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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
INTERPRETIVE REPORT
Doctors Strike Issues
Not All Black and White

a SPECIAL session of the legiSla-
ture in November and pushed
through Mr.. Douglass health
scheme.
The doctors, who charged
they had not been given the
courtesy of examining the act
before it was introduced, fell
that drafting a health plar
before the final report of the
Thompson Committee was sub.
mitted was perfidious.
Doctors Supported
The governments politica
opponents. both liberal ant
Tory, have supported the doc
tors, mainly through Keep Oul
Doctors Committees which
have sprung up in almost ev.
cry city and village of conSe'
quence in Saskatchewan.
The passage Of the MedicarC
Act in Saskatchewan coincid-
ed closely with the formation
nationally of the NDP, a coali-
ton of the CCF and Labor or.
CARNATIONS.
Mr.. Douglas, with Canada s
first compulsory health insur-
ance plan "in his pocket" went
to the founding convention and
came home with the national
leadership of the NDP in his
other pocket. his opponents in
SiSt.
In Canada's federal election
in June, Mr.. Douglas-as lead
er of the NDP-campaigned fol
the parliamentary seat in the
Regina Riding constituency
1t ended in his first defeat
since he became Saskatche-
vans socialist premier in 1914
Mr.. Douglas readily blamed
the medicare issue for his de-
feat nationally, saying it was
a coalition of liberal and con-
sentative strength here that
beat him. He has refused tc
comment on the doctors strike
Opposition Takes Hope
But the political setback fol-
the wiry. little Baptist minister
topped by a strike that has
brought world attention to Sas-
katchewan and a rising anger
on the prairies where many Of
the people believe the govern.
ment is chasing their valuable
doctors away, has given the
government opposition a fresh
hope that North Americas first
experiment in socialism may
come to an end in the provinces
next election two years from
now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
Atlas E Fired

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calf, July IA (AP).-
An Atlas E intercontinental
missile. fired for developmental
purposes and to give crews
more experience. landed in the
ocean about 1000 miles away
Yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
MergersO Open D.C.Areo
To2 Baltimore Banks

upper MARLBORO when 1t merged
the old County Trust Co.
The other merger will give
First National of Maryland 90
offices. including the main Of
flee at Light and Redwood
streets in Baltimore, % others
in the Baltimore area and five
in Montgomery County at
Rockville. Kensington, Twin
Brook. Poolesville and CATH
erSburg.
Points to Growth
Commenting on the Mont
gomery County banking situa-
ton, Mr.. Saxon said Rockville
had grown from a quiet coun-
try town into a city of &c.
900, thriving on the viable local
economy of a county of which
the population had expanded
100 per cent in the last 10
years.
In recent years, from vari-
Gus causes, the banking struc-
ture of Montgomery County
has gradually acquired an i'm
balance that is not conducive
of the public interest or to a
healthy banking climate" he
declared.
Though IA banks now are
operating 80 offices in the
county, the fact that the $215
million Suburban Trust MAIN
tains IL of these facilities in
strategic locations gives it a
marked advantage over the
Others" he added.
Recent approval of Subur-
bans branch in Rockville now
projects its unequal advantage
within the city limits to the
disadvantage of the Rockville
banks, he said.
Mr.. Saxon also declared that
pending and prospective merger
and bank holding company ap-
plications of larger Virginia
banks clearly suggest the pos
Sibility of direct competition by
Virginia institutions in the Dis
trct of Columbia banking area.
Recalling that the District
Bankers Association recently
approved resolution expressing
interest in seeking proper legis-
lation to extend their competi-
ton into nearby Maryland and
Virginia sections, Mr.. Saxon
commented: That action by
the District banks comes very
late indeed"
Named Vice Presidents
Board Chairman Robert B.
Hobbs. of First National said
Richard F. Green, board chair
man of Farmers Banking, Win
ship I. Green. president of
Farmers Banking, and President
Irwin P. Trail of Gainesville
National will become vice presi-
dents of First National.
Directors of the Farmers
Banking and Gainesville Ma
tlonal will become members of
the advisory boards of First
National. Other officers and
employees of the two smaller in
situations will continue as
members of the First National
staff.
Commenting on his banks
Mr.. Hobbs said:
Farmers Banking and Trust is
a leading bank in the growing
Washington suburban section
OF Montgomery County.
This merger marks our first
effort to carry our banking
services outside of the Balti-
more Metropolitan Area. We
are pleased to have the OPP
portunity to do this in the
other of Maryland's two large
metropolitan areas. With these
two areas becoming more and
more a single metropolitan re-
gion. we believe this merger is
particularly advantageous"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
BY EARL III. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

HONG KONG.-"Tell Dean
Acheson the dust has settled
in Communist China" the
gray-haired diplomat said.
He referred, of course, to the
failure of the Communists in
Is years of supreme effort to
solve China's starvation prob
lens any more convincingly
than did Chang Kai-Shek.
The dust has settled enough
now so to be clear that China's
basic dilemma of too many
people and too little food is big
ger than either communism OF
Chang.
If the Communists ever DE-
lift China's living standards
to tolerable, goth century lev.
els it will be by non-Commu'
mist methods, according to al
the Sinologists here.
Let Dust Settle
When the then Secretary Of
State, Dean Acheson, stoutly
refused in 1947-49 to approve
massive aid to Chang Kai-shek
until he cleaned up his admin
istration, and when the COM
munists subsequently pushed
Chang off the mainland to
Formosa, Mr.. Acheson was said
to favor letting the dust set
tie"
What would have hap
pened," the anonymous diplo-
mat asked accidentally, "if the
United States had rushed in
with massive aid for Chiang?"
With the perspective of 13
years of Communist admins
tration in China, and with the
Judgment of a man who has
watched decisions being made
from a range of painful al
ternatives for a whole career in
diplomacy, he answered his own
question:
Speaking broadly, thre e
things could have happened. We
could have defeated the Com
munists for Chang with a mas
sive, costly effort. We could
have got begged down in a
long and extremely costly civil
war. Or we could have shared
defeat with Chang.
Could Have Gone Broke
Suppose the Reds were de-
feated. We could have become
so deeply involved in rebuild
ing China, in the impossible
task which now is battling the
Communists. that we might
have lost many other countries
to communism. Our gold out
flow crisis may have come upon
Us five or six years earlier. Our
world trade leadership might
have been lost, a world depreS-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
u. S. Vindicotion Seen
In Red Chimes Failure

sion might even have been pre-
cipitated. Uncle Sam could
easily have gone broke trying
to vitalize the 500 million to
600 million people of China.
I'VE probably would have
done better in China than
either Mao or Chang alone,
but that does not mean we
could have licked the problem.
IF we had succeeded in keep
ing China from going down the
drain, we might have foreseen
the consequences of trying to
bail China out. Then we might
very we'll have abandoned the
whole foreign aid ogram,
once the Marshall plan had put
Europe back on its feet.
Aid Shores Up Non Red Asia
But foreign aid now shores
up most of Communist
Asia against communism and
chaos or both. Communism
likely would have squirted out
in other parts of the world
which now are Communist.
1T is, of course, impossible
to say what might have been.
But things could have turned
out worse than they have.
I'VE need not even elaborate
on the consequences of getting
begged down on m a in ! a n d
China in a Mao-Chiang civil
war, or of going down to de-
feat with Chang. We probably
had the strength to prevent
either of those things happen
ing if we wanted to commit
the resources, the man and
materials. But the costs would
have posed the consequences
I have mentioned.
u. S. in a Bind on Aid
Even today our foreign aid
program has us in a bind. We
can't afford to end it, because
so much of the world depends
on it and because the Com
munistS are waiting to pick up
the pieces, if we do. And we
can't spend enough more to
lift these underdeveloped coun-
tries out of their troubles.
Never mind whether we can af-
ford it or not, which is a close
argument that might go either
way; Congress simply won't
spend that kind of money.
so we are caught there with
a steady SO billion to 81 bill
lion dollar drain on our own
economy. our gold reserves are
dropping. -.
But we are still prospecting.
And in this big, complicated
world, something else is likely
to turn up eventually to change
things. 1t always has"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
BY ALLAN BLANCHARD
Contributing Writer

REGINA, Saskatchewan. July
14.-One mistake that should
not be made in any assessment
of the Saskatchewan doctors
strike is to look at it as
black-and-white issue involving
only the pros and cons of COM
pulsory government health in
Surance.
The background of this Prov
ince'S present dilemma is full
of political innuendo and
stepped in an irrevocable dis
trust of the provinces Socialist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14

that the government was pre-
pairing a health program was
made by Tommy Douglas, then
Premier, but now leader of Can
ada's New Democratic Party.
Mr.. Douglas enunciated five
principles that he would fol-
low In preparing such a pro-
gram. One was that the health
plan must be acceptable tt
both doctors and patients. The
fact it was made law despite
their own diSapproval cause:
the doctors to question the
governments sincerity.
A second point of distrust
stems from the provincial cleo.
ton in June, 1860, in which
the only campaign issue wa!
Mr.. Douglas ompulsor )
health scheme. Mr.. Douglas
promised he would not intro
duce the medicare plan if he
did not receive 81 per cent Of
the popular vote.
Five parties competed fol
legislative seats in Saskatche-
wan-the governments Com
monwealth Cooperative Fed
Grafton, now the NDP and the
Liberal, Conservative, Social
Credit and Progressive Labor
(CommuniSt) Parties.
The CCF won only Al pei
cent of the vote, while the re-
mainder was split among the
others and several independent
candidates. However, the CCF
won IS of the SIS seats in the
legislature. The liberals took
the others.
Enactment Preceded Report
Meantime, in May, 1860, a
study commission, called the
Thompson Committee, was con-
voked by Mr.. Douglas to make
a long-term study into govern
ment health insurance and
make a recommendation into
it.
Included on the 12-man COM
mittee were three representa-
tives of the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons. One Of
them, DR.. Efstathios w. Ba-
rootes, of Regina, is considered
to be he key figure behind the
doctors present action.
Last September, the commit
tee issued an interim report in
support of a comprehensive
government health plan. How
ever, a minority dissenting re-
port was included by four OF
the members, including DR.. Ba-
rootes and the other represen-
tatives of the college.
report, the government called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14

a statement yesterday replying
to a petition presented Wed
nesday at a protest rally here
by the Saskatchewan Keep Oul
Doctors Committee. The COM
mittee had asked for Suspen-
sion of the Medical Care In
surance Act, which took effect
July /, to pave the way for q
negotiated settlement.
Mr.. Llyod said the committee
should urge doctors to resume
their duties to present
their views through normal
channels"
Pledge by Premier
The Premier renewed a pledge
to continue the sincere eff.
forts of the government to Sc.
cure a satisfactory settlement
with the College of Physicians
and Surgeons"
Once again he reiterated the
governments willingness to cal
an early session of the legisla-
ture to institute changes pre-
viously indicated by the gov.
eminent and to write into the
act some procedures now con-
tanned in the regulations. This
early session would depend or
the doctors resuming normal
practice.
IF all doctors were to resume
normal practice tomorrow, they
could, if they so chose to do
work entirely outside and apart
from the medical care insur-
ance plan," he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

rency, James j. Saxon, sprang
a surprise on Washington area
bankers yesterday by an
nouncing approval of mergers
which will bring together Rock
vile, Md, banks with Baltimore
banks.
The Controller had indicated
previously that he would hold
hearings on plans to merge the
Montgomery County National
Bank with Maryland National
Bank, and to combine the
Farmers Banking and Trust OF
Rockville and Gainesville Ma
tional with First National OF
Maryland. These mergers can
become effective on or after
July 20, he announced.
The mergers had beer
strongly opposed by other
banks in the suburban Wash
ington area and had beer
frowned on by some Washing.
ton bankers. The invasion Of
Baltimore banks will bring q
revolutionary change in the
competitive banking situation
of the entire Washington area.
Both mergers previously were
proved by directors and stock
holders. Both will be accom-
plished through exchanges of
stock.
Sees Effect on ID. C.
In announcing his decision,
Mr.. Saxon conceded that entry
of the two Baltimore banks
into Montgomery County will
have a "pervaSive impact on
banks in the District of Co.
lumbia and in the entire rele-
want trade area which now
realistically stretches from
Washington to Baltimore"
However, he said an imbal-
ance had developed in the
banking structure of Montgom-
cry County with Suburban
Trust Co. overshadowing other
institutions.
He added that while Wash
ington banks have long wanted
legislation to permit them to
serve the adjoining Maryland
Virginia suburban sections,
they had failed to use the
bank holding company vehicle
or affiliate-Satellite banking to
accomplish this.
Also conceding that the mer-
ger approval permitting large
out-of-town banks to replace
the last small local banks does
not square easily with his con-
cept of balanced banking. Mr..
Saxon said the rapid growth
of Montgomery County and
especially the Rockville section
demanded more adequate bank
ing facilities.
Unites $619 Million
The Montgomery County Ma
tional merger with Maryland
National the States largest
bank, will raise the latter's to-
tai assets to more than $619
million.
Stockholders of Montgomery
County National will receive
two shares of Maryland Ma
tional for each of their shares.
Merger of Farmers Banking
and Trust and Gainesville Ma
tional with First National will
increase the latter's assets to
more than $3.50 million.
Holders of Farmers Banking
will receive three shares of
First National for each of their
shares now held. Holders of
Gainesville National will receive
512 shares for each share now
owned.
Other Branches Asked
After its merger, the Mary
land National will have 66 Of
fees, 35 of them in the Balti-
more Metropolitan Area, 90 in
IL counties of the Eastern Shore
and other Maryland counties
and two in Rockville, Mont
gomery County, it was an
by Board Chairman
Hooper S. Miles.
Also pending before the Con-
troller is Maryland Nationals
application for three additional
offices in Montgomery Coun-
ty, including sites in both Sill
YER Spring and Bethesda. Last
year it acquired an office at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14

Mr.. bloncnoro IS Q StoII WIlIeI TOT tue
Detroit News.
government by the doctors and
businessmen.
The doctors, who insist We
hemently that they are not
striking but exercising only the
prerogative of free men to close
up their businesses and go else
where, say they have met the
obligations of their profession
by providing free service at the
especially designated emergen-
cy centers scattered about the
province.
Charge Duplicity
This having been done, the
doctors union" the Saskatch-
evan College of Physicians and
Surgeons, has taken an ada
mant position against the gov
eminent, which they accuse of
duplicity and arrogance. Be-
cause of past actions by the
government and its leaders, the
doctors will accept no compro-
mise, except one including the
revamping by the legislature OF
the Saskatchewan Medical Care
Act medicare).
They want elimination OF
clauses which they feel, by am
biguity, give dictatorial controls
over the medical profession to
the medical care commission
set up to administer the act.
The college will not accept
the suggestion by the govern
ment that changes in the act
might be written into law il
the doctors return to work. The
distrust by the doctors is such
that nothing will sway them
now but the suspension of the
act and its rewriting.
Began in 1859
The attitude of the physi-
clans swings back to 1859 when
the first public announcement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
Compromise
Bill on Sugar
Is Signed

President Kennedy has signed
into law a sugar bill that pro-
vides for a gradual scaling down
of the premiums paid on i'm
ported sugar.
The bill extends sugar legiS-
lation in effect since 1884, hat
with some significant changes.
The $56-a-ton premium,
which is passed on to the con-
sumner in the form Of higher
prices. will be reduced 10 per
cent a year pending congress
sional review in 1864.
Domestic producers share of
the United States market will
be increased from SIS to so pei
cent.
Quota Readjusted
The old import quota is re-
adjusted to provide for the
purchase of 1905, 900 tons from
"a foreign Sugar-producing
countries, plus a special allo-
cation for the Philippines.
A reserve of 1885, 900 tons
for Cuba will be set aside for
ALLEGATION to the Caribbean
country if it should overturn
its Communist government
Meanwhile, this sugar will be
bought from other countries
at the world price.
The bill is considered a COM
promise because it stands be-
tween Mr.. Kennedy'S recon-
mendations and the old sys.
tenn. The President wanted
the quotas eliminated and the
Cuban reserve set at 2,580,00C
tons.
Clears Both Houses
The bill passed the House
June 80 and cleared the Sen
ate July 2. Actually, the United
States was without sugar legis-
lation from June 30, the enc
of the 1862 fiscal year, unit
yesterday, when Mr.. Kennedy
signed the extension.
Monday the House is ex-
pected to act on an after.
thought amendment to give
Mr.. Kennedy authority to allot
more sugar quotas to Other
hemisphere nations at the pre-.
MUM price. The Senate gave
its approval July 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14
Holds to Power

The conservative dominated
Parliament has been reluctant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14

Mr.. BIonehord is q stoff writer for the
Detroit News.
Evening star., 1962-08-20
Gendurmes Track
Legion Deserters

AJACCIO. Corsica, Aug. 20
AP). Police reinforcements
from Paris are helping organ
ize searches in Corsica for MANY
OF the So. Foreign Legionaires
who have deserted In the last
month.
The company Of 70 national
police was brought from France
to bolster the local gendarm-
erie against o wave Of shootings
and robberies blamed on For
eign Legion deserters.
OF the So deserters since the
corps moved its headquarters
from Algeria. one has been
killed, about 20 have reached
Italy, and several others are
believed to have drowned try
ing to swim or boat to Italian
islands.
Evening star., 1962-08-20

says it would permit farmers
to choose between a two-year
extension of the present stop
gap voluntary system or the
domestic allotment plan now in
the Senate bill.
Senator Russell, meanwhile,
served notice he wants cotton
farmers Ito get some Of the
same treatment going to the
corn and grain farmers" To
accomplish this he said he
plans to offer amendments
permitting cotton farmers to be
paid on implanted acreage
allotments.
Evening star., 1962-08-20
By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press Writer


The use Of satellites to blast
targets on earth with nucleal
explosive is technically feasible
the Air Force is advised BY
some Of its weapons system
scientists.
This view. expressed to both
the Air Force send to a congress
slonal committee, was stated
before the latest demonstration
OF Soviet satellite skill in the
precision launching and land
ing OF twin, manned satellites
But new interest fastens on
II today in light of two develop
ments:
l. The Russian feat, with a
following warning from Soviet
Defense Minister Rodiov Ma
nnovSky to "let our enemies
know what techniuues and
what soldiers our Soviet power
has at is disposal"
2. The reported belief of
Defense Secretary Mcnamara
that, at this time, there is no
requirement or application of
q military man-in-space pro-
gram. Mr.. Mcnamara believes
that the United States military
space program does not need
revision because of the Russian
twin-Satellite demonstration.
No Defense Seen
Senator Cannon, Democrat
OF Nevada. said, meanwhile,
that the United States stands
defenseless against attacks that
could come from orbiting Rus
sian space vehicles.
By placing the major en-
phasis Of its space efforts on
scientific exploration and ci-
villain applications, it may be
offering the Soviet Union the
opportunity of IAN enormous
and possibly insurmountable
military advantage" Senator
Cannon said in a speech pre-
pared for Senate delivery.
Il see no evidence that there
Is a national, authoritative in
tent to accelerate the earliest
practicable development of ur-
gently needed military (space)
capabilities" he said.
Where, for example, is the
necessary project to develop a
means Of intercepting, inspect
ing and destroying, II neces-
sary, hostile satellites that
could bear super : megaton
BOMBS down on us?"
Raps Delay
Senator Cannon, a brigadier
general and jet pilot in the Air
Force Reserve, said such a de-
velopment program, although
advocated by the military SER
vices, has been specifically de-
layed by civilian officials of the
Defense Department. He did
not name t officials.
ITO the sSt of my knowl-
edge" Sel.ator Cannon said,
mo defense whatever exists
at this time against any mill
tary attack that might be made
from the space region even
though such attacks are within
the present capability Of the
Soviet Union"
1t is possible that Mr.. Nc
Mariana, in referring to a "re-
quirement." uses the term In
the specific definition Of the
military. rather than intending
an acroSs-the-board rejection