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HOUSES FOR sALE-s.E.

HEIGHTs-Det, bunga-
o ST rms S Rsd 'front.' i tSil S Ss%f
$1,000, with substan. cash. HART
MAN REALTY. INC. LII. 4-3400.
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BETHESDA

De I HEODA
Attractive Cape Cod brick home
on q corner lot with rear YARD
fenced. LIST floor: living room. sep
arate dining room. modern kitchen
. bedrooms and bath End a. has
space for large bedrooms and bath
Near public and parochial schools
and Transportation.
w B. WRIGHT, EN- 3-5fO0 TIL q
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A BARGAIN AT 9l8,05O-3 bed
rms, 2 full baths. hot water heat
Seldom will you find in Woodside
q home such as this at this price
An-briek Colonial on 125 feet Low
Terms 70 Responsible buyer. Ora
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ROCK CREEK HILLS-Panoramic

view from ha-acre site is worth
price alone. This beautiful 3-bed-
room 2-bath rambler with eiec.
kitchen; daylight basement, rec
room and carport: is in $40, 900
area but has additional charm Of
being only $@9.500. Better see this
quickly. KoRZENDoRFER. Realtor.
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COLLEGE NEWS

Alfred S. Eichner, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Nathan Eichner of 1856
w street NV. has been named
news editor Of the Columbia
Daily Spectator, 80-year-old
publication of Columbia Uni
versity in New York.
Mr.. Eichner was editor OF the
Scholastic Sports Association
here and has been a sports re-
porter for the Washington Daily
News. He was given an award
on March 10 for the best story
Of the year in the Spectator.
The Spectator, stated entirely
by undergraduates of Columbia,
is published five days week and
has been issued on that basis for
the last half-century. 1t began
originally as a magazine.
x X X
Three area cadets have been
honored by the United States
Air Force Academy. temporarily
located in Denver, Colo. The
three. Bradley c. Hosmer. sor
of Col. and Mrs. Clark L. Hosmer
LOG Marthas road. Alexandria
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COLLEGE NEWS
D. c. Student Named
Columbia News Editor

Wayne o. Jefferson, son of Col.
and Mrs. w. o. jefferson OF
4718 Albemarle street NV. and
Goodwin H. Taylor. son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. H. Taylor. 1850
Third street. South Arlington
are members of a group of II
who represent the upper 5 pei
cent of the general class merit
roll for the first academic year
They are members of the class
of 1859.
\
Dan Nj. Walker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William P. Walker
Lee Jackson Memorial highway
Annandale. Va. has been in
itiated into Lambda Chi Alph;
Social Fraternity at the COLLEGE
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recently pledged into the Delta
Phi Epsilon Sorority at the Uni
versity of Michigan in Ann
Arbor.
4 4 \ II
Barbara BOland, daughter OF
Mrs. William F. Boland, 8 Hut
ton street. Gaithersburg, Md, has
been initiated into the Omega
Chapter of Pi Delta Phi, ma.
tional French honor society. al
Mount st. Marys College, EN-
Imitsburg, Md.
X 4 II
John M. Larson, son of Mr.
land Mrs. John E. Larson of 443l
Edmunds street NV, has beer
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, ma
tional honorary scholastic fra
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. ABS
81,

lternity. at Washington and Lee
University. Lexington, Va.
\ 4 4
James L. Cavanaugh, jr.. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Cava-
naugh. 1886 Randolph street
NV, has been awarded a schol-
arship to the summer appren-
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Sorority at the University Of
Miami in Coral Gables.
\
Elizabeth E. Bowling, daughter
of Louis E. Bowling. jr.. Ills
lBelvedere boulevard. Silver
Spring, is one of Is high school
seniors from the District and
five States who have been select
ed for Alumni Memorial Schol-
arships at Pennsylvania State
University. University Park. Pa,
for the next academic year, be-
ginning in September. She at
tends Montgomery Blair High
School.
X X X
Janice PortnOy, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Portnoy
of CHS Utah avenue NV. wa.
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ticeship program for pre-colle-
giate students at the Roscoe B.
Jackson memorial laboratory.
Bar Harbor. Me. A student at
ILandon High School. he was one
of 80 chosen from several thou
sand applicants from throughout
the United States.
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Judith Edwards, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Ogus. 4545
Connecticut avenue NV, was
recently pledged by Chi Omega
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Jeanne Mitchler of 1902 Sar.
gent road NE, daughter of Mrs
Joseph L. Duvall, played a lead
ing role in the senior class pre-
sentation of Thornton Wilder''
pullman Car Hiawatha" which
won first place in the recent one.
act play contest at st. JOSEPH
College, Emmitsburg, Md.
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Gerald E. Sussman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert SusSman, 32l9
Chesapeake street NV, a Sopho-
more at Georgetown University
has been selected to participate
in the junior-year abroad pro-
gram for study at Fribourg
University in Switzerland. Mr.
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Sussman will leave in September
and tour italy for two months
before going to Switzerland.
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Iof william and Mary. Williams
burg. Va.
| 4
Kent Wilson, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Raymond Wilson. 4216
Jenifer street NV. was recently
elected a member-at-large of the
committee of Dunster House at
Harvard University. Cambridge
Mass. The committee will ar
range for productions of Men,
otis 1.-THE Telephone" and 1.-THE
Medium" and several dances
The Dunster House Committee
has a budget of several thousand
dollars at its disposal. the largest
of any house at Harvard.
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Sorority at the University o
Miami in Coral Gables.
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the department has urged the
District to stiffen previous
breakdown plans as part Of the
new move.
The District Commissioners
in August served notice that
foreign governments hence
forth would be required to OBJ
tain regular permits for con-
struction, repair or alteration
of properties here.
The city heads also set an
October l deadline for receiv-
ing notice of any pending
building plans from foreign
governments. Later the dead
line was changed to yesterday.
The State Department. how
ever. recently pointed out to the
District that the city heads had
failed to provide for collecting
fees in connection with per-
mits. Mr.. Mitchell said.
The protocol official said a
meeting to discuss this and
other aspects Of the situation
is expected to be scheduled next
week. He said the Commission
ers may issue a new and sitter
order as q result Of the session.
Cabell Gwathmey. District
licensing and inspections direc-
tor. has been conducting dis
cussions with State Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16
Ex-FootbuII Star
Is Fined $1,000

NEW YORK. Nov. is (R.-
John F. Chick Meehan, for
mer football star at Syracuse
University and later a nation
ally prominent coach, was fined
5000 yesterday for conspiring
to conduct a black market in
steel during the Korean war.
A one-year jail sentence was
suspended.
Standing before Federal Dis
trict Judge John M. Cashin for
sentencing, Meehan. 81. told
the court:
MY conscience is Just as
clear today as 1t was in 1851
of So"
Judge CaShin placed him on
two years probation and gave
him so days in which to pay
his fine.
Meehan and two others we're
convicted November / Of con-
spiracy to defraud the Gov
eminent by obtaining steel
through fraudulent orders and
then selling II at higher prices.
The other two. also were SEN
tened today.
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School Aid Tax
Offered
BIZ the A.socinted rress

A Committee of State Gov
ernors has offered to assume
responsibility for school con-
struction programs in return
for the right to collect tele-
phone and some other local
taxes.
Some administration officials
,spculated that the proposal
might influence President Eli
senhower not to repeat his
recommendation for Federally
aided school construction when
Congress reconvenes in jan
uary.
The Eisenhower plan SUBJ
mitted to Congress last year
called for a four-year program
Of Federal aid costing 1852
million a year. The plan failed
to get congressional approval.
The tax on local telephone
service, now collected by the
Federal Government. brings in
about $3.50 million q year.
The Governors proposal was
announced yesterday after a
two-day session Of the joint
Federal-State Action Commit
tee drafting proposals to re-
store some Federal functions
to the States and cities.
Howard Pyle. presidential as
slstant on State-Federal prob
lens, said the school proposal
would be taken in consideration
in arriving at administration
policy decision in the education
field. Mr.. Pyle indicated one
consideration is the necessity
to hold down Federal spending
to permit added emphasis on
national defense, and that an
other is the administrations
desire to accelerate scientific
and technical training.
The committee agreed earlier
to recommend transfer Of five
Federal functions to the States
grants to abate water pollu-
ton. some disaster rehabilita-
ton costs, some vocational
education programs. certain
responsibility in connection
with the safety of atomic power
reactors. and loans to facilitate
urban renewal planning.
The recommendations will be
presented to a December con-
ference Of governors at Hot
Springs. Ark.
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Recognizing the Education Crisis

grees could not write q CO.
herent letter in good Eng
lish or read a slide rule. But
those who have burst into
print on the subject have inn
mediately encountered q bar
rage Of instigated denuncia-
ton that they were under
mining the foundations of
public education" Instead
they have been trying to put
some foundations under it.
The Cffice of Education has
now tbelatedly, we think
brought out its report on
Soviet education. a study that
has taken two years to pre-
pare. But its essential con-
tents are also not new. Two
years ago this columnist
wrote from Moscow about
the Soviet schoolchild. the
rigor and precision Of his up
bringing. the excellence of
his deportment-basic to any
education--and the exacti-
tude and magnitude of his
curriculum, and not only in
the preparatory subjects es-
sential to further scientific
and archaeological research.
Russia has already begun
to invade the worlds mar
kets and has at her disposal
many thousands of techni-
clans and statesmen who can
speak fluently Eastern and
Western languages.
Former Senator Benton,
now publisher of the Ency-
clopaedia Britannica, also in
Russia at that time, who
had greater opportunities
than I to talk with leading
Russian intellectuals, issued
similar judgments and warn
ings. In general, the public
reaction was of skepticism.
For the fashion has been to
wage the cold war by under
rating all Russian achieve
although it is patent
that such a course is suicidal.
Later we shall make fur
ther comments on this report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Khrushchev proposes rocket shooting match between
United States and Russia YEAH let's which country
has the best German scientists.
Ike flies to Georgia This definitely is vacation It's
science talent scouting expedition in the laboratories of the
Augusta National Golf Club.
Democratic Senator Humphrey urges department
of science all the Government departments Humphrey has
advocated created the cabinet would have
Madison Square Garden.
Democratic Leader johnson the countrys in mood
Ito roll its sleeves and to work. On the Republicans?
Garbage collectors take the Fifth Amendment before the
rackes committee They decline to ncnerate them
selves.
New rocket glossary: Electronc Notwithstanding the
phone old girl friend where they've changed
all the numbers.
The Civil Defense Administration urges $34 billion pro-
gram for underground shelters If can't be the first to fly
to the moon be the first to tunnel to China
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u. S. Court Rules
Ex-Trumun Aides
Received Fair TriuI

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16 (P.-The
United States Court of Appeals
says Matthew J. Connolly and
T. Lamar Caudle, former Of
ficials in the Truman admin
stration, had a fair trial.
1t upheld yesterday their
conviction on charges Of con-
spring to defraud the Govern
ment.
Connolly and Caudle were
accused Of using their in
fiuence to block prosecution of
Irving Sachs, st. Louis shoe
distributor convicted Of in
come tax evasion. Sachs was
fined $4,000 but did not 60 to
prison.
Caudle was head Of the JUS
tice Departments tax division
and Connolly was White House
appointments secretary under
Mr.. Truman. Caudle was fired
by Truman for having outside
interests incompatible with his
duties.
Each was sentenced to two
years in prison and fined
$4,000. Both have been free
under bond since their con-
viction in 1856.
Connelly's attorney. John
LASTLY. said the case will be
appealed to the United States
Supreme Court.
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The Outlook for Foreign Aid

debacle. which is still far
from settled and may break
out again any moment on
signal from the Kremlin?
The President and Secre-
tary Of State Dulles this year
are going to have q hard
time convincing Congress and
the country that money is
better spent in pouring it out
overseas than in pouring it
into our own missile and
satellite programs. If tho.
United States IS going to be
defended in q global war, the
Americans win have to do
the defending. There will be
no one else. Then why not
earmark every dollar now
being exported for highly du-
bious results for the missile
program and the overall
American military effort?
The arguments viii wax
hot when Congress convenes.
But by that time the inn
mense gains already regis-
tered by the Soviet Union
will be even more worrisome
than they are today. With
an aroused public behind
them. our lawmakers are
certain to take the ak to that
expensive sideshow of foreign
aid and cut deeply.
If the administration really
wants to make a case for the
continuation of foreign aid
programs, 1t will stand q
chance of success only If It
can spell out and document
the results that will be.
achieved. Such q document
tation almost guarantees that
military aid programs will be
the only ones having q pros,
pect Of approval. All boom
dogeling will be out. Economic
aid won't launch missiles.
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Congress Likely to Be Hard to Convince
That This Program Can't Be Trimmed
CONSTANTINE BROWN

lions began ponring abroad.
administered by q lushly paid
army of bureaucrats.
Obviously, we win have no
allies we can depend on I'M
less 1t is in the deepest In
terest of the nations affected
to defend themselves. That
they viii do so, in the event
Of a Russian aggression. is
highly doubtful. Under pres
ent circumstances. for ex-
ample, the peoples of West
ern Europe just do not want
to be on the firing line Of a
nuclear war. This quite un-
derstandable if wholly de-
featist attitude can be. and
is being, easily encouraged
by Soviet propaganda.
So the American taxpayers
are being charged huge
levies for what is In effect q
project to strengthen friend
ly1 nations that win fight
half-heartedly. If at all, in
the event Of all-out war.
Our policymakers got q good
practical lesson in what sup
port they could expect from
our allies In the Korean war.
That time, even under the
banner Of the United Ma
tons. all American troops
got from our receiving-line
friends was token support
q battalion here, q division
or q regiment there, q hospi-
tai company or a couple of
destroyer-escorts, smidgeons
Of military force where the
United States was commit
ting many divisions.
Still, despite this niggard-
ly attitude, we are being
told over and over again
allied nations Is essential
that aid in billions to these
to our security. Why? Is
there a shred of evidence
that their attitudes have
changed since the Korean
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16
Army Will Draft
10000 in January
BY the Associated Press

The Army has announced a
draft call for 10000 men in
January = the highest figure
since last August.
And the Army forecasts even
higher induction quotas
through next June.
Assistant Secretary Of the
Army Hugh Milton said yester-
day that the increase is neces-
sary., despite manpower cut
backs ordered earlier. because
overall losses resulting in part
from normal discharges will be
greater than the reduction pro-
gram calls for.
He also said that perform
ance standards have been
raised and that this will pre-
vent the re-enlistment of some
men who have shown little
aptitude.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16

When the President told
the Nation last Wednesday
that defense costs were going
to- rise. he warned that cut
backs in other Government
spending programs would be
inevitable. Mr.. Eisenhower
took pains to declare that
such cutbacks must not be in
foreign aid. which he called
essential to the security of
the Nation.
But Mr.. Eisenhower might
as well face the fact that the
Congress is going to take q
different view Of the situa-
ton. Already lawmakers
have posted notice that they
expect to tackle foreign aid
slashes first. and other prof.
ects. such as public works
and programs essential to the
economy Of the United States
second.
Foreign aid is q device to
serve the interests of the
United States primarily. Eco
nomic and military assistance
to friendly nations and to
some not so friendly. such as
India. is designed first Of all
to bolster the system Of ALI
ances that keeps American
power up in contested areas
Of the world.
That is the character and
the theoretical value of the
pumping Of billions of dol
lars of the American tax
payers money into the in
satiable treasures of foreign
lands. But theory and prac-
tice are not always the same.
Despite the strong defense
of foreign aid by the admin
istration, there is ample evil
dence that the good it has
done for the United States
is far too little to justify the
heavy cost. We have no more
friends in the world today
than we had when the bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16

While the reactor at Bethesda
is the first to be installed in
any hospital. it is the second
purchased by the Nays Med
ical Corps. The first is used for
instruction at the Navy Post
graduate School at Monterey,
Calf. The Aerojet- General Co.
has produced nine other re-
actors of the Bethesda type.
The others have been bought
by universities.
Rear Admiral Bartholomew
w. Hogan, Navy surgeon gen.
eral. listed these other uses for
the resctor in addition to re-
search on animals and produc-
ton of isotopes: 9Es'
/. The study of tissues by
activation analysis. In this pro-
cedure. samples of tissues such
as muscle /or blood are placed
in the reactor and irradiated,
The elements thus become ra-
dioactive and by this radioac-
tivity, the concentration of
these elements will be deter
mined. Thus it is theoretically
possible to determine the con-
centration of 10 different cleo
trolytes in one sample of blood.
2. Use of the reactor bv the
Bethesda Medical Schools De-
partment of Nuclear Medicine.
Both enlisted personnel and Of
ficers will be trained as oper-
ators.
Admiral Hogan said that re-
search on small animals was
particularly important because
of our expanded nuclear-pow-
cred ship program.
However, he and other Off
Gals were at pains to point out
that Bethesda's reactor offered
no hazard to residents of the
area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16

Russia's Sputniks have
started q wave Of alarm about
American education. acceler-
ated by the ONCE Of Educa-
tons lengthy report on edu-
cation in the Soviet Union.
Legislators and educators
meeting in various regions
have expressed shock at the
revelation that Russia is
turning out annually far
more highly qualified pro-
fessional talent than the
United States. Most of them
urge greater financial sup
port for educational institu-
tons to end understanding
and overcrowding, and urge
that top priority" be given
science teaching. Thus it
would appear that by the
expenditure Of more money
or a mechanical rearrange-
rnent of priorities, we can
solve the most crucial prob
lem in the present and future
contest for world leadership.
This is a highly superficial
view. The whole of Ameri-
can education needs to come
under review, and especially
primary education.
We doubt that this will
happen. For the American
public school system has
been for upwards Of a gen.
Grafton dominated by educa-
tional theorists who, via the
teachers eolleges--and abet-
ted by psychiatrists. psychol-
ogists. and lately even by
architectS-haye evolved an
education" that def1es the
whole experience of the race.
that positively discourages
effort on the part of the
pupil. that consciously holds
back the gifted and ambi-
tious, that progressively
abolishes Cor waters down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16
Review Of Primary Schooling Held Vital,
But the Raising Of Obstacles Is Feared

all studies that require exact
itude. that passes a pupil
from grade to grade regard
less Of his achievements or
even Of his industry, that
emphasizes functional skills"
and strict utilitarianism at
the expense Of precise knowl-
edge, and that apparently
assumes Ton the basis of
10. tests that are highly
inaccurate as q measure of
native intelligence) that the
average American child is a
half-moron, and that "edu-
cation" must be keyed to that
average.
A whole generation of
teachers have been trained
in these theories. Many, out
Of actual classroom expert
ence, have revolted against
them. But the majority, in
all probability. could not re-
volt, because they could not
teach by any other tech
niques" than those in which
they have been trained and
with which they have been
indoctrinated, and the mi
nority are unlikely to revolt
in any organized way out Of
fear of losing their jobs.
In this column and more
extensively in the Ladies'
Home Journal. I have written
on this subject for years. !
have received hundreds of
letters from teachers. ex-
pressing themselves force
fully and nationally on the
inadequacieS of the "sys-
tenn" and ending, please
do not mention my name, as
/ would lose my job"
Critics among educators
and intelligent laymen have
been vocal for many years.
Industrial leaders have de-
plored their experience that
young men with college de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-16
Russio's BoIshoi Ballet
Will Perform in u. S.

lar uncensored dio-television
commentaries on public affairs.
Another major United States
proposal is to exchange televi-
sion technicians so each coun-
try can study the systems used
by the other.
The Russians came up with
So proposals. covering virtual
ly every field of possible ex-
change-from students to ath-
letes to road builders.