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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
ATGT Data Cable
Plan Is Attacked

ed from the international re-
cord field, including data
transmission, facsimile, and all
other forms Of non-voic e
transmission" American Ca
ble's petition declared.
Directing to AT&T's plans to
build another cable, American
Cable asked either for a guar
anteed part in ownership of
any such cable or for the right
to build the cable itself or with
other record carriers.
Besides challenging AT st S
moves on non-voice commune
cations, the TIT subsidiary at
tackled the company for fail
ing to make available" to its
competitors the channels they
need to compete effectively in
international communications.
AT&T. the competitor charged,
is using its power to grant or
deny channels as leverage to
get its way in its request for
non-voice transmitting au-
thority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
Employment

Area payros were estimated at S4O9 900 for 1871 900
employees in September compared with $34S70 900 for
900 employees in September last year The totals con-
trasted with $28478OOO for $1,000 employees in septem
Der, 1858.
Federal payrols Of 60250OO listed for 26S50O
persons compared with for 25 700 persons in
September last year and $12O112O for 227OO persons
in September, 1858.
Private payros in September toaled $22O6060OO for
506O0 persons compared with sos for $4,000 in
September last year and $141,687OOO for 3s14OO in
September, 1858.
State and local governments in the had payrols
estimated at SGT for $4,000 persons in September
compared with $26421 900 for $1,000 year earlier and
$40 s7s 600 for $4,000 in the same 1858 month.
Area estimates for September payrollS and jobs are
helou uyth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
Canada Plans
Push in Trade

Canada's companies are 60
ing to try much harder to sell
their wares in the United
States.
Theodore j. Emmert, presi-
dent of Hawker Siddeley Can
ada Ltd, told the Advertising
Club of Washington yesterday
that Canada must wipe out an
export import trade deficit
with the United States as a
matter Of economic survival. -
Canada Is now buying SIS
billion more a year from the
United States than the United
States busy from it. Although
the Canadian economy is less
than a 10th as large as the
United States economy, it is
running a trade imbalance
more than half as large. Can
ada is living beyond her means
on a dangerous SCALE" the
speaker said.
Because of her much small
er domestic market" Mr.. En-
inert said, industrial Canada
today must look elsewhere to
sell her goods. Quite naturally
her eye turns first to the i'm
mense United States market"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
Interest Declines
On Home Looms
By the Associated Press

The annual interest rate on
new home purchase loans edged
downward a fraction In Sep
TENDER for the first time in
five months, Joseph P. McMur-
ray, chairman of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board said
yesterday.
Mr.. McMurray said there also
was a lowering of initial fees
and charges for such loans. On
other than new home financing,
Mr.. McMurray said, the aver
age interest rate moved up
slightly while the fees and
charges held steady at the Au-
gust level.
The interest rate on new
home purchase in September
averaged 5.81 per cent, with fees
and charges of O.61 per cent
of the principal. On existing
home financing, the interest
rate was 5.94 per cent, with
fees and charges of 0.56 per
cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
Sales

Area department store sales in nine months Of this
year reached high marks per cent above year ago.
with the downtown portion of the total contributing
a per cent increase.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond complies these
figures but does not disclose dollar Volumes
Area new passenger-car sales in eight months Of this
year 2O9 per cent above year ago. Nine months
new-car sales the District of Columbia up 1873 per
cent and used-car sales rose ga per cent
Net auto registrations in the District up 81 per
cent from year ago September 3d.
Unit sales of televson sets 202 per cent above
year ago the District and nearby Maryland sections
while sales Of radio sets up 21 per cent in the
nine months.
An in the sales tax boosted District sales and
gross receipts tax collections 1873 per cent ahead Of
year ago.
Nine months totals are listed below with those for the
Same months m 1852
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
ADVANCES CUT
WATER PLANT
COST IN HALF

NEW YORK CAP). -
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
says that chronological ad-
vances have made it pos
sible to practically cut in
half the cost of turning sea
water or river water into
pure water.
Roy E. Gaunt, sales man.
ager of the company's heat
transfer division, said pure
water can no wbe produced
in volume at under so cents
per thousand gallons. The
cost Of the discrimination
process has been the major
problem in the process.
Mr.. Gaunt said the latest
development is a method to
chemically pretreat sea
water before it is fed into
the plant that makes it
pure.
Westinghouse began its
efforts to purify water for
electric power plants in
1890.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
3 Banks Report
October Deposits

Washington's three largest
banks, Riggs, American Secu-
rity & Trust Co. and the Ma
tional Bank of Washington
had a total of $1,346,185,0 900 in
deposits outstanding as Of
October %, the Federal Reserve
Bank in Richmond reported to-
day.
OF these, $914.4S1, 900 were
in demand deposits and $431,-
7O4, 900 in time deposits.
Gross loans amounted to
$3.50, 1872 900, while investments
totaled $497, $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
Ford in Britain
CutsPaYMeIon

LONDON, (AP).-The British
Ford company celebrates a
Strike-free year today by
handing its $4,000 workers a
5 per cent pay rise.
1T has been possible" the
management said, because Of
the substantial increase in pro-
ductivity over the past IL
months.
There has been a Joint eff
fort by management and work.
ers with a year completely free
from strikes"
The award signaled a drastic
improvement in Ford labor re-
lations since the company dis
missed II Communists and
leftists as trouble-makers last
year. Their dismissal brought
an abrupt end to unofficial
stoppages which had plagued
production ever since World
War II.
At the same time Ford's 5
per cent posed some embar-
rassment for British engineer
ing employers faced with pay
demands.
Their federation has been
offering a straight 3 per
cent increase, citing Govern
ment statements that increases
this year should in general not
exceed that level.
The increase will bring the
basic pay Of an established
Ford worker to 16 pounds l6
shillings 8 pence ($48.04 a
week. Take-home pay is higher
because of overtime.
Wilfred Beard, union nego-
tiator, said:
1T was a first class offer.
For the first time in 80 years
I didn't have the nerve to ask
for more"
Negotiations will continue on
the employee demands for three
weeks vacation instead Of two.
Vauxhall, the British SubSidi-
airy of General Motors. already
has made this concession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
By TOM STUCKEY
Associated Press Writer

ANNAPOLIS.-Late last July
O garment factory went out OF
business in the little Eastern
Shore town of Crisfield.
Thirty days later the sewing
machines and the towns econ
urny we're humming again
with most of the credit going
TO the Maryland Department
Of Economic Development.
This was one of the quickest
successes in the departments
foUr-year history. 1t came
about this way.
Shortly before the Crisfield
plant closed, the department
had written letters to about 70
businessmen in the Norfolk
IVa) area who it thought
might want to locate plants on
the Maryland Eastern Shore
after the new Chesapeake Bay
Bridge = Tunnel opens next
spring.
Agency Set Up in SO
A letter from an interested
garment manufacturer, Bern
stein and Sons, came back just
after the Crisfield company
closed.
With the help of the depart
ment, the Norfolk firm soor
had the plant open again. II
now has more than so persons
busy making women's skirts
and bathrobes.
Results for this newest Of
MTyland's State agencies
usually are of a less spectacu.
lar mature.
The department was created
by the legislature in 1859 to di,
rect Maryland's efforts in the
highly competitive business o.
attracting industry.
George W. HUXLEY jr., whC
has been director since the be,
ginning, says the function o.
his agency often is misunder.
stood.
ct is a misconception," hi
says, that the problems Of
economic development can bt
solved by riding herd meth
DDS whereby supermen or
horsebck round up new indus
tries and deliver them safely
20 the States corral"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
Construction

Incomplete totals months Of this year indicated
overall construction total Of more than $500
million when Federal contracts for September finally
reported.
Private permits for the nine months aggregated
$464 0O0 with gain Of 1O6 per cent from year ago.
Residential permit of 1892 only Is per cent
higher but nonreSidentia work. including many office
buildings jumped 524 per cent Federal construction for
eight months totaled $40 $4,000 dip Of AZ per cent
Nine months permit totals for the area are listed
below with figures for a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
MARYLAND AGENCY TO RESCUE
Closed Factory On Eastern Shore
Gets q New Industry in 30 Days

lished a number of booklets CIV
ing plant location data for the
State as a whole and for vari-
Gus sections. The department
also works closely with local
economic development organ
izations in each of Maryland's
% counties.
Since businesses jealousy
guard their secret plans fol
movement and expansion, the
department sometimes works in
a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere
And the agency is careful not
to make announcements until
details for the new firm are
completed.
Third Fastest Growing
Maryland's economy has beer
rolling along at an impressive
rate recently.
The State is the third fastest
growing east of the Mississippi.
trailing Florida and Dele
ware. by all standard indicat-
ors of economic growth, we are
developing faster than the Ma
ton as a WHOLE" Mr.. Hubley
says. I'm some areas we are
running more than twice al
much as the national average
Mr.. HUXLEY is convinced that
the economic future of Mary
land is bright. He feels this il
particularly true in the Balti-
more Washington area where
the glamorouS scence-industry
field is expanding rapidly.
I'VE are close to Washington
probably the biggest customer
for this kind of industry" he
says.
And he points to the large
number of colleges and research
institutions offering doctora,
and post doctoral work in vari.
GUS fields of science.
AS for the Eastern Shore, the
new bridge-tunnel linking the
peninsula with Virginia should
proved a big economic boost
New port facilities at Cambridge
also should help open up the
area.
For Western Maryland plans
are being made to open up the
area with a network of high
ways and a redevolpment pro-
gram has been Initiated for the
entire appalachian region.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30

Instead, the agency can only
provide information. In most
cases the industrial prospect
actually comes to the depart
ment.
There was, for example the
| Marylandth who came to the
agency two years ago with a
new ideas in foods.
You just take a soft shell
clam, drop it in hot oil, and, if
you have the secret formula,
it pops into a tasty clam chip.
The department helped him
arrange for financial backing
and choose a site. Soon a clam
chip factory will be built in
Dorchester County, using one
of Maryland's abundant ma
tural resources.
The clam chips will be in
PRODUCED next year at the Mary
land Worlds Fair exhibit.
Another native Marylander
came up with an idea for max
ing bowling pins from the tons
of waste sawduSt which pour
out of Western Maryland's
| lumber and paper mills.
He, too, was helped by the
department and, as q result,
Sher- Wood Products Inc, will
make bowling pins when it fin
ishes a new plant.
Two or Three a Weeks
During the first eight months
Of this year, a new industry
was born somewhere in Mary
land about every other work.
ing day.
The department figures it has
been instrumental in attracting
to the State 20 new firms which
will employ about 1900 persons
with annual payrolls Of scale
SIS million.
And we have had more in
quiries this year than any other
year since the department be-
gan" Mr.. HUXLEY said. They
have been averaging about one
every day-and-a-half."
Industries want to know
about everything from trans
portation, raw materials. and
labor down to what clubs are
in the area" Mr.. Hubley says
To help answer these ques-
tons, the department has pub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
By LYLE DENNISTON
Star Business Writer

A competitor has accuse d
American Telephone g. Teleg-
raph Co. Of trying to take over
all the money-making part of
sending data across the ocean.
Ann rican Cable & Radio
Corp. asked the Federal Com
munications Commission yes
terday to prevent AT&T from
getting a monopoly in intena-
tional m ovem emit Of data by
non-voice technlques-Such as
computers, or Special data
printers.
AT&T has asked the FEC to
let it use non-voice techniques
by way Of voice-carrying I'M
dersea cables that run between
the United States and Europe.
The company also wants FEC
to let it build q new cable to
France, and to use that, too,
for non-voice data-sending.
American Cables Bid
American Cable, a subsidiary
of International Telephone &
Telegraph Co., pie a de d with
the commission to turn down
both AT&T requests. Instead,
American Gable said, 1t wants
the right to build the cable to
France.
The TIT subsidiary argues
that AT&Ts new moves are
IAN obvious attempt to re-
peat in the international field
what it has already done in the
domestic-to divert the more
profitable forms of record COM
munication from its smaller
competitors"
AT&T, American Cable ar
CUES, already has a monopoly
at home and internationally in
voice communications-that is,
telephoning. Moreover, the TIT
subsidiary asserts, AT&T is
handling much of the domestic
non-voice business that is real
ly prifitable-data transmits
sion.
Fears Effect on Others
About all that is left for 9TH
er companies to do in the COM
munications business inside the
United States, American Cable
said, is telegraph message serv-
ice. And that, it contends, can't
pay its own way.
If ART is allowed to move
in on global data transmitting,
the complaining company as
serted, this will "leave the in
lternational record carriers .
with the task of trying to stay
in b business based largely on
message operations"
"AT&T should be exclud-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
r. Area eStlmaJeS LOT september pdyHU
connared below with q year earlier:
Public Utilities

q The Washington area had 545s16 electric customers,
4s 73l gas meters and LATEST telephones September
80 all of them new records for this date
Electric and gas sales in nine months Of 1868 exceeded
the same 1862 period by 10 per cent and 99 per cent
respectively The September daily average Of originating
local telephone calls was up 1913 per cent
Comparisons with year earlier follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
.BIOughDefends
Race Efforts
BY ROGER LANE
AP Business News Writer

NEW YoRK,-Roger M.
Blough, board chairman, be-
lieves that United States Steel
Corp. has fulfilled its RESPONSE
bility to work for harmony in
the Birmingham, Ala, area,
scene Of racial strife.
He rejects as improper
criticism that the company,
largest employer in the COM
munity. hasn't welded enough
economic influence in the sit
uation.
Questioned at a news con-
ference, Mr.. Blough described
employment practices at United
States Steel's Fairfield plant,
outside Birmingham, as living
up to longtime, company-wide
anti discrimination policies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
STAR BUSINESS BAROMETER
Area Gains Widen in Nine Months,
p PayroIIs VI 1919 From Year Ago
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
star Financial Editor

Major barometers Of business activity in the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area reflected steady growth at the start
of the final 1868 quarter and record payros ranged nearly
10 per cent above year ago.
Barring extremely unfavorabe weather unexpected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30

less than year ago. Private payros of nearly 1921 million
were up 81 per cent.
While area employment Of s31 900 persons in Sepem-
Der was up % per cent year ago. unemployment Of
2OO0 persons up ST. per cent and obleS payments
IN the District of Columbia S79 per cent above
September last year.
Increases public utilities customers reflected further
growth in population and financial data indicated
quicker pace Of business activity.
Bank deposits and share savings of savings and loan
associations both to peaks in nine months Of this
year. Construction activity reached volume Of more than
$500 million in the period and department store sales
were up 10 per cent from year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30

economic setbackS, the way seemed
clear for continued growth and
a new all-time holiday trade in
December. Year-to-year gains in
the third quarter were somewhat
larger than in the first half Of
the yaer.
Area payrolls of more than $409
million in September were 9.5 per
cent above a year ago. Federal
Government psyrolls Of $161 mil
lion we're up an impressive 10 per
cent, due in part to a pay raise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30

This & enotheF In 9 series
Of surveys Of the WoshinstOa
eres economy. BY examining
h suortsFiy in terms Of q
STANDARD set Of eriterio, The
Star hopes TO give reodsn
the local business picture in
fuIl perspective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
80 Per Cent Negro

He estimated that 80 per cent
Of employees there were Negroes,
including some in skilled labor,
professional, clerical and super
visory categories.
He said Arthur v. Wiebel,
president, has participated eff
fectively in civic endeavor and
tension-relieving efforts since
1851.
But for a corporation to at
tempt to exert economic COM
pulsion to achieve any particu-
lar end in the social area seems
to me to be quite beyond what
a corporation should do and
quite beyond what it can dc"
Mr.. Blough said.
The Fairfield works of United
States Steel are part Of the
firms Tennessee coal and iron
division, which employees near
lily 10000 persons in Alabama
mostly in the Birmingham area,
Attorney Urged Pressure
Critics, including attorney
Charles Morgan Of Birming-
ham, have intimated that
United States Steel might have
put more pressure on for racial
harmony by letting bankers
and local suppliers know that
its business would be awarded
partly on the basis Of demon
strated interest in improving
Negro opportunities.
The subject came up after
United States Steel reported
earning for the third quarter
which were somewhat higher
than in the like 1862 quarter
but reflected smaller gains
than achieved by some other
large steel companies.
Earnings were listed at 1854
million, or IA cents a share, as
against $3.50 million, or 80
cents a share, in July-Septem-
Der of 1862 when profits hit
a 16-year low for a non-strike
quarter.
For the first nine months
the company cleared $149.t
million, equal to $241 a share
compared with $122.8 million
or $1.92 a share, in the year.
! earlier period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-30
CREDIT PEAK

BdnI<s expand their looms,
but hold investments even.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-24
Background

LEW IMPROSED foYeses Of the WOrds haze had such
natural protective features Vicbg during the CiU War
Sitting atop bluff overlooking the Mississippi its
commanded the Tiver oTbdding GttGck from the
aUe To the north the sOGnp and bGyos the s
tenn virtually doomed overland offensive to O0terlO00ed dure
An assault from the south and OOud haze leap the Big
Black RUer ew miles east Of the city An approaching from
those directions 00u risk between John
PembetonS forces Vcsbrg and at least part Of Joe John
sons Army Of Tennessee the in the y enUTons Of
the city ITSELF the C0derGtes had built eGsome chain Of
tenchents and Notifications Union Commander Grant DeD
Of all these obstacles But Grant not to be easily
d0yed and resolved try anything get the bGstion
to beat choke into submission Starting in February the Fed
eGl commander therefore spent nearly months probing the in
teGte OGerOGs for route transport his troops beloO and
above the city these UoIued cutting canal the base
Of the peninsula opposite the city tOe the Mississippi made
sharp bend Farther es another cGn0LdOOnO exploit under
taken open route DuckpOT La e still deeper in Lou
sGnG another force at york trying make continuous pas
the lakes and b0yous the Lake Providence
t On the side Mississippi other troops and parts of
D0uid POrteTs OG trying punch through the so0gy
tGnge Of the upper YGzOo and SeeIes Bayou Each effort
nightmare but the army and mary kneO they the
not Wondering in OieT quarters And the Northern home
front getting M from the efforts reported in the
Front he Evening Star Saturday. February a. 1883:
THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURC
Canal to be Widened and Deepened.
From Correspondence Philadelphia Inquirer)
CAIRO Feb 8-WOrk Of the most important character is
being performed the Peninsula II is work of the
pick and spade These erection of batteries op
pOse WarrentOn and the excavation Of mouth for Far
raguts canal The canal mouth shall receive the full
current the Mississippi and convey direct the old chan
ne also to be wened and deepened by dredging machines
All depends however upon the clay being dug through
and the full strength of the river sent into it,.
The canal project named after Federal Adm DAVID
Glasgow FGGOn for the good conceived oft
months earlier in the Tiuer sO0T
From The Evening Star Saturday February a. 1885,
FROM VICKSBURC.
TWO MILES ABOVE vICKSBURG Feb H. via Cairo Feb
STOday there many indications the fleet of an
mediate movement which seems however independent of
army Perhaps Haines Bluff battery Yazoo river
be attacked and thus render possible vessels during
the present high stage of water ascend the de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-24
ShrinkS HemOrrh0ids
New Way
Without Surgery
STOPS ITCH RELIEVES PAIN


For the first time science has found
a new healing substance with the
astonishing ability to shrink hemor-
rhOids and to relieve pain - without
surgery.
In case after case, while gently
relieving pain, actual reduction
(shrinkage) took place.
Most amazing Of all results were
SO thorough that sufferers made
astonishing statements like "Piles
have ceased to be a problemi"
The secret Ii a new healing sub
stance (Bio-Dyne0) -discovery Of q
~orld-famous research institute.
This substance Is now available In
sHppositovv or ointment form under
the name Preparation re. Ask for II
at all drug counters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-24
THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW
CHANNELS FOR OUR CUNBOATS.

dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial from Cairo 10th
inst, says:
The work of cutting boats into Lake Prov
dence from the river proceeding with spirit and ready
access is expected the Black Ouacha and Red rivers Gen
eral German is pursuing with energy clearing
the old passage to make navgabe Blackwaer
There depth Of water enough but umps vegea
ton choke up the passage the pass cleared gives
sion to the Blacaer hence Taahache whence boats
can reach the of Vicksburg via the Yazoo river
General German has a strong picket force half mile
ahead OF the working party which has had srmshes
with the enemy and some killed both sides The
enemy engagedn filling the channel with trees to delay
the work of the Federals -"
NEXT Sunday Those Gambling HeIIs