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PAGE TWO Your Home Newspaper THE DAILY N. C. SUNDAY, JULY 4 1965 Success Storv feature about Eannap- o'is as an actress and writer in Hollywood was written by a former Daily Independent staff writer it appeared in the May 30 issue of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution maga- rine. Vancv was Nancy Prr whpn she was employed on The Daily news st from 1W9 until 1941. While here, she met Kay Anderson.

Now, Mrs. Andrrson is associate editor and West Coast editor of Magazine. Shp also as 'Vpst Coast editor of Kadio-TV Mirror and Taceant maearinps and as correspondent for other MaeV adripn-BartpIl zincs. Her husband is associated with thp Howard craft orp. The Andersons reside at Manhattan Rpach, a I.os An- pelps suburb.

Thp eonplp a thrpp rhildrrn Foppr is in thp Air Forcp, stationpd in Philippines: Susan is in college; John is in hijrh school.) Leigh Chapman Her Movie Here This Week By NANCY ANDERSON When Rosa Lee Chapman was studying drama at Winthmp College in Rock Hill, S. her mother was so embarrassed that she it a secret. In truth. Rosa major was French, and drama was only a minor, but even that smacked too much of fast living folk and Hollywood wickedness set well with good, conservative neighbors in Miss Chapman's home town, small Central, S. C.

Now, however, when Rosa, who has changed her name to Leigh, is seen weekly on the television show, "The Alan From N.C.L.Eher parents are filled with justifiable pride, and the neighbors think of her as a to the community. Leigh Chapman, a the age of 25. is not only a steadily employed actress appearing on a hit television show, but is also a successful writer who has sold scripts for three feature pictures and for three television productions. Her first picture, i has just been released. She wrote it in five days, but other srripts have taken longer more than two weeks in some cases.

Right now she has an office at Columbia Pictures where she's scripting a movie yet to be named. Leigh was born in Kannapolis, where her grandfather, Ira Chapman, was the respected chief of police Her father, like most people in Kannapolis, worked for Cannon Mills. When Leigh was 6 years old, he transferred to the Cannon plant in Central. S. C.

Leigh grew up in such moral surroundings, the atmosphere typical of many American small towns, that she once determined to he a missionary. I was about 8 or 9 years old I had typhoid fever, pneumonia, heart trouble and several other things at the same she recalls. told me that I was about to die, but I knew that I was, and I was afraid. the only that I'm afraid of now dying. I was terrified, and thought, can I do for God if He'll only let me I grew up.

'he most wonderful thing in the world was to be a missionary I mean that W3S the highest calling, so I promised God that if only let me live I'd a missionary. want to. I fought against it. But, in 'he end, that was the bargain I made. a few years 1 positively intended to be a missionary, but later I knew that it would be i wrong, because I didn't really i feel Instead.

Leigh majored in French with the idea of work- ing for the State Department i and minored in drama just for i the fun of it. Her summers were spent in Kannapolis, where she clerked in a department store. She never thought of writing because she consider her- i self intellectual enough, and she never thought of becoming a professional because she thought she was too ugly. was one of those girls who cried when she looked in the i Miss Chapman recalls, for writing, I wanted to en- roll in a creative writing class in college, but my intellectual friends scared me away. mean all the really smart people were in the class, so I thought 'ha' if they were creative writing, better not try reached Hollywood and the film studios by way of an unhappy marriage.

While she was attending Winthrop she be! gan to date a boy from York. S. who aspired to be an actor. and upon graduation they were married. They headed for Hollywood, i where her young husband hoped to become a star and where Leigh hoped to get a job as a secretary.

parents didn't Leigh says. was a marripd woman, so they thought I'd be sa.fe,” giip went to work as a secretary ar a major talent agency. I For her husband, however, employment in his chosen field was harder to find. In there was almost no demand for the young actor from York The pressures upon mar- riage were such eventually Leigh and her husband separat- ed. and he went home.

At thp same n. Leigh was begining to succeed in field in which he had failed act- Through she'd made at work, she got a small part in a segment which led to other parts gradually increasing in importance. tell my family until six months later that I was divorced or that I was tells her story. was afraid of what say. only hpen one divorce my family ever, and it caus- ed a terrible upheaval There 1 had never been an actress! I iinally brokp 'he news about both circumstances at once.

course, my were terribly sorry way my marriage had worked ouf When i i Awards Nominees Get Severe 1 Bv RICK DU BROW HOI WOOD (UPD The Emmy awards, television's an- or Confederate mone? in was The pa st, is ail revamped. a nd mor row out all razy ou ea'egories, and the main st and- a 'W is simply aie some of the orni- best neebi Man rom Ve: anning and Lynn Fontanne in amp performances, anny Thomas' Id of Burlesque special properly nomma'ed, but properly all his specials lid also have been selected a unit, so good were they, gh hour was rhe of the vear. to tli nd "Mr. Novak i be thrilled, but ose silver dollars new Emrm expert committees thf Di7- aur a a course cut rent direction of the awards somewhat of ar ch efly because things couldn't get worse bull however, the nomma'ions several days ago mdica some pretty loose and floppy standards for as noted the above well as some amarmg oversights. Furthermore, so far as 1 know, CBS news ls continuing to lefuse to participate in the awards an honorable move aimed a' establishing a separate journalistic prize sys'ern.

outside the aura as a matter of d.gmtv Which makes the worth that much less, properly. In their nominations for top entertainment programs, the selectors couldn't help but include such as the Barbra rei sand special, Courage and the "Hall of Fame broadcasts. But in addition to the ludicrous nominations of and excellence 1 cmeinbern there are also such highly questionable choices on the list as the -VneK show so-so the Bob Hope Theatre nd individual Hall ol Fame production. Magr cent Yankee. a very thin ece of work about Oliver 4 til Holmes st airing Alfred nes were Paar looked And ho a nd Hope' and Hollywood infinitely be'ter ndidates be over- in the world did of tha1 dreadful failure.

Was The Week That get the Red Skelton- Marceau pantomine And the Shakespearean on And Fantas- the entert ain men'- documentary Beatles in And the Meredith Willson And Dinah Shore Harry Belafon'e Peace Corp musicaie? product; THE DAILY INDEPENDtNT SUBSCRIPTION RATKS By msU payable in advance per month 5175 thrpf' 20; six $10 40. dpt year $20.80 Rates to foreign upon application Add 3 pr: cent North Carolina to all nail subscriptions' For nome deliver- rate contact your local carriers All carrieri- dealers, and distributors ln-le dependent contractors keeping then ow accounts fiee from control The Daily Independent not responsible for advance pay ments made to them their or epi'rsentrftiv National tistng ttve Johnson Kent Gavin Sind mg, Inc York Charlotte Chi'Nifto, Oklahoma City Detroit ranrisco Greensboro Los An BoMun Published a bun iay morning and every 3 afternoon except bv Kan Company at 12.1 125 North Main Street Kannapolis Entered as second under Act i March 12. I went hack for visit, my father told me not to tell my grandmother even at that late date that 1 was divorced. of course I had to. She started asking where my husband was, had to tell her.

for the acting, once they'd seen me on the screen, my parents were proud of me. Tt so happened that 1 arrived home for a visit the very day after a television show been in had been in had been on the air. and everybody treated me like a celebrity. couldn't make my old friends understand that in Hollywood I was no celebrity at ail. I was still an Even as her marriage to a wound he actor had led to her acting.

Leigh's dates with a writer led to her writing. was dating a writer who asked me to type his she explains. I'd typed a few of his scripts it occurred to me that I might be able to write one. I tried, and it sold. I was lucky because I had contacts that most people don't have.

A friend of mine is secretan- to a man connected with a television show, and I think she just about locked in his office until he read my script. liked it. delighted to be writing It gives me a second iron the fire. Getting jobs before the camera is such a precarious way to make a living 'ha' a girl who tries to exist in Hollywood as an actress is apt to have a very hard time. far.

I've had only one script rejected, one I wrote for 'Ben and I'm not surprised that it didn't sell, because it Happily, Leigh's success i this particular field doesn't disturb her writer friend. proud of mp because I'm his she said. "The more I write, the more we seem to have in common. In fact, he's getting so that he treats me more like a business associate than a date which may not be such a good Miss Chapman Movie Scheduled For Stvanee Here Leigh Chapman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Harold Chapman of Central, S.

has sold scripts for three movies and three programs, well as playing on nationally programs Her movie script was Summer This movie, which has spp- appeal for teen-agers, will be shown Kannapolis' Swanpp Theater Thursday through Saturday. Summer" s'ory of a group of jobless 'een- agers w'ho spend the summer producing very successfully a show at Lake Warriors SAVE $2 5.000 sq ft. was $6 95 4.95 Clout knocks out crabgrnss fast. Foxtail, dailisgrass and i of others too, Yet Clout is kind to good grass. Lets it go it can fill in where crabgrass was.

the perfect time to spread Clout to blast crabgrnss before it casts its speds for an even bigger crop next year about this weekend5 2,500 sq ft. was $3 95 2.95 authorued fScOttsS dealer BARLOW and BROWN SUPPLY CO, 919 S. Mam St Midway Dial Negro Teachers Losing Jobs As Result Of Ruling LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo tall Watusi warriors armed with bows and arrows, spears and knives have revolted against authorities in northern Kivu Province, reports reaching here showed Saturday. The Congolese press agency said tribal groups were skirmishing with Congolese army units in several scattered regions. The Watusi, refugees from the tiny and newly independent nation of Rwanda to the east, comprise 80 per cent of the population in the northern Iivu I region.

The reports today said they were on the rampage because of a lack of representation. There were no reports of casualties from Kivu Province. The Watusi were reported to have paralyzed local admmis- tra'ions. The repor's said new fighting aUo broke ou' in Kwilu Province. where an uprising oc: curred IS mon'hs ago.

The fighting then was led by Pierre Mulele, who later was reported killed Latest reports indica'ed Mulele is still leading rebels and government has offered a $6.660 reward for his capture The Congolese press agency army fighting Mulele rebels near the former agricultural research s'ation hua in Kwilu Province. Kannapolis Area Sn Service MJwmfK- PFC GARY W. SFAVORD, sort of Mr. and Mrs. R.

W. Seaford of 1305 Rainbow Drive. Kannapolis, awaits final orders to join the Third Marine Division Okinawa. PFC Seaford will go to California, where he will be transported by ship to Okinawa, the staging area for Viet Nam. ID LA.NEV has lis'ed the I Navy under a i new program which will allow up 120 days deiav in reporting for actiw duty Upon comple- on of 'he 120-day period Laney will bp transferred 'he Naval Training Cen'er San Diego.

California for I Laney is son of Mr and Mrs. Thomas F. Laney of' 407 Laney S'. Pv VERNON L. OLIPHANT, 1 son of Mr.

and Mrs Vernon 107 was i assigned 'he 440th S.gnal a talion. S. Army. Germany. 15.

O' 22. is a com- mumca'ions DAVID ALLEN son of Mr. and Mrs Clarence Armstrong of 1906 Pennsylvania Ave. has in the U.S. Naw and was transferred US Naval Training Cen'er at; San ego, Ca for i Prior -o graduated from A Brown High School WASHINGTON Southern backlash reac'ion to the federal school desegregation drive, noted by President Johnson Friday, reportedly has been into the ranks of Negro teachers.

The problem has arisen in places where dual, segregated school districts are being consolidate producing a surplus of Negro teachers. It was reported that in some cases. Negro teachers were being fired and white teachers were being hired to replace them so that no Negroes would teach integra'ed classes. The 1964 Civil Act, while pushing closer toward total school segregation than anything since the 1054 Supreme Court decision, did not include teacher hiring, However, in speech in New York, Johnson said he had directed Education Commissioner Francis Keppel to special attention, in reviewing desegregation plans, to guard against any pattern of teacher dismissal based on racp or national The Civil Rights Act requires that federal agencies which disburse funds to sta'e and local groups must make sure that nonp of money coes to programs with any tamt of discrimination. Segregated Southern school districts thus faced the possibility they would lose their of new 2 billion in federal aid to pducation Under prodding of U.S.

Office of Education, about per cent of 5,000 school and border a'es havp suhmit'pd compliance which fhe office has found But in May, attorney Jack Greenberg of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People charged that dismissal of Negro was place in some Southern school districts A spokesman for the Office of Education said at the time that the situation was regretabie but that the law as writ- tne, there is nothing we can do about However, on June 10 Keppel announced that the office had concluded the dismissals might be a violation of the Civil Rights Act after all. Spanish ater Shortage Eases MADRID (UPI) water shortage eased Saturday as one new pipeline, which will bring more than 6 million cubic feet of water daily to the parched city, began operating Although the situation is no' yet normal. water cut-off until today st p.m.—was moved back to midnight. Furl Mixer COYOTE, Calif. (UPI) Technology Center has developed a mixer that can produce 150.000 pounds of rocket propellant a day.

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