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Evening star., 1960-07-30
Mission S Campers
To Perform Tonioht

About $50 boys and girls who
attended the Central Union
Missions summer camp are ex-
pected to show up for the mis-
sion's annual camp program
at 7:30 O'Clock tonight at 624
Indiana avenue NV. to show
their benefactors what they've
learned.
One child from each of the
three summer. sessions will be
given an award for being the
best camper-obeying the rules
and being courteous, for having
the best handwork exhibit and
for reciting the most Bible
verses in a "spelldown."
Each session should produce
from six to 10 children who can
recite by memory 100 or more
Bible verses with no repeats,
according to Mrs. Herbert
Eberhardt. director of the
camp program.
Prize for Everyone
The children, chosen from
those who regularly come to.
or who live at the mission,
start off learning one verse for
each of the 26 letters in the
alphabet, and then the Psalms.
They all look forward to the
prizes, and everybody gets
something.
THE big prizes for the handi-
work are T-ShirtS with red
camp emblems for the boys,
and scarves with emblems for
the girls" Mrs. Eberhardt said.
"All the others look forward to
chocolate bars and pencils.
Ev verybody gets a New
Testament"
This year each of the three
Bible verse winners will get a
wriStwatch "a big thing in
their lives.
Evening star., 1960-07-30

tor of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Bethesda, Md. He is a
native of Baltimore and a grad
uate of the University of Mary
land, 1855, and the Church Di-
vinity School of the Pacific,
1858. For the last two years
he has served as vicar of Epis-
copal churches in Minden and
Virginia City, New.
Mr.. Downing is married, has
a 2-year-old son, Samuel, and
lives at 8610 Irvington avenue,
Bethesda.
Evening star., 1960-07-30
Pastor Returns

The Rev. w. Barker Hardi-
son, pastor of Westover Baptist
Church in. Arlington, Va, will
return to his pulpit tomorrow
after a six-week tour Of Cen
trail and South America. Mr..
Hardison will speak on his tour,
which included the Baptist
World Alliance meeting in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, at the II
am. and 7:45 pm. services to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
Charge DisovowoI

On the eve of the Tuesday vote,
Gov. Wesley Powell of New Hamp-
shire. a right-wing Republican
and Nixon booster, charged that
Senator Kennedy had shown soft
ness toward communism" Mr..
Kennedy demanded a disavowal
from Mr.. Nixon and got one i'm
mediately.
Speaking through his press rep
resentative, the Vice President re-
pudiated the Powell charge and
asserted that the Senator and he
have always been "unalterably"
opposed ito communism at home
and abroad"
How many of the estimated
1900 Republican votes were di-
rected to Mr.. Kennedy because of
the Governors uncalled-for smear
will never be known precisely. But
Mr.. Nixon's prompt repudiation
of a tactic he himself used during
the salad days of Joe Mccarthy
and Joe Stain indicate he will not
abide any such conduct in the 1860
race.
With New Hampshire, the first
of 16 national primaries to be
held this year. out of the way, the
next test is in Wisconsin. 1t is
there that Mr.. Kennedy vies with
the only other avowed Democratic
candidate in the field of FIVE:
Hubert Humphrey.
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rated 40 per cent Catholic and
Mr.. Kennedy is a Catholic. the
Senator got out the vote in the So
called protestant" rural districts.
There is no doubt. in any case,
that the rousing send-off in New
Hampshire gives Mr.. Kennedy a
definite psychological edge in the
increasingly rough intraparty
fight against Senator Humphrey
in Wisconsin. The voting there is
scheduled for April 5.
AS for Mr.. Nixon, he broke
President EiSenhower's record Of
56,464 votes in the 1856 primary
by more than 5000 votes. regis,
tering total of 65,007. In addi-
ton to topping the greatest vote
getter in American history. the
Vice President had to overcome a
rather distressing last-minute
handicap. 1t was one that must
have provoked him to invoke
Lafcadio Hearn's petition for pro-
lection from his friends-hlS en-
emies he can handle.
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THE FOREIGN SCENE
Disarmament uIks
Spur to Summit

emphasis in disarmament talks
on a cutback or outright aboli-
ton of nuclear weapons.
Britain, long committed to the
principle of achieving a modus
vivendi with the Soviet Union,
has indicated a willingness to
trust in the sincerity of Soviet
intentions that has not been
shared. in the main, by United
States policymakers. Canada, on
the whole, agrees with the British
analysis, although understandably
much concerned with the con-
tinuation of close military and
political ties with the United
States
Italy, currently in the throes
of an internal political realign-
ment, has tended to support the
I'VE don't trust the Russians"
view supposedly held by the
United States.
And the United States appears
to be a house divided. President
Eisenhower has, over and over
again, voiced his faith in inter-
national understanding and in
the possibility of a world geared
to peace. But, inside his own ad-
ministration. powerful influences
work against disarmament, even
in a small degree. and they have
scored some signal successes.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
Some Rights Compromises

The Senate, after defeating
an attempt to shut off debate,
last week began stripping down
the Administrations seven
point civil rights bill. Mean
while, the House opened debate
on its own rights bill.
Until late Friday, the script as
written by Majority Leader Lyn-
don johnson was being followed
with hardly a deviation as the
worlds greatest deliberative
body" the United States Senate,
went about its consideration
of civil rights legislation.
Mr.. Johnson and a group Of
moderateS from Northern and
Western States, including men,
bers of each party, had made it
clear that they feel the Senate
should. and will. eventually pass
a bill strengthening the rights of
Negroes to vote.
But after a Southern fllibuster,
carried on by expert platooning
of only l8 Senators. demonstrated
its staying power, the liberal
coalition headed by Senators
Douglas, Illinois Democrat. and
JavitS, New York Republican, de-
manded that cloture, the shutting
of of debate, be invoked.
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Politics.:
EverybodyWins

Vice President Nixon and
Senator Kennedy swept to rec
ord victories in the New Hamp-
shire presidential primary last
Tuesday.
New Hampshire is one of the
smallest States in the Union. 1t
has only 4 of the national total
of 537 electoral votes. But this
bellies its possible influence and
the attention it gets when it
engages in the first presidential
preferential primary contest in
the land every four years.
Last Tuesdays balloting was
no exception. While the winners
in the Granite State do not nee
esSarily go on to storm the con-
ventions - Senator Estes Ke-
fauver can attest to this - the
1860 vote could be more signifi-
cant than usual.
Both Vice President Nixon and
Senator John F. Kennedy rode
to record victories. The national
chairman of both parties came
through with the practicable
statements that the election in
dicated victory for their candi-
date in November.
But the general reaction, voiced
by Senators Mansfield, Democrat
of Montana and a Lyndon john
son man, and Javits, Republican
of New York, was that if New
Hampshire showed anything it
was that the payoff in November
will be "a real horse race"
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Bill Is Widened

This was done by eliminating
completely Section ! of the Dirk
sen bill which would have made
it a Federal crime to use force
or the threats of force to inter
fere with court, orders in school
desegregation.
The key to the action, however,
was provided by an amendment
offered by Senator Lausche, Ohio
Democrat. and approved, 65 to 10.
The Lausche proposal called for
broadening Section to cover OBJ
struction of all Federal court or
ders, including those against labor
unions, and not against just those
having to do with the mixing of
the races in schools.
When Senator Morse, Oregon
Democrat, offered an amendment
to table the entire section l, the
liberals were put in a painful
blight. Depending upon how they
voted they might open themselves
to charges of favoring Negro
rights over the well-being of Or
ganiZed labor Gas seen by union
leaders, or vice-verSa. All the
Democratic liberals pleased labor
and voted for the Morse amend
ment; all the Republican liberals
voted against it.
What happens now is anybody's
guess. Senator johnson has eau
toned reporters against assuming
the Senate will accept any House.
approved bill. This caution may
be especially warranted if a 9ro-
vision similar to the original Sec
ton | Of the Dirksen measure is
retained in the House bill.
There are some cynics who say,
despite the fact that 65 Senators
voted for the Lausche amendment,
that a majority of Democrats and
Republicans will reverse themselves
and accept Section 1-type pro-
vision restricted to school integra-
tion. Their excuse. say the cynics:
If the Senate does not accept the
House bill as-is, the chances of
passing any civil rights legislation
at all may be jeopardized.
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Stakes Are High

The stakes in this trial are high
for Mr.. Powell, regarded by some
George Meaney, president of the
AFL-CIO, for example) as a race
agitator, and by others as a self
less fighter for Negro rights. He
faces up to IS years Imprisonment
and fines up to $4,000, if guilty.
A member of Congress since 1914,
he is in line to head the House
Education and Labor Committee
next year. Representative Graham
Barden of North Carolina, the
present chairman, has already an
nounced that he will not seek re-
election.
The Democratic Party in an
other key State, California, is in
the middle of an unenviable Situ-
alton arising out of the Caryl
ChesSman case and the issue of
capital punishment. Gov. Edmund
(Pat Brown, at one time a pos
Sible vice presidential nominee,
has conceded that the Chessman
case furor may have finished his
political career.
Last week, a committee of the
California Legislature voted not
to recommend reversal of the
State law calling for capital pun
iShment. as Gov. Brown urged.
This means. in all likelihood, that
ChesSman. the convicted kidnaper-
rapist, will die in the gas chamber
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Wisconsin Outlook

Although Mr. Humphrey has
not personally conceded a thing,
the tenor of his campaign re-
marks and those of his supporters
adds up to a perhaps subconscious
expectation that Mr.. Kennedy will
win a majority of the popular
votes and of the delegates in Wis
conSin.
The Humphrey camp has already
built up excuses for the Mime
sotan to carry on his campaign
in the face of a Wisconsin defeat.
First, there is the complaint Of
Jacks jack" a reference to the
Kennedy riches and the Bostoni-
ans readiness to open up his
wallet.
Second, the Humphreyites have
spread the word that perhaps 20
per cent of the Republican voters
there is no opposition to Mr..
Nixon on the G. o. P. side-will
cross over and vote in the Demo-
cratic primary. They say that
almost all of these Republicans
will vote for Mr.. Kennedy or, if
Evening star., 1960-03-13
Space:
New Victory

The United States last week
sent a scientific satellite to-
ward a permanent orbit around
the sun. the first to gather in.
formation deep in the solar
system.
The point-well-made reply Of
American scientists to critics of
our space program who see the
United States pathetically out
distanced by the Russians goes
something like this:
The Soviet has scored spectac-
ularly with its space probes be-
cause it has much more power
ful booster rockets which enable
1t to put large payloads into orbit.
But we are at least equal to them,
and probably superior. when it
comes to Instrumentation and
miniaturization. And we probably
have obtained more total new
scientific knowledge from our
space efforts than the Russians
have from theirs.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
Doerfer:
Stepdown

John C. DOerfer last week
resigned as chairman Of the
Federal Communications Com.
mission after admitting he was
entertained on a broadcasting
executives yacht.
One Of the things that has par.
ticularly annoyed House investi.
gators in their inquiries into
broadcasting industry irregulari-
ties has been the unenthusiastic
attitude of the Federal Communi-
cations Commission toward its
regulatory responsibilities and
duties.
John c. Doerfer, FEC chairman
and a Wisconsin Republican, has
been the personif1cation of this
attitude. In the face of one scam
dal after another in the industry,
he has taken the position that
the commission lacked authority
to crack down and that it should,
in any case, shun any step that
might be construed as an act Of
censorship.
In report on its 1858 hear
ings, the House Special Subcom-
mittee on Legislative Oversight
asserted:
"Over the years a pattern has
developed Of questionable conduct
on the part of some members (of
the FCC). :"
The report showed that Mr..
Doerfer had accepted free plane
rides, entertainment and speech
making fees from broadcasters.
But there was no real pressure for
him to step down. This was before
the big expose of payola, televi-
sion quiz show riggings and the
like.
Last week Mr.. Doerfer was
again called before the subcom-
mittee. He admitted that he had
flown to Florida in the private
PAoAAC Va a DLOouCdSOCI dIlu IldQ
spent six nights on the yacht of
the man who owns 13 radio and
TV stations under FEC jurisdic-
ton.
In his testimony, the FEC
chairman insisted he had done
nothing wrong and asserted with
firmness that my right to pick my
friends and my social activities
are as free as a judges"
Whether the Republicans were
worried about another election
year scandal, such as the 1858
one involving Sherman Adams,
the Presidents key White House
aide. one thing is certain: Mr..
Eisenhower moved fast. Mr.. Doer-
fer called at the White House on
Wednesday and less than "a hours
later. he submitted his resigna-
ton. Mr.. Eisenhower. in an ex-
change of letters, told the chair
man he thought his decision was
a wise one" (See Story on Gov
ernment Employees Ethics on
Page C-3)
Evening star., 1960-03-13
Move Premature

Both Mr.. johnson and Senator
Everett Dirksen, the Republican
leader. told the liberals that a
move for cloture at this time was
premature. They advised them
that the necessary two-thirds of
those Senators present and voting
could not now be obtained.
Nevertheless, the liberals, for
their own good reasons, insisted
OF going ahead. This did not sur
prise Mr.. Johnson and he was
ready for it.
The test came on Thursday be-
fore a standing-room-only gallery.
The drama was played out but,
like a poorly written mystery, it
contained no suspense. Mr.. john
son, the most skillful nose-counter
in modern Senate history. told
the cloturistS they would not get
the necessary two-thirds vote and
would even fall short of a simple
majority.
Mr.. johnson was right. The
effort to end the fllibuster was
defeated, AZ to SO. The vote tor
pedoed the liberals argument that
archaic Senate rules were pre-
venting majority Of the Senate
from acting. Contrariwise, it
showed that the majority was not
ready to end the debate.
When the Senate followed up
% by rejecting a liberal amend
ment to give the Attorney General
wider authority to force integra-
ton in schools, eating places and
other areas, and % by reducing
penalties for obstructing court
orders on school integration. it
appeared as though the stage
were being set for the upper
chamber to continue its debate
until the House passed, as is
expected, a more moderate meas
ure.
But late Friday something hap
pened in the Senate and the
eventual repercussions presently
defy any confident predictions.
In a vote which saw liberals
joining Southerners, the Senate,
49 to 35, turned the administra-
tions seven-point rights plan into
a siX-pointer.
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around July could come without
any bill being sent to the White
House.
On the other hand. il the House
follows suit and knocks out Sec
ton /, the chances are brighter
that the Senate will accept the
House measure, provided no new
stringent amendments are at
tached-save the expected one
calling for Federal voting REF
erees."
The votes last week can only be
regarded as victories for the
Southerners, rearguard ones to be
sure, but victories nonetheleSS.
The present situation in Congress.
where they can contemplate the
above mentioned alternative pros
poets, should not be at all unpleas-
ant to them. And their bag Of
tactical tricks is far from eX-
hausted.
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Stevenson Role

While Adlai Stevenson remains
on an extended educational holi-
day in South America, far from
the thoughts of the electorate,
and Senators Lyndon johnson and
Stuart Symington plot and plan
as "unavowed" candidates, the
New Hampshire reinforced fact
remains: Mr.. Kennedy will be the
man to beat when the Democratic
balloting begins in Los Angeles
some time after July II.
Although Gov. Nelson A. Rookie
feller's unenthusiastic attitude to-
ward Mr.. Nixon may hurt the Re-
publicans in their bid to carry
New York State for the fourth
consecutive time in a presidential
contest, the Democrats have been
having trouble of their own in
New York City, their No. store
house of votes.
The administration of Mayor
Wagner has been stung with sew
eral recent scandals. including
the one involving Hulan Jack. A
new scandal involving another
politician, Adam Clayton Powell.
Congressman and minister is
rocking the party.
Mr.. Powell is now on trial ac-
cused by the Federal Govern
ment as a tax cheat. Example of
the charges: He and his wife.
Pianist Hazel Scott, jointly
crossed 100000 in 1852 and Mr..
Powell listed Joint tax liability
of $700. In 1851, when Mrs. Scott
earned $4,000, he made out her
return so that she paid only $500.
Evening star., 1960-03-13
Defense Opposed

The Defense Department, per-
sonified by the huge bulk of the
Pentagon. and the Atomic Energy
Commission, still committed in
spirit to the views of former
Chairman Lewis Strauss rather
than those of former Chairman
David Lilienthal. are resisting
with every means at their COM
mand the trends toward disarma-
ment, an end to nuclear weapons
tests, and a moratorium in the
cold war.
But the State Department.. per-
haps with "a split personality,
takes cautiously optimistic
view. There are many top United
States diplomats who really be-
lieve that the interests of the
Soviet Union make Moscow's pro-
nouncements on peace and dis
armament wholly sincere and de-
pendable. But there are not, as
yet. many who would agree to be
quoted.
The unity" proclaimed at Paris
on Thursday revealed no details.
But in outline, the Vests position
at the opening of the summit
talks will be to propose that %
Disarmament be achieved in
phases. ca That, first, a thorough
study be made of all conceivable
problems. 80 A very gradual,
fully controlled reduction of both
conventional and nuclear weapons
begin, followed by-(4 A fully
controlled, inspected and intricate
timetable for ending the manu-
facture of nuclear weapons, re-
ducing military establishments,
and finally eliminating altogether
all nuclear armamentS.
AS an initial proposal, the West
has agreed to suggest a limit Of
81 million in military manpower
for both the United States and
the Soviet Union. This ceiling,
100000 lower than the figure pro-
posed at London in 1857, would
be in effect in the second stage
of the phased program espoused
by the West.
In the third stage, further re-
ductionS would be made until the
armed forces of both nations were
no more than required for
purposes of internal security. The
West will insist that the obliga-
tions of members under the
United Nations Charter require
troops in-being until an interna-
tional police force can take over.
The American delegation at the
Geneva conference will be headed
by Frederick M. Eaton, a member
of the New York law firm of Sher-
man. Sterling & Wright. He
will have the rank of Ambassador
with deputy, IS advisers on tech
nical matters representing the
State and Defense Departments,
and secretarial staff.
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Self Interests

Mr.. Litvinov, adept at the
pertinent phrase in almost any
language, was said to have re-
marked at Geneva that every ma
ton truly wanted disarmament,
"but each wishes the divesting of
arms to begin with whatever
weapons its potential adversaries
possess in the most impressive
quantity" If Nation A, for exam
pie, boasted a huge land army. and
Nation B a powerful navy, then
Nation A sought to have disarma-
ment begin with ships-and vice
versa.
Perhaps the ghost of gentle old
Litvinov, a Foreign Minister who
was jettisoned every time Com
rade Stain decided to get tough"
with the West, will yet dominate
the 1860 Geneva meeting which
will begin Tuesday. Perhaps the
radical shift in the balance of the
worlds military power will have
more effect than the good wishes
Of the conferees, the particular in
terests of the blocs involved. or
even the stark realities, known to
all but apparently appreciated by
few, of the inevitable results of
a world nuclear holocaust.
Last week the Western nations
to be represented at the Geneva
meeting announced from Paris
that they have agreed on a single,
unified disarmament plan with
which to counter the Soviet bloc's
proposals. Informal talks have
been going on between the spokes-
men for the United States, Brit
ain. France. Canada and Italy for
some weeks, beginning in Wash
ington and concluding in Paris
last Thursday.
But the degree of unity actually
achieved must remain to be seen
at the conference table. The diff
ferences between the allies were
formidable. and based as they
were on considerations Of ma
tional security, 1t was extremely
unlikely that many of them were
resolved in so relatively short a
time as the meetings have pro-
vided.
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Controls Later

The Soviet Union has made its
position quite clear in the months
since Mr.. KhrushcheY addressed
the U. N. Consistent with past
policy, the Russians have insisted
that disarmament come first and
controls later. They charge that
Western preoccupation with the
subject of controls is only a pre-
text to stall actual cuts in arma-
ments.
Talking to San Francisco's
Mayor George Christopher in
Moscow last Tuesday, Mr.. Khru-
shchev declared that the Soviet
Union was ready to enter q
worldwide pact to destroy all
nuclear weapons under proper
surveillance" And he assured
Mr.. Christopher-who was his
host at San Francisco last Sep
Continued on Page CA
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A Real Achievement

On Friday. this stand was but
tressed by a rather noteworthy
achievement of our own. The Ma.
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration's space team sent a
95-pound sphere packed with SCI
entif1c instruments on its way
toward an orbit of the sun, an
orbit between those of the earth
and Venus.
The satellite. called Pioneer v,
thus will join the Russian Mechta
and Pioneer w as artificial PLAN
cts. But unlike its predecessors,
both of which are now silent,
Pioneer v will have a real voice"
a l50-watt radio capable of send
ing back information from a rec
ord so million miles and more
from earth.
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Toward Space Travel

Pioneer v may help answer fun
damental questions regarding the
role the sun plays in our lives. 1t
should provide information Of
value in readying ourselves for
interplanetary space travel.
The satellite, carried aloft by
Thor-Able rocket. won't reach
an orbit around the sun for five
months. 1t is only ON the first leg
of its 5l5-million-mile orbital trip.
But, on the basis Of its be-
havior and achievements to this
hour, Americans may take quiet
pride in this feat of her harried
space scientists. Perhaps the next
time the Soviet Union scores one
of its spectacular" we should re-
fleet on Pioneer V with the conf
dence that the United States will
be able to do as much and more
in the days ahead.