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Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03

month salary, denied that he tried
to get the employees to tell con-
cocted story to the state inves-
tigators.
Gaines said he didn't intend to
resign. He said he would leave
it up to the board whether he
would stay on the job. He said
that the same thing applied to
the three others Mr.. Faubus
said should be fired.
Gaines said that he didn't I'M
derstand the governors refer
erence to the employees. He said
his wife and the others were en-
ployed at the school with the
knowledge of the board.
THE board gave me discre-
ton to hire" Gaines added. Il
don't intend to do anything right
now until I talk with the board.
I will not try to fight back. I'll
leave everything up to the board y
Mrs. Gaines issued state
ment in which she said the deci-
sion to put her name on the roll
was not hers but was an agree
ment with the board ITO supple
ment my husbands low salary
1.-The board was shrewd enough
to know that they were going
to get a lot of work done for
little money" Mrs. Gaines said.
when we came into this situa-
ton only a humanitarian or a
complete fool would have remain
ed, due to the deplorable eondi-
tions we found at the school,
Because I am a public SER
want I have felt before now GER
tain political pressures but moi
once did I believe they would
come from the chief executive of
the state,' she said.
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03
Faubus Says Fire
Gaines; 4 Others

Governor Faubus said last week
that he would recommend to the
Negro Boys Industrial school
board to fire Superintendent l. r.
Gaines and three other employees,
following a study of an investi-
cation made by the state police
and state fire marshall into the
fire that destroyed 81 boys at the
school on March 5.
The governor said that the in
vestigation failed to determine the
cause of the fire but also failed
to indicate arson.
Faubus said that the youth had
been left alone and locked up in
a building on the night of the
fire.
The governor said that the en-
ployee normally assigned in the
building with the boys at night
was in the hospital, and two
others had been assigned to al
ternate the assignment, but neith-
er was on duty when the fire
broke out early in the morning.
The governor said that after
the fire, Superintendent Gaines
got the employees together to fix
up" a story to tell state investi-
gators. Faubus said that in this
version a guard was supposed to
have been in the building just
prior to the fire.
1.-The story included something
about the guard leaving the build
ing to get a flashlight,' he said
1.-The fire was supposed to have
broken out while the guard was
in a building about 100 yards a.
way
Il may add that nothing in the
evidence bears up this version
In fact. it ended with only one
employee insisting this was true"
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03
State Gets More
Claims Arisinq
From NBIS Fire

Two more $4,000 claims were
filed against the state Monday,
arising from the tragic fire at
the Negro Boys Industrial school
at Wrightsville where q teen
ayers lost their lives.
The claims were filed by the
parents of Roy Powell and Jes-
sic Carpenter, jrs who were a.
mong the 81 dogs.
These latest claims filed with
the State Claims commission bring
the total to $25O,oo0 in suits thus
far that the state faces 1t is ex-
pected that parents of all the vic
TINS will file claims.
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03
Safe Drifting
SnUeS Money
BY Martha johnson
Dodge Safety Consultant

DRIVING like a professional
will insure your safety as well as
stretch your budget.
How?
Be a cautious driver.
Don't make shot rOd'' stops.
They burn extra gasoline and
cause excessive wear of brake
Innings and tires.
Improperly inflated tires wear
rapidly, generate blow-out-caus-
ing excessive heat and require
more engine power. Over-inhated
tires wear unevenly.
Brake MISUNDERSTANDING
the parking brake-are impor-
tant. Dragging brakes can de-
crease fuel economy by as much
as five miles per gallon.
Avoid driving at high speed.
You can save more than rs per-
cent i'm fuel costs by driving at
so mph instead of 20.
Don't change speeds abruptly.
Spot potentially hazardous road
conditions ahead so you slow
down Dr. speed up gradually,
without use of brakes or any APP
Dreciablv greater use of fuel.
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03

The governor said he found out
about the alleged change in the
version of the fire from two en-
ployes at the school. lie said that
these employes-whom he didn't
Identify : came to the Mansion
last Sunday through arrange
ments with a Negro at Little
Rock.
"They told me that they wanted
to correct the story they had been
forced to tell the board" Faubus
said. "They admitted this story
was made up by Gaines
The governor said during the
course of the Investigation, the
schools payroll was checked, and
many interesting things were
turned up.
The wife of Mr. Gaines who is
a fulltime teacher at one Of the
city's schools not closed by the
governor, was on the payroll at
$115 per month. Mrs. Gaines
works at the school after hours,
holidays, Saturdays and Sundays.
However the governor said that
he knew she was on the payroll,
but, Gaines promised him he
would take her off. The COVER
nor made mention of other ire
gularities in the payroll
Mr. Gaines who is on a $500 a.
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03

We, the undersigned employees
of the Negro Boys Industrial
School, Wrightsville, Arkansas,
wish to make the following state
ment in reply to the Governors
report on findings of the investi-
cations of the tragic fire which
occurred at the school March 5,
1859;
l. We agree with the Governor
that the fire was "inexcusable'',
but not due to negligence"
on the part of the Superinten-
dent, Mr.. L. r. Gaines, or any
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03
Statement from NBIS Employees

employee of this school. When
the Governor made his "unan-
nouneed" visit to the school
little over a year ago, the
same "inexcusable" conditions
which were so "deplorable'
then still evist. Did Mr.. Faubus
recommend then that finance
be appropriated to correct any
of these "deplorable' conditions?
2. Why has he not published the
actual cause of the fire instead
of engaging in the character as
sasination of the Superintendent
and members of the staff Why
should we be blamed for some
thing that others have stated
could happen at many other
State Agencies?
3. We vehemently resent Mr.. Eau
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03

3. Mrs. |. T. Barnes
4. Mr.. B. H. Childress
5. Mr.. Winton Madison
6. Mrs. Luther Fleming
7. Mr. Luther Fleming
8. Mrs. Dorothy v. Madison
9. Mr.. Wilson Hall
10. Mrs. Lillian L. Hall
IL. Mrs. E. C. Givan
Arkansas State press., 1959-04-03

SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMAT Is Ar
chic Lang, Al, who is serving his
second year as Second Secretary
at the American Embassy, Aecra,
Ghana, West Africa. An eight
year veteran of the U. S. Foreign
Service, Lang saw extensive SER
vice in Germany prior to his app
pointment to Ghana in June, 1857.
A native of Weleetka, Okla, Lang
is graduate of southern and
New York University. He is mar
ried and the father of two child
rem. (ANPPl
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Walter III, MalOney,
Golden Years.

I read the blurb, the
Golden Years" in The Star,
and just had to answer such
a stupid, impossible state
ment about how to get along
on a modest pension.
Rents at $40 per month
may have been possible 10
years ago, but the same ac-
commodations today would
cost about $40 per month.
Living on turnip greens and
dandelions, $75 per month
for food might be sufficient.
In one of the highly ad-
vertised "paradises" five years
ago, one could buy a little
shanty for $4,000. with $500
down (food nearly the same
as it was here). But today,
that same shanty is priced
at $4,000, with $4,000 for a
down payment. Good still
on a par with prices here.)
Rents in this Metropolitan
Area have increased (in
price, not in value) 300 per
cent in about five years;
other sections of the coun-
try are keeping pace. A couple
could, Of course, occupy
someone's hog pen at a rental
Of $50 per month. Also, the
salt mines of Siberia would,
no doubt, provide cheap
rent.
W. r. Smith.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
CdsobIonco Communique

In more ways than one, announce
ment that United States forces will be
withdrawn from Morocco by the end of
1858 Is only mark of the times. From
a security standpoint, our own and that
of the free world in general, it is not
considered threatful development and
had, in fact, been agreed upon "in prin-
ciple" some months ago. Only the time
table for evacuation of the American
inStallationS-one Navy and five Air
Predetermined unannounced until
President Eisenhower and King Mo-
hammed v issued their joint commu-
nique in Casablanca on Tuesday.
Militarily the value of these bases
has decreased since their construction
was initiated under crash program"
in 1850. The greatest change has re-
suited from progress in development Of
balliStic missiles, and agreements by
which we are establishing or maintain
ing missile installations in Britain, Italy
and Turkey. In addition, we have more
recently completed the construction and
manning Of conventional aircraft bases
Evening star., 1959-12-27

IN Spain and have other facilities IN
Britain and on the European continent.
All are better located strategically than
those in Morocco.
Politically, the development is espe-
cially meaningful to Morocco itself
and, consequently, of potential good will
value to us. Since becoming independ-
ent in 1856, the former French protec-
torate has considered withdrawal of all
foreign forces as one of its prime objec-
tives. While French and Spanish forces
have been substantially reduced, neither
of those governments has yet agreed to
total withdrawal. Our own action may
thus become a yardStick for similar
French and Spanish agreements and a
consequent strengthening of Moroc-
can government that has been generally
pro-WeStern.
In this light, the evacuation an
nouncement and the four years of grace
in which to carry 1t out in orderly
fashion are logical and conmendable
developments.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Nonsense in Warsaw

The Washington Police Department
has not closed the books in the case Of
the reported attack last month on Mrs.
Antoni Czajer wife of Polish Embassy
attache, but it seems unlikely that the
real facts will be aScertained.
This is not because certain circles
In the U. S. A" oppose the development
of good Polish-American relations" as
charged in silly statement in Warsaw
by Vice Minister Marian NaSzkowski.
There are two basic reasons for the fail
ure to solve the case. First, the police
have not been able to corroborate Mrs.
Czajer's story of being beaten in her
apartment by three strange men, and
they obviously do not believe she has
reported the real facts of the incident.
Second, they have been hampered in
their investigation by lack of co-opera-
ton on the part of Mrs. Czajer, who has
returned to Poland, and Polish Embassy
officials.
The police investigators have done
the best they could under the circum-
stances. And if PoliSh-American rela-
tions have suffered, which seems most
improbable, the real damage has re-
suited from the irresponsible accuSa-
tions emanating from the Polish capital.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Still UnsoIved

The conspiracy conviction OF 20
underworld figures for defying grand
jury and Federal officers in the. Apala-
chin convention" mystery ends only
one phase of the strange case. Still
unsolved is the basic question of why
more than so alleged racketeers from
all parts Of the country and even from
Cuba and Italy assembled last November
ID at the Apalachin, New York, estate Of
the late Joe Barbara, sr. Perhaps the
threat of prison sentences and heavy
fines may help to break the silence and
evasion-barrierS which have frustrated
Federal and State efforts to investigate
the meeting.
The small army of well-dressed men
arrived simultaneously at the Barbara
residence, as though in answer to
general summons Yet all who were
arrested by State police before the
meeting could get under way insisted
they were only paying social" calls, or
were visiting sick friend, or happened
to be in the vicinity because of car
trouble These were typical of the
explanations given Federal agents and
a Federal grand jury when Attorney
General Rogers ordered thorough in
vestigation. Twenty defendants finally
were indicted for obStructing justice.
Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman
rightly characterized the guilty finding
by the trial jury as an intelligent ver-
dict" He commented that the con-
viction "will show the country that
grand juries and other Federal agencies
cannot be defied or sneered at by people
who consider themselves above and
beyond the law" Now New York
State investigating commission will re-
sumo its efforts to learn the reason for
the assemblage. There have been
published reports that the participants
had planned to reorganize racketeering
territories and discuss extension of
racketeering in labor unions. We hope
the inquiry will be more successful than
the first.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
LETTERS TO THE STAR
FAA and Brass

Your article, Space
Agency Fills Top Jobs With
Brass From Air Force" does
an excellent job of exploring
what apparently is an in
creasing problem in Govern
ment these days. William
Hines Is to be commended
for the thorough manner in
which he explored this sit
uation.
Frankly, I didn't realize
that this basic problem, with
which we are already famil-
lar in civil aviation, had per-
meated the National Aero
nauticS and Space Admins
tration too. Now that 1t has
been shown that the NASA
is suffering the same hazards,
I would say that The Star
and Mr.. Hines have done q
public service in discussing
the problem publicly.
It may very well be that
you would want to take q
similar look at the new Fed
eral Aviation Agency. I be-
lieve you'll find that almost
exactly the same camel has
crept into the same tent.
Military officers are now as
signed in strategic official po-
sitions throughout the FAA.
And. as you probably know,
the FAA itself is headed by
a retired Air Force general.
Max Karant,
Vice President, Aircraft
Owners and Pilots ASSo-
ciation.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
so Years Ago

A mighty storm struck the
East Coast so years ago. On
December 81, 1909, The Star
reported: The Christmas
blizzard, the severest storm
experienced in the East in 20
years, tied up local traffic
this morning in cities from
Pennsylvania to Maine
and delayed train schedules
throughout half q dozen
States. Conditions, however,
are rapidly improving and
railroads and municipalities
are today bending every ef-
fort to move intercity and
local traffic. There is rea-
son to believe conditions will
be normal again by Tuesday
night, when another storm
is expected from the West.
The heaviest financial loss
was in and around Boston,
where a tidal wave did dam
age estimated at IS million.
A number Of persons have
met their deaths through ex-
posure or accident. :"
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Mob Rule Banned

A hree-judge Federal court has
restored orderly law enforcement to
Minnesota in a decision condemning
Governor Orville L. Freeman'S resort
to martial law in shutting down Wilson
& CompanyS Strikebound Albert Lea
packing plant. The judges quite prop
erly, have characterized the Governors
drastic action as surrender to mob
rule"
1t was mob rule, right enough,
which prevailed at the plant on Deem
Der and 10, when striking union work.
ers masSed at the gates and stoned
nonunion workers hired to keep the
plant in operation. The rioting pre-
sumably could have been halted quickly
by National GuardSmen ordered to the
scene by the Governor. Instead of NOV
ing against the mob, however, the mill
tia, acting under the Governors order,
closed the plant.
The court ruled that the Governor
did not have absolute" authority to
impose martial law on the community.
They held that 1t was unnecessary to
shut the plant down, anyway. The
panel said: Certainly the civil author
tiles with the aid of the National Guard
can control any further disturbance in
and around the plant and without an
order forbidding workers who desire to
work the right of free ingreSS to and
egresS from their place of employment"
The court acknowledged that there
are times when rioting can become so
serious that property rights must be
sacrificed to protect lives. But free
people," the court added, "do not sur
render to mob rule by the expediency
of martial law until all means available
to the city, county and State to enforce
the laws have proved futile"
There was no effort at Albert Lea
to use all such law enforcement means
to preserve order. Instead, the State,
by reason of the closing of the plant,
played into the hands of the union,
which was seeking a shutdown. It is
gratifying that the Federal judges have
so decisively overruled the ill-advised
surrender" by Minnesotas Governor to
hoodlum elements.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Disputed Statement

In his letter Free State" T."
Edwin w. Beitzell makes the
erroneous statement that the
17th-century Maryland Jew,
Jacob Lumbrazo was "acquit-
ted" Of blasphemy against
Christianity "on the ground
that there was nothing un-
lawful in his honest express
sion Of belief" AS Leo Pfeffer
states in his book, Church,
State, and Freedom" Deacon
Press, 1889, the prosecution
against LumbraZo never
reached trial, having been
dropped "for reasons which
have never been clearly ex-
planned" His life was spared
in spite Of. not because Of, the
law. Stanley Lichtenstein.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Burned Up
D. c. of Tomorrow

This is how the Junior
Chamber of Commerce helps
to solve the problems Of
downtown Washington: 1t
invites to Washington a
group of students from an
out-of town university and
urges the students to play
with the highly imaginative
maps propsgated by the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission.
These maps, as many peo-
pie know, do not represent
reality. but rather represent
what the Commission has de-
cided is inevitable" These
maps invariably picture an
East Mall, containing Govern
ment Office buildings lined up
like tombstones, even though
Congress has at least
twice openly refuted the idea
Of de stroying residential
Capitol Hill.
The result, therefore. Of the
efforts Of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce to improve
downtown Washington as re-
ported in the December IA
Star is nothing but a concern
that the tombstones will look
drab. 1t does not matter that
the downtown business area
will lose a good supply of
customers when East Capitol
street is mauled; 1t does not
matter that the East Mall
is inaccessible to the bulk Of
Metropolitan Area popula-
ton; it does not matter that
Federal Office construction
could be the shot in the arm
that the real downtown
needs.
The Jaycees, however. al
though they have ignored the
basic problems Of downtown
deterioration and Northwest
urban renewal which they
started out to solve, may
take heart in knowing they
have abetted the creation Of
another dignif1ed cemetery
for the Government employe
to spend his days in.
Peter Glickert.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
rs Years AGO

The 5-5-3 naval treaty was
on the way out rs years ago.
On December 80, 1884, The
Star reported: "A quiet but
definite refusal Of Japanese
demands for naval equality
was the United States an
Swer last night to Japar's
formal denunciation of the
Washington naval limita-
tions treaty of 1922. Secre-
tary Hull, accepting from
Hirosi Saito, suave Ambas-
sador from Japan, the oficial
signal of the death Of the
5-5-3 pact on December 81,
1886, declared he did so with
genuine regret Pledging,
simultaneously, continued ef-
forts to promote peace
through disarmament by CO.
operating toward new naval
limitations, Hull, neverthe-
less, declared experience had
shown that equality of arma-
ments' was not the path to
peace. :"
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Problem for the Summit?

When they reconvene in Geneva on
January IL to resume their talks on
banning nuclear tests, the Anglo
American-Soviet negotiators will have to
come to grips with an exceedingly
difficult and diScouraging problem that
cannot be wished away.
Summed up in somewhat oversim-
plif1ed terms, the problem revolves
around the fact that underground deto-
nations, unlike the familiar atmospheric
shots that cause health-endangering
fallout, do not lend themselves to easy
detection. On the contrary under the
policing system discussed thus far at
Geneva "a relatively compact setup of
mobile observing teams and 180 watch
dog stations spotted around the globe),
such detonations could be set off clan
deStinely in manner that would make
them indiStinguiShable from the great
numbers Of natural earthquakes that
occur every year throughout the world.
At the recent technical deliberations
in Geneva, Soviet scientists attacked all
this as a false theory cooked up by the
West to sabotage a teSt-ban agreement.
Yet the fact remains land the Russian
experts will have to acknowledge it in
due course if they take a truly objective
view of the matter) that thoroughgoing
American studies leave no room for
doubt that underground detonations-
even ones Of great power, with magni-
tude equivalent to hundreds Of thou
sands of tons of TNT-can be so "muf-
fed" as to make them either undetect-
able or readily mistaken for shocks or
tremorS in the earth. Accordingly, the
policing plan that has been considered
up to now must be regarded as offering
altogether too little protection against
the dangerous possibility that one or an
other Of the signatory powers might
stage such explosions in violation of
treaty prohibiting them.
Actually, there are some American
scientists who feel that adequate safe
guards against this danger would require
machinery Of detection, inspection and
verif1cation much too elaborate to be
practical. In any case, although their
assessment of the problem may be over
peSsimistic, there can be no question
JIldU BE6dG u6dl VI GlIIlc dIlO CIlOLG Will
be required to work out reasonably
effective and trustworthy policing meth
ods-a fact suggesting that the Geneva
negotiatorS ought to try for no more at
present than limited ban ending the
readily detachable, fallout-cauSing at
moSpheric tests, but permitting nom
communicating underground shots until
tbara ic real disc armament with control
methods in which all powers can have
confidence.
Realism argues in favor Of such an
interim agreement, which would have
the positive virtue, at least, of eliminat-
ing mankind's worries about fallout from
tests. The problem is one that may well
commend itself to the attention Of Mr..
Khrushchev and his Western counter
parts at the spring summit meeting.
Evening star., 1959-12-27

A new service to readers OF
The Star was inaugurated rs
years ago. On January /,
1885. The Star said: while
10000 miles Of telegraph
wire hummed an electrifying
refrain, 3S newspapers in IS
Of Americas larger cities to-
day blazoned their pages
with magic pictures herald
ing a new epoch in Journal
ism - the Inauguration Of
Associated Press Wirephoto
service. There was nothing
magic about the pictures
themselves. 1t was In the
transmission Of them across
thousands Of miles of wire,
with the speed Of telegraphed
news, that newspaperdom
marveled today-and unused
upon its implications for the
future. :"
Evening star., 1959-12-27
Scales Off?

Why are the laws of the
United States so unfair? A
person who is able to work
may walk off the job and
collect unemployment COM
pensation for 80 weeks. A
Government employe may re-
tire voluntarily, and, while
receiving an annuity from
the Government, be eligible
to receive unemployment COM
pensation for 80 weeks. But a
person who becomes totally
disabled must wait 6 months
before applying for disability
soci al security. Another 8
months wait is necessary be-
fore his case is decided. Dur
ing this 9 months he is not