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Evening star., 1961-07-15
President Presses
District Home Rule
Senate Bill
Asks Mayor
And Council
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star staff Writer

President Kennedy has sent
to the Senate his District home
rule bill calling for the election
of a mayor and Seven-member
council to run the Capital City.
In an accompanying mes
sage, Mr.. Kennedy said:
"It is time to eliminate the
last legal and constitutional
anomaly in the United States
and reaffirm our belief in
the principal that government
should be responsible to the
governed"
Senate District Committee
Chairman Bible, Democrat Of
Nevada, began polling commit
teemen for co-sponsors.
Simultaneous introduction is
expected on both sides of Con-
gress early next week by Senator
Bible and Representative Null
ter, Democrat of New York.
With pressure from Senator
Bible, the bill conceivably could
clear the Senate this session.
House District Committee
Chairman Mcmillan said he
saw no chance of House action.
At the time the bill was sent
to the Senate, the House was
not in session.
One of Many Attempts
The Kennedy bill takes its
place among q string Of preSi-
dentially sponsored ideas for
self government, which have
been both strongly opposed and
supported in the past. Never
since 1878 when the commits
sioner form Of government was
established has any home rule
bill cleared Congress.
The Senate five times in the
last decade has approved legis-.
lation, then saw it die in the
House, where conflicting COM.
m munity opinions have been
rallied.
One strong argument against
past home rule bills has been
that they contradict in principle
the constitutional provision
that Congress shall legislate
exclusively for the District.
Pending bills to set up presi-
Dental elections here and to
give the city representation in
both the Senate and the House
stem from the concern in Con-
gresS and the community for
protecting the Federal interest.
Sensitive to this sentiment.
Mr.. Kennedy stressed two guar
antees Of the Federal interest
In his bill.
Incorporate Veto
His draft bill authorized the
President to review and veto
city council actions. Congress
would retain authority to enact
legislation overriding any coun-s
Gil position.
The Kennedy proposal asks
for an elected delegate to the
House Of Representatives, whose
job combines protection of
both Federal and local inter-
eStS.
Also included was q new
formula for the annual Federal
See HOME RULE, Page AT
Evening star., 1961-07-15
Floods Rout $4,000

BOMBAY, India, July is
(AP) Fifty thousand persons
were homeless today in Poona,
rs miles southeast of Bombay,
as a result of floods earlier in
the week that claimed SO lives
after the rain-swollen Mutha
River burst a dam.
Evening star., 1961-07-15
Castro Cell Exposed

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina.
July is (AP).-An undercover
training center for pro-Castro
guerrilla fighters has been dis
covered in Buenos Aires prov
.nce, military sources report.
An unidentified YugosIav was
reported under arrest, but nd
other details were given.
Evening star., 1961-07-15
Pentoeon Chiefs Debate
How to Meet Crises
Choice Seen in Building Services
Or Ceiling on Reserves, Guard
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND
Star staff Writer

Pentagon officials facing the likelihood Of recurrent
Bernype crises actively debating whether to greatly
enlarge armed forces develop flexible force
that could be expanded to meet each crisis.
top official said yesterday the broad problem the
Pentagon is trying to cope with is this
The Kremn create warke crisis any time it wants
Evening star., 1961-07-15
ANOTHER D. A.
AT ST. JOHNS

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS are no
novelty to St. Johns Episeopcl
Church in Georgetown. The first
United Stotes attorney for the Dis
triet, Francis Scott Key, was d
member Of the vesty at St. Johns.
Today, United States Attorney David
Aeheson ottends the Georgetown
church. See Pose AS.
Evening star., 1961-07-15

in widely scattered parts OF the
world-as it is doing now over
Berlin. Military planners must
assume that the crises will
come every few months. During
some of the future crises this
country may want to have SUBJ
Stantially larger non-nuclea1
armed forces available to keep
war from breaking out or to
block the Communists without
nuclear war if it does.
Alternative Procedures
There are two ways TO pro-
vide these larger forces. the
official continued. The Pen
tagon could call up Reserve and
National Guard units during
crises or could maintain a larger
standing Army, Navy and All
Force at all times.
A fundamental, far-reachins
Evening star., 1961-07-15
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Evening star., 1961-07-15

District and vicinity-Scattered thunder
showers tonight, low in lower 70s. Some
cloudiness tomorrow, continued hot and
humid with scattered thundershowers
High and low of last "a hours: High, SO,
at $3.50 pm. yesterday; low, "a. at am
today.
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Drives Bus for 81
Years-No Accident

After driving Hagerstown city
buses for 30 years. Robert l.. Bob
Stewart is looking forward to his
retirement next year.
Bob has been a bus driver for
So years, actually, since he began
his drivers career back in 1928
for the Frostburg-Uniontown Bus
lines. This was called the "Old
Trail Bus Line" After working
for this lire about four years he
went to work as a driver for the
old Blue Ridge lines owned by
the Potomac Edison company, and
which operated in and out of Oak
land. Stewart formerly resided in
Oakland
He was transferred to Hagers-
town city buses in 1881 and has
been a city driver since that time.
A record Bob is quite proud Of is
that he now has a total of 81
years of safe driving without a
chargeable accident during that
time. In the early days he worked
seven days a week and began with
salary Of S25 per week.
He says he has enjoyed the
work and especially meeting so
many people.
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Here's a simple example
Of how il works:

Let's say you put So, $50 into E Bonds back
in the spring of 1943. BY this spring they
would have earned $2,402 interest and
their cash-in value would be Sc, 152.
Until this year, if you cashed your E Bonds
to buy H Bonds you would have to pay the
tax on the E Bond interest with your next
return. If you happened to be in the 800
tax bracket, this would amount to $72l.
The remaining SIS, AL if put into H Bonds,
would pay an average of $205.56 interest
per year for 10 years.
Under the netU rule, you can put off paying
the tao on your E Bond interest until you
redeem your II Bonds. You can put the
entire $6,152 to work and earn oUer the 10
years an average of $232.85 interest per
year. This gives you an extra $272.9O over
the 1O-year life of your II Bonds.
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Cod. Scripture was read by Mrs.
Georgia Hardesty. Talks on the
topic were given by Mrs. Nelora
burst. Mrs. Lulu Edwards, Mrs.
Ruth Hetz, Mrs. Ethclene burst.
Mrs Lulu Edwards reported cards
and flowers sent to sick members.
Co-hostesses for the March meet
ing will be Mrs. Ella Hanft and
Mrs Pauline Yoder leader will be
Mrs. Ruth Hetz.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence FELTON,,
Corinth W. Va. were recent guests
Of Mrs. lrva Mickey and son DON
aid
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wengerd
and family spent several days Wis
iting Mr.. and MrsI Charles Ringer
at Chambersburg, Pa.
The Christian wives and mothers
of St. Stephens Church met a
recent evening at the home of
Mrs. II. l.. Petit with Is members
present.
Donations were made to the
Heart Fund and Red Cross.
Discussion on religious subjects
by Fr. Conrad followed the meet
ing
The March meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. j. F. Fahey
The regular meeting of The
Grantsville All Club was held at
the home of Gerald Beachy, Feb
ruary meeting.
Mr. Messenger gave the group
leaflets on cattle judging and spoke
to them about farm life. The meet
ing was adjourned with the All
pledge and refreshments were
served by the host.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira L. Huff spent
the weekend visiting their son
and daughter-in-laW Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Huff of Rockville, Mary
land
The Casselman Valley Junior
Sportsmen invited the Bittinger
Luther League to go roller skat-
ing in Salisbury on Sunday after
noon from three to five. There was
good turnout
The Casselman Valley Junior
Sportsmen are planning a basket
ball game between the Fats and
the Sims this Saturday, March H.,
The game will be held in the
Grantsville Elementary school be-
ginning at $50 p. m. Everyone is
welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie BroadWater
spent Friday evening in Keyser,
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half sister, Mrs. lees Meats.
Mrs. Minnie Smith, 90, Of Brook
side, who had been a patient in
the Preston Memorial hospital and
was moved Saturday to the rest
home at Oakland. passed away,
March 8. after a long illness.
Announcement has been made of
the birth of a daughter, March 5,
to Mr. and Mrs Cecil Lewis in
Garrett County Memorial hospital
The mother is daughter of Mrs
Bessie Evans Brookside, and the
late Wilbur Evans. The father. a
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Lewis.
Silver Lake, owns and operates a
truck stop near the State line.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Myers, Nor
gantown. are the parents of a
daughter born March 5 in Gar
rett County Memorial hospital. Mr.
and Mrs Charles Hardesty, Mt
Top, are the maternal grandpar-
ents and Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Myers, Aurora, the paternal grand
parents.
A Girl was born March to Mr.
and Mrs. Delbert Blamble in Car
rett County Memorial hospital Mr.
and Mrs Harvey Knots, Eglon
are the maternal grandparents.
The third child and second son.
weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces, was
born March in the Preston Me
mortal hospital to Mr. and Mrs.
Alden Wilt, Eglon The mother is
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs Earl
Fike. of Elkins and Eglon The
father. a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Les
ter Wit, Eglon, is a farmer.
A daughter was born March in
Garrett County Memorial hospital
to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sterenger, All
rora.
Word was received here that Mrs
Lee Beckman, Sabraton, entered
the General hospital at Morgan
town. Wednesday. where she will
undergo surgery, Friday. Mrs
Beckman. a nurse. is a daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs James Martin
Sabraton Mr. Beckman is a son
of Mrs. Clara Fike and the late
Otto Beckman, Eglon
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for workers-even then statistical
tables showed some unemploy-
ment Voluntary unemployment
will exist as long as workers are
free to quit, move, and seek other
work.
Now about the figures: At reg
ular intervals the U. S. Census
Bureau sends out a QUESTIONABLE
to $4,000 families, and it bases its
figures for our 180,00O,00O popula-
ton on the returns. The question
is asked: Are you out of work
and looking for work." The re-
sulting figures are criticized both
as an underStatement and as an
overstatement, depending on who
does the criticizing.
Some say they are too low be-
cause they do not include those
with only part-time employment
and also because they fail to take
into account those who would be
looking for work if they thought
they could find any On the other
hand, listed as unemployed are
those whose efforts to find work
are feeble, to say the least. They
also include students, housewives,
and retired persons who are not
members of the labor force The
statistics make no distinction
among diverse situations. For in
stance, the sole support of large
family unable to find work counts
no more heavily in the figures
than the teen-age looking for
baby-sitting job. 1t is even possible
for four persons to be counted as
unemployed when the head of the
family loses his job and the
housewife and two children in col
lege go looking for work Counted
as unemployed are many who pre-
fer only seasonal work, many who
are resting up between jobs, and
many who don't really want to
work. You and l have heard of
instances where undeserVing
people worked only long enough
to get back on the Unemployment
Compensation rolls SO they could
loaf. This is a loop-hole in our
Social Security system which we
must try to close) Many of these
are included in the statistics as
unemployed
Such diverse factors make the
picture quite uncertain. One thing
seems sure: it does not do to
Jump to conclusions about the
unemployment situation because
of the unemployment statistics;
big-spending crash programs
should not result from these
statistics alone.
Speaking OF Snow-And who
isn't? Last week l heard this re-
mark Here we are blasting off
for outer space, and | couldn't
even get out of my driveway"
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Senate Cloakrootn
By j. GLENN BEALL
United States Senator from
Maryland

Snow Isn't The Only Thing
That's been falling on the Capitol
Congress has been showed under
with egislation-from the mo-
ment the 87th Congress was gaveled
into existence. And the end of
both snoWstorm and billstorm is
not vet in sight. In the first three
days of the new Congress. over
$500 bills were introduced, and
the number quickly rose to more
than twice that AS you might
guess. these bills deal with prac-
tically every conceivable subject
and some that you would have
thought inconceivable. Be that as
it may, there they are! Grist for
the congressional mill. homework,
for this 87th Congress! In the
House of Representatives where
co-sponsorship is not permitted as
il is in the Senate). many of the
bills are duplicates. Some were
entered Just for the record, and
may be forgotten. But, like the
spawning salmon climbing the
Columbia River a hardy few-the
most needed ones, we hope-will
eventually make it,
Lincoln Day Dinners-The Sen
ate. by mutual consent, sort of
coasted this past week in order
TO give the Republican members
the opportunity to address meet
ings in various parts of the
United States observing the birth
day of President Abraham Lin
coin, founder of the Republican
Party. When the Jackson Day
Dinners come along, the score no
doubt will be evened up.
While the Senate itself was in
recess part of the time, the various
committees were busy as usual
throughout the week.
States Have Done Good job
Since World War II the States
have built, without Federal help,
$4,000 classrooms-more than half
of all in use Teachers have in
creased in number 48 per cent in
the last ten years, and pupils A
per cent. Teachers salaries have
nearly doubled-up 99.8 per cent.
Public school spending by the
States jumped from So billion
dollars to 15.5 billion The spend
ing per pupil rose from S260.37
to S48l.48 a year. While the argu-
ments about Federal aid to edu-
cation have been going on, it
appears that the States have been
doing a pretty good job for their
youth
Let's Look Closely At Proposals!
As most everyone knows, the
annual Federal budget is about
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Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmour Fike, Egg
Ion, spent the weekend at Parkcrs-
burg whore they visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Fike and family and Mr.
and Mrs. Keith Parks.
Grant Loughrie, Aurora. is Wis
iting some of his children in Balti-
more this week
Among the Sunday guests in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Slau-
baugh, Eglon, were Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald Inks, UniontoWn Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Whitehair and daughter,
Mrs. Erma linn, Terra Alta, and
Mrs. Sadie Hollis and daughter
Linda Kingwood. The celebration
was in honor OF Mrs. Slaubaugh's
SIND birthday anniversary. They
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presented her with cake and
served ice cream.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fike and
daughter, Linda. UniontoWn, were
Sunday guests of relatives in this
area.
Emory Wotring, Brookside, and
the Rev. Olonzo Fike and son, Bal
timore. we're Sunday morning
guests at Maple Spring church.
The Fixes spent the weekend with
Mrs. Fixes parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wotring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Soldiers and
family, Fairmont, were weekend
guests in the home of the formers
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thurman
Soldiers, Aurora.
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S80.OO0,OO0,OO0

Obviously, if big spending pro-
grams should be added to the
burden, the Government would
have to take more from the people
to pay the extra cost-either that
or deficit spending, which always
means more printing-press money,
more initiation, dollar which
will buy less and less.
We must take a close look at
every spending proposal.
Unemployment: How Bad?-The
figures on unemployment can be
misleading. Before they are ac-
copied as the basis for crash pro-
grams involving heavy spending
at the expense of our already over
burdened taxpayers, we should
consider how these figures are
arrived at.
First Of all, let it be said that
statistics do not mean anything to
the man out of work Unemploy-
men can cause misery and distress.
AS long as there is one man or
woman needing employment who
cannot find work, ! shall be con-
cerned with that persons plight.
But, here, we are now examining
the overall situation, which might
be offered as reason for GER
tain governmental measures.
When times have been best
when industry has been going full
blast and when plants and bust
ness concerns have been begging
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other reasons, want the cash interest which
H Bonds pay twice year. But study your own
situation carefully. Current income may not
be needed just now-and, of course, the cash
interest on H Bonds is taxable. Or perhaps
your E Bonds depending on their dates of
issue-are yielding more currently than you
would get on H Bonds. Your banker has tables
which can help you decide what's best for you.
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EVANSVILLE

Miss Carol Edwards. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Cecil Edwards is
a surgical patient in Sacred Heart
hospital. Cumberland
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel d. Hersh-
berger, Hyattsville, spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
d. w. Hershberger
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Glotfelty
and family, Clarksburg, w Va,
spent the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. o. j. Glotfelty
Mrs. George Edwards and Mrs.
c. o. Bender visited Miss Viola
BroadWater, at Springfield State
hospital, recently.
The WSCS of the Grantsville
Methodist church met at the
church recently Mrs. Helen Paul,
president, presided Mrs. Irva
Mickey was the leader of the topic,
What is the Word" and presented
the meditation in The Word of
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Effective now, owners of Series E Savings
Bonds can trade them in for current-income
H Bonds without having to include the accu-
mulated E Bond interest in their taxable
income for the year in which the conversion
is made.
This new conversion privilege has special
benefits for people near retirement, or who, for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-03-09
Your tax money earns interest
currently and you may pay less tax later

OF course, tax on your E Bond interest
will have to be paid when you redeem or
otherwise dispose of your H Bonds. But
by the time you pay the tax, you may be
in substantially lower bracket-due to
retirement, for example. In the meantime,
the tax money is earning interest for you.
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SNEEZING?
DO THIS QUICK!

1t takes just ONE HOUR to use BQ / 6.
Fake two tablets Cone white, one brown
each half hour until 3 doses are taken
Then in another hour. if not pleased. get
your CSC back at any drug store. Today
at Englanders Pharmacy.
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es and through it
! found peace?"
Did you ever
hear anyone say, 1a NJ &s8sssz
~ was almost beside myself
with the guilt of sin but when
| picked up q copy of Tom
Paine's book, Immediately 10y
and peace filled my heart? Did
YOU ever hear anyone give a
testimony of how they had been
delivered from drink or dope
through atheism. Has a nation,
Soviet Russia for example, been
made a better nation because
they have embraced the relig-
ion of atheism Do they live
better, are they happier when
they believe there is no God.
Well I'm sure you know the an
swer as well as ! do. Then why
is atheism advoc afed as super
brand of intellectUalism by
many of our College professors
and the Christian faith scoffed
at? Could this have any eonnec-
zion with the fact that CommU-
nism is breeding ir the midst
of our educational system here
in America? Wherever belief
in God and Jesus Christ has
been carried, that nation SO
blessed with the Gospel reaped
an abundant harvest of the
other blessings as by-ProducT.
Let US never forget thatl Bless
ed is the nation whose God IL
the Lord.
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EGLON

Funeral rites were conducted at
the home near Aurora bv the Rev
Galen Fike. Eglon. for Herman NJ
Bohon. So who passed away March
8 in the University hospital Nor
gantoWn. after several weeks i'll
ness. Burial was in the Aurora
cemetery Immediate survivor is a
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To match the extra interest YOU s0oItld hnue
to get about ~ % on the after tax cdst-ln
value of your E Bonds.
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so billion dollars Possibly not so
well known is the fact that munich
pal county and State taxes total
another so billion dollars every
year In other words, the people
Of the United States pay about
160000000000 a year to support
their government My pencil, di-
vding ,000,000,000 by 100000
600, our total population, tells me
that an average of 1888 is paid by
every man, woman and child
every year in taxes. The taxes
that will be paid by, say, fami-
ly of five-husband, wife and three
children-Would average out at
S4,440. Some families will pay a
lot morc some, a lot less. Some
of the taxes are hidden" but you
pay them just the same.
The Federal governments 80
billion this year is expected to
come from these sources-all paid
by the individual taxpayer and
consumer one way or another:
The figures are Approximately
Individual income taxes .........
Observation-Disclosures. S42 100000
Corporation income taxes .......
Observation-Disclosures. 22,240000,000
Excise taxes ...... 9,28OOOO,0OO
Employment taxes. 32O0OO,OOO
Estate and gift taxes ............
Observation-Disclosures. 1,440000,000
Customs levies ... 96O,OOO,000
Miscellaneous receipts ...........
Observation-Disclosures. 3.52O00O,00O
TOTAL ....... S80,00O,000,0O0
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You save more than money

You help save the peace by buying Bonds
and holding on to them. The money you
save helps keep our country's economy
strong.
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Nezv privilege of conversion into II Bonds
aUo1Us you to postpone paying taxes on your
accumulated E. Bond interest; the tax money
continues to earn interest for y0u
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w. Va. and Barton, with friends
and relatives.
Gary Broadwater, Baltimore,
spent the weekend with his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie Broad
NNatpr
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THE
COUNTR Y-PULPlT'
WEEKLY SERMON
by
Pastor P. r. NieUwkooP
Is ATHEISM
A BLESSING?

Did you ever
hear anyone say
~ was wrefched
a n d miserable,
and h e n | got
h o d of one of
voltaire's volum-
es and through it
! found peace?"
Did you ever
hear anyone say