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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
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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. ,
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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. The
Pope's message in Latin was
translated into Japanese by a
Japanese seminarist. Hence
forth, broadcasts t o Japan
will be made regularly on
Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day.
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