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Evening star., 1961-11-12

company, which had record
sales of $l46 million in its latest
fiscal year.
The Lanham Center is more
than twice as large as the
largest Of the company's 13
Super Giants, which already
carry some general merchan-
disc items.
However, it has a score OF
new departments more closely
identified with department
stores and speciality shops than
with supermarkets.
Under the same roof, but q
city block away from a full
scale Giant Food Store are a
fur salon offering full-length
mink coats, jewelry depart
ment presided over by a men,
Der of the Diamond Club Of
Antwerp, a dispensing optician
with complete laboratory ia
cilities for the filling of eye
glass prescriptions, complete
mems, women's and children's
ready to wear departments.
cosmetics and millinery shops,
gift and camera departments.
There are luggage and leath-
er goods departments, a sport
ing goods shop, a bookstore and
a quiet nook where oil paint
ingS by American and Euro
pean artists will be on sale.
All general merchandise de-
partments previously built into
the Super Giants also are in
cluded. These are: Major ap-
pliances, carpets, housewares,
toys, sportswear, outdoor and
occasional furniture.
When the center is completed
it will have many auxiliary
stores-beauty shops, pharma-
cies, cleaning plants and laun-
dromats, auto service and ac-
cessory centers, and in some
cases. bowling alleys, marinaS
and garden centers.
Every general merchandise
item will be discount priced.
but will be offered in a de-
partment store setting, COM
pany officials said yesterday
In its architecture and design
the company has made a major
effort to divorce the idea OF
discount pricing from the image
of warehouse merchandising
that has grown in the minds
of many shoppers.
With this in mind, several
convenience features have been
provided, INCLUDING a cafeteria
and a large community room
the latter located on a mez-
canine which overlookS the
main sales floor.
The discount center will be
managed by Marcus Brooks,
who has been with Giant Food
since l947. and by Wayne r.
Cunningham, a general mef-
chandise specialist in the Super
Oiant Division.
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Savings, Loan Chiefs
Will Go to CHICAGO

A large group of Washington
area savings and loan execu-
tives will attend the seth an
nual convention of the United
States Savings and Loan
League, which opens next Fri
day at Chicago and will last
through the following Tuesday.
John G. Kolb, president of
the District Savings and Loan
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COMMODITIES

NEW YORK, Nov. II CAP).-The
Associated Press index of IS key com,
modities prices rose this week for the
first time in four weeks.
The index closed at 1891, com.
pared with 1926 one week ago and
l6l.o5 in the comparable week one
year ago.
Reaching a 1861 high at 17A.90 was
grains and cotton. Except for nonfer.
rous metals, which remained the samG
at 1873, all other components also
gained.
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Chief of Controllers
CONGRESS to Speak

Ed eagle, controller of Ho-
schild, Kohn g. Co. of Balti-
more and chairman of the Con-
trollers Congress. National Re-
tail Merchants Association, will
address National Capital Group
of Controllers at a dinner meet
ing at the Occidental Restau-
rant on Tuesday. November 81.
The monthly meeting is one
week later than usual because
of the speakers busy schedule.
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CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, Nov. IL (AP).-The feed
grains met fairly steady selling pres
on the Board Of Trade but other
grains and soybeans worked higher.
OF considerable interest to trade
analysts was the rapidly mounting
exceeded its previous record Of 100
million bushels set in July, 1893. On
1895 million. surprising wheat by 81
% under the % total for 'O soybesns. ''
At the end Of the week. wheat was
A-A cent a bushel higher. December
2.03k; corn K-1A lower, December
/ .O99s-h; oats V higher to ~ lower,
" lower, December I.42N-42; soybeans
1h-2A higher. November 2.42%-1.
Range of prices for the week:
High Low C1nse Clnse
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Dealers Entertained
By Roosevelt Auto

Roosevelt Automobile Co. was
host this week end to the COM
pany's Fiat and Jaguar dealers
and their families from %
States and the District of Co.
lumbia.
In addition to dealer meet
ings, guided tours of the area
and an after dinner party were
arranged.
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Purchasing Agents
To Honor Leader

The Purchasing Agents AS
sociation of Washington will
give a reception for Russell
T. Stark, president Of the Ma
tional Association of Purchas-
ing Agents, and Mrs. Stark at
a Presidential Arms reception
at 5 pm. on Tuesday. Novem-
ber 81.
Mr.. Stark will address the
monthly dinner meeting Of the
Washington association follow
ing the reception.
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Defense Accounting
Expert to Tnk

William A. Newman, jr., di-
rector of the defense account
ing and audit division of the
General Accounting Office, will
address Washington Chapter
National Association of Ac-
countants. at an Occidental
Restaurant dinner meeting
Wednesday night.
He will discuss broad finan-
cial management responsible
tiles of the accountant.
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Giont Food to Open
First Discount Center
At Lonhom omorroW
By DONALD B.. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

Giant Food Inc, washington-based food chain which is
becoming the leading merchanders Of the
wiz the first of its Super Giant Discount Centers at S46
Annapolis road in Lanham, Nd tomorrow merning
The big store with a. 900 square feet of
prototype for five such cente planned by the
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TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK (AP)-Overt he Counter
US. Government reasury bonds, weekly
high, low and closinga sked prices, the
net change from the. previous weeks
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BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK (AP). National Associa-
ton Of Securities Dealers, Inc. Closing
nrirae.
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difficulty guaranteed the average he empha-
upply basis and at prices below sized
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DIVIDENDS
By the Associated Press

Pc Stk. Of Pay
Rate riOd Record able
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Both Will Benefit

The agreement under which George
Washington University's Medical School
has become associated with the new
Fairfax Hospital should prove advan-
tageous to both institutions. The Medical
School will have new field Of "subur-
ban medicine" education. At the same
time, the hospital will have the benefit
of the services of competent physicians
from the university.
George Washington already has
similar arrangements with its own
hospital at Washington Circle and with
the District General Hospital The
arrangement is mutually benefcial-as
similar plans have proved to be with
other medical schools and hospitals The
Fairfax Hospital is fortunate in having
allied itself with the nationally respected
George Washington school.
Evening star., 1961-01-29

Of alternative actions which might help
relieve the payments pressure. High on
the list is the suggestion to pursue steps
already taken by the Eisenhower admin
istration, although Mr.. Kennedy said
that one much-criticized order, to cut
the number of dependents overseas of
American Servicemen, Is being reviewed
by Mr.. Dillon and Defense Secretary
Mcnamara. Stepped-up export efforts
and greater participation by other ad-
vanced countries in the common defense
costs, both of which Mr.. Kennedy ia.
vored during the political campaign, are
among the proposals. So, too, are sug-
gestions to counteract the incentives
which attract investment of United
States private capital abroad, and to
reduce the allowance on duty-free pur-
chases by American tourists.
No doubt any or all of these steps,
and many others which have been dis
cussed by economists and Government
officials, would be helpful. Some are
within reach by unilateral action, others
require the cooperation of other gov
ernments. But strongly In the picture,
too, as far as protecting the real value
Of the dollar, is the matter Of Federal
budget policy here, and the need to
avoid infiationary deficit spending ex-
cept under emergency need The Sproul
group itself took note Of this by saying
that 1t does not believe greatly enlarged
anti-recession spending is essential at
this time and, also, by advocating firm
control Of the budget. In his campaign,
Mr. Kennedy himself applied the same
yardstick Of extreme need to deficit
spending. In a defense of the dollar, 1t
is front which must not be left un-
guarded.
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Is Years Ago

The Man in the Brown
Derby"-Alfred e. Smith
was nattily turned out In
white tie and tails Is years
ago as he appeared at q ban
quet Of the American Liberty
League at the Mayflower
Hotel. It was q headline
making affair for The Star
Of January 26, 1896, what
with Smith, the idol Of de-
mocracy in 1928. announcing
he probably would "take q
walk" at the next Democratic
Convention II Franklin D.
Roosevelt was nominated on
q platform indorsing the New
Deal. Smith charged Con
gress had supinely followed
the lead of President Roose-
velt and had passed law after
law that was unconstitu-
tional." He said he was born
a Democrat and expected to
die one, but unless the DEM
ocratic Party mended its
ways, he would not fight for
Its return to power. John l..
Lewis dismissed Smith as q
"gibbering political jacka-
napes." (Four years later, the
mine workers chief support
ed Wendell Willkie against
FDR.)
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Hiding Our Light?

II we were to accept the re-
cent statements Nikita
Khrushchev and Chou En-
Lai supposedly made in the
interest Of peaceful coexist-
ence. we would pull our forces
out Of Berlin. close down our
bases. and withdraw our
armed forces from Taiwan.
The Communist program
Of Russia and China, which
in theory is designed to help
establish equality for all citi-
zens, hasn't exactly worked
out to perfection This is
admitted by both Communist
leaders. who have had their
troubles with graft, corrup-
ton, agricultural problems,
etc.
II we could somehow ex-
hibit to the world our way Of
life and our standard Of
living as compared to the
Chinese Communist and the
average Soviet citizen. we
would probably win more
friends and convert more ma
tions to our way Of thinking.
Herbert SOmmers.
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100 Years Ago

Politicians or editors in
slave States who openly
preached abolition Of slavery
a century ago were rare and
rash. Cassius Marcellus Clay
was a headline-making mem
Der OF this minority group.
A Kentuckian and distant
kinsman Of Henry Clay. he
did some Of his preaching
here. Cassius Clay led a hectic
life almost from the day he
was born October 10, 1870
on hts slave-holding fathers
estate, "White Hail." In
Madison County. KY. He
caned a rival in Louisville
the day before his own we'd
ding. He fought duels with
pistols and Bowie knives.
At SO. believing people were
plotting against him, he con-
verted his ancestral mansion
into a fort. protected by
cannon. While O student at
Yale, he heard William Lloyd
Garrison, leading abolitionist,
speak. That aroused him. In
1845, Clay set up at Lexing-
ton a newspaper called the
True American" and started
crusading. Expecting trouble,
he fortified his office with
cannon, Mexican lances and
rifles. He placed a keg of
powder where it could be set
off against attackers. He was
ousted, but quietly. A delega-
ton Of prominent Lexing-
tonians visited his plant
while he was out Of town.
They boxed his printing
equipment and sent it to
Cincinnati. He published
there for a while. later NOV
ing to Louisville and renam-
ing his paper the Examiner. +"
He became a Republican
when the party was first
formed, voting for Fremont
and Lincoln. On January 26.
1861, Clay addressed the
Republican Association here.
speaking before a standing
room crowd in Odd Fellows
Hall, on Seventh street. The
Star devoted q column to his
remarks, saying in part: HE
(Clay) utterly and emphati-
cally denied the right Of any
State to secede. But II the
South should go out peace
ably, if the IS slave States
should form themselves into
a confederacy, would their
position be bettered? Would
slave property be safer when
the place of refuge to the
slaves be brought down to
Mason and Dixon's Line?
Would 1t be better when their
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Candidate VS.. President

<
tors, happily released by their Soviet
captorS and returned to their homes.
might have to say about the circum-
stances In which they were shot down
and imprisoned remains unknown. For
they are not being allowed to talk. The
explanation by the White House spokes-
man was that the State Department did
not wish to place in jeopardy any chance
OF improving our relations with the So
Wet Union. This invites the inference
that If the returned flyers were able to
talk such chances would be in some
manner injured; on the other hand,
they will be improved II the facts known
by the flyers are not known to the
people Of the United States.
It has been revealed, in the same
general area Of what the people may
have q right to know, that the Pentagon
is imposing new restrictions on men,
bers Of the military in their public state
ments. Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, chief
of.Naval Operations, was directed by the
White House to tone down a prepared
speech on United States relations with
Soviet Russia. The new Assistant Sec
retary Of Defense for Public Affairs,
Arthur Sylvester, explaining another
curb imposed on public discussion, says
that while there will be full private dis
cuSsion by the military men during the
formulation Of decisions on policy, only
the decisions will be made known-not
the pros and cons leading to them. If
1t can be done, the service representa-
ttveS will be gagged when 1t comes to
expressing public disagreement with
Anal decisions.
The precise reasons for SuppreSsing
interviews with the flyers, aside from
the explanation referred to, are un-
known to us so we withhold further
comment. The reasons for clamping
down on the Generals and the Admirals,
in their often inflammatory remarks
about United States-Soviet relations,
are obvious. There has been too much
such talk. And If 1t is possible to lessen
the rivalry between the services, which
takes the form Of leaked criticism Of
decisions already made, so much the
better.
It is interesting, however, that these
moves toward new policy in public
information were revealed at the same
time that two hitherto secret" polls on
United States prestige abroad were made
public at the direction Of President Ken
nedy. The polls had been leaked to the
press for political purposes last summer,
for they tended to support Candidate
Kennedy's opinions regarding our
shrinking prestige. At that time Can
didate Kennedy said they should be
made public. AS President he has car
ried out that pledge.
II all this has any deep significance,
It lies in demonstrating the difference
between what one may imply as can
'didate and what one may do as Pres
ident. We. believe more illustrations
OF this difference will ensue as time goes
on, and we welcome them.
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Negroes shall only have to
cross the Ohio River to be
free, and when. instead Of
the few that the South now
loses, most Of whom are re-
turned. thousands shall es-
cape. never to be recovered?
Then, all the restraints Of
the Constitution. which now
held back abolition fanatics,
will be removed, and their
fugitives win only be returned
at great expense to them
selves. while the jealousies
and rivalry Of the two Sec
tions would inevitably plunge
them into an endless war.
AL other nations are banded
against the institution Of
slavery, and without the pro-
lection Of the Stars and
Stripes. crushed beneath the
oppressive burden Of q stand
ing army. with their property
slipping out Of their hands
day by day. and battling
with each other when any
feud shall spring UP, the
condition Of q Southern
Confederacy would be sad
indeed :"
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Grateful to Rescuers

I would like to publicly
express my gratitude to the
District Of Columbia Fire De-
partment Rescue Squad.
Three weeks ago my hus-
hand had an accident. At my
wits end for help as pain
from his injury increased. a
standerby suggested I call
the Fire Department. Within
three minutes after my tele-
phone call an ambulance ar
rived. Two husky men ex-
pertly applied first aid, eased
him onto a stretcher, and
whisked us, sirens open, to
the emergency department
Of the nearest hospital.
1t is a great comfort to
know that such swift and
efficient service is available
in distraught moments.
Thanks are sometimes un-
graciously left unexpressed,
but to the District Of Colum-
bia Fire Department I extend
mine gratefully.
Matilda ID. MasciOli.
Evening star., 1961-01-29
For the World to Hear
While President Kennedy's

While President Kennedy's reaction
to most Of the requested task force re-
ports submitted to him has been care
fully restrained, 1t Is significant that he
spoke out promptly and 'unequivocally
In accord with the number one recon-
mendation Of the well-qualified group
that has been studying our adverse bal
ance-of-payments problem and the ac-
companying outflow of gold.
Holding his first presidential press
conference only few hours after re-
ceiving the recommendation of the
three-man panel headed by Allan Sproul,
former chairman Of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, Mr.. Kennedy said
that "our study so far has convinced us
that the dollar must be protected, that
the dollar can be protected in its present
value, and that exchange controls are
not needed" 1t was the first contention
Of the Sproul group that, for both prac-
tical and psychological reasons here and
abroad, the President should make q
"strong affirmation" of his opposition to
tinkering with the dollar (by devalua-
tion) as palliative for the gold prob
lem The President announced further
that he will have more to say on the
gold outflow in his state-of the Union
message tomorrow and will submit to
Congress a special message on the prob
lem within another fortnight. Mr.. Ken
nedy had discussed the Sproul report
and Its recommendation with the panel
members and Secretary Of the Treasury
Dillon prior to the news conference.
Meanwhile, the Sproul committee
has left with the Chief Executive series
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Rules Fiqht

It is difficult for me to
see your editorial on the
Rules Committee fight ("Mr.
Sans Unwise Project~
other than foolish and i'll
informed.
Packing" the Rules Conn
mittee q word you say you
don't like) is your own word.
borrowed inappropriately
from the Roosevelt attempt
in the sos to bend the Su-
preme Court to his will.
Congressional committees,
unlike tho Court, are crea.
lures Of the Congress. estab-
lished purely to expedite the
business Of their parent body.
Speaker Rayburn's move
to enlarge the Rules Com
mittee has no other purpose
than to make o committee
majority which represents
the thinking Of q majority
Of the House. II one commit
tee controls the full body, the
committee system becomes @
mockery.
As I have no doubt you
are perfectly aware, many
members Of Congress con-
scientiously refuse to over
ride. committee decisions
through such devices as the
discharge petition. II COM
mittees were to be reversed
In any but truly extraordin-
ary circumstances, members
would soon be swamped by
the number Of bills to which
they would have to give ex-
haustive personal consider
alton.
Thus 1t is preposterous for
you to suggest that the fear
of blockade Of the Admins
tration program by the pres
ent Rules Committee has
no foundation In fact"
It is an open secret on the
Hill that the two groups
in addition to diehard segre-
gationistS-most anxious to
see the Rayburn resolution
defeated are the American
Medical Association and the
National Association Of
Manufacturers.
II these are the bedfellows
with whom you choose to
lie, that Is your decision.
william Ross MacKaye.
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50 Years Ago

Andrew Carnegie was so
pleased with the work of his
Carnegie Institution Of
Washington so years ago that
he endowed it with another
$40 million. The Star Of jan
uary 81, 1911, quoted the
"Ironmaster":: "They had a
large endowment before. and
this makes the total of their
endowment $25 million, but
the institution already has
scored successes to justify
even that sum. I believe that
the institution in research
will repay tenford in service
to the world. Doubtless you
noticed in the telegraphic
news Of yesterday that the
yacht Carnegie had just
reached Buenos Aires. That
yacht is the first one ever
built with bronze substituted
for iron. The latter defects
the magnetic needle and
bronze does not. The result is
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ing freedom, saying to the
world, ITO guard the freedom
purchased for us at so great
a cost. and to defend this
free land against all enemies
at home and abroad, we
solemnly swear"
Thus is heard the authentic
voice Of earth's mightiest
Nation which desires nothing
good for herself that she
does not covet for the whole
world. Through the mega
phone Of II solemf1ly swear"
the United States Is saying
to the emerging nations Of
Asia. and Africa, and South
America. seizing their free
dom from bondage, I'VE have
forever renounced all desire
to become the imperial ruler
OF subject people: we want
to become your partners In
the dreams Of human better
ment. We come to you not
with the regimentation of
Lenin, but with the emanci-
patton Of Lincoln"
We proclaim q liberty that
cannot be bartered for secu-
rity-a freedom that viii not
sell its crown jewels for some
collectivist Utopia. We
stand for strength that never
bullies the weak.
The open Bible upon which
our inaugural oath is taken
Is the sacred symbol that
the liberty which we pro-
claim. and Of which we are
not proprietors but trustees.
is essentially and inherently
o spiritual concept.
AL this means that in our
prayer for America there
must ever be the petition.
Make me big enough to be
an American, purge me from
conceptions too narrow for
freedom" For there can be
no goodness without disci-
pline;an undisciplined people
can never keep their free
dom. They will become their
own despots II liberty cor
rupts them. Lust. liquor and
misused leisure viii eat out
the moral fiber Of any ma
ton. A free society can be
kept only as 1t maintains its
rootage In the religious soil
from which It sprang-
drawing its strength from
spiritual depths.
Only . rededication as
complete as that Of the
founding fathers can prove
that the inaugural platform
was in reality . national
altar where America, con-
scious Of the awe-inspirinR
role these fear-haunted days
are thrusting upon her, con-
socrates anew her might,
moral and material. to some
thing bigger than her own
destiny. Facing with the
rest Of the world the blessing
or the curse. life or death,
may our America under God
register q VOW. heard In
heaven and on earth, a. it
echoes the covenant Of its
new President-"I Solemnly
Swear"
Evening star., 1961-01-29
Cold to Gold Idea

A readers suggestion tJan-
uary 2D to solve the gold
drain problem "by the tenn
porary imposition Of a 10 per
cent tax on all dollars being
traded for gold by foreign
businessmen" raises practical
considerations.
A threatened rise in the
price Of any commodity In
demand (and gold is q COM
modify causes q sharp In
crease in the demand: the
supply. therefore, sharply
diminishes (this Is more
quickly labeled as hoard
ingO.
Before this stellar proposal
could see the light Of day as
a law Of the land (assuming
that Congress would table
everything else to rush this
legislation through, Fort
Knox and our other gold re-
serve centers would be as bare
as Mother Hubbard's cup
board (and all she had in
reserve was q bag Of bonesD.
We would then be treated to
the sight Of our elected rep
reSentatives tottering on the
shore and furiously scream
ing. Come back with our
goldl We haven't even
passed the law yeti" as the
departing foreign business
men tightly clutch their
glittering bargains and glee-
fully wonder who the highest
bidder win be.
For shame, gentlemen Of
the fourth estate-you may
very well have started q panic
by printing such drivel. Sure
ly you don't believe that such
Is representative thinking?
You would better have served
your public by printing the
suggestion for the 10 per cent
tax on the back pages with
Beetle Bailey's friend Zero.
Dollar solution indeed!
Ann Sanders.