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Evening star., 1961-06-28
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

The right of the Central In
telligence Agency to force its
employees to retire earlier is
being contested in a suit 1lled
in District Court.
The super-secret CIA has
adopted a policy of retiring its
employees at age 60 or 81, de-
spite the fact that the man
datory Government retirement
age is 10 and even later than
10 if an employe has less than
is years service. =.
Although CIA does not hire
under civil service, it is under
the civil service retirement
system.
CIA officials said the new
policy was adopted to retain
youth and vigor in the agency.
They declared that employees
were only being retired when
they could receive full annuity
benefits-at age 60 on 80 years
of service and age 81 at Is years
of service.
However, the test case in
wolves a CIA employe aged SO,
with only IL years of service
and thus not entitled TO a full
annuity. The employe contends
that he was fired after he re-
fused to resign.
The suit has even further
implications. It tests the right
Of. CIA or any other Govern
ment agency to force employees
tosretire at an earlier age than
required by the civil service
retirement law, even if the en-
ploye thus retired would qualify
for a full annuity.
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LONG WEEK END-It's esti-
mated that at least so per cent
OF. Government employees will
take advantage of President
Kennedy's directive to agencies
to allow employees wherever
possible to use their annual
leave next Monday so as to
enjoy a four-day holiday week
end. Employees would be off
from Friday evening until
Wednesday morning. Most pos
tai workers will have to work
be3NAse regular mail delivery
Evening star., 1961-06-28

fore July 10, members said. Its
chances Of clearance to the
House floor. along with two
other aid-to-education meas
ures previously reported out by
the Education and Labor Com
mittee were described as even
DINNER than before.
Some sponsors as well as cri-
tics of the legislation raised
added doubt today that any Of
the three bills would get
through the House this year
even If they came out of the
Rules Committee as separate
measures or as a single package.
Contents Under Fire
They cited not only the
tangled situation in the Rules
Committee, but also many
sided attacks on various other
proposed provisions besides
Federal aid to church schools.
Meanwhile. the Senate Labor
and Public Welfare Committee
rejected two Republican moves
to deny Federal loans to private
schools set up to accommodate
white pupils who refuse to at
tend desegregated classes.
The first amendment, offered
by Senator Javits, Republican
Of New York, would have denied
Federal loans to private schools
organized as a result Of a Fed
eral desegregation order. 1t
was defeated. 7-6.
The second Javits amend
'ment, denying Federal loans to
private schools In operation less
than four years was beaten
9-6. This proviso was approved
yesterday by the House COM
mitee.
The voting came as the Sen
ate committee made slow prog
ress in its first day Of closed
door session on extension Of
the National Defense Educa-
ton Act. Committee sources
said the measure was unlikely
to be reported to the Senate be-
fore July 10.
The $1,S29OOo,000 bill ap-
proved by the House Education
and Labor Committee would
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Rood Death
Forecast Hit
Ex-Governor

HONOLULU, June 28 (AP)
do predictions of holiday
death tolls help save lives or
cause more auto accidents?
The National Governors Con-
ference, meeting here, may be
asked to express an opinion
on that question.
Gov. John Dempsey Of Con-
necticut. in an interview, said
he would propose that the Gov
ernorS ask the National Safety
Council to cease issuing predic-
tionS prior to major national
holidays.
Holiday death estimates are
psychologically bad" he said.
IF the National Safety Council
predicts 100 persons will die
over a holiday period, many
people have q tendency to let
down in their safety habits If
the total appears to be below
that figure"
This contention was disputed
today in New York by John
Naisbitt. public information di-
rector for the safety council.
I'VE feel the predictions alert
people to the extra danger dur
ing holiday week ends and at
the same time we also urge all
motorists to exercise extra care
during the holiday week ends. "
He said the holiday week ends
are Is per cent more dangerous
than other week ends.
"Over the past decade" Mr..
Naisbitt continued, "the death
rate during holidays dropped,
and we think that the work
we do with the help Of the
press, radio and television has
had a salutory effect in de-
creasing the rate"
The safety council has esti-
mated that between $50 and
480 viii be killed on United
States highways from 6 pm.
next Friday until midnight.
July 4.
Evening star., 1961-06-28

political, a position also taken
by Gov. John Patterson of Ala
bama.
Gov. Daniel told a news con-
ference yesterday it was
unusual to have a resolution
proposed by Governors Of only
one party.
Usually politics does not
enter into this conference so
obviously" Gov. Daniel said.
This issue is raised by those
who want to make political
capital out Of it one way or
the other"
Gov. Brown said he doesn't
know if the conference is the
place for acting on the civil
rights issue. But he added, 81
think it's time something was
done to improve our posture
before the world in this vital
field"
Evening star., 1961-06-28

inc peace much closer to all
mankind" he added.
Mr.. johnson said the United
States is ready to live with
the present situation in Berlin.
And he emphasized that this
country has no intention Of
running away bacause of So
Wet threats.
Russia is engaged in a de-
liberate and powerful campaign
to test our strength of will,
our unity Of purpose, our wis
dom in council and, If neces-
sary, our valor in battle.
''In this struggle with Com
munist power, the voluntary
strength of free societies must
prove greater than the coerced
unity imposed by despotism, :"
he declared.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Suit Tests Ga Right to Force
Early Retirement Annuity Cut

will be maintained, but many
postal department employees
here can be spared.
Mr.. Kennedy's letter to de-
partments and agencies said:
1T is my desire that all de-
partments and agencies adopt
a lenient policy regarding the
granting of annual leave on
Monday, July 3, and that leave
be granted that day to all en-
ployes requesting it, except
where their attendance at work
is required in the interest of
national security or other pub
lie reasons"
CONFIRMATION SEEN
The Senate is expected to waste
no time in approving the nomi-
nation of Robert E. Hampton
as the Republican member of
the Civil, Service Commission.
Early Senate Service Commit
tee hearings and approval is
expected, thereby clearing the
way for favorable Senate ac-
tion.
The 38-year-old Mr.. Hamp-
ton has had wide experience
and acclaim in Government
personnel operations during his
II years as a Federal career
official. He has held top jobs
during both the Truman and
Eisenhower administrations in
the Air Force and State De-
partments. During the last two
years he served under Presi-
dent Eisenhower in charge OF
presidential appointments to
top-level jobs.
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| OKAYED-The House Rules
Committee has given the
green-light for House action to
the bill to amend the so-called
Hiss Act. House approval is ex-
pected next week. The bill
would allow annuitieS to be
given upon retirement to Fed
eral employees and military per-
sonel who have been convicted
of felonies against the Govern
ment, except in cases involving
national security.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The Posn Office Department
Evening star., 1961-06-28
5 Killed in Quuke

TEHERAN, Iran, June %
(AP). AN earthquake de-
stroyed the village Of Masou-
dabad about 124 miles south of
here and killed five persons.
the newspaper Ettelaat re-
ported yesterday. Food and
medical supplies were rushed
to the village.
Evening star., 1961-06-28

public schools a provision per-
mitting 40-year interest bear
ing loans. The funds could be
used only for facilities for
teaching science, mathematics,
modern languages and phys
ical fitness.
An annual total Of $125 mil
lion for three years was au-
thorized for the non-publiC
school loans and a slightly
smaller amount for public
schools.
Fear Federal Control
The bill offered a still fur
ther, although more indirect
form Of assistance to parochial
and private schools. It ex-
tended to teachers in those
schools the same forgiveness
provision now given to public
school teachers who obtain
loans for graduate study. The
present NDEA law forgives {
part Of the loans If public
school teachers continue teach
ing for a specified number oi
years. Private school teachers
are eligible for such loans but
do not have to repay the full
amounts.
Most Republicans on thI
Education and Labor Commit
tee emphasized they funda'
mentally oppose many provi
sions of the NDEA expansion
bill, including the concept o
Federal aid they contendeC
could lead to Federal control.
The committee refused II
consider a proposal to tack OF
a 50 billion "GI Bill Of Rights
section such as a Senate sub
committee added to a bill TO
private school aid. This woult
authorize education aid to vet
Grams who served since 1855
Evening star., 1961-06-28

will soon appoint an industrial
relations director in each OF its
regions to see to it that the
policy of consultation and
labor-management co-opera-
ton established by PING Day
is followed by the various post
masters throughout the coun-
try. It's another progressive
step taken by the new postal
regime in bettering employe
relations. Assistant Postmas-
ter General for Personnel Rich
ard Murphy has played an i'm
portant part in the new policies
which have won the high praise
of postal employe unions.
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CAPITAL ROUNDUP-The
National Labor Relations Board
has given superior performance
awards to Thomas Sweeney,
Gilbert Rosenberg, George
Downing, Charles Whittemore,
William Evans, Norton Come
and Dora Davis. The Govern
ment Printing Office has given
meritorious suggestion awards
to Austin Dolan, Graham God
win, jr., John H. Hamilton,
Harold Hopkins, Arthur Hunt,
Jerry Lyons, Timothy Morley,
Leo Mullen, John Shelby and
William Ramsay, jr. The Fed
eral Government Accountants
Association has given its first
award for distinguished leader
ship to Andrew Barr, chief ac-
countant of the Securities and
Exchange Commission
Army's Office Of the Chief Of
Ordnance has given top incen-
tive awards to John Blakely
Louis Michael, Harold CroSk-
cry, John Vanderveer, Mrs
Ruth Nigh, Mrs. Dorothy
Thomas, Mrs. Flora Slower,
Robert Wilson, William Tropf,
jr., Grace Lindsay, Robert Will
son, Malcolm Aitken, Mrs. La
:othia Hollomand, Ruth Mackey
Mrs. Gladys Deeters, Mrs. Alma
Shipping, Harry Van Kuren,
Mrs. Genevieve Antonelli,
Charles L. johnson, Hyman
Lazerof, Wilma D. Smith, Rich
ard Moran, Mrs. Ann Brannon
land John Ellis. A
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Youth Drops Appeal, ,
Paws His Fine Of $50

FRONT ROYAL, Va. June
% (AP). = James Menefee
Kilby, 10, a Warren County
Negro convicted Of disorderly
conduct charges in a rock
throwing attack on two white
boys, yesterday withdrew his
appeal to Warren County Cir
cult Court and paid a county
court-imposed fine of $50.
Notice of the withdrawal of
the appeal was filed by Otto L.
Tucker, Kilby's attorney.
Evening star., 1961-06-28
Delays in House Peril
School Aid Measures

BY ROBERT X. WALSH
star Star Writer

Federal aid bills for public well nonpubic schools
bleak future today despite House committee approval Of
loan assistance for parochial and private grade and high
schools.
measure by the Education and Labor Com
ttee late yesterday will the Rules Committee be-
Evening star., 1961-06-28
@. O. P. Governors Get
|Riqhts Aid From Brown

HONOLULU, June % (AP).-Calfornias Democratic Gov
Edmund G. Brown helping hand today to Republicans
seeking Governors conference action civil rights
Gov said he intends to vote in the Resolutions Com
ttee place before the conference proposal by is Rpub
Evening star., 1961-06-28

hcan Governors for affirma-
tive State action to end racial
discrimination.
Republican Gov. Mark o.
Hatfield of Oregon said in a
separate interview that Gov.
Browns vote combined with
those of four Republicans
would furnish the margin to
force the resolution out of the
nine-member committee for de-
bate in a conference session.
The civil rights controversy
was one of several expected to
engage the Governors in a wind
up business session of their SD
annual conference.
Powell Election Seen
Barring unexpected develop
ments, a nominating commit
tee headed by G. o. P. Gov.
John H. Reed Of Maine was
ready to recommend the elec-
ton of Gov. Wesley Powell of
New Hampshire as new chair
man of the conference.
Gov. Powell would succeed
Democratic Gov. Stephen L. r.
McNicholS of Colorado under
a conference tradition of ro-
tating the chairmanship yearly
between members Of the two
major parties.
Some Republicans COM
planned Gov. Powell was being
forced upon them by Demo-
Gratis who didn't want the con-
ference honor to go to Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York, President Kennedy's
possible opponent in the 1864
presidential contest.
'sGov, Powell was rebuked by
former Vice President Richard
NJ. Nixon during the 1860 presi-
Dental campaign for suggest
ing that Mr.. Kennedy was soft
on communism. The New
Hampshire Governor has made
ttclear that he has no inten-
ton Of supporting Mr.. Nixon
for the 1854 nomination If the
latter seeks it.
:. Republicans Rally
Gov. Hatfield said a scheduled
meeting of the G. o. P. State
executives to discuss the matter
had been called off because
the Democrats can outvote us
and we see no sense in dividing
among ourselves on the ques-
ton of the chairmanship."
Instead, the Republicans
rallied behind efforts to toss
the civil rights and other con-
troversial issues into the con-
ference pot.
G. o. p. Gov. Donald G.
Nutter Of Montana came up
with a resolution condemning
the principle of having private
citizens deal with representa-
tives Of another government.
This was aimed at the actions
of the Cuban Tractors-for-
Prisoners Committee formed at
President Kennedy's urging.
Also in the offing was a reso-
luton, which had bipartisan
support, opposing the formation
Of the new Federal department
Of urban affairs Mr.. Kennedy
has suggested.
! Price Confident
Democratic Gov. Price Daniel
Of Texas, who heads the resolu-
tions committee, predicted the
conference will approve unani-
mously a statement expressing
united support for Kennedy in
his negotiations on world
crisis.
He said Cows. Rockefeller,
McNichols and David L. Law
renee of Pennsylvania were
drafting it.
Gov. Daniel characterized the
@. o. P. civil rights resolution as
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Full moon
bugs the
.frebugs

DR.. Iago Caldston, secretary of the Com
mittee ON Special Studies at the New York
Academy of Medicine, and a noted psychi-
ARTIST, throws some cold water on DR.. Korn-
blueh's moonrays. We asked him whether
the moon can make earthlings insane.
''Categorically no" he said. THAT idea
rests on superstition. You can find statistics
to fit different moon cycles if you want to -
there's lots Of literature on the subject. But
personally, I've never come across anything
to suggest proof"
What science has not yet proved, our
ancestors, both remote and recent, accepted
intuitively. In folklore stories, the moon is
frequently regarded as witness to wrong
doing, and as an avenger. The universal
notion that the moon knows what's taking
place ON earth was due to the fact that the
moon has face - with "eyes."
Seneca, Calen, and other classical au-
thors spoke of the full moon as Fastening the
maturation of fruit. Poppycock? Many farm
ers to this day believe that shingles will curl
up and fence posts come out of the ground if
not laid and driven at the right phase of the
moon. In some rural areas the full moon is
still regarded as the right time for pulling
things down, moving grass, cutting timber.
Farmers ~. moon
There's a tacit understanding among
farmers that you should never plant corn
during the period Of the full moon. Crops SO
planted are said to grow shriveled. Even the
Department of Agriculture hedges on the full
moon. One government official told me sub
rosa, Frankly we aren't SO sure the old
timers were wrong. We can't risk upsetting
the applicant by pooh-poohing moon myths"
If there's anybody who dislikes round
moons more than farmers, it's fremen. Ever
since the birth Of buckets,
frehouse shop talk has in
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sisted that full moons can be
counted on to usher in the
most infammable part of the A~
month.
Former Chief Marshal of
New York City Thomas P.
Brophy investigated over
100000 fires and caught
thousands Of firebugs during ~
h;o 40 veore nc nm arcnn de-.
Evening star., 1961-12-10

whenever you had full moon period -
that's when the suspicious fires broke out all
over the city. Pyromaniac 6rebugs generally
get most enjoyment out of flames at night.
The full moon exerts mysterious pull on
them or at least they think it does. l
once had to use 300 men to cope with full
moon frebug."
Brophy's successor. Chief Fire Marshal
Martin Scott, also thinks the moon is guilty.
when the men on duty see full moon
over the frehouse, they say oh boy, look
out tonight The records Of my administra-
tion show more fires of mysterious origin ON
full-moon nights than on others"
Not all incendiary specialists, however.
are anti-moon. Brendan P. Battle, manager
Evening star., 1961-12-10
you may come across

case where fellow has set fires in the full
moon. But then there are also fires he set
when the moon was just crescent"
Does nsOOHy mean IOOssey?
The word, '1unacy," which has lunar
derived equivalents in many of the worlds
languages, reflects the universal hypothesis
that the earth's only satellite, 238,857 miles
out in space, also exercises some mysterious
control over mental equilibrium. And the
Greeks, in the New Testament, had a word
for "seleniasomai,' ~ meaning moonstruck
or epileptic.
Sir William Blackstone, the founding
father of British and American law, wrote:
"A lunatic is indeed one that hath lucid
intervals frequently depending on the
change of the moon"
This notion has persisted. In 1920 DIR.
]. Sadger, of Vienna, discussing sleepwalking
in the Nervous and Mental Disease Mono
graph Series, wrote: Under the influence of
the moon, the sleepwalker is actually enticed
from his bed, goes to the window and often
gazes fxedly at the moon. There is.
certain connection between the light of the
full moon and the most complicated forms of
sleepwalking."
At least one eoafisUsd on ssxs Povs
Evening star., 1961-12-10

Of the National Board OF
Fire Underwriters arson
department, thinks we are
doing the moon an in
justice.
"It's just an old su-
perstition," he says. "A
lot of people have it, but
there's nobasis forit. Sure,
vo,, NAV come across a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-11
BY the Associated Press

A United States spokesman
denied today that the West
plans to send West German po-
lice into beleaguered West Ber-
lin.
The spokesman also declared
that a Communist East German
protest against the alleged plan
would not be accented by the
Western powers.
Any future East-West nego-
tiations will have to await the
results of consultations among
the Western Allies, according
to Press officer Lincoln White.
Mr.. White was then asked
the United States response to
the Communist warning last
night against any reinforce
ment of West Berlin police by
police from West Germany.
The transport of such rein
forcementS by air or surface
routes would be considered ag-
erosion, the Communists warn
ing said and would be dealt
with accordingly.
Mr.. White said that East
German Communist authorities
had again jumped the gun
and are seeking to exploit prop
Iagandistically a development
that has not occurred"
The fact is, Mr.. White said,
that the ministers of interior
Of various German states Qan-
der met last week and offered
to send extra traffic policemen
to West Berlin. The offer was
made, Mr.. White said, to assist
West Berlin authorities lin cop
ing with a tense situation re-
Sulting from the sealing off the
Soviet sector of Berlin by Com
munist authorities"
This gesture of the Lander
to make this offer of assistance
to West Berlin" Mr.. White
continued, has not been dis
cussed with the government OF
the federal republic, the West
Berlin Senate or the three
Western powers.
In fact, the West Berlin
police supported by Western
allied forces have the situation
we'll in hand; it is therefore not
anticipated that under present
conditions a need will arise for
assistance such as that offered
by the West German interior
ministers"
The East German protest
against the plan" had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-11
Expert kinimizes
Genetic Effect
Of Soviet FuIIout
BY the Associated Press

Any genetic damage caused
by fallout from the current
series of Russian nuclear ex-
plosions will be so slight, in the
opinion of a Public Health
Service physician, that it may
not be discernible even after
several generations.
The physician in the services
division of Pathological health
gave his views to the Asso-
ciated Press today but declined
to permit Identification by
name.
He said the radiation dose to
reproductive cells from radio
activity of levels measured in
this country since September l
will not be as large as that re-
ceived over a long period from
natural background radiation.
There is a considerable vari-
alton worldwide in the amount
of natural background radia-
ton. For instance, the expert
said that in the monazite
sands areas of India it is pos
Sibly 20 times the usual maxi
mum in this country.
The official said it is not
thought that any genetic
changes caused by radiation of
the levels recently recorded in
this country would show up in
the Nations younger people or
in their immediate offspring.
If changes do occur in far
distant generations, they may
be in conditions not identifi-
able to radiation exposure" the
doctor added. He said genetic
alterations would not of neces-
sity mean there would be de-
/ formed babies. There are
hundreds of identifiable gen.
etc characteristics and any of
these could be affected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-11
U. S. Denies Reports
OF More Berlin Police

delivered 10 embassies of the
United States. Britain and
France in Prague. Czechcslo-
vakia.
Meanwhile, in a routine prac-
tice alert, 1000 American troops
rushed through the streets of
West Berlin this morning to
test their operational readi-
ness.
Called out at sos am, just
as the days routine got under
way, the men of the 18th In
fantry'S 1st Battle Group
grabbed their arms and de-
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