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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1956)
Schools Given Blank Check By Rockefeller MORRILTON, Ark., Oct. JO Supt. V. L. Boren of the Morrilton school district talks like man who has witnessed a miracle. One day he was stniEglinf with budgetary controls to .cope with rising costs and expanding enroll ment in this city of 5.500 people. The next day he was busy collect ing da. and making plans tor a model educational system. The miracle happened one even ing when millionaire Winthrop nockefoller called Boren and the Morrilton School Board to his palatial Vme for dinner. His proposition was short: Would the people n( Morrilton be interested in building a model rlucational system if he picked up the tab Wanted the Best Rockefeller did not mention a specific sum. He simply wanted iie het that money could buy The Morrilton school men, aided by "state and federal educators put their dreams on paper and estimated the cost at 2'j million dollars. Rockefeller didn't bat an eye. I can't think of words to de scnte it." Boren said. "I've never heard of anything like it. It's fan tastic and wonderful " Kach phae of the program will be submitted to Rockefeller for appruval on a year-to-year basis. Kur the present hool year, he has given or promised H'iO.OOO a new $374,000 elementary school and about $80,000 lor a program to enrich the curriculum. Model for .Nalinn , By 1WO this average Arkansas district and lar below average l national standards is expect ed to he transformed into a model for the sta'e and nation The I !5!t schoolchildren in the area attend 14 schools, including: tun high schools one Negro. one white If plans (or the model svs'em are carried through, there will he only one high school and three elementary schools and all except one of the preset b. ' 'ings wi:l he abandoned as obsolete. Six cuis-riioms will be adiled to the ( remaining school. ln'o':raUon Net Factor When the proposal was an nounced, some residents imnied i.iii ly asked if consolidation meant tiut the 352 Negro students would he integrated with the whites. Silmol Board Chairman Bob Dar ns and other school officials insist t in' integration is not a factor in i:m plans and that the new con s'rui i on will not hasten it. Rockefeller hah indicated how e1. it. that he will not provide f inds for two school systems, which apparently would be nec essary if segregation hi to be maintained. Most of th citizens here who do oppose Integration seem will ing to accept It rather than risk the chance of losing the benefits of Rockefeller's donations. He had 3-d he was going to finance a model school system somewhere even if Morrilton turned him (ioun. Statesman Salt-in, Ore., Sun., Oct. -21, 'oo (Sec. 17 Glamorous Disc Jockey Works atNighl By SAIX PETT NKW YORK. Oct 20-One of: the advantages of being a lady disc jockey who works at night is that it gives her a good escape cla.ise in a tight spot. The lady is Barbara Day, a sey voiced female with ligure and eves to match. Being attrac-! tr e she dates often Dating o'ten. she sometimes needs a good de-; len.e asainst an aggressive offense toward the end of the evening. ' If the man tries to insist on coming in for just one nightcap." he savs, "1 always have an out. 1 tell hjm I have to be at the s'udio at 1 a.m.. and that I'll be working there all night. He knows, I'm not making it up and thus' leaves without a struggle." Rarbara, a languid-eyed divor cer in her 30s. works' at station WMCA in New York. She opens the program at 2 a.m. hy saying,! "Li-e your day, and spend your nights with Barbara Day." f Then, until 6 a m., she introduce records, reads the news. and. dur ing the season, struggles Ihimiijli the baseball scores, often confus ing the White Sox and the Red Sox, and offers gentle little homi lies on accepting life as you find it. on the meaning of pure love and the sadness of loneliness. Beyond the opening, the verbal Content of the show is not particu larly provocative. But her deep, caressing voice is. It is this which gives the show an invitational quality Rarbara Day would sound sexv reading ' the multiplication tahies "I don't understand il." she savs "I don't try In sound sexy. I just want to he friendly." British to Take Art Collection as Estate Death Tax LONDON. Oct. 20 i-The British government has agreed lo accept a vast art collection, including works by Rubens, Rembrandt and Gainsborough, in part payment of death duties on the estate of the lale Lord Iconficld. 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