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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
ood Carver Dusts Off Walnut Piece For His Neighbor
By EWAN McNAUGHTON
United Praia International
London - IUPD - The wood
carver beamed when he heard
that his "neighbor," Princess
Alexandra, was engaged.
He delved into the dark re
cesses of his workshop and
lovingly pulled out a perfect
piece of walnut. With gnarled
hands he smoothed away the
dust until the surtace shown.
Then he sat down to Jhink
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KILLED - Grace Mary Hud
gens, 20, top, has been found
shot to death along with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Myron
Young, near Kingman, Ariz.
Police arrested her husband,
Raymond J. Hudgcns, at Sher
man Oaks, Calif., after a note
was found in Van Nuys,
Calif., in which he admitted
the triple killings. (UPI)
how his skill might turn the
block into a wedding present.
Twenty years ago, when
Princess Alexandra was tug
ging at her mother's skirts,
and her father, the Duke of
Kent, had been dead a year,
a massive walnut tree was
blown down in the grounds of
Windsor Castle. The woodman
cut himself an enormous
chunk and hid it away.
When Queen Elizabeth mar
ried, he gave his wedding
present: a walnut fruit bowl.
Princess Margaret received
walnut egg cups. The Duke of
Kent, Alexandra's brother,
was given a walnut breakfast
set. There remained one last
piece. Carver Pelham Dean
wrapped it in sackcloth and
stored it. He waited anxiously
for the news. Twenty years is
not long to a man who
watches trees grow.
Coming Out Ball
Eight years ago, his "neigh
bor" had her coming out ball
and Carver Dean soon began
to see young men paying her
calls. Among the many who
called at her home, Coppins,
there was Angus Ogilvy, the
young Scott from a castle In
the highlands.
Quiet but not dour, Angus
Ogilvy, the second son of the
Earl of Airlle, stayed in the
background while the young
princess waltzed from partner
to partner through the years.
Her name was linked with
Irishmen, Englishmen, Ger
mans, Danes, Greeks and
others.
He courted her where they
had privacy in his own
Scotland. There the princess
was able to let her hair down.
She could be happy with An
gus because he was correct.
He had been to Eton and
Oxford, his family was noble
with a lineage as exciting and
romantic as a Sir Walter Scott
novel. One of his ancestors
was sentenced to death in
1644 for rebellion and escaped
in his sister's clothes the night
before his execution.
And his family had close
royal links. His grandmother,
who died recently and who
published the best selling
"Thatched with Gold," was a
lady in - waiting to Queen
Mary. His father, the Earl of
Airlie, is Lord Chamberlain
to the present Queen Mother.
In September this year An
gus stayed at Balmoral in the
Queen's house-party. He and
Alexandra walked long Into
the afternoons across the
Moors and dropped into the
Queen Mother's house, Birk
hall, for tea. She took a fond
interest in the budding ro
mance, for his father had
been a suitor when she was a
girl living at Glamis Castle
and he at Cortachy Castle, a
few miles away.
Both Art Poor
Both families are poor by
some standards. Alexandra
was left a little money in
trust by Queen Mary and An
gus has earned what he has by
working in the city as an of
ficial of 50 companies ranging
from mining firms to Wemb
ley Sports stadium.
As Alexandra has so many
royal commitments and her
husband-to-be needs to live in
town, it is possible they will
be given 10 Kensington Pal
ace by the Queen when Prin
cess Margaret and Lord Snow
don move out in the new year
to 11A.
Both are protestants, so the
wedding is almost certain to
be in Westminster Abbey,
with the Duke of Kent flying
home from Hong Kong, where
he is on regimental tour, to
give his sister away, and
Princess Anne as chief bridesmaid.
There will be some glum
faces in many countries now
that Alexandra has made up
her mind. Her suitors have
been as numerous as they
have been nationally varied.
Her boy friends have been:
Princes Otto and Karl of
Hesse, Prince Michael of
Greece, Prince Max of Baden,
Crown Prince Harald of Nor
way, Prince Kraft of Hohen-lohe-Langenburg,
the Marquis
of Hamilton, Lord O'Neill, the
Duke of Atholl, Viscount
Lumley, Lord Patrick Beres
ford, Lord Farnham, the Earl
of Clarendon and Mr. David
Bailey.
Oldtime Dinner Call
Replaces Fire Alarm
East St. Louis, 111. - H'PD -Firemen
used a durable ket
tle lid and metal ladle as a
temporary substitute for the
automatic alarm system.
An electrical malfunction
knocked out the system.
While repairmen searched for
the trouble, assistant fire
chief Charles Cadell borrow
ed the utensils from the de
partment's kitchen.
When the dispatcher re
ceived a call reporting a fire,
he turned on the intercom
system and rapped the lid
sharply with the ladle.
It worked. The banging at
tracted the attention of all
stations.
Lions Club Praises Hiway Work Crew
Prospect The Lions club
of Prospect has sent a letter
to the Oregon state highway
commission praising the high
way crew in the area for their
work on Highways 62 and
230 in the Prospect area.
In the letter, signed by
HONEST JOHN
Middlesbrough, England -WPIi
- John McWilliams, 51,
pleaded guilty Monday to
stealing a bicycle, even though
police said none was reported
missing. The judge said he be
lieved McWilliams' story,
praised his honesty, and sen
tenced him to a month in jail.
cu-man Drtyilo nrpeiripnt. tha
club praised Clyde White and
'hi crew. It states that the
highway is sanded on frosty
mornings before dawn, and
ploughed and sanded after
snow.
It also notes that the clear
ing of the shoulders of the
highway has made for better
visibility.
The letter concludes "dur
ing the Oct. 12th storm, Mr.
White and his crew risked
their lives clearing the high
way of dozens of fallen trees
so that traffic could get home.
They then worked far into the
night and the next day mak
ing the highway safe."
TALLY-HO
Oxford, England-fllPII-Cyril
Brown, 74, said Tuesday he
has won his battle with lo
cal fox hunters who wanted
to ban his grandson from their
forays because they thought
the 8-year-old boy might fail
to shut farm gates behind him.
The hunters relented after
Brown banned them from
chasing foxes over his 500
acre farm unless his grand
son, John Lund, went along.
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc.
TV-RsJio Buiineii Ntwi Superficial, Woefully Inadequate
In the early hours of last Saturday morning, (he seven
metropolitan newspapers of New York City were struck and
hut down.
As a reporter. I therefore spent many hours Saturday
and Sunday listening to radio and watching TV news broad
casts. While the difference between the way these mediums I
and newspapers report news often has been emphasized, I i
have never heard the contrast explained from the viewpoint i
of a reporter on and reader of business news. In this sphere, j
the gaps in TV-radio coverage are almost as complete as In
the spheres of obituaries, marriages, classified and store ads
- ordinarily mentioned as among the "most missed items" 1
when newspapers disappear.
TV and radio do try to broadcast the highlights in the
financial-economics field but they pick out only the most .
obvious and simplest highlights. Frequently, these are not
nearly as important as the less obvious items.
These mediums do attempt now and then to tell whal a
.business slory menus and why it means what it means. But
their broadcasters are brutally limited by time deadlines, by j
fear that listeners might not be interested, by eagerness to
devote their few minutes to stories of "mass appeal," by
their own knowledge. A general news reporter simply can
not explain a complicated financial event on the air in a
minute or two.
TV and radio do bring spot newt to ut on the spot,
but at every one knows you have to be where a TV or
radio let ii turned on at the time of broadcast or
you've missed it. At three dilferent times Sunday, I
had the frustrating experience of mining a report I
particularly wanted to hear because I couldn't stay
tuck to a TV or radio set.
To confirm my reactions on this. I phoned several New
York City editors Sunday, asked what would have appear
ed in their financial sections had the papers been printed.
My conversation with one financial editor dramatizes my
point.
"We had scheduled a half-dozen stories on what's behind
the recent stuck market rise," he said. "We had good stuff
on the activities of mutual funds, hanks which invest pension
funds, mnrket professionals and technicians."
Notei The stories would have told you that financial In
stitutions have stepped up tlielr buying of stocks and the
cumulative Impact could be substantial. However, the almost
perpendicular rise in stock prices since October is making
many pros cautious again. Corporation earnings aren't climb
ing fast enough now to support another wild market upsurge.
"We had an excellent interpretative story on the factors
behind the increasing deficit In the U. S. balance of pay
ments." Note: The deficit In our balance of payments is growing
once more because we still are spending far more abroad
than we are earning abroad. As a result, foreigners are build
ing their claims against us to enormous totals, our gold re
serve Is shrinking. To protect the V. S. dollar, the bankers of
the free world are cooperating on an unprecedented scale,
adopting never-before-tried techniques. Can you imagine a
TV or radio broadcaster explaining this tale In a minute or
two? Fat chance.
"We had our usual review of the past week and it in
cluded several events of major significance Of course we
had all the stock and bond quotations of the week, high
price, low and close."
Notei Several developments certainly were significant.
For instance, our unemployment rate went up to 5 8 per
cent, another warning that our economy's growth is not fast
enough to slash our Jobless rate. At the Internal Revenue
Service's hearings on the new expense account rules, the
I R S. indicated it would backtrack on some of the toughest
rules because of our barrage of prnliuls. Britain's struggle
to get into the European Common Market on mutually ac
ceptable terms reached a new stage, an event of fundamental
importance to the entire free world These are Just a few
samples ....
In the economies sphere. TV-radio news today is super
ficial, woefully inadequate. It will remain so until the ' why"
and the "what it means" are lold along with the "what'' and
"when." How much I learned from TV-radio this past week
end about subjects of the most vital bread-and-butter interest
to all of us was not a complete goose-egg. but it came awful
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