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IDEAL FOR YOUNGSTERS--3-bed.
rm., .1la-bath Colonial on a quiet
street In Lorcom lane area, Walk
ing distance TO schools and shop.
ping centersi 9 mi. stop light Il
Pentagon. Rec. rr. opening onto
patio; large lot with trees, Hover,
Rent price, sl55. "a. S.p053'
Z BEDROOMS, 25t BATHS in thi
DIVERSIFIED all-brick Cape Cot
home. located In one OF N. Arl'I
CHECK THESE FEATURES: 23-ft
living room with fireplace; sep
dining room; de luxe equipped all
cleo. kitchen with breakfast area
bedrooms and bath on LIST floor
= HUGE BEDROOMS on end floor
tull hsmt. has loft rec. room witt
fireplace, is-bath built-in garage
Ssa;0Ou LIST trust available. Cal
METzLER ia. $3.50.
ANOTHER EXCELLENT VALUE OF.
Tered BY Pentagon Realty Co; 3.
bedroom frame rambler with nice.
sized living room. dining area anc
EQUIPPED kitchen, patio and I'm.
finished storage basement. Choice
location. in Pimmit Hills; conven
iently located TO schools, buses
shopping, etc. Lovely lawn with
stream and shade trees at rear 81
property. Priced Si1,5OO. Can b.
financed OF with 1876 cash or pur.
chaser can take over present own.
ers 40 loan with substantial
cash payment. Tor appointment 10
inspect phone pENTAGON REALTY
co. Fairfax Va, CIR. 3-O544.
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HOUSES FOR sALE--VA.

FOR ONLY S7OO DOWN you car
own this 3-bedrm home on lovely
shaded lot, conveniently located
| REAITY. Du. 5-74if.
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HOUSES for SALE. VA. Cont.

ALEX. HALL - 3-bedroom
brick rambler. Just on scenic Mt.
Vernon blvd. 16-ft den, fenced
yard: near S-acre park. pool. shops
and good schools: immediate pos
session. Yours for only S14,350.
Excellent terms. e. A. HERNHOLM,
III. 9-7411; ewes. so. 5-6592.
ALEX.--Looking for hot-water heat?
EXCELLENT BUY" In Del Ray
area. Walk to bus and shoppinE
kit, lge. glass-encl. sun porch; End
4. has 3 very nice bedrooms and
bath; lot enclosed with Anchor
fence; Diet. garage. HOME IN EX-
CELLENT CONDITION. ONLY $l3,-
700. Al SMITH REALTY, XII.
s-6652. ewes, TIE. 6-5S52.
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CHLNERL l,--Attractive spacious g
lot, yrs old. Excellent place for
children, Liv, RIM with mirrored
nrepl.. book shelves. Carpeting
6ep din I'm. Screened porch for
outdoor living 1929 Lake Ave. AP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-29

amidst stately oaks: sep. din. nm.
pine-paneled den: fun bsmt.: lge.
lawn: near bus and stores: Sl4, 800;
ACME REALTY CO.. ia. 7-7657.
ARL.--Income: see this attractive
! h2-story bIk. home with ground
level apt: H4-acre lot. Near Kann's.
$4,000. Gail ACME. ia. 5-7067,
ia. 7-O96S
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AN,WhL 10 IHLD HWi. tnu Futts!-
on 1 acre with nice stream. POS
NER REALTY co. ST. a.aAn0.
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NUhLH ARLINGION
l STOP LIGHT FROM PENTAGON
This new 3-bedrm. brick rambler
Entr. hail. liv. RIM. with bookshelves
and hrepl., .ultramod. kit. daylight
bath. frepl. and : picture Windows.
OWNER. IA. S-1321. Price, S22,95O.
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HAMPSHIRE $50 CT.
Charming 3-bedrm.. Cape Cod brk.
tst-f. den: full bsmt.; Ice. mod.
Elt.; outcoor Asdine pool and bar
RAtFELL REAL ESTATE. JU. o.
llO3, or JU. $1,000 til 9 pm.
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CHILLUM-4 twin-sized bedrms. 9i5
baths. fireplace din rtn., full bsnit |,
.. screened porch n D. r,s bus school,
JOHNSON, WA. 7-5050.
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GREEN MEADOWS - immaculate
Cape Cod: 9 rms. porch, detached
garage. bsmt.; owner leaving city
Sl3.95Q Call HE. 4-H4O0, HUGH
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MuIti-MiIIion-D Dollar Epilepsy Center
Planned on Big Estate Near Leesburg

con included Mrs. Edmund d.
Campbell, educator and former
member and chairman Of the Ar
Ilington Board Of Education. and
DR.. Marvin G. Korengold. con-
sultant on neurology to the Ma
tional Institute Of Neurology and
Blindness III Bethesda.
Mrs. CambeIl declared that the
establishment Of a national
center for affiicted children sup
ported BY the public Is the only
realistic answer" to the growing
population Of children with spe-
Icial problems due to physical or
mental handicaps.
WoefuI Lack Of Facilities
Or. Korengold declared there
is q "uoeful. fantastic lack Of
medical facilities for the treat
|ment Of the mentally retarded,
disturbed and cpl
|leptic children
The present institution in
Brentwood cares for about IS
children. It was opened In
March, 1855, with the idea that
1T would be q temporary ar
|rahgement.
The planned center will care
for more and more children as
'it Is constructed and expanded
to Ill much Of the I'll acres.
The total cost will depend
upon extent Of expansion and
the amount Of public SUPPORT.
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grafton is going better at Emery
this year than last.
Miss Ella A. Hanft, retired
teacher at Calvin Coolidge High
School, Fifth and Tuckerman
streets NV, testified she quit
her job because students were
pulled out Of class too much for
|extracurricular activities, and
because of a change in her SAL
airy classification. She said. she
had had no Negro students.
Economic Status Blamed
Ernest s. Jenkyns, principal OF
the Randall Junior High School
First and I streets S.W., told
the committee yesterday that
the low economic status OF the
Randall area is chiefly respon-
|sible for his schools educational
problems. Randall had only three
white students last year and has
l18 now.
He said many pupils are work.
ing far below the normal grade
level to which they are assigned,
but that this always has been
the case" and is typical Of RAN
|dall's type Of neighborhood.
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Street Scenes

A motorist retrieving a bas-
ketbal which had been tossed
over a fence and rolled into
the street beside an elemen-
tary school in Bethesda.
TWO policemen stopping
their scout car in the wee
hours Of the morning at Ninth
and E streets NV. to remove
q penny weighing machine
from a streetcar loading plat
form and put it back in front
Of the store from where
pranksters had removed it.
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The
Rambler
CoIorfuI Way to
Keep Tobs on Cabs
By JACK JONAS

Washington taxicabs are
pretty colorful and that
causes all sorts OF trouble for
Police 1t. Francis H. Dunn.
1t. Dunn, who is Chief
Hack Inspector for the Dis
trict, hopes he can ease some
Of the headaches by his col
lection Of model taxicabs. The
collection is growing, but it's
been a slow process.
There are 10 authorized
fleet taxicab color combina-
tons in Washington" he said.
think of i'll"
Sometimes during rush hour
all 70 of them pass by the
man waiting on the corner
for a cab.
"And in addition to those, .
1t. Dunn went on, there are
hundreds of color combina-
tions on the independent
taxicabs. 1t would be an
endless job to count them all"
He already has about Is
small model autos in the col
lection in his offices at the
Municipal Building, some
painted to resemble the colors
on fleet taxicabs.
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TEACHER .TELLSQUIZ
BIG WAY FOR PUPIL
TO BE PROMOTED

Counsel William Gerber Of
the Davis Investigating SUBJ
committee is finding it hard
to understand how some Dis
trict school children got pro-
NOTED to high school.
Yesterday. w. Barrett
Fuchs. Eastern High School
biology teacher, testified he
was worrying about what to
do with q student with an
intelligence test score Of 66
normal is 90 or aboveJ.
How did he get up there?"
asked Mr.. Gerber.
Mr. Fuchs. nothing
daunted, replied:
Il suppose he got too big
for the seat"
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A multi-milIion dollar National
|children's Rehabilitation Center
viii soon be established near
ILeesburg. Va, the Federal AS.
Isociation for Epilepsy. Inc, re-
|vealed today.
The institution will house chill
Idren and young adults suffering
from mental retardation. emo
ltional disturbances. epilepsy and
other affiictions. Mrs. M. T.
|Broyhill, president Of the group
ANNOUNCED ct a luncheon today
The center will be located on
the 211-acre estate Of the late
William E. Legg. Occupancy By
the FIRST group Of children /,
scheduled for next spring when
patients now housed in the as
|soeiation's Hospital Institute
1874 Rhode Island avenue
Brentwood. Nd. win be trans
Iferred to the existing home al
Leesburg.
Five Separate Villages
Plans for the center include
five separate villages to house
different disease or retardation
groups. Each win have cottages
and complete facilities for living
There viii also be an educa-
tional center and administration
building for each Of the VII
lagos.
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have "a staggering relief rolf
and Staggering public health
problems"
The warning was voiced by
Mrs. Emile Lassalle, the public
school systems co-chief attend
ance officer. 1t followed testi-
mony by several other educators,
both white and Negro, pointing
up serious educational lags
among many Of the city's young
sters and the need for prompt
corrective action,
Questioned on Truancy
Mrs. Lassalie, a former teacher
in Texas and Colorado who has
been here for the last IA years
made her observations on the
city's educational needs during
questioning about truancy prob.
lens.
The attendance SUPERVISE
heads half of the city's stat
charged with enforcing the com.
pulsory schooling law.
Mrs. Lassalle, like other wit,
nesses. was questioned about The
effects Of indignation. She sait
there have been more truancy
cases handled-partly because
of the hiring Of an extra stat
member since merger of colorec
and white schools. The merger
she added, has encouraged more
careful reporting Of truancy.
Sees No Race Difference
Mrs. Lassalle said, however
that she could make no particular
distinction between the city's
school attendance problem,
before indignation and since
The majority of the children
her department works with ir
both races, she said, are from
deprived homes" and sht
declared that "the problems ar,
the same
She. pointed out that truanc,
and bad behavior often are as,
ISOLATED, and she suggested
also that behavior problems alss
tie closely with achievement
llaes.
With reference to Indignation
difdculties. she declared:
II think some Of the bad con.
duct came from the Illustration
of being what they thought wal
well educated and finding they
weren't
Miss Helen Mason, counselor
at Taft Junior High School
Eighteenth and Perry streets
NE. yesterday gave the com.
Imittee the strongest testimony
to date that indignation hal
worked out with few problems.
Miss Mason. who has been or
the faculty at Taft for IL years,
testified that integration ct Taft
has caused no Unusual disciplin-
Iary problems and that 1t has
brought the school some very
very desirable students"
While white families are NOV
ing away, the school-which had
about IS per cent colored pupils
last year-still is more than 50
per cent white, she said.
Another witness. Mrs. Mary A
Seath. temporary teacher at tn,
Emery Elementary School, Lin.
coin road and S street NE; reg,
istered q protest against q state
ment BY Mr.. williams, however
| Mrs. Seath testified that int.
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told the subcommittee. She said
more help must be provided if her
school and Others are to cope
with educational needs ade-
|quately.
FavOrs Lower Start
She felt, Miss Moore declared,
it would have been better to begin
indignation only with the ele-
mentary grades, or possibly just
the first three grades. But she
added:
"It's here. We must do every
thing we can to make it go as
smoothly as we can.
The last witness Of the morn
ing session, Mrs: Addie Howard,
who taught several years at the
Langdon Elementary School,
Goth and Evarts street NE, was
asked by Mr.. Gerber if she
thought indignation had been
put into ef1ect too last.
Eyes. I do" she said.
Mr.. Gerber then wanted to
know if she thought the in
tegration programs here should
be used as q model for other
communities. Mrs. Howard re-
piled that she agreed with a
sentiment expressed by an earlier
witness that If other commune
ties could study the Washing
ton situation they might profit
by observing the mistakes made
here.
Then you think these hear
ings are well worth while?" Mr..
Gerber asked.
Yes Mrs. Howard said.
Feels Free to Testify
Mr.. Gerber asked her If she
felt she could testify freely in
view Of the criticism made Of
an earlier witness by Mr.. VIII
Jams. She said that she could
because she also had noted that
DR.. Corning had made the state
ment that there would be no
IunpleaSantness" after the testi-
mony Of any school employee.
Chairman Davis told reporters
the hearings have now passed
the halfway point. and he in
Dictated they may wind up by
some time next week.
Congress members yesterday
heard a warning from an edu-
Gator that the District must
spend the necessary money to
educate its children or it win
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Watson Gives
Hour-to-Hour
Survey Report

There are plenty Of on street
|narking places IN downtown
tlashington. Lewis r. Watson.
jr, executive directorv Of the
Motor Vehicle Pasking Agency.
told Engineer Commissioner
ThomAs A. Lane today.
Mr.. Watson gave Gen. Lane an
Ihour-by hour survey Of parking
lot facilities in the downtown
retail area between Sixth and
Fifteenth streets NV, the Office
building area between H and M
streets NV. and the Government
area south Of Pennsylvania
avenue.
The figures, requested nearly
a year ago by Gen. Lane, show
quite conclusively that 1t is
possible for a motorist to obtain
a parking space in downtown
Washington at any time during
the day, within a reasonable
distance, say two blocks Of his
destination" Mr.. Watson said.
Called Ahead Of Demand
Therefore" Mr.. Watson de-
clared. 1.-THE availability Of off,
street parking spaces as provided
by private industry, would appear
to be ahead Of the demand Of
public needs"
The survey figures showed
maximum use of parking lots in
the retail area at the hours Of
and 2 pm. with q 31.4 per-
centage of vacancy. The area.
bounded on the east by Sixth
street and on the west by Fif-
tenth street, is bounded on the
north by New York avenue and
H street and on the south. by
Pennsylvania avenue and D
street.
Figures for the Office building
larea showed maximum parking
at IL am. with a 28.2 percentage
Iof vacancy. This area lies north
of Lafayette square and M street.
bounded on the west by Eight
zenith street and on the east by
] Twelfth, Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets.
One Time Turnover
!, Mr.. Watson said the Govern
. ment area had an average 16 per
cent vacancy with "a time
/ turnover" He said "the Gov
ernment area presents a more
constant occupancy figure since
the bulk Of the parking in this
|, area is all-day parking"
| Mr.. Watson stressed that al
! though none Of the figures indi-
Gated 100 per cent occupancy,
this does not mean that all
facilities will have vacancies at
all times"
/ Answering Gen. Lanes request
for an estimate Of the fairness
|. of parking rates, Mr.. Watson
said. "a comparison with other
cities shows that Washington, is
considerably below such cities as
New York and Chicago /.
while slightly above cities like
st. Louis and Cleveland" The
principle factors in parking
rates, he said, are demand and
ground value" either in pur-
chase price or rental cost"
He said. I'VE must assume
that the parking operator in
J general charges what the trafHc
win bear at his particular Local
tion," and pointed out that there
are no District regulations con-
trolling parking prices.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Association Of
Life Underwriters meets in the
Mayfiower and Statler hotels.
The international Bank Of
Reconstruction and Development
and the international Monetary
Fund continue their sessions In
the Sheratpn-Park Hotel.
The National Council Of
Churches Of Christ in the United
States continues its Board Meet
ing In the Willard Hotel.
The Crown Life Insurance Co.
meets in the Shorenam Hotel.
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IN THE PAST, 1t. Dunn
has tried color photographs
and metal plates with the
color combinations painted on
them. Those haven't worked
out as well as he hopes the
model taxicabs will.
"The independent cabs used
to be black, with a color stripe
painted around the middle,
as required by the Public
Utilities Commission, he said.
Nov even the independents
use color schemes. It's diff
cult for the public to describe
some of the colors-partic-
ularly the pastel shades.
This is NOT just a device
to catch the guilty hacker. /"
he emphasized. ut also viii
serve equally to clear an
innocent driver-as it could
have done in the case of the
complaint from the congress
sional secretary"
AS a result OF a recent move
by the Public Utilities Com
mission a few of the color
combinations are vanishing.
The commission is insisting
that fleet operators keep at
least 20 cabs in operation II
they want to retain their in
dividual color schemes.
Because of that, Veterans
Cabs have switched to Arrow
Cab colors; Safety Transit has
changed to Imperial and
Coronet is switching to Ameri-
can colors.
But there still are enough
color combinations to give 1t
Dunn headaches, and he's
hoping his fleet of tiny cars
VIII serve as a sedative.
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I'm INTERESTED at pres
ent in getting Just the 10
authorized fleet color
schemes" he said. Il hope to
get all Of them eventually. /
Just got in three today and
expect several more tomorrow.
The feet owners have been
very cooperative.
"This illustrates the prob
lem: We had a complaint
about a cab driver from a
congressional secretary.
"She identified a taxicab
by color, but as it turned out
it wasn't that particular cab
at all. The colors were SIM
liar to those on the cab she'd
taken, but not exactly the
same.
1.-THE only reason we were
able to find the offending
driver was that one of the
passengers witnesses had
presence of mind enough to
get the license number. He
admitted his wrong doing in
the passengers presence, and
was suspended for 80 days.
Nov if she could have
come down here and looked
at a complete set of color
models, it might have helped.
As he gets the models in,
1t. Dunn sends them to feet
owners, asking them to paint
the models in the same pat
tern they use on their regular
taxicabs, and if possible with
the same paint.
The lieutenant has been
trying for several months to
complete his set of 70. He has
model cars from Ford and
Plymouth dealers, and has
been promised some from the
Chevrolet people, but needs
more.
~ guess it doesn't make
much difference about the
type Of model" he said 1.-THE
color's the important thing,
anyway"
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5 to 10 Years Seen Needed to Solve
D. c. Problems on School Inteqrotion
Continued From First PAGE

Continued From First Page
start OF indignation, the school
at first enrolled only 20 or Is
colored children, she said. But
lin October. she related, school
officials decided to close the all
colored Wilson Elementary
School a block away. Wilson was
in need of repairs and over
crowded, she said.
| So 200 more colored children
were transferred into Cooke,
along with five of their teachers.
If the process had gone a little
more gradually, Miss Moore said,
her school would have been q
little better prepared for it.
AS it was, she said, she and
her white teachers found them
selves confronted with group
of children about whom they
knew nothing and whose prob
lens, while not different from
those the school had always had,
were unprecedented in number.
One of the most difficult prob
lens. Miss Moore testified, had
to do with the parents of the
newcomers. Many of them, she
said. could not be reached, either
because they were away from
home working or because young
Isters were living with guardians.
Children Given Away
She told of one colored woman
who came to the school and said
the child's mother was giving
away her children and the
woman herself was taking one.
The principal also told of diff
Iflculty in finding colored parents
Ito serve on the executive board
lof the PTA.
| Miss Moore testified the change
had brought increased disciple
nary problems. She told of one
case in which a colored boy. who
had been transferred to another
school. came back and demanded
money from a white school pa
troll boy. causing the white
youngster to be afraid to go back
Ito his post.
She also told of two cases in
which colored boys lifted little
girls skirts.
| She said, however, that colored
children had no monopoly on
disciplinary problems or on
academic difficulties either.
Notes Troubled Background
Asked specifically by Counsel
william Gerber whether colored
children were on the same grade
level with white children, she
replied:
4 cannot claim any great
difference as far as achievement
lis concerned. I'd say it is the
low economic and social back
ground Of most Of the children. =
Miss Moore said that she had
attempted before indignation tC
prepare for the change by in
viting colored teachers to visit
her school, and help a welcoming
assembly when the newcomers
arrived. Actually in the first
year. she said, there was very
little trouble. There was one
fight outside the school, but she
said it was started by white chill
Idren who imagined colored chill
Idren had offended them
But classes are now too bic
and the problems too many. she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-26
Sees Some Advantage

The former teacher, asked
whether she thought children Of
either race had gained from in
tegration. said colored students
were getting the advantage Of
associating with pupils who were
more advanced" and that white