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cit is PLANNED to have
a boat landing here" Miss
Downey said. 1.-THE Park Serv-
ice was disappointed that
Congress did not appropriate
for the Maryland leg of the
George Washington Memo
rial parkway from the Dis
trict to Fort Washington"
The Rambler could not
restrain his enthusiasm. He
interrupted.
"The Indian Head high
way is good enough. It's an
excellent road, and it skirts
the entrance of this place.
You don't have to wait for
the parkway. You can have
a big swimming pool, tennis
courts and maybe a golf
course"
Miss Downey interjected:
1.-THE Park Service considers
the principal value here to
be historic. /"
"Historic?" the Rambler
questioned in amazement.
Fort Washington has no
history except a diSgraceful
incident in a period of ma
tional humiliation"
The fat was in the fire.
Miss Downey's eyes flashed
as she said, capt. Dyson was
a much maligned man, &C
cording to several writer's"
We were picking the bones
of this skeleton of facts In
the War of 1912, Fort WASH
ington's function was to pro-
tect the Capital. The British
bypassed it by coming up the
Patuxent to Benedict, then
marching so miles to Wash
ington and burning the Gov
eminent buildings. At the
same time British warcraft
came up the Potomac.
Capt. S. T. Dyson, in COM
mand of the fort, could see
Washington burning from
where we sat. Perhaps he
thought his mission was over.
He marched away without
firing a shot. That enabled
the British to sack Alexan-
dria. At any rate, Capt Dyson
was dismissed from the Serv-
ice by a court-martlal.
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horses depressed the treadles
too and many got electro
cuted."
The North Capitol line was
also chartered in 1888, but was
built later.
Line Was Busy
1t became one of the busiest
lines of its time, said o. E.
Penney. valuation engineer of
the D. c. Transit System.
He recalled the story told by
r. H. Dalgish, former chief
engineer for the Capital Transit
Co., of how his first job had
been to hold a cake of ice on
the generator bearing every
Sunday to keep it from burn
ing because of the demand due
to heavy traffic.
The abandoning of carlines
No. 81 and No. 80, marks the
retreat from streetcars to buses
on all of Washington's public
transportation routes.
Franchise Provision
D. C. TranSit's franchise.
awarded in August 1856, pro-
vided that all streetcars must
be replaced by buses within
seven years.
Congress also provided that
the conversion be co-ordinated
with the overall highway con-
struction program of the Dis
trict. The Maryland and North
Capitol lines are first to be re-
placed because the District of
Columbia's Highway Depart
( ment is planning a number of
projects involving these lines,
according to a Highway De-
partment spokesman.
The last passengers to ride
over the tracks on both these
routes Saturday night, will be
a number of streetcar fans who
will ride some of the old-type
cars the D. c. Transit System
preserves for such nostalgia
| occa pms.
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perimentation than any other
line" he said, including over
head wires "a few years before
Congress outlawed them for
downtown Washington, stor-
age batteries for the cars, and
a surface contact system re-
quiring the car to depress
treadles to touch the hot wire.
1.-THE trouble with the sur
face contact system was that
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FIRST TRIAL DUE
Virginia Resistance Machinery
Made Ready for Test This Week

several alternatives. 1t states
first that the school shall not
be reopened as a public school
until, in the opinion of the
governor. and after an investi-
cation by him. he finds and
issues an executive order that
ID the peace and tranquility
of the community in which the
school is located will not be
disturbed by such school being
reopened and operated. and o.
the assignment Of pupils to
such school could be accom-
plished without enforced or
compulsory indignation of the
races therein contrary to the
wishes of any child enrolled
therein. or of his or her parent
or parents, lawful guardian or
other custodian"
This would seem to give the
governor an opportunity to re-
open a school with some inte-
grafton, but Gov. Almond has
not left much room for specula-
ton about that possibility with
his statements that any inte-
grafton will destroy the proc
eSses OF education in Virginia.
If the Governor decides a
closed school cannot be re-
opened under the conditions
stated above, he is given au-
thority to reorganize the school,
personnel, curriculums and ia
cilities and make such other
changes as he deems neces-
sary. There has been talk that
the Governor might attempt to
juggle around classes from a
closed school under this Sec
ton. The idea would be to
eliminate an entire grade where
an integrated assignment is
made, send the white children
in that grade to another school
and send the Negro child back
to a Negro school. The court
presumably would be told that
the grade to which the Negro
had been assigned no longer
was in the school.
The apparent weakness of
this is that it might run the
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and the Baltimore end stopped
at Ellicott City. The competition
of automobiles eventually
caused the Maryland car line
to be cut back to BeltSville, in
1925 and then to Branchville
in 1919.
The partially constructed
and abandoned remains Of &
large power station and car
barn in the Lakeland area of
Csllege Park attest to the size
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and to include the additional
rs applicants in the order.
The school board is expected
to tell Judge Bryan it has COM
piled with State law and will
assign the Negro pupils to
Negro schools unless he directs
otherwise. Board members have
indicated, however, they will
not risk contempt if Judge
Bryan orders the Negroes into
white schools.
Federal Judge Walter Hoff-
man will hear arguments
Wednesday by the Norfolk
school board, which has an
nounced its intention of as
signing II Negro children to
six white schools. At the same
time, however, the board asked
a years delay in carrying out
the assignment.
A school opening postpone
ment is possible, since Judge
Hoffman has said he will delay
deSegregation if the United
States Supreme Court, after
arguments beginning Septem-
Der II, upholds a 21a-year de-
segregation delay granted by a
District Court and overturned
by a United States Circuit
Court in the Little Rock, Ark,
case.
School authorities in Nor
folk and Charlottesville, unlike
Arlington, so far have bypassed
the State pupil placement
board, and both are under
State court injunctions pro-
hibiting their assignment of
any pupils-white or Negro
to their public schools.
Week End Developments
There were these week end
developments on the school
front:
The Defenders of State Sow
ereignty and Individual Lib
critics, a segregation organiza-
ton, condemned the Norfolk
school boards action in a reSo-
luton adopted by $50 delegates
from SO communities and called
on the Governor, the State
Board of Education and tie
Pupil Placement Board to do
all in their power to negate
and reverse" the action.
Robert Peck, Segregationist
chairman of the Arlington
County school board, an
nounced his 13-year-old son,
Donald, has been transferred
from Stratford Junior High
School-where Is Negroes seek
admission-to the all-white
private st. Stephens School
for Boys in Alexandria. An
other child will be enrolled in a
public school not threatened
by indignation. Mr.. Peck said,
II have said publicly on sew
eral occasions that I agree with
educators who say that inte-
grafton is not in the best in
terest of public education. I
want my child to get the most
effective education"
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of the dreams which never
materialized.
Of course there were many
bankruptcies and name changes
before this ambitious project
was abandoned, but the Ecking-
ton and Soldiers Home Rail
way was the most progressive,
according to Alfred E. Savage.
director of D. c. Transiss me-
chanical department.
:" did more engineering ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-01
The
Rambler
Looks Over
Inherited Property
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

How would you like to be
informed that you have in
herited an estate on a Po-
tomac promontory?
It's true. Fort Washington
is yours for the going there.
1t is a 364-acre tract on a
bluff on the Maryland side
of the river across from, and
a little above, Mount Vernon.
Because harbor Notifications
have been losing their i'm
portance, it was given to
National Capital Parks by
the War Department.
World War II delayed park
development. The Army took
Fort Washington back. 1t
was a typical Army post with
houses for officers and
quarters for enlisted men and
a parade ground and all that.
A wartime adjutant generals
officer school was established
there.
After the war the Army
returned 1t to the park
people.
The Rambler visited Fort
Washington during the week
end with Miss Agnes Downey,
National Capital Parks his
torian. Miss Downey is an
attractive woman who has
done an amazing lot Of read
ing on the history of the
Potomac region-an amazing
lot for one so young.
We made a picnic Of the
excursion, feaSting on Mary
land crabs, potatoes roasted
in the embers (while wrap
ped in aluminium fold, Still
ton cheese and fresh peaches
while seated at a rough-h ewn
table at the waters edge.
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Segregated Schools
ToOpen in FormviIIe
Area Where Fight Centered
Is Quiet; ShoWdowns Elsewhere

RICHMOND. Sept. (AP)-while this may be the show
down week for Virginia localities the school desege-
cation crisis authorities in the quiet southsde community
of Farmvle set for tomorrows opening school
year a segregated basis
No immediate threat of either ntegraton or closing of
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AHEAD OF US, beyond a
Smile straight stretch of
the glimmering river rose
the Washington Monument.
Across the river to our left
were fleeting glirnpses Of
automobiles on the boulevard
to Mount Vernon screened by
trees at the waters edge.
Above us, in a white clap
board lighthouse tower, a bell
tolled every 80 seconds, a
warning to mariners on foggy
days and nights.
It's probably been five or
six years since the Rambler
last visited Fort Washington
and in the meantime a lot of
work has been done. For one
thing, all officers houses
along the parade grounds
have been removed-also all
the barracks.
Piscataway Creek enters
the river along the southern
boundary of the fort. At this
point it is a tidal estuary,
so wide that the Rambler
thought it was the Potomac
itself. There are plans to
establish a boat-rental con-
ceSSion on it.
On our tour we saw ma
sons and surveyors working
on the restoration of the Sec
ond fort, built in 1924. Hardly
a trace remains of the first
one, started in 1909.
AS we diSsected crabs at
the waterfront picnic table,
the Wilson Lines excursion
boat, Mount Vernon, passed
close by on its way to the
Washington shrine and Mar
shall Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-01
Deaths onHighways
In Virginia Reach 10
Toll for Holiday
In Maryland
Stands at Three

Virginia's highway toll Of
deaths for the long Labor Day
week end rose to 10 last night
with a fatal crash in Orange
County.
The holiday traffic toll in
Maryland stood at three.
The number of fatalities In
Virginia was running well be-
hind last year, when 10 persons
were counted dead during the
first half of the Labor Day
week end.
The latest death brought the
States traffic toll for the year
to 521 compared with 500 at
the same time a year ago, the
Associated Press reported.
Killed in the Orange County
accident was Floyd A. Collins,
20, of Gordonsville, Va.
State police said he was
driving a car which collided
with another car driven by
William r. Shiflet of Somer-
set, Va. The crash occurred on
Route 80 near Barboursville.
Mr.. Shifiett is in critical con.
dition at the University of Vir-
ginia Hospital in Charlottes-
vile.
Other Fatalities
Other Virginia holiday fatili-
ties, not previously reported,
were listed by the Associated
Press as follows:
Clyde T. Earnest, 10, Of
Richmond, who was fatally in
jured Saturday in a two-car
crash on U. S. l about three
miles north of Stafford in Stat
ford County. He died about
four hours later In a Fred
ericksburg hospital.
Mrs. Hester r. Moran, %, Of
Stuart's Draft, Augusta County,
who was killed early Sunday
when the car in which she was
riding crashed on State Route
$40 about 10 miles south Of
Waynesboro in Augusta Coun-
ty.
Joseph Wesley Wilson, %, Of
Greensville County, who was
killed late Saturday night when
the car he was driving collided
with a truck near & truck term
inal a mile south of Emporia on
U. S. 301 in GreenSville Coun-
ty.
Death Near CIOverdaIe
Clarence H. Malone, jr.. IS,
of Wytheville, who was fatally
injured Friday in a single We
hicle wreck on U. S. II near
Cloverdale in Botetourt Coun-
ty.
Linwood T. Hicks, IL, Of
Floyd, who was killed Saturday
when hit by a car on the Blue
Ridge parkway about eight
miles southeast of Floyd.
Seriously injured in an acci-
dent yesterday was Ralph w.
Dulaney, 80, of Manassas, Va,
who was thrown from a motor
cycle.
Police said Mr.. Dulaney
swerVed to avoid a car pulling
from a service station on Route
% near Manassas and was
thrown over the handlebars to
the pavement. He was taken
to Arlington Hospital, where he
was reported in unsatisfactory
condition today with head and
internal injuries.
The latest fatality in Mary
land traffic toll to date occurred
Sunday in Queen Annes County.
a New Jersey man was
thrown from his motorcycle
about 2 pm. on Maryland 304
and died five hours later in
Easton Memorial Hospital.
He was John Stanley Tawlus.
%, of Elizabeth, M. The acct
dent occurred one mile west Of
Ruthsburg. Mr.. TaWlus died of
a fractured skull.
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schools faces officials in Prince
Edward County, one of the five
defendants when the United
States Supreme Court handed
down its desegregation decree
in 1854.
Federal Judge Sterling Hut
cheson has given Prince Ed
ward until 1865 to work out a
desegregation program. At
torneys representing Negro
children plan an appeal, but it
will not affect this years school
operations.
Litigation apparently also will
delay desegregation efforts in
Alexandria az Negro pupils
were rejected by white schools)
Warren County go Negro
children were turned DOWN
Richmond (6 egro pupils were
rejected) and Newport News
g Negro children were turned
DOWN.
Areas in Spotlight
In the spotlight are Airing
ton, where schools open Thurs
day; Norfolk, where schools
are scheduled to start next
Monday. and Charlottesville
where the beginning of school
was postponed from tomorrow
until September IS for all ex-
.cept the Negro high school
jointly operated by the city
and Albemarle County.
School authorities in all three
communities are under Federal
Court order to begin desegre.
cation with the start of the
September term. They also are
faced with Virginia's massive
resistance" laws, which provide
for the automatic closing OF
any integrated school.
The only way a locality can
operate an integrated school is
on its own-all State funds are
cut of. The Governor mus
agree before a locality can
even try.
The Charlottesville School
Board meets tomorrow to re-
view the results of tests and
interviews given some 80 Negro
pupils seeking admission to
white schools. 1t may be ready
to report by Thursday or FRI
day to Judge John Paul, who
has indicated he will take over
pupil assignment himself if he
finds discrimination.
Arlington county school
authorities will go before Fed
eral Judge Albert Bryan, just
back from Europe, tomorrow
and report on the status of 80
Negro applications for admis-
sion to white schools.
Five of the 80 were ordered
admitted to specific schools
under an order of Judge Bryan
last year. The transfer appli-
cations of all 80 were turned
over by Arlington authorities
under State law to the Virginia
Pupil Placement Board, which
rejected them.
Attorneys for the children
are expected to ask Judge
Bryan to bring his order up to
date. to be effective Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-01
.Fr;endIyHund
Extended to
Immigrants

some 5O immigrant 1amllleS
yesterday received a chance to
learn of new customs and re-
member old ones.
The opportunity came at a
picnic for them at Rock Greek
Park by the Newcomers Club.
The club, founded four years
ago by the District Chapter of
the National Council Of Jewish
Women, tries to extend a well
coming and helping hand to
those suddenly set down in a
new, often bewildering country.
Probably most impressed by
the welcome was Morris Hat
well, who only Saturday arrived
in Washington with his wife
and three children.
Mr., HatweIl, who was a
building contractor in his ma
tive Egypt before he was sum-
marty expelled at the time of
the Suez crisis in 1856. came
from France.
Job Finding Help
His family was greeted upon
arrival here. provided with liv-
ing Accommodations and this
week he will obtain assistance
in finding a job.
At the outing yesterday they
were exposed to large quanti-
ties Of American friendliness
which he said already had
made them feel comfortable,
happy and at home"
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kor-
CHA who left Casablanca two
months ago said that meeting
fellow immigrants who have
shared their experiences in
establishing a new home helped
them learn about America.
"And it is a happy feeling to
meet people who have similar
backgrounds to u.s." they said.
Rabbi Alfred Jacobs, him.
self an immigrant from Ger
many, said foreigners settling
in the Washington area usually
experience several common diff
f1culties.
Democracy OF Work
"At first it is hard for them
to comprehend the absolute
democracy of work which pre-
walls here" he said.
'They can't believe it when
they see a maid in a Buick or
a postman mingling with a
professor at a theater. They
have to be taught that in
America, work, no matter what
its type, is good and honest"
Rabbi Jacobs said the new
corners also sometimes miss as
poets of life in their homelands
and that meeting each other
permits them to recapture
other times for a while.
None of these difficulties were
evident among the children at
the outing. They energetically
Engaged in badminton, baseball
and horseshoe pitching and
created the impression of being
veterans both of the games and
contact with their new country.
Most of the families at the
picnic lived in Central Europe
before war and politics began
to buffet them about.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-27
PEOPLE
IN
BUSINESS

Albert L. Reeves, former Con-
gresham from Missouri, has
become vice president Of Utah
Construction Co.. San Francisco
engineering and contracting
firm. He is a partner in the
Washington law firm Of Cum
mings, Sellers. Reeves. Conner
and Kendall.
Lloyd w. Baker was elected
vice president-staff of Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, effective
April /. A native of Mount
Airy, Md. he has been execu-
tive assistant to the president.
william A. Pignone of U. S.
Parts Corp. has been elected
president Of the Washington
Area Dodge Parts and Service
Managers Association.
Miss Ida Leyenson and Miss
Lucille Grimm, both buyers for
the Hecht Co., will leave on a
European trip today. The for
mer buys handbags and small
leather goods and the latter
gloves.
Richard F. Collins, district
manager for State Farm In
surance Companies. reported
his company nearly doubled its
margin of leadership in the
auto insurance field during
1857. Earned auto premiums
reached 1913 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-27
RedevelOpment Agency
Watches Parking Plans

Members of the Washington
Parking Association were told
last night that maximum at
tention is being given to park
ing needs in the Northwest
urban renewal area.
Malcolm A. Burrows, deputy
executive director of the Dis
trict Redeveiopment Land
Agency, said proximity of the
section to downtown Washing
ton would indicate the "plausi-
bility of providing adequate
parking facilities that would
provide a major impetus to the
preservation Of downtow n
values"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-27
.AIuminumCui
&c a Pound

NEW YORK, Mar. 81 R.-
Aluminium Ltd. will cut its
price of aluminium ingot about
2 cents a pound, effective Tues
day.
Nathaniel v. Davis, presi-
dent, said, with stocks in the
hands of most fabricators at
low levels and with indications
that consumption has stabilized
this is an opportune time to
assist the industry toward re-
Stunning its growth"
The company said the reduc-
ton is the first significant
change in the upward price
movement in aluminium which
began about 10 years ago.
The current price of alumni
mum pig in the United States
is 26 cents per pound.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-27
YOUR
MONEYS WORTH
Mixed Economic Picture

SAN FRANCISCO. In Cali
fornia. the economic picture
today is mixed. The informed
appraisal Of it is mixed and
the expert forecast for produc-
ton. jobs and paychecks il
mixed.
After spending several days
in San Francisco, financial
heart Of the west, and inter-
viewing dozens Of business
men, bankers and economists
on the economic situation in
this area, about the only des-
cription that appears to At Is
the one I've used.
And actually. this is a com.
paratively encouraging des-
cription. for there isn't much
mixing" Of the economic COL
ors in a lot of areas today.
Here, while the statistical
evidence of downtown is unmis.
taxable there also are some
persuasive signs that the econ
omy Of the west is touching
bottom. Here, while there is
widespread concern about the
depth and duration of the slide.
I've found a hard core of au-
thorities who insist that within
a few months recovery will be
obvious. For instance:
Mixture: Unemployment in
California has been climbing
steadily and the weakness is
now splitting over into the trade
and service fields too. Yet in
some sections of the state en-
ployment is far ahead of a year
ago and the percentage of job
less in the west is still below
the national average.
In the Los Angeles area, en-
ployment in manufacturing is
down almost 9 per cent from
this time in 1857 but in the San
Jose region, employment in
manufacturing, particularly in
non-electrical machinery and
ordnance, is almost IL per cent
above 1857. In the southern
part of California total jojbless-
ness had scared 118 per cent
during the past year, but still
the unemployment ratio of sc
per cent in southern California
is below the national average
Of ~ per cent.
Mixture: The aircraft in
dustry in this region was hit
by cutbacks as long ago as last
spring but the percentage Of
layoffS has now dwindled vir-
tually to zero and men are being
recalled by some major fac
tories. There is evidence to sup
port the belief that the worst
is over and that an industry
which was among the first to
feel the recession. because of
Washington's activities will be
among the first to feel the re-
covery because Of Washington's
activities.
Between mid-November and
mid-December, aircraft layofs
in the Los Angeles area alone
amounted to 1900; between
mid-December to mid-January,
they amounted to 1,400. But
from mid-January to mid-Feb-
ruary, the reduction in jobs was