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Evening star., 1960-02-15

secretaries are employed by
private businesses in Metropol-
itan Washington. Another
thousand are urgently needed
to fill vacancies reported to
private and Federal employ
ment services.
Situation Critical
"It's a really critical situa-
tion," a spokesman for one pri-
vate agency complained. There
are so many new firms in the
area and so many old ones
expanding. we can't come any
where near filling the demand"
An official of Civil Service,
which estimates that about
24,000 secretaries are employed
by Government in the area,
agreed that the shortage is
critical.
There's been a shortage
since World War H." he said.
ITS never been worse. It's just
something we've had to learn
to live with"
Fred z. Hetzel. director of
the local USES Office, declared
the reasons for the critical
shortage are twofold:
"Basically," he said, there
Just aren't enough young peo-
pie going into secretarial and
typing positions. The need
grows larger and larger, and
we're just holding our own.
Area Lacks Appeal
Another reason is there Is
less willingness for secretaries
TO come to this area. Wages
are good almost everywhere,
and the cost of living is lower
elsewhere"
About the only ones employ
ment services are unable to
place, an official SAID, are pa
plicants who are dressed slop-
PLY and lackadaisical.
They're the Ones" he ex-
Evening star., 1960-02-15
Business
Secretary Shortage
Never More Acute

planned, who ask the boss
about vacations, not duties"
One employment agency
complained that Government
competition for secretaries has
worked to the detriment OF
private businesses in the WASH
ington area.
THE salaries aren't so diff
ferent," an official of one firm
said, but they turn them into
executives after a while, rails
ing their salaries and remov-
ing them from g Secretary's
rating"
Too Many Chiefs
"In the Government" he
grumbled, there are too many
chiefs and not enough In
dians."
AS a result of the shortage,
many businessmen have hired
temporary help - housewives
and tranSientS-in an attempt
to keep up with the paper work.
Others have been forced to in
crease the work load of other
employees and some have simply
managed to get along without.
There are few complaints,
however, from the secretaries
themselves, who have never had
it so good.
This is a woman's town
now" a downtown agency ex-
ecutive declared, "and they
can get just about any salary
they want"
Salaries Listed
Most salaries for inexperi-
enced secretaries range from
about $75 to $10o a week while
Evening star., 1960-02-15

Aggravaton worry anxiety headaches -.
that's what managing apartment building or other
income property means to lot of people. But
Shannon & Luchs thrives on such management prob
lens. It's business to help make owning an apart
ment house more carehee, and, in many ways, more
profitable, too.
Shannon Luchs currently manages 5S52 living units,
including apartments and houses, keeping 399-man
custodal force busy full time. Last year collected
over SIS million in rents. By pooling purchases we
Evening star., 1960-02-15
Roy toOpen
New Process
Exhibition

A four-week exhibit Of new
inventions and processes opened
today in the lobby of the Com
merce Building, Fourteenth
street and Constitution avenue
NV.
Formal ceremonies in OBJ
Servance of the opening will
be held tomorrow. Under Sec
retary of Commerce Philip A.
Ray and Commissioner of
Patents Robert C. Watson will
preside.
Leaders of American indus
try, members of Congress and
Government officials are ex-
pected to be present to see
some 20 exhibits. The displays
will show new industrial de-
velopments ranging from chem
icals in plastic to drugs and
electronics.
An industry Commerce De-
partment conference in connec-
ton with the opening is sched-
uled tomorrow morning. Speak
ers will include Walter Edwards,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Domestic Affairs; John Green,
Of the ONCE of Technical Serv-
ices; and Robert L. Wright,
chief counsel of the Subcom-
mittee on Patents, Trademarks
and Copyrights.
The exhibit, which will be
shown in other American cities
after its closing in Washington
on March IL, will be open Mon
day through Friday from $3.50
am. to 10 pm. and 10 am. to
6 pm. on Saturdays and SUM-
days. There is no charge for
admission.
Evening star., 1960-02-15
FOREIGN EXCH'GE

NEW YORK, Feb. Is AP) For
siSn exehanse rates CGrsat Britain in
dollars. others in cents and decimalS
Of Q cent?:
To-day Prev. Day
Canada in n. r.
free) 1O5046s los 90
Evening star., 1960-02-15
Ford Comets Roll
LORAIN. Ohio, Feb. is (A]

LORAIN, Ohio, Feb. is (AP)
newest addition to the
compact car parade, the Comet,
today began rolling of the as
Sembly line at the Ford plant
here. Production is expected to
hit 500 daily by March l. Ford
said the Comets will be assem-
bled only at the Lorain plant.
Evening star., 1960-02-15
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star STAN Writer

Send me a secretary" a
businessman besought the
United States Employment
Service recently. 81 want some
body like Jayne Mansfield or
Hedy Lamar and she must be
under 80. I want her right
away"
Obviously this Washington
businessman was new at the
game. The shortage Of secre-
taries has never been more
acute here according to en-
ployment officials. He would
have been lucky to hire any
secretary of ability. regardless
Of her beauty rating.
At present, according to
USES estimates, about 10000
Evening star., 1960-02-15
Sales Record

CHICAGO. Feb. IS (AP).-
Aldens Co. announced sales of
$1l4.682,l48 during 1859 were
the highest in the firms his
tory. They exceeded 1858 sales
by 1914 per cent.
Evening star., 1960-02-15
Lexington Park
Bank Names
Murino, FrenkeI

DR.. Frank c. Marino and Vic
tor Frenkel of Baltimore have
been elected to the board of di-
rectors of the Citizens Bank Of
st. Mary'S, the organization
announced today.
J. T. Daugherty, president of
the bank disclosed results of
the election at the annual
stockholders meeting. All pre-
viouS officers were reelected.
The bank is located in Lex
ington Park, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18
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Evening star., 1960-09-30
No Place for Criminals

Criminals should be rare specimens
in Washington during the next several
days. This is because the city will be
host to some 1000 members and guests
of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police Police representatives
from all parts of the United States and
from many foreign lands will be attend
ing the annual convention of the aSSo-
citation, the chief aim of which is to
devise more effective and faster ways
of bringing outlaws to justice
The IACP in recent years has be-
come more than a forum for the annual
exchange of ideas and information.
Through its permanent headquarters in
this city its Field Service Division pro-
videS expert advice to States, counties
and cities on better methods and facil-
tiles for enforcing laws. 1t helps to
reorganize police departments and 9TH
erwise strengthen them for the war on
crime.
The 67th convention of the associa-
ton is of special interest to Washington
not only because it is being held here
but because our own police chief, Robert
V. Murray, is slated to become president
of the organization. We extend our best
wishes to the association and to it's
prospective new leader
Evening star., 1960-09-30
Strong-Minded Yankees

Little Rhode Islands long record of
political individuality-itw was founded as
refuge for diSSenters from the norms
of its colonial neighborS, it was the last
of the l3 original colonies to ratify the
Constitution, and it never did ratify the
Proh1bition Amendment-haS been con-
hrmed again in its Democratic senator
ial primary
Turning their backs on two former
Governors and influential party leaders,
Democrats showed up in record numbers
to designate a youthful part-time New
port-Washington resident Claiborne
Pell, as their choice for nomination to
succeed retiring Senator Theodore
Francis Green. The result was not even
close as Mr.. Pell received approximately
$4,000 votes to about $4,000 for former
Governor Dennis Roberts and fewer than
5000 for Howard McGrath, who has been
Governor, Senator and Attorney Gen
eral of the United States.
In making it clear that they thought
the "time for a change" had arrived.
the Rhode Islanders apparently liked
Mr.. Pell because he had campaigned
hard in three languages-English,
French and Italian-all important in a
State where racial ties are strong. 1t
is reported, too, and the results bear
1t out, that Mr.. Roberts popularity
within his party had been in steady de-
cline, even before the States voters as
whole rejected his fifth bid for the
State House in 1858.
Even in the face of the party SPLIT
and the bitter primary campaign which
accompanied it, there is no assured
comfort to the Republicans. Their SEN
atorial candidate, Raoul Archambault,
Jr., former assistant director of the
Federal Bureau of the Budget, is de-
Scribed as able and attractive. Republi-
can Governor christopher Del Sesto,
who defeated Mr.. Roberts in 1858, is
running for reelection. But while the
State favored the EiSenhower-Nixo
ticket in 1852 and 1856, it has been pre-
dominantly Democratic since 1928 and
is believed safe this year for the slate
headed by Senator Kennedy, of neigh
boring Massachusetts,. If it should prove
otherwise, it will merely prove again
that only Rhode Island can behave po-
htlcally like Rhode Island.N
Evening star., 1960-09-30

General Twining would want to encour-
age 1t is good thing, however, to have
his informed and candid comments at
this time, when too many Americans are
tending to sell America short. State
ments made in the heat of a political
campaign which downgrade our
strength, either present or potential,
are both unwarranted and dangerous,
for they may impair the confidence of
our friends and allies. We believe Gen
eral Twining is right when he says this
country has the necessary power now,
and that it will continue to have it if
those responsible citizens" to whom
his remarks were particularly addressed,
will support the Government in the
costly but necessary programs which
must be undertaken in the future.
Evening star., 1960-09-30
Khrushchev: A Spectacle

Since he is at least Shrewd man,
one has to assume that there was some
method in the KhruShchev madness at
yesterdays session of the General AS
Sembly. He would hardly make such a
spectacle of himself unless he had some
objective in mind
Presumably, the objective was to
present himself to the delegates from
the newly admitted countries as the
advocate of causes which hold much
appeal for them, as one whose righteous
indignation in the face of imperialism"
is simply uncomfortable. In word, the
Khrushchev performance was an "act"
If this was the case, it was a self
defeating effort. For the contrast be-
tween Mr.. Macmillan's reasoned, con-
Structive address and Mr.. KhruShchev's
shouting, Disappointing heckling must
have been painfully evident to the new
est delegate. Certainly, the warm ap
,plause for the British Prime Minister,
when he had finished, was not only
tribute to him but also rebuke to Mr..
KhruShchev. On the Lincolnian theory
that you can't fool all of the people all
Of the time, we think that Mr.. Khru-
Shchev has overplayed his hand and
that even he must realize it.
There remains, of course, the pos
Sibility that this was not an act, that
this crude performance was a true re-
Election of the real Khrushchev If so,
the outlook is bleak indeed, since there
can be no hope for fruitful negotiations
with man whose negotiating tools
come down to booriShnesS and abuse.
If this is the situation, we have no choice
except to maintain indefinitely level
of retaliatory armed power which Mr.
Khrushchev will know he cannot sue
cesSfully challenge.
Evening star., 1960-09-30
Jets-Pro and Con

In the past few months or
so there has been much work
and progress over in the
Chantilly part of Northern
Virginia. This work, as most
of us know. is the Dulles
International Airport.
Being a Virginian myself, I
am happy to see progress
moving out this way. On the
other hand I hate to see the
beautiful scenery go, for
which Virginia is noted. I am
not sure I will enjoy the
noise of the jets overhead
and windows breaking peri
odically.
I can concur with some
of the neighbors on the in
convenience and added ex-
pense Of going to New York
in order to fly across the At
lantic. I sincerely hope the
Dulles Airport will change
things in this respect. In my
conjecture it is an item that
Washington has been lacking
since the age of jet travel.
1t will enable people and
cargo to come into and go out
of the Washington area con-
siderably faster.
Scott c. Harrison.
Evening star., 1960-09-30
A Generals Farewell

General Nathan F. Twining, bowling
out as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, has left significant message for
his fellow Americans. 1t is an especially
noteworthy message since General Twin
ing, having come to the end of his dis
tinguiShed career, can neither be &C
cuSed nor suspected of any selfish or
unworthy motive
The Communist threat, he said, is
"the most serious challenge directed at
us in all history, reaching across the
entire spectrum of organized human
effort" We are faced, he added, with
a period of prolonged crisis, but this
countryS present armed forces, plus
those in prospect, are adequate for the
job.
This job, according to General
TWining, is to maintain American mill
tary capability at level which makes
unequivocally clear the ability of the
United States Ito destroy Russia and
China if we are attacked That is the
best deterrent to all forms of Communist
aggression"
The retiring chairman thinks we
have this capability now and that we
can-and muSt-maintain it. To the
critics, he had this to say: Things are
not nearly as bad as some of our proph-
cts of doom would have us believe. The
United States is not becoming a second
class. nation. 1t is not falling behind.
Sure, there are dangers about us. but
when has this not been SOP"
T A sense of complacency is the last
Evening star., 1960-09-30
Move In, Colonel

IL naruIy seems falr, so soon after
his arrival, that our new Engineer Com
missioner should be thrown into Park
Service Highway Department Squabble
over the handling of Potomac River
bridge traffic. What Colonel Clarke must
realize, however, if he has not been
informed of it already, is that this is
merely another chapter in an old, old
story, and that his best chance of re-
solving it is to handle the negotiations
himself, in dealings with the top-level
officials on the other side of the argu-
ment.
Strictly from the viewpoint of
motorists, it seems to us that city High
way Director Aiken is right in the posi-
tionS he has taken, and that Conrad L.
Wirth, the National Park Service direct
or, is wrong in opposing them. In one
case, the issue is whether the new
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge should have
ramp connections to the George Wash
ington Memorial parkway in Virginia
connections which quite obviously would
convenience number of motorists, and
which undoubtedly would be widely used.
In the other, the question is whether Mr..
Wirth'S admirable new plan for high
ways in the Lincoln Memorial area should
not be modified slightly in order to pro-
vide for freer movements of traffic.
Mr.. Wirth, however, as he properly
should, views these matters only sec
ondarily as traffic engineer. His main
concern is that the new highways have
the least destructive impact possible on
the park areas he controls. And he
maintains that this goal can be met
without seriously hampering traffic by
separating the Potomac bridge traff1c,
by keeping excessive commuter traffic
off such facilities as the Virginia park
way and by leaving the Lincoln Memoir
ial area relatively free from traffic
interchangeS.
This is precisely the difference in
viewpoint that has led to so many dead
locks and StalemateS in the past, and
the past has shown all too clearly that
these matters seldom are settled at the
lower staff levels of government. The
National Capital Planning Commission
hopes to have a solution that will be
mutually agreeable at its meeting October
b. We hope so, too.
If the old pattern is followed, how
ever, the issues will not be resolved
until Colonel Clarke does two things.
The first is to make sure that the traffic
requirements are absolutely necessary.
The second is to convince Mr.. Wirth--
and his SuperiorS at the Interior De-
partment, if necessary-that the traffic
proposals are reasonable, and that the
fears of their. impact are exaggerated.
The interminable fighting few years
ago over the Roosevelt Bridge location
was not ended until Secretary of the
Interior Seaton took personal hand,
at the behest of the White House. We
hope no such extremes will be required
this time, but the Engineer Commissioner
should make it plain that he will do
whatever is called for to settle the argu-
ment-and quickly.
Evening star., 1960-09-30
Bible Reading
wAAhGT ToH . TAX

AS a longtime taxpayer in
Montgomery County, Mary
land, I wish to add my
protest to those already made
concerning the use of prayer
and Bible reading in the pub
lie schools.
1t must be borne in mind
that our country is not made
up exclusively of Protestants
holding certain views. 1t is or
pretends to be a democracy
which consists also of Jews.
Catholics, Unitarians, Je-
hovah's Witnesses, agnostics,
atheists, Buddhists, etc.
Looking at it from the chill
dren's point of view, not only
is it very offensive for repre-
sentativeS Of a minority to be
herded into a group and be
forcibly taught principles
which they do not believe at
home, but the alternative is
also quite distreSSing-for
them to be excused from
these services and thus be
singled out by the conforming
ProtestantS as different" in
an undesirable way.
There are few States left
in which religion is still
introduced into public school
exercises. Its use is essen
TALLY a provincialism, a re-
fusal to recognize that the
world is teeming with people
who may prefer to worship in
different ways or not at all,
and that they have every
right to do so. 1t is an un-
fortunate survival in our
times of Puritanism, the in
tolerant theocracy of seven
teenth century New England.
Mrs. Mary McMiIIen.
Evening star., 1960-09-30
'Uqh, Bio Wind

The old hermit has come
down out of the mountains
(the Iron Curtain) with his
rifle (an imitation of Amer
ica'S atom bomb to the old
general store (the United Ma
tionS) at the crossroads to
tell the loafers (the rest of
the world around the old
pot-bellied stove just what's
the matter with them.
After listening to him
shoot off his mouth, each
got up, spit a mouthful of
tobacco juice at the stove or
knocked the ashes out of his
pipe and went home.
Only an old American
Indian was heard to say;
ugh, Big Wind, Big Thun-
der, No Rain"
Lowell Trace.
Evening star., 1960-09-30
@. Which nation first used

@, Which nation first used
coal as fuel?-P. N.
A. There is strong archeo-
logical evidence that people
in Wales used coal 5000 years
ago. The Greeks first men,
toned coal; Theophrastus, a
pupil of Aristotle, used the
word "anthrakes" in 371 BIC.
The British, who were the
first to mine and use coal on
a large scale, appropriately
fathered the word coal, which
started off as "kohle," grew
into "cole" or "colle," and
finally changed into its mod
ern form in the 18th century.
Coal was discovered in the
United States in 1873 by the
French explorers, Louis Joliet
and Jacques Marquette, near
Utica, Illinois. Over 10 years
passed before coal was first
mined and sold commercially
near Richmond, Va. I,
Evening star., 1960-09-30

HouseS-and still balance the
budget.
Either Senator Kennedy is
a miracle man or else he likes
to make promises he can't
possibly keep.
Samuel d. Haskell.
Il 4 4
I don't wish to become
too bothersome to you but I
do feel the need to ask one
question that will point out
the fallacy implied in Sena-
tor Kennedy's charge that
farmers contribute to un-
balance in the economy by
bringing their crops, hogs.
etc. to market at the same
time.
My question is this: Does
the Senator have some inside
control over the weather and
seasons so as to enable the
farmer on the north side Of
the road to produce his corD
in January while the farmer
on the south side produces
his in May?
If I seem to find more to
criticize in the Democratic
sayings and doings. it is be-
cause I know that my dear
departed father, a staunch
and loyal Democrat through
out his 81 years of life, would
rise from his grave to protest
if he could know what is now
being foisted on the country
as Democratic" policy.
Eugenie Burns BOstrOm.
Il y 4 i
1t is unfair to suggest that
Mr.. Kennedy and his associ-
ateS quit talking about the
weakness" of the United
States and tell the truth
about American prestige.
This would deprive them
of their only talking point in
the current campaign.
w. P. ElSOn.
4 4 4 =
Candidate Nixon is quoted
as having said that he is eX-
pecting "the women" to vote
him in as the next President
of the United States.
Who does he think he is?
Elvis Presley?
How can he expect to win
with a living doll like Candi-
date Kennedy in orbit?
Laura X. Pollock.
4 y Il
I shall vote for Senator
Kennedy because I believe
that we are less likely to have
a nuclear war if he is elected.
Nevertheless, I feel that he
has made a fatal mistake in
advocating a solution of the
farm problem that may in
crease food prices Is per cent.
The people are in no mood to
endure a further rise of Is
per cent in the price of food.
a Walter E. Claflin.
Evening star., 1960-09-30

tute. The unknown material
may be found, according to
his report, in tissues of the
duodenum, stomach, pan
creaS, thymus gland, lymph
glands, ovaries, breasts and
placenta. 1t apparently does
not exist in other body Or
gans or in any plants.
The factor appears to
function, DR.. Alderman says,
in its complex effects on thy
roid and pituitary glands.
1t has long been known, he
reports, that prolonged ad-
ministration of various sulfa
drugs to experimental animals
may result both in inhibition
of growth and development
of golfers. This is believed
due to some interference of
the drugs with formation of
the thyroid hormone. When,
however, the sulfa drugs are
accompanied by extracts of
the mentioned tissues growth
continues normal and no
golfers appear.
Rat Growth Stimulated
DR.. Ackerman's work has
been concentrated on iso-
lating the factor from the
hog duodenum. He has sue
ceeded, he reports, in obtain
ing a substance of which
about 1,000th of a gram
mixed with more than a
pound of ordinary diet will
stimulate the growth of
Sulfa-fed rats. 1t has been
impossible, as yet, to obtain
the material in crystal form.
LeSs-purified fractions fed
to rats from whom the thy
roid gland had been removed,
he said, have resulted in
growth, although not at the
nomal rate. When these
were given to animals from
whom the pituitary had been
removed growth was again
stimulated.
1T has not as yet been
possible" he reports, ito
establish a specific function
for this unknown factor al
though it seems to be related
to the thyroid and possibly
with the pituitary. 1t is also
possible that this substance
may be related to the thymus
gland. When the pituitary
is removed from a rat the
thymus gland decreases in
size, but the active fraction
will restore it to normal size"