text: A-24 Metro Area KTOK-*. WpaSiS 4. MWMMI • Mwi \- < -' r x -fvWW'*>gb " Sii ’* • «B ■ - hl Cv Ik ■.r, W HHK 1 BBEfcwt sfewl ,.. Jt> ■■■ K «•...M a <'\ iV i****** * -SoLT il&riJ! ■» t /j t♦? II > ’ MARINE VETERANS HERE FOR DIVISION REUNIONS Packing a sea bag and wearing a campaign hat, William D. Harrison, jr., 38, of Enoree, S. C., a veteran of the 1st Marine Division, arrived here yesterday for his division reunion and the five other World War II Marine divisions. At right, Mr. Program to Attract i Teachers Here Starts By ANDREW W. BINGHAM Star Staff Writer A community-wide program to help attract school teachers to Washington was officially launched yesterday. About 20 civic leaders, representing a range of groups from the PTA to the bankers association, met with school officials to get the facts about the current teacher shortage here and to exchange ideas about how to overcome it. They plan to hold more meetings in the fall. Eventually they will come up with an action program in which their Individual organizations can participate. Supt. Carl F. Hansen expressed his delight at their plans. “This is a very important He also gave a statistical explanation for why such a movement is necessary: Last year there were 1,250 temporary teachers in the city’s schools—over 25 percent of the teaching force. This number is twice as high as it was in 1955. In addition, Dr. Hansen pointed out, the District last year had a total of 618 teachers new to the system. More Serious in Cities The superintendent had no answers to the problem, which is one affecting virtually every school system in the country, although it is particularly serious in large urban areas where conditions are generally considered “harder” than in the suburbs. He suggested, however, that the group concentrate on finding ways to cut down on the rapid teacher turnover here as well as on how to attract qualified, career teachers. During the ensuing discussion, several of the civic leaders stressed the importance of community recognition of the teachers and pride in the job they are doing. They were also interested in the school system’s own recruitment program, which started two years ago. Attorney's Trial in Tax Case Is Postponed BALTIMORE, June 5 (AP). —The trial in Cumberland of Edward J. Ryan, Allegany County attorney and political aspirant, on Federal income tax evasion charges has been postponed indefinitely. The trial had been set tentatively for July 11. Federal Judge R. Dorsey Watkins said he can fix no date firmly even in the fall because his calendar is full. The judge said he hoped to reach the case before the end of the year. Ryan, 66, is charged with filing false joint income tax returns for himself and his wife for the years 1953-56. The Government said he listed income of $96,405.98 with taxes due of $26,804.67 and it should have been $195,964.23 and $80,047.90. Ryan has unsuccessfully sought election to the House of Representatives and circuit judge. Two Directors Elected Lyle Youngstrom, of Rockville, Md., head of the Washington office of the public relations firm, Carl Byoir & Associates, and Cecil B. Dickson of Purcellville, Va., chief legislative representative of the American Medical Association have been elected directors of the Federal Association here. THE EVENING STAR Washington, D.C., Saturday, Jan. 25, 1960 and has already led officials here to visit colleges as far west as Wisconsin and Minnesota. James S. McMullen, chairman of the education committee of the Federation of Citizens Associations, suggested that the District Teachers College, with proper community interest and support, could supply a larger proportion of the city’s teachers. Environment Cited Mrs. Alma M. Curry, representing the Washington branch of the American Association of University Women, said the school system should give more attention to creating a pleasant environment for teachers. She cited several nagging things that drive teachers right out of the profession. Better, more constructive supervision is also needed, she said, and temporary teachers should be pushed harder to take the necessary courses to qualify for permanent status. Mrs. Frances Berger, citizenship chairman of the District PTA Congress, cited congressional failure to grant funds for a new junior high in Northeast Washington as an example of the difficulties the community faces in providing decent working conditions for teachers. Macfar Land, Taft and Paul Junior High Schools will be so crowded next year that students "will be hanging out the windows," she said. The meeting yesterday was organized by the Greater Washington Central Labor Council. Miss Selma Borchardt, secretary of the council’s education committee and an English teacher at Eastern High, originally suggested the community program. MEMO FROM THE EDITOR Nation’s Political Views Told in New Star Series “SUM OF THE PEOPLE”— Starting this Sunday, The Star will publish the first of a series of articles, entitled “Sum of the People” by the noted public opinion analyst, John Kraft, who brings you the results of numerous political surveys which are conducted by his staff of interviewers in every one of the 50 States. Learn not only how or what the public feels during this political year, but why. SUM OF THE PEOPLE— The lover of salt water and sand can find a world of fun right on Washington’s doorstep—along the edge of Chesapeake Bay. SUNDAY, The Star Magazine, previews it for you in words and pictures. CAN A PLANT FEEL PUNN— Surprisingly enough, it can. And that's just one of the remarkable things that science is finding out about “The Wonderful World of Plants.” To learn more about the amazing goings-on in the vegetable kingdom, see This Week Magazine. SURPRISES IN MONTMARTRE Surprises are around every corner of the Montmartre section of Paris, especially when the French are taking a Holiday. Travel Editor Jack Jonas brings you the full story on the travel pages, this Sunday in The Star. They also serve—More often than seldom, loose talk brands the teen-ager as “bad” rather than "good.” For news of one Silver Spring group which has earned the respect of its school and community by being of service to others, read TEEN. Phone Lincoln 3-5000 for Home Delivery and Mrs. David J. Fell and their daughter Debbie, 8, of West Chester, Pa., are shown around the Washington Monument by Ann Wilroy, 1960 Washington Jubilee Queen. Mr. Fell was a member of the 2nd Marine Division.—Star Staff Photos. Charges D. C. Pair in Lottery Raid The Internal Revenue Service raided what it described as a lottery headquarters in Prince Georges County yesterday and charged a Washington man and woman with failure to have a Federal gambling stamp. Irving Machiz, Baltimore district director of internal revenue, said four IRS agents uncovered the lottery operation in a raid at 5 p.m. of a building at the junction of Leland road and Route 301, near Upper Marlboro. Charged with failing to have a $50 gambling stamp were Orian F. Whiting, 54, of the 1200 block of Hamlin street N.E., and Lucretia M. Killings, 41, of the 1200 block of U street N.E. Confiscated in the raid were three adding machines, an automobile, an undisclosed amount of money, and a large quantity of numbers slips, the spokesman said. The suspects were Arraigned before United States Commissioner H. Allen Metzger last night at Catonsville, Md. Prince Georges County police today said they would study the arrests to see if any State gambling charges should be filed. Springfield Motel Is Robbed of $90 Two men armed with a pistol, robbed a Springfield (Va.) motel of about $90 early today. Fairfax County police reported. Police said the men entered the Howard Johnson Motel in Springfield about 2 am. and ordered the night auditor, Alden Muller, to open the cash drawer. The bandits took the money and ordered Mr. Muller to walk with them to Shirley highway, where they told him to turn around and leave. D. C. Man Charged in Night Assaults A cabinetmaker's apprentice was charged by Prince Georges County police early today with assaulting two women in Chilum Heights, Md., and entering the home of a third. The suspect was picked up near a bus stop when police saw a flashy band on his straw hat which the women had described. The policy said. They identified him as Charles E. Herrell, 26, of the 1500 block of Seventeenth street S.E. Before he was seized, police said apartment residents, frightened by the early morning screams, had gathered for protection in small groups outside their buildings. The chain of events started about 12:15 a.m. when a man grabbed a 26-year-old woman returning to her apartment after walking a baby-sitter home next door, police said. She screamed and he fled from the building in the 5700 block of Sixteenth street, according to Police Pvt. J. M. Marchegiani. A little later, a man entered an unlocked apartment in the 5700 block of Chillum Heights drive and was discovered when he started to enter a bathroom where a woman was preparing for bed. She screamed and he fled through a living room window, Detective Capt. Wilson J. Purdy said. The man next grabbed a 24-year-old woman as she walked from a girl friend's car to her apartment in the 5600 block of Chillum Heights drive, police said. They said the man as he approached, was robbed of $2,000 early today by two attackers. In another attack, five more division detectives en route to a raid seized three youths who had just beaten and robbed a man after dragging him out of a car. Robbery Squad Lt. Murray Kutner reported that Constanzo Cerimele of 3501 Lafayette street N.W., a watchman at the Center Market City at Fifth and K streets N.W., was beaten with a stick and his money taken from him as he left the market. The two youths, one about 18 and the other about 16, escaped by running east on K street. In the other incident, Ernest M. Eddings, 21, of 1351 Downing street N.E., who said he was sitting in a friend's car parked in the 700 block of Howard road S.E. shortly after midnight, was dragged out of the car by three youths, knocked to the ground, kicked and robbed of $2.30. . When police happened to pass the scene, they quickly grabbed the three fleeing youths. Two 17-year-olds are being held and the third, Harold Jackson, 18, of the 1100 block of Chicago street S.E., was charged with robbery, Lt. Kutner said. A 40-year-old employee of the Indonesian Embassy, Flores Bownissadia, of 1475 Columbia road N.W., was knocked to the ground by a youth as she walked in the 1600 block of Florida avenue N.W. last night. The attacker grabbed her shopping bag containing her purse and $35. Lt. Kutner said the shopping bag later was recovered by a police dog on the grounds of the old Henderson estate near the scene of the crime, but there was no trace of the youth. Locked the woman and tore her clothing before her screams frightened him away. Within 10 minutes after Pvt. Marcheggiani had given them a description of the suspect, Metropolitan Police Pvts. J. J Brown and J. L. McGinnis picked up Herrell just inside the District on Gallatin street. Herrell was charged with two counts of assault and battery and one count of housebreaking by County Detective R. L. Carter. A 17-year-old youth, rushing to aid a group of screaming terrified children near his Fairfax County home, was severely injured when he tripped and fell over a tree stump. The youth, Thomas of 817 Mario drive, Sleepy Hollow Woods, suffered a rupture of spleen and possible should Injuries. Arlington Hospital reported him in satisfactory condition today. The boy's mother, Mrs. Thomas R. Hodet, said her son was fixing a window screen in the basement Tuesday when the children's screams ran through the neighborhood. Thomas, afraid a child might be drowning in a creek nearby, ran about 500 feet toward the creek, suddenly stumbled over the tree stump. Mrs. Hodet said neighbor later found the children had been screaming because they had run into a nest of hornets. Thomas is a former carrier boy for The Star. He has been working afternoons at a ponding at Bailey's Crossroads. He has another job on weekend in a doughnut shop. Registration for the University of Maryland’s summer school will be held Monday of the College Park Campus. It was announced. PRESERVATION Experts By PAUL HOPE Star Staff Writer ANNAPOLIS, June 25 — Can the automobile be prevented from running over history? This is one of the problems being considered in a two-day conference of experts gathered here to see what they can do to preserve a part of the past in American cities. The auto, which pushes out buildings in its quest for parking and traveling space and which has changed the way of doing business, is not the only problem, however. Meeting in a modern air-conditioned auditorium, a historic St. John's College, the experts complained of the unthinking Annapolis property owner who covered his historical significance with stone facing, although early Annapolis had no stone buildings. They were saddened by the city officials and the planning committee whose sense of values excludes the historic. While they had no part in the swine on how to go about if there was general agreement at an opening panel discussion yesterday that pressure would be raised. Broader Act Urged For Home Repairs State G. O. P. Parley In Snarl Over State 10th District Move to Nominate Robertson Opponent Is Hit by Potter By ALEX R. PRESTON By B. B. ROSS Writer ROANOKE, Va., June 25 —A dispute broke out in the Republican State Convention this afternoon over the question of nominating a candidate to oppose Democratic Senator Robertson in November. Impetus for the nomination came from Northern Virginia’s 10th congressional district. Two candidates were available from that area for the party’s endorsement. They are A. Claiborn Leigh, a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, and John Stenger, a Washington druggist who lives in Arlington. Their intention to run, backed by a considerable number of 10th district delegates, ran counter to the wishes of G.O.P.’s State Chairman I. Lee Potter. Potter's Position Mr Potter told a caucus of 10th district delegates that he thought a Republican Senatorial campaign would hurt the chances of a G.O.P. nominee for Congress this fall, particularly in the 9th district where Representative Jennings, Democrat, faces a stiff battle from E. Summers Sheffey. Representative Broyhill in the 10th and Representative Poss in the 6th districts, the only two Republican Congressmen from Virginia, also are seeking re-election. Alvin Snell of Arlington told the caucus he would present the names of Mr. Leigh and Mr. Stenger to the nominating committee of the convention. The Fairfax and Alexandria delegates appeared content to let the issue of whether a candidate should be nominated be decided by the committee, headed by Jack Middleton of The Plains. Arlington delegates, on the other hand, were determined to raise the question on the floor if the nominating committee turns down the idea in another development here. Republican National Chairman Thruston B. Morton flatly ruled out Gov. Rockefeller of New York as a prospect for winning the Presidential nomination at the National Convention in Chicago next month. "I don't think Gov. Rockefeller has a chance of winning the nomination." Senator Morton of Kentucky, told the press. "There is no choice for anyone at this late hour but Nixon. I think the Governor recognizes this." Predicts G. O. P. Winning Senator Morton placed Virginia among the Southern States which the Republicans expect to carry in November. President Eisenhower took Virginia's 12 electoral votes in the campaigns of 1952 and 1956. The Republicans are holding the last State convention of their party here today. Senatorial Sunday Closing Law Leaves Hassan Puzzled Arlington Commonwealths Attorney William J. Hassan told a group of county business men yesterday he does not know much more than they about what can and cannot be sold under Virginia's new Sunday closing law. "A man called me and told me he runs an ice plant," he said. "He sells ice, soft drinks, beer, and watermelons. He doesn't know what he can sell, and neither do I." The law, effective July 3, passed at the last session of the General Assembly to clamp down on Sunday sales of certain items. In it prohibits sales of various kinds, but permits the selling of film, flash bulbs. The program also included a general agreement that a community should not be “frozen” to a period of history, but that the past should be related to the present in a plan to fit the 20th century. "I hope you are not too out-raged at meeting in our temporary building," St. John said. "We thought we would not try to imitate the old, but preserve the old, and build for the new, and tie it into a whole." Richard H. Howland, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, advised the group of about 150 against "phony" preservation. ly “The one prime value in veracity," Mr. Howland said, “Most of us are opposed to the reconstruction—the phony, the veracious, not-quoted-right." Mr. Howland, who lives in Georgetown in Washington, said many of the plans developed for the preservation of our city areas "are freezing plans." He said, “A few of us in Georgetown would like to see Morton said he knew of no other States where the G.O.P. is still to convene. The Republican chairman listed Florida, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Louisiana as the Southern States where G.O.P. holds its highest hopes for victory in November. This prediction was based on the assumption that Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts would be the Democratic nominee. “If Senator Johnson is the nominee, it would be another question," the Republican chairman said. He conceded the Texas Senator would draw more support from Southern States, including Virginia, than would Senator Kennedy. However, he said he thinks Senator Johnson's chances of winning the Democratic Party's endorsement are slim. Battle for Seats Senator Morton's comments came amidst a wild battle among Virginia Republicans to capture seats as delegates to the Republican National Convention. Unlike the Democrats, who permit an almost unlimited number of delegates to go to their national convention to cast fractional votes, the Republicans. Name delegates who will have one vote apiece, Congressional district conventions already have named 20 delegates and 20 alternates to the national convention. The big hassle here today is over who will be elected to fill the other 10 positions for delegates and 10 for alternates. The delegation will cast 30 votes in Chicago. At a late hour last night, there were 13 candidates for the 10 delegate positions and 7 for the 10 alternate posts. D.C. Man Elected, Russell J. Woodman, of 401 Third Street N.W., was elected vice president yesterday of the 40,000-member Order of Railroad Telegraphers at the organization’s annual convention in Chicago. George E. Leighty of St. Louis was elected to his fifth term as president of the union. Newspapers, souvenirs and novelties, fishing paraphernalia, house trailers, gasoline and hams. It also permits operation of movie houses, sports and athletic events and amusement facilities. Mr. Hassan, speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, said he thought items not prohibited could be sold if their sale was accepted as local custom. He said he assumed that the law would permit operation of real estate business and the selling of perishables as acceptable to local custom. "I don’t think anyone can tell you more than that," he added. "A few nice contemporary buildings." Mr. Howland also said there is often too much emphasis on gadgetry. "Too often people have gone away from Monticello impressed with the dumbwaiter more than with Jefferson the Man.” he said. The historic spots should not be "over shadowed with artifacts,” he asserted. Miss Barbara Wriston, president of the Society of Architectural Historians and a resident of Boston, said the "cities have been sold short in the past 150 years." She said many of the people who moved out "to get away from it all" now are likely to start moving back in again. "Cities are important," she said, "but it's important to keep the city living, not static." Miss Wriston said the auto "is not necessarily an enemy." She said she believes that most people "who want to look at anything" will park and walk in a little way. But Edmund N. Bacon, executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, said, "We would be putting our head in the sand if we didn't." City Heads Ask Inclusion of Job Salesmen By MIRIAM OTTENBERG Star Staff Writer The Senate District Committee today got the District Commissioners' strong endorsement of legislation designed to curb fraudulent practices in Washington's home improvement industry. In a letter to Chairman Bible of the committee, Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin presented a broadened version of the pending legislation. The Commissioners offered amendments would include home improvement salesmen as well as the contractors. The inclusion of the salesmen was considered a significant addition because The Star's "Home Owner Beware Series" exposing unethical practices in the community. The home improvement, business showed that high pressure salesmen, without any contractor behind them, solicit contracts from homeowners with extravagant guarantees and exorbitant prices and then peddle the contracts to whatever contractor will buy them. Commissioner McLaughlin wrote Senator Bible that recent articles in the press have focused attention on practices in the home improvement business which heretofore had not come to the notice of the Commissioners. "These practices, apparently engaged in by relatively few of the persons in the home improvement business," Commissioner McLaughlin wrote. "Nevertheless, it seems to indicate a need for the licensing and bonding of persons engaging in this kind of business, in order to protect the owners or occupants of private dwellings from being disadvantaged by those persons in the home improvement business who engage in the practices described in the newspaper story." Commissioner McLaughlin explained that under existing law, the Commissioners can adopt regulations for the licensing of persons in the home improvement business. But he said existing law does not authorize the Commissioners to require that persons licensed by the Commissioners should be bonded or covered by insurance to protect home owners against financial loss. "It is necessary, therefore," the Commissioner said, "if full protection is to be given the public that provision be made for the bonding of persons engaged in the home improvement business and the coverage of their activities by the appropriate kinds of insurance." He said the Commissioners also were concerned by another home-owner problem—the filling of mechanics' liens by subcontractors who have not been paid by home improvement contractors. In such situations, the Commissioners complained, the homeowner who has paid the prime contractor for the performance of work finds himself confronted with making a second payment to satisfy a mechanic's lien. This problem, too, he said, could be met by the pending legislation. Bonds Are Urged A addition to including salesmen, the Commissioners proposed amendments broadening the Commissioners' authority to require bonds and leaving it up to the Commissioners and their discretion to determine who should be covered. Commissioner McLaughlin explained that in view of the "multitudinous aspects" of what has come to be known as the home-improvement business, it is necessary for the Commissioners to define exactly who they are talking about in order to deal adequately with the evils that have arisen. "Admit there is a conflict between the auto and preservation." Frederick Gutheim, president of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, said that, while groups or individuals often manage to preserve The buildings of great historic value, the power of eminent domain is needed to preserve others which should be saved. Carl Feiss, planning consultant of Washington, said some way must be found to weigh the historic values against other values in city planning. Robert D. Calkins, president of Brookings Institute, warned, during a dinner speech last night, of the “frightening possibility that Annapolis, with its unique character and values, will be engulfed in the square miles of metropolitan mediocrity that is reaching toward it” from the Baltimore and Washington "sprawl." Panel discussions continued today, aimed at distilling the thinking of the experts into concrete proposals which cities can put to work to preserve part of their past. 