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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
AircraftFirnl
CaIIsProfits
Well Earned

I
| A Douglas Aircraft Co. Off
cial said today the firm han.
died both major tasks anc
dirty little details" to carr
sos million it charged the
Government for Nike missile
launchers built by a subcon.
tractor.
r. L. johnson, vice president
in charge Of the firms missile
and space division, said Doug.
las had well earned the money
by the aid it gave to the firm
that did the actual work.
Mr.. johnson and other COM
pany officials were questioned
by the Senate Investigation.
Subcommittee, which is looking
into what it calls pyramiding
profits. 1t is inquiring into the
system under which one firm
gets a major Government con-
tract and subcontracts majol
parts Of the work to Other
firms.
The Senators and witnesses
debated today whether the
money Douglas received was 6
fee or a profit, or whether il
made any difference.
Asks Explanation
Chairman Mcclellan. Demo-
crat of Arkansas, argued that
a fee or profit would be the
same thing, and he demanded
an explanation of what Douglas
had done to earn the money.
What is it, if it isn't q
profit?" Senator Mcclellan
asked Donald w. Douglas, jr.
the company's president.
I'VE don't know how to de-
termine it," Mr.. Douglas replied
But he insisted vigorously that
the SOB million was not all
profit.
Senator Muskie, Democrat of
Maine, told the witnesses, he
considered that the words fee
and profit mean the same
thing" Senator Muskie said
that the public has a right to
know what contractors are paid
for Government work and to
Judge whether prices are rea-
sonable.
Mr.. johnson illustrated with
charts some of the work he
said his company had done, but
Senator Mcclellan contended
the company was paid for this
work under separate contracts.
Senator Mcclellan produced
a letter from the company
dated last July z, which, he
said, accepted the Subcommit-
tees profit figures as accurate.
Interpretation Hit
Mr.. Douglas and Edward
Curtis, his contracts director,
insisted they had made it very
clear that, while accepting the
figures, they disagreed with the
subcommittee conclusions as
to what the figures meant.
Mr.. Douglas accused sub
committee aides yesterday of
manipulating figures to picture
profits as too high.
THE numbers are accurate,
but nobody puts their numbers
together that way" Mr.. Doug
las said. These purported
to show that Douglas Aircraft's
profits on II Nike contracts in
1952-1961 totaled $45.58 million
but that subcontractors did
most of the work.
Robert E. Dunno, staff in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
Correction

In an article that appeared
in yesterdays Star, DR.. Hiden
T. Cox was enormously repre-
sented as approving the accept
ance Of gift homes by the seven
Mercury astronautS. Actually,
DR.. Cox. assistant space ad-
ministrator for public affairs,
had advised the aStronautS'
attorney, c. Lee De Orsey, to
turn down the home offer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
AUSTRALIA TOLD
NOT TO WORRY

CANBERRA, Australia, April
5 (AP).-Australians were told
today that the impending
United States nuclear tests In
the Pacific are critically i'm
portant" and they have moth
ing to fear from radioactive
fallout.
Foreign Minister Sir Garfield
Barwick reported to Parliament
that a Radiation Advisory Com
mittee had satisfied the gov
eminent that the tests at
Christmas Island would not
constitute a danger to Aus
tralia, New Zealand or other
areas in the South Pacific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

vestigator, said this was equiv
alent to a 44.3 per cent profit
on the portions Of the contracts
performed by Douglas at its
own plants.
Percentage Disputed
Mr.. Dunno said the profits,
figured against the work done
by Douglas and its subcontrac-
tors combined. would be 7.6
per cent on the II contracts
totaling $952,740,000 for pro-
ducing various components of
the Nike missile system.
Mr.. Douglas, armed with
stacks of charts and thanked at
the witness table by q half
dozen subordinates, called this
"arithmetical manipulation
(which borders on economic
frivolity a gross distortion"
He said the contracts actually
totaled 1899 million, land our
profit from those sales before
Federal income taxes approx
$29.8 million, a rate Of
less than 80 per cent Of sales"
Income taxes took more than
half of that profit, he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

PAY RAISES-Mr. McNa-
mara said the administrations
Federal pay reform proposals,
which would give big pay raises
to scientists, engineers and
other professional and execu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
Party Criticism Hints
New Red Chino PURGE

task for US to understand the
importance Of solidifying the
party's political, theological
and organizational phases,
strengthening the party's ide-
illogical construction" it de-
clared.
The last big overhaul Of the
Chinese Communist Party took
place in 1858 following the
failure of Mao Tze-tung's free
dom Of expression policy, called
LET all flowers bloom, let 100
schools Of thought contend"
For one startling month critics
of communism, and of Mr.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
NO ONE IS IN DEBT
TO ROBERT HALL

. We sell for Gosh onlyl
o There are no credit ehorses!
Q We have no credit lessesi
o You sove because we soVel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

Mao. had their public say.
Then they were subjected
to ruthless persecution as
"rightists."
Industrial Plan SheIved
In recent months the Chinese
Reds have made plain that the
great leap forward"-the crash
program to make China q world
industrial power - has been
shelved because Of agricultural
failures. Mr.. Macs agricul-
tural program Of rural COM
munes. grouping millions of
pc a sa nts into communized
colonies, has been draStically
modified because the peasants
didn't produce in the COM
muneS.
AS it did in the 'let all flow
ers bloom" period, the Peoples
Daily now says that party
members should be encouraged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
By JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer


House Appropriations Com
mittee members have expressed
concern over what they feel is
the excessive pay of Govern
ment per diem (blue Collar
workers.
Representative Mahon, Dem
ocrat of Texas, chairman of
the House Appropriations Sub
committee, which handles the
Defense Department money
bill, asked that Defense Off
Gals take steps to reduce or
better control the upward spiral
of wage-board pay"
The subject was brought up
as the committee held hearings
on Defense Departments 1868
budget requests.
Regarding the Defense De-
partment's more than 100000
per diem workers-as well as
many thousands of other Gov
eminent per diem employees
Mr.. Mahon said the committee
was concerned about the in
creased cost of Government
wage board salaries. The pay OF
these employees is fixed by Fed
eral wage boards based on COM
parable industry salaries on a
locality basis.
One of the things which Mr.
Mahon and other of the COM
mittee members are concerned
about is the fact that in some
instances Government per diem
workers receive higher salaries
than the weighted average of
industry employees in the same
type of jobs.
This is because many Federal
per diem workers-in fact a
majority are in the top third
step of their pay grade due to
seniority. The second or middle
step of the grade reflects the
comparable industry salary
Thus, those Federal per diem
workers in the third step make
more than the comparable pri-
vate industry average - about
4 per cent more. Similarly
those Federal per diem work
ers in the first step make about
4 per cent less than the in
dustry average for the com.
parable job, but there are fal
less Federal per diem workers
in step one than step three.
Another thing disturbing
House committee members il
the fact that Government pei
diem workers have been gettint
a pay raise each year since
the end of World War II.
Defense Secretary Nc
Namara. replying to MI
Mahon's request, said he ha
asked Assistant Defense Secre
tary for Manpower Carlisl
Runge to make a study of tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
By JOHN RODERICK

A6SOCl4IeQ RreSS BL611 writer
TOKYO, April 5.-Red
China's leadership today casti-
gated members Of the Chinese
Communist Party who it said
have become bureaucratic. in
Solent and self-Satisfied.
The unusually sharp denun-
citation may be the prelude to a
new purge Of the Chinese party
Of more than IL million mem
bers. The purged may become
whipping boys for the present
chaotic condition of Chinese
agriculture, which has created
hunger and unrest on the
mainland.
The attack was published in
the official Peiping Peoples
Daily midway through an ulta-
secret meeting of the National
Peoples Congress, the Chinese
Communists rubber stamp
parliament.
There are persons" the pa
per said, who have become
stepped in bureaucracy, exhibit
feelings of insolence and self
satisfaction, forget realities,
eStrange themselves from the
masses and do not care to dis
cuSS things with the masses. :"
Duties Increase
The paper said that party
members today exercise leader
ship during a period of great
gravity and thus have heavier
duties than in the past.
The editorial said many new
members of the party lack ex-
perience in revolutionary Strug-
gle and have not been educated
in MarXism and Leninism.
Both old and new party mem
bers must, during the present
preiod. undergo re-education,
it continued.
1T has become an important
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Upward Spiral of Blue Collar Pay
Runs Into House Criticism

tive employees in the upper
middle and top salary grades,
would do much to avoid the
problem you have referred to-"
Mr.. Mahon commented: as
there a practical way to pay
the right people the additional
salaries and avoid having this
become more or less a racket
in which people who are not
qualified for the higher pay
get it?"
Secretary Mcnamara said he
felt that competent personnel
management could differentiate
between scientists, engineers
and other top personnel and
reward with higher compensa-
ton those with the greatest
ability"
Mr.. Mcnamara said he felt
very strongly about the need
for a Federal pay raise. II have
Is men in the Defense Depart
ment who, to my personal
knowledge, could receive any,
where from two to four times
the compensation in private
business that they are being
paid by the Government" he
said. 1.-THE need for high-quality
Government personnel" requires
a Federal pay raise, Mr.. Nc
Namara said. He recalled that
salaries paid by the Ford Motor
Co., of which he was president,
and other firms he was as
ISOLATED with are far higher
than Federal jobs of compar-
able responsibility in the De-
Tense Department and else
where in Government.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-T h e
Society for Personnel Admin
istrati0n holds it's annual
spring conference at Cacapon
State Park, Berkeley Springs,
w. Va, starting 5 pm. Thurs
day, April 26 to $3.50 pm.
Saturday, April %. Top speak
ers both from Government and
industry will address the con-
ference which will be on "Ex-
ecutive Development: Nee d S,
Issues, and Action" Non-SPA
members also are invited to
attend. The United States
EmplOye Service Professional
Office has 3-to-6-month posi-
tons to offer personnel Off
GERS whit recent Federal place
ment or qualifications ratings
experience, grades Z to IL. APP
ply to Room 705, 1000 Six
tenth street NV, with a COM
plete Form 81. Mrs. De
Lena Ruby of Naval Weapons
Plant is retiring after A years
of Government service, with a
certificate of commentator
from the Secretary of the Navy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

to criticize higher ranking
members.
Say anything you know"
the editorial said. express
whatever you are thinking, and
If there is nothing wrong in a
persons opinion, it should be
taken as a lesson to the lis
tener."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
LONDON WARNS
SHIPS, PLANES

LONDON, April 5 (AP). -
Britain's Ministry of Defense
last night warned all ships and
aircraft to keep clear of an area
in the Pacific around Christmas
Island from April IS onward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

situation. However, Mr.. Nc
Namara said he didn't feel it
was a serious problem and de-
clared it wasn't an important
factor in total Defense Depart
ment costs.
Regarding the criticism of
per diem workers in the third
step of a pay grade making
more than the industry aver
age, Defense officials say that
this can be misleading, too
They declare that the average
pay of a comparable industry
Job doesn't mean that all pri-
vate industry workers are get
ting that rate of pay. It is a
weighted average, which means
that some make more than
that and some make less.
Consequently, Federal per
diem workers in the top step
of a pay grade may make more
than some industry employees
in the same kind of jobs, but
on the other hand they make
less than some other industry
workers in comparable jobs, it's
pointed out.
EMPLOYE ESTIGE-
Chairman Mahon and other
members of the House APP
preparations unit also were
critical of the use of Govern
ment-sponsored non-profit cor
porations to do the defense,
engineering and scientific work
that Federal employees have
been doing.
These non-profit company
employees are paid SO much
more" than Government en-
ployes that II am afraid the
prestige and position of Fed
eral workers will be down
graded" Mr.. Mahon declared.
Mr.. Mahon said the Govern
ment should be doing these
functions themselves, adding
THE Government should de.
velop the most capable corps
of personnel possible for the
doing of these jobs"
Secretary Mcnamara sale
there was need for some Of
these non-profit corporations
He added, however, that the
Kennedy administration wal
reviewing the entire situation
to determine an overall polio!
on non-profit corporations anc
the general farming out of worl
to industry that heretofore ha'
been done by Government.
PAY RAISES-Mr. McNa
mara said the administration
, Federal pay reform proposals
: which would give big pay raise
; to scientists, engineers ant
: other professional and execu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05
Pacific Area Declared
'OH-Limits' for A-Tests

The Atomic Energy Commission has declared an ocean
area more than twice big Texas off limits beginning
April 15
The area centered Christmas Island Pacific
will be the of nuclear weapons tests late this month if
President Kennedy gives the go-ahead
Announcement of establishment of the test area was made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-05

before any explosions are set
off, the Acc said.
Navajo times., 1962-09-19

and % positions at Crompoint
'subagency itself.
The last six students to leave
their summer employment at
Cronpoint subagency were given
a short going away party at Supe-
rintendent F itZgerald' S office Mon
day. Aug. 27.
Navajo students interested in
the employment program for next
summer should contact the De-
partment of Personnel, Navajo
Tribe, Window Rock, or the De-
partment of Personnel, Crown
point subagency. at least by March
1, 1868.
The applica ant should outline his
Tor her) training and background.
He Tor she) should state the types
of work in which he is most inter-
ested. Priority is given to college
and high school students. Special
program students. are more apt to
be accepted by BIA. Responsibility
for making application for the sum-
mer Employment Program is up
to the individual student.
The Summer Student Employ
ment Program is one of the finest,
most productive exam pies of Nav
ajo and BIA cooperation. Navajo
students have their eyes on star:
they have ga purpose.
With tribal and BIA sponsor
ship, these young people are learn
ing the techniques and the cultur-
al adjustments necessary in these
changing times. Their efforts and
their contributions to their own
people and to all mankind will not
go unnOticed.
Navajo times., 1962-09-19
Student Summer Employment
Program Termed Successful

Ninety two Navajo students, who
realize the vital Importance of ad-
justing to meet these changing
times, have completed their sum-
mer student employment assign
ments which placed them through
out the Checkerboard area.
Under the supervision of the
Crompoint subagency, employ
ment began June 4 and ended Aug.
81. Seventy-two young people from
high school. college and special
programs were hired by the Nav
ajo tribe. Twenty more were hired
by plant management, Bureau of
~1ndi an Affairs.
Employment was with the BRAN
ches of Roads, Education, Public
Health, Plant Management. Agency
Administration, Land Operations,
. Individual Indian Monies, and Day,
Trailer and Boarding schools.
Positions concerned clerks,
clerk-typists, range and conserva-
. tion aides, laborers, land opera
tions, recreation leadership, in
terpreters and helpers for the var
" ious crafts such as painting, elect
rical work, etc.
Work assignments inc lu lie d
those at Baca Day School. Mar
iano Lake, Huerfano, Ft Wingate,
Kimbeto, Thoreau, Pueblo Pintado,
Jones Ranch, Bread Springs, Tor
reon, Lake Valley, Ojo Encino,
Cheechilpeetho. Borrego Pass, l.
.yanbito, Standing Rock, Whitehorse
Navajo times., 1962-09-19
ShiprOck Reports
High EnrOllments

The schools of ShiprOck are we'll
launched on another term with the
following enrollments: Junior High
--344. Public Elementary--682,
S ian Juan Boarding School--154,
Shiprock Boarding School--1 .O58
In Junior High the staff is as fol-
lows: Wallace Cathey. Principal:
Ruby Portion, sixth: Helen McIn-
inch. sixth-Girl's Physical Educa-
tion, Genevieve Lincoln, sixth-V Vo-
cal Music: Norris Dunson, sixth:
Frank Cathey, Social Studies: Da-
vid Bowman. English-Physical Ed
ucation Coach: Donald Perry, So
cial Studies-Speech-Physical Ed
ucation: James Moore. Industrial
Arts-Coach; Wilma Van Petten,
Home Economics Science: Eliza
beth Vanderstoep. Engish-Libra-
ry: Bill Baxter, Social Studies:
Samuel Lincoln, Scienc -Math: Roy
Braswell, Social-English; Ardith
Mortensen, Science-Math: Owen G
Bennett, Music; Ada Anthony, Eng
ish-Reading: Laverne Anderson,
English.
The Public School: Paul Pache-
CO, Principal: Florida Ma tinez,
Eva Stokely, 10 Dearman- Pre-
first: Gracia Booth, Opal Rogers,
Sylvia Pacheco. Dorothy Nell Todd
First: Irene Braswell. Mildred
West, Nellie King, Frances Lee
second; Jessie Ticer, Ingeborg
Baxter. Bernice O'Kelley-t third:
Harold Ockerman, Hazel Baxter,
Juanita West. Betty Dunson-fourth;
Owen Rogers, David Knoll, George
BaMer-fifth.
San Juan Boarding School:
Charles J. Renk, Principal; Mrs.
Edison Becenti, Pre-first: Mrs.
Jack Milligan, first; Mrs. Effie
Mae Wishman. second: Mrs. Clar-
ence Pegues, third; Bennie Gibson,
third: Mrs. Wilma Baker, fourth;
Mrs. Webster Smith, fourth.
Shiprock Boarding School of
which Webster Schneck is Princi-
pal. opened its 962-63 school ses-
sion September 4. On that day there
were $50 students enrolled and by
6 pm, September S, there was
total enrolment of 93O students
for the two day period. This ENROLL
ment has far exceeded all other
enrollments in the past history of
the school. In former years ittook
until the m iddle of October to have
an enrolment as large as 93O STU
dents and not until the middle of
(Continued on Page 10Y
Navajo times., 1962-09-19
Good Returns on
Dances Reported

Dances held nightly during the
Il 9th annual Navajo Tribal Fair
netted So. 562. 96, as reported by the
dance committee.
Collected at the various dances
held during Fair Days on individual
nights were as follows:
Navajo times., 1962-09-19

CHRISTINA CHAVEZ, who was
employed in the office of the Branch
of Admin stration. Crownpoint Sub
agency, during the Summer Stu
dent Employment Program.
Navajo times., 1962-09-19

Thursday. September 6 S 391 90
Friday, September 7 792. 90
Saturday, September 8 1,279. 96
Navajo times., 1962-09-19

PAULINE BECENTI, who spent
her summer working as file clerk,
in the Crowpoint Subagency
Branch of Admin stration under
the Summer Employment Program
for Students.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-10-19

Board consists of DIR. Massey, Jr.
10 citizens appointed by the Mayor.
They serve without pay but have
the leading share Of the city's
plans for the future. Regular
meetings are monthly with many
call meetings in between.
DIR. Massey, Pilgrim Baptist
Church Pastor since 1914 is a lead
ing civic and church figure. He
serves on the following boards:
Governors Commission On Human
Rights, Twin City Baptist Union,
Halle Q. Brown House, National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, National Baptist
Convention U.S.A., Inc, Executive
Board, North Central Community
Council, Trustees American Bap-
fist Theological Seminary, Nash
vile, Tennessee, and Foreign Mis-
sions Boards of both the American
and National Baptist Conventions.
In May he was honored by cleo
ton to the Presidency Of the For
eign Mission Societies of the Amer
lean Baptist Convention.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-10-19

SAAHANAAAAh1 w SOAAANSO4N
and the University Of Minnesota.
Since graduating, he has spent
two years in the us. Army, one
Of which he was an instructor at
the Army Missile Guidance School
and one year as Chief of the Num-
erical Analysts Section, Digftal
Stimulation La tory, White
Sands Proving Grounds. He was
also an Assistant Professor Of
Electrical Engineering at the
University of Minnesota where he
taught courses in servo-mechan-
isnns.
At present, Mr.. johnson is a
project engineer in charge Of the
Information Systems group of
Honeywell's military products
Group Research Department.
He joined Honeywell in 1866 as
a Research Engineer and has just
returned from a European tour.
representing Honeywell.
In addition to his occupahonal
achievements, Mr.. Johnson Is very
active in the community. He Is
treasurer of the Minneapolis
Branch of the NAACP, a member
Of the Minneapolis Urban League
Youth Incentive Committee, and a
member of the Phyllis Wheatley
Community Center Board.
The public is invited to attend
both services.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-10-19
VieforY-HUnsry HIini
Sports Staff Writer

Once again the University of
Minnesota football team will at
tempt to add an offensive consist
ency to its very fine defensive
play as 1t plays host to Illinois be-
fore an expected Homecoming
audience of 10000 Saturday in
Memorial stadium.
The Gopher offense has been
fairly consistent in their three
games until they got inside Of
their opponents Is or 10 yard line,
and in most cases, has then sput-
tered and died.
However their running game has
improved some in every contest.
With a little more mobility on the
part of moving the opposing inter-
ior nnemen, they may give half
backs Munsey, Cairns, Pelletier and
Crockett a little more daylight"
in the opposing secondary.
The Illini are still looking for
their first season victory. They
have upset the Gopher Homecom-
ing victory plans before - remem-
Der what the 1857 Illini eleven did
to a fine Gopher team after Red
Grange talked to them before the
game in Champaign! They beat us
34-13.
The Gophers are the underdogs
in line weight and speed with the
Illinois line outweighing them Is
pounds per man, averaging 225
pounds from end to end to the