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Evening star., 1961-04-06
City's TB Rote
Remains Same;
U. S. Cases Drop

The tuberculosis rate in
Washington remains the same,
although the country as a whole
has experienced an 8 per cent
decline in new cases over the
last year, a Washington physi-
clan reported yesterday.
DIR. Robert F. Donohoe, chief
Of the Pulmonary Disease
Division at District General
Hospital, warned against COM
placency and called on Wash
ingtonianS to put new life into
programs to combat the disease
here. He addressed the opening
session of a three-day work
conference at the hospital,
sponsored by the District Tu-
berculoSis Association and the
District League for Nursing.
DR.. Donohoe declared that
figures over the last 3la years
have shown no significant de-
cline in tuberculosis here. He
said latest available figures
show the national rate for new
active cases as 33 for each 100,-
900 population, while in the
District the figure was 70.5.
Deaths per 100000 persons ma
tionally were 8.4, while in the
District the figure was 14.8
DR.. Donohoe said a national
committee backed by the United
Evening star., 1961-04-06
DORIS FLEESON
Among Many Candidates for Senate,
CONSERVATIVES Get so Pct. of Votes

Texas has said no to the
New Frontier.
1t gave a shade better than
so per cent of the total vote
cast in a special Senatorial
election to two arch-conserv-
ativeS, Republican John Tow
er and Senator William A.
Blakley, Democrat. Two mod
crate Democrats trailed and
two liberal Democrats were
fighting it out for the role
of anchor man in what was
in essence a six-man race.
The percentages best IL
lumine the voting pattern.
Mr.. Tower, on whom the
Republican effort was wholly
concentrated, got 80 per cent
of the million ballots cast.
Senator Blakley, serving by
appointment in the seat va
Gated by Vice President john
son, got nearly 10 per cent.
Representative Jim Wright,
a spellbinder on the stump
and loyal supporter of Speak
er Rayburn got just under
II per cent.
Attorney General Wilson,
a moderate; Maury Maverick
jr., q Roosevelt-Kennedy lib
eral, and State Senator Hen
ry Gonzalez, a liberal inte-
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Inside Job Expected, as in Poland,
Romonio and CzechosIovokio
CONSTANTINE BROWN

Poland. The Russians
yielded" to our demands
that a coalition government
be formed. Several Poles in
exile headed by a liberal,
Stanislas Mikolajczyk, ar
rived in Poland and organized
a government headed by the
Kremlin stooge Beirut. OFF,
cial statements from Wash
ington and London priced
this honest and adequate So
luton to the Polish problem
and, according to them, the
territorial integrity and SOW
ereignty of Poland thus would
be safeguarded. But the hon.
eymoon between the liberals
and the Communists was
short-lived. Within a few
months Vice Premier Miko-
lajczyk was under such pres
sure that he feared for his
life. Britain's ambassador to
Warsaw, Sir Cavendish Ben
timex. managed to smuggle
the vice premier out of Po-
land in a coffin to Western
Europe, whence he came to the
United States where he still
lives. The other members of
the coalition cabinet landed
in jails or were executed. Po-
land became a Soviet Satel-
lite.
The coalition government
technique also was success
fully used in Romania, where
the progressive liberal gov
eminent headed by Gen.
Constantin Visoianu was
overthroWn almost under the
nose of our representative
ambassador, Averell Harri-
man. President Roosevelt had
sent him from Moscow, which
was his official post, to see
that the Romanian govern
ment was organized in keep
ing with our ideas of free
dom and democracy. The
Kremlin's Molotov told him
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Administration Hip Shooting

ness as such. Much depends
on the experience of the Sec
retary in each case. Secretary
of Labor Arthur Goldberg
came from one of the big
labor unions, in the steel in
dustry. Commerce Secretary
Luther H. Hodges, although
once engaged in the textile
industry, has been active the
last several years in the busi-
ness of politics as the Demo-
cratic Governor Of North
Carolina. Naturally, when the
political pressure from Demo-
Gratis in Congress is put on
him to weaken the line of
communication between busi-
nessmen and the Government
and, as in this case, he gets
instructions from President
Kennedy to do what the foes
of business want done, he
tends to ride along. This dis
appoints businessmen who
would like to see the Secre-
tary of Commerce rise above
such political maneuvering.
For, sooner or later. the
Kennedy administration will
discover that, If it expects
the Nation to enjoy q sound
and healthy recovery so that
the economic conditions in
1864 will be favorable to the
party in power, there must
be a solid foundation built
on the economic side. The
closer Government officials
can get to the experienced
leaders of business who are
familiar with economic
trends and with the pitfalls
that retard economic growth,
the better the chances of de-
veloping an era of high en-
ployment and higher tax
receipts.
Efforts, however, to i'm
prove the climate in the rela-
tionS between Government
and business suffered an un-
fortunate setback this week
when the Secretary of Com
merce decided to require
open sessions of the Business
Advisory Council of his de-
partment before securing any
agreement that similar treat
ment would be required of
the other economic groups
which participate in the va
rious advisory councils of
the Government. The whole
problem was not thought
through ahead of time by
the administration, some Of
whose members today prob
ably are "sadder but wiser
men,"
(Copyright, 196D
Evening star., 1961-04-06
DORIS FLEESON
New Frontier Finds Texas Chilly
(copyrisht, 196I)

which is that no Democratic
Senator can have more than
one good committee assign
ment until every Democrat
has at least one.
Senator Blakley has an
other asset in his private
fortune, which is described
as huge even for Texas, and
includes oil, airline and real
estate. From 1t he grimly
contributed to Mr.. JohnSon's
campaigns and the Kennedy
Johnson ticket. Texans say
he was their largest State
contributor and possibly the
biggest in the Nation.
Gov. Daniel of Texas, the
President and Vice Presi-
dent discharged their OBJ
legations with the various
appointments.
Yet Mr.. Tower Is not with
out resources. He is for Sem
ator Goldwater and Texas
likes the Arizona conserva-
tive, who worked hard for
Mr.. Tower in the primary
and can be expected to re-
peat his services in the run
off campaign.
Mr.. Tower is young and
attractive, better educated
and much more friendly and
outgoing than the tight
Tipped rival. 1t could be q
close race.
Evening star., 1961-04-06

grationist of Mexican descent.
divided the remaining 80 per
cent about equally with Mr..
Wilson a point or two in the
lead.
In the run-off next June
which is compelled because
no one candidate got so per
cent plus Of the vote, Texas
will be choosing ideologically
between identical contents
with different party wrap
pings. The advantage clear
ly lies with Mr.. Blakley as
Democrats polled two-thirds
of the primary vote.
He also has the advantage
of incumbency which will
help as the run-off will
stand alone. Various local
elections helped swell the
original primary totals.
Senator Blakley also can
point to two committee as
signments valuable to the
interests for which he and
Mr.. Tower speak. They are
Banking and Currency, and
Judiciary. Mr.. Tower will be
a freshman whose party has
not generally adopted the
Lyndon johnson rule now
enforced on Dem ocrats,
Evening star., 1961-04-06

The pattern of peace" in
Laos is developing rapidly
now. According to available
information, there will be a
three-cornered agreement by
the United States, Great
Britain and the Soviet
Union.
The first step will be a
cease-fire - after Laotian
Communists, supported ef-
fectively by eight battalions
of well-trained Wet Mimi
fighters - have taken pos
session of the important
strategic areas. The next
step will be an international
conference of IA nations
which will include the
Chinese Communists. At that
conference, again according
to reliable information, q
coalition government COM
posed of Communists and
non-Communists will be
established in Vientiane.
1t is remarkable that the
scholars who are among the
close advisers of President
Kennedy are so busy either
studying Sir Thomas More's
Utopia" written 400 years
ago, or so intent on looking
into the distant future, that
they are overlooking contem-
porary history. If they would
look through the files avail
able to them in the White
House and the State Depart
ment they would find that
the same pattern was devel-
oped by the Soviet Union
within the first two years
after World War II to estab-
lish its domination over
countries to which we and
the, British had pledged free
dom and independence.
At the end of World War
II there were two Polish gov
ernments in existence, one in
exile in London, the other in
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Faith in American Way and Institutions
Held Vital to Combat Red Conspiracy

for the things and comforts
of industrial production. This
is one Of the reasons the new,
underdeveloped nations are
intrigued with the Commu-
mist methods. 1t seems to
them a short cut to industri-
alization. We sometimes for
get that we began our
industrial development with
the water wheel, the black
smith shop. and the small
iron furnace" and grew into
the new technology. We-the
British, Germans and the
Americans-invented most of
the productive machines. Ma
chimes were cheap. The popu-
lation was small. Land was
free for the taking. Raw ma
terials were plentiful.
These conditions are not
totally present anywhere to-
day. The new governments
can't attract much foreign
capital. They do not have it
in their own treasures. The
government must move to in
itiate industries and training
because no other agency can
do 1t. In fact, as recent his
tory reveals, some of the gov
ernments can't manage it.
The Soviets, who can offer
foreign investment" make
promises politically.
Even so, some of the new
nations resist communism.
But they can, like India, for
example, proceed only with a
mixed economy. part free and
part government financed and
controlled.
The Kennedy administra-
ton understands this. We are
committed to support genu-
inc neutralism and not in
sist, as did the late Secre-
tary Dulles, that to be truly
neutral is to be against us.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Red Toke-Over Pattern in Laos

to mind his own business.
Street demonstrations Or
ganized by the Russians took
place, and eventually the
coalition under the liberal
Visoianu and MoScow's pup
pet Groza ended by the lat
ter taking over and making
Romania also into a Soviet
satellite.
The process in Czechoslo-
vakia was somewhat slower.
The unhappy country man
aged to survive almost two
years under the leadership
of Edward Benes and espe-
cially that of the determined
freedom lover, Foreign Min
lister Jan Masaryk. But as
soon as Mr.. Masaryk had
been disposed of (the official
version was that he had
fallen out of a window, al
though according to we'll
substantiated reports he was
pushed OUT Czechoslovakia,
which also had at that time a
coalition government, fell
into the grip of the Red
monsters.
These lessons of the past,
which should teach the West
ern world the meaning of
coalition governments with
Communists in high places,
apparently have been over
looked by the scholars who
surround and advise Presi-
dent Kennedy. 1t is realized
by some old hands in the
State Department that the
manner in which Laos may
go behind the Bamboo Cur
tain will have a devastating
impact on all the other
Southeastern Asia countries,
particularly South Wet Nam,
where the situation is in
creasingly bad. But, it is
pointed out, there is nothing
much we can do henceforth,
since our Western partners
who are also members Of
SEATO are determined to
surrender Laos by negotia-
ton.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Common Sense and Communism

Finally, we, as a people,
cannot succumb to a brand
Of fanaticism of our own
without losing America to
communism or faScism-simi-
lar, If rival, totalitarian sys-
TENS.
Communism is making
world gains but not in
the United States. We can
not combat communism in
Asia or Africa by multiplying
our own courts, Constitution
and its Bill Of Rights.
Americans today better un-
derstand the threat of COM
munism than ever before.
We know it for what it Is.
The threat remains and it
is real. But there is less
Communist organization than
ever before because of this
awareness. The education of
Americans to the dangers of
communism has been effec-
tive.
In the 1930s, for example,
the Communists sought to
win Negroes and the unem-
ployed, depression-damaged
poor white persons. They
failed. One of the Com
munist arguments in the de-
preston years was the Jim
Grow determinations. Our
Supreme Court, far from
being Communist influenced,
struck a hard blow at COM
munism by declaring such
determinations unconstitu-
tional.
We can't afford to believe
that these persons who be-
lieve in equal rights for all
American citizens, or what
ever race or religion, are
Communists.
America today is more
aware, and better prepared,
to combat the Communist
conspiracy than ever before.
What is required of us is
faith in the American way,
in ourselves, and in our in
Stitutions.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Republican John Tower beats SO candidates in Texas
Senate election That's Republican hard times for You
vote for Repubcanand throw SO people out Of
Kennedy confers with BritainS Macmillan aboard the
Yacht Honey Fftz With combination of Kennedy and
Honey Fz Mac felt lucky to get off the boat with North
Ireland still in the British Empire
Dick Nixon will make loyal opposition" speeches
month Title of lecture series: why Made Up With the
Makeup Man"
Small Business Administrator offers low-in-
ereS loans To the small business man. he's known the
Horne Of plenty.
Republican Chairman Morton halls results in the st.
Louis mayor election His only lost by 10000
when add that to what Republicans lose by in other cities
you've got moral victory Of national proportions.
Interior Secretary Udal he believes in playing poll
tics to the h For instance send out the tax refund
checks with Kennedys picture and the tax bills with
Nixons
Evening star., 1961-04-06

States Public Health Service has
made recommendations calling
for a reduction Of 10 per cent
per year over the country dur
ing the next decade. Even If
the District accomplishes this,
he said. it will be only at the
stage 10 years from now where
most of the country is at
present.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
DAVID LAWRENCE

There is beginning to be
a feeling here that the
Kennedy administration is
shooting from the hip"
acting impulsivcly and not
thinking things through be-
fore acting. The latest epi-
sode emphasizing this feel
ing is the inept way the
administration has handled
the artificial controversy
which was stirred up over
the alleged secrecy of the
sessions Of the Business Ad-
visory Council of the De-
partment Of Commerce.
Many businessmen are dis
pleased with the gratuitouS
attack on them and are say
ing that, ii the sessions of
their advisory council are to
be open to the press when
Government officials are
preSent-as the Kennedy. ad-
ministration now has ordered
the same rule should ap-
ply to the sessions of the
Labor Management Advisory
Conference in the Depart
ment of Labor and also to
the sessions between farm
groups and the Secretary of
Agriculture.
To put it another way, if
it is a sin for a Government
official to talk privately to
a business group and the
sessions are to be open here
after to the press, then it is
only fair that all meetings
between cabinet officers and
other economic groups should
also be open to the press.
The Kennedy adminiStra-
ton, however, doesn't prac-
tice what it breaches. Thus,
on March 81, when the ini-
tial meeting of the Advisory
Committee on Labor Manage
ment Policy was held, Sec
retary of Defense Mcnamara,
Undersecretary of State
Bowles and several other
high officials addressed the
group behind closed doors.
Later on, while a transcript
of what the President said
was made public, an made
quate summary of what the
other Government officials
said was issued by the Sec
retary of Labor, Arthur
Goldberg. The representa-
tives Of the press were barred
from the meeting, and no
opportunity was given them
to get at firsthand all of
what was said in the in
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Attack on Business Advisory Council
For Secret Sessions Viewed as Inept

formal discussions with the
Government officials present.
AS a practical matter, un-
less the Kennedy admins
tration modifies it's one
sided DEGREES and begins to
apply them fairly to all
advisory conferences with
special groups, the chances
are they will not serve the
useful purpose that might
have otherwise been achieved.
Everybody knows that there
is likely to be a much more
frank and comprehensive
discussion of any topic when
the participants are not
going to be quoted in the
press than if every word is
for publication.
An erroneous impression
has been spread that the
Business Advisory Council is
some sort of secret body
which has been influencing
Government action in its
favor. AS a matter of fact,
the council has given as
much as it has received by
way Of economic information,
and has sought no favor for
any member of the group or
for special interests. It has
offered advice when asked
but has been mostly con-
cerned with economic trends.
All the Secretaries of Com
merce of the past, Demo-
cratic as well as Republican,
have declared that the SeS-
sions of the Business Advi-
sorry Council have been as
helpful to Government as
they have been to business.
Charges have been trumped
up that the council ignores
small business. Actually, it
has always had a number of
members from small busi-
nesses, and the innuendo that
the council somehow is con-
cerned with big business"
alone, as opposed to small
business" is baseless and is
really a piece of political
demagoguery.
Originally Congress created
a single Department of Com
merce and Labor, but in sub
sequent years it was deter
mined to have a separate
department for each. The i'm
preston has grown in recent
years that the Labor Secre-
tary must be a champion of
labor unions and that the
Commerce Secretary aust
serve as the defender of busi-
Evening star., 1961-04-06
RALPH McGILL

Writing in the Virginia
Quarterly Review on Foreign
Policy, William G. Carleton,
political scientist at the Uni
versity of Florida, said:
"The world historical trend
is not toward Soviet commu
nism and it is not toward
American capitalism. 1t
is extremely unlikely that
the societies of the world will
lose their individual identi-
ties and become inclusively
incorporated into one sys-
TEN. A new diversity and
pluralism is emerging. (.
A lot of sophomore nonsense
has been talked about how
the Nation cannot stand
half-slave and half-free, that
in the end either communism
or the American way of life
] must prevail. This Is ghast-
] ly and dangerous conception
Of the world, and fortunately,
1t bears no resemblance to
the realities.
/ "In this period of revolu-
1 tionary evangelism and fa-
! naticism, and until such time
as the docCrinaire revolutions
of our day are moderated
and modified, it is extremely
J important that we pursue
clear-eyed policies designed
! to keep the new nations from
b being engulfed and the
| worlds balance of power
from being overborne. At the
same time, we must not, in
order to check fanaticism,
succumb to a brand of fa-
naticiSm OF our own. :"
This is a conclusion of
great common sense.
The rest of the world can
not become just like. us. The
! forces of industrialism are in
q sense "Americanizing," or
"Westernizing," the world,
There is the growing desire
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-15
Powhatan May Get
Fulltime Forester

POWHATAN. Sept. IA The
Powhatan county board of SUI
pervisOrs were busy Monday at
their regular meeting.
The district forest Warden Of
Charlottesville, was present to
discuss full-time man for Pow
hatan county, whose work would
be in the educational field, re-
Mobilization of forest land pre-
vention Of erosion, planting Of
pine seedlings on acreage avail
able, working with the vocation
al agriculture department. etc.
All this additional field of work
would not cost the county any
more than the part-time service
which the county has had for
several years, the board was as
sured.
Arrangements were made to
begin in the very near future
excavation for the dumping area
which has been secured in the
vicinity of the village. Notices
will be sent out with proper in
structions as to location, and
regulations, as sopn as it is
ready for use.
The board also authorized a
coat of water proofing to be
put on the brick building used
by the Health Department, as
water has been seeping through
sufficiently to damage the in
side wall.
Other county heads who ap-
peared to discuss routine mat
tiers were Charlie Mann Of the
highway department, and j
S. Caldwell, superintendent of
schools.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-15

Jefferson were in Crewe Satur-
day afternoon for the meeting of
the James Allen Chapter of the
OAR.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Davis and
family have moved to the Mouth
of Wilson in Grayson county.
Davis is attending a Baptist
school there. preparatory to be-
coming a Baptist minister. He is
the son of Mrs. Jamayne Davis.
of Amelia.
A large number of members
and their families enjoyed the
Brunswick stew at the Amelia
Country Club on Saturday night.
The Rev. and Mrs. Milton Reid
motored to Silver Spring, Md,
on Sunday afternoon to take their
son, Cameron Reid, who will be
working tn ere for several
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Sydnor
and son. Bob. of Henderson, N.
c.. spent the past week end in
Amelia visiting friends and rela-
tiveS.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. w. Southall
motored to Raleigh. N. c., on
Sunday to take their daughter,
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-15
Singletons Enjoy Guests

ed Mr.. and Mrs. H. I. Shorter
Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. Dennis Griffin,
of Norfolk. called on the Robert
Driskills Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Couple
spent Sunday in Richmond with
Miss Sally Womack.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Harvey and
Patricia went to Roanoke Sun
day to see Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Blanks.
Quite a few from here attended
the Bailey reunion Sunday in
Richmond at Forest Hill Park.
Mrs. Shorter Metcalf, Mrs.
Margaret Watson, Miss Terrell
Harvey and Jimmy Dunnavant
attended the NeWcomb Dixon
wedding in P h enix Saturday
afternoon.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-15

a group there.
The only requirement for
membership in AA is an honest
desire to stop drinking.
The Virginia State Assembly of
Alcoholics Anonymous will be
held this year at the Cavalier
Hotel and the Cavalier Beach
and Cabana Club at Virginia
B e a C h. Members of the Keys
vile AA Group plan to attend.
Registration opens on Friday,
Setember %, and activities and
meetings are planned throughout
the week end. The banquet meet
ing will be at 7 pm. Saturday
and there will be dancing under
the stars to a name band on the
showboat deck of the Beach and
Cabana Club.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-09-15

rates by $1.OO to 5000.
Estimated general average
from several markets in the belt
ranged from 5000 to $66 90 per
hundred. Opening day average
a year ago was $6O.79 per hun
dred for 7,54l .684 pounds. OF
the amount the Sterilization
Corporation received around 7
percert. Estimated deliveries to
the Corporation TODAY ranged
from less than | percent to per
cent Of sales.
Quality of offerings showed
some improvement. There was
more good Tugs and primings
and less fair primings and non
descript Color Of the marketings
was more on the lemon side with
less orange. Bulk of sales was
low to good primings, fair and
good Tugs, low and fair leaf, low
cutters and nondescript.
The U. S. Crop Reporting
Board estimated production for
Type II tobacco, which includes
both Old and Middle Belts, as of
September to be 414,975 900
pounds up nearly II million
pounds from the 1860 forecast.
Changes From
Opening Day Opening Day 1861 Crop
Sent. ~. 1891 Yaar AAvanr>