Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 17, 1959, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextTheyil Do It Every Time .By Jimmy Hatlo THE DOCTOR s4id its THE WORST CASE. ME EVER S4W.-SEOUTZ UAO EVHRV CHILD'S DISBdSE Br THE TIME HE WAS COUR- HE WAS THE FIRST OWE IN THESE K ecurr fever- MV V06URT- rrs A WONDER HE'S -dUVE-HE'S 8ROKEM PS74CTI ClU.y EVERy BONE IN HIS BODyTONE 'THEy H4VE TO TOP EdO-l OTHER a BOUT EVERY- THING INCLUDING , WHICH ONE WILL H4VE THE 8IG6ER DOCTOR'S BILL TO DUCK- TIME OR ANOTHER- MO OPERATIONS, z'S EVEN HAD HIS , TONSILS OUT TWICE- VOUSWTd HEAR THE WDS THEVRE ALWAS ARGUING ABOUT WHOSE MOTHER CAN THROW THE MOST R4LOMV- WATTlL THEy START BRAGGING ABOUT WHO'S GOT THE HIGHEST-PRICED SURGEON AW THEy f NEVER HAD , ANYTHING ' THIS IS My THIRD ALMOST i i FRACTURED SKULL' 2-7 Listening to the DOTING MAMAS TALK IN REVERSE SUPER LATIVES the nana hot to VERNON DOUDT, 124 MARKET ST., New Maneuvers Under Way in Battle Over Pay Television Br LOUIS CASSELS Washington -tUPD- Some in teresting new maneuvers are under way in the seven-year-old battle over pay television. . It is too early yet to tell where they'll lead. They con ceivably could lead to a trial run for pay-TV before the year is out. Or they could founder on the definition of the word "test." : Three recent developments have intrigued observers here: 1. Chairman Oren Harris, (D-Ark.), House Commerce Committee, a leading oppon ent of pay-TV, introduced a bill which would permit the Federal Commu nications Commission to authorize lim ited "technical tests" of pro posed subscription systems 2. President Robert Sarnoff of the National Broadcasting Co., another arch-foe of "toll gate television," declared pub licly that he could see no harm, and possibly some good in the kind of tests proposed by Harris 3. FCC Chairman- John . C- Doerfer said he is convinced that a "realistic test" of pay- TV can be arranged "without endangering our free . televi sion system." Six of Tests Debated j The key . words in these statements are the adjectives. Harris and Sarnoff favor "technical" tests. Doerfer wants "realistic" tests. A "technical" test might be confined to determining whether the proposed pay-TV equipment would work. But a "realistic" test, according to Doerfer, would have to in clude a measurement of pub lic response and the potential Twirling Pinafore 6 tt&eH& f She's a merry majorette in this whirling pinafore! Easy- sew-whip up 2 versions as shown. m- Gayest fashion under the sun-drum majorette pinafore with fringed epaulets. Pattern 7163: transfer, pattern of pieces for sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 in cluded. - Send THIRTY-FIVE cents (coins) for this pattern-add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Med ford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept.,' P.O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Sation, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. Our new 1959 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog has many lovely designs to order: cro cheting, knitting embroidery, quilts, dolls, weaving. A spe cial gift in the catalog to keep a child happily occupied -a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. market for pay-as-you-see pro grams. Another difference con cerns the scope of the test. Harris' bill would explicitly limit the testing of any par ticular toll system to one area of the country. The FCC be lieves that a valid test should include at least three major TV reception areas. Some observers here . be lieve that a compromise can be worked out during forth coming. Congressional hear ings on Harris' bill. They say there is growing public pres sure for a fair test of pay-TV, and that opponents now rec ognize it will remain a bone of contention until there is such a test. In this connection, they note that Sarnoff said in his recent statement that "there may be some value in satisfy- Centennial Year Directory Planned Salem-Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen reports the bureau of labor will publish a Centennial year directory of all Oregon employer asso ciations representing business, trade, industrial farm and pro fessional interests. Nilsen said the project is under way and has met with an appreciative ' response from many chambers of commerce. The directory will be pub lished as a public service for both residents and Oregon visitors who desire informa tion on the state's organiza tions for various business pur poses. Dr. Eric J. Weiss, re search director of the bureau of labor, is in charge of the project. Dr. Weiss said the directory plan includes address of the association, the specific area it covers, names of principal officers and the number of members or firms the associa tion represents. He requests employer associations not al ready contacted to send their names to his office at the state bureau of labor, 1216 SW Hall st., Portland. The booklet will be the sec ond industrial directory re. cently compiled by the labor bureau which published an index of labor organizations in 1957. Managers Leave For Boise Meeting Managers of Rogue River Valley, Eagle Point, Medford and Talent Irrigation districts left Monday for a two-day meeting in Boise, Idaho, of all irrigation operators of a three-state area. The meeting includes oper ators from Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The training session covers every phase of irrigation operation, it was ex plained. Attending from this area are Ted Flury, Eagle Point Ir rigation district; Harold Sex ton, Rogue River Valley Irri gation district; Walter Hoff buhr, Talent Irrigation dist rict; Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Irrigation district, and Neal Schaefer, Grants Pass Irriga tion district. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Interim Committee on Criminal Code Urged Salem -UPD- A bill which would create a legislative in terim committee , on criminal law and procedure was intro duced in the Oregon Senate Monday. Sen. Carl Francis (R-Day- ton) and Rep. George Van Hoomissen (D-Portland) were principal sponsors. - Van Hoomissen said Ore gon's criminal code was now a "patchwork mess." About 40,000 American men under age 65 are accidentally killed every year. ing" the "view held by many people of honesty and integ rity that some form of test opportunity should be given the promoters of pay sys tems." Compromises Coma Hard Others are skeptical about the possibility of working out test conditions acceptable to both sides. They point out that the distance between them is considerable and neither side is in a mood to give much ground. On one hand, pay-TV pro moters like Zenith, Skiatron and Paramount telemeters are reluctant to invest huge sums i in equipment for a purely technical test. On .the other hand, the broadcasting industry fears that a widespread test of mar ket " sentiment would allow pay-TV to get its foot so far in the door that it could never be dislodged. A complicating factor in the situation' is the announced plan of Skiatron, Inc., to go ahead next summer with pay TV coverage of West Coast major league baseball games. Skiatron plans to pipe these television programs into sub scribers' homes by coaxial cable, rather than broadcast ing them over the air, so that no FCC . permission is re quired under present law. Would Outlaw Operation Harris' bill would outlaw any kind of pay-TV operation - by wire or by broadcast -except for the proposed "tech nical tests" under FCC super vision. The FCC has stated that it will wait until Congress ad journs before talking any fur ther action on pay-TV. Unless Congress passes some legisla tion on the subject, the FCC intends to go ahead, probably this fall, with the kind of pay-TV tests that it considers "realistic. Salesmen Said Getting Huge Sums for 'Food Supplements' Editor's note: To.ii is the second of three dispatches reporting on the racket in phony health cures and what the Federal government and the medical profession' are do ing to combat it. By LOUIS CASSELS Washington-tUPD- The snake oil salesman of yore was a modest fellow compared with some of today's purveyors of "nutrition" nostrums. The old-fashioned medicine man was usually happy to get a couple of bucks for his bot tle of secret elixir, guaranteed to cure all ailments from baldness to bunions. . His modern counterpart nicks his customers for 10 to 100 times that much. And his claims are often as inflated as his prices. The going rate for many of the fancy "vitamin - mineral supplements" sold by house-to-house canvassers is $20 for a bottle of pills that represents a month's supply for one per son. Often the salesman is able to lure the prospect into a contract for a year's supply at a "bargain" price of $200. Claims Illustrated The claims made for some vitamin-mineral products are illustrated in a recent Federal court action involving a West coast firm's "food supple ment" product. The U.S. District Court at San Francisco ordered the condemnation and destruction of a batch of the company's promotion material, including pamphlets and phonograph records, which had been seiz ed by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The FDA charged in its for mal complaint that this ma terial represented the prod uct as being "effective in pre venting, treating or alleviat ing digestive problems, loss of weight, fatigue, weakness, dry skin, hair or nails, lusterless eyes, functional or organic diseases, arthritis, heart trou ble, sinus trouble, chronic in fections, virus Infections, headaches, colds, constipation, emotional instability, lowered body efficiency, distorted heart rhythm, skin inflamma tions, mental confusion, den tal caries, diarrhea, loss of manual dexterity, fear com plex, insomnia, neuritis, sores, poor blood coagulation, can cer, coronary thrombosis, al lergies, cerebral palsy, multi ple sclerosis, infantile paraly sis, muscular dystrophy, epi lepsy, nephrosis, tuberculosis, deafness, blindness and diabetes." These statements, said the FDA, were "false and mis leading since the article is not effective in preventing, treat ing or alleviating such conditions." The company did not ack nowledge the government's allegations, but chose not to contest them in court. It no tified the court that it had "extensively modified its lab eling" in an "effort to comply with the viewpoint of the government, without conced ing that the government's po sition is correct. . Sometimes it is the sales man's oral claims, i"ather than the printed literature, that run afoul of Federal laws against misrepresentation. The FDA has lodged successful criminal prosecutions against five door - to door salesmen who claimed that another widely-sold "food supple ment" would cure a vast range of ailments from vari cose veins to prostate trouble. Long List ' - In another major case, a Federal court jury found man ufacturer .V. Earl Irons of Boston guilty of making false claims that his "Vit-Ra-Tox" products would cure, prevent or treat a long list of ailments including heart trouble, tuber culosis, cancer and polio. Irons was fined $6,000 and sentenced to one year In pris on. His conviction was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston in May, 1957, and the Supreme Court later re fused to review the case. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, February 17, 195 13 Those cited are by no means the only food supple ments that have been in volved in court actions. The list of FDA seizures is long and getting longer every month. (Next: The Bee Fad.) Week's Sewing Buy Planners Suggest Razing Buildings Central Point The city planning committee at a re cent meeting recommended that four abandoned buildings within the city be torn down as fire hazards, committee members have reported. The buildings, which have not been occupied for several years, include' an old store on North Second st.; a 2V-story house on Laurel St., and an old "bunk" house which was moved to its present location on Alder st. and never occu pied. The fourth building is part of a structure that was moved to Central Point during the past six or seven years and was never improved. This structure, it was noted, was currently being improved by the owner. The committee met with the city council and the coun cil approved the planning committee's action, it was re ported. All of the buildings are on private property, and the owners will be notified of the council's action, it was ex plained. Three of the build ings had previously been con demned. At the meeting the city council approved prelimin ary plans for a proposed city hall. It was reported that the recommended changes will be made before further action is taken on the building. Grants for Blind, Deaf Students Urged Salem-(UPD-Grants-in-aid for deaf and blind students are provided in two hills intro duced by the Joint Wavs and Means Committee Monday. The annual grants to blind students attending the state university or colleges ' would be $7o0 for blind students and $500 for deaf students. , SIZES 10-20 Playsuit or dress-two fash ions in one-thanks to the on-or-off role of the skirt. Beginner-easy to sew-choose pique or denim with contrast trim. Tomorrow's pattern: Misses' dress. Printed Patterns 9257: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 playsuit takes 2Ji yards 35-inch fabric; skirt 3V4 yards. ' Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (coins) for this pattern-add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th st., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Bay At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tile Bricks, Flues, 727 W. McAndrewt j Ph. SP 2-4107 Labor-Employer Law Study Urged Salem - (UPD A thorough study of Oregon laws relating to labor-management problems and recommendations on leg islation to protect rights of both employees and employ ers engaged in a labor con troversy is provided in a joint resolution which appeared in the Senate Monday. The resolution, sponsored by Sens. Harry Boivin (D Klamath Falls) and Francis Ziegler (R - Corvallis) author izes appointment of , a com mittee of seven. Two would be named by the president of the Senate, two by the speaker of the House and three by the gov ernor. One of the governor's appointees must be a repre sentative of business, one of organized labor and one repre senting the public at large. The resolution directs that the committee hold at least one meeting in each of the four congressional districts. At the conclusion of the study the committee is charg ed with making a report to the 1961 Legislature. An ap propriation of $10,000 is au thorized in the resolution. Murrow To Take Leave for Year New York -(UPD- Edward R. Murrow, Columbia Broad casting System commentator, will take a year's leave of ab sence beginning July 1 be cause he wants to travel, list en and learn without the pres sure of deadlines. CBS disclosed today that the 50-year-old TV and radio personality had requested the leave and it was granted, by Dr. Frank Stanton, network president. It was reported that CBS was considering Ar thur Godfrey as Murrow's re placement on "Person-To-Per-son" next season. In a letter to Stanton, Mur row said he would return to full-time duty at CBS July 1, 1960. He said he would con tinue film work for the TV program "Small World"- on a reduced basis and would do some reporting if his travels took him to areas where news is breaking. BROADCASTS TO JAPAN Vatican City (UPD Vatican Radio inagurated a new serv ice beamed toward Japan Monday night with a message by Pope John XXIII. 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