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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1954)
Difficulties Oyer Appointments Plaguing' Eisenhower Again 1; By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON 11 Troubles ever appointments are plaguing President Eisenhower again, just as they have off and on from the moment he moved into the White House. I A couple of changes this week tat the Eisenhower team, one addi tion, one subtraction, brings these troubles sharply into ; focus once more. i ; The addition is Alfred C. Beeson. Re finally goes on the National Labor Relations Board. whic-U ref erees labor-employer disputes un der the Taft-Hartley Labor Law. The subtraction was Clarence Manion. He was booted out of the chairmanship of a commission looking into overlapping operations of federal, state and local govern ments. Both cases stirred up rumpuses. Before them, there were some hot, often embarrassing icontroversies over: ; Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson' and a trio of his subordin ates; Charles E. Bohlen, U. S: ambassador to Russia: Tom Lyon. Eisenhower's pick for director of the Federal Bureau of Mines (Ly on never did make it): Secretary of Labor .Martin Durkin: Small Business Administrator William D Mitchell: Robert E. Lee, member of the Federal Communications Commission. Beeson's nomination squeaked throuch the Senate Thursday by a skimpy thre votes, after a seeth ing, six weeks' fight on and off the Senate floor. There were charges, and denials, that Beeson had lied to the Senate Labor Committee. There were complaints about Beeson's pension Texas Project Seeks to Tame Cancer Cells - HOUSTON. Tex. W One of nature's top secrets- is being ex plored here, with the goal of tam ing cancers, making savage can cer cells become good' citizens again. The secret is why some cells of your body became skin cells , or liver or nerves, hair, glands, or teeth. v ' They all started from one single fertilized cell. Then something made them take up special duties, somewhat as humans become law yers, clerks, doctors, taxi-drivers or schoolteachers. The secret of their specializing is something called organizers. The organizers went to work at certain times as the single cell kept dividing to become billions of cells. No one is sure yet whether the organizers are chemicals. or mys- j terious forces, perhaps like ; elec tricity or magnetism. - But if science could learn what the organizers are, then it might be possible to control cancers. For cancers are thought of as cells which; have! gone wild, no longer doing specialized jobs. The cancer cell does no useful work, simply keeps dividing, robbing ci vilized cells of food and living space, causing pain, weakness and death. ; Can They Be Reformed ; Could the cancer outlaws be re formed if the mysterious organ izers were isolated, and applied to the cancer cells to turn them back into specialists again? These are questions which Dr. Jack Trunnell, head of experi mental medicine at M. D. Ander son Hospital, University of Texas, has posed himself. He andLassociates are trying to crack the secrets of the organ izers. They began with study of a single, living fertilized cell which would become a chicken. Within 21 days, a group of cells - springing from this single cell has . been organized into the chick's thyroid gland. At the end of the first five days, the researchers find, the future thyroid cells .have become differ ent from k other cells in the growing .epibryo. They can trap iodine, other cells can't. But as yet. this group -of . cells can't do anything with the iodine. Thyroid Gland Cells At the end of days, these . cells suddenly are able to turn the iodine into thyroid hormone. The organizer which did its miracle at five days disappeared. So did the organizer which appeared at days. By 14 days, another organ izer has made the same group of cells become irreversibly thyroid gland cells. : A thyroid cancer cell very pos sibly may be a thyroid cell which later escapes from its controlled destiny. But if it were treated in the right sequence with organizers again, might it reform? ' The search for organizers is ex tremely difficult. Two years ago nothing was known about this one set of organizers. Dr. Trunnell said now one fact has been learned. It is known WHEN they go to work. The what, why and how must still be answered. And if one set of organizers worked 4ft tame thyroid cancer '. cells,- otSer sets would be needed to tame other types of cancer. I arrangements with the Food Ma- j chinerr and Chemical Corp. of San Jose. Calif., until he agreed to cut all connections win the firm he i - . a , I a : servea as lnausinaj- reiauuua ex pert. . 2; Objection Raised - ' . Some Democrats' and labor union I officials objected tlrat his business background might make Beeson prejudiced in handling NLRB cas es. Beeson said he could serve j without bias. ;-! The White House had urged quick action on the appointment, Part way through the battle over I it. Eisenhower said he still tnougnt Beeson was a good man. Yet there was all that trouble getting tne nomination through. In the end, three Southeri ! Democrats, Sens. Byrd of Virginia, Eastland of Mis sissippi, and Holland of Florida, gave the administration its margin of victory. ', , Manion got the gate Wednesday. He said be was fired for backing the Bricker amendment to restrict treaty-making powers, which Eis-i enhower unalterably opposed. The White House didn't bring its reasons into the open. But Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado, a com mission member, came out of the White House Friday saying Man ion was dismissed because he did not have timet for the job. "I don't think the commission has made the accomplishments it I should, mormon saia. Started Explosion j The ousting of Manion touched ! off quite an explosion among some Republicans an Congress while Democrats mostly "sat back and j grinned at the family row. Sen. Bricker R-OhiO) protested the fir ing. So did Sen. Jenner R-Ind and others. Tt. r if..nM t nn ....; a commission?; member in protest ; against Manion's dismissal and what the congressman termed "au tocratic dictatorship." I By way of topping off the week's ' appointment troubles, Sen. Langer R-ND) balked at four Eisenhower ; nominations for postmasterships in his state. Langer didn't object spe cifically to the people the Presi dent picked, but said the choices were personally onensive to me because he wasn't consulted ahead I I ine isortn uaKotan said ne would oppose Senate confirmation of the 1 I- 1-1 l . I 4 1 1 oe eiiuugn 10 '4uuc& uiem, miicc uie Senate usually backs up an indi vidual senator who raises personal objections to a presidential ap pointment for his home state. i Langer, incidentally, was the one Republican voting against Beeson. ! Langer also is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which j held up the nomination of former Gov. Earl Warren of California to be chief justice of the Supreme j Court. 1 1 And thereswas an uproar over the release of a staff summary of unchecked, unproved charges that i Warren, among other things, ap-1 pointed dishonest judges, followed 1 the "Marxist" line and once was controlled by a "notorious liquor I lobbyist." Fantastic. False" i Vice President Nixon denounced the charges as fantastic and false. ' ocn. niiuwijum ui vauiuiuia, fie- i publican leader, said the Langer j sub-committee's action in spread-: ing them on the public record was the most shocking thing in his Sen ate experience. The charges were made public i Friday 24 hours after Langer had . denounced the four postmaster nominations. The Judiciary Committee, which : has had the Warren nomination under consideration since Jan. 11. may get around to acting - on it 1 next week. 1 1 Appointment problems, of course are nothing new for a President ; Presidents ;Roosevelt and Truman j also had their difficulties in getting : some people into the government i and in getting some out. j But most of the Roosevelt-Tru- j man troubles developed after they had been in office for a while. Eis-! enhower s began right at the start j of his administration. j General Ike" was a newcomer ! to politics and had to rely to some 1 extent on 'coaching from the peo ple around him. Some of the coach-i es apparently failed to point out j possible trouble spots. : Otherwise, some ' stumbling might have been avoided, some of j the difficulties dissolved before I hand. There might not have been all the uproar and fuming over Secretary ! of Defense Wilson, for example, if somebody had let him know before he agreed to enter the Cabinet that he would have to get rid of hist big holdings of General Motors stock. As it was. Eisenhower was up against the Wilson controversy the j minute the President took office. .11 ' Dairymen Oppose! Price Reduction j j I PORTLAND ur The State I Department, of Agriculture report-1 ed Friday I that hearings will bei held in March on a proposal for j overhauling the state milk plant j and fluid milk codes. j Meantime dairymen from ten: ftrocmn ' a rtrl thvk &niittivctrft meeting I Friday to oppose any re- j duction n producer milk prices atj the March l milk control price hearing.! ATTENTION! Cannery Union Members. Due to conflicting meeting dates the regular meeting of Cannery Local 670 hot been set up to MON., FEB. 22nd et 8 P.M., Hoi! 2. Labor Temple. 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