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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
u. S. Extends
China Visus
Of Newsmen
By the Associated Press

The State Department has
extended for another year the
passports Of some 80 American
newsmen who want to visit
Red China.
But there was indication the
Peiping regime was about To
have a change Of heart and
open its doors TO any Of the
applicants.
Earlier State Department
bans against visits Of United
States newsmen to Red China
were lifted 20 months ago
Since then Red China has al
lowed only one United States
newsman, John Strohm of the
Newspaper Enterprises Asso-
citation TO tour the Red main
land.
The State Department said
yesterday. 1.-The Peiping regime
has attempted to justify this
refusal by charging that the
United States Government was
not granting reciprocity.
IF the Chinese Communists
were indeed interested in reci-
procity they would have an
equal number of Chinese news
men apply for Omitted States
visas."
In reply to questions, Press
Officer Lincoln White said the
department would not agree in
advance to admit an equal
number of Chinese Commu-
nistS before their identities
are known. But the "reci-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
New Sonar Finds
Subs Hiding in
Thermal Layers

NEWPORT. r. l.. April "a
(AP).-Rear Admiral Lloyd
Muslin. commander of De-
stroyer Flotilla ?. says the Navy
has developed advanced sonar
equipment that strips a sub
marine of its best barrier
against detection.
In the past, submarines we're
able to take advantage Of Their
NAL Cheat) layers in the water
which distort sonar sound
waves searching for them, Ad-
miral Muslin said. They could
Turk in comparative safety be-
meath the layers while the old
fashioned sonar tried to locate
the underwater craft.
Admiral Muslin said new
variable depth sonar sound
waves can get around the tenn
perature changes in the water
and detect lurking submarines.
The new device, he said yes
terday, is dropped from de-
stroyers on a long wire. If
we know where submarines are
now, we can kill them" he
added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
Price of Leadership
For Americans Cited

Senator Young, Democrat OF
Ohio, today warned that
Americans must be willing to
pay the price of world leader
ship.
In remarks prepared for de-
livery at a luncheon of the Dis
trict Chapter of the Military
Government Association at the
National Press Club, the Sena-
tor said reducing taxes now was
out of the question.
Congress should not be too
soft or too timid in providing
taxes" he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
SOutherners
Back Regional
A-Energy Pact

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April "a
(AP). - fhcials from Ia
Southern States gave unani-
nous approval yesterday to a
proposed interstate compact
designed to speed peaceful de-
velopment Of the atom on a
regional basis.
A key feature Of the pro-
'posal. first Of its type to be
considered by a group Of States,
would permit the compact
members eventually to build
and operate jointly an atomic
research plant.
Agreement on the draft of
the compact came at the close
of a two-day conference here
of approximately so Southern
State officials. They also de-
cided that such a pact is the
best method under which
States could retain some con-
troll in the atomic field.
The Southern Regional Ad-
visory Council on Nuclear En-
ergy. meeting on the heels of
the study conference. also in
dorsed the proposed compact
and voted to submit it to a
three-man nuclear energy COM
mittee of the Southern Gov
errors Conference.
If the committee, headed by
Tennessee Gov. Buford Filing
ton, approves the pact, it will
be submitted to the legislatures
of Is States. The compact would
become operative when ratified
by four State legislatures and
approved by Congress.
Under the 12-page compact
the participating States would
pool their knowledge and re-
sources into a Southern inter-
state nuclear development
board. Each State would have
one representative on this
board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24
Presbyteriuns Report
Record Membership
BY CASPAR NAMES
Star star Writer

ATLANTA. Ca. April "a
ne Presbyterian Church,
Omitted States. today announced
1t has reached a record mem
bership Of 873.07l, largest in
the 9s-year history Of the de-
nomination.
The report was issued as SIC
commissioners (delegates). rep
resenting 3.94S churches in 10
States and the District Of Co
lumbia. opened the church's
annual general assembly.
Ofilcials noted that the
membership figure was an in
crease Of 20.888 over the previ-
Gus year and showed a gain
Of nearly 100000 since 1854.
The denomination also report
ed 3,570 ministers on its rolls,
another high for the church
whose membership is almost
entirely in the Southern
churches.
Moderator Elected
Or. Ernest T. Thompson, SIS,
professor Of church history at
the Union Theological Semi
nary, Richmond, was elected
moderator of the General AS
sembly at its opening session.
He received 283 votes to pit
for DR.. Eugene c. Scott, stated
clerk of the church.
DR. Thompson, who succeeds
Philip S. Holerton of Char
lotte, N. c., is co-editor of
Presbyterian outlook Maya
zine. He has been at Union
Seminary for the last "a years.
A graduate of Hampden-Sid-
ney College. he holds a master
of arts degree from Columbia
University and a theological
degree from Union Seminary.
Several issues OF national in
terest will be taken up by the
commissioners during the
meeting, which opened last
night in the Druid Hills Pres
byterian Church and ends
Tuesday.
One overture (resolution)
that may indicate how South
ern Protestant church men,
bers might view the candidacy
of a Catholic for President was
submitted and will be acted
upon next week. 1t calls on the
assembly to emphasize 'its I'M
qualified disapproval of the
Roman Catholic principle of
union of church and state and
its system of propaganda, and
of the dangers which a
Roman Catholic government
would pose to the American
nation"
Ten Of the denominations
83 Presbyteries have proposed
overtures calling for the South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24

ern church to withdraw and
condemn the National Council
of Churches because Of state
ments made by the Fifth World
Order Study Conference. The
conference, held in November
at Cleveland at the call of the
council but acting independ-
emily Of it, asked that Red
China be admitted to the
United Nations and be recog-
nized by the United States.
The Potion arc Presbytery,
which includes churches in
Northern Virginia, the District
of Columbia and nearby Mary
land, has submitted a reSolu-
ton asking the assembly to
appoint "a study group to study
the question Of the Christians
attitude in participation in war,
with special reference to mod
ern methods Of mass destruc-
ton"
Sunday Business Issue
The question Of commercial
ization on Sunday will also be
placed before the commission
ers in a report asserting the
Presbyterian Church, United
States, does not feel that civil
legislation protecting Sunday
as a day Of rest for the major
ity of the American people is
sectarian legislation"
Mr.. Holerton, in his address
as outgoing moderator of the
church, told the gathering last
night that "our church should
and could double its member
ship within the next decade.
We must at least do that if
we expect to maintain our rela-
tive position among other Pro-
testant denominations"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24

procity" remarks constituted
the strongest hint yet that
permission would be granted
| for such visits by bona f1de
newsmen if the Chinese Reds
applied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-24

shop tonight at Langley Park until $50 pm
Washington store open until pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30

the White Sands Proving grounds.
2. Wilfred J. Mcneil, Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Controller)
since the days of James v. For
restal. confirmed reports that he
is thinking of leaving the Penta-
gon and the annual defense
budget haSsle for a job in private
industry. His departure, often
predicted in the past. appears i'm
minent. Most mentioned company:
Grace Steamship Lines.
8. Democratic Senator Engle.
California freshman, proposed an
other, more comprehensive reor-
ganization of the Pentagon. He
would merge the Army, Navy. Air
Force and Marine Corps into sin
gle service and abolish the Joint
Chiefs Of Staff in favor of single
superchief, who would be aided by
a general staff. The Senator's To-
page speech contained long YER
batim passages from an article on
defense reorganization written by
Col. S. I. Gilman which appeared
in last April's issue of Military
Review" official publication of the
United States Army Command
and General Staff School, Fort
Leavenworth, Kans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
THE NATIONAL SCENE

research and development chief,
summed up his services reaction
to the news when he jubilantly
told a reporter: We're at seal"
The 28-foot Polaris was popped
up (by compressed air. through
a vertical launching tube from
deep inside the ship. When the
missile reached a height Of 10
feet its first-stage engine ignited
and it sped toward a target 700
miles away.
The Navy expects to have its
prime Strategic-deterrent weapon
operational aboard atomic sub
marines by the end Of next year.
One Polaris sub, the George
Washington, already has been
launched and two others, the
Patrick Henry and the Theodore
Roosevelt. will follow in a month
or so. Six more have been au-
thorized and money for long
lead time equipment for an adj
ditional three has been appro-
priated.
Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beak-
ley, deputy Chief of Naval Opera
lions, last week said the Navy
wanted only about 40 Polaris sub
marines and would resist" any
attempt to initiate this force"
This was an apparent reference
to congressional enthusiasts who
would build 100 or more of the
deadly craft,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30

store, cafeteria a Pennsyl-
vania dairy farm. Kansas corn
field, the New York public IL
brary. the campus of the Califor-
mia. Institute of Technology and
the campus of any large co-educ-
ational State university.
Then, traffic on the Los
Angeles freeway; soda fountain:
Grand Canyon and Yosemite Ma
tional parks; Sunday at Coney
Island: San Francisco Bay; a
lower middleclaSS real estate de-
velopment; a small New England
town; a national political conven-
ton; Detroit and Hollywood;
magazines. comic books and
paperbacks on a drugstore rack;
a Carnegie Hall concert; a Las
Vegas night club; a hit musical
show on Broadway and a college
dramatic performance: the Rookie
Teller Institute; a major opera
ton in a modern hospital; a
magistrates court in any large
City: and New York City
from the Empire State Building"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
How the Navy Feels
The Navy position is this:

The Navy position is this:
/. When your strategic-retalia-
tory force is invulnerable to sur
prise attack you do not need great
numbers. (Forty subs could carry
a total of GAO of the hydrogen
tipped Polaris rockets.
2. The Navy cannot ignore its
limited war responsibilities and
this means spending good share
of its limited funds on such things
as aircraft carriers and fleet mod
ernization.
On the question of limited war
and the strengthening of Amer
icaS military forces in this area,
a breakthrough in Pentagon think
ing was indicated last week.
In the last two years there have
been numerous limited war studies
made by Government groups,
within and outside the Pentagon.
Much lip service has been paid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30

freedom of religion in the So
Wet Union-this in the face Of
determined attacks by the Com
munist party upon all religious
faiths.
For Khrushchev to understand
the source of our greatest strength,
he will have to see beyond our
steel mills, factories, and farms.
He can see steel mills at home,
but he cannot hear the Salt Lake
Tabernacle choir, or see st. Pat
rick's Cathedral, visit a Metho-
dist picnic. or the Friday evening
services of a synagogue.
6. THE FREE PRESS: It is
hard to show a person, particular
ly one not well versed in the Ian
guage, some idea of how our free
press works.
Mr.. Khrushchev is scheduled to
speak, as do most prominent for
eign visitors, at the National
Press Club. In his audience will
be people from large and small
papers all over our country, and
in fact from all over the world.
But I would like him to see a
very peculiar institution they have
at the Press Club. This consists Of
wall in the lobby which is COW
cred with what appears to be a
magazine rack. This is a rack
where people can put the days
press releases. Some of these mes
sages are important and perhaps
most of them can be dismissed as
publicity handouts"
This is a tremendous market
place of ideas. I'd like to ask Mr..
Khrushchev if he knows how one
arrangeS to get a publicity release
in that rack where it may be seen
and discussed by the best newSmen
and columnists in the United
States. How do you register so you
are authorized to put a press re-
lease there? What fee do you pay?
The answer is that you pay
nothing and you do not have to
be authorized at all. Anyone who
has an idea, who is for or against
anything, may write out what he
has to say and put it in that rack.
I. A STATE FAIR: The Soviets
are fond of fairs and exhibitions,
but do not think that they have
anything that matches one of our
big State fairs.
s. A PTA MEETING: OF course
the Russians are tremendously in
terested in education and we
know that we can learn things
from them in educational methods
just as they can learn things from
us. They also have organizations
in which parents meet with their
teachers, but they do not have
anything which could be called a
PTA nor do they have anything
in which a group of plain citizens
shares in supervision and direc-
tions of a school system as we
have through our local school
boards.
North America Newspaper Alliance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
Show Khrushchev These Things
For a Real Insight Into U.S..

small agricultural and industrial
cities where he would be a guest
of local civic groups and hear q
typical program"
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH, poet
and playwright:
II would have two nominations.
One would be a great American
university-and the greatest is.
of course, Harvard. My second
would be a characteristic Ameri-
can village. American life is at
its most characteristic In the
small villages in which people &C
tually govern themselves and do
their own thinking"
SENATOR MUNDT, Republican
Of South Dakota:
"A typical American church on
Sunday morning with happy,
God-fearing people; typical farm
in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska
or Kansas and the schools for
farm children; the wholesome
living and rewards of private en-
terprise: few small towns from
1000 to 10000 population"
GOV LEROY COLLINS of Flor
ida:
"A collective bargaining session;
homes of modest income groups;
public recreation facilities such
as college football game. little
league game, park or little theater.
II wish he could eat supper and
spend the night with a typi-
cal God-fearing, modest-income
American family in their home"
REINHOLD NIEBUHR, theolo-
gian:
II hope we will show him,
though it is difficult. by what
democratic processes, other than
mere suffrage, modern capitalistic
society has established justice
through equilibria of economic
power.
If we show him the steel strike
as part of this process he would
probably regard it as evidence Of
our ineff1ciency. I hope we will
show him our progress in race
relations, though the indices of
progress are not as apparent as
the evidence Of residual problems.
The richness and variety of the
cultural life of a democracy be-
longs to the imponderables. -"
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, au-
thor and critic:
A supermarket, a dime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
New Mineral Discoveries in Canada
May Create Center Of Heavy Industry

world markets, due to the arrival
of Labrador, Venezuela and Liberia
ores, and the probable cost of the
rail line through the mountainous
country of Southern Yukon had
deferred the planners. And the eX-
cess of steel capacity throughout
the Western world had discouraged
the steel-making venture.
Now, however, the appearance
of local supplies of oil. and especi-
ally of natural gas, has changed
all that. For new techniqueS make
steel manufacture on the basis Of
iron sponge produced with natural
gas cheaper and more efficient
method than that of conventional
coal-fired blast-furnaces and steel
plants, such as those in Pitts
burgh. in Gary, or in the Ruhr.
And while it would not really pay
to replace the existing conven-
tional steel plants by new gas-f1red
ones, the latter seem to be indi-
Gated for any large new UNDER
taking.
This is where the Yukon's nat
ural gas resources, plus its great
iron ore deposits, come in. For no
great industrial region now exist
ing-neither Pittsburgh and Gary
in the United States, nor the Eng
lish Midlands, nor the Ruhr, nor
the Soviet siderurgical centers in
the Urals, in the Ukraine or in ST.
IBERIA enjoy such a combination.
And in the case of the Yukon, be-
side the newly found gas-and- oil
deposits in the State itself, there
are the flush new gas and oil fields
in the northwestern corner Of
British Columbia, where the wells,
at present capped for the lack Of
outlets, show the greatest poten-
ton gas flow known anywhere in
the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30

press him most are the wage
scales of American workers and
their homes"
DIR. 1. I. RABI, Columbia Uni
versity physicist:
IT would simply drive him right
across the country. He would see
great varieties of people and
places and yet he would grasp
the sameness and immensely. He
would get a more intuitive under
standing of our country that
way"
DAVID MURRAY, a striking
steelworker in Pittsburgh:
"Show Khrushchev the suburbs
around here and any home and
the TV set, the refrigerator, the
car we all have. Show him the
steel mills and the picket lines
and a union meeting. Show him
how we have fun, even us strikers,
show him Kennywood amusement
park, where a lot of us have been
taking our kids during the strike"
ALLAN NEVINS, historian.
1T is important we try to show
him simple but significant ex-
amples of our civilizations in the
most honest fashion.
HE should see something to
represent our intense interest in
improving education: A poorly
equipped school at one extreme
and one of the great state uni
Illinois, Wisconsin or
California-at the other.
HE should see illustrations of
the struggle for greater social well
fare. For example. a slum and
model housing unit in Chicago, or
a ramshackle hospital and one of
our medical centers. He should be
shown the best and the worst in
industry sick factory and some
such establishment as Eastman
Kodak.
Above all, he should be shown
an average town meeting. or an
average discussion by one of the
administrative commissions in
Washington, or an average session
of an aldermanic council"
RALPH McGILL, editor of the
Atlanta Constitution:
I would like Premier
Khrushchev to spend a day or
two with q farmer and to visit
PTA meeting, a city council
meeting, to attend one or two
church sessions, a union meeting
and also to visit one or two really
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30

to the idea that more should be
done toward preparing the United
States for meeting perhipheral
challenges. Almost everyone has
agreed that the Army and Navy
need undermining. But when the
budget has been voted, one looks
in vain for hard-cash evidences
that a more realistic division Of
funds for massive retaliation and
limited war has been decided.
Last Thursday at the National
Press Club, DR.. Herbert F. York,
director of defense research and
engineering, indicated that some
thing was going to be done about
it. He conceded that research in
producing better conventional
warfare weapons had been meg
lected."
DR.. York, who at SO is the top
military scientist, said the De-
tense Department sees a need for
all the big missiles now under de-
velopment-Atlas, Titan. Minute
man and Polaris. But he added
that the Pentagon is now looking
to see whether it is overloaded on
strategic weapons. Gen. Maxwell
D. Taylor, who retired as Army
Chief of Staff on July /, and Ad-
miral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of
Naval Operations, have insisted
that this is the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
u. S. Leads Soviets

On the glamour-weapon front,
DR.. York told the Press Club that
the United States was "even or
ahead" of the Soviet Union in all
phases of the big rocket program
except for propulsion. This means
American parity or superiority
in warheads, re-entry nose cones
and guidance systems. He noted
that we have put up IL satellites
to the Soviet's four and had "got
considerably more information"
on outer space as a result.
In addition to the Polaris sea
shot, the fourth straight success
full Atlas ICBM firing last week
underlined DR.. York's optimistic
views. The Atlas is expected to
reach operational status next
month.
There were these other develop
ments last week on the defense
front.
/. A Nike-Zeus anti-missile mis-
sile fell apart in it's first test FIR
ing after a successful launch at
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Continued From PAGE CT

.o Continued From Page CT
to insure an additional So billion
Of private mortgages through Oc-
teber 1, 1860.
ION Thursday, before the vote,
another presidential message
reached Capitol Hill. In it Mr..
Eisenhower asked that the addi-
tional loan authority for the FILA
be passed in a separate piece of
legislation. He gave this hint Of a
possible housing bill veto:
.'An increase in FHA's loan in
sIrance authority should not be
made contingent upon the posi-
btlity of approval by the President,
after the Congress has adjourned,
OF legislation which contains fea-
lures that the administration finds
seriously Objectionable and that
are entirely unrelated to FHA's
home loan insurance program"
Mr.. Eisenhower has a perfect
score on vetoes: IA without a
single defeat. But his Hath, an
rounced Friday, could spoil his
record. He rejected the $1.2 billion
civil works appropriation C'pork
bArrel"D bill because he said it
contained 81 new projects which
would ultimately cost $500 mil
lion. He asked for no new starts
this year.
Speaker Rayburn, saying he
was very much disappointed"
called on the House to override
the President. A vote is set for
Wednesday. If the veto is not sus-
tanned, the Senate will vote later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
House

s 2539. Housing Act of 1859
(revised bilD. Passage of the bill.
Passed 283-105 ID 228-30; r S.
75). Aug. 81, 1859. A may" was a
vote supporting the Presidents
position.
FOR: Brewster, Democrat of Maryland:
Fallon, Democrat of Maryland; Foley,
Democrat Of Maryland; Friedel, Demo-
crat of Maryland; Garmatz, Democrat
of Maryland; johnson. Democrat of
Maryland; Landlord. Democrat of Mary
land: Downing, Democrat of Virginia:
Hardy, Democrat of Virginia.; Jennings,
Democrat of Virginia. Broyhill. Repub-
licap Of Virginia: Bailey, Democrat of
West virginia.; Hechler, Democrat of
West Virginia; Slack Democrat Of West
Virginia: Staggers. Democrat of West
Virginia, and Moore, Republican of
West Virginia.
AGAINST: Abbitt, Democrat Of Virginia:
Gary, Democrat of Virginia; Harrison,
Democrat of virginia; Smith, Democrat
Of virginia; Tuck, Democrat of Vir-
ginia; Pom, Republican Of Virginia.
NOT VOTING: Kee, Democrat Of west
Virginia.