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Americans
More, Eating In Home Less
By ELMER C. WALZER
UPI Financial Editor
New York -UPD- Americans
with their well-filled purses
are dining out more and more
and eating home less and less.
Figures just made available
in the current issue of Food
Topics show that sales of eat
ing and drinking places rose
in 1959 by 10 times the rate of
increase for food stores.
The publication found that
while food sales in food stores
failed to keep up with the 1.8
per cent increase in civilian
population in 1959, food sales
in dining-out establishments
far outstripped the population
increase.
Rising Food Costs
"In a rising economy and
with increasing family in
come," says Food Topics, "ex
penditures for food are known
to increase."
Whether this increase will
come to a greater extent in
goods purchased in food stores
for home consumption or in
foods for consumption away
from home is very much the
question.
"It is also open to specu
lation whether, in the years
ahead, those consumers mov
ing up in income will adapt
their tastes to include higher
priced quality foods, or
whether their grown income,
coupled with an increase in
leisure time, will induce
them to eat out more fre
quently.
"In the latter instance, re
tail food stores could very
definitely lose a certain sales
volume to eating and drink
ing establishments."
The food stores didn't do
badly in 1959. They main
tained an unbroken record
for the decade of the 50's in
setting new sales records each
year.
In 1959 they sold $53,660,
000,000 of food. This was a
10-year jump from $33,264,
000,000 in 1950. Grocery
store sales made up 86.7 per
cent of this total and the re
mainder went to specialty
food retailers.
Back in 1950, sales of eat
ing and drinking places total
ed $11,158,000,000. There
was a rise in 1951 and 1952
but a substantial decline came
in 1953. Then came a series
of gains each year to 1959
when the sales amounted to
$15,546,000,000, against $14,
792,000,000 in 1958.
Restaurant Sales Up
Sales of the eating and
drinking places were up 39.3
per cent over 1950 while all
food stores showed an even
greater gain - 52.9 per cent
for the period.
Grocery stores increased
their percentage of business
in non-food items. Their sales
of food rose only half of one
per cent in 1959 but their
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sales of other products gained
more than 11 per cent.
Chain store sales of grocer
ies have shown a steady in
crease. Their share of the
1959 business amounted to
45.3 per cent, according to
Food Topics. In 1958 their
share was 44.5 per cent and
in 1950 it was 38.4 per cent.
It was noted that Americans
have stepped up their buying
of so-called luxury items -exotic
foods which not long
ago were beyond their reach.
"It is precisely such a quali
tative change that is to be ex
pected as incomes rise and
one that is to be desired in
the face of increasing expen
ditures for foods purchased
and consumed at eating and
drinking establishments,"
says Food Topics.
"Retailers during the gold
en sixties are expected to
The Family Council
Editor'! 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 rase history. The Council reports
on problems that have been dealt wi ta by responsible agencies and
counselors.
Stephen L. - She must com
promise. Audrey L. - How far can I
compromise?
Stephen L. -1 am a married
man of 30 trying to help my
sister Audrey, who is 29 and
unmarried. My folks can't do
a thing with her and have
begged me to try to find a
man for her.
Audrey isn't bad looking
and has a nice personality-
when she wants to be nice,
But most of the time she
doesn't put herself out to be
attractive to men. They think
she is on the cold side.
We all know the reason for
this. Audrey is in love with
or thinks she is in love with
one of the top men in her of
fice. This man took her to
lunch a few times, but they
were really more business
dates than anything else. This
thing has been going on for
four years and nothing will
come of it. At her age, Audrey
mus start compromising or
it'll be too late.
Audrey L. - It's probably
too late already, and nobody
knows it better than I do.
Every one of my old friends
both girls and boys-has got
ten married. As you get older,
your chances grow slimmer.
Steve thinks he does a lot
for me when he tries to steer
every unmarried man he
knows my way. Big deal!
What does Steve care if they
happen to be about a foot
shorter than I am, if they look
like a cross between Frank
enstein's monster and some
thing horrible from outer
space? Compromise, says
Steve, but how far is a girl
supposed to compromise?
I have just about given up
hope of ever getting the man
I am in love with. But I can't
help comparing the others to
him. He is handsome, intelli
gent, a real gentleman. Do I
want too much?
The Council: There is a wide
spread misconception that
marriageable women outnum
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help this qualitative change
along through special promo
tions." The $53,660,000 sales of
food at retail in 1959 showed
a gain of 1.5 per cent over
the $52,870,000,000 sales of
1958.
Grocery stores alone had
sales of $46,540,000,000, a rise
of 2.1 per cent over the $45,
580,000,000 total for 1958.
Chain stores increased their
sales of groceries to $21,090,
000,000, a rise of 4 per cent
over the $20,290,000,000 in
1958. Independents had sales
of $25,450,000,000, a rise of
only 0.6 per cent over the
1958 figure of $25,290,000,
000. Specialty food retailers in
1959 had sales of $7,120,000,
000, a decline of 2.3 per cent
from the $7,290,000,000 of
1958.
ber men in the United States.
As a result, the Audreys and
their families get that 29 pan
ic. They think there is some
thing sinister about age 29
and there is no hope beyond
it.
The fact is, according to
official statistics, there are
more single, never - married
men than women in every
age group up to the age of
60. In the years 18 to 45,
there are two million more
single men than women.
The problem is not statis
tics. The problem is that both
men and women who re
main unmarried in their 30's
tend to have personality diffi
culties or fears or hostility
toward the opposite sex.
We'll agree that many mar
ried individuals have the
same quirks-and even to a
worse degree-yet something
or somebody in their back
ground ' propelled them to
ward marriage.
However, those like Aud
rey, whose resistance has re
mained stronger than the fac
tors propelling others toward
marriage, should try to ap
praise their situations more
honestly. Compromise is the
word girls like Audrey hate
to hear. They feel it means
giving up all their high hopes,
lowering their standards. We
would put the matter in dif
ferent terms. We would say,
"Try to grow and change.
You may find a man of even
higher stature than you now
set as an ideal if you give up
some of your rigid and super
ficial ideas about what a mate
should be like. Give a man a
chance to prove his real
worth."
Audrey has used her un
attainable ideal as a shield
against really seeing other
men in an objective light. In
this she is not unlike those
many bachelors who might be
her husband-if not for their
mental blocks.
(Copyright 1960. General
Features Corp.)
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Big Water Freight
Shipment at Salem
Salem -UPD- One of the larg
est water freight shipments
here in many years arrived
Thursday.
The shipment was 151,200
gallons of fuel oil for the Ore
gon Pulp and Paper Division
of Columbia River Paper com
pany. The barge came up the
Willamette river from Port
land.
Hoffa's Attorney
Says Hell Quit
Washington-(UPD-Teamsters
President James R. Hoffa will
go to trial on conflict of in
terest charges next month
without ace attorney Edward
Bennett Williams at his side.
Reliable sources said Thurs
day that Williams, general
counsel of the teamsters, has
advised .Hoffa he would not
represent him at the federal
court hearing scheduled to be
gin Feb. 23.
Hoffa has picked a Detroit
lawyer, James Haggerty, to
defend him at the trial be
fore Federal Judge F. Dick
inson Letts.
Williams, who successfully
defended Hoffa against a
bribe - conspiracy indictment
m 1957, was reported to be
feuding with the tough-talking
union leader.
But that was not the reason
he decided against appearing
in Hoffa's behalf, close asso
ciates said. They said Wil
liams compared himself to the
counsel for a bank who would
not think of representing a
bank president charged with
embezzling the bank's funds.
Court - appointed monitors
have accused Hoffa of trans
ferring $65,000 of funds be
longing to his home local in
Detroit, into bank accounts
bearing no interest.
Most of the money was
switched into an Orlando,
Fla., bank as security for a
loan to a Florida real estate
venture in which Hoffa had
an interest, the monitors con
tended. Flu Epidemic Said
Sweeping Europe v
London -UPD- An influenza
epidemic sweeping across
Europe kept millions of Euro
peans away from jobs and
schools today. Germany,
France, Italy and Switzerland
were hardest hit.
Six deaths were recorded
in Switzerland during the
week ending Jan. 23. In Brit
ain, where the flu has not
reached epidemic proportions,
four nuns in a Roman Cath
olic convent in Liverpool died
two weeks ago in what was
described as an isolated out
break. Thus far, the epidemic has
not reached the severity of
the 1957-58 outbreak. A Bel
gian health official said the
epidemic appeared to be
caused by an Asian-type virus
but of a milder variety than
in 1957-58.
Newspapers reported 300,
000 persons in Paris stricken
with the flu and hospitals
overflowing with patients. It
was estimated that 4 of 100
Frenchmen were ill.
In West Germany, many
cities reported up to 40 per
cent of workers flu-ridden.
Diana Barrymore's Life Full of Episodes,
Questing Vainly for Love, Theater Status
(Editor's note: Unlucky
with men, participant in
scandalous episodes, quest
ting vainly for love and
theater stature as a member
of America's "royal family"
of the stage, the late Diana
Barry more was a tragic
figure. This dispatch tells
of her loves, career, and
downfall.)
By H. D. QUIGG
United Press International
New York - (DPD - The head
lines were sensational. "So,
10 drinks or so later, Diana
shows her, husband the door."
That was in 1953.
"Diana and the cops do that
bit again." That was 1954.
Hubby returned home and
knocked Diana's admirer John
McNeill, 27, unconscious.
And she later charged a date
named Tommy Farrell got
drunk and beat her up in her
apartment.
"Diana felled by sleeping
pills - despondent, emotional
ly upset." That was dateline
Boston, 1955. And all this
was John Barrymore's daugh
ter, being a Barrymore off
stage. Onstage was a different
matter - very un-Barrymore.
She ripped scenery, disre
garded cues, flubbed lines,
cursed fellow actors, found
UNLUCKY AT; LOVE Unlucky at love
was ' Actress- Diana Barrymore, a " daughter
6i - the late John : Barrymore, who ' was
found dead in her apartment in New York
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herself by 1955 practically
blacklisted among producers
and unable to get even a walk
on part.
Diana Barrymore, who at
38 was found dead in her
apartment last Monday, was
an only child, the product of
two "fiery strains" of family
blood. Her mother was the
brilliant and erratic poetess,
novelist, and actress Michael
Strange. Her father was the
renowned - and brilliant and
erratic - "Great Profile" of
the stage.
Mother Had Money
A friend once described
the violent home-and-public
spats of these two as "a tennis
game in hell in which no one
missed the ball." Diana was
born in 1921. Her mother had
money. "Michael Strange"
was the pen name of the di
vorcee Blanche Oelrichs, of
Newport and New York,
whom Barrymore married in
1920. After Barrymore di
vorced her, she married at
torney Harrison Tweed.
Diana wrote in her auto
biography that she had been
a girl "who had everything -name,
breeding, talent, op
portunity after opportunity -and
seems to have done her
best to throw it away." She
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But she followed his esca
pades, and gradually she
seemed to copy his fast way
with liquor. She was sent to
schools for rich girls. Un
disciplined, given to tantrums,
she had been expelled from
16 private schools by the time
she was 16.
At 17, in 1938, she was
"debutante of the year." At
19, she made her Broadway
debut in "The Romantic Dr.
Dickens," and got excellent
personal notices. She had a
number of other Broadway
and stock roles. She went to
Hollywood at 20.
Had Series Of Affairs
Perhaps her professional
failure there and her drinking
contributed equally each to
the other. There began a
series of affairs with men,
police blotter cases, saloon
slugfests, street brawls, ambu
lance calls - and return to the
theater and to late curtains,
arguments, black eyes.
After a year in Hollywood,
in 1942, she married Bram
well Fletcher. She divorced
him four years later and mar
ried tennis player John How
ard, only to divorce him in
six months. Howard was jail
ed later on a morals charge.
Diana married actor John
Monday. Above, Miss Barrymore is shown
with tennis player John Howard, who later
became her second husband. She divorced
Howard six months after the marriage.
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seems to have been her true
married love, although they
fought in public, were locked
out for non-payment of rent,
and were caught stealing food
from a supermarket.
When in 1955 Diana swal
lowed 27 sleeping pills, with
a whisky chaser, Wilcox
found her and rushed her to a
hospital in time to save her
life. He died suddenly a short
time later. She was toe ill to
go to the funeral. In her 1957
autobiography, "Too Much,
Too Soon," she wrote this
dedication:
On Perpetual Binge.
"To Robert, my husband,
who understood."
She had been on a perpetu
al binge of whisky and sleep
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she began pulling herself to
gether - went, finally, to an
institution and broke off both
habits. Then came the come
back try, a hard try, and no
frivolity about her acting
chores.
She toured in summer
stock. She opened in New
York - but off-Broadway -after
10 years and at the off
Broadway salary of $30 a
Week. Right after she got the
part, she started for the sa
loon, and then conquered her
desire and went back home.
The reviews were not so good.
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critical acclaim in a Tennes
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