The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 347, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 24, 1959 Page: 4 of 62
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, May 24, 1959
USIA Turns Down
82 Recent Movies
ANDREWS
WASHINGTON - AP —The U S
Information Agency has turned
down 82 recent Hollywood mov ies
for use in its overseas film pro-
gram because it feels they are not
in the best interests of the United
States
The list was given by USIA to a
House subcommittee on appropri-
ations at a recent hearing on the
information agency’s forthcoming
budget
The USIA overseas film pro-
gram is designed to protect dis-
The list includes mostly movies tributors of overseas movies from
about juvenile delinquency and losses in converting local curren-
gangsterism with a lew horror cies into dollars The agency
pictures and an occasional west makes up any such losses.
ern thrown in Failure to include the 82 mov.
Also earning 1 SIA disapproval ies in the program does not mean
are the movies "Baby Doll," about the producers are barred from
a child bride in the South "Rebel showing their films in those coun-
Without a Cause." one of the late tries They just don’t have their
James Dean’s pictures, and “The dollar earnings guaranteed bv the
James Dean Story "
dollar earnings guaranteed by the
U.S. government
The list of the 82 rejected films
Fa • LA was entered into the subcommit-
tee record without any comment,
• IQ III IU rial I other than the general remark by
Turner B Shelton, director of the
TOP HAMLIN GRADS — Gene Murff, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Murff, is valedictorian of the 1959 grad-
uating class of Hamlin High School, and Ginger Rab-
john, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Rabjohn, is
salutatorian. (RNS Photos)
Hamlin Will Graduate 50
HAMLIN - Fifty seniors will ident of Abilene Christian Col-
VIEW NEW HEADQUARTERS — State Highway Commissioners Hal Wood-
ward of Coleman and Charles Hawn of Athens welcome two state legislators to
the new Abilene District headquarters of the State Highway Dept Friday. Left to
right are Woodward, Hawn. State Sen David Ratliff of Stamford and Rep Tom
Jones of Dallas. (Staff photo bv Don Hutcheson)
Visits Britain
STAMFORD (RNS) - Mr. and
Mrs. George Kinney left here Sat-
urday to attend the British Na-
tional Assn of Funeral Directors
Conference in Bournemouth, Eng-
land May 25-30.
Atlanta Integrates Library
As Have Many Dixie Cities The Lm General Hospital at
2 Ellesmere where Kinney was sta-
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta has chairman, Hix Green. “There has tie fanfare as possible." tioned in 1944-45 is now a British
joined a number of major south- been some demand by Negroes for Similar actions have been tak. re Seampi die was also assigned
ern cities in quietly integrating its . 5 en in the past in some in Shrewsbury, which is nearby, pomeuning oi value. Sweet Me VI VCUuE Diucui
public library system service, so we decided to go ahead en in the past in some major cit- They plan to visit both places and Smell of Success.— “Teen - age Lions Club members in a lunch
P Cspiemn. and do i - ies in Arkansas, Tennessee, Flor- will be quests at the rest — __1____ann mat-h
The decision was disclosed Sat-and de itida, Kentucky, Louisiana, North WL be guests at the rest camp,
urday, three days after Atlanta li- The decision was reached at a Carolina and Virginia Kinney plans to visit Rotary —
brary employes were instructed to closed board meeting Tuesday at- On the other hand segregation Clubs that he attended, during the Don’t Cry."
serve Negro patrons as well as tended by Mayor William B continues at public “
whites. Hartsfield, police Chief Herbert Mortens Raps i
A few Negroes visited the big Jenkins and city Atty. Jack Sav. the confederacy, and Mobile and are Stratford s on - Avon, Liver-
downtown public library without age. It was put into effect the Birmingham, Ala, Columbia. S.C pool and Edinburg, Scotland and
attracting attention or causing next day. Raleigh, NC. and at several ondoh
any disturbance. Green said no public announce- smaller cities in Tennessee and
A library spokesman said the ment was made at the time be-Florida.
applied to 1. cause the board hoped to get over Cantran 6. convention headquarters. HEIDELBERG, Germany (AP >
the integration hurdle with "as lit- Genet 2 Van ersity and school Kinney is a licensed funeral di- —American soldiers will no longer
libraries, follow the segregation rector and embalmer and his w ,fe be able to get beer with their
pattern throughout the area, is a licensed funeral director, al- lunch at military clubs. They can
. . Dixie Survey though she is not engaged in that play slot machines instead,
showed this Mtuation * me some for urre cfnccciieer Mw US
Georgia—Atlanta public librar- weeks, and will return home June Clyde Davis - deman new U.S.
ies integrated. others segregated 14 C commander in Europe, forbids the
I Tennessee-Nashville public li- —---------------------------,____sale of alcoholic beverages in
braries have been open to Ne- Army clubs between reveille and
grces for the last 10 years. The Hemp Antibiotic retreat-6 or 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The
Negroes just started using the li- ban goes off at noon Saturdays
braries and nothing was done to PRAGUE 'AP -Czechoslovakia and during some functions.
oppose them The Chattanooga reports its scientists have discov- Another announcement said slot
public library quietly integrated ered a new antibiotic produced machines will be permitted in the
— more than a year ago At Mem-from hemp. The official CKT Army clubs. The Air Force has
Rep. Ed Gossett of Wichita Falls phis however the public libraries news agency said experimental allowed them since 1954.
will deliver the commencement ad- are segregated with special librar- use in many cases surpassed the Permission for serving alcoholic
dress for an estimated 72 senior ies for Negroes efficacy of penicillin and strepto- drinks in Air Force clubs is left
PITTSBURGH students Friday, Mav 29 in the Arkansas—The Little Rock pub-mycin.to the individual commanders.
PisourENT L O Sundap hee auditorium - Breckenridge High lie library has been integrated
papers halted Saturday by a . for some time and the bookmobile
strike of Teamsters Local 211^ Junior high school graduation unit also is integrated
The two afternoon and Sunday will be held. Thursday evening in Alabama-Libraries are segre-
newspapers are the Sun-Telegraph the high school auditorium with gated at Montgomery. The county
owned by the Hearst Corp., and Rev. Alan Lynch, pastor of the bookmobile serves both Negro and
the Press, a Scripps-Howard news. First Christian Church of Brecken- white schools. Public libraries are
paper ridge, to speak 1 the more than segregated at Birmingham but
Pittsburgh’s other daily the 100 who will be graduated Linda three branches and one bookmo-
was called against all three news- hith schoo e ju Virginia—The Richmond city li-
papers Sbrary is integrated.
First Sunday editions of the Commencement exercises for the Kentucky—The Louisville public
Sun-Telegraph and Press had Booker T Washington School will libraries and staffs are inte-
been rerared and eoned be held Wednesday, May 27. in the grated
were rolling from the presses auditorium of that school with North Carolina—Charlotte and
when the strike deadline of 2 p.m Lynch also delivering the gradua- Winston-Salem libraries are used
arrived ton address for the three students by Negroes and whites and both
Saturday editions of all three who will receive their diplomas cities have branch libraries for
newspapers ° were delivered “or: from John Culwell, superintendent Negroes There is no enforced
mally. However, the newspapers s a segregation at the municipal li-
said they had been notified by the Bacculaureate exercises will be brary at Durham Greensboro has
union that Sunday editions would held Sunday evening at 8 30 in a separate Negro library but some
not be moved unless a contract the high school auditorium for the Negroes use the main library to a
agreement was reached Breckenridge High School stu- small degree Raleigh has two
----------------.—------------- dents. They will hear Robert K public libraries, one for Negroes,
Oglesby, minister of the Church of one for whites.
Surgery Successful Christ, deliver the address. Special South Carolina—Public libraries
Nt music by the school's chorus un- are segregated in Columbia.
HOLLYWOOD (AP)—An opera- der the direction of Robert L. Me Florida—The Miami public li-
tion to repair Tony Curtis split Cathren will be heard at both bac- brary is "free to all who come,"-
achilles tendon has succeeded His culaureate and commencement, according to an official. The Leon
surgeon said the actor will be hos- Booker T. Washington’s bacca- County public library at Tallahas-
pitalized five days more and bis laureate exercises will be Sunday see is about four years old and
lower leg will be in a cast six afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in the school has never been segregated. Tam-
weeks. Curtis was injured Thurs- auditorium with Rev. T. H. Oli- pa libraries are pretty much seg-
day while playing tennis with Kirk phant, pastor of the Bethel Bap- regated with occasional break-
Douglas. tist Church, as speaker. I overs but no trouble.
brary and 14 white branches in
the city There are three Negro
branches and one of them has
been used by whites for some
time.
In effect, the decision opened
the entire Atlanta library system
to members of both races.
No legal Restrictions
"We found no law prohibiting
it," explained- the library board
Breckenridge
Graduation
Pittsburgh Papers'
Deliverymen Strike
Scheduled
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 347, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 24, 1959, newspaper, May 24, 1959; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1659541/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.