More of Editor's Attention
Required on Privacy lights,
Attorney Teils Newspapers
Hollywood Hi" More and
nore of the editor's attention is
eing demanded by a "lusty le
tal infant" which is called in
vasion of privacy, Tom Acker
nan, attorney for the San Di
go Union and Evening Tribune
aid Saturday.
Ackerman spoke at the first
f three workshop panels held
Saturday in connection with the
Ufth annual meeting of South
ern California United Press ed
itors at the Hollywood Knick-
srbocker hotel.
The attorney warned that
iruth is no defense against in
vasion of privacy suits and that
retraction statutes do not apply.
There is very little likelihood
of encountering actionable law
suits in any story that is strictly
news, he said.
Warns On Ads
However, he warned the as
sembled editors to be especially
careful of advertisements and
feature articles which might
shock the normal sensibilities of
the public.
"The general trend across the
nation is toward a broadening
of the rights of privacy," Ack
erman said, although he added
that California seems to have the
least strict laws.
"Good taste and reasonable
caution will prevent litigation
which costs a publication mon
ey whether the plaintiff wins or
not," he said.
James Anderson, United Press
bureau manager in Sacramento,
told the editors in a second pan
el discussion that the United
Press plans to concentrate heav
ily on the coming California elec
tions. California is a political focal
point in the nation and the elec
tions here will have a far-reaching
consequence, he said.
To Increase Staff
Anderson added that the UP
was planning to increase its po
litical staff to give each candi
date equal attention during the
campaign.
Jack McHenry, managing ed
itor of the Ventura Star-Free
Press, said his organization
would like to see the use of more
texts of speeches or at least ab
stracts of texts so readers can
make up their own minds about
what a candidate meant to say.
Fellow panel member Ed
Thomas, City Editor of the San
Diego Union, said his newspaper
wants straight, factual coverage
of campaigns for secondary as
well as the primary state offices.
Thomas called for more direct
quotes from candidates and less
paraphrasing.
The final panel was devoted
to a discussion of how United
Press can improve its service.
University (President
designs Cinder IFire
Reno, Nev. Wi Dr. Minard
W. Stout, president of the Uni
versity of Nevada, Saturday sub
mitted a "forced" resignation to
the Board of Regents, effective
July 1, 1958.
Stout's action ended a stormy
five-year era at the school which
included a public dismissal hear
ing of a faculty member, an in
vestigation by the American As
sociation of University profes
sors and a full-scale survey of
the school ordered by the state
legislature.
It also brought an end to a
regime described by his sup
porters as more progressive than
those "of all the former presi
dents." Seven of the nine regents re-
Is That So?
Although the rodent suggests
to most people rats and mice, it
is an anmial that gnaws and
just as accurately describes le
gions of other creatures squir
rels, beavers, woodchucks, prai
rie dogs, chipmunks, gophers,
muskrats, hamsters, lemmings,
porcupines.
In feet, there are more kinds
of rodents some 6,400 in all
than there are members of any
other order of mammals: and in
actual numbers exceed the com
bined total of all other mam
mals alive on the face of the
earth today.
Their combined efforts play a
most important role in making
and keeping the earth livable
for humans.
How? They clear out excess
forest growth and replant de
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the creation of vast forest areas
and aid greatly in natural con
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They transform barren wastes
'into fertile soil.
At the same time, they have
been responsible for taking the
lives of more people than all
the wars this world has ever
known. Many rodents carry lice
and fleas and these in turn
have spread such plagues as
typhus, trichina, infectious jaun
dice, and numerous ether kill
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Members of this rodent family
are found almost everywhere
where there is habitable land,
from the border of the Arctic
ice fields to the Antarctic. Some
how they even bridged the im
passable gulf between Australia
and the mainland of Asia a
feat that all other placental land
mammals failed to accomplish
with the exception of the bat.
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Ranger-Naturalist
Build Finest Nests
Among them are gliders, fast
runners, hoppers, highjumpers,
and swimmers. Some spend most
of their life in water; others in
treetops, still others burrowed
underground.
Of mammals, they build the
finest nests, breed fastest, and
quite likely live the shortest
lives.
Mostly, vegetable matter is
their food but not all vege
tarians, some supplementing
their diet with insects and oth
er forms of animal life. For that
matter, one little mouse Is cred
ited with devoting much of its
efforts to hunting scorpions.
In size they vary from the
tiny one-third ounce pocket
mouse of the northwest to the
220 - pound capybara (extreme
weight, of course) of the South
American jungle. In North Amer
American jungle. In North Amer
ica, the beaver is the largest
rodent. It is unusual in that it
never stops growing.
Free: By special arrangement
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Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575,
Sausalito, Calif.
Released by
McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
Sunday, October 6, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
fused to comment whether the
resignation had been forced. But
statements issued by the other
two showed clearly that Stout,
49, had been told he had the
support of only three board
members. '
Gives Reasons
Grant Sawyer of Elko said
it has become apparent to me
that the president does not have
the confidence and support of
the regents, the faculty, the stu
dents, the legislature or the al
umni."
The 1957 legislature, fearing
recommendatitons to give the
faculty a broader say in the
school's administration would
not be carried out, increased
board membership from five to
nine. At that time, Stout had the
support of three of the five re
gents.
Stout himself refused to com
ment on his one-sentence letter
of resignation which said simply
"I wish to request that I be re
lieved of the duties of the presi
dent of the University of Nevada
as of July 1, 1958."
Stout first came under fire in
1953 when Dr. Frank Richard
son, head of the Biology depart
ment, was fired by regents fol
lowing a three-day public dismis
sal hearing.
Claim Freedom Threatened
Richardson and the AAUP
said academic freedom at Nev
ada was being threatened.
In 1953 the legislature appro
priated $25,000 for a top-to-bottom
study of the university.
Dr. Dean McHenry of the pol
itical science department "of
UCLA was named to head a
team of 13 educators who con
ducted the investigation and
subsequently filed a lengthy re
port in which Stout's admini
stration was labeled "quasi-military."
The report praised Stout for
obtaining sharply increased
funds from the legislature to
boost f actulty salaries and speed
the campus building program.
But it was critical of Stout's
program for a sharp increase
in the number of schools and
indicated Nevada was moving
too fast and spreading itself too
thin. The report said his."auth-
itoritarian" methods of admin
istration had no place in a com
munity of scholars.
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school integration crisis. From left: Leroy Collins, Fla.; Luther Hodges, N. C; President
Eisenhower; Theodore McKeldin, Md., and Frank Clement, Term. (International)
Details Refused Byrd On Riot Training Halt
Washington (IP Army Sec
retary Wilber M. Brucker has
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Byrd (D-Va.), details of a new
cancelled riot training order sent
to Army units after federal
troops were sent into Little
Rock, Ark. '
"I am shocked and amazed
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indicates the purpose to conceal
facts that every citizen has a
right to know."
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