SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Woman Arrested for Talking Too Long
Oh Phone; Laws Being Passed for Use
New York (U.R) A woman
has finally been arrested for
talking too long on the tele
phone. She may not be the last. Legis
latures around the country are
-being asked to pass the same
telephone party line law that
was the undoing of Mrs. Mary
L. Kayes.
Mrs. Kayes, 42, whose hus
band is caretaker of a summer
camp in Dutchess County, N. Y.,
was arrested last week and re
leased under $500 bend on a
charge of refusing to get off her
American Business Alters
Venezuela Buying
Caracas (U.R) American
business is changing the buying
and eating habits of Venezuela's
5,000,000 people.
. The changes are the result of
a private "point four" program
founded by Nelson Hockefeller
and his brothers and assisted by
the, major oil companies now
producing nearly 2,000,000
barrels of oil a day in this mineral-rich
country.
Heinillv Viie nrnsrom Has
two parts.
To Improve Production : t
The first is the Venezuela
Basic Economy Corporation
(VBEC), which is a hard-headed
business proposition designed to
improve food production, food
processing and food distribution
throughout Venezuela. ...
The second is CIDEA, a phil
anthropic organization, dedicat
ed to a program of raising health
and nutritional -standards in a
country where death from mal
nutrition once was common. .
Both VBEC and CIDEA have
produced startling results.
VBEC is "a subsidiary of the
International Basic Economy
Corp. founded in 1947 by the
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inanKsrouceman
Marshf ield, Wis. U.R) A 20-year-old
Marshfield man, await
ing trial on charges of murdering
his grandfather, wrote" a letter
nf thanks, to the nolice' chief of
his home town who once tried
r efraiffViion tiim nut..
Rodney W. Herman fled the
state and" lived for two years
under the alias of Steven Ban
non. but he was arrested in
Illinois where he had been work
ing. ,
Police Chief Walter Wohlfahrt
saiH ha hart tallrpH with Herman
.many times when the youth was
in trouble. Wohlfahrt . recently
received ' the ' following ., letter
from Herman who was being
held in jail at Phillips, Wis., for
trial for the 1953 slaying;
e "Dear Chief,
"Ttfrvnr T'm sittintr in a pell in
, 'PhilHnc waitincr fnr a nossiWe
life in prison. I was too smart
to listen to you and now it's too
, late. I want to thank you for
xuhat vrm trieH in rfn fnr ne.
"I regret the grief I have given
my mother and I hope that may
. be someday I can make it up
to her. I wish there was some
I way I could warn other .kids
: who have already started like I
did, but they would have the
same attitude 'it won't happen
to me.'
"In the last two "years T had
to learn to work with other peo
ple and understand what I had
to do to live in this world. But I
learned too late. But wherever I
; go, or get, I will do my best. I
- still might get the satisfaction of
living a right kind of life. I
wish I would have listened to
you and at least tried to under-
; stand what you were trying to
, say. In the last year, I did.
"I made some " wonderful
'- friends, honest and hard-work
ing. I tried hard to be like them
at the last. I think I was.
"But you can't live on lies
forever. Steven Bannon was
found out to be Rod Herman,
T .
cuiu su uci e x Mill.
"Again I say thanks for try
ing. Goodby. - "!
- "Yours truly,
"Rod Herman"
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party line so a man could call
the fire department. .
Her case made history. It was
the first prosecution under a
New York law, in effect only
four months, making it a mis
demeanor to refuse to yield a
party line in an emergency. If
she is convicted and if a judge
wants to throw the book at her,
she could get up to a year in
jail, a $500 fine, or both.
Other States Have Laws
The states of Washington and
Michigan have similar . laws,
passed within the last two years,
Rockefellers as a financing de
velopment company.
Some of its early projects, ad
mittedly, were failures. Sums
spent to modernize farming and
the fishing industry did not
bring good results. Farmers and
fishermen resisted changes in
their ancient methods. But after
these early failures, VBEC
really got going.
Customers Outnumbered
In 1949, in Maracaibo, the big
oil capital, the average grocery
store was a dingy little hole-in-
the-wall where meat and other
produce was in the open. Flies
far outnumbered the customers,
and the proprietor felt he was
getting gypped unless he could
maintain a markup of 100 per
cent on his merchandise.
VBEC erected TODOS, the
first ultra-modern super-market
in South America. Venezuelan
investors joined VBEC in putting
up the capital. The results of this
project were spectacular.
In ; less than 30 days "prices
throughout the city had dropped
15 per cent, and in a year the
price drop was close to 30 per
cent under the spur of competi
tion furnished by TODOS. The
small store s also found that their
customers began demanding re
frigeration., and modern pack
aging. Today there is a supermarket
in Valencia, the .fabulous Auto
mercado in Caracas, and another
is planned in eastern Venezuela.
Venezuelan investors , take part
in all there enterprises.
i VBEC also moved' in on food
production.' v Building . modern
milk pasteurization plants in
many parts of Venezuela, VBEC
has raised milk consumption and
production 10 times over pre-
1950 levels.
The Hard Way
Before CIDEA came into the
picture in Venezuela, tke basic
diet was black beans and rice.
Rickets, pelagra, beri-beri were
common. Malnutrition was stan
dard. . CIDEA, which receives funds
from the major oil ; companies,
attacked the problem with a pub
lic relations program through
the press, radio, schools, mobile
units and. later, ' television.
Comic books promoting good
eating habits are circulated
among the children of the coun
try. The ministry of health put up
half the money for CIDEA at
first" and now pays for two-thirds
of the program. '
; Some 300 nutrition clubs have
been formed among the children.
These clubs have their own gar
dens and learn the value of vitamin-rich,
food.
As a result of this program,
deaths due to malnutrition have
been cut by 50 per cent. The old
dietary diseases have been cut
by 40 to 50 per cent.
There have been dishearten
ing failures in both programs,
but as Rockefeller put it:
"In each case we learned the
answers the hard way. But con
sidering the problems that need
ed to be faced, if we hadn't done
it this way it would not have
been done at all.
"We . have accomplished . a
basic objective. We didn't go in
to make money where we could
make it best. We could have in
vested it better in this country;
And we didn't pick areas just
because we could make an easy
profit, but areas important to
the Venezuelan economy. You
could almost say we had social
objectives wih capitalistic in
centives, rather) than straight
business aims."
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Monday, February 7, 1955
but at Olympia and- Lansing
there is no record of their ever
having been used to prosecute
anyone.
This year the Council of State
Governments is furnishing a
model bill, patterned after the
New York law, to state legisla
tures. The council urges its
adoption as a means of prevent
ing tragedy when stubborn
party line users block calls to
police, firemen or doctors.
The model bill following the
pattern of the New York, Michi
gan and Washington laws also
would make it unlawful for any
one to demand a party line for
an emergency when an emer
gency does not really exist.
Washington passed its law
after a child died pf suffocation
while its mother tried vainly to
get a call for help through on
a busy party line. In Indiana,
the sponsor of a similar bill said
homes have burned down in his
bailiwick twice in recent yeaTS
under similar circumstances.
In signing the New York law
last year, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
said he realized it would be hard
to enforce but he believed it
would be worth while to have
on the books if it would save the
life of one person.
Officials admit that under or
dinary' conditions it would be
hard to prove a particular per
son was the one using the party
line when someone in distress
tried to get through. Mrs. Kayes,
however, was a sitting duck. She
was talking long distance, and
the telephone " company had a
record of her call.
Fire Warden 'Donald Town
send of Clinton, N.Y., swore out
a complaint against Mrs. Kayes.
He said she refused to hang up
when he tried to call firemen
to a blazing pasture. He said he
had to. drive a mile to another
phone, and meanwhile the fire
spread to a barn and burned it
down.
"I wouldn't for the world have
kept on' the line if I'd known
there really was a fire," Mrs.
Kayes told the, United Press, by
telephone. She - is on a seven
party line. 1 honestly didn't be
lieve ,him. You hearthe darndest
thing's on this line."
Philippine Police I
Nab Chinese Reds
" Cebu, P. I. (U.R) Police.
have begun a roundup of Chi
nese residents in this Central
Philippine city following the
discovery of a' cache of Com.
munist propaganda in a room,
ing house here, it has been re
ported.
Documents seized -in . the raid
included Communist newspapers
printed in China and a sketch
of Cebu with crosses marking
Chinese-owned firms. The land
lady said the room was rented
but rarely used by an unidenti
fied Chinese.
Jobless Claims Drop
For Third Week in Row
Washingtbn (U.R) New un
employment insurance claims
declined during the last week of
January for -the third straight
week.
The Labor Department said
new claims fell off by 31,400 to
289,400 during the week ending
Jan. 29. The Department said 39
states reported declines.
The number of continuing
claims however, edged upwards
by 11,900 to 1,976,200 during
the week ending Jan. 22, the
latest week for which figures are
available. ' '' ,
The federal - state unemploy
ment insurance program covers
38,500,000 of the nation's more
than, '6,000,000 workers.
Japanese Leader Says
Plan Would Benefit US
Tokyo (U.R) Foreign Min
ister Mamoru Shigemitsu said
Saturday "normal relations" be
tween Japan and Russia would
help to stabilize the Pacific area
and benefit the United States. ;T
Shigemitsu told an audience
of American and Japanese lead
ers, including U. S. Ambassador
John Allison, that recent Japan
ese overtures to Russia were
possible only because of the
strengthening ; of Japan's ties
with the United States.
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CAREFUL, YOUR HIGHNESS Minister of Education Roy
Joseph (front seat) seems deeply concerned as Princess
Margaret stands up in this, Land Rover (British jeep) in
response to cheering children at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Some 30,000 children gave the popular princess a rousing
welcome. Driver is Police CpL Francique.
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Owner, Not Always at Top
cnicago (U.R) Almost every
day somebody tries to sell Con
rad Hilton a hotel.
This is like carrying coals to
Newcastle because Hilton al
ready is the biggest innkeeper
in history. He operates 27 hotels
here and abroad, most of them
in the luxury class.
But Hilton wasn't always top
man in the hotel business. Back
in depression days he was a half
million dollars in debt.
Owner Pays Account
"I had a charge account at a
gas station in Texas," he recalled
in . an interview. "The owner
heard I was going bankrupt. But
he didn't want to embarrass me
so he paid up my bill himself."
One day Hilton was summon
ed by the president of the Mer
cantile National Bank of Dallas,
Tex., to discuss a little matter
of $55,000 Hilton owed.
."The banker told me he knew
of some good oil stock," Hilton
said. "He said I might as well
owe the bank $110,000 and he
offered to ": lend me $55,000 to
buy the oil stock." '.''
Takes Banker's Advice , .
Hilton took him up on the
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deal, and it paid off,
He emerged from the depres
sion with five of his eight hotels
intact, managing to save those
by such stringent economies as
shutting off heat to vacant rooms
and - pulling but - unused tele
phones to save 15 cents a month
on each. . - ". ;
Since those dark days Hilton
has embarked on a vast expan
sion program climaxed last year
by the purchase of the Statler
chain for $111,000,000, history's
biggest real estate deal. Com
pare this with the Louisiana
Purchase1' for a paltry $15,000,-
ooo. . : ;
Hotel men credit Hilton with
bringing system to a hit-or-miss
business. There is no waste space
in his hotels.
When he bought " Chicago's
Palmer House he counted . 4,000
persons a day passing through
the hotel arcade.' So he convert
ed a book store with . a $250
monthly rental into a fancy bar
that produced: $490,000 in its
first year. ' -.. ,.-
Hilton looks like what he is
a tycoon. Tall, vigorous and
tanned, with thinning white hair
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ana ne-man mustacne, ne is a
conservative : dresser, a good
horseman and a polished ball
room dancer. .
Some Exceptions
" He might be the executive
prototype except for ' a couple
of items. He has no ulcers and
he is allergic to cigar smoke.
And he never works after 6 p.m.
"I belong to the union," he
said. Hilton has an abiding faith
in private enterprise and relig
ion. Each year he plays host to
President Eisenhower's prayer
breakfast. ;
But he has. no ideological
qualms about leasing foreign ho
tels built with the money of for
eign" governments. He already
operates two under such an ar
rangement, one in Puerto Rico
and one in Spain, and others are
on the way... : ;
; "The foreign governments will
benefit the most," he said, "be
cause these hotels are going to
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Hilton's plans are global.
Some day he expects to run as
many hotels abroad as he does
here. " W - ' "'