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Evening star., 1960-10-12

Police surrounded the Terrell
Junior High School. blocked all
entrances and arrested two
teen-age boys today after re-
ports they were roaming the
area with a gun" 49,,
The weapon turned out to be
an air pistol resembling q
German-made Luger.
One Of the boys, a 14-year-
old who had the pistol In his
belt when taken after q scufie
with a policeman. was struck
on the head with the weapon
and suffered q scalp laceration,
Both are being held by juvenile
authorities.
They were flrst seen In the
area by Mckinley Hunter. q
custodian at the Simmons Ele-
mentary School, across the
street from the Terrell School al
First and Pierce streets NV.
about 10 am. Both are students
at Terrell, police said.
Mr.. Hunter reported the in
cident to the Simmons prin-
cipal who called police on the
report that one or both the
boys had threatened" someone
The boy had the gun in his
Evening star., 1960-10-12
New Surgical Method
Aims to Bar Infection

SAN FRANCISCO, oct. /;
(AP). - An operating room
which contains only the pa
tient's incision and the sur
geon's tools is ready for trial
as a means of preventing in
fection Of surgical wounds.
The new facility was pro-
duced at Walter Reed Army
Hospital, washington, d, C.
With the new technique, the
operating surgeon and his as
Sistants are outside the room
They work through the wall
of a transparent plastic bal
loon. The balloon wall has
indentations shaped like jack
cts, helmets and arm-length
gloves. The surgeon and his
helpers fit into these indenta-
tiors. This allows them to be
close to the patient but isolated
from him by the transparent
balloon wall.
The arm-length gloves con-
stituting a part of the ballon
wall permit the surgical team
to handle the instruments while
remaining isolated from the
incision.
Sterile air is pumped to the
isolated incision area, keeping
the balloon inflated. The bot
tom of the balloon is glued to
the area of the patients body
where the incision is to be
made.
In welding, the scalpel the
surgeon cuts through the bal
loon where it is glued to the
patient. The incision thus eX-
poses the target area without
breaking the isolation Of the
wound. The balloon is dis
carded after the operation.
The device was described in
a paper before the American
College Of Surgeons today by
one of its developers, DR.. STAN
ley M. Levenson, of the Walter
Reed Army Institute of Re-
Evening star., 1960-10-12
Gas Stution Bundit
FIees Minus Loot

A man welding a gun tried
to hold up a gas station at
Capitol Heights, Md, last night,
but apparently lost his nerve
and fed without getting any
thing, Prince Georges County
police reported.
Three attendants at Joe's
Homoco Service Station, 6420
Central avenue, we're closing up
for the night when they heard
"a window pane smash and
looked up to see a gun point
ing at them, Detective Robert
Cabral said.
The gunman said nothing,
and the three attendants
dashed into a darkened grease
room adjoining the office. The
gunrnan hurriedly disappeared.
A lookout was flashed for a
khahi-clad white man about 20
to IS years old with q .45-cali-
Der automatic.
Evening star., 1960-10-12
EngiineFaiIure
Noted inCrash

BOSTON, Oct. IL, (AP).-
The turboprop Electra which
plunged into Boston Harbor IA
seconds after takeoff last week
had lost power in one and pos
sibly two port engines, but no
structural defects were involved,
the chairman of the House
Aviation Subcommittee says.
Representative John Bell
Williams. Democrat Of Missis-
sippi. said yesterday his sub
committee found no reason to
order other Electras grounded.
The Boston crash, which killed
So persons. was the fifth in
volving the Lockheed Electra
since the planes went into
service two years ago.
Mr.. Williams said "the crash
could have happened to any
turboprop plane"
He said the subcommittee,
which held an 81a-hour closed
door hearing in a Boston hotel,
found no conclusive evidence
that birds sucked into the air
intake cause the engines to
fail. That is the view Of Ell
wood Quesada, head Of the
Federal Aviation Agency, who
testified at the hearing.
Mr.. Bell said there is ample
evidence of birds in great num-
Der" which might have caused
the crash. but no proof that a
flock Of starlings was to blame.
Dead starlings were found
scattered over the Logan In
ternational Airport runway
used by the Eastern Air Lines
plane.
While the subcommittee was
hearing testimony from FAA
and Civil Aeronautics Board
investigators, Navy divers
brought up another body from
the harbor. That left 2 of the
50 victims still missing. Eight
Of the 10 survivors are still in
hospitals.
The body recovered is that
Of DR.. David Grice, IS, Of
Wynnewood. Pa, an orthopedic
formerly associated
with Children's Hospital In
Boston.
Evening star., 1960-10-12

search. Associated with him
in the work we're DR.. Ole j.
Malm. DR.. Richard E. Horo-
witz' and DR.. william NJ. lAon-
Grief, jr.. Of the institute. and
P. c. Trexler Of Notre Dame
University.
/ The new Setup hasn't been
tried on patients yet but 1t is
ready, DR.. Leyenson said. Its
mission is to keep operative
wounds free from infection.
In ordinary operating condi-
tions the air of the room and
even the breath of the surgical
team may contain infectious
organisms which often gain a
foothold despite the usual pre-
cautions.
Evening star., 1960-10-12

Flights involving propeller and
turbojet planes are not af-
fected. IS
Arthur C. Petersen, North
west chairman Of the Interna-
tional Association of Machin-
lists. said the engineers refused
to board planes last night be-
cause satisfactory pay rates
had not been obtained for jet
aircraft work. Thirty-two en-
gineers are involved.
Mr.. Petersen also said guar
anteed pay raises had not been
made retroactive in a signed
contract. 70
Union and company repre-
sentatives we're to meet with
a Federal mediator today.
Evening star., 1960-10-12
3 Gfunuries Ripped
BY Texas Tornudoes

FRIONA, Tex, Oct. IL (AP),
"A tornado struck three times
yesterday near two towns in
the sparsely populated Western
Texas panhandle.
Damage in the Friona area
was estimated in reports to the
State Department of Public
Safety at around 100000
mostly to three government
granarieS that were wrecked.
Evening star., 1960-10-12
Birthday Greeting
Set for President

The public has received an
official invitation from the Dis
trict Commissioners to take
part in a special event Friday
in honor of President Eisen-
hower's 10th birthday.
The Commissioners urged
residents to greet President
Eisenhower at 1890 pm. on
the south lawn of the White
House. The gates will be open
an hour earlier.
The invitation was included
in a proclamation naming Fri
day as Dwight D. Eisenhower
Day"
Evening star., 1960-10-12
WuIkout Grounds
Northwest Jets

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. IL
lAP) Northwest Airlines jet
planes in transcontinental and
Orient service were not oper-
ating today after a walkout OF
DC-8C fight engineers.
Affected is jet service be-
tween Seattle and New York
two flights per week from
Seattle-Portland to Honolulu
and four flights per week from
Seattle TO Tokyo.
An airplane spokesman said
no plans have been made to
use su bstitute equipment.
Evening star., 1960-10-12
PoIiceSurround School
Arrest Boys With Gun

belt when arrested in a base
ment mems room. He was
nasty and belligerent,v accord
ing to Samuel L. Franklin Of
the Juvenile Bureau, but denied
threatening anyone.
The second boy was picked
up in the area and both were
identified BY the Simmons GUS
todial after their arrest. A
third boy was taken to head
quarters. apparently for Ques-
tioning.
Evening star., 1960-10-12
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Evening star., 1960-10-12

New Studebaker system of coordinated engi-
neering advances makes possible all-around
performance unknown in compact motoring
before. It's called "Performability"; it's exclu.
sive to the 81 Lark; and it means:
A new kind of power. The allnew Lark Skybolt
Six II HIP engine with huge overhead valves and
S5 compression ratio delivers tremendous thrust with
each piston stroke Result -phenomenally rapid get
away instant emergency acceleration higher speeds
Anew kind of response. New Lark automatic trans
mission delivers an immediate smooth surge of power
from the engine at any speed-without loss or lag.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
BUREAUCRAT As BOSS
Ford's Ideals for the FEC.

Two days after Mr.. Ford be-
came chairman, the FEC issued a
directive in which 1t said that
henceforth stations would be re-
sponsible for the actions of en-
ployes and that commercial plugs
had better be identified as such.
FEC Investigators?
During the House investigation
into broadcast industry practices,
executives repeatedly testified they
were ignorant of the quiz rigging
and payola practices.
Mr.. Ford was asked in an inter-
view if he believed the FEC should
set up an investigative organiza-
ton to keep tabs on practices in
side the industry which went on
below the executive level.
The gray-haired Mr.. Ford said
the question was a tough one. How
can the FEC regulate without
censoring, or interfering with nor
NAL business practices?
He indicated that as long as he
is chairman, license renewal is
going to be based on how well a
station polices itself internally.
He also favors giving the COM
munity itself an opportunity to let
the commission and the station
director know what it wants on
televiSion.
Out of such a proceeding" Mr..
Ford says, II would hope there
would develop a reasonably we'll
defined policy whereby the greatest
freedom would be assured the
broadcaSter in programing and, at
the same time, the commission
would perform its function of
protecting the public interest"
Native Of West Virginia
This is the first time the West
Virginia-born Ford has appeared
in the national limelight. He is
the son of the late George M.
Ford, who was once State superin-
tendent of schools in West Vir-
ginia. He was graduated from the
University of West Virginia's law
school in 1934-the year after he
married the late Virginia Lee
Carter of Middlebourne, w. Va.
To get through school in those
depression years he worked Is
hours,i in the school library and Is
hours a week in the law library.
He was an "a" student.
He Joined a private law firm
after graduation and entered poll
tics. At the time he entered Gov
ernment service he was president
of the HARRISON County Young
Republicans.
At the behest of a couple of
former law professors Mr.. Ford
came to Washington to help set
up the Federal Security Agency
and he has been here ever since,
save for World War II duty as an
Air Force personnel officer.
Mr.. Ford lives in Alexandria,
Va, with his 14-year-old daughter,
Mary Carter Ford, and his second
wife, the former Mary Margaret
Mahoney of Blackstone, Mass.
When Mr.. Ford first came to
Washington he intended to stay
only two or three years.
Why has he stayed? part, I
guess, was circumstances, but pub
lie service is part of the family.
There was my father. And my
mother taught school for 40 years"
Evening star., 1960-04-17

he explained, mot the soda pop.
The circumstances surrounding
the act might make something in
nocent appear totally improper"
The pipe-Smoking Mr.. Ford
makes it clear that he intends
to avoid even the appearance of
impropriety.
Even the Appearances
In the past some FEC chairmen
have appeared chubby with certain
members of the industry they
have been supposed to regulate.
Mr.. Ford's reputation for per-
sonal integrity is such that it
seems reasonably safe to predict
that some of the former cozy So
cial relationships between FEC
chairmen and members of the in
duStry are at an end.
Mr.. Ford began his Government
career IN 1899. He has served
with the Federal SECURITY Agency.
the old Office of Price Admin
istration and the Department Of
Justice. At the time he was ap-
pointed to the FEC he was as
sistant deputy attorney general.
President Eisenhower elevated
Evening star., 1960-04-17

him to the craftsmanship Of the
FEC on March 10-the day the
resignation of John c. Doerfer
was made public.
Mr.. Doerfer quit under fire. He
admitted to House investigators
he had accepted a yacht trip from
George B. Storer, who holds FEC
licenses on five television stations
and dozen radio stations.
Mr.. Doerfer's resignation was
preceded by that of FEC Commits
sioner Richard A. Mack, a Dem
ocrat appointed by Mr.. Eisenhower
for the usual seven-year term.
Industry Under Attack
Mr.. Mack quit in 1858. He is
now awaiting retrial on charges
of entering a conspiracy to influ-
ence the award of a Miami, Fla,
televiSion station license. His first
trial ended with a hung jury.
Mr.. Ford has assumed the FEC
Craftsmanship at time when the
broadcast industry is under attack
for rigged quiz programs and pay
ola-undercover payments to indi-
viduals for disguised commercial
plugs.
Evening star., 1960-04-17

is considerable despite his 1859
defeat by Mayor Grady.
Leaning back in his upholstered
chair in his pine-paneled Office,
Mr.. Pollack said recently that
politics is a constant flght-but,
next to his family, his main inter-
est. The two telephones on his
desk ring almost constantly.
1--WE already taken care of it,"
he tells one caller.
"I'll look into it," to another.
"See your precinct chairman"
to the next.
He doesn't take notes. but he
said he never forgets what he has
promised to do.
Mr.. Pollack said he and five or
six" others select the candidates
his organization will support.
The persons who represent the
Fourth and Fifth Districts on
council and in the State -Legisla-
ture are very capable-even my
enemies admit that. We know our
people and we don't put up a can
didate unless he's able"
Secret of His Success
How does he hold his organiza-
ton together? Enlightenment Cof
the people,, friendship, patron
age"
Lining the walls of his office are
cartoons from the Baltimore Sun
newspapers, consistent Pollack
critics.
l subscribe to the theory that it
doesn't make any difference what
my opponents say about me-iust
so they spell my name right"
Politics has it's trials and tribu-
lationS, but love it," he said.
His life, like his politics, has
been rough and tumble.
He was born on Baltimore's east
Evening star., 1960-04-17
The Varied Life of an Organization Man:
Jack Po||ock, Democratic Boss in Baltimore

side. He sold papers with Tommy"
D'Alesandro.
At IL, he moved to the south
side. His mother died when he
was 13. and his father, a tailor,
died two years later.
Handy with his fists and
polished in neighborhood street
fights, young Pollack drifted into
professional boxing.
"I had 27 fights and won the
great majority of them. Those
days weighed l67 pounds and
I flattened the 250-pound Nor
folk champ in five rounds"
He said relatives talked him
into quitting boxing.
During the 192OS he got into,
several scrapes with police and
was indicted on a murder charge
growing out of what was reported
as a liquor high-jacking incident.
Sure I had been arrested for
street fighting before but never
anything like this" he said the
other day. II wasn't even there.
I kept trying to get them to bring
me to trial but they wouldn't
do it."
The murder charge was dropped
after the States attorney told the
court there was insufficient evil
dence to sustain the Indictment.
The States attorney later wrote
a letter saying he felt that Mr..
Pollack had suffered a great in
justice" through the indictment.
Wins Over on Opponent
Mr.. Pollack got into politics in
the 1920s as precinct worker for
William Curran. who was one OF
Baltimores strongest political
figures. His first job was to pull
down posters put up by the op-
position.
After Mr.. Pollack married IN
1928 and moved to Northwest
Baltimore, Mr.. Curran SET MIN
up as head man of his organiza-
ton in that section.
Mr.. Pollack Joined the Trenton
Democratic Club, an organization
which has operated through the
years as his official spokesman.
An Endorsement by the club means
an Endorsement by the chief.
One of Mr. Pollack's most heat
ed feuds was with former Gov.
Preston Lane He supported
Republican Theodore McKeldin
against Gov. Lane in 1850 after
Gov. Lane had fired one of Mr..
Pollack's proteges from city
magistrates post. This cost Mr..
Pollack a delegate seat at the
1852 Democratic convention, the
first one he had missed in 20
years.
Mr.. Pollack said all his disputes
with Governors have been over
patronage-"nothing personal"
He supported Gov. Tswes in
1858. Wien the Governor an
Evening star., 1960-04-17
BUREAUCRAT AS BOSS
BY Benz PRICE
Associated Press Writer

Frederick Wayne Ford is some
thing of rarity in official WASH
inEton-a bureaucrat who became
boss.
In taking over the chairman
ship Of the Federal Communica-
tions Commission, the 52-year-old
Ford stepped into a fairly warm
spot. The FEC has had its troubles
recently, and Mr.. Ford succeeded
a chairman who resigned under
congressional criticism.
The FEC regulates rates
charged by the telephone and tel
egraph industries. 1t also awards
licenses for radio and television
use of certain wave lengths.
The industries the agency is
charged with regulating in the
public interest count their as
sets in the billions of dollars.
The worth of a television station
alone is sometimes measured in
millions of dollars.
The pressures on the seven FEC
commissioners for favored treat
ment have been tremendous
fact which has led to trouble, a
congressional investigation and
the resignation of two commits
sioners since 1858.
After 81 years as a Government
lawyer, Mr.. Ford, like most other
longtime public servants, is fully
aware that the normal tax-deduc-
tible hospitality of the business
world becomes influence peddling
when practiced on Government
employees.
In the past some few members
of the FEC have been known to
accept gifts-television sets, vaca-
tions, pay for speech-making and
reimbursementS for hotel rooms
and food.
PoYs His Own Woy
A reporter asked Mr.. Ford if he
had ever made speeches. especially
to broadcast industry meetings.
About four times, think" said
Mr., Ford. Did he pay his own way?
"I learned long ago." he replied,
that if the government wouldn't
pay my way, and 1 couldn't pay
my way, l wouldn't CO."
Does he own a TV set?
YES" said Mr.. Ford with a
grin.
II bought it in 1852 to watch the
conventions-and I paid for it. On
time, as a matter of fact"
The House Legislative Oversight
subcommittee is now holding hear
ings on a resolution H.R. 1890
which, among other things, pro-
hlbits acceptance of unusual
hospitality In essence, the COM
mittee is seeking to evolve code
of ethics, the violation of which
would be punishable by law.
Mr.. Ford was asked in an inter-
view. if he could define unusual
Hospitality"
esNo," he said, "but you know
what it is. I know what it is, and
everybody else knows what it is"
When amember of the commit
tee~Rsked a similar question, Mr..
Ford said he could conceive of a
situation wherein acceptance OF a
soft drink would be unusual hos
pitality"-for example. if during
a hearing he went out with one
of the principals in the case to
have a soft drink.
1T would be the appearance" !"
Evening star., 1960-04-17
BY PAUL HOPE
Star stan Writer

James H. (Jack) Pollack eats.
drinks and sleeps politics and loves
it.,
The 62-year-old Democratic
overload of Northwest Baltimore
has come a long way since his
boyhood in Baltimore's Little
Italy"
In. the some 80 years he has
been. involved in politics. the son
of poor Jewish immigrants from
Russia has become a man that few
Maryland politicians ignore.
Mr.. Pollack-hated by his enc
mics, esteemed by his followers,
feared by many-probably is the
most controversial figure in Mary
land politics.
he has been denounced by po-
litieal opponents from Baltimore
CITY. Hall to the State House in
Annapolis. His public arguments
with Statewide politicians have
been many. But no one denies his
influence.
In a State where the votes OF
therbig port city of Baltimore can
represent success or failure, can
didates can't afford to ignore Mr..
Pol1ack.
The 6-foot-2-inch, 210-pound
beSpectacled figure is familiar
one in the legislative halls at An
napolis. During the session which
ended last month he helped kill
a reapportionment bill. He was de-
nounced on the Senate floor by
Majority Leader Edward S. North
rop as a lobbyist against a bill to
regulate savings and loan associa-
tionS. And he personally super
vised the defeat of Mayor J. Har-
old Grady's attempt to wrest the
craftsmanship of the city's legis-
lative delegation from the Pollack
organization.
Although the number of officials
under Mr.. Pollack's direct control
is comparatively small, they rep
resent a potent force.
Votes by the Bloc
His organization claims: The
biggest single bloc of votes on the
city council; the biggest bloc on
the city Democratic Central Com
mittee and the Craftsmanship OF
that group; the biggest bloc OF
votes and the Craftsmanship in the
city's State legislative delegation
end two of the city's six State
Senators
Baltimore is divided into six
legislative districts. Mr.. Pollacl
IS boss" to most of the official!
and political workers of the Fourth
District. his home area. He ha!
considerable direct control in tn,
Clty's Fifth District. He also il
a boyhood friend and long-tim,
political ally of former Mayo
Thomas D'Alesandro whose politi
cal influence in all of Baltimor
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Suffered Heart Attock

In December, 1858, Mr.. Pollack
suffered a heart attack, after a
particularly rough year in the po-
litical and legal arena.
Among his encounters that year
was an indictment charging him
with attempting to opstruct JUS
tice. He was accused of trying to
influence the testimony of two
witnesses in a morals case involv-
ing two young girls and several
youths, including son Of Mayor
D'Alesandro. Mr.. Pollack had his
case transferred to Cumberland
where the charge was dismissed
by two judges who said there was
not sufficient evidence to let the
case go to the jury. Mr.. Grady was
one of the prosecutors.
Mr.. Pollock claims the indict-
ment was politically inspired. mo
politically INSPIRED indictment will
ever hurt me- he said.