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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Parks Seeking
more Workers

The Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee. hearing the bud.
get for the coming fiscal veal
for the Interior Department. to-
day heard a plea for additional
workers for the National Capital
Parks.
Director Conrad L. Wirth OF
the National Park Service told
the subcommittee the National
Capital Parks needs one corporal
and 10 privates in the Park Po-
lice. one ranger-naturalist and
two historian rangers.
Mr.. Wirth said that this addi-
tional personnel is necessary be-
cause travel through the parks
in Washington has increased tre-
mendously and the new police
men are badly needed.
House action in cutting the
budget for the National Capital
Parks has resulted in a slash OF
$67,90 total. OF this S12,660
was allocated to interpretive
services. which includes the ran
ger. naturalist and historian
phases and S55.245 to the Park
Police.
Mr.. Wirth and his associates
want these items restored by the
Senate subcommittee. headed by
Chairman Hayden. Democrat OF
Arizona.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Walton League
Meets Here April 3

The Izaak Walton League of
America 35th national con-
vention at the Hotel Mayfiower
April So will mark the first
time the organization has met
here in Is years.
Delegates from 563 chapters
are expected to take part in
discussions centering around the
theme: Building a Better Out
door America. Conservation has
been a primary interest of the
league since its formation in
1922.
More than 10 chapters in
Washington. Virginia. Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
will be hosts at the convention
Carrot M Van Hoesen, of Ia
koma Park Md is general
chairman; Clifford r. Ricketts,
OF Bethesda, is treasurer. and
George B. Gordon, also of Be-
thesda. is secretary.
Royal H. Carlock. of Cabin
John Md is a member of the
national executive board.
A feature of the meeting will
be a speech April S by Under.
secretary of the Interior Hatfield
Gibson.
4 Other highlights will be dis
cussions Of pending legislation
affecting conservation. with sew
eral members of the Congress
participating. Among those
slated to take part are Senators
Clinton p. Anderson, Democrat
of New Mexico. and Arthur v
Watkins. Republican Of Utah.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Funds Urged to FoIIowUp
Care for Mental Patients

leave from the hospital or dis
charged and being followed up.
Mr.. Denbo declared the Mental
Health Association backs an ad-
ditional $4,000 for additions to
professional psychiatric teams in
the Mental Health Department.
He said that children and adults
needing treatment are on waiting
lists for up to a year.
I'VE see this dearth of public
mental health services providing
both diagnosis and treatment as
the great bottleneck in develop
ment of school mental health
program, Mr.. Denbo declared.
The association also urged
Congress to appropriate SAL. 200
to establish a mental health APP
praisal team in the public
schools. money which was cut out
Of the budget earlier. The group
backed the Board of Education s
request for SGT, 900 TO provide
nine additional psychologists anc
seven clerical assistants In the
department Of pupil Appraisal,
and attendance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Rambler
Army's Mop Making
A Sd Adventure

Il have been told that there
are some people who do not
like MAPS" wrote Robert
Louis Stevenson, but I find
this very hard to believe"
The Rambler is of like
opinion. And so, the other
day, he stopped in at a place
he had been passing for years
the Army Map Service. 1t is
near Cabin John, Md, on Mac
Arthur boulevard, just beyond
the District line.
1t is an amazingly big
establishment, compr Using
several buildings, the largest
a huge five-story affair. The
center produces Is million
maps a year in peacetime
(about three times that in
the war years. and employs
1900 (pluS about 900 more
elsewhere in the United
StateS).
Maj. Stanley G. Hash took
the Rambler through.
Our c. o. is Col. Julian D.
Abell," he said, land I also
want you to meet David Mills,
civilian head of our Geodetic
Division, who recently made a
very significant contribution
to measuring the world and
is being honored for it by
the Army and by scientific
societies"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

until five years ago when l suddenly
became quite Ill.
l thought l had tried to live
pretty much the way God wanted me
to, and / couldn't understand why,
without any warning, my health and
my career were seriously threatened.
Heart patients shouldn't worry
just rest and get we'll" was told
by doctors. my family and friends.
l knew they were right, but how
could l help worrying?
During my convalescent period l
read necessarily, and l found myself
pickinp IN the Bible more and more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
D. c. PUSHING
Study Of S.W.
Food Needs

1t is still unknown how many
Southwest Washington children
are in critical need of food,
Schuyler Lowe. the Districts di-
rector of general administration.
said today.
Mr.. Lowe said it will take at
least another week before the
actual need is established.
His remarks followed a meet
ing today of Welfare Department
officials and private welfare
agency representatives over what
form the Districts emergency
program to furnish food for re-
portedly starving children should
take.
Dopald Brewer. deputy welfare
director, said the departments
social workers have found evil
dence of low nutritional levels
and a need for supplemental
food in number of Southwest
families canvaSsed over the
week end.
Fourteen persons appeared at
the Salvation Army's welfare de-
partment at l12 F street NV.
this morning requesting food
under the emergency program.
The situation will be the sub
Iect OF an investigation by the
Senate District Committee to-
morrow morning at which Dis
trict officials will appear.
Mr.. Lowe indicated that the
program lacks any screening
method for individuals asking
food He said machinery is be-
ing set up to determine more
accurately who is in need Of
food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Rudio-TV TuIks
Are Urged to Air
Religious Issues

The spokesman Of a predomi-
nantly Protestant organization
today suggested that radio and
televlsion networks present a
month "dignified hour of
controversy on church-state
issues"
Glenn L. Archer. executive di-
rector of Protestants and Other
Americans United for Separa-
ton of Church and State. said
this would be the logical solu-
ton of the unpleasant battle
now raging over freedom of the
air for religious criticism"
Mr. Archer made his Sugges-
ton in a letter TO the Columbia
Broadcasting System deploring
cancellation Of an address by the
Rev. Thurston N. Davis. editor
of the Jesuit magazine America.
The speech was prepared for de-
livery on the March 10 Church
of the Air" program.
Asserting CHS was was well
within its rights" in stating that
"A partisan view should not be
presented to the American peo-
pie without an opportunity for
the hearing of the contrary point
OF view Mr.. Archer claimed the
correct solution lis not suppress
sion but valid controversy"
TO achieve this end. he sug-
gested that Father Davis discuss
the issues with two members
OF his organization. Methodist
Bishop G. Bromley OMAN of
Washington and Paul Blanshard
an author.
Among the issues listed as
causing Catholic Protestant ten
sions were birth control. Catholic
censorship and the use OF public
money for parochial schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
.Karrick Replies
On Home Rule

Commissioner David Karrick
today put in a strong plug for
home rule for the District as he
refuted parallel drawn between
the motor industry in Detroit
and the Federal Government in
Washington.
The Commissioner issued a
statement in which he said he
wanted to reply to the quoted
remarks Of Representative Ra-
baut, Republican Of Michigan,
chairman of the House Appro-
priations Subcommittee consider
ing the District budget.
Mr.. Rabaut had been quoted
as saying that the Federal Gov
eminent is to Washington what
the motor industry is to Detroit
and that without the Federal
Government. Washington would
be a small town.
Mr.. Karrick preceded his re-
marks by reiterating his appre-
citation to the Rabaut subcom-
mittee for the time it had de-
voted to the District budget. He
went on TO say that the COM
parison drawn between Wash
ington and Detroit is not sound
for two reasons.
One difference" he said. sis
that the motor industry pays
taxes on all Of its taxable assets
as levied by municipal authori-
ties Of Detroit and surrounding
cities. 1t does not pay what it
chooses to grant the city as Con-
gresS chooses with us.
Another difference is that
,le motor industry does not con-
troll the purse strings of the city
OF Detroit, / would say the city
of Dertoit, the government of
Detroit and the taxpayers would
not stand for that.
The people of Washington
are just as capable of governing
themselves and managing their
affairs as the people of Detroit. .
The exchange with Represent
alive Rabaut followed broadcast
remarks by Commissioner Kar-
rick in which he combined criti-
cism of the present budget sys-
TEN with expressions of graft
tude toward the subcommittee
handling the budget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Catholic Lecture
Planned Tomorrow

The Rev. John f. Corrigan,
curate at the Catholic Shrine of
the Blessed Sacrament. will
speak on rs Christ Really Pres
ent in Every Catholic church,"
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Blessed
Sacram e n t auditorium, 584l
Chevy Chase parkway NV.
A question and answer period
following the lecture will be led
by the Rev. Francis x. Walsh,
also a curate at the shrine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
~ WITNESSES APPEAR
Budget Hearing Told
Of Pressing D. c. Need

lay for the schools. We hope
this plan, now being studied by
the commissioners, will receive
approval when it is presented to
Congress"
William II. Petri, president of
the United Cerebral Palsy of
Washington, urged funds for
leadership at the summer day
camp for crippled children and
more money for transportation of
handicapped children to public
schools and for more personnel
at the new health school.
Mrs. Richard T. Mcdonnell,
president of the board of man
ayers, Washington Home for In
curables, pleaded for a grant of
$4,000 for the home for the
coming year, saying that under
the present allotment I'VE are
losing more than $4,000 a year."
Mrs. Olivia F. Tesone, legisla-
tive chairman, Health School
instruction, Parent
Teacher Associations: General
approval given $39,567 for new
personnel for the Health School
for Crippled Children scheduled
for completion next year; $38. TAG
for transportation of handi-
capped children and $500 for
leadership at the summer day
camp for crippled children.
Virginia Kinnaird, for the
Washington branch of the Amer
lean Association of University
Women-"Some of the needs OF
the schools and public health are
not adequately met. We are con-
cerned that the Commissioners
did not approve proposals for
remedial reading teachers in the
Junior and senior high schools
and the vocational schools"
Washington l. Cleveland, for
the District division of the Amer
lean Automobile Association
asked approval of a request for
an additional SIG, 900 for the pur-
chase of IA automobiles TO be
used in the entertaining
course of the high schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25


fiscal year to follow up mental
patients discharged from st.
Elizabeths hospital could save
$4,000 in hospital care costs
in the first year alone. the
House Appropriations subcom-
mittee heard today.
Milton c. Denbo. representing
the District Mental Health AS
ISOLATION. told the subcommittee
that this year hospital care of
District mental patients at st
Elizabeths took 43 per cent OF
our health budget. Next year
rising costs will bring this hos
pital bill to the District to over
sl2 million"
Mr.. Denbo declared that any
expenditure Of $4,000 to pro-
vide public health nursing serv-
ices for some patients released
from st. Elizabeths would per-
init the hospital to release many
patients who are perfectly fit fol
return to home and community
III they and their families were
given a certain amount Of guild.
ance and support by specially
qualified nurses"
For a number Of months DIR
Winfred Overholser. superin'
tendent of the institution, ha.
been negotiating with the Health
department for the establish,
ment OF a follow-up service foI
District patients. He points ou
that many patients taking tran
QUILTING drugs could be released
to the community If such a serv
ice existed.
st. Elizabeth's is not paid b,
the District for any patient OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
New14th Street Span
OK'd by House Unit
Five Other Bills
On D. c. Affairs
Are Approved

The House District Commit
tee today reported favorably on
"a bill to authorize the District
to construct a new bridge to
replace the existing southbound
Fourteenth street span across
the Potomac River.
The committee also reported
five other bills to the House.
They were:
l. A bill to extend the life
OF the District Auditorium Com
mission to formulate plans to
construct here civic auditorium.
including an inaugural hall of
Presidents and a music, fine arts
and mass-communications CEN
ter. Today's bill provides for
a commission for a national
cultural center, changing the
name from the District Audi
forum Commission.
Vehicles Borrowing OK'd
2. A bill to authorize the
Board of Education to borrow
motor vehicles to use in a motor
vehicle education and training
course in the Districts lublic
schools. The owners of these We
hlcles loaned to public, private
or parochial schools for driver
training would be excused from
paying certain fees and taxes
during the loan period, under the
proposed legislation.
3. A bill to permit any State
or any of its political subdivi-
sions to buy from the District
of Columbia Reformatory at
Lorton. Va. gun mountings and
carriages for guns for use at his
toric sites and for museum dis
play purposes.
Death Act Endorsed
4. A bill to provide that the
Uniform Simultaneous Death
Act shall apply in the District of
Columbia. This would provide
for disposition of property where
there is no sufficient evidence
that persons have died otherwise
than simultaneously. 1t would
make uniform the law in putting
the District into line with other
Jurisdictions concerning Inherit
ing property where there is not
sufficient evidence of survivor
ship, concerning which party
died first.
/ 5. A bill to provide additional
revenue for the District. 1t COW
ers two-wheel semi-trailers own
ed by nor4 esident owners offered
for lease up to one year. 1t also
would permit the District Com
missioners to charge fiat $5-fee
each for the use of antique auto
mobiles-manufactured prior to
January /. 1880. and owned sole
ly as collectors item. Their
use would be limited to partici-
patton in club activities, exhibits,
tours, parades and similar uses,
but not for general transporta-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

l began to wonder What is God trying to tell me?
Surely He means for me learn something from this
experience"
And So took stock of myself. What did God owe
me? much of my time, talents, means, energy had
actually been devong to Him? In my efforts to provide
my family with every material comfort, what had hap
pened to my spiritual values?
The l4th Chapter Of John became daily must in
my reading. firm faith in immortality had become sud-
denly very important to In this Chapter found all
the assurance anyone could want in the promise Of
love- hope and guidance in this life and the promise of
that life to come hereafter.
God has been good to me and nov try to follow
each day the 9th of the 10th Chapter of Luke:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy SOUL and with all thy strength, and with all
thy mind; and thy neghbor myself"
Tomorrow: Bernard E. Empeton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
Wyatt carp Sometimes
Afraid TV, Thot Is

Television's Wyatt carp, a
fast-growing national institution
and one of the fastest guns
alive" admitted today he is
sometimes afraid.
But it's not the threat ef bad
men that brings fear to Hugh
O'Brian. who plays the famous
Western marshal in a weekly TV
series. It's the rigors Of television
itself.
During a breathing spell in his
Washington visit that started
Saturday. the ex-marine said his
biggest dose of fear so far came
during a Playhouse 90" produc-
tion. Called Invitation to a
.Gunfighter." 1t lasted an hour
and-a-half and marked one Of
his rare appearances outside his
series. THE Life and Legend OF
Wyatt carp"
Mr.. O'Brian ked:
There's nothing more frighten-
ing in the world than knowing
you've got to do 80 minutes live
on TV."
Rife Association Delegate
The 31-year-old actor-attired
frequently in his Western mar
shall costume - has appeared
PUBLICLY at various spots since he
arrived here to join delegates to
the National Rife Association
convention at the Shoreham Ho-
tel.
Noticeably absent from his
Itrappings was one of Marshal
Earp's trademarks, the extra
long Buntline Special pistol. Mr..
IO'Brian said he left it in Holly
wood.
Even if he had it. he could
not have had much time to show
his legion of Washington fans
how fast he can draw it. He
has been kept too busy shaking
hands.
But that doesn't faze him.
I've got it down to a science
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

TWenty-four witness appeared
today before the luncheon
recess at a House Appropriation!
Subcommittee public hearing or
the Districts proposed $206.t
million budget.
1 Following are highlights o.
testimony from some of these
witnesses:
Mrs. Norma p. Glass, legisla.
tive chairman. Pre-school Moth.
ers' Council and Mothers Clubs
l"Our interest is in the continu'
ance Of the Recreation Depart.
ment's budget. Almost daily
I'VE read of the tremendous in.
crease of juvenile crime. yer
much of this can be averted anC
the youthful energies of our teen.
ayers diverted through directed
sports.
I'VE mothers know. we see
and we are for the Recreation
Departments program. The
W h o some and personally
directed programs are in the
pen, counterfeit TVS bad ir
fluences, and can help in chan
neling all of our youth into bet.
ter citizenship and make for 6
better community"
Mrs. Phyllis G. HarOd, presi.
dent, Dunbar Parent-Teachel
Association: THE health, safet,
and welfare of all those served
by the Dunbar High Schoo
building requires the remodelinE
! and renovating of the swimming
pool, the first aid room, the cleo
trio wiring in the entire building
the cafeteria. the gymnasium
orchestra room. sewing room ant
athletic stadium.
!. Earl Anderson, of the Com
mittee on Social Action. Noun
Vernon Place Methodist Church
I'VE do not anticipate that con-
ditions in Washington's school
will be ideal at any time in tn,
near future; the needs may vel
be beyond our capacity to pro
vide for them We trust tina
this increase (for 212 additiona
elementary teachers will seen
to you, as it does to us. the mos
, important single item in tn
|, most important area"
Philip Schiff, chairman, Met
ropolitan Washington Chapter
National Association of Socia
Workers: I'VE hope you will Civ
serious consideration to tn
growing Importance of what
becoming an overwhelming prob
lem. namely. mental health. w
hope you will approve the estab
! liShment of two new menta
, health clinics. as provided in tn
, health budget, at a cost of $50,
900. 1t is estimated that the on
. existing public mental clinic ha
a waiting period of about |
year"
Mrs. Jack Gottsegen. repre-
senting the District section o
the National Council of Jewisl
Women: The budget presented
, to you does not necessarily re
, fleet all the needs many thought
, full citizens feel should be met.
However. it is a balance,
; budget and depends upon tn
, granting of the entire amour
authorized by Congress as it
share of the expenses incurrec
in running a city which also i
the Nations Capital. We re
spectfully urge this committe
3 to recommend the full amour
{ of $23 million.
. Walter Filling. for the La
;, mond- Riggs Citizens Association
We indorse the proposal c
. the Board of Education to Dor
s row funds to finance capital out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25
New Dental Center
Opened by Union

Nearly 100 visitors attended
the opening of the new dental
center for beneficiaries of the
Washington Area Carpenters
Welfare Fund. 1921 Nineteenth
street NV. yesterday.
Expanding the facilities and
moving to the new Offices cost
about $1,000. Dr.. Philip S. Iren,
dental director, declared. Preyi-
ously the center was located in
the Park Lane Apartments.
The new center includes four
operating rooms, a laboratory
and a private Office. There are
about 5000 beneficiaries OF the
fund,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

now" he declared In a press
at the Shoreham
Hotel today Il figure I can do
so hands a minute"
Challenge Still Holds
About his fast draw, he seid
his open challenge to COMPETE
ticn still holds. But he has no
intention of meeting personally
every would-be opponent.
If they can prove they can
draw in $40 second as we'll as
/ can why they've beaten me.
It's as simple as that" Mr..
OBrian said.
The tall tabout 6 feet and
slim hero to millions arrived
here Saturday. He had to fly to
New York that night to sign
some papers," but returned Sun
day. After lunching at the Capt.
toll at 1890 pm. today. he was
slated to visit the Children's
Hospital.
Tonight at 7 pm. he will APP
pear on The Stars station,
WMAL-TV. which presents his
weekly series at $3.50 pm. Tues
days.
Will Return Thursday
Although he has other en-
gagementS in the meantime, he
will come back to Washington
Thursday night to attend an
NRA banquet in the Statler
Hotel.
Sunday. said Mr.. O'Brian. he
will appear on the Jackie Glea-
son tTVl Show"
The Rifle Association. in addi-
ton to honoring Mr.. O'Brian
this week, also presented to Sem
ator Hayden, Democrat of Arr
IONA. the third honorary life
membership it has ever offered
A former sheriff, the Senator
successfully revived the National
Guard shooting matches at Camp
Perry. Ohio. last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-25

DAVID MILLS work, it
turned out, was on the 30th
meridian of longitude east. OF
all the north-south lines on
the globe. this one traverses
the most land. Itruns through
the Norwegian shore of the
Arctic Ocean down to a point
just east of Africa'S Cape of
Good Hope.
Land measurements are
more accurate than those
made at sea, because ships
have a way of rising and fall
ing with the waves. So for
more than 100 years scientists
have been measuring sections
of this great arc, partly in
order to determine the cir
conference of the world. In
1851, the Map Service ac-
copied a proposal to measure
the $50 land miles still I'M
surveyed in Africa.
The stretch extended from
a point just north of the
equator into the Sudan. 1t
had not been surveyed be-
cause Of the difficulties Of the
terrain. Mr.. Mills and a party
spent 10 months in Africa in
1852 and 1858. The measure
ment was made by triangula-
ton using So steel towers 103
feet high on the fiat lands
Of the Sudan to overcome the
curvature of the earth.
The scientists we're in big
game country. Mr.. Mills once
saw l,2UO elephants from a
plane, and twice while on the
ground encountered lions,
rhinos and hippos. The party
got its meat by hunting.
"Hartebeast is the best
beef" MIR Mills says. Water
buffalo is pretty tough"
The data was brought back
and fed into the Univac.
What did you find?" we
asked.
I'm afraid the layman
would consider it infinitesi-
NAL" Mr.. Mills replied. I'VE
found that the circumference
Of the earth is 1913 meters
tabout 1879 yards less than
we thought"