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Evening star., 1954-01-05
Bio THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1854
Births Reported
m D. C Bureau Of Vital statistics.l

tFrom D. C Bureau Of Vital Statistics.
Boys:
Max and Marguerite Abbott.
Ronald and Ethel Bacon.
James and Gertrude Boarman.
Eugene and Della Callahan.
William and Mary Eiason.
James and Jeanne Grnnig.
Guy and Florence Huthnance.
William and Mary Latham.
Henry and Helen Maurer,
Leo and Louise McGinley.
Thomas and Bonnie O'Day.
Oscar and Yolanda Padilla.
Pasquale and Elizabeth Pellegrine.
Robert and June Rank.
Eueene and Virginia Rosenberser.
Joseph ard Shirley Sheehan.
Indy and josephine Simpson.
Francis and Catherine Tanner.
Walter and Esther Trojan.
Robert and Patricia Wenderott.
James and Flossie Ashenfelter.
Lonnie and Jeanne Bell.
William and Sarah Boggs.
Elvin and Gertrude Clearfield:
Samuel and RoSamond Formal.
James and Janet Hoacox.
Richard and Marion Kelley.
Charles and Jewell Lemaster.
Harold and Helen Miller.
Roy and Lonnie Nicholson.
John and Mary O'Donoghue.
James and Anna Pearson.
Earl and Agnes Perks.
Robert and Nancy Richardson.
Ralph and Dorothy Ruebel.
Comfy and Agnes Shoemaker.
Ahram and Gwendolyn Steen.
Carl and Wilma Thompson.
Thomas and Ann Webb.
William and Ruth Wuertenberg.
Edward and Fannie Moore.
Carlton and Marie Arner.
Tfllman and Mary Frazier.
John and Dorothy Green.
Eilliam and Juanita johnson.
William and Marjorie Jones.
Charles and Emma Norman.
Sam and Mae Robertson.
James and Jessie Smith.
Leroy and Carrie. Taylor
Edward and ISophine Turner.
Walter and Emma Alexander.
Leslie and Cicely Donaldson.
Ernest and Iuanita Garner.
Victor and Ruth 1nmap.
Sterling and Lucille Johnson.
John and Clarissa Lindsey.
Joseph and Mary Mosley.
William and Mary Robinson.
Willie and Sarah Sutton,
Clyde and Theresa Travis.
Charles and Mary Washington.
Girls.
Charles and Phyllis Adams.
Raymond and Nancy Bradshaw
Ralph and Mariory Campbell
William and Ethel DeYberry.
Edwin and Lucille Freeman.
Harold and Marion Ham.
John end Helen Heady.
Russell and Elsa Jones'
Elliot and Miriam Kaitlin.
Edward and Mary kuzaS
Pierre and Aiiette Lechaux.
Even and Eleanor Lombard.
Daniel and Joan Macdonald.
Marcel and Charity Newman.
James and Ruth OwlngS.
Herbert and Ef1ie Pitts.
Walter and Rova Rooder
Harold and India Sprasue.
John and Mary Straight
Robert and Lucille West
William and Mary Young.
Willie and Elizabeth Hair.
Francis ano Mildren Jones.
David and Catherine Strong.
George and Ruth Yancy
Robert and Tomnlie Bailey.
Robert and Susan Brown.
Norman and Harriet Chaikin,
William and Joyce Ellis
Edward and Lillian Frlss.
Robert and RoSemarie Griffin.
Norman and Dorothy Havener.
Robert and Martha Holley.
Ha!cld and Helen Jump.
Richard and Pearl Kassin.
Donald and Minnie LawlesS.
George and Patricia Lynch.
Alfred and June McAdams
James and Evelyn O'Brien.
Frederick and joyce Parrish.
lanes and Mary Ricca.
Dante and Ruth Selera.
Charles and Laura Stone.
Donald and Ruth Watkins.
Linus and Donna Wink.
Theodore and Exllona johnson.
Herman and Beatrice Newsome.
Frank and Catherine Williams.
Evening star., 1954-01-05
Citizens See Slides

The American University Park
Citizens Association last night
viewed colored slides taken by
DR.. Daniel B. Lloyd on his travels
in Europe and by Ray Queenin
on his trip in Africa. Garland
Taylor presided at the meeting.
held in the Westmoreland and
Congregational Church at West
moreland Circle NV.
Evening star., 1954-01-05
How to help someone
in sorrow

When grief strikes a friend, what
are the most helpful things we can
say and do to ease the pain?
Ministers, rabbis and priests
who must comfort bereaved people
every day-give their advice in
January Readers Digest. They ex-
plain why our best-meant efforts
to cheer a sorrowing friend may
only increase his sense of loss
and give ten simple, specific sug.
,gestions on how your sympathy
can bring real solace.
Get your January Readers Di-
gest today: Al articles of lasting
interest, condensed from leading
magazines and current books.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

duction in 1910. Mr.. Curtice took
over last year.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Air Academy
New Service School
! TO Stress English
BY Allen Drury

The new Air Force Academy Is
setting out to do what many
present-day schools fail to do:
Teach its graduates how to ex-
press themselves clearly and dis
tinctly In the English language.
When the first class Of cadets
starts instruction in July. 1855. at
Lowry Air Force Base in Denver--a
temporary location before moving
permanently to Colorado Springs In
the summer Of 1957-they will find
themselves confronted with a cur
riculum which puts almost more
stress on English than on any other
single subject except those actually
related to Air Force training itself.
Officers Of the new academy. from
1t. Gen. Hubert r. Harmon on
down, are determined that their
graduates, in addition to being fully
qualified to lead the Air Force. will
know how to think, write and; above
all. speak. forcefully and effectively.
Tolk to Congress-
Partly this is due to past expert
ence in brieflng and staff paper
work, where the need for clea1
directives has not been met; partly
it comes from the memories Of q
service which has often had to
fight for its funds before skeptical
Congress. knowing how to talk 70
Congress" looms large in the think
ing of Air Force brass. the academy
graduates are going to learn.
They will learn great deal more,
Of course, and the hope is that
their training may be largely prac-
tical rather than theoretical. With
out drawing invidious comparisons.
the new academy believes it will
place greater emphasis on direct
application of its teachings than
may be the case at West Point and
Annapolis. And 1t plans to defer
actual pilot training-for those who
are physically and temperamentally
fitted for it-until postgraduate
years. on the theory that cadets
can't take rigorous fight training
and carry a full academic schedule
at the same time.
In his four years of schooling at
Colorado Springs the Air Force
cadet will receive the benefits of q
curriculum five years In the making.
Brood Curriculum ...
Approved by professors from the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Tech
nology, Stanford and Columbia, 1t
contains such items as history 101.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Labor Relations

The shift Of control from Wall
Street to Detroit conceded roughly
with new era in employe relations
which has proved beneficial to both
GIN and the 100000 employees who
belong to Walter Reuther's CIO
United Auto Workers.
The union-ever loath to say q
kind word about management
comedies that while GIN labor ne
gotiators are tough. they are capa-
BILE and reliable. Unlike some other
companies, GIN stats its labor Of
fees with professional labor man
agement specialists. I'VE have q
feeling that when We are talking
to the GIN people, we are talking
to somebody that knows his busi-
ness" JAW official said last week.
, Relations between GIN and the
union nowadays can best be de-
scribed as placid. Things were
pretty hectic in 1856. when. GIN
workers staged Q strike that lasted
more than 100 days. There has not
been q work stoppage at GIN since
then.
Reuther-W Plan
In 1850, MIR. Reuther and Mr..
Wilson jointly sponsored formula
which resulted in the signing of
contract with the unprecedented
life of five years. Union officials
doubt that they will agree to an
Evening star., 1954-10-03
The Jack Pot

Hindsight Is always better than
foresight, even If it doesn't pay
off as handsomely. A favorite
game of stock chartists is to figure
out what would have happened If
49," The case of General Motors
common stock is a classic ex-
ample.
If a man with $4,000 to invest
had gone into GIN on the ground
floor with w. c. Durant in 1908.
what would he be worth today?
IF he had taken advantage of
all stock splits and other bene-
fits, his 100 shares of $100 par
value stock would today be 50,-
470 shares Of S. par value, which
sold last week at an all-time high
of $94.88. a share on the New York
Stock Exchange. Thus, the mar
ket value at that price would have
been slightly more than $4.8 mil
lion. a
In addition, the foresighted in
vestor would have taken $3,127.-
634.04 in dividends through June
80, and would have at least $780,
600 more coming in before the
year ends.
AS far as is known, no one
turned this profitable trick.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

combines ability to produce with
the fiexibility Of smaller-scale enter
prise"
The policy making body Of GIN,
like that Of any corporation, Is its
Board Of Directors. These SO men
include q number Of strictly auto
motive experts like Charles F. BOSS"
Kettering, inventor Of the self
starter, and Cyrus Osborn, head Of
GINS engine group. Others. like
Lammot dupont Copeland and
Henry B.. du Pont, are more closely
identified with finance. One-Gen.
Lucius Du B. Clay-iS world-re-
nowned retired Army officer. And
recently reappointed member of the
board Is Roger M. Kyes, who was
GIN vice president before going
to Washington in 1858 as Secretary
Wilson's right-hand man In the
Pentagon. Mr.. Kyes left the Penta-
gon earlier this year.
These SO men develop basic aims
as members of the Financial and
Operations Policy Committees, then
put those policies into effect in their
capacity as directors. From there
on, the job belongs to Harlow Cur
tice.
S637, 900 q Yeor
MIR. Curtice Is well paid for his
pains. Last year, his salary plus
stock and cash bonuses amounted
to $637 ,233-a sum about equal to
what Charley Wilson drew before
he went to Washington.
Like his relatively recent prede-
cessors, Mr.. Curtice Is an automo-
bile man, with 40 years service in
GIN. II 1t seems to be a truism to
say that the head Of General Motors
is an automobile man, it might be
pointed out that it was not always
thus.
In the early '20s, control over
GM was tightly held by Eastern
financiers, and Midwestern techni-
clans were hardly more than hired
hands. This came about from
conviction by the easterners that
auto men didn't know anything
about business.
The Fasteners probably were
justified in their opinion. They got
into the company when founder w.
c. Durant got into financial diff
culties. It cost him 20 million
shares Of stock-23 per cent Of the
voting power-to get Du Pont to
help him out. Pierre 8. du Pont
Immediately moved In as president.
displacing Mr.. Durant. Du Pont
interests still are the largest stock
holders In GIN.
After Mr.. du Pont came Alfred p.
Sloan, jr., who served as president
from 1923 to 1887. At 70, Mr.. Sloan
is board chairman Of GIN, but has
little to do with the everyday opera
tions Of the corporation.
With the advent of William s.
Knudsen in 1887, GINS top manage
mert increased the accent on pro-
duction know-how. Mr.. Wilson sue
ceeded Mr.. Knudsen when the latter
took a direct commission as an Army
lieutenant general to boss war pro-
Evening star., 1954-10-03

other contract Of such duration
when negotiations reopen next
April. But they say the agreement
served the purpose at the time.
This contract provided periodic
wage increases plus cost-of- living
adjustments. and set up pension
plan under which q worker can re-
tire with as much as 5000 month.
including his own and his wife's
social security benefits. All GIN
plants are now organized under
UAW contracts, which are con-
sidered the pattern for the industry.
Though things are calm on the
labor front now, there is no guar
anteeing they will stay that way aft
er talks reopen next spring.
Guaranteed Annual Wage
II trouble develops, it probably
will be traceable to JAWS insistence
on q paramount article Of faith
the guaranteed annual wage" This
plan would give a worker more sta
bility of employment than he now
enjoys. It also would cost all but the
very busiest of plants q great deal
more money than they now pay.
Because GINS is the first contract
to be reopened, the industry's eyes
will be on its negotiations with the
union. OF the seven companies now
making cars in the United States,
GIN and Ford probably would have
the least to lose from a guaranteed
annual wage agreement. But If it
comes to industry-wide solidarity
against what the manufacturers
consider a repugnant demand. the
industry's two leaders may well
stand firm.
On the other hand, GIN may well
hold still for a. wage arrangement
that smaller producers fear would
be disastrous. GINS attitude to-
ward it's competition is that the
corporation has no aspirations to
monopoly, but intends to make and
sell just as many cars as 1t can,
regardless of what happens to other
manufacturers.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
The Selling Game

It was mentioned earlier that part
Of GINS success has come from an
ability to take advantage Of the
average Americans innate mob-
bishnesS.
The selling Of automobiles IL
q peculiar business. A lot Of money
and O lot Of emotions-are in
volved. John @. Public. when he
buys q car, is expected to be drawn
to 1t as Romeo was attracted to
Juliet, and to cleave to 1t with the
same constancy. But when new
models come out, he Is suddenly
supposed to react to the car he
currently owns as Tommy Man
vile reacts to bride Of two weeks.
In his relationship with the
Joneses, the average American is
expected to reach the zenith where
automobiles are concerned. II Sam
next door buys new convertible,
John @. can be relied on-if not
to buy a flasher one-at least to
think seriously about trading. And
often enough to make dealers rich,
John translates thought into action.
It would be impossible to keep
new-car sales volume up around the
5 or 6 million mark II automobiles
were built for the ages. Yet q car
must hold together, and must not
be transformed in year or two
into bag Of bolts, else there would
be no used-car market, which is
the base on which the new-car
market is built.
The answer, Of course, is to build
sturdy, reliable and reasonably eco
nomical cars-and change their styl-
ing as often as possible. A more or
less substantial design change every
two or three years Is the pattern in
the industry.
Accent on Style
To this end. GM boasts one Of the
most successful styling sections in
existence. It's designers are creative
artists who try to guess Q decade
ahead on public taste and-having
guessed-try to develop that taste so
as to make their predictions come
out right. Usually II works, but when
1t doesn't, the results can be disas-
trous. Chrysler guessed wrong back
In the sos, when 1t laid an egg with
the "airfiow" model In the Chrysler
and De Soto lines. The 'sairdow"
was too radical. And this year, the
styling Of Chrysler products was
blamed for the slump Of that COM
pany's share Of the market from 20
10 10 per cent. The current models
were too conservative IA defect
Chrysler plans 10 remedy In 1855.
QM's last major design change
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Industrial Colossus

The worldwide manufacturing
and merchandising complex that is
General Motors has its headquarters
In q massive building on Detroit's
West Grand boulevard, about 4 miles
from the center of the motor capital.
Specifically, GINS headquarters
Evening star., 1954-10-03
The Top Level

GIN explains its "decentralized"
philosophy Of operation in this way:
Each division makes its own
decisions within the framework Of
overall corporation policy. The gen.
eral manager Of each GIN division
is responsible for building his own
organization, co-ordinating its ef-
forts and planning its progress.
unlike the manager Of an inde-
pendent small business, however. the
general manager of q GIN division
has available to him the financial
resources Of the corporation, as well
as the staff facilities and know how
Of the central organization.
"GM decentralized organization
Evening star., 1954-10-03

established a. q Democratic whip
ping boy.
At least It looked that way last
week in the wake Of q blast by
Senator Henry NJ. Jackson. Demo-
crat Of Washington. In six-page
philippe aimed primarily at the
Pentagon. Senator jackson charged
that Republican defense-contract
policies are I'd favoring General
Motors at the expense Of other
manufacturers and (2) endangering
the national defense by narrowing
the Nations production base.
Pentogon Reaction
The Pentagon seemed somewhat
steamed up by Senator Jackson's
charge. Secretary Of Defense Charles
E. Wilson (the, same Engine Char
ley" who said that what was good
for the United States was good for
GM-and vice versa) observed test
lily that most Of the contracts Mr..
Jackson objected to had their origin
In the days Of o Democratic ad-
ministration.
Then, on Wednesday, the Defense
Department suddenly announced $22
million in contracts to the Chrysler
Corp. for pilot-model guided missiles
and q $1606 million order for
medium tanks. Whether or not
Senator Jackson's criticism caused
the unexpected announcement, evi-
dence points to the fact that the
Pentagon was in q hurry to get
something done as quickly as pos
sible.
In Detroit last week, by contrast,
the calm was so thick you could
have cut 1t with q knife. Aside
from q terse. pooh-pooh statement
by President Harlow II. Curtice,
who was vacationing in Europe, GIN
brass paid little attention to what
Senator Jackson had to say. They
were too busy fulfilling Mr. Curtice's
recent prediction Of another $40
billion-gross year for General Motors.
Evening star., 1954-10-03
Giants Growth

The riches Of General Motors.
which probably could not be matched
by the Nizam Of Hyderabad In his
prime, was not always with us. It
was created over a 46-year period
by hard work. financial acuity and
merchandising know-how based on
the average Americans innate snCb-
bishneSs.
GIN was started. modestly enough,
in 1908 by w. c. Durant. who at
one time produced car named
after himself. Its predecessor com
panies. founded years earlier by
two auto pioneers named r. s. Olds
and David Buick, still produce autos
- but as divisions" Of General
Motors.
GIN grew, over the years, by ac-
cretion. The Oakland Motor Car
Co. (now the Pontiac Division)
came in In 1909, as did Cadillac.
Chevrolet Joined the fold in 1918,
just after q reorganization that
transformed Durant's General Mo-
tors Co. Of New Jersey into the Gen.
eral Motors Corp. Of Delaware.
Other concerns were taken into GIN
in subsequent years. and some divi-
sions were created to serve particu-
lar needs.
As result, the operating level
Of General Motors today consists Of
IL divisions in almost every con-
ceivable branch Of the automotive
industry.
In addition to the i've auto
manufacturing divisions Cadillac,
Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac and
Chevrolet) there Is q truck and
coach division, Fisher body divi-
sion, numerous parts and assembly
divisions and an interesting finan-
cial group that is designed to keep
as much Of the cushy auto financing
and insurance business as possible
within the family.
FinoncioI Venture
This group Is made up Of three
divisions - General Motors Ac-
ceptance Corp. Motors Insurance
Corp. and General Exchange In
surance Corp.
GMAC, the first subsidiary to
stick its hand directly into the auto
buyers pocket, was created in 1919.
AS GIN puts 1t In an official ex-
PLANTATION Of GMAC's role:
"As a part Of the broad program
Of bringing its products within the
reach of more customers, General
Motors considered that the sale of
its products to the customer on
basis that would allow him to pay
for them out of his income was a
perfectly sound economic pro-
cedure."
The emergence Of GMAC spurred
the sale of new cars-and Of used
cars, too. And II it put q large seq
ment Of the population in more or
less permanent hook, 1t also made
real mass production Of automobiles
possible.
In 1925, GIN saw another chance
to expand, and created the Cen
eral Exchange Insurance Corp. to
write insurance on cars financed by
GMAC. More insurance coverage
was offered car owners-at an extra
fee, Of course-in 1889. when the
Motors Insurance Corp. was formed.
Thus, roughly, stands the organi-
zation of GINS operating divisions.
which make, assemble, provide spare
parts for, finance and insure GIN
products literally from the drawing
board to the scrap heap.
But though the IL divisions have
a common purpose-to make buck
for GM-they operate almost as
separate companies. Like the Sia-
mese twins who were in the news
Saturday, they are independent
bodies, joined at the top.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

profits taxes Of $4.TS7. .zs9. .631. In
other words. GINS defense business
fell just 500 million short Of cover
ing It's tax BILL. Last year alone,
GINS taxes topped the billion-dollar
mark.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

102 ("to develop in the cadet an
understanding Of human nature.
human institutions, human ideals
and human creations in the name
of beauty'D: geography 101-102
("particular emphasis is placed on
the comparative potentials Of the
United States and the U. S. s. R."), }
and all the technical courses in
cluding mathematics. engineering !.
drawing, navigation, chemistry.
physics, mechanics and materials.
electrical engineering and elec.
tronics, aerodynamics, thermody-
namics and aircraft design. a
In addition to these, the academy
will give an integrated "airmanship"
program designed to give each cadet
an aircraft observer
rating upon graduation. This will
include training in the physical
characteristics of the atmosphere
and their effects on the flyer: the
use Of personal safety equipment
such as parachutes, life jackets. life
RATS and the like; the use Of fight
instruments; celestial and polar
navigation; weather; loran and
radar, and atmospheric pressure
patterns.
Lieht-Plone Troining
All cadets will receive a total Of
AZ four-hour flights covering actual
air instruction during their four
years at the academy. Although full
pilot training will be given after
graduation only to those who quail
ify-an expected SIS per cent Of each
class-light-plane pilot training will
be given all cadets. This will be
given ip q 160-knot T-34 type air.
craft with q 210-horsepower engine.
a closed cockpit and retractable
landing gear. The course will in
clude. the academy says. "take-offs.
landings, stalls, spins, forced land
ings. chandelles, lazy eights, cross
wind approaches and landings. 60
arounds and a thorough course In
airport traffic procedures"
A counterpart of the Annapolis
cruises will also be held at the acad-
emy-a two-week air tour of various
Air Force installations at the start
of the sophomore summer, and a
similar trip at the start of junior
summer.
World Cruise?
The Air Force is toying with the
idea Of taking its cadets on world
air cruise at some point In their
schooling, but expenses may make
this impossible. The possibility OF
joint maneuvers with the midshfp-
men and West Point cadets also ID
under study.
Three hundred cadets viii launch
the first class in Denver next sum-
mer. BY the time the academy Is
completed at Colorado Springs Cat
an estimated construction cost OF
$l45 Million, classes are expected
to be up to their full complement
Of IT'S men each.
Cadets will be selected on tho
same system as that followed at
the other two academies congress
sional appointments. that ID. based
on state quotas.
Evening star., 1954-10-03

General Motors Growth Draws Democrats Criticism
By WilIiom Hines

DETRorT-mos moment 20 months when Engine
Charley equaed interests Of the General Motors Corp with
those United manufacturing empire has
been object political curiosity Now with ell the forecasts pointing
to heahfuy General Motors appears well