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Milford chronicle., 1957-09-13
Veterans Administration
INFORMATION SERVICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Q-The effective date of my CT in
surance policy was August 81.
/ understand my premiums are
due this same date each month.
What about months that do not
have 81 days? On what date will
premiums be due?
A-On months not having 81 days,
your CT insurance premiums
will be due on the last day of
the month.
Q-I want to sell my home and let
the buyer take over my GI
loan. Of course, | plan to apply
in advance to VA for relief
from liability. Must the buyer
be d veteran, in order to as
sumo my CT loan payments?
A-No. The purchaser need not be
a veteran in order to take over
your CT loan payments.
Q-I already have an ABB degree.
Would l be allowed to go to
college under the Korean GI
Bill to get another bachelors
degree? The course want to
take Will prepare me for an
engineering career.
A-So long as the course will pre-
pare you for professional
goal for which you are not
now qualified, you may be per-
mitted to take college training
leading to another bachelor S
degree, this time in engineer
ing. But full credit will have
to be given for applicable pre-
vious courses.
Q-Is it possible to take below
college-level schooling under
the War Orphans Education
program?
Ayes, provided the young man or
woman already has completed
or quit regular high school,
and provided the below-college-
level course will lead to a def
mite vocational goal.
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Milford chronicle., 1957-09-13

al estimates on employment and un-
employment and also related popu-
lation characteristics information
such as the number of persons who
are not working because they are
in school, retired or unable to
work; the availability of manpower
for both defense and civilian pro-
duction, and similar facts. Industry,
labor and government are con-
stantly using this information in
planning various kinds of programs
and in measuring the general level
of business activity.
Current Population Survey infor-
nation will be collected locally by
Mrs. Pauline Mustard OF George
town, Del.
Milford chronicle., 1957-09-13

Useless advice: when in ignor-
ance, or in doubt, keep your mouth
shut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
No Excuse?

The editors OF Pravda are quite
correct, in sense, in saying there is
mo excuse" for the Soviet press soft
pedaling its comment about the recent
ouSting of Malenkov, Molotov and Ka-
ganovich. After all. in most countries
the denunciation of three high-ranking
public figures would be discussed at very
great length in type and otherwise. This
is not, of course, exactly the burden
of Pravdas complaint. Instead, the
Communist Party's principal newspaper
is criticizing other journals for their
weak" commentaries on the decisions
of the June plenum-by which this par
ticular trio was consigned to a political
land Of outer darkness and uncertain
boundaries.
Still, even an editor in the Soviet
Union may feel that little caution Is
a reasonable thing. Mr. Malenkov, for
example, has been bobbing UP and down
like a cork in the political life Of the
Soviet Union during these recent years
And Mr.. Molotov has been a sort Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
The Petunio Amendment

1t is probably true, as Senator Javits
said during an able analysis of Part Of
the civil rights bill, that the old law CIV
ing the President power to enforce civil
rights by use Of troops is dead anyway
He saw no reason why it should be
stricken from the BILL nor did he see any
reason why it should be retained. He re-
garded the old law as obsolete and the
President still has the power under other
statutes to enforce order by use of troops.
At another time in the debate, the
proposal to repeal the old statute was
referred to as the "Petunia Amendment"
1t reminded Senator Aiken, who wants to
strike out all of Part 3-of which the
troops provision was part-of the song,
Il Am Lonely Little Petunia in an
Onion Patch" Repeal the old law, Sena-
tor Aiken argued, without touching the
rest of Part 3 and all that has been ac-
compliShed is to transplant the petunia,
removing it from the onion patch-or,
Senator Russell added, taking out the
petunia while leaving the poison ivy"
Nevertheless, there was some signifi-
canoe in the Senate'S unanimous action
yesterday repeating the old troop law,
not only taking it out of the civil rights
bill but wiping it of the books The sig
nif1cance lies in the fact that until Sena-
tor Russell exposed the presence of the
petunia, nobody seemed to know it was
there. And while Senator Russell was
ridiculed for mentioning it, nobody could
deny that what he said was true. If the
vote of 90 Senators indicated unanimous
belief that the petunia was innocuous
anyway, 1t also indicated Senator Rus
sells contention that 1t had no business
in the BILL Which is true of other things
still in the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
RossIyn BottIeneck

1t is encouraging to thousands Of
motorists to learn that highway and
planning authorities are giving special
attention to traffic bottleneck condi-
lions at RoSslyn, Virginia terminus of
the Key Bridge. The recent widening
OF trafic lanes on this bridge has i'm
proved the flow of traffic from Virginia
to Georgetown, but the unchanged sit
uation at RoSslyn continues to impede
Virginia bound traffic, which backs up
onto the bridge during the evening rush
hours.
The congestion at RoSSlyn circle re-
suits from the converging there of traf-
nc from the Key Bridge, Lee highway
and North Moore street. The latter car
ries bus, truck and passenger traffic to
and from Clarendon and beyond Fed
eral and State highway engineers have
studied the Rosslyn problem in past
years and have evolved long-range plans
for eliminating the bottleneck. These
plans include the widening of three-lane
Lee highway into real expresSway and
the building Of ramp to the right
to the circle to permit Virginia bound
traffic to enter the George Washington
Memorial parkway. At present there is
no access to the parkway for homeward-
bound Virginia motorists.
The long-range improvement pro-
gram still seems to be far from realiza-
ton. In the meantime, however, the
mess could be ameliorated by less costly
measures. One such relief step has been
proposed by the Northern Virginia Plan
ming Commission. 1t suggests that the
grade railroad crossing at the Rosslyn
station Of the Washington g. Old Domin-
ion Railroad be eliminated by moving
the terminal westward Although rail
traffic is relatively light, the existence
OF the crossing tends to slow down au-
tomobile traffic. Sooner or later the
railroad will have to be shifted to an
other location, anyway, since the re-
construction Of Lee highway cannot be
effected without such a change. The
increasing trafflc through Rosslyn JUS
tines new look at the traffic improve
ment program there, with view not
only to interim relief steps but to ad-
vance scheduling of long-range meas.
ureS especially the widening. OF Lee
highway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
Law Enforcement Crisis

Attorney General Brownell has in
jected note of urgency into the appeal
to Congress to clarity" recent Supreme
Court decisions bearing upon the ad-
ministration of justice in the Federal
courts. Mr. Brownell had particular
reference to the rulings in the Jencks
case, opening FBI files in some circum-
stances to criminal defendants, and to
the Mallory case, which resulted in the
release of rapist because he had not
been formally charged soon enough after
his arrest.
The Attorney General, in televi-
sion appearance, said that the JenckS
decision has resulted in real crisis in
law enforcement" and that the Mallory
ruling "has aroused great deal of con-
troversy." He added that I'VE would like
to see congressional committee study
this whole problem and come up with a
solution so that the police and law
enforcement officers over the country,
when they have to deal with Federal
laws, would know exactly what their
authority was and what the limitations
on their authority are"
This certainly is restrained and
reasonable statement of very serious
situation. For these rulings, in our
judgment, needlessly threaten the pub
lie interest in effective law enforcement.
The court was trying to safeguard the
rights OF accused persons, in itself a
laudable objective. But this can be done
without gripping the processes of in
veStigation and prosecution. 1t can be
done, that is, II Congress will enact legis-
lation to remove the confusion created
by the courts rulings. Perhaps 1t is
too late for action at this session, but
we hope that the needed correction
will have high priority when Congress
reconveneS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
LETTERS TO THE STAR

door and closed it. While
telephoning, the police en-
tered by a back door, choked
him and dragged him to the
street while beating him. He
suffered a broken jaw and
was jailed, charged with dis
orderly conduct and resisting
officers. I advanced his bail
money and hired a lawyer.
Repeatedly when the case was
called his lawyer was on other
cases. This boy lost many
days of work and finally the
charge was dismissed. On
entering suit against the Of
ficerS, pressure was brought
on him by his boss who
feared police retaliation, and
because he had a family to
support nothing came of the
suit. This was a boy we'll
liked by both whites and
Negroes who had employed
him.
All of which is cited to
show that at the root of
much of the lack of morale
and weakness in a police de-
partment in a city with so
large a Negro population is
racial prejudice which a
modern trained police chief
should understand and seek to
alleviate. A good model to
follow would be the practices
in the armed forces which
involve race.
Z. b. Henderson,
President. Virginia State
NAACP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
New ENGLAND Elects s Governors in Sc

Six New England States
elect Governors in 1858. OF
the incumbents, two are Re-
publicans in New Hampshire
and Vermont and four are
Democrats in Connecticut,
Maine. Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island. Already the
political forces are lining up
for candidates Of both major
parties.
In Massachusetts,, while
Gov. Foster Furcolo has
made no formal announce
ment that he will seek to sue
coed himself. it is accepted
as a fact that he will, as most
incumbent Governors in
Massachusetts, have done. 1t
is no secret, according to his
friends. that he is looking
forward to 1860 and an OPP
portunity to run again for
the United States Senate.
The Massachusetts, Governor
served several years in the
House of Representatives and
his ambition is to again re-
turn to Washington, the next
time in the Senate.
If he can win reelection as
Governor, he should stand a
good chance of fulfilling this
ambition. He was defeated
for the Senate by his Repub-
lican opponent. Senator Lev
erett Saltonstall, in 1854 but
by only $4,000 votes. Two
years later he was chosen
with a plurality of 10000
votes. This victory came to
him Notwithstanding the fact
that in the same election
President Eisenhower was
carrying Massachusetts, by
approximately 10000 votes.
Also in 1854. when Furcolo
was defeated for the Senate.
there was a division among
the Democrats, because Sena-
tor John F. Kennedy declined
to announce his support of
Furcolo. Since then, the Gov
ernor and the Senator have
been playing very much on
the same political team.
Struggle in New Hampshire
Up in New Hampshire. rec
ognized as strong Republican
territory where the Demo-
Gratis have not elected a Gov
ernor since 1892, a real strug-
gle for the Republican guber-
Material nomination is in the
making. Wesley Powell, for
some years a stormy petrol in
New Hampshire politics, is
expected to announce his
candidacy. There is talk. too,
that former Gov. Hugh
Gregg, who declined to sue
coed himself three years ago,
may get into the race again.
Both Of them belong to the
faction Of the Republican
Party in New Hampshire
which follows the lead Of
Senator Styles Bridges. The
other faction, which is
headed by former Gov. Sher-
man Adams, now assist
ant to President Eisenhower,
and Gov. Dwinell, in all prob
ability will have a candidate
of its own. Gov. Dwinell
may run himself. although
New Hampshire has never
elected a Governor to a third
successive term. 1t has been
suggested that Representative
Bass of the I'd congressional
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
Tailored for Our Needs

Despite some excited American
warnings to the contrary, neither Brit
ain nor the Soviet Union is really TAX
ing leadership away from the United
States in the field of nonmilitary atomic
power.
This reaSSuring assertion comes
from man who ought to know what
he is talking about. He is w. Kenneth
Davis, director of the Atomic Energy
Commissions Division of Reactor Devel-
opment. No American, in or out of
Congress, is better equipped than he to
speak on the subject, and what he has
just had to say in Cleveland leaves little
or no room for doubt that the alarmists
have things out of perspective and are
wrong when they attack the Acc for
tagging behind the British and Russians
in Harvesting nuclear power for indus
trial purposes.
Just what is our countryS status in
this field? According to Mr.. Davis, cur
rent estimates indicate that we should
have about l million electrical kilo-
watts OF nuclear power stations in OPP
Grafton five years from now, about To
million in 10 years, 43 million in IS years,
and 1873 million in 20 years-about the
same capacity as the total electric gen.
Grating capacity in the United States at
the present time. However, by that time.
1877, the nuclear capacity will still
only be about one quarter, of the total
electric generating capacity"
OF course, as Mr.. Davis has ex-
planned, the British are doing an excel
lent job. But their program, which is
unqueStionably good for them, would
not be good for us. This is so because
their needs, their economy, the cost fac
tors they must contend with, are alto
gether different from ours, particularly
in the sense that the conventional fuels
are not only scarce in their country, but
also two to three times as expensive as
In the United States. AS for the Rus
slams, whose fuel abundance is roughly
comparable to ours, the fact is that they
seem to have abandoned their gran
diose" nuclear developmental plans in
favor Of program that tends to initiate
ours. In short, fresh evidence indicates
that they have learned, the hard way,
that it would be foolish and uneconomic
for them to try to do, within a short
span OF years, what they have said they
would do.
Actually, in Mr.. Davis words, our
American program-in view of the ma
ture OF our free-enterpriSe economy and
the great amount of conventional fuels
available to uS-iS tailored to meet our
specific national needs, and hence is far
more sensible and realistic for us than
one that would emulate Britain's. True,
II we wanted to, we could far outStrip,
and quickly, any other country engaged
IN Harvesting the atom for industrial
uses. However, as Mr.. Davis has said,
this would be senseless thing to do,
for our prime task is to develop adj
vanced reactor technology that will en-
able us to produce nuclear power eco
nomically competitive with coal, oil or
falling water
These are some of the points that
should be kept in mind whenever the
alarmists rise to warn that the United
States is losing leadership in this field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23

district might get into the
race. Now another possibility
is Attorney General Lewis c.
Wyman. Two candidates for
the Republican nomination
already have been announced
-Eralsey c. Ferguson. presi-
dent Of the state Senate, and
Elmer E. Bussey. q Salem
farmer.
In Connecticut the Demo-
Gratis have q strong candi-
date, if he stands for re.
election, in Gov. Abra-
ham A. Ribicoff. He defeated
r publican Gov. John
Lodge in 1854, q Democratic
year. 1t is not known who the
Republican candidate will be.
However. in 1856 Connecticut
was strongly Republican, even
picking up a member of the
House from Hartford, Q
Democratic stronghold.
Muskie Must Decide
Names Democratic Cover
nor, Edmund s. Muskie, who
has been q popular execu-
tive, must make UP his mind
whether he will seek re-elec-
ton or try for the Senate
seat now occupied by Senator
Payne, Republican. It has
been many a year since Maine
has had a Democratic Sena-
tor in Washington.
The fourth Democrats
Governor in New England
whose term will expire in
January. 1859. is Gov. Rob-
erts of Rhode Island. He won
last year by a whisper. It
required a count Of the abb
sentee ballots and a court
decision to settle the election.
Vermont, whose Governor
is Joseph B. johnson, Is the
banner Republican State and
probably will remain in the
G. o. P. column next year.
Despite the fact that 40
per cent of the 48 States
Governors are now elected for
four-year terms-as COM
pared with 10 for two-year
terms-flve of the six New
England States continue to
have two-year gubernatorial
terms. Connecticut is the
only one with q four-year
term and the change to it
was made recently. The trend
toward longer terms for State
Governors has developed
more strongly in recent years,
the idea being that 1t 10
necessary to give a Governor
and his party a real oppor-
tunity to put their program
into effect. And generally
the longer term makes for
better continuous admins.
tration.
In Massachusetts,. Cover
nors formerly were elected
every year, even up to well
into the goth century. There
has been some agitation to
extend the Governors term
to four years in the Bay
State, but nothing has been
done about 1t. Because d.
rectors of some important
agencies like the public
works are appointed for five
year terms and sometimes
belong to the political party
opposing the Governor, a
change to a longer guberna-
torial term seems advisable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES z. TRACEWELL

discovered by his human
friends in front Of the house.
he would sneak around back
at once, as II slightly
ashamed Of his gutter-snips
tendencies.
When the heat struck, all
was different.
"Oh, what is 50 rare q q
day In Junel"
The heat came down, and
Blackie went out front.
What was he doing theref
Mostly lying on the ma.
cadam, which is not particu-
larry cool. but that was the
only explanation we could
give.
Blackie is q fellow who 10
tomcat all through.
Friendly and aifectionat0,
he is like a steel spring, and
does not know his strength.
II you hold one Of his
white paws. he sticks out the
claws so vigorously he draws
blood.
All the time he is purrinT
loudly to show his appreci.
alton Of your friendliness.
Blackie was the one which
came in on the ice and snow
OF several winters back.
A tremendous yowling on
the back porch one night
after dark revealed . big
white cat and q black-and-
white fighting 1t out for
possession.
That was Blackie.
He knocked the white one
down the steps. and held the
porch from then on.
Invited in. Blackie proved
the perfect gentleman in q
white shirt front; he never
attacked the other cats In
the family. and was never
resented by them.
His life was remarkably
free from the contrariness
which has marked the cats
and little Miss Muffet for 90
many years.
Now the hot weather has
shown Blackie q true cat, but
he had better get out Of the
street, and stay out.
The street Is no place for
man, beast or child.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
Views of NAACP

The action Of the NAACP
in criticizing the Chief of Po-
lice is one of the strongest
arguments against so-called
home rule" for the District
of Columbia.
The colored people as a
whole have shown good sense
and restraint, nationally, in
seeking their civil rights
through the agencies of law
and order. They should be
careful not to detract from
their good record by any
thing which savors of setting
themselves up as champions
Of a lawless element.
Which requires more cour-
age-for a soldier to 60 into
battle against an enemy he
can see and with hundreds
Of his comrades beside him
or for a lone policeman to
follow a pair Of desperados
into a dark alley knowing
they are armed with switch
blade knives and hate him
because to them he repre-
Sents their arch enemy. The
Law?
The question answers itself.
We must judge a policeman's
actions in the light Of the
conditions which exist at the
time Of the arrest and not in
the light Of theoretical ques-
tons as to just exactly how
much force he should use,
posed in the dignified atmos-
phere Of the court room. I'm
less we reasonably resolve
doubts in favor Of the police
man. the day may come when
it will not be possible to hire
men to take their lives in
their hands by closing in bat
tie with vicious criminals.
sometimes in gangs. and then
expect those policemen to
land their quarry by sprin-
Killing salt on their tails.
The Constitution provides
that Congress shall exercise
exclusive jurisdiction over the
Federal territory constituting
the seat Of the Federal Gov
eminent, to wit, the District
Of Columbia. Nothing could
be less desirable than to have
the problem OF the mainte-
nance Of law and order in
that District dumped into the
NAV Of ward politics.
Frank G. Campbell.
II Eugene Davidson, local
president of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advance
ment Of the Colored People.
has made up his mind to have
Police Chief Robert Murray
ousted, then why does he use
the long way around to gain
his objective? Why bother
with the District Commits
sioners, or perhaps the lower
courts, since the Supreme
Court has set itself up as the
law Of the land and has been
so accepted by Congress as
such? Since the NAAcP has
yet to lose a battle in the
high court. 1t would seem
that Davidson could expedite
matters by bypassing all other
legal channels and take his
grievances direct 10 the Su-
''s"' court Sl.A sas.r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23

Soviet old man river, who Just keeps
rolling along while everything around
him changes. The future of these three
looks bit bleak today, but it could look
different tomorrow. This might not en-
barrass Pravda, as journal, but it could
be fatally embarrassing to the Pravda
editor who feels so indignant about his
colleagues of the press. Think it over,
comrade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23

Q. Does aspirin merely dull
pain. or does 1t remove the
cause OF pain7-M. p.
A. Scientists do not know.
Aspirin may act to raise the
body's tolerance to pain. or
may attack the cause Of
pain, or may do both. 1t Is
known that the drug in
creases the rate at which
fluids in the muscle tissue
are carried away by the
blood stream. Aspirin may
therefore help TO remov the
cause Of the muscular pain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-23
Police Barriers

Although the Washington
police chief deserves credit
for a cleaner administration
than some Of his predeces-
sors had. and possibly for .
slight reduction in crime, yet
the present controversy shows
him vulnerable to criticism
for not adequately appraising
racial tensions. There is
little doubt that the exist
ence Of q feeling among many
members Of q minoEty group
that they do not q fair