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Evening star., 1950-06-21
OF PROGRAMS AND PEOPLE

NBC does not have a monopoly
on those long-term, exclusive con-
tracts. This. in fact, seems to be
ABC's week for bolstering its talent
roster. Yesterday it announced that
the Metropolitan Opera would be
on the network again this coming
season and today comes word that
Don McNeill, the Breakfast Club
man, has signed on to continue as
a member Of the ABC crew. He will
continue his 9-to-10 am. daily
Breakfast Club" over ABC-WMAL
(after a vacation during which Don
Ameche will fill in for him) and
in the fall will add a weekly tele-
vision show. Not the least interest
ing fact about the new McNeill-
ABC pact is that it covers the next
20 years. It's for 10 years with an
option on the next 10, which prob
ably makes 1t the longest-term deal
yet in TV.
Tomorrow brings couple of
changes to the WMAL-TV Thurs
day night lineup. "ABC Showcase y
new variety show, will replace
Blind Date at 9'O'Clock" with
THE Ruggles'' moving into the $50
slot to replace Holiday Hotel" Bet
ty Furness. one of televisions more
decorative girls, will be featured on
the first "ABC Showcase"
CBS-TV is preparing a program
titled Prize Performance. with
Cedric Adams, to take over for
eight vacation weeks of Arthur
Godfreys Talent Scouts" (WOIC-
Monday, $3.50 PM. starting July ..
Evening star., 1950-06-21
HighIights
of fTodoy's'.
Programs
RADIO TODAY

500, WMAL-Detour: Premiere of
q psychological mystery drama
series. Noted Neuro-Psychologist
DR.. Richard Hoffman is host and
narrator.
$3.50, WTOP-A B Cs of Music:
Guest disc jockeys are Grady Cole
Evening star., 1950-06-21

Evening news broadcast, di-
rect from The Stars news
room, Monday through Friday
over Stations WMAL and
WMAL-FM; 6 pm.
Evening star., 1950-06-21

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7;3o an. to 1890 an. and
pm. to 9 pm.
WksR-FM-s1.t Me-, Channel 40.
ASS to 1loo pm.
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sam. to Midnight.
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SPIN. to II pm.
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7p.ni. to ! am.
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6 am. to 8 pm.
WBee-fM-tes.1 Me-, eAaaasI iis.
Jam. to 8 pm.
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lam. to Midnight.
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6 an. 10 . pm.
WMAL.FM-ie1.3 Me-. Channel ~.
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Evening star., 1950-06-21
Other AM Stations

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WPlk-7ae ke.-s:00 a.m.-S;3o pm.
WAAL-7eo. ke.-6:oo s.m.-S:30 pm.
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Evening star., 1950-06-21

of Charlotte, N. c.: Steve Evans of
Corvallis, Greg, and Paul Brenner
of Newark.
1880, WMAL-On Trial: rs Our
Foreign Aid Spending Worth the
Cost?" Is discussed by Senator John
j. Spark1nan and Attorney Charles
G. Tillinghast, jr.
TELEvisIok TODAY
$500, WNIAL-On Trial: Should
Congress Pass the Presidents Health
Program" is the subject ION trial
500, WOIC-Arthur Godfrey and
His Friends: Comedian Buddy Les
ter and Violinist Florian zabach
visit Arthur Godfrey.
$3.50, WMAL-Author Meets the
Critics: George Backer's THE
Deadly Parallel" is discussed by So
cialist Party Leader Norman
Thomas and Alexander Kerensky
President. of the First Provisional
Government after the Russian rev.
olution.
$3.50, WNBW - Cameo Theater:
Earnest Truck stars in Weep for
the Heart"
800, WOIC-What's MY Line?
Garry Moore is guest panelist.
900, WNBW-Television Theater
Vaughn Taylor plays the title role
in Andre Abey's Noah"
$3.50, WOIC-Stage 10: James
Monks stars in Wyllis Cooper's "You
Have Been Warned"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
AssuiIs Bill To
OufIuw Strikes
On Railroads

Washington (LPA)-Sen. Her
bert H. Lehman Cd, N. W attack
ed the Donnell bill to outlaw rail
road strikes, in testimony before q
Senate labor subcommittee holding
hearings on the measure. Compul-
sorry arbitration of rail labor dis
putes, said Lehman is "a revolu-
tionary proposal" and "a long STEP
towards government ownership of
railroads.
The bill, introduced by Sen. For
rest Donnell Or, MOI, would out
law all strikes, compel binding ar
bitration, and provide court injunc-
ton and Jail sentences as enforce
ment. The measure has been at
tackled by all the railroad unions.
Daniel P. Loomis, chairman of
the Association of Western Rail
roads, admitting that the carriers
for years have opposed compulsory
arbitration, said he "very reluct-
antly' is now for compulsory ar
bitration "as applied to certain in
which he did not name.
He did say that quick settlement of
railroad disputes was more import
ant than coal and steel strikes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Prison Terms Given
2 For Fake Cure

Chicago (LPA) = The inventor
and distributor of the $50 Ferret
applicator, which would cure "any
disease known to mankind" have
been sentenced to prison by US
Judge John P. Barnes. William B
Ferguson, inventor and manufac-
turer, got two years; Mrs. Mary
Stanakis, distributor, one year.
The plastic contraption was
shaped like a dumb-bell. The maker
claimed any disease could be cured
in the patient sat without crossing
his knees, holding the device, for
80 minutes at time. The energy
given off, he said, expands all the
atoms of your being" The two
plastic tubes connecting the ball
ends, he said, contained "Zerret
water" made by the use of the
"Z-ray,"-unknown to science. Ex-
pert chemists testified the "Zerret
water" was plain Chicago tap
water.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Sen. Graham Wins,
Lacks Majority,
May Face Runoff

Raleigh, N. C. UPA)-Senatol
Frank P. Graham came off top
man in the important North Caro-,
lima primary election, but prob
ably faces a run-off election
against Willis Smith, Raleigh corp.
Grafton lawyer, on June "a. The
contest, second major test of Fail
Deal strength in the South this
spring, brought out a record break
ing vote of 100000.
Administration supporters hailed
the results as a vindication of ad-
ministration policy, and predict a
Graham victory in the run-off,
which would make the administra-
tion even-up in Southern yerdicts
on the Fair Deal this year. Claude
Pepper was unseated in the Florida
primaries by Representative Smat-
hers.
Graham polled 48.884c of the
votes cast, to Willis Smiths
40.66ft. Former Senator Robert P.
Reynolds, who ran third in the
four-man primary polled 56,019
votes. Crucial question now is
whether Graham can swing enough
of them to tip the balance in the
Turn 10 Pa1s Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
MINER UNION
SUGGESTS OIL
IMPORT CURBS

Washington (LPA)-Oil should
be conserved and used to fuel autos
and trains, not for home heating
Vice-president Thomas Kennedy OF
the United Mine Workers told the
Senate Labor subcommittee study.
ing the effects of oil imports on
unemployment in the US on May
%. He asserted oil should be con-
served for national emergencies. He
also urged that some steps be taken
to cut down oil imports.
The subcommittee also is hearing
from spokesmen for the coal COM
panies and for both the small indie
pendent oil producers and from the
big companies which are doing the
importing from their foreign hold
ings.
Chairman Ebert Thomas Cd,
Utah of the Labor committee OBJ
served to Kennedy that over long
period the coal operators have re-
sisted government efforts to i'm
prove the economy of the coal in
dustry, and asked the UNIV off
cial whether he thought federal ac-
{Tuyn 10 Paae Thres)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Progressive Mine
Workers Guilty

Washington (LPA) - The Pro
gressive Mine Workers union has
been found guilty, by the Nationa
Labor Relations Board of violating
the Taft Hartley act by using
threats to keep two miners away
from their jobs after they consult.
ed officials of the United Mine
Workers about replacing the PMW
as the bargaining agent. The ruling
was unanimous.
A majority of the board held the
company liable for constructive
discharge" by failing to disavow
the expulsion of the two men
harles Chandler and George
Smith, who brought the charges.
The board found they were kept
from working by threats of beat
ings and reprisal from March rs,
1948 to August 20, 1948, when the
mine, near Tilden, ILL.,, was closed
down. The board ordered the COM
pany and the union to reimburse
the two for any lost wages.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
AFL and CIO Join In
Drive For Illinois FEPC

Springfield, Ill. (LPA) - About
200 persons from 40 communities
including S5 delegates from AFI
and CIO unions, attended an Gas
sembly for FEPC" here. The as
sembly, on motion of Nicholas M
DiPietro, executive secretary of the
Chicago Federation of Printing
Trades Unions, requested the TOP
state officers of the CIO and AFL
in Illinois to appoint statewide
committee representing each cen
trail body to work with the Illinois
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee."
Dan CARMEL, general counsel,
Illinois State Federation of Labor,
said: "We believe that the FEPC is
one of the fundamental concerns of
the labor movement, and the Ill
inois State Federation of Labor will
be down in the forefront to get
passage of the BILL"
John Alexia, director of the HI
inois Political Action Committee,
and Bob Bollard, editor of Illinois
Labor Estate CIO paper), pledged
the state CLOS full cooperation in
the FEPC drive.
FEPC bills, rejected four times
by the Illinois legislature, will be
introduced again in the State AS
sembly convening in January 1851.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
General Motors Pact Hailed As
Milestone By Labor And Industry

that base pay will rise or fall with
the cost of living but cannot fall
below set floor. The base will in
crease four cents a year regardless
of the cost Of living.
The immediate money package
won by the union totals 19 cents:
seven cents for pensions, five cents
for hospital-medical- INSURANCE, four
cents flat wage increase, one and a
half cents improved vacation pay,
six-tenths cents in extra wage in
creases to skilled trades workers,
nine-tenths cents into other econ
omic gains for apprentices and
others.
When the four-cent annual wage
increases are added to this, GM
workers will increase their buying
power by 35 cents per hour by the
time the contract expires in 1855.
Half the Blue Cross and Blue
Shield hospital insurance of GM
workers and their families will be
paid by the corporation. Life insur-
ance and disability benefits will be
increased without any cost to the
Sickness and accident
benefits have been raised and will
now range from $31.50 to $45.5O
per week.
The union shop provision re-
quires all members of the union to
remain in good standing during
the life of the contract as a condi-
ton of employment. New workers
must join the union by the time
they acquire seniority. Seniority
and grievance procedures were also
A clause has been added
leave of absence for
workers elected to public office.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01

There has been a change in the
schedule for the baby show. 1t will
start promptly this year at IL
o'clock. At past outings the show
has always been scheduled for IL
a. m, but it has always been under
stood that the gate would not be
closed until 11:30. Not so in 1850,
however; the nurses will start their
rounds to judge the babies at ex-
actly II o'clock and all babies must
be entered by that time.
Homer Laughlin, club that has
not played in the annual diamond
classic at the potters' outing for
quit some time, informed the picnic
committee this week their team is
all set and raring to go. Even went
so far as to inform the committee
they expect to hand the New Castle
nine a sound drubbing. Two vet
eran umpires, Paul Carruth of
Wheeling and Verne Bailey Of East
Liverpool will call the balls and
strikes.
Since there may be but one meet
ing night left, you undoubtedly
want to look over your dues book
to make certain your accounts are
straight. The only possible way you
can be eligible to compete in the
paid-up dues book drawing is to
have book with you showing that
yv1 are paid-up-to-date. Remember,
the first prize in this event is a
s250.00 television set, plus an extra
5000 for aerial.
For those who are not planning
to pack a basket picnic lunch on
June IT, Meyers Lake Park has one
Of the finest cafeterias in the
state. Here you can get piping hot
meals in less time than it takes to
talk about it. Park officials assur-
ed the committee they will be pre-
pared to handle all those who wish
to take this means of satisfying the
wishes of the inner man.
Free Breakfast Cheer coffee will
again be available for the noon and
evening meal. You must have your
own container. The committee will
furnish free cream.
The sports committee announces
the following athletic events to get
under way at the ball field at l
p. m. sharp:
5O-yard dash for girls Z to 9
years inclusive, S200-S1.50-$ Loo.
5O-yard dash for girls 10 to II
years inclusive, $2.00-s1.50-S1.O0.
50-yard dash for girls 13 to 16
years inclusive, $200-S1. .50-S1.00.
5O-yard Three-Legged Rae e,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Convention Favors
Campaign For
Political Action

Atlantic City (LPA) - To VIII
gains for organized labor in No
lvember, members of the Int'l Lad
les Garment Workers -AFL hav,
been asked by the unions conven
tion to put So each into a politica
campaign fund.
Along with the voluntary assess
ment, which will net more than {
half-million dollars, delegates vot
ed resolutions endorsing steps to-
ward a merger of all liberal poll
tical groups in "a nationwide party
of consistent American liberalism.
Meanwhile the ILG endorsed Am.
ericans For Democratic Action, ano
pledged its support to Labor's Lea.
que for Political Education-AFL.
: The unions annual financial re.
port, covering the three years
since the last convention, shows
assets and reserves totaling S110,-
100000 Of this, nearly $4,000, ,000
is in health and welfare funds, in
Guiding $2,000,000 invested in 13
health care centers, and S27,000,-
900 in retirement funds handled for
the members by the union. Out of
these funds come sick benefit and
vacation benefits for 395, ,401 work
ers covered by ILG contracts, and
58,527 New York workers covered
for old age pensions. Altogether,
retirement funds cover 206,73S
union members.
Contrasted with the 1922 in cash
that the union had when its found
ing convention took place in 1900
is the report that current cash as
sets total $9,273,269.
Translating some of the unions
contributions into flesh and blood,
welcomed to their hearts
five war orphans who appeared on
the platform to express thanks to
the union. Altogether, more than
1900 war orphans have been adopt
ed by ILG locals, and are now be-
ing supported in homes in Italy,
France and Belgium. The Jewish
Labor Committee and the Italian
Labor Committee administer the
homes. The energetic and persist
ent work of Hannah Haskell, secre-
tary to ILGW President David
Dubinsky, who has organized ILG
office staff contributions to sup
port 67 orphans, was hailed by the
delegates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Sees Threat To
All Labor Unions
I'm DonneII Bill

Cleveland (LPA)-The Donnel
bill to outlaw all railroad strikes
is grave threat to all organized
workers, President Kennedy of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmer
declared in a statement to Train
man News.
after they get through hand
cutting railroad men," said Ken
nedy, "and get the principle of com
pulsory a r b t r tion established
then Big Business will take up the
fight to club all workers through
general Legislation not confined tc
the railroads"
The Donnell bill, he said is fas-
cist in character because it calls
for "forced settlement of disputes
at the hands of people who may
know little or nothing about rail
road problems. One president could
appoint boards exclusively from
Wall Street. Another could appoint
boards exclusively from union Of
ficials. But whatever the type of
board, wages would be fixed by
fiat. Then would come prices, and
profits, and where would the bor-
derline of communism and fascism
be ?"
The Donnell bill, Kennedy con-
tinued would deprive free enter
prise of its essential elements"
With their profits at hitherto
unknown levels, Kennedy asked,
why are the railroads now eager
for the helping hand of Congress,
unless it is for the express pur-
pose of destroying democratic
labor unions Remote banker con-
troll realizes what it is doing in this
bill to destroy us. 1t would streng-
then the hand of magement, which
needs no strengthening. 1t would
render labor helpless in the face of
an obstinate management. 1t would
result in the beginning of slave
labor. The nations back would be
turned upon the high standards of
living and the high purchasing
power of the masses which free
has produced"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01

Itinguishable o m m On practices
other than the payment of low
wages to certain occupationa
groups"
In an article on the sports
branch of the industry the Bulletin
states that the service workers in
the 127 sports establishments in the
state constitute a large segment of
the $500 employed in this field. OF
the $500 approximately As percent
are professional or semi-profess-
ional athletes and sports officials
(umpires and referees), managers
and professional personnel other
than athletes and office workers.
The rest are in the Service" cate
CORY and include those who serve
the public directly and those who
perform a maintenance function,
such as groundkeepers, cleaners
and porters. Most numerous in this
category are ushers.
Ushers' Pay Meager
A survey made by the Labor De-
partment in 1949 revealed that the
median weekly earnings of New
York City's sports arena ushers
was $10.85; of ticket-takers, $21.79.
For the areas outside New York
City and for the state as a whole
earnings were even lower: 1896
and $7.42 for ushers and ticket
takers, respectively, outside the
city; and 1928 and 500 for the
state as a whole.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
AFl League Hits
Raid By Bankers
On Insurance Fund

Washington (LPA)-One of th'
great reforms of the New Deal
insurance of bank deposits:
threatened by the greed of bank
ers, Labor's League for Politica
Education warned this week.
That reform was put through
after the tragic collapse of the
banking system in 1888. A Fedora
Deposit Insurance Corporation was
set up to administer it. Under the
law, deposits of up to $4,000 are
protected against loss.
Banks pay into the insurance
fund a premium of 1/12 of 1 per
cent on average deposits. Because
few banks have failed in recent
years, the fund has steadily in
creased-to a total of SIP billion
Recently, bankers put on drive
for legislation to slash the premium
more than half. They won in the
Senate. The bill was slipped
through with few senator's aware
of it's significance, according to the
League, which is the AFL political
arm. The measure is now before
the House Banking Committee.
"This bill amounts to another
raid on a trust fund established for
the protection of the small fellow"
the League declared.
eff the bankers are granted the
cut, depositors may wake up some
day and find they don't have the
protection the FDIC was created to
provide for them"
A fund of SIP billion is in no
way too much when compared with
over $153 billion in deposits, held
by 104 million depositors in the in
sured banks, the League pointed
out. Should an economic crash
come, the reserve could be quickly
eaten up.
Some "sweetening" has been ad-
ded to the bill by increasing the
protection from $4,000 to $4,000
per depositor.
"But the joker is that the
F. ID. |. c. could be given less than
one-half of it's present premiums to
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Low Wages Rife Among Some Groups
oln New York Amusement Industry

New York City (ILNS).-Coney
Island furnishes employment to
more than 5000 persons at the
height of its season. Five out of s
pinboys in New York State are
adults.
These are just 2 items CLEANED at
random from the May issue of the
Industrial Bulletin, the State Labor
Departments monthly news-maga-
zine, which features survey of the
amusement industry in New York
state.
This issue of the Bulletin is par
ticularly timely inasmuch as Indus
trial Commissioner Edward Corsi
recently appointed minimum
wage board composed of represent
9atives of employers, employees and
the public to investigate all phases
of the amusement industry and re-
port its recommendations for a
minimum wage order to him.
Commenting editorially on the
problems facing the board, Com
missioner Corsi said: "The normal
difficulties of q minimum wage
boards task are compounded by the
character of the amusement and
recreation industry's operations
which tend to defy classification
into easily understandable group
ings. The industry consists of num-
erous segments, each operating
along highly individual lines, MAX
ing it difficult to observe any dis
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Tacoma, Wash. Painters
Mark 5Oth Anniversary

Tacoma, Wash. (LPA)-Repre-
sentatives of labor and industry
spoke at the banquet marking the
50th anniversary of the founding of
Painters & Decorators Local ga,
attended by 900.
The local was founded by 81 men
in 1900. Among them was Joseph
F. Clarke, then 20. In 1908 he be-
came president, serving until he
moved to San Francisco in 1949. In
1912 he was elected fourth vice
president of the Brotherhood Of
Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers. A Local LAG h ad been
chartered in Tacoma in 1890, but
disbanded three years later.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-01
Home Prices Soar
Builders Try 10
Pass Along Blame

Washington (LPA) - Prices o
new omes,-whether a four-bed
room mansion in the country clul
section or a two-bedroom cheese
box in an enormous housing deve
lopment-are going up. And th'
home builders, faced with having
to explain the rise, are once agafr
blaming the low-rent public hous
ing program.
However, they can't have it boti
ways. When arguing against the
public housing program, they jeel
at the fact that homes are just
starting to be built under the pro
gram.
FACED with rising sales prices fol
new homes, the Natl Association
of Home Builders asserted that
although no public housing has
been started, there are number
of projects ready to go and the in
flationary factor of the 3construc-
tion will be very great as bidding
starts both for scarce materials
and for labor"
They've also sent out word, in a
bulletin, that builders had better
jack up prices to meet today's mar
ket. It's a safe bet, writes Execu-
tive Vice-President Frank Cort-
right, "that last years reductions
in construction costs not only will
be wiped out but they may increase
to the point of affecting sales.
Builders must. be careful not to
price and presell this years hous-
ing on last years building cost
level"
Most thorough local check-up on
home prices was done in New
York's metropolitan area by Lee E.
Cooper, real. estate writer for the
New York Times. In one Long Is
land project prices have been boost
ed $1,000 to $17,990. In two others,
higher prices were announced in
mid May. In several New Jersey
developments, Cooper found that
the builders had painted out the,
price signs in preparation for a
price boost. Cooper blames the
price boosts on increased costs of
materials, especially lum-
Der and sheet rock. He warns that;
if the trend continues, it may end
the present building boom which
has threatened to break all records
for home production in 1850.
A survey by the Natl Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards comedies
that prices are the same or higherl
in 81 per cent of the cities they
checked, and only 90 per cent of
the cities expected lower home
prices in any bracket later this
year. Also, vacant lots are at the
same or an even higher level than
l949 in 80 per cent of the cities !
hey surveyed.