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sons. The department asked
for AIT.
A $485, 900 staff expansion
l44 persons-at District Gen.
eral Hospital. The hospital
wanted 316.
A $4,000 expansion in the
mental health program, in
Guiding new psychiatrists and
other specialists for adult,
|children's and alcoholic clinics
and a legal phychiatric divi-
sion.
A $4,000 staff increase at
Glenn Dale (Md.) Tuberculosis
Hospital.
The turn downs included an
extra $450,000 wanted for the
medical charities program. This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-19
DENTAL CLINICS
ARE IN LINE FOR
18 NEW DRILLS

The District Budget Of
flee has approved a Health
Department request for
$4,000 to buy 18 new
high-speed tooth drining
machines for the 10 dental
clinics here.
The drills operate at
speeds UP to 250.000 revo-
lutions per minute. They
cause less pain than the
drills Of the past. which
revolve at about 5000 rev.
olutions per minute.
The Health Department
said the drills should help
overcome the ''phycholog-
ical barrier and resistance"
to dental treatment often
found among children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-19
SchooIsP|edQe
Same Criteria
For All Pupils
Arlington System
On Requests for
Shifts Explained
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star stan Writer

The criteria used by Arling-
ton to screen Negro applications
for white schools is now being
used for all transfer requests,
school officials said today.
At the Arlington Indignation
hearing in Alexandria Federal
Court, the school board revealed
that it had voted to reject all
80 Negro transfer applications
on the basis Of five assignment
standards.
Judge Albert v. Bryan, on
Wednesday approved the re-
quests of four of the Negro stu
dents and turned down the re-
naming 26. In his decision,
Judge Bryan did not invalidate|
any one of the screening stand
ards.
The five reasons given by the
school board for rejecting the
80 integration applications
were: attendance area bound
aries, overcrowding at WASH
ington-Lee High School, aca-
demic achievement, PSYCHOLOGY
cal problems and adaptability
to new situations.
Used for All Pupils
Today, Charles ]. Walsh, act
ing school superintendent. said
that ut Is my understanding"
that the criteria is being used
for all transfer requests. eve
certainly plan to use it in the
future" he added.
Mr.. Walsh explained that as
signment standards have al
ways been used but that Arl-
ington had not had to spell
out" the details before.
The placement criteria, Mr..
Walsh said, will be applied to
all children of both races who
are seeking enrolment in a
particular school for the first
time. This would cover both
transfers and graduations from
one level to another If a diff
ferent school is involved.
Called Nom Racial
School Board Chairman Rob-
ert A. Peck emphasized the
point made by Mr.. Walsh that
a screening procedure has al
ways been used to determine
pupil assignments.
During the hearing before
Judge Bryan. attorneys for the
80 Negro children argued that
the criteria had been designed
to maintain segregated schools.
Attorneys for Arlington and the
State contended that the stand
ards were non-racial.
School officials said in court
that the action on the applica-
tons was conditional upon a
ruling by Judge Bryan that
assignment authority rests with
Arlington and not with the
State. Judge Bryan said in his
Wednesday decision that this
was a moot question because
both the school board and the
Virginia Placement Board had
rejected 80 transfer requests.
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Finley Sees New Era
For His Plans Unit
Mentions Serious Faults, but Insists
New Reorganization Will Correct Them
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE
Star star Writer

Director William Finley yesterday frankly conceded
history Of serious faults in the National Capital Planning Com
mission promised Of cooperation and leader
ship in the future.
In an address Washington Housing Association, the
commission chief pulled punches in crticizng his own
agency for past failures.
insisted however that sweeping reorganization is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-19

THE ORANGES are still
the big, easily segmented,
navels from California, not
the Seville type of orange
which gave the sisters in
Mrs. GaSkell'S Crawford"
such a problem they took
them from the dinner table
to their bedrooms. On this
continent they are the Flor
ida oranges and they will
soon be cascading on the
markets by the ton.
California Bartlett pears,
Keats must have had them
in mind when he wrote,
Tasting of flora and the
country green" are at their
best.
Peaches are whoppers, free
stone and easy to eat. They
are from Pennsylvania and
New Jersey trees.
The grapes are huge
punches from California.
The Rambler'S favorite, the
Concord, with their dusty
skins of dark-blue hue, will
be along in October.
October? That means
chestnutS. This fruit stand
on a cool fall day has them
roasting in a tiny coal bra
zier and seeming the imme-.
date nelghborhood.
Chestnuts, but italia n
chestnuts from California.
Oh, for the little, firm, tasty
American chestnuts of the
early years of this century.
The Rambler sees them on
exhibit at the Frederick fair
and the York fair but they
are rareties.
The blight that killed all
the chestnut trees of the APP
palachain highlands is a
fungus that cannot perform
its lethal operation below
ground. While most Of the
trees were killed by 1920,
many roots are still alive.
They send up shoots which
grow 10 or IL feet high and
produce a few nuts before
the fungus kills them.
There is hope that the
chestnuts will come back
because the fungus that kills
them dies with the tree.
But never again will they be
in such numbers as they
were before World War 1.
The chinquapins, the dwarf
chestnuts, we're also hit by
the blight, but have survived
better because they are more
Of q bush than q tree.
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underway which will correct
administrative faults, straighten
out Zines Of authority" and
end the use Of "blockage and
bureaucratic delay to influence
DECISIONS technique to
which he admitted the COM
mission has resorted in the
past.
At the same time, he said
these defects have resulted not
from conscious deceit" but
largely from shortages of per-
sonnet and the absence Of long
range development plan which
had COMMUNICATIVE support.
Seeks Community Backing
Mr.. Finley has headed the
commission staff only for six
months. His speech was an
obvious bid for community sup
port in the commissions cur
rent drive to get money for an
adequate staff, develop an up
to-date master plan and shake
up its own internal operations.
He noted, for example. that
the commission has been Bit
terly accused of being mega
tive" ''long-haired" and "ob-
structive." of using delaying
tactics and "of always being
in cahoots with the National
Park Service"
mo doubt" he said. there
is some element of truth in
these accusations. But / sug-
gest that the real cause of the
commissions actions can be
laid more to the fact that ii
has been caught in the uncom-
Portable position of having toe
little too late, rather than to
any conscious deceit.
Calls Morale Low
THE commission has been
caught in the swirl Of not hav-
ing SUFFICIENT staff to be out in
front, to be years ahead OF
operating agencies, and there
by has to resort to the block
age and bureaucratic delay as
a method of influencing deci-
sions. With an adequate staff,
a better attitude and a clear
recognition of which jobs are
the commissions and which are
not. the commission can serve a
useful purpose by offering tech
nical leadership and helpful ad-
vice.
The commission has also
suffered from poor adminiStra-
ton. Lines of authority were
vague. or worse, crossed. Staff
morale was low. There was
much resorting to the law as
a method of attaining status
around the conference table.
This I hold to be a sign of
weakness and a wholly untena-
BILE role for the planner. / can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-19
SUNDAYS BEST READING
Area College Football
Prospects in SUNDAY

HOME TEAMS To WATCH-They're the elevens of
Navy, Maryland and George Washington. For a
look at the seasons prospects for the D. c. areas
big three read Francis Stanns report which is
highlghted in SUNDAY, The Star Magazine
WOMAN OF COURAGE-Such woman is Mrs. Lew
Burdette, baseball wife, who tells her story in This
Week Magazine. Read "The Series Helped Lew
Pitch" the moving story Of courageous wifes
sacrifice for husbands career.
TEENS ON THE FIRING RANGE-Every Friday night
group of teen-agers meet a rifle range at Fort
Belvoir for an evening of target practice They're
members of the darlington Junior Rifle Club. Why
they meet and how they handle their competition
is told in TEEN Magazine.
EVERYTHING is RELATIVE Do famous relatives
make life easier? According to the local kin of sew
eral great writer's the is no! For the inter-
estng details, see Roberta Hornigs story in the
WomenS Section
Phone Sterling $4,000 for Home Delivery
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assure you that changes are
being made and that many
more will be made until we are
doing only those things that
are our job and doing them
we'll"
Mr.. Finley said the first step
in a new long-range program
adopted by the commission will
be an about drive in the next
session of Congress for an
adequate staff. Among the
goals of the program, he said,
will be to:
l.. Develop. with community
wide support a statement of
Ideal goals and principles" as
a general guide toward the
kind of city and metro area
that is desired by the year 1000.
2. Follow up this ge ne "a
statement with a more defini-
tive master plan as a guide for
specific development up to the
year 1880.
3. Give more active aid to the
District government in its pub
lic-works program, including
an annual review to insure
coordination of goals.
4. Try to require more orderly
location of new Federal agency
sites in the suburbs.
S. Work out a program, in
conjunction with business
leaders. a program to reiuve-
nate the downtown business
area. saf ,l s,ea. In1.
6. Work out a gradual pro-
gram of complete independ-
ence of the National Capital
Regional Planning Council from
the planning commission.
Cites Need of Planning
The regional council and the
planning commission now are
financed and stated by a sim
gle Federal appropriation, and
Mr.. Finley said he agreed ''in
principle" with the desire of
council members to gain indie
pendence. :
He predicted it would be Eat
least five years." however, be-
fore local counties and cities in
the suburbs will be willing to
shoulder financial responsible
ties for an independent coun-
Gil. And III the meantime. he
said. the planning budget sub
mitted to Congress will include
separate breakdowns of coun-
Gil and commission money
starting next year.
Turning to Washington's
problems, Mr.. Finley warned
that the city already has begun
a "downhill slide" because there
are SO few clear policies to cope
with the spread of metropol-
itan area growth.
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PERHAPS the disappear
ance of fruit stands from
downtown corners has to do
with the decline in Greek i'm
migration. Perhaps the pres
ent-day arrivals from the
famed peninsula and the
golden islands find easier
ways of making a living than
operating a fruit stand "a
hours a day, seven days a
week.
A large fruit stand never
closes, because it is easier to
leave some watchman-Sales
man on duty than to cart the
big display of fruit indoors
under lock and key.
This summer of frequent
rain has been a wonderful
one for fruit. Right now this
particular fruit stand has
one of the tarteSt and fastest
apples, the Macintosh, on
sale. And, surprisingly, these
early red-streaked apples,
which are ally from
Northern orchards, are from
the Piedmont of Virginia,
west of Charlottesville.
Apples from Senator Harry
Flood Byrd's orchards in the
lower Shenandoah Valley
have not yet arrived at their
stand, the Greeks reported.
The nectarines, a fruit
somewhat new to the Ram
bier, q peach without fuzz
and with a higher flavor,
have been unusually good
this year, and the best ones
have come from Pennsyl-
vania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-28
DORIS FLEEsoN
Yorborough's Victory in Texas

up OF the national conven-
ton delegation in 1860.
First reports from the pre-
cincts which convened on
primary day Saturday said
their trend was conservative.
Texans here say the story
from the county conventions
which meet next Saturday
will be much more definitive.
If conservatives are clearly
in control then. Senator
johnson is expected TO be
their favorite-son candidate
for President. or at least
won't be embarrassed by
what they might do. Texas
liberals. whose leaders are
outSpoken against Johnson,
might. if they have the power,
offer the Junior Senator, Var
borough, in competition to a
johnson bid.
The immediate effect Of
Yarborough's triumph on
Johnson is TO give him a State
colleague who will make him
look more moderate at home
probably helpful-and less
liberal nationally, which Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-28
FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Army puts another Explorer satellite in orbit Air
Force TO Navy Whats with Vanguard? Over" Navy TO
Air Force: What's with Thor? Under?"
There's doubt whether Dr. Won Braun's Explorer
w. passes Moscow playing the Star-Spangled
Banner Deutschland Uber Allies"
-
Two Americans conquer Mount Gasherbrun in Pakistan
In the finest traditions Of foreign policy they dragged
each other the last mile TO the summit
Jimmy Roosevelt goes to bat in Congress for firm
that pays him $1,000 First Democrat: "Jmmys GodneP
Second Democrat: mo. Jimmy find gold"
Ike has sent paatroopers to Little Rock the Caribbean
and Lebanon Lucky that things quiet the Midwest
farm belt or he might send in parity troopers.
Twentytwenty vision The ability of eye doctor to
decide at glance that patient is good for 40 bucks
Left right the issue in the United States Senate
primary Texas In which hand would the winner carry
Lyndon Johnsons brief case?
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The Chances of a World War III

10 sanction the invasion Of
South Korea by North Korea
Moscow boasted later Il had
supplied arms for the project
Today there are hopes In
Moscow that public opinion
In France and Britain will
succumb 10 "neutralist" doc
trine II does look as n the
British Labor Party. which
Is reported from 50 many
quarters in Britain as certain
10 win the next election.
wants TO go "neutralist,"
II Is the friction in the
Middle East today-with the
Soviet Union openly furnish
ing arms and money 10 the
Egypt-Syrian republic
which Is laying the founda-
ton for World War III. The
United Nations itself Is as
powerless to prevent war now
as was the League Of Nations
in the l930s. For the decision
rests. after all, with the ma
jor powers-and the leaders
OF the Soviet Union are con-
WINGED that. since France and
Britain are weak and paci-
fistic. the United States will
not dare TO fight.
The world may be witness
ing another one OF those
gross misealculations which
summit" conferences in the
past have tended to encour-
age. For such meetings usu-
ally are built on fear by one
side or the other and on the
impetus of pacifism. which
is supposed to be politically
popular.
The war to expect is not a
nuclear war, but what has
been called q conventional
war" The build up for it
bears a startling resemblance
to what happened before
World War /, before World
War II and before the Ko-
rean War. The last conflict,
incidentally, was a nom
nuclear war even though both
sides had atomic weapons.
Is there an answer? Cou-
rageous John Foster Dulles
has given one again and
again. as he says. in effect:
Don't let the enemy miscal-
culate. Make your position
clear, that you will fight if
1t becomes necessary
The landing of American
Marines in Lebanon is a his
toric warning. Premature
withdrawal of the American
and British forces as a result
of a summit" conference in
New York might be fatal
it could be miseonStrued by
Moscow as a sign of weakness.
1t might unwittingly encou-
rage acts by members Of the
Soviet bloc that would bring
on the big war.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-28

at no time since the end Of
the war was the peace Of the
world more secure.
This reporter had learned
accidentally Of the real state
Of AFFAIRS and on June 9 this
column contained the warn
ing that a Communist attack
against South Korea must
be expected not later than
July 1.
After the tragedy occurred
and President Truman acted
theoretically by ordering Gen.
Macarthur 10 provide assist
ance to our ROK allies. the
politicians started a post
norton examination as 10
why We had been caught by
surprise.
Secretaries Dean AcheSon
and Louis johnson we're keen
ly interested In why the
administration had not been
forewarned about the Com
munist attack.
Both Secretaries suggested
to the Senators that the CHA
had fallen fiat on its face
and that they had better get
their information from the
then director. Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter.
The Senators summoned
him that very afternoon.
President Truman asked his
CHA chief whether he wanted
an executive order not TO
appear. The admiral refused.
He produced before that
committee, in executive ses-
sion, all the documents and
reports he had given his SUI
periors since November, 1919.
They bore out his esti-
mate that the Communists
were preparing something
nasty"
For the second time in
eight years we have been
caught mapping, this time in
the Middle East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-28
Liberals Grotified, but Primary Is Not
REGARDED as Sure Barometer of South

trouble, but toward the end
Blakley directed at him a
sustained mortar fire COM
pounded of antilabor senti-
ment. race prejudice and
States rights. 1t was lavishly
financed and directed behind
the scenes by a ruthless OPP
orator of proved ability, for
mer Gov. Allan Shivers.
Texas liberals gave Var
borough strong backing, as
the conservatives did Blak-
ley. But Speaker Rayburn,
leader Of the Texans who
want no label but Democratic.
hoisted the Marlborough en-
sign last week, apparently to
telling effect.
Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson Of Texas
stayed on the sidelineS. AS
a presidential candidate. his
major interest is in the con-
ventions. precinct and county,
which will decide the make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-28

Democrats without prefix
or SUNK. who are the swing
vote in Texas. have enabled
Senator Ralph w. Var
borough to turn back the
gold-plated blitz attempted
by the multimillionaire oil
man, william A. Blakley. in
the closing weeks Of the pri-
mary campaign,
This means that Var
borough will now have a full
SiX-year term in the Senate
to show his true colors and
demonstrate his abilities. He
arrived here in 1857 follow
ing an unexpected triumph
in a special election after
years of unavailing effort to
win Statewide office. In the
brief time since. he has had
both to learn his new job
and prepare for the primary
Just ended.
1t appeared at hrSt that
he might not have too much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-07-28
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Gals Caught in the Middle

Like his predecessor. Presi-
dent Eisenhower ordered
American forces 10 Lebanon
after consulting leaders Of
Congress. But q scapegoat
had 10 be found 10 explain
why we had been surprised
once more. The CHA. whose
responsibility Is 10 keep In
cessant vigilance, Is being
blamed again.
IL Ia true that II did not
know that q group Of pro-
Nasser ofiicers had planned
10 kin King Faisal end all
the pro-western leaders In
Iraq.
But the cIA did know that
something very serious was
brewing in the Middle East.
On Saturday morning. July
IL. there was an important
meeting at Secretary Dulles
residence. II included. be-
sides some State Department
ofiicials. Mr.. Allen Dulles.
There. according TO reliable
reports. the CHA chief In
formed his listeners that a
pro-NasSer group had decided
TO murder King Hussein Of
Jordan and that the assas-
sination would take place
forthwith"
Mr.. Dulles erred only
about the place. But that
should not be surprising.
The Turks who have the
best intelligence in the Mid
die East, knew nothing about
the impending coup. On the
day when King Faisal was
murdered Turkeys President
Bayar, Prime Minister Men
dereS and a guard Of honor
waited for several hours at
the Istanbul airport for the
Iraqi leaders to arrive for
a preliminary Baghdad Pact
conference. The tough Iraqi
prime minister. Nuri Said,
obviously knew nothing de-
spite his excellent security
police-or else he and the
King would have managed
to escape the assassin,
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Odds Called $3.50, With Summit ToIks
Cited as Historic Precursor of Conflict

with their fatherland. Con-
cession after concession was
made 10 Hitler.
This writer was among the
many who were misled by
the summit" conference OF
September. 1898, when Cham
berlain and Hitler met at
Munich and the British
Prime Minister predicted
peace In our time" Within
q year afterward Hitler had
started World War II.
One month before that
war broke out, another
summit" conference - In
August. ie3o-was held In
Berlin. when Molotov and
Hitler signed a l0-year nom
aggression treaty. This meant
that Hitler had a free hand
TO attack the West because
he was sure Of Stains neu-
trality on the Eastern front.
Even during World War II
the summit" conferences
we're Inflated and. in a sense.
laid the foundation for an
other war later on. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Premier
Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill got together at
Yalta early in l945 and ar
ranged for Russian entry into
the war against Japan. The
fate Of Poland as an indie
pendent nation was sealed at
that meeting because Of con-
cesSions made.
Worst Of all In some re-
spects was the summit" con-
ference that soved the seeds
Of the Korean War. At Cairo
in November. 1913, President
Roosevelt. Prime Minister
Churchill and Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek agreed that
Korea should be free and
independent"
At the summit" confer
ence at PotSdam in l945.
President Truman, Prim e
Minister Attlee of Great Brit
ain and Premier Stain agreed
to divide Korea and give the
Soviets military control of
the northern section. After
setting up a "puppet" gov
eminent, Soviet troops with
drew at the end Of 1913.
American troops pulled out
Of South Korea a few months
later.
Then, early in 1850. the
United States announced
casually that it wouldn't de-
fend Korea and intimated
that this was a United Ma
tions responsibility. The So
Wet Union never believed the
u. N. would intervene or that
the United States would flght,
and went ahead, therefore,