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Economics Also Makes
Strange Bedfellows . . .
California
Still Not
In The Sea"
Econonrics also makes slrange
bedfellows.
Time was when television was looked
upon by the motion picture industry and
theater owners as ; their worst enemy.
Today, strangely enough, 'the latter are
pleading with the public to help them
"save TV.” .
Free, commercially sponsored
television, that is, the only kind that has
been available up to now.
For more than 17 years,,due largely to
pressure from commercial broadcasters
and theater owners, pay or subscription
television was limited to one experimental
station in Hartford, Conn. For nominal
fees, participants in the experiment were
able to view first-run movies and other
special productions in their homes by
virtue of a "descrambling" unit attached
to their television sets.
Last'year, the Federal Communication
Contmission finally decided that the rest
of the country could get in on pay TV. As
a result, the National- Association - ofc
although there is also a good possibility
' that it cottld lay the biggest egg since the
Edselr The tiartford exfieftment war *
multimillion-dollar loser.
But one thing fthould be made clear
Fee TV is not q threat to free TV, PGC
rules govering iT are very stringent arid
explicit. Only cities with at least four
existing commercial channels may have it.
It is prohibited from taking over
programing now pn the air. You will not,
for instance, have to pay to see a bail game
you have seen for free in the past.
Pay TV has a lot going for it, however.
For about $1.50, an entire household, and
as many other people as can crowd into
their living room, will be able to watch a
first-run, family-type niovie instead of
paying the $8 or $10 it can cost to go to
the theater.
That is the crux of the pay TV crisis for
theater owners; They have a legitimate
worry. But* some of their propaganda
against pay TV has not beensoTegitimate*
Theater Owners has launched a
newspaper-ad, petitioning and lobbying
campaign to warn the public of the
free
“danger” to free television ancTTo
persuade Congress to reverse the FCC.
“Save Free TV” has appeared on the
marquees of some theaters and the
association plans a dramatic national
.blackout of all marquees to give
Americans a preview of what their
downtowns and shopping centers will look
like when, as it fears, pay TV has killed
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There is no doubt that pay TV poses a
very real threat to movie exhibitors,
Puzzle Delayed
Because of a mix-up in shipments, The
Baytown Sun’s daily crossword puzzle did
not arrive in time for publication on this
page Monday and Tuesday of this week.
The week’s supply of puzzles has been
shipped by air from the New York
syndicate which prepares them for The
Sun and should arrive in time for
By PAUL HARVEY
BayUwi Sun Columnist
April I960 came and is on its
way out. California has not yet
"broken off and fallen into the
sea.” The seers and the
soothsayers are returning to
their cracked crystal balls in
sullen silence.
An official of the U. S.
Geological Survey said It:
“People just like to scare
themselves; nothing we can say
qr do seems to help.”
But a Caltech scientist offered
this sobering afterthought:
Suppose, by some Hlterly. .M3r..
predictable coincidence, there
had been a major earthquake in
California during that time;
crackpots would have been
catapulted into fame and for-
tune.
On the basis of one apparently
provable “prediction,” these
hocus-pocus characters would
have beeo_Jnterviewed world-
wide on TV and radio, Would
have been mysticized and
deified. They’d have created new
cults to bilk foolish, frightened
widows of their residual
resources.
Soothsayers' forecasts are
influencing the war in Vietnam
more than our officials in Saigon
prefer to admit.
In Vietnam, astrology,
palmistry, phrenology,
numerology, geomancy,
spiritualism awl necromancy
are respected '‘sciences," in-
fluencing the private live of
Vietnamese and inextricably
interwoven into the fabric of
* politics and affairs of state.
However indirectly, for- ‘
tunetellers are influencing U. S.
foreign policy and the course of
the war because, from South
Vietnam’s President Nguyen
Van Thieu on down, the words of
the soothsayers are gospel!
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/#You Just Follow in My Footsteps!'
Washington Merry-Go-Round -
Censu s Bureau Deletes
Embarrassing Queries
By DREW PEARSON
ud JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The Census
Bureau has now eliminated such
embarrassing questions as “Do
you have a flush toilet? ” “Do you
have a bathtub or a shower?"
and “How many babies have you
had, counting stillborn births?”
“This works a hardship on the
poor," commented the
President. “The ones most in
need are the ones who won’t
reveal their existence. We can’t
help them if we don’t know they
exist/’
“These people,” suggested
Pennsylvania Sen. Hugh Scott,
"This will be the largest in 18
years and the fourth largest in
the history of the nation,” said
Mayor.
Across the President’s face
slowly spread a $4 billion smile.
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edition.
The Sun regrets the inconvenience to
crossword puzzle fan's.
Barbara Jordon Eyes Seat In Congress
. .Editor’s Note: Sen. Barbara
* Jordan, Texas’ flht Negro wom-
an senator, is looking ahead to
a possible congressional seat. A
persuasive, well-liked woman
who has the trust of her fellow
lawmakers, she may have good
reason to aim that high. The
first of two stories on the women
who are in the legislature.
By ANGELA PENNA
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN (API—Sen. Barbara
Jordan of Houston started In
politics by licking stamps. By
, 1970; she hopes- to be a U.S.,
congresswoman. ’
She has reason to be optimis-
tic. Anyone who is persuasive
enough to start her fellow sena-
tors singing, “We Shall Over-
come,” has a lot going for her.
some senators to take me in
when I first got here. They had
to case me. I felt the same way
about them. We had to know
each other and Understand each
other before we could begin to
work together.”.
The daughter of a poor Bap-
tist preacher who lived on the
proverbial wrong side of life
tracks said she experienced her
first “political adventure” dur-
ing the Kennedy Johnson cam
laign in I960.
“I had a law degree but no -
practice, so I went down to Har-
ris County Democratic Head-
quarters and asked them what
l could do,’’ Miss Jordan said.
“They put me to work licking
stamps’ and addressing enve-
lopes. One night we went out to
been keeping in touch with her
Negro constituents,
“Most of (hem have no con-
cept of what state government
is ail about,” she said. “They
worked to get me here but they
didn’t know what to do with me
once 1 got elected. Fortunately,
the levelof awareness of‘■what
goes on in Austin has increased
tremendously over the past
year.” .
Sen. Jordan says she spends
her weekends working in her of-
fice Jn Houston practicing gen-
eral civil law and supplementing
her income.
”It£ alia matter of survival,”-
sht said, “one needs to eat.”
counseled every member of the
South Vietnamese government
except Prime Minister Tran Van
Huong. "Only he does not come
to me to find out what to do.”
The Wall St. Journal asked
reporter Peter Kann to probe the
depth of this infiuence in the
conduct of South Vietnamese
affairs. He found that the
number of articles in the South
Vietnamese constitution was
dictated by a numerologist.
The date of President Thieu’s
1967 inauguration was set by an
astrologer.
A number of Vietnamese
cabinet ministers govern their
actions and their decisions and
their travels by the positions of
the stars.
South Vietnamese military
leaders are known to consult
fortunetellers before un-
dertaking military-operations.
"What happens if a for- .
tuneteller makes a prophesy
nnfmia?”
BARBS
the Texas Senate. posed to speak didn't show up,
"My plans don't include spend-
ing the rest of my life in the
-Texas Senate,” she said In an
interview.—
... “After the 1970 redistrteting.
Harris County {Houston) will
probably get a fourth congress-
man. If the situation looks favor-
able, I will run for Congress.”
The senator can rest assured
' she has die support of her Sen-
ate colleagues. Her guitar-play-
ing helped win them over.
Fellow senators recall die
time1 she took her guitar to a
quail hunt sponsored by Sen.
Charles Wilson/Lufkin, and
played so well she inspired the
I volunteered in her place and
right after that, they took me off.
licking and addressing.’’
feelaJiet
greatest accomplishment as a
legislator was “the day I stood
beside the governor ami watched
him sign die Workmen’s Com-
pensation Act."
Her greatest disappointments
have come from not seeing more
being done in election reform
and urban affairs.
“The present political- ma-
chinery of this state just won't
allow, these problems to be
solved, ' she said. “
Sen. Jordan said she sees more
By PHIL PASTORET
One of the hardest words
for most of us to manage is
"apologize/
fjf the mignymoM.pdtty.,s
7Mo~put~the hard-cooked
eggs in our shirt drawer
for safe-keeping before
Easter will remove them
instanter, we promise to
be moderate in retribu-
tion: ~ ' -
Never letthe sun go down
on a squall with the
frau;
East Texas—to join her in
chorus of “We Shall Overcome.”
Sen. Jordan says her accept-
ance in the Senate has been
complete.
“The ultimate was being,
named chairman of the impor-
tant Labor ami Management
Committee."
She added, “There was a nat-
ural hesitancy on the part of
in the next "four or five years.
"After redistricting in 1970, the
Senate will take on a liberal-
to-moderate character.’’
She sags Texas still has a long
.way Jo faf. in
tors. " We’re ahead of stales such
as Mississippi and Alabama, but
our attitude is still not aggres-
sive enough.”,
One of her big problems has
which turns out to be untrue?1
A presidential aide replies,
“That simply means that we
consulted the wrong for-
tuneteller.” ^ *
I’m told that the'long wrangle
over the shape of the peace table
in Paris resulted from a dispute
over “which delegation got to.
lace the good spirits of the Seine
River!” ......j;
One American official says the
South Vietnamese boycotted the
talks through last November
because “that month the stars
were not right for President
Thieu.” ; \ -...........■
California cumsts"predicting
doom may be little more harmful
than pickpockets. But when our
government gets involved with
trying to fight ghosts, our reach
has exceeded our grasp,
interesting closed-door
session between President Nixon
and his Republican leaders in
Congress in which they opposed
this Type of examination.
Rep. Jackson Betts, Ohio
Republican, though .not, present
at the meeting, was among the
most vigorous in opposing the
Census questionnaire as an in-
vasion of privacy. Y»
“People could be sent to jail,”
claimed Betts, "a host of things
could happen, all because they
answered Census questions
which had nothing to do with
counting the population."
President- Nixon at first
believed that his hands were
tied. He told the GOP leaders
that several government
programs, such as school lun-
ches and public housing, are
based in law upon a mandatory
census.;. „ ;
President Nixon at first
believed that his hands were
tied. He told the GOP leaders
that several government
programs, such as school lun-
ches and public housing, are
based in law upon a mandatory
census.
. .TteJPrwident also disclosed
that he might seek to remove
criminal penalties from the law,
since" only; two people in the
history of the Census had been
convicted for failure to answer
questions.
He was also concerned about
the people who are left out of,the
census. He asked his urban
adviser, Dan Moynihan, about
reports that more than one
million Negroes aren’t carried in '
the Census,
. “Yes, sir. That’s true,” replied
Moynihan. “‘That’s my
judgment
enforcement, government
taxes.”
Agreeing, the President also
felt some people were deterred
by the complex Census forms.
He told the GOP leaders that in-
the 1970 Census only five per cent
of the people will be asked to fill
out the long form. Another 15 per
cent will be given a more
moderate questionnaire; but 80
per cent, he said, "will receive
the shortest form you can get.”
After farther study, the Census
Bureau bowed and cut the
original 66 questions for
householders down to 23.
Note—The President made no
comment on the fact that the
government sells census in-
formation to credit bureaus and
other private outfits. The
Federal Users Conference,
whose members profit from
government - gathered personal
statistics, has been busy
backstage heading off any at-
tempt to restrict this flow of
information. The Federal Users’
man in Washington, John Aiken,
has been-■ quietly pulling both
federal “and congressional
strings.
SEN. HARRISON Williams, D-
N.-'J.^ chairman of the Special
“ Senate Committee on Aging, will
soon reveal some shocking facts
about the economic plight of old
people. ‘
Williams, who has had a task
force of experts delving into this,
warns: “The economic problems
of old age are not only unsolved,
but they will not be solved for the
elderly of the future — today’s
workers — unless this nation
takes positive, comprehensive
actions going far beyond those of
recent years.”
His task force findings, to be
disclosed at the hearings at the
end of April, reveal in part:
“Three out of ten people 65 and
older — in contrast to one in nine
younger people — were living in
poverty in 1966. Yet many of
these aged. people did not'
become poor until they became
old.”
About half of the families with
an elderly head had less than
$4,000 income in 1967, about one
in five was below 32,000. Half of
the old people living alone of _
with non-relativesJiad incomes
below $1,480 and a fourth had
$1,000 or less.
North put down the.dum-
my and remarked, "I never
pass a forcing bid.”
South looked at the dummy
and thought that a better
statement would be, "I never
pass." Then South decided to
try to make his hopeless con-
tract. "' *’
The queen of hearts lead
had to be helpful except that
South suspected it was a sin-
gleton and trumps would
break 5-1. He played dum-
my’s four and was delighted
to see East produce the ace.
East returned the queen of
spades. South took his ace
and played the king of
hearts. If both opponents fol-
lowed, he planned to draw
trumps and trust to the dub
suit coming in.
Unfortunately for South.
West showed out. South was
now faced with the problem
of going down as few tricks
as possible. He led the four
of spades toward dummy.
West played low and East
ruffed. Now East was down
to the same-juunber—of—
trumps that South held. Fur- •
thermore, he was on lead
and decided to get two
trumps for one.- He didn’t
seem to see the danger in
that long club suit in dum-
my.
Hi
e found out soon enough.
East led a small trump and
South took that trick with his
10. South cashed his last jack
of trump and drew East's
last trump. Then South
the ace and six of
played
clubs. He paused for thought.
You could just see him ask-
ing himself, “Would East
have defended this way if he
didn’t hold the club-queen?”
Finally South played dum-
my’s jack. It held. The rest
of the clubs were good and
South had made his ridicu-
lous contract.
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Q—The bidding has been:
West
North
East
South
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1*
Pass-
2*
.Pass
2¥
PasS
3*
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BIBLE VERSE
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ing up a whole new argu-
ment;. i-'A-
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: jffefiLhn't Whatman pick
up on a tennis bet. '' '
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A—After dates, gum
arabic is the most important
tree product of the Sahara
Desert. It exudes from the
branches of several species
of acacia trees of the oases.
Q—What Biblical inscrip-
tion appears on the Liberty
Bell?
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Q—What part of an oyster
is eaten?
A—All of an oyster is
eaten except the sheH.
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Today In History
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APRIL 22,1864 — Congress ap-
proved jjsejof motto In God We
Trust® U.S. coins.
PRESIDENT" Nixon gave his
congressional chiefs a private
pep talk the other morning on his
budget; which he promised
would be “more generous” next
;_i:„ IT
Only Colorado’s Sen. Gordon
Allott departed the closed-door
White House meeting still
petulant over public works cuts
' in his home state. He cheerfully
'advocates government economy
everywhere except in Colorado.
His complaints about reducing...
—Colofado’s Tielpings from the
-- pork barrel brought a quiet
appeal from the President.
“This budget is going to hurt,”
he said, “but I want your help.”
, He 'pointed out that the
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27 per, cent, which he said was.
“much more than the social
aspects” had been cut.
IN THE LAST day, that great
day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst,
let him come unto me, and drink.
John 7:37
You, South, hold:
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What do you do now?
A—Pass. You may be missing
a game in no-trump but the
chances are that a three no-
trump call will get you in an
unmakable contract.
Todays question f
Instead of bidding three clubs
your partner has bid two no-
trump over your two hearts.
What do you do now?
‘ Answer Tomorrow
DOCTOR'S MAILBAG
There's No Evidence
Cancer Is Hereditary
By WAY^E G. BRANDSTADT M D_
G-Is cancer hereditary? treatment is converted into
Can it be transmitted by a radioactive isotope. Both
kissing a person who has work by killing living cells,
cancer of the face. The trick/is to concentrate
A—The ways in which a ,heir activity on the malig-
person gets. cancer are still ...ni?nt cells of a cancer With-
is no evidence that the dis- P8e tc the normal cells sur-
•7f you will help me to hold the
line this year,” he promised the
GOP legislative leaders, “we
will try to be more generous in
the domestic She next year.” ^
Florida Rep. Bill Cramer, the
• top Republican on the House
Public Works Committee, asked
whether any new projects would
be started under the Nixon
budget,*
"A few new starts," replied-
the President. He added that
there would be "considerable
revision’/afthe -public-wertts
program.
He called his budget ,
"realistic,” noting that he had
made a few increases in the
ease is transmitted front one
person to another through
heredity or close personal
contact.
rounding the tumor.
Q—Recently I had a Bolen
test. What exactly is it?
- A—This test for cancer is
based on a difference in the
behavidr of a blood clot from
a person with cancer and one
without this disease.
Q—I have heard that red
clover tea will cure cancer if
taken in the early stage of
the disease, What do you
'think?
1,
A—You’re putting me on.
0—I have some draperies
made of glass fiber. When I
Q—What are the early
signs of cancer of the intes-
tines?.' i __—-
handle them I get an itching
in my eyes-and throat. Could
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vid« umuual pr
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save money by j
Hollywood. ,
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dent Gregory
"The Chatanan,”
From the beginning!
elded that a .Far 1
wa* necessary to ^
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who goes into Commu|
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A—Unfortunately,
glass fiber?
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A—Glass fibers have been
Of weight. A definite change
in bowel habits is sufficient
reason to have - a complete
gastrointestinal workup. In
who are
figures he had inherited from ex- ___________
as an example an increase in
rent supplements from $5 million
to, $100 million. Still his budget
peries made of th
The wearers have then com-
plained of generalized itch-
ing. Some itching of the
hands might conceivably j
ery 12 to 18 months often fa-
cilitates an early diagnosis.
would provide S near-record
surplus.
Q—What is the difference
between radium and cobalt
treatment?Jfow^do they
of such draperies but some
other source of itching of the
eye$ and throat should be
sought.
Phase stntl your questions end
commute to Warm C. Iraadstedt.
Mayor, the President asked:
“What are the figures on the,
$4 billion surplus, Bob?”
A—Radium and cobalt Ore:
two different elements. Ra-
dium is naturally radioac-
tive and the cobalt useii ln
M.D., in can af this paper. While
Dr. Irandstadt cannot answer indi-
eidual letters, he will answer letters
el general interest in lutun columns.
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