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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
Vinson Aims BIO Blast
AtKennedy, McNomoro

will have to pass on this pro-
gram" The House and Sen
ate Appropriations Committees
and the Senate Armed Services
Committee still have not ruled
on the BIO program.
Mr.. Mcnamara said that
during a two-hour session with
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mon
day a vote was taken on the
BIO and "they are still in
favor of the present program,
as they were previously with
the exception of the Air Force
chief"
Speed Demanded
In approving the bill, the
committee was as outspoken as
Chairman Vinson in demand
ing a much broader and faster
program than President Ken
nedy recommended for manned
bombers. Mr.. Kennedy re-
quested $1.3 billion for research
and development, mainly to
build three prototype BIO
planes during the coming fiscal
year.
Secretary Mcnamara de-
clared earlier this week that "it
does not appear wise at this
time" to go all out in produc-
ing -mile-an-hour BIO
bombers. He repeated a pre-
viouS warning that this would
be a serious waste of the Ma
tons resources, particularly in
view of plans for 1850 deep
See BIO, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
ROAD BUILDING
T|EUPS LISTED

SOUTHWEST FREEWAY paving
will sturt soon. This job is one Of
mony highway construction projects
under way or beginning soon in the
Washington ureu. For the rundown,
see the monthly roundups on
Poee Glib.
EASTERN AIR LINES is asking
the Civil Aeronoutics Boord for
authority to drop the round trip
cir fare from Washington and
Baltimore to Miami to $40. The story
is in the The Stor's eviction
column, "on Wings" Pose BIB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
Hotels, Homes
AreCrus|1ed
In Re|1oboth
Rompugine Water
Surges in Streets
Of Ocean CITY

Thirty-foot tidal waves
crushed hotels, motels and cot
tageS in the Rehoboth Beach
Bethany area of Delaware to-
day, causing an estimated SIS
million damage. The entire
Atlantic Coast resort area south
to Cape Hatteras received a
terrific laShing.
The storm, building up as
an aftermath of yesterdays
Winds and Flood Tides Continue to
Lash Northeast. Poce Al
heavy SHOWS, climaxed with to-
days high tides which rolled
in on 60-mile-an-hour winds.
Thousands of residents along
the beach areas were rescued
during the night and today,
but there was no report Of
casualties.
Also, hard hit were the re-
sorts of Maryland's Ocean City,
Chincoteague Island and the
Norfolk area.
Mayor Tells of Havoc
Rehoboth Mayor j. C.
Stamper, his voice shaking with
emotion, described the terrible
buffeting taken by the principal
Delaware resort in a telephone
interview.
Rehoboth and other beaches
for a 100-mile stretch were
evacuated with the help of the
Army, National Guard, Red
Cross and police.
Some of Rehoboth's most
popular vacation spots were
either smashed or badly dam
aged by the huge waves.
They were 80 feet high"
said Mayor Stamper. 1.-The first
one took part of the board
walk. The second took the
rest of it. The last crushed
the front of the Henlopen
Hotel"
1.-THE Atlantic Sands Hotel
is coming apart, crumbling. 1t
! is a half-million dollar motel,
two years old.
"Dolly's Candyland is washed
away. All the apartments along
the beach are washed out. The
Belle Haven Hotel on Rohoboth
avenue is washed away. All
the boardwalk is gone-all the
cottages washed out"
The Pink Pony Cocktail
Lounge also was destroyed.
Bethany Isolated
Mayor Stemper said the tides
struck at 12-hour intervals,
each proving more disastrous
than the one before. He called
it by far the greatest disaster
in the beach's history, and said
the only hope against more
damage was the fact that the
wind was dying this afternoon
and might prevent another
heavy wave tonight.
Many areas, such as Bethany
Beach, were isolated by the wa
tiers.
The areas of Ocean City, Lewes,
Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach
and similar points were exacu-
ated. At least II cottages were
destroyed at Dewey Beach.
Many of the cottages lost in
the Bethany area are owned by
Washington area persons.
The Bethany Fire House was
armpit deep in water. One man
said, AL I can see is ocean
See SHORE, Page b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
INTERIM REPORT
Politics Looms Lorqe
In State SCI Fiosco

This is the lost Of four articles pro-
vidins on interim report on Moy-
land soyines and loan seondoI-
whut happened, how it happened,
efforts to eIeor it up and the deep
political implications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07

an employe of the CHA, he ap-
parently had satisfied his
questioners that he had lived
up to his contract with the in
telligence agency. Most of the
Senators congratulated him on
his conduct.
Although Chairman Russell,
Democrat of Georgia, was more
restrained than his fellow COM
mittee members, he also told
reporters after the hearing that
he agreed Mr.. Powers had
lived up to his contract" and
was a good witness.
Upheld by CHA Report
Earlier yesterday the House
and Senate Armed Services
Committees had released a CHA
report which concluded that
the flyer had "lived up to the
terms of his employment and
instructions in connection with
his mission and with his obli-
cations as an American under
the circumstances in which he
found himself"
This means that Mr.. Powers
is due about $4,000 in back
pay. His contract called for a
$4,000 annual salary.
AS the 32-year-old center of
a great national Juror left the
hearing room, he told newsmen
his immediate plans are to
take a vacation. He was asked
where:
I'm going all over" he re-
piled.
II Am an American"
Mr.. Powers, who spent 81
months in a Russian prison
before he was exchanged for
Soviet spy Rudolf Abel on Feb
ruary 10, brought an outburst
of applause from the crowd
which jammed every corner of
the big Senate Caucus Room
when he told the committee:
Zone thing I always re-
membered while I was there:
I am an American"
Senator Russell told reporters
he would not recommend any
change in the instructions the
CHA said it gave the U-2 pilots
and which, the intelligence
agency decided, Mr.. Powers
followed.
These instructions were that
if pilots found themselves I'M
able to escape capture they
were to surrender without re-
sistance, adopt a cooperative
attitude and tell the truth
See POWERS, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
Federal Probe
Opens in DC.
Welfare Setup
Controller General
AGENTS to Screen
28OCuses for Freud
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Federal investigators today
were put to work on the search
for irregularities in the city
welfare program.
The two-chairmen of the
Congressional Appropriations
subcommittee handling the
District Budget asked Con-
troller General Joseph Camp
bell to furnish them an Elm
dependent review" of $50 well
fare cases already selected for
study locally.
The Federal Investigators
working for Mr.. Campbell
would report to him, and he,
in turn, to Senator Robert
Byrd of West Virginia and Rep
resentative hatcher of Ken
lucky, Democratic chairmen OF
the District subcommittee.
Broadening Possible
A spokesman for the Con-
troller General said this morn
ing that probably 10 to IL in
vestigators would be assigned to
run down possible cheating in
the $50 cases. In the process,
the inquiry may be chanelled
into related activities in the
total welfare program, he in
Dictated.
The Federal phase Of the
welfare investigation is ex-
pected to be completed within
two months, before final hear
ings are held in the Senate
on budget requests for the year
beginning July l.
The Byrd-Natcher action, in
effect, shifts the responsibility
for finding welfare freeloaders
from the local to the Federal
government. 1t tightens Con-
gressional committee control
over the effort to ferret out
facts behind the size of the
relief rolls.
Other Probers on Job
Investigators responsible to
District Welfare Director Ger
ard Shea and to District Com
missioners will continue to work
on the cases, too.
Released today by Senator
Byrd and Mr.. hatcher were two
letters-one to the Controller
General and another to Walter
N. Tobriner, president of the
Board Of Commissioners.
They told Mr.. Campbell the
welfare investigation was urged
by their committees and was
aimed at exposing "violators
on the welfare rolls" Ten in
vestigators of the District well
fare department since Novem-
Der have completed work on
SIS of the $50 cases selected at
random to gauge the extent Of
cheating for welfare payments.
In 80 of the SIS cases, recipients
were found ineligible to re-
ceive benefits.
Since the rise in welfare cases
disturbed congressional budget
makers last year, welfare cases
in all five categories have de-
clined for the first time in many
years.
Welfare cases in January
dropped by 113. This was the
second straight month in which
relief cases involving children
dropped in the District after
rising steadily since 1855. The
cases in this category, aid to
dependent children, had passed
the $500 mark when the first
decrease Of II was reported in
December.
g.. it is deemed important
all such cases be subjected to
an independent review and re-
port by your office" ChairmenI
Byrd and hatcher wrote. ct is
requested that your report in
See WELFARE, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
Powers Case
Seems Closed
After Inquiry
Senators Agree
w Pilot Filled
Contract Terms
BY J. A. O'LEARY
Star Staff Writer

Congressional inquiries into
the U-2 plane incident appeared
to be over today following the
dramatic first-hand story Pilot
Francis Gary Powers gave the
Senate Armed Services Com
mittee yesterday of what hap
pened to him when his plane
fell over Russia on May l, 1850.
AS Mr.. Powers left the
crowded committee room, still
Partial Text Of Powers Testimony.
Pose "A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-07
Hishlights and sideIights Of
life, some philosophical re-
miniscence, here and there q
gentle EDMONTON -.

It's oil port Of the story in
George Kennedy's Column
THE RAMBLER
In Today'S Star
Page b.
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THE WEATuED. Full Report
'-~''HIN. on Puse BE-

District and vicinity-Fair tonight low
about 26 in city and 20 in suburbs. Mostly
sunny tomorrow with high about IS. High
and low OF past "a hours: High, SO, at
II am. today; low, SO, at am. today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-14

Before we had the planes we
had to spot the fish from the mast"
Ships Pilot Pruitt explains. Then
Harcum would take off in the
striker boat to help nail them
down. Now he has q different job.
A big set of fish will pull the bunk
calks on the net down and the fish
would get out at the top. Harcum
holds the net up now"
The voice of Mr.. Bittner, the
airplane pilot, breaks in on the
ships radio. ITO your port, Spider.
That's it."
The purse boats separate. They
spin out the net while scribing a
circle, coming together again at
their starting point. Nov they'll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-14

pull the strings and close up the
bottom" Mr.. Pruitt says. You could
play a baseball game on one of
these nets. They are / $40 feet long,
IS feet deep.
The raucOus sound of the by
draulic power blocks spreads
across the sea. The derricks on the
purse boats are pulling up the net,
closing the circle. I'VE have to
draw the net tight so we can pump
out the fish," Mr.. Pruitt says. Nov
we 60 out to the purse boats. They
can't move"
Under Mr.. Fruits direction,
the mother ship moves alongside
the purse boats and lines are taken
aboard the larger vessel and fas-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-14

tened. On the deck Of the Margaret
is large, black tube. II is lowered
into the water between the two
purse boats also called seine
boats. The boats form q triangle,
with the side ofthe Margaret as the
base. Excess net is drawn up by
winches on the Margaret and
pumping actions begins. Fish and
water are sucked up through the
tube, and separated by a strainer.
Water shoots out the other side of
the ship, carrying scraps of fish.
Waiting sea gulls move in for
breakfast. Fish come raining down
into the hold.
The pumping action continues.
consiNWsd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-14

men and the first mate, WOodie
Delhi, man the other. The captains
boat is equipped with a radio.
Another man takes off in q row
boat. He is William Harcum and
his vessel is called the striking
boat. He rows swiftly from a stand
ing position, a feat, he tells US, that
took some learning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
Stock Prices
Further;
Trading Steady

NEW YORK. Aug. 90 APP -
The stock market continued L
give ground in moderate trad
ing this afternoon.
Losses of most key stocks
were fractional but a few
pivotal issues dropped a point
or so. depressing the averages.
The growth" stocks, which
encountered severe profit-tak-
ing yesterday. were steady to
higher at the start. but wilted
as the general price level
softened
IBM dropped more than 3
points. putting it around 10
points below the important 400
level which it fell through yes
terday.
Steels. motors. rails. chemi-
Gals. utilities. electrical equip
ments, and drugs Joined in the
decline.
Brokers and security analysts
still aScribed the market soft
ness to caution regarding the
poSt-Labor Day outlook and to
profit-taking on a summer
rally.
Selling quickened as prices
sank near the significant 600
line in the Dow Jones industrial
average but steadied and re-
covered slightly just above that
level.
Prices moved irregularly low
er in moderate trading on the
American Stock Exchange.
Corporate bonds were mixed.
Government bonds declined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, Aug. % (AP). - Feed
grain prices held virtually stationary
but other contracts were mostly stronl
today on improved demand on the
Board of Trade.
Wheat and old crop soybeans ad-
vanced about a cent generally while
September SoybeanS moved up almost
two cents. Brokers said the support
appeared to be general with the wheat
buying coming through commission
firms and believed to represent COM
mercial accounts mainly.
The demand for soybeans was
understood to be largely short cover
ing. II followed three consecutive days
of rather broad Setbacks and traders
believed 1t was mostly reinstatement
OF long positions by spectators
although professors bought the Novem-
Der delivery.
Shortly before noon. wheat was h-1
cent a bushel higher, September So .0S
corn u lower TO z higher, September
81 ,06k; oats Il higher to ls lower,
septemeer 62h cents; rye l4-ss higher
hiSher, September S2.3394.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
Cyunumid Plans Plant

NEW YORK, Aug. 90 (AP).-
American Cyanamid Co. dis
closed plans to build a multi
million dollar plant at Fortier,
La, for the production of
methyl methacrylate, a clear
strong, weatherproof plastic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
Dividend Is Cut
By Wheeling Steel

WHEELING, w. Va, Aug.
20 CAP).-Wheeling Steel Corp,
citing a cost-price squeeze, cut
its quarterly dividend on COM
mon stock today from so cents
to IS cents a share.
This was the second basic
steel producer to reduce its
dividend. On August 81 Repub-
lie Steel Corp. the Nations
third largest Steelmaker, cut
It's quarterly dividend by one
third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, Aug. % (AP).-CUsDA)
--Hogs,. 5000; fairly active, butchers
steady to 25 lower, most steady with
Tuesdays close; sows steady to weak
fair shipping demand; 1-2 2lO-225 ID.
butchers 1S.25-lS.50; around so head
at 1875 mixed 1-3 190-265 lbs,
lS.O0-1S.35; l-2 1S0-l90 lbs, 1850
1900; mixed 1-3 320-350 h. sows
16.50-17.00; 350-40O lbs, Il. SOLE. so:
% 4OO-450 lbs. 15.00-15.75: 45O-625
lbs, 13.S5-15 90; boars II 0O-1350
Cattle 10000; calves 100; active.
slaughter steers 80 to rs higher, in
stances LOO higher; heifers 25 to so
hiRher; other, classes ABOUT steady;
mostly prime 1,200-l 400 Id. slaughter
steers: 3l.25-32.25; four loads at SO. 25;
mixed choice and prime l,15O-l,4OO
lbs, 30.5O-31.25; load mixed choice
and prime 1,040 lbs 81 90; bulk choice
1,100-1 400 lbs. 2s5O-30.50; choice
COOL 100 lbs. 27.50-29 so; good
25.25-27.75; load standard I,O25 ID.
Holstein steers $3.50; three loads
choice with prime end 90O-1 900 h.
heifers 2S.75; most choice 25.75-2S 90:
good "A 25-25.50; utility and CONNER
cial cows 13.50-16.5O; Gamers and
cutters 12.25-15 90; utility and COM
mercial bulls. 17.50-1950; few good
vealers - OO-27.OO; standard 5000
$500; utility 100000 90; mostly
choice around 700 ID. feeding steers,
%. 90.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
COTTON

NEW YORK, Aug. % APP Cotton
futures we're mostly lower today.
Distant 1868 crop trading months
were the weakest for the third COLI
secutive day. The selling was asso-
ciated with talk of lower price sup
ports for cotton next year. based on
views that cotton surplus supplies may
rise substantially in the current sea
son.
Declines in nearby months we're
checked by spot house buying and
short covering
Late afternoon prices were cents
bale higher to IS cents lower than
the previous close October, 1897; De-
cember, 1918, and March, 34.l6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
Reading Co. Acquires
L. & S. Railroad
PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. %
(AP).-The Reading Co. has
acquired the Lehigh & Sus-
quehanna Railroad, a 105-mile
line between Phillipsburg, N. j..
and Wilbes-Barre, Pa, it was
announced here today.
E. P. Gangwere, president of
the Reading Co.. and H. Louis
Thompson, president of Lehigh
& Susquehanna, said agreement
has been reached whereby the
Reading acquires the Lehigh &
Susquehanna subject to a 35-
year leasehold interest retained
by the Lehigh Coal & Naviga-
ton Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
METALS

NEW YORK. Aug. 90 (AP).-Spot
nonferrous metal prices today: Copper
81 cents a pound, Connecticut Valley.
Lead PA cents a pound. New York.
Louis. Tin l.0S7s 9 pound, New York.
Foreign silver ] 10 per troy ounce,
New York. Pittsburgh scrap steel No
heavy was quoted by Iron Age at ~ 90
% 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
Kennedy Asks Funds
For Philippine Claims
By the Associated Press

President Kennedy sent a
rush call to Congress yester-
day for $73 million to pay
Philippine war damage awards.
Congress approved the pay
ment after the House once re-
jected a bill authorizing the
payment, then reversed itself.
Now Mr.. Kennedy is asking
Congress to appropriate an ex-
ira $73 million for the present
fiscal year to meet the claims.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
PATENT
ATTORNEY

A large West Coast Missile & Space company has an
immediate opening for patent attorney preferably
under thirty-five, admitted to practice before the
United States Patent Office, competent in the field
of metallurgy and Tor chemistry, and capable of
working under minimum supervision. The work
involves all phases of patent, trademark, and
copyright law.
The salary will be commensurate with experience.
Liberal moving allowances will be made.
Please forward your resume, including salary,
experience and academic background to Bo: l45.J
Washington Star. An equal opportunity employer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
Vote on Split Set

WARREN, Pa, Aug. 90 CAP)
The directors of the New
Process Co. of Warren set Sep
TENDER IL as the date for spe-
cial stockholders meeting to act
upon a proposed 5-for-1 stock
split in order to broaden its
market and distributions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
DIVIDENDS
By the Associated Press

Pc Stk. Of Pay
Rate Tiod Record able
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
ODD-LOT TRADING

NEW YORK. Aug, 20 CAP).-The
New York Stock Exchange reported
today these odd lot TRANSACTIONS by
principal dealers for August Is: Pur-
chaseS of Isl ,S9T shares, sales Of
272 ,S6s shares including 6,lS6 sold
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
NEW YORK
BONDS
Sales High Low 2:o5 Chg
CORPORATION BONDS

Furnished by the Associated Press
Dist Includes Most Active BOndsJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29

Win bankruptcy or reCelVeTshlp OF
being reOrganI9ed under the Bankruptcy
Act, or securities assumed ny such com
panieS Vi o. lu'r'rs, '. teTtfICdtes
81 Slammed Z I,aU In usr MatureL
bonds. negotrabd'ty mIa,rel By maturity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-29
UNITED STATES TREASURY POSITION

BY the Associated Press
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-02-09
Shured Experiences Whut FIuvor?

With thousands Of students pouring
universities from emerging Africa America
that these people impressed
the features
their homelands
The Institute Of International Education however
lie the results Of which
thought The Institute
about their experience colleges
Though a third Of gave
fendnes few Of them reported they had
American Negroes while expert
enced kind Of discrimination them
expected and critical Of American social political
in
Certainly there much be exchange
scholarships
automatically follow good
will.
Yosuke Matsuoa foreign minister
the Konoye into alliance with Hitler
graduated with honors from the University
his
Dr. Chedd Jagan whose political
both Britain easness
University Northwestern University United
DR. Kwame Nxrumah Prime Minister Of the Gold
Africa graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
tended
mix Of the thinking Moscow with that
In short the sharing of educational experience
but depends
the character Of the experience the qualities
and the tacness of the host countCstian Science
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-02-09
If The Republican Soy They rrv To Do n

Editor 1t is unfortunate that the NAACP
puocans as bgots they vote proposed
Urban Affairs because of Robert Weaver
be in in attempting to muscle party
civil rights from the present
period of mkept promises of the
Now Mr. Kennedy who won't civil rights legislation
won't sign an executive order rights federal housing
attempting to Weaver
weaver he could replaced through disability
non or death by Faubus Easand but added Federal
The Republican platform against department
Kennedy, before Weaver
Mr. Kennedy seeks Negro support his party
Governor Elmer L. Andersen did
and support civil rights legislation He claims party
Performance indicates that the Negro
to work for Republican Congress Republican
would control comttee could rights legislation
mee out of committee the floor necessary
presidential
Decisions For Better America" section three
by the Republican Comn
Republican goals civil rights Briefly equality
opportunity in voting employment housing education
at the record on all issues the Republicans they
Frank j. Gibbs 1921 Upton Av. s., Minneapolis
81, 1862.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1962-02-09
Both Parties Have Candidate
Problems

nmaon that former Mayor p Peterson might throw his
the Republican nomination for a
Andersen brings interesting
political questions
himself with Of the COP
always considered liberal Republican
early political liberal
political fortunes climate also
changing personal political outooks.
known not to be in favor of the Senator Godwater
committed the liberal
group public
admission K Peterson his friends whether
Republican state chamans position
liberal element the element in
contest with Andersen will the
this politics
problem resolving who will
the against Rovaag
longtime party party chairman could be
choice However the state Attorney
political magnetism which has resulted in
public which exceeded other
state official.
Rolyaag the DFTI party for
accepting many and little pubced less glamous
the party has to perform He dedicated
with high regard for humanity 1t is
ceed in many nobody could beat him for