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Evening star., 1961-07-18
Kennedy to Meet
Joint Chiefs, NSC

President Kennedy today
called meetings with the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the Ma
tional Security Council.
The meeting with the Joint
Chiefs was scheduled for late
this afternoon. The National
Security Council meeting will
be held tomorrow afternoon.
One of the subjects for dis
cussion will be the Defense De-
partment's study of the coun-
try's military needs in view oi
the Berlin crisis and other
world problems.
The White House has said
that the completed study is ex-
pected to reach Mr.. Kennedy's
hands this week.
On Capitol Hill, Senator Rob-
ertson, Democrat of Virginia
acting chairman of a Senate
Defense Appropriations Sub
committee, said Mr.. Kennedy
informed him that the world
crisis is "a very real one" and
that a supplemental appropria-
tionS bill would be sent to Con-
gress before the week end.
Giving no details of the bill
Senator Robertson said a TOP
level conference will be held
on it tomorrow.
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BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla,
July 18. - Mercury Astronaut
Virgil (Gus) GrisSom was told
late this morning that weather
conditions have improve d
enough to reSchedule Americas s
second manned flight for 9
am. (EDT) tomorrow.
Capt. GriSsom, who will make
the flight, grinned at the news.
"I'm ready whenever you are, "
he told Operations Director
Walter c. Williams. The flight
was first scheduled for Z am.
today, but cloud formations
forced a postponement.
Mr.. Williams decided to pro-
ceed with launching prepara-
tions and to resume the count
down at 1870 am. (EDT) to-
morrow.
The 8 am. launching time
will give the sun a chance to
burn off some of the thin cloud
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Kennedy Asks Addition
or Medical Institutes

President Kennedy asked
Congress today to establish a
National Institute of Child
Health and Human Develop
ment in the Public Health
Service.
He also requested that the
Division of General Medical
Sciences in the Public Health
Service be converted into an
institute.
The Presidents request, If
adopted, would raise to nine
the number Of separate insti-
tutes operating within the Pub
lie Health Service.
A Public Health Service
spokesman said a decision on
the location of the two new
institutes would have to await
congressional authorization of
the Presidents request.
Most of the existing institutes
have been centered on the spa
cious grounds of the National
Institutes Of Health in Be-
thesda. An Institute of Envi-
ronmental Health has been au-
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thorized for construction near
Rockville, Md.
1T is both appropriate and
timely to elevate two addi-
tiOnal areas of medical research
activity to the level of insti-
tutes," the President said. I'm
this way, the kind of research
effort that is needed to i'm
prove the health of children
and to stimulate basic studies
in the biological sciences will
be assured"
The President said the work
Of the two new institutes are
not now covered by the existing
institutes which are devoted to
specialized research into vari-
GUS diseases.
In another proposal, the
President asked Congress to
give legislative authority for
the Labor Departments Chill
dren'S Bureau to make CO.
operative arrangements for re-
search relating to maternal and
child health services and serv-
ices for crippled children.
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CLOUDS FORCE 26-HoUR WAIT
Space Hop Set for 9 AN.

and a grounded Mercury man
in-space capsule, Capt. Girls
som had been keyed to make the
flight at 7 am. today.
He's never been much Of a
philosopher, he said in a recent
interview. He said he never
had much time to be. Now, he
has time. And according to a
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration official, the In
diana astronaut took the delay
ph!losophically, indeed.
The official said Gus" was
reused a little after 10 pm.
and told he could sleep late
today, the flight was off. Capt.
Grissom shrugged and went
back to bed, the official said.
Capt. Grissom slept until
about 6 am. then went through
the Mercury flight plan again
with Astronaut Alan Shepard,
who made the suborbital flight
May S. They were expected to
relax this afternoon, possibly
by going surf fishing.
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cover that has hung over the
cape since last night.
The Weather Bureau expects
the multiple layers of clouds
that have developed to be dis
sipated by winds this evening,
leaving only a high thin deck
of clouds at $4,000 feet early
tomorrow morning.
Up to late last night reports
of the weather had been opti-
mistic even though Tiros III,
the Nations newest weather
satellite, had detected signs of
the weather disturbance almost
as soon as it was launched
into orbit a week ago.
The Tiros pictures were not
enough to predict that the
cloudy skies would come today.
But it helped alert weather.
men to the possibility. They
then tracked its development
by usual forecasting means.
After a week of rehearsals
for his mission in a simulator
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Red Forces Reported
Surrounding Berlin

battalion totaling $4,000 men
with 200 tanks.
Alert Police-Units of 1000
men, As tanks and 108 armored
cars.
East German Border Police
Four units totaling 5000 men
equipped with so tanks and
about 1874 armored cars.
The Soviet forces were re-
ported equipped with heavy
T-10 and medium T-54 tanks,
as we'll as heavy artillery, anti
aircraft and antitank guns and
rocket launchers.
10000 in Militia
The West German Defense
Ministry estimates the Com
munists can also call upon
about 10000 militiamen armed
with light infantry weapons.
A total of 1000 allied troops
are stationed in West Berlin as
a symbolic force. These could
be reinforced by 5000 West
Berlin alert police armed with
light infantry weapons. The
regular West Berlin police force
totals 10000 men.
The Communists can mobilize
an armed force of about IA mil
lion men in all of East Ger
many, including about 100000
regular Soviet troops.
The Western powers have
about 621, 900 troops in West
Germany, including about $780,
900 United States soldiers.
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BONN, Germany, July l8
(AP) ).-Soviet and Communist
East German armed forces
have set up a military ring
around Berlin, sources close to
the Bonn Defense Ministry said
today.
The informants declared the
Communists have about 67,500
troops and more than 1900
tanks stationed in a girdle 80
miles outside the city.
So far the Communists have
given no signs of swapping the
ring shut around the city. But
it helps add psychological pres
sure in the current Soviet dip
lomatic offensive.
The East Germans also are
building antiaircraft rocke t
bases in two rings around Ber-
lin, one Is miles and the other
so miles from the city center,
the sources said.
Red Forces Listed
The informants gave this
breakdown of Communist mil
itary manpower sta tione d
around Berlin:
Soviet Army One tank and
two motorized infantry divi-
sions and five border security
battalionS with a total strength
of about 44,50O men and 900
tanks.
East German Army-One di-
vision, four regiments and one
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Red Mission Sent
To Congo Rebels

LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo,
July 18 (AP). - The Soviet
Union has set up a diplomatic
mission in the Congo for the
first time in 10 months.
A United Nations spokesman
said an eight-man Soviet dele
cation arrived July Z in STAN
leyville, capital of Antoine
Gizenga's rebel regime recog-
nized by Russia as the Congo's
legal government.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu,
the central governments army
commander expelled the Soviet
embassy staff from Leopold
vile last September when he
ousted Patrice Lumumba.
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Senate District Committee this
afternoon, would put a Negro
on the Board of Commission
erS for the first time in the
history of the Capital City.
Mr.. Duncan, 51-year-old
District recorder of deeds, was
praised for his civic service.
his administrative record and
his integrity.
Reminder Of Reeves
The hearing, otherwise full
of good fellowship, offered q
few sharp reminders of the last
hearing in an identical setting.
on the nomination of Frank D.
Reeves for the same post.
At the outset, Mr.. Duncan
was asked two questions that
raised a controversy and led
Mr.. Reeves to ask President
Kennedy to Withdraw his nom
ination. The President SubSti-
tuted Mr.. Duncan.
Have you any tax problems,
past or present, with either the
Federal or the District gov
ernment?" asked District Com
mittee Chairman Bible.
Shuns Political Office
Mr.. Duncan said he had re-
quested the Internal Revenue
Service to review his tax status.
That has been done, he said,
and there is, no question re-
garding either return.
do you contemplate running
for any political office or par
ticipating in any partisan ac-
tivity while a Commissioner"
was the second query from
Senator Miller, Republican of
Iowa.
mo, SIR" answered Mr.. Dun
can, categorically.
MIR. Reeves, a Democratic
National Committeeman, was
delinquent on tax payments at
the time Of his hearing before
the same committee. His name
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SoViietWarned
Against.Move
To Gust West
Allies Back Stand
In Separate Notes,
Stress Negotiations
By EARL H. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

The United States, Britain
and France today left the door
open to negotiation on the
Berlin crisis in stern notes
warning the Soviet Union that
any attempt to oust the West
from the divided German cap
ital would be highly dangerous.
THE international dispute
arising out of Soviet claims
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81 Die in Indian Flood

BOMBAY, India. July 1s
(AP). = Raging flood waters
around Poona, about 80 miles
southeast of Bombay, have
claimed at least 80 lives, left
at least $4,000 persons home
less and caused property dam
age of more than $40 million,
the government reported last
night.
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INTERPRETIVE REPORT

Britain and West Germany
took so long to agree on the
wording. The delay in work.
ing out the replies could be
interpreted by Mr.. Khrushchev
as proof of division and uncer-
tainty and could encourage
him to be tougher.
Reds Warned on Bluff
The Western powers are
clearly telling Mr.. Khrushchev
that he cannot bluff his way
through the Berlin crisis. The
wording of the United States
note is strong on this point
although there is no new policy
involved.
The question which Western
officials must now determine
is whether this point has
struck home, whether Mr.
Khrushchev is convinced. He
may recall that the United
States accepted a severe set
back in Cuba when the renel
invasion failed. He may recall
that the United States leader
ship made very strong state
mentS about Laos but never
committed American forces tc
the fighting there as was once
implied.
Top officials of the Kennedy
administration say privately
that Mr.. KhruShchev surely
will not make the mistake o1
comparing the Berlin situation
with any other crisis. In Wash
ington, at least, there is strong
conviction in high officia
quarters that a Western re-
treat from Berlin would be
fatal to the whole Western
cause.
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GROUP BUYS
BIG MARINA

A GROUP HEADED by Tuffy Lee
mons. the former footboII great, hos
just bought the Colonial Yacht Club
at Colonial Beech, Va, from Martin
Lunsford and pIons on expansion
program thot will require on eventual
outlay Of some 100000. For full
details Of their plans read Outdoor
Editor ChorIes CoveIrs story on
Poee Alb.
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BoW|es STAYS,
Sa|inger Says
Reports Of Custer
Persist, However

Undersecretary of State Ches-
ter Bowles went ahead today
with plans for touring Africa,
the Middle East and Asia after
the White House publicly said
he was staying in his post.
White House Secretary Pierre
Salinger. after at first refusing
to comment publicly on reports
that Mr.. Bowles was being
eased out Of his job. said that
"Mr. Bowles is going ahead with
his duties" Mr.. Salinger added
Its obvious he's staying"
Reliable sources reported
after a luncheon meeting be-
tween President Kennedy and
Mr.. BowleS at the White House
yesterday, that Mr.. Bowles
would continue in his post fol
the indefinite future"
mo Problem"
These sources. close to Mr.
Bowles, said there was nc
problem" about his remaining
as Number 2 man in the State
Department and that Mr..
Bowles, as executive officer OF
the department, would deal
with any genuine problems OF
organization.
In spite of Mr.. Salinger's
comments, however, a high
ranking member of the ad-
ministration said pressure re-
mained for Mr.. BowleS' resigna-
ton.
This official said the White
House is shopping around fol
a "tough-minded administra-
tor" to replace Mr.. Bowles, who
generally has the reputation OF
being an idea man rather than
an executive.
Mr.. Bowles' eventual sue
cessor, said this official, must
be able to break up bureaucra-
tic patterns and "get papers
moving"
He said several names for the
job are under consideration, but
that reports of McGeorge
Bundy. President Kennedy's
adviser on National Security
Affairs, being among them are
not true.
Europe Firsters" Role
Although Mr.. Bowles' per-
formance of his duties as an
administrator is cited as the
reasons for requesting his resig-
nation. a knowledgeable official
says a group of department
officials and advisers some
times called the Europe First
ers" is in the forefront of the
moves to replace the Under
secretary.
These advisers contend that
Mr.. Bowles, a former Ambassa-
dor to India, is too interested
in the problems of the under
developed countries in Asia and
Africa.
They claim the problems of
Europe, as evidenced in NATO
and the Berlin situation, re-
quire the primary attention of
the United States.
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will plunge the world into war.
2. To lay the basis for a ne
gotiated end to the Berlin crisis.
Whether the tough tone of
the Western notes the re-
peated warnings that Mr..
Khrushchev is jeopardizing
peace and endangering the
lives of millions of people
will lead the Communist chief
tain to moderate his policies is
a question. A more predictable
effect is that it may have
enough impact on public opin-
ion to prompt leaders OF
neutralist countries to bring
such pressures as they can to
alter the Soviet stand.
No One Is Certain
One difficulty in evaluating
the impact of the Western notes
on Moscow is that no one on
the Western side is certain
about Mr.. Khrushchev's real,
long range intentions. He has
threatened to sign a separate
peace treaty with East Ger
many. He has made this threat
so many times that Western
diplomats think he will have
to make good on it sooner OF
later.
Mr.. Khrushchev would not
necessarily have to try to carry
out the provisions of a peace
treaty by employing force
against the Western powers
however. His peace treaty plar
would not preclude negotia'
tionS, either before or after il
was put into effect. Some au-
thorities think he has beer
aiming at negotiations al
along.
The attempt to evaluate the
effect of the note is further
complicaed by the fact thai
the United States, France
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Unanimous Support
Is Voiced for Duncan
Approval for Commissioner Nominee
Expected by Senute Unit Later Today
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star staff Writer

Friends of John B. Duncan filled Senate hearing
today to support unanimously his presidential nomination
to become District Commissioner.
Unusual acclamaon from white and Negro citizens
from Democrats and Republicans, from ministers labor
leaders and businessmen
His confirmation expected to be recommended by the
Evening star., 1961-07-18
All House Bills
ForU.S.S School
AidAreTab|ed
Rules Committees
81 Vote VirtuuIIy
Ends Chances Now
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star staff Writer

All three House bills for Fed
eral aid to schools were tabled
by the Rules Committee today
and apparently were dead for
the rest of the congressional
session.
Representa- a tive Colmer,
Democrat of Mississippi,
brought up the issue at a
closed session of the committee
after an open session on two
other measures not related to
education.
He moved to table the three
aid-to- education bills previous
ly approved by the Education
and Labor Committee. The
motion was adopted 8-to-7.
This was nailed down by an
other 81 vote against recon-
sideration Of the measures in
the l5-member committee.
Chairman Smith, Democrat,
Virginia, said II don't know of
any way the action can be re-
verSed in this committee"
Votes Not Disclosed
Mr.. Smith refused to disclose
how the individual members
voted. He and Mr.. Colmer re-
portedly sided with the five
Republican members in sup
porting the motion to table the
bills. The deciding vote re-
portedly was cast by Represen-
tative Delaney of New York.
The three bills which the
Education and Labor Commit
tee had sent to the Rules Com
mittee with a request for clear
ance to the House floor would
have provided Federal sid for
public school construction and
teachers salaries, assistance to
colleges for scholarships and
construction programs, and 40
year loans to parochial and pri-
vate schools for facilities to
teach science, mathematics
foreign languages and physical
fitness.
Although the committee had
not been expected to discuss
the education bills today, its
action was not a complete sur
prise. The legislation has
faced serious trouble because
of religious. political and eco
nomic controversies.
Speaker Rayhurn told re-
porters earlier today that it was
very doubtful" that the House
would be able to act on the
school aid legislation this year
Bypass Chance Remote
The Rules Committees action
today did not close off every
possible parliamentary attempt
to get the bills to the House
floor, but the chances of by
passing seemed remote. A dis
charge petition to pry any o1
the three bills out of the COM
mittee would require the sig
natures of at least 219 of the
437 House members.
Sponsors of the bills concede
that it would be even more diff
ficult, if not impossible, to pass
any Of the bills under a Suspen-
sion of the rules procedure that
would need a two-thirds
majority.
Mr.. Delaney and Representa-.
tive O'Neill of Massachusetts
voted with Chairman Smith anC
MIR. Colmer as well as with the
committees five Republican
members last month against
considering the public schoo
aid bill and the college assist
ance measure, at least until the
Education and Labor Commit
tee reported the bill providing
Federal assistance to private
and parochial schools.
After the third bill reached
the Rules Committee, however
Mr.. Delaney said it was a "fail
inference" that he would op-
pose clearance of any of the
fhrnn hills
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was not mentioned at the Dun
can hearing.
Senator Bible displayed 200
letters and as many kilograms
urging the confirmation of Mr..
Duncan. Republican Senators
Beall Of Maryland and Miller
both indicated they would vote
for Mr.. Duncan.
Until now, I never knew
See DUNCAN, Page A-4
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DC. Tax Rate
On Real Estate
Is Raised Zoe
Commissioners
Set New Levy
At $3.50 Per 500
BY CHARLES d. PIERCE
star staff Writer

The District Commissioners
voted unanimously today to in
crease the city's real estate tax
rate by 20 cents.
The increase from $3.50 to
$3.50 per 500 of assessed val
uation is retroactive to July /.
The increase will show up
in the bills District property
owners will receive by Septem-
ber /.
Schuyler Lowe, director of
the Department Of General
Administration. told the Com
miSsioners that District budget
and finance officials felt the
real estate tax increase was
imperative"
Mr.. Lowe said the House.
passed District budget of 1858
million was based partly on
the assumption that the Dis
trict would increase its real
estate tax revenues by $4.5
million.
This is the sum that a 20
cent real estate tax increase is
expected to yield.
First Raise Since 1857
The real property increase
was the first made here since
fiscal 1857, when the rate was
raised 10 cents to $3.50 per
500 of assessed value.
Mr.. Lowe said the new real
estate rate increase will give
the District an effective total
real estate tax rate above those
in the Virginia suburbs but be-
low the effective rate in Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
The effective rate takes into
consideration differences in
assessment practices in the
various suburbs and presents a
more realistic picture than the
actual tax rates, according to
Mr.. Lowe.
Comparison Made
A table submitted to the
Commissioners by Mr.. Lowe
shows that the effective tax
rates per 500 Of market value
in the District and the sur
rounding suburbs compare as
follows:
District, $1.375 with the new
increase; Montgomery County,
$1.52; Prince Georges, $1.38;
Alexandria, $1.30; Arlington
County, SLOT; Fairfax County,
$1.20; Falls Church. $l.31.
Another table presented by
Mr.. Lowe gives a comparison Of
the overall picture in each
of the seven area jurisdictions
on major taxes.
This table, which lists the
amount of money a family of
four owning a home and car
would pay for automobile tags,
and sales. income, real prop
erty and personal property
taxes. shows that the total tax
burden in the District for such
a family with an income of
$4,000 is 1921.
d. C. Second Highest
This figure, which included
the new real estate tax in
crease, places the District Sec
ond highest among the seven
area Jurisdictions in the total
tax amount for such families
in, this income category.
If the same family had an
income of $500, its total tax
burden would be 1896, third
highest among the areas local
governments.
However, if this family had
an income Of $4,000, the total
tax would be $872, lowest
among the seven area juris-
dictions.
Mr.. Lowe said the House.
passed budget of 1858 million
was based not only on an in
crease in the real estate tax
but also assumed passage of
legislation to increase the Dis
trict sales tax from 2 to 8 per
cent and some other tax in
creases.
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would have the gravest effect
upon international peace and
security and endanger the lives
and well-being of millions OF
people," the United States de-
clared in its long awaited reply
to a Russian memorandum
given to President Kennedy last
month.
ut would be irresponsible on
the part of the nations directly
concerned not to use available
means to settle such a dispute
in a peaceful manner" the
note said.
Meeting Held Likely
While the notes contained
no formal proposals for nego-
tiations, United States officials
suggested bilateral, trilateral.
Big Four or United Nations
negotiations were among avail
able means to settle the Berlin
problem peacefully. Prospects
were considered good that an
other Big Four foreign min
isters' meeting would eventu-
ally be called for the early fall.
A Soviet aide-memoire re-
newing the threat to sign a
separate peace treaty with East
Germany was handed to Mr..
Kennedy at Vienna June 4
during his meeting with Pre-
mier Khrushchev. The Amer
ican reply was delivered at
Moscow yesterday and made
public at the White House to-
day.
The separate British and
French notes, also released to-
day, we're equally stern and
also left the way open to ne
gotiation.
Last TAX DeddlOcked
They were cast in a way that
might invite a Soviet sugges-
ton for Big Four negotiations.
The last foreign ministers con-
ference on Berlin was held in
the spring and summer of 1859.
Foreign ministers of East and
West Germany attended as OBJ
servers. The meeting ended in
a deadlock.
"AS in the past, the United
States Government is always
prepared to consider, in agree
ment with its Allies, a freely
negotiated settlement of the
unsolved problems of Ger
many" the American note said.
Such a settlement must be in
conformity with the principle
See NOTE, Page A-4
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y. S. Suggests Par|ey on Berlin
Notes Point Up Choice:
Negotiation or War
Tough Tone Sets Busis for Talks
To End Crisis Over Berlin
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Staff Writer

notes Moscow released today by the United States
Britain and designed to accomplish two major
purposes:
To tell the Soviet government Solemnly possible
and perhaps convince Soviet Premier Khrushchev that he
tries to force the Western powers out of West Berlin he
Evening star., 1961-07-18

Allies coution Reds Not to Act Alone
on Berlin. Poee A-3
Text Of United Stotes Note. Pose As
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TILE NIEATuEn. Full Report
IIE V6AI TEN. on PesO B-2

District and vicinity-Chance Of scattered
thundershowers this evening; low 70 to-
night Continued hot tomorrow with chance
of an afternoon thundershower. High and
low Of last "a hours: High, 30, at 5 pm.
yesterday; low, SO, at 6 am. today.