The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 July 1965 — Page 4

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana Thursday, July 15, 1965

WASmNOTON MARCH OF EVENTS

PRESIDfNT• PRESS WAR OVER-BUT WHO WON?

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By HENRY CATHCART Central Press Washington Writer X^TASHINGTOX—Th« war between the President and the tV press seems to have dissipated itself at the White House. President Johnson is conducting reasonably frequent press conferences and reporters have gotten back to writing about national and international events rather than about themselves. It’s hard to say who won. Neither side has issued any victory communiques. Of course, an unquestionable victor was the public itself and unfortunately it doesn’t have any readily available means of issuing statements — victorious or

otherwise.

Another victor appears to be White House Press Secretary George Reedy. During the darkest hours of the war, Reedy seemed to be the one person caught in a No-Man’s Land between the President and the press. George was submitted to a heavy artillery barrage of questions by his erstwhile colleagues, but seemed to be hold up fairly well. At least he didn’t crack to the point of providing any unintentional information. Further, he managed

to maintain his equanimity.

We don't pretend to know what went on between Reedy and President Johnson, but if What we know about White House affairs is anywhere near accurate, the President gave George a tougher time of it than the

press.

It is highly likely that George won the most as a result of the war. At least he gained the most in peace of mind. Reedy, incidentally, is now on an extended leave for treatment of an hereditary foot ailment. Special Presidential Assistant Bill D. Moyers is acting press secretary during Reedy's absence. Among the Washington press corps, some of the clan's elders hold to the belief that the press, itself, won. Not in the sense that they coerced the President along a new road—they didn’t. But in the sense that, with an end to the struggle, reporters could again turn to the work that brought them to the capital. It’s always nice to resume writing on familiar matters like politics, diplomacy and war. • • • • • WHITE HOUSE ACQUISITION—The White House will soon receive a dramatically sculpted bust of the late Winston Churchill done by the famed Sir Jacob Epstein. It will be placed initially in President Johnson’s own office and later put on display in a more public part of the White House. The Churchill head was one of six commissions granted to Epstein by the British government in the 1940s, and came to the United States early this year as part of a show of Epstein's

work.

Someone got the idea that the bust would be £ perfect memorial to Churchill, w'ho symbolized Britain’s World War II effort to such a great degree that he was given honorary American

Citizenship.

Because Averell Harriman was U. S. ambas-

sador to Britain in 1946, he sparked a drive among 16 other wellIieeled wartime friends of Churchill to raise funds to purchase the sculpture and donate it to the White House. The purchase price was 817,500. To art experts it is a bargain, as well as a

noteworthy acquisition.

Kiser of Indianapolis visited with their sister Pearl Elliott. Vickie Malayer of near North Salem, is visiting with her father Wilford Malayer at

The New Miaysville Service the home of her grandparents Club met with Mrs. Violet Leak ^tr. and Mrs. Burley Malayer. on Wednesday. Those present Mr. and Mrs. Howard Crawere Lucile TVilson, Eileen mer of Ohio, spent Wednesday Gowin, Veda Mialayer, Florence ! with Mr. and Mrs. Lester WilJefferies, Lulu Ward and Lilie son. Parmer. j David Soots of Greencastle, Dale Despam end Debbie i Mr. and Mrs. John Bonames of

North Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Sander Masten and children of near Plainfield, Mr. and Mrs. Bo Leak and family of Indianapolis visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Leak and family during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lay of Roachdale, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dickerson of near Roachdale visited with Mir. and Mrs. Junior Burdine and children, the weekend.

TV In Review

By Rick Du Brow

HOLLYWOOD UPI — Two guys are sitting at a bar. One of them says, ’’Do you think that Rex Harrison is his real name?” The other one replies, •‘do I think that Rex Harrison

is whose real name?”

I don’t know exactly, but this story always reminds me ’ of the television rating system : — it seems to make the same kind of sense. And Monday night’s one-hour “CBS Reports” program about video ratings only bolstered this view of a splendiferous fantasy of a system — one that embraces to death sachems, poets and peasants alike at the three neti works that comprise the most, I massive communications force I . in the history of the human j ' I

i race.

■ Dutifully and inclusively, I : "CBS Reports” paraded the 1 views of the great and the glorious in television, government advertising, the statisti- ! cal game — and the watcher at . home found himself immersed '

in the flood of tumbling figure* statistical and the technics, and then suddenly something would happen that revealed the

massive black comedy!

Somebody, once in a while, between the statements about the necessity of ratings for advertisers to measure their markets and other like view's, would offhandedly talk about getting better programs, and suddenly you would think, “oh, yes, yes, I almost forgot about those — that’s what it’s all

about, isn’t it?” No.

Well, I won’t bore you here today by repeating all the well-known arguments about ratings that w r er« brought together Monday night by “CBS Reports” because they were not new, and I am certain you know them all, because the basic newspaper audience is more intelligent than the basic television audience, and I don’t need any Mr. Niel- : son to tell me that, and I J wouldn’t care what he said any-

way.

As for the program itself, in . all fainess it should be said

that It was a rare undertaking for even a public affairs eeries — even the best — and although it tended to suggest a slight whitewash, and it w r as broadcast in July when the | rating is certain to be lower, it 1 did present a reasonably clear! picture of what the system is all about.

Where the program failed expectedly .however, was in Its lack of dealing incisively with the heart of the matter, with this question: Was it ever originally and basically intended, under the law, for a public property in this case the airwaves to have its shape, form and content decided by statis-

tics that are primarily for tha use of private interests in this case advertisers, networks and stations? In short, the argument centered as usual on the ludicrous point of the accuracy of a system that ’has no business being dominant — and wouldn’t be if the government went to work seriously.

ATLANTIC SURVIVORS—Two of the three survivors of the radar plane which crashed in the Atlantic look in pretty good shape in the hospital at Otis Air Force Base, Mass. They are Airman 2/c David Su r les (left, glasses), Raleigh, N. C., and Lt. Bruce Witcher (sweater), Redding, Calif. The third. Airman 1/c John W. Puopole, Sagamore, Mass., was brought in on a stretcher. He is suffering leg injuries.

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Churchill

Bust Given White House

New Maysville News

by Lulu Ward

New Maysville Correspondent

f ' ' * ' ^ ^ M | (£;> ~* j i U S. JUDGE — William Benson Bryant, shown In his law office in Washington, is the second Negro appointed a federal judge — for the District of Columbia — by President Johnson.

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