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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20
Editor Beaten
By Teen-Aeers

A Washington editor with U
S. News and World Report was
in good condition in George
town University Hospital today
after he was beaten by three
teen-agers. police reported.
Perry K. Senon, 81, of 1900
Arnet lane, Bethesda, was
walking in the 1900 block OF
Twenty-third street NV
shortly after noon Wednesday
on his way to the Cosmos Club
Three boys threw a SNOWFALL at
Mr.. Sellon, according to Capt,
Raymond S. Pyles of the third
precinct, but they missed and
he ignored them.
Then they rushed upon Mr..
Sellon and beat him about the
face and head, fracturing a
bone beneath his eye, q hospi-
tai spokesman said.
The attackers were described
in the police lookout as three
Negroes In their teens. There
was no apparent motive for the
attack, Capt. Pyles said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20
PoIund's Lawyers
Put in Collective

WARSAW. Dec. 20 CAP).-
Poland's $500 lawyers will be
forced into collectives under q
measure ending private legal
practice in the Communist ma
ton.
The bill was passed last
night by Poland's Communist
dominated Parliament with
only five opposing votes.
Although q client may still
select his own attorney, fees
will be set by the government
and paid to the lawyers asso-
citation. Part Of the income viii
be divided equally among all
members Of the collective and
part in proportion to the work
they do.
Sponsors Of the bill argued
that legal fees we're too high
for ordinary people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20

had struck the victim, the
court ruled he must share
responsibility because he was
in the group that went to the
barracks at Evreux Air Force
Base.
Airman First Glass Robert
Padgett of Woodlawn, Va, was
fatally injured September s
after a group of soldiers in
vaded an airmen's barracks on
the base.
The court was made I'D of
five officers and three enlisted
men.
Five Negro soldiers and Pvt.
Gerhard, were accused Of TAX
ing part in the soldiers attack
on the Air Force barracks.
In a previous trial, Pfc. Ray
mond c. Bost, jr.. of Pitts
burgh, was convicted of I'M
premeditated murder and as
sault and sentenced to Is years
in prison. Pfc. Robert Burrell
Of Philadelphia was given IL
years on. the same charges.
The trial Of Pfc. Franklin
D. Waddell Of Philadelphia on
a charge Of unprecedented
murder was postponed indefi-
nitely after his attorney re-
quested a separate trial and
another pretrial investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20
Second Claim
Upheld on
Beach Damage
WILMINGTON. Del. Dec. 20

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 20.
A Federal Court jury last
night upheld a beach property
owners claim that the wind
not the ocean-damaged his
cottage in the March, 1862.
Atlantic Coast storm.
The verdict was the second
favoring q plaintiff among
suits filed against insurance
companies by some 40 owners
of beachfront property in the
Bethany Beach CDelO area.
Last month. a Federal jury
here awarded Mr., and Mrs.
Garnett D. Horner of Washing
ton s2s.5oO for the loss Of their
summer home at South Beth
any. Mr.. Horner is The Stars
White House reporter.
In yesterdays verdict, a jury
awarded approximately $2.750
to Eugene Finn Of Drexel Hill
in Philadelphia, whose vacation
cottage was located at Middle
sex Beach, Just south of Betha-
ny Beach.
An attorney representing
scores of Bethany area proper
ty owners said both the Horner
and Finn suitS-the first to be
tried-were considered impor-
tant pilot cases"
Insurance policies for beach
front homes normally cover
losses inflicted by wind but not
by the sea. In the Bethany.
cases. the cottagers' claims for
storm wind losses we're denied
by several insurance firms.
Mr.. Finn had filed suit
against the Firemen's Fund
Insurance Co. for SIS, 900. After
the March 81 storm, his cot
tage. although battered, was
still standing. The Horners'
summer home was destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20
Cor Kills Virqinicn

WARRENToN, Va, Dec. 20
(AP) Brown Patterson, AZ, OF
Washington, Va. was killed
yesterday afternoon when he
was struck by a car on U. s.
Route 2ll in Rappahannock
County. Mr.. Patterson had Just
stepped from his truck when
he was struck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20

unprecedented murder and
assault. Parker was SEN
fenced to IL years and Spears
to 10. Both were given dis
honorable discharges.
Pfc. Alan L. Gerhard of New
York was convicted of invol-
untary manslaughter and at
tempted assault. He was given
an iS-month sentence and a
bad-conduct discharge.
Although no evidence was
presented showing Gerhard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-20
Army Sentences Trio
In Barracks KiIIino

EVREUX France. Dec. 20 CAP).-A United States Army
coumaral convicted three American soldiers today
in the death Of ainsn in barracks sentenced
them to prison for terms ranging from 18
Two Negroes, Pvt Richard l. Parker ir of Eckman W
Pfc Edward Spears Of YORK were cnnvcted Of
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Evening star., 1963-09-18
By THOMAS r. HENRY
Star Staff Writer

A flesh-eating, semi-erect,
apelike creature, the remains
of which have been found at
various sites in Africa, appears
to have been mans earliest
direct ancestor, as yet known
to science.
He lived about / million
years ago. He was still far from
the earliest actual man." but
possessed a variety of traits in
dicating that he was taking
major steps in that direction.
A tentative description of the
creature is in a report just is
sued by DR.. F. Clark Howell,
Of the University of Chicago.
For example, the lower
Skeletal parts which have been
recovered, DR.. Howell says, in
dicate quite clearly that the
creature was capable of walk
ing semi-erect on its two hind
limbs.
Although surrounded by lush
Jungle forests with an abun-
dance of vegetable food, the
evidence is that it stayed away
from them and made its
habitat in non-wooded areas
where its food must have been
largely flesh of animals it
chased and killed. 1t was
largely restricted in its move
ments by the necessity of stay
ing near available water.
The highly probable meat
eating habits, transmitted down
the milleniums to man, repre-
sent a clear evolutionary diver
gence from the line which led
to the gorilla, usually thought
to be mans earliest animal
relative and having a purely
vegetarian diet.
Evening star., 1963-09-18
Havana 'ExpIoins'
Water Shortage

HAVANA, Sept. 18 (AP).-
City officials announced yes
terday that Havana is getting
only about half the water the
population needs and called 1t
a grave shortage.
The announcement blamed
lack of rain and the bad con-
dition of the mains. It was
made to explain the city's
chronic water shortage and the
rationing which has gone on
for some months.
The officials set Havana's
water needs at $50 million gal
Ions a day and added "the city
is only being supplied with 130
million gallons of which, in
reality, only 80 or 80 million
gallons reach the population
due to the bad condition of in
Stallations within the city"
Evening star., 1963-09-18
VISTAS IN SCIEE;CE
Our Ancestor Had
Meot-Eotinq Habit

In the evolution toward man,
says DR.. Howell, there were
notable changes in the loco
motor system, shape of skull,
physiological processes and di-
verse constituents of behavior
Discovery and study of
AustalopithicuS, says the re-
port, "has provided an ex-
traordinary impetus to human
evolutionary studies. Yet stu
dents of the problem must con-
tinually remain aware Of the
puacity Of current knowledge
and the inadequate under
standing we have thus far
gained"
Evening star., 1963-09-18

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READERS FORUM
Wants To Refute JBS
Myth On United Nations

Editor, Peoples Voice:
1t has come to my attention that the
PEOPLES VOICE ran a series of ar
tlcles on the John Birch Society and
other neo-FaScist organizations in
America. I was in Colorado when the
articles appeared and therefore did not
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cover the cost of the complete set of
articles.
October "a is approaching fast, and
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hope to use amy materials you might
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myth that the UN is connie clique"
Only when the truth is known about
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Any additional information on the
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P.S. The right-wingers say they are
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nists. But then who is going to protect
us from THEM??
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$50 Out-Of-State -.
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Dear Mr.. Billings:

Dear Mr.. Billings:
Find enclosed a check to help sup
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to hoe in Birch-ridden Montana.

Several people who read both the
unabridged article as it appeared
in FRONTIER and the Associated
Press dispatch, as printed on the
front page of last Thursdays
GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE have
expressed curiosity over why no
reference was made in the AP-
TRIB story to this all important
portion of the article, which we've
bold-faced. 1t is amply apparent
by the Aces decision to postpone
the project pending 100000 more
worth of study, that it was not Pru-
lit who was, to quote DR.. Abbott,
"irresponsibile". TIME Magazine,
Sept. 13 issue, page So, had an
excellent article on Fruits work
on the radiation problem in Alas
ka. 1t would seem that MSU lost
a very able professor, because one
man concluded he was ''irrespon-
sible".-HLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-09-27
State House Beat
FRANKLY SPEAKING
By FRANK SMALL

With the big game season about
to get started again | think it might
be interesting to tell the story of a
bighorn sheep hunt last year that
led 10 the suspension of warden super
visor Jim Ford of Bozeman.
Ford had formal hearing before
the Fish and Game Commission Mon
day and Tuesday under the new law
which gives state employees the right
to cali for such hearing if they want
to protest their firing.
Briefs are going to be filed by
Ford's attorneys, Floyd Small and
Bill Leaphart and the Commission's
attorney, All Libra, for decision at
next months meeting, but | have
made up my mind now.
It's good thing we have such a
law-open hearings with lawyers in
cases of this nature. lit cuts out lot
of falderol even though it is a rather
poor legal form wherein the employer
commission acts as prosecutor, judge
and jury. F&G's commissioners be-
haved quite we'll. They had to over
rule their own attorney twice to curb
his excuses in "unlawyerlike" badg-
ering of the witnesses.
The scene of the hunt was Targhee
Mountain which forms a part of the
continental divide and the state line
between Montana and Idaho. Ford
and Warren Yeley, Bozeman sporting
goods store clerk, spotted the sheep
on the ridge leading from the noun
tain to the trail pass into Idaho.
Taking separate routes they reached
the ridge only ITO see the sheep dis
appear down the Idaho side. An Idaho
hunter came out of the woods where
the sheep had disappeared, ito join
Them on the ridge. Yeley went down
the ridge and the Idaho man went
up the ridge while Ford, taking the
bolt out of his rifle, went down into
Idaho to see where the sheep were.
Two of the sheep bottled towards the
Idaho hunter and Ford whistled twice
as prearranged and then once Ito alert
Y eley the rest of the sheep were
headed his way. Ford returned to the
ridge just in time to get shot. You
guessed it. The sheep bottled back
down the idaho side.
Yeley, who had stationed himself
behind rock had four sheep come
ON the ridge SO yards from him. He
fired and missed into the rocks. He
fired again and the four jumped back
Town the Idaho side.
Targhee Mountain drops sharply
rom each side of the ridge which
taries. but is about Is feet wide. |
Unless someone paints a line on the
idge the whole thing is sort of a
10 mans land. There would not have
'een any trouble about Montana Ii
ense holders shooting Montana sheep
n it except that the Idaho FIG De-
artment had decided to hold special
eason on our sheep which drift over
n their side of Targhee. Idaho had
'sued five permits while we issue
he Idaho permits had been issued
} San Francisco banker, who had
united in Africa and Alaska. His
amp was at the base of the Idaho
de of Targhee.
The great white 'Bwana" had not
eft been up on Targhee. The native
orters were very superstitious about
arrying people so close to that ter
bic place, Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-09-27
The Mess In Montana
BY LEVERNE HAMILTON, Missoula
In FRONTIER, 1434 Westbrook Blvd, Los Angeles

Recently TIME turned spotlight higher education in
Montana The immediate TIMES
nation of Montana State Unvesits President Harry K
burn According to TIME the of Newburn
disagreement between Nwbun and the Board of
ALLEGATION of funds among Montana sate-suppored
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Peoples Voice:
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PUBLIC RELATIONS
UBER ALLIES

"Avoid Controversy" was New
burns watchword. He refused to
sanction a formal dedication of the
new Health Sciences Building because
the faculty voted for Linus Pauling
as speaker. He even refused to allow
the biology staff to hold an open
house for local doctors because he
feared a controversial speaker might
show up. In the words of the Deans
Advisory Committee, the administra-
tion was ''too much concerned with
public relations. The committee la
mented that where public relations
considerations conflict with legiti-
mate academic interests little
attention is paid to the views of
the faculty"
Knowing only too we'll what was
really going on, the MSU faculty was
depressed to read the cynical speeches
of Newburn administrators as they
struggled to make show of academic
integrity. One of the deans who
helped the Acc blacklist Pruitt
piously intoned only two weeks later:
"Public support for education re-
quires recognition of the task of the
scholar and the scientist in his eff
forts to find the light and to find
the truth, albeit sometimes in the
face of opposition" The MSU faculty
hopes the Opposition" will not in
clude the next administration as it
did the Newburn administration,
though it recognizes that any Uni
president viii have a hard row
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I am enclosing my check. I surely
hope you will receive contributions and
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publication. don't know what we'd do
without it-MARGARET WILLIAMS,
Sidney.
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pointed out that the University de.
pended heavily for financial support
on grants from the Acc. The biologist
stood by his principles, and his re-
ward was discharge by the University
of Alaska,
These facts were fully known at
MSU when Pruitt was approved by
the Zoology Department, but because
of the controversy more than the nor
NAL number of references was solic-
tied. They were all favorable, but
Newburn, with his characteristic fear
of controversy, discussed the matter
with the President of the University
of Alaska, who suggested that New
burn call the Acc. On Newburn's
orders this was done by Academic
Vice President Frank Abbott, who
also called DR.. Bently Glass, an emf
nent biologist familiar with the Alas
ka incident. AS result of these tele-
phone conversations (no written rec
ords were made), Abbott told the
Zoology Department that he would
not recommend Pruitt for appoint
ment because he judged Pruitt to be
and not able to recog-
nize his limitations. according to
the Acc, Pruitt should not have
talked about radiation because he
knows nothing about it,
In effect the Acc, with the help
of a weak administration at MSU, has
successfully blackhsted a competent
scientist. Apparently the telephone
between Abbott and
Glass was distorted by Abbott, since
Glass has asserted that in his opinion
tion to MSU's staff. That Fruits.
Judgment was sound is shown by the
fact that the Acc has postponed
Project Chariot indefinitely. Further
more, last April Senator Bartlett cited
Fruits radiation work on the floor
of the Senate in order to push the
Atomic Energy Commission into ac-
ton on the radioactive fallout prob
EN- in Alaska, accusing the Acc of
Fruits papers. Pru-
it's work has finally resulted in a
100000 Acc grant for further
study of the radiation problem in
With Pruitt's appointment blocked,
he MSU Zoology Department was
orced ito hire instead an inexperi-
need young graduate student. Three
f the Depanftm staff, including
wo associate professors, have re-
igned. Having decimated a fine
Mathematics Department the preced-
1g year through administrative in
ptitude, Newburn has now added
Zoology to his snowballing plunge
,ward mediocrity.
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MiSSoula
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-02

Saturday-had escaped from
st. Elizabeths on September 5
After the Saturday gun battle
police said Smallwood hid in 9
basement in the unit block Of
NJ street, where he apparently
shot himself in the head. He
died a short time later.
Indicted in July
Smallwood had been indicted
in July on charges Of rape
HOUSEKEEPING and assault
with intent to rape. He wa'
committed to the hospital or
July 81 for a 90-day pre-trial
mental examination.
He escaped. police said, by
talking his way out Of a maxi
mum security ward after q
ward party. Police said he
convinced a guard that he was
a visitor from another part Of
the hospital.
The report submitted today
by Chief Murray also noted
that st. Elizabeths Hospital
has 80 employees classified as
guards" None are armed, the
report said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-02
BY OVID MARTIN
Associated Press Staff Writer

The Kennedy administration
is running into hog and corn
price problems in the political
ly important Midwest that
could spell vote troubles fol
the Democrats next year unless
corrected.
Many times in past election,
political fortunes in the Mid
west have risen and fallen or
hog prices. Every party in pow
er has sought to go into q
presidential campaign with
hog prices at relatively favor
able levels. Hogs are an i'm
portant source of farm income
and general economic well-be-
ing in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri
Nebraska, South Dakota, Min
nesota and Indiana.
Right now, producers are
getting disappointingly Low
prices for these animals. Ar
Agriculture Department report
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-02

Of indignation in the public
schools attended by dependent
children. State whether those
who live off base are subject
to the same school assignment
policies applicable to those liv-
ing on base but attending Off
base schools"
do white and Negro military
dependent children travel in
separate school buses? Explain
if the answer is affirmative"
Housing is covered in only one
question:
do white and Negro per-
sonnet have equal opportunity
for adequate housing off base?
If not, give a brief description
of the existing conditions"
Commanders were asked to
describe segregation practices,
If any, affecting military per-
sonnet and their families in use
of such publicly owned or con-
trolled properties as parks, IL
braries, golf courses and tennis
courts.