WHALLEY ELEPHANTS BOUGHT AT SALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201750001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 22, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MAR 22 1966
'21:3
By Drew Pearson
, Last Christmas about 100
pro?' ? ent Republicans re-
' colveci small teakwood ale-
: .
? 2.1ants as Christmas remern-
. brances from.
Rep. J. Irving
:-
:Whalley of;
Windber, Pa.
Whalley had.,
just come back.,:
from a taxpay-
:cr-financed jun-
ket to the Far
'East as a '
ber of
Louse Foreign
Pearson
Affairs Corn-
mittee, and just before Christ-
mas he sent the following note
.to Gov. William Scranton of
Pennsylvania and other -Re-
, publican friends:
. "Dear : Our Far East
. subcommittee just returned
from Vietnam, Thailand, India
; and Pakistan. While in India?
the land of the elephants?I
purchased a few hand-carved
: replicas of the elephant be-
cause it is the symbol of our
party.
"I am sending one to you as
'a small remembrance of your
:kindness to me and knowing
:that you have always been ac-
'Live in the party.
. "With kindest regards,"
signed "Irv."
What the recipients of the
Republican elephants didn't
know was that Congressman
Whalley 'actually purchased
them not On his Far East trip
but at a bargain sale.
7
L-7Zewe,ez's1Ls Bouzgilztt at
,Rollman, a Republican Here is one case now before
candidate for Congress from the Federal Communications
North Carolina some years be- Commission, that of General
fore. Rollman had purchased Tire and Rubber Company,
several hundred elephants which manufactures the Po-
fiom the India Nepal Gift laris missile, one of the most
.House, Inc., at 3. E. 28th st., important weapons in the U.S.
New York, to. help his election arsenal, and which also oper-
campaign. ates a vast network for mold-
The elephants were not suf- ing the thought of the Amen-
ficient to elect him in the tra- can people. The FCC is con-
ditionally Democratic state of sidering relicensing General
North Carolina, so Rollman Tire's KILT in Los Angeles.
turned them over to the Re- Here is the.farflung network
publican Congressional Com- of General Tire and Rubber:
mittee for $1 each. Whalley 1. Through RKO General,
then purchased 100 and kept Inc., General Tire operates 19
them three years, until last different radio and television
'Christmas. properties, including the Yan-
The recipients of the ele- kee Network and RKO Gen-
phants, ignorant of all this, eral Phonevision Co., engaged
were impressed. Wrote Gov. in the pay-television operation
William W. Scranton on Dec. at Hartford, Conn.
30, 1955: 2. Independent Video Thea-
"Dear Irv: ters, Inc., owner of a chain of
"You are a wonderl motion-picture theaters in the
"I have received the ? wood- Southwest.-
en elephant Which you brought ,3. Vumore, Inc., owner of a
from India. I certainly appre- large number of community
ciate your thinking of me television properties.
while abroad. 4. Independent Video Thea-
"With many thanks for your ters, which owns 29.5 per cent
thoughtfulness and with best of H & B American Corp., one
wishes; sincerely yours, of the largest Community
ham W. Scranton, Governor."
Antenna TV owners in the
country.
Thought Control 5. RKO Pictures, Inc., is 100
Hard-hitting young Congress- per cent owned by General
man John Dingell, the Detroit Tire, which also owns Pitts-
Democrat, is getting to the bot- burgh Outdoors Advertising
tom of some of the most potent Corp., 82 per cent; Frontier
links between American big Airlines, Inc., 98.6 per cent,
business and American thought and Aerojet-General Corp.,
control?namely, the alliance 84.6 per cent. " ? ?
between defense ,contractors, In addition, Rep. Edward
the Defense Department and lieert (D-La.) has shown that
They were first. bought by retired generals and admirals. :Aerojet hired 66 retired ad-
a e
mirals, generals and other;
military officers.
Adam and a Lady
Once Rep. Edith Green (D-
Ore.) was Adam Clayton Pow-
ell's greatest champion. But
ever since the Congressman
from Harlem, as chairman of
the Education and Labor Com.;
mittee, tried to take the higher
education bill away from Mrs.
Green, these two Democrats
hardly speak to, each other?
except to fight.
Their latest clash came over
a proposed $50,000 fund Mrs.
Green wants in order to in-
vestigate spending by the U.S.
Office of Education. Powell
blocked this several times,
while it was before the Ac-
counts Subcommittee of the
House Administration Com-
mittee.
Finally, Accounts Chairman
Rep. Sam Friedel (D-Md.)
scheduled a vote, though only
after Mrs. Green angrily, chal-
lenged him: "Why are you tak-
ing orders from Adam Pow-
ell? He's not your boss. We're
entitled to a vote on this $50,-
000 fund."
? "All right, I'll bring it up,"
promised Friedel.
"Will you put that in writ-',
ing?" requested the lady from' ?
Oregon.
Friedel did so and at the
ne4t meeting of the Accounts ?
Subcommittee Mrs. Green pre-
sented the paper signed by the
Marylander, and asked for a I
vote. The members voted
unanimously to approve the
$50,000. *
0 .1966, Bell7McClur? Syndicate, Ind.'',
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