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I Dally tun, April 21, Jack Anderson Scandal rocks record industry WASHINGTON The turntables of the billion-dollar record industry are lubricated by payola, including bootleg drugs. Corrupt record companies slip marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and other drugs to disc jockeys and radio programmers for promoting "hit" records. In our March 31 column, we reported that record companies were paying off disc jockeys in the form of cash, cars, concubines and the like. We have now learned that the payola scandals of 1959-60 have grown like rank weeds into a drug scandal of the 1970s. Informants in the record industry, appalled at what is happening in their jangly world of sound, have come to us with information.

We are withholding their names because they fear job reprisals and Mafia enforcers. In interviews with my associate Les Whitten, and in written statements, they attest to such episodes as these: promotion man for a well-known record company bought "plays" for his firm's records from radio station music directors with $20 lots of marijuana. The promotion man complained that it was difficult to find a way to list "pot" on the expense account. prominent independent promoter- producer held all-day salons at which he provided assortments of drugs to disc jockeys, performers and station music directors. Our informant attended one such "promotion" session.

An artist promoting his own record agreed to deliver drugs each week to a writer for a record magazine. In talks overheard by our witness, the piMs were identified as "different colored The "shirts" were pills and the colors "referred to the type of pills to be delivered," said our informant. Not surprisingly, the record zoomed up on the publication's popularity list even though the artist was almost unknown. Gortikov's Letter So worried about the drug problem is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that its earnest president, Stanley Gortikov, made private calls in March to record company presidents to demand an end to drug payola. Determined though he was to take strong action, Gortikov nevertheless wanted to prevent leaks about the drug scandal, so he discreetly read the letter to the executives but never sent them a copy.

have now persuaded Gortikov to give us the text of his "letter." which describes the depths of the drug problem within the industry. "Several years ago," wrote Gortikov, a former president of Capitol records, "our industry was fouled by a series of payola inquiries and charges. A repetition of this trauma may be imminent today with even more damaging potential consequences because of the possible involvement of drugs- for-play "Record representatives have allegedly purchased certain drugs- as gifts for radio personnel in exchange for broadcast favors." Gortikov confided to the executives that "I cannot confirm the accuracy of the facts," but he added that "these reports, if true, mirror a reprehensible condition for us all both commercially and morally. "Such practices and their inevitable revelations invite repercussions that our in- 'dustry can ill afford government investigations, Imposition of outside rules and standards, loss of imagery and credibility, financial penalty and personal disasters for individuals." Gortikov "demanded "immediate and imperative action" against "any form of pay-'tor- play" which called "unconscionable, immoral and commercially self-destructive." Investigation Urged The veteran industry leader went so far as to urge the record companies to conduct investigations and surveillances to root out those dealing in payola among their own employees and among independent operators working as outside promoters, distributors and producers. "The foregoing plan is stringent," said Gortikov, "but we have much at stake." Gortikov's- appeal is too recent to show any real results, but our investigation has shown that most record company officials prefer to remain in the dark about how their records are peddled.

We have learned that drug-for-play promotion men buy dope in broker's lots, charging off the cost to "routine promotion expenses." They deal mainly in marijuana, although insiders have repeatedly told us cocaine is the "with it" drug this year in show biz. In fairness to the record industry, while payola appears to be epidemic, the drug payola is apparently limited to only a few record companies and radio stations. It is particularly insidious since it fosters the narcotics traffic that poisons the industry's own youthful record customers. Footnote: Federal Communications Commission chairman Dean Burch has assured us that the FCC will investigate the payola scandal. In his letter to us he asked for leads on payola suspects in the industry.

We have offered to provide the names and details, without identifying our informants. As yet, Burch has sent us no reply. War Powers Bill An Overreaction Defeating administration attempts to bury it, the U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed, and sent to the House, a presidential war powers bill which some critics claim is a misguided and possibly dangerous overreaction to the nation's painful and sobering experience in Vietnam. The key provision of the bill, whose chief supporters are Republican Sen.

Jacob K. Javits of New York and Sen. William B. Spong Jr. 4 Virginia DemSrat, would impose a Stop McGovern, Labor's Aim Responsible here say that, in labor's behalf, up to 300,000 pieces of literature attacking Sen.

George McGovern's labor record may be distributed to working men in the final days of the Massachusetts presidential primary campaign. I wa told by one source that these pamphlets would stress the fact that, years ago, McGovern supported the drive for a right- to-work law in his own state of South Dakota, and that he also voted against a bill in Congress to repeal the section of the basic, Taft-Hartley labor law which provides the federal loophole for such state laws. Asked what other items the literature would contain, thi source said: "Anything else that reflects on his record." The purpose of thi kind of an undertaking would be clear to all: To stop the surging McGovern, most specifically and immediately in his promising bid for victory in the April 25 Massachusetts- primary, but also in his larger quest for the Democratic nomination to be settled in July. It has been evident for a long time that both organized labor ieaders in general and many top regular Democrats oppose McGovern's nomination. Labor sees him as unfriendly and too leftist.

For these and other reasons, some party chiefs rate him unelectable. Even before I learned of the proposed anti-McGovern literature blast, I had been advised by a key Democrat to expect a blocking move from labor's side. I asked McGovern in an interview what effect such an effort would have, and he answered: ''It would hurt." Though he told me he thinks he ought to win this primary more decisively than any he has competed in far, the senator has said again and again that his prospects fhere are tied closely to his chances of success in the blue collar neighborhoods in Boston and across this state. Indeed, he sees his whole campaign hinged to a broadening appeal. Off his reasonable success with blue collar voters in his Wisconsin primary triumph, April 4.

McGovern is confident he can do it here, too, despite any effort to stop him. His schedule in the final two weeks of the Massachusetts campaign was deliberately pointed to working class districts in the industrial centers, And the visible evidence one gets from following him through factories and union halls, as I did, suggests he is pulling favorably with these people. McGovern makes an obvious point: Organized labor's ability to influence its rank and file is at a minimum in primaries, when workers seem to like to vent their grievances. That leaves him especially confident, since 1972 is shaping up as a big year for protest voting, and McGovern and Alabama Gov. George Wallace are widely seen as the protest candidates.

Top labor in Massachusetts has a reinforcing reason for opposing McGovern. Some 12 union members are on various delegate candidate slates pledged to his chief rival here. Sen. Edmund Muskie. If they don't win PS individuals April 25, they don't go to Miami in July.

State labor leaders met here recently to consider ways to salvage 'these Even if the labor representatives could get elected, the crazy quilt Massachusetts primary law would compel them to vote for McGovern on the first ballot if he won the popularity test statewide and in various congressional districts. Their aim maneuvering room for labor delegates at Miami won't be fulfilled unless they block McGovern in both the popularity and the delegate-selection battles. (BRUCE BIOSSAT) We have the know-how to do almost anything. The real question is do we have the know-what and know-why? Lawyer Sol Linowitz, at a conference on problems of the 21st century. GOP CONVENTION Antedated Pregg Top Republicans say their plans to hold the 1972 GOP National Convention In San Diego ane ninning into more money and more problems than they.

had anticipated and they may have to switch the meeting site to Miami Beach. The offshore waters along some parts of the Nile River once were so infested with crocodiles that, according to legend, thirsty dogs could only gulp a drink on the run. "Instead of going out for a steak dinner don't I 6uy you'a the hostess might hit you. She sounds as if she means business. My advice is to disregard the "favoice" and bring what you please.

Or check the movies in town and see a good flick instead. Dear Ann Landers: What can we do about friends who monopolize every conversation with the following topics: their trip to Europe, their new car, their new home, their son's honors, "their daughter's popularity, the evening spent at the' home of the Company President They bia bia Wa bla Ann Landers Supermarket Syndrome relatively harmless hobby Dear Ann Landers: My husband is hooked on The Supermarket Syndrome. He sits for hours and reads the food ads. Then he cuts out all the coupons and makes a road map indicating where he will go and how much he will spend. Crazy? You bet.

"specials." He buys Right now only our storeroom is jammed with 24c tomatoes and 19c beans. When we go shopping together it's rattle rattle brag brag. talk talk the family likes lamb doesn't mean a thing to him. What he saves on groceries he spends on gasoline, but he doasn't see this. Yesterday he drove 19 miles to save lie on a broom.

He bought four brooms and figured he had saved 44c. When I told him the broom we have is like new, and that'I rarely use it because I mostly vacuum and use a damp mop, he accused me of trying My husband and I are so sick of these egomaniacs we hate to see them coming. But we've been friends for so many years it would be impossible to stop seeing them. They didn't used to be this way. It happened when they came into a little money.

Any advice will be appreciated. After 'an evening with them my husband and I have to take something for in digestion, and I am not kidding End. Dear Rope's: Life i too to spend evenings with peopl who make you sick. And these people do figudatively am literally. Time enhances good friendships and others.

When you diminishes reach the point of no return, write it off. murder. I can stand on my head to spoil his fun. What can and if the item I want isn't on sale, he won't buy it. When there's a special on meat he tries to corner the market.

Our freezer can't hold another lamb shank. The fact that nobody in (Regularly scheduled programs may be interrupted for Apollo 16 Flight.) TV LOG KMTV. CH. 3 Friday Evening Revue 4.UO-Cartoons 16 16 Carton Saturday Welk Line 16 16 Sunday Stewart 16 Ones 10 nO-New Wayne KHTLTV. CH.

4 Friday Evening Bunct 222 Troop Tenants are still getting socked with giant rent hikes while their wages remain frozen. Bernice Crawley, National Tenants Organization. limit on U.S. involvement in military hostilities without congressional approval. The bill is full of paradoxes says Yale law professor Eugene V.

Rostow, who was undersecretary of state for political affairs during President Johnson's second term. He points out that while it purports to assure the nation that a pacific Congress will keep jingoistic presidents from engaging in limited wars like Korea or Vietnam, the bill would not have prevented Vietnam, which was authorized by Congress by the very procedures proposed in the bill. As for Korea, Congress would almost certainly have voted the necessary support for President Truman within 30 days, had he asked for it. But had the bill been on the books as law in 1962, he claims, it would have tied President Kennedy's hands during the Cuban missile Confrontation with Russia. Ah, yes, counter supporters of the bill.

But had it been on the books in 1961, it would also have saved President Kennedy from the Bay of Pigs fiasco. In a world where a miscalculation or rash' act by a president could plunge the nation into nuclear hell. Congress' trepidation is understandable. What is a bit hard to swallow, however, is its pose as an entirely innocent party in the matter of Vietnam. As Rostow says: "It is unseemly for astute and worldly men who spoke and voted for SEATO, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and other legislative steps into the Vietnam war now to claim that they were brainwashed, and therefore that the world treat public acts of the United States 8s it they never happened." Nevertheless, not only the U.S.

Sena'te but the U.S. public fervently wishes that Vietnam had never happened. Thus the strong support for the Javits-Spong measure, which appears to guarantee never again having to say you're sorry. That may ba a desirable s'tate of affairs, but it has never been attainable under any lawe passed by fallible men. OAKLEY), Acres Cavett Saturday l-OQ-Waterworld Sense 2-00-Golf Famil; 16 16 unday Race Awards 6-00-Eddie WOWTV, CH.

6 Friday Evening 16 16 Saturday 16 lOtOO-News 16 amity Sunday 3-HO-Apolto 16 Count 4 9 10 (Hi-News Minutes KETV, CH. 7 Friday Evening Dyke r.30-Datin's Bunch Devaney Couple Show Saturday Derby Sense lir.OO-Ni'svs Time Shew Dyke Sunday Racinil KhliO-Persuaders KOLNTV, CH. 10 Friday Evening 4-no-M. Douelas IS Douglas 16 A Chlm) Saturday VanDyke 8'30-Arnie 16 HhOO-News Welk Moore Sunday Coun Worl Minutes do with a man like that? We've been married 37 years. Mrs.

Bargain Hunter. Dear Mrs. Hunter: Bargain- shopping is a darn good hobby these days but your character is hipped on pinching pennies and it sounds a if this is his principal source of kicks. Along with the lamb shanks in his freezer, the guy's got some hornets in his helmet. The game he plays is nutty but it's relatively harmless.

Forget it. Dear Ann Landers: Please tell me what to do about the following invitation. It came from both the friend who is giving the baby shower and 'the girl for whom the shower is being given. "Dear You are invited to a shower. Please follow these instructions because duplication of items means money wasted.

We would like you to bring three or more five-month size shirts with short sleeves and buttons. Also, diaper pins with metal heads that lock, (important; get exactly the kind described or none at all.) If you can afford more than suggested, buy soft toys. Ab- 'solutely no diapers or knitted sets, PLEASE." What do you think of this invitation, Ann? I'm In A Quandry Out of the Past 10 Years Ago "The Diary of Anne Frank," was to be presented by Beatrice Senior High School. The play based on the real diary of a "ewish girl, told how she, her amily and some friends, hid from the Nazis for many months. Players included Mike 7 isher, Margaret Simic, Steve 7 riday, Karen Remmers, Linda Vright, Gatle Henderson, Hank -ampe, Mary Jo Hunzeker, Gary Lutz and Ken Mahlin.

20 Years Ago The newly-installed doughnut machine at the Wilke Baking Co. was put to good use making doughnuts given by the company to flood workers on the river levees at Nebraska City. The firm also contributed bread the Salvation Army at Motor Freight. Dick Reisclhe and Jerry Geiger were to be Beatrice's representative to the American Legion Boys' State. 30 Years Ago William Boyd Rist, Wymore, and Irene Bernice Alpers, Clatonia were honored for high scholarship at "the University ol Nebraska.

Mr. Rist won a William gold prize in business administration and Miss Alpers a faculty women's, club scholarship. More than 250 Lions and their ladies were expected to attend the instail'latiom of tine third service club in this when 'the new Beatrice Lions Club observed charter night. 40 Years Ago Cecil Hess, popular fire chief, would not be surprised if he had a lot of job applications. The chief was host to 30 or 35 happy, bright-eyed little folks from the South school kindergarten.

They were taken to the fire station by their teacher, Miss Genevieve Calhoun. The chief and his men gave the children an interesting hour. Since then some of the boys had decided not bo be cowboys or policemen when they grew up. They wanted to wear fire helmets and ride on the big, red truck. Short Ribs By Frank O'Neal VDULOOK LIKE VOUVeHADA R0U0H VgAfl, THE IS ON A BSEGOUDSyj HE HAS OVERTIME, NSTALLINe SMOG'ODNm IN PIPE-BREATHING- REASONS' MOUTHS Young voters in no hurry to register LINCOLN, Neb.

(AP) Available figures indicated Thursday that newly enfranchised 18-and 19-year-old Nebraskans have been in no great rush to register as voters. In a 10-month period up to March 22, only about one in four of these newly eligible youths had registered, according to unofficial figures assembled by the secretary of state's office. Whereas the 1970 census counted 81,587 Nebraskans in the age group, only 19,784 registered in the period surveyed. April 28 i the registration deadline for the May 9 state primary. The figures also rebut a political theory that the great bulk of the new voters would register as Democrats.

An unofficial tally of the 19,784 first-time voter show 10,081 are Democrats-; 7,831, Republicans, and the remaining 1,872, independents. Unofficial statewide totals of registered voters show 711,857 recorded, including 364,979 Republicans, 321,612 Democrats and 25,266 independents. The over-all total would be only about 4,000 persons above the total registered for the 1970 general election. However, Douglas County (Omaha) appeared to have purged its registered voter list, reducing its total notwithstanding registrations by new voters. The four counties which have election commissioners- Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy and permitted to conduct a constant purge of voter registration books to keep them up tp date.

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