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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1962)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON "v a KNIT ENSEMBLE - All that glitters this holiday is a "Ban Lon" knit ensemble in spar kling silver. Its pearl-buttoned cardigan and softly-pleated skirt rate center stage with easy-care and easy-to-wear qualities.-Ensemble by Ros-Anna. State Department Continues Caution on Release of N THURSDAY, DECEMBER , 5SS2 what is going on Inside, no matter what practices the top By A.. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune r ) ntMi'iiilc hai'H mnncnH nr hnvt VyaShingion-(Spcclal)-Theim pro4esU;s there is State Department was W':about sJreQy in government, about a recent story in a . ,, Canadian 11 10 B"""" ritugiiizcu news paper, llial t,le mosl dcplorab" -concer aing crccy is the cover-up of costly new -KKotia- mistakes or deliberate wrong tions over the ! clo'n6 which would be em rnii.mhi ni. I barrussine to the early in f er Treaty.! P0"'01' "r cost some olfk'ials .1 "We checked1"10"' J0US or scncl them to cws mem Smith bad talked newspaperman," ernment official around and couldn't find anyone of our people who lo a Canadian said a gov ' So we con- a congres- jail. Often it takes sional investigation off the lid - and even this fometiincs fails, especially when the administration re sorts to the claim of "execu tive privilege" lo shield lis act and officials from scru-j operations, which includes ) cause the vev.v act of disclos- to pry lease it tiny by Congress. Developments involving in ternational mjliiary affairs, however, must be weighed dif ferently from purely domestic civilian affairs. Arthur Syl vester, long-lime Washington newspaper corrcsp onden f, takes an even tougher line than Manning about the vir tue he sets in withholding in formation until the govern ment finds it expedient to re- Colorful Towels Dress Up Both Kitchen, Bath One of the most delightful presents you can give to a homemaker is something new and gay for her home. Costly lo you? Not at all. New coor dinated towel ensembles, for either the kitchen or the bath room, are moderate in price and will pay handsome decor dividends, say Ihe stylist at Morgan-Jones. Christmas collections are literally abloom with fanci ful brightly colored designs . .. and the nicest part of all, for the harried shopper, is they are already handsome ly prepackaged. Once thought of merely as function items, towels and their counterparts can now be had in a range of clear, fresh colors that can revitalize a room quickly and easily. For the kitchen, there are unlimited choices of ensem blcd towel pretties . . . roost ers; oversized apples; floral bouquets; stylized fruits, etc. Even the toaster, which sits on the counter or open shelf can gel a terry "dress up" and be ready at all limes "for quick service. Though bathroom towels ore necessities, they can qualify as decorative acces sories, too. Select from pert designs such as stately roses, or rambling types; practical cvclel-lace designs; or med lies of wild flowers in gay colors. The towels are as prac tical as lhey are pretty. Loom ed with tightly anchored loops and borders (hat do not pucker, they're fashioned of line cotton yarns, wondcr-wo-ven to give soft touch and super-eager absorbency. And pretty towels are sure lo repeat their Merry Christ inas message over and over, all year round, say the folks nt Morgan-Jones. COED BEAUTY Nashville, Tenn. - HOT -Maria Beale Fletcher of Ashe ville, N.C., Miss America of 3962. is now a coed here at Vanderbilt university. RECORDS Stillwater, Minn. - HOT -When Babe Orff. gold pro at the Stillwater Country club, turned to bowling this fall he came up with triplicate scores or 213, 213 and 213. He said the country club set a local golf record this year, too -cvcn holes in one by six members and a visitor. eluded that the Canadians must have leaked it." The significance of this In cident is that it reveals the standard caution of the State Department about what it re gards as premature news stories. This attitude pre-dates by many years the recent Cu ban crisis and the recently invoked - but - later - relaxed policy of requiring State De partment officials to report any talks they've had with newsmen. As for t h e languishing treaty which Canada has nev er ratified, some exploratory talks have been held between Canadian and American tech nicians, and more are sched uled. Nothing definitive has been concluded, informed sources say. But the Slate Department's prevailing altitude is that news stories about what is going on or not going on might rupture prospects for accord. While ticklish differ-1 ences with a foreign govern-' ment are being discussed, State tends to share the Brit- j i?h practice of telling the pub- j lie what the government thinks is expedient to tell. American oflicials publicly salute the concept of "the peo- pie's right to know," but pri- j vately they usually reserve ! the right to decide when. I Central Point Administrations of both parties have followed this practice. Yet this is the cen tral point of the Kennedy Ad ministration's handling of i newsworthy information dur ing the Cuban crisis; it re served the right to set the timing for release of informa tion that was news to the Soviets and the American people. Robert Manning, Stale's public affairs chief, says there is nothing sacrosanct about immediacy - the reporting of developments iinmcdi a t e 1 y after or as they occur. He argues that journalirm's chal lenge is no longer to heat the opposition paper with a hot scoop but to make complex development intelligible to the reader. As an ex-Time editor, Man ning expresses the view of the weekly news magazine which shuns daily newspaper adhcr ance to bold headlines or bul letins of lale but piecemeal developments. Whether it is sound to apply news magazine practices to public affairs is debatable - and Manning wel comes debate on this point. Articles Mixed Newspaper, of course, are changing. Forced to report more about more complex af fairs, from African politics to lunar rocketry, newspapers have mixed more interpretive articles with straight news dispatches to help readers understand the significance ot rapid developments. But they want to perforin this function in the tradition ot the daily press - interpreting develop ments as soon as possible after they occur, not wailing until the end of the week or until a government olticial decides it is propitious to make public certain informa tion long withheld. Responsible, cxpcncncca re porters seldom are absolutely blocked for long from learn ing through trusted sources No one is too critical about the Kenned' Administration clamping down on informa tion about new military equip ment and aboul intelligence spying and reconnaisance. But Sylvester has been severely i criticiied for saying that he regards news as a "Weapon." This is not a very new iriea j at the Pentagon, lov the) Army, Navy and Ai- Force lor some years have been making news a political weap on by leaking stories calcu lated to stive their respective interests in intcrservLe rival ry. Other acencics have done likewise in the conrUnt juris dictional warfare that is part oi bureaucracy. Sylvester says ' he vv a s thinking of news as a weapon of government strategy be ing certain inside develop ments involving military de cisions in Washington pro duce counter - developments inside )he Kremlin Dr else where. The government, he maintains, should be privi- leyted to control the timing of such disclosures for the maxi mum strategic advantage. In this sense, news becomes a weapon of policy in the war oi nerves with the Communist heirarchy. Tension To Continue The tc't of (his ttmrcfit, over the long haul, will be whether the weapon of news is ever aimed a) the home tvont, cither to bombaid the public with government prop aganda or to withhold from Sbe voters the information they require to judge the ad ministration's handling of its responsibilities. The tension between the outsiders iprcss and public) who want the new-, rlslvt now, and the insiders who want lo lo! il ou( tvlictt they think it will "do the most good." has been going on for decades. It is apt to continue as lims as this is a free society in which part of the press is aggressive ly enterprising and part of the j government is nntictably de- Gift Wrapping Can Be Enjoyable D II 33 you don't wait until toe last minute, and have all the tissue, ribbons, paper, bows, togs sntl other "msitditnts" you need gift wrapping Christmas paMs-.'s can be as much tun a,& opening them. 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