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Front Royal. Here the vote
was unanimous.

Front Royal. Here the vote
was unanimous.
Other Developments
In other developments relate
ing to the indignation crisis in
Warren County:
/. James H. Duff, principal
of Warren County High, an
nounced he had been informed
by the University of Richmond
and its affiliated College for
Women, Westhampton, that
Warren County High School
seniors may enter either coll
lege next year on Mr.. Duff's
certification they had COM
pleted a required amount of
work. No diploma will be re-
quired, he said.
Mr.. Duff sent letters Sep
TENDER % to IL Virginia COL
leges inquiring about the status
of seniors who might be forced
to get their last-year inStruc-
ton in private schools. The
replies from Richmond were
the first he has received.
2. Warren County Sheriff
Francis w. Slaughter issued a
statement commencing the
citizens Of the county for their
"dignifled and tolerant atti-
tude" in the Indignation crisis.
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Owners Get
$153,4o1 in
Lund TriuI

"A Montgomery County Jury
yesterday granted an award OF
$l5S.40r to owners Of the He'll
mann tract at the end of q
two-and-a half day condemna-
ton trial initiated by the WASH
Iington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission.
BY 1860 the sanitary agency
plans to have a $12 million
water filtration plant In opera.
ton on the 34.S-acre site. 10.
Gated between the Potomac
River and River road on Watts
Branch.
The tract Is owned by heirs
to the Carl A. Hellmann estate
The water-producing install
lation is to be expanded
by 1890 to yield a water fiow
Of 100 million gallons of purified
water daily.
The Circuit Court Jury,
award included the cost of the
land plus consequential dam.
ages to the remainder of the
overall 52-acre Hellmann
property. The jury did not
specify how much Of the total
award was for land purchase
and how much for damages
Potomac area residents last
year vigorously opposed the
filtration plant project. The
opposition has gradually SUBJ
sided. partly because the WSSC
agreed to build an attractive,
masonry and : glass structure
and partly because of the in
creasing need for a new water
supply for the Maryland sub
.urbs in the Washington Metro
politan Area.
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tenoeQ opening gay classes III
the Easements Of Is private
homes. The youngsters were
we'll behaved and went through
study schedules similar to those
they would have had in public
school.
Were feeling our way from
day to day, but we have a good
schedule" said Mrs. Miriam
McKieth. a seventh grade
teacher.
Volunteer teachers from the
public school are giving instruc-
ton and setting UP study sched-
ules. The parents arranged the
facilities. provided equipment
and are doing the cleaning up
and tending to other non-in-
structional details.
Parents Quizzical
This was the first attempt
at mass private education for
students locked out of public
schools in the segregation cri-
sis.
At the end of the day, par
ents and teachers said the
makeshift arrangement appears
likely to provide good interim
education until Venable is re-
opened.
But several Of the parents
leading the movement admitted
privately they have miSgivings
about the effect their system
will have on efforts to reopen
the school.
I'VE had to do something
to get the children in classes, -
said one of the 10 mothers who
organized the classes. yet, we
are afraid that even operations
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defendants. The Government
is seeking the death penalty
for both men.
Judge Bryan finally allowed
introduction Of the smaller
photos but withheld a ruling on
the engagements pending fur
ther testimony.
Two other witnesses, DR.. Al
fred Abramson and DR.. Miguel
Litardo, told OF having exam
ined Mr.. Hughes body when it
arrived at Alexandria Hospital.
Tells of Wounds
DR.. Abramson said that two
blows with a blunt instrument
on the skull went into the
brain. He also told Of cutting
wounds on the face and body.
The Government maintains
that, while Schoppel held Mr..
Hughes, Gomez first stabbed
him with knife and then hit
him over the head with a chair
as he fell to the floor.
Mr.. Hughes bloody clothing
as well as a knife and a broken
chair were introduced as EVIL
dence.
Meanwhile the Government
planned to call inmates at
Lorton as additional witnesses
in the trial. The prosecutions
case is expected to be COM
pleted tomorrow.
Among the first reformatory
witnesses was H. Bernard
Spriggs, who is serving a 4-to-
12-year sentence for abortion.
A former doctor, he assists
in the dispensary. He said Mr..
Hughes was unconscious when
he saw him and bleeding ex-
tensively from at least IL
wounds. Mr.. Hughes died in an
ambulance on the way to Alex
andria Hospital.
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like this may result In State
officials being complacent about
getting our schools opened"
THE agony is over now
said another mother who dom
ated her recreation room for
one of the classes. THE chill
dren are settled now, and !
wonder II this might not lessen
the pressure to get the school
reopened "
Recent Program
The basement education pro-
gram was arranged by the Par
ents Committee for Emergency
S chool ing, an organization
formed by 10 mothers only a
few weeks ago. Most Of the
parents who enrolled their chill
dren probably would accept
some indignation to get the pub
lie school open.
However. another organiza-
ton. the Charlottesville Educa-
ton Foundation, led by segre-
gation-minded parents. has en-
rolled about 200 venable stu
dents and plaiis to start classes
Monday in a vacant home.
This organization plans to con-
tinue private classes If the
school is reopened on an In
tegrated basis.
The two organizations for
mally agreed yesterday. under
pressure Lane High School
teachers, to set up a Joint COM
mittee to get emergency high
school education underway.
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Paul F. Pegelow IN a hallway
during a court recess.
However, Judge Bryan ex-
cused him anyway and an al
ternate, Mrs. Margaret C. Mas
sey, took his place.
Photographs Introduced
Meanwhile, photographs o.
the battered and bloody body
of the guard were introduced
in the trial in Alexandria Fed
eral Court.
The photos became evidence
in the case Of Gumersindo B.
Gomez, 20, and John F. Schop-
pei, Is, who are on trial on
charges Of beating and stabbing
Guard Michael j. Hughes, 40.
at the reformatory February 10.
Woodward p. Lipscomb, an
FBI agent, testified he took the
photos in the morgue of Alex
andria Hospital, where Mr..
Hughes was taken after the
assault.
In addition to the regular
sized photographs, enlarge
mentS were offered.
Robert S. Colby, representing
Schoppel, Immediately objected
and argued that the photos
were exceedingly inflamatory
and the engagements are much
more vicious"
Highly Prejudicial"
Thurman L. Dodson, attorney
for Gomez, argued that intro
duction of the photos was
solely to int1ame the jury and
are highly prejudicial."
Assistant United States At
torney Henry Fitzgerald adj
mitted that the photos were
gruesome, but maintained they
were necessary to show pre-
meditation on the part of the
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Pupils Well Behaved
In Substitute Schools
BY PAUL HOPE
star star Writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Sept 5,-vtginas first make
shift school system through Its first day with few bitches
but several of the organizers wondered If what they wrought
might not delay reopenng Of closed public schools
Lane high and Venabe elementary schools closed
Monday under the States antl-integraton program
Yesterday about SS5 wescrubbed students Of venable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-25
Continued From First Page

SeAAAS~1 AA0AAA AA0s ooN
for a years delay from the full
appellate court.
The Norfolk School Board,
which had scheduled a meeting
tonight to assign II Negroes
to the six white schools in
keeping with court instructions,
has called of the meeting to
await a ruling on the new APP
peal. There may be a further
poStponement of the opening
Of the six schools. now due to
open Monday. q
An six schools would have
closed the instant the assign
ments were made.
In refusing to grant the
three Virginia pleas for stays
earlier, Judge Sobeloff offered
to convene the full court hastily
to hear appeals in each case.
Norfolk is the first commu-
nifty to accept his offer. In
Richmond a State spokesman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-25
Housing Unit
IsOpposed
In Arlington

A majority Of the Arlington
County Board pledged last night
to vote against using a pro-
posed local redevelopment
agency to establish publit
housing in the county.
Board Chairman Ralph Kau
said after a meeting of thu
Arlington Committee of 100 last
night that he would bring the
question to a vote at Saturday.
board meeting.
The question of creating an
Arlington RedeYelopment Au-
thority will be decided in a No
vember 4 referendum author
lied last month by the county
board. Both the Arlington
Planning Commission and the
county planning staff have in
dorsed the proposed agency.
Oppose Authority
All five members of the
county board said last night,
however, that they opposed us
ing the authority for public
housing. ABC members Her
bert L. Brown, jr., David L.
Krupsaw and Mr.. Raul sup
ported the authority idea but
agreed that its principal aim
should be redevelopment. All
three opposed the use of the
agency to provide public hous-
ing.
DR.. Lucas H. Blevins and
Mrs. Leone B. Buchholz, mem
berS Of the AIM minority on
the board, said they need more
time to study the referendum
question. Both supported re-
development Of rundown COM
mercial areas of the county,
while strongly opposing Fed
eral public housing.
Robert w. gilbert, one of the
four speakers at last nights
Committee of 100 meeting in
Arlington Towers, said the
county board could veto any
redevelopment agency proposal
to set up public housing. Mr..
Culbert is a former staff MEM
Der Of the Federal Urban Re-
development Program and vice
chairman of the Arlington
Planning Commissions Rede-
velopment Committee.
James H. Berkey, former
head Of the planning commits
sion, told the Committee of
100 that he required "assur-
arces that there won't be Fed
eral public housing in Arling-
ton and that, If possible, there
won't even be Federal money
used"
Forced to Move
Nathaniel S. Keith, an urban
renewal consultant, said the
Federal housing aid is only
available in areas where per-
sons forced to move by rede-
velopment can't find other local
housing in their price range.
Former county board mem
Der William P. Ames, ST., said,
81 can't sell myself on the idea
that Rosslyn should have pub
lie housing and redevelopment
at the expense of other areas
Of the county. Why jeopardize
the whole county's borrowing
capacity By redeveloping some-
body else's areas Rosslyn is
one Of the areas under consid-
GRAFTON for redevelopment.
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Judge Excuses Juror
In Lorton SIoying TrioI

juror in the trial OF two Lorton Reformatory inmates
for the murder Of guard excused today after having been
seen talking to the institutions superintendent
The juror William c. Latham, told Federal Judge Aberu
Bryan he had only discussed classmate at VPI with Capt.
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aspect Of imprisonment for
most inmates" Donald Glenn
mer, director Of the District
Department Of Corrections, said
yesterday.
Mr.. Clemmer made the COM
ment In reporting on part of
a larger inquiry into sex be-
havior at a correctional institu-
ton for adult males. He went
into the report at a meeting of
the American Correctional AS
ISOLATION at Detroit.
Prison administrators and
their associates. he said, prob
ably have less understanding of
the phenomena of sex in the
prisons than of any other of
the perplexing problems they
face daily.
Mr.. Clemmer said reports
indicated that. except for a few
studies of pornography by
psychiatrists and a few case
studies on sexual psychopaths,
the broad problem Of sexuality
in a prison setting had been
ignored previously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
10 Negroes
Get Tutoring

NEW YORK, Sept. IL (AP)
Ten Negro students attended
a special tutoring session yes
terday as their parents con-
tinued to keep them out of pub
lie school in protest against
their assignment to FREEDOM
inantly Negro schools.
All told, is Harlem pupils
all seventh graders-and 6 in
Brooklyn were kept out of
school for the third consecutive
day.
All Is Harlem pupils were ex-
pected to attend tutoring ses-
Sions today.
The parents have commended
that their youngsters would re-
ceive an inferior education in
what they termed Substandard
schools in their own neighbor-
hoods.
School authorities have made
considerable effort to transfer
pupils in order to bring about
greater intermingling of Negro
and white students. But off,
Gals say this has been diff
cult because of the size of some
Negro residential areas.
The protesting Brooklyn par
ents met yesterday with school
officials to plan the agenda for
a conference Monday with
School Supt. John j. Theobald.
Paul Zuber, the lawyer rep
resenting the Harlem parents,
said the group did not intend to
operate a school but a mass
tutorial session"
There had been six pupils
kept out of school in Brooklyn,
but another youngster joined
that group yesterday, making
the total %.
School officials have denied
that the children would receive
inadequate education in their
assigned schools.
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like, running them out Of
school?"
While members Of the school
board sat in silence, she told
how the Student Council had
polled 100 white pupils at Van
Buren, High and found that
only As were against indignation.
Looking at the group Of par
ents, supporters Of the boycott.
she asked:
IF we don't object, why
should anyone else?"
Still Student Leader
Fellow students say Angles
stand on indignation hasn't af-
fected her position as the
schools acknowledged leader
She was the first girl in four
years to be elected president of
the Student Council.
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Evans. left it to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
Nixon Daughters
Go This Year to
SidweII Friends
By the Associated Press

Vice President Nixon's two
daughters, Patricia and Julie
are going to a private school
here this year instead Of re-
turning to public school.
Patricia. IL, graduated last
June from the Horace Mann
Public Elementary School
where Julie. 10. also was a stu
dent. Il has been open to Ne
groes since the Supreme Court
school Indignation decision but
none was enrolled there last
year.
Sidwell Friends, the private
school in which the Nixon girls
have been enrolled, also admits
Negro students.
A spokesman for the Nixons
said he assumed they had de-
cided to send Patricia and Julie
to Sidwell Friends because they
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who prefers to be called
Angie--sought to maintain calm
inside the 635-pupil school.
Officials Of Van Buren, High
credit her group with doing
much to keep down tension
among white pupils who tried
to ignore jeering boycotters
outside.
Angles attitude on integra-
ton is that. Negroes have a
right to attend a school just as
much as anybody"
She went on record with that
philosophy at a school board
meeting this week after the vol
untary withdrawal of the Ne
gro students.
As angry segregationist par
ents at the meeting shouted OBJ
jections, the spirited brown
haired girl put the question that
to her was perhaps the basic
point in the whole controversy:
Have you thought what you
make those Negro children feel
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greater difficulty and pain; and
a. Damaging the fabric Of
our democracy by permitting
local extremists not only to
contravene the law but to hold
sway over the mass Of law abid-
ing local citizens"
The church estimates1ts mem
bership at 3 million throughout
the country. DR.. Blake said
there were about $4,000 mem
bers in States in the Deep
South, with less than 10000 Of
them Negroes.
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Angie to decide where she stood
on indignation.
Then they supported my
decision" she said.
Angles father operates a
grocery store and a RADIO
television repair service. She
has an older brother and sis
ter, both married.
A native of Van Buren,. Angie
has never attended school any
where else.
Integration in this North
west Arkansas city Of 5000 is
new. 1t began at the high
school level last year as a re-
suit Of a suit by Negroes. The
city has no Negro high school
Active in Church
Angie regularly attends one
of Van Buren's Methodist
churches, where she sings in
the choir. She is keenly in
terested in youth activities at
the church.
Reading is her hobby and
although she enjoys partici
patton in sports, she confesses
that she isn't much good at
them"
Her plans for the future?
She wants to attend a junior
college at nearby Fort Smith
after graduating from high
school. Then a university
where she hopes to major in
sociology.
After that, Angie wants to
be a social worker.
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7 ChurcFlnlen
Back Troop
Use at School.

NEW YORK. Sept. II (AP)
Two leaders Of the United
Presbyterian Church say they
favor enforcement of integra-
ton at Central High School in
Little Rock. Ark, with troops
and tanks, If necessary"
The statement was made yes
terday by the Rev. DR.. Eugene
Carson Blake, chief administra-
tive officer of the church in this
country. and the Rev. DR.. The
ophilus M. Taylor. presiding
officer.
They said they drew up the
statement in the hope Of in
fluencing anyone who has any
thing to do with the Little Rock
MISUNDERSTANDING the United
States Supreme Court which is
holding hearings on the case
today.
Stress Rule by Law
The statement said in part:
I'VE deeply sympathize with
the citizens Of Little Rock for
the anguish that Federal police
action would bring. especially in
view of the century-old con-
flict.
But there are times when
such action may be preferable
not so much to force integra-
ton as to enforce rule by law
instead of allowing mob rule
1t is not really a question OF
forcing indignation. but of per-
hitting American citizens
Negro pupils. in this case-tc
exercise rights legally theirs al
members Of our democracy"
DR.. Blake and DR.. Taylor de.
clared that the Little Rocl
school integration crisis pre-.
scented, in practical terms, "a
choice between two evils"
Lesser Evil
They continued: But we be-
lieve that enforcing the law Of
the land as set forth in the Su-
lpreme Court desegregation de.
cision, and enforcing it with
troops and tanks if necessary
is a lesser evil, however unde.
sirable, than the alternative Of
buying temporary peace at the
price of:
Il. Continued denial of rights
to Negro American citizens;
20. Increasing the pressure
for Indignation, thus compound.
ing the difficulties of transition
IS. Setting a pattern Of re-
sistance that would be emulatec
elsewhere again at the price Of
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thought II would give the girls
the schooling they wanted them
TO have.
He also noted that Mr.. Nixon
is a Quaker and said he sup
posed this had something TO
do with the choice OF Sidwell
Friends, a Quaker school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-11
Sex Deprivation
Called Prisons
Worst Aspect

Prison authorities agree that
deprivation Of conventional SEX
ual outlets and association with
the opposite sex constitutes 1.-THE
most devastating and punitive
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HEADLINE PERSONALITY
n Girl at Van Buren,
Defends Negroes

VAN BUREN, Ark, Sept II CAP)-Jesse Angelina Evans,
president Student Council at Van
Buren, High School. is girl who speaks her mind
When as white boys dropped out Of classes and boycoed
the school Negroes enrolled immediate
action.
Rayng other student leaders l5year-od Jessie Angelina
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
The daring young lady in the flying juice box

If you're of today's daring young ladies of the
flying horsepower, you undoubtedly take active in
terest in your famlys future financial security Remem-
of the best ways to do something about it is
to encourage your husband to start investing regularly
in Savings Bonds today!
And here's another thrifty ideal To see how fast small
change add up put into Savings Stamps 10e and
25e denominations available at your post Office along with
handy albums to keep them Start book today And
make your small change work for you, too.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

She started something this winsome chaufeurette of
SO years ago. She sometimes scorched down the road
20 mp.h Except against strong wind or when the
batteries needed recharging).
But daredevil that she was, fair heroine would
pale to her darling daughter she pilots the family
station wagon through 1858 traffic her daily rounds
to school, supermarket and train
And her housewfey duties don't end there. Today's
young mother is also cook nursemad social secretary
and purchasing agent. Sometimes she even helps earn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

the family income always has big say in spending
it. And whether not family has regular savings
program usually depends on her.
That's why many women the instigators of
regular investment program in U. S. Savings Bonds
They appreciate the feeling of security that such pro-
guarantees They know that u. S. Series Savings
Bonds of the best investments family can make
The principal invested in Bonds is SAFE The returns are
sure. And every Series E Bond pays new higher
interest -3H% when held to maturity!
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

The u. s. Government does not
pay for this advertising.
The Treasury Department thanks,
for theif patriotic donation,
the Advertising Council and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-21
Orchid Society
Annual Show
Oct. II and Il

The National Capital Orchid
Society will present its 18th
annual show at the Woodward
& Lothrop Seven Corners
store in Fairfax County, Va.
October II and IL. Hours will
be $3.50 am. to $50 pm, first
day; 10 am. to 4 pm, second
day (DST).
All entries must be set up
and ready for judging by 4
pm. October 10. They must be
covered by entry blanks sent
to DR.. j. Frank Schairer. 1904
Thornapple street. Chevy Chase
Is. Md, OIL. 1925, prior to
midnight, october 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-21
THINGS TO DO
IN THE GARDEN
DURING WEEK

Do not delay sowing grass
seed, setting out new ever
greens. and perennialS-
they should be planted be-
fore the fall rains start. >.
Avoid using chemical weed
killers on the crabgrass If
seeding is to follow imme-
diately. Better cut and
rake until the crabgrass is
largely removed before re-
seeding.
Planting and transplant
ing of peonies should not be
delayed. If diseases are
evident in the foliage Of a
plant there is little point
to spraying or busting be-
cause these materials do
not kill a disease once 1t is !
in the foliage. however, it
is important to prevent the
spread Of diseases to other
leaves and plants.
And, it is well to plan
now for a dormant spray
next spring to clean UP the
over-wintering spores. 1t is
not too early to fertilize the
established daffodil beds
use ga to ga pounds Of
a 5-t0-5 or similar mix
ture per 100 square feet.
-YOUNGMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-21

tain ash. Pyracantha. holly.
hawthorn, elder and virburnum
are also bountiful with autumn
berries. Chestnuts, hickories.
beeches. walnuts. hazelnuts are
prodigal with nuts.
The reason is this: Trees put
forth an abundance Of flowers
last spring because Of drought
induced weakness the year be-
fore. A benign growing season
helped seeds and berries and
nuts TO mature and ripen.
There is one warning, Trees
that bear excessive fruit and
seed expend an enormo Gus
amount Of energy. Feed them
this autumn to insure con-
tinued vigor.