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The Sidney herald., 1962-05-09

FOR MOTHERS DAY SELECT
A GIFT FROM LANVIN COLO
GNES AT THE NEW SIDNEY
DRUG STORE. YOUR CHOICE
OF ARPEGE. SCANDAL, MY SIN
IN COLOGNES. MISTS AND
PERFUMES. SELECT A GIFT
TODAY AND HAVE 1T GIFT
WRAPPED FOR MOTHERS DAY
AT THE NEW SIDNEY DRUG
STORE. l7-ltc
The Sidney herald., 1962-05-09
CARD OF THANKS

We would like to thank our
children, relatives and friends for
helping us to celebrate our 50th
wedding anniversary. The beau
tiful cards and gifts, all were
greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Obergfell
nd.
The Sidney herald., 1962-05-09

OVER 100 NEW TIMEX WRIST
WATCHES JUST ARRIVED AT
THE NEW SIDNEY DRUG
STORE. ALL PRICES AND Sc
LECTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM.
l7-ltc
The Sidney herald., 1962-05-09

MOTHERS DAY IS THIS SUN
DAY. SURPRISE HER WITH a
BOX OF FRESH SHOWERS OR
WhlTEMAN'S CHOCOLATES
AND A BEAUTIFUL CARD
FROM TURNER DRUG OR
HOTEL PHARMACY. IT-Ifc
Evening star., 1962-01-11

dependent to $500 across the board.
This would mean higher taxes for per-
sons without dependents and for fam
lilies with less than two children. The
increases would produce an estimated
SIT million in additional revenue.
Meanwhile, the present taxes on whis-
key, wine, beer and tobacco products
would be continued, to garner more
than $50 million. The Governor esti-
mated total revenue, under the revised
program, at $5793 million, or more than
enough to cover the general fund outlay
(estimatedD of $578 million.
What the General Assembly finally
approves will depend in large measure
on the attitude of Mr. Almonds sue
cessor as Governor, Albertis S. Har-
riSon, jr., who takes office next Satur-
day. Since the Governor ELECT has said
he favors withholding tax, however,
the prospects of passage of such a
plan appear good. The incoming ad-
ministration may propose changes in
the budget that would boost expendi-
lures and call for still higher revenues.
So the sales tax still cannot be ruled
out of the revenue picture-nor should
it be if Virginia is to improve services
and build new or expanded facilities as
recommended by various legislative and
other committees and groups.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Federal City Booster

Having spent so many years here
in prominent public posts, Gordon Gray
has come to know and admire Wash
ington with an understanding and in
tereSt matching those of a native of
the city. The Federal City Council has
chosen wisely, therefore, in electing
him as it's president. He is we'll quail
fled to provide leadership for the coun-
cils programs for improvement of the
National Capital. He succeeds another
effective city booster, William C. Foster,
who resigned to become director of the
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
George A. Garrett, chairman of the
council, meanwhile had been acting
president.
Mr.. Gray first entered the Federal
service here in 1947, when he was
made Assistant Secretary of the Army.
He became Secretary of the Army two
years later and afterwards served as
president of the University of North
Carolina and as special assistant to
President Eisenhower. President Ken
nedy last year appointed him to the
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
During all his local assignments Mr..
Gray evidenced deep interest in eff
forts to make Washington a better
city in which to live and work. He
has stressed his belief that the city
should be model capital-a goal to-
ward which he can work effectively as
head of the forward-looking council.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Aimed at Tax Evoders

Having been rebuffed in a previous
attempt to have Virginia adopt sales
tax, outgoing Governor Lindsay Almond
has proposed income tax reforms which
not only would raise the tax for many
persons but would, for the first time,
bring in millions from State income
tax evaderS One of the arguments
made for the sales tax was that it
would get at many who ought to be
paying income taxes to the State but
who manage to escape by failing to file
returns. There is no system now for
checking up on such frauds. To meet
this problem, the Governor has recon-
nlended a Withholding plan, under
which he estimated that an additional
$6.2 million of revenue could be OBJ
tained. Like the sales tax proposal
the withholding idea is controversial,
being opposed by some business inter
eSts. However, the General Assembly
will have to face up to the States fl
nancial dilemma resulting from rising
costs of public services and facilities
In this crisis, even the discarded
sales tax deserves further consideration.
In his final message to the Legis-
lature, Governor Almond served notice
of the need for record expenditures
during the current biennium-necessi-
tating record amounts of revenue. In
addition to the withholding plan he
urged change in personal income tax
exemptions from ST 900 for each tax
payer and spouse and 5000 for each
Evening star., 1962-01-11
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Cancer Research Progress Report III
By THOMAS r. HENRY

munology, virology, genetics
and biochemistry - have be-
gun to converge" DR.. Hors-
fall says. THE formal lines
between them no longer are
clearly distinguishable and
investigators in these once
widely separated fields utilize
materials, techniques and in
Struments that 10 years ago
they either had no interest in
or had not heard of. They
have come to speak a COM
mon language.
THE common denominator
in this outstanding advance
is a complex and fascinating
substance known as nucleic
acid. 1t is, so far as anyone
can tell, the essential materi-
al of the chromosome (unit
of heredity) and the chemi-
cal basis of the gene itself.
1T appears to be the gov
ernor and guide of both Gel
lular activity and cellular her
edity - whether of simple
one-celled organisms or of
the cells that make up the
tissues of complex living
things. Its unique powers are
attributable to specific Sc
quences of chemical struc-
lures in the very complex
molecule. ="
May Be Longest Step
Cancer is a malfunctioning
of the tissue cell and discov-
cry of the significance of the
nucleic acid has brought
about a far clearer under
standing of the normal cell
functioning, so that slight
departures from it can be de-
tected.
This, of course, is a long
way from a cancer cure" but
it may we'll turn out to be
the longest step in the direc-
ton yet taken.
Cancer would appear" says
DR.. Horsfall, ito be a perma-
nent hereditary change at the
cell level. Mutations now are
thought to be the result of
changes in the chemical Sc
quenceS of nucleic acids in
the hromoS o. m e S. Such
changes presumably can be
caused by rare accidents dur
ing cellular reproduction, by
exposure to X-rays or ultra
violet light, or by a number
of chemical compounds. All
have been found to induce
cancer in animals. These
findings lead inevitably to
the concept that cancer, no
matter what the inducing
agent. is ultimately the re-
suit Of an internal change m
the nucleic acid of the -f-
fectedCells."
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Postal Deficit

Regarding your editorial,
"The True Postal Deficit" it
is unfortunate that The Star
did not more carefully check
the facts of this situation. If
you had, I do not believe you
would have fallen for the
propaganda line that is being
aggreSSively promoted by
those who want the general
taxpayer, rather than the
mail user, to pay a substan-
tial part of expenses of the
postal service.
You indicate in the editorial
that few persons realize the
variety and extent of the
non-poStal services rendered
by the Nations post offices.
Then, you accept an estimate
of $3.50 million as a fair value
of these services which should
not be charged to the postal
service.
To make up the $3.50 mil
lion, you enumerate such
things as keeping tab on reg
istered aliens, distributing
census and income tax forms,
handling civil service exami-
nations, selling Government
bonds, performing cuStodial
services to Sundry agencies
and some miscellaneous other
services.
This sounds like a lot of
extra 'curricular" duties, and
this is just what those pro-
noting this propaganda line
want the public to believe.
However, if you look at
Exhibit &c of the Post Of
flee Departments cost ascer-
tainment report, 1860, you
will see that the department
is fully reimbursed by other
agencies of the Government
for most of these services, in
Guiding alien address report
ing and distributing census
and income tax forms, and
that it shows a profit on its
sale of Government bonds.
The department is not paid
for conducting civil service
examinations or for some GUS
todial service in public build
ings occupied jointly with
other Government agencies.
However, the cost of these
services is reported amount
ing to somewhat over SIG
million. This is a far cry
from $3.50 million. In addition,
the department asked Con-
gress for reimbursement for
this work, but when the
appropriations committees
found that the Post Office
Department receives more
free service from other Gov
ernment agencies than it
gives, they said no.
Eliminating our huge and
persistent postal deficit is ex-
tremely important from a
fiscal as well as an equity
standpoint. However, this OBJ
jective will not be improved
by pretending that a large
part of the deficiv does not
exist. The real question is
whether the users of the
mails pay for it or the over
burdened taxpayer.
W ID Q
Evening star., 1962-01-11
THE POLITICAL MILL
Foreign Trade Knottiest Problem
By GOULD LINCOLN

OF all the proposals which
President Kennedy will urge
upon Congress in his state
of-the-Union message today,
none will receive closer scru-
tiny than the recommenda-
ton that the Chief Executive
be granted power to extend
more freely international
trade agreements resulting
in lower tariff duties-than
the present Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act permits. For,
bound up in the proposal may
be life or death for some
American industries. One of
these is the textile industry
which has been called sec
ond only to steel in essen
tiality for defense" There are
many others that can be hard
hit, too.
The Presidents recommen-
dations relating to freer
trade have not been spelled
out in detail. Until they
have them. Chairman Wilbur
D. Mills of the House Ways
and Means Committee and
Chairman Harry Flood Byrd
of the Senate Finance Com
mittee are unlikely to COM
init themselves, beyond prom
Using the President to give
their close attention.
1t is no secret that SEN
ator Byrd regards the admin
istration's proposals - which
may look to direct United
States dealing with the Eu-
ropean Common Market-aS
the most momentous ques-
ton which has come before
his committee. Senator Byrd
always has been sympathetic
to the principle of reciprocal
trade agreements and to freer
trade thereby. He was able
to put through the Senate
the most recent extension of
the Trade Agreements Act
for a four-year period which
ends June 80.
Although the approaching
end of the four-year period
does not mean that the trade
agreements already made will
die Con the contrary, they
will not), it does focus
strongly on the need of some
new trade legislation.
Something Must Be Done
The administration has be-
come convinced that some
thing must be done quickly to
make the United States able
to compete for international
trade, particularly to COM
pete with a growing Euro
pean Common Market, which
Britain appears to be on the
verge of joining. But how far
it should go is the question
that is stirring not only men,
bers of Congress but also the
industries themselves, includ-
ing workers who might find
themselves legislated out of
jobs. A spokesman for the
administration, Undersecre-
tary of State George w. Ball,
has put it this way: "The
problem is to find a way to
shift American manpower as
swiftly and painlessly as pos
sible out of the industries
which cannot stand up to
foreign competition into those
which have stood the test"
This statement has made
some leaders of American in
dustry see red. Floyd w. JEFF
ferson of New York, chair
man of the board of the
Iselin-Jefferson Co., Inc, and
chairman of the Executive
Committee of Dan River Mills
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Aid for Aqed

Many thoughtful, non-
partisan students of medical
economics wish our President
we'll in his coming battle for
more humane health security
goals and policies for our
aged, who have ceased to be
self supporting. He must
fight for the possible. And,
in any battle for the possible,
the wise leader excludes all
avoidable liabilities, whose
conspiracy makes victory i'm
possible. There are two null
lifying potentials blocking
our Presidents progress
toward solvent social justice
in the healing arts: First,
permitting our A m erican
Medical Association to i'm
pose its definition of So
cialized medicine upon pub
lie acceptance. Our President
should make the distinction
between privilege which
shares wealth and profits as
long as the health risk is
solvent. When the risk be-
comes inSolVent or unprofit-
able, then our ANA agrees,
the coverage of such risks.
is the business of the state.
Our President could nullify
ANA intransigence by en-
phaSizing social medicine -
the solvent sharing Of COM
mon health security burdens
by Nation wide nonprofit
enterprise.
The second nullifying po-
tential is the Presidents will
ingness to allow the cynical.
Self-serving monopoliStS in
organized labor to Sanctify
the economic sophiStry. Doc
tors are not workers and they
do not have the right of all
other manpower groups, to
bargain collectively for fair
wages and acceptable work
ing conditions. If our Pres
ident wants the possible in
health security, it would be
well to tell both our ANA
and organized labor: This is
for all the people, without
privilege or prejudice.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Transit Cushion

At the time OF the last
transit fare hearing, con-
sumers' groups objected to
the excessive accrual of $40
million over 10 years for re-
moving streetcar tracks. 1t
was apparent at that time
from the testimony of the
director of the Department of
Highways that the removal
would not cost nearly that
much through fiscal year
1866. 1t now appears that
the total expense will fall
considerably short of the &C
crual since some of the
tracks will not ever have to
be taken up.
Engineer Commissioner
Clarke suggests (The Star,
December 81 that this saw
ing (from excessive fares) go
into service to customers or
to avoid a fare increase in
future years. There is a
marked distinction between
these two items which mem
bers of a rate-making COM
mission should keep in mind.
Providing proper service is
an obligation of the COM
pany, and the mpany
should be required to provide
this from reasonable earn
ings. The equipment to as
sure it is a capital expense
item, not an operating eX-
pense chargeable as such to
the fare-payers. Providing
proper service should not be
dependent on a windfall from
previous overcharges.
The suggestion that the
reserve be used to avoid fu-
ture fare increases is on more
solid ground and seems to
us to be a reasonable use.
Thus it could serve as a
cushion against future in
crhases in operating expenses
such as labor costs. From the
recent record earnings state
ment, it would not appear
that the use of such reserve
is exactly imminent.
Alfred S. Trask,
Chairman, Public Utilities
Committee, Friendship Citi-
zenS Association.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Speaker of the House

1t Is appropriate, as new session of
Congress turns to the Nations legislative
business, to paraphrase an old common
place that the more things change, the
more they are the same. For while
there have been changes of moment
on Capitol Hill since the lawmakers
recessed last year, it is certain that the
time-tested processes of writing the
legislative record-including the proc
eSses of applying political skills and
influence at the centers of power-will
have their usual controlling Importance.
Among the changes, of course the
foremost is the election of Representa-
tive John w. Mccormack of Massachu-
SettS as Speaker of the House, succeeding
the late Sam Rayburn. Much has been
written about Mr.. McCormack's qualifi-
cations for the post and about his
prospects in an office considered second
only to the Presidency in political
power and prestige. Attention has been
directed, for example, to the fact that
Mr.. Mccormack is the first Roman
catholic to become Speaker, and at a
time when the Nation has its first
Roman Catholic President. Mentioned
often has been an old Bay State political
rivalry between Mr.. Mccormack and
President Kennedy, with implication
that this may impair their executive
legislative relationship. Contrasts have
been drawn between the personality
and skillS of Mr.. Rayburn and those of
MFR. Mccormack.
However germane these questionings
might be, Mr.. McCormack-at 10 years
OF age and with more than 33 years
OF service in the House-still has
credentials to fit his new post. He has
learned his politics in professional
schools, in Boston and Washington. He
has learned the mechanics of party
leadership through long service as
Democratic whip and Democratic leader
IN the House, and always, it might be
ADDED, in close association with Mr.
Rayburn. In a party that considers
itself progressive, his voting record fits
that label. The fact that he was un-
SA1oAASAA6Cu W1OA4111 party Lille
Speakership reflects strength, even if
not necessarily unanimous approval.
His curt dismissal of the idea of a
Democratic policy committee" indicates
that he has no intention of accepting a
dilution of Speakers power, any more
than did Mr.. Rayburn or other strong
figures in that office. Presumably, he
had an influential voice in picking two
respected party lieutenants, Represent
ative Carl Albert of Oklahoma as
majority leader and Representative Hale
Boggs of Louisiana as Democratic whip.
When the legislative record of the
session is completed, no doubt it will
show the marks of this House leadership
team. If the results are not fully
satisfying to either the extreme liberals
or the extreme conservatives, this will
be neither unusual nor necessarily
harmful to the national welfare.
Evening star., 1962-01-11

Any honest, experienced
science reporter dislikes to
write about cancer cures"
Claims to such are made
now and then by reputable
scientists attached to reputa-
BILE institutions in reputable
journals. But always they rest
on a few cases. Invariably
they prove unfounded in a
short time, although some
may represent short steps
ahead.
Some day, in all likelihood.
there will be a break" This
is an age of breaks" 1t will
be part of the scientific eX-
plosion of our times which
has brought space ships, elec-
tronic computers, anti-biotics
and amelioration of all NAL
aides except the heaven-or-
dained one of eventual hu-
man mortality.
Progress Slow
But at present, maligant
growths, which seem increas-
ing in frequency, constitute
about the greatest mystery in
the whole mysterious phe-
nomenon of life. Some prog
ress is being made along var
ious lines of research-but, at
the best, with rather discour-
aging slow progress. The real
picture appears nowhere more
clearly than in the just is
sued biennial report of the
Sloan-Kettering Institute for
Cancer Research where near
ly TOO scientists and techni-
clans, among them many of
the most skilled in the world,
are giving all their time to
cancer investigations. They
are probing all the dark cor
ners of malignancy. They are
making some solid progress
in many lines-but are far
from achieving, or claiming,
a cure" for anything.
The effects of hundreds of
chemicals are being tested on
all sorts of people. Occasion
ally one seems to have some
slightly beneficial effect.
Then comes the difficult re-
search of finding out why the
effect was brought a b ou t
Even the slightest indications
are scrupulously followed up.
The researchers at least in
the past few years seem to
have come out of a tangled
wilderness onto what seems a
broad highway in cancer re-
search, says DR.. Frank L.
Horsfall, director of the In
Stitute. Nobody as yet knows
where it will lead.
Many currents of research
activity - particularly in the
disciplires of cytology, i'm
Evening star., 1962-01-11
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IL
letters carry WriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used 1DiH be
returned only 1Dhen accom-
panied By self > addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Agreement in Bonn

verSationS with President Kennedy in
Bermuda, British Prime Minister Mac
milan now has had day-long meeting
with West German Chancellor Adenauer
in Bonn, and the results apparently
have been fruitful both for their own
countries and for the Atlantic alliance
as a whole
At any rate, Mr.. Macmillan himself
has said that he feels really very
satisfied" with what he and the Chan
cellor have accomplished in discussing a
wide variety of economic, political and
military problems, including particularly
the Soviet manufactured Berlin crisis.
BY way of example, from the Prime
Minister'S viewpoint, not the least i'm
portant gain from the talks is the fact
that Dr. Adenauer has agreed to buy
arms from Britain on a scale of con-
siderable magnitude. AS explained in
the joint communique, this will relieve
the foreign exchange burden on the
United Kingdom resulting from the
maintenance of British forces" in West
Germany
AS for Berlin, the Chancellor and
Prime Minister, having in mind United
States Ambassador Thompson's explor-
atory talks with Foreign Minister Gro
myko in Moscow, have voiced agreement
that "the effort to find out whether a
basis for negotiation with the Soviet
Union exists should be pursued" At the
same time, however, they have re-
affirmed their determination, in concert
with the other allied powers principally
concerned, to maintain the Western
position in the city and ito defend the
freedom and viability of West Berlin"-a
stand which has the full backing OF
President de Gaulle of France, though
he takes decidedly dim view of moves
to negotiate with Soviet Premier Khru-
Shchev under present conditions.
In its own way, in what it thus has
to say about upholding Berlins freedom,
and in its reference to such other
matters as "the strengthening of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
the Adenauer- Macmillan communique
serves as an answer to the "memoran-
dunn" Moscow addressed to Bonn last
OcCcIIlUer ~. LII contrast TO UIle torrents
of prior propaganda vilifying West Ger
many as a hotbed of revenge-Seeking,
warmongering, neo-Nazi militarists, this
strange document sympathizes with the
people of the Federal Republic as victims
of an American and allied conspiracy
to make them dissipate their strength
in an arms race, and it goes on to argue
that if their country would only with
draw from NATO and become "neu-
trail" it would prosper and be happy as
never before, enjoying, among other
things, an "ocean-sized" Soviet market
for it's goods
Both London and Bonn have been
quick to brand all this for what it
really is-a blatant attempt to lure the
West Germans away from the Atlantic
alliance and thus make them acutely
vulnerable to an eventual Communist
take-over. AS the joint communique
has plainly indicated, however, these
free people, having had the Soviet stick
brandished at them repeatedly, are not
likely now to be enticed by any such
Soviet carrot
Evening star., 1962-01-11

prejudice that he warrants
a lasting memorial:
Ode to the Marine Colo
mel" who has bestowed sec
ond-class citizenship on all
civil servants with the gentle
ness and tact that are the
singular marks of his craft:
Sputter, Sputter, little birdie,
How we wonder what you
are!
Sputter. sputter, how we
wonder
Why the brides not a star!
Nip Wilson.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Looks to Spires

That was a good start for
the year - that column in
Spires of the Spirit in the
first Sunday Star in 1862. It
brought timely and impress
sive guidance for personal
living through the year ahead.
Week by week I am grate-
full to your paper for pub
fishing this column distin-
guished by the literary crafts
manship and spiritual insight
of DR.. Frederick Brown Har-
ris. And this may be as good
a time as any to say so.
w. Earl Ledden,
Bishop, the Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1962-01-11
Likes Art Criticism

I blush for the painters
whose weak work has fallen
under Frank Getlein's eye.
Some Of us are laughing
ourselves silly over the imi-
tative affectations in paint
ings being shown. Mr.. Get
lein's column is like a pierre
ing, sweeping cold wind
through a perfumed room.
Let's have more please, ex-
actly as he sees it.
Frances T. TrammelI.