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Evening star., 1961-10-24
United WheIon Plan
For Merqer Cancelled

A proposed merger Of United
Whelan Corp, national drug
store chain, and Davidson
Brothers Department Store
group has been called off.
Midwest Holdings Corp,
principal stockholder of David
son, said today the negotia-
tions had been dropped ~
mutual consent" No reason
was given. Whelan operates
four stores and a business
office in the Washington area.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Anna Hyer to Speak

Anna Hyer, director of
audio-visual instruction serv-
ice, National Education Asso-
citation, will discuss teaching
machines at a dinner meeting
of the Washington Personnel
Association Thursday at 6 pm.
in the Kennedy Warren Hotel.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Rixon Expects Sales
To Exceed 81 Million

Sales at Rixon Electronics.
Inc, in Silver Spring are ex-
pected to top 81 million for the
six months ending Oct. 81.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
VEPCO Net Income
Hits Record High,
Rising 81z Per Cent
By TRUMAN r. TEMPLE
Star staff Writer

Virginia Electric & Power today reported its net in
than 8a per to high $24 900
the first nine months of 1861.
total compared 900 for comparable
period last year The utility which portions of Virginia
eastern North Carolina and West Virginia reported operating
Evening star., 1961-10-24
OVER COUNTER

National Association of Securities
Dealers In Washington represent the
range within which locally active
securities could have been bought or
sold at l pm. Tuesday, October "a:
Evening star., 1961-10-24
METALS

NEW YORK. Oct. - (API.-spot
nonferrous metal prices today:
copper 81 cents a pound, Connecticut
valley. Lead IL cents a pound, New
York. Zinc llI2 cents a pound, East
st. Louis. Tin 1.20h pound, New
York. Foreign silver 9lsa cents per
troy ounce. New York. Pittsburgh
scrap steel No. ! heavy was quoted
by Ircn Age at 37.OO-3S.O0.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
FOREIGN
EXCHANGE

| NEW YORK. Oct. "a (AP).-Foreign
exchange rates (Great Britain and Aus
tralia in dollars, others in cents and
| decimals Of q cent?:
Today Prev. Day
Evening star., 1961-10-24
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK CAP)-Noon over the coun.
Ter U. s.. Government Treasury bonds.
DID, asked, net change and yield for
Evening star., 1961-10-24

Prices quoted in dollars and thirty sec
Inds.
T-Partially tax exempt.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
MUTUAL FUNDS

NEW YORK LAP)
National AssOcia-
tion Securities Deal
are IHc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26

To keep your small fry of mischief trick treat
night let them invite of their school friends in
for supper that's than you want to tackle let
them for dessert only just like grown-ups
This dessert called geeful COLLINS will intrigue their i'm
agnations made of big red apples and filled with
cunchy mixture of besze shredded wheat biscuits and CO.
favored with melted butter brown and cinnamon
keep them busy before dinner while you're fixing
the dessert give the black coored mask
ing and let them the into geefu gobns
too.
GleefuI COLLINS
y cup cinnamon candies "a cup brown sugar. firmly
Ia cups apple Juice packed
teaspoon cinnamon medium tart apples
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26
DeviIed Ham Sauce

IL tablespoons butter or
margarine
IL tablespoons flour
l cup milk
412 ounces ~ cup deviled
ham
z teaspoon salt
"a teaspoon ground black
pepper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26

Heat to moderate 1850 degrees. Heat cinnamon
candies apple juice Stir occasionally to dissolve Pour
baking dish Mix and cinnamon Core apples Peel
onench section from top Of apple Cut out goblin faces
desired ive each apple different personality Place
apples baking dish with mixture Bake
minutes until tender Basic frequently with juice Just
before serving, place filling in center of apples.
Filling
tablespoons butter or marga- y teaspoon cinnamon
"a cup coconut
y cup brown firmly cup btesize shredded wheat
packed biscuits crushed to "a cup
Melt butter Stir in cinnamon and sugar. Add coconu
and cereal crumbs Mix well. Cool Makes six servings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26
Spooky Treats

/ package peanut creme or
chocolate fudge frosting
mix
u cup boiling water
2 cups cocoa puffs
Empty contents Of frosting
mix package into top Of dou-
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a teaspoon fresh lemon Juice
Melt butter; stir in flour.
Blend in milk. Stir and cook
until thickened. Remove from
heat and add deviled ham,
salt, pepper and lemon juice,
Heat. Serve over hot cooked
fresh cauliflower. Makes one
cup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26
Features, C-l2-l4
Halloween Desserts to Intrigue Small Ghosts and COLLINS

If the children are having small party after dinner
set out large hpyoursef bowl of hot butered popcorn
pitcher of hot spicy punch Serve the punch
festive paper cups cleaning up afterwards.
Spiced Orange Punch
81 CUP water Whipped
IA cup sugar 3 California oranges cut in
/, teaspoon ground cinnamon thin cart wheels haved
IA teaspoon nutmeg Shaved semi-sWeet chocolate
4 cups fresh orange juice
Combine water, sugar. cinnamon and nutmeg in
PAM bring boil cook for minute Add juice
and heat but do boil Pour into paper Top
with whipped and half SLICE sprinkle
shaved chocolate Makes six serving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26

BILE boiler. Stir in u cup boil
ing water. Heat 5 minutes
over rapidly boiling water.
stirring occasionally. Stir in
the 2 cups Of cocoa puffs.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto
waxed paper. Let cool. Makes
four dozen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26
FRO" IOWA

You say you've tried Rath Black Hawk Bacon?
Lady, don't know what you're missing This is corn
fed Iowa bacon with wide ribbons of lean like you've
never seen-and hickory flavor like you've never
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-26

tasted Makes saving that dime in Bacon Sale real
worthwhile. P S. If you've been going steady with Rath
Black Hawk Bacon like so many folks d. this O offer
is nice little bonus.
The Adak sun., 1961-01-03

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Evening star., 1961-09-02
More Revenue, Same Tax

II Virginia tax authorities are cor
rect in their estimate of State income
tax revenues lost Through evasion or
other failures to comply with the law,
the next General Assembly would be
justified in approving x-withholding
plan for those who work in the State.
c. H. Morrissett, Virginia's tax commits
sioner. told conference of county
officials that a payroll withholding
system would produce at least SIS million
more revenue each year. The present
system, he said allows too many per-
sons to escape paying income taxes to
the State.
Mr.. Morrissett, while not specifi-
cally advocating adoption of the with
holding plan, said he favored exploring
ways of improving tax collections before
considering new or higher levies. He
said that considerable number of
persons draw pay in Virginia for year
or more and then move elsewhere with
out paying any income tax to the State.
The payroll-deduction method would
insure collection of taxes due from all
employed persons. Governor Almond
recently indicated that either a retail
sales tax or an income withholding tax
would be necessary to finance Virginia's
ever-larger budgets. We suggest that
both plans be adopted by the next
Legislature in order to meet the cost
of the States growing needs.
Evening star., 1961-09-02
Ambassador to Berlin

President Kennedy has acted wisely,
indeed very much so, in naming General
Lucius Clay as his personal represent
ative, with the rank of Ambassador, in
Berlin.
The appointment promises two
things. AS Mr.. Kennedy himself said,
it, will give him the advantage Of having
in Berlin a person of outstanding
capacity and experience-one in whom
he and Secretary of State Rusk are
fully justified in having unusual con-
fidence." Secondly, 1t will place in that
city Of crisis man whose great prestige
is highest among the very people with
whom he will be sharing the life and
possible dangers Of residence in that
urban island of liberty. AS Mr.. Ken
nedys alter ego, his principal reporter
and adviser in a cold-war outpost of
greatest Importance, his presence should
mean much to the hardy morale of the
free BerlinerS.
This Is so, of course, because Gen.
eral Clay has been there before in a
period of crisis-when the chill Of the
cold war was first settling over middle
Europe and when the allied airlift Of
1948-4e demonstrated our strength of
purpose about Berlin and its free people.
To great degree, General Clay per-
sonified this determination then. No
doubt he will do so again. Certainly
the significance Of his appointment will
not be underestimated on either side
of the barbed wire barriers in Berlin.
Evening star., 1961-09-02
Good Time TO Quit

The House Ways and Means Com
mittee has made sensible decision to
discontinue its efforts to draft major
tax reform legislation in this session of
Congress. AS a practical matter, 1t has
been obvious for some time that any
thing as complex and controversial
would have virtually no chance Of
making its way through both branches
Of the Congress before an adjournment
target-date in September. For the
House committee to vote out a bill now
would only leave it committed, more or
less, to position which might be
completely unsuited to the times or
the needs when Congress returns in
January.
Indeed, 1t might also be sensible
for the committee simply to set aside
most of what it has done in recent
months and to make fresh start in
the new year. Today's situation is not
by any means all of the committees own
making 1t was after mid-April when
it was handed package of admins
tration tax recommendations containing
several highly controversial innova-
tions-among them proposal to slim
ulate capital investment through a tax
credit plan, rather than by the more
widely desired liberalization of depre-
citation rules; another to introduce the
withholding practice on dividend and
interest income, and third designed to
speed up the capture of revenues on
American earnings abroad The COM
mittee task was made no easier by
administration inSiStence that It's pro-
posals be considered "as unit" with
the committee decisions on each part
presumably geared to its decisions on
all parts. In addition, committee men,
bers have complained that Treasury
Department recommendations on these
intricate proposals were not submitted
in sufficient detail, and in some cases
have been reversed, during the past
months
Now, while the committee has
arrived at preliminary position on
some Of the major features Of the bill,
1t still is free to change its mind before
submitting legislation to the House
next winter. On one point, however,
the Democratic majority has at least
attempted to save face" for the ad-
ministration by indorsing the basic
concept Of the investment credit plan.
Industry opposition to this formula has
been strong and most persuasive on
the basis that depreciation liberalization
would make plant expansion funds
more quickly available to more COM
psnies. AS Of now, we think it would
be good to have a new look at every
thing next winter.
Evening star., 1961-09-02
Co-ordinoted Sovino

t Defense Secretary McNamara, who
believes that bureaucratic methods
can-and should-also be busineSSlike,
has ordered a Hoover Commission
proposed supply reform that could save
outset through inventory reductions
and perhaps $50 million year there
after After much foot-dragging at
lower levels of the Defense Department,
Mr. Mcnamara has moved to coordinate
the buying and distribution of a large
number of items common to the three
services but heretofore bought and
supplied Independently by the Army,
the Air Force and the Navy. Such
teamwork long has been overdue.
Although Congress repeatedly had
called on the Defense Department to
merge its several supply services, action
toward that end had been remarkably
slow, due to resistance Of the defense
branches. Mr.. Hoover and members Of
his now-defunct commission continued
to press for the reforms, however, and
congressional committees Joined in the
pressure. Flagrant instances of wasteful
buying and stockpiling of materials and
of overlapping and duplicated supply
activities were cited.
From his first days as Defense
Secretary, Mr.. Mcnamara showed
keen interest in defense supply prob
lens and in the proposals for reducing
waste. Recently he told congressional
committee that he intended to cut as
much fat" as possible from the defense
budget. His establishment of new
overall single management agency
to handle supply and distribution OF
many defense materials Is the first step
in this commendable program He will
have to overcome lot of inertia among
uniformed personnel, Of course, but
Mr.. Mcnamara has the know-how and
determination for the job
Evening star., 1961-09-02
VSTAS IN SCIENCE
Gas Pipe May Solve Space Riddles
By THOMAS R. HENRY

Seventy feet Of ordinary
gas pipe and a fantastic op-
tical system have been COM
bined to make a gun" that
may solve some Of the mys-
teries Of sending signals
through the outer atmos-
phere.
This Is the work Of DR..
Charles QuerfeId of the Army
Signal Corps Missile Support
Agency at White Sands, N.
Mex. The gas pipe ia the
barrel. Supported by concrete
blocks on the sands Of the
New Mexico desert floor. 1t
extends 10 feet from the
laboratory building like a
battleship gun from it's turret.
The breech end of the gun
is in the laboratory. Here
DR.. Querfeld operates a lamp.
At the muzzle Of the gun Is
a oncave mirror that
bounces the light back to
another lens system at the
breech. In 100 bounces the
gun will produce a light path
of more than a mile.
Stimulates Conditions
BY sealing both breech and
muzzle, 1t Is possible to simu-
late any environment one
wishes to test. DR.. Querfeld
turns on a vacuum pump and
extracts air from the gun to
produce conditions Of space.
Then he can pump gases
into it to find out, for ex-
ample. the effects Of carbon
dioxide or nitrous oxide on
the light energy. He can fill
1t with a dusty atmosphere
for a desert test or a salty
one that will simulate con-
ditions at sea.
He is seeking data that
will be used In the design Of
infrared light devices to de-
tect and track objects in
space, and eventually for in
struments that will send sig
nails through the cosmos.
1t has been known for
some time that gas and dust
particles in the atmosphere
weaken and bend light beams,
but a system has been need
ed to measure this effect
with precision. Among the
phenomena which the device
probably will help explain
are the so-called "radar
angels" ghoStly little figures
that appear on radar screens
indicating objects where
there is nothing but empty
space.
DR.. Querfeld is starting his
experiments with infrared
light because OF the military
applications. All potential
Evening star., 1961-09-02
More Men Against Crime

The upsurge in crime in Washington
during the first half of this year con-
stitutes ample evidence Of the wisdom
Of Congress in authorizing a 30O0-man
Metropolitan Police force. The author
ization was approved before the figures
for the first six months we're all In, but
there had been sufficient news of
rapes, robberies and yokings earlier
this year to spur quick action on both
sides Of the Capitol The total for the
January-June period confirms the worst
predictions heard at congressional
hearings
..s- According to the FBI's Uniform
Crime Reports, the District out-ran the
crime rate for the Nation at large during
those six months. Whereas the crime
increase in big cities in general averaged
Z per cent-slightly less than the rise
during the first half of 1960-the in
crease here was IL per cent over the
ha1f-year total for 1860 Decreases were
noted in only two categories, rape and
aggravated assault. Substantial in
creaSes occurred in Slayings, robberies
burglarieS and thefts.
Chief Murray will need more than
a congressional authorization, however,
to achieve his plan for putting more
patrolnen on beats in the so-called
crime prone precincts He now has more
than 2,700 policemen available, but
some Of these are recruits In training
In order to obtain additional men under
the authorization. he must (1) receive
an appropriation to make the manpower
increase possible and (2) launch an
intensive recruiting program for the
force. And even If the funds are made
available In the District budget, the
recruiting Of men qualified to serve in
the Washington department will not be
easy-as recent experience has shown.
The funds should be provided, however,
and the effort to round up the required
additional men should be pressed.
Evening star., 1961-09-02
Casey at the Bot

If indeed there was mo Joy In
Mudville" when mighty Casey" struck
out, there is likely to be none in the
offices of International Business Ma
chimes If Roger Maris fails to break
Babe Ruth's record-60 home runs in
154 games. For IBM has a mighty
Casey $50 named) of it's own-an cleo
tronic gizmo with eight mechanical
heads-that has come up with an un-
equivocal forecast that the Yankee
right fielder this year will hit home run
No. 81 in the 154th game, scheduled in
Boston on September %.
Actually, the lBM Casey doesn't
really know much about baseball 1t
Evening star., 1961-09-02

@. Please define "photon."
"A. F.
A. An indivisible packet or
quantity of electromagnetic
energy has been used As q
simple definition. The behav-
ior Of electromagnetic radia-
ton and its interaction with
matter can be described ac-
cording to either of two sets
OF hypothesis: that radiation
consists of waves, or that 1t
consists of packets Of energy
tphotons). Some phenomena
are more easily interpreted in
terms of one hypothesis. and
some in terms Of the other. A
photon is sometimes called a
quantun or light quantum.
Evening star., 1961-09-02

comb. Gates and Shepherd
CUSMC) and Admirals Fech-
teller, Carney. Kincaid and
Sprague Navy.
However. it was this same
pre-June, 1858 retired group
who stuck by the service in
the discouraging years be-
tween wars when rank and
pay were extremely low,
troop strength was skeleton
lied; and equipped with the
weapons of model 1908 to
1917. For example Gen.
Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's
superb Chief Of Staff, was
an Army captain for over 20
years. Yet these great mill
tary leaders and scores Of
others, later, became the Ma
tion's top leaders to victory.
In civilian life success Is
largely measured by ac-
cumulated wealth-but in
the military service when
different price tags are
placed on when service was
rendered, the injustice rank
les deeply; for the average
officer and man is fiercely
proud Of his own service and
the colleagues Of his own
military generation. Indeed
it Is his reason for being a
good soldier. Hence the wis
dom and equity of the pre-
1858 system in remunerating
retirees equally as it did for
rank and length of service,
no matter when rendered.
Indeed the Importance of
Justice as the truly basic fibre
of high morale and a pro-
1lclent military service is ex-
ceedingly well brought out by
Prof. Morris Janowitz in the
preface of his excellent book
The Professional Soldier"
which he concludes with the
statement, The task of
civilian leadership is not only
the political direction Of the
military, but prevention of
the growth Of Illustration in
the profession through felt
injustice" The extent to
which Prof. Janowitz agreed
or differed with the report
is not known. but in the light
OF the above quotation 1t is
bitterly ironical that his
name appears in the preface
OF the Michigan report,
among its several co-authors,
Samuel d. Sturgis.
1t. Gen. U. s. A., ret.
Evening star., 1961-09-02

military targets give out In
frared rays without being
Illuminated. and thus can be
detected and tracked. .
Engineering research at the
Army's Missile Support
Agency at White Sands. N.
Mex. has produced the an
swer to two problems that
have plagued radar men
since the device first was in
vented. These problems are
ground clutter" and heat
boil"
Ground clutter is the inter-
ference with a missile track
ing radar signal caused by
objects on the earth's sur
face. Heat boil Is radar signal
distortion caused by heat
energy stored in the ground,
resulting in the shimmering
Of a target on a radar screen.
Automatic Target Finder
The engineers at White
Sands have developed an
automatic target image
tracking device mounted on
the radar. This automatically
keeps the radar on the target
during the launching stage.
Once free of disturbing
ground images the radar
locks on the target electroni-
cally and tracks it. The auto
matte tracker also, according
to an Army report. overcomes
the interfering effects Of dust,
moisture. and other influences
near the ground that bend,
or "refract," the radar signal.
Evening star., 1961-09-02
Our Berlin Stand

continue to protest German
problems to the other al
lied powers? Is this a warn
ing that the USSR will con-
tinue to intrude in the inter-
nal affairs of sovereign ma
tionS?
Why couldn't each of the
allied powers present a pub
lie reply to the USSR note.
recalling their announced
Intentions and questioning
their right to protest?
Let's ask for a public
demonstration Of Russia's
intentions. Walter J. Kane
Once again the un-Amer-
lean policymakers in the
United States Government
are rushing with ladders and
soothing salts to rescue
Khrushchev in Berlin, where
he is far. far out on the limb.
I see no need to negotiate
over Berlin. We have invio-
liable treaty rights there
which the Soviet Union has
never ceased violating. Al
ready United States policy
makers have permitted them
to take away from us too
many OF our treaty rights.
1t is the intention of the
American people to yield no
more, and the Reds should
be made to desist in these
violations on the pain OF war.
Disassociate the United
States from England and
stand with Gen. de Gaulle in
MS refusal to negotiate with
the Russians. De Gaulle has
always had the courage to
stand by his convictions and
that firmness is desperately
needed in other western
leaders. He sees the right.
1t was stated months ago
that Khrushchev was setting
a trap for the Allies in Ber-
lin, and If we are willing to
fight for our rights he will
be caught in it. Khrushchev
Is not fool enough to go to
war over Berlin. East Ger
many, Hungary, Poland, all
the enslaved countries are
praying for just such an
event so they may rise and
fight again for free dom.
Khrushchev would also be
chopped down by his oppo-
nents at home II he got the
Soviet Union into war.
Andrew Phillips.