The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1952, Page 8

4 ‘ | | MAXWELL'S GIGANTIC Page 2-B THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Freedom Of Wednesday, March 12, 1952 ieal friends from unfavorable pub- licity.”” { The watet incident shows how a vigilant press can break thtougn the secrecy veil. H A reporter for ihe LaCrosse, | Wis., Tribune learned that rail- | road trains did not take on water | HUGH: Tidy: isia TO eee PUTPEL EDEL EELEREEEEERL ALI L ALLL EL Ret eet iA tet itt PE Re EER eRe lnformation ~~. t can bappea here—and it has. You don’t have te go to dic- fater nations to. find censorship. From coast to coast, newspa- pers sre fighting road blecks to sreedom of infotmation on fed- ara!, state and focal levels. Are governmental bodies meet- ing in secret session fo spend your money? De police and courts faver “promihent per- sons’ by cow F * when they 2 the military sinether legitimate news under the guise of “secur. ity? The Associated Pre:'s conduct ed a nation-wide survey and found cen: in this free-eat land of them ali far more wide- spread than you may realii.. R about it in a@ series of three articles starting in th’. newspaper March ¥2. ° By JAMES DEVLIN NEW YORK (#—You don't have to go to a dietat.* nation to find publi¢ officials shrouding their ac- tivities behind an Iron Curtain af censorship. You can find the same thing here—perhaps in your home town. It is a cesusorship by closed meet- ried records and “no com- ather ihan the direct at LaCrosse. He found that the United States Publie Health Serv- ‘ae had reported it had a high bacterial ecunt. The Journal, reviewing the in- cident, said: the first report on the pesr condi- tion of the water had been filed 15 years before and repeated every year since. The former city engi- neer and some members of the City Council had known abc-it it, but never made it public. “The ensuing clamor led to chlorination of the city’s water.”’ Bayley reported that “‘there is erecy in government in Wisconsin than in other states.” Instances of suppression can be found in the Nc:'th and South, East and West. In North Carolina, editors found that in some local courts pudg- ments were changed after regular court hours, warrants were with- held from public serutiny and prominent citizens were allowed io énier pleas withott publie ap pearances. Th California, Jack Managing editor «- the independ ont. at San Rafael gd chairman of an editors’ freedom of informa “den't print that’ of the _totali- tarian countries. - Byt the effect is the same in iding a secrecy cloak for areas swpeaple can know what their c:fi- cials are doing. : Is of one town knew for 15 that the Federal: Public Health Service had condemned its drinking water. The newspapers. didn’t know. did the people. ¢ounty employe handling pub- - | But no abatements were gtanted 1, decided he wouldn't again and kept him on the “The matter was kept quiet. ers learned of it six years the thefts mounted to were ealled upon 5s} “High diplomats may meet in -ooprivate, but so does many a state agency, local school board ai town council, 4 ‘The newspaper tt to smoke out tendencies toward censorship— except on matters involving the eet) “nation’s security—is commonly | Control or influence news by prop: | Sion—apparently more than the of expanding demand of oil. prod- ee eR ae ried ee aga : known. asthe bata for. erendote aganda in the form of slanted | three billion dollars they spetit last | ucts ta take care of civilian needs | [" “ecks are more than a dozen antennas, including four y of “the. press.” It is far more, handouts, bureaucratic obstacles to | year. and those of the military in a cold | S#ped like inverted pyramids (center and left), and 10 on the k “Sit is a fight for ma of in-| Public records and direst eensor. Last year a record 44,500 new | War Galy. It.is carefully noted that stern (rieht), sticking in the air like buggy whips. In the cen- bi © ship. ... wells lormation for . Pope, executive editor swwot=the Louisville Courier Jeurnal find, Loiisville ‘Times’ and ‘chairs }a4empts to, keep news from the }‘ministration for Defense has set ing exports) ran at 7 1-3 million | —~— ——— : Seeder iantrieae INNERSPRING in. Society .of a0 __ ge | Boals for this year and next calling | barrels a day..PAD éxperts pre-}| The stinging nettle, a species of; ‘There are nearly five million . i ~ Newspaper: Editors’ Committee on fis what they ‘are trying Yo for more than 100,000 new wells, | dict nearly 7 23 million barrels a | jellyfish, is 95 percent water. | ibesmen in Uganda, Africa. - & os Freedom, puts it this way: do in their fight for freedom of |which should add, with “luck, | day will be cofsumed this year, eer tiress ‘ y o» “When news is siippréssed, alr mation. !around four billion tarrels more and in 1955 demand will be 8 1-3 About 110 spe of birds have| All the rivers of the lower Po . the -newspapers: lose is a®.stary. ——Buithe people lose touch with and © public officials taking fees from private firms, at- tract wide attention, Many of the news blackouts OPRE RCCL LECU CEES Fisk Rha] ‘The survey showed: 1. There is some degree of news rier ti at every governmen- level, from Washington to the towns. nal conducted a detailed study official efforts to smother news. Edwin R. Bayley, the Journ: ery eity of more than 15,000 pcpa- lation and found that in most ihere are some governmental todies which met behind “closed doors.” hidden from press and public, He. found, too, that: “fy some cities, reporters are | denied access t+ police and sher. iff's. reports, and news of this kind | is’ carefully fillered through ihe shief officer. .. Newspapers suspect, and some- tines are able to, prove, that news at evrime and accidents is censored sagoeonceal circumstances embar- Tassing to the department or to yrotect prominent persons «.- polit- every’ individual }, state: political reporter, toured ev, |. tion committee, said “Attempts ai censorship and other restraints on free dissemination of public infor mation ‘are constantly to open up to public inspection the | tax abatement records of the City of “Pawtucket. The papers took the attitude that “everybody who pays a tax is ‘entitled to ksiow whether some- one’ else has been shaved off the tax .list."’ It was not contended the abate- ments were illegal—only that they were a matter of public record, afer the court action was }egun. | Local school hoards have a par- | ticular penehaut for meeting in private. * This situation was recognized by | the American Association of School Administrators, which declared Feb. 21 that such meetings’ should heconducted openly. It said efforts at secrecy “can boomerang with devastating re- sults’ and stiggested the most sen- { sible thing to'do was to inake | certain the newspaper “gets the | facts fast and gets them straight.’" The Biddeferd, Me., Journal re- ported the local board of educa- | tion holds “public” meetnigs, but | the board withholds information on whea they will be held. i In florida, V.M. Newton Jr.,! managing editor of, the Tampa Tribune, goes to the speaking plat- | form as well as the editorial page to. combat news suppression, He has contended in speeches | that government agencies seek to | It is the ‘newspapers’ jc, he | Says, to lodk behind the handouts, get: the straight facts and block ; ‘Baster Island, lonely South Pa- cifie speck, is visited by only one “The reporter also found that} | no more, and probably less, se- | Craemer, | tone year, American artisis exhibiting include Max Weber, Mourice Sterne, field, Man Ray, and Reginald Marsh. Today’ S Business ierer By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#i—There’s ne: rest fresh records—in the amount of oil pumped from the land, in the num- ber of new wells drilled in any in the amount of oil discovered and added to the na- tion’s ‘FeServes—oilmen are: being to top all these records this year and next. To find and. produce all the oil the authorities think the civilian must have more drilling rigs, more steel for pipe lines. They must build more refineries and storage : Space. ‘They must have more tank cars, barges, tank trucks and ocean tankers, And they must find the money tc finance this expan- were drilled, and despite record consumption of crude oil they pushed the nation’s reserves to new peakes. Tlie Petroleum Ad- fo the nation’s net reserves c: crude oil and give it perhaps 32 billion barrels to eall upon in the years ahead, Consumption is in ex- mr ae wy A ia tS aucied | Fingered By Uncle,Sam about the government attempts eight- to ineiude her among 186 rela- tives of the du Pont clan as defendants in an. anti-trust suit ‘The child, daughter of the former Octavia Mary du Pont and J. Bruce Bredin of Wilmington, Del. is the youngest of the family } defendants in the suit filed agai inst the huge du Pont industrial empire, Her grandfather is Irenee du Pont, former president of the company. for the oilman. Having just set called upoh by defense authorities and miljtary needs require, oilmen | cess of two billion barrels a ys paaw, PAD says. | rotary rigs are operating now, and ; that more than 1,000 must be added | oi) trunk lines, a third of a million {tons cr steel for 4,400, miles of |pipe lines to move oil products, | and 180,000 tons of steel for gath- | jin the next two years ff ihe gcal | is reached. | If more oil is to be produced, they add, a million tons: of steel must be found to build new crude | ering lines from the new wells. | Refinery capacity is around 7% million barrels a day now. PAD thinks it should. go up by a half million barrels a day this year, and .reach 8% million barrels a, day ‘by 1955. Oilmen say that to handle this new refinery preJlue- tion this year would take 85 mil: ion barrels more of storage ca- pacity, requiring 426,000 tons of | steel to build. | Oilmen add that by the end of jthe year they will need: 10,000 more rail tank cars, 7,000 more tank trucks, and 180 more ocean tankers—if they are to meet PAD discovery and productic1 goals. i This new target for the ailmen to shoot at is based on estimates the new production goals wouldn’t provide for all-out war without | rationing for civilian users. Last year U.S: demand (inelud: barrels a day, million | in an office . . . need Noxzema’s 2-way medicated care! lovelier these two important ways: ¥. Helps heal tiny cuts and eracks in the skin with its 2. 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