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Evening star., 1955-06-29

Lexington for the Garden Club
of Virginia; Mrs. Frances Aylor
Of Berryville for the Virginia
Federation of Women's Clubs;
Mrs. Roland L. Hutchings Of
Arlington for the Virginia Fed
Grafton Of Garden Clubs. and
Mrs. Grafton Greenlaw Of Hart
wood for the Virginia Federation
of Home Demonstration Clubs.
Two Of the objectives Of the
Associated Clubs are the elimi-
nation Of billboards and heauti-
flying roadsides and the con-
serving Of natural resources In
Virginia.
Mrs. Warner Snider, of Lees
burg. is president Of the organi-
zation of some $4,000 women.
Evening star., 1955-06-29
Dolly to Expand
lin Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
June 20 R.-The Charlottes.
vile Daily Progress yesterday
announced a 100000 expansion
program for its publishing plant
Clark E. Lindsay. publisher
said the construction of new
editorial. advertising and bust
ness offices, along with enlarged
composing and mechanical de-
Ipartments. will be completed in
about nine months.
The work win begin IN about
two weeks. Mr.. Lindsay said
Demolition of two buildings
owned by the newspaper, ad-
Ijacent to the present plant, will
begin this week.
Evening star., 1955-06-29
Shift to Flexible Supports
On Crops to Begin Fridoy

Price floors for oats. rye,
barley. grain sorghums and soy
beans will drop Friday.
Supports for these crops drop
July /: Oats. from IS to 81 cents
a bushel; grain sorghums. $2.2S
to 1$1.78 a hundred pounds:
barley. $1.l5 to "a cents a bushel:
rye. SLAB to $1.1S a bushel, and
soybeans. 1924 to $2.04 a bushel
Evening star., 1955-06-29
Women to Direct
Roadside Drive of
Virginia Clubs

RICHMOND. June 20 R.-A
|five-member committee headed
by Mrs. Kenneth Matthews Of
Richmond has been appointed
to direct conservation activities
of the Associated Clubs of Vir-
ginia for Roadside Development.
Members Of the committee, be-
sides Mrs. Matthews. are the
conservation chairman Of. each
of the four charter organizations
of the Associated Clubs. They
are:
Mrs. William w. Pusey III of
Evening star., 1955-06-29

good. No other cola is % lively, 20
zesty. 80 completely flavorful. No
other cola i 20 much fun to drink.
This Fourth put re first on your
shopping list. And get good supply.
Evening star., 1955-06-29

Have sparkling Fourth. Have Royal
Crown Cola-and have your friends
over Just for the fun Of It. Everybody
win be delighted with RC. No other
cola is SO low in calories yet tastes 50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
IGiIIiIIund to Seek
|Grunt PTA Peace
After Strike Row

John B. Gillilland, president
Iof the District Congress Of
Parents and Teachers. said
today he will seek to get the
Grant School PTA to patch ur
a dispute involving two Of Its
officers.
Mr.. Gillilland said he plans to
advise PTA leaders to ask Mrs
Mary Bremen to retain her post
as president.
Mrs. Bremen and Mrs. Wilma
Mayner, Safety Committee chair
man and Executive Board men,
Der, submitted their resigna-
tons last week after a group OF
other parents had accused them
of seeking to undermine a
planned pupil walkout. The
walkout was called of after
school officials dropped plans tc
close the school in February.
Mr.. Gillilland pointed Out
today that under PTA bylaws
the designations can't be acted
upon except by the full member
ship, which has its next sched-
uled meeting December II.
Mrs. Bremen said today she
did not wish to comment pub
licly on the dispute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Parking Eased
In Bethesda

The Maryland State Roads
Commission today agreed to re-
move signs banning parking dur
ing evening rush hours on the
east side of Wisconsin avenue
! in the Bethesda business district.
Montgomery County Manager
Melvin L. Reese said the roads
agency notified him this morn
ing that the 2k2-hour parking
ban will be lifted Immediately
pending further study of Be-
thesda traffic congestion early
next year.
The signs. installed about a
month ago. prohibited parking
from 4 to $3.50 pm. on the north
bound side of Wisconsin avenue
between Bradley lane and East
West highway. However. park
ing meters on the avenue indi-
Gated parking was allowed from
g am. to 6 pm. The resulting
confusion caused police to can
eel many parking tickets placed
on cars during the special no.
parking hours.
The county manager stated he
had requested the roads commits
sion to cancel its parking ban
after Bethesda merchants on the
east side Of the avenue COM
planned. He said the traffic
study will be conducted jointly
by the county and the roads
commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05

A baby alpaca was born in the
Washington Zoo last night, one
Iof several new arrivals.
DR.. William Mann, director Of
the Zoo, said the baby hadn't
been named yet because 1t was
still too early to say what sex
! it is.
The Zoos herd Of alpacas pro-
duces an infant every year
or so.
! Perhaps best known as a pro-
Queer of soft wool for luxury
fabrics, the alpaca is native Of
South America. 1t is one Of
several species-the guanaco, the
vicuna an dthe llama-which are
related to the camel. All have
heavy fur coats and are priced
for their wool.
The Zoo also has been given
a pair of young capuchin monk
eys by Paul Hamlin Of Kingston
N. c. They are not the Zoos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
DISTRICT TOFOREGO
SAFETYCONFERENCE
BECAUSE OF $3.50

The District apparently
will forego its annual Indus
trial Safety Conference this
year unless someone pro-
duces the $3.50 nedeed to
cover its cost.
The conference, sponsored
jointly by the District Com
missioners, management and
labor. has been held each
year since 1851 in an effort
to help reduce the toll of
death and injuries in in
dustry.
Previous conferences have
cost $3.50. which covers ma
terials, printing and the like.
The item was requested in
the budget this year but was
cut out, according to Fred c.
Thomas, director of Indus
trial Safety for the District
Minimum Wage and Indus
trial Safety Board.
Unless the money is forth
coming from another source,
there cannot be a confer
ence. he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
ChorityNeed
lis Stressed

Charity has been lone of the
great. glories of the Catholic
Church for 1900 years." a ma
tionally-known social welfare
expert said here yesterday.
The Right Rev. Msgr. John j.
McC lafferty, new assistant to the
rector Of Catholic University and
former head of the National
Catholic School of Social Service
at the university. spoke before a
breakfast meeting Of the st Vim
cent de Paul Society in the May
flower Hotel following the So
ciety's annual mass in st. Mat
thew's Cathedral.
1.-THE true Christian" Msgr
Met lafferty said, must be in the
midst of the temporal order-at
the very center of its politics
economics, science and technol'
ogy. its planning and building
He must be in that center a.
lone who leavens and purifies."
Charity must be the basis O
the role every true Christian
plays In the social order, he en-
phasiZed. The society pledges 1t.
members to perform works o.
charity.
Msgr. McClafferty added that
charity acquires an even deeper
significance when we consider
that by practicing charity we are
fulfilling the will of God-doing
in our time and in our land what
Jesus Christ did in His day in
Palestine"
The Most Rev. Patrick A,
O'Boyle, Archbishop of Wash
ington, who also spoke at the
meeting. expressed his gratitude
to the members of the society
for the work they were doing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Awards Given 9
Radio Stations

Nine Washington-area radio
stations were commended today
for their part in Conelrad, the
Nations civil defense broad
casting network.
Federal Communications Com
mission Chairman George E.
Nice onnaughey presented awards
to officials of the area stations
and said similar awards will be
sent to more than 1900 stations
throughout the country.
Mr., McConnaughey said the
stations participating in Conel-
rad have invested more than 50
million voluntarily to "give the
Nation a system for broadcast
ing emergency information"
He explained that normal
transmission of radio signals
could provide an enemy with
navigational assistance and could
provide a homing method for
guided missiles" Conelrad was
developed to deny this aid"
The investment of money and
manpower made by the radio
stations was termed "a notable
contribution to our Defense" by
Mr.. McConnaughey.
Participating in the award
ceremony at FEC Offices in the
Post Office Building were Air
Force Maj. Gen. James E. Briggs,
assistant deputy chief of staff
for operations, and Emil w.
Reutzel. jr.. special assistant to
Civil Defense Administrator Val
Peterson.
Receiving tho certificates In
behalf of their stations were:
Fred Houwink. WMAL, John
Galloway. WARL. Carlton Smith,
WRC; Harold E. Shelters,
TWIST, Arthur Snowberger,
WOOK, Clyde Hunt. WTOP, La
mar Newcomb, WEAK. Carl L.
Lindberg. WPIK, and Ben
StrOiISe WWDC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Ride at Knifepoint Like
Film Thrill, Woman Says

A Georgetown woman, forced
to drive a young assailant
through Northwest Washington
Yesterday at knife-point. robbed
Of $11 and finally given a good
bye kiss by the youth, described
her experience today as like an
Alfred Hitchcock movie"
Miss Elizabeth B. Winspear,
40, of 1903 Twenty-f1rst street
NV, said the ride extended from
Georgetown to a point near
Cabin John. Md.
II tried to signal a motorcycle
policeman coming towards me.
l did. but he Just went right
on by me-" she said.
The youthful. crew-cut as
sailant forced his way into her
car at Thirty first and M streets
NV. yesterday afternoon. He
ordered her to drive him out
Canal road to Macarthur boule-
ward. threatening her with a
knife.
He looked a little wild-eyed
and seemed out of breath when
he got in the car" Miss Win
spear, an assistant editor of a de-
Tense transportation journal
said.
He didn't make threatening
remarks. just told me to keep on
moving"
Miss Winspear is a reserve
commander in the
Waves.
The youth said he was an
AWOL soldier from a camp in
Kentucky and was trying to get
to Boston to see his sick father.
After driving past Dalecarlia
Reservoir. the youth ordered her
to stop in the vicinity Of Cabin
John. He took the money from
her pocketbook, returned 81 to
her, kissed her lightly on the
lips and then fed into the
woods.
II didn't start to get panicky
until after he got out Of the car.
Miss Winspear said. She said
she started back to Georgetown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Notre Dome Group
Appoints Chairman

1t. Robert K. Gordon, jr.,
USN, has been appointed chair
man of the Universal Notre
Dame Communion observance to
be held Sunday at Holy Cross
College.
Sponsored by the Notre Dame
University Club of Washington,
the observance will feature a
mass and communion breakfast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Zoo Family Welcomes
Furry Little Alpaca

first capuchins but are expected
to attract crowds since they are
so young and playful. w.
DR. Mann said a pair of very
rare Emperor geese has just been
received from the 200 of Port
land, Ore. The Zoo has had
Emperors before, but these are
the first in some time. The EN-
Iperors are more colorful than
domestic ges. Thy liv in Alaska
and venture as far south as Ore
gon to breed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
BY G. o. HERNDON

Life for sightless children l.
like a perpetual game of blind
mans buff in which they must
catch and identify persons. OBJ
jects and ideas around them by
employing all senses but the
missing one.
A group of blind youngsters
are learning the game at an early
age in a small schoolhouse
cottage near Annandale-the
Northern Virginia Pre-Schoo,
for Blind Children-the only
school of it's kind in the Wash
ington Metropolitan Area ano
one of about a half dozen in the
same category in this country.
At the school, which is financed
by several Northern Virginia
Lions Clubs, blind children OF
pre-school age play and learn to-
gether in a typical nursery school
atmosphere.
Except when the children are
being introduced to the rudi-
ments Of the Braille alphabet
little special equipment is used
There are toy blocks, books. peg
boards. toys. a rocking horse. q
photograph and finger paints
Outside there are swings and q
two-seater merry-go-round.
Practice on Stairs
One special item of equipment
donated by local Lions Club
members. is a small stair plat
form. with three steps on either
side and banisters. The chill
.dren practice walking up and
down stairs on it. trying not Il
shuttle or clutch the banistel
with both hands.
Three teachers are employed
at the school from 8 am. to 12:4s
pm. in a rented cottage on the
grounds Of the Benjamin Acres
School for pre-school and pri.
mary grade children. An average
of eight boys and girls are in
regular five-day-a-week attend
Iance. The school is situated or
Route 236 between Annandale
and Fairfax.
Teachers of blind children face
special problems. These include
difficulties with speech, posture
and the problem of arousine
curiosity and incentive.
Some Sit in Silence
The blind youngsters otter
find it easier and safer just tc
sit. Some do not speak without
urging. Others. who have beer
protected too we'll from the
blackness around them, are de-
pendent on constant help. They
expect their whims to be graft
fled Immediately, and they are
likely to be extremely upset by
the slightest Illustrations.
During a recent, chilly morn
ing at the Annandale School. thu
Iteachers-Mrs. David Mosso
Mrs. Thomas M. Davis and Mrs
Carl D. Hall, the schools di'
rector-kept the children en-
gagged in a continuous round O.
activities.
Bobby. a 5-year-old. heard 1
teachers knock on the outside o
the schoolroom door. He wen
toward the sound but collidet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Trio Is Indicted Here
In $25O,OOO Fraud
70 Counts Filed
Against 2Men
And Woman

Three officers Of a Washington
home improvement company to-
day were indicted on charges Of
|defrauding scores of persons In
the lower income groups Of up
to a quarter Of a million dollars.
A grand jury today lodged 20
counts Of conspiracy, forgery,
false pretenses, violation Of
notary laws and interstate trans
portation Of false securities
against the following:
Sam Lieberman, 81, of the 10000
block Of Edgewood avenue, Silver
Spring, president of the Console
dated Engineering & Distributing
Co. Of America, Inc, at 400 H
street NE; Mrs. Louise Green, As,
of the $500 block Of Fourteenth
street NV, assistant treasurer
and notary public, and Myrvin c.
Clark. 40. of the 10000 block of
Proctor street. Silver Spring,
sales manager Of the company.
Assistant United States Attor-
|ney Alfred L. Hartman declared
that agents of the company
''mulcted scores of families in the
low-income group who did not
know what they were signing and
getting into" The total esti-
mated loss, he added, to these
families is about quarter of @
million dollars.
Inquiry Being Extended
The grand jury. which has
been investigating the case
since August, is still working to
tie up loose ends Of the alleged
fraud.
The panels indictment charges
the defendants with interesting
persons in home improvements,
the cost Of which sometimes ex-
ceeded the actual value of the
buildings. Mr.. Hartman de-
'clared that the compliments
would sign contracts for improve
ments and, without realizing
what they were doing, sign deeds
OF trust and promissory notes ex-
ecuted in blanks with no amounts
or dates on them.
He declared the contracts
called for no payments until the
work was done, but that the
notes were filled in often before
work was started. Mr.. Hartman
said that the notes were then
sold to private individuals, banks
and building and loan associa-
tons in the District and Mary.
land.
CompIainants Not Informed
. The documents, he said. were
notarized by Mrs. Green, but the
compliments say they were not
only absent but knew nothing
about it. Often. the prosecutor
said. the notes called for paw
ments in so to 80 days and the
complalnants faced loss Of their
homes.
The Indictment charges that
as part Of the conspiracy the de-
PENDANTS even recorded the false
deeds OF trust with the office of
the Recorder of Deeds here and
among the land records of
Montgomery and Prince Gee = es
Counties as security for the loan
corporations which purchased
the notes.
Specifically. Lieberman is
charged with one count of con-
spiracy, two counts of forgery
and two counts of false pretenses.
Clark is charged with one count
OF conspiracy, six counts of for.
gerry and six counts of false pre-
lenses. Mrs. Green is charged
with one count of conspiracy,
eight counts of violating the
notary laws and four counts of
transporting false securities over
a State line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Pack Gift Boxes

Members II Su Zu Court No.
IL, Of the Ladies Oriental Shrine
of North America, will meet
from 2 to s pm. Sunday in the
Masonic Temple in Silver Spring
to pack Christmas gift boxes for
children confined in Shriners
h ospitals in Philadelphia.
Shreveport. La. and Greenville.
N. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Tanker to Be Built
At Spurrows Point

The Maritime Administration
said yesterday it has approved
a proposal by j. M. Carras. Inc,
Of New York to build a new
American Flag tanker at Balti-
more.
The announcement said the
new tanker would be built by
Bethlehem Sparrows Point ship
yard. at Baltimore. at an esti-
mated cost Of SIS million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
THE CONCERT HALL, built

The CONCERT HALL, built
within the Library, was the
first structure ever donated to
the United States Govern
ment. 1t was built in 1925
with funds from the Eliza
beth sprague Coolidge Foun-
dalton, which also sponsors
the concerts. Technicians
say it is acoustically perfect
for chamber music.
One result of all this inter-
est in tickets is that the peo-
pie who come form a perfect
audience. There is no cough
ing, whispering or rustling.
They come to hear music, not
to be seen.
Even the Library staff has
trouble getting tickets" Mr..
Spivacke says. Il average
ebout once in three years sit
ting in the audience myself.
For the rest, I'm backstage.
II wish people would begin
TO think of these more as ra-
Clio concerts" he adds visit
fully.
Whenever we have a con-
cert, almost the whole Ii
brary staff prays for snow.
Or at least, a heavy rain.
Then they might have a
chance at a few vacant seats. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05

and saw an Aqueduct Police
cruiser near the Reservoir.
Pvts. Cesare DiBenedetto and
Albert E. Gill, jr., were in the
cruiser. They reported the Incl
dent to the FBI. Montgomery
County and Metropolitan police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
OES to Install

The Federal chapter of the
Order of Eastern Star will in
stall officers at 8 pm. Thursday
in the Masonic Temple, Thir-
tenth street and New York ave-
nue. NV. Mrs. Barbara FUR
will become matron and Mrs.
Carrie Belle Bryant associate
matron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05

THE LINE FORMS each
Monday morning long before
the doing out of the tickets
begins at 8 am, and at the
appointed hour hundreds of
Washington residents pick up
their home or Office telephones
to try to get through to the
box Office.
Within an hour or two,
about all that is heard on the
telephones or at the box office
IS the .repetitious Sorry :"
The next technique for the
hopefuls is to call during the
week on the chance that
someone will cancel his
tickets. And, as a last resort,
they show up Friday night
and stand in line once more
outside the concert hall at the
Library's main building, hop
Ing someone won't show up.
When concert time rolls
around, each of the Sill per-
manent seats and the 26 fold
ing chairs set up. at the back
is filled. Any overflow is
shunted to a nearby audito-
rum, where they can hear
over a loudspeaker system
but can't see the musicians.
Before the Library began
broadcasting the fall, winter
and spring concerts over sta
ton WGMS eight years ago,
the demand for seats was even
more insistent.
Most of the ticket distribu-
ton headache falls on Harold
Spivacke, chief of the LII
brary'S music division.
We've tried every system
known to man to see that
they're passed out fairly, and
to keep down complaints" he
Gays.
1--WE used to. give the tickets
away. But We found that
when they were free, some
: people took them and didn't
show up. Now that we
charge a 25-cent fee, nearly
everybody who takes tickets
shows up. But the 25-cent
service charge doesn't even
begin to cover the distribution
cost.
"Once we had a mail order
system. We would send out an
announcement of upcoming
concerts, and the people
would mail back requests for
reservations.
I'VE found we were getting
- many as 800 special deliv-
cry letters at one time request
ing tickets. The majority
wanted two tickets.
ut got to be like a lottery.
AL we could do was dip into
the mail sacks and pick out
500 at random"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Medical Center Speaker

DR.. Christopher H. Andrews,
deputy director Of the National
Institute for Medical Research,
London. will speak on THE
Evaluation OF Viruses" at 4 pm
tomorrow at the National Naval
Medical Center. Bethesda. Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
Vespers Service

The Luther Place Memorial
Church will hold its Advent YES
pers service at 8 pm, Wednes-
day, in the parish hall. Four
tenth and N streets NV. A fell
lowship supper will be held at
$50 pm,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

Vegetable Growers Asso-
citation opens a four-day
convention at the Sheraton
Park Hotel. About 800 dele
gates are expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-05
The
Rambler
A Concert Nobody
Gets Dragged To
By JACK JONAS

BY the time this gets into
print. some 500 lucky people
will have concert tickets for
which several thousand other
people would give their eye
teeth.
This is true even though
distribution of the tickets
started only a few hours ago,
and the concert isn't until Fri
day. And by now, disgruntled
music lovers are calling the
Library of Congress to COM
plain they didn't get tickets.
1t almost always happens
that way for the Friday night
chamber music concerts put
on by the Library.
The concerts have been a
Washington institution for 80
years.