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Defends Quick Meals

He defended the increasing
reliance of many working wives
on frozen foods as a natural
thing in a changing age"
There are many working
mothers" he declared, and it
is simple for them to pick up
some frozen goods, put them in
the oven and have dinner with
out wearing themselves out af-
ter a hard day at the office" i"
Already, he added, the trend
has brought about a number
of changeS-particularly among
the younger set. Many children,
raised on frozen foods, have
never been exposed to the prod
uct in its original form.
Mr.. Martin cited the story
of father who was telling his
son about a pair of twins he
had known.
They were as close as two
peas in a pod" the father OBJ
served.
Whats a pod?" his young
ster replied.
Evening star., 1960-04-29

ume of registration statements
processed by the disision of
corporation finance of the SEC.
The Senator said: THE un-
precedented volume of regis
tration statements has almost
doubled the average time of
clearance, and thus made i'm
perative increased funds, par
tally chargeable to the COM
panies." He added that
exchanges and brokers, too,
should support their share of
the commissions work.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
BUSINESS
BRIEFS

National Machine Tool Build
ers Association estimates new
orders for metal cutting type
machine tools in March at SAC
million, about $1.3 million over
the February figure. March
shipments were listed at $780,
850,000, VS. $40 million in Feb
ruary. March backlog of orders
is estimated at 4.8 months VS.
As months in February.
Electric Utilities plan to add
AZ million kilowattS of capacity
most of it by 1868. The figure
is 9.6 greater than the 38.3 mil
lion kilowatts planned at the
beginning of the year. This
year IL million kilowatts will
be added to bring generating
capacity to 170.5 million kilo-
watts.-Edison Electric Insti.
tute.
Check Transactions in 26
major cities during the week
ended Wednesday totaled $780,
442, ,963,000 VS.. $27,131,6 ,636 .OOC
the previous week and $24,-
693.873,000 year before.-Dun
& Braostreet, Inc.
Heavy Construction Contract
awards reported for the week
ended Monday amounted to
93,l00,0O0. bringing the total
for the II weeks of 1860 to
$6,674,000.000. or 9 per cent
ahead of last years pace
Engineering NewS-Record.
Loans to Brokers and deal
erS in other than United States
Government securities held by
member banks in New York
City totaled $816 million
Wednesday, a decline of SAG
million from the week before
and a define of $507 million
from a year before. Federal
Reserve Board.
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METAL PRICES

NEW YORK. April 90 CAP) Spot
nonferrous metal prices today: Copper
Lead II cents a pound. New York.
Zinc - cents a pound East St Louis.
Tin agi4 cents a pound New York.
Foreign silver gl7s cents per trov
ounce New York -PittSburEn scrap
steel No ! heavy was quoted by Iron
Age at "a OO-35 90
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Peoples Drug Votes
Dividend of so Gents

Directors of Peoples Drug
Stores. Inc, today declared a
regular quarterly dividend of
so cents a share, Treasurer H.
J. Althouse announced.
The dividend will be paid
June % to stockholders as of
the close June 3.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Senate Group Weighs
Larger SEC Fees to
Pay Policing Costs
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

Congress will consider legislation to require business in
the securities business particular to pay
toward support of the Securities and Exchange Commission and
its efforts protect the investing public.
Harrison A. Williams Democrat of New Jersey
of the Senate subcommittee securities today
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Gao, Central
AndB&0Study
Merger Plans

BALTIMORE. April 90 CAPl .
The president of the Balti-|
more & Ohio Railroad has dis
closed that exploratory talks on
the possibility of a merger of
three of the East'S major rail-
roads have been going on for
two years.
Howard E. Simpson last
night confirmed that informal
discussions" have been in prog
reSs for two years among Off
cials Of the three railroads
the B&O, the Chesapeake &
Ohio and the New York Central.
He said the discussions are
continuing in a general way
land I have nothing concrete
to say at this time"
CSC Studies Merger
Earlier in the day there was
talk of possible railroad mergers
at a stockholders meeting of
the Chesapeake g. Ohio Rail-
way at Williamsburg, Va.
Walter ]. Tuohy, president
of the C&O, told the stock
holders that "130 railroads in
America are too many" and
said his company is looking at
a couple of merger possibilities.
But, he said, the C&O would
not undertake a merger just
to be married" to another
railroad.
Mr.. Simpson said there are
logical reasons" for consolida-
ton of railroads on the East
Coast.
He said the possibility of a
merger is being explored for
reason of economy in the in
tereSts of the shipping and
travelling public, and also in
the interests of stockholders
and employees"
Those are the reasons, he
went on, that the three roads
are holding discussions.
Cites Trucks, Barges
The BIO president said
sooner or later there has to be
a contraction of the railroad
track mileage
If railroads continue to
operate singly," he said, I'VE
will all be weakened by what
We call subsidized competition
competition of trucks oper-
ating over tax-built highways
and barges floating down tax
free waterways
Mr.. Simpson viSualized the
time when there would be only
two railroad systems in the
East. One would be the big
B&O-C&O-New York complex.
The other, he said, normally
would be the Pennsylvania
Railroad and its affiliated lines.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
FOREIGN EXCH'GE

NEW YORK, April 20 CAPD For
eign exchange rates Great Britain
and Australia in dollars. others in
cents and decimals Of a cent?:
Today Prev Day
Evening star., 1960-04-29
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK, April % CAP. .-Yester-
days closing over-the-counter United
States Government Treasury bonds.
Evening star., 1960-04-29

scale users such as restaurants.
They have found, Mr.. Martin
said, they can keep large guam
titles on hand without the dan
ger of Spoilage.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
OVER COUNTER

Washington listingS on over-the-
counter markets furnished by the Ma
tlonal Association of Securities Dealers
as of | pm FRIDAY April %.
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TALKING OF BUSINESS
FrozenFood Industry'sS2.8 Billion
Volume in $50 Caps Success Story
By WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star staf Writer

In Alaska, children drink milk
imported frozen from Seattle.
In Panama, housewives dec
crate meat and potato dishes
with frozen parsley.
And in the continental United
States, an estimated 7 per cent
of all grocery sales is now in
the form of frozen foods.
These products have found
increasing acceptance and pop
ularity in the Washington area,
too.
mo new store around here is
complete without wide range
of frozen foods" declared Law
renee S. Martin, executive sec
retary and manager of the Ma
tional Association of Frozen
Food Packers. The organiza-
ton, which represents nearly
80 per cent of the industry, is
located at 919 Eighteenth street,
NV.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Keeps Growing

Proof of the industry's sue
cess, he said, is reflected in an
nual volume. In 1858, it was
$2.6 billion. In 1859, it increased
to $2.8 billion and is expected
to be even higher in 1860.
Il don't see anything but a
steady growth for frozen foods"
Mr.. Martin said.
1t is a remarkable success
story for an industry that was
practically non existent Is
years ago.
Although freezing had been
used to preserve foods COM
mercially as early as World
War I, according to Mr.. Mar
tin, application of the process
to retailing did not occur until
more than a decade later.
Scientist Experiments
A New England scientist, the
late Clarence Birdseye, noticed
on a trip to the Arctic how
freezing preserved fish. On re-
turning to the United States,
he experimental with fruits
and vegetables and found that
freezing had the same effect
on many fruits and vegetables.
He later sold his firm, Gen.
eral Foods, to the Post interests.
During World War II, Mr..
Martin said, frozen foods
caught on - largely because
metal for containers was scarce
and paper was plentiful. In the
same period, the packers formed
the national association.
When World War II ended"
Mr.. Martin said, there were
heavy inventories of some in
ferior merchandise in the in
dustry. Lots of f1y-by-nighters
had entered the business and,
by and large, they were the
ones that failed"
Boom in the sos
The real boom for the frozen
foods industry began in the
early SOS, however. Housewives
discovered that fresh-tasting
strawberries and asparagus were
available all year long at about
the same moment that packers
found that freezing saved trans
portation costs.
There is very little waste in
frozen foods" Mr.. Martin said.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
DIVIDENDS

NEW YORK, April 20 lAPJ.-Diyi-
dends. declared.
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Your Buick for BesBuy used tool
Evening star., 1960-12-11
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Dee. 10 (AP). The largest
butcher hog supply In almost a year hit
the market this week but II consisted
largely Of weights over 22o lbs and prices
showed a two-way trend.
The offerings under 22o lbs we're Is
TO 50 cents higher for the week. heavier
weights Is 70 rs cents lower. For the u
MAJOR markets, offerings totaled about
10 per cent under the previous week.
Alter a top Of $le.eS on Tuesday for q
relatively few 400 lb offerings, the peak
held at Sle.50 the remainder Of the week.
Slaughter steer prices showed little
day-to-day change and closed the week
steady to Is cents lower. The decline was
on offerings over l,loo lbs. However, the
supply was IS per cent larger than a
week ago and the largest since early
November. Buyers said the more liberal
offerings had a slightly bearish effect on
the market.
tUSDA). - Compared Friday last week:
BArrUws and gifts weighing under 40 lbs
$3.50 higher while heavier weights 2S-7s
lower. Sows So-l.0o lower. Mixed Grades
No. ! and Z and mixed No. I. and !
lso-21o y barrows and gifts le.2s-is.So,
and and mixed No. and 2o0-2lc
Id weights on the close n.s0-le.3S with
mixed no. 2 and and No. J 22o-2S0 l6.TS.
MS; mixed No. and and No. } $50
$50 ID butchers l6.2S.U.0J. Mixed grades
no. !, 2 and and mixed No. 2 and .
300-4cU 10 s0ws l3.2S-ls.00. Mixed grades
No. Z and } and No. 40o-Ss0 lbs l2.oo-
1880.
Cattle Choice slaughter steers 100 lbs
down iully steady, other steers and heifers
steady to Is lower, COWS ISIS lower, bulls
fully steady. Two loads PRIME l234-l2SC
10 slaughter steers 700, bulk choice and
prime s0u-lt0o ID steers 26.50-2s.7S; choice
and mixed ch0,ce and prime lA00-lSS0 lh
zS.oo-2I.25, many loads choice l0o0-l3oc
ID steers 21.00-27.75, few loads high choice
lu00-ll2S lb yearlings $500, mixed good
and choice soo-l 1900 lbs 2e.0o-2S.75, lew
loads l3oo-l375 lbs 2S.50-25.7S, bulk good
steers 1l.lS26.oo, standard and mixed
Standard and good 23.o0-2l.5o, two loads
mixed high cnoice and prime lbs ID
heiicTS U.20-21-25 most mixed choice and
prime heiiers 26.So-27oo, choice 25.0o-26.25,
good 73.vo-24-SJ, utility and commercial
Julls 100000, good and choice vealera
Gi.00-2J.00 lew PRIME 26.00-270o.
Evening star., 1960-12-11
COTTON

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (AP). Cotton
futures advanced smartly on the New
York Cotton Exchange this week. ending
with gains Of Sl.l5 TO $3.50 bale despite
some easing at the end Of the week.
The early strength in the market was
attrivuted to short covering, trade and
commission house buying stimulated by
activity In spot centers. continued large
export registration, expectations Of a
decline in the December crop estimate
and the possibility Of a high 1861 crop
price support level. The subsequent cas-
ing reflected, for the most part, a gen.
ereally unexpected increase In the official
crop estimate.
In contrast to trade predictions. the
December official crop estimate OF H..
309 900 bales showed an increase Of II 900
bales from the November prediction.
On the basis Of the latest official crop
figures, the New York Cotton Exchange
now estimates the total domestic supply
Of the staple for the current season at
22.03o.00o bales.
Exports through December s, according
to the Exchange Service Bureau, had
reached at least l,264,0oo bales versus
.507 900 last season. For the week ended
Tuesday, they approximated 100 900 bales
versus 5000 a week earlier and l3S,0oo
a year earlier.
Evening star., 1960-12-11
PEOPLE
IN
BUSINESS

Lester o. Schriver, executive
vice president of the National
Association Of Life Under
writer's. with headquarters here
announced plans to retire al
the end Of 1861. A committee
from the NALU board will
select a successor.
Harlan v. Hadley. manager
Of the Washington office of the
Automobile Manufacturers AS
sociation. became regional vice
chairman of the Manufactur.
ing Trade Associations Of the
National Industria. Conference
at the annual meeting in New
York.
Robert Rosenblum has be-
come part owner in the Modern
Furniture Co., Rockville, Md.
store, Of which Maurice Stern
Is president. Mr.. Rosenblum
formerly was a buyer fol-
Lansburgh's.
George w. Gaspard has beer
named public relations director
for Yitro Electronics at Silver
Spring. Md. He formerly was
with Liberty Broadcastins
System and General Electric.
James p. Coyne, former
public relations writer for the
United States Chamber oi
Commerce, has joined the ad-
Vertising and public relations
stan Of Railway Express
Agency in New York. ..
Donald F. CrOcO, NIelpal
service engineer, has keer
cited for outstanding service,
as q technical advisor at Chiay
Air Base In Taipei by Gen
c. s. Chen of the Chinese All
Force. He worked on a mod
crnization program for tils
base.
Leonard Levine has received
the franchise for distribution
Of Pepperidge Farm cookies il
the Northern Virginia area.
Evening star., 1960-12-11
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO. Dec. 10 (AP) The grain
futures market worked in . generally
bullish cycle this week and nearly all
contracts finished well upward with
old crop wheat and soybeans leading
the advance.
December and March wheat ended
at their highest levels Of the season
after three successive broad gains.
Ihe December delivery was up almost
five cents bushel. March about two
cents.
At the end Of the week, wheat was
'.-4s4 cents q bushel higher than a
hirher 70 Y lower, December l.04h;
oats unehsnsed to "a higher. Decsm-
Der S994-60: rye 1h-1ss higher, De
ceIber I;0sa.; ,soybeans lss-SF'
With most Of the grains only a few
cents OF their season lows following
moderate recovery. trade was, in
good volume most OF the time. Brokers
said the market appeared to have
overcome the general bearish senti:
ment as offerings in the pit and at
the cash tables slackened markedly.
Range Of prices for the. week:
Jioh Rinse G10ge
Evening star., 1960-12-11
Annual Awards
Given by Bank
Of Commerce

Two members Of the staff
of the Bank of Commerce, who
have not missed a working day
for 10 years, and the winner
Of the annual Courtesy and
Service award were among
those honored at the banks
annual Christmas party at the
Shoreham Hotel last night.
Thirty other members Of the
staff received perfect attend
ance awards for lesser periods
and 10 were honored for
especially meritorious service
in the last year.
Mrs, Nina Priscilla Howard,
head bookkeeper, and Mrs
Barbara Wick. telephone opera
tor, each received a $1,000
bond for 10 years of perfect
attendance.
Mrs. Gleda Kupcek. section
chief of the bookkeeping de-
partment received the coveted
cas- award. A committee
selected her from a list oi
candidates proposed by fellow
members Of the staff as best
exemplifying the spirit OF
Courtesy and Service. which Is
the banks slogan.
Awards for outstanding serv.
Ice went to Rose Bolen. Cleds
Eckard. Vivian Barkley. Cor
don Powers. Robert Rankin
Gerald Rivkin. Th e I'm
Thompson. Allene Weatherly
Eugene Whitehead and Frances
Zablocky.
Evening star., 1960-12-11
BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK. Dec. 10 lAPl.-Na-'
tional Association Of Securities Dealers,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-17
Monpower Woste

1t would be interesting to
know exactly how many Air
Force enlisted men have been
exploited by officers who use
the men for personal servants.
A three column article that
appeared in the February 4th
edition of the Washington Post
exposed partial contents of a
manual which briefs" the en-.
listed men on how to serve an
officer. The manual contains in.
stguctions on washing officers
dogs, setting tables, sweeping,
busting and other "airman's nor
NAL duties" This instructive
booklet was issued to Air Force
steward specialists and was in.
tended to initiate the men for
chores generally reserved for
servants.
ms preposter1ous waste of
man power should not be con-
doned as it was by Major Gen.
eral P. Clark, Air Force, direc.
tor of military personnel. He
attempted to rationalize the de-
grading situation by stating
that the worth of the manual
was to give these individuals
an opportunity to improve and
learn their job" 1t is rather
shameful that a man placed In
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-17
Europe Visit Leaves
Many Vivid Memories
Viewpoints

visit to Europe is wonderful thing
that should happen to everybody-at least
once in his lifetime
Your first sight of Paris and your first
ride in London taxi, the gargoyles on Notre
Dame, the book stalls along the Seine and
the majesty of ST. Pauls Cathedral-these
are sights that you cannot bring alive in
describing them to someone else. But they
will never leave your memory once you have
seen them.
In Europe, it is important to get below
the surface so to speak, to get away from the
the tip-hungry attendants at every hotel, air.
port railroad station, restaurant and night
club and talk to people who do not normally
deal with tourists.
Pity the poor American who makes the
usual tourist rounds in Europe and comes
back moaning about the problem of tipping
or how bad European plumbing and coffee
are. He has not seen Europe.
On our recent trip to Europe for the
Sentinel we were sucked into whirling non
tourist whirlpool in Pinneberg, Germany, the
SISTER City" of Rockville, which we had come
to visit. Few Americans ever get to the little
city tPop: 26,000) just north of Hamburg
But aside from the fact that we were such
novel visitors, and were treated as such, the
visit to Pinneberg afforded the opportunity
to talk to Germans.
We talked to them about many of their
customs and we told them about many of
ours. We inquired into their political views
concerning their own country with its boom
ing economy about Russia, about the United
States
We think we know how many West Ger
mans feel about many things as a result of
our little poll but it was completely unscien.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-17
Does Manager Plan
Really Make Sense?
County Law

DR.. Samuel Johnson said, "The law is an
ass" Many will agree generally with him
there But the law is not asinine in all re-
spects. great part of the time the law
makes very good sense. When the law repre-
sents the essence of mankinds experience,
then man would do well to listen to the voice
of the law. And when man does not do
law.
Both the Federal and Maryland State
Constitutions divide the government into three
branches; the executive, the judicial and the
legislative In addition, anyone who holds
an elective office in either of these three
branches must have a minimum period of
residence among the constituents he repre-
sents.
But it has been reserved for the City Of
Rockville to divide it's government into the
above branches and one more; namely the
"carpetbagger". branch. This extra and ex.
pensive appendage to our local government
Is none other than the office of City Man.
ager.
These thoughts occurred to me at the
Civic Center the other night where 1 OBJ
served serious group of intelligent men and
women in the demScratic process of selecting
candidates for the office of Mayor and Coun-
ell of the City of Rockville. The wouldbe
officeholders made serious and honest talks
about what they would do for Rockville. They
believed what they said and so did their lis
tenerS
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-17
Roger EdFquhdF

tific and, hence, we won't pass it along here.
It was interesting in w. Germany, though,
how many polite but earnest queries we
received on the Negro question in the United
States. Several persons mentioned Little
Rock" 1t is apparently true that this is the
biggest Achilles heel of our democracy.
We tried to explain to these questioners
how the United States has made great strides
in recent years toward solving this problem.
We emphasized that most of the United States
is not involved in the problem, and that many
sincere persons in the South are working to
ease the situation. But we did not have the
feeling that our answers were convincing
When we arrived in Paris, the European
edition of the Herald Tribune carried on page
one a story of how white youths cut ks"
into the skin of Negro youth after they had
beaten him with chains.
But it is such sights as the Thames and
the Tower that stay in your mind. You'll
remember sitting quietly in sidewalk cafe
along the Champs Elysees slipping coffee in
the shadow of Arc de Triomphe, erected by
Napoleon. How can time erase the memory
of the death masks of Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette that you saw in London's famed
Wax Museum? Or the actual guillotine that
was used by the revolutionaries, or the sump-
tuous palace of Versailles-built and main
tanned by French royalty in the 18th century
while the populace starved) but extremely
difficult for the French government of today
to maintain because of its high cost.
There is move under way we under
stand to bring down the costs of getting to
and from Europe. This is good 1t is tragic
that more Americans can't get to Europe and
more Europeans come to America.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-03-17
Bernard 7. Welsh

But what they did not say was this That
If elected they would scrounge around and
dig up from God knows where some transient
who majored in political science in college
and import him into Rockville and pay him
some fancy price to do the job that they were
elected to do
In this respect, the law which did not
know the term "city-manager" appears to be
no ass; whereas the people who disregard
this law and consent to be governed by a
total stranger to them, to be governed by
one who has neither blood ties with the land
nor the citizens thereon, to be governed by
one who does not have to live with his mis-
takes and who is not accountable to the elec-
torate; then these people are the ones who
are deluded
But 1t Is cried by those who are elected
that they cannot do the job have bunch
that If 1T We've known by some candidates be.
fore election that they would not have their
favorite cushion, the City.Manager, to put the
blame on, that there would be fewer office
seekers
1t appea rs to me that it is time for the
voters OF r ockville to ask those who seek
the honor of being mayor and councilman
this questions "Are you going to run the
City, or, are you going to delegate the per-
Torrance of your duties to someone whom
you don't even know"
Oh yes! The same questions could aptly
be asked of the County Council.