European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Tripes daily Roy rovers still tall in the Saddle by Gene Handsaker a staff writer As the desert s Crook armed tree cast Early morning shadows a beige car drives away from a five bedroom Adobe House in California s Apple the wheel starting another Busy Day is what is supposed to be partial retirement sits a Man of modest Man Ner and several . Singer. Innkeeper. Investor. America s outstanding Indi an of 1967. Big game Hunter. Race horse Trainer. And popular spokes Man for his Christian Faith. He s Roy Rogers sex King of the cowboys i movies and television. At 56 he looks much As he did from1943 through 1954 when he was no. 1 some 65,000 visitors have gone through the museum since Roy opened it last june. He mingles with them signing autograph books and answering questions As out of owners snap pictures forthe folks Back Home. Roy and Dale Haven t performed regularly since they finished their 101 sing ing shoot pm for television in 1956.but they do to specials and the series is still showing in Many areas providing fresh crops of Young fans. In his knotty Pine office he read letters and telegrams and dictates re plies to a Secretary. Next he visits the101-unit inn he leased in 1964 at $2 Mil lion for 25 years. He s in and out of Bot places most of the Day. Dale meanwhile is working on her ninth inspirational Book unless she s off giving a religious talk , too looks about the same blonde Green eyed Cool and trim in a Western Cut Blue Wool suit with creamy Stetson. Shu s a year younger than Roy but both could pass for decade younger than their real Ages. Does she miss Hollywood we re Sousy i Don t have time to miss any thing said Dale. The books and speak ing appearances have taken up the Slack for make recordings do four or five to specials or guest appearances year and in july will perform for two weeks in a Reno night family photos to Roy s first cow boy boots the museum chronicles their lives. A Roy Rogers at 56 looks much As he did when he was a top Western Star. At the Box office among Western , with Blue eyes twinkling through crinkly slits he fits neatly the Cowboy clothes he still wears. No free years ago Rogers and co Star Pale Evans his wife of 20 years move to the Mountain rim Nied Valley 100 Miles East of Hollywood. There had been some ugh personal blows. Death took three so i Niile children they acquired saw ,2won an of marriages each in 1958 Roy got a heart artery con Striction he has Learned to live with. Pineir plan Here says Dale was butt 8eras we re busier than we be been in Roy explains it nervous sittin1 around with to do. I Don t think people were"1"6 unless they re hurtle Init to St a on an average is at his horse farm next he drives to his museum a Square foot building with stockade and . And California Flag from flagpoles. Inside attract d splayed Are a lifetime s collect and trin a a sends of trophies treasures for Day May 10, 1968 Loy born Leonard Slye in Cincin Nati said he s about one thirty secon Choctaw and otherwise German Scot Tish and Are shoemaking machines such As he operated As a youth in a Cincin Nati factory. Photos of the sons of the pioneers one of several cowboys group with which he broke into los Angeles radio ,. The guitar he carried into re Public studios in 1937, getting himself hired As a singing actor at $75 a week. Dale was born Frances Octavia Smith in Uvalde tex., and there Are photos of her us a Young radio and band Are Mother of the year awards for Dale and a plaque for Roy from the Sanfrancisco Oakland shrine Temple for combining the Joy of wholesome Fuu with the love of doing one display combines symbols of protestant roman Catholic and jewish faiths others exhibit trinkets and keep Sakes of the three children who died Robin Elizabeth 2, in 1952, of complications following mumps adopted Debbie 12, a korean in a 1964 Church bus crash that killed eight and adopted son Sandy 18, who died during a choking seizure in1965 while serving in the . Army in Germany five of the six surviving children Are married and Roy and Dale Are 12 time grandparents. After the death of Robin who was retarded Hale wrote a Book Angelun aware chronicling the child s Brief from the Best seller and All but two of Dale s subsequent books have gone to said their Faith has sustained them through tragedy and setbacks. Dale and Roy Here in 1948 Rodeo co Star in both Public and private life. Dpi Roy s Palomino trigger had his Hoof prints recorded near his master s prints in the Forecourt of Caumon s chinese theater in Hollywood 19 years ago. Up the stars and stripes Page u
