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eimftiftt Aft mm am vtiiuoifliAa cunuiri OVER IK IN WKBUVIA v .•' -1' • BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. —HI - Ask anyone In Belgrade bow to tlftd the United Center and be Will tell you "Fol low the street past the Hotel Majestic until you see a big crowd. That will be it” pay and night the USIC win dows, on a busy comer near the center of town, attract sidewalk blocking .interest An average Os over 4ft 000 persons a month go on n inside to look at the downstairs exhibit room or visit the upstairs library and reading room. Another SO,OOO monthly use the Zagreb branch. The ÜBIC and Yugoslavia have come a long way since the days in 1946 when secret police were stationed outside to interrogate and sometimes arrest those who walked in. QUIETLY RE-OPENED m Tor a few weeks the service was completely closed down. Then an arrangement was worked out for a I qplet and limited re-opening. The popular magazine distributed by what was then USIS was for bidden. Even since the end of 1946 there has been a gradual Increase In U3IO activities. The big upsurge began in the summer of 1949, coin cident with the Tito regime’s first * American Square Dance Rage As Britain Copies Example Ry NICHOLAS KING (United iPrns Staff Correspondent) LONDON —W— The American square dance Is sweeping Britain today; as jltterbugging and the a antics 'of the Jazz age did before It * In any' Saturday night dance hall, trans-Atlantic cowbpys in ten-gallon hats, boots and frontier pants can ibe heard calling the steps in a valiant western drawl as Britons wearing gingham and blue Jeans pound, stomp and twirl in dosi-dos and allem&nd lefts. Fiddlers saw out tunes such as “Little Brown Jug” and “The Arkansas Traveler” to the rhythm of clapping hands. • The erase started officially when Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh ducked for an oyster in Ottawa in one of their Cana dian tour’s gayest evenings. PUBLIC FANCY CAUGHT. Photographs of Elizabeth in a “peasant” skirt swinging on the, arm of a blue-jeaned Philip caught the public, fancy. Promotors were. . quick to capitalize. '4 Now dance hall signs aay:: “gfjn-' m ' f ,•'* j. • *.:•> ’ - '.... t i’-'fL >•; r ~ , • ,* * '.. * _> * r-/; oiiristma^^^Hngsi j 1 1 o/iybod/, gu«ti what ,h« fuTurt Y ho* In atord but th* jpoft, portidu-! .3m Iff 1 larly the lost yaoc, Itoy* no nfdd ! ill !| ./ for guessing. For ut it ho* been $ UW J fU filled with pleasure in serving euch' im AJjf * well * olla °* you •• * ft wVnr Merry Christmas to YoOf . K ■ . ’ ' . J j - • . ■' Mobil Service * Geo. Blalock - Jim Ward mkr wkJmm> st A ’ 'Vi- j #t j * Dmut If,'-Cs v ''***•' hesitant steps toward economic collaboration with the weat. Today Yugoslavs move freely and unhampered abut the crowd ed premises, many returning again and again. They,request “Voice of America” programs on open post cards and carry on a lively corre spondence with the library on every conceivable question con nected with America. ATTENDANCE GROWS In early 1949 the USIC staff counted an average of 3Q.000 visi tors per month. In August, 1949, there were, 84,000, In September 41,000, and in March, 1960, a peak of 45,000. A monthly average of over 40,000 has continued ever since. The visitors concentrate mostly on the downstairs exhibit room, which has been denuded of all furniture to make room for the crowds. The library ahd reference rooms are heavily used also. About 8,000 volumes are in the library, all but a few reference works available for loan. The USIC staff reports remarkably good re turns on the books, even the hun dreds which gre loaned by mall all ! over Yugoslavia. Most In demand i are scientific and technical works. RECORDS POPULAR Numerous other activities also l go on at the ÜBIC. Belgrade radio u->.ie American square dancing tonite! Yippee! Ueve your spurs and pistols to home ” Cheeked shirts and gingham dresseS have become as much as a uniform as tuxedos used to be for more stately dancing. Men like the exercise which square dancing en tails and the girls point out there are no wallflowers on such occa sions. In -conrtast to the usual woman-heavy British social func tion. SCOTS OBJECT Like most trans-Atlantic Im ports, square dancing it not being swallowed whole by everyone, how ever. Scottish opinion claims that the square, dance is only a corruption of ancient Scottish dances which are still going strong. The Scots claim there is little in square dahctog that is not found in their traditional reels and qua drilles—the direct ancestors of the • square dance. In Scotland, they don’t need anyone to call for them. .They know all the Step* alreday. f The square dance is here to stay ’ —for White, anyway. gets regular loans of records, both! classical and modern dance music, and frequently commentaries to accompany the programs, ’some 180 to 990 documentary films, re newed With new subjects eVery few months, arc to constant use. Ohfe movie record of a recent air show to Washington, D. C„ Is being shown daily to Visitors at an ex mwisn 'commemorating the tenth anniversary of Yugoslavia’s guer rilla war, Which had to do without planes through most of its course: ‘ ' , ■ ■. ’.' 0 ’ \' ' ' fftftßßv.fetvtas&WjK 1 ' 9995&, our test wisLes to yojtg your family ariJ friends. May Uie true spirit of tlie season find its way td your ji j ift s v|H flwL ■ 9 9 |ft9k Jftftftftaft ftf*** ' mum •808 OAfl Y RECORD, OUWN, N. C airline Uffeßs to fly OVER NORTH POLE ’ | ANCHORAGE, Alaska MI Alaska- Airlines has hot In its bid to fly Jet-propelled airliners over the North Poje from Alaska to Europe. > An airlines spokesman said a ; jet transport plane could fly the jjaoo miles over tbs Polo from i Fairbanks to Oslo Norway in five ■ to six hours, at a cruising speed ; of 476-500 miles per hour.. However, he pointed out that the request to the Clrtt Aeronautics ! Board for an over-the-pole oertlfl ■ cate represented long-range plan t ning and that regular flights over the Pole probably could not be ' made before I9M. Commercial polar flight* depend i on International conditions and ; the speed of 0. R. development of i Jet airliners, be said. t . 1 The average haul of all mall in the 0. S. la now 561 miles, accord s' tog to The American Magasine. I KENTUCKY RESTAURANT - TO TAKE TO AIR • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (IP— A Louls r vllle restaurant soon will be flying f the Pacific Ocean. The C-54 Grill, housed in the 1 fuselage of' a Douglas C-54 Sky master, has been bought by a small f airline which operates between Seattle and Tokyo byway of Alaska. i The airline plans to make it an - airplane once again. The C-54 Grill was opened in i 947 after the fuselage was bought from the War Assets Administra tion for SSOO. The fuselage will be taken to an aircraft plant on the west coast, fitted with wings, tail assembly, engines and controls. PARALLEL There wasn’t any thing new In the answer, although the question had a new twist— which the governor recognized. It is Interesting to note the way the story was reported. PAGE ONE promising swnntEß DURHAM. One of the moer promising freshman swimmers ho# working out at Duke Univenlty un der Coach Jack Persons is Vincent De La Guardia, rated sscond kest swimmer In Cuba and a load bet Ut next year’s Olympic team. Be Spe* dalles In the back, breast and crawl stroes. 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