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Corrine Huff, Right, Is New Miss Ohio•
...Negro girl replaces Kathy Justice,left
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Negro Girl
Highlights of the Contest 8A
Miss Colgjnbia Loses Her Heel Picture, 8A
Man, That Bus Ride's Over IB
t• ,r 1 C (1 By GENE MILLER
Herald Staff Writer
Miss Ohio, sweet 17 and too young for the Miss Uni-
verse contest, flew home to mommy Saturday and a poised,
. . curvesome Negro girl from Youngstown promptly replaced
her.
• Said Corrine Huff, 19, an olive-skinned long distance
operator: "I guess I am the first Negro girl to enter a i
major U.S.beauty contest.I am real happy."
The pageant folk, still squab-
bling over a photographer's is five feet, six inches and
"unauthorized" view of M i s s weighs 123 pounds.
Austria at Silver Springs, neg- A Miss Universe chauffeur
lected to send out a hostess to drove her to the San Marino
meet Corrine's flight — her Hotel where she will room with
first airplane ride. Miss Lebanon.
Seems that 90 or so cuties Corrine's mother is white,her
were squirming into swimsuits father Negro.They live in New-
Saturday and that was more castle, Pa. She lives with an
interesting. They parade their aunt and uncle, a Youngstown
charms publicly for the first
. lawyer.
time at 8:30 tonight in the
Beach Convention Hall — for The Ohio contest was pur- '
a small fee. posely integrated, Corrine said.
Apparently Kathy herself dis- "Race, creed and color mean
i covered she wasn't old enough nothing to me. As long as you
for the contest. She is 17. The are my friend, I am your
t friend."
rules say 18. She telephoned
home and her parents disquali- Negroesfrom Madagascar
• fied her. and Martinique have competed
So at 2:30 a.m. Saturday Mi- for the Miss Universe title be-
ami officials told runners-up, fore, but never has a Negro
Huff secretly known as girl entered the Miss USA con-
"Huffy," to come aflying. test. The American winner au-
tomatically goes to the finals.
At 2:47 p.m. she deplaned
in Miami, her shapely 36-24-36 In Silver Springs,meanwhile,
form garbed in a simple, dark the glass bottomed boat people
• green, print cotton dress. She blamed all their woes on Miss
Austria.
"Uninvited, she walked into
the picture and stood on some i
, \ __ steps and pulled up her skirt,"
jsaid William B.Ray.
L' Not so, said Arlene Nesbitt,
'- !/ a nurse accompanying a bus-
, - . ►7 load of beauties to Miami Beach.
"That photographer had h e r
pull.her skirt all the way up
�� r a to her thighs."
co_� -�. �'r Offended, Silver Springs in-
`�")..w.��"' sisted it was a "family resort,"
that it twice had to ask Miss
Good ReadingHolland to pull dowr, her skirt,
and that anyway, Miss Uni-
verse was run by a bunch of
F "amateurs."
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