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Show TV S MERRY-GO-ROUN- DESERET FAMILY CIRCUS D One fire had been started, but there was no racial hostility, Geyelin reported. It was more like an event, or a curiosity, and the tension was in wondering whether the cascades of water could shield the nearby houses . . . SMALL CROWD It wasn't even a very big the audience, considering spectacle. A block or so away, people were sitting on front stoops, or clustering on street corners, talking, laughing, arguing, bored. Then it happened. Abruptly, from a group of perched on an embankment there was a flury and a ry of - WASHINGTON With the nation facing one war in Southeast Asia and a series of very dangerous wars in the big cities, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, now meeting in Washington, may want to consider current distortions of television news and some form of voluntary censorship. The Issue arises because of the irrefutable fact that recent race riots have been partly inspired by television, and the fact that Negroes have felt compelled to stage acts for the benefit of the TV caca-phon- cameras. This first became evident after the Little Rock school i n t e g ration disturbances, which necessitated calling out federal troops. Afterward it was revealed that TV produc- of angry cries Honky, and You killed our soul brother, and You killed Martin Luther King. . . . Every bit of it was aimed snout of at the a television camera, continThe medium ued Geyelin. had moved in. As the cameraacross the man panned crowd, it was as if some unseen director was calling out cues. It was Instant Showbiz. The men on the embankment grabbed a grinning Negro fireman and held his arms that this aloft, demanding soul brother who was a fireman be made fire chief. KEPT GRINDING The fireman laughed selfconsciously and shock them off and went about his work. But the camera kept grinding and the young men played to it and finally an Army jeep drove up and somebody put in a radio call. In a matter of minutes, the police were funnel-shape- ers paid white youths to pick a fight with Negro school children in order to create drama for the TV screen. WERE ACTING More recently in Memphis It was obvious that Negroes were by waving acting sticks and shouting in front of the TV cameras during the first Memphis march of Martin Luther King. And there is some doubt that the Washington looting would ever have become serious but for the obtrusion of television. Here is how Philip Geyelin of the Washington Post describes the manner in which as TV, which he describes The Almighty Eye, inspired ' rioting in the nations capital. d Its Spring at 1 Arthur Frank there, swooping in with sirens going . . . Round canisters (of tear gas) rolled after the people . . . It became a game. Were going, sir, were going boss, in chanted taunting they voices, moving with exaggerated strides in a show of mock deference . . . One woman couldn't help laughing as she hitched up her skirts and skipped a little faster before the gas had a chance to spread. . 3 Garbage Collectors Return To Jobs; Memphis Cleans Up &oe 'Irrefutable' In U.S. Rare Riots T By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON NEWS, Wednesday, April 17, 1968 . . It was over as quickly as it had begun, and the police joked as they coughed and rubbed their eyes. . . . You could tell it any way you liked: The headlines could have said: POLICE ROUT ANGRY MOB AT SITE OF BLAZE. Or you could have told it like it was a piece of theater, inspired, produced and directed by the Almighty Eve. RIOTS SPREAD The point is that thousands of Negroes watching this drama on TV had no idea that it was chiefly inspired for the benefit of the TV audience. So the rioting spread. Some of it, it is true, had been planned by young Negro militants. But 99 per cent of the Negro popuwas lation of Washington against the riots, and this militant minority would have had little success had it not been the Alfor their No. 1 ally mighty Eye. So the riots, burning and looting spread from Washington to Baltimore to Kansas with millions of dollars City in damage to property and even greater damage to goodwill between the races and to proposal was apparently unani- - minds and a lot of hell broke mous as they met at Claybern out. I hope in the future we, as Temple Arne Church, a rallying a body, will have the guts to do point lor many demonstrations what we think is right. during the lengthy dispute. King was felle1 by a snipers Local union president T. 0. bullet April 4 as he stood on the jonps caHed (or the members balcony outside his room in a favored the proposal to downtown motel room. He was w1(1 in town to plan his second mass stand and apparently all did. None stood on the opposite march in support of the strikers side of the question. after a march he led downtown dissolved in window The city council vote was 12-- March 28 and lootmg' with Councilman Robert James breaking A memorandum of agrPe- Dr. Ralph Abernathy, Kings the lone dissenting vote. ment. hammered out by casting jjp sau) tbe city- - did not have successor as head of the negotiators for the city and the t1(1 to meet the Southern Christian Leadership money meriran Federation of State, promised increase and I Conference, returned Jo Mem-Cou- n pay Em- don't y and Municipal now wf1Pre wjjj come phis Tuesday night and said he was approved from ployes, AFL-CIwas glad t0 see the settlement by both the striking workers N was reached and everything J 0 and nty conned within hours Jr trita the sanitation workers wanted settled seven was granted, The negotiating teams, work- - coul.d have of ing under the guidance simen 111 thls and ?,ut Undersecretary of Labor James HOW To Hold Reynolds and former federal 8 a11 cou'd have been mediator I I Frank B. Miles, avoided death of the including included Mayor Henry Loeb and Jerry Wurf, president of the Dr. King, Patterson said. He NEW YORK (AP) said the final terms Edna included So Big, her Pulitzer international union. laughor turn? Ferber, who insisted she never Prize winning novel of a Chica-- ; The Dact coverine a Deriod of essentially the same as those bung whenyoiTeat. ,e. 7 . sprinkle a little FASTEETH on n the rnunnil Then Dy your Pates fasteeth holds tures Ormer and more comfortably. weeks ago. Makes eating easier. Its alkaline of a then of But the, aa doesnt sour. No gummy, gooey, " laborers,1 majority 1? ' representative theaters and later turned into a truck drivers and crew chiefs in council, for reasons best known death a legacy of books, Plays to themselves, Broadway play the sanitation department. and short stories and three motion pictures. it also yielded a form of dues Other Ferber novels, most of checkoff with the employes vividly portraywhich were made into movies, credit union to authorized ing the AmeriSugar House Bountiful can scene. a tale of deduct the monthly payment included Cimarron, A spinster at Oklahomas early days, Sara- - from the workers paychecks, her death Tuestoga Trunk. recounting an up-The strikers, mostly Negroes state New York trunk line rail- day at age 82, pajj on a scaje ranging from roads fight for survival. Ice 51.65 to $2.10 hourly when the she once recalled in refa novel about Alaska, walkout began Feb. 12, won a Palace, erence to her written works: her sweeping and Giant, hourly wage hike. The Unmarried female writers novel of Texas. Giant ap- - first 10 cents will be added May have one advantage over their peared in 1952 and sold 3 million 1 and the additional 5 cents' wedded female contemporaries. copies. Sept. 1. . n They can lavish more time and Most of the plays The vote in favor of the. energy on their children, of written by Miss Ferber were which I, as a spinster, have had S. with George 32 or is it 33: one loses .Kaufman, and included Stage count. The Royal Family Door, Two of those children and Dinner at Eight. Tcnn. MEMPHIS, (UPI) Sanitation City Department officials said a high pereen- tage of the 1,300 predominant- ly Negro garbage collectors returned to their jobs today, strike that ending a led to .he death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Itll take us a month to get the city as clean as we had it, said supervisor Charles Wood all. 1 SV overt. Jjf fc.ll fl rALSLPTFPTII . den-sev- en "-- "i'i- thrice-revive- n SXUhaYnPn" d f 1 half-doze- American prestige abroad. ILL AFFORD This is damage which the United States can ill afford today any more than it could during World War II. In World War II, the press and radio set up their own selfWASHINGTON (UPI) censorship under the efficient direction of Byron Price of President Johnson has nominat- the Associated Press and with ed for ambassador to the Philip the assistance of such men as G. Mennen Williams, Nat Howard of the Cleveland pines politician-diplomwho set new News and James Pope of the in six for Louisville Courier-Journa- l. informality precedents They protected freedom of years as assiseant secretaiy of the press and radio, at the slate for African affairs. same time protecting the welAs assistant secretary of fare and safety of the United state, he once called a square States. dance for African diplomats in Television at that time was the Thomas Jefferson Room of not a factor. Today it is. Its the State Department; toured and to educate great good s Africa in and was inform should be protected. socked in the jaw in Lusaka, But its potential for doing a white man anharm must be curbed. And if Zambia, byhis Africa for the by the industry itself does not do gered Africans views. so, eventually the government Williams was governor of is sure to step in. llGtSmotuul lACmOUND Williams Named For Post Michigan from 1948 to 1960, held the State Department from 1961 to 1966, when he and made an unsuccessful for the U.S. Senate. and post! emsciDi MUSIC TIRED OF THE SAME OLD MUSIC? 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