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AND ANOTHER THING TO SHOW MR. K.
IT HAD BETTER BE GOOD
IT LOOKS FROM HERE that what is esentially
and substantially the Landrum-Griffin labor re
form bill will yet become law.
The conference committee that has struggled for
days to work out “compromises” between the ineffec
tual Senate-passed Kennedy-Ervin bill and the rela
tively two-fisted House-approved Landrum - Griffin
bill, were last reported at the final hurdle.
If the teeth were merely polished—and not ex
tracted—we shall have a workable, effective law for
the protection of both the public and labor’s rank and
file. It could be stronger, but it will be far more than
we could have expected a few weeks ago. Most parti
cularly, it will be a shining example of what can
happen when the people get sufficiently worked up to
take pen in hand, and a victory for President Eisen
hower whose radio and TV appeal to the people
spurred the final avalanche of mail to Capitol Hill. It
should be noted however, that a multitude of thought
ful and worried citizens-had already acted and others
needed only that final nudge.
In the recent House debate on labor legislation,
•Chairman Graham Barden listed the “four lethal
weapons that are now in the hands of unscrupulous
labor leaders,” and which the Landrum-Griffin bill
would control. They were the secondary boycott,
bLackmail and organizational picketing, “hot cargo”
and the absurd “no-man’s-land” in which many strike
victims were left without legal recourse because the
Federal government won’t act and the state govern
ment can’t.
“We are dealing with the rights and liberties of
men,” Rep. Barden told the committee, “we cannot
compromise with evil. We must meet it head on.” If,
despite rosy hopes, the conferees should fail, an
aroused public will meet the prbolem head on—at the
polls come election—and heads will roll.
Those who wrote in won’t forget.
GRASSROOTS OPINION
From the Ferndale, Calif., Enterprise: “Canon James
Shaw, of S. F. Grace Episcopal Cathedral, on recent
jazz music experiment in eastern church — ‘If this
catdhes on, I envision the day when priests will no
longer be called Father, but Daddy-o’.”
Legal Liquor Sold
In Oklahoma First
Time In 52 Years
OKLAHOMA CITY, OP)—Busi
ness was brisk Tuesday* as some
500 liquor stores opened in Okla
. homa, offering legal liquor to
I state residents for the first time
j in 52 years.
Customers formed waiting lines
' at many of the outlets over the
state in advance of the official
10 a.m. opening hour in hopes of
making history with the first pur
chase. The sudden flurry of busi
ness was expected to taper off
before the 10 p.m. closing time.
One man at an Oklahoma City
store, disappointed when he miss
ed making the first purchase,
called out to the owner:
“I’ll be your first credit cus
tomer.” (State law says cash only).
Among the first buyers of legal
liquor were two former bootleg
gers. One was seen leaving an
Oklahoma City store with a pack
age shortly after opening time.
And a former Seminole County
bootlegger purchased a pint of
whisky in Wewoka’s only liquor i
store
As the legal sale of alcoholic ;
beverages began, some 50 mem
bers of the Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union gathered at
the organization’s Oklahoma City
headquarters to pray for the state
as it entered this new era.
House Committee Okays
Billion Dollar Gas Tax
To Finance Highways
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
Public Works Committee gave
final approval Tuesdey to a bil
lion dollar gasoline tax 'increase
bill to keep the Interstate High
way program going for the next
two years.
The bill will go to the House
Rules Committee Wednesday. It
is expected to be approved by the
House Thursday or Friday.
The measure would increase
the 3-cent federal gasoline tax
one penny for 22 months.
Highway financing legislation
is one of the few remaining
blocks in the way of congressional
adjournment.
The Public Works Committee
originally balked at a 1-cent 22
months increase in the gasoline
tax to carry the Interstate High
way construction program thru
its current financial deficit crisis.
But the House Ways and Means
Committee,, which decides ques
tions of revenues, refused to back
down or accept a proposed com
promose limiting the tax hike to
one year.
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ment that can exist, while still
retaining the characteristics of
the element, is called an atom of
that element.
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Charge 3 Radio
Officials Taking
$750,000 Bribe
WASHINGTON, MV—'Three for
mer officials of Mutual Broad
casting System were accused yes
terday of accepting $750,000 to
put out political propaganda fa
vorable to the Dominican Repub
lic over the radio network.
The accusation was made in an
indictment charging them with
failure to register with the Jus
tice Department as agents for a
foreign principal.
Atty. Gen. William Rogers an
nounced that the indictment^ re
turned by a federal grand jury,
named the following:
International financier Alex
ander L. Guterma, who was Mu
tual’s president during the early
months of this year;
Hal Roach Jr., former Mutual
Board chairman; and
Garland L. Culpepper Jr., one
time director of the MBS radio
system.
The indictment charged that
Guterma, Roach’ and Culpepper
obtained $750,000 from the Dom
inican government in early Feb
ruary of this year on an under
standing that Mutual’s radio fa
cilities in the United States would
be used to disseminate political
propaganda favorable to the Dom
inican Republic.
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Hawaii Legislature Starts
Work On Conversion
To State Government
HONOLULU, lS\—Hawaii’s first
state legislature began work yes
terday on statutes needed to re
organize the island government
from territorial status.
In his first message to the leg
islature Gov. William Quinn ap
pealed to the lawmakers to for
get party lines in their work.
“As we open this special ses
sion of Hawaii’s first state legis
lature,” he said, “we have the
tremendously important responsi
bility facing us of providing a
smooth transition from territory
to state and implementing provi
sions of the state constitution as
rapidly and effectively as pos
sible.”
Quinn is a Republican. The
party has a Senate majority but
the Democrats control the House.
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