Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 22

Kingsport Times-News 10-C Sunday Dec 13 1953 Appalachian Tales: Reissues Make i Comeback On Wide Screen Charm Doctoring Popular During Old Pioneer Days formal Boy At 26 Months RnnuRT rmnrwsTPTV iwt if By ROBERT GOLDENSTEIN lad Of his ft Gayla Gets Pet Sought In Song OKLAHOMA CITY (P) Gayla Peevey 10-year-old child singing star is going to get that hippopotamus for Christmas after all but Its earmarked for the Oklahoma City Zoo not her Viarlr varri Gaylas hit tune I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas prompted a drive here to raise $4000 to purchase a 700-pound baby hippo Mathilda from a New York animal farm operator Gayla is taking her gift in stride It woum be a good Idea she said for Mathilda to stay at the zoo where not only I but all the other children could get to see her Besides she added our back yard isnt big enough Comedian Wife Adopt Daughter HOLLYWOOD (ff) Comedian Jerry Lewis and his wife Patty have adopted another child They said they would call her Sally May Shes wonderful said Lewis We hope to adopt six more in time The Lewis elder son Gary 8 is their own by birth Ronnie 4 was adopted Receives Welcome PITTSBURGH W5) When Frank Segrlff walked Into a police station to report his auto missing he was welcomed with oper? arms Officers had been alerted via police radio to be on the lookout for him after he had been reported involved in at least three collisions Segriff was given an intoxication test He failed to pass and was booked on a drunken driving charge held a hand on his chest about halfway down) Hit was nearly choking him to death Hit got so he couldnt work a lick Barely could git up out of his cheer and you could hear him getting his breath all over the house Old Preacher Billy Robinette had been aholding meeting on Indian Creek one Saturday and Sunday and somebody told him about Mels goiter How longs it been on him? he axed They said -Long time And he said Well hitll come off all right but hit may be a right smart bit Wasnt but a few days after that till Old Preacher Billy took down sick and died Died almost sudden Hit went on and Id forgot all about Mel Perry and his goiter If Id a though at ell Id a thought that with Old Preacher Billys death the charm would have been broken I hadnt seed nor heard anything of Mel and nobody had named him to me Then about a year ago I was over at Emmetts store allaying checkers when in walked Mel Perry I liked not a-knowed him Ill swear I didnt There was no more sign of a goiter on his neck thad they is in the palm of my hand I axed Mel Ahd he said that about the time Old Preacher Billy Robinette died his goiter started going away Hit got better and better he said until hit was plum gone No sign of it Pat had let his pipe go out He fingered another match from his shirt pocket and relit his tobacco There was a faraway look in his gaze fixed on the hazy By ROB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (A5) The shortage of movies 'has) brought greater interest in reissues and Sam Goldwyn has a formula for them i Most theaters allow reissues to sneak out as though they were something to be ashamed of" says the wily producer Im bringing back Best Years Of Our fives proudly as though it were a new picture Sam who knows how to milk the most money from a picture is putting on quite a campaign for Best Years He plans to spend a quarter-million dollars on an advertising campaign He teed off the drive this week with a dinner and 'showing of the film for the Hollywood press I am bringing back this- picture because of the many requests I have received from womens clubs veterans groups and other organizations re ported Goldwyn I feel the mes sage in this picture is just important today as it was when it was first released After -all men are coming backifrom another war and there is a whole new audience 1 We will go into towns and hills to the south Old Preacher Billy Robinette he said could cure about anything youd trot out to him by charming 'H sximmer day and we were seated on the front porch enjoying the halfshadej A woman of the neighborhood afflicted' with goiter had been complaining of her affliction before taking her departure Pat watched herv go off down the trail as he crammed his cob pipe full of Country Gentleman Susans In bad shape he said scratching a match on the arm of the rocker If Old Preacher Billy Robinette was here he would take that off in no time He was the best charm doctor that ever was in this here country I guess Charmed em off Old Preacher Billy did and if he ever failed I never heard about it Pat drew on his cob pipe and spat off the end of the porch I member the time he went on that he cured Mel Perry after all the other doctors had give him up Said they was no chance for him "Mel was firing Willie Sargent's sawmill over on Indian Creek at the time Had the aw fulest goiter on his neck I ever seed or heard of Hit was all of that big (he put his fists together and held them up for me to see) and hung away down here (he BROAD STREET age Looking to the future one doctor said We dont regard Rodney as just a surgical cash but as a boy who ultimately can be rehabilitated as a happy and effective person The surgery perhaps may be the least important of the skills required for attaining this end Old Hand At Santa Business i i i BALTIMORE (Pj Sixty-nine-year old Boyce began his 38th consecutive year as a Santa Claus to kids in hospitals Boyces wife makes him a new Santa suit every other year and the retired trucker finances his annual Christmas charity stint by charging himself 50 cents every time he shaves himself This year he is distributing $187 worth of hard candyQo the youngsters Celebrates With Flying Faniily LOS ANGELES W-The eWest licensed pilot in the nation 91-year-old James Montee will celebrate his 60th wedding anniversary Sunday by flying four generations of his family over Los Angeles Montee who soloed on his 60th birthday in 1922 said he and his wife Margaret 83 and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren will make a sightseeing flight Actress Is 111 SANTA MONICA Calif (JP) Chlnese actress Anna May Wong is seriously ill She was admit' ted to Santa Monica Hospital last Wednesday it became known Friday The nature of her illness was not disclosed 10Q0 To Choose From! Large Selection Christmas Holly GARDEN BASKET play important first-run thea-iberlands ters with this picture starting Among the outstanding cases after the first of the year If It- charming away diseases of makes only one quarter the which I have knowledge is that money it made on the first lease I will be happy I have never released figures on rgy pictures but I know that it is second only to Gone With The Wind as a moneymaker Variety has listed the Best-Years take in this country and Canada at almost 10 million It was first released in 1946 and starred Frederic March Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell Match picked up an Oscar for it Russell two William Wyler won for direction Robert Sherwood for writing and Gbldwyn got it for the picture as well as an Irving Tahlbert Award I The picture stands up amazingly well after seven years The dialogue and acting are as crisp as new and the only thing dated of Melvin Perrys goiter and Its removal by Elder Billy Robinette the treatment not taking place until long -after the doctor was dead Ill let Pat Addington who was familiar with this case tell the story Pat was visiting with me one is the length of the womens skirts which are a trifle short or these times Goldwyn added that he plans to give the same treatment to some of his other classics Among those he mentioned were Wuthering Heights and Dqdsworth M-G-M is dusting off the screens top grosser Gone With The Wind for still another run Like- Best Years it will be shown on wide screens 35495 HOME By JAMES TAYLOR ADAMS In pioneer days here in the hills charm doctoring waS the most popular profession While toothache phthisic and goiter were his particular meat the charm doctor would try his hand at anything in' which the final results were left to the patients guess or imagination I have heard of many strange and unusual cures by charm doctors in my own neighborhood When I was a boy I heard Elder Peter Adkins read a letter from a woman who lived in Kansas advising him that his remedy charmed across a thousand miles had completely cured her little girl of phthisic Elder Peter had never seen his patient in that particular case and charmed away her disease while he was at his home in Letcher County Kentucky and the child was in Kansas It is noticeable that' most1 if not all the charm doctors were preachers practicing: their charming prof ession as a sort of sideline to their preaching and their preaching as a sort of sideline to-farming the rough hillsides of the rugged 'Cum- Innerspring unlft decorator-doslgnoo CHICAGO (JP) It may be months before Rodney Dee Bro-die gets a hard top for his skull but life Isnt passing him by Rodney now 26 months old has made definite strides toward a happy and useful life since he was separated from his brother Roger last Dec 17 The two infants were joined at the top of their skulls Roger died 34 days i after the delicate surgery Rodney Is going through a pe riod of physical mental and emotional growth Doctors say children of his age must be taught to do things for them- selves and acquire a sense of self-confidence and security if they are to develop' into effective adults I Right now the problem of future surgery is less pressing than the need for day-to-day development of Rodneys emotions body and his mind said a doctor who has been on the case from the start It was the hope that both or one of the twins would have a chance to live a normal life that prompted the -parents Mr and Mrs Royt Brodle to consent to the separation operation a year 1 ago If you visited a childrens ward in the University of Illi-nois Chicago Medical Center to-' day you would see a cheerful and alert boy busily scouting his surroundings in a wheel- equipped walker I The brown-eyed lad- with a quick grin and large-size curiosity bears little resemblance to the bandage-swathed boy who for two months teetered on the brink of death while surgeons covered his brain with skin in a series of operations Maybe hell center his invest! gation on a cupboard in the ward kitchen where food and pans are stored tugging out a drawer of bandages to spill -them on the floor or playfully pull the drain plug out of his filled bathtub Or he might sight a wall thermometer just out of reach with the remark What do you call that I want that Whatever he does there are no hasty shouts of dont and t' no physical punishment For Rodneys proper develop- ment doctors nurses and phys- leal therapists try to provide the ward with the healthy and com- fortable environment a child I normally finds in the home The dean of the child pa- tlents in the ward Rodney gets love and affection understanding and encouragement from all quarters He cuddles up tb his parents when they visit him every other -week making a 450-mile auto trip from their downstate home ln Ferris The nurses fill in at other times 1 He is encouraged to accomplish things within his limita-i tlons but there is no effort to push him beyond his capacities Feeding himself is one accom- pllshment So is dumping a drawer full of medical supplies even if it requires $ome cleaning up later nevertheless Rodney is learning all the world is not his merely for the askng Although he not punished physically he is disciplined like any other boy 'his age I Rodney now learning to nddk recently stood alone Supporting himself against' a firm object He can walk a few steps flinging to someones hand His neck muscles have strengthened to a point where he can hold Jiis head erect The separation operation affected the use of Rodneys left hand and leg Although he has shown continuous Improvement Xunder a program of physical 'therapy Rodney still has to look first and then give these extremities a sort of conscious mental command Doctors call Rodneys overall 'progress since the operation reasonably satisfactory Although surgeons expect to -I provide a hard covering for Rodneys skull they emphasize no declslon has been reached on the 'technique to be followed At firsts they waited for a regeneration or spontaneous growth of bone at the perimeter i of the separation operation This would be natures way of helpring correct its own mistake However indications now are that the growth is only normal for Rodneys age and is not nar-! Towing the opening That leaves them with the I problem of making a skull covering of bone from a bone bank transplanted bone metal or i plastic Doctors say hone transplanted from other parts of a patients body has proved more satlsfac- tory in skull surgery than other materials but In Rodneys case the amount of bone needed is greater than his small body could safely supply at present "He is 35 inches tall and -weighs 25 pounds about normal for a GIVE SNAP-SHOTS IN 'ALBUMS' 1 FOR CHRISTMAS! 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