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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
New Red Envoy
local tuesday
On Eisenhower

The White House said today
Mikhail A. Menshikov, the new
Soviet Ambassador who arrived
Thursday. will present his Gre
dentials to President Eisen-
hover Tuesday.
Mr.. Menshikov already has
held his first talk with Secre-
tary Of State Dulles. They met
yesterday with q show Of corr
diality.
The English-speaking Rus
sian diplomat also has been
invited to the second of two
White House dinners for the
diplomatic corps Tuesday night.
A dinner for the first half
of the diplomatic corps will be
given by the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower Monday night.
Selection is on q seniority
basis.
Thompson Briefs President
In diplomatic Developments
yesterday:
/. United States Ambassador
Llewellyn Thompson briefed
President Eisenhower's cabinet
on prospects for an East West
summit conference this year,
then headed back by air to his
post in Moscow.
2. The State Department
spoke kindly Of Communist Po-
lands peaceful intent, but pull
back publicly from a secret
critique cabled its European
missions calling the Polish
proposal extremely danger
GUS"
Loses No Time
Mr.. Menshikov lost no time
in taking charge Of the Soviet
Embassy here. With unprece-
dented speed. he called on Mr..
Dulles and arranged for the for
NAL presentation of credentials
next week to Mr.. Eisenhower.
The Polish plan for an atom
free" zone was the main topic
at the daily news conference
of State Department Press
Chief Lincoln White. He said:
In general we do in fact see
serious disadvantages In the
plan as presented.
"At the same time we of
course recognize that the Poles
have q strong interest in re-
Taxing tension and that they
look upon the Rapacki plan as
being a contribution toward
bringing this about"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
GPO Book Prices

The Rambler, writing about
the GPO Bookstore, men,
toned the present price of
the Congressional Directory,
81 a copy.
! can't help wishing that
had reused his curiosity
about the recent fantastic
rises in the prices of Gov
eminent publications, q pre-
sumably nonprofit public
service which for the past
several years has been bring
ing in several million dollars
q year profit.
There would not seem to be
anything wrong with Uncle
Sam charging commercial
bookstore prices for his pub
lications-unless you recall
that the taxpayers seeking
the information contained in
Government reports have
already paid, through taxes,
the cost Of operating the
Federal agency which COM
piled 1t. the salaries of the
technicians and writers, the
cost Of operating the print
ing plant. the wages of the
printer and binder and the
purchase price Of the paper
and ink. But II they want
the end report they must
buy all these again. according
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Labor Urges Wider Use
Of Reciprocal Trode

mittee also submitted a report
urging continued strong oppo-
sition to Legislative proposals
which in the name of protect
ing workers from improper
activities. would undermine self
government within the labor
movement or weaken labor
unions as the collective bar
gaining representatives of en-
ployes."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Scholarship Plan

The administration has
announced a plan to provide
scholarship aid to qualified
high school students who
wish to attend college. It is
proposed that the Federal
Government will grant the
money for 10000 scholarships
yearly formulating to a 49,
900 totaD to the States for
distribution. Newspaper
stories on the program have
not mentioned an important
principle which, I suggest,
should be considered. The
principle is a simple one:
The student receiving such
scholarship aid should be al
lowed to use it at an accred.
tied college Of his own choice.
If the scholarship funds
are given to the States for
distribution, I believe that
there will be a tendency to
grant such scholarships to
students for attendance at
State-supported institutions
only. to the detriment Of
privately endowed colleges.
This could ultimately result
in such grants becoming a
substitute for. rather than a
supplement to. regular State
funds of this type. AS the
Presidents message stated:
q. the keystone is State,
local and private effort; the
Federal role is to assist-not
to control or supplant-these
efforts. -"
JiIdO CappiO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08

mansk and other northern So
Wet ports to oversee the transit
of war materials and provisions.
He received the Order of Lenin
from Stain for his services.
Presumably much of his work
involved receiving American
shipments of lend-lease war
supplies in the days when Ger
man submarines were harass-
ing operations.
Late in World War II, Mr..
Menshikov represented the So
Wet Union in the organization
Of the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administra-
ton. 1t was during this period
that he came to the United
States.
First he appeared as the
Soviet delegate to the UNRRA
conference in Atlantic City in
November 1913. The next
January he became Deputy
Director for the Bureau of
Areas at UNRRA headquarters
in Washington.
In the 1945-46 period, when
he was Deputy Director of
UNRRA for Eastern Europe, he
visited Poland.
Able NegOtiatOr
Ambassador Menshikov has
a reputation as an able nego-
tiator whose most important
recent service was in the Far
East. He was a key man in
the negotiations that led to
the agreement to provide India
with q Soviet steel mill al
Bhilai in Madhya Pradesh prov
ince. He also represented the
Soviet Union at sessions of the
United Nations Economic Com
mission for Asia and the Far
East ECAFE) in 1854 and
1855.
It was here that the Soviet
Union laid the groundwork fol
its offers Of technical assist
ance to underdeveloped coun-
tries in Asia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Nickerson's Case

AS Will Rogers used to say.
"All I know is what / read In
the newspapers" From what
! read, a gross injustice
exists. That injustice is the
predicament of Army Col.
Nickerson. During q period
when there was a certain
amount of public apathy to-
ward missile research and
the Army Jupiter research
was relegated to a secondary
role, Col. Nickerson spoke up
because he could not bear to
see what he felt was our most
promising missile held back.
Perhaps he spoke out too
bluntly. but at least he had
the courage of his convic-
tons. During his court-mar-
tial, Gen. Medaris testified
against him and stated that
Nickerson had lost his USE
fulneSs for missile work. Col.
Nickerson was convicted and
banished from further missile
work.
After RusSia's success with
Sputnik I. our outlook to-
ward missile search
changed and we went all out
to get a satellite into outer
space. Our recent success
with the Army Jupiter bore
out Col. Nickerson's convic-
tons. Ironically, now Gen.
Medaris, the man who testi-
fed against Col. Nickerson,
and who was willing to ac-
cept RELOCATION of the Jupi-
ter to a secondary role,
is getting much of the credit
for the success Of the Jupiter.
1t is hard to admit mis-
takes. but ! think the least
the United States can do is
return Col. Nickerson, a
courageous and proven COM
petent engineer, back on
missile development and re-
search-where he is needed
and rightfully belongs.
Amiel Kirshbaum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Mcclellan Raps
Labor Leader
BY the Associated Press

A New York labor leader has
been accused of going back on
his word to reinstate four mem
bers of the Operating Engineers
Union who were ousted for
criticizing the unions leader
ship.
Chairman Mcclellan, Demo-
crat Of Arkansas, of the Senate
Rackets Investigating Commit
tee said William Dekoning, jr.,
had failed to carry out a
pledge to do my best" to OBJ
tain reinstatement of the men.
Mr.. Dekoning is president and
business manager of the unions
Local 1873 in Uniondale, N. Y.
Senator Mcclellan bitterly
assailed Mr.. Dekoning in a
letter released yesterday. The
letter was a reply to one re-
ceived earlier in the week from
Mr.. Dekoning who announced
that the locals voting members
would decide at a February "a
meeting whether to grant
reinstatement
Your letter makes a COM
plete mockery Of your promise
to reform" Senator Mcclellan
said.
To a suggestion that the
committee send an observer
preferably Chief Counsel Rob-
ert F. Kennedy, to the mem.
bership meeting, Senator Nc
Clellan replied:
Under no circumstance
would / permit Mr.. Kennedy
or anyone from the staff Of
this committee to participate
in the kind of election you
propose"
Inc committee, at recent
hearings involving the operat-
ing engineers, heard testimony
from witnesses who told OF
beatings and penalties imposed
against those who opposed Mr.
DeKoning. Local 1873 covers the
Long Island area. Members Of
the Operating Engineers Union
run bulldozers and other heavy
construction equipment.
The four busted members
who leveled criticism at Mr.
DeKoning and his lieutenant'
were Peter Batalian. William
Wilkens. Walter Miller and
John DeKoning. q cousin Of
the Union boss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
BY HOWARD L. DUTKIN
star stan writer

The Government agreed with
the Communist Party yester-
day that pertinent portions Of
oral statements made by ex-
Communist Louis Budenz,
secretly recorded by the FBI,
should be turned over to the
party for use at Subversive Ac-
tivity Control Board hearings.
This stand was taken in q
memorandum filed by Justice
Department attorneys In the
United States Court Of Appeals.
An afiidavit accompanying the
document stated that the JUS
tice Department had had no
knowledge Of the recording al
though it was made more than
IL years ago-December 6 to
December IL, l945, shortly after
Mr.. Budenz had left the party.
The memorandum was filed
in connection with court action
and SACB proceedings against
the party.
Twice the Communist Party
has been found by the SACB to
be one dominated by Moscow
AS such. under the Internal
Security Act Of 1850, it was
ordered to file with the Gov
eminent the names of members
and records Of its finances.
The first finding was reversed
by the Supreme Court which re-
manded the issue to the SACH
with instructions either to hold
a hearing into the veracity of
certain Government witnesses,
whose testimony had been called
perjurious, or to strike their
testimony entirely.
The SACB chose the latter
course but again found the
party to be Soviet-dominated
Again the party appealed. Last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Quantity vs.. Quality

IN the Yale Review, ID. w.
Brogan, well-known Cam
bridge University political
scientist and student of Amer
lean history and institutions.
has made some incisive OBJ
servations concerning certain
American illusions which we
must somehow dispel if we
are to be successful in the
contest Of power. science and
technology with the Soviet
Union.
One Of the comforting
illusions" which Prof. Brogan
believes that we must aban-
don is the deceptive as well
as naive notion "that all
technical progress. or nearly
all, is the work Of Americans:
that Yankee ingenuity, know
how, innate mastery of tools
and machines is what it takes
to keep on top and ahead in
this competitive world" While
it is true that Americans
have been preeminent in
some fields of scientific and
chronological activity, it is a
pernicious form of smugness
to believe that this Nation is
foremost in all such endeavor.
Prof. Brogap states en-
phatically that the present
internal American crisis is a
crisis Of education mot
merely Of technical education
at any level. There is. first of
all, the necessity Of giving the
American boy and girl q more
adequate idea Of the outside
world, Of its power and poten-
tialities. An excessively Amer
loan viewpoint, q concentra-
ton on American achieve
ment at the expense Of a
balanced picture of the world,
breeds the illusion that, for
the moment, the Russians
have shattered. The reality
Of the comparatively limited
achievement Of America not
only in theoretical but in
applied science would be a
useful counter to the natural
but dangerous boosting of the
American achievement that
marks American advertising"
In order to overcome these
provincially oriented illusions
Of ours, there should be
greater emphasis in our
schools upon the study of
geography "a sadly neglected
field If one may judge on
the basis Of what the average
college freshman does not
know about photography,
political geography, and the
geographical influences on
mans economic life) and his
tory. Not just the study of
American history either.
While more scientists and
engineers may help us close
the gap between Russia and
ourselves, it is not quantity
but quality (brains) which
will count in the years ahead.
This is true not only for
science and technology but
for all the professions, arts
and other skills as well. To
those who have been blessed
with keen minds we should
give the best education which
we can. AS Nation we have
not been doing so.
William LLOYD Fox.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Jerry GiesIer's Son
Fined on Drunk Count

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 8 (R.
The 20-year-old son of Jerry
Giesler. prominent attorney,
has been fined $3.50. half of the
fine suspended. on a drunk
driving charge.
Michael Giesler was not pres
ent. nor was his father, when
Municipal Judge Stephen Weis-
man imposed the fine yester-
day. A lawyer from Mr.. Gle
sler's Office entered a guilty
plea for the youth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
HEADLINE PERSONALITY
Soviet's New. Envoy
Is Expert on I rode


Ambassador to the United
States, is one Of his country's
leading experts on foreign trade
and a key figure in the new
Soviet economic offensive
among the uncommitted ma
tons Of the world.
For the last four years he
has been Ambassador to India.
In New Delhi, he helped nego-
tate the economic aid agree
ments that Soviet Premier Bull
ganin and Communist Party
Chief Khrushchev stage-man-
aged in their Bulge and
Khrush" tour Of December,
1855. -
Since World War II, Mr..
MenshlSov has worked closely
with A. I. Mikoyan, one of the
real powers in the Communist
Party Presidium and now Mr..
KhruShchev's chief economic
lieutenant.
Back in 1916 he became dep
uty to Mr.. Mikoyan, then Min
lister Of Foreign Trade. In 1949,
when Mr.. Mikoyan was pro-
NOTED. Mr.. Menshikov became
Minister.
Two years later. Stain called
him out Of the Foreign Trade
Ministry to help organize the
1852 Moscow International
Economic Conference, the
Kremlin's first big effort to
open trade channels with the
West.
The Soviet effort to increase
its foreign trade with the West
ern world has met with many
successes in both Asia and
Europe, although the United
States continues to apply rigid
restrictions.
The new Ambassador will
have a ringside seat now to
observe the administration and
Congress as they mould a
United States program respon-
sive to his governments ex-
panding economic challenge
Less Reserved Personality
Ambassador Menshikov's out
going personality is a marked
contrast to that of his predeces-
sor. the usually reserved Georgi
Zaroubin, who has returned to
Moscow to become the Deputy
Foreign Minister in charge Of
personnel.
He also is expected to have
less dif1culty with the English
language. He has spent six
years in London, three in the
United States and four in India.
Is years in all to develop his
proficiency.
When he arrived at Friend
ship airport outside Baltimore
Thursday he spoke extempo-
raneously in English to re-
porters. Though he speaks
slowly and with some accent,
his sentences are well con-
structed and clear.
1 The 55-year-old Menshikov
a greying. handsome man,
smiled easily and apparently
was given less to the stolidity
which the Washington diplo-
matte set has come to expect
Of Soviet Ambassadors.
He chose to stress his hopes
that Soviet-American economic
relations can be improved in
the near future" particularly
by expanding mutually adj
vantageous trade"
Long in Commerce
The Ambassador has spent
most of his career in the field
Of commerce. He received an
advanced degree in foreign
trade from the Moscow Eco
Monies Institute in 1929-whcn
he was 81.
From 1880 to 1896 he was in
London in positions of respon-
sibility in the foreign trade
field. Later he continued in the
same speciality in the Soviet
Union.
When the war came. Mr..
Menshikov went to the frigld
regions Of Archansel. Muir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Lincoln. and C. o. p.

/ was up at the Capitol
the other day and saw that
the Republicans had q lot Of
statues and pictures Of
Lincoln around.
Seeing it was close to Lin
coins birthday ! went over
to the Library Of Congress
and read some books on Lin
coin to check up on his poll
teal philosophy.
Here's what ] found:
Ten 'cannots' by Abraham
Lincoln"
you cannot bring about
prosperity by discouraging
thrift"
you cannot help small men
by tearing down big men,"
you cannot strengthen
the weak by weakening the
strong"
you cannot lift the wage
Garner by pulling down the
wage payer"
you cannot help the poor
man by destroying the rich"
"You cannot keep out of
trouble by spending more
than your income.
you cannot further the
brotherhood Of man by in
citing class hatred"
you cannot build char
acter and courage by taking
away mans initiative and in
dependence"
you cannot help men per-
manently by doing for them
what they could and should
do for themselves"
So I guess all Of Lincoln
the Republicans have still
got around are his statues
and pictures.
L. Rom ETuhhard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
By WILLIAM HINES
Star Stan Writer

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, FEB. 3.
Leaders of the merged labor
federation called on the Gov
eminent today for broader use
of reciprocal trade procedures
and an extension of the Recip-
rocal Trade Act for five years.
But at the same time, the
AFL-CIO executive council,
aware Of sagging employment
at home. urged the Govern
ment ito reduce the hardship
of those adversely affected by
increased imports resulting
from reduced tariffs"
The two-sided recommended
ton came in a statement is
sued midway in the executive
councils mid-winter meeting
here. The 90 members of the
council meanwhile took a long
week end, which included a
ride on the Navy aircraft car
rier Ranger today and a trip
to the missile base at Cape
Canaveral, Fla, on Monday.
Urge More Foreign Aid
The AFL-CIO recommended
lions on reciprocal trade were
coupled with a demand for ex-
banded foreign aid ito FORE
stall the advancing Soviet
economic penetration" into
underdeveloped countries.
The union leaders offered a
viewpoint program of foreign
aid, including these items:
l. Permanent status for the
Development Loan Fund passed
by Congress last year.
2. At least So billion a year
for economic aid instead OF
what the federation termed the
inadequate" $625 million re-
quested by the President for
the next fiscal year.
3. More leeway for the Gov
eminent in negotiating loans
to foreign countries that would
be tailored to the economic
needs Of those countries.
4. Broader use of interna-
tional agencies in making
grants or. loans to underdevel-
oped countries.
S. Emphasis on loans which
would aid in the development
of strong democratic institu-
tons in the underdeveloped
countries such as co-operatives
and trade unions"
The executive councils state
ment on foreign economic policy
was issued shortly after the
council heard a gloomy dis
sertation on the American
economy by Leon Keyserling.
economist long affiliated with
Democratic administrations in
Washington.
Okays 2 Union Inquiries
In other action, the council
approved plans of its Ethical
practices Committee to conduct
full inquiries into the affairs
of the International Union Of
Operating Engineers and the
International Jewelry Workers
Union. Both have been mem
toned prominently in connec-
ton with scandals.
The Ethical Practices Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Postal Pay


T was struck by the diff
ference between your edi-
torials of January 81 PAY
Raise Chances" and January
90 Postal Rates." In the
Postal Rates" editorial you
found the request that Con-
gress raise postal rates before
granting raises to postal
workers "a reasonable one"
In the earlier editorial /
failed to find anything to
even suggest that there be an
increase in any of the fees
charged by various depart
ments Of our Federal Gov
eminent, or any increases in
taxes as a prerequisite to
necessary increases for Fed
eral employees. What makes
one group fish and the other
fowl?
Aside from the fact that
postal and Federal employees
are paid under different pay
statutes, wherein do they
differ so much as to warrant
the assumption on your part
that one group should be tied
down to a profit and loss
sheet, while the other should
be the beneficiary of I'M
limited largeSse?
Are you by any chance la
boring under the delusion that
postal wages and other postal
costs are paid directly from
postal receipts?
There is no more relation
ship between postal salaries
and postal rates than there
is between the salaries of
forest rangers and the fees
charged Tor admission to
National Parks. Nor is there
any greater or lesser rela-
tionship between postal reve-
nues and the salaries of Fed
eral employees other than
postal. The postal service is
not a thing apart.
E. c. HalIeck,
Legislative Director,
National Federation of
Post Office Clerks.
Editors nnte: The edito-
rial pointed to the possibility
of a presidential veto if postal
workers are given a proposed
$240-a-year bonus" on top
of a basic pay raise and If
Congress fails to raise postal
rates coincident with passing
pay legislation.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
LETTERS TO THE STAR

to the reasoning of those who
now set the sales price on
Government publications.
A congressional committee
has been looking into this
and other phases Of the.pub-
lie printing. We eagerly await
a report.
GPO Bookstore Patron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-08
Overtoxed

If all taxpayers in Mont
geometry County will watch
the votes of the members of
the county council. and then
vote in the election in No
vember, 1858. against each
one that does not vote for
reduced taxes, it will do some
good.
They should remember that
by united action the hos
pital bond referendum was
defeated.
In union there is strength.
Another Taxpayer.
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Violet Rose Bates

Mrs. Violet Rose Bates, 73,
passed away Tuesday morning at
$50 o'clock at her home on Sum
merfield route. She was the
widow of Joseph Bates, who died
in 1852.
She was born February 6,
1885, a daughter of Theodore and
Mary Jane Rossiter. Her entire
life was spent in the Bates Hill
community. She was a member
of the Fredericksdale United
Brethren church.
Surviving are the following
children: Mrs. Leona Daley, of
Titusville, Pa, Mrs. Mary Martha
Oliver, of Summerfield route /,
Mrs. Lucille Farrell of Nashport
route /, Mrs. Louella Clark, Of
Sarahsville route l, Mrs. Laura
Kirkbride, of Nashport, Gilman
Bates and Wayne Bates of the
home.
One daughter, Mrs. Opal Daley
is deceased. There are l3 grand
children surviving; nine great
grandchildren: one brother,
Thomas Hague, of Sarahsville
route /, and one sister, Mrs. Ida
Washington, Of Sunmerfield.