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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1963)
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath FalU. Or. Wednesday, August 7, 1963 PAGE S-h f v a x " Woman Plays Financial Sleuth Role In Attempt To Track Deposit Owners SIDE GLANCES NEW YORK (L'PU You'd: who can (ell you thai they don't.lother haven't checked in with her think that people who put money Not always. in the bank would remember it's Marian Niebuhr currently is there But Mrs. John Niebuhr is looking for the owners o $1.23 one of several financial detectivesimillion whq for one reason or an- School Administrators Plan Integration Role TALENT SCOUT? President ial press secretary Pierre Salinger, left, qourmet, piano player and world traveler, now has acted the role of talent scout. Salinger caught the niqht club act of Lulu Porter, right, during President Kennedy's recent West Coast tour. When it came time for the U.S. to select a delegate to the Polish International Song Festival later this month, Salinger suggested Miss Porter for the job. UPI Telephoto JFK Press Secretary Turns Talent Scout In Selecting Poland Entry WASHINGTON' UP1 - Presi dential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, gourmet, piano player and world traveler, now has act ed the role of talent scout. During President Kennedy's West Coast tour earlier this year, Salinger was in a party which caught the night club act of Lulu Porter, an unknown West Coast "pops" singer. After her perfor mance, Miss Porter chatted with Salinger and Miss Fat Newcombe, the late Marilyn Monroe's last press secretary who now works for the U.S. Information Agency. When it came time for the United States to select a dele gate to the Polish International Song Festival to be held in Sopot, Poland, later this month, Salin ger and Miss Newcombe remem bered and suggested Miss Porter (or the job. She flew to Washing ton Tuesday to discuss the job with the State Department. Miss Porter, who was born Marianne Worlford, said today she was "very excited" about the op portunity. As the official U.S. representative, she will receive only her expenses from the State Department although the Polish government will pay her 1,000 zlotys for each performance in Sopot. "I can't take it out of the coun try," she said, but that's only about $40 anyway. The singer, a native of Youngs- town, Ohio, will appear at the particular bank for the last 10 vears. I Maybe, she said, some of them figuure that once their money was n a savings bank, it d just sit there and draw interest. Well, it doesn't. Not indefinitely, Mrs. Niebuhr explained in an interview. Most stales have a law affect- festival Aug. 15-18. At her confer ences with State Department cul- tural affairs officials she will be briefed on what to expect in Po land and what is expected of her. Her appearances until now have mostly been limited to singing in West Coast night clubs and local television stations. She now lives in El Monte, Calif. Department officials said an "unknown" was selected because the department has had trouble in the past with "name" singers who promised to go to the festi val and then backed out. The youthful songstress said "I'm going to do my best over there. I hope I'll make everybody, here and there, happy." BALTIMORE, Md. lUPIl -School administrators, beset by pressures on all fronts, are meet ing here in an attempt to work out neighborhood school integra tion problems to the satisfaction of Negroes and whites. The dozen or so officials from leading Northern and Midwest cities admit, however, they have a long row to hoe. The superintendents expected to conclude a three-day conterence today after meeting with repre sentatives of Negro groups, the federal government and stale ot ficials Jo discuss the practical problems of public school deseg regation. Specifically, the group was con cerned with the problem of de facto segregation where because of neighborhood living or indivi dual choice most students in a Malin To Host Lamb Barbecue All sheen nroduccrs in t h e Klamath Basin are invited to at tend the third annual lamb bar becue to be held this coming Sunday. Aug. 11. at 12 noon at the park in Malin. Arnold Brandt, president of the Klamath Basin Sheep Producers Association, states that the bar becue is free of charge, but pro ducers should bring a service for their Dartv and bring a salad or dessert. Coffee will be fur- ished and pop will be sold by a -H sheep club. insurance company, .in uncollect ed award from a litigation, or; particular school are of one race. This has been a good 'talk' session, said David (J. Salten, superintendent of the New Ro- 'hMo l'V 1 n.iklin cnWI, "We didn't expect to come up Youth Returns with any definite conclusions." he continued, "but the Negroes mut Ppftm 1 ATXK A say, a service deposit with a util ity company. State Can Take Over The regulation means that if within the specified period, and it varies with the states, the money holder hasn't chocked in, the state takes over the holdings, he they small, medium or large. Escheat is the legal term for this process. The American Banking Associa tion said it had no statistics on ing dormant accounts ana nese can oe no, ucrs o. "."Kslhe number of slatcs ttUh 6llth! accounts, payments aue nuin ant . . , n , v York Sta'.e, (or instance, in 1961 revised its legislation, shortening crisis exists in American education. It's difficult to get money, to get good teach ers and the problems of integra tion frequent Iv involve closing down a school for which a com munity has spent millions or di verting other facilities at great cost." Gene Tournour, field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equal ity tCOREi, said "we are sym pathetic to the problems. But what we want these educators to real ize is that you can't think of in tegration without thinking of edu- caion. You cannot speak oF ex cellence in education without in tegrating the schools. BLY Gary D. Biles, son Mr. and Mis. Ralph Biles of Klamath Falls has returned home after receiving his discharge from the Air Force on July 17. Biles, 21, attained the rank of airman first class during his four years of active duly. He s)ent 18 months in Korea and was most recently stationed with the air police squadron in San Antonio, Tex. He is presently visiting at the home of his grandmother. Mrs. June Cummings. He plans to at tend college in Eugene where he will take a course in business administration. the period money may lie dormant without escheat proceedings, frotTij 15 to 10 years. i In New York State, if a sav-i ings bank depositor hasn't had' a ofjpassbonk entry for more than 10 years, for example, the account i is classed as dormant. The bank stops Daving interest and turns the money over to the stale, which doesn't pay interest either, and the holdings belong to the state until the holder, or heirs, reclaim the cash. New York Stale collected $fi million under the abandoned prop erly or escheat law in the year ended June 30. Multiply New Y'ork collections by. the other 49'statcs and (he amount runs high. As sorted financiers to whom I talked declined to hazard a guess as to the total. Auks if ; M Uti I'll L ' IHlWHIA.hf.TltW lU'M.CH. "It's your mother! Get Daddy's slippers and a magazine!" 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