St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-11-02
THE LoWD0WN

New York-Word has leaked
out that certain big money inter-
ests in Dixie are working hard to
have special legislation passed in
several Southern state that would
permit interracial sport contests
on a collegiate and professional
level
The big reason behind this move
is the extent to which segregation
has cut heavily into the yearly
bowl games that wind up the
collegiate football season.
Because Negro players have
been barred from Southern bowl"
contests. Northern colleges are by
passing the events, and are sched-
uling post-season games with the
teams that believe in practicing
democracy.
Televsion revenue win also suf-
fer. since the widely viewed Sugar
Bowl and Orange Bowl classics
win feature two Southern schools
in what win undoubtedly be two
very dull contests. And such con-
tests certainly won't rate the us
ual network Tv play. such as was
given It by ABC-TV.
louisiana, annually the host to
millions Of televsion viewers who
watch its colorful Sugar Bowl
game and festivities, is already
suffering in the do-re-me deport-
ment because Of its recent legisla-
ton which banned all interracial
sports Perhaps the words Of one
New Orlean sportswriter sums up
the feelings Of many white south
erners: why should we let the
presence Of one Of two Negroes in
the backfield or on the bench keep
rs from enjoying football at its
finest, and at the same time rob
Our State of millions Of dollars in
added revenue?
THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT:
How Perez Prado, one Of our
Latin American cousins from
South of the border, is a big hit
with mambo-crazy Japanese in far
away Tokyo.
How Atlanta, Georgia's board of
aldermen finally okayed a grant
to Bailey Theaters to build the
first drive-in theatre for the city's
bullying Negro population.
How that popular female vocal
list. who's said to be that way
about women, narrowly missed be-
ing caught by her girl friends"
husband one early a. m.
The rumors from Cincinnati
that have the Ezzard Charles
marriage rockin' and rollin' pre-
eariously.
The reason why Jayne Mans
field has been advised to take It
easy" on posing for publicity shots
with so many brownslSin men
Carole Drake Faulkner Eek
slime ??) and her fantastic claim
(made in her court action against
Billy that she was a s450-a-week
disk jockey in Harlem before she
Joined the crooner's family. That's
only $23.400 a year-more than
twice the yearly earnings of three
Of New York's top DECAYS, and
more than any Negro DECAY in
Philly earns in take-home pay.
The New Bedford, Mass. Bap-
list preacher who used ElWs Pres
ley as the subject of his sermon,
and predicted that the torso-twist-
ing singer win be gone-with-the-
wind In short while.
The fact that Johnny Ray, who
was the original "Elvis Presley"
with his Cry" never fails TO visit
his Negro pals when he's in Har-
lem, Detroit and Los Angeles.
How a you-know-what in the
woodpile may have wrecked the
marriage OF a famous Hollywood
couple, who recently went abroad
TO give the lady in question a
chance to forget TO remember.
The wealthy Long Island social
lite who has paid several visits to
Prophet John the Conqueror in an
Effort 10 Find a sure-shot way to
recover the large sum Of money
she dropped through the gambling
ventures of her youthful sweet
heart.
PEOPLE AND PLACES: -
Jocko, the popular Harlem and
Philly DECAY, is being honored by
Bill Doggett. The famous orgsnist
win record a new instrumental
named. Great Googsmooga" after
/ the r,opuiRr eNpressiOn originated