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Evening star., 1959-11-18

dollars worth of evergreens and
Towering shrubs and trees
Radio station managers are
aware of all the bad practices
Of Payola, but I guess they
take the attitude that the
kid isn't making much salary
here. so if he can make a little
on the side, God bless him."
Mr.. Mckenzie did not spell
out how he earned 100000 a
year. but gave a clue to his
large income by saying at an
other point:
Between each record you
are required to give two, three
or four commercials. Even
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Disc Jockey RevoIts,
Bores PoyoIo Rocket

NEW YORK, Nov. Is (AP).-
A disc jockey says he quit q
$50 .000-a-year radio job in De-
troit because of inceSsant COM
mercials, subservience to ratings
and pressures Of payola.
Writing in the current issue
of Life Magazine, Ed Mckenzie,
formerly Of Detroit Station
WXYZ, says:
Because OF the charts that
are put together by numbers of
music trade publishers that rate
the popularity of records. I had
to play music on my program
that I would never have played
otherwise.
And the charts are phony
because Of the most disgusting
part of the radio industry
payola."
Payola is described by Mr..
Mckenzie as offering disc
Evening star., 1959-11-18

though I was paid a commits
sion for each commercial I gave
at WXYz 1t bothered my con-
science terribly. I knew that
/ was driving any intelligent
listener away from radio with
this drivel."
Mr.. Mckenzie says he quit
WXYz last spring and now Is
with a small daytime station,
IDetroit-Monroe VOTE.
A WXYZ spokesman said in
Detroit last night, I'VE would
like to reserve comment on the
article by this former employe
until we have a chance to see
it in print"
Evening star., 1959-11-18
Probe DoubIe-Checks
Dick CIork's Activities

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1S
CAP. - Two House investi-
gators have come here to check
Information about the tele-
vision practices of Dick Clark,
idol of teen-agers
The House Subcommittee on
Legislative Oversight announced
the investigators trip yester-
day. A spokesman said the
information generally con-
cerned the subcommittee's in
vestigation of practices used
to promote music.
The two investigators could
not be reached for comment.
In Washington, however.
Robert w. Lishman, chief
counsel of the subcommittee,
said he sent the investigators
to Philadelphia Monday night
after receiving a call from a
"Mr. Williams, a reporter on
the Philadelphia Bulletin"
Mr.. Williams gave us some
very good leads" Mr.. Lishman
said. "and we're checking on
them right now"
He identified the investi-
gators as Charles Houze, a
staff attorney, and James
Kelly, staff investigator.
Told to Follow Up Leads
Mr.. Lishman declined to
name the people the investi-
gators are questioning. He
said he expects them back in
Washington by late tomorrow
or the next day.
"They have been instructed" "
Mr.. Lishman said, Ito follow
up all the leads given us. to
verify the allegations and then
to report back here so we can
determine whether the matter
falls within our Jurisdiction"
Mr.. Lishman refused to say
what allegations had been
made in connection with Mr..
Clark, but added that the sub
committee also has been given
"other leads on Clark from
other reporters in other cities"
He wouldn't amplify beyond
saying newspaper reporters
have given us some of our best
leads so far on disc Jockeys"
The subcommittee announced
recently that it would investi-
gate payoffS to disc jockeys to
play and promote records.
ABC Expresses Confidence
Mr.. Clark's network issued a
statement last night in New
York:
The American Broadcasting
Co. said it had examined all
evidence available to us" on
Mr.. Clark's various shows and
had concluded its investigation
with renewed faith and con-
Evening star., 1959-11-18

jockeys cash to play records
they wouldn't ordinarily play
The article continues:
Il never took payola because
to me it was completely dis
honest. but ! was often ap-
preached by small companies
who were having a tough time
getting their stuff on the air
They would say, Well, how
much do you want to ride this
record for the next three
weeks?' They might offer $10O
for a one-week ride, which
would have meant playing the
record several times a day to
make it popular.
Many disc jockeys are on
the weekly payroll of 5 to 10
record companies, which can
mean a side income of S25. .OOO
to $4,000 a year.
"Payola usually begins when
a song plugger or publisher
comes to town and takes the
Evening star., 1959-11-18

jockey out for dinner. The
sky's the limit on entertain
ment-drinks. girls, everything.
There is always a big fol-
low-up at Christmas. They
flood you with liquor, TV sets,
hi-1a sets, expensive luggage,
big baskets Of food, watches,
silk shirts. imported sweaters.
"The flow doesn't stop after
the holiday season. A record
plugger once offered to install
a bar in my basement. When
one Detroit jockey moved into
a new home. his property was
landscaped with hundreds of
Evening star., 1959-12-14
DAVID LAWRENCE
NyLeogue and Loyalty Ooths

such a minute inspection of
their personal affairs?
When Congress asks a stu
dent who applies for a Gov
ernment loan to take an
oath of allegiance to his own
Government and to sign also
only a simple paragraph
which says he is not a mem
ber Of any organization
seeking to overthrow the
Government of the United
States by force or violence,
some of the spokesmen for
Ivy League colleges con-
denim this as an "affront"
and coercion" and an in
suit to the students. The
American Council on Educa-
ton calls it "superfluous"
and interference" The
theory is that it prizes into
the private affairs of the
student and makes him
swear not to do something
he doesn't intend to do any
way. Loyalty to the Gov
ernment. it is argued. should
be taken for granted. Then
why shouldn't amateur
standing and professional
behavior be taken for grant,
ed, too?
The answer is that some
form of pledge is felt to be
necessary by the college au-
thorities to conform to what
is referred to as the poll
cies and the spirit Of the Ivy
Group Agreement" The eight
colleges concerned have
formed a governing body.
and they rightly desire to
prevent any professionalism.
The agreement may be too
detailed and too restrictive.
yet its general spirit is under
Standable.
But what isn't under
standable is why the repre-
sentatives Of at least four
Of the Ivy League colleges
and the Association of Uni
versity Professors have
spoken out against the 10y
atty oath requirements which
Congress thinks would as
sist our Government in
stamping out communism
and subversive activities.
For it is we'll known that the
Communist technique is to
try to inflltrate members of
the faculty as we'll as stu
dents Of universities every
where in carrying on anti
American propaganda.
tCopyrisht 1857
Evening star., 1959-12-14
Colleges Held Inconsistent in Opposing
Anti-Red Vow, Imposing Amateur Code

game of the colleges. While
they already had completed
their football careers as un-
dergraduates, their own uni
versity was threatened with q
forfeiture of the champion
ship If they played. They
obeyed the edict.
Mike Pyle, who played GEN.
ter on the Yale football team
this year. had this to say
about the Ivy Group Agree
ment in a recent issue Of
Sports Illustrated:
Ivy League ethletes
should have the same oppor-
tunity as anyone else to play
in a post-Season game. Every
time I sign the Ivy League
code I have an evil taste in
my mouth. It's Just a silly
two-page document and I
don't believe in it, but I have
to sign it in order to play. I
don't think the Ivy League
has been fair to the athlete"
This particular athlete, an
honor student. happens to
have a father who is able to
pay his way through college,
but seemingly there is a
tendency to suspect all those
who may be working their
way. The college authorities
scrutinize every dollar Of in
come a student receives to
see if it comes from some
outside source interested in
helping an athlete.
Indeed. the Ivy Group
Agreement goes so far as to
prohibit any athlete from
engaging for money or other
substantial consideration in
any occupation, business
transaction or advertising
promotion wherein his use
fulness or value arises chiefly
from the publicity value Of
his name as an athlete or his
ability as an athlete, ETC."
Is it fair to inquire into the
personal finances and occu-
pations of every student just
because he is an athlete?
Can't he be trusted by taking
a simple oath of allegiance
to his college and the cause
of amateur athletics? Why
must the students who hap
pen to be athletes undergo
Evening star., 1959-12-14
Soviet Package Deal
Offered on Attest Ban

proposal was a control COM
mission comprising three mem
bers of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. three
members Of the Soviet bloc and
one neutral.
WadsOrth Explains
Mr.. Wadsworth said this pat
tern contains a concealed veto
since three Communist mem
berS could block the necessary
two-thirds majority to pass the
budget.
Mr.. Tsarapkin said that If
the West accepted this pattern,
the Soviet union would agree
to the Western-proposed 1873
division Of the technical staff
on the fixed control posts to
be set up around the world.
The United States and Bri-
tain have suggested that con-
troll posts in the territory Of
the three nuclear powers should
be stated one-third by citizens
OF the country where the post
is located, one-third by the
citizens of non-nuclear states.
The non-nuclear component
be divided again in to one-third
from North Atlantic Treaty
nations, one-third from the
Soviet bloc and one-third from
neutral nations.
Evening star., 1959-12-14
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Titan missile blows up Cape Canaveral launching
pad Everybody in favor of disarmament there some
quieter way to do it?
We'll fellow vets it's time to get the G. l. insurance
policy take the etanus shots sign for combat pay and
volunteer again-for one day of Christmas shopping
The Communist Party convention denounces Truman
Nixon Rockefeller Harry appreciates the compliment but
wonders what those two upstairs did deserve it.
Q-Why do you hear so little criticism the adminstra-
ton these days A-Peope found lot more fun to pick
teevision.
good even the missiles refuse to fly further south
Eight thousand people mob a tea for Ike in India If
khruShchev is right that capitalism dead this thing
the fanciest wake since Rudolph Valentines
Evening star., 1959-12-14
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Kennedy Testing Concluded

rifice could do the party any
thing but harm.
He earnestly hopes the So
called Catholic issue" will
not be further inflamed. But
obviously he thinks this: If
by convention time he has
fallen back in any measur-
able way-Say by the loss Of
critical primaries-the con-
vention will have every
right to reject him on these
purely practical grounds. But
if he is still the top man and
is nevertheless still rejected,
there is this consideration:
To deny him the Presiden-
tial nomination for no dis
cernible reason except his re-
ligion, and then to offer him
the Vice Presidency for the
same reason, would be an
unacceptable convention ma
neuver, both as to ethics and
to plain political expediency.
Evening star., 1959-12-14
Senator to Relax After SompIing
Of General Opinion on Candidacy

Senator John F. Kennedy
Of Massachusetts, has just
come to the end Of one Of the
longest pre-Presidential con-
vention trails in American
politics.
The traveller, through at
last with scatter-gun barn
storming. heads now for a
long deferred rest in Florida.
In January he will formally
announce that - surprise,
surprise!-he is a candidate
for the Democratic Presi-
dental nomination next
summer.
Kennedy has been up and
down and across and over
the country times without
count for two years. He has
examined its grass roots,
North, South, East and West.
He has talked with a thous-
and tough local politicos and
a hundred ivory tower char
acters in the universities. He
has had an extraordinary
education in the geography
physical, human and DO
lltical-of the United States
OF America.
In this exhaustive enter
prise he has been of service
TO his party as we'll as To
ms own ambitions. For his
decision to go out early for
the Presidency has forced
an unusually early and truly
N a wide discussion
among the Democrats as to
whom they ought to choose
next year.
At this moment of pause
and rest, where does Ken
nedy's own candidacy really
stand? There is a consider
able, cool confidence in this
young politician (42), though
he knows the way at best
Will not be easy. He is aware
that the tradition against a
Catholics reaching the Pres
ldency puts special demands
upon him.
He recognizes that to have
any real hope he must 20 to
he Democratic National
Convention as the repeatedly
proved front-runner of all
the field. He reckons he must
not only still be at the top
OF the public opinion polls
Evening star., 1959-12-14
Fairfax Suspends
Police in Crash

Two Fairfax County police
man involved in a four-car
crash in which eight persons.
including themselves, were in
jured, were suspended from the
force yesterday.
Police Pvt. Billie J. Lamb, %,
three years on the force, was
charged with reckless driving
and suspended.
Pvt. Wayne T. Frakes, 90, a
passenger in Pvt. Lambs car,
was suspended on a charge OF
being intoxicated while of
duty, according to Police Chief
William L. Durrer.
Police said Pvt. Lambs car
went out of control on Route /
near Bargain City Friday night
and struck a car driven by
Leonard NJ. Quinn, 81, of 2l6
Laurel road, Alexandria. Two
other cars also became involved
in the tangle.
Pvt. Lamb, Pvt. Frakes, and
a third policeman, Milton R.
Goff, 80, were injured. Pvt.
Goff and Mr.. Quinn were hos
pltalized. Others were reported
to have suffered minor injuries.
Evening star., 1959-12-14

but also must have won a
series of Democratic pri-
maries IN important States.
He accepts without COM
plant his extra burden as
one Of the facts of political
life. His people accept, too,
that two Of his prospective
rivals, Adlai E. Stevenson and
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
Of Texas. have some warrant
for avoiding the primaries be-
cause Of their higher earned
positions in the party hier-
archy.
They don't quite see, how
ever, why another of the as
pirants, Senator Stuart Sy-
mington of Missouri, should
claim this preferred status
above the battle. They feel
Kennedy is entitled to en-
gage Symington head-on in
at least some Of the primaries.
Their reckoning continues
along these lines; That Ken
nedy's present momentum
will hold up through the pri-
marieS-and If it does he will
go to the convention with the
largest single bloc Of dele
gates. If this momentum does
not hold up, Kennedy will be
gone. and that will be that.
But if his public standing on
the contrary is higher even
than now, he cannot be put
of with the Vice Presidential
nomination.
Though many a deter
mined Presidential candidate
has settled in the end for the
lesser place, Kennedy'S whole
attitude strongly indicates he
will not. He knows he will be
under heavy pressure for
the good of the party" to 60
along like a good boy-that
is assuming he cannot blitz
the convention for the top
spot. But he doesn't see how
he would owe quite that much
to the party, considering that
he had much rather remain
a Senator than be a Vice
President. And he also
doesn't see that such a sac
Evening star., 1959-12-14

Some Of the Eastern COL
leges which have refused to
allow their students to sign
loyalty oaths so as to con-
form to Federal law govern
ing loans to students are
now facing strong criticism
for their own inconsistencies.
They themselves impose a
species of loyalty oath"
which goes further in i'm
pinging on the rights of the
individual than anything
required by Congress.
The So-called Ivy Group
Agreement" which is a
treaty among Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania, Brown, Cornell, CO.
lumbia and Dartmouth, oon-
sistS Of two closely printed
pages containing ten restric-
tive provisions and requiring
the most detailed informa-
ton, together with a series
Of pledges. These include a
complete disclosure of how
much money the student is
to receive from his family,
from relatives and from any
occupation throughout each
year. and an itemized state
ment as to what sources, in
Guiding savings, are to be
used in financing his educa-
ton. The loyalty oath"
reads as follows:
II certify that the infor-
nation here provided is ac-
curate and complete and
that l believe I am eligible
to compete as an amateur
in the college I am now at
tending.
II have read and agree to
abide by the policies and
spirit of the Ivy Group
Agreement"
This must be signed once a
year during each Of the four
years Of attendance. But it
goes beyond the four sport
seasons themselves. The ath-
lete must swear that he will
not participate in any post
season games even If he
receives no compensation.
Two seniors at the University
of Pennsylvania, which won
the football championship Of
the Ivy League last month.
were recently invited to play
in a North-South post-season
Evening star., 1959-12-14
RALPH McGILL
Paradox Seen Between Eisenhower
Trip and Khrushchev's Visit Here

There was a line in a story
which said President Eisen-
hover. in India and Paki-
stan, rode between solid lines
Of people whose massed num-
bers portrayed the poverty
and misery Of Asia.
What did Khrushchev see
in this country?
Fabulous supermarkets, with
food from all the great pro-
duction areas of the world on
their shelves: a magnificent
network Of truck-and-auto-
mobile crowded highways,
railroad systems and airlines:
a healthy, overfed people, the
poorest of them rich beyond
comparison with Asia's mil
lions; homes, apartments and
farms. Not even teeming,
tense Harlem was so badly
overrun as some Of his own
densely populated urban
areas.
He saw, too, some Of our
stored agricultural wealth.
$6 billion worth Of cheese,
wheat, corn, butter, pow
dered milk, cotton.
And what did Khrushchev
think?
We know he cannot have
failed to think that if he
had had all that surplus of
food and fiber he would have
made political capital of it
in Asia. He had already seen
the multitudeS of Asia and
had looked upon and smelled
their misery and poverty.
Let us summon two more
Evening star., 1959-12-14
Benson Resignation Talk Revived

to help re-elect Senator
Watkins Of his State. Instead.
Utah chose Frank Moss. q
comparative novice. who is
a Mormon but a liberal Dem
ocrat.
Democrats are making
Benson the major issue in
every farm district. and they
encounter little trouble in
the effort. In the contested
Iowa 4th he was hung in
efigy in the Republican can
didate's home town. The re-
turns will indicate whether
this was OVERRIDING it. The
embattled candidate himself,
John Kyl, says Benson's pol
icies are wrong but that
Benson isn't the issue. This
is about as much as any Re-
publican in a farm area will
do for the Secretary.
Such developments cause
reminiscent shiverS among
Republicans. National Chair
man Morton admits to pres
sure for Benson's resignation
but says he does not expect
it and thinks the party will
not force it.
That a Benson resignation,
even with the convenient ex-
cuse Of his health at hand,
would be announced by the
White House with the Presi-
dent in absentia seems out of
character. One Farm Belt
leader suggests rather grimly
that perhaps it's the party's
only chance to rid itself Of
its albatroSs.
Evening star., 1959-12-14

witnesses-two more pairs of
eyes who have seen what
Khrushchev and Eisenhower
have seen.
One Of these is a Congress-
man, Hale Boggs. of Louisi-
ana, a conservative. He is
just recently back from
Southeast Asia and the Mid
die East.
What did Mr.. Boggs see?
Il found" he said, "an
almost savage desire among
peoples Of such lands for the
comforts they know are
available in the world -.
the Communist propaganda
is telling them that the
MarxiSt way is the quickest
ana SureSt road to obtaining
them" Ut is a good phrase
if a frightening one q.
AN almost savage desire. y
Call the next witness
the historian Toynbee. Mr..
Toynbee, what is the most
explosive development of our
age?
This single fact-that
millions of backward people
in the remotest villages of
Asia, Africa and Latin
America have a new aware
ness of poSsibility-a new
hope of escape from the old
vicious memory Of poverty,
hunger and disease. These
millions are rising to de-
mand a better life, a new
personal dignity, and ex-
panding opportunities. Their
Evening star., 1959-12-14
DORIS FLEESON

NEW YORK-Added pi-
quancy has been lent to Gov.
Rockefeller's invasion Of the
old Conservative-isolation
heartland, the Midwest. by
fresh rumors that Agricul-
ture Secretary Benson will
resign any minute now.
A Midwest swing to the
Democrats is universally at
tributed to the Eisenhower
Benson policies. which have
proved unable to reduce sur
pluses or prices paid by the
farmers, whose numbers and
incomes have steadily de-
creased. The President has
been rigidly loyal to Ben
son and both blame the
Democratic Congress for re-
fusing to accept their pro-
posed reforms.
A spot check of Midwest
newspapers shows them re-
porting the new rumorS
more in a spirit of hope
than expectation. The New
York Times, however, in
a Des Moines dispatch,
quotes Republican congress
sional sources in Washington
as saying Benson will resign
Tuesday.
AS the Times points out,
Tuesday is the date Repub-
licans hope to regain the
House seat they lost last
year to the Democrats in
Iowa'S 4th Congressional dis
trict. Iowans in Congress
have led a big parade of
Midwest Republicans to the
White House to demand
Benson's head.
Evening star., 1959-12-14
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Tour Supplies Food for Thought

awakening is the paramount
fact of our time"
1t would almost seem that
Congressman Boggs and His
torian Toynbee had Travelled
together and compared notes.
But they did not. What they
have seen is what every per-
son has seen who has been
to Asia where the great COM
pulSive world changes are
most apparent.
What does Ike think?
We can imagine. He GER
tainly will come home with
a sense Of urgency. He will
have amendments for old
plans. He will be stirred and
moved by the sight of so
much humanity, flowing like
rivers through the streets,
much of it nearly naked, and
nearly all of it thin and most
of it hungry.
Can America be dripping
with fat and remain safe
while the vast revolution of
which traveller Boggs and
Toynbee have spoken and the
President is seeing goes on
about us? Can we destroy
the image Of America as a
land Of free peoples and equal
opportunity? Can we argue
about the rights Of all citi-
zens to vote and have hous-
ing and education on an
equal basis? Can we enjoy
the luxury of strikes and
production stoppages at
time when our economy must
expand to give us momentum
and power?
Ike in Pakistan, Ike in
India, Ike in Africa-poses a
question. the real one.
What do we think?
Evening star., 1959-12-14

GENEVA, Dec. IA (AP).-
The Soviet Union today pro-
posed a package plan" solu-
ton of three of the main out
standing differences in nu-
clear test ban negotiations.
Soviet Delegate Semyon K.
Tsarapkin suggested a deal to
remove long-standing disagree
ment over the composition OF
the-seven-member control COM
mission, the nationality of con-
troll post staff, and the Soviet
demand for a veto over the
organizations budget.
Mr.. Tsarapkin said that if
the United States and Britain
accept the Soviet plan for the
control commission, the Soviet
would accept the Western pro-
posal on the control post staff
and give up its demand for a
veto on the budget.
Concealed Veto Noted
United States Ambassador
James j. Wadsworth and Brit
aims Sir Michael Wright termed
Mr.. TSarapkin's proposal very
interesting" But Mr.. Wads-
worth quickly pointed out that
the proposal still retained a
concealed veto on the budget.
Both sides are agreed that
the three nuclear powers should
be permanent members of the
commission, the top organ of
the control system.
But there is no agreement on
the four other members Of the
commission, who are to be
elected to two-year terms. The
West wants the four elected
members to include at least two
neutral nations.
The basis Of Mr.. Tsarapkin's