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7 can play them all!' 'v;f;?s:1::--?:- ::''. 7eeee's search fo have been a most ! "We nre looking for ways (o Win back some of llio intellectuals to TV . . . We are going to seek more program balance. And wo are going to strive for quality in whatever we (Jo." i The speaker was Thomas W. Moore, Interviewed last April, a few days after he was named president of the ABC-TV network, a position ho had held without the title for the previous year. Now that the programs for the now television season are pretty well locked In, we can get some Idea of what Moore meant when he describ ed ABC's "boldest, most direct chal lenge for leadership ever made in our medium." The network's pro gramming has been drastically re vised, certainly, but the biggest sin gle news item is that the "Voice of Firestone" program will be replaced on Sunday evenings by the first big money quiz show since the cheating scandals of 1959. It's called "100 Grand" after Its maximum prize, and It pits amateur experts against pro fessionals, and It sounds about as Intellectual as "The $!vl,0Q0 Ques tion." For the past five years or so ABC-TV's effort to ' gain a larger share of television audiences a n d revenues has resulted in gradual downgrading of program quality on Ft 1 1 three major networks. Recent scrutiny of programming by t ho Federal Communications Commis sion and the frequent criticism of former Commissioner Newton N. Minow did to some extent result In n greater emphasis on news and public service shows. Hut drama and entertainment showed little qualita tive improvement. Now ABC Is pitching out the programs with which it lias been perhaps most closely identified "The Untouchables," "II a w a i i a n Eye," and "Naked City." But it is Nat A leaf-devouring moth is work ing on an estimated six to seven million acres or sagebrush range land In interior Oregon, including parts of the Ilinh Desert Country. The moth has been identified as Aroga websterl Clarke. It rolls a fw leaves Into a ball to serve as n home, then feeds on leaves along the stems. The process covers the sagebrush with fine, silky webs which accounts for the creature's c o in m o n name, wcbworm. Work ing with this web spinner is an un Identifed moth. Bureau of Land Management of ficials, state game officers, the U.S. Forest Service and ranchers are concerned. Some are hopeful that the sage-killing moths will clear land, making it possible for forage to grow. Others are fearful that the defoliation of both the big and small sage will destroy a source of feed In a winter of deep snow. Also, it is noted that in northern California a few years back, the we'.nvorm destroyed thousands of acres of bitterbrusli, a valuable deer fC'd. While various agencies ponder ratine ' management plans, Nature, y' iis quiet but effective way, ap- '' c ure's finding a way r ways seems fo unsuccessful one keeping such perennials as "Wagon Train" and "Ben Casey." ABC trots out its new programming the week of Sept. 15. A weekly feature will be a two-hour variety show starring Jerry -Lewis which begins on Sept. 21. Newcomers to weekly television this season will be Danny Kaye and ' Judy Garland, whose new variety shows start on Sept. 29 and Sept. 25, respectively, on CBS. Richard Boono undertakes an ambitious project as star of a weekly repertory show on NBC beginning Sept. 24. CBS on Sept. 2 expanded its five-days-a-wcek broadcast w 1 1 b Walter Cronkitc to a half-hour at' (:3() p.m., Eastern time. Next Mon day NBC does the same thing for Chet Huntley and David Brlnkley, putting them in the 7 o'clock time slot. But if the two networks appear to be placing more emphasis on news, they are compensating by pre senting fewer special news pro grams, or at least that's the way it looks nt this time. Both the indivi dual Huntley and Brinklev shows will be shelved by NBC, and CBS is dropping "Eye Witness" for enter tainment. Yet to 1)0 scheduled Is the sec ond in the "Town Meeting of the World" series, but CBS promises that this will bo a quarterly feature. The first one, in which former Presi dent Eisenhower participated, along with Lord Avon, Jean Monnet, and Heinrich von Brentano, was enthusi astically received despite momen tary losses of both sound and pic ture. One special bound to capture a huge audience is the CBS presenta tion of "Elizabeth Taylor In London" on Oct. ti. Perhaps the fact that the ciitics are already touting this one as the blockbuster of the new season tells all that really needs to be told about the season itself. parent ly lias decided that for all concerned, control of the web spin ners is essential. Already appearing on the scene, in areas where thousands of acres of sage have been defoliated by the insects, is a small wasp, which is parasitizing the webworms. This means that the little wasps are puncturing the webworms, planting their eggs, and going their way. Next season, experts say, there will be about 50 per cent fewer webworms. By the following year, there may be none. Through the eons. Nature has been effectively using this same system of check and balance. It is part of Nature's management plan. Quotable quotes Don't get the regular hoses. They'll just stand there and look nt you and take a bath. Get the high powered ones, they'll knock a man HO feet. Eugene (Bull) Connor, former police commissioner of Birm ingham, Ala., advising Little Rock segregationists on selection of hoses to break up civil rights demonstrations. How effective will Valachi be as witness? By Harry Ferguson UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (L'PD No criminal case can ever be much better than the credibility of the witnesses for the prosecution. K a jury distrusts a witness or de cides he is lying under oath, the 'tiu.se is lost almost automatical ly. That fact stamps a big question mark across the namo of Joseph Valachi, the low-ecliclon gangster who has thrown himself on Uie mercy of the federal government and promised to tell all lie knows alxnit organized crime. His first public appearance will take place shortly before the Senate rackets committee. Later he probably will be taken before grand juries in an attemt to get indictments against major gangsters. Nobody is quite sure what kind of witness Valachi will make. "He lias his tips and downs," said a spokesman for the Depart ment of Justice. "One day he will be calm and tell a rational, con nectcd story. The next day he will not be so good. You have to re member that the man is badly scared." Cculd Stir Suspicion Valachi is an uneducated man. He speaks in a gutteral voice that may not be clearly understood in the far reaches of hearing rooms and grand jury chambers. If he gets excited and confused on the witness stand and there is a fajr chance he will at sqrne stage of his testimony he is going to stir suspicious among the lis teners as to the validity of what he is saying. 11 would be misleading to judge the impact of Valachi's testimony on Uie basis of what is publicly known about the story he is tell ing. Valachi talked off and on for almost a year while under maxi mum security guard at Fort Mon mouth, N.J. It may be that the Justice Department has some dy namite that will give the under world a bad jar, but if so it i, being kept secret. This is what is publicly known about Valachi's prolonged "sing ing session": he has outlined the organization of what he calls Cosa Nostra ("our business" or "Our thing") a loose confederation of gangs in at least eight cities, liadi of these is called "a fam ily," he says, controlled by a boss. There are lieutenants u:iclcr the boss and each is in charge of a "crew." Valachi says he joined the organization in 19:10 and took a blood oath (his finger was pricked) to die rather than be tray it. Names Top Brass He supplied some of the argot of the underworld. When a gang ster is ordered to kill somebody, it is called a "contract." You get a contract when you arc order -d to "hit" a man. Orders to "hit" are almost always issued by the boss, and Valachi said the bosses included: Vito Gcnovese. New Yoi'k I all hough there apparent ly nre live "families" in New York': Sam Giancana. Chi cago: Joseph Zerilli, Detroit; Se bastian UiHocca, Pittsburgh: An grlo Bruno. Philadelphia: Slclano Mngaddinn. Buffalo: Raymond Patriaivn. New England; John J. Scalish. Cleveland. Much of this information was not exactly flash news to police and other law enforcement offi cers In those cities. The problem has been, not to identify (lie gang leaders, but to get something on them that will statu up in court. Valachi, for instance, has talked freely about some 30 murders, but as a New York prosecutor put it: "Our office can act only on evi dence, and Valachi's statements are pure hearsay." What the Justice Department hopes Is that Valachi can come up with some information about the middle and lower-echelon memlvrs of (he crime organiza tion. One source sHid he already had done so and federal agents now are busy questioning those persons in an attempt to obtain corroboration of Valachi's stories and build a solid structure of evi dence. The man's hole card in the un derworld was his friendship with Vilo Gcnovese. a New York "boss" about whom considerable mis-information has circulated in the last month. He has been de picted as the supreme command er of the American gangs, a sort of Oriental potentate tossing occa sional scraps of favors to his un derlines and issuing "contracts" sometimes in a whinuical man ner. Shared Same Cell GanoU'so is currently sen ins a l.Vyear prison Icrm for narcotics violation and at one time was Va lachi's cell mate hi Atlanta penl tentiarv. A piece of ficliou that h-tuses to die is lhat Groove slill controls thr underworld by sr .Kl in;.: a steady stiwmi of r ders (nun his cell. The Justice Dvartment pointed out that, eon sulvring the doo fcnrtiny given to a prisoner's mail nod usilors. Gciiovcm would hae to k doing it by menial telepathy. Tins reporter can stair unequivo cally that he dues not haw a pri vate telephone in his cell. 'Tomorrow Kolut ion of thr cans'.tr'- I ruin, Cnponr lo Com Nostra ) r Extension of Jones Act exemption for lumber shippers appears in jeopardy By Robert A. Smith Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON With the Oc tober deadline approaching for ex piration of the exemption from the Jones act for Northwest lum ber shipments to Puerto Rico. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D Wash., has Introduced legislation lo con tinue this exemption in the future. The original exemption bill, sponsored by Sen. Maurine B. Ncubcrger, D-Orc., and enacted by Congress last year, permits American lumber companies to use foreign vessels to ship cargo lumber to Puerto Rico, contrary to the Jones act which bans use of foreign ships for commerce be tween various American ports. In approving the bill, Congress how ever put this exemption on a trial basis for a year and unless it is extended it will expire October '"). Since Puerto Rico was once a good market for American lum ber, but in recent years became a monopoly market for Canada be cause British Columbia mills used cheaper foreign ships, U.S. com panies have been trying to regain a foothold there. Sen. Magnuson reported that over 5 million bd. ft. of Northwest lumber has been shipped to Puer to Rico since last fall as a result, with more in prospect. "Some progress has been made in this direction," said Magnuson, "but the firm grip of the Canad- i .wftewS fHPf 4-Sf Nickel's i Worth i ' 111 Bulletin ttelcomra comrlbullmis lo till ,-ulunm frnm 111 reailrra. 1.,-t-ttt must cfinlilin thi rnrrprt Itnntn nnd aililr uf tit aendflr. which tni,y he withheld at the m.tVM,nler' dK cretlnn. Letter niny he edited hi con form to the directives of tato and tlyle. Writer apologizes for critical letter To the Editor: As a member of the Sisters Board of Directors, I would like to apologize for the letter by Pete Leithauscr in the August '291 h edition of The Bulletin. It was un called for. The Bend Board of Directors was approached by the Sisters Board in this matter of school mergers. Mr. Leithauser coidd have found this out had ho gone to the Sislers Board instead of going to Redmond and Madras for his information. He could have also found out that in the past five years we have considered many solutions towa-ds solving our tax problems and maintaining our high school, which included meet ing with the School Board at Camp Sherman and finding out it is legally impossible to join the Redmond Union High District as they are functioning nt this time. Sincerely, (Mrs.) Alma B. Phillips Board of Directors Sisters School Dist. No. fi Sisters. Oregon, Sept. 5, 1963 Car wash successful, Pep Club reports To the Editor: The BSH Top Club wishes to express its thanks, for the par ticipation shown our car wash Sejtember 7. The outcome was greater than ever before, with a total intake of $12.i. We want to extend our special thar.ks to those who cooperated with us by making their facilities available. Sincerely yours, Sandi Olson, Secretary Bend. Oregon, ' Sept. I), una Barbs Vacation flirtations can really lead to something if Uie good wile hears alwut them. Any father can get the program he wants on television after the kids have gone to bed, if it suits his wife. The boxer who looks the dullest in training is not always the one polished off in the ring. Not taking care of your car can lead to having it hauled over to a garage to have H overhauled. TESTIMONIAL FAILS CARLISLE. England iLTI -Mrs. Isobol Schoficld was fined J8 SO Tuesday despite an impas sioned defense by her lawyer, who asked leniency on the ground lhat "ren her husband says iJw Is a can-till driver." Ti Mil Bittjve tin Wednesday, September 11, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler Gltnn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermoft, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Del U si at man, Circ. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Supt. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. t:!trv,1 . Puffed Tnt tnd bul.eun. Inc. : Capital Report Ian sawmills or. the vast Atlantic Coast and Puerto Rican market has only been scratched." Sen. Ncuberger isn't content simply to extend the Puerto Rican exemption. She regards that as on ly a first step toward giving North west lumber shippers competitive equality in all the big Atlantic Coast ports which are more im portant markets than Puerto Rico. Last March Mrs. Neuberger in troduced a bill that would not only extend the Puerto Rican exemp tion but broaden it ta cover any American ports or terminal areas. She said this would open the way to using cheaper ships, if American ships are not com petitive, that would cut the cost of getting green lumber to Atlan tic Coast ports by from $10 to $.'!0 a thousand bd. ft. Ever since 19B0 Canada has been supplying more lumber than have West Coast American mills for the Atlantic Coast markets. The do mestic lumber industry blames this on the higher cost of domes tie ships which the Jones act re quires them to use. They want the Jones act repealed outright, but it has many defenders in Con gress who claim its repeal would destroy the American merchant marine. The Kennedy administration has endorsed the idea of exempting lumber from the Jones act re striction whenever the secretary -JfWi')- Tflr"" Washington Mei'rygMrounl JFK's State Department lends a helping hand By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON President Kennedy may not know it, but his State Department has been going out of its way to boost the international operations of the companies owned by the admin istration's most eeffective critic Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Time after time, the State De partment has reached out a help ing and vigorous hand to help Standard Oil of New Jersey, the No. 1 oil company; also Stand ard of California, another big Rockefeller money - maker, and Socony. These three, together with Gulf, Texas, Shell and Brit ish Petroleum are known inside the industry as the "Seven Sis ters." When big oil can t get what it wants in foreign countries, the State Department tries to get it for them. White the Slate Depart ment is supposed to protect Am erican interests abroad, it is charged not to help one com pany, or a group of companies as against others. And independ ent oil companies have been gel ting the hairy end of the lollipop as compared with the Rockefel ler interests and some of the oth er seven sislers. The Rockefeller family contri bute around fMO.OUO to the Repub lican party every election, while Gov. liockefcjlcr has been Ken nedy's most effective critic re garding Cuba and failure to "get the country moving again." The Mellon family, who control Gulf, contribute around S100.000 in elec tion years to the Republicans. Here is part of the State De partment record, which only the diplomats know about, of aiding the Rockefeller Interests: Box Score of Favoritism t'ndersecretary of State George Ball, whose law firm has oil ties, fired off several confidential ca bles to the American embassy in Lcnpoldvillc, instructing them to help Standard of New Jersey get a license to build a refinery in the Congo. ' The frantic cables were touch ed off by a decision of the Con golese cabinet to grant the license lo EN I. the Italian firm. But the full weight of the U.S. govern ment was more pressure than the Congolese could bear. Thev can celled ENI. In Korea, a foreign aid mis sion, instructed to survey the fea sibility of a new refinery, was headed by William Via Duscn. a retired Standard executive work ing for the State Department. Ho arrived with three Standard AND RISKY TOO LONDON I CPU Thr British army has refused to supply Maurice Fogel. 47. a magician and illusionist, with a firing squad fo he can catch nine bui lds with his teeth. .Mai. Gen. Eustace Blois Nelson, w lio Tuesday turned down Fogel's plan to have the trick done on television, said: "It is in a Mutable job for lit r m.ticstv's ciiardiiKii " ru:' of Commerce tinds that it is hurt ing domestic industry to insist on using domestic ships. But South ern lumbermen have protested this move because they regard Northwest lumbermen as their competitors, and they fear any casing of the Jones act would hurt their eastern markets for South ern pine. Magnuson's Senate Commerce Committee is the focal point of all this. To placate Southern sena tors, Magnuson permitted hear ings on the issue in the South this past spring. Sen. Strom Thur mond, D-S.C, conducted them and gathered abundant testimony which indicated the South would fight any new legislation lo help Die Northwest. There have been no hearings on the new Neuberger bill but the subject has been covered from a lumber standpoint in last year's lumber hearings in the West and in Washington. The latest figures indicate the trend toward increas ing Canadian sales continues to the detriment of Northwest mills. For the first six months of this year B.C. mills supplied 558 mil lion bd. ft. and West Coast Amer ican mills supplied 252 million bd. ft. for the Atlantic Coast market. Sen. Magnuson's sponsorship of the Puerto Rican extension bill suggests he believes that's all he can gel through Congress this year. egBCTWSWtTtByA?.- officials who actually helped him make the survey and naturally recommended that private indus try should build the refinery. Standard, having been in on the survey, was hoping to get the con tract. But the Koreans are getting quite independent of the United States, and they decided to build their own oil refinery. In Haiti, an independent opera tor wangled a permit to build a refinery. Alarmed, Standard of New Jersey sent its local mana ger to protest to Uie American ambassador that the proposed re finery, of all things, would create a monopoly. Apparently Standard is right eously opposed to any oil monopoly that it doesn't dominate. The ambassador passed on the complaint to Undersecretary Ball who directed him to oppose the independent's permit and try to get it cancelled. Punishing Ceylon In the Far East, oilmen us-.'d their influence to get the U.S. gov ernment to punish tiny Ceylon for daring to nationalize some of the service stations owned by Texaco and Standard of New Jersey. Actually, the nationalization w as ordered out of Pique, because the two oil giants had stalled for 12 years over construction of a refinery which Ceylon needed badly. The companies sought to invoke the Dirksen amendment to the foreign aid bill, which shuts off all foreign aid to any country seizing U.S. property and failing to pay for it within six months. Ceylon offered to pay the oil giants, but both firms delayed fur nishing figures on the pro)erties for six months. It had all the ear marks of a deliberate stall so the amendment could take effect. An oilman gleefully remarked: "This will teach the Ceylonese a les son." Instead. Ceylon stood her ground and turned to Russia for petroleum products. The Ceylon ese also invited Russia to bid on the new refinery. 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Aboard was Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who was inter rupting a fishing vacation to hold his last cabinet meeting of the summer. Most important of the domestic issues to be discussed was Spain's new $6 million devel opment program which is to go into effect next Jan. 1. And for the next 48 flag-decked hours, La Coruna became in ef fect the working capital of Spain. By tradition establislied under the regency of Queen Maria Cris , Una, the Spanish governmei in the summer months moves to San Sebastian, near the Pyrenees, only 35 miles from Biarritz, across the border with Franco. Between San Sebastian and La Coruna the mountains hug the coastline and for 500 miles a nar row highway twists and turns iLi way through and over them, pro viding at once scenes of awesome beauty and the equally breathtak ing prospect of a 1,000-foot plunge into nothingness in the case of driver error or mechanical fail ure. Claims Road Worst In San Sebastian, a cabinet minister throw up his hands in mock horror when he - learned that Carlos Mendo, chief UPI cor respondent for Spain, and I planned to drive it for the cabi net meeting. "It is one of the worst roads in Spain," he said, "but at least you will see why we need a develop ment plan." The road may not be the worst In Spain, but it must rate high among them. Huge trucks vie with speeding small passenger cars, and both must contend with the ever present burros. And beyond this is the foot traffic, women headed for the nearest village, carrying upon their heads objects varying from metal containers of milk to heavy bundles of fire wood. But it is a trip worth the ef fort. Symbols of Growth Along the way are symbols both of Spain's new and growing pros perity as well as problems it still faces. There is Bilbao, ranking with Barcelona as one of Spain's prin cipal industrial cities, called the Pittsburgh of Spain. In Bilbao, Santander, Oviedo and even in the meanest village new construc tion work seems unending. This also is the region of the Austurian coal mines where to day the government regards with a tolerant eye a strike by 16,000 miners even though strikes in Spain are outlawed. The seams of brown coal are running out and many of the mines are uneco nomic. The government is considering a plan of nationalization whereby some of these pits might be closed and the miners either be transferred to other diggings or retrained for other jobs. Here also are the Galician fanners, a taciturn folk unlike the talkative friendliness of the south. They live as their fathers before them on small, uneconomic plots of not much more than an acre, planting their patches of corn high up the steep mountain sides. For them also the government is seeking a solution. ASKS CHECK ON SHIPS WASHINGTON tUPD A Flor ida congressman believes the United States should keep under constant surveillance Rassian fishing vessels operating in Amer ican waters. Rep. Paul Rogers, D-Fla.. said Tuesday the Soviet trawlers "cer tainly are not fishing." Answer to Previous Puzile 1A C.CI IP.A Uil-l IP ES I IM OIa E,gNTe-JE Ri I N USE SEN L.I 37 Theatre district 45 Enou jh 38 Touch 40 Soiree 4 Biblical mountain 47 Waste allowance $0 Atmosphere 41 Book of Bible 4"J Branch (rare) 43 Cricket (dial.) i ji p I K 5 IT I Is 15 lit hi n n n re b" T7 1 ' ' gls 1 1 ' 1 a -4 ttT iTTTT 1 1 1 1 i 1 51 52 5j : '4 i I i I i