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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
HerpetoIoey' Is Parent PuzzIer
On First TV Education Show

provide expert science teaching
made more interesting with the
gimmicks of televiSion.
Today's program will be re-
peated tomorrow-for children
who missed today's lecture. A
new lecture will take place
Wednesday - and will be re-
peated on Thursday.
On Friday. a program aimed
more at explaining current
topics in science will be tele-
vised from Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in color.
Today, Mr.. Drummond, form
erly a sixthgrade teacher in
Falls Church, sketched some Of
the branches of science he hopes
to tackle in the future. He broke
the subject up into three main
areas of study biology, chem
istry and physics.
But he may have a terrific
job in trying to answer one
teasing question he left with
the children.
Mr.. Drummond said he hoped,
in the future. to be able to show
through science-just why
things are the way they are?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
BoptismoI Rite
Held by Michuux

More than 100 persons were
baptized by Elder Lightfoot
Solomon Michaux, pastor Of
the Temple of Freedom Under
God. last night at Griffith
Stadium.
About 5000 persons wit
messed the converts being bap-
tiled in a canvas pool at the
stadium.
First to be baptized were Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Merrifleld OF
Nome, Alaska. Thirty children
and more than 10 adults, all
clad in white, followed them.
Elder Michaux was assisted
by pastors of branch churches
in Philadelphia, New York,
Baltimore, Newport News. Va;
Edenborn, Pa. and Warren
Ohio. Many Of the converts
being baptized came from these
branch churches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star Stan Writer

A major discovery and some
embarrassment seemed in store
for some $4,000 children and
their parents, following today's
christening of educational tele-
vision in the Washington area.
In an orderly, interesting
way, a young man named T.
Darrell Drummond began lee
turing about science over Sta
ton WTTG-TV at 1880 an.
The program was aimed at
public and parochial school
systems as far as Mr.. Drum
mond's words and image would
carry.
But during the lecture, a
general introduction to the
great names of science and
what they were up to thousands
Of years ago. Mr.. Drummond
asked his listeners to find out
what ''herpetology" is.
The guess is few parents
know what it is. But faced with
the question-and a youngster
demanding an answer-the die
tionary was probably found,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
New Trash Disposal
Plant Is Planned
Fort Totten
Project to Cost
s. Million

The District plans to do a
better job of disposing of part
Of the city's annual 3.5 million
cubic yards of trash.
A new So million municipal
incinerator has been included
in budget estimates for next
year. The giant disposal unit,
TO consume 500 tons of waste
daily, is to be built in the Fort
rotten area northeast of the
Soldiers Home.
1t will permit the virtual
closing of the open Kenilworth
Dump long civic sore spot,
officials said.
The new incinerator, designed
according to officials to oper-
ate in relatively smokeless con-
trast to the unpopular dump.
will be the city's fourth. 1t will
help Offset what officials
gloomily regard as a continuing
upswing in the Capitals
rubbish.
The three existing incinera.
tors can take care of only $780,
900 tons of the combustible
waste collected by city trash
trucks annually. The dump gets
the remainder.
William A. Xanten, santa
ton superintendent. told the
budget Office the situation is
critical.
Construction of the new in
Generator, which needs only
formal approval of the District
Commissioners and Congress.
will cost $2.724,OG0 and take
about a year. The balance Of
the SO million is going into
the site.
Also approved by budget of
ficerS was the addition of a
new trash collection crew to
the present 55-truck force.
This is urgently needed. Mr..
Xanten said, to meet an an
nual 3 per cent or more rise
in household rubbish collec-
tons.
BY next year, he predicted.
total rubbish will reach 3.6
million cubic yards, and trash
from private homes will climb
to over - million.
Besides the increased trash
funds. the division won ap-
proval of funds to add two
new crews to the II now
charged with cleaning debris
out of the city's 10000 catch
basins.
The Sanitary Engineering
Department was tentatively
allotted 100000 for expanding
operations at the Blue Plains
sewage treatment plant, now
being enlarged, and some So
million for sewer and water
main extensions and improve.
ments in various parts of the
city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

number Of television sets, air
conditioning units. coasters,
blanket warmers and electric
ranges.
Money Market Ventures
PEPCO has ventured twice
this year into the money market
to finance its expansion. Last
February SIS million worth Of
preferred stock was sold. In
April. the utility sold $l9.7 mil
lion in convertible debentures
Later this fall, securities valued
at SIS million will be offered
by the company under terms
yet to be announced.
At the 1,00l-acre Dickerson
site. the contractors have en-
ployed TOO workers. Close to
1000 will be on the job by next
spring. To date, 1890 tons OF
steel have been erected and
$4,000 cubic yards of concrete
have been poured in founda-
tons under the massive IA
story boilers.
Already underway is the for
nation of a vast reserve pile
of coal, ITO tons of which will
be burned daily by the two
steam boiler units. Ash pro-
duced by the constant boiler
fame will be collected by cleo
trostatic precipitators designed
to nullify 81 per cent of the
ash residue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
Group to Screen
Architects for
Stadium Project

An advisory committee OF
prominent Washington citizens
and officials has been named
by the Armory Board to screen
architects and engineers for
the construction of the city'S
planned 50,000-seat stadium.
Arthur j. Dutch Bergman.
Armory manager, said Floyd B.
Akers, civic leader and automo-
bile dealer here. was named
chairman of the advisory COM
mittee at a board meeting to-
day.
Others members of the COM
mittee are: Engineer Commits
sioner A. C. yelling. Mr.. Berg
man, William M. Mcleod. clerk
of the House District Comit-
tee, and Leo A. Casey, Francis
J. Kane, Fred A. Smith and
John A. Reilly.
This group, according to Mr..
Bergman, will make recon-
mendations to the Armory
Board on the qualifications Of
applicants for the job of de-
signing plans and specifications
for the stadium. Mr.. Akers said
the committee will hold its
first meeting this week.
The stadium, which is to be
financed by floating a bond ie-
sue, will be located at East
Capitol street near the ArmJ.J.
It is estimated the stadium will
be completed by 1861. Once
plans are completed and &C
cepted, the cost of the project
will be known and the Treasury
will set the rate of interest on
the bonds to be offered for sale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

accident, he obviously did a
good job in bringing everybody
baca safely" the spokesman
said. His very successful eff
fort in protecting the passen-
gers should not GO unnoticed.
Indications are that the evacu-
alton procedure also was out
standing"
A CAB investigation was to
begin at once.
Flight Engineer Merle Atkins
81, of San Francisco, said that
when the plane was over
Georgetown indicators warned
of fire and the engine began to
squirt flames.
Blaze Contained
The co-pilot, Jim Hahne. SO,
of San Mateo, Calf, who bailed
out of a B-24 bomber over
Yugoslavia during the World
War II, said automatic fire ex-
tinguishing equipment succeed
ed in containing the blaze long
enough to permit landing.
Passengers credited two young
stewardesses, Iris Peterson, 420l
Massachusetts, avenue NV,
and Dorothy Smith, of Airing
ton. with preventing panic.
1.-THE stewardesses were just
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

social workers and the rest for
an expected case rise. The de-
partment expects 10000 on the
relief rolls next year, compared
with 10,l00 now, about the
same rate of increase as at
present, Mr.. Brewer said.
Budget officers also handed
out detailed summaries of a
recommended $50 million al
lotment for the public schools
already made public by the
Board of Education. The school
board has announced clans tc
appeal for restoration of most
of some 81 million more orig
inally requested and trimmed
from the estimates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

tremendous" said Mrs. George
Lavender Of 1906 Eighteenth
street NV.
ct was afraid in waves, but
they were so calm and smiling
and pleasant the whole time,
I thought nothing serious could
be wrong" she said. They
were really brave. I think that
is why there was no panic"
Mrs. Lavender and her hus-
band. with their two sons, were
enroute to Sumatra via San
Francisco.
Calling the crew heroic. Z"
Irwin Lyons, a Philadelphia
businessman. declared, "You
can't say enough good about
those two girls"
Another passenger, Comdr
Robert Burpo. 500 New York
avenue. Takoma Park, said:
Nobody was happy, but there
was no sign of alarm"
Professional Praise
Capt. H. L. Baker. an Army
aviator who lives in Alexandria.
said he sensed the power fail
ure and knew from experience
the difficulties the crew was
fighting.
"They did a marvellous job.
though" he said.
Each passenger underwent a
medical examination after the
landing. None had suffered
shock. Two or three reported
they incurred minor bruises on
their hands while scurrying
out OF the plane.
The emergency halted air
traffic at National Airport for
As minutes. It was not restored
to normal until $3.50 pm.
All the passengers and the
same crew departed for San
Francisco at s pm. aboard an
other United plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

THE NEW 24O is one of the
most beautiful highways in
America. At times the north
and south roads separate
with a copse of oaks or a
stream between them.
Sometimes one road is high
above the other. North Of
Rockville old Sugar Loaf, the
mountain that strayed from
the range, rises on the left.
Then you go over a rise and
before you is the wide valley
of the Monocacy.
The Rambler remembered
the great satisfaction record
ed by Sir Winston Churchill
in his very personal history
of the second World War
when he came upon this
view.
He was in the back seat Of
a White House car with
Franklin and Eleanor Roose-
welt and Harry Hopkins.
They were on their way to
Shanghai, the presidential
hideout on Catoctin Noun
tain on a stream beyond
Little Hunting Creek.
Churchill discovered that
he was the only one who
knew Whittier's B arba a
Frietchie from beginning to
end. So he started with:
Up from the meadows rich
with corn,
Clear in the cool September
morn,
The clustered spires of Fred
erick stand
Green-tOGlIed By the hills OF
Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
Engine AbIoze, AirIiner Londs 63
Solely in Emergency at National
BY JOHN BARRON
Star stan Writer

High drama was enacted over
Washington yesterday as a
United Airlines Oct with a
blazing engine made a safe
emergency landing at National
Airport.
All So persons on board es-
capped injury. partly because Of
their defiance of panic and
heroism by the crew.
Orange flames leaping from
its far starboard engine as it
trailed pillows of black smoke,
the giant four-engined plane
touched down at 1888 pm. IN
a perfect landing.
Passengers jumped down a
special chute and slid down
ropes from emergency exits,
then ran to safety.
Waiting airport and Airing
ton County firemen Immediately
began shooting chemical foam
into the engine and helping
evacuate those still aboard.
The burning motor dropped
of the wing to the ground
shortly after the landing. With
a cable, flremen quickly hauled
it away to avert danger Of ex-
ploSion.
High Praise for Crew
Congregating on the field.
the dazed but calm passengers,
40 of whom are from the WASH
ington area, called the five
United crewmen heroic" and
absolutely magnificent"
The airliner, bound for San
Francisco had developed engine
trouble just after taking of
from Washington at 1918 pm.
It's pilot, WV. Breeding, 81,
of San Francisco, said:
I'VE were just airborne when
we noticed No. 4 engine was
not functioning properly. We
had climbed to about 5000 feet
and were near Springfield, Va,
when we began to lose power.
We tried to feather the engine.
but couldn't.
Couldn't Dump Gasoline
II radioed the Washington
tower and told them we had an
emergency and were coming
back. We started circling
around Springfield to dump
gasoline 50 that we could re-
duce our landing weight.
"But the engine. was over
speeding and running so rough
ly we decided to come straight
on in"
Capt. Breeding, a veteran Of
IS years with United, said he
had never made an emergency
landing before.
This one was just routine
and strictly by the books" he
said.
A Civil Aeronautics Board
spokesman today commended
the performance of Capt.
Breeding.
Whatever the cause Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

Inc uClllJy ana lJS Dullulng
contractor, the Stone g. Web
ster Engineering Corp. of Bos-
ton, are confidently looking
forward to winning the metro
politan area peak load" race.
The plant. which will pro-
vide one ITS, 900 kilowatt turbo-
generating unit by next sum-
mer and another Of the same
size by the spring Of 1860, will
bring the power company's
peak capacity to more than
Ia million kilowatts.
New Power High
Robert W. Wilson. a PEPCo
vice president who accompan-
led visitors to the plant, said
that a new high In power de-
mand - 100000 kilowatts -
was experienced during the past
summer here. This was close
to the utility's present peak
capacity of l,062,0OO kilowatts.
the power load that can be
generated by the company's
three plants at Buzzards Point,
Benning road and Alexandria.
PEPCO, like other large elec-
trio utilities across the Nation,
needs new power sources to &C.
commodate an increasing num-
Der Of customers and. stimuli
taneously, increased demand by
the average customer. Through
out the country, power con-
sumption per customer has
risen with the increase in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
Warmer Weather
Follows Rain

Refreshed by an inch Of rain.
the Washington area entered a
period of warmer weather to-
day.
Most of the rain fell yester-
day morning. 1t brought the
months total to only 1.68 inches
and pointed to a need for even
more moisture.
This may be forthcoming
from showers expected Wednes-
day or Thursday, the Weather
Bureau said. Meanwhile. tenn
peratures will be averaging 4 to
a degrees above normal high Of
rs degrees and low of So the
next five days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

infrmary and admissions build
ing at Blue PlainS-are in a
record $l8 million welfare de-
partment allotment in the Dis
trict budget recommended for
fiscal 1860.
The planned Laurel con-
struction is for the District
Training School, city-operated
institution for the mentally
handicapped. The establish
ment now has no education ia
cilitieS.
The proposed building would
include is clasSrooms, therapy
rooms, a gymnasium and other
specially equipped rooms.
Budget officers also approved
more than $414,00O for improve
mentS in other facilities at the
training school.
The Junior Village project
would replace cramped infirm-
airy quarters now shared by
children and adults. Need fol-
a new inf1rmary is increased by
current overcrowding, officials
said. There are now 800
children living in space in
tended for 240, Deputy We'll
fare Director Donald Brewer
pointed out.
The budget Office turned
down $804,O00 in operating
items asked by the department,
including $l50,000 wanted for
increased stating at the
Chlldren'S Center which Mr.,
Brewer said will be appealed.
But operating funds were
recommended for four new Dis
trict Training School reSiden-
tial cottages to house $50 pa
tents and for more staff at
Blue Plains in the depart
ment's child welfare division.
An extra $4,000 was al
lotted to the public assistance
program. partly for more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22

THE SPIRES AND THE
HILLS are there now as
then.
You continue north on the
road to Gettysburg and,
after about a dozen miles,
turn left on a gravel road up
the mountain.
This man Akers--he's the
Cadillac dealer-iS a perfec-
zionist. He had one touch
that / had not anticipated.
A dozen chauffeurS were
waiting at the gate lodge to
drive the guests cars to the
parking area.
There are several buildings
of stone quarried on the
mountain, the Akers' house
two or three guest houses, a
stone house for the care
taker, a crystalline clear
swimming pool and a large
open-air dining pavilion
which was already seeming
the air with the aroma of
broiling steaks. The lawn
between the buildings was
manicured, not moved.
All this is in a craggy glen
through which a brook cas-
cades and tumbles over
natural falls and little dams.
Below one fall two dozen
trout, 2 feet long, we're re-
naming still by swimming
upstream.
And all about we're bales of
alfalfa. It was a good crop,
no doubt about it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
The
Rambler
Attends q
Perfect Picnic
By GEORGE KENNEDY


Everyone remembers from
some schoolbook reader the
wonderful opening para
graphs of Washington Irv-
ing's 1.-THE Legend of Sleepy
Hollow"
Ichabod Crane, the elon-
gated school teacher with
the funny name, is riding
along a cowpath road
through New York's Catskill
country on a fall day and
taking great satisfaction in
the many evidences of
bumper crops.
What he had most on his
mind was a roast sucking
pig with an apple in its
mouth.
On Saturday afternoon
Ichabod Rambler was tool
ing his way north on the
new Route 240 to the Alfalfa
Club picnic.
He had received an invita-
ton from Floyd Akers to
attend "a conference to esti-
mate the alfalfa crop" at
his Little, Hunting Creek
Lodge in the Catoctins. The
Rambler was quick to accept
as this has been a very good
year for alfalfa. Half a CEN
fury. ago the founders Of the
club named it after the
legume so useful as forage
because they were told that
this was the plant that
would extend its roots the
furthest to get a drink.
Like the Hudson Valley
school teacher, he was not
ing with some satisfaction
that much of the corn was In
shock and that the Aber-
deem Angus and Hereford
cattle grazing in the lush
pastures were especially fat.
What this Ichabod had in
mind were steaks of prime
beef, New York cuts, broiled
over charcoal emberS.
An occasional tree was
crimson. At the speed he was
travelling, the Rambler could
not tell whether it was a
gum, a beech or a maple. But
each one was a suggestion Of
the general splash of color
to come.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
BIost Near Puris

PARIS, Sept. % (AP).-Ar
explosion rocked part of a big
tire factory in the Partisan
suburb Of Colonies today. One
person was killed and several
injured, police said. Cause Of
the explosion was not imme-
diately known.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

Continuing its conven-
ton. the Office of Defense
and civilian Mobilization
meets in the Mayflower no.
tel.
Mission Secretariat holds
secondary sessions in the
Shoreham Hotel.
This information supplied by
the Washington Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
District Has
Its Day at
Brussels Fair

BRUSSELS. Sept. % (AP).-
Robert Mclaughlin. presiden
of the Board of Commissioner
of the District of Columbia, to.
day presented to the Brussel.
World Fair assistant genera
commissioner, Robert Then.
pont. the key to the city O.
Washington.
The occasion was the celebra-
ton of District of Columbis
Day at the United States Work.
Fair Pavilion.
Mr.. Mclaughlin made a brie1
speech at the ceremony. helC
in the honor bay of the United
States Pavilion balcony. james
S. Plaut, United States assist.
ant commissioner. and UniteC
States Ambassador Clifford
Folger attended the ceremony
as well as 10 Washingtonians
members of the Board of Trade
of the District of Columbia, nov
on a European tour.
Fair Plans Mentioned
The Board of Trade trour
was led by Charles Philips
president of the delegation, anc
William H. Press, executive vice
president of the board.
I'VE are very much interested
in the fair here, because we
have tentatively scheduled to
have our own world fair in
Washington in 1862" Mr.. Press
said. I'VE haven't put a firm
request yet with the Interna-
tional World Fair Bureau, but
during my European tour I am
having consultations to investi-
gate possibilities of going ahead
with our plans.
Queen Mother Visits
Celebration of District OF
Columbia Day conceded with q
visit by Belgian Queen Mother
Elisabeth, who halted her tour
of the pavilion to listen to the
United States Marine Band.
When the Marines broke intC
the Belgian national anthem
pavilion guards promptly raiseC
the Belgian flag, believing thu
opening ceremony was about tt
begin. 1t was later lowered
again to wait for the ceremony
proper.
Said a guard: mo harm wa
done. 1t was for the Queer
Mother of Belgium.
Later, Belgian, American ant
District of Columbia flags wer'
raised in the central bay. Ais
attending the ceremonies wer,
the United States pavilion Dis
trict of Columbia guides: julie
Hamm, Hamda Ageton. Pencil
ope Graves, Anda Udris, Kath.
leen CROUCH and Janet Martin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
Training School Plans
entotiveIy Endorsed

major addition to the Welfare Departments Laurel Md)
Chens Center has tentative approval for construction
next year.
Also Endorsed by District budget officers plans for
construction at Junior Village welfare institution for dependent
children at Blue Plains.
Two projectS-an $500 school Laurel $3.50 900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-22
Framework Completed
For New PEPCO Plant
SIS Million Dickerson Project
To Provide Power Next Summer

In little than year Potomac Electric Power Co
construction have built the foundation and towering
steel frame for the uitys SIS million twounit general
ing plant at Dckerson, Md.
PEPCO officials, tour of the installation last
week. said construction is 20 per cent complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-12
Two 'Test-Tube' Houses
Reseoreh project is sponsored by NAHB

the building Of the first re-
search house at Kensington,
Md, where the NAHB and
building materials manufac-
turers co-operated in build
ing the home.
New Materials
Both of the new research
houses are one-story, six
room, buildings, New ma
terials or improved versions
Of presently used materials
are being used in their con-
struction.
One house at South Bend,
Ind, is being built by Andrew
s. Place, chairman Of the
Research Institute of NAHB.
I am building the other
house in Knoxville, Tenn.
Both houses will soon be
completed and on public dis
play. Then they viii become
homes" upon the selection
Of Families "X" and "Y" who
will purchase them and agree
to permit sponsors to make
periodic observations Of the
performance Of the materials
and equipment in the homes.
The families themselves viii
subject them to a number Of
tests to determine how they
turn out for actual living.
Their reports on the homes
and their reactions to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-12
By MARTIN 1. BARTElNG
Second Vice President
Notionol Association Of Home Builders

Two families whose identi-
ties are unknown as yet may
well shape the kind Of homes
to be built for other Ameri-
cans in the next few years.
The families - let's call
them Family TX" and Fam
lily "Y"-will live in two re-
search houses now under con-
struction. The two families
viii report for a period Of