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to include the following major
proposals for new programs:
/. A revised college building
program that would include loans
and possible grants to nom
church related institutions. The
total cost might be larger than
the 1862 Senate bill of Sis bill
lion but, for budgetary reasons,
would be stretched out over a
longer peroid of time and there
fore cost less on an annual basis.
BY limiting the grants to nom
church related institutions the
administration hopes to avoid the
church-state isue.
2. A proposal for technical edu-
cation to overcome the national
shortage of engineering techni-
clans. Congressman Brademas,
Democrat of Indiana, proposed
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drastic cutback is the resound-
ing defeat the President has sJl-
fered in education legislation.
Many observers. including leading
Democratic congressional advo-
Gates of Federal aid TO education.
attribute the disaster TO admin
istration mishandling Of its pro-
gram In recent months the White
House seems TO have lost what
ever real enthusiasm 1t had for
large-scale education legislation.
The President is said to have pri-
vately expressed his sense Of
Illustration and discouragement.
His dispirited attitude has spread
throughout the Government and
on Capitol Hill and In itself has
discouraged Congressman holding
marginal seats from taking a po-
litical chance on a program they
feel the White House doesn't
really intend to support to the
fullest extent possible.
However. Francis Keppel, the
new Commissioner of Education
and the first TO be sworn In at
the White House, has the en-
thusiastic backing Of the educa-
tional community. He is expected
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u. N. Sees Africa
AS Coming Of Age

Africa-racism remained a potent
and explosive force.
Colonialism won no laurels in
the Congo. Indeed, bitterness
against it was intensified by the
long reluctance of Belgians, Brit
ish and French to see Katanga
return to the republic on reason
able terms. Sacking of the Brit
ish Embassy in Leopoldville last
week is one evidence of the bit
terness this policy produced
At the same time, the impor-
tance of foreign Investment to a
burgeoning economy was recog-
nized. Even after all the resent
ment the Union Miniere occa-
stoned by sponsoring Noise
Tshombe's secession, the central
government was terrified when
threats were made to destroy the
company's property.
Ability to distinguish between
colonialiSm Cor "neo colonial
ISM, which is despised, and le-
gitimate foreign investmen 1T,
which can be a signal asset, is a
distinct mark of maturity. Many
Africans have learned to make
that distinction.
Some of the new attitude was
apparent in the 1862 session of
the U. N. General Asse bly,
where denunciations of colonial
ism seemed to lose some of their
bitter edge.
Africans may not have mel
lowed as yet on this issue, but
they do seem a shade less frenetic.
Efforts to proclaim a rigid U. N.
deadline for total independence
everywhere, for example, could
not muster majority support in
the Assembly.
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Questions Remain

Enactment Of the higher ed
ucation legislation mainly de-
pends on how these questions are
resolved
/. Can the administration and
House Democratic leaders get the
various powerful Democratic per-
sonalities in the House TO recon-
cile their views and support a uni
fled program
2. viii the administration and
House Democratic leaders utilize
fully the available Republican
support in the House2
3. Will Senate Democratic lead
ers 90 along with a bill II II
passes the House where 1t may be
taken up first2
4 viii the education commu-
nity-in particular the influen-
tial college presidents-agree on
what they want and exert every
effort to press their views on
CongreSS2
S. VIII the Congress face
Squarely up TO the ehurch-state
issue and bring II TO a voter
Otherwise, the best possible po-
litical alternative might be to use
the probably renewal Of the Ma
tional Defense Education Act as
vehicle TO incorporate q
major college academic building
program.
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Lesson Of the Congo

1t has not suddenly made Afri-
ca a mature, sophisticated, and
responsible continent, but 1t has
scared into the African con-
sciousness some valuable and
lasting lessons. The Africans
themselves are the first to &C
knowledge the fac.
Africa may not yet be an adult
but neither is it any longer a
child.
The fact that unprepared in
dependence is not in anyone's
best interest was perhaps the
most vivid single lesson of the
Congo.
Evidence that this lesson was
learned, at least by some leaders
Of African thought and action,
came midway in the Congo expe-
rience when Ruanda- Urundi, a
neighboring Belgian territory,
neared independence.
The U. NJ, whose responsibility
1t was to set the pace, voted to
keep the two new countries of
Rwanda and Burundi temporarily
under an indirect and disguised
form of Belgian tutelage, with
Belgian troops remaining on the
scene. The U. N. could not have
done this without African acqui-
escence, and indeed, in some
cases, cooperation. The result
may well have been to prevent
another and even more bloody
Congo.
Early in the Congo crisis white
technicians, mostly Belgian, were
forced to flee the country for
their lives, subjected to rape,
murder and robbery. Long before
the crisis was over, they were be-
ing entreated back. They had
been seen to be vital to the new
nations economy.
Extremes of anti-White racism
in the Congo, which began to ap-
pear in 1860, touched off healthy
counterappeals for tolerance and
cooperation. Effects were felt in
many countries at least, in those
governed by Blacks. Where White
minoritieS insisted on retaining
power-aS in the Rhodesias, South
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The Bill Thot FoiIed

The House last year passed a
bill for private and public col
leges with $3.50 million a year in
grants for five years and $l20
million in loans over the same
period.
In conference the Senate and
House leaders agreed In Septem-
Der on a $2.345 billion academic
building and student aid bill for
higher education that would have
provided:
One billion five hundred million
dollars over five years - go per
cent in matching grants and 40
per cent in loans, TO construct
engineering. physical and natural
science buildings and libraries ex-
cluding buildings for religious
purposes.
Five hundred ninety-five mil
lion dollars in student loans Of
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Tougher With Allies

Without resorting to harsh,
bitter words, Mr.. Kennedy also Is
showing now a willingness to get
tougher with the allies about
their picking up a bigger share Of
the burden of foreign aid and the
defenses of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
In addition, he is bent on press
ing now for made in America
solutions to cold war issues even
If this develops more friction with
the allies. They weren't consulted
on Cuba or more recent events in
the Congo, and there may be more
demonstrations of an independ-
ent American attitude.
The Kennedy toughness comes
out at home, too.
Two Of the headline events Of
the Presidents first two years
were the racial troubles in Miss
issippi and a showdown with the
steel industry on price boost.
In each case, Mr.. Kennedy ap-
piled force.
When efforts to enforce a court
order for the admission of Negro
James H. Meredith to the Univer-
sity of Mississippi resulted in
riots, bloodshed and two deaths,
Mr.. Kennedy ordered United
States troops to the scene to re-
store order. Some of them still
are there.
When steel companies an
nounced a price increase only
days after signing what the ad-
ministration proclaimed to be a
non-inflationary contract with
labor, Mr.. Kennedy leaped into
action with the full power and
prestige of his office. The price
boost was Cancelled hurriedly.
Ever since, though, Mr.. Ken
nedy has been trying to convince
business that his administration
isn't against business. And the
people around him can put up
quite an argument that he really
is middle Of the roader.
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The Changes

Under the impact of history
shaping events, there have been
changes in this man in the last
two years. There have been
changes, too, at the White House
and in the Government.
Cabinet meetings, long a SYM
Dol of the power and function
ing of the administrative arm of
the Government, have becom e
something of a ceremonial hold
over from the past. They take
place now at infrequent intervals.
Mr.. Kennedy is his own Secre-
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Tradition

1t is in the American tradition
not to be satisfied with less than
maximum achievement. At the
same time, it is we'll to remember
that economic progress is never
one of uninterrupted flight for
ward. Rather it is the sum total of
advance, pauses, and even some
slipping back.
Since the turn OF the century,
the United States has experienced
a financial panic Q900; a stock
market crash 1929; a subsequent
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the fires of politics and interna-
tional Jurors. He is a little less
impatient, a little more tolerant
of delay, a little more resigned to
compromise. Bits Of brashness and
cockiness have dropped away.
The President is more mature,
more cautious now. Yet he is more
confident than he was two years
ago.
While Mr.. Kennedy and his ad-
ministration have been a focal
point of complaints, criticism and
controversy at times, the Presi-
dent has grown in this period
into a national leader of unques-
toned prestige and into an in
ternational leader of command
ing stature.
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depression; and along the line,
less violent reversals generally
styled 'recessions'. In this period
of time, however, living standards
reached the highest levels ever
achieved.
Three out of every five American
families have become owners of
their own homes, compared to one
in three in 1900. Far better edu-
cational opportunities are being
offered to American young people.
Burl S. Watson,
Chairman Cities Service.
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to instill a new spirit of optimism
and to take an active role in pre-
senting the Administrations pro-
gram to Congress.
The major struggle with Con-
gress this year will be over the
college building program. In 1910
the college population is expected
to be twice what it was in 1860
Administration officials believe
that the election has not i'm
proved appreciably the political
problem in the House, the main
hurdle to be faced. However, the
elevation Of Representative Peter
Frelinghuysen. Republican Of New
Jersey, a long-term supporter Of
higher education, TO ranking MI
nority status on the House Com
mittee is encouraging.
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this a year ago and 1t has been
vigorously supported by Dr. Je-
rome B. Wiesner, the Presidents
science adviser.
3. A proposal for expanding the
number of teacher training insti-
tuteS in the humanities and the
social sciences modelled on the
successful experience of those in
the physical and natural sciences
operated by the National Science
Foundation. Certain national
standards might be set to en-
courage new teachers of ability
and to retain present ones.
4. A modest proposal for ele-
mentary and secondary school
construction in certain urban de-
pressed areas extended over
number of years
S. A proposal for a work-study
plan providing Federal funds for
needy students who would be en-
ployed, for example, as laboratory
research assistants.
Continued Programs
The following major existing
programs In Federal aid TO edu-
cation would be continued:
/. The National Defense Edu-
cation Act which expires this year.
The student loan section OF this
successful program would be eX-
panded and more graduate fell
lowships would be added.
2. A one-year extension OF Fed
eral aid to impacted areas which
may be the Houses first educa-
ton order of business. The House
might provide that a commission
renew the entire program, which
many In Congress feel has out
lined It's usefulness,
3. Modernization Of the old vo-
cational training program,
These recommendations can
only be regarded as a considera-
bly, watered-down version Of the
administrations original pro-
grams for both elementary and
secondary schools as well as high
er education as promised during
the 1860 campaign and as sub
mitted on paper TO the Congress
during President Kennedy's first
term.
The major reason for such a
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Looms Posed

The college building program,
the most important new educa-
ton legislation up for decision
last year, was beaten in the House
after a Senate House fight over
the issue Of Federal grants to
church related colleges and a
large Federally financed scholar
ship program. Senate education
leaders opposed grants TO private
colleges, especially those affiliated
with the Catholic Church but
passed last February a $500 mil
lion a year loan program for pub
lie and private colleges over a
period Of five years, $3.50 million
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BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
Associated Press Staff Writer

President Kennedy has been
breaking trail along the new
frontier for two years now, pick
ing his way carefully through nu-
clear perils and treacherous eco
nomic tides.
Along the way, he encountered
in crises over Cuba his worst de-
feat and his greatest triumph.
Along the way, too, he has be-
come seasoned and tempered in
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Man on the Move

Even so, Mr.. Kennedy is a rest
less man on the move. When he
sits, he rocks. He still can go at
top speed all day after sitting up
all night during a crisis over Cuba
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Just two years ago a vigorous
young President, John FitZger-
aid Kennedy, took over the
reins of Government in Wash
ingtOn, impatient to "get the
country moving again." He's
had fabulous ups and downs
since then, close brushes with
world disaster, and it's under
standable that today he's a
somewhat changed man. In this
article a veteran Washington
correspondent sums up the
changes, measuring the Ken
nedy Of 1868, looking ahead to
1864.
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in grants for public community
colleges for five years, and 2l2.-
500 college scholarships costing
$l49 million averaging about $700
per year per student.
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he has done everything but an
nounce his candidacy formally.
Close to War
In the international field, Mr..
Kennedy has seen nuclear war
brush perilously close to America
and the world He faced the most
dangerous threat Of all unflinch-
ingly and successfully.
The three times Of peril which
come most readily to Mr.. Kenne-
dy's mind;
/. The threat Soviet Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev delivered in
Vienna to take over Berlin within
six months.
2. The Communist attempt to
gobble up Laos.
3. The Russian attempt to es-
tablish nuclear missile and bomb
er bases in Cuba. .
There were other menacing oc-
casions, too, when tanks faced
each other across the Berlin bor-
der at checkpoint Charlie, when
the Berlin wall was built, when
the United States rushed troops
to Thailand.
But the Cuban showdown over
shadowed all else. Here there was
a direct conformation, America
against Russia, with no buffers or
cushions in between. Here Mr..
Kennedy laid on the line q will
ingness to risk the disaster Of nu-
clear war while leaving Mr.. Khru-,
shchev a face-saving avenue Of
retreat. The Russian ordered Q
retreat in what he claimed was
the role Of a peacemaker.
For Mr.. Kennedy, there has
been no gloating or Growing over
Premier Khrushchev or over
Fidel Castro, whose crushing of
the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
in 1861 was the hardest blow at
Mr.. Kennedy's prestige in the
past two years.
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nedy has been warning for two
years with a Congress in which
he once served. Sometimes he
wins, sometimes he loses, and
sometimes he compromises.
This year, the big legislative
goal is to reduce and reform taxes
in order to spur the economy and
slash unemployment rolls. Mr..
Kennedy still wants an aid for
education bill and a program of
medical care for the aged under
social security standards. His
party still is in nominal control.
Still the Coalition
Numerically, congressional
Democrats came through the No
vember election with just about
the same margins over the Re-
publicans as before. But Mr.. Ken
nedy is completely aware that
those margins are optical illu-
sions that can disappear when
you reach for them. Again, as for
years, it will be a coalition of
conservative Republicans and
Democrats that will control the
legislative mechanism at crucial
moments.
So Mr.. Kennedy seems to be
more resigned than he was two
years ago to compromising in or
der to get at least part of what
he wants. And even with COM
promising, some hot legislative
skirmishes are sure to break out.
Thus at this point there is no
certainty as to what kind of rec
ord Mr., Kennedy will be able to
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lay before the people for inspec-
tion when he tries for a second
term next year, He takes it for
granted, and so does everyone
else, that he will be running then
he has done everything but an
nounce his candidacy formally.
Evening star., 1963-05-22

A 81 year old Washington
attorney and stockbroker was
indicted yesterday on charges
Of running a securities opera
ton which used a scheme to
defraud modest-income stock
purchasers.
The grand jury charged that
the attorney, Earl j. Lombard
Of Etchison. Md. president of
the Guardian Investment Corp.
listed In the 1900 block of K
street NV, and the firm had
pocketed a total Of $500 sent
by nine persons for the pur-
chase Of stock which the firm
never bought.
The indictment alleged that
Mr.. Lombard and his firm sent
false confirmations to the
purchasers but never sent the
stock certificates, despite fire.
quent requests, because the
stock had not been purchased
The firm replied TO the re-
quest by giving such false as
surances, the indictment said,
as: Everything is coming
along. You should have your
stock In three or four days.
There was some mix-up and
the stock certificates would be
transmitted shortly"
Alfred Hartman, assistant
United States attorney who
presented the case 10 the spe-
cial grand jury. said the firm
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Memorial FIoodIighting
Up to Fine Arts Group

The jefferson Memorial may
join the ranks of Washington's
floodlighted monuments if the
Fine Arts Commission approves.
The National Park Service
conducted lighting tests at the
Memorial Saturday and Mon
day nights and hoped to give
the commission a look last
night, but not enough mem
bers appeared to make a
quorum.
President and Mrs. Kennedy
were said to have viewed the
tests Monday and to have been
pleased with the effect. Mrs.
Kennedy has been interested in
the idea for some time, a White
House spokesman said.
The commission would have
TO approve any permanent
lighting system at the memo
rial, explained T. Sutton Jett,
regional director of the Park
Service.
THE idea has been suggested
hundreds of times" Mr.. Jett
said today. I'VE did it once
before, on the Fourth Of July
or Thomas Jefferson's birthday
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Admiral Jesse Coward, 63,
Cited as Destroyer Skipper

BRADENTON, Fla, May q
(AP).-Rear Admiral Jesse G
Coward. USN (retired), q
much-decorated destroyer skip
per Of World War II, died
Monday night in Bradenton
He was So.
He was a graduate of the
United States Naval Academy,
During the early years of his
career. Admiral Coward took
part in several minor engage
ments with Chinese bandits
along the Middle Yangtze
River.
But it was after he assumed
command of the USS Sterett
in l94l that he won a place
in Navy history.
Under Admiral Coward, the
Sterett operated for a time
with the British home fleet
out of Scapa Flow, Scotland.
protecting conveys on the Muir
mansk run. Later, it took part
in the reinforcement of Malta
and in several Pacific battles.
Admiral Coward and his crew
received a presidential unit
citation for operations in 1912
near Guadalcanal. The skip
per was awarded the Navy
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Mrs. Bormock, Sc,
U. S. Worker

Mrs. Celia Barmack, Sc, a
secretary with the State
Department. died early this
morning at the Washington
Hospital Center following heart
surgery.
Mrs. Barmack was born in
Kalamazoo. Mich, and moved
to the District as an infant
with her parents, She attended
school here. She had worked
at the State Department for
ten years and lived at 96l4
Bristol avenue, Silver Spring.
She leaves three brothers
and a sister: Maurice Canter,
of 9817 Cherry Tree lane,
Silver Spring; Nathan Canter,
of 837 Fair Oaks avenue,
Hyattsville, and Mrs. Rose
SWeeny, OF 5387 Chillum place
NE. Two grandchildren also
survive.
Services will be held at 10
am, Friday, at the Goldberg
Funeral Home, 42l7 Ninth
street NV. Burial will be in
the District Of Columbia Lodge
Cemetery.
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Stockbroker Indicted
In Securities Fraud

was organized In 1860 and had
about 10 employees who worked
m ainly on modest income
buyers"
After the initial contact, the
purchasers would send in
money, or other stock and
money, to be used for the pur-
chase of new stocks.
The indictment alleged that
in some cases the new stock
would never be ordered; in
other cases the stock would be
ordered from established Sc
curity houses, but never paid
for; and in all cases the money
was embezzled by Mr.. Lombard
and his firm.
Mr.. Hartman said that the
firm is still in existence, but is
not operating regularly. He
said that the Securities and
Exchange Commission is now
hearing similar complaints
with a view to revoking the
firms license.
The indictment alleged that
W hen questioned personally
about the non-delivery Of the
stock, Mr.. Lombard, at one
time replied:
"The stock is guaranteed and
you cannot lose any money. 1t
was a big job to get the stock
issues out, and own this big
firm and am financially able TO
reimburse my customers"
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touched by the desegregation
move.
Integrated basketball games
have been played at the new
Tulloch Memorial Gymnasium
at George Washington High
School and the city's Softball
league schedule has had all
Negro and integrated teams
playing white teams at the
Fairgrounds.
Mayor Mann said, 1T seems
to me the citizens Of Alex
andria deserve a fair chance
at the job opportunities in City
Hall. After all, their salaries
are paid out of taxpayers
money. We shouldn't leave
stone unturned in getting the
best man for the job"
Earlier this month, the Ar
lington County Board of Super
visors approved a prohibition
against racial discrimination in
the hiring or promoting OF
county employees.
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Schuyler Bentley
Ex-Muitre d'HoteI

Schuyler S. Bentley. 81,
former maitre d'hotel at the
Roger Smith Hotel. died of a
heart attack Sunday at the
Washington Sanitarium.
He lived at GALS Elliot place.
Hyattsville.
A native of Fort Worth.
Tex, Mr.. Bentley came to the
Washington area in 1856 after
serving for more than 20 years
as maitre d'hotel at the Park
Central Hotel in New York.
He leaves his wife, Elizabeth,
Of the home address, and a
daughter by a previous mar
riage, Louise F. Bentley, Of
Switzerland.
Services will be at pm.
tomorrow at the Warner E.
Pumphrey Funeral Home in
Silver Spring.