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Mond.y, March 28, I960 A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. J 3 Time Said Ripe To Understand U.S. in SIXTH AND GRAPE Race With ' - - v?;,v i PASSING THE MOON An Air Force Titan test from the Air Force Missile Test center appears to streak past the moon in one of at Cape Canaveral, Fla. As the camera pan- the more unusual photographs come out of ned upward tracking the missile, it caught the ballistic missile program. The photo is the moon in the background, an enlargement of a 35mm frame from a tracking sequence shot during a recent flight (U. S. Air Force Photo from UPI Telephoto) Payola Witnesses Said Silent Because of Fear of Reprisals Washington - (UPD - House payola investigators have re ported that some possible wit nesses on the dealings of tele vision disc jockey Dick Clark are clamming up "for fear of reprisals The report was contained in a subcommittee staff memo made public by Reps. Peter F. Mack Jr. (D-Ill.) and John E. Moss (D-Calif.) in an effort to refute a Republican claim that the investigation of the idol of the teen-age set has been "sidetracked." They hurled a charge of "obstructionist tactics" at Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.), the ranking subcommittee Repub lican, who questioned why the subcommittee devoted its hearings to "rinkydink" disc jockeys instead of summon ing Clark. Payola Admitted Bennett had said that in an affidavit Clark signed for the American Broadcasting Company he conceded playing records in which he had a fi nancial interest, and accept ing gifts worth $3,400 from a record distributor. Mack and Moss said this was an effort to "stampede the subcommittee into sensa tional hearings (which) . . . violates the American con cepts of common decency and fair play." "We brand as false the charge that the investigation of the Dick Clark case has been delayed because the sub committee has not rushed into public hearings on as yet un substantiated charges," they said in a joint statement. Bennett replied that the subcommittee staff had Clark's affidavit four months ago and could have had the case ready for public hear ings two months ago "had there been any intention or desire to do so." File Said Under Wraps ''Mack and Moss can't hide the fact that the Clark file has been 'under wraps' since November of last year and until very recently there was every indication that it would retain that status," he said. Mack and Moss made pub lic a memo dated last Wednes day from counsel Robert W. Lishman to Chairman Oren "Harris (D-Ark.) on the status of the Clark case. Lishman said several com mittee investigators and law yers as well as accountants on loan from the general ac counting office are actively looking into broadcasting ac tivities of Clark, his associates and the ABC network, but it is a "long, painstaking in quiry." "His interests outside of his broadcasting activities are complex," Lishman said. "Many persons interviewed are reluctant to talk for fear of reprisals in the form of being denied future opportun ity of having their records aired or their talents display ed on his or other broadcast programs. Clark, given a choice of disposing of interests in rec ord and music companies or leaving his show, 'announced last November he was, divest ing himself of his outside in terests. Lishman said other subjects being scrutinized in the study of Clark and his reported $500,000 a year income in cluded: Have records or songs been broadcast on the "Amer ican bandstand" and "The Dick Clark Show" in, ex change for payments or money or other valuable con siderations? Have such payments been made directly t.oClark or in directly through firms he con trolled, or through third parties? Lishman said premature disclosure of the staffs work in the case would "jeopardize" it and he expressed the hope the subcommittee would not be "stampeded into taking precipitate action." Census-Taking May Be Stepped Up To Once in Five Years u GET THE GENUINE UlRTfR IIU Amtiita't tat ftt Sailing TOILET TANK BALL Noisy running toilets con watt ovr 1000 gallon of water a day. The efficient, patented Water Master tank bail instantly stops the flow of water after each flushing. 75C AT HARDWARE STOWS Washington - When the cen sus taker comes to your house in April to take the ten-year population and housing cen sus, don't say, "See you in ten years. You may see him again earlier than you think - along about 1965. Since 1790 the U. S. Gov ernment has taken a popula tion census once every ten years. A House subcommittee headed by Rep. John Lesinski (D-Mich.) plans to consider this year a bill providing for a five-year population, unem ployment and housing census, Rep. Stewart L. Udall (El Ariz.), who is sponsoring the bill, maintains that "continu ous important and rapid shifts of population" make ten-year census figures outdated long before another census can now be taken. The Budget Bureau and the Commerce Department have suggested that a Congression al study be given to the needs "for more up-to-date popula tion data." Dr. Robert W. Bur gess, director of the Census Bureau recently told Congres sional Quarterly, "We think a five-year census of population could be very valuable." Special Censuses In the absence of a five-year census, 1516 communities have had special population census taken at their own ex pense during the past ten years. They did so to prove their population is larger than the 1950 census figure. The states in which more than 100 such special censuses were taken: California 498, Illinois 340. New York 158, Pennsylvania 139 and Indiana 114. One of the most spectacu lar gains was made by Garden Grove, Calif. It was an unin corporated community of about 3,900 in 1950. In 1959 its population had jumped to 68,866. Transportation Census The Lesinski Subcommittee also plans to consider what should be done about a trans portation census. Congress au thorized the taking of a trans portation census in 1948, but it never has provided money for it. Despite the importance of the transportation indus try in this country, no one government agency now col lects statistics on the number of motor vehicles, railroads, ships, pipelines and airplanes in this country. For the first time in history, the 1960 population census will contain a question on transportation: How do you get to work? The question was included at the request of har ried traffic engineers. The Lesinski Subcommittee is also looking into complaints of businessmen that they have to fill out many detailed and complicated census forms, and are subject to a legal penalty if they fail to do so. Rep. Clar ence J. Brown (R-Ohio) on Feb. 10 called for a Congres sional probe into "the. whole operation of taking censuses of business, manufactures and the minerals industry ... to see if we cannot simplify and eliminate about 75 per cent of the paper work that is so unnecessary." Would Remove Penalty Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.) and .Rep. Phil Weaver (R Neb.) are sponsoring legisla tion removing the penalty for failure or refusal to answer questions on business census es. A letter which Curtis re ceived from a Lincoln, Neb., accountant triggered introduc tion of his bill on July 13, 1959. The Lincoln CPA said he had "just wasted almost four days filling in a number" of 1958 census questionnaires. "I have not wasted that much time," he said, "since back in 1943 (when) some misguided second. lieutenant assigned me to guard a latrine at Fort Sill, Okla., as routine duty." Burgess said that a check into complaints indicated that many businessmen "exagge rate very seriously when they want to make a case that they are being abused by the Gov ernment." A preliminary re port of the Lesinski Subcom mittee has come to the same conclusion. But it did recom mend that Government agen cies seeking information should estimate the cost of private industry in man-hours or dollars. (Copyright, 1960, Congressional Quarterly, Inc.) Argentina Voters Erupt in Violence Buenos Aires - (UPD Cele bration of a heavy protest vote against Argentine Presi dent Arturo Frondizi in con gressional elections erupted into violence in downtown Buenos Aires today. Police used tear gas against demonstrators shouting defi ance of Frondizi and hailing returns that gave opposition parties more than half of the 102 seats contested in the 187- member Chamber of Deputies. Frondizi retained control of Parliament, but at reduced strength. A bomb blast three blocks from the presidential resi dence in suburban Olivos shattered a power station and left a large area in darkness. Police arrested scores of persons for disturbing the peace. No serious injuries were reported. New runway lamps for air fields burn natural gas and adjust themselves automatic ally according to the daylight. United States Marines land ed in Nicaragua in 1927 to protect United States interests and remained until 1933. I a Washington (UPD Trevor Gardner, a former official in the Eisenhower administra tion, says it is "high time that our government understands" that the United States is en gaged in a race with Russia for the conquest of space. Gardner, former assistant Air Force Secretary for Re search and Development, esti mated that the Russians are still about three years ahead of the United States "at least" in the space race. "We have no room for com placency," said Gardner, dis cussing the sun orbit of the U.S. Explorer V satellite, "as a matter of fact it is high time that our government un derstands that we are in fact in a race." "We don't seem to want to accept it as a nation and ap propriate the necessary funds to properly conduct an ade quate space program," he said. In Direct Conflict Gardner, an advocate of more vigorous research and development programs, left the administration in 1956. Now the head of Tycon Manu facturing Co., Gardner dis cussed space and missile in an radio interview with Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn.). Gardner's comments were in direct conflict with the as sertion by President Eisen hower and his top aides that the United States does not consider itself in a "race" with Russia where space technol ogy in concerned. Asked why Russia got ahead in the field of missiles and satellites, Gardner said: "I think v we didn't understand what was obvious to the So viets, that science and tech nology was in fact going through a revolution,- that earth satellites were a possi bility instead of a paper prob ability." He said the Soviets moved ahead to develop rockets with at least twice the thrust of our intercontinental ballistic missiles and, but for a "crash" effort we might have had no ICBM developments at all. . "The facts are that we still don't have nearly enough ICBMs operational," Gardner said. When Kefauver, a former member of the Senate Armed Services committee, comment ed that the committee did not grasp the significance of So viet R:35 and missile develop- m e n t, Gardner commented that the U.S. failure to under stand was just part of the story. "The opposite side of that is that the Russians did," he said. "The (U.S.) leadership to take full cognizance of the importance of science and technology was just not pres ent during the 1950s." He contended that this country lost the technological race of the 1950s. He agreed with Kefauver that the 1960s' race must now be won, and he predicted that "most of the usefulness of space will be found in satellites." He said the Russians with rockets of greater thrust will have an easier time orbiting military satellites for com munications, reconnaissa nee or "a bomb carrying satel lite." He called it "very urgent and very important that we have an anti-satellite device developed as soon as possible." Population Growth Seen in Northwest Portland - (UPD - Brig. Gen. Allen Clark, the Army's dis trict engineer, predicts that by the year 2010 Oregon and Washington will have a popu lation of 12 million. He also forecasts industries lining the Columbia river from Bonneville to Longview and the Willamette river from the Ross island bridge to its mouth. Gen. Clark also expects a great expansion of snipping on the lower Columbia river and a 10-fold increase on the upper Columbia - Snake river system. He made his forecasts in a talk to the Portland Shipping club here. I si the beet deserves the finest spaghetti Ooiint Sown Only 3 More Days for Copco Allowance! NO MONEY DOWN 1st Payment in May If you can use a 40" Range, we have Three To Close Out. PRICES START AT $2L4495 New 30 Custom with bake or Bar-B-Kewer oven I Large oven bakes, broils, even barbe cues automatically and door slips off for easy cleaning. 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