The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 300, Ed. 1 Monday, April 14, 1958 Page: 4 of 14
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Monday Morning, April 14. 1958
SWEETIE PIE
IN RHODESIA
Women Using
Love Potions
By WILLIAM N. OATIS
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y 8-
Marriage has become such a
shake proposition in Africa s
growing towns that in northern
Rhodesia, for example, almost all
women resort to love potions.
This is in the report prepared
by the 1 N Educational, Scientif-
ic and Cultural Organization for
the General Assembly’s Commit-
and Problems of the Urban Fam
ily in Africa South of the Sahara
gives these details
In the northern Rhodesian cop-
perbelt, where men outnumber
women 3.2-1, nonregistered unions
between the sexes are common
It is in such situations that the
love potions- are popular. There
was no hint of their effectiveness,
or lack of it.
. „ In Jinja. Uganda, a town with
tee on Information from Nonself- 16,000 African inhabitants, there
Governing Territories are temporary’ wives who stay
"No husband feels that he can with a man a few days or week-
trust his wife." the report ex- in exchange for lodging and cloth
plains "and no wife is ever sure ing In British Central and East
that her husband has not trans. Africa generally many men have
ferred his affections to another wives both in town and in the
The report, titled "Development country, and some even have sev
-----—--------eral wives living in the same
Big Spring
Man Heads
DAV Region
town
In British West Africa, conjugal
stability has been threatened by
the growing number ot emanci
pated and unattached young wom-
en in the large towns, who make
good wages, dress well and grant
their favors without making the
man feel that he has anv perma-
nent obligations.
In Dakar, Senegal — French
West Africa, the higher a work
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“It’s the latest thing—a sack dress!"
Election Slated
In South Africa
Eula Will Stage
Cancer Concert
tions to fight cancer will lie col
fleeted. .
Eula’s 1958 cancer drive quota
is $50, the same as it was last
year. However, the town more
. . .... than tripled its quota in 1957,
EULA — A band concert to with Mrs. Farmer also serving
raise funds for the 1958 cancer ys chairman for that drive,
drive here is scheduled for 8 p m ————————-
Tuesday in the Eula School Audi-, . r
torium Lawyer to Speak
The program will be presented To Roby P TA
by the Baird High School Band
Mrs. Robbie Farmer, ------ROBY (RNS) - Arthur Blanch
ing at the Roby High School audi
torium, 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Blanchard will speak on mat
ters pertaining to establishing a
new junior college at Snyder He
will be introduced by PTA presi-
dent Harris Davis.
i New PTA officers will also be
elected at the Monday night meet
ing with each candidate speaking
briefly.
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sion will be charged for the con- guest speaker at the Roby Par- ball tickets bought in the past "-
cert but that fire will contribu ents Teachers Association meet- three years. ..
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By LYNN HEINZERLING 1 Prime Minister Johannes Strij-
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa dom. whose National party is
Greely Aston of Big Spring was ingman s income, the more likely
named commander of Region 1 he is *® be polygamous
of the Disabled American Veter ,. In tropical Africa generally,
ans here Sunday as some 100 juvenile delinquency is on the in-
members of the organization crease and children form lawless
meme a two das' meeting at the gangs as a result of the lack of Wednesday's parliamentary elec so that "leftists and Communist
Windsor Hotel ’ 5 schools, family instability and in- tions The voting is for whites only agitators will lie taught a lesson
" adequate parental supervision, and the government braced for an they will never forget."
Other officers named were Ern---------------------------------African workers' protest strike Police have been raiding Afri-
that could tie up two major cities, can Congress offices and five per-
“If we cannot vote on the ballot sons have been arrested on
> — South .Africa's two big po-seeking to retain control of Par-
litical parties wound up a rough-1 liament, has called on employers
house campaign Sunday night for to cooperate with the government
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born in 18:
came to Tex
Re
Monday A
est Madewell of El Paso, vice
commander Jim Young of 1633
Burger. St., Abilene, chaplain:
and John Proctor of Lamesa,
judge advocate
Lamesa was selected as the site
for the DAV's fall meeting
Around 75 persons attended a
noon banquet Sunday at which
City Commissioner Tom Webb of
Abilene spoke
Aston has been serving as vice
commander of the region
Fisher County
Mothers to March
Against Cancer
paper we shall find another way charges of inciting native Africans
to vote." warned a manifesto of to strike All gatherings of more
the African National Congress than 10 Africans at any one time
The congress has called on all have been outlawed Emergency
African — black — workers to forces of native African laborers
stay in their huts starting Mon- have been assembled near major
day to underscore demands for a centers to take over should essen
Regular
$190
5Each
ROTAN RNS’ — Fisher Coun- voiee in government, higher wages tial services be crippled by a
ty mothers will march against and the scrapping of segregation walkout,
cancer Monday and Tuesday at laws The government put all po- More than a million white vot-
Roby and Rotan respectively it lice forces on the alert ers are eligible to ballot for 156
coirrention Marshall T Jones is was revealed Saturday by Jack Any successful walkout would seats in the House of Assembly,
the entil olarsher Patton, Fisher County American hit hardest in Johannesburg and Four candidates supporting the
Cancer Society president Port Elizabeth More than 200,000 United party of Sir de Villiers
The drive for funds to fight Africans man jobs in almost every Graaff were elected last week to
cancer will be held at Roby all facet of city life in • ohannesburg. represent colored — mixed race
day Monday with the Rotan drive for instance.—voters of Cape Province and
three more members will be elect-
ed in separate balloting later to
represent the nation's 10 million
native Africans
When Parliament was dissolved
in March Strijdom’s National par-
ty held 94 seats and the opposi ion
Abilene Chapter 36 hosted the
Port Elizabeth More than 200,000
United party of Sir de Villiers
Heavyweight
Hear
GOD’S WILL
for men today
proclaimed by
CLYDE CHURCH
OF CHRIST
7 30 pm. doily
Troy M Cummings,
Speaker,
Wayne Berryman,
Song Leader
APR. 13-20
You Will Bo Glad
That You Attended
59.
LATEX
set for Tie-day from 6 to 7 p m
Mrs. Bill Handy has been named
county crusade chairman at Ro-
tab and has asked all cancer
collecting committees to report in
by Tuesday night Chairmen of
the Rotan drive are Mrs Paul
Heathington and Mrs H Thomp-
son
Sheriff and Mrs Bus Rollans
are co-chairmen of the Roby
drive
Carrier for Arabs
Plummet Riles
Jef Today at 10
Funeral will be held at 10 a m 62. This election - the first since
Monday in the Kiker-Warren 1953 — is expected to bring about
Chapel for W. A-(Al Plummer pretty much the same alignment, 4
62, longtime Abilene pharmacist South African political "
who died Saturday while visiting „ South African political cam J
in Odessapaigns are traditionally turbulent •
Officiating for the funeral will
be Dr. John Donatio and Dr. C. A.
and this one was no exception
Graaff had to leave by the back
_u , door recently when a brawl broke
SZCZECIN, Poland P - The Long, both of St. Paul Methodist up one United party rally The
-__. L_-Church in Ahilone Maconic-- one Par a €
----vis —- -----------— 1 .2 ‘ United party’s Phillip M oore was
been launched here for the United side services will follow at F m- conked with a shoe as he ad-
Arab Republic It was the third wood Memorial .ark.
recent launching for the UAR These Mason will serve as pall
bearers 0 0 Sprinkle Jr., H. 0
3,200-ton ore carrier Tanta has Church in Abilene. Masonic 7
in Polish shipyards
E-Con-O-Wash
COIN OPERATED LAUNDRY
dressed an outdoor rally in a park
near Vereeniging
Flannagan. Bassett Keller. Joe Segregation or aperthied as it
Smith Phillip Hampton and J H is called here, is "ol 3 major is-
ir sue in the election. Both parties
Mr Plummer had been a phar. favor it but differ on how it should
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society called Kiam Kia Muningi
Sunday and arrested 153 men It
was the biggest roundup since 1952
when 10» leaders of the Kikuyu
| antiwhite Mau Mau organization
were nabbed
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 300, Ed. 1 Monday, April 14, 1958, newspaper, April 14, 1958; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1659141/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.