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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Nathan's Creek
Has Fine Faculty
Thirteen Members; Som e
Changes Brought About
Because OF War

The war has brought about
changes in the Nathan's Creek
school faculty during the year,
with the physical education and
home economics teachers called
elsewhere. The school has been
fortunate, however, in securing
competent instructors to replace
these losses and has enjoyed a
successful year with a faculty of
Is we'll trained and efficient
teachers.
Professor James J. Miller, who
left this month to enter the Ma
wy, has served untiringly as
principal in bending all his eff
forts toward the success of the
school. He holds a B. S. degree
in mathematics and science from
ASTC, and teaches classes in
science, first aid and health.
Other members of the faculty
are:
Mrs. Kate Dixon, ASTC, first
grade; Mrs. Rachel Sweet, WCTC,
second grade; Miss Elma Waddell,
Emory and Henry and ASTC,
third grade; Mrs. Beulah R. Car
ter, ASTC, fourth grade; Mrs.
Hazel Taylor, ASTC and L. M. u,
fifth grade; Mrs. Dema r. Lyall,
ASTC, sixth grade; c. c. Dixon,
ASTC, seventh grade; Miss
Blanche Pugh, WCUNC and
ASTC, seventh grade; Dale At
wood, ASTC, eighth grade.
Miss Mary Carolyn Price, ASTC,
home economics and science; w.
L. Woodie, Elon and U. N. c.,
math and history; Miss Lois Dick
son, ASTC, teacher of music
throughout the grades and high
school.
Mr.. Raymond Francis, Emory
and Henry, and U. N c., has re-
placed Mr.. Atwood, who is now
in service in the U. S. Navy. Mr..
Francis is also serving as acting
principal since Mr.. Miller left.
Miss Price, who resigned re-
Gently to become a dietician in the
Park View Hospital, at Rocky
Mount, NJ c., has been replaced
by Rev. Worth Sweet, Pfeiffer
and ASTC. Mr.. Sweet is believed
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Finals Will Be
Held May 6 With
Sweet AS Speaker
A. B. Hurt Will Award Diplo-
mas To Ii Members OF
Graduating Class

Due to wartime activities and
transportational difficulties, COM
exercises will be
brief at Nathan's Creek this year.
On Saturday night, May 6, at
$3.50 o'clock, the graduation exer-
else will be held, when the thir-
teen seniors will be awarded their
diplomas.
At this time, the Rev. Worth
Sweet, Methodist minister and
a member of the faculty, will de-
liver the graduating address.
The diplomas will be presented
by A. B. Hurt, former principal at
Nathan's Creek, now county SUI
perintendent of schools.
The public is cordially invited
to attend this program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
LOU ELLA ABSHER

Born August 80, 1924, LOUIS
charm lies not only in being a
blonde but also in having a mis-
chievous twinkle in her eyes.
Voted the most mischievous girl
in the senior class. Hobbies: Hik-
ing and taking pictures. Ambi-
ton: To be a photographer. Mot
to: Never let these three days
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
BILLY JOE DIXON

Born Nov. 2, 1926, Billy is a
quiet, intelligent boy, who is new
er angry. If he finds fault with
anyone he keeps it to himself
Voted the cutest boy in the class.
Hobbies: Movies, basketball and
music. Ambition: To become an
airplane pilot. Motto: do unto
others as you would have them
do unto YOU"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

The sure foundation of the
State are laid in knowledge, not
in ignorance; and every sheer at
education, at culture and at book
learning which is the recorded
wisdom of the experience of man.
kind, is the demagogue's sheer at
intelligent liberty, inviting ma
tional degeneracy and ruin.
C. w. Curtis
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
CYNTHIA CAROLYN GENTRY

Born Jan. II, 1927, Cynthia not
only smiles at one; she has smile
for all and is liked by everyone.
Voted the biggest flirt, most at
tractive girl and teachers pet.
Hobbies: Dancing, singing and
skating. Ambition: ITO become
a beauty operator. Motto: Smile
and the world smiles with you"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

Patron, to Nathan's Creek home
economics student: ''Do you have
any trouble getting enough sugar
for cakes, pies and other desserts
in your course of 'study?"
Student: mo indeed, our in
structor is Sweet"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

Instruction ends in the school
room, but education ends only
with life. A child is given to the
universe to be educated.
F. w. Robertson
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

to be the only Methodist minister
on record teaching a class in home
economics.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
RALPH BROWN

Born July 1, 1927, Ralph's good
humor and friendly smile wins
him many friends and makes him
a pleasant companion. Elected
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27

A college education shows a
man how little other people know.
Halliburton.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
Girls Outnunber
Boys In The 1914
GraduatingC Glass
Nine Girls And Four Boys In
This Lucky" Group OF
Seniors
UNUSUAL CLASS

In addition to having the lucky
number of Is, the 1914 graduating
class at Nathan's Creek, compos-
ed of nine girls and four boys, is
unusual in many other ways.
Most of these students have not
only made fine records in num-
Der of their subjects, but are al
ready making plans for their flu
ture careers. Some of them ex-
pect to enter service in the near
future and others will seek ca
reers, elsewhere.
The members of the graduating
class are:
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
BERTHA MASSEY

Born Dec. Is, 1923, Bertha's
quiet intelligence and dignity will
make her a success. She was
president of her class in the junior
year. This year she was voted
the friendliest and best all-around
girl in the senior class. Hobbies:
Reading and hiking. Ambition:
To see the world. Motto: MAKE
the best of everything"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
JACK MILLER

Born Feb. Z, 1927, Jack is val
edictorian of his class and also
star basketball player. With his
bright outlook on life he is almost
sure to succeed in anything he
undertakes. Hobbies: Playing
ball, hunting and swimming. Am
bition: To be farmer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
bother you-yesterday, today and
tomorrow"
WILLIAM DEAN SHEPHERD

Born March 8, 1926, Dean has
won many friends by being one.
Played on the basketball team,
'43-'44. Voted most athletic boy.
Hobby: Playing ball. Ambition:
To join the Navy. Motto: keep
'em flying"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
IVA GRACE DANCY

Born Feb. 10, 1927, Iva Grace's
charm lies in being not only a
blonde but also a good friend to
everyone that knows her. Hob
bies: Reading and movie-going.
Ambition: To travel and see the
world. Motto: every cloud has
a silver lining"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
To Diplomas Nahans Greek High School

best dressed boy and teachers pet.
Hobbies: Swimming, going to
movies, and car riding. Ambi-
ton: To become a chief petty Of
ficer. Motto: 'Do unto others as
you would have them do unto
you"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
CLYDE MAHALA JONES

Born May 3, 1927, Clyde is a
jolly, good-natured girl, who is
always ready for fun and laugh
ter. Hobbies: Hiking and going
to the movies. Ambition: To
travel and see the world. Motto:
"Smile and the world smiles with
YOU"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
FANNIE MAXINE WALKER

Born March 20, 1927, Fannie is
a quiet, peaceful girl who is lik-
ed by everyone: She was voted
the prettiest, best dressed and also
the most athletic girl in her class.
Hobbies: Dating boys and playing
basketball. Ambition: To become
a beautician. Motto: "A loving
heart is the beginning of all
knowledge"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-04-27
EVELYN BARE

Born December Is, 1924, Eve
Ign is a very ambitious girl and
a good friend to everyone. She is
ready for fun at any time and is
liked by all who know her. Hob
bies: Collecting soldier boys pic
lures, hiking and going to the
movies. Ambition: To become a
beauty parlor operator. Motto:
"Let things happen as they will"
MADGE FENDER
Born Jan. IA, 1926, Madge is a
good-natured, quiet, peaceful girl
who never gets angry at anyone.
Hobbies: Dancing and skating.
Ambition: Going places. Motto:
every cloud has a silver lining
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27

ton alleged.
If she did not join the organiza-
ton, the daughters continued. she
was told she would starve to death
when Mankind United took over the
world by means of a secret device
permitting it to immobilize all ma
chimes using electricity. In addition,
she would be forced to perform
menial tasks for members who
gained master" status by relin-
gushing their assets and property
to the group.
The complaint alleged further
that Mankind United and its affil-
late have a history as subverSive,
seditious and spiratorial organi-
zation, that they have attacked the
President ami the nations military
leaders, preaching doctrines of
racial and religious hatred.
Twelve of the defendants, includ-
ing Bell, were ccpvicted of sedition
in a Los Angeles federal court in
1943. They are free on bail pending
an appeal to the ninth circuit court
of appeals in San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
Hats Mount Hiqher-Sky Hiqh

ing tufts or plumes a sleek new look
is a spray bath of glycerin or
metallic paint, an example of which
you'll see on the model at the right.
Launched by Lily Dache in her fall
collection, the winging COG
feather, shined up with metallic
paint, nestles on helmet Of velour
felt in a new metal shade of gray
called palladium.
But not all high hats get their
loftiness from trimmings. Some
times high peaks are solid towers
of felt or fabric, clcverly manipu-
lated by designers to look lofty but
not top-heavy, as in the new Dache
Liberty bonnet shown at the left,
with the peaked forward twisted
crown. In Chcrbourg blue-the blue
of neon lights-this hat is a 1914
version of the famous Marianne cap
worn by the symbolic figure of
French Liberty-the designers trib-
ute to the Liberated French.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
GL0RIFYING
YOURSELF
By GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Staff Writer

Dry sausage is a popular summer
labor-Saving meat. There is at least
one line of dry sausage to suit each
nationality and taste. Most salamis
and Cervelats are cured, smoked
and dried. Salami contains garlic,
and is wrapped tightly with cord.
Cervelat has no garlic, no cord.
Piuuant salami and cervelat are
delicious served cold sliced, or used
in combination with other foods.
Here are suggestions:
Broil dry sausage and serve on
toasted buns with chopped pickle
relish or mustard.
Try potato salad using 2 cups
diced cooked potatoes. cups diced
dry sausage, u cup chopped tart
pickle and cooked salad dressing to
moiSten.
Pan broil thin slices of salami
until they curl. Fill salami Gups
with fried eggs.
Roll thin slices of dry sausage
around -nch-thick sticks of
cheese. Broil until cheese melts.
Serve in lcng picnic buns with
pickle chips.
Star Tomato Salad
(SerVeS d
Wash 4 plump, ripe tomatoes. Cut
into 6 sections, spreading out in
star shape on a lettuce leaf. Com
bine l cup of diced salami, = cup
celery. u cup chopped sweet pickle,
and salad dressing or mayonnalse
enough to moisten. Shape mounds
of salami salad in center OF tomato
star. Garnish with sprigs OF pars-
ley. Serve with rye bread and cheese
sandwiches.
ScaIlop-d Salami and Potatoes
(ServeS g.
Cook 4 medium potatoes. Dice z
CUBS of salami COR about y pound.
Make a white sauce of 4 tablespoons
fat. q tablespoons flcur and 2 cups
milk. Into a creased casserole put a
laver of cubed salami and layer
of white sauce. Top with sauce ana
sprinkle with 4 cup grated cheese.
Bake 30 minutes in a moderate
oven $3.50 degrees Fahrenheib.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27

SHOES

SHOES
Ration book 3. airplane stamrs
| and 2. good i.definitely for one
pair rationed shoes each.
CANNED GOODS
Book 4-Bluc A8 to I8 inclusive
and AS, BIS, C5, D5, E5. F5 leach
good for 10 points, valid indefi-
nitely.
MEAT. BUTTER. CHEESE
Book 4-Red stamps A8 TO rs, AS,
BIS, C5, D5. inclusive leach good for
10 points, valid indefinitely.
Grease Bonus - Butchers will
give 2 red tokens and 4 cents for
every pourd of salvaged kitchen
fats reccived.)
SUGAR
Book a. stamps 80, 81. 80 (marked
sugar., good indefinitely for five
pounds each. Special stamp No. 40
tmark5d sugar. coed through Feb.
28. '945, for five pounds.
Send spare stamp No. 81 with
application tor additional canning
sugar certificate to your local ra-
tioning board.
GASOLINE
"a" coupon . good thl ough Sept.
81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
BY EPSIE KINARD
NEA Staff Writer

NEW YORK-Pint-size girls who
covet height can add it to
the top of their heads with new
skyscraper hatS-an important sill
houette for fall-Which can do as
much to stretch out length as the
cake that Alice in Wonderland ate
Some of these new tall-making hats
tower as high as IL inches; height
that's achieved by zooming trim
ming upward CT by designers twists
with fabric or felt.
Often the lofty look of these
high-hat fashions comes from airy
mountain peaks of yelling, which
are particularly enchanting when
a flock of misty tints are used in
color-upon n-color effects. Frequent
ly, however, the sky-pointing busi-
ness depends upon feathers -
plucked from both the barnyard
and aviary. What gives these swirl
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
New Count Faces
Cults Leaders

OAKLAND, Calf, Aug. 26. CUP)
A petition filed by the two daugh-
ters of an elderly widow Saturday
charges Arthur L. Bell and l3 other
officials of Mankind United and its
religious affiliate, Christ's Church
of the Golden Rule, with defraud-
ing 65-year-old Mrs. Ruth Willard
Mess of her $500 home by threats
of starvation and slavery.
Mrs. Ellen Moss Hodghead and
Dorothy Moss asserted in the petit
tion filed Friday in Alameda coun
ty superior court, that leaders of
the cult obtained their mothers
home by fraud and undue influ-
ence without giving anything in re-
turn. They asked that it be returned
so that she would not become desti-
tute and a burden.
The widow was told that she
would be supported in ease and
comfort, would work only four
hours a day. and would receive a
round world vacation trip in a
secret airplane now circling the
earth in the stratcsphere, the petit
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
FUND ALLOWED TO DRAIN
OFF UNDERGROUND WATER

SAN FERNANDO. Cal. Aug 26
(UP)-The ballad singers who
lyrically want to make the San
Fernando valley their home can
throw away their boots.
The city council Friday voted
$30,400 TO d.s seven wells to tap an
underground lake which has been
flooding cesspools and Easements
and making the celebrated valley
unrecognizable from the cow coun-
tree Paradise described in the
song.
IT'S the frogs splashing around
in the water-they keep you awake
all night" complained one council
man.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Staff Writer

Two meals from one shopping
trip is the order of the day. If
you're serving a cold meat platter
one night, buy enough of the cold
cuts to make a hot dish the follow
ing night.
Quick Meat Pie
Place l cup diced old-fashioned
meat loaf, chopped medium sized
onions, cup cooked diced potato,
Y cup cooked green beans and Y
cup cooked sliced carrots with "
teaspoon salt in a casserole. Pour
ever l cup gravy. Drop chive bis
cult dough on top Bake in hot oven
(450 degrees Fahrenheit about 20
minutes or until biscuits are we'll
Drowned For drop biscuit dough
made with cups flour, mix in q
tablespoons chives and drop from a
spoon onto top of casserole.
Bologna Egg Cups
Using 2 eggs per person, break
eggs into bowl. For each q eggs,
add "a teaspoon salt, Is teaspoon
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
G&B % @3 ! q MT
% a Z H.
ri O r Ic 4

An invisible paint has been inven-
ted that kills all insects that walk on
it. but does not harm humans or ami
mails. 1t is called "2-WAY Insecti-
eide Screen Paint. Merely wipe 1t
on screens. 1t kills flies, mosquitoes.
gnats, etc, trying to get in and kills
all insects already in. Keeps flies, etc.
from hopping off screen door and
getting in when door is opened. Costs
only few cents per application, Pre-
vents rust. For homes, porches,
dairies, camps, barns. Your dealer
has it or can quickly have his lobber
get it from Hanley & kinsella Labo-
ratories, 1918 Olive, st. Louis, Mo.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
College Chapel
Rites Unite
Harmon-Actress SIS

ANN ARBOR. Mich, Aug. 26. CUP)
Tom Harmon came back from the
wars to the college town of his ALI
America football triumphs and took
movie actress Elyse Knox for his
bride Saturday.
Lieutenant Harmon, %, and Miss
Knox, 26, whCm the athlete-hero
met in Hollywood while making a
film based upon his football career,
were wed at St Mary's student
chapel at the University of Mich
igan.
It was here that Harmon's family
and friends prayed for his safety
when twice he was missing in action
after parachuting from his plane
once in Dutch Guiana, and again
in China.
Derpite the fiction-rivaling cir
cumstances of their romance, the
petite, blond bride said that she and
Tcm hoped for cozy future.
But as for nCW," she said, we're
just like any other War-Wed couple.
We can't make plans now and con-
sequently I will continue my movie
career and Tom of course will do
what the army tells him until we
can start a lite Of our own
Elyse's wedding dress is made of
Harmon's parachute which he used
in China. 1t is trimmed in the cord
of the chute which also decoratcS
both the veil and the brides high
heeled satin shoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
OF Interest tOWOnen
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT


For many war wife the first
year Or two after the return of her
husband may be more difficult
period of adjustment than the years
of separation endured while the
war lasted.
For she thinks during the sepa-
ratiCn that all of her problems will
be solved the day her husband re-
turns to her. AS matter of fact,
she may BE- faced with whole new
set Of problems with no comforting
philosophy to keep up her courage.
No less an authority than Colonel
William c. Menninger, chief cf the
division of neuropSychiatry of the
office of surgeon general, gays that
the man sent to war may be prob
lem after he gets home, even though
he never left this country and even
though he is just an average vet
eran. and not one discharged as a
psychoneurotic.
The reasons for this, says Colonel
Menninger, are that service men
will come back different fellows be-
cause they'll all have known some
degree of stress. They'll be more
aggressive, more restless, full of in
decision.
WANTS HIGH PAY
And he goes on to point out !:
The veteran has heard of $10O-a-
week jobs. He's going to look for
thcm-and they'll be scarce. Also,
somebody has fed and clothed and
paid him for two or three years.
There has been no way for him to
get into serious econmic difficulties.
He's had a philosophy of living from
day tc day with no sense OF respon-
sibility for anybody else. Even the
allotments to his family came out
of his pay automatically. 1t will be
hard for him to settle down.
That doesn't sound as though all
of a wife's problems are going to be
ever as soon as her husband returns
to her. 1t sounds as though in many
cases she is going to trade loneli-
ness and worry for the job of help
ing a restless, disillusioned man
settle down and make a place for
himself in life.
And therell be little happiness
for the wife until the problem Is
solved. For no woman can be happy
with her lot in life unless she be-
lieveS her husband is satisfied with
his
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
Socialist Party
Will Reply to
Roosevelt TaIk

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. oUP)-
The war department has revealed
that it has agreed to a request OF
the Socialist party fer radio time
to make a shortwave broadcast to
servicemen overseas on grounds
that President Roosevelt'S August
IL speech from Bremerton, WASH
ington, was political address,
It said the Socialist party will
have time equal to that of the
Presidents address for it's broad
cast.
The department said other polite
ical parties asked for and have
been furnished copies of the corre-
spondence between the war depart
ment and the Socialist party con-
cerning the matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
HOME NEAR CALEXICO
LOOTED, OWNER REPORTS

E. M. SiegletZ. who lives three
miles east of Calexico. reported to
the Imperial county sheriff's office
Friday that burglar had entered
his home by forcing locked win
dow.
Articles valued at S125 were
taken. Among things missing were
two mems gold stick-pins, one gold
chain, one pearl necklace, one pair
of gold antique earrings, one gold
brooch, two pairs of gold cuff links,
one bottle of perfume and five
boxes of .22-caliber shells.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
THE POST-PRESS

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Published Sundays As combined issue
of Imperial Valley Press and The
Morning Post. by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company, CPS State st. III
Centro, California.
Paul Jenkins. Publisher
and President.
A. G. Johnston. VCe-President and hd-
vertising Manager: Mrs. Logan II.
Jenkins, Secretar".
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paper Publishers Assn. West Holiday
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Rates. in combination with either The
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Single copy SC; carrier paid-in-ad
vance: | month St.O0; 3 months.
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Outside of California $l.0 per month
flat
Entered at FL Centre. Calf. post
office as 2nd class mail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
MOD ERN' MENUS

pepper, Il cup milk or light cream
Beat until we'll mixed. Melt butter
or margarine in a frying or sauce
pan, using l tablespoon butter for
each 4 eggs. Scramble ever low heat
stirring gently until soft n d
creamy. Stir in Drowned mushroom
slices if desired. Be careful not to
overlook eggs. Pantry slices of
bologna, allowing two slices per
person of the large, round Bologna
When Drowned and cupped, arrange
on platter and fill each cup with
scrambled eggs. GarniSh wi h
watercress and spiced fruit and
serve.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
THUMBS DOWN

Now it can be told angle on The
Intruder" Lester Cowan's screen
version of Tomorrow the World"
Cowan offered the role of Frederick
March's sister to Mrs. March
Florence Eldridge). She turned it
down because she felt the thought
of playing her husbands sister
would be psychologically wrong.
Agnes Moorehead got the part.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
STORES VICTORY SIREN
GETS AHEAD OF X-DAY

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug, 26. UP)
Hundreds of clerks and shoppers in
a downtown store were recovering
Saturday from an emotional jag
celebrating the end CT the war
touched off by tripped switch in
a special V-Day siren.
Shoppers and clerks laughed,
shouted and wept Historically
clerks jumped over the counters and
started for home while the floor
walkers began to barricade the
doors.
The management quieted til G
siren and then put remaining
clerks to work quieting the GUS
toners.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
Duchess Gives
Birth to Son

LONDON, Aug. 26. tUP)-ThG
Duchess of Gloucester gave birth
Saturday to ron, fifth in line of
succession to the British throne.
The Duke of Gloucester, youngest
brother of King George, is governor
general designate to Australia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-27
HOLLYWOOD
ny ERSkINE JOHNSON

Exclusively yours: Jon Hall still
doesn't think that fight was funny
even though he's been in stitches
ever since. The radio networks, in
cidentally have finally clamped
down on gags about the affair.
Censored from the air was this
prize one: Ransome Sherman said
he'd like to do the balcony scene.