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P. 2, Perry Daily Journal Saturday, July 25, 1981
The Perry Daily Journal
Published six days weekly less holi
days at 714 Delaware St., Perry, Okla
homa, by The Perry Journal Com
pany Second class Postage Paid at
Perry, Okla. 73077
Successor to The Noble County Sentinel established Sept 16, 1893. The Perry
Republican, merged May 1, 1924, and The Morrison Transcript, merged May
1, 1958
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TV in
By KENNETH R. CLARK
UPI TV Reporter
NEW YORK (UPI) - The
new public affairs show ABC
will unveil tonight at 10 p.m.,
EDT, might have been tagged
“Mea Culpa” instead of "View-
point,” but under any label, the
sight of Ted Koppel putting
heat on Geraldo Rivera would
be refreshing.
"Viewpoint” isn't the first
television show to turn a
critical eye on the news media.
Hodding Carter has been doing
that all summer on PBS's
“Inside Story," but this marks
the first time one of the big
commercial networks has done
it, and ABC carries it with
courage and style.
Kaiser Aluminum, which has
been accusing ABC of "trial by
television” ever since Rivera
did his now-famous job on their
aluminum wiring, no longer can
say they haven't had their day
in the video court.
Kaiser officials, incensed at
Rivera's charge last year that
they knowingly marketed haz-
ardous wiring and hid their own
negative research findings
about its danger, took the fight
to the FCC and to the
California courts when ABC
refused to allow them air time
for an unedited rebuttal.
In tonight's premiere edition
of “Viewpoint," the aluminum
company not only gets to air its
rebuttal, but Kaiser official
Steve Hutchcraft gets a direct
shot in debate at Rivera. Host
Koppel moderates the fight like
a district judge and Rivera
finds no comfort in his
colleague's tough questions.
In the same segment, ABC —
its own rebellious Black anchor-
man Max Robinson in the lead
— invited minority television
news men and women from all
Review
three networks to voice com-
plaints about the “unconscious
racism" they say is keeping
them from top management
jobs.
In a video display perhaps
never before beheld in the
shark-eat-shark competition of
big-time television, ABC airs
interviews on the subject with
NBC Vice President Richard
Salant and CBS News President
Bill Leonard and quotes minori-
ty employment ratios, which
are fractional, from all three
networks.
Arab-Americans, charging
television has stereotyped them
as greed-ridden “camel jock-
eys” and terrorists, also have a
forum, as does anti-ERA
spokeswoman Elaine Donnelly.
Her measured, articulate argu-
ment against the amendment —
a stance she says has been
stifled in TV news coverage —
may be the first thing ever to
dress Alan Alda in a black hat.
Koppel wraps it up with
letters — all of them blasting
ABC for one reason or another
— and he actually apologizes on
a couple of points saying-, “We
were wrong."
A network spokesman said
initiation of the exercise in self-
criticism — which will run
after tonight’s premiere four
times a year — has been a pet
project of ABC News President
Roone Arledge and had nothing
to do with PBS’s "Inside
Story," which looks at print as
well as electronic journalism.
“Roone has been planning
this since 1977 when he first
came aboard," the spokesman
said. "It was just a matter of
getting ‘20-20’ and ‘Nightline’
settled in first.”
Whatever the motive, the
result sparkles.
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N.E.R. ---------------—
"Tune in Channel Five, Kay — there's a late-breaking bulletin on the
marriage penalty tax.”
Robert Stack Will
Tackle New Series
HEALTH
Lawrence E. Lamb,M.D.
Problem with thin hair
ACROSS
1 Pep
4 Norwegian
dramatist
9 Last letter
12 Actress
Lupino
13 Piece of garlic
14 George Gersh-
win’s brother
15 Confine
16 Reference
book
17 Type of fuel
18 Sully
20 Bright but
cheap
22 Soldering
piece
24 Buddhism
type
25 Drop from
sight
28 Less than 100
shares stock
(2 wds.)
32 Same (prefix)
33 Flightless bird
35 I (Ger)
36 The "P" in
"MPH"
37 Heavy weight
38 Exclamation
of triumph
39 Most sensible
42 Synthetic
fabric
45 New (prefix)
46 Slight taste
47 Vines
50 Tore down
54 Women’s
patriotic
society (abbr.)
55 Truism
59 Frozen water
60 Tell tales
61 Popes
headdress
62 Depression ini-
tials
63 Ensign (abbr.)
64 Iron (Ger.)
65 Revolver
DOWN
1 Whizzes
2 The same
(Lat.)
3 Window
compartment
4 Mythical
aviator
5 Sandwich
type (abbr.)
6 Scale note
7 Actress Gabor
8 Made home
9 Heavenly city
10 DeValera s
land
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19 Son-in-law of
Mohammed
21 Hoosier state
(abbr.)
23 Jewish
quarter
24 Egad
25 Very
important
persons
(abbr.)
26 On the briny
27 Weaver of
fate
29 Teller of tall
stories
30 Eight (Sp)
31 Comparative
conjunction
34 Show-me
state (abbr.)
40 Compass
point
41 Til
43 Pilots
44 Accountant
(abbr.)
47 Unemployed
48 Otiose
49 Irritates
51 Vim
52 Light brown
53 College
administrator
56 12, Roman
57 It is (contr.)
58 Native metal
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(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
1
By VERNON SCOTT
UPI Hollywood Reporter
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -
Robert Stack, he of the
establishment image, tackles
his fourth television series this
fall, once again playing a
staunch advocate of law and
order in “Strike Force” for
ABC.
It was Stack in his role as the
dead-panned, cold-blooded Eliot
Ness who machine-gunned his
way to the top of the ratings in
“The Untouchables" for four
years.
And it was Stack who
steadfastly pursued truth and
excoriated office-holding scoun-
drels as a newsman in “Name
of The Game” for an additional
three years.
Stack found himself once
again enforcing the law in
“Most Wanted,” which
managed to survive only a
single year.
Thereafter, the blond, blue-
eyed patron saint of the video
constabulary vowed never
again to undertake a weekly
hour-long series.
Why would a man of Stack’s
unimpeachable integrity re-
verse his stand?
“I hadn't given a thought to
doing another series," Stack
said, grinning.
"In the past couple of years
I’d done a couple of comedy
roles in movies that I really
enjoyed. I played General
Vinegar Joe Stilwell in 1941,’
and the ground control charac-
ter in ‘Airplane.’ They were a
lot of fun.
“For several years I received
scripts and treatments for
series, but I didn’t see anything
at all that appealed to me.
"After a while actors holding
out for good movies feel like
wallflowers at a ball, waiting
for someone to ask them to
dance. Most actors are at the
mercy of some dummy in
casting with mistaken ideas of
what they can do.
"I guess most actors’ deci-
sions to do a movie are
contingent on the director,
usually a director who knows
what they can do. Steven
Spielberg was convinced I could
play Stilwell and it worked out
beautifully.
"The single most important
thing for an actor is to be
recognized by people he re-
spects — by producers and
directors with whom he’d like
to work. Only then can you
ever achieve anything worth a
damn.
“It’s not what you are in this
business, it’s what people think
you are. You count yourself a
lucky actor if you know a
Spielberg or a John Milius. If
you know them and work with
them, you have a chance.
“Of course, everyone in this
business is limited by the
material they have to work
with. But if you go with men
who are able to come up with
the material, you’re halfway
home. The producer of 'Strike
Force’ is Aaron Spelling, who’s
certainly proved he can provide
top flight material.
"Aaron sent me the script for
this series and the moment I
finished reading it, I telephoned
him and told him I wanted to
do it. I called Aaron even
before I contacted my agent.
"Strike Force’ offers me an
opportunity to do something
that will hold an audience, that
has topicality and which is a
variation on a cop theme that
can be very effective.
"The cop I play, Frank
Murphy, is a humanist — which
you certainly couldn’t say about
Eliot Ness or Dick Tracy.
“Murphy is a different kind
of cop than I’ve ever played
before. The underlying thread
of the series is five disparate
characters with their own
personal problems involved in
high risk police work.
"I hope to make Murphy as
interesting a human being as
Hawkeye Pierce in M.A.S.H.'
or Lou Grant.
“This part wasn't written for
Robert Stack. Murphy has
flaws and faults. To begin with,
his wife runs out on him for
another man and leaves him
with custody of an Irish
wolfhound.
"There’s an another element,
too. Murphy is a 20-year
veteran of the Los Angeles
Police Department which deals
with the highest growth rate of
homicide in the United States."
Stack knows little about the
future of “Strike Force." The
three-month-long writers strike
delayed the show’s scripts.
He will, however, strive to
keep Murphy properly human.
"I’ll be a lot more scruffy
than I was in any of the other
series," he said. “I can’t scruff
up too much, any more than
Alan Alda can. No matter what
the situation, Alda carries
himself a certain way. Ed
Asner scruffs up better.
"In addition to looking after
Murphy’s characteristics, I’ll
be keeping a close eye on the
content of the scripts. I hope
there’s fun in the show for me
because there’s nothing more
boring than telling the same
story every week.
"The ground rules laid down
in the pilot are such that the
thrust of the shows will be the
personal point of view of a man
who heads up a strike force
that deals with only the most
critical types of police work.
“Murphy will also make
mistakes, just as the viewers
do. The structure of ‘The
Untouchables’ didn't allow that.
“We won’t rely on motorcy-
cles, screaming tires, swooping
helicopters and machine guns.
We will use some of that stock
stuff for dramatic purposes.
But the focus of the stories will
be human."
The World Almanac”
Can you match the following
noted American architects
with their respective
achievements''
1. Henry Bacon
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
3 Benjamin H Latrobe
4 Louis H. Sullivan
5. James Renwick Jr.
a. Guggenheim Museum,
NYC
b Auditorium, Chicago
c St. Patrick's Cathedral.
NYC
d. Lincoln Memorial, Wash.,
D.C
e, U.S. Capitol, Wash., D.C
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IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
An unjustifiable bailout
By Robert Walters
(First of two related columns)
WASHINGTON (NEA) - An industry whose collective net
worth exceeds $32 billion is on the verge of convincing Con-
gress that its only alternative to financial ruination is an
expensive rescue operation mounted by the federal govern-
ment.
The principal beneficiary of the unjustifiable taxpayer-
financed bailout would be the “thrift industry" - the 4,700
savings and loan associations throughout the country and the
460 mutual savings banks chartered in 17 states.
Also reaping the benefits of the proposed subsidy program
would be the nation’s wealthiest citizens - those whose
incomes place them in the highest tax brackets, creating a
strong incentive for them to seek out tax-exempt invest-
ments.
The vehicle for providing billions of dollars worth of
unwarranted federal assistance to those already well-heeled
institutions and individuals is the "All Savers Act," an outra-
geous piece of special-interest legislation so deceptively
named that its very title constitutes consumer fraud.
If signed into law, the bill would authorize thrift institu-
tions to issue a new type of one-year savings certificate
whose interest payments would be exempt from federal
taxation, up to a limit of $1,000 for an individual and 12.000
for a married couple filing a joint tax return.
The interest rate could not exceed 70 percent of the inter-
est paid on one-year treasury bills. Thus, "all savers" certifi-
cates could earn only 10 percent annually if treasury bills
were paying 14.3 percent.
But that formulation has no relevance whatever to “all
savers." Only those with an annual income exceeding
$40,000 - the richest 9 percent of the country’s taxpayers -
can reap any financial benefits from tax-exempt invest-
ments.
Families in that elite category could shelter as much as
$20,000 annually - at a cost to the federal government (in
lost tax revenues that otherwise would have been collected)
of $4 billion to $5 billion during the next three years.
Families whose income is in the more modest - and more
typical range of 815.000 to $30,000 yearly would actually
lose money on "all savers" certificates compared with an
investment in a money market fund or treasury bills
Moreover, to offset the losses the federal treasury is
expected to incur, the pending legislation would cut in half
one of the few benefits given to those middle-income taxpay-
ers in recent years to encourage investment.
The current law excludes from taxable income the pro-
ceeds from dividend and interest payments, up to a maxi-
mum of 8200 for individuals and 8400 for couples The pro-
posed law would slash that exclusion to 8100 for individuals
and $200 for couples.
The legislation provides a bonanza for thrift institutions
by allowing them to attract funds at an interest rate at least
30 percent lower than the market rate being paid by others
seeking relatively large investments.
The rapid escalation of interest rates in recent years has
placed savings and loan associations in a difficult (but hardly
untenable) financial position because they borrow short and
lend long.
In other words, they have been forced to pay double-digit
interest to attract deposits while their investment portfolios
are burdened with 20- and 30-year home mortgages carried
at single-digit interest rates.
But many economists believe the problem is the product
of a short-term transition caused by extraordinary inflation-
ary pressures that are not likely to continue.
Unwilling to wait for relief from the marketplace, the
thrift institutions waged an unusually intensive lobbying
campaign to secure inclusion of the "All Savers Act" in the
tax bill now being written in Congress
Although no hearings have ever been held on the proposal,
it was tentatively approved 20-0 by the Senate Finance Com-
mittee and 29-3 by the House Ways and Means Committee.
But one of the dissenters in the House was the act’s co-
sponsor, Rep. Sam M. Gibbons, D-Fla., who examined his
own bill carefully enough to conclude that it was "one of the
worst pieces of legislation I’ve ever introduced.”
By Lawrence Lamb, M.D.
DEAR DR LAMB My
hair is very thin. I’m a full-
blood Indian with typically
dark complexion. Most Indi-
ans have thick black hair. As
a matter of fact, my father,
mother, sister and brothers
have thick black hair. I have
one child of 8 years. Her hair
is normal for a growing girl.
My hair is thin and dark
brown. I shower and wash
my hair every day. When I
was in school I had very
thick hair. My hair gets oily
if not washed every day.
DEAR READER - I get
enormous amounts of mail
from readers who have hair
loss problems It is impor-
tant for people to under-
stand that hair loss is a
symptom. It can be caused
by many different things.
That is why I often recom-
mend that a person with hair
loss should see a dermatolo-
gist for an evaluation rather
than getting ripped off by
many of the advertised
products that are often
worse than useless.
You will need an examina-
tion to find out why you have
this problem. Most hair loss
is from inherited character-
istics of the individual hair
follicles. In men that often
leads to male pattern bald-
ness, often early in life. In
women it results in frontal
thinning.
In a few people hormone
imbalances can cause loss of
hair. This includes both
overactive and underactive
thyroid conditions. You
might have such a problem,
resulting in excessive scalp
oil and hair loss. Today fad
diets that are deficient in
calories and good quality
protein are often a cause.
What you do to your hair
can affect hair loss. This is
explained in The Health Let-
ter number 12-6, Hair Care,
which I am sending you. Oth-
ers who want this issue can
send 75 cents with a long,
stamped, self-addressed
envelope for it to me, in care
of this newspaper, P.O. Box
1551, Radio City Station,
New York, NY 10019. What
you do includes such things
as styles that pull on your
hair and excessive use of
bleaches.
Taking B vitamins, zinc
and any number of things
people write to me about is
usually entirely useless.
Some have.....ind
of protein they need. The
answer is good quality pro-
tein that provides all the
essential amino acids your
body needs. These are found
in meat and dairy products.
A good balanced diet should
meet all your protein, vita-
min and mineral require-
ments you need for normal
hair growth.
DEAR DR LAMB - I do
not write as a critic, but is
there any explanation as to
why a senior citizen, in good
health, almost 80 years old
is interested only in eating?
I see a great deal of this in
older people all the time. I
do not mean they do not read
or go for a walk, but this is
their main concern and
seems to be of a worrisome
nature.
DEAR READER - Eat-
ing is one of the basic
aspects of most people’s
lives. In my opinion, more
people should be concerned
about what they are eating
and translate that concern
into learning sound informa-
tion about nutrition. Good
eating often means good
health.
Older people often do
have a narrowing of their
scope of interest. That is
sometimes because they
don’t have the ability or
opportunity to participate in
the full range of life's activi-
ties that younger, and some-
times healthier, people do.
So it is only natural that
there may be a greater
interest in food. That is far
better than the other prob-
lem that occurs in some old-
er people and in people who
live alone, which is loss of
interest in food and poor
nutritional habits.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
MIRRORSYESTERDAYS
Five Years Ago
The three member town
board of Marland redistricted
the town into five wards rather
than three.
Ten Years Ago
Mrs. Everett Frueh and Mrs.
Ann Jean Crider were winners
in blind partner play golf at the
Perry Golf and Country club...
The Perry high school student
council was selling maroon
‘Spirit' caps to earn funds for
the Ruth Taber scholarship
fund.
Twenty Years Ago
Mrs. James Gottschalk was
hostess to members of the
Pioneer home demonstration
club...Cynthia Trussel, Mary
Lou Beasley and Lyle Newton
were among those enrolled in
the junior Red Cross lifesaving
course.
Thirty Years Ago
Noble county was one of 35
counties declared a ‘disaster'
area because of an extended
drouth...F. I. Davis, local sign
painter, purchased a business
building at 400 Cedar from E. L.
Wilson.
Forty Years Ago
Take Me Back to Oklahoma'
starring Tex Ritter and Bob
Wills was playing at the Roxy
theatre.
THE BETTER HALF By Vinson
"I had it made at the Indian Fair. No, it isn’t
upside down.”
KIT ‘N‘ CARLYLE ™
The Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, July 25,
the 206th day of 1981 with 159 to
follow.
The moon is moving from its
last quarter tooward its new
phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Mars.
The evening stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Leo.
American artist Maxfield
Parrish and actor Walter
Brennan were born on July 25
— the artist in 1870 and
Brennan in 1894.
On this date in history:
In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant
became the first American
officer to reach the rank of
general in the U.S. Army.
In 1952, Puerto Rico became
a self-governing U.S. Common-
wealth.
In 1972, Democratic vice
presidential nominee Thomas
Eagleton, a Missouri senator,
disclosed he had psychiatric
care for “nervous ailments” in
the 1960s. Presidential nominee
George McGovern removed him
from the ticket and replaced
him with Sargent Shriver.
In 1975, Turkey said it would
(and later did) halt all
activities at U.S. military
installations in that country
because of a six-month arms
embargo imposed by the United
States after the Turkish inva-
sion of Cyprus.
A thought for the day:
American statesman Daniel
Webster said, “Let our object
be our country, our whole
country, and nothing but our
country.”
by Larry Wright
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