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Evening star., 1960-07-04

tope man. says, Build more
tanks" He believes industrial
isotope demands will grow so
fast that in 10 years they will
exceed the supply of fission
products. DR.. Lough, the health
and safety man, observes sar-
donically that the strontium-
80 generated in the Nations
reactors in one year would
make enough thickness gauges
to go around the world several
times"
Other Approaches
Profs. Harrison Brown of
Caltech and Rolf Eliassen of
NIT have parallel but not
identical ideas about what to
do. Prof. Brown would mix
the isotopes with a ceramic ma
terial like clay. compress and
bake this into bricks, and store
the bricks in remote caverns,
Prof. Eliassen would fuse them
with silica into a form of glass
before caching them remotely
Either way. the by-products
would be in "non-leachable'
form. virtually insoluble in
water. Prof. Eliassen's glass
would probably be a little more
impervious; Prof. Brow ms
bricks would certainly be
cheaper to make.
On a much smaller, localized
scale, another problem exists.
What of low-level reactor
products-even weaker than
the cloth wipes and broken
test tubes that are now en-
cased in concrete and dumped
in the sea?
One small, experimental re-
actor in the heart of a big city
posed a difficult problem of this
order for its operators. The
air-cooled reactor was generat-
ing radioactive argon-41 in its
stack gas. Neutrons from the
hitting the natural
argon-40 that makes up about
/ per cent Of the cooling air
were creating the short-lived
but dangerous isotope. It took
two months to figure out how
to dilute the stack gas to con-
centrations consistent with
public health rules.
4 4 4 4
TUESDAY: When Safety Rules
Are IgnOred.)
Evening star., 1960-07-04
Soviet Farm FoiIures
Laid to Poor Planning
MOSCOW 1,lu 4 LAD,

MOSCOW. July 4 (AP). -
Pravda has Joined in the
complaints of faulty planning
in farming and farm machin-
cry plants which Soviet ex-
perts charge is delaying the
harvest and cutting food de-
liveries.
The optimism of last months
Communist Party Congress on
Agriculture has given way to
sharp and disillusioned re-
citals Of failure to meet quotas
because of an exceptionally
severe winter and what news
papers term incorrect planning
methods.
Pravda yesterday hit harder
than other papers have done.
Reapers Rusting
1t charged that thousands of
reapers and combines are rust
ing in factory lots because the
State Planning Board of the
Russian Federated Republic
the top body-forgot to order
component parts.
AS an example, it said, hun
dreds of reapers at a Rostov-
on-Don farm machinery plant
were unusable because the plan
ming board had neglected to
order drive shafts.
Urgent pleas for men and
machinery have come from
such scattered regions as Kaz-
akhstan, Stavropol in the Cau-
casus and from the Ukraine.
All have said that without help
a successful harvest will be i'm
possible.
ukraine Tagging
Judging from reports now
flooding the press the basic
f1aw-apart from brutal wealth.
er-has been poor maintenance
of available machinery. This
has been charged by Kazakh-
stan and Stavropol leaders, and
today N. D. Bulemovsky, a sec
retary of the Ukrainian Com
munist Party, said of 3,270
corn-picking combines in the
Odessa region, only 1,l50 could
be repaired.
The newspaper Agricultural
Evening star., 1960-07-04
The Atomic Years
Hidden Dangers From Radiation
Make Mishups Almost Certain
CHAPTER Xxx
By WILLIAM HINES

AS peaceful of the atom increases what hazards
If any-confront the average man?
The answer be inferred from these two rules, T"
probable truth of which almost universally conceded
l. ANY amount of additional radiation however slight
Evening star., 1960-12-27

In New York City, q spokes-
man for the Jesuit weekly
magazine America" said the
custom Of tithing is virtually
unknown to Catholic parishes
In the United States.
But he added that Father
Weigand would be within his
rights in specifying to parish
toner's how to apply the law of
the church, which obligates all
Catholics to contribute to
church support.
Father Weigand Is pastor of
lSt. Joseph's church OF the
Palisades. The parish contains
1900 families and is one of
|the largest in the State.
He said he had been prepar-
ing his parishioners for the
new system for 10 weeks by q
series Of pastoral letters and
pronouncement. The plan it
self is to go into effect next
Sunday.
His plan. he said, could not
be considered compulsory.
However, q spokesman for
the parish who asked not to. be
identified, today said that
parishioners have no other
option but to participate In the
! plan.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Cumbodiu Prince
Pledges Red Aid

PHNOM PENN. Cambodia,
Dec. 81 (AP).-Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, neutralist Cambodia's
chief Of state, returned from a
three-month round-the-world
trip today with promises of aid
from Communist countries.
He told q welcoming crowd
the Soviet Union has pledged a
"big university and two hydro
electric dams" to Cambodia
along with helicopters capable
Of carrying 10 to IL passengers.
From Communist China, he
said. Cambodia will get funds
to expand four existing fac
tories and build two others.
The prince said Chinese tech
nicians also will help with con-
struction Of the Phnom Penh-
Sihanoukville railroad while
Russian geologists will prospect
for minerals. " ..
He added q Red China Cam.
bodia shipping company will
be organized.
Czechoslovakia has pledged
to build sugar reflneries for
Cambodia, it was reported.
Evening star., 1960-12-27

LONDON. Dec. ~ (AP).-A
close friend Of the royal family
said today that Queen Eliza
beth II is considering appoint
ing Princess Margaret governor
Of the Bahamas.
It could be q happy solution
to q delicate and increasingly
uneasy situation, what to do
with Margaret and more par
ticularly her husband. Antony
Armstrong Jones has been
unemployed for the last seven
months since his marriage into
the royal family.
Their friends say Margaret
and her husband are not
pleased at the thought Of
spending the rest Of their lives
In q .glittering whirl of social
events and q near puppet-like
existence in the purple shadows
Of the British throne.
Margaret will be 81 next
August 81. Mr.. Armstrong
Jones will be 81 on March 7.
Both are active, adept in the
social graces and talented.
BY tradition. members of
the royal family and their
spouses don't 60 into business,
commerce, or engage In the
arts for profit.
So Mr.. Armstrong Jones
gave UP a highly profitable
and promising career as a
photographer.
II Margaret became governor
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Catholic Priest Ends
RoffIes, Asks Tithes

WEST NEW YORK, N. j.,
Dec. ~ (AP).-The pastor of
a Roman Catholic church here
says therell be no more car
nivals. bazaars or raffles to get
funds for parish needs.
Instead, church members will
be asked to donate 10 per cent
Of their gross income to the
church and church-approved
charities. he declared yesterday.
The priest. the Rev. John p.
Weigand, said he was taking
the step to put an end to the
church'S carnival atmosphere. T"
The new system he outlined
which really isn't new at all
traces its history back to the
early days Of the church. It
is called tithing and is recon.
mended by many Protestant
churches.
Father Weigand said that
bingo games would be con-
tinued.
He explained that the bingo
license was won after a long
struggle and that he doesn't
want to give 1t up.
He also pointed out that
about 95 per cent of the bingo
players are not members Of his
parish.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
BAHAMAS. POST CONSIDERED =.
Margaret May Be Governor

Margaret and Tony established
in Government House in Mas
sau, the Bahamas would earn
many millions more.
The appointment Of q mem.
ber Of the royal family as gov
ernor and commander in chief
of the Bahamas would set no
royal precedent.
When the Duke Of Windsor
and his American born wife
were in much the same position
as Margaret and Tony-in that
they had very little to do Of
ficially-King George vi made
the Duke the governor Of the
Bahamas. The Duke served
from 1910 to 1945.
The post Of governor Of the
Bahamas is normally for a i've
year period. The present gov
ernor, Sir Oswald Raynor
Arthur, IS, was appointed In
1857. His tour Of duty should
end in 1862.
This would give Margaret
and her husband another years
practice in representing the
Queen in high places.
Friends Of the royal family
say the Queen has been feeling
out government and private in
dividuals on the Bahamas ap-
pointment. No opposition has
been reported and some highly
placed persons are said to be
enthusiastically in favor Of the
appointment.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
NEWSMAKER, 1860:
JOHN KENNEDY +

JOHN 2. KENNEDY hos been
nomed "Newsmoker Of 1860" by
$500 rodio and newspaper news sdi-
tors Of member organizations Of the
Associated Press by q much wider
morsin Of ballots thon in the presi-
dentioi election. The story il on
Poss AS.
SIERRA LEONE, q British West
Afriean colony slated for indspend.
enes in April, foees gloomy eco
nomic future, according to Writer
Smith Hempstons in the second Of
two ortieIes on Poss A..
BALTIMORE hos 10 per cent Of
MoTyIond's unemployed workers even
though the orsG Ground the MoRu.
mental City is not o distressed cree,
reports Stoff Writer Paul Hope In
the last Of Q series on Pogs 81.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Red Press Asks
Kennedy Reply

MOSCOW, Dec. ~ (AP).-
The newspaper Soviet Russia
suggested today that it is time
President-elect John F. Ken
nedy answered Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei GrCmyko's
statement that the Soviet Union
wants to improve relations with
the United States.
The paper printed foreign
comment from various neutral
ist and Socialist newspapers
praising Mr.. Gromyko's state.
ment last week to the Supreme
Soviet and demanding that Mr..
Kennedy respond.
THE entire international
public greets the Soviet peace
initiative" said the paper, "but
certain circles in the United
States Of America are clearly
irritated and do not even hide
this irritation"
Mr.. Gromyko told the Soviet
Parliament last Friday that the
Soviet government hopes for
better relations with the United
States after Mr.. Kennedy be-
comes President.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Accident Toll
On Highways
Reaches 485
By the Associated Press

Trafic accidents over the long
Christmas week end took q
heavy toll Of lives, averaging
six an hour. but the total oi
4SS was below the pre- -holiday
estimate Of $40.
The number killed in all acci-
dents in the three-day holiday
period also may be the lowest
for q comparable Christmas
week end in II years.
The Nations trafiic toll was
less than last years 493 and
the lowest for q three day
Christmas period since 1949
when the total was 4l3.
Deaths In trafiic smashups
slackened last night despite in
creased traffic as millions Of
motorists jammed highways fol
home from Christmas visits
Rain and ice made driving
hazardous in some areas anc
the death rate dropped slightly
The count at midnight. al
the end Of the 7S-hour holiday
period which started at 6 pm
Friday, showed that in add.
ton to the 485 killed in motoI
vehicle accidents, fires took {
toll Of n deaths compared Il
43 for last years Christmas
weekend holiday. Various type
Of other accidents claimed tn,
lives of 80 persons compared
to 73 last Christmas for ar
overall total of 638 violenr
deaths. Last Christmas thu
total was GA accidental deaths
The National Safety Council
meanwhile, says $40 persons
may die on the Nations high.
ways during the New Year.
holiday weekend.
The estimated death tol
would compare with 374 killed
during a similar three-day
week end a year ago, which wa
a record for q three-day year
end period.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Tourists Given
Mt. Etno Display.

CATANIA, Sicily. Dec. "a
(AP) MT. Etna rumbled into
activity today providing Q fine
display for Christmas-time
tourists, but there were no
signs Of imminent danger TO
property.
Etna has erupted several
times in the past year, causing
little or no damage to the farm
lands on the slopes.
Today one Of the craters be.
low the peak was exploding
about IL times an hour, send
ing up columns Of black smoke
which accompanied the expIo.
sions. The top central crater
also exploded at intervals but
with less force.
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Johnson Promises
Speedup on Space
LeudersMup,
New Drive in
Florida ToIks
BY GARNETT d. HORNER
star stan Writer ' !,

PALM BEACH, Fla. oec. n.
"A very vigorous and &C.
celerated" American space pro-
gram in the Kennedy admin
istration was predicted today
by Vice President ELECT Johnson.
Senator johnson made this
prediction at q news confer
ence following prolonged policy
talks at President-elect Ken
nedy's vacation headquarters
here on ways to strengthen the,
space program and American
diplom attic representation
abroad.
The news conference followed
q Kennedy announcement that
Rex Whitton, 62-year-old chief
engineer Of the Missouri High.
way Department, win be Fed
eral highway administrator In
the new administration, sue
ceeding Bertrarn Tallany.
All Meet Press
Senator johnson and Repre-
sentative Rooney. Democrat Of
New York, who is chairman Of
the House Appropriations Sub
committee handling State De-
partment funds, also announced
agreement with Mr.. Kennedy
on seeking adequate expense
allowances to permit career
diplomats lacking private for
tunes to serve as Ambassadors
in top foreign posts.
Senator johnson, Mr.. Rooney
and Senator Kerr. Democrat Of
Oklahoma, who is due to Sue
coed Senator johnson as chair
man Of the Senate Space Com
mittee. appeared at o joint
news conference after conclud-
ing their policy talks with Mr..
Kennedy. rFr- r
They disclosed no details Of
the Kennedy administration
space program.
Senator johnson, DESIGNATED
by the PreSident-elect to be
chairman Of his space advisory
council, said Mr.. Kennedy
wants the space program re-
viewed with q fine-tooth
comb" to make sure that "all
is being done that can be DONE"
Hope to Close Gap
He added that Mr.. Kennedy
''is determined" that the
United States forge ahead and
maintain leadership.
II think you will find"
Senator Johnson asserted,
that the new administration
will have a very vigorous and
accelerated program"
Asked II he expected the So
called missile gap with Russia
to be closed quickly, the Vice
President-elect said I'VE will
See KENNEDY, Page AS
Evening star., 1960-12-27
French SET Off
Third NucIear
Test in Sahara
Aims Are to Help
On Weapons and
FoIIout Defense

PARIS, Dec. ~ (AP).-
France today successfully staged
its third nuclear test. expIod.
ing Q small device that ofncials
hope win clear the way for both
tactical and giant thermonu.
clear weapons.
French scientists also sought
to gain information about pro-
lection Of persons from the
effects Of radioactive fallout.
The third test, which came
about 10 months after the first,
was fired at Reggane, deep in
the Sahara, from atop q tower.
French ofncials said that the
device was of several kilotons
in power. A kiloton is eQuiva-
lent to 1000 tons Of TINT.
The flrst atomic bombs, made
by the United States in World
War II, were of about 20 kilo-
tons. The first French bomb,
tested February 13. had 20 kilo-
tons power and the second, set
on April /, was considerably
smaller.
FallOut No Danger
Calling today'S test q success,
the Defense Ministry said the
device was Of small strength.
OfdcialS said the fallout
presented no danger to Nomads
in the desert.
Testing points reported that
weak radioactive fallout was
noted In an area about so miles
long and IS miles wide extend
ing southweStward from the
firing range.
With the findings from the
test. French scientists hope to
perfect small operational
tactical bombs and detonating
devices for thermonuclear or
hydrogen bombs.
The French said many small
anifnalS-most Of them mice or
rats-were placed in the test
area and are now being flown
to Paris for study.
Protective Injections
Some Of the animals had
been injected with substances
that might furnish protection
against radioactivity, ofIicials
said. Other animals had been
lit In o state od hibernationI
to study how they reacted to
radioactivity In that condition.
Scientists In protective clothing
retrieved them Immediately
after the blast.
The government gave no de-
tails Of the device exploded, but
presumably 1t was of plutonium
as were the previous two. De-
vice No. 3 was named Red
Jerboa," after small desert
rodent.
A statement by French
See ATOMIC, Page AS
Evening star., 1960-12-27

for the Advancement Of Science
was told today. AS a result at
is surprising to many visitors
Ito Red China) that these for
mer plaguing pests have prac-
tically disappeared"
Sheer manpower-millionS of
men. women, children and old
folks-did the job that West
ern science has been unable to
accomplish in the Unite d
States, according to DR.. William
Y. Chen Of the National In
stitutes Of Health.
Top Medical Attainment
His critical evaluation of
achievements in medicine and
public health in China during
the past decade" was q feature
Of the science associations an
|nual meeting here.
DR.. Chen said the shock
troop approach to public
health, organized on police
state lines, was clearly the out
standing achievement Of the
Reds in the medical field. But
other aspects Of medicine. as
revealed in the scientific litera-
ture coming out Of Communist
China. also show progress under
the Reds.
The reform Of medicine and
public health has been carried
out as ruthlessly as other
aspects Of the Chinese revolu.
ton, DR.. Chen's report indi-
Gated. In q country where
medical service was almost
non-existent. the Reds set about
increasing the quantity Of doc
tors without worrying too much
about quality.
Now there are indications
that quality will be emphasized
quantity having served its pur-
Evening star., 1960-12-27

pose. DR.. Chen said. An eight
year medical school Is being
established in the Red capital,
Peking. It win offer three years
instruction in basic sciences,
two years in basic medical
skills. two in clinical medicine
and one in practical field train
ing.
English and Russian are the
two compulsory languages -
DR.. Chen said.
A curious Sidelight to the
Reds medical reform drive is
their apparent intention to use
traditional Chinese medicine az
well as modern scientific tech
niques. There are believed to
be $4,000 herb doctors" In
Red China, DR.. Chen said. "At
the end Of 1858 the Ministry OF
Health offlcially enforced the
full-time study Of Chinese ira
ditional medicine by modern
Western-trained Chinese medi-
cal DOCTORS" he said. 1T is OBJ
vious that the integration OF
traditional medicine and West.
ern medicine is growing strong.
er, rather than weaker"
Diseases Eradicated
Emphasis on public health
has been such that the total
disappearance of cholera In
China" Is claimed. So is the
eradication Of plague and
smallpox. and the control" OF
typhus and relapsing fever, ac-
cording to DR.. Chen. A worm
parasite disease called schisto-
somasiS has been reduced in in
cidence by so per cent, and
malaria's incidence is down "tc
less than O 8 per cent level y
See SCIENCE, Page Az
Evening star., 1960-12-27
~ 3 star stsa wrI.sr

PALM BEACH, Fla, Dec. 27.--
President-elect Kennedy ID
smoothing the way for an at
tempt to provide expense allow
ances for some Government
oficials In Washington, as well
as to increase such funds for
American ambassadors abroad.
The financial aid would be
intended to make administra-
tive jobs in Washington more
attractive to business and pro-
fessional men Of high caliber
and to make 1t possible for men
without large private incomes
to represent the United States
in such expensive world capi-
tails as London, Paris and Rome
Urges Entertainment Fund
James M. Lands, in q report
to the President-elect on Fed
eral regulatory agencies made
public last night, suggested the
grant Of "a moderate enter
tainment allowance" to agency
administrators as q ''lure for
the enlistment Of talent"
Like an ambassador" Mr
Lands said. q commission
chairman In Washington needs
to maintain q certain prestige
with the industry.
"Ie should be able to enter
tain rather than be required to
suffer entertainment.
"At conferences. which he
not infrequently is required to
call. luncheon breaks should
provide something better than
service from q Government
cafeteria"
On the ambassadorial front,
the President-elect apparently
has persuaded Representative
Rooney. Democrat Of New York,
! to 60 along. with the idea OF
Evening star., 1960-12-27

Of the jewel-like British crown
colony In the Atlantic of the
Florida coast, her husband
would naturally share her life.
It could be a busy one.
The Bahamas annually earn
millions Of pounds and dollars
as a tourist attraction. With
Evening star., 1960-12-27
Idea Of Expense Relief
For Aides Is Pushed

increased REPRESENTATION allow.
ances for American diplomats.
Vice President elect johnson
and Mr.. Rooney. who y chair
man Of the House Appropria-
tions subcommittee handing
State Department funds. an-
nounced the agreement with
Mr.. Kennedy today.
Mr.. Rooney, who in the past
has led moves to slash what he
has called "booze money" al-
lowances, said this does not
mean "unleashing the food
gates for bigger and better rep
resentation allowances" for the
Foreign Service everywhere.
He said. however. that he
agrees with the Kennedy aim
of providing expense funds "in
accordance with the needs" Of
Americas diplomatic represent
ativeS. e.
Paris Post for BOhlen?
ut all depends on the indi-
vidual. situation" he said
who it is, what his needs
are, and the importance Of the
post"
One particular point UNDER
stood to have been discussed
by Senator Kennedy with the
conferees here is that he would
like to names Charles e. (Chip)
Bohlen, veteran career diplo-
mat now serving as top ad-
wiser on Soviet Affairs in the
State Department, as Ambas-
sador to France.
In the past, only very wealthy
men have been able to serve
as ambassadors in capitals
such as Paris, London and
Rome because they have been
required to dip heavily into
their own pockets to pay for
heavy entertainment and other
expenses. #-
Evening star., 1960-12-27

mission for especially bitter
criticism.
He said the FEC presents an
extraordinary spectacle" Of an
agency with "Alice-in- Wonder
land" procedures that has
"drifted. vacillated and stalled
in almost every major area"
and seems incapable Of policy
planning"
The FPC. he wrote, shows
"the most dismal failure in our
time of the administrative pro-
cess"
Cites Lack Of Planning
He reported "inordinate de.
lays" little or no policy plan
ming and practically no inter-
agency policy coordination in
the work Of all the regulatory
agencies.
Among other things, he
blamed the situation on incon-
See AGENCIES, Page AS