CAPITAL NOTES

Off to Tanganyika

The first Peace Corps volunteers will go to equatorial Tanganyika. A band of 28 U.S. surveyors, geologists and civil engineers--all men--will arrive about Oct. 1 for two years of mapping and building much-needed secondary roads. Next countries due to get Peace Corpsmen: Nigeria and several Latin American republics.

Prognosis: Poor

The Administration has serious doubts that it can pass a medical-aid-to-the-aged bill this year. At best, it rates the chances at fifty-fifty.

"Access to the Hill . . ."

G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton is soliciting jobs for hundreds of Republican appointees who have left the Government, has sent thousands of letters to U.S. companies, notably to what he calls "large Republican companies." Says Morton of the job seekers: "From their knowledge and experience in their particular jobs, as well as their access to the Hill and the departments, they are in a position to make an excellent contribution to private industry."

Fall-In

One Republican who found a job on his own: Leo Hoegh, director of Eisenhower's Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, now selling fallout shelters as executive vice president of Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. of America. Hoegh, whose name and face are prominently featured in Wonder ads, earns something more than the $25,000 yearly he got as OCDM boss, plus a share of the company's profits.

White House Snubs

President Kennedy intends to make plain his dislike of certain conservative groups. He has declined an invitation to address the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because he believes it is one of the most potent forces lobbying against his program. Also, for the first time since 1890, the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution was rebuffed when it requested a special, "members only" tour through the White House.

Crack in the Bar

The White House News Photographers Association is expected to admit its first Negro member--from the Baltimore Afro-American--within the next month. Reason: President Kennedy has put out word that he will refuse to attend the association's May banquet unless its all-white policy changes.

Ribicoff's Drive

Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abe Ribicoff, long a crusader for traffic safety, is urging teen-age girls to cool off male hot-rodders by refusing to date them. "You young girls can help a lot" he said to 30 touring high schoolers from Vero Beach, Fla. "This one-arm driving doesn't do any good either."

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