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Evening star., 1960-03-20
CCS Reports
ShorpGoins
During Year

Net earnings of Central
Charge Service rose to $8O,I4
In six months ended February
20, compared with $60,358 in
the like period a year ago, said
]. P. Stakeholder, executive
vice president. in his semian-
nual report yesterday.
Assets totaled $S.7S2,163 on
February 20, a gain of 48 per
cent from s2,557,45S a year
earlier. Net sales for the six
months totaled $7,969,OO a
gain of 36 per cent from S.
S64,s4 in the same period last
year.
Central Charge Service now
has 1,044 member stores in the
Washington area, a gain of
more than is per cent from a
year ago. More than 10000
active charge accounts are be-
ing serviced and 1000 to 5000
new accounts are being added
every month, Mr.. Stedehauder
reported.
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Home Building
Tops $40 Million

Home Building Association,
one of the city's Oldest savings
and loan institutions, has in
creased assets above the $40
million mark, President Charles
L. Norris, sr., reported yester-
day.
The association had SIT mil
lion of assets just 10 years ago
and closed its books on $50
million at the end of 1856. The
total rose to $5.4 million in
1857 and on to SIS million in
1858. 1t reached $9.7 million at
the close of 1859.
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CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO. Mar. 10 (AP)-old crop
wheat and new crop oats contracts
maintained q bullish trend in grain
futures trading this week while the
remainder of the market was bearish.
March wheat put together q success
sion of advances for q gain Of more
than three cents q bushel for the
week. New crop oats moved up q
cent or more. Rye, under flurries Of
general selling from time to time, led
the setbacks and ended the week at
its lowest levels Of the season all along
the line.
Actual and potential export business
were the strengthening factors in the
March and May months. Moreover,
Poland which was big buyer all week
specified that about one-third Of its
grain must be the red variety
At the end of the week, wheat was
$50 cents a bushel higher to "a lower,
March 2.03; corn " higher to z lower,
March LA: oats a lower to Ia
higher, March 74A-75: rye 1A-23l
lower. March 1.1sh-94: soybeans "
higher to 1h lower, March 2.11h-A
Range Of prices for the week:
Wheat
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sure Of increased hedge selling In
fluenced By the large amount Of acre
age being signed up under the Gov
ernment's cotton program this year.
Under this plan. farmers can exceed
their acreage sllotments but at q
cost Of receiving q lower support
price.
Offerings were absorbed through
scattered short covering, trade buying
on setbacks and light commission
house demand.
With prospective paintings of "B''
cotton through March running 671,-
600 acres ahead Of the same time last
year, 1t was estimated the total this
year might reach 5 million acres as
against $40 million acres in 1859.
Exports for the week ended Tues
day were estimated by the Service
Bureau at $4,000 bales compared
with 10000 the previous week and
$4,000 in the similar 1859 week. For
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N. Y. COTTON

NEW YORK, Mar, 10 (AP) Cotton
futures turned easier this week. ending
with prices down % cents q bale TO
up 25 cents a bale.
The March 1860 contract was
under pressure Just before 1t went OF
the board Tuesday and ended with
decline Of 50 IS q bale from Mon
day's close. The decline stimulated
liquidation in the nearer months.
New crop months were under pres
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the current season through March is
the bureau estimated exports at q
minimum Of 4.15s.0O0 bales against
l,77s,000 o year earlier.
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PALMER FORD PLANS BUILDING
BANK STOCKS
Bid AskC

NEW YORK. Mar. 19 (AP).-Ns-
tional Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc:
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. NEW MODELS FROM $3.50 TO $l2,4oo

new MODELS FROM $3.50 10 $l2,4OO
These striking homes designed especially for this
exciting city by Keller Construction Company Of Palm
Beach, awardwinnine Florida builder The 3bedroom Blue
Cypress model shown above sells for $9 100 including the lot
Down payment is 5000 including closing costs.
INN, POOL, RESTAURANT, cABANA CLUB,
SEWER AND WATER PLANT ALREADY BUILT
The facilities mentioned above we'll paved streets and
dramatic pa-ned architectural sketches
but downoearih reality in actual operation. Purchasers
eligible for free membership and free first year dues in the
swimming and eabana club.
A LOCATION YOU WILL BE PROUD OF
Less than II miles away the fabulous Palm Beaches
cultural reeeationa and pleasure Of the Gold Coast
In the sport fishing golf, tennis poo lawn bowling,
swimming, iai aIai horse racing dog racing water skiing,
boating, bathing, sailing and shufleboard.
COME IN AND SEE COLOR SLIDES
HOUSE PLANS OR WRITE TO DEPT. $40
FOR ILLUSTRATED II PAGE BROCHURE
12N MILES FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
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Burglars Hit Il
Alexandra Places

Burglars struck a dozen
downtown Alexandria Offices
early yesterday, police reported.
The Virginia Butler Beauty
Shop, one of seven places ran
sacked at 101 North Columbus
street, reported a loss of $3.50.
Police said the burglars en-
a fire escape and forcing a
window. Five Offices and the
Kena Temple Shrine headquar-
ters in the building were also
entered, but no losses were re-
ported.
Two Offices at 205 South
Columbus street were entered,
along with three Offices at 203
South Columbus street. No
losses and only minor property
damages were reported.
Police advised Office tenants
not to leave valuables or cash
in the Offices.
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TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity -
Chance of a few thunder
storms this evening. Partly
cloudy tonight, low 68. Mostly
sunny and pleasant tomorrow.
Virginia-Partly cloudy to-
night with a few scattered
thunderstormS, low ranging
from 10 on the coast to near 60
in the mountains. Mostly
sunny and turning cooler to-
morrow.
Maryland - Partly cloudy
with a few scattered thunder
storms likely tonight, low rang
ing from 60 in the mountains
to 10 on the coast. Fair and
pleasant tomorrow, high in the
70s and low 80s.
Resort Forecasts
Long Island and New Jersey
beaches-Sunny, windy and
cool tomorrow, high in the up
per 70S.
Delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia ocean beaches-Sunny,
windy and turning cooler to-
morrow, high 80.
Cape HatteraS - Variable
cloudinesS with scattered thun-
derstorms, high 86 tomorrow.
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Democrats Agree
On New York

NEW YORK, July 80 CAP) y
Mayor Robert F. Wagner and
State Democratic Chairman
Michael H. Prendergast have
announced agreement on their
roles in the presidential cam
Ipaign of Senator Kennedy.
Earlier in the week Mr..
Prendergast had announced
that he, alone, would run the
New York State campaign.
After meeting with Mr..
PrendergaSt yesterday, how
ever, Mr.. Wagner issued
statement saying, in part,
Mike is fully supporting my
role in the campaign for the
ticket"
Mr.. Prendergast had been
upset because Mr.. Wagner had
announced willingness to sup
port an independent Citizens
for Kennedy Committee out
side the regular party ma
chinery, Later, after meeting
with Robert Kennedy, the
Senator's brother and cam
paign manager, Mr.. Prender-
CAST agreed to such a se:up.
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simultaneously. residents a few
miles south of the cape heard
a great roar in the skies as
the missile disintegrated. The
explosion, which occurred at
an altitude of about 25 miles,
was obscured from the ground
by low-hanging clouds.
Navy search ships immedi-
ately began securing the fog
cloaked waters over an area 4
to II miles south of the
launching pad in the hope of
recovering remnants of the
multi = million dollar Atlas
booster and possibly the
capsule.
NASA officials said they be-
lieved the capsule itself was
still intact when it plunged
into the sea, although the
Atlas booster was blown to bits.
About 3l2 minutes of signals
were received back from the
space cabin, indicating it
f1oated for a brief period before
sinking.
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Kennedy Begins
Registration Drive
BY the Associated Press

Kennedy for President back
erS have kicked off a massive
Nationwide campaign to sign
up unregistered voters - both
Democratic and Republican.
Representative Frank Thomp-
son. jr., Democrat of New
Jersey, national chairman of
the newly created Registration
of Voters Committee, told
Democratic leaders there are
an estimated 80 million to 40
million eligible but unregistered
voters in the Nation.
And, of these "it is con-
servatively estimated 10 per
cent are Democrats" he said.
Robert F. Kennedy, cam
paign manager for his brother,
described voter registration as
the major effort of the Ken
nedy campaign in the next
two months.
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100-M.P.H. Wind
Butters Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 81
AP).-WindS up to 100 miles
an hour swept through central
Oklahoma overnight causing
considerable property damage.
Hardest hit were Oklahoma
City, Enid, Chickasha and
Ponca City.
Hail slammed into the north
west section Of Oklahoma City
The Will Rogers airport tower
went out of operation as power
failed and windows were
smashed.
Some light planes on the fielc
were nosed over by the gusts
A twin-engine CAS- at Okla
homa City's Tulakes Airport
was blown 200 yards through
two chain link fences anc
nearly wrapped around a util-
ity pole.
Four buildings were demo-
liShed at Enid with damage
estimated at $4,000.
Plate glass windows were
broken in five downtown Chick
asha stores.
The roof Of a Chickasha
packing plant was lifted of ano
two other trailers were blown
together at a Mobile Homes
factory.
At Ponca City power lines
were blown down and trees
uprooted.
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COOK PUTS SELF
OUT ON A LIMB
TO BEAT RENT

LEXINGTON, KY, (AP).
- Being out on a limb
comes natural to George
Rowe.
For 10 years, the 49,
year-old Negro restaurant
cook has avoided high rent
by spending summer nights
in a park tree. It's cool
and close to his work.
Mr.. Rowe got the idea
while in the Army in the
South Pacific. He keeps
mosquito netting, a mat
tress and reading material
in his outdoor abode and
counts on the trees to shell
ter him from the rain.
Police know about Mr..
Rowe's outdoor living quar-
ters but say no one has
ever complained.
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SPACE
SPACE
Top Officials Admit
Serious SIippoges
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Continued From First Page
1t after it lands-has never
yet been solved. The whole
'Discoverer" series of Air Force
tests was aimed at doing this,
and failed. Until we learn how
to recover objects from orbit,
the placing of a man in space
is unthinkable.
Vital for Propaganda
To date. the Government has
committed approximately a
third of a billion dollars to
Mercury. While the project has
undoubted scientific and tech
biological features to recon-
mend it. it also has a certain
propaganda value. In short,
Mercury is worth more if it
gets the first man into space
than if it gets the second man
into space.
Reports persist that the Rus
slams are on the threshold of
orbiting a man. Whether these
reports are true is not known;
one argument against their
truth is that, as far as is
known, the Russians haven't
licked re-entry, either. But in
any event, much of the steam
behind Mercury is bound to
dissipate if the Russians orbit
a man first.
At the rate Project Mercury
is progressing, they may we'll
do that.
AstrOnautS Watch Test
Project Mercury's latest set
back came when its Atlas
launching vehicle exploded 65
seconds after blastoff during
a crucial heat re-entry test
yesterday at Cape Canaveral,
Fla.
The seven nauts,
watching from an underground
bunker near the launching
pad, saw the 80-foot Atlas take
of in a driving rainstorm and
head down the Atlantic mis-
sile range in what seemed like
a successful lift-off.
Little more than a minute
later, radio contact with the
huge rocket was lost. Almost
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Davis Seeks
Free Electors

BATON ROUGE. La, July 80
(AP) Louisiana Gov. Jimmie
H. Davis says he would be glad
to meet with Southern Cover
nors to talk about backing I'M
pledged presidential electors.
From what I can pick up"
he told his news conference,
"the people want unpledged
electors.
A Statewide Mayors group
a day earlier urged Gov. Davis
and the Democratic State Gen.
trail Committee to invite South
ern Governors to talks on the
issue, because of unhappiness
over the Democratic and Re-
publican platforms.
A set of 10 unpledged elec-
tors would give Louisiana voters
a third choice on the Novem-
Der 8 ballot.
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SoIt Lake Still Hot

SALT LAKE CITY, July 30
(AP). For more than five
weeks now, Salt Lakes high
daytime temperatures haven't
been out of the 90c-except
when they rose into the zoos.
Today? The Weatherman said
this would be the 37th day of
90-pluS heat, with a mark be-
tween 81 and l02 degrees ex-
pected.
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worked out the speech accept
ing his party's presidential
nomination came yesterday
from authoritative sources.
According to these inside
glimpses:
Mr.. Nixon couldn't find a
place where he could get away
to work undisturbed. Presi-
dent Eisenhower finally put at
Mr.. Nixon'S disposal Aspen
Lodge, scene of his Camp Da-
vid talks with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
The lodge, in the Catoctin
Mountains of Maryland. first
was used as President Roose-
velt's famed "Shangri La"
hideaway.
Included in his homework
was the recent Life magazine
series on national goals ana
purposes, with which Mr.. Nixon
reportedly was very much i'm
pressed.
Also influential were letters
from Lon Fuller, Carter pro-
fessor of jurisprudence at Har-
ward University Law School, an
expert in legal philosophy.
Mr.. Fuller, an independent
Democrat, has been in COM
munication with Mr.. Nixon and
shortly will join his campaign
staff on a four-day-a-week
basis. Mr.. Fuller will be part
of a task force of Harvard and
other college professors whom
Mr.. Nixon will be consulting,
much as his Democratic op-
ponent. Senator Kennedy,
plans to do with another group.
After his week OF concentra-
ton, Mr.. Nixon returned to
Washington, without a single
note taken from his readings,
and went to work for another
full week writing his speech
without referring to any source
material.
1t turned out far too long,
but the extra material is ex-
pected to be included in
speeches in the long campaign
ahead. Mr.. Nixon and his
aides are repeatedly planning
to concentrate on 18 major is
sues. What they will be was
not revealed.
Mr.. Nixon had just 3l2 hours
sleep the night before he made
his speech accepting his par
tvs presidential nomination.
He was so stimulated after
the speech that after going
to bed about $3.50 am. he could
sleep only until 6 am. Then
he awoke, breakfasted and con-
tinued his busy convention
schedule.
Mr.. Nixon had most Of the
acceptance speech fixed in his
memory. He had hoped to
memorize it all. But the two
days he had blocked out to
work on the speech here
Wednesday and Thursday-un-
expectedly had been taken up
in large part by the platform
squabbles.
AS a result, the last part #
his speech, on foreign policy.
largely had to be read from
written notes.
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REED

Continued From First Page
5th Naval District, and Comdr
Robert A. Mayo, flag admins
trative unit, Cinclant Head
quarters, were named as de-
PENDANTS in the petition.
Mr.. Reeds car struck Vice
Admiral Lorenzo S. Sabin's
staff car April II at the naval
base. Admiral Sabin and his
driver each suffered slight cuts
in the collision.
Mr.. Reed of Aflex, KY, was
court-martialed for drunken
driving and the administrative
action was instituted after the
court-martial.
Mr.. Bertolini said the un-
suitability discharge was based
upon "the very same facts
upon which Mr.. Reed was tried
ChereDy constituting double
punishment"
Near Retirement Age
He said Mr.. Reed has beer
duly serving his sentence" anc
would suffer immediate anC
irreparable loss of rights" un-
less an injunction was granted
Mr.. Reed enlisted in the
Navy on his 18th birthday
. August 13, 1942-and would bt
eligible for early retirement ir
about IA months. His current
enlistment ends March 81, 1862
He served in both the Euro
pean and Pacific Theaters dur.
ing World War II, and spent
18 months on the hospital shiI
Consolation off Korea. He ha.
IL campaign ribbons and ha.
won four good conduct medals
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Continued From First Page
sions early and working into
the night.
A reporter told him VAe
President Nixon, the Repub-
lican standard bearer, has sug-
gested that the Senate refrain
from voting on important bills
on Saturdays lest it embarrass
any nominees.
Senator johnson replied
tartly that he hasn't observed
that it has made any difference
to Mr.. NiXon'S plans in the past
whether the Senate was in ses-
sion or not. For the forthcom-
ing session he said he believed
"the peoples business comes
first"
Seeks Picketing Bill
Senator Kennedy said he also
hopes that Congress would en-
act legislation to legalize picket
ing on construction sites where
several unions represent the
workers, but not all of the un-
ions are striking.
The program envisaged by
Senator Kennedy and Johnson
normally would take much
longer than three weeks to jam
through Congress. However,
this is a campaign year and
Senator johnson is the Senate
majority leader.
This is far from the whole
story, however. They could
face dissent from some Demo-
cratic Congress members on
some of the items, and Presi-
dent Eisenhower hasn't lost
his power of the veto.
Senator johnson, his staff,
and about 40 Texas newsmen
and women circled over the
Cape Cod area last night before
finding an opening in a heavy
overcast that let them land at
Otis Air Force Base, about 20
miles from here.
Stevenson on Scene
Another Cape Cod arrival for
a weekend conference with
Senator Kennedy was Ada
Stevenson, the 1852 and 1856
nominee, who flew in ahead OF
Senator johnson wit h out
weather trouble. He spent the
night at the summer home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. David K. E
Bruce of New Windsor, Md.
The conference originally hao
been scheduled for today, but
Senator Kennedy announced
that it had been postponed
until tomorrow.
Evening star., 1960-07-30
KENNEDY .. "
Big Defense Boost
Studied by Nominees

Mr.. Stevenson said he had
come to offer campaign help.
Asked If there have been
strained relations" between
him and Senator Kennedy since
the nomination, he said mot
to my knowledge"
Senator Johnson's Viscount
plane tried other airports in
the area, at Otis, at Boston
and then back to Otis before
setting down a few minutes
after 9 pm, 2l2 hours late
for the date with the man he
promptly hailed as my friend
and leader"
Senator Kennedy is breaking
camp here to fly back to Wash
ington on August 7, the day
before the Senate reconvenes.
Hawaii Trip
He plans to fly to Hawaii late
in August for the formal start
of his campaign, but Senator
Johnson is to kick off formally
with a speech in Nashville,
Tenn, tonight.
Senator johnson took of
from the local airport soon after
the press conference and sched-
uled a refueling stop at Cleve-
land. There, his spokesmen
said, he would be available for
a news conference.
In seeking the nomination,
Senator Kennedy pledged that
he would seek an emergency
farm bill of some sort in this
short session.
In Washington yesterday
Chairman Cooley. Democrat Of
North Carolina, called a meet
ing of his House Agriculture
Committee for August IL tc
appraise prospects for emer.
gency farm legislation. Mr.
Cooley said it might not be
feasible to tackle farm aid with
so little working time left. The
House doesn't reconvene unit
August Is, a week later thar
the Senate.
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STORM

Continued From First Page
N. c., to EaStport, Me, and
on Chesapeake and Delaware
Bays.
Fifty mile an hour winds,
with squalls up to go, were
Swirling in a semi-circle ex-
tending $50 miles eastward as
Brenda moved to the northeast
at about 80 miles an hour.
Heavy rains, rough seas and
tides 2 to 4 feet above normal
began moving into Southern
New England by mid-morning
Brenda started as an ordi-
nary low-preSSure system in
the Gulf Coast, and attracted
little attention until she poured
nearly IA inches of rain on
Tampa, Fla, yesterday morn
ing.
Winds, however, were moi
high, and none of the charac-
teristics of a tropical storm
had been observed. The Miami
weather station called it q
vigorous low-pressure sys-
tenn" and began issuing bulle-
tins every six hours.
At midafternoon, a Navy
hurricane-hunter aircraft pen
etrated the storm, and reported
an "eye" and circular winds
characteristic of a tropical
storm.
At 3 pm. the Miami station
christened her Brenda, and is
sued its first advisory. Gale
warnings were ordered for the
coast up to Hatteras, and small
craft alerted up to the Virginia
CapeS.
Brenda moved into the
Washington stations jurisdic-
ton at II o'clock last night
AS it sloshed up the coast
the storms gale winds pushed
the 251-foot freighter Vermont
aground southwest Of Charles.
ton, S. c., the Associated Press
reported, A tug pulled her free
Craft in Danger
The Big Wig, a converted
landing craft, was reported in
danger of breaking up near
False Cape, Va, where waves
ran 10 to IL feet high. A
Coast Guard cutter reached
the beached ship during the
night and reported that only
one of the crafts crew of five
was still aboard.
A Coast Guard spokesman al
Norfolk said it was assumed
that the others had Wadec
ashore or had been removed
by an amphibious Coast Guard
craft which had been sent to
the scene.
Evening star., 1960-07-30

Ston Churchill and reading
some 300 columns and maga-
zine articles by political Spe-
cialists reporting on the cam
paignS.
In addition, he pored over
the acceptance speeches of two
time Democratic presidential
candidate Adlai Stevenson. and
"a Democratic President, Wood
row Wilson.
Reports of how Mr.. Nixon
Evening star., 1960-07-30
Democratic
Candidates TO
Cover All j. ).

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. July
80 (AP). = Senators Kennedy
and johnson, the Democratic
standard bearers, said today
that between them they will
campaign in every State be-
tween now and the November
election, although neither plans
to try to cover all the States.
The nominees for President
and Vice President discussed
their plans at a news confer
ence in the summer home of
Senator Kennedy's father, Jo-
seph P. Kennedy.
They said the bulk of their
campaigning will be left until
after Congress adjourns, pos
sibly in early September.
To Await Adjournment
II don't think that there's
any use in starting this cam
paign until the session is over.
The session should not be
cut to fit the campaign" Sen
ator Kennedy said.
Senator johnson, standing
beside Senator Kennedy as
they addressed a crowd of
more than 80 newsmen and
cameramen, smiled broadly and
said:
Nothing happened here in
the last IL hours that is good
for the Republican cause, I as
sure you"
He said they had sat up until
about 2 am. discussing politics
and the legislative program fol-
the forthcoming Congress ses-
sion.
Senator johnson, in reply tt
questions, said he had brought
to Senator Kennedy no spe-
ciflc message from former Pres
ident Harry S. Truman, who
had been unfriendly to Senator
Kennedy'S campaign. But he
said Mr.. Truman, when they
talked together yesterday al
independence. Mo-, promised
to take an active part in the
campaign.
He said he thought the Re.
publican platform for the cam.
paign is weak on foreign pol.
icy, defense and new ideas.
Senator Kennedy was asked
whether he would follow a sug.
gestion attributed to Mr.. Tru.
man yesterday that candidate.
should campaign where they
might not like you"
Schedule Not Yet Fixed
where might that be?'
Senator Kennedy retorted with
a smile.
Senator Kennedy was asked
whether he would campaign ir
the South.
He replied his schedule hac
not yet been drawn but that
he certainly will campaign ir
Texas.
On other points Senator Ken
nedy said he believes his ex-
pected televised dates with Vice
President Nixon will be i'm.
portant" in the campaign.
He was asked whether he
expected Mr.. Nixon would use
as a campaign issue Senator
Kennedy's Catholic religion.
mo. I'm sure he WON'T
Senator Kennedy replied.
Last night, Mr.. Nixon told
newsmen in Chicago the re-
ligious question would be
brought into the campaign
only to the degree candidates
introduced it "and 1 shall never
talk about it,"