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Foreign Aid 'Round 18 THE DAILY HOME NEWS. New Brunswick. N.J. FRIDAY. DECEMSFS 4.

19 Rail Travel -w And Parking By SYLVIA PORTER Marshall Plan Comes to End About Town Opinion hicn may expressed in Ihia column are those of individual laff members and not necessarily those of the owners of the r.ewsDter In 1959 the era of the Marshall Plan the American foreign aid program which stands in history as the symbol of the greatest mWSfel mm Several weeks ago a North Brunswick resident stood up at a Township Committee meeting and urged the township fathers to prepare for the day "when the Adams station of the Pennsylvania Railroad will become the North Brunswick railroad station." The resident, Alfred Anderson, pointed out that the township owns land near the station and should hold on to it. Mayor Fred J. Hermann responded by disclosing that he had discussed the matter with an official of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and added that the railroad has some land between the present station and Route 1, which could be used for parking. Hermann concluded with the observation that the railroad did not close the door in his face on the subject. It is not difficult to envision an intensively used commuter railroad station, with ample parking areas, at the Adams station.

One has only to observe the commuter cars parked at Princeton Junction to realize the possibilities that may exist where the commuting distance to Newark and New York is shorter end where probably larger numbers of commuters are moving into the new homes at Kendall Park and other developments. These New York-bound people are now being offered commuter parking by a bus company if they use its express service to their trans-Hudson destination. The railroads are not eager to lop off commuter services where a growing demand is apparent. They feel that in the long run aid is on the way, because they are confident they offer an essential service which the metropolitan area cannot do without, except on terms of accepting terrific traffic congestion and the necessity of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to carry the traffic on public highways. Given community interest and community support, we are sure the Pennsy will keep the door open to improvements in commuter service here in Middlesex County.

It realizes, perhaps better than anyone else, that the pattern of the future for suburban service has to include some place where the automobiles of the commuters can be stored while they go by rail to their places of business. And the railroad realizes, too, that it has the solid advantage over motor vehicle transportation, either by public conveyance or by private car, of being in complete control of its on-time performance. Its train movements are not delayed by the accidents and confusion and unusual movements of others. This control of on-schedule movement is of prime importance to the commuter whose daily theme song must be ''Get me to the job on time." ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT s' "I it aLi Suslov May Visit Here ROBERT ALLEN PAUL SCOTT NO MORE VIDEOTOWN Metuchen's Jim Kuhn, from his ivory tower in the RCA building, New York, sends a memo to lament the passing of New Brunswick as "Videoiown. U.S.A." An article Jim came across in a recent issue of a national magazine noted that "Cunningham Walsh, advertising agency, has quietly dropped its Videoiown survey which for the past 10 years has profiled TV habits in New Brunswick to determine nationwide acceptance of TV programs and the products it advertises." Explanation (or the dropping of the 19-year-old advertising 'feature is two-fold: 1 Gerald Las-ker, former research chief and originator of Videoiown, has left the agency; i2) agency feels that the survey has served its purpose, 10 years of TV studying is enough, medium has matured and research effort ought to be applied to other projects.

The article notes one development that could bring Videotown back. Color television. If color moves up in commercial importance, the agency plans to revive quickly its test city surveying. However, some oilier city than New Brunswick may take over I he "Videotown, U.S.A." designation. HAD NO ANSWER Anent the tough life a football coach leads is this poignant story out of Philadelphia where Steve Sebo, deposed University of Pennsylvania mentor, made way for John Sliegman, late of Rutgers.

When Sebo returned to his Philadelphia suburban home, after having been sacked Monday afternoon, he had to face his eight-year-old son. Jimmy, at the door. Jimmy had heard about the dismissal over television. "Why, daddy, why?" was the question the tyke with tears in his eyes threw at his father. For a guy who had just led Penn to its first Ivy League championship and victory in all but one game it was a question for which he could muster no answer.

Sebo admits it was about the first time he ever regretted having turned to the precarious career of football to make his living. Sebo was sure that the two loyal supporters who had stood by him during his first rough years at Penn would be with him in his hour of Ivy League triumph. When the president of the university and the director of athletics advised him Monday that they had already selected a new coach he was cr.ishtf He ni ixen so that he would be retained, a decision a year rid. that made no attempt to line up other coaching job. Now.

he has none i.r.(, doesn't knj where lie I Gift to liate-. an His parting ift 'o his chief lieutenant, John Ba etran. new Rutgers coach, was a r-avy lik nf scouting reports. "Here's something vou can use. or teams be playing Princeton.

Lafayette and Colurnl Bateman. whose li.von at been tapped for sin one hb he had wanted from the time generosity a single nation ever has displayed toward its competitive friends and former enemies came to an end. In 1959. policy-makers in government, industry and labor publicly acknowledged that, as a result of our spending far more overseas than we have been taking in from other lands, gold, has been flowing out on a substantial scale, the dollar's prestige has been seriously questioned and an indefinite continuation of the trends cannot be tolerated. In 1939, therefore, an historic turning point was reached in our trade relations with industrial Europe and Japan.

To grasp the full extent of the change, you must go back to the end of global war in 1946. At that time our country was the overwhelming power in the world trade markets. Nearly all other economics were ruined or obsolete. In our vaults we held most of the world's gold reserves. Gifts and Grants To get other nations back on their economic feet, we began pouring billions in gifts and grants into rebuilding their plants and factories.

We willingly exported our know-how and managerial skills. We encouraged private capital and tourists to go abroad and spend freely. We turned the other way as our sick competitors raised towering barriers against imports of our goods to protect their own weak industries. Year after year the economies of our competitors have been reviving, and in 1958 the full extent of the competitive comeback burst upon us. Last year the total of the funds we sent abroad topped the total of our receipts by $3.4 billion.

A full $2.3 billion, or 10 per cent of our gold reserves, moved into the vaults of other nations. This year the gap between our outgo and income has been even higher $4 billion. The drain on our gold has continued. Now we are acting to regain our trade balance in the world. 1 The United States has just adopted as formal policy a "Buy American" requirement for certain foreign aid.

Under the policy poorer nations getting U. S. funds must spend the cash in our country for our goods. While the move has aroused sharp protests that it is a step backw ard to restriction and protectionism, Secretary of State Herter has indicated that "spend it here" will be extended if the gold outflow persists. 2) The United States has demanded and is getting from European nations and Japan a decisive liberalization of their restrictions against our goods.

The trade walls against us of which we approved in 1949 are tumbling down on our insistence in 1959. At the just-concluded trade parleys in Tokyo, the chairman of the U. S. delegation hailed the resurgence of our competitors' positions and their recognition that new trade policies are now in order as "exciting as a success story." (3i Every one of our overseas spending programs for economic and military purposes is being searchingly re-examined. We are suggesting in unmistakable terms that our now thriving friends take more of a share of the world's economic and military burdens.

High Interest Rates (4) We are counting on the upsurge in our interest rates to help offset the drain on our gold. The high rate foreign central banks can earn on short-term U. S. Treasury I.O.U.s is encouraging them to invest their funds in these securities instead of asking for gold. (5' Still in its infancy is a major drive to spur our industrialists to return to "hard-selling" of our goods and services in the world markets and really compete with foreign producers instead of simply accepting orders.

Here, of course, lies the fundamental answer to our regaining a comfortable trade balance. The new cycle in our foreign economic policies which opened in 1959 will become more firmly established in 1960. Actually, this turning point may rank as one of the great economic-financial events of the next decade as well as one of the top stories of this year. By PETER EDSON Little Public Concern Over U.S. Lag in Space WASHINGTON National Aeronautics and Space Administration got a check for one hundred dollars one day last September.

It came from Lester Lehn. owner of Covered Wagon Trailer Sales, of Lancaster, in the heart of the Mennonite country. It was just after the Russians planted their missile on the moon. Lehn wrote that he wanted to contribute to U.S. scientific research and defray some of the expense of building a missile that would beat the Russians.

It took NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan and his big organization three months to decide whether they could accept this C-note, and what to do with it if they did. Will Keep Money Government lawyers have now decided they can keep it. The money goes into a special U.S. Treasury account set up for NASA's space program.

And thus a precedent is set so that if anyone else wants to give a million dollars or a dime to the U.S. space race, it can be accepted without delay. In somewhat the same vein. Dr. William H.

Pickering, director of NASA's jet propulsion lab at Cal. Tech, got a thrust of applause at the American Rocket, Society meeting here with his report on the Los Angeles Mirror-News-space poll. It showed three out of four people ashamed of the U.S. performance in space. Three out of five said they wanted the United States to catch up, even if it meant a lower standard of living.

Half the people polled said they'd gladly pay $.50 a year more taxes if the money was allocated to the space program. This point of view reflects a prevailing notion that the United States has to outspend the U.S.S.R. in space to beat them. Russian Costs Unknown Nobody knows how much the Russians spend on sputniks and luniks. But the United States has 500 million dollars in new spending authority for space programs in the year ending next June 30.

This does not include military missile programs. About three-fourths of the half billion bucks goes to private industry contractors. Even so, NASA has nearly 10.000 scientists and technical people on its own payroll. So far in 1939, NASA has fired only 10 rockets, five being successes. Glennan says he will have to ask for even more money next year.

How much will be revealed in the President's new budget. One big increase will come from transfer to NASA of Dr. Wernher Yon Braun's Huntsville, Ala. operation. The Von Braun team of 4.300 experts will concentrate on the 1.5-million-pound thrust engine and space vehicle systems.

This reorganization has to be approved by Congress before March 1, but NASA is going ahead on the assumption there will be no hitch. What it all adds up to. however, is that, it is taking a year and a half to get NASA organized on the ground. Armed services spokesmen are griping at having part of the missile program taken away from them. They are jealous of the big money given to space research competition.

But the record of interservice rivalries and inability to make decisions previously chalked up by the Pentagon does not make it a perfect center from which to run space programs. Roy W. Johnson's resignation as director of advanced projects to take up painting as a hobby has not indicated a high sense of dedication. The difficulty in finding a successor has shown no great surge of patrio'ism, A public sense of purpose and urgency seems to he lacking. Some congressmen returning early from their districts report their constituents worrird about the steel strike, the farm problem and inflation.

But not about space. After every Russian success, there is a new burst of enthusiasm and a lot of asking, "Why don't we do something'?" A few people like Mr. Lehn of Lancaster do something. But in a few days the indignation dies. Public interest returns to football scores, the TV scandal, and preparations for Christmas.

In a few corners it is feared that Americans still have too soft a life, too much to be thankful for, to be worried long about anything. The Daily Home News Published by Home News Publishing Company 123 How Lane. New Brunswick, N. J. Entered at Post Ofrire as Second Class matter Hugh Boyd President and Publisher Member of The Associated Press, the American Newspaper Publisher Association.

New Jersey Press Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Official Invitation To Drinking Driving One of the most preposterous things ever to masquerade under the name of traffic safety is being concocted by the Bureau of Traffic Safety in Trenton. This is a program calling for the preparation of 1,000,000 wallet-sized cards, purporting to show drinkers how much they can "safely drink and still drive." J. Raymond Monohan, head of the bureau, who presumably must accept responsibility for this dangerous program, is going to have the cards given to tavern owners who will be asked to pass them along to the boys at the bar during the holiday season. The cards are to show the drinker, according to his size and weight, just how much he can drink to raise his blood's alcoholic content up to the limit beyond which he will be presumed unfit to drive. The average 150-pound person is supposed to reach this stage by drinking six cans of beer or six ounces of whiskey.

This amounts to a license to approach as closely as possible to drunkenness, when everyone knows that even one drink reduces driver capability. It amounts, too, to a dangerous invitation to drinkers to go beyond their personal capacity. There are plenty of susceptible people who can get helplessly drunk on six ounces of whiskey in a hurry. "Here'sh mv card, offisher." By ERSKINE JOHNSON Borgnine Has Money Sense HOLLYWOOD Behind the Screen: "A buck." Ernest Borgnine said about never paying more than $55 for a suit of clothes, "is a buck." It was ironic coming from Borgnine, who turned down the title role of "Al Capone" and with it a fat percentage of one of the biggest money-making films of the year. "Oh.

that?" he said. "Yeah. I figured that decision cost me half a million." "So what?" a fellow on the set commented. "That's the way the ball bounces." Lest a Fortune The words came from Jack Mulhall. the star of silent-screen days, who was on the set of "Pay or Die" as a Screen Actors Guild field representative.

In 1029, he returned from a trip to Europe thinking he was worth a million. His broker met him at the dock and told him he was broke. Ball, bounce away from here! "This time I was afraid to say no." Borgnine continued. He lost the half-million when he said "no" to Richard Wilson, who directed "Al Capone." "It seemed to me," Borgnine explained, "that I'd just be glorifying a gangster. "Rod Steiger did it instead and it didn't turn out that way.

But don't forget that I'm an Italian-American and that meant I had a special reason for not liking that Canone role." When Wilson as set to produce and direct "Pay or Die." he asked Borgnine to star in the film. The actor's answer this time was "Yes." He liked the story of New York Detective Joseph Petrosino, ambushed and killed in Sicilly in 1909 while investigating the Mafia's invasion of America. Joe was an Italian-American hero, and the role appealed to Borgnine. "The sport coat?" Borgnine laughed. "Cost me $20.

I've never paid over $55 for a suit or $20 for a sport coat since I've been in Hollywood. A buck is a buck. see1" Especially, I guess, when you've just lost half a million. When he completes "Pay or Die." Borgnine says he will wed wife No. 2.

Katy Jurado. "Maybe in a $150 suit," he laughed. In case Marlon Brando is interested: Two weeks ago comedian-impressionist Frank Gorshin impersonated Marlon Brando on Steve Allen's TV show. Now he's playing a method actor with Judy Holliday and Dean Martin in "The Bells Are Ringing." Wedding bells will ring in late June for Deborah Kerr and writer Peter v'ieriel. whose divorce is final June 13.

They will make their nome in Switzerland, I hear, as members of the growing Adult Comfort The "Adults Only" sign for movies which so many film makers are convinced must come "has a powerful appeal beyond the promise of sexiness." That "powerful appeal." according to the operators of a local theater known as an "art house." is providing adults with a sort of Relaxing Pen where they are nut of reach of Youthnicks and Beatniks. In "The Art of Art House Operation." written for the annual edition of the Hollywood Reporter. Operators George Glass and Walter Seltzer say: "The 'Adults Only' sign is not a come-on but a guarantee of special comfort for the adult. It is one place where an adult may see a movie in total comfort without hearing childish voices talking back to the screen, running the risk of getting ice cream on his lap or placed in danger of being trampled by the rush to and from the popcorn machine." They add: "The movie house should be a place more pleasant to spend one's time than at. one's home.

This competition is not too difficult to" beat." ne began coacivng WASHINGTON Mikhail Suslov, one of the least known of the Kremlin rulers but who ranks fourth among them, wants to coma to the United States. While no decision has been made on that, the answer win probably be yes. As proposed through Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, Suslov would come here in February or March, well before President Eisenhower's trip to Russia. State Department insiders now deem that unlikely before May or June. The Suslov visit would be under the new two-year cultural exchange agreement that has just been signed with the Soviet.

One of the questions being considered in connection with his making a tour of this country is sending a U.S. official of comparable importance to Russia. That is of moment because Moscow is stressing Suslov would) travel in the role of a high government official and not a Communist party chief. His status as the latter far outweighs the former. This is graphically shown by the fact that Suslov's only government, position is as a member of the Supreme Soviet, the so-called legislative body.

But in the all-powerful Communist party, he ranks immediately after Khrustjchev as second secretary. Khrushchev is the first secretary. Also, Suslov is secretary of the party's Central Committee which elects the Presidium that determines party policy and is the key ruling authority in Russia. For Suslov, a visit to the United States would be the second time he has been outside the Iron Curtain. The other occasion was his trip early this year to Britain as a guest of the Labor party.

Throughout that stay he conducted himself quietly and decorously. He made no speeches, and carefully avoided arguments. Khrushchev's Successor Because so little is known about Suslov personally and his dominant influence in the Kremlin hierarchy, a visit by him is welcomed by the State Department. Former Ambassador Charles Bohlen, now special adviser to Secretary Herter, strongly favors that. Such a tour is deemed an excellent opportunity for Suslov to see for himself what the United States is like, and for officials here to size him up.

Both are highly desirable because he is a possible sueessor to Khrushchev. No one is closer to the Soviet Premier than Suslov, In all the tortuous machinations and crucial showdowns that led to Khrushchev's emergence as top Kremlin czar, Suslov was always by his side. In the grim 1957 struggle for power in the Presidium, Suslov was a mainstay in Khrushchev's hair-breadth victory. Months later, it was Suslov who axed Marshal Georgi Zhukov. The famed World War II battle commander had sided with Khrushchev in the touch-and-go Presidium battle, but subsequently was deemed too popular and was "retired'' while on an official visit to Yugoslavia.

Early this fall, Khrushchev sent Suslov to Peiping to make the main Soviet address at the Red Chinese 10th anniversary. Dark, slender and 57, Suslov is younger than his three seniors Khrushchev, Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, all of whom have visited the United States. Rated by State Department experts as fifth in Kremlin importance is Aleksei Kirichenko, another Khrushchev henchmen and head of the Ukrainian Communist party. Bon Voyage Protecting President Eisenhower and those accompanying him is one of the most difficult problems of the 22.000-mile trip. That' what he told congressional leaders at his White House briefing, saying: "Our biggest headache is The Secret Service tells me it's the toughest security job they have ever handled, and I can well believe them." Most of the President's party have long shopping lists from their wives.

Mrs. James Hagerty, wife of the press secretary, is felling friends, "I gave Jim a list more than a yard long. When he'll find time to do anything about it, I can't imagine, but I gave it to him anyway." On the President's trip to Scotland last August, Hagerty bought his wife three skirts which, she says, fit her perfectly. In Afghanistan, the President is set to stress to King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his military chiefs that the United States cannot be knocked out by a surprise Russian attack. The Presi-den will do this on the recommendation of former Amhassador Sheldon Mills, who before becoming Ambassador to Jordan made a detailed report warning that the Afghanistan ruler was greatly impressed by Soviet military strength.

The President also plans to sound Out Premier Nehru and other government heads on a proposal by South Korean President Syngman Rhee that U. S. intermediate range ballistic missiles be installed there. Rhee claims that should he done because U. S.

military aid to South Korea is being reduced. Social Whirl General Curtis LeMay, cigar-smoking Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, is a West Point graduate, but. he viewed Army's overwhelming football defeat by Navy with equanimity. Gleefully asked what he thought of it by former Navy Chief of Operations Robert Carney, LeMay retorted dryly, "I was hoping they would both lose." Mrs. Wilbur Brucker, wife of the secretary of the Army, has a helpful tip for hostesses confronted with an "endless" receiving line.

When she had to greet some 700 guests at an official function, Mrs. Brucker provided herself with a high stool and perched on it when she got tired Sen. Theodore Green 'D-RD, 92-year-old congressional veteran, lost no time in returning to the social circuit after leav ing the hospital following his second successful cataract operation. That evening he was a gay guest at a party by Mrs. J.

Hamilton Lewis, widow of the one-time senator from Illinois. Another miest was "Aunt Bessie" Merryman, aunt of the Ductless of Windsor. Parkway Site Needs Cleanup The ultimate use of the land area between the new police station and the old sanitation plant on Memorial Parkway remains undetermined. But that is little excuse for permitting it to remain in an unkempt condition. Memorial Parkway is fast becoming a real show-place, and its growing attractiveness should not be marred by the untidy appearance of this unimproved plot of land.

We think it would be money well invested for the city to clear this site and to plan to throw some grass seed on it when such planting is practical. The esthetic value created would be great and the cost would be relatively small. post was subdued. He. toe will miss his long a pernor with Sebo ROUGH TIMF The worst is over.

Detective Cap'ain Ralph concedes from his bed in St. Peter's Hospital where he is beginning to enjoy life again after a double-dose of surgery. Petrone's ailment is one that has been with him a long time but which he now hopes is gone forever. Yesterday that familiar wide grin lighted up his hospital room, evidence to all that the dulling pain he suffered frequently in the past is no more. He expects to be out some time next week.

DRIFTING BACK If Miss Mabel R. Williamson, long-time retired teacher at New Brunswick Junior High School, should wonder about the receipt of a greeting card this week here is the explanation. When Mayor Chester W. Paulus ran across Prineeionian Foster 11. Jemison in New York City the other night they discovered that in Miss Williamson they had a mutual friend dating back to World War I years.

It was then that was grammar school student at what since has become know as Roosevelt Junior High. His favorite teacher, naturally, was Miss Williamson with whom he has been out of contact these many years It came as welcome news from Jemison that Miss Williamson is well and living in Aqueduct, outside of Princeton. Chet promised to drop Miss Williamson a line and let her know how much he appreciated her interest in him as a growing schoolboy. The mayor shares the good news of Miss Williamson's well being with hundreds of others who fondly recall their school days here and their association with the retired teacher. Local Talent The United States Senate can always stand more color, and it is a pity it cannot enjoy the rich-hued personality of a man like Michael J.

Quill, president of the Transit Workers Union in New York City. In the nature of Quill gets virtually no national attention at all, and he's a bright spot on the New York scene only periodically, when it's time to talk contract for the city's bus and subway workers. Too bad. Whatever Quill speaks of he invests with enormous, senatorial dignity. He's an actor who makes most of those he deals with look as if they'd studied dramatics through a correspondence school.

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