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Evening star., 1954-09-29
Capital Transit Says
Parking Compromise
Slows Streefcars

Capital Transit Co., seeking an
all-day parking ban on parking
along three of it's downtown
streetcar routes, has charged
that compromise limitations
have slowed down streetcars
rather than speeding them up.
Figures to support such a
charge were given yesterday to
Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
District Engineer Commissioner.
He turned them over to Traffic
Director George E. Keneipp for
study and promised the company
an answer by next week.
Pressed for details of it's sur
vey, Capital Transit Co. released
the report and charged that
running times had increased on
all three routes.
Routes Are Listed.
These are on F street NV.
between Ninth and Fourteenth
streets: on G street NV. be-
tween Fifth and Fifteenth
streets; and on Seventh street
NV. between Market Space
and Rhode Island avenue.
Limited restrictions were i'm
posed some time ago when Capt.
tai Transit made a previous re-
quest for an all day ban on
parking along the routes. These
included elimination of some
parking spaces and an increase
in the size of bus loading zones
to avoid double parking by buses.
Showdown Charged.
The company. renewing its
request for at least a trial of
its proposal to ban parking on
the routes entirely between Z
a m. and $50 pm, charged
that the installation of ALFRED
walk signs at several intersec-
tions had also slowed down the
street cars
The company has been prom
lsed a decision within a week by
Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
District Engineer Commissioner.
The promise was made yester-
day as company officials deliv-
cred to Gen. Prentiss a report
on traffic conditions along the
routes involved. The Commits
sioner ordered the report studied
by Traffic Director George E.
Keneipp.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
| Know Your Policemen
Know Your Policemen
Pen Is Mightier Than Crime,
Artist at Rookie School Finds

You don't have to be an artist
to be policeman, but in Pvt.
Vyrl R. Couperthwaite's case. it
helps.
The 39-year-old Purple Heart
veteran of World War II is, a
technician-ar illustrator. He
is attached to the police rookie
school to serve up illustrations
that save instructors thousands
Of words.
He has done illustrations from
descriptions which have helped
solve one murder and a bank
robbery; he has designed the in
sigma for the police riot squad
and Civil Defense. ~
Twice-wounded in European
fighting, Mr.. Couperthwaite
joined the force in November,
1945, worked himself up to the
top rank in the private clas-
sification and then resigned in
May, 1949, to go into the art
business.
He gave up private enterprise
and came back to the depart
ment in September, 1949, as a
Glass I private and has again
reached the top, Glass 4 rank.
A native of. Wimber, Pa, he
lives at 5901 Thirty-fourth ave-
nue., Hyattsville, Md, with his
Evening star., 1954-09-29

don't remember seeing before, u
DR.. Mann said.
The ZOO boss said he couldn I
estimate the shipments value
because many of it's creatures
cannot be purchased. He traded
for them. His bartering stock in
cludes one of his "gumdrops :"
the pigmy hippos he speclalizes
in breeding.
The Australian cargo came
from Sidney's Tarongo Zoo. DR.
Mann dickered with Sir Edward
Halstrom, Tarongo's trust fund
president.
Sir Edward is famed in 700
circles for his philanthropy Once
he gave a rhinoceros to a zoo
that had no house for it. So
then he gave the zoo a building
I've been trying" DR.. Mann
said wryly. ito get him to move
to Silver Spring"
Evening star., 1954-09-29

nice-sized fryer, and practically
all mouth.
Among the rarest birds are two
red-tailed, black cockatoos. Only
one or two other ZOOS in the
country have them.
DR.. Mann had a black cocka-
too before.
The kangaroos received today
included four black striped wal
labies, two rat kangaroos. two
swamp wallabies they dwell
in marshlands - two red-necked
wallabies and two Agile wallabies.
The zoo already has one Agile
wallabie. the others were not
represented here.
Today's birds also numbered
four crimson rosellas (cocka-
toos), four magpies, a wedge
tailed eagle. four rainbow lori
keets-parakeet-types which 81
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Phone Workers Distribute
HandbiIIs on Strike Issues

Telephone workers who have
voted to strike unless they get
pay raises, passed out handbills
in front of two telephone COM
pany offices today.
Union officials said the dem
onstration was not work stop
page, but was intended to take
the workers case to the public.
Three locals of the CIO Com
munications Workers of Amer
ica have voted approval of a
strike if the unions executive
board agrees. A contract cover
ing about 1000 workers expired
September 20.
The handbills were passed out
in front of telephone headquar-
ters, 725 Thirteenth street NV. :,
and the Office in the 900 block of
G street NV.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Two Housing Experts
Sign Up 10 Draft D. {.
Anti-SIum Program
Star STAFF Photo by Gene Abbott.

The two housing experts in
vited to draw up Washington's
concentrated program for at
tacking slums have signed a
formal contract for the job, it
was learned today.
The experts are Nathaniel S.
Keith, former slum clearance
and redevelopment director of
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency. and James w. Rouse,
Baltimore mortgage banker. who
helped write the administration
new housing program.
Mr.. Keith said he signed the
contract yesterday and sent it to
Mr.. Rouse in Baltimore. It
should be returned to the Dis
trict Building by tomorrow, he
said.
The contract calls for sub
mission of final report to the
District by December 81 and
carries a $4,000 fee. The report
will form the basis of work
able program" as required by
the new housing act, for clear
ing slums and halting deteri-
grafton in all parts of the city.
Commissioners to Act.
The contract must be ratified
by the Commissioners before it
becomes official. They are ex-
pected to approve it quickly.
Col. Giles L. Evans, jr., Assis-
tant Engineer Commissioner, re-
ported at a meeting of the Dis
trict Slum Prevention and Re-
habilitation Committee yesterday
that a considerable amount of
study material already has been
turned over to the consultants.
The material consists of a
preliminary draft of a city
housing code, city development
plans of the National Capital
Planning Commission and build
ing and inspection codes.
Housing Estimate Asked.
/ In other developments at the
meeting of the committee,
headed by Col. Evans:
/. James Ring, director of the
National Capital Housing Au-
thority, urged the Commission
ers to help determine the num-
ber of new public housing units
the city needs and then actively
support a drive to get them.
He said the study of needs should
be made before his agency re-
quests a share of the $4,000
units Congress authorized for
neV year.
! 2. Malcolm Burrows, Rede-
velopment Land Agency assistant
director. said his agency in
tends within two months. to
submit a request to HHFA for
money to plan slum attacks in
the second precinct area of
Northwest Washington.
3. Col. Evans said he will call
an organizational meeting soon
for the new Condemnation and
Review Board. Vhe board was
set up Monday to hear appeals
from rulings of the Board for the
Condemnation of Insanitary
Buildings, also reconstructed
with new and broader powers.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
100 Set 10 Oppose
Commercial zoninu
In Chevy Chase Area

More than 100 residents OF
Section 5, Chevy Chase, will be
on hand at zoning session OF
the Montgomery County Council
tomorrow to register their pro-
tests against proposed CONNER
cial zoning in their midst.
The county council, at a hear
ing in the Bethesda Elementary
School at 8 pm, will consider
a request for local commercial
zoning by the owners of the
Brook Farm Restaurant, at
Brookville road and Taylor
street, Chevy Chase. The restau-
rant is zoned residential as pres
ent.
Officers of the Citizens Com
mittee of Section are circulat-
ing petitions of protest in the
area and have employed a
lawyer, Mrs. Kathryn j. Lawlor,
a delegate to the Maryland Gen
eral Assembly, to present their
case.
Mrs. Lawlor said the restaurant
has operated as a nonconform-
ing use of residential land be-
cause it existed prior to the
enactment of area zoning. She
said rezoning of the 1.3-acre
restaurant site would be the
beginning of strip zoning" in
the community. She said the
restaurant, formerly a teahouse,
seeks the commercial status in
order to build an addition. Oncs
commercial zoning is granted,
however, she said the restaurant
could be sold and anything from
bank to a fish market" could
be put in its place.
To the south of the restaurant
property, the attorney said, a
commercial strip on Brookville
road permits the operation of
several stores. She said residents
from nearby Martins Addition
will also oppose the zoning re-
quest at the hearing.
r. Duncan Clark, attorney for
the restaurant owners, said COM
mercial zoning will enable struc-
tural changes that will reduce
the fire hazard in the restaurant
He explained the applicants plan
is to move their kitchen from
it's present inconvenient location
in the basement and to adjust
the dining room area by adding
a terrace, dining room. He said
off-street parking also will be
provided.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Lawrence Dismisses
Hearings for IS in
Police Bribery Case

United States Commissioner
Cyril S. Lawrence today dis
missed preliminary hearings for
Is defendants in the police
gambling bribe case at the re-
quest of the Government.
All Is persons have been in
dicted since the preliminary
hearings first were called on
September Is and postponed
until today.
Five of the defendants and
their attorneys appeared for
today's hearing. Among them
were Capt. John B. Monroe and
Detective George c. Prather,
the two policemen charged in
the case.
Defense attorneys, who had
put up a strong plea for an i'm
mediate preliminary hearing,
reiterated today a charge that
the Government had asked for
a postponement in order to push
through indictments before the
grand jury.
Attorney William r. Lichten-
berg said it was apparent that
the Government has pulled a
fast one" Attorney William
Bryant sarcastically suggested
the removal from the statutes
of that nauseating language
that defendants should have a
right to a preliminary hearing. -
Commissioner Lawrence, in
approving the Governments dis
missal motion, said he feels all
defendants are entitled to pre-
liminary hearings, but that in
this case the grand jury, which
also has a right to proceed as
it wishes, already had indicted
the defendants.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Mr.. and Mrs. Cupid
Find Numesoke
Is Just a Myth

Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Cupid
apparently aren't living up to
the reputation of their mytho-
logical namesake.
Mrs. Cupid yesterday filed
suit in the U. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia charging
her husband with failing to pro-
vide adequate maintenance for
her and a 15-year-old son.
The plaintiff formerly lived at
1929 Alabama avenue Sc. The
suit identified Mr.. Cupid as an
employe of the Bureau of En-
craving.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Burned Mechanics
Condition Satisfactory

Norman R. Headley. 46, of
1901 Connecticut avenue NV.
admitted to Emergency Hospital
yesterday with burns of the face,
neck and hands, was in satisfac-
tory condition today, hospital
attendants reported.
Mr.. Headley, a gas station
manager, was burned when a
car he was servicing backfired
and ignited gasoline with which
he was priming the carburetor
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Snack Bur Burns
In Revenue BuiIdino

Fire Department officials were
checking today to determine the
cause of stubborn blaze that
broke out last night in the snack
bar of the Eleventh street side
of the Internal Revenue build
ing.
Deputy Chief j. w. Kay said
electrical equipment and a food
counter were damaged by the
smouldering fire which resisted
frefighters' efforts for nearly an
hour. He said unusually heavy
smoke hampered his men.
Evening star., 1954-09-29

revision where necessary. The
report said new spaces should
be provided by private enter
prise to the extent practicable. ~
2. More intensive efforts to
"acquaint the public with the ad-
vantages" of bus and streetcar
travel to relieve congestion.
3. Some form of auto inspec-
ton in Maryland. The District
inspects cars annually and Vir-
ginia every six months. Mary
land has inspection system.
4. More extensive legislation to
protect highways from roadside
development that endangers
travel.
Evening star., 1954-09-29

wife and two sons. 6 years and
z months old.
Aside from his visual educa-
ton" art work for the depart
ment. Mr.. Couperthwaite is toy
ing with a comic strip idea
which, with approval of Chief
Robert V. Murray, he hopes to
syndicate.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
Fund Crisis 10 Cut
Services Of District
Alcoholic Clinic

The Districts Alcoholic Clinic
faces drastic curtailment of its
operations by the end of October
because of financial problems,
the Public Health Advisory Com
mittee was told yesterday.
DR.. Anthony Zappala, head of
the clinic, has recommended to
the Commissioners that the pres
ent allotment of 6 per cent of the
liquor license revenue supporting
the work be raised back to 10
per cent, as originally fixed.
The clinic. at 1927 M street
NV. has been operating both
day and night, but because of
insufficient funds, the night
hours will have to be cut out
and the daytime sessions con-
fined to appointments.
Health Director Daniel Seek
niger told the advisory commit
tee the very successful" pro-
gram will have to be cut down
to operate within the $4,000 a
year provided by the 6 per cent
allotment.
Fund Backlog Used.
DR.. Zappala, who was not pres
ent at the meeting, explained that
the clinic had had $12O,O00 a
year with which to work be-
cause of a backlog of funds &C
cumulated between 1947 when
the program was authorized, and
1850, when it got started.
The financial problem arises
now, he said, because the clinics
income does not arrive until De-
cember from the license fees.
The payroll must be cut drasti-
cally, DR.. zappala said, and the
principal loss will be in the work
with court cases, for which the
clinic has been providing both
confinement at Occoquan Work.
house and treatment. The work
in the community at large also
will have to be cut, he said.
The clinic has been providing
treatment for more than 800
patients year, he noted.
The public health advisory
group also discussed the proposed
transfer of vocational rehabili-
tation functions from the super
vision of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
to the District government.
Experience Cited.
DR.. Seckinger pointed out that
the Health Department had Of
fered to include the function in
its services. He pointed out that
the department has a good deal
of experience in the field through
its various programs.
An act of Congress last Au-
gust orders the service trans
ferred from the Federal depart
ment to the District govern
ment by November 3.
Besides the suggestion of in
clusion under the Health De-
partment, it has been proposed
that the service be established
as a separate agency directly
responsible to the Commission
erS.
Proponents of this suggestion
maintain that vocational re-
Mobilization involves educational
and welfare aspects, as we'll as
the medical problems. The ques-
tion has been raised in this con-
nection, however. as to whether
such an independent agency
would not have a health COM
ponent which would duplicate
services already going on.
The Rehabilitation Service has
been spending up to 100000 a
year-S125 600 from the District
Evening star., 1954-09-29
NorreII Still HospituIized

Representative Norrell, Demo-
crat, of Arkansas, admitted to
Walter Reed Hospital nine days
ago after suffering a slight
stroke, was reported in satisfac-
tory condition at the hospital
today.
Evening star., 1954-09-29
ENFORCEMENT.
Chairman, Deputy Police
Chief J. j. Agnew.

l. All police departments of
the area that do not use radar
ARE urged to employ this new
media :. in order to curtail
speed violations. Radar is
being used in Virginia and Mary
land.
2. A method is needed to as
sure the return of traffic viola
tors from one jurisdiction to the
jurisdiction where the offense
was committed.
3. Each Jurisdiction should
seek a more uniform handling
of traffic cases before their
tribunals"
TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENT.
Chairman, j. N. Robertson,
District Highway Director.
l. A review in each jurisdic-
tlon OF regulations providing for
oH-street parking facilities and
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So this makes me lucky? Smart?
Snug?
Not on your life. married a
smart women. She's hardly fault
less, thank God, but she's per-
sistent when it comes to proper
food. Diet. Balanced meals.
Old words, old advice. People
get tired of old advice. They
want their cake and teeth, too.
They want magic. Fluoride isn't
magic. It's poison But l di-
gress.
The Principle. Some folks are
lazy, let's face it. Too lazy to eat
right. Expensive? It's cheaper
to eat right. I'll bring our budget.
So ! should gobble poison because
people don't give a damn? Nv
anger not only ruffleS me, it dis
integrates me.
Another woman in my life has
made me fortunate. My mother.
Somehow, with county relief hand
outs and a six-foot garden and a
neighbours COW, / got my vitamins.
The world doesn't need fluorides.
We need common sense. The
fanatics and "crackpOtS" are on
both sides of the fence, sir. If
companies make money selling
pure" water, why can't they
make money selling poisoned"
water?
People don't want fluoridation-
they want magic.
That's the principle. sir. l pre-
fer common sense, and honesty.
You say, Mr.. Cobb, you have seen
no valid argument against fluorid-
alton.
The principle is enough.
Eskimoes do okay without
fluorides-until they overdO on
sugar, sweets, and proceSsed foods.
Remind me to bring up my war
years, boy. Four years in the
arctic, no fresh vegetables. no
fresh milk, boat supplies once a
year. l was down to eating raw
reindeer meat
No dental carries in my head.
I'm still thawing out, of course.
But returning to enforced fluorid-
alton isn't my idea of freedom!
1t smells of dictatorship by band
wagon dO-gooders and Oyerzealous
professionals.
And this is just skimming The
Principle. This paper couldn't
carry the copy if l got onto the
subject of children's teeth.
BY the way, that has something
to do with fluoridation, doesn't it?
H. V. B.
P. o. Box SAP
Key West, Fla.
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BY Bill Glib

companies. Of course, there is al
ways q commercial angle to such
cooperation but this does not de-
tract from the value of the pro-
gram to the community.
Toby Bruce, of the above men,
toned company, is hitting the sub
ject Of Fire Prevention in the way
which l think reaches into homes
speedily through the children.
He's giving away free fire helmets,
raincoats, etc. It is, a novel idea
- one that you see quite often in
large cities but very seldom in Key
West.
Sissbse Park
The other day l mentioned that
a friend had been rather abrupt
in a conversation revolving around
Sigsbee Park and the danger OF
hurricanes. Evidently, I've had Sc
vcral people insult me and I've
been so blind that I didn't know
l was being insulted. At least, that
! is the only way l can explain the
questioners who have asked me Il
was referring to them!
Let me say now that only the
person concerned knows of whom
l was talking. My only object in
writing that column was to inform
this person quietly Of my feel
ings. I wouldn't have dared do this
if he wasn't close enough to me
to accept the criticism in the spirit
in which it was written.
The question of whether Sissbee
Park is dangerous during a hurri.
cane is one to be decided by ex.
perts. I understand that the mat
ter is under advisement. There Ii
no reason for residents in Sgsbee
to become frightened. Most of the
people are Navy personnel and you
can rest assured that the Navy al
ways takes care of its own.
I brought the subject up in 9
column because. felt that the time
to discuss hazardous conditions wal
before q storm not afterwards
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pert, is hopeful the mathematical
method some day can be used in
the long-range prediction field.
Cup to this time" he said, 1--WE
haven't been able to formulate our
problem sufficiently mathematical
ly to tell the machine what to do.
We don't know enough about the
equations necessary"
Namias pushed his forecasts
ahead as much as 80 days. He
hopes ultimately to make a re-
liable day-to-day forecast 80 days
in advance-and to push the gen.
eral forecasts out to cover an en-
tire season.
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Ne.s Ei.,a OF Foreca.ting
Robot May Take Over To Aid Weather Man

ers are hopeful that as experience
is gained more and more COM
pick models of the weather can
be fed into the machine to pro-
duce better and better forecasts
for Interpretation by meteorolog-
lists.
I'VE hope that very bad fore
casts will decrease" Gresham
said, "while there will be an in
crease in efficiency. In five years
we'll be doing 4 lot better than
we are now"
Jerome Namias, the Weather
Bureaus long-range prediction ex-
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Five DieIn
Auto Crash

CORISCANA, Tex. R-Five per-
sons died in a car collision five
miles south of here yesterday.
The victims were G. W. Melton,
81. and Thomas Edward Carroll,
SO. both of Corsicana; and Myrtle
Carter Fite, 3S, Ruth Wadley, IS,
and Charley Mae Wadley 10
months. all of Dallas. Doris Ham
mond, 81. of Dallas was critically
hurt.
Melton and Carroll were in a car
going north and others in one head
ing south.
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ment in the air that we breathe,
but 1t is the most important.
Every cell in the body must
have a constant supply of it and
must be able to use it If the
health of the cell is to be MAIN
tanned. The oxygen so constant
ly needed to sustain life and
maintain health is carried by
the blood from the lungs to
every body cell.
Thus it will be readily seen
that four things are necessary
if the body is to make the most
of this vital element:
1. A continuous supply Of fresh
air;
2. Proper breathing;
3. Good circulation of the
blood;
4. Ability of the body cells to
make good use Of oxygen.
To maintain a constant sup
ply of fresh air-that is, to have
good ventilation - during both
sleeping and waking hours is
important. This is not always
simple. The construction of
houses, arrangement of rooms
and location of windows do not
always contribute to good VEN
tilation. But usually q way can
be found to get fresh air, if not
constantly, then at least by
opening the windows at intervals
during the day and keeping
them open at night.
To breathe properly the body
must be erect, whether In q
standing, walking or sitting pos
ture. If the body is allowed TO
slump, the lungs are cramped
so that they cannot fully expand
and the muscles that control
breathing are hampered in their
movements. A slumping posture
also interferes with the work Of
the nerves that control the &C
ton of the muscles and lungs.
To maintain good circulation
some physical exercise or work
IS necessary. Exercising OF
walking in the open air has the
double advantage of providing
a good supply of oxygen and
improving the circulation of the
blood.
The ability of the body cells
TO make use of the oxygen car.
RED to them by the blood, car
De measured by a basal metabo.
ism test. Only a doctor, Of
course, can make such a test
or advise whether a person
should have it.
Deep breathing and posture
correction will bring abundant
health.
This article is published to
interest you in better health by
DR.. Murray. Radin, Chiropractie
Physician, 81 White Street.
Phone 2-56l9.