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The Sidney herald., 1963-06-12


Ranchers who live along the proposed
tourist highway in western North Da-
kota have reason to be more than little
concerned with bill introduced by Sen.
Burdick of North Dakota. The eastern
North Dakota lawyer Burdick must have
learned that ranchers are apt to get
worked up when it looks like they're
going to lose valuable grazing land.
Had the Senator sampled the opinion
of the ranchers and others in this area
before he introduced the bill in Congress,
he might have saved himself consider
able embarrassment.
He has said his new bill contains safe
guards for the ranchers, however, they
don't seem to be able to find them as
easily as the Senator. There's no ques-
ton that the road would be good for
tourist promotion in this area, but there
must be some way to acquire it without
breaking up some of the ranches.
We think the Senator was probably
thinking more of popularity that may be
acquired for having been responsible for
such road than in benefits to the area
If not, he certainly would have had
enough sense to look into the situation
more carefully before introducing legis-
lation.
We understand that North Dakota's
western representative Congressman
Don Short, himself a rancher in that
particular area, wasn't even approached
on the matter.
Well tell you one thing. If there's any
money to be spent (our money! Burdick
will be in there pitching.
X h
The United Nations Statistical Year
book for 1861 gives the United States
first place in at least SO fields. These in
clude the number and size of homes, tele-
phones, radios, television sets, steel pro-
duction, newspaper circulation and many
Others
The Soviet Union leads in 27 categories.
These include the amount of iron ore
mined, the output of wheat, milk, tim
Der, the number of doctors, movie thea
ters, film attendance, and the number of
books produced.
Of course, our farmers are held down
by controls and it is we'll known that
they could outproduce the number of
bushels per acre yield. So with our milk
The Sidney herald., 1963-06-12

Francis Kepple, U. S. Commissioner of
Education, besides stating that principals
should be allowed to spank students on
certain occasions, has revealed some
startling figures.
He said that % million Americans over
18 have completed only eight years of
schooling = and that eight million OF
these have had less than five years OF
schooling.
This, he feels, is at the root of our
huge welfare expenditure = $4.5 billion
a year, by federal, state and local agen-
cieS.
The Sidney herald., 1963-06-12
Up And Down Main Street
by Cliff Urseth

good in bathing suits.
This material was furnished by the Miss
Eastern Montana Pageant committee at
Glendive. Miss Eastern Montana will be
selected June % at the Dawson County
High School auditorium in Glendlve.
More details on the contest can be found
elsewhere in the Herald.
Evening star., 1963-05-03

week ended April q were up S
per cent over the previous week
but l per cent below the same
week a year ago, the Federal
Reserve Bank in Richmond
has reported.
For the four weeks ended
April 27 they were up 4 per
cent over the same period in
1862 and for the year to date,
6 per cent.
Downtown sales also we're up
5 per cent for the week ended
April 81 over the previous week
but down 2 per cent as COM
pared to the same week a
year ago. For the four weeks.
they were down per cent and
for the year to date, up 2 per
cent.
Nationally, the Federal Re-
serve Board says department
store sales in April fell below
the record set in March.
The seasonally- adjusted in
dex dropped to an estimated
116 per cent of the 1957-5s
average. The boards econo-
mistS reckon March sales were
at 119 per cent of the average
a figure scaled down from
their earlier estimate of 12C
per cent The previous record
was 118 per cent, set last No
Ivember.
Evening star., 1963-05-03

through what amounts to the
ALLEGATION of financial markets. "
He asked what Federal Bank
authorities should do about ap-
plications for new national
charters when a community
has a single bank only, but
could use more, when existing
institutions are clearly not per-
forming up to community
needs, when State bank has
filed an application evidently
for defensive purposes" or
when Federal authorities are
asked by State officials to
parcel out protected terri
tories"
These are not idle theor-
etical questions" Mr.. Saxon
said. "They are the heart and
substance of the issues we con-
front every day.
I'VE have faced determined
opposition from those who have
sought to safeguard the posi-
tions of existing institutions
without regard to community
needs ;"
Evening star., 1963-05-03
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

Sales and earnings Of Mel
par, Inc, of Falls Church, Va,
we're more than double a
year ago in the first three
months of this year, President
Edward M. Bostick announced
at the annual stockholders
meeting today.
Sales in the first 1868 quar-
ter scared to $16,9S1 900 in
contrast to $7,025,O00 a year
ago.
Net income in the three
months jumped to $334,000 or
l3 cents a share, from $780,
900 or 8 cents a share in the
same period last year.
Mr.. Bostick predicted that
improvement in company sales
and earnings will continue
through 1868. He reviewed
substantial progress Of the last
year.
All directors were reelected.
Melpar is a leading aerospace
research and development firm
and is a subsidiary Of Westing-
house Air Brake Co.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Life Underwriters Name Gibson;
Area Department Store Sales Rise

Paul Gibson, Washington
branch manager for Sun Life
Insurance Co. of Canada, was
elected president of the District
Life Underwriters Association
at the annual meeting at the
Presidential Arms today.
Mr.. Gibson has been first vice
president and succeeds Frank
Ridge, agent for Mutual Bene-
fit Life Insurance Co. Of
Newark, N. j.
George w. Graves, general
agent for New England Life
Insurance Co., was elected first
vice president and Leslie H.
Jackson, general agent for Ma
tional Life Insurance Co. of
Vermont, was named second
vice president.
Mr.. Gibson, the new asSocia-
ton president, is a past presi-
dent of the General Agents and
Managers Association Of WASH
ington and also on the manage
ment practices committee Of the
National General Agents and
Managers Conference.
He Joined Sun Life as an
agent in Baltimore IL years
ago and has been branch man
ager here since 1855. For the
sixth year he is serving on his
company's managers conSulta-
ton committee.
Frank ]. Carlo, associate
general agent for Mutual and
United of Omaha, was pre-
sented with the associations
first annual Cochran Fisher
Health Insurance Award at a
luncheon following the annual
meeting. Mr.. Carlo is a past
president Of the Accident and
Health Association of Wash
ington and is serving now as
chairman of the Washington
Area Health Insurance Coun-
Gil.
He Joined the Omaha COM
panies in l945 after service
with the Army in World War
II.
The Fisher award was estab-
lished this year in memory of
the late H. Cochran Fisher cf
Aetna Insurance Co.. a past
president of the association
End first winner Of the Wilmer
Award. The new award will be
given annually to the associa-
tion member who in members
oninion has contributed most
to public understanding of the
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Savings and Loans
Uroed to Cut Rates

John A. Fogarty, president OF
the Federal Home Loan Bank
of Greensboro today urged ex-
ecutives of member savings and
loan associations attending the
annual meeting at Jackson
vile, Fla, to reduce their divi-
dend rates and not their lend
ing standards to relieve the
tightening squeeze on earn
ings.
Mr.. Fogarty told his audience,
which included representatives
of virtually all Washington
associations. that developments
make it quite clear that some
associations are paying divi-
dends in excess of 4 per cent
and cannot afford to do so.
Pointing out that several
Washington and Miami asso-
Citations have cut rates back to
4 per cent, Mr.. Fogarty said
he was pleased these associa-
tions already have recognized
the situation. I'VE hope that
others are wise enough to follow
the downward move" he added.
John w. Thompson. jr., as
siStant to the president Of The
Washington Star, presided as
board chairman of the bank.
Mr.. Fogarty reported the re-
gional Federal Home Loan
Bank had record earnings in
1862 and was able to pay a
record dividend of 3 per cent
on member associations stock
investments.
Total operating income rose
to $l7.8 million from SLAB
million in the previous year.
Net income was $6.3 million,
compared with $50 million.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Montgomery Wards
Has New Sharing Plan

Montgomery Ward has an
nounced a new profit-sharing
plan, effective June /. for en-
ployes of its Washington area
stores.
Under the plan the company
will contribute up to so cents
and not less than 25 cents for
every dollar invested by an
employe. Other features in
clude:
A health care plan paying
80 per cent of most hospital
and surgical expenses; so per
cent reduction in employe con-
tributions to the company's re-
tirement plan with no changes
in benefits; a days vacation
for each month worked in an
employees first calendar year,
up to 10 days, two weeks after
one year, three after 10 years
and four after Is years, and q
straight salary plan for most
selling employees.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Gold Reserve
Holds Steady
For 9Th Week

NEW YORK, (AP).-U.S.
Government gold reserves,
showing unacustomed stability,
held steady at $l5,878, 900 900 in
the week ended Wednesday, the
Federal Reserve Board has re-
ported.
1t marked the ninth consec-
utive week without change.
So far in 1868, the gold stock
pile has been reduced 500
million by sales to foreign
governments and central banks.
The drain at this stage Of 1862
amounted to 1895 million.
There was no official explain
alton for the extended period Of
quiet.
Gold movements abroad in
the last several years increas-
ingly have worried Government
officials, who have been striv-
ing to overcome the cause-an
unfavorable balance in the
country's international pay
ments.
Another large deficit is FORE
seen for this year.
The Federal Reserve also re-
ported that holdings of US.
Government securities rose last
week to an all time high of
S3l, ,394, 900, 900.
They were pushed UP by
heavy market buying of Treas
ury bills and large temporary
purchases of Government secu-
rites from dealers, moves de-
signed to relieve strains on
the liquidity of the commercial
banking system.
Holdings rose by a total OF
$857million. OF this amount.
securities acquired from dealers
under repurchase agreements
accounted for 1852 million, the
largest in nearly a decade.
On a daily average basis, net
free reserves Of member banks,
a measure Of their lending
ability. fell to 1854 million,
down from a revised figure of
1856 million for the preceding
week.
The biggest depressant, par.
TALLY offset by Federal open
market operations and other
factors, was a drop Of 1897
million on a daily average in
the float-checks credited to
member bank accounts while in
the process Of collection.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
By the Associated Press

Protectors Of monopolistic or
stagnant banks provide much
Of the opposition to his poll
cies, Controller of the Treasury
James j. Saxon told the House
Banking Committee today.
Mr.. Saxon conceded today
that he had bank examiner
personnel advise bankers to
write to the chairman of the
House Banking Committee
about Mr.. Saxon's policies. un-
der fire in a current investiga-
ton.
Mr.. Saxon, appearing before
the committee today in o
swinging counterattack against
his critics who have held the
floor for three days, said he
now thinks he should not have
permitted his subordinates to
make such contacts because
Of possible misunderstanding. /"
But he said no pressure was
intended and he feels all the
letters written by the bankers
were voluntary.
However, Chairman Patman,
Democrat of Texas, told Mr..
Saxon, This is a shocking
thing. 1t looks like abuse of
power. I think, however, you
did the right thing in con-
Tossing it,"
Mr.. Patman said private in
dividuals have every right to
lobby with Congress, but that
the Controller holds life and
death powers" over some banks.
.Mr. Saxon said the telephone
calls to bankers resulted from
inquiries by some national
banks as to what they could
do to support Mr.. Saxon.
These sympathetic bankers,
he said, made their inquiries
Evening star., 1963-05-03
C&O Earnings Up
Sharply From 1862

Net income Of Chesapeake &
Ohio Railway amounted to
S3,7l6,000 or IL cents a share
in April, compared with $2,024,-
900 or 25 cents a share in April
last year, the road reported
yesterday.
Net for four months ended
April 80 was $l0,T11,000 or
sl.22 a share, compared with
81 7,977,000 or 81 cents a share
in the same 1862 period.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Area Stores Post
so Sales Increase

Department store sales in
the Washington area for the
Evening star., 1963-05-03

NEW YORK (AP).-Alumi-
mum Co. of America says it will
increase prices Of a selected
group of light gauge sheet
products by u to 2 cents a
pound May 6. Included will be
coil fin stock used in heat ex-
change equipment, patterned
coiled rural roofing sheet and
formed rural roofing sheet.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Insurance Agents
Warned in MARYLAND

F. Douglass Sears, Maryland
State Insurance Commissioner,
yesterday warned life insurance
companies operating in Mary
land that when a new policy
is written to replace a policy
of another company. the orig
inal insurer must be notified.
Mr.. Sears said his depart
ment has received a number Of
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Saxon: Critics Back Stagnant Banks
Controller Admits CuIIinq
Bankers, Denies Pressure

after the State Bank Division
of the American Bankers Asso-
citation on April 5 issued a
strong criticism of Mr.. Saxon.
Mr.. Saxon said that five days
later he became concerned
that this might be interpreted
as pressure" and ordered the
calls discontinued.
II believe I should have not
permitted any calls to be made
in the first place." Mr.. Saxon
said.
"Enclaves of monopoly and
stagnant, unprogresSive banks
should not, and indeed cannot,
In the long run be safeguarded
against the insistent pressures
for the expansion of banking
facilities which are present in
our growing economy" Mr..
Saxon said.
Retorting to complaints that
he too readily issues national
bank charters. Mr.. Saxon sai5:
If we placed a narrow inter-
probation on the objective of
maintaining bank solvency and
liquidity, we should have to
shelter every existing bank
against competition from any
source even those banks
which had monopoly positions"
But he said such a marrow
view" is "all too prevalent in
some segments of the banking
community" and,
Il must say frankly that
some conflict does indeed exist
between the national authori-
ties and the authorities in some
States.
ut has been made abundantly
clear to us by representatives
of some State authorities that
they view the control of bank
entry and bank expansion as a
matter which should be handled
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Maryland National
Plans New Meroer

Directors of the Maryland
National Bank and the Second
National Bank of Hagerstown
have approved an agreement
for merger Of the two institu-
tions, subject to approval of
stockholders and the controller
of the currency.
The agreement contemplates
the issuance of $4,000 shares of
Maryland National stock to
stockholders of Second National
for their 10000 outstanding
shares on the basis of six Mary
land National shares for five
First National shares.
Evening star., 1963-05-03
Mel par Sales, Profits
Double Over Past Year

complaints regarding alleged
failure to comply with the reg
ulation and is investigating.
In some cases the difficulty
appears to result from occa-
sional failure of home-office
reporting procedures, he said.
In other incidents, a pattern
Of requirements indicates the
agent may not be acting in the
best interest of his clients. In
such cases, punitive action will
be taken, he said.
Evening star., 1963-05-03

principles of health insurance.
Elected to the board we're:
William r. deLaShmutt, Home
Life Of New York; Eugene F.
Roessor, New England Life, and
Robert L. Rose, Mutual Benefit
of New Jersey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-05

We invite you to come
IN OF call to open your
Sears Revolving Charge
Account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
By IRVING LOWENS
star Music Critic

Claudio Arrau. piano. Constitu-
yen Hall Au-BeefhoYen program:
sonata quasi una FantaEia Ia =
Ila6 %. q, No. /; Sonata auad
va FANTASIA IN c sharp minor
y c minor. %. Ill: sonata IN Z
Ia ? minof ikppssSion 10; o. 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

On the back Of the program
Of the recently reorganized De
Paur Chorus, making It's first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

the churchly surroundings or to
the music itself. Whatever the
reason for playing in this man.
ner, the effect on cOntrapuntal
music is disastrous, if only be-
cause it obScures the inner parts
and thus prevents the music
from being heard clearly.
Everything Too Slow
As for propriety: a case could
probably be made for a some
what ponderous reading Of the
PaSSacaglia which, though it
cries out for color, is nonethe-
less a thoroughly serious and
earnest work. But solemnity is
completely out Of place in pieces
like the Fugue a la Clique, which
is nothing if not fun, and the
big, flamboyant D Major Pre-
lude and Fugue. In keeping with
the stolid registration, Mr.. Bur-
tbs played everything Just a hair
too slow, with the exception of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

visit 10 Washington in some sea-
sons, was q quotation from the
Tudor madrigahst, william
Byrd: There Is not any musicke
Of instruments whatsoever, COM
parable TO that which Is made
Of the voyces Of men, where the
voyces are COED, and the same
well sorted and ordered"
One cannot quarrel with the
statement. An enthused audience
that haf-fiIled Cramton Audi
forum would agree that is is a
fair description Of the "a selected
male voices which make up the
new De Paur Chorus, for they
are excellently well sorted and
exceptionally ven ordered.
The program was well or
dered, also, offering groups Of
pieces In traditional style in
parts / and ", the expected
spirituals in part III, and the
piece de resistance in part II, a
group titled: Songs Of New Ma
tons" Newness was defined In
a note as being so only In the
context Of the 10th century.
The point was made effectively
In the first of the group, a 18th
century war chant from Ghana.
It featured rhythmic accompani-
ment Of drums and rattles, and
was music Of elemental power In
its vehement climax. 0utstand-
ing in the group was q keening
lullaby from Nigeria, and a jolly
but complicated fun song from
the Congo Republic, while the
group closed with a Yemenite
bora that had a memorable
urgency.
The balance of the voices In
their a cappella work Is praise
worthy, and the ensemble moves
with an easy precision that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

For his all-Bach recital at the
Washington Cathedral, Herbert
Burtis selected a singularly
treacherous program. Aside
from the purely technical diff
culties, the music be played Gall
OF It familiar) covered an enor-
nous range of musical sub
stance, demanding the greatest
versatility from the Interpreter.
To this music, Mr.. Burtis
brought a style Of playing which,
If it is not actually moribund,
is in any case rapidly becoming
a thing Of the past, so far as
the Baroque repertory is con-
cerned; it is a murky, heavy
style, rich In the unlovely flatu-
liant sounds that an oId-fashioned
organiSt can coax out of a really
big organ. The style is, l believe,
meant to convey a mood Of
solemnity which the organist
thinks is appropriate either to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
CHORUS DISPLAYS
EASY PRECISION
y SOhN hAShINS
Contributing Critic

The De Paur Chorus, Leonard de
Paur; director. Soloists: George
Marshall, John swift, John Con
salves, J. amilton Grandson. bart
tones; Luther Saxon, tenor. Al
Cramton Auditorium, Howard uni
versity. Program: Soldatenlieder.
Leaves Two. Coin: Gods Bottles,
Tnompson: Here Is Thy Footstool,
Creston; The Demon Of the Gibbet'
Hindesmith; Ashanti war Chsnt'
from Ghana; Yoruba Tribe work
chant, from Nigeria; Yoruba Tribe
lullaby. from Nigeria; Kassai Tribe
fun song. from Congo Republic;
Fl Yivne, Ha Call from Israel:
Water Boy, arr. de Paur; Can't you
Heah your po' mother calling, arr.
de Paur; Gossip, Gossip, Hairston-
Jones; All Round the Glory Man
ger, arr. de Paur; Deep River. arr.
de Paur; Fare Ye Well arr. Hairs
ton; Credo, from Litursie de st.
Jean Chrysostome, Op. 90. 0ret-
chaninoff: Like IS Father. Kay;
Psalm $50. Morton-de Paur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
NEWS OF MUSIC ------.
Arrau's Beethoven Sonatas
A Choice of E Excellence

recital came to a close. It was
all fire and poetry, a revelation
Of a sonata neatly character
lied by the program note as
''Beethoven's Passion, just a.
OPP. Ill Is a Resurrection.
But others may have felt,
quite legitimately, that q diff
ferent masterpiece was the
climax Of the afternoon, since
all five sonstss we're projected
in the grand style and with
utmost sensitivity by Mr..
Arrau. II was very much q
choice between virtually equal
excellences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

The great Chilean-American
pianist Claudio Arrau was
heard in recital yesterday af-
ternoon at Constitution Hall In
an awe-inspiring program con-
siSting Of no less than five
Beethoven sonatas.
Curiously enough, yesterday
marked the second time Mr..
Arrau has played this lengthy
program locally during the
current season. On September
30, a distinguished invited au-
dience filled every seat In the
State Department Auditorium
to hear it.
The earlier recital proved to
be one Of the most memorable
events In the m onthl on &
Image of Chile" festival,
Ambassador Gutierrez accept
ance Of President Kennedy's
1861 invitation to "our friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02
A Revelation

Yesterday, I thought that the
pianist reached his peak In the
Appassionata with which the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-02

The recitalist at the National
Gallery Of Art last night was
James Oliver Boswell, ", q
very talented 16-year-old vio-
hnist who is best known on the
local scene for having won the
Merriweather Post Contest here
q few years ago.
Despite his youth, Mr.. Boswell
Is a concert veteran-when be
was seven, be appeared as
soloist with the New York Phil
harmonic-and even though he
is, at present, q student at the
Juilliard School Of Music in New
York, he Is very close to being
q completely mature artist.
His program yesterday held
little by way Of novelty, unless
the somewhat faded Louis SpOhr
"Gesangsszene" Concerto, at
one time q great favorite but
now virtually extinct In concert
halls, be considered nom
repertory.
Rises to Challenge
II is to Mr.. Buswell's credit
that he made the deepest i'm
preston with one Of the best
pieces Of music on his list,
Johannes Brahms's lovely A
major Sonata, sometimes nick
n a ned the "MeiStersinger"
from the Renaissance Of the
famous Prize Song In the
Wagner opera Of the first
movements opening theme.
Here Gas elsewhere), the vio-
liniSt was immeasurably helped
by the solid muSicianship Of his
older colleague, David Garvey,
at the piano.
Usually, the broadcast sound
of National Gallery concerts is
more pleasant than the actual
sound of the music In the
resonant East Garden Court.
Last night, however, the level
appeared to be set much too
high at intermission, with re-
sultnat blasting and overmodu-
lation, a fault which was not
corrected until the SpOhr con-
certo was well under way.
MIR. Boswell was very gen.
erOus with his offerings (which