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1 1 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Monday, October t, 1958 Salem, Eugene TV Stations Now Being Considered by FCC By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Federal Communications Commission, long suffering from the dis- c 1 o s u res of ft c ongressional i n vestigators who turned up enough ev- XI i?4 'Ml laence of in fluence ped dling to indict one FCC com fmissioner, is 'now getting A. Robt Smitb ick to work on pending television cases, including those in Oregon for baiem and Eugene. Except for an air of cau tion that will probably evap orate with the passage of time, nothing fundamentally has changed at the FCC in the important realm of policy. No guidelines of any clearer character have been laid down for determining how valuable TV channels should be handed out. An indicator of the lag in decisiveness at the FCC re cently is seen in the fact that the Salem case has been be- fore the commissioners for a decision since last March. An examiner that month recom mended that Salem channel 3 be thrown up for grabs, in asmuch as KSLM-TV never used the channel in the four years it had a license to do so. Two other groups want to bid for-the franchise, one headed by W. Gordon Allen, the other by Carl H. Fisher of Eugene. , Eugene Case In the Eugene case, an ex aminer has just set a time table for hearings on who should get channel 9, which had been reserved for educa tional use until last year when FCC opened it to commercial applicants. Bidders are Glen Stadler, radio station owner; Donald McDonald, theater operator; and two California engineers and broadcasters, Dawkins Espy and Thomas B. Friedman. In the past, the FCC has listed a number of major con siderations in evaluating the applications of prospective TV station operators. They have been: 1. Local ownership vs. ab-iOf. other businesses in the sentee ownership. 2. Integration of owner ship and management this is something of an extension of the first, for it puts a value on ownershiD that also ac tually runs the station. 3. Past performance of other broadcast facilities, radio or TV. 4. Diversification of mass media this places a value on applicants who are not in control of competing mass media of communication in the area, such as newspapers. 5. Diversification of busi ness activities this follows the theory that multiple own ership is preferable if the owners are in various lines I GRANTING his first press conference in three and one- half years Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told 100 newsmen he reserved the right to bomb Red mainland when and if "crucial moment arrives." Chiang is 71. Annapolis, Md. (UPD Capt. Harold V. McKittrick, 73, a retired veteran of the Navy, died Saturday. He was cap tain of the U. S. Naval Ship yard in Brooklyn during World War II. community, from which vari ous points of view might be reflected in operation of the station. 6. Merit of the proposed op erations, based on program ming outlined by each appli cant, time of operation, range of coverage, etc. Minor Consideration A minor consideration is the extent to which the appli cants are involved in civic affairs,, which the FCC takes as a measure of the applicants' sensitivity to local needs. . There has been critisism of the FCC for not adopting tighter guidelines than these and for being inconsistent in applying those it does have. It has granted channels to newspapers in some cities and denied them in others. It has talked of the virtue of local ownership but granted licen ses to many absetee owners. ; The FCC, in a word, has been in the vulnerable posi tion' of apparently selecting TV winners arid then finding reasons to support the select ion, for the award of these valuable channels has follow ed no clear pattern. Nothing has changed" since the con gressional investigation in this respect. The investigation, of course, centered on alleged influence peddling. Commissioner Rich ard Mack was forced out and now has been indicted for tak ing money he called it a loan from an interested party m a Miami case. Without a policy of adher ing more consistently to spe cified consideration, the FCC will continue to be open to criticism for playing favor ites in awarding these valu able franchises. GOP Money Difficult To Get; Dissatisfaction Seen Reason By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD -The grass roots word is that the Repub licans are hurting most in their cam paign treas ury. President Eisenh o w e r will be hear ing the word today. A publica tion of the "united R e p u b 1 i c a n Lvie c. wunn una oi Illi nois" asks this question: "Why should money be so difficult to raise?" "One reason, often cited by those who have been our best contributors in the past," it continues, "is dissatisfaction with the Republican record, a feeling that Republicans have not taken a strong enough stand on vital issues, that in certain important respects Republicans don't seem to be much different from Demo crats." The President may also hear something about that today in the top level politi cal strategy huddle at the White House. The Illinois Republican fund raisers con tend, however, that the rea sons often cited by former contributors who balk now are in error. Hard Sell The Illinois Republicans, like Vice President Richard M. Nixon on last week's cam paign swing and like Eisen hower, are making a hard sell on their issue of the Re publican spending record Porter to Suggest Adding Forest Road To Highway System French Newspaper Gives Up Counting Pau, France - (UPD A local newspaper known as The Pyrenees Fourth Republic' changed its name today. France is launching its fifth republic and something had to be done. With an almost visible shrug- the paper changed its name to "The Pyrenees Re public" and gave up count ing. Once You Try Our New Sanitone Dry Cleaning Featuring Soft-Set -Jf -kZ-... . r - v SEItVICE sst Now, something wonderfully new has been added to the already famous soil-removing powers of Sanitone Dry Cleaning. It's Soft Set ... a NEW retexturizing finish. It maintains in woolens and wool-and-synthetic fabrics, the richness of color and luxurious feel and drape they had when new. Call on us for service today. Youll be amazed at the way newness springs back to life in all your clothes. 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CHRISTENSEN Snider Summons Finance Group For Centennial Portland - Almost 50,000 volunteers will be at work on the Oregon centennial by Jan. 1, the beginning of the cen- tenial "year. Such is the estimate of Ted Hallock, state co-ordinator for centennial activities. Hallock reported that more than 2500 persons now are on volunteer committees working on phases of the state-wide centennial program, ranging from fine arts to finances, welcome booths for visitors to historical pageants. At the same time Mayor John W. Snider of Medford, a member of the centennial commission, announced the appointment of a 12-man fi nance committee and called its first meeting for 1 p.m. Oct. 23 at Eugene. To Outline Plans Snider will preside at the first meeting of the commit tee, which will seek to outline ways to raise $2 million being sought from local govermental agencies for city and county centennial activities. The members of the commit tee are H. E. Eakin of the First National Bank of Ore gon, Cottage Grove; William F. Blitz of the Blitz-Weinhard company Portland; R. H. Tis- dale of the First National Brank of Oregon, Klamath Falls; M. P. Monroe, of the Monroe Food Machinery cor poration, Portland; Wallace Langworthy of the ' United States national bank, Coos Bay; William Niskanen of Pa cific Trailways, Bend; H. E. Schmeer of the United States national bank, Roseburg; Wes ley C. Ballaine of the Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene; E. H. Armstrong of the First Na tional Bank of Oregon, Salem; Wendell L. Hamilton of Winn, Shinn, Snyder & Co., Eugene; Archie Fries of the United States national bank, Ashl land, and Ehrman V. Giustina of Giustina Brothers lumber company, Eugene. through or adjacent to nation al forest lands. Refused To Act The highway commission has so far refused to take action on the request, main taining that highways now on the forest highway system should be improved before ad ditional roads are added to the sytem. Porter has said he "cannot understand the deci sion in view of the small amount of road actually in volved." "As I understand it," Por ter said, "only the portion of the road between Collins Bar and Oak Flat on the Illinois river would be constructed with forest highway money. The remainder of the road could look to other sources for support." He pointed out that there is now no direct route from the Medford-Grants Pass area to the Oregon coast and that the proposed highway would provide virtually a water-level route from the' inland popu lation centers to the coast. "The proposed road would open up portions of the Illi nois river drainage not pres ently tapped by existing roads," Porter said. "It would make accessible an area con taining timber estimated by the U.S. Forest Service to to tal one billion, 750 million board feet exclusive of the Il linois Canyon Limited Area which may never be available for logging activity." Congressman Porter said today he understands that many city and county organ izations as well as private firms and individuals in the Southwestern Oregon intend to write and petition the State Highway Commission to add the route to the forest high way system. Some are expect ed to appear at Salem during the commission meeting as a delegation favoring the action. against what the Democrats wanted to spend. The Republican contention is that the Democrats, if given the chance, would spend the nation into higher taxes and inflationary bankruptcy. "One fact stands out," said the Illinois fund raisers. "In the last session of Congress the Democrat (sic) Party ex ceeded even its own unchal lenged record as a party of big spending. The non-duplicating spending proposals in troduced by Democrats since last January 1 added up to $206 billions, or three times the entire federal budget- $1200 in added tax burden for every man, women and child in the United States." Alcorn View Another argument to per suade balky contributors to shower down is addressed to those who share the fears of Chairman Meade Alcorn of the Republican National com mittee who, last week said: "If the next Congress is dom inated by the left-wingers on northern and western Demo cratic tickets, we can be sure that they will spend the next two years endangering this country by pressing their well-financed drive for (Walt er P.) Reuther socialism and Americans for Democratic Action appeasement in our foreign policy." The Illinois fund raisers re marked that for 10 years past the AFL-CIO Committee on 104,600,000 More Reach Voting Age Washington -(UPD Some 104,600,000 people will be old enough to vote in the Con gressional election next month, the census bureau said today. But many of them will be prevented from casting bal lots because of other require ments. About 2,500,000 of them are aliens. Others are inmates of penal institutions or mental hospitals, cannot meet state residence or literacy require ments or are unable to pay a poll tax. Persons otherwise elegible have iot met registration re quirements. During the two years since the last national elections, the census report - said, some four million young men and women have come of voting age.- Kentucky and Georgia grant the franchise at 18, all other states at 21. 1 Neuberger Making Satisfactory Progress Portland- (UPD -Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) is making a "satisfactory return to normal health" after sur gery last month for removal of a small malignant tumor, his physicians reported Satur day. The doctors in a joint state ment said that as a precau tionary measure, he is under going radiation treatments five days a week. 1 1 7 S. Central SP 3-7301 Open 9:30 to 5:30 WIS Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport ' I I I I I b -WHILIL-- WHATEVER YOU WISH FOR CAN BE YOURS! 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