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TEK MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, July 18, 1S56 Burden of Bad TV Programs! Property Destroyed, Fowl Killed as Wind Rakes Four States For Children Said To Kest With Lack of Objections By ETHEL DACCARDO Radio-TV Editor, Chicago Daily Newt Written for United Pres Chicago UR) why isn't something done about the qual ity of children's tele vision shows? That's a question that is asked time and again. Blame is placed on the spon sors, on the producers, on the net works. Part of it belongs there, that's for sure, but a great bur den of the blame rests with you, the viewer. 'Good' vs. 'Bad' Action in a recent episode of "Captain Midnight," a children's show, included: Locking the "good" men in a secret passage and turning on poison gas. Dragging them out later, ty ing them up. and then telling them, when they came to, they would be left to die in an explos ion. Telling Capt. Midnight they (the "bad ' men) were taking him with them as their slave and that he would suffer a mental break down. The cast included a seven-foot giant who ended up in a prison hospital for mental patients, and a scientist who also became a mental patient. In a recent "Tales of the Texas Ranker?" episode, a harmless sad-facud hobo was murdered. He was shot clown because he had ac cidentally witnessed a crime. As he pleaded with the murderers for his life, the camera did a closeup of his terrified face. An hour after he died, the bad men returned and pumped more bullets into his body, just to make sure he was dead. Jovial Altitude In still another episode a "good" man is murdered, and one of the Rangers, arriving on the scene rather jovially: "I hear vou have a slight case of mur der." , To my mind, a murder on a ; Pelton Ruling Seen Boon To Yaler Law Portland 'UR) A member of ; the Oregon state water resources hoard said today that the U.S. ; Supreme court's ruling on the ; controversial Pelton dam issue may in the long run prove a benefit to state water rights laws. L. C. Binford, vice chairman of the state board, told a meet ing of the Columbia Basin inter agency committee that the rul ing which upset long - standing interpretations of state water rights laws has brought about a reexamination of the laws and ; exposed several weaknesses. Binford said the state board would like to see corrective leg islation passed to restore to the state control over water alloca tions which the Pelton dam seems to have upset. Weaknesses pointed out by Binford included no plans for water development and that no account of such non - individual uses as maintenance of wildlife or scenery were considered in determining the resources and use of the streams. Green Peter Dam Relocation Rapped Lebanon. Ore. (U.R) A pro posal to change the location of the re-regulating dam at the Green Peter development today drew criticism from residents of Foster, the site of the pro posed relocation. A group of Foster residents charged that the Sweet Home chamber of commerce had been "inconsiderate" of the Foster residents when it supported the proposed re-location. The Corps of Engineers, while not taking a stand on either lo cation, had suggested it might be practical to change the loca tion of the re-regulating dam from its tentative location at White Bridge to the Foster loca tion. Should the change be made the engineers said the dam would provide nearly double the power output. Grange Butte Falls Grange Butte Falls Grange met July 2 with Master Leslie Casey in the chair. Past Master Ted Fredenburg conferred third and fourth de grees on Mr. and Mrs. Dean Stockton. HEC was to meet in the city park with a potluck picnic July IS at noon. The Grange social night will be Saturday. July 21. There will be a picnic at the Fish Hatchery at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is to bring wieners and buns for their own group and one other dish. Every one is invited whether a Grange member or not. Next regular Grange meeting will be Aug. 6 at the high school. children's program is unthink able. But the casual attitude to ward murder is even more dis turbing. Whether children's program ming improves is up to you. Personal letters you write to the sponsor and to the station will control the programming as nothing else can do. Take time to watch the show. It it deserves praise, tell the station and the sponsor so. If you find it objec tionable, tell them so. Be specific in your objections. By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes dipped from a large storm center late Tuesday, swooping down through Minne sota, Iowa. Colorado and Okla homa, destroying property and killing fowl. The worst twister swept through an area near Tennock, Minn., killing more than 3.000 turkeys on two poultry farms. Observers reported seeing the storm uproot a barn, shattering it completely. Edwin Roison, a Tennock farmer, said that al though he leaped into a ditch when he saw the storm coming, the winds lifted him right out of his shelter. The Weather Bu reau said four funnels were sighted during this storm. Truck Dumped Over A twister at New Hampton, Iowa, in the northeast corner of the state, dumped a postal truck over, injuring the truck driver with a head gash. The funnel rocked the New Hampton Coun try club from its foundation and ripped off part of its roof. The tornado near Enid, Okla., dipped from a belt of thunder storms that extended across Ok lahoma and Kansas. Another twister was reported to have touched ground 30 miles south of Thurman, Colo., Mon day, but caused no damage. Hail measuring a half inch in diameter fell at Dickinson, N.D. which also was buffeted by gusts up to 58 miles per hour. The Central Plains basked in Magazine Salesmen Not Sponsored by DAV Patrick Graham of the local chapter .of the Disabled Amer ican Veterans said today the or ganization has no magazine sales men in this area. He said several people have inquired about magizine sales men soliciting subscriptions who indicate or leave the impres sion they are associated with the DAV.. relatively cool weather Tuesday and early today, some early morning temperatures reading 15 degrees below Tuesday"s low. As the cool front glided east ward, its effects were noticeable in Pennsylvania, where drops of 10 to 15 degrees were reported, i Warm in Southwest In contrast to this cool air, ' the Southewestern states baked ' with mercury readings in the j 90s. 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