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Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, November 20,1973

Deejay Doesn’t Recommend Doing News Program In A Chicken Suit

By JAYSHARBUTT AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gary Owens, known to millions as the hand-to-ear announcer on “Laugh-ln,” is a man of many parts. The author part was in town the other day to discuss literary matters. The matter was his third book. It concerns what to do while holding the phone. One suggestion: “Write a 10,000 word essay on why Vincent Van Gogh would not have enjoytd stereo.” The 119-page volume also has many historical facts about

phones, but Owens forgot to talk about them. In fact, he forgot to talk about the book because other matters came up. Most people think of Owens — a slender, vaguely professorial native of Mitchell, S.D. — as America’s weirdest announcer because of “LaughIn,” which NBC cancelled this year after six seasons. But he insists: “I’m not really an announcer. It’s a misnomer.” Finding the right nomer is hard. He’s an actor, with some 50 other TV shows in his logbook. He’s a voice on TV car-

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toons and on the 400 or so radio and TV commercials he estimates he does in a year. He also writes and has made five comedy albums. On top of all that, he’s a toprated disc jockey at KM PC in Los Angeles, a city where he and deejays like him emit the wildest, funniest brand of humor heard anywhere in the United States. Owens said he got his “Laugh-In” job in a strange way. He and George Schlatter, then head of the show, were lunching one day at a Burbank restaurant near the “Laugh-In” headquarters. They went into the bathroom to wash up. Owens, noticing how their voices bounced off the tiles, cupped a hand to his ear like an old-style radio announcer and intoned: “My, the acoustics are good in here.” Whereupon, he said, ‘Schlatter says, ‘Oh, hey, keep that in.’ And I said, ‘What, you want me to wash my hands on the showT “I retained that one character throughout the show," he said, cupping a hand to his ear.

“I came on like a 1930s announcer and said things like: ‘The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, is not really made of Eiffel after all.’ ” Owens, who began as a disc

jockey in Omaha, disclosed that his career also has included a brief stint as a TV newscaster, a stint that laid an egg because of a chicken suit. He wore the chicken suit as

host of a daytime kiddie show on TV back in 1957. Thirty minutes later, he’d show up again on the air in a business suit, doing five minuts of news. After the kiddie show one

day, he stopped to talk and lost track of time. Suddenly, he had only three minutes before his news show and there he was, still in his chicken suit. “There wasn’t time to

The Middle East Embargo Of Oil

change, so I go on, with my beak and feathers, and I say, ‘Good afternoon. Federal mediators on Capitol Hill today . . .’ The manager said I’d set news back 100 years.”

Ceold Pitch Country Into Recession

By JOHN CUN NIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) — Interviews with leading economists suggest that the immediate impact of the Mideast oil embargo will be to slow the economy more sharply than had been anticipated and perhaps' pitch it into recession. But as many of the economists point out, the early effects might not be felt equally throughout the country. Shortages of gasoline and heating oil, and factory closings and layoffs, are expected to appear in pockets. In some areas these shortages already are evident. They

will become more common in the next few weeks, especially as heating oil becomes scarce along the Eastern seaboard, which depends heavily on imports. Factories and workers art expected to be affected soon, especially in industries that rely heavily on petrochemicals. For such industries the problem is expected to be not so much a shortage of fuel but of raw materials. “Already a very severe shortage of petrochemicals is developing,” said Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan, Inc., a consulting firm. To Greenspan this suggests

“a large number of plastics, synthetic fibers and other products—an almost unbelievable number of such items—will be moving into short supply, with resulting job losses.” Estimating the job loss in advance is difficult. One consulting economist said almost all his clients have had energy task forces for the past year but that most are still asking rather than answering questions. The confusion is evident in the airline industry. While some executives feel that cancelling some flights might result in permanent economies, others are calling the dis-

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ruption of schedules devastating. Otto Eckstein, former Johnson administration adviser and now head of Data Resources, Inc., a company that operates an incredibly complex econometric model, or mathematical matrix of the economy, foresees a sharp rise in joblessness. After feeding the latest energy data into the model late last week, Eckstein now estimates unemployment will rise from 4.6 per cent to about 5.5 per cent in the second quarter next year, when the impact of the shortage will be greatest. However, the jobless increase probably won’t stop there. Eckstein projects a peak of 5.8 per cent in the second half of 1974, a delayed effect of the damage done earlier by a lack of energy and raw materials. While these figures bear the imprint of computer efficiency, some observers are cautiously watching the psychological mood, maintaining that the emotional impact on people can have destructive consequences also. What happens, for instance, when the main topic of conversation day after day becomes the cold home, insufficient gasoline for the car, the threat of a layoff? Will negative attitudes reinforce each other?

Another questionable area involves the ability of industries to adjust. Greenspan forecasts that utilities which switched to oil will seek to bring back coal within weeks, but will fail in

the effort.

“They have severed ties with the coal producers," he exp 1 a i n d. Moreover, “there aren’t enough railroad hoppers and pulverizing equipment. All the peripheral machinery is

dislocated.”

Consumers who might not be affected by either the lack of heat or jobs almost certainly will feel the consequences of rising prices. It is generally agreed that heating oil and gasoline prices will rise, the latter to as much as $1 a gallon in the view of several economists, and probably never again will qualify as relatively inexpensive. But prices of a vast array of other products, including food, will also be pushed up because of their dependence upon energy in processing and trans-

portation.

Eckstein, who had forecast 6.2 per cent inflation, has now raised his estimate to more than 7 per cent. The jump might be as much as 8 or 9 per cent early in the year, he said, falling off in the second half.

Contract f

Bridge

! B. lay Becker tg-

Hobson's Choice

South dealer. North-South vulnerable. NORTH ♦ A K 7 V 10 9 8 5 2 ♦ K 6 ♦ K 7 3

WEST *J 10 9 6 4 V7 4 ♦ A J 10 8 4 J 2

EAST *Q 8 5 3 2 V 6 ♦ 7 5 4 2 + Q 5 4

SOUTH 4 - V A K Q J 3 ♦ Q 9 3 + A 10 9 8 6

The bidding:

South IV 6 V

West Pass

North 3 V

East Pass

jack of

Opening lead

spades.

It would seem that declarer must lose a diamond and a club to go down one in six hearts, but actually South made the slam. Furthermore, there was nothing the defenders could do to stop him, once declarer found the winning line of play. West led the jack of spades and South made the crucial play of the hand when he elected to ruff it. Had he won the trick in dummy he would have gone

down one against proper defense. Declarer then drew two rounds of trumps and played a low diamond towards the K-6 in dummy, presenting West with a Hobson’s choice. If he went up with the ace, South would later discard one of dummy’s clubs on the queen of diamonds and in that way cut off his club loser. And if West did not go up with the ace, South would win the diamond in dummy with the king, discard his Q-9 of diamonds on the A-K of spades, and in that way cut off his diamond loser. South would lose a club trick, but no more. If declarer incorrectly wins the opening lead in dummy with a high spade, he places himself in a position where he must decide at once whether to discard a diamond or a club on the trick. He cannot afford to do this so early in the play, for whichever discard he chooses he must eventually go down one if West defends correctly. By delaying his discard until a more propitious moment, declarer can place West in an untenable position later in the hand. He forces West to commit himself to a losing choice at trick four instead of subjecting himself to a losing choice at trick one.

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