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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1954)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE THIS HEART'S DESIRE LILY, six feet tall, It growing in the garden of Mrs. George Mast, 3631 Homedale Road. Mrs. Mast is shown examining the multiple blossoms. Former Movie Star Makes Comeback In Television By HUBBARD KEAVY (Fur Bob Thomas) . HOLLYWOOD W) If the name of a movie player is dropped from the Motion Picture Almanac, as it always is when the person is in active for a year, he's usually had it. As a rule, it means he's through. Mary Brian's name was dropped years and years ago and except for two marriages and one divorce, she has not made news. But she Is a candidate today for any tele vision guide because she has come out of quiet retirement to play the mother of Corliss Archer in a 39 installment TV series. Texas-born Mary was 20 and pretty when she was tapped for the role of Wendy in the 1928 version of "Peter Pan." A matured beauty today, 26 years later, she thinks that the movies treated her very well and she has no regrets. In nearly 50 films she was the fcweet little girl who spurred Buddy Rogers, Jack Oakie and other lead ing men of that era on to more touchdowns for dear old Paramount. Woodworkers Picket Ship 1 ANACORTES, Wash. Wi Picket lines were set up on a "round-the-clock'" basis at the Port of Ana .cortes Tuesday by striking CIO Woodworkers seeking to prevent longshore workers from loading pulp aboard the freighter Horace Luckenbach. Ray Stover, president of District 2375 CIO Woodworkers, said four or five pickets were in the line Tuesday night and more will be called from the . union district which Includes Skagit County and .northern Snohomish County. Stover 'added he was acting on orders from union headquarters in Seat tle. Lloyd Foster, Port of Anacortcs .manager, said the port plans to ,seelc a restraining order. The Luckenbach arrived here 'Tuesday from Everett to load 1, 00O tons of pulp for the East Coast. Movie Opinion Vote Close: One J LUMBEBTON, N. C. W) The (City Council called for a public (opinion poll on the question of Sun 'day movies for guidance in pass jing an ordinance. tie suns 01 yesterday s pon showed 679 in favor and 678 flgRinst. Auto Insurance rates were re duced at Hans Norland's without reducing the quality of the cov erage, 627 Pine 'St. What happened when, alter 10 years of stardom at a single studio, she got the word that she was through? "Well, not much,' says Mary. "It was kind of a wrench to be told Paramount didn't want me like being told to leave home. I worked at several other studios and later returned to my old home lot for a couple of pictures. So, you see, nobody was mad at any body." After a few stage plays, she retired for her first marriage, to Jon Whitcomb, a magazine illus trator. The marriage lasted three months. Mary went to Reno. She never discussed that short-lived event with her friends. They don't know what happened. In 1947, Mary married George Tomasini. a film editor, and they live quietly in the San Fernando Valley. Mary saved a good slice of her film income. "I never threw money away," she admits. And indeed she didn't, she drove Inexpensive cars, lived in quiet homes and never even yearned for a swimming pool. In retirement; Mary resumed painting, a pastime of her busier days. Friends say her work has a professional quality. She special izes in portraits, but refuses to sell or give away a single work. And so has a whole houseful of paintings. When Mary made a brief TV appearance, it gave an alert egent the idea of casting Mary as Cor liss mother. Would she like it? Mary said she would if the part was interesting. When she was called for tests, she asked whai she was supposed to wear. "What ever you wear around the house," she was told. "But the director didn't know that around the house I wear shorts and pedal pushers," Maryj says. "I had to rush out and buy ; what I am told are house dresses. ' Well, not exactly house dresses, ; but some nicely tailored things.. I'm sure Mrs. Archer will never j be caught in shorts." 1 Solon Backs McCarthy Censure Vote WASHINGTON W Sen. Fland ers (R-Vn said Wednesday "sen mors can't claim neutrality" on his resolution proposing a formal vote of censure against Sen. Mc Carthy IR-Wisi. Flanders told newsmen he is de termined to press his resolution to Its promised vote on Friday. He said he will contend then that anv senator absent from the roll call vote without good reason will have "voted to dodge" the issue. He said senators lit effect "have to vote 'yes,' 'no1 or 'dodge-it',' on the resolution. Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate ReDublican loader, has promised that Flanders can have a vote on the issue Friday, pos sibly in the form of a motion by Knowland to kill the resolution. Such a motion is not debatable. Flanders said he hopes, how ever, to get time to make a speech to "pinpoint some of the reasons he thinks the Senate should de clare that McCarthy has been guilty of conduct unbecoming a senator as chairman oi the Senate investigations subcommittee. Flanders said he has "assur ances from the Democratic side" that Democrats won't use the is sue as an excuse for a long de bate to prolong this session of Congress. He said he expects Knowland will let the resolution come up Friday as scheduled, and "I expect a vote on it the same day." Sen. Capehart (R-Ind) has an nounced he may offer an amend ment proposing that the Senate also censure Flanders for unbe coming conduct in his attacks on McCarthy. Flanders said he has heard about that "and I will ask that Sen. Capehart's amendment be rejected." There was no further comment from McCarthy, who says he at tributes Flanders' blasts at him to "senility." Roseburg Mills Resume Work ROSEBURG liD AFL Lumber and Sawmill workers employed at two wood products plants returned to work here Tuesday. A tentative agreement which ended the work stoppnge was not related to cur rent Pacific Northwest lumber ne gotiations. The two firms, Western Battery Separator Co. and Western Handle Co. which employ 128 persons and the union did not reveal terms. However, it was learned that the Xinal settlement would be based on negotiations in the battery and handle Industries rather than the lumber industry. Both plants were struck June 21. TRADE GENEVA, Switzerland Wi The Swiss government said Wednesday that trade relations between Swit zerland and the United States are in danger of being shaken to their foundations as a result of Presi dent Elsenhower's increase in the tariff on foreign-made watches. Tape Recorder FOR RENT LEO'S CAMERA SHOP 836 MAIN I cane ff$ Jsugar pjV WITH &tt :"f:f Sit 1 VVv-iV Lj GUEST SPEAKER at a recent Rotary Club luncheon wai Wil lard D. Campbell (center), supreme governor of the Moose. Shown with him are Al Nyback, chairman of the day, and Loren Palmerton, Rotary Club president. French Nurse Entertained WASHINGTON Wl The party was .gay and the "angel" had a fine time. But she didn't dance. Miss Genevieve de Galard-Ter-raube explained she just couldn't. The dismal battle of Dien Bien Phu.was too close. Miss de Galard Is the 29-year-old French nurse acclaimed as the "angel of Dlen Bien Phu" for her heroic work in the dying days of the brave Vietnamese fortress be fore it fell to the Communists of Indochina. Many of the men she nursed in 41 days cut off by war from the outside world still are prisoners of the Reds. Miss de Galard stayed at Dien Bien Phu after the plane on which she had flown to evacu ate the wounded was unable to take off again. Later the Reds lreed her. , She's in this country now for a 19-day visit at the invitation of Congress. She had a couple of tele vision dates Wednesday morning and some other official engage ments In the capital, which wel comed her warmly Tuesday. . The affair Tuesday night was the gayest she has attended in the weeks since her release from Dien Bleu Phu. It was a buffet dance at Andrews Air Force Base for cadets from 22 countries here In the Civil Air Patrol's international student exchange program. Cake Blamed For Typhoid Death LOS ANGELES Wl A rice cake served at a wedding reception was under suspicion Wednesday as all city health department inspectors sought 200 guests who may have been exposed to typhoid fever. An 11-year-old boy, Tim Nahm died of the disease at general hos pital, and seven other guests were admitted as typhoid cases. Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer, issued an emergency ap peal Tuesday to the other guests to see their doctors or his office Immediately. Dr. Uhl said a rice cake served at the reception is suspected of having contained the organism which may have come from a ty phoid carrier who handled or pre' pared the food. The reception at the West Adams Presbyterian Church June 26 fol lowed the wedding of Herbert and Diana Kang of suburban Whittier. BREAKOUT ROME I Officials of Rome's Reglna Coell Jail revealed Wednes day that 40 prisoners had attempt ed a mass breakout Monday and ricted for several hours. A total of 10 guards and prisoners were wounded before the riot was put down. Jury Indicts Mother For Child's Death SITKA, Alaska lin A coroner's Inquest Tuesday Indicted Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson on a ma n slaughter charge In connection with the death of her daughter, Jo Ann Lawson, 6. The Jury found the little girl died "of a perforated intestine due to blows being administered to her body." One witness, Mrs. Azzie Sava gen, chief nurse at Mt. 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