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THE MIAMI ETS. Vedne.day, Oct. 7. 1939 19 i YOU BE THE EDITOR Comet Oct. 15 and the nation's spotlight falls on the newspapers.

It will be the 20th aniversary of National Newspaper Week. This year's theme for the week is "Y'our Newspaper Freedom's Textbook." President Eisenhower, conveying his wishes to America's newspapers, said this theme "stands for the hopes and achievements of American jour- nalism." In a free land, newspapers are only as good as the public makes them. That's why we want to observe National Newspaper Week in a new way: We would like YOU to be THE EDITOR for the week. We would like you to tell us, as briefly or as lengthily as you wish, what you like and what you don't like about The Miami News, And we would also like you to be specific, to tell what you would retain or chance in your newspaper, THE MIAMI NEWS. So, let's see what you have to say mail your remarks (with or without the coupon) to the address below.

0 0 By WALT KELLY TUATCH00M6UMC'- cTiWrfff AS' I TgUU HIM t'V 6CNNATSU. WHO'S MUCH AS A IA frSPfcANETWrg 8 IS-'AWWHAT ilGE 'TALKS' BRICKBATS Here'a what I don't like about The Miami News BOUQUETS Here's what I like best about The Miami News: Hod Carriers Embarrassed 1.. 2., 3.. 4.. 5..

2., 3., 4. 5.. By VICTOR RIESEL Cnlumnltt 0t TIM Miami NEW YORK Those who gunned down the murderous "Little Augie" Pisano-Carfano, a Mafia chief, not only did him a disservice but also embarrassed the International Hod Carriers Union, a body of men surrounded by thugs. By getting himself shot, "Little Augie" got it into the papers that he was an associate of one Vincent Rao, a man of at least 15 different businesses. One of HAMP, DON, BOB AND GUESTS Triplets "Interviewed" On Program If you would like to add to your comments and tell us even more what you would do if you were the editor, go right ahead.

Just attach a sheet with your comments. 1 John Keaslei 7 'A' NAME ADDRESS Mail whatever you have to say to: Special Editor The Miami News T. O. Box 52-615 Miami, Fla, Who Drives Your Cadillac? these services was something called the Lath Hoisters Union, Local 404, International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union of America. NOW HERE'S a fascinating phenomenon.

There doesn't seem to be a local. It has no telephone listing. It has no union headquarters. It has no day room." Headquarters of other locals in New York simply said they have never heard of the local, or they think It exists, but they know not where. Finally, the International Hod Carriers office in Washington came up with an address.

It was somewhere in Brooklyn. This turned out to be a three-family house in a good Brooklyn residential area. That's where the local's secretary lived. Apparently he was running the union out of his home. It must have been real convivial when the local leaders met during the four years Rao was president, a term which he decided to end recently and quietly.

While Rao was president of the so-called local, he signed contracts with the Five Boroughs Hoisting Co. It was a sweetheart of a contract. Rao owned Five Boroughs. He also owned Rao's Garage and Parking Lot, real estate, at least four realty firms, a paint company, a fuel oil company, a sportswear outfit, a liquor store, an auto sales firm, and had a piece of something called Marino's Restaurant. This is the eatery in which the slain "Little Augie" had his last meal.

SOME THREE months ago, Robert Kennedy came into New York to question "Little Augie" about his relations with Vincent Rao, the Hod Carriers Union and the construction companies. Kennedy returned to Washington. But the Senate Committee was, in effect, folded before they could go into the Hod Carriers. It would have taken months and months. The leads they had revealed that there were at least four Hod Carriers officials at the Apalachin crime convention of the Mafia.

One was Vincent Rao, then president of the phantom local. ments, and Congress itself from the prohibition against using the cars for personal convenience. MOST OF THE LIMOUSINES come equipped with chauf. fours, many of whom are on call 24 hours daily at salaries In the neighborhood of $125 weekly. The House of Representatives assigns limousines to the speaker, the majority leader, the minority leader, the clerk and any former speaker who still Is a member.

Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R-Mass) Is the only qualifier as an ex speaker. All except the clerk have official chauffeurs.

House Cadillacs are traded In about every three years. The annual maintenance appropriation Is about $9,900 for each limousine, which pays lor Insurance, gasoline, and the chauffeur. Congress has Its own garage. Just how many limousines are operated by Senate officials and officers ia a closely kept secret, but the Senate is known to have more than does the House, and they are traded In more frequently. WASHINGTON AP) If it has a low enough license num.

ber and is occupied by a high enough government official, the next Cadillac that hits you may be partly yours if you are a taxpayer. The taxpayers own at least a score of the slock, black; airconditioned limousines which cost around $11,000 each. Just how many there are is more or less secret. Five are assigned to officers of the House of Representatives, another fleet to the White House and the executive branch, and an unknown number to the Senate. Unlike the thousands of other government-owned automobiles whose use Is restricted to official business, the fleet of limousines has an unlimited cruising range.

House Clerk Ralph R. Roberts, for instance, drove last week to hishome town of Rockport, for a 10-day stay. Congress, In enacting basic law governing the use of government vehicles, exempted the President, heads of depart 1 1 I 3 DAY DAY OUT BLRDLWS HAS EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME hi 5 Space Musical Here's how the most informal show in television is put together. The big table is littered with coffee cups. A stagehand laughs raucously.

Several TV monitor sets are on in the WCKT studio, and a network quiz show folks eating their little hearts out for chromium dreams is on. The local talent, their show over, ignores the quiz. These gents are brainstorming. And, believe you me, they got some pretty stormy brains there. so we will do this Adult Space Musical tomorrow," says a man who looks deceivingly normal.

"Plot. What's the plot, a starring vehicle for that great acting talent, Rock Bottom?" Well, these Earth Fellers land on the campus of a girl's school in Venus, see "Songs," says another young man, who looks just like the boy next door, if the boy next door happens to be completely out of his head. "Got to have Space Songs." Immediately, they are forthcoming. "When My Nose Cone Comes Home." "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Nova." "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Space." And on and on. "HEY, SOMEBODY SAYS, "Is anybody taking notes?" Nobody was, but the Don and Bob Show, or the Bob and Don Show, as it is called south of the Equator, goes on at 9:30 a.m.

every weekday on Channel 7, and it seemed like a good idea to go find out precisely how. In a staccato of ad-libbing, is how. After little more than a month this local comedy and news-feature show has got folks around town quoting It, and from chorebound housewives it's been praised as one of the most refreshing breaks since invention of the second cup of coffee. And it's Miami talent. Don Barber and Bob Clayton are two savvy young announcer-entertainers with way-out humor: Hampton Dunn, topnotch newsman, is the ideal complement in corraling and presenting news-feature material; Joe Mooney is at the keyboard and Director Ross Skipper pulls all this together with no visible hysteria.

KRIS DUNN, MIAMI NEWS TV editor, first tipped us to this show, with her praise and it's only a shame the viewing audience can't see the studio show before and after the on-camcra show. In this era of all-buttoned-up humor, taped shows and 64 rehearsals to come out foursquare for the Noble Dog, the free-wheeling-and-dealing come a weekday morning down at Channel 7 is refreshing indeed. And that's what we wanted to see how it was put together, this entirely unpredictable show in which mustaches fall off or total strangers are telephoned in Honolulu. Bob, Hamp, Don, Ross and Joe sort of amble around, only a few minutes before camera, chatting idly about who may, or may not, do what when. The nervous guest interviewee plunks frantically at sleeves trying, futilely, to find his place in the scheme of things.

HERE'S THE ENTIRE SCRIPT I lifted from yesterday's show and, mind you, it's a live half hour. It said "Open at desk. Watson's Rest. Peachy. Newspaper.

Joe's Number. Guest." Putting on a half-hour is a backbreaking task but they make it look easy. Their fictional characters are hilarious, which can't be said for some of the guests. (Edward R. Unction is you know who.

Feachy Preen is all the snobs In the world. Rock Bottom Is the ego-inflated actor.) Hamp Dunn's information segment balances the show: He's done things like interview every gubernatorial candidate, report on vanishing sweat-box conditions in Florida's prison system and many other stories. Except for a current preoccupation with old newspapers, the format of this new local show is shaking down well and it is surely the most unrehearsed act in television. "O.K. TO THE TI NE OF 'Carolina in the says Bob, as they "wrote" the Adult Space Musical "O.K.," says Don, bursting into baritone and Joe Mooney comes in on the organ, "Nothing could be sweeta than to land before Nikita da de da da.

When wt left nobody had taken any notes even an 18-Kh gold electric can opener $100 for opening Ihosi cxnciisivo gourmet ilHIglifN! sorrV, only one to a ciiKlomcr (unless yon insist!) lie the first on your Iiloek to own one! i Of course we're having a little do have on 18-kf gold plated Can-O-Matic elecfric can opener, but we feature it here for two reasons. to prove to you that at Burdine's you will find the new, the unusual, the different home maker items (as well as everyday staples) that make shopping exciting and interesting. the Can-O-Matic manufacturers want to show you that they make fhe omfocrof of electric can openers with the most elegant styling ever! The regular Can-O-Matic electric can opener is exactly the same as above, same jmart design, same convenient I clock and automatic timer. but no 18-kt gold trim. 34.95 Electric Appliances, fifth floor bridge, miami i I i i 'r I 1 m.

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