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Evening star., 1961-04-03
Safety at Small Cost

Ohio has found a way to reduce
traffic accidents and save lives without
the heavy expense Of major highway
reconstruction involving divided lanes,
overpasses and the like. The States
experience with "stop-gap" use of such
relatively cheap measures as road-edge
lines, reflectors and other markers and
signs is we'll worth study by trafac
authorities elsewhere.
The emergency measures were taken
first on a hazardous stretch Of State
Route II, pending plans for widening
the road, Strengthening curves and other
engineering Improvements. The edges
of the two-lane highway were made
plainly visible, day and night, by
painted lines and reflectors or buttons,
new center lines were laid out and
additional luminescent type warning
signs were erected. Within seven
months the accident rate on this
stretch had dropped As per cent and
deaths had been cut in half. Thus en-
couraged, suburban highway near
Columbus similarly was equipped, with
some channelization work in addition.
Accidents declined 81 per cent and
injuries 10 per cent, according to a
study made by the Nationwide In
surance Company.
Ohio plans to expand this safety
program, pending major highway i'm
provements designed to make the roads
permanently safer. Maryland has
adopted the edge-line plan on Route
240 between Rockville and Frederick,
with favorable response from motorists.
This and other steps taken by Ohio to
curb the mounting death and injury
toll on the highways warrant wide
adoption
Evening star., 1961-04-03
Clear Up the Chaos

Senator Dodd of Connecticut has
correctly summed up the wiretapping
situation as Chaotic" There is con-
flict between Federal and State laws
on the subject and there are conflicting
court interpretations of those laws. The
confusion has handicapped Federal and
local authorities in their war on major
criminals private wiretapping goes
on apace. Senator Dodd'S bill to out
law all overlapping except that by
Federal agents and police in certain
crimes and under rigid restrictions
would end the chaos by bringing wire
tapping under complete governmental
control. We hope the present Congress
will come to grips with this admittedly
touchy problem-in the interest of
better law enforcement and as a safe
guard to the privacy of law-abiding
citizens.
Senator Dodd told the Senate he
was aware of the feeling Of some people
that all overlapping should be abolished,
on the ground that the right of an
individual to privacy is inviolate. But,
he said, Il am certain that the common
sense Of the American people would not
permit the passing of statute which
denied to our Federal agents the right
to wiretap In cases involving the ma
tional security of the United States or
statute that would cripple the
attempts Of police officials to cope with
murdererS, kidnapers, extortionists, mar
cotics puShers and Syndicated crime.
NhniRn hafnPA k1a,a L.
whether there shall be overlapping or
no overlapping but whether there shall
be controlled overlapping as propose
or tndiScriminate, universal wiretapping
as exists today"
The Dodd bill would outlaw private
overlapping and would permit Federal
overlapping only in such major crimes
as espionage, treason, sabotage, Sedition
and kidnapping. In these Federal cases
either a court order or the permission
OF the Attorney General would be
necessary. State authorities could tap
wires in murder cases or other serious
crimes, provided State court granted
permission in each case.
The proposed legislation, or a law
similar to 1t, is badly needed to end the
confusion and conflict arising from
antiquities Of the 1884 Federal Com
municationS Act. Those antiquities
continue to hamper law enforcement
a fact well known to spies and other
criminals. 1t is high time that the wire
tap shackles preventing the FBI and
intelligence agencies from using wire
tap evidence against spies and Saboteurs
should be removed and that reasonable
rules governing overlapping by author
lied investigative agencies, Federal and
local, be adopted.
Evening star., 1961-04-03
V Time for Politics

Please let me express my
opposition to a bill, S. 204,
now before the Senate. This
bill would amend Section 3l5
of the Federal Communica-
tions Act to deny free use of
radio and television to the
presidential candidates of
minority parties.
If this law is passed, the
right Of the American people
to hear all sides of social
issues will be seriously
abridged. Obviously, there
can be no real enlightenment
Of the electorate when dis
cussion is restricted to the
two parties which are in es-
sential agreement on all
major questions. Freedom
can exist only when parties
such as the Socialist Labor
Party - which question, op-
pose and attack the status
quo are permitted to have
free access to the air waves.
Henry r. Norman
Evening star., 1961-04-03

east, will spare historic philadelphia
Row." a group Of century-old homes
near Lincoln Park
1t also is good news that a pro-
posed route for the Northeast freeway,
linking Washington with a third
throughway to Baltimore, has been laid
out, ending uncertainty that was unfair
to property owners in that area 1t is
too bad that these traffic projects
inevitably will have a disruptive effect
on the communities traversed, but we
are convinced that the inner loop in the
end will benefit the whole Metropolitan
Area.
Evening star., 1961-04-03
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Diet Influences Abnormal Brains
By THOMAS R. HENRY

normal mood and mental
outlook can be partly con-
trolled by diet. An outstand-
ing example, the report says,
is in the condition known as
hypoglycemis or too little
sugar in the blood, the oppo-
site of diabetes. Patients
often are extremely pessimis-
tic, inverted and depressed.
Yet after a day of sugar and
starch ingestion, they can be
as cheerful and alert as their
fellows.
diet makes the differ
ence", the report says. per-
haps careful biochemical
studies Of patients with SINH
lar or other mental problems
will lead to a physiological
explanation and altered diets
can manipulate mental
states"
Evening star., 1961-04-03

There probably is no Spe-
cific brain food"-that is,
anything in diet which will
improve intelligence of norm
al persons. Food can, how
ever, greatly influence alb
normal brain conditions.
Increasing evidence of this
is reported by DR.. Luman F.
Ney, chief biochemist OF
Stanford Research Institute,
Menlo Park, Cal, after an
extensive survey of the effects
of diet on mind and emotions.
Recent developments, a re-
port by the Institute says,
strongly indicate the path
ahead by research on the
rare congenital mental dis
ease, phenylketonuria. Until
very recently children suffer-
ing from the malady usually
were Jumped in a category OF
hopeless mental detectives.
Now, says DR.. Ney's re-
port, research has shown
that if an amino acid,
phenylalanine, is restricted
in the diet. the unfavorable
outcome can be thwarted if
treatment is started before
effects on the brain become
irreversible.
This development has
brought about an entirely
new outlook toward the hope
lessness formerly associated
with this portion of the men
tally retarded category. 1t
seems likely that nutrition
research will be more and
more important in correction
of problems of mental devel-
opment. This should be
especially true in cases of
more subtle and less easily
recognized mental defects"
There is considerable evi-
dence, however, that alb
Evening star., 1961-04-03
Aid for Uncle Sam

We stand at a point in
history where Government
alone cannot save us, be-
cause we are fighting sys-
TENS In which the state and
its industries are synony-
nous. This duality is readily
aligned and aimed at our
vulnerabilities. To protect
ourselves we must unite
equivalent forces, and we can
do so without violating our
principles Of freedom.
Most Of us desire increas-
ing collaboration between
our Government and private
industry. AS I see it, an es-
sential area for such collab-
Grafton would be q partial
financial support of our
foreign aid programs by our
private enterprise. In view of
our heavy aggregate fiscal
burdens. we must have such
business support to survive
internationally.
According to preliminary
data, in 1860 the net income
Of the 2.347 leading United
States corporations was S1S,-
476 million, an increase Of
2 per cent over 1859. Had
these enterprises donated but
per cent Of their 1860 net
profits to our Nation, it
would have meant an addi-
tional $l84.8 million to
Treasury revenues, last year .
This would not have beer
too significant as a one-time
contribution. But the goal
must be an annual donation
OF per cent of net corporate
land other) business earn
ings to our country. This
annual revenue could then
be utilized as interest to
finance foreign aid. Assum-
ing an average S per cent
long term interest rate, such
continuing revenues will en-
able us to float capital issues
amounting to 20 times the
indicated sum of s184.S mil
lion-or about $1,000 million
for international projects.
American industry will
welcome the opportunity to
contribute to our national
welfare at least to this ex-
tent. One per cent of annual
net profits is a small price
to pay to increase employ
ment and exports and. at the
same time. protect our way
Of life.
1t is suggested that in
Evening star., 1961-04-03

@. Why are bear cubs so
small, in comparison with the
size of the adult animal?-
P. j.
A. The cubs are small be-
cause Of the circumstances
under which they are born.
They arrive in the winter
months, during Information,
in a den which is often deep
under the snow. The mother
has to nurse the young ones
for several months before
she can get food for herself.
II the cubs were large at
birth, they and the mother
would probably starve to
death before spring.
Evening star., 1961-04-03

fight so long and with such
tenacity, for their freedom
as have the Lao people.
President Kennedy showed
us maps indicating the ex-
tent of enemy penetration in
the past six months. Who
prevented such penetration
prior to that time? Who is
even now delaying the en-
emy from moving right into
the whole of Laos? Our
peoples blood is being shed
and their bodies are being
crushed while world powers
deliberate in search of a
peaceful solution.
Who is the real aggresSor
in the present fighting? The
U.N. sought to establish the
facts of such foreign aggres-
sion during an on-the-spot
inquiry in 1859. In reporting
to Congress the results of
this inquiry, President Eli
senhower said that "the at
tacking forces Immediately
vanished upon the arrival of
the U.N. investigators" and
that the appointing of this
subcommittee had had "a
tranquilizing effect on a dan
gerous situation"
Of course, the Vietminh
simply returned home, over
the border that separates
Laos from North Vietnam,
so they would not be dis
covered by the investigators.
And everyone knows who is
plying the on-and-off, hot
and cold levers in this
struggle endangering the lives
of millions. At times, he must
be sought out in such far
away places as Novosibirsk.
but even there he has his
hand on the switch that con-
trolls every move of inter-
national communism.
Since it is clearly under
stood that the aggressor in
Laos is international COM
muniSm. whose freedom then,
beside their own, are the
people of Laos now defend
ing?
TianethOne Chantharasy
Charge d'Affaires ad in
term Of Laos.
Evening star., 1961-04-03
Laos Has Its Freedom-Fiqhters, Too

The American press, in
cluding your esteemed pub
lication. is unanimous in
supporting the courageous
stand taken by President
Kennedy on the need for
maintaining the neutrality
and independence of my
country, Laos. Far be it from
me to appear critical of the
actions Of anyone in these
United States when I know
30 well what dire fate my
country could suffer without
the support and backing of
the American people and
their Government.
There is one point, how
ever, on which there may be
some misunderstanding in
the minds of some of our
friends, both here and else
where, and that point was
clearly brought before the
public in your editorial of
March "a, entitled 1.-THE
Problem in Laos" which
stated: "One assumption is
that they (the Laotians) lack
the will to fight for their
own freedom.
This assumption cannot be
admitted since our very re-
cent history obliges us to take
an opposite view.
Here are the facts:
We are a proud people
whose culture dates back
hundreds Of years. Our stable,
sober ways and long attach
ment to fundamental social
and religious practices have
been recognized by friend and
foe alike as models against
the backdrop of history. Rart
is the nation today which
can point to its present head
OF state and say that he is
the direct successor of long
unbroken line which leads
back to the Fourteenth Cen
tury. Such is the case with
the present respected ruler of
our country. Our people have
fought hundreds of years to
make this so, and their will
to keep it so has never fall
tered.
Though subjected to every
sort Of occupation by colonial
Evening star., 1961-04-03

powers and foreign armies,
may I ask: What has become
Of those conquerorS? What
has happened to those in
vading armies? Our king is
still on his throne. our gov
ernment is functioning nor
mally, and Laos is a mem
ber Of the United Nations.
All of this stems from the
fact that our people have
had. and still have, the will
to fight for their own free
dom.
From the very day that
France recognized our in
dependence on July 10, 1949,
our people have had to put
up resistance day and night
to Well-armed attackers from
our Northern neighbors and
from adventurers who call
us their brothers but who
by all means try to destroy
our people. Who held the in
vaders In check since 1949,
If not the Royal Army and
the poor, unarmed Laotian
peasants in the jungle, in
the swamps, on the mud
banks of our rivers and in
our mountains? You may
have heard of the murderous
inyasions of our country dur
ing 1853 and 1854, yet who
but our own stanch Laotians
know Of the countless forays,
of the constant probing by
armed bands, of the daily
killings of our villagers at
the hands Of rampaging en-
emieS from over our North
ern borders?
Our unsung heroes are our
soldiers and the peasants
whose stubborn resistance
was never recorded, whose
starved bodies were riddled
with Communist bullets as
they stood in the path Of
well-armed invaders. Some of
these poor bodies were left
to rot in the steaming jungle
or to sink in the mud while
their destitute families re-
mained exposed to the in
decencies of ruffians in Com
munist uniforms.
We are proud to be a
courageous nation, and dare
say that few people had to
Evening star., 1961-04-03
UdoH and Redskins

No matter how much some
of JFK's ardent supporters
may agree with the ultra
liberal viewpoint Of this ad-
ministration, I'm sure even
they must have flinched at
the Secretary of Interiors
sta tie m ent about George
Marshall and the Redskins.
Reducing prejudice is one
thing, but Secretary Udall's
statement was a grim warn
ing to us all if he was ex-
pressing the feelings of this
administration when he said
1T was up to Marshall to
prove he has not been biased.
In other words. Marshall is
guilty until he can prove
himself innocent.
This may be the America
of JFK and his political ap-
pointeeS, but I doubt II the
rest of us will be willing to
go along with it beyond 1864
if that long!
Allen T. PattisOn
George Marshall has no
excuse for not hiring Negroes
to play on the Redskins. For
years Negro players have
been running Redskins rag
ged all over the field, yet
Marshall claims that there is
a lack of Negro talent for
his team. Also, letting his
team use a stadium built on
Federal ground would be un-
constitutional.
Certainly, the case against
Marshall's stubborn stand is
open and shut, in favor of a
nondiscriminatory policy.
Jeremy Harris
Secretary Udall has exhib-
tied extraordinary wisdom in
identifying a major problem
area facing this Nation. That
problem is whether a Negro
should or should not play for
the Washington Redskins. I
can think of no problem so
serious at this time and feel
that the Secretary should de-
vote his entire attention to
arriving at an immediate
solution. If necessary, Con-
gresS should work around the
clock to pass corrective legis-
lation. Secretary Udall should
also assume responsibility for
ensuring that the Redskins
become champions.
Football Fan
Evening star., 1961-04-03
Sorry He Didn't Tell Khrushchev About This!
LETTERS TO THE STAR

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terS ore subject to condensd-
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returned only Dhen accom-
panied BY self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1961-04-03

@N@@N1NAA~B -~NOS AASNbAA
everyone seems to have very
firm ideas about Laos these
days, the first impressions Of
a visitor in this Land of a
Million Elephants are apt to
be bewildering.
From the moment your
DC-3 transport bangs down
on the steelmesh runway
at Vientiane it is clear
enough that the administra-
tive capital of Laos is some
thing less than a tourists
paradise. The plane is filled
with Americans in sports
shirts and slacks returning
from a visit to Bangkok. But
these are tourists of a special
sort-members Of the 300
man American military mis-
sion, advisers in mutt of
the Royal Army.
Formalities in the shed
that serves as the airport ad-
ministration building are
brief. A small brown soldier
in an olive drab uniform
checks your passport and
demands two photographs but
settles for the only one you
have. A baggage truck with
two bullet holes through the
windshield-a relic of the
fighting in Vientiane last
December-dumpS your suit
case unceremoniously.
There are no porters and
for a time no taxis. At 10 I'm.
the sun is so hot that the
smallest exertion starts the
sweat running. The taxi which
finally shows up Is a ram
shackle affair that smells
like a slaughterhouse. The
driver has apparently never
heard Of your hotel but sets
off hopefully at a mad pace.
Open-Front Houses
On the bumpy road into
town there are glimpses Of
open-front houses with woven
palm from d walls, bare
chested men sleeping in door,
ways. slim women in long
flowered skirts going about
their work with babies strap
ped on their backs. One
house, larger than the others,
proudly flies the flag Of the
kingdom of Laos-a three
headed white elephant under
a paraSol.
Near town the road runs by
the slow flowing Mekong
River, THE Soul of Laos"
Dugout canoes are drawn up
on the sand flats. Brownish
pink water buffalo wallow in
the muddy shadows. Buzzards
wheel overhead in the bright
hot air.
The town is jammed with
traffic. Jeeps, army trucks
and shiny new Mercedes
thread their way cautiously
down one way streets
through a swarm Of bicycles,
rickshaws, pedestrians, dogs
and chickens. The variety of
types seems endless: solemn
brown Lao girls, wrinkled old
Chinese women in mollusc
shaped hats, soldiers in cam
euflaged army fatigues and
red berets. gray bearded In
dian SikhS, small dark tribes
men of the BLACK Tai" race
in black clothes and compli-
Gated colorful head dresses,
ragged children scuffling on
the dusty sidewalks.
The hotel, when found,
turns out to be strictly from
Somerset Vaughan with
broad terraces. whirring fans
and small lizards called
chichas running around the
walls. The shower water dis
appears through a mysterious
crack in the bathroom floor.
Mosquitoes are shot down
nightly with DDT.
Transit an Adventure
Transportation in Vientiane
is something of an adventure
in itself. The normal dndeed
the only way to get around
is by bicycle rickshaws known
locally as samlors, peddled by
small men in shorts and T.
shirts. Since most of the sam
lor peddlers have come into
town from the country and
rent their rigs. they are lost
most of the time. The stand
Evening star., 1961-04-03
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ready-made flue and swiftly
spread through all five floors.
Present fire safety laws are
not retroactive and provide no
means of forcing the owners Of
old buildings to correct fire
hazards, he said.
Mr.. German, only slightly in
jured, was booked by police
on a charge of suspicion of
manslaughter. They said an
other occupant had put out
one fire in Mr.. Gorman's mat
tress earlier during the night.
Mr.. German denied he had been
smoking in bed.
AS to what precisely hap
pened. Il don't remember" he
said. Il had been drinking beer
and wine and whisky"
Like many other Of the hotels
elderly occupants, Mr.. German
had cashed his pension check
the day before and had been
celebrating in his 81 a night,
'91a by 8 foot room.
Evening star., 1961-01-07

committee counsel, produced
bank records and documents
subpoenaed from other sources
to, trace the nearly $100, 200 he
said Mr.. Cross had spent.
Paul E. Kammerick, assistant
counsel, testified Mr.. Cross in
come tax returns listed earn
ings in addition to his salary
amounting to $7,017 in the
l956-59 period. He said a copy
of Mr.. Cross 1855 income tax
report had not yet been re-
ceived from the Internal Rev
enue Service.
Mr.. Kammerick testified he
has established that Mr.. Cross
used cash, which didn't come
from any of his various bank
accounts. in spending the un-
accounted for money.
Mr.. Cross acknowledged he
has had as many as seven bank
accounts. but now has only
four. He said the unaccounteS
for money did not come from
any safety deposit boxes, but
refused to say where it did
come from.
Mr.. . Kammerick said Mr..
Cross and his wife have pur-
chased IA cars, mostly Cadil-
lacs, since 1851, and bought
three cars in 1857 alone.
Evening star., 1961-01-07
CUBA
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
called the incidents new ex-
amples Of aggression against
Cuba"
FL Mundo also carried on its
front page a Cuban news
agency dispatch from Moscow
in which Tass. the Soviet news
agency. called United States
maintenance of its naval base
at Guantanamo Bay weak.
illogical and ridiculous"
The story said Tass claimed
the United States had no right
to try to maintain a foreign
base in a country with which
1t did not consider it neces-
sary to have diplomatic or con-
sular relations"
Radio Havana, also con-
trolled by the government, said
government agents seized six
terrorists and a small bomb
making plant in downtown
Havana today. The radio said
the explosives came from the
United States as part of ter
rorist operations here financed
by the United States Central
Intelligence Agency.
Death Penalty Authorized
The Cuban cabinet approved
a new law this week that au-
thoriZes death for convicted
anti-Castro terrorists.
The government froze issu-
ance Of new exit permits for
all Cuban and foreign residents
but said tourists will not be
affected. American residents
leaving will not require new
Evening star., 1961-01-07
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Partly
cloudy tonight, low in mid-3Os,
Tomorrow, variable cloudiness,
windy and colder.
Maryland-Partly cloudy to-
night. low in mid-30s. except
% to 80 with snow flurries de-
veloping in mountains. Tomor-
row, variable cloudiness. windy
and colder with snow flurries in
mountains.
virginia-Partly cloudy to-
night, low in 30s. Variable
cloudiness tomorrow, windy and
colder with snow fiurries de-
veloping in the mountains.
Lpwer Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Winds shifting to
northwest, 20 to 80 knots to-
night and continuing rather
strong northwest tomorrow.
Partly cloudy tonight and to-
morrow. Visibility 10 miles.
Road ConditIons-AAA
West District of Columbia tc
Pennsylvania turnpike, Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1961-01-07
u. S. Dedicutes
New u. N. Offices

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Jan. 7 ZAP. - The United
States yesterday formally ded-
icated the new History build
ing Of the United States dele
cation to the United Nations.
The $3,750,000 structure is di-
rectly across the street from
U. N. headquarters.
The United States delega-
ton has been occupying three
floors at 2 Park avenue. It has
a permanent staff of about 100
persons.
The distinguishing feature
of the new building is its un-
usual facade of cast stone
formed into a series of hex
agonal frames to contain the
windows.