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BECKLEY POST-HERALD. BECKLEY, W. TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 10, 1974 Cecil Smith- FIVE Greeks Strengthen Caramanlis 5 Babies' Chances HOLLYWOOD the Walker Even when she Triple left Threat Gal Constantine ne Rejected To Live Uncertain Nancy A morning when I leave the Broadway to make movies, WE WERE talking ATHENS, Greece (AP) tabulations showed that 69.2 Caramanlis to set SAN JOSE. Calif.

(AP) conference she had relied on house they tell me: 'Turn they were musicals at a lunch break at a rehearsal Rejected by seven every per cent of the 4.7 million civilian government. The ul- The five survivors of sex- a fertility drug in both during of up 2 left' or "turn right," said MGM: Broadway of Rhoda. Nancy said she's 10 voters, who voted said no to recall- timate victor appeared to be tuplets born to a woman who pregnancies because "that Greek former Walker. "If I King Constantine on Mon- Nancy it's Universal and Mildred in McMillan Wife. If I turn right.

it's MTM Ida in Rhoda." The other they fooled her. left turn They told her to drive straight ahead across the mountains to CBS. do you know?" was 'Look. Saha, I'm They had me doing a musical show with Tony Orlando and Dawn (due Wednesday. Dec.

11). "And who's up there with me? Jackie Gleason. I hadn't worked with Jackie since 'Along Fifth Avenue' on Broadway in 1949. Jackie was a replacement for Willie Howard. rest his soul.

who died during the run." BUT THE curious thing in this Hollywood renaissance of Nancy Walker, the five years in which her career has been reborn here. this was her first singing. dancing role. And Nancy was virtually hatched on the musical stage. Over a 22-year span.

1941- 63. the diminutive comedienne rolled from one Broadway musical comedy into another: "Best Foot Forward," the Town." Ma, I'm Dancing." '55." "Copper and Pal Joey. Town," "Girls. Against the Boys. "Do Re Rhythm." "Girl the Town." She made occasional detour into a nonmusical comedy such as the famous revival of Noel Coward's "Fallen mostly the musical stage was Nancy Walker's realm.

it's fitting. I suppose, that this would be the season for Nancy to do a television musical turn, because this is the year that everything seems coming together. Instead of the mother as Ida Morgenstern on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. she's now an integral part of the action now that Valerie's Rhoda is on her own. HER PART of Mildred.

the salty maid of the Rock Hudson-Susan St. James manse in McMillan Wife. was initially occasional comic relief: now it's part of every show. In fact. Mildred was the central figure in the twohour edition of McMillan on the NBC Mystery Movie last Sunday night.

"Guilt by Association' by Steve Bochco directed by Harry Falk. "Mildred is on a jury." said Nancy, "and her life is threatened. They keep trying to kill her in this hotel where the jury is locked up. They even kill one of the other jurors trying to get at Mildred. It's I asked why they were trying to kill Mildred.

"I don't said Nancy. "Nobody ever told me." She had to watch the show to Deeds Recorded -PINEVILLE deeds (RNS) were recorded by the Wyoming County clerk during the past week: James L. Blankenship and Margie Bell Blankenship. his wife. to Ranger Fuel Corporation.

a corporation. real estate on Laurel Fork. Slab Fork District. $25.000. Fredia Blankenship Hash and Randall Hash.

her husband. to Ranger Fuel Corporation. a corporation. real estate on Laurel Fork. Slab Fork District.

$1.000: Joe Simpson Jr. and Willia Rose Simpson to Nigel Maxey and Linda Maxey. Lot Town of Pineville. Center District. SI0.000.

Frederick T. Kingdon, special commissioner. to Tomchin Furniture Company. a corporation. Lots 94 and 95.

Glen Rogers Subdivision. Slab Fork District, $1.300. Georgia Pacific Corporation, a Georgia corporation. to Brendon Hatfield and Teresa Hatfield. real estate on Lower Big Branch.

$800. Junior A. Lilly and Naomi Lilly. his wife. to Samuel Thompson and Allie Thompson.

his wife, real estate in. the Town of Mullens. Slab Fork District. $4.000. Jerry Wayne Woodrum to Johnny Mullins and Cora Mullins.

his wife. Lot 55. Poll Green Subdivision. Itmann. Slab Fork District.

$3.000. Raymond Belcher and Juanita Belcher. his wife, Carrie Belcher Dunn and James E. her husband. to Lettie Maynor.

real estate. Clear Fork District. $2.800. Vera G. Henrichs and Charles F.

Henrichs. her husband. Amos E. Green and Norma Fave Green. his wife.

to- W. Carter and Martha Ann being approached to do a show of her own but she's hesitant--she's so firmly established as Ida and as Mildred that she's not sure she wants to for another television identity. I remembered a few years ago when Nancy was trouping with the APA Repertory, and she was playing in T.S. Eliot's Cocktail Party" one night and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard" the next and shifting into George Kelly's -Off" the third. That world of classical drama is one that people simply don't connect with Nancy Walker.

was a period in my I'll never forget." said Nancy. "and vet it was 3 very down period. On Broadway. couldn't get arrested. Bert Lahr was selling potato chips on television -BERT LAHR.

for God's sakes! Helen Hayes found in New York so she joined the APA and I followed her. like to do some classical theater again. I've never played Shakespeare. How can you spend a lifetime acting and never play Shakespeare? "Maybe it'll all husband. happen here.

When my David Craig, and I came out five years ago, we had an idea it would all come together here. At one time I was doing 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' in the Ahmanson. Theater. I was playing Ida on the Mary Tyler Mooore Show. and I was making the movie 'Forty all at the same time.

"I told David: This can be like London where you can all right here in one place. Even Shakespeare. Reds Press Viet Thrust SAIGON. (AP) A wave of Communist-led attacks continued for the fourth day Monday, signaling another round of savage fighting designed to wear down South Vietnam's demoralized army and exploit its weak economy. The the fighting was in the fertile Mekong Delta, south of Saigon, but there were also attacks in Tay Ninh Province bordering Cambodia to the northwest.

Tay Ninh city came under sporadic rocket attack. Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong Ut reported from the provincial capital that there was heavy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong pressure on the northeastern flanks of the city. He said about 3,500 refugees fled into the city from villages along Route 13. The Saigon command said casualties had climbed to more than 2.600 both sides in what military analysts consider the highest level of fighting since the truce went into effect nearly two years ago. The Communist command's objective, spelled out in captured documents, is to expand population and territorial control, to inflict increasing casualties on the South Vietnamese army and to strain to the breaking point an economy whose resources have been drained to fight the war while its investors have been frightened off by lack.

of government security. The Christmas Cable Twas the night before Christmas and Cable's installed. Ready for morning and delight for them all. A gift to remember each day of the year. TeleCable for Christmas Have a happy view year.

TeleCable. Giving is as easy as a phone call. Beckley TeleCable 113 FIRST AVENUE PH. day wished his people well in the future and called for national unity to ensure prosperity. statement from exile headquarters in London, Constantine said "true normality, progress and prosperity for our country demand that national unity must come first.

"I pray with all my heart that future developments may justify the outcome of yesterday's vote." A spokesman for the royal family said the statement would be the exiled king's only immediate response 10 Sunday's plebiscite in which the Greeks voted against monarchy for the third time this centurv. The government's final ing Constantine and establishing the 142-yearold monarchy. It was the second crucial vote in Greece since the year -old recalled junta fell in Constantine July Embassy Opens BERLIN (AP) The United States opened its first embassy in Communist East Berlin Monday at a subdued ceremony that suggested difficult negotiations ahead. Ambassador-designate John Sherman Cooper presided at the opening and some 50 curious spectators stopped and watched as four U.S. Marines in dress blues saluted the unfurled American flag.

Caramanlis. On Nov. 17, he and his New Democracy party won 220 of 300 seats in 3 parliamentary election. The monarchy referendum, in which the voters chose a republic with a president as chief of state. was considered by political experts as evidence Caramanlis' political astuteness.

Observers felt that the overwhelming rejection of the monarchy puts Caramanlis in the strongest position of his long political career. With little opposition in the one -house parliament, the premier can push through legislation almost at will for the next four years. Economists Feel Food May Be Less Volatile WASHINGTON (AP) A series of government and private economists talked of next year's agricultural outlook Monday in terms of possibilities of stability in prices and supplies. At last vear's National Outlook Conference for Agriculture, the predictions hopeful terms of probabilities of bumper crops, a relatively small rise in retail food prices and a leveling off by the summertime. poor weather in the major U.S..

grain areas from rain to drought to frost reduced corn and soybean harvests sharply and sent commodity prices up even further than 1973 levels. lost quadruplets a year ago were in "very condition Monday. with the next few days crucial for their survival. The mother. Charlotte Lange.

told 2 news Court Bars Death Case CHARLESTON. W. Va. (AP) The state Supreme Court refused 3-2 Monday to docket James E. "Bucky" Barker's appeal from his Boone County Circuit Court conviction of second-degree murder.

Barker has twice been convicted of second-degree murder in the 1967 death of Mary Frances Drury of Charleston. whose body was found Boone County public hunting and fishing area. First convicted in 1967. Barker was tried and convicted again after his first conviction was nullified in a federal court habeas corpus proceeding. He was sentenced to 5 to 23 vears in the state penitentiary.

five years having been added to the statutory seconddegree murder term because of a prior felony conviction. Supreme Court Justice Charles H. Haden II and Richard Neely voted to docket Barker's appeal from the second conviction. CHICAGO The Electric Power Research Institute reports that its program includes 172 projects, valued at $178 million. More than half the research efforts are related in some form to environmental improvements.

visers, said another round of poor harvests in 1975 would be a main stumbling block to recovery for an economy that sagging badly." Harry Walters. an official of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, expressing his own views, said judgments being made by others about the world Iosing its ability to feed itself lacks sufficient evidence to support their subsequent gloomy predictions of world famine. But he, too, urged caution and talked about the possibilities of restructuring the world food economy rather than just trying to restore what was normal in the late 1960s. 4 Local industry needs gas to keep operating. By keeping your thermostat set at 68 degrees or lower during the heating season, and conserving gas in other ways, you'll.

not only save some money, but you'll help provide gas that will keep people on the job. Saving gas in your home can help save jobs. COLUMBIAGAS act 0 was my only chance of having children. and I wanted to have children." Dr. Vincent F.

Nola. her obstetrician. said he knew of no case in medical literature paralleling Mrs. Lange's experience of giving birth to 10 infants in little more than a The next week will be crucial for the surviving infants. said Dr.

James Harrow. director of Newborn Services at Valley Jiedical Center, at a news conference held with Nirs. Lange and her husband. "Their condition is very fragile." said Dr. Harrow of the two girls and three boys born Sunday at O'Connor Hospital and then transferred to respirators at Valley Medical Center.

lie said they were responding to standard treatment in their respirators. They are as we expected for their period of gestation and size." he said. "They're all normally formed, pretty little The six infants--slightly more than three months premature- arrived SunHospital officials identified them as babies A through F. They ranged in weight from 1 pound 15 ounces to 2 pounds 8 ounces. The smallest, a boy.

died about four hours after birth. I was going On the assumption there would be three babies." said Alvin Lange, 31. the father. "We're only got a threeroom house. Now maybe we'll have to raise the roof a bit.

"The way prices are now. I'm going to have to do something. I'm kind of surprised and kind of scared." Farmers, in turn, cut back on production of 1 grain-fed beef, pork, milk and poultry. Consumers saw prices rise as fast as they had in 1973. A private economist told the opening session at the' Agriculture Department that record domestic harvests in the season ahead could give consumers food price next year, but only after the crops start coming in.

Wilfred Lewis chief economist for the National Planning Association, said the recession in the general U.S. economy, "seems to be. picking up steam and is not heading for any early end." Gary L. Seevers, a member of the President's Council of Economic Ad- Carter. his wife.

real estate on the PinevilleRoad. Center District. $3.000. Tract 2594M in the R. D.

Bailey Lake. Hezekiah Rowe. and Roma Rowe; to the United States of America. $500. Robert L.

Dillon and Effie M. Dillon. his wife. to the Board Education of the County of Wyoming. a corporation.

Lot 64. Town of Highschoolville. Slab Fork District. $600. E.

Davis and Verda Davis. his wife. to Danny Lee Davis and Debby. Davis. his wife.

real estate in Trace Fork. Huff Creek District. Georgia-Pacific Corporation. a Georgia corporation. to David Lee Ward.

real estate on Road Branch of Little Huff Creek. S980. L. C. Gray to Dewey Smith and Peggy Smith.

his wife. Lot. No. 31. A.

J. Mullins First Addition. City of Mullens. Slab Fork District. S13.000.

Julia G. Lipscomb to Charles W. Burdiss and Gertrude D. Burdiss, his wife. Lot No.

3. A. J. Mullins. Second Addition.

City of Mullens. Slab Fork District. $35.000.. Georgia- Corporation. a Georgia Corporation.

to Morris West and Nora West. real estate on Rockhouse Branch, Baileysville District. $1.500. Robert C. Crouch and Bobbie Jean Crouch.

his wife. Athalyn Crouch Epperly (widow of Edgar M. Crouch, and Arnold 0. Epperly. her husband.

Truman Sayre and Thomas H. Wood. co-execuiors under the last will and testament of Edgar M. Crouch. deceased.

to Riva Walls. real estate on McDonald Mill Creek. Clear Ford District. $300. A Or: 3.