Ad m i si est rat Son Moves To (Overhaul Public
Dnfformatflon PoflicBes of Armed Services
Washington (U.R) An
aroused administration today set
in motion a complete overhaul
of the machinery for making de
fense information available to
the public.
Professional military men will
be ousted as top spokesmen for
the armed services and their jobs
will be put under civilian in
formation chiefs directly re
sponsible to service secretaries.
Military information staffs
will be drastically cut, possibly
by 200 to 300 people.
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Strict new rules will govern
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release of data to the public.
Military men will be barred from
writing for profit articles based
on information denied to re
porters. Immediate reaction in defense
circles was that the new orders
issued yesterday by Defense Sec
retary Charles E. Wilson could
slow down and complicate the
release of military Information.
Some military authorities doubt
ed that civilian information
bosses will be taken into the con
fidence of military staffs or be
able to give reporters precise in
formation on professional mili
tary matters as well as flag and
general officers customarily as
signed the job.
Two new directives were
issued issued by Wilson in the
wake of public storms ranging
from Adm. Robert B. Carney's
views on the Far East war dan
ger to the publication of maga
zine articles by the skipper of
the atomic submarine Nautilus,
Commander Eugene P. Wilkin
son. Carney Chastised
Carney, Chief of Naval Op
erations, was publicly chastised
yesterday by President Eisen
hower for his private, back
ground briefing of a select group
of newsmen last week. Carney
forecast that war could come in
the Formosa Straits as soon as
mid-April.
A high naval official said to
day that the Carney incident is
now a "closed matter." He said
that Carney had conferred with
Secretary of the Navy Charles S.
Thomas and was not reprimand
ed. He said Carney "would be
the last man in the world to do
anything that would embarrass
his commander-in-chief."
One of Wilson's directives
could hamper or stop the
anonymous briefings such as
Carney's of last week. But it
was mainly aimed at the writing
of articles by military and civi
lian defense personnel and a gen
eral tightening of information
policies. It was brought to a head
by the. Nautilus articles.
The directive oroerec that all
manuscripts for outside publica
tion should be reviewed not
only to prevent security leaks
but to insure that they make a
"constructive contribution to the
primary mission of the Depart
ment of Defense."
Wilson said information
should be timely and released
"in a manner consistent with the
ethics and procedures normally
followed." But he also ruled that
all speeches, press releases and
photographs must be reviewed
by his office not less than three
days before publication.
He held all military officials
nersonally responsible for seeing
that information they give out is
consistent with security and
"policies and objectives" of his
department.
Wilson's second directive
ordered the Army, Navy, and
Air Force to reorganize their
public information activities,
slashing information staffs by
one-third to one-half and appoint
ing, civilians as their chief in-i
formation officials.
Service spokesmen now are
generals and an admiral. There
was no explanation for Wilson's
order that the officers be re
placed by civilians, who prob
ably will receive $14,800 per
year in the new jobs.
Loyalty of Wild Ducks
Questioned by Museum
Washington (U.R) The
government revealed today that
the loyalty of the United States'
wild ducks is subject to ques
tion. The Russian Embassy has re
ported that some two dozen pin
tail ducks and a few snow geese
and brants have defected to the
Soviet Union.
The Russians made the report
to the U.S. National museum of
Natural History two months ago.
The museum passed the news on
to the Fish and Wildlife service
where the information was dis
closed only today.
Cave Junction Paper
Gets National Award
New York (U.R) The Il
linois Valley News at Cave
Junction, Ore., was one of four
newspapers and radio stations
to win a gold medal award from
the National Board of Fire Un
derwriters for "outstanding pub
lic service in fire prevention
and fire safety during 1954."
The announcement was made
today by J. Victor Herd, president.
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DEFIES REDS Valery Lysi
kov (above), 17-year-old son
of a Russian Air Force offi
cer, defied the Kremlin after
fleeing to the American sec
tor of Beriin. The Russians
demanded his return on
grounds he is only a minor,
but the young Russian told
newsmen, "I do not feel like
going back."
The western hemisphere has
the United States of America,
the United States of Brazil, the
United States of Venezuela and
the United Mexican states in ad
dition to the United Nations.
Thursday. Mireh SI, 195S
Mayor in Michigan
Plans Marriage Aid
To Lonely People
Dearborn, Mich. (U.R) May
or Oroville Hubbard, who be
lieves "the goal of government
is the happiness of the people,"
plans to operate a city marriage
bureau to help lonely citizens
along the road to connubial
bliss.
He will add match-making to
his official functions in this De
troit suburb of 100,000 people
who are already in the habit of
referring fondly to their mayor
as "Orvie."
Hubbard said he got the idea
to become a city hall cupid when
a heartsick widower approached
him for help in finding a mate.
This opened a whole new vista
of civic responsibility.
Not Like Suit
"When you walk down the
street and see a good-looking
suit in a store window you walk
in and say 'I'll take it. But if
you see a good looking woman
you can't walk up to her and
say 'I'll take you," he pointed
out.
Like most men waiting their
turn in barber shops Hubbard
idles away the time thumbing
through magazines." Some maga
zines are chock full of lonely
heart ads," he observed sympa
thetically. The mayor conceives of his
marriage bureau as a substitute
for the old system of having par
ents arrange marriages for their
children.
To Aid Over 35s
"When you get older' and have
more descretion you don't marry
because you take a fancy to a
pair of hips or a hank of hair,"
he said. "Primarily I'm interest
ed in helping people over 35
bachelors, spinsters, widows or
widowers, or divorced people."
Since Hubbard mentioned his
idea publicly the Dearborn city
hall has received several hund
red letters and many telephone
calls, from- as far away as New
York and Scotland.
Hubbard is preparing a detail
ed application form which will
include medical history and be
"personal to the point of being
snoopy."
A couple whose applications
appear compatible will be invited
to the mayor's office. Hubbard
will introduce ' them and then,
when the ice is broken, dis
creetly slip out of the room.
Landlady Suspect
In Seaman's Death
Portland (U.R) A former
merchant seaman died in a local
hospital from bullet wounds to
day and a 55-year-old landlady
was booked into jail on a mur
der charge.
Gerald Edward Holt, 39, who
had been unemployed in recent
years due to ill health, died at
6:10 a.m. One bullet entered his
left arm and lower chest. An
other penerated his' left hip.
Mrs. Ethel Loyes Edwards,
manager of a rooming house,
was charged with the slaying.
In a statement to police she
said Holt had been beating her
with one of his shoes after she
awakened him when he fell
asleep in a chair. She said she
fled to the bedroom and got a
.25 caliber automatic from under
the mattress. When Holt started
to swing at heragain she pulled
the trigger, she said.
Mrs. Edwards summoned an
other tenant, who called police.
Holt was taken to the hospit
al about 2:30 a.m.
When told Holt had died Mrs.
Edwards fell on her knees and
begged for mercy, detectives
said. "I didn't mean to kell him"
they quoted her as saying.
Exploratory Oil Well
Planned Near Ontario
Ontario, Ore. (U.R) An ex
ploratory oil well will be sunk
in the Willow creek area near
here, H. K. Riddle, president of
the Oroco Oil and Gas company,
said today.
Riddle said he had made ar
rangements with Houston, Tex.,
driller Ray Ranger to share the
cost of sinking the well for the
Sinclair Oil Company.
An Oroco company rig, ca
pable of drilling to a depth of
10,000 feet, will be used in the
operation. The firm has already
drilled three exploratory wells,
two of which have shown prom
ising "gas deposits.
The present location is 30
miles northwest of Ontario.
Grange
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Central Point Grange will
meet Friday night, April 1. An
appropr.ite Easter program is
being planned by Chaplain
Eudora Bohnert, assisted by
Lulu Floux and Velda Mang.
The agricultural committee
has charge of the display table.
The recent food sale was a suc
cess and Mary Taylor, chairman
expresses her appreciation to all
who helped her with this
project.
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Coaxa Cable Blasted
During S.C. Strike
Atlanta (U.R) A coaxial
cable was dynamited near Co
lumbia, S.C, knocking "out 1000
telephone circuits early today.
The lead-coated cable was
blasted in two 19 miles south of
Columbia.
Southern Bell Telephone com
pany, against which the CIO
Communications workers of Am
erica are on strike, said long
distance message circuits, press,
government, radio and television
service were disrupted by one
of the most erious incidents
in a wave of vandalism that has
plagued the company's property
during the strike.
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