they'd show their gratitude to such a mother. Well, I don't see any sign of it. Their mother is an in valid and lives with her daughter. The other children are supposed to contribute to her support and they neglect to do so. The daughter is an- i gry about this and takes it l out on her mother, making her feel unwanted. I feel that Kate ought to bring her case to court to make her children pay up. Kate M. I could never do such a thing as bring my own children to court. They are good, decent children, but they all have lots of financial problems. I certainly wouldn't want to take the bread out of their children's mouths. I wish I could be independ ent! and live by myself, but being an invalid makes it im possible. My bills for doctors and medicines really mount up, and I worry all the time about how to pay them. It is wrong that the burden should fall on my daughter when she is stuck with having me, but the other children just "for get" about their monthly con tributions. My friend is very nice to me, but she calls my children selfish and ungrateful. That isn't at all true and they don't deserve to be disgraced by being brought to court. What I can't understand is how they don't get the hints I drop. The Council We agree these "children" should be brought to a sense of their responsibilities, and we can understand Mrs. D. G.'s righteous anger, but we feel the harsh, legal means should be used only as a last resort. More is involved here than money. Kate is rightfully try ing to preserve as much as possible of the warm, emotion al ties with her children. In this case, it would be wise for the family physician or clergyman to discuss this matter with the children. It should be someone the chil dren know and respect. Kate will probably find it hard to unburden, this problem to either of these men, for she does not want to expose her children to anyone's criticism. She should, however, take her courage in her hands, realiz ing she may be doing a serv ice to the children by sparing them the pangs of guilt in fu ture years. If it is discovered the five children are really unable to pool enough money together to care for their mother, it may be necessary for Kate to get some community aid. She should not let this possibility frighten her because she evi dently needs and deserves it. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) Hoover's TV Rap Praised by Guild Hollywood (IP) FBI Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover's blast at the movie and TV industry for "glorifying crime in vio lence" drew praise today from the Screen Producers Guhd. Samuel G. Engel, president of the group, praised Hoover's statement and blamed a "fren zied, fly-by-night" fringe ele ment for contributing to ju venile delinquency. "Mr. Hoover's charges against a few unscrupulous in dividuals in the TV and mo tion picture industries who have made pictures glorifying violence, corruption and crim inal activities merits high praise," Engel said. MULE IF YOU. GET xciteb or if you just like to have a little fun ran vy "DOLLAR BALUE" COQTEST NOW AT YOUR MEDFORD AUTOMOBILE DEALERS!- Hundreds of dollars In cash and valuable prizes will be given awayl To win ell you have to do is have the closest esti mate of the total dollar volume of the franchised Msdford Automobile dealers during 1957. This figure would include all new and used car sales for Medford, the total salaries and wages for all franchised dealers' organizations and the total of service and parts charges for the year 1957. Ac cepted accounting procedures have been used to tabulate the figure, which has been notarized and placed on file at the Mayor's office. The answer closest to this figure will be adjudged the winner. There will be awards to those who are adjudged runners-up. Contest closes May 7. Contest open to any licensed driver who wishes to participate. Nothing to buy just pick up an entry blank and try your luck. Each dealer and each bank will have a supply of entry blanks. Deposit stub with estimate, name and address at any dealer anytime till 9:00 p.m. this week. Gillnet Season Closure Talked Portland (IP) The Ore-! gon Fish commission and the ' Washington Department of j Fisheries met here Saturday j to discuss possible restriction or closure of the gillnet spring season. . A voluntary closure went) into effect on Columbia river commercial fishing Thursday. Unusual muddy water condi tions in the Columbia have j caused the salmon to stopj moving upstream and neavy catches below Bonneville dam indicate the spring salmon run might be overharvested if fishing were to continue un restricted, the commission Keep Medford's ' Economy Rolling said
