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SEND A KID TO CAMP
Lucy,2, Must Escape
To Be Little Lady

While the culture clinic" was
going on inside. Lucy was out
pitching horseshoes in the mud.
She liked to go to the sessions
at the neighborhood house
where they taught children
about personal grooming, good
manners and simple sewing.
But she didn't have the heart
to show up for class barefoot
and in a dirty dress.
For most l2-year-old girls, it's
a fairly simple matter to take a
bath and dress neatly. For Lucy.
it isn't so easy.
Her large family lives in a
four-room house in a congested
section of town. There is no
plumbing in the house. The
cooking is done on a wood stove,
even in summer. There is no
refrigerator, not even a radio.
No Steady Income
Lucy's father makes $40 a
week working on a trash truck
for a private concern-when he
works. From time to time he
disappears from home.
Her mother has her hands full
with all the children = the
youngest not even a year old.
There also is a 79-year-old
grandmother in the house.
In home like hers, there
isn't much individual attention
available for Lucy. For that mat
ter, she has to help look after
her younger sisters and brothers.
Just being clean is something
of an undertaking for Lucy, with
no running water, no bathroom
and home crowded with people.
Does Well in School
She is small for her age from
not having had proper food. But
she does well in school, and she
takes an interest in the crafts
classes at the settlement house.
Workers at the neighborhood
house would like to see that Lucy
has a vacation at camp this
summer.
1t would mean great deal to
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this girl to whom the comforts
most children take for granted
are things to dream about.
1t would mean regular, decent
meals. for one thing. There
would be adults taking an in
terest in her personally. Lucy
could have a bed of her own
and a place to keep her own
things. She could take bath
every day.
It's Up To You
You can make sure that Lucy
gets her vacation by contributing
to The Evening Star Summer
Camp Fund. Your gift will help
give her a chance to be an in
dividual person for awhile, in
stead of just another kid in a
house that is too crowded.
The following camp fund gifts
are acknowledged today:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
Beauty Gets Send-Off
From D. c. Officials

/ Miss jeanne Holler, Miss Dis
trict of Columbia" in the Miss
United States" contest in Long
Beach, Calf, which starts tomor-
row, received an official sendof
from the District Commissioners
today.
The 21-year-old brown-haired
beauty came to the District
Building to receive a key to the
city of Washington to present
to the Mayor of Long Beach.
She is a sophomore studying
speech at George Washington
University and lives in the Delta
Gamma sorority house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11

Maryland. The National Pike
~ S. 240) recently was opened
to Rockville.
Present plans call for COM
pletion of the parkway between
Wisconsin and Connecticut ave-
nues in the latter part of 1857.
The parkway right-of-way is
on the southern bank of Rock
Creek on land made available
by the Maryland-National Park
and Planning Commission.
The Planning Commission has
taken pains to preserve trees
on both sides of the parkway
route. Special crews have
splashed white paint on more
than 100 trees bordering the
highways path and the con-
tractors have been instructed
to protect the marked trees with
gravel fill and rock walls ii
necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
BY HARRY BACAS

Friendship Airport. sometimes
proposed as a solution to Wash
ington's air-crowding problem
! is a big, Aforementioned facility
that almost no one seems to want
to use.
Located in the middle of the
MarylSnd 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 o.
commercial planes we're abouI
SO. Now the number of scheduled
airliners arriving has dropped II
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 Aeronautic'
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 headet
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
1883 persons left Washington
for Los Angeles.
The airlines, too, object t
the idea of transferring from
Washington to Friendship as
: terminal. They have spent mil
lions of dollars on maintenance
, equipment here.
} Among the staunchest pro
motors 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 pro
testing the recent decision b
a CAB examiner that Pa
/ American World Always b
s denied the right to use Friend
ship as its Washington -Balti
more terminal on flights iron
Boston. The CAB is hearing ap
! peals this week from the deci
2 sion.
: Used for Picnicking
Because air travel is so ligh
2 at Friendship, the termins
!. building has been put to som
S strange uses. On summer wee
: ends, airport authorities hav
S been bothered by crowds o
: Baltimore citizens who brin
lunches, newspapers and thei
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lnter-County Parkway
Link Gets Under Woy

Construction crews have begun
work on a 1.5-mile section of
the inter-county belt parkway
between Wisconsin avenue
Rockville Pike and Connecti-
cut avenue in Montgomery
County.
Employees Of the John H.
Ensey Contracting Co. of Balti-
more undertook the initial land
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 leg
of the Washington National
Pike. the parkway will become
a part of the road agency's cir
cumferential highway in nearby
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Even BoItimoreons Avoid
Using Friendship Airport

children into the air-con-
Iditioned waiting room and
spend the day picnicking.
One of the three wings OF
the building is occupied not by
airlines Offices but by the Ali
Force. 1t has installed opera
tions Offices for it's Air Research
a nd Development Command
there.
The main building wing
called the international pier,
has so little business it has beer
Leased to Westinghouse for q
super-secret air armament en-
Igineering project. The Mary.
land Air National Guard take.
up more of the space.
Airport officials say the 5000
acre field with its single instru
ment-landing runway $3.50 fee
lori and two smaller runway
ought to get more use. The,
say it is capable of handlin,
much more traffic than it doe
now.
But the people who pay TO
the airlineS-the ticket buyers
don't seem to see it that way.
$3.50 For Limousine
Another stumbling block Il
greater use of Friendship b,
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 +
carry passengers to Washington
at $3.50 a head. officials 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 blu,
1t has made money for the las
five years. Backers of the all
port would like to see it max
more.
Probably the biggest obstacl
and an immovable one-to il
becoming Washington's secon
terminal is contained in IL,
simple legends on two road sigr
where the Friendship approac
road comes into the Washington
Baltimore parkway. The sigr
read:
Baltimore 8 miles. Washing
ton 81 miles"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
SEND A KID CAMP

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, 1920 for six days.
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 tc
oppose the coming plan prepared
by consultant Harold M. Lewis
was under study today by Co.
ilumbia Heights businessmen.
This was discussed yesterday
at a meeting of the Columbis
Heights Businessmen's Associa-
ton, held in Sholl's Cafeteria
1927 Fourteenth street NV
They fear wiping out of the
existing business section ano
substitution, under the Lewis
plan. of a residential area.
In their fight to retain Four.
tenth street, between Otis ano
Chaplin streets NV, as a grow.
ing midtown business section, the
group voted to present its own
coming plan.
This would provide for ca
zoning-major business and en-
ployment-on both sides of Four
teenth street NV. between Otis
and Chaplin streets NV.
Want Parking Facilities
Furthermore, it would afford
appropriate transitional zonine
adjacent to the proposed ca
area, between Thirteenth anc
Fifteenth streets NV, also be-
tween Otis and Chaplin street.
NV. The businessmen want
adequate off-street parking t.
serve the business community.
The association contendec
that, under the Lewis plan. thu
business community would bt
wiped out and existing residen,
tial areas adjacent to Fourteenth
street, on the side streets, would
become one-family residences
Many of these are now roomin,
houses.
i 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, devoted
to local convenience stores woult
be Immediately south of thi
major business and employment
coming. At the south ent
would be a shopping and bust
ness area.
The rest of the area would b.
largely residential. This woult
include row houses and con
versions, medium density apart
ment houses and low densit,
apartment houses.
Credit Tightening Feared
The associations president Dl
Julius j. Gottlieb, directed Chair
man George Freedman and hi
coming committee to lay its owl
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 OF
business property in that area
because it is supposed to b
wiped out in Is years.
Secretary H. C. Phillips toll
the association the District au
liberties are screaming abou
not having any place to pu
people displaced by the South
west area redevelopment pro
gram.
Yet, he said, the Lewis plal
would tear down properties an,
change the character of the Co
lumbia Heights neighborhooc
displacing people there.
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 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 and
Thomas Moore, the engineer,
was hired to do the job. He
was paid $4,000 and the task
took a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-11
The
Rambler
New Bridge Has
Link With Past
By JACK JONAS

Gen. John Mason'S hope for
a bridge across his island is
going to be realized some 1855
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 company be or
ganized to throw a bridge
across the Potomac at
Georgetown.
The broad mouth of Rock
Creek was being bridged in
1882, 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
f1at-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
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Society of
Appraisers winds up its
m e etings in the Hotel
Statler.
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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
Masons 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, and the coaches and
wagons went across the
causeway and 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 Aqueduct 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
ti.a ;c1a ,aI
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Rambling

A television newsman a
few days back announced
that the Washington area
would have Ssh attere d
scoWers
A lady writes that one Of
her neighbors has a cat which
raises an awful fuss until the
air conditioner is turned on,
then curls up and goes to
sleep.
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Used for Picnicking

Because air travel is so light
at Friendship. the terminal
building has been put to some
strange uses. On summer week
ends, airport authorities have
been bothered by crowds of
Baltimore citizens who bring
lunches, newspapers and their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19
Virginio Presbyterions
Conclude 10Th Meetino

| MASSANETTA SPRINGS, Va,
July 10 (P).-Delegates to the
169th annual meeting of the
Presbyterian Synod of Virginia
headed home today after award
ling next years session to Union
Theological Seminary in Rich
mond. The dates will be May
%. 30.
The council of the synod had
recommended that the 1857
meeting be held at the seminary,
which will be co-host along with
the training school of the
church's General Assembly.
Attendance Sets Record
This years meeting drew 423
official delegates, largest attend
ance on record. The convention
yesterday adopted a recommend
alton that the 1856 session be
considered an adjourned meet
ing to reconvene at the call of
the moderator to act on the re-
port of the Council on Educa-
tional institutions.
Perhaps the most significant
item of business at the two-day
meeting was the vote to reduce
the number of presbyteries in the
synod from eight to seven, elm
mating the Roanoke Presbytery.
The move. taken to equalize the
size OF presbyteries. was over
whelmingly approved.
The boundary changes affected
four preSbyteries. The synod
embraces all of Virginia and the
District of Columbia and parts
of Maryland and West Virginia
Funds Are Approved
Budgetary matters came up
for consideration several times
during the two-day meeting
Yesterday delegates adopted a
budget of $4,000 for church
extension work in the synod.
Another budget approved called
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for $21,970 to be spent for
Presbyterian centers at various
Virginia educational institutions.
Delegates approved a recon-
mendation that the Virginia
synod raise its share of ST mil
lion sought by the Presbyterian
Church in the United States
Southern for church extension
work. In addition, they approved
a recommendation that the synod
subscribe another $4,000 in
a supplementary Offering to help
meet the pressing need for cap
ital funds to build churches.
The money would be raised
during week of prayer and self
denial for church extension later
this wear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19
UNKNOWN CREEPER
HERE ADDS SHOCK
TO SHOCK SHOW

A call that a gunman was
loose in the Columbia The
alter sent police converging
on the F street movie palace
from several directions
shortly before noon today.
Police from a scout car, a
patrol wagon and a motor
cycle entered the theater
through the front, side and
rear doors.
A movie patron was wait
ing to point out the gunman
to the officers. He said he
brushed against the man in
the dark and felt the hard
bulge of the mans pistol.
The police descended on
the man. He had a gun, all
right, in a service holster.
But before any fireworks
could take place he quickly
identified himself as an off,
duty 9th precinct policeman.
The movie, called THE
Creeping Unknown-a Dou-
ble-Zombie Shock Show"
continued without inter-
ruption.
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workers will leave the capital by
automobile for secret relocation
centers in a half dozen States.
Enlarged" Meeting Called
President Eisenhower will not
participate as fully as he did
last year. But he will take part
in the operations preliminaries
tomorrow before he leaves for
Panama. He has called an EN-
larged" meeting of the National
Security Council in which agency
heads concerned with the project
will confer with the regular
members of the council.
The President also intends to
take part in the final stages
of the program a week from
now but what he will do has
not been disclosed.
Unlike the two previous test
alerts in past years. the armed
forces will take part in this one,
to an undisclosed extent.
Test of Radio Net
The 1856 operation also will
afford a Nationwide daytime
test of the Conelrad emergency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19
West Virginion Heads
CenteniuI Group

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July
10 (SpeciaD Arthur B. Koontz,
of Charleston. has been named
permanent chairman of the West
Virginia Centennial Commission.
The group has voted to request
an appropriation of $4,000 from
the 1857 Legislature to carry on
its preliminary publicity of the
States Tooth birthday. Other
officers are: Charles Hodel, vice
chairman and Andrew v. Ruck-
man, secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19

radio network. All television
and FIN radio stations will go
off the air at 4:10 pm. tomor-
row for Is minutes. All stand
ard radio stations will become
silent. too, except those equip
ped for Conelrad broadcasting
on GAO and 1910 kilocycles. The
latter will broadcast civil de-
Tense information.
Senator Hennings, Democrat
Missouri, meanwhile, asked the
administration today what plans,
if any, it has made ito assure
maximum protection" of consti-
tutional freedoms in the event of
an atomic attack or other ma
tional emergency.
AS chairman of the Senate
Constitutional Right Subcommit-
tee, Senator Hennings sent
letters requesting this informa-
ton to Arthur S. Flemming, di-
rector of defense mobilization
and Val Peterson, director of
civil defense. He sent a similar
letter to Attorney General
Brownell.
Asks Advance Warning
while we realize that in a
time of crisis certain restrictions
on the usual freedom of our
citizens might be necessary and
unavoidable, we feel that such
restrictions should be imposed
only to the extent required for
our Nations safety.
1--WE feel. too. that only by
careful planning in advance of
an emergency can we be sure of
avoiding unnecessary limitations
on our individual liberties"
Senator Hennings recalled Mr..
Eisenhower's decision during last
years operation alert to issue a
mock proclamation limiting mar
tial law and suspending the con-
stitutional writ of habeas corpus.
He said this was done without
notice to the top officials of the
Civil Defense Administration.
1t was. he said, "a glaring
example of the danger to our
traditional freedoms which could
result from the lack of advance
/ planning"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19
Virginia Roted High
In Traffic HundIino

RICHMOND. July 10 (P).-
Virginia has been named winner
among IL Southern States in the
fields of police traffic supervision
and traffic engineering in the
National Safety Councils Ma
tion-wide traffic safety contest
for 1855.
Virginia was judged fourth
nationally in police traffic SUI
pervision and sixth in traffic en-
pineeIinp
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Townsend Waits Tour

SOLIHULL. England. July 10
R.-Group Capt. Peter Town
send, who plans a jeep trip
around the world, today COM
pleted a weeks course in me-
chanics at an automobile factory
here. The ex-suitor of Princess
Margaret has said he will begin
his 60,000-mile tour in October
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19

fracture of a neck vertebra he
suffered in a fall from a polo
pony. His head struck a goal
post in a recent match at the
Bots de Boulogne.
The Dominican playboy diplo-
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B&O Plans Fruit Pier

BALTIMORE, July 10 (P.-
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
will construct a $4-million fruit
Ipier on the south side of Locust
Point in Baltimore harbor, Pres
'ident Howard E. Simpson said
yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19

mat-with his neck held rigid
in a steel and leather COLLAR
left his bed today and said he
hopes to take UP reins and mall
let on the polo field again in a
couple of weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-19

Joe Taylor, food clerk
at Sateway store.
2907 Nichols Ave. Sc.
Washington, D. c.,
winner OF a 81 900
scholarship at Michi-
gan State College.
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Growth Doubles

The annual growth in world
population has increased from
about 20 to about 40 million a
year in the past 20 years.