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20-THE NEWS, Port Arthur, Texas Wednesday, March 21, Try Toronto television for the best in 'blue' movies TORONTO (UPD-At the stroke of midnight every Friday, Toronto television airwaves become blue--baby blue. It's baby blue for "Baby Blue Movie," Toronto's, and North America's, first weekly erotic tv film series. No longer mustTorontonians inconvenience themselves by going to city theatres to view the likes ol "I am Curious (Yellow)," or "Naked and Free," or "Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows her Name." For the last six months these and similar films have been available on Channel 79 here, the slot occupied by a lowbudget but innovative ultra high frequency (uhf) station called CITY-TV, which began transmitting Sept. 28. Viewers are warned before each Baby Blue film with what the station calls a "The following baby blue movie could have explicit sexual scenes and nudity, which may offend some viewers.

If you think you may be offended, we that you change the channel for the next two hours." Forewarned is forearmed, and there are thousands, even hundreds of thousands of persons willing to take the dare. A recent Bureau of Broadcast Measurement survey found 210,000 baby blue watchers on a Friday night. Such audiences are all the more remarkable because CITY only reaches about 450,000 homes because of its UHF status. Thus those who are unaware of the baby blue phenomenon find themselves startled at Friday night parties when others suddenly rush to the tv set at midnight to "see the baby blue." Most can and have been seen at local theatres and none so far has broken new ground for sexual explicitness. Station Manager Moses Znaimer, 30, calls the offerings "mildly salacious." Baby blue regulars say the films are heavy on nudity and, for one reason or another, lesbianism.

When there have been complaints about the movies, they have mostly been about the lack of real content and not their daring in the realms of sexuality. "I watched a couple of them when they first came on," said Mrs. Donna Fine, a housewife, "and I never saw anything more peurile. "All they amounted to were people chasing each other in the nude. A 15- year-old on our block saw them and wasn't impressed either." Still, the police have visited Znaimer two or three times about the baby blues.

"There has been some pressure on the poUce from people," said Mrs. Phyllis Switzer, one of CITY'S founders and its vice president in charge of community relations. "You can say we're indialogue with the police." On the other hand, the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTQ, the Canadian broadcasting regulatory body, has not voiced any protest about the baby blues. TheCRTC is apparently impressed by CITY'S innovations in other areas of programming. Mrs.

Switzer says Znaimer is looking for films of "higher quality" for the series. But she is quick to add that no thought has been given to chopping baby blues. Such a move would mean a serious setback for the fledgling CITY-tv. The baby blues are booked solid in advertising at a rate ($250 a minute) double what the station gets for spots on its other programs. The series has also won the station in- a i a publicity-- something Mrs.

Switzer views with "mixed emotions." Mrs. Switzer, a woman in her 30s and a mother of three, says she gets calls from all over the United States, often from radio stations wanting to tape her comments on the baby blues. "I hang up immediately once I know I'm being taped," she says. "I mean, this is being blown out of proportion. Don't forget the baby blue movie takes up only two hours of our total viewing time each week, and we're on from 6 a.m.

to midnight each day." She says the attention the baby blues are getting is detracting from the sta- tion's other programs, which are just as innovative if ID a less sensational way. The publicity has also jacked up prices for films the station wants for the series, she says, adding that the films are already in short supply. In fact, so meager is the supply that the station has had to repeat each film it has shown at least once to fill out the series. This has annoyed some viewers. Mrs.

Switzer says she never expected the series to be so popular. "We're a station with the aim of fulfilling needs of viewer minorities in the city and we thought the baby blues would be doing just that," she said. "We nought we would be able to get along with a few films. "We've got other programs that are just as innovative, you know. We bad a two-and-one half hours news show each day, for instance, that we think will be No-1 in the city in a couple of years." She adds that more attention should be paid to this and other CITY shows.

She speaks highly of "Free for All," a program that invites people off the sidewalk into the studio to air views on any subject. England's BBC has studied this program and is adopting it in a modified ver- CtTY devotes over four hours a week programs of a non-English'nature. It also gives a half hour each week to any citizen group wishing it, Mrs. Switzer says. HELP YOUR BUDDY An ROTC cadet helps his fallen comrade to his feet then supports him after he fainted during drills recently.

(UPI Telephoto) CC for reduced spending The Board of Directors of the Greater Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce approved the endorsement of a bill now before the U.S. Senate that would "control federal spending." The bill, sponsored by Sen. Bill Brock of calls for "some new methods of controlling the Federal budget." The proposal, titled the "Federal Act to Control Expenditures and Upgrade Priorites," is a five step plan. It would: (1) require Congress to project all major Federal expenditures over a five-year period; require Congress to evaluate all major Federal programs at least once every three years; (3) require pilot- testing of all major Federal programs; (4) designate a joint committee to evaluate the Federal budget in terms of priorities and (5) subject Federal programs annual, appropriation processes. The Brock Bfll is under consideration in the 93rd Congress by a joint Congressional committee established to study spending and budget procedures.

The board also heard a report by Art Spencer, executive vice president of the Chamber, on membership luncheons. "The purpose of the luncheons is to give members of the chambers a chance to meet with the various committees and board members to promote a closer relationship," he said. The first luncheon is sche- Rafferty on education By DR. MAX RAFTEBTV Boitel torture atrocity (wherein Castro murdered a young Cuban student for the sole crime of refusing to become a Communist) should be highly publicized to disenchant any wide-eyed students who might be swallowing the information they're getting from their 'progressively educated' professors. The American Communist Party seems to have a stronger bold than anyone cares to believe.

"So many of our student pseudo-intellectuals have been cleverly indoctrinated. They in turn indoctrinate their parents, who fo many cases 'buy' the latest knowledge of their offspring. Who's to question their brilliant son or daughter, fresh home with the latest 'thinking' from college?" Mrs. R. St Louis.

Mo. A--I have firsthand evidence that you're right In 1965. wbUe Mario Savw was leading the Berkeley rioting. I wrote a couple of columns expressing in my courtly CbesterDeldiaD way my opinion of this character. The uptbol was a long, three- pafe, angle-spaced typewritten letter from Mario's father in New York, io which be called me but a gfer for criticizing Us and expressing bis wholehearted support for Junior's arsoaous advocacy of armed rebellion.

I jeot Mm A wut reply; Mr. Savto: After reading yow tetter, I now on- derctaad perfectly bow yon- jomwnedwrttbewaybedid." Q-- "In your column on the 'World's your choices were okay except in a couple of cases. One of these was your selection of the Black Death as history's greatest disaster. You should have said the introduction of Christianity. Before Christianity the world was making progress in scientific and intellectual fields.

Came Christianity and the lights went out The human race suffered the blackest night of all time. For 1.500 years, the good Christians were roasting Jive bumans to teach them the way of their you been around anytime from 1 A.D. to 1600 A.D., you probably would have ended up at the stake. You know bow the good Christians treated the dissenters --staking them out on their backs, putting them to the rack, clipping off their eyelids, gashing their bodies and pouring boiling oil in the wounds. These are the sarns preached peace on earth, goodwill to men." H.

W. apolis. Ind. A-- This is true enough, as far as it goes, but you've left out a few things. 1 -Christianity put an end to the abominable gladiatorial where human beings slaughtered each other ever; week to slake tfoe blood lust of depraved nofrCbristian aodi- 2-- Christianity ended the degenerate cult of bomoflexual love, wmchj for tons had been the curse of UK Greek city-slates.

3-- Christianity wiped out emperor worship. For cen- turies, every person in the civilized world had been required on pain of death to fall down and worship every crowned clown who came along. No matter how vOe a Nero or how insane a Caligula happened to inherit the throne of Rome, he was automatically deified. 4--Christianity set up church-supported asylums, alms houses and hospitals for the poor. Under the Roman Empire, the poor died in the streets.

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