In this episode, we delve into a series of intriguing and diverse news stories from the past, as reported by CBS News. We begin with the geopolitical landscape of the 1970s, highlighting the gratitude expressed by North Vietnam's premier to the Soviet Union for their support in the Vietnam War. We also touch on the challenges faced by Vietnamese refugees arriving in the United States and the differing opinions on their resettlement.
We then shift to Cambodia, where the new communist government is attempting to build a society based on agriculture, and the economic struggles faced by hospitals in San Francisco due to a strike by anesthesiologists over malpractice insurance costs.
The episode also covers a tragic accident involving a bus carrying high school students, the IRS's revocation of the National Farmers Organization's tax-exempt status, and a forecast of a record wheat crop by the agriculture department.
We explore the environmental message from the National Audubon Society about the conservation of whales and the ongoing UN conference on the law of the sea.
Finally, we dive into a captivating mystery drama, "The Voices of Death," which explores the concept of voices from the past being heard through a crystal radio set, leading to a gripping narrative about the end of the world and the importance of listening to these voices.
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K o I n in Portland. CBS News is next and then CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
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CBS News, North Vietnam's premier has thanked The Soviet Union and other communist countries for their help in the communist victory in South Vietnam. This is Doug Poling reporting on the CBS Radio network. Premier Phan Van Dong expressed his gratitude and said he thanks the Soviet people for playing an important part in the victories in the South. In Cambodia, the new communist government says it has begun to build what it calls a sound clean social system based on agriculture. Radio Phnom Penh denounced the regime of former president Lan Nao saying it had imported everything from abroad. Vietnamese refugees continue to arrive in this country. The refugee population of Camp Pendleton, California has swelled to over 18,000.
Arrivals are now being diverted to other camps in the Midwest and the South. The relocation of refugees in The US continues to be controversial. Singer Eartha Kitt, who was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War while it was going on, says America's minorities and poor should get priority over the Vietnamese homeless. Senator James Buckley, Republican of New York, says the nation should go ahead and accept the Vietnamese.
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These people are desperate, and they are, have nowhere to turn as they are the victims of a war in which we participated. But more than that, I think that the the the fears that seem to be expressed are are are way over extended. It is not conceivable that this nation with 210,000,000 people can't absorb a 30 or a 50,000, of who, fewer than 40,000 would actually be in the in the job market.
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Senator James Buckley, CBS News continues in a moment. In popular libraries, best selling novel, 34 East, a ceasefire line is drawn in the Sinai. On one side, Egyptian and Soviet troops. On the other, Israel and its American allies. Then Arab fanatics kidnap the president of The United States, forcing the great powers to start the countdown for nuclear war. The suspense reaches a shattering climax in 34 East, the international bestseller now in paperback, 34 East. Read it today while it's still fiction. If you ever use a hemorrhoid preparation,
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The strike by anesthesiologists at hospitals in San Francisco is starting to spread. Some of the doctors who work at hospitals in Santa Cruz County, California now say they'll work only in emergency cases. The anesthesiologist began the walkout ten days ago to protest skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance. One physician involved in the protest, doctor Sanford Marcus of the Union of American Physicians, says many hospitals could be in serious,
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trouble if the problem is not solved soon. Several hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area are at less than 50 of occupancy. The hospital conference claims that they are losing over
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$400,000 a day, and we feel that if this situation is allowed to deteriorate further, several hospitals may become bankrupt.
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Doctor Marcus says it is not a doctor's strike. He terms the situation a lockout by the insurance carriers. Near Ashland, Oregon, Friday, a bus carrying some high school students from California struck a car and rolled down the side of a mountain. Three people on the bus were killed, 17 others hurt. Two of the dead have been identified. They are the bus driver and a 16 year old girl. The bus was transporting some students from Mount Shasta, California to Harris Beach State Park in Oregon for a weekend field trip. President Owen Lee Staley of the National Farmers Organization says the NFO will appeal a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service revoking the tax exempt status of the organization.
Staley says the IRS did so on grounds the NFO markets its members' products. Staley maintains the NFO acts only as a bargaining agent for members who actually make their own sales. The agriculture department Friday forecast a record wheat crop for this year. The winter wheat crop is estimated at 1,620,000 bushels, up 16% from last year. Now this.
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Hey. Summer's coming. Have a good year America.
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A message from the National Audubon Society and its local chapters.
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After eight weeks of talks, the UN conference on the law of the sea ended the current session Friday in Geneva.
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Delegates remain far apart on revision of the laws governing the use of the oceans. Another meeting will be held next March. Doug Poling, CBS News. The Oregon House Revenue Committee has cleared a bill to let people vote in the primary election next spring on whether the state gasoline tax should be increased by a penny a gallon. The house approved and sent to the senate a bill to limit the total award in medical malpractice suits to $400,000, and the senate approved and sent to the house a bill that would that would require lending institutions to pay interest on mortgage reserve accounts.
A 40 year old former Oregon state prisoner, Richard Marquette, pleaded innocent in Salem today to a murder charge in the death April 19 of Betty Wilson of Sio, Oregon. Circuit Court Judge Val Sloper of Marion County set Marquette's trial for June 2. Missus Wilson's dismembered body was found under a bridge near Salem. Marquette was arrested three days later. A report by the US Soil Conservation Service and the National Weather Service predicts excellent water supplies for much of Oregon this coming summer. The snowpack ranges from 50% above average in the northern portion of the state to four times the normal amount in the southern portion. And all of the state except the Central Cascades got more precipitation than normal during the past month. A research group says the public utility commissioner staff is not doing its job of representing the consumer's side in a rate increase request by Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group made the claim in a report. It criticizes the staff's support of the telephone company's request to charge 20¢ for each call for directory assistance and for each call from a pay telephone.
The weather for the Portland Metropolitan Area, variable cloudiness tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Increasing chance of afternoon and evening showers or thunder showers. Little cooler Saturday with the highs in the middle seventies, lows near 50 degrees, highs Sunday in the middle sixties, light winds tonight, and southerly at five to 15 miles per hour on Saturday. Chance of measurable rainfall, 20% tonight, 30% Saturday, and 60% Saturday night. Right now in Downtown Portland, the temperature stands at 63 degrees. That's KOIN news to 11:08.
I'm Bill Garrity.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come
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in. Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall. The Bible speaks of a voice that cries out in the wilderness, and yet there is an even vaster wilderness than the trackless arid desert that is spoken of in the book. This is a wilderness so terrifying that it stretches out even beyond infinity. It is a wilderness of boundless, limitless space. But desolate though it may be, this is not a quiet wilderness, nor is it empty. It hums and buzzes and crackles with noise and sound and even voices. Yes. There are voices that cry out in this wilderness too. Voices that are not human, but voices that weep and laugh and threaten.
Where are those production schedules, Burke? Production schedules? Yes. Production schedules. Your chief engineer I didn't make them up. I didn't think it was necessary. What are you talking about? We'll be out of business. Out of business? How could we go out of business? We got more orders than we can handle. That doesn't matter. We'll be out of business anyhow. Why, Burke? Just tell me why. Because the world is about to come to an end. Oh, where did you hear this? On the radio. The radio? I didn't hear it. I know that. It's something that you can only hear on my radio.
Our mystery drama, The Voices of Death, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Norman Rose. It is sponsored in part by Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one. You said it. Manoids of Bush St. Louis.
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If you ever took one of those ordinary round one quart ice cream containers, a handful of paper fasteners, a couple of paper clips, some number 36 enameled copper wire, a small piece of silicone or galena, and a pin or two and transformed it all into a radio set. Well, you're not as young as you used to be. Unbelievably, it worked. You could hear the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Will Rogers and President Coolidge. How unbelievably primitive your crystal set would seem now. But is it possible that your cat's whisker might still receive a message that simply is not getting through the marvelously sophisticated equipment we have today?
Yes, miss Hastings? It's mister Cartwright of National Industries. He wants to congratulate. Tell him that I'm in a meeting. And you've got four other calls on hold. Well, tell them all I've gone to Outer Mongolia for the afternoon. Oh, yes, mister Fowler. What should I say if they ask me why? Oh, tell them I had to buy some yak butter. And, oh, yes, miss Hastings, could you come in? Oh, wow. Now, miss Hastings, would you mind retyping this letter? It's not very long. I've, you see, I've marked the words that aren't spelled right. Oh, mister Fowler. It's not that I spell them wrong. It's just that
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I leave out the e in all words that have an I and an e. I write receive and deliver. I don't know why I do that. Sure. Maybe we better send you to a psychiatrist. Oh, I'd be afraid to talk to one of those people. Mister Fowler, now that you'll become president of the company, will you need me anymore? Miss Hastings, what kind of question is that? I thought you'd want a new secretary.
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Somebody who looks like she might be a secretary to the president. Miss Hastings, for twenty four years, we've been a team. When I get promoted, you get promoted. Now now what's her doing outside? Well, mister Davis would like to see. Oh, Arthur. Send him in. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And remember, miss Hastings, I before e, except after c. Hi, Bert. Busy. Now what is this, Arthur? You feel you have to be announced now? I don't become president until tomorrow. Yes. Tomorrow. Yes. And even then, I'll probably still be the same sweet lovable birdfowler. Now what's your problem, Arthur? Problem?
Yahoo says I have a problem. Well, you look like a man with a problem. Good. Well, how are things, Bert? Now that you've definitely changed the the subject, I may add I'm being swamped with requests for my bio. Though, well, two of them anyhow. Why not? You're you're a famous man. I will be after tomorrow. Tomorrow. Yes. I knew it would happen one day. I said it twenty five years ago. Remember, Arthur? Do you remember twenty five years ago? Remember what? You don't have a sentimental bone in your body. Oh, how can you say that? I mean, alimony to two wives. We both came here the same week, didn't we? Two raw youngsters just out of college, and we did pretty well. But, yes, Arthur. What is it?
Well, I guess there's only one way to say this. You are not going to be made president of this company. What? But, I'm not? The board of directors met last week. The decision was made to name to name Ron Anderson. Ron Anderson? Oh, you can't be serious. The board wanted me to break the news to, to cushion the shock. Oh, I see. Because we're old friends. Oh, it's quite perceptive and sensitive. Everybody agrees that you're entitled to greater recognition and that well, a special title will be created for you. But it won't be the title I deserve, president. And more money, a lot more money, stock options, more Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Arthur. Excuse me. Yes, mister Fowler? Take a letter, please. My personal stationery. Today's date. To the chairman of the board. Dear Frank, please accept my resignation effective immediately.
I'll sign it the moment you finished. Roger, you you can't do it. I've just done it. Now listen to me. Please don't just put it. Mister Fowler, did I did I just hear you say this? No. Now, miss Hastings. Now please go back to your desk. I want that typed immediately. Don't you type one word. Now everything's gonna be just fine. You just go out to your desk, miss Hastings. Now now for The board of directors. There was no board of directors twenty five years ago. How high and mighty we've become. We now have a board of directors. Just calm down. I walked into this company twenty five years ago, and it was going down for the third time. This this pathetic little two by four fly by night. Bert, you you have to realize Whose ideas turned this company around? Your Whose designs made the difference? Yours. Nobody denies that, Bert. The times have changed and you well, you don't have the right image for the president of the company. Oh, really? Let's talk about images, shall we? Who worked out the circuit that enables this company to create a world's best image on a screen? It's a new ballgame. Well, if it is, you can play it. You represent the past. But Bert, you're too old. What? At 53, I'm too old. No, no, it's it's the way the way you dress and the the way you cut your hair and the way you impress people. You're just well, I guess the only way I can put it is that you're you're just too World War two ish. Whereas Ronnie Anderson Ronnie Anderson is an idiot. No. No.
No. He's not really an idiot. Idiot. It's just that he talks their language. Whose language? The language of the people who pull the buying strings today. It's the accent on youth. And he sports that long hair and he he wears clothes that are called mod or whatever. And what he's just that fresh, bright, vibrant image the board thinks that this company needs. But he doesn't know one end of a receiver from the other. He doesn't have to, Bert. The engineers don't run companies anymore. You know that. It's all in the hands of the marketing people. If you'll excuse me, Arthur, I'd like to clear my desk and go home.
Where are you going? You heard me. I said I'm going home. Are you? Tell me, Bert. Where's home? Where's home? It's here. And what's home? This company. It has been your wife, your kids. What else do you have? Will you excuse me, Arthur? You gave everything to this company. The company is all you have to show for your life. You can't leave it. But company's leaving me, Arthur. Ronnie Anderson is a temporary madness that's come over the company. Oh, Ronnie Anderson. Who says God has no sense of humor? You wanna go to lunch? Well, Ronnie Anderson's invited everybody to be his guest in the penthouse. I have a previous engagement. Why don't you go and score some points?
That was a low blow. I'll see you later, first. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, sir? So miss Hastings, call the garage. I want my car.
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Thank you for lunch, mister Fowler. Isn't it a beautiful day? Oh, I can't remember ever doing anything like this before. Anything like what, miss Hastings? Oh, driving out in the country during the middle of a working day. Oh, the woods are so beautiful. Yes.
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Now you you've, you've been my secretary for so many years, miss Hastings. And, well, I know so little about you. For example, well, why have you never married?
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Well, because
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no one ever asked me. You never married because no one ever asked you. And I never married because I never asked anyone. Why are all those cars parked along the side of the road? Oh, well, according to those signs, it's a garage sale. Oh, it's a garage sale. Oh, people wanna get rid of a lot of old things around the house, so they just hold a sale. What a coincidence. I'm an old thing that was gotten rid of today myself. You know, I feel an affinity for this place. Let's stop and browse about
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it.
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Oh, I've never seen so much junk. Oh, usually. But you see some old books and pictures.
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You see that stuff over there, miss Hastings? It's typical of what you'd see in a home about, oh, 50 ago. Look, there's an old broken down wind up phonograph, a closed dummy, a coffee grinder, and
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and Mister Fowler? Mister Fowler, are you alright? No.
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Oh, no. It can't be. Mister Fowler, you're so pale.
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It's mine.
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Mister Fowler, something's wrong. Miss Hastings,
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you you you see that thing on the table? It looks like a round container with some wire wrapped around it. Oh, yes. See what price is marked on it. Oh, there isn't any. Oh, the woman's the gate. Ask her how much she wants. Oh, mister Fowler, you're shaking. Are are you ill? No. No. Find out how much she wants. I have to have it.
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A dollar.
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A dollar?
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I'd have given her a thousand. Well, now it's yours. But it was always mine. Mister Fowler, are are you saying you once owned this whatever it is, and now, by I don't know what kind of coincidence,
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you just came across it again? What do you think this is, miss Hastings? I couldn't tell. It's a radio. A radio?
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Well, it looks more like a cotton for ice cream or or sour cream.
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This was my first design. My very first design. You designed this, mister Fox? My first design. My my first prize. There was a magazine called, American Youth and it offered a prize for the best and most simple design for a crystal set. And, well, I I submitted this one and I won. I was 10 years old and I won. I had a magazine printed the diagram for this, had youngsters all over the country copied their own sets from it. Just just think about it. More than forty years ago, a kid who lived in this house made this radio from my design. Oh, I still remember the prize. A gold medal. And on it was inscribed, to Bertram Fowler, a great scientist of the future. And it came true.
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You are a great scientist. Uh-huh. No.
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No. I never became a scientist. I just tinkered around with gadgets. The do you mean a thing like this could actually work? Oh, sure. Look, I'll put on the earphones.
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Well, how wouldn't it need a new battery? No. No battery. No electricity.
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It works by itself. You see, it's just it's just a a coil of wire, a crystal detector which is made of silicon or galena. See, we need, we need an aerial. Oh, we can use the metal clothesline the lady has stretched in her yard. Oh, this will be fine. Now now listen through those earphones. Alright. Now what do you hear? Anything?
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Oh, yeah. I I do hear a kind of scratchy noise. Wait. Music. Yeah. I I I think I hear music. Clearly. Well,
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listen for yourself. Yes. May I have those earphones?
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Mister Fowler, what's wrong? Oh, it's not. Somebody help me. We need a doctor. Please, oh, oh, mister Fowler, don't paint.
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Anyone would have a right to pass out if he tunes in the news and he gets the bad news of 1927. But why is he picking up that kind of news and that kind of music now? What kind of radio set did our friend Bert Fowler design anyhow? I'll be back shortly with act two.
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Hey. When's the last time you made a wish? I wish I could get an A and geometry. I wish for a a place to live. I wish I was in Omaha with my grandmother and grandfather. Wishing is very important, you know? I think I wish for all the children in the world to be well and healthy and have enough to eat. I wish I could lose a hundred pounds. I wish I had a bike. My mother spoke with hers.
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Wishing means you hope for better things. I wish we could find solutions to the crime problem. I wish that we win every soccer game in our league. I wish, and I really wish, the price of food would go down. If you want hope, you've gotta make a wish. If I have one wish, it's, to understand my children. I wish that everything works out between my boyfriend and me. I just wish for a job. I wish all the lost children would come home to their fathers. Because without a wish,
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there can be no hope. Yeah. I wish there were more love and truth and less loneliness in the world. From the Franciscans, live love.
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I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to Earth. I know not where, said mister Longfellow. But the fact of the matter is the arrow did fall, finally, to the earth. There is evidently then a significant difference between arrows and words. When you shoot or utter or discharge, however you wanna put it, a word entered the air, apparently, it never falls to Earth again. It enters the ether and stays there forever. Or does it? How else may we account for the fact that Burke Fowler is now hearing words that entered the airwaves more than forty five years ago? You say that you heard of actual, Paul Whiteman broadcast.
And I heard a news broadcast which could only have been made in 1927. Why? Because it was about the conference to restrict the number of battleships. It was called by President Coolidge. You you've heard of him? Yes. And you heard all this on that, that, say, that ice cream carton? This ice cream carton is actually a variable inductance tuning coil, a crystal detector and look, doctor, I don't wanna get into anything here. I know what I heard. Well, when miss Hastings brought you here to my office, she said that you'd had a very, well, a very shattering experience earlier in the day in your business affairs. Yeah. You could say that. Well, that was one shock to your system.
And then you encountered this, this radio, which was made from a prize winning design of yours. No. You're only a child at the time, so that's a second shot. Alright. But what does all this have to do with what I heard? Well, the present has suddenly become unbearable, And you're escaping back into a beautiful, promising past? Now what you're saying is that for one reason or another, I imagined all this. Well, yes. That's what it, that's what it comes to, mister Fowler. Plus, I put on these earphones. I scratched that crystal with the, cat's whisk cat's whisker. All I got was static.
Doctor, am I okay otherwise? Oh, you check out first rate. Hey, listen. Let me know if you raise any more of that twenties jazz.
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It is time, Anita. No, Ziza. No. No, please. I I think Anita,
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Mister Fowler? Wait. Mister Fowler? Wait. Mister Fowler? Wait.
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Yes. Yeah. What is it, miss Hayes? Oh, let me take these earphones off. Let me take these earphones off. You're due at a meeting in mister Anderson's office. Oh, oh, yeah. That's right. You know, miss Hastings, I well, I'm I'm hearing the strangest
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voices on this old radio line. What are you trying to voice? Well, I don't know. Oh, mister Fowler. I I wish I could hear the voices you say you hear. They're there. They're loud and clear.
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Bert, We're no longer competitive. There's not a company in the world that can match our quality, Rob. Yeah. But we've gotta cut costs. We can't. You mean you can't. If you know someone who can produce this quality for less money, well, I'll I'll step aside. How about less quality? There goes the reputation of this company. Well, don't you worry about our reputation. I have to. I created it. Why didn't you resign, Bert? You know, I'd have resigned if they'd named you president. That would be the easy way out. Well, you'll simply have to find some shortcuts. If you put us back with the rest of the pack, why should people buy our product? That's my job, marketing.
You turn it out, I sell it. Just like that, You're not keeping up with the current market. Neither does your friend, Arthur Davis. What about Arthur? Well, I almost fired him today. Why? He has a lot to learn about publicity. That little, thing of a jig of yours, that crystal set, just because it won a prize almost fifty years ago, He thought it was worth sending word to the press. For that, you'd fire him? Here's that old magazine. It's dead and gone, and pictures of kids in short haircuts and knickers and this crazy looking cotton with all those clips and fasteners.
And you're our executive engineer. Ron, you may have missed the point. The image is old fashioned. The direction is backwards. Nobody cares about yesterday, Bert.
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Mister Anderson's secretary just called. You're supposed to have a cost analysis ready for the meeting tomorrow morning. I know. I know. Well, if you don't give it to me to type, they won't have it. That's very well put. And I know you haven't even started it. That's right. Now, mister Fowler, don't you think that Zetha and Aletha.
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Zifa is a man's voice. It sounds like a man's voice. At Alifa, it must be a woman's voice, but
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who are they? Who are they? Mister Fowler, should I call back and tell mister Anderson's secretary
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the report will be ready? Yes. Yes. You do that. Or else well, tell her it won't be ready. Any way you feel. Mister Fowler. And now, miss Hastings, you must excuse me. Are
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are you going to listen to that that thing again?
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It's time, Marita. Who knows, either gives them a chance. How many chances? How many?
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What space? What space?
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Young men and women, they will be different. Wait. Wait. Wait.
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Wait for what? Mister Fowler, are you alright? Why? What's the matter? You've been shouting wait. Wait for what? Have I? No, mister Fowler.
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Ever since you came across that that that that thing You look at it as if it's some sort of poisonous tank. It's really a very primitive device and it gave so many children in less affluent times a wonderful creative outlet. Hey. Wait. Wait. The children. The creative children. Are they the ones Zifa and Alisa were talking about? Mister Fowler, you
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you have to go upstairs to that meeting. They have been falling for you. Oh, oh, yes. Yes. The,
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the meeting. The meeting. I don't see where there's a reduction in any of these costs, Bert. That's right, Ron. You don't. I thought we agreed that we would cut costs. No. As a matter of fact, I think we have to increase them. You know what you're saying? Certainly. I am the president of this company. I set the policy. I am not aware that the board has canceled its commitment to quality. I see. So you want to take this to the board? Absolutely. You're supposed to be the hotshot, but how much ability does it take to sell cheap junk? If you're any good, you should be able to sell quality. I would like to remind you that the board has already chosen me over you. Then what are you worried about?
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We have no right to take it. We hope you will make better, you, Esauvian. But it is theirs. It is theirs. They will destroy you. No. The children. I am a little more tired. How much a little more with your wrist?
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We have to stop. Do you hear miss Hastings? We have to stop. Mister Fowler, I don't understand destroying the world. Oh. Miss Hastings, tell Arthur Davis I must see him in my office right away. Arthur, I want you to contact the science editors and writers of all the newspapers, magazines, and wire services. Oh, what for, Bert? What for? I'm going to hold a press conference. That's what's for. Well, why Well, what? Well, have you cleared it with Ron? No. I hadn't cleared it with Ron, and I don't intend to clear it with Ron either. Now, you just get these guys to meet with me say, Tuesday morning.
You'd have to tell me why. And I'd have to I I would have to check it out. Arthur, I'm asking you to do this for me. Please, Bert. Ron calls the shots, you know that. Sure. Yes, sure. Okay. Okay, Arthur, I'm sorry that I asked. Look Bert, I am on your side, but you understand my position. Oh, absolutely. And so why don't you leave before we both burst into tears? Yes, sir? Miss Hastings, call the scientific editors of all the newspapers, magazines, networks, wire services, and tell them I'm having a press conference on on Tuesday morning at ten. Oh, but that that's mister Davis's job. I know. But he needs some help.
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Weigh dizzy dust. I beg you, Wade. Every day you they do further damage and wreak greater havoc. So, sorry, your destruction.
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Now what I have just played back for you ladies and gentlemen is the tape recording of voices that were picked up on this old crystal detector. The message is clear. The world is in danger. It will be taken over by another race or kind or call it what you will unless What is this? No. Wait. No. Wait. Please. Don't go listen. Listen to me. Please listen. There's almost no time left. We're running out of time. No. Please, mister Fowler. You can't get so excited. They don't believe me, miss Hastings. They don't believe me. Well, do you believe him?
The air of the night is filled with voices and not all of them are heard by everyone. It is said that some men hear the rhythm of a different drummer. What about the rest of us? If we do not hear that drummer, does that mean he doesn't exist? Right now, all we're sure of is this, you exist and I exist. And I shall return in just a few moments with act three. There's a lot of free spirit at your Buick dealers. If you're thinking about a new car, he has lots of bright, shiny, free spirited Buicks for you to choose from. If you're thinking used car, your Buick dealer has a good selection of those too. If you want a checkup for your present Buick or to get your car in shape for a trip, His service department has everything it takes.
Free Spirit is your Buick dealer. It's part of every deal. Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems? Your better business bureau knows.
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Sam Spud, private investigator. Oh, Sam. I'm so glad you called. You sound rattled, Angel. I'm friendly, Sam. I went to buy the carpet for the office and I got so confused. There are too many kind. I didn't know what to ask or what to buy.
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I'll help you, young lady.
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Mercy. Who are you? I'm the man from the Better Business Bureau. Now when you are choosing carpet, make sure you pick a long wearing one that'll go with your walls, draperies, and upholstery. Beware of so called fantastic bargains. And don't buy a carpet that isn't labeled as the fiber content. Oh, Sam. Now I know what to look for and ask before I buy a carpet. You floor me, Angel. Just another helpful tip for your benefit. Easygoing, amiable, Bert Fowler is suddenly cast, or he seems to have cast himself, in the role of a prophet of doom.
A role that is certainly alien to his nature, but one that he seems powerless to reject. Prophets of doom, historically, don't do very well. Indeed, most of them come to a rather unfortunate end. Is this the fate that awaits our Burke Fowler? Gentlemen, this meeting was called originally to acquaint this board with some fundamental policy differences between Burke Fowler and me, but that is insignificant now. Anyone who has read the papers, who has seen or heard the news broadcast is aware of the fact that Bert Fowler has made this company a laughingstock. You had no right to call a press conference. Gentlemen, gentlemen, please listen to me. We must put a stop to this. Put a stop to what? Put a stop to this exclusive pursuit of our own private interests. And what does that mean, Bert? We are in danger. Of what? Of running out of time to save ourselves.
From home? Well, from home. It's here. You can hear it on this crystal detector. Look, Bert. All of us have clamped on those earphones. All of us have have have humored you. The voices are clear. The voices are clear. And so I can only conclude that you do not wish to hear them. Gentlemen, I recommend we relieve Burt of his duties as chief of engineering and design and retire him on his very generous pension. Listen. We have to devote ourselves to peace, to the better way to go out of order. Now why don't you just leave quiet your hands off of me hurt for your long time? I'm only taking my hands off of me. Come on. Not so good, mister Fowler.
I don't know what came over me, doctor. A fine crusader for peace you turned out to be. You slugged the first guy who disagrees with you. Doctor, what am I doing here in this hospital? Well, you're going to be observed. What does that mean? Well, this will give you a chance to cool off. I will write a high sounding report filled with all kinds of technical statements that no layman could understand and no two doctors would agree on. I do hear these voices. Yes. Of course. Then then you admit they exist. I agree that you hear them. Doctor, what am I going to do?
Face reality. What I hear is real. Well, there are many realities. The problem is, you have to get along with the one that's popular. Now, the voices you hear are your voices, mister Fowler. They remind you of a happier time. I am not talking about the news and the music. I mean, I mean, Zetha and Aletha. Ah, Aletha and Zetha. Yes. A to Z. See, that's how you see your life. It's completely fouled up. It's no wife, no kids, no real fame. You know, it's a brilliant potential that was never realized. That's how you account for it. Bert, I'm on your side.
I think the whole thing is absolutely wild. According to Alisha Enzifa, the young people of my generation should have turned things around. I guess we I guess we only made them worse. How about your generation, doctor? Well, we make a lot of noise, but we'll get older too. But doctor, if we do nothing, the world will come to an end. You wanna know what I think? I think the world came to an end a long time ago.
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Welcome home, mister Fowler. Oh,
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thank you. Thank you, miss Hastings.
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The company told me I should stay on as your secretary.
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That's one of the bonuses you get at the end of a rat race, assuming you've been one of the bigger rats. Although I I don't know what my duties are. Well, you come to the apartment every day at nine and you're going to put in a full day's work. That is unless you'd rather go get yourself another job. Oh, no.
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No, mister Fowler. I'll never leave you. I'll stay as long as you want, ma'am. Now, miss Hastings,
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all our lives, we've been looking out for number one. You follow this? Yes, sir. And so despite all the other theories, that is the basic reason the world has gone to hell. Do you agree? If you say so, mister Fowler. Yes. People have to start looking beyond themselves. We just have to do things that will that will turn the world around. Yes, mister Fowl. Now this is something that has to begin at the top. Once the leaders understand what their true mission has to be, we can save ourselves. Now I've drawn up a list of important people. After all, I'm I was somebody myself. There's no doubt about that, mister Fowler. I have worked with people in government, in the military, in industry, and not just here, but also abroad. And I'm going to put it to these people. Now here's the list, and I want you to put through some calls for me.
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I have admiral Chadwick on the phone, mister Fowles. Oh, oh, thank you, miss Hastings.
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Hello, George. You got my letter? What do you mean what's the punch line? But no. No. No. No. No. No. I'm serious. We all have to unite against this new menace. We have to change our self centered thinking. George George, you know I'm not crazy. I I oh, oh, sure. Oh, yes. Yes. We'll we'll get together for lunch one day. Right. Bye. Well, at least he returned the call. I'm sorry, mister Fowler.
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Who else have you tried? Oh, mister Cartwright of National Industries. He always seems to be in a meeting. Mister Taylor's out of town. I I I just can't get anybody. I'll see who it is. Well, hello, miss Hasty. Oh, good morning, mister Davis. What?
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Arthur, sit down. You like a drink? No. No. No. I, not. Well, what is it, Arthur? I like to think that we're still friends. If you like to think so, by all means. But what you're doing is, well, to a person who knows you, it's heartbreaking. And what am I doing? You're making a damn fool of yourself. The way you write letters to people and the way you call them on the phone and try to waylay them in the offices. Bert, you you look ridiculous. Do I? Bert, it's tragic to see you ending up like this, an eccentric, a crack brain, not and besides a, a ass?
Well, there's a company. But I've retired. I'm no longer with the company. Your name will always be associated with the company. And so what you're doing is a reflection. What do you suggest I do? Oh, enjoy life. You're still comparatively young. You have plenty of money. Arthur, Arthur, friend to friend, if you were me, how would you go about it? Go about what? Go about getting people to listen. Nobody wants to listen to what you have to say, Bert. I know. I know. But how can I how can I dramatize my message? You just answered your own question. Dramatize.
Call attention to yourself somehow. Make people listen. Do something. Yes? Oh, I don't know. But something that would just explode all over the front pages. Oh yes. Yeah. Thank you, Arthur. I want you to know, we're still friends. Oh, it's heartwarming to hear that, Arthur. I now I I I wish you'd forget about those those voices. But how how can I forget? I hear them so so clearly. Now listen, put the earphones on. I tried, but I just can't hear. Or you don't want to. Miss Hastings,
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what are you doing? Oh, I'm typing your letter to the president of The United States and a copy for the premier of The Soviet and
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the prime minister of China. Well, just hold off on that for a little while. Oh, yes, sir. Miss Hastings, miss Hastings, you don't think that I'm crazy, do you?
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Oh, no, sir.
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Well, take the rest of the day off. I I'm thinking of trying a different strategy. Yes, sir. Arthur was right. He said I should try something that would explode all over the front pages. Now, what do you mean, mister Fowler? I simply have to make people take me seriously. Who's that? What? Bert? It's you. Yes, Ron. It's me. What are you doing here? Oh, I got lonesome for the place. I thought I'd come by for a little visit. At 10:00 at night? Well, you're still here, Ron. Wait. What what have you got on that police? What do you think I've got? I'm gonna call a security guard. I just saw him. He's asleep. But he's outside. He he won't get hurt. What have you got on that police? Fuses, wiring, or explosives. But you're crazy. Nobody wants to listen. I have you thrown into jail. Get out of here. I don't want anybody hurt, not even you.
This place will go up in thirty seconds. Well, you're a maniac. Run for your life. You Why are you standing there? Because it's my company. I'll stay with it. You're out of your mind. Run for your life.
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Oh, how is he this morning, miss Hastings? Well, he seems to be fine, doctor.
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And where's the crystal set? Oh,
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he hasn't asked for it since the, I don't think he even remembers it. Oh, oh, hello, mister Fowler.
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Hello? Oh, yes. Hello, doctor. Yeah. They are treating you okay? I was fine. Good. Between you and me, Bert, is, that what it was all about? I mean, you were so completely upset at not being made president that you just blew up the company for revenge? I don't know what you're talking about. Well, you're lucky to be alive. How you survive that explosion just defies all explanation. Oh, she can explain it. Miss Hastings? Oh, that's not her name. No. No. Her name is Alifa. Alifa. And she loves me. Oh. You love me, don't you, Alifa?
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Yes.
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I love you. Because she loves me. That's the reason the world is still ours. She doesn't want me to be destroyed with everyone else. Oh, come on. Alright. Do you understand, doctor? I tried. Yes. But no one wanted to listen. And the world will only last as long as I live. And afterwards? Aziza and Aziza will take it for their own people. Isn't that so, Alisa?
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Yes. Yes, mister Fowler. That's so.
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Well, I guess it's up to me to keep you alive for a long, long time, mister Foam. Oh, thank you. Thank you, doctor. I want to stay with her as long as I can because I love her. I I always loved her. Let's hope he stays with her for a long, long time. Because if her name is Aletha, we are all only safe as long as Bert Fowler lives. Well, you must admit the end of the world could happen anytime for any number of reasons. Just add Bert Fowler to the list. At any rate, I'm reasonably sure the world won't end before I come back in just a few moments.
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In popular libraries, best selling novel, 34 East, a ceasefire line is drawn in the Sinai on one Soviet troops, on the other, Israel and its Americas. Then Arab fanatics kidnap the president of The United States, forcing the great powers to start the countdown for nuclear war. The suspense reaches a shattering climax in 34 East, the international bestseller now in paperback, 34 East. Read it today while it's still fiction.
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Last year, this kid came close to being just a name on a tombstone. Help. What saved him was Ellen Costigan. She knew what to do I can't do it. Because we taught her lifesaving. That's the whole business of the American Red Cross. Sometimes we do big lifesaving jobs like sheltering half a million people. Sometimes they're little, like helping an old lady get to the supermarket. Life, it's worth saving. What a shot. Give us a hand. Alright. The incredibly complex and sophisticated electronic communications of today sprang from simple pieces of wire and crystal.
The fantastically complicated jet airplane originated in some pieces of wood, cloth, and bicycle wheels. Our age of technology has come into being within the memory of people who are still alive today. It is so new, so strange that we hardly believe it or understand it. Are we using it properly? What were we supposed to do with it? Our cast included Norman Rose, Mary Jane Higbee, Earl Hammond, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale, Marvin Hale Prentice, MHP.
In the poetry, all of Preston's writings, the first line always starts with a word that begins with an M. The second line starts with a word that begins with an H, and the third with a P. But that could be a That could be what? Coincidence? Remember what I just quoted over the TV show. The first line begins, millions reach out. There's your m. Second line, here we are prisoners. And the third line, poetry. Only in poetry is there's the p. And the final three word sentence, must hope perish. MHP, Marvin Hale Prentice. Now do you know why I feel V. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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Bright and beautiful music from midnight to six. World and national news on the hour with CBS. Chuck Knopf has local news. From KOIN in Portland, my name is Bill Garrity. Have a good night tonight and a better day tomorrow, and have a lovely weekend. It's twelve midnight.
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CBS news. The numbers of Vietnamese refugees in The US continue to swell, but getting them settled here is taking time. This is Doug Polling reporting on the CBS radio network. It's thought there are now about a 13,000 refugees from Indochina in America. Temporary camps set up for them are jammed. Camp Pendleton, California with 18,000 temporary residents is so full. Arrivals are being diverted to other parts of the country. One official says the relocation of Vietnamese into new jobs and homes around the country is going much more slowly than expected and could take up to six months. Leon Marion, head of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies, blames government red tape.
He says only those Vietnamese with previously established American sponsors or relatives have started leaving the camps. A South Vietnamese refugee ship which survived a rocket attack while fleeing Saigon limped into Guam Friday with 700 persons aboard. The vessel had three holes in its sides and was still flying the South Vietnamese flag. Some of the passengers said about seven people were killed when the rockets hit the ship. More news in a moment.
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If you ever use a hemorrhoid preparation, you should know this. Vaseline Brands has news. It's Hemoraid ointment. Hemoraid works fast, helps protect with a proven medical ingredient for soothing occlusion. And Hemorrhade gives you only this key ingredient, so it gives you more than the leading preparation. Now at your first sign of pain, burning, and itching, turn to soothing Hammerate. Hammerate from Vaseline Brands. Use only as directed. The first big Hollywood film of 1975 will arrive on the scene next week. And of all things, it's a cynical look at Hollywood itself. I'm Shirley Dunphy, your host for Entertainment West, heard every Saturday over most of these CBS Radio Network stations. Tomorrow, I'll be talking with director John Schlesinger about his film Day of the Locust, a grim story of Hollywood and the world in 1938. And we'll hear his thoughts on why an Englishman like himself can so easily capture a slice of American life. That's Entertainment West tomorrow on the CBS Radio Network.
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One of the world's leading oil magnates has arrived in Latin America. George Natanson has a report from Mexico City. The shore of Iran arrived in Mexico City to a thunderous and typical warm Mexican welcome. Officially, the purpose of this state visit is to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two countries. Unofficially, it is third world unity confronting the powerful industrialist nations. In the case of Iran and Mexico, oil is the key issue and the possibility of petrodollars invested in Mexico. Sandeep travels to various industrial sites in the country where Mexico is seeking heavy investment.
But if Mexico needs petrodollars, Iran and the oil producing exporting countries need Mexico to support petroleum price and production standards. The Shaw is the fourth head of state to visit Mexico this year. Five more follow before the year is up. All the heads of state represent third world nations, indicating Mexico's intensive campaign to assume a major leading role among the developing countries. George Matheson for CBS News in Mexico
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City. Some good news for the nation's economy. The government reports that retail sales rose 1.4% during April. It also reported that business inventories declined $1,900,000,000 during March. Assistant commerce secretary James Pate talked about the significance of the inventory's decline. This is encouraging news, of course, because,
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the liquidation of the excessive stock of unsold goods is absolutely essential, to a recovery in the economy a resumption in production and a pickup in employment.
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Officials also say that a client in inventory should help cut down on inflation. Senate and house conferees have agreed on a congressional alternative to president Ford's budget. It is $367,000,000,000 and includes a deficit of 68,800,000,000.0. That's about $8,000,000,000 higher than the deficit recommended by the president. The justice department has recommended that the Penn Central and other financially troubled railroads in the Northeast and the Midwest be sold at auction to more prosperous railroads. A law passed by Congress last year requires the administration to submit a plan for reorganization of those railroads that are in trouble. That plan has to be submitted by law no later than July 26.
CBS News continues in a moment. In God We Trust, America speaks.
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From Abraham Lincoln's creed, I believe in god, the almighty rotor of nations, our great and good and merciful maker, our father in heaven, who notes the fall of a sparrow and numbers the hairs on our heads. I have a solemn vow registered in heaven to finish the work I am in, in full view of my responsibility to my God, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives me to see the right.
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Presented by the Catholic Communications Foundation. A federal health official told a congressional hearing on Friday that a birth control pill for males may be available in five to ten years. Doctor Philip Cortman of the National Institute of Health said current research into such a drug is producing promising results. Doug Poling, CBS News.
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K o I n in Portland. CBS News is next and then CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
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CBS News, North Vietnam's premier has thanked The Soviet Union and other communist countries for their help in the communist victory in South Vietnam. This is Doug Poling reporting on the CBS Radio network. Premier Phan Van Dong expressed his gratitude and said he thanks the Soviet people for playing an important part in the victories in the South. In Cambodia, the new communist government says it has begun to build what it calls a sound clean social system based on agriculture. Radio Phnom Penh denounced the regime of former president Lan Nao saying it had imported everything from abroad. Vietnamese refugees continue to arrive in this country. The refugee population of Camp Pendleton, California has swelled to over 18,000.
Arrivals are now being diverted to other camps in the Midwest and the South. The relocation of refugees in The US continues to be controversial. Singer Eartha Kitt, who was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War while it was going on, says America's minorities and poor should get priority over the Vietnamese homeless. Senator James Buckley, Republican of New York, says the nation should go ahead and accept the Vietnamese.
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These people are desperate, and they are, have nowhere to turn as they are the victims of a war in which we participated. But more than that, I think that the the the fears that seem to be expressed are are are way over extended. It is not conceivable that this nation with 210,000,000 people can't absorb a 30 or a 50,000, of who, fewer than 40,000 would actually be in the in the job market.
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Senator James Buckley, CBS News continues in a moment. In popular libraries, best selling novel, 34 East, a ceasefire line is drawn in the Sinai. On one side, Egyptian and Soviet troops. On the other, Israel and its American allies. Then Arab fanatics kidnap the president of The United States, forcing the great powers to start the countdown for nuclear war. The suspense reaches a shattering climax in 34 East, the international bestseller now in paperback, 34 East. Read it today while it's still fiction. If you ever use a hemorrhoid preparation,
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you should know this. Vaseline Brands has news. It's Hemoraid ointment. Hemoraid works fast, helps protect with a proven medical ingredient for soothing occlusion. And Hemoraid gives you only this key ingredient, so it gives you more than the leading preparation. Now at your first sign of pain, burning, and itching, turn to soothing Hemorrhade. Hemorrhade from Vaseline Brands. Use only as directed.
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The strike by anesthesiologists at hospitals in San Francisco is starting to spread. Some of the doctors who work at hospitals in Santa Cruz County, California now say they'll work only in emergency cases. The anesthesiologist began the walkout ten days ago to protest skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance. One physician involved in the protest, doctor Sanford Marcus of the Union of American Physicians, says many hospitals could be in serious,
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trouble if the problem is not solved soon. Several hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area are at less than 50 of occupancy. The hospital conference claims that they are losing over
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$400,000 a day, and we feel that if this situation is allowed to deteriorate further, several hospitals may become bankrupt.
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Doctor Marcus says it is not a doctor's strike. He terms the situation a lockout by the insurance carriers. Near Ashland, Oregon, Friday, a bus carrying some high school students from California struck a car and rolled down the side of a mountain. Three people on the bus were killed, 17 others hurt. Two of the dead have been identified. They are the bus driver and a 16 year old girl. The bus was transporting some students from Mount Shasta, California to Harris Beach State Park in Oregon for a weekend field trip. President Owen Lee Staley of the National Farmers Organization says the NFO will appeal a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service revoking the tax exempt status of the organization.
Staley says the IRS did so on grounds the NFO markets its members' products. Staley maintains the NFO acts only as a bargaining agent for members who actually make their own sales. The agriculture department Friday forecast a record wheat crop for this year. The winter wheat crop is estimated at 1,620,000 bushels, up 16% from last year. Now this.
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Hey. Summer's coming. Have a good year America.
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Get on Goodyear Power Save. Get summer off to a great start with 20% savings on Goodyear Polyglass radial tires. Get on Goodyear Power Save. Goodyear Polyglass Radials are built to last up to 30,000 miles. And now through Saturday, you get 20% off the regular price at participating dealers of Goodyear service stores. Here's the riddle. Name a giant that lives in the ocean, but can't breathe underwater. A giant that sings songs, but has no vocal cords. Give up? It's a whale. One of the most fascinating giants that ever lived. And what's more, these giants have enormous brains and impressive intelligence. Let's use some of ours to save them from extinction.
A message from the National Audubon Society and its local chapters.
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After eight weeks of talks, the UN conference on the law of the sea ended the current session Friday in Geneva.
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Delegates remain far apart on revision of the laws governing the use of the oceans. Another meeting will be held next March. Doug Poling, CBS News. The Oregon House Revenue Committee has cleared a bill to let people vote in the primary election next spring on whether the state gasoline tax should be increased by a penny a gallon. The house approved and sent to the senate a bill to limit the total award in medical malpractice suits to $400,000, and the senate approved and sent to the house a bill that would that would require lending institutions to pay interest on mortgage reserve accounts.
A 40 year old former Oregon state prisoner, Richard Marquette, pleaded innocent in Salem today to a murder charge in the death April 19 of Betty Wilson of Sio, Oregon. Circuit Court Judge Val Sloper of Marion County set Marquette's trial for June 2. Missus Wilson's dismembered body was found under a bridge near Salem. Marquette was arrested three days later. A report by the US Soil Conservation Service and the National Weather Service predicts excellent water supplies for much of Oregon this coming summer. The snowpack ranges from 50% above average in the northern portion of the state to four times the normal amount in the southern portion. And all of the state except the Central Cascades got more precipitation than normal during the past month. A research group says the public utility commissioner staff is not doing its job of representing the consumer's side in a rate increase request by Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company, the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group made the claim in a report. It criticizes the staff's support of the telephone company's request to charge 20¢ for each call for directory assistance and for each call from a pay telephone.
The weather for the Portland Metropolitan Area, variable cloudiness tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Increasing chance of afternoon and evening showers or thunder showers. Little cooler Saturday with the highs in the middle seventies, lows near 50 degrees, highs Sunday in the middle sixties, light winds tonight, and southerly at five to 15 miles per hour on Saturday. Chance of measurable rainfall, 20% tonight, 30% Saturday, and 60% Saturday night. Right now in Downtown Portland, the temperature stands at 63 degrees. That's KOIN news to 11:08.
I'm Bill Garrity.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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in. Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall. The Bible speaks of a voice that cries out in the wilderness, and yet there is an even vaster wilderness than the trackless arid desert that is spoken of in the book. This is a wilderness so terrifying that it stretches out even beyond infinity. It is a wilderness of boundless, limitless space. But desolate though it may be, this is not a quiet wilderness, nor is it empty. It hums and buzzes and crackles with noise and sound and even voices. Yes. There are voices that cry out in this wilderness too. Voices that are not human, but voices that weep and laugh and threaten.
Where are those production schedules, Burke? Production schedules? Yes. Production schedules. Your chief engineer I didn't make them up. I didn't think it was necessary. What are you talking about? We'll be out of business. Out of business? How could we go out of business? We got more orders than we can handle. That doesn't matter. We'll be out of business anyhow. Why, Burke? Just tell me why. Because the world is about to come to an end. Oh, where did you hear this? On the radio. The radio? I didn't hear it. I know that. It's something that you can only hear on my radio.
Our mystery drama, The Voices of Death, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Norman Rose. It is sponsored in part by Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one. You said it. Manoids of Bush St. Louis.
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If you ever took one of those ordinary round one quart ice cream containers, a handful of paper fasteners, a couple of paper clips, some number 36 enameled copper wire, a small piece of silicone or galena, and a pin or two and transformed it all into a radio set. Well, you're not as young as you used to be. Unbelievably, it worked. You could hear the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Will Rogers and President Coolidge. How unbelievably primitive your crystal set would seem now. But is it possible that your cat's whisker might still receive a message that simply is not getting through the marvelously sophisticated equipment we have today?
Yes, miss Hastings? It's mister Cartwright of National Industries. He wants to congratulate. Tell him that I'm in a meeting. And you've got four other calls on hold. Well, tell them all I've gone to Outer Mongolia for the afternoon. Oh, yes, mister Fowler. What should I say if they ask me why? Oh, tell them I had to buy some yak butter. And, oh, yes, miss Hastings, could you come in? Oh, wow. Now, miss Hastings, would you mind retyping this letter? It's not very long. I've, you see, I've marked the words that aren't spelled right. Oh, mister Fowler. It's not that I spell them wrong. It's just that
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I leave out the e in all words that have an I and an e. I write receive and deliver. I don't know why I do that. Sure. Maybe we better send you to a psychiatrist. Oh, I'd be afraid to talk to one of those people. Mister Fowler, now that you'll become president of the company, will you need me anymore? Miss Hastings, what kind of question is that? I thought you'd want a new secretary.
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Somebody who looks like she might be a secretary to the president. Miss Hastings, for twenty four years, we've been a team. When I get promoted, you get promoted. Now now what's her doing outside? Well, mister Davis would like to see. Oh, Arthur. Send him in. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And remember, miss Hastings, I before e, except after c. Hi, Bert. Busy. Now what is this, Arthur? You feel you have to be announced now? I don't become president until tomorrow. Yes. Tomorrow. Yes. And even then, I'll probably still be the same sweet lovable birdfowler. Now what's your problem, Arthur? Problem?
Yahoo says I have a problem. Well, you look like a man with a problem. Good. Well, how are things, Bert? Now that you've definitely changed the the subject, I may add I'm being swamped with requests for my bio. Though, well, two of them anyhow. Why not? You're you're a famous man. I will be after tomorrow. Tomorrow. Yes. I knew it would happen one day. I said it twenty five years ago. Remember, Arthur? Do you remember twenty five years ago? Remember what? You don't have a sentimental bone in your body. Oh, how can you say that? I mean, alimony to two wives. We both came here the same week, didn't we? Two raw youngsters just out of college, and we did pretty well. But, yes, Arthur. What is it?
Well, I guess there's only one way to say this. You are not going to be made president of this company. What? But, I'm not? The board of directors met last week. The decision was made to name to name Ron Anderson. Ron Anderson? Oh, you can't be serious. The board wanted me to break the news to, to cushion the shock. Oh, I see. Because we're old friends. Oh, it's quite perceptive and sensitive. Everybody agrees that you're entitled to greater recognition and that well, a special title will be created for you. But it won't be the title I deserve, president. And more money, a lot more money, stock options, more Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Arthur. Excuse me. Yes, mister Fowler? Take a letter, please. My personal stationery. Today's date. To the chairman of the board. Dear Frank, please accept my resignation effective immediately.
I'll sign it the moment you finished. Roger, you you can't do it. I've just done it. Now listen to me. Please don't just put it. Mister Fowler, did I did I just hear you say this? No. Now, miss Hastings. Now please go back to your desk. I want that typed immediately. Don't you type one word. Now everything's gonna be just fine. You just go out to your desk, miss Hastings. Now now for The board of directors. There was no board of directors twenty five years ago. How high and mighty we've become. We now have a board of directors. Just calm down. I walked into this company twenty five years ago, and it was going down for the third time. This this pathetic little two by four fly by night. Bert, you you have to realize Whose ideas turned this company around? Your Whose designs made the difference? Yours. Nobody denies that, Bert. The times have changed and you well, you don't have the right image for the president of the company. Oh, really? Let's talk about images, shall we? Who worked out the circuit that enables this company to create a world's best image on a screen? It's a new ballgame. Well, if it is, you can play it. You represent the past. But Bert, you're too old. What? At 53, I'm too old. No, no, it's it's the way the way you dress and the the way you cut your hair and the way you impress people. You're just well, I guess the only way I can put it is that you're you're just too World War two ish. Whereas Ronnie Anderson Ronnie Anderson is an idiot. No. No.
No. He's not really an idiot. Idiot. It's just that he talks their language. Whose language? The language of the people who pull the buying strings today. It's the accent on youth. And he sports that long hair and he he wears clothes that are called mod or whatever. And what he's just that fresh, bright, vibrant image the board thinks that this company needs. But he doesn't know one end of a receiver from the other. He doesn't have to, Bert. The engineers don't run companies anymore. You know that. It's all in the hands of the marketing people. If you'll excuse me, Arthur, I'd like to clear my desk and go home.
Where are you going? You heard me. I said I'm going home. Are you? Tell me, Bert. Where's home? Where's home? It's here. And what's home? This company. It has been your wife, your kids. What else do you have? Will you excuse me, Arthur? You gave everything to this company. The company is all you have to show for your life. You can't leave it. But company's leaving me, Arthur. Ronnie Anderson is a temporary madness that's come over the company. Oh, Ronnie Anderson. Who says God has no sense of humor? You wanna go to lunch? Well, Ronnie Anderson's invited everybody to be his guest in the penthouse. I have a previous engagement. Why don't you go and score some points?
That was a low blow. I'll see you later, first. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, sir? So miss Hastings, call the garage. I want my car.
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Thank you for lunch, mister Fowler. Isn't it a beautiful day? Oh, I can't remember ever doing anything like this before. Anything like what, miss Hastings? Oh, driving out in the country during the middle of a working day. Oh, the woods are so beautiful. Yes.
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Now you you've, you've been my secretary for so many years, miss Hastings. And, well, I know so little about you. For example, well, why have you never married?
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Well, because
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no one ever asked me. You never married because no one ever asked you. And I never married because I never asked anyone. Why are all those cars parked along the side of the road? Oh, well, according to those signs, it's a garage sale. Oh, it's a garage sale. Oh, people wanna get rid of a lot of old things around the house, so they just hold a sale. What a coincidence. I'm an old thing that was gotten rid of today myself. You know, I feel an affinity for this place. Let's stop and browse about
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it.
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Oh, I've never seen so much junk. Oh, usually. But you see some old books and pictures.
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You see that stuff over there, miss Hastings? It's typical of what you'd see in a home about, oh, 50 ago. Look, there's an old broken down wind up phonograph, a closed dummy, a coffee grinder, and
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and Mister Fowler? Mister Fowler, are you alright? No.
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Oh, no. It can't be. Mister Fowler, you're so pale.
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It's mine.
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Mister Fowler, something's wrong. Miss Hastings,
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you you you see that thing on the table? It looks like a round container with some wire wrapped around it. Oh, yes. See what price is marked on it. Oh, there isn't any. Oh, the woman's the gate. Ask her how much she wants. Oh, mister Fowler, you're shaking. Are are you ill? No. No. Find out how much she wants. I have to have it.
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A dollar.
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A dollar?
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I'd have given her a thousand. Well, now it's yours. But it was always mine. Mister Fowler, are are you saying you once owned this whatever it is, and now, by I don't know what kind of coincidence,
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you just came across it again? What do you think this is, miss Hastings? I couldn't tell. It's a radio. A radio?
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Well, it looks more like a cotton for ice cream or or sour cream.
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This was my first design. My very first design. You designed this, mister Fox? My first design. My my first prize. There was a magazine called, American Youth and it offered a prize for the best and most simple design for a crystal set. And, well, I I submitted this one and I won. I was 10 years old and I won. I had a magazine printed the diagram for this, had youngsters all over the country copied their own sets from it. Just just think about it. More than forty years ago, a kid who lived in this house made this radio from my design. Oh, I still remember the prize. A gold medal. And on it was inscribed, to Bertram Fowler, a great scientist of the future. And it came true.
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You are a great scientist. Uh-huh. No.
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No. I never became a scientist. I just tinkered around with gadgets. The do you mean a thing like this could actually work? Oh, sure. Look, I'll put on the earphones.
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Well, how wouldn't it need a new battery? No. No battery. No electricity.
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It works by itself. You see, it's just it's just a a coil of wire, a crystal detector which is made of silicon or galena. See, we need, we need an aerial. Oh, we can use the metal clothesline the lady has stretched in her yard. Oh, this will be fine. Now now listen through those earphones. Alright. Now what do you hear? Anything?
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Oh, yeah. I I do hear a kind of scratchy noise. Wait. Music. Yeah. I I I think I hear music. Clearly. Well,
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listen for yourself. Yes. May I have those earphones?
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Mister Fowler, what's wrong? Oh, it's not. Somebody help me. We need a doctor. Please, oh, oh, mister Fowler, don't paint.
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Anyone would have a right to pass out if he tunes in the news and he gets the bad news of 1927. But why is he picking up that kind of news and that kind of music now? What kind of radio set did our friend Bert Fowler design anyhow? I'll be back shortly with act two.
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Hey. When's the last time you made a wish? I wish I could get an A and geometry. I wish for a a place to live. I wish I was in Omaha with my grandmother and grandfather. Wishing is very important, you know? I think I wish for all the children in the world to be well and healthy and have enough to eat. I wish I could lose a hundred pounds. I wish I had a bike. My mother spoke with hers.
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Wishing means you hope for better things. I wish we could find solutions to the crime problem. I wish that we win every soccer game in our league. I wish, and I really wish, the price of food would go down. If you want hope, you've gotta make a wish. If I have one wish, it's, to understand my children. I wish that everything works out between my boyfriend and me. I just wish for a job. I wish all the lost children would come home to their fathers. Because without a wish,
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there can be no hope. Yeah. I wish there were more love and truth and less loneliness in the world. From the Franciscans, live love.
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I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to Earth. I know not where, said mister Longfellow. But the fact of the matter is the arrow did fall, finally, to the earth. There is evidently then a significant difference between arrows and words. When you shoot or utter or discharge, however you wanna put it, a word entered the air, apparently, it never falls to Earth again. It enters the ether and stays there forever. Or does it? How else may we account for the fact that Burke Fowler is now hearing words that entered the airwaves more than forty five years ago? You say that you heard of actual, Paul Whiteman broadcast.
And I heard a news broadcast which could only have been made in 1927. Why? Because it was about the conference to restrict the number of battleships. It was called by President Coolidge. You you've heard of him? Yes. And you heard all this on that, that, say, that ice cream carton? This ice cream carton is actually a variable inductance tuning coil, a crystal detector and look, doctor, I don't wanna get into anything here. I know what I heard. Well, when miss Hastings brought you here to my office, she said that you'd had a very, well, a very shattering experience earlier in the day in your business affairs. Yeah. You could say that. Well, that was one shock to your system.
And then you encountered this, this radio, which was made from a prize winning design of yours. No. You're only a child at the time, so that's a second shot. Alright. But what does all this have to do with what I heard? Well, the present has suddenly become unbearable, And you're escaping back into a beautiful, promising past? Now what you're saying is that for one reason or another, I imagined all this. Well, yes. That's what it, that's what it comes to, mister Fowler. Plus, I put on these earphones. I scratched that crystal with the, cat's whisk cat's whisker. All I got was static.
Doctor, am I okay otherwise? Oh, you check out first rate. Hey, listen. Let me know if you raise any more of that twenties jazz.
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It is time, Anita. No, Ziza. No. No, please. I I think Anita,
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Mister Fowler? Wait. Mister Fowler? Wait. Mister Fowler? Wait.
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Yes. Yeah. What is it, miss Hayes? Oh, let me take these earphones off. Let me take these earphones off. You're due at a meeting in mister Anderson's office. Oh, oh, yeah. That's right. You know, miss Hastings, I well, I'm I'm hearing the strangest
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voices on this old radio line. What are you trying to voice? Well, I don't know. Oh, mister Fowler. I I wish I could hear the voices you say you hear. They're there. They're loud and clear.
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Bert, We're no longer competitive. There's not a company in the world that can match our quality, Rob. Yeah. But we've gotta cut costs. We can't. You mean you can't. If you know someone who can produce this quality for less money, well, I'll I'll step aside. How about less quality? There goes the reputation of this company. Well, don't you worry about our reputation. I have to. I created it. Why didn't you resign, Bert? You know, I'd have resigned if they'd named you president. That would be the easy way out. Well, you'll simply have to find some shortcuts. If you put us back with the rest of the pack, why should people buy our product? That's my job, marketing.
You turn it out, I sell it. Just like that, You're not keeping up with the current market. Neither does your friend, Arthur Davis. What about Arthur? Well, I almost fired him today. Why? He has a lot to learn about publicity. That little, thing of a jig of yours, that crystal set, just because it won a prize almost fifty years ago, He thought it was worth sending word to the press. For that, you'd fire him? Here's that old magazine. It's dead and gone, and pictures of kids in short haircuts and knickers and this crazy looking cotton with all those clips and fasteners.
And you're our executive engineer. Ron, you may have missed the point. The image is old fashioned. The direction is backwards. Nobody cares about yesterday, Bert.
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Mister Anderson's secretary just called. You're supposed to have a cost analysis ready for the meeting tomorrow morning. I know. I know. Well, if you don't give it to me to type, they won't have it. That's very well put. And I know you haven't even started it. That's right. Now, mister Fowler, don't you think that Zetha and Aletha.
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Zifa is a man's voice. It sounds like a man's voice. At Alifa, it must be a woman's voice, but
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who are they? Who are they? Mister Fowler, should I call back and tell mister Anderson's secretary
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the report will be ready? Yes. Yes. You do that. Or else well, tell her it won't be ready. Any way you feel. Mister Fowler. And now, miss Hastings, you must excuse me. Are
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are you going to listen to that that thing again?
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It's time, Marita. Who knows, either gives them a chance. How many chances? How many?
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What space? What space?
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Young men and women, they will be different. Wait. Wait. Wait.
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Wait for what? Mister Fowler, are you alright? Why? What's the matter? You've been shouting wait. Wait for what? Have I? No, mister Fowler.
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Ever since you came across that that that that thing You look at it as if it's some sort of poisonous tank. It's really a very primitive device and it gave so many children in less affluent times a wonderful creative outlet. Hey. Wait. Wait. The children. The creative children. Are they the ones Zifa and Alisa were talking about? Mister Fowler, you
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you have to go upstairs to that meeting. They have been falling for you. Oh, oh, yes. Yes. The,
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the meeting. The meeting. I don't see where there's a reduction in any of these costs, Bert. That's right, Ron. You don't. I thought we agreed that we would cut costs. No. As a matter of fact, I think we have to increase them. You know what you're saying? Certainly. I am the president of this company. I set the policy. I am not aware that the board has canceled its commitment to quality. I see. So you want to take this to the board? Absolutely. You're supposed to be the hotshot, but how much ability does it take to sell cheap junk? If you're any good, you should be able to sell quality. I would like to remind you that the board has already chosen me over you. Then what are you worried about?
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We have no right to take it. We hope you will make better, you, Esauvian. But it is theirs. It is theirs. They will destroy you. No. The children. I am a little more tired. How much a little more with your wrist?
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We have to stop. Do you hear miss Hastings? We have to stop. Mister Fowler, I don't understand destroying the world. Oh. Miss Hastings, tell Arthur Davis I must see him in my office right away. Arthur, I want you to contact the science editors and writers of all the newspapers, magazines, and wire services. Oh, what for, Bert? What for? I'm going to hold a press conference. That's what's for. Well, why Well, what? Well, have you cleared it with Ron? No. I hadn't cleared it with Ron, and I don't intend to clear it with Ron either. Now, you just get these guys to meet with me say, Tuesday morning.
You'd have to tell me why. And I'd have to I I would have to check it out. Arthur, I'm asking you to do this for me. Please, Bert. Ron calls the shots, you know that. Sure. Yes, sure. Okay. Okay, Arthur, I'm sorry that I asked. Look Bert, I am on your side, but you understand my position. Oh, absolutely. And so why don't you leave before we both burst into tears? Yes, sir? Miss Hastings, call the scientific editors of all the newspapers, magazines, networks, wire services, and tell them I'm having a press conference on on Tuesday morning at ten. Oh, but that that's mister Davis's job. I know. But he needs some help.
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Weigh dizzy dust. I beg you, Wade. Every day you they do further damage and wreak greater havoc. So, sorry, your destruction.
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Now what I have just played back for you ladies and gentlemen is the tape recording of voices that were picked up on this old crystal detector. The message is clear. The world is in danger. It will be taken over by another race or kind or call it what you will unless What is this? No. Wait. No. Wait. Please. Don't go listen. Listen to me. Please listen. There's almost no time left. We're running out of time. No. Please, mister Fowler. You can't get so excited. They don't believe me, miss Hastings. They don't believe me. Well, do you believe him?
The air of the night is filled with voices and not all of them are heard by everyone. It is said that some men hear the rhythm of a different drummer. What about the rest of us? If we do not hear that drummer, does that mean he doesn't exist? Right now, all we're sure of is this, you exist and I exist. And I shall return in just a few moments with act three. There's a lot of free spirit at your Buick dealers. If you're thinking about a new car, he has lots of bright, shiny, free spirited Buicks for you to choose from. If you're thinking used car, your Buick dealer has a good selection of those too. If you want a checkup for your present Buick or to get your car in shape for a trip, His service department has everything it takes.
Free Spirit is your Buick dealer. It's part of every deal. Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems? Your better business bureau knows.
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Sam Spud, private investigator. Oh, Sam. I'm so glad you called. You sound rattled, Angel. I'm friendly, Sam. I went to buy the carpet for the office and I got so confused. There are too many kind. I didn't know what to ask or what to buy.
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I'll help you, young lady.
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Mercy. Who are you? I'm the man from the Better Business Bureau. Now when you are choosing carpet, make sure you pick a long wearing one that'll go with your walls, draperies, and upholstery. Beware of so called fantastic bargains. And don't buy a carpet that isn't labeled as the fiber content. Oh, Sam. Now I know what to look for and ask before I buy a carpet. You floor me, Angel. Just another helpful tip for your benefit. Easygoing, amiable, Bert Fowler is suddenly cast, or he seems to have cast himself, in the role of a prophet of doom.
A role that is certainly alien to his nature, but one that he seems powerless to reject. Prophets of doom, historically, don't do very well. Indeed, most of them come to a rather unfortunate end. Is this the fate that awaits our Burke Fowler? Gentlemen, this meeting was called originally to acquaint this board with some fundamental policy differences between Burke Fowler and me, but that is insignificant now. Anyone who has read the papers, who has seen or heard the news broadcast is aware of the fact that Bert Fowler has made this company a laughingstock. You had no right to call a press conference. Gentlemen, gentlemen, please listen to me. We must put a stop to this. Put a stop to what? Put a stop to this exclusive pursuit of our own private interests. And what does that mean, Bert? We are in danger. Of what? Of running out of time to save ourselves.
From home? Well, from home. It's here. You can hear it on this crystal detector. Look, Bert. All of us have clamped on those earphones. All of us have have have humored you. The voices are clear. The voices are clear. And so I can only conclude that you do not wish to hear them. Gentlemen, I recommend we relieve Burt of his duties as chief of engineering and design and retire him on his very generous pension. Listen. We have to devote ourselves to peace, to the better way to go out of order. Now why don't you just leave quiet your hands off of me hurt for your long time? I'm only taking my hands off of me. Come on. Not so good, mister Fowler.
I don't know what came over me, doctor. A fine crusader for peace you turned out to be. You slugged the first guy who disagrees with you. Doctor, what am I doing here in this hospital? Well, you're going to be observed. What does that mean? Well, this will give you a chance to cool off. I will write a high sounding report filled with all kinds of technical statements that no layman could understand and no two doctors would agree on. I do hear these voices. Yes. Of course. Then then you admit they exist. I agree that you hear them. Doctor, what am I going to do?
Face reality. What I hear is real. Well, there are many realities. The problem is, you have to get along with the one that's popular. Now, the voices you hear are your voices, mister Fowler. They remind you of a happier time. I am not talking about the news and the music. I mean, I mean, Zetha and Aletha. Ah, Aletha and Zetha. Yes. A to Z. See, that's how you see your life. It's completely fouled up. It's no wife, no kids, no real fame. You know, it's a brilliant potential that was never realized. That's how you account for it. Bert, I'm on your side.
I think the whole thing is absolutely wild. According to Alisha Enzifa, the young people of my generation should have turned things around. I guess we I guess we only made them worse. How about your generation, doctor? Well, we make a lot of noise, but we'll get older too. But doctor, if we do nothing, the world will come to an end. You wanna know what I think? I think the world came to an end a long time ago.
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Welcome home, mister Fowler. Oh,
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thank you. Thank you, miss Hastings.
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The company told me I should stay on as your secretary.
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That's one of the bonuses you get at the end of a rat race, assuming you've been one of the bigger rats. Although I I don't know what my duties are. Well, you come to the apartment every day at nine and you're going to put in a full day's work. That is unless you'd rather go get yourself another job. Oh, no.
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No, mister Fowler. I'll never leave you. I'll stay as long as you want, ma'am. Now, miss Hastings,
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all our lives, we've been looking out for number one. You follow this? Yes, sir. And so despite all the other theories, that is the basic reason the world has gone to hell. Do you agree? If you say so, mister Fowler. Yes. People have to start looking beyond themselves. We just have to do things that will that will turn the world around. Yes, mister Fowl. Now this is something that has to begin at the top. Once the leaders understand what their true mission has to be, we can save ourselves. Now I've drawn up a list of important people. After all, I'm I was somebody myself. There's no doubt about that, mister Fowler. I have worked with people in government, in the military, in industry, and not just here, but also abroad. And I'm going to put it to these people. Now here's the list, and I want you to put through some calls for me.
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I have admiral Chadwick on the phone, mister Fowles. Oh, oh, thank you, miss Hastings.
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Hello, George. You got my letter? What do you mean what's the punch line? But no. No. No. No. No. No. I'm serious. We all have to unite against this new menace. We have to change our self centered thinking. George George, you know I'm not crazy. I I oh, oh, sure. Oh, yes. Yes. We'll we'll get together for lunch one day. Right. Bye. Well, at least he returned the call. I'm sorry, mister Fowler.
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Who else have you tried? Oh, mister Cartwright of National Industries. He always seems to be in a meeting. Mister Taylor's out of town. I I I just can't get anybody. I'll see who it is. Well, hello, miss Hasty. Oh, good morning, mister Davis. What?
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Arthur, sit down. You like a drink? No. No. No. I, not. Well, what is it, Arthur? I like to think that we're still friends. If you like to think so, by all means. But what you're doing is, well, to a person who knows you, it's heartbreaking. And what am I doing? You're making a damn fool of yourself. The way you write letters to people and the way you call them on the phone and try to waylay them in the offices. Bert, you you look ridiculous. Do I? Bert, it's tragic to see you ending up like this, an eccentric, a crack brain, not and besides a, a ass?
Well, there's a company. But I've retired. I'm no longer with the company. Your name will always be associated with the company. And so what you're doing is a reflection. What do you suggest I do? Oh, enjoy life. You're still comparatively young. You have plenty of money. Arthur, Arthur, friend to friend, if you were me, how would you go about it? Go about what? Go about getting people to listen. Nobody wants to listen to what you have to say, Bert. I know. I know. But how can I how can I dramatize my message? You just answered your own question. Dramatize.
Call attention to yourself somehow. Make people listen. Do something. Yes? Oh, I don't know. But something that would just explode all over the front pages. Oh yes. Yeah. Thank you, Arthur. I want you to know, we're still friends. Oh, it's heartwarming to hear that, Arthur. I now I I I wish you'd forget about those those voices. But how how can I forget? I hear them so so clearly. Now listen, put the earphones on. I tried, but I just can't hear. Or you don't want to. Miss Hastings,
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what are you doing? Oh, I'm typing your letter to the president of The United States and a copy for the premier of The Soviet and
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the prime minister of China. Well, just hold off on that for a little while. Oh, yes, sir. Miss Hastings, miss Hastings, you don't think that I'm crazy, do you?
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Oh, no, sir.
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Well, take the rest of the day off. I I'm thinking of trying a different strategy. Yes, sir. Arthur was right. He said I should try something that would explode all over the front pages. Now, what do you mean, mister Fowler? I simply have to make people take me seriously. Who's that? What? Bert? It's you. Yes, Ron. It's me. What are you doing here? Oh, I got lonesome for the place. I thought I'd come by for a little visit. At 10:00 at night? Well, you're still here, Ron. Wait. What what have you got on that police? What do you think I've got? I'm gonna call a security guard. I just saw him. He's asleep. But he's outside. He he won't get hurt. What have you got on that police? Fuses, wiring, or explosives. But you're crazy. Nobody wants to listen. I have you thrown into jail. Get out of here. I don't want anybody hurt, not even you.
This place will go up in thirty seconds. Well, you're a maniac. Run for your life. You Why are you standing there? Because it's my company. I'll stay with it. You're out of your mind. Run for your life.
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Oh, how is he this morning, miss Hastings? Well, he seems to be fine, doctor.
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And where's the crystal set? Oh,
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he hasn't asked for it since the, I don't think he even remembers it. Oh, oh, hello, mister Fowler.
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Hello? Oh, yes. Hello, doctor. Yeah. They are treating you okay? I was fine. Good. Between you and me, Bert, is, that what it was all about? I mean, you were so completely upset at not being made president that you just blew up the company for revenge? I don't know what you're talking about. Well, you're lucky to be alive. How you survive that explosion just defies all explanation. Oh, she can explain it. Miss Hastings? Oh, that's not her name. No. No. Her name is Alifa. Alifa. And she loves me. Oh. You love me, don't you, Alifa?
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Yes.
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I love you. Because she loves me. That's the reason the world is still ours. She doesn't want me to be destroyed with everyone else. Oh, come on. Alright. Do you understand, doctor? I tried. Yes. But no one wanted to listen. And the world will only last as long as I live. And afterwards? Aziza and Aziza will take it for their own people. Isn't that so, Alisa?
[00:55:25] Unknown:
Yes. Yes, mister Fowler. That's so.
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Well, I guess it's up to me to keep you alive for a long, long time, mister Foam. Oh, thank you. Thank you, doctor. I want to stay with her as long as I can because I love her. I I always loved her. Let's hope he stays with her for a long, long time. Because if her name is Aletha, we are all only safe as long as Bert Fowler lives. Well, you must admit the end of the world could happen anytime for any number of reasons. Just add Bert Fowler to the list. At any rate, I'm reasonably sure the world won't end before I come back in just a few moments.
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In popular libraries, best selling novel, 34 East, a ceasefire line is drawn in the Sinai on one Soviet troops, on the other, Israel and its Americas. Then Arab fanatics kidnap the president of The United States, forcing the great powers to start the countdown for nuclear war. The suspense reaches a shattering climax in 34 East, the international bestseller now in paperback, 34 East. Read it today while it's still fiction.
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Last year, this kid came close to being just a name on a tombstone. Help. What saved him was Ellen Costigan. She knew what to do I can't do it. Because we taught her lifesaving. That's the whole business of the American Red Cross. Sometimes we do big lifesaving jobs like sheltering half a million people. Sometimes they're little, like helping an old lady get to the supermarket. Life, it's worth saving. What a shot. Give us a hand. Alright. The incredibly complex and sophisticated electronic communications of today sprang from simple pieces of wire and crystal.
The fantastically complicated jet airplane originated in some pieces of wood, cloth, and bicycle wheels. Our age of technology has come into being within the memory of people who are still alive today. It is so new, so strange that we hardly believe it or understand it. Are we using it properly? What were we supposed to do with it? Our cast included Norman Rose, Mary Jane Higbee, Earl Hammond, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale, Marvin Hale Prentice, MHP.
In the poetry, all of Preston's writings, the first line always starts with a word that begins with an M. The second line starts with a word that begins with an H, and the third with a P. But that could be a That could be what? Coincidence? Remember what I just quoted over the TV show. The first line begins, millions reach out. There's your m. Second line, here we are prisoners. And the third line, poetry. Only in poetry is there's the p. And the final three word sentence, must hope perish. MHP, Marvin Hale Prentice. Now do you know why I feel V. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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Bright and beautiful music from midnight to six. World and national news on the hour with CBS. Chuck Knopf has local news. From KOIN in Portland, my name is Bill Garrity. Have a good night tonight and a better day tomorrow, and have a lovely weekend. It's twelve midnight.
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CBS news. The numbers of Vietnamese refugees in The US continue to swell, but getting them settled here is taking time. This is Doug Polling reporting on the CBS radio network. It's thought there are now about a 13,000 refugees from Indochina in America. Temporary camps set up for them are jammed. Camp Pendleton, California with 18,000 temporary residents is so full. Arrivals are being diverted to other parts of the country. One official says the relocation of Vietnamese into new jobs and homes around the country is going much more slowly than expected and could take up to six months. Leon Marion, head of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies, blames government red tape.
He says only those Vietnamese with previously established American sponsors or relatives have started leaving the camps. A South Vietnamese refugee ship which survived a rocket attack while fleeing Saigon limped into Guam Friday with 700 persons aboard. The vessel had three holes in its sides and was still flying the South Vietnamese flag. Some of the passengers said about seven people were killed when the rockets hit the ship. More news in a moment.
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If you ever use a hemorrhoid preparation, you should know this. Vaseline Brands has news. It's Hemoraid ointment. Hemoraid works fast, helps protect with a proven medical ingredient for soothing occlusion. And Hemorrhade gives you only this key ingredient, so it gives you more than the leading preparation. Now at your first sign of pain, burning, and itching, turn to soothing Hammerate. Hammerate from Vaseline Brands. Use only as directed. The first big Hollywood film of 1975 will arrive on the scene next week. And of all things, it's a cynical look at Hollywood itself. I'm Shirley Dunphy, your host for Entertainment West, heard every Saturday over most of these CBS Radio Network stations. Tomorrow, I'll be talking with director John Schlesinger about his film Day of the Locust, a grim story of Hollywood and the world in 1938. And we'll hear his thoughts on why an Englishman like himself can so easily capture a slice of American life. That's Entertainment West tomorrow on the CBS Radio Network.
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One of the world's leading oil magnates has arrived in Latin America. George Natanson has a report from Mexico City. The shore of Iran arrived in Mexico City to a thunderous and typical warm Mexican welcome. Officially, the purpose of this state visit is to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two countries. Unofficially, it is third world unity confronting the powerful industrialist nations. In the case of Iran and Mexico, oil is the key issue and the possibility of petrodollars invested in Mexico. Sandeep travels to various industrial sites in the country where Mexico is seeking heavy investment.
But if Mexico needs petrodollars, Iran and the oil producing exporting countries need Mexico to support petroleum price and production standards. The Shaw is the fourth head of state to visit Mexico this year. Five more follow before the year is up. All the heads of state represent third world nations, indicating Mexico's intensive campaign to assume a major leading role among the developing countries. George Matheson for CBS News in Mexico
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City. Some good news for the nation's economy. The government reports that retail sales rose 1.4% during April. It also reported that business inventories declined $1,900,000,000 during March. Assistant commerce secretary James Pate talked about the significance of the inventory's decline. This is encouraging news, of course, because,
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the liquidation of the excessive stock of unsold goods is absolutely essential, to a recovery in the economy a resumption in production and a pickup in employment.
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Officials also say that a client in inventory should help cut down on inflation. Senate and house conferees have agreed on a congressional alternative to president Ford's budget. It is $367,000,000,000 and includes a deficit of 68,800,000,000.0. That's about $8,000,000,000 higher than the deficit recommended by the president. The justice department has recommended that the Penn Central and other financially troubled railroads in the Northeast and the Midwest be sold at auction to more prosperous railroads. A law passed by Congress last year requires the administration to submit a plan for reorganization of those railroads that are in trouble. That plan has to be submitted by law no later than July 26.
CBS News continues in a moment. In God We Trust, America speaks.
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From Abraham Lincoln's creed, I believe in god, the almighty rotor of nations, our great and good and merciful maker, our father in heaven, who notes the fall of a sparrow and numbers the hairs on our heads. I have a solemn vow registered in heaven to finish the work I am in, in full view of my responsibility to my God, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives me to see the right.
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Presented by the Catholic Communications Foundation. A federal health official told a congressional hearing on Friday that a birth control pill for males may be available in five to ten years. Doctor Philip Cortman of the National Institute of Health said current research into such a drug is producing promising results. Doug Poling, CBS News.
