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Suspect Admits
II Other Sayings

PARIS, July o (AP).-A rich
mans son accused of two MUIR
ders has claimed IL other slay-
ings. But the police are openly
skeptical.
They said today that George
Rapin, %, might be trying to
build up a plea Of insanity for
his trial on charges Of murder
ing a Pigalle streetwalker and
a garage attendant.
Rapin confessed to shooting
the girl, Dominique Thirel, and
burning her body when she
refused to pay him protection
money for her extra-curricular
nightlife activities.
He also confessed to killing
Garage Attendant Roger Adam.
whose body was found.
Rapin's boasts of II other
slayings were made in CONVEX
sations with Prison Warden
Rene Malaure. Police grilled
him but he was vague about the
killings. He gave no names.
dates or other details.
A survey of unsolved MUIR
ders has failed to turn up any
that even roughly correspond
to the methods used in the two
murders for which Rapin is
charged.
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Transport
Study Starting
BY the Associated Press

The Commerce Department
yesterday announced the hiring
Of some outside consultants fol-
its study Of transportation
problems.
1t said none of these has any
ties with particular segments
Of the industry.
Lewis L. Strauss, before the
Senate last month rejected his
nomination as Secretary OF
Commerce, had indicated he
would name Armand Erps. q
New York financier, to conduct
part or all of the study. Mr.
Erps withdrew after he was
identified with railroad in
terests.
President Eisenhower ordered
the study, which aims at rec
ommending a co-ordinated pro-
gram for dealing with tranSpor-
tation matters. These problems
now are handled by variety
Of agencies.
The department announced
the award of four contracts
totaling $73,700, for investiga-
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increased to make such a pro-
gram, ats sudden termination
could be disastrous"
Value Seen
Lauren Soth, editor of the
editorial pages Of the Des
Moines Iowa) Register and
Tribune and chairman of the
National Planning Associations
agriculture committee, told the
Senators:
Events Of the last two years
have strengthened our belief
that the use Of food SURPRISES
to strengthen the economies
of the poorer countries can be
an important long-range ele-
ment Of our foreign policy"
Mr.. Soth added that the
United States is likely to pro-
duce food in excess of its do
nestle nutritional needs for as
far ahead as "a quarter Of a
century or more"
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tons Of special phases OF the
transportation situation.

tons Of special phases Of the
transportation situation.
The contracts went to:
r. l.. Banks g. Associates
Washington, $4,000, to study
cost structure and cost find-
ing procedures used by various
modes Of transportation.
]. Harold De Veau, a SUM
ner MD consultant in man
agement problems, $4,000 to
study certain aspects Of the
merchant marine relating his
torical developments to Govern
ment policies.
DR.. James C. Nelson, profess
sor Of economies, Washington
State College, $4,000 to study
entry controls in domestic
surface transport and require
ments for obtaining Govern
ment franchises.
United Research, Inc, Cam
bridge, Mass, $4,000 to study
economic regulation under the
Federal Aviation Act.
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and other emergencies by ST.
$50, 100000 to a grand total Of
$2,O5O. 100000 for the programs
duration.
Other witnesses Endorsed the
proposal, to which the State
and Agriculture Departments
voiced strong opposition Tues
day.
Patrick B. Healy. assistant
secretary of the National Milk
Producers Federation, testified
I'VE believe that an agrees
sive administration Of a food
for peace program could de-
velop permanent markets for
a large volume of the dairy
production"
Mr.. Healy warned, however
that If domestic production is
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Africans Get Grunt

PRETORIA, South Africa,
July 8 (AP).-The Ford Foun-
dalton has given $17,500 to the
Continuation Committee of the
South African Churches to help
African education.
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WhuIine Project

RIO DE JANE1RO. July o
tAP).-A company formed by
Japanese and Brazilian inter-
estS is forming a two-ycar
whaling project with four ships
being brought here from japan.
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programs most Of which con-
stitute elaborate give-away
mechanisms."
He was the opening witness
yesterday before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
on legislation which would ex-
tend authority to sell surplus
food and fiber for foreign cur
rencies and provide new ave-
nues for the use Of surpluses.
Mr.. Lynn told the committee
the bill would increase author
izations for surplus commodity
sales by $40 billion to a total
Of SIC billion for the duration
Of the program.
'g Cites High Costs
And he said it would increase
authorizations for donations Of
surplus foods to meet famines
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Farm Bureau Attacks
Food for Peace Plan
BY the Associated Press

The American Bureau Federation says food for
peace plan would underdeveoped nations totally and
Indefinite" dependent shipments or surplus United states
farm crops.
John c. Lynn legislative spokesman described
the proposal vehicle for "a multiplicity OF overlapping
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22
Student Councils
Convene AT Dover

Wayne Cole, president; Bruce
Pearce, vice-president; N a n C y
Hall, secretary; and Harold Moi
fit, senior class president, re-
presented the John Bassett
Moore High School Stu d en- t
Council at the first meeting OF
the Kent County Student Coun-
Gil Association, at the Dover
High School. Charles V. Will
liams, principal of the John Bas-
sett Moore High School and ex-
ecutive secretary of the Della
ware Student Council Associa-
ton, accompanied them. The
purpose of these county meet
ings is to discuss the problems
faced by the student councils
in various schools throughout
the county. A report of. the pro-
ceedings of this meeting will be
given to the student council by
the delegates to this meeting at
the next regular local student
council meeting.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22
Record Observanc
On Tap At Bridge
For Veterans Day

Plans for the annual joint Del
aware-New Jersey observance
of Veterans Day on Sunday, No
vember 8 at Delaware Memorial
Bridge Plaza were initiated this
week.
Julius ]. Alpern, state chair
man, who represents the Jewish
War Veterans, said that from
early reports there is every in
dication of a record turnout
of veteran, auxiliary and patri-
otic societies for the occasion.
Mr.. Alpern announced that
the principal speaker for the
occasion will be Bernard Abrams
a Jersey City, N. j., attorney,
who was recently elected ma
tional commander of the Jew
ish War Veterans.
"It is especially appropriate
that Mr.. Abrams be our speak
er since he comes from the
neighboring state which has CO.
operated in making the Veter-
ans Day observance an out
standing one in the country"
MIR. Alpern said.
Dinner Planned
Plans are underway to have
a dinner following the cere-
mony at hotel or restaurant
not far distant from the bridge.
Details of the dinner will be
announced next week the state
chairman said.
Mr.. Alpern urged units from
all over the state to turn out
for the tribute which he said
not only is to honor the living
and dead veterans of all wars,
but also stresses the citizenship
responsibilities which veterans
have developed over the past
few years.
Along. with the prin nc ip a |
speaker, Gov. j. Caleb Boggs
of Delaware and Gov. Robert B.
Meyner of New Jersey have
been invited to talk briefly. The
Delaware congressional delega-
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22
Marydel

MIR. and Mrs. Courtland Buck
eleu and Mrs. Grace Hutson and
daughter, Joan, spent one day
last week in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner Foraker
and daughter, Lynn, Delaware
City, were luncheon guests of
MIR. and Mrs. T. Olin Ford on
Sunday.
Mr.. Harry Smith, George
town, was overnight guest of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
H. Smith, on Tuesday.
MIR. and Mrs. Herbert R.
Butts accompanied Mr.. and Mrs.
Alex Duplicki and daughter,
Patty, of Media, Pa, spent last
weekend at Williamsburg, Va.
They also visited Yorktown and
Jamestown, Va.
Jeff, Amy, and Kenny Boys,
of Bridgeville, spent the week.
end with their grandparents, MIR.
and Mrs. Amos Wyatt.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Olin Ford,
Col. Charles Thompson, and
Miss Mildred CHM spent We'd
nesday of last week on a sight
seeing trip in Washington.
Miss Irene Pierce has return
ed home after visit with rela-
tives in Philadelphia.
Sympathy is extended to the
family of Steve Rodimak, who
passed away on Wednesday of
last week.
Jay Gordon, of Yeadon, Pa,
spent the weekend with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. FL
mer Luton, Sr.
Mrs. Florence Scotton spent
the weekend with her daughter
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where oncoming traffic is too
heavy.
3. Take up more than their
share of the road, preventing
other cars from passing safely.
Drivers committing those
errors not only gamble their
own future, but frequently drag
an innocent motorist or passen-
ger into highway disaster.
The first thing to do toward
cutting down the risk of becom-
ing a victim of a reckless driv-
er to to make sure that your
own driving is above reproach,
Mr.. Jamison suggested.
A good place to start check
ing on your own driving, he
said, is to ask yourself how we'll
you manage to stay on the right
side of the road and how fire.
quently you violate the center
line, he added.
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TIMES THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER %. 1859

tion and top officials of organ
izations who deal with veterans
and their dependents are ex-
pected to be platform guests.
Vets Get Gifts
Samuel A. Lynch, department
judge advocate of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars was named
chairman of a committee to Sc
lect a gift for distribution to
hospitalized veterans through
out the state on Veterans Day.
a custom that has been follow
ed the past several years.
1t was also noted that Frank
j. Horty, general manager of
Delaware Memorial Bridge has
again extended every courtesy
of that facility to cooperate in
making the affair a success.
Mr.. Alpern expressed the hope
that all sections of the state and
every organization would be
we'll represented in the annual
tribute. He invited units to
come in uniform and participate
in the procession to the foot
of the bridge memorial marker
where the exercises will take
place.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22
Center Road Line Is Simplest,
Most Effective Aid To Traffic

The center line on a road is
one of the simplest and most
effective traffic aids in exist
ence, Francis ]. Jamison, assist
ant manager of the Delaware
Safety Council, said yesterday,
urging motorists to make full
use of the center line to stay
on the right side of the road.
Staying there. he said, is one
of the first principles of safe
driving. And not staying there
is a step toward suicide.
The center line clearly shows
what portions of the road are al
located to drivers going in op-
posite directions on the same
highway. But accidents result
ing from driving partly on the
wrong side of the road continue
to take a heavy toll in property
damage and human life, he
stated. Side-swiping is response
BILE for one out of every five ac-
cidents and almost half of these
involve fatalities.
Among the drivers who cause
these accidents are the thought
less and risk-taking drivers who
make these driving errors:
l. Pass on a hill or at a curve
where they cannot see ahead
far enough.
2. Pass on a straightaWaY
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22

and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Johnson, Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Heather
and Mr.. and Mrs. T. Olin Ford
attended a dinner and dance at
the Wilco Yacht Club on Satur-
day evening.
The Marydel w. S. c. S. wish
es to thank all who helped in
any way to make the covered
dish supper a success on Satur-
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22

day evening.
On Sunday afternoon, Oct. %,
Homecoming services will be
held at Calvary M e h o d S
Church at 2 pm. There will be
special music. The guest speak
er will be the Rev. John Parker,
former minister on this charge.
The Civic Club will hold its
monthly meeting at the home of
Mrs. Harry Heather with Mrs.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22
Helpful By-PrOduct

When radium breaks down
it gives off gas called radon
This gas can be put into tiny
hollow "seeds" of gold and the
seeds inserted directly into a
cancerous tumor to relieve a
patients pain, stop the tumor's
growth or sometimes cure the
disorder entirely.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-22

I. Olin Ford as co-hostess.
Mrs. E. w. Silltoe, Whining
ton, has been a house guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Kennard Shuts
this past week.
Mrs. Louis Collision spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Covington and family, of
Windemere.
Miss Doris Feyl has been on
the sick list this past week.
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Book Review /. /.

interests dictate, to exploit its
impact or to manipulate its
weaknesses. Unconsciously, acct
dentally, it has built up dema-
gogues, distorted issues, destroy
ed regulations, created myths.
But when political leadership
gauges its wave length, it can
be the greatest educational in
strument in the land.
Exploring the vehicles and
processes of communication in
the capital, Cater shows the var
iety of operations of the 1900
man Washington press corps. In
the reporters Individual bureaus
and vast wire services he follows
them at work on their news
sources. These he develops in
detail: the press conference, the
publicity processes of govern
ment departments and Congress
ional hearings. This make valu-
able reference, though it lacks
an index.
The power and provocative
character of the book are made
ND of what Walter Lippman
describes on the cover as "the
shrewd reflections of an insider.''
Here is a penetrating critique of
the dynamics of American pub
1icity at its most sensitive nerve
center.
A fascinating chapter dissects
the Presidents press conference
Cater is impressed by the un-
matched opportunity the confer
ence provides for the head of the
Government to communicate to
the public and to be questioned
on the whole range of his policy
and program. But he is distress
ed by the casual preparation on
both sides, by the accidental
shape the press conference takes
>from the sheer chance of what
reporter is recognized and by
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the frequent confusions resulting.
He is convinced that it cannot be
displaced and that only a Presi-
dent can reform it to bring out
its potential value. Cater agrees
with Justice Frankfurter that
"the Presidency lis the most i'm
portant educational system in
The country"
Cater examines the often dis
cussed parallel of the parliament
airy question period in the British
House of Commons but finds
little similarity between its ritual
procedure and that of the Presi-
dental press conference. Only
one thing would he adopt from
the British the right to one
supplementary question" to br-
ing the point home. This is a
privilege the Washington CORE
spondent does not normally en-
joy.
Though the Executive has its
highly developed public rela-
tions, in Caters view Congress
is uniquely creator and creature
of publicity" The dramatic We
hicle is the committee hearing
with its publicity paraphernalia
to contrive action and reaction by
timing and spacing witnesses, to
hold the. headlines as long as de-
sired and even in some hands to
maneuver. the opposition out of
any chance at the final editions.
1t was here that MyCarthyism
reached it's frightening peak, by
a process Cater describes with
the skill of dramatist and the
insight of an expert.
The current struggle of secrecy
versus disclosure in government
| is presented in all its elaboration
of classification, of calculated
leaks and planned background
information. Along with tn e
Times James Reston, Cater is
less disturbed by Withholding OF
news than by an increasing ten
dency of officials to try to man
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My Father Was White

age and manipulate the news to
their own ends. Cater recoils at
"the colossus of public relations
in the, Pentagon" and at the pro-
pensity of Presidential press sec
rotary James Hagerty ito make
of publicity an end Of itself"
He finds the core of the re-
porter's problem in the increasing
comp1exity of what he must re-.
port. The reporter ''has watched
politics explode like the now
familiar mushroom cloud, engulf-
ing economics, military strategy
and at last the worlds of nuclear
and space science The report
er finds himself caught in an in
sufferable bind between the sci
enlist and the politician and his
readers. Is he up to the enormous
challenge that confronts him?"
With high appreciation of the
vitality of American reporting
and the quality of its best, Cater
concludes: "There is growing
awareness of the perilous state OF
our communications. Yet, hope
fully, there is also new aware
ness that our very survival as a
free nation may depend on the
capacity of reporters to relate
the essential truth and make a
picture of reality on which men
can act'."
Caters book will heighten this
awareness both among his col
leagues and their readers.
-(Nienan Reports)
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board headed for the same city.

board headed for the same city.
Rowan entered the bus and
found Sanders standing in the
aisle. He had given up his seat
in the front to sit with Rowan in
the rear. During the first 40 miles
of the trip, a white woman kept
turning uneasily to observe them
and then said something to the
driver.
The driver glanced into his rear
view mirror, quickly stopped the
bus, walked to the rear and told
Sanders: "You can't sit there,
fellow. You know whites and col
ored can't sit together on this
bus. That seat is for colored."
With an embarrassed look -
which Rowan recognized as the
same that used to cross Sanders
face during gigantic bluffs in
poker - Sanders whispered in
tones of confession: my father
was white" The driver, flustered,
returned to his seat and appar-
emily treasured the complaining
passenger that Sanders was
mulatto.
When the bus reached Knox
vile, the driver got the bags out
of the trunk. AS Sanders took his,
he said to the driver: "Say, / for
got to tell you back there--my
mother was white, too
Security And Freedom
How would you like to be
blindfolded, put into ring with
several fighters-and then told
to defend yourself? That was the
situation in which thousands of
] Americans found themselves I'M
der the governments industrial
| security regulations, until the
Supreme Court-by an to l
vote-kayoed the whole program.
Take the case of William l..
/ Greene. General manager of a
Maryland engineering firm, he
made $4,000 year. In, 1865,
the Navy told the firm that
| Greene was a security risk and
must be banned from any section
of the plant handling classified
work. Since the fimr's business
was almost entirely classified,
Greene was fired and had to take
draftsman's job at $4,700 a
year.
After a year of urgent appeals
by Greene and the company, the
Navy finally revealed its charges
against Greene: he had, it was
alleged, associated with certain
suspected persons, including his
ex-wife, whom he divorced in
1947. Greene admitted the asso-
Citations but insisted that his diff
| ferences with his wife and her
friends over politics were a fac
tor leading to the divorce.
Relying on secret informants,
the government charged that
| Greene shared his wife's wild
theories" The informants were
never brought forth, even before
the members of the hearing
board. Only investigators reports
| were produced in evidence.
4 Or take the case of Charles A
i Taylor, a member of Local sol
United Auto Workers, in Buffalo
and a toolnaker at Bell Air
craft Taylor lost his job and
4 $4,000 III wages because he was
denied a security clearance on the
basis of information fromm six
secret witnesses" Taylor {
strong anti-Communist, had t.
borrow money from the union tc
live while out of work
AFL-CIO counsel j. Albert
VOL and Thomas E. Harris join
ed Dick Lipsitz and Joe Rauh il
appealing this case, emphasizing
how unfair it was to brand per
son a security risk on the mere
word of undisclosed informers-
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even neigbbors with a grudge.

even neIghborS with a grudge.
Taylor's clearance was subse-
quently restored by the govern
ment. The Greene case went all
the way to the Supreme Court,
which ruled that neither Con-
gress nor the President had au-
thorized a program in which
Americans had no right to con-
front or cross examine their ac-
.cusers. "The court has been zeal
Gus to protect these rights from
erosion" declared the majority
decision.
Public Schools are Good Business
Harry Golden once said that
desegregation would succeed in
the South when the Chambers Of
Commerce decided it was needed
for industrial progress. When 1t
worked smoothly, he added, they
would pat themselves on the
back for their moral courage and
great craftsmanship.
We may soon find out if Harry
was right. For long time now,
on the issue of segregation versus
desegregation, business leaders
have stayed on the sidelines. But
now that the issue has switched
to desegregated public schools
versus segregated, inferior pri-
vate schools, or even no schools
at all, things look little differ
ent. Take these comments by
Southern business leaders:
o. B. NEWTON, JR., vice pres
ident, C. B. Fleet Co., Lynchburg,
Va: 1.-TWO of our most recently
acquired industries have, within
the past few weeks, expressed
themselves to the effect Virginia
would not even have been con-
sidered as location for a new
plant had there not been the
guaranteed certainty of fre
public school system for til
children of their employees
april II, 1850
IVAN ALLEN, JR., inmedis
past president, Georgia Sts
Chamber of Commerce and 4
lanta businessman: sTo aband
public education is to secede frc
the economic life of the natior
ATLANTA Journal, Dec 10, 1855
PAUL sCHWEITZER, pres
dent, Atlantic Co., Norfol
Va: Chow can you get an indu
try to import high-priced me
into a community which has no
schools for their children to at
tend" New South, November,
1859
Hard-header factual proof to
support their position is reveal
ed by the Nashville Tennessean
MAY 81, 1850:
Give new industrial plants,
worth million dollars and en-
blowing a total of 800 persons
that's what Little Rock has prob
| ably lost because of its school
crisis. Since September, 1867,
/ when desegregation violence at
/ Central high school made Little
Rock the center of world atten-
ton, not a single new factory has
located in that city.
Everett Tucker, Jr., executive
| director of the Little Rock In
/ dustrial Development Company
pointed out the record of indus
trial progress since 1850 and add
ed: We located eight new plants
there in the first eight months OF
| 1857. Since then nothing"
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Back in the 1880s the St Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern Rail-
way in Arkansas tried to en-
courage travellers with the en-
ticement that there will be no
charges for dogs and guns"
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Herblock, a terrific cartoonist,
is no SLOUGH with words either
Hitting back at censorship efforts
by the Postmaster General, Her
block suggests:
ut seems to me that we were
all better off when the Postal De-
partment used to deliver the mail
and left it to a Higher Authority
to deliver us from evil"
My Father Was White
Negro newsman Carl T. Row
an, in his book South of Freedom
(Knopf, N. W, tells of an Incl
dent that took place shortly after
his graduation from Oberlin Col
lege, when he was in McMinn-
vile, Tenn. waiting for bus to
Knoxville. When it arrived, Row.
an was surprised to find white
school chum, Dick Sanders, on