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BY Helen Ryan
''NEAT'LITTLE
HEADS"

French hair styles are emphati-
cally stated and, though you may
not always agree with their styles
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immediate task is to name a Premier
who will in turn, in the coming week,
organize a cabinet and present a legis-
lative program to the Parliament.
Presumably the cabinet will be broadly
representative of the four parties, none
of which has quite enough popular
backing to organize a government of
its own.
The army'S intervention in this
situation plainly indicates that the
democratic process has run into trouble
in Turkey, primarily because Of
political augmentation that has reduced
every party to a minority. However,
although this adds up to an unhappy
domestic problem for one of our
strongest and most admirable allies, the
military has encouragingly emphasized
that it wants the new coalition to be
baSically civilian in character and to
govern as democratically as possible.
In any event, the Turks have been
passing through sorely trying political
experience, and they can be sure that
all their friends wish them the best and
hope that the new Ankara Setup will
prove to be workable in terms of pro-
noting their material well-being within
a system of ordered freedom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28
Beyond Saturn

The American people and the free
encouraged by the complete success of
Saturn's first test flight. For this awe
inspiring inStrument-eleven feet taller
than the l51-foot Statue of Liberty,
and weighing $50 tons, or more than
twice the statues weight-haS per-
formed beautifully, with thruSt-power
upwards of 1.2 millions pounds.
This power is greater than anything
known to have been achieved thus far
in Soviet rocketry Saturn, however,
will not be in ready operational use,
in quantity. until late 1868 or early 1864.
when it will make possible the lifting
of huge payloadS into space-payloadS
considerably heavier than any put up
thus far by the Russians. Meanwhile,
Of course, the Russians may develop
something quite as big, If not bigger,
and so the race in space is likely to
continue without letup for many years
to come.
AS a matter of fact, as far as the
United States is concerned, the develop
ment of Saturn marks only a beginning
on much bigger booster systems to come
This particular rocket, with its thrust
power in the neighborhood of 5 millions
pounds, will be quite capable of such
things as landing 2ton payload on
the moon. But in due courSe-aSSuming
that most of the world is not blown up,
meanwhile, in a thermonuclear war
there will be a capacity for far greater
adventures in space, with payloadS Of
hundreds of tons.
These adventures, these journeys
among the stars, will be made possible
by rocket-booster systems (such as the
projected Nova) much more advanced
than Saturn. Beyond that, apart from
the chemical energy involved in such
systems, nuclear and other forms of
even stronger power may we'll be
harnessed to make interplanetary travel
as easy as transoceanic voyages that
were deemed madness until Columbus
proved otherwise.
True, there is a certain lack of
charm about the prospect Of hurting
from here to the moon, but the chal-
lenge is still there, and sooner or later
some human being is going to make the
great breakthrough in outer space. Let's
hope that Saturn and ensuing develop
ments will make it possible for an
American to be first in the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28
CHANGE in Turkey

AS result of the indecisive general
election held on October Is, Turkeys
four major political parties now have
agreed to form an emergency coalition
governmental new national from"
under the leadership of General Genial
Gursel. This they have done at the
point of a gun, so to speak. For the
agreement has been worked out in
keeping with flat warning that the
army would otherwise stage a coup d'etat
and set up a military dictatorship
Under the new arrangement, Cen
eral Gursel-Whose junta has ruled
Turkey since the revolution against the
Menderes regime in May, 1960-is to
retire from the army and serve as Presi-
dent for the next seven years. His
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Flight to Freedom

The flight is always toward our side
Of the Iron Curtain. Very rarely has
anyone wanted to run away from the
West to the East. But there is never
an end to the story the other way
around; day after day, night after night,
there are those who risk limb and life to
flee to the free world
Berlin, with its wall, is the most
publicized place of its sort at the
moment. But there are other places
elsewhere around the globe, wherever
there is a conformation between free
dom and Red totalitarianiSm. Hong
Kong is a case in point. Just the other
day, Al escapes from Communist China
crashed into the fabulous British colony
in a successful collaboration from
Peiping But they were the lucky ones;
they were the ones who got away in
mass effort-involving perhaps over
1000 Chinese-to escape the tyranny of
Mao Use tung
Needless to say, the ones who did
not get away, the ones who were caught,
face grim future, including the pros
pect of being summarily executed for
having dared to try to achieve liberty.
In terms of common humanity, could
any commentary on communism-RuS-
sian or Chinese-be more damning than
thiSo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28
Underpoid Teachers

1t may be presumptuous for
an ordinary citizen, we'll
meaning though he may be,
to take issue with the Gov
ernor of a State, who is con-
versant with the ms and outs
of a question in which he
is playing a major role.
Especially when the Cover
nor affirms that he is in
office to serve the interests
Of the entire State. not just
a special group. l am re-
ferring to Gov. Tawes and
his recent differences with
the Maryland State Teach
ers' Association.
I am not acquainted with
the particulars of the feud
between the Governor and
the association. but my pres
ent purpose is not to Scru-
tinize the issue in the small
but in the large. lie. from a
more universal" viewpoint.
The association may or may
not be guilty of excessive
lobbying in the Maryland
legislature. but then lobbying
is an accepted American
practice both on the national
and local political scene. AL
though it has been con-
demned by puriStS as I'M
ethical. there is something
to be said in its favor, viz.
that it serves to bring a
groups grievances before the
legislative body where Tin
theory they will receive an
impartial hearing and acted
upon,
On a national scale, we
are devoting a sadly made
quate fraction of our psychic
and material resources to ed
ucation. 1t has been eSti-
mated that our annual ex-
penditures on cigarettes and
liquor. two minor drugs ca
tering to our oral sen Sibili-
ties. are on a par with those
for education in all its forms
public and private, higher
and lower. The money spent
each year on the automobile
and its accessories is heavily
in excess of the sums set
aside for education. We may
be quite accurately described
as a motor-minded Nation,
but not as a people con-
scious of the need for educa-
ton.
I am not acquainted with
the details of the teachers
salary scale in Maryland.
whether it is higher or lower
than the schedules in the
neighboring States, but l am
aware that public school
teachers all over the country
are sadly underpaid. In many
areas, a grade school or even
a high school, teacher is re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28
Outrageous Vandalism

Some members of the Board of
Education have described as "outra-
geous" the fact that vandalism in Dis
trict schools is rising, with the cost
of broken paneS alone soaring to more
than $4,000 a year. 1t is both out
rageouS and surprising, in view Of prom
Uses which school authorities and police
had made to take steps to curb such
depredationS.
According to a report by Assistant
Superintendent of Schools John M
Riecks, new glass for broken windows
and doors cost District taxpayers $685.
GAG last year, as compared with $4,000
for requirements in 1850. And this year
the breakage has been even more eX-
tenSive and costly. Not all Of the dam
age has been done by students, it is
said but most Of it is the work of teen
age vandalS rather than adults, inveS-
tigation has shown.
The vandalism continues despite
an increase in the hours of building
custodians in some schools and inten-
Sified patrolling in school areas by po-
lice. The schools are asking additional
funds for window guards and flood
lights in the 1868 budget. These are
merely preventive measures, Of course.
What is needed, besides, is a commu
nity-wide effort, participated in by
parents, to combat vandalism through
education in the home, in schools and
through other agencies. 1t is not enough
to repair the damage and hope for
the best.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28

ceiving no more than jun
ior secretary. one or two
years out of a business
academy. It is no miracle
that the superior college
graduate in the main shuns
the teaching profession, and
that the caliber of our public
educational system is sink
ing steadily.
Someone. somewhere must
make a start in the uphill
direction. if we are to reverse
the downward spiral. Per-
haps a courageous Governor
in some State, battling the
opposition of his taX-con-
scious legislature, will push
through a teacher salary
schedule that is commensu-
rate with the dignity and
Importance of the profession.
A pattern will thus be
established for other States
to follow. President Kennedy
attempted to do this on a
national scale, but he was
defeated by an inimical Goa
lition.
In our miSerlineSS towards
public education, we are
shortchanging our own chill
dren, the citizens of the flu
ture America. How can
America hope to remain in
the van. or even abreast of
the Russians. if unlike the
SovietS, we dole out the funds
for education, penny by
penny?
l. NJ. Court, Phi. D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28
A Strange Neutral

Singularly irritating Defense Minister
and chief delegate to the United Nations,
has been properly told off by Arthur H.
Dean in the course of the debate on
nuclear testing More than that, in
the context of Mr.. Deans remarks, the
Indian government itself has been
properly told off-a fact of more than
passing significance in view of Prime
Minister Nehru's impending visit to our
country and his scheduled talks with
President Kennedy.
Certainly Mr.. Dean, speaking from
his experience as the top American
negotiator at the utterly dreary and
fruitleSS teSt-ban talks with the Russians
in Geneva, has not exaggerated in
describing as strange and almost in
comprehensive Mr.. Khrishna Menon's-
and India S-attitude in recent days as
regards above-ground nuclear det-
onations. AS Mr. Dean has put it, the
United States, which is not testing in
the atmosphere as is the Soviet Union,
has been singled out for far more
comment and criticism by the Indian
delegation than has the Soviet Union =.
the Indian delegation seems to wish to
persist in criticizing the United States
for its restraint In the nuclear testing
field and maintains that the Soviet
Union-mirabile dictu-waS provoked
into breaking the moratorium by acts
of the United States, which is indeed
precisely what Chairman Khrushchev"
has said
In other words, as Mr.. Dean has
further observed, the United States,
despite having faithfully adhered to
the nuclear-test moratorium for nearly
three years past, now is much more
vigorously chided by the Indians than
is the USSR-an theological phenome-
non that seems triply remarkable when
one notes the vast difference between
our country's communicating under
ground tests and the tremendous,
fallout-full atmospheric detonations
staged by the Russians in the high
megaton range. Small wonder, in the
circumstances, that Mr.. Dean has i'm
plicitly accused Mr. KhriShna Menon
in particular and the Nehru government
in general of practicing brand Of "neu-
tralism" that all too often has the ear
marks of being unabaShedly anti-Ameri
can and pro-Soviet. Anyhow, the record
on that score can be rather abundantly
documented as far as speeches and
votes in the L. N. are concerned.
Actually, of course, Mr. Khrishna
Menon-who has long been one Of the
least popular personalities in the U. NJ,
although he is perhaps Mr.. Nehru's
closest friends viewed with suspicion
by many of his own countrymen. in
Guiding a highly influential political
group that hopes to defeat him when
he runs for Parliament again next
February. Indeed, this group openly
and vehemently charges that he is one
of the Kremlin's most dedicated fellow
travellers, If not an outright Communist,
and his general conduct in the United
Nations tends to lend substance to the
accusation Presumably there will be
some discussion of the matter when
Mr. Nehru and Mr. Kennedy meet early
in November
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28
THE POLITICAL MILL
By GOULD LINCOLN
Kennedy Orders Federal Economy

The spending policies Of
the Kennedy Administration
obviously are going into the
1862 political campaign as
one of the main issues be-
tween the Republicans and
Democrats. Former President
Eisenhower's recent speeches
attacking these fiscal policies
Of the present Government,
which it now appears will
result in a deficit of approx
mately 81 billion dollars at
the close of fiscal year 1862
next June 30-are drawing
blood. While the White
House has withheld any di-
rect reply to the Eisenhower
structures. the President has
ordered the members of his
cabinet and other heads Of
Government agencies to cut
expenditures wherever pos
sible, including the elimina-
ton of employees where the
work of the agencies can be
done without them. Gen.
Eisenhower bore down heavi-
ly on a proposed expenditure
of $40 billion to send a man to
the moon and the Kennedy
Peace Corps, which he refer
red to as an experiment in the
handling of juveniles.
Follows Eisenhower Speech
President Kennedy's order
for economy might have been
issued even if Gen. Eisen-
hover had been silent on the
subject. But following so
closely on the heels of the
Eisenhower diatribes it looks
strongly like an effort to
prove to the country that
the Chief Executive is really
at heart against any great
increases in Government
spending, certainly when
they bring greater deficit
spending. The economy order
also may be a notice to press
ure groups which expect anc
demand of the Kennedy ad
ministration more and more
So-called social legislation
The President may have beer
saying to these groups thai
they need not expect theil
demands will be answered by
the coming session of this
87th Congress, meeting mex
January.
In the past, the attitude o.
the Kennedy administration
and its economic advisers ha!
been that these large new ex,
penditures. even thost
needed for national defense
can be cared for by risinI
business and employment
producing greater revenue
The countrY's economy ha
been making rapid strides
and revenues will be in.
creased unless there shoulC
be a slump not now expected
But the increased revenu
will not be sufficient, it nov
appears. Treasury Secretar,
Dillon has predicted that tn,
deficit will run as high a
S675 billion. Now it is SUI
gested that the midyea
budget report and estimate
may show an even higher
figure.
No matter what instigateC
the Presidents econom,
order. it is both wise ant
timely. He has been undo
criticism from some of tn
New Frontiersmen becausu
he did not at the session O
Congress which closed il
September press strongl.
enough for the enactmen
into law Of some of the do
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mestic programs they ad-
vocate. Even those which he
and the Congress did prod
uce were in some cases trim
med down, largely through
the votes Of the more con-
sentative members Of the
House and Senate, both
Democratic and Republican.
This conservative coalition
will be even more active, it
Is expected, in the coming
session.
1t was not long ago that
the administration was specu-
lating on the possibility of a
cut in Federal taxes. Some
economists have urged that
such cuts would make it pos
sible for more and more spend
ing by the general public,
bolstering still further the
national production and the
national economy itself. In
view of the coming big deficit
and the possibility that fiscal
year 1868 also will produce a
deficit, tax cuts seem at this
point out of order, even
though it might be good
Democratic politics to grant
tax relief to millions of the
voters, with a congressional
election coming up.
President Kennedy, indeed,
has said he would not hest
tate to ask for an increase in
taxes, in order to prevent too
great deficit spending. He
said he intended to propose a
balanced budget for fiscal
1868 and that. if necessary
to meet greater needs for
national security. he would
urge tax increases. In his
statement on economy to his
cabinet. Mr.. Kennedy aimed
a shaft at former President
Eisenhower when he COM
mented that the 1862 deficit
would be less than the 1924
billion deficit for fiscal 1859
which came as a result of
the 1853 recession when
revenues dropped greatly.
Gen. Eisenhower was in the
White House at that time.
u. S. Employees Up 10000
The President defended the
increased spending by his
administration and the legis-
lation he got through Con-
greSs which authorized and
appropriated the money. He
declared that more than 80
per cent Of these increases
were for national security
and for combating the re
cession." The Presidents
eXhortation to reduce the
number of Government en-
plOyeS has something of a
hollow sound. Since the be-
ginning of his administration,
the number of Federal en-
ployes has gone up about
10000.
Republicans say the Presi-
dents estimate that 80 per
cent or more of the increased
Federal spending has been for
national security and to over
: come the recession is inaccu-
rate. They note. however,
that the President bears down
on the need of spending to
meet the recession. Their
contention is that the up
turn has been due to the
country itself. not to the
Government. Further they
say that of the total amount
asked Of Congress by the
President. over and above
the Eisenhower budget sub
mitted last January, IS per
cent was for non-defense
programming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-28

@. Are pygmies much
smaller than normal human
beingS?-T. D.
A. The pygmy man is US
ually AZ feet tall or a little
over. and the pygmy woman
is about 4 feet. Most pygmies
live in Africa, though some
tribes of small people are
found also in parts of Asia.
@. What does "Ad aStra
per aspera" mean?
A. Men.
A. ITO the stars through
difficulties" is the usual
translation of the phrase. ITO
the stars through bolts and
bars" is another translation.
The idea is very old, and oc-
ours frequently in classical
poetry and in the feudal mot
toes of the European nobility.
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The Adak sun., 1961-01-09

Page 6 ADAK CUB SCOUT NEWS "Friday, the 30th of December once more was the time of the monthly Pack meeting held in the School Gym. The Webelos Den presented skit concerning the history of the various stars and planets. Not only was the skit inter- esting but also educational. Many awards were passed out, below are the names of the cub scouts who had earned some of them. WOLF
 Gold Arrow under Wolf Mark Liyht5ody l year attendance pin
 l year service pin BEAR
 John Ray Gold Arrow under Bear Mike BalleW Gold Arrow under Bear
 l year attendance pin l year service pin
 Lion Book David Wood Bear Badge
 Gold Arrow under Bear E8ELos
 Richard Whi te Webelos Badge
 Silver Arrow under Lion Bruce McFadden Nebelos Badge
 Silver Arrow under ion MISC. AWARDS Steven Spicer l year Service pin John Smi tn Denners Stripes Lee Mann l Year Service Pin Wayne Mullins Den Chiefs Chord Gary Robinson l Year attendance pin
 l Year service pin
 Bear Book Joseph Wiseman l Year Attendance pin
 l Year service pin Terry Lynn Den Chiefs Chord
The Adak sun., 1961-01-09


 Banquet to be held February 7th. This is special night for the Cub Scouts. The banquet wi Il take the place of the Pack Meeting in January and February.
 There will be DEN CHIEFS meeting l2 January, 1900 hours at Ours. CHA. Den Chiefs make sure you are there.
 Also there will be Commi ttee heet- ing 24 January, 1880 hours at Ours. E-ll6.
 Once more we are in urgent need for Den Mothers and also for more new Cub Scouts. We are asking all Parents on Adak who have boys of Cub Scout age to Sign them up in this wonderful scouting program. Scouting teaches the boy - Love of God and Love of his country. Scouting helps to bring the boy and his parents closer together.
 S'll for now".
 ANNOUNCEMENTS NOTICE: Will baby sit for any children yrs. or on any evening. Call Ext. 7O5. NOTICE: What is I A? Coming soon? NOTICE: Everyone please save yonr Betty Crocker Coupons. The Protestant = Womens Group wi Il them to purchase Stainless Steel Si lver to be used for the Chapel Kitchen. Please give to Mrs. Cole at Ours. O-ll, Phone Ext. .652. NOTICE: Free Skating Instructions at the Village Gym Skating Rink during the following hours: Friday, l3 January 1890 to 2O3O, Saturday l4 January 1880 to 1880, Sunday IS January 1880 to 1880. NOTICE: The Protestant women's Group monthly meeting will be held in the & Bldg. Jan. 10th at $500 PM.
Evening star., 1961-02-28
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TV Mailbag:
RebuttuI' \

Theodore Roscoe, who wrote
the book on which the David
SuSskind production 5of "The
Lincoln Murder Case" was
based, phoned The Star last
week with reference to the COM
plant by Secret Service Chief
U. E. Baughman. no aspersion,
of course. was intended On the
modern Secret Service" Roscoe
said. -
The play refeFrea to the
Secret Service" as doing moth
ing about the Booth conspira-
tors and Mr.. Baugllxpan cor
rectly pointed out that the
Secret Service. as9 most know
it, wasn't set up until after
Lincoln's assassination and
wasn't given the job of pro-
tecting Presidents until after
the Mckinley tragedy,
Mr.. Roscoe points out. how
ever, that q secret service" did
exist prior TO- the modern one.
He pointed mt that the con-
troversial BfiE Gen. Lafayette
C. Baker headed this "secret
service" and. nfEer the Lincoln
assassination Was made the
head Of the new organization.
B. III.