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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1948
Page
2
Cast notes for Lets Fall in Love at Columbia show newspapermen interviewed by reporters. Directors Sirk and Starr push neat looks for press roles amid rumors of Gene Autry life story filming at Columbia with a two million dollar budget.
Doris Day learns Sitka fans want a visit while Jimmy Stewart reshapes his Rope gait by removing a heel. Pete Kooey played the timid hotel clerk in April Showers. Phyllis Calvert stars with Melvyn Douglas in My Own True Love and learns American flapjacks on set. Claire Trevor portrays a blowsy blonde in Key Largo. Sammy Kaye advises on So You Want to Lead a Band, favoring modest contestants. Ed Gardner of Duffy's Tavern is the only radio comedian in the Los Angeles Hall of Art exhibit. Pat McCann, county fair producer, revealed as a teacher in New York and a model. Sam Wanamaker makes film debut in My Girl Tisa as a brash Roosevelt era lout.
A crowd on the bridge watches as crew drag the lake below the dam for Doc Warren and a missing woman. The scene follows police bets on whether Warren jumped or was murdered after his late night disappearance and a found car with his license.
A narrator describes a scene where sirens and a patrol car arrive as Old Doc Warren steps from a car. A mistaken death is ruled a log, while Phil’s baby birth moments contrast a racing town mood and a missing hat incident on the bridge.
Pittsburgh votes to abandon the Stephen Foster Memorial home to avoid a 10000 repair expense. The 14 room brick house, long a memorial site, will be deeded back to heirs of James H. Park who donated it with maintenance stipulations. Foster descendants have lived there for 30 years.
A nationwide plea urges motorists to watch for children as a safety measure. Citing Accident Facts 1947, officials note one in three child deaths are from traffic accidents and urge drivers to slow in school zones and residential areas.
Walter Wood of Rogers town Pa was shot through the heart with a .32 caliber pistol. Drs Brant Chernshore Jameson and a family physician performed a five hour operation, repairing the heart, pericardium lungs stomach and spleen and saving his life with blood transfusions and careful coordination.
Albert M. Day of the U S Fish and Wildlife Service said 12,066,763 hunting licenses were sold in 1947, describing hunters as the greatest army in history. He noted the challenge of supplying game and reported record receipts of $28,558,447.
In Terre Haute Indiana 11 year old Wayne Smith fled a farm life after his mother Esther Baker placed him with his father Harry Smith. He ran into a dry wash that was 12 feet deep with thawed water and drowned. An inquest ruled accidental death.
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