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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
D.C.'s New Post Office
Machines Go to Work

process up to $4,000 letters ar
hour: a cancelling machin.
which appears to think like &
human, and 5 miles of Mail
Flo" conveyor belts overhead
which move mail swiftly be.
tween sorting areas.
Machine Scans Letters
Up to 10000 letters an hou
whiz through the canceline
machine. Workers feed Il
handfuls of letters, squared of
in neat bundles, the machine
scans them for stamps, anC
diverts them to right or left
depending on which side the
stamps are on.
Further, if the letter is up
side down, the machine discov.
ers this, flips it in proper posi-
ton, and hands it along to an.
other machine for cancellation
The semi-automatic package
sorting machine, which for q
time had the reputation Of
being a package mangler, per-
formed perfectly for the occa-
sion. The device, which en-
ploys a memory" system, can
handle 14,400 parcels an hour
to 80 destinations.
New Postal Laboratory
Even more fantastic devices
are under development in the
new postal laboratory-first Of
its kind in the country. Among
wonders being worked on there
is a machine which will elec-
ironically read" addresses on
letters.
Other improvements include
an "around-the clock" lobby,
where customers may buy
See POST OFFICE, Page B-l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Picture on Poee 81

Picture on Poqe D.
a button which started lights
flashing and bells ringing and
signaled the start of the
intricate new machinery in the
building at Massachusetts, ave-
nue. and North Capitol street.
The Presidents action eli
NAKED a colorful dedication
ceremony on the second floor,
attended by a large group OF
dignitarieS.
Summerfield Speaks
The principal speaker, Post
master General Summerfleld,
called the opening of the
worlds most mechanical post
office" a major breakthrough in
efforts to provide more efficient
mail service,
He compared the occasion
with such postal milestones as
the start of railroad service for
mail in 1881 and the inagura-
ton of regular air mail service
in 1918.
The $12 million moderniza-
ton job on the building, con-
structed in 1914, took about six
months, Regular mail service
continued in the building dur
ing that time.
The efficient new machinery
includes a semi-automatic cleo
tronic letter sorter which can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Relaxed Drug Controls
Urged by Top Experts

The committee, he said. also
envisages less control over very
minor codeine compounds, for
which purchasers must now
sign poison registers.
The science group said the
development Of new synthetic
narcotics, differing widely in
activity and addiction liability
has produced a situation which
could not have been contem-
plated when narcotics regula-
tons were put in force.
Varying Controls Asked
Pointing out that present
laws make it impossible to ad-
just controls according to the
risk involved, the committee
recommended varying sets of
controls depending on risks of
addiction.
1t proposed that a substance
which is not in itself addict
ing, but could be converted
easily into an addicting sub
stance. should be controlled as
strictly as the addicting sub
stance itself.
Mr. Anslinger said the COM
mittee's attitude is shared by
most Of the parties to interna-
tional narcotics treaties. He
added that 20 States have been
wrestling with the problem of
relaxing drug controls. but can
not act until Federal laws are
modified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
BULLE TIN
u. S. Staff in La Poz
FIees Riot Scene
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The State Department said
today the staff of the United
States Embassy in La Paz,
scene of anti-American riots
last night, has moved to the
outskirts of the city "fOr
better protection by the
Bolivian army" There are
about 1900 Americans in
Bolivia.
Earlier Story, Page A-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
y. S. Space Probe Labeled
Completely Successful
Pioneer Due
ToPossMoon
omorroW
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

The United States fired its
first completely successful"
probe into outer space early
today.
Only collision with a large
meteor can prevent its passing
about $4,000 miles from the
moon shortly after midday to-
morrow and going into an
eternal orbit around the sun,
according to officials of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
NASA and the Army launched
the four-stage, Jupiter-based
Juno II" missile from Cape
Canaveral. Fla, at 1911 am.
Five minutes later, all its
stages having fired. the success
OF the Pioneer " mission was
assured.
At 2 am. the rockets 1871
pound payload was 24,6OO miles
out and travelling last enough
to assure its permanent free.
dom from the earth's gravita-
tional attraction.
Progress Statistics
Pioneer Tvs further progress
report read thus:
4:30 am, 42.100 miles out.
travelling at $500 m.p.h.
6 am, $4,000 miles out. speed
1880 m.p.h.
2 am. $1,000 miles out, speed
1850, m.p.h.
At 8 o'clock, an unusual and
extremely precise AK" on the
space probe was obtained when
three tracking stations re-
ceived its signals simultane-
ously. This calculation placed
the bird $4,000 miles out, di-
reetly over Q point in the Pc
ruvian Andes. Its speed was
reckoned ct 6.74s miles an hour.
The Q o'clock reading was
u. 400 miles; speed, 6,5l8 m.p.h.
At II am. the cone was 1890
miles away and travelling 6,l62
miles an hour, exactly on SEIZED.
Iule.
| NASA scientists calculated
that ate pm. 1t would be
$500 miles away and down
to $3.50 miles an hour.
Final Stage Follows Cone
DR.. William H. Pickering, df.
rector of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. said the cone is fol-
lowed in its course through
space by the final stage, a rocket
about four feet long, s inches in
diameter which weighed SO
pounds on launching. The rock
cts weight after its fuel was
expended was only a fraction
Of that total.
DR.. Pickering said the final
stage must be travelling along
close behind the cone. It has
no instruments. however, and
cannot be tracked.
Though the conical instru-
ment package was destined to
travel ever more slowly as it
struggled upward against the
earth's gravitationai pull, it was
far too fast to be sucked back to
See PIONEER. Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
BY RICHARD O'LONE
Star stan Writer

The mechanical wonderland
that is Washington's newly
modernized City Post Office
was placed in official operation
today by President Eisenhower
The President, from a White
House conference room, pressed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Milk Labelling
Move Started
RD.C.H Heads
Commission PIons
Special Emblem
On All Containers
BY GILBERT GINIBLE
Star stan Writer


The District Commissioner.
today ordered a new regulation
drafted which would require
the labelling of milk legally
salable in the District with ar
official emblem on the con-
tainer.
The labelling move followed
announcement by Chestnut
Farms (Sealtest) biggest dairy
here, that it plans to start
processing milk here from
farms not approved by the
District Health Department
Sealtest was later Joined by
Thompson's Dairy in its decla-
ration.
The milk in question, accord
ing to Sealtest. would be sold
only in Maryland.
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin said there was nc
direct connection between the
Commissioners action and eff
forts of dairymen outside the
Maryland Virginia area to have
present District regulations
barring their milk strapped.
Medical Protest Heard
Legislation would be required
for the latter, he said.
He said he has acted in an
executive session. Earlier, the
commission heard a declaration
by DR.. Herbert P. Ramsey, for
mer president Of the District
Medical Society, against any
relaxation of present stiff Dis
trict milk controls. DR.. Ramsey,
who was at the District Build
ing on another matter. pointed
out that the Medical Society
had long opposed any such
easing.
Milk controls here are stricter
than anywhere else in the coun-
try, he said. adding that this
was because Of a typhoid cpl
demic some years ago which
was traced to a contaminated
spring in Montgomery County.
Some dairy interests outside
the District areas are backing
legislative proposals TO make It
impossible for local commune
Ties, including the District, to
bar any milk which meets
Standards set by the Public
Heath Service.
Dairy Sees Price Cut-h
"To say well slip backward
to the standard Of the Public
Health Service is like saying
children over the country go
through the sixth grade and
here GO through the eighth
grade and we should adopt the
standard of the rest Of the
country" DR.. Ramsey declared.
I'VE don't care where they
buy the milk or who they get
it from as long as no tinkering
is done WITH the standard of
milk of the District OF Column
bia," he added.
Meanwhile Chestnut Farms
said today it would reduce the
average consumer price of milk
up to 2 cents a quart" if a
pending Federal market order
is established as the farmers
price for fluid milk.
Edgar N. Brawner, general
See, MILK, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Press Conference

President Eisenhower will
hold a news conference tomor-
row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
9PupiIsDrown
In Bus Plunge
Vehicle Dives Into
Pond in Georgia

Triton. Ga, Mar. 3 (AP) -
A school bus carrying Sc chill
dren careened of a road into a
farm pond today, drowning nine
of the occupants.
Five girls and four boys rang
ing in age from S to is lost
their lives as the terrified chill
dren fought to reach windows
Iof the half-submerged bus.
The vehicle, bringing the Me-
gro pupils to an elementary
and high school here, hit a
rut in a dirt road and slipped
into the pond at $40 am. 1t
came to rest on its right side.
Two boys on the bus managed
to open a window and crawl
out. They were joined by two
men who saw the accident. The
four broke windows and hauled
all of the children out.
RescuerS were unable to de-
termine whether all of the
children had been removed I'M
til the bus was pulled from the
water shortly before IL am.
80 Taken to Hospital
Thirty-eight of the children
were brought to the Tiff Coun-
ty Hospital. All were released
after first aid. excepting three
who were suffering from shock.
Doyle Jones, 38, the driver,
said the bus went out of control
after hitting the rut and the
wheels seemed to lock when he
tried to slow it down.
The pond is on the farm of
Ike jackson three miles from
Brookfield and about five miles
from Triton, in South Georgia.
The emergency door on the
bus was only half covered by
water. but the door handle o.
parently had been pulled off
by the children in their efforts
to open it.
\ James Collins. II, and Oscar
Holt, Is, first out of the bus,
started pulling others out
See DROWNING, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
star staff Writer

Top authorities on drug ad-
diction and narcotics today
formally proposed relaxing Fed
eral narcotics laws 10 permit
Notwithstanding drugs to be
sold across the counter with
out prescription.
The recommendation came
from the Committee on Drug
Addiction and Narcotics of the
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council. II
is supported by Federal Mar
cotics Commissioner Harry j
Anslinger, a committee member
The committee wants the
stiff controls modified to pro-
vide greater flexibility in using
analgesic drugs-or pain con-
trollers-in medicinal prepara-
tons.
Mr.. Anslinger said the first
duty is to see that nothing sold
across the counter is dangerous,
but since no addition has ap-
peared in number of Synthet-
les, there is no point in SLOW
ing up the practice Of medicine
and pharmacy with needless
controls.
Examples Cited
He cited papavarine. noSca-
pine and other iso-quiniline
alkaloids of opium which are
not habit-forming. but for
which a prescription is required
under present laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Leaders Arrest Stirs
NewNyosoIond Rioting

BLANTYRE. Nyasaland. Mar.
8 AP). = Authorities arrested
African Nationalist Leader
Hastings Banda today and new
disorders erupted in this East
African protectorate.
Police FLASHED with African
rioters in the Blantyre-Limbe
area. Three Africans we're
killed and two injured, An
African policeman was seriously
wounded.
Seventeen Africans were re-
ported shot dead today and IS
wounded when security forces
fired on q mob at Nkata Bay.
on Lake Nyasa. this afternoon.
according to dispatches from
Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia.
Another African was killed
and one wounded at Fort Man
ming in Central Province, when
police were also forced to open
up on an unruly mob, the re-
ports said.
Police at Blantyre first
charged with clubs to disperse
a crowd Of demonstrators. They
then turned tear gas on the
crowd and opened fire.
Emergency Proclaimed
Two policemen were stoned
when they went to investigate
"a gathering Of about 200 Afri-
cans near zomba. 81 miles
northeast of Blantyre. Eight
Africans were arrested for
blocking roads with fallen
trees.
The government proclaimed
a state Of emergency in Nyasa-
land.
Sir Robert Armitage. British
governor of the FESTIVE colony,
said that DR.. Banda. 54-year-
old physician leader of the At
rican National Congress, and
a large number Of other mill
tant nationalist seized with
him would be sent into exile.
Organizations Banned.
Blantyre, the Nyasaland cap
ital, and neighboring Limbo,
where DR.. Banda lives, were
packed with armed troops. Ar
mored cars ringed DR.. Banda's
house as he was arrested and
spotter aircraft patrolled over
the two cities constantly.
Gov. Armitage banned the
African National Congress in
Nyasaland, as well as its Youth
League and Women's League.
He said the groups had become
Q threat to law. order and the
colony's prosperity.
The governor said that per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Macmillan
Warns on Use
OF Red Force
Khrushchev Says
Russia Fuvors
Peaceful ToIks

MOSCOW. Mar. 3 (AP).-
Prime Minister Macmillan
warned the Russians in fare
well today against a resort to
force IL. the Berlin crisis. Pre-
mier Khrushchev. wishing him
bon voyage, said I'VE are in
favor of solving all disputed
issues only by peaceful neeotia-
tons"
A joint communique, q Mac
milan news conference and
parting exchanges at Moscow's
Vnukovo Airport summed up
the positions Of Britain and the
Soviet Union on world issues
as determined in talks over the
past 10 days.
Mr.. Macmillan, who started
his reconnaissance mission to
Moscow February 81, took of
for hcme at 4:45 pm. aboard q
British Comet w jet airliner.
The corwd at the airport
waved and cheered.
Talks Called Useful
The British and Soviet gov
eminent chiefs admitted in
their communique, signed at
the Kremlin. that they had
been unable to agree on po-
litical and legal aspects of a
World War II peace treaty with
Germany.
But they held the talks were
useful and agreed:
Early negotiations must be
started to settle the problems
Of Germany. which could lay
the foundations for q stable
system Of European security"
They have q common objec-
tive Of ultimate prohibition Of
nuclear weapons under an In
ternational system of inspee-
ton and control.
Soviet British cultural re-
lations will be expanded and
trade relations have been re-
viewed.
Dangerous implications
Before the takeoff. Mr.. Mac
milan made a 40-minute APP
pearance before nearly 800
newsmen at the Moscow House
of Journalists.
There he declared that the
Berlin situation has dangerous
implications which must be
settled by negotiation and not
by force.
"Unilateral action can only
lead to danger" Mr.. Macmillan
said. I'VE must avoid uni
lateral action and agree to-
negotiate together. Upon that
theme we can make progress"
He described his CONVERSE
tons with Mr.. Khrushchev as
long. careful private talks
held in an informal atmos-
phere with each free to speak
his mind to the other"
A Communist correspondent
asked Mr.. Macmillan If he
thought the time was now
nearer when defensive al
Iiances could be abandoned.
I'VE have to work steadily
forward from point to point"
Mr.. Macmillan said.
Desire for Agreement
He argued that an agreement
on European problems would
accelerate the drive toward
some later broad agreement
between East and West. But
he declared "it is not a good
rule to try and make new
See MACMILLAN. Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Scene Of Demonstrations

Nyasaland. linked with South
ern and Northern Rhodesia in
the British-controlled Central
African Federation. has been
the scene Of violent nationalist
demonstrations in the past two
weeks.
The Southern Rhodesia goy-
eminent proclaimed an emer-
gency last Thursday and
rounded UP more than 400 Con-
gress leaders in an effort to
prevent the trouble from
spreading to this colony. Gov.
Armitage was criticized by
whites for not following suit
Immediately.
Northern Rhodesia. which
Zee NYAsALAND. Page Az
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sons who continued to hold Of
fee in the congress movement
would be liable TO IA years in
Jail while those who continued
to be members could be jailed
for seven years.
All schools--for whites. At
ricans and Asians-were closed
in Blantyre, Limbo. Cholo and
Lilongwe. the major towns Of
Nyasaland. Parents were adj
vised to keep their children at
home and not leave them un-
attended. Boarding school pu-
pills we're ordered kept in their
hostels.
Troop reinforcements already
had been flown to Nyasaland
from neighboring South ern
Rhodesia. In Northern Rho
desia the territorial reserves
were called UP today for serv-
ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03

Recently, Mrs. D. F. wanted
to sell her piano. She struck
the right sales note by adj
vertising in the resultful
columns Of The Star CLASH
fled. She found q buyer the
first day her ad ran.
If you have something to
sell, big or little, from
pianos to ping pong pad
dies, get ABSTRACTION by al
ways using Star Classified
-. Washington's preferred
classified medium by more
than 2 to l according to an
American Research Bureau
survey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-03
Desire for Agreement

He argued that an agreement
on European problems would
accelerate the drive toward
some later broad agreement
between East and West. But
he declared "it is not a good
rule to try and make new
See MACMILLAN. Page AS
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PROPOSALS
lcONIlNUEpl

INVITATION FOR BIDS = Sealed
Representatives with quantities
Of stationery supplies will be re-
ceived up 20 l2:OO O'Clock noon
on Nay ~, 1859. to be deliV-
cred IL such times and in such
quantities As may be required
Abe fiRnt to reject any ana ali
bids Is hereby reserved. Blank
FORMS OF proposals showing the
quantity and quality OF each ar
signed by bidder and sureties viii
be furnished on Application Il
this ONCE. RALPH r. ROBERTS
Clerk. U 8. House Of Represents.
tiVes,
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AUCTION SALES
PUBLIC SALE of King
George County, Virginia,

PUBLIC SALE of King
George County, Virginia
Farm, May 81, 1853, II
O'Clock am. (EST) in front
of Courthouse at King
George, Virginia.
The undersigned will offer for sail
at that time and place the Altt
and Purks Farms, consiStins o.
one farm, with improvements
thereon, open land in grass, we'll
fenced, with pond and exercise
track for race horses, containini
$50 acres, more or less, situate
along Route Gil. and portion
Of 1t only a few hundred yard
from Route 30l.
Terms Of sale: Cash.
For further information, contact
HORACE T. MORRISON. Kinl
C. oe oS'tcsoSiNooR GOODRICH. Box s5s
ATTORNEYS for OWNERS. mylO,17
THE STANLEY GALLERIES, 321S
M st. NV, will sell at Auction
furniture and furnishing from sew.
eral estates. other consignoTs
eatagorlcally: sWrought iron din.
ing table, chairs; 'Pine dininf
room table and six chairs; 'Sofas.
Mirrors; Garden furniture
eChickering spinet piano; sol
paintings: "Oriental rugs, ovel
one hundred in characteristic col
ors, designs and dimensions; aCryS'
tai; sPorcelains; sBric-a-brael
sObIet dart, Decorative embel-
lishments, etc, etc. On View
Sat. and Fri, May Q and 10, from
! to g pm. Auct.: Mon, May IL
from 1870 pm. Rugs to be sole
at evening. Tues, from s pm.
my 10
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