The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 184, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 22, 1969 Page: 5 of 24
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Location Filming Of
Movies Has Problems
Missouri Prison Teaches
Computer Programming
inmates. They want 1329,000 for
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mathematics may be sentenced Hageman (eels prison officials In 1000, 84 inmates received
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A fallure»-in cri
man with an education in basic anything else."
to the Missouri Department of must offer pris
Corrections. A few years later they can do
bug”—on a secret mission. Communist newspapers in
Last summer, the 20th Cen- that British crown colony on the
tury-Fox filmmakers scouted China mainland complained bit-
sites in Hong Kong, Sligapore terly about the Dim, which in-
and Formosa before finally de- eludes a debate between Peck,
ckling on Singapore. But that as the American scientist, and
Southeast Allan island republic Mao Tse-tung, as well as some
By NORMAN GOLDSTEIN
Amociated Press Writer
Location filming always pro-
rides unusual problems for
movie companies, which seek
realistic locales or limply try to
save money by going oqtslde of
Hollywood.
But rarely does a film legiti-
mately become a “cause ceie-
b»" or an international inci-
dent Gregory Peck’s new Dim,
“The Chairman," has.
From the beginning it was de-
cided that a .Far . East setting
was necessary to teU this con-
temporary espionage story of a
Nobel Prizewinning scientist
who goes into Communist China
-complete with tranmitter im-
James Jacoby
—depending ah length of sen- "Make education or vocational mentary diplomats were award-
tence—he may be released from training attractive so they will ed 148 inmates. There were 200
prison capable—of earning pursue it ar dthgently As they graduates in the various voca-
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capitalistic James Bond-type ro-
mancing between Peck and a
gal Red Guard. The Communist
papanLJtid the rilm was anti-
Chinese and “an insult to Chair-
man Mao Tse-tung" and warned
________,______, of “various serious conse-
sald it was more of an ethnic quences” if the,company were
allowed to work there.
The Hong Kong government,
fearing Communist demonstra-
tions, banned filming there.
The company Dnally wound -
up in Taipei, Formosa, where
principal photography was com- 1
pleted in December.
The film itself, which costats
Anne Heywood and Arthur Hill,
is what director J. Lee Thomp-
son calls a “very, very good J
thriller in the suspense field.”
Thompson, 54, London-born but
a California resident, has scored
previous suspense successes d
with "Tiger Bay,” “Woman in a d
nMcelntf r.nutn ” “Tho Hnnc nf c
tlonal training ciaaaea.
At Algoa intermediate rwfor-
matory, near Jefferson City, 1(3
students were enrolled in ele-
mentary school, 176 in high
school, and 76 in vocational
training classes.
Inmates attend school half the
day and perform various work
details the other half.
$10,060 in tiie computer pro- i
gramtiling industry.
Hie state penitentiary in Jef-
ferson City Is in its fifth year of
teaching computer program-
ming to inmates who meet cer- 1
tain educational requirements. I
One inmate, released recent-
ly, reports that he is earning
$10,000 yearly with a computer 1
firm In New York City. Another '
inmate, who obtained a Job with
a large electronics firm after
his release, returned to the pris-
on and urged his former compa-
nions to take advantage of the
course.
"When you get out," he told
them, “you can name your own
price."
Candidates for this program
are tested before being admit-
ted. Those accepted show an ap-
titude for programming—a prof-
iciency in basic mathematics
and a demonstrated ability to
solve problems by logical
thought processes.
Missouri’s Department of Cor-
rections puts a lot of stock in its
educational processes.
Says Tom Hageman, director,
division of inmate education:
“Most prisoners are obviously
did crime.”
Hageman wants to give his in-
mates an education so when
they are released they will have
something to look forward to
etic to having the Island used as
a backdrop for a story about
Red China. But Mori Abrahams,
tinual failure.
Last year the department
spent $207,063 for education of
planted in his head, “a walking dent.
"A Boss Complains"
"We have good man . . . highly pro-
ficient from a technical standpoint but AF
they just con’t express fheir ideas 1
clearly. They beot around the bush, If
don’t get to the point. The result - VK#
time wasted and another good ideo A
down the drain."
It Thle Happening It Yeyf
Make These Ideas Pay OH! “ Paw Cjwwtle
MAKE YOUR
VOTE
COUNT THE MOST
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DALE CARNEGIE COURSE
ELECT
ALBERT
Presented by JIM TklVITTI and AssedeSes
menslon” in the film, “an issue
which is potent today.”
“It is the idealist versus the
realist, or the scientist (Peck)
versus the politician (Hill) in
this case. Peck plays the ideal-
ist wanting to share knowledge
with the world, regardless of po-
litical leanings. The realist-poli-
tician, on the other hand, con-
siders the safety of his nation.
Fanestiel
for South.
South was
le problem
few tricks
Id the four
1 dummy,
and East
was down
“My guess is that we will
wind up with about 75 to 100
votes-agamstkv’-naidRosefv- —
thal, an organizer of the anti-
AFM Congressional Conference
on the Military Budget and Ka-
tional Priorities.”
The prospect of an almost cer-
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differing backgrounds, can
Take the Police Department to bed with you
for about $1 a month.
er really understand each oth-
held. Fur-
k on lead
get two
n enough,
rump and
k with his
i last jack
w East’s
South
d six of
f thought,
him ask-
bid East
way if he
Iqueen?”
Led dumi-
The rest
good and
Is ridicu-
cal-real is tic; hie reason for
going is humanitarian.
Aside from Peck, the cast is
mainly British. Miss Heywood
(the romantic interest) was
bom in Birmingham, England,
□urn in Dirnimguiuii, Eiiigianu,
and Hill is Canadian-born. Many
of the Orientals are British as
well, from Cardiff, Wales, near
where some other location
shooting was done.
Citizens For Fanestiel For Mayor
to kill it if it reaches the floor.
Opponents of the $6 billion
Safeguard say it could escalate
the nuclear arms race, threaten
progress in disarmament talks,
siphon money from domestic
programs, and prove to be obso-
lete or ineffective.
Besides lacking numbers, The
House opposition, mostly liberal
Democrats, also admits being
f missing
but the
wo no-
hearts.
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The rise had a stfong infla-
tionary tinge. The Commerce
Department said the volume of
5V«% on 6 month certificates
when held to maturity. 4%%
goods and services actually rose
only three quarters of one per
Oft Tegular savings accounts.
cent and the greater part of the
increase—one per cent-reflecb
ed the constant upward push of
prices. •
. The 416 billion htereeae com-
pares with one of $16.4 billion in
thlfinal quarter of 1968. The in-
creases in the first through
third quarters last year were
$20.2 billion, $21.6 billion and
$18.6 billion.
Consumer spending, after a
sharp dedinein tiiefourth quar-
ter, rebounded strongly, show-
ing an $11.6 billion annual rate
rise. But there were indications
consumers were beginning to
run short of the money to con-
tinue their spending spree.
Personal savings—an indica-
tor oh what the public has left
aft$r paying taxes and making
I personal outlays-was at an an-
nual rate of $35.3 trillion, lower
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WE’RE FIRST IN SERVICE. . FIRST IN SAVINGS... AND NOW, FIRST
IN STAMPS BECAUSE WE HAVE AN INTEREST IN YOUR FUTURE!
That’s all it costs to put an extension phone by your bedside—and have the Police and
Fire Departments at your fingertips.There’s no better way to get a good night’s sleep. *.
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Savings & Loan
Association
Accounts insured up to $15,000.00 F.S.L.I.C.
than at an/time last year.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 184, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 22, 1969, newspaper, April 22, 1969; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1056712/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.