St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-07-23
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown-
BY BAuEE THOMAS

High and Lowdown. ;
BY BAu.EE THOMAS !;
NAACP FUND DRIVE GIFT:
Links, Inc, civic minded nation
al women's organization with
chapters throughout the east and
south gave the NAACP a check
for S26,S50 last week. This Is the
largest single amount any Negro
organization in the USA has ever
presented the NAACP.
Time Cover: Willie Mays, the
sensational New York Giant CEN
terfielder made the cover of cur
rent TINE Magazine and an in
teresting article is carried about
him inside.
West Coast, Los Angeles Me-
gro papers are making it ''hot for
Fire Chief John H. Anderson who
has refused to desegregate the
Los Angeles fire department :.
The big news out there right now
is a murder trial of a comedy wife
who stabbed her philadnering hus-
band. A pretty blonde testified
for the prosecution corroborating
the defense position that the dead
husband was a trifler.
Los Angeles is also agog over
the hiring of 400 as extras for the
film, Carmen Jones" at the NUM-
ficent wage of Sc per day. Usual
minimum extra wage is $40 run
ming as high as $50 on some pic
lures. When Negro newshawks
visited Otto Preminger on the
RKO lot he told them off in his
brusk foreign accent and therat-
ened libel suits.
The most talked of unfortunate
separation involving popular
young st. Paul couple may be re-
conciled, with both admitting that
neither have been angels and max
ing up, and trying to salvage a
long marriage.
A young Minneapolis girl who
developed a crush on a man Is
years her senior was given the old
hair brush treatment in the prop
er places by her father the other
night. The man in the case has
cooperated by telling the young
filly that he could never love her,
much less marry her and to go
home and become interested in
someone her age.
Kids follow parades, bands and
drum and bugle corps--it's natur-
al. However the 100 or more kids
ages seven to IS who followed the
Ames Drum and Bugle Corps were
so numerous that you couldn't tell
the corps from their followers.
The st. Paul barber who COM
plains about paying ten cents for
this paper for his customers to
read, doesn't even finch when he
charges SIPS for a few minutes
of hair shearing. He probably
thinks labor, paper. phones, ink.
photos, office space, printing
equipment, postage, doesn't cost
us anything.
We know this paper is worth 10
cents, but we are not too sure a
hair cut is worth $125-however,
we are willing to take the word Of
the barbering fraternity that
costs--overhead and all require
that they charge s1.25 for a hair
cut. BARRIERS have to eat--so do
newspaper people.
Wed wager that the average
person gets as much in this ten
cent paper as he gets for a $1.25
haircut. Whatcha bet7
Cedric Adams Girl Friday did
nice advertising Job for Brownie
Cote's Grandview Lodge near
Brainerd, Minnesota, In the
Adams space in the STAR for
July 10.
Cote boasts in q letter Baiiee
read this week that he accomo-
dates Jews at his resort on "a
quota basis. He even allows Ne
gro maids and chauffeurs to stop
at his place with their employers
but, he graciously adds, he Tets
them eat out in the back" Cote's
Grsndview Lodges racial and re-
hgious quota system does not In
clude Negroes unless they are ser
wants.
Cedric's Girl Friday probably
doesn't know how exclusive Gotes
place is 50 we thought she ought
TO know what high standards"
the place she gave such good ad-
vertising in the STAR on July 10
maintains. She might have. quite
by accident given some Of Cedric's
brownslin readers the idea that
they might be welcome at Grand
view Lodge.
While Mr.. Cote probably feels
he got good advertising money