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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-23
Counsel Files
Then Kills Plea
.InAssessor Row
BY CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
star stan Correspondent

BALTIMORE. Aug. %. =
Counsel for suspended Mont.
golnery County Assessor Henry
H. Carter today introduced
then withdrew, a motion fol
dismissal Of charges against
him after the chairman Of the
State Tax Commission advised
that under normal court pro-
cedures he felt q prime facie
case had been made.
Attorney Earl H. Davis made
the motion as Montgomery
County Attorney Charles M
lrelan rested the case brought
BY Assessment Supervisor Will
ton T. Allen against Mr.. Carter
viii Take Stand
Mr.. Carter today was to take
the stand in his own defense,
He is charged with conduct un-
becoming an assessor, insubor-
dination and disrupting the
morale Of the assessment office.
Assistant State Supervisor OF
Assessments Thomas A. Cero
today said Mr.. Carter told him
he had written a letter, COM
planning Of low assessments and
favoritism. to County Manager
M. L. Reese after he had APP
piled to the county personnel
ONCE for transfer to another
department. He said Mr..
Carter told him the personnel
ofncer had directed him to
write the letter giving him the
reasons for the requested trans
fer.
Mr.. Cero said Mr.. Carter had
not come to him with his COM
plant originally. He said Mr..
Carter gave him no reason for
not proceeding through normal
channels in the assessment sys-
tenn Tor registering his COM
plant.
Find Some Areas Low
Mr.. Cero said he had gone
over hundreds Of cards with
Mr.. Carter since learning Of his
complaint and had found GER
tain sections tthe Potomac
area to have been assessed
low during the 1886 cycle. He
said the assessments have been
brought in line by Mr.. Carter
under normal procedures.
Mr.. Cero also testified that
the Montgomery Assessment
once was among the best of
tne II over which he has super
vision.
At the beginning of the
nearing Mr.. Davis said his
client denied all charges placed
against him by Mr.. Allen.
The charges grew out OF two
letters given by Mr.. Carter to
Mr.. Reese accusing assessment
ofncials Of showing favoritism
to some residents in an effort
TO help friends or gain in.
fiuence" and to win support for
pay increases for assessors at
the Maryland General Assem-.
bly,. The letters also were crit.
ical Of the efficiency of the
assessment ONCE.
Letters Confidential
Mr.. Davis yesterday said the
letters had been given in con-
fidence to Mr.. Reese and that
confidence was preached not
BY Mr.. Carter. but by Mr..
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New Tex Collector

MARTINSBURG, w. Va,
Aug. % (Special). - LeGard
Manning assumed duties as tax
collector at City Hall here yes
terday, filling a vacancy caused
by the death of j. Robert Engle.
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New Police Number

Maryland State police at
Waldorf have a new telephone
number effective today. It is
MI. 5-Sl01. The changeover
took place at 1905 am.
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Trash Fires Banned

HAGERSTOWN. Aug. %
Especially ALI open trash fires
within the city limits have
been banned by Fire Chief John
Hall
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More Hearings Sought
On Freedom Memorial

Further public hearings legislation for huge freedom
memorial in Arlington the Potomac River from Lincoln
Memorial were sought today behalf Of county citizens and
interested organizations
Ralph Raul, member of the Arlington County Board,
wrote Senator Robertson Democrat Of virginia there
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Letters Confidential

Mr.. Davis yesterday said the
letters had been given in con-
fldence to Mr.. Reese and that
confidence was preached not
by Mr.. Carter. but by Mr..
Montana farmer-stockman., 1957-06-01
rn< <3r>say Q1os4tass

knowledge Of your local cinoc conditions crops ter
rain and crop problems important to the effective
ness of spraying operation Your local oeroI sProy op
erotor is omor With your ond in oddition he works
closely with the Sote College, Experiment Stations and
County Agents, otends sProy schools regularly If
products or methods approved he is among the first
to know and then When you accurate and fost
SERVICE your local oero spoy operator right next door
i. 4. and the Job!
Evening star., 1957-12-15

preoccupation with the butterfly net on blackboard.
. All through the formative years Of be-time
American sport for some mysterious reason. Indiana
lads were playing basketball and nor football giving
the cage game long head start.
The fans, from kid sister and grampa to the
Chamber Of Commerce. are fanatics - by solid ira
dition and from way back.
The frce-for-all nature Of the game as played
in the state high-SchOol basketball tourney makes
basketball fascinating sport for spectators.
Indiana does not as some states do, have separate
tournaments for large and small schools. Little
Evening star., 1957-12-15
H00p-Happy!


BLOOMINGTON, IND
Couple Of years ago. a merger Of two
Indiana country schools was held up for months
because il meant one Of them would have to give up
its basketball team Indiana natives noticed nothing
strange about the stalemate. OF course you wouldn't
give up your team To suggest such thing is as inde-
cent as to imply that basketball is only game.
No other area in the country produces so many
cage stars per capita. or remains so hoop-happy so
much of the time or takes the game earnestly as
does the state Of Indiana
There are at least three major reasons for lndianas
Jerome EIhson ex-NeW York writer and editor, is
now a professor Of journalism Indiana University
Evening star., 1957-12-15

Adams Township High, with 30 boy and 30 girl stu
dents, may be matched against mighty Fort Wayne
South Side. with l,679 students and sevenfoot Mike
Mccoy = and might beat themi
Tantrums tears and ecstasy regular features Of
the tournaments and it's not hard to figure out why.
When you've watched two scrappy fves battle
through four wild. eieht-mnute quarters to 4S-4S
draw and sat through an overtime period when first
one made an impossible shot. then another, so the
winner was whoever happened to be ahead when the
gun went off, when your whole emotional capital is
riding on one little underdog quintet and then at
last the game is over something's got to let go.
And it does. Gray - Continued on next page
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK

States. All Russian high school
graduates. for example, have had
five years of chemistry, five years
Of physics and 10 years of mathe-
MATES. including higher mathe-
mates which here are usually
found only at the college level.
BY comparison, rewer than one
third of the graduates of Ameri-
can high schools have had a full
year of chemistry; only about one
fourth have studied physics; only
one in seven has been exposed to
higher mathematics.
In Russia. young Ivan is pour
ing over algebraic equations and
geometric theorems while our
young Johnny is busy with frac-
tons and long division.
Algebra and geometry begin in
the sixth grade in the Soviet. and
trigonometry and beginning cal
culus starts in the ninth and
10th grades. The young Russian,
who usually begins primary school
a year later than American boys
and girls, will, when he reaches
the seventh grade, study zoology,
human anatomy and physiology,
sex hygiene, history, mathematics,
geography, biology. Russian Ian
guage and literature, physics.
chemistry, and foreign languages
toften English. In addition, or as
substitutes, there may be draft
manship, shop or agriculture.
In the secondary schools equiva-
lent to American high schools. 40
per cent of the students study
English, 40 per cent German, and
20 per cent study French. Spanish
OF Latin.
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ciple here matches. that of SIP,
Huxley's people we're saved the
work of consciously studying. SP,
says Mr.. Weary, saves the viewer
annoying Interruptions for COM
mercials. But In both cases the
message hits where it counts.
Not all politicians. of course,
read Huxley, but they recognize a
conner" when they see one. Fully
aware of SIP, they are siding up
to its cautiously.
They're Wotehing Closely
I'VE are reading everything on
it," the Republican National Com
mittee states. Our business is to
seek out every publicity medium
and determine its value for U.s."
Democratic Committee officials
are following SIP with interest,
watching trade press reports and
waiting to see what happens after
I it is used commercially" they re-
port.
Both committees figure SP could
help known candidates but might
lack effectiveness in introducing
rockies. Their reasoning: SP's
brief ads must be kept simple.
Long explanations could not be
projected successfully.
But in politics simple messages
are best. If vote Democratic" or
vote Republican" triggered re-
suits as startling as those claimed
for popcorn, the grass roots might
reverse traditional political poses.
Even more intriguing, grass-root-
ers might find themselves shifting
without even knowing why.
One doesn't have to ponder the
political potential of SIP long be-
fore coming UP with some start
ling possibilities, Could it be used,
for example, not merely to pro-
mote a candidate but to destroy
his opponent by flashing pictures
which show him in an unfavorable
light? Could it be used. not merely
in ordering campaign promotion
but as a year-round device to mold
public opinion on great numbers
of issues?
With only IL months to go be-
fore the 1858 elections. both ma
tional political committees are
deep in preparations for using the
customary campaign devices -
placards. buttons, decorated trail
ers, television spot commercials,
and the like. At the moment
neither is ready to say that it
plans to draw a bead on the voters,
subconscious. too.
How Will We Know?
How will the viewer know he
is watching SP?" is the question
most often asked. Mr.. Weary ia
vors alerting audiences about to
receive subliminal projection. But
he adds, I'm fairness to the ad-
vertiser's investment, the audience
would not know just what the
message would say"
Backers of SIP candidly predict
that commercial use may have to
be regulated by industry or Gov
eminent.
The National Association of
Radio and Television Broadcasters
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YOUR SHARE IS $40
Huge Defense StockpiIe
Is Due for OverhouIinu

will cost SIS million and take
three years.
Stockpiling got its start after
World War II, which found the
United States short of many vital
goods and cut off from its normal
sources of supply. The Stock
piling Act of 1916 gave the 60
ahead, and the program was
speeded sharply by the Korean
emergency and passage of the
Defense Production Act of 1850.
The original goals are close to
being met. The House Appropria-
ton Committee March is reported
that "8l per cent of the mini
mum stockpile requirements are
in the warehouse or on order"
But of late. Congressman and
others have been asking how
realistic the old goals are.
Senator A. Willis Robertson,
Democrat of Virginia, chairman
of the Joint Committee on De-
Tense Production said July 30:
1T does not make much sense for
us to tie up billions of dollars
in what we call strategic materials
that could become scarce in time
OF a long war :. (when) many
military men think, If another
war comes, it is not going to last
very long"
Chief Tosk
The advisory committees chief
task will be to revise for the space
age stockpiling policies born in
the Korean period. The advisers
also will be asked to bring some
order out of the chaos of over
tapping laws governing stockpiie
operations. An official report lists
nine major statutes directly af-
fecting the stockpile program,
making it, one official testified,
difficult and also expensive
to administer"
One example of this legal con-
fusion came to light May 81. when
the Joint Committee on Defense
Production was told that, even in
an emergency. the President has
no authority to take anything out
of the $217 million supply of stra-
tegic goods obtained from sale or
barter Of farm surpluses unless
Congress passes a special law to
permit 1t.
A bill to correct this oversight
was introduced in 1857 but re-
ceived no attention from the Sen
ate Agriculture Committee.
Another-and politically tick
lish--problem facing the commit
tee concerns charges that some
stockpiling operations are thinly
disguised subsidies for the mining
industry. Critics say. for instance.
that after repeated pleas from
distressed lead and zinc miners,
the President in 1854 ordered the
stockpilers TO purchase the two
metals past the point Of their
minimum defense requirements.
As a result Of this order. in the
last half Of 1856. purchases OF
lead and zinc-for which the
minimum stockpile requirements
already had been met-totaled
s48.l million. Meanwhile pur-
chases Of all other stockpiled
goods 10 meet minimum require
ments came 10 only sl4.2 million.
Congressional quarterly
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Democrats Are Rich
Observation-Disclosures

ago proved himself to be an inn
pressive vote-getter when he won
reelection by a landslide. This
is doubly impressive in view
of the fact that New Jersey is an
important Eastern Republican
State that was carried last year
by President Eisenhower with
10000 votes to spare. Gov.
Meyner has managed not to offend
the highly important independent
vote. but in so doing he has found
1t necessary to forego identiflca-
ton with any really important
national issue.
Senator Kennedy is q Catholic,
which may not, after all, be a
political liability to q national
ticket any longer. But it has
taken the Democratic Party q long
time to get over AL Smiths de-
feat and 1t is certain to take a
closer look at the prospect of run
ming a Catholic for President than
would the Republicans. His "ro-
nance" with the South, which
for a while showed promise Of
making him the kind of candidate
everybody could accept. may now
prove damaging to his standing
with liberals and Negroes in the
North.
He must be reelected to the
Senate in Massachusetts, next
year. and began the active phase
OF his campaign as early as last
spring with the hope of piling UP
the kind of majority that will
make his party sit up and take
notice.
The remainder of the possible
entries are dark horses of various
shades that look more like vice
presidential candidates than presi-
dental nominees. Most of them,
however, do have the attributes
that could tempt their party to
turn to them in certain circum-
stances. Here is what many poll
tical observers are saying of them:
Senator Estes Kefauver-He has
something few of the other Sec
ond-runnerS poSSeSs-a name that
is known on virtually every street
corner and at every RID mail box
in America. But this veteran of
many primaries in New Hampshire
and elsewhere is ready for the
pasture. Besides. his party hier-
archy likes him no more than 1t
ever did, and that isn't much.
Senator Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota-He would seem to be
an ideal running mate on any
ticket. He is right with the farm
ers, the city liberals, labor and
the Negro voters. He is young
and energetic and is a proved
campaigner who would more than
likely carry more than his share
in any race. But his passionate
convictions and equally passionate
manner of expressing them some
times rob him of that reserve that
has been-except for Harry Tru-
man-So necessary to those who
seek an office as high as the
presidency.
Gov. Averell Hartman of New
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mired by the liberals who seem
to be increasing their strength In
the party. He will control his
States big convention delegation.
But Pennsylvania Constitution
prevents his seeking another term,
and unless he runs against, and
defeats Senator Martin, he will
be too long out Of the picture by
1860. Besides, he lacks national
prominence.
Senator George Smathers Of
Florida-In the unlikely event
that the party will feel it neces-
sary to regain the South's ALE
glance at considerable cost. here is
its man for second place. He is
young, handsome and good
speaker. While he improved him.
self in some quarters with his vote
In favor of the civil rights bill
compromise last summer, he is
still Enthusiastically a Southerner,
as he let it be known when he
criticized Mr.. Eisenhower's use of
troops in Little Rock.
The remaining five names are
mentioned but not seriously con-
sidered. Mayor Wagner Of New
York City recently won reelection
with majority Of almost a mil
lion votes, but there are still too
many rural voters who don't cot
ton to big city slickers. Many
Democrats like Names Gov.
Muskie because he's a Democratic
winner in Republican Maine, but
that's no selling point. Gov.
Ribicoff Of Connecticut is popular
and is an able campaigner, but the
fact that he is a Jew would make
his nomination a precedent. Sem
at0r Clark of Pennsylvania is an
other of those liberals from pop
ulous Eastern State, but he lacks
a national name, as does Senator
Jackson Of Washington. who has
been mentioned only as a posi-
bility in case the Democrats need
a young man from the Far West.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
6 August 1864.


Prot. Egbert Dreistein,
The Advanced Research Institute,
Cambridge, Massachusetts,.
Dear Prof. Dreistein
My advisers report to me that you have been
interested in the subject of antigravity research
Because of the grave circumstances in which our
Government finds itself as result Of the an
nouncement from Moscow yesterday, am asking
you to lead a new high priority project in that
direction.
II you will come to Washington the early part
Of next week, a briefng will be arranged by
representatives Of the military services and the
Central Intelligence Agency who will be able TO
give you little of the historical development of
Prof. Hauck's work
I, as President, personally hope that you and
your colleagues will rise to the challenge Of this
new emergency
Yours very truly,
a Horatio Calvin.
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York-The liberals still like him,
but he will be 50 years old in 1860.
Besides. he often is unimpressive
on the platform. And he will need
to win reelection in New York
before 1860.
Gov. G. Mennen williams Of
Michigan-He is young, q favorite
of the liberals and has proved his
vote-getting capabilities five times.
But he lacks q name big enough,
and many independents and con-
servatives believe they see the
name Walter Reuther stamped
indelibly upon him.
Senator Lyndon Johnson Of
Texas-His calm approach and
skill at compromising divergent
views appeal to many in the North
as well as the South. His politi-
cal ability is recognized by every
one, and he reminds many Dem
ocrats of Franklin Roosevelt. But
he is still too much of a South
erner and a Texan to too many
powerful men in his party, who.
incidentally, in 1856 showed him
that they don't play the same
kind of ball at a convention as
they do in the Senate. Few be-
lieve he would consider accepting
the vice presidential nomination.
Senator Albert Gore of Ten
nessee-Again, youth. good looks
and energy count a great deal.
Senator Gore is probably the
Southerner most acceptable to the
North. Like Senator Humphrey,
he appears to many to be q good
choice for the bottom half of any
ticket. And he has managed to
make an impressive legislative
record (the highway bill, Dixon
Yates, atomic energy and election
practices) without offending any
bloc of voters-except some Re-
publicans.
Gov. George Leader of Pennsyl-
vania: Another young man adj
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Educotion:
A Comparison

The sad plight of American
education is one of those things
that has for years been the
subject of lot of talk but little
action. Since before World War
II. the American people have
been warned about the short
comings Of their education
system.
Poor teachers salaries. lack Of
classroom space, low teacher
qualifications, teacher shortages.
and over-fancy curricula all have
been pointed out time and again.
Now, 1t appears. something is
about to be done-another of the
far-reaching effects of the Sput-
hicks.
While no one contends that
the authoritarian Soviet system
of education should be the pattern
for our own. probing new report
by the Department of Health.
Education and Welfare on educa-
ton in Russia is bound to get a
great deal of attention as repair
work is planned.
The report shows graphically
how the Soviets have been able
TO turn out two engineers for
every one Graduated in.the United
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BY DAVID KOONCE

Democratic Party officials, fresh
from their November 5 victories,
already are speaking Of 1860 with
confidence. But when they get
around to specializing on their
presidential ticket. they sound as
though they are calling the party
roll.
1t goes sometimes like this:
Kennedy, Meyner, Stevenson,
Humphrey. Kefauver, johnson,
Williams. Gore, Leader, Muskie.
Symington and Smathers. When
the dark horses" are entered, the
list becomes even longer: Wagner,
Hartman, Clark, Ribicoff and
jackson.
That's II entries-15 more than
are needed.
This apparent abundance is
diminished somewhat by the fact
that only four names are seriously
mentioned at this early date as
front-running contenders for the
presidential nomination: New Jer-
sey Gov. Robert Meyner, Senator
John Kennedy of Massachusetts,,
Missouri Senator Stuart Syming-
ton and Adlai Stevenson. And the
last mentioned is included only in
consideration of the possibility
that he might pull of some spec
tacular. even heroic, success in his
new NATO position. And he, more
than all the others, has a name
known nationally. But he has
previously said that 1856 was his
last time.
Senator Symington rates men,
ton near the top for only two
reasons: Cd In the upcoming
tumult over Russia's aScendancy
and the United States descend
ancy in comparable military
strength, the MisSourian is likely
to find his name in big headlines
often. and 90 if the Democrats
are in the mood to recognize the
Souths sensibilities-an attitude
Way VIC oAAOWA A1bIlC lIlClkIldIlO
toward since Little Rock-he is an
ideal candidate. However, the
party's kingmakers are not UNI
aware that Senator Symington,
handsome though he is, often is
unimpressive on the platform.
The Leaders
The two men said to have the
inside track at this time are
Senator Kennedy and Gov.
Meyner. Both are young, which
counts for much since the Demo-
Gratis, confident that Richard
Nixon will be the G. o. P. choice,
will want to match syouth with
youth. Both have shown them
selves to be popular with the
woman voter, whose strength is
being increasingly felt in cleo
lions. Both have attractive
wives who can be counted as
easy political assets. Neither
strays often from the safe and
popular middle of the road and
thus cannot be convincingly called
a captive of either the right or
the left factions of his party.
Gov. Meyner only two weeks