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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05

Public Roads ana an NCPC
member.
The subject was raised as
part of the commissions
agenda, with staff reports indi-
eating the confused situation
over which of numerous Chan
tilly approach roads from the
District would be most pre-
ferred.
Defends CAA
Mr.. Barnett said he is aware
of complaints by area planners
that the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration supervising the
airport and highway projects,
has been keeping them in the
dark. He indicated that CAA
has no such intention.
He said very few things
have been decided except the
exact location of the airport
itself and that the access to ii
should be at the north end OF
the airport.
The time is now, Mr.. Barnett
added, for the planners to pro-
vide assistance to CAA.
II wish the planners would
realize that planning must pre-
cede construction" he asserted,
They shouldn't wait on CAA
to do the planning but should
go to CAA. There is still time
for the planners to do some
thing to help, and that agency
/ am sure would welcome any
help it can get"
Planners Uncertain
He then warned: IF the
planning people don't get busy
/ the route will be planned, but
not by them"
Mr.. Barnett, whose agency
will build the approach route
under supervision of CAA, APP
parently did not succeed in
quelling NCPC miSgivings. Con-
rad L. Wirth, director of the
National Park Service, said he
has yet to receive an answer
to an inquiry he sent CAA some
time ago on the agency's plan
if any. for making connections
with the upper end of George
Washington Memorial Park
way.
William E. Finley, NCPC d.
rector, added that despite his
Invitation, the Commerce De-
partment, of which CAA is a
part, has made mo effort to
work with us except in minor
way" Mr.. Finley said he had
offered available findings of the
current mass transportation
survey to Commerce as a guide
to the most desirable Chantilly
routes.
Water Issue Seen
Paul V. Watt, director of
National Capital Regional
Planning Council, indicated
CAA has not been in touch with
his agency. One of his chief
concerns over the highway
location is the protection of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05
Downtown Region
To Undergo Survey
Planners Set
For Joint Study
Of Problems

The National Capital Plan
ming Commission agreed today
to participate with Washing
ton business groups in a Joint
study of downtown business
district development problems
and how to solve them.
The agreement came with
Commission approval of a Joint
proposition suggested by George
A Garrett, president of the
Federal City Council.
Under the agreement, a 90
day reconnaissance" study will
be made to define the precise
scope, purposes and financing
of a major, long-range study.
Seek More Vitality
Basic purpose of the study
will be to investigate central
area business problems and de-
termine how more vitality can
be put into the area to meet
more adequately the needs Of
the growing Washington metro
region. One of the first prob
lens to be settled is how the
specialized interest of the Plan
ming Commission and the BUSH
ness community can be pulled
together in the study.
The need for such a survey
and downtown development
plan has been discussed for
years. This is the first con-
elusive step toward a joint
effort by the planners and
business interests.
In a letter to the Commits
sion, Mr.. Garrett said the
initial study would cost be-
ween $4,000 and $4,000. The
planners agreed today to con-
tribute $4,000, with the rest
to be raised by the business
groups.
Expressions Of Interest
Mr.. Garrett said a commit
tee of his council has obtained
expressions of interest in partic-
ipation from most of the key
business and professional
groups of the city. Included.
he said, are the Washington
Board of Trade, Washington
Building Congress, Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
Washington Real Estate Board.
American Institute of Archi-
tects and District Bankers AS
ISOLATION.
The unanimous feeling Of
those studying the problem, Mr..
Garrett said, is that such a
study must have the partici-
patton and full support Of both
planners and business men to
have any real chance of put
ting plans into effect.
I'm many other cities" he
said, cooperation between
businessmen and planners has
provided the bedrock for i'm
portant civic progress.
I'm Washington, we will have
to achieve a higher degree Of
teamwork in this respect than
has ever before prevailed in
order for the downtown study
to be carried out"
officials said it has not yet
been determined what the
boundaries of the study area
would be.
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lands surrounding the Potomac
River above the present and
possible future water intake
and storage facilities serving
metropolitan Washington.
The discussion closed with a
promise from Mr.. Finley to
keep in touch with the situa-
ton"
In a formal action, the COM
mission approved project plan
for the proposed eight-mile ex-
tension of the George Wash
ington parkway from the south
ern edge of the District along
the Potomac to Fort Washing
ton. The action was taken as
a basis of negotiation with
Maryland authorities for &C
quiring some 1000 acres OF
property between the two
points.
Cites Park Links
Ellis Price. NCPC staff plan
ner, pointed out that the de-
tailed plan provides connections
with the Jones Point Bridge
AnacoStia freeway interchange,
the proposed Oxon Bay park
and marina, the Broad Greek
stream valley park, Fort Foote
park, two heavily built up hous-
ing subdivisions and Fort
Washington park.
The land to be acquired al
most entirely hugs the Potomac
shoreline. Mr.. Price, empha-
sizing the urgency of acquiring
the property, asserted that even
now the commission is lust
one jump ahead of the bull
dozers" engaged in residential
developments in the area.
The commission staff re-
vealed that a bill is being pre-
pared for introduction next
week permitting the NCPC to
use for the parkway acquisition
81 million available in loan
money to the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission for its stream
valley acquisition program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05
Water Issue Seen

Paul V. Watt, director of
National Capital Regional
Planning Council, indicated
CAA has not been in touch with
his agency. One of his chief
concerns over the highway
location is the protection of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05
Spelling Bee Tonight

An informal spelling bee will
be held tonight at 7:30 at the
Mount Pleasant Library, Six
tenth and Lamont streets
NV, by the Capital City Spell
ing Club. The public is in
vited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05
PIuneturium,
Vast Cafe
Proposed
Continued From First Page

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ably would enter an agreement
with the RulonS which would
assure them of being able to
negotiate the purchase or lease
of the land for the project. This
would be necessary. he said, to
! justify further studies and ex-
penSeS by the sponsors.
In other words, we would
not hawk the land or place il
on the block for anyone to
buy" Mr.. Searles said.
But before any agreement is
made, he said. the idea might
go through a period of initial
exposure" to determine il
others might be interested in
coming in with similar ideas.
Mr.. Searles, who expressed
enthusiasm for the proposal
pointed out that as originally
planned the tract would be q
dead open use" which would
have to be acquired at great
public expense and which
would produce no tax revenue
Under this kind of pro-
poSal," he said, ''the city would
have a $3.5 million taxpaying
facility"
Studies Begun
The proposal would require
a public hearing and official
change in the Southwest re-
development plan by the Dis
trict Commissioners.
Both the planning commits
sion and the RIA referred the
proposition to their stats for
study.
The sponsors displayed a
model and sketch of the new
idea prepared by the Washing
ton architectural firm headed
by Louis Justement. Mr.. Juste-
ment was one of the Original
tors several years ago of the
L idea of a broad tree-lined mall
as the central feature of the
new Southwest plan.
The restaurant would seat
900 on a main floor and pent-
house overlooking the Wash
Iington Channel and would have
two levels of underground
parking. Parking at ground
level would serve the plane
tarium.
Mr.. Rulon said he felt the
planetarium would fill "a real
gap" in the cultural and edu-
cational life of Washington.
He said he had visited nearly
all the numerous planetaria in
other cities and found them to
be successful ventures.
The planetarium, capable Of
holding about $50 persons,
would project on the roof of
| its large dome displays Of the
heavens. Lectures usually would
accompany the projections.
Sun Dial Roof
AS an added attraction, the
plans also showed an arch
over the exterior of the plan
etarium dome, from which
would be hung a 2-ton weight
suspended from a thin steel
wire. The idea is that the wire
and dome could be a tremen-
l QOuS sun Qlal.
Watson Rulon told the plan
ners he and Joseph both had
examined the possibilities as
professional engineers. They
referred to themselves as me
chanical engineers in the fish
business.
He said the project would
take about Is months to build.
The hope, he said. is that it
could be finished by the time
their present business estab-
lishment has to be torn down
in about two years-so there
would be no interruption in
business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05
Planners Urged to Act
On Roads to ChontiIIy
U. S. Official Defends CAA,
Asks Aid BY Area Groups
By JOHN STEPP
Star STAFF Writer

Washington planners warned today to get busy
help the Federal Government work out the best approach
highways to the Chantlly Airport
The advice volunteered to the National Capital Plan
ming Commission its regular meeting by Joseph Barnett
Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Federal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-05
D. c. Poy-Roise Cost
Put at S18 Million

District Building budget today upped their eSti
mated cost of municipal raises from $13 million close
to $18 million.
This imminent outlay Every probably" will necessitae
request to Congress for added SO million Federal
ment to the city this session. according General Admin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Social Security Benefits

While the Republicans will be
citing the failure to enact labor
reforms, both Democrats and Re-
publicans will be telling the folks
back home how they were re-
sponsible for an increase in social
security benefits. The House last
week completed congressional &C
ton which will increase payments
about per cent for IL million
retired workers.
Also killed in the House last
week was a $2.4 billion slum clear
ance and urban renewal bill. The
measure, which also would have
lowered FILA down payment re-
quirements, was opposed mainly
by the administration and House
Republicans on grounds that it
was inflationary.
Another big money bill, a 5000
million aid-to-education measure,
which had Senate approval, was
passed by the House, but not be-
fore a provision for direct grants
to students was eliminated.
Two of the biggest, endorses
sion skirmishes came up over for
eign aid and proposals to curb the
powers of the United States Su-
preme Court. After 10 days of
tense and heated debate the Sem
ate Thursday night voted Al to
40 against enactment of legisla-
ton which would restrict the do
main of the high court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Indirect Aggression:
Its Strict Meaning

Gus kinds of penetration that
paved the way for the Communist
coup d'etat there in February,
194S. Just so, Hitler in 1857 had
Slapped the will to resist in Aus
tria before taking it over in March,
1898.
The Southeast Asia Treaty Or
ganization (SEATO) pledges the
Signatories (the United States is
one) to resist not only armed
attack" but also "Subversive &C
tivities directed from without
against their territorial integrity
and political stability" And the
United States. though not a mem
Der Of the Baghdad Pact, has
joined its Permanent Counter
Subversion Committee.
In a cold war, perhaps the best
way to stop your antagonists in
direct aggression against you is to
become equally good at aggreSSing
indirectly against him. Nehru of
India. agreeing that indirect ag-
erosion had been present in the
Middle East, declared on August Z
that these days it was by no means
"a one-sided affair"
Editorial Research Reportsl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Righteousness, Too

Baker, tried to ingratiate himself
with the committee, prefacing his
answers with "sir, Senator, SIR"
And, at times, he made a great
show of piousness and righteous
ness. When Committee Counsel
Robert F. Kennedy referred to a
couple of Bakers old friends as
"Cockeyed Dunno" and "Squint
Sheridan" Baker asked if he meant
Andrew Sheridan and John Dunno.
Both, Baker ruefully admitted, had
died in the electric chair.
The committee continued to
show that INSCRIPTIONS Transfers
leaders had MIXED union welfare
funds Of thousands which they
spent on women, whisky and
sumptuous living. The commit
tee produced records to show that
Baker had spent $3,421 in Team
sters money to slim down from
1886 pounds and $4,000 to keep
Mrs. Ruth Brougher, a former
girl friend" now serving a IS
year prison term in Florida for
manslaughter.
Also called to the witness stand
last week was Thomas Burke, a
Teamster organizer from Detroit.
Teamster records show Burke
spent over $4,000 in union funds
for Is months of high living at
Miami. Witnesses also testified
that Burke Dragged of stopping
an ice show by ordering union
members to shut of ice-making
m a C hinery, ordered carnival
bleachers pulled down, injuring
many and killing a few people, and
attempting to shake down a Hia-
leah race track of $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Summit Talk Again

1t would surprise no one if, in
the not too distant future, re-
newed and intensified prepara-
tons were to be undertaken for
a summit conference-one suffi-
GENTLY well prepared for the West
to welcome, and one out of which
useful action could come.
Indeed. spadework of a kind has
already been done. Behind the
scenes at the current U. N. Gen.
eral Assembly. Soviet Foreign
Minister Gromyko has been meet
ing separately with Secretary of
State Dulles. British Foreign Sec
rotary Lloyd, and French Foreign
Minister Couve de Murville, in a
series of meaningful conversations.
The substance of their ex-
changes is. of course, secret. But
the Western reaction to them may
be disclosed. That reaction is very
cautious encouragement. Gro
myko's basic stand is unchanged.
but there is new element of fexi-
bility in his outlook.
1t is possible to discern, in all
this, the first hints of a logical
pattern.
1t is as If Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev, dismayed at the Franken-
stein monster he confronted when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24

When the Russians talk about
what they call the American Brit
ish direct aggression in Lebanon
and Jordan, we're prepared to
bring up the Communist (and pam
Arab indirect aggression in that
whole area. The U. N. Assembly,
in a 1850 resolution entitled peace
Through Deeds" has condemned
indirect as strongly as direct in
reference by one state in the
internal affairs Of another.
1t is just as bad, declares the
resolution, to foment civil strife
in the interest of a foreign power
as to use force to change a states
legal government. Secretary of
State Dulles warned at his July 81
press conference that ''the world
is indeed in grave danger of war"
unless indirect aggression as de
vsloped at the present time" comes
under U. N. control" or some
other check"
The Russians should be the last
to deny that indirect aggression
can be as potent as the direct
variety. They softened up hapless
CzechoSlovakia in 1857 by vari-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
The New Resolution

Quickly, the West, led by Secre-
tary of State Dulles and Britain's
Foreign Secretary Lloyd, maneu-
vered to save the day. In ante
rooms, the delegates lounge and
elsewhere they talked briskly with
the leaders of delegations and
early in the week had hammered
out a new plan.
A new Western resolution, in
troduced Monday by Norways
Deputy Foreign Minister Hans
Engen, called on U. N. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskiold to
take such action as he deemed
necessary to uphold the prin-
ciples of the U. N. Charter in re-
lation to Lebanon and Jordan"
The Norwegian resolution omitted
any reference to the demand that
the American and British forces
be withdrawn from the two ma
tions.
Careful buttonholing of dele
gates, plus considerable high-level
salesmanship. convinced the West
by Wednesday that the Norwegian
resolution would pass, but by the
slimmest of margins. CA two-thirds
vote of the Assembly is required
on substantive issues such as this)
In addition, delegations from In
dia, Ceylon and IndoneSia prepared
a rival resolution that proposed
including in the general plan of
the Norwegian resolution a de-
mand that the United States and
Britain without delay withdraw
from Lebanon and Jordan.
1t was in this potentially stale
mated situation that the Arab
delegations, led by DR.. Mahmoud
Fawzi, Foreign Minister of the
United Arab Republic. worked out
their own compromise. Essentially
following the outlines of the Nor
wegian proposal, the Arab plan
contained a provision pledging
non-interference by an Arab state
in the internal affairs Of another.
1t called for the Secretary General
to go Immediately to the Middle
East to facilitate" withdrawal Of
American and British troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Labor Bill Killed

Despite the sensational reVela-
tons of the committee, the House
last week voted against the SEN
ate-approved Kennedy-Ives labor
union reform bill. The measure
had strong opposition in the adj
ministration, business and some
segments of labor.
President Eisenhower said the
measure failed to deal effectively
with many evils which need
correction" and took the Demo-
cratic-controlled Congress to task
for failing to enact q more strin-
gent law.
The United States Chamber Of
Commerce was jubilant at defeat
OF the bill and noted in a news
letter that defeat of the Ken
nedy-Ives bill should vastly i'm
prove next years prospects for
legislation that will protect the
tnfiation-worried public from the
growing monopoly power of unions.
Although it was touted as a re-
form bill, it would have penalized
employers in matters not con-
nected with corruption in unions"
The administration. in the per-
son Of Labor Secretary Mitchell.
did not escape without criticism
for its opposition to the Kennedy
Ives bill. George Meany, presi-
dent Of the AFL-CIO, charged
that Mr.. Mitchell blocked the
measure for political reasons.
Senator Kennedy declared that
Mr.. Mitchell's opposition or fail
ure to speak out on its behalf, was
sabotage" and "appeaSement Of
antilabor elements in his party"
With all hope gone for correc-
tive legislation to protect union
welfare funds and provide for
honest elections, the AFL-CIO did
what it could last week to take
some Of the tarnish of labor's
escutcheon. The big federation
Continued on Page A-2e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Labor:
MoreHigh links

The Senate Rackets Committee
last week pulled from the shadowy
criminal world of corrupt unionism
one of the most incredible wit
nesses yet to appear on Capitol
Hill.
He was Robert (Barney) Baker,
a 284-pound ex-boxer and eX-
convict who served Teamster Pres
ident James r. Hoffa as a strong
man and errand boy.
Mrs. Mollie Baker, the Teamster
organizers ex-wife, testified he had
told her Joseph Costello, an ex-
convict from st. Louis, had the
missing 100000 Greenlease ran
some money. Baker denied any
knowledge of this and Costello
took the Fifth Amendment.
Time and again Baker denied
testimony of his wife and other
witnesses that he was Cd a close
friend of New York Gov. Harri-
man; co that he had received a
payoff from a trucking concern
for his efforts to end a strike and,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
BILLS TURNED DOWN

HOUSG-An omnibus $24 billion Stun clearance and urban
renewal bill approved by the Senate but turned down by
the House.
HAWAH-The anguid and beautiful Pacific island territory
Of Hawaii had hopes after the admission of Alaska that it would
become the 50h State in the Union Opposition from Southern
Congressman, however killed Hawaii statehood legislation
LABOR-The House refused to along with the Senate
legislation which would have required strict accounting Of labor
union welfare funds and secret ballot elections.
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION-CongreSs baked enacting
q law succession when the President is disabled.
MINIMUM WAGE-Efors the present S1-per-how
Federal minimum unsuccessful
SCHOLARSHIPS-Congres the House specifically turned
provision aid-to-educaton bill which would
provided $4,000 s250-per-year scholarships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
Reluctant and Relieved

The Arab compromise resolu-
ton won the grateful support Of
the Asian-African bloc in the
U. N, and the reluctant but prob
ably much relieved approval Of
both the Communist bloc and the
West. =
For the Soviet Union, the glow
ering Andrei A. Gromyko, Mos
cows Foreign Minister, had sub
mitted a sharp resolution calling
on the United States and Britain
to withdraw their troops forth
with from Lebanon and Jordan.
For the West, President Eisen-
hover had personally offered a
broad plan for Middle East peace,
based on a major economic aid
program plus the dispatch Of a
United Nations emergency force
to the area to guard against direct
and indirect" aggression.
But both the Communist bloc
and the West were quickly aware
that their resolutions had no
chance of success in the General
Assembly. The 81 Latin-Ameriean
republics, previously depended
upon for solid support of the
Vests position in U. N. debates,
were no longer votes "in the pock-
et." There existed, it seemed, a
chill dislike among Americas Gen.
trail and South American neigh
bors for armed intervention by
United States forces anywhere in
the world. And the immensely
important Afro-Asian bloc, able
to hold the balance of power in the
General Assembly, took strong
negative stand on the Eisenhower
proposals.
Neither the Latin Americans nor
the Afro-Asian 'neutraliSts" were,
however, in favor of the Soviet
resolution which placed the entire
responsibility for the crisis in the
Middle East on intervention" by
Britain and the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24

told to sell his ideas to the comic
strips. But it happened. Like Abra-
ham and Lot of Biblical times,
Malik and Fawzi - representing
two warning tribes in the land of
Canaan-vowed to bury their
Quarrels and live as brethren.
Whether the agreement will
stick is, of course, the question.
But Secretary General Dag Ham
marSkjold is undertaking the job
of making it stick, and there is
no apparent reason why he
should fail.
Hammarskjold will not have a
U. N. peace force to work with;
that idea is temporarily on ice.
But the function of a peace force
erecting a kind of moral plate
glass window-can be performed
almost as well, in some circum-
stances, by small, unarmed team
of observers and/or a high
powered U. N. commissioner; and
this sort Of thing is now (due to
a sudden policy reversal by
Jordan acceptable on all sides.
Moreover-and this is perhaps
the most encouraging aspect of
all-there are indications that,
under the cover of handling purely
Arab problems, Hammarskjold
may be able to do some quiet
Arab-Israel peacemaking as well.