European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 23, 1959 the stars and stripes graduates speeding up legislative Mill Senate limit on debate calming winds on Capitol Hill by William th151s Washington up evolution is intriguing especially in the supposedly unchangeable . Senate. The stately ponderous frequently frustrating sometimes Majestic and often Windy Senate is coming to grips with the management of its own time. Under the guidance of democratic Leader Lyndon b. Johnson the Senate is getting the kind of Cut out the nonsense procedure which keeps the House of representatives from dissolving into utter confusion. The device being adroitly manipulated by the texan is the unanimous consent procedure. This is the process of asking unanimous agreement to accept a limitation of debate on a Bill an amendment or any other matter before the Senate. A single objection blocks the request. In a sense the consent procedure is cloture a limitation of debate in Advance of a filibuster the time honoured a never to talk a Bill to death it is Given rather freely if sometimes grudgingly. In the House a Rule fixing the length of debate on major legislation is granted by the 12-member House rules committee the traditional Power Arm of the speaker. The Rule is subject to approval by the full House. But a Short Cut is available in the unanimous consent procedure that has been used in the House for years. One advantage in addition to its speedup value is that it lets the party leaders go off to other chores and forget about the store until  helps preserve leadership control and the Senate is less at the mercy of free Wheeling individual speakers. Yet the device does not wipe out the Senate s tradition of individual Freedom. A single senator May object to its use. But he Seldom does. Such an agreement normally is not sought until the Leader ship has a pretty Good idea that it or something close to it is acceptable to All. Then there is always the pressure of majority desire working to silence objection. Most members of the club want to be liked by their colleagues. The evolution is making the Senate More effective but less exciting. If it s less like the unpredictable Senate of old it is partly because there Are More canned speeches. This in turn Springs from the addition of press aides to senatorial  senators now speak off the cuff at any length or Eyen just from notes when they have something heavy to unload. Senate Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen of Illinois is probably the Best of the old school orators remaining in the Senate Brave enough to venture out in deep debate without the rhetorical life Vest of a prepared script. Sen. Hubert h. Humphrey a min who just loves to talk und will do so at the drop of a syllable is probably Thebes on the democratic Side. He like others uses Many prepared texts to help get his speeches in the newspapers. Johnson who is responsible for much of the Evol uting is no verbal Slouch when aroused. Dean of the hold pm and sock pm school a diminishing number in the Senate is sen. Robert s. Kerr the millionaire demo crat from Oklahoma. The new willingness to control Senate debate May have some connection with the fact that More than a third of the sen ate s members served in the House. The were raised that Way. Society girl in kidnapping still unwed Short Hills . Up Jacqueline Gay Hart the Post Debutante who touched off a nationwide search when she disappeared for three Days last month is Back Home and still unmarried. The 21-year-old Blond disappeared from Newark Airport the night of july 21, after seeing her Fiance to the Airport and turned up three Days later in Chicago. At first she told police a wild tale of being kidnapped. Later she admitted she had run off because of wedding  miss Hart the daughter of col Gate palmolive executive vice pres Clent Ralph a. Hart was to have married Stanley Gaines of Fayetteville w.va., in a splashy society wedding this month. The wedding was postponed. She and her parents left on vacation shortly after she returned from Chicago and it was reported several times that she and Gaines had been married quietly away from Short Hills. But a family Friend has con firmed that the Harts had re turned Home and said miss Hart had not yet married  the wedding was postponed members of both the Hart and the Fairres families denied that it was called off. Hart said the publicity surrounding his daughter s disappearance forced the change of plans. Back Home Jacqueline Gay Hart 10-week polio epidemic unabated at Kansas City Kansas City to. Up the worst epidemic of polio to hit Kansas City since the pre Salk summer of 1952 is in its 10th week with no let up in  with a record break ing 20 cases of the disease re ported in june the tally no stands at 130 cases with seven fatalities so . Abraham g e i p e  City health director said the epidemic is continuing on the plateau it reached eight weeks ago with 10 to 16 new victims every week. 1,000 vaccinated daily he said that unlike the epidemic in Des Moines Iowa which reached a Peak then dropped off the Kan Sas City epidemic has reached a Peak and maintained  summer Public apathy to Ward the sulk vaccine has seemed to dissipate in the last few weeks. The City health department re ports that about 1,000 persons a Day most of them children Are t receiving inoculations at the City clinics. A spokesman for the depart ment s division of communicable diseases said that of the 130 polio victims Only 24 had received two or More inoculations of the Sal vaccine. Only three of this year s 49 paralytic polio victims had received the three dose series. The spokesman added that of those three victims two have left hospitals alone and unaided and the third a 5-year-old boy is on the Way to Complete recovery. Mcelroy bans Book written by Gen Power Washington a the de sense department has banned publication of a Book on nuclear striking Power written by the commander in chief of the strategic air come Gen Thomas . Secretary of defense Neil h. My Elroy made the decision to deny one of the country s senior Mili tary leaders authority to express his views on present and future strategic requirements. The Pentagon action was Dis closed in a new Issue of the army Navy air Force journal. An official statement by the de sense department in response to inquiries said Mcelroy denied approval for Power to have his Book published on the grounds that it was inappropriate for a commander of a major command to author a Book concerning his area of responsibility while on Active duty in that  the Book entitled design for survival was scheduled for publication by random House this fall. Earlier testimony in new York a spokesman for random House said the firm had suggested to Power that he write the Book. However the spokesman said Power had submitted Only an outline and chapter synopsis to random House. It had not received the manuscript. Power in the manuscript argued that since the strategic air come has the major responsibility for strategic warfare it Fol lows that it should have authority to control or at least to coordinate All major strategic weapons including the Polaris missile firing submarines the Navy is now build ing. Power wrote that the strategic air come should be Able to count on Polaris submarines being committed to certain fixed targets and that the locations of these nuclear powered missile launchers should be coordinated at All times with strategic air come he at Omaha neb. Charred copter in Wasp explosion crewmen aboard the aircraft Carrier Wasp toss overboard the burned wreckage of i helicopter that exploded and burned below decks of the Currier. Two men were killed and 20 injured in the explosion that occurred during Maneu vers 250 Miles off the coast a quonset Point . Fri photo democrats see slim Hope for rights Bill this year w a s h i n g t o n up influential Northern democrats have conceded privately that they have just about abandoned Hope for enactment of now civil rights legis lation this year. As matters stand now they said one Inch Takeoff called los Angeles a test Pilot Al Blackburn first Man to blast out of a bomb shelter in a rocket boosted Jet plane says it was a  Blackburn was referring to his flight from a Cave like shelter at Holloman air Force base . In a f100 plane blasted into the air by rockets. The 36-year-old test Pilot for North american aviation added when i first started preparing for the test my first reaction was that the shelter would be a mighty tight Hole to gel out  but As the program went along it became obvious that we were not going to have any  Blackburn had undergone 14 such blast offs earlier at Edwards air Force base calif., identical except that they were out in the open. The shelter take off was made to prove thai planes can be protected from sneak nuclear at tack and still be ready for a Quick  s supersonic f100 was airborne after a take off of less than one Inch the distance the plane moved before breaking the bolts that held it in the shelter. The Booster rocket attached be Low the Tail of the plane built Upa pressure of 130,000 pounds of thrust almost equal to that devel oped by a Thor intermediate Range missile. Four seconds after blast off the Jet was doing 275 Mph and the Booster dropped away. In another few seconds the Jet s own engine was propelling it faster than sound More than 750 Mph. They fear they will have to Settle this year for a simple Extension of the civil rights commission which will o t h e r Wise expire these democrats feel prospects still Are better than 50-50 that democratic Leader Lyndon b. John son Tex will steer a moderate civil rights Bill through the sen ate before Congress adjourns. But they believe the House won t gel a Phanco before next year to act on civil rights legis lation the bar to House action is rep. Howard w. Smith id chair Man of the House rules commit tee and an Arch foe of civil rights  committee has jurisdiction Over Clearing legislation for floor action. Smith has demonstrated in the past that he can Block for Many weeks action by his commit tee on legislation he opposes