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1 "Now, Before This Dust Becomes Radioactive . . ." ii i i iil . . . II EDITORIAL PAGE l LA GRANDE OBSERVER i ! Monday, November 30, 1959 ! I "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. ! f RILEY ALLEN, publisher j Grady Pannell, managing editor George Challis, advertising director j Tom Humes, circulation manager ! 1 1 Maybe A New Approach Needed Staff members of the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Ajrricul , ture, clear up to the Secretary level, are worried. Many of them see, in various proposals now either before Congress or beini? publicly-espoused by members of that body, a real danger to their domain. There is a strong feeling that if all the proposals are enacted, we will have gone a long way toward dismemberment of the National Forest system. No doubt, this last statement is true. And if such comes to pass the public will be the loser in many ways. The Forest Service's management of the natural resources in its charge has not been perfect very little ever is perfect but on the whole it has been of relatively high quality. Why, then, have these proposals been advanced? Why do all sorts of groups and individuals look to the National Forests for land to be set out from under Forest Service management for all sorts of purposes? There are reasons, of course. Perhaps the Forest Service and Department should do some study on them, if they are interested in retaining the public lands now under their jurisdiction. The Forest Service is a relatively small Federal agency. And, except in the West, Alaska, and scattered portions of the rest of the country, it doesn't draw much public attention. Out here, though, it is a highly important agency and one which will grow more important as the years go by, unless the dismemberment it fears comes to pass. Part of the pressure from various special interest groups and individuals on the lumber industry side of the fence as well as the so-called conservationist side comes from basic mistrust of the Forest Service. Industry, if the off-the-record state ments of its leaders can be believed, feels the USFS pays too much attention to the conservationists. And those whose primary forest in terest is in the recreation field feel that industry packs too big a stick in the offices of rangers, supervisors, regional foresters and in Washington. There is a strong feeling in this group that log values are given more weight in deter mining land use than any other factor. This poses a difficult problem for the Forest Service and the Departmenet. Put it should not be insurmountable. It should be possible, with the resources of the agency, to set forth some long range plans which can compromise the basic differences between the two silently warring factions, which can be sold to the members of each. If this can. be done and sold, too, to the members of the Congress, the Forest Service and the Department could greatly relieve their worries about eventual dis int iiihenneiit of the National Forest system. Lipstick May Kill Kissing? Can kissing be dangerous : e don 1 raise the question in the Ann lenders sense. We don't refer to romantic in volvements that lurk in lips for easily lured males. Nor to what the younger set might call the germsville aspects of the matter. But those pesky rats who have been collaborating with cranberries have also been in the lipsticks, too, it seems, and the ill effects that resulted have the Food and Drug Administration disturbed. So much so, in fact, that certain dyes commonly used to give color to the grease that goes on lips have been banned. And if you think the cranberry mer chants are mad, listen to the lipstick makers. Why, say they, we've been using these dyes in lipsticks for 3." years and nobody's dead yet from lipstick poisoning. Not even any ardent male smoocher who may get a mouthful every Saturday night has complained. The Food and Drug people don't take the matter lightly, however. They can't. Th W. nassorf 53 years ago, makes them the guardians of the "public health free to use nnv chemical to preserve food, color it or flavor it. The meat packers used saltpeter. dinners used other substances equally unfit for human consumption. That 10O(i act banned the use of some additives outright but also specified that all those who put something in a pack "tre, can or bottle for human consump tion had to list on the label everything that t:oes into it. Look at the wrapper on a candy bar. It lists quite a few things lesides sugar and peanuts, for example. When some canned food contains arti ficial coloring, the label says so. Put "lio reads labels? The small print has little .meaning. The public relies on the ''uod and Drug Administration and trusts it to keep poison off the grocery shelves. The weed killer used on some cran berries is something relatively new. The dyes in lipstick are old, but the rats P"t into the act only recently when the "Delaney amendment" was passed. It bans the use of substances that tend to cause cancer in animals. Pats fed dyes Used in some lipsticks developed cancer. before 1906 the food processors were The Food and Drug people had to act, me law DREW PEARSON SAYS: FCC Chairman Now Aware Of Adverse Video Practice Republican of Pennsylva WASHINGTON To use the words of the camp meeting revi val, chairman John Doerfer of the Federal Communications Com mission has "got religion.'' Standing before Madison-Ave- nua executives meeting n Chica cog, Docrfer spoke wrathily of the sins of television, blasted TV ad vertising practices, warned ugainst distasteful deception. His voice had the ring of one who had suddenly walked down the sawdust trail. It was only one month and 11 days earlier that the same chair man uoerfer, appearing before the Harris committee, ducked and equivocated regarding his re- ponsiliility for cracking down on TV deception. "Has the commission authority to prevent programs which per petrate fraud?" asked Congress man John Moss of California. "There is a good deal of doubt about that," replied Doerfer, then proceeded to give a lot of alibis. 'Wasn't there a rule of the commission to prevent decieving tne puhiic askea counsel Rob ert I.ishman. "I don't know about that, M re plied the chairman of the com mission, who is supposed to know. '1 wasn't on the commission wheivany such rule was adopted." He explained that monitoring the networks was a "very volumin ous and complicated proce dure." "Did you ever suspect that (he programs might be fixed?1 asked Ushman. "1 never did," replied Doerfer. 'I can't speak for the other com nussioners. ' Backstag. In FCC Here are some of the things that have been taking place back-1 stage in Doerfer's own communi cations commission more than a year before he testified and long! nelore he ' got religion." In early 1958, FCC staff mem-i hers were concerned over the ' hoddy job of broadcasting done by six Georgia radio stations. Ac-j cording!-, letters were sent to I the six stations later enlarged to! eight warning that they had failed to give adequate education, public service, or balance to their programs; that they had featured jazz, rock 'n1 roll, and disc jockey t music. I On March 27, 1958, the FCC,' on the urging of staff members.! deferred any action on renewal of these licenses. On July 15, 1959, however. Doerfer plus associates, with commissioner Robert Bartley (Sam Rayburn's nephew) dissent ing, moved to grant the licenses. No discinlinarv action was taken against the eight Georgia sta lions. There was no crackdown There was simply a promise by (he Georgia radio station owners that they would be good. The radio-TV industry has known for a lone time that it 1 could get away with almost any thing and then promise to be good. That is why there has hm no cleanup. Time after time com missioner Bartley has argued this inside FCC meetings. But Docrler- has always nvprmioH him. A genial soul who likes to traternizo at radio-TV executive meetings and who was snanltoH by the general accounting office lor accepting travel expenses Irom radio-TV executives, thn charging the same expenses to government. Doefcr never hnti. ered about cleaning up TV-radio deception. He had practiced it nunseit. Lewd Broaden! na Most flagrant case Doprfor . erlooked has come alone nulla recently. Radio station KIMX in uenver featured a disc jockey named Rovce Johnson. wh ,.t lewd and filthy remarks over the airwaves, lhey transcended all uounns 01 taste nnH ,w.... which chairman Doerfer belated ly talked about in his "come to God" spee ch before arfvort.,.. executives in Chicago. They were so lewd that it's impossible to repeat mem in a respectahlo newspaper. When the FCC staff members organ prooing me si uat mn cil lleftell. owner of K a letter to Doerfer in September saying he had dismissed i..i, He promised to be good in the 1 11 1 11 re. It's now the end of momi Chairman Doerfer got religion in nm-ago, out ne si ill nas not sus pended the license of KIMX. A Senator Dimntj Sen. Hugh Scott. Philadelphia Republican, has chosen a unique moment to disparage anv in, ligation of radio and television I At a moment when even Doerfer 1 appointed to the KCC with the' blessing of Senator McCarthy has' favored a TV cleanup. Senator Scott, who opposed Joe McCarthy has made a speech bolittlins "a : TV-radio investigation and warn-i nig the public against it. j Sen. Warren Magnuson 0f Washington, chairman of the Sen ate Interstate Commerce commit tee, appointed a suh-rmin,ii,. . summer to cheek on the net- worn. 11s memners include Sen Ralph Yarborough, chairman, and Sen. Gale McGce of Wyoming, both Democrats, and Sen. Hugh Scott, nia. This puts Senator Scott in the position of opposing an investi gation he has been appointed to held conduct. His foot-dragging may be one reason the new so called "watchdog committee" has been sitting on its hands. Another reason may be that it has been given no money to spend. Good Neighbors With inter-American relations so strained the president had to appoint a special committee to improve them, a little known but highly effective organization railed the Pan American Medic al Association has been quietly building good will south of the border. Shunning publicity and operat ing without a penny from the government, this group keeps a constant stream of Latin-American physicians coming to the United States to learn the latest advances in medical science. Un der a scholarship plan supported by the 22,000 members, the group annually brings the pick of young medical school graduates to this country for extensive further traininig. Dr. Joseph Filer, New York dermatologist who has been exe cutive director of the project for many years, frequently receives gratifying proof that the program is paying off. A letter from Venezuela, for example, told of a Red-organized anti-Yankee mass REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago, Baby Face Nelson was blasted to death by illinoise and federal agents of the law. Authorities pumped 17 bullets into the notorious pro hibition era hoodlum in a Chica go ainbush. More snow blanketed the area, resulting from a blizzard that howled out of the Rockies. Cold weather was expected to follow the sudden touch of winter here. Miss Hazel Crawford, La Grande, was surprised at a show er given in her honor at the home of Mrs. Tom Wallsinger, Lower Cove. Her engagement to young Wallsinger had just been announced. ... 15 years ago, hundreds of Canadians in British Columbia were staging anti-conscription ri ots. Things were so intense that armed guards were called out to quell the uprising. The final tin can salvage drive here was set, with Lynn Bohnen kamp, prominent local business man, as chairman. Sgt. Dale Dowell, former La Grande soldier, was reported as missing in action with an infantry outfit overseas. He was the broth er of Mrs. Bernard Gruis. Market Quotations By United Press International NEW YORK STOCKS - NEW YORK (LTD Rail stocks picked up fractions to more than a point in early trading, contin uing the rally in progress at the close last week and highlighting a generally higher, moderately active market. 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