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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 18

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NATIONAL 2D SUNDAY. JANUARY 19. J558 THE DAILY OKLAHQ31AN CITY Missiles, Money Mailmen in News Kidnaping Brings Police on Double Quotes of Week rich Chicagoan. After extensive contradictory testimony, the judge took the case under By EDITH GAYLORD Projects for remaking yourself arc urged upon the gals by TOGUE nor are Ihcv limited to remodeling and redecorating the face and bodv. Up come ideas that mind also matters.

Before vou even get through the front ads the question of hard education or soft gets a hard-hitting-going over by the headmaster of the Choate school for boys; After a brief pause for fashion identihca-Lion humorist Phvllis McGinlcy appears with a serious piece includes "an which roav surprise you on how to get along w-itj going, and you'll find that the remaking progTa overhaul of "people's and profes Comedian Bob Hope disclosed a recent brush with death that occurred when he almost ejected himself from a jet plane over the Pacific, then in true show business style quipped: "How could I ever top a finish like that?" Rep. Wright Patman Texas) proposed the question of the week after studying President Eisenhower's request for a $73.9 billions national budget in fiscal 1959 when he queried, "Where are they going to get the the navy successfully launched its Polaris sile Friday, three days after the armv had sent its Redstone missile into the wild blue yon- der at Cape" Canaveral. As the week drew to a close the house ways and means committee approved Eisenhower's "request for a temporary $5 billion dollar boost in the national debt limit. On a different note, Sen. Ralph Yarbrough of Texas in- troduced a bill to restore vet- eran's education benefits under the GI bill of rights.

The -measure would cover teers or draftees who served -at least 90 days after January I 31. 1955. And on the lighter side the news marriages of entertainment fig-. ures were in the spotlight. The marriages were that of Missiles, money and mailmen were making more head-lines on the national scene last week with the newly seated house quickly, alloting an ex-tra half billion dollars for missile development.

This development came after President Eisenhower asked for approval of a $73.9 billion budget for fiscal 1959. Ike declared he won't ask for a tax raise, but would rather go to retl 'ink financing. As for the mailmen, they got a break from the postmaster general, who declared one dog bite will cut off mail de In another branch of the government, agriculture Secretary Benson found another fire lit under his kettle when Democratic senators accused him of using "false figures" to substantiate his call for reduced price supports. Back with the missile controversy. Sen.

Lyndon Johnson charged in a hearing that "any little budget officer down the line" can halt a project. sionals' ideas about psychiatry. Still, you haven't been really slugged yet. Etiquette seems an unexpected topic for the NEW REPUBLIC. Men and women both are targets for heavy punches in an article on the tyr-.

anny of democratic manners. Something called "body language" may shake the soul out more. ESQUIRE commiserates Willi the nihilistic philosophy of the Beat Generation. Then, as a witty relief but not an unrelated problem, it also has a piece about courtship on the campus The kidnaping of two preschool age sisters' and the sexual molestation of enc of the pair Tuesday brought forth an all-out effort by the police department to ferret out the guil- Thc two girls, 3 and 5 years old, were taken from a car in a southside grocery store parking lot while their mother ran inside for a bottle of milk. They, were dumped on a lonely road in a chilling mist.

Police were hauling in every known sex offender for questioning, but as the week ran out the guilty man still had not been found. Meanwhile, in federal tax court here the details of a wild spending spree by' a wealthy Chicago widow were being related by Leurana Pig-fighting a federal charge she owes $196,336 in back taxes. Miss Pigman contends the money she allegedly received as income was simply cash she was doling out to "friends" of Mrs. Fanny May Scoville, INTERNATIONAL On the safety front, the post mortem on state highway car deaths brought a proposal that speeds on Oklahoma county roadways be reduced to 50 miles per hour both day and night. And while the drivers were taking their licks, the illegal parkers continued to be in the middle of a big city hall-police department hassle over ticket This mess turned into a scries of proposals, charges and counter-charges with no one coming up with anything that appeared to be a satisfactory solution.

A major downtown business move reported was the sale of the Oil Gas building at Main and Robinson by a Dallas man to R. T. Stuart jr. of Oklahoma City and Preston P. Reynolds jr.

of Dallas for about 5650,000. born boyfriend Mickey Hsrgi-: tay and of Debra Paget singer David Street, who just a week earlier had divorced his fourth wife of less than a month. which might best be described as battle plans. For any long-legged generation ESQUlRE's sports fashions include an array of fancy pants and some startling pictures of men's swim suits regressed in style to the '90s. TRUE magazine shows colorful sweaters for men.

It also acclaims sausage as Man's Meat. On the business of eating CORONET says you can lose five pounds a week on an "eat everything but" diet. The diet list of buts is tasty. PAGEANT offers no fewer than three special diets aim-cd at giving you longer life, more vitality and greater poise: Former Oklahoma newspaperman Noel Houston writes for HOLIDAY- magazine about the much-traveled revivalist Billy Graham. The same publication tries to satisfy your curiosity about cats.

Information for other travelers includes how to do a thrift tour of our neighbors, Albuquerque. Santa Fe and Taos, and some excellent pictures of Caribbean countries. Hardly for tourists, BEST ARTICLES AND STORIES magazine carries an exceptionally well written piece about Qucimacla Grande, a rocky island off Brazil, which has the unenviable distinction of being the home of the most venomous vipers in the world. STATE Four Receivers Begin Study On Holding Firm's Finances Bob Hope Rep. Wrigrrt Patman Victor Wickersham Victor Wickersham, former congressman from Mangum.

after being caught in a highway speed trap, apparently was caught with his thoughts down when his only defense was a rather tired phrase that goes, "I think they picked up the wrong car." Actress Sarah ChurchiM, jailed in Los Angeles for cursing a telephone operator, then kick'ng and cursing police officers, ruefully admitted in court where she was fined $50 that "I fully realize anyone might have misunderstood my actions." Dulles Calls Envoys Home For Quiz on Summit Talks become public relations man for a Houston engraving firm. His assistant. Dr. Freeman H. Beets, was named his suc- subject this Joining the.

list of the unexpected source for i The U. S. was taking steps at week's end to break the deadlock with Russia as a prelude to a possible east-west summit conference with Secretary of State Dulles calling home U. S. ambassadors from iron curtain nations for consul-He wants to find out what is possible and feasible on going forward with talks with the Soviets.

The stalemate still centers on negotiations for a world agreement to control nuclear weapons and missiles and to prevent the use of outer space for military purposes. On that point, a petition signed by nearly 10,000 top scientists throughout the world demanding a halt to nuclear weapons testing was presented to the United Nations secretary-general. While this was going on, Russia was warning Turkey that permitting foreign nuclear and rocket bases on Turkish soil would be a "dangerous step." Embattled Selected Investments Corp. of Oklahoma City found itself in the hands or four court appointed receivers last week after an investor protested the appointment of just one The receivers will study the company finances in an attempt to determine its solvency and conserve tho assets for rnore than 9.000 state investors in the $35 million firm. Long-silent former Rep.

Victor Wickersham of Mangum bounced into the headlines like a candidate he blasted a proposal to enlarge Fort Sill for a missile range. This just happened to be opposite the point of view taken by current Rep. Toby Morris of Law- A couple days later Victor was back on Page One when he was fined for traveling 74 miles per hour at night on a state highway. A surprise resignation occurred Monday when Dr. Dan Procter quit as head of Oklahoma College for Women to build-up along the Chinese coast poses a threat to Formosa and offshore islands.

But while most of the world was facing just threats, but not action, the outlawed Irish Republican army was keeping things hot on the Emerald Isle by raiding a police station and two other spots. And our southern neighbors were having their usual troubles, with Venezuela closing a highschool in the capital city of Caracas because of students' demonstrations a a i the government of President Carlos Perez Jimenez. One of the more interesting items injected into the troubled world was a claim by a Soviet scientist that he personally saw an abominable snowman during an expedition to the Pamir A visit to the state by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was announced. She will speak at the -University of Oklahoma, March 4.

In another field of education, the highway patrol stepped up -its drive to put motorists on the straight and narrow by in- augurating a plan to use only ono man per auto, making-mere men and cars available for duty on state highways. Seven hundred defendants were headed for court under a suit to be filed by the state attorney general. He seeks to determine just who has water -rights on the Washita river. Under another court action, the criminal court of appeals reversed a former opinion and held that the Seminole county grand jury indictment of Tom Smith, former county attorney there, on a liquor conspiracy charge was invalid. e7 week is Hie SATURDAY REVIEW devoting most of itsolf to U.

S. business, its expanding responsibilities, its challenges and changes. Comments include a reference to Oklahoma's Son. A. S.

Mike Monroney in his role as chairman of the senate aviation subcommittee. The VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW features a new look at the managerial problem in business while NATION'S BUSINESS has a changing slant on what is the real problem in worker turnover now. It also has charts projecting food costs to mr.5. Whether they anticipated this week's margin requirement cut for buying in the stock market, the SATURDAY EVENING POST tells how a of housewives play the stock market and U. S.

NEWS AND WORLD REPORT discusses whether this is the time to buy stocks. The latter magazir-e also notes a trend to fringe benefits for big executives. It further reports that now the United States is importing more foreign cars and exporting fewer American-made autos. By the way, there's a detailed buyers' guide to the new American cars in CHANGING TIMES. LIFE says senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson is moving in on the administration and U.

S. NEWS seems to concur by printing an account of how Senator Johnson sizes up the state of the Union. The magazine further points out that two Tcxans', Senator Johnson and speaker of the house Sam Rayburn. have directional control of this session of congress. Probable Democrats who might be tapped as the 10KO presidential nominee Krc discussed briefly in the REPORTER which also examines the attitudes of one John Foster Dulles.

In addition the magazine pours a lot of cold water on troubled oil in the Middle East. Congressional legislation problems pese a puzzle for scientists. Gail Whitney, 19-year-old New York heiress, cancelled plans to wed West Virginia oilman Richard Cowell with a confession often felt but rarely admitted: "Frankly. I'm too young to marry." Actress Debra Pa-get, labeled "the starlet who's never been kissed," explained her quickie romance and marriage to singer David Street as having started while they watched a TV late movie which never had an end for them because "he kissed me during the commercial and wowie I knew then I w-as in love." i border. i Chines Across the world, according to SCIENCE magazine, which also features a docu for the International mentary report on the United States progt the East-West struggle Walkout Splits Party Meeting NEWSWEEK plunges into Inside Track Goes to Nock Mixing Rocket Fuel Is Hazard TAMPA.

Jan. 18 OT The Sex Criminals Tell Of Nightmare Lives and therewith produces' a striking symbolic cover of a chess game rH nnrl wliilo rhoss nieces. Guess which side is which. Reporting on orthodox non-political chess playing, there's a storv about Bobby Fischer, the newiy-procinimea a chess hh: mpion who has reached the ripe old age of 14. nation's sudden interest in rock- want to be unfaithful to has brought boys a-runnm Tamna riruBstore counters to Barnes hasn't paid much attention to politics.

Sparks was urged to run acain. but made it clear Payne said he had received as he wouldn't, and Douglas Mc- buy rocKct tuei ingreoieni.s. Hillsborough Pharmaceutical society Intends to shoo away the. youngsters. Too dangerous, this mixing ol surances from state chairman Loyd Benefield in Oklahoma City that the issue of the two sets of county delegates should be judged according to the legality of how precinct delegates to the county convention Saturday artcrnoon had been elected.

rocket fuels, says Bernard Ci-" Police say the sex criminal they are most concerned with is tho type of men such as those who expressed the above opinions. The homosexuals, they say, are men with different psychological They do not consider themselves abnormal and usually do not attempt to conceal their homosexual tendencies. What kind of a man was it that kidnaped the two small Capitol Hill sisters this week? Police wish they knew the an-evupr Thfv snv he is orobablv Promotions Gone in Tyler School mino, society presiaem. "We think parents should be warned about letting their chil dren purchase chemicals wnicn might bo dangerous," the drug The Payne forces elected Greer to be their chairman and Mrs. Charles -Edwards, Wagoner, to Keever, Lnid, nominee for senator in 1956, refused to consider it.

Unless something develops to bring forward another candidate, Mock is likely to be the man to get the organization backing if he will run. The GOP leaders would like to agree upon a candidate for governor before the state convention here February 24. The precinct caucuses are to, be held February 10 and the county conventions February 15. If it becomes clear by that time who the organization will back, the party activities will be pitched to conform with the plans for the candidate. The GOP will write a platform or at least, set forth a few major kcims in resolutions at the con co-chairman.

Odom continued to preside over like those men who confessed their dark secrets to newsmen hero this week. the Democrats remaining in the courtroom and they acted quickly. gist said. "The other day. a kid asked me for some 7.inc dust," Cimino said.

"He was so little I could just barely see the top of his head over Ihc counter," Zinc dust, when mixed with other chemicals the pharmacist would not disclose, could blow a junior spaceman off the earth. Dangerous chemicals being sought by the youngsters and which the society members arc helnc nsked not to lot co arc Even 99th Birthday Worth Celebrating nriMRT.ATSJT.'. Sotlnnd Jan. 18 vention. One question is how far Mrs, Janet McAlpine gathered her family, around hor Saturday lo celebrate her 100th birthday, Then she brought out her birth certificate and found charcoal, sulphur, potassium ni spect here.

Their average pupil-teacher ratio is 28, fairly favorable in comparison to the cilywide average. There is another advantage for the increased work, "We're better teachers because we have to be more specific. We have to know exactly what Johnny knows. It comes down to a highly individualized tenching," Miss Treadway Miss Treadway nnd a panel of three other Tyler teachers, Mrs, Lnverne Nethorton, Mrs. Corn Knst nnd Mrs, Vcrcic Price, will explain their ungraded primary to other Oklahoma City teachers at a meeting Monday afternoon, its first presentation on a city wide basis, Tho discussion will he part of the program for a joint Oklahoma City Reading; council nnd Association for Childhood Education meeting at A p.

in, Monday in tho school administration building, 000 Klein. trate and potassium cnioraic. it will want to go in urging a vote on an amendment for repeal of prohibition. Mock took position for caution in committing the parly on tho issue when the policy com- he was only DO. Mro MrAlnlne ordered tho party to go on.

Collision Injures Youth on Scooter An 18-venr-old boy was hurt unanimously electing orticers ana passing four resolutions. The group under Odom elected 31. H. Conts, Wagoner mercantile manager, as chairman and Mrs. J.

J. Pope, Wagoner, co-chair- Odom had the delegates remaining counted nnd claimed that 51 of the 70 possible delegates had stayed in the courtroom. He contended it affirmed that this group was tho accepted and legal Wagoner county democratic mooting. In the faction which walked out ot tho courtroom, two men announced they would run for office next, summer against officials of tho opposing faction. Gordon Webb, Coweta turkey rancher, said ho would he a candidate for the state representative sent hold by Odom and Vernon Thompson, Wagoner, snid ho would run against sheriff Noal Choate, who remained in the courtroom.

Insurance Men Choose Speaker wife. I found satisfaction in attracting some other woman's attention and then exposing myself to her," he continued. "Afterward I am disgusted with myself and ashamed. But always I do it again. I have no desire to harm anyone." A fourth man told a similar story, except ho picked out small girls to whom he exposed himself.

Why does he pick small girls? "Fear of getting caught, I suppose," he says. "Voting girls don't think to get your license number." All told of the desire to remain an nnnymous part, known only lo themselves. They said they did not pick their victims in advance but chose whomever happened to be convenient. Most of them shid they had no desire to touch their victims. They said also that they recognized themselves as being in need of psychiatric treatment.

Why don't they seek such, treatment? Explained one: "I suppose it is because I don't want to discuss these feelings I have with anyone, even a psychiatrist. Until you got caught yon try to hide such feelings, hoping some day you will bo nblo to defent them, If you go to a doctor it's like putting it all out in the open, opening up your in-sides to public view," Tho hostility of the general public is the thins they fear most, they said, One said he thinks the nvcrnge mnn would prefer to lynch him than to recognize him as a sick mnn, "I think I'm sick," he snid. "I have a friend who Is an alcoholic. Ho has confided his fpplinns nnd frustrations to mo nnd I recognise them as tho same ones I fool, before I commit such an act, But for me drinking does not solve my problem." Wlmt do their wives think of them' "Mino divorced mo," snid one, "nnd corridors mc ono of Ilia most contemptible men on earth. I enn't sny that I disagree with hor." Another said, "Mine was sympathetic nnd has tried to help mo.

Without hor I think I would hnvo destroyed myself a' lone time ago." mitteo was meeting. It might not please Tulsa Republicans who want to go all out for repeal. However, most of the party lenders seemed to think it would he unuiico In cnmmlt tho nnrtv for Saturday night in a car-motor-scooter crash In tho 340O block Portland, "Ninety-nine is worth too," she said. Teen-Agers Raise $3,571 for Polio Oklahoma Citv hichschool stu Police said the victim, repeal nnd lose a grcnt bloc of conservative support because of the stand. The final decision may he in linn with the compromise lo submit repeal at a special CONTINUED 1 any emotional strain, it is abandoned.

The whole purpose -t the ungraded primary is to treat each pupil as nn individual child. Some may master skills on all five levels in as short a time as two years others may take four years. Miss Treadway nnd other Tyler teachers particularly wanted to try the new organization because their school is the only primary school in the city system it has only kindergarten through the third grade. Also they were anxious to do away with nil pressures on the children. Tyler serves a rather unique group of pupils more than 5S percent of the school's enrolment comes from broken homes.

"Most of our pupils are emotional problems. Wo know what the problems are, but we can't erase them. They're parent and ndult problems, but the child brings them to school," the principal rxplniwd. trains cffvt tU- pupil's school work, So, one of the specific aims af the ungraded primnry hero is to remove any additional strain or pressure on the child. Doing away with flunking, long considered a questionable practice in trade- by educators, is one step.

The lack of report cards is another. The plan, particularly during this period of establishment and slneo Tyler teachers nro juhi now stil! checking on their initial Individual evaluation or ench pupil, brings no easing to the tench cr's hurdens, The ungraded primary in. volvcs more parent-tenchcr conferences, 'a great increase of. testing to soo when child Is ready to chance levels and i (renter awareness of emotional pulls, on tho child, Miss Treadway explained, Tyler teacher are lucky in ono re- Young of 3837 SVV 30. Gift Knives Are Used On Actor-Spouse HOLLYWOOD, Jan.

18 (Ft A statuesque brunette was held in jail Saturday, charged with carving up her actor husband with a pair of steak knives ho gave hor for Christmas. Allan H. Nixon, former husband of actress Mario Wilson, was treated nt Hollywood Receiving liospil.nl for cuts on the shoulders, wrist and logs after tho altercation with his wife, Veld a Nixon, 30, Mrs. Nixon, a former model, was booked on suspicion of assault with intent to commit Officers said she told them s-he wioidod tho ivory-handled knives against Nixon twice, once at the height of nn argument nnd tho second time when he returned to tho apartment to get his clothes. "I knew that in his mnod wouldn't ho nblo to defend my-, self," she was quoted ns, saying.

"Allan is former foot-bnll plnyor and ho prides himself on tho fnot. that ho has never laid a hand on woman ho just kicks Thon she -course I still lovo him. Ho's just an over-grown child. I'm awfully sorry I hurt him, I'm sure we'll got back tofiolhor." Nixon reportedly told police he also still loves Veldn and will not slfln a complaint nftnlnst hor. They woro worried last May.

wns taken to Jiiucrcsi nospuni with severe face cuts and head injuries. Un uinc rlrllnc motor scoot clrction if it is initialed. TW r.OP lenders will also have to decide what they will do 'about er which wns Involved In a collision with n.fcnr by Raymond Brndloy, 40, of 3730 SW 40. Bradley received, citation for party leadership tor tnc campaign year, r.nr Morenn. state chairman, dents, numbering a total of 1,200 volunteer workers, raised $3,571 for fighting polio Saturday afternoon in a "chip in for polio" drive.

The toon-nfiers carried sacks ot potato chips, donated by a city firm, which were handed to donors. Students from 12 hifihschools participated, including Midwest City nnd Bethany hifihschools and 10 secondary schools in Okln wants to be relieved of tha duties If another man can be found to il! dm chairmanship. Re was named in October when Walter R. "Gene" Curry resigned. Thus Principal speaker Monday bo-1 nefiliRcnt driving, Capitol Report CONTINUKD FROM PACK 1 anyone In.

tho1 U. s. govern-- mont. Those who hear Unborn speak. fore tho UKianomn viy v.enorai Agents and Managers club in tho Oklnhomn club will bo Itnymond TJInlnv nnuennnrt.

certified life fnr the party loauers nuvw, in i-nninn Mnrcnii and he may Consistory Club Insfals Officers The Oklahoma City Indian Consistory club, tiOO-niemljer group of Oklahoma City aroa residents belonging to Indian consistory, Scottish Hlto Masons, at McAlcs-ler. Installed Its 1050 officers Friday night. President for the now year is M. Nicholson. Oklahoma City, nnd John L.

Powell, also of Oklnhomn City, was Installed first, vice-president, Second vice-president Is. Roy Gondors, Midwest City, while W. Ivan Cox. Oklnhoma City, is sec-rotary. Dr.

Gbnrlcs Evans was Installed ns, chaplain, and Rob-, crt W-Shormnn was named chairman, 6t tho board ot directors. I ho called upon lo take tho job underwriter and vice-president and ngoney director of Southwestern Life Insurance Dallas, homa C.ty, TuKinu top honors wore Harding highschool stu-1 for another two yenrs. Facilities Joinsd NEW YOR-K, Jan. 18 (INS) Siinuf for Chemical Co. and Aero- donis, who conecicn tiru, hiu largest amount from nnv of the in Oklnhomn city mny expect something boltor thnn tho us- tifil Pontnfion-prepnrod nnd ed- itcd text, from which no do-; pnrturo is mndo.

Ho sold ho'll talk some off jot-Genornl Azusa, His topic will bo "Trends in Liro Insurance," A native of Jlcllovuo, Texas, Davenport Is graduate of Southern Methodist unlvorslty and was formerly a school tenclior. Ho is ri former president of tho Life Insurance Aaoncy Management association. Dnvo announce" jormnuon oi a partnership under which they will develon and nroducc boron Omar Massed, president of tho Oklnhomn City Jaycoos, who wan chairman of tho drive for tho county polio foundation, -snid that the tecn-ngors' efforts would nrnbnblv not 5.sO0 whon total re mo cim. no sain no hob on, occasion read speeches, after which his wife would "That wns good apeooh, Why didn't you jiva It?" compounds, expected to bo widely used fuel for rocketi and airplanes. sult! were known..

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