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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
YOUR MONEYS WORTH
Economic Advance
Spurred by Autos

Thank God for autos!" a
White House official remarked
to me when I was in Washing
ton last year.
Thank God for autos!" /
echoed when I was in Detroit
recently.
Autos are doing it again
performing a major job Of
supporting employment, pay
checks and profits this year as
they did last year. This domi-
nant industry is now certain
to chalk up two excellent years
back to back" for the first
time in history, and the impact
of this on the economy is and
will be immense.
This one industry accounted
for almost one-fourth of the
entire rise in the Gross Ma
tional Product in the final
quarter of 1862. The boom of
late 1954-early 1855 was fed
by the automobile, and in 1855
production Of passenger cars
accounted for more than 5 per
cent of GIMP, a ratio not sur
passed since. AS autos spur
economic advances, so they
spur declines. In 1960-61 the
drop in auto output was eQui-
valent to more than half the
overall business slide. In 1858
passenger car production fell
to 3 per cent OF GIMP, and If
ever there was an automobile
recession" 1858 was 1t.
Big Job PrOvider
This one industry. directly
or indirectly, provides, one
seventh Of the jobs in the
country. This one industry
chews up huge shares Of the
country's production Of steel,
rubber, lead. glass, zinc, up
holstery fabrice, etc. This
one industry carries nearly
two-thirds OF all American
jobholders to work; more than
4l.3 million travel TO their Jobs
In private autos or car pools,
the 1860 census revealed.
Against this background, the
sentence, "The automobile Is
America" stands out as more
than a glib quip.
II Is now almost certain that
auto sales in 1863 will top
1925 second best" total OF
6.o38,863. The only question Is
whether they'll also exceed
1855 all-time record OF 7.l69.-
908. None Of the auto heads Is
now saying they will. but three
OF the big four are predicting
sales In the seven million range.
Only Ford is moderately lower.
Il is a certainty that truck
sales viii break all peacetime
records. Truck sales are run
ming at over l million against
l.06s,725 In 1862 and 957,00l
in 1855.
II you want 10 play the num-
beers game. you can get COM
bined passenger car-truck sales
over 1855 high. But the num-
beers game isn't important. The
numbers are close enough and
they're good numbers.
The basis for continued OPP
timism about automobiles and
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Lower Prices Seen

- ASNASSAOAA AAA OAAC WOW Va law
cotton-which can represent as
much as so per cent of the total
cost Of a piece Of cloth-would
naturally bring about a lower
ing of consumer prices for
shirts, dresses, underwear and
other cotton goods. textile man.
ufacturers contend.
Lower prices. they argue,
would win back to domestic
producers some of the market
they have lost to cheaper for
eign imports.
Textile imports, according to
Agriculture Department fig
ures, have increased an average
OF % per cent a year during
the last six years, while cotton
textile exports have declined an
average of 6 per cent a year.
In 1860. for the first time in
history. American imports of
cotton textiles exceeded exports
Problems Of domestic cotton
producers have been height
ened by a sharp rise in the
use Of synthetic fibers, such as
rayon. nylon and acrylic, as
substitutes for cotton. Some
mills have been switching from
cotton to rayon, which costs
less and has many of cotton's
characteristics.
Although cotton no longer is
the dominant economic force in
this country that 1t once was,
the industry still throws a lot
of weight around on Capitol
Hill. And Congress cautiously
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
Hotel Revenues Dip
Sharply Behind 1862

Washington hotel revenues
in February were 8.8 per cent
behind a year ago and for the
first two months Of this year
were off 6 per cent, reported
Bourbon A. Dawes, executive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02

Wholesalers Sales in Febru-
airy totaled STA billion. down
l per cent from January but 6
per cent above February, 1852,
after seasonal adjustments
Commerce Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
By SYLVIA PORTER

their contribution to the eco
nomy's growth this year is
firm.
/. Consumer surveys both by
the Census Bureau and the Uni
versity Of Michigan's Survey
Research Center indicate peo-
pie plan to buy more new and
used cars this year than last.
The latest -Sindlinger study Of
March rs reports consumers
plan to spend an all-time dol
lar total for new cars in the
next six months.
2. AS the industry enters the
peak selling season, sales are
confirming the consumer in
tention surveys. In mid-March
new car sales were at the high
est rate for the period since
1855, were 10 per cent above
1925 pace.
3. Production schedules OF
the major companies are being
revised upward for April May
June, with General Motors
hiking its schedules particular
ly sharply. Wards Automotive
Reports discloses the industry
expects to produce 1889 500
cars and trucks in April May
June against 1881, 900 In jan
uary-March and l,750,458 in
the first 1862 quarter.
More Materials Used
4. Autos again are getting
longer. bigger. more luxurious
important to the whole eco
nomy because this means more
use Of materials.
5. Other fundamental forces
are clearly favoring a con-
tinued high rate of sales.
Multi-car ownership Is expand
ing steadily. A mounting num-
Der Of cars sold in the early
mid 1950s must now be scrap
ped. adding to normal new de-
mand. Never has the industry
Offered such a wide variety Of
sizes. styles and colors. The
population increase in the
suburbs props the market. And
then there are those millions
OF teen-agers with their adora-
ton OF the automobile.
As we were saying. for the
sake Of workers. paychecks and
profits. Thank God for
autosl"
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BUSINESS BRIEFS

share VS.. $7S4,78O or "a cents
in 1861 period.
Other earnings included:
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CONGRESS DUE TO ACT A.,
Cotton Mills Seek Equality in Subsidy
BY DON BACON
Star staff Writer


In the United States a textile
mill pays $l72.5O for a bale of
raw cotton. For the same cot
ton, a foreign mill pays only
$3.50.
That difference in cost
$42 .50-is the crux of a prob
lem plaguing the American
cotton industry. At long last,
businessmen and lawmakers
believe, a solution may be at
hand.
Congress is due soon to vote
on a new subsidy. designed to
reduce the cost of price
supported domestic cotton fiber
to the manufacturer and thus
to make American textiles more
competitive In the world
market.
Mill operators believe the
subsidy will help to end a slump
that has existed In the cotton
textile industry for several
years. With Government price
assistance on the cost Of cot
ton fiber, textile manufacturers
foresee a reversal of the steep
ening decline in United States
cotton textile exports and a
halt to the steady rise in textile
imports.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Bolivia Braces
For Attack On
Tin Mine Rebels

LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI)-The
government grouped its forces
today for a possible attack on
rebellious tin miners in Catavi,
who had ignored official orders
for the immediate release of
four American and Is other hos
tages.
A 48-hour ultimatum to the
Communist-infiltrated miners
union expired at 9 o'clock
Wednesday night. Interior (po-
lice) Minister Jose A. Arce said
he and Defense Minister Luis
Rodriguez Bidegain are taking
charge Of operations.
Arce would not say what &C
ton the government plans. Rod
riguez had said earlier, how
ever, that necessary action to
recover the territory held by
the representatives Of anarchy"
would be taken If the ultimatum
were ignored.
The miners also were prepar-
ing for action. Radio breakfasts
Wednesday night urged them to
"be ready with dynamite -
the miners favorite weapon-to
meet any effort by troops to
take Catavi.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Bayou Casotte
UTILITIES Bond
Issue Ratified

The Jackson County Port Au-
thority today ratified a Board
of Supervisors sponsored county
bond issue for water and sewer
construction in the Bayou Ca
sotte area, clearing the way for
validation Of the bonds.
At the same meeting, which
was attended by city, county and
port authority officials, Attor-
ney Karl Wiesenburg announced
that the objections he had en-
tered to the validation in behalf
of the city had been withdrawn.
These two actions apparently
cleared the way for a chancery
court decree on the Bayou Ca
sotte annexation. Wiesenburg
said he expected the decree to
be handed down late this af-
ternoOn.
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of Ike's reference to Lodge left
the impression with some that
Lodge was getting his personal
blessing.
Lodge was a key figure in the
Republican drive that put Eisen-
hover in the 1852 presidential
race, and served as his first
campaign director.
Lodge lost his Senate seat to
the late President Kennedy in
that election and was named
United Nations ambassador by
Eisenhower.
Most Democrats regard the
twice-defeated Lodge as a weak
prospective opponent for Presi-
dent Johnson next year. The
feeling is shared by many Re-
publicans.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Space Test Site
Work In Sfofe
Is At StundstiIl
GAINESVILLE, Miss. (UPI

GAINESVILLE, Miss. (UPl)
Construction at two projects
at the Mississippi space test
site was at a standstill today
after so workers walked of
their jobs during a labor dis
pute.
An official of the National
Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration said the dispute was
between union members and the
Warrior Construction Co., OF
Houston, Tex.
Federal mediator r. B. Tay-
lor of New Orleans held a
meeting at Biloxi Wednesday
night after the mediation serv-
ice was asked to intervene.
NASA officials said the prof
ects involved are construction of
a laboratory and engineering
building and a bridge at the
huge Hancock County test site,
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Shutdown -.

Continued from page u
now amount to 10000 jobs and
$424 million a year, he said. He
estimated that another SIPS to
$3.50 million a year can be
saved by this method.
The secretary said he will
freeze employment at other de-
Tense installations to make Jobs
available for those being cut
from the payroll.
Every employe whose job Is
eliminated will be offered an
other job opportunity" he said.
"If the new job requires a
move, the expense in the case
Of career employees and their
families will be borne by the
government"
His estimates indicated that
approximately $4,000 govern
ment employees will be moved
to other jobs. He said the De-
tense Department will provide
retaining programs for about
5 per cent who would other
wise be unemployable.
Approximately 20 per cent OF
the employees losing jobs are
expected to 60 voluntarily into
private industry or other
careers.
Mcnamara refused to identify
the overseas bases being
closed, on the ground that these
actions have not yet been dis
cuSsed with the foreign govern
ments involved. His list includ-
ed 26 installations in the United
States and seven overseas.
The closing of the bases is
expected to be spread over two
or three years to cushion the
effect on employment.
Cut Civilian Employees
Mcnamara announced last
weekend that the Defense De-
partment would lop off $4,000
civilian employees over the next
IS months to bring its total just
under l million for the first
time in several years.
This is to be accompanied by
a reduction Of 5000 jobs among
civilians employed by us. mil
itary establishments overseas.
Mcnamara is engaged in a
drive to bring the defense
budget for the coming year to
a level below the current an
nual spending rate Of nearly
$51 billion.
This will require submitting
a budget to Congress in Janu-
airy that will ask some 81 bill.
lion less than was requested by
the President this year.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12

NEW YORK (UPD - Stocks
showed signs Of pulling out Of
their recent lethargy today as
they started to inch higher on
moderate trading.
Rails continued to hold the
van of the advance. Drugs fol-
lowed close with Merck, Rich
ardson-Merrell and Upjohn up
a point or more. Jones &
LaughIin moved up nearly a
point in a mixed steel group.
Chrysler tackled on a large
fraction in a firm auto section.
Chemicals showed little
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Buildings Set
For Ole Miss
And Delta Stote

JACKSON (UPI)- The State
Building Commission has
awarded contracts for a 81, 845,-
600 coliseum at the University
of Mississippi and two dormi-
tories at Delta State College
costing $500, 900.
The general contract for the
8,OOO-seat capacity coliseum on
the Ole Miss campus at Oxford
went to the Southeastern Con-
struction Co. of Jackson on a
bid Of 81 900 500.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Congressional Roundup -.
Discuss Kennedy Coin

WASHINGTON CUPID The
House Banking and Currency
Committee today scheduled
quick consideration of a plan to
put a likeness of President Ken
nedy on new 5O-cent pieces.
Chairman Wright Patman, D.
Tex, called a closed session of
the committee to discuss and
probably vote on the legislation,
submitted Monday by President
Johnson.
No Senate action has been
scheduled but it is expected
that the measure will win quick
approval when it is put to a
vote.
In his proposal, Johnson did
not specify the design for the
other side of the coin, but Rep.
Leonor X. Sullivan DINO, has
suggested that it bear a picture
of the Capitol.
She said it would be a fitting
way to mark the IA years Ken
nedy served in the House and
Senate.
Other congressional news:
Civil Rights: The effort to get
civil rights legislation moving
in the House reverted to finger
pointing. House leaders have
been trying since Monday to
get 2l8 signatures on a petition
to speed up action on the bill
by discharging it from the
House Rules Committee. The
petition now has $50 names, but
some Republicans resisting the
idea, charged that the Demo
Gratis could get the bill to the
floor without it, They said the
Democrats were trying to take
the easy way out.
Mexico: The Senate was
urged to approve the "Chamiz-
al treaty turning over a por-
ton of Ell Paso, Tex, to Mexico.
The request came from the
State Departments assistant Sec
rotary for Latin American af-
fairs, Edwin M. Martin. The
area once belonged to Mexico
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
COP Assured Ike Not
Making Lodge Choice

WASHINGTON (UPD - Key
Republicans are being assured
that former President Dwight
d. Eisenhower was not making
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
his personal presidential choice
when he urged him to enter the
race for the 1864 COP nomina-
ton.
A spokesman for Eisenhower
was said to have contacted Re-
publican leaders this week to
emphasize that all the ex-Presi-
dent intended was to broaden
the field of prospective COP
presidential candidates.
Senate Republican Leader Ev-
erett M. Dirksen, ILL.,, and Sen.
chairman of the Senate COP
Conference, were among those
given the assurances.
Lodge, who was Richard M.
Nixon's vice presidential run
ning-mate in 1860, has made il
clear he has mo intention" at
this time of seeking the presi-
dency next year.
Wide Open Contest
But with the shift in Republi-
can prospects arising from
President Kennedy's assassina-
ton, a wide open nomination
contest for the COP is shaping
up and Lodge could be in the
scrap.
Dirksen said he received word
that Eisenhower's recommend.
alton to Lodge that he return
from South Wet Nam to enter
the presidential race was ''mis-
Interpreted" as indicating that
Eisenhower had made Lodge
his first choice.
Saltonstall, who served with
Lodge in the Senate, has said
he favors an unpledged Massa-
chusetts convention delegation.
Bay State Republicans it was
clear, would favor Lodge if he
became a candidate or let it be
known he would be a contend.
er. But they would not want to
be caught tout on a limb"
Ike Listed Prospects
Eisenhower has ratified off
lists Of party presidential pros
poets whom he regards as fit
for the job on many occasions
This time, a published report
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Castro Claiming
kennedy's Quote
Brought Missiles

WASHINGTON (UPI)- Eide
Castro has been quoted as say
ing that a remark by President
Kennedy convinced him and
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khru-
shchev that a us. invasion oil
Cuba was imminent and lee
them to place Russian missiles
on the island.
The White House said Wed
nesday, however, that the late
President stated at the time tc
Khrushchev's son-in-law, Alexei
!. Adzhubei, that no us. inva-
sion was planned. Castro's re-
ference was to the talk Ken
needy had with Adzhubei, the
editor of the newspaper lives
tia, in January 1862.
Castro's statements were re.
ported by Jean Daniel, a French
newsman who interviewed the
Cuban premier shortly before
the Nov. q assassination Of
Kennedy.
Castro said Kennedy recalled
for Adzhubei that the United
States did not intervene when
Russia put down the 1856 revolt
in Hungary. According to Dan
lei, Castro said he and Khrush-
chew took this to mean that the
United States planned a second
invasion attempt against Cuba
and did not expect Russia to
intervene.
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger, who was
among those present during the
Adzhubei interview, said We'd
nesday that was not the way it
was at all. He said his notes
showed no mention of Hungary,
but an interpreters notes
showed that Kennedy Ibid use
the word Hungary, but not in
the context used by Castro"
According to Salinger, the
President said the United
The chronicle., 1963-12-12

Rites Are Held
For Kreole Buby

Funeral services for David
Wayne Jackson, age two
months, found dead in his bed
Wednesday, were today at 2:3O
pm. from Fails Funeral Home
Chapel in Moss Point.
Officiating was the Rev. Har-
ry Reeves of Orange Grove
Methodist Church. Interment
was in Orange Grove Cemetery.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Jackson
of Kreole, a brother, Keith Jack
son, and maternal grandmother,
Annie Terry.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Todoy's Midday Stock Prices

change. Kennecott and u. S.
Smelling we're up around | and
11a respectively in the metals,
but American Smelling lost
about a point. Pet Milk fea-
tured the foods, up around l.
New York Central, which has
boosted its dividend, was off a
slight fraction. Motorola i'm
proved a large fraction in the
electronicS but Fairchild Cam
era, Minneapolis : Honeywell
and Control Data lost as much
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
Blame Blanket
For House Fire

An electric blanket left on
was the apparent cause of a
house fire this morning at 933
Cherubusco Street in Pascagou-
la, local firemen reported.
Fire damages resulted to
furniture and small appliances.
Light damage was caused by
smoke and water.
Burned in the fire were a mat
tress, blanket, bed, and radio.
Other damages were not dis
closed.
Firemen had to enter the
house, owned by Mrs. Ruby Du-
bose, by breaking a bedroom
window. No one was at home at
the time Of the fire.
Market Street Station fire.
made the call.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12
In Baker Probe,
Sex Is Topic

WASHINGTON CUPID The
Bobby Baker inquiry by the
Senate turned today to matters
of sex.
More precisely, should the
Senate Rules Committee in
clude questions of moral inn
proprieties in its investigation
Of extracurricular activities of
Robert B. Baker and other
former or present Senate en-
ployes?
The chronicle., 1963-12-12

States found the Cuban situa-
ton difficult. To show the inn
portance of the Cuban problem,
Salinger said, Kennedy told Ad-
zhubei Russia should recall how
important it considered Hun
gary in 1856. The record Of the
conversation shows no talk
about non-intervention, Salinger
said.
The chronicle., 1963-12-12

but a change in the course. Of
the Rio Grande, put the terri
tory on the us. side Of the bor-
der a century ago.
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Difference Is OF Degree

stable or moderately rising pic
ture rather than anything present
ing a boom"
Pierre A.. Rinfret, the econo-
mist for the New York investment
and consultant firm of Lionel D.
Edie and Co., is twice as optimis-
tic. He puts the 1864 increase at 8
per cent, with most of it due to
come in the last half of the year.
He believes that business will be,
in his words, relatively flat" in
the first half but likely to surge
ahead to reach a dynamic con-
clusion in the last six months"
These are among the first and
more significant representations
for the coming year. It will be in
teresting if those to follow, many
by equally qualified sources, will
adhere to this pattern.
The chronicle., 1963-11-29
REA's Come-Uppance

equipment = REA recently has b n
helping to finance gravelcrushing plants,
lumber companies, textile mills, and
ski resorts. Such projects are rural"
of course, insofar as they are non-ur-
ban. But to call them agricultural Is, In
Sen. Humphreys words, to "stretch and
distort' the intent Of congressional au-
thorization. Yet today no less than five
out of six new REA loans are being
made to just such industrial, CONNER
cial, and other non-farm borrowers.
The attractiveness of REA loans is
easy to see. Taking federal money
that costs the government about 4 per
cent to borrow, REA loans it out at
2 per cent to enterprises that otherwise
might have to pay from 6 per cent on
up from regular commercial lending ag-
encies. 1t is the obvious folly Of such
non-agricultural pursuits that led the
senate to administer its unusual public
spanking of REA and warn the agency
to stick more closely in the future to
its job of providing power to rural areas.
The chronicle., 1963-11-29

Browning wrote, "And life is
perfected by DEATH" Longfel-
lows famous verse comes to
mind. He wrote:
There is no a h! What
seems SO is transition;
"'This life of mortal breath
"IS but a suburb Of the life
elysian,
"WhoSe portal we call death"
AS Cardinal Cushing said on
Monday at the final mass for
the late President Kennedy,
"Life is not taken away, but
is transformed"
The whole world listened on
Monday. Maybe it will continue
to listen to words that challenge
man to fulfill his mission and
bring peace to a diStraught
world.
The chronicle., 1963-11-29

No matter where you 60 in
the U. S., you can hardly pick
up a paper without reading about
an intensive battle over thu
question of putting fluorides in
the public water supply. The
liberals, who want to use a
police stick to compel children
to have healthy teeth, are for it;
the conservatives, who think it
is the parents duty to look af-
ter their offspring, are against
it. Both sides strive nightly
to quote scientific opinion = or,
rather, the opinion of scien-
fists = to prove they are right
about what fluoridate water will
or will not do to ones arteries
or gizzard.
AS a philosophical libertarian
who thinks the States role in
medicine should be limited to
the prevention Of contagious di-
sease, | would tend to argue
the conservative side of the
case. This business of forcing
positive dental medication on
people whether they want it or
not is uncomfortably close to the
The chronicle., 1963-11-29

The end of the year is suffi-
GENTLY close for predictions re-
garding next year to be appropri-
ate. Particularly is this true in
reference to forecasts concerning
the nations economy.
A logical area in which to make
predictions is that involving capt.
tai expenditures, namely how
much business and industry will
spend on plants and equipment. It
is interesting to note that while
major projections into this sphere
are optimistic, there is a surpris-
ing variance as to degree. For in
stance, the McGraw-Hill publish
ing firm places next years capital
OUTLAWS at $40.7 billion or just 4
per cent ahead of 1868.
Overall" say the firms econ
omists, the figures Suggest a