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Man Died of Fall,
Coroner Rules

Deputy Coroner Christopher
j. Murphy today issued a GER
tificate of accidental death in
the case of a North Carolina
man who died Wednesday night
in District General Hospital.
He had been taken there by
police when he complained Of
abdominal pains, after being
booked on a drunkenness charge
at the No. 3 precinct station.
DR.. Murphy ruled that George
L. Pleasant, 80, who told police
he lived in the 2100 block of N
street NV. and that he came
from Johnston County, N. c..
died as the result of a fall.
A hospital spokesman said Mr..
Pleasant was admitted with
multiple rib fractures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-05

SO, 766 Negroes. He said 7l.2
per cent or 79,111 of those en-
rolled last year were Negroes
and 32,033 were white children.
DR.. Hansen issued the figure
to correct a story in U. S. News
and World Report. The mag
azine reported the District
School Board had estimated
Negro enrolment at rs per
cent.
In a press conference yester-
day. DR.. Hansen also questioned
the validity of the threat to the
a creditation of District Teach
ers College.
Graduates Scores Released
The matter came up when
DR.. Hansen released the scores
of graduates Of the college
who took the national teacher
examinations last May.
The students, according to
test scores. showed up well in
comparison with graduates of
other schools who took the
same examination.
For example, of SIS June
graduates of the college who
took the examina tion, "a
passed. But of So other pros
pective teachers, who took the
test only 35 passed.
The tests were given appli-
cants for teaching positions in
the elementary schools.
AS far as this group Of
tie a CHI ers is concerned, DR.
Hansen said, the college is do
ing a good job"
Reason Sought
And he added:
THE results raise the ques-
1Eion: Why are we facing the
possibility of losing accredita-
ton at the SCHOOL,"
Last spring, a team from the
Middle States Association Of
Secondary Schools and Col
leges, told the Board OF Educa-
ton that generalization would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-05
Tighter Reins Urged
In DC. CIassrooms
Hansen TuIks
On Standards
For Studies

District school teachers to-
day were indirectly requested
to tighten up on discipline and
academic standards in class
rooms throughout the city.
The directive, gentle in tone,
was handed down by School
Supt. Carl F. Hansen to q
gathering Of about 1000 teach
ers in Constitution Hall. The
teachers met to ready them
selves for another year of in
struction, which begins at 9
am. Monday.
DR.. Hansen asked the teach
ers to give careful consider
alton" to some school issues
he had rather definite views
on"
10
Speaking of academic stand
ards, DR.. Hansen said such
standards can be highly OBJ
jective for each subject and at
each grade level, and ought to
be clearly defined"
But" he added, "the only
successful standard for teaching
lis that which is related to the
pupils preparation and ability
to learn what is being taught
at any given moment.
do we expect enough Of
children or is there a tendency
to delay too long the introduce
ton of instruction in reading
and arithmetic? Is it possible
that we can step up the timing?
Are the language arts and
arithmetic given ample and
favorable time in the daily
schedule, or are they squeezed
out by projects and activities
where they are supposedly
taught by indirect methods?
There is nothing ever old FASH
Toned about teaching the funda-
mental subjects. early and late.
and over and over again, until
mastery is attained.
Turning to the problem of
discipline, DR.. Hansen said. I'VE
believe children should respect
1.-THE authority of teacher, prin-
cipal, and other authorized
adults anywhere in the school
building or on the playground"
Tobriner Speaks
other speakers included
Walter N. Tobriner, president
of the Board of Education, and
DR.. Jhon M. Stalnaker. presi-
; dent of the National Merit
Scholarship Foundation.
Mr.. Tobriner said he was
grateful District teachers could
concentrate. on the betterment
of each student, undiverted by
racial strife"
This afternoon, the teachers
were to attend special sessions
held throughout the city on
topics ranging from sex educa-
ton to pure" mathematics.
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Glasses Set
At Lorton to
Study News

Lorton Reformatory inmates
soon will have an opportunity
to enroll in a course that will
help them understand the
why" of news events happen
ing outside their world.
Director Donald Clemmer
said today that prisoners have
been exposed to radio, tele-
vision and newspapers, but we
felt that it was necessary to
provide some kind of class that
would afford an intelligent in
depreciation of what they read
and hear"
Anthony Del Popolo, super
visor of Academic Education at
Lorton, outlined the program
that begins September 90:
Although the average school
education level is the seventh
grade, there are a good many
inmates who appear to have a
vital interest in what's going
on. Our class viii provide a
professional teacher to come
in on Mondays and Wednesdays
each week to conduct two-hour
discussions based on news
stories"
Mr.. Del Popolo said the in
structor also win have biog-
raphies of the more prominent
individuals constantly appear
ing in the press.
I'VE plan to outfit our class
room with maps, a globe and
various texts related to this
kind of study" he said.
Mr.. Clemmer commented that
he expects as many as so in
mates will respond to the new
course.
after ALL" the director ex-
planned, these men are eX-
posed to all of the new media
SO it's only natural that a GER
tain percentage will seek more
than just headlines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-05

CraIllc arteries WIlen the IlILn
of Daniel Mann, johnson &
Mendenhall of HAS Nineteenth
street NV, makes its report to
the Navy in about 10 days on
revamping facilities at the Ma
val Receiving Station in Ana
costa. Some buildings and
other facilities will have to be
torn down to make way for the
new Anacostia freeway, with
which the Southwest freeway
will connect, via the Southeast
freeway.
Congress has given the Navy
$650,000 under the military
construction program to do this
job. The new highway will go
through the steam plant and
disrupt water, electrical and
sewage connections.
SO-TOn Beams
The Southwest freeway prof.
ect in the vicinity of Fourth
street presents a scene of &C
tivity. The firm of Young &
Crazy, Inc, which has the
$654,000 contract between
Fourth and Sixth streets S.W.
said the center beams across
Fourth street weigh 20 tons
each, while the exterior ones
are 80 tons apiece.
The j. D. Hedin Construction
Co., 1900 Newton street NE.
has a $1,810.000 contract tc
carry the Southwest freeway
from Fourth to Second street
S.W.,
Humphreys 81 Harding. 1905
New Hampshire avenue NV.
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has a $2,388, 900 contract to
construct the Southwest free
way from Second to Half street
S.W. This includes the elevated
viadudcts (bridges) over Half
street, First and Second streets.
and connecting ramps.
The Raymond Concrete Pile
Co., 1925 / street NV, is en-
gagged in core boringS for the
interchange at First, Second
and D streets S.W.
Later, a contract will be let
by the District Highway De-
partment to carry the freeway
over South Capitol street and
New Jersey and Virginia
avenues. Two new bridges are
planned across the Ana
costa River, near the existing
Eleventh street bridge.
The Anacostia freeway, along
the east side of the Anacostia
River, will provide for taking
traffic from the Jones Point
Bridge over the Potomac River,
and into the new Kenilworth
avenue improvement, which is
now complete. The Anacostia
freeway will run from East
Capitol street southerly to the
District Line. 1t will tie in with
roads which Maryland is ex-
pected to construct from the
Jones Point. Bridge to the Dis
trict Line.
The Southeast freeway, also
part of the Inner Loop, will tie
into the Anacostia freeway neal
the Eleventh street bridge al
the Naval Receiving Station
Kenilworth avenue ends at East
Capitol street.
Meanwhile, the first section
of the Anacostia freeway is
under construction over East
Capitol street as an overpass
This is an 100000 job by
Humphreys g. Harding and
is due for completion about
next April. 1t will provide &C.
cess to Kenilworth avenue.
Tracks Being Bridged
Other work in progress In
that section is the overpass ovel
the railroad, south of East Capt.
toll street, carrying the Anacos-
tia freeway up over the tracks
The contractor for the SUBJ
structure is Gunnell Construc-
ton Co., Fourteenth and K
streets NV.
Later the superstructure, The
steel structure and concrete
deck will be built by the Terry
Construction Co. of New York
Ofhcials of the District High.
way Department said the tota
cost of this project for the two
contracts is about SIS million. II
is expected to be completed
about January, 1860.
Preliminary estimates are
that the Southwest freeway viii
cost $3l million and that thu
Anacostia freeway will cost So:
million. 1t is expected that the
Anacostia freeway will be fin.
Iished about the latter part Of
1868, about the same time the
Jones Point Bridge is ready fol
traffic.
1t is anticipated that thu
Southwest freeway will be fin.
ished in the early part of 1862
barring unforeseen circum'
stances. This viii be from Soutl
Capitol street to the approach tt
the Fourteenth Street Bridges
across the Washington Channe
and Potomac Park and unde,
the railroad tracks and to tn
Washington side of the new
southland Fourteenth Stree
!; Bridge officials explained.
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Beams Mark Progress
On Southwest Freewoy
By WILLIAM A. MILLEN
Star STAFF Writer

The hosting of the first of 26 prestressed structural
each rs long, Fourth street.
street SW, today Sgnaized another big step in the South
reeway construction The first beam put
into place yesterday
Another major will be made to improve Washngtons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-05

"WHAT DO / DO for a liv-
ing?" Mr.. Stringfellow re-
peated, somewhat amused
that such . question should
be asked during such a busy
year.
81 am vice president of the
Edison Division of the Edi-
son-McGraw Electric Co.
What's that? Let me simplify
1t for you. Edison-McG raw
has 81 plants and their prod
uctS sell for about $500 mil
lion a year.
II went with Edison Elec-
trio in 1928 as sales manager
and later became vice presi-
dent in charge of operations.
1t was entirely owned by
Thomas Alva Edison, the wiz
ard of Menlo Park, which is
about Is miles west of the
town I moved to, East Orange,
N. j. From 1928 until his
death in 1881 I had the priv
ilege of being associated with
him.
I'VE make dictaphones like
that 11-pound job on the
desk that l always carry with
me. I send the tapes back to
my secretary in New Jersey
for transcription, Now, if
you will excuse me, I will iot
down a few things that I
should say at the dinner to-
night"
As the Rambler left, Mr..
Stringfellow was jottin g
them down in the old-fash-
ioned wagon a'pad, with q
pelbcil,
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Presidential Room. The presi-
dents banquet will, follow at Z
pm.
A massed concert by chant
ers from several temples will
be held at $3.50 pm. at the
Water q te. Admission is free,
A graz ball at the Statler
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Negro Pupils in City
Placed at 1873 Pct.

Enrolment of Negroes District public schools is up an
estimated 26 cent from last year. School Sup
said yesterday
Dr. Hansen said Negro children would account for an
estimated 1873 cent of total enrolment sos this
year. This would break down 29739 white children and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-05
Judge Orders Switch
In Support Payments
Juvenile Court TO Collect Funds;
Present Precinct System Hit in Report

the end Of this year all support payments ordered
by will directly to the court instead Of
through police precinct stations Judge Orm Ketcham said
today.
The judges comment followed publication of survey
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The
Rambler
Is Presented
To the Potentote
ByIGEORGE KENNEDY

BY! GEORGE KENNEDY
George E. Stringfellow Of
East Orange, NJ, Imperial
Potentate of the Ancient Ar
able Order Of the Mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine. is in town
for the convention of the
Mid-Atlantic Shrine Associa-
ton.
The Shriners will parade
down, Pennsylvania avenue
tomorrow afternoon, more
than 10000 strong. Canal
Abdel Nasser in Cairo, could
he watch it on TV, might
take some satisfaction in the
number of Arabs parading in
the American Capital
But these are very Ameri-
can Arabs, especially the I'M
perial Potentate.
Mr.. Stringfellow was born
in Culpeper County, Va, kin
to the Stringfellow who was
Episcopal Bishop of Virginia
during the mid-19th century
conflict and who was such a
rebel that he went to Canada
after Appomattox and did
not return for five years.
The Imperial Potentate is
a slender, bald, gentle, soft
spoken man of 66 and he was
a little tired.
Noble Stringfellow became
Imperial Potentate on July
II at Chicago. That means
that as Imperial Potentate of
North America he became
the highest in the hierarchy
of $4,000 Mobiles in the
United States and 10000
more in Canada, Panama,
Central America and Mexico.
ALL THE MOBILES have
achieved the 32d degree of
Masonry, either through the
York Rite or the Scottish
Rite. But, as Shriners, the
Mobiles don't want their exal-
tation to be taken too seri-
ously. They comprise, ac-
cording to Mr.. Stringfellow's
Brief Resume of the History
of the AAONMS," a society of
good fellows, who, bound to-
gether by Masonic vows, relax
in fun and frolic after the
more serious work of Ma
sonry."
Since his investiture in
mid-July, Mr.. Stringfellow
has visited temples in Mil
waukee, Dayton, Ohio; Los
Angeles, Marquette, Mich;
Wilkes Barre, Pa; Jackson
vile, Fla, and WATERFOWL,
II. Y.
All those from memory. AS
to his September schedule, he
GOT out a little looSe-leaf note
hook with neatly typewriter
pages. 1t hoted that he was
to be in New York on the 9Th,
in Lewistone, Me, on the 18th
and 18th; Bangor, Me-. on the
10th; Pittsburgh on the 21st;
Indianapolis on the 25th; st.
Louis, Mo-, on the 26th and
9th, and Wilmington, Del,
on the 30th.
"As you can see," he said,
at will be a rather busy year
for me, ending at Atlantic
City next on July 6 next
when / will turn everything
over to my successor. Clayton
F. Andrews, M. D., a very dis
tinguished surgeon of Lin
coin, Nebr."
He put the notebook away,
q little ruefully.
81 became a Mason here in
Washington" he said, ''in
1914. 1 am still a member of
two Masonic organizations
here, the Washington Chap
ter No. 2 of the Royal Arch
Masons, and the Washington
Commandery No. / of the
Knights Templar.
II became a member of the
Imperial Divan-there are Is
members-in 1949. That was
the year in which Harold
Lloyd, the movie actor, be-
oo,,oa Tv,,yoariaI notapfafa
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tomorrow night at 9 will wind
up the celebrations, except for
Sunday church services for
mobiles.
General chairman of the Mid
Atlantic organization, host to
the gatha Eng, is Herbert A..
Friede.
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BOT East 31st St., Austin.
A graduate of the University Of
Texas, DR.. Fisher received the
MA. in Religious Education from
Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity and the Ph.D. in Philo-
sophical Foundations of Education
from Columbia Under the combined
program of Teachers College and
the faculty of Philosophy.
She is a member of the Ameri-
can Association of University
Professors; Academy of Political
Science; American Academy of
Political Science; National Asso-
citation of Womens Deans and
Counselors; American Personnel
and Guidance Association.
! DR.. Fisher is a member of the
Laurel Methodist Church, Oakland,
and served as a member of the
committee for college work for the
Buffalo and Erie County Council
of Churches.
In 1947, she was Bible Study
Leader at the World Conference of
Christian Youth, Oslo, Norway,
and attended the Worlds YWCA
Training Conference, Wendelsberg,
Sweden in 1947.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-06
Russian Course
To Be TaughtAt
Bennett College

GREENSBORO, N. CA course
in Russian will be offered for the
first time at Bennett college this
year, President Villa B. Player
revealed this week in announcing
the appointment of nine persons
to the faculty and staff for the
1958-59 academic year which be-
gins September 10.
The course will be taught by
DR.. Robert Vlach, a native OF
Prague, Czechoslovakia, who will
also instruct in French and Ger
man. DR.. Vlach, who has studied
at The Sorbonne, the University
Of Strasbourg and the University
of Lyon, earned his doctorate at
the University of Prague.
In addition to being the author
Of a number of books on prose and
poetry, and being regular con-
tributor to learned journals, DR..
Vlach served for a number of
years as Paris correspondent for
several Czech newspapers and has
taught French and Russian at the
University of Prague.
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DR.. Fisher
Continued from Page One)

clude student activities, testing,
psychological services, counseling,
the infirmary and other programs
in the mems and women's person.
mel organization.
Before going to Mills College
three years ago, DR.. Fisher was
director of student affairs and lee
turer in social work at the Uni
versity of Buffalo.
After serving as fellow-in-
training for the YWCA in New
York City, DR.. Fisher became as
sociate program director, Younger
girls department, for the San
Francisco YWCA. She served in a
similar capacity in that organiza-
ton in Beaumont, Texas.
In addition to being YWCA ex-
ecutive at the University of Cali
fornia, she served as the southwest
regional director college and uni
versity division, on the YWCA Ma
sional Board.
A Texan, DR.. Fisher received her
early education in the Austin Pub
lie Schools. Her home address is
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too sick and weak to care if he
were aware of them, continues to
have severe internal hemorrhages
from the unusual vascular disease
from which he suffers.
If Cary had lived normal life,
perhaps his body would be strong
enough to undergo this life-saving
operation.
But when Gary was only IA
months old, a fat and happy baby,
he was discovered to have cancer.
He underwent an operation, which
cured him.
He was believed to have been the
youngest child in medical history
to have survived such an operation.
A year later, he underwent sur
gerry once again for an unusual
stomach condition. Again he sur
vived.
But now, weak from two opera
tons in his young life. Gary faces
his third major surgery-too i'll
equipped to survive. Without blood,
Gary cannot undergo the opera
ton.
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Reeves said that when the 80
Negroes were interviewed by a
representative of the state board,
every question put to them had a
racial tone.
Reeves said none of them was
asked any question relating to
achievement. Instead, he said,
they were asked whether they
were seeking admission to a white
school on the basis OF "your So
called constitutional rights"
The case promises to evolve into
a full-scale test of the validity of
Virginia's pupil placement law,
which gives the state board the
power of assignment to schools.
Two other Virginia districts re-
iponded to federal court integra-
ion orders with delaying tactics.
]. ]. Brewbaker, superintendent
If Norfolk schools, said there will
be probable delay" in the ten
tative opening date of Sept. 8. The
Norfolk School Board has asked
,ederal Judge Walter E. Hoffman
for a one-year delay on his 49,
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Africa Leaders,,


French-African federal commun-
ity.
Barthelemy Boganda, President
Of the Grand Council of French
Equatorial Africa and chief of
the Regrouping party in the ter
ritory of Ubangi-Shari, came out
flatly for an affirmative vote in
the Sept. % Constitutional refer
endum, according to a French news
agency dispatch from Banguie,
capital of the territory in central
French Equatorial Africa.
M. Bogandi told a meeting of
300 party representatives that
he recommended an affirmative
vote. His political organization,
known locally by the name of
Mesan, is virtually the sole polit-
ical force among the 100000 in
habitants of Ubangi-Shari.
Meanwhile, here in Paris, Leo
pold Senghor and Mamadou Dia,
leaders Of the Regrouping party
in Senegal; issued a public apology
for "the discourteous way General
de Gaulle was received by certain
citizens of Dakar" Wednesday.
M. Senghor is a Senegalese Dep
uty to the French National AS
sembly. M. Dia is the Premier of
the already quasi-autonomous STEM
galese local government.
Both were conspicuously absent
from Dakar, the capital of Sene-
gal, last week when militant men,
bers of their party, agitated by
Communist front organizations,
heckled General de Gaulle so loudly
that they could not hear him offer
them independence if they wanted
it.
The Senegalese leaders affirmed
"their respect for the former chief
of Free France, who incarnates the
honor and dignity of the French
people" Nevertheless, they also
expressed their loyalty to their
party's three-point program, adopt
ed at a recent congress in Coto-
mou: immediate independence, a
federal African nation, then multi
natl onal confederation with
France"
The program is difficult to rec
oncile with General de Gaulle's pro-
posed immediate French-African
community, which does not imply
independence, but simply the right
to independence, for its members.
General de Gaulle's proposal does
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not provide for federal African
nation either.
Nevertheless, it appears that the
leaders of the party of regrouping
are extremely reluctant to reject
the de Gaulle proposal and rec
ommend negative vote anywhere.
The general has said that any ter
ritory that votes no will have i'm
mediate independence and will con-
sequently separate its future from
that of France.
In Nancy, the capital of French
Niger, Djibo Bakary, secretary
general of the regrouping party
and Vice Premier of the quasi
autonomous government of Niger,
told a local party congress that
the decision on the referendum
would be made by the executive
committee of the party. The COM
mittee is scheduled to meet next
month.
He described the party goal as
african independence in a union
and confederation of independent
states of Africa with France"
Although Mr.. Bakary is regard
ed as an extreme nationalist, it is
notable that he avoided any COM
ment that indicated rejection Of
General de Gaulle's proposal.
French observers feel that the lead
ers of the party of African Re-
grouping are basically seeking a
formula to avoid the breach with
France that the Cotonou program,
pushed through by young militants
at the party congress, seems to
imply.
The tendency of African leaders
south of the Sahara to seek to
contain the nationalist momentum
is in strong contract with the in
transigent nationalism of the AL
gerian National Liberation Front.
The fact that General de Gaulle
has offered independence to the So
called black Africa but has thus
far excluded it as a solution for
Algeria led one French Socialist
to comment this week:
"He is offering independence to
those who do not want it and deny
ing it to those who do"