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Ewald Takes As Television By WILLIAM EWALD UPI Correspondent New York- (OPD -Dear read er: This is my last gasp as a TV columnist. I want to post goodbyes to all those who have written to me, most of whom seemed to be saddled with 1 reader, angry reader, en raged reader, d i s p 1 e ased reader, indig- Willimm EwaU nant reader and ex-reader. Isn't there any body named Smith in this country anymore? I want to say goodbye, too, to the lady who requested my picture for use as a dart board, the girl who accused me of jealousy because I couldn't shake like Elvis, the teen-ager who called me a squeep, i. part square, part creep, the gentleman who threatened to report me to Jack Paar, the numerous fans who suggested I was ripe ma terial for a padded piazza in the laughing academy, the lady in Florida who threaten ed to punch me in the nose, the lady in Minnesota who threatened to punch me in the nose, the lady in California who threatened to punch me In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: -, The house of representa tives of the U.5. congress is wading into a ' bare knuckle fight over labor control legis lation, with the issue of the : fight very much in doubt . The air in the house chamber crackles with tension . Most members are in their seats, and the galleries are packed with observers from labor and industry groups. For months, the pressure has been building toward what shapes up as the bitter est floor struggle over labor matters since the Taft-Hart-i ley law was enacted 12 years ago. The struggle is now com ing to a head. ' rpHIS is the big issue: -V Is too much power held j in too few hands? If so, what shall be done about it? KEEP this in mind: ,'" The battle in the con gress is largely a political battle. ' Next year is a cam paign year. In 1960, EVERY MEMBER of the house of ren- r resentatives will be up for re election. Roughly a third of the membership of the senate will be up for re-election. That being the case, a lot of votes in the congress will be influenced by political con siderations. The big question is WHAT WILL GET THE MOST VOTES? VOU may ask: - What ran T An atmit if Here's one thing you can do: You can take your pen in hand and write your senators and congressman, telling them exactly how you feel. Put it simply and plainly no ifs, no ands, no buts. If you want a strong bill, designed to pre vent too much power from . falling into too few hands, say so. If you want a mild bill, making few changes in exist ing law, say so. If you want : no new labor legislation at all, say so. Your letters will have more to do with the outcome of the ruckus now boiling up in Washington than anything eise. xour senators ana your ' representatives are politi , cians. They have to be if they are to hold their jobs. Besides, their REAL job is to support the kind of laws the majority of their constituents want, iney cant know what you want unless you tell them. Pf OREGON, your senators are Wayne L. Morse and Richard L. Neuberger. Their Washington address is Senate Office Building, Washington, 'D.C. If you live in Southern Oregon, your representatives are Charles O. Porter and Al Ullman. Their Washington ad dress is House Office Build ' ing, Washington, D.C. If you live in California, your senators are Thomas H. Kuchel and Clair Engle. Their Washington address is Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. If you live in Far North ern California, your congress men are Clement Woodnutt Miller (of the First California district) and Harold TV Joh son (of the Second California district). Their Washington address is House Office Build ing, Washington, D.C. IF YOU'RE interested, WRITE A LETTER about it. In that way, you can make your interest in national legis lation count. Don't think your letters won't be read. They WILL be - if they are sincere and genuine. 11 v Last Gasp Columnist in the nose and the lady in Connecticut who threatened to punch me in the stomach. I assumed she was a midget. Called a Blob Over the past 21 months, I have been called a blob, sorehead, a cube, a sourball, a smoker of maijuana, pro Elvis. anti-Elvis, beat, anti- beat, a lowbrow, middlebrow, highbrow and no brow, young twerp an old fogey, ulcer-ridden, flat-footed and flat-headed. It has been sug gested that I go soak my head, jump in the lake, fall in a snowdrift, consider sulphur and molasses, change my brand of dog biscuits, drop dead and be deported to the Soviet Union, although hap pily, not all at the same time. As a chronicler of the boob tube. I have received hun dreds of letters, but the bulk of them fall into predictable categories and can be answer ed rather simply. To wit: -To all those teen-agers who asked me to try and under stand them, I say nonsense Why don't you try understand ing adults for a change? -To all those who say TV provides the sort of fare that they, ordinary people, like, I say shame on you for reveling in your ordinariness -To all those who say there is room for all kinds of tastes, nonsense again. There is ob viously a hierarchy of values in life - without it, we be come vegetables. If you prefer to squander your free time on Lawrence Welk, the Texan, The Price Is Right and other drivel, it may be time for you to question your values. Sentiments Shabby -To all those who protest: "Say something nice or don't say anything at all, I say your sentiments are shabby, Television is an instrument with a tremendous potential for expanding the horizons of all of us. Unfortunately, it seems to exist primarily to sell goods, rather than nourish and giddy us with all of life. It is falling down on the job badly, succumbing to the tyranny of majority tasteless ness, land-sliding" us under with garbage. TV should be scolded constantly and severe ly. So should you who sit and accept. Exit, pursued by a bear. Yours truly: The blob, the sorehead, the cube. Shark Menaces Skin Divers San Diego - (UPD - Two skin divers were menaced for 20 minutes by a nine-foot ham merhead shark Thursday be fore they were able to kill it with a "one in a million" shot by a spear gun. The shark, apparently at tracted by a speared halibut hanging from one of the div ers' belts, was killed when it tried to bite a spear gun held by Don Ide, 32. He said he tried desperately to get rid of the dead halibut but was unable to pull it from his belt. "He circled us about 20 minutes," said Ide, an expe rienced skin diver. "First he would attack me and then Joe. We held him off with our spear guns. Finally he took the end of my spear in his mouth. "I pulled the trigger. It was a shot in a million." Neither Ide nor his com panion, Joe Turner, 24, Were bitten by the shark as it cir cled them about a quarter mile off La Jolla shoals. It was in the same general area where a killer shark killed a diver last April and where a lifeguard was bitten on, the leg by a shark. Ide said attempts to scare the shark away were fruit less. Both he and Turner were using aqua lungs to dive when they first spotted the shark in the depths. They surfaced, but it stayed with them, he said. Former Child Star In Grips of Law Los Angeles (UPD Scotty Beckett, . 29, trouble-plagued former child star of "Our Gang" movies and other films, was arrested early today on suspicion, of possessing nar cotics. Beckett, now a car sales man, had four benzedrine tab lets in his coat pocket, accord ing to the arresting officer, C. D. Kilgo. Beckett's compan ion, Brian Van Winkle. 20. also was arrested on the same charge when officers found what looked like hypodermic needle marks in his arm. Kilgo said Beckett was dri ving his car erratically down the street. The officer said he stopped the car to see if the driver had been drinking. Both men were booked on the felony charge. They both insisted they were innocent. CONCERT PIANIST DIES , New York- (UPD -Mrs. Made- lein Sander Friedheim, 90, a former concert pianist and opera singer, died Thursday It n t! ft rj i ?; ) f'r 5 aaaff " ASS! bBo" "4 WINNING HONORS as most heroic dog of 1959, Lady and her master. Tommy Abel, 3, St Louis Mo, are photo graphed with plaque presented them in Chicago by dog food manufacturers. Lady led rescuers to swamp hole where Tommy was stuck and slowly sinking. Butler, Los Angeles Mayor To Discuss Ticket Squabble Los Angeles-UPD-Democrat- ic National Chairman Paul M. Butler meets, with Mayor Norris Poulson today and said he would "talk to anyone to settle this preposterous dis pute", over tickets . to the party's 1960 national conven tion. But Butler left no doubt that he was ready to throw open bids to other cities for the convention if his alloca tion of no more than 1,500 tickets to the Los Angeles host committee was not ac cepted. "There is no question of a compromise, he said. "We can't bring tickets out of a hat." Bitter Statement He flew here last Thursday night from Washington when the intra-party squabble which has been brewing for months flared publicly with bitter statements by local civic leaders. They claim the host committee was promised 5,000 tickets to the conven tion by the national commit tee last Feb.. 27. In an odd coincidence, oil man Edwin Pauley-treasurer' of the host committee and major spokesman for the 5,000-ticket demand arrived at International Airport with in two minutes after Butler. While a crowd of reporters and local party leaders crowd ed around Butler, whose plane was four hours late, Pauley left the plane bringing him from Mexico and departed ap parently unnoticed. Willing To Negotiate He had returned here for a meeting with Butler, claim ing he was willing to negoti- No Change Seen In Steel Talks New York (UPD Peace talks in the national steel strike limped along today with no . signs of union or manage ment changing their positions. The prospects of an accord seemed almost as remote as when the walkout started a month ago. Chief government mediator Joseph F, Finnegan,' who had been in Washington on budg etary matters, was back at the bargaining table when the joint session resumed - today. R. Conrad Cooper, execu tive vice president of the U.S. Steel Corp., headed industry's four-man team. Cooper was absent Thursday. David J. McDonald, presi dent of the United Steelwork ers Union, still was absent. His place as head of the union team was filled by Howard Hague, vice president of the union. LOVES CONQUER MALEY Whitley, England (UPD Sailor Jack Maley, whose first love is the sea, said Thursday his second love might have caused him trou ble, but his third love made him forget it. Maley-in court when two men were tried for beating him up-said his sec ond love is flowers. His third love, he said, is beer. "I can not remember the fight at all," he said. "I had been to a flower show and had about 18 pints." CLOGSTorrs Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 3-1014 Evenings ate despite his claims of hav ing documentary proof that the national committee guar anteed the host committee 5,000 tickets. Pauley already has express ed his approval of a compro mise by Poulson whereby the host committee would accept 3,133 tickets. But Butler remained ada mant. "The national committee never made commitments in excess of 1,500 tickets," he said. "The national committee is not desirous of being arbi trary, unreasonable, but we know what we can do. Camera-Carrying Missile Launched Cape Canaveral, Fla.-flJPD-The Air Force launched an other camera-carrying Thor ballistic missile today to ob tain more filmed evidence of how the weapon's nose cone behaves during flight. 4 The 16 mm., movie camera peeked through a data capsule rigged to fall free of the nose cone near the end of a 1,500 mile hop. Ships and planes waited at the target area, near Antigue Island in the West Indies, to pluck the capsule and its valu able cargo from the ocean. In a wartime firing, a hydrogen warhead would occupy the space used by the camera and the capsule. The camera was the third sent up in a Thor nose cone. In previous camera flights on May 12 and July. 24, film showing separation of the cone from the body of the Thor was recovered. There are four main human blood groups as major divis ions but scientists estimate that blood group factors are capable of producing about 132,710,400 combinations. STAR By CLAY yffi MAR. 22 Your DaUr 'I According to tho Stan. 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Pacific Hiway Wall Street Chatter New York - (UPD - Don't ex pect too much of the market between now and Labor Day, according to the brokers. L. P. Hooper, analyst for W. E. Hutton & Co., says the second half of August often has been a waiting period for investors and he cautions against hoping for two much in the next few weeks. Waiting for Vacationers This year, he ' adds, the market seems to be waiting not only for the vacationers to come back but also for: An appraisal of the effort to break the deadlock in the cold war;. Settlement of the steel strike; ; A better idea of the invest ment consequences of a situ ation where bonds yield so much more than stocks; The business consequences for greatly reduced inflation ary pressures in federal fi nance: Man Confesses Three Murders For No Reason Islip, N. Y. - (UPD - Francis Henry Bloeth, 27, diagnosed in his teens as an incurable psychopath who strangled cats for fun, confessed Thurs day night that he had killed two men and a woman for no more reason. "If I had had more bullets, I would have shot more peo ple, Suffolk County District Attorney John P. Cohalan Jr. quoted Bloeth as saying. Just Like Flies "These people were just like flies on Bloeth's hand," Cohalan said. "He just rapped them and killed them, just like that." Bloeth's victims, all killed within an eight-day period, were all night workers on duty alone in eating places in three different eastern Long Island towns. He was arrested Monday for a non-fatal "Russian rou lette" holdup and as a "prime suspect" in the killings but he insisted he was innocent until Thursday night, when his wife and his attorney pleaded with him for more than an hour to tell the truth they suspected. Wife Pleaded "I felt all along he had done it," Mrs. Jane Bloeth, 25, told newsmen as she and the attorney, Sidney R. Siben, made the first announcement of the confession. - "I pleaded with him to spare more innocent people from being killed," Mrs. Bloeth said. Both Siben and Cohalan said Bloeth appeared without remorse. Cohalan said he had asked Bloeth whether he had any feeling for his family and if he didn't feel sorry to have brought them this trouble. He said Boeth replied: "I wouldn't shoot my wife, my mother or my daughter." Cohalan said: "I just couldn't believe what this man told me as he talked. It was an absolute nightmare." More than one million per sons in the U.S. are said to be sufferin" from rheumatic heart disease. GAZERV R. 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