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DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
o ST. CROIX


This article which concerns the
Virgin Islands Corporation. will
be published in three install
ments. bkcause Of its length. Il
carries excerpts from the Con-
q-ressional Record and a sugges-
ton by William H. ThaYer. retired
architect and one of ST. Croix'
distinguished citizens.
The following paragraphs are
extracts from the Ninth Report
by the Committee on Govern
ment Operations = Operations of
the Virgin Islands Government
and the Virgin Islands Corpora
ton Union Calendar No. $40,
House Reports No. $40, 85th Con-
gress, 1st Session. Dated July 22,
1857.
ITO bring relief to a destitute
population, the Federal Govern
ment in 1894 established a Pub
lie Works Administration project,
on the island of st. Croix. This
project, incorporated as the Vlr-
gin Islands Company, acquired
and operated the sugarcane and
raw sugar properties formerly
owned by the west ldiiaI sugar
Factory, Ltd. During every year
but one prior to 1943, the Virgin
Islands Company sustained losses
but none amounted to as much
as 500, 900. Profits, principally
from the manufacture and sale OF
rum during the war were sutflc1-
ent to offset earlier losses and to
provide a surplus. Beginning IN
1916, the company began to incur
losses which increased to the
point that they average over hall
a million dollars annually during
the the 4-year period, July 1850
to June 1854. Since then, losses
have grown smaller. A program
of expanding sugar production
was initiated in 1949 about the
time that the rum distillery was
sold and the Company was reor-
ganized as the Virgin Islands Cor
poration and granted additional
capital. Shortly thereafter. the
Federal Government also under
took an extensive public works
construction program on St.
Croix. AS this program tapered
off in the last two or three years,
it has been supplanted by pri-
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vate construction of homes and re-
sorts. During the last 5 years,
labor has become so scarce that
large numbers of British West
Indians have been brought into
the island to cut the cane. Thus,
an enterprise established to pro-
vide employment for the natives
of st. Croix finds itself in the odd
position of importing workers to
harvest a crop which is still be-
ing processed and marketed at a
loss, although there is now rea-
son to believe that the enterprise
can be made self-sustaining.
'In recent years the VICORP
has been having increased diff
culties in obtaining labor to har-
vest its sugarcane and has had
to import laborers from islands
under foreign Jurisdiction for the
harvest. DR.. Bartlett testified that
the private cane growers also
have to import laborers.
Governor Gordon testified that
one of the reasons that in
dustrial DEVELOPMENT in the is
land has Jagged is due to a con-
tinuing shortage of labor. It
would seem, therefore, that, as a
relief project, a Government
owned sugar operation has served
its need.
In the face of the present situa-
ton and prospects, it is recon-
mended that
/. The three crop years 1857 tc
1859 inclusive be regarded as the
test period to determine whether
the sugar enterprise actually can
be made self-sustaining.
srThe committee believes that
the next 3 to 5 years should be
regarded as a period for testing
the economic soundness of VI
CORPS sugar operations and
that the Corporation should be
continued in Government owner
ship during that time. AT the end
of S years at the most Congress
should study the results with a
view to disposing of the sugar
industry to private industry or to
Territorial government if it shows
a profit and if reasonable safe
guads can be agreed upon to pro-
tect the island economy, or with
a view to setting up a program
for the discontinuance of the
operation and disposing of its as
sets, if it continues to be unpro-
itable. In the latter case, Of
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course, the program will have to
be designed to permit the Saint
Croix farmers to replace sugar
cane with other crops which can
be marketed for cash. In any
event, VICORP should act vi
gorously to assist the local farm
ers in setting up marketing or
CARNATIONS to handle other crops
and to encourage Investigation
The tourist industry of the Vir-
gin Islan6E is expanding rapidly
"a 25-percent increase in tourism
was reported for the 1956-l957
winter season. There r also in
creasing numbers of persons tax
ing up residence in the islands.
These factors, along with the IN
creased prosperity which they
should bring to the population OF
the islands, will increase the de-
mand for food. Local farmers
should be encouraged to supply
this demand to the extent FEAST
BILE and not to lose this market to
the mainland a n d to other
islands.
I'm his report to the subcom-
mittee, Mr.. Tom O.. Murphy re-
commended that VICORP initi-
ate a program aimed at the de-
ve1opment of the production and
marketing of short season crops
on a commercial scale. To sup
port this recommendation, he
stated:
During the last 8 years, while
the Corporation has been endea-
voring to improve operations re-
lated to its major activity, the
production of sugarcane and
sugar, little attention has been
devoted to the development of
short-season crops for the local,
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House for Sale
at I'll EAST STREET

as is and where is. Asking
price SIS. and to be removed
by purchased:
A L 12lJ : Fsted
Norman Bailey
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FRID MIG

A treat for the Tourist.
ST. Crooks only Scratch Band "The Happy Quartet playing
and singing the old and new songs of the Islands. Wonder
full old calypso songs played and sung as they were many
years ago.
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NO oU1BBLINc OR oUABBLING

at TREASURE HOUSE. If you purchase the wrong size
we gladly exchange, If your purchase doesn't give complete
satisfaction we refund your money,
Were pretty safe on that last one). Seven years of opera
ton have produced only five items for refund.
First Quality Goods Only Reasonable Prices
TREASURE HOUSE chrisfansfed
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S U N D MIG

A treat for Everyone.
The Famous Fantahulous Invaders Steel Band
Playing for your listening and dancing pleasure from s PM.
Dinner as usual on Sunday Night $780,. $l75
Sandwiches and Coffee served every night after 6 PM.
The Management
The Tcsvne-Fouse Bar & Restaurant
SO Queen Street Christiansted
Evening star., 1960-03-21

sessions last month at Miami
Beach, Fla.
Mr.. Schoemann has been a
member of the IUD Executive
Committee as well as a leading
spokesman for unions in the
AFL-CIO's separate Building
Trades Department. After an
IUD executive committee meet
ing at Miami Beach, he was
asked to leave so remaining
IUD leaders could discuss
strategy in the IUD's running
controversy C with Building
Trades Unions.
"Affront" Noted
Mr.. Schoemann left, but
made it clear afterward he
considered himself affronted.
In a letter to IUD Secretary
Treasurer James B. Carey. Mr..
Schoemann said the Plumbers
Pipefltters Union is ending its
afhliation with the IUD effec-
tive March 81.
I'VE wish to embarrass no
one," Mr.. Schoemann wrote.
1--WE desire only to avoid any
recurrence of this unfortunate
affair so that in the future If
the departments executive COM
mittee desires. for example, to
discuss matters involving the
building trades, as the commit
tee undoubtedly will, then they
may do so more freely without
the embarrassment Of my pres
ence or the need to ask me to
leave"
In this way we will, I hope,
contribute to creating a cli-
mate in which true unity with
in the labor movement may be
fully achieved and preserved" :"
Other major building trades
unions which have previously
quit the IUD include the Car
Ipenters, Iron Workers, Sheet
Metal Workers and Operating
Engineers. Several building
trades. including the Electri-
cal Workers Brotherhood, the
adopted arbitration, or deci-
sion by an outside neutral, as
the way to resolve jurisdic-
tional disputes. but they have
never perfected a system.
Arrangements have been
Painters and the Boilermakers,
still retain IUD membership.
Basically. the split between
the IUD industrial-type unions
and the building trades craft
Evening star., 1960-03-21

all over the hemisphere. Re-
marks were heard such as:
This shows how we can de-
fend the Panama Canal"
And, THAT should teach Cas-
tro a lesson"
Actually the impressive dem
onstration of Army ability to
Jump into distant battle had
little to do with either the
canal or petulant Caribbean
dictators. 1t was designed to
be a demonstration Of what
the Army and Air Force could
do in small-war operations any,
where on the globe.
What Banyan Tree did dem
onstrate was that the Army's
ready force,n the Strategic
Army Corps (STRAC), indeed
is ready to move from its bases
in the United States on
minutes notice and fight i'm
mediately anywhere in the
world.
Little Equipment
But the exercise also demon
strated that airlifted STRAC
units are too lightly armed to
fight major opponents and that
with available equipment, too
few STRAC fighters would get
to the worlds trouble spots as
fast as the Army Chief of Staff
says is necessary.
During Banyan Tree, one
STRAC battle group (1.300
mem was dropped and landed
after a 2.000-mile flight from
Fort Bragg, N. c. A company
CTS mem of Brazilian para
troopers was dropped after a
flight of more than 600 miles
from its home base. Cargo
planes and fighter-plane cover
for the drop was provided by
the Air Forces Tactical Air
Command (TAC) from Pope
Air Force Base, N. c., and
Homestead, Fla.
The Brazilians 'bailed out
first. almost exactly on schedule
despite their long flight. At
regular intervals the American
soldiers arrived, jumped and
assembled for the attack on the
Evening star., 1960-03-21

unions is an argument over
types of work Jurisdiction
claimed by each side for its own
members. 1t is the same argu-
ment that caused the 1885 split
of labor into the rival AFL and
CIO.
No such split appears i'm
minent now in the recently
merged AFL-CIO, but the
scrapping over jurisdiction goes
on unabated.
Meany Calls Farley
George Meany. AFL CIO
president, has called a secret
strategy session of top AFL-
CIO leaders here Thursday in
another of a long series of
attempts to resolve the issue.
Both sides have more or less
made to hold a special ALL
CIO convention this year in a
workable settlement plan can
be agreed upon by such leaders
as Mr.. Meany, Walter P. Reu-
ther, Mr.. Schoemann and Mr..
Carey. But the leaders them
selves say they are doubtful
one can be achieved.
Right now the federation has
a dispute settlement plan in
which a referee hands down
decisions. Many such decisions
are just simply ignored. The
only enforcement weapon is to
toss a baking union out of
the federation "a step the
AFL-CIO leaders are unwilling
to take.
Evening star., 1960-03-21

Okinawa, and they are con-
sidered by Army leaders to be
small in comparison with the
threat.
Another missing element at
Banyan Tree was atomic pow
er. 1t was useless to work nu-
clear weapons INTO the exer-
else, however, as the maneuver
area available was too small
Whether or not STRAC has
or should have a really effec-
tive nuclear capability is still
being argued among Army
leaders.
So the Army and Air Force
team did show a we'll prepared
ready force" of fighting men.
But no general was willing to
say he had enough.
Evening star., 1960-03-21
LOST

BAssET PUP, white. black and brown,
male; vic. Tilden and Rock Greek
Park; Needs medication. Reward.
EN-. 3-227l.
BLACK CAT, large, about 2 yrs, red
collar. Blair rd. ne. ia. 9-S093 after
BLACK POODLE, female, 3 mos. old;
3-029S: JE 41700
BRACELET, locket with initials DIX,
great sentimental value. Reward. CO.
5-2000, Ext. 70SK.
BRACELET, chased gold band, initials
B.B.P. inside. Reward. EN-. 3-90Sl.
BRIEFCAsE, brown plastic envelope,
upper type; between Chevy Chase
and Georgetown Reward. Call OIL.
CAT. small. black female; vic. Fair
view, Fairfax, Va. Reward. CIR.
3-17Ss
CAT, young, red Persian, male; lost
vics Falls Church, JE. 3-3220.
CHARM BRACELET. gold; Federal Tri-
angle vic, March Is. EN-. 2-9293,
after 9 . m. Reward.
DACHsHUND, black female, lost Sun.
E'chinityy, wisconsin and M st. NV.
DOG. black female, answers to name
'Taffy': vic. Rosemary Hills, Sunday
morning. JU. S-2452.
DOG, German shepherd, black and
tan. Reward. XII. 9-5S31.
EARRING, pear-shaped. emerald and
diamond; reward. TIE. 6-0479.
DIAMOND RING, white gold mounting
wIdiamond set in platinum, French
designed, center "a carat white dia-
reward. T EM. S-o67S oSsi after sG"''Ai $50.
GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPY. 3 mos.
Old: vic. ST. Michaels, Annandale,
Sunday. Reward CL. 6-3526
LADY-Call JU. s-4756 about the
pear ring you found in Meridian
Hotel. Friday. March Is.
PEARLsi Sat, March IL, downtown.
VIC 0i woodward e. Lothrop: senti-
mental value. Reward. HA. 2-7924
PIN, gold and white enamel, with
pearls, buckle shape: bet. Army Navy
Ssqo and statler Hotel. Reward.
SUIT COAT, Raleigh Haberdasher; left
on LIZ bus March IL. Reward Call
OIL. 6-676O, evenings.
WALLET. brown leather. containing
money and Identification cards. VAL
uable 70 owner; in vic. of 18th and
eSes ssh RE- RE- 7fsS6 fsEsFd Ext TE I3os s5SIs ssys
WATCH, with gold bracelet band; vic.
Conn. and Cathedral aves, California
st. and Phelps pl., II found please
pm 2ne DE. 2-4l66 or DU. 7-l234.
WRIST WATCH, lady's, yellow and
white gold. crystal missing vic. 1910
Park rd. NV. Reward. HO. 2-67OI.
Evening star., 1960-03-21
Brush War Readiness
Limited by Equipment
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND
Star STAFF Writer

The cloud of paratroopers dred earth west
of the Panama Canal and quickly settle the
invading troops" who advancing toward the
Among the observers of the mock called Operation
Banyan Tree military and diplomatic representatives
of several Latin American and reporters from
Evening star., 1960-03-21
Plumbers Union Quits
industrial Department
By the Associated Press

The PumbersPipeftters Union today said it is pulling
of the AFLCIO Industrial Union Department The
points up worsenng relations between the federaon craft
and industrial unions.
The step resulted from incident involving Plumbers
Pipeftters President Peter Schoemann at ACIO winter
Evening star., 1960-03-21

This is the second Of two orioles
on this eounty's ability TO fight
smoll war. Mr.. FYklund hos just
returned from observing Iorse-
seole moneuves in Puerto Rico
and Ponomo.
Evening star., 1960-03-21
Sea Travel

Heavy tanks. big guns and
the bigger nuclear missiles
would travel by sea. measuring
their arrival time to Asia, for
instance, in weeks.
One solution to this problem
is to store heavy equipment
overseas in trouble areas. There
are only two such accumula-
tionS now, in Turkey and
Evening star., 1960-03-21

aggressors. The fighter planes
were there on time, too, includ-
ing five each from Peru and
Chile.
OldtimerS among the official
observers said such precision
over such time and distance was
military miracle.
But some elements of limited
war power were missing.
AS in the Puerto Rico games,
the airlift distance was long,
but not as long as may be need
ed. TO fight in Asia or the Mid
die East, the paratroopers would
have needed far more planes,
apd airlift planes are in short
supply.
Also, one battle group is too
small to make an effective
showing during a real limited
war crisis. Gen. Lyman L. Lem
nitzer, Army Chief of Staff, says
he wants to be able to deliver
two battle groups of 5000 men
the first day to a crisis in Eu-
rope and one battle group a day
thereafter until at least 10000
men and their equipment are
fighting.
Or, he says, two divisions
(25,000 to 10000 mem with
light equipment should be de-
liverable to Europe in a month.
The planes to do this do not
exist unless all other air trans
port comes to a virtual stand
still.
The Army does have the
men however. STRAC has three
divisions plus supporting units
ready for this sort of emerg-
ency action.
Another problem: Only the
light tanks, guns and rockets
of the Army can be carried by
air. This would be enough to
defeat a small, poorly equipped
army, but not enough to face
up to a major Communist
force.
Evening star., 1960-03-21

Published Dolly and Sunday
Sseond-eloss Pestoss Paid
at Washington, D. c.
Of 225 Virginia Ave. Sc.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Lutherons Call on u. S.
To Ease immigration

concerned about wholesome in
ternational relations"
Defending a nations right to
guard against IAN unrestricted
food Of immigrants" the state
ment asked that objective
studies be undertaken to de-
termine the number of imml-
grants who can be received and
wholesomely asSimilated."
The National Lutheran Coun-
ell, composed of eight national
Lutheran church bodies having
more than 5.4 million members,
will end its four-day meeting
here today.
The delegates also approved
a statement yesterday charging
the United States Government
is not giving the World Refugee
Year the full support it de-
serves. The United Nations set
the World Refugee Year as the
period from July l, 1859, to
June 80, 1860.
Pointing out that 66 nations
have Endorsed the World Refu-
gee Year. the statement charged
that only 81 million of the SIC
million authorized by Congress
to spend on the observance had
been used.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
BY CASPAR NAMES
Star staf Writer

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Feb
5. - The National Lutheran
Council yesterday urged the
Government to re-examine its
immigration policies in the light
of self-interest as related to in
ternational responsibility.
Inevitably a nations immi-
grafton laws reflect her basic
attitude toward other nations
and races" the statement in
dorsed by council delegates
here said. "They also provide
a glimpse into her standards oi
national interests as related tc
international responsibility"
Asserting many Americans
are disturbed by the present i'm
migration policies, these docu-
mentS declared "the seeming
arbitrariness of the number ot
annual quota admissions ano
the discriminatory character oi
the national-origin basis of Sc.
lection appear to be in SHARP
contrast to our claims of cham
pioning the equality and dignity
Of all men as well as of being
Evening star., 1960-02-05

william 9. Donahoe, Paul r. Golkin,
Robert J. Grimm, W. Lee Hansbrough,
Michael L. Hughes, Walter ]. PAN
kiewicz, Milton B. Popeck, Walter N
Props, Frederick F Repetti, jr.: Donald
c. Rohrer, Robert J. Sommer. Howard
L. Stern, Daniel W. Strishock, William
Winslow, Gerhard Wolff.
Nearby Yirginia-Ryan ]. Arata,
James r. Clancy. Edward J. Harcum.
H. Virgil Preston, jr.
Other States-Robert C Ackerman.
Leonard NJ. Brooke, Peter II. Burgher,
Henry Clark, Stephen J. de Raddo.
Curtis w. Dixon, Aaron Dolniek, An
thony A. Drew, Charles X. Eaton, Ed
ward L. Farrell, jr., James R. FeTgu-
son, John j. Flynn, Arnold 7. Glib
Torrance c. Henrietta, Edward J. Keller,
Also Ralph W. Lacey. David NJ. LanE,
r.; ,AndEew B Lauder; William P.
mour Mapdler, Robert N. Passen.
James Q: Potter, james r. Price, James
r. Ratlih, Joseph Rothschild, Richard
Others are Donald p. sontag
Alistair J. Stott, julius G. Szumylo
George NJ. Terry, Charles Toll. EriC
@, Wilhelmson. ir., Joseph H. Withers
Aldona NJ. N. Witko. Robert A. Yade-
sky, Richard Z. Zellers.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

New York manufacturer. not
the Washington firm which
acted as wholesaler. Mr.. Dono-
hue said the New York firm
represented the coats as 10C
per cent wool. He said the
kaufman firm refunded the
money to the purchasers of the
coats after the misbranding
was discovered. He said the
Washington firm is now TAX
ing action against the manu-
facturer.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

counterpart to NATO had re-
duced its armed forces by g.
596,500, and this before Mr.
Khrushchev's recent promise to
cut Soviet armed forces about
to the level of Americas.
Communist East Germany
was reported to have de-
mobilized 10000 men. No other
figures by countries were given
Evening star., 1960-02-05
80 Here Pass
Exams

Eight District residents and
20 from nearby areas are among
the SO accountants who passed
the November, 1859 certified
Public Accountants examina-
tion given by the District Of
Columbia Board of Account
ancy.
The list:
District Of Columbia-Max Chaiken,
Martin Cohen, John P. Crowley, Robert
A. Davis, Sol Deutsch, Richard J.
Greene, Thomas J. HUNT, John J.
OReilly
Nearby MaryIand-Joseph A. Becker,
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Firm Here Accused,
Explains Misbrundino

The Federal Trade Commis-
sion today charged Harry
kaufman Inc. of 1912 Seventh
street NV. with misbranding
wool coats sold to the General
Services Administration.
F. Joseph Donohue. attorney
for the Kaufman firm. said the
misbranding was done by the
Evening star., 1960-02-05
All Red Powers Back
German Showdown

MOSCOW, Feb. tAPl.-The Warsaw pact powers have
lined up behind Soviet Premier Nkita Khrushchev for
showdown the German problem at the East-Wes summit
talks in May
The eght-nation Communist alliance wound up one
day conference last night by threatening again to sign
Evening star., 1960-02-05

separate peace treaty with East
Germany land to solve on this
basis the question of West Ber-
lin as we'll"
The Soviet-led bloc backed
the policies already laid down
by Mr.. Khrushchev-including
the offer Of a nonagression pact
with the North Atlantic al
lance, universal disarmament.
a ban on nuclear weapons and
conversion of West Berlin into
q "free city"
Shows Impatience
But the Red alliance seemed
to show impatience on the
German issue, declaring in q
communique:
Under present conditions a
peace treaty can be signed
only by both German states
We cannot agree that the solu-
ton to this question be de-
layed endlessly.
This can only encourage the
militarist and revenge-seeking
forces of West Germany. If
efforts directed at signing a.
peace treaty with both Ger
man states will not meet sup
port, and the solution to this
problem still faces delay, then
the states represented at this
conference will have no way
out but to sign, together with
other states which will be ready
for that, a peace treaty with
the (EasD German democratic
republic, and on this basis to
solve the problem of West Ber-
lin as we'll"
Adenauer Accused
Chancellor Konrad Adenau-
er's West German government
was accused of stalling in the
hope "that an opportune mo-
ment may arise for altering the
frontiers established in Europe
as a result of the rout of Nazi
Germany"
This. the communique con-
tinued, "means a policy of pre-
pairing a new war" because
neither Poland nor Russia will
surrender the lands they took
from Germany at the end of
the war.
"All sober-minded people un-
Iderstand that these frontiers
are inviolable," the Red Alli-
ance declared.
Mr.. Khrushchev signed for
the Soviet Union as both head
of the government and Commu-
mist Party chairman. Both
premiers and party leaders
signed for the other countries
East Germs any, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bull
garia, Hungary and Albania.
Delegates from the four Asian
Communist nations Red
China. Outer Mongolia, North
Korea and North Wet Man,
looked on but did not sign the
communique at a glittering
ceremony in the great Catha-
rine Room of the Kremlin
Palace.
Western diplomats suggested
that secret decisions may have
been reached which were not
disclosed in the communique.
They said it was unlikely that
Mr.. Khrushchev had brought
party and government leaders
from all over Europe and Asia
to repeat formally what all had
declared repeatedly before.
The communique echoed the
call already made by the Soviet
premier for the West to follow
Russia's lead in cutting down
armed forces.
I'm present conditions there
is no need of big armies and
military bases on foreign soil
for the defense of a country"
the statement said.
No Exact Commitments
Russia's allies in the pact
announced no specific commit
ments toward reducing their
own armed forces.
But the communique said
that the alliance, since its or
ganization in 1855 as a military