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Evening star., 1955-01-23
Arlington Dimes Queen
To Be Named Saturday

Ten Arlington teen-agers are
competing for the title Of March
OF Dimes Queen to be selected
Saturday at the closing OF the
Arlington Teen Fair.
Contestants receive one vote
for each cent contributed In their
name to the March Of Dimes.
The candidates are Marie and
Margaret Macdonald, Barbara
Brown, Patty and Diane Pence.
Betsy Cahill. Sue Dillon. Vivian
Creamer, Peggy Hit and Janet
Burelson.
The Teen Fair will be held
Friday and Saturday in a vacant
store on Wilson boulevard and
North Irving street 1t viii be
open from / to $3.50 pm. Friday
and from 10 am. to S pm. Sat-
urday, when the queen will be
selected.
"A county wide teen dance will
be held Saturday night at Dolly
Madison School, after the fair
closes. 1t viii be the last in
q series Of eight dances for the
March Of Dimes in Arlington.
The Arthur Murray Dance
Studio at 800 North Taylor
street will stage a Dance Of
Dimes next Sunday from 8 to
II pm. to raise money for the
polio drive.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Arlington Urged
To Train Owners
If Dogs Misbehoye

Canine delinquency in Airing
ton win bring dog owners to heel
in the future. If q training expert
has his way.
John s. Ward. training direc-
tor of the Canine Training As
sociation, suggested to the coun-
ty board yesterday that it SEN
tence dog owners to attend ODE
dience school. If their pets get
out Of hand.
Mr.. Ward said proposed revi-
sions of Arlington's dog control
law should contain a program of
education for dogs and their
owners. The board will hold a
special session early in March to
discuss the proposals.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
BY George Kennedy

Old pictures of Mount Vernon
have been collectors items for
several generations and group
of them is now on exhibit at the
national shrine.
One of the most interesting is
a photograph made for stereop-
ticon slides by F. Langenheim Of
Philadelphia in 1856. At that
time, when there was a stereop-
ticon viewer In almost every par
lor. this particular view probably
had a big sale.
An old stereopticon box with
the Mount Vernon slide in it is
one OF the exhibits. Visitors can
see in Sd how Mount Vernon
looked just before 1t was taken
over by the Mount Vernon Ladies
Association of the Union.
They can note that the last
Washington proprietor Zone Of
several in the line of succession
bearing the name John Au-
gustus1 did not let the house go
to ruin as one would gather from
reports of travellers in the first
half Of the nineteenth century.
1t seems to lack the grandeur
that 1t has today.
The porch which Bushrod
Washington tthe nephew Of the
general who served on the Su-
preme Court) added to the south
makes it look more like a COM
Portable farmhouse than q grand
mansion. M
1t was the condition of the
outbuildings that disturbed the
visitors. The greenhouse, which
burned, was never rebuilt. Other
buildings were falling in, but The
place had lost its function as q
big self-supporting plantation.
There are three water colors
by Benjamin H. Latrobe, the
architect associated with the
Capitol, painted In 1895. One
shows several persons on the
front terrace. They are identi-
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Group S Collection Bureau
Outfits 100 Transients

More than 100 transients have
been outfitted by the st. Vincent
de Paul Society since it started
a collection bureau in October,
Robert @. Grady, director, an
nounced yesterday.
Shoes and clothes are provided
the needy transients. A low
value is placed on the articles
by the bureau. and the transient
then works a set time there to
pay for them. The bureau also
feeds him.
Profits made by the bureaus
sale of secondhand furniture
and clothing helps the many ac-
tivities of the society, Catholic
mems charitable organization.
The bureau is open from 9 a m.
to $50 pm. Mondays through
Thursdays and on Saturdays. 1t
is open from 9 am. to $50 pm.
on Fridays and is closed on
Sundays.
Evening star., 1955-01-23

them" Some think there is too
much fuss about the tight fitting
kind. One Anacostia High School
student said:
"The whole thing is silly. What
difference does it make, If every
body wears the same thing
They're only pants"
Opinions differ as to whether
the fad for jeans is still growing
or beginning to taper on. Some
think that school prohibitions
have put a crimp in the wearing
of jeans. A buyer at a large
downtown store, however, says
he is selling more than ever be-
fore.
Economy Argument CoIlapses.
The question Of expense-some
parents protesting to school
principals that they can't af-
ford anything else-is answered
by a store survey which shows
the cheapest cotton wash pants
selling for about a dollar less than
the cheapest blue jeans. Jeans
already bought will have to be
worn somewhere, however, If not
to school.
But high school girls--versed
in such style subtleties as the
difference between a ballsrina-
length "semi-formal" gown in
silk or taffeta and the same
length formal" gown in tulle--
seem to be carrying the day.
Jeans may continue to be worn
in junior high. but in high school
they are on the way out.
For many youngsters. of
course, the question is moot.
They never wore their jeans
anywhere but for work and play.
And when they dressed for
school. they put on something
different.
All Of them, jeans-fans or not,
dress out Of an entirely different
book for formal dances and
school proms.
Popular as jeans have become,
they still haven't reached that
far. That they have come as
far as they have, however, Is
cause for wonder.
Once the exclusive property
of the cowpuncher and the farm
hand, blue jeans swept eastward
from the prairies and spread to
all sections. until they now
adorn infants too young to
walk. boys and girls of every
age and inclination and even a
few housewives.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Dr.. Brooks Honored
By Edison Pioneers

DIR. Herbert B. Brooks. retired
chief Of the Bureau Of Standards
electrical instrument section. has
been professionally elected vice
president Of the Edison Pioneers.
an organization Of men who
worked with Thomas "A. Edison,
or played part in developing
the Edison system Of power
plants. His election is expected
to be formally ratified at q meet
ing in New YORK, February 5.
the i0sth anniversary Of Edi-
sons birth.
DR.. Brooks, who viii be SO
years. old Tuesday, was superin-
tendent Of the Piqsia tOhic1 Edi-
son Electric Illuminating Co. ct
10.
He retired from the bureau IN
1899.
Evening star., 1955-01-23

fed as George Washington scan
ming the river through q spy
glass; Nellie Gusts CMartha:s
granddaughter leaning against
a pillar and George Washington
Lafayette. the teen-age son Of
the Marquis who was then in .
European prison as a result Of
the French Revolution.
A young man who was to be-
come one Of Americas foremost
artists came TO Mount Vernon In
the first year Of the Civil War.
He was winsiew Homer, then Is
years old and assigned to draw
battle pictures for Harper's
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Denver 10 Get Big Hotel,
Store Costing SIS Million
BY the A.soeia,sd Pres.

NEW YORK, January ga
New York firm today announced
plans for q vast new commercial
development in the heart of
downtown Denver. including a
20-story hotel and what was
termed the largest new depart
ment store west of Chicago.
The development, expected to
cost $35 million, also will en-
brace modern convention facih-
ties and a huge underground
automobile parking facility.
The plans were announced by
Webb g. Knapp, Inc, one Of the
Nations largest real estate de-
velopment firms. Initial work
already has begun.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
.3Ciyic Committees
In Montgomery Back
Planning Program

Continuation of the bi-county
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission is re-
ported to have support Of three
major committees of the Mont
gomery County Civic Federation,
which also are said to approve
most of the commissions legisla-
tive program.
The special committee on bi-
county agencies, the legislative
and legal action committee and
the planning and coming COM
mittee met jointly on the PLAN
ming commission legislation last
Wednesday.
They repeatedly voted, IL to
Z, to continue the commission
as a planning body in Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges counties
and to expand its authority
throughout both counties.
\ Tax Plan Opposed.
The joint meeting also voted
10 to 8, against a motion calling
for the county council to set the
tax rate for the commission in
legislative session. At present
the commissions tax rate is fixed
by the General Assembly.
The committees joint report
will be submitted to the Civic
Federation at its February IA
meeting, Harold p. Morris. pres
ident, said.
The Joint committees also sup
ported proposed legislation In
creasing the commissions menu
berShip from six to eight with
their appointments to be made
by the Governor on recommen-
dation Of the governing bodies
in the two counties.
Staggered Terms Favored.
The Citizens Committee to
Unity Montgomery County Plan
ming favors abolishment Of the
bi-county agency. The commit
tee wants a county planning
commission with staggered terms
so that each new county council
would appoint q majority Of the
commissions members within six
months after taking ONCE.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Landlord Opposes
Use Of Andrews Base
To Ease Air Traffic
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Md. Jan. a.
Representative Lankford. Demo
crat Of Maryland. tonight de-
scribed a proposal to CONNER
cialiZe Andrews Air Forse Base
so as to ease congestion al
Washington National Airport
not feasible for many reasons. =
He suggested, instead, that the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
take over Friendship Interna-
tional Airport to relieve condi-
tons at National.
Mr.. Lankford, addressing a
Kiwanis Club meeting at Friend
ship. airport, said many pro-
posals have been made concern
ing a second airport to relieve
congestion at Washington.
Cost $40 Million.
Referring to a proposal by
Representative Broyhill. Repub.
lican of Virginia. that Andrews
be commercialized and replaced
by the construction Of a new all
force base 80 to 40 miles from
Washington, Lankford said:
ITO begin with it would cost
approximately $40 million te
convert Andrews into a COM
mercial airport and approx
mately $125 million more to con-
struct another base elsewhere. >
Removal of the Andrews base
he said. would tend to jeopar-
die the economic welfare OF
Prince Georges County. The base
has an annual $19 million pay
roll.
'The primary function Of An
drews," he said, "is protection OF
the Nations capital"
Against Partial Use.
Mr.. Lankford also said that
partial, use Of Andrews for COM
mercial operations is not the
answer.
Friendship" he said, meets
all the requirements for Wash
ington's second airport. It Is
now operating up to 40 per cent
Of capacity at the maximum and
q low Of 10 per cent minimum
actiYities.n
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Sofety Tolks
DC. Schools Progrum
Listed by Mansfield

Inspector Dick MonsfieId. director
Of The Stor's School Safety ftesrom.
will give bis sofe,y chalk tolks ot the
following District schools this week |:
Tomonow-Lasoyetss ElementorS,
lo:45 ON.
Tuesday-Stoddors Elementary, 9:lS
am: Mona Elementary. lo:4S en-.
Wednesdoy-Fillmcre Elementory.
lo;45 an.
Thursdoy-Brent EIsmensor. s;is
On.
Evening star., 1955-01-23

Wasfington's birth In 1882 had
the picture makers busy turning
out Mount Vernon scenes. They
were among the most popular Of
the Currier q Ives prints
Last year more than one MIL
lion visitors came to Mount ver-
non. The total was Just under
the peak year Of 1858. The Mount
Vernon stan believes that the
inauguration Of 1883 made the
difference. January 1853 totaled
10000 more visitors than The
same month IN 1854. That lead
for the preceding year was never
overcome.
Evening star., 1955-01-23

Weekly. His water color sketch.
loaned by the Junel Mansion Of
New York. Is on view.
Another sketch. by 1t. John
Farley Of the United States
Typographical Corps. done "on
the spot" shows Lafayette's visit
to the tomb Of washington tthe
old tomb in 1895. With him sre
George washington Parke Custis
and Bushrod washington.
The picture files show that
America was always interested
IN Mount Vernon. Early In the
last century the Lafayette visit
and the FIRST centennial Of
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Builder Hopes 10 Start
Area B Construction
Within Four Months
By WiIIiom A. MiIIen

Ralph E. Bush, Norfolk (Va)
builder, said yesterday he hopes
to start construction in the
Southwest Area B redevelopment
project within four months. That
would be ahead Of a previous
target date Of July /.
The Federal Housing Admin
iStration is making an economic
analysis of Mr.. BuSh's plans.
He was the successful bidder for
the job, which will cost $12 mil
lion and will involve rebuilding
rs acres. His will be the pilot
redevelopment here.
Mr.. Bush said he expects
FHA's final approval in about
so to 80 days. Then it will take
another so to 80 days, he said.
to get the financing in final
shape, have the work force or
ganized and move in the bull
dozers and steam shovels.
Land Being Cleared.
"The Redevelopment Land
Agency will be able to turn some
of the land over to us shortly"
Mr.. Bush said. They will prob
ably be able to deliver all the
land this year"
Mf. Bush's section of the
Southwest redevelopment pro-
gram, known as Area B, is
bounded by E street. the railroad
tracks, South Capitol street,
Fourth and / streets S.W.
Some Of the land is now being
cleared by wrecking companies,
preparatory to redevelopment.
Under the program. about
1900 families in Area B are
being relocated in other homes.
The majority are finding new
homes with the aid of the Re-
development Land Agency and
Washington real estate brokers,
who are cooperating in the pro-
gram.
Find Homes For Displaced.
The National Capital Housing
Authority is helping in placing
displaced families in public
housing. where they qualify be-
cause of low incomes.
The Redevelopment Land
Agency is acquiring 1900 dwell
ing units in Area B. These will
be torn down to make way for
the Bush program.
Here are Mr.. BuSh's latest
construction plans: ZIG units Of
two bedrooms each in two-family
flats; so row houses of three
bedrooms each; 48 row houses
with -four bedrooms each: SO
row houses with four bedrooms
and two baths; 312 apartments
in two buildings of seven stories
each, with "skip-stop" elevator
service, new to Washington.
under which tenants will walk
up or down half a floor to get
to their apartments; 228 units
of conventional air-conditioned
apartments. including go two
bedroom units, 1873 one-bedroom
units and a two-block shopping
center. one-story high. These
total 900 dwelling units.
Mr.. Bush explained the Skip
stop" elevator program. under
which the elevator stops four and
a half stories from ground level,
gives the benefit of row house
living to high rise construction:
saves In elevator cost, cuts ex-
pense In private interior halls
and public corridors and secures
natural ventilation in every unit.
Because the land is valuable
and restricted, he has made
every effort to erect economical
buildings, he said.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
kensingfon Boy Burned
As Match ExpIodes Gas

A Kensington youth suffered
first and second degree burns on
his face yesterday afternoon
when he reportedly threw a
lighted match into a can of gas
oline.
Kensington Fire Department
officials said the boy is Clement
Lynch. 10. son Of Robert Lynch,
l0TI5 SALISBURY street. They
said the gasoline exploded.
His condition was reported
good at Suburban Hospital.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
AirIiner Forced Back

LONDON, Jan. % (R. An
airliner bound for New York
with Pakistan's Prime Minister
Mohammed Ali and 47 other
passengers returned to London
Airport late tonight after one Of
its four engines failed In flight,
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Notre Dame Cord Party

The Notre Dame Guild viii
hold It's annual dessert-card
party at 2 pm. Saturday at
Trinity College. Proceeds will 90
70 the missions Of the Sisters Of
Notre Dame de Namur. A tom
boIa" table, displaying gifts from
business houses in Washington
and Baltimore. win be . feature
Of the party.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Death Penalty
Asked for Dope
Sales 10 YOUNG
Puyne Bill Provides
Long Sentences for
Other Drug Crimes

A joint resolution introduced
In the Senate by Senator Payne.
Republican. Of Maine, provides
the death penalty for dope ped
dlers convicted a second time of
selling to juveniles.
1t also sets up lengthy prison
terms for other narcotics law
violators, provides q broad treat
ment program for addicts and
boosts the powers of Federal
narcotics agents. The Bureau of
Narcotics would be transferred
from the Treasury Department
to the Justice Department.
Senator Payne, recognizing
that the hill contains "contro-
versial features on which there
can be honest disagreement"
said 1t should nonetheless serve
as a starting point for needed
revision of the narcotics laws.
The bill provides a mandatory
20-year sentence for dope ped
dlerS convicted the first time Of
selling to juveniles. The second
conviction carries the death
penalty, unless a jury recon-
mends mercy, in which case q
life prison term is mandatory.
Mandatory Life Term.
A dope peddler selling to
adults faces a mandatory life
sentence for the third or subse-
quent conviction. The first con-
viction carries a $4,000 fine and
a S to 10 year prison term, with
probation possible. and the Sec
ond conviction carries q maxi
mum $4,000 fine and manda-
tory term of 10 to 20 years.
The sitter penalties also apply
to anyone convicted OF snug
Cling dope into the country.
Another part of the bill en-
visions chain of narcotic clinics
set up under the Welfare Depart-
ment. This would consist of hos
pitals, farms and other institu-
tons set up for addict treatment.
Calls for Hospitalization.
1t provides for compulsory hos
pitalization of addicts to such
hospitals. including the present
Public Health Service hospitals
at Lexington. KY, and Fort
Worth, Tex, when such commit
ment is from State or District Of
Columbia courts.
This extends to the States
service already available to Dis
trict courts under an enabling
act passed in conjunction with a
law for compulsory hospitaliza-
ton Of District drug addicts.
The bill also requires a signed
agreement from voluntary pa
tients at these hospitals, to the
effect that they will not leave
until the Surgeon General feels
they have received the maxi
mum beneficial treatment. One
problem of the Public Health
Service has been that voluntary
patients leave as soon as the
immediate necessity for drugs is
removed.
Boosts Agents Powers.
The bill empowers Bureau of
Narcotics agents to carry fire.
arms and under certain condi-
tions to make arrests without
warrants.
The measure also:
/. Provides Federal payment
to teachers colleges for courses
and instructors in the causes and
effects of narcotics addiction, to
prepare educators to instruct in
addiction.
2. Provides for use Of the
United States Employment Serv-
ice to- obtain jobs for former suf-
ferers of chronic alcoholism and
drug addiction.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
u. 5. Fund Need
For Area BCut
BY 81 Million
Districts Share in
Project Now Set
AT $2.6 Million

eral grants needed toward re-
developing the Project B area
| in Southwest Washington has
been reduced by more than 50
million, according to new COM
putations disclosed yesterday by
the Redevelopment Land Agency,
John R. Searles. jr.. execu-
tive director of RIA, placed the
revised Federal grant figure at
$4,232, 900. The original estimate
made two years ago came to
$6,385. 900.
The 50 million drop reduces
the District $3.3 million share
in the original $50 million esti-
mate of the net cost of Project
B to $2.6 million-one-third Of
the new $7.8 million net cost
estimate.
81 Million Excess.
The Districts actual credited
share in the project cost totals
$3.6 million, principally due to
the proposed construction of the
Southwest Freeway and devel-
opment of Randall Recreation
Center. This 81 million excess
over the required $2.6 million
can now be applied as part Of
the city's share in a future re-
development project.
The 50 million saving" in
Federal grants for Project B
frees that much grant money
for other redevelopment in
Washington.
The brighter cost figure is due
to two principal factors. Mr..
Searles said. In the revised es-
Inmates, proceeds from the dis
position Of RIA acquired land
in Project B will be about $1.4
million higher than the SIS
million estimate Of 1858. The
agency, moreover, further esti-
mates it is saving about 100000
in interest charges on loans as
well as in administrative ex-
penses.
Were Conservative.
The agency official acknowl-
edged that the cost figures plot
ted two years ago were con-
servatiye.
For one thing, he said, the
original estimate on expected
proceeds from disposing Of
Project B land to private devel-
opers was based on cash sales
only. In the interim. however.
the agency found it feasible to
enter into long-term leasing
agreements.
The biggest land development
proposal-that of the Bush Con-
tracing Co. of Norfolk, Va
in fact gave RIA the choice Of
selling one of the parcels out
right for $1.4 million or leasing
the desired property over a long
period at $89, 900 annually. The
agency accepted this bid which
involves construction of $50 fam
lily units contained in fats and
eight-story apartment houses.
Smaller Tracts.
Among five other successful
bids offered RIA for commercial
development OF smaller Project
B tracts, current estimates Of
proceeds top the 1853 figures, Mr..
Searles added.
The saving in interest charges
on borrowings necessary to carry
Project B forward stems largely
from the agency's farming out
short-term notes to private in
vestors. The rate Of interest for
available Federal loans when
RIA started its borrowing was
2.76 per cent. Speedy authori-
zation by the Housing and Home
Finance Agency and the District
Commissioners permitted RIA to
sell $7.2 million in six-month
notes at a SO per cent interest
rate. These notes will be re-
deemed, beginning next June, by
Federal redevelopment grants,
Mr.. Searles said.
Evening star., 1955-01-23
Lewis Are Worse" /"


Another girl. a senior at Roos-
evelt High School. says fatty
that Jeans shouldn't be worn
where you are going to be around
a lot of people, or older people. "
She thinks the same rule ap-
plies to boys and girls:
They're all right at home, for
sports. on hayride or picnic, or
when you get together for a~hen
party or the boys are just by
themselves. But blue jeans on
boys look just awful. they hang
so low and look so messy. Lewis
are worse"
Another girl said she would
wear jeans to a neighborhood
movie on a Friday night if she
were going with girl friends, but
not on a Saturday night, or
downtown. She admitted that
if her movie date for Saturday
night showed UP in jeans, she
would go with him.
But another high school senior.
asked the same question. said:
mo, think would just tell
him I'd rather stay home, and
ask him in to watch television
with me-"
Some Boys Approve.
The boys are not 50 positive.
They like the look of blue jeans
and they like to wear them. But
many admit, as one woodrow
Wilson High School junior said.
that ''if you're going TO look any
thing like q gentleman. l guess
you'd better not wear them"
Many boys say they wear jeans
! because everybody else wears
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-15
LAMPS AND SHADES

10-l9.99 Hand Painted Ira
ditional China Table Lamp.
Sway lighting l4.99
$3.50 to $3.50 Bristol and
China Table Lamps and
Shades --------19 1899
1885 Ea. Milk Glass Saucer
Base Hurricane Lamps with
chimneys- SOS pr.
16-10.99 Milk Glass Table
Lamps; celanese acetate drum
shades .--6.99
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-15
BLANKETS AND COMFORTS

4-24.95 X wood Elysian
72x9O in. Blankets 1895
7--l9.95 Wool O. The West All
Wool 72x90 in. Blankets 1895
6-l7.95 Springfield Twin-size
All Wool Blankets 1885, S.95
7-22.95 Springfield Double
size All Wool Blankets lbs
5th Floor,
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