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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
BY the Associated Press

The Pentagon is seeking to
make the length Of active duty
service by men who enlist under
the National Guard and re-
serve programs more flexible to
fit the skills required OF
individuals.
The object is TO avoid the
situation that arose during the
Berlin crisis in 1861 and ere
ated considerable dissatisfac-
ton. The Army then called up
nearly 10000 reservists and
found that many who had I'M
dergone the six-month train
ing required OF all enlistees
were not sufficiently skilled for
technical jobs.
This resulted In the holding
In service during the crisis OF
men with two and three years
OF active duty.
Under legislation proposed 10
Congress and disclosed yester-
day by the Defense Department,
those needing TO be trained for
what are called hard skills"-
electronics. radar, radio and
missile specialities-would serve
up 10 a i0-month tour. This
would be four months more
than the six months all en-
liStees now serve.
| on the other hand. those In
soft Skills"-truck drivers and
cooks, for instance could serve
as little as four months active
duty before reyerting 10 Guard
and reserve service.
However, a rifleman, the
basic military man. would still
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Robber Gets Extra Year
For Court Pitcher oss

sumed later after the defend
ants hands we're chained to his
waist.
Appearing before Judge Pine
for sentencing, Rollerson apol-
ogized for the incident and
asked that it not be held
against him in connection with
his sentencing on the robbery
charge.
Judge Pine, stating he was
not considering the incident, In
this connection gave Rollerson
less than the possible five-to-
1G-year maximum sentence he
might have received for snatch
ing a woman's pocketbook on a
street last summer.
The Judge then turned to
the pitcher throwing incident,
found Robertson had been in
contempt Of court. and imposed
the additional one-year prison
term.
Rollerson told Judge Pine
that he had been fully un-
aware Of what I was doing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
FDA Moves
Against Firm
In Drug Case
By the Associated Press

A Food and Drug Admins
tration spokesman says the
agency has cited one firm
which distributed thalidomide
in this country for testing on
human beings to show cause
why it should not be prosecuted
for such distribution.
The spokesman said the CT
tation went to William s. Mer-
rell Co. of Cincinnati, a divi-
sion of Richardson Merrell
Inc, New York.
Both William s. Merrel Co
and another subsidiary OF
Richardson Merrell, the Ma
tional Drug Co., had applied tc
Food and Drug for clearance
for commercial distribution Of
the drug in this country.
The spokesman said the ef-
feet of the citation is to re-
quire the company to SHOW
cause why FDA should not re-
fer the matter to the Justice
Department for possible prose-
cution. The citation went out
about two weeks ago, accord
ing to the spokesman.
In Cincinnati, a Merrel
statement yesterday commended
"the clinical evaluation Of the
drug was carried out by ply.
sicians who we're well qualified
to administer an experimental
compound Of this type and tt
report on its safety and ef-
fectiveness.
THE Merrell distribution o.
the drug for clinical study wa
carried out within the law anC
regulations then in effect fol
testing a new drug before il
could be released for sale"
The statement said thu
United States tests started ir
early 1859 after the drug haC
six years of apparently sue
cessful European use and be-
fore any suspicious of drastic
side effects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
RALPH McGILL
Guinean Notes;


In Conakry the best res
taurant is kept by M. Bou-
bacar Diop at the Fifth
boulevard and the Ninth ave-
nue.. 1t is called, not unreal
sonably, Chez Diop, a fact
which mildly distresses M.
Diop, who has a sign pro-
claiming it to be the Royal
st. German. This is the
name of a famous place in
Paris where, for a time, M.
Diop, as a young Senegalese
venturer in France worked as
a bus boy and, later, as an
assistant chef. After six
years service In the French
navy he settled in Conakry.
M. Diop is writing a cook
book of West African dishes.
He hopes there will be an
American publisher, as M.
Diop once spent 48 hours in
New York, when his ship put
in there, and he thinks the
cooking and food could be
better. Over a dish of rice
and beef-en-brochette, liber-
ally inflamed with pili-pili
pepper sauce, he explained
that the virtues of Guinean
cooking, unhappily, go I'M
noted. 1t is true, he says,
that rice is the basic item.
but there are dozens of sauc-
es. Mr.. Diop is putting all of
these down and in time will
be seeking a publishe-.
Guinean cooking is good.
The Western visitor may
even find 1t exciting and -
testing. There are. true
enough, many sauces. The
best of them are the vari-
cites of health-giving pill
pill. The hot red peppers are
cooked in oil, either peanut
or palm. The peppers are
then removed and tomatoes
and onions are minced into
it and cooked. The result is
excellent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Bruce May Be in Line
As Rusk' S Successor

to be unhappy over State De-
partment performance, al
though he has taken virtually
full control of appointments
and reorganizationS since he
assumed the presidency.
Mr.. Rusk continues to hold
the top spot for two reasons:
He offers no opposition or OBJ
lection to President Kennedy's
habit Of dealing directly with
underlings, and M. Rusk is a
near perfect bureaucratic
gives opponents no rough edge
upon which they can latch or
pry.
"Rusk is alert, Woodworking,
and he is also Dean Acheson's
man." one source remarked.
THE President doesn't know
quite what tC do with him"
Seek Post For McGhee
The President is cutting
down to the ambassadorial
level one of Mr.. Rusk's few
personal appointments to high
positions. George c. McGhee,
still No. 3 man in the depart
ment as Undersecretary, is due
to be replaced by Mr.. Hartman
as soon as an ambasSadorship
can be found.
President Kennedy sent
Walter Rostow from his White
House staff to take over policy
planning from Mr.. McGhee be-
fore Mr.. McGhee took over the
departments executive offices.
Mr.. McGhee now is said to
want an ambassadorship. Ac-
tually, he was told from the
White House that he wanted an
ambassadorship, or that it would
be nice II he did want an
ambassadorship. Mr.. McGhee,
who can understand diplomatic
language. asked for a diplomatic
appointment.
Mr.. McGhee had been slated
| for West Germany. But the
current difficulties make 1t I'M
wise to remove Walter c. Dow
ling, the present Ambassador
| Now Mr.. McGhee awaits as
signment as the reorganization
SINNERS. He could possibly fill
Mr.. Bruce's job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23

ROME. - It is hoped that
the French saying, "Quelque
chose malheur est bon" (oc-
casionally a misfortune
serves a good purpose). may
apply to the frictions be-
tween France and her allies.
High officials and diplomats
who visit Rome predict the
NATO will close ranks and
present a united front in the
face of a renewed Commu-
mist offensive.
The October crisis between
the United States and the
Soviet Union over Russian
presence in Cuba showed the
solidarity of the free world.
Gen. de Gaulle led the pa
rade of Americas Western
allies with an instant COM
munication to the White
House to the effect that
France would support what
ever decision President Ken
nedy might take to force the
Reds from the United States
front yard. The other NATO
allies followed with more or
less encouraging assurances.
Then came the relaxation
in which the Western pow
ers permitted themselves the
luxury of a rift. There were
plausible arguments from the
French leader and also from
those who were offended and
angered. Both Americans and
Frenchmen committed the
same error; it was believed
that the quarrel between the
Soviet Union and China was
serious; that the unholy ALI
ance was breaking up and that
it wouldn't be long before the
Chinese, coveting rich por-
tons of Asia, would be at
Russia's throat.
The scraps between the
Western allies In which old
grievances and hurt SENSITIVE
tiles came to the surface with
unprecedented violence were
made worse by the interven-
ton of the news media, par
ticularly in England and
America. President Kennedy's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Reunion of Moscow and Picking Provides
Soldering Thought for Allied Leaders

severe observations on Gen.
de Gaulle's veto of Britain's
entry into the Common Mar
ket were exaggerated in the
French press, including the
anti = De Gaulle journals.
Prime Minister Macmillan,
seeing his position jeopar-
died, permitted himself the
objectionable mistake of los
ing his temper, and Gen. de
Gaulle's own words were
given exaggerated interpreta-
tons and even misinterpreta-
tions.
Many American and Brit
ish commentators, in some
cases reflecting the views Of
their own high government
officials, declared Gen. de
Gaulle's pet idea of a Europe
for Europeans was an unac-
ceptable dream Of a man
suffering from grandomania.
The French comment was
that America strongly APP
proved of Africa for Africans
but opposed Europe for Eu-
ropeans.
The temporary success Of
President Kennedy's stand
last october and Nikita
Khrushchev's apparent hasty
retreat from Cuba at the
time the Chinese began at
lacking India confirmed the
diagnosis of the Western dip
lomats that the pillars of in
ternational communism had
forever drifted apart.
1t is fortunate for the free
world that Chairman Khru-
shchev misinterpreted the
storm in the West" even
more than we misinterpreted
the row between him and
Mao TIE tung. scow
rushed to mend the fences
with Picking in the belief
that the fissure in the West
ern wall was irreparable and
would crumble as Lenin and
Stain had predicted.
At the same time Wash
ington and the other NATO
capitals began to realize that
Mr.. Khrushchev's withdrawal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
BeIgiuns Seek Roise

BRUSSELS, Feb. % APP
Belgian steelworkers stopped
work for an hour yesterday
TO emphasize demands for a
As per cent pay raise this
year. The average hourly wage
for Belgian steelworkers now Is
81 francs "a cents. Employers
have refused a wage increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23

not approved, the rate reduce
ton should be scaled down
accordingly.
With the floor. by Mr.. Dill
Ions calculations, the present
rate structure ranging from 20
per cent on the income bracket
up 10 $4,000, TO 81 per cent
on the over-$200.000 bracket,
could be reduced TO a spread
Of IA per cent TO IS per cent.
But without II, he said, the
rates would have TO be l43 per
cent 10 rs per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Strong Friendship for U. S.
Held by Costa Ricans

ian type used for administra-
tive flights.
The guardsmen have been
outnumbered by public school
teachers for more than a
decade. The government states
that 88 per cent of the popula-
ton can read and write -
nearly double the percentage in
most Latin American coun-
tries.
There is a substantial middle
class, especially in this modern
capital of 100000 inhabitants
San Jose's large number OF
speciality shops and its several
department stores contrasts
sharply with the small-town
atmosphere of Managua, a city
of the same size which is the
capital of Costa Rica's north
ern neighbor, Nicaragua.
Income figures for the two
countries tell the story. Pei
capita annual earnings in Mic
aragua are about $50; ir
Costa RIGA, just under $500.
Economy Needs Aid
Costa Rica's comparatively
advanced economy is still,
young by our standards, how
ever. 1t is just entering tn
stage of industrialization anc
needs financial and technica
aid. The country'S population
growth rate of 40 per cent 9
year creates a pressing neec
for rapid improvement in the
national income.
The administrative tech.
niques Of the government are
inefficient, and contributed IL
the 1862 budget deficit of ovel
$l3 million.
Machinery for planning the
country's economic growth II
just now being set up. Officials
Of the Agency for Internationa
Development have warned thu
government that loans undel
the Alliance for Progress vii
be hard to get until the plan
ming machinery is working anC
administrative reforms havI
been carried out.
PrO-American Policy
! Costa Rican foreign polio!
under President Orlich contin
ues to be strongly pro Amer
lean. The government gave i'm
mediate support to the Unitet
States blockade Of Cuba las
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23

fall. Within two hours Of Pres
ident Kennedy's speech explain
ing the blockade, Mr.. Orlich
went on radio and television
urging his country's approval.
The next day Costa Rica'S
unicameral legislature voted
SOL in favor of the United
States action. The only mega
tive vote came from the dele
gate of the pro-Castro Popular
Democratic Action Party.
Working on their own, STU
dents from the national uni
versity collected more than
10000 signatures supporting
the blockade.
President Orlich is pressing
hard for legislative ratification
of Costa Rica's decision to join
the Central American Common
Market. His party's slim ma
jority of one delegate and a
violent political debate over an
oil refinery contract have
caused delay. Observers believe
however that ratification will
come before Mr.. Kennedy's
visit.
U. S. Envoy Well Liked
Much of the United States
popularity here is due to our
Spanish-Speaking ambassador,
Raymond Telles. Mr.. Telles is q
Catholic and Of Mexican par
entage. He is a former mayor
of FL Paso, Tex. and like q
good politician. he has tried to
make friends with the people.
Governments change from
day to day." he says but the
people will never change
They'll always be here. II we
make friends with the young Of
today we can hope for a per-
manent basis Of friendship with
these countries"
The Costa Rican government
plans to assemble 100000 peo-
pie to greet President Kennedy
at the airport. Schools will bt
closed for the day and the chill.
dren will line the route from
the airport to San Jose.
There have been threats Of
pro- Communist demonstration
from the Popular Democrats
Action Party. The government
seems to be in control Of thu
situation, however. There will
be more than TOO guardsmer
in the capital to provide Sc
curity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
BY WALTER WURFEL
Star Staff Writer


SAN JOSE, Costa RIGA. - IF
the American Ambassador ran
for president here he'd be sure
to win," said a restaurant man.
Ager.
Outside, on the Avenida Gen.
kra1, a bus passed by decorated
with a shield of clasped hands
superimposed on the Unite d
States and Costa Rican flags.
Brotherhood and friendship, F"
said the motto painted be-
meath.
Such is the friendly atmos-
phere that President Kennedy
will enter when his airplane
lands here March IS for a
three day conference with the
presidents of the five Central
American states and Panama.
Nowhere in Latin America is
the Spanish term for Mort h
Americans, "gringo," less likely
to have a hostile tone.
Foreigners who move here are
accepted into the community
without discrimination. A Brit
ish subject who lives in San
Jose recently visited the United
States as a representative of
the Costa Rican Government
to study industrial processes
Officials of the host agency in
Washington were so surprised
that a foreign country sent a
non-citizen that they asked for
a special letter Of confirmation
from President Francisco Or
Itch.
Elections Are Orderly
Democracy is working well
for the is million inhabitants
Of this West Virginia sized re-
public just north of Panama
Costa Rica has changed ad-
ministrations in orderly elec-
tons every four years since
1948 - quite an achievement
In the volatile political atmos-
phere of Latin America.
This stability, in fact is gen.
orally believed to be a mair
reason that President Kennedy
chose to visit Costa RIGA rather
than one Of its neighbors.
This Is the only country II
the hemisphere that does no
have an army. Its civil guarC
Of 1,750 men and officers ha'
no tanks or artillery. The onl!
guard airplane is a slow, civil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Personal Deductions
Face Tax Bill Surgery

witness list reflects the oppoSi-
ton of philanthropic groups,
who already have been writing
members that the provision
would dry up contributions.
Real estate and building in
terests. concerned with the ef-
feet Of a change that would
diminish present tax incentives
TO homecoming, are another po-
tent source Of opposition.
Yet the deductions floor is a
big item in the overall admin
istration tax plan. which envis-
ages reducing rates enough TO
cut the Government income tax
take Si3.6 billion a year even
tually, but recouping S3.3 bill
lion a year eventually, through
structural tax changes that
would tax some income more
heavily than now.
billions Views
OF the S3.3 billion recovery
a full S2.3 billion would be pro-
vided by the 5 per cent deduc-
ton floor.
Secretary Of the Treasury
Dillon has told the Ways anc
Means Committee the Govern.
ment cannot safely undergo 9
net tax reduction greater thar
Sl0.3 billion and that, II tho
floor on personal deductions Il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
ny the Associated Press

President Kennedy's tax pro-
gram is still undergoing con-
gressional diagnosis and yet to
be wheeled into the operating
room. But already one critical
item has been marked for
major surgery.
And with 1t may go some OF
the proposed tax reductions.
This item is the proposal to
put a floor under personal de-
deuctions such as interest, local
taxes and charitable contribu-
tions. II would allow deduc-
tons only TO the extent their
total exceeds 5 per cent Of
income.
No member OF the House
Ways and Means Committee,
now considering the tax pack
age, has publicly spoken UP for
this provision. advanced by the
administration TO recoup some
OF the revenue that would be
lost by cutting tax rates. On
the contrary, several members
have predicted this will be
among the first 10 go when
the committee starts writing a
bill In a month or so.
Hearing Starts Monday
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-23
Hearing Starts Monday

The tax-writing group be-
gins taking public testimony on
this proposal Monday The
Evening star., 1963-01-24
GAO AIerts
Congress on
Cotton Deals

The General Accounting
Office called congressional at
tention yesterday to possible
law violations by Government
approved sales agencies which
apparently sold Government
owned cotton to themselves at
less than fair value.
Controller General Campbell
reported to Congress that the
apparent conflicts of interest
and several other questionable
procedures occurred in the 1859
and 1860 cotton purchase pro-
grams of the Commodity Credit
Corp.
He estimated that transac-
tions in which some private
agencies approved by the CCC
apparently sold Government
owned cotton to themselves
amounted to more than $500
million.
He disclosed that Secretary
of Agriculture Freeman has
conferred with Attorney Gen.
eral Kennedy and is reviewing
the GAO's findings and recon-
mendations.
Mr.. Campbell added that the
department assured him it
would take action to recover
any losses to the CCC.
Evening star., 1963-01-24
OfficidI to Draw
$4,000 on Side

CHICAGO, Jan. "a (AP). =
The Chicago Board Of Educa-
ton again has approved a part
time Job for School Supt. Ben
jamin c. Willis, thus making
him the Nations second high
est paid public official.
Mr.. Willis receives $48,500 q
year as superintendent of Chi
cago public schools. He has said
he will receive $4,000, includ.
ing $4,000 expenses, for direct.
ing a study of Massachusetts
schools.
AS a public official. Mr.. viii.
lis salary is topped only by
President Kennedy's 500, 900 6
year.
Mr.. Willis, superintendent fol
10 years, said the survey is ex.
pected to start In July and enc
in December, 1864. The boarc
yesterday reaffirmed its earlier
decision approving the job BY
a vote of 10 to / after somt
groups had protested.
Evening star., 1963-01-24
GOOD BUT NEVER AGAIN :
Drain Pipe Chemical
Routs District Aides

A new and malodorous type
Of cleaning fluid not only tool
care of a clogged drain prob
lem at the District Building
yesterday afternoon, but also
removed at least so city en-
ployes.
After an offensive odoi
started yelling up from two
elevator shafts at the District
Building, alarmed city officials
assumed that a sewer line must
have broken.
An immediate attempt was
made to locate Walter N
Tobriner, president of the Dis
trict Board of Commissioners
who was out of the building
A lookout" was broadcast or
the police radio system for Mr.
Tobriner.
Meanwhile, Commissioner
John B. Duncan, the only Com
missioner in the building al
the time, was told that the
Health Department had beer
contacted and had advised thai
sewage fumes could make some
persons i'll.
After Mr.. Tobriner was To-
Gated finally at a National
Capital Housing authority meet
ing, Mr.. Duncan conferred with
him on the phone. Mr.. Duncan
then announced that the Com.
missioners had decided to au.
thorize department heads tC
permit employees to leave the
Evening star., 1963-01-24

building early If the odor was
too unpleasant in their offices.
Practically all the employees
OF the Corporation Counsel's
Office and the Public Utilities
Commission left.
In order TO avoid the stencil.
Mr.. Duncan moved from llis
office at one end Of the build
ing to Mr.. Tobriner's at the
other end to hold a scheduled
committee meeting.
Reporters who contacted the
District Department of Build
ings and Grounds we're told
later that the cause Of the
odor was not sewage but the
sulfuric acid in a new type of
drain cleaner. 7-.'
F. G. Adair, chief engineer
for the District Building, ex-.
planned that some waste water
drains at the bottom of the
elevator shafts were stopped up.
To unclog the drains, he said,
maintenance employees had used
a sample of a new cleaning
fluid.
1T worked real good" said
Mr.. Adair, but that's abso-
lutely the first and last time
we'll use that stuff. I've really
learned a lesson" + 'tfl
He explained that the odor
was waited up the elevator
shafts to the upper floors Of
the building. 81
Mr.. Adair insisted that no
plumbing or sewer failures had
contributed to the stencil. '7
Evening star., 1963-01-24

shooter for Police Chief Robert
v, Murray.
Chief Layton, a native oi
Washington, was graduated ir
1880 from the old Business
High School and in 1885 joined
the Police Department.
He served in the First Pre-
cinct and in the latter part oi
1887 was named a detective anc
assigned to the special investi-
cation squad then known as the
public relations squad.
His rise through the ranks to
his present position was fast.
In l94l he was named a pre-
cinct detective and made de-
tective sergeant in 1943. The
new chief Of detectives was
Evening star., 1963-01-24

as commander Of the detective
division when Chief Murray was
appointed in November, 1851.
The 50-year-old new chief OF
detectives said he takes over the
new post with deep humility
in the confidence shown in me
by Chief Murray and the Com
missioners."
A handsome man with blond,
curly hair, blue eyes and a
square jaw, Chief Layton lives
at 1772 Elton road, Silver
Spring. Md.
Chief Layton moved into his
job Immediately on a temper
airy basis and permanently on
February 28 when Chief Scott
retires.