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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Many Movies Stimulate Wrong Thoughts, ii s Mot i on Picture Censor Claims Memph Friday, January 28. 1955 I f I f ft ition Memphis, Tenn. UJ0 Lloyd T- Binf ord, 88-year-old watch dog of the morals ol: Memphis movie goers said today one rea son he has to ban "so many films is "there's a" certain amount of the devil in all of us." - - r "It's just human nature," he said in an interview.' "In a sense all of nis belong to the devil be cause he's trying to " get us and plants wrong thoughts in our minds. 'Many, .movies .stimulate those wrong thoughts." - ; Binford, .who was born short ly after the Civil War in the tiny village . of . Duck . Hill, . Miss., stands - between-' the - devil and 400,000 Memphis '.souls as the chairman of the censor ' board which reviews and must approve every movie shown in local theaters.-. ... fV"-" ' zT Faces Criticism r " " :; ;jt: I His role, has made him the bane of many Hollywood produ cers, a frequent target of news paper criticism, . and either a hero or a nuisance in the eyes of local citizens. He has headed the censor board more than 25 years, and this month was re appointed : to another one - year term. . - r '. - ' ' . Binford signed a I decision barring Ingrid Bergman - and Charlie Chaplin from Memphis screens because of their private lives. His board demanded , that a? Rita Hayworth dance be cut from one movie, a Lena Home number from another. It banned Jane Russell in "The French Line." -..'." ; .. . "... y: ; Overruled byCourt - : The film "Curley" was banned because it showed Negroes in schools with white children. Pro ducers carried the case to the state supreme court, which rul ed a film could not be banned just because- Negroes appeared in it..-' ;' 'T:;V": Binf ord. lives on an old resi dential street and maintains an office on the second floor of his home. He seldom goes out ex cept : to theaters. He ; sees an average of. .a movie a day, and 'when his board'lowers the boom Bills in Legislature ; Salem (U.R) The Jomt Ways and Means- Committee has ap proved a bill : putting the 1700 men in the state highways" shop and maintenance division on a 40-hour: . week. V,The : bill ' now goes to the House. . . . - i Reduction of the work week in the department would require the hiring of 103 additional men to handle the" work ; normally done oh a 44-hour week " basis The bill would authorize the transfer of $200,000 from the capital outlay fund to the op erating and maintenance fund in i the highway department budget.. .' ' ' ' J Salem U.R) A. compact for apportionment of waters of the Colombia river would be author ized in a bill, introduced in the Oregon senate. ''.' - .' i The compact would have for its major :purposes the develop ment of lands by irrigation and other means; the protection and use of .water for domestic, in dustrial' and municipal purposes; and use of .water for . hydroelec tric power production. ; iner compact wouia oecume effective when 'also ratified by the legislatures -of, Idaho, Mon tana I and Washington, and ap proved by Congress. ' - - Salem (U.R) The . House has received a bill for special leg islation correcting a bookkeep ing error and validating a dis- liquor funds to the cities of Gold Beach arid Manzanita. The funds were previously dis tributed inadvertantly on the basis of a snecial census bv the secretary of state under a law which had expired. No appro priation of funds is required. 1 Salem-U.B) Rep. Walter J rcoisuu vutuiucuiu; lias muir duced a bill to authorize the Oregon Development Commis sion to publicize and advertise the state's resources to attract new business to Oregon. f Salem U.P.) A bill intro duced in the House would broad en breeding liens to include dairy or beef cattle artificially inseminated so that the breeder would have a lien on the off spring of such cattle. . t Salem '(U.R) School districts would Tbe allowed to contract for short-term, indebtedness for ad ministrative or refund purposes, under terms of a bill introduced in the House by Rep. Maurine Neuberger (D-Portland). - Salem U.R) The House has received a resolution that would direct the secretary of state to erect a protective barrier around the seal of state in the rotunda of the state capitol. Sponsors of the jneasure, Rep. Walter. J. Pearson (D-Portland) and Reps. Al Loucks (R-Salem), said the seal should be protected from defacement from the feet of passing visitors. t Court Records POLICE COURT- . v Stephen G.. Crippen Jr.. violation of basic rule. S10. ; Robert H. Hucker, failure to stop at red light. $5. Keola Colleen Barnes, failure to stop, at red light, $5. Ben C. . Clark, ; expired motor vehicle- license, $5. Robert C, Flanery, expired motor vehicle license. $5.. William Hanson ' Coffman. illeeal left turn. So. - Chess Leon ion McKinuney. failure to stop at stop sign. $5. Golden Forrest Noble. ' failure to yield right of way to pedestrian. $10. Ora Marie Niedermeyer. failure to obey traffic signals, S5. . William Edward Hall, failure to stop at red light, $3. Arthur Vernon Hall, violation . of basic -rule, $10. Jack Loyal Lust, violation of basic rule. $10. - Adra Mae Walker, violation of basic rule. $10. DISTRICT COURT Clyde L. Hamack. failure to stop at stop sign, .$10. Verlyn A. Struck, no : operator'! license, $10. . ' -'v. -- . Arthur W. Longan, violation of basic rule.. $15. Adrain D. Van Horn, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Alfred L. Apparcel, improper muf fler, $15. James W. Hydnck. no operator s license. $6. . Darrell L. Johnson, defective head lights. $7.50. Albert j, xung, violation of basic rule, $15. sale Roy bmitn, no operator s li cense, $10. . ; , - - CIRCUIT COURT Bonnie B. Brown vs.' Orville O. Brown and others, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE f APPLICATIONS , Jack Albert Gardner. 22. of 38 Renault ave.. Medford. and Judy Anne Watson. 16, of 215 Renault ave... Medford. Use Tribune Want Ads r; -jgftr I 5 J: RICHER COFFEE NMTLV . ...and a 3-way saving! 1 A SAVING WHEN YOU BUY IT ... for Edwards costs less than other top quality In stant Coffees, and much less than regular coffee. r 2 A SAVING WHEN YOU MAKE IT . . . because a little "Deep" Roasted" Edwards goes, a ., long, long .way. " . I A SAVING WHEN YOU SERVE IT . . . since you make only what you want ... a lot or a little. on one he gets a lot of mail. "Out of ' every '100 letters about 5 cuss me out," he said. "I thnk, God for the enemies I've made.", ; ' ; " : . ' ; Quotes the Law y ; ; ' He answers a lot of criticism by arguing the censorship is im posed "according to the law and not . according to any whim of mine." His -board ? consists of four other metobers besides liirn self and he- said ne never votes unless there is a tie. : ,h "I don't-say-a word during the showing of the film.' , After it's over I ask the members what they think. Sometimes one of the ladies will say it's just aw ful, and I' have to ' explain we can't ban ' a movie just because it's, awful," . . -;--;".; Paid Monthly, Stipend Binford said the Memphis law allows the board to prohibit the showing of a movie that is "im moral, lewd or lascivious or in imical to the . health, . safety, morals or 'welfare' of the city. ' Board members 'are paid. $20 a month for their services. Binford said he would like to see a similar - censor board set up across the Mississippi '- river in West Memphis, Ark.,' .where movie1 theaters -: do a thriving business ' showing pictures : ad vertised as "Banned in' Mem phis.". . , ; . ; . .. ; Earns Recoon M ussolini's Rome Subvay About To Open; Seven-Mile Tunnel Takes Riders Noyhere Robertson School of Business recently was certified as a mem ber of -the National Association and Council of Business Schools, according to Les Robertson, manager. He said this means it will : be on .ah equal standing with all other business colleges and that students would not lose credit .when transferring from Robertson School of Business to a -NACBS-approved , school. i wThe certificatej gives NACBS approval to ; the . five diploma courses ; offered ; stenographic, executivef secretarial, junior ac counting, . higher, accounting and t business administration. : I Some 521 other schools in the United States, "Canada;" and oth er territories belong to the asso ciation, he said ; : I Robertson School of Business, still , in its first year, has been approved by the siate depart ment of public instruction for training re-habilitiation students and by the Veterans Adminis tration, for training' students un der Public Law. 16. -. ; The "school has four '.full-time instructors in the day school and two : additional staff members for the rught school. VET DEADLINE SET ' Salem (U.R) Korean war vet erans wishing to , get in on state benefits .must do so before Jan. 31. Gov. Paul L. Patterson yes terday set the end of the month as the deadline. - :' - ' Editor's note: After IS years. Benito Mussolini's white elephant, the Rome Subway, is about to open. -United Press Correspondent Curtis G.: Peppery who got a sneak preview., finds the subway is beautiful and fast and rolls beneath a lot of historic ruins.- He also finds a rather important , fact which the builders overlooked. . . By CURTIS G. PEPPER United Press Correspondent R6me ,U.R) Hang on, folks, the Rome Subway finally js going to open. - ; - Most Romans don't know it, but the two-car trains have been whizzing - underground - for '; a week on trial runs preparatory to the official start in about 10 days. . " ' ; ' -. '- ::' , This "correspondent just emerged into ; daylight from a sneak preview of the seven-mile "Metropolitana," brainchild of the late Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and butt of unfunny jokes. ; The subway, 16 years a-build-ing of a cost .of more than $20, 000,000 is very fine project and trains: go very f ast.; " ; There is only one trouble. It doesn't go anywhere. x . ; : . ' In ; magnificent splendor, the subway runs from the train sta tion in the center of Rome but to a lovely meadow seven miles away- .,, '.' -Not counting drifting herds' of sheep and ' an occasional shep herd, n e a rest inhabitants are some Italian army units a mile and a half away. ' - With nine stops en: route, il I and the Protestanf Cemetery takes; 11 minutes to ;get to the where the poets Keats and Shel- meadoWj a picnic ground near the site- or Mussolini's dream of a world fair. By auto it takes 45 minutes. ' . ' ; i You enter .the main station beneath -Rome's modern train terminal to find yourself sur rounded by gleaming , marble on long corridors lighted with neon tubes' enclosed in hand-wrought lanterns. Quartz of many colors is- skil fully inlaid in the floor and red dish marble lines the wall. ; Passengers give paper tickets, costing 40 lire (6 cents) to takers. There are plans for turn stiles, but these have, not been manufactured. " Can Pack in 280 . - ' Each streamlined gray-blue car seats 52 but can', take. 280 "sardines" in the best subway fasion. There ar no straps above and standees have ; to hang on strategically placed vertical bars. The first stop is near St. Peters ! in Chains, ' the basilica built In 442"A:D. to house chains believed to have been worn by St. Peter. Here the 2 0-foot "wide tunnel is at its deepest, 54 feet. , ' ; Next stop is the Colosseum, where no one - lives. Stop No, 3 is the Circus. Maximus, where Roman . e mperors watched chariot - races centuries ago. 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