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CLOWNING Actress Diana Barrymore, uncle, Lionel, left. This is one of the few
who died last week, is shown above in a exisitlng photographs showing ihe three to-
1942 photograph clowning with her famous gether.
father, John Barrymore, and her well-known (UPI Telephoto)
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SCHOOL NEW:
Medford High School
Edited by Jim Frak.
Staff: Rosemary Eismar.n,
Diane Mohr, Jim McCcr
mack, Rita McBeth, Suty
Rule, Edonna Pace. Ann
MacManama and E-ther
Jacobs.
Student Government day
for 1960 will be held Feb. 24
and 25 for all city and county
high school seniors.
The program is sponsored
by the Elks lodge of Medford.
The city officials, a mayor,
seven councilmen, and the ap
pointed officers, will come
from Medford high. One coun
eilman will be from St,
Mary a High school.
A steering committee will
be formed with one student
from each of 13 MHS Ameri
can problems classes. They
will decide on election dates,
qualifications for candidates,
and regulations for campaign
ing.
A banquet is being planned
for that Wednesday night
with Thomas Vaughn, direc-
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JIM METZ
1310 Ridgaway
Medford, Oregon
Phone: SPring 2-4294
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f tor of the Oregon Historical
society, speaking.
On Thursday, the city offi
cials will meet in the city hall
with the people they repre
sent. A tour of the city and
county is planned for the af
ternoon.
To conclude the day, there
will be a regular council
meeting in the official cham
bers.
Doug Kliever and Dean
Goddard, seniors, left early
Wednesday to participate in
the Gonzaga university foren
sic tournament Jan. 28-30.
At Gonzaga, in Spokane,
Wash., they .competed in
debate, extemporaneous and
impromptu speaking, inter
pretative reading and oratory.
Dean and Doug were the
only , representatives from
Medford High. They traveled
by bus.
Delegates to the Interna
tional Relations league con
ference, to be held in Eugene
Feb. 26, 27 and 28, were an
nounced last week.
Jim Frake, junior, was
chosen as. a discussion group
leader, and Jerilyn Smith,
senior, way chosen as a group
secretary. Therese Inglin and
Reinhart Kostlin, foreign ex
change students, are also dele
gates.
Others are Nancy Becken,
Molly Barker, Marcia Wil
liams, Diane Lewis, Joel
Gregory, and John Alansky.
Carolyn Mencke, local IRL
president and state secretary
will also attend.
"The changing role of mili
tary alliances in the United
States foreign policy since
World War II" i the general
topic for the meeting. Each
delegate will be on a panel
in order to discuss further as
pects of foreign policy.
The group will travel to
Eugene by charter bus for the
week end. Housing will be
provided on the caimpus by
the University of Oregon, to
give students a better chance
to become acquainted with
the university and other dele
gates. Rita McBeth, senior,-, Marty
Wyatt and Mary Frohrunayer,
juniors; and Carl Washburn,
sophomore, have been select
ed as alternates from Med
ford. Delegates from Grants Pass
High school will accompany
the MHS students to the .state
convention.
A new teen-age panel and
dance program is being
planned by KBES-TV for
Medford High students on Fri
day nights from 5 to 5:30.
Bob Hamilton, ASB presi
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dent, called for a discussion
of the plan at a recent student
council meeting. The council
accepted the idea, suggesting
they be responsible for pro
viding panel members and
other people for activities.
The art department is be
ginning to enter its best
works in both local and state
competition.
The annual scholastic art
award competition, which
measures the quality of high
school art, is being held re
gionally in Portland Feb.
13-27.
Twenty-seven pieces of art,
including oils, water colors,
pencil drawings, mixed me
dium, block prints, posters,
illustrations, and sculptures
have been entered by MHS to
be judged with art from other
Oregon high schools.
The winners of the regional
contests are then judged in
national competition. MHS
has had a national winner an
nually for six years prior to
last year.
Students entered are Ursu
la Bates, Stephanie Ball, San
dra Boese, Janice Butts, Dick
Day, Susan Ellis, Stan Hobbs,
Terry Ryan, Penny Sampert,
Jeri Smith and Vance Welty.
Another competition which
two art students are entering
is the National Maritime com
mission poster contest.
Dick Day and Terry Ryan
have a chance to win a $500
art scholarship if they paint
the best poster promoting
public interest and under
standing in America's mer
chant fleet.
A local exhibit many stu
dents entered was the Ameri
can Association of University
Women show held at the Med
ford hotel.
Warren Wolf, art instruc
tor, expressed the hope that,
through the art exhibits, com
munity interest in art projects
would be developed.
All high school students in
the United States are eligible
to enter the annual high
school contest based on the
United Nations, according to
a recently received bulletin.
The contest consists of tak
ing a test on the UN. The test
will be given March 3 under
the direction of Jo Anne
Smith, social studies depart
ment head.
The three best tests from
MHS will be submitted to the
national committee. More in
formation about the test and
material for study can be ob
tained from Mrs. Smith.
The first prize is a four
week trip to Europe, or $500;
and the second prize is a trip
G3333
Diana BarrymoreY Apartment Was Full
Of Pictures of Her Father Actor, John
Editor's note: The wild
and tragie career of Diana
Barrymore has ended in
death at the age of 38. This
dispatch tells of her fight
to live up to ihe name of
the theater's "royal family"
-and her family's comments
about her life.
By H. D. QUIGG
United Press International
New York-flJPD-Diana Bar
rymore had a way of denying
that her soul was tormented
by failure to measure up con
sistently to the stature of one
of the stage's most famous
names.
"The fact that I came from
a long line of Barrymores
isn't going to make me feel
that I must always keep striv
ing to live up to their accom
plishments," she said.
Highway Littered
By Ocean Waves
Rockaway (UPD Waves
broke over Highway 101
about a mile south of here
Sunday, leaving water and
debris on the highway.
Water undermined the rail
way tracks running parallel
to the highway on the ocean
side.
Rocks and boulders were
strewn along the highway.
The highway was not closed
to through traffic but vehicles
had to proceed with caution.
Meanwhile, the town of Ne
halem was mopping up after a
high tide late Friday. The tide
and strong winds confined the
normal runoff of the Neha
lem river to flood several
business establishments. The
water remained at crest about
an hour.
to Mexico, or $200. Other
prizes will be awarded.
Deadline for the office to
mail the senior diploma list is
Feb. 1. The list was posted
for corrections, and these are
to be made before 10 a.m.
Monday.
o
ver
And yet, set alone on a
prefatory page of her auto
biography, is a quotation
from the preface of the Tem
ple edition of Hamlet: . .
Shakespeare sought to depict
a great deed laid upon a soul
unequal to the performance
of it."
Investigators who thronged
her apartment after she was
found dead in her bed last
Iron Fireman
Official Killed
Portland-TOPD-Frank S. He
cox, 61, vice president and
treasurer of Iron Fireman
Manufacturing Company of
Portland, was killed Sunday
in a two-car collision about'
two miles west of Multnomah
Falls on Hghway 30.
Five other persons were in
jured. Multnomah county police
said Hecox' car was involved
in a collision with one driven
by Robert Teufel, 42, Beaver
ton. Teufel, his wife, Marjorie,
41; a son, Robert, 17; and
daughters, Alice 16, and
Helen 12, were taken to
Gresham general hospital'.
Their conditions were re
ported satisfactory.
Indonesia Demands
Death for Floridan
Jakarta, Indonesia-OJPB-The
prosecution demanded the
death sentence today for Al
len L. Pope, of Homestead,
Fla., who is being tried on
charges ,of flying bombing
missions for the Indonesian
rebels.
The demand was presented
to the court martial trying the
34-year-old soldier of fortune
at its 12th session. .
Pope was captured May 18,
1958, when his twin-engined
B-26 bomber was shot down
by Indonesian anti-aircraft
guns. The trial began on Dec.
28.
New Bell System Operating Unit comes to Pacific Northwest
PACIFIC TELEPHONE-NORTHWEST
born to better serve J:he growing needs of
a growing land
the years we've learned that "community of interest" has a special
meaning where good telephone service is concerned. That's why so
many geographically unified areas
telephone companies within the Bell System. These locally managed,
separate companies, we've found, not only better understand their communities
and customers, but can be more flexible to their needs. They participate in com
munity affairs more helpfully, and enjoy closer relations with employees.
We've all watched the rapid growth of Washington, Oregon and Northern
Idaho. As they have grown, and as their horizons expand, the job of keeping
telephone service in step has pointed clearly to a separate telephone organization.
The time has come. Pacific Telephone-Northwest is a reality; an independent
operating unit of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company ; with its own press
dent and a management staff whose concern will be the Pacific Northwest and
its need.
SLW MANAGEMENT
Bi E. Bowling, Vice President fvd
General Manager for Wasoingto
and Idaho.
Monday found it crowded
with pictures of her father,
John Barrymore, acclaimed
the greatest actor of his time
with Hamlet his crowning
achievement.
And there were pictures of
her renowned aunt and uncle,
Ethel and Lionel Barrymore,
and memento of the other
acting Barrymores and Drews
who had given her a heritage
of four generations of theo
ter greatness in America and
England.
Baby Treated
It was Dolores Costello
Barrymore, D ia n a ' s step
mother, who said on Liana's
death that "she was badly
treated all her life."
Diana's half-sister, Dolores
Barrymore Bedell, comment
ed this week in California:
"I think it's time someone
said something good about
Diana. Only my mother (Do-
Hubbard Youngster
Rescued From Rock
Depoe Bay (UPD Rickie
Grim, 11, Hubbard, was res
cued from a rock in the Pa
cific ocean adjacent to Fog
arty Creek state park Sunday
afternoon by Coast Guards
men. '
The youngster became trap
ped on the rock after making
his way to it just as the tide
was coming in. Moments after
he was on the rock, water
completely circled it.
Clifford Moodry, a Coast
Guardsman from Oregon City,
made his way through shoul
der high water to the youth.
They stayed on the rock for
3V& hours until the tide was
low enough to enable tlvn.
to get back to dry land safely.
SPUTNIK STILL ORBITING
Moscow - (UPD - Russia's
Sputnik III completed its 9,
000th orbit around the world
Sunday night, Tass reported.
The satellite, launched 627
days ago, has traveled more
than 244 million miles, ac
cording to Tass.
of the country have their own
TEAM FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST'S OWN TELEPHONE ORGANIZATION
Wafcer W. Straley, President, Pacific
Telephone-Northwest, and Director
of Pacific Tetepbeac
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lores Costello Barrymore) and
I ever had anything good to
say about her. Mother said
you can sum up the story of
Diana's life in two words:
'Nobody cared.' Oh, she came
to us all right, but it was too
late. She didn't come to us
as a child but as a beaten
woman. 'Nobody cared'
should have been the title of
her book.
The incomparable Aunt
Ethel once told Diana: "Nev
er, never, never stop trying
to improve yourself. Any role
can be bettered. Do it."
Once, Diana took this ad
vice lightly-and drank and
caroused herself right out of
the movie and off the stage.
But some four years before
her death, she was studying
and working. And when on
the comeback trail she opened
in "The Ivory Branch" off
Broadway, Brooks Atkinson
of the New York Times wrote
of her:
". . . Any time she wants
to stop fooling around and
learn the difference between
acting and performing, she
can be an exciting actress.
The stuff is there."
Trying Hard
A year after that, Diana
ended her autobiography
with these words: "I. promise.
You'll see. You will indeed,
Mr. Atkinson! Perhaps I have
begun to find my way."
Perhaps she had. Some crit
ics said that for the first time
in her life she was trying
hard to become an actress.
Her last time out, she rang
the bell. That was in Chi
cago. On her previous ap
pearance there, in 1954, a crit
ic wrote she was "coarse and
strident enough to make ev
eryone who loves the theater
wish she were named some
thing else."
But last spring when she
appeared there - a changed
woman - in Tennessee Wil
liams' "The Garden District,"
critic Sidney J. Karris wrote
it was "the restoration of a
great name to the American
tneater."
However, recently she had
Pacific Telephone-Northwest will be staffed, equipped, and operated within the
Bell System as a separate company as far as practicable. Most work now done for
this region at Pacific Telephone in San Francisco will be transferred gradually
to the Pacific Northwest. Walter Straley, President of the new unit, with head
quarters at Seattle, will also maintain an ofoce in Portland.
Key members of the Pacific Northwest management team will be Ben E. Bowl
ing, Vice President and General Manager for Washington-Idaho; and Francis
M. Mitchetl, Vice President and General Manager for Oregon. Each has had
more than thirty years of Bell Telephone service in his area. They wiM work
closely with Walter Straley m initiating policy and making decisions based upon
first-hand familiarity with local situations. This is another forward step to make
your telephone a more useful servant, and the company that brings it to you a
nore helpfal member of tmr Pacific Northwest community.
if
Prxncin M. MitcHefl, Tice President
and General Manage
for Oregon,
been Idle, had become de
pressed, and had been drink
ing again, although she had
been warned this would kill
her.
There now are three mem
bers of the family left who
have Barrymore as their last
name. In an effort to shed
some of the burden of his
name, Diana's half-brother,
John Barrymore Jr., changed
it to John Drew Barrymore.
His son is John Blyth Barry
more Jr., and his mother is
Dolores Costello Barrymore.
Left Diana's Mother
John Barrymore, the
"Great Lover," who died at
60 of diseases connected with
imbibing, left Diana's mother,
poetess Michael Strange, two
years after the, only child's
birth. He wasn't around Diana
much after that. And her
mother had a busy career.
John's divorce came
through in 1928.
In 1935, he got into the bi-
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zarre "Caliban and Ariel"
pursuit of him across country
by his young protege, Elaine
Barrie. They were married in
1936 and toured in a play,
with much comic by-play.
When the play stopped in
Chicago, Diana had a brief
reunion with the father she
idojized-a brief meeting, with
press photographers. Later,
when she moved to Holly
wood for the movies, she saw
him more frequently.
Diana was about to get an
other chance to prove her
comeback. Her manager tele
phoned her apartment to tell
her the good news-she had
been offered a road company
starring role in "A Streetcar
Named Desire." A maid took
the news to the bedroom. The
offer was too late. Diana Bar
rymore was dead.
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