The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 June 1968 — Page 7
Tuesday, June 4, 1968
The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
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Diahann Eager to do “Julia”-and Scared
By MEL HEIMER WHEN NBC's new series “Julia'' bows to TV audiences next autumn, it can be assumed the customary handful of bigots and rednecks will raise a "howl over the starring of a Negro but this time they're going to have a hard time making a case. Miss Diahann Carroll, the celebrated chanteuse and Tonyaward winner ("No Strings"» is the headliner of "Julia.'' and where are you going to fault her ? She's young, she's talented, she’s hard-working, she's beautiful and acting-wise she's an old pro. Finding flaws will be a tough job for the bitterest redneck. The series is the story of a widowed nurse with a small son -her husband was an Air Force captain killed in action—and her adventures in getting along. Lloyd Nolan plays the head of the- hospital where Diahann works—and according to Diahann. the scripts aren't going to puir any punches. ’It's totally adult, I think." Miss Carroll says. "For instance, in the pilot film we shot, there's an episode where I telephone Lloyd, asking him whether I've got the hospital job. and I explain carefully that I'm Negro. Hqw long have you been Negro?' he asks candidly. "Just since it became fashionable? " While Bill Cosby was costarred in “I Spy." Diahann actually is the first Negro to be starred show-biz billing can be pretty baffling, and two tickets to old Laurel and Hardy movie'will go to anyone explaining the difference between starring and co-starring—in a TV series. She's looking forward to itand she's a little scared. "I’m very enthusiastic about the series." she said, "because it looks like a good one. and also. I've always had this strong leaning toward acting, rather than singing in clubs. But on the other hand, singing is MY turf and I'm at home there. Put a microphone in front of me and I have no worries.” She's done enough acting, however, not to fret about how she'll make out in a weekly grind (shooting will start in a couple of months i. She was on Broadway as the lovely young
Judy Garland files law suit for $251,000
Foreign news commentary By PHIL NEWSOM
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Miss Carroll will Have her hands foil with Marc Copage — like all kids, a natural scene-swiper. innocent in "House of Flowers" for a part in an all-Negro re14 years ago. she won her Tony vue. "Jazz Train." The show for "No Strings." and she did i didn't materialize, but producei "Porgy and Bess" and "Paris Lou Walters in passing said Blues" for the movies, as well Diahann had "the greatest natas a straight dramatic role in viral talent I've heard in 25 "Hurry Sundown." Most recent- years." He got her on the ly she finished co-starring with "Chance of a Lifetime" TV show Jim Brown, this department's and she was on her way. ' pick as the next matinee idol. Miss Carroll, then, soon will ; in "The Split." be knee-deep in the ratrace of a Diahann's a New Yorker weekly series—-with only one through and through; she was trouble spot in the offing. Her born in the Bronx and currently little boy in "Julia" is played : lives with her 7-year-old Su- by Marc Copage and early rezanne- Diahann's divorced—in ports filtering out of Hollywood a roomy, handsome co-op on describe him as a. fantastic | Riverside Drive, overlooking the scene-stealer, a la Shirley TemHudson. At 10. she won a Metro- pie. "He’s such a nice hoy," Diapolitan Opera scholarship and hann says now—but if later she she attended the High School of adopts the W. C. Fields attitude Music and Art in Manhattan. ("Anyone who hates dogs and Soon after entering N.Y.U. to children can’t be all bad"), we study sociology, she auditioned ' all will understand.
woman s view
By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPI)—Some observations on the American scene: The other day on a business trip through a small town 1 spotted a wonderful safety sign at an intersection near school. It said simply, “Caution. Dears crossing.” A gardening friend of mine was remarking on the unusual blossoms on a rose bush, half ol the petals palest pink, the
others a deep red. “These combinations are showing up all over gardens in the area,” he said. “One of my neighbors has given the rose a name— Careless Love.” An associate of mine, who is the father of two children and who has been in the news profession long enough not to be startled by anything, still has tc struggle adapting to the “uni. sex”, the boys looking like girls, the girls dressing like the boys. The flowing locks of some of
On the Farm Front
WASHINGTON (UPI)— Dairy, men and beef producers this week turn their eyes to the Capitol where the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to open a series of public hearings on import controls. The hearings were set to open Tuesday and to continue for several weeks. The committee’s policy hearings were designed to collect views on import controls for a wide range of industrial and farm commodities. Spokesmen for both the beef and dairy industries have very strong views on this issue. In the dairy industry, leaders including officials of the National Milk Producers Federation are pressing for a law which would clamp a fixed ceiling on total imports of milk products in all forms. At present, the government operates a milk import control program in which quotas are fixed on a long list of specified products. The existing quotas were sharply tightened last year but dairy leaders contend the system is still full of loopholes which foreign exporters are explotting. The loopholes could be closed permanently, the Milk Producers Federation maintains, by putting a flat ceiling on the number of pounds of milk products which could be imported annually. Under this type of control, overseas exporters could not evade quotas by varying the makeup of their products to ship items not specifically listed in existing quotas. The American National Cattlemens’ Association, meanwhile, is demanding legislation to “tidy up” alleged loopholes in the 1964 meat import quotas law. The 1964 law, for instance, provides that quotas cannot be imposed unless the government estimates that imports will run 10 per cent above the quota level. The cattle group wants this “override” feature taken out of the law.
the young men confound him completely. “The other day,” he confessed, “I Stepped aside to let a girl get off the elevator first. You know what I found as I walked out behind her? ‘She’ was a ‘he’.” It is one woman’s view that the only thing worse than breaking in a new pair of shoes is breaking in a new girdle. My niece, Gail Graham, is coeditor of the mimeographed newspaper but out occasionally (as news warrants) by the fifth grade class in Condit School, Ashland, Ky. Each edition of the Condit Independent has a section devoted to humor.
News Item: Singer Judy Garland today filed a $251,50C suit against the new Madison Square Garden... By VERNON SCOTT UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Judy Garland is getting ready to gc to court again. It figures. Judy is a gal who almost always is in a ruckus. No one in show business memory has had more plagueridden problems than the doeeyed singer who can break your heart with a song or crack you up with a one-line gag. I asked her why she divorced her fourth husband, Mark, Herron, a couple of years ago. “Because I never saw him,” Judy replied. “He’d call once in a while but I never knew where he was. I think he lived in a telephone booth on casters. From childhood into the40’s— she’s now 45—Judy has been in the spotlight all her life whether on a movie sound stage, ir court, in the hospital or simply in a street brawl with one oi her husbands. Somehow through tragedy, illness and triumph she has survived. Two Great Gifts Judy has survived because oi two extraordinary gifts— her unique singing voice and an unparalleled, if unusual, sense of humor. Her health suffered, she once told me, during her second marriage when husband Vincente Minnelli snored all night keeping her awake. Because Judy had to arise at dawn for movie work at MGM she soon developed a case of the jitters. “One night it got to be too much,” Judy related. “Vincente was snoring so loud he shook the windows. I sat up in bed and punched him as hard as I could in the nose. “He woke up hollering and holding his bloody nose. I tried to convince him he had thrown his head against the nightstand. Anyhow, the dear man had a broken nose and had to wear a funny bandage on it for a week. Later he moved into a new wing of the house.” Judy’s humor can quickly turn to anger. The person nearest her usually is the one to feel the blast. Recently the individual was Thomas Green, 29, a sometime fiance and companion of Judy’s. In April this year Judy charged Green with stealing and pawning two of her rings. But the charge wasn’t pressed. Judy, apparent, ly, had made her point and she got the rings back. Now there is a pending suit against New York’s Madison Square Garden. It stems from Judy’s appearance there last December in a series of performances that didn’t go
well. The suit alleges the garden didn’t do right by her in the matter of lighting, acoustics, etc. Complications With Men Such complications dot Judy's career. More often than not they have involved the men in her life. There is, for instance, the complication of her third husband, Sid Luft, with whom she has battled in court and on street corners. Luft still manages her career from time to time. Like long time ring combatants, they have a deep affection for one another even while in the process of ping-ponging lawsuits back and fourth. Curiously, Judy is unembittered about the fact that she has earned millions, yet finds herself tottering near bankruptcy. “It’s because of the people I’ve known most of my life,” she explained recently. “They get into the Judy Garland business. They take all the money and I find myself with nothing left but the bills.” The bills mounted high enough for Judy to sell her home in an exclusive Los Angeles suburb and move to New York where she and her children, Lorna, 15, and Joey, 13, now live. Her daughter Liza by her marriage to Minnelli is a singing performer in her own right. Supreme Court hands down decision WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that teachers may not be fired simply for making statements “on issues of public importance” unless they are knowingly or recklessly false. Justice Thurgood Marshal] wrote the opinion for a unanimous court. Justice Byron R. White differed on a minor side issue. The ruling came in the case of Marvin L. Pickering, dismissed from his high school teaching job in Will county, 111., because of a letter he wrote to the Lockport Herald in 1964. In his letter, Pickering contended too much of the county school budget was being spent on athletics. Marshall cited the New York Times libel standard established by the court in 1964. This was that a public official may not collect libel damages for statements against him unless he can show malice' —that is, that the statements were false or made with reckless disregard of whether they were false.
UPI Foreign News Analyst By all the rules of common sense the Blafrans already had lost their bloody civil war against the federal government of Nigeria and should have been ready to come to terms. But the Blafrans didn’t seem to know it and so one year and one day after the start of the war they walked out of the peace confernce in the cool,, green hills of Uganda, presumably to continue as guerrillas the war already estimated to have taken 100,000 lives. The trouble was that in this war, the rules of common sense do not apply. Its roots lay in the traditional economic and tribal animosity between the energetic and better educated Ibo tribesmen of the eastern region which today is called Biafra and the Moslem Hausa tribesmen of the north. Hausas Dominate Since Nigerian independence in 1960, the 29 million Hausas had dominated the federal government by size alone. •Then in January, 1966, an army revolt led by young ana idealistic Ibo majors toppled the federal government which not only had proved itself inept but had sunk deep into corruption, killed its northern prime minister and its ranking northern officers.
As the northerners saw their dominance disappearing, they reacted violently, especially against the one million Ibos who had migrated to the north and through their enterprise and skills taken over most of the better jobs. Some 30,000 Ibos died in the wild massacres that followed. Those who could fled back to the sanctuary of tribal boundaries, in turn touching off a wave of Ibo nationalism and retaliation whose savagery matched that of the Hausa’s own. On May 30, 1967, eight million Ibos elected to secede and the civil war was on. Cut Outside Link As mediators sought vainly to bring the two sies to compromise in the Uganda peace talks, federal troops held the Biafran capital of Enugu and had just taken Por Harcourt, Biafra’s last link with the outside world. Federal troops outnumbered the 35,000 man Biafran army two to one. Future opposition, it seemed, would lie in guerrilla warfare in the Ibo heartland, with the federals certain to take heavy casualties and with the liklihood of savage reprisals against the civilian population. In the Uganda meetings at Kampala, Biafran negotiators insisted,.they would settle for
nothing less than an immediate cease fire and recognition of their sovereignty. The federal representatives stood firm on immediate implementation of the 12-state structure proposed by federal leader Maj. Gen. Yakubu Go wan. In Nigeria is to be saved, compromise is necessary. Bui, say the Biafrans: “We are totally committed. If extermination is the price we have to pay, then we cannot escape it.” *
Anti-death penalty jurors
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Supreme Court ruled today that persons voicing general objections to the death penalty cannot automatically be kept off juries. “No defendant can constitutionally be put to death at the hands of a tribunal so selected,” Justice Potter Stewart declared in the court’s majority opinion. The decision also applied to automatic exclusion from a jury of anyone claiming “conscientious or religious scruples’ against condemning a defendant to death. On these grounds, Stewart said Illinois had “stacked the deck” against William C. Witherspoon, 42, sentenced to execution for the fatal shooting of a Chicago policeman in 1959. At Witherspoon’s trial, 47 of 96 possible jurors weredisqualifled because they voiced qualms of conscience about sending a defendant to the electric chair. The court declined however to reverse the guilty verdict against Witherspoon on the ground that there has been no showing that the jury was unrepresentative on that score. Witherspoon’s lawyers had
argued that scientific evidence shows “death-qualified jurors” are partial to the prosecution on the issue of guilt or innocence. But Stewart said: “We simply cannot conclude, either on the basis of the record now before us or as a matter of judicial notice, that the exclusion of jurors opposed to capital punishment results in an unrepresentative jury on the issue of guilt or substantially increases the risk of conviction.”
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