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Evening star., 1959-12-17
Judge in Arlington
Declines New Term

been serving as a substitute
judge, was named to fill Judge
Thomas post in traffic court,
Judge Kramer, who Is IS, was
named a substitute Judge in
1857 after practicing law in Ar
lington since 1853.
Re-appointed County Court
judge was Paul D. Brown, who
became a substitute judge IL
years ago and was elected or
the Democratic ticket four years
ago, when the position was
elective.
Appointed as substitute Judge
was Wesley Cooper, brmer
chairman of the County Board,
Judge Thomas said his re-
turn to private practice would
create one of the few firms in
which three generations of a
family practice law. He will
share Offices with his father,
former County Judge Harry r.
Thomas, and his son, Harry
Lee Thomas, who was gradu-
ated from the University of
Virginia in 1857.
Evening star., 1959-12-17
Siren Song Of CopitoI Leof Blower
Puts Iron-NeNed Hoffman on Edoe

He fired of a telegram to The
Star which read:
Letter to the people-Have
friends who are Ill. Doubtless
there are other hundreds in the
city. Will the individual who
is directing the sounding of the
siren at intervals since morn
ing, kindly advise what good
purpose is being served by the
noise which is disturbing 50
many"
Both local and national Of
fees of Civil Defense admitted
they had sirens but quickly
added all were shut off Tues
day.
Casualty Hospital, 708 Mas
sachusetts avenue NE, re-
ported there had been IL
ambulance calls on Tuesday
and sirens were used in answer
ing.
The culprit, the noise-maker
was probably Low Blow Air
Evening star., 1959-12-17

Arlington County Judg
Homer Randolph Thomas an
nounced today that he has de-
clined reappointment to the
bench.
Judge Thomas, 56. said he
refused reappointment "for
personal reasons and that he
would return to private law
practice with his father and
son in Arlington.
His announcement that he
will step down from the bench
on January / came only a day
after he was given an American
Bar Association national award
by Supreme Court Justice Clark
for improving traffic court pro-
cedures in Arlington.
Appointments for four year
terms were made yesterday in
Arlington County Circuit Court
under a new statute providing
that such positions shall be
filled by three judges sitting in
open court.
Burton B. Kramer. who has
Evening star., 1959-12-17

Broom" a machine which for
the last several days has been
blowing leaves into a pile on
Capitol Hill.
Low Blow can blow a leaf
10 feet. It produces an air cur
rent Of 135 miles an hour. 1t
whineS.
But, as Everett Evans, as
sistant landscape architect of
the Capitol, pointed out, it also
can pile up the same pile of
leaves it would take 10 men
with rakes to pile up-and in a
few moments.
He said Low Blow was work.
ing in the northeast end of the
Capitol grounds on Tuesday,
making noise and piling up
leaves.
Such was the good purpose
which was being served by the
noise" that was disturbing so
many"
Evening star., 1959-12-17

WHILE THE OIL PUMPED
to the surface around Brad
ford is the best in the world
lowest asphalt content), ,
production was falling of
even in 1928. Texas oil, while
not of such high quality,
guShed in volume that makes
Western Pennsylvania, where
the industry started, seem
impoverished.
Well, Mr.. Piper was asked
at a luncheon to bring new
industries to the community,
and he found himself in the
airplane business.
A Stalwart Pennsylvania
industrialist, he thought he
should fly around in his own
productive Piper Cub.
He qualified for his pilots
license at so.
Today, at 79, he still keeps
his ticket to pilot twin-en-
gine planes.
The Piper Cub, which he
produced in the 1930S, was
priced just under 81 ,000-$995
to be exact.
''But nobody bought them,"
he said.
Today the lowest priced
Piper is $1,000. They are
trying to keep a new model
under $4,000.
"Seventy-f1ve per cent Of
our purchasers are corpora
tions," said a salesman who
sat opposite the Rambler at
dinner.
"Our largest individual pur-
chasers are physicians" he
said, and then added with
Madison Avenue cynicism:
Apparently a plane means
more status than a high
priced automobile"
Evening star., 1959-12-17
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star star Writer

Clare E. Hoffman, "a, Re-
publican Representative from
Michigan. has lived through a
lot.
For the last Is years he has
been living in the Methodist
Building, 100 Maryland avenue
NE.
In the last two years he has
lived through the pile-driving
stages of construction of the
new Senate Offce Building as
well as the noises people make
who dig tunnels around Capt.
tol Hill.
He lasted through the Civil
Defense siren test of December
Z and then Tuesday
He heard a whine, siren like
and it annoyed him.
BY 4:35 pm. he had enough
Evening star., 1959-12-17
ThemesG Go
ToHunsen
For PerusoL

The controversial collection
Of compositions from District
high school English classes was
completed this week, School
supt. Carl F. Hansen said to-
day.
DR.. Hansen asked for the stu
dents papers last month. Many
English teachers resented his
action; they felt 1t represented
implied criticism Of their per-
formance and an attempt to
lpresSure them into assigning
more written work.
DR.. Hansen said samples Of
compositions completed last
week have been collected from
three teachers in each of the
senior high schools. He will
Tread some of them during
Christmas vacation to "get a
general impression" of students
writing-particularly the con-
tent, scope and quality Of it.
The superintendent explained
that he has not yet decided
what action, If any, he will
take after looking over the
papers.
At his press conference to-
day, DR.. Hansen also announced
that he has asked the District
Commissioners to have the Cor
poration Counsel's Office repre-
sent the schools in the case of
Ernest S. Jenkyns, suspended
principal of Randall Junior
High School. Mr.. Jenkyns was
arrested on June 4 on morals
charges involving three of his
boy students.
District Judge Edward M.
Curran acquitted him on No
vember %, ruling that the
Government had not proved its
case. The Judge added that he
did not know if Mr.. Jenkyns
was guilty or innocent. Mr..
JenkynS has been under sus-
pension since his arrest.
Evening star., 1959-12-17
MIR. CONRAD WAS GIVEN

MIR. CONRAD WAS GIVEN
q trophy last night, which,
If he placed it under the
Christmas tree, would dispel
his children's faith in Santa
Claus.
1t was one Of those ex-
travagant trophies, a column
of walnut or mahogany sur
mounted by a gilded urn
with a little plane on top.
That's about all the ma
terial compensation he got
for his feat.
Men are not motivated by
money.
In trying to explain George
Washington, the late Douglas
southall Freeman said he
wanted to excel.
There Is nothing excep-
tional about that even If 1t
is the vulgar triumph called
one-up-manship.
Male and female motiva- =
tion might be better attrib-
uted to a desire for recogni-
ton.
Take the Rambler. In
recent weeks, due to the in
crease of his mail, the copy
boys have given him a triple
size mailbox.
Money? That bit Of recog-
milton meant more to him
than any emolument.
At the dinner he met Will
liam T. Piper, the father OF
the Cub and the Comanche.
Mr.. Piper, a Bradford (Pa.)
oil man Harvard 1909, was
drawn into the airplane buSi-
ness in 1928 on an appeal
to do something for his home
town.
In 1927 Lindbergh had
flown the ocean blue. That
and 1892 are the two Atlantic
dates important to America
so far.
Evening star., 1959-12-17

million in cash is deposited
without interest in New York
banks was brought out during
yesterdays session before the
Public Utilities Commission.
Under croSs-examination by
a commission attorney, the
company vice president. James
Flanagan, said only President
o. Roy Chalk could say why
the money was deposited OUT
side Of city banks.
Asked by Attorney George
Donnella If any consideration
had been given to investing the
money for short-term interest
returns, Mr.. Flanagan said this
would be up to the board of
directors.
Chalk Avoids Comment
Mr.. Chalk, who was not pre-
sent at the hearing, later re-
fused to discuss the New York
bank question. He said he
would mot go beyond the testi-
mony at the hearings" and
added that he did not want Ito
try the case in the newspapers. "
Most Of yesterdays session
was devoted to a cross-exami-
nation of Mr.. Flanagan on the
company's data in support Of
its application.
The transit system is asking
that the 20-cent fare be raised
to Is cents during ush-hours
only, effective Immediately.
The company wants a general
ascent fare, effective next
November /.
One Of the main arguments
to be made against the transit
company's calculations on
costs. will involve the company's
claim Of increased depreciation
costs resulting from conversion
to bus operations. The matter
was brought up when the hear
ings resumed again this morn
ing.
The P. U. c. staff, in con-
tinuing cross-examination of
Mr.. Flanagan, indicated it will
argue that the company's claim
Evening star., 1959-12-17
GoIIoudet Students to Tell
Nativity Story by Gestures

wife Of the Ambassador Of
Iran, was to cut a ribbon at
the Toy Center at 429 Seventh
street NV. to start the pro-
gram. Some 1000 mothers will
select toys for an estimated
5000 children. The center will
be open until December %.
The Salvation Army also an
nounced that public support
will make it possible to pur-
chase new shoes for 200 needy
children at this Christmas.
Christmas tree sales will open
today on lots at Thirty-fifth
and Hamilton streets and on
Ager road in Hyattsville, spon%
sored by the Optimist Club of
Hyattsville, with proceeds going
to the organizations Boys
Work Fund.
A Christmas show by teen
ayers will be performed at 2
pm. Saturday at the Elks Club,
800 Kenilworth avenue, River
dale, Md, for the benefit of
young victims of cerebral palsy
in Prince Georges County. The
lodge will hold its annual party
for members, wives and chill
dren on Sunday.
About Is paintings depicting
Christmas scenes and created
by students at the Bradbury
Heights and Davis Elementary
Schools will be displayed in the
front window of Flair Cleaners
at 1900 Marlboro Pike in Coral
Hills, Md.
Fort Meade Concert
Troops Of the Accokeek Nike
site will be hosts to IL orphans
from the st. Joseph Orphanage
at II am. Saturday where the
youngsters will be given a
Christmas party and tour of the
installation. They will also stay
for dinner with the men of
Battery A, Third Missile Bat
tallion of the 562d Artillery
assigned to the site.
The Post Chapel Choir at
Fort Meade will present a
Christmas concert at 8 o'clock
tonight at the chapel. Other
programs are also scheduled
for Saturday and Wednesday
as we'll as Christmas Day.
A huge "Santa's Bag" filled
with cards representing $4,000
In donations pledged by per-
sonnel at the Patuxent River
Naval Air Station has been
turned over to officials of the
United Givers Fund of St.
Mary's County.
A puppet show will be the
feature of this afternoons
annual children's party at st.
Johns College in Annapolis.
Members of Allegheny Air
lines Triple A Club, an en-
ployes' organization, will hold
their annual Christmas party
at 7 pm. Saturday at the Ter
race Room of Arlington Towers.
Evening star., 1959-12-17

for depreciation on streetcars
that are to be abandoned il
too high. The company con-
tends that it should be allowed
full depreciation on the street.
car property although the cars
are to be pulled out Of service
before they are fully depreci-
ated at the annual rate.
Testimony brought out that
the company will have been
debited with $1.2 million in
depreciation costs on buses by
1868. The P. U. C. staff con-
tends this should Offset the cost
of incomplete streetcar depreci-
alton.
Depreciation is a cost item,
and if it is reduced it would
have the effect of showing an
increase in the company's net
operating income. The net
operating income figure is the
basis for computing a fair rate
of return.
Ask New Profit Formula
In addition, the company has
asked to switch its profit
formula from the present
tangible property base to a
gross operating revenue base.
The transit company esti-
mates that, without the fare
increase, its net operating in
come from the mass trans
|portation services will total
about $165,000 for the IL
months ending next September
-$1.1 million less than for the
past period.
The net operating figure, &C
cording to the company, will
show a $509, 900 loss by 1861
and a SCI million loss the fol-
lowing year.
Yesterday, Mr.. Flanagan, who
acknowledged that this FORE
casting 'fs at best an educated
guess" said the company ex-
poets to lose passengers under
a 25-cent fare but hopes to win
them back eventually.
Evening star., 1959-12-17

/ Another party for youngsters
will be held at 1890 am. to-
morrow for pupils of a school
sponsored by the Hearing and
Speech Center at Children's
Hospital. 1t will be held at the
school in Satterlee Hall at st.
Adams School.
The Washington Police and
Fire Post of the American
Legion No. 20 will have its an
nual Christmas party for the
children at Children's Hospital
tomorrow at 2::30 pm.
In Arlington Sunday evening
a chorus of male voices, mem
bers of the Edward Douglas
White Council of the Knights
of Columbus, will tour the
county and sing carols for the
sisters at each convent.
At National Gallery
The 120-boy Landon School
chorus will present a Christ
mas program at the National
Gallery of Art at 8 pm. Sum-
day.
The American University
Orchestra and Chorus will per-
form their annual Christmas
concert at 8 o'clock tonight in
Clendenen Hall. Four COM
positions by faculty members
will be presented.
The traditional Bowers Fam
lily Christmas Party, which was
started in 1881 as an annual
event for collecting toys and
gifts for needy children, will be
held at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Statler Hotels Presidential
Room. Admission is a toy or
gift. Among thousands of gifts
already received are two COM
Iplete train sets for use at Chill
dren's Hospital.
Santa Claus will come to the
Silver Age Clubs annual Christ
mas Party Saturday at 2 pm.
at the Arlington Recreation
Center.
The Salvation Army at noon
today was to start distributing
toys to needy children in the
District. Mrs. A. G. Ardalan,
Evening star., 1959-12-17
Town Center
Signing Due
omorroW
BY ALFRED ALIBRANDO
star stan Writer

/ star STAN Writer
| Webb a Knapp, developers
of the Town Center in South.
west Washington. VIII sign 1
contract tomorrow for con
struction Of the first half o.
the center and two adjacent
apartments.
william Slayton, head Of
webb & Knapp's washington
office, said the center-an in,
town shopping plaza-and two
128-unit apartments would bt
built by the Blake Construc-
ton Co., Of Washington.
The construction firm bull
Capitol Park Apartments, the
first privately financed project
completed in Southwest on lane
once occupied by slums. The
apartment project is considered
by national urban renewal
authorities as an OUTSTANDING
slum clearance achievement.
Start after January 1
Mr.. slayton said the con-
struction will begin shortly
after the first of the year. He
said Webb & Knapp was ready
to sign a contract several days
ago, but circumstances beyond
control of the New York de.
velopment firm delayed COM
pletion Of the formal agree
ment.
The 20-acre Town Center
site is bounded by Third
Sixth, I and M streets S.W
The entire center, when com
pleted, will contain II stores
and shops, a bowling alley
theater and restaurant.
Two apartments similar tt
those f1anking. the first sector
are to be built adjacent to the
second section. The entire
project viii cost about $4.5 mil.
lion.
Webb & Knapp's announce
ment follows a disclosure that
House Appropriation Commit
tee investigators have beer
looking into the District Rede-
velopment Land Agency's han
ding of slum clearance ir
Southwest Washingtda.
Pays Rena 81 site
One of the major complaints
from RLA's critics. is that re-
building of slum-cleared areas
in Southwest has been too slow
In the five years since the first
slums were torn down, only two
privately financed projects have
been completed. They are the
Capitol Park Apartments and
the new Southwest Market Gen.
ter.
Mr.. Slayton pointed out that
Webb & Knapp has had a con-
tract since June with RIA to
build the Town Center and has
been paying ground rent on the
land since December /.
The congressional investiga-
tors are expected to look into
the price redevelopers pay the
RIA for slum- cleared land.
They are also certain to investi-
gate other projects, such as
construction of apartments and
town houses in area B by New
York developers James
Scheuer and Roger Stevens.
The Scheuer-Stevens firm,
which took possession of Area
B land in April, 1858, has until
mid-196l to complete its exten-
sive project.
Evening star., 1959-12-17
The
Rambler
Sure Hos
Started Something
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Ever since the Rambler an
pounced that he was going
to learn how to fly, he has
been deluged with invitations
to be flown here or there in
small planes and take a hand
at the controls.
So far he has accepted one
invitation. That was to din
ner last night. It was given
by Lycoming Motors at the
Army-Navy Club. The guest
Of honor was Max Conrad,
who broke, the Small-plane
record this summer by fly
ing from Casablanca, Mo-
rocco, to Los Angeles, Calf,
In q single-engine Piper
Comanche.
During the preprandial
cocktail hour the Rambler
overheard Mr.. Conrad being
interviewed. One Of the re-
porters asked:
what did you do it for
besides money!"
In 20 years reportorial ex-
perience in this town, the
writer has not heard a sillier
question-even at a presi-
dental press conference.
Besides money?
Why does a man fly the
Atlantic in a small plane,
lifting more gasoline than
the maker of the plane thinks
possible, and breaking q
record for distance?
In a few well chosen words
after the coffee and cigars,
Mr.. Conrad tried to explain
why. (The dinner was re-
markable in this: 1t was
over, speeches and all before
81 1t was the exploring
spirit. He wanted to chart
an EaSt-WeSt course using
the Trade Winds to maxi
mum advantage, and he
feels he has succeeded.
There's no money in it.
Evening star., 1959-12-17
D. c. Limits Porkine
On New Hampshire

District highway officials are
ordering a mo standing" rush.
hour regulation on both sides
of New Hampshire avenue NV.
form Grant circle to the Dis
trict line.
Evening star., 1959-12-17

The story of the Nativity will
be told in tableaux and sign
language tonight by students at
Gallaudet College, the school
for the deaf.
Highlighting the presentation
will be an Interpretation of
Silent Night" through creative
dance and signs by members
of the schools dance group.
The Gallaudet choir will sing
carols.
The pageant will be held on
a specially prepared platform
in the patio of the student
union building and will be a
er-in-the-round presenta-
ton. Visitors are invited to at
tend. The program starts at Z
pm.
A colorful life-size Nativity
scene will be opened at $50
pm. December % in the Aztec
Garden of the Pan American
Union. A Christmas music pro-
gram, recorded in Latin Amer
lea, will be played from 6 to 9
pm. every evening until the
display is taken down on Janu-
ary 6. Patroness of the Nativity
scene is Mrs. Jose A. Mora, wife
of the Secretary General of the
Organization of American n
States.
For 800 Children
Among other Christmastide
events is a party for some 800
children from D. c. Junior Viii
lage and Children's Hospital,
sponsored by the management
of the Shoreham Hotel, to be
held from 3 to 5 pm. today in
the hotels Blue Room.
Also the 35th annual Christ
mas party for crippled children,
sponsored by the Kiwanis Club
of D. c., was to be given at /
o'clock this afternoon. Three
hundred children were to be
on hand to greet Santa and a
group Of Alaskan huskie dogs,
filling in as reindeer. The party
was to be at the Sharpe Health
School, Thirteenth and Allison
streets, NV.
Evening star., 1959-12-17
Transit Storing Cash
In New York Bonks
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star star Writer

Hearings on the D. Transit Systems scent fare increase
request resumed today after acknowledgment by oal
that most of the companys cash banked without interest in
New York. &4s Ssse fek2
The behind this banking situation remained
thing of a mystery.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-01-30
The World Over

Some months later, on the basis
of his findings, Israeli volunteers
actually did build a new road and
the army was abole to reach Je-
rusalem and save its people.
But that night, when Ben Ami
reached his destination, he sent
coded message back to his waiting
colleagues. 1t read II 35S"-this
alone.
AND THE LISTENERS knew
that it referred to Isaiah 35, verse
8. They went to their Bible, and
this is what they found:
"And a highway shall be there,
and way, and it shall be called
the way of holiness No lion
shall be there, nor any ravenous
beast shall go up thereon but
the redeemed shall walk there -"
And so, guided by the Bible, the
heroes and heroines of Exodus,
like the people of Israel, created a
new land on the basis of an old, old
ideal. And this ideal, which kept
Judaism alive, would be the
strength of their nation and light
unto the world.
This is the story-truth, fiction,
and miracle-which Urls has told
| in his new novel, Exodus"
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-01-30

in Poland, in Denmark, and on Cy-
prus. He lived with them in Israel.
They are real characters, meeting
very real situations, and we care
about what happens to them.
THEIR INDIVIDUAL stories
were invented by rne author. But
the larger plot into which they fit
is an artful retelling of history.
The events took place only yes
terday. We witnessed them and
some memories are particularly
vivid for us-the Nazi nightmare,
the British war on Jewish Pales-
tine, the "illegal' immigration, the
U.N. decision to partition Palestine,
the Arab invasion of Israel, and the
heroic defense.
Has there been any more dra-
matte story played out on the stage
of recent history?
Urls retells in fully and in detail.
And as we live it again, we know
again the poignance of its moments
of tragedy and triumps.
This is the special quality of the
book, that it dramatizes an era in
history and explains movement
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-01-30

and an ideal in terms we can un-
derStand
An incident in the life of David
Ben Ami is a case in point.
Ben Ami, archaelogist turned sol
dier, knew every inch of the soil of
Israel. When Jerusalem was be-
sieged and it's people were dying of
hunger and of thirst, he suffered
with the knowledge that the army
of Israel could not reach the city
because its approaches were held
by the invading Arabs.
HE KNEW THAT there was an
ancient Roman road which would
bypass the Arab troops. If it could
be found and cleared for the pass
age of men and trucks, Jerusalem
could be reached.
And so he took a jeep one night
and set out across the goat paths
and through the wadis to trace the
road.
1t was an extremely hazardous
mission, but he did find the path
without being discovered by the
and was able to get to Jerusalem
Arabs.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-01-30
Obituaries

Mr.. julius Marwich, 70, died Jan.
in Los Angeles. Burial was held
in Los Angeles Jan. 9. He is sur
vived by his wife, Jean, of 1852 w.
Lewis, Phoenix. She attended the
funeral.
Mrs. Ida Willet, So, died Jan. IA
In Good Samaritan Hospital. Fu-
neral services were Jan. Is in Mar
ryman-Evans and Nussbaum Nor
tuary. Burial was in Beth Hebrew
Cemetery. Rabbi w. H. Greenberg
officiated.
Survivors are two sons, Alvin and
Herbert, of Phoenix, and sister
and two brothers of New York.
Mr.. Abe Lukin, 70, of 80 E. Wei
don, died Jan. 13 in Good Samari-
tan Hospital. Funeral services were
held at A. L. Moore and Sons Nor
tuary Jan. 16. Burial was in Beth
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-01-30
Rabbi Albert L.

Israel cemetery. Rabbi Albert L..
Plotlxin officiated.
Mr.. Lukin was born in Philadel-
phia and came to Arizona in 1893
with his parents. They settled IN
Tempe, where he attended public
school.
H owned grocery stores in Tenn
pc, Chandler. and later in Casa
Grande: He operated the Court
House Market at 218 w. Washing
ton after coming to Phoenix 1S
years ago. He retired five years
ago.
He, was a member of the Chan
dler Masonic Lodge and FL Zaribah
Shrine in Phoenix and the Phoenix
Lodge of Elks.
He is survived by his wife, Lu-
cille, and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie
Herzberg, 3009 N. 10th Ave. and
Mrs. Max Krause, both of Phoenix.