Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 5, 1950 Page: 2 of 16
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Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, February 5, 1950
Jfckfe Coogan Movie Hero
Overseas/ But Jobless Here
By Virginia M cPI>«m>n
HOLT.YWOOD (UP) — Jackie
Coogan's recent trek to Europe
proved one tiling—he's stiil a big-
shot movie star to foreign fans.
But he can't get a job In 1 Tolly,
"wood.
Nobody wants to hire "the
kid," now a balding 36-year-old
comedian,
"The heat's on against me,"
he says. "Ever since I sued my
mother to get my money the big
studios have blackmailed me.
"Maybe they're afraid I'll give
other " kids ideas. Maybe it's
sometihng else. I don't know.
I'm not bitter. But I'd sure like
to make movies again.
' I've got 31 years' experience
in this business. I can play any
thing better than anybody 1
know."
That includes great lovers, too,
says the former child star whose
melting brown eyes had women
all over the world wanting to
mother him.
i could handle the kissing
scenes—but 1 don't look the part.
I'm a little paunchv and plenty
bald."
Coogan made "The Kid" with
Charlie Chaplain when he was a
if
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wide-eyed four-year-old. From1
then on. until he was the 15-year-
old star of "Tom Sawyer" and
"Huckleberry Finn," Jackie
was the world's top child actor.
Everybody in town was scram-
bling for him. Once, so the leg-
end goes, a producer wrote him
a $1,000,000 bonus check — just
for signing a contract.
He earned more than $0,000,-
000 in 11 years. And in those
days you could keep most of it.
But his mother, Mrs. .lack
Bernstein, and his stepfather,
Arthur Bernstein, handled every
paycheck he brought home.
"And when 1 was 21 I got scar-
ed," Coogan explained. "I sued
for an accounting from the cor-
poration. I found oui there was
only $450,000 left out of that six
million bucks.
"We settled suit out of court.
But m.v predicament brought
about the "Coogan Law." The
legislature rammed through a
bill ordering every child actor
to put half his earnings in a trust
fund and making his parent or
guardian account for every pen- j
ny of the other half."
Since then, he says, he's been j
in the "jinx list" around town, j
But what a lot of Hollywood pro-
iUicers don't know is that Coo- j
gan's still a household name in;
Germany, England. Italy, France |
and Belgium.
The "Kid's" married now to j
his third wife, Boston Singer1
Ann McCormaek. and they have j
a two-year-old daughter, Joann;
He pays their grocery bills with j
radio guests shots and joke-tell-1
ing stints in a night club act;
Church Official
Says Rural U. S. A.
Worldly Now Too
MINNEAPOLIS (['PL-World-
liness has spread through rural
America to such an extent that
many farm people would rather
have a refrigerator than a child,
a Lutheran church official com-
plained.
The Rev Elwin W Mueller of
Chicago, secretary of the Nation-
al Lutheran Council's rural
church life program, said bigger
farms, bigger tractors and small-
er families "seem to be the slo-
gan of rural America under the
growing influence of material-
ism."
"It should be remembered,"
Mueller said, "that the great
Christian truths cannot be per-
petuated through gadgets and
appliances, but through children
who are nurtured and brought
up in the fear of the Lord."
Scientist Believes
H-Bomb Not Difficult
BONN, Germany (WPJ-^rof.
Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize
winning atom scientist, snkl that
production of the hydrogen
bomb "will be no problem at all
for the Russians."
In an interview with the West
deutsche Allgemelne'JSeitung, the
scientist.said;
"For anyone who has the
atom boirih, and the Russians do
have it. now, it should not be too
difficult to produce the hydrogen
bomb as well.
"The theory of developing a
hydrogen bomb is no secret and
if you have the atom-bomb the
next step is pretty easy."
Courthouse News
!
A safety-glass cage, or pulpit, as it is railed, now shields rolling
mill operators, at the Canton, O., plant of The Timken Roller Bearing
Company, from the heat of passing white-hot billets and protects
them against flying chips.
This safety measure allows an operator to concentrate on his work
without the physical punishment that formerly was a necessary part of
this job.
Electrical control switches on either side are arranged so the
operator can move the enclosure up or down. Sliding panels permit an
adjustment for ventilation. Controls were placed at the sides to permit
full front vision.
(til fi Las Lease
Lance Sears to Fred C. Ohlen-
bush, block 12 He.ndon S-d 5
years.
Fred C. Daughertv to R. E.
Boyld, see. •«. block 22, T&i'
survey, 3 years.
Mineral Deed
W. F. Bateman to Saltmount
Oil Co., section 05. block 23, sees.
14, 10, block 31 E-2 block X.
T&P survey: also E-215, sec. 15.
block X.
Porter Rankin to Bennie
Black, section 177, block 1A
H&TC survey.
Royalty Deed
.1. L. Litchfield to E. C. Wells,
S-2 sec. 0-1, block 24 T&P Sur.
Walter L. Boot he to Geo. S.
Turner, see. 85, block 22, sec.
90, block 22.
Mary Sunshine B. Cook to ,1.
S. Michael, S-2 sec. 100 and 101.
block 1A, H&TC.
Warranty Deed
C. B. Bryant to Garland E. Ro-
berts, $2,200, lot 2 part 1, block
3, Elm Grove Addition, Sweet-
water.
0. L. Stamps to Geo. E. Ware,
$50, lots 7, S, 9, block 97, Tram-
mel 1 it MeCaulley add.
W. L. Penton to .1. B. Drake.
Spur Experiment Station Head
Tells Of Landowners' Remarks
$0,875, lot 2, block 3, EVoodru^'
llts. addition, SweetwRer.
Bessie P. Bruce to ,J. C'. Bruce,
$10. see. 27, block 24, E-2 sec. 13,
block 24, Childress S-2 lot 4,
block 118, first add. Sweetwater.
Guy Jones to W. S. Buchanan,
$1,000, part section 44, block 22.
Esther Smith to L. W. Sweet,
$1,000, -144 acres section 208,
block 1A.
Texas Bank & Trust Co., to
Mrs. G. W. Cochran, $700. lot
10, S-2 11, block 1, O. T. Sweet-
water.
W. A. Jones to Bob McGill,
$120, part block 24, S&W add.
Sweetwater.
Nolan County to H. G. Tid-
well,. $10, sec. 45, block 22.
H. H. Hawley to Estelle F.
Williams, $750, lot 10, block 4,
Blue Bonnet Gardens.
. C. Morris et al to W. B. Wet-
sel Jr., $10, lot 17, block 0, Hill
Crest Addition, Sweetwater.
W. E. Howard to Milton Pate,
$^00, lot 11, block 1, Newman's
First addition, Sweetwater.
B. Rutledge to Letha M.
Gatlin, $400, lot 10. block 3,
Clark S-d of S&W.
W. O. Spillers to Fletcher
Davis. $300. lot 3, block 53, S&W
addition.
M. H. Pior to Marshall N.
Pior, $10, lot 1, block 47, Eastern
addtiion, Sweetwater.
John H. Freeze to W. M. Fom-
by, $5,500, block 8, Bluebonnet
Gardens additions, Sweetwater.
Jose Torrez to O. M. Jacques,
$500. lot 5, block 8, Fair view
Heights Add.
W. B. Anderson to E. C. Wells,
$50. lot 7, block 3. Long addi-
tion, Sweetwater.
J. C. Morris Jr., to J. Harley
Hubbard, $480, No. 60 feet, lot
1, block 17, Woodruff Hts., ad-
dition, Sweetwater.
Donis T. Stowe to Wilborn
Johnston, $250. lot 10, block 93,
Orient addition, Sweetwater.
| COLLEGE STATION (SpD—,
jR. E. Dickson, who is in charge \
of the Texas Agricultural hx i
|periment Substation of the|
: fexas A. and M. College System, j
| at Spur, is a man who keeps an j
I attentive ear turned to tlie ob-
servations made by the West
I Texas farmers and ranchers!
with whom he comes in contact. |
Recently he listed some of the]
i pertinent and sagacious remarks j
|passed by men ol the soil. They
touch on many phases of agricul-
ture. The ones which deal with
rainfall and water conservation
run like this:
Soils are like bottles in that
some are large and some are
small. Some are easy to fill with
water and some are vet v hard to
fill.
We have no right to pray for
rain until we learn to use the!
i.un we get.
'Much water goeth by the mill
that the miller knowetn not ot."
—John Haywood.
<i Just send us rain, O Lord.
We'll attend to the details.
Saga of the giants and drawfafj
is the saga of rams and drouths!
Put erosion waters to work i
and they will quit their mean-
ness.
1 am by rains like Father
Flannigan of Boys Town is about
boys. "There are no bad ones,
but they need to be trained to
serve."
Water in the ground makes
cash in the bank.
Many good rich farm acres, es-
pecially in the forks ol the creeK,
were made by erosion deposits.
Man is helping nature much in
this type ot program, if they
can't hold it on the hill, they
hold it in the valley.
Some hilt ianu is worth over
$10 an acre to raise grass tor
cattle: it is worth a similar
amount to lurnish water to be
used in the rich cropped valley.
"Land don't wear out—it wears
off."
Students of the problem that
soil losses through erosion are
22 times greater than losses
through crops harvested.
Outer remains by visitors to
the Spur station ran toward
livestock and grazing:
One ot West Texas best ranch-
men purchased his tirst cow with
funds secured from the sales of
22 years with closed level ter-!
races just resulted in increasing
the return from cotton by
$240.12 an acre.
My best cotton dividends are j
made by water conservation.
Dickson also lists some obser-
vations that are hard to place
under one of the above headings. |
For example:
"Which floats the fastest —
clay soils, sandy soils, sorghum
stalks or cow chips."
PROTESTS RE.)H< TKI>
BERLIN, Feb. 1. (UP) —
The Russians rejected two west-
ern allied protests on Berlin's
"little blockade" tonight. The
Soviets declared the charge that
transport into the city was be-
ing interrupted was "without
basts."
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My Husband Is Very Busy Now
And Doesn't Want To Be Disturbed
It's ;i lot more disturbing, lady, to have a fire
and not be insured. Lets take time now: to talk
about your insurance protection. Dial 41.81.
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Bradford Insurance Agency
"We Insure Everything But The Great Beyond"
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SERVEL
Refrigerators
and
MAGIC CHEF
bones picked up on the open
range loilowing one of those
early dry years. Range deaths
in 'lexas have been materiaiy re-
duced during the years."
Man can go broke by having
too many cattle, but seldom is
man hurt by having too much
grass.
I have my range overstocked
but the cattle soon will die down
to a stand.
"And trie wild asses did stand
in high places, they snuffed up
the wind like dragons; their eyes
did fall because there was no
green grass."—Jeremiah, 14-0.
Let's go to grass.
Doubling grass yields instead
of grass-eatei s helps many ranch-
men.
Fodder years are feeder years.
JohhsOh and Bermuda grasses
haVe been much discussed in
vJohhsi
HM> 'BHi
vaders, but they have added
many millions ol pounds to Tex-
as beef and milk, and they an-
chor soils.
Bermuda has prevented many
millions of tons of soil from wash-
ing Into the Gulf.
If one could have good grass
grazing 365 days in the year,
they certainty couiu raise good
beef and produce good butter.
And on the subject of cotton:
No runoff and no erosion for
Sweetwiter Reporter
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 5, 1950, newspaper, February 5, 1950; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290432/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.