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DELAWARE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1961 40 Pages 7 Cents Highway Sick Pay Sweet But Firm Gromyko Calls Talk 'Useful' May Mrs. Reecfs Pacifists1 Plea S. Troops Go Aid of Viet Nam White House Parley Injured Workers Cut Until Commission II. .11 By REINHOLD G. ENSZ AP Writer MOSCOW Premier Khrushchev's wife, Nina, gave a tea party yesterday for a group of Western pacifists.

They tried to convince her the Soviet Union should scrap all weapons and stop nuclear tests all by itself if no other country will do likewise. She smiled and joked but rejected their suggestion. "We do not want to be the only ones who throw our bombs into the ocean," said the 61-year-old grandmother. Mrs. Khrushchev spent an how joshing and debating with peace marchers at Moscow's "House of Friendship," while Jier aides served tea, chocolate and apples.

A GROUP OF 31 peace marchers from America and Western Europe reached the Soviet capital Tuesday. Mrs. Khrushchev confessed the sight of them with their placards Expect Reds To Step Up Offensive Compiled from Dispatches WASHINGTON The i "w-ts n. 'it if j. 3 Picture on Page 2 l-VV't4i aur ii iiw fin iiiiii- mi.

hnni A i calling for world disarmament and an end to nuclear weapons was rather unusual for Moscow. Gerrad Daechsel, 23, of Toronto, said he and his fellow marchers were much concerned that the Soviet Union had resumed nuclear testing. "I would be happy if you conveyed our concern to your husband," he said. Mrs. Khrushchev promised to do it, but defended testing.

She said the effects were not harming human beings and commented that in view of the Soviet Union's unfortunate experiences with war in the past the, nation does not want to be vulnerable again. FRAXZISKA MENTZEL of West Berlin said the Russians have tested 17 nuclear devices in the current series. (French and Japanese detection stations reported the 18th yesterday). "You are better informed than I am," said Mrs. Khrushchev.

The premier's wife told the group Russians are not preparing for war. "There is no defense in a nuclear war," she observed. "Therefore we are not building any bomb shelters. We are not getting ready." The tea party mood was up and down. The pacifists arrived full of smiles and confident they could make Mrs.

Khrushchev see their point. The smiles vanished when she didn't. BUT THEY LEFT cheerful. They gave her pictures of their march, starting in San Francisco last December and she reciprocated with autographed souvenir booklets on Moscow. "You are a grandmother," said Lyn Marsh of London the marchers prepared to leave, "and we hope we will all have the opportunity to be grandmothers." Among the guests were Bea Herrick of Chicago, Millie Gilbertsen and Jules Rabin of New York City and Regina Fischer Cf New York City, mother of U.S.

chess champion Bobby Fischer. APWlrepboto WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE President Andrei Gromyko meet late yesterday in Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister the Oval Room of the White House. U.S.-Soviet Accord Looms on U. N. Chief Shows No Break In Soviet Position WASHINGTON UP).

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko met with President Kennedy for more than two hours yesterday and said afterwards he stressed the importance of a peace treaty with Germany. While Gromyko described the conference as useful, neither he nor Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave any evidence of a breakthrough in the U.S.-Soviet conversations which have made little progress so far. Rusk reported the White House conference was a continuation of inconclusive meetings he has held with Gromyko in New York The U.S. is searching for evidence of Kremlin willingness to negotiate on the explosive Berlin issue on terms the Western powers will accept.

Yesterday's meeting "was interesting and that's all you can say about it," Rusk said. PRESIDENTIAL PRESS Secretary Pierre Salinger had nothing to add after the conference between Kennedy, Rusk, Gromyko and a handful of top advisers. Both Ruskand Gromyko said they have no plans for a further get-together before Gromyko returns to Moscow. Gromyko said he will leave New York for home Monday. This is the way Gromyko summed up the session to newsmen: "We touched several important matters relating to the Soviet Union and the United States.

"Of course as far as the position of the Soviet government is concerned, we stressed first of all the importance of the question of the peace treaty with Germany. "I think that this conversation was useful." GROMYKO'S STRESS on a peace treaty with Germany is along familiar Moscow lines. Rusk has been trying to find out, without much success, just how the Soviet-proposed peace treaty with Communist East Germany would affect West See GROMYKO Page 2, CoL 7 Greenfeid Is Given Recess Appointment President Kennedy yesterday issued a recess appointment for Alexander Greenfeid as U.S. attorney for Delaware. Kennedy had nominated the 32-year-old former deputy attorney general for the post several months ago.

But the Senate, reportedly under pressure from political foes among Greenfeld's fellow Democrats here, never confirmed it. U. S. Atty. Leonard G.

Hag-ner said last night he is prepared to step aside for Greenfeid "as soon as he makes appropriate a a ements with District Court here." 1 HE ADDED: "The United the whole matter in these five Can Study Charqes By WILLIAM P. FRANK The Highway Department has taken off its payroll, for the time being, six injured employes who have not been working but who had been getting full pay minus workmen's compensation. The Highway Commission at its meeting October 18 will study the charge by Ally Gen. Januar D. Bove that the department abuses its "administrative discretion" when it pays injured non-working employes indefinitely or for more than five years.

William J. Miller, director of Highway Department operations, said yesterday that these six men have not been paid for September and will not be paid again, until the prob lem is resolved by the commis sion. THE OPINION of the atlor ney general related to the re cent complaint of the Permanent Budget Commission that the department has a policy of continuing injured employes on full pay while no work was performed and that these em ployes hand over their Work men's Compensation checks to the department. The Permanent Budget Commission, of which E. Hobson Davis is chief accountant, complained further that there appears to be no limit to the length of time such employes are carried on the Highway Department payroll.

The budget commission cited cases of two individuals who, it was said, have been carried on the Highway Department payroll for more than five years at $315 and $313 a month respectively. These employes, it was further reported, performed no work and endorsed their workmen's compensation checks of $30 a week each to the Highway Department. WHEJV THIS report was submitted to the Highway Department, the department's attorney, S. Samuel Arsht, was asked for his opinion. He said that the department is au-1 thorized to adopt policies on these matters as it deemed proper, "provided such policies are reasonable in the light of usual or normal employment practices and policies." Later, the attorney general was asked by Miller for his opinion by the department.

Bove stated in part: "It is our opinion that the Delaware State Highway De-; partment may not continue such payments to its employes indefinitely. "We believe that such policies and practices must be reasonable in the light of the usual or normal employment practices and policies, as the Highway Department's attorney has advised and we believe to continue such payments indefinitely is unreasonable and an abuse of the administrative discretion vested in the department by statute." Ray burn May Be Returned Home jUnited States is considering the possibility of sending troops to South Viet Nam in the face of increasing Communist attacks against the Vietnamese government. High State Department sources made this known, while department spokesman Joseph Reap refused to rule out the possibility at a news conference. Asked about reports U.S. officials are considering a plan to send troops to bolster the South Viet Nam governmenl forces, Reap said: "In view of the serious situ ation there, due to increasing Communist attacks against government defense units, we are considering various means of assisting the Viet Nam government against Communist ef forts to take over the country.

"We are hopeful that meas ures to strengthen Viet Nam'f defenses now being taken joint ly by the Viet Nam governmen' and the United States will prove effective," Reap added. ASKED if the South Viet Nam government has requested U. S. combat troops, Reap replied he did not know. In the past, the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem has made clear it would welcome arms and technical training advice from American military men, but did not need American combat soldiers.

U. S. officials say the situa tion in Viet Nam is bad, but they do not call it desperate. At the recently concluded meeting of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization military advisers at Bangkok, contingency plans for the protection of South Viet Nam were re- See VIET NAM Page 2, Co. 5 VA.V.VW.WW.WV,WAV.WW Today's News Pages Amusements 28 Betty Burroughs 21 Births 34 Church Notes 4 Classified 31 to 39 Comics 26 Deaths 40 Earl Wilson 28 Editorials 18 Financial 30 31-40 Garden News 24 Obituaries 40 Sports 32-33-34 Television and Radio 8 The Feminine Side 22-23 rtV.V.V.-.-.V.W.S-W.VAV.VASVAV.V.V-.V.V-A-.S-.v-N''T.7i"rtV''W- AP Wlrtphoto via Radio from London Si UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

UV the United States was re ported highly optimistic yesterday that it could reach agreement with the Soviet Union for the naming of an interim U.N. secretary-general. Thant, veteran Burmese delegate, was said to be acceptable to both countries, and available for the post provided they could agree on the terms of service. One source in touch with U.S. thinking expressed "all the highest optimism" that a solution would be found to fill the gap left by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's death Sept.

18 in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia. A NEUTRALIST diplomat in a position to know about negotiations on the subject that have been going on here stated his belief that U.S.-Soviet agreement was 90 per cent complete. Delegates generally said those negotiations had been suspended almost entirely during the day to see whether President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko would complete the agreement in their White House talks in the afternoon. With the avowed aim of getting "public reports back into focus," a U.S.

delegation spokesman restated his government's recorded position on DALLAS, Tex. Close as-j sociates said yesterday Speaker1 of the House Sam Rayburn, hopelessly ill with cancer, may be returned to his home this week-end. Rayburn is expected to go from Baylor Hospital here back to Bonham, Tex. Physicians have already said his condition is such that no surgery is contemplated. Rayburn's spirits were reported better yesterday and he was resting comfortably, still uninformed of the gravity of his condition, an associate said.

VICE PRESIDENT Lyndon Johnson, longtime political ally of the 79-year-old Rayburn, visited for an hour and a half in the speaker's seventh-floor suite. Johnson emerged solemn-faced and told reporters Ray-burn's condition "is a great personal tragedy to Lady Bird States and the U.S.S.R. have not agreed either on appointing an interim secretary-general with full powers or on the man There is no lack of qualified persons, but we have no candi date." Informed sources said the United States, has let it be known it would accept any one of three men considered top candidates for an iterim post Thant, former Assembly President Frederick H. Boland of Ireland and Mongi Slim of Tunisia, the Assembly President. The sources said the Soviet Union was in agreement only on Thant.

DIPLOMATS IN touch with both sides said these differences remained between the two big powers: 1. The Soviet Union held that the interim secretary-general should have three or four deputies from the Soviet Union, the United States and Asia-Africa: the United States held that if he should have any, there should be five, from the two big powers, Asia, Africa and Latin America. 2. The Soviet Union con tended that the chief should be told to consult these advisers daily; the United States was against giving him such instructions. JS 's points: "1.

THE NEW secretary-general should have a clear mandate to carry out the full functions of his office. "2. The Troika concept of dividing the world into three blocs is contrary to the spirit of the (U.N.) charter and damages the integrity of the secre tariat. "3. There should be no political representation in the secretariat.

"4. The General Assembly has full authority to appoint an interim secretary-general "5. The new man should be appointed promptly." Teen Gets 30 Years For Killing Parents HARTINGTON, Neb. (ffl. -Sharon Dahl, 16-year-old Coleridge, farm girl, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in the Nebraska Women's Re formatory for the shotgun slaying of her parents last May.

Cedar County Attorney Max Goetz said Sharon, a high school sophomore, signed a statement admitting she shot her parents because they objected to her dating and wanted her to babysit with six younger brothers and sisters while they went out. AP Wtrephotoi at! -m (Mrs. Johnson) and myself and every other American." THE 6 P.M. (EDT) medical bulletin read by Dr. Ralph Tompsett, chief of internal medicine at Baylor and a consultant in the Rayburn case, said the speaker "appears to be resting well without any serious discomfort at the present time.

There is no real change in his condition." Earlier in the day, a medical bulletin said Rayburn's "condition continues to be serious but not critical." THE DOCTOR refused to estimate how long Rayburn might live. "I think it's possible but unlikely" that he might die in several days, Tompsett said. He said that Is far as he knew Rayburn had not been told he had cancer. Faces WILLY BRANDT, mayor of beer prior to luncheon in he was presented the 1961 on Page 2.) 1 'Wtl "'s ft ft 1 'M. 1 J' 1 1 nmimiM nililir rini That Add Expression to the News GOV.

NELSON ROCKEFELLER of New York, talks lo news- men outside ths White House yesterday after a conference with President Kennedy. Rockefeller heads a governors' i civil defense committee. (Story on Page 2.) West Berlin, drinks a glass of New York yesterday af which Freedom House award. (Story VICE PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speaking at an appreciation barbecue in Taylor, honoring Rep.

Homer Thornberry, calls for bowed heads and a moment of silent prayer for Speaker Sam Rayburn. PRINCESS MARGARET smiles on arriving in London yes- terday from a holiday in Scotland to prepare for the birth of her first child. The birth is expected late this month or early in November..