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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1951
Alan Ladd Finds Chicken Raising Scientific, Profitable Business
Hollywood—(U.P.)—Alan Ladd is the only actor in town who doesn't cringe when somebody accuses him of "laying an egg." That's money in the bank for him. $ \textcircled{2} $
And we're not talking about movies, either. Ladd is in the egg-raising business. In a big way.
He's got a coula thousand hens on his 25-acre ranch in hidden valley, just outside Beverly Hills. And when it comes to making them put out this Ladd is a real slave driver.
"I work 'em day and night," he grinned. "All you have to do is keep a light on in the henhouse and they think it's daytime around the clock. That way we get two eggs every day from every hen."
And if they don't—the Ladds have fried chicken for dinner.
"This is no pin-money enterprise," Ladd explained. "There's big dough in eggs. At the peak of our production we'll be getting thousands of eggs a day—and the customers are begging for a chance to buy."
His biggest account, ironically enough is Paramount studios, which has to hand Ladd over to Warner Brothers next year. They feel bad about losing one of their top money-makers--but not bad enough to stop buying his eggs.
"In all modesty." Ladd beamed,
"I will say our eggs are scientifically perfect. We checked into this for over a year before we bought a single hen."
He and his pretty wife, the former actress Sue Carroll, pored over farm bureau annals and feed catalogues and poultry books the way most Hollywoodites read their reviews.
They called on other chicken farmers to find out what mistakes they'd made and how they'd do things if they could afford another chance.
"And we used all their suggestions," Ladd went on. "Our chickens don't scratch around in an open armyard. No sir. They all have their own private little cages. Raised off the ground, too.
"Each egg they lay rolls down into a little box. When we gather em up we record each hen's performance on a special chart outside her cage."
And Alan fusses over those chickens like the proverbial mother hen. Take that rainstorm last month.
"I was afraid they'd get wet," he trimmed. "So I climbed on the roof to tack a canvas covering over 'em. The wind blew me off twice."
Ladd caught a bad cold. But the
Engineering Group Entertains With Tea
The Lawrence alumni group of Zeta chapter of Theta Tau engineering fraternity entertained at the chapter house Nov. 18 with a tea honoring Mrs. Ross F. Cole, housemother; alumni and parents of active members.
Guests included Mr. Ralph W. Nusser, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Russell, r. and Mrs. L.O. Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Allan P. Francis, Mrs. W.E. indemnuth, Mr. and Mrs. John Wahlstedt and Mr. and Mrs. Jamesobbins.
Mr. Alex S. Kennedy, Mrs. E.E Cannon, Mrs. Louis G. Fell, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Luff, Mr. and Mrs. E.J Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baer, ar. and Mrs. O.K. Johnson, Miss Martha Peterson, Miss Florence Black and Mrs. Robert L. Smith.
Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, Mrs. Opal Pope, Mrs. Harold Kipp, Mr. and f.W. Bowdish, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Dougherty, Mrs. Mary E Baty
§ Marcia Baty, Mr. and Mrs. G.W Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Mcaon and Mrs. M.W. Scholes.
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Girl Knitting Means Socks Not Fitting
chickens got their usual grade AA treatment.
Even their feed is a scientific recipe guaranteed to produce results. The only thing that could louse up the Ladds now is the hen herself—and no lady would DARE do that to Alan Ladd.
Thanksgiving is over and knitting needles are clicking everywhere on the campus in preparation for Christmas,
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For those girls who think they do not have time to knit the explanation is: two rows before dinner, an inch over coffee in the Union; another inch at a committee meeting and a stitch before class now and then — and before you know it a whole sock or sweater or scarf is done.
For knitting that is to be carried around to work or in bits, small things like socks, gloves, scarfs and loafer socks are the most practical for obvious reasons.
Sock knitting has gone modern with little plastic helpers such as bobbins to hold different colored yarns, stitch holders, and little meters to count the rows.
Kits containing all the yarn and instructions for argyles of several different styles, square plains and striped socks are available at the yarn counter in almost any department store.
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Patterned socks look complicated but they are actually easier than larger plain articles. Beginners turn out products as neat and finished as anyone more experienced.
MR. AND MRS. George C. Stewart cut their wedding cake at their recent wedding reception. The couple were married in Lawrence. Mrs. Stewart, former student, was formerly Phyllis Fishback, resident at 1730 Ohio street. Stewart, College sophomore, is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fra-
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Coughenour-Jarvis Engagement Told
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Coughenour, Wellsville, announce the engagement of their daughter, Phyllis Jean, to Allen Jarvis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Jarvis, Ulysses.
Miss Coughenour is an assistant instructor and a graduate student in the department of social work.
Mr. Jarvis was graduated from the University in June, 1951, and is now with the Southwestern Bell Telephone company.
Hollywood-(U.P.)—Take it from an expert, Hollywood is making progress.
The wedding will take place January 25.
Helena Rubinstein, the beauty expert, says the film city's women no longer look like a cross between a Serbian peasant woman and a man who has grown too plump for his trousers. That, she laments, was the sad state of affairs when she last visited here, 12 years ago.
More Slack In Slacks?
"It was slacks, slacks, slacks!" she shuddered. "The trouble was, there was so very little slack in them. The feminine derriere, I have always contended, should be gracefully draped, not stuffed into something like a sausage skin."
When she paints a picture of how gruesome she considered the women to be in 1939, it is not altogether certain that she means that as a compliment.
"I am amazed at the change," she exclaimed.
"The bandanas around the head," Mme. Rubinstein recalled, with a horrified raising of her hands. "And the dark glasses, worn even indoors! At least, it seems, most Hollywood women have discovered that eyes are to be seen, as well as to see with."
As for the Serbian peasant type of 1939. . .
These days, however, Mme. Rubinstein finds that the women of Hollywood dress very well. She even approves of their informality, which she says California living demands.
She also noticed a major structural change.
"Your chamber of commerce insists that all things grow bigger in California," she commented with a smile. "I am prepared to believe it. There are no girls with flat chests anymore in this city of motion pictures."
She approves of that.
"It indicates a growing consciousness of femininity, and that is good," she said. "The woman who minimizes the fact of her sex is a foolish, stupid woman."
Two per cent of the pedestrian traffic fatalities last year involved people who were walking in the roadway despite the fact that there were sidewalks.
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Patricia Munson To Wed Robert Allen
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Munson, Clay Center, announce the engagement of their daughter, Patricia Louise, college sophomore, to Robert M. Allen, graduate student.
Mrs. John H. Patton made the announcement recently at a supper meeting of the KU Westminster Fellowship at the Patton home.
Phi Kappa Tau Elects Corbett President
George Corbett was elected president of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
The other officers elected were vice-president, Lee Duvall; secretary, Harry Lacy, and treasurer, Fritz Kauffman.
Officers appointed are house manager, Courtney Sloan; sergeant-at-arms, Bill Firth; pledge trainer, Jim Garr; chaplain, Courtney Sloan; social chairman, John Nangle; rush chairmen, Vern Lemon and Gerry Rushfelt; intramural manager, Larry Worral; song leader, Larry Ferrell, and chapter editor, Norman Weare.
La Master-Keller Engagement Told
The engagement of Miss Elsie May La Master to Mr. Emmett Keller, son of Mrs. D. E. Keller, has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. La Master.
Miss La Master was graduated from KU in 1951 and now teaches mathematics at Lowther Junior high school in Emporia.
Mr. Keller is principal of the La-Cygne grade school and also teaches the eighth grade.
Battenfeld Hall Holds Informal Date Dance
Battenfeld hall held an informal date dance at the hall Nov. 17.
Chaperones were Miss Carolina Nellis, Mrs. R. H, Wilson, Mrs. Lela Whiteford and Mrs. Althea Galloway.
Guests included Joyce Shank, Marilyn Sorem, Frances Hanna, Carolyn Nardyz, Ceci Perry. Opal Smith, Delores Martin, Virginia England, Diane McFarland, Helen Boring, Marge Bedell, Vicki Rosenwald, Shirley Thomson, Marion Clyma, Phyllis Noah, Kathy Watkins and Twila Casterline.
Barbara Swisher, Gloria Baker, Geerte van Oppen, Wanda Sammons, Katheren Siler, Mary Joanne Schauvliege, Mary Jane Harder, Mary Lou Fischer, Anneliese Schnierle, Carol McComb, The Dhea Meron, Dunn Hull, Georgeennak Ankron, James Bass, Dixie Badgwell and Marshall Swain.
Alumnus Receives Army Citation
Dr. Warren F. Faragher, '05, Swarthmore, Pa., has been recently awarded a citation from the Department of the Army for his contribution to industrial intelligence during World War II.
Dr. Faragher is technical advisor to the Houdry Process corporation. He has just returned from a mission to Germany on which he represented the Army Quartermaster General and the Department of Commerce.
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