Week of September 8, 1957

This week - segregation and Syria are the hot stories…

President Eisenhower bluntly warns the Soviet Union not to “push Syria into any

acts of aggression against her neighbors.”

A Federal judge tightens the South’s racial battle lines with a sharp-tongued

rejection of a plea to postpone integration at Little Rock Central high School,

where armed troops have kept Negro students away for a week.

U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars begin an airlift of arms to Jordan to

buttress the Arab kingdom against any threat from Syria’s leftist-commanded

army.

Gov. Orval Faubus declares, “I sincerely

hope no one gets shot” if federal

authorities try to crash through the

National Guard lines he set up at

integration-torn Central High School.

In Nashville - a dynamite blast rocks one

of Nashville’s freshly desegregated

grammar schools shortly after midnight. Fifteen Negroes were admitted to first

grades at six Nashville schools this week, but only one of them was enrolled at

the bombed school.

Back to Little Rock - U.S. District Judge Ronald Davis orders injunction

proceedings against Gov. Faubus at the climax of a day which saw the first

outburst of violence in the Arkansas integration process. Meanwhile - six

Negroes were shoved down steps and across campus by 10 white pupils when

they tried to a white high school in North Little Rock.

President Eisenhower signs the civil rights bill against a

background of actual or threatened violence over school

integration in southern cities. The civil rights bill - first if its kind

to be passed by Congress since Reconstruction days - is

Week of September 8, 1957

mainly designed to protect voting rights. But in some aspects, it deals with

discrimination against Negroes and minority groups in general.

The Eisenhower administration pledges swift action to carry out a Federal court

order aimed at achieving school integration in Little Rock. The administration

made the pledge shortly after a Federal judge in Little Rock ordered the filing of a

petition to block Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus use of State troops to bar Negro

pupils from Central High School.

More Civil rights - White men on anti-

integration patrol at a Birmingham

high school maul a Negro minister

when he attempted to enroll several

Negro children. The Rev. F.L.

Shuttlesworth suffered cuts and

bruises but apparently no severe

injuries when slugged by what his

wife Ruby said were chains and

brass knuckles.

In Sturgis, KY - 18 Negroes walk unmolested into Sturgis High as the second

week of mixed classed began.

Armed National Guardsmen pull back from gates of the governor’s mansion long

enough for Gov. Orval Faubus to be summoned to curt in 10 days and answer

charges he is obstructing racial integration.

Gov Faubus asks President Eisenhower for a personal meeting on the Little

Rock integration dispute and the President agreed to see him later this week.

Back to Nashville - U.s. Judge William Miller issues a strong-worded temporary

court order forbidding interference with officials carrying out his orders to

desegregate Nashville schools.

Week of September 8, 1957

The United States calls Soviet Communists “confirmed

reactionaries” and accuses Foreign Minster Gromyko

of following “the old Molotov line” in his latest attack on

American moves in the Syrian crisis.

Soviet Premier Bulganin accuses Turkey of poising

troops on Syria’s borders for what he calls an American-

planned attack. Bulganin warned that military action

there would lead to world conflict.

Cuba - Troops and police in tanks and armored cars

seal off all entrances to the battle-scarred naval base city of Cienfuegos in south

Central Cuba.

Sports - Nelson d. Rockefeller makes an offer to help build the Dodgers a new

stadium in downtown Brooklyn. The move is taking many by surprise, but LA

says it has not lost the fight to move the team there.

Music news - Two musicians who have been with Elvis

Presley since he began his singing career four years

ago quit in a pay dispute. Bill Black and Scotty Moore

said Presley has been payi8ng them $100 a week at

home and $200 on the road plus $1000 Christmas

bonus. They said they had to pay their own expenses

on the road. “Elvis is the star and we know it,” said

Moore. “I didn’t expect to get rich on this and I certainly

don’t begrudge him any of his success. But I did expect

to make a good living for my family.” (Black went to

form the Bill Black combo and would have a number of

hit records).

Television news -

CBS announces that the first of the five special Lucy-Desi shows will air Nov. 6.

But says CBS - the first show will run an hour and 15 minutes. “I Love Lucy” will

continue - albeit in reruns on a new night - Weds (see ad).

Week of September 8, 1957

NBC-TV’s Nat King Cole show is made available for

sponsorship in single cities. The first advertisers to buy

were Rheingold beer in New York and Gallo wine in Los

Angeles.

Saturday night television -

CBS - The Buccaneers, Pendleton Roundup Rodeo,

Gale storm show, Have Gun, Will Travel, Gunsmoke,

Jimmy dean Show

NBC - People Are Funny, Perry Como, Mystery Theatre

w/George Sanders, dollar a Second, Encore Theatre, Your Hit Parade

ABC - Country America, Lawrence Welk, Mike Wallace

Pendleton Roundup Rodeo with the Lone Ranger.

Country America - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys join regulars Debby Kay,

Jerry Wallace, Lucille Star and emcee Joe Allison.

Gale Storm Show - Gale Storm and guest Pat Boone sing their top hits.