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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 3.1960 THE RtGISTER-NEWS AAT. VERNON, ILLINOIS Tells Movie Industry How To Make Cash By BOB THOMAS AP MovIeTV Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) Joseph Lcvine, and bustling Bostonian, was in town to drum his latest product and advise the film industry on how to survive. Hollywood might well listen. Le.

vine is the super salesman who promoted such imports as "God zUla," 'Attila" and "Hercules" into immense profits. He is not without his detractors. There are some who claim he is a junk dealer who hustles wares that are gilded and prettied up, but remain junk. Levine is too busy spending and making money to worry about such accusations. 'Take he suggested.

"I knew it was going to be a critics' picture. But I also knew there was something in it that the public would like. And they did." He cited "Attila." No one wanted to issue it in this country, and it languished for four years until Levine snapped it up for $100,000, The Sophia Loren Anthony Quinn epic grossed two million dollars. "Loren has made seven picutres in this country and not one has been a success, though she's still getting 300,000 per fihn," the movie man remarked. "I made money with 'Attila' because there was something in it that the public But that isn't all it takes for movie moneymakers nowadays, he said.

Selling must be added. That's where he feels the major companies fall down. "I've seen picture after picture that could earn 3 or 4 million more if they are properly he said, "But they won't go all-out. They a lot of money for advertising in a few towns, then skimp after that. They figure it isn't needed." SCHELLER Boyle Getting "Who-Said 50-Was Nifty'' Blues BYE-BYE Hundreds of thousands of blackbirds have taken over Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, but crafty city officials have planned a way to get rid of them.

They intend trapping a few birds, recording the distressed cries of the captives, and then playing them back over a loud-speaking system. They think it will frighten the birds away. HOMES FOR AMERICANS Mr. and Mrs. Wm.

Hunter and son Johnny of Twin Falls, Idaho, visited part of last week with Mrs. Hunter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J.

Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nichols met Mrs. Ethel Nichols at Centralia last Sunday. Mrs.

Nichols had spent several weeks in Florida with Mr. and Mrs, Eugene Deem. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bauza of Nashville visited over the week end with Mr.

and Mrs, Andy Kruger and daughter. Robert Moore is here on furlough visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J.

DLxon. Mr. and Mrs. James Brookman and Mr. and Mrs.

Ziggie Kawenski and daughter, Miss Mary Pear lof Mt. Vernon spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John B. Quinn.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Webber and daughters of Pinckneyville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. R.

J. Rabat Sunday. Mr. and Mi-s. Roy Freeman attended the funeral of Charles Reminger at Du Bois Monday morning.

Mrs. John B. Quinn spent Mon-' day afternoon with Mrs. J. Arthur Smith.

Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. DLxon were: Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Dixon of Mt. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Hunter and son of Twin Falls, Idaho; Mr.

and Mi-s. Ben Laur and fam- fly and Mr. and Mrs, Jack Dixon and fantiily. Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Slierman and son, Ronald of St. Louis, visited Mr, and Mi-s. Raymond Rabat and family Saturday. Mi-s. Lawrence Pitman has returned liome from Oklahoma City where she visited her sister, Mrs.

Ralph Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman is home from the hospital after the second operation. Mi's. Orville Freeman spent Monday with her mother, Mrs.

Wojtowicz at Du Bois. Mrs. Bessie Humphrey visited old friends here Tuesday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Eyers, Mrs.

Edith Hu-ons and Mrs. Wilson spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nichols. Mrs.

Anna Rabat and Mi-s. Gertiiide Dressier were business visitors here Tuesday. FAIR WARNING (4AI26M PLANNING AHEAD: This is for those who are economy minded at present, but want their home to grow as their family and income grow. The basic house has three bedrooms, one bath, Jidl basement and an expansionsecondjloor with room for two more bedrooms, bath, and dressing and sewing alcoves. Architect is Rudolph A.

Matern, 90-0-4 181st Jamaica 32, N. and the plan is HA126M. Soviets Invade Small Car Field MOSCOW (AP)-The Soviet Union is planning to invade the highly competitive U. S. small car market with its Moskvich, a pint- sized automobile for which Russian buyers usually have to wait for months.

The Soviet news agency Tass reported Monday that Robert Castle, an American dealer, has agreed to take 10,000 of the small cars in the next two years. The first delivery of 5,000 and a supply of spare parts would be made this summer. Efforts to find Castle or his firm were unsuccessful in the United States. Tass did not give his address. The sells here for 25,000 at the exchange rate but 2,500 at the more realistic tourist rate.

Outside the Union the price iias been the equivalent of about $1,400. A previous attempt by tlie Soviet Union to get into the West Gei'man car market was reported to have stalled without the sale of a car. Wayland Brooks Farm Is Sold OTTAWA. 111. (AP)-The farm of former U.S.

Sen. C. Wayland Brooks, 25 miles northeast of Ottawa, has been sold to the International Harvester Co. for $99,000. The farm, approximately 300 icres.

was sold by the fonner senator 's Mary, of Chicago, and by his son, Russell, and Brooks' first wife, Elizabeth, of Meridian, Ohio. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK year my life insurance agent sends me a congratulatory post card on my birthday. This month I figure he ought to splurge a bit and send a "get well" telegram. For it marks the starting of my 50th year, a land mark a man passes only once in his life. Technically, I wiU be only 49.

but I can see 50 on the rim of the horizon, and already I am getting those who-said-50-was-nifty blues. Years ago my birthdays were kind of fun. They gave me an excuse to go around and collect kisses from all the pretty girls in the office. His 40th birthday is a major disaster in any man's life. He doesn't fall for that Pollyanna guff that life begins at 40.

He knows better. Middle age hits him with the impact of an onrushing locomotive. "When does the fun begin? he asks plaintively, and feels in his heart that for him the fun of living is mainly past. I felt so low at 40 myself that almost every year since then my mother on my birthday has mailed me a note with this these two same cautionary bits of advice: "Child, child, don't you know there'll be another day?" and "Sit loosely in the saddle of But the 40s are a dark walk in a darkening forest, as you fight the thought eady day carries you farther from the pogo stick and nearer to the wheel chair. And what about the prospect of being 50? Well, strangely, as the half-century mark looms closer, you glimpse a patch of sunlight in the jungle.

You know you have weathered being in the 40s, and you know that nothing can be worse than that. You become more tolerant of the antics of teen-agers, and thank your stars you'll never have to be one again. You pity rather than envy youth. In reading a newspaper, you turn first to the obituary page, then to the stock market tables, then to the medical then to the sports page. Women of 25 and giddy and immature to you.

Women of 40 and 45 are endowed with a new and mellow charm. You give up the idea that when you awake tomorrow you'll feel as good as you did 20 years ago. You know darn well you'll feel just like you did when you awoke yesterday. You quit writing letters of advice to your congressman, and decide to let him stew in his own juice. You no longer have to listen to your wife, because you know ev- she says by if she challenges you, you can play any of her verbal records back fi'om memory.

You don't fight so hard against gathering fat, lost causes, and life itself. You are content to realize that one life isn't long enough to change the wide world. Life isn't as exciting as it once was, but it is far more comfortable. You give up looking for new heroes. In a quiet way you feel that, after all, you are your own best hero.

And, in a way, isn't that rather true? Isn't anyone who suivives to his SOth year in this century a kind of a hero? Says Religion Is No Issue For The Presidency BUCK HILL FALLS, Pa. (AP) A Protestant church agency says the presidency should not be denied any citizen "on grounds of race, religion or ethnic origin. In what it says is the first declaration of its kind, the Council for Christian Social Action of the United Church of Christ said Monday: "To assume that no Roman Catholic should be president of the United States would amount to a denial of fundamental American liberties guaranteed by the Constitution." Conceding that citizens should inquire about a candidate's beliefs including religion and affiliations, the resolution added: "Religious affiliation must not automatically qualify or disqualify a citizen for any political office. "The crucial question is not what influences are brought to bear upon a president bufhow he responds to them. The interests of all religious and non-religious groups must be talcen into account by the president, wliatever his personal religious affiliation." OPDYKE YOUTH NAMED Cong.

Shipley Completes Nominations For Academy WASHINGTON, D. George E. Shipley has completed making nominations to all the Service Academies. Shipley had previously announced nominations of 29 applications to the Air Force and Naval Academies, and with the additional nominations now make a total of 38 young men from the 23rd Congressional District, who are being processed for possible admission. Shipley lists the following names and academies for the most i-ecent nominations: West Point Burnotte Hip- slier, 1407 16th Street, Law- re'nceville, 111.

First Clifton Fisher, 926 Walnut Olney, 111. Second Alternate Richard William Cole. Rural Route No. 1, Opdyke, 111. Third Alternate Dale Alan Wells, 516 North College, Salem, 111.

Merchant Marine Edward E. Lennert. 514 Chestnut Street, Mt. Carmel, 111. STOMACH GAS May Tax HEART A Mt.

Vernon man once feared he had heart trouble; gas in his stomach formed pressure causing "gassy catches" that hurt with each deep breath; so check with your doctor if worried about your heart. If it's gas, remember: SYS-TONE is helping victims of stomach gas all over Mt. Vernon. Taken with meals Sys-Tone worlcB WITH YOUR FOOD. Expels quickly I Coatalin Iron to enrich pale, anemic blood: also vitamin B-1 tor up.

eet nerves. Many gat-tllled neiTous, worn- out people Boon Icel Uke new. So don't so on Buffering. Get leading- DruirglstB In Mt. Vernon.

Also by all drug stores In nearby towns, LINKON'S ANY GLASS.ANY CAR DESK TOPS, SHELVING MAMMOTH CHIIDREN'S DIPT. SECOND HOOR OOPS, WRONG BEDDING ROCKY FORD, Colo, (fft their gift in the reception room. The bride walked down the aisle. "Thai's not her," the wife I An out-of-town couple drove herejexciaimed. The couple departed for the wedding of a hui'riedly, finally found the wed- Cai's wei'e First Oirist: couple went parked around tiie ian Church.

Tlie mside, deposited ding they planned to attend in progress at the First Methodist Church. FLOOR SAMPLE 1 Automatic Zig Zag SINGER SEWING MACHINE (NEW) $30.00 DISCOUNT Liberal Trade.in Terms SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. Mt. Vernon, Illinois to 6x 'Ship'ii Shore's emforoiderefl PofMli Tlusgaybattoa-dawnsfalrtman-cottOD broadcloth has colorful embroidored 3w kites flying 'way 'way up high! Grk will love it And so win yoa for its breezy sodsabiiitirf White with two-color trim. oftr easy-ctau SMp'n Shore gids' hiousosf The Mammoth Dept.

Store Established Quality Since 1879 Bruce D. Gunn, 628 Park Street, Hillsboro, 111. Dale E. Cox, 305 South Second Grayville, 111. Coast Guard David E.

Walter, 406 S. W. Third Fairfield, 111. Charles O. Wehlage, 1504 Wabash Centralia, 111.

Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson, graduate of West Point, resigned as staff officer in tlie U. S. Army to become a private in the Republic of Texas army. Mexico has 28 states plus a federal capital district.

Broadway musical composer CaU Porter was bom in Peru, 1892. FREE ESTIMATES Aluminum Storm Windows and Doors GREEN'S ROYAL VENETIAN BUND SERVICE Dial CH 2.4142 GUARANTEED TV AND RADIO REPAIR All Makes and Models PPrompt Service by Expertl 15lh Broadway-Phone CH 4-1682 Parking in Rear It's now at Bayer MotorsI The Rocket Road Show from Oldsmobilel A special fleet of jlralor new 1960 Rocket Oldstnoblles will be at Bayer Motors, 211 N. 10th on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Feb. 4, 5.

i. You're Invited to stop in during the Rocket Road Show and take the wheel of one of these new Oldsmoblles and discover the quietest, most satisfying ride you've ever triedl BAYER MOTORS 211 North 10th Mt. Vernon, III. GEORGETOWN, Ohio (AP) Sign in a general store at nearby Macon: "No More Credit Until We Gets Our Outs In." ESTIMATES and Planning Residential Commercial New construction Additions Garages Recreation Rooms Porch Enclosures, etc. GUARANTEED WORKMANSHIP FULL INSURANCE COVERAGE F.H.A.

RemodellnK Loans Nothlnsr mos. to pay DIAL 4 -3150 JOE P. BOYLE BUILDERS 3310 Iraadway CM "dog tired pairing bills'? WIN A DALMATIAN "PUP" Name the big dog in our newspaper advertisements and on our billboards. Entry blanks in our lobby. Contest Closes February TOth At First National Bank of Mount Vernon you may choose from two types of checking accounts (Regular or Economy), and may select from a handsome display of distinctive Checkbook Covers! FIRST NATlblMAL BANK (AMOUNT VERNON 4.