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Evening star., 1962-04-26
Used-Cur Firm,
z Owners Freed
In Criminal Case

Criminal charges were
dropped in Municipal Court
against Nationwide Motor
Sales and the two brothers who
head it.
The uSed-car firm, at Twelfth
and K streets NV, and its
president, Leon N. Pappas, had
been charged with failing to
give the Districts Department
of Licenses and Inspections
written notice of Constantine
Pappas' authority to write sales
contracts. Constantine Pappas,
vice president of the firm, had
been charged with writing a
sales contract without author
ity.
Assistant Corporation Coun-
ssel Clark King, chief of the
Municipal Court office, said he
dropped the charges because
"a study of the car dealer regu-
lations indicates that the Pap
pas brothers were within the
letter, if not the spirit of the
law"
The firm, meanwhile, will go
before the Districts Board of
Appeals and Review in a pre-
liminary hearing into whether
Nationwide should be denied
its license to do business. Ma
tionwide's 1862 license was de-
MED by District licensing Of
ficials who charge that the
company has committed eight
violations of city regulations.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Austrian Chancellor
Due Here Next Week

PALM BEACH, Fla, April
26 CAP).-Austrian Chancel-
lor Alfons Gorbach will visit
President Kennedy next Thurs
day for lunch and talks, the
vacation White House an
nounced today.
The discussions will be on
matters of mutual interest
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
said. He did not elaborate, but
the subjects no doubt will in
clude the European Common
Market.
The Chancellor will be ac-
companied by other officials Of
the Austrian government. He
and Mr.. Kennedy met last
June when the President went
to Vienna for the meeting with
Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Mr.. Kennedy is returning tc
Washington tomorrow and viii
have a weekend meeting with
British Minister Macmillan.
He continued his vacation
schedule today with an intel
ligence briefing, paperwork, {
swim and a noontime cruise or
the yacht Honey Fitz.
Mr.. Kennedy was cruising
abroad the Honey Fitz yester'
day afternoon when he got wore
that test No. had been fireC
at dawn over the Pacific neal
Christmas Island. But he ISSUED
no statement.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Report Due to Assess
FoIIout Health Hazards

to make a comprehensive as
SesSment of:
/. Existing plans for protec-
tive countermeasures against
fallout, such as limiting intake
Of certain kinds of food if that
should ever be necessary.
2. The status Of research on
possible additional surveillance
and conference.-the techni-
ques.
3. The status of training pro-
grams designed to assure max
imum technical manpower.
The advisory group is headed
by DR.. Russell Morgan of Johns
Hopkins University, radiation
expert.
The group was first estab-
lished in 1858, and its first re-
port. made later that year, was
the springboard for the estab-
lishment of the Health Services
special division of Pathological
health.
Evening star., 1962-04-26

He has stayed in the back
ground, after giving final au-
thorization Tuesday for the
tests in the atmosphere.
The first explosion followed
his go-ahead by only hours. He
was informed Tuesday night
that the tests would get under
way yesterday unless weather
interfered.
Yesterday, Mr.. Kennedy also
got word his father, Joseph P
Kennedy. has recovered suffic-
iently from his stroke so that
he can begin a course of treat
ment at New York rehabilita-
ton center.
Mr.. Salinger said the elder
Mr.. Kennedy was expected to &C
to New York within a few day.
to begin therapy to improve his
speech and the movement of his
limbs impaired by the stroke
he suffered December 10.
Mr.. Salinger said the former
Ambassadors speech had be-
gun to return but did not say
to what extent. He also saio
that the elder Mr.. Kennedy sis
mentally alert and there is be-
ginning to be improvement il
the paralyzed (right) side"
The Presidents father will
be taken to the Institute o1
Physical Medicine and Reha
Utilization at Bellevue Hospita
in New York.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Powers Wife
Leaves Hospital
BY the Associated Press


Mrs. Barbara Powers, wife
of Francis Gary Powers, U-2
pilot, has been discharged
from Georgetown University
Hospital.
A spokesman said the 27-
year-old Mrs. Powers, taken to
the hospital in a coma last
Friday, left on Monday. The
nature of the illness was still
something of a mystery.
Mr.. Powers was not immedi-
ately available for comment on
a New York Post newspaper
story that quoted him as
saying his wife had indigestion
and that a report she had
taken an overdose Of sleeping
pills was silly.
When Mrs. Powers was ad-
mitted to the hospital, police
said she was reported to have
taken an overdose of a Sleep
inducing barbiturate. And a
hospital statement said she was
examined to determine the
cause of her illness, probably
due to a medication reaction" /"
On Sunday, the day before
she was released, a hospital
spokesman said no diagnosis
of her illness had been made
Mr.. Powers was shot down
over Russia on May l, 1860,
while on a high-altitude photo
reconnaissance mission. He was
imprisoned by the Russians and
exchanged for Rudolf Abel
Soviet master spy, last Febru-
ary. He and his wife live in
an apartment in Alexandria.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Ranger Becomes No. 2
Earth Visitor to Moon

Those pictures showed noun
tains and valleys and plains
or seas" similar to those or
the visible face of the moon.
The United States with
Pioneer-4, launched March 3
1859, came close to the moon
before it wandered off to be-
come a man-made prisoner OF
the sun. Ranger-3, shot III
last January 26, missed by
many thousands of miles and
also now is crcling the sun.
Ranger-4 failed in its pri.
mary missions, including TAX
ing TV pictures Of the moon
minutes before it slammed tc
destruction.
But somewhere now it has
gouged its signature of United
States intentions to seno
human explorers to the moon.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Moon Shot Off,
At Least Until
This Autumn

There will be no further at
temptS to hit the moon with
a Ranger-type spacecraft until
autumn at the earliest.
This was the word from space
agency planners today. They
have given up on further
Ranger shots for the next six
months in order to try an even
more ambitious feat" -bys'
near the planet Venus.
Two shots in Project Mariner
are now scheduled for the sum-
mer months, when the earth
and Venus will be in good rela-
tive positions for launchings.
Each of the Mariner space
probes will include small in
strument packages which will
be aimed toward-but not di-
rectly at-VenuS.
Like the Ranger mooncraft,
the Mariner packages will be
boosted into space by Atlas
Agena-B two-Stage rockets.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Agency has only one
Agena-B launching pad at
Cape Canaveral. Consequently,
while this pad is being used for
Mariners it cannot be made
available for Rangers.
Originally, Mariner was
scheduled to be boosted by the
new Atlas-Centaur rocket,
which was almost but not quite
launched for the first time last
week. Centaur missed schedule
after schedule however, with
the result that as long ago as
last October it was obvious that
the rocket would not be ready
in time for the 1862 Venus shots.
This "slippage" in Centaur
caused two major changes in
Space-probe programs. First
was the delay in the Ranger
program. Second was a radical
cutback in the weight of the
first two Mariner packages
owing to the fact that Agena-B
cannot lift as big a load as
Centaur will be able to.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
U. 5, Japan
Fire Rocket
By the Associated Press

Japan and the United States
fired their jointly launched
ionosphere probing rocket to-
day.
The experiment, consisting
Of separate japanese and
United States probes attached
to a Nike-Cajun sounding
rocket, was sent aloft from
Wallops Island, Va. 1t was the
first in a planned program Of
three.
The rocket reached an alti-
tude of rs miles and then
plunged into the Atlantic
Ocean.
The launching had originally
been set for Tuesday, but 1t
had to be postponed twice be-
cause Of high winds.
Two japanese scientists were
on hand with experts Of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration at the II am.
launching.
The japanese experiment
consisted of a gold-coated
sphere half an inch in diameter,
attached to a 2-foot boom that
flipped out from the side Of the
rocket.
Also aboard was a United
States Langmuir probe of a
type often used to record the
electron temperatures of the
ionosphere, the layer Of the
upper atmosphere that serves
to reflect radio messages back
to the earth.
The Japanese device, de-
veloped Independently, can
measure both electron tempera-
ture and density at the same
time.
NASA said that if it proves to
be effective, the Japanese ex-
pertinent thus may enable
space scientists in the future
to use one instrument instead
of two. to obtain the two meas
urementS. This means also
that the information would be
obtained at a much faster rate.
The scientific investigations
of the properties of the iono-
sphere may lead to great i'm
provement in radio communica-
tions, now subject to much
interference because Of iono-
spheric disturbances.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
BY the Associated Press

A comprehensive assessment
of United States measures to
defend people against possible
health hazards from radio
active fallout is expected to be
made public next week.
The assessment will be made
in a special report to DR.
Luther Terry. surgeon general
Iof the Public Health Service,
by his National Advisory Com
mittee on Radiation.
Soon after the Russians
touched off their series of tests
last September, DR.. Terry COM
missioned the group to make a
special study of the measures
for monitoring fallout, and
keeping tabs on the possible
extent of hazard.
The advisory groun, mostly
made up of civilian scientists
but including some Government
experts, also was commissioned
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Military Role
In nSpaceCited

A top space official says
there can be no hard-and-faSG
separation of military and nom
military activities in space.
DR.. Edward C. Welsh told the
American Rocket Society here
yesterday that the civilian and
military space efforts are COM
Elementary and not competi-
tive. National security mis-
sions in space are part Of the
national (space) program and
are just as important as any
other part of the program" he
said.
DR.. Welsh, executive secre-
tary of the Space Council, told
the rocketeers that progress in
space is being made more rap
idly now than in previous
years. The Nations slow start,
he said. resulted from:
al. Inadequate understanding
and leadership on the part of
some top officials of the Gov
ernment, as we'll as some lead
ing scientists in private life.
80. The arbitrary practice of
setting a budget figure as a
firm and specific amount of
money, and then trying to fit
space requirements and mis-
SionS into that figure.
IS. Failure to give adequate
recognition to the Importance
of space competence as a fac
tor in our national security"
Present cost of the space pro-
gram is about equal to one
half of l per cent of the gross
national product and may move
up to l per cent, DR.. Welsh
said. But there is no likelihood
that it will, in the foreseeable
future, amount to as much as
25 per cent Of what we spend
annually on recreation alone in
this country" he added.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer


NEW YORK, April 26.-
For the second time in mil
lions of years, the moon re-
ceived a visitor from the earth
today.
Soviet scientists made the
first contact 81 months ago-at
2 minutes after midnight, Mos
COW time, on September IA, 1859
with Lunik-2. Their 860-
pound capsule plowed into the
side of the moons face which
is always pointed toward earth.
Ranger-4, the 730-pound
United States moon messenger.
swung in today by the back
door. Tugged in by the moons
gravity, it landed somewhere on
the moons hidden or back side.
One day, men from earth per-
hapS will inspect the splaShes
raised in the moondust by the
two space capsules. The United
States is going all out to land
men on the moon as early as
1868. The Soviet Union pos
Sibly is aiming for the same
goal. There are possibilities the
two nations may join hands in
that costly effort.
No Sound Conductor
Ranger-4 and Lunik-2 prob
ably disintegrated in molten
explosions as they Smacked
into the moon at speeds of
5000 miles per hour.
Aside from that. they were
respectful guests, in making no
noise. For the moon has no air
to conduct the sound of their
impacts.
Russia opened the space age
reach to the moon with a
spaceShip which missed the
moon by 4,700 miles early in
January, 1859, and then sailed
far beyond to become a tiny
man-made planet of the sun.
With perfect aim, the Soviets
hit the moon eight months
later with Lunik-2, emblazoned
with the hammer-and-sickle
emblem and an inscription
reading Union of the Soviet
Socialist Republics"
Some astronomers in Europe
said they thought they had
seen a tiny bright flash at the
time Lunik-2 met the moon.
Got TV Pictures
In October, 1859, the So
viets sent out Lunik-3 which
caught a good look at the
hidden side of the moon, and
transmitted televiSion pictures
back to earth before the space
craft burned up in the earth's
atmosphere.
Evening star., 1962-04-26

weapon tests and would con-
tinue to demand their imme-
diate suspension.
While most Asian and Afri-
can delegates at United Nations
headquarters deplored the
United States action, the lead
er of one of Africa's most pop
ulouS nations defended it. Prime
Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa of Nigeria said the
United States must not allow
the nuclear balance to be
shifted to the other side-this
balance between the two blocs
is the only thing keeping the
peace"
Evening star., 1962-04-26
FAMILIES
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Singelmann came as the Citi-
Zens Council was finding it
takes more than one-way bus
ticket and a IS bill to convince
Negroes they should leave New
Orleans.
Negroes Ridicule Program
AS Mr.. Singelmann was COM
piling his passenger list. the
councils freedom bus" pro-
gram was being ridiculed in
some quarters. Negroes gen.
orally laughed at it. A major
radio station broadcast an edi-
torial critical of the plan while
other stations carried messages
from Negro spokesmen warning
their people to disregard the
free ride offer because of the
high rate of unemployment and
inadequate housing in most
Northern cities.
Newspapers here published
the councils claims about the
number of Negroes it was send
ing North. The stories also
gave the reactions of critics of
the plan in cities throughout
the country.
A taxi driver quipped: IF
they just keep their offer alive.
they'll get plenty of takers in
June when the college kids head
North to find summer jobs.
Those kids will certainly appre-
ciate a free ride up the line.
But they'll be back in Septem-
Der paying their own way"
II don't pay no attention to
that mess because only some
fool Negro is going to to take
their Offer" a Negro waitress
snapped.
o. C. w. Taylor, a Negro
fraternal leader, observed that
segregation is the biggest
racket in the world here"
The council is only using
this freedom bus thing as a way
to make money MI Taylor
claimed. The money people
are giving to this thing is going
down the drain"
Mr.. Singelmann was not
allowing his critics to damper
his enthusiasm.
They Chis critics. dom
bother me-" he smiled. "Tht
Washington editor of the Afro
American called me and toll
Evening star., 1962-04-26
SEQ Trials Successful,
For NucIeur Ship

YORKTOWN, Va, April 26
(AP) The Nuclear Ship Sa-
vannah, the worlds first atom
powered merchant vessel, sue
cessfully completed her final
acceptance trials today.
A spokesman for the Atomic
Energy Commission said all
equipment performed with
highly satisfactory results" and
all trials on the three-day run
were completed on or ahead OF
schedule.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
DUPONT

Continued From Page A.
able results for the Govern
ment both times.
After the second Supreme
Court decision the question was
mo longer whether dupont
should divest, but how to do il
most effectively and expedi-
tiously.
AS a result of today's de-
cision, not only does DUPONT
get rid of its GIN stock but
those closely associated with
dupont have to sell 11.6 mil
lion Of their 20 million shares
Capital Gain Rate
The tax bill, which President
Kennedy signed February 8
provides that a DUPONT stock
holder receiving GIN stock
under the divestiture, woulc
pay no tax on the GIN share!
unless they were worth more
than he paid for his DUPONT.
In the latter event, the stock.
holder would pay a capita
gains tax on the difference
Capital gains rates are hal
the normal income tax rate VI
to a Is per cennt ceiling.
Under the ratio of DuPon+
stock to DuPont's holding O.
GIN shares, each Dupont share
would be entitled to about 1.3'
shares of GIN.
Dupont's closing price on tht
New York Stock Exchange yes,
terday was $234.50 a share
GINS $55.25. On that GIN price
DuPont's holdings of GIN arr
worth nearly $3.5 billion.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
Work Lows Multiply

CHICAGO.-More than 800
Wage-hour labor relation laws
were enacted by various State
legislatures last year. California
and Illinois, two of the States,
provided machinery for arbi-
tration of labor disputes.
Evening star., 1962-04-26
RANGER
Crippled Spocecroft Lands on Moon,
U.S.. Halls Accuracy Of Rocket
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assume it had crashed some
where on the moons invisible
side.
The first light of dawn was
spreading across the desert as
Ranger-4 neared its target. A
flashing red light at the base of
the huge antenna warned
around personnel that Opera
ton Moontrack was in progress.
In a building at the base of
the antenna, observers watch
ing a cloSed-circuit television
screen saw the croSS-hairs of
a simulated gun sight slowly
approach the left side of the
moon.
The cross hairs indicated
,Ranger-4'S position as it
streaked through space. The
i7-foot long vehicle itself was,
of course. too small to be de-
tected usually.
Area Never Seen
Then at 4:47 am, the cross
hairs of the gun sight touched
the edge of the moon.
Experts said the impact area
was in a part of the moon never
seen from the earth. The moon
always keeps the same side
toward this planet, so the only
way to look at the back side is
To go there.
The area was photographed
in 1859 by RuSSia's Lunik.
'Television shots relayed to
earth showed the area to be a
rough upland, devoid of the
great. flat areaS-called seas
visible on the moons front
side.
Ranger was supposed to do
much more than just smash
into the moon.
Its big job was to take tele-
vision pictuSeS of the moons
surface. but it also carried in
StrumentS to measure the tenn
peratureS on the moon (be-
lieved to range from 230 below
to 260 degrees above, on the
Fahrenheit scale) and to meas
ure moonquakeS. Readings were
to be radioed to earth.
Power Lost
Because of the failure of
the timer, energy-seeking solar
cells weren't exposed to the
suns rays. and a resultant loss
of power ruined plans for the
experiments.
It was supposed to eject a
balsa-wood encaSed ball as it
swung low over the moons
surface. The ball contained
the carefully padded inStru-
mentS to measure temperatures
and moonquakes.
Scientists had hoped the in
strumentS would help settle the
long-standing scientific con-
troverSy over whether the
moon got its pock-marked
surface from erupting volca-
noes. falling meteorites, or
both.
Evening star., 1962-04-26

me what the NAACP has said
and I told him that their re-
marks showed them the hypo-
critS they really are"
I'VE want to help these peo-
pie" Mr.. Singelmann argued
I'VE don't force them to do
anything"
Many Seeking Jobs
Letters Mr.. Singlemanr
mailed in an effort to collecu
funds for the freedom bus
program said the council was
sponsoring the ride because
Negroes had complained they
are oppressed and treated like
second-class citizens. His letter
said the council is trying tc
help these people attain their
goal" to live in an atmosphere
where they can feel assured
that they will be treated as
firSt-claSS citizens"
Talks with some of the Ne
groes who visited the councils
office yesterday, however. don't
indicate that the persons who
might ride north are neces-
sarily fleeing New Orleans be-
cause of racial discrimination
The desire for gainful en-
ployment is a major factor
Most of the people who admit
they are thinking about &C.
cepting the councils ride offer.
have been unemployed fol
varying lengths of time. They
and their families are hungry
They are behind in their rent
Some laughingly admit they
are just curious. The majority
have had no education beyond
the eighth grade and at the
most are equipped to hold only
the lowest of semiskilled jobs
There just amt nothing
here to do" said one man. "A
man has got to work and you
can't blame anybody for trying
to find job"
That man promised us wee
get jobs up north and that i
more than our race leaders dc
for u.s." said another obviously
angry father. "All our leaders
do is talk and tell you to come
back next week. These white
folks will at least give you bus
fare so you can go and find q
job"
Program Well PubliciZed
Some residents have ex-
pressed dismay because the
councils program has resulted
in what they consider bad pub
licity for the city, especially
for the scheduled visit of Presi-
dent Kennedy here on May 4
. Mr.. Singelmann, however, is
doing what he can to give the
councils program as much ex-
posure as possible.
His office-a three-room af-
fair on the third floor of &
downtown building - contains
several desks and tables pileC
with mimeographed and print.
ed materials dealing with seq
regation and integration. The
telephone rings constantly anc
sometimes Mr.. Singelmanr
leaves the receiver off the hool
so he can make calls himself
and greet visitors to his office
He speaks with a soft South.
ern accent and shows very little
annoyance at the repetitious
questions which are thrown hi.
way. He speaks frankly anc
politely to everyone.
Posters Distributed
There's no racial bitterness!
IN this office" he said. "Oul
doors are always open to any.
one and everyone"
Mr.. Singelmann handed thi.
reporter a council membership
application and one of the
placecards advertising the
freedom bus" ride. He salt
the posters had been distributed
literally where the New Orlean
areas 245.000 Negroes live.
A canister appealing for con
tributionS to the council'
cause and urging money to hell
fight integration was handed
this reporter also. Mr.. Single
! mann smiled and said, TAX,
this with you. You might col
lect some money for U.s."