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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

the Potomac Plaza development
has been obtained from the
Equitable Life Assurance Society
OF the United States.
We've received a tremendous
amount Of interest from the gen.
Ieral public in our project"
The Potomac Plaza Center
will be constructed by the Hage-
man Harris Co., Royce F. Ward
vice president. who Is represent
ing the company here, is now on
IA vacation in Mexico.
But a spokesman for the con-
Istruction firm declared:
We're very pleased the Dis
trict Commissioners saw fit tc
act this way, as it viii facilitate
our getting started Immediately
Shoot for January Start
1--WE are getting ready to take
bids on excavation and founda-
ton for the work Immediately
We hope to get it cleared and
ready to start some time In
January If we possibly can"
Spokesman for the Potomac
Plaza developers last week voiced
their objections to being in
cluded in the urban renewal
area. The National Capitol Plan
ming Commission had so tenta-
lively included it.
BY yesterdays action Of the
Commissioners. the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency will be able to
apply to the Housing and Home
Finance Agency for money to
survey the Foggy Bottom area
and draft a plan for its re-
vamping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

Pageant of Peace stage produc-
tons moved indoors last night
land packed a capacity audience
lin well-heated Lisner Auditori-
|um, the scene of "Asian-African
Night" presentations.
Backstage, it looked like the
social hour at the United Ma
tons. On-stage, the scenes
quickly changed from Bombay
to Karachi to Ethiopia and other
exotic lands Of the Orient and
Africa.
Ten nations Of Asia and Africa
presented songs and dances ma
tive to their own lands.
One Of Hits
One Of the hits Of the evening
was the medley Of songs and
dances by representatives Of the
Arabic nations. This included
several Bedouin-cla music
makers and graceful child
dancer in a dance number called
the "Darbery."
India presented a Bharata
Natyam dance, accompanied by
a violin, a sorod and a takla. A
sorod is a many-stringed instru-
ment OF wide range, which Is
picked and fingered much in the
manner Of o guitar. A takla 10 q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

didn't travel around here. the
tusk obviously was an import.
he said.
DR.. Gain said he thought 1t
might be that the tusk and other
items came from the old George
town University museum. dis
in the early 1905.
But Father william c. Repetti
the schools archiyist. said that
since the things were found in
the woods, a property the school
sold before the turn of the Gen.
fury. he doubted they were from
the old museum.
Lugs Tusk q Mile
So it is still a mystery who
dumped the stuff in the woods
Nearly as mysterious is how
Robert. who weighs 100. wrestlee
the tusk onto his Star carrier
wagon and lugged it nearly Q
mile to his home-unaided.
He appeared dampened by the
news that his magnificent first
day collection was due more tc
luck than anything else.
You going out again?" he was
asked.
Nope. / don't think So"
His father, Charles Smith, Is
in favor OF the boys decision
The dad had already announced
the tusk would have to go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

American schools were criti-
cized today for side stepping
one of the three Rs-arithmetic.
Raymond j. Seeger, assistant
director Of the National Science
Foundation, told the National
Council of Teachers of Math-
ematics the Nations schools are
falling behind Russia's in math-
ematics teaching. He said edu-
Gators have been RELOCATING
arithmetic to q tool for social
adjustment" when instead they
should be training mathema-
ticians for science and engineer
ing.
And a Washington-area edu-
Gator. DR.. Mary L. Grau of the
Montgomery County public
schools. called the attitude OF
teachers themselves a stumbling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
BIuze in Home
Routs 6 Others;
Spectator Hurt

Four persons, one Of them .
15-month-old boy, were hos.
pitalized and six others were
routed in freezing temperatures
early today when FIRE swept .
house at 16 Adams street NV.
Still another, a spectator. suf-
fered an injured ankle when she
slipped on the icy pavement.
Police said the blaze could
have started in Christmas tree
on the first floor.
Dense smoke and heat rolling
Iup the only stairway had trapped
most OF the occupants on the
second floor. Several leaped
from the windows: others made
their way across a porch roof
and into the window of an adj
Joining home. All are colored.
Those Injured
The injured:
Gary Thomas, Is months, ad-
mitted to Children's Hospital
because of smoke inhalation
Linda Thomas, 3, Children's
Hospital: smoke.
Louella Thomas. 10. District
General; facial burns and smoke.
! Mary Louise Ford. 20, OF
Florence. S. c.. District Gem
eral, smoke inhalation and Q
back injury.
-Four others were treated and
released. They were: Alexzine
Thomas, 70; Vincent Roots. II,
VINO also had a arm injury; Mrs.
Chinetta Roots, 80; Coletta
Roots, 10. The injured spectator
was Shirley Roberts. %, of II
Adams street NV.
| Only two persons in the house
who did not require a doctors
attention were Mrs. Ella Har-
rold. so, owner of the two-story
brick dwelling. and David Abra-
ham. so, who occupied basement
apartments. They fled and gave
the alarm after Mrs. Harold
was awakened by smoke.
Girl Rescues Two
| Louella Thomas broke out .
second floor window and helped
bring Gary Thomas and Vincent
Roots across the porch roof TO
the open window of a neighbor.
Mrs. Dorothy L. Smith. Later
others used this escape route.
Mrs. Roots and Louise Ford
dropped from the second floor to
the ground
A neighbor, John Fleming. of Is
w street NV. brought a ladder
and helped others down
| A local alarm on the fire came
in at 1882 am. and box was
pulled a few minutes later. Al
though fire equipment was on the
scene within minutes. all the
occupants were out of the house.
I The blaze. which left the in
terror of the house burned out.
brought out five engine compa-
MES. two truck companies, two
ambulanceS, two ba ttalion chiefs
and a deputy chief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Night Spots
Costs 10 Vary
Prices Up to $40
Set for New Years

The cost Of ringing In the New
Year in Washington this year
will run all the way from the
price of q late movie to a $20-a-
couple tab at the better night
spots.
That is just the Saturday night
cost, however. To this must be
added the price of anodynes and
sedatives for the morning after.
The first hours of 1856 will be
dry for those in public bars.
Washington's regulation against
serving alcoholic beverages after
midnight on a Saturday night
still stands. Efforts of trade
associations and other groups to
have the order suspended for
the holiday have been unavail-
ling.
Ceiling Price Available
Some of the local spots are
Offering jewellers ceiling price.
The Blue Room at the Shoreham
Hotel will give a seven course
Ifilet mignon dinner, hats. noise
makers, floor show and dancing
Iall for $40 a person, plus tax.
The Pailadian Room, also at the
IShoreham, will have a $3.50 per
person cover charge. which will
include paper hats. You will pay
extra for food and drinks.
The Statler Hotels Embassy
Room is Offering dinner and
dancing at $40 including cover
charge. A number of other ho-
tells, such as the two Sheratons
Iand the Willard. which have
had public parties in the past,
ARE not holding them this year.
The Lounge Riviera in the Ho-
tel 2400 is providing dancing,
Ifavors and entertainment. as well
as breakfast, at 81 a person.
Unlimited Drinks
The Casino Royal, a downtown
club, offers about the same fare
as the Blue Room but will in
Iclude in the $40 a no-limit on
drinks.
The State Society Dance Club
has hired the Burlington Hotel
ballroom for the night and will
provide crazy hats. noisemakers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Pote to T axe Oath
AS Marines Chief

1t. Gen. Randolph Mccall
Pate will be sworn in as the
2lst commandant of the Marine
Corps at 2 pm. Friday in the
Pentagon.
Rear Admiral Ira H. Num-,
Navy Judge advocate general.
will give the oath in the Office
OF Navy Secretary Thomas.
Gen. Pate will succeed Gen.
Lemuel c. Shepherd, jr. on
January !. At that time he will
be given four star rank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Man Badly Burned
In Apartment Fire

A 51-year-old man was burned
seriously early today when his
seventh-floor apartment at 1921
T street NV. caught fire.
The victim, in serious condi-
ton at Emergency Hospital. il
Frank G. Cooney, a Government
printer.
Police said f1remen took him
from the smoke filled apartment
after receiving a telephone call.
Mr.. Cooney told them he could
could not recall whether he
might have left a cigarette
burning. The blaze was con-
fined to his apartment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

and music for dancing from 8
pm until the end Of the year
and an hour and q half into
1856.
Cover charges at the Cross
Roads and the Coral Room will
be $3.50, which includes. of
course, those hats and noise
makers.
Many of the theaters are
scheduling New Years eve
starting at about 1880
pm. Most of the fiickers will be
at advanced prices.
And for the terrible Sunday
that will follow, drug stores in
the city report there is on hand
an ample supply of settlers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

Orange Bowl game between
Maryland and Oklahoma.
The students death was the
56th traffic fatality in Prince
Georges County so far this year,
according to the Department of
Motor Vehicles in Baltimore
There were 81 traffic fatalities
in the county last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28

Il SAT DOWN and talked to
him, and found out he is Mas
ter sergt. Antonio Cortizas. He
does sculpture for the Army
Medical Museum. Makes
models of hearts and veins
and muscles and things like
that.
The kids with him, he said,
were neighborhood boys and
girls from around the south
west area where the museum
is. He's got them organized
into a club. And here's the
part about 1t that's so wonder
full:
"He gives them each a job
to do. Their job is to assign
themselves to elderly people
in the neighborhood, and to
help these people any way
they can-run errands for
them, help them with small
things around the house, and
so forth.
HE won't let the kids take
any money for this. In return
for what they do, he teaches
them art and a little science
works long hours with them.
"And they use what they
learn in another fine way. All
year long, when hardly any
body else is thinking about
Christmas, these kids get to-
gether with Sergt. Cortizas
and make Christmas toys for
other kids-kids who might
not have toys otherwise. The
sergeant provides the mate
rial and keeps things going
along smoothly.
Now it might sound a little
sanctimonious to say that
what the sergeant is doing
helps keep these kids of the
street and out of mischief, and
if you saw them you'd know
right away they're not the
kind that get into trouble.
But it does help them get
. neighborhood spirit, and
grow up knowing that there
are other people in the world
besides themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Club Plans Forum

The Cosmopolitan Club OF
Washington will hold forum on
the Outlook for 1856" at its
1880 pm. meeting tomorrow at
the Sheraton Carlton Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
The
Rambler
Sergeant Cortizus
And All His Kids
By JACK JONAS

It's a little late, but let's
have Herman Norwood. who
works for GSA, tell his Christ
mas story about a chance
meeting and where 1t led:
II usually eat lunch in the
Government cafeteria at Sew
enth and Jefferson drive.
81 noticed this master SER
geant at the table next to
mine one day, with three kids,
and they all seemed to be hav-
ing a fine time, laughing and
talking together. The next
day, there were two young
sters, different ones this time.
"And the next day, he was
by himself.
"'How's the family?' I ask
ed as walked by his table.
"He looked surprised.
az don't have a family he
said. I'm not married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Daily Pageant Program
Today

TOO pm.-Puppet Show. Navajo Indian Family"
730pm.-First Congregational Church Choir.
800pm.-Navy Band
Standardization Security and Trust Co. Chorus.
900 pm.-Harry's Hoppers, square dancing.
915 pm.-Modern School Of Dance program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Rambling

A sign on a Friendship
Heights streetcar reads: Don't
leave 'em standing in the road
cause your driver thinks he
has a full load. MOVE BACK"
Leaving literary criticism aside,
1t might be pointed out, hum
bly,, that the sign would do
more good somewhere near
the front of the streetcar than
it does in its present position,
at the farthest point in the
rear.
A bus driver, on one of those
icy mornings, recognized a reg
ular passenger standing shiv-
ering at the bus stop, and
before he opened the door to
let the passenger in, shouted,
Say pleased" -.
A leftover sign near West
ern and Wisconsin avenues
reads, ice Cold Watermelon
For Sale"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
Tomorrow

800 pm-Amercan folk dances by Girl Scout Troop 362
TOO pm-Puppet show.
1880 pm-Fairfax Chorus
300 pm-"And So They Came to Bethlehem narrative
with tableaux, by the Woodley Players of ALI
Souls Episcopal Church
$50 pm-Internationa Night Songs and dances from
Germany Greece Turkey France, Austria,
Italy Switzerland, the Ukraine and Scotland.
(Arl these events will be held on the Ellpse)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-28
"sERGT. CORTIZAS had a

"SERGT. CORTIZAS had a
heart attack several weeks
ago. He's out at Walter Reed,
and the doctors say he has to
stay there a while and rest
up.
Il got to thinking somebody
ought to do something nice
around Christmas for these
kids who do something nice
for other people all year long.
II knew the sergeant wasn't
going to be able to be up and
about with them at Christmas.
didn't know exactly whether
he'd approve of what had in
mind, since he doesn't let the
kids take anything for what
they do, and so / thought
about it a long time, but
finally decided to 60 ahead.
I'm a sort of an official up
at the Shrine, SO we set up a
little Christmas party there
for the kids.
I'VE arranged to have them
all 16 of them-meet at one
of the homes down there in
the southwest Friday after
noon.
I'VE bundled them into au-
tomobiles and took them up
to the Shrine on K street and
we had a real party-gifts and
entertainment for all of them.
ut could never be as much
as they deserve but maybe 1t
showed a little appreciation
for what they're doing.
I'm glad ! spoke to the SER
geant that day in the cafe
terra"
Evening star., 1955-11-17
sy q star stan Correspondent

CHICAGO. H.. Nov. i7.--Mel-
vim D. Hildreth. Democratic ma
tional committeeman from the
District Of Columbia. today ex-
pressed his satisfaction with the
announcement of Adlai Steven
son that he will be a candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination and win enter the
Minnesota primary next March,
Mr.. Hildreth predicted that
Mr.. Stevenson would be nomi-
mated by the second ballot in
the Democratic National Con-
vention next year. He also
predicted that the District of
Columbia would send its delega-
ton ready to support Mr.
Stevenson.
"The District of Columbia viii
have six delegates in the ma
tional convention" said Mr..
Hildreth. Il am here to make
an effort to have the District
given the privilege of sending
IL delegates, each with one-half
vote. to the national convention.
I believe the District is entitled
to this consideration. We have
been denied 1t in the past on
the ground that there are not
enough seats for additional dele
gates in the convention hall.
This privilege. however. is ac-
corded the delegation from
Maryland and from other States.
In view Of the record made by
the Democrats in the District of
Columbia, the District is entitled
to such treatment. We should
be allowed IL delegates, each
with half a vote, and IL alter
nate delegates. each with half
o vote"
Mr.. Hildreth pointed out that
the District has gone over the
top in raising Its quota Of cam
paign funds every time. It's
quota for 1856, he said, was
$4,000 and already $32,115 has
been raised.
Mr.. Hildreth Is chairman Of
the Stevenson for President
Club Of the District Of Columbia.
He is preparing for the first
primary election Of delegates
authorized under the new Dis
trict law. He said he did not
know whether other presidential
candidates would enter that
primary although he admitted
Evening star., 1955-11-17
HiIdreth Would Double
Convention Delegation

that supporters of Senator
Kefauver Of Tennessee have q
good organization in the Ma
tional Capital. In 1852 Gov
Averell Hartman Of New York
won the Democratic primary in
the District over the supporters
Of Senator Kefauver.
Mr.. Hildreth said. too. that II
was time that the people Of the
District of Columbia be "giver
the right to vote for the candi-
date we help nominate" He
pointed out that a bill giving the
people of the District that right
has already passed the Senate.
Evening star., 1955-11-17
Windows Smashed
At Perfect Circle

NEW CASTLE. Ind, Nov. II
R. = Seven windows were
smashed today in the Perfect
Circle Corp. foundry, scene Of a
riot October 5. as the last group
Of IS National Guardsmen pre-
pared to leave at noon.
Plant guards told Mai. Elmer
L. jackson. South Bend. troop
commander. that a group OF
three to i've men whom they
didn't know smashed the win
dows about 2 am.
Chesley Juday. foundry man
ager. said he fears more trouble
after the troops leave.
Mayor Paul r. Mccormack ap-
pealed to Gov. George N. Craig
early this week to keep the troops
at the strike scene for fear Of
more trouble. But the troops
departure was delayed only from
Wednesday night until today.
Negotiations, conducted spas
medically In Chicago this month,
were In recess today. with no i'm
mediate signs Of an agreement
A union shop demand is the chief
stumbling block.
Evening star., 1955-11-17
FEC Moy Relox
Recording Rule
By the Associated Press

The Federal Communications
Commission said today it viii
consider some further relaxation
Of the broadcasting rule which
In general requires that recorded
program material be identified
as such.
The National Association Of
Radio and Television Broadcast
ers has proposed that the identi-
fication be required only for pro-
grams in which the time element
has special significance. This
would include broadcast record
ings Of speeches or news events
which might lead the listener or
viewer to believe that the event
was occurring simultaneously
with the broadcast.
Evening star., 1955-11-17
Miracle Cushion
Holds False Teeth
Tight and Firm
Eases
Sore
Gums

Snuge brand Denture Cushions are 4 trt
umph Of science. q sensational new plastic
reclining that gets rid Of the annoyanes
and irritation Of loose. badly fitting false
teeth. Snug eases sore. irritated gums due
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anything - talk, laugh -plates stay put. "
Harmless to gums or dentures,
Snug re-liners can last from 10
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Evening star., 1955-11-17
Ferret NeurIy Extinct

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex.-One
Of the rarest mammals in the
United States is the black-footed
ferret. 1t has become nearly ex-
tinct because Of ranchers' poison
ing Of the prairie dogs on which
It preyed.
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