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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Childhood Tormented
Shirley Deserves Fun

Shirley has been bouncing in
and out of foster homes and well
fare institutions virtually all her
life.
She doesn't know what has be-
come Of her family now. She
does know her mother is dead.
That happened about a year ago.
Shirley heard it from a neighbor
later.
Shirley recalls her mother
fondly.s She thinks she remem-
bers a brother and sister. But
she has had only intermittent
contact with her family since
she was 2. She is II now.
Shirley was first committed to
welfare authorities in 1915. Her
parents drank heavily. When
Shirley was S. her father beat
and bruised her severely.
In Secure Home Now
That probably explains why
she is noticeably antagonistic to-
ward men. Even now. in the care
of congenial foster parents with
whom she expects to stay until
she grows up, her strongest at
tachment is for the foster
mother. She is always afraid
something will happen to her.
Shirley is a straightforward lit
tie girl who is clever at finding
ways of making extra money.
She loves plants. animals and
farm life. Among her Skills are
cooking and milking. She can
also paper walls. But she also
likes to play with dolls.
She has a secure home life
now, but she still wants to talk
about her own family and con-
tinues to search for some trace
Of her relatives.
Will She Get a Vacation?
Only entering her teens, Shir-
ley has a turbulent life behind
her. For the next few years,
she must depend on society to
care for her until she can make
her own way in life.
Shirely's biography is hardly
the story of happy childhood
But you can put bright chapter
in it this summer by giving her
a vacation.
Your contribution to The
Evening Star Summer Camp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
Heavy Hits Send
Odds on Numbers
Tumbling Here

Jittery numbers racketeers
here, plagued by heavy hits"
have lowered the odds on WIN
ming numbers. members of the
gambling squad said today.
The numbers barons also have
changed the method Of selecting
the winning three digit numbers
to stop fixes. police said, and to
stop hot numbers, the same
way a poker player changes seats
to break a losing streak"
Gambling squad officers said
they received reports that odds
on some hot" numbers have
been dropped from 60O-l to as
low as 300-l.
Until recently the winning
numbers were determined by
mutuel betting at Washington
Park in Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
Train
Starts Runs at
Sheroton-Purk

| Washington's newest - and
shortest railroad line opened
today at the Sheraton Park
Hotel.
With General Manager Kurt
Smith at the controls the min
iature engine and two passenger
cars chugged around the three
quarter-mile asphalt track circ-
ling the hotel. after Mrs. Smith
had christened it with a bottle
OF pink champagne.
Designed to make distant
parts OF the sprawling 1900
room hotel more accessible tt
guests and convention visitors
the new train arrived last night
from the manufacturer in Day.
ton, Ohio. 1t was christened the
Cherry Blossom Special"
The train carries q passengers
in two blue-and-c chromium, avn
UNCOVERED cars. The engine
1 feet high. resembles a NINA
ture diesel but is powered by a
115-horsepower six-cylinder gas
oline engine. The track" is q
winding asphalt strip laid along
the tree-covered grounds OF the
hotel, reaching most of its II
acres.
Trips. leaving every IS min
uteS during the day and eve
ming, will carry passengers free
Costing $4,000. the train was
installed as part Of the Shera-
ton chains nationwide program
to attract more business. es-
pecially conventions.
Technical assistance on the
project came from the Baltimore
g. Ohio Railroad. Brakemen
conductors and General B g. c
Yardmaster Bill Ekin on hanc
today to start the train on it,
first run.
The trains regular run will
take it from the hotel swimming
poll, through the parking lot
around to the main entrance
down the hill to the apartment
annex, then past the tenni,
courst and to the entrance o.
the new ballroom and exhibit
hall. There the train loop.
around and returns by the same
route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09

dent of the Masters Association
OF the Masons, He is a former
OF the board OF the
Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton.
Married and the father OF
three children, James w. 10.
Edward Neil, 2, and Sharon
Hope. 7. Mr.. Norman lives at
1914 Stephenson place NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
Commission to Hear
Zoninq Suggestions

The Maryland National Capt..
tai Park and Planning Commits.
sion will sponsor a public meet
ing July Is to hear citizens rec
concentrations for changes in the
Silver Spring coming and street
plans.
The meeting will be at 8 pm
in the commission offices, $500
Colesville road, Silver Spring.
The suggestions will be con-
sidered by the commission when
it prepares revised coming and
street plans for the Silver Spring
business district. after which q
public hearing will be held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09

railroad lines. They involve sug-
gestions to acquire parts Of the
rights-of-Way for transit tracks,
or to elevate the transit tracks
above the railroad lines. Most of
these, however, because of the
unfavorable location from
transit point of view, OF because
of speed-reducing curves, do not
present the same advantages as
the line to Silver Spring.
Cleveland Plan Cited
Cleveland's experience and
plans have been cited in connec-
ton with the Washington survey.
Cleveland has acquired parts of
railroad rights-of-way for tran
sit lines, and money has been
voted for downtown subway.
The number employed in
downtown Cleveland is put at
1920 against 100000 in down.
town Washington. Cleveland's
industry is dispersed; Washing
tons industry-Government-is
not. The 100000 figure includes
employees in the Pentagon and
other military establishments
south of the Potomac.
Washington's downtown, even
not counting the trans-Potomac
area. is larger than Cleveland's.
and the streets here are wider.
One of the problems here
would be to lay out a rapid
transit line through Northwest
Washington west of Rock Greek
Park. 1t is conceded it would be
impossible to gain support for
an elevated structure. A subway
would be costly.
Open Cut Possibility
An alternative might be an
open cut carrying both rapid
transit and automobiles. Ar
example is the Congress Street
Expressway across Chicago;
West Side. 1t runs eight mile;
from the Loop to the Cook Coun.
ty line.
This is now nearing compile
ton. 1t will have two four Liant
highways and, in the center
strip. rapid transit rail lines
The cost-nearly Sl00 million.
But, as Mr.. Hoover pointed
out. what seems a tremendous
price today may appear small
20 years hence after population
and congestion have increased
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
SEND A KID AMP

How to send a kid to
camp.
Make out check or money
order to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund. Mail
it to The Evening Star.
Washington 4, D. c.. or bring
cash TO The Star cashier.
The cost-S36.40 for II
days, 1920 for six days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
Carnegie Clubs Elect

LOS ANGELES, July 9 (P).-
Mrs. Annabelle Grimes of
Waynesboro. Va. yesterday was
named president-elect OF the
Dale Carnegie Clubs Interna-
tional at the closing session of
its seventh annual convention,
She is the first woman oresi-
dent of the organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
-Four 1OthGrade
Courses Listed
For Next Fall
II Glasses Qualify
In 'Honors' Group
And 81 for 'Busic'
BY JAMES B. DEANE

Twelve classes OF washington
high school beginners haYe quail
ified for the District school sys-
TENS tough new "honors" course
which will be launched next fall,
it was learned today!c
But at the other end of the
scale, a third of the city's tenth
graders will be in a new basic"
course, streSsing remedial work
in reading and math. Many of
these students are far behind
grade level in basic subjects.
DR.. Carl F. Hansen, assistant
superintendent, disclosed he has
asked for IA more teachers for
this basic program, because of
the large number of enrollees.
The new honors and basic pro-
grams are part of four-way re-
organization of the city'S high
school course of study being put
in effect for 10th graders.
Called by DR.. Hansen a -four
track" program, the reorganiza
ton includes two other tracks
regular" for college prepare
ton, and general, for business
and other non-college prepara-
tory students.
Tenth graders will stay in the
new plan as they move upward
so that the program will cover
all three high-school grades by
two years from now.
DR.. Hansen gave this break
down on the class organization
for the 10th grade totaling about
5-l00 students for next fall:
Honors-l2 classes, or about
$50 students.
Regular COLLEGES classes. or
about LAO students.
General-63 classes, or about
1890 students.
Basic-57 classes. or about
LILO students.
Percentage wise. the break
down is: Honors. 7 per cent:
regular college. % per cent;
general. 81 per cent. ann basis
"a per cent.
The regular college prepare
tory course, similar to the city,
customary program. will be con-
tinued at all high schools except
one armstrong;, Dr.. Hansen
stressed. The general course is
to continue to be available at all
schools.
All but one high school-which
DR.. Hansen declined to meme
will have some of the new basic.
course classes. Students as.
signed to this program will bt
required to take special remedia
courses in math and English.
I The new basic course is com
pulsory for students enterinI
tenth grade at or below sixth
grade level in reading achieve.
ment. as shown on standard
tests. A year ago, a fourth o.
the city's tenth graders were il
this category, and third O
them were similarly behind il
arithmetic
DR.. Hansen said the total O.
college preparatory students
about 80 per cent. counting botl
the honors and regular groups
seemed somewhat low. Forty,
five to so per cent Of the city,
high school graduates have beer
going to college in recent years
he said.
But he pointed out that som,
tenth graders drop out befor,
completing high school and tina
it is not proper to compare tn,
tenth and twelfth grades on col,
lege records for this reason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09

IIlIS WOulu Ue Hlduc OIlIy IL IIlc
studies indicate volume Of
traffic to support it.
Those connected with the
survey naturally are not fore
casting what the recommended
lions will be, particularly since
the data on which the recon-
mendations will be based have
not been gathered together.
The survey, designed to pro-
vide long-range mass transit
plans for the area, was au-
thorized last year by Congress
which appropriated 100000 for
the project.
Keneth E. Hoover. director of
the survey, said that the pro-
cess of reaching conclusions will
have to wait on what comes out
of electronic computers. This
material will not be available
until fall.
Three Studies Involved
Into the "electronic brains"
will be fed the data obtained
from the l948 and 1855 traffic
origin and destination studies.
These were made by the Bureau
Of Public Roads and the District,
Virginia and Maryland highway
departments.
So far as is known, this is
the first time that material from
two parallel surveys separated
by several years is available. Put
together. the material may be
counted on to indicate important
traffic trends.
To this traffic data will be
added economic factors being
developed by the Mass Transit
Survey. These include popula-
ton size and distribution figures,
average rents, automobile regis
trations, land use and employ
ment.
The computers are expected
to take all this material. CORE
late it and come out with a pic
ture applicable to today. Then
on the basis of trends disclosed
the picture would be projected
to 1865 and to 1880.
Other Cities Cited
What has been recommended
in studies made for other cities
may provide a form sheet from
which to gain some inkling Of
what may be expected here.
Earlier this year recommends
tons were made for a regional
rapid transit system in the Sar
Francisco Bay area. The pro-
poSals included a subway anc
radial high-speed transit lines
both elevated and surface. The
plan recommended was esti.
mated to cost $716,500,000.
A study also was made of the
transit problems in southern
New Jersey. The recommends.
tons resulting were for a tube
under the Delaware River be.
tween Camden, N. j.. and down.
town Philadelphia and lines
running into the suburbs alons
railroad rights-of-way. These
transit lines would be on ele.
waited structures. separating then
from ,the railroad lines.
Significantly, Mr.. Hoover wa'
a consultant 20 both the Sar
Francisco and southern New
Jersey survey organizations.
Subway Previously Favored
The firm of Adams, Howard
g. Greeley of Boston served thu
San Francisco survey as regiona
planning consultant. 1t has beer
employed in the survey here tt
assist in the preparation of pop
ulation and land use analyses
and projections.
Earlier studies of the Wash
ington area transit problem, havl
resulted in recommendations TO
a subway downtown and radiat
ing lines, chiefly following exist
ing railroad rights-of-way.
What has become almost {
standard recommendation hai
been to run transit line. to Sill
yer Spring along the Bsltimor,
and Ohio railroad.
Similar proposals have beer
made in connection with othel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
Karrick Hits Denial
Of Intern Pay Rise
Says Shortage
At D. c. General
Will Get Worse

District Commissioner David
R. Karrick today criticized the
action of the House Appropria-
tons Committee which cuts out
pay raises for interns at the Dis
trict General Hospital and the
employment of first-aid men to
man ambulanceS.
The Commissioner who heads
the Districts health services,
termed the shortage of interns
at the institution critical" and
declared that without the pay
raise the shortage next year
obably would be worse.
The House group announced
Friday had slashed $4,000
for the raises for interns and
residents and $l4,500 to pay
first-aid men. 1t also diSallowed
the District SO million increase
in Federal payment despite the
fact that Congress authorized it
last March.
Lowest Paid in City
Il think" Mr.. Karrick de-
clared. that it is a shame not
to give the pay raise to these
young men. 1t will have a very
serious effect on them. The in.
terms at District General Hos
pital are the lowest paid in the
city.
"InternS at Freedmen's Hos.
pital get $4,000 a year We are
asking only for jump from ST.
545 to $500 annually. And
that's still $500 below Freed.
mems"
The Commissioner last month
asked Congress for the increase
in a supplemental bill declaring
it is necessary if the hospital is
to maintain adequate standards
of medical care.
Unable to Fill Quota
Mr.. Karrick, DR.. Phillip A. z
Stebbing, hospital superintend-
ent. and others told the com.
mittee that under the new
budget 81 interns are allowed
the institution but that only
SO medical school graduates have
been persuaded to work there
during the coming fiscal year.
Mr.. Karrick said today that
hiring f1rst-aid specialists to ride
on ambulances would free six
to seven interns for the work
of caring for the SICK.
4 During the war" he added,
and up until l947 or 1948 drivers
who were tirst-aid men were
used alone on ambulances. 1
think if they got along that way
then we should certainly be able
to do a good job with two men
a driver and f1rst-aid man on
each ambulance.
Inc decision TO make the shift
from interns to first aid experts
is the result of a critical short
age of interns primarily. al.
though DR.. Joseph Fazekas,
chief OF the hospitals medical
staff. declared it would give the
interns more opportunities for
better training in the medical
wards.
Used Other Places
I Many hospitals throughout
the Nation, it has been pointed
out, have made this hift be-
cause Of the intern shortage
nationally.
Some medical authorities al.
ways have questioned the need
of a doctor in emergency stu
atoms of the type ambulances
answer. They argue that the
first aid man can apply tourni-
quetS or splints as we'll as a
doctor and that there is too
little time between picking the
patient up and getting him to
the hospital for a doctor to
apply his skillS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09

Fund will make sure that Shirley,
who is a real Washington child,
although that is not her real
name, and other children like
her can enjoy the fun and new
associations Of a camping vaca-
ton.
The following camp fund gifts
are acknowledged today:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
The
Rambler
City Hos Survived
Many d Critic
BY JACK JONAS

Someone is always telling
Washington-and the coun-
try at large-what is wrong
with Washington.
The Nations Capital is an
easy target. Nearly everyone
able to read what the critics
have to say has been to WASH
ington, or has seen pictures
of the White House and the
Capitol. So they feel they
know what the city, is all
about.
The latest to point the
finger of doom at the city is
United States News and World
Report, which used a dozen
and a half or so Of its pages
the other day TO catalog the
c1ty'S headaches. A few years
ago it was a book, which was
supposed to give confidential
inside information about the
horrors and debauchery of
life in Washington.
The critics must have their
fling. 1t is good for their
livers.
But most of them take on
a note of pessimiSm-sound-
ing as if they had bet on the
Mats to win the American
League pennant, And none of
them offers any suggestions;
except for an occasional figu-
rative shout of Fire the
manager!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09

THE CRITIC usually finds
it necessary to resort to pad
ding to make the list Of
WaShington's troubles i'm
pressive in the hinterlands.
This results in bringing in
things like traffic congestion,
the ills of public transporta-
ton, and the flight to the
suburbs, as if they were
unique here.
There really is only one
unique thing about Washing
ton; namely that in 1900 this
site was selected as the seat
Of the Federal Government.
Often the critic is hoist on
his own petard.
The latest piece, for ex-
ample, talks about the terri
BILE congestion downtown.
Anybody who drives down.
town In Washington or home
during the rush hour is per-
hapS convinced that this is
. the most crowded CITY in the
world.
But he will be surprised to
learn, a little later on, that
the density OF working
people in Washington is only
10000 to the square mile, COM
pared with 10000 in Chi
cago."
At another place, it is indi-
Gated that this is confusing
town for tourists, who COM
plain they are likely to go
around and around for an
hour before they can find
their way to where they want
to CO." That contains the
broad hint, of course, that
strangers in downtown Bos-
ton, or Chicago, or New York,
proceed without confusion or
hesitation directly to the
point they seek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
Report Expected to Urge
High-Speed 7 ronsit Lines
Call for Downtown Subway Possible
If Survey Shows Traffic Justifies 1t
BY FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS

High speed transit lines radating from downtown Wash
ngton expected to be recommended by the Washington
Area Mass Transit Survey when it finally reports
Those observing the the also expect that
downtown subway may be of the recommendations But
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09

WASHINGTON, this critic
hints, is about to become a
ghost town because of the
flight to the suburbs. This
would imply that anyone who
owns a home here would be
anxious to unload it at any
price. Then later, showing
that the cost of living here
is high, there is this: The
average single family house
in Washington is valued at
Sl4,022, the highest any,
where"
There are equally contra
dictory points elsewhere.
There can be no denial, as
the critic says, that Washing
tons problems are not trivial
ones. They do not come
kingly."
sIt may be true that the
city's glamour as the Ma
TONS showplace and as a
world center overShadows
these problems for the casual
visitor-but no more true
than that the glamour of
Hollywood overshadows the
problems of Los Angeles, or
the glamour Of Broadway
overshadows the problems of
New York.
Washington is well aware
cAits problems, and Just as
aware that 1t is not alone.
This is evident in the experts
who come here from other
cities to see how Washington
is handling its problems, and
in the experts who 60 to other
cities from Washington for
the same purpose.
It's just that the Nations
Capital is an easier target.
Street Scenes
A boy down on his knees at
a bus stop at Twenty-third
street and Ridge road in Ar
lington, looking through a
textbook and scribbling notes
In a notebook -.
A boy not more than 3
years old, standing on Fes-
sender street near the new
reservoir, helping the work
men direct traffic over a
couple OF board-covered hoses
stretched across the road. :. /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-09
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

American Society Of APP
praisers meets in the Hotel
Statler
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APIS. UNEURNIsHED-MD.

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schools and shops; big closets. de l.
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HOUSES WANTED TO RENT

HREE-REDROOM unfurn. house
vic, Hyattsville, College Park, Univ
Park. Call MRS. BEARD, UN. 4-9S45
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-18

FOR FAST BUYER
For rooming or boarding house,
90. rooms, 8 baths Selling furniture
only no rooms rented. Seller will
give lease. low price $500. Down
81 900; on nice street. Close in,
EDWIN L. ELLIS
l0lO Vermont Ave. RE. 1-5I4O