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Evening star., 1955-02-23
George Washington Parkway

We have heard a lou ABOUT the OlS"
advantages of using Rock Creek as part
of the southeast leg of Route 240. 1t
is desired to point out that the metro
politan approach to the southwest leg.
along another waterway, is destructive
not only of natural and recreational
values, but historical as well, in that
the river route on the George Wash
ingtpn Memorial Parkway. connecting
with the southwest leg at Seven Locks
road, invades the right Of way OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for con-
siderable distance.
The location and use of this parkway
seem far afield from the spirit OF the
Capper- -Cramton Act of 1880 which
authorized it. At that time. it was
planned to follow Potomac Avenue and
Conduit road Macarthur boulevard
to Great Falls "along the top Of the
bluff overlooking the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal. Above Washington the
parkway will utilize the Conduit 1oad,
which commands many fine views OF
the rugged scenery Of the upper Poto-
mac Valley" The route was changed
when Army Engineers objected to the
danger to the conduit.
According to the 1899 layout Of the
NCPC, the parkway will include Po-
tomac avenue and will extend along
side the canal from Chain Bridge to
Rrookmont at Glen Echo and along the
model testing basin. and wind up the
hill and be near the top OF the blum
in between, and above Old Anglers Inn
It will be north Of the conduit.
The parkway will seriously interfere
with local recreational activities. Az
the Great Falls end, the right OF way
is wide and there is lots Of room. Above
Chain Bridge, however, nearest ana
most convenient to the District. the
park is narrow and the towpath and
the path on the BERN side are the
most-used portions. Here the steep
palisades require that the parkway be
alongside the canal. The damage to
recreational values will be particularly
severe at Brookmont Gock No. 81,
where the parkway will cut through the
picnic grounds and where the lock-
house now stands. The National Cap
ital Parks and Audubon Society natu-
ralists, will be handicapped in their f1eld
trips, the towpath and adjacent terri
tory being favorite exploring grounds.
In their trips for young people, the
responsibility of shepherding several
groups of children across busy park
Evening star., 1955-02-23
By Charles E. TroceweH

The old way of holding the hat
in the hand in an elevator had It's
good points, no doubt, but when they
are as crowded as they are today, 1t
is Just plain silly to add to the diffl-
culties by taking up room with hat
On the head, Jones says. mans hat
is out of the way.
To sleep or not to sleep
That is the question, when an honest
citizens consciousness is good and still
he cannot knit up his sleeve.
He lies awake, thinking about
All, there's the rub
Take it from Jones, just don't think.
Most persons should have no diff
Guilty in the matter, he says; all one has
to do is make the mind blank. How?
BY thinking blank Emerson said,
"The thoughts of turtle are all
turtle" Templeton Jones says the
thoughts that worry and tend to keep
one awake have little or nothing to do
with the now-famous subconscious or
unconscious mind, which is trying its
best to carry on the vegetative life.
Thinking consciously is not part OF its
living. and the sleepy person who wants
to sleep must slip the last cog OF mature
thinking, and become as a child again,
just for the night. Children don't
think, do they; or. IL they do, they,
don't think very much. do they, or don't
they2
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Senator Morse: Democrat

Wayne Morse, Oregons Republican,
Independent-Democratic Senator, has done
the right thing in switching his registration.
In formally transferring his allegiance,
Mr.. Morse has given the Democrats clear
majority in the Senate. And he has been
welcomed with cheers and open arms by the
party faithful, who think that Senator
Morse's support last November Of Richard
Neuberger produced the victory without
which the Democrats could not have con-
trolled the Senate.
There is one thing, however, which
should be kept in mind. Senator Morse was
elected from Oregon in 1850 as Republi-
can: In 1852, he announced that he was
Evening star., 1955-02-23
CONGRESS Not AIwuys Slow

AS read of the quick passing Of the
Congressional salary bill by the House.
I am impressed by the remarkable
celerity with which this item of busi-
ness is taken care Of. OF course,
Congress can afford to be liberal with
themselves because they are in the
drivers seat and they hold the purse
strings of the nation.
In contrast, it should be noted how
slowly the item of salary increases for
the rank and file of Government en-
ployes is being taken care of. Congress
is quibbling over the question of
whether the increase should be 10 per
cent, or less. The final result may be
about Z or per cent, and quite pos
sibly it could be only per cent. In
view of their generous gesture to them
selves, it is difficult to justify their
seeming nny-pinching regarding the
Evening star., 1955-02-23


97O, recite to their educationless off.
spring tales of the following type:
Listen, my children: the fate you
shall hear
OF the public schools of yesteryear
The teachers were starving, too
slight was their pay;
To jobs better paying they slowly
did stray.
For needed supplies much money
was sought,
But meager indeed the results that
it wrought.
The classrooms were crowded, and
nothing was done;
In space made for twenty were
stuffed forty-one.
Then, to the problem Of not enough
Came the great flood called the
war-baby boom.
The bigwigs all ranted and wran-
gled like fools;
They ended their headache by
closing the schools
And saying quite Brightly There
still is a way
Well have private schooling for
you who can pay"
So that's why you darlings OF
average seed
Have never been able to write,
count, or read.
The bigwigs would help you, or so
goes their tune,
But they're too busy building those
roads on the moon.
Ann Goodman.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
U. S. 40

This Is the road the pioneers used for
their westward trek;
A hundred years ago and more, the
covered 11dgons came.
Here stern men urged tired oren,
strdtntn9 neck to neck:
And neGry ,Donten Uept, and then
pressed Jorpard Just the same
This Is the road Which, day or night.
Is neuer. neDer still;
Arrays the traffic rushes, the hum
ming tires sing on.
The great trucks hurl their thunder
beyond the t0rtheSt hill;
-Four lanes of roaring horses. DticIt
neuer quite are gone.
A hundred years from non perhaps
nep Uehicles ,DiH nloDe
Along this road; neW trdUelers DiH
Journey east or tDeSt.
But that is for the future in its mystic
may to prove.
We shall hare Joined the pioneers,
in endless peace and rest.
Minnie Hite Moody
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Mixinq Politics With Merit

In discussing political patronage,
Hoover Commission task force had no crit
icism to make of patronage appointments
within the proper purview" of the admins
tration in power. It's report upheld the right
of the administration to fill important pol
icy-making positions with persons known to
be loyal to the party in control of the Gov
ernment. The group made it plain, however,
that it feels the line should be drawn
sharply against any sort of political "clear-
ance" for Government jobs within the career
structure of the merit system. Although the
task force did not say SO, such clearance
arrangement still exists under the contro-
versial Willis patronage order, issued some
time ago by White House aide.
1t is more than possible that the task
force had in mind the Willis memorandum,
which requires clearance with the Republi-
can National Committee of certain top
merit-system appointments, when it said:
Political clearance of appointments to COM
petitive positions is quick and sure way to
subvert the merit system. When men who
are otherwise qualified for promotion within
the classified service are cleared with Sen
ators, Congressman or party committees,
Glle career ScINiCc UcBlIlS W 1Ooc
acter. Influence, political affiliations and
friends in party circles become the avenues
of advancement instead of professional
competence. Political neutrality for career
servants becomes more difficult to achieve,
and the knowledge that political influence
is controlling key appointments spreads,
undermining employe morale" The group
similarly condemned political clearance of
outside appointments to career jobs
This was only part of the task forces
lengthy comments on the dangers of mixing
politics with merit in choosing Federal ca
reer employees. The commission itself, while
making public the task force criticisms,
avoided reference to the political-clearance
matter. But both the present and the for
ner Hoover Commissions have inveighed
generally against improper injection of pol
itics in administration of the Federal estab-
lishment. The Willis order is good case
In point.
Evening star., 1955-02-23

pay of the employees. 1t also goes with
out saying and judging from past per-
formances, the effective date of any
such increase will be the date the bill
is signed, and not retroactive from
January l. as has been promised.
presume Congress will have no
difficulty in finding the money with
which to give themselves their increase
in pay. It will be interesting to note
whether or not they will appropriate
the necessary money with which to-
take care of the increase which may be
allowed the employees. Unless this is
in many If not all Of the agencies OF
the Government in order to keep the
raise within the appropriations. A
raise in pay is no raise at all II 1t is
the cause of certain employees losing
their jobs or being denoted.
C. F. Haughawout.
A few days ago some OF us were dis
cussing the proposed Congressional pay
raise in a rather uncomplimentary
manner when, thinking it was a pre-
posterous suggestion and the most out
rageous thing that Congress could do,
my wife said probably they would make
the increase retroactive! Darned If
they didn't!
All of which is by way Of leading up
to an expression Of my opinion that
the members Of Congress, the House
in particular, are q pretty poor lot and.
with possibly dozen exceptions. are
already overpaid.
I grant that most of them are busy
but for the most part it is work that
would be better left undone. chiefly
unnecessary investigations and hearings
designed for front-page publicity.
AS a constructive suggestion, though
probably too late, the least they could
do would be to have the increases
effective only as each member was re-
elected or a substitute chosen. In that
way the voters would have an oppor-
tunity to express their views as to
whether the, present incumbent de-
served the raise. II they thought not,
they could then select better man.
George ID. Watrous, jr.
Evening star., 1955-02-23

Is drifting his way at Is or 20 miles
an hour will put on his poncho and
proceed to do his good deed by getting
other citizens into their ponchos. The
stuff is capable of yielding only alpha
and beta particles, electrons and he
liumions, which can be stopped by as
little as a newspapers thickness.
Who's afraid of the big, bad bomb?
Meanwhile, what about those boys in
Communists clutches?
r. L.F.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Tight jeans
Lillian Sinclair Large.

The controversy over tight-fitting
jeans is typical of the parents who will
not face an issue in democratic man
ner. The jeans in question are guaran-
teed to shrink two sizes, and to fit low
on the hips There are other san
forized jeans to be purchased, which
are still Western in style.
Fashion trends and fads will come
and go. After a period of years they
are many times repeated. Good groom
ing should be emphasized in high
school. This can be accomplished
without any additional expense.
Subscriber.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. What is the greatest height from
which parachute jump has been
made?--F. A c.
A. A new record of 45,200 feet-more
than 81a miles-was set by two United
States Air Force officers. who para
chuted safely from a BAT Stratojet
bomber. The record Jump was made
over the Gulf of Mexico during tests on
August 2-3, 1854.
@. What is the origin of the name
Magnolia, as used by number of COM
munities in this country?-H. s. w.
A, In the United States there are ap-
proximately 26 communities named
Magnolia" In general, they were either
directly or indirectly named for DR..
Pierre Magnol, for whom the species of
magnolia tree was named.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Terminal City, IdIewiid

There appears to be praiSeworthy
combination of practicality and grandeur
about the plans for $60-million Terminal
City at New Yorks international Airport at
Idlewild This development, spreading over
one of the worlds largest commercial flying
fields with total area Of SOTO acres, is de-
signed to replace present temporary and in
adequate facilities. It will include 10 separate
buildings for the handling of air passengers
plus variety Of other accommodations.
heliport and 300-room air-conditioned
hotel will be among the supplementary
facilities
The rapid growth of air travel during
the past quarter-century has resulted in
obsolescence for many of the worlds leading
airports, particularly in the facilities for
handling passengers. Our own National
Airport Is case in point. The planning for
Idlewild is an outstanding attempt to pro-
vide facilities that will meet future needs.
AS against present arrangements for 20
transport planes on the ground at once, the
new plant will be able to handle 140 aircraft
simultaneously Present passenger volume
of nearly million annually is expected to
reach million by 1860 and 85 million by
1865.
Since Idlewild is truly the air gateway
to America from much of the world, it is
fitting that this terminal of the future
should be not only the greatest in terms of
modern and efficient facilities but also one
of the most attractive. The plans as an
nounced cover all Of these requirements.
The Port of New York Authority is to be
congratulated for its boldness and vision.
Those who are responsible for meeting the
problem in the National Capital area should
profit from the example set in New York.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Little Moons Out There

Washington astronomers, professional
as we'll as amateur, are interested in thes
recent story out of Chicago about John P.
Bagby and his discovery Of little moons
buzzing around the earth at roughly $4,000
miles an hour The local observers say that
there certainly could be tiny moonlets out
there, but-they would be awfully small and
awfully hard to CATCH" They also remark
that since the little moons are supposed to
be about ATS miles away and the big moon
100000 miles distant, it is something OF
speculation to regard the former as being
anything like steppingstones to the latter.
Seriously, however, Mr.. Bagby is cred
tied with being correct in his theory that
minute satellites probably are moving
through space in defined orbits. Such city,
ing SaucerS" could be observed at twilight
against the sinking sun or conceivably on
certain evenings against the moon in terms
of shadows. They would serve the same pur-
pose perhaps as the artificial satellite pro-
posed several years ago to be fired" $50
miles into the sky and "clocked" under
Searchlight at Commute intervals until it
disintegrated from the battering of mete-
oriteS.
Stranger demonstrations have been ac-
complished, and there is no question about
the whole family Of earth followers being
we'll within the range of both amateur and
professional astronomical enterprise. The
amateurs, indeed, may have the better po-
tential of making important finds in the
nearer heavens because their instruments
are of lesser range than the huge telescopes
of the big institutional observatories Thus,
there may be reports of more little moons
any time.
The lead pencil is 400 years old. and
in all this time nobody has been able to
understand how 1t was arranged so that
they are always clear across the room when
you want one.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
School Recitol

Three cheers and a mortarboard for
Philip Schiff and his statistical logic on
neglect of public schools. Unless the
Gordian knot of which he speaks is cut
In the very near future, mothers may
well toss the old Mother Goose books
out of the window and instead. circa
Evening star., 1955-02-23
No AbominobIe Snow Man

Instead Of having an ordinance COM
pelling property owners to clean their
sidewalks so many hours after snow
has abated, or be fined, it is allowed
to remain for days and sand is sprin-
killed. on it, and when it melts one has
to walk through mud and filth. This
is abominable. Even then nothing is
done The streets aren't washed nor
are the sidewalks cleaned by property
owners.
am from Minnesota and in my part
OF the country we aren't too lazy to
shovel snow. A. N. Nelson.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
Pink Villa for q Red

In your issue Of February 3 there
appeared the following dispatch by
the Associated Press:
Mice, France.-French Communist
Leader Maurice ThoreZ has bought
$4,000 pink secluded villa near the
Riviera home of the Aga Khan, a re-
liable source said yesterday. He returned
only recently after undergoing treat
ment in the Soviet Union for long
Illness"
Hear, hear! Has Thorez gone soft;
has he become renegade" has he
slithered back to the bourgeoiSie-or
what gives after that trip to Moscow?
1t Is all so peculiar. confusing and
contradictory to me. I always thought
the Communist anathematized such a
vulgar display of wealth" Most of us
in the so-called "decadent democracies"
are pretty we'll satisfied with modest
home of our own, chicken In every
pot" two cars in every garage" and
"a job for every worker''-but a pink
palace at $4,000 is simply beyond our
widest imagination!
Lillian Sinclair Large.
Evening star., 1955-02-23
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Questions and Answers

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Star information Bureau. 1900 Eye st.
NV Washington 3 D. C Please incloss
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Evening star., 1955-02-23

Pen-nan1es may be used If letters carry
aDriters' correct names and addresses.
All letters are subject to condensation.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-06-10
Rural Women's News
BY RITA cUMMlNS

Camp
The list Of delegates to Coun-
sillors Training Camp is completed.
Ann Browder, Edgar Schneider,
Nancy Lezotte, Jack Quisno, Irene
FURRY, Hermine Lau, Dave Bald
win, Robert Nenls, and Norma Jean
Burning. Jack Quisno will repre-
sent Ottawa County on the camp
council for the weekend.
Home Councillor
Mrs, u. ". Asman reports that
Gay township has a new Jr. Home
Councillor. Welcome, Mrs. Clifford
Jennings to the home council!
Ohio Home Demonstration
Meeting
About twelve members of Otta-
wa County's Homemakers Chorus
directed by Mrs. Virgil Revenaugh
will participate in the chorus for
the State meeting.
Mrs. Fred Barnes, new president
of the home council is going with
me- Alumni and present home
councillors the back seat of my
car rides easy, don't you want to
go along?
5-H -
Big party at the All Barn! Yeah!
June 18 from 7:30 to 1870 pm.
There will be games and dancing
to the orchestra of Lyle Ganske.
Come one, come all
June Peas
The Otto Sommer family of Mar
tin are enjoying the sweet fresh
peas that Mrs. Sommers has picked
from her garden.
June is Dairy Month -
Are your children and you get.
ting your needed amounts of milk
- three cups day. You never
outgrow your need for milk.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-06-10
BIRTHDAYS.
ANNIVERSARIES

June 10: Dave Williams Mrs.
Christine McGrath, Charles Buch-
man, Irene Cupp. Anniversaries of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel Sorensen, Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Rounds.
June IL: Annie Rose Hopfinger,
Leona Floro, Mrs. Ethel Fielder,
Mrs. Hallick Henry, Sandra Jean
Slauterbeck, Robert G. Schraidt,
John Gaydos, Mrs. Ruel Detlef.
June IL: George Karshuk, Mrs.
Harvey Hephner, Julia Pepas, Mrs.
Richard Slauterbeck, Phyllis Bessos
Forrest Lentz, Victoria King, Dick
Dern, twins John and Jim Herl,
William Brown, Mrs. Charles Mar
tin. Anniversaries of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old E. Raymond, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Hetrick, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
vey Snider, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Biro, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Buch-
man of Oak Harbor.
June 13: Mrs. Frederick Below,
Helen ClauSen Dunham, j m
Warnke, Jeffrey Buchmany twins
Ruth and Ruel Anderson, Ruth
Ingram. Wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Cooper, Mr..
and Mrs. J. R. Emery.
June IA: Beverly st Clair, June
Miller, Fredna Kreutzer, Evelyn
WILDER, Marie Schoerger, Mrs.
Julius Mras, Lloyd Thompson,
Oletha A. Meyer, Patricia Ann Ca
hill, Billy Page, Terry Gentry,
Ralph Forster, Harry Stensen. An
niversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Judy, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Mulligan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Roy.
June IS: August Kolesar, Mrs.
Marjorie M. Lentz, Mrs. Allan
Eberly, Mrs. Vernon Rider, Mark
Newcomer, Mrs. Reuben Fillmore.
Anniversaries of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kennth Blair, Mr.. nd Mrs. Wilson
Grosjean, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Mcneil.
June 16: Vernon Flick, Leo Snid
or, Richard Lukac, JOHN Johnson
Mrs. Hubert Stull eBrnard Hine
line, Maude Malloy, Chester Below
Glenn Dieringer, Harry Callahan
Marion Goebel. Anniversary ol
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jadwisiak, Mr.
and Mrs. Herman L. Miller, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Lano, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Ohm, Mr.. and Mrs
Emery bud" Qualman.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-06-10
Stalled Car Is
Hit By Train

Mrs. Colleen Yerkes, her 49,
month old daughter and her moth
er, Mrs. William Hastings, all of
Toledo, escaped from a car that
stalled on the LocuSt-st tracks in
Oak Harbor Saturday afternoon
just before the vehicle was hit by
an east bound mail train.
The car was extensively dam.
aged, sheriff Budd reported. Gates
came down while tle car was
stalled on the tracks, and its occu-
pants hurried to safety.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-06-10
New Ferry Goes
In Service 18th

The trim auto ferry, Corsair, will
90 into service between Marblehead
and Kellys Island June IL, making
hourly round-trips between the
mainland and the island. The new
ferry, operated by the Neuman
Boat Lines, is 65 feet long, 33 feet
wide and will handle nine cars.
The Corsair was built in Warren,
R. L. and its pilot house was erect
ed at Erie, Pa. 1t Travelled to Erie
by way of the Hudson River and
the Erie barge canal, making the
run from Erie in 1872 hours. Harold
Neuman, president of the Lines
skippered the boat.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-06-10
King Speaker
At Lions Club

Archie King was guest speaker
at the regular meeting of Lions
Club members Thursday night,
showing colored films of trip to
San Domingo as ne told of life
under dictatorship in the Republic
of San Domingo.
The Rev. Paul Reese was Off
cially installed as a new member
of the Lions. Stanley Stepnitz will
represent the club at the interna-
tional convention in Atlantic City
the week of June 10. June 16 was
announced as the date for Ladies
Night and installation of newly
elected officers.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-06-10
VEHICLES SOUGHT

Proposals for the hire of vehicles
without drivers on an hourly basis
for use in collecting, delivering,
and relaying mail, and for special
delivery service wild be received
at the office of the postmaster un-
til 2 pm. June Is, 1855. Estimated
hours of service are 180 per quar-
ter, Is hours per weekday. Blanks
on which to submit proposals may
be obtained at the school.