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ad 11 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 17. 1958 'Hister Mte Mqfccr; LaWrenee WcXU -AlQ Debllt Accidental Fourth of six articles from jto drive along in the wake of amote of them, asked Lawrence to if they had wanted to," he ad mits ruefully. "Mister Music Maker: Lawr snowplow, but they kept going: his office for a talk. The upshot had supplied a big part of our food back on the farm, and I've never forgotten how to hunt.

But again there were times when I orlon plaids on a Highland fling! Retay's wardrobeful of rich, soft separates that offer all the benefits of Orion all day and night until, aboutlof that talk was an offer of a 4 they reached the town week's encasement for an early XNCE he and the band left the ence Welk." By MARY LEWIS COAKLEY fTlHE year was 1927. went out with my prayer book of Yankton, South Dakota. Weary momma nroeram. station long enough to ac I'd read a sentence or two from Lawrence was flabbergasted cept a few weeks engagement and bleary-eyed from lack of sleep, they decided by quick- it, then I'd just think about God. J.

Lawrence Welk, accordion but, needless to say, managed to at Lake Placid, and that particu stammer his acceptance. player, Art Beal, piano, Johnny Sometimes we have to be quiet to remember that God is with us, As matters finally worked out, Higgins, drums, and Howard Kieser, sax, turned southward and headed for New Orleans in; lar little expedition stands out in his mind more vividly than others. It was like a retreat to recoup his strength after the whirlwind existence of some and will help us if we are really willing to let Him act in His own way. I think He helped me in voice vote to stop there for a few hours' rest before going farther. They checked in at the Collins Hotel on the main street1 and left a call at the desk for 7:30.

"I went around to the beds blended with wool you'll marvel at the way they wash and dry in shape! All in blue or rust In 8-16. The magical skirt can even be worn as a cloak! 14.95 slacks 8.95 Stole and Pom Pom Beret 5.95 Dacroncotton ivy league shirt in moss Lawrence's car. Progress was painfully slow. those days. I was tired in my years; it was like a quiet inter- mind( and tlred ta my lude graciously vouchsafed him body too with the pace rd been A good part of the trip they had to prepare himself for the next they stayed there in Yankton for keeping.

He showed ma more clearly than ever what I wanted from life. It wasn't just money and woke the boys up. But," he adds, "I really shouldn't have blamed them for sleeping late that morning." The very excusable tardiness of the boys may have been a blessing. It gave Lawrence a chance for a little reconnoitering phase of his life. He played there at the Bear Cub Club, and he had his days free- to wander about through the shadowy stillness of the and success.

It was something gold 5.95 go-together shop, more important." three years, and when they did go off to seek new worlds, it was only to return to Yankton, after an interval, for another three years. Too bad that the Yankton Job had to come just then? flrtt floor throuah arch From "Mister Mmle Maker: Lawrence elk." CopyrUht 15 by Mry wooded mountains. MMZZJ mm. XA a a -J of the time I used to If CoMty- "N1" "Most that paid off. He tells about it fitVjp Also vvynnewuuu, woumihwwh Continued Tomorrow carry my gun, he said.

Game this way: "I knew it would take XWA if Si-rttetS -H4 I fX Well, not really. Lawrence re the fellows around a half hour to get dressed and down in the calls: "It was in Yankton that I met Fern," and he adds: "Yankton was a good spot for me." dining room, so I decided that Ml A fTVii rm Perhaps that last statement is meanwhile I'd run over and see the town's new radio station." I also intended to cover the busi TI7HEN Lawrence reached ness situation, too. It would; seem so from other remarks of his: "WNAX gave us plenty of there, he asked to sneak to the head man," and that was when he met Chandler Gurney. And who was Chandler Gurney? radio experience. That helped a lot when I went to see Fred Miller some years later with an idea, about a nationwide radio Though it was much later when this personage became Droeram United States Senator from South WNAX Yankton likewise help I) 1 Dakota, in Lawrence's estima ed by carrying the Welk name far beyond the town's limits.

tion he was from the first an important figure. He possessed IXJiJi-OJil two valuable traits: he liked the accordion, and his family owned Almost everywhere Lawrence went in those days, in his dance-date travels, he found that peo the radio station WNAX ple knew him. His reputation had "I had nice visit with Mr. InroroHorl him. Tmmpnselv PTati- Gurney," says Lawrence, "ified, he quite naturally jumped at the same time I was going to the conclusion that he and his band must be "real wonderful." Perhaps he was "real wonder AP Wlrephoto Whiz kid of world chess masters, Bobby Fischer, 15, leaves plane at Idlewild Airport to resume high school classes in Brooklyn.

ful'' but he found it rather de into a pitch about the fine troupe of musicians traveling with me." What happened next? It isn't hard to guess the answer. Mr. Gurney agreed to give Lawrence and his group time on an initial program of the station flating to learn a few months after he began his travels that WNAX was the sole station in existence for a radius of many, beginning within the next half many miles, and that further more It was an extraordinarily hour. Lawrence eased himself from powerful station. "Folks couldn't: have tuned in any other station, Gilroy Was There Not Gilmore Thirty-five years ago, in the confusion of battling the Broad Street Station fire, somebody mistakenly named one cf the heroes of the blaze, who helped Temple Children the building with as much dignity as he could, then he rounded the street corner and broke into a run.

He ran all the way back to the hotel! Bursting into the dining room without a slowdown, he yanked his friends from their seats, yell In 'Storybook' HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 16 (AP) rescue nearly 200 passengers in a threatened Pullman sleeper, as Shirley Temple's three chil ing: "We re on the airl Had he been yelling, "Fire!" dren started following in her the astonishment, and then the footsteps today. meek submission to his herding Susan, 10, her daughter by Capezio's for tUO We're entertaii could not have been more com- plete. The boys dropped forks full of scrambled eggs and bacon ing two little charmers that feature the popular news in back onto their plates and went John Agar; Charles Black, 6, and Lori Black, 3, began work in show business. Shirley, the movies' top attraction when she was a child now presides over TV's Shirley Tem straps plus a new curvy height of heel the princess Ernest Gilmore.

Yesterday, the nun was identified correctly as Ernest C. Gilroy, retired Pennsylvania Railroad yard conductor, of 309 Irish Daylesford Village, Berwyn. He was on duty in the train shed when the fire broke out a few minutes before midnight on June 10, 1923. "It was no surprise to us boys," he recalled, "that when the fire started there was no putting it out. It had to burn out." Gilroy was there.

along dazedly. "We gave our first thirty minute broadcast entirely unre hearsed!" he explains. Eyelet shell strap in black kid. Wish Bone strap ple Storybook show. Her chil dren are making their debut in in flaxen, bronze green kid.

each 16.95 Capezio bar, WHEN the broadcast was over, complimentary phone a program slated for Dec. 21, a Christmas show about Mother Goose characters. calls began coming in to the station, and Mr. Gurney, taking first floor also in Wynnewood and Jenkintown stores houn today: Chestnut at 1 7th, noon to Wynnewood 9:30 to Jenkintown 9:30 to 9 Rl 6-7300. Ml 9-2300, TU 7-4600 Jackct'dresscs on the double in our new junior wing These are the high-energy 1 fashions we can't get in fast enough, because you smart Bonwit juniors realize they're the "practically everything" in a young clothes life this fall.

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