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Tuesday, August 14, I9S6
Democratic Chairman Criticizes
CBS for Lack of Film Coverage
Chicago U.R) Paul Butler,
Democratic national chairman,
criticized the CBS TV network
Monday night from the rostrum
of the convention hall.
Butler attacked CBS for its
failure to show all of a 28-min-
ute special film, "Pursuit of Hap
piness," prior to Gov. Frank
Clement's keynote address. The
film specially prepared for the
Democratic convention, depicted
Democratic achievements over
the years and featured the words
of such former presidents
Roosevelt and Truman.
CBS replied that it had made
no commitment to carry the film.
"We did not know the film
was considered an official part
of the keynote address," said Sig
Mickelson, vice president in
charge of news and public af
fairs at CBS.
NBC, ABC Complimented
Butler did not mention CBS
by name. But he left no doubt
as to which network he meant.
He complimented both ABC and
NBC for their cooperation in
beaming the film to their aud
iences.
What happened was this:
.All three networks received
prints of the film a few days be
fore the Democratic convention
opened. The schedule called for
the movie to be shown to dele
gates in the convention arena at
8:34 D.m. (CDT).
ABC and NBC both included
the film as part of their conven
tion coverage. When the movie
began spinning before delegates
in the hall, NBC and ABC began
showing it from their studios.
They showed it in its entirety.
CBS did not run the film. In
stead it featured:
An interview with Harry Tru
man, a talk between Edward
Murrow and Eric Sevareid, an
interview with Carmine De
Sapio, a Westinghouse commer
cial, a short chat about William
Jennings Bryan's "Cross Of
Gold" speech by Lowell Thomas,
an interview with Rep. Emman
uel Celler of New York, an in
terview with a California dele
gate. At 9:04, after a station break,
CBS turned to the screen in the
arena and picked up the last
six minutes of "Pursuit Of Hap
piness." CBS began televising the film
just at the point where Harry
Truman was shown doing his
famous imitation of H. V. Kalten
born, an NBC commentator.
Film Geared to Speech
Butler came on after the film
and said the movie, was geared
into the keynote speech of Clem
ent and that CBS had deprived
its audience of an important part
of the convention. Later, Butler
issued a statement to reporters
charging CBS with "absolute
and deliberate sabotage."
The Butler attack touched off
activity within the CBS studios.
Frank Stanton, president of CBS
Inc., arrived in less than two
I minutes from his box seat near
the Iowa delegation.
"No comment, no comment at
all," he said.
Stanton conferred with Mick
elson who subsequently issued
a statement which said in part:
"We operated under the tra
ditional pattern of news cover
age of national political conven
tions by exercising our news
judgment in reporting elements
of the convention story from
Chicago."
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IN THERE PLUGGING Adlai Stevenson supporters
Diane Phillips (center) and Aline Koplin waste no time
adorning coat lapel of Senator John Kennedy of Massa
chusetts the minute he landed in Chicago. Senator
Kennedy, mentioned as a possible Democratic vice presi
dential nominee, said he would accept nomination if
offered but would not campaign actively for the post
British Hold World Speed
Records For Land, Sea, Air
London (U.R) Englishmen
enjoy asking American tourists
this year if it's true the United
States is slowing down.
It jsn't just that the British
Empire has produced five four
minute milers while no Ameri
can athlete yet has managed to
break four minutes.
It is also that, unbeknown to
lot of Americans, the British
for the time being hold the
world's land, sea and air speed
records.
The grand slam improved the
morale of Her Majesty's subects
as much as anything since Drake
spanked the Spaniards.
The British are still as preoc
cupied watching American ways
as any old top dog eyeing the
handsome new hound who makes
a move for the kennel kingship.
The Piccadilly movies are
mainly Hollywood jumboscope
views of the western badlands
and Miss Monroe. The best stage
musicals still come from Broad
way. Davy Crockett caps are
costing the lives of commercially
kidnapped alleycats, bobbies
charge.
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I in the buses that says "Clean
Your Teeth The American Way.'
When the Forte restaurant chain
tried to introduce pizza in Lon
don it even second-fiddled Italy's
pasta preeminence and adver
tised "The Italian Rage that has
Swept America."
But these English huzzahs con
tain a certain hoarse timber that
Americans sometimes compare
to the chum bum cheer, or re
verse English.
These folks aren't at all ready
to admit they're warming the
world bench while the Ameri
cans quarterback all the plays,
and they do palpitate when some
body proves now and then that
Uncle Sam can't win them all.
That is way the names of John
Cobb, Donald Campbell and Pe
ter Twiss are enshrined in their
country's pride department.
They earned their honors.
Cobb was first a heavy bald
ing man of middle age who went
after automobile speed records
like Wellington moving on Waterloo.'
There isn't enough straight
road in this fish-encircled land
ing ground to open up a motor
scooter really wide, so Sir John
borrowed Utah's Bonneville salt
flats where another local sir
Malcolm Campbell, made good
Broke 400
Up and up Cobb pushed the
record in a low-slung brute of a
racing car.
It was Sept. 16, 1947 on the
white desert of Bonneville that
Cobb broke the magic barrier
and became the first and only
man so far to drive a car more
than 400 miles an hour.
He hit 403 on one run across
the measured mile. His average
speed for the mile1 that day in
his monster-powered "Railton
Mobil" was 394 miles an hour.
No American has touched that
record in the near-decade it has
stood.
Cobb left that land mark and
switched to water. He went after
the speedboat record in a par
cel of plywood wrapped around
a jet engine. He died five years
ago in a geyser of spray when
she disintegrated on Loch Ness.
He went as he lived making
a run for the record.
Sir Malcolm Campbell's son
Donald took it from there with
a jet speedboat named' Bluebird.
He had a British curiosity about
the high speed "water barrier"
that killed Cobb so he went up
for a look.
Out of the Blue
It was last Nov. 16 on Lake
Mead near Nevada's Boulder
City that Campbell set the pres
ent water record of 216 miles
an hour. Two down and one to
go and the British perked up.
But the air speed record was
regarded here with calculated
quiet because one American air
plane after another kept hitting
fantastic new velocities. - It
looked as if America's high
speed civilization had the old
lion locked out of the sky.
That is why large strains oc
curred on the waistcost buttons
of a kingdom last March 10 when
the news came out of the blue.
along with some supersonic
bangs which fractured several
greenhouses, that a 34-year-old
Englishman named Peter Twiss
had pointed an arrow of an air
plane called the "Fairey Delta
2" along a measured course and
had beaten the American- held
Reynolds Conlracf
Talks Collapse
Washington (U.R) -Contact
negotiations between representa
tives of the Reynolds Metals
Co. and striking AFL-CIO United
Steelworkers collapsed Monday
night.
A company spokesman said
there was "no plan" to resume
negotiations on the two-week old
strike that has idled 8,500 alum
inum workers in nine Reynolds
plants.
"We just couldn't get togeth
er with these people," he said.
The company said it offered
the steelworkers a contract in
cluding the "same employee ben
efits and wage rate increases as
the union accepted in other con
tract settlements within the
aluminum industry."
The steelworkers signed a con
tract with the Aluminum Comp
any of America last week calling
for a 46-cent-an hour wage in
crease and other fringe bene
fits over a three year period.
The breakdown in negotiations
dashed early optimism that a
contract settlement was at hand.
Company and union officials
met throughout the day with
federal mediation officials be
fore breaking off the talks in
definitely, i
DOCTOR'S DOCTOR
Hartford. Conn. (U.R) Twelve
doctors gathered here to honor
a veteran colleague to whom
they were especially grateful.
Dr. Morris Tuch, marking his
50th anniversary as an obste
trician, was the doctor who
brought the 12 into the world.
record of 1,132 miles per hour
they asked him how the high
speed air friction affected the
temperature inside his refriger
ated cockpit. His answer might
have been the American com
ment on British speed compet
ition. "Getting hot," he said.
If!
HARRY'S HARD TO KEEP UP WITH Democratic presi
dential Adlai E. Stevenson (arrow) has some difficulty
reaching former President Harry Truman to greet' him
on his arrival in Chicago. Harry is well boxed in by
newsmen and members of the former Truman administra
tion as he moves along the train station platform. When
Adlai finally made it he grasped Harry's hand and threw
his arm around his shoulder.
Thunderstorms Dominate Weather
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A band of thunderstorms and
showers from New York State
southwestward to New Mexico
dominated the weather across the
nation early today.
Outside of this band, there
were a few widely scattered
showers in the Southeast.
Meanwhile, hurricane Betsy
was reported about 320 miles
east-southeast of Miami and mov
ing northwestward at 16 miles
per hour. Highest winds were
estimated at 120 miles per hour.
Front-running squalls of the pow
erful storm were expected to
slam into Florida's East coast to
day, and the entire area braced
for the onslaught.
Temperatures were slightly
warmer in the northern plains
and the north section of the cen
tral plains. Otherwise, there was
no significant change in temper
atures. Hot weather was to continue
today for the southern plains re
gion while generally fair condi
tions were to persist in the far
West and Northwest. Scattered
showers and thunderstorms were
forecast for the Southeast and
the plains regions, the lower
Ohio Valley and New England.
24 Cases of Disease Reported Last Week
A total of 24 cases of commu
nicable diseases were reported to
the Jackson county department
of health for the week ending
Aug. 10, according to Dr. A.
Erin Merkel, health officer.
There were 13 cases of
measles, two whooping cough,
three infectious nepatitus, four
chicken pox and two mumps.
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