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They Take Care Of Their Own 1VY-COVERED COTTAGES — Sixteen new cottages like these have been completed at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. This gives a total of 54 units now functioning. PRETTY AS A PICTURE — This is the strength-giving vista the tenants of the Home & Hospital look out upon from their cottages. Endowments to the current drive will make possible additional construction of needed facilities. Alcting is a notoriously competitive profession, and yet, when a fellow ac- tor is really in need, his fellow actors are the first to come to his assistance. Members of the motion picture indus- try proudly “take care of their own” — through voluntary contributions de- ducted from their payroll checks. Aware that the present self-help of the industry (the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Wood¬ land Hills) is today operating at 98% capacity and that future needs will re- quire substantial expansion in funds and facilities, the Motion Picture Re¬ lief Fund has embarked on a “colos- sal, stupendous” fund raising drive de- signed to procure $40,000,000 in con¬ tributions over the next fifteen years. The drive, headed by Gregory Peck, intends to raise this epic amount through Capital gifts, bequests and en¬ dowments. George L. Bagnall is the Fund’s President. Of the $40,000,000 goal, $5,000 only will be used for new constructions and expansion. The balance will go to MPRF’s Endowment Fund to provide income to meet spiraling operating ex- penses. New monies provided by the drive will make possible the construction of 16 new cottages to be added to the Country House (just completed), the immediate addition of 60 more beds to the Country Hospital and the even¬ tual enlargement of the facility to 300- 400 beds. Also to be built is the Louis B. Mayer Memorial which will include a theatre, chapel and occupational-rec- reational facilities. The Mayer Estate recently donated $250,000 to the Fund. The MPRF maintains: (1) the Country House, 36 single and two double cottages for retired industry veterans from all branches of the busi- ness, (2) the Country Hospital, (3) the Motion Picture Rest Home for convalescent cases, and (4) the Pavil- ion, a 79 bed long-term care center. Also maintained at the headquarters, 335 N. La Brea, Hollywood, is a clinic and weif are Services center. All gifts and donations to the Fund are tax deductible. and they can be ar- ranged by calling the headquarters — 933-8231. 6