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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16

this Roman orgy OF obsoles-
cence merchandising must
come 10 an end. ="
sharp Criticism
Also sharply critical OF their
own profession for ''neglecting
the function Of the motor for
the slick chrome around the
outside" are Walter p. Mar
gulies and J. Gordon Lippin-
colt, heads OF the design firm
bearing their names.
Just as outspoken on the
other side Is Brooks Stevens,
one Of the original Fellows OF
the Society of Industrial De-
signers. whose Milwaukee Arm
Is credited with wholly or par
TALLY designing products with
sales Of over 81 billion q year.
Mr.. Stevens says:
Our whole economy Is based
on planned obsolescence, and
everybody who can read with
out moving his lips should
know 1t by now. We make good
products. we induce people TO
buy them. and then next year
we deliberately introduce some
thing that will make those
products old fashioned, out OF
date. obsolete. Planned obsoles-
cence is the desire to own
something a little newer and
q little better a little sooner
than is necessary. It isn't or
ganized waste. It's a sound
contribution to the American
economy. :"
/ don't know the answers:
you will provide them in the
last analysis. I hope. though.
that I'm probing vital areas
by at least asking the right
questions.
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syndicate. Inc. All Rights ReSerVedl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Fight Begins
On Merger Of
Steel Firms

NEW YORK. April 10 (R.-
A wire rope manufacturer who
claimed the Bethlehem Steel
Corp. pressured his customers
away from him denied today
thet he made poor quality rope.
Henry W. Lark. president of
the Sunbury pa Wire Rope
Co., testified for the Govern
ment as II opened an antitrust
suit against the proposed So
billion merger OF Bethlehem
and Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Co.
Mr.. Lark testified yesterday
his company stopped making
wire rope In any quantity In
1854 under the intense COM
petitive pressures and "tie-in"
sales used by companies like
Bethlehem.
Cross-examined by Bethle-
hens attorney. Bruce Bromley,
Mr.. Lark said he was never told
thtat Merritt Chapman and
Scott Corp. refused delivery OF
$4,000 feet Of wire rope in 1853
because 1t was Of poor quality.
He sal yesterday that he lost
MERIT hapman's business be-
cause Bethlehem, which also
made wire rope. required Mer-
ritt-Chapman 10 buy supplies
from 1t norder to get other
needed steel.
Mr.. Bromley read from pre-
vious testimony in a 1854 law
suit, apparently involving Mr..
Larx and Bethlehem, in which
Mr.. Lark had said that he was
not told specifically by Merritt
Chapman that the company
was compelled by Bethlehem to
buy rope.
Asked II statesmen had not
reported they we're losing busi-
ness because shipments we're
too slow, Mr.. Lark said he did
no remember and added II had
a number of statesmen and
there are always lots Of alibis
for poor selling" a..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
IT,, YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
Planned ObsoIescence
" SYLVIA PORTER

Are you, the American con-
sumer. really rebelling against
turning In your car or appliance
every few years for q new one
Just because a different. more
advanced model OF the car or
appliance Is placed on the mar
ket and the one you own seems
old fashioned. obsolete?
Are you really turning your
back on the industries which
deliberately embrace q policy
OF "planne d obsolescence"--
warning the leaders Of these
industries that while your car
or appliance works fairly well,
you'll keep II. and unless the
industries offer you q machine
which functions much better as
well as looks different. you're
not interested2
Are you putting a period 10
the entire postwar era Of the
yearly model change In the
auto industry" repudiating the
whole theory OF marketing by
planned obsolescence"?
Problem Il Studied
Are your attitudes and actions
today. In short. foreshadowing
a new cycle Of production. de-
signing and marketing?
These questions are being
studied by worried auto pro-
ducers and appliance makers,
They are wondering whether
in these questions lies a key
answer TO the sluggish sales OF
cars and appliances since 1855.
President Eisenhower moved
into the debate a short while
ago when he remarked that
Americans want to buy today
on the basis Of the worth OF
the product that is offered TO
them"-an indirect but pointed
jab at the product which is
advertised as all new, but
which actually is new only in
style.
And now the Nations in
dustrial designers are diving
headlong into the argument,
taking sides for and against,
Violently against the doctrine
Of planned obsolescence, for
instance. Is Walter d. league,
q pioneer in the field Of in
dustrial design and recognized
as one Of the professions
greats.
Says Mr.. league:
"One Of the causes. OF the
recession is the refusal Of our
people to be seduced any
longer by planned obsolescence.
The design sensibilities Of the
public have been offended by
the phony glitter and ginger
bread that is being palmed OF
on them. and they have no
desire to spend their money on
q lot Of nothingness. Legiti-
mate improvements. yes. but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
FOREIGN EXCH'GE

NEW YORK. April 10 gP.-Foreign
exchange rates. Great Britain in doll
lars. others In cents unchanged unless
otherwise noted.
Canadian dollar in New York open
market, Jta per cent premium or
lO3 .leis United States cents, up /3s.
Europe-Great Britain pound
2.sl1s; 30-day futures. > so - 80. on
9O-day futures. 27e5I3a. Oh Ii3s:
Belgium urane). LOOT. on .OOt.
France uIanel. ..3is OF a cent: Ger
many tWesternl tdeutsehe mark
$3.50; Holland tguilderl, 2e,42ls. OF
Portugal feseudol. $50: Sweden
lkronAb, 1894: Switzerland franc
tree. 1894; Denmark lkfonel, 1880.
Latin Ameriea-Argentina Qreel.
.os; Msxieo, sol: yenexueIs tboliv.p1 :.
1905
Par Kast-Houg Kone dollar, 1873.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
J. H. Rund Retires

NEW YORK. April is CP.-
James H. Rand. IL, a pioneer
in the business machines and
office equipment industry, re-
tired yesterday as president OF
Sperry Rand Corps Reming-
ton Rand division. He will
continue as a Sperry Rand d.
rector and as vice chairman
of the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16

effects OF severe snow storms
and unusually cold weather.
Professional Groups
Await Tax Ruling
Groups OF professional and
other self-employed individuals
are awaiting a new tax ruling
that would grant them exemp-
tons from Federal income taxes
on funds they set aside for re-
tirement. according to the
Commerce Clearing House.
Basic tests 10 be used in de-
termining the taxable status
of such groups are to be pub
lished in an ofncial revenue
ruling the Internal Revenue
Service has stated.
The awaited ruling is the out
growth Of a case, back in 1854,
before a United States Court OF
Appeals. The court held that
a group Of doctors. in forming
an unincorporated association
for the establishment Of a pen
sion plan for members. among
other aims. had qualified as a
corporation under the Internal
Revenue Code.
This meant that amounts
paid by the association into its
pension trust were tax-exempt
and that amounts attributable
to the pension account Of each
doctor were not income in the
year contributed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Paint Sales Dip

NEW YORK. April l6 (R.-
Paint sales totaled $l3z,453, 900
in the first two months this
year. The total is six-tenths
Of l per cent below the all
time high Of $l33,l9S.O0 in the
like 1857 months. the National
Paint. Varnish and Lacquer
Association said yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Alb Debaters TO Meet
Wilmington Team

A debate between Washing
ton Chapter. American Insti-
tute Of Ranking. and Whining
ton. Del. Chapter. will be held
here Friday night at the WASH
ington Chapter House. 1908
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Members Of the Washington
team are Mrs. Ethel Miller Of
McLachlen Banking Corp. and
Cecil Brown Of the National
Bank Of Washington. Louis
Rowe Of Anacostia National is
alternate.
So far this season Washing
ton teams have won two de-
bates lost two. and tied one.
The debate subject: Resolved.
that further development Of
nuclear weapons should be
prohibited by international
agreement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16

were 1880 OF the shares
outstanding, but conversions
have cut these 10 only around
5000 and holders have until
May Is TO convert. Because OF
favorable terms. company ON
cials have advised holders TO
convert.
The redemption OF the $3.50
preferred will help clear the
way for proposed creation Of a
new class OF serial preferred
stock. Under plans TO be voted
on at a special stockholders
meeting May rs, the present
S4.25 cumulative preferred
would be re-classified as the
$4.25 series Of the new class.
II would remain outstand-
ing and would rank on a
parity with any new issues OF
serial preferred. In addition,
notifications would be made in
certain provisions Of the pres
ent preferred and common
stock. A complete restatement
OF the company's charter to
simplify it and remove out-of-
date provisions also will be
acted upon at the stockholders
meeting.
Additional Safeguards
The Redistribution would
eliminate presently authorized,
but unissued IS preferred stock
and would give the $4.25 pre-
ferred and succeeding serial
preferred issues additional pro-
tective features found in many
modern preferred stocks and
reduce the vote required to eff
feet certain changes. q proxy
statement said.
Directors would have author
ity to provide for issue Of serial
preferred stock in series and fix
the dividend rate. terms and
redemption conditions. liquida-
ton preference and sinking
fund and conversion provisions,
If any.
All series Of serial preferred
would rank on a parity and
would be preferred over COM
mon stock with respect to divi-
dends and assets. Holders of
serial preferred would be en-
titled TO cumulative cash divi-
dends when and as declared by
directors. No common stock
dividends would be permitted
as long as arrearages remained
on the preferred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Name Chunqed

PITTSBURGH, April Is Up.
- Stockholders Of Pittsburgh
Consolidation Coal Co. voted
at the annual meeting today
to change the name Of worlds
biggest soft-coal producer to
Consolidation Coal Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Merger Approved

PITTSBURGH. April Is LP.
- stockholders Of National
Supply Co. today approved
overwhelmingly a merger with
Armco Steel Corp. OF Middle
town, Ohio. Armco share
holders will vote on the pro-
poSal tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Merrill Lynch
Profits Gain
During 1857
NEW YORK, April .is @.-

NEW YORK. April i6 (R.-
Why do people buy stocks2
The majority are looking for
profits, rather than safety OF
capital or dividends. according
10 a survey by Merrill Lynch,
Pierce. Fenner a. Smith. the
nations largest brokerage Arm.
The survey was made public
In connection with the annual
report, which showed Merrill
Lynch had record total revenues
OF SS4, 49,. 900 In the year ended
February 20. compared with
$83. 497, 1885 the preceding year.
Net income available TO part
ners was s4,786. 900. up six per
cent over the preceding year.
Winthrop II. Smith. direct
ing partner, said the iirm
mailed out 100000 question
naires TO its customers and re-
ceived $4,000 returns. Here
are some Of the highlights:
Fifty-six per cent listed cap
ital gains as their primary In
vestment objective. Next In
line was safety Of capital with
"A per cent and liberal divi-
dends accounted for is per
cent. The remaining S per cent
did not answer the question.
OF the $4,000 persons who
replied. SO. 400 bought their first
corporate security in 1850 or
later.
Merrill Lynch attributed this
partly to the climb in the stock
market in recent years and the
march Of imitation.
Francis c. Hunter. Washing
ton resident partner at the
firms Fifteenth street ONCE,
and Harold Williams, office
manager Of the X street ONCE,
we're hosts TO financial editors
OF Washington newspapers at
a luncheon at the Mayfiower
Hotel today. Progress of the
firms two ofhces here was dis
cussed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Washington Bank Debts
Lag Behind Year AkO

Washington bank debts in
both March and the first three
months Of this year Jagged
behind a year ago. the Federal
Reserve Board disclosed today.
The March total of $l,450,
$4,000 was down lis per cent
from $1.639.527,000 in March
last year.
Three months debts Of S4.-
327.593,000 we're of 81 per
cent from $4,59l.016,00O in the
same 1857 period.
Considered an excellent ba-
rometer Of business activity,
the lower debts reflected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
Belgian Congo Bonds
Placed on Market

An investment banking group
headed by Dillon. Read 81 Co..
today marketed SIS million Of
Belgian Congo l5-year, 5K per
cent external loan bonds Of
1858.
The issue was priced at 9Sla
to yield around 5.4 per cent to
maturity. 1t represented the
first public offering Of Belgian
Congo securities in this country.
Proceeds will be used for con-
struction of native housing, re-
lated utilities and public build
ings and facilities as part Of q
ten-year program Of economic
and social development.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
RombIer Sales Gain

DETROIT. April .l6 R.-
American Motors reported
today its retailers sold 1885
Rambler cars in the first 10
days Of April, compared with
2,l07 in the same 1857 period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
'3 RI BUSINESS
Gas Light Plans Spur
Preferred Conversions
BY DONALD h. HADLEY
star Financial Editor

call for redemption of the $3.50 cumulative convertible
preferred stock Of Washington Gas Light Co. stimulated
conversion OF the shares into stock and few will
remain for actual redemption, 1t learned last night
When the redemption call issued March 81 there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16

Ryder System is fasi.growing, publicly.
owned transportation network. Ryder
Truck Rental branches are located in Sc
key cities in the us. and Canada. The
Common Carrier Division, operating in
% states from New England 10 Texas,
consists Of Great Southern Trucking CO.,
T.S.C. Motor Freight Lines, Ryder Tank
Line, Emmot,- Valley transportation Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16

The Virginian Railway Co.
yesterday asked the Interstate
Commerce Commission for per-
mission to solicit bids on a $l2
million issue Of new first lien
and refunding mortgage bonds.
Series F. dated to mature May
/, 1888.
The petition said proceeds OF
sale will be used to reimburse
the company treasury for ex-
penditures on major plant i'm.
provements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16
ACL President Cites
Sharp SO Declines

RICHMOND. Va. April l6
R.-Thomas Rice. president OF
the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road, told stockholders Tuesday
there was only one thing wrong
with the line: Lack Of bus
mess"
Mr.. Rice. addressing an ACL
annual meeting for the first
time since he became president
last summer. gave these. ex-
amples Of the lines troubles:
/. Estimated net income for
the first quarter Of the year is
down "a per cent from a year
ago.
2. Passenger business in Feb
ruary and March was down rs
per cent.
3. Freight business in the
first quarter was down IL per
cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-16

effects OF severe snow storms
and unusually cold weather.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14
Here's How Deep Unions
Dug To Help Marlborough

The day after news of the 100000
appreciation" dinner in Houston be-
came known, Congressional Quarterly
said that organized labor dug deep"
to help elect Sen. Ralph Marlborough
of Texas in the 1857 election. How
deep is deep? In this instance, it
was exactly II per cent as deep as
the Houston diners dug. Yarborough
received just $4,000 from trade
unions.-AFL-CIO COPE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14
Is Atom Insurance
A Handouf2

Next time you get into an argu-
ment about government responsibility
VS.. private responsibility, remember
this story. It's tale of how our giant
corporations refrained from operat-
ing atomic reactors without federal
insurance.
Usually the story is one of criticism
for government handouts" How
often we have heard the complaint
about keeping government out of bus
mess. But when the risk is great. as
Big Business apparently believes it
is in the operation of atomic reactors,
then the governments insurance is
welcomed by the rugged individual
lists.
We're not against the insurance.
All we want is for these same cor
porations to be consistent when equal
ly important programs vital to our
such as adequate schools to
educate future generations, are under
consideration in Washington
NEW ERA, Reading, Pa.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14

same subcommittee in behalf of their
National Guard groups.
Montana's Army Guard has around
2,700 members whose armory drill
pay and other special payments last
year totalled $972,128. The Army
Reserve in Montana has nearly 5000
active participants of whom nearly
1000 receive pay. This pay totalled
$1,300,00O last year for the Reserv-
lists in 81 organized units on pay sta
tus. Other Reservists attend meet
ings in virtually every city in the
state to further their military edu-
cation and to gain retirement bene-
fits. These strength and pay totals
do not include the full-time technical
and advisory staffs which are about
equal for the National Guard and
the Reserve. The subcommittee has
taken positive action in concurrence
with our testimony and you should
be reading soon about the outcome.
Flood Control Project-This week |
presented testimony before the Public
Works Committee in behalf of author
izing legislation for $2,120,000
flood control project on the lower
Sun River in Great Falls. Eight miles
of levees and channel rectification
are included in this project. The COM
mittee approved the project to be in
cluded as part of the Rivers and Har-
bors bill S 497 and reported it to the
House for action. Federal participa-
tion would be $1,405,OOO, leaving
approximately $715,0O0 to be raised
locally. The entire matter, however,
is permissive legislation. 1t will re-
quire the consent of the people of
Great Falls before any appropriation
will be asked in Congress.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14

InterIake Editorial On
Surplus Food Draws
Sharp Retort
Editor. The Daily Interlake.
Kalispell, Montana

Editor, The Daily Interlake,
Kalispell, Montana
Dear Sir:
Your Food Surplus Nonsense" edi-
torial of Sunday, March 2, 1858, makes
me wonder If you would not also file
hungry people in some drawer marked
Nonsense" and stuff cotton in your
ears when their walls and pleas for
food became too loud and irksome.
Federal statisti tics in January place
As million jobless across the nation,
the highest since 1850, and the February
figure surpasses that of January.
When one considers the fact that in
Montana alone there are very nearly
1000 persons attempting to maintain
themselves without the benefit of en-
ployment and 10000 jobless Montana
Indians, cannot help but question your
criterion when you state, Every indi-
cation now is that there is not a need
for such (surplus food program.
Do not be so hasty in labelling Mr.
Cannon's action a show of "irresponsi-
bility". 1t is quite evident that 1t Gov
Cannon realizes that the dictates of his
high office make him responsible for
the welfare of his people. Thank God
for people like Paul Cannon, James
TIMBER and Left Erickson.
Your suggestion that these COM
mendable people would resort to "al-
most any scheme" to "embarrass" the
Governor and his advisors would be
If it were not for the fact
That the unemployment picture in Mon
tana is extremely serious and GER
tainly, if is embarrassing to the entire
state.
What do you find so Objectionable
about expanding a program that has
been in existence for over eleven years?
The surplus food program is no new
conner to Montana. The only thing about
It that is new is it's expansion to fit a
likewise expanding need. Sincerely
DEAN, SIS Sth Ave,
Helena.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14

Editor, Peoples Voice.
second to the sentiments of Mrs
Hellman in her last letter to THE
PEOPLES VOICE, taking exception
only where she says-"But actually
the plight of the Hellman family is a
small matter when it comes to preserv-
ing and regaining the democratic free
doms of all Americans :"
An exception here, because this case
Of Administration persecution, and the
consequent plight of the Hellman fam
lily, is a matter of cruciality to-"Al1
Americans. The Administration perse-
cution has made 1T crucial, has made
an exception" of John Hellman-not
we Americans: We didn't make an ex-
ception of John Hellman, but the Ad-
ministration did, and we must wonder
why, as Mrs. Hellman so bewilderedly
and grievously does in her letter to
THE PEOPLES VOICE..
But Americans can still face facts;
and the facts in the Hellman case are:
The Dulles Administration has ex-
cepted to the right of an American to
the politics of his choosing. as the
U. S. War Party grows desperate; the
Benson Administration has excepted
to the rights of association of an Amer
lean, as pressure mounts to drive small
farmers off the soil; the Taft Hartley
Administration has excepted to the
right Of an American miner to speak
drive to break American union de-
mands; the Nixon Administration has
excepted to the right of an American
in politics to provide for his family
us many Americans and Montanans are
unable to provide for their families,
ignored by Eisenhower" and "Aron-
son" Administrations alike-both perse-
cutors of Hellman.
Hellman has politics. Hellman Is also
a person, an American. The Admins
tration charges him. the State seconds.
We the People" can make our stand
too, in the Hellman case-to be tried,
ignoring the speciosities of the Ad-
brief, not as n Communist.
but as a person, an individual, a Mon
tanan, a miner who spoke for his
class.
l take exception to your statement,
Mrs Hellman, inviting all Montanans
to join me. It's time Montanans helped
John Hellman in his fight. It's no small
matter to u.s. Mrs. Hellman. Sincerely
JAMES e. BRICKETT Helena.
27,000,000 Americans are without
even minimal library service.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14
Continued From Page One)

Continued From Page One)
June 1. Second and third place win
ners in each division will receive
honorable mention in the same issue.
This competition is challenge not
only to students but to the high-school
English teachers who supervise their
work. An English teacher could re-
ceive no better reward than seeing the
work of one of his students in print,
according to Dick Brooking of Liv-
ingston, VENTURE editor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1958-03-14

27,000,0O0 Americans are without
even minimal library service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-01
Moon Affect Timber?

Some of the Central and
South American Indians have
. superstition that mahogany
trees should be cut only by the
Light Of the moon. This is sup
posed to make the wood
sounder, freer of sap and Of a
richer color. The National
Lumber Manufacturers Asso-
citation says this belief is UNI
founded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-01
Kit to Repair
Canvas Placed
lon Market
BY d. M. DERWIN

Now available is q new repair
kit for torn canvas. leather and
other hard-to-mend items that
you may be getting ready for
summer.
The kit has q solvent-acti-
waited patching material that
is saturated with plastic resins:
These make possible mending
Of canvas items such as lawn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-01

For further information, you
may write Mr.. Derwin, Room
200, The Evening Star. WASH
ington. D. c.. inclosing a
stamped, self addressed en-
velope.