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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-18
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The cor Of the future may we'll be the Pioseeki
Sky-CoT. which can ride cushion Of pro-
pelIor-dTiven dir over land and woter Enclosed
heleopter blades prevent smuggling in trees.
TINE CAR you may be driving 1875 will not only be able
to cruise the turnpikes but fly them when traffic
gets too heavy Furthermore if bridge is out you just
vert to boat What makes this landseaair action possible
is SkCar duarotor automobile combination
being developed for the Army by the Pasec Aircraft
Co. of Philadelphia.
Earlier models of the SkyCar got off the ground
cushion of air. and guided engineers in designing and build
ing the advanced model shown here Powered by ordinary
engines the test model fly than 60 ph
hover in spot water cushion of air fast
speedboat and ride inches above the highway in the
role of conventional Twin columns of air forced down
by two enclosed propeors give the SCar its lift whether
skmmng foot above the road cruising above water
soaring like flying chariot at 10000 feet.
Built in answer to the Armys need for jetage version
of the eep the SkCar planned to hopscoch troops to
their destinations around through obstacles Capable
of vertical takeO and landings the vehicle needs
Its sefcontained propelors won't snag trees power
lines and its simpled construction adds dependabiy
factor of the original jeep.
AS work the military SkyCar progresses, civilian
applications become evident to drawing dream
Already paper plans for civilian vehicles,
big Buses which well to be the standard
means of transportation in the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-18

The Civil War Centennial Commission hos presented
this Aword OF Distinction to The Stor for the series
OF which the article poees a. IS and is port
u bears the signatures Of Commission Chormon Allan
Nevins and Awords Committee Chormon Dovid c.
Meorns. For other detoIs see "Stor Dust on poee T.
Evening star., 1962-01-29

distributing activities of all the armed
services. IF the commissions estimates
of savings are anywhere near correct,
the consolidation will prevent many mil
lions of dollars from being wasted
through overlapping and duplication Of
defense supply operations.
Secretary Mcnamara told the COM
mittee Of his high hopes for greater
effectiveness and economy" through
his establishment last year of DSA.
He said that, once it overcomes GER
tain initial organizational difficulties,
the agency "in the long run will i'm
prove supply support of the operating
forces while materially reducing the
cost to the taxpayer" He has named
as director Of the agency Lieutenant
General Andrew T. Mcnamara (no rela-
tion). When it is considered that the
armed forces this year will buy more
than So billion worth of supplies, from
clothing to medicine, the opportunities
for economy through common buying
and distribution can be appreciated.
1t is evident, therefore, why the De-
fense Supply Agency expects to pay its
way many times over.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Kiss of Death

Secretary of Welfare Ribicoff gave
the House Commerce Committee sound
and fairly obvious bit of political advice
the other day when he suggested that
any attempt to insert an antidiscrim-
ination clause probably would kill the
administration bill to provide Federal
assistance to medical education.
The strange thing is that his re-
mark, in answer to committee ques-
tion, precipitated an argument. Rep
resentative Younger of California, in
something Of a dudgeon, asked whether
the Secretary was accusing Congress
Of being opposed to the principle of
desegregation."
In response, Mr.. Ribicoff merely
asked the Congressman to cite some
recent examples Of congressionally-
enacted legislation containing antidis-
elimination riders. Needless to say, Mr..
Younger declined the challenge.
Mr.. Ribicoff, as he has demon
strated on many occasions, is hardly
one to miss an opportunity to press
for antidiscrimination reforms. But
obviously he also is enough of politi-
cal realist to recognize a kiss of death
when he sees one coming.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
AntipoNution Progress

Retiring as director of the Potomac
River Basin Commission, Ellis Tisdale
reports that considerable progress has
been made in the river cleanup pro-
gram in recent years. He is right, how
ever, in warning that the antipollution
campaign must be waged without let
up, as new residential and industrial
developments along the river bring ad-
ditional threats Of sewage and waste
contamination.
When Mr.. Tisdale, an authority
on river-basin control, took over in
1855 the administration of the Potomac
groups plans for abating pollution of
WaShington'S water supply, there were
more than 80 communities dumping
raw sewage into the river. Largely
through the educational efforts and
missionary work" of Mr.. Tisdale and
his commission, this number has been
reduced to 18. The commission will not
be satisfied until the discharge Of all
untreated sewage into the river has
been ended. This is an important goal to-
ward which Mr.. Tisdale worked tire
leSsly and effectively and which will
confront his successor, yet to be named.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Meeting of Minds

The agreement under which the
= National Park Service will design and
build the critically important section
OF the inner loop freeway underpassing
the Lincoln Memorial grounds is well
come and long-overdue example of
intergovernmental cooperation.
Unlike past Stalemates between
highway and park officials, the difficulty
in this instance sprang not from differ
ences Of opinion about the project itself,
but from the perpleXing and unique legal
intricacies of the financial arrange
mentS.
1t Is customary, and no more than
proper, that the Park Service should
handle roads built entirely on its own
land-a custom which makes particu-
larly good sense in location so es-
thetically sensitive as the Lincoln Me-
mortal area. Indeed, it is easy to imagine
the conflicts which almost certainly
would have arisen If the District High
way Department had attempted to de-
sign massive traffic tunnel under
the memorial. Because the cost of this
project will be borne entirely by Fed
eral highway aid funds, however, it
also is necessary that it meet the
standards specified by law to provide
the proper degree of traffic relief. This
requirement will be assessed by granting
District and Federal highway agencies
the right to review and approve the plans
prepared by the Park Service.
Thus funds will be made avail
able Immediately to Park Director Con-
rad L. Wirth to begin designing the
Six-lane traffic tunnel and the re-
mainder Of the freeway link between
the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and the
Southwest freeway at Maine avenue
and Fourteenth street S.W. # the de-
signs progress as expected, construction
should begin by the end Of the year.
In announcing the agreement, Mr..
Wirth said it could not have resulted
without the full cooperation of Dis
trict Engineer Commissioner Clarke
and Rex Whitten, the. Federal highway
administrator. Certainly this is true. We
hope that the same degree of mature
and reasonable compromise is displayed
by all three parties in the difficult
freeway decisions still ahead.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Federal Medicore

Senator Anderson, Demo-
crat Of New Mexico, recent
ly decried proposed private
medical care plans for the
aged because they would
Subject patients to the in
dignity of proving their fl
nancial need" because
private plans would force
them to produce their most
intimate papers"
Isn't every citizen already
forced to produce his most
intimate papers" to finance
the Social Security System
from which Senator Ander-
son would provide funds for
Federal medicare? Isn't it es-
sential to require proof Of
need as a matter Of protec-
ton Of public funds? Does
Senator Anderson really
mean that, as he put 1t, the
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Defense Money-Sover

Defense Secretary Mcnamara, a
businessman who is determined to apply
businesSlike methods to military man
agement gave persuasive sales talk
to the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee on the virtues Of what he be-
lieves will be great money-saver at
the Pentagon-the new Defense Supply
Agency. This agency, an outgrowth of
recommendations by the Hoover Com
mission, unifies for the first time the
far-ranging and varied purchasing and
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Tom Paine Memorial

In connection with the dis
pute respecting q memorial
to Franklin D. Roosevelt, I
submit these suggestions:
l.. Enact a statute forbid
ding the donation Of Federal
property for such memorials
before q lapse Of four dec
AIDES; and Q, in that statute
provide for a memorial to
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) an
outstanding Englishman who
was. born q Quaker, became a
Methodist minister and later
a writer on deism. He reached
America in 1774 with q let
ter Of introduction from Ben
jamin Franklin, and in jan
uary, 1776, published his ia
nous book, Common Sense,
which changed q rebellion
against a king to a revolu-
ton for independence. In the
fall of the same year he pub
lished the first Of 16 pam
phlets, known as "The Cri-
Evening star., 1962-01-29
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Sis" addressed to our suffer-
ing soldiers and uncertain
citizens, which built up a mo-
rale of tremendous impor-
tance. Also, he was closely
associated with Thomas JEFF
ferson in the construction of
the Declaration Of Independ-
ence.
Ottamar Hamele.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Stote Censors

The article. Estate Depart
ment Plays Major Muzzling
Role" by Cecil Holland. en-
lightens those who wish to
know what the State Depart
ment censors are up to.
I would be the last to want
the military to take over our
foreign policy or to deal in
politics. However, it is a pref
ty pass when the military
can't explain in speeches and
indoctrination courses to our
fighting men just who our
enemy is. Why do we have
so many men in uniform all
over the world? To keep US
safe from the English or the
French? Marie Howartn.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Cuba Now and Then

Gould Lincoln, in his arti-
Gle "A Communist Blueprint
for America" is entirely cor
rect except for this sentence:
what Castro has donein Cuba
is what civilian r. Foster
wanted to do in the United
States. Castro had more fer
tile ground on which to work,
for the workers of Cuba had
been ground down to a de-
gree that none have been in
the United States since the
days Of slavery-days Foster
contended still exist in this
country"
The Cuban workers, previ-
GUS to Castro's take-over and
enslavement of the working
class. enjoyed the highest
standards Of living Of all Lat
in America. In addition they
had more rights and privi-
leges than any workers in this
hemisphere, including those
of the United States and
Canada.
Among those rights and
privileges were, the workers
right to his Job, making it in
practice virtually impossible
for his employer to dismiss
him; minimum wages and
salaries according to the liv-
ing standards and special
conditions of each region; the
unforfeitable right to social
security, workers accident
compensation, working hours
regulation, which stipulated
a limit of A hours per week
with 48 hours pay; special
summer working hours, the
right to paid vacations, nine
days sick leave per year, q
maternity fund. which pro-
vided for extensive vacation
with pay before and after
the birth Of the child, hos
pitalization for the mother in
clinics that were models of
their kind, including fre e
medical care for the infants
up to 2 years Of age, as
well as right to organize and
Join unions, right to strike
and prohibition of discrimi-
nation Of any kind.
This picture Of the Cuban
worker is a far cry from
fertile ground for revolu-
tion." AS a matter Of record.
the Cuban workers never
joined the Castro movement
even when he cloaked his
Communistic aims under lies
and promises which he never
intended to keep.
Let us hope that with the
help Of the Cuban workers
who are so courageously
fighting and dying for their
ideals, the days Of liberty
and justice will return to
our enslaved island.
DR.. Guillermo Belt.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
LAGOS, NIGERIA

LAGOS, NIGERIA
Apart from the normal
political haggling. two DOM
inant themes have marked
the summit conference Of
African leaders that has been
going on here:
African unity and the. need
Of new African states to free
themselves of their economic
dependence on Western Eur
ope.
The two ideas, Of course,
go hand in hand. The close
economic ties between these
new states and the former
colonizing powers Is the major
source Of political divisions
between them. And If these
ties are ever to be loosened,
the only alternative to stag
nation and chaos is the unity
to which every African poll
tician today pays at least de-
voted lip service.
On the fringes of the con-
ference this simple and ap-
pealing argument Is being
pushed to extreme limits.
Those who are not calling
outright for the abolition Of
sovereignty throughout free
Africa are arguing the case
for forming an African eco
nomic bloc along the lines Of
the European Common Mar
ket. The visions conjured by
the bold young spirits are
breathtakingl
"Then we can coordinate
the resources Of the corti-
nent," writes a leading Nj
gerian politician. "Then we
shall build a new nation in
Africa that will not only
rival Europe within the next
decade but will and must out
strip Europe within the next
so years."
A Sad Reality
Against these glittering
dreams and promises is q sad
reality which most moderate
African leaders admit freely
in their moments Of candor.
This reality is that no con-
tinent has ever been more
thoroughly fragmented than
Africa is today. Indepen-
dence, far from promoting
cohesion, has until now tend
ed to widen these divisions
more than ever.
African unity" remarked
a prominent African leader
after a recent conference ses-
sion, 'is fine for toasts. When
it comes to reality-that's q
different matter" The un-
happy truth is that the new
states Of Africa, thanks to
their colonial past, are still
far closer to Western Europe
in nearly every respect than
they are to each other. Inter-
African trade today is not
only nonexistent but prac-
tically impossible because OF
the absence Of any interior
lines Of communication. Tc
get from East to West Africs
it is almost invariably more
practical to go by way oi
Rome, Paris or Johannes
burg. To telephone from
Evening star., 1962-01-29

The training of the civilian
population in civil defense
procedures is serious and
while it suffers from short
comingS common to mass ef-
forts Of this kind, the cur
riculum given in two appen-
dlces is distinctly impressive.
THE PROGRAM, as Mr..
Goure shows, implies certain
assumptions about the ma
ture of the attack from which
it is supposed to protect. It
appears to hypothesize con-
siderable forewarning and
takes relatively little account
OF the possibility of a truly
massive strike against the
country.
This seems natural, for
there is little that can be
done in anticipation Of such
an attack short Of providing
full blast protection for the
entire urban population,
which would be extremely
costly and difficult to do. But
a massive surprise attack is
not the only way in which
a war may be launched. So
Wet planners envisage other
situations, wherein an attack
would not necessarily be un-
expected or overwhelming,
and relatively cheap civil de-
fenSe measures could effec-
lively limit the damage and
the number of casualties"
The shelter program ac-
cordingly provides a very
mixed bag of facilities rang
ing from massive structures
suitable for relatively long
periods Of occupation to SIM
pie devices that would afford
little more than modest fall
out protection. Mr.. Goure
finds 1t impossible to assess
the scope Of the program In
terms of the percentage of
the population that could be
protected. Given his ap-
proach to his task, a SEN
tence like, "In Moscow (this
percentage) probably exceeds
20 per cent of the residents,
since at least that number
could find space in the sub
way alone :" is not sur
prising.
In several respects the
mindlessness Of the book may
be an advantage. Mr.. Goure
avoids using the Soviet civil
defense program as q rich
(and probably misleading)
source of inferences about
the nature of Soviet military
strategy, just as he avoids
comparisons with the United
States. Those who would
find his study useful in pro-
noting their own views about
the direction our civil defense
measures should take will
have to do their own think
ing.
In the foreword, Willard F.
Libby uses Mr.. Goure's work
in just this way, seeing in
it a strong argument for q
vastly strengthened civil de-
fense effort in the United
States.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
'SIurbiiu'

In this era Of the untidy metro
politan spread and sprawl, it seems a
wholesome thing that group Of Cali
fornians has established a non-profit
organization dedicated to the PROPOSE
ton that the States best areas
including some Of the worlds richest
agricultural soil-Should not be allowed
to become "Slurbs."
This word has been coined by the
new organization in an effort to drama
tie the fact that lot Of atrocious
things are happening in connection
with the haphazard outward expansion
and urbanization of community living
on the fringes Of places like Los An
geles, which is in itself sprawl" of
the most exasperating kind. AS the
organization sees the situation, "slurbia"
is an altogether fitting word for "our
sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi
cities"-a completely unlovely "slurban"
growth that makes lot of money
for some people, but at the same time
does violence to beauty, good taste and
the long public interest.
So let us hail the words "slurbS,"
"Slurbia" and "slurbanites." They are
not pretty, of course, but they serve
to sum up the ugliness of many of our
country'S far-out metropolitan develop
ments, and their very bluntness may
help to sober some Of our super-city
planners and make them do a better
lob.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
Ending a NucIeor Farce

After more than three years of al
most unbearably tedious haggling, the
Russians now have reduced the Geneva
talks on nuclear test ban to such a
bleak abSurdity that Britain and the
United States are properly putting an
end to the whole sorry show. Some day,
perhaps, the negotiations will be re-
Sumed, but this will not happen-or at
least it ought not to happen-unless or
until the Soviet Union offers convincing
evidence that 1t is prepared to cooperate
in good faith in an effort to work out
a genuinely trustworthy agreement.
Such good faith has been lacking
ever since October, 1858, when we and
the British took the gamble of agreeing
to a moratorium on testing. This we
did in the hope that the Soviets would
join us, without excessive delay, in a
treaty prohibiting, under system of
effective international controls and
inspection, military atomic-hydrogen
experimental detonations Of every type.
Since taking that gamble, however, we
have seen the Kremlin'S representative
at Geneva go through all sorts of ne
gotiating contortions and convolutionS
obviously designed to prevent an ade-
quately policed ban.
Meanwhile, the Russians have had
the capability Of setting off undetectable
clandestine shots under the ground,
and they may well have done so. Far
more important still, openly and bra
Zenly, they have unilaterally shattered
the moratorium with their ominous
series, last fall, Of no fewer than so
atmospheric nuclear and thermonuclear
explosions OF tremendous, unprecedented
magnitude. And now at Geneva, reject
ing their own past demand that the
test-ban talks be merged with those on
general disarmament, and abandoning
all pretense Of favoring an international
policing system, they have had the gall
to insist that the negotiations must go
on, but only on their terms, which call
for an absolutely unpoliced outlawry of
testing-an arrangement under which
they could cheat at will.
All this is pure farce, but it is grim
farce, and our country, together with
Britain, must respond accordingly-with
a firm determination to do whatever
must be done to make sure that the
American atomic-hydrogen lead is not
wiped out by surreptitious Soviet tests
or open shots of the type set off few
months ago. President Kennedy appar-
emily has not yet reached a final de-
cision on the matter, but he has wisely
ordered that elaborate preparations be
made, and they are now being made, for
a possible major new series of American
atmospheric detonations. Certainly, if
these are found to be essential to our
security, and there is strong reason to
believe they are, they should be set off
at the earliest possible moment.
Evening star., 1962-01-29
New PhilodeIphiu

Charles 4. Peterson was
quoted at a recent meeting
Of Georgetown residents as
highly critical of Philadel-
phia's Society Hill redevelop-
ment project. To hear him
tell it. we are madly tearing
down all our precious old
buildings without rhyme or
reason. A relentless Jug
gernaut" is how he describes
us.
Mr.. Peterson, supervising
architect Of historic struc-
lures for the National Park
Service, should know better.
He is a member Of the Phil
adelphia Historical Commits
sion, which body has given us
specific permission for every
historic building we have had
to raze, under our very care
fully thought-out plan for re-
newal Of Society Hill. eve
call it officially the Washing
ton Square East Urban Re-
newal Project.)
We do not plan to remove
a single building for any
other reason than that its 10
cation is directly in conflict
with the requirements Of the
plan for the area, such as es-
sential open space and badly
needed recreational facilities.
We are keeping such demoli-
tions to a minimum. In fact,
in the first unit of the re-
newal project more than 80
per cent of the certified his
torical buildings were saved.
These buildings undoubtedly
would have deteriorated be-
cause without the redevelop-
ment program, private re-
sources had been unable in
the past to save such build
ings from complete deteriora-
tion.
Mr.. Peterson complains
that the Philadelphia Rede-
velopment Authority isn't in
terested in preserving old
buildings. Perhaps the fact
that he was invited to Wash
ington to explode the myth"
of renewal provides the clue
to his attitude. Certainly he
has never been q friend Of
the effort to renew our rap
idly decaying Old City area.
Instead, he has continued to
take pot-shots from the side
lines because some old struc-
lures have had to 60 in Or
der to make the whole
project work.
? When Mr.. Peterson says we
have mistakenly razed or
bulldozed" old structures for
the benefit of "fast buck
architects" he is far from the
truth. What we have been
doing in this historic part Of
our city has so delighted
Philadelphians that they
have flocked to this area and
invested their money there
to become a part Of the new
Society Hill. This enthusias-
tic reception by the people
of Philadelphia has spared us
the necessity of rehabilitat-
ing 500 such old buildings.
Apparently Mr.. Peterson
wants q complete restoration
of our historic center city a
Ia Williamsburg, with visitors
paying a fee to tour the set
pieces. Otherwise, why would
he oppose the graceful, tall
apartment buildings we are
putting up in order to make
the plan economically posi-
BILE? We do not intend to
create a lifeless replica Of Old
Philadelphia, but q living,
breathing. active community.
Philadelphia is making a
magnificent effort to correct
the results of old sins and
prepare itself to live in this
modern chronological age.
Michael Won Moschzisker.
Chairman, Redevelopnel
Authority of Philadel-
nhia
Evening star., 1962-01-29

public should have carte
blanche use Of social secur-
ity taxes "as q matter Of
right?"
What about the taxpayers
right to know where his
money is going?
Opposition to private med
ical care plans can only mean
that the Kennedy admini-
stration is bent on furthering
Federal control over everyone
without regard to the rights
of individuals.
Lewis M. Helm.
Evening star., 1962-01-29

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