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1- LABOR'S DAILY If You're Lucky Enough to Have One Contest Set For Books On Liberty Tired of Banal Television? Try Tuning in to Educational Station Ac': i i ie is-: I's Act Special to Labor's Daily NEW of the same old television fare? If you happen to live in one of 22 lucky communities you can find blessed relief from banality lpy tuning to a non-profit noncommercial educational station Today there are 22 such stations operated by schools and community organizations across the land By March it is expected that the number will reach 26 Audiences for these stations already run into the millions by the time these live programs while North Carolina has a single Being non-commercial in become available in March station with programs fed from nature they don't interrupt your The stations operate an average several institutions pleasure with blaring commercials -of better than 25 hours weekly While educational stations are On the other hand they suffer with some of them broadcasting as not interested in a non-differential total audience rdiiencrce i that their meals varied interests up for this handicap by using serve an audience of all and of from chronic lack of funds making much as 50 hours per week They tai tal audience ien Ic is clear can ure now in the mi le Actually ions ctual brains and imagination to bring the potential for education both general their program effort In unusual and informative material quantitatively and qualitatively is is of two types: (1) that which is to the airwaves tremendous 1 vnl-Inni licaQ nrin by the time these live programs become available in March The stations operate an average -)f better than 25 hours weekly with some of them broadcasting as much as 50 hours per week They serve an audience of all and of varied interests In general their program effort is of two types: (1) that which is for uses and while North Carolina has a single station with programs fed from several institutions While educational stations are not interested in a non-differential mass audience it is clear that their total viewing audience can be measured now in the millions Actually the potential for education both quantitatively and qualitatively is tremendous Lau ROBERT SARNOTT A trickle of help 'See It Now' Probes Riot Special to Labor's Daily NEW Amen can Library Association has announced that it will make awards totaling $30000 to the authors of books published in 1956 1957 which make "dis tinguished contributions to the American tradition of liberty and justice" The awards are made possible through a grant from the Fund for the Republic The purpose of the awards according to former ALA president Robert Downs director of the library school and University of Illinois Libriries is to draw the attention of Americans to outstanding books in this area to encourage authors and publishers in creating such books and to recognize those do so The awards which are being administered by the ALA Committee on Intellectual Freedom will consist of $5000 each for books in these three categories: Contemporary I)rOblCIfN and affairs (non-fiction) 2 History and biography (non-fictioli) 3 Imaginative literature (fiction poetry or published drama) Publishers of award-winning books will receive citations Separate juries of three persons prominent in each of the three fields of work represented by the categories will select award winners Awards for books published in 1956 will be made on April 25th 1957 Time and place of awards for books published in 1957 will be announced later Persons inter-rested in the awards are invited to write to the American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago 11 Illinois The Educational Television and Radio Center exists to provide to the local stations those programs which are not available within their own resources Also included are regular programs for young children and for youth International Scope The Center has attempted from the beginning to range over the entire world in search of the most meaningful programs available An art series was co-produced with the BBC We are now cooperating with CBS in securing regular weekly re-- ports from United Nations in New York and we have just completed a contract with French television for a series of outstanding films on French art A minimum of 25 per cent of the material is secured by exchange from the educational stations through recordings of live programs as they are broadcast to the local audiences In this way the best and most appropriate of the local programs become available to all the educational stations through the Center planned in-school (2) that which is designed for gen- i eral education of a less formal nature their commitment is entirely to educational service thus their justification lies in their ability to is to inform to develop understanding to teach skills to affect attitudes to inculcate values or valid judgments or to mbdify behavior They have no other reason for being Obviously they cannot take paid advertising and they have no commercial sponsors for their programs Generally speaking the educational stations fall into two classifications in terms of organization and administration The so-called 'community' type statim is one in which the general direction is provided by a lay board representative of the various educational and cultural interests of the area The Pittsburgh and St Louis stations are of this type School-Run The second general classification includes those stations which are operated by a single educational institution such as those managed and directed by the University of Illinois Ohio State University and Michigan State University Alabama has a state network administered by a state commission with production centers at the university Alabama Polytechnic and the Birmingham area public schools Oklahoma is in process of developing a similar arrangement NEW problems of segregation in the schools of one small community resulting from the Supreme Court decision of May 1954 will be examined by the "See It Now" cameras in "Clinton and the Law: A Study in Segregation" on the Edward Murrow series Sunday Jan 6 over CBS The hour-long program is an attempt by the editors of "See II Now and the citizens of Clinton to explorc the chain of events which brought violence to this small Tennessee community Virtually the only people to be seen or heard on the program will be the men women and school children of Clinton who actively participated in the events which brought State Militia to their town tear gas and which reached its climax recently with the assault on a Baptist minister who escorted six Negro students to Clinton High School Recently NBC 'currently under attack for monopoly practices loosened its pursestrings and set aside $300000 for the production of live educational programs which xvill be furnished at no charge to the educational station network The grant although appreciated by the people who staff these pioneer stations is only a drop in the bucket It Will take a lot more than that to realize the full potential of educational television Rudimentary Network In Ann Arbor Mich the Educational Television and Radio Center a sort of rudimentary network for the struggling stations provides a national pcogram service to the 22 stations Its president Dr II Newburn in a letter thanking NBC boss Robert Sarnoff described the work of the center and its affiliates The story Is worth retelling here in his own words is a picture of their operation: Before I comment more specifically on the nature and extent of this ETRC-NBC venture I should like to give you some indication of the setting in which this service will he placed The center is designed primarily to provide a national program service to the educational television stations of this country of which there are at the present time 22 scattered over the United States It is possible that as many as 26 will be in operation I I Labor First To Use New Library Unit -P 4w i'': 1'Lle 'WV It iv-' 1 1 :1 ioiiii 41: li 06sakt 'S P6'': 4 Atl" l' '4: A 'f: AKfAc'f W'- I A -4 4z a 4400 -4r' 4 -'t2 4 tr41 4 i12 1 i kqef'z" -zii te s- 'Os 4' l's 4::: ee (' "41::: 5 c0S IA la Sc: 1 ''''A nse" 'A 1 Of 40 1 7 'S a a i' 1 i P' xs 4 4 4 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open house for the general public The Omaha Joint Advisory Commtitee on Library Service to Labol Groups a mutual project of the American Library Association and AFL-CIO is sing the same fcilit for preview of Labor films At first look this novel appeared to be one of those rarities in today's world of fiction one which deals at least in part with working people and their lives It is true that the story's heroine Helga Bjornson is the beauteous but shabby daughter of an immigrant carpenter But only once does the author find it necessary to point out ily propriety However a crisis that she works (as a secretary) develops early in their marriage When Helga defends Paul's father and he devotes very little time or depth to her parents in spite of his insulting attitude In the middle of the world's towards her worst economic depression the In the end Father apologizes scene of the book is the early the rest of the family completely see nothing of the suf- accepts Helga who has shown her fering of Helga's family and hun- self to be a far more substantial dreds of thousands of others ex- person than any of them and Paul cept in an occasional thought pass- leaves the newspaper to rescue the tng through the dreamy romantic family busincS3 from financial dishead of Paul Dawson son of aster This last act is inspired by wealthy parents newspaper re- the suicide of his father's friend porter and hero of the book and business associntp Untie fly propriety However a crisis develops early in their marriage when Helga defends Paul's father in spite of his insulting attitude towards her In the end Father apologizes the rest of the family completely accepts Helga who has shown herself to be a far more substantial person than any of them and Paul leaves the newspaper to rescue the family busincs3 from financial disaster This last act is inspired by the suicide of his father's friend and business associate Uncle HERE'S the real "Family Nobody Wanted" The Rev Carl Doss his wife Helen and their twelve adopted children of mixed racial backgrounds was portrayed by Lew Ayres Nanette Fabray and a cast of stage youngsters in CBS Television's 'Playhouse 90" dramatization of Helen Doss' true story this week 1 Henry Thayer for whom Paul feels a great affection Uncle Henry's death the result of his depression over the company's shaky future cause Paul to abruptly abandon journalism and his childish idealisms Instead he bows to the claims of responsibility to Helga to family to free enterprise Motivations in the novel are insubstantial As for the story it moves along in very unsubtle fashion The author's intentions were WHEN THE IVIND BLOWS by Leon Phillips Farrar Straus and Cudahy Inc 101 Fifth Ave New York $375 I I siol! It ::1101 i 0 1 '17 i34iitt 'it" i '1-- 1 ft: )13' 0 1: Itc ea to Ilv4 4 14 1 1t i' 5 I i4 :9 it A 0dc1 -4 "'54' '3A: KZ' 'Ci" wif4 4 1 '1 'i 1 Altus 1 Bock to Free Enterprise The son of a wholesale -grocery magnate Paul Da WS011 suffers from a vague sense of dedication to humanity lie foregoes a plushy job in the family business to become a would-be unsung hero of join nalism sins denial of family and background and the superficial conflicts which result form the bulk of the novel's content Mr Dawson's constant pressure np his son to come into the business finally goad Paul into marrying Helga whose background of poverty and "foreignness" is certain to 1)(1 a further blow to lam The Music Rises Above Mechanics of Recording After hearing two contestants disagree on the merits of rock ins roll musi NBC quizmaster Groucho Marx observed: "Well I'm neutral I buy 'rock int roll' records myself because It's a good investment After the records wear out you can keep right on playing them because they still sound the same" 4 LEW AYRES AND NANETTE FABRAY portrayed the Rev Carl Doss and his wife Helen a real-life couple who adopted a family of twelve youngsters of mixed racial backgrounds in "The Family Nobody Wanted" CBS Television's Chrlstmf3 drama on "Play-home 90" The heartwarming hour-and-of story is based' on Helen Doss' popular book A q'.