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SUNDAY, AUGUSTwIz, 1951,
Godfrey. Strums New-Tune—
Polifics: Radio, TV Brass
Wonder If He Has Ambifions
By RICHARD KLENNER
NFA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK —An Arthur God
frey devotee has long expected the
unexpected to turn up on his
chows. But you could have
knocked all over with a wet teabag
+vhen he began to talk about some
pretty touchy political subjects.
The comedian-turned-commen
fator i now on his summer vaca
tion. But the radio-TV industry
s looking foeward to his return
on Sept. 24—they’re very anxious
to see if:
1. Godfrey's advocacy of things
like strong price controls hurt his
pnnularit,v. Or help it.
9. Godfrey is made to stick to
non-political ~subjects by CBS.
through the use of a pre-approved
script.
3. Codfrey has any political
ambitions.
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The consensus among Godfrey’s
friends is that the whole thing is
pretty much over-rated. They say
he's just a man who feels strongly
abhout things, and talks about them.
1t may be the Navy one day, or
airplanes, or bobby soxers, or
price-controls. They say you just
can't tell what he’s liable to talk
sbout, and it’s been that way for
vears, even in his pre-network
Washington days.
So his intimates weren’'t par
ticularly surprised about this
iatest furor. It all began when
his old friend, Bernard Baruch,
invited Godfrey to go along on a
irip to Europe and talk to Eisen
hower, John J. McCloy and other
people.
Godfrey jumped at the chance
because he’s sincerely interested
n world affairs. It cost him
noney to be away from a week’s
adio activities; CBS didn’t pay
him, vet he had to pay his sizable
otaff thir weekly salaries.
* * *
On his return, July 16, God
frey got on his “Talent Scouts”
<how and began urging his lis
teners to write to their Congress
men. He wanted them to pres
<ure their representatives to back
up Fisenhower with some action.
Then he backed into the price
control problem.
“You've got to do that (write)
tomorrow,” Godfrey said. “That’s
the only way we can do it. That
goes for price controls, too, by
golly, or we’ll lose the war here
before we even fire a shot.”
He expanded on those remarks
on his daytime shows, and got a
flood of mail. At CBS they say it
was about 9-to-1 in his favor, but
there were plenty of very critical
letters. Some accused him of be
ing a pro-Administration prop
agandist.
“All you have to do,” Godfrey
answered one morning, “is know
me a little bit and know that I
have been at odds with a great
many things that this Administra
iion and our President have been
doing for years. I'm thinking only
of one thing—the country that
I'm going to leave my kids.”
Nevertheless, criticism contin
ued. Some of it must have come
from influential places, because
CBS hastily arranged a forum
iype program. Godfrey moder
.ted a three-way discussion on
price controls. He introduced the
show by saying that Eisenhower
and Baruch had urged him to go
hack and be “a Billy Sunday” and
preach preparedness and (from
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talent scouts after him?
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A national columnist hinted,
after that broadcast, that Demo
cratic talent scouts were looking
Godfrey over as a possible polit
ical candidate. Godfrey’s friends
say this is nonsense.
“Godfrey’s only political ambi
tion is to vote,” said one. “He's a
lot like Baruch—he doesn’t cam
paign for any one person or is
sue. He's independent, Actually,
there’s no real crystalization to
his political thinking—l don’t
know if he's a Republican or a
Democrat.”
His friends point out that he's
gotten serious before. Once he
bawled out a television-studio
audience while the program was
going on for talking while he was
interviewing a scientist. He’s
often expressed admiration for
Eisenhower, and for the job he's
doing.
“It's hard to predict what he'll
do next,” they say. “He doesn’t
work from a script just ad libs.
If he feels strongly about some
thing, he'll just come out and, say
s
The only way to muzzle him
would be so make him wuse a
seript, and have it OK’d before
the show. But there doesn’t seem
to be much liklihood of that hap
pening.
As for any future CBS plans for
forum programs, like the one on
controls, that’s still in the talking
stage. That one program was well
liked, but there’s some doubt.m
the deep-rug offices whether in
terest in such intellectual subjects
could be sustained. !
Nevertheless, radio executives
are anxious for his return. There
seems to be the feeling that Amer
ica hasn’t heard the last of Arthur
Godfrey, politician.
The English language contains
approximately 700,000 words, as
well as 300,000 more terms consid
ered obsolete or unsuitable for the
home.
Britain and her possessions have
used the Gregorian calendar since
1752.
The Vatican, with more than
4,000 rooms, is the largest palace
in the world.
Production Job
Many farmers of Clarke county
are finding the Agricultutal Con
servation Program an effective
means of stepping up production
to meet defense needs as well as
insuring future production, says
C. A. Ward, Chairman of the
Clarke county PMA Committee.
He pointed out that the soil con
| servation practices which the
| farmers of Clarke county have
carried out in the past have check
ed erosion, conserved moisture,
and improved the soil to make
possible the present high produc
tion from the land. ’
Improved strains of crops, bet
ter chemicals with which to fight
insects and disease, modern ma
chinery and many other develop
l ments have had a part in stepping
up per acre yields. But the pro
tection and improvement of the
soil and more efficient use of
moisture, the chairman points out,
are the foundation that make these
l improvements effective.
Farmers of Clarke county have
used the Agricultural Conserva-
Ition Program to help them seed
grasses and legumes that hold the
’ soil and moisture and add organic
matter to the soil. They have used
| ACP to Welp'them apply lime &nd
iphosphate and potash to make
| these grasses and legumes grow
| better.
This improved grass, the chair
man points out, now is helping to
produce the beef, lamb, wool and
| other livestock products needed
| in the defense effort.
| Similarly, the terraces, contour
| farming, dams and other conserv
| ation measures which farmers of
| Clarke county have carried on un
l der the program to hold moisture
l'on the land and keep the soil from
| washing away, have increased
| yields of cultivated field crops. |
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‘ BRONX BEAN PARTY ‘
NEW YORK.—(AP)—Long Ts
|land farmers recently staged their 1
| own version of a land-locked Bos
| ton Tea Party by dumping enough l
| string beans to feed 112,000 peo
| ple rather than sell at 25 cents a
| bushel. 1
Arriving at the Bronx Terminal
Market with 14 tons of freshly
picked beans, the farmers con
|tended that they needed $2 a
| bushel so make a reasonable prof
,it. Bidders blamed hot weather,
saying the beans spoiled so quick
'ly they were a bad risk, although
they sell at retail for 15 to 19
cents a pound.
l The farmers said the baskets
alone were worth 25 cents, that
lpickers got from 50 to 60 cents a
.bushel, so they heaved as many
as possible into a seven-ton street |
cleaning truck and drove the rest l
out of the city for dumping, They
kept the 25-cent baskets,
INSURANCE FOR HORSEMEN
PHOENIX, Ariz.— (AP) —Old |
Dobbin may be a vanishing spe
cies in some of the country, but
he’s responsible for a brand new
type of insurance in this western
| metropolis. :
There are more horsemen herel
| now than there ever were in _the
jold days of the rootin’, tootm’,i
| shootin’ ‘West, and, consequently, |
| there are more riding mishaps.
This community’s leading, and
’most vocal, exponent of horse- |
;manship, Gordon Hale, publisher |
'of a paper for horsemen called |
“Hoof Prints,” decided that what .
' his readers needed was insurance |
| against accidents caused by ]
horses. S
' oOld line insurance companies
hesitated to write insurance giv-’
ing medical expense coverage for |
' accidents involving horses. But a |
local insurance company decided |
’ to take the risk. It is now provid- ,
ing SSOO coverage at a $4 annual |
premium. ’ |
SMALLPOX STRIKES ]
CELEBES ISLANDS 4
SINGAPORE. — (AP) — The |
Singapore Government has de- l
clared Bakassar, in the Celebes
Islands, to be an “infected place.”
An official announcement said in
formation had been received that
“g dangerous disease, smallpox,
exists in Bakassar.”
Feeding tiny amounts of cobalt
in carefully controlled diets speeds
up the fattening of hogs. -
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SUMMER TIME DOWN SOUTH: Florida's beaches, usually bare in Summer, look like this as busi
ness booms in what used so be the off-season. This is Miami Beach, once just a Winter playground,
Tourists Warm Up To Florida's Summer Boom
By DOUGLAS LARSEN .
NEA Staff Correspondent
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.—This
season proves that America now
has a brand new summer play
ground. s
Three years ago Miami Beach
and other vacation spots in Florida
were boarded up in the hot
months. Thanks mostly to a cam
paign led by the airlines, this has
been quickly changing during the
last couple of years. And this sum
mer Florida is grabbing off a big
slice of the nation’s summer va
cation trade.
Chambers of Commerce report
30 to 60 per cent increases of last
summer’s record business. About
85 per cent of Miami Beach’s ho
tels are open and report a booming
business. Offering rates of about
a third of winter rates, the most
expensive hotels like the Saxony
and Roney Plaza are jamed.
In Miami Beach there are lines
in front of the restaurants at meal
time. State police officials estimate
traffic from the north only a shade
under the mid-winter average,
with cars from New York, New
Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania
predominating. There are plenty
of tourists from the northern sum
mer resort states of Michigan,
Maine and Wisconsin, too.
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One airline (National), which
sparked the Florida summer boom
with its slogan of a “Millionaire’s
Vacation on a Piggy Bank Budget”
reports its package vacation plan
selling 55 per cent above last sum
mer. It is running four New York-
Miami round-trip flights a day
compared to six in the winter.
Some of the hotels which are part
of National’s package plan are
now booked for the season.
The special inspiration to Flo
rida’s big hotels to stay open in
the summer is the savings on in
surance, which is higher when he
tels are left empty, and savings
on the cost of recruiting and train
ing new staffs each year.
Most of the people trying Flo
rida for the first time this summer
appear satisfied. And there are a
lot of repeaters. The cheap luxury
facilities are the big attraction.
The heat isn't bad. The constant
trade winds off the ocean Keep
the temperature under 87, al
though the thermometer rarely
dips beiow 75. There’s never need
to sleep under a blanket and sel
dom an urge to sleep under a
sheet.
An obvious danger in the Flo
rida summer resort boom is the
threatened loss of its chief appeal
—economy. The Miami Beach
Chamber of Comerce this sum
mer was forced to issue this
warming to hotel and motel op
erators:
“pon’t kill the goose that laid
the golden egg. Tourist courts are
nearly all getting $6 double and
up for overnight accommodations
and when luxury Miami Beach ho
tels advertise accommodations at
from $2 to $4 day the visitor is
skeptical of the offering. In many
instances he is told there is no
more room at the minimum rate
and an attempt is made to sell
him at a higher figure.”
Food prices were down about
50 percent last summer but are
only down about 20 per cent this
summer. A hamburger for less
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rarity. Nightclub prices, consid
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down much more than 10 or 20
per cent. Other lures of Florida
are at winter price levels, such
as the big fish-pond known as
Marineland, about a 30-minute
attraction, which costs a man and
wife and two children $6.60 for
peek.
Another gripe of the summer
trade is the disdainful attitude of
‘most of the help in the hotel and
restaurants toward them. They
make it clear that the only cus
l tomers worth the grade “A” treat
ment are the big spenders of the
I winter trade.
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Seven men volunteered. The rest
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told how it worked:
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said: ‘You're it!"”
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CRABGBQS:? cgurm'ron
- WASHINGTONeri AP)—"U-3"
Bbfinuda gr¥ss, a WMEhly success
ful turf grass selected at Savann
nah, Ga., 13 years ago, can com=
pete successfully with crabgrass
in lawns, according to scientists in
the U. S. Department of Agrict'm
ture,
“IJ-3,” which is the name used
by scientists to identify the grass,
must have a sunny location to
thrive, but its resistance to cold
has resulted in good turf at loca
tions well-outside the recognized
Bermuda belt.
The men who have been testing
the grass, expect it to have its
greatest usefulness for lawns, ath
letic fields, playgrounds and golf
courses in the crabgrass area.
300-GUN HARRY
HOUSTON, Tex.—(AP)—Harry
C. Knode, an enthusiastic Houston
gun collector, estimates he has
about 300 firearms, running from
flintlocks to highly prized minia
ture pistols made in ancient times
by apprentice gunsmiths,
Oldest guns in the Knode collec
tion are matchlocks. He has both
Asiatic and European models.
Hammers on these weapons were
called “sepentines,” which re~
leased the trigger setting off a
match into a pan for powder,
wllmich fired the charge in the bar
rel.
Knode is vice-president of the
Texas Gun Collectors Associatimh
which has 217 members.