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Maryland. Ohio and Indiana
into southern Illinois. Now II
Ia likely 10 hop the Mississippi
River and come 10 rest some
where In Missouri. thanks To
Alaska's entrance into the
Union.
Alaska Tips Scales
The reason lies In the con-
cept Of q center Of population,
The 40 States are regarded as
q map without weight. on this
imaginary map. people" OF a
uniform weight are distributed
according 10 their numbers and
location. The center Of popu-
lation Is the point where such
a map would balance.
Just as the weight Of a child
on a teeter-totter counts for
more as he moves farther out
on the board. the 200, 900 peo-
pie Of Alaska win rave as much
effect on the center OF popu-
lation as q million people closer
In.
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a little concerned about what
the new state OF Alaska Is
going TO do about subdividing
itself. The Alaska constitu-
ton calls for "boroughs", COR
responding to counties in AZ
other States and parishes in
Louisiana. But If final state
hood action isn't taken pretty
promptly. the Census Bureau
mapmakers will have to use
their own judgement about
breaking Alaska up into work.
able pieces.
Alaska's admission, inciden-
tally. will have a telling effect
on the westward progress Of
the Nations center Of popula-
ton. This imaginary point has
moved in the last $50 years
from east Of Baltimore across
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vice presidents: Arthur Bor-
sky. recording secretary; Hy-
man Bernstein and Joseph
Levin. treasurers.
Louis C. Grossberg is the
new budget and finance chair
man; David F. Linoewes. audi
tor. Theodore Levin. chairman
Of Young Zionist activities. and
Harry ziggles and Victor PERL
mutter, Israel liaison officers.
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an act creating a municipal
ity" Of Atlanta. The Census
Bureau sized up the situation
and decided that the new mu-
nicipality was a phony In that
II exercised no governing func-
tons over the outlying areas.
The Bureau turned thumbs
down and counted as Atlanta
only that part lying within the
established limits.
Atlanta Booming
The city took the case TO
court. and the matter was re-
solved In favor Of the Census
Bureau. which now is the final
arbiter on such matters.
Atlanta. incidentally. will
show q tremendous growth this
time. partly through annexa-
ton. Census ofiicails say. But
the fact that territory was an
nexed between 1850 and 1860
win be indicated by a footnote
in the tables.
The Bureau isn't quite sure
what II viii do about two new
greater" cities - Miami and
Nashville.
More startling than the
growth Of cities-even big cities
like Houston-will be that of
smaller towns on the metro
Ipolitan outskirts.
A city named Lakewood.
Calf. didn't even apear on
the census tables. It now has
over $4,000 population and
would qualify as the center of
a standard Metropolitan
Area" but for the fact that it
is completely surrounded by an
even bigger city, Long Beach,
which In turn is a suburb of
one Of the Nations three
largest, Los Angeles.
Rule Against Fairfax
The Census Bureau is con-
tinually being pinched by in
Iter-city rivalries. but manages
to survive nicely by knowing
how to say no. For instance,
1t was decided that in the
c coming census, Arlington
County viii be counted as an
urban place" for the first
time. AS soon as the word got
out, neighboring Fairfax Coun-
ty decided it wanted to be ur-
ban. too. The Census Bureau
took one look at the rolling
acres Of Fairfax and shook its
head.
Right now the Bureau is
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Brudy Selected

James Z. Brady. Catholic
University auditor. has been
awarded a Carnegie scholarship
for college business managers
workshop at the University Of
Omaha. Omaha, Nebraska. The
session will last from July ~ TO
August 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-20
Rewards Toss Heed

MOSCOW. July 10 R,-The
Presidium Of the supreme So
Wet CParliament) awarded the
Red Banner Of Labor today to
Nikolai O. PnlgunOv, director
OF Tass News Agency. The oc-
casion was his e0th birthday.
The presidium said the award
was made for Mr.. Palgunov's
many years Of fruitful work In
the development Of Soviet
Journalism.
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help census takers count the
American people In the 1860
census.
Some Of the maps viii cover
as much as 80 square miles
the extent OF a township In
the West. Others win be Just
the outline Of q big city apart
ment house-or even a few
floors In such a building. But
each OF the 250.000 maps win
have one thing In common
win represent the work-load
for one enumerator In the CEN
sus that begins in April. 1860.
To prepare the maps on
which a census Is based re-
uuires plenty Of research and
hard work. Almost a little
census" goes into this one
phase Of preparation for the
decenniai count.
Although the Census Bureau
has It's headquarters at nearby
Suitland. Md. the map-making
chore has been decentralized.
The bureau has taken over'
temporarily at the old Army
Quartermastfr Depot at JEFF
fersonville. Ind. and will do
the actual production work
there.
See Population Jump
So far, only a dozen Census
ofiicials have gone to Jefferson
vile to get things ready for
the mapmaking Job. Expansion
viii be rapid. however. says
Robert Klove. the Census Blu
reau's assistant chief geograph-
er.
Through research already
carried out and through cur
rent consultation with local
committees. the geography d.
vision Of the Census Bureau
Is beginning to have q pretty
good idea Of what the 1860
Census will show. 1t will con-
tain numerous surprises.
First Of all, there is reason
able certainty that the United
States population will top the
$50 million mark-a fact that
would have been unthinkable
a generation ago when lin the
census Of l930) we Americans
numbered only 1913 million.
At the rate of increase shown
in the Census Bureaus monthly
estimates. the country might
not hit the $50 million mark
but for one consideration. In
the 1850 Census, it is figured,
enmerators missed about ll2
per cent of the people. This
time improved methods should
catch nearly everybody, and
this should add another ga
million to the total.
Houston In Limelight
Although total erouth and
urban increases will turn out
to have been spectacular, CEN
Sus officials doubt that any
cities will enter the charmed
circle of those with over one
million population. II. by
chance, q sixth American city
should break the million bar
rier," however, it probably will
not be Baltimore. which missed
by only about $4,000 last time.
More likely. Census men say, it
win be Houston. Texas, which
is coming up fast through both
internal growth and annexa-
ton OF territory.
The question Of annexation
vexes the Census Bureau to-
ward the end of every decade.
Local officials, pulled with civic
pride, are prone to maneuver to
boost their cities's standing.
Their tricks don't always work.
Census officials are perfectly
willing to take a city's defini-
ton of its own limits-up to a
point. They want to make sure
that what they are counting
is really a city, not just a
Chamber of Commences idea of
a metropolitan area.
The question Of when is a
city not a city" came to a test |
in the late l920S, when Atlanta,
Ga, got stars in its eyes.
The State Legislature passed
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Census Gives Big Job
To Mopmokine Corps
by WILLIAM HINES
0iar stan Writer

small group Of geogaphes rolled up their sleeves this
end for Of the biggest making Jobs all time
BY February Of 1860 they and 500 helpers will pro-
duced millions Of copies OF quarter Of million different
showing every inch Of the United States The purpose To
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The
George Washington
University
ANNOUNCES

6 workshop courses in Ed
ucation, including a course
in Elementary School Sci
ence. Glasses meet July 81
through August 8.
Registration July 81 and
%, at the School of Educa-
ton office, James Monroe
Hall, 2115 G Street NV,
between 9 am. and 6 pm.
Evening star., 1958-05-12

SlO, ,464 from the NJ a 1 / o W
Heights branch of the First
National Bank Of Southern
Maryland last January &c.
Jones is accused of forcing
bank teller Clarence Crawford,
81, to open the night depository
at the bank while about a mile
away his wife, 20, was being
held at gunppoint by a man
identified by police as Princeler.
The CranfordS told police
two bandits wearing bizarre
masks entered their home, 1905
Terrace drive, Silver Hill. and
terrorized them while their 10
month-old son Stephen slept.
Prosecutor John Hargrove
said the jury could direct a
death penalty because of the
abduction charge.
The two-hour opening Ses-
sion Of the trial was consumed
in jury selection. Watching
in conservative business suits
were Jones, of the $500 block
of r street NV, and Princeler,
Evening star., 1958-05-12

Elephant who came to the Zoo
with him. They were the gift of
Madame Vijayalakshmi Pandit,
sister of India's Premier Nehru.
Saving Possible
The bearded Mr.. Mcdonald,
who spent many years with
Ringing Brothers and other
circuses, said it would have
been possible to saw of the
ends of the tusks to keep
Ashoka's trunk free for eating.
But why spoil an otherwise
perfect set of tusks?" he asked.
There aren't too many un-
marred tusks in the country,
I've never seen braces put on
an elephants teeth, but I'd
heard it could be done, SO we
tried it."
Tusks really are teeth. They
are the elephants incisors.
Elephants have two other teeth
in the other mouth and two in
the lower. But they are spread
out and look like a continuous
mouthful Of teeth. They are
used for grinding hay, peanuts
and other provender.
One other effect Of the in
grown tusks has been that
Ashoka can't stand on his head
anymore. The tusks get in
the way.
Evening star., 1958-05-12

BEACHEY was one of the
heroes of the American boy
in those pre-war days. He was
a spectacular stunt flyer. He
flew under the bridges span
ming the Niagara Gorge and
wheeled through the mist
under the cataract. He was a
British subject and he VOL
unteered Immediately after
the outbreak. He was killed
early in the war.
In the summer of 1917 the
writer had a job drilling
holes through bolts and in
serting cotter pins in the as
semblage of Curtiss NC-4 fly
ing boats. With their grace
full mahogany hulls and two
motors, they seemed the ulti-
mate in planes. One few
across the Atlantic eight
years before Lindbergh.
These were being made
for the British. Years later
at the first National Air
Show in New York l met an
NC-4 pilot who had killed a
Zepplin over the North Sea.
AS he described the trail
ing wake of smoke left by
the long cigar-like airship in
going down, l wondered if
his NC-4 was one of mine.
At Andrews yesterday the
Air Force Thunderbirds fly
ing a close formation of four
did so many stunts that l
wondered what they could
do for their finale. 1t turned
out to be a vertical ascent
in a single file right over
the grandStand, afterburners
booming and issuing flame
and smoke. At about 10000
feet they burst apart like a
sky rocket, each of them
making the graceful arc of a
fountain toward one of the
four points of the compass.
Coming out we passed the
tail obelisks on display, the
rockets which will soon su-
perSede planes both in carry
ing weapons and in defense.
Evening star., 1958-05-12

of the 5000 block of Buchanan
streete, Mount Rainier.
Jones brother, Donald Jones,
25, of the 1900 block of Fifty
ninth avenue, Coral Hills, has
been charged as an accessory in
the case. Police said he threw
the barrel of the shotgun used
in the holdup in the Anacostia
River. His brother and Prince
Ter also used revolver, police
added.
Mr.. Hargrove said the money
stolen from the bank has not
been found.
Evening star., 1958-05-12
UNLIKE MANY of his con-

UNLIKE MANY of his con-
temporaries in Washington
he did not see the flights Of
the Wright brothers at Fort
Myer in 1908 or the early
flights of the Army Signal
Corps at College Park.
1t was not until the sum-
mer of 1918 that he first saw
a plane in flight. There were
several of them flying over
Buffalo, N. Y. They were
doing their own promotion
for an air show they were
going to stage the next day
at the Fort Erie (Ont.J race
track across the Niagara.
The writer and his younger
brothers were being taken
for a walk by their father.
They were all so excited that
the parent could not refuse
their pleas to see the show
The jets at Andrews yes
terday, for all their explo-
sive sounds, flaming wakes
and vertical climbs were not
as amazing to the spectators
as those early biplanes. The
pilots sat in the open on the
lower wing, their legs ex-
tending to pedals below.
What made everyone gasp
was the way they would come
down at a 45-degree angle
and avoid disaster by turn
ing up when apparently no
more than six feet from the
ground.
The stars of the show were
Glenn Curtiss and Lincoln
Beachey.
To give the spectators their
moneys worth, the pilots
competed in a motorcycle
race of several laps around
a mile track. AS l remem-
ber. Glenn CurtiSS came in
second.
Evening star., 1958-05-12
School Dedication

Dedication ceremonies for
Ashburton Elementary School
off Long Oak drive in Bethesda
will be held at 3 pm. Sunday in
the school. The program will be
followed by an informal tour Of
the building, which opened last
November.
Evening star., 1958-05-12

to private housing spread out:
More than 100 went to the
Northeast, about 80 to the
Northwest, about 1870 to the
Southeast and about 180 tC
Southwest housing.
The largest percentage OF
displaced families, most oi
whom are Negroes. have moved
. to older neighborhoods in the
city that have been vacated by
white families moving to the
suburbs. With no decrease in
suburban growth in sight Of
ficials look for a continuing
supply of such homes.
These are some of the major
problems that exist for "pri-
vate housing" families:
/. Many families - partic-
ularly the larger oneS-can't
find large enough quarters for
their incomes.
2. Liberal new Federal hous-
ing aids to stimulate rental and
ownership housing for low
income families haven't entirely
caught on here. Their details
are described later.
3. While the Redevelopment
Land Agency has the legal
responsibility to find decent
fair-priced housing for families
displaced from its project areas
there is no comparable aid yet
for the many families displaced
by big expressways and other
city projects.
4. The city is far behind in
the job of requiring COM
pliance with housing code re-
quirements of minimum stand
ards to guard against decent
h sing deteriorating into
slums.
S. Many relocated families
who at least felt at home ir
their old surroundings, feel lost
when they're cut off from old
friends, churches and child
hood ties.
What is being done about
these problems? On their solu-
ton depends Washington's
future as a city.
The primary and most effec-
tive thing being done is the
work of the Redevelopment
Land Agency's relocation divi.
sion headed by Howard Uni
versity graduate James G.
Banks.
The law requires RIA to offer
each family living in an area
it redevelops a place to live
that is decent, adequate for the
family's size and within the
Ifamily's financial means.
With the aid of local land
lords and realtors, Mr.. Banks
division complies a list of avail
able housing and then attempts
to bring a family into a dwell
ing unit to the satisfaction of
both the renter and the tenant,
Conveniences Pleasing
For instance Mr.. and Mrs
John Bundy were relocated
from the house they lived in
for "a years at 23912 Fourth
street S.W.--near the site OF
Evening star., 1958-05-12
The
Rambler
-. Tckes in Air
Show at Andrews
BY GEORGE KENNEDY


The Rambler was delighted
10 aceept-he hadn't seen an
air show for a long time
when a friend invited him
70 witness the annual Armed
Services Day program at An
drews Air Force Base.
Impressions Of the day
crowd the memory-the po-
liteness OF the Air Police
guiding trafiic and Of the
Ar Force sergeants direct
ing spectators on foot, the
windows OF the officers' Club
overlooking a formal garden
OF graveled paths, green turf
and azaleas In bloom against
a brick wall, the county fair
atmosphere Of the exhibits
and the gay colors Of the
rockets.
The Century Jets" (the
F-1O0 series Of fighters) went
past the reviewing stand
throttled down TO 200 miles
an hour.
The Jets, flying in forma-
ton Of fours, opened their
afterburners causing deep
toned explosions and ennis
sion Of flaming gas. They
went into a graceful hyper
bola that ended in a verti-
cal climb to an elevation Of
more than three miles.
He had never flown a plane
solo (he still hopes to) but
he feels he has an almost
intimate acquaintance with
the development Of the air
plane.
Evening star., 1958-05-12
LEGION Barbecue

The American Legion Post
PIT of College Park will hold
its fifth annual beef barbecue
between 4 and 8 pm. Saturday
at the post, 9218 Baltimore ave-
nue., College Park,
Evening star., 1958-05-12
7 Tried in Abduction
And Bank Robbery
BY A. J.. SINGLETON
Star Staff Writer

BALTIMORE. May 1.-Two young men went on
trial Federal today charges of bank robbery and
abduction.
Being tried before Judge R. Dorsey Watkins and jury OF
IL and Tyrus Fields Jones and Robert
Wesley Princeler, both 27.
They are charged with the Halloween robbery of
Evening star., 1958-05-12
Night-Long Proms
Assai|ed by Judge
KiNG-SiZE DENTISTRY
Braces Adorn Tusks
Of Elephant at Zoo
BY JERRY OLEARY. Jr.
star stan Writer

Ashoka the Washington Zoos Indian elephant. today
wearing braces his teeth Just like other teenager
with dental problems.
The 2-foot ivory tusks the young pachyderm were
growing together way front Of him. Director Theodore
Reed said. The thing happens to humans much
Evening star., 1958-05-12
DOWNTOWN CORNER LOSES LANDMARK
WAsHINGToNs DISPLACED
Private Housing Must Be Found
For HoIf of SIum Area Families

lWIdI VIII De C0e luXQTlOuS Gap
ital Mall Towers to q one-bed-
room, three-room apartment at
501S Nash street NE. Their rent
in the Southwest for a two
bedroom. three room apart
ment with a shared bathroom
and not hot water was $32.5C
a month plus utilities. .. They
now pay $3.50 a month, in
cluding utilities.
Mrs. Bundy likes her new
apartment. Her new neighbor-
hood is quiet and she has a
private bathroom and hot water
as we'll as many modern con-
veniences.
But she feels she was happier
in the Southwest because she
was near friends of many years
and was more familiar with the
neighborhood.
Appears Successful
This relocation program 81
far appears successful.
Not all displaced families rent
housing. Some take advantage
of a 1857 law that authorize.
the Federal Housing Admin.
stration to guarantee 1.72:
loans for displaced families tC
purchase rehabilitated or new
homes in the District.
The FHA-backed 51a per cent
long-term loans may be for as
much as the entire appraised
value of the house with a max
imum of SO, 900 for rehabilitated
homes and $4,000 for new con-
Struction.
But so far only a little more
than 100 applications for FHA
approval have been submitted
Most builders insist they can't
fix up and sell a decent house
for $4,000; others say they can
but that they can't get financ-
ing for their operations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melton Harper
are one of the few families that
has been able to buy a nome
under this plan. They pur-
chased a three bedroom row
brick house at 1921 Wylie street
NE. for $500 plus CLOSING
costs of $304. The house, once
completely decayed and con-
demned, now compares favor
ably with many rehabilitated
in Georgetown, Foggy Bottom
or Capitol Hill.
Once in Slums
The Harpers once lived in q
slum dwelling at 468 E street
S.W. for which they paid SIS
a month. Their new home,
completely rebuilt to FILA
standards and with every mod
ern convenience, cost them
$62.75 a month under the FILA
plan and they'll have it paid
for in is years.
A potentially important move
to provide more of this type OF
housing is a proposal under
study by the District Savings
and Loan League to establish a
SO million revolving fund to
finance rehabilitation work by
private contractors in the city
But again, all of the govern
mental actions will amount to
very little until there is full re-
alization on the part of all the
Districts residents that they
must pitch in to help displaced
families feel at home in a new
neighborhood.
lTnunnrrouv. What hauuous
Evening star., 1958-05-12

/ tokes more thon new buildings tc
rid q city Of sIums. The people who
lived in the slums must be ode
quoteIy relocated so they don't Gre
ote slums elsewhere. Todoy's orti.
eIes on Woshinston's displaced fom.
lilies, second in a series, diseusse,
the problems Of those who move
into public housing.
Evening star., 1958-05-12
ChantiI|Y Cost
Estimate Is
$50 Million
Is Miles of Rood
A Major Expense;
Burke Cost Less

The new airport at Chantilly.
Va, Is expected TO cost between
$50 million and 500 million,
Including the major expense Of
i6 miles Of access road, 1t was
disclosed today.
This was the testimony. re-
leased following hearings last
month before a House Appro-
priations subcommittee, Of H.
H. Howell, in charge Of the
washington airport project for
the Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration.
Mr.. Howell said that figures
Observation Fee at Airport Criticized.
Pose B-3
were still being developed on
the airport cost.
Representative Flood, Demo-
crat of Pennsylvania, brought
out testimony the original esti-
innate for an airport at Burke,
va, was $4S.5 million.
Requirements Changed
CAA Administrator James T.
Pyle commented, however, that
"the requirements that have
been developed to meet what
we feel are the needs Of the
National Capital airport have
substantially increased that cost
irrespective of the Site"
National Airport traffic con-
tinues to increase, other testi-
mony in the appropriations
hearings for the Commerce De-
partment and related agencies,
pointed out.
Figures indicated that traffic
movements will go up from
269,197 In 1857 and an esti-
mated 295,000 this year to
$4,000 in 1859. Passenger
movements were tabulated at
4.201,19 in 1857, an estimated
as million in 1858, and 4.8 mil
lion in 1859. Estimated public
visitors totaled 6 million in
1857. and were expected to in
crease by 100000 this year and
another 100000 next year.
Appropriation Up S934,OOO
Secretary Of Conn ere e
Weeks testified that an appro-
lpriation request for SIS million
for fiscal 1859 would compare
with an anticipated S3.5 million
of income. Income was S2.8 mil
lion in fiscal 1857. Mr.. Weeks
said revised contracts for serv-
Ices and increased traffic had
been responsible for stepping
Iup the income about 20 per
cent during the last two years.
L. w. Burton, airport direc-
tor, said that a remodeling of
the traffic rotary in front of
the airport building will be
completed by July, cutting
down the size of the circle and
providing l73 extra parking
spaces.
He indicated also that
thought has been given to TAX
ing diplomatic and congress
Sional parking out of the con-
cession area and putting it in
front of the building to be
overseen by airport police.