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Evening star., 1961-03-22

Omsk and Tomsk-the more
repellent the whole Soviet
bag and baggage will be-
come to any literate reader.
Without firing a shot,
without calling the cabinet
into crisis session - even
without asking Congress for
a special foreign-aid appro-
priation-the President is on
the way here to at least one
long-term victory in the
cold war.
For even If Soviet propa-
ganda is theoretically capa-
BILE of accidentally persuad-
ing some types of mind here,
there are very few minds in
all the United States which
can long abide the homici-
dal assaults upon language of
Soviet writing style.
Recall, if you will, the
most crushingly boring tele-
vision documentary you ever
saw. say on a rainy Sunday
in the early days of that
electronic miracle. Perhaps
it was an intimately descrip-
tive program upon the sub
ject of how they make
screws for window facinPs
in Lima, Ohio.
Whatever it was, however
Evening star., 1961-03-22
Higher Disability
Payments in d.
Voted by House

Increased benefits for dis
abled workers in non Govern
ment jobs in the District were
voted by the House yesterday
The measure was passed
without hearings, under a sus-
pension of the rules and by
voice vote.
District workers are covered
in the bill by an amendment to
the Longshoremen's and Har-
Dor Workers Compensation Act.
Efforts to withdraw the Sec
ton Of the act affecting Dis
trict workers and write new,
separate legislation have failed
over the years.
Under terms Of the bill,
which now goes to the Senate
maximum disability payments
were raised from $54 to $40
a month.
Also. the bill raised from
$l7.2S0 to $4,000 the maximum
amount that can be paid to
workers not permanently dis
abled.
About 100000 employees are
covered in the act. Local en-
ployers have argued that they
are forced to pay higher rates
than those prevailing in the
States because the measure is
sandwiched into the LongShore-
mems Act.
Evening star., 1961-03-22
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Kennedy's Ending of Censorship
On Communist Papers Louded

President Kennedy has hit
the international Communists
a subtle and cheerfully cruel
blow-right in the middle of
their syntax. so to speak.
He has ordered the Post
Office people to end forth
with an old policy of inter-
cepting Communist papers
and magazines upon their
arrival in this country from
all the Iron Curtain Edens,
from Moscow down.
For the first time since
1948, therefore, this incom-
parably dreary stuff is to be
allowed to come in here in
all its dreary bales. But this
seemingly tolerant concession
to the Communists will turn
out to be intolerably dam
aging to them in the end.
1t will be an unexampled case
where an apparently soft"
line toward them will be very
hard on them, indeed.
For the wider their propa-
ganda booklets and PAM
phletS are circulated in this
country-in all their en-
chanting grace and with all
their fascinating disclosures
about the sewer systems in
Evening star., 1961-03-22
Kennedy Taking Hand
In Price, Wage Affairs

concrete actions. the President
told the committee:
With your help. I intend to
get a look at this situation be-
fore there is a crisis lover
wages and prices. I do not
want the White House to have
to come in at the last minute. "
He offered no suggestions
about how wages and prices
could be influenced, and en-
phasized that he wants to keep
the economy free" 1t is con-
sidered unlikely that Mr.. Ken
nedy favors elaborate regulation
Of wages and prices.
More likely, he is counting on
the committee to help him work
out guidelines and formulas for
sound" wage and price poll
cieS. Then, it is believed, he
will expect the committee to do
missionary work for voluntary
acceptance Of these principles
backed UP by his own influence
and inherent powers.
The President noted that
wages and prices here affect the
competitive position of Ameri-
can products on world markets,
and declared that competition
is most important in national
survival" He apparently was
referring to the need to in
crease exports in the drive to
eliminate the deficit in the
United States balance Of pay
mentS.
Mr.. Kennedy also called the
committees attention to long
range unemployment problems.
Evening star., 1961-03-22
Issues Involved in Foreiqn Aid

support in recovering after
the war. But this was, in q
large sense, a military propo-
Sition. It was important for
the United States to build
allies in Europe. There is
no such justification for the
building up Of neutrals. for
instance, in Africa among
countries who never will ally
themselves with the United
States or the West.
Under the circumstances;
America may well be paying
out funds to countries which
will soon be strong enough to
become important adjuncts Of
the Communist apparatus.
This is the chance which the
American people are taking.
The idea now is being ad-
vanced that the Washington
government should exa C t
some assurances as to how
the money will be spent and
as to whether the countries
will put their military forces
at the disposal of the United
States in the event of serious
trouble with the Communists.
Unless the taxpayers mon
ey is being spent for the de-
fense Of the people of the
United States, it is difficult
to see how, in the long run,
huge expenditures to coun-
tries which are playing both
ends against the middle can
be justified. There are coun-
tries Ike Egypt, for example.
which permit the Communist
apparatus to function inside
their borders, and yet who
want financial assistance
from this country. The real
question is whether the coun-
tries that are being assisted
are truly friends of the
United States or whether they
are now or may later become
a part Of the Communist ap-
paratus.
It is upon these funda-
mental issues in the foreign
aid problem that Congress is
being urged to require a great
deal Of information before
embarking upon the programs
being recommended to it by
the Kennedy administration.
Copyright, 1861
Evening star., 1961-03-22
Nixon Home
Is Sold for
$4,000

The Wesley Heights home OF
former Vice President Richard
M. Nixon has been sold . to
Washington Attorney Glen A.
Wilkinson for about 100000
This was confirmed today by
the Wilkinsons, who now live
at 4709 Warren street NV
with their four sons, aged 4
through Is. Mr.. wilkinson is
a member Of the law firm OF
Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker
with offices at 1916 H street
NV.
The 2l-room English Tudor
home is at 1903 Forest lane
NV. 1t was bought by the
@. o. P. presidential candidate
in 1857 for an estimated $4,000.
Mr.. Nixon, now in Los An
geles in private law practice,
has disclosed he added about
$4,000 in improvements while
he and his family lived in the
home.
Mr.. Wilkinson, a former
assistant corporation counsel
for the District, said the pur-
chase arrangements would be
completed after the end Of the
current school year when Mrs.
Nixon and the two Nixon
daughters, Patricia and Julie,
leave for California.
The purchase agreement in
cluded the rugs, drapes and
some furnishings in the Nixon
home, the Wilkinsons said.
Evening star., 1961-03-22
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Republican Chairman Morton quits You can't accuse
him Of quitting under fire. Republicans lucky these days
If people just blow little smoke their way.
Treasury Boss Dillon business upswing ruling out
antecesson tax cut Somebody's always taking the Joy
out Of hard times
Polls show the people like Kennedy better than his pro-
gram. The obvious solution for "a to elect Nxons pro-
gram-and hire Kennedy to run it.
Director Shriver says the Peace Corps will
$40 million the first That's the pilot" program You
want copilot this flight it'll you $50 million
Q-what'S the answer to the population explosion? A
More station wagons.
House Republicans fight the New Frontiers minimum
increase Republicans what's the having
minimum wage If you don't keep 1t that way?
Evening star., 1961-03-22
A Blow Against the Reds

unbearably tedious 1t may
have been. it would be the
very model Of limpid grace
compared to the descriptive
artistry of most any Soviet
booklet.
Now, the Soviet Russians
may be ahead Of US in mis-
siles. Perhaps they are even
ahead in developing" in
their own inimitable way
those well-known "underde-
veloped areas" of this earth.
They may be out-spacing us
in space; they may be run
ming far ahead in physics,
and even in the matter of
the politico-scientific pro-
duction Of potatoes.
But one thing is sure and
certain. They can't write-as
is already well known, to bor-
row one of their memorable
phraseS-and they can't edit,
by Western standards. This
is one contest they are going
to lose-and the more their
written efforts come in here
the quicker they will lose it.
Once long ago, when the
Senate was in bitter debate
about the fall of China to
communism by way Of Rus
sian help, a politician said in
private what he thought it not
prudent to say in public.
We'll" he observed, half Sc
riously, maybe taking over
China will serve the Russians
right in the end. Maybe in 20
years there will be some ques-
ton Of who has really swal-
lowed whom"
There is more than one
way to skin a cat-or a Rus
sian bear-apart from the
more serious fact that it is
good to see this country re-
tusing to be AFRAID any more
OF the most appalling gobble-
degook ever inflicted upon
civilized mankind.
Evening star., 1961-03-22

statement said, ''the National
Commission has never under.
taken to secure accommodation
for any Of them. The matters ot
reservations IN Charleston, al
in other cities in which we have
held annual meetings, is one
entirely between the individuals
concerned and the owners and
operators Of the hotels con-
cerned." '.s'
Officials Of the National
Commission said that it serves
as a co-ordinating agent for
the assembly. and helps arrange
the program.
25-Member Board
The Centennial Commission
was set up by Congress in 1857
Ito provide for appropriate and
nationwide observances and the
coordination of ceremonies. - II
has an annual budget of about
100000 for It's staff. It's IS.
man board of commissioner
headed by President Kennedy
as exofficio gets no salary.
The executive committee said
lit feels that the basic law by
which it was created gives II
no legislative or executive pow
er in matters concerning the
actions Of local, civic, patriotic
groups in arranging Centen-
nial observanceS."
The President had no imme.
diate comment yesterday aftel
word of the committee actor
reached the White House
Senator Case, Republican o.
New Jersey. who had portesteC
originally to Gen. Grant last
week about the situation, sale
he was deeply disappointed
by the statement. He added
that he twas glad to note thc
President shares my view ol
the commissions responsibility
in this matter"
Gen. Grant and Represent.
ative Tuck said the Charleston
assembly would definitely take
place. Although there have
been rumors that other North
ern delegations might follow
the lead Of New Jersey, the
commission by last night had
received no word Of any other
boycotts.
Evening star., 1961-03-22
Full Exposure of Official BlockmoiF'
Aqoinst u. S. by Aided Notions Urqed

There was a time when the
difference between freedom
and tyranny was clearly un-
derstood, and no persuasive
reason was offered why any
country should be neutral as
between the two.
The fact is, moreover. that
many countries in Latin
America, as well as in Asia
and Africa and even in Eu-
rope, today are convinced
that, If they adopt a "neu-
tral" position, the United
States will come through
with large sums Of money.
Congress has been bewil-
dered by the growing scope
of Americas foreign aid
program. 1t is recognized, Of
course, that, some appropria-
tions should be made to
strengthen the military posi-
tion Of the United States and
of the Western countries in
the so-called uncommitted
areas. In certain instances
money spent to help a ma
tional economy or to build up
local military forces is a
good investment in security
for the United States. But
when the program reaches
into the broader aspects Of
culture and education, it
becomes far more controver-
Sial.
II America did not. have a
national debt of nearly $500
billion and were operating
under a balanced budget, and
if there were no recession in
America with more than five
million persons unemployed,
it might sound reasonable for
a part Of the surplus bounty
Of the American people to be
given away. But the question
now is whether the United
States can afford to be as
generous in its foreign-aid
program as 1t has been in
the past.
Undoubtedly the Marshall
Plan paid Off" 1t gave the
nations Of Europe needed
Evening star., 1961-03-22
HouseOkoys
Dominican
:SugorCut
sy the Associated Press


The House has passed and
sent to the Senate a bill to cut
the quota for sugar purchases
from the Dominican Republic
while keeping the ban on all
Cuban sugar.
BY q 2S3-129 roll-call vote,
the House yesterday passed a
bill which would:
i. Continue until December
81, 1862. an act passed last
year giving the President au-
thority to reduce the Cuban
sugar quota. Former President
Eisenhower used the act to stop
all United States purchases of
Cuban sugar. Prior to last
year, Cuba shipped an average
Of 3.3 million tons Of sugar to
the, United States each year.
Q. Eliminate q provision in
the 1860 act which required
the President to give the Do
minican Republic q portion OF
the Cuban quota. This does
not affect the Dominican Re
public's regular quota.
3. Divert more Of Cuba's
quota to countries which pur-
chase United States farm COM
modities, including the Philip
pines, Peru, Mexico, Costa
Rica, Haiti, Panama, the Meth
erlands and Nationalist China
In urging passage of the bill
Secretary of State Rusk said
It was poor policy to divert the
quota Of Fidel Castro's Cuba
to benefit the Dominican Re-
public, q country condemned
BY the Foreign Ministers o1
the Organization of American
States.
Evening star., 1961-03-22

OF the District Of Columbia
esT Banking Service Member Federal cOpc6ea
Fourteenth Street Saneh us Branch Wisconsin and Western srsnt
FOURTEENTH NM 1899 ST, NV 1851 WISCONSIN AVE. NV
Evening star., 1961-03-22
DAVID LAWRENCE

. When are the people Of the
United States really going to
be informed about the issues
involved in spending billions
Of dollars for foreign aid?
President Kennedy is plan
ming to pursue the same for
Inula, with some minor mod
ificationS, that was used by
the Republican and Demo-
cratic administrations pre-
ceding him. The idea is to
grant funds and lend money
on the theory that the United
States has q humanitarian
obligation to the poverty
stricken countries Of the
world. There is also an i'm
plication that, unless the
United States helps these
various countries, Soviet Rus
sia will move in and take
over.
The time is approaching.
however, for a showdown on
Just how far the United
states should 60 in extending
foreign aid and what it
should expect in return from
the countries aided.
The biggest single factor
that calls for full and thor
oVgh exposure is what may
be termed r'official black
mail" Government after gov
eminent takes money from
both sides. The moment the
United States slows down its
aid, there is a noticeable
manifestation Of interest in
what the Communists may
have to offer. High off,
cialS Of such a government
promptly arrange to visit
Moscow, or threaten to do so.
This Is perhaps the favorite
Of all the tricks to impress
America.
Just why any government
would want to be neutral"
as between communism and
democracy is difficult to un-
derstand, but the word "neu-
tralist" has suddenly become
q most respectable term.
Evening star., 1961-03-22

Jf1aG IL na0 no author1ty or
Jurisdiction by which it can
dictate to the hotel keepers
as to the management Of their
property"
The President, who is ex-
officio chairman Of the COM
mission had sent Q letter last
Friday to its acting chairman,
Mai. Gen. u, S. Grant III. after
he heard that a Negro woman
delegate from New Jersey was
denied a reservation with the
rest Of her delegation at q
Charleston hotel.
This had prompted the whole
New Jersey delegation, headed
by Donald Flamm of Colster,
N. j. to boycott the Charles
ton affair-a two-day meeting
April 11-12 aimed at combining
the fourth annual national as
sernbly Of a. State Civil War
Commissions as well as an OBJ
Servance Of the first shot OF
the war fired at Fort Sumter.
Sees Obligation
In his letter, the President
said the Civil War Commission
is1'an official body Of the Gov
eFnment and has an obligation
in sponsoring the meeting to
see that those invited to the
meeting are accorded equal
treatment"
Last week, Gen. Grant said
the commission was not re-
Sponsihle for inviting delegates
to Charleston and was not re-
sponSible for the social tradi-
tions Of the city. This was the
essence Of yesterday'S
statement.
In 1t. the executive committee
said it had told each person
planning attendance that he OF
she would have to make his OF
her own reservations"
This being the case" the
Evening star., 1961-03-22

Even if the economy RECEIVERS
from the recession this sum-
mer, he warned, the unemploy-
ment rate still could remain as
high as 6 or 7 per cent.
Long-range or structural un-
employment, the President said.
is caused in large part by
fundamental changes in de-
mand and new production
techniques. He asked the COM
mittee to help him determine
what powers the Government
has to alleviate these problems.
Programs to refrain workers
and encourage development of
new industries in depressed
areas are among the methods
that have been proposed to
correct Embellishments in job
markets.
Mr.. Kennedy told the COM
mittee it was breaking new
ground" and admitted that II
am not sure how much we can
accomplish" But he pledged
the Administrators closest
support" and promised to
maintain his personal interest
in the committee.
He demonstrated that in
tereSt by making his opening
remarks in the morning, and
then returning to the cabinet
room about noon to confer
with individual members Of the
committee.
Discuss Many Topics
The committee discussed a
wide range of subjects with La
Dor Secretary Goldberg, Com
merce Secretary Hodges, De-
fense Secretary Mcnamara,
Treasury Secretary Dillon, Un-
dersecretary of State Bowles
and Walter w. Heller, chair
man of the Council of Eco
nomic Advisors.
Participants said the discus
sions were general. Secretary
Goldberg, who is chairman of
the committee, said the atmoS.
phere was very cordial" and
reported that there were mo
arguments"
Topics on the agenda for
early meetings, in addition to
automation and competition
for world markets, are those
listed in the executive order
establishing the committee:
Promotion of free and respon-
sible collective bargaining, in
dustrial peace, sound wage and
price policies. higher standards
of living and increased pro-
ductivity.
Evening star., 1961-03-22
CiviIWor GroupAvoids
lntercedingfo forNegroes

49, The Civil War Centennial Commission yesterday spurned
plea from President Kennedy and declined to intervene
in dispute hotel accommodations for Negroes
national assembly in Charleston s. c., next month.
The commissions executive committee headed by Rep
resentave Tuck Democrat of Virginia said yesterday
Evening star., 1961-03-22
BY LEE M. COHN
Star staff Writer

President Kennedy is trying
to increase the public's-and
the Governments - influence
over wages and prices.
He told his new Advisory
Committee on abor-Manage-
ment Policy yesterday that its
purpose is Ito give direction to
the general movement of wages
and prices so that the general
welfare of this country can be
served"
The committees first meet
ing was an an-day session at
the White House, devoted to
exchanges Of views with the
President and cabinet officers.
Meetings will be held on the
first Monday of every month.
At the April 3 meeting, the
Gilman committee plans to
discuss the benefits and prob
lens created by automation
and other chronological ad-
vances, and policies designed to
insure that American prod
ucts are competitive in world
markets.
Seeks Substantive Ideas
Mr.. Kennedy observed at
yesterdays meeting that other
Presidents have tried without
great effect to intervene in
wage price matters through
general exhortations." Imply
ing that his hopes lie in more
, 1961-12-14
Government Sec'y
Coming to Spend Four
Days in ST. Croix

Government Secretary Cyril
E. King is due in St. Croix this
weekend for a full round of
activities which will extend
over a four-day period.
Mr.. Kings itinerary will in
clude the following: Saturday,
December 10th he will arrive
here at $40 pm; at 800 Pm.
he will attend the meeting of
the Junior Chamber and in
stall its officers; he will attend
the benefit function of Hands
Across the Sea at Grapetree
Bay!
On Sunday he will be the
special guest of the Christian
Family Movement at a Dinner
at $50 pm. On Monday he will
participate in a round of con-
ferences between 8 am. and
500 pm. and at 8 pm. he will
be present at the public hear
S--.A---
ings of the Virgin Islands Tax
Incentive Board in Govern
ment House. He will attend
an Executive meeting of the
Tax Incentive Board and de-
part for st. Thomas the follow
ing afternoon at $50
, 1961-12-14
Community Chest
Elects Officers: Will
Hold Donkey Races

At the annual meeting OF
the st. Croix Community
Chest held last night in the for
mer Municipal Court Room, at
the Fort in Christiansted, the
officers were elect
ed to serve for the coming
year: Alva Nc Farlane, Chair
man; Mrs. Harry Edwards,
Vice President; Miss Gene
We've Thurland, Secretary and
Raymond Higdon, Treasurer.
Mrs. Anna Brodhurst, Mrs.
Aubrey Saunders, Mrs. Otis
Mrs. Ada James,, DR..
Elenor Stevenson and Mrs.
Annie de Chabert, together
with the officers comprise the
of Directors.
Because of an important pre-
vious engagement, Peter Chris
tan, the Treasurer was unable
to attend. His financial report
will be given to the new
at it meeting in Janu-
ary, after which it will be re-
,-oErnned on Page ~
, 1961-12-14
Christmas Pageant
is Annual Event by
ST. Johns School

Presentation Of the Christ
mas story in song and scrip
tur is an annual tradition at
St. Johns School.
All children of the school,
except the kindrgarteners, par
ticipate in this program.
This year, the pageant which
is under tn direction of Mrs.
Mabel Leckie, will be given in
st. Johns Church on Thurs
day, December 81, promptly at
800 P. NJ.
The public is cordially in
vited.
, 1961-12-14
Presidents Assistant
Writes Ron de Lugo:
Unuble to Come Here

President John F. Knnedyf,
through his Special Assistant,
Kenneth O'DonnelI, today in
formed Democratic National
Committeeman, Ron d Lugo,
that the President will be un-
able to visit the Virgin Is
lands during his forthcoming
trip to South America.
The President expressed his
regrets and extended his
warm thanks for the Virgin Is
lands invitation.
In his letter addressed to Mr..
de Lugo, as Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman for the
Virgin Islands, Mr.. O'Donnell
wrote:
Dear MI. de Lugo:
"The President deeply ap-
prciated your kind invitation
to him to visit the Virgin Is
lands before or after his forth
coming trip to South Amrica,
and regrets that he will be I'M
able to do so. His schedule is
already finalized, and it will
not b possible for the President
to amend it to include this
visit.
please know that the Pre-
sident is grateful to you none
theless and extends his warm
thanks and best wishes"
, 1961-12-14
St. Croix Chapter Of
American Red Cross
in Fort Tonight

80
Members and persons inter
ested are reminded that the
st. Croix Chapter of the Anne
rican Red Cross will meet to-
night at Gin the former MUM
.cipal Court room.
The important item on the
agenda will be the election of
officers. A Red Cross film in
connection with the Blood
program which is soon to
start.
All persons who have con-
tributed one dollar or more
may vote at tonight's meeting.
Louis j. Golden is Execu-
tive Secretary.