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Show 0 ur family, I am -- overjoyed-t- o state, Js just entering the Goldfish Stage. J hope we never IDaddy Bag a. . ... outgrow it. v are fresh from the Hamster We Stage and not far removed from the Rabbit Stage, both of which left the two adults in our family with permanent mental scars. For reasons I am not entirely able io understand, our three children have strong feelings about animals. What they, f eel strongly is that they should bring them home. with Jennifer, This was the .ham-- , a darling brownrand-whit- e, ster with a rare nocturnal talent for noisily chewing up; the newspapers in her box. I don't know if you have ever tried to sleep in the same small house with a paper-chewihamster, but it is not an experience that leaves you fresh and ready for the forthcoming day. Jennifer was the pet of our . by u Dick Emmons . ng 10-year-- old, ' Ann, who acquired her one day from a small confederate whose mother had ruled that the hamster must go. Ann took pos- " on condition owner was to have that the former full visiting privileges, including Picking Up and Patting rights. We agreed to the arrangement before we realized that Jennifer was a creature of late hours. After a few nights of her crunching, we put our - foot down unfortunately missing Jennifer. "Let's trade Jennifer in on something that sleeps at night," I suggested one red-eymorning. asked enthusiastically. "How about a Great Dane?" Ann ' " '' 7 I shook my head. ' "A spider monkey?" My wife shook her head vigorously. "What would you say to a set of matched goldfish!" I cried. Before Ann could protest, I was out the door and on the way to the office. I that 1 UTbught the fish home that night and I want .to testify publicly believe we have found the solution to the pet problem. Goldfish don't chew papers at night, track mud through the house, or claw at the session ecstatically X -- , f 23-year-- - ' old easy-to-ent- ( 7r semi-darkne- ss. . " -- , of er Family (For example, Rock Hudson, TaK Hunter and Doris Day- are Gelien stage, names. Their real names are Roy Fitzgerald, Art ' and Doris Kappelhoff. ) You and your, family can enter each weekly contest as often as of you like. .. and there is no limit to the number prizes you can win. You may be a winner in 'every one of the contests. Enter ! today and watch for a brand new contest next week . -to- -Follpvj ' Family Weekly, August 2, 1959 Rules There will be six separate weekly contests, each with its own set of prizes. You may enter each contest as many times as you desire, using or a reasonable either the entry blank' published in FAMILY WEEKLY ' . , . facsimile. Two received must be 2. All entries for Contest Number by midnight mailed if desired. on cards be 6. Entries post may Thursdayr August 3. The prizes for Contest Number Two are: 1st Prize Trip for two to Brazil via Varig Airlines, with stay in Rio at the Hotel Gloria. 2nd & 3rd 4th & 5th Prizes Westinghouse PrizesRCA Whirlpool Washer-DryerElectric Ranges. 6th & 7th Prizes Mercury Outboard Motors. 8 to 15 Nesco Electric Rotlsseries. 16 to 23 Disposers. . . 1. - s. 10 -- old Here are the Easy corn-popp- long-handl- ed 7-- - ; . .. You and your family can be among the hundreds of people who will win the fabulous prizes pictured here. In an entertaining, series of weekly contests, all you do is dream up names for the stars of tomorrow whose pictures are published in Weekly. Names that they can use in their film careers. : " lie things!" V As I tried to explain later to my wife, it was the first time in my long and colorful career that I had been called upon to build a mouse cage and, what with one understandable miscalculation and another, Sugar and Salt escaped their new home almost as soon as they Were in it. "EEIOUCK!" my wife screamed as the little white pets blurred across the kitchen floor. She leaped up on a counter and sought the safety of the refrigerator top. "Catch mine, J)addyl"-Dicfii- e yelleoL ' : "No, get mine first!" Davie howled. of of the One in room pursuit I started on a dead run into the living of escapees, unhappily tripping over a lamp cord and plunging that part , the house into . ""Help! Murder!" my wife shrieked. tactics Commando the couch!" boys squealed. Using "They're under the emersuch er we keep around for just and a wife went out of gencies, I was able to trap Sugar and Salt before my her mind. , The upshot of the incident was that the boys were allowed to keep the mice in an escape-procage in the basement fruit cellar, which was locked and bolted. Under. these adverse conditions,4 the twins soon lost to some people interest and we gave the mice away a few days later ' who had not sent us a Christmas card last year. But we're all . set now with Our goldfish. Long may they swim! -- 7 A Different Contest Every Week! furniture. Naturally, we did not arrive at this state 6f relative bliss without trial in (the hamster) and tribulation (the rabbit). In addition, I remember a cold sweat the evening an otherwise rational neighbor proudly brought ' twin, boys a pair of white mice. our , "I'm gonna name mine Sugar!" Davie squealed. a us "Build Daddy!" Dickie Salt!" cage, "Mine's yelped. a cage! Ugh! I can't stand them build all means wife groaned. "By My ' 'w.' - Stan Kamber, of New York Meet handsome City. While attending the University of Wisconsin, he did some radio work and appeared in summer stock, which led to a 20th Century Fox contract and roles in major pictures. ed six-year-- 'f , |