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Page 4 Editorials "Every Now and Then I Throw Him a Bone!" Wisconsin apids daily tribune The Capital's Lighter Side More to Cuban Watch-Dogging Than Meets the Camera's Eye Dutch tulips and daffodils to present to him. After chatting for a while Sonja started to go. But she had forgotten about leaving the flowers. Taking it upon himself, Ford then asked Sonja if she were going to leave the flowers. Somewhat embarrassed.

Sonja assured him that was her original intention. Ford was delighted. He said he had been secretly counting on taking them home to get him out of the dog house. mittee hearing not long ago that he spoke only "for, myself and my wife." When he got back to Cambridge, bis wife told him, "Speak for yourself, John." SONJA von HALL, 27-year-old Dutch beauty visiting Washington as good will ambassadress from the Netherlands national tourist office, stopped by the office of Rep. Jerry Ford of Michigan.

Sonja took with her a vase of The World Today JFK May Be Pleased With Call for Secrecy mm: MlmM 4 -tip i im cameras, aerial reconnaissance may be judged to have fallen short of total reliability. The Russians may have moved the weapons largely at night, using ground cover to hide them by day. From time to time they may also have been helped by cloud cover. Beyond this we need to know whether there was any lack of persistence on our" own part, whether we failed to send out missions on some "good picture" days. However all this adds up, enough is already known to suggest that aerial spying cannot do the whole job- The use of intelligence agents as a prime source of information is as old as history.

But Cuba presents special difficulties in this field. The inflow of Cuban refugees, many bearing tales quickly proved to be wildly inaccurate, has tended to cast an aura of unreliability over all "ground" intelligence even some of that from established agents. Latins can be excitable. Many would like to convince us that invasion of their homeland is an early necessity. Yet for centuries before the aerial camera, agents were the chief reliance.

Obviously we need them still. Their evidence is harder to sell to skeptical neutrals, and allies, than are good pictures. But in our quest for clinching proof, it is possible our experts have themselves resolved too many doubts on the side of final skepticism. If we do not have agents we can trust to be accurate, we should get some. For weather and darkness alone assure that there will always be some gaps in the story our cameras can tell.

The average American finds the gathering of foreign intelligence a pretty remote and mystifying business. This makes it glamorous but difficult for him, or his representatives, to appraise. Some harsh things have been said about our intelligence gatherers' efforts with respect to the Soviet buildup in Cuba. Many citizens may be sufficiently charged up emotionally to agree with the general judgment that there was a failure somewhere. Yet the heavy bombardment of comment does not help them decide exactly where.

Maybe the issue, as it relates to Cuba, can be narrowed down. One problem that has arisen in the Cuban affair is how exhaustively we can rely upon aerial reconnaissance. Despite amateur skepticism, the evidence appears strong that such aerial spying is amazingly effective under suitable conditions. The aerial camera records great detail, even from high altitude. Photo interpreters have developed superb techniques for analyzing the pictures.

But reporters looking back on the Cuban crisis of 1962 note that while the camera counted 42 offensive missiles outbound from Cuba, it never saw more than 30 on the ground at the sites earlier. Notwithstanding assurances from defense officials that there was no "photo gap" in the weeks just before the big reconnaissance find of Oct. 14, it is also a fact that very little has been shown to indicate how the big missiles and supporting systems got across Cuba to the developing sites. To the extent they were not found until at the site, to the extent that some were never seen by our flying yanrrryyj WASHINGTON (NEA) If the Republicans nominate New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller for the presidency in 1964, with Gov.

James A. Rhodes of Ohio as his vice presidential running mate, the ticket then would read "Rocky-Rhodes." RECALLING that President Kennedy promised Cuba's released Bay of Pigs invaders their flag would again fly over -Havana, Rep. William Cramer, asks: "How does the President propose to do this? Mail it to Castro and hope he will change his colors?" THERE'S A SIGN in one of the offices in the Pentagon that everybody can't help but see he-fore entering a particular colonel's office. It reads: DO YOU HAVE A SOLUTION? OR ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM? ON THE White House press room bulletin board recently was this testy interchange: First, a news item saying the Indiana senate had passed a bill making it a misdemeanor knowingly to give false information to newspapers or broadcasting stations. Beneath this was typed: "We the undersigned favor stiff punishment for those who knowingly or otherwise give out false news." There followed the signatures of several prominent White House correspondents, with space for more.

Next, a handwritten note: "Impossible to carry this out. There would be no one left on the White House staff." Then this final typed inscription: "If it also applied to false reporting, few would be left in the press room to complain." JAMES E. WEBB, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has. a thick green carpet in his office. So the big status symbol for people at NASA these days is: green lint on your shoes.

It proves you were up talking to the boss. IN THE WINDOW of a Washington map store, there is a globe with an astronaut's capsule, attached to a steel rod, spinning around in orbit. The other day a passer-by suddenly whipped open the front door and shouted to a clerk: "Hey, your astronaut's going erett M. Dirksen reportedly told Kennedy the Republicans wUl con- tinue to pound away at the ad- ministration's handling of Cuba. He's been conducting a one-man investigation of it A Democrat, Sen.

John Stennis of Mississippi, whose Senate Preparedness subcommittee is investigating, has demanded "full disclosure" of all available facta from the administration. He was backed by another Democrat, Sen. Philip A. Hart of Michigan, who said "the people are concerned." And this week intelligence chief John A. McCone made front pages with information he gave Congress behind closed doors, or so he must have thought.

He told a House subcommittee as many as 1,500 men from other Latin American countries were being trained as guerrillas in Cuba. Then the subcommittee made it public. Hard on Nerves Russians Train for the 'Strenuous' Battle for World's Chess Crown Tribune Letter Box sand lillliAsf SSsr-' Issues, Positions Are Explained In Nation's Rail Controversy By REINHOLD ENSZ MOSCOW (AP) How does one get ready to do battle for the world chess crown? The defending champion is out skiing. His challenger is training by playing table tennis and billiards. But, like many other things in the Soviet Union, their full preparations are veiled somewhat by the traditional Russian love for secrecy.

Both of the prospective players are Soviet citizens champion Mikhail Botvinnik and challenger Tigran Petrosyan a both are living in secluded dachas near Moscow. A request for information about their preparations was duly submitted to the Soviet government. Finally, permission was granted for an interview with Lev Abra-mov, deputy chairman fit the Soviet Chess Federation, who hastened to announce: "We don't know exactly what they are doing, because that is their secret "However, quite by accident, I happen to know that Botvinnik has been doing a lot of skiing, even during the worst cold weather. He didn't miss a day. "And Petrosyan, I understand, has been playing table tennis and billiards.

Abramov said both men are also By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)-That ebb-and-flow rhythm President Kennedy sees in national and international life alternates between hot jazz, a slow waltz and pandemonium, particularly in Congress. When things slow down one place, by Kennedy's theory, they perk up in another. For example, the Russians ease pressure on Europe and then French President de Gaulle, with the heat off, causes his own allies trouble. And while Congress has done practically nothing on Kennedy's domestic program, as he noted this week, individual members find time to pant for facts about foreign dealings, especially Cuba. Voice in the Wilderness At this point up pops Rep.

George to complain that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and members of the administration, too, have been talking too much about things he thinks should be kept secret. The Texas Democrat, a voice in the wilderness at the moment, said: "There is an intelligence gap in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing the secrets of the intelligence operations of the United States government." His call for silence will be welcomed by the Kennedy administration which, already having been accused of "managing" the news about Cuba, has been pushed into giving out information about it in dribs and drabs. Trouble Was Avoidable This is a dilemma it might have avoided by giving out more information before most pointedly about the Cuban invasion failure in 1961 and for these reasons: Kennedy himself admitted it was American-backed and took full 1 responsibility for it. Once that had been admitted other details could have been given without endangering the American intelligence system. -For instance: The number of Americans killed in the attempt to demolish Castro.

For weeks members of both parties in Congress have been beating a steady tattoo on the President. A few have been so carried away by their ardor for extinguishing Castro that they have called for a Cuban blockade. Kennedy had to remind them at his news conference Wednesday a blockade means war. It was probably Sen. Kenneth B.

Keating, who got under the administration's skin more than anyone else with his doubts that all the Russian missiles were out of Cuba. Kennedy felt compelled to defend himself by putting Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and an aide on television for two hours last month to show, with aerial photographs, how the United States spied on Cuba. This may have saved time and trouble for Soviet agents who had been sniffing and snopping to find out what the United States had found out, but it only invigorated some members of Congress to fresh pursuit. Everybody Is Gabbing While Mahon didn't put the finger on the people he wants to pipe down, there has been a great deal of talking.

Republican Senate Leader Ev MIKHAIL BOTVINNIK their opinions en public Issues of timely interest to the Letter lex for publication. To bo published, letter must bear the author's signature end complete address and must not contain more than 350 words. The Tribune reserves the right to edit letters. Letters should be legibly written nd should not contain anything of defamatory er libelous nature. SAYS 'HOT RODDERS' ARE SAFETY-MINDED To the Editor: The primary purpose of this letter is to better acquaint the public with the goals of the Hot Rod and Custom Car Clubs of the area.

The ''stereotyped" picture of the "Hot Rodder" is a character who squeals his tires at every stop sign, screams at old ladies who get in his way, and rounds every corner on two wheels. Now we'd like a chance to change that picture. Hot Rod and Custom Car Clubs in this area are made up of fellows of all ages who are not only interested in speed and high powered engines, but in car safety, durability, beauty, and excellence of design. In the Untouchables Car Club alone, the majority of the fellows have attended the driver safety school at one time or another. Also we have a safety committee consisting of three members who safety check the members' vehicles monthly and impose fines upon those convicted of traffic violations.

The "drag races" that our local car clubs participate in are supervised very strictly. All participants must prove to the judges that their cars are in safe operating condition, and any indications of recklessness or carelessness result in immediate expulsion from competition. People who work with hot rods and custom cars are very safety and beauty conscious, and many of their ideas and innovations such 'm as better braking systems, have been adopted by the car makers in Detroit. We certainly" hope that this 4 (EDITOR'S NOTE: John Wyngaard. Madison respondent, ill.

Hit regular "Wisconsin Report" column It expected to be resumed next week.) CHICAGO (AP) The nation's railroads and the unions representing train crew members are locked in a critical battle. The outcome will affect the jobs of perhaps 65,000 men. What is the fight all about? The rail lines demand revisions to abolish what they call featherbedding. This is a practice of forced work which they claim costs them $600 million a year. J.

E. Wolfe, chairman of the National Railway Labor Conference, says the railroads are ready to conclude an agreement within the framewrok of recommendations made a year ago by a presidential railroad commission. H. E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, has termed the commission report "harsh, inhumane and retrogressive." The brotherhoods claim their proposals to modernize the wage and rules structure have been ignored.

Recommendations Here are the commission's six main recommendations and the views of each side: I. No new firemen would be hired for diesel locomotives in freight or yard service. The 27,000 firemen with at least 10 years seniority would continue working until eliminated by natural attrition death, retirement, etc. The remaining 13,000 firemen with less than 10 years service would be dismissed with 3 to 12 months notice. They would receive dismissal pay ranging up to 36 months at 60 per cent of past pay.

Displaced firemen would get priority in rehiring and two years of retraining. Management contends: "You can't run a modern railroad on conditions set up years ago" The unions call the fireman a diesel helper and say he's needed for greater safety on trains. Gilbert says 190 train employes were killed in one recent year. "The name fireman is outmoded because he doesn't shovel coal," a union spokesman captured the world title in 1948. Petrosyan, an Armenian, is a relative newcomer to international chess.

He became Moscow champion at the age of 20, and held the Soviet national title twice in 1959 and 1961. He earned the right to play Botvinnik during last year's preliminaries in Curacao, and with a resulting playoff against Paul Keres of the U.S.R.R. Chess is Petrosyan's whole world. His profession is chess journalist. Three Draws to Date Botvinnik and Petrosyan have met officially over the chessboard only three times during the U.S.S.R.

national championships in 1951 and 1954, and during the international tournament at Budapest in 1952. All games ended in draws. Each of the 24 forthcoming games is worth one point. In order to retain his crown, Botvinnik need only draw the tournament 12-12. But Petrosyan, if he is to win, must get 12.5 points.

(A drawn game is worth half a point.) The winning prize, under rules of the International Chess Federation, is the local equivalent of 10,000 Swiss francs The loser gets the equivalent of 6,000 Swiss francs says. "But his presence is needed as supervisor of power; he supervises the diesel equipment and does engineroom work while the train is enroute." New Wage Scale 2. An overhaul of the wage structure, with pay geared to a combination of time and mileage. This is calculated to result in pay raises for 75 per cent of the workers while others could make up for pay cuts, in part, by putting in more hours and riding more miles. Management holds the present pay structure to be a relic of a slow-moving era when a 100-mile trip was regarded as the equivalent of a full day's work.

The unions challenged the commission finding and contend wages actually would be cut and hours would be lengthened by the proposed changes. "It's hardly a pay increase," a union official said. "It would amount to a cut in pay as much as 80 per cent for locomotive engineers." Modernization 3. Railroads should have unlimited right to introduce new equipment and modernize operations. Workers who lost jobs as a result would receive protection at railroad expense.

Wolfe commented "very generous employe protection is recommended." "The brotherhoods are not against technological change," a union spokesman asserts. "We just want protection for our men." Dispersion of Duties 4. Road service workers should do limited switching and terminal chores for their trains. Road crews should do switching and station work where yard crews are not on duty. Yard crews should be abolished in places where work volume is low.

Management claims "flagrant featherbed- ding" has persisted in these areas. The unions point out road service workers get the mileage basis, which they say is incentive pay, while yard service workers are paid on an hourly basis. LENGTH OF RUNS 5. Lengths of runs should be adjusted to modern operating capabilities. Such a change would knock out certain requirement for crew changes.

New rules would provide for binding settlement of disputes over interdivisional service and would allow moving expenses and compensation for relocated workers. The railroads offered as an example of current practices: a 7-hour run from Minneapolis to Chicago 400 miles requires three engine crews. "To submit to binding arbitration the basic agreement controlling a worker's seniority, job assignment, and working conditions subverts the mission of the labor movement, as we know it," says Gilbert. Seniority would be wiped out on divisions, unions claim and workers and their families would be uprooted. Arbitration of Changes 6.

Changes in sizes of train crews should be arbitrated after surveys and negotiations. Employes let out in such cases would receive unemployment compensation financed by the train lines. "In many cases," a management spokesman says, "we have too many trainmen and yard brakemen." "The railroad industry is still one-of the most hazardous to life and limb in our nation," says Gilbert. In 1960, he said, 190 employes were killed and 13,245 injured. "It is not a good record, but it could be worse, a lot worse," Gilbert submits, "if the employes are denied their present contractual voice in the determination of crew size and work assignments.

To the binding arbitration proposals a sore point to the unions a spokesman says: "You can submit working conditions to binding arbitration sometimes. But you don't submit the life and death of jobs." the wrong way!" "We know it," was the apologetic reply. After the man was gone the clerk added: "We can't figure out how to reverse it." IN OBSERVANCE of the Peace Corps' anniversary, this story has come out on how President Kennedy picked his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver to father the husky infant corps: Right after the 1950 election campaign, in which he had worked tirelessly, Shriver went home to Chicago. He had enjoyed a week's reunion with his family, whom he had scarcely seen for months, when the telephone started ringing. It was the president-elect insisting, "You've got to come to Washington and run the Peace Corps." Shriver stalled "I don't know anything about running a Peace Corps," he said.

"Neither does anybody else," said Kennedy. "But how about all these political debts you have to pay?" asked Shriver. "Why don't you give this job to a politician you owe something to and square yourself with him?" "Listen," replied Kennedy, "everybody thinks this Peace Corps is going to be the biggest fiasco that ever was. If it is, the director will get blamed for it, and it will be a lot easier to fire a relative than a politician." THOUGH he was born and grew up in what is now Tanganyika, West German's new Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel's first name is not of African origin. He was asked about this frequently during his just-concluded visit to Washington.

He came to assure President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara that the new Paris-Bonn accord signed by De Gaulle and Adenauer will not weaken West Germany's pro-United States and pro-NATO policies. Kai-Uwe is really two names, both of German origin. Herr von Hassel's parents couldn't agree on which one to use, so they used them both. ECONOMICS Prof.

Paul Samuclson, onetime Kennedy adviser, lectured an American Bankers Assn. meeting here on way-out, ultraliberal fiscal policies. He told his audience he was speaking only for himself, not for White House planners and insiders. Young Professor Samuelson, father of six children, told a Congressional Economic Com too, were chosen because they are not likely to upset the players. "Both Stahlberg and Golombek are very quiet and not at all nervous," Abramov commented.

"They are also very objective, and there wasn't a single incident at the last tournament." The theater seats 1,300 persons. Because Russians love chess, at least 1,000 of the seats are generally occupied. During crucial matches, hundreds are turned away. Although the spectators become recited during the play, they are kept under control. If the mum-mering comment rises too high, an official immediately appears nn stage and holds up a sign reading: "Quiet." Nerves Were Taut The players do not look at the audience, and seldom at each other.

During the last championship match, nerves were stretched so tight that Tal smoked on stage something he had not done before and Botvinnik drank coffee. Since Botvinnik is considered one of the steadiest players in the business, the coffee raised a number of eyebrows. Referee Golombek was moved to a mild comment: "Botvinnik used to show up with some sort of raspberry juice." Botvinnik won, but this time many Moscow chess experts are not certain he will do it again. Abramov reports the odds are about 55 to 45, in favor of Petrosyan. This, Abramov said, results from the fact that Botvinnik is aging.

He is 51, whereas Petrosyan is only 33. Strenuous Sport "No one," said Abramov, "has any doubts that Botvinnik's experience and understanding is not surpassed by anybody. But chess is a strenuous sport." Botvinnik has been written off before, most notably during the last tournament, when the 24-year-old Tal cockily felt certain he could keep the crown he had snatched from Botvinnik only the year before. Botvinnik ignored the speculation, hunched his shoulders over the board and laid out his moves like an electrical engineer lays out circuits. This was easy, since Botvinnik happens to be an outstanding electrical engineer.

He has even written a book on electrical matters, called: "How excitation control affects the stability of the synchronous motor." Born In Lenengrad of Jewish parents, Botvinnik won the title of chess master at the age of lfi, and was a grandmaster at 24. He article has given you a better understanding of the purposes and aims of Hot Rod and Custom Car Clubs in Wisconsin Rapids and all over the United States. Untouchables Car Club, Bill Hartley, Vice 1731 Chestnut St. Thought For Today Jesus Christ is the came yesterday and today and forever. Hebrew 13:8.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle. Napoleon Bonaparte. "Wisconsin Rapids My Tribune BERRY'S WORLD WISCONSIN RAPIDS TRIBUNE Publisher Entered a second class matter March 1, 1920 the postoffice at Wisconsin Rapids. Wisconsin under the act of March 3rd, 1879. Published every afternoon except Sunday at tbe Tribune WFHR Building.

TIGRAN PETROSYAN running through practice chess games with close friends; Botvinnik with Semyon Furman and Petrosyan with Isaac Boleslavsky. Two-Month Tourney The first game oT the world championship match is to be played March 23, on the 'stage of the Estrada variety theater, across the river from the Kremlin. The silent battle of wits is expected to last at least two months, until the latter part of May. There will be 24 games, and they will be played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Adjournments will be played off on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

The theater is the same one in which Botvinnik recaptured the world chess title from Mikhail Tal of the U.S.S.R. at the last match in 1961. Abramov said the theater, which normally shelters some of the best variety shows in town, was chosen because it has a good ventilation system and the temperature can be kept at a constant, comfortable level. The two referees will also be the same as last time: Gideon Stahlberg, Swedish grandmaster, and Harry Golombek, an international master from Britain. They, Tribune's Quick Quiz The Curliss-Lee Mansion In Arlington, is a permanent memorial to what Civil War general? ARobert E.

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