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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
Khrushchev Gets
Toure Backing

LONDON, Sept. 10 (AP).-
Presi dent Sekou Toufe Of
Guinea, who says he is a Marx
list but no Communist, lined UP
today on the side Of Premier
Khrushchev in the theological
argument now going on inside
the Communist world.
A communicate broadcast by
Moscow radio from Ulan Bator.
Outer Mongolia, after a visit by
Mr.. Toure, said:
1.-THE Monaghan Peoples Re-
public and the Republic Of
Guinea declare that the con-
sistent augmentation of the
principles Of peaceful coexist-
ence and the solution Of all in
ternational issues through
peaceful negotiations is the
basic means of insuring normal
relations between states with
different social and political
systems in the present condi-
TONS"
The opposing thesis Of Red
Chinese Communists is that
war with capitalism is inevi-
table"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
Will Earn $4,000

In addition to the scholar
ship, the girl chosen Miss
America earns an estimated
$4,000 during the year Of her
reign from personal appear
ances throughout the country.
Preliminary competition in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
District and vicinity-cloudy

District and vicinity-Cloudy
and cooler with rain today,
highest in lower 70s. Wind
northeast 10 to Is mph, visible
ity fair to good. It will be
cloudy and cool Monday with
rain likely.
Maryland-Cloudy and cool
er with rain likely, high 65 to
10 in the west and 70 to rs in
the east. Cloudy and cool Mon
day with rain likely.
Virginia-Cloudy and cool
with rain. High in the .70's.
Cloudy and cool on. Monday
with rain likely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11

the personal protection Of tn,
employee"
In another decision, the Con-
troller General ruled that EN-.
ployes in the Washington ares
driving their own cars tc
Friendship Airport in Baltimore
to board planes on offlcial
Government trips cannot claim
this home-or-offlce -to-airport
travel as part of their per diem
allowance. Some department,
had inquired whether the EN-.
ployes could claim So for thit
portion Of their trip.
The Controller General ruled
against this because the dis.
lance is less than so miles.
PLEASED-Chairman Muir.
ray Of the House Civil Service
Committee has issued q state
ment saying he is pleased to
learn that the Defense Depart
ment agencies have appointed
co-ordinators to work with the
Civil Service Commission to
facilitate the placing of career
employees who are losing their
jobs in the current layoff pro-
gram. It also applies to en-
ployes in the Naval Weapons
Plant which is due to shut
down.
Defense officials said, the
Army Ordnance Missile Com
mand at Huntsville, Ala, is
working closely with the Naval
Weapons Plant here in re-
cruiting employees.
y y y
HEALTH INSURANCE -
More than $4,000 retired
Government workers and the
immediate members Of their
families will benefit from the
health insurance law signed
Friday by President Eisenhower
The csc still must work out
details Of the program with the
insurance carrier it will select
to underwrite the benefits, but
the objective is a type Of basic
comprehensive program that
Federal employees receive.
The benefits for retirees,
however, will not be as extern
sive because Of the cost aspect
in regard to the more elderly.
SIGNED - President Eisen-
hover has signed the bill to
accelerate initial Civil Service
annuity payments.
SHORTER WORK-WEEK
Disappointed because the
Public Printer has given a final
rundown this year to q, 3711a-
hour work-week in the Govern
ment Printing Office, craft en-
ploye groups there led by the
Composing Division Scale Com
mittee and Columbia Typo
graphical Union No. 101 have
appealed to the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Printing.
The congressional group will
hear the appeal next January.
Federal employees generally
have an interest in the matter,
since a shorter GPO work-week
could be the start of a similar
drive by all Government worker
groups. Specific legislation
would be required for a Govern
ment-wide shorter work-week,
although the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Printing
could authorize it for GPO
craft employees.
The 0Po crafts also are ask
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11

talent, swim suit and evening
gown categorieS was helC
Wednesday, Thursday anc
Friday nights, with each Of the
81 girls from every state Of the
union, Canada, and the cities
Of New York. Chicago anc
Washington getting a chance tt
compete in all three categories
The Miss America pageant Of
course is not simply a beauty
contest, since the talent, poise
charm and intelligence of the
girls count along with their
looks.
Talent Points Doubled
The pageant was even less Of
a beauty contest this year than
previously.
The points awarded for tai
ent in the preliminary judging
were doubled this year, and q
girls talent counted as much
as her competition in swim suit
and evening gown combined.
Although talent had a great
deal to do with which girl made
the semifnals, its double Inn
portance ended at this phase
of the contest.
Starting with the semiflnals
all previous points were wiped
out and the three categories
counted equally in determin-
ing the finalists and the new
Miss America.
Miss Alabama, Teresa Ri
naldi Of Birmingham. and Miss
Michigan, Nancy Anne Flem-
ing of Montague, Mich, tied
in winning the talent trophy
the first night. Other talent
winners have been Miss Utah
Marian Faye Walker Of Salt
Lake City, and Miss Indiana,
Tommye Lou Glaze Of Culver
Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
Bud Westmore Hit
BY Coronuy Attack

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.,
Sept. 10 lAP) Robert (Bud)
Westmore, Hollywood makeup
man, suffered an acute coro-
nary attack in his hotel room
today and was rushed to Allan
tic City hospital.
Mr.. Westmoreland, ~, en-
ployed by Universal : Interna-
tional studios, was serving as q
Judge in the Miss America con-
test,
Doctors listed his condition
as serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11


test, is an 18-year-old graduate
Of Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School. Although she is a sing
er, it was her 36-24-36 figure
that captured the eyes of the
judges when they named hel
winner of the bathing suit
preliminary round in the COM
petition.
The 10 girls were to go be-
fore television cameras later
in the evening for the f1nal
judging in the oldest national
beauty contest.
The winner will be a tor
celebrity until next September
and perhaps longer. During her
year-long reign she will have
just about everything an Amer
lean girl can wish - fame,
money, clothes, travel.
Some Of the spoils of victory
will carry beyond the magic
year. For example, when she
gives up her crown at the end
of the year she then can use
a $4,000 scholarship to fur
Their her education. n
Six $1,000 Scholarships
The pageant judges tonight
also awarded six $1,000 schol-
arships to girls they rated tops
in various talent categories. The
awards and their winners were:
Most talented dancer-MiSs
Texas. who did a Spanish dance
in the talent competition.
Most talented pops singer
Miss Canada.
Most talented classical or
semiclassical singer-Miss Ore
gon.
Most talented in musical va
riety-Miss Maine.
Most talented actress-Miss
Chicago.
Most talented in other fields
Miss Illinois and Miss Mis-
sissippi tied. Miss Illinois ex-
hibited her dress designing
abilities. Miss Mississippi Of
fered an art display.
Lynda Lee Mead Of Natchez,
Miss, whose reign as Miss
America 1860 ends at midnight.
plans to use her $4,000 schol-
arship to finish her senior year
at the University of Mississippi
and then continue her studies
in Europe.
viii Earn $4,000
In addition to the scholar
ship, the girl chosen Miss
America earns an estimated
$4,000 during the year Of hel
reign from personal appear
ances throughout the country
Preliminary competition in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
----------- ------ etN
2 GAO Rulings Limit
TroveI Cost Claims
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star stan Writer

Controller General has issued two adverse decisions
so Federal empoye travellers ofca Government
business concerned. .ts
First ruled that employees charge flight
ocia expenses The General Accounting Office said this
cannot be claimed ofcal since 1t is "a cost for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
TODAYS WEATHER REPORT

hours; Deale. a. hours: solomons
Island. GA hours; Point Lookout.
ia hours.
The Sun and Moon
"a Rises Sets
Sun today - GAG am. 7:23 pm.
sun tomorrow 6:46 am. 7:22 pm.
Moon today - 11:26 PM 1855 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-09-11
District Girl Among
MisssAmerico FinoIists

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j. Sept 1o<tAP) Contestants rep
presenting Alabama California the District Of Columbia Idaho
Indiana Massachusetts, Michigan North Carolina. South
reached the semnals of the Miss America
pageant tonight
Ruth Rea who represents the beauty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-24

NeL1, Notions, lt Floor oo Chew Chose, Wheaton POzo and 7 Corners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-24

Mail and Phone Orders Accepted, DI. 1890
Evening star., 1960-01-10
January ID
1.-The UntouchobIes. Oromo.

1.-The UntouchobIes. Drama.
Hour. The Noise Of neotb" A
Chicago district Mofio leoder IS
ficketed for force retirement" by
his qoneIond associates. J. Cor
roll Noish. Robert Stock. Woite'
Wlnchsll norrotes.
9-CBS Reports! Special.
IA Hours. The Population ES-
pIoson." A rebroodcoSt OF the
provocative progrom concerning
the obnormolly high current rotes
OF growth OF the worlds popuIo-
ton. The lost 80 minutes OF this
program will be used to discuss
this problem.
Evening star., 1960-01-10

4-You Bet Your Life. Quiz.
Groucho Marx. host.
5-WrestIins. CopItoI Arena
Evening star., 1960-01-10
Program Listines

ll:l0
7-Weother. Sports. News.
Allen. Sieoel. Molkie.
Has
4-News. Weather. Sports.
COLOR. Rash Forester Simpson.
9-The lote Show. Movie.
ia Hours. THE Noon Is Down"
l943 The movie version Of
John Stenbeck's story depicting
the resistance OF small Nor
weeion mining town oooinst Nuzi
terrorism. Sir Cedric Hordwicke.
Lee J. Cobb.
ll:25
7-Boekstose. Bunny Wneck.
ll:30
4-Jock Poor Show. Variety.
7-Not for Hire. Crime.
RoIph Meeker stors.
Evening star., 1960-08-25
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
Brointrusts N-Arthur F. Burns
Form Consulting Firm
gY SYLVIA PORTER

to mold United States economic |
policy, a study of his writings
and a personal knowledge of
his views suggests this is what
would happen.
The administration would at
once seize the initiative in for
mulating a program to combat
future recessions. At the heart
of that program would be a tax
system which would provide "in
advance of any recession for
fairly prompt and automatic
adjustment of income tax rates
to a temporarily lower level of
economic activity"
Tax reduction would be the
No. l anti-recession weapon.
Increased and broadened Gov
ernment spending would be
distinctly secondary.
Nltdl CHdHBeS
Steps would be taken i'm
mediately to overhaul our un-
employment system. Reform"
of its "inadequacy" is "long
overdue"
The Employment Act of 1916
would be amended to include
the goal of reasonable price
stability among the Govern
ment's high" aims.
The antitrust laws would be
str e n G t h e n e d, particularly
with regard to new mergers"
Reform of our basic tax laws
to encourage corporations to
invest to spur economic growth
and to spend literally to re-
! place obsolete plant and equip
ment would get top priority.
Serious work would be done
to enhance "the effectiveness
of monetary policy" although
there would be no attack on the
Federal Reserve Systems in
dependence and fundamental
| policies.
The administration would
move to solve with some zeal"
the problems posed by the
slumS and inefficient trans
portation of our cities.
Foreign aid would be con-
tinued on a major scale, social
security would be broadened.
While none of Dr.. Burns pack
age would be arrestingly new,
the inclusion of all or most of
these ideas in package would
surely be arreStingly new.
DR.. Burns has been an in
| fluence on Mr.. Nixon for years,
! still is. He is an egghead with
whom Senator Kennedy's lead
ing eggheads disagree. but for
whom they have respect.
Sunday: Saulnier and Wallace
, Distributed, 1860, by the Hall Syndi-
cate Inc. All Rights ReservedJ
Evening star., 1960-08-25
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
star stan Writer

Lester H. Carr. so, has beer
in the radio business all hi
adult life-but has never hac
his voice on the air.
He came close to it once
When he was chief engineer o1
a St. Paul radio station in 1898
Multimillionair e Howard
Hughes Unexpectedly landed al
the local airport-on his epoch.
making fight around the world
Mr.. Carr and a station drafts.
man rushed to, the field with
portable transmitting equip.
ment, set up a circuit from the
station to the National Broad
casting Co. and prepared fol
an on-the-spot broadcast te
the Nation.
THE only trouble was We
couldn't find the announcer,
Mr.. Carr recalled. The plane
refueled and was at the enc
of the runway getting ready tt
take off when NBC said to put
the engineer on with a descrip-
ton of what was going on.
But the craftsman wanted
to be an announcer. so I tolc
him: Take it. and he did
Now he's one of the most sue.
cessful anonuncers in Mime.
apolis."
Heads ElectrOnics Empire
Mr.. Carr, whose deep, res
onant voice would grace any
microphone, has done pretty
well anyway.
The president and owner oi
Washington'S Developments
Engineering Corp. DECO) anc
Scatter Communications, Inc.
he heads an electrical-elec-
tronics empire that nearly spans
the continent.
DECO, repeatedly a $2.5 mil.
lion-a-year corporation, alsc
has laboratories in Boston anc
Boulder, Colo. The Boulder
branch Is near a nucleus o.
Government scientific organ.
izations, and the Boston lab.
oratories are two blocks from
the Massachusetts, Institute o.
Technology.
Headquarters of the firm Is
at 1000 Connecticut avenue
NV. and its main Laboratories
are near Leesburg.
Mr.. Carr feels these three 10.
cations, situated in prime re.
search and development areas
offer great promise to a grow
ing firm like his.
Field Coming of Age
Comm u nications in the
United States is just now com.
ing Of age" he declared, "aftel
all these years as an orphan.
He is confident his firms viii,
help the Nation to advance rap.
idly in this field.
Mr.. Carr speaks with the au-
thority Of experience. Born in
Elk River, Mimi. he Joined the
Bell System while still in schoo
and was hired full-time by the
radio station after graduation
from the University of Mime.
sofa.
After six years in st. Paul, he
was hired by the Columbis
Broadcasting System to helE
build new plant for the net.
works Chicago station.
Evening star., 1960-08-25

income reached $6.601.425 COM
pared with $5,565,646 for the
similar 1859 period. Customers
meters in service at the end of
July totaled 391, ,184. a gain of
l1,203 over the same time last
year. In the year ended in July,
property, plant and equipment
account increased $13,315,933
to $163,892,287.
Evening star., 1960-08-25

"Vice President Nixon does
not need the sort of economic
braintrust that Kennedy has"
was the rather scornful COM
ment of my friend, an official
in the Eisenhower administra-
ton. why, Nixon has the whole
of Government to choose from
when he wants facts and advice
economists in the Federal
Reserve, the Commerce De-
partment, the Council of Eco
nomic Advisers, etc. While
Kennedy has been sitting in
the Senate, the Vice President
has been at the highest level
meetings in Washington, get
ting plenty of exposure to
realistic ideas in economics
and finance"
That opinion reveals a great
deal about Mr.. Nixon. 1t en-
phasizes that Mr.. Nixon's
economic views already are
fairly firmly established along
the generally conservative lines
Of experts in the Eisenhower
administration or sympathetic
to its policies.
Mr.. Nixon approves of the
way the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn has been administering
monetary policy to curb boomS,
cushion downturns. He feels
none of the urgency that many
Of Senator Kennedys advisers
feel about expanding the role
of Government to provide more
public services.
Comparison Offered
Although Mr.. Nixon as Presi-
dent would be considerably to
the "left" of Mr.. Eisenhower
as "left" is commonly under
stood-he'd move much less
aggressively and not nearly as
far in that direction as Senator
Kennedy.
Still Mr.. Nixon does have an
economic financial braintrust
too. Only week ago, his head
quarters released a list of Il
members of his personal ad-
viSory council" of whom sil
are college professors, two are
university deans and one is 6
university president.
One name which appears or
this list, as we'll as on all othel
less formal lists of Mr.. Nixon!
braintrusters, is Arthur F
Burns - former chairman o
President Eisenhower's Council
of Economic Advisers, nov
president of the National Blu
reau of Economic Research ant
a world-reSpected authority OF
the business cycle.
If Dr. Burns had the powel
Evening star., 1960-08-25

I
him, he came to Washington in
1912 to serve as a consulting
engineer with the Navy's Bu-
rcau of Ships.
Form Consulting Firm
At the end of the war, he
and James Weldon, a broadcast
conSultant with whom he had
worked in Chicago, decided to
form a consulting firm in
Washington.
Our plan" according to Mr..
Carr, was that the consulting
organization was to be the We
hicle for developing other areas
of engineering. A year later we
set up Continental Electronics,
a high power tranSmitter de-
sign and manufacturing COM
pany in Dallas"
Determined to finance the
companies themselves, they
agreed to commit their opera
tions to relatively slow growth,
DECO, specializing in COM
munications research and de-
velopment. was modestly start
| ed in 1852 as an eastern diyi-
sion.
But our plan was out Of
gear" Mr.. Carr observed. "We
had started the manufacturing
company first and the research
company second. 1t made sense
to cut our operations into
parts, so we agreed in 1859. to
sell Continental"
| Mr.. Carr acquired all the
stock to DECO. and Mr.. We'll
don. under a long-term con-
tract to Continental's new
owners, remained in Texas.
Grows 1OO-Fold
! In the course of eight years,
DECO has done all right for
Itself. It has increased Its
volume almost 100-fold from
$4,000 the first year and now
has about 100 persons in the
Washington-Leesburg area, an
other so in Boston and Boulder
The company's speciality is ra-
dio equipment and long-range
communications systems de-
veloped for land. sea and air.
The company has had q
hand in several imaginative
projects, including a communi-
cations system which can
bounce a message from Wash
ington to Hawaii via the moon
in 2l2 seconds. the worlds
largest telescope, and super
power antenna for the Voice OF
America.
More than 95 per cent OF
the company's work is Gov
ernment-sponsored, according
to Mr.. Carr, although he fore
sees the day when the firm will
spend more of its time on civil
ian contracts.
More Expansion Due
The company has grown SO
fast that it's Leesburg labora-
tories. originally built for only
temporary" use, have been
expanded three times. Even
those additions are not enough
and Mr.. Carr plans a second
Washington area lab much
closer to the Capital.
He also is considering ex-
pansion into full-scale manu-
featuring - probably by ac-
QUESTION Of another company"
Evening star., 1960-08-25
GosLightNet
ShowsGuin

The Washington Gas Light
Co. announced July operations
resulted in a loss of $519,697
against a loss of $494,906 for
that month a year ago.
The company said for the
seven months of this year, net
Evening star., 1960-08-25
TALKING OF BUSINESS
Head of Rodio-EIectronics Empire
Almost Was on Announcer-Once

From his pillared hilltop
mansion besides Fort Evans,
a Civil War installation, Mr..
Carr can see for many miles.
The view is good, appropriately
matching his outlook for the
future.
The communications field
will expand tremendously in the
next few years." he declared,
especially in non military
areas. We hope to have q con-
siderable part in this program"
Evening star., 1960-08-25
METALS

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (AP) Spot
nonferrous metal prices today: Copper
33 cents pound. Connecticut Valley.
Lead IL cents q pound. New York.
Zinc 13 cents pound, East st. Louis
Tin ST .0217 a pound, New York For
eign silver 912s cents per troy ounce,
New York. Pittsburgh scrap steel No
heavy was quoted by Iron Age at
81 90 ~ 90
Evening star., 1960-08-25

With that experience behind
him. he came to Washington in
1912 to serve as a consulting
engineer with the Navy's Bu-
rcau of Ships.
Evening star., 1960-08-25

4 The leaders Of the two unions want
p the company to agree that whenever
there is disagreement between man and
his boss, the men can all walk off the job
to attend protest meeting as union CON-
mitteemen. This, of course, is technique
for shutting down all or part of the railroad
at will "a technique forbidden time after
time by Federal courts. Both neutral boards
agree that this would be an attempt to
'legaIize" form of harassment of the
public which the Federal courts have for
bidden. The leaders of the two unions are
forcing strike to tryto "IegaIze" it anyhow.
Evening star., 1960-07-06
Rome Sets Stage
For Fashions

glittering examples of jewell
ing on the most elaborate
fabrics. Gattinoni is also
working on a new skirt she
says is "a slight triangle with
a lot Of shape and a little
Stiffening." She claims it will
be becoming to all figures.
De Luca, who has done
tricky sleeves before. is plan
ming to do something revolu-
tionary with the arm. 81 have
created new proportion that
widens the top and skimps
the skirt" Is it a seven eighth
length sandwich board shape
or a butterfly cape shape? De
Luca isn't saying, keeping a
traditional silence.
Fontana, whose lips also are
sealed, will only promise that
her collection is rich with
some of the most beautiful
and sumptuous evenin G
clothes ever made.
Evening star., 1960-07-06

18th annual convention Of
NAPC and the National
Plumbing = Heating Cooling
Exposition.
Mrs. Becker succeeds Mrs.
Edward Arnold Of San An
tonic, Tex. and Mrs. Stump
ner replaces Mrs. Martin
Grimsinger, also Of San An
tonic.
Evening star., 1960-07-06
Tea to Honor
Nuns Of Loretto

The Washington Chapter
Of the Loretto international
will hold its annual summer
tea from 8 to 5 p. m. Sum
day at the home of Mrs. Carl
Steele, 200 Dale drive, Silver
Spring.
The team will honor the
Sisters of Loretto who are
studying or teaching in the
Washington Baltimore area.
Evening star., 1960-07-06

Another Washington wom-
an, Mrs. Louis H. Stunpner,
was appointed to the post of
national secretary Of the
Auxiliary.
The groups sessions were
held concurrently with the
Evening star., 1960-07-06
Mrs. J. 7. Becker Is Elected

Mrs. Julius T. Becker was
elected president of the
Women's Auxiliary, National
Association Of Plumbing Con-
tractors, at the groups 40th
annual convention held in
Cleveland recently.