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Helnl Radio News Service
2/20/46
PAUL PORTER SAYS AU REVOIR TO
FCC BUT MAYBE NOT GOOD-BYE
Paul Porter will give up the chairmanship of the Federal Communications Commission to take over his new Job as Administrator of the Office of Price Administration if his nomination is confirm¬ ed by the Senate but with the reported squabble of Chester Bowles and John Snyder over who shall rule the roost, no one is willing to bet that Porter, who stands with Bowles, may not come walking back to the FCC.
Although Mr. Porter says that he will resign from the FCC as soon as confirmed, it is understood there will always be a nice soft place for him to light there if he and Bowles are not able to hit it off with Snyder, or if for any other reason the new OPAPrice Stabilization setup doesn't click. It was charged by certain well-informed persons that the reaffirmation of the powers of Mr. Snyder by President Truman came as a complete surprise to Messrs. Bowles and Porter and that they never would have signed up for the new team if they had known this was to be the President's attitude.
In fact, things were reported to have become so stormy last Thursday that it was said Bowles and Porter were all wasned up and ready to quit even before they began. Mr. Porter isn't saying a word about tnls, however, and is letting Mr. Bowles do all the talking.
According to another version what has happened is that a new principle or formula has been evolved, with Chester Bowles as the policy-maker but with Paul Porter as the actual administrator of the formula. "Mr. Porter doubtless will prove less rigid than Mr. Bowles", says this observer, "and that's what the White House wants; but Mr. Bowles will be watching to see whether his principles are being safeguarded. "
As things stand now, Mr. Porter's job only lasts until June and his first task is to go to the Hill and try to talk Con¬ gress into continuing OPA for another year. That he will encounter some opposition may be judged by a preliminary brickbat tossed at him by Rep. John Taber ( R) , of New York, who declared:
"I have been astounded by the suggestion that Paul Porter be made the head of that organization. It has been broadcast in the newspapers. He was head of the rent outfit when the thing first started, and he made a mess of that. That was covered thoroughly in the report of the Smith Committee to this House after they had Investigated it thoroughly. I would hate to see somebody placed in that office where the control would be purely and totally political. "
There was amore friendly response from Rep. John J.
Sparkman (D), of Alabama, who referred to Mr. Porter who helped write the law that created the OPA, as one "who has so ably . dis¬ charged the duties of the several different positions in which ne has been placed in recent years. "
Just what the exact status of Mr. Porter' s future connec¬ tion with the FCC will be, if any, apparently is not known. He
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