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Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 34

Publication:
Tucson Citizeni
Location:
Tucson, Arizona
Issue Date:
Page:
34
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w'i r1 A Open for your Inspection S' IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY ftbiscroSt Estates SOUTH 12th AND VALENCIA1 I Ml 950 to 2450 $108 lo $114 per month total Including Cooler 3 Different Floor Plans 3 4 Bedrooms Brkk Adobe or Beau-tystone construction Near 2 freeways to whisk you downtown Ooso to Hughes the Mines and Community park and swimming pool New library coming soon uni 4 DCAITTY BUILT HOMES Don Collier As High Chaparral 9 Is Good Lick Phone 294-0773 There's No Place like Home A Beauty Built Hornet CHLORINATED RUBBER POOL £7795 PAIMT LJ Gallon Southwestern Paint Varnish Co 3 Locations to Serve You 1 FACTORY STOKE 2 NOFTHSIDE STOE 3IS0 Sp4nUwav 31 IS lit Av 023 327- 3 (ASTSIDI STORE 6947 22nd 294-S1 1 1 actor Francis Lederer in the late 1940s when the veteran actor took an interest in him and coached him to small parts in three westerns and Collier says now: really warm up to acting until I began working with At that time he had only recently returned from a stint with the Navy He joined in 1945 having dropped out of high school to do so and served about a year before general demobilization put him back in school The air filled with the sound of jingling spurs following the war Collier cut out of the Hollywood scene to accept an athletic scholarship to Hardin-Simmons University in Texas He stuck a year spent another studying geology at Brigham Young University and poked his head in the door at college drama productions both places early Collier tried another tack he ran a wholesale and retail poultry and fish business in Southern California but finally chucked it to enter Estelle workshop In Hollywood supporting himself his wife and three children Pamela 16 Diane 15 and David 13 as a surveyor TYien it happened Collier was signed for the lead in a high quality teevee oater that ran for two years and brought the leathery-looking actor to national attention believe every actor should have several years of preparatory background because there are so many technical things he needs to Collier said on High set at Old Tucson been in the business for 10 years held an guild card for 20 and just now getting to the point where I know enough people and enough people in Don Collier who plays Sam Butler on High is as unlike the swaggering sometimes swishy army of male television and movie stars as John Wayne is from Don Knotts or Liber-ace The practical down-to-earth Collier born ironically enough within yodeling distance of Hollywood (Ingelwood Oct 27 1928) has worked as a ranch hand a geologist a surveyor a logging hand and a seaman not so he could make It big in the glittering film industry but just to keep food on the table hide soul and family together And now that Collier is an established actor grateful and ever mindful of what it took to get established speaks modestly of his talent: is a simple part to play a man who punches cattle for a living And I play it pretty Punching cattle is nothing new to Collier He was wrestling steers on the ranch of BRICK For Patio Floors Walks Flower Boxes Lawn Edges Bar-be-Ques etc Wt oho carry a Ml lino of Sprinkler Supplies for your Polio Plottk Pipes Sprinkler Heads Yokes etc CARLSON Brick and Builders Supply 3670 SPEEDWAY PHONE 325-3369 For several years in the continued on page I COOLER SALE FOR A COOL COOL SUMMER AND A LOW LOW PRICE STOCKIM COOLING CO YOUR ARCTIC CIRCLE DEALER FOR 20 YRS 622-3469 150S4thAve 4 i Jlit- 4 2 --A I I I I YOU MV AYS GTTVC jj A i fe si 410 1srf i 3 J5 JO Checked Your Roof Lately? Let O'MALLEY'S ROOFING Check It For You! Type of Roofing No lob Too Large or Too Smnir FREE ESTIMATES 210 STEVENS Phone 792-131 6 COMMON Bermuda grass CAN BRING YOU Joy Pleasure IF YOU CALL OR VISIT TUCSON FERTILIZER COMPANY BB7-1IU 3J00LFinriew To gett "Giant-free" teed well-composted Mulching Manure 4 IMQSPN Aj LY PJT12EN SATjURRAY JUNE A 1968 PAGE 6.

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