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Evening star., 1960-03-07
Decision Not to Enter in California
Seen Covering Extent of Bluff in Race

the nomination via the presi-
Dental primaries and nov he
is skipping the only one
where the favorite-son Gov
ernor refused to yield and
which is genuinely critical in
any presidential year-espe-
cially this one.
Compared to the California
stakes, the prizes to be won
in New Hampshire, Nebraska,
Oregon and the much-adv-
ertised Wisconsin primary
are relatively unimportant.
1t is not only a question Of
number Of delegates. The
presidential elections Of to-
day are won and lost in the
big States, of which Cali
1ornla Is about TO become
the biggest.
Ohio is not pertinent this
year because Gov. Disable
let Kennedy twist his arm,
as did Gov. Tawes of Mary
land.
No prizes for political
sagacity and tactical skill
should be withheld from the
young Senator from Massa-
chusetts for the manner in
which he has parlayed his
assets into a formidable
presidential bid. The remark
able thing is that so few peo-
pie seem to have noticed how
he has done it.
He has used his status as
a member of a minority to
demand and get the ultimate
in sportsmanship from the
Evening star., 1960-03-07
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEI

Khrushchev returns to Moscow after tour of Asia He's
proud to communism is spreading fast Russian feels
right at home doing without things almost anywhere
Wealthy fat buy seats at the Democratic
convention Democrats have faith in the man and
think it's time he learned to stand his feet.
Senator Symington he views the White with
increasing interest" Any Senator these DAYS At
least a man can get decent nights sleep there
House proberS call Dick Clark teen-agers idol in
the payola scandal It's bum rap can swear no song
his show ever diluted by music
Spring training: A phase of baseball the Southern
States in which each allowed three holdouts to
the inning.
Ike is hoarse He he left his in South America
The Latin Americans ruefuly eyeng the u Treasury say
that's about the only thing he left there.
Senator Fubrght says Harry Truman called him an
"overeducated snob Democrats hold it's unsportsmanlke
to reveal thing like hat-until publisher pays him
$4,000 for memoirs.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
DAVID LAWRENCE
Can Kennedy Be Stopped?

dent is up for reelection
there is little preconvention
activity, most of the time the
candidate who wins the NOM
ination is one whose friends
have spent the money or
taken the time to line up
delegates in the preconven-
ton campaign.
Right now, therefore - in
the next Az months-it may
be said that the presidential
contest on the Democratic
side is being decided. At the
moment Senator Kennedy is
way ahead. He has the
organization, the strategy,
the financing and the back
ing of a substantial number
of professional politicians.
The question now is not so
much whether he will win,
but how is he going to be
blocked-if, indeed, it isn't
too late for anyone to ac-
complish that purpose.
Should the stop Ken
nedy" movement be success
full and the delegates turn
toward a compromise" the
best bet is still Adlai Steven
son. While it is being said
that he was beaten twice, it
is also being emphasized that
he would run against Nixon
this time-not against Eisen-
hover. Also, though losing in
1852, Stevenson got more
votes than any successful
Democratic candidate in his
tory except one, and more
than any Republican winner
up to that time. He is truly
the second choice today Of
many of the professional
politicians who worked with
him in two campaigns.
He, therefore, has a head
start on Senator Symington.
The Missouri Senator
doesn't have the organiza-
ton strength that Steven
son has and isn't as well
known at the grass roots"
level among the local poll
ticians as is the man who
has twice campaigned ac-
lively in most of the States
of the Union.
To sum up, this writer be-
lieves that Senator Kennedy
is well out in front today
and is likely to win the
nomination and that, If the
Massachusetts Senator is
blocked, the compromise"
candidate will be Adlai
Stevenson.
(copyright, 196O
Evening star., 1960-03-07
DORIS FLEEsON

Senator John F. Kennedy's
decision not to enter the Cali
fornia primary has effectively
prevented his party and the
country from discovering just
how large an element of bluff
there is in his campaign for
the presidency.
He no doubt made it for
precisely that reason. His
staff is telling it differently.
They say that two-thirds of
the delegation selected in a
caucus of the. State leaders
are for Kennedy and will de-
feet to him promptly after a
complimentary ballot for
Gov. Brown.
This may or may not be so.
State leaders of proved acu-
men think 1t is not so. They
suggest that he may have
more devoted followers in the
slate than any one other can
didate, but they recall the
famous intricacies of Cali
fornia politics as we'll. Some
think he would be stronger
in a primary than in delega-
ton maneuvering.
The point is that nobody
knows. The Kennedy spokes-
men talk of polls, but he has
paid for those himself. There
is, of course, no limit in a
claiming race, and no penal
ties attach to political i'm
modesty.
Certain hard facts remain.
The Senator from Massachu-
sets has been driving toward
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Heats on Log Cabin Tradition

right out in public and say
that he is quite happy to be
rich.
Without violating any con-
fidence, however, this COR
respondent can report the
following: A certain candi-
date whose initials are JFK
is not worried about the
Humphrey charge.
This JFK figures that peo-
pie no longer automatically
dislike a man who happens
to have a good deal of the
folding stuff. Indeed, it is
possible that this JFK-not
to mention a man initiated
LBJ and another initiated
SS-may actually feel that
voters like to see a fellow who
has got it made financially.
For eight decades the
Republican Party was in
evitably reckoned to be "the
party of the rich" The
ironical truth now is that
this party's next presidential
nominee, Vice President
Nixon, is probably the least
rich man in the race. Ger
tainly he is so but for the
possible exception of Hum
phrey.
Thus passes one of our
small and cherished pre-
judices. Why has it gone?
Perhaps it is because nearly
everybody has more money
than nearly everybody used
to have. But perhaps, even
better, it is because we have
grown up a bit and so
decided that competence for
public Office is not related to
whether or not a man is
given the "a" treatment at
the bank.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
RALPH McGILL
Faubus Buttons Sign of Sprinq

Senate organizations, even
though the heart OF the
plan is, in effect, to bolt
and oppose the national
party, and yet allow the
Senators or Representatives
to say it was an action by
individual electors and not
the party committee. This
would leave them, the plans
supporters insist, technically
outside any party discipline.
This, then. is the plan.
And 1t explains why there
is no talk in the Deep South
Of boiling the convention or
forming a third party.
But best-laid plans, as
poets and philosophers re-
mind us, sometimes come
upon evil days. There is. for
example, Mr.. Paul Butler,
the national chairman of
the Democratic Party. Deep
South party leaders do not
like Mr.. Butler. Nor is there
anything of the DR.. Fell
rhyme about it. They know
why.
Mr.. Butler has kicked
them where it hurts. Not
once, but often. They think
Mr.. Butler could play Dra-
cula without makeup.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Butler
laid down a rule that States
which had not paid their
quota to the treasurer would
be issued no seats, save for
the delegates. He also init
mated challenges If dele
gates were unprepared to
support the nominee.
This could bring on a
heavy smog and all sorts of
tantrums. But no third
party. Those who do quit the
party will do so indirectly,
through the elector plot.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
3WeoIthy Candidates Seem Unworried
By OId-time Emphasis on Poverty

Sented as a man whose real
roots were back in West
Branch, Iowa.
And Wendell Willkie,
a cosmopolitan corporation
lawyer, turned out to be
basically just a boy from
somewhere near the banks
of the Wabash in Elwood,
Ind. Harry Truman was a
country boy from Independ-
ence, Mo.-not from wicked
Kansas City. Dwight Eisen-
hover was really from the
dusty frontier town of Abb
lene, Kan. And so on.
Now, however, to be
openly, unashamedly and
even enjoyably rich is by
no means an inevitable
handicap. Three of the
four present major Demo-
cratic presidential possibili-
tieS-Senators John F. Ken
nedy of Massachusetts,, Lyn-
don B. johnson of Texas and
Stuart Symington of Mis-
Souri-don't have to worry
where the next hundred
thousand dollars is coming
from.
They are all millionaires,
or so close to it as to make
no difference. The fourth
Democratic challenger, Sem
ator Hubert H. Humphrey of
Minnes sofa, is relatively
poor" And he is deter
minedly presenting himself
as "the poor mans candi-
date" Even Humphrey, how
ever, is not exactly required
to ride the streetcarS. He
goes about in a Cadillac
when he chooses.
MoreoVer-and this is the
main point-the Humphrey
attack on the man he has
picked to be "the rich-man
candidate" Kennedy, is not
producing much return. All
old fears die hard. So nat
urally nobody running for
President is eager to come
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Light Flash to Be Sole
Alarm of NucIeor BIost

and heaquarters of the North
American Air Defense Com
mand at Colorado Springs.
Brig. Gen. j. B. Bestic. dep
uty for Air Force communica-
tions and electronicS, disclosed
details of the atomic strike
recording system" in testimony
to a House Military Appropria-
tions Subcommittee. A tran
script Of his testimony was
made public last night by the
House committee. Further de-
tails came from other sources.
Gen. Bestic said it will cost
a bout So million yearly to
operate the network. Com
munications wires will be leased
Work on the system started
last May.
Its chief value will be to tell
Evening star., 1960-03-07

ment to abandon further
strategy involving a walk
out, or bolt. 1t had become
apparent such tactics almost
surely would lead to the Of
Tending States Senators and
Representatives losing their
committee chairmanships
and seniority.
So it is that today we
frequently hear the deeply
agitated State political
leaders in the Deep South
proclaim they will not bolt
and are not interested in a
third party.
They mean it. But they do
not mean by this that they
will support the nominee.
South Carolina is the source
Of the greatest urging for
the new device, that of un-
pledged electors on the
State ballot. In other words,
the people would be left
without any way to vote for
electors pledged to the
Democratic Party nominees.
This is politically immoral.
1t is destructive of the O.
party system. But it can be
done unless testing injunc-
tions are sought under the
18th Amendment.
An effort now is being
made by the hard-core Deep
South leadership to create
a bloc of as many States as
possible.
If the Democrats should
elect a President. the States
which had withheld electors
might still see their con-
gressional delegations ex-
cluded from the House and
Evening star., 1960-03-07
DORIS FLEESON
Kennedy WithhoIds Hole Card

opposition. The tiny bloc Of
Southerners who are wear
ing away the health Of their
colleagues in the civil rights
f1libuster perfected this tactic
long ago; perhaps they help
ed teach it to Kennedy.
Nor do any political OBJ
servers attach anything like
the Importance to presiden-
tial primaries that Kennedy
has insisted they possess.
The politicians hate and de-
plore them; observers have
noted that historically pri-
maries have been relatively
meaningless in the nomina-
tion and election of Presi-
dents. California today seems
an exception for special rea-
sons.
Indeed it appeared in 1852
and 1856 that Senator Ke-
fauver had MIXED the last
drop Of profit from the pri-
mary system. 1t has been
widely noted that Wisconsin,
whence the news dispatches
fall thick and fast these
days. never has chosen in its
primary the successful can
didate for President.
Perhaps Kennedy's ability
to make the American poll
tical system work toward the
ends he seeks is one of the
best arguments for his capa-
city to be President. He has
done nothing illegal or i'm
moral, and certainly nothing
fattening, as he traipses the
primary circuit. He may sue
ceed. But he has never yet
had to show, his hole card
amid all his propaganda on
the way to the Los Angeles
summit.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
RALPH McGILL
But Hord-Core South Is Seen Fovorinq
Unpledged Electors Over Third Party

In a presidential election
year a surer sign Of spring
than the lrst robin is the
early appearance of cam
paign buttons. The first to
attain any general circula-
ton in 1860 is Of a true-blue
color and bears the likeness
Of the true gray Confederate
gray, that Isl man whose
candidacy they support
"Faubus for President"
This may become a popular
button, because even those
who do not admire Gov. Fau-
bus of Arkansas regard him
as the ideal man to lead the
third party bolt or rump
caucus Of withdrawing
Democrats, either before or
after the Los Angeles con-
vention. Indeed, the con-
sensus is, IF there just must
be a third party, then by all
means let US hope Orval leads
It,"
Gov. Faubus, whose ad-
mirers are sending out the
buttons, likely will seek a
fourth term as Governor. But
a third party almost certainly
would find him available for
the higher honor.
There is but small chance
Of a third party. Indeed,
none is planned. Nor is a
walkout presently in thu
blueprint Of those Deep
South Governors and State
Democratic chairmen.
But 1t would be an error
to conclude this means they
will support the party nomi-
nee. After the 1855 conven-
ton there was general agree
Evening star., 1960-03-07
Possibility Discounted, but Stevenson
Is Viewed as Man to End Deadlock

haps 500 delegates, but say
he will fall short of the 761
needed for a majority.
So there is, as usual, talk
of a compromise" candidate.
This time the two names most
frequently mentioned for the
compromise" are Senator
Stuart Symington of Missouri
and former Gov. Adlai Ste
venson of Illinois. The as
sumption is that either might
be chosen if a deadlock occurs.
But who is to bring about
the deadlock? while Sem
ator Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota and Senator Lyn-
don johnson of Texas to-
gether have substantial
strength. it is difficult at this
writing to see how the COM
bination of these two candi-
dates can be enough to roll
up the 761 votes needed to
keep the nomination away
from the Massachusetts, Sen
ator.
That's why talk of COM
promise" candidates seems a
little premature. Indeed, in
recent weeks there has been
a tendency in some quarters
to write off Adlai Stevenson
altogether, and some Of his
admirers have begun to get
behind other candidates.
This doesn't mean, how
ever, that they wouldn't re-
turn to Stevenson If there's a
deadlock. Actually those who
would like to see Stevenson
nominated would prefer at
this stage of the game to have
all the flrst-choice votes al
located publicly to other can
didates so that, if a dead
lock occurs, there will be free
dom from entanglements and
a readiness on the part of the
minority blocs to swing to the
man who was the nominee of
the party in 1852 and 1856
1t takes lots of money and
lots of organization strength
to win any presidential NOM
ination unless there is a real
deadlock, when a compromise
candidate can cash in on the
work already done by the
other candidates.
AS this writer looks back
on the IL presidential cam
paigns he has covered. it can
be observed that. while in
some instances when a Presi-
Evening star., 1960-03-07

Lots Of people think the
Democratic National Conven-
ton will start in July-but
actually it's going on now.
The lining up of delegations
is invisible to the naked eye
as leader after leader makes
promises that on such and
such a ballot he will transfer
his support to another can
didate.
Today, on the basis of
precedent, it looks as though
Senator John Kennedy is well
on the way to getting the
nomination. His strength, of
course, is often discounted,
mostly by those who favor
other candidates.
The situation very much
resembles the contest for the
Republican nomination that
Herbert Hoover won in 1928.
Almost everybody at the time
thought that Mr.. Hoover had
substantial strength, but the
professionals in the political
ranks didn't think he could
get anything like a majority
of the delegates. In fact,
leaders of the big organiza-
tionS in the East who had
dominated the 1920 and 1924
Republican conventions made
their plans on the theory that
someone who hadn't been as
prominent in the public eye
as Mr.. Hoover could easily
take the prize at the 1928
convention.
But the day the conclave
opened at Kansas City the
professionals got a shock
They learned that the Hoover
forces really had lined up a
majority of delegates, and it
took only a single ballot to
assure selection of a man
who had never before held
elective office. His service,
however. as Secretary of
Commerce for eight years
under Republican admins
trations and for two years as
Food Administrator under a
Democratic administration
had made him widely known.
Today Senator Kennedy
appears to have more behind
the-scenes strength in politics
than he is generally credited
with having by his opponents.
They concede he will get per-
Evening star., 1960-03-07
BY the Associated Press

The binding flash Of light
that flares from nuclear blast
will be the only trigger for an
automatic bomb alarm system
being installed throughout the
United States.
The first alarm stations will
be operating in two or three
weeks, it was disclosed over the
week end. The national sys-
tenn will be completed in a few
months.
In the monentary interval be-
tween any nuclear bomb burst
and the pulverizing blow of
the following shock wave. the
system will let the Nations
high command know which
areas have been hit If there
ever should be a nuclear at
tack.
The automatic relay will re-
port only nuclear hits. 1t will
not give advance warnings OF
an attack. as other systems
are designed to do.
100 Stations Planned
The first Of more than 100
"sensor" stations already are
being installed by the Air
Force. The stations will be
linked by wire communications
to six major centers.
Information from the sys-
tenn will feed into centers at
the White House, the Joint
Chiefs Of Staff war room in
the Pentagon. the alternate
command center buried under
ground near Fort Ritchie, Md.
the Air Force command post
in the Pentagon. Strategic Air
c ON m a n d headquarters a
Offutt Air Force Base. Omaha.
Evening star., 1960-03-07
WILLIAM S. WHITE

An extraordinary change
in our political folklore is
unfolding as genuine sim
mers of heat now begin to
rise from the preconvention
presidential campaign.
A tradition which long
since had been teetering now
seems to be falling right to
the ground. This is the no.
ton that the log cabin, or
its equivalent, is really the
most desirable scene of birth
for a candidate.
Though of course there
were occasional exceptions,
the poor-man mystique used
to be almost a religion. It
was generally felt that any
presidential candidate who
was noticeably rich started
under automatic handicap.
If your party simply had
to pick an obviously we'll
heeled fellow, the least you
could do was to play down
this inconvenient fact. You
would dig frantically for evi-
dence that he. had come up
the hard way in some senses,
anyhow. If as a boy he had
not walked three miles in
the snow to school, perhaps
it could be shown that when
he went to college he was pro-
perly scornful of fraternity
dances and all other such
frivolities.
And if your man was a
world sophisticate, you
pointed out that at any rate
he had a good. sound rural
background. Thus Herbert
Hoover, to whom the wide
earth was familiar, was pre-
, 1960-09-09
Students Of CHS.
Collecting Funds for
Anguillu Children

AS a neighborly gesture to
the hurricane stricken island
of Anguilla, the student body
and faculty Of the Christian
sted High School established
on September 7th the Chris
tiansted High School Hurri-
cane Disaster Fund.
Hope has been expressed by
/ h E group that 2 stable
amount Of money will be do
mated so that the High School
Of Christiansted, st. Croix,
can make its contribution to
the school children Of An
guilla. To this end, a goal OF
500 has been set, and the
operation is under the direc-
ton of the Student Council
and its project advisers, Aus
tin de Chabert and Miss Jane
Pumps.
Parents are asked to give
their children an extra coin OF
two toward fulfIIment Of the
schools goal.
, 1960-09-09
Vicorp Truck Collides
With Car: Both
Vehicles Dumoged

On Tuesday night, Septem-
Der s, a truck belonging to the
Vicorp, No. 2935, operated by
Misrael MARTINEZ GARLIC, ac-
cording to the Police report,
failed to stop before entering
the main road and collided
with a SINCE car No. 1913,
driven by George Thomas,
travelling east.
The two front tenders, hood,
radiator, fan and headlights Of
the Since were damaged The
front bumper and right fend-
er Of the truck were damaged.
Police charged GARLIC with
careless driving.
, 1960-09-09

ton School, Fort Eustis, Va,
which recently received its
third consecutive quarterly
safety plaque for maintaining
an accident free operation
record
Maynard entered the Army
in 1914 and was last stationed
1T Fort Lee, Virginia.
He is a 1888 graduate d
Frederiksted High School.
, 1960-09-09
Registration Todoy 6
Tmorrow for Pructicul
Nurse Education

The Department of Educa-
ton is holding preliminary re-
gistration for a one year
course in Practical Nurse Edu-
cation to be conducted in ST.
Thomas. T no $ E interested
should apply during the hours
of 9 am. to 1900 noon and
100 to 4:30 pm. today and to-
morrow at the Department OF
Education Office in St. Tho
mas, according to a press re-
lease signed by DR.. Andrew G.
Preston, Commissioner Of Edu-
cation.
Applicants must be at least
seventeen years Of age.
, 1960-09-09
Col. Carl Moynord
With Student Enlisted
Company in Virginid

Army Cpl Carl E. Maynard,
son Of Mrs. Lillian Maynard
Of Frederiksted, is a member
Of the Sd Student ENLISTED
Company at The Transports
, 1960-09-09
Musiciun Suffers
Serious Injury In
Automobile Accident
Virgin Islunds CPAs
Elect New Officers;
Cissel is President
Administrator for
ST. Kits Respond to
Inquiry Of Governor

In response to GoWTnorI The Virgin Islands Society AIphoMo Ihomas koV
MerUns inquiry, the Admin CT Certified Public Account afecionatey as Skpo, "
israor for ST. Kits has ad- ants held its annual meeting seriously injured or Wedn
Ised that tn immediate in St Thomas on Tuesday, day night when his Hubs
needs of the people Of An August 81, last The following Rambler 81 travelling ca
gula are food, clothing and officers were elected to serve an into the back OF an mt
cooking utensils during the fiscal year ending national truck, belonging
Te Governor. according to.August 81, 1851. Norman r. the Virgin Islands Copo1
j press release issued BY the Cs@l,p president Helm Chris tn operated by Esedro Fe
Hon. Ava G McFahanes Ad- Jensen vice PRESIDENT Ezra A Ortiz
Assistant is high Gomez, secetaryreasurer d.
IL annrecEddve Of the tremenI Victor Bonn and PERCY de- According to the Police
response shown by the Jongh were elected to serve port the truck was parked
people of the Virgin Islands q with the officers as the Execu the Center Line due to engl
the Red Cross appeaNfor as tive Committee trouble. Both head and II
md desires to convey rbas unra hurnno uhea =
sthanks to- the enre com -. $50 pI s 49, -.naa $3.50 80
mumty. - $3.50 ts , ,.
, 1960-09-09
Insulur Republican
In Convention Tonight
Ia Select Candidates.
Republican Organiza-

The Republican Organiza-
ton Of the Virgin Islands will
hold a convention tonight at
o'clock in the Police Court
room in Christiansted to pass
on the nomination Of candi-
dates who will be running for
seats in the Virgin Islands Lee
gislature in November
Prior to the meeting the
ST. Croix Republican Club
will entertain the St. Thomas
delegation at a reception to be
held at the Mahogany Inn in
Christiansted from $50 tc
$50 o'clock.