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salary averages $4,440, and who
has eight years of service. is re-
tired for disability. His age is "a.
At present, he would receive 1852
IA year. Under the Johnston bill,
he would receive $1,764 annually,
SUSPENSIONS-The Control
Ter General has ruled that when
the Civil Service Commission de-
cides that employees were i'm
properly suspended from their
Jobs because their agencies
failed to comply with procedural
requirements, the employees are
entitled to compensation for the
period of suspension.
y; y II
ARMY'S INTERCHANGE
PROGRAM-As predicted here
several weeks ago, Secretary of
the Army Wilbur M. Brucker has
put into effect the Army's inter-
change program for civilian en-
ployes here and overseas. Under
the program, Army employees
here will be eligible on a volun-
tary basis for terms of service
overseas and vice versa. On COM
pletion of the overseas duty, en-
ployes will return here with
chances of better jobs as a re-
suit of the experience gained
abroad.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - The
Governments public information
officials will discuss Are Your
Publications Showing" at the
l2:15 pm. Friday luncheon at
the YWCA, Seventeenth and K
streets NV. Participating will
be Lyle Webster. the Agriculture
Departments information chief.
and four of his aides-Jim Nc
Cormick, Harry Mileham, Elmo
White and David Hall.
Joseph E. Webb of Treasury
has been elected president of the
District Federation of Federal
Employees Unions, National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees.
Others elected we're Glen E. Cor
don, vice president; Elsie M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-23

High and Low for Last - Hours
High, IS, at 600 pm
Low, ~. at 3.l5 am.
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Ue Llclu III Lie 0eIldJc CAUCUS
Room to accommodate the large
crowds expected.
Meanwhile, the AFL-CIO Gov
eminent Employees Council, rep
resenting Federal and postal en-
lploye unions with a combined
membership of more than 600,.
1000, has set May 14-16 as thu
date of a national Legislative,
conference.
! Hundreds of employee leader!
from all over the country are ex'
lpected at the three-day rally thai
will be held in the Commerce
Department auditorium.
Objective of the conference i.
to solicit congressional support
tor the union recognition bill
Those attending the conference
will contact their Representative!
and Senators and attempt to OBJ.
tain their pledges of support.
William c. Doherty. president
of the National Association Of
Letter Carriers and vice chair.
man of the Government EN-.
ployes Council, declares that the
union recognition bill is the most
i m portant Federal employe
measure now before Congress.
Other union officials take q
somewhat similar view. They say
the bill is at least equally inn
portant from their standpoint as
retirement legislation.
The measure. sponsored by
Senator Johnston. would require
agencies to officially recognize
Federal employee unions and deal
with them on all personnel policy
matters and grievances. Govern
ment officials not complying with
this would be subject to fines or
dismissal. The measure would
also set up formal arbitration
boards to settle disputes between
unions and management and
solve employee grievances.
Federal employee leaders in
past years have unSuccessfully
pushed for such legislation. They
now see a chance of at least get
ting it approved by the Senate.
Chances in the House this year
don't look too bright, but this
doesn't discourage employe lead
ers. They feel that if they can
get the bill approved by the Sem
ate, it would be a great psyche
logical and tactical triumph
which would lead to eventual
enactment by Congress within
the next year or two.
RETIREMENT - The John
Ston Civil Service retirement bill
is scheduled to be approved by
the Senate within the next week
or two.
Meanwhile. many single en-
ployeS have written to inquire if
the raise in employee salary con-
tributions from 6 to 7 per cent
would mean that single workers
could designate survivors for
family survivorship benefits. The
answer is no, they could not.
There also is a considerable
interest in the disability retire
ment provision of the Johnston
bill. The measure would greatly
increase such benefits.
Here is a typical case An en-
ploye whose highest five year
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LAC bCat 10 SCllCOulCQ W OC IIIduC
public next Wednesday, but the
"a pages of dry. legalistic Ian
guage will not begin to tell the
dramatic possibilities Of the I'M
precedented organization which
1t now seems certain Will be
set up next year.
The charter provides, for in
stance, that the agency will have
depots for storing the valuable
supplies of uranium, plutonium
thorium and other atomic ma
terialS contributed to it primarily
by the United States, Britain and
Russia.
Width Separated DepOts
Under the charter these ma
terials would have to be stored
m relatively small amounts anC
at widely separated places Sc
there would be no concentration
OF large amounts in any one
country or region
Thus the establishment OF q
network of heavily guarded stolH
age vaults would be made man
datory by the basic law setting
up the operation.
In addition. the agency Woulc
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'HammarskjO|d
Reaches Syria

DAMASCUS. Syria. April %
ilR.-Dag Hammarskjold arrived
today for talks with Syrian lead
ers in the next stage of his mis-
sion to bring peace to the Middle
East.
The United Nations official was
greeted at the airport by high
Syrian and U. N. officials and a
Syrian army guard of honor
Shortly after his arrival, he went
into conference with Premier
Said Ghazzi and other leaders.
Mr.. Hammarskjold goes next
to Jordan in his effort to re-
store peace between Israel and
its Arab neighbors of Egypt,
Jordan. Syria and Lebanon.
Egypt and Israel agreed last
week tC a ceaSe-flre.
An Israeli army spokesman
announced in Jerusalem that
shots were fired from Syrian
territory last night at Israeli
fishermen on the Sea of Galilee.
No one was injured.
Israeli Premier David Ben
Gurion of Israel told his parlia-
ment Israel is ready to examine
all avenues leading toward per-
manent peace" if Mr.. Hammar-
skiold finds in any of the neigh
boring countries a sincere incli-
nation toward peace"
He credited the U. N. official
with reducing tension along the
Arab-Israeli borders, but warned
that the danger of an Arab war
of aggression against Israel is by
no means over"
Agreements which they have
signed mean nothing more than
a scrap of paper" Mr.. Ben
Gurion said. And since the end
of the war they have not ceased,
either openly or secretly, to pre-
pare for second round in order
to wipe Israel off the map"
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Inc cloudiness and cool tomor
row followed by showers in the
southwest
Wind-Small craft warnings
displayed. Northwest winds
diminishing tonight and becom-
ing gentle and variable tomor-
row. Good visibility.
River Report
From y EngineerS
Potomac River cloudy al Harpers Ferr,
and clear at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry
Humidity
.Readngs WASHINGTON National Airport
Yesterday Pct Today Pct
Noon o5 Midnisht Il
pm Is
u m ~
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest SIS, on April 4
Lowest, 20 on January "a and Feb
fuary -
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Ol Cne lS3US at winch many vet
eran BolShevikS were convicted
on their own confessions and put
to death.
Mr.. VishinSky subsequently,
served as chief Soviet delegate tc
the United Nations, where his
forensic blasts drew wide atten-
ton. After his death in Novem-
Der. 1854. Mr.. Vishinsky received
a hero's funeral in Red Square
and his ashes were buried in the
kremlin wall---a top honor.
Reflects Khrushchev's Proposal
The unsigned article in the
law review said Mr.. Vishln-
sky's legal theories had turned
into "unimpeachable dogma II
called on judicial workers to
make deep and manifold study
and throw light on the questions
OF guarantees and the means of
insuring legality in the matter
of guarding the rights and in
terests of citizens of the USSR. =
The article reflected another
policy Communist party chief
Nikita Khrushchev laid down at
the party's recent goth Congress.
He urged an overhaul of the
Soviet judicial system.
The article charged that trial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-23

by confession denies the neeC
for a court to establish the alb
solute truth in each case and per-
mits the possibility of convicting
a person on the basis only of the
probability of some facts or other
which are undergoing legal ex-
animation"
Homage Paid Lenin
1t declared such a procedure
is at variance with the demands
of the party and government for
the strictest observance of legal
ity in the activity of investigation
courts and prosecuting organs
In. line with the current cam
paign to take the emphasis away
from Stain, the Soviet Union
paid enthusiastic homage to
Lenin yesterday-the Seth an
niversary of his birth.
Moscow was feStooned with
flags and newspapers carried
four-column pictures and glow
ing accounts of Lenin. The Com
munist party presidium attended
a Bolshoi theater program at
which Pravda editor Dimitri
Shepilov. lauded Lenin's princi-
pies of collective leadership. He
declared Stains one-man cult
theories must be liquidated.
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Admiral Burke in Guum

GUAM. April % tP.-Admiral
Arleigh Burke, United States
chief of naval operations, ar
rived here with Mrs. Burke and
a party of nine officers on their
way to the Philippines today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-23
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Employe Council Sets
Por|ey on Legislation
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

The various AFLCIO Government employee groups
ued national legislative conference coincide with the start
of Senate hearings the bill to give official recognition
eral employe unions
Chairman Johnston of the Senate Civil Committee
that hearings will start at 10 May They will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-23
Atoms-for-Pe Depots
Would Circle World
BY JOHN NJ. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Staff Writer

United States officials believe the proposed
peace could quickly become multi billion
izaon with vast chain of storage centers Laboratories
eircing the world
The United States Russia 10 other agreed
Wednesday the wording basic charter agency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-28
5-confidentioI File.

5-Confidentiol File.
Boiler Room"
7-Lowr'ce Weeks New Faces.
S. Minutes. Top Tunes ond
New ToIent spotIiohts protes-
sionol and senniprofessionol en-
tertoiners.
9-Deeember Bride. Comedy.
Lily and her fonily get involved
in house moving confusion.
1000
5-Fomous Fights.
Rocky Costelloni vs.. Ernie Du-
rondo. Modison Square 0orden.
Jon. ~. 1852.
9-Studio One. Drama.
Hour. "Americon Primitive. "
A wagon iroin of white settlers
encounters lndions who demond
restitution for a white mans
crime. Lloyd Bridges.
lo:l5
5-Boxing. St Nick's Arena.
ChorIie Norkus vs.. Joe Rowon.
lo:25
4-RepubIiean Committee.
1890
4-Frontier Doctor. Oromo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-28
MONDAY
Continued From Preceding Po0s

Continued From Preceding Page
$40
4-StonIey. Comedy.
7-Demoerotie Committee.
9-Tolenf Scouts. Godfrey.
8:55
4-Democrotic Committee.
9-Republieon Committee.
900
4-Medie. Oromo.
1.-The Long Way Home.
Filmed dromos presented by the
U0F.
81 Love Lucy. Comedy.
A visitor from Venice puts Lucy
in the pizzo business.
$40
5-JoeI 7. BroyhiIl.
$50
4-RobeFt Montgomery. Color
S. Minutes. Zone Bright Doy. "
A drug manufacturer discovers
thot his most inpoFtont product
is poisonous under certoin condi-
tions and must choose between
tinonciol ruin and deoth to in
nocent purchasers. Sidney Block
mer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-28
October 70

7-RosemoFy Clooney. Prem're.
SONGS by Rossmory, aided by
the Hi-Los, Nelson Riddle and his
orchestra. Guest: Jose Ferrer.
lo:55
9-Demoerotic Committee.
HOO
4-Ncws and Loc0l News.
Horkness Sprooue
7-News. Wecther. Sports.
McCoffrey. Allen. Molone.
9-News. Weather. Sports.
Richards Douglas Doniels.
ll:l5
4-Weother. Sports. Music.
Strinoer. Simpson. Les Paul.
5-News. Weather.
Wouen. Jomerson.
9-The Late Show. Movie.
Ia Hours. Actors ond Sin.
1852 Two stories in one-the
first OF the script OF the yeor
written by child. the second OF
on oetress' struggle for success.
Edward 6. Robinson. Morsho
Hunt.
1l:20
7-Bowlins Time.
Don Patterson VS.. Roy Ellis.
1880
4-Tonisht. Ernie Kovocs.
5-FeotuTomo. Film Shorts.
1z:15
5-Thought. lnspirotionol.
ZOO
9-Weother.
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MARYLAND Tax Form

Taxpayers Of Maryland who
file Form 500 for Maryland
income tax will find it to their
advantage to familiarize them
selves with the provisions of
Section 281 e. and (g) of the
Maryland income tax law.
On Page 8, Line II of Form
500 the formula for computing
personal exemption limits each
exemption to $500, but no
where on Form 500 nor in the
four-page instruction sheet
which accompanies it is any
mention made of nor is the
taxpayers attention called to
the fact that additional ex-
emptions at the rate of $1,000
each are allowed by the above
subsections to taxpayers and
their spouses who are blind or
who have attained the age of
sixty-f1ve (65) years before the
end of the taxable year, or
both.
This can mean a tax saving
Of up to $40, and more in some
instances, for such taxpayers
as can qualify for these addi-
tional exemptions.
]. L. BergStresser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-10
Freedom Is Favored

The people of South Wet Nam have
registered convincing answer to ex-
pressed fears that their desire for free
dom is weak and that they would prove
easily vulnerable to Communist subver-
sion. They have done this by an over
whelming election choice of associates of
pro-Western President Diem to the first
National Assembly of the young South
east Asian republic. Making their action
the more impressive is the fact that,
despite an announced boycott of the
voting by opposition groups approx
mately 80 per cent of the electorate
turned out at the polls.
Mr.. Diem's performance for the past
10 months has been an impressive vim
dication of American policy in supporting
him. When Wet Nam was partitioned in
1854 with the northern portion remain
ing in Communist control, there was no
assurance of political stability in South
Wet Nam and no complete confidence
that the native authorities could success
fully resist Communist infiltration and
Subversion. France played an equivocal
role in those days, sheltering Emperor
Bao Dali in Europe while letting Mr.. Diem
work out his own salvation. The latter's
capacity to do this was demonstrated
clearly last october when approximately
SO per cent of the voters in referendum
favored Mr. Diem, then Premier, over the
absentee Emperor. 1t was on the strength
of this showing that Mr.. Diem proclaimed
the republic, designated himself as Presi-
dent and ordered the Assembly elections
which took place last week end. In the
meantime, he has drafted a constitution
for the country, and proposal for its
ratification will be one of the first pieces
of business before the new Assembly.
The final outcome of the struggle for
Southeast Asia-or even for identification
of partitioned Wet Nam-is not yet clear.
It does seem, however, that strong and
stable antiCommunist outpost has been
established under Mr.. Diems leadership
in South Wet Nam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-10
Get the Probe Coma

2 An election-year investigation Of
lobbying is bound to be full Of political
dynamite. It is not difficult, therefore,
to understand the anxiety Of Senator
Bridges and his Republican colleagues
on the Senate's special committee. They
want to be sure that G. o. p Senators
are not going to become the preferred
targets Of this inquiry.
This is perfectly legitimate objec-
tive, but 1t must not be pursued to the
point of blocking any investigation.
The dispute between Senator Bridges
and Democratic Senator Gore turns on
two main points: (D The authority of the
committee chairman, who would be a
Democrat, to order preliminary investi-
cations with view to establishing the
scope of formal inquiries, and (2) the
right of the chairman to issue subpoenas.
Senator Gore thinks the chairman should
have the indicated authority in both
instances. Senator Bridges wants joint
exercise of this power, with majority
vote of the committee to be controlling
in each instance.
No great exercise of the imagination
Is required to see the partisan poSsibili-
ties, assuming that the chairman might
abuse his powers, in the procedures ad-
vocated by Senator Gore. But this is the
way the standing committees of the
Senate operate. And we cannot help but
think that Senator Gore is right when he
says that any committee, if it is to func-
ton, must have head-that the chair
man must be given the tools needed to do
the work which has been assigned to
this committee.
1t is worth noting that Majority
Leader Johnson has indicated some SYM
pathy with the Republican apprehen-
sions. And he is not in accord with sug-
gestions from Democrats on the special
committee that they might as we'll throw
In the sponge. But the Majority Leader,
while calling for further effort to reach
an agreement within the special COM
mittee has also made it clear that he Is
not going to yield to obstructive tactics.
II an agreement on procedure cannot be
reached by the special committee, the
lobby investigation will be transferred
to one of the standing committees, on
which the Democrats will have major
ity, and on which the chairman will exer-
else the authority desired by Senator
Gore.
This ought to exert persuasive in
fluence on Senator Bridges and his col
leagues, and we hope they will moderate
their position so that an agreement on
procedure can be reached within the
special committee.
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facilities-in Baltimore or elsewhere
and, with a $15-million bond issue, can
substantially improve and expand these
facilities. Moreover, special division
will be charged with publicizing the port
and promoting its use by shippers in this
country and abroad. Experience else
where has shown that such a program
is well worth the money invested. There
is no reason why Baltimore and Maryland
as whole should not gain similarly by
the new enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-10

While nearby Marylanders have EVIL
denced little interest in the legislation
creating the Maryland Port Authority,
proponents of the plan, including Gov
ernor McKeldin, have predicted that
everyone In the State eventually Will
benefit by the project. The Governor
considered the legislation so important to
the future welfare of Maryland that he
called special session largely for the
purpose of validating, beyond question,
earlier legislative action approving the
authority.
There is no doubt that the States
economic welfare is tied up closely with
the prosperity of the Port of Baltimore.
An official study commission found that
the shipping trade in Maryland waters
in general and in the Port of Baltimore
in particular has been falling of alarm
ingly in recent years. The commission
foresaw an even worse decline with the
opening of the st. Lawrence SeaWay and
the continued development of port ia
cilities in Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and Norfolk. The report pointed out that
improvement in trade at other Eastern
ports has followed the establishment OF
powerful port authorities, some of them
of Interstate nature. These agencies not
only build and operate modern docking
facilities but act as veritable chambers
of commerce to publicize their respective
harbors and equipment and drum up
business.
All of these arguments for Mary
land authority were presented forcefully
at the regular Fiscal" session of the Leg
islature, with the result that an amended
port authority bill was passed. One OF
the changes eliminated Talbot and Queen
Anne Counties and most of Anne Arundel
County from the agency's jurisdiction
Since only legislation of Statewide
nature could be legally enacted at this
years regular session, however, it became
necessary to call supplementary special
meeting of the Legislature to re-enact
the measure.
The new authority will consist of five
members and will have wide powers. It
can condemn and take over existing port
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-10
School Bond Defeat

James K. Hall halls the de-
feat of the Arlington school
bonds and claims that the
areas in the county voting for
the bonds were those made up
of apartment dwellers and
service personnel. Mr.. Hall
obviously did not look at the
individual precinct returns.
Of the 81 Arlington pre-
cincts, IA supported the school
bonds. Of these IA, only three
abingdon, Buckingham and
Fairlington) are apartment
areas. A fourth favorable pre-
cinct (Columbia) has a large
apartment project but also
many detached homes. On the
other hand Park Lane, Court
land, Lyon Park, Rosslyn and
Westover precincts-all with
large apartment populations
voted against the bonds. The
most exclusively homecoming
section of the county is that
north of Lee highway, yet five
of the seven precincts in this
area voted for the bonds, in
some cases overwhelmingly.
AS to service personnel, it is
we'll known that only a tiny
fraction of this group votes in
Virginia. natural result Of
the shortness of military tours
in the Washington area.
In short, the voters ap-
proved the bonds in those pre-
cincts in which the urgent
need for additional school
rooms was fully explained.
Where this was not the case.
the turnout of voters was small
and the opponents tended to
be in the majority.
/ am also disturbed by the
attitude of Mr.. Hall and some
others in Arlington that it is
somehow improper for a rela-
lively new resident or a renter
to vote on matters of direct
concern to himself and his
family. 1t has always seemed
to me that each new resident
should be warmly welcomed
and should be encouraged to
take an active part in local
civic affairs. This includes be-
coming a voter and regularly
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES (. TRACEWELL

die, but others do not, and the
result is good.
The winds still do not mind
the commands of any human
beings.
They blow as they please.
as we have been told. and they
cause cold and misery, so
people and flowers draw their
cloaks tighter and build up
their blood with good food.
Plants have their own ways
of drawing their cloaks around
them.
They do it by shriveling
a bit.
This means that the sur
faces contract, the cells pull
closer together, so that the
cold and wind cannot abstract
too much of the precious
moisture.
Life for a plant means
moisture.
Maybe it is the same with
humans.
Young people are moist, old
people dry.
The winds of spring and OF
life blow their best, to dry the
plant tissue, and bring old age
to humans.
The fight goes on the same,
in all classes of living things.
First the grain in the ear,
then the ear, and triumph for
a time.
Comes cold weather, and the
little plant shrivels and dies.
1t has had it's time, and that
was all Napoleon had.
Springtime is the going
ahead season.
Given half a chance, every
thing grows and fulfills its des-
tiny.
There is no need to worry.
Please don't worry Angelina.
Take time out to watch the
sunshine. and the green COM
ing back to the grass.
Hold your head high. and
forget about what may hap
pen.
Usually it doesn't!
The time is spring, and the
birds are coming back, and the
bulbs have bloomed, probably,
by the time this sees print.
We can't keep up with the
world, and you can't either,
whoever you are; so the thing
to do is to forget what you
don't like, and remember what
you do, if you can; and if you
can't, well, write another letter,
Angie, and I'll do the best I
can. 1 don't guarantee any
thing more.