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Evening star., 1962-04-07
Prizes Offered Visitors
To Home Buyers Week

Visitors to model homes in
the Home Buyers Week OBJ
servance will be eligible for
four prizes, the Home Build
ers Association of Metropoli-
tan Washington announced
this week.
Jack Alfandre, second vice
president of the association,
said the prizes will be a week
and a week end at the Hotel
Hershey, Hershey, Pa, and a
week and a week end at the
Pocono Manor in Pennsyl-
vania's Pocono Mountains.
Each Of the four prizes will
provide three meals daily and
de luxe accommodations for
two people.
Home Buyers Week, this
year May 5 to 13, is spon-
sored by the Home Builders
and their affiliated associa-
Evening star., 1962-04-07
Howard Co.
Lond Sold

Seaboard Land Co. this
week reported sale Of So
acres Of land near Route 40
and Rogers avenue, Howard
County, Md, to Badana. Inc.
E. Zachary Miller, general
manager of the Seaboard
firm, said the price was ap-
proximately 1922 900. Robin
son Land Brokers were the
brokers in the transaction,
he added.
Evening star., 1962-04-07

builder who also is first vice
president Of the NAHB.
Plans for its construction
were announced last fall.
FHA's action has the effect
of clearing the house for
FHA-insured financing under
the agency's experimental
housing program.
Among the experimental
features to be included are:
A steel post and beam system
for the foundation, an en-
gineered timber floor system
Evening star., 1962-04-07
FHA Approves Research House Features

Neal j. Hardy, commits
sioner of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, an
nounced this week that his
agency has approved a num-
ber Of experimental features
that win be used in research
house to be built in Rock
vile.
The house, one of a series
that has been undertaken by
the National Association of
Home Builders, will be built
by w. Evans Buchanan, area
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tions. More than %70 model
houses are to be included in
the Washington area-wide
home exhibit this year.
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using destructive ma
chine-graded floor joists, a
roof and ceiling system using
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special structural rafters and
several unusual finishes in
side and out.
Evening star., 1962-05-09

seemed to be quite pro-Soviet and anti
West. And during his extended visit to
Russia last year, as II forgetting about
Hungary and all the other captive lands
behind the Iron Curtain, he hailed Mr..
Khrushchev as "a true friend Of the
oppressed peoples Of the world"
Accordingly, together with Mr.. Pi-
caSSo and the three other recipients, Mr..
Nkrumah must appear to the Kremlin
to be well deserving Of the Lenin Peace
Prize, which used to bear Stalin'S name.
He ought to know, however, that the
free world regards the award (Cuba's
Fidel Castro got one last year, as some
thing less than an honor to be either
coveted or treasured.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Dr.. Adenouer. and Chonoe

In his Berlin newS-conference re-
marks, West German Chancellor Ade-
nauer has taken decidedly dim view of
the Soviet-American exploratory talks"
aimed at working out an agreement on
the city's future. In fact, he has all but
predicted that the talks will fail and
that there will then follow a cold-war
pause" in which both sides will strive
for new approaches to the problem.
Nevertheless, in keeping with his
governments position at the recent
NATO meeting in Athens, DR.. Adenauer
even though he feels that they could
go on for the next two or three years
and still prove fruitless-has made clear
that he is not opposed to conversations
Of the sort that Secretary RuSk is sched-
uled to resume soon with Soviet Ambas-
sador Dobrynin. He is not opposed to
them, that is, so long as the West takes
care to remain united and firm in its
resolve not to recognize East German
sovereignty" or agree to anything that
might make free Berlin vulnerable to a
Communist take-over.
Moreover, although he regards as
unavoidable" the American proposal
for 13-member international authority
(including both West and East Ger
manS) to control access to Berlin, the
old Chancellor has not ruled out the
possibility that some such body will be
formed in due course and that free Ger
many will be able to live with it. Indeed,
in that connection he has made a point
of referring to the reality" of Commu-
niSt-controlled Germany'S existence as
fact requiring practical acknowl-
edgment" that there is power there"
"a power with which Bonn has been
dealing for years through what the
Chancellor has described as necessary
and wise" technical contacts and Joint
efforts in such fields as trade and rail-
road operations.
All this suggests that 86-year-old
DR.. Adenauer, despite what sometimes
seems to be his completely unyielding
determination to maintain the status
quo forever, has lived long enough in
this world, and is wise enough in its
ways, to realize that nothing stands still
in life and that the law Of change ap-
plies everywhere, on both sides Of the
Iron Curtain. Hence, as he himself
might say, sooner or later, unless there
is to be nuclear war, some EaSt-WeSt
formula is going to be devised for a
mutually satisfactory Berlin settlement.
In any event, speaking through
Lincoln White, the State Department
says the United States intends to con-
tinue ITO explore the possibilities of
reaching some measure of agreement
with the Soviet Union on the Berlin
problem" This must be done, in Mr..
Whites words ain view of the potentially
dangerous nature" of the situation "and
the personal sacrifices which the Amer
ican people have been and may yet be
called upon to make in fulfillment Of
our commitments to West Berlin"
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Lenin Winners

1t is not surprising that Pablo Pi-
caSso, the SpaniSh-born painter, and
President Kwame Nkrumah Of Ghana
are among the five persons selected by
the Kremlin to receive this years en-
ternational Lenin Peace PrizeS."
After all, even though his abstract
paintings are ideologically out Of key
in the USSR and have been laughed at
publicly by Premier KhruShchev, the
81-year-old Mr.. PicasSo has long been
member Of the Communist Party in
France. AS such, although he has made
a fortune from sales to "capitalistic"
art collectors, he has served the Soviet
Union in many ways, and the dove he
drew years ago still serves as a rather
too-fat propagandistic symbol of the
Kremlin's off-again-on-again peace
campaigns.
AS for President Nkrumah, he has
not yet allowed the establishment of
Communist Party in Ghana, but his
dictatorial regime has been steadily pro-
crossing toward Red-Style totalitarian-
ism. Further, Mr.. Nkrumah, who was
educated in the United States, has ad-
hered to "neutralist" policy that has
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Communicating in Space

The House has done a good days
work in voting, 354 to 9, in favor of
creating a Communications Satellite
Corporation" There is no question about
the technical feasibility and soundness
of the enterprise. For it has been dra-
matically demonstrated by our Air
Forces history-making success in using
the 1,000-mile high, two-year-old orbit
ing Echo balloon as a relay station
bouncing back televiSion pictures to
both coasts of the United States.
These pictures, as the Air Force has
been at pains to emphasize, have been
fuzzy and distorted in many respects,
but they still have made one thing
abundantly clear: Man-made earth
orbiting vehicles can be exploited to
very good effect in the field Of COM
munications telephone, telegraph, ra-
dio and TV. In sum, given satellites
specifically designed for such commu-
nicationS, and assuming that the Soviet
Union will cooperate, we can be sure
that outer space can be explored and
exploited in numerous ways calculated
to benefit the whole Of mankind
In any event, the House has en-
acted bill that excites and challenges
the imagination. 1t is a bill that calls
upon private enterprise - led by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company-to make use Of space, in a
way that promises to be revolutionary,
for instantaneous global communication
of every type, with particular emphasis
on worldwide TV. Clearly, even though
the first pictures relayed from Echo
have been foggy, the world is moving
fast-with our own country leading the
way-toward Spatial communication of
Buck Rogers type.
Against this background, the leg
iSlation enacted by the House makes a
great deal of sense. Although there are
indications that it may run into some
trouble in the Senate, the bill-which
provides, among other things, for a bill
dollar financing operation in which
all Americans would be able to invest
at a price Of $100 share-seems sound
enough to warrant overwhelming con-
gresSional approval. In any case, there
can be no doubt about the wonders
that will be accomplished in due course
in space, near and far, when the Com
munications Satellite CORPORATION" real
ly begins to operate.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Among Political Friends

President Kennedy's talk to the
United Automobile Workers contributes
little to the hope that he will be as
firm with labor as he was with industry
in resisting inflationary wage or price
increases.
When the President met with the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and with leaders of the American Medi-
cal Association recently the climate was
bit on the cool side. But he told the
cheering automobile workers: II began
to wonder how got elected. And now
I remember"
This, Of course, is fact of political
life. But it is not fact which en-
courages a belief that political consid-
erations will be Subordinated to the
requirements for economic stability if
and when a union such as the UAW
takes the wage bit in its teeth.
On Sunday, the day before the Pres
ident spoke to his union, Walter Reu-
ther said that wages for some workers
should rise faster than gains in produc-
tivity. This appeared to be in direct
conflict with the stand Mr.. Kennedy
had taken. After reported telephone
conversation with the White House,
Mr.. Reuther made a second statement.
He said his unions policy is that wages
and fringe benefits should come tout
of the higher productivity Of the Amer
ican economy and not out of the pock-
cts Of consumers through higher prices"
This is rubbery language which. can
be stretched to cover excessive wage
demands. If such a demand material
izes, will Mr.. Kennedy be as tough with
his political friends as he was with Big
Steel? One must wait and see, but if
he is not, his whole stabilization effort
will go down the drain in hurry.
Evening star., 1962-05-09

@. How can scientists know
whether an ancient piece Of
skeleton belonged to o mans
body or q woman's? T. M.
A. In all skeletons, clues
for telling male from female
are found In the bones Of the
skull and the pelvis and In
the long bones Of the body,
as well as in general proper
tions Of the body framework.
A woman's legs, for instance,
are shorter than q mans In
relation to the rest of the
body. A mans arms and legs
differ from q woman's In
carrying ANGLE" as well as in
proportion. When q mans
arm hangs down, palm for
ward, the line from shoulder
to palm is usually straight;
when a woman's arm is held
in this position, an outward
bend at the elbow Is obvious.
These known differences be-
tween the bony structure Of
males and females are even
more evident in ancient skel-
etons than In modern ones.
Structural differences be-
tween the sexes were ap-
parently greater in primitive
societies, where strenuous
physical activity was part Of
male life.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Attacking the Police

Being an avid reader of
your paper for a great num-
ber Of years, ! must say ! was
quite shocked when I read
your editorial, Attacking the
Police" The remarks made
by Rev. e. Franklin Jackson
concerning crime in the Dis
trict Of Columbia could not
possibly have been considered
as an attack on the Police
Department, when he was
only stating a situation that
is Of grave concern Of many
people in the District Of Co
lumbia.
Rev. Jackson as q minister,
a leader in civil rights and
civic affairs, gives Of his time
and himself tirelessly to help
make the District Of Colum-
bia O better city in every
respect. He was recently ap-
pointed by President Ken
nedy as legal adviser on civil
rights. I think 1t q great
achievement for the people
Of the District Of Columbia
to have our civil rights affairs
entrusted to q loyal person
like Rev. jackson. He has
made q record to be proud
Of. Many Of Us who think
highly Of Rev. jackson are
proud of his accomplishment
For any one to consider him
an irresponsible person is
absurd.
Mrs. George Myers.
Evening star., 1962-05-09

It is heartening to see that
the civil defense plans for
the washington Metropolitan
Area have moved from the
194Os into the 1950s. Charles
Pierce's article Of May 8
leads one to infer that our
local civil defense directors
have finally decided that
the maximum 80 minute
warning available in the mis-
sile age does not really give
them quite enough time to
clear the area. This sort of
clear vision is praiseworthy.
Perhaps it Is not too much
to hope that these same di-
rectors will soon be able
to move into the 1960s and
realize the limitations Of o
policy which tells area resi-
dents to worry only about
fallout and to ignore the
problems Of blast and fire.
I would suggest that, the
next time the directors go
to their doctors, they ask to
see an article in the journal
Of the American Medical AS
sociation. April z, 1862 (Vol.
lS0, page 1861. The article
casts grave doubt on the
value of certain fallout shell
ters for residents Of our area.
It points out the immense
increase in protection to be
obtained from even q modest
amount Of blast protection
built into shelters which may
be exposed to nearby nuclear
explosions.
william C. MOhIer.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Good Example

How nice to hear Of the
New York jeweler who left
his estate of $250,000 to the
United States Government
in appreciation for the OPP
portunity given him by this
country to achieve self
Improvement, som e thin 6
which he never could have
attained in the "old coun-
try I refer to your article
in The Star Of May 8.
It would be well If this
story were given widespread
publicity. as announcement to
others on the way up and to
refute the erroneous impress
sion that we are downtrod-
den by ''imperialists'' or
economic royalists." ;" I feel
sure when any "pinko, !"
creeping socialist or gallop-
ing Communist reads this
news item he or she will
stop, look and listen, and
then re-evaluate the oppor-
tunities here in the good old
q. s. A. and go and do like
wise = hew to the line Of
honor, dignity and self-re-
spect as this New York jew
eler did in carving out an
honorable niche for himself
in our economy. There ought
to be more people like this
New Yorker who left his
considerable estate to Uncle
Sam out Of pure gratitude
q quality that is not always
evident In our day-to-day
existence.
I have been made happy
by reading this news item.
Let me quote him directly:
81 make this bequest in ap-
probation Of freedom and
liberty afforded in this coun-
try Irrespective Of race, creed
or color." What q wonder
full tribute to our beloved
U. 8. A.
Lillian Sinclair Large.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
If at First. =

Trite though it may be, the old
saying, IF at first you don't succeed,
try, try again." fits admirably the case
of Willie Lee Stewart-but the "try"
should be repeated five times. For the
Government is preparing to try Stewart
for the fifth time for murder he COM
mitted more than nine years ago.
That Stewart is guilty of murder
there can be no doubt. Three times he
has been convicted by juries who heard
overwhelming evidence of his fatal gun
attack on Washington grocer during
a store robbery. The fourth trial last
March ended in hung jury-10 to 2
for conviction. An insanity defense was
rejected by the three juries which found
him guilty. Appeals from each convic-
ton resulted in reverSalS on technical
tiles having nothing to do with Stewards
, innocence or guilt. And, in dissenting
from the Supreme Courts setting aside
Of the third conviction, Justice Frank
furter, in effect, charged the majority
with engaging in "a quest for error"
. Now, following report from st.
Elizabeths Hospital that Stewart is men
tally competent to stand trial once more
and that doctors had found no evidence
that he was suffering from a mental
disease at the time of the killing in 1858,
the Government is making ready to try,
. try, try, try, try again. We sincerely
hope that any future quest for error"
will prove fruitleSS. For if there is any
validity to the axiom that prompt JUS
, tice is a deterrent to crime, the long
drawn-out case of Willie Lee Stewart
constitutes reproach to that concept.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
THE PASSING SCENE
Right-Wing Extremism Blocked
BY WILLIAM S. WHIT

Far right-wingian has been
stopped cold-if it ever really
started - in Texas, where
Eastern absentee experts had
so long proclaimed it to be
so positively rampant and 50
dreadfully dangerous.
And Vice President Lyndon
johnson, a veteran occupant
Of the moderate center in the
Democratic Party, has gained
in national prestige-thanks
almost solely to his old en-
emies, the knee-jerk super
liberals.
These are the messages Of
national significance to be
read in the afterlight of the
Democratic primary in Texas.
The most ultra-ultra conser-
vatiye man among six aspir-
ants for the gubernatorial
nomination. ex-Maj. Gen.
Edwin Walker, finished sixth.
You cannot do much worse
than finish last. The next
most ultra conservative,
Marshall Formby, finished
fifth.
In far leading the field for
the primary nomination for
Governor, John Connally, Mr..
Johnson's old political asSo-
ciate, is the heavy favorite
to win in the runoff and then
in November from Republican
Jack Cox.
In any case to the Vice
President this, to be sure,
would be a welcome success
for an old friend. But here,
as in so many other instances,
the knee-jerk liberals man
aged to over-each themselves
and make it something a
great deal more. When it
seemed that Mr.. Connally
would not finish on top, they
proclaimed it as an article of
unarguable truth that a de-
feat for him would be a
reputation for Mr.. johnson.
A Standard Is Set
This would have been in
any event q most debatable
proposition. For Texas, like
practically any other State,
chooses its Governor for many
reasons. But the ultra
liberals, whose tireleSs pur-
suit Of the Vice President is
one Of the political oddities
Of our time, have set UP q
standard from which they can
hardly now retreat. If q loss
Evening star., 1962-05-09
Fatal Speeding

At the present traffic fatal
ity rate, this year should see
a new all-time high estab-
lished. We are now leading
over 1861 at a rate of nearly
3 to /.
1t has become impossible
to drive within the specified
speed limits; there is always
that driver behind you try
ing to pass. There is no need
for this speed, for this callous
disregard for human life.
I reside on Grant Circle.
The motorists that race
around this. circle care
nothing about adults or
youngsters trying to cross the
street. I was once yelled at,
get out Of the street
-" by a Maryland woman
driver who had her own chill
dren in the car, as I crossed
with my infant son in my
arms.
More radar installations are
needed. Serious thought
should be given as to how the
average driver may be
reached for safety's sake, be-
fore more persons are killed;
especially infant children. It
is not enough for the driver
to say I'm sorry"
There is no excuse for any
one driving on our city streets
at these rates of speed, and
with such reckless abandon as
one sees every moment Of the
day. Police alone are power
less to correct this situation.
Gould we possibly get each
driver to swear unto himself
to obey the traffic laws and
let others live?
James B. Blackstone,
Evening star., 1962-05-09

for Mr.. ConnaIly would have
been a loss for Mr.. johnson,
then the heavy victory for
Mr.. Connally must be o heavy
victory for Mr.. Johnson. ~
Neither oversimplif ification.
Of course, was or is an un-
qualified fact. But, having
put over the one side Of the
coin by shrieking so loud and
long, the ultra-liberals are
now stuck with the other side.
If a man is to be blamed for
the rain, he must be given
credit for the sunshine.
COnnally's Achievement
Actually, Mr.. johnson did
not put" Mr.. Connally into
the race. Actually, the Vice
President was not altogether
enchanted by Mr.. Connally's
decision to run, If only be-
cause he knew Mr.. ConnaIly
would be made, willy-nilly,
"Johnson's man." and be-
cause there was no assurance
whatever that this relative
ly unknown young politician
could carry the mail.
OF course, once he took the
plunge, Mr.. Connally was the
beneficiary from old john
son people with whom he
himself had for years dealt
amiably as the Vice Presi-
dents campaign manager.
But it is a very long jump
from that to saying that Mr..
johnson put Mr.. Connal1y
over the top. It was mainly
Mr.. Connally who put Mr..
Connally over.
And the notion that he Is
"anti-liberal" and "anti-ad-
ministration" is another bit
of knee-jerkism. He is anti
administration" to such as
Americans for Democratic
Action, which lays down the
line for the faithful in such
judgments. But, for that
matter. so is President Ken
nedy himself on occasion -
according to Americans for
Democratic Action.
Mr.. Connally did oppose or
have reservations about some
items in the Kennedy pro-
gram and recommendation,
as can be said for every
elected Democratic politician
in office today = including
the special hero Of the Texas
ultra liberals, Senator Ralph
Marlborough. But that seems
about the size Of 1t.
Evening star., 1962-05-09
OAR and P0uIinq

The Star, noting that DR..
Linus Pauling was parading
back and forth and smiling
for photographers as a ban
the-bomb" picket just a few
moments before he entered
the White House as an hon
ored guest Of the President,
made this point: Those so
reckless in their attitudes
toward Americas need to
protect herself should remem-
ber 1t is that freedcm-that
way Of life" which tolerates
such seeming paradoxes that
we are trying to preserve.
AS The, Star said, the din
ner was in honor Of Nobel
Prize winners and the Pres
ident "courteously" played
host to DR.. Pauling as a Nobel
chemistry laureate. Even so,
we couldn't help being re-
minded Of q recent Star let
ter which suggested different
rules for different people.
The writer had apparently
been among the large group
Of OAR members who recent
ly convened in our Nations
Capital. She expressed con-
cern that no hospitality from
the White House had been
offered this actively patriotic
group Of American women
gathered here from every
State In our union; that not
even q member Of the White
House staff had come to ex-
tend the courtesy" Of a few
words Of welcome.
We do not happen to be-
long to this dedicated and
hard-working group Of wom-
en-. But we believe this was
wrong, Surely our leaders
should be careful not to dis
courage responsible voices
looking beyond partisan poll
tics In support Of the prin-
ciples upon which our CON
stitutional freedom - our
way Of life" is based. Think
what a badly needed lift
to American spirits our top
leaders - with their powerful
influence in molding world
opinion - could give by hon.
oring the great contributions
made by patriotic groups.
And what q resounding blow
to world communism.
If we discriminate here
while we offer great prestige
to reckless" leftists - can
we fail to damage and deaden
the very spirit which built
America?
lila n. SOnnemanu.
Evening star., 1962-05-09

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