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Johnson Faces Many World Problems Happened Last Night By EARL WILSON Ten Hot Spots Around the-World Are of.Concern to President Johnson News of New York NEW YORK-Beautiful Jill St. John, ex-wife of Lance Reventlow, hopped to the Las Vegas Riviera to be with Brazilionaire "Baby" Pignatari who checked in there to divorce Princess Ira Furstenburg. They THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1963 -Pittsburghesque By CHARLES F. Danver said he couldn't but Joe Levine got a seal of approval for his movie "The Carpetbaggers" despite Carroll Baker's nudity we hear Carroll agreed to turn one of her better sides away from the camera. Eddie Fisher's called back unexpectedly to L.A.

Is the divorce from Liz due now that the Richard Burtons property -settled Maybe? Plavwricht-satir- I vj No Bracer for Teener LEONARD KAPNER, TV-radio boss, tops the yarn here about the young man who was denied a drink in a bar because it was Election Day and, when asked if he had voted, confessed unthinkingly, "No, I'm too young." Mr. Wilson 1st Howard Teiehmann and wife Evelyn, the Mr. Kapner tale is about a six-loot teenager wno accompanied his mother to the State Store, where she wanted CI GERMANY FRANCE rKs. lS0UTHVIEmH' jmrnJm' INDIA LATIN AMERICA) CUBA )( AFRICA flitem msr a couple of bottles for an upcoming party, he pleaded: "Please, Ma, let me buy it for you." She said: "You're not old enough." He argued: "Oh, a lot of boys my age are able to buy it. You can stay with me in case the salesman challenges me." The Danver Mr.

B'way and Park Av. "ideal couple," have had terrible quarrels lately over which got to burp their four-month-old grandson David Tyke Sleekier while their dtr. Judy and husband vacationed in the Virgin Islands, leaving them to baby-sit for a Choo Choo Collins, unknown a year ago, now singing at "The Losers' Club" in Hollywood, has Doris Duke's beau, talented Joe Castro, and his trio, as her accompanists. They're still talking on B'way about the birthday party that Dagmar's husband, Dick Hinds, gave her at Tools Shor's, Henry Stamper's, the Latin Quarter and Copaeahana the same night. Must tell you about it sonic time.

Red Buttons, who's marrying Alicia Pagan, got tailored for his trousseau at Irving Heller's. "Night of the Iguana" is winding up In Mexico, and Ava Gardner's due here. Producer Lee Guber and Barbara Walters (dtr. of cafe impressario Lou Walters) had their honeymoon dinner at the Little Club Ann Jeffries is a hot bet for the TV scries, "Please Don't Eat the Daisies." Albert Finney (of "Tom took his father a "turf accountant" in London to a place he wanted to see here: Aqueduct race track. By FRANCIS STILLEY Associated Press stall Writer ATTER which direction President Johnson looks, he'll Hildegarde's advice at Mike Man-uche's: "Eat less, walk more, think young, and yc'll be mistaken for 40 hen you reach 50." A French paper published a photo of Tony Perkins jumping rope between takes on his Bardot film; now there's a jump-rope fad in Paris.

Duo at I -a Scala: Renata Boeck (Eddie Fisher's gal maybe) and H'wood agent Charles Fcldman. Bea Llllie's working on two books for Doubleday. Jackie Gleason surprise-gifted his Honey Merrill with an oil portrait of herself. Melina Mercouri, off to a London premiere of "The Victors," took along an entourage of ten. She said, "Some people collect cars or jewels.

I collect people. They make me happy a mink couldn't do that." Singer Bob' Crosby's wife June has gone into the candy-making business. I 1 ''1 l- "if' Mm mother consented "and the lad stated his order, promptly to be told: "Sonny, you're not old enough." His mother then interceded, saying she was making the purchase. As the man rang up the sale, the puzzled youth asked: "How did you know I wasn't 21?" The salesman replied: "Oh, that was easy. We don't have many customers with teeth braces." Steelville Vignettes PICTURESQUES: Tom Rutter, assist-ant county solicitor, being congratulated In the Court House on the birth of his third daughter, Joyce Anne.

And Roy VV. Meckel, retiring after 47 years as local sales representative of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad, all 6et to "just loaf" at his home on Bonvue Street, Northside. "Little Arlington" WEST MIFFLIN plans to honor the late President Kennedy and its war heroes by creating a park, with a fitting memorial, from a crescent-shaped plot at Buttermilk Hollow Road and the McKeesport-Homestead Boulevard, in the heart of the borough. The ground belongs to Allegheny County but it is not in use and Mayor George W. Lynn says borough officials will meet with the county commissioners soon to discuss the proposal.

Many names have already been suggested for the spot, including "Little Arlington." If Winter, Etc. A SUMMERY note gleaned Tuesday concerns the convention of the Women's National Farm and Garden Association here next May. On that snowy day, December 3, the convention planners signed up to take the delegates on a visit to Old Economy aboard (instead of a bus) the sightseeing boat Gateway Clipper. Rondo by the Rivers DEAR MR. Two kids at the Eastland Shopping Plaza are hoping Santa doesn't get 'em mixed up this year, in regards to wat they've asked for.

They're Dick Catts, manager of Woolworth's, and Phil Katz, the promotion man. Mary Ney, assistant secretary to County Commissioner William D. McClelland, is recovering from the flu at her home on the Northside. Bernard Komoroski, of the city treasurer's office, and his bride, the former Carol Przy-wara, are honeymooning in Florida. They were married Saturday.

Mrs. Martha Maloney, of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, became a grandmother Sunday for the twenty-fifth time. It's a girl at the Magee Hospital for Dolores and William Koeppl, of the maintenance staff of Children's Hospital. Carol for Heroes ADDITIONAL Christmas contributions to the Veterans Record Fund to buy new recorded music to cheer ths veteran-patients in eight Pittsburgh district institutions: Freda W.

Colbert, in memory of her husband, James E. Colbert, $10; A. W. Saling, Xmns," Anonymous, $3. Balance: $649.08.

Squirrel Cage By DOUGLASS WELCH Then, too, there Is Fidel Castro's Cuba, which evidently is destined to be a thorn in America's hide for a long time to come. PRESIDENT JOHNSON had hardly taken office before Castro was telling the Cuban people that the death of President Kennedy might change U.S. foreign policy "from bad to worse." Castro has been waging a ous effort to spread his type of Communist revolution throughout Latin America. Problems in the Far East are many and constant: Red China, South Viet Nam, Korea and Indonesia. Red China was quick to blast President Johnson, saying in a dispatch through its press agency: "Johnson has supported Kennedy's trickery policy and has called for the maintenance of such a policy in a series of his speeches." Korea remains divided, with frequent border incidents; the battle with Communists in South Vict Nam continues, and Red China and Indonesia seem bent on making as much trouble as possible for the new, pro-Western Federation Malaysia.

COMMUNIST CHINA has continually posed a threat to the borders of India, which the U.S. has backed with military and other aid. Africa has been in a ferment of change, with the emergence of many new Independent states and the efforts of others to gain Independence. Both the U.S. and Russia have sought to use their influence In many ways to win the goodwill of these countries.

Even France has been a problem of late to the U.S. President De Gaulle's insistence on an independent nuclear deterrent and establishment of a third world force has had a divisive effect in NATO. It also has had a dampening effect on U.S. desires for a stronger economic and political union among the Atlantic Allies. GREETINGS and salutations to you all on this December 5th, and leave us not forget that this is Give Meat for Christmas Week, sponsored by ihe National Live Stock and Meat Board.

I think it is awfully jolly see world problems aplenty staring right back at him. The major one, of course, as it has been for other Presidents for many years, is our relationship with Russia. Outwardly at the moment there would seem to be an "era of good feeling" between the world's foremost two powers. The U.S. is engaged in negotiating a giant sale of wheat to aid the Soviet Union, whose crops were hard hit by weather troubles.

In prospect also is the Russian purchase of other commodities. At the same time, the long wrangle over Germany is in one of its quiet periods, and Russian pressure at other showdown spots around the world appears moderate. Premier Khrushchev and top aides also took pains to pay unusual tribute to the memory of the late President Kennedy. But no one in this country and President Johnson least of all is likely to take it for granted that the ease in tensions will continue indefinitely. The same old U.S.Russian problems are still there, and Khrushchev has demonstrated often that he is as changeable as the wind.

The premier apparently is sitting back, warily eyeing President John-, son to see how he is going to operate. ANOTHER PROBLEM of major concern to the new President is the Latin-American situation, which has been marked by exceeding turbulence in recent months. Six regimens have been toppled by coups, four of them this year. Several others are plagued by great unrest. Brazil Is in a desperate plight, economically and politically.

Communist terrorism has been raging of them to urge us to send meat to one another for Christmas, and I don't think it is the least bit commercial, do you? I can remember, though, that back a few years when Green Eyes and I were 2k young-marrieds and had babies we were delighted to re ceive packages of meat and especially bacon for Christ A serious President speaks to the world. In Venezuela, at a high cost in life and property. Colombia and El Salvador have been having their troubles, too, along with British Guiana which Is under the thumb of strongly. Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan. These and other developments have created great concern in this country for the future of the Alliance for Progress, into which the U.S.

has already sunk two billion dollars in an effort to help Latin America improve itself. mas from my parents. In Mr. Welch those days of depression what bacon we bought went to the children and I can still see the little beggars in my mind's eye sitting in their high chairs munching on bacon and dropping bits on the floor while Papa and Mama ate mush, unrelieved by any protein whatsoever. Green Eyes allotted 15 cents a day for meat in 1933, and hog-liver was five cents a pound.

If you eared to stand in front of his counter and hark, the butcher sometimes would throw you a hog liver for nothing but you had to eat It there. Pot roast, with that good yellow dulry-eow fat on it, sold for 9 cents a pound. Sometimes late Saturday night for a special treat would walk down to the neighborhood drug store and bring back 15 cents worth of Ice cream. Roast almond. It was wickedly extravagant.

I try to tell my children about those days and they look at me uneomprchendingly. To them the Great Depression is merely an improbable legend, but I've been running scared ever since. And I was one of the lucky ones. I had a job. Green Eyes washed diapers by hand on a miiiiiiiiiiiimiMMiMmiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim Words Wisdom By WILLIAM MORRIS Santa and the Haunted House Part Two Of course, you can't have Santa said, "Why don't you things like that going on, so send Nog to Santa Land?" "OH MY goodness," exclaimed the Queen.

"He would absolutely destroy the Queen Fairy sent Nog to work with the Halloween witches, thinking if he were so tricky he might as well be used while he was at it. Santa took a second helping of peppermint ice cream. When he had finished it he wiped his mouth with a big rorl hemrllsnrnhtnf nnrl enlrl BUT NOG DID things no spook or ghoul would ever have done. On Halloween he would catch people's cats and rhoprrullVi -r think can hang them up by their tails, handle him. Why not give it a try?" Synopsis Three children, Jeremy, Sissy and Miss Jo, were alone in their house when a Storyteller came by and offered to tell them a story.

CHAPTER TWO NOG THE BUGABOO By LL'CRECE BEALE ONCE UPON a time, began the Storyteller, there lived an evil Bugaboo In far away Santa Land. "Oh, no," said Sissy, sitting at the Storyteller's feet. "Only good creatures live In Santa Land, They are Santa's helpers. Even the imps and goblins are good." "Hush, Sissy," said Jeremy, The Storyteller opened his eyes and gazed at Sissy. "You are right," he said gently.

"Only good creatures live in Santa Land ordinarily. But it is not always so. And the time I am telling about there was a very wicked Bugaboo U.S Has HOW ABOUT A BIT on "unflappable?" Nearly every news story from London these days describes the ex-Lord Home as "unflappable." So much so that it almost seems part of his name. The Flappers' Delight, New York, N. Y.

In International political jargon, "un flappable" was first applied' to the previous Prime Minister, the imperturbable Harold Macmillan. The label had been applied to "Mac" long ago but first began to appear In the American press at the time of the Profumo-Kecler-Ward headlines, an episode during which the P. M. remained resolutely unflappable and probably saved his government by his composure. "Flap" originally was army slang and referred to an alarm, especially one leading to panic.

It seems not, despite the apparent connection to an airplane's flaps, to have originated with the air force. In any case It soon became standard slang in all the services and broadened In meaning until it came to mean any argument or controversy, especially one big enough to threaten the job tenure of important officials. In Washington', for more than a decade, the term flap has been used to describe the tension and turmoil that characterize a government agency under Investigation by a congressional committee. A truly monumental flap is the kind that ensues when two departments become involved in a struggle for some newly-defined area of governmental responsibility For reasons that will be obvious to anyone who has ever served there, one local Washington nickname for the Pentagon is "The Five-Sided Flaphouse." is correct "The churches of Blankton welcomes you," or "The churches of Blankton welcome Mrs. Erna Gar-rclls, Bladen, Neb.

A. "Welcome" Is correct. "Welcomes" is Illiterate. He would take little children's treats away from them and fill up their bags with stones. He would tie up old ladies' doors so they could never get out of their homes not even if there was a fire.

Well, he was giving the Witches a terrible name, you can imagine, so finally the Witches went to the Queen washboard. For Christmas in 19.5.5 I gave her a second hand washing machine with an attached wringer. Cost me $35. I would have preferred to have given her a more personal and elegant present. I'll never forget how I awoke on that Christmas morning and said to her: "I've got a Christmas present for you but I couldn't have it delivered today.

I don't know whether It Is really a proper Christ-runs present, I got you a washing machine with a wringer." And she cried. To this day I don't know whether she cried out of delight and gratitude or because I gave her such a prosaic and unsentimental gift. I'll never understand women. It says here that the first hotels were In the Orient and were outdoors. You might say they were camping sites.

You rented space enough, let us say, under a tree to lie down. "That will be four dollars for the night," the landowner would tell you, and you'd protest: "Four dollars! Why I can go out of town and lie down under a tree for nothing!" And the landowner would say: "But In that case I would come along and rob you. Here you are safe. Also your four-dollar commercial off season rate entitles you to a bath." And you would say: "Where Is the bath?" And the landowner would say: "It's about a mile over the hill?" The Queen Fairy was at her wil'i end. There wasn't anything else the Queen Fairy could do BUT give it a try so she sent Nog off to Santa Land and hoped for the best.

Now Nog was a purple-faced, toothless, hairless, bottle-shaped creature about as high as Santa's knee. Seeing him with Santa so big and strong and Jolly you really would have thought Santa could handle him. But oh, my! The Storyteller paused and rolled his eyes towards the celling. "What happened? What happened?" chorused the children. Well, said the Storyteller.

That Bugaboo made a SHAMBLES of Santa Land! of the wicked fiend. Finally, in the Weather Factory which Fairv and Rald: "Look, you have to take Nog back. Jle's ruining us." manufactures storms but Nog was always fouling things up. He pushed buttons that made snow storms in August. he began again.

IN THE FIRST place, he Nog did not belong in Santa Land. He had always sent' showers of hall The Queen Fairy was at her wit's end because she didn't know what to Co with him. And Bugaboos never die, you know, bo Nog was going to be around forever. Then, one Miss Jo gripped brother hnnn a wnhlem Bucahoo. The Jeremy's arm and swallowed 0" rpKnni 1 Queen airy who is rohponsl- ments like at someone's spe- W-what was his name? thlng, placcd "Nog," said the Storyteller, him in Santa Land because time he hid the key to the sun day at a party, the Queen He closed his eyes and was he simply didn't know what ci08Ct and the sun didn't shine Fairy was eating Ice cream silent as though he had been else to do with him.

for 8CVen whole weeks. Not with Santa Claus and she told overcome by the very namt She tried having him work once. him about the problem. Nog in Santa Tomorrow: Land,.