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Evening star., 1960-05-12
To Go or Not to Go

On the face of the matter it would
be easy to conclude that Mr.. Khru-
Shchev does not want the President to
visit Russia this summer, and that
Mr. Eisenhower, therefore, should stay
home. But this could also be an en-
tirely erroneous estimate of the real
situation.
The Soviet Premier might have
been wiser not to have held his press
conference in Moscow yesterday For
he was asked questions which, as he
said, put him in difficult position. And
he would have been in difficult posi-
tion no matter how he answered the
questions or even if he had refused to
answer them at all. This resulted from
the Washington announcement that the
U-2 flight over Russia was made pur-
Suant to general instructions given by
the President.
In his earlier statements Mr.. Khru-
Shchev had pictured the President as
having no personal responsibility for
the flight. Thus, the Washington an
nouncement tended to put him on the
spot with his own people. So once he
had been asked whether he still wanted
Mr.. Eisenhower to visit him, why be sur
priSed that Mr.. KhruShchev should an
Swer: Can urge the Russian people to
greet him (Mr. Eisenhower) as a dear
guest? The Russian people would say
I was mad to welcome man who sends
spy planes over here like that"
The essential questions are whether
Mr.. KhruShchev really wants Mr.. Eisen-
hover to visit Russia and whether the
President wants to make the trip If
the answers to both are affirmative, the
President should go. If the answer to
either is negative, of course he should
stay home. Mr.. Eisenhower wants to
know these answers before making his
decision, and in this he is entirely right.
Evening star., 1960-05-12
Somos and Secrecy

In making the most of the story
about our downed 'Spy plane" Premier
KhruShchev continues to spare no thun-
der as he threatens Pakistan, Turkey,
Norway and other countries allied with
us. With the proverbial Subtlety of
Sledge-hammer, he keeps on warning
them that they will be inviting rocket
retaliation if they permit American air
craft to take off from their soil on
intelligence-g gathering missions over the
Soviet Union.
Our own Government has responded
to all this by serving notice, with COM
mendable speed, force and clarity, that
the United States will defend each and
every one of its allies against any kind
of Soviet attack. Mr. KhruShchev would
be we'll advised not to underestimate
that fact. And he would be we'll advised,
too, on the eve Of the summit meeting
in Paris, to stop acting as if he had a
monopoly on the high cards and were
in position to make our country and
the rest of the free world kowtow to him.
1t is possible, of course, that the
Soviet leaders fulminations may per-
suade some of our allies to modify or
restrict their aerial cooperation with
us. In Short-term sense such a change
could have a weakening effect on
American-led efforts to safeguard the
free world against the danger of surprise
attack, On the other hand, as far as
the long-range future is concerned, pro-
spective developments in space plainly
indicate that the time is fast approach
ing-no matter how much the Kremlin
may regret it-when every area of the
globe, even that part of it now hidden
behind the Iron Curtain, will be nakedly
exposed to all-seeing mechanical eyes
in the high heavens.
Actually such an eye is already in
the process of development. Indeed, our
Air Force is planning to put it into orbit
around the earth before the end of the
year. This is known as Project Samos.
The hope is that it will be operating
with full effectiveness in the next three
or four years at the latest. What it
promises, chiefly, is total and constant
surveillance Of every part of the globe
with unbelievably powerful cameras
powerful enough to photograph a golf
ball from distance of 900 miles) whose
pictures will be inStantaneouSly televised
to us in sharp detail.
The Russians may rail against Sa-
mos, but they will not be able to main
tain secrecy against it, Indeed, they
themselves undoubtedly are working on
a similar spy-in-the-sky satellite, and
they are likely to succeed with it in due
course. The Iron Curtain in that sense
seems even now to be in the process of
diSintegration, and none of Mr.. Khru-
Shchev'S threatS-even though they may
frighten some faint-hearted peopIe-can
alter that fact in the slightest.
Evening star., 1960-05-12
Project Magellan

The nuclear powered submarine
Triton's submerged cruise around the
world in "a days has timely propaganda
value, it is true-but the journey was
not just Navy stunt. This was a super
shakedown cruise that proved the re-
narkable reliability of the Triton'S two
atomic engines, the speed and sea-
worthiness of the worlds largest sub
marine, the unfailing effectiveness of
her underwater living equipment and
the hardness of her well-disciplined
crew. And the successful performance
In all these fields proved, above all, the
formidable military potentialitieS of
such submarines in the missile age.
The rapid voyage around the globe
OF the Triton, Captain Edward L. Beach
commanding, left secure, and indeed
enhanced, the fame of Ferdinand Ma
gellan, who first circumnavigated the
earth in 1919. President Eisenhower. in
decorating Captain Beach with the Le-
gion of Merit, spoke of the courage and
initiative of the skipper and his men of
the Triton. It must have taken a tre-
mendouS amount of courage and initia-
tive, too, for the doughty sixteenth
century explorer to sail in his tiny ship
through uncharted seas in his three
year journey around the world. 1t was
appropriate, therefore, that the Triton
should have paid tribute to Magellan
when it reached his home port, Cadiz.
The atom-age significance of the
Trlton'S feat will not be lost on Premier
khrushchev, nor on military authorities
IN all countries, free or oppressed. There
seems to be no doubt that the Triton has
no counterpart in the growing Soviet
submarine fleet, Here is one of a group
OF suomersibles which will be the capital
ships of the next world war, if there
Evening star., 1960-05-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

for himself. He need not
study Bach, the master Of
improvisation. at all.
1t is amusing, reading
about some of the popular
jazz operators to find they
mostly think that they have
invented this phase Of music,
when they happen to run
onto changing a tune of their
own free will.
This swinging" away from
the melody, as written, and
giving it a new twist each
time it is played, is improvis-
ing in action.
1t is not something con-
fined just to the old masters
OF music. Any boy with a
horn can do it, after he be-
comes fairly proficient on his
instrument.
y -
1t is instructive to listen to
the garden mockingbird with
this in mind.
Then it is easily realized
just what a fine musician he
really is, and how all music,
whether from bird or man,
comes from the same great
reservoir.
What is music, that both
bird and human act in 1t
much the same?
Song pattern is basic to it.
Not just sounds, alone, but
these sounds grouped in song
patterns.
This is the mystery Of
music, and why we never
grow tired of a real melody,
as we may of a good book.
Our mocker has not been
educated in our schools, and
that is one reason why he is
such a delight, for when we
listen to him, we are listen
ing to the very heart Of
nature.
So We necessarily must find
something strange, as well as
thrilling, in his music. He
is not dressed in a dress suit,
as he sings; he wears no
human garb, but his own
coat of fine feathers; he sings
not according to our ideas,
but his own. This is what
helps make his musician
ship so sincere and accept
able, so like our own, in some
ways, and yet so utterly Diff
ferent that we might listen
to it forever and still not
understand 1t.
Evening star., 1960-05-12

How one small throat can
hold all the songs he sings
is a mystery to all who listen
to the mockingbird.
1t seems that the sudden ap-
pearance of summer in April
set all the Knockers of subur-
bia into veritable cascades of
melody.
Never since Thomas Jeffer-
son admired this bird, calling
it an angel in feathers, has
the ordinary, everyday mock
ingbird sung so sweetly, so
loudly, and especially so con-
tinuously.
Robins have been shy, this
year.
There are not so many of
them, and those that have
survived seem to be subdued
and backward in their rolling
songs.
Not so the mockie.
This one starts singing at
daybreak, and continues to
dark.
Then, if the moon appears,
he keeps on singing, not so
loud. now, but minute after
minute.
The repertoire of the bird
Is amazing.
Not only does he know
countless songs, as such, but
he can change the register
of his voice, like a good or
gan, now singing high and
clear, now low and sweet.
His daily performance is
amazing.
Just how one small bird
can know so much is un-
known, that is why this one
species had to go of, in the
singing way, on this wide
spread tangent, whereas all
the others, with two excep-
tions, stick to a few brief
songs.
Specialists can tell you
how many different strains
an ordinary adult mocking-
bird, male, can sing in a day.
He has listened to all his
feathered friends, and taken
from each one part or the
whole of its song.
He has made each song his
own, by giving it a slight
twist. here and there.
Among human musicians,
this is called improvising.
1t is something a young
musician usually discovers
Evening star., 1960-05-12
THE POLITICAL MILL
Kennedy's Political Stock Scars
By GOULD LINCOLN


The overwhelming Ken
nedy victory in the West
Virginia presidential primary
has made it increasingly diff
ficult for the Democrats to
deny the Massachusetts, Sen
ator their presidential nomi-
nation. Whether it clinched
the nomination finally for
him is another matter. How
ever. his success in this
strong Protestant State (Sen-
ator Kennedy is a Roman
Catholic) must be chalked up
as a huge stride forward for
him.
Senator Kennedy, in a
manner of speaking, is one
up and three to go. OF the
five leading Democratic pres
idential possibilities, he has
killed of one-Senator Hum
phrey Of Minnesota. The
three others have refrained'
from entering any of the
presidential primaries-and
their names will appear only
on the primary ballots in
Oregon. They are Senator
Lyndon B. johnson of Texas,
majority leader of the Sen
ate; Senator Stuart Syming-
ton of Missouri and Adlai
Stevenson, former Governor
of Illinois and two-time loser
to President Eisenhower.
There has been a lot of
talk about the effectiveness
of the presidential primaries,
held this year in Is States
and the District of Columbia.
One thing seems pretty clear
had Senator Kennedy lost
the West Virginia primary,
his chances would have be-
come almost nil for the top
place on the Democratic tick
ct. His victory there must be
conceded to be substantial IN
any mans language. He had
taken the primary road to
win favor, feeling he had to
show that he could win in
spite of the religious issue.
Other Victories
So far, the Massachusetts,
Senator has been remarkably
successful. His only check
was in Indiana, where he ran
$4,000 votes behind Vice
President Nixon Con separate
ballots) in the presidential
primary. He started we'll in
New Hampshire, the first of
the primaries. There, too, his
vote fell short of Mr.. Nixon's.
But he rolled up bigger vote
in that Republican State
than has been given to any
Democratic candidate for a
presidential nomination. He
went on to win the Wisconsin
primary over Senator Hum
phrey with a big lead in pop
ular votes and 2012 delegate
votes in the coming Democra-
tic National Convention to
1012 for Senator Humphrey.
He did not enter the Penn
sylvania primary, nor did any
of the other principal Demo-
cratic presidential hopefuls.
But almost 10000 Democrats
wrote in his name as their
choice. Adlai Stevenson re-
ceived fewer than 10000
write-in votes in that pri-
mary-a poor second to SEN
ator Kennedy. Senators john
son and Symington had many
fewer votes than Mr.. Steven
son.
Senator Kennedy cleaned
up in Ohio, too, although the
votes were cast for a favorite
son, Gov. Mike Disable, who
has promised to deliver the
States delegation to Senator
Kennedy at the national con-
vention in July. In Nebraska's
primary, also on Tuesday,
Senator Kennedy was the
only entrant. He rolled up a
bigger vote than did Senator
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
who in 1856 was the only
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Democratic entrant in Ne
braska. On May II he will
win the Maryland primary in
a big way over his only oppo-
nent, Senator Morse of Ore
gon. His primary tests will
end with the Oregon primary
May 20, where he is expected
TO do well, Notwithstanding
the candidacy of Senator
Morse. who should win by a
plurality since the vote will
be divided among five or six
other candidates.
This is an impressive show
ing by Senator Kennedy as a
vote-getter. Not all the dele
gates to the national con-
vention elected in these pri-
mary States, however, are
pledged to vote for him, and
some of them are pledged to
vote only on the first ballot.
He is bound to go into the
national convention with a
very impressive first-ballot
vote.
Organization Effective
1t is a fact that in these
primary contests Senator
Kennedy has been opposed
by only two candidates.
Senators Humphrey and
Morse. Neither is given a
chance for the presidential
nomination by most of the
Democratic political leaders
and political observers. Sem
ator Humphrey. the stronger
of the two, failed utterly to
catch on with the ordinary
voter. Senator Kennedy's sue
cess, too. has been due in
large part to an astonish-
ingly effective organization in
all the States where he en-
tered the presidential pri-
marieS-and this organiza-
ton is working hard, too. in
the nonprimary States to
line up delegates. According
to reports, a huge amount Of
money has gone into the
Kennedy campaign-much Of
it in West Virginia and in
Wisconsin.
Now that Senator Hum
phrey has announced his
withdrawal from the race for
the presidential nomination,
an interesting question is to
whom will the Humphrey
siren g t hin the Midwest
and West-go? For the Min
nesota Senator had won del
egates in some Of the farm
States and also on the Pacific
Coast. Some of this strength
will go to Senator Symington,
to Adlai Stevenson and PROB
ably to Senator johnson.
The big question remains
whether the psychological
effect of primary victories
can really put Senator Ken
nedy across in the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
Some of his opponents say it
will not. Their view is that
the party leaders will take a
realistic look before they go
along with the Massachusetts
Senator. When the conven-
ton opens, the question In
the leaders minds will be
can Senator Kennedy defeat
the Republican nominee in
the general election-not
whether he is a stronger
candidate than Senators
Humphrey or Morse whom he
defeated in the primaries.
NonetheleSS. Senator Ken
nedy has followed the bold
and courageous course in
seeking support in the presi-
dental primaries. 1t was not
his fault that the other po-
tential candidates - Steven
son, johnson and Symington
would not enter these con-
tests. He has brought the re-
ligiouS issue out into the open
and showed at least that he
could defeat a Protestant can
didate in a Protestant State
such as West Virginia.
Evening star., 1960-10-09
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Fund Driue
By 'Y Starts
With $4,000

The Silver Spring YMCA
officially kicked off its $780,
900 building fund campaign
last week with $4,000 already
pledged before the drive actu-
ally was under way.
At a dinner at the Indian
Spring Country Club signaling
the start of the drive, General
Campaign Chairman C. Edwin
Kline announced the pledges
had been made by members of
the "official family" of the or
ganiZation.
Officials of the drive an
nounced that campaign head
quarters have been moved from
8435 Georgia ave. to 961 Boni-
FAINT St, Silver Spring.
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Blood
Case Draws
Fine of 500

A 19-year-old Germantown
youth was fined $100 in
Peoples Court last week on
two traffic charges stemming
from an accident which one of
the witnesses in the case at
tributed to "bad blood" be-
tween teen-aged occupants of
the two cars.
In imposing two $50 fines on
Houston Junior Barton, 10, on
charges of reckless driving and
leaving the scene of an acct
dent, Judge John B. Diamond
inferred that he believed the
drivers of the two cars were
playing chicken" prior to the
collision.
When one of the witnesses
disclaimed knowledge of the
game of Chicken" Judge Dia-
mona CHARMED the point.
Its when two drivers head
toward each other, and the first
one to swerve out of the way
to avoid a collision is called
Chicken" the judge explained.
''Ninety.nine times out of a 100
it means only one thing, and
that is DEATH" he added.
According to testimony, Bar
tons auto collided with a car
operated by Fletcher Berns-
dorff, Ia, of Poolesville, on
Route 107 near Poolesville on
March 10. Conflicting versions
of the accident were given by
occupants of the two cars.
Bernsdorff commended Bar
tons car struck his own auto
from behind as he rounded a
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ship between the M-NCPPC tax
and the county levy, the same
boundaries were used by county
authorities in setting up a tax
program for recreational activ-
tiles in the metropolitan portion
of the county. As a result, the
area remains within the recrea.
tional tax zone even though it
now is at part of Rockville.
While the county council
would have the authority to
abate the recreatiOnaI tax, Lin
thicum said, only an act of the
legislature can provide relief
from the park levy since the
zone originally was created by
Legislative action.
He said the city will seek an
amendment to the law which
not only would exempt the
Meadow Hall area from the
park tax, but would provide the
same relief for any metropoli-
tan district areas annexed by
municipalities in the future.
Such move repeatedly would
encounter strong opposition
from the M-NCPPC on the
ground it would open the door
for a sharp reduction in the
assessable wealth of the metro
politan district, basis of the
commissions borrowing power.
Some M-NCPPC authorities
also have expressed the view
that imposition of the tax on
Meadow Hall residents is justi-
fled because their homes are
readily accessible to extensive
Rock Creek Park developments
financed by the metropolitan
district levy.
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Marriage
Licenses

Robert Conley, %. OF Takoma Park,
and Judith Ann Sabin, is, of Wheaton.
Daniel Nutz, "a, and Mary P. Ma
guire, 81, both of Silver Spring.
Marshall Jonn Kenate, %, of the Dis
trict, and Donna K. Guiffre, IS. OF
Wheaton.
Milton Madison Denton, %. Of Big
Springs, Tex, and Muriel Jane Sutton,
"a, of Kensington.
Norman A. KahI. As. of the District,
and Ann M. Hammel, 30. of Sumner.
John Thomas Young, q, of Gathers
burg. and Wilma Gay McVey, Is, OF
Yaytonsvile.
Roger Wayne Holmes, 1s, and Jean.
nette Elaine Strouse, 1S, both of Ken
sington.
Max Cain. as. and Sydney Gain,
a. both of Silver Spring.
James r. Rothgeb, 81, Of Takoms
Park, and Virginia Elizabeth Carter,
49, Of Silver Spring.
Donald D. Golf, 81, and Dagnya
Mikelson. 81, both of Bethesda.
Edward Darrell Heuchtker, %, OF
Kansas City, Md, and Sandra Wallace
Dunning. II, of Silver Spring.
Francis Carroll De Luca, 10, Of Sill
yer Spring, and Patricia Cecile oBrien,
10, of Takoma Park.
James Mitchell Seligh, "a, of Silver
Spring, and Betty Jean Mullineaux, 20.
Of Rockville.
Thomas Howell Hawkes., 20, and Leah
Jean Osterwise. 10, both of Rockville.
Douglas Lee Creger, %, of Silver
Spring, and Gloria Jane Rives, 81, of
GaitherSburg.
Joseph Walter Daniels, 80, of Be-
thesda, and Judith Elaine Shifflett, IS,
of Mclean, Va.
Richard William Barnes, 10, Of Ken.
sington, and Barbara Lee Faunce, II
of Wheaton.
Donald Charles Harper Smith, %, anC
Edna Lou Stratford Hyde, 49, both Of
Kensington.
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M Day Looms for Realtors

The Montgomery County
Board of Realtors has become
the first such unit in the Wash
ington area to occupy its own
quarters when it's offices were
moved to a newly-constructed
building at 1918 Fenton ST., Sill
yer Spring.
Since 1850, the board has
occupied rented office space at
1927 Georgia ave., Silver Spring.
The air-conditioned brick and
cinder block building will pro-
vide space for the executive
secretary's headquarters, the
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City Starts MOue to End
MeadOlU Hall Tax Problem,

Rockville city authorities
are planning an appeal to
the Montgomery County
Council in an effort to en-
list the county's support in
a move to relieve a portion of
the city's taxpayers of a dual
tax load.
City Attorney William A.
Linthicum, jr., told The Sentinel
this week he is preparing a
letter to be sent to the council
on behalf of Mayor Alexander
]. Greene and the City Council
requesting:
That the county waive a
Accent recreational tax now inn
posed on the Meadow Hall Sec
ton of Twinbrook Forest,
annexed by the city from the
county in 1856, and,
That the council join with
the city in requesting legislation
to exempt the same area from
12.5-cent park tax imposed by
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
The impending appeal, Lin
thicum said, is prompted by the
fact that residents of the area
pay city taxes which finance
both park and recreational pro.
grams and no longer receive
the benefit of services for which
The county and M-NSPPC levies
originally were assessed.
Since the city conducts park
and recreational programs indie
pendent of those of the county
and M-NCPPC, he said, the
Mayor and council feel city
residents should not be required
to help finance services from
which they receive no benefit.
Continued assessment of the
taxes against homeowners in
the Meadow Hall area stems
from the fact that their area
lies within the boundaries of
the Washington Metropolitan
District, the zone in which the
regional park and planning COM
mission is authorized by law to
assess taxes.
While there is no relation.
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multiple listing operation p 1
clerical staff on the ground
floor, while the basement level
will include a meeting room,
storage space, furnace room
and lavatories.
Mrs. Namoi Laughlin is ex-
ecutivc secretary to the board.
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Neat Week: East lynne

Three performances of the
old-fashioned melodrama, East
Lynne" have been scheduled
by the Kensington Players N
April.
On April z and April 10, the
bend. Barton said he was at
tempting to pass Barton's car,
parked in the left lane of thu
road, when Barton took off,
and forced him off the road, the
two cars colliding as a result.
Judge Diamond, in finding
Barton guilty, expressed dis.
pleasure at the driving tactics
of teen-agers. "Just because
they were mad at each other"
he commented, "they didn't
think of anyone but them.
selves.
He said he would consider
suspending Barton's fine if the
defendant agreed to surrender
his driving permit for 80 days.
However, Barton's attorney,
James B. Davis, said he intend
e6 to appeal the decision.