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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
$50 Persons
Again Set As


The present arbitrarily fixed
capacity of $3.50 people of the
National Guard Armory was re-
affirmed yesterday by the Dis
trict Commissioners.
The same figure that has pre-
vailed in recent years was set,
despite the fact that it is 886
greater than the figure that
could actually be accommodated
by the present number of exits.
The question of Armory ca
pacity has long been an issue
here. The last time it was
raised. the Commissioners re-
fused to let the Boy Scouts hole
their area jamboree last January
when a crowd larger than 5.31C
was anticipated. The figure wa:
adopted to accommodate the fol.
lowers of evangelist Billy Ora.
ham.
The Commissioners also rec.
commended that the Armory
Board and the District Building.
and Grounds Office take steps tt
design and finance construction
of an adequate number of exits
for the building at Nineteenth
and East Capitol streets.
Meanwhile, the city heads sale
fatty any requests to exceed thu
allowed capacity will not be en-.
tertained."
The actions stemmed from thu
recommendations of James B
DAILY. research and standards
. engineer of the licenses and In
spections Department, who hal
been surveying the Armory stu
atiOn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11

Construction crews have begun
work on a 1.5-mile section Of
the inter county belt parkway
between Wisconsin avenue
Rockville Pike and Connect.
cut avenue in Montgomery
County.
Employees of the John H
Ensey Contracting Co. of Balti-
more undertook the initial lane
clearing phase, hampered BY
this weeks rainfall.
The project, for which the
Maryland State Roads Com.
mission has allocated $3.50, 900
crosses Cedar lane by means Of
a four-lane bridge already con.
structed. Planned to connect
eventually with the Eastern les
of the Washington Nationa
Pike. the parkway will become
"a part of the road agency's cir.
cumferential highway in nearby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
SEND A KID TOCAMP

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. DC. or bring
cash to The Star cashier.
The cost-$36.40 for IL
days, $500 for six days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
BY HARRY BACAS

~
Friendship Airport, sometimes
proposed as a solution to WASH
Iington's air-crowding problem,
is a big, aforementioned facility
that almost no one seems to want
to use.
Located in the middle of the
Maryland countryside. it is about
eight miles from Baltimore and
80 miles from Washington. The
objection Of Washington all
travellers is obvious-it's too far
Even with the Washington
Baltimore parkway in use, those
80 miles mean 40 minutes Of
driving time under ideal condi-
tions. Under average conditions
driving time is more like ar
hour.
But Baltimore residents dom
seem to like Friendship much
better. When the airport wa:
opened in 1850, daily arrivals Of
commercial planes were about
SO. Now the number of scheduled
airliners arriving has dropped tt
about 48 a day. The number o.
passengers is up, however, be-
cause larger planes are using thu
airport.
Some Even Come Here
Some Baltimoreans come al
the way to Washington by trair
or car to board planes. A checl
recently by the Civil Aeronautici
Board showed that Is per cen
of American and Eastern Air
lines passengers are ticketed il
Baltimore but board their flight
in Washington. The percentag,
is 40 per cent for Delta and 81
per cent for United Airlines.
The main business of Friend
ship is in short intercity flights
: Three times as many peopl
leaving the airport are headeC
for New York as for any othe
city.
: Another CAB check Shove,
that in a 15-day period, l6
passengers left Friendship TO
Los Angeles. In the same period
1853 persons left Washington
for Los Angeles.
The airlines, too, object t
the idea of transform fror
S Washington to Friendship as
: terminal. They have spent ii
! lions of dollars on maintena.
. equipment here.
n Among the staunchest pro
moters of Friendship as a re
gional air hub, if not precisely
: co-terminal with Washingto
: National, have been the Balti
more Chamber of Commerc
and the Greater Baltimor
Committee.
They were among those pre-
S testing the recent decision b
o a CAB examiner that Pa
n American World Always b
8 denied the right to use Friend
ship as its Washington Balti
Il more terminal on flights fror
Boston. The CAB is hearing ap
d peals this week from the deci
e sion.
: Used for Picnicking
Because air travel is so ligf
e at Friendship. the termin;
). building has been put to som
S strange uses. On summer wee
: ends. airport authorities hav
S been bothered by crowds c
: Baltimore citizens who brin
lunches, newspapers and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Navy Presses Search
For z Missing Planes

NORFOLK, Va, July IL CP.-
The Navy resumed an intensive
air-ground search today for two
missing Cutlass jet fighters
which failed to return yesterday
from a routine training fight.
One of the pilots was identi-
fed as Comdr Chester w. Gates,
jr., of Baldwin City, Kans., a
r1943 graduate of the United
States Naval Academy. Comdr.
Gates lived at Virginia Beach
with his wife and two children.
The other pilot was not identi-
fled pending notification Of kin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11

An arch foe of plans to locate
the proposed Central Intelligence
Agency headquarters on Federal
land at Langley. Va, was ex-
pected today to tell the Senate
Appropriations Committee that,
as things now stand. it would
be illegal" for the super-secret
agency to build there.
Although he hasn't been asked
to do so. Roger D. Fisher, a
local lawyer who has led a
lengthy fight against GAS ef-
forts to locate in Langley, was
expected to testify that the $54.5
million project should not be
undertaken there for legal and
moral" reasons.
Mr.. Fisher, a resident of the
Langley area, explained at q
news conference yesterday that
he was scheduled to appear be-
fore the committee late today
in general opposition to the CA
request for $40 million in con-
struction funds. He added, how
ever, that, if asked, he would
talk with the committee about
information he recently obtained
concerning the proposed use Of
a portion of the 140-acre site
which was decided some years
ago to the Federal Government
"for park purposes only" He ad-
mitted he probably will be asked
Copy of Letter Produced
Mr.. Fisher gave reporters &
copy of letter he addressed las
Friday to Harland Bartholomew
chairman Of the National Capt.
tai Planning Commission, il
which he outlined serious lega
and policy problems" concern
ing the proposed use by CHA of 6
6l2-acre strip of parkland which
bisects the huge tract.
He also said he had just haC
a conference with DonalC
CLANCY, general counsel to thu
commission, in which Nv,
agreed that there was no lega
authority to construct the offic,
building on this piece of dedicat
ed park land. In fact, the prop
erty can be used for nothing bu
park purposes.
He said Mr.. Clancy alst
agreed that the strip could no
be used unless it is excess t,
park needs or there is an au
thorization by Congress to use
it for that purpose. At TIN
present time this land could no
be said to be excess to parl
needs"
/ Mr.. CLANCY told The Star
however, that he felt congress
sional approved of funds to built
the CHA center on the Langle!
tract would be sufficient to salts
fly the legal question Mr.. Fishe
raised. He said he considered
this would be tantamount Il
Authorization to use the land TO
"other than park purposes.
Mail Vote in Progress
In the letter to Mr.. Barthol
omew, the attorney told TIN
chairman he recently learne,
that the commission is now tax
ing a mail vote on the question
Of approving the transfer of tn
.l6la-acres-a strip about so fee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Rockville Body Receivers
From 50-Aspirin Dose

Two-year-old Linda Yost OF
Rockville, Md, was back home
today, apparently recovered
from swallowing so aspirin tab
lets.
Linda. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George r. Yost. 337 Dean
drive, found the children's size
aspirins at home yesterday.
The Rockville Rescue Squad
ambulance took Linda to Sub
urban Hospital, Bethesda, where
her stomach was pumped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Even BoItimoreons Avoid
Using Friendship Airport

children into the air-con-
ditioned waiting room an d
spend the day picnicking.
One of the three wings of
the building is occupied not by
airlines Offices but by the Air
Force. 1t has installed opera
tons offices for it's Air Research
and Development Command
there.
The main building wing,
called the international pier, F."
has so little business it has been
leased to Westinghouse for a
super-secret air armament en-
Igineering project. The Mary
land Air National Guard takes
up more of the space.
Airport officials say the 1900
acre field with its single instru-
ment-landing runway 9,450 feet
lor& and two smaller runways
ought to get more use. They
say it is capable of handling
much more traffic than it does
now.
But the people who pay fol-
the airlines-the ticket buyers
don't seem to see it that way. i.
$3.50 For Limousine
Another stumbling block tt
greater use of Friendship BY
travellers to and from Washing.
ton would be the cost of limou.
sine service. The limousines nov
charge $3.50 to go to Washing.
ton. They will carry seven pas
sengers, but can't always ge
that many.
Sometimes, when a number O
Washington bound planes hav,
been diverted to Friendship
buses have been loaded up tt
carry passengers to Washington
at $3.50 a head. Offlcials sa,
that greater use of the airpor
might bring lower fares, but tina
would have to be decided later.
Built for SIS million-$12 mil
lion from a Baltimore bond issu
and So million from a Fedora
grant-Friendship is in the blue
1t has made money for the las
five years. BackerS of the air
port would like to see it max
more.
+. badly the biggest obstacl
amt n immovable one-to il
becoming Washington's secon
: terminal l. contained in tn
; simple legep' s on two road sigr
here the friendship approac
d com 5 into the Washington
Bat. parkway. The sigr
read:
/ Baltimore miles. Washing
. ton 81 miles"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Petition Studied
In zoning Row
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN

The possibility of getting So
900 signatures on a petition to
oppose the coming plan prepared
by conSultant Harold M. Lewis
was under study today by Co.
lumbia Heights businessmen.
This was discussed yesterday
at a meeting of the Columbia
Heights BusineSsmen's AsSocia-
ton. held in Sholl's Cafeteria
1927 Fourteenth street NV
They fear wiping out of the
existing business section and
substitution. under the Lewis
plan. of a residential area.
In their fight to retain Four
tenth street, between Otis and
Chaplin streets NV, as a grow
ing midtown business section, the
group voted to present its own
coming plan.
This would provide for c.;
zoning-major business and EN-.
ployment-on both sides of Four.
tenth street NV, between OH.
and Chaplin streets NV.
Want Parking Facilities
Furthermore, it would afforc
appropriate transitional zoninl
adjacent to the proposed c.:
area, between Thirteenth anC
Fifteenth streets NV, also be.
tween Otis and Chaplin street.
NV. The businessmen wan
adequate off-street parking t
serve the business community.
The association contendeC
that, under the Lewis plan, tn,
business community would b,
wiped out and existing reSiden
tial areas adjacent to Fourteenth
street, on the side streets, woult
become one-family residences
Many of these are now roominI
houses.
The Lewis plan calls for
comparatively small bushes
section. along Fourteenth street
from Newton to just south O
Kenyon street NV, official
said. A small section, devote,
to local convenience stores woul,
be Immediately south of thi
major business and employment
coming. At the south en-,
would be shopping and bust
ness area.
The rest of the area would b
largely residential. This woul
include row houses and con
versions, medium density apart
ment houses and low denSit
apartment houses.
Credit Tightening Feared
The associations president d.
Julius j. Gottlieb, directed Chair
man George Freedman and hi
coming committee to lay its ow,
coming plan before Mr.. Levi
and his associates at the Distric
Building.
Mr.. Freedman told the as
ISOLATION that, under the Levi
plan. no banking or lending in
stltution would loan money o
business property in that are;
because it is supposed to b
wiped out in is years.
Secretary H. c. Phillips toll
the association the District au
thorities are screaming abou
not having any place to pl
people displaced by the South
west area redevelopment pre-
gram.
Yet, he said, the Lewis pla
would tear down properties an
change the character of the &C
lumbia Heights neighborhoot
displacing people there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
RedChargesHinted
In Maryland Race
Butler Says
Tydings Gets
Left Wing Aid

Maryland's senatorial race to-
day picked up where it left of
six years ago with hints of the
Communist issue being raised
again.
Opening fall campaign salvoes
were exchanged by Republican
Senator Butler and the man he
defeated in 1850, former Senator
Millard E. Tydings, Democrat.
In a blast reminiscent of
his earlier successful campaign
charges. Senator Butler yester-
day accused Mr.. Tydings of ac-
ceptIng financial support from
an organization which was "pri-
marily interested in left-wing
policies.
His comment was on Mondays
announcement that the National
! Committee for an Effective Con-
gress was contributing $500 to-
|, ward the campaign of Mr..
Tydlngs. Further aid is to DE
, given, the organization promised.
Denied by Tydings
If I received a contribution
from that outfit l would send
it back" the Republican COM
mented hufflly.
} An aide to the Republican
/, Senator, celebrating on the re-
marks, said the fact that the
: committee is supporting Sena-
' tor Morse, Democrat of oregon,
as we'll as former Senator Ty-
: dlngs, was indicative of its
t "left-Wing" leanings.
Last night Mr.. Tydings issued
statement in which he said he
e was very amused" at Senator
J, Buffers description of the COM
0 mittee as a 'too-liberal organi-
4 cation" Mr.. Tydings, himself,
Y pointed to a similarity of the
t issue now raised by the Senator
t and the communism issue raised
between the two in their earlier
: campaign.
e II am sure" the former Sem
i ator was quoted by the Associ-
:. ated Press, every Maryland
It citizen will have hearty chuckle
: upon hearing Mr. Butler COM
e ment on the subject of campaign
donations, coming as it does
e only five years after Mr.. Buffers
S last campaign manager, Mr.. Jon
d Jonkel, was indicted, tried and
le convicted of violation OF Mary
IS land corrupt practice election
h laws for mishandling of dona-
! tions and improper donations.
IS Called Distraction
1T seems" Tydings added,
: that my opponent is going to
: try to distract the Maryland
voters attention from the real
\ issues of this election by any
means. no matter how absurd.
Mr. Butler must run on his
record. which includes a unani-
A nous 'eport from a nonpartisan
" Unitec States Senate committee
% made OF Republicans and
Democrt alike which found IN
1850 Mi Butler conducted q
j 'despicable. back-street type OF
Il campaign involving false photo
graphs smears, etc"
re Mr. Tydings also noted the
, National Committee for an Effec-
tive Congress includes as mem
bers George R. Donahue, prom
: lnent Catholic layman; Dr.
: Francis Sayre, dean of the Ma
l. tional Cathedral in Washington;
! DR.. James H. Pike, dean of the
Episcopal Cathedral of st. John
y the Divine in New York; Elmer
u Davis and Archibald MacLeish.
Mr.. Tydings said they need
y no defense from me for the
- type of ridiculous antics my OPP
% ponent has INDUCED in"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Hotel Men Elect

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. July
IL (P).-Richard L. Gibson of
Huntington, w. Va, has been
chosen president of the South
Iern Hotel Association, succeed
ing Richard B. Keeley of Rich
mond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11

GEORGE MASON, after he
was approached by Stoddert,
sent a letter to his son, Gen.
John Mason. In it he told the
general to get together all
available information about
land approaches and chan
mel depths, and have a pri-
vate talk with Pierre Len
FAINT, the city's designer.
George Mason himself was
then in i'll health and unable
to go about investigating
such things, but apparently
he wanted to push for a
bridge across or close by the
island.
Shortly after Stoddert's
bridge proposal, and in the
same year-1792-the elder
Mason died, but the dream
for a bridge did not. Gen.
Mason inherited the island,
and began building a home
there and, more important,
planning a causeway to con-
meet it with the Virginia side.
Georgetown was interested
in the causeway, too. Resi-
dents and merchants there
felt it would be just one more
link toward eventual bridging
of the Potomac. They also
felt that blocking the Little
River would help flush away
the silt that was building up
below the island, and keep
the channel free for ocean
vessels.
The cauSeway was in dis
cussion for a long time, and it
was not until 1906 that every
thing was ironed out anC
Thomas Moore, the engineer
was hired to do the job. He
was paid $4,000 and the task
took year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
The
Rambler
New Bridge Hos
Link With Past
BY JACK JONAS

Gen. John Mason's hope for
a bridge across his island is
going to be realized some 165
years later.
He and Thomas Moore, the
civil engineer, would be
aghast at the expected $40
million cost for the Consti-
tuition avenue bridge across
the lower tip of Theodore
Roosevelt Island, known in
1892 as Mason's Island.
That was the year Ben
jamin Stoddert, a George
town luminary and later Sec
rotary of the Navy, proposed
to Gen. MaSon'S father =
George Mason of GunSton
Habitat a company be or
ganized to throw a bridge
across the Potomac at
Georgetown.
The broad mouth of Rock
Greek was being bridged in
1892, and the year also
marked the first rumblings
of the Potomac bridge con-
troversy that has been raging
ever since. There was at the
time a high rivalry for trade
among the villages of the
area, and Georgetown was
worried about losing its place
as a center for travel and
trade.
The MasonS operated a
profitable ferry across the
river by their island. 1t was
part of the main route to
Alexandria and points south.
Stage coaches and freight
wagons pulled aboard the
flat-bottomed boats at the
foot of Wisconsin avenue
were ferried to the Virginia
side, and continued on their
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Eustis Contract Let

NORFOLK, Va, July IL a.
j. w. Bateson Co. Inc, of Dallas,
Tex, has been awarded a $7,965, :
482 contract to construct 600
family housing units at Fort
Eustis, the Army Engineers an
nounced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11

MEANTIME, in 1897, the river
was bridged just below Little
Falls = the site of today'S
Chain Bridge. That did not
interfere too much with
Mason's ferry, because the
more direct route to Alexan-
dria still was across the river
at Georgetown.
Also while the cauSeWay
discussion was going on, a
bigger debate was raging in
Congress over a proposal to
build a bridge approximately
where the Fourteenth street
bridge is located today. The
protests from Georgetown de-
layed it for several years, but
it finally was approved and
opened in 1910. 1t was called
the Long Bridge.
After the causeway was
built THE Mason ferries went
from Wisconsin avenue to the
island, vand the coaches and
wagons went across the
causeway land on to Alexan-
dria. When the Long Bridge
opened, the ferry's business
dropped by half, as many
vehicles begin taking the
shorter and less troublesome
route.
Georgetown got its bridge,
finally-the Aquspuct Bridge
by the middle of the 10th
century. Despite its losses
Mason's ferry continued to
operate until then, but Mason
never got his bridge across
the island.
Rambling
A television newsmah g
few days back announced
that the Washington area
would have "shatterec
scowers" :.
A lady writes that one o.
her neighbors has cat which
raises an awful fuss until the
air conditioner is turned on
then curls up and goes tt
sleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Society of
Appraisers winds up its
m eetings in the Hotel
Statler.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-05-24

DR.. F. d. Custer, veterinarian
here, will attend meeting of
disease control veterinarians al
the University of Pennsylvania i'm
Philadelphia. on Friday of this
week. He plans to return to Oak
land on Saturday.
Nancy Glotfelty eldest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs Jack Glotfelty in
jured her right arm on Monday
when she fell from the porch at
her home. 1t was at first thought
the arm had been broken but X
rays showed otherwise.
Members of the MiZpah Sunday
School class of St. Paurs Metho-
dist church had their annual
mother-daughter banquet, Wednes-
day night, May %, with sixty per-
sons present. Mrs. Harold Harmed
is teacher of the class.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Hammond
had as guests on Sunday, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar P. Smoot, Clarksburg
w. Va; Mrs. Earl S. Smoot and Mr.
and Mrs. Russedll Bolton, Morgan
town, w. Va; and Mrs. w. w
SharpS. NeWburg, w. Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-05-24
Five Births Occur

Five births occurred at the Gar
rett County Memorial hospital in
Oakland during the past week,
three boys and two girls.
on the nth a son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil Edward Lewis, Oak
land.
On the goth son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Chester Roland Sines, Mt.
Lake Park.
On the Dist a daughter to Mr..
and Mrs Willis Stump, Terra Alta,
w. Va.
On the 23rd a son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Regis James Kerins, Oakland.
On the oath a daughter to Mr.
and Mrs. James Dale Lewis,
Pierce, w. Va.
During the week the hospital adj
mitted 20 patients and discharged
As. Census this morning is So
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-05-24
Picnic Areas Are
Ready For Summer

With summer just around the
corner the states IS picnic areas
once again have been spruced up
with paint and varnish in anticipa-
ton of their biggest season since
the program was launched five
years ago al the request of Gov
ernor McKeldin. The State Roads
commission which builds and main
tains them, estimates that more
than 100000 people made use of
these facilities during the last tour
list season.
In the 95 roadside spots there is
space for 1,167 automobiles, and
there are 467 combined tables and
benches, 81 fireplaces and 255
trash cans painted green and en-
blazoned with the familiar legend
KEEP MARYLAND BEAUTI-
Full"
Thirteen of the sites are com
bined with community ponds or
streams where fishing is permits
sible. Picnic areas are located at
random points throughout the
state. All are adjacent to but COM
pletely off the highways
The roadside sites in Garrett
county are found on US. 40, 3
miles west of Grantsville; U. S.
route 219, 3.3 miles north of Oak
land; US. route PIG, Ill miles
north of Oakland; State route 38,
SIS miles east of Deer Park; US.
50, As miles west of German. There
are Is fireplaces, SO tables, space
for 68 automobiles and IS trash
cans. Allegany county has five
sites, all on US. forty Washington
county has five and Frederick
county has seven.