Too Normal Roles Define TV's Female Stars Says Lowry
AP television columnist Cynthia Lowry notes the season shows few glamorous or exciting roles for women. Shirley Booth stars as a maid while guest roles depict alcoholics narcotics addicts and blackmail victims. She predicts a glamor deficit will persist next season with Ball and Young returning in domestic arcs.
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Shirley Booth
Lucille Ball
Loretta Young
Betty Furness
Betty
Greta Garbo
Hollywood
Weekend View
Five arrested in Georgia car theft ring crackdown
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents nabbed five suspects in Albany after raiding a car theft ring that stole eight cars from 1961 and 1962. More arrests expected in Albany and Atlanta as price lists showed vehicles sold for about 400 dollars.
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Albany, Ga
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Albany
GBI
McCulley Harris
Atlanta
Harris
Sudden Storm Ravages Reynolds Peach Orchards and Crops
A powerful storm hit Reynolds Georgia causing extensive damage in Taylor County. Peach grower Walter Wainwright estimated $125000 in losses across his 300 acre peach orchard and fields, with cotton and watermelon damage and downed timber and utility poles reported by Police Chief L D Gordon. The storm described as a twister damaged buildings and felled trees in the area north of Reynolds, the hometown of Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd.
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Reynolds
Taylor County
Walter Wainwright
L. D. Gordon
Garland T. Byrd
Wainwright
Wise Assumes Top Local Rotary Post
Robert A. Wise became president of the Thomasville Rotary Club succeeding N. Pratt Secrest. Secrest praised officers for 1961 62 and presented tokens of appreciation. Guests included Mrs Secrest and foreign exchange student Sirkka Voull Apiala. Wainwright reported a 10 minute storm near a peach packing plant causing crop losses. Sheriff Wright and farmer losses noted.
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Robert A. Wise
Alday & Co
Thomasville Rotary Club
N. Pratt Secrest
Arthur 8. Albright
Robert C. Balfour II
Elder J. Harley Chapman
Herschel R. Clay
Leroy B. Edwards
Robert Jinright
Roy M. Lilly
Cyrus
Wise
Secrest
R. A. Wise
Bruce Anderson
Louis Meirs
Bill Eidson
Jack Kirkland
Gus Elliott
Valdosta
Joe Tinker
Tallahassee
Sirkka Voulle Apiala
Finland
Thomasville Rotary Clubs
H. Eugene Driver
J. Harley Chapman
Joe Feinberg
Arthur §. Albright
Herschel R
Sonny) Clay
Mentalist Baffled by Heavy Wrists at Magicians’ Meet
At a Cleveland convention of prestidigitators Stuart Cramer found a way to free Dr. David Faust the mentalist from handcuffs. Faust wore the cuffs and could not escape due to large wrists until Cramer obtained the correct key after calls and a search of about 800 attendees.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Stuart Cramer
Cleveland
David Faust
Faust
Cramer
Revenue Official Accuses Em ployee of Political Activity
State personnel director Irvin Gilbert says a field inspector in the miscellaneous tax unit George Head was placed on indefinite leave after being accused of campaign work for Peter Zack Geer. Head allegedly handed out material June 24 at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
State Revenue Department
Irvin Gilbert
Gilbert
George Head
John Sheffield
Sheffield
Head
Peter Zack Geer
Veterans of Foreign Wars
1961 Tobacco Revenue Tops Previous High
U S tobacco growers posted a record 1.82 billion dollars in cash receipts from tobacco sales for 1961, exceeding the prior high by 386 million. The Agriculture Department noted that receipts from 1950 to 1960 ranged around 1 to 1.2 billion annually, with 1961 crossing the 1.3 billion mark for the first time.
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Washington
U. S
Agriculture Department
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Peaches
Charlie J. Wright
L. B. Anthony
Jim Hutton
Paula Prentiss
Jack Carter
Merring
Oscar Homolka
Ronald Lewis
Audrey Dalton
Guy Rolfe
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Geer
Fred L. Colvin
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