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Evening star., 1961-08-04
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
By WILLIAM MORRIS

@. The inclosed clipping, part
of a tornado story, contains
some words that sent me to the
dictionary. Here it is: THE
tornado struck without warn
ing after about 10 minutes of
rain. In seconds it had wrecked
havoc and gone. Shortly after
ward the sun shone brightly
and a beautiful double rainbow
bracked the shattered town"
Can you help me on this? Do
"havoc" and wrecked" have
the same meaning? The mean
ing given havoc" in my book
is great destruction, as result
ing from wars or hurricanes"-
while the meaning of wreck"
is Ito destroy or damage badly"
Sounds like the same thing to
me.
The other word "bracked" is
a puzzler, too. I couldn't find it
IN my dictionary "a new and
up-to-date one. The only word
I found that might have been
intended was "bracketed." The
usage which might have been
intended in this story was la
beled military" and meant the
shooting of two rounds of am
munition, one at long range
and one at short range to
bracket" a target. Does this
make sense to you?
I certainly enjoy trying to
| figure out what 1 read in the
papers! - Bea Hardman, Ro-
anoke, w. Va.
A. Somewhere along the line
someone corrected" the rela-
lively unfamiliar "wreaked" to
the common but in this case in
Evening star., 1961-08-04
WoIt Disney

rors so close together indicate
that some proofreader was
having an off day.
Ever wonder how many words
you know? For a copy of Will
liam Morris Self-Scoring dag
nostic vocabulary test, which
will tell you the size Of your
present vocabulary, send a self =
addressed, stamped envelope,
Plus 10 cents to William Morris,
Vocabulary Test" in care of
this newspaper.
Evening star., 1961-08-04

correct wrecked" "Wreak, I"
from the Anglo-Saxon "wre-
can," means to inflict or de-
liver a damaging blow. Thus to
"wreak havoc" is to cause wide-
spread destruction.
Your guess about the
ed-bracketed" confusion
is as good as mine. Probably
"bracked" is just a typograph-
ical error for "bracketed" and,
equally probably, these two er-
Evening star., 1961-08-04

When cIeonsers ond detergenis remove din ond qreose
they oso remove The noturo oils thot keep your honds
soft ond smooth. PlofeH living Gloves preserve these
precious notuol oils and give you complete protection
o9oinst this drying oeton. And potex living Gloves
with soft oLeotton lining ore so comfortable too
non-slP grip-so flexible you pick vp dime EHtro-
long cuffs. In assorted coors.
Evening star., 1961-08-04
N. E. Logs in Cars
HI AND LOIS
THE BERRYS
THE TooDLEs
SCAMP

DETROIT.-Car ownership is
highest in the western United
States. with "a per cent of
households having an automo-
bile. 1t is lowest in the north
east. where only 68 per cent of
the householder own cars.
Evening star., 1961-12-08

tangans seemed to be holding
their own against the smaller
but better equipped U. N. force
Evening star., 1961-12-08
CONGO

Continued From Page Al
defense purposes in Katanga
The bombs may be used only
against Katangan airfields, the
British said.)
20 Planes on Hand
The United States had six
big CHA Globemasters and
IA C-130 Hercules trans
ports on hand in the Congo for
the airlift that was temporarily
suspended yesterday when one
Globemaster was hit by ground
fire as it came in for a landing
at Elisabethville.
The first planes to take off
from Leopoldville at dawn
today, as the airlift resumed,
carried 200 Irish troops. Ma
layan armored cars were being
brought in on some of the nine
flights planned for the day.
U. N. jet fighters destroyed
two airplane hangers at Jadot-
vile. one of the two main Ka-
tangan air bases. in sorties
yesterday, it was announced.
AS Gen. Sean McKeowp, the
Irish commander of U. N.
forces. flew here from Leopold
vile for a first-hand survey of
the situation. U. N. officials
acknowledged that the Ka-
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Successor
To Bridges
Takes Office

Maurice J. Murphy, jr., of
New Hampshire today became
the baby member of the Sem
ate at "a by delivering his
credentials to Secretary of the
Senate FELTON, M. Johnston.
This placed Senator Murphy
on the payroll, although he will
not be sworn in until Congress
reconvenes on January 10.
Until Senator Murphy was
named yesterday by Republican
Gov. Wesley Powell to succeed
the late Senator Styles Bridges.
the youngest member of the
Senate was Republican Sem
ator Tower of Texas. who is 36.
Senator Tower still holds the
distinction of being the first
Republican Senator from Texas
since reconstruction days.
Senator Murphy met report
ers in Mr.. Johnston's office but
avoided any discussion of legis-
lative issues. He also was reluc-
tant to say flatly that he will
run next year for the re-
mainder of the Bridges term.
Evening star., 1961-12-08

was badly hurt though q few
we're hit by flying glass. Two
sisters Of charity from Client,
Belgium were also hit by glass.
1t was a miracle nobody was
killed or wounded by the
bombs"
Wards were wrecked and the
grounds pocked by craters.
Shells also landed In the AZ
rican quarter south of the hos
pital. and Katanga officials
claimed four African civilians
including two young girls
were killed and a Roman Cath
olic church was hit.
The government radio sound
ed a new call to arms for the
katangan people to wage war
with bullets or poison arrows"
for a fight to the finish until
every last man Of the U. N. Is
driven out Of Katanga.
Associated Press Correspond
ent Adrian Porter, riding into
Elisabethville yesterday after a
train trip from Northern Rho
desia, reported:
I'VE were told the line to the
main station had been blown
up. Besides. there was some
fighting going on near the sta
ton.
a.. A railway official drove
US to a hotel in the center of
Elisabethville. 1t was a drive
through empty streets, closed
shops and a few cordons Of
Katanga troops.
Whites and blacks stood or
sat on their porches in groups
watching-and listening to the
crump of bombs and clatter of
machine guns.
we moved into the hotel
crowded with whites who had
come for shelter and food-and
watched KatanGa troops in
their camouflaged uniforms
roar through the streets either
to the front or back to their
camps for ammunition and
food.
A Katanga truck
rumbled past pulling a 40-mm.
Bofors all-purpose gun toward
an underpass which the Swedes
were attacking. The underpass
is only three or four blocks
from the hotel.
"A few minutes later heavy
firing broke out. Out near the
U. N. headquarters - eight
blocks or so away - came a
sudden barrage of mortars and
baZookas."
Evening star., 1961-12-08

would not cost the Govern
ment money under conditions
foreseen next year. The stand
by authority would not be used
Details have not yet been
decided. The administration
bill may omit "triggering" de-
vices-which would automati-
cally start grants on the basis
of specific economic barometers
and leave use of the stand
by authority to the Presidents
discretion.
Or the bill may set the
triggers" so that they would
not fire under conditions an
ticipated next year.
Mr.. Kennedy said in the pre-
pared text of his speech that
it is as "deplorable" to have
high unemployment as to run
budget deficit. He omitted
this section in delivering the
speech.
Labor Secretary Goldberg
held a news conference later
yesterday to fill in details of
the Presidents report on en-
ployment.
Mr.. Goldberg hailed as a
significant breakthrough" the
decline in the jobless rate from
6.8 to 81 per cent between Oc-
tober and November. He said
the actual number of unem-
ployed workers increased from
1894, 1000 in October to 1890, 900
in November.
The Secretary explained that
the normal seasonal pattern
called for a rise of about
10000 in unemployment. Since
the increase was much less
than that. the seasonally ad-
justed rate dropped. The rate
was SO per cent In November,
1860, when there we're 4.03l 900
unemployed workers.
Last months decline in the
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Salvation Army
Advisers Elected

Andrew Parker has been
elected chairman of the District
of Columbia advisory board of
the Salvation Army. Mr.. Park
er, president of Woodward and
Lothrop. lives at 1000 Nebraska
avenue NV.
Other officers elected were
George Levin, 924 Twenty-fifth
street NV. vice chairman;
G. Bowdoin Craighill, jr., $50
Waverly way, Mclean, Va.
treasurer. and Harvey Donald
son, 1000 Massachusetts, avenue
NV. secretary.
Also elected to the advisory
board for the term expiring
December 81. 1864, were John
T. Barnett, Henry F. Bur-
roughs. Howard Covell, Phillip
Larner Gore. John F. Hardie,
Rowland F. Kinks, Dooley Nit
chell. E. Barrett Prettyman, jr.,
Winslow B. VanDevanter and
Harold D. Fangbcner.
Elected for the term expiring
December 81. 1868, was Theo-
dore T. Smith.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Hirohito Moves
ToS470, 900 Home

TOKYO, Dec. 8 (AP) EN-
peror Hirohito and Empress
Nagako moved today into their
new home. a sprawling two
story Western style house in
side the moated imperial palace
grounds.
They had been living in a
refurbished air-raid shelter
since American bombers
destroyed their palace in a fire
bomb raid during world
War II.
The new reinforced concrete
building cost ITO million yen
t$47l ,000), is air conditioned
and has a barbecue pit off a
veranda.
Evening star., 1961-12-08

sion should be included in any
proposed home rule bill.
Mr.. Shore emphasized his
organization has always sup
ported home rule but he said
the non-voting delegate would
mean a step forward in pro-
District citizens.
Others who appeared to give
general support of the idea of
a delegate in the House in
cluded Monroe Freedman. OF
Neighbors, Inc; Lucia A. Rap
ley, American Association Of
University Women; Mrs. Ann
Stults, Ben Murch Home and
School Association; Mrs. Alli-
son R. Palmer, Congregational
Christian Churches, and John
B. Gillilland, D. C. Congress Of
Parents and Teachers.
Mr.. Gillilland asked for legis-
lation which would authorize
lone or more" representatives
in the House.
Other witnesses who sup
ported the delegate proposal
included Herbert Ernst of the
Lamond-Riggs Citizens Associ-
alton, Mrs. Ida Smith Taylor of
the College Alumnae Club and
the Virginia White Speel Re-
publican Women's Club, and
Riddick H. Pree Of Precinct
Gil.
Ralph Hirsch Of the Capitol
Hill Community Council tes-
titled in support of the admin
istration's home rule bill. He
said a delegate would be no
substitute for home rule.
Barry Bison of 1921 Kalo-
rama road NV. said he repre-
sented Citizens for Retroces-
sion. Mr.. Bison said that,
under the concept of retroces-
sion. District citizens could
petition Congress to switch the
city back to Maryland.
Mrs. Robert Burns OF Amer
ican University Park Citizens
Association said her organiza-
tion had voted to oppose the
delegate proposal.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Continued From Page Al

the consequences of a Com
munist victory in all Wet Nam
would be far-reaching. 1t would
doubtless seal the fate of Laos,
where the Communists already
control about half the country,
'Cambodia's precarious neutral
ity would be subjected to heavy
and steadily increasing pres
sure. Thailand, too, would
have to expect to see the tactics
used in Laos and in Wet Nam
directed against her.
Would Tip Balance
The present balance of
forces between independent and
Communist states in Asia would
be tipped perilously if Wet
Nam. Cambodia and Laos fell
under Communist domination
What then would be the pros
poets for Thailand and Burma
or Pakistan and India, for
Malaga and Indonesia?"
The report cautioned that 1T
is not logical to expect that
the Communists will abandon
techniques that proved success
full. Conversely, failure in Wet
Nam might prove an important
deterrent to repetition else
where a government or a
people who now think that
Wet Nam is so far away from
us may we'll discover that they
are the South Wet Namese of
tomorrow. Then they may wish
that they had done more now.
Then it will be late, very late,
perhaps too late"
The State Department report
outlined four things non-Com-
munist states can do in the
Wet Nam situation:
l. Understand "the real and
not the imagined situation"
2. Send observers. ANY
friendly government can send
its own observers to see for
themselves"
3. Close South Wet Mans
Evening star., 1961-12-08
WHITE PAPER
Hard Look Urged
At Wet Nam Facts

borders to invasion by North
Wet Namese guerrillas.
4. Close guerrilla bases in
neighboring countries.
Captured and slain guerrillas'
diaries and instructions were
cited to show that hundreds of
officers and men are moving
from North Wet Nam to South
Wet Nam each month along
three routes, directly across the
truce line at the 18th parallel,
through Communicated terri
tory in Laos and along the sea-
coast.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Students on Bus
Shaken by Crash

Thirty five parochial school
students aboard a chartered
D. c. Transit System bus were
shaken up when the bus and
a heavy dump truck collided
this morning at Rhode Island
avenue and Sixth street NE.
Two Of the pupils, an 1S-
year-old girl and a l4-year-old
girl, were treated at Providence
Hospital for bruises and re-
leased.
The teen-agers, who are STU
dents at st. Vincents Home
and School at Fourth and Edge
wood streets NE, were on the
way to the Justice Department
Building for a tour Of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
Evening star., 1961-12-08

unemployment rate marked the
first substantial headway in II
during which the rate
stuck near 7 per cent. The 81
per cent rate was tn lowst
since September. 1860, when it
was 81 per cent.
If the rate stays at 81 per
cent. seasonal influences will
raise unemployment to Al mil
lion this month. 40 million in
January and 5 million in Feb
ruary. But Mr.. Goldberg pre-
dicted further significant i'm
provement," which he defined
as a reduction of the rate by
a half percentage point or
more.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Union 10 Set
Pay Goals for
U. 5. Employees
BY q Star Staff Writer

MIAMI BEACH. Fla, Dec. 8.
- The Government Employees
Council Of the AFL-CIO will
meet In Washington about
January 3 or 4 to agree on spe-
cific pay-raise goals for the new
session Of Congress, Council
Chairman E. C. Hallbeck said
today.
Mr.. Hallbeck said the council
talked over pay plans at meet
ing last night in the Ameri-
cana Hotel here, headquarters
of the AFL-CIO convention.
Although there was no clear
consensus. Mr.. Hallbeck said
the proposal probably will call
for an increase Of about 8 to 10
per cent for both postal and
classified employees. He said
committees will draft specific
proposals in time for the coun-
ellis January meeting.
Mr.. Hallbeck. president of
the United Federation of Postal
Clerks, said some members of
the council expressed disap-
pointment in the report Of the
presidential task force on en-
ploye-management relations in
the Federal Government, al
though everybody admitted
it's an improvement"
In some respects, he said, the
task force recommendations
are no improvement over ex-
isting systems. For example,
he said. recommendations on
exclusive representation would
not overcome restrictive regu-
lations in the Defense Depart
ment.
Mr.. Hallbeck's appraisal was
much less enthusiastic than a
statement issued earlier by
William C. Doherty, president
Of the National Association of
Letter Carriers, who called the
task force report a Magma
Charta."
Evening star., 1961-12-08
WORKS
Continued From Page Al

COuIIhueu rTOm rage Al
AFL-CIO convention here yes
terday, making this pledge:
1T is my intention to ask
Congress at the next 1892
session for standby authority.
somewhat along the lines of
the bill introduced by Sena-
tor Clark, Democrat of Penn
sylvania, to make grants in
aid to communities for needed
public works when our economy
begins to slow down"
Warm Applause
This statement was ap-
plauded warmly by the union
delegates, who rank the Clark
bill near the top of their
priority list for economic legis-
lation.
The Clark bill would
authorize $500 million of Fed
eral grants. which would start
flowing automatically whenever
the seasonally adjusted unem-
ployment rate topped 4 per
cent of the labor force.
AS President Kennedy an
nounced yesterday. the rate last
month was 81 per cent, down
from 6.S per cent in October
Even the most optimistic fore
casters expect the rate to exceed
4 per cent through 1862 and
beyond, although gradual pro-
gress is anticipated.
Thus the Clark bill would
automatically require public
works outlays next year. when
the administration will be
having a hard time fulfilling
the Presidents budget balanc-
ing pledge.
Mr.. Kennedy therefore plans
to draft his public works bill
in such a way that it probably
Evening star., 1961-12-08
VOTE

Continued From Page Al
only way to secure favorable
legislation for the District is
through full voting repre-
sentation in both houses of
Congress"
Mr.. Norwood said the only
real effectiveness of a repre-
sentative lies in his power to
vote. You scratch my back
and I'll scratch yours" Mr..
Norwood said, lis what accom-
plishes results"
Mrs. Richard C. Simonson,
president Of the League of
Women Voters, said the pro-
posal might be attacked as less
than half a loaf"
But she said the city should
pursue every avenue towards
liberalization Of suffrage"
She added a non-voting dele
gate would be a forerunner of
a voting delegate and home
rule.
Washington Attorney Harry
S. Wender said there has never
been any good reason expressed
why an elected nonvoting dele
gate would not be effective in
Congress.
Mr.. Wender said the delegate
would give the city stature and
added. Cod KNOWS we need a
voice."
mot a Substitute"
Philip B. Brown. of the
Washington Home Rule Com
mittee, favored the idea. but
added it was mo substitute for
local self-government and not
an alternative to home rule"
Others VINO indorsed the leg
islation included Mrs. Jack
Gottsegen, of the National
Council of Jewish Women. and
Chester {. Shore. of the Amer
ican Veterans Committee.
Mrs. Gottsegen said the non-
voting delegate should have the
right of debate as we'll as as
signment to the House District
Committee. She added that
the non-voting delegate provi-
viding significant rights to
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Katangans Increase Fire

JHCI own against Lne smaller
but better equipped U. N. force
Katangans Increase Fire
Katahgans seemed to be in
creasing their mortar and snip
ing fire on U. N. positions on
the outskirts. particularly the
u. N. headquarters and its
nearby Gurkha camp.
President Tshombe returned
during the night from his pri-
vate visit to Paris to take up
personal direction Of the, fight.
He flew from Paris to neigh
boring Northern Rhodesia and
drove from there to Elisabeth
vile with a small escort of
soldiers.
A U. N. spokesman, Abdul
latif Succar, said the u. N. force
has suffered two killed in the
fighting so far. One of the dead
was at Manono and the other
in Elisabethville.
He said, People we have in
terrogated confirmed there was
a grandiose plan to attack U. N.
positions"
The discovery of plans for
an alleged sneak attack on u. N.
positions was announced by the
U. N. last Tuesday, shortly be-
fore fighting broke out. The
fighting started at roadblocks
which the Katangans had set
up against U. N. traffic and
failed to remove after agree
ing to do so.
Missionaries Evacuated
The U. N. spokesman said
katangan gendarmes had set
up an observation post on the
roof Of a new hospital near the
airport road in defiance of
Geneva conventions as part of
the plan. The hospital is not
near Leopold Hospital, which
was hit by mortar fire.
Twenty-Five American and
other missionaries of the Sew
enth Day Adventist organiza-
ton we're evacuated from their
compound near U. N. headquar-
ters yesterday after it had been
hit repeatedly. The U. N. spokes-
man said the mission had been
in the line of fire of some rang
ing shots aimed at a Katangan
battery. The battery, he said,
was taken care of" soon after
the evacuation Of the mission
aries.
No Local Cease Fire
Mr.. Succar said no U. N. Of
ficial in Elisabethville has
authority to negotiate a cease
fire, even if one becomes pos
sible. He said ANY truce has
to be arranged from New York"
Mortar explosions and ma
chinegun fire rang out during
the night from a suburb border
ing the vital highway between
Elisabethville and the city's
main airport, still held by U. N.
troops.
A see-saw battle appeared in
full swing for a strategic under
of the main gateways
to the capital from the suburbs.
Swedish troops claimed they
had seized the tunnel Wednes-
day but a U. N. spokesman in-
dicated last night that they
did not control the whole area.
Katanga forces held control
of the center of Elisabethville,
which the U. N. forces have
made no attempt to penetrate.
Fighting has been confined so
far to the outskirts. chiefly in
the northwest where the new
and old airports and the U. N.
headquarters are located.
DR.. Roger Friart, who was in
the hospital during the attack,
said there were about TOO pa
tients there at the time.
Fortunately not one of them
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Soviet Transports Aid


pouring supplies into a Commu-
mist base in Laos. only 20 miles
from the Wet Nam border, the
report said.
The report laid heavy stress
on the Communist use of terror
to exert its influence in South
Wet Nam. The Republic of Wet
Nam claims about l,400 local
government officials and civil
ians were assassinated by the
Communist Wet Cong in 1860.
"A particularly brutal ex-
ample was reported from Vinh
Binh Province the first week
in November" the State De-
partment says. The chief of
the eau Ke district, lie Van
Nghia. was killed when his car
hit a Wet Cong mine. Killed
with the district chief were his
wife and two other persons. The
officials two children, age !
and 3. miraculously survived the
blast, but they were killed on
the spot by the Wet Cong who
had prepared the ambush"
The report is sprinkled with
references to the failure of the
3-nation international Control
Commission to act on COM
plants that North Wet Nam is
violating the 1854 Geneva ac-
cords providing for an end to
fighting and partition of Wet
Nam.
Holmes County herald., 1961-06-08
BIDS WANTED

The Holmes County Board
If Education will receive
sealed bids in the Office of
the County Superintendent Of
Education, Lexington, Misis-
until $50 O'Clock A. M.
on Wednesday, July 5, 1861,
FOR sale to the Holmes County
School District during the fis-
cal year 1961-62 of regular
grade gasoline, motor oil and
lubricating grease, same to be
School Bus Garage, Lexington,
delivered as from time to
lime required at the County
Mississippi, at the Tchula At
tendance Center for Negroes,
Tchula, Mississippi, and at
service stations designated by
the bidder in Holmes County.
The Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
HOLMES COUNTY A
OF
By: L. R. Thompson
Executive Secretary
June s, Is, %, 20
Holmes County herald., 1961-06-08
NOTICE OF


Notice is hereby given to
the qualified electors of
Holmes County, Mississippi,
that pursuant to the order and
demand of the Board of Su-
pervisors of Holmes County,
Mississippi, on Tuesday the
LIST day of August, 1861, to
elect a Tax Assessor Of
Holmes County, Mississippi,
to fill the unexpired term Of
Denton S. Rosamond, de-
ceased.
The name Of a person as a
candidate for said office will
not be placed on the ballot
for said election unless there
is filed with the Commission
ers Of election of Holmes
County, Mississippi, a petition,
signed by not less than fifty
500 qualified electors of
Holmes County, Mississippi,
requesting said person to be a
candidate for said office,
which petition shall be filed
with said election commission
ers not less than forty (40)
days prior to August LIST, 1861.
Should no candidate receive
a majority of the votes cast
in said election a run-off cleo
ton, as provided by law, will
be held in Holmes County,
Mississippi on Tuesday the
18th day of August, 1861.
Witness our signatures this
9th day of June, 1861.
Mrs. A. j. Heinrich
j. F. Hughes
j. T. Garland
Commissioners Of Election Of
Holmes County, Mississippi
June 8, Is, %, 20