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NICHOLSON. ALBERT r. On Thurs.
day; august II. 1860. ALBERT p.
NICHOLSON, beloved father Of John
A. Nicholson of Laurel Nd: Mar
gsrst Soth of Fullerton, Nd: Lois
I Mliier OIL New Cumberland. Pa, and
Funeral services at Donaldson Fu.
neral Home. bl3 Talbot ave. Lau-
rel, Md. Monday. August Is, at 10
a m. lnterment Bel Air Gardens
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1mgnst - oHn Gr Tvv IN FNNSy' FNNSy'
BERLING Of 95t9 Milstead dr., BE-
thesda. Md. beloved wife of Edgar
a. Gemberling, beloved mother Of
Mrs. Joan s. Blatchford and Miss
Susan Jean Gemberling; sister OF
Pa; Mrs. Anthony Lupas Of WilE.s-
Barre. Pa; Mrs Max Cannon Of
Wyalusing. Pa: Mrs. William Harper
oi Silver Spring. Md. and William
Whiteley. of Reading. Pa. Three
grandchildren also survive. Friends
are invited to call at the Bethesda :
Chevy Chase Funeral Home OF Rob-
ert A. Humphrey. Bethesda, Nd,
where services will be held Monday.
August 10. at pm. Interment
Fort Lincoln Cemetery The family
REQUESTS that friends call between
the hours of to I and 7 to y pm
Saturday. August 13, and Sunday,
August IA. IA
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CARTER. WILLIAM ANDREW. {

gust 10. 1860, at Providence Hospi-
tai, WILLIAM CLAY Of BIB "Sth
st. Sc, the beloved husband OF
Esther Clay: father of Mrs. Aida
N; Payne of Washington, D. C., and
william J. Clay, ST., of CoateSville,
Pa: brother of Mrs. Donald S. Hea2y
Of Camp Hill, Pa; Mrs Laura R.
MCGOWAN and Mrs. Myrtle Danner
Of Harrisburg. Pa. He also is sur
vived by seven grandchildren. Notice
OF funeral services later
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day. August 10. 1860. WILMiNA
MARSHAL Of 153 lIth st. NE.
sister of Viola .starks. Carrie wilson.
s1g G1sorge and Israel Marshall. She
and friends, The late Miss Marshal il
may be viewed at the Stewart Fu-
neral home. 30 H st. ne, after
m. Sunday. August "a. Services
VIII be held Monday. August IL. at
noon, Interment Woodlawn Gem
CtCls
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FOSTER. NANCY M. of 64l7 Central
IL. 1850. mother Of William, Dom
aid, Robert, Nancy L.. Charles and
Hargest Foster: daughter Of Hargest
NJ. and Ida NJ. Hedges: sister of
Services at Chambers Funeral Home
5l1 1lth st. Sc. on Monday. Au-
gust Is. at 2:30 pm. Interment
Washington National Cemetery. IA
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August 10, 1860, at District General
Hospital, OLLEN D. CARTER OF
$40 5th st. NV. brother OF Ernest
= and Alexander Carter OF Washing
ton D. c.; Perry Carter OF Crewe'
Va: Mrs. Louise Reavers and Mrs
Ruby Brown of Charlottesville, Va
Other relatives and friends also sur
vive. After L. noon Sunday. August
IA. friends may call at Latney's Fu-
neral Home. 81. llth st. NV.
Funeral services ana interment at
IL noon Monday. August Is. in Ar
rington, Va. IA
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US.' .n' DLLIa MhhLE. On FRIDAY,
pital, DELLA MARIE RUSSELL of
96l6 Dilston rd., Silver Spring, Md.
beloved wife of Harry j. Russell;
mother of Harry J. Russell, ir.:
Glenn W, Russell and Mrs. Patricia
ney Of Rensington, Md, and Daniel
Murray Of Brooklyn. N. Y. She also
is survived by two brothers and two
sisters in Roscommon County. Ire
lano. and hve grandchildren. Notice
Of funeral later. ARRANGEMENTS hy
Collins Funeral Hnre ~
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JONOVEK, MULTIE. On Frlday, Au-
gust l.. 1860. at Arlington Hospital.
MOLLIE CONOVER Of AIS North
Glebe rd., Arlington. Va, beloved
mother of Mrs. Margaret Adams,
Mrs. Mildred Kellerman. Preston A..
Morris E.. W Ewood and Edsar s.
Conover; sister of MS. Lena Adams
and Mrs. Katie Peacock. She also is
survived by II grandchildren. eight
great-grandchildren and one great
great-grandchild. Friends may call
at the Ives Funeral Home. @S41 Will
son blvd. Arlington. Va. where fu-
neral services will be held Monday,
August 10. at " pm. lnterment Ma
tional Memorial fark. IA
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a-NS', "OhIH WAKE, Jr, On
Wednesday, August 10. lH6n. At
Georgetown University Hospital
WORTH WARE McMAINS. Jr.. OF
tl1O Raleigh ave. Alexandra. Va,
%3e;ioyed son of Worth Ware and
virginia Dare McMains; grandson
OF Msury H. McMains. Mrs. l. A
IhomsS. s. L. and Cassie CaSon
CraVeSlce services Arlington Ma
tlonal Cemetery on Monday. August
10, at 10 am. lnterment Arlington
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bUWEN, JENNTL ELSIE. OII IIIuIn-
day. August II. 1850. JENNIE ELSIE
BOWEN of ABB Tuckerman St,
University Park. Md. beloved wife
OF the late Gcorge N. Bowen and
mother of G. Carville Bowen. She
also is survived by grandson
grandchildren. Services at the Gasch
Funeral Home, 4139 Baltimore ave,
Hyattsville, Md, Monday, August Is,
at | pm Relatives and friends in
vited. Interment Fort Lincoln Gem
etery. Friends may call after l pm
Saturday, August L.. Il
Evening star., 1960-02-21

Widest seating, front and rear, for
more passenger comfort. Widest
interior measurement for more
cargO-cGrrying room. Widest
choice of pOWeT teams. And these
are just a feW of the important
advantages Chevrolet IcdgOns haze
OUer the Others in their field.
Sec The Dinah Shore ChCrv ShOr SunIdv, NBC-TF-T
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any of you want to take along.
Nowhere else in Chevrolet's field, in
fact, will you find wagons with such
wide seating (up to a full 81 inches
more than the other leading low
priced two). Or such wide cargo area
including the critical dimensions
between wheel housings. Chevy also
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gives you a wider choice of engines
and transmissions ga versatile COM
binations in alb. Full Coil suspen-
sion that rides right loaded or light
plus loads and loads of other
station wagon advantages. Your
Chevrolet dealers the man to see
for all the handy facts.
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You just can't find wagons with a
wider appeal than these new Chevies.
Their looks alone are enough to whet
almost anyone's wanderlust for the
wide open spaces. And once you're
underway in one you'll find there's
plenty of space inside for you, the
entire family and almost anything
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may be substantially greater.
What can be done?
While the motivation to serve
in Government positions must
continue to be a basic desire to
"do a good job for the country"
nevertheless there should be a
distinct closing of the salary gap
that separates the upper business
executive from, the high Govern
ment official
ATTITUDE OF BUSINESS. The
attitude of businesses toward
their executives serving In Gov
ernment plays a major role in de-
termining how long a good man
stays on the job.
Surveys indicate that a major
portion Of the business world looks
with some suspicion at the man
who "goes to Washington" He can
very likely be pardoned If his stay
Is a year or less. In some cases. he
may be permitted two years, but
that is generally the limit--after
that he is looked on as a Govern
ment man"
This attitude can not help but
have q profound effect on the
thinking and actions Of the busi-
ness executive when he considers
his own long range welfare. He
must come to grips with the fact
that the promotion process goes
on his absence and unless his
company makes special provisions
for him to be considered along
with his former associates. the ex-
ecutive may discover upon his re-
turn that his superiors are his
former subordinates.
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his sister and mother and the
strange man, and with mysterious
understanding. knew this man
was his mothers.
Papa, papa" Salvador cried,
putting his arms around Gonzalez.
But, as Esmerada says, Gonzelez
was not much Of q man for such
displays.
"He was too strict" Aureo says.
lone time Sal and me made up
our minds to kill him."
Sordid Surroundings
They moved into the first Of
many cold water fats. It fit
the stereotyped description: Worn
linoleum, blue BACKGROUND, with
faded red flowers and yellow doo-
dads in the borders; walls, patched
and repatched, and painted blue;
door jambs and wood trim, cocoa
colored; iron washtub that is both
basin and sink; dark toilet Ozark
because someone's always steal
ing the light bulbs in the outside
hallway a gas pipe in the kitchen
with a long hose connecting 1t to
a heater in a front room; bureaus
on uneven legs; steel cots with
lumpy mattresses and decaying
overstuffed couches; and iron
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mother and sister went TO San
Juan-and then New York.
"Sal screamed all the time;" q
cousin says. "For four, five months,
he screamed, Mama. Mamap He
ran around like wild. He wouldn't
eat, maybe for days, then eat
everything, ste aling from the
plates of others. In the night, it
was terrible. Mama, Mama!' he
screamed"
In New York. on her first
day, there was no one to greet
Esmeralda and Aureo. Esmeralda's
brother and three cousins were
at the wrong airport. IS miles
away. She had the family ad-
dress on q slip of paper, hired
a cab and went to East Harlem.
But the family had moved.
Esmeralda was not afraid.
A City of Dreoms
II saw New York many times
in Dreams" she says. when I
was little, man would come to
my bed and stand with his arms
folded and tell me would go to
New York. / knew there would
be many Spanish people, and
subways, and high buildings"
She stopped people until she
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could find one who spoke Spanish.
The Puerto Rican world is q mar
row one full Of talk and curiosity
and someone always knows some
one who might know about
someone else. She soon found her
family. And in the same way.
Carlos Gonzalez soon found her.
Carlos was the man who courted
her In Mayaguez, after she di-
vorced Gumercindo Agron, the
man who married her when she
was 13. II did not want to marry
Carlos" she says. "but a woman
Is no good alone. thought he
would be a good family man, not
like Agron, who ran after women"
She gave UP her Roman Catho-
lie faith and married Gonzalez, a
stern, proud, self ordained pente-
costal minister who prays on his
knees six hours day and says,
God called me to lead the
people" ~,
Esmeralda wanted to send for
Salvador, but Gonzalez objected.
This is q bad place for boys. 1t
turns them wild" Esmeralda per-
sisted and a one-way plane ticket,
for $23.86, was sent to Sal. When
he arrived at Idlewild, with only
the clothes on his back, he found
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ficers. subcommittee members
business leaders and persons in
the academic world.
The answers have varied but
taken in a broad sense. the gen.
eral causes for dissatisfaction lie
in four general areas.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST. This
is probably one Of the main
reasons why many talented men
do not seriously consider taking
jobs in Government. even though
the position offers great power
and prestige.
Some are justifiably reluctant
to dispose Of stocks that they
have accumulated unless they are
wealthy. Most cannot afford to
sell their stocks and take q loss
or pay the income tax should
there be a profit on the trans
action. While this situation Is
more imagined than real. the few
celebrated cases Of businessmen
being pummelled in public over
their stocks undoubtedly serves to
convince men that their desire to
serve does not justify the risk
involved.
Most men who come directly to
q top political ofilce from busi-
ness are not prepared for o COM
mittee whose attitude may APP
pear to be What are you trying
to conceal?" While stock owner
ship gets the major attention Of
the press and the public, other
interests may have as much or
more influence. Personal interests
such as religious. fraternal.
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familial, or theological can GER
tainIy influence q persons think
ing as often as can purely finan-
cial interests. These, of course,
are Of q more subtle nature, are
next to impossible to detect, and
are impossible to legislate against,
even II 1t were desirable to do so.
What can be done?
!. The Congress should UNDER
take thorough study OF the con-
flict Of interest laws and then en-
deavor to draft clear and concise
language as to just what is ex-
pected Of the men entering
Government.
Q. Full disclosure should be re-
quired Of all relevant interests
held by the businessman at the
time Of his entry into Government
service.
8. Divestment Of ownership in
terest should be required only in
those cases where the job and the
ownership interest are clearly in
conflict.
4. Business, Government, labor
and professional leaders should
strive to increase public aware
ness that the vast majority Of
persons who enter public service
do so with q high sense Of in
tegrity.
COMPENSATION. Much needs
to be done. AS a general rule. the
salary scale for the executive in
business runs well ahead Of gov
errment. A business executive
often finds that as his income
decreases upon Joining govern
ment, his cost Of living and cost
Of social obligations rise abruptly.
It follows. then, that steps should
be taken to bring the salary scale
Of Government and business lead
ers closer into line.
There is really little that can
be done in such extreme cases as
Robert 8. Mcnamara, president OF
the Ford Motor Co., who win leave
a 100000 a year job to become
Secretary of Defense in the Ken
nedy cabinet. Or. for that matter,
Neil McElroy, president Of the
Proctor and Gamble Co., who gave
up o similar job to serve under
President Eisenhower.
Many men in such positions
may have accumulated sufficient
wealth that they need not be con-
cerned with the remuneration Of
fered in q Government position.
Rather they have reached the top
in business and now seek new chal-
lenges in high Government ofiice
where the salary may be Sub
stantially lower but where the
power and prestige accorded them
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fact that President-elect Ken
nedy is placing willingness to
serve for long periods" high on
the list Of questions sent to can
ditates.
There can be little doubt that
some of the executives who come
to Washington with every inten-
ton Of serving for extended peri
DDS of time, leave for the simple
reason that they are not happy
in their jobs. The chances are
great that this is their first job
experience outside the business
world and they may have arrived
with the belief that the practices
and procedures Of the home office
could merely be transferred to
the particular governmental &C
tivity to which they have been
assigned. Normally, this cannot
be done.
It comes as a great shock to the
new executive to learn that the
Office has been operating for a
great many years and that many
Of the employees may look on
him as a short-timer to be toll
erated-and occasionally accom-
modated, but that the procedures
to be followed are their proceed
ures, and while he may bend
their courses temporarily. he will
never redirect or alter them per-
manently.
The very size and complexity
Of the government may serve to
frustrate further the man who is
conditioned to making decisions
and then seeing that they are
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carried out by willing subordi-
mates.
In place of this, he may be
confronted with a situation where
in a policy which he feels is
necessary and Just runs counter
to the wishes of an outside pres
sure sufficiently strong to halt
the implementation Of his pro-
posed policy, and may even earn
him a rebuke for proposing the
change.
He may find that he must OPP
crate within a rigid set Of ground
rules that severely limit his abil-
tiles to make significant improve
ments, even though such action
may be clearly indicated. Or the
executive may feel that he is the
only one who is aware OF the
progress, for in many cases there
is no way that progress can be
accurately measured or noted.
If he is doing a good job, praise
from his superiors may be slow in
coming, and the chances are good
that it will never come at all.
The vast public for whom he
labors will be mute as long as he
continues to perform to their
satisfaction.
But let him err once and the
passive acquiescence is apt to
convert itself overnight into q
smashing wave Of disapproval
frightening to behold. His good
work can be quickly forgotten
and the executive is left to ques-
ton his own sanity for allow.
ing himself to leave comfortable
place in industry. He may decide
that the trip is not worth the
fare and the government will
have lost another good man.
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NEW YORK CRIME STORY !.
BY BERNARD GAvZER
Associated Press stag Writsr

NEW YoRK.-There are people
who wish Salvador Agron had
never been born.
They say, they call us spies be-
cause Of his kind"
But wishing cannot wipe out
Salvador Agron's memory. He IL
real, and he Is more than Just O
boy marked for death In the
electric chair.
For New York's Puerto Ricans.
he symbolizes the worst failures
among q people struggling to build
Q new and better life.
This slight, black-haired. frzz-
checked 17-year-old Is O boy his
mother calls "Sal" and others call
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''Dracula." He Is In Sing Sing.
He Is to die In the electric chair
for committing slaughter on Tenth
avenue-a bloody. Senseless killing
Of two l6-year-old boys.
81 don't care IL burn-my
mother could watch me-"
What kind Of boy could say
such o thing?
He was born in Asilo de
Ancianos, q home for the aged, in
Mayaguez, q city Of nearly 10000
on the west end Of Puerto Rico.
It's q big city there, but here it
could be tucked in Q corner Of
Manhattan. His mother, Esmeralda
Rodgriquez Agron. worked In the
home as o domestic. The rearing
of Salvador and his sister, Aureo,
was largely out Of her hands.
Esmeralda remembers the day
of his birth as being q warm one,
but the date escapes her. It was
either April 90, August 20, or Oc-
tober /, 1943. Those are the dates
on different records. They matter
because they could have played Q
part in Salvador's fate.
"He had this bad disease" Es-
meralda says. remembering the boy
as an infant. She rubs her stomach
to show the place. "He was marked
for death, but / saved him. The
sickness made him q weak boy"
AS a child, Salvador always wet
his bed. His teachers, Esmeralda
says, made him take his wet sheets
and drape them on his head and
stand in the sunny courtyard. The
other children surrounded him,
pointing fingers, calling hirn--a
dirty word.
To cure him, he was seated on
warm brick. This was supposed
to do something to his kidneys,
but apparently it only disturbed
him. And so he was punished.
Esmeralda recalls: sitting bare
bottomed on ants.
He Hated School
He hated school. He buried him.
self in the sand and cried. Now
am dead. I cannot 60 to school. I"
And when he was dragged there
by the ear, the cry changed to
mo one loves me-"
Then one day. when he was Z,
he saw his mama put on a new
blue dress and a new three-quarter
length red spring coat, and slip q
pretty pleated dress on Aureo,
and pack two shiny imitation
leather valises and get in q car
and go away. He was left stand
ing in the road, crying. The
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"If I can't control my own SON
in church, how can I control 9th.
ers?"
Salvador, an outcast. joined
other outcaStS. Sometimes they
had a name, like the Vampires.
They had a way about them, an
air that the knowing eye recognizes
as the sign of hopping gang.
Gonzalez saw it, and recalls:
II didn't like the arrogant way
Salvador stood-like a gangster."
Away from home, that was
where there was a life worth liv-
ing. There were easy touches ike
"Bien Pagada"-the good payer
a homoSexual who was generous
with those he favored. There was
stuff to make a man giddy. beer
or sometimes something stronger.
There were the pushers with
heroin and the guys with pot
marijuana. There were girls, too.
But the craziest, widest, best
times were with the guys. the
Vampires.
The FotefuI Night
He was with some of them, and
some guys from the Heart Kings
and the Dragons, the night of Au-
gust 20. He was now 16, according
to police records. But if the date
of October is accepted as his
birthdate, that meant he was IS
and at such an age it is unlikely
that he would now be facing the
electric chair for his crime.
There was big talk. The guys
some 20 altogether-were going to
get even with some Irish and Ital-
ian guys for beating up a pal. And
they were going to get the Italian
who tried to sell pot to one guys
mother.
Salvador put on a black cape
with a red lining-and became the
figure of dracula. He had a 1914
inch dragger. One other had an
umbrella. Another, a studded gar
rison belt. Still others, pipe
lengths.
A few minutes after midnight,
they invaded a playground off
Tenth avenue on Manhattan's
west side. They were after Amer
ican" enemies. They found some
neighborhood boys and girls, but
not the ones they were seeking.
Salvador, off by himself for q
moment, was jeered. They were
booing, booing," he says. All the
aches of the unloved, all the rage
of the unwanted. apparently set
him in motion. There were coarse
wordS-and then mayhem.
The Topered BIode
The tapered blade of Salvador's
dagger went quick and deep into
Anthony Krzesinski's chest, pierre
ing his lung and heart; it drove
into the back of Robert Young, as
his arms were pinned by other
boys; it plunged into the stomach
of Ewald Riemer.
hrZeSlnSkl ran race WIN
death. got to the safety of a tene-
ment hallway across the street,
and died there. Young ran, too,
with blood flowing from the 7-inch
tunnel left by the dagger. He got
into fiat in the adjoining build
ing-and died. Riemer lay in agony
on the ground, writhing to avoid
the stomping. feet of his attackers.
He lived to face Salvador in court.
What does Salvador think about
his act. about the boys he killed?
His answer shows the twisted law
by which he lived, for he makes
his victims the wrong-doers.
THE fellows that got killed
shouldn't be in the park at IL
o'ckock at night. They should be
in bed. Maybe God wanted them,
so that if it was going to happen,
it was going to happen. It hap
pened."