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Evening star., 1962-02-27

least a $4,000 raise to $4,000.
Cash, who outhit Maris by
nearly 100 points, slugged Al
home runs and drove in 1872
runs. AS a reminder to Ferrell,
the husky first baseman raped
one drive over the rightfield
fence during a workout yester-
day.
Cepeda, who hit .3l1, pow
cred 46 home runs and drove
in l42, wants the Giants to
double his salary to $4,000.
Besides Maris and Piersall,
signings yesterday included first
Baseman Joe Adcock and right
handler Bob Buhl with the
Braves; Infielder Billy Good
man with the White Sox; and
Outfielder Whitley Herzog with
the Orioles.
Evening star., 1962-02-27
By the Associated Press

Norm Cash, the American
League batting champion, today
signed his Detroit contract for
more than double what he
earned last season.
Cash. who hit 1861 and II
home runs, signed for an esti-
Yonks' PoyrolI Hits 100000 for All
Time High. Poqe ca
mated $4,000 with Vice Presl-
dent Rick Ferrell. He received
$4,000 last year.
With Cash getting in line to-
day, following the signings OF
Roger Maris of the Yankees and
Jimmy Piersall of the Senators
yesterday, it left only two big
stars outside the fold-Rocky
Evening star., 1962-02-27
CARRY BACK TO GO SATURDAY
IN NEW ORLEANS HANDICAP

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 27 (AP).-Jack Price, trainer of
Carry Back announced today that the Florida bred colt
would run in Saturdays $50000 New Orleans Handicap
at Fair Grounds
Carry Back, owned by the trainers WIFE Katherine
finished second to Calumet Farms Yorky in last Satur
days Widener, losing by neck in the "a mile feature
at Hialeah.
Garry Back has been assigned 12s pounds in the
new orleans Cap, more than he carried in the
Wdener. Price said the horse would be shipped to Fair
Grounds tomorrow
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his $32,50O salary with Cleve-
land last year.
1t is astounding how much
interest there was here in Pier
sails signing. 1t has been the
No. topic of the fans and has
been a frequent topic of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
Fashion Potpourri

BY design or otherwise (pun?) this
has suddenly become the season for
Fashion Notes from All Over.
In that gay Paris, what are called
the houses Of haute couture are show
ing their new collections" meaning the
things they hope the most chic among
ladies will be wearing next spring and
summer. Early reports indicate that
one house that additionally likes tucks
is featuring tucks, and another that al
ways likes ostrich feathers is featuring
ostrich feathers Skirts are short, except
for those intended to be long, and
somebody described everything in one
collection as fluid" term that no
doubt is meaningful in certain circles.
Sitting in on the ShowingS, along with
fashion editors and buyers for the re-
tail houses, is scattering Of royalty
including attractive Queen Frederick
of Greece and pair of cute daughters
who are real Princesses.
simultaneously, back home some
meanieS are trying to work up semi
political fashion feud between Repub-
lican Glare Boothe Luce and Demo-
cratic Jacqueline Kennedy. Writing for
McCall's, a magazine, Mrs. Luce raised
some question about Jacqueline helping
the French fashion industry instead of
our own when she wears some fine
thing from one Of those Paris places.
Pamela Turnure, who said mo COM
ment" for Mrs. Kennedy, went on to
say for herself that the First Lady wears
lot of Smart-looking non-foreign
things, too, which seems to jibe with
our recollection Of pictures and stories.
And outside Of the magazine columns,
quotes attributed to Mrs. Luce sounded
a lot more friendly about Mrs. Ken
nedy than about men (who) always
think that to stir up quarrel between
two women is just dandy"
We are not in position to comment
authoritatively on the Paris showingS,
but one self-appointed assistant COM
mentator has suggested that the Paris
styles might be even smarter If they
borrowed more from Jacqueline. This
sounds all right to us. In fact, it might
fit in very neatly with President Ken
nedy's whole program for freer inter-
national trading.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02

Ghana, where political prisoners abound.
And yet another is the Soviet Union,
whose savage suppression of freedom in
Hungary constitutes but one of its many
crimes against humanity.
So the Portuguese-whose "repres-
sive measures" in Angola seem to have
been aimed largely and justifiably
against terrorist bands guilty Of un-
Speakable atrocities-cannot be blamed
If the Assembly's resolution fills them
with mixed feelings of outrage and cyni-
cism. Even so, as the resolution suggests,
they will be serving their own best in
tereSts If they undertake to grant indie
pendence to the Angolan people when
they are really fit for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
UndipIomutic Porkinq

How can the Districts traf-
fic division expect respect of
citizens using their streets
when they have apparently
sacrificed their own Self-re-
spect at 1925 Sixteenth street
NV. (the Russian Embassy :?
Russians ignore the laws of
the world, the basic rules of
human dignity, and world
opinion; and now they ignore
our traffic laws.
Our Stalwart representa-
tives of the law stated I'VE
have the authority to tow
the ILLEGALLY parked diplo-
matic) cars away, but we
hesitate to do so because Of
international good will"
Almost every week we read
that foreign diplomats are
flouting our laws, with their
so-called immunity, while our
officials smile, hat in hand.
d. E. knight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
Unfinished Business

Your editorial Unfinished
Business" smugly advocates
the destruction of a medium
of instituted advertising long
known as outdoor advertis-
ing, but to which you prop
agandistically always prefer
to refer to as billboard adj
vertising."
1t is generally known that
neither the Federal Govern
ment, through the proffer of
a dangling bride, nor the
General Assembly of the
Commonwealth Of Virginia
through cat's-paw legislation,
has any constitutional right
or police power, specific or
implied, to enact any statute
that will directly or indirectly
abridge the freedom of speech
which is inherent in the
medium of outdoor advertis-
ing-a particular kind Of in
stituted public communica-
ton.
If, as you say, Virginia has
failed to qualify for that
dangling bride which you pre-
fer to call extra Federal
highway fund.-" it is for the
reason that the statesmen in
the Virginia General Assembly
know it for just what it really
is-a bride pure and simple,
dangled before their eyes for
the one sole purpose-to gain
more Federal power over the
States constitutional rights;
it is an attempt to influence
legislation to be enacted by
indirection, for it is consti-
tutionally impossible to pay
for the encroachment desired
directly.
If, as you say, unSightly
roadside signs do exist along
the roadways Of Virginia,
the removal Of the said I'M
sightliness should come about
through a possible commits
sion of esthetic control,
through an educated aware
ness of what is purely beau
tiful and what is purely bust
ness, and ought not to come
about through the sale of
any part of a States rights
for a bride, even If that
bride is a Federal bonus of
up to 81 million"
Stan Stanton.
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sion compelled me to argue
that their belief, that the
order Of society they know is
the capstone of civilization
shows that they are lost amid
forces that are too big fol-
them.
Yet the Negroes hopes and
ambitions generally are not
thwarted by such hate, dis
elimination and isolation
Recent "sit-ins" and Gree
dom-rides" prove he has the
stamina essential to his full
emancipation. Because OF
the impulSion to overcome
resistance to needed social
change now being developed
in the Negro, he will be more
able to help point the way
to true freedom.
Thus I tried to convince
my friend that the majority
OF Negroes, nursing their
bruises and humiliations, will
support Mr.. Rusk's assertion
that 1.-The wave of the future
is the peaceful democratic
revolution symbolized for the
Americas In the Alliance fol
Progress"
John p. MurchiSOn.
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cans spilling over with rub
bish waiting to be hauled
away. None of the cans had
lids, and it all looked and
smelled like the accumulation
Of several days"
OF course in most States
this sort of thing is not legal.
Minnesota. for example, has
a code calling for a we'll
drained, comfortable, roomy
camp site; floors of concrete
or of smooth and cloSe-laid
wood (no cracks; screens;
hot and cold water, and a
toilet for every IL persons.
But Minnesota has one thou
sand migrant camps and one
and only one-Sanitarian
charged with camp inspee-
ton. 1t has no system for
certifying camps. 1t has no
penalty for noncompliance"
THE PEOPLE who live
these dreadful lives come
from various ethnic groups,
but, as Miss Shotwell shows,
they are the lowest of the
low within their own group.
Most of them are what is
politely known as culturally
deprived. Nevertheless "the
truth is that all sorts of peo-
pie turn up as migrants:
people frail and solid, percep-
tive and dull, industrious and
indolent, sensitive and stole,
cruSty and charming, honest
and crooked, clean and dirty"
Miss Shotwell demonstrates
that the migrants are far
more the victims of circum-
stances than of any inherent
deficiencies. And she quotes
Alfred M. Potts of the Col
orado State Department of
Education on their children:
Studies show these children
to have about the same ratio
of slow-learners, average in
telligence groups, and poten-
TALLY superior children as
other population groups"
There is no quick and easy
cure for the blight of mi
grancy. Migrant labor is es-
sential to agriculture, at least
in the present stage of tech
nology, and it can never be
high paying or high class
work. Miss Shotwell's de-
mands are minimal. She feels
that agricultural labor must
no longer be exempted from
the operation of the labor
laws and that greater Fed
eral and State regulation and
aid are essential in the fields
of health, education and well
fare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
AnqoIa and the u. N.

Taken as a whole, the General
Assembly's resolution on Angola is con-
siderably less immoderate than the one
the Soviet bloc tried to have enacted,
and Portugal should be able to live with
it.
At any rate, SO of the 104 members
OF the United Nations have voted for the
measure, with France abstaining, Ice
land and Portugal absent, and only
Spain and South Africa opposed. This
is an overwhelming majority, and it's
very size serves to dramatic a wide
spread feeling that Lisbon-which has
declined to let U. N. investigation
group visit the West African province
has been mishandling it's Angolan re-
SponSibilitieS.
Thus, whether justified or not, the
U. N. has called upon Portugal ~
to "desist forthwith from represSive
measures" in Angola, (2) to stop de-
priving the people there Of fundamental
freedoms, (3) to release Immediately all
Angolan political prisoners, and az to
undertake extensive reforms, without
further delay" to prepare the territory
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nation. In these and other points, the
Assembly's resolution is couched in &C
cusatory language of type that can
hardly fail to offend the Portuguese, but
no sanctions, punitive steps or ultima
tum-like time limits are involved.
In all of this, of course, there is
good deal of irony. For more than few
of the governments that have voted in
holier-than- thou fashion for the u NJ
lecture to Portugal are offenders of the
worst kind-both in their own lands and
abroad-when it comes to REFRESHING
people and doing violence to human lib
erty. Castro's' Red Cuba, with its ever
busy firing squads, is case in point.
Another is Nkrumah'S Dictatorship in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
To UnshockIe the Law

Attorney General Robert Kennedy
was not exaggerating when he told
Congress that laws relating to wire
tapping are chaotic" and "unSatisfac-
tory" There is utter chaos over wire
tapping on the law-enforcement front,
with Federal agents now authorized by
the Attorney General to tap wires in
national security and kidnapping cases,
but prevented by court rulings from
using wiretap information in court And
there is widespread dissatisfaction, not
to mention confusion, in the States
over court decisions limiting wiretap-
ping by police and even indicating that
State-legalized overlapping may violate
Federal law. The bill proposed by the
Department of Justice would end this
chaos and resolve all doubts-in favor
OF the now handicapped law officers.
Such legislation as Mr.. Kennedy has
presented to Congress with persuasive
letter OF Endorsement Is long overdue.
1t is SenSeleSS and dangerous to Shackle
the FBI in its efforts to send to prison
known espionage agents, against whom
there may be conclusive evidence of
guilt which cannot be used in court be-
cause 1t was obtained as a result of
tapped wires AS Mr.. Kennedy stressed
in his letter to Speaker Mccormack,
every Attorney General during the past
Is years has authorized the FBI to tap
wires in espionage, sabotage and kid
mapping investigations, but none Of the
information thus obtained could be used
In the prosecution Of those caught in
the act of committing these grave crimes.
That is because of the ambiguous word
ing of the Federal Communications Act
of 1894.
The administration measure would
permit Federal agents and State au-
thorities to intercept and divulge in
court wiretap communications under
rigidly limited conditions. All other
overlapping would be outlawed. The
FBI could legally tap and make court
use Of wiretap evidence on specific order
OF Federal judge or, in certain national
security cases where the utmost secrecy
is required, by special permission Of the
Attorney General State overlapping in
certain major crimes would be permitted
only If State law authorized the practice
and then only upon court order when
requested by the State attorney general
or the chief prosecutor Of political
Jurisdiction. Use of wiretap information
in court also is legalized.
We heartily agree with Attorney
General Kennedy that Ito deny law en-
forcement officers the right to monitor
telephone communications is to permit
our Nations vast communications net
work to be used as an irreplaceable tool
Of the underworld" Congress should
correct this gross disservice to law en-
forcement and justice without further
delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
Forgotten Men?

The lack OF articles In re-
cent weeks in the Nations
newspapers concerning the
$4,000 recalled National
GuardSmen and Reservists is
somewhat disturbing If it
means that our situation is
being forgotten.
Most of us willingly an
swered the call to duty last
October in the face of a po-
tentially serious crisis in Ber-
lin. We have completed an
eight-week refresher training
course.
Now, the former deadline
for a Soviet peace treaty
with East Germany has
passed. Each day normalizes
the status quo to an increas-
ing extent. Two new Regular
Army divisions will exist by
March.
The plight Of many Of the
recalled men, however, is
worsening rapidly. Some men
have begun to send their wives
and children to distant parts
Of the country to live with
their families, unable to sup
port them on their Army pay.
Others are watching their
businesses falter and fail. All
are suffering a serious finan-
cial setback which worsens
as each day passes.
Now that the immediate
crisis in Berlin has subsidized
and the Army is increasing
its permanent force by two
divisions, can't we be re-
turned to civilian life as
rapidly as possible? Instead
OF trying to keep busy follow
ing contrived training pro-
grams set up to occupy our
time, why couldn't we be
sent home subject to rapid
recall in the event of emer-
gency?
To be called away from
family and livelihood in the
face of a real crisis is one
thing. To linger, watching
your business fail or your
LIES savings dwindle with no
real purpose to fulfill, is quite
another.
I hope that the Defense
Department and Congress will
keep us in mind and try to
return us to our homes as
soon as possible.
Pfc. Bruce Snider.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
Racial Equality

A friend OF mine from Pan
anna who has been studying
in this country for three
years, after reading excerpts
from Secretary Rusk'S recent
speech in Uruguay, wanted to
know how our Secretary could
conclude that 1.-THE propo-
nents of free society need
have no apologies" in the
light of the isolation, ex-
ploitation and oppression of
the Negro today in this coun-
try. My answer, based upon
my life experience as a little
business man, had to be am
biguouS.
With reluctance, I had to
admit that Cd isolation Of
the Negro not only in black
ghettoes but also in bust
ness, chronological and cul-
tural cess-pools, by virtue of
the stigma of inferiority thus
spotlighted, is the most glar-
ing failure of American de-
mocracy; co economic dis
elimination Is still used to
the disadvantage Of the Ne
gro-e.g., generally only lLw-
income opportunities are open
to him and thus he cannot
aspire even to live decently
to say nothing about &C
cumulating capital to share
in the ownership of indus
try; 60 the Negro leader
ship cannot aspire to bust
ness success because the
range of its enterprise sell
dom has been allowed to ex-
pand beyond mere self-em-
ployment; and "a the Com
muniSts are not the only
"scavengers Of the transition
from stagnation into the
modern world" Many rabid
Segregationists fall into this
category. Like dress, which
is our badge of lost inno-
cence, such hate is their sign
or mark of status. Compass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
WATCHING THE WORLD
By CROSBY S. MOVES
Foreign Correspondent Of The Stur
Peace Corps Girl Likes Shuqumu
Y CROSBY S. NO\
Foreign Correspondent Of The S,

Yoruba (the local tribal Ian
guage) and whenever I go
into a store they always say
Welcome"
Cynthia is housed by Sha-
gamu standards-and for
that matter by Peace Corps
standards some luxury at
the expense of the Nigerian
government. Her b e droo m
and sitting room are over a
store in one of the towns
larger buildings and one of
the few wired for electric
ity. There is a small kitchen
underneath. From her bed
room window she can see
about one-third of the screen
of the Indian movie theater
and there is no lack of dis
fractions.
The goats are a real prob
lem," she admits. For some
reason they never seem to
shut up and go to sleep.
And the people are the same
way. In every family there
seems to be at least one per-
son awake and making q
racket all night long"
Sleep or no sleep, Cynthia
must be on hand early every
morning to catch a ride to
school with one of the other
teachers who has a car. Crit
ically short on transporta-
ton, the Peace Corps pro-
vides cars only where they
are indispensable. The rest,
like Cynthia, beg rides where
ever they can get them.
Gets Warm Welcome
At the school itself she has
been cordially received. In an
education = hungry country
like Nigeria, where only 10
per cent of graduating pri-
mary students can find space
in a secondary school, any
graduate teacher-even one
who has never taught be-
fore-is assured a warm well
come.
We were all a little nerv-
GUS at first" Cynthia says.
1.-THE girls thought my &C
cent was pretty funny and
sometimes I couldn't under
stand them at all. But after
a few days things settled
down and I think it's going
to be all right"
Her Superiors in the Peace
Corps - the staff Of profess
SIGNALS responsible for
launching IS volunteers scat
tered over a country with an
area of $4,000 square miles
are inclined to agree. The
Peace Corps experiment, they
know, will be not better or
more successful than the
quality of the programs VOL
unteers their good sense,
good humor and their de-
termination to see the thing
through.
In any experiment of this
kind there are more than
enough headaches and prob
lens to go around. But when
it comes to Cynthia Berry
and others like her, the Peace
Corps in Nigeria is off to q
promising start.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
Intelligent Votinq

II q sixth grade level of
literacy is adequate for vot-
ing why not let sixth-graders
vote?
I am sure they would vote
for anyone who would prom
Use them free bubble gum.
They neither know nor care
that papa can buy it for them
directly without paying twice
as much for it through the
Federal Government.
But, to be less facetious,
in view Of the increasing
completely of the decisions
that must be made by our
elected leaders and the men
they appoint, it seems to me
that the educational qualifi-
cations for voting should be
raised instead of lowered.
An alternative would be
honest discussion of the real
issues by candidates, in un-
equivocal, simple and correct
English, instead of the rab-
ble-rousing, emotional ap-
peals to prejudice and selfish
personal interests that pre-
vailed in the last election.
AS to the Language barrier"
mentioned, what greater bar
rier is there? How can any
one who cannot understand
or use even simple basic Eng
lish have any understanding
of issues and/or which candi-
date supports which issue?
Eugene Burns B0strom.
Senators Mansfield and
Dirksen have really cooked
up a good one in the sug!
gested bill to replace liter
acy tests for voting by &C
knowledging a sixth-grade
education as sufficient quail
ification for the national
vote.
If this is a valid yard
stick, why not let all people,
regardless of age, who have
a sixth-grade education have
the vote? Or since all people
are created equal, and &C
cording to some liberals, seem
to remain equal. why not let
everyone from the cradle to
the grave have the vote? For
after all, if babies are to be
the recipients of the welfare
state, they might as well have
a say in how much they are
going to get.
No one who seriously pom
ders the rights of people to
vote will oppose sensible leg
islation to correct evils. But
literacy tests per Sc are a val
id restriction on the right to
vote. Should there be abuses,
wisdom would suggest cor
recting the abuses rather
than killing a valid concept.
Such demagogic and ir-
responsible proposals as now
put forth under the good
banner Of civil rights should
be recognized as ridiculous
from the start.
Edmund Barrett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-02
Sour on Milk

l am sure that many
mothers join me in expressing
a deep sense of shock at the
Presidents recent public
statements on behalf of the
milk industry. Now these
statements are appearing in
full page advertisements to
prove that "the milk supply
offers no hazards"
There must be hundreds of
doctors who would view with
alarm the statements about
cholesterol. Many scientists
will also be concerned about
the statements on radiation
hazard.
In a speech November 2,
1859, President Kennedy said,
while many competent
scientists agree that there has
been no great harm done to
mankind as a whole from the
amount of radiation created
by bomb tests so far, it is
also true that there is no
amount of radiation so small
that it has no i'll effects at
all on anybody. There is &C
tually no such thing as a
minimum permissible dose.
Perhaps we are talking about
only a very small number of
individual tragedies - the
number Of atomic-age chill
dren with cancer, the new
victims of leukemia, the dam
age to skin tissue here and
reproductive systems there
perhaps these are too small
to measure with statistics.
But they nevertheless loom
very large in human and
moral terms. Moreover, there
is still much that we do not
know-and too often in the
past we have minimized these
perils and shrugged aside
these dangers, only to find
that our estimates were
faulty and the real dangers
were worse than we knew"
In the face Of radioactive
strontium and other isotopes
present in milk from past
testing and increased
amounts expected this spring
as well as from our own
very likely testing, I feel that
it is false to say that the
milk supply offers no hazards.
The very real hazard existing
from past tests cannot be met
by the flippant gesture of
downing a glass Of milk. The
worse hazard in the future
cannot be shrugged off by
reaSsuring words.
Jeanne s. Bagby.