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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1954)
McCarthy Case Gets Full News Coverage By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON - The battle between McCarthy and the Army 'Is being given the fullest news treatment in the big eastern news papers, many of which have assigned teams of their ace political reporters to cover tne Senate hearings that began last Thursday. For on Capitol Hill this is considered the most newsworthy congressional investigation since the crime probe of the Kefauver committee and the inquiry that Gen. i 41 more followed the dismissal of Douglas MacArthur in 1931. But some re- I porters claim ishould have J pore tn nnrt ed to evaluating which adversary in a fight is $ ahead on points. The New York A. Robert Smith Times began printing the word-for-word tran scripts of the proceedings, which .in Friday's edition ran to 46 full columns of type, plus seven maj or news stories on various aspects of the day's developments. Satur day it deleted insignificant details from the second day's hearing transcript, thereby trimming it down to 32 columns. Editorially the Times said: "It Is an excellent thing that the hear ings are being fully covered by the press, television and radio. The American public will be able to judge for itself the relative merits of the Army's case and of Mr. Mc Carthy's case. For the first time we will also have the opportunity to see what Mr. McCarthy looks like when he is ngnting on me ae fensive, and not on his own terms." But the Times and the New York Herald-Tribune differed on just how much public attention the hearings were receiving. The Trib thought the audience "may have been the largest ever to see any program" on TV. The Times re ported the Hooper rating of the "first day's hearing was 10. com pared with a rating of 32 for the Kefauver crime telecasts. .Consumption Drops - Another way of measuring rapt ' attention befofc TV sets in New York is at the water works, where sensitive instruments measure the moment-by-moment consumption of water. Officials, noted the Times, said consumption drops perceptively during big TV events, such as major prize fights and world series eames, and then shoots up when the event is over. They detected no substantial change the first day of the McCarthy-Army hearings. Nevertheless, the television net works were cancelling sponsored programs (one network estimated it would cost $10.5 million in lost commercials if the hearings run 10 days), which prompted Herald Tribune to comment editorially: "It seems possible that as a re sult of the new miracles of com munication we are returning to what democracy was always meant to be. Aristotle long ago defined the size of a democratic commumty as the area within which the citizens could know the character of their public servants. A lot about the character of the men in public office is being learned these days by the tele vision watchers." Carries 13 Columns The Trib carried 12 columns of abridged transcript plus three stories. The New York World Tele gram and Sun carried four stories but kept its total space devoted to the controversy to comparatively brief length. Two New York tab loids, the Mirror and the Post, each gave it several inside pages of stories and pictures plus typ ical page one headline treatment. Edited by James A. Wechsler who had a run-in with McCarthy last year, the Post blazed away on its cover with ".Joe Tried to Beat the Rap but Armv Wouldn't Buy Deal." The Chicago Tribune carried but four columns of news in its mammoth Friday edition. Its pub lisher. Col. Robert R. McCormick, has been one of McCarthy's strong est backers over the years, but the colonel also has deep Army at tachments. The Baltimore Sun carried a run ning story of the hearing by two of its top reporters which, making use of transcript excerpts, ran to 16 columns. The Philadelphia Bul letin wrapped up the job in seven columns. The Washington Star, withfour reporters on the job, carried 13 columns of the main event and sidelights. The Washington Post and Times-Herald gave it nine columns and editorial and Herb lock cartoon notice. The tabloid Daily News spread it over 10 columns. SEE ME AT THE... HOME & GARDEN SHOW APRIL 29-30, MAY 1 3m? ;,1o6f VJantod TV of All "!o,i, ?:ir: r. - 4 vhs :z uHF I OmsMetpt Atria'! ir 7 Kl SUM TT Milimm Wnlril 'Pm4. To. Wmlll titnl; costs no wore Than Othtr 17" Sets . . . Gives You 70 sq. in. Bigger Pctore DE!3 1120 Center St. Then 2-5241 395 N. High St. Phon. 4-5752 428 Court St. Phone 42271 V, ' ' " . T f 1 1 4.v& .-m t ' , r - . .MONEY TROUBLE A metsenf er ttracgies with s payreU bar, equipped with anti theft mechanism, after its amok alarm wu aet off accidentally in New York's Rvckefeller Center. Sconcing Art Is Dying Out LONDON. (INS) Britons have been mortified to learn that the ancient art of sconcing is dying out , Sconcing, or fining "someone a tankard of ale or the like" asl a penalty for some breach of good manners or convention, has been a British custom for many cen turies. The famous lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson was sconced two-pence at Pembroke College, Oxford, for not attending a lec ture, which according to his bi ographer James Boswell was "not worth a penny." A recent survey of Britain's seats of learning, in the univer sity halls, service messes and clubs, show that the ancient cus tom is now dead. Years ago a man could be sconced for mentioning a woman's name in mess or in a hall, wear ing a bow tie, throwing bread across the table at dinner, spilling salt, using a foreign phrase ot more than three words, talking shop, looking at pictures on the Stats-am em. Salom, Ors Thurso April 29, 1354 (Soc 23 9 Murals Tell Math Story SOUTH BEND. Ind. (INS) Whenever mathematics students at South Bend Central High School have trouble remembering the- history of their subject, they look at the wall. On the wall is a huge mural, 20 feet long, which depicts the his tory of mathematics, beginning walls, and putting elbows on the table. At Oxford University the usual "penalty" was to drink 2Vs pints of beer in 25 seconds. At some colleges it was port or cham pagne. But if the sconcee drank it within the time-limit the sconcer paid. "Cherwell" the Oxford Uni versity magaiine explained that the "chief reason sconcing is on the way out is that sconcees complain about the expense." Another reason is that there is less formality today around the dining table whether in the Uni versity hall or in the officers Service mess. ending with an atomic explosion. Students in the classes of Hiss Antoinette Semortier contrib uted $25 for materials and did much of the work of painting the mural and the research which preceded it First of the four panels in the hsitory of mathematics shows, in addition to the pyramids, the signs of the Zodiac which are considered as the first crude cal endar, and objects in nature hav ing geometric shapes, such as a cobweb, flower, snowflake and a section of a honeycomb. The second panel depicts the contributions to the advance of mathematics made by the early Greeks and Romans. The third panel shows the machine age with Galileos falling weights, the Eiffel tower and a suspension bridge. 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