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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
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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
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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.
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