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.
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Eugene C o n g r e ssman
Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.)
will appear before the Oregon
State Highway commission at
its next regular meeting to
argue in favor of adding the
proposed Selma-Agness-Gold
Beach road to the Federal
Forest Highway system. Such
an addition could only he
made on recommendation of
the commission.
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uled to meet at the , Sta
Highway building in Salem
Oct. 23 and 24. Porter will ap
pear before the group at 2
p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23.
Several times over the past
year Porter has decommend-
ed in correspondence with the
commission and with State
Highway Engineer W. C. Wil
liams that action be taken to
designate the long-needed
route along the Illinois and
Rogue rivers a forest highway.
This would make it eligible
for a greater share of federal
money at points where it runs
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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.
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dividual congressmen on 58
major votes of which 16 di
rectly involved labor legis
lation. "The most striking compar
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