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Page8A-PLAYGROUND DAILY NEWS, Sunday Morning, November 25,1973 'Bridge'Commander Dies of Pneumonia i Arbiittd The Bayous Kmmn Cog gin taapprecialion tea was given by Mrs. Edith Z. Petrey Thursday afternoon at her Valparaiso home for members of Ihe Niceville Valparaiso Hospital Auxiliary Mrs. Pe'lrty, who next month will complete" her second ylea'r asi Auxiliary presented each of her officers with a monogrammed sliver plate. They are Mrs.

Gerald Belue, vice president; Mrs. Robert DeBruhl, secretary and Mrs. Hobart Mayo, treasurer. Each committee chairman was given a hand crocheted coat hanger. Receiving guests at (hedoor as they called between the hours of 3 an) 5 p.m.

were Mrs. Harold Glenn and Mrs. Wallace Spence, while Mrs. Christine Cannon attended the guest book. Mrs.

George II. McEwen, Mrs. Bert Culwell, Mrs. DeBruhl and Mrs. Miyd poured.

Assisting the hostess with the tea, attended by about 4fl members i were Mrs. Belue and Mrs. Flnley Duncan. AVhen the Eglin Women's Golf Association concludes its invitational tournament next Thursday, it will be followed by a luncheon and presentation of awards at 2 p.m. at the Eglin Golf Course Clubhouse.

Miss Carol Dcnise Portion, bride of Lawrence Edward McLaughlln, will be complimented next Thursday with a champagne party at Ihe Fort Walton Yacht Cliil. Mrs. James C. Cox, and Mrs. Wallace j.

Bullock will be cc- hostesses for Ihe party being held from 4 to 6 p.m. TOKYO (UPI) Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese-born aclir best remembered for his role as the swaggering prison camp commandant in the film dn. the River Illness. He was 83. i spokesman at Kyoundo hoipital said the cause of death was softening o( Ihe brain complicated by pneumonia.

In the movie, "The Bridge on the River fCwai," a World War II story of life 'of a British battalion in a Japanese POW camp in Thailand, Hayakawa played opposite British actor Alec Guinness, the! commander of Ihe Allied Hayakawa came to the United States from Japan when he was man to study political ecohomy at the University of He arrived in Hollywood in. 1916 and within a year he was a star. From 1917.tp 1927 he appeared Lenert to Head Guidance Clinic August Lenert has been elected as president of the Okaloosa Guidence Clinic, Inc. board tot the coming year to succeed Dr. Berridge.

The- 'direitirS also elected Carter as vice president t'6 'succeed Mrs. C. Jilt's. James E. Seigler whs -reflected as treasurer and Henry Nichols succeeds Lener( as secretary.

j. Reelected to thd board were Mrj, Cleb Gtlsselt and Debble.spent Thlmksgivmg Joa AUekruse, Mrs. H. in Ddlhan, as guests of Mrs. Grlssett's brother, HMV.

and his family. Newly elected board mem- oers are Mrs. John B. Arnold and Mrs. banlel C.

Campbell, bolh.of Valparaiso; and Jeffrey Farver and Ben Gordon both i Fort Walton Beach. Joining together for a covered dish luncheon meeting and program jruesday afternoon in the fellowship hall of the First IJnjIed Methodist Church of Niceville were members of the Edgewater and Valparaiso Garden Clubs. Presiding as hostess over the event were Mrs.Walker V. Speneei Mrs. Richard Scarborough, and Mrs.

J.P. Evans of the Edeewater Garden Club. The pVgram featured a demonstHtlbrt In dish gatden and terrariiim plantings presented by Mrs. Becky Crum and Mrs. Sarah The dish garden was awarded as a door prize to Mrs; Rqy'Ruckel.

In attendance from the Valparaiso Garden Club were Mrs Ila Davis, Mrs. William Sapp, Mrs. R.E. Llndblafl; Mrs. Robert Skldmorc, Mrs; Roy Ruckel, Mrs.

Dean Williams, Mrs. David While, Mrs. Howard Heinecke, Dr. Fanny-Fern Davis, Mrs. Annie Cielrich, Mrs.

C.B. Cardwell, Mrs.sidney Elliott, Mrs. Tom Miller Mrs. L. Smith, Mrs.

E.W. O'Brien, Dr. Genevieve Brown, Mrs. Paul Wimberly, Mrs. John Jersoh, and Mrs.

Richard Klrkpalrlck. iThe; Edgewater Garden Club members included Mrs. Wallace Spence, Mrs. B.B. Sadler, Mrs.

Fred Johnson, Mrs. Cebelle Meigs Mrs, J.P. Evans, Victor Croft, ParrJsh, Mrs' Addle Milton, Mrs. Noah Corbtn, Mrs. Joseph Kynkiewez, Mrs.

Dorothy Davis, Mrs. Cleb Grlssell, Mrs. Walker V. Spence, and Mrs. Richard Scarborough.

Mrs. John Ramsey was program leader for the recent meeting of Percepter Beta Gamnia Chapter held at the home' of Mrs Voctor Westmoreland, 94 Aurora Valparaiso.i The. program was on the.early art of paper presented before chapter members Mrs. J.B. Porter, Mrs.

Norman Marciis, Mrs, DaVe Mason, Mrs. Keith Camlzzi, Mrs. Jmns Parrlah, Mrs Trpyls Richardson, Mrs. Cecil Blackwcll, Mrs. Oeb Grlssett Mrs Norman Dupre and Mrs.

Dr In dozens of silent movies and was ranked In popularity and box office standing with stars as William S. Hart, Mary Pickford, Pouglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, John Barrymore and Pearl White. Hayakawa lived in a gray- stone castle in Hollywood with seven servants, four automobiles and his wife, Tsuru Aoki, also a film star. She died more than 10 years ago. He made one talking picture in Hollywood and in 1936 went to France where he lived for 13 years.

In 1949 he returned the United States and starred in "Tokyo Joe" with Humphrey Bogarl. After that he made a picture with Claudette Colbert, "Three Came Home," based on the real life adventures of an American wife and child in prison camps' during the Japanese wartime occupation of Borneo. Both "The Bridge on the Rtver KWP!" and Guinness won Academy Awards for the 1957 production. Astronauts Sleep Late HOUSTON (UPI) Skylab 3's astronauts took Ihe day off Saturday, sleeping late and catching up on honsecleaning chores so they will be ready for 11 weeks of intensive space research. Gerald P.

Carr, Edward G. Gibson and William R. Pogue slept two hours late Saturday, waking at 9:15 a.m. EST to the song, "Paralyzed," by the Stardust Cowboys, a noisy combination of band and song. "It's time to get up and enjoy your day off," ground com Dade Housewife Alleges Brutality County Public Safefy ment, said the of" originally, slopped when they saw his cat'ilfpen around a curve.

Page said belligerent and fled officers asked for his license. 1 Police caught up the door of his home ajjd.told him he was under for fleeing a police Mrs. McClenny said Ker "son ran into the house and toltl her what happened. She said she told him tcTglyt was nit in me them the driver's jagged coconut then my husband woke up and 'told the policemen they couldn't MIAMI (UPI)-A Dade County housewife charged Saturday that police officers barged Into her home on Thanksgiving Day and started a brawl with members of her family that left at least six persons injured. Mrs.

Elhel McClenny said the fight began when two police officers broke down the door of her house, in an attempt lo capture her son William, 21. Dade County police authorities challenged her version of the incident, saying lhat the officers entered only after one of them was hit in the face with a shell. Halph Page, Public Infor mation Officer for the come in warrant. without a search CINCINNATI CUB-Mrs. Ed Maruska, wife of director, shows off a new female polar bear cub born to one of the zoo's bears last week.

A sister born at the same time died before zoo workers could remove her from the bear grotto. If she survives, the cub should grow into a 700-pound adult. PGDN-UPI Photo) Convict Explodes On Canadian Street VANDCOUVKR I Police said Saturday they were checking the recent movements of an ex-convict who blew himself up, apparently ac- cidenlly, while walking on a city street late Friday. The victim, identified as Arpad Eross, 49, of Vancouver, reportedly was recently released from prison after municator Robert Crippen told serving senten lh e'at tempted murder of his wife and daughter in 1968, Police said Eross was wired with several sticks of dynamite and apparently was carrying a pistol and several rounds of ammunition when the explosion was triggered. No one else was injured in the blast, but several windows in homes near the scene were shattered.

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