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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Johnston Urges
More Liberal
Insurance Plan
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star stan Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 49,
Chairman Johnston Of the Sem
ate Civil Service Committee says
his group will take action next
year to liberalize the Federal
|employe life insurance program.
Addressing the convention of
the National Postal Transport
Association, the South Carolina
Democrat said he was very
much dissatisfied" with the de-
Ginning rate of the policy value
after an employe or retire.
reaches age SIS.
1--WE should give them and
their families greater insurance
protection" Senator Johnston
said.
Present Law Outlined
Under the present law, Fed
teral employees are eligible for
life insurance coverage based on
the upper thousandth of their
salary. The policy value. how
ever. decreases after age SIS by 2
per cent a month until it reaches
a minimum of rs per cent of
the original policy value. Thus
an employe originally insured
for $4,000 eventually would be
covered by a policy worth only
81, 500.
Senator Johnston said he feels
there is SUFFICIENT surplus in the
fund to decrease the rate of de-
cline in the policy value. He
said he intends to appoint a
special advisory committee to
see if legislation can be worked
out whereby employees can re-
tain the full policy value after
age IS. or at least keep it at
so to rs per cent of original
value.
The South Carolina Democrat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

vised. 1t remained at 81 per
grade number from GS-1
through GS-5. But a GS-6. who
followed the new scale, would
give 81, and the scale went up
in So steps through $2S for a
GS-14.
Col. Mattina said no intima-
ton is being given that any en-
ploye has to give; no one is being
pressured, and no one is being
checked. He said also that no
pressure is being applied to those
who gave according to the first
formula to increase their gifts
to meet the second formula.
He said it is recognized that
the obligations of some make it
impossible to give. or to give as
much as the formula indicates.
But. he added. there are some
who give more than the formula
advises. He cited the 500 gift
of a woman in GS-9. for which
the formula suggests a $13 gift.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

Washington and vicinity
Some sunshine, cool this after
noon. high around so. Fair and
cooler tonight, low aahout As.
Mostly sunny and rather cool
tomorrow.
Virginia--Cooler tonight, low
about so near the coast and in
the 40s in the interior except
mid-30s in the mountains. Fair
tomorrow, partly cloudy in the
southern portion and continued
rather cool.
Maryland-Fair and cooler to-
night. low around 3S-45. Gen.
orally fair tomorrow with little
change in temperature.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Northeast winds Is
rs miles per hour this afternoon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
POST OFFICE CLOCK
.RUNS2 HOURS, THEN
CONKS OUT AGAIN

The clock atop the old
Post Office Building started
running again at 1907 pm.
yesterday-but 1t stopped
again inside Of two hours.
The giant four-dial time
piece, damaged in an acct
dent October 10, was put
back in service yesterday for
testing purposes. Thomas w.
Quinn, assistant building
superintendent, said far
ther work may be required.
I'VE don't know yet" Mr..
Quinn said. I'VE may decide
to electrify it, and it's i'm
possible to say now what
may happen"
A General Services Ad-
ministration spokesman said
the agency is studying an
engineers report to decide
whether to convert the clock
to electricity.
The accident, in which a
Justice Department attorney
was injured. occurred when
a cable snapped. dropping a
l,200-pound metal weight
so feet through two floors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

supply, river work and heavy
construction for the Army and
Air Force in this area.
Scale Explained
Col. John c. Mattina, execu-
tive officer, said 1.-THE men and
women here are as anxious not
to be laggard in this public-spir-
tied effort as anyone else" He
gave this explanation for what
happened:
The Office of the Chief on En-
gineers, given a quota or goal of
$50,447, broke it down into goals
for constituent Offices. 1t also
furnished a suggested scale of
giving according to grades, on
which the amount of the gift
matched the grade number of the
employe with an additional 50
for each grade above OSLO.
The goal for the Washington
District Office Ito shoot at" was
$4,000. But it was found after
solicitation had started that the
goal would not be reached If
gifts were generally on the scale
furnished.
The scale. therefore, was re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

General Accounting once has
honored $50 employees with 80 OF
more years of Government serv-
ice. r. Veterans, Administration
has issued a fact sheet for peace
time veterans and six-month en-
listees, and another for World
War veterans. The fact sheets
list the benefits the veterans are
entitled to. The Library OF
Congress analysed its payroll for
October 3, the first one from
which deductions were made for
the District income tax. II found
4 500 employees subject to the
tax, while 481 are residents OF
Maryland and 287 live in Vir-
ginia.
JOBS-The Army has need OF
operators of telegraphic type
writers, teletypes and communi-
cation relay equipment, and also
stenographers, all beginning al
the GS-4 level. Also needed are
installers and repairers of tele-
typewriter and electronic equip
ment. Applications should be
made to the Army Employment
Coordination Office. Room 10
Old Post Office Building, Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
The Civil Service Commission
isa listing these jobs: Masons
plasterers and refrigeration and
air conditioning mechanics for
service in various agencies in the
Washington area. The pay levels
range from SIS to $1.63 an hour
for helper, up to $2.09 to 1920
an hour for senior. Applications
should be filed with the, Ciyil
Service Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

Tide Tables
FURNISHED BY me United states Coast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

but diminishing somewhat to-
night. Good visibility and fair
tomorrow.
Five-day Forecast for
Washington and Vicinity
October 1924
Temperature will average 2 to
1 degrees above normal. WASH
ington normals are IS and as for
the daily high and low. Cool
over the week end, warmer Mon
day and cooler Tuesday and
Wednesday. Rain likely Sum-
day night and Monday totaling
one-tenth to three-tenths of an
inch.
River Report
from o. 9 Engineers1
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear At Harpers Ferry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Job|ess Aid Program
Declared q Success
Rx FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS

The complicated program unemployment compensation
Federal employees paid out $3028 million in benefits in its first
fiscal William A. Murphy head Of the office which
it, said the program is success
compensation workers who lost their Federal jobs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
DC. Office, Givers' Scale
Raised, Pressure Denied

The Washington District ONCE Army Engineers has
revised upward its scale Of suggested giving
Fund to try to reach its goal
But while conceded there may resentment
at the step, it insists pressure is being applied.
The Engineers District Office charge District water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAsT-scattered showers are
expected tonight in Oklahoma Eastern Kansas and in
the Northern Rockies with fair partly cloudy skies pre-
vaiing elsewhere 1t viii be cooler New England and
along the Eastern Seaboard Carolinas well
the Plain States and Eastern side Of the RockiesAP
wirephoto Map "~~~~
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Sunday. April 70

Walt Disney features a galaxy
of cartoon classics when he pre-
sents 1.-THE Story of the Animated
Drawing" on WBTV's Disney
land" this afternoon at 100 pm.
Examples of the work of nearly a
dozen pioneer artists are pre-
sented to illustrate the evolution
of screen cartoons which has re-
suited in the development of full
length cartoon productions.
Jeff's colt Domino is stolen and
hunted in a thrilling adventure
on "Lassie" at 200 pm. on Chan
rel 3. jeff secretly rides his colt
before the time comes for the
horse to be broken to saddle.
Screen Directors Playhouse
presents Rookie of the Year" at
$3.50 pm. on WBTV. John Wayne
plays a small town sports reporter
who sees chance to get into the
big time when he stumbles across
an old baseball scandal that will
destroy the career of a promising
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Saturday. April 20

Ten-year-old Gloria Gretona is
featured in the Gretona Family's
highwire act which will headline
this weeks big Top program at
1900 noon on Channel 3. Also
scheduled to appear are the Los
Gattos. a three-man acrobatic
balancing team; Angelic. in
fast juggling act; and Riton's
AriStocratic CANNES.
The World Champion Brooklyn
Dodgers paly host to the Pitts
burgh Pirates on Baseball Games
of the Week" this afternoon at
1:55 pm. Dizzy" Dean and his
sportscasting campanion. Buddy
Blattner, will be on hand at Ell
bets Field, Brooklyn, to broadcast
the play-by-play and color of the
National League contest. Dean al
so will be ON hand with "Basebsl
Preview" at las pm. over WBTV
When Jim Anderson quarrels
with his friend Frank Tyler. his
loyal daughter Betty feels she
should stop seeing Tyler's son in
THE Martins and the CoyS' cpl
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Thursday. April rs

Barbara B n d e T models the
latest women's fashions for view
ers on her "Cato's Fashion Fare"
at 7:55 am. on Channel 8. She
will give tips on how to select ma
terials and the proper care of cot
ton clothes.
WBTV's Bob Crosby Show"
features vocalists Joan O'Brien
and Carol Richards, the Moder-
naires with Paula Kelly and The
Bobcats this afternoon at $3.50
pm.
John Larkin, Teal Ames, Ian
Martin, and Bob Dixon star in
the daily dramatic series "T'he
Edge of Night" at 4:30 pm. on
Channel 8.
A strange twist of fate turns an
absent-minded error on the part
of Herb Philbrick into new
victory for the FBI on Channel
3's II Led 3 Lives" at 500 pm.
Philbrick makes the one mistake
allowed to every Communist agent
- before liquidation.
A famed hypnotist, who de-
clarps that all persons have led
many previous lives, claims that
he can take a subject back
through time to any stage of his
personal history. on, 1.-The Red
Shelton Show" at 1890 on sta
stion WBTV.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Force flier sinks the Navy and
the Marine Corps as he goes all
cut 70 recruit his l7-year-old
nephew Churk and two of his
chums for the Air National Guard
on The Bob Cummings Show"
televiSed by WBTV at 900 pm.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Lawman Matt Dillon and his
former friend Hack Prime, who
has since turned outlaw, meet as
mortal enemies when Prime in
vades Dodge City as a hired gun
man on "Gunslnoke" televised on
Channel 3 at 1000 pm.
Bred for Battle" a Runyones-
que tale of a frustrated boxer
and his dreams of making his son
topnotch prizefighter. will be
spotlighted on the Damon Run
yon Theatre" presentation tonight
at 1O:3O pm. on WBTV.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Monday. April %

"Voodoo" is the title of this
weeks eerie story on WBTV's
THE Adventures of Long John
Silver" series, this afternoon at
$50 pm.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

City Manager Henry Yancey
will lead a panel discussion on the
levels and functions of City Gov
ernment on Channel 3's AFTER
You Vote: What?" series tonight
at 6:15 pm.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Tuesdoy, April "a

The sudden and hilarious down.
fall of romance seeking British
General Prescott is told in "The
Stolen General" on "Du Pont
Cavalcade Theatre" tonight at
800 pm. on Channel 3.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
TV HghHghts
Of The Week

jumps to the conclusion that a
weddings in the wind on tonight's
George Burns and Oracle Allen
Show" on WBTV at 800 pm.
The rigors of travel catch up
with the Ricardos and Mertzes in
a big way on II Love Lucy" at
900 pm. Lucy will take Chan
mel 8 viewers along on a bicycle
trip through Italy.
The fateful STRINGS of unrest
among the underdeveloped peo-
pies of Africa in their current
struggle for freedom will be the
subject on which the Edward R.
Murrow-Fred w. Friendly series
See 1t Now" will focus its
,emeras in the first show in a
two part series. Report From
Africa" WBTV, Channel 8 will
telecast the first report tonight
at 1000 pm. The second part of
the report will be telecast on May
n
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
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Ask for SUTHERINE at all
drug stores.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
young player.

A wealthy American bets on an
impoverished English aristocrat
he can spend the night alone in
the Englishman's ghost-haunted
estate, but the friendly wager ends
OH a bizarre and tragic note when
Alfred Hitchcock Presents" "The
Gentleman From America" at
$50 pm. on Channel 3.
Bob Collins, handsome Holly
wood photographer and ex-Air
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Charley JOS sephs. sensation
al young New Orleans fighter.
fac e S the stiffest test of his
career when he meets veteran Salt
Lake City crowd-pleaser Milo
Savage on WBTV'S Wednesday
Night Fights" at 1000 in a To-
round bout from New Orleans.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Friday. April ~

Ralph Bellamy portrays a dra-
ma critic whose review leads to
his arrest and imprisonment in
"Alibi" on Ford Theater" to be
seen over Channel 3 tonight at
7:30 pm. The story is set in the
New York of the 1905, the gilt
tt.ing world of Diamond Jim
Brady, and Lillian Russell.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Matt Anders tinds himself play
ing cupid amidst intrigue and
bullets in East Berlin. in Berlin
Love Story" on CRUSADER" at
900 pm. over WBTV. Matt'S
friend in West Berlin, Claire Bon
ner, has fallen in love with 1t.
Joseph Balta of the Russian Air
Force. who is stationed in East
Berlin.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Oracle thinks a pretty miss has
made nit with son Ronnie and
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23
Wednesday, April IS

Hoppy and Red Connors. his
side-kick, face a fiery death at
the hands of a beautiful mas
querader as they tackle a bank
robbery case in the Hopalong
Cassidy" show at 500 pm. on
Channel 3.
Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles
help solve the mysterious toma-
hawk slayings of Jed Welker's
coach drivers in Superstition
Stage" to be shown on WBTV at
$50 pm. Guy Madison and Andy
Devine are stars of the weekly
series.
Publicly diSOwned by his mine
owner father. a wayward youth
seeks vengeance by robbing a gold
shipment from the mine to pay
am bling debts. on Sergeant
Preston Of the Yukon" which will
be televised at 7:30 pm. on Chan
mel 3.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

sode of Father Knows Best" at
TOO pm. on Channel 8.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Tonight's million Dolla T.
Movie" on Channel 3 at 1870 pm.
stars Joan Fontaine and Louis
Jourdan in a Letter From An
Unknown Woman" Lisa Berndle
Joan Fontaine) falls madly in
love with Stefan Brand Louis
Jourdan when she is only and
he is 25. Impened by this love,
Lisa rebels violently when her
widowed mother marries again
and moves away from Vienna.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

Jonathcn Beale'S beautiful new
housekeeper, a fugitive witness to
a murder, falls in love with Beale's
assistant in a story of love and
adventure tonight on water
'front.'" on Channel at $3.50 pm.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23

When an amusement park pro-
prietor Lyle Bettger finds body
II the Fun House, he is afraid to
tell police, having once pe n t
three years in Jail for crime he
didn't commit. so he removes the
corpse. His plan backfires and
the finger of guilt points to him
in "Step Right Up And DIE" on
playhouse of Stars" on Chan
mel 3 at $3.50 pm.
A woman avengeS her sons
death by a premeditated attack
on her criminal-husband who in
troduced the boy to a life of
crime, in "T'he Charlie Case. y
this weeks story on THE Lineup"
televised on station WBTV at
1000 pm.
The Lincoln times., 1956-04-23


When an impossible wish comes
true, there are incredible COM
plications, which will be depicted
when Douglas Fairbanks Pre-
sents" over WBTV at 900 pm.
Son Rusty voices his dissatisfac-
ton with the amount of his al
lowance SO Danny Williams tells
him to get a job. in "Rusty Gets
a job" on make Room for Dad
dy" tonight at 1890 pm. over
WBTV. Charlotte.
Tonight at 1880 pm. Ian S
Schnable tangles with Vic Cristy
and George and Bobby Becker
team up against Wild Red Berry
and Tommy Morelli on WB1V's
"Ringside with the Rasslers."
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
ANS Cuts Welfare
Aid to Jobless
Alaska Natives

JUNEAU, Mar. II, R-Welfare
assistance to unemployed Alaska
natives has been cut 40 percent
in some cases eliminated entirely
by the Alaska Native Service
because of shortage of funds, it
was learned here today.
The across the-board cut on as
sistance for unemployment pur-
poses became effective March |.
Assistance to unemployed, I'M
married persons was cut off en-
tirely.
Word of the slice was received
from William l.. Paul ST., presi-
dent of the Alaska Native Broth
erhood, who said native welfare
recipients have been notified OF
the order. ANS officials here con-
firmed the facts of the story but
refused to make an official an
nouncement on the matter.
The cut does not affect those
who are receiving other types OF
welfare assistance, it was learned
The welfare grants are made on
the basis of need and range from
$40 a month to as much as $3.50
for parents of large families.
Acting Gov. Waino Hendrick-
son has informed Gov. B. Frank
Heintzleman, who presently is in
Washington DC, of the cut.
The governor has been asked by
the Alaska Native Brotherhood tc
seek q special grant of 100000
from the Bureau of Indian Affairs
to tide the natives over until the
summer work season.
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
Kefauver Tries
For CALIFORNIA;
68 Delegate Votes
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sen. Estes Kefauver arrived in
San Francisco Thursday fresh
from his trouncing victory over
Stevenson in the Minnesota Dem
ocratic primary election.
Arriving from Great Falls,
Mont. and Portland, Ore, Kefau-
yer set about campaigning for
California's So votes at the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
1--WE are behind here in Califor-
mia and it will be an uphill fight"
Kefauver told neWSmen.
In Portland he authorized his
supporters to undertake a WRITTEN
campaign in the Oregon Demo-
cratic presidential primary set for
May 18. eff they wish to under
take such a campaign, it will be
alright with me and 1 will appre-
ciate it." he told reporters.
No Democrat is entered in the
Oregon primary. The states Is
convention delegates will be re-
quired to support the candidate
getting the largest number of
write-in votes.
Kefauver referred in a Great
Falls speech to Lincoln Day talk
by Vice President Nixon who, Ke-
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
Defense Spending
Criticized

Continued from Page One
they sort of drift into it all !
can tell you is that one way and
another we are trying to get hold
of the thing"
The Investigators said there
have been substantial improve
ments in procurement practices
and policies in recent years but
mo successful purpose would be
served by documenting those re
suits in this report"
They complained that in all
three services, the greatest portion
of high cost procurements are ac-
complished through negotiated
contracts rather than through
competitive bidding.
Concerning two contracts with
Western Electric Co. for total of
more than $40 million, the inves-
tigators said 1.-The contractor die
tated the terms and price" with
little indication of any intensive
negotiations on the part of the
government.
They said Western Electric die
tates its terms to the Signal Corps
ION a take it or leave it basis"
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
ALASKA AIRLINES

From Anchorage: Don Smith,
Douglas Swain, H. B. Snyder,
Patrick Garner, Nick Rauch, Lor-
rim Carrot, Lester Rorick, r. M.
Norton, Mrs. Roger Briggs, Clay
ton Rasmussen, Ken Marquiss,
J. E. Jones, Walter Merrill, S/Sgt.
r. Plymale, EdWina Jones and
infant, R. G.. Blodget, Ray Will
bourne, Lewis TomeSi, Arnold
Isaacson, Gene Mas, Irving
Hunter, Jim Frazier, Albert Da-
wilson, Allen Watts, N. Taddeo,
Salvatore Ricotta, Robert Barnes,
George Billick, Irwin Huber, Rob
ert Ralousek, Gerry Bickerstaff.
To Anchorage: VIM. Finch, j.
Farr, Robt. Oravetz, Pfc. H. Birk-
holz, Regina Doyle, H. Anderson,
Charlie Curtis, Roy Showers, Don
Yeaman, T. Messall, Bob Oliver,
Enid Moses, Peter Charles, Keith
Swanson.
To KotZebue: Patricia Garner.
To McGrath: Henry KnutSen.
To Unalakleet: Miss Jolly.
From Unalakleet: Russell Her
mann, Sig Krogstad, Henry Knut-
sen.
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
81 FOR BITE OF HAMBURGER

OKLAHOMA CITY, Robert S.
Popejoy, 10, was fined 81 yester-
day for taking a bite out of8 a
strangers hamburger.
Officers said Popejoy walked
over to a booth at cafe, took the
sandwich off a plate, took bite
and put it back. He said that he
thought he knew the hamburger's
owner, but he turned out to be a
stranger.
The judge told him: "a man
has the inherent right to peaceful
ly enjoy a hamburger-especially
at today's prices.
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
Beta Sigma Phi

Beta Sigma Phi met at the
home of Anita Mays last evening
with Mary Honsberger acting as
hostess. The program given by
Anita Mays was Natures Land
scape," followed by members re-
spending with "the loveliest spot
I know"
Rose Silverman was welcomed
back and told of some of her ex-
periences while travelling.
Plans were discussed for the
annual Founders Day Banquet.
The members were given
"sneak preview" of some of the
beautiful aprons already finished
and ready for the apron sale to
he held tomorrow at the Beta Sig
ma Phi apron sale at the N. c.
Store. The sale starts at 1000 in
the morning.
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
Eight Egyptians Killed
In Express Train Wreck

CAIRO, Egypt, R-Rails weak
ened by the widening of q canal
gave way beneath a passenger ex-
press train early today and eight
Egyptians were killed.
The wreck occurred 1870 miles
south of Cairo, near Maghagha.
The train was bound from Cairo
to Aswan, Egypt's major winter
resort on the Upper Nile $50 miles
south of the capital.
The Nome nugget., 1956-03-23
Rev. Gould of Methodist
Church Visiting Here

Rev. Gordon Gould, formerly
head of Methodist work in Alaska,
and now with headquarters in
Philadelphia, is visiting the terri
tory in connection with work to-
ward the building of the Alaska
Methodist Church. While in Nome
ne is visiting with many friends
made while stationed in the ter
ritory. He says he may remain
until Sunday.