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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24


Under a Cuban embargo pro-
claimed by President Kennedy
February 3, it was possible tc
ship products into the United
States from foreign countries
other than Cuba even though
they contained ingredients from
Cuba.
E Government lawyers said the
legislation on which the embar-
60 proclamation was based ap-
parently contained a flaw allow
ing the loophole. The Treasury
got around this situation by U.s.
ing powers under the Trading
Z Withheld Enemy Act, which
applies to Communist-con-
trolled countries.
Aimed at Tobacco
The order Tightening the en-
barge primarily at tobacco
products manufactured else
where but containing Cuban to-
bacco.
The rejected note, in which
the Cuban government denied a
part in narcotics smuggling, was
turned back by the State De-
partment because of it's abusive
language.
State Department Press Off,
Ger Lincoln White commented
that it was interesting that the
Communist government Of
Cuba" would deny completely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24

ROME.-A recent item IN
the press quoted former Pres
ident Harry Truman as ex-
claiming that Washington
has turned into a city of
cracker boxes and chicken
coops." But Mr.. Truman,
like everybody else. takes the
destruction of the character
and beauty of our cities and
towns like the weather -
everybody talks but nobody
does anything about it.
While American politi-
clans, contractors and COM
munity planners are busy
bulldozing our old architec-
ture and replacing it with
cracker boxes and chicken
coops," the governments in
Europe are doing the oppo-
site and have been for many
years.
In Rome, any building built
before the 10Th Century be-
comes a historic monument
and as such automatically
falls under the supervision of
the Commission Of Arts.
Neither ancient houses nor
ancient trees are dependable
for the sake Of expanding
highways or erecting lucra-
tive apartments and office
buildings.
Should you live in a chs
toric monument" and desire
to add a bathroom or repair
a window or fireplace, you
must go to the commission
and it will make the plans
to carry out your desires, Sc
lect experienced workmen -
and eventually get the work
done. All you have to do is
pay the bill.
Likewise, trees are spared.
Not long ago a small plot
of ground which contained
an ancient and beautiful tree
was used as the site for a
two-story building for shops
and a restaurant off the
fashionable Via Veneto. To-
day passersby are astonished
to see the tree trunk in the
center Of a store display WIN
dow and above its spreading
branches shade the restau-
rants outdoor terrace.
Greatest hazard for build
ings is Roma Vecchia" (Old
Romeo much of which is bur-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
BY DAISY CLELAND
Star Staff Writer

President Kennedy has ar
addition to his White House
desk-a $500 glass ornament
given to him by World War II
comrades.
The gift was presented by
members of the PIT Boat His
torical Committee, an offshoot
of an organization Of ex-PT
boat officers formed after the
War. The later group is called
Peter Tare, Inc.-for PIT in
Navy signal jargon.
The President commanded
PIT 100 in World War II.
The ornament is about the
size of a mans forearm with an
etching of PIT 100 on it, made
by Steuben Glass Co. The
presentation was made in the
Presidents office on March IA.
Peter Tare, Inc, a social,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
CONSTANTINE BROWN
The Changing Character of Cities

apartments Of no architec-
tural distinction.
1t is a wonder that mod
ern-day architects do not de-
vote more time to studying
the ancients, not only for
their art but for strong con-
struction. Here in Rome a
recent rainstorm overlooked
the Tiber and a 30-year-old
bridge crumbled. All traffic
had to be diverted to a near
by ancient bridge which has
stood since Caesars time.
And, speaking Of architec-
ture, your reporter had come
to the conclusion he disliked
all new trends in buildings
until he came to Rome. In
the outer edges Of the new
Rome the modern apartment
houses are neither monoto-
nous nor ugly. And since ev-
cry apartment has a balcony
the buildings have many
flowerboxes which in summer
provide a riot of color.
The only place one sees the
uglineSs of modern squares is
the once slum area which has
become Olympic Village. Vast
jerry-built apartments were
erected quickly to house the
Olympic athletes during the
1860 games. These remain,
along with the stadium and
its parking lots.
The new campaign to at
tract European tourists to
the United States is getting
no help from American build
ers-private or governmental.
Tourists want to see the
American character as it was
when our early history was
being made. Once visitors
have seen our skyscrapers
and our beautiful country
from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific they have seen all. Our
cities are becoming look
alikeS.
Tourists who travel
through Europe Gtaly had 10
million last year, find so
much to see that many make
repeated trips. 1t is doubt
full that this will be so with
the European tourist to the
United States. For half the
price Of crossing the Atlantic
he can see the ancient cities
of this continent, all Of which
have had special care in pre-
serving their historic archi-
lecture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
RALPH McGHL

President Kennedy does
not toss off quotable SEN
fences in the sonorous ora
torical style Of Winston
Churchill. But his eloquence,
nonetheless. is inspiring and
many Of his phrases have
hooks in them that hold them
In the mind. They are re-
membered, not merely as
image-making phrases, but
as thought-provoking verbal
goads.
One Of these was delivered
at a recent reception for
Latin ambassadors and in
ter-American economic ex-
perts. Unhappily, the Ma
TONS eyes were not fixed on
this gathering. Yet, a Ken
nedy statement made to it is
one Of the most profoundly
meaningful ones of our gen.
Grafton.
Those who make peace
ful revolution impossible will
make violent revolution in
evitable," he said.
Here is a truth attested
to by many bloody pages of
history. The British throne
easily could have averted the
American revolution by a
peaceful policy of reform to
alleviate grievances. The
French revolution could have
been avoided if a weak king,
a more foolish queen, and
the parasites and tops Of the
royal court had been willing
to abdicate and initiate i'm
mediate reforms. Slavery ev-
erywhere was in retreat in
the civilized world at the time
the powerful Southern cotton
planters arrogantly threw
their political influence on
the side of human enslave-
ment and the expansion of
it, By making peaceful revo-
luton, or reform, impossible
they made inevitable a war
that brought bankruptcy to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
Clouds Of Vupor
Elected by Rocket
BY the Associated Press

A rocket fired aloft from
Wallops Island. Va, released
a colorful cloud Of sodium vapor
high over the Atlantic last
night.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said the
shot went off on schedule, at
6:44 pm.
The sodium vapor was elected
when the rocket was % miles
up. The pink and yellow vapor
clouds continued to pour out
until it reached an altitude of
about SO miles, NASA said.
The vapor clouds were visible
for several hundred miles along
the coast.
NASA scientists study the
vapor clouds to determine at
mospheric density and wind
velocity high above the earth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
Rone's Policy Of Preserving Antiquities
In Rebuilding Preferred to Woshinqton's

led beneath new Rome. Many
a builder has invested a great
deal Of money in excavating
for a new building only to
come upon buried homes, rel
les or streets 1000 or more
years old. When this hap
pens all work must stop and
the city takes over the prop
erty which it will eventually
eXcavate.
Traffic congestion becomes
worse each year in Rome, but
no Roman would even con-
template the destruction of
some of its ancient walls,
which are in the way, in order
to solve the problem.
The city of Paris recently
announced its intention of
restoring two great slum
areas to their former gran
deur and beauty. They are
called Les Marrais (the
marshes.) These buildings,
once the palaces of the no.
bles in the days Of Henry
w and Louis XIII are now
inhabited by the very poor,
and are falling into decay.
The Paris city fathers have
decided to restore them. But
the facades must be kept in
tact and the interiors are to
be modernized, but in keep
ing with their period.
However, this work is not
to begin until places are
found for their present ten
ants to move with as little
disruption to their lives as
possible. The news pictures
and stories published in Paris
newspapers reminded this re-
porter of the once beautiful
Southeast section of Wash
ington, much of which has
become slums. though the
architecture of the Federal
houses remains beautiful.
Thousands of colored families
lived there peacefully, many
Of them having we'll estab-
lished, small businesses in
the area. But the buildings
fell beneath bulldozers with
out consideration for where
the families were to go and
how they were to earn a liv-
ing. After some five years,
only a few blocks have been
rebuilt with houses and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
Soup Box Derby
Is Set for July ID

The 25th annual Metropol-
itan Area Soap Box Derby will
be held here July IA.
Open to all II to Is year olds
the event is being sponsored by
Radio Station WTOP, Metro.
politan Area Chevrolet dealers
and the District Department Of
the American Legion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
By the Associated Press

A United States experiment
using chemicals to strip the
leaves from South Wet Namese
jungle trees providing cover for
Communist guerrillas has
flopped so far, it was learned
today.
The defoliation experiment
has not been abandoned yet.
Another try is expected when
the rainy season starts, about
early May.
But officials are not hopeful,
Comments from informed au-
thorities range from outright
dismissal of the experiment as
a farce" to a concession that it
had turned out mot so good so
far"
Heavy jungles covering much
Of South Wet Nam have
shielded Communist guerrillas
from aerial observation and
permitted them to move about
freely. The guerrillas have
taken advantage of the thick
leaf canopy to slip across the
border from Laos.
Planes Drop Chemicals
Sponsors of the defoliation
experiment-the Defense De-
partment's Advanced Research
Projects Agency-had hoped 1t
would provide a way to deny
cover to the guerrillas by killing
the jungle foliage over wide
areas.
For the past several months,
United States planes have been
dropping various kinds of
chemicals on trees along a Is
mile segment of a highway
running out of Saigon.
Officials had hoped to keep
the work secret, but word got
out in Wet Nam.
The Russians hoped on the
reports and charged last week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
U. S. to Shut Down
Bomb Wing in Britain

LONDON, Mar. "a (AP).-
% The United States Sd Air Force
in Britain announced yesterday
it will close down the 47th
Tactical Bomb Wing at Soul
thorpe, Norfolk, in July, 1862.
The bomb wing is equipped
with B-66 jets.
? A "phasedown" of some
United States Air Force install
lations in Britain was an
nounced last summer as part
of a modernization program
but it was temporarily shelved
in October by Air Force Secre-
tary Zuckert because of the
world situation. Sculthorpe
will continue to furnish wealth
er, communications and other
support, the Air Force said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24

Chemists have discovered a
cheap way to manufacture GER
tain compounds that increase
the output of fruit trees, a
discovery that may have i'm
portant agricultural effects.
The breakthrough was re-
ported by DR.. H. E. Fritz of
South Charleston. w. Va, at
the American Chemical Society
meeting here yesterday. DR.
Fritz, a chemist of the Union
Carbide Olefins Co., defined the
substances as "3-indolealkanoic
acids" They have long been
known to have potent effects
on plant growth but up to now
have been hard to manufac-
ture.
Fruit without POllinnation
The acids can cause plants
to develop fruit without poll
nation, and to increase the
number of fruit formed. Root
growth is also stimulated, DR..
Fritz said.
"A much greater commercial
utilization appears likely, since
there are reports that these
compounds affect the roofing
of many commercially import
ant trees, such as citrus, fig,
date and fruit, as well as af-
fecting the roofing of many
other plants such as orchid,
potato, carrot, sugar cane and
grape vine" DR.. Fritz pointed
out.
The West Virginia chemist
added that these compounds
can stem certain plant dis
eases and control pests, as well
as increase plants resistance to
frost.
In another paper concerning
trees, a Rhode Island chemist
said the same chemical that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
Chemical Increases
Output of Fruit Trees

makes human muscles work ap.
parently is involved in the pro.
cess that carries water to thu
top Of a tall tree. This chem.
ical, adenosine triphosphatt
(ATP). is destroyed by the fun.
gus that causes Dutch Elm Dis.
ease, DR.. Ralph H. Kurtzman
jr., reported.
"ATP is necessary for the
maintenance Of water in the
stems, and anti-ATP is respon.
sible for willing" DR.. Kurtz.
man said. DR.. Kurtsman's pa
per was delivered before the
ACS' Division Of Biological.
Chemistry.
Quick CholesterOl Test
The same division heard Dr.
T. c. Huang of Canton, Ohio
tell OF a new "quickie" pro-
cedure for establishing a pa
tents blood cholesterol level.
Cholesterol is suspected Of
having an influence in harden
ing of the arteries. A test fol
the cholesterol level is stand
ard in treating high-blood-
pressure and arteriosclerosis
cases. Up to now these COM
plicated analyses have involved
a dozen steps and take "a hours
to accomplish.
DR.. Huang said he uses a
tomato extract called tomatine
to remove free cholesterol from
a blood sample. This cuts out
many steps and reduces the
time factor from "a hours tc
about one hour, he said.
The scientist, director of re-
search at Canton's Timken
Mercy Hospital, said the test
will also be useful in the study
Of malfunctions of the sex hor-
mones, cortisone and bile salts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-24
U.S.. Plugs LooPhoIe
Against Cuban Imports
BY the Associated Press

The Government has plugged loophole in its ban
ports from Fel Casros Cuba and spuned
regime denied having hand in smuggling narcotics into the
United States.
"A Treasury Department order effective at today
blocks shipments from country of products containing
Evening star., 1962-04-16

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The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14
Russian Spurns US. Offer Of 14-Pound Fragment
 Of Disintegrated Sputnik

UNITED NATIONS, NY. R = The United States offered to the Soviet Union today 14-pound fragment it said came from Sputnik W and landed in ManitoWoc, Wis, in the early morning hours of Sept. 5.
 US. delegate Francis Plimpton made the offer at a meeting of the JUN. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
 Plimpton said the offer was a concrete gesture of real coopera- tion in peaceful exploration of outer space.
 The step caught Phantom Moro gov, the Soviet delegate, by sur prise and he made no immediate move to accept the fragment for study by Soviet scientists. Morozov had just concluded an attack on US. policy in the outer space committee.
 Plimpton said the fragment, which weighed 20 lbs, had been delivered promptly to the Smith sonian Astrophysical Laboratory in Washington. He said scientists there took off lb. slice in order to study the origin of the fragment.
 He said it landed in the street in Manitowo and fortunately caused no damage"
 After the meeting was adjourned, Morozov walked out of the com mittee room without accepting the fragment.
 He told a reporter he consider ed the offer "a circus trick in- tended to strengthen the US. posi- tion' against a Soviet-proposed declaration of legal principles on outer space exploration.
The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14

The President said Castro had committed himself to Soviet takeover in hope of preventing his own collapse
 The chief executive said he dis cussed Cuba, among other subjects, with former President Dwight Eli senhoWer Monday but did not seek any agreement from Eisenhower to bar Cuba as a congressional cam paign issue. Neither, he said, would he suggest that Republican shots at his Cuban policy were political ly motivated.
 Kennedy said he and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will analyze all available intelligence to determine whether or when Cuba does pre- sent an offensive threat In the meantime, he urged North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allies to give a second thought to allowing their ships to carry supplies to Cuba and called on Latin American governments to be on the alert. He said the United States will pay no heed to Soviet threats of retalia- ton to a US. attack on Cuba = that it does not need MoscoW's s help in making decisions.
The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14
Five Injured and Infant is Dead In Crash at Candle

FAIRBANKS tP = Mrs. Fred Erickson told today of seeing mem- bers of her family floating on their banks in the icy waters of the Candle River after a plane piloted by her husband crashed on takeoff at Candle Wednesday evening.
 The 25=year-ol mother, who lost the youngest of her three children in the crash, spoke from a hospital bed where she is being treated for leg fractures and severe cuts.
 Mrs Erickson was unaware of the fate of her husband until to- day, when she was informed that Fred "SWedea Erickson, 30, re- mains in critical condition at the Nome hospital.
 Aboard the plane in addition to the parents were their children: Barbara, s; Jo Anne, Is months; Jacquelyn Rene, month: and Mrs. Eriekson's sister, Nancy, F.
 T remember what sounded like something crashing into the wing. the mother recalled. s.Then we just fell ,
 After the crash she saw her hus- band and Barbara floating on their backs in the river.
 Nancy was getting out the other side of the plane while I was trying to pull myself out of the cockpit. My=legs were caught in the Wreckage. My right leg was pinned between the airplane and rocks in the bottom of the river
 "When I finally managed to pull my legs free I crawled through tht water to Jo Anne who was stand ing in the water crying, holding her arms to me-
 Mrs. Erickson remembers hand. ing little Jacqueline Rene to some, one from the village who heard the crash and came running. Although unable to walk, the mother man. aged to carry Jo Anne to shore.
 Mrs Erickson does not yet know that her baby died enroute to Kotzebue where the other children were taken.
 Erickson is a former Wien bush pilot who had mined at Candle this summer and was taking his family to Fairbanks.
The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14
Kennedy Urges
Kennedy Urges
 Missile Space Producers 10 Adopt The Union Shop

WASHINGTON 4P = President Kennedy has called on four balk- ing missile-space producers to adopt the union shop or bear re- sponsibility for disastrous strikes.
 The union shop, Kennedy told his news conference Thursday, is an accepted fact in American in dastry.
 The Presidentspoke out strong ly in behalf of White House board recommendation that the Loekheed, Convair, North Ameri- can and Ryan firms require their 100000 workers to be union mem bers provided the workers give prior approval by tWo-thirds vote.
 If there is a strike. Kennedy said, noting two unions involved have accepted the boards peace formula, the responsibility would be very clear, think, to the Amer ican people for such action. '
 The Presidents comments were in response to a question as to whether he felt the unions, having accepted while the companies have not, were being forced into a strike against the key government sup pliers of space and missile equip ment and planes. In endorsing his Aerospace Board report favoring the union shop for the Loekheed, Convair, North American and Ryan firms, Kennedy said the required union membership proviso had been adopted years ago by most other major US industries, including auto, steel and aluminium pro- ducers
 Kennedy noted that in this case the tWo-thirds worker ratification condition gives the workers a veto.
 The Machinists said the unions, the AFL-CIO Auto Workers and Machinists, were agreeing to take a recommended wage increase that was mot particularly generous, . and well within the administration ] economic guideposts.
The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14
By Ward Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer

aSSoCtuteo TIeSS StuJJ " !ueT
 ANCHORAGE R = Republican gubernatorial candid te Mike Stepovich accused the Egan admin istration today of reckless financial policies and confusion which has hampered the operation of state agences.
 Stepovich, who will meet the Democratic incumbent, Wm Egan in the Nov. 6 general election, told 86 delegates and 28 alternate delegates to the COP State Con- Vention:
 T charge that the Egan admin istration is hiding behind the financial crisis it faces, the failures in its program, and the problems it has created for the future. y
 Stepovich said Egan, during ap- pearance here, s'gave an impression that Alaska right now is S20 mil lion to the good. That is far from the truth.
 We would have a balance of S20 million, perhaps, if we stop ped paying our bills for a year Our estimated balance for the cur rent fiscal year is about $3 million not S20 million
 To balance his budgets, Stepo- vich said, Egan has used statehood cash grants, which run out in
The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14
Stepovich Accuses
 Egan of Reckless Financial Policies

1863, and unpredietable oil income to pay day to day expenses of government.
 Gotten Nothing"
 The tragedy of the situation is the fact that we have gotten noth- ing out of all this spending," Stepo- vich said. Show me a monument to the Egan administration
 Is it our road system? No The road improvement program has been in state of confusion throughout the past four years. Ad- ministrators have been hired and fired and plans have been changed but still the road program remains far behind schedule.
 'Is our ferry system coming along satisfactorily, do we have a vocational school at Nome, have any major goals of the Egan ad- ministration been met? We can- not find one major accomplish ment of the present administra- tion.s
 '' The vast sums of money that have been spent by the pre- sent administration have gone to meet the salary expense of an in- Hated government, to finance waste, and to build a political ma chine that is now dictating to all
 Continued on Page 3
The Nome nugget., 1962-09-14
Glenn Says He and Schirra Are Still Good Friends

HOUSTON R = It. Col. John Glenn Jr. said today he and his astronaut teammate, Wally Schir- "a, are good friends and T will certainly continue to support his flight just as well as I possibly can."
 Glenn and Dr. Robert R. Gil ruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, released pre- pared statements this afternoon after conferring nearly four hours and studying the text of Schirra's telecast.
 Gilruth said there is no real con- troversy existing regarding Glenn's position in the space program or on other questions raised by Schir- ra.