Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 24

Page 24 JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE THURSDAY, AUG. SI, 1M1 Actor Charles Coburn, 84, Dies After Minor Surgery NEW YORK (AP)-Veteran actor Charles Coburn, whose distinguished face, gruff voice and ready wit were familiar to audiences for more than half a century, is dead at 84. Coburn died of heart failure at Lenox Hill Hospital Wednesday, shortly after undergoing minor throat surgery. He had entered the hospital Monday for a checkup. An energetic man more active than many half his age, Coburn came here after completing a 6- day run only Sunday night in an Indianapolis production of "You Can't Take It With You." The play drew the largest audiences in the Avondale Playhouse's 8- year history.

The stage performance was the last for a man who found his calling, his first success and the great love of his life on the stage. Began in Movies at 60 He began a movie career at the age of 60 and also appeared on radio and television, but he never lost his great devotion to the live theater, and he felt it was the only true training ground for actors. He left a fulltime career on the stage for the screen in 1937, on the death of his first wife, the former Ivah Wills. He had met her in 1905 while playing Orlando to her Rosalind in a touring company's production of "As You Like It." Thereafter, the two became a theatrical love legend. Her death came as a great blow to Coburn, and he did not remarry until 22 years later when, in a Las Vegas ceremony he wed Winifred Jean Clements Natzka, a widow exactly half his age.

She was with him at his death. Coburn's versatility as an actor was as polished as the monocle he wore to combat astigmatism, and the dignity he brought to his craft was as real as his ever- present cigar. Native of Georgia Charles Douville Coburn was born in Macon, on June 19, 1877. He began his career at 14 as a program boy in the famous old Savannah Theater and became the theater's manager three years later. At the age of 19, he came to New York, doing odd jobs to support himself until a Broadway opportunity came along.

In later years, Coburn was most often seen in films as a sporty old gent with a roving eye for the CHARLES COBURN ladies and a tongue fast with quips. In 1943, he won an Academy award for a supporting role in "The More the Merrier." He also received award nominations for roles in "The Devil and Miss Jones" (1941) and "The Green Years" (1946). Handicapped Persons Choix to Sing at Camp WALWORTH The annual camp of the Christian League for the Handicapped is being held this week at Camp Willabay, Williams Bay. All services are open to the public. Highlighting the week will be Friday's service, featuring an all- handicapped persons' choir and a musical program by handicapped persons.

The service starts at 7:30 p.m. Sunday Leon F. Mauer, an educator from Indianapolis, will speak at the open air service at the league farm, starting at 2:30 p.m. The service will be the last in a series this summer. The farm is on the corner of Highway 36 and County Road one mile west of Williams Bay.

DORM SPACE OPEN MADISON Assignment to rooms in the University of Wisconsin's Residence Halls is still possible for a limited number of undergraduate women who wish to attend the university this fall semester, UW housing officials announced. But housing of men in residence halls remains tight with no openings available for the fall semester. Trio Charged in Kidnaping MONROE, N.C. (AP)-Two Negroes and a white youth were charged Wednesday night with kidnaping in the seizure of an elderly white couple during the height of racial tension here last Sunday. A Union County grand jury Monday had indicted Robert F.

Williams, 36, a Monroe Negro, on the capital crime of kidnaping in the same case. Authorities said Wednesday night three members of the Monroe Non-Violent Action Committee also have been charged with naping. They were identified as Richard Crowder, 19, Negro, of Monroe, president of the non-violent group; Harold Reep, 18, also a Monroe Negro, and John Cecil Lowry, 20, a white of the Bronx, N.Y. All three were being held without bond. State, county and city officers raided Crowder's home Wednesday and reported they found a small arsenal of weapons, including at least one automatic rifle.

Police said one rifle was of Soviet origin with a hammer and sickle emblem on its side. Williams, who with his wife and two children hasn't been seen since he was indicted, had boasted that he was accumulating weapons in his home to meet violence with violence. Mr. and Mrs. G.

Bruce Stegall of Marshville were taken from their car by 200 armed Negroes, held hostage for hours and released unharmed. The kidnap charges grew out of this episode. New Superintendent Will Greet Elkhorn Teachers ELKHORN Teachers of the Elkhorn Area School District Will begin the new term with a get- acquainted breakfast at 8 a Friday in the West Side Elementary School here. Greeting the 60 some staff members will be their new superintendent, William F. Paton, who came here July 1 from a supervising principal post at Oostburg, and Gilbert Church, president of the board of education.

Following breakfast, teachers will divide into four groups to continue the in-service program begun last year. Staff members from the University of Wisconsin will serve as consultants in each group as work of the last year is reviewed and new aims are outlined. Friday afternoon teachers will tour four local industrial plants, A. O. Smith, Oak Manufacturing Frank Holton and and the Getzen Co.

Paton said the SUPT. WILLIAM F. PATON tours are designed to familiarize teachers with the community in which they are making their homes. A meeting of the Elkhorn Education Association will be held at West Sida School after the tours. On Tuesday morning, Sept.

3, teachers will assemble in the high school library for a general meeting to be followed by separate meeting of high school and elementary faculties. The latter will provide an opportunity to study handbooks for understanding of regulations and board policies now in effect. The remainder of the lay will be spent in preparing schoolrooms for the arrival of pupils Sept. 6. High school and junior high classes will begin Wednesday, Sept.

6, at 8:10 a.m. and elementary classes a.m. Paton called attention to the fact that changes in district boundaries are requiring extensive changes in school bus routes this year. He said the changes should result in circular routes with fewer deadends, but he asked parents and students to be patient during the transition period. "Students in many cases will be picked up at different times than they were last year and their buses may be approaching from a different direction.

In (some cases there may be different bus drivers," he said. He advised students, "In a few cases two buses will be passing the same point. Should a given bus pass you, please be assured that a second will be along to pick you up. If for some reason you are not picked up, please call the high school principal's office." City school bus routes will be the same as last year with an additional route to stop at the corners of Jackson and Frank streets, Rockwell and Church, Westward and Franklin, Centralia and Devendorf and Walworth and Ridgeway. Paton urged all students to be at bus stops early on the first day of school.

Mercy Hospital Births Sons to: Mrs. Roger Myren, 255 S. Jackson Mrs. John Pollack, 1341 Center. Mrs.

Albert Hunter, 718 S. Fremont St. Daughters to: Mrs. Frederick Fuchs, 308 St. Lawrence Ave.

E. German Claim Draws Rejection WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S. spokesman has rejected a claim by a high East German official to a right to clamp down on Western commercial air flights to West Berlin. Referring to a statement by Otto Winzer, deputy foreign minister of the Communist East German regime, State Department press officer Lincoln White said Wednesday: "We do not recognize the East German deputy foreign minister's comments on the use of air corridors. The Soviets themselves raised this issue with us and that was answered in our note to them of last Saturday." This country does not recognize the East German regime as a legitimate government.

The University of North Carolina is the oldest State University in the U. S. in point of operation. We Would Like to Add Our BEST WISHES AND WELCOME TO THE NEW JANESVILLE NORGE Dry-Cleaning Village thank you for the opportunity of helping through our electrical wiring and installation DOUGLAS ELECTRIC 60s W. COURT ST.

PL 2-1213 Mrs. Wayne Bauer, VXD Liberty. Admitted Mrs. Milton Read, Delavan Robert Fuchs, 2622 Joliet St. Joseph Lechner, 1530 Beloit Ave.

Irwin Clark, Rte. 2, Edgerton. Louis Schafbuch, Elkhorn. Harold Magnussen, 1050 W. Holes St.

Steven Suchanek, 1302 N. Vista. Leanne Krajeck, Rte. 1, Evansville. Steven Loveland, 1408 Craig Ave.

David Truesdill, 1105 Kellogg. Carrie Hudson, Beloit. Miss Lillian O'Grady, Rte. 1. Edward Schindler, Rte.

5. Dismissed Swan Gundberg, Delavan. Mrs. R. J.

Deye, Rock Co. Home. Charles Howard, 802 Blaine Ave. Alan Cowan, Orfordville. Cindy Morgan, Delavan.

Vickie Lynn Lau, Milton. Stephen Carlson, 25 S. Harmony. Rcik Allan Hefty, 917 Thomas St. Stanley Ray Farnsworth, 436 S.

Franklin St. Donald Lostetter, Highway 51. Peter Sweeney, 1109 Beloit Ave. Lester Schumacher, 323 S. Academy St.

Mrs. Milo Smith, 512 S. Walnut. Rober Salmon, 1320 N. Vista Ave.

Mrs. John Urbanowiki, 1700 Barham Ave. 1 Penelope Chamberlain, 503 S. Academy St. Mrs.

James Harris, 611 Oakland, Mrs. William Zcnk, 1720 S. River. James ChrUtopherson, 'Rte. 1, Beloit.

Kurtzweil, 1503 Beloit Mrs. Donald Eckert, 615 S. Main. Philip Robertson, 702 E. Mrs.

Robert Meehan, 508 Holmes St. Mrs. Thomas Dominy and son, 309 S. Academy St. Mrs.

William Sampson and daughter, 1303 W. Court St. Mrs. Eugene Wagner and daughter, 2501 Hyacinth St. Mrs.

Warren Benson and daugfy ter, 606 S. River St. Mrs. Bernard Buggs and daughter, 308 S. Pine St.

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