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Evening star., 1960-01-21

Gen. Power said the soviets
could virtually wipe out our
entire nuclear strike capability
within a span Of 80 minutes"
with $50 ICBMs plus $50 in
termediate range missiles.
Dangerous" Gap
without the capacity to
maintain a "long and effective"
airborne alert (Which the de-
fense budget does not provide
for in the next year and a half
or without completion of the
ballistic missile early warning
radar line cat least two years
away this country will face
1.-The most dangerous gap in our
military posture since Pearl
Harbor" Gen. Power said.
Evening star., 1960-01-21


markups."
Calling for a change in
method during the remainder
OF the hearings, the Illinois
Senator declared that he must
protest the terribly unobjec-
tive, unfair and completely in
equitable" way they have been
conducted.
j Uses Bread Comparison
He said that the 16 to 20
per cent profit actually made
by large drug companies is a
far cry from the 1000 and
1000 per cent markup figures
mentioned in earlier hearings.
He compared the markup in
drugs to that in bread, where
the price of the wheat is only
3 cents and the finished loaf
sells for 18 cents, with the most
Of the difference going over
many business costs and a
small profit.
Senator Dirksen, who spoke
up at the reopening of the
drug hearings, drew an imme-
diate reply from the chairman.
Senator Kefauver said that the
testimony and exhibits so far
have been factual and in the
public interest. He added that
the huge markup percentages
brought out by investigators
indicate the difference between
the cost of the raw material
and the finished product.
The Tennessee Democrat said
that 1t was made clear at the
beginning of the hearings that
the figures do not take into
consideration the costs Of dis
tribution and selling which are
trade secrets in the industry.
He also noted vast differences
in prices of the same drug,
pointing out that Drednisone
as sold to the druggist by large
manufacturers at ITO cents per
table and that sold by small
companies for as little as 1.9
cents per tablet.
The new hearings are to
probe the price of tranquilliz-
ers which, Senator Kefauver
said, sell for almost 5000 mil
lion a year at the fnanufac-
.turers' level.
. He declared that the COM
Evening star., 1960-01-21
Bored by Retirement?
Try Little Romance!

use all of your functions as
long as you can; get as much
mileage out of your body as
possible: forget talk about
slowing down bacause inactiv-
ity means atrophy, or wasting
away, Of both mind and body"
Tells of Durable Dane
DR.. Klumpp told Of a Dane
who did very we'll by himself
for more than 140 years.
This fellow, he said, was
Christian Jacobsen Dragenberg,
who was born in 1926 and died
in l772. At the age Of 10 he
was taken prisoner by Algerian
pirates. He served as a slave
for Is years, then escaped, and
participated in n war against
Sweden.
AT the age Of Ill the Dane
married a woman Of so and
outlived her. At 1870 he pro-
posed to several women but
was rejected. He lived another
l6 years, during which his con-
duct was far from blameless. 4"
But he simmered down at the
age Of l4l and died at 146.
Marry at Ill?
IF one man can live a life
as full as this" said DR..
Klumpp, there is no reason
why science cannot make it
possible eventually for many
Of us to marry at Ill, propose
and be accepted at 100 and
live to l46."
DR.. Auerback, a psychiatrist,
said senior citizens centers,
dance clubs and hobby clubs
are good places for lone old
sters to meet people.
Evening star., 1960-01-21

substantive concessions which
will reduce our security re-
quirements."
Mr.. Gates, accompanied by
Gen. Nathan F. Twining,
chairman Of the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff. testified behind closed
doors. The committee made
public written version of his
opening statement.
Evening star., 1960-01-21
BY RENNIE TAYLOR
Associated Press Science Writer

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 21-
Lonely oldsterS should try the
boy -meets-girl formula and
look forward to the prospect of
love and marriage long after
the normal retirement age, say
two doctors who deal with the
problems Of aging.
The senior citizen should live
1t up, moderately at least, and
forget about taking it easy. they
added.
And the medical profession
might justif1ably speed up the
application of new drugs and
techniques to benefit oldsters
now. rather than wait for some
degree of perfection which
might take years or genera
tions, one Of them said.
Conference on Aging
These ideas were put before
a regional conference on aging
and in a news conference yes
terday by DR.. Theodore G..
Klumpp Of New York and DR..
Alfred Auerback of San Fran
cisco. The conference was
sponsored by the American
Medical Association and the
Medical Associations of Wash
ingGon. Oregon and California.
DR.. Klumpp. a member of
the ANA Committee on Aging,
said that if medical science
has drugs and methods which
are reasonably sure to help the
aged but haven't been proved
100 per cent, they should be
used, even If occasional mis-
takes are'made.
And he advised oldsters to
Evening star., 1960-01-21
SIS Million FIeecino
Cited in Fee Racket

Senate investigators reported
today that American business
men have been fleeced out of
$25 million to $50 million an
nually in a new advance fee
racket promising to obtain
loans for them.
Less than one-tenth Of / per
cent of those who paid fees
ranging from SIPS to $4,000
were successful in having their
loans placed, the Senate Inves-
legations Subcommittee report
said.
Cited as a firm engaged in
advance-fee contracting was
the Commercial Finance Serv-
ice Corp. which vacated Offices
at 1924 K street NV, about
three months ago.
Trial Set March 28
This local corporation faces
trial on related mail fraud
charges March % in San Juan
Puerto Rico. according to the
Justice Department. Ten per-
sons said to be principals OF
employees of the corporation
were charged with using the
mails to blk a number OF
Puerto Rican business firms.
The accused would solicit
contracts to get loans, induce
victims to pay advance fees and
then fail to obtain the loan,
the count indictment
charged Postal authorities re-
ported about 100000 in ad-
vance fees was involved in the
firms operations.
Senate investigators sal d
spokesmen for the Washington
corporation. when informed Of
Senate findings, had main
tained their operations we're
proper. The firm is one OF %
listed as advance fee lending
firms by the Los Angeles Bet
ter Business Bureau.
This racket started in 1858
according to the report field
by Subcommittee Chairman
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat
of Arkansas. The report added
that some advance fee con
men" had switched to the new
field after their activities in a
similar real estate racket were
exposed by the subcommittee
two years ago.
Despite the extent of the
racket, the subcommittee rec
commended against any legis-
Evening star., 1960-01-21
VIVA Director Named

Mrs. Grace L. Rodgers has
been appointed executive direc-
ton OF the Arlington Visiting
Nurse Association. She has
worked with the VIVA since
1851 as staff nurse and nurs-
cry school health assistant and
succeeds Mrs. Martin E. Fran
els, who had retired.
Evening star., 1960-01-21
Reds to Tour Florida

TALLAHASSEE. Fla, Jan.
81 tAP).-Twelve Soviet Of
f1cials will make a three day
swing through Florida starting
February 3. returning a visit
to Russia by a group of Ameri-
can Governors.
Evening star., 1960-01-21

ANYBODY. ne SAID. He declinet
on new intelligence estimates
be enlarged. as feared q year
ago. But he said this country
lis ahead in total defense and
will remain ahead even II Soviet
. missile building exceeds present
. estimates.
. Speaker Rayburn today dis
..puted~ statements of Mr.. Gates
; comparing the military and
missile power Of this country
and the Soviet Union. He
charged that "the people in
the Pentagon are much too
complacent." He said the re-
ports Of a Soviet missile firing
in the Pacific provide enough
reason for concern that the
United States is not keeping
up with the Russians.
Mr.. Gates was questioned
closely on the new intelligence,
revealed in general terms in his
testimony before the House
Military Appropriations Sub
. committee. made public this
week. He would not elaborate,
. however. on what the new and
better information" was.
: He did deny accusations by
. some congressional Democrats
. that politics" shaped the intel
ligence estimates or that the
administration was being "opti-
: mistic" in their evaluation.
Now Below Estimate
A year ago, Secretary Of De-
tense McElroy said the Soviet
Union would have a three to-
one edge over this county. Mr.
Gates told Congress last week
while testifying in. support OF
the new defense budget that
the missile gap would be sig
nificantly less than estimated
last year.
The old ratio, he said, was
based on an estimate of the Ca
. pacity Of the Soviets to produce
ICBMs. This year, he said, the
q administration has estimated
the number they actually will
build-and it is less than they
, could build.
Asked II it would not be bet
ter to base plans "pessimistic-
ally" on the maximum number
of ICBMs the Russians could
build. Mr.. Gates said the ad-
ministration was acting Con
servatively." Even if the Soviet
Union builds to capacity. he
said. this country will still be
ahead in total strength-in-
cluding shorter-range missile
bombers.
Asked If the Air Force did
not have intelligence estimates
that credited the Soviet Union
with more 1CBMs, Mr.. Gates
said only that the administra-
ton bases its plans on National
Intelligence Board estimates.
The NIB puts together intelli-
gence information gathered by
the Central Intelligence Agency,
Army. Navy, Air Force, State
Department, Federal Bureau Of
Investigation and Atomic En-
ergy Commission and produces
a national intelligence estimate
Asked II 1t is not unusual for
intelligence to be based on an
enemy's intentions rather than
his capabilities, Mr.. Gates said,
1--WE believe In basing our plans
on the best intelligence we can
get"
He did say a new formula"
was used this year to make the
answer come out in intentions
rather than capabilities.
His estimates did not seem to
square with conclusions in a
speech Tuesday evening by Gen
Thomas s. Power, commander
Of the Strategic Air Command
Evening star., 1960-01-21
U.S.WiIIRemoin Ahead
In Defense, Gates Says

The Soviet Union passing the United States
all military strength Defense Secretary Gates told press
ference yesterday.
Il have intention of making defense second rate
anybody he said He declined to give information
intelgence estimates that the missile gap" will
Evening star., 1960-01-21
Dirksen and Kefouver
Clash at Drug Inquiry
By CHARLES G. BROOKS
Star Staff Writer

Senate Minority Leader Dirksen today attacked the Ke
aauver Committees methods of investigating the price Of
medicine and suggested the exhibits prepared by the staff
"rigged"
Senator Dsen said that he startled by Of the
material disclosed reports Of the hearings including
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Hearing Slated
For Smithsonian
Cuve-In Probe

Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark King has summoned
representatives of the Norair
Engineering Corp. to look into
last weeks cave-in at the
Smithsonian Institution Muse
um of History and Technology
Eleven workmen were injured
June Is when a part of a fresh
concrete floor collapsed at the
new $24 million building under
construction at Fourteenth and
Constitution avenue NV.
Workmen smoothing concrete
on the first floor were plunged
into the basement when tim
bers supporting the forms gave
way.
A hearing on whether safety
regulations were violated has
been scheduled for June 20 at
2 pm, Mr.. King said.
The summons was issued
yesterday on the recommended
ton of the Districts Minimum
Wage and Industrial Safety
Board, he said.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
BY DANA BULLEN
Star staff Writer

The Prince Georges County
Planning Board, after closed
door deliberation, has decided
to permit construction of seven
sample homes on the Levitt
tract near Bowie, Md.
The session was one of five
yesterday from which nearby
Maryland planners excluded
the press and public. At one
of the private talks, planners
debated reasons for tagging
master planning in Montgom-
cry County.
Discussion of the Levitt pro-
posal for a 2,226-acre planned
community came during a ses-
sion that officials had an
nounced would deal with park
land acquisition.
Earlier Prince Georges Coun-
ty officials had questioned the
wisdom of granting building
permits for the seven sample
homes, which will be built
along Defense highway, l mile
east of Route 1877.
Sewer Lack Cited
Chris Sondberg, chief county
building inspector, had said hi
was reluctant to issue the
building permits because the
display homes would lacE
sewers.
c. Warren Giauque. county
planning engineers, is con-
cerned that the homes might
Evening star., 1960-06-23
CAMP FUND
FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail to The Evening
Star, Second street and
Virginia avenue Sc, or
bring cash to The Star
cashier. A receptionist in
the lobby will direct you to
the cashiers office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days, $l9.95 for six days.
All funds received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child Serv-
ice OF Washington, United Civ
ers Fund agency, for the use Of
its Summer OUTINGS Committee.
Family and Child Services is req
istered under the District Of Co
lumbia Charitable Solicitations
Act No. 6-07-151.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
TeIepothy
AppeoIOff
For 2 Weeks

A two week postponement
was granted today for a hear
ing on the appeal of a man
committed to a mental hos
pital after a telepathist S
strange inquiry into the Car
roll V. Jackson family kidnap
SlayingS.
The request, made by Com
monwealth Attorney Robert c.
Fitzgerald, was granted by
Circuit Court Judge Paul E.
Brown.
The hearing was set for July
II. The man is to be returned
to Fairfax County from South
western State Hospital at
Marion, Va. by July 8 to per-
nit examination by an inde-
pendent psychiatrist hired by
the mans family.
The man was committed to
the mental hospital by a coun-
ty lunacy commission. He had
been picked up after Peter
HerkoS, a Dutch telepathist,
visited the scenes of the Jack
son SlayingS with Virginia and
Maryland state police. No
charges have been filed by
police in the slayings, however
The wife of the man COM
mitted to Southwestern signed
the lunacy commitment petit
ton. Her attorney, Wayne
Conner, said she was confused
AND weary from questioning
when she signed the petition.
MI. Conner. who wanted the
hearing held next Monday, said
there was no technical doubt
about the lunacy commission
two weeks ago but there was
something very doubtful and
very suspicious about the pre-
ceding hearing"
Mr.. Conner did not amplify
his remark. The hearing was
held at las am. on June 1C
in the Office of County Court
Judge J. Mason Grove.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
SEND A KID TO CAMP.
City Poverty Harder
For Peter and Sally

Being poor is different in the
city.
Living from hand to mouth
is frightening anywhere, but
cities add their own dimension
to poverty. Peter and Sally have
found this out for themselves.
They live with their mother
and five other children in a
one-bedroom apartment on a
main thoroughfare. The street
and sidewalks are their play
ground.
Things were bad enough in
the country, with their father
dead and public assistance
check thier only income. But
their city experience has been
so grim that they recall with
most algia the tumbledown
country home that burned to
the ground.
The family, of course, has
no living room-is used for
sleeping quarters.
Peter, IL, and Sally, IL, have
found it hard to make friends.
School has overwhelmed them.
Peter has a disturbing record
of truancy.
Sally and Peter dread the
summer now. But your gift to
The Evening Star Summer
Camp Fund can turn it into
the one bright spot of the year.
The following contributions
are acknowledged:
Evening star., 1960-06-23

so THAT'S HOW HE Joined
that large and far from ex-
elusive club headed by our
President (the Coronary
Thrombositesl and acquired
the hirsute fringe that has
become the modern mark of
nonconformity.
He feels that his member
ship in the club is due to a
new improved extrasensitive
type of. electro-cardiograph
But forl that instrument he
would be climbing stairs and
hiking as uSual-yes, and
pushing the lawn mower.
There are compensations.
The beard is probably an
expression of resentment.
It's there to annoy the
healthy. A heart case,doesn't
object to his juniors not be-
ing members of the club, but
he thinks his seniors Ger
tainly should have qualified
by this time.
The Rambler has been
polling friends and acquaint-
anceS on should he keep it.
He has a slight margin of
approval among the men.
Mrs. r. and nine out of 10
women are for it.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
The
Rambler
Admits
Hirsute Fringe
By GEORGE KENNEDY

The word has been getting
around. There is no use try
ing to conceal it any more.
The only thing to do is to
come right out with the
truth.
The Rambler has a beard.
1t all started one morning
early in January when he
experienced 80 minutes of
discomfort. He had a pain
in his chest, a Shortness of
breath, a damp brow. 1t was
impossible to stay seated or
to recline. He had to walk
about, fighting for breath.
1t all went away in the
taXicab on the way to the
doctors. He felt fine again.
Blood pressure was normal.
The Stethoscope revealed no
irregularity of heart beat.
Then the electro-cardio-
graph.
That held no terrors. He
had had that before and it
showed a strong healthy
heart action.
This time, when he re-
turned to the private office,
he found the doctor study
ing the strips of tape with
evident concern.
He put them alongside
strips made a year before.
There had been a marked
change. No longer we're
there sharp cusps and in
dents. The line had tended
to f1atten out.
I'm afraid you've had a
coronary thrombosis" he
said. That is a clot in one
of the small vessels that
supply the muscle of the
heart with blood. You were
in distress because your
heart was not getting enough
oxygen.
You are going to have to
go to bed for at least three
weeks and do nothing"
Doctor" was the Ram
bler's final protest, Il can't
spend three weeks doing
nothing. I'm going to grow
a beard"
Evening star., 1960-06-23
Davis Bill Asks Raise
In D. c. Retired Puy

Representative Davis, Demo-
crat of Georgia, has revived a
proposal to increase the bene-
fits of some retired District
police and firemen and their
survivors.
Mr.. Davis, a District Com
mittee member, yesterday re-
introduced a bill vetoed by
President Eisenhower last year
because of objections to the
cost.
Evening star., 1960-06-23

THERE ARE PROBLEMS
There is a special elevator
to the Senate press gallery.
During the civil rights fill
buster, the Rambler pressed
the button to go up. The
door opened and a young
man said very politely:
I'm sorry, sir, this is for
the press only"
Fortunately some COL
leagues arrived and vouched
for him.
BARRIERS are a problem.
The large shops all have a
continental expert on boards,
trained in Italy. The bar
bers 60 into a long discussion
in Italian. You think it is
over the interesting problem
this customer has provided
for the tonSorial artist.
1t turns out they were
arriving at the most efficient
type of electric clipper to use
on this problem customer.
In 10 minutes you lose six
weeks growth.
Friends argue over whom
you resemble - Hemingway,
Bernard Shaw, Havelock
Ellis, Gabby Hayes, or the st.
Jerome in the Phillips
Gallery by Ell Greco.
This suggests a new career
as an artists model.
Here's a sketch from the
first sitting with Star Staff
Artist John Heinly.
Evening star., 1960-06-23
District Cool to Delay
On 18th Street Tunnel

The Senate unit said it would
be needlessly costly to build the
subway separately after finish
ing the road project.
District Commissioner Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin, informed OF
the committee action, said
highway officials had checked
the tunnel-subway situation in
answer to a congressional in
Iquiry. They said the job has
gone too far to make any sig-
niflcant saving possible, the
Commissioner reported.
Bids to Be Opened
The auto Iunderpass is in
tended to carry Southbound
traffic to a new Southwest
freeway crossing Washington
Channel and linking with Vir-
ginia. The crossing is now
under construction and bids
for an additional section are
scheduled to be opened today
A twin northbound project
planned for Ninth street NV
is still in the design stage. The
Twelfth street tunnel is Sched-
uled for completion some time
next year.
So far, only a relatively short
section of the tunnel in the
middle of the Mall and a re-
tanning wall at the ConStitu-
ton avenue end of the project
have been constructed. The
Joint committee said it would
be feasible to cover the COM
pleted portion of the tunnel
and restore the street to traffic
use pending a subway decision
Mr.. Mclaughlin did not in
dicate what reply will be made
to the committee. The COM
mittee recommendation is not
mandatory technically, but the
committees reports generally
have virtually the same in
fluence on Government agen-
cies as an order.
Evening star., 1960-06-23

to be discounted even if remote
that a non-violent criminal
act may expose the perpetrator
to violent retaliatory acts by
the victim of the crime"
Russell, a World War II fly
ing ace, has been in st. Eliza
beths for over a year and a
half. A psychiatrist testified at
his habeaS corpus hearing that
he believed Russell would be
dangerous to society if released
! because of his check writing
tendencies.
Testimony Differs
Another psychiatrist had
testified that Russell, 40, would
not be dangerous, without men,
tioning check writing. Russell
had been admitted to the
hospital after the court &C.
quilted him from two check
writing charges involving $3.50
Russell had appeared at the
hearing with former comrades
who had campaigned with hin
as members of Gen. Claire
Chennault's Flying Tigers, the
14th Air Force, in the China
campaign. Russell had beer
awarded the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross, Bronze Star and All
Medal after flying 40 mission!
in a BPS.
TodayS decision ordered Dis.
trict Court Judge Leonard P
Walsh to reverse his ruins
which had freed Russell from
the hospital. The appeals court
ordered the lower court to re.
hear the case and consider
whether Russell should be al
lowed a conditional release
which would keep him under
the jurisdiction of the hoSpi'
tails psychiatriSts.
The second case involved
Donald RagSdale of the 4l0
block of Gait place NE, VIII,
was acquitted of a Highs Stor
holdup in April, 1857, by rea
son of insanity. He was fount
to have a sociopathic person
ality disturbance.
Broke Out, Took Job
He was committed to ST
Elizabeths after the verdict
He escaped in November, 1858
and went to work as a trasl
collector in Hyattsville. A war
rant was issued for his arres
and he was returned to the hos
pital 10 months later.
The American Civil Libertie
Union took up RagSdale's case
on the issue that persons &C
quilted of crime on insanit,
grounds cannot be automati
cally sent to a mental insti
tuition because this violates tn
constitutional safeguards.
The court opinion, writer
by Judge Warren E. Burger
answered that the automati
commitment after acquitta
was intended by Congress t.
protect both the public and tn
subject.
Assistant United States At
torney Harry T. Alexander, VIII,
represented the Government il
both cases, was opposed in tn
Ragsdale case by Attorne,
Charles w. Halleck, son of tn
House Republican Minorit.
Leader.