SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, April IS. 1952
Newsmen Complain
Of Extra Barriers
By Federal Bureaus
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington ttl.R) Newsmen
are beginning 1o complain of
extraordinary barriers being
erected against them by some
government officials, notably in
the Defense Mobilization area.
One nearly frustrated reporter
said the contrast with conditions
a year ago is an unhappy one.
Reporters then could get to top
mobilization officials quickly
and easily. They generally are
unavailable now unless they
want to get in print something
favorable to their agency or their
own slant on a situation.
Standard Procedure
There is a standard operating
procedure now in the office of
Presidential Aide John R. Steel
man, who succeeded Charles E.
Wilson as defense mobilizer. Re
porters with questions must sub
mit them to Steelman's public re
lations officer. This official
passes them on to his boss.
Reporters are at a disadvan
tage in pressing for an answer.
They are unable to pursue fur
ther angles which the answer
might develop, or to clarify it in
any way, unless they again go
through the written question
process.
Discussion Refused
Economic Stabilization Admin
istrator Roger L. Putnam liter
ally has been refusing recently
to discuss with newsmen any
thing except the weather. Wash
ington's spring is lovely but not
always news.
Price Controller Ellis Arnall is
an exception but no mine of news
nuggets. Arnall succeeded
Michael DiSalle early this year.
He meets newsmen regularly but
wants everything off the record.
The Defense Mobilization
crackdown on news gathering
comes as the American Society
of Newspaper Editors gathers
here in annual meeting. The
editors' society challenged Presi
dent Truman last year to justify
the national defense security reg
ulations which he issued to cover
all government operations and
which the editors called censor-
Toastmasters Install
New Officers Monday
Dr. William Thompson was in
stalled as president of the Med
ford Toastmasters Club at Mon
day meeting held at the Medford
hotel. He succeeds Walter Nun
ley. Other officers seated last night
were Norman Kollin, vice-president;
Fred Burnett, secretary
treasury, and Jim Taylor, ser-geant-at-arms.
Installing officer
was Dan Hull, governor of the
Southern Oregon-Northern Cal
ifornia area of Toastmasters
International.
The range of the water ouzel
(or dipper) extends from Alaska
to Central America in the moun
tains of Western North America
ship.
Mr. Truman denied any censor
ship was involved. The editors
were and are unconvinced. Mo
bilization officials do not cite
Mr. Truman's regulations as their
authority for slowing the news
flow. Whether they were influ
enced consciously or otherwise
by the regulations is not evident.
But that their doors are usu
ally closed to reporters is a fact
about which protests from the
men and women on the scene are
more likely than not to increase.
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LOSES BEST FRIEND Mrs.
Melba King, blind Eskimo stenog
rapher, sorrowfully pats her dog, :
Gypsy, dying on a Seattle sirect
after being struck by an auto.
There are some six thousand
bituminous coal producing com
panies in the United States.
Missing Youngster
Found in Montana
Vancouver, Wash. ttl.R) The
Clark county sheriff's office said
Tuesday that Diana Goodsen, 8,
missing since April 1, had been
found in Shelby, Mont,, with
her mother and a friend.
The trio was picked up by the
Shelby police after warrants had
been issued here charging the
mother, Mrs. Betty Goodsen, and
the man, Marvin Prentiss, with
second degree kidnaping.
Prentiss was identified as the
man who on April 1 talked with
Diana during the noon hour at
the Orchards, Wash., school.
When Diana failed to return
home, Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam
Stamper, who are in the process
of adopting the child, notified
authorities.
Mrs. Goodsen signed papers
early in March releasing all
claim to her daughter.
'FIRST CITIZEN' DIES
Seattle iU.R) Attorney E. L.
Skeel, one-time "first citizen" of
Seattle and Chamber of Com
merce president, died Monday at
his home following a four-month
illness. He was 70.
Principal timber-management
problems of the Bureau of Land
Management in Alaska are fire
prevention and control.
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FACULTY FOLLIES CAN-CAN Beverly Bennett (right)
gives pointers to three Southern Oregon college staff members
who will appear in the faculty follies Thursday, Friday and Satur
day. Practicing their kick step are, left to right, Frances Imel,
Betty Lou Dunlop and Charleen Kring.
The recent discovery of urani
um in northern Chile adds addi
tional mineral importance to the
country's present production of
copper, nitrate, iron, iodine and
manganese.
Michigan leads all states in
salt production, says the National
Geographic Society. Layers of
sooty-white sodium chloride un
derlie much of the Lower Peninsula.
16 County Schools
Join in Music Show
Ashland Pupi'j of at least 16
Jackson county elementary
schools are participating in the
weekly "Singing Time" pro
gram presented by Southern
Oregon college, according to
Helene M. Robinson, assistant
professor of music. The musical
broadcast is aired by radio sta
tion KWIN, Ashland at 1:30 p.m.
every Wednesday.
Miss Robinson said she be
lieves other elementary class
rooms also listen to the 15-min-ute
program and are preparing
for the annual county elemen
tary school music festival to be
presented at the college May 7.
Eleven schools have already
registered for the festival, six of
them offering to present special
numbers.
This week's broadcast prepar
ed by college music students
will be a general review of half
of the numbers being readied
for the May meeting. Miss Rob
inson said. Pupils listening to
classroom radios will join in
"Song of Hawaii," "Blow the
Man Down," "Amalfi Bay,"
"God of Our Fathers,' 'The
Cowboy," "Caisson Song," and
"Oregon Trail."
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