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Show DAILY HERALD .10 rRIDANOcRuK20 'Payolti'fMbney for Disc Jockeys Is Probed 1959 Farm News Roundup By United Press International Have some of the nation's disc jockey's "taken "payola" money ' . for song pluggings? A United Press Internationa-spo- t cheek of DJ's throughout the nation showed today - many ot them had heard about the prae tice some had been approached for payoffs but none had ac- Residues of Penicillin, DDT in Mi Ik Nev Problem ' -I- i - The WASHINGTON (UPI) ood and" Drug Administration working conditions, and transpor- tation. : cepted. 5 a drive ..o Farm organizations 'and Agri eliminate residues of penicillin and culture Secretary Ezra' T. Benson DDT from milk.opposed the new rules. Benson re' The FDA disclosed Thursday cently denounced 'them as conthat orders to start the campaign trary to the spirit of the Eisenwent : out to the agency's field hower administration. offices last month. Officials said WASHINGTON come milk samples probably alAgri(UPI) been tested. culture have Department experts preready A spokesman said the residues dicted today that U. S. and Cana were not considered an immediate dian wheat exports would drop in current marketing season. public health problem. But Overall world exports were not said they are illegal. If FDA inspectors find any interstate ship- expected to' changej much. But ments of milk with penicillin or there are larger supplies availabe Insecticide residues, the milk may for . export in nations outside North America. . be seized. The experts pointed, out that the Before the enforcement camthe FDA the United was States and Canada have ordered, paign and farm a vital interest in avoiding any Agriculture Department 'eduan conducted breaks in. world wheat serious organizatis cational campaign to convince prices. They said this meant tho farmers of the need for 'care in two countries would have to give the use of penicillin and insects ground to competition by reducing (FDA) has launched 4" - . . I " eides. .1 exports. (UPI) Department said WASHINGTON j Ths Colo. DEiNVER, (UPI) The v : . v , KIDNAPED BABY FOUND UNHARMED Mrs. Marilyn Vickers, 19, hugs and kisses her baby, James, a she returns to hotel Jin, Chicago froftGary, Ind. where the FBI found the baby unharmed. The baby had been kidriapeu Wednesday by Diane Varner, 27, who was bajjy sitting with James while, Mrs. Vickers was at work as a waitress. Mrs. Vickers said she will return to her f amily in Pon-tiaMich; Nov. 20. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) 18-week-- old $2 D.C., record Washington, spinner; Herb Davis, said he was approached several years ago oy a representative of a record com pany who wanted to give him $25 for playing what he Jiked of their" records. Davis said he. turned the record company down and doesn't kno of any disc jockey in Washington to take payola. Disc jockeys, in Detroit differed sharply on whether" there is pav ' mer DJ. Ed McKenzie. Harry Lipson,, general manage of WJBK, said a story in a na ' tifvnal murrnrino" that the rkfrnit station sells plugs was "a little : distorted." j WJBK, however, fired its news' director, Jac Le Goff for using a newscast to defend the broadcasting industry- against the payo'a . criticism. Congressional investigators, who - have assigned agents to investi' vcre acgate" payola charged cused of starting a witchhunt by T"irlr Tiricrn a nf Minnpnrvf'! station.. Disc jockey "Norm Bailey of WFEA in Manchester, N.H., sidod with Dris colli "It's all a lot of nonsense," he said. "The Russians are taking pictures of the moon and Congress is investigating disc jockeys. Where is our sense of proportion? Congress should busy itself with important things." " You don't have to be rich to enjoy RICH BOURBOP Million ' mmMaBaamsLMMmm .Us Indian Funds I c, Sobbing Mother Reunited With Kidnaped Son Teen-Ag- e Mrs. Diane Varner, 27, sat nearby in a Lake County jail cell, arraigned on charges of kidnaping and carrying the child across state lines, Mrs. Vickefs, who said she left e James in Mrs. Varner's care she seemed so crazy about embraced her son, James, less than 24 hours after children," reported both child and he was abducted by his baby sit- baby sitter missing .Vednesday ' ter from a Chicago hotel. night after a friend rushed into The baby sitter, slim brunette the restaurant where, she waited A GARY, Ind. (UPI) sobbing teen-ag- e with reunited . mother, her kidnaped baby son, vowed to leave jthe big city today and go back ljome to Michigan. .'. "Oh, my baby! my baby!V Mrs. Marilyn Vickers, 19, cried as she "be-caus- . V'f Y TSJxIjx A U.S. Owes -- to- geles disc jockey,, said he did not knowmany people received payoffs but he said payola "has absolutely ruined .the music business." Ira , Cook of Los Angeles, ,a board' member of the Disc Jock eys of America, said he didn't believe many DJ's took payola. . "I certainly don't," he said. "?STot that I'm honorable. Just scared. If you start horsing around you, endanger your main income." To Utah National Farniers Union charged today that the Eisenhower adminday it gave- - away about 713,500 istration is trying to discredit al) CCO pounds of surplus food worth farm price supportsii $91,700,000 in July, August and The farmers union executive September. committee criticized jthe adminis23 This was an increase oj per tration's plan to ask Congress cent over its donations in the text year for reduced supports same period last, year. on The food was given to school ' wheat, tobacco, and peanuts. The farm organization said that lunchrooms and charitable instituuse of the term! "price supthe tions in the United States and to to describe the administra needy persons at home arid over ports" tion's proposals was "a fraud on seas.; the language." The farmers which said "it is con- now .obvious that th administra WASHINGTON (UPI) troversial new set of farm labor tion's only program is to pile regulations' will go into effect late failure on failure until all farm next month Labor Secretary programs are completely dis James P. Mitchell,, announced credited." Thursday night. . WASHINGTON The rules apply to farmers who The (UPI) hire domestic farm laboij through Agriculture Department announced the federal-stat- e employment set Thursday that it had purchased vice. The regulations would re- 4,524,000 pounds of pork and gra quire employers using jthis ser- vy, in .its effort to! bolster hog vice to provide farm workers with prices' by taking pork and lard prevailing wages, housing and off the market. Agircultu're te V , - - . They said a highly paid , disc jockey would be foolish to put his career in jeopardy through payola. ; DJ's in several cities said formula radio r where only the top 30. or 40 tunes are played each week prevented under the table payments for plugging new I songsf Record spinners in Dallas, San Francisco and Des Moines, Iowa said f they didn't believe their, cities were "payola towns." -"I'm sure there isn't any pay ola down here because! the records don't break in this area," said DJ Jerry Haynes of station WFAA-T. in Dallas. staof Mortimer Hall, president tion KLAC in Los Angeles, singled out Pittsburgh and Detroit as pay ola cities. , & "As far as I know, Los Angeles ola in the Motor City. is not a payola, city," If all said J.. P. McCarthy, of .WJR said cities he had never experienced an "This is not one of where hits are made.The hits are payola in Detroit. made in Pittsburgh and Detroit." A tpokesman for station WXY2 ..... Peter Potter, a former Los Anfirnifvl" nnvrila" rhnrp hv a far -- 1 tables and told her. "I just saw Diane walking down the street and I think she was carrying your baby." Mrs. Vickers' report touched off g a search through Skid Row bars and cheap hotels before FBI agents arrested Mrs. Varner Thursday night while drinking in a Gary tavern, several miles from day-lon- the downtown Chicago hotel where Mrs. Vickers and her son lived. SALT , LAKE CITY (UPI) The Utah Indian Affairs Commission charged today that the U.S. Bureau of Indian affairs owes' it about $2 million but "coni tinues to ignore 'payment." .The charge was made by Frank .1". Allen, administrative assistant for the Utah group. He. said he will ask Sen. Wallace F. Bennett to use his influence to convince the Indian Affairs Bureau it should deliver the funds. 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