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.
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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.!
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