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Evening star., 1961-12-25

This is the ninth in O series Of lS
articles bosed on the book, "PT 100
John +. Kennedy in World War II "
published by MeGrow Hill Book Co.
Inc, New York.
Evening star., 1961-12-25
oT 7O9-CHAPTER 9

therefore, would be the farthest
up in Blackett Strait. In addi-
tion to 1t. Birmingham it in
cluded, in order. 1t. (jg) Will
liam F. Liebenow, jr.,'s PIT 157
1t. Jg) John R. Lowrey's PIT
1862. and 1t. Kennedy's PIT 109
Oak Zero" was the radio code
of PIT base. Each boat was
assigned a radio call number
1t. Kennedy's was Oak a."
Being the senior skipper, 1t
Birmingham was the leader
not only of his own division
but of the entire group.
1t. Kennedy and Ensign
George H. Ross ira m p e d
through the rotting palm frondS
and coconut husks toward the
dock on Lumberi. 1t. Kennedy
was carrying his charts, and
Ensign Ross was talking about
the turmoil of the air raid.
"We're Going Out Tonight"
They walked past gun en-
placements fortified with
chunks of coral. where the
gunners were still busy re-
storing their weapons from the
duel with the japanese planes
Shippers on their way back to
their boats were gathered on
the beach.
1t was sultry. and the flies
were bad. 1t. Kennedy and En-
sign Ross climbed into a skiff
and Ensign Ross rowed them
out to the boat. When they
pulled alongside 1t. Kennedy
hoped aboard PIT 109 and
handed his charts to Ed Mauer
Were going out tonight y
he said.
Tonight" someone groaned
Let's get ready" 1t. Ken
Evening star., 1961-12-25

nedy ordered. We'll be showing
off at 1880"
Since noon the Amagiri, Hag-
ikaZe. Arashi and Shigure had
covered many miles. AS the
sun was descending in the west
they steamed through Bougain-
vile Strait between Bougain-
vile and Choiseul. The constant
threat of American planes had
kept the crews alert throughout
the day.
Now that dusk was approach
ing and they were moving down
into the Slot, tension became
severe. Crisp orders had dis
patched every man to his battle
station.
Combat Experienced
Aboard the Amagiri. Cmdr.
Kohei Hanami remained on the
bridge continuously, giving or
ders and shifting his gaze back
and forth between the horizon
and the three other destroyers
he was there to protect. With
him on the bridge was a supe-
rior officer, Capt. Katsumori
Yamashiro, commander Of the
Nth Destroyer Flotilla.
Of the four destroyerS the
Amagiri was the only one from
the l1th Flotilla, and Capt,
Yamashiro, an officer of proven
valor and considerable combat
experience. had come along as
its representative.
Forty-four years Of age, he
had been born into a naval
family at the base of Yokosuka,
had graduated from Etajima in
1919 and for some years there
after had commanded a gun
boat at Canton.
Evening star., 1961-12-25
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

Chances are that most postal
workers choice for their per-
sonal Santa Claus this year is
Postmaster General J. Edward
Day.
There's little doubt that Mr..
Day is the most popular Post
master General among postal
employees in the history of the
department.
Morale has scared and with
it has come greater efficiency
and better postal operations,
with resultant better postal
service to the public.
In a little less than a year,
the atmosphere in the postal
service has been completely
changed.
Postal workers generally have
the feeling that management
really is concerned about their
welfare and working condi-
tions, and that they will get a
fair shake on grievances, ap-
peals, etc.
This is not to say that things
are perfect. There are honest
difference of opinion over
some things. And the word still
has not seeped through to a
few postmasterS throughout
the country of the new per-
sonnel policies.
Mr.. Days policy is basically
this: He feels that postal work.
ers should not be treated as
automatons but as human be-
ings. He feels strongly about
the dignity of the individual
employe and their right to be
treated with dignity and con-
sideration.
The result has been a tre-
d mendouS rise in morale and in
the esprit de corps among pos
tai workers. 1t has paid off in
better postal service to the
public.
STEPS TAKEN - Mr.. Day
has initiated these steps to i'm
prove labor-management rela-
tons in the postal service:
/. A system of consultation
and dealing with postal en-
ploye unions on all matters in
-volving postal employees work
ing conditions, personnel oper-
~ations and programs, etc. The
unions views are solicited ir
advance and given conSidera-
ton before a final decision il
made. There also is an "oper
door" policy under which en-
..ploye leaders can consult with
postal officials at any time or
grievances, etc.
This doesn't mean that Mr
Day is wishy- washy about deci'
sions or that he let's otheri
make up his mind for him. o.
the contrary, as a successful
Evening star., 1961-12-25

He wasn't left out. though
The delegation stopped at the
hospital for a visit in the lobby
where Mr.. Bussman, SO, was
wheeled on a Stretcher.
The quadruplets will be two
years old New Years day. Theil
mother died in childbirth.
The girls will shed theil
Korean names of Chung En- All
En- ia, En- Sill and Eli Sock ir
favor of Lois, Mary, Sharon
and Ruth.
Evening star., 1961-12-25

The factory showroom samples brought the finest
quoy o factories the Eo These purchased
far below their
All pieces brond absolutely perfect Most kind with
tremendous selection have
been reduced odded soIe Choose
prints tapestries ond fine fobes Remember stock limited
hurry! Here are some sompIes
Evening star., 1961-12-25

cover. Division &C. under 1t
George E. Cockman in PIT l07
would patrol south of Ferguson
Passage to intercept any ships
that might attempt to use that
channel into Blackett Strait,
The other three divisions were
to move through Ferguson
Passage and patrol in the strait.
Division "R" under 1t. Rus
sell w. Rene in PIT 174 was to
patrol east of Makuti Island,
while the other two would pa
troll off the south shore of
Kolombangara.
Patrol Duties Assigned
Thus Division "a" under 1t.
Eerndtson in PIT I'll would pa
troll opposite the village of
Gatere, and Division "B" under
1t. Henry ]. Birmingham in
PIT 159 would patrol off the
j village of Vanga Vanga.
The station of Division B.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
Stanton Park
Unit Disbands

The Stanton Park Citizens
Association last night disband-
ed after more than 40 years.
The action was taken
through a referendum vote
which favored disseminating
the organization, 10 to S.
Miss Henrietta E. Lemon,
president Of the group, outlined
the problems which led to the
decision. Nobody will run for
president. I've served for three
years and I'm through" She
added: "The Capitol Hill
Southeast Citizens Association
took a lot Of our members
especially the men-and now
we can't get anyone in the area
interested in our association"
Only 10 members were pres
ent at last nights meeting, all
Of them women.
The organization was the
scene Of feverish activity in the
early sos when it helped lead
the struggle opposing desegre-
cation Of District public schools.
In 1854 it allocated funds from
its treasury to help pay the
cost Of legal action aimed at
maintaining all-white schools.
Earlier in 1852, the group
voted to support segregation at
the Rosedale Playground.
In the action to discontinue,
the group also decided to do
nate treasury funds to various
charities.
The meeting was held at the
Peabody School, Fifth and c
streets NE.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
Speaker Explains
Civil Liberties
ToCitizen Group

Lawrence Speiser, Washington
office director Of the American
Civil Liberties Union, told mem
bers Of the Lamond-R Riggs Cit
liens Association last night Of
the history and work of that
organization.
Mr.. Speiser, an attorney, first
explained the difference be-
tween civil liberties and civil
rights. The latter term, he ex-
planned, is used mainly in de-
filming the constitutional rights
Of Negro citizens, whereas civil
liberties is term used to de-
fine the rights Of all citizens.
Mr.. Speiser then cited spe-
cific recent cases in which the
Civil Liberties Union has helped
to defend individuals whose
constitutional rights, it felt,
were being violated.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
Transportation
Problem Cited

I'VE have created a monster
In terms Of brick and mortar"
and the National Capital Plans
ming Commission is wrestling
with 1t, q civic association was
told last night by representa-
tive Of the planning commits
sion.
Luther Burnett Of the PLAN
ming commission discussed the
so-called east leg Of the pro-
posed innerloop system before
the Public Interest Civic Asso-
citation.
He said the basic problem
confronting the city is the
need for an orderly, integrated
transportation system. With the
aid Of maps and pictures he
pointed out the function of the
northeast freeway in the pro.
posed innerloop system.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
Circus to Give z
Shows Saturday

The Hunt Brothers Royal In
ternational Circus will give two
performances Saturday at
Branch avenue and Silver Hill
road in Silver Hill, Md. Per-
formance times are at 2 pm.
and 8 pm.
The circus is sponsored by
the Silver Hill Fire Department.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
-Four Northwest Co-ops To Build
81 Million Fertilizer Plant

ST. PAUL-(CNS)
people in Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, and the Dakotas will build
a Sd million ammonium phos-
plate fertilizer plant near SUI
burban Pine Bend, officials an
nounced here May 20.
Bulldozers will break ground
June Is, and William Jones,
manager of Northwest Coop
erative Mills, expects to have
the plant operating by next
April. 1t will turn out 100000
tons of water-soluble ammo
mum phosphate a year.
Northwest Mills is S4R-
million feed, seed, and ferti-
lizer producer owned by four
regional co-ops-Central Co.
operatives, Farmers Union Cen
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
Great Columbia River

footed by his second thoughts.
He had approved the treaty but he
had never liked it much, had finally
persuaded himself that it was a poor
bargain as it stood, and had long been
convinced that the Diefenbaker gov
eminent was totally incompetent any,
way. Now he bounced on an indiscre-
ton from the usually discreet lips
of Davie Fulton.
When the chief Canadian negotia-
tor said that the downstream Column
bia power could be delivered in Van
couver at the bargain-basement price
of 3.77 mills, Bennett demanded proof
of this figure. How had Ottawa cal
culated it? Did the federal govern
ment really know the probable cost
of power? Had it even surveyed the
Columbia adequately before making
a contract with the United States?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
Regional Leader
To Speak Before
PTA Convention

Opportunity In Full Measure fol
Every Child" is the title for the
address to be presented by Mrs. c.
Meredith Springer at the state PTA
convention in Billings, June $40.
Mrs. Springer, Babylon, New York
is regional vice president of the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and Teach
ers from the northeastern states.
Primarily interested in legislation
to secure favorable educational oppor-
tunities for all children, Mrs. Spring
er said her concern is that we "focus
on the whole child.
Formerly president of the New
York State Congress of Parents and
Teachers, Mrs. Springer has served
ON numerous educational committees,
including the Governors Committee
for the White House Conference on
Children and Youth. She is past
director of the National Parent
Teacher magazine.
The convention theme is Together
We Build, Mrs. w. G. Nelson, Butte,
president of the Montana PTA, has
announced. Superintendent of Public
Instruction Harriet Miller will lead
a panel entitled Together We Build
for Better Schools.
Mrs. Kay Elizabeth Burrell of the
Montana Board of Health will lead
panel on "a Better America Through
Happier Homes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02

BUTTE-What was expected to be
the final public hearing concerning
a proposed safety code for mining
quarrying, milling and smelling oper-
ations in Montana to be adopted by
the Industrial Accident Board was
held Wednesday, May %, 1861, in
the Auditorium of the Science-Li-
brary Building, School of Mines,
Butte.
small, there being about 10 members
of mine-smelter management pres
emit, about an equal number of Mine,
Mill and Shelter Workers and their
representatives the State Mine In
spector, and Mr.. Swanberg of the
Industrial Accident Board.
No earth shaking announcements
were made. The atmosphere was frus-
trating for the affected workers pres
emit.
The committee seemed to feel
that, so far as they were concerned,
the code was finished, and protests
or revisions advanced by labor were
simply obstructionism.
Ernest Salvas, of the IUMM&SW,
pointed out that his union had sent
in a large number of suggested safety
regulations for smelter operations, of
which the code committee rejected
about rs per cent. He also protested
when member of the code drafting
committee voiced his concern for
operators of small mines. Mr.. Salvas
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
By Darrell MILLER In

FARMER-GLOBE, Wahpeton, N. D.
A study by the Department of Ag-
riculture in 1860 indicated farm pro-
duction would continue to increase by
about 2 per cent per year, if all acre
age controls Except tobacco) were
removed and price supports reduced
to levels that would permit orderly
reduction of current stocks of stor-
able agricultural commodities over a
T. to 10-year period.
According to the Departments cal
culations, increased marketings of
farm products would result in the
following prices by 1865: wheat, 80
cents per bushel; corn, 80 cents per
bushel; other feed grains in proper
ton to corn; beef cattle, SIS per
hundred; hogs, $11.2O per hundred.
The estimated net farm income by
1865 would drop to figure of 46
per cent below agriculture's net in
in 1858.
True, agriculture accounts for a
much smaller proportion of our ma
tional economy than it did 20 or 80
years ago, but large percentage of
business and industry still is depend
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02

trail Exchange, Farmers Union
Grain Terminal Association,
and Midland Co-operatives. 1t
has plants here and in Winona,
Mimi, and Green Bay, Wis.
Officials said Central Farm
ers Fertilizer Company, a ma
tional federation of regional
co-ops, will soon share owner
ship of Northwest Mills. The
five co-ops will market the
plants entire output.
The plant will get phosphate
rock off CFFC, reduce it to
phosphoric acid with sulphuric
acid, combine it with anhydrous
ammonia from ST. Paul Am
monia Products Company, and
add potash. CFFC markets the
entire output of the ammonia
company.
Jones said the plant will be
the most modern of it's kind in
the u. S. with several unique.
features. The plants office
building will include a sound
proof auditorium to seat 100
visitors.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
In Support of Kennedy Freeman Proposal
Does America Need A New Farm Program?

emit on the farm market. In communi-
ties of 5000 population and under,
and on the farms surrounding these
communities, you have 35 per cent
of the nations population. These peo-
pie are earning their income directly
or indirectly from agriculture; either
directly in the production of agricul-
tural commodities or indirectly in the
business of providing goods and serv-
ices for agriculture.
One can conclude from these
studies and facts that an unhealthy
agricultural economy would cer-
tainly mean an unhealthy national
economy.
In production, agriculture is an out
standing success-where 20 years
age, one farmer worker produced
enough food for IL persons, today,
he produces enough for 25.
Today, U. S. consumers buy bal
anced and varied diet for about one
fifth of their take-home pay-a small
er portion of their pay than anywhere
else in the world.
Now we have before the u. S.
Congress, the Agriculture Act of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
Final Meeting Of Mine Safety
Code Committee >FrUsfrufinq'
By RICHARD EVERINGHAM, Absarokee
limited SteelWorkers Local 1888

said that the consideration of opera
tors finance was not within the scope
of the committee function.
1t should be also borne in mind
that the proposed code permits wide
latitude of Judgment for the state
mine inspector. This, too, over labor's
objections.
Dick Everingham. Absarokee, rep
resenting the United Steelworkers of
America, asked the code drafting
committee to recommend that all con-
troversial words, such as: reasonably,
adequate, and minimum, be inter
preted, permanently and finally. by
the Industrial Accident Board. and
that, refusing this, the committee
make statement setting forth their
reasons for refusal. The committee
chairman said that there would be no
statement on this matter.
Everingham also asked that the
code as now drafted be given to the
Industrial Accident Board so that it
could, in effect, become Montana law.
A note of pathos was evident when
a worker on crutches pleaded for a
ban on men being assigned to work
alone. He was alone on mine level
when he got hurt. What's in the code
to cover this? The committee has
not been able to agree. AS yet, moth
ing.
The meeting adjourned about IL
noon because labor was simply maxi
ing work for the hard working court
recorder.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
Would Establish New
Labor Department Post

WASHINGTON, D. president
Kennedy has sent to the Congress a
bill to provide an additional Assistant
Secretary of Labor to help the Labor
Department meet its increasing re-
sponsibilities in connection with the
growing role of women" in the ma
TONS work force.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
Continued From Page One)

lOliA L age OiCJ
cheap electricity, about 1,250,00C
kilowatts, available about five years
hence from the Arrow Lakes reser-
voir. would be wheeled back across
the border for use mainly in the met
ropolitan area of Vancouver.
1t would supply British Columbia
needs for a few years to come. By
the time it was all in use the high
master dam at Mica Creek would be
complete. about a decade hence, and
could provide on-site power for Ca
madam consumers equal in volume
to the downstream benefits.
The United States won a major
point in the bargain by gaining the
right to build its long-sought Libby
Dam on the Kootenai (where the
Kootenay River loops through u. S.
territory and takes on a different
spelling) and to flood 1900 acres
of land in British Columbia south
east of Cranbrook. Conversely, the
Canadian dams would prevent
flooding in the United States, which
would pay Canada $64, 100000 for
this benefit-a tidy sum in the
total Canadian cost of nearly half
billion dollars.
That was a deal concentrating
more than a dozen years of inter-
national wrangling and it represented
the largest power project in Canadian
history. UNDERSTANDABLE gratified by
his governments diplomatic success,
Prime Minister Diefenbaker hurried
to Washington and there, last Janu-
airy, he and President Eisenhower
signed the Columbia treaty amid tor
rents of commentator all over the
continent. AS usual, the two friendly
nations of America had settled their
by sensible compromise. /
The editorial writer's all agreed that |
Canada and the United States had |
set another example of good-neigh- |
borliness in a demented world.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02

1861, known as the omnibus farm bill,
S. 1923, and HR 6400. This new farm
bill does not establish agriculture pro-
grams, but provides the authority for,
and the framework in which farmer
committees with the Secretary of
Agriculture can establish workable
price improving programs for each
farm commodity, if the producers
want them.
1t will mean less government in
agriculture, giving the producers
themselves the apparatus needed to
tackle problems of supply adjust
ment on their own initiative
through collective decision and ac-
ton.
1t will diminish the power of the
Secretary of Agriculture. Existing
laws give the Secretary broad, dis
cretionary authority to fix price-sup-
port levels, prescribe acreage allot-
ments, and establish marketing quo
tas for basic commodities without
prior approval by Congress. Under the
new bill, any new program for any
commodity will be devised in consul
tation with the producers, subject to
congressional approval and subject
to approval by majority of the pro-
ducers of the commodity.
1t will give Congress closer rela-
tionship to agricultural programs. 1t
will establish basic detectives and
guidelines for national agricultural
policy in this bill. Congress will scruti-
nize every commodity program pro-
posed by the producers in consulta-
ion with the Secretary. Congress
will appropriate the funds and ap-
prove or disapprove every commodity
program. If Congress disapproves a
program, it can write and enact one
If its own.
1t will cut federal cost of farm
programs. BY bringing supply in
line with demand, cost of storage,
handling, and interest in Commod-
ity Credit Corporations will be SUBJ
stantially reduced.
1t will allow farmers and consum-
RS to be represented on the advisory
ommlttees. The advisory committees
will be made up of actual farmers
lected by county ASC committees
at least two-thirds of the producer
ommittee members nominated in this
ray) and the remainder named by
eneral farm organizations or COM
lodity organizations, one member to
epresent consumers being appointed
v the Agriculture Secretary.
The new farm bill is good one
for taxpayers, producers, and con-
sumers alike.
The net results will be:
1. A healthy agriculture.
2. Prosperous farm communities.
3. Less cost to government and
the taxpayers
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-06-02
Ottawa Put Its Neck
In A Moose

Everything seemed to be in hand
but unfortunately the two eminent
signatories in Washington misjudged
the wizard of provincial politics in
Victoria. Premier Bennett had ap-
proved the treaty in every respect.
His experts had sat in with the feder-
al governments negotiating team and,
at the last moment, had insisted on
changing the whole engineering de-
sign drastically to meet British CO.
lumbia's wishes. Against its own, the
federal government agreed to flood
the valley of the Arrow Lakes instead
of the Kootenay valley to the east
ward and thereby assured itself of
serious political difficulty later on.
Diefenbaker thus had no reason to
expect trouble from Bennett, without
whose provincial water license the
scheme could not go ahead. To be
sure. in the haste to sign the treaty
one point had been left unsettled
how were the federal and provincial
governments to share the construc-
ton costs? This small detail, it was
assumed, could easily be ironed out
at leisure. But Diefenbaker did not
know his Bennett.
1t must have been with popeyed
incredulity that the prime minister
and his treaty negotiators, Davie
Fulton and Howard Green, read an
innocuous-looking dispatch from
Victoria. The provincial premier
had suddenly acquired grave doubts
about the whole deal. Though he
had already approved the treaty, he
now referred it to his provincial
Energy Board for prolonged in
vestigation. The board would not
report until summer and might re-
port adversely. Meanwhile Bennett
would issue no water license on
the Columbia.
To increase the federal govern
ment's modification, the United |
States Congress ignorant of Ca
nada's intramural pickering and its
stitution-promptly ratified the
treaty and expected the Canadian
Parliament to do the same without
lelay. The Canadian government
could push the treaty through Parlia-
nent, but it was powerless to lay a
ard of concrete until Bennett an
ounced his one-man ratification. A
premier calmly undertook
0 hold up the high policies of two
ational governments until he was
God and ready to proceed. And, I'M
nown to Ottawa, he was meditating .
still larger demarche.
If Ottawa had read more carefully
lie fine print of Benefits speeches, ,
it had noted his apparently casual
emarks at press conferences, it
ould not have been caught SO flat