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Lamour in Paramount’s "Road To Rio,” with The Andrews Sisters.
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days of early Califor-
nia . . . land of peril,
plunder and pleasure!
Let’s settle the question
once and for all!
Insects Take Heavy
Toll of Texas Cotton
DALLAS, Tex. (UP). — Insects
have robbed Texas cotton farmers
of $44,000,000 during the ten-year-
period of 1937-47 says Eugene
Butler of the Cotton Committee of
Texas.
Texas cotton farmers, who lead
Mrs. Case, a great-great niece of
Miss Barton, still uses it to roll
out pie crusts and cookies.
but only because they had a good
acre yield and the price was high.
There was less insect damage in
1947 than in many years, enabling
Texas cotton farmers to have the
best season in a quarter of a cen-
tury.
But year in and year out, But-
ler said, insects take every sev-
enth Texas bale, and in 1946—
one of the worst on record in Tex-
as—insects probably took one bale
out of four.
Sunday, April 18, 1948
11:00 a. m.
in the
Morning Services
of the
Grand Avenue
Baptist Church
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A RENDEZVOUS IN A ‘JUKE JOINT’—A scene from Danger-
out Years,” 20th Century-Fox release with William Halop and, Ann
E. Todd, coming to the Plaza theatre Sunday through Tuesday.
WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE COWBOY?
SEE . . .
Who’s Zoo in Syracuse
Is Something Awful
SYRACUSE, N. Y. (UP). —
Mayor Frank J. Costello is con-
cerned over the state of the Syra-
cuse zoo.
“The leopard was bought 20
years ago,” he said, “and at that,
second-hand.
“The puma died in October.
“The baboon is dead.
“The old lion has cataracts.
“The jaguar is the only lively
animal up there, and he bit the
tail off the leopard.
“We have rabbits in the lion’s
den and turtles in another cage.
“Something has to be done.”
—to better advantage by consult-
ing the many offers in the Gaines-
ville Register Ad Section every
week . . . and by advertising for
the things you want.
ROLLING PIN STANDS TEST
WATERVLIET, N. Y. (UP)—A
rolling pin, at least 100 years old
and possibly nearer to 200, is the
prized possession of Mrs. Joseph
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“THE BATTLE OF THE COWBOYS”
Violate Modesty Britain’s Bing
in Feminine Attire is Handsome
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body’s blue suit or blue eyes or
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rounded up two more escorts and
off we went. All during the ball
we girls switched our partners
and the boys never suspected it.”
The white haired, bespectacled
triplets won several baby show
prizes, including a state-wide con-
test held at Boston’s Mechanics
building. They call each other by
their middle names—Faith, Hope
and Charity.
Charity Murphy, all widows, are
hard to tell apart.
Only Legless Persons
Work for This Firm
DALLAS (UP)—Handicapped
persons, the only kind it employs,
are the key to success of a Dal-
las firm which has been in oper-
ation here since 1914.
It is the Hedgecock Artificial
Limb & Brace company. The firm
employs only 12 persons but be-
cause they have met and mas-
tered their own problems, they
are better equipped to help oth-
ers, says Mrs. D. E. Hedgecock,
owner of the firm.
“We don’t employ enybody who
isn’t minus a leg,” she said. “We
think such persons are more in-
terested in their work. Also, we
feel that they have something in
common with the customers.”
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Range Busters
“SCARLET HORSEMAN”
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Oklahoma Plans to
Honor Indian Tribes
OKLAHOMA CITY (UP)—Gov.
Roy J. Turner has proclaimed
next Oct. 14-15 as “Indian Centen-
nial Days in Oklahoma.”
The proclamation was issued in
recognition of the progress of the.
Five Civilized Indian tribes,
whose union was accomplished a
century ago this year.
The Five Civilized Tribes are
the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws,
Chickasaws and Seminoles.
“Six Gun Serenade”
Jimmy Wakeley
Screen Fare
STATE THEATRE
“Road to Rio,” Sunday, Mon-
day and Tuesday.
“The Flame,” Wednesday and
Thursday.
“Always Together,” Friday
and Saturday.
PLAZA THEATRE
“Dangerous Years,” Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday.
“Woman from Tangier,” Wed-
nesday and Thursday.
“Six Gun Law,” Friday and
Saturday.
L.C.DENNIS THEATRES
INDEPEMDENT HOME OWNED THEATRE
‘Road to Rio’ Will Bow
States” Holifield said. “We are
acquainted with refined, cultured
and devout Christian women who
do not hesitate to wear shorts in
public and the modern bathing
suit while on the beach.
Today Is Different
“We also are acquainted with
other Christrian women equally
refined and cultured who refuse
to wear such costumes in public
or anywhere else. But when we
come to the proposition of legal
decency and modesty, we must
reach the conclusion that people
can dress as they please, and wear
anything, so long as they do not
offent public order and decency.
“Seventy-five years ago, we
had a different conception of in-
decency and immodesty from that
which prevails today.
“Athletics are now as common
and necessary for the health of
our women as it is fun for the
health of our men. And this mod-
ern need has created athletic cos-
tumes to meet this need.
“Athletic clothes are not de-
signed for the purpose fo creating
an immodest impression but to
protect the body from overheat
and entangling the limbs in long
skirts and heavy coats, thus pre-
venting sickness and serious acci-
dents, while engaged in competi-
tive exercise.
Eden Cited
“To the vulgar-minded, the lift-
ing of a skirt by a sudden gust of
wind brings thoughts to those
minds that should not be ex-
pressed by a Christian man with-
out a blush of shame.
“In the garden of Eden, Adam
and Eve discovered nothing in the
human body, the master achieve-
ment of our Heavenly Father,
that required a covering of fig
leaves until they turned from
obedience to sin. Sin leads the
mind in channels that are low
and corrupt.
“There is considerable doubt in
our minds as to whether the
courts would or could hold that a
rule of a school bird requiring
the wearing of athletic clothes
constituted an arbitrary ruling on
the grounds of indecency and im-
modesty.”
“Little Tough Guys
in Society”
Edward Everett Horton
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oblique into the song. None of
the clever things like that.
Dennis reported Britain has
only three disc jockey programs.
“Record Roundup” is heard on
Saturdays. On weekday evenings
there’s “Family Favorites” and in
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MEXICO, Mo. (UP) — The
lights are dimming around the
village of Farmer, Mo. No trou-
ble, just Mennonites. A new col-
ony of that sect moved in. They
are disconnecting light service to
the farms they buy. Lamps even
replaced lights in the Farmer
general store, which the Men-
onites bought.
people as much today as they did
when they were walking off with
blue ribbons in baby shows in
horse and buggy days.
Eighty-year-old triplets Mrs.
A REPUBLIC PICTURE
Roy Rogers .. vs .
Is Gene the King? Or is
Hoy? . . . Come, vote for
four favorite!
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America’s number one laugh
highwaymen—Bing Crosby and
Bob Hope — are hitting the road
again, this time the merry, merry
“Road to Rio.” Of course they
have for their co-star and co-
traveler the luscious Dorothy La-
mour, without whom no “Road”
picture would be complete.
The Paramount comedy, due
Sunday at the State theatre, is re-
ported to be the funniest of all the
three stars’ adventures in hilarity.
Bing and Bob will be seen as a
tiPRedwasn stirsurmpeethimn" tion of Xt irmodest and d"
man,” Mrs. Murphy said. After
he recovered from the shock he
opinion exists in the United
and decency in dress,” in the
opinion of Kentucky’s assistant
attorney general, M. B. Holifield.
He contends that school boards
had legal authority to require
girls to wear slacks in gymnasium
classes.
Holifield, 76-year-old lawyer
and locally noted Biblican stu-
dent, differed sharply with a
Henderson, Ky., woman. She had
protested that Henderson school
authorities, in requiring girls to
wear slacks and shorts on the
gymnasium floor, were violating
Biblical commands as well as the
1944 manual of the Church of the
Nazarene.
MARLBORO, Mass. (UP).—.Annie Faith MacDonell, Mrs. El-
Faith, Hope and Charity confuse len Hope Daniels and Mrs. Nora
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“Here’s Denny Dennis now,
singing ‘The Bluest Kind of
Blues.”’ There is no build-up.
There is none of our chit-chat be-
the nation in production, made a
is said to make “Road to Rio” profit out of their labor in 1947,
One Little Second Gets
Pensioner $544 a Year
DETROIT (UP) — One second1
cost Robert J. Gallagher $544 a
year.
Gallagher, 70, a postal employe,
retired at midnight, March 31,
after 44 years of service. One
second later, on April 1, a new.
federal law took effect which
would have given him an addi-
tional $55 annual stipend.
It was no April Fool’s joke to
Gallagher. The law was designed
to help veteran employes to meet
rising living costs, but Gallagher
said he would be unable to live
on less than half his regular sal-
ary.
“Yes, I’m retiring,” he said,
“but now I have to start looking
for another job.”
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school and now that we’re re-
united we’re hardened to folks
staring at us.
“When we were girls a young
man once invited me to a ball. The
next day he met Faith and, mis-
taking her for me, confirmed the
date. Faith accepted. Two days
later he met Charity and went
through the same process.
“The night of the ball,” she re-
called with a smile, “all of us were
busy dressing for our date. We
wouldn’t tell each other the name
of our beau. It was distressing
when he called and all three of us
Ex-Naval Officer
Has Joined the YWCA
RICHMOND, Va. (UP).—Dick
Gibbs has just done something no
other male has ever been able to
do—join the Young Women’s
Christian Association. His entry
was approved by the national
board of the Y. W. C. A.
Dick, en ensign on an aircraft
carrier during the war, dropped
into the Y .W. C. A. here to finish
up some research looking toward
a degree in social work.. He soon
became a favorite with the staff
and members.
So it was suggested that maybe
he would like to stay on with the
Richmond branch as teen-age di-
rector, the first male to crash the
sacred portals for a full-time job.
Now he is recreation leader,
dance coach, juke box attendant,
vocational counsellor, man-of-all-
talents and friend to the young
girls of Richmond.
Dick modestly credits his war
experience.
“You know the slogan, he says.
“The navy is always first.”
jockey programs. Although he
knew in advance that American
radio was commercial, he was
surprised by “all the selling that
goes on” and the ad-lib informal-
ity left him a “bit nervy.” (ner-
vous).
His second day here, Dennis
spent joining two radio and thea-
trical unions. “In Socialist Brit-
ain,” he noted pleasantly, “there
are two theatrical unions but
you don’t have to join. In Amer-
ica, it seems, you do.”
B u t he quickly explained he
didn’t mind in the least, that he
held union cards at home any-
way and probably would have
joined up here voluntarily.
As to the informality of our air
waves, Denny finds this a pleas-
ant change after the government-
owned British radio.
“There is no ad-libbing at
home,” he explained. “Perform-
ers can’t kid each other the way
Benny and Allen or Crosby and
Hope do here. You can’t sing a
song without being introduced by
the announcer and the announcer
must follow a script carefully.”
The British announcer will say
reach riotous proportions.
Lending assistance to the hilari-
ous proceedings are Jerry Colon-
na, in a surprise bit, Frank Fay-
len,' the Wiere Brothers and the
Andrews Sisters. The latter do a
number with Crosby called “You
Don’t Have to Know the Lan-
guage,” which, report has it, is
one of the high spots of the pic-
ture. Other new songs in the
film are “But Beautiful,” “Experi-
ence” and “Apalachicola, Fla.”
All of the music was written by
James Van Heusen and Johnny
Burke.
“Road to Rio” was directed by
Norman Z. McLeod from an origi-
nal story and screen play by Ed-
mund Beloin and Jack Rose.
“Road to Rio” starts Saturday
night at the preview, running
through Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday.
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Friday - Saturday
“Little Tough Guy”
Dead End Kids
"Theonly ime we really had ion on what constitutes modesty
any identity,” Mrs. Daniels said,
“was when we were married. As
children we were frequently pun-
ished for each other’s mischief at
TWINS TEAM UP
PIPESTONE, Minn. (UP)—At-
tendants at commencement exer-
cises in Pipestone high school will
see and hear double when the
valedictory address is given.
James and Thomas Cook, 17-
year-old twins with “A-plus” av-
erages, have been selected as
co-valedictorians. '
the morning, “H o u s e w i f e’s
Choice.”
The disc jockeys are regular
station announcers who take
turns, and there’s no nonsense
permitted — no breaking records
on the air or insulting a perform-
er, or casually talking to the en-
gineer. As to the postwar situa-
tion of British radio and music in
general, Dennis reported.
There are no bobby-soxers as
such—the most a ’teen-aged fan
will do is to ask for an auto-
graph and that’s done politely,
n o tie-snatching, coat-pulling,
screaming, swooning, etc.; female
vocalists are more important
than males and it is rare for a
man singer to have his own radio
spot; popularity of dance music
has fallen off since before the
war; Danny Kaye, who . played
London recently, was “the big-
gest thing to hit British show
business in years”; radio press
agents are scarce; even the most
successful British radio per-
formers rarely, if ever, earn more
than $500 a week.
“I think,” said Denny, “I’ll like
it here.”
LEAFHOPPERS TRACED
BERKELEY, Calif. (UP)—Five
more leafhoppers have been dis-
covered to carry California aster-
yellows virus which attacks cel-
ery, according to Dr. Henry H. P.
Severin, University of California
college of agriculture entomolo-
gist. He said this makes 17 known
leafhopper carriers of the virus,
which also damages lettuce, car-
rots, parsley, parsnips and po-
tatoes.
Truck, tractor, caterpillar
or passenger car—if its ra-
diator is overheating, leak-
ing or injured, we can make
the radiator function prop-
erly. If necessary, we can
replace the core. Have a
specialist shop do your
work.
couple of footloose musicians,
Bing a clarinet - player and Bob
a whiz with the trumpet. For
reasons stemming from Bing’s in-
terest in pretty girls, the two men
are down to their last buck and
are forced to do carnival work.
When they manage to wreck the
place, as only they can, it be-
comes urgent to leave the country
in a hurry.
Without anything to their
names but Bing’s suit and Bob’s
circus tights, they stow away on
board a luxury liner bound for
Rio. They make themselves cozy
in a lifeboat from which- vantage
point they see the lovely Lamour
about to commit suicide. Bing
hops to the rescue in spite of
Bob’s frantic efforts to keep him
from the inevitable disaster he’s
sure Dotty represents.
At this point the plot thickens
with the discovery that the very
rich Dorothy is under the influ-
ence of her wicked guardian, por-
trayed by Gale Sondergaard, who
is determined that the girl will
marry her brother, even if she has
to hypnotize her to get her to go
through with it. Dorothy’s be-
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NEW YORK, “The Bing Crosby
of Britain” is a rather short man
with hair.
Denny Dennis also has a long
face reminiscent of Leslie How-
ard and a conservative taste in
shirts, and at home he’s known
as a “nice noise,” which in Brit-
ish show business means he sings
well.
Rated among his country’s top
three vocalists for the past 10
years, the 34-year-old, five-feet,
eight-inch baritone has come to
the United States to sing with
I Tommy Dorsey band on tour for
the next six months, plus another
six if the man with the trombone
picks up his option.
Dennis and the band leader
had never met but Dorsey
signed him on the basis of his rec-
ords, which have been selling
well in this country, especially
since the Petrillo ban. At home,
Dennis sings on a radio variety
show called “Band Call.”
His first day here the British
singer appeared on three disc
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Viennese Get Homes
But No Bathtubs
VIENNA, Austria (UP) — Of
the 105,000 Viennese tenants who
were bombed out of their apart-
ments, 16,000 have been rein-
stated so far.
To alleviate the housing short-
age, Vienna called for the build-
ing of 2,400 new one and two-
room apartments this year. Ev-
ery apartment will have its own
bathroom but because of short-
ages, bathtubs will not be in-
stalled for the time being.
The cost of an apartment is
estimated at about $3,000, which
includes the bathtub that will be
furnished free of charge at an
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AIR SAFETY RECORD SET
SYDNEY (UP) — Australian
civil aviation has completed two
years of flying without a fatal
accident on any scheduled air-
line service. It was the longest
fatality-free period in Australia’s
air history.
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