Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1962 — Page 12

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White House Staff Is Tight-Lipped

i By MERRIMAN SMITH ©IF 'WMte Hoose Reporter WASHINGTON (UPD — Backgtairs at the White House: . Some of the most tight-lipped people in government are members of the permanent staff at the White House. Working in the residence itself, they see a President and his family in many off guard moments. They also observe the behavior of presidential guests. During the course of any White House' tenancy, the help inescapably sees and hears words and behavior which, if relayed to the outside world as typical, would cast the most saintly Chief Executive in a rather unfavorable light. This permanent staff—the ushers who run the White House as a domicile, butlers, maids and cooks, plus the security personnel of Secret Service agents and White House police—needs no lecture on silence. They darned well keep quiet or they get the heave, and with considerable detriment to their qfrfl service status. • Thus,: Jt would seem only natural that some of these dedicated employes are a little aghast, if dot downright disgusted by the behavior of some of the recent guests of President and Mrs. Kennedy. And M is more than likely that the Chief Executive shares their views to a certain extent. Hgn Agreements The household staff was asked at th* outset of this- administration, to ..sign agreements that they would never sell or tell intimate, first person accounts of life inskte the White House while it was occupied by the Kennedys. This agreement was intended more as a deterrent than an iron-clad preventive. Once Kennedy leaves office, there really is no legal bar to any sort of story-telling. But even without such agreement, the permanent staff knows the wisdom of silence and they arswm? that a President’s guest would have something approaching the same general idea of respect for the tiny part- of a first family’s life that can be considered private. SO,! what happened? The guests at a recent Kennedy party titillated their chums on two continents with no so-little tidbits. These enabled society columnists to uncork charming articles about how divinely Secretary of Defense Rob-

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ert S. McNamara does the..twist, the mere mention of which sent shudders of indignation thrqugh the official family only a few weeks before. An Old Custom This gossipy situation is not entirely peculiar to guests of the Kennedys Bragging about having been at White House parties has been a great Indoor sport since the days when Andrew Jackson’s friends ruined. the carpets with spilled whiskey. At a recent party, however, some of the guests unwittingly made the official side of the White House appear less than sincere. A dinner dance the night of Feb. 9 extended well into the next day. This was the night the Russians released U 2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and we turned over to them the Soviet master spy, Col. Rudolph Abel. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger made a point of telling reporters that the President and his wife left the party around 2 a.m. The announcement on Powers came shortly after 3 a.m. by which time Salinger was under the impression that the festivities in the house had ended. In fact, he told of conferring with the Chief Executive about the dramatic prisoner exchange at 2:57 a.m. and again later. Salinger and Kennedy discussed the matter by telephone and the President instructed that word be flashed to members of the Powers family. Salinger finished up his work and then went home to bed. .' , Tell Breathless Stories But some of the guests could not wait to fan out over Washington and New York with breathless stories of how the President and Mrs. Kennedy were dancing until about 4:30 a.m.: how the affair actually didn’t break up until 5 a.m. and how some of the last stragglers didn’t leave until shortly before 6 a.m. Judging from rather detailed accounts that turned up in several columns, Mrs. Kennedy did the twist ever so gracefully with Secretary McNamara, who seemed to be the dancing star of toe evening. There were some reports that even the President tried the current dance fad, but this was most unlikely unless his chronic back condition has vanished miraculously. Perhaps toe day will cottie when

a President will put a small stack of no-sell-or-tell agreements at the door of the East Room when his guests arrive for an evening of fun in the lap of history. Many Agricultural Services Are Vital Agriculture provides many services which are indispensable to the consumer in this day and age, and. in addition, has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of man’s imagination in providing an abundance of food and fiber at resonable costs. Making these main points in a recent speech before a farm group secretary of agriculture Orville Freeman added that, since becoming Secretary, he had sought to carry this one simple message to the families of America who live in cities and suburbs. “I consider it one of the most important tasks that we who are concerned with the future of agriculture can undertake,” he said. Farmers need to get across to others the real significance of their accomplishments and tod services which are rendered to them in the name of agriculture, the secretary pointed out. “Food is one of our most abundant and plentiful resources, and it is reasonably priced,” he said. “It is a bargain in relation to the cost of other things which the American public buys . . . Retail value of farm food products was up only 4 per cent in 1961 over 1951 while farm value of the same foods had dropped 19 per cent. And this at a time when all living costs had gone up 19 per cent in the 10 years . . . “Another way to compare it is with wages for factory labor. Tn 1947-49 it took 59 hours of pay from factory work to buy a month’s supply of food for an average family. Today it takes only 38 hours of factory pay —a third less —to buy the same amount of food.” Among the consumer activities carried out daily, in every section of the country under the direction of the department of agriculture, secretary Freeman mentioned the inspection of meat and poultry in interstate commerce by some 5,000 trained inspectors, the grading and labeling of food commodities, and the development through research of better strains of crops, livestock, and paultry as well as new products to meet changing consumer tastes.

Soviet Union Adopt! Highest Standards ST. LOUIS (UPD—A marriage counselor said Wednesday the Western world has fallen behind toe Soviet Union in social ethics and moral standards. Dr. David R. Mace. Martipon, N.J., head of the American Association of Marriage Counselors, said the Soviet Union was adopting and putting into practice the highest standards of sex morality, chastity- and fidelity. “The Christian West is abandoning these standards rapidly,” Mace fold the convention of the National Council of Churches division of Christian education. Mace said a new family code policy introduced in toe Soviet Union in 1936 is just beginning to take effect. The Soviets have also intensified their training in ethics otf the young, he said. “The stability in family life has not been without effect on social ethics,” Mace said. “In Kiev, for instance, there are no conductors on street cars. You board, figure your own fare and drop it into a box—can we face this kind of test of social ethics?” he asked. Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg, pastor of Delmar Baptist Church, St. Louis, told the convention Christian church congregations must take the lead in serving as the conscience of the community. “We must not let toe newspapers and police alone grapple with social wrongs,” he said. The Rev. Dr. Dahlberg said “It is not enough to deplore conditions a thousand miles away. Every city is full of race prejudice, broken homes, heartaches and crime.” Reds On Increase? More Vodka Made WASHINGTON (UPD—The Internal Revenue Service reported Thursday that U.S. vodka production increased last year while the output of whisky, brandy, rum and gin dropped. Vodka production for toe year ended June 30 was 9.4 million gallons. up 122,373 gallons from the previous year. Whisky output was 135 million gallons, down 15 million: brandy 8.1 million, down 2 million; rum( 1-7 million, down 159,800 and gin 18.3 million, down 668,843. Vacuum Bettie There’s nothing more disheartening than unscrewing the cap of a vacuum bottle after a hard morning's work and finding that the eorjc has come loose and flooded the rest id your lunch. Prevent this, if your vacuum bottle cork shows such tendencies, by putting a small spool or piece of wood on top of toe cork before screwing toe cap down on it.

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Anxiety Over AFP Shown By Administrator By LYLE C. WILSON . United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)-A speech by the administrator of President Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress needs more exposure than it got last week. And, most urgently, it needs more exposure in Latin America, as much exposure as it can get. • AFP is the administration’s $3 billion four-year project to improve social, economic and political conditions in Latin America. This is a starter on a S2O billion project. The administrator is Teodoro Moscoso. Moscoso spoke at the National Press Club. Between the lines of his speech could be read Moscoso’s and Kennedy’s anxiety about AFP. This anxiety reflects U.S. fear that Latin American countries will not undertake the land, tax and other reforms essential to permit AFP to function. Congress will consider the $3 billion AFP authorization bill next month. Assurance of the good faith of Latin American nations will be demanded by powerful legislators. Failure of such assurance could kill, delay or substantially diminish the project. Rep. Otto Passman, D-La., told the House this week that AFP was doomed to fail unless toe United States insists that toe receiving nations firmly undertake the tax and land reforms stipulated and agreed upon. That is just what Moscoso seemed to be talking about last week. “We have the job,” Moscoso said, “of making sure that it (toe program) is not derailed by extreme right-wing elements who oppose social reforms — reforms which they fear would mean toe end of their privilege and riches. However, the objective of AFP is not to redistribute toe shares of an existing pie. It is to redistribute the shares of a rapidly growing pie. “The rich need not get poorer as the pie grows, but toe poor must certainly become richer. The members of the traditional ruling class who support the AFP and its objectives have nothing to fear. “But those who try to frustrate the AFP have a great deal to fear—not from the United States but from their own people.” In such language Moscoso sought to warn the rich that they must reform or risk political upheaval. The upheaval indicated is a Communist take-over in some Latin American countries. It could happen. If it happened there toe United States would become increasingly isolated.

Boys, Girls Invited To Youth Power Meeting INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The second Indiana Youth power Conference will be held here March 1-2 for more than 100 teenagers representing nine youth organizations. “Food Comes First” is the theme of the conference for youths affiliated with Boy and Girl Scduts, Camp Fire Girls, 4-H Club, Indiana Rural Youth, Future Farmers of America, Future Homemakers of America, Hi-Y and Sunshine Society. Court Ruling Blocks School Reorganization GREENCASTLE, Ind. (UPD — Judge Pro Tern Wilbur S- Donner of Putnam Circuit Court today stopped implementation of a oneunit school reorganization plan for the county. Donner upheld an appeal by three taxpayers who sued to block toe state and county school reorganization commissions from advancing the proposed plan to a voter referendum at the May primary. C Darin Is Heart Fund’s-* ’King of Hearts* | SINGE* BOBBY DARIN has M rebraary s is*z Heart Fund CtaqMdgn. The teen-age idol »,*■ 1M ngni against Man ano circojatory disease; as a child he

Preparing Budget A Herculean Task

EDITORS NOTE: The job of preparing any budget is difficult. But preparing a national budget of $92.5 billion to a herculean operation. In the following dispatch. UPI reporter Edward Cowan tells how U. 8. Budget Director David E. Bell manages the task and still tries to work in a vacation. By EDWARD COWAN Doited Press International WASHINGTON (UPD — Just as other leading lights of the Kennedy administration were plunging into the swirl of a new session of Congress, tall, boyish David E. Bell breathed a sigh of relief and took a short vacation. No slacker, Bell was entitled to a respite — which lasted all of five working days — because he had just finished the herculean task of assembling President Kennedys ’ first top-to-bottom b udget for running the government. That task had occupied Bell’s days and evenings, including most weekends, for three months. It had steeped him in the affairs of virtually every agency in the executive branch of government. It had led him through a staggering maze of statistics and dollar signs. Such is the annual ordeal of the director of the budget —a $22,-500-a-year job Bell has held since he joined the exodus from Harvard at the start of the Kennedy administration. Compiling the budget, which goes to Congress every January/ is mostly an autumnal labor. Preparatory work is done earlier in the year, but the real grind begins after Labor Day. Never Easy Yet from January to September it is no waltz for the budget boss. Working days — including every Saturday for Bell — are crammed with staff meetings, White House

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conferences, testimony before congressional committees, speeches out of town and seeing “visitors*’ —old friends, reporters, agency heads, congressmen, officials of foreign governments and non-gov-ernment experts. Thus, the days are as busy as ever for the budget director — even out of season. Happily, Bell said in an interview, things are different at night. A little differ* ent anyway. The taxing regimen of after-dinner conferences, which' Bell detests, is over. “You can do that for a while, but only for a while,” he said. “I try to get out by 7 p.m. now, although I usually take work home with me.” If night work is inescapable, Bell prefers to do it at home in the company of his wife, his daughter, Susan, 17, (just admitted to Radcliffe College) and his son, Peter, 13, an eighth grader. s As a matter of fact, Bell worked at home — and slept late —during his five days off at the end of January. The Bells moved into a new house in November in Tulip Hill, an elegant suburb in Maryland. With the budget behind him, Bell caught up on painting and carpentering — “not in any fancy way, in a strictly allthumbs way.” Ahead Os Schedule He returned to his office next door to the White House a day ahead of schedule. He had to give up that last day of planned leisure to testify before a House committee considering President Kennedy’s plan to create a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. What does that have to do with the budget? Not much. But Bell has a second hat. He is the President’s chief troubleshooter on management of the government. It is also his duty to coordinate the position of the various agencies on proposed legislation, seek

accord where possible and present irreconcilable differences to the President for resolution. As Kennedy’s chief administrative offlap*. Bell’s current assignments include managing a study of government contracting for research and development, deciding what lands in Hawaii the government can relinquish and supervising the Civil Service pay reform study. At the request of the House Appropriations Committee he is directing a study of government activities in meteorology. He already has begun to think about next year’s budget and expects to “get rolling” on it next month with preparations for longrange projections to show Kennedy in June. Meanwhile, he has staff a ides studying such problems as deriving more reliable statistics and producing them earlier. Between numerous appearances before congressional committees —which expect him to know the answers about what goes on everywhere in the executive branch — Bell tries to squeeze in some work on improving his own agency, the Bureau of the Budget, or helping to crank efficiency into administration of foreign aid. Amidst all this, he steals time to think about that facet of his job which continues tp plague and fascinate'Mpi most: ho* to allocate public funds among competing, worthwhile and unlike uses. “We try to inch forward in our underlying conceptual framework,” he said lapsing into professional jargon. A man in a job whose pressures never abate, the word vacation has no real meaning for Bell. He squeezed in a week last August after a breakneck six months in office. What about a real vacation, he was asked? “I have no plans,” he said with just a trace of a chuckle. Glass Coffee-Maker To get rid of the brown stains inside a glass coffee-maker, fill with water, add a spoonful of baking soda and a spoonful of soap powder, bring the whole business to a boil, let simmer for about 10 minutes, then rinse.

WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1962

Vegetable Acreage Equal To Last Year By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—The Agriculture Department’s acreagemarketing guides for 1982 call for total planted acreages of fresh summer vegetables and sweet potatoes equal to those of 1961. The department recommended an increase ot 2 per cent in total acreage of cantaloups and watermelons. Reductions of 3 per cent in total acreage for fall vegetables and 6 per cent in the acreage Os vegetables for commercial processing were recommended. The guides are designed to assist growers in planning production. The department said that if production is in line with these guides for the coming season, and if marketings follow a normal time pattern, supplies should be In balance wiah requirements. In the aggregate, the 1962 guides for 16 fresh summer vegetables total 475,500 acres to be planted. This is the same amount of acreage used in 1961. For 13 fall vegetables, the guides total 261,700 acres to be planted. In 1961, comparable plantings were 270,600 acres. Melon acreage of 367,100 acres was r ecommended for 1962. In 1961, the acreage was 361,000. The department said 198,400 acres of sweet potatoes—the same as last year—would meet demand. The guides are a voluntary service to growers. It is not mandatory that they be followed. The Crop Reporting Board said turkey breeding hens on farms Jan. 1 totaled 3,828,000 head, compared with 4,342,000 on Jan. 1, 1961. This is a decrease of 12 per cent from last year. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.