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John W. Clifford, now a writer for Centron Inc., has written plays, comedies, songs and a new movie over the last 45 years.
Author writes plays, songs, radio scripts
By NEAL McCHRISTY Staff Reporter
He began his professional career at 18 by selling jokes to radio show comedians.
Staff Reporter
Now, 45 years later, John W. Clifford has written plays, songs, radio scripts, a movie script and a novel.
The silver-haired Clifford writes for Centron Corporation Inc., a local firm that makes promotional films for business. He also serves on the staff of Centron for 22 years.
"I've got one of the few jobs in the world where they pay you for daydreaming." Clifford said.
On a wall of his office is a poster from a movie that he wrote the script for, "Carnival of Souls," which was released in 1962. The film still plays on television at times. Clifford said it was a joint venture with Herk Harvey, a Centron worker who directed the movie.
"It's a group thing. That's one thing I like about films." Clifford said.
"I've found that having a firm grasp on dramatic writing and so forth, helps make these things a little more interesting," he said.
His experiences in dramatic writing have helped Clifford add touches to scripts such as those about farm equipment. he said.
Clifford sprinkled laughter through his recollections of being a writer. It was making other people laugh that spurred him on to write jokes for Ken Murray, a radio show comedian, when he was a teen-ager in Chicago.
He was signed by an agent from Hollywood and left the Midwest for California. There, Clifford wrote for mimics and other comedians.
The year was 1941. World War II was only months away, and Clifford had been in Hollywood for less than a year, when he was drafted into the Army, forcing him to leave his budding writing career.
But Clifford had opportunities to write jokes in the Army while he was stationed at Port Monmouth, N.J. The camp newspaper featured a column each company, and his company captain asked him to write their cumnum.
and they didn't get printed," he said. Clifford wrote one more humorous column and was assigned two months of K.P. duty.
"One day I was about half through K.P., and the first sergeant says, 'Well, you're taking your punishment well. I say, 'What the hell am I being punished for?' And he said, 'the captain you're some kind of subverse."
Broadway and Hollywood entertainers came on base to perform shows, and through an acquaintance Clifford O'Donnell, a star of the comic sketches for these shows.
"The captain had me on KP. for writing jokes about the Army, and the general had me sitting up all night for the camm show," he said, laughing.
Clifford said that after five years in the Army, he returned to Hollywood and had trouble writing comedy because he was depressed. He took a series of tests to see which vocation suited him best, and the tests showed he was interested in writing.
Clifford then enrolled in the Hollywood School for Writers.
While going to school from 1946 to 1948, Clifford wrote for magazines and dime detective novels, he said. He also wrote for a nationally known Hollywood Theater," which was sponsored by Skippy peanut butter.
The schooling has been an asset to him, he said, because it helps him to write about subjects that do not lend themselves to screenplays.
Clifford's first radio play was "Angels with Amnesia," a fantasy performed in 1948. he said.
"I've done everything in writing, you know." he said.
Everything included teaching journalism at Lawrence High School after graduating from Emporia State University in 1952. Clifford taught three years. From 1954 to 1960 he worked as a copy editor for the Topeka Daily Capital, and he also wrote for an advertising agency in Toneke.
While working at the Topeka Daily Capital, he wrote a Western novel, "The Shooting of Storey James," published by Doubleday in 1962. The novel was published in many countries. One of the novels of the novel translated into German.
"I still get royalties from some of the songs," she said. "I never had any big snacks hit, but I've got songs and several albums that move some place or other."
An interest Clifford had in the '60s and '70s was songwriting.
The songs were all recorded by singers such as Joe Williams, Nina Simone and Della Reese, he said.
"I just did that on the side, too," he said. "I'm always writing something." A play Clifford wrote, a comedy called "Wabash Winning Streak," was performed by the Lawrence Community Theater this year.
"It was great when people like it," he said.
Clifford said that he worried about the performance of the play until opening night.
Many problems must be overcome while writing a play, he said. When to have a performer enter, exit, and写行 lines for the actors are some of the items. No writer is sure that he always makes the correct choices, he says.
"You solve a thousand problems in writing a play or a novel," he said.
Clifford is currently working on a play that he is considering re-writing, he said.
He has only a few years left until he retires. Then he will stop writing commercially, but not professionally, he said.
"I started out to make my living as a writer, and I've done that," he said.
All writers deal with rejection slips, Clifford said, and sometimes rely on personal experiences when in doubt as to what the audience wants.
"The only thing a writer can count on is the universality of his own basic feelings," he said. "If something interests him, it will also interest the trust that it protects somebody else."
Information key to safe use of prescription drugs
By CAROL MILLS Staff Reporter
Prescription drugs are meant to help people, but only 50 percent of the people who use them take them correctly, said Linda Hogan, coordinator of the Drug Information Services at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"Something as simple as aspirin is a drug, even though people view it as nothing more than a headache reliever." Hogan said.
Hogan said that misuse of prescription drugs could cause side effects and that patients must ask for information about the drugs they take.
"THE LABEL on the drug container may say to take one tablet four times a day," she said. "But people aren't sure that means to take the pills while they are awake or whether they will go up during the night and take one."
doctor is giving him. They should ask the pharmacist the importance of the medication, what it is, how they should use it, and if they have a question about using it, they should call their physician."
"We are to tell each patient that the drug is what it does, and how and when the person should take it." Kite said. Painful side effects to even the ordinary drugs.
A pharmacist at the Med Center's Bell Memorial Hospital, Gordon Kile, said that a state law required all pharmacists to test for side effects and side effects of the drug prescribed.
"One of the responsibilities of the patient is to ask about 'the drug the
HOGAN SAID that many problems existed with the misuse of prescription drugs. However, because the problems are not the result of patients' statistics, statistics are difficult to develop.
"The prime example is mixing drugs," she said. "For instance, a patient may be taking a heart medication with a diuretic. The body loses its potassium in the diuretic action, so potassium is prescribed for the patient."
“Potassium tastes horrible, so the patient will simply not take it, not knowing that it can be dissolved in orange juice so it tastes better.”
vitamins or herbal therapy, there may be serious side effects."
Hogan said that the body needed the drugs that were prescribed and that sudden withdrawal caused a great physical shock to the body.
"Depending upon what drug the person was withdrawing from," she said, "the effects could be as serious as death."
HOGAN SAID even vitamins in large doses could cause physical problems.
Hogan said that the patient's blood tests would then show a low level of potassium and that the physician would increase the dose.
anorexia, liver and spleen enlargement," she said.
"Some people see megadoses of vitamins or the new herbal therapies as better ways to be cured," she said. "If a person goes off his medication to try
"UNLESS THE PATIENT is carelessly questioned," she said, "the real patient would be."
"It is our responsibility to monitor drug therapy," he said. "Some people will go to two or three doctors and get a Valium prescription from all of them."
"The body does need a certain amount of vitamins, but what the body doesn't need is simply excreted. So the large doses are washed, and so we can keep it fresh."
Kile said it was up to the physician and the pharmacist to keep alert to any misuse of the drugs by the patients.
"When we are alerted to this situation
Hogan said the patient must understand that he must take responsibility for taking his medicine correctly. Also, the patient must be wary of "miracle cures."
of abuse, we try to explain to the patient that he shouldn't be doing this."
Hogan said some people did not know how to properly use something as simple as nose or eye drops.
"It may be cheaper and faster for the patient to double park in front of the drugstore pharmacy," she said. "But they will be saving more time and money, and you can also pharmacist who will help and explain about the drugs they are taking."
"The patient may save a little money, but he will lose money as the problems from the drug misuse mount up."
Primary election slated for next week
The Aug. 3 primary election is just around the corner. Lawrence's polling stations will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Delbert Mathia, an employee in the county clerk's office said yesterday.
The following is a listing of candidates and the offices they are running.
- U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, 2ND DISTRICT
R. R. Anderson, R-Topeka
Harold L. Haun, R-St. George
Morris Kay, R-Lawrence
Bill McCormick, R-Topeka
Jim Slattery, D-Topeka
R. Topeka
* *GOVERNOR/LT.GOVENOR
*John Carlin, D-Smolan
Tom Docking, D-Wichita
*Sam Hardage, R-Wichita
Dan Thiessen, R-Independence
*Louis Klemp, R-Easton
*Sam Hardage, R-Wichita*
Dan Thiesen, R-Independence
Raleigh, R-East Coast
William P., Radke, R-Leavenworth
*Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park*
Karen L. Griffiths, R-Newton
*Jimmy D. Montgomery, D-Wichita*
Maita, D-Wichita
*Dave Owen, R-Stanley*
Tony Casado, R-Wichita
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
Lance Burr, D-Lawrence
Robert T. Stephan, R-Wichita
* STATE REPRESENTATIVE-43RD
DISTRICT
Doris D-DeSoto
David G. Miller, R-Eudora
- STATE REPRESENTATIVE-44TH DISTRICT
- Jessie M. Branson, D-Lawrence
Roh Schulte R-Lawrence
- STATE REPRESENTATIVE-45TH DISTRICT
- John M. Solbach, D-Lawrence
- STATE REPRESENTATIVE-46TH DISTRICT
- Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence Doug Lomborn, B-Lawrence
- DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMIS
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Hank Booth, R-Lawrence
Fred E. Broeker, R-Lawrence
Nancy B. Hiebert, D-Lawrence
Kevin R. Regan, R-Lawrence
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A gardening contest sponsored by the Stouffer Neighborhood Association has some Stouffer residents pruning their plants and hoeing their gardens in preparation for the judging Aug. 6.
The idea for the contest came from Fabricio and Yolanda Balazar, Colombia, graduate student in the association's July 7 meeting.
The contest will involve the five sections of plots in the Stouffer neighborhood, said Mayetta Reeze, president of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association. Each section has 10-28 plots, which are scattered throughout Stouffer Place and are approximately 10 feet square.
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"They are trying to choose which are the best gardens in the neighborhood and are going to give cash prizes," he said.
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