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Evening star., 1962-04-20
Committee Votes
Satellite Bill
BY the Associated Press

The House Commerce Com
mittee approved yesterday a
communications satellite bill
very close to the version worked
out in a Senate committee.
Chairman Harris, Democrat
of Arkansas, said there were no
votes against the bill but sew
eral members had some reserva-
tions. Representative Moss,
Democrat of California, notified
Mr.. Harris that he intended to
file separate views with the
committee report.
The bill, as approved retains
the private, profit making
character of the proposed
Satellite Communications Cor
poration as advocated by the
Kennedy administration.
Stock would be split so per
cent for communications COM
panies and so per cent for the
public and foreign companies
Shares would cost 500. The
administration originally hao
suggested a $1,000-a- share
price.
Evening star., 1962-04-20
Ribicoff Prods States
On Schooling Help

Secretary Of Welfare Ribicoff
has urged State welfare agen-
cies to assure education and
job training for children sup
ported by public assistance
programs.
He said that at his direction
the Bureau of Family Services
has sent to State agencies
which administer the aid to
dependent children a formal
letter urging the special ef-
forts.
The objective Of having pub
lie welfare agencies take more
responsibility for assuring edu-
cational opportunities to needy
children was announced by Mr.
Ribicoff January 90 at a meet
ing Of State welfare admins
traitors.
The letter asks the State
agencies to:
/. Keep informed about the
current educational status and
progress for each school-age
child.
Evening star., 1962-04-20
DAVID LAWRENCE
Opinions Versus Economic Facts

heard President Kennedy's
glib presentation on televi-
sion will not get these facts.
AS to whether the investors
have shared in the ''produc-
tivity" formula, the PreSi-
dents comment Is also mis-
leading. The profits Of the
primary iron and steel in
dustry-according to Security
and Exchange Commission
reports-were at 4.58 per cent
of sales in 1861. But the
1947-60 average was 6.14
per cent, or "a per cent above
1861.
Now, as to the splitting of
the stock of U. S. Steel, Mr..
Kennedy neglected to point
out that. if anyone bought
one share of U. S. Steel stock
in 1859 at the market price
of S108. he now has a stock
worth about $64 and has lost
40 per cent of his investment.
He has gained nothing at
all cut of the productivity"
formula.
Perhaps the most confus-
ing comment was the Presi-
dents statement that "if you
could get the capacity of steel
up to IS or 80 per cent, you
would have a $500 million in
crease in their profits at
present prices"
Mr.. Kennedy got mixed up
between production and ca
pacity. The capacity" of the
steel mills is relatively un-
changed, but the proportion
of total capacity actually
used by the industry isn't 60
ing to get up to 85 or 80 per
cent at any time in the near
future. Also, if prices are
maintained at the current
level for the total production
being forecast for 1862, the
steel companies will have a
decrease in profits per ton
in the remainder of the year
due to the heavier expenses
they now face.
So the truth is the steel
stockholders in recent years
have not shared in the pro-
ductivity gains at all, while
labor-which has had three
wage increases In four years
has gotten virtually all of
the productivity benefits. Yet
this isn't what the President
told the American people in
his public statements to the
press and over radio and tele-
vision.
(Copyright, 1882
Evening star., 1962-04-20
U. 5. Output
Hits sNew Peak
BY the Associated Press

The Nations output of goods
and services reached a new
peak annual rate of $549 bill
lion in the first three months
of 1862, President Kennedy's
Council of Economic Advisers
has estimated.
However, this figure was
somewhat below earlier pro-
jections by the council. 1t was
published yesterday in Eco
nomic Indicators" put out each
month by the Senate-House
Economic Committee.
The $549-billion total, If 1t
proves accurate, would repre-
sent a $6.8-billion increase over
the gross national product rate
in the last quarter of 1861.
Three of the four components
making up the gross product
showed gains in the first quarter
1862 estimates.
Personal consumption expen-
ditures were figured at 1852
billion, as compared with $348.4
in the last three months of
1861; gross private domestic in
vestment was placed at SITS
billion, compared with $76.6
billion: and Government pur-
chases Of goods and services
were listed at $115.5 billion
compared with $113.2 billion.
Net exports of goods and
services were estimated at 81
billion, the same as in the
fourth quarter last year.
In another economic report,
the Commerce Department said
average family income in the
United States increased by
$3.50 last year to $1,000. The
gain was smaller than in 1860.
Announcing these figures
yesterday, the department said
that If increased living costs
are taken into account, real
income rose by 500 in 1861.
Since 1947, the average
family income has risen by
$2,890 or 10 per cent. The ad-
vance amounts to $3.50,
Evening star., 1962-04-20
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

United States personal income at a record high the
Government reports Democrats hope you'll thank
thatand also for not bringing up the bleak subject of
personal outgo
Agriculture officials fired for taking suits from a Texas
financier in odor at the White House-for
not insisting on two-buton suits.
After fight with Big Steel the Kennedy administra-
ton rumored ready issue complaint against manufac
turers who call it stainless steel"
Mans progress may have been slow in the last 5000
but look at the female spring hats will
you that woman's has been slower
Historical notes: 1776Taxaton without representation
is tyranny 1962-Taxaon with representation
Evening star., 1962-04-20

2. Include school expenses in
State standards for aid pay
ments and make sure that each
child is fed. clothed, and shell
tered so that he can attend
school regularly.
3. Help families carry out a
formal education or vocational
training plan according to each
child's capacity.
4. Help families know and
use avaialbe special education
and training resources.
5. Work with school staffs on
special problems which hinder
the education Of some individ-
ual children.
6. See that teen-agers, before
leaving school or graduating,
have personal and vocational
counseling for future training
or employment.
Preparation Of young people
for self-support is basic to pre-
vention of dependency in their
adulthood and for future gen.
erations," the letter said.
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Wet blasts, unless the Soviets
should Invite" it.
This appalling rub bish
amounts to saying this:
Whereas murder is hereafter
to be against the law, there
is to be no adequate police
force to prevent it and no
method even for investigat-
ing it after it happens-un-
less the murderer should
Invite" the detectives in.
That theoretically respons-
ible nations could offer so
fraudulent a compromise"
should astoniSh no one who
is aware Of the actual stand
ards of ethics and candor of
the self nominated moral
leaders" of our era, the neu-
tralists.
Nor is there any surprise
whatever in the makeup of
this particular group of eight
moral leaders" Inevitably,
there is the India of the
sainted Nehru, fresh from its
naked aggression upon the
tiny Portuguese colony Of
Goa. There is the pro-Soviet
United Arab Republic, which
recently won a great victory
by having the United Nations
condemn Israel for the crime
of "retaliating" against per-
sistent assaults from Syria.
There are Latin American
neutralists like Brazil and
Mexico. which have long been
unable to see too much evil in
CaStro-Communist Cuba but
have most lively memories Of
every single fault of the
United States of the last CEN
tury and a half.
And there is. Of course,
Sweden. now grown rich and
Evening star., 1962-04-20

troublesome deficit this year
will be no larger-and may be
less It than last years $2.5
billion.
The payments deficit figured
prominently in President Ken
nedy's recent successful at
tempt to head off a steel price
increase.
Officials stressed that the
precise amount of improve
ment won't be known for about
a month. And, they said. the
annual deficit rate definitely
won't be as low as it was in the
first quarter last year, when it
dipped to $1.4 billion.
Despite this. they said there
is reason to believe the 1862
deficit might wind UP a bit
lower than last year. Among
other things the experts cite
an agreement by European ma
tions to increase their pur-
chases of military hardware in
the United States this year by
81 billion.
Officials said the improved
situation in the first quarter
was due almost entirely to a
reduction in United States in
vestments abroad. Imports OF
foreign goods, which had been
expected to rise, actually held
steady, adding to the favorable
situation.
Another note of cheer came
yesterday when the French
Embassy delivered a check fol
$59,622,516.54 to the United
States Treasury, representing
two installments on lend-lease
and surplus property debts not
due until 1881 and 1882
Frances balance of payment.
situation has improved re-
Gently, enabling the French tt
make the prepayment to helr
the United States.
Evening star., 1962-04-20
Remarks of the President on Steel Issue
At TV News Session Are Criticized

Presentation of presidential
news conferences by tele-
vision, with only one side
being given to the same au-
dience, can result in a mis-
guided electorate.
President Kennedy. of
course, is not the kind of man
who would knowingly mis-
lead the people. But he is in
experienced in business, and
he depends on what some of
his adviSers-also unfamiliar
with industrial operations
tell him about complicated
economic questions. TIL e
result can be a misStatement
Of the facts of economic life.
Today, for instance, many
economists are stunned by
Mr.. Kennedy's erroneous
statements at his press con-
ference on Wednesday. He
was asked by a reporter
whether he felt that gains
made through efficiency and
lower costs achieved by mod
ernized plant and equipment
frequently called "produc-
tivity"-should be shared by
investors as well as labor.
The President replied:
"The owners of steel stocks
have shared very much in the
last 10 years. I don't think
there is any question. I think
there has been a split of six
times in the United States
Steel stocks since 1948-'49.
and they have been paid a
very good dividend. and they
have very strong equity. And
what is true of United States
Steel is true, even in greater
extent, in other steel COM
panies, and, as have said, in
industry in general. So that I
think the shareholders
and the shareholders will do
very we'll"
Also, earlier in the same
press conference, in his pre-
pared statement, Mr.. Ken
nedy said:
81 believe that the antici-
pated profits this year for
industry in general, and steel
in particular, indicate that
these policies are meeting
with some measure of success.
and it is a fact that the last
quarter of last year, and I
think the first quarter Of
Evening star., 1962-04-20

The balance Of payments
represents what the United
States owes the rest of the
world for such things as i'm
ports, foreign aid. investment,
and travel by Americans, less
the amount other countries
owe the United States for the
same items.
Evening star., 1962-04-20
Circus at BeIvoir
To Aid Dads Club

An aerial ballet will be fea-
tured by the Wallace Brothers
Three Ring Circus in its per-
formance April 29 for the ben
eft of the Fort Belvoir CVa0
Dads Club at Fort Belvoir.
Jugglers, tumblers and clowns
will appear. along with per-
forming bears and monkeys, in
the 40-act performance.
The Fort Belvoir Dads spon-
sor Little League and Boy and
Girl Scout activity for the post.
Evening star., 1962-04-20

this year, will be the highest
profits in the history of this
country, and the highest
number of people working.
and the highest productivity"
Now what are the facts?
In the first place, steel prof
its still were low in the last
quarter of 1861, and will
hardly approach previous rec
ordS in the first quarter of
1862. But the average person
will derive from the Presi-
dents remarks the impress
sion that steel profits have
been rising steadily to the
highest point in their history.
AS for the highest profits"
in industry in general. Mr..
Kennedy didn't tell the Amer
lean people the whole story.
Numerically, there are, for
instance, more people en-
ployed today in the United
States than ever before. How
does that help, however, the
more than 4 million who are
unemployed? Some busi-
nesses, to be sure, are pros
pering, but Steel-the center
of last weeks controversy
isn't proSpering.
But, even on corporate
profits for all industries, the
President gave q figure that
will be disputed. Actually, as
he says, corporate profits as
a whole for the final quarter
of 1861 were a record-at the
rate Of $52.4 billion before
taxes. or about 81 billion
higher than the previous
record. But figured in rela-
ton to gross national prod
uct-as it properly should be
to get a real comparison-the
profits were only 81 per cent,
as contrasted with 1872 per
cent 10 years ago. This means
they have declined by 40 per
cent in the past decade.
The average of all profits
for the Nation last year was
8.8 per cent of gross national
product, which was the low
est since World War II, with
the exception Of the S.4 per
cent in the recession year Of
1854. The 15-year average OF
1946-60 was 1913 per cent,
which is two full points, or
approximately % per cent,
above 1861.
But the same people who
Evening star., 1962-04-20
Plea Against A-Tests Called Hypocrisy
In Face of Soviet DoubIe-DeoIinq
WILLIAM S. WHITE

The shoddy moralizing of
the worlds neutral powers
has now stirred American
pacifists and half-pacifistS to
a last hypnosis of hopeless
hope.
Encouraged by the cruel
hoax of a compromise" pro-
posed by the neutralists
which would, in fact, mean
no kind of enforced ban.
these earnest Americans have
set out on one more cam
paign to force the United
States to abandon its plans
to resume nuclear testing and
so to take at long last some
regard for its capacity to
survive on this planet.
Not all the long story Of
neutralist hypocrisy can show
a more cynical fraud than
this alleged compromise"
offered at Geneva by tn
eight "nonaligned" countries
sitting between West and
East in disarmament discus
SionS.
For the eight have put for
ward a brazen phony which
makes a mockery of three
years of patient Western ef-
forts to reach a genuine
agreement with the Russians
for an enforceable end to
testing.
Their compromise" would
sell out to the very nation
which long ago broke a gen.
tleman's agreement with us
on testing, the Soviet Union.
For what it says is that
there should be inspection Of
possible test violations-but
without international control
posts actually to test such
violations and without any
on-the-spot inspection of So
Evening star., 1962-04-20
U. S. Reducing Loss
On Payments Balance
BY the Associated Press

The balance of payments deficit was running
at an estimated $2 billion year the first quarter OF 1862
sharply than the Sc billion annual rate in the final
quarter of 1851 =,
The unofficial figures skechy far sources here said
Yesterday But their cautious hopes that the
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works, (which feel that they
are offering such balanced
schedule Of programming, are
dropping so many programs
and shifting so many favorites
for next year," (Rebalancing,
I gueSs.)
One of our scouts reports
that MICS Thriller episode.
with Eddie Andrews, was as de-
lightful Monday night as TV
Key Previews intimated. q.
Ben Casey was excellent in the
competitive spot on ABC, too.
with a fine performance by
Frances Lederer as a refugee
doctor who found it difficult
naturally to adjust to Dr.
Casey's stern ways. One of
the most difficult things for a
viewer to accept, I think, is the
cancellation of a show like
Thriller which, in a dozen other
time slots, would be a top-rated
show. Unluckily enough, it
found itself opposite Casey this
season-and if you don't be-
lieve the competitive ratings
about this program, watch
Dinah Shore hit her seasons
peak Friday when Vince Ed
wards visits.
Two viewers with the same
thought wonder why some
network hasn't thought of a
half hour of readings with
Richard Burton. With all
respect to the Churchill docu-
mentary," one writes, I'm
positive that ABC would have
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b. The performance of the
individual networks,
C. The fantastic expense.
There can hardly be any
question about (a), it seems to
me. If you weren't next to a TV
set or a radio, you wished you
were. And what else could have
emphasized such aspects of the
flight as the capsules speed?
When you returned from that
quick cup of coffee. for ex-
ample, Astronaut Glenn might
have sped from the Canary
Islands to the West Coast of
Africa-without spilling a drop.
1t should be noted, too, that
all networks were terribly obj
ective this time with their
labelling. Everything that was
pre-taped, or pre-recorded, or
animated" was properly
tagged and carefully explained.
TV learned it's lesson well after
the second sub-orbital flight
and the ensuing din over the
presentation of taped control
room" shots as the real Mccoy.
AS for item (b), the fact that
the major points of the event
we're pooled" by all three net
works should make it difficult
for one to claim superiority
over the others. All three had
huge gaps of time to fill be-
tween official messages from
the Mercury control center and
all chose variations of the
same interview tie C h n q ue S
none of which were exactly
breathtaking in their nature
We might suggest as retirement
from further competition any
interviews soliciting the re-
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PRESS FARLEY
ON V AND RADIO

Delayed telecasts of to-
days Presidential Press
Conference will be aired
at S WRC-4 and by
WMAL-7, at z by WTOP-9
and at II pm. by WTTG-5.
Radio stations carrying re-
broadcasts include WWDC-
FIN at 4:40, VOL at 4:50,
WRC, WQMR and WGAY
at sos, WGMS at $50,
WTOP at 7, WWDC-AM
at 8 and WMAL at 1890
pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-21
Home Athletics

NEW YORK (AP).-Colum-
bia University reports that a
woman lifts her iron about 200
times an hour while ironing
Based on use Of a 31a-pound
iron and six hours to do the
ironing for a family of four
she lifts a total weight of more
than two tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-21

achieved the same rating with
Mr.. Burton reading Flopsy,
Mopsy and Cottontail."
That was a cornball episode
on The Rifleman Monday, but
Sammy Davis, jr.'s proficiency
in the gun-twirling department,
plus the effective climatic scene
with the boy promising to
avenge his father, lifted the
Chuck COnnOrs show we'll above
average. ;. Say what you will
about Sammy; here is a per-
former with presence and flair
and when he connects with
the right script-Pow!
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actions of citizens to the
occasion.
What did impress this cb-
server, however, was the i'm
proved performance by Abe
TVS news departing emit, a
trailer up to now in such mat
tiers but which emerged yester-
day, with fine anchor job by
veteran Bill Shaded, as a first
line competitor. d.,
AS for Co. you will un-
doubtedly be reading, in the
next few days, about how
much the coverage land the
many delays cost the TV net
works. The real question is
probably lot more pertinent.
Could TV, no matter what the
cost, have afforded NOT to
cover the flight?
Last week, Mrs. Kennedy
took viewers on tour of the
White House, and. yesterday,
Col. Glenn took viewers on a
tour of the world. AS FEC
Chairman Newton Minow would
be the first to point out-ard
did on the occasion of his
vast wasteland" speech be-
fore the National Association
of Broadcasters, to which he
brought our first Astronaut--
this is the medium at its
finest.
Il
Thu TNU Watch.
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ON THE AIR
A Maturing N
Records History
ON THE AIR
BY BERNIE HARRISON
Star TV Critic

When the interviews and the camor subsidies and
the network anchomen have rebuttoned their shirts
and tied their ties the big questions TVS Of
Astronaut Genns historic flight yesterday is concerned
will focus
a he overall lob
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The TV Watch:
A viewer asks - with some
asperity-Why it is that the net
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Loss of Job Sent
Jerry WoId West

you?" Sixty" How would
you like to make six hundred
a week? Pretty good, hah?
Okay. We're both going to
Hollywood"
Not me-" I said. The
smile died. He argued: "You
can write. I can talk. We
go to Hollywood. I get the
contracts. You write the
scenarios. We split down the
middle. Well live like kings"
I asked him if he had a con-
tact in ACCOMPLISHMENTS
who would give us a job.
who needs it?" he said.
I'VE go out cold. Well kill
EN-" I gave it a lot Of
thought-about four seconds.
Nothing doing" I said. II
wasn't fired. Jerry. You were.
I got sixty coming in every
week and a wife who can't
add the stubs in a checkbook.
I'm staying in the newspaper
business.
We talked a little more,
but the excitement had left
his voice. We parted friends.
Years afterward, when I
was earning SIS a week, I
used to take Ginny and Gayle
to the movies and we sat,
with bags full of popcorn,
watching the title Of the pic
ture and then - two stories
high - Produced by Jerry
VALID"
HE BECAME RICH and
famous. Among his many
successes were From Here to
Eternity" and THE Man
Who Came to Dinner"
Jerry talked of art, but he
was primarily interested in
success and money. He COM
planned of ruthlessness in an
industry full of bodies over
which he climbed on his way
to the top.
I saw him a few years ago
and he uShered me into a
palatial private office. He was
producing "Peyton Place."
which might have been a
comedy on sex. WELL" he
said, when we were alone,
ARE you sorry you didn't do
it?" I said no. Jerry
laughed heartily. If I wasn't
sorry, then I was nuttier
than he had thought.
He had taste. He didn't
compare our earnings. We
talked of other days.
A few weeks ago, Jerry
died of a heart attack. Some
people can't believe a pro-
ducer has one.
King Features Syndicate, Inc.