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, 1961-03-29
Mrs Pdtricid Shdubdh
Gets Mid Yeor Degree
From Hurvurd Univ.

One student from the
Virgin Islands received a
mid-year degree from Har-
ward University. She is
Mrs. Patricia G.. Shaubah of
Christiansted. Mid-year de-
grees w e r conferred
March Is, 1861.
Since there are no eere-
monies in March, the mid
year degree candidates are
invited to the June Com
mencement exercise S
where they march in the
procession and receive their
diplomas from the officials
of the schools or houses
with which they were most
closely associated.
Mrs. Shaubah was award
ed the Ed.M. degree. She
received her Alb. in 1910
from Hunter College.
, 1961-03-29
Pfc Carlos R. Rumos
Of ST. Croix With-67th
Med. Corp in GermY

Germany Army PFC
Carlos R. Ramos, son of
Mrs. Eustaquia Rivera Of
Christiansted, recently ar
rived in Germany and is
now a member of the 9th
Medical Depot.
Ramos, a supply handler
at the depot in Einsiedler-
hof, entered the Army in
1857 and was last stationed
at Fort Devens, Mass.
The 23-year-old soldier
, 1961-03-29
Csted High School
Wins Over Hdwks:
Mondrchs Champions

The Christiansted High
School basketball t e a m
won over the Hawks last
night on the Christiansted
Court. The score was 44-36.
It was a very exciting game
for the closing of the sea
son.
In the first half of play
Christiansted High School
scored % against Is points
for the Hawks. After the
rest period, the second half
of play was resumed. The
score was CHS. 10 points,
Hawks 211-tthhe CHS team
winning b y an 8-point
margin.
Top scorers for the Chris
tiansted High School team
were David Williams Is
points, Lowell Dyer IA
points, for the Hawks Del
roy Peterson II points and
Leroy Ford Il.
The Coasters and Eagles
are tied for a second place
position. The Christiansted
High School team and the
Hawks are also tied for 4th
place standing in the
league. The Monarchs won
the Championship by win
ming eight games.
, 1961-03-29
ST. Thomds Students
Win Essay Contest;
CHS Hon. Mention

Allie lava, IL, a senior
at the Charlotte Amalie
H j 6 h School, was an
nounced winner of the es-
say contest, sponsored by
the Governors Committee
on Employment Of the Ply
sically handicapped. Ar
lineo daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bassanio David, will
be awarded an all expense
paid trip to Washington,
DC, April 27-28, to attend
the annual meeting of the
Presidents Committee on
Employment of the Physi-.
cally Handicapped. This
will be sponsored and paid
for by the local AFL-CIO
organization as announced
by Senator Earle B. Ottley,
chairman. She received 800
points Of a possible 500 to
lead the runner-up Christia
Goeggel, SITS. Peter and
Paul High School, by 80
points.
Alphonso Christian Of
SITS. Peter and Paul High
School,, winner of last
Continued on page A
, 1961-03-29

attend t Ii Christiansted
High School.
His father, Carlos Ramos,
lives at 625 E. Fifth St. in
New York City.
, 1961-03-29
Executive Order Sets
Rec. Of Deeds Apurt
From Tux Assessor

Governor MerWin last
week issued an executive
order abolishing the Divi-
sion Of Real Property AS
sessment and Recording,
and distributing it's func-
tons among three new Of
fees in the office of the
Government Secretary.
Clarice Bryan, who was
formerly head of the Divi-
sion, was named Recorder
of Deeds for ST. Thomas at
a reduced salary, while o.
Schjang, her assistant in st.
CrOlX, was named Recorder
Of Deeds for st. Croix.
Verne CallWood, W Ii 0
was in charge Of the re
assessment program under
the direction Of the Govern
ment Secretary, was named
Deputy Tax Assessor for
the Virgin Islands, with the
understanding that he will
be named Tax Assessor if
he performs satisfactorily.
The executive d e
went into effect on March
TO-
Evening star., 1961-07-21
Weeding-Out of Relief ChiseIing
Suddenly Becoming National Issue

projects. They are putting re-
strictions on relief to "unwed
mothers. And so on.
But they are also doing
much more. They are thrust
ing into public consciousness,
in the most dramatic way
since public relief became an
ordinary part of national life
in the days Of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, a long-obvious and
unpleasant need. This need,
for years nervously pushed
under the rug, is for an OBJ
jective and fair but also firm
re-examination of relief prac-
tices all over this country.
Few men have hearts of
stone. Few would do any,
thing to make any harder
the already sadly hard road
Of those really compelled to
fall back upon public relief.
But few whose eyes are open
can doubt that a natural re-
luctance to pry into the af-
fairs of the honorable eco
nomic casualties of our So
ciety has long left hidden a
great deal of sordid gold
bricking, of grimy chiseling,
on the relief rolls.
Already a practical re-ex-
amination-though it is not
likely to be Of quite so OBJ
jective a nature-is being
started. The spokesman for
Republican conservatives -
Senator Barry Goldwater Of
Evening star., 1961-07-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Gen. Macarthur dimes with President Kennedy. It's
something in poiticS-the father-and-son banquet
Democrats propose variety Of laws to make business
tell the truth to customers Only three industries exempt
golf, love and politics.
After Kennedys ringing Endorsement Of Chester Bowes
Tor post Mr. BowleS is he's still UnderSecretay Of
State, but he's not quite how far under
Republicans have solution for the Nations anxeties.
They hope to offer candidates who'll take your mind
off the foreign situation and give you something to
about at home.
The White House the public favored Jacqueline
Kennedys Mount Vernon lawn party PakStan President
10 to l. Next project An evening of progressive jazz atop
the washington Monument for the King Of Thaiand.
The Communist press claims the Miss Universe beauty
contest rgged. Not single girl asked to drive
tractor extoll the virtues Of collective farms
Evening star., 1961-07-21

NOV -. the greatest collection of
Fashion Mems Wear in the finest
of quality is greatly reduced.
Evening star., 1961-07-21
Economic Warfare Against Reds

step may become the better
alternative. This might even
mean. in an emergency, some
international subsidies to in
jured businesses.
It would be of great help
If ways and means Of carry
ing on an economic boycott
Of the Communist countries
were to be publicly discussed
so that all nations, including
the so-called "neutralS,"
would begin to understand
that the West has an enor-
nous power to, affect the
world economy. Also there is
no more effective way to
provoke internal unreSt-and
perhaps revolutions inside
some of the Communist
countries-than to cut off
their sources Of raw materials
and thus bring about unem-
ployment in the factories.
The Kremlin will want to
consider such eventualities as
it hurls its threats and boasts
of military strength.
While economic boycotts
are not now being formally
considered, the situation will
change if the Berlin crisis
becomes acute. The first step
then will be for NATO to ex-
anime the economic relations
between East and West Ger
many and see what pressureS
can be exerted to force aban-
donment of hostile policies
begun by the East Germans
at the behest Of Moscow.
The economic weapon as a
means Of retaliation has only
casually been explored here
tofore, but the time is ap-
preaching when concrete
steps can readily be included
in what the diplomats and
military leaders of the West
now call contingency plan.
ming"
Fortunately, the United
States has put under one
man in Paris the supervision
of economic policies as well
as political and military mat
terS arising within NATO.
Thomas K. Finletter, who
used to be Secretary of the
Air Force and is experienced
in governmental affairs gen.
orally. has become the Amer
lean Ambassador to NATO.
He makes frequent trips back
and forth between Paris and
Washington.
(copyright, 1e6D
Evening star., 1961-07-21
Hoffo Loys Loss
To Douqlus

SAN FRANCISCO, July 81
(AP). - James r. Hoffa last
night blasted Senator Douglas,
Democrat of Illinois, for back
ing a local that won a victory
over a TeamsterS local in Chi
cago Wednesday night.
Mr.. Hoffa's Teamsters Local
TIT was ousted as bargaining
agent for Chicago's two major
taxicab companies. A union
headed by Dominic Abata, and
supported by Senator Douglas,
won the right to represent
about $500 organized cab
drivers and cab garage en-
.ployes.
Senator Douglas must hold
himself responsible for destroy
ing a well-founded Teamsters
Union. He stuck his nose in
the election and campaigned
for the independent" Mr..
Hoffa told newsmen here.
The result of the National
Labor Relations Board election
was a resounding defeat for the
TeamSters.
Evening star., 1961-07-21

The "get-tough" relief poll
cy of Newburgh is having
spreading national effects.
Ripples from this rock in a
pond are moving far from
that upstate New York town.
National issues are suddenly
being drawn UP. And politici-
ans in both national parties
are suddenly having that
damp, chill feeling that New
burgh's example may provoke
national showdowns in which
they must sooner or later
stand UP to be counted.
How far does any COM
munity own an obligation to
the migrant jobless who come
in from the outside in order
to get onto the relief rolls or
to those who show no great
wish to find work in any case?
When does right public COM
passion become wrong public
sentimentality, putting UNI
brellas over the shiftless and
the "relief clients" happy
only in that drearily sheltered
sta tie; and the "unwed
mothers" who remain persist
emily unwed?
Newburgh'S authorities are
doing brisk-and some say
harsh - things about these
questions. They are cutting
off relief to those who volun-
tarily leave their jobs or re-
fuse available jobs. They are
putting able-bodied relief re-
cipients to work on public
Evening star., 1961-07-21
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Newburgh PoIicy's Effects Widen

Arizona-with characteristic
candor, is al-out for New
burgh's "get-tough" policy.
One Of his rivals for the 1864
G. o. P. presidential nomina-
tion-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
of New York, the leader of
the Republican liberals-is
(but somewhat cautiously
opposed to the Newburgh
plan. He says it runs against
certain Federal and State
welfare laws.
Abraham Ribicoff, Presi-
dent Kennedy'S Secretary of
Health. Education and We'll
fare, is not taking sides in a
controversy not directly his
business. OF one point of
contention. he has said pub
licly, however, that New
burgh. or any other city, has
a perfect right to require re-
lief recipients to go onto To-
cally financed work pro-
grams.
Mr.. Ribicoff, in fact, is be-
coming a hero to moderates
and conservatives-as was
predictable to those who
knew him as a member Of
the House here and as Gov
ernor Of Connecticut. He is
a true friend Of legitimate
welfare; but no sirupy social
worker. He recently bluntly
told Congress, for illustra-
ton, that there are "too
many laws for coddling chill
dren."
He recalled delivering milk
at age IL, pumping gasoline
at IA and working with a
construction gang at IS. It
Evening star., 1961-07-21
DORIS FLEESON
MobiIizing Faith in u. S. Leaders

to small bipartisan gather
ings. He let them see his
own commitment in a rarely
emotional way and got the
vote Of confidence he sought.
He probably would be bet
ter off if Congress were not
in session when Mr.. Khru-
shchev begins to apply the
screws to Berlin. It would
mean the sacrifice of some
Of his program. possibly some
promises broken to certain
groups. It is a lesser price,
all around, than war.
Evening star., 1961-07-21

did him no harm, he said.
And maybe a little more work
from today's teen-agers would
do them no harm. either.
Whatever the precise rights
and wrongs Of the Newburgh
plan may be-and this whole
field of relief is a compli-
Gated one about which out
Siders would do well not to
be too positive-at least one
thing is sure. Whatever
promotes a new and skep-
tical look into the gravy
train philosophy Of so many
in this country cannot pos
sibly be all bad.
Evening star., 1961-07-21
DORIS FLEESON

President Kennedy's prin-
cipal problem today is to
mobilize the faith and trust
Of the American people in
their leaders and to fortify
their will to endure the ugly
autumn which lies ahead.
Their martial spirit he can
take for granted. Even If it
could not, Soviet Premier
Khrushchev can be counted
on to inflame it. Nor is the
strictly military planning too
difficult,
Much is made Of the
Pentagon's failures in this
free country. and they are
real, but it is a powerful in
Strument and on the whole
we'll led. Despite some ILL
advised and well-advertised
straying into politics by in
dividual brass, civilian con-
troll is respected by the serv-
ices and has been strength
ened in the Kennedy regime.
The Presidents task is one
of communicating his own
confidence and determine
ton to the public. They win
want assurance that all is
being done that can be done
intelligently and their need
for that assurance will grow
as the Khrushchev affronts
increase.
In this respect, the Presi-
dent. unlike his predecessor,
did not have it made before
he entered the Presidency.
President Eisenhower did not
have to create confidence;
that had been done in his
leadership of the Allied ar
mics of World War II. All
he had to do was to exude it.
The historic victory won by
the young Catholic President
last November was a triumph
of hope. He himself realized
that people could not have
that sure feeling that they
knew his capabilities; with
considerable skill and touch
ing modesty, he set himself
the task of creating the at
mosphere Of trust outside
which no President can safely
move.
He has not been given
much time. And he knows,
as he must teach the public,
that, short Of nuclear war,
Berlin is only the beginning
Of a long struggle.
Mr.. Kennedy has never
really unleashed his full tall
ents as a persuader on the
people as a whole. What he
can do in small groups has
just been shown by the stun
ming success Of his foreign
aid bill whose major pro-
visions have just passed vir-
tually intact through the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
He had some high class
help. Chairman Fulbright
has been patient and wise
during the slow process of
marking up the bill. Senator
Humphrey presented the po-
litical angles brilliantly. Ma
jority Leader Mansfield swal-
lowed some deep misgivings
to help out.
Nor does the close vote
Evening star., 1961-07-21
DAVID LAWRENCE

To most AmericanS-and
perhaps Europeans, too, for
that matter-the North At
lantic Treaty Organization
of Is countries, known as
"NATO," means a military
apparatus to defend Western
Europe. But it is becoming
something even more import
ant. It now is also heading
definitely in the direction of
economic warfare against
the Communist bloc.
Secretary of State Rusk is
to meet with the entire NATO
Council in Paris on August
8 to discuss the part NATO
may take in the Berlin crisis.
What does economic war
fare" mean? In the cold
war;" it can be of tremendous
value in deterring the enemy.
For the Communists are in
filtrating wherever they can
and making trouble for the
Western allies.
Thus, in Italy, the Com
muniStS have some sort of
working arrangements with
officials in a state-owned
company which buys oil from
the Soviets at low rates and
sells it at cut prices in world
markets. The Communists, of
course, foot the bill and the
objective is to demoralize
and disrupt the whole oil
traffic. Officials of the
Italian company seem to
have a lot of political influ-
ence inside Italy, and there
are rumors that the gov
ernment itself is very much
worried about the situation.
Two newspapers in Italy
which country is well in
formed about the TuniSian
Situation-said today the
trouble in that North African
nation is oil. One of the
newspapers declares:
"Tunis would like to force
France to negotiate aboIt
the Sahara with all states
bordering on the desert and
interested in its oil produc-
ton. But this would mark
the end of any further ne
gotiations with the Algerian
liberation front which is de-
termined to fight to keep the
Sahara"
Another newspaper links
the Bizerte dispute with the
Evening star., 1961-07-21
Allied Embargo on Trade With Enemy
Viewed as Mighty Deterrent Weapon

Sahara and its oil, which, it
says, seem to be the resi-
dual bones of the long and
bloody Franco-Algerian con-
tention."
Back Of the trouble in
Iraq and Kuwait, moreover,
is a Soviet attempt to upset
the whole Western oil opera
ton in the Middle East.
The more the subject is
examined, the more it be-
comes apparent that many
people in the United States
and Europe who have been
concentrating on the political
or the military phases of
the cold war" have not be-
come aware of the imrli-
cations of the phrase "eco-
nomic warfare"
Obviously. no operation of
this kind can be successful
without the whole-hearted
backing of the different gov
ernments of the West. If the
Communists establish an
agency inside Italy to wreck
the oil business Of the West,
it becomes a matter for the
Italian government to exam
inc carefully so as to deter
mine what internal measures
should be undertaken to
prevent its territory from be-
ing used as a base for the
Soviet cold war" offensive.
President Kennedy is re-
ported to have personally
demonstrated with Italian
Prime Minister Fanfani on
this very point. 1t is rumored
also that the Prime Minister
is planning a trip to Moscow
very soon.
On a broader basis, NATO
may-if the Berlin crisis be-
comes acute-turn out to be
a vehicle for the establish
ment of an economic quar-
antine" against the Commu-
niSts. 1t is a step fraught
with many difficulties for the
West, because it means q
suspension of important eco
nomic activities. and this
would be costly. But if the
choice becomes one between
nuclear war and a heavy
expense for economic boy
colts that would put the
squeeze on the Communist
bloc and stir up internal
trouble for them, the latter
Evening star., 1961-07-21
Londs by Flares

WATERLOO, Iowa, July 81
(AP).-A power failure and
fire shut off the lights at the
Waterloo municipal airport
last night, and a Braniff Air
ways plane had to take off by
the light Of flares.
Evening star., 1961-07-21
Presidents Large Problem Called Trust
OF People, Not Military PIunninq

truly reflect the extent of Re-
publican efforts to be help
full. Only one Republican,
Senator Wiley, swallowed the
moot provisions whole. but
others show a disposition for
eventual compromise, and
the partisan meat ak rarely
flashed.
All hands give much credit
to the Presidents persuasions
Evening star., 1961-03-21

completed will afford ample
accommodations"
Abigail Adams arrived at
the Presidents House, WASH
ington. two weeks after Mr..
Adams, on November 16,.
1900.
She wrote of her new
home thusly: THE house is
made habitable, but there is
not a single apartment fin
ished, and all withinside, ex-
cept the plastering. has been
done since Briesler came. We
have not the least fence,
yard, or other convenience,
without, and the great un-
finished audience-room Cast
ROOM I make q drying
room Of, to hang up the
clothes in. The principal
stairs are not up. and win
not be this winter.
six chambers are made
Evening star., 1961-03-21

comfortable; two are occu-
pied by the President and
Mr.. Shaw (private secre-
tary); two lower rooms, one
for a common parlour and
one for a levee-room. up
stairs, there is the oval
room. which is designed for
the drawing room. and has
the crimson furniture in it.
1t is a very handsome room
now; but when completed,
it will be beautiful"
Some Complaints
Mrs. Adams mad a few
complaints which she set
down in letters written Just
after moving in. There were
no bells to call the servants
in the vast reaches Of the
mansion, lighting the apart
ments was "a tax indeed"
from the kitchen to parlours
and chambers. while the in
habitants were obliged to
keep fires going constantly"
to secure us from daily
,agues."
The latter notation, was
indeed a strain, as Mrs.
Adams developed In a let
ter when she wrote that de-
spite surrounding forests,
wood was not to be had be-
cause men could not be found
to cut and cart it.
Mrs. Adams praised the
view from the house over
looking the Potomac with
Evening star., 1961-03-21

The onnouneement oF the forma-
tion Of a COMMITTEES on the Fine
Arts Commission for the White
House wos mode BY Mrs. Kennedy
lost month. The purpose Of the
committee IS TO Ioeete furniture Of
the dots of the building Of the
White House tls0zl and the Foisins
Of the funds to purchase this furni-
ture as gifts to the White House."
sold the announcement.
Whot wos the furniture Of the
late part Of the 18th century, the
beginning Of the lSth3 Whot were
the designs in vogue then1 What
wos the furniture Of our first, second
and third Presidents? Is there any
furniture in the White House thot
dotes- beck to George Washington?
For the onswers to these questions,
Stor HomefuTnishines Editor Mary
|. Vaushon did rsseoreh et the
lbrorY Of Congress, the Smithsoni0n
lRstitution and through private
sources. This Is the third Of q
series Of orticles on the Presidents
House-Ths Eorly Years.
Evening star., 1961-03-21


fires made in every part.
The furniture must come
in, and we must inhabit it.
unfit as it was. for to go
with fourteen. to sixteen to
lodgings was much beyond
my revenue"
This was not the last time
Abigail was to lament the
unfinished state Of q resi-
dence she was moving into,
subsequent letters will show.
When Adams became Pres
ident in 1897, John and Abb
gail moved into the same
Morris home that had been
occupied by President WASH
ington.
Mrs. Adams was seriously
i'll in Quincy. Mass. during
the summer Of 1898 and did
not return to Philadelphia
for more than a year-in the
autumn Of 1899.
BY this time, construction
Of the Presidents Home in
the new Federal City, Wash
ington, was underway and
on April II, 1900 we find
Abigail writing from Phil
adelphia:
Congress thinks Of rising
by the Middle of May. Our
furniture must then all be
packed and sent to the Fed
eral city-but / mean to get
out Of the way Of that"
Records show she did just
that. returning to Quincy,
Mass. for the summer and
autumn. President Adams
paid a visit to Washington,
after Congress closed. He
stayed for about 10 days be-
fore joining her at Quincy
in June.
From Philadelphia
In pursuance Of q Presi-
Dental order In 1900 when
the Federal Government
moved to Washington, ar
chives and furniture Of the
various Departments, along
with the Presidents House
furniture were packed in
boxes and transported in
vessels which had been
chartered for that transfer
by Israel Whelen, "Purveyor
of the Public Supplies" at
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Whelen also hired
wagons for further transport.
and his bill, including the
expenses Of transporting the
furniture for the Presidents
House. amounted to $4,000
and was approved.
The removal, records re-
veal. covered a period from
June S. 1900 to February 8.
1901, indicating that the
vessels made more than one
journey.
At any rate. the first ship
load was landed at Lear's
Evening star., 1961-03-21

respectfully Of inhabitants"
Within four months, John
and Abigail Adams had left
the Presidents House for
their home in Quincy. Mass,
turning over to President
Jefferson. the Government
furnishings, and taking with
them their personal appoint
mentS.
Tomorrow: President JeheBOn's
impeeeoble tosts.
Evening star., 1961-03-21
Alexandria in the distance.

Alexandria in the distance.
"The country around is
romantic but a wild, a viii
derness at present, +" she wrote
in a letter to her sister five
days after arrival here. "I
have been to Georgetown and
felt all that Mrs. William
Cranch described when she
was a resident there. 1t is the
very dirtyest Hole / ever saw
for q place Of any trade or
Evening star., 1961-03-21
Tea To-day

The first in q series Of
embassy lecture-teas is to
take place today at the Brit
iSh Embassy. The series is
being sponsored by the
American Association for the
United Nations, Capital Area
Division, in connection with
their membership drive.