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METROPOLITAN NEWS EDITORIALS PART II VOLLXXXII 2t CC TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16; 1963 TimM Mirror Square, tot Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345 of Agents9 i. 2 Southland FirmsBidon Space Work Either Technology Labs or Hughes to Get New Solar Job mm A WWW to mm 110 i 2N: "I SWORN IN Michael Monroney left, assistant to postmaster general, watches Clair Engle administer oath of office to Leslie N. as acting postmaster for city of Los Angeles. Senate still has to confirm.

Show formally. BY THE WAY Si HENRY ft -A I Editors May Be Fed Up on Cuba BY BILL i. It would seem very likely that by the end of this IN MUSICAL Kathryn Grayson, as Queen Guinevere and Louis Hayward as King Arthur in "Came-lot," which opened run in Philharmonic Auditorium. i Times phot Sell-Out Crowd Sees Opening of if' 'Camelot' were Mr, and Mrs. Meredith Willsorii Robert Sterling and his wife, Anne Jeffreys, and actor Mike Wilding.

Among guarantors of the association, at opening were Edward Carter, Henry Duque, Mrs. Robert Gross, Mr. and Mrs. George Elkins and Mr. and Mrs.

George Cas-tera. Camelot, based on the act ivities in King Arthur's court, was a smash hit in New York where it played for 25 months and did an estimated $8 million at the box office. Others Featured The musical features' a cast of 65 and a 40-man orchestra and is produced against the 22 settings used the New York production. A special 12 car train transported cast and stage sets here from New York. Others in the cast are Arthur Treacher as Pelli- nore and Robert Peterson as Sir Lancelot.

Also featured are Chnstopner uary, Jan Moody and Byron Webster. Following Camelot in the 1963 light opera season will be "Carousel," "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and the world premiere of "Zenda" starring Alfred Drake. (Albert Goldberg's review of "Camelot" will appear in Wednesday's Times.) I Gala First-Night Performance Launches Civic Light Opera Season at Philharmonic I i i i imet pnoto Shaw Given Postmaster 4U, was sworn in Monday as acting postmaster by Sen. Clair Engle. The savings and loan exe cutive took over retiring Postmaster Otto K.

Olesen's position amid a standing ovation by 700 persons at ceremonies in the Board of Supervisors hearing room. Raymond R. Holmquist, Post Office Department re gional director; Supervisor Chairman Warren M. Dorn and Michael Monroney executive' assistant to Postmaster General J. Edward were among those ho noring Shaw, the first Negro postmaster of a major Amer ican city.

Shaw will have charge of an $80 million business in volving 3,087,656,000 pieces of mail annually. Early Days Recalled In 1849 the first Los An geles post office was a wash- tub in Wilson Packard's general store at Main and Commercial Sts. Pueblo residents shuffled for their letters in the tub, where they were dropped by a messenger who brought them on horseback from sail ing ships at San Pedro. That was before the Pony before stage coaches rati between the! port and the Pueblo, before gas long before the railways. Since then the post office has moved 20 times, now being headquartered in the $7 million Federal Building.

Today it has 94 stations, 3,000 carriers delivering mail to homes and offices and 7,000 other employees, Oath As Acting Hell Support Rockefeller But Winthrop Sees Republican Victory as Top '64 Goal Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas, younger brother of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, said here Monday that "of course" he would support his brother if he's the GOP's 1964 Presidential candidate. But, he added in a press conference at the Sheraton- west, -its conceivable my state convention will sup port Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, because of the grow ing conservatism in the South." And he is national GOP committeeman from his home state. Answer Is Tfes' "When I'm asked whether I favor my brother or Sen.

Goldwater, I say "he smiled." The main goal ia for the Republicans to win. "Also, it's not our family's ambition to outnumber the Kennedy dynasty." Rockefeller, national chair man of the 1963 Mental Health Campaign, was here to address businessmen at a Monday luncheon. The local drive begins May 1. A resident of Arkansas since 1953 and owner of Win-rock Cattle Farms in Conway County, Rockefeller cit ed "considerable growth of Republican strength" in his home state. We had 29 major candi dates this past year, and for the first time, in many cases, Democrats who formerly had always been eleoted in the primaries had to go into the general election because of the strength of the Republicans," he said.

Trend in South He said the whole South is experiencing a conservative trend, and this is why sup port may go to Goldwater. Rockefeller called mental health the nation's greatest health problem, which can be "cut down to size" if com munity resources match the skills of psychiatry. He said the local goal is $150,000 to help establish lo cal clinics, "the greatest boon to dealing with this very personal problem." He called voluntary agen cies, such as the County Assn. 'for Mental Health here, the most effective support and a safeguard against bureaucratic support from the federal government subconscious cast of thousands have undergone going under. If it didn't require so much intelligent concentration, it could become a fad.

I watched the first show nervously. But Miss Collins performed so amply and amiably that I was consciously beguiled. In addition to putting eight people through a series of antic hoops, Pat Collins was funny, an almost heretic- behavior among stage 'hypnotists who usually hide any humor behind Bavarian beards. While her subjects gyrated on the platform, she moved among the audience, touching a bald male head here saying, "Tomorrow, you'll grow a female shoulder there saying, "Now he'll marry I Between I told Flcase Turn to Pf. 8, Col.

rother Says Conduct of Investigator Questioned The director of the State Department of Motor Vehicles has asked the attorney general to investigate officials of his department in volved in an auto referral case, it was disclosed Mon day. It also was learned that the criminal complaints committee of the grand jury will decide Wednesday whether to order the district attor ney's office to enter the investigation. The action hinges on the conduct of a DMV investiga tor during a probe of six new car dealerships, two now out or business, and two defunct advertising agencies on charges of fraud and grand theft resulting from their practice of promising cars free to persons who referred customers to" them. One Case Cited The district attorney's office claimed a DMV investigator cleared one. of the dealers who a short time later was included in the 292 count indictment re turned by the grand jury against the group.

The grand jury wants to know why the same DMV investigator was then able to find nearly 300 admini strative violations by thi dealer several weeks aftei the district attorney ques tioned his first findings. The panel also wants to know why the DMV delayed administrative action such as revoking licenses to sell cars against the dealers af ter they were indicted. Request for Inquiry Myr.T.i J. Carr grand jury foreman, confirmed that he has received a letter from DMV director Tom M. Bright following Bright's appearance before the criminal complaints committee April 2.

In the letter, Carr said, Bright informed him he has asked the attorney general to look into his department because "the integrity of our' departmental investigative personnel" was questioned. Bright also informed the grand jury, Carr said, that the DMV now has taken administrative action against Morris L. Tucker, owner of Boulevard Chevrolet and one of the 21 persons indicted March 29. Hearing Slated A hearing will be held by DMV, to determine whether he has violated state rules. His license to sell cars could be revoked if violations have been made.

Bright told Carr the DMV also is proceeding with an investigation of the others named in the indictment to see if any administrative action should be taken against them. against the pilings of Rainbow Pier. They climbed aboard, got her started and backed her off the pier. Led Policemen A passing Coast Guard patrol boat identified the barge as belonging to the Hornet and led the policemen to Pier in Long Beach Harbor, where the carrier, flagship of Rear Adm. R.

Luker, was tied up. It was the admiral's barge. Navy officers said a sailor mut have slipped down a line into the boat and taken her the two miles to Rainbow Piex. One of two Southland companies Hughes Air craft or Space Technology Laboratories will be awarded a contract exceed ing million lor new Pioneer solar probes, it was learned Monday. Sen.

Clair Engle (D-CaL) said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is conducting negotiations with both firms and a contract should be awarded in about month. Eight companies submitted proposals initially. Dormant for two years aft er a series oi early space launches one of which dis covered the Van Allen radia tion belts the Pioneer proj ect now has been fully reao tivated in connection with NASA's participation in the i International Year of the Quiet Sun, beginning late in 1964. Solar Flare. Main purpose of the solar probes, according to the an alytical DMS Market Intelligence Reports, will be to define methods of predicting as well as studying solar flares.

This objective is dic tated by.the need for critical information on sun flares in planning for manned space flight. A. secondary goal of the new probes will be the ac cumulation of data on micro- meteoroids, cosmic dust and radiation, all hazards to manned space flight, along with solar flares. The NASA program "calls for design, development, fab rication, assembly and testing of four spacecraft, 1 Seven Craft It is however. that seven spacecraft, in all, will be produced, with four for flight assignment, one for sub-system arrangement, another a component qualif ication prototype and a third as a back-up flight model.

The probes themselves will weigh 100 lb. each and will house about 20 lb. of instrumentation. They will be launched by the reliable (Douglas) Thor Delta booster and it is expected the first shot will be scheduled for December, 1964, or early in 1965, with the three succeeding space craft to be fired at intervals of six months. Each will be placed in an elliptical orbit around the sun and transmit data to the world-wide tracking network of the Jet Propulsion Labo ratory's Deep Space Instrumentation Facility.

"NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffet Field, Cal, will manage the program and direct systems integration while the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Cen ter, Greenbelt, Md will have charge of the launch vehicle system. 1 0 i Pot Collins: had already, made Collins a star by submerg-, ing their own Lloyd Bridges, Jill St. John, Steve Allen, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Sal Mineo and a I week the newspapers of this country would have drawn the line one way or the other, either to (1) play up the Cuban crisis as the biggest thing since World War II or (2) forget it. Reason the editors are going to -be beat about the ears! with Cuba throughout their convention in Washington. Two of the speakers, Sen." Kenneth Keating who rode from semi-obscurity to fame by announcing the presence of Soviet missiles, in Cuba before the White House would admit it, and former Vice President Nixon, who, became embroiled in a sort of upside down argument on the same topic with candidate Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign, have announced that they will address the editors on this topic.

In the face of this barrage it seems unlikely, if not impossible, for President John F. Kennedy, who will also speak to the editors, to avoid discussing "Cuber." Not even the Bloody Mary breakfast which the Sigma Delta Chi journalists provide for the editors near the end of their session is likely to completely remove the hang-over Which seems bound to follow this wordy saturation of a sore subject. It is a really sore subject, with the President, not only because he is unhappy at the presence of armed Russian troops 90 miles from our shore, and because it has become a tough political problem but in another way. The elation in the White House reached such a high peak when the President called Khrushchev's bluff and this has been followed by a devastating let-down. Keating a Prime Target The insiders who know how things go inside the Kennedy teepee keep saying that it is the White House which wUl have the last laugh at Sen.

Keating's expense. The Kennedys, they say, are plotting a terrible on the white-maned. New Yorker when he comes up re-election. The "Irish Mafia," whose has lately been somewhat comically shortened to the "Murphia," not only have a blood-curdling urge to avenge themselves on Keating but they hope to smash Nelson Rockefeller along with him. Part of I the manuevering to get F.

Roosevelt built up into something resembling a statesman has as its purpose an attempt to use the magic name as a weapon with which to flog Keating. They figure that the New York City vote will go overwhelmingly for FDR Jr. and that's a pretty good running start on an all-' state election. Keating, meantime, is making a lot of hay himself with some heavy campaigning of his 1bwn. He loves to have somebody in his audiences ask him what he thinks of Kennedy's Cuban policy.

"What -policy?" is his reply. 5l Kenny Faces Tough Task Jokesters around Washington say that all Keating has to do is to beat Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy and perhaps all of whom, wraiths or real, will be run-ning against him at the same time.

Sen. Dirksen in paraphrasing history should have said "Castro Delen-i Est," as a whole batch of sharp-eyed experts in the ancient language have noted. Shows that the intellectuals follow this column. Rep. Otis Pike I decided not to become another Adam Clayton Powell he wrote his constituents that he was taking a junket at government expense and added: "I will do my best to see that the net result is1 a.

benefit to the taxpayer as well as the traveler I am taking no secretary and no wife with me that you read it here first!" Washington cops claim the unusual White House, pickets were a couple bearing signs: "We have no complaints." SPECTATOR, 1963 "Camelot" opened the Civ- ic Light Opera season Mon day night before a sell-out crowd in Philharmonic Au ditorium. The musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe stars Kathryn Gray son as Queen Guinevere and Louis Hayward as King Arthur. Record Sales The production opened to a gala iirst-nignt perioral- ance after setting a record in advance sales. Even before the curtain opened, Tony Duquette, who designed Camelot's cos tumes, wa3 receiving con gratulations. Among those attending from the theatrical world Fuel Gil Curbs Start as Smog Aid Restrictions on the use of fuel oil by power plants, refineries and industry in the Los Angeles Basin went into effect Monday for seven months.

Air' Pollution Control Di strict regulations require major fuel users under Rule 62 to burn natural gas until Nov 15 as part of a program to help eliminate pollution from fuel oil burn-l ing during the most inten sive smog period of the year. The APCD credits the sub stitution of natural gas for fuel, oil with important reductions in the amount of sulphur compounds, particulate matter and other con taminants in the atmos phere. Smith Gnswold, head of the APCD, has advocated the extension of Rule 62 as quicKly as additional sup plies of natural gas become available the Los Angeles area. Schools Week Visits Start Weeklong visits at public; schools throughout the coun ty began Monday with the 44th annual observance oi Public Schools Week, co- sponsored by schools and the Masonic lodzes of Califor- 3nia. Writer Visits Woman Hypnotist; His Prose Shows, Unconsciously Mystery: Who Stole the Admiral's Barge? BY ART SEIDENBAUM If Maury Wills could do it for his calves and Shelley Winters for her waist, I hoped maybe it might do my head some good.

Hypnosis, I Maury made news when he consulted a hypnotist to strengthen his calves so that his legs would stand for more larceny. Only days later, his ankle buckled. Miss Winters was entranced with the idea that someone could suggest that she didn't really enjoy method eating. I wondered whether through hypnosis I could write something truly So last week I went over to the. Interlude where young woman named 'Pat' Collins has" spent the last few months mesmerizing people for the night club fun of it The good performers of Hollywood, used to taking direction.

The USS Hornet had a mystery Monday to match the theft of the strawberries in "The Caine Mutiny." Who stole the admiral's barge? Apparently the watch hadn't even noticed that the barge was missing until three Long Beach policemen took it up to the Hornet early Monday Astonished Officer "Where do you want us to' park this thing?" one of them shouted up to the astonished duty officer. The civilian officers had discovered the boat banging' 1.