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THE SANDUSKY REGISTER-STAR-NEWS Saturday, May 9, 1953 FOLKS AND FACTS HARRY STACK MOtHER'S DAY A good mother is a true symbol of unselfish love and devotiori, and of Ideals and aspirations for her child or children. Whatever suffering or sacrifice she may endure on their behalf never lessens her affection for them. It onfe of the sad facts of life, however, that a good mother, is often taken for granted, and that the thpUsand-and-one things she does because of her mother-love often go unappreciated until after she is 'gone. And then it is too late. All rood children, be they nllnors or adults, are glad attleast one special day in the year for private and publiQ recoiniition of a good mother's value.

They join with others in the opinion that tribute to her should not be limited to merely that one day, but that every day is an occasion to pay her the thanlts, the respect and the afection she so surely deseri-es. As we 've said before, a good mother is one of God's most precious gifts. And He may be thanked that there are still many of them in the world. It is shoclcing to note the increase from day to day of mothers who reveal themselves selfish, cruel and bad. Just as there is evil with the good on earth, so are there many bad mothers with the good mothers ia our midst.

It's sad to contemplate, but "facts are facts." Even though, because of the world's constant increase in population, which accordinf; to statistics of the "World Health Organization of the United Nations" is estimated at a daily 60,000 net! there is an understandable increase in mothers good and bad, tlic ration the bad mothers to the good has recently grown in such proportion that it gives all thinking persons alarm. Thus on this Mother's Day it makes us appreciate all the more those good mothers who still outnumber the bad. To emphasize the value of the good mother today, we believe it Eot amiss to list some Incidents oi mothers to whom no tribute can be paid this Mother's Day. All the horrible things we'll tell of bad mothers are of very recent date and have not Keen mentioned here before. We nairrate them very briefly merely to remind us what love and gratitude wc owe to good mothers.

In New York, for instance, a iS-year-old mother piclced her month-old baby girl out of her crib and tossed her out of a third-floor window. "I just didn't want her," rhe said. Another 26-year-old mother In North Carolina drowned her three small children, ranging Jn age from eight months to three years, in a deep, water-filled rock quarry, because she "didn't like the world they lived in." A 35-year-old California mother cut the throats of her four small chilren, ages five to nine. "I didn't want them to be like me," was her reason. Also on the west coast a 29- year-old mother strangled her infant son and tossed the body into a trash bin because he interfered with her life.

In Massachusetts a mother of 31 held her nine weeks old daughter under water in a bathroom 'ater bowl until it drowned. "I got tired of she told the police. And again in New York a minor-aged mother threw her baby son out of a window to a robf 15 feot below, because "she couldn't take it." More briefly, an Arkansas woman beat her five-year-old girl to death with a club; in New York state a 30-year-old mother hanged her throe small children from bedposts with leather bells: in Texar. a 27-year-old mother choked her baby daughter to death with her bare hands, and in Oregon a 23- mother smothered two of her little tots to death, and dropped a third one on its head. "I don't like kids." she said.

Coming closer to home, there was the Dayton mother who beat her year-old daughter with a celt buckle about the head because "she wet her pants;" in Canton a 28-year-old mother attacked her two small daughters with a claw hammer because they "bothered her." At Wooster there was the 18-year-old mother who strangled her infant son with an elastic belt because "she didn't want him." and at Warren 21- year-old mother flogged her three- year-old son to death with a leather strap because "he wouldn't niind," while in Cleveland a 27-year-old mother pushed her little son out of an upper-story window becaufi go to sleep." Enqugh? Certainly these appalling cases of cruel mothers suffice to wake us up to the fact that those of us blessed with good mothers should not fail to pay them special tribute this Mother's Day. cf Booth Tarkington come'-, to technicolor life in the new musical The Light Of The Silvery Moon," which opens Sunday for four days. Popular song starss Doris Day Gordon MacRae play the leads in the song-filled adaptation of the warm and humorous stories of a typical small-town American family. The songs which are blended into the screenplay in- elude "If You Were The Only Girl In The World," "Ain't We Got Fun," "Your 'Eyes Have Told Me So" and "By The Light Of The Silvery Heading the double program Thursday, Friday and Saturday is "I Love MelVin" the technicolor musical which co-stars Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Bringing with it hit songs, deft dances and amusing plot-situations, C'Connor is seen as the assistatii; lo the ace cameraman of a national magazine.

Debbie is cast as a droadway chorus girl eager to scale the heights of stage and screen lame. In an effort to ingratiate himself with Debbie, Donald contrives to get her photograph on the cover of his magazine. Com pleting the program is "Code Two," a fast-moving, tension- pltclied drama of behind-the-scenes excitement with the Los Angeles police force, and its motorcycle division. Ralph Meeker, Sally Forrest and Keenan Wynn are featured. THEATER NEWS PLAZA Playing through Sunday at the Plaza will be "Vengeance Valley" in technicolor, stan'ing Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker and Joanne Drii, and the western, "Montana Incident" featuring Whip Wilson with Rand Rooks.

"Red Skies Of Montana," a nicolor saga of the smoke jumpers starring Richard' Widmark, Constanca Smith and Jeffrey Hunter will start Friday, May 15 and play through Sunday, with the western "The Maverick," starring Wild Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates and Myron Healey, two color cartoons and a comedy, "Up In Daisy's Penthouse." SANDUSKY DRIVE-IN The double feature starting Sunday and playing through Tuesday will be "Double Dynamite" starring Jane Russell and Groucho Marx, and "Wild Blue Robert Wagner and Rory Calhoun round up a band of stage coach robbers in this scene from the outdoor film, "The Silver Whip," opening Sunday at the State. AS LIVE Chances Of Overcoming Moodiness By ELIZABETH B. HURLOCK There is no reason to believe that a moody young man will automatically get over his moodiness as he grows older. The girl who worte the following letter would be in for a very unhappy life if she married the young man she describes. She writes: am 19 and have been going steady witii a boy of 20.

He is good and kind but very moody. Sometimes he won't "talk all evening he is with me. He gets very depressed and stays that way for days. It is hard to get him out of these states of depression, even when I try to be gay and cheerful. He wants me to marry him, but I am afraid that he would be a very difficult person to live with, know his home life is hard and he has never been happy.

Will ho get over his moodiness if he is really happy?" can and often does replace moodiness, but only when the pferson wants to change. This young man has had plenty of STATE "The Silver Whip," action western starring three new screen personalities, Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun and Robert W.signer, is the lead picture on a double bill playing Sunday through Tuesday. Filmed in California the drama highlights the conflicts among the liiree young men and the law. The feature, "The Prince Of Pirates" has John Derek playing the part of a fignting patriot forced into piracy by tyrants. In Derek's support are Barbara Rush and Carla Balenda.

Filmed in technicolor, the picture's story takes place in days when Spain, warred for world domination. As broad in scope and as dramatic as the great river from which its title is derived, the new color adventure-film, "The Missi sippi Gambler," starring Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie and Julia Adams, opens four days. It gives a solid hour and a half of adventure, breath-taking intrigue and compelling romance. The story concerns a handsome adventurer, adept at cards, dueling' snd lovemaking, who sets out to build himself a fortune through honest gambling. He wins his point and the love of a headstrong New Orleans society belle, but not until he fought his way with the cards stacked at every turn of the game.

Power, in the role of Mark Fallon, the riverboat gambler, is said to turn in one of his best performances. OHIO A page from the Penrod stories DANCE TONIGHT TO THE "KEY DUSTERS" PAT and RUTH KAMAN'S NITE CLUB Perry at Neil St. RUGGLES BEACH OPENING DANCE JVIAY 9th IIMMY THOMAS BAND ROLLER SKATING SUNDAY, MAY 17th LET'S DANCE AT CRYSTAL BEACH Vermilion SUNDAY, MAY 10 Ralph Flanagan cmd America's No. I Band Danclna Every FRIDAY PICK LUMLEY and HIS ORCHESTRA SUNDAY, MAY BARRETT RIDES and AMUSEMENTS NOW OPEN Yonder," Corey and Vera Ralston, and a cartoon, "All In A Nutshell." Wednesday and Thursday brings "A Streetcar Named Desire" starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando, a comedy, "So You Want To Be A Bachelor," with a cartoon, "Bathing Buddies." Friday and Saturday offers "Boots Malone" starring William Holden and Johnny Stewart and "Honeychile" featuring Judy Canova and Eddie Foy, Jr. The Saturday night horror show is "The Shadow Returns." Farm Price Rally Set For Thursday At Farm Office, Norwalk NORWALK.

May 9 Huron-co farmers will meet Thursday to present their views on what should be done about falling farm prices. According to Gordon Wiliard, president of the Huron- co Farm Bureau Federation, sponsor of the meeting, the "farm price rally is one of many being held on that date throughout the state to obtain farmer opinions on skidding prices. Dawson said that the rally will begin at 8 p. m. (est) in the Farm Bureau office building, Norwalk.

A radio will be set up so that farmers may hear an address by John W. Sims, executive secretary, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, wlio will point up the issues and urge farmer discussion. The address will begin at 8:30 p. m. (est) and is to be carried over station WLW, Cincin nati; WJR, Detroit and WTAM.

Cleveland. Following the radio address, farmers will be urged to express their opinions from the floor. Discussions will be led by Merritt Powell, Norwalk, field representative for production credit association; Dan W. Heyman, Monroeville, certified seed grower; Mrs. Paul Haas, Bellevue, president of the Farm Bureau women's committee and O.

H. Seifker, Monroeville, president of the Huron-co Farm Bureau Co-operative Association. Results of the meeting will be sent to the state Farm Bureau headquarters in Columbus, where they will be made available to the Farm Bureau membership congressional spokesman who will leave May 18 for Washington, D. where they will confer with Ohio Congressmen, Secretary of Agriculture Benson and with officials of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Theater Schedi OHIO 5:55.

9:25. "The 7:50. (Starts Sunday) "By The Light Of The Silvery 1:15, 3:15, 5:20. 7:20, 9:25. STATE Short subjects 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05.

"Ma And Pa Kettle On 5:50, 7:50, 9:50. (Sun. through Of 3:35, 6:15, 8:50. "Silver 4:55, 7:35, 10:10. 12:10.

"Pals Of The Golden West" 9:55, 1:45. "Weird 11:20. "Wild Blue PLAZA "Montana Incident" 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50. "Vengeance 4:45, 7:15, 9:45. opportunity to be happy during your courtship days.

And, as he is grown up, the effects of a "iiard home life" should not send him into these prolonged fits of depression. Don't consent to mari'y liim until he has proved conclusively to you that he wants to conquer his moodiness and is doing so with success. So long as you will take him as he is, he will have little motivation to change. You are finding it hard now to be with a person who is moody. Think how much harder it would be to live In the same house with him in the constant association that marriage would bring.

Your life would be miserable, to say the least, and you could not have the happiness every wife Is entitled to expect from her marriage. There Is no question about the fact that his "hard home life" has contlbuted to his moodiness. There are, however, many people who have hard home lives but who do not allow these conditions to get them down. Your friend has. That to me that he will continue to fblTow this pattern and allow liimself to be thrown off his emotional keel every time something goes wrong.

Mother Holds Self Responsible For Aquatol's Death MIAMI, May 9 (INS) attractive mothfer blamed herself todaj for the dieath of her five-year old swimming star, and after her husband was charged with second degree murder. Mrs. Betty Tongay held hersel'f Friday for the death of hier daughter, Kathy, billed Internationally as the "Aquatot." She died on Wednesday from a severe blow to the stomach. The flaxen-haired youngster died from an infected and ruptured intestine. THE FATHER, Russell Tongay, Insisted Friday that his daughter died from bruises she received while practicing for aquatic exhibitions and not from a reported beating.

Attorney Louis Jcpeway, spealc- Ing for Tongay said: "He holds himself responsible for his baby daughter Kathy's death. He just did not realize how seriously she was But the honey-blonde mother of two children, insisted she herself was the "one who administered a whipping" the night before Kathy died." JEPEWAY STATED Mrs. Tongay told him she "spanked the child iierself, not much of a whip- png, but just the kind any parent gives when their children don't mind." However, a statement from Rodney Sawyer, a neighbor, who claims he heard the child plead with "Daddy" not to beat her, has been refuted by Tongay. He said: "Sawyer was not even home Tuesday night. 1 told the police she was hurt in a high dive but they wouldn't believe me." Both parents told police that the ugly bruises covering the child's body resulted from dives oil a 33- foot towerw DICK KOHLER, a Miami Beach life guard, informed authorities IT'S GOOD irs CONilHG! Co-ed Imbibers Pay Up MINNEAPOLIS, May 9 at the University of Minnesota must really like their beer.

Eigth of them paid $15 each Friday for a bottle of the amber liquid. The girls, all under 21, were fined that amount for drinking 3.2 beer in a college WANT ADS BRING RESULTS PLAZA Playing thru Sunday formuUt teri-Q-tmo PETWKM NORWAlKWM0NR0tYimg SATURDAY COLOR CARTOON "AFRICA SCREAMS" Va-ughn Monroe Joan Leslie in color TOUGHEST MAN IN ARIZONA" FREE LOLLYPOPS FOR THE KIDDIES lir Sun. Extra Special Mother's Day Show FREE ORCHIDS On Screen Mon. Ginger Rogers David Niven "Bachelor Mother" flown from Hawaii to the first 350 Mothers Spencer Tierney PLUo 2isJ HIT OPEN SAT. 1 to 11 Doris Day and Gordon MacRae are featured in the musical, "By The Light of the Silvery Moon," which opens Sunday at the Ohio.

that Kathy tired of swimming and "afraid of the hlgh-dlv- Ing acts." He added that the youngster was covered with bruises when she went through her regular morning swimming lesson the day she died. Tongay will appear at a healing either June 11 or June 18 when the state must substantiate or drop its chax-ges. ELECTED KRESGE HEAD DETROIT, May 9 P. Williams, 59, was elected president of the S. S.

Kresge by directors meeting In Detroit Friday. Highway Patrolman Dies Of Crash Hurts WARREN, May 9 (INS) State Highway Patrolman James A. Frederlcka, 38, of Courtland, died Friday of injuries suffered last week when his car skidded on a wet pavement. He was enroute to the scene of an accident at the time. AIDS OBSCENlTr DRIVE YOUNGSTOWN, May 9 Joseph Baldine of Hubbard, has joined Youngstown police chief Edward J.

Allen in his drive to rid newsstands of obscene literature. BOX OFFICE OPENS 7:10 SHOW STARTS 7:55 ENDS TONITE "SIROCCO" with HUMPHREY MARTA BOGART TOREN At AND "PALS OF THE GOLDDN WEST- ROY with DALE ROGERS EVANS At AND "WEIRD WOMAN" At 11:05 SUN. "DOUBLE DYNAMITE" JANE GROUCnO RUSSELL MARX At AND "WILD BLUE "TONDER" with WENDELL COREY VERA RALSTON At 9:40 ENDS TODAY MARJORIE KILBRIDE 'MA AND PA KETTLE ON VACATION" SUNDAY THRU TUESDAY Now The Screen Feels The Full Fury Of VIEB Wmp I A RORY ROBERiSONdlUiOUN-WAGe LAST NIGHT Hear Tlie World's Greatest Trumpet DIZZY GILLESPIE In Person and His SEXTEX Featuring JOE CARROLL Be-Bop Sonff Stylist AT DIZZY GILLESPIE CLUB ZANZIBAH- 2 Shows Nitely lb p. M. 12 M.

SATURDAY Under New Management of Ray Rosenburg Ken Brown Water St. Sandusky, O. Mow Surrounded By The Beautiful Sandusky Bay" Located on Route 2, east end of Sandusky Bay Bridge, directly across from the State Patrol office. Special Mother's Day Dinners If you are interested in a good place to eat and relax in a homey atmosphere, try the Four Winds. A place to eat by choice not by chance.

One of Erie County's finest. The kitchen is vised by the personal care of Mrs. Gray Lydey. Homemade Soups and Pies -2ND FEATURE- COtOtM poms JOHN DEREK OHIOCBHB.