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Montana farmer-stockman., 1962-02-15
*John Deere flexible press-whee gangs firm
every seed row to speed termination and
boost your yields

The fexbity of frrow openers and presswheel gangs
John Deere Press Grain Drill better grain stands
and higher yields for you.
Each frow opener is free to follow the lay of the land
Yet ackknfe spring you that all
place your seed at the you plant in
depression, ridge level seedbed Spring
easy to adjust to match your soil and moisture
Montana farmer-stockman., 1962-02-15
We planted
across q Ievee
TO prove a point

independently, each press
wheel gang on these Two
LIZA Drills rides up and over
this irrigation levee. Note
thot seed-row ridges ore the
some height across the en-
tire drilling Width.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1962-02-15

conditions You increase pressure for deeper penetaton
reduce it when moisture is the surface.
Press gangs hug your seedbed They firm the soil
your seed to eliminate air pockets, increase capillary
action of soil moisture, and speed termination. And, be-
each gang has independent exby you're assured
of uniform pressure the entire drilling width
when planting irrigation levee with multiple
drill hookup, shown above.
Put the accent accuracy. Drill your next crops with
urestretching John Deere LILA Press Drill with
time-saving John Deere PD PD-A Plow-Press Drill.
Stop at your John Deere Dealers Compare these accurate
drills. And ask about the John Deere Credit Pan
JOHN DEERE RIVER DRIVE, MOLINE, ILLINOIS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
The Hiqher Mission

James B. Donovan, New York at
torney, no doubt is fighting an uphill
battle as the Democratic senatorial cam
didate opposing the popular and polit-
ically strong Republican Senator Javits.
Whatever Mr.. Donovan's chances may
be, however, it is to his credit that he
has given first priority to a difficult
mission of mercy, namely, his efforts
to negotiate the release of more than
100 members of the force that failed
in its invasion of Cuba in 1861 and who
have since then been held as prisoners
by the Castro government.
Mr.. Donovan has explained that he
is acting solely as the private represen-
tative of the prisoners, their families
and certain Americans who have given
financial help to this worthy effort. At
the time of his nomination for Senator,
he adds, it was understood that his
mission on behalf of the prisoners would
take precedence over politics. We share
the hopes of many that he will be sue
cessful in finding a happy ending to
what has been a heart-wrenching ordeal
for those who tried courageouSly to
rescue their country from an evil
captivity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20

weapons and delivery vehicles,
since they are intended for
our population centers.
Whatever the thinking, the
whole program has actually
been discredited as witness
the recent congressional slash
of SO per cent of the budget
request of the Office of Civil
Defense. This was due to no
small extent to the results
of all valid congressional polls
taken of constituents views
as to any shelter program.
These polls show that in not
one single district is there
majority support for a shell
ter programme percentages
averaging over IS per cent in
opposition as against those
in favor or having no opinion.
OCD tried vainly to counter
the obvious public and con-
gressional opposition with
what it called a Roper Poll"
to the considerable embar-
rassment of Mr.. Roper and
associates since they supplied
only the use of their sampling
organization on an emergency
request, while the questions
subsequently professionally
discreditedD and the tabulat-
ing were all done by a Mid
Western university under a
Defense Department contract.
Since most Of the voters
don't want the program, and
since in any event it is essen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Arms for Israel

Support for your dubious
criticism of the sale of
United States anti-aircraft
defensive missiles to Israel to
enable that country to de-
fend itself against Nasser of
Egypt's Soviet jet bombers
has come from the American
Council for Judaism, as wit
ness Ned Hanauer's letter in
your October IA issue. 1t Is
surely significant that The
Star finds it's support from a
tiny, fringe group at logger
heads with all other Ameri-
can Jewish organizations and
carrying on a constant smear
campaign against them.
You and they make sordid
imputations concerning the
actions of the administration
on this matter, aimed as it Is
at countering Soviet agrees
sive arms supplied to Arab
countries and at affording
a small, peaceful nation the
only possible means of stop
ping the Soviet TIL 16 bomb
ers now in Egyptian hands
from carrying out murderous
bombing attacks on its cities
and centers of population.
Bernard S. White
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Death of q Rabbi

Not too many years ago Rabbi Ber-
.nard EiSdorfer left Czechoslovakia be-
cause of the persecution he had suffered
at the hands of Hitler's Nazis He went to
the comfort and safety of America, the
land of the free and the home Of the
brave He settled down in Brooklyn, and
he prospered, and he remained active in
his Orthodox Jewish faith. ....
Whether or not he senSed 1t, how
ever Mr. Eisdorfer lived in a jungle of
young thugs and hoodlums who have
long since poisoned our major cities, and
made them centers of enormous evil and
menace, in way that must be seen to
be believed. Against such background,
Mr.. Eisdorfer has to be regarded as just
another victim of shocking moral and
social decay. Still, one must hope that
his death, the utterly atrocious nature
of it, will serve in its own bleak and
tragic way to lend further point to the
argument that the time has come for
our courts to deal more realistically and
severely than they have been doing
with the vicious criminals involved.
To be sure, the rights" Of these
criminals must be protected, but not at
the expense of the community's safety
and security, not at the expense of good,
law-abiding human beings like Rabbi
Eisdorfer. 1t is frightening thing, we
feel, that so many doctrinaire legal
minds, in very high and influential
places, appear to think otherwise-ap-
pear to think that one must be particu-
Iarly careful to succor and defend those
guilty of such crimes as having beaten
to death, atrociouSly, without pity or
sense, the unoffending Rabbi Eisdorfer.
Why should so decent man be slain
so brutally? And why should the slayers
be allowed to get away with their awful
crime?
We trust that Mr.. Eisdorfer's muir
derers will be caught and get what
they deserve. We trust, too, that this
atrocity on the streets of Brooklyn will
serve to dramatic the fact that society
at large needs to be protected and that
it has rights much larger than those Of
rapists and murderers and mere buns
on the streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20

AS a visitor from California
to my old home town. l must
comment on your story de-
scribing Washington's first
public fallout shelter in Mac
farland School. In California
our civil defense officials rec
ognize that IS per cent OF the
States population is in or
near Federally designated
target areas requiring blast
and heat shelters, rather than
simple fallout shelters. One
cannot help but wonder
whether Washington Civil De-
tense officials actually be-
lieve that the District is not
such a potential target area,
or whether they are simply
going along, as is so much
of the CD bureaucracy
throughout the entire Nation,
in trying to perpetrate the
misconception that fallout
shelters are meaningful ex-
cept in the most remote and
isolated areas.
Or perhaps, your CD Off
Gals accept the wishful think
ing advanced by some that
a nuclear exchange could be
limited to missile and mill
tary bases only-a well-dis-
credited concept since the
Soviet Union seems to have
predicated its nuclear capa-
bility on a deterrent policy
requiring much fewer nuclear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
On Looking Before Leoping

In its deferral of any recommended
ton at this time on proposed anti-dis-
elimination regulations, the District
Commissioners Urban Renewal Council
has shown commendable prudence.
In one section of proposed re-
port dealing primarily with the need
for a strong central relocation agency
in Washington, the Councils housing
committee had called for the issuance of
an order banning racial discrimination
in housing. Council Chairman Howard
w. Kacy questioned the wisdom of such
a position on two grounds. First, he
asked whether it might not needlessly
jeopardize the major goal OF the report
an effective relocation agency-since
legislation authorizing It's creation must
be sought in January from the House
District Committee.
But the more immediate problem,
Mr.. Kacy added, is that neither the
Council nor the public has as yet seen
a draft Of the proposed regulations, nor,
in fact, does it even know whether the
CORPORATION Council will formally affirm
the authority of the Commissioners to
promulgate such rules. AS Mr.. Kacy
put it: "You are recommending some
thing we don't know anything about"
His argument was supported by another
Council leader, Robert H. Levi, who
warned that before committing itself
the Council needs to know more about
both "the dangers" and "the great
gains" which conceivably could arise
from the issuance of this kind of regula-
ton.
The point is we'll taken. There are
a great many questions about the effects
of such an order which cannot be an
swered intelligently until the details OF
a specific proposal are developed and
made public. Obviously, If the Commits
Sioners decide to press ahead in this
area, public hearings will have to be
held to assure that all viewpoints are
received and considered. For the time
being, however, we think that the COM
munity at large would be we'll advised
to heed the sound counsel of Mr.. Kacy
and Mr.. Levi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Berlin and Confusion

The American people, not TO men
ton the free world at large, must be
pardoned if they feel slight sense OF
confusion over the blow-hot- blow-col
aspects of the Berlin situation. At one
moment all the alarm bells are ringing,
but then, suddenly, there Is period of
calm, and rumors from everywhere, on
both sides of the Iron Curtain, suggest
that things are not nearly so bad as
they seem and that peaceful settle
ment is inevitable, and even imminent.
Thus, we have had succession Of
recent events and statements, both Com,
nur1ist and nom Communist, that have
tended to make the head swim. On the
one hand, Soviet propaganda organs
have given the impression that the
Kremlin is absolutely resolved to lose
no more time in signing separate
peace treaty" with its puppet East Ger
man regime-a treaty that might grave
~ challenge and imperil Anglo-French-
American rights in West Berlin, including
the right of unimpeded movement into
and out of the city. And on the other
hand, for what it may be worth, there
Is the report that Wladislaw Gomulka,
the Moscow-run boss of Red Poland, has
Just told his hosts in the Russian-run
part of Germany that compromise
may be in the making that would guar
antee the Western position in Berlin.
Meanwhile, back at the Western
ranch, so to say, spokesman for our own
Government, particularly the President
and the Secretaries of State and Defense,
have. been at great pains to emphasize
once again that the United States is
determined not to surrender any OF its
war-Won rights in Berlin, but will defend
them at all costs, even with nuclear
weapons If necessary. Presumably this
point has been reaffirmed, however
delicately and politely during the more
than six hours of conversation that Mr..
Kennedy and Mr.. Rusk have just had
with Soviet Foreign Minister GromyKo.
The latter Is said to have been adamant
in asserting that the Kremlin has no
intention of veering from its collision
course policy. Still, reporters who talked
with him after his White House dialogue
and his working dinner" with Mr.. Rusk
have. described him as relaxed and 30
ivfaL,s as If he thought everything would
work out all right in the end.
This, of course, is what remains to
be. seen. Although officially uncon-
firrned, there is much evidence that
Nikita KhruShchev intends to visit the
United Nations in New York in the weeks
immediately ahead and that Mr.. Ken
needy will confer with him. Before that,
however, the President, who has Just
met with West German Foreign Minister
Schroeder, will have some talks with
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who is
scheduled to visit Washington early next
month After that, the President should
be well prepared to meet with the Soviet
Premier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Suud and Brother

: Through most of the nine years
since the elder King Ibn Saud died, the
government of Saudi Arabia has lived
close to two potential crises.
= One has existed within the royal
family itself, large collection of princes
of varying abilities and inclinations, not
always unanimous in their agreement
with or loyalty to their Oldest brother,
the current King Saud. The other has
its roots in the rivalries which have
long existed among the Arab States and
which have conferred in recent years
largely around the aspirations of Pres
ident Nasser of the United Arab Re
public to be the dominant leader OF
Pan-ArabiSm.
: There is reason to believe that both
Of these elements figured in King Sauds
decision this week to recall his next
brother, Prince Faisal, from the United
Nations to take over for a second time
the post of Premier in the government
at Riyadh. 1t has been the consensus
that Faisal, more widely travelled and
more worldly wise, has greater capacity
for strong policy making and admin
istration than the King himself. Be-
tween the two there has been estab-
ushed in the past an effective measure
of agreement and harmony, even though
SAud repeatedly disapproved at one stage
of Faisal's commitment to greater aus
terity and discipline both within govern
nient and family, needs which are evil
dent again today.
Externally, the revolt within nearby
Yemen has posed new trouble, with the
Saudi government supporting the de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Approises Worth of FoIIout Shelters

TALLY worthless, 1t does seem
a shame that the taxpayers
money continues to be ex-
pended locally throughout the
Nation on a program that
practically no one in or out
of Government really wants.
But at least you Washing
tonians don't have the ulti-
mate in absurd shelter con-
struction as do we in Cali
fornia. With Federal funds
there has been constructed
what was to be a showplace
to demonstrate just how Won
derful a school shelter could
be. Overlooked was just the
minor matter that it was de-
signed for fallout only essen
TALLY in an area requiring
heat and blast protection0
It stands today, in the Lake
side School District near San
Diego, the ultimate symbol Of
the ridiculous-with a light
well dug down alongside Of
the underground and beau
tifully appointed shelter
complete with tiled bath
rooms, shuffleboard courts,
and dead body storage room
and a 6 = foot = square win
dow cut right through the
side of the shelter wall itself
to meet the requirements OF
the fire marshal in accord
ance with the safety codesl
Robert J. Walker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
About the South

A recent letter condemned
David Lawrence for his ex-
PLANTATION of the manner in
which the 14th Amendment
was adopted. Such abysmal
ignorance of the means by
which the tyrannical power
of the Federal Government
was exercised during the re-
construction period is. per-
haps, a key to the apSthetic
acceptance, by the public, OF
the usurpation of States
rights by the Federal Gov
eminent today.
History books are rife with
factual accounts of the
denominations suffered by the
Southern citizenry at the
hands of Federal troops, car
petbaggers, and terms i'm
posed by the psychopathic
congressional dominator,
Thaddeus Stevens of Penn
sylvania. The cycle is repeat
ing - this time with collu-
sion between the executive
and judicial branches Of our
Government. 1t is foolish to
appraise the Mississippi in
cident as an exercise in law
enforcement, based upon the
Interpretation of the Consti-
tuition by the high tribunal.
1t is a political issue, no
moreno less, designed to
entice a select group Of voters
into the current presidential
camp at the expense Of the
general welfare.
David L. Gee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Oppose Aquarium

Far better to have a
cleaner Potomac for the less
glamorous fish of the edible
variety than a $40 million
aquarium with exotic swim
ming creatures fitting about
in confinement. submerged
in crystal clear water for the
amusement of sightseers.
Perhaps the aquarium pro-
moters might have a reveal
ing excursion down the Po-
tomac in a glass-bottom boat
and get a closeup of the
river which appears so beau
tiful from a distance.
Mrs. George Bache
4 II II
It is a source of great
consolation to the battered,
beaten, robbed and assaulted
residents of the District OF
Columbia to know that here
after fish will be housed in
a magnificent dwelling, and
no longer live in polluted
streams such as the Potomac.
The fact that due to the in
creased crime rate in the
District the present residents
may not live to see this edi-
flee is immaterial. They have
no votes and the main
concern of Congress is pleas
ing the voters back home"
Why, of all creatures, fish
were selected for this honor
is rather incomprehensible
as most other inhabitants OF
a ZOO are more appealing to
the general public. Could be
that Congress found In the
fish a kindred spirit?
M. M. MallOy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20

posed royalty while the U. A. r. is aiding
the rebel regime. Division within Saud's
own government, now dissolved, provided
an added element of possible danger
to the family rule. Generally speaking,
both Saud and Faisal have been pro-
Western on cold war issues. AS a team
at the seat of Saudi government, they
offer the best promise of preventing
mere widespread convulsions in the
chemically unstable Middle East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20

let the Kaiser conquer Eu-
rope? Would the Republicans
have kept us out of war and
let Hitler go on killing, tor
turing and shipping to con-
centration camps all who
were not of pure Aryan stock?
Would the Republicans have
stood by while the Storm
troopers of the Nazis marched
through every free country OF
the world? Might I suggest
to these misinformed Chi
cagoans that it was nobody's
fault but the Germans that
either of the two awful wars
came about.
If Dirksen should be sup
ported Gas he should accord
ding to the Chicagoans) be-
cause he would have backed
down to the Nazi menace,
then I for one think that he
is not deserving of any sup
port at all. Anti-communism
is now the vogue in this coun-
try and communism today is
certainly worth Graduating.
In our fervor, however, let
us not forget the similar
menace to freedom that We
succeeded in destroying 20
years ago. Our cause was just,
The cause of freedom is al
ways just. Remember. we
didn't ask to lose 100000
boys in combat, but we would
have lost many more If the
Nazis had conquered the
world.
I hope that Senator Dirk
sen will repudiate the support
given him by this group and
show the citizens of Illinois
and the whole Nation that he
is glad that naziism Is dead.
HI.o-InS Ha vANy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20

A new mobile radio-tele-
phone system has been de-
veloped by Army engineers
and now is ready for tests by
artillery and infantry. It
makes it possible to place
calls from a moving vehicle,
such as a jeep, to any place
in the United States.
During the tests a call was
placed from a moving jeep at
the Army's electronics prov
ing ground at Fort Huachuca,
Ariz., to the office of the
chief signal officer in Wash
ington. Subscriber phi on e S
may be installed in any type
of vehicle or aircraft, the
Army announces. The switch
board can handle IL sub
scribers and a transportable
in a three-quarter ton truck.
In addition to radio tele-
phone subscribers the SWITCH
board can handle Is wire sub
Scribers. The system is de-
signed to keep a commander
and his staff in telephone
communication with head
quarters over considerable
distances of average terrain.
Extensively Tested
An electronic automatic
telephone switching system,
the Army announces, also has
passed two years of extensive
testing at Fort Huachuca and
has been found reliable I'M
der conditions that would
make existing dial systems
impractical. Instead of an
electro-chemical process of
switching calls from one tele-
phone subscriber to another,
with numerous switches
which require an absolutely
dust-proof room for opera
ton, the new electronic cir
cult has only a few moving
parts which can go wrong.
To make a call a subscrib-
er uses what appears to be a
combination portable type
writer and a telephone hand
set. BY hitting the right
keys he activates the cir
cult to ring the desired num-
Der. The switchboard is port
able and can be moved on
trucks without damage.
Engineers who conducted
the tests believe the new sys-
tenn has excellent possibilities
for field communications
Troops may glide to soft,
controlled landings ra he r
than parachute into battle
areas if present tests of a
collapsible flexible wins G.
now being carried out by the
Army prove successful.
The wing forms a "
shaped, kite like structure
beneath which the troop car
rier is suspended in a har-
ness, the control lines OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-20
Germans for Dirksen'

I read with alarm the let
ter written by the German
American Committee for
the Election of Dirksen,"
which was published in your
newspaper on october is. 1t
stated that all loyal German
Americans who have the
slightest tinge of emotion left
about the wrongs committed
by the United States against
Germany in World War II
should support Senator Dirk
sen over his Democratic Jew
ish opponent, Sidney Yates.
They appeal to Americans OF
German descent to elect lone
of their own men," They
charge that war was de-
clared on Germany for rea-
sons of rapacity only and
IIldb IL was q wal oSoAAnV
everything German.
What they forgot to state
was that at that time Ger
many had occupied practical
ly all of Europe. that millions
of Jews were being murdered,
and that thousands of other
anti-Nazis were being shot,
This was only one of the
reasons why war was de-
clared on Germany, yet this
committee states it was a
war of rapacity only.
Perhaps this committee
has forgotten that this is the
United States, a country
where people vote. promote,
and choose friends on the
basis of what a man is, and
not on his religious or ma
tional background. Perhaps
they have forgotten that this
is a country where Christians
and Jews, whites and Ne
groes, work, pray, and play
together in a bond of friend
ship. Perhaps they have for
gotten that in this country
bigotry and bias are on the
way out, not on the way in.
One of the attributes OF
America is that it has been
a melting pot of all people.
BY far the majority OF
German = Americans have
been fine and outstanding
citizens. President Eisenhow-
er was of German descent
and so was General PERISH
ing. l can only hope that the
German Americans to whom
the letter was mailed will fol-
low the example of the two
above named American
heroes, and not of the
"German-American Commit
tee for the Election OF
Dirksen. This is a. great and
free nation. Let's keep it that
way.
Michael SlOmich.
4 4
I was shocked beyond de-
scription when 1 read about
a group of German-Amer-
leans supporting the re-elec-
ton of Senator Dirksen.
Their letter is as repugnant
and arrogant as any to come
out of the Nazi Foreign Min
istry prior to World War II.
Their basic premise, that 1t
was the Democrats VIII o
brought us into the two
world wars, is utterly fan
tastic. Would the Republicans
have kept us out of war and