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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04

troduced or given impetus to
many new ideas which are
being watched by employers in
private industry and by pur-
veyorS Of health benefits plans.
For example, through this
program the Government pro-
vides for full coverage of en-
rolled employees and depend
ents after the retirement of
the employee. It also permits
eligible dependents, after the
death Of the employee, to con-
tinue full coverage in the same
plan.
1t was also the first program
under which employees had a
choice among so many differ
ent health benefits plans. This
choice of plans has significance
in addition to offering an en-
ploye the opportunity to select
the kind Of health benefits COW
erage which most nearly fits his
own and his family's particular
needs. It provides a built-in
competition among the various
plans not only in the area of
benefits and cost but also in
the area of service.
Finally, the program en-
ables employees to have the all
round comprehensive basic
catastrophe health insurance
coverage for themselves and
their families at modest rates
that they can afford. Most en-
ployeS could not afford to pay
the premiums that their plans
would cost If they tried to buy
their health insurance plans as
individuals.
+
CREDIT DUE - The Civil
Service Commission and partic-
ularly its health insurance
unit deserve much credit for
the success of the program and
the relative smoothness of its
operation.
Until the program went into
eject last year, the csc and its
staff had no experience with
the health insurance business.
However, the csc learned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04

overlapping would be punish
able by penalties up to two
years in prison and a $4,000
fine.
Mr.. White told Senator Err
vim the Kennedy administra-
tons basic policy on wiretap
legislation "is fundamentally
one of opposition TO any en-
croachment upon the constitu-
tional and traditional rights Of
the people,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04

charge Of the Justice Depart
ment's criminal division.
Mr.. Miller's testimony drew a
protest from Senator Dodd
against wholesale abdication"
of control over overlapping to
the States.
While Mr.. White urged that
the States be given more lee
way than Senator Dodds bill
provides in authorizing wire
tapping by law enforcement
officials, he proposed some adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04
Boom and Bust

CLEAN. N. Y. (AP).-Ber-
nard P. Gill, an attorney for
the Olean school board, was
told at a meeting that he
would get a $50 raise for the
next six months. And he was
told later. in the same meeting
that his job was to be
abolished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04

from the hospital, according
to Washington police.
William D. Sturgell of Route
l, Deale. Md. was arrested
yesterday.
Police said he told them he
took the money early last week
and went to New York, where
he remained until yesterday.
Detectives said they were in
vestigating a reported $4,000
loss in hospital funds over the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star staff Writer

Born in 1860 after many years
In the process of Matching, the
Federal Employees Health Bene-
fits Program was one year old
this week.
A whopping youngster-
1,731 1854 employees and 8 ,442, Ill
employe-dependentS were en-
rolled in the program when it
became effective last July - it
continues to be the largest pro-
gram Of its kind in the world.
Present enrolment is
SAB, 900, an increase of 275, 900
over the initial enrolment last
year. The new figure breaks
down into 1.787,000 employees,
$4,000 employee and survivor
annuitants who continued their
health insurance coverage after
retirement, and 1886, 400 de-
pendentS of Federal employees
and annuitants. .,.-,
OF the various plans offered,
81 per cent chose one of the
two Government-wide plans
offered Blue CroSs-Blue
Shield or Aetna. Blue Cross
Blue Shield has the largest en-
rollment. Thirteen per cent
chose one of the Is employe
organizations plans, and 6 per
cent joined one of the 81 in
dividual or group-practice pre-
payment plans.
More than 80 per cent of
the employees chose the broader
coverage high-option features
of the various plans and only
20 per cent elected the cheaper
and more limited low-option
plans. Seventy-four per cent
enrolled their families under
their plan, and 26 per cent
enrolled for self only.
4 4
SUCCESS - Although the
health insurance program had
its problems during it's first
year of operation, there is no
doubt that it has been highly
successful.
In fact, the program has in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04
Sibley Hospital
Controller Held
As EmbezzIer

The 26-year-old controller
of Sibley Hospital has been
charged with embezzling 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-04
u. S. ovors Control
Of Wiretop by States
BY the Associated Press

Deputy Attorney General Byron R. White has reafrmed
Justice Departments stand in favor of letting
authorize overlapping for the detection of whatever crimes
they wish
His defense of this position which has drawn criticism in
Congress- forth in letter to Senator Erwin
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07

COMMUNISTS SQUEAL

The Supreme Court recently voted 5
to A, that two laws which give the govern
ment authority to curb the communists in
this country are constitutional Many had
feared that the highest court would side
with the communist party-and while it al
most did, by the narrow version of 81, the
court upheld the two laws.
One of the laws involved is section OF
the Internal Security Act which requires
Communist action" organizations to regis
ter with the government. Another upheld
was a section of the Smith Act of 1910
which makes it crime to be member of
a party which advocates the violent over
throw of the government.
Voting against upholding these laws
were Chief Justice Earl Warren and JUS
tees Hugo Black, William Douglas a n
William Brennan Jr. Voting to uphold
them were Justices Felix Franfurter, Tom
Clark, John Harlan, Charles Whitaker and
Potter Stewart.
AS soon as the courts decision was an
nounced the Communist party denounced it
in a long reply, which was, of course given
play in the eastern metropolitan press. And
the communists called upon President John
Kennedy to react to the court decision as
President Thomas Jefferson reacted to a
court decision in his day-by pardoning all
convicted under its terms.
And while we are glad to see the laws
upheld, it is difficult for us to understand
how four of the nine justices could vote to
repudiate these laws, one of which has been
on the books since 1910
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
ATTACK ON CENSORSHIP
RY TAXATION

The following editorial is reprinted from
The American Press, an independent maya
zine for home town newspapers:
with ten bills having been introduced
into Congress to eliminate censorship by
taxation, with one of the victims of this
censorship having instituted million doll
ar lawsuit against the government and
with hundreds of newspaper publishers hav-
ing joined forces to fight such censorship,
it would appear that something should be
accomplished soon.
1.-THE point at issue is the Internal Rev
enue Service ruling that institutional adj
vertising which attempts to influence legis-
lation is not deductible as a business ex-
pense, even though the proposed legislation
may directly affect the taxpayers business.
"Best known of the bills introduced to
curb the IRIS practice of deciding what
kind of advertising is deductibal is one in
PRODUCED by Representative Boggs of Louis
lana, whose bill in 1860 died with the close
of Congress. This and similar bills are be-
ing pushed by the Press Committee To Eli
inmate Censorship by Taxation, which now
includes over hundred newspaper publish
ers and is headed by Alex Washburn, pub
Usher of the Hope (Ark.) Star, who him
self unsuccessfully spent over $4,000 in a
one man fight to get the courts to over rule
an IRIS decision forcing him to pay taxes
on advertising promotion he ran in an eff
fort to defeat a sales tax harmful to his
community
He would like to see every publisher in
America get behind this group and urge his
representatives in Congress to support the
Boggs BILL or one of the others which
would end once and for all. this arbitrary
power which the IRIS yields over institu-
tional advertising.
"There is no doubt that the IRIS, in
acting in the capacity of an advertising CEN
sor, is curbing free speech--and when any
government body assumes such power it is
clearly the duty of Congress to take quick
action to see that it doesn't continue"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
Comic Sellers Seeks
job Behind Cameras

doing by appearing in the film"
he says.
But what I am really. hoping for
is that l will be able TO achieve
sufficient success as a director to
give up acting entirely"
Sellers. who played three roles
a duchess, a grand-marshal, and a
prime minister-in THE Mouse that
Reared made his biggest hit as
Kite. the comic labor union Off
cial in I'm All Right, Jack"
Whatever the part. it seizes Sell
ers to the point where, believing
as he does in spiritualism, lone
acts as an open wave-length and
maybe something comes through"
The something that comes thru
more often than not delights both
the critics and the moviegoers. The
only person who seems to be dis.
appointed by it is Sellers himself.
Il writhe when I see myself on
the SCREEN" he says broodingly.
I'm such a dreadful, clumsy, hulk
ing image. I say TO myself. Why
doesn't he get off, why doesn't he
get Off
81 mean, / look such an idiot
Some fat awkward thing. dredged
up from some third rate drama com
pany. / must stop thinking about
it, otherwise | shan't be able to
go on working"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07

So the Collodi committee raised
100000 dollars more to expand tine
original park and create an entire
"Paese Del Balocchi"
hand Of toys.
There will be dozens of char
acters out of the Pinocchio fable,
built with moving parts, to rep
resent various episodes of the pupp-
cts sad experiences before turning
into a real boy.
The committee announced an in
ternational competition for children
to send in designs depicting Pinoc-
chic or his adventures. Only two
entries will be accepted from each
child. Ages must be from 10 to IA.
Designs must be 35 by 40 cent?
meters-15 by Is inches.
The committee will award a re-
production of Pinocchio to the ten
best designs from each country.
The overall winner, with the title
"Pinocchio of 1861" will get a ten
day free trip to the village of Call
obi.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
TN THE AIR FORCE.
BY EIoine townsend Dickerson

and couldn't guess which way
would take me to the right high
way. There was an automobile
behind me and ! could only hope
they'd be honest people and tim
idly went TO them for directions.
He only knew how to get to the
next farm ii seemed and | drove
on still in the dark"
Finally up ahead / could see a
light and it was a gorgeous, dirty
run down, friendly, lighted filing
station. The attendant was so
sympathetic and gave me implicit
instructions and as a last thought
handed me map and drew the
route on it. The town the kind
man told me to hunt for next, /
nearly missed because every ma
tive soul land there weren't many
had retired for the evening and
no lights were visible.
My next Waterloo was q fork in
the road that Kind Man" had
neglected TO warn me about. There
was nothing to do but get out the
map. turn on the dome light (which
exposed me to the world and see
which route OF the two ! should
select / rode for endless miles
with not a single encouraging word
or sign post TO cheer my despair
ing thoughts. Finally | came to
Ridgely and / knew from there
Denton wasn't too far away and
from there | could easily find Del
aware and home. In Ridgely 1
again planned to double check on
my route-Denton was not too far,
but in which direction2 1t was
| Wednesday night and stores had
been closed since midday and like
wise all the populous had been
/ tucked in for many an hour. /
looked down one street and saw a
fire station red light glowing and
my heart fiuttered for a second
until | realized-there would not
be any one on duty. it would be
purely voluntary.
At the end of the town there
was a lovely black and white mar
ker that read DENTON and did
turn my trusty little car in that
directioni / believe after this lit
tie experience I'll meet Hayes at
an earlier hour It was no fun be-
ing lost just a few miles from
home | was so close and yet so
far away from home and safety, it
seemed.
Until next week.
Always.
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
BABSON DISCUSSES INVESTING HIS OWN FUNDS

number of greeting cards which
this one company sells annually
by the number of stockholders in
the company, you get a result of
nearly 100000. / have always re-
ceived a dividend on this stock;
but, if it missed a dividend some
year, | would still feel that my
stockholdings representing my
share as one of the stockholders)
are making 100000 people happy
each year. This is one illustra-
ton. But now to a second, which
is even more marvellous.
AscRoW SEED COMPANY
Although there are several seed
companies in the United States, |
think this one is the largest of all.
Not only are seeds very essential
to nation-whether it is a de-
mocracy, or one ruled by COM
munism, or whether it is an I'M
derdeveloped nation with increas-
ing population and a shortage of
food, good seed is probably the
greatest need Furthermore, few
people understand that unless the
seeds are carefully selected each
year from the healthiest plants,
the quality of seeds quickly runs
out and the vegetables ultimately
return to their native wild state.
furthermore, purchaser of seeds
cannot tell whether they are good
or bad until after they are plant
ed, which is too late. 1t is abso-
lutely important, therefore. to deal
with companies of the highest rep
utation.
AS an illustration of the seed
volume OF this company, | under
stand they sell 10 billion bean
seeds, z billion of corn, and many
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
BY RAYMOND f. PALMER
AP Staff Writer

LONDON (AP)-Peter Sellers,
one of Britain's brightest coined
ians, wants to give up acting for a
place behind the cameras.
Sellers is a man who apparently
has the success touch in the en-
tertainment business.
At the end of last year he had
five movies playing simutaneouse-
ly in New York while another.
made with Sophia Loren, ''The Mil
lionairess." was breaking records.
in Britain.
At the same time a recording
with Sophia called Goodness Ora
cious Me-" was climbing up the hit
parade. 1t was, incidentally, the
first record either of them h a d
made.
Despite such success, Sellers
isn't satisfied. He doesn't seem to
derive much pleasure from his ach-
ievements. He wants to give up act
ing as soon as he can-but it will
likely be some time before he can
do that, if he ever does.
His first step toward this goal
was to direct himself in a movie
called mir. Topaze," which he re-
Gently finished shooting.
He got the chance at directing by
putting up Which am
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
BY JOY MILLER
AP W0men's Editor

Something should be done about
high school proms-and right now,
urges the national PTA head
More and more young people
are staying out after proms with
serious results" says Mrs. Karla
Parker, president of the National
Congress of Parents and Teachers.
There are bad car accidents, ex-
perimenting with sex and drinking
some things that would never hap
pen if the youngsters weren't I'M
der the stimulation of graduation. >
In sampling of its $4,000 PTAs,
the National Congress found that
only a faction of the communities
sanctions all night parties, but the
pressure keeps growing.
This has to be settled by local
school systems with the coopera-
ton of parents and students" says
Mr.. Parker. Together they can
work out something which will pro-
tect the students from situations
over which they don't have COM
plete control and yet give them
the fun of a celebration.
81 have such faith in young peo-
pie that | know if they were given
opportunity to know the facts and
use their judgments they would
tend to be on the conservative side
in situations like this"
Mrs. Parker thinks youngsters
are more specifically sophisticat-
ed with far more uncertainties
than we realize from their atti-
tudes and appearance. We should
remember pressures on them are
far greater than most of us expert
enced.
For some of the pressures she
points a disappearing finger at
movies, television and advertising.
Love Everywhere
Even the demonstration of love-
making on TV, which is introduced
to youngsters almost from birth,
makes them feel not quite living
up to maturity unless they initiate
what they see.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
She Tunes In The
Entire Universe
BY JOHN ID. KNOX

BEDFORD, Mass. (AP)-Dr. Nam
nielou III. Dieter is living proof that
a woman can be a housewife, a
mother and an astronomer. too
Furthermore, she is one of the
worlds relatively few radio astron-
omers.
A research assistant at Harvard
University, she is now a full time
member of the staff of the Elect
ronics Research Directorate, A
Force Cambridge Research Labor
atories at Hanscom Field here.
Besides her No. 1 project, bring
ing up daughters Amy 8 and Nan
3, she has kept busy determining
positions of transmitting satellites
both OFFICIALLY and by radio and
negotiating Air Force contracts in
Europe and Chile for setting up
tracking cameras.
How does attractive DR.. Dieter,
just turned 35, mariage to combine
her multiple roles?
She says it's not very easy. and
yet it's worth it and she loves it.
I'm just fortunate that I'm in a
line or work that pays well enough
so / can afford a housekeeper
days a week. I'm afraid some other
women in an artistic or other less
well paying occupation might not
be able to do it.
For the five business days of the
week, the housekeeper looks after
the Dieter family home in nearby
Lexington and cares for the year
old daughter. She remains on the
Job until Mrs. Dieter comes home
at pm. "Of course. all this would
not be possible" she adds. "if ii
weren't for the cooperation OF my
husband. he has been a big help.
So l have every evening and week
end with my family"
Actually, she says, the arrange
ment is ideal. I'VE are both happy
to be home at the end of the day.
II is such a complete change from
what we have been doing all day.
And since he is an electronics en-
gineer, our interests are very SINH
lar.
Her husband, Carlisle L. Dieter,
works with the Air Forces Geophy-
sizes Research Director at Hanson
Field.
An astronomers lecture during
her undergraduate days at Couch
er College in Baltimore. her home
town, stirred her interest. From a
major in mathematics, she ranged
into such abstract fields as solar
physics and duantum mechanics.
Her Phi. ID. came from Radcliffe
What's radio astronomy all about
For long time. astronomers had
only one window through which to
study the vast universe-the little
range of light we can see with our
eyes-from red to violet Only in
recent years have astronomers
found another window-one throu-
gh which they can pick up short
radio waves from objects and mat
erials in space.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07

billions of pea seed. Figures for
the small seeds. such as cabbage,
broccoli, and celery, are also stu
pendous. To illustrate-this COM
pany sells nearly 20 billion carr
rot seeds each year. The company
spends so much money on selec-
ton and keeping up the character
of its product that it does not pay
great dividends; but if / did not
get the money in cash dividends
would get the satisfaction of
knowing that the number Of seeds
raised and sold, divided by the
number of stockholders-of which
/ am one-would give about one
half billion seeds per stakeholder.
All these seeds sold add up an
nually to some $50 billion seeds.
In other words, | have the salts
faction of knowing that, as an
average stakeholder, / have the
honor of planting half billion
seeds each year, / really get a
great kick out of this.
SEEDS AND GREETING CARDS IN
RUSSIA
When | was in Moscow, | found
the best-treated people were sci
entists and ballet dancers. On the
other hand, the two businesses
which were allowed to continue as
manufacturers under government
supervision were the seed bust
ness and the greeting card con-
Germs This is because the rails
ing of seeds depends absolutely
upon the character of those in it,,
while the preparing of greeting
cards requires an artistic original
ity which cannot be purchased
with money or forced upon peo-
pie. II must be voluntary.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
CREDIT CARD PAINS

The big credit card companies have been
having their knocks lately few years ago
this credit card business was a relatively
small operation. And when company pre-
sented a card to an individual, with no
limit on his charges, the individual was
investigated.
But as the charge-it craze developed,
more cards and more companies got into
the act. The American Express card, then
the Diners Club card and then one from
fellow named Baron Hilton, and others be-
came as common as the morning news
paper.
Rich and poor carried them and the
trend was toward credit and more credit.
For while everything looked rosy. A sur
prisingly small percentage of people "took"
the companies and profits were realized.
Millions of card holders soon carried sever
al cards from the various companies.
The temptation was too much for some.
A few oddbaIls decided they might as well
have fling on a card, even if they had no
chance whatsoever to pay back what they
spent. One fellow took off on grand tour
of this country and others and spent some
thing like $4,000. When finally cornered
he admitted he had no intention of paying,
but thought he would enjoy the trips, and
thrills, just the same
Then as the companies began to spread
their cards around so generously, more
and more and more people began to default.
And then one, and then another, of the
credit card companies found they were los
ing money.
This brought talks of mergers and other
rumblings. One of the companies announc-
ed it would diversity its holdings-invest
in money-making businesses.
The point of the editorial is that it is
disarmingly easy to charge things these
days. We charge gasoline, we charge hotel
and motel rooms, we charge food, we char
ge clothes and we charge transportation
fares And when we get done with all the
credit, it means only that we have post
poned payment month or two.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-07-07
PinOcchiO's World
VIII Come To Life

ROME (AP)-The little home
town of Pinocchio the puppet is
going to turn into reality the fabl-
ed inn of The Red Shrimp and
the Land of Toys that have deligh-
ted children throughout the world.
Linked to the project will be an
international sketch competition
for children between the ages of
10 and IA. The winner will get a
free trip to the village of the little
wooden boy whose nose grew long
er every time he told lie.
Pinocchio was created by Carlo
Lorenzini, an Italian newspap-
er man who wrote the fable under
the pen name of Collodi-his little
home village near Pescia in Tus-
cany.
Ten years ago the village organ
lied a committee to put up a statue
of the well loved Puppet in a little
park dedicated TO the author.
The monument was completed in
1856. 1t became a tourist attraction