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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20

Hear u. N.
Speaker

Encouraging the economic
and social development of the
less developed countries of the
world can bring such dividends
as lowering of prices of raw
materials, creation of new
markets and an increase in
the potential of the worlds
economy, the Woman's Ma
tional Democratic Club was
told yesterday.
Mr.. Arthur Goldschmidt, di-
rector of the Program Di-
vision of the United Nations
Technical Assistance Admin
istration, declared that one of
the reasons the U. N. techni-
cal aid program is popular
with the countries of the world
is because it promotes gen.
eral Development and what's
good for general development
is good for. everybody"
1T is no longer fashionable
nor sensible" he continued,
ito relegate to the less de-
veloped countries the task of
furnishing the raw material
base for western industrial
development. We in the United
States know from our own ex-
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perience that development can
be equated with trade. We
know that in achieving a
balance of industry and agri-
culture in our own South and
West we have strengthened
the economy of our whole Ma
ton. We know also that our
external trade is greater with
the more developed coun-
tries than with those less
developed"
The U. N. program, which
has the voluntary participa-
ton of the countries-donor
and recipient alike-has as its
purpose the assistance of
underdeveloped countries to
help themselves, Mr.. Gold
schmidt pointed out.
stable governments. with
sound administrative practices,
are essential to world trade.
Areas of greater productivity
and higher levels of living
make the best customers. 1t
was formerly said that trade
follows the flag, but today we
find trade following technical
assistance" he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
BY EVELYN M. DENT

The Army Finance Officers
Wives Club have planned an
afternoon of bridge and can
asia for next Tuesday follow
ing the luncheon meeting at
the Army Navy Country Club.
There will be a social hour
at noon after which luncheon
will be served with Mrs. Fred
erick j. Kendall as hostess.
Assisting her will be Mrs. E.
Courtney Shewbridge. Mrs.
Lauren E. Hannah. ana Mrs.
Eugene D. Taber.
Virginia Engineering Duty
Officers
Mr.. Paul HICKMAN, will be
guest speaker at the luncheon
meeting Of the Virginia Engi-
neering Duty officers Wives
Club on Thursday. November
20 at Patton Hall.
The speaker will talk on
party planning and giving and
will answer questions after
wards on the subject.
Military Sea Transportation
Service
The MSTS Wives Club re-
Gently completed final plans
for the Club year and named
the executive committee for
1861. They met at the home
of the president, Mrs. Frank T.
Sloat. wife Of Navy Capt. Sloat,
in Chevy Chase.
Others include Mrs. Henry
Shea, vice president; Mrs. r.
w. Fielden. secretary; and Mrs.
William Hart, treasurer. The
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1856. 81
Women Discuss Their
|LegQl Status in u. S.

governing marriage and prop
erty rights.
when you analyze the posi-
ton of women here. we make
up the majority of the popula-
ton in the United States, and
yet we have only minority
status. Then / think Of the
countries abroad. where women
are more reserved and re-
spected.
Women here aren't going
to make history until we're
ready to assume the response
bilitieS that are ours in the
Nation and in the world. To
do this. we must be as effective,
as intelligent and as alert as
men,"
District is Different
Mrs. Jalet particularly urged
the women of the District to
work for enactment of q Uni
form Reciprocal Support law.
All States but the District have
it, she pointed out, with the
result that Washington has
become a haven for pIof1igate
fathers"
A more optimistic view OF
women's opportunities was pre-
sented by Mrs. Leopold. She
pointed out that in a recent
Labor Department survey, it
was revealed that there are
446 job fields occupied by both
men and women. with only one
IN which women weren't repre-
sented-railroad engineering.
Mrs. Leopold, who just re-
turned yesterday from Geneva,
Switzerland, where she pre-
sided at an International
Labor Organization conference
on the status of the working
woman, reported highlights of
her trip.
She said the women from
II countries (12 were invited
but the Egyptian delegate did
not attend. she pointed QUIT
showed a mutually of interest
in such basic problems as part
time work. the older woman
worker and vocational training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
WEDDINGS
Bryce-ColdweH

Mrs. Helen Hancock Cald-
well announces the marriage
of her daughter Betty Louise
to Mr.. Richard James Bryce,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James L.
Bryce of Green Island, N. Y.
The wedding took place Sat-
urday in the Church of the
Assumption. The couple will
live here.
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OFFICERS WIVES CLUBS
Bridge, Canasta Party
Planned by Group

committee members are Mrs.
Roy Gano, wife Of Rear Adm.
Gano. Mrs. Roy G. Anderson.
Mrs. William L. Bull, Mrs. E. r.
Hubenette, Mrs. Robert H.
Pilkinton, and Mrs. Gordon P.
Christensen.
Fort George C. Meade
Polka music and decorations
in the brilliant primary colors
of Pennsylvania Dutch art
highlighted the luncheon last
Tuesday for the officers Wives
Club of Fort Meade at the Of
ficers Open Mess.
Guest lecturer was Mrs. An
ma Rich Riser of Lancaster,
Pa, teacher of carly American
Tole Decoration and expert
on Dutch art. Many learned
that the so-called Hex" signs
have no connotation of ward
ing of evil, but rather a free
art expression by the Dutch
in developing an identifying
mark for their barns and
houses.
Nearly 200 members attend
ed the affair and enjoyed the
striking display of tole deco
rated trays.
Capt. Ridden HOnOred
Friends of Capt. Sarah Rud-
den. WAC. gave a farewell
party in her honor last Tues
day evening in the Cavalier
Room of the officers Club,
Fort George c. Meade.
Capt. Sally as she is known
to her friends is now assigned
as company officer of the WAC
Detachment at Fort Myer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
LibbYs Fete Burkes

The Chief of Naval Opera
tions and Mrs. Arleigh Burke
were guests of honor last night
at an informal supper party
given by the Deputy Chief Of
Naval Operations for Plans and
Policy and Mrs. Ruthven
E. Libby in their Arlington
home. Approximately 80 guests
attended the buffet supper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
.Foutz-Lecky

Mrs. William Prescott Lecky
of Washington and New York
announces the marriage of her
daughter Carol Ann to the
Rev. Leslie Robert Foutz, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Davis
Foutz. The wedding took place
November 3 in All Saints Epis-
copal Church, Chevy Chase.
The couple will live on Long
Island.
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| Klein-Scher

Mr.. and Mrs. Sol Scher an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Barbara Anne to DR..
Sanford Klein, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leopold Klein of Bay
side, Long Island. The wedding
took place November 10 in the
Washington Hebrew Congre-
CATION. The couple will live in
Forest Hills, Long Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
By RUTH DEAN

Members of the National
Council of Women of the
United States stopped and took
a look yesterday at how far the
legal status of women in the
United States has improved
since the groups founding by
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony
in 1880.
More than 100 leaders of
women's organizations who are
members gathered at the Cos
mos Club for the symposium.
In a way the meeting was a
celebration Of the reactivation
a few weeks ago of the coun-
ellis committee on laws and
suffrage, headed by Mrs. Fred
eric Beggs of Washington.
Letters from members of the
International Council which
has councils in 38 countries,
contain questions about the
civil and economic rights Of
American women which can
never be answered with a sim
pie Eyes" or no." Mrs. Beggs
pointed out, because of the
inequities in our various State
laws concerning the legal sta
tus Of women.
Foreign Interest
The terest of foreign
women. who increasingly are
attaining equal rights. spurred
the council to action, she
pointed out.
Speakers at yesterdays SYM
postum examined the legal
position of women in the
United States today from
economic, social, legal and in
ternational viewpoints.
The panel included Mrs.
Alice K. Leopold, assistant to
the Secretary of Labor for
Women's Affairs; Mrs. Alice
Morrison, chief of the legisla-
tive division of the Labor De-
partment's Women'S Bureau;
Mrs. Rachel Mason, Mrs.
Frances Jalet and Mrs. Will
liam Barclay Parsons, presi-
dent of the National Council.
Mrs. Jalet, a lawyer, and
Mrs. Leopold presented vary
ing viewpoints on how well
women have Jared in attain
ing status.
I'VE hear about American
women as being the most fab
ulous of women, but / don't
think we're the envy of the
world" declared Mrs. Jalet
after ennumerating many of
the inequities in State laws
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
McKoY-Simpson

Mr.. and Mrs. James Henry
Simpson Of Burke, Va, an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Mary Teresa to Mr..
Edward Thomas Mckay, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Mckay
of Arlington. The wedding took
place November 10 in st.
Mary's Catholic Church. Fair
fax. The couple will live in
Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
ST. Gertrude's Bozuor

st. Gertrude's Guild will
hold a bazaar and card party
at the Sheraton-Park Hotel
December 8 for the benefit of
st. Gertrude's School Of Arts
and Crafts. Mrs. James j.
Ward is chairman.
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Virts-Smitskomp

Mrs. Gerhard SmitSkamp
announces the marriage of her
daughter Elizabeth to Mr..
Stuart Randolph Virts, son of
Mrs. William Virts. The we'd
ding took place November 10
in Grace Lutheran Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-20
.Corqino-Peormon

Mr.. Wray P. Pearman an
nounceS the marriage of his
daughter Beverly Wray to Mr..
Frank Lawrence Corgino, jr.
The wedding took place No
vember 10 in st. Charles
Church. Arlington. The couple
will live in Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
Increase
At z Historic Spots

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 8 (P).-Two
of Maryland's major tourist at
fractions - the historic State
house here and Fit. McHenry in
Baltimore-continued to top 1866
records during July.
The Department of Informal
ton said today 78.245 persons
visited Fl. McHenry last month
compared to 1888 during the
same period last year-an in.
crease of 1852.
The number of visitors to the
Statehouse increased by $40.
from 1921 last July to 1861 last
month.
Total visitors to the Statehouse
for the first six months of 1855
were 44,297 compared to $4,000
for the first six months of 1866.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
Miss Washington
Finulists Appear
Before AID Club

Nine finalists in the Miss
Washington" competition yester-
day demonstrated their talents
and beauty to 275 members of
the Advertising Club of Wash
ington in the admens annual
"Prevue Of Beauty" at the Will
lard Hotel.
The beauty contest winner will
be selected next Monday and will
go on to the Miss America Con-
test at Atlantic City.
The talent show-drama. piano
performances, dancing and sign
ing-was followed by a bathing
suit review. The finalistS are
Edna Clark. 10, Of 100 Highland
drive. Silver Spring: Joan DAILY,
20, of 3148 North Eighteenth
street. Arlington; Barbara Free
man, 20, Of 1889 Lanier place
NV; Carol Holiday, 10, Of 1923
South Twenty-eighth street
Arlington; Joni Love, 20. of GAS
Franklin street NE; Jolene
Cakes. 81. Of 5000 Sherrier place
NV; June Cook, 10, of 8l9l
North Patrick Henry drive, Ar
lington; Mango Lucey, 20, of 1000
orchard Way, Silver Spring, and
Virginia >Pailes, 10. of Twenty
fourth place. Hyattsville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
Historic Engine House Lies in Ruin
On Storage Lot, Awaits Uncertain Fate
BY JOHN McKELWAY

In one of the dullest reaches
of the city, a section filled with
freight sidingS, trucks and as
sorted warehouses, the Old
Union Engine House lies in
ruin. its brick piled loosely and
its quaint belfry fitting on a
base of SCARED timbers.
Even in that state. it might
be said the old building has
retained character. For the little
building has always had that
nebulous quality - enough to
make people rally to save its
utter destruction, enough to
cause the International None
tary Fund to spend $4,000 to-
ward its safekeeping and pos
sible reconstruction.
Now neatly dismantled on the
storage lot of the Charles H.
Tompkins Co., 2610 Ninth street
NE, the engine house was
taken. not torn down. after
the annual July 4 meeting of
the Association of Oldest In
habitantS.
After 118 Years
1t came down brick by brick
to make room for a multi-million
dollar Office building of the In
ternational Monetary Fund now
going up on the engine houses
old resting place at Nineteenth
and H streets NV. 1t had been
there for 1l8 years. serving first
as an actual fire house and later
as meeting place for the city's
Oldest inhabitants, who or
ganized in 1865.
Just about everything that
went into the building originally
was carefully carted off to the
Northeast resting place. En-
gineers for the Tompkins firm,
which handled the job. said the
mortar crumbled and some of the
bricks fell apart. But up to g.
200 bricks still strong, have been
salvaged and piled.
The belfry, too weak in recent
years to hold the bell, was
pulled off intact by a crane. 1t
was one of the things that set
the old place apart from the
ordinary. There is still charm
about it. setting in a yard of iron
pipes and steel beams.
Each window, sill, sash and
frame was also taken out in one
piece.
Within a week. all had been
completed. Nothing was left.
"A simple job" said con-
struction man, but if it hadn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Proorom for Tonight

Programs sponsored by The
Evening Star in cooperation with
the Film Center OF Washington
and the recreation departments Of
the District and Arlington, Prince
Georges and Montgomery counties.
Washington, al Dusk
Macomb, Msconb street between Thirty.
fourth and Thirty-fifth streets wv
TakoTs, Fourth and Van Buren, etfeets
Edsewood Third and Eyarm streets Ne.
Happg. Hollow. Eighteenth and Kaiorama
Thomson. twelfth and L streets NV.
HAYES FIN and Y streets NJ
Male. Fiftieth and { stree;a 81
River Terrace Blaine street and Ana.
Jeftrson .kighih and u streets sW
co Rsssi. b 5,ass ! Savannah street and
stfsets sE -" '
Arlington County, $40 Pm
Hans H!ll 1900 South D.ngidde stfset.
1907 South WAFER Reed drive
Prince G,orEss County. $50 PM
Rlyerdalt Hslshts Fi',g.sishth Avenue,
Bradbury Hslghid col F.i,y.thire ave.
nue. Bfsdbgfy Heigh's
Nsnitsmsfs County $50 pm
KsnNnuon elementary sehool Wa-nsr
and Dstuss atfssts KsaErstos
s1ffh Bethfsda Rrcfss'ior Center Cae
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Elsm,n,afy s,hos,. cfsss a,s.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08

LIKE WASHINGTON, Can
berra is a river town. 1t was
designed by an American
architect, Walter Burley Grif-
fin of Chicago who envisioned
handmade lakes through jul
dicious damming of the river,
and spacious parks around
the lakes.
Canberra has a Washington
problem in reverse. The diff
Guilty there is not in keeping
the big government depart
ments from moving out of
town, but in getting them to
move in.
Many of the Australian
government agencies, before
Canberra, were in Melbourne.
Some big ones-the army,
navy and air force, for ex-
ample-are still there, al
though Canberra would like
to have its own Pentagon.
Today, only II of the "a
federal departments are head
quartered there.
Mr.. Grifin'S architectural
plan for the city saw a sepa-
ration of national and local
affairs by placing all build
ings relating to national af-
fairs on the south side of the
river and all those associated
with civic matters in a COM
handing position on the north
side"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
Judge Orders Curfew
For Indian Head Youth

LA PLATA. Md, Aug. 8 R.-
Circuit Court Judge j. Dudley
Digges has moved to curb an out
break of minor crimes around
Indian Head by placing an in
definite curfew on teen-agers in
the area.
The Judge served notice on
parents in the Charles County
community that If they do not
stop their children from roam
ing around late at night" he
will punish the teen-agers as
delinquents.
Judge Digges made his an
nouncement at a hearing Of five
teen-sgers suspected Of breaking
into an Indian Head soda bar
Three Of the boys we're found
to have no part in the crime
Police picked them up at 2 am
The judge said he has in
structed the sheriff 10 pick up
all children found out late at
night and 10 take them home.
VT their parents do not show
the proper attitude toward their
responsibilities or cannot or will
not assume them" he said. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08

Also. funds to start an addi-
ton to Taft Junior High School;
construction of a new senior
high school in Congress Heights;
an addition to Payne Ele-
mentary School; an addition to
Moten Elementary School; re-
placement of Hine Junior High;
addition to Phelps Vocational
High School; additions and al
terations of Randall Junior High
School.
Also, replacement of Amidon
and Greenleaf Elementary
Schools and construction of a
warehouse for the entire school
system.
Committee members will also
discuss the recent slash by Dis
trict budget officers of funds to
cover l78 additional elementary
school teachers for the 1878
school year. With the new
teachers, it had been hoped to
reduce the pupil-teacher ratio
in elementary schools to 32-to-l
by the 1857 school year. The
present ratio is 32.25 pupils to
each teacher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
Polio Vucciine
TuIks Slated

Private and District health Of
ficialS will discuss tomorrow
ways to allow the Health De-
partment to furnish polio shots
to persons over 10 years of age.
Although the Public Health
Service lifted all restrictions last
month on ALLEGATION of the vac
cine. it recommended strongly
that incubation of older age
groups be postponed until maxi
mum coverage" has been OBJ
tanned IN the group / to 10 years
of age.
The department feels it is
ready to proceed with a free
incubation program for the
over-l9 group, but is restricted
by law to the younger group
Private physicians are free to
inoculate persons of any age,
although it has been recon-
mended by the National Advisory
Committee on Poliomyelitis that
they. too, for the time being,
confine incubation to younger
patients.
The meeting. called by the
local advisory committee on use
of the vaccine, will be held at
IL am. in the Office of DR.. Dam
iel Seckinger, health director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08
School Board Will Get
Plea for Is Projects

A total of Is construction and
expansion projects will be placed
before the Finance Committee
of the Board of Education at Q
pm. Thursday by school adj
ministration officials.
The items require the review
of the committee before being
passed for approval of the Board
of Commissioners.
Included in the expansion pro-
gram will be a request for funds
to cover the plans and speci-
fications for a new school ad-
ministration building to replace
the ancient Franklin School.
School officials hope to make
the request an item in the 1859
budget.
Other capital outlay items in
clude:
Purchase Of a site for a new
elementary school at Fifty-sixth
and Eads streets NE; construc-
ton of new elementary school
at Texas avenue and Burns
street Sc; planning of a new
elementary school at Tenth and
F streets NE.
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sheriff is to bring the children
TO me q nd I'll handle them"
Citing a long list Of breakings
and enterings in the Indian Head
area, Judge Digges said, I'VE
have found more juveniles
than adults in this court
and II is the fault of par
ents primarily. They sim
ply have TO realize you can't
make an adult out Of a l6-year-
old boy. II he is allowed TO run
around late at night sooner or
later there will be trouble.
Two youths. identified as men,
bers Of "the Dingo gang" we're
found guilty Of attempted rob-
berry at the soda bar. Judge
Digges committed them TO the
Maryland Training School until
they are 81 years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-08

had the sentimental value, we'd
have toppled the whole structure
over"
AS workmen Clipped off the
mortar stuck to each brick,
members of the association stood
by and watched storage men
wheel out an old fire piece and
carry out all the relics and SOU
yenirs that had been kept in the
building. Now, these have all
been placed at the Federal Stor-
age Co., which overnight was
turned into a District Museum.
There are well over 100 items.
Despite all the assurances of
survival given the old building
land the association as WELD, its
future is misty. The association
has not decided on a new site,
and its members are not at all
sure whether they want the same
old building, built with the same
old bricks, or a brand new
duplicate.
The association was at one
point ready to reconstruct on a
site offered by Garfield 1. Kass.
local builder and association
member, who saw the old engine
house rising on lot at Twenty
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fifth street between E and F
NV. Luckily, District officials
pointed out in time that the en-
CINE house, if reconstructed,
would have faced another razing
. :. this time engulfed by
needed GLOVER leafs" for a bridge
across the Potomac.
Five Months to Choose
Unless a site is chosen within
five months, the association must
begin to pay storage rent on its
wealth of Washingtoniana. Part
of the benevolent $4,000 gift to
the association by the Interna-
tional Monetary Fund carries the
weight of the storage cost until
that time. The rest is to go to-
ward the new building.
Once the Oldest Inhabitants
were content to talk only of old
times. Today the association
must talk of the immediate
future. must stir itself into plans
for a new building like the rest
of Washington.
Distasteful as this might be,
the association at least has a pile
of charm and character available
for quick assembly.