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Kodiak mirror., 1960-10-08

time. For example, almost 1 of every unemployed in August was out of work for less than month. He said this was not surprising since substantial proportion of the jobless represent persons temporarily between jobs.
 Onefifth of all the unemployed in August were teenagers, most of them looking for temporary sum- mer employment between school terms. Even so, the record this year for teenagers has been ex- cellent, MT. Mitchell said. There were 30O,000 more boys and girls A to 19 years of age in the labor force this summer than last sum-
Kodiak mirror., 1960-10-08

WASHINGTON, DC. = Secre- tary of Labor James P. Mitchell called attention to the prevailing high level of economic activity in the United States and the record total of persons employed.
 'The latest figures for August 1860 indicate a total of 68,300,000 Americans at work" the Secre- tary said. 'This was record for the month, and more than three quarters of a million higher than August a year ago. This means that 94 out of every 100 workers had jobs in August"
Kodiak mirror., 1960-10-08

Here's the car that reads you loud and clear-the new-size, you-size '6l Chev. rolet. We started out by trimming the outside size bit Ito give you extra inches of clearance for parking and maneuvering) but inside we left you full measure of Chevy comfort. Door openings are as much as inches wider to give feet, knees, and elbows the undisputed right of way. And the new easy-chair seats are as much as l4% higher-just right for seeing, just right for sitting.
 Once you've settled inside you'll have high and wide praises for Chevrolet's spacious new dimensions Gn the Sport Coupes, for example, head room has been upped as much as 2 inches, and there's more leg room, too-front and rear). Chevy's new trunk is something else that viii please you hugely-what with its deep-well shape and bumper-level loading it holds things you've never been able to get in trunk before.
 Yet, generously endowed as this car is with spaciousness and clean-etched ele- gance, it holds steadfastly to all the thrifty, dependable virtues Chevrolet buyers have come to take for granted. Your dealers the man to see for all the details.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-10-08

But employment also among the absorb up by 100000. In other words all into jobs
 of the oyerthe,year increase QContinued Page 9)
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Brewer Trophy
Goes to CARRIER,
OF Air Museum

DR.. Paul CARRIER, head Gu
rator and historian of the Ma
tional Air Museum, has beer
chosen to receive the 1855
Frank G. Brewer Trophy in
recognition of outstanding ac-
tivity in aviation education.
The trophy. awarded an
nually by the National Aero
nautic Association, will be pre-
sented during the National
Aviation Education Councils
conference in Denver or
March 26.
Joseph T. Geuting, jr., chair
man of the Brewer Trophy
Committee, said DR.. CARRIERS
choice was unanimous on the
basis Of "38 years of outstand-
ing service to youth and theil
education in aviation by plan
ming. providing and displaying
educational exhibits in the Ma.
tional Air Museum" The mu-
scum is a part of the Smith
sonian Institution.
DR.. CARRIER went to the mu-
scum in 1920, but his interest
in aviation dates to 1913, when
he founded the National Cap
itol Model Airplane Club.
He served in the aviation
section Of the Signal Corps in
World War I, was active in the
pioneering days Of the air mail
and, in 1927, was designated
to handle the great volume of
mail addressed to Charles A,
Lindbergh in care of the mu-
scum.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star Staf Writer

More than rs used car buyers
have complained of being
tricked and defrauded by deal
ers since November /, 1t was
learned today.
The complaints were reported
by the Districts License En-
forcement Branch, which began
it's new complaint file at the
beginning of the new license
year on November /.
That was also the date that
The Star began its Buyer Be-
ware" series unmasking the
used car racket. License off,
cials said some of the COM
plainantS had been victimized
earlier but reported what had
happened to them only after
The Stars series showed that
they were not alone in being
lured into inflated contracts.
The new complaints illus
trated why the District is now
ready to seek legislation con-
trolling finance charges i'm
posed on used car buyers. The
District Commissioners also
will hold a hearing Friday on
revocation of dealers licenses
for misleading and deceptive
practices in the sale and
financing of motor vehicles.
Investigator Conrad Cardanc
of the License Enforcement
Branch cited these complaints
to show why both regulation OF
dealers and legislation con-
trolling finance companies Is
needed:
A Bethesda (Md.) resident
told Of being assured by q used
car salesman that the car he
Evening star., 1960-01-20
IS Used Car Buyers Register Complaints With D. C.
Since Nov. About Trckery in Finance Chorqes

bought would be financed at
612 per cent interest per year
with the right to pay the prin-
cipal before the termination
date of the loan. He said when
he studied the contract he
found the rate was about IL
per cent and that even if he
paid off the loan ahead Of
time he would still have to pay
the majority Of the large
finance charge.
He noted that the contract
was transferred Immediately
to a finance company at the
same address as the used-car
firm and that the signature on
the pass book issued by the
finance company was similar
to the signature of the man
who sold him the car.
"The only feasible course
lying open to me-" he reported,
was simply to discharge the
debt as soon as I could. What
amounted to a loan of $l,495
for a period of nine months
cost me $50 interest"
An Alexandria CVaO resident
told what happened to him when
he responded to an advertise
ment promising that he could
get a car for mo money down"
He said he bought a 1857 Chrys-
ler for $l,695 after being as
sured that his monthly pay
ments would amount to $50.
When he returned the next
day to pick up his copy of the
contract he said, the salesman
sadly informed him that he had
made q mistake and that the
payments would be $69. 100
monthly. He said he told the
salesman that he could not 20
Evening star., 1960-01-20

that high since he had just
bought a new home and the
salesman showed him the blank
sheet Of paper he had signed,
now completely filled out, which
indicated that at that point he
owed the entire balance. He
said he pleaded with the sales
man to "relent" and "let me
get out of this thing" but the
salesman replied that "a con-
tract was a contract"
Later he said the salesman
drove him and his wife to a
loan company in Springfield
Va, where they signed papers
for a personal loan for $400
He now found, he said, that
he still owed the car dealer
5000 per month plus an addi-
tional $26 per month to the
loan company for a total OF
$3.50 per month compared
with the $50 per month origin
ally quoted by the salesman.
After all that, he reported
he tried unsuccessfully some
l6 times to reach the salesman
by phone to have repairs made
on the car because he could
not get it through inspection
He said he'd have to get a
parttime job working nights to
meet the payments and his
health was affected by the
physical hardship of a l2-hour
day.
A Washington man said he
was given q 1855 Pontiac to
drive while the used car dealer
fixed up the 1855 Plymouth he
had showed him. Then, he
said, he was mailed a bill of
sale Of $l,l95 for the Pontiac
Evening star., 1960-01-20

joined the file to pass through
again. Some, too overwraught,
were ushered into a small room.
1t was soon crowded with weep
ing women.
The hearse and funeral
motorcade were met by the
Grace Army Band. officials of
the Baltimore branch of the
Bishops church, the church
choir and elders of the House
of Prayer.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
THE BUDGETS TREAT

THE BUDGETS TREAT
MENT Of the Secret Service
may be its most entertain
Ing chapter. Probing-but
not too deeply-it shows the
agents have asked for $40
for the Transportation of
Things"
While delightfully."- vague,
The Budget can also pin
point. 1t states that the
Bureau of the Mint's major
activity is the production of
coins" And If the Mint can
get away with it, it will turn
out 2 billion coins in fiscal
l96l-or so says The Budget.
Finally, The Budget is the
first work that has attempted
to deal with the liquidation
of the Hoonah Housing Prof.
ect. Step by step, it follows
$111,204 from the Housing
and Home Finance Agency,
TO the Secretary Of the In
terror, then back again to
tine Hoonah Housing Project.
The tale is told in the
simplest of terms: THE Sec
retary will use the Sl11,2O4
along with any other
revenue that may be received
from the Hoonah Housing
Project for the purpose of
liquidating said project. :"
Summing up: That's the
way the ball bounces.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

alIiiOuSl llC lldu UeeU UOlQ Dy
the dealer that If he liked the
Pontiac he could have it for
1896. He said he returned to
the used car firm to get back
the car he had traded in be-
cause the one he had been sold
did not run well enough to get
him to work. He also said that
he had been told his monthly
payments would be $55.55 per
month but when the contract
came in the mail it provided
payments of $67.55 per month.
He attached a contract show
ing that on a cash balance of
$500, he had been charged
$l48.50 for credit life insurance
and $267.40 finance charge.
A serviceman from Fort
EuStiS, Va, said he bought a
$685. car from a Washington
used car dealer on which he
put a 5000 down payment. He
said he was told that If any
thing was wrong with the car
the down payment would either
be refunded or used toward
the purchase of another car.
He reported that in the S
minutes he waited in a COM
pany car before going to a
notary public, the dealer in
serted another $65 for "deliv-
cry and handling" He said
the car was in bad repair but
when he returned to the lot
to discuss it, the salesman was
rude to his wife, insulting and
discourteous and refused him a
refund. He said he paid off
what he owed on the car in
three months instead Of the
18 months of the contract but
the auto finance company to
Evening star., 1960-01-20
1000 FOLLOW CAsKET
Daddy Grace Lies in State

Some 1000 followers of
Bishop Daddy Grace braved
brisk, cold winds today to ac-
company his body to the United
House Of Prayer here where it
will remain until midnight.
A motorcade attending the
hearse which carried the flower
covered coffin reached Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV. at l0:45 am. on its slow
Journey northward.
A brass band playing Nearer
My God to Thee" led the mo-
torcade and its following Of
men, women and children. They
moved up Sixth street to the
bishops church at Sixth and
M streets NV.
There a steady line Of mourn
ers filed past the glass-inclossd
bronze coffin. Police said they
expected large crowds to file
through the church for the
final farewell to the 78-year-
old Negro religious leader
through the night.
The bishop. whose full name
was Charles Manual Grace,
died January IL in Los Angeles.
His followers have been esti-
mated at 3 million persons.
The body had been on view
yesterday in Newport News, Va,
and before that in Charlotte,
N c. Tomorrow the funeral
motorcade leaves Washington
for Philadelphia and Newark
before final services and burial
in New Bedford, Mass, on
Saturday.
The coffin was placed in a
narrow prayer room at the
church today. Lines OF mourn
ers stretched around the corner
of the block. Women filing
past the body frequently threw
themselves upon the casket,
hySterical in their grief. Many
had to be helped away.
A church official directed the
handling of the mourning
crowd over a public address
system, trying to keep the cor
ridors clear to speed the
crowds passage.
Women dressed in purple
robes crying mo more Daddy"
file past the body and, upon
leaving the church, once more
Evening star., 1960-01-20

which the car dealer had as
signed the contract refused to
rebate any Of the finance
charges.
Another Washington resident
said he answered an ad for a
repossessed car but found it in
too bad condition to buy. He
said he became interested in a
1856 Plymouth at $1,095. He
added that when the salesman
asked him how he intended to
pay for it, he replied that he
planned to get the money from
his bank. He said the salesman
said that he would get the bank
financing and save the customer
the trouble.
He said he was called at home
at night by the salesman, who
insisted on driving him to a
bank" at that hour to arrange
the loan. He said he was taken
to Silver Hill, Md, at IL pm.
to get a loan.
Il began to feel certain mis-
givings," he said, but could not
believe that these used car
dealers were not controlled
legally"
The next morning, when he
went over the contract carefully
and realized that he was going
to have a hard time paying $40
monthly to the loan company
and $50.50 to the finance COM
pany, he "panicked" and called
the dealer but no one would
talk to me. They Just told me
that I had signed a contract
and could not be released even
if I could get the cash" He
said he paid off the note by
borrowing from his bank.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

DR.. Hansen today is different
from Mr.. Tobriner's. The su-
perintendent noted, however,
that it is based on the same
principle, that annual incre-
ments should not be based
solely upon age and service. +"
The board president called
today's recommendation "a
step in the right direction
whether or not it is a full
step remains to be seem"
DR.. Hansen asked the board
to refer his recommendation
to the personnel committee for
study and report. He also sug-
gested that a public hearing
be held before February 3.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

AAilC dAlN uIlouOAoAdNIOIy OCdNll-
ers.
Annual increments and
continued employment must be
merited," the superintendent
declared.
Details of the suggested pro-
gram include:
l. Establishment Of criteria
for teacher evaluation by a
committee of teacher repre-
sentaties and school officers.
2. An amendment to the
Teachers Salary Act making
pay increases automatic unless
otherwise ordered "for cause"
by the school board upon the
written recommendation of the
superintendent. For cause, ="
said DR.. Hansen, should be de-
fined as failure to get a salts
factory rating.
Would Add Sd Rating
3. A change in the board
rules to add a third rating to
the current satisfactory" and
unsatisfactory" This would
be a conditional" rating for
persons whose performance is
not clearly satisfactory or un-
satisfactory, DR.. Hansen ex-
planned. One unsatisfactory
or two consecutive conditional
ratings should be made cause
for dismissal, he said.
School principals do rate
their teachers annually now,
No written report has to be
made, however, for those who
are satisfactory" nor are
there any standard criteria for
the evaluation.
Unfavorable reports are
rarely made, school officials
have pointed out, because the
person making them, rather
than the teacher, usually ends
up on trial. The board now
has complex, legalistic proce-
dures for dismissal.
Worried Over Standards
Board members in recent
months have expressed in
creasing concern for insuring
high standards among teachers
here.
Last month Walter N. To-
brine, board president, sug-
gested a new. tougher system
for evaluating personnel and
noted that in the last five
years only one teacher was dis
missed for incompetence, and
another 20 were asked to resign,
The program suggested by
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Antietum Bill
Sent to Floor
OfHouse

A bill to preserve the Antie-
tam battlefield today survived
a skirmish in the House In
terror Committee and was sent
to the floor to face a bigger
battle.
Representative Westland, Re-
publican OF Washington, gave
notice that he intended to
warn against unlimited powers
he fears legislation grants the
Park Service to condemn land
at the Civil War field near
Sharpsburg, Md.
AS reported, the battlefield
bill, pending for three years in
Congress, would permit the
Interior Secretary to acquire
800 acres of land most signi-
flcant historically. The tracts
include the Burnside Bridge.
the Bloody Cornfield," the
woods and sunken road and
Clara Barton area.
The 600-acre limit was
written into an amendment pro-
posed by Subcommittee Chair
man Pfost, Democrat Of Idaho,
Its language represents a
compromise sent the committee
by National Park Service Di-
rector Conrad L. Wirth, in CO.
operation with Representative
Foley, Democrat of Maryland,
who sponsored the bill in this
Congress. Originally, Park
Service acquisition was ex-
pected to spread over 1000
acres.
Committeeman revolte d
against stripping the tax rolls
Of so much farm land. And
even the 600-acre limit inspired
a full hour of debate.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
House Economy Drive
Threatens D. c. Hirino

A proposal by House Ap-
preparations Committee leaders
to hold Federal personnel to
current levels would stop the
District Commissioners from
hiring l,097 new employees they
want to put to work in the
year beginning July /.
The cutback in the Presi-
Evening star., 1960-01-20

They all marched the dozen
blocks to the church with the
Grace Army Guard before the
hearse. A group of about 80 of
Bishop Grace's church min
isters marched behind it.
The coffin was lifted out of
the hearse and carried up the
front steps Of the lack-draped
brick House of Prayer. A bug
Ter played Taps"
Evening star., 1960-01-20

THE BOOKS AUTHORS
were fortunate in obtaining
a foreword by Mr.. Eisen-
hover, currently the Presi-
dent Of the United States.
AS he points out, it is his
belief that the real message
of The Budget is a. our
people have the determina-
ton to pay their own
way without borrowing from
their children. ="
Yet, children would prob
ably not like the book, If the
foreword. There are only two
illustrations showing sliced
up pies in the sky.
But the real beauty of The
Budget is in its mysterious
references, dangled tempt
ingly before the readers
eye. =.
The Vice Presidents auto
mobile will cost, for example,
$3.50 in fiscal 1861 "for pur-
chase, exchange, driving,
maintenance and operation"
Then, cleverly, the authors
show the Speakers 1861 au-
tomobile will run to SO, 800.
Why does the Speakers
automobile cost more? Mas
terfully, The Budget goes on
to other things.
1t tells how, with clarity,
S31, ,90C is needed "for the en-
ployment (by the Senate)
of personnel for folding
speeches and pamphlets. .
SLIT per hour per person"
With restraint, The Budget
touches lightly on the Per-
manent Committee for the
Oliver Wendell Holmes De-
wise Fund. 1t says only the
Devise Fund will probably
need about s23,aOO that it
was established to prepare
a history of the Supreme
Court. 1t also hints that
somebody is working on a
memorial volume of Justice
Holmes writings. But who?
Again the intrigue.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Apple Festival Prizes

The Shenandoah Apple Bios
som Festival will award cash
prizes totaling 5000 to winning
volunteer fire companies and
bands appearing in the night
time parade in Winchester
(VaO April %.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
The
Rambler
Reviews
A Puperbuck
BY JOHN McKELWAY

THE BUDGET. BY un-
known authors with a
foreword by Dwight D.
Eisenhower. CA GPO
book; $3.50, paper coverJ
Few books have ever cap
tured in broad brush strokes
the full sweep of America.
The Budget, just released
by one of the country's old
est publishing firms, doesn't
either. But it does try might
lily to explain in words and
figures just what it is behind
much Of what lies immedi-
ately ahead.
1t is bound to be one of
the most talked about books
of the year. 1t is controver-
sial. Some want to select it
as a book of -the-month-at
least for January.
Critics claim it is nothing
more than a hastily revised
edition of a similar book,
brought out last year and
also entitled, THE Budget"
Significantly, however, the
latest "The Budget" weighs
four ounces less than that
other book, costs 25 cents less
and is rs pages shorter.
Last years The Budget
sold only $50 copies, while
5,463 of them were printed.
This years The Budget is
expected to do much better
because it is lighter and
shorter. However, it is diff
f1cult to read in bed.
To stir up interest the
Government Printing Office
is binding 800 copies in a
hard cover-much harder
than the cover offered to the
public. Complimentary copies
such as these have been cir
culated among cabinet mem
bers, Budget Bureau officials,
members of Congress and
some high-placed readers in
the White House.
Evening star., 1960-01-20

dents budget, if cleared by
Congress, would mean a saving:
OF about SAT- million in District
spending.
But such an economy move
would cripple present health
welfare, court and education
services and prevent a few new
programs from starting.
Projects Threatened
Elimination of the proposed
l,O97 new employees would
cancel out such recommended
projects as:
l. Addition of 179 policemen
to help combat the Districts s
rising crime rate.
2. Hiring of 29l employees for
the public schools which would
among other things, lower the
pupil-teacher ratio in the ele-
mentary classrooms.
3. Increase the staff at the
Welfare Departments over
crowded Junior Village by pro-
vidlng q additional employees
to strengthen the program at
the city'S home for homeless
children.
4. Step up the housing code
enforcement program with the
addition Of 16 inspectors.
CannOn's View
Representative Cannon. DEM
ocrat of Missouri, said in an
Associated Press interview to-
day that his committee would
seek to hold personnel to this
years levels "a move that
would save money but not in
terfere with efficiency.
Like Mr.. Cannon, chairman
OF the Appropriations Commit
tee, Representative Taber. Sc
nior Republican member from
New York, decried bids for
more Federal workers. He said
10000 of the requested $4,000
additional civilian jobs in Gov
ernment should be diSallowed.
Appropriations District Sub
committee Chairman Rabaut,
Democrat Of Michigan. at
tended a meeting of the full
committee held after the lead
ers' comments. He reserved
comment on the local spending
proposals. but predicted he
could finish hearings on the
District budget by the end Of
the week.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Hansen Outlines Plan
For Roting Teachers
Seeks to Stop Pay Ruises and Simplify
Dismissal of Unsatisfactory Personnel
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star STAFF Writer

thorough evauaon of District urged
today by School Supt Carl F. Hansen
He presented to the school board the outline of
which would stop pay automatic
for teachers performing below standard.
1t would also simplify procedures for dsmssng border
Evening star., 1960-07-24

not pointed publicly at Cuba, the
Castro governments ties with the
Kremlin and Peiping are at the
bottom of the whole discussion.
A committee working on the
agenda and site of this ministerial
conference received an invitation
Friday to hold the session in San
Jose, Costa Rica. The meeting is
expected to be convened in Au-
gust and probably will follow an
other conference of the foreign
miniSters-called earlier-to con-
slider a Venezuela complaint that
Generalissimo Rafael Trujijllo's
Dominican Republic government
took part in the attempt to as
sassinate Venezuelan President
Romulo Betancourt on June "a.
The Trujillo dictatorship, under
attack from all parts of Latin
America, suffered a setback Thurs
day at the hands of the United
States. The Agriculture Depart
kLlCIlU dIlIlOuAlCIAlS q 1C-oAAOSoOAOAA
of sugar quotas made possible by
the Cuban slash, snubbed the
Dominican Republic.
The department authorized the
purchase of 617,385 tons of sugar
from IL countries to replace the
supplies originally assigned to
Cuba. A leading beneficiary of the
windfall was Brazil, which has had
no United States quota. Brazil
will be permitted to send in a
little more than 100000 tons of
sugar. Other non-quota countries
which were cut in this time were
Ell Salvador, Guatemala, the Brit
ish West Indies and British Guiana.
Prime Minister Castro, making
good on his reprisal threat against
American investments in Cuba
confiscated three of the largest
sugar mills in the country, all of