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Evening star., 1962-04-14
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
New Battlefield Medical Methods
By THOMAS r. HENRY

ceiver after reflecting off the
underlying soil, rock or wa
ter. The velocity through ice
is about half the 1856, 900 miles
a second at which radio
waves travel through the at
mosphere.
ExcelS Seismic Method
Radio sounding through
ice," says a Signal Corps re-
port, promises many def
mite advantages over the
equally accurate but highly
laborious seismic soundings
now widely made. In seismic
soundings, explosives are set
off on the surface, the sound
waves picked up on the bot
tom by inter-linked micro
phones and the results ana
lyZed. The process is expen-
sive, time-consuming and re-
quires highly skilled seis-
mologiStS. The radio sound
ings can be made quickly
with relatively simple equip
ment by operators who re-
quire little special training.
The speed of the new
method makes it especially
promising for obtaining a
better picture of the geo.
graphical features hidden
under the ice in the Antarctic.
Soundings now are being car
ried out there by Signal
Corps engineers.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Looking to the Future

The National Capital Planning Com
mission was looking toward future de-
velopment of Fairfax and Loudoun
Counties when it recommended provi-
sion of space for "commuter" highways
paralleling both sides of the new Dulles
Airport eXpresSway. The commission
was properly concerned over proposed
legislation to give the National Park
Service control Of the airport express
way and of all Federal right of way
bordering it. If this were done, the use
of any of the right of way as originally
intended-for roads to serve commuter
traffic that is barred from the express
way itself presumably would be
prohibited.
The planning commission, as a mat
ter Of fact, was merely approving a
commuter- traffic program implicitly in
dorsed by Congress under the act au-
thorizing the Dulles limited-access ex-
pressWay. At that time the Federal
Aviation Agency proposed to keep the
main airport highway exclusively for
Dulles traffic, leaving provision on each
side of the expressway for two-lane
4OdOo 4O4 u d1A1S CApCIGCO W NC SCIlC1 dGCo
by development of satellite communities
to Chantilly and beyond. 1t was with
this understanding that Fairfax County
dropped its opposition to limited
access eXpreSsway.
However, there have been increasing
indications of late that the FAA, now
under different management, might
renege on it's original pledge to Fairfax
County. The FAA has signif1ed its will
ingness to turn over the airport express
way and all right of way to the Park
Service. And park officials have said it
would be inconsistent" with park
policy to allow commuter roads on the
right of way. Congress, which has shown
justifable interest in solving Metropol-
itan Area traffic problems, should see to
it that nothing is done, as the NCPC
puts it, to preclude" eventual conStruc-
ton of community service roads along
side the Dulles eXpressway on the
Federal right of way. Otherwise in
tolerable traffic conditions are apt to
develop on the already inadequate
roads serving the area.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
LETTERS TO THE STAR

through five or six different
schools over a four-year pc
riod, certain decisions were
made by the Board with
respect to school redistrict-
ing. These decisions would
have resulted in some over
crowding until additional
schools could be constructed
in the areas of greatest need
and the three schools now
starting construction could be
completed in 1868.
The decision made by the
school board, however, has
now been reversed, after a
big press buildup, due to the
activities of political termites.
The ill-conceived school con-
struction program is the
responsibility of elected coun-
ty officials. 1t seems that the
citizens of certain parts of
Fairfax County are the vic
Tins of taxation without
representation"
1t may be desirable Cor
those citizens living in the
areas adjacent to the City of
Alexandria to petition for
merger with that city to free
themselves from further non-
sense. In any event, it should
make for a good turnout next
election day and assure some
new faces on the county
board.
John e.. Vauphau Jr
Evening star., 1962-04-14

David Lawrence relates
how the British had long
laughed at the idea that there
was any Communist infiltra-
ton into their civil service.
But now a special investigat-
ing committee has found a
dangerous penetration Of the
British civil service by Com
munistS and Communist
sympathizers.
What is the situation in
the United States Of Amer
lea?
Although I am critical Of
Robert Welch because of his
irresponsible a accusations,
nevertheless I believe in CIV
ing credit where due. And
Mr.. WEIGH deserves credit for
having made reprints Of a
most enlightening book on
the subject Of Communist
infiltration into the United
States Government. The
book, by James Burnham, is
entitled "The Web of Sub
version" and names the Com
munist cells which existed
within the United States
Government and names Com
munistS who were members
Of those cells. Mr.. Burnham
cites the sources Of his in
formation - in most in
stances, reports Of the United
States Government.
M. Allen.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Labor Law Policy

The authors of the Landrum- Griffin
Labor Encouragement Act Of 1859 have
directed some fundamentally serious
charges against the National Labor Re
lationS Board and its administration of
that part of the law dealing with un-
fair labor practices.
Taking the floor of the House, Rep
reSentativeS Landrum, Georgia Demo-
crat, and Griffin, Michigan Republican,
have made two closely related COM
plants. One is that many Board de-
ciSionS of recent months have amounted
to deliberate distortions of the purpose
and meaning of the act to point Of
frustrating the intent of Congress. The
other is that the Board itself, or at least
a voting majority, is applying the view
that it is policymaking tribunal rather
than an agency for adjudication, and
that on this improper assumption it is,
in effect, attempting to legiSlate.
In support of their first charge, the
two House members cited several de-
ciSionS involving complaints of second
ary boycotting, blackmail picketing, hot
cargo contracts and protection Of free
speech" for management as well as
labor. In each instance, it is the con-
tention of the legislators that the Board,
by the same sort of ingenious innova-
tionS and tortured interpretations" as
were once employed to open loopholeS
in the Taft-Hartley Act, has carved out
new loopholeS in the Landrum-G Griffin
Act The principal beneficiary of some
Of these Board rulings, the legislators
pointed out, has been James R. Hoffa'S
TeamSterS Union, and in clearing the
way anew for secondary boycotts they
emphasized that this weapon once again
is being handed over to small minority
of organized labor that "too often has
built its strength with Strong-arm
methods and disregard for the rights
of individual workers."
In addition to the decisions under
question, Mr.. Griffin referred specifically
to a recent speech by Board member
Gerald A. Brown in which the latter
expressed the view that "the Board is
unqueStionably a policymaking tribu-
nal," that it has freed itself from the
self-inflicted dedication to per Sc rules"
in preference for ian attitude of flexi-
bility." Such a view, Mr.. Griffin said,
gives reason to wonder whether the
present Board "even comedies the
constitutional authority of Congress to
formulate and establish policy in the
labor-management field"
There is question, perhaps, wheth-
er decision making by itself does not
supplement or refine policy. 1t is fact,
however, that the basic responsibility
for policymaking does rest in the hands
of Congress and that policy in this
particular field of labor management
relations was very carefully written by
the legislative branch in the Landrum-
Griffin Act. AS Mr.. Landrum told the
House, years of experience, months of
hearings, weeks of debate, and long days
Of conference went into it's drafting"
The NLRB, itself creature of Congress,
does not have the prerogative of
rewriting that policy.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Top Drawer Types

Some letters pro IN Tne
Star concerning a Federal
pay raise deplore the Presi-
dents plan to grant larger
raises for the high grades
than for the low ones. If the
Government cannot attract
and retain competent people
who are endowed with imag-
ination, are well-trained and
dedicated to their profession,
what is going to happen to
the personnel who depend
upon supervisors to create
jobs for the lower grades?
Professional personnel who
are specialized in the per-
formance of both technical
and administrative tasks are
the ones who do the creative
thinking which results in the
services Of the less we'll
trained being needed. High
class professionals are the
leaders in any endeavor. The
President realizes that the
Government has lost many
Of its leaders because they
have been lured away by
higher pay.
If the Government is
going to be effective, it must
compete for top personnel at
every level; that is true un-
less the public is satisfied to
have it's wishes and demands
put into the hands of the
mediocre for execution. In
dustrialists know that it pays
to buy quality. Universities
want men and women with
vision and imagination to
stimulate the coming genera
ton. The public will do well
to urge Congress to compete
for the brains of the country
by giving high grades sub
stantial raises in pay.
b. ]. B.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Talk Isn't Cheap

Those who are interested
in seeing Americas free en-
terprise system preserved will
welcome Wisconsin Democrat
Henry ReuSs as an 11th-hour
convert to fiscal responsible
ity.
Mr.. Reuss complains that
the Republican operation n
"Spring thaw" will cost the
taxpayers $4,000 to print the
Congressional Record for the
long House session. Mr.. ReusS
ought to know how much the
Record costs since he alone
has consumed nearly 26 pages
at 500 a page so far this year.
That's a total of $2,325 for
the loquacious Mr.. ReusS
alone, or about one-sixth the
estimate he gave for the en-
tire Republican membership
Of the House.
And what did he talk
about? Fiscal responsibility?
Reduced debt? No, he spent
$3.50 tax dollars to tell about
an Ice Age project in Wis
consin (and he complains that
the Republican Party longs
for bygone days.. He spent
$270 to urge the creation of
a Department Of Urban Al
fairs which would have cost
the American taxpayers un-
told millions had not the
House killed the measure. 1t
cost the American taxpayers
$50 each time Mr.. ReusS
wished one Of his Democratic
colleagues happy birthday in
the Record "a card might
have been cheaper. Nearly
three pages were devoted TO
an article titled do We Need
Another CCC," a question
any sensible American could
have answered in one two
letter word-no.
Incidentally, the Congress
Sional Record reveals on
pages 3741 and 1853 that Mr..
Reuss spent $1,729.71 in
United States funds to travel
through Germany. Austria.
Argentina, Chile, Peru, Pan
ANA, Venezuela, Puerto Rico
and Curacao. But he is great
ly disturbed because the Re-
publicans have run up the
light bill one night by keep
ing the House in session to
let the American people see
through the Kennedy smoke
screen.
1t will be interesting to
check Mr.. Reuss' voting rec
ord to see If his great con-
Germ for Government econ
omy is reflected there.
Margaret S. Bradford.
Evening star., 1962-04-14

It is an unusual event
when a county school board
action makes front page
news in the big city papers.
However, t h e argument
whether non-eXistent or un-
finished school buildings will
be efficiently utilized next
September to reduce the over
crowding of existing schools
highlights the ineptitude of
planning in Fairfax County.
The ION again-off again"
school board called several
public hearings, at which all
interested citizens had a
right to be heard. Based on
the results of these hearings
and the cogent complaints of
parents whose children have
been shuttled "willy-nilly"
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Opposite Mt. Vernon

Proponents of the Mount
Vernon overlook bill want to
spend millions in tax dollars
to buy land on the Mary
land shore to prevent install
lation Of a public sewage
plant - even though the
sewage commission has in
dicated willingness to move
to a site out of the "over-
look!
AS a farm owner whose
property would be taken, I
know why the Senate is
being pressured to waste
public funds even though the
House has deleted this item
from the Interior appropri-
alton bill. A large land de-
velopment company has been
the main force behind this
legislation from the begin
ming. It has long been trying
to get our farm and those
of two Of our neighbors for
water front subdivisions.
Failing, this company feared
we might develop our own
farms. To prevent such COM
petition it tried to convert
our farms into a Federal
park.
Such a plan was unsuc-
cessful but the sewage plant
threat was the gimmick
needed to gain the national
political influence of the
Mount Vernon Ladies Asso-
citation. The Maryland real
estate company was able to
stampede the ladies with the
thought of "a bathroom in
view Of the living room" "
Even though the sewage
plant threat has evaporated,
the commercial land COM
pany is still trying to fan the
embers by continuing to
whet the appetite Of the
land-hungry Interior De-
partment with its plan to
prevent many imaginary
land uses.
But what isn't told is that
all of this area is now con-
trolled as to land use by the
recently extended jurisdic-
ton Of the Maryland-Na-
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Feothered Friends
Manning Clagett.

During a recent safety in
Spection of construction op-
erationS at Dulles Interna-
tional Airport at Chantilly,
Virginia, it was a unique
surprise to find that among
far-Sighted and well-planned
medical services, was a hom-
ing pigeon messenger service
operated by the Herndon, Va.
Medical Center.
In the January, 1862, issue
of the Medical World News"
an article and several photo
graphs entitled Medicine on
the Wing" illustrated how
homing pigeons save precious
time and expense in a vital
service to Virginia commu-
mites in the shadow of our
Nations Capital.
Doctors of the Herndon,
Va, Medical Center frequent
ly use the homing pigeons
to carry small vialS of Speci-
mems to the laboratory for
quick analysis, then by Short
wave radio on their cars can
obtain the lab technician's
report on the specimen and
diagnose or prescribe on the
spot, thereby saving up to a
day or more in taking reme-
dial action.
In the present threatened
crisis of war, with certain
disruptions of all known
means of communication
should hostilitieS begin, one
wonders why our government
agencies fail to encourage the
recognition and registration
of bona fide lofts of trained
homing pigeons in various
cities.
In one of his campaign
speeches, President Kennedy
said, it was time to realize
that each citizen must not
seek what he can get from
his Government-but rather
what he can do for his coun-
try"
Thousands Of homing pi-
geon fancierS stand ready to
offer local, State and Federal
agencies and hospitals the
use of valuable homing pige-
ons and lofts in any emer-
gency.
Surely our President and
those responsible for our ma
tional defenses should realize
that even our best electronic
communication devices have
certain limitations and that
homing pigeons have consist
emily proved their dependa-
bility when other devices
failed, had to remain silent,
or were not available.
No other national sport OF
hobby, except perhaps "han
radio" can offer to play such
an important role in any
emergency as homing pige-
ons.
A homing pigeon could
someday save your life OF
those you love-ask any ex-
serviceman!
Fifteen members Of the
Belmont Homing Pigeon Clut
Of New York each pledged
one pair Of young homine
pigeons for the use of the
Herndon Medical Center anc
any other similar institutions
John J. Magee,
Evening star., 1962-04-14

Pen names may be used il
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
ters are subject to condenSa-
ton. Those not used tDill be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied BY self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-04-14

flation. Another avenue to-
ward initiation remains open,
and here the Kennedy Ad-
ministration is directly re-
EponSible. 1t grows out of
huge government expendi-
lures. Billions are for ma
tional defense. But other bill
lions are for domestic govern
ment operations. Some Of the
in ncr e a Se S in non-defenSe
spending compared to fiscal
year 1861 are up more than
81 billion. Some-probably
minor-economiSts hold that
a prime source of initiation is
government spending. But
that is not the attitude Of the
Kennedy administration. So
far it has only gone to "bor-
row and spend" programs.
No one knows when it may
get back to tax more and
spend more" policies of earlier
days.
When Steel Labor Struck
No one liked the proposed
rise in steel prices. No one
likes the rise in any prices.
But placing the responsibility
is something else. When un-
ion labor went into the recent
conferences with steel man
agement, the shadow of the
disastrous steel strike of 1859
was in many minds. That
strike began when the work.
erS walked out July Is. They
did not go back until mid
November after untold harm
had been done to every one
concerned and the national
economy.
President Kennedy, then a
Senator, lined up with or
ganized labor. He opposed
the Taft-Hartley Act injunc-
ton which President EiSen-
hover sought. Mr.. Goldberg,
an attorney for the steel
workers, urged the Supreme
Court to hold the injunction
unconstitutional. but the
court upheld it 8 to l. Before
the 80-day injunction period
expired a settlement was
reached, giving the workers a
material increase in wages.
President Kennedy at the
time said the wage increase
was not inflationary. But he
also criticized President Eli
Senhower for not bringing
the Government more active
ly into the controversy at an
early date, so as to have pre-
vented a strike.
Mr.. Kennedy did not de-
nounce the union in those
days for walking out, nor for
its refusal to accept the COM
panies' offer of increases,
which were nearly as extern
sive as the final settlement.
There was talk at the time OF
increasing the Governments
power to deal with such
strikes. Nothing was done
about it. Nothing, to be sure,
has been done by Congress
or anyone else to clip the
wings of Big Labor, which,
when it desires, can tie the
industries and the economy
of the country into a bow
knot. Mr.. Kennedy. however,
does not hesitate to go after
Big Business.
Evening star., 1962-04-14

Dramatically improved
techniqueS in battlefield
emergency treatment of
severely wounded soldiers are
promised by investigation of
various familiar drugs by the
Medical Corps.
Mixtures of two World War
II discoveries, penicillin and
mafenide, have produced
marked benefits, according
to an Army report, when
sprayed promptly into large
open wounds to halt infec-
ton. In some tests the drugs
have brought about complete
recovery without surgery.
Mafenide is a little known
sulfa drug which has a type
of action quite different from
that Of the better known
sulfanamidS.
Laboratory Tested
Application Of the findings
to human wounds has not
been tested at this point. In
tests with laboratory animals
it was possible to achieve
recovery without any other
tr eatment by spraying
wounds either with mafenide
alone or with a combination
of mafenide and penicillin.
The latter drug alone was
not effective.
The promising dual drug
spray technique is being
studied by two medical re-
search officers in search of
a more effective and simple
method of treatment that
would prolong survival time
of a wounded soldier await
ing surgery. The specific
objective was to discover an
expedient way to prevent gas
gangrene infection of wounds
one of the combat soldiers
historic bugaboos.
4 \ y *
A radio sounding technique
is being developed by the
Army Signal Corps to meas
ure the thickness Of polar
ice. 1t already has been used
successfully to measure the
depth of a massive glacier in
the far-north region of Can
ada.
Although the method has
been used successfully in the
past to measure the depth
Of relatively stable ice caps, it
had not been used before on
glaciers. Because of the gla-
cier's greater movement, Sig
nal Corps scientists had
thought that radio signals
might be deflected and read
ings upset. however, no Sc
ricus disruptionS were OBJ
served.
The radio sounding method
entails measuring the frac-
tion of a second it takes for
signals to penetrate the icy
depthS and return to a re-
Evening star., 1962-04-14
THE POLITICAL MILL
Effects of the Victory Over Steel
By GOULD LINCOLN

President Kennedy, using
his own great power and
the office of the Attorney
General, occupied by his
brother, has forced the steel
companies to rescind their
orders to increase steel prices
Sc a ton. He had also public
opinion working for him.
His course will be ap-
proved widely. No one wanted
an increase in steel prices,
except the steel companies.
Everyone feared that the an
nounced price increase would
lead to another spiral of
price increases and drastic
initiation. That has been the
history Of other steel price
increases as again and again
steel has yielded ground to
the demands of labor unions.
Now a new steel contract be-
tween the union and man.
agement has been drawn.
President Kennedy and his
Secretary Of Labor, Arthur
Goldberg, strongly urged
such an agreement on both
sides to head off any chance
of a strike.
The President declared the
settlement non-inflationary
and a triumph of business
and labor craftsmanship. It
provided for a 10-cent-an-
hour increase in fringe bene-
fits and left the question of
a wage increase to be taken
up a year from nova wage
increase which the union had
originally demanded.
Time alone will show
whether the American steel
industry will be harmed as
Chairman Roger M. Blough
Of United States Steel has
predicted. Mr.. Blough claims
that without additional prof.
its to plough into the industry
for new equipment and other
improvements to meet foreign
competition and added costs
of production the national
defense and the American in
duStry would be seriously
hurt. The President and his
advisers say Mr.. Blough is
entirely wrong.
Business Apprehension
The President has shown
his power over American
business. II he can do what
he has just done to this fun
damental industry, what
others will be able to with
stand him? That is a ques-
ton which will be asked. The
action of United States Steel
in announcing an increase in
prices has been widely criti-
cized as i'll timed and unwise.
But that will not prevent
speculation on the part of
businessmen, generally, as to
what might happen to them
Further, some of the steps
taken by the Department of
Justice, including the use OF
the FBI, against the steel
companies are not likely to
be relished.
For the time being, the
President has choked off one
avenue of initiation. The
American people are co-exist-
ing, not only with the threat
of international Communism
but also with a threat of in
Evening star., 1962-04-14

tional Capital Park and
Planning CommisSion-and,
at no cost to the Federal
taxpayer.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

A reader can get an answer, by
mail, to any question of fact by
writing The Star Information Bu-
reau. 635 F street NV. Washington
4, D. c. Please inclose return post
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envelope.
Evening star., 1962-04-14
Red InfiItrotion

John C.. VaI
Evening star., 1962-04-14
School HossIe

Belmont, N. Y.