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7 i ri 1 4, 7 Tha Scrantonlan Spent His Early Years in West Pittston vfee4 Shy John Least Elritiwh U.S, EDacArthur, BollSoimaiire March 19, 19725 Philippines City Slickers Avoid Church Weddings MANILA (UPI) -Filipino city dwellera prefer being married In civil ceremonies rather then in church, says a aoolologlcaj atudy by the University of the Philippines. Tha study covsred 362 couples selected randomly from d.fferent social classes Manila and nearby Quezon City. Tha Phillppinei has 31 million inhabitants, of whom IS per cent are Roman Catholics. BUY U.S. SAVINGSBONDI SPECIAL MATINEE Sot, Apr.

8 2 P.M. Masonic temple THEATRE SCRANTON ALLEN CAST JULIE WILSON y3 tDnX)'I NOTE) John D. MacArthur, one of America's richest men, rarely talks to roporwra. But he apent nine hour with freelance Journalist Duncan Groner, a veteran Florida newaman, who wrote the following article. By DUNCAN G.

GRONER Written For UPI BALM BEACH SHORES, Fla. (UPI) -John Donald MacArthur. a high school dropout, la Americas least known billion re. And that suits him Just ftna. Broka in tha Depression 10 year ago, tha 75-year-old farmer-evangelist's on controls In hit own name or In trusts financial empire variously estimated at between 5 billion and 17 Milton.

Ha says he doesn't know himself how rich ha Is but tha asms circles who place bis holdings In tha multt-bfllton estimate bis personal wealth at about 1500 million. In a rare Interview that Ju. covered part of two days here, MacArthur, undismayed by bis years, said he doesn't buy anything nowadays but Insure a nee companies and real estate adjoining the endless tracts he owns In Florida (where he la tha biggest individual landowner), Arizona, Oolorado, Georgia and Michigan. Add to that oil walla In New Mexloo, resort property In Wisconsin, mmr- a Jl against killing rattlesnakes. Tha only reason they (conservationists) want to aave deer la because they want to be able to shoot thtm," ha raspi.

His unsuccessful foray into politics Is still tainted with bitter memories for him. He got to know the late Henry Lucs end Lucs, too, wss for Gen. MaoAtthur. John Mac-Arthur says Gen. MacArthur bated Dwight Eisenhower because ha thought, him "a silly shaRy, a fence sitter." MacArthur And the General John MacArthur says he and Henry Lucs presented them selves at Gen.

MacArthur's sumptuous apartment in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to ask ha would seek the Republican nomination for President. No, tha general Is reported to have told them, hed rather go down in history as "a successful American soldier than as an unsuccessful politician." At the Chicago convention, as John tells it. He and Gen. MacArthur sat In a hotel room listening on a radio to the activities on tha floor. As Robert Tafts strength began to wane and Eisenhower'i to gain Douglas MacArthur sent word to the convention floor saying ha would accept second place on a Taft ticket.

But it was too late. "Think of what would have happened tf MacArthur had been nominated," John MacArthur muses now. 'Taft was dead in a year and MacArthur would have been President, Things would be a lot different today." BEST MUSICAL 1978 R.T. DRAMA CRinCS AWARD 1971 TONY AWARD WOULD CHANGE LAW Petite Angela Hernandez wants to become Spains first bullfighter. Spanish law forbids women torreras.

but she plans to carry her battle all the way to the Supreme Court. Under her bullfighting name of "Angellta," sh has fought more than 100 corridas In Mexico and South America. UPI Telephoto. 23-YEAR-OLD-BLONDE WILL FIGHT HER CASE Womens Lib Th reatens Spains Male's Preserve of Bullfighting Prices: $5, $4, $3 TICKETS ON SALE SPRUCE RECORD SHOP her appearances. Under her bullfighters nami "Angeldta she haa fought more than 100 corridas, including 30 on foot In Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela.

When She fell on lean times, sba picked up money by working as a model in television publicity spots. "My lawyer is pressing my application for a bullfighters union oard and will go all die way." she said. "IM mov! heaven and earth to gain it." TUa At Hi For By Spraea KmhS HIS WEALTH IS ANYBODYS GUESS-John Donald MacArthur, 74, of Florida, who lived in tha Pittston area until ha was five year of age, la a high school dropout who controls hi hie own name or In trusts a financial empire variously estimated at between $5 and $7 billion. He la one of a remarkable family, Including a brother who left an estate of $300 million, and Gharies MacArthur, reporter and playwright. (UPI Telephoto) MADRID (UPI) Womens Lib threatens the most male preserve of Spains way of life bullfighting.

A petite, brown-eyed plalntl-num blonde by the name of Artels Hernandez rays she li willing to carry her fight for acceptance aa a Torrera all the way to the Spanish Supreme Court. "If women can play soccer, fly airplanes end act as lawyers, why cant they face the bulls with a cape and sword?" 23-yearold Angela asked, her eyes flashing. Angelas credits for becoming! Spain's first dlataff bullfighter since the days of the Republic are impressive. She has fought dozens of bulls In South America and bears scars on her thighs end stomach from three gorings. This prove I am not afraid," 6he aald.

"In this business you cannot afford to be scared. Women were permitted to Best Tasting Hogs Require Tender Love CHICAGO (UPI) flogs need tender, loving car if theyre going to grow up and become juicy pork chops and crisp bacon, according to expert. The complexity of living hogs life is beginning to catch up with the animals. Research Double knit Gleneagles to go Travel beautifully, resist wrinkles from here to there because Gleneagles did them in 1 O0 Fortrel polyester double knit. The surprise of all-weather double knits make them coats for all seasons, all reasons.

Double-breasted trench coat In camel. 85.00 Classic single breasted In camel or navy twill. 80.00 Schreibers Wage operation In Alaska, and other tracts in South America and We Germany. Ha owns a baker's dozen a I hotels across the nation, Inohxtina the 450-room ocean-front Colonnades Beach bars where he Uvea moat of tha time; a Cincinnati Brewery (Red Top), prime Florida real estate developments, a televi eion station and more. But.

by far tha biggest asset In his nest-egg is the so-called MacArthur Group of 19 Insurance companies of which ha owns every share and never pays himself a dividend. The group is headed by Bankers Life Casaulty of Chicago which alone has something like 4,000 employes and admitted assets of close to $500 million. Informed insurance sources say his Insurance empire alone, if and when he or his estate disposes of would bring on the order of $3 billion. Ha also owns outright the Royal National Bank in New York City and holds 97 per cent of the stock of the Citizens Bank Trust of Park i Ridge, 111. Ha controls Royal American Industries, and Southern Realty Utilities, both listed on tha American GTOck Exchange.

Despite this vast wealth and his admission this wealth puts him "in the public domain MacArthur remains virtually unknown to the general public. And he la as shy of reporters as Howard Hughes aver was I dont care a damn about what people think of me," he says. And he includes in this category Ms children, son John Roderick' and daughter Virginia; also his sister-in-law, actress Helen Hayes who for many years Waa married to an older brother, Charlie, the great reporter, playwright and author of "The Front Page." He baa been married twice but that ha la no "family man" Is apparent. And his sister-in-law, for one, wants no part of him. He invited me once to go to Florida and live in some development he was promot- Miss' Hayes commented in to he the phone wkhout bothering to a ay goodby.

He does, however, like to watch his paying guests stream through tha coffee shop and he has an occasional word with them. No one would suspect ms huge wealth from just seeing him because he it frequently unshaven; he wear no jacket and hia shoes always appear to need polishing. But, with all this, John MacArthur is superficially, at least a man of warmth and a mild sense of humor. He attributes these qualities to his mother, a devout, hard-pressed Presbyterian possessed, according to her richest son, with not only those gentle qualities but a somewhat more practical outlook than her husband, William Telfer MacArthur, a dirt farmer turned biMe-thumpng evangelsi. Born the Unted States only a few days after his parents arrived from Scotland, William Telfer MacArthur spent most of his long life yearning for the rigors of foreign missionary, work and an escape from the rigors of supporting a brood of children.

Fathers Dream Frustrated John MacArthur recalls, with some affection, an episode that occurred in his childhood when "The Rev." MacArthur had first heard the call. The faimliy was seated at the breakfast table when their father came Rapping the table with a fork gain their attention, he said had an announcement to make. A hush fell over the children. Mother, the reverend announced, looking at his wife, I had a visitation last night from the Lord. He told me I was a ers say a serious problem In the porcine world Is an affliction known as PSS-PSE.

PSS is the name given to the porcine stress syndrome. PSE stands for pale, soft exudavite pale, pink meat with too much water in it, which Is not very tasty or nutritious. Livestock Conservation Inc, (LCI) of Chicago, has published a pamphlet Intended to educate producers. Its recommendations are made on tha basis of what researcher! have discovered about animals afflicted with PSS-PSE, and about the only definite item concerning the history of the disease that It Is hereditary. LCI is a nonprofit organization that reports on health and welfare In the animal world.

The organization la funded through purchased membership which include the livestock industry, animal humane groups, the transportation Industry and other organizations and individuals. LGIs advice included avoid boars that: Show constant tail-twitching. Exhibit trembling ears. Show alternating red splotches of skin when excited. LG cautioned that modern hogs are raised in confinement and become ready for market at a tender age.

The pamphlet recommended the" animals be handled with care theyre tender, fragile. Also, market time poses them ost stress in the lifetime of hogs. Avoid excitement, eliminate obstacles their paths and prevent loud noises, such as the barking of the family dog." Proper ventilation and suitable bedding for all seasons also recommended. 1 It all goes well, LCI says, the hogs are less likely to die from illness and can be counted to go to slaughter like a fight bulls in Spanish arenas after the fall of the monarchy in 1931. But after Generalisslmoll Francisco Franco won the Civil War in 1939, a new law was passed relegating women to the I League of the Rejoneadores the matadors who kill the bulls from horseback, Portuguese-1 style.

Fighting the bulla on foot, with cape and sword, was outlawed for women. Men find the Idea of all woman caping a bull on foot I ungraceful," Angela said. "But after all, bullfighting is an art, and women can probably addj as much If not more grace. Angela frankly admits that the chance of getting into ther big money is her main motivation for carrying her fight all the way to the supreme court. As a rejoneador, she Is not I much of a box office draw I because there is a good number of other girt rejoneadores around, and the expenses of rejoneadores are "astronomical so there is not much profit left at the end of a season," she said.

Angela is the daughter of a I police sergeant and became an aficionado at the age of nine when her family moved to the Andalusian port of Algeciras', one of Spains most bullfight- conscious towns. A tomboy ef a girf, she joined the boys twirling capes in dusty playgrounds, dreaming like them of days of blood and fame jn some big league arena, such as Madrids Las Ventas. The boys at first would not accept but' my enthusiasm finally won them over, Angela said. At 16, she decided to become) professional bullfighter. She trained as a rider and found a baoker to provide her with the expensive mounts needed for mall, bored As the United States entered World War MacArthur witnessed an aerial demonstra tion by the Wright brothers in Chicago.

Plane fascinated him His boredom grew to patriotism and he tried to get Into the Signal Corps as a pilot. But, as a high school dropout, pilot training in the U.S. Army Signal Corps was closed to him It was at that point that Canadian cousin a brigadier in the Royal Flying Corps arrived to visit his Chicago relatives. He could, and did, get John into an airplane in Canada. Ground training In those days was about two hours and if the trainee couldnt solo by then, he was out of the running.

John made It, and he made if to Europe where he won "some medals" Inducing the Croix da Guerre which he says was being handed out Ilka cigar coupons He cam back to civilian life at the close of the war, he says, "with more polish than I had before, more confidence." That confidence was to make him an early member of the Million Dollar Cilib, a club composed of insurance sidesmen who sell $1 million or more of insurance in a year. "Most policies In those days, John MacArthur says, were little five or ten thousand dollars was all. You had to sell lot. Briefly, before this success, his brother Charlie lured John into reporting. This didnt last long because "it involved too much liquor and too little money," he sums up.

So he went to work selling insurance, and thats whet's the roed to great wealth started. Selling insurance was a door-to-door, 12-hour-e-day crusade for John MacArthur. When he first made the Million Dollar Club he decided he could sell insurance better than the old goats who were running the insurance companies. And only months before the start of the Great Depression he founded Marquette Life, which he still owns "for sentiments sake." As established Insurance com-panies tendered In the economic disaster of the 1930s and couldnt pay 'their claims, John MacArthur worked night and day to keep the little company alive. "I had to, I just.

had to, he says now. He did, and was on his way. Since then, MacArthur has bought up near-bankrupt insurance companies, hired crusading salesmen, paid as few premiums as he could get away with and has never paid himself a penny of dividend. I like to save the profits," ha says. It also could be that he doesnt like paying Income taxes.

Unfavorable MacArthur Biogra-(A distinctly unfavorable biography of John MacArthur. "The Stockholder," was published last year by a former editor of the house organ of one of his insurance companies. It gives Its own version of how MacArthur piled up his wealth, alleging he mads his first big stake in the mad order sale of insurance policies that rarely paid -off, and by making loans at' very high Interest rates and foreclosing on them with alacrity whenever given the chance.) In hi life, John MacArthur has only twice taken public in is the on be will wilt and letter "to thisreporter. butl needed in China to preach the lambs. gospel to the heathen there.

"Thats funny, William, his wife snapped back. "I had visitation from the Lord last too. Hs told me that William Telfer MacArthur had a big family to feed and clothe and educate end the Chinese better wait Ml thats done." Crestfallen, the evangelist sat down. And though his wife waa to die only a few yean later, he never made it beyond the borders of the United States. The MacArthur family moved from Pittston, where John had been bom, to Chicago where he spent his fifth birthday, and then 'to Nyack, N.Y., where Georginna MacArthur died; then Springfield, where John, high school dropout, got his first job.

It was in some now forgotten plant In Chicopee alls, suburb of Springfield, where bayonet sheathes were being turned out for the Czarist government, then at war with the Germans. I learned to weld bayonets there, John MacArthur Alfred MacArthur, who also was to become a multimillionaire already had established himself as an Insurance salesman In Chicago. Brother Charlie was In Chicago, too, working for one of Mr. Hearets newspapers. The two of them urged the young welder to Join them.

It wasnt a hard choice for John. His mother was dead and his father delighted telling the youngster bow auiddy he would land in Hell. These orations were followed by lashings with a vinegar-soaVed rope. ImeW if 1 did, John would have me riding through the 'streets naked on a white horse to get some publicity for it, so I didnt go. As far as his providing for me (financially), he never did a thing.

It "was his brother, my beloved Alfred (who died leaving a mere $30,0 million) who did that. With John, its been the other way around. I guess Ive given him more (presents) than he has ever given me. John MacArthur, though he Rves at tha Colonnades Beach most of tha time, keeps his legal residence in Illinois. Florida has a high Intangible property tax (stocks, bonds, etc.) that could cost him some of his hard-earned money.

He doesnt like taxes in general and -says his vast fortune will go before or at his death to a foundation which might well be I the biggest private foundation on earth if he does It that way. At the Colonnades Beach, MacArthur makes his office at a three-by-three foot coffee table in the coffee shop, a I phone perched precariously at Its edge. Thera he captains his empire, listens to pleas for financial belp (invariably turned down) and -pats his waitresses on their bottoms while he chain smokes and guzzles orange Juice freshly squeezed in a machine at his beck. I During our long and most unusual interview erne of the few he has ever given he received a phone call from an Inquiring television reporter. His conversation went something like this: No, don't grant Interviews.

Hell, I own my own television ration and dont grant them any anythin to worthwhile I beck sometime No, dont have he sav that Yes. call No, not in Woman Joins Police Force in Illinois ALTON, III. (AP) Alton I now has its first policewoman, a 34-year-old blonde and mother of four children. Mrs. Bonnie Towse, a formerj! physical education teacher, now wears a badge and a gun.

"Shell be no different than the rest of the police officers," said Rudy Sowders, police chief. Mrs. Towse will be like her male counterparts, at! the University of Illinois, in a1 240-hour course. Religious Concert Set in Bethlehem Bachs St. John Passion will presented at the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

by the combined Chancel Choirs of the Allentown and Bethlehem Presbyterian Churches. William Whitehead 4 will conduct the chorus, orchestra, and cast of distinguished guest soloists, including tenor Ray DeVoll In the leading role of Evangelist. New York soprano Dilya Smith be Joined by contralto Romayn ridge tt of die Lancaster Ooera Association, tenor Brian and Richard Anderson, bass. Other solo parts be sung by Robert Hess, Edmund Young, Libera Evans David Page. There are more than 190 mountaineering clubs in Britain.

SchrciBeri HEARING SCHEDULED HARRISBURG (UPI) -The Public Utility Commission said Friday a hearing has been scheduled on the question of a watchman at tha Broadway Street railroad crossing in Cor-aopotis. The PUC said the hearing is scheduled for Pittsburgh on March 28. vA Alfred got John a Job as an office bow in the agency where worked. "Pretty soon, John isacArthur recalls with a mejchuckle. "I was assistant to theiDougie MacArthur 'who, "he nresident of the company." But savs.

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