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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-12-19
By IsobeIIe Shelton

If anybody remembers to say
''happy birthday" to little Cecilia
McGhee. who is one year OLD
today. it will be a minor miracle
Two weeks from tomorrow the
whole McGhee tribe-husband
George, wife "Cele," their five
children, nursemaid and a
housekeeper- secretary-will board
p plane for Ankara, Turkey, where
Mr.. McGhee will be the new
United States Ambassador.
Meanwhile. a sort of controlled
confusion reigns at the big Nc
Ghee residence on Kalorama road
presided over blithely by pretty
Mrs. McGhee.
Besides the little matter of
planning Christmas for five chill
dren complete with a big tree,
stockings hung in front of the
fireplace and all the trimmings
there is the problem of buying a
years supply of clothing for
everyone. IMMENSE quantities
Of drugs. and practically a gro
Gerry store full of canned goods
especially peanut butter and baby
food.
81 had to guess how much the
children would grow in the next
year." declared Mrs. McGhee. IF
guessed wrong about their shoes
they'll just have to 60 bare
footed"
She had great difficulty finding
summer clothes for the children,
she added. All the stores have
"cruise clothes for ladies'" she
said. But apparently the ladies
are expected to vacation without
their children. When I asked for
a child's size 10 bathing suit the
clerk looked as If she thought I
should have my head examined"
AS for those several cases" of
peanut butter that are going to
Turkey, Mrs. McGhee explained
that the children have been eat
ing 1t up at the rate of a jar
every other day. cit seems they
eat it almost in their Sleep" she
added. IT expect it will be our
biggest recorder item"
Needle Shy
The whole family also is re-
ceiving injections against every
known disease, including many we
probably never will run into" she
said. Every few nights the doctor
comes around with big needle
and the children all retreat under
the beds"
Mrs. McGhee was interviewed
In a guest bedroom, knee deep in
huge packing boxes. Stacks of
sheets. pillows, blankets, cosmetics
and children's clothing covered
the beds and dressers.
From time to time 4-year-old
Michael charged in to engage his
mother in mild wrestling match.
6even-year-old Dorothy made
periodic visits to exhibit pictures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-12-19
By Betty BeoIe

Checking into Washington to-
day is the man whom the British
say is the best living mimic of
Winston Churchill. He has the
necessary humor to do the job and
the required chubbiness. In fact
he tips the scales far in excess of
the Churchillian corpulence. He
reputedly weighs closer to 300 than
200 pounds.
He is a member of Parliament
and his name is Walter Fletcher,
q Conservative for the district of
Bury. He served in the Orient dur
ing the war during which time he
acquired a magnificent collection
of Chinese paintings which have
been exhibited in the library of
the House of Commons. He is
bringing them over now to loan
them to the Library of Congress
He'll go to New York on Friday
returning here after Christmas for
another visit. While in this
country he'll do a bit of lecturine
on Indo-C China.
Local Britishers are eager to
be on a party with him. Described
as o modern Falstaff. they say
he can rattle off Churchillian
anecdotes by the hour. Maj. Bill
Ormond of British Information
In New York says he gave a party
for him in the Big City last year
and people are still talking about
him. All this evolved out of the
Paul Gore-Booths' luncheon yes
terday for English actor Hugh
Grifith who plays the father In
the current play, Legend OF
Lovers" He portrayed the same
role in England when the play
was called 1.-THE Point Of Depar-
ture." An interesting dramatic
looking character. he stuck to q
4 humdrum job in a bank for years
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-12-19
Anne Hod|ey to Visit Here;
HoliduyPluns, Parties Noted

ofncial conferences. From there
they will go to Paris while the
Ambassador heads his country's
delegation to the meetings of the
United Nations Assembly. He will
attend the sessions during the
talks on Israeli affairs. They plan
to be back in Washington the end
'of January.
The newly arrived Israeli Minis
ter. Mr.. David Gotten, who
arrived a few days ago, will be
Charge d'Affaires during the
Ambassadors absence. The minis
ter came here from Cape Town
where he was his governments
first chief of mission.
PIons Lunch
The Austrian Ambassador, DR..
Ludwig Kleinwaechter, will be
host at luncheon Friday enter
tanning in honor of Mr.. Clarence
E. Meyer. chief of the Economic
Cooperation Administration in
Vienna. and Mr.. Ben H. Thi-
bodeaux, economic counselor of
the United States embassy in
Vienna, who are in Washington
for a short stay.
Former Assistant Secrtary of
Commerce and Mrs. Wayne Chat
eld-Taylor have gone to Panama
for the holidays and will not re-
turn to their Washington home
before the end of January. Their
son and daughter-in-law, Coast
Guard 1t. and Mrs. Richard
Chatf1eld-Taylor, are occupying
their house on Twenty second
street during their absence.
Mrs. William E. Borah has with
her in her apartment at 2101 Con-
necticut avenue her neice, Miss
Mary Louise Perine, who will be
with her through the holidays.
Miss Vera Bloom, daughter Of
the late Representative and Mrs.
Sol Bloom, again is in her apart
ment at 1900 Connecticut avenue
after week or ten days in her
New York City Home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-12-19
Exclusively Yours
An M. P. and ChurchWs Best Mimic Due in c. Today
CoptoLtes to Go Beer Hunting Houseporty Up North

ried as to whether or not you
might decide during the course
OF the evenings imbibing that
bears were chasing you.
However unlikely it all sounds,
a group Of local residents will
take of the end of next week for
five days Of bear hunting. Insti-
gators Of the idea are Marian and
Harry Frelinghuysen whose fam
lily have a camp in the Adiron-
dacks near Upper Lake which
isn't SO far from Lake Placid.
Never before in the family's his
tory has the camp been open be-
tween December / and April or
May but anything can happen
once. so the Frelinghuysens and
five friends will set out for long
week end houseparty in the cold,
wintry country. The five accom-
panying them are Avis and Tim
Marten Of the British Embassy,
the David Yerkes and George
Baker.
The whole story sounds fraught
with interest and pitfalls. Armed
with a fantastic amount of equip
ment, they will step from the
train at a place called American
Legion on Upper Lake and pile
onto sleigh drawn by huskies to
set out on the 12-mile trip to the
camp. That none of them has
ever said "mush" before has a
couple Of the travellers feeling a
little dubious.
The equipment they're taking
covers everything from shooting
small brown bear on snowshoes
(the huntsmen. not the bear wear
the shoes to fishing for lake
trout through a hole in the ice,
skiing, skating and slipping hot
or cold grog. If nobody gets shot
or broken up it will be a miracle,
says Marian cheerfully.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-12-19
By Kotharine N. Brooks

The Vice President and Mrs.
Alben w. Barley will be Joined
Saturday by the latter's daughter
Miss Anne Hadley who will ar
rive from her college studies in
New Orleans for the holidays. The
Vice President and Mrs. Barley
have planned no parties for the
young people.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sis
ter of the late Vice President
Charles Curtis. will leave to-
morrow for Providence to spend
Christmas and the holidays with
her niece, Mrs. Webster Knight
and Mr.. Knight.
Mrs. Gam had a two-day visit
last week from her great-nephew,
Maj. Curtis George. who was just
back from Korea. He has re-
turned to California where he is
on duty. His mother, Mrs. Charles
P. George. widow of Army Col
George. is with her son-in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
rison HUMPHREYS in Atlanta for
Christmas and the holidays. Both
Mrs. Knight and Mrs. George as
the Misses Curtis, daughters of
the then Senator and Mrs. Cur
tbs Of Kansas, were bellies in
Washington before their mar
riages.
Wilson's Honored
The Chief Justice and Mrs
Fred M. Vinson were the guests
in whose honor Mr.. and Mrs
Morris Cafritz entertained al
dinner last evening. The party
was small. less than two dozen al
the table. and including only one
Ambassador with the others drawn
from resident circles. Mr.. anc
Mrs. Cafritz invited about 2(
young people to join them after
dinner for dancing and cham.
lpagne.
Numerous other parties on the
social calendar last evening were
small and informal and among
those who were hosts were former
United States Ambassador anC
Mrs. George Angus Garrett who
had small group Of close friends
dining with them and remaining
to play bridge.
The Israeli Ambassador anc
Mrs. Abba Eban left yesterday
for short visit to Israel where
the former has been called fol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-12-19
Mr.. Werner Home

Mr.. Arthur A. Werner was
brought home to Washington
Friday from Cumberland, Md.
where he has been in Memorial
Hospital for the past two weeks
with pneumonia. He is recuperat-
ing in the Verners new George
town home.
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and years before deciding to chuck
! it all and go on the stage.
r X X 4
A very chic Betty Burton is
arriving on the Capital scene this
weekend and her numerous local
friends are getting ready to well
come her back after over two
years in Paris. She's coming on
the lie de France on her first
home leave since going to work
for ECA in Paris. She'll be here
until February 8 visiting her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Burton at their apartment at 2029
Connecticut avenue.
First party in her honor will
be Nancy and Tom Clagett's
buffet supper Sunday night when
they will reminisce about the
Paris soiree Betty held for the
Clagetts when the latter were
abroad last year. Other to-dos
being planned for her either by
family or friends are in a state
OF suspension pending her arrival
The following Saturday - the
29th-the Clagetts will take off
with bag, baggage and children
for Newport. Howard and Mary
Gushing, who lived here during
the war and were down for the
dancing class on the 9Th and a
week end with the Clagetts, have
invited them to come up for a
weeks stay and bring their chill
dren. The Cushings live in the
famous summer resort the year
around.
| II
OF all the plans you may have
dreamed up for New Years.
there's at least one, I'm sure. that
has never crossed your mind-i.e.,
bear hunting. Instead OF trying
to chase bears on the occasion of
he years most momentous cele-
Grafton. you have probably wor=
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-18
Rea|tor Membership Climbs
1902 for Total Of 45,6O3

With a membership totaling
As, 603 Realtors as of July 81. the
National Association of Real Es-
tate Boards has netted a gain of
Il ,092 members since the beginning
Iof 1851, according to a report from
IC. Armel Nutter. chairman of the
membership committee.
The District registered an in
crease of S per cent in member
ship with Virginia reporting a like
increase. California recorded the
largest numerical increase, 264,
Florida second with 157 and Texas
placed third with las during the
seven-month period.
Percentagewise, South Dakots
led the field in this country with
a IA per cent gain. Hawaii, how
ever, outdistanced it with an in.
crease of rs per cent, resulting ir
81 new members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-18
New Catholic Church
To Cost $4,000
In Building Permits

A new Catholic Church build
ing to cost $3.50, 900 was among the
projects authorized in building
permits issued during the week by
the Central Permit Bureau, Room
1903, District Building.
Application for a permit also was
made by the National Capital
Housing Authority for a previously
announced project for 348 fami-
ly units on a 30-acre site at Ala
bama avenue and Stanton road
Sc. The cost of the so two-story
apartments is $3,180,230. Another
permit application involves erec-
ton of a 100000 church building
for st. Constantine Church at Ais
Sixteenth street NV.
Among other construction per-
mits issued during the week were:
Louis Ginberg, owner. 1920 New York
T santmyers architect So to s erect one 10 j.
Murray zawatsky. owner zawatsky Con
Struction Co., Inc. builder; Edmund w
Dreyfuss. architect; to erect ten 2-story
brick and cinder-block dwellings, 4200-26
Livingston road S E, to cost $4,000.
Washington Building Realty Corp. own
ga sarten en- builder 6is Fifteenth Street NV;
to make alterations to restaurant. 1925
| G street NV. to cost $4,000.
| Edward W. Grimm, owner. 30S sixteenth
street NE; Chas. A. Pacchine Co., builder
1918 Quincy street NV; BENJAMIN P. FL
liott. architect; to erect one 2-story mason
ry dwelling, 1887 Northgate road NV, tx
Kathleen Merkle, owner, $40 Rhod'
Island avenue NE. Bahen CONSTRUCTION
Co, AIS Randolph street NV, builder
Bernard F. Locraft, architect to erect on
4-story cement asbestos on steel franz
bridge between buildings, 80S-S10 Rhod
Island avenue NE. 500 Charming plac
NE, to cost $4,000.
R H. Lyddan. owner. 1910 North Court
house road, Arlington. Va; builder no
selected; to erect one 2-story brick dwell
ing, 3101 Beech street NV. to cos
Most Rev. Patrick A. oBoyle. Arch
bishop of WASHINGTON owner; John Nc
Shain, Inc. builders; Frank Duane, archi
tect; to erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block church. 1855 Fourth street Sc. t
trinity College. owners; Otis Elevate
(See PERMITS, Page B-2)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-18
Group of Three New
RumbIers Features
Spacious Living

Three new brick ramblers at
5602-04-06 Pollard road in the
Springfield subdivision of Bethes-
da, Md, recently completed by F
Meade Bell, embody unusual fea-
lures and spaciousness for subur-
ban living.
Located opposite the Kenwoo6
Country Club, each rambler con-
tains an attractively colored patio
three fireplaces and an diversified
detached brick garage. The lots
average 10 feet by 113 feet.
Each house has three bedroom,
and two complete baths. There arr
also a full-sized living room, sepa.
rate dining room and a large
kitchen with dinette space. There
is ample attic storage space, &
basement with an eight-foot cell.
ing and furnace and laundry
equipment in a separate room.
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thousand dollars" by doing most
of the work himself.
THE brickwork alone would
have cost me $4,000, on the basis
of an estimate I obtained" he
said. Instead, by laying the brick
myself with the help of one
laborer, I did the job for $780,"
The Paisley house required three
years to build.
Richard J. Bennett, who bought
80 acres on Route 2, Herndon, Va,
has been working on his house
about two years. He figures it will
take him another six months to
put on the finishing touches.
William w. Lawrence is another
pilot who wanted some land to go
with the house he built. Mr.. Law
renee, whom other pilots say was
the first in this. area to build his
own place, has % acres at RID. 3,
Manassas, Va. He. started a five
room temporary house in 1914 and
finished it in 18 months. Not
satisfied to stop there, he also
built a barn, completing it last
spring in about a years time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-18

A new 1851 use coming map
of the District, the first since
1916. is being prepared for
publication, with expected
delivery late in October, &C
cording to Rufus S. Lusk, the
publisher.
Additional Importance is
attached to a use map at this
time, in view of the Districts
redevelopment and slum
clearance program.
Mr.. Lusk said the new map
will be ~ by 81 inches and
printed in II colors. 1t will
show all use zoning in the
city, public parks and other
public property. A new fea-
ture of the map, sixth in the
series, will be co-ordinates,
which will enable one to To-
cate any square with least
inconvenience. The base map
will be the new 1851 map to
be issued by the District
Highway Department.
Since the last edition Of the
use map in 1916, there have
been 1901 coming changes
affecting 801 squares, &C
cording to Mr.. LuSk.
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Soon he plans to go ahead with
larger house.
Even Bachelors Build.
w. P. CPeteD Snyder built a
two-bedroom house of redwood
frame having modern design.
But he found that his family had
outgrown it by the time he had
finished the project. He has sold
the house. located on OldeWood
drive. near Merrif1eld. Va, and
soon is going to move to a farm
near Gainesville. Va, where,
eventually, he hopes to build
another house with his own labor.
Even the bachelor pilots go in
for house building. Richard Ed
Wards-one of them-has COM
pleted a beach cottage on the
Chesapeake near Annapolis.
None of these men minimizes
the amount of work needed to
build your own house.
Sometimes it seems you'll
never get finished with the job"
said one. And that's the time
you need a lot of willpower to
keep you plugging along"
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New Zoninq Map

(See CONSTRUCTION, Pg. BIS,
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(See PERMITS, Page BID
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arduous labors of the part-time
farmer. or the back-breaking toll
of the one-man builder"
Then the letter writer, Mrs.
w. P. Snyder, who happened to be
the wife of another airline pilot
who had built his own home, listed
additional pilots who had become
one-man builders in the Washing
ton area.
No Previous Experience.
None of these men had any
previous building experience, but
I defy you to find anything anna
flourish about their work" she
wrote. Il don't know whether
to attribute it to the fact that
most pilots are, by nature, perfec-
tionists or to the probability that
pioneer blood still runs rampant
in American veins"
Well, that's how we happen to
be using a story and pictures this
week of additional self-built
homes.
Over period of weeks, we
visited most of the widely scat
tered homes these pilots built with
their own hands. Every one of
these houses was a creditable job.
Some were of masonry construc-
ton, and others were of frame.
Some were good-sized and others
were small. In every case, the
pilots and their wives were glowing
with a certain amount of modest
pride at the job they had been able
to do.
| And in every case, they figured
they had saved considerable
amount of money by handling the
job themselves.
why shouldn't we save?", one
asked. There's a lot of labor in
building a house, and if you can
handle the work you're bound to
save money"
Saved Several Thousands.
Ralph L. Paisley, who built a
six-room -and-bath home at 1915
Cedar lane, Sleepy Hollow, near
Seven Corners, Va, said he esti-
mated he saved quite few
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-18
Airline Pilots Prove Amateurs Can Build Attractive Lvabe Homes
Construction Of Area
Homes Falls 10 Lowest
For July Since 1916

New residential construction in
the Washington Metropolitan Area
dropped in July for the second
consecutive month.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
today the 1,470 dwelling
units started here last month
made up less than half the num-
Der put under construction dur
ing the same month year earlier
and marked the lowest level for
July since 1916.
The current decline was en-
tirely in single-family housing.
Work began on about 1900 new
homes, 20 per cent fewer than
in June. and nearly 20 per cent
fewer than in May, when home
building hit the years peak.
Building authorizations for fu-
ture one-family home construc-
ton declined rather sharply
throughout the Washington area,
except in Fairfax County. New
permit regulations in Fairfax, ef-
Ifective August /, resulted in a
large volume of authorizations at
the end of July for homes to be
built in future months. The gen.
eral decline in authorizations since
May, the bureau said, presages
: a relatively low volume of new
: home construction in the Metro
politan Area for the next few
months.
Estimates Suspended.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
also announced yesterday that a
: curtailment of funds allotted for
!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-18
Several in D. T.. Area
Show Pioneer Spirit
And Pocket Savings
By Robert J. Lewis
Reol Estate Editor of The Stor

Not long ago, the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards is
sued a warning to the public that
trying to build your own house is
a risky business.
There have been many tragic
cases resulting from inexperienced
but jealous persons attempting to
construct their own homes or act
as their own general contractor, +"
the association said.
In general, such advice is con-
sidered by most every one to be
sound. Yet there are exceptional
people who can build house for
themselves, do a good job, and get
a lot of satisfaction in the process.
as we'll as, perhaps, save some
money.
In the District area, quite a few
persons have built their own
homes since World War II ended.
The most notable group-example
that has come to The Stars at
tention, however, is the work
done by six or seven commercial
airline pilots living in the Wash
ington area.
Variety of Types.
Each of these men has either
completed a house of his own
largely by his own labor, or has
started to build such a house. The
type of house varies greatly, but
each one of the men has gone
ahead on his own with a pioneer
ing spirit that is rare in these
days.
One thing should be said at the
outset, however. And that is that
airline pilots ordinarily have lot
OF spare time on their hands be-
tween flights. They have plenty
OF consecutive time off from work
to use in any way they care to-
often several days at a stretch.
And, likewise important, they gen.
orally earn an above-average sal
airy that would permit them to
save a sufficient amount to go
ahead on a house without much
borrowing.
If you don't have a substantial
amount of cash, it is almost i'm
possible to build your own house.
The reason is, of course, that
financing institution doesn't relish
the idea of loaning money for
materials on your mere promise
that you will try to get a house
built that will stand as security
for the investment.
Log Cabin Watched.
The group of airline pilots came
to the attention of The Star
almost by accident. Several years
ago. some one told us that one
pilot was building a log cabin on
Seminary Hill, Alexandria. He
watched the job go ahead for al
most two years and then wrote an
illustrated story on it.
That pilot was Charles E. Beat
ley. The story about his cabin
appeared in The Star May 10,
this year. Shortly afterwards, we
received a letter
tits amazing to note" the let
ter said, what happens when we
Americans are given an abundance
of leisure time. We work.
Take pilots, for instance. While
they are gone from home as much
and probably more than most
men, they do have many free day
light hours. So what do they do?
BY the droves, they take up the
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Meeting The New
Year in Happiness
Continued from Page 100

Continued from Page 100
program, at first in cooperation
with the Jewish Agency and the
Israeli Government, later taking
over sole responsibility. Today, in
Malben's network of more than IS
institutions throughout the Holy
Land, some 1900 aged, i'll and
physically handicapped newcom-
ers are finding the haven of which
they had dreamed.
On this Rosh Hashonah, it is
not only the aged, like Noach and
David, who are celebrating the
beginning of the year SIP under
Malben-and j. D. C.--auspices.
For Malben is Mosad Meuchad
Ltipul Beolim Nechosholim-Or-
ganization for the Care of Handi-
capped Newcomers-and there
are many others for whom this
Rosh Hashonah is the fulfillment
of cherished dream.
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Vera Weizmann. wife Of Presi-
dent Chain Weizmann (center).
helps lay the corner stone of
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cultural center and library build
ing to be built in President Weiz-
mann's village in honor of his late
son Michael. who died in World
War II while serving with the
Royal Air Force. american Jew
ish Press Photol