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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-11
MATS Plane Escorted

HONOLULU. Dec. II pa
Military Air Transport Service
plane had TO feather a propeller
en- route from Wake Island but
arrived here safely at 5:29 am.
CHST) today. A plane from
Hickam Field acted as an escort
to the RT5D four-engine craft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-11
Freeze Grips Mexico

MEXICO CITY. Dec. IL A9.
"A cold wave sweeping Mexico
sent temperatures down 10 IA
degrees above zero yesterday.
Police said four deaths resulted
from the cold. Reports from
farm areas indicated heavy
losses to some crops.
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where. And he just diSap-
pears"
In the Dwyer apartment,
rented furnished and one OF
10 three-room suites at STA
North Eleventh street. the Sum-
day paper is still strewn on
the davenport.
Clothes are still in the closets.
Continued on Page Ash, Col. ;
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President to Fly to Paris
Friday for NATO ToIks
Doctors Soy Recovery Isn't Complete;
General Health Called Excellent
By GARRETT D. HORNER

President Eisenhower plans to fly to Paris Friday night
even though he is not completely recovered from his
latest illness
team of six doctors reported late yesterday that the
Presidents recovery to date such that permits him
to attend the NATO summit meeting opening in Paris
Monday
The White House Immediately announced that Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-11
MISSING 10 DAYS
Police Hit Decd End
In Search for Couple

November "a bright cool sunday-a fine day for
hiking spelunking
Serg David Dryer. who pursued both sports, said
much to his Arlington neighbor Mrs John Hartley he
passed her on their apartment stairs He carrying
luggage to the he had purchased just four days before
We're going up to the mountains until Monday night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-11
8-Point y. S. Program
Is Presented to NATO
RevituIizinq
OF Alliance
Is Objective
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND

European Correspondent Of The star
PARIS. Dec. 11-President
Eisenhower will bring eight
specific proposals to Paris for
the NATO summit meeting next
week.
An outline Of the American
program for the high-powered
conference became known here
today.
The Presidents general pur-
pose. well advertised. is to re-
vitalize the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and re-
build confidence in its ability
to stand of Russia's new mis-
sile-age threat.
But Mr.. Eisenhower is pic
tured as determined to back up
pleas for unity with specific
proposals. for NATO action.
These are:
l. Greater Western cO-Opera-
ton in scientific and technical
work. The President will he
able to promise American lead
ership in this area. Perhaps he
will repeat his pledge to ask
Congress for modification Of
American laws now restricting
the exchange of nuclear infor-
nation with NATO allies. He
can propose new Western in
stitutions to facilitate Corpora
ton in science.
2. IRBM bases. The Presi-
dent also will propose formally
that several NATO countries
permit establishment of Ameri-
can intermediate range missile
stations. This plan must be
handled delicately by the Amer
lean delegation as French. Ger
man and Scandinavian public
opinion is now opposed to such
q move.
1t was proposed at one time
that Mr.. Eisenhower work Wig
orously at softening up West
ern opinion on missiles. but the
thought now is to use a soft
pedal. Missiles will not be
ready for perhaps a year. so
the Americans will leave it up
to the governments involved to
prepare their own people. The
United States delegation viii
content itself with pointing out
that the best military opinion
is that 1.500-n1ile range mis-
siles should be based as close
ito Russia as possible.
3. Atomic stOckpiles. Another
key American proposal will be
to stockpile atomic warlleads
in several continental coun-
tries. These would be under
nominal American control. but
would be turned instantly over
to the host country in an emer-
gency. This scheme will square
with American security laws
and also. it is hoped. end con-
tinental complaints about
American and British monop-
oily Of nuclear power
The Associated Press re-
ported from London that the
President wants to give
NATO countries joint control
with the United States over
triggering Of nuclear mis-
SileS fired within their own
borders. According to the
reported plan. there would be
consultations on use Of the
nuclear missiles beforehand.
but no member nation would
have the right to veto Amer
lean or British use of nuclear
weapons based elsewhere.
Of NATO governments
agree on a process for rapid
consultations. the London
report said. the pattern
might later be extended to
members of the five-nation
Baghdad Pact and the eight
Continued on Page AS, Col. 1
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BoIivioAirChief Named
In Whisky Tax Probe

according to the United States
Attorneys Office in Baltimore.
The actual whisky pickup In
Baltimore was made last March
/. the indictment charges. The
alleged conspiracy. however
took place between February q
and March 4 when the loot was
seized in HyattSville. according
to Assistant United States At
tofney John r. Hargroye.
Tax Agents Testify
The prosecutor presented the
case before a Federal grand
jury yesterday. He said his
chief witnesses were Federal
and State tax enforcement
agents and a NTH man who
acted with the defendants
This man. whom Mr.. Hargrove
refused to identify. is moi
charged.
Mr.. Hargroye estimated that
the taxes sought TO be eyaded
on the $40 bottles came to more
than $1,000. Ostensibly. he
added. the purpose was to re-
sell the liquor at a profit. The
haul included bourbon. scotch
and various liqueurs.
Col. Cerruto served as ali
attache here for two years un-
I'll last May. according TO the
Embassy. Spokesman described
his return to Bolivia as a 'rou-
tine transfer" to elevate him tc
the post Of Air Force CHIEF
of staff.
Top Embassy officials were
unavailable for comment. q
spokesman said. adding thai
the news OF Col. Cerruto's in
Movement came as a complete
surprise.
Prosecutor Hargrove said HI
7 is uncertain whether Col. Ger
ruto is still protected by dip
tomato immunity.
Mr.. Hargrove said a Fedora
bench warrant would be ISSUED
for arrest of the four defend.
ants today. Bond Of $4,000
each will be requested foi
Brito. Hall and Bell. and a
81, 900 figure for the truck
driver.
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A former Air Attache OF the
Bolivian Embassy here was
named today as figure in a
whisky tax evasion case in
which four Washington area
men were indicted yesterday.
The Bolivian. 1t. Col. Javier
Cerruto. recently was appointed
chief Of staff Of his nations
air force. and is due to return
TO Washington tomorrow as an
official guest Of the United
States Air Force. an Embassy
spokesman said.
Although Col. Cerruto faces
no charge. he is specifically
named IN the indictment as
the one who signed a with
drawal form emitting the En-
baSsy TO draw 588 bottles of
tax-free whiskey from bond
ed warehouse IN Baltimore. The
indictment also names Col.
Cerruto as the signer OF the
check paying for the whiskey.
OF the 5es fifths and imperi-
al quarts taken from the Bal
timore warehouse. 48 were legit-
imately delivered to the Be-
livian Embassy here. The re-
naming $40 bottles were re-
moved to the Hyattsville ware
house OF Hall and Bell. and
all but one Of these was re-
covered by Maryland State
and Federal agents. the United
States Attorneys ONCE added.
Charges Listed
The indictment returned in
Federal District Court in Balti-
more charges the four defend
ants. with one count each of
conspiracy, transporting and
possessing whisky without a
Federal stamp. willful attempt
to evade and defeat the Fed
eral whisky tax and removal,
depositing and eoncealing un-
taxed whisky in an attempt to
evade tax laws.
Named in the charges were:
Maurcio S. Brito. 38. a bar
tender who lives in the 500
block of Vista drive. Falls
Church.
Arthur b Hall. IS. OF the
2700 block of Seyenty-third
place. Kent Village.
/ Joseph T. Bell. 81. Of the
1000 block of Freeport street,
Woodlawn.
4 Wallace jefferson. a truck
driver of the 400 block of Ken.
yon street NV.
Hall and Bell operate a ware
house in the Hyattsville area
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EARLY SCIENCE
TRAINING URGED

SCIENCE EDUCATION must be-
gin in the elementary and high
sehools-ond in the home. experts
soy in the lost Of o series on To
mouows Scientists" on POse AIS.
MEN LIKE to get clothes for
chnstmos. Fashion Editor tleni
offers some tips for the lOdy shop
per on Poee 81.
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Group Acquire,
Dairy Despite
MonopolySuit
Wakefield Sold to
Maryland Virginia
Association

The Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association. UNI
der fire by the Justice Depart
ments' antitrust division. has
purchased the Wakefield Model
Farms Dairy.
Details Of the purchase
emerged after the Government
late yesterday was granted per-
mission by District Judge Al
exander Holtzoff to include the
dairy operation in a civil suit
pending against the aSsocia-
ton for more than q year.
The associations general
manager. William B. Hooper,
said the transaction was COM
pleted Saturday following an
offer several weeks ago by
Wakefield stockholders to sell
out.
Still Owed $4,000
Mr.. Hooper said the dairy
at the time Of the transaction
still owed the association S240,-
900 on $4,000 loan made in
the fall of 1855. The dairy
also was in arrears in its cur
rent milk bill.
Association attorneys de-
Tended the purchase as a mesSls
of satisfying the Indebtedness
and said II constituted no
monopolistic action since the
company was going out Of busi-
ness and no longer was a
source Of competition.
In the past eight years the
association. a farmers Coop
erative supplying the WASH
inRton area with almost all its
milk. has been hauled into court
three times for alleged monopo-
liStic practices. All the cases
were dropped.
In the new amendment. the
Government alleged that the
Wakefield acquisition was part
of an effort to lessen competi-
ton or tend TO create a monop-
oily" in the Washington area.
The suit now pending in
cludes the Governments ques-
tioning the propriety of the
association operating the huge
Embassy Dairy as a retail out
let. The association purchased
Embassy in August. 1854. for
So $50 900.
Yesterday Judge Holtzoh set
May / as the trial date Of the
present suit.
Price Note Revealed
Purchase price OF the Wake
field Dairy was not announced
It Is believed to be smallest OF
Washington area retailers. do
ing about s3.5 million business
a year.
Principal stockholders OF
Wakefield at time Of the sale
were listed as Simon Zuppas
president. and Edward Exides,
treasurer. They had acquired
the other stock in the company
il was said.
They formerly were associ-
ated with the Richfield Dairy
before selling to a group head
ed by John Van Ginhoven. In
May. 1855. the Van Ginhoven
group purchased by Wakefield
/ interests from the Simpson
Brothers.
( Mr.. Zuppas then headed a
syndicate which re-purchased
the Wakefield Richfield COM
bination in September. 1855
The note given TO the milk
producers represented part OF
. the groups effort to finance
i the company.
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Area Motorists
Warned Of Rise
In Road .S|eet
Mercury to Drop
To 10; Tomorrow
Seen Hazardous

Area motorists faced slick
going en- route home late today:
possibly worse tomorrow.
BY mid-afternoon the temper
ature was already heading to-
ward q predicted low of Is to-
night, coming after almost q
full day of sleet, rain and snow.
Some sections Of highway Slush
were beginning to glaze.
The American Automobile
Association said driving tomor-
row morning would be near
hazardous and discouraged un-
necessary travel.
The Weather Bureau pre-
dicted an accumulation of one
TO three inches in the nearby
area. a temperature Of Is to-
night and q high of about 30
tomorrow.
Some Schools Close
Starting early. the winter
mixture closed all schools in
Fairfax County. early Blessings
in some Arlington County
schools and closing Of others in
Montgomery. Even before the
morning commuter rush was
over. police had reported a
furry Of minor auto crashes.
two Of them involving school
buses in Montgomery County.
Loudoun County schools did
not open today.
Highway sanding crews were
at work on Shirley highway
and U. S. Route / by early
afternoon and trouble spots in
the hill sections of Virginia
and Maryland we're being
Sanded.
The Weather Bureau antici-
pates considerable drying Of
pavement late today as drier
and colder air nRoves on with
wind gusts expected to be up
to 30 miles an hour.
Began With Sleet
The foul weather began with
sleet or rain in scattered Sec
tons Of the area: then turned
TO rain and snow. Down.
town Washington mad a mix
ture OF them all. but it was
thin. driving snow which
greeted morning commuters.
The Montgomery school
buses were empty except for
the drivers.
One was stuck at $40 am.
at Tratilah and River roads
in the Potomac area. The other
was hit ct S:35 am. on Sabine
lane on the GaitherSburg-L Lay
louisville roads.
Police said road conditions
became hazardous after sleet
fell about daybreak. froze and
then was covered with snow.
They reported a four-car col
hsion on the Rockville pike
near Congressional Airport.
The snowfall. quite heavy at
times in the downtown area
about mid-morning. was melt
ing as it hit.
Arlington County police said
the only early trouble spot was
the Chain Bridge hill. where
sanders were at work early.
In its five-day forecast. the
bureau predicts temperatures
at least six degrees below nor
NAL. with a chance Of light
snow or rain Saturday or
Sunday.
Early this morning. Leesburg
reported almost an inch OF
snow. with some sticking to
the roads.
The temperature dropping
cold air was moving across the
North Central States. bringing
the largest and most severe
cold wave Of the season. 1t was
below zero in the Eastern Da-
kotas. Minnesota and Northern
Wisconsin-25 below at Fraser,
Colo.
Gusts up to 10 miles an hour
we're registered yesterday as
the disturbance moved across
kIa niot,.~ CfoNnu
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BE Ne0F, Voqe 40
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ought 10 be shouted from the
house tops" but declared the
United States has refused to
allow Britain TO make an an
nouncement.
The British Atomic Author
ity cautiously reported several
weeks ago some progress had
been made toward Harvesting
the H-bomb. but since has re-
fused to give any additional
information.
The News Chronicle declared
Britain has had a start Of
several years on the United
States and Russia In tanning
the H-bomb for peaceful uses
and now is ready to announce
Its terrific potentialities."
But under a tripartite
agreemeI signed by Britain,
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Continued on Page AS. Col. I
Evening star., 1957-04-21

phens, president of Highs, ac-
knowledged that he sometimes
paid IL cents gallon less for drink
ing milk than other dairies. He said
the price was on par, however,
with the blend price received by
association members for all classes
OF milk. The Federal order would
result in a uniform producer price
pattern for all classes of milk sold
in this area.
65 Areos Hove Them
Federal marketing orders are
not unusual. The Agriculture De-
partment currently maintains them
in some 65 areas throughout the
country. The theory is that the
milk business Is special. A steady
flow Of milk is needed for large
metropolitan areas. but when con-
sumption fiuctuates cows can't be
turned on and of like an automo-
bile assembly line.
For the past two weeks a rep
resentative of the Agriculture
Department has been listening to
debate over the requested new
marketing order. Months will pass
before there Is a final decision and
even then the producers will have
an opportunity to pass on any
recommended marketing order by
referendum.
Until that time comes. the vir-
Rinia State Milk Commission does
not expect to reach any ofiicial
conclusions about its own future
in Northern Virginia.
I'VE have enough current prob
lens confronting us without looking
that far ahead" comments Virgil
p Randolph, jr.. commission chair
man.
But unofficially. there is some
feeling that the commission would
be better of in the long run to
leave Northern Virginia to the
Federal Government.
Evening star., 1957-04-21
BY MARY LOU WERNER

The proposed establishment OF a
Federal milk marketing order for
the Washington area is apt to
accomplish what Northern Virginia
residents have been seeking unsuc-
cessfully for years-removal Of re-
tail milk price controls.
For reasons that must seem un-
reasonable even to the cows, North
ern Virginia housewives have been
forced to pay more for milk than
their Washington sisters because of
the controls. Diaries are selling milk
In Washington as low as 10 cents
quart. while the very same milk
must be sold for at least 22.5 cents
a quart in Northern Virginia.
Price controls at both the pro-
dncer and retailer levels are i'm
posed by the Virginia State Milk
Commission in Alexandria, Arling-
ton and Fairfax County.
Federal controls, which have been
requested by the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers Association
for all milk shipped into the WASH
ington area, would fix producer
prices only.
Nothing would prevent the Vir-
ginia Milk Commission from cling
ing to retail controls even II the
Federal regulations are slapped on
producer prices. but there is strong
sentiment on the commission to
step out Of the Northern Virginia
area altogether rather than tangle
with constantly changing Agricul-
ture Department price indexes. up
on which the Federal orders are
based.
Prices Would Match
II this sentiment prevails, North
ern Virginia residents would be able
to buy milk for the same price paid
by their neighbors across the Po-
tomac River in Washington and
Maryland
Housewives. legislators and rep
Evening star., 1957-04-21
EFFICIENT, TOO
EFFICIENT, 100
Passport Office Makes Money
By MIRIAM oTTENBERG

Postmaster General Summerfeld
who finds the stamp business q
losing proposition--could look with
envy on a Government agency that
sells its commodity at a cool $2.6
million profit.
It's the State Departments Pass
port Office, where passports are 60
ing like hotcakes at a profitable
$40 throw.
And no services have been cut
to keep 1t in the black, either. In
TACT. as the Office heads into its
peak month. 1t is getting passports
processed within three and a half
to four days. compared with time
lags Of six weeks In May, 1855, and
three weeks in May, 1856.
Money-wise. five years ago the
Passport Office collected $2,654, ,044
in fees at an operating cost OF
$l,214.638. It's estimate for this
fiscal year comes TO $4.672 900 in
fees at an operating cost of $2,06l.-
494. AS its director, Miss Frances
@. Knight. puts it: Il wish / could
nave the passport concession"
Not Ready TO Boom
The postwar boom in travel
found the passport Office resembling
a srnall-town factory that un-
expectedly won huge Government
contract. 1t was spread over three
old buildings. Rats nibbled at un-
s1led records. Profits went into the
Treasury, not into personnel or
equipment.
When Miss Knight arrived on the
scene two years ago, she found
million unified documents in
paper boxes under desks and tables
or sprawled over the tops Of cab
inets. In one flve-day period, 5000
calls backed up on the State De-
partment switchboard with people
frantically demanding to know what
had happened to their passports.
She found 5000 letters OF inquiry
which had not been answered for
lack Of manpower
Miss Knight took her story TO
Congress, inviting the legislators to
come and take look. BY this time,
enough Congressmen had heard
from angry constituents to lend a
sympathetic ear. Within a month
Of her appointment, she had q
100000 supplemental appropria-
ton.
Looking back, Miss Knight thinks
the fact that she was redesigning
her own kitchen at the time may
have had something TO do with her
planning Of the Passport ONCE. She
Evening star., 1957-04-21
Point Four Aid

1t is probably reasonable to esti-
mate that not more than $500 mil
lion Of 5000 million Of aid last year
went for primarily nonmilitary
purposes.
That $500 million or $500 million
Evening star., 1957-04-21

And. under the new system, the
information can be supplied while
the passport seeker is still on the
telephone.
Dozens OF other changes were
made. After finding that very few
passports ever got lost in the mail,
Miss Knight decided TO save money
by not sending out passports by
registered mail. When a survey
showed that 88 per cent OF the ex-
pired passports had used less than
l6 pages OF the passports, she had
the book cut from 80 to 20 pages
an estimated annual saving OF $48,-
900.
The number OF different types OF
passports has been reduced from
IA TO four. Modern file sorting de-
vices have sped the paper work TO
the point where an individual
clerks filing has increased from
300 to 1900 items day. and so on.
After a IL per cent reduction In
passport applications in January
because OF the Middle-East crisis,
business began picking up and is
now nearing its annual peak. With
an average daily load Of 1000 pass
port applications, the director ex-
poets to process passports In no more
than five days. But she fervently
hopes people will allow themselves
a month before departure time to
allow for correspondence on In
complete ouestionnaires and delays
IN getting the applications to WASH
ington. That is easier on every
body's nerves.
Evening star., 1957-04-21
VlRGINLAS MILK PRICES
Controls May Be On Way Out

resentatives Of local governing bod
les have implored the Virginia
State Milk Commission to drop re-
tail controls in the Alexandria
Arlington-Fairfax area. And there
has been growing sentiment at the
past two sessions Of the Virginia
General Assembly to do something
about the tight grip the commits
sion has on the milk business.
Last year the General Assembly
finally authorized a study of the
commission and the milk business
generally. The Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council will report its
findings to the next Assembly.
On the legal front, Highs and
Lucerne Diaries have gone to court
to upset the retail price controls.
Last october ii Judge Harold F
Snead ruled In Richmond that the
commission should not impose re-
tail controls in the Washington
suburbs. Still. the retail controls
have remained intact while the
decision is appealed. 1t now ap-
pears there won't be a final ruling
by the Virginia Supreme Court Of
Appeals before next fall.
The request for establishment of
the Federal marketing order to
regulate producer prices in the
Washington area came from the
Maryland and Virginia Mink Pro-
ducers Association.
The association is a cooperative
Of some 1000 dairy farmers who
supply most Of the milk sold in and
around Washington. Because some
Of the milk comes from nearby Vir-
ginia. producer prices fixed by the
commission have governed most
producer milk sales here.
Some smaller farm groups in
Maryland. however. have been SELL
ing milk at prices not in line with
those paid members Of the larger
cooperative. At a hearing In Alex
andria two years ago, C. Y. Ste