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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD. OREGON SUNDAY. MAY 19. 1963 A 3 I i o a i S'" ! j PROPOSED FREEWAY ROUTE This map shows the route oJ the proposed Interstate S Freeway over the Siski yous. Following the present Highway 99 to the intersection of the old Highway 99, the freeway would then be con structed on a new right of way, providing a better grade, and in some places a two-level highway. A hearing on the freeway to the California state line was held here last week. Construction is now under way on the freeway from the South Ashland interchange to Wall Creek, at left of map. Harold Friend Gets Tuition Scholarship Harold Friend, son of Mr. and ?"rs. M. C. Friend, 252 DcBarr ave., hes been noti fied by the state scholarship committee that h r re' ' ed a full tuition scholarship for 1963-64 at Southern Ore gon college for outstanding achievement in elementary education. The student was recently selected for Theta Delta Phi. men's scholastic fraternity at the college. Friend, a senior in elemen tary education, is one of the students at the collcr in the fi-e-year -dueati'i program. During the fifth year, the ma jority of the time will be spent in practice teaching for which he will receive graduate credit. ri . .. ? ! m i ! , t. Selection, quality, beauty, durability-all at the LOWEST prices . . these are the things we offer at Weeks & Orr in fine home fur nishings. 3 BIG FLOORS in which to shop, too. You're sure to find exactly what you needl DAVENO & ROCKER Covered in long-wearing C 1V CO nylon. Easy to clean. lvylj W Choice of colors. j (Similar to Illustration) U Aw Many othir living room uti to choost from. Look around! Good Selection of OVAL RUGS 2 ft. by 3 ft. $2.95 3 ft. by 5 ft $6.50 4 ft. by 6 ft $9.95 6 ft. by 9 ft $24.50 8 ft. by 10 ft $39.50 9 ft. by 12 ft $49.50 10 ft by 14 ft $65.00 11 ft. by 15 ft $79.50 LOTS OF SIZES AND COLORS! BEDROOM SETS! Coma In, browso thru our largo Bedroom Furnituro department. 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Miss Efron bases her accu sation on a study of news and public affairs programs dur ing the three-year period I960, 1961 and 1962. and on personal interviews with TV newsmen and producers, TV critics, and magazine and newspaper editors. She is not crticizing the day-to-day hard news broadcasts but the news specials and documentaries. The television newsmen pretty well agree the taboo areas in the coverage of na tional affairs include any cov erage that might air criticism of Government, Big Business, unions and labor or the big pressure groups. Howard K. Smith, ABC news commentator, was quo ted as angrily indicting the and declaring "You get Into trouble if you criticize Big Business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress, and were getting Increasingly cautious of criticizing the Ad ministration. The pressures are getting worse." From a total of 1580 sub jects covered in the three years studied, Miss Efron has found 421 were foreign cover age, 695 were U.S. domestic issues, and 464 were assorted subjects from Shakespeare to Miss America. There was a clear pattern to the foreign coverage. The cameras were following the critical news. There were 30 shows on Germany, 30 shows on Cuba, 11 shows on Alger la, etc. But the pattern of the U.S coverage was not so clear Some crtical news areas were intensively covered and some almost Ignored. According to reporter Ef ron, "Almost 80 per cent of the 695 shows on domestic subjects are concentrated five areas: the President (236 shows), elections (128 shows), space (108 shows), arms and disarmament (42 shows) and racial conflict (30 shows). mat leit only 20 per cent of the programs to cover the major news areas of Govern ment, business and lauor dur ing what Miss bfron terms were three stormy years when "... there were major Congressional i n vestigatiuns into Big business ana labor unions. Executives or major industrial firms were sent to jail under the anti-trust acts. Strikes repeatedly imperiled national defense. Congress came under attack for its methods of operation and the privileges of its members. Su preme Court decisions pro voked strong opposition from different sectors of the pop ulation , . , Major political scandals broke over some of the highest-placed heads in Washington. A severe stock- market collapse created vio lent repercussions in the bus! ncss community." Yet television news docu mentaries with a few highly publicized exceptions, avoid ed such controversial sub' jeets preferring to produce strong dramatic documentar ies on "high-powered politi cal and ideological issues in foreign landc." As New York Times critic Jack Gould puts it: "The net works arc courageous abroad and cowards In Washington." What is the television In dustry afraid of? According to one CBS pro ducer, the networks don't want to antagonize anyone 114 West Main St. Phone 772-9351 PAINT-UP, FIX-UP at ACME "The ad agencies panic If you take off against Big Business. In the area of labor, the net works themselves don't want to rock the boat. Thcy"re Big Business, and Big Business does not antagonize Big La bor. As for criticism of Gov ernment, the nets operate by Government permission. hey're not going to antag onize the Administration. Some of the network execu tives and newsmen blame the trouble on pressure groups. They're so organized," says Chct Huntley, "that they can create real havoc within a network. After some contro versial stories, you've got six weeks of absolute agony ahead of you, with yelling and meetings and endless cor respondence, and lawyers and suits, and shipping scrips back and forth to the FCC. It's real agony.1' Different pressures email- ating from Washington ex plain some of the fear. The FCC, which licenses stations and networks, is a political entity, run by political ap pointees. Behind them Is Con gress, a political body which can change the laws affecting the networks. Antagonizing influential members of the Commission or Congress could mean unfavorable regulations. This awareness of potential political danger automatically operates to inhibit in-depth television coverage of nation al affairs. How to solve this problem of what Miss Efron calls "a censored medium (of com mutation) without a censor" will not be easy. In fact not one of the men Interviewed by reporter Efron had a solution. But the problem should be solved. News coverage by this mass media giant should be as comprehensive, critical and unafraid as news coverage by the less timid media - maga zines and newspapers. The Only Store With Parking at the Door MEET THE PRESS. 6 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. Muham mad Zafrulla Khan of Pakis tan, president of the current session of the UN General Assemble. Is questioned. SHOW OF THE WEEK, 10 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. Tues day Weld and Alfred DraKe star in "The lettcnd of Lylart Clare," a drama of eerie sus pense based on the legend of the dibbuk, in which tne spir it of a dead person possess es a living Body ana acts through It. PEOPLE, PLANTS AND GEOGRAPHY, 6:40 p.m. Mon day KMED-TV. The Mcdford curriculum center recently acquired this nature study film produced by Odd BJerkc, wilderness expert. The animal photography is outstanding. Position Explained By James Redden Representative James A. Redden (D-Medford) last week explained why he was one of three legislators voting against HB 1129. relating to civil com mitment of sex offenders. Redden said, "all psychiatric testimony indicated that, but for a minute percentage ol those committed would be, in effect, a life term because of the low rate of cure. This amounts to a life sentence without the traditional protec tion afforded the accused. Redden pointed out that un der the bill certain evidence, now considered irrcvclant and prejudicial, would be admissi ble, and further that the bur den of proof would not be the traditional burden of "be- vond a reasonable doubt. 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