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THE WINONA REPUBLICAN-HERALD. WINONA, MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1953 CongressPension Plan Payments Double Benefits WASHINGTON (fl-Remember the "bundles for Congress" which 5t Haymes Can Thank Sinatra for Start By EARL WILSON NEW YORK--I was so surprised--you could have knocked me poured in on unhappy senators and over with one of Rita Hayworth's old husbands--when Dick Haymes House members after they voted I hit the headlines as the Great Lover. themselves 1942? a pension system in But I shouldn't have been for I predicted it a whole decade ago. The indignation was so outspok- i en that Congress repealed the law! Mav 19 to be exact-that Haymes just six weeks after it was passed. I started on his way.

'Twas back in the hoary year of '43-yup, this century-night of But the lawmakers gamely tried again in 1946, enacting another pension plan for themselves as part of a general congressional reorganization in the La Follette- Monroney Act. And the 1946 idea has worked so well. Sen. Monroney (D-Okla) said today, that contributions to it from the legislators' salaries have totaled more than double the retirement benefits paid out. In seven years of the program's operation, members of Congress have paid million dollars into Iheir retirement system, while one million has gone out in pension checks.

Monroney said in an interview that there was little doubt the congressional pension plan would not be actuarially sound except for one thins: "We in Congress usually are extremely reluctant to retire as long as we are physically able to carry on the work. "So, many senators and House And he can thank Frank Sinatra for it. "Swoonatra" had been packing such crowds of croon-mad dames into the old Riobamba night club that the other cafe bosses wailed, "What can we do?" "We'll get us a crooner, too," they said, ingeniously. A fellow named Dario who a the old La Martinique cafe and has since gone to Mexico for his health--he doesn't want to get shot --signed up Dick Haymes. Dick wasn't exactly unknown but he wasn't a household word except in his own house.

However, he now found himself pointed out in the same company with Frankie--the hottest new thing in the country in '43. I flung him a rave notice the day after he opened. I particularly rhapsodized about how he made the gals palpitate. "The lady members of the Booze Who have a new male singer to swoon over," I came right out fear- Biggest U.S. Crops Since '48 Predicted Fighting to Get Out of Studio By BOB THOMAS "HOLLYWOOD wi --At a time when most actors are fighting to get into studios, Richard Widmark is anxious to get out.

The blond actor from Sunrise, admits that he is going against the trend. But he says he can afford to. "I don't own a Cadillac," he remarked in his dressing room on the "Hell and High Water" set. "I drive a '51 Oldsmobile and I bought it used. I also live very sensibly.

So I can afford to take chances on career while some Agr culture Department Fox is up next May. After "seven members hold on to their seats lessly and said, and continue paying into the re-1 From where i a i at the ring- tirement fund at a time when most side so close cftuld see tbe chorus other men are enjoying the girls navels seemed to be the sions they have built up over on g. soug ht a to a a rs Vj Sinatra," I added. He didn't name any names. But AriH nn H.

any a case in point might well be the oldest senator, Theodore Francis Green (D-RI), who will be 86 in October. Green was first elected to the Senate at 69, well past the age when many men have retired. He already had had a long and varied career as a lawyer and businessman, and had served four years as governor of Rhode Island. The wiry, slight New Englander shows no signs of slowing down. He often walks several miles to his Capitol Hill offices, and he has traveled all over the world as a top member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Next week he will be a delegate to the United Nations Assembly. Incidentally, Green reputedly is one of the Senate's millionaires, so a congressional pension would seem to be of academic interest to him. Monroney emphasized that he and the late Sen. Robert La (R-Prog-Wis) pledged in to And continued "Of course all the broads are going to be wondering what he looks like, so I'll describe him. "Well, he's tall, around 5-feet-ll, 27 years old, and has eyes, nose, teeth, and ears, especially ears.

It'll also interest women to know that he wears a weddin' band. Notice that I say 'interest' them, not i deter them." (Oil, you prophet, you! How'ja yesterday. But it indicated that com production may not be so high as to require the rigid marketing controls impending for wheat and cotton next year. The corn crop prospect was 3,330,418,000 bushels. A figure 70 million higher probably would require Secretary of Agriculture Benson to invoke marketing quotas.

Benson expressed the feeling "there will probably have to be controls" of some kind on corn. Less restrictive acreage planting allotments, and possibly marketing quotas if crop prospects go up by Nov. 15, may be ordered. the retirement plan was not self- supporting. Senate and House members contribute 6 per cent of their salaries--which are $12,500 a year--into the retirement fund.

They become eligible for benefits only if they serve six years. Benefits are figured at the rate of 2Vi per cent for each year of service multiplied by the average annual salary. Members with service prior to 1946 got credit for those years if they paid into the pension fund a sum comparable to that required for similar credit under the civil service retirement system. Jail Trusties to Man Ground Observers Post AUBURN, Calif. UP)--Auburn's short of people to man the aircraft observation post so-The Placer County Board 'of Supervisors approved the use of jail trusties to fill out the ranks.

And-Sheriff Charles Ward and Defense Coordinator George Brandlein plan to move the observation post from north of town to-The roof of the county jail. long years," he is not anxious to sign again. But it's not for the usual complaint--not liking the pictures he has been assigned. "Some have been good, some not so good; I guess the average has been okay," he explained. "But I just don't want to be tied down any longer.

There are too many exciting things going on outside. Not television; I'm not interested in that. But I do want to combine some stage work with pictures, 10 More Years "I'm 37 now, and I figure I've got 10 more years as an actor before I fold up and they carry me away. I want to make the most of those years." Widmark admitted that he was a little tired of hustling through service pictures. "It all started with 'Halls of he said.

"That' was a success, so they started doing others." Since then, he has been everything from a frogman to an infantry sergeant. He didn't mind too much at first, because he had the choice of fighting the war or playing a killer. At present he's a discharged lieutenant commander in "Hell and High Water," which concerns a group of civilians who visit the Russian atom plants in a submarine. "At least I'm discharged," he said, but he figures he has the points to stay -out of uniform in the future. Hollywood has never quite been able to figure Widmark.

Despite his dynamic film portrayals, he's a quiet, soft-spoken and modest fellow. Although he recently hired his first press agent (a sure sign he is going to free-lance soon), he has never appeared to care much about publicity. He is friendiy with the press corps, but seldom very productive for copy. He and his wife and live quietly in a comfortable home! that is modest by film star stand-! Rio'bamba, after Frank left, tried) 1951 to make up the difference. a The widmarks are se ldom know?) I mentioned that the big dames heaved a sigh--at least they heaved--when he sang, and that Latin Quarter Owner Lou Walters' 12- year-old daughter, Jackie, gave a hunk of birthday cake "to this new killer, Dick Haymes." "That gives you an idea of his great powers," I concluded.

But what I meant to say was that if it hadn't been for Frankie, Haymes might not be in all this feme, or in all this trouble. The Copacabana, after the Haymes experiment, tried out a crooner, too. Years of Work Nof Always Opening For Social Security A year and a half of work that counts toward social security, monthly benefits only in case the worker reaches 65 or dies before Jtly, 1954, Philip A. Beardsley, manager of the Winona social security office pointed out today. Beardsley says that people have been led to believe that a year and a half of covered work at any time is all that anyone needs to get benefit payments under social security.

He emphasized that the length of lime one must work to become insured is determined by the worker's date of birth. "To become insured and stay insured," Beardsley said, "the person must continue in work covered by tbe law at least one out of every two years after 1950 (or after reaching age 21) and up to the time of retirement or death." Or, as he explained, the person must have social security credit for demand contributions if! Guv named Perry Como. And the I enough covered employment before aemana Digger coninuuupns ii hosi a nn thp rt fferenee. Man's 'Deals' Fill 10 Pages of Notes DETROIT UP)--Police locked up a man identified as Clinton D. Smith, 42, in connection with a loan dispute, they reported.

Yesterday, they said Smith filled out 10 pages of notes on deals he was involved in while posing as a salesraan in cities throughout the country. The notes, requested by police, disclosed a record including: Absconding with funds from a Las Vegas, rodeo; disappearing with $2,000 from a Sacramento, "food selling "personalized cigar bands" to Oakland, police and not providing the bands; and absconding with $2,000 in a San Francisco meat sale. He will be turned over to Toledo, Ohio, police on an embezzlement charge. Ike Values Democrats, Party Paper Claims WASHINGTON Wl The Democratic Digest says President Eisenhower has been getting vital help from Democrats but "apparently does not feel that he can afford to acknowledge" it. The party publication, in a leading article, "How Democrats Saved From His Own Party," contended that Democratic cooperation has made "all the difference between success and failure for his administration." Yet, it said, the President at times "seems to feel that he must appear to be giving the opposition a scorching in a manner that the Old Guard will approve." The September issue is the second in the magazine's new pocket- size format.

plished job, Ginger Rogers is effective as the stage star, and Paul Douglas plays his familiar, blustery self. Good dialogue lifts the film out of the ordinary. McCarthy Calls More Witnesses For Hearings By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON Senate investigations sub i weighing the possibility of security leaks in the-Government Printing Office, today summoned more unnamed witnesses in preparation for public hearings next Monday. Chairman McCarthy. (R-Wis) referred to the probe as of major importance, but he was chary about disclosing details gleaned in two previous days of closed-door testimony.

From authoritative sources it was learned, however, that the subcommittee is looking into charges of Communist activity against a Government Printing Office employe who has been cleared to handle secret material. In following up information, on score, the subcommittee has branched out into an inquiry into I the Government Printing Office's (handling of secret documents sent I to it to be printed. i Certain I Sen. Dirksen (R-I11), the other subcommittee member participating in the investigation besides McCarthy, said "we are quite cer- I a i that a very substantial amount 'of confidential secret and top secret work" has been processed in the Government Printing Office. Dirksen said he and McCarthy had been "exploring the possibility of anyone who was so inclined purloining a secret document and transmitting it into hands where it should not be." He declined to say whether they had any evidence of a document being taken from the printing crf- jfice.

Biit he said there had been I discussion of "ways and means of I tightening security and making it 'completely foolproof against theft." Included in secret documents sent to the printing office, Dirksen said, is material from the Central Intelligence Agency, Atomic Energy Commission and the State and Defense departments. Amount of Material "The amount of material in the secret category has been very sub-1 stantial," Dirksen said, However, the AEC said it sends all "restricted data" to be printed' to another Washington establish- iment where all employes have I "full FBI clearance." The Air Force said it sends no "top secret" material to the Government Printing Office, but some of its "secret" printing is done there. The Army said it does it's own "top secret" printing, but the Navy said its "top secret" data is sent to the Government Printing Office. Raymond Blattenberger, new head of the printing office, said he would investigate to find out how much confidential material hit handle. Viewer Hurls Wrench Through Television Set TULSA, Okla.

A television firm here filed a malicious mischief charge yesterday against customer who hurled a money wrench through the screen of hii unpaid-for set. DELIGHTFULLY COOL: WEST ENI) THEATRE 90 Final Showing Tonight Van Johnson Corotby Ruth Rom On "INVITATION" Plus: Sport Cartoon Shows: 7-y Adro. 12c-SOo ONE MINUTE TO ZERO itimng ROBERT MITCHUM ANN BLYTH Plus: "Open House' 1 TONIGHT and TOMORROW Spectacular Manttrpltce nf the Grot Immorti.1 LOTC Storlti Plus: Cartoon "Cockeyed Canary" Shows: Inc. Tar out another one. Guy named Dean Martin.

And there was a columnist whom he belted in the nose, who was hit hard that the momentum helped him write best sellers. Yes, that Frankie certainly has the magic touch. THE MIDNIGHT EARL. Friends of Howard Hughes are denying the scuttlebutt about him breaking up a Hollywood marriage inviting the gal star to screenings. HH is now at Vegas where he's gained 10 Ibs, and looks good Irving Berlin's dtr.

Linda appears soon at Dennis, in "Hay Fever," the star being Miriam Hopkins who was a chorine in Berlin's first Music Box revue. Aly Khan on his U. S. visit may arrange for Rita's dtr. to visit his pop, the Aga Khan, but Rita's lawyer Hartley Crum will insist she be "amply protected." Social security credit for work be- i seen in the night clubs or f2ncy fore 1951 may be added to credits f.TM (parties and appear to have few gained in covered employment or iends jn thfi movie Qne of self-emp oyment after 1950 to-give Djck extravasances is own the worker the required amount.

Beardsley says another widespread misunderstanding is the meaning of the average monthly earnings on which social security benefit payments a based. "Some people," he "believe that their average earnings are determined by using only the years in which they were engaged in work covered by the law." He says that all years after 1950, from age 21 to age 65, are counted in arriving at the monthly average. Periods of nonemployment, or early retirement from self-employment will cut down the amount of the average monthly earnings and may cause old-age and survivors benefit payments to be less than the insured worker or his dependent family expected. Mrs. Robert Van, Negro pub- Bear(Js iey urges that workers get Usher of the Pittsburgh Courier, to date information about what l-i nim nrt Hlfi-vlH Ctfl will be named Harold Stassen's asst.

at MSA. Comic Jackie Kannon's sporting a new nose. Rosemarie's the only girl" to appear on every month of the Esquire calendar--and no wonder! Earl's Pearls. "Why is it," asks Rob't. Q.

Lewis, "that girls who grow to be women become women who try to be girls?" WISH I'D SAID THAT: "There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that the older generation didn't E. Dewel, Kossuth County (Iowa) Advance. TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Lynne Gilmore claims she saw an American car with a foreign look. Some woman was driving it on the left side of the road. Advice to gals, via Gourmet: "When your boy friend says your kisses are intoxicating, be sure he isn't mixing his That's earl, brother.

PLEASANT HILL MEETING The monthly meeting of the Pleasant Hill unit of the Farm i Bureau has been canceled, Mrs. I Leon Henderson, home chairman of the unit, announced today. Mrs, Henderson said the meeting scheduled to be held Friday at Pleasant Hill Town Hall would conflict with 4-H club day at the Winona County Fair." More than half of all Americans wear glasses. the social security program means to them and their families. The Winona social security office is located in the Post Office, building and is prepared to assist workers or their survivors in the filing of claims and other related matters.

Dick's few extravagances ing a horse. He likes the outdoor life and is an ardent golfer, swimmer and tennis addict. Dim-witted Gunmen Although he has specialized in playing dim-witted gunmen and stouthearted serviceman, his work hasn't been overlooked by his fellow actors. When other players name the top actors of the screen, they almost always include Widmark. The kid has got to be good to get that.

SKY VII OKIVE THEATER Tonight and Thursday Opfn. AdulU (Inc. Children In Show JUIn or ClPar GrJTIHL, Also: Triple Trouble Color Cartoon Now Showing! plui Pete Smith'! "Aquatic Kidt" Cirtoen News Mat. 2:15 7-9 SOON! "SHE'S BACK. ON BROADWAY" Capsule Review: "Forever Female" is a somewhat talky, but generally diverting tale of life in the theater.

The story of how an older actress makes way for the younger generation is told with likable humor a sentiment. There are few real surprises, but the proceedings move along with the polished air of slick magazine fiction. Pat Crowley is the big news in the film. As the struggling young hopeful she gives a laudable per-j formance for a newcomer. William Holden, whose work is always be- lievable, i another a Sflje JDiruma WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12.

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