The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 111

AVmr) Ban Jo'Trul J) 15 Pundav, November 11, 17 t9 It Staggers Their Imagination Action Line Bonus "Wvw; -war "'friiillilliiiiiiliiii nii tmikn lji torn down in 1954. There is hope now that when Loew's Capitol at Fifty-first st. is torn down, the replacement office building will include a theater. a ball of earth around the roots. If the tree Is to be moved any distance, wrap this ball of dirt in wet burlap.

Replant the tree at the same depth. With luck you'll be sipping mint juleps under its shade next Summer. What dm the word "ps.vchedplio" mean? I've looked in the dictionary but can't find the word listed. E. Akron.

"Psychedelic" refers to certain drugs and the experiences they induce. The word was coined by Dr. Humphry Osmond during his research with LSD. It is made up of two Greek words meaning "mind-manifesting." Dr. Osmond invented the word in order to more clearly describe those substances which had been previously called "psychotomimetic" or "hallucinogenic." The word is used now by hippies to describe everything from clothing to posters.

In the 1930s, my favorite radio sportsca.ster wa Ted nuslng. Ht underwent an operation for a brain tumor in 1954. Did he recover? V. Akron. Not fully.

Husing underwent two operations. But the tumor was too far advanced. The operations did prolong his life, but he was blind and partially paralyzed. He died in 12 at the age of 60. Husing was CBS's top sportsca.ster from 1927 to 1946.

At the height of his career he was the highest paid announcer on radio, earning $50,000 a year. About 22 years ago, I played the lead In "John nenry on the Railroad" on WAKR radio. My eight children heard it many times anil enjoyed it. Now I have 1(1 grandchildren. Does WAKR still have the show? S.

M. Akron. There wore smiles and tears of joy at the Samuel M. DoBnso home at 410 Chittenden st. as once again John Henry sang of freedom and whammed down the railroad spikes to prove he was as good as a machine.

DeBose and his family listened to it on long-playing record presented to them by ACTION LINE and Bill Palmer of Akron Recording Studio. The show was first aired Aug. 11, 1918. It was one of Never A Worry For This Hubby TODAY IS the 323rd day of 1967 with 42 to follow. On this date: IN 1831, the 20th American President, James Garfield, was born on a farm near Mentor, 0.

IN 18fi3, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In 1874, the Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in Cleveland. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Comedian Alan Young is 48. Former baseball player Roy Campanella is 46. Ted Husing I was hit by a car year ago.

My right leg was in a rast from the kne down. When I got home from the hospital, I had trouble resting my leg. So I made myself a foot-and-leg rest It worked fine. I've made them for all my friends. I'm not interested In making money on it, but ran ACTION LINE help get my design on the market to help others? A.C., Akron.

Why not show how to make one, instead? The footrest, designed by machinist Alex Clements of Qaaaaaaaaptr A BELGIAN COURT refused to give a wife a divorce on grounds that her husband, a night watchman, always took her false teeth to work with him. The court ruled the husband was merely helping the wife "display prudence in her personal conduct" Iranians can be Jubilant. The cost of the Shah of Iran's coronation last month was only $3.3 million. Why jubilant? The original estimate was $5 million. We moved to Akron three weeks ago.

The Welcome Wagon still hasn't visited ns. Aren't we welcome? The J. R. Family, Akron. You sure are.

To prove it, the Welcome Wagon provided you with a sample jar of hand cream, a certificate for three free games of bowling and bundles of helpful pamphlets. A free quart of milk will be delivered later. Mrs. Helen Stumpf, Welcome Wagon supervisor for this area, is sorry you were missed earlier. It doesn't happen often.

The 40 gals who help her average about 400 stops a month. Anyone else who missed the wagon can call Mrs. Stumpf at 335-2514. Cleveland radio station WHK Is one of the best on the air. It recently switched to FM.

Why? Is this permanent? J. Cuyahoga Falls. WHK didn't switch to FM. It only changed Its AM format "We wanted to give the people what they didn't have on other area AM stations a hip, good-music station," says WHK program director Ken Gaines. Gaines says the new programming will offer "the best efforts of the best contemporary entertainers without so many commercials between songs." We have two sons.

We've never received birth certificates for either one. Why? Mr. and Mrs. R. Akron.

Babies arrive when they are ready to arrive. But not birth certificates. You have to go get them they are usually available 15-18 days later. The Akron Health Department will issue you certificates for your children, $1 per certified copy. We are building a garage next to onr house.

We will have to move our small magnolia tree. How should we go about it? Mr. and Mrs. G. Akron.

First wet the area around the tree. Let the water soak in overnight Then trench around the tree so there will be it ills Russian chess grandmaster Aleksandra A. has complained that Soviet champions are losing the dedication and skill that put them first in world chess for decades. He wants reforms to restore an emphasis on creativity and quality in the game. The Chinese Communist press reports this year's graduates of i University are leaving it up to the Red Party to decide their future jobs.

Observers believe most will wind up in plants, vil- EASY WAY TO COMFORT 835 E. Crosier is made in the form of a T. It may be turned many ways to provide a comfortable raised position for one or both legs. The pictures may provide enough detail for do-it-yourselfers to make the footrest But ACTION LINE also has a simple drawing with measurements. Want a copy? Send a self-addressed envelope to ACTION LINE, care of Beacon Journal, Akron, 44309.

SHAH OF IRAN $3.3 million for crowning lages and far-away communes. NEW GENERATION HEARS 'JOHN HENRY DeBose, grandchildren the Children's Hour series written by Kitty Guinther, who is now Mrs. Ralph S. Brown. It was a Junior League proj- ect, and many of the players were Weathervane regulars.

When the series ended, the recordings of the broadcasts were turned over to the children's department of the Akron Fublic Library. A special loan was arranged so that Palmer could make the record for DeBose. Mrs. Brown found the script for him, too. The legitimate theater buildings on Broadway in New York seem ro terribly old.

Aren't there any new ones at all? Miss E. Cuyahoga Falls. No. There hasn't been a new one in 35 years. The most recently built one was the Center, put up in 1932, at the Avenue of the Americas and Forty-ninth st.

But it was A Berlin firm has "developed a lipstick that not only is full of vitamins, but has built-in protection against sunburn. ew-Yorkrio -Hollywood LOS ANGELES OFFICIALS are considering declaring Los Angeles' last remaining burlesque theater a historical-cultural monument The bump-and-grind Follies -Theater in the skid row area of downtown draws a meager crowd these days in the city where topless dancing has pushed old-time stripping into the domain of history. Shirley Temple Black Is considering signing a contract with a soft drink firm to bottle Shirley Temple Cocktails a mixture of 7- Up, grenadine and cherries. But she admits she No Girl Goody-Goody can't stand the drink "So sweet and icky." ALWAYS HAST QUALITY 4 DAYS ONLY AT State Road Center, Cuyahoga Falls Tuesday, November 21 thru Saturday, November 25 5 DAYS ONLY AT Monday, November 20 thru Saturday, November 25 (Closed Thanksgiving Day) "I'm not bitter, but I'm enjoying a freedom I never had when I went from my home and my mother to Bob." Sandra was born Alexandria Douvain and converted it to Sandra Dee herself, though she now wishes she hadn't, believing Alexandria Douvain (Russian Tartar), is far prettier. Her father was a well-heeled Bayonne real estate operator.

"I can now come in' at 4 a. m. and eat crackers and jelly in bed, and nobody can yell at me, 'Hey, get those crackers out of "Not any more, they can't," vowed the new Sandra Dee. NEW YORK "I don't like Sandra Dee," said Sandra Dee. "If I were a young child and read about me, I'd go Sandra had bidden me to lunch at the Regency, and the champagne was already flowing before food had been thought of.

This was the new, the real Sandra that Sandra could like not that Miss Goody Two-Shoes the studios had created. "Wouldn't it be silly to sit here having coffee if I really wanted a drink?" she Ocean explorer Jacques Piccard sees no unusual dangers in his planned undersea "free drift" voyage in a submarine up the East Coast in the Gulf Stream next Summer. "My biggest problem is getting a crew of six who can get along well The sub will use no propulsive power and won't surface during the four to six-week i The White House has launched a search for letters written by former occupants of the a i about the JACQUES PICCARD plans voyage yfh iGet A 5x7, I Pgr Blhy by si House or lif in it. So far, two have been received as the first in the collection drive by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson.

One was written by Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and the other by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt The Justice Department says 580 of 683 persons arrested during-last month's anti-war demonstration at the Pentagon have been convicted of violating Federal laws. Fifty-one of thos convicted have served or are serving jail sentences. The office of Ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg denies there's anything political about his being admitted to the New York State Bar.

It's the same courtesy extended to Adlai Stevenson when he held the same- post HOLLYWOOD With filming in actual locales becoming more common. Dick Fleischer, directing "The Boston Strangler" for 20th Century-Fox, has really picked a plum. He has received permission- to use the house in Maiden, where the accused strangler and his wife lived. In the film version, Tony Curtis will be seen in the title role. Also in the cast will be Henry Fonda as John Bottomley Remember the scene in "How to Murder Your Wife," when Virna Llsi popped out of a huge birthday cake and burst, incidentally, into stardom? The sailors on the U.

S. S. Roosevelt evidently remembered it The big flat-top, on duty in the Mediterranean after a Vietnam tour, recently celebrated its birthday and the ship's crew decided they had to have Virna at the celebration. Virna, filming Universale "Better A Widow" in Sicily, agreed. She showed up in a skin-tight black outfit, giving the ship a birthday its crew will never forget FOR THE FIRST time since leaving The Virginian over two years ago, Lee J.

Cobb has accepted a starring assignment at Universal. He's signed for "Coogan's Bluff," joining Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, and Don Stroud. The film, shooting in New AGE LIMIT 5 YEARS One or two children in any one family will be TOT Oil IV 59c each for the first picture. Each additional child under five, $1.50 for the first picture. GROUPS (Two Children Only) $2.00 YOUR CHOICE Of SEVERAL POSES.

ADDITIONAL SELECTIONS $1.35 FOR lit Additional: SI. 11 Ur SANDRA DEE image 2nd; 1.00 Othlrt (If luaht la Start). Exclusively at Pennet PARENTS OF RUNAWAYS shouldn't broadcast appeals for their return, says University of Chicago Professor Robert Nee, because "such advertising denies the child any opportunity to save face. One important thing with adolescents is a need to maintain status with their peers." Overheard: "He looks like the first husband of a widow." The Air Force says the cost of flying Jackie Kennedy from Thailand to Cambodia was $300. Because of scheduling problems with regular air lines, the Air Force did the honors.

If you're going to Chicago for New Year's Eve take plenty of that freen stuff. The Sherman House's new College Inn is putting together a show that'll run $50 a person. Latest bumper sticker: "Help Support a PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOURS TUESDAY THRU SATURDAY 10 A. M. TO 9 P.M.

asked me. "They'd have me in pigtails till I was 50! It's just recently that I've started being myself in public. I was not that angelic as a child. You'd nave 'to be a moron." SANDRA ACCEPTED more champagne. "I don't like the taste of whisky so I drink champagne," she said.

It seems with those "Tammy" pictures, which put Sandra in the top 15 worldwide, she had to be "angelic." And that's the way her biographies were twisted by the publicists, until Sandra couldn't stomach reading them. "Ross Hunter understands it all. He came over to the studio when we started and he said, 'Hey, fellas, this is not a Sandra has a major, adult role in "Rosie!" and due to Ross Hunter's orders, she-doesn't even look like Sandra Dee. SnE AND Bobby Darin still see each other frequently though divorced. But their bustup convinced her she doesn't want to marry again in the foreseeable future.

Virna Curtis PIXY WILL VISIT YOUR OTHER SUMMIT COUNTY PENNEY STORES ON THE FOLLOWING DATES: November 27-November 30-Magic City (enter, Barberlon December 4-December 7, Lakemore Plaza, Akron Thought For Today Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for eery thirst Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. I York under Don Seigel's direction, marks Tish Sterling's first assignment since joining the studio's contract list Ivan Tors, riding high with three successful television series, Gentle Ben, Cowboy in Africa, and Daktari, has announced an Investment interest In his Ivan Tors Films, has been acquired by Norris Grain. A sickle-shaped object that flashed over the Black Sea convinced Russia that UFOs should be studied seriously, says Soviet scientist (Fellow travelers from outer space?) by TOM MOORE.