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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Fishermen Thrown
BY Runaway Boot
Believed Drowned

An Edgewater Md fisher
man was believed drowned yes
terday when he was thrown from
his outboard motorboat after it
ran away" Less than an hour
earlier a Coast Guard unit had
given him a ticket for lack Of
safety equipment.
Search units we're seeking the
body of Hartwell White at the
mouth Of the West River near
Shadyside in Anne Arundel
County.
Bostswain's Mate lie William
Payne. assigned to a Coast Guard
unit at Edgewater. said he
boarded Mr.. Whites l4-foot boat
at 2 pm. for a routine inspection.
He said he issued a ticket TO Mr..
White because he did not have
an approved lifebelt aboard.
( About 2:45 pm. Mr.. Payne
said. he received a report that
a man had fallen from a boat
which was running wild. The
boat was recovered and identi-
fed as Mr.. Whites. he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Winstonto0ffer
Assignment Bill.

A new version of the pupil as
Isignment plan will be offered in
the Virginia General Assembly
tomorrow by an Arlington legis-
Ilator.
Delegate William L. Winston
said the bill he will submit would
preserve local option by provid-
ing a referendum feature.
Localities would be able to
adopt pupil assignment as a
means Of preserving segregation
IF a majority of voters in the
community Endorsed the plan in
"a referendum, under the Win
ston proposal.
This would allow counties to
turn to the pupil assignment plan
III and when suits are filed
against the local school board
without the necessity of calling
the Legislature into special ses-
sion each time a new situation
develops in the State" Mr.. VIM
ston said.
Mr.. Winston said his proposal
is in line with the Gray Com
missio nreport and would change
the pupil assignment feature of
that report only by adding the
referendum authority. He said
he is co-sponsor of bills now
in the legislative hopper to i'm
plement the Gray report.
Another Arlington delegate,
Harrison Mann, and Arlington
State Senator Charles r. Fem
wick have submitted pupil as
signment bills which have drawn
the fire Of the Arlington School
Board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

by Mr.. Fenwick is designated
Senate Bill SO. 1t is practically
the same as House Bill 80 except
that it goes further in providing
a detailed system of court ap-
peals whereby the parents of
the assigned child as well as
the parents of the rest of the
children are protected. In addi-
ton, the right of the Assign
ment Board to appeal to the
courts is provided.
Two bills by Delegate C. w.
Cleaton of Mecklenburg, desig-
mated House Bills 33 and "A,
would plug the loopholes some
see in the Gray Commission
plan. Opponents of the Gray
program, including Gov. STAN
ley, turned against pupil assign
ment because a locality could
finance its own school opera
tons entirely out of local funds
and continue to operate schools
even on an integrated basis.
Under Mr.. Cleaton's Bill No.
80. localities would be prohib-
tied from imposing taxes or
spending revenues for integrated
schools. His Bill No. A carries
out the same idea except it al
lows local funds to pay off con-
tracted debts and salaries of un-
employed teachers who had been
thrown out of work as result
ofDSchool closings.
Referendums Proposed
Two bills by Senator E. o. Nc
Cue are designed to place the
schools directly under the State
Legislature as bulwark against
challenges in Federal suits. This
carries out the theory of inter-
position and a States sovereignty
against Federal encroachments
Under the McCue legislation, To-
cal school officials would be re-
moved from Office automatically
whenever they were named as
defendants in an indignation
suit. His bills are designated
Senate Bills IS and So.
A third bill carrying the Nc
Cue proposal a step further is
known as House Bill Al and was
offered by Delegate Lewis Nc
Murran of Newport News. In the
event the schools of a locality
are closed down, the General AS
sembly could step in and operate
a State system there whenever
requested to do so by the local
governing body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Two Political TuIks
Planned by FeIdmun

Richard L. Feldman, candi-
date for Congress in Virginia's
10th District, planned two adx
dresses today at the entrance to
the Fairfax County Fair near
Annandale.
Mr.. Feldman. an independent
Democrat, said he would speaS
at 3 pm. on STATES Rights and
at 1880 pm. on Federal income
tax laws.
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City Health Request
Gets oo|Reception
Budget Officers
Cut $3.5 Million
Rise by q Fourth

The Health Departments at
tempts to cure its own ills with
ambitious programs and fat
budget requests has once again
encountered rough going at the
District Building.
The departments request for
fiscal 1958-an increase of So
588,935 over last year-were
treated coldly by budget officers
who told the commissioners an
increase of $685. 500 is what the
department can get along with.
In their eyes at least. the fiscal
SO budget totals $26.6 million.
The departments budget-the
last to be drawn under the direc-
ton of the retiring health
director. DR.. Daniel l.. Seckinger.
lis again handicapped by the,
heavy load it must carry for St!
Elizabeth's Hospital. Once again,
the largest single item is the re-
quest for $11.6O0, 900 to pay for
treatment of the Districts men,
tally i'll. The figure each year
serves to swell the departments
budget somewhat out of bounds.
Criticism Is Noted
Sensitive to criticisms of its
general hospital, the department
takes official note of it's defense
in the budget. AS it says, most
of the criticism can be traced to
rising costs occasioned by steadi-
ly rising labor costs and by jns
creased expenses resulting from
the dramatic technical and
scientific progress which has
been made in recent years" With
that the department requested
$382.820 to:
l. Increase salaries for in
terms and residents.
2. Improve existing services.
This would mean additional per-
sonnet in the administrative
branch of the hospital. the medi-
cal records library, the payroll
division. the telephone SWITCH
board and the pharmacy.
3. operate new buildings.
These include a new psychiatric
building which would be in
operation in January, 1858, and
a long-Sought operating suite.
The request in this area for
$260,000 would cover the stating
problems of the new facilities.
Other Buildings Planned
The department, under capital
outlay, also requested funds to
cover new emergency admit
ting and medical records build
ing, a new dormitory for resi-
dents and interns, and security
ward at Glenn Dale Hospital to
treat those persons" who have
difficulty in understanding the
diSciplines involved in the care
and treatment of tuberculosis"
Budget officers allowed the de-
Ipartment $4,000 to finance a
continued polio vaccination pro.
gram. aimed toward pre-schooI
children and pregnant women.
DR.. Seckinger requested S18. 900
to cover the costs OF a stepped
up = and dressed-up - public
health nursing program. He
asked 5000 to provide for in
Struction to the nurses, particu-
larry in mental Observation-Disclosures
winter berets at $2.25 each.
And again the department
made a pitch for uniforms for
ambulance drivers who often are
mistaken for spectators at ac-
cident scenes and asked to get
out of the way.
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Recreation Center
To Hold Open House

An open house will be held at
the new Arlington Recreation
Center this week end. Hours will
be Z pm. to 10 pm. Friday, u
pm. to 10 pm. Saturday, and
z pm. to 6 pm. Sunday.
Dedication is set for 3 pm.
Sunday at the aew location, 44O
North George Mason drive.
The building. first unit Of a
proposed larger recreation CEN
ter. replaces a structure de-
stroyed BY fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Drive Planned
BY Quenstedt

Warren D. Quenstedt this week
will work on final plans to make
his name a household word in
the 10th district.
He has assurance that he will
have no help in this regard from
his Republican opponent in the
November election, Representa-
Broyhill.
Mr.. Broyhill has refused to
make joint appearances with Mr..
Quenstedt in the fall campaign
and has been reported to have
coupled his rejection with a
statement that he did not pro-
pose to debate with "a political
nobody"
Won Mild Primary
Mr.. Quenstedt. winner Of the
mild Democratic primary in
July, says he is hoping for sup
port from "all the political no.
bodys in the 10th district"
Inevitably, he compared the
''nobodys" to "the Joe Smiths
who have been told they have
no place in the Republican
Party"
This week the Democratic
challenger. an attorney who has
never held public office, will
meet with groups Of his sup
porters to plan "coffees" and
door-to-door campaigning de-
signed to make him better
acquainted in the district, par
ticularly in areas outside his
home county, Fairfax.
To. Campaign in October
Meanwhile, Mr.. Broyhill has
said he is too busy with sub
committee work and other duties
to begin campaigning before
October /. He has mailed litera-
ture to his constituents citing
his record and urging them to
attend "coffees" that will be held
throughout the district.
On Saturday the @. o. p. in
cumbent win speak at a school
Of politics at Falls Church High
School. Republican leaders from
throughout the State are sched-
uled TO attend.
Later. he will launch a series
Of eight television programs.
Mr.. QuenStedt says he cant
begin to compete on TV because
Of the money but I definitely
viii have some programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Report
DueWednesdaV
Planning Bourd Row
To Be Settled

The Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors will find out Wednes-
day whether it can abolish the
present Planning Commission
and appoint a new one.
/ The supervisors move to gain
closer control over the planning
body was initiated last July
when they instructed the County
Executive and Commemorative
Attorney to look into the legality
of aboliShing the commission.
The report is due at 1915 am.
Wednesday. Commonwealth At
torney Robert Fitzgerald said
he would not disclose his opin-
ion until then.
! Brig. Gen. Richard P. Oven
shine, supervisor from Mount
Vernon district, initiated the
boards action July IL. His reso-
luton to abolish the commission
followed a good deal of diSsen-
ton between it and the new
board.
First Move Failed
Three months earlier Super
visor Anne wilkins had asked
that commission members be re-
placed, but got no support.
The commission is set up
under an old law which provides
staggered terms of its members
Under. Gen. Ovenshine's pro-
poSal it would be reconstructed
under new law making terms
concurrent with those of the
body which appoints members.
A showdown on the planning
commission dispute has been
expected since the new board
took Office January / with five
new members.
The major controversy has
been over adoption Of a master
plan. First the commission was
criticized because board MEM
bers thought it was slow in
making recommendations on the
proposed master plan.
ZOning Plans Differed
When recommendations on
residential coming were made
they differed from those finally
approved by the board. The
commission had recommended
one-acre lot minimums in the
rural area and half-acre lots
where water and sewers are
available in rural sections. The
board set up two-acre minimum
in the rural area.
Gen. Ovenshine said he re-
commended reconstruction of the
commission because the board is
responsible for zcring policies
and he felt the commission
should be more responsive to the
boards wishes.
Fight Is Expected
Several members of the PLAN
ming commission are expected to
fight the proposal if it is found
legal. Keith Price. commission
chairman ard one OF the main
targets Of the displeased board
members. said he would be at
the meeting Wednesday
Two board members voted
against Gen. Ovenshine's mo-
ton. They were James Keith
from Providence district and
Stuart DeBall of Centreville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03

THE LADY DID, and con-
firmed Mr.. Heineman'S infor-
nation that her mother was
entitled to $50 a month.
They told her what room
to come to, and what papers
to bring with her-you know,
things like a marriage GER
tificate to prove the mar
riage," Mr.. Heineman said.
He thought she ought to be
getting the whole $4,000.
But the man at the VA said
no, that she first had to apply
for the pension. The only
retroactivity involved, he
said, would date from the day
Of her application.
And if it were retroactive,
it wouldn't run up to $40, 900. +"
the VA man said. That
Spanish american War pen
sion has been in effect only
about five or six years."
He pinpointed the amount
at $500.
Even without the $4,000,
the lady's medal was worth
more than she thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Helped BY Reassignment

proposed cutting off State aid to
any county which integrates.
Helped by Reassignment
ReaSsignmer.t of some pupils
outside their districts has helped
eliminate some overcroWding.
On the brighter side, the pu-
pil-teacher ratio IS comparative
ly low, an estimated 28.5 children
per teacher in the elementary
claSsrooms.
A new center for about so
retarded junior and senior high
students is to be opened at 1912
North Quincy street. New
schools opening in the county
are Ashlawn School at Wilson
boulevard and Montague street
and Kenmore Junior High
School on Arlington boulevard at
Carlyn Spring road.
Fairfax County's rapidly
growing school population will
find elbow room the growing
problem in it's 60 schools when
$500 to 1000 of the $500 stu
dents will go OIL double shifts
more than double the number on
halliday schedules last year.
Completion of all the projects
now under construction would
reduce the number of half day
students only about 1900.
Temporary Quarters Set Up
In addition to four new
schools. county students will use
eight temporary classrooms set
up in two modern ramblers in
North Springfield, where the
developer of a housing Subdivi-
sion has left the interior walls
out of the buildings so four
classrooms can be put into each.
A new 38-room high school
will open at Groyeton along with
these new elementary schools:
Cedar Lane at Vienna, Layton
Hall near the town of Fairfax
and Lillian Carey at Bailey's
Crossroads.
No teacher vacancies have
been reported.
Only the high school will be
overcrowded when Falls Church
schools open, With an addition
at George Mason High School
set for completion by November
/. Until then, the gymnasium
will be used for nine temporary
classrooms.
A total Of about 1000 students
will be in the system this year.
with no overcrowding in the
three elementary schools. where
a pupil-teacher ratio OF % to /
is to be maintained.
When District schools reopen
next Monday fewer than 1000
students will be on split shift
schedules. Total enrolment
opening day is expected to reach
100000 but may climb to be-
tween 100000 and 10000 in
five or six weeks.
Teacher Lack Cited
The major problem confront
ing local school officials is the
lack of sufficient teachers,
though 4,023 will be on the job.
The pupil-teacher ratio will be
IS to /, instead Of the desired
80 to / which local officials are
striving for.
The new Woodson Junior High
School at Forty-seconc and
Grant streets NE, is the big
gest physical addition to the
school system this year. 1t will
hold 1900 students.
Alexandria will have none Of
its 10000 pupils in double shifts.
with George Washington High
School at normal capacity for
the first time in many years.
The new 81 million Hammond
High School yill relieve the load
at CIV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Steuben Society Of
America winds UP its meet
ing in the Hotel Statler.
T he Armenian Church
Youth Organization con-
cludes a four-day meeting in
the Sheraton Park Hotel.
The Society Of the Fifth
Division ends its sessions in
the Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03


pupils Tuesday, with the District
and Alexandria, Va, following
suit next Monday
None of the areas has escaped
either the overcrowding or the
integration question.
Both nearby Maryland areas
have effected partial irtegratiUn.
In Virginia the question still is
a major issue with the General
Assembly now in special session
at Richmond considering sug-
gested ways of circumventing the
Supreme CoulG's deSegregation
order of two years ago.
District Has Integrated
The District has already in
tegrated.
Some 300. 0UD students will at
tend tie public schools of the
seven subdivisions. Close tc 5O,-
600 more will register at paro-
chial Schools in the area when
they reopen Wednesday in Vir-
ginia and the following day in
the District and Maryland.
Between 5000 and 10000 stu
dents will be on double shifts
in the suburban erea. This will
be relieved somewhat with the
completion of new schools be-
fore the end of the term.
Next to the District, with its
some 10000 students, Mont
gomery County will welcome the
largest enrolment, 57,341, which
is 5,074 more than the system
housed at the end of last year.
The county will have 2,9lO
pupils on double shifts. with
new projects scheduled to take
care of all but 43O of these
within weeks or months. Virtu-
ally Ill those who will be on
double shifts for the entire
term are arst graders.
More than 600 Negroes will be
attending previously all-white
schools, some 1876 more than last
year. as Montgomery moves to-
ward indignation of the up
county areas. Nine Negro teach
erS will be teaching in former
white schools, three more than
last year.
The opening of three new
school buildings ard six addi-
tons still will leave some LOO
pupils on double shifts when ST.
900 boys and girls troop back
to school in Prince Georges
County.
A Dig dent will be put in the
overcrowdins with the opening
Of John Hanson Junior High
at Livingston and Oxon
Hill roads, permitting Oxon Hill
High School to resume normal
class schedules.
Some Glasses Omitted
The teacher shortage is being
felt in Prince Georges, with Of
ficials still attempting to fill 10
last week. Seven junior
high shop classes already have
been Cancelled because teachers
are not available
Only l5S colored students will
be attending formerly all-white
schools in the county, 80 more
than last year.
The situation across the Poto-
mac n Arlington is complicated
by court litigation and over
crowding. with 1000 on double
shifts, compared with none a
year ago.
ana the county Is caught be-
tween a court order and State
policy.
Alexandria Federal Court
Judge Albert v. Bryan has or
dered an end to segregation in
elementary schools by next jan
uary 81. and desegregation in the
secondary schools by the follow
ing September. Gov. Stanley has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Seen
As Riot DANGER
In D. {. Prisons
CIemmer Requests
$45,000 to Plan
For New BUILDING

Overcrowding in District priS-
ons has created a condition
that fosters danger in terms OF
escape and riot" Director DON
aid C. Clemmer of the Depart
ment of Corrections has warned
in his third bid for a new prison
Asking for $45,O0O to start
planning such a building at Lor-
ton in the next fiscal year., he
said it might be possible to ask
for construction funds the fol-
lowing year. However, he de-
clared, the city's growing prison
population - estimated soon tC
reach 1850 - already would
more than half fill a new insti-
tuition even if it were immedi-
ately available"
Wants Money in 1857
His plea was made in a de-
partmental request for permits
sion to spend $6,169.O00 next
year. This has been cleared by
the District Budget Office ano
recommended to the Commits
sioners. The figure would pro-
vide $1,O06, 900 for construction
at Lorton. Occoquan and the
District jail and an operating
budget of $5,163. 900, increased
by $446.852 over the current
year, which ends June 80.
The operating increase would
cover hiring of so new employees
including 40 guards. to keep UP
With a prison population which
has grown 81 per cent in the
last 10 years.
Although police figures in
dictate a reduction in serious
crime, Mr.. Clemmer said average
sentences have increased from
about. Az years in 1858 to 6b
years in 1856. Also. he said,
under the new District narcotics
law lit is quite likely that large
numbers of persons involved in
narcotics activities, against
whom the police had previously
been unable to make charges,
will be arrested and committed
to our prisons on charge OF
vagrancy."
Remodeling is Asked
Other major items included
$50, 900 to remodel three factory
buildings at Lorton for use as
dormitories to house $50 in
mates and $4,000 for a new
dormitory for $50 men at the
Occoquan workhouse.
Additionally requested was
500. 900 for a 48-bed addition to
the werkhouse hospital; $75,OOC
to increase the capacity of the
Lorton sewage disposal plant;
$3.50 900 to replace the Occoquan
dairy barns; $4,000 to build a
maximum security housing unit
for 80 prisoners at the Occoquan
women's reformatory. and $780,
600 to build a chapel at Lorton,
Justifying the need for the
women'S unit, Mr.. Clemmer said
the population of the women's
reformatory has increased more
than 100 per cent in the last
10 years.
Currently" he said, inmates
are herded together in most un-
wholesome and unwise ways
with double decked beds only lS
inches apart. MiSdemeanants
are mixed with felons, and some
times sophisticated offenders
with amateurs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
The
Rambler
This Man Rutes
A Medal Himself
By JACK JONAS

The lady from Loudoun
County, Va, didn't know her
medal could be worth so much.
She brought it from home
and stopped by the Truxtun-
Decatur Naval Museum at
1910 H street NV. She was a
little shy about bringing the
subject up, but she needn't
have been.
She laid it on the desk of
Charles Heineman, an old
Navy man himself. Mr.. Heine-
man looks after things at
the museum, and is ready to
talk Navy to anyone. He
likes questions.
How much is it WORTH"
she asked.
Mr.. Heineman looked at it.
1t was a Sampson Medal of
the Spanish American War.
There on the face was the
bust of Admiral William T.
sampson, commander-in-
chief of the Naval forces in
the West Indies, and the date,
1898.
ut was my fathers medal"
the lady said.
Mr.. Heineman hated to tell
her the medal-offici the
Medal Concentrating Naval
Engagements in the West
Indies-had been awarded to
a lot of people, Navy men and
Marines. There must be a
lot of them still kicking
around, he felt, and the medal
in itself wasn't worth very
much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-03
Most Suburban Schools
Will Reopen This Week
By CHARLES PUFFENBARCER

Most OF the areas public schools this week with such
matters indignation overcrowding stealing the Spoipt
from the basic problem of teaching
Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in neighbonp
MARYLAND and Arlington and Fairfax and Falls Church
virginia will open their school doors record nhers ri