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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1955
Pages 1-12
Yanks Still Held In
Shanghai Refused
Contact Privileges
., Hong Kong (U.R)' Eight
Americans believed held in a
Shanghai prison have not been
permitted to contact the British
counsel there lor help in getting
out of Red China, according to
qualified sources in contact with
Shanghai.
"The imprisoned Americans
0 have not contacted the British
diplomatic r e p r e sentative in
Shanghai as yet," the sources
said.
No Information
"There is no Information
about them at all. It is not
known whether any of them
have tried to contact British
V; Charge D' Affaires Con O'Neill
- r in Peiping. As far as is known
they have not been able to con
tact anvone."
The Chinese Communists
agreed at Geneva that the Brit
. ish could act in behalf of Amer
icans in Red China while India
Would act in the same capacity
for Chine living in the United
States who wanted to return to
the Communist mainland.
Eight Identified
The eight Americans are-understood
to be in Shanghai pris
ons. They are- identified as:
Rev. John William Clifford,
San Francisco; Rev. John Alex
Houle, San Francisco; Rev. Char
les Joseph McCarthy, San Fran
cisco; Rev. Joseph Patrick Mc
Cormack, Ossining, N.Y.; Rev.
Thomas Leonard Phillips, San
Francisco; Rev. Armand Proulx,
Hal March Enjoys Role As Announcer on
$64,000 Question But Longs for Acting
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press Correspondent
New Yprk--(U.R Hal March,
who found a goldmine of his own
on "The $64,000 Question,"
looked back at the first 18 weeks
of the giveaway show today and
made the following points:
1. "My racket is acting. I
thoroughly enjoy doing "The
$64,000 Question' but it's the
only exposure I ever want on
a quiz show. I don't want to be a
quizmaster the rest of my' life."
2. "I'm a bad quizmaster. I
get too emotionally involved
with the show."
3. "About the only categories
on the show I might qualify for
myself are spelling and jazz. I
could have gone to $16,000 with
Gloria Lockerman." '.
March currently the most
widely seen personality on tele
vision (he's viewed by some 50,
000,000 persons each week), is an
alumnus of the mills of show biz.
Banana In Burlesque
The 35-year-old San Francis
can has worked as a banana in
Burlesque and in cheap night
clubs. He has acted in soap op
era, the movies and such radio
epics as Sam Spade. He had one
stint as an announcer and disk
jockey. And he has worked as a
comic on, the shows of Imogens
Coca, Burns and Allen, , Jack
Lawrence, Mass.; Rev. John Paul
Wagner, Chicago, and Hugh R.
Redmond, South Floral Lane,
Yonkers, N.Y.
Redmond, a businessman, was
sentenced in Sept., 1954 to life
imprisonment for espionage.
Benny, Bob Hope, Marie Wilson
and Eddie Cantor.
But until this summer when
the giant CBS quiz show in
stalled him as emcee, he had
never really hit it big.
"Funny thing," said March, "I
didn't want to take the show
when it was first offered to me
I thought of myself as an actor
and still do. But there's no doubt
that the show has been beneficial
to me. It's great, really great.
"I think the best thing about
the show is that I can stay my
self. I don't have to be a shout
ing quizmaster. I underplay. I
don't have any tricks because I
don't need any. If something is
exciting on the show, I get ex
cited because I'm involved up to
my navel."
The trouble was, March ex
plained, that getting involved
had its worrisome features. He
singled out the inadvertent help
he had recently given a contest
ant, baseball expert Paddy
Keough, by letting part of the
answer slip out.
"I was up there rooting for
him," said March. "I made the
fluff in my anxiety to pull the
answer out of him. A good quiz
master wouldn't make that kind
of mistake." -
March characterized Keough
as "perhaps the greatest expert
in his field of anyone we've had
on the show."
RUMBLING INTO NEW CASTLE, massive Gen. Sherman
Tank precedes battalion of militia as martial law is declared
to preserve order in strike-torn Indiana city. ( . -iat ' al)
Timber LHIearongs .'Will ChecEt n Report
Uncle Sam Mot (Getting Money's Worth
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Two congres
sional committees that have
planned a series of timber in
vestigative hearings in the Pa
cific Northwest next month are
intent on checking into a gov
ernment report that Uncle Sam
isn't getting his .money's worth
from federal forestlands in the
region.
While the hearings will spot
light local problems of the mo
ment where the hearings are
held, from O&C marketing re
strictions in western Oregon to
what the Indians are getting for
their timber at Quinault reserva
tion on the Olympic peninsula,
the basis for the probe will be
a 1953 investigative report of
the U.S. General Accounting Of
fice. Government Losing Money
That report, based on a GAO
review of some 2,000 timber
sales in the Pacific Northwest,
found the government losing
money to private timber oper
ators who purchase federal tim
ber. GAO. investigators listed
these practices and conditions
which 'they said were at fault:
1. "Gentlemen's agreements"
among operators to restrict com
petitive bidding.
2. Private control (of govern
ment timber) through private
ownership of contiguous land
and access roads.
3. Timber sale practices of the
forestry agencies Forest Serv
ice, Bureau of Land Management
and Bureau of Indian Affairs. '
4. Effect of the xapital gain
and loss provision of the tax
code, section 117k.
"Our purpose is to develop
Ipcal opinion on any improve
ments that might be made," ex
plained William H. Coburn, coun
sel of the Senate Interior ' sub
committee. "We want the testi
mony to be constructive. Anyone
who has a legitimate complaint.
we want to hear. But we want to
avoid this developing into an
adversary proceeding."
To Explore Complaints
. Complaints received about tim
ber sale matters by Sens. Henry
M. Jackson (D-Wash.) and Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), both
committee members, will be ex
plored, Coburn said. The hear
ings will be in Redding, Calif.,
Klamath Falls, Medford, Rose
burg, Eugene, Seattle, Aberdeen,
Portland and Spokane.
Chief criticism of the Forest
Service in the 1953 GAO report
Judge Rules Copying .
Hat Style Not Illegal
Milwaukee (U.R) Circuit
Judge Myron L. Gordon ruled
that it is not illegal to copy a
hat.
' Gordon ruled in favor of the
Slocum Hat Corp., which had
been sued for $200,000 by the
Everitt Hat Co. on allegations
that Slocum copied Everitt hats.
Gordon said it was not illegal
for a hat-maker to' copy a com
petitor's style as long as there
was no intent to deceive, the
buying public.
Relatives Take Blame
For Parking Violations
Fall River, Mass. (U.R)
Police had some changes , made
when they discovered that a mo
torist had a dozen parking vio
lations yet his record showed
but one.
Friends and relatives had been
accepting the blame and the
warning to "first-offenders." So
the cops got the city council to
change the law and hold car own
ers responsible for all violations
regardless of who takes the
blame.
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was that it gave timber buyers
unwarranted allowances .on the
sale price of timber to compen
sate them for building their own
access roads. It said GAO ac
countants had 'found the allow
ances had run about 18 per cent
over the actual cost of the roads.
Projecting this over the; period
from 1951 to 1960, the report
estimated the loss to the- gov
ernment would be nearly $20,
000,000. BLM Under Fire
Bureau of Land Management
came under fire for allowing
timber purchasers to log more
timber than they' actually paid
for. This was due to the agency's
practice of cruising the timber
before the sale. but not scaling
the logs that are taken out by
the buyer. GAO claimed that
overruns on 65 sales had aver
aged 28.6 per cent. BLM con
tended overruns amounted to
only about 2 per cent on the
average of all its sales.
GAO claimed that overruns
cost the government $8.3 million
from 1947 through 1951, the
period covered by the report.
Any such losses of timber rev
enue would be suffered not only
by the federal government but
proportionately by the state and
local counties that receive an
nual shares in federal timber
sale receipts.
The report made two broad
recommendations that the tax
laws be changed, andhat all
main timber access roads Into
federal timber be built by th
government.
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