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Evening star., 1954-09-16
Letters to The Star.

capital investment this year would
reach about $267 billion or per cent
below the spending record of last year.
The railroad industry plans 35 per
cent decrease and manufacturing con-
Germs an per cent decrease. Only one
of several general categories of business
plans any increase in plant and equip
ment spending, according to the report.
Cheering because there will be no
depression is tantamount to having your
eyes turned backwards. You don't see
what you are losing because your per-
formance is tolerable when you remem-
ber how much worse it once was. But
we must look ahead to our increasing
population and productivity and see
that tolerable performance is not good
enough. AS DR.. Arthur F. Burns has
put it, "Our country has the capacity
to raise physical production from its
current annual level of around $3.50
billion to $440 billion, or even more, in
a mere five years. It is essential for
our national security, as well as in the
interest of increasing welfare. to real
ize this potential growth" The En-
oloyment Act of 1916 calls upon us not
to remain content until we achieve
maximum employment, production and
purchasing power"
W
Evening star., 1954-09-16
CIussifies McCurthy's Foes
Sidney Koretz.

During my travels this summer from
coast to coast, the topic of conversa-
ton invariably turned to Mccarthy
ism" And. as a result I find those
opposed to Mccarthy almost always
fall into one of three categories, i.e.:
ID Those who know little or nothing
about local, State, national and inter-
national affairs and usually know little
about their own country except that
they live in it (they never heard OF
skeletons in the closet-never heard of
anything; CD those who are extreme
liberals and/or "left-wingers" Casually
have few skeletons in the closet), and
90 those who believe communism is
not half as evil as painted CASUALLY
have a closet full of skeletons). Need
less to say-individuals in the above
categories almost always professed to
be staunch Democrats.
u. S. Army Colonel.
Evening star., 1954-09-16

Pen-nanes may be used If letters carry
aUriterS' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Todoy's Rodio HiohIiehts

1900, WCFM - Jeffer S o n AN
Heritage: Claude Rains stars
in Freedom of the Press"
1880, WRC-Theater Royal:
Sir Ralph Richardson heads
the cast of an adaptation of
Joseph Conrad's "The Black
Mate"
$500, WTOP - Bing Crosby
Show: Rosemary Clooney
visits.
500, WGMS-National Gallery
Concert: Richard Bales con-
ducts music of his own, Pts
ton and Ives.
$500, WRC-Sunday with Gar
roway: Margaret Whiting,
Giselle Mackenzie, Gene
Krupa and Billy Gaxton are
guests.
8:45, WGMS-Art Talk: Doro-
thea Michaelson discusses
Little Dutch Masters"
$500, WTOP-Hall of Fame:
Joe Di Maggie narrates a
story about Miller Higgins.
900, WEAM - Georgetown
University Forum: The topic
for discussion is Segregated
Schools and American Lead
erShip."
$3.50, WTOP - McCarthy-Ber-
gen Show: Mary Ford is
guest.
1000, WWDC District Round
table: The topic is Polio
Vaccinations"
1880, WRC-Meet the Press:
Stephen A. Mitchell, chair
man of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, is inter-
viewed.
11:00, WWDC-Chicago Theater
of the Air: June Brown and
Bruce Foote sing the leading
roles in Vincent Youman's
musical comedy, mo, No,
Nannette."
Evening star., 1954-05-02

11:35, WTOP - Invitation to
Learning: Benjamin Cardo-
zo's "The Nature of the Judi
cial Process" is discussed by
Or. William Warren. dean of
Columbia University Law
School, and DR.. Erwin Girls
void. dean of Harvard Uni
versity Law School.
100. WRC-Citizens at Work:
A dramatization of how
Greenwich, Conn, renovated
an antiquated voting system.
1:25, WWDC-Baseball: Wash
ington VS.. Cleveland in a
double e-header.
1880, WRC-Youth Wants to
Know: Gov. Allan Shivers of
Texas is interviewed.
1880, WGAY-Family Portrait:
John G. Metcalfe, journalist,
lecturer and world traveller.
is interviewed.
$3.50, WTOP-New York Phil
harmonic: Violinist Michael
Rabin is soloist in Weber's
"Perpetuum Mobile" The or
chestra is heard in Rach-
maninoff's Symphony No. 2
in E minor.
$500, WCFM Organ Recital:
Broadcast from the First
Congregational Church.
$500, WRC American Forum
of the Air: What Should Be
Done About the Housing Sit
uation?" is discussed by SEN
ator Burnet R. Maybank,
Housing and Home Finance
Administrator Albert M. Cole
and Representative Martin
Dies.
$3.50, WRC-NBC Spring SYM
phony: Erich Leinsdorf con-
ducts the Rochester Philhar-
monic in Weber's "Oberon"
overture and music of Ravel
and Bizet.
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Rodio-TVWeek
Rodio-TV Week
But People Don't Change
So Gertrude Berg Gets Her Scripts
And Her Fun by Observing Them
By Wayne Oliver
Associofed Press Sfoff Writer
NEW YORK.

The world changes but peo-
pie remain basically the same,
says Mrs. Gertrude Berg, the
lovable Molly of THE Gold
bergs."
That's her observation from
Is years of producing, writing
and acting in radio and tele-
vision programs about ordi-
nary things that happen to or
dinary, everyday people.
Mrs. Berg's scripts are based
on real life-on events in her
own family. her neighbors'
and others she has observed.
Whenever Mrs. Berg goes
shopping, visiting, riding or
anywhere there are other peo-
pie, she makes mental notes
for possible use on her show.
But it's not all work.
That's a part of my enter
tainment. too," she says. II
love people"
Mrs. Berg, a grandmother
who looks younger off screen
than on. has found her own
family life a rich source of
material.
81 can remember the most
wonderful thing my mother
did when I was a girl" she
reminisces. Mother had saved
for a fur scarf for herself for
I don't know how long. When
she finally went to the fur
shop to pick one out, she took
me along. When We got there.
1 saw the most beautiful scarf
and muff for a girl-and she
got it for me and walked out
without the one she'd planned
for herself. ChildAke. I didn't
realize then what a wonderful
thing she had DONE"
On Fifth Network
There's one family recollec-
ton she's particularly anxious
to write into a future pro-
gram:
IT remember grandmother
had a younger brother and she
always called him my baby
brother even when she was in
her 80s and he was in his late
70s."
"The Goldbergs" has been
on five networks in all-NBC
radio, CHS radio. CHS tele-
vision, NBC television, and now
DuMont television. Returning
in mid-April in the time va
Gated by the summer by Bishop
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Color TV
This Week

The following NBC-TV
programs will be telecast in
color this week over WNBW,
Oh. 4:
VOICE OF FIRESTONE,"
concert music. tomorrow at
$3.50 pm.
DAVE GARROW AY
SHOW" variety, Friday at
s pm. .....
"A VISIT TO THE NET
ROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF
ART" a tour of the reno
waited galleries, Saturday at
$3.50 pm.
The latter program will be
especially produced for color
television, but it and the
other two will be seen in
regular black-and-white on
monochrome sets.
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Call Your Nearest
NARDA Service Dealer!

NORTHEAST
Fisher Radio 4 AppI.
Service
1888 n Street NE.
Lincoln 7-lll2
Standard Tire 4 Bat
terry Co.
10th and II SITS. NE.
Lincoln 3-9082
SOUTHEAST
South Capitol TV Co.
1345 Savannah st. Sc.
Johnson 1856
VIRGINIA
Ellis Radio & Service
$500 Lee Highway
Arlington. Va.
Jackson 2-84W
Fred Walker MaEnav0x
Sales & Service
26O5 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, Va.
Jackson s-47ll
Evening star., 1954-05-02

Fulton j. Sheen, the program
is seen on 164 stations.
Of the air, Gertrude Berg
is very much like Molly Gold
berg in warmth Of personality
and manner. the principal diff
ference being that she speaks
in cultured diction and leaves
off the accent she uses on the
program.
She is married to Lewis Berg,
chemical engineering consult
ant. They have two children,
Cherney, who produces the
show and is a composer Of
modern music, and Harriet,
wife of DR.. David A. Schwartz,
captain in the Army Medical
Corps. She's grandmother to
the Schwartz young son,
Joshua.
Evening star., 1954-05-02
SUBURBAN
MARYLAND

Z
J. R. Enright Co.
1920 Wisconsin Ave.
Chevy Chase. Md.
Oliver 4-l7W
Blair's Tv Service Co.
5422 Western Ave.
Chevy Chase, Md.
Oliver 2-l8W
Bethesda TY Co.
1855 Old George. Rd.
Bethesda, Md
Oliver 4-4904
Macwin's Tv q Radio
1871 wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda, Md.
Oliver 4-3559
Berne ElectfOnics
$3.50 n. II. Ave.
Takoma Park. Md.
TUckermon g. 1910
Evening star., 1954-09-24
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

Wind-Light and variable to-
night becoming southerly 10-15
miles per hour tomorrow.
Pollen count-14 grains per
cubic yard for "a hours ending
am. today.
Skyline Drive-Mostly sunny
tomorrow but increasing high,
thin clouds and rather cool.
5-Day Forecast for Washington
And Vicinity, Sept. 1928.
Temperatures will be near the
normal high of rs and low Of
So. Gradually rising tempera-
lures over the week end, cooler
Wednesday. Showers likely Mon
day or Tuesday, totalling "a to
"a inch.
Evening star., 1954-09-24

lected to fill them has any re-
sponsibility for or control of the
day-to-day operating functions
of a department or agency.
There are special provisions
in the law which, while allowing
the head of a department or
agency to recruit and select the
person he needs, require that the
need for consulting services be
justified and that the individual
must be qualified as a consultant
before employment.
'"The basis of payment for
persons appointed to consult
ant positions varies. They may
be paid on a fee basis for a
particular job to be done, on a
when actually employed"
basis, i.e., at a given rate of
pay for the time they work
with no payment for the days
or hours they do not work, or
on a per diem in lieu of sub
sistence basis which is SO
much a day when working away
from their regular place of en-
ployment but they receive no per
diem for subsistence purposes
under the travel laws and regu-
lationS. These are given as
examples only and the method
selectedi should be the one best
meeting the needs of the agency
and the advantage Of the Gov
ernment.
Notes Importance.
''It is of utmost Importance
that all persons engaged in the
handling of personnel matters
know and understand the op-
Grafton of the civil service sys-
tenn. It is the policy of the ad-
ministration that the career
service will be protected and
strengthened against political
pressures. Any action on the
part of any person which is
contrary to this policy is a po-
tential embarrassment to the
President and opens him per-
sonally to the criticism that he
is playing politics with the civil
service. Therefore, it is impera-
tive that all possible steps be
taken to see to it that all per-
sons dealing with personnel
matters in your organization
are fully informed concerning
the civil service laws, rules and
regulations.
Every director of personnel
is or should be fully familiar
with them. The directors of per-
Evening star., 1954-09-24

taxes In bl-Weekly or monthly
installments.
Otherwise, the agency said
the Government will issue levy
against their salaries in January.
This will hold up their pay until
all of the back income tax is
paid up.
Internal Revenue officials say
they want to give the employees
a chance now to pay up the back
taxes in installments. If en-
ployes do not, arrange payment,
their pay, starting in January.
will be turned over to the IN
ternal Revenue Service until the
tax bill is settled.
X X xf*
ANGERED-Government en-
ploye leaders are burning up over
Vice President Nixon's recent
speech, in which he told a Ne
braska Republican rally: 1.-THE
Eisenhower administration Is
kicking Communists. fellow -trav-
elers and bad security risks out of
the Federal Government by the
thousands" -.
The union officials say such
Irresponsible statements as
these, which they declare are
entirely untrue, are most unfair
to Federal workers.
In a speech yesterday, John
Webb. the Democratic candidate
for Congress from Virginia's
nearby 10th district, charged Mr..
Nixon with having told a de
liberate falsehood." He said Mr..
Nixon was guilty of fragrant
dishonesty" in making the state
ment.
4
AREER CONDITIONAL
PROGRAM-Here are more de-
tails on the Governments forth
coming career-conditional pro-
gram.
Job retention rights will be in
the following order: Top group,
career employees; second group,
career-conditional employees;
third group, indefinite and tenn
porary workers. Veterans will
continue to have job retention
rights over non-veterans in their
particular category. a,.
Career-conditioned employees
Chose selected from civil serv-
ice registers and. who have less
than three years Of continuous
service) will have rights of re-
Evening star., 1954-09-24

sonne1 should be consulted as
to the procedure which must
be followed in handling all types
of personnel actions and should
advise against any infraction of
the laws under which the Federal
Government must conduct its
personnel matters.
ANY instances in which it is
found that the civil service laws,
rules and regulations have been
violated should be Immediately
corrected and steps taken to see
that similar cases are properly
handled in the future"
Evening star., 1954-09-24

District and vicinity-Clear
and cool again tonight with low
near 50 in the city and AZ in the
suburbs. Tomorrow mostly sunny
and a little warmer.
Maryland-Clear and cool
again tonight with low 38-44
in west and 42-48 in east por-
tions. Tomorrow mostly sunny
and little warmer in the in
terror.
Virginia-Clear and cool again
tonight with low 38-48 in the
interior and 1852 along the
coast. Tomorrow mostly sunny
and a little warmer in the in
terror. "a
Evening star., 1954-09-24
81 Killed, Is Injured
In u. ). JET Fuel Tank
Blast in Germany
Rx the Associnfed Press

BITBURG, Germany, Sept. "a.
"A fire-fighting demonstration
which backf1red and blew up a
120, ,000-gallon tank of American
jet fuel left 80 dead and Is
seriously injured today. Investi-
gators sought to determine
whether sabotage might have
been involved, but said evidence
presently at hand suggested an
accident.
There were no American cas-
ualties in the blast here in the
French zone yesterday, near the
Luxembourg border. The colony
of big tanks. at the end of a
NATO pipeline from France,
stores 6 million gallons of fuel
for United States Air Force jet
interceptors and fighter bombers
stationed at Bitburg. -,
The known dead included %
Germans and 8 Frenchmen and
2 nationality unknown.
Damage Put i'm Millions.
Military property damage in
the disaster was estimated un-
officially at more than two mil
lion dollars. To keep the blaze
away from other tanks, the
1000 frantic French, German
and American fire fighters
pumped 100000 gallons of fuel
from nearby tanks into the Minis
and Sauer Rivers.
The blast occurred during a
fire fighting demonstration
watched by French officials and
German employees at the fuel
depot. German federal police,
joining French security agents
in an investigation, said the
possibility Of sabotage would
be explored thoroughly. French
army engineers and German po-
lice ringed the burned-out tank
today.
1t was the second worst ex-
plosion in West Germany since
the war. A blast in July, 1948,
at the I. G.. Farben Chemical
Works in Ludwigshafen killed
207 persons.
Bitburg municipal officials
said as part of the fire-hghting
demonstration, gasoline was
poured on top of the tanks con-
crete roof and lighted. The
flre-fighting apparatus was sup
posed to put out the test blaze
almost instantly, but instead
the tank underneath exploded.
Fumes Believed Ignited.
The officials speculated that
the test fire had ignited fumes
in the exhaust pipes of the tank.
The Bitburg officials said the
demonstration was being staged
by an international company en-
gagged in NATO air base work.
including the installation of fire
extinguishing equipment. The
tank farm is operated by a COM
pany of French soldiers under
NATO auspices.
The explosion sent column
Of black smoke nearly two miles
into the air. Flames shot up
1000 feet. The flames were
brought under control three
hours after the explosion but
black smoke still drifted over
the disaster area today.
The blackened, mangled bod
les of the victims-many of them
impossible to identifywere laid
out in the Bitburg Athletic Hall.
Mass funerals were arranged for
Monday.
Evening star., 1954-09-24
The Sun and Moon.


Monthly precipitation in inches In tn,
CapItal lcurrent month to datel.
Evening star., 1954-09-24

assignment, unemployment pri-
ority list and priority certifica-
ton. They automatically will
have job retention rights over
all indef1nites or temporary en-
ployes Chose employees who were
not selected from civil service
registers or failed to pass a
competitive exam).
x X \ \
CONFERENCE -"The Federal
Government Service" will be the
subject Of a three day confer
ence of Columbia Universlty's
American Assembly in New York
October Z to 10. Top Govern
ment officials, as well as lead
ing educators, businessmen and
civic leaders. will participate.
x ***
MOVE-The Federal Housing
Administrations liquidation unit
is being decentralized to various
cities throughout the country.
About 10 employees face the
choice of moving out of town
or risking the loss of their jobs.
X
CAPITAL ROUNDUP The
following employees in the Office
of Naval Research have received
outstanding" performance rat
ings: William w. Edwards,
Phillip Eisenberg, Mrs. Eleanor
Eisman, William N. Frye, Doris
Nelson, Aubrey w. Pryce, Mrs.
uene B. Rentz, John A. Rhodes
and Mrs. Lucille B. Rittue. . . :.
Philip A. Ray of San Francisco
has taken the oath of Office as
general counsel Of the Com
merce Department. The fol-
lowing employees in the Office of
the Treasurer of the United
States have been cited for out
standing work performance and
efficiency suggestions: Beatrice
Jackson, Daisy Caldwell, Virgie
Butler, Evangeline Evans, Lor-
eta Lashley, Mary w. Tafarella,
Lucille Hastings and Anna M.
Kittock. !. Neil MacNeil of
Southampton, N. Y, has been
appointed public relations di-
rector of the Hoover Commits
sion. Mr.. MacNeil is former as
sistant managing editor of the
New York Times. Thirty
universities and colleges are
using as a textbook, Public
Personnel Management" which
was written by DR.. William G.
Torpey, personnel director of the
Naval Research Laboratory. . i
Guy E. Wyatt is the new director
of the Commerce Departments
Office of Field Services. The
Atomic Energy Commissions di-
vision of raw materials has
transferred here from New York
City.
Be sure to listen to the Fed
eral Spotlight radio program
at 6.45 nm to7uOrro7r o,oz
Evening star., 1954-09-24

mate that be-
tween $4,000
to 10000 Gov
e r n m e n {
workers are in
arrears In
their Federal
! n ON e tax
payments.
The agency
h a S notified
all such EN-
ployes to start
m a kin g. ar
r a n g Q m ents
now to pay of
the delinquent
Evening star., 1954-09-24
Crub Feast Tomorrow

Arlington Post 139. American
Legion will hold a clam and crab
feast tomorrow afternoon on the
posts home, 3445 North WASH
ington boulevard, Arlington.
Evening star., 1954-09-24

Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.) =
Evening star., 1954-09-24
COnsultant Positions.

"Consultant positions. These
are positions which are estab-
lished for the express purpose
of securing expert consultative
services on particular problems.
They are not operating positions
in the sense that the. person Sc
Evening star., 1954-09-24
The Federal Spotlight ]
The Federul Spotlight go d.
Internal Revenue Starts Taking
Pay Of Delinquents in january
By Joseph Young

The Internal Revenue Service January, will
Government employees who delinquent
income tax
Under the law enacted by
ernmen for the empowered back taxes
owed by Federal employees by: ----
TAXI utoftho
Evening star., 1954-09-24
Beverage Group Dance

The Restaurant Beverage AS
ISOLATION will hold it's annual
fall dance in the Shoreham
Hotel at $3.50 pm. Sunday.
Evening star., 1954-09-24

Showers and thunderst0rms expected tonight in
parts of the Central Plains and Southern Rockies well
in the extreme Southeast with generally fair weather else
where 1t will be cooler in northern New England the Central
Plains States and in the Central Rockies Warmer
weather forecast for parts of the Rockies the
western Great Lakes area.-AP WirephOto map.
Evening star., 1954-09-24

Be sure to listen to the Fed
eral Spotlight radio program
at Gas pm. tomorrow oUer
WMAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-16
3 Cities Take Issue
With Red Cross on
Funds Controversy
by shs Assoelassd Press

LOS ANGELES, June ia
controversy over repayment of
American Red Cross funds given
to disaster-stricken commune
ties was still bouncing around
today.
Three cities took issue with E.
Roland Hartman. national Red
Cross chairman, who said some
tornado-ravaged areas failed to
reimburse the relief agency.
even though supplemental funds
were raised in these COM
munitieS after the Red Cross
had advanced money for the
basic needs Of victims.
Mr.. Hartman named Flint.
Mich, as q case In point. An
other Red Cross ofdcial named
Waco, Tex. and Worcester.
Mass. All were hit by tornados
last year.
In each case the primary
question seemed to be: If a
stricken city, aided by the Red
Cross, subsequently raises funds
of its own for relief, should this
money be used to repay the Red
Cross or should it be used locally
to rehabilitate victims as COM
pletely as possible?
Cities Give Their Version.
Worcester said nearly all, and
Flint said part, of the Red Cross
aid had been repaid. Waco said
1t would consider granting the
Red Cross part Of its supple
mental fund If it should develop
that victims and their relatives
need no further help.
The dispute originated in Mr..
Harriman's address Monday be-
fore the national Red Cross con-
vention here. He said the Red
Cross was returning to Its previ-
GUS practice of conducting spe-
cial campaigns when disasters
strike, because Of Developments
in recent operations.
The organization, he said. has
never considered that the public
wishes the Red Cross to "act as
an insurance company and re-
place disaster losses on the basis
of. loss :"
When a tornado struck Flint
last June the Red Cross spent
nearly $500, 900, contributed by
all the country, he said, adding:
meanwhile, q committee in
Flint solicited funds and received
over 100000. Not one cent of
this was turned over to the Red
Cross to meet its needs. On the
contrary, after the Red Cross
finished its job, all that money
was distributed to people over
and above what they had re-
ceived from the Red Cross
irrespective of whether they
could have taken care of them
selves from then on in whole or
In part"
Flint'S Mayor, Donald Riegle,
said he understood that q good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-16

deal Of the money contributed
after the tornado was given to
the Red Cross. Flint Red Feather
fund ofIlcials said its minutes
showed the Red Cross was will
Ing to help, regardless Of money
raised locally.
The Red Feather funds chair
man. Ellis n. Warren, said he
believed some $4,000 Of its
money went to the Red Cross.
and added that he didn't think
any more should be paid back.
ut should be used" he said.
ito rehabilitate every one as
close as possible to their former
status"
r. r. Schaeffer. national dir
rector Of Red Cross disaster
services. said that after the
Worcester tornado some 90 mil
lion was raised for the Central
Massachusetts, Disaster Relief
Committee, and the Red Cross
withdrew . special campaign
when told that this committee
and others would share the
money. The Red Cross. said Mr..
Schaeffer. spent $1.O15.07l aid
ing Worcester and got &201 500
back.
But the Central Relief COM
mittee commented that lit
would seem the Red Cross has
made an ungenerouS and mac
curate statement. In the i've
years from 1919 through 1853,
the committee said, the Red
Cross was given $1.00O.88O for
disaster work by the Worcester
area, the Relief Committee and
other Massachusetts, citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-16
Dever Gets Alta Post

Hayes Dever. director of public
relations and secretary Of Capital
Airlines, has been elected chair
man Of the public relations adj
visory committee Of the Air
Transport Association here.