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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
ALL IN FUN

o A Navy recruit on his first ocean trip
was taking an examination for promotion.
One of the questions was, What steps
should be taken in case of q leaky tube
In the boiler?"
He wrote, The boiler-room ladder,
preferably two steps at a time"
. A woman who wanted to show of her
sons scientific knowledge to members Of
her bridge club called the youngster in
and asked, Bobby, what does 1t mean
when steam comes out of the spout of the
kettle?"
TT MEANS" Bobby replied promptly,
that you are going to open one OF Daddys
letters"
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How much is the hotel bill?"
"Seventy-five dollars"
"Seventy-five dollars!"
"Yes-$4O for room, $35 for meals"
''Thirty-five dollars for meals? But
we didn't eat a meal here!"
The meals were here. If you didn't
eat them, that Is your fault"
Then 1 will charge you SIS for kissing
my wife"
But didn't kiss your wife!"
That's okay She was here. II you
didn't kiss her, that's your fault"
Your bill will be $40"
. Dad criticized the sermon, Mother
thought the organist made q lot Of mis-
takes, Sister didn't like the choirs singing.
But they all shut up when Billy Clipped
in with the remark, 81 think 1t was q darn
good show for a dime"
. Then there's the actress who listed
this under Deductions" on her income tax
return: Property improvement-Redu
treatment, $975."
Q In a school IN one of the poorer districts
Of a big city, a QUESTIONABLE was sent home
with a new pupil, requesting information
regarding the home environment, number
of brothers and sisters, fathers occupation
and so on.
The next day the child returned with
a scrap of paper on which was the follow
ing: I'VE have ID children. My husband
can also do plumbing and carpentry work"
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Sign language:
On a Kentucky church: Prayer
Conditioned"
On a Mississippi highway: Drive
Carefully-There Isn't A Hospital Within
so Miles"
On a hypochondriac's headstone: II
Told You I Was Sick"
. A moonlight night,
Some sweet perfume
Have often sealed
Some fellows doom.
o Overheard in a Hollywood restaurant:
Hes got that indefinable something
nothingI"
. A Beverly Hills shop is featuring an
"Undo-It- Yourself Kit"-for people who
goofed.
Holdup man to owner of a Chinese
restaurant
Give me everything in the cash
register"
Owner, beaming: To take out?"
Raving beauty: Girl who finishes last
in a beauty contest.
High fidelity: Two drunks swearing
eternal allegiance.
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Laughing 1t OFF
By EVELYN WADE
Good Old Ne

I do not fret, my lord. for things
You can't provide today, like rings
And ermine capes. For this I know
When you're a millionaire, PH 60
Ind take my choice Of turs and gems,
OF Paris gOsCns and diadems.
(And, please, I'd like just one small YACHT
Nor have I, dearest one, forgot
You too, have often cause to dream.
And 50, ,Uhen zoe are rich as cream,
Ven cOuntermand your special quiTk-
You needn't carry lunch to sUOrk.
COPYRIGHT. 1859
AzINE. WASHINGTON. D. c.. JUNE 81. 1850
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YUUK PkE 6,id NJ N

groceries; 30 miles 70 d. c., go0d
mo. Incl. modern apt; sales Si00,.
600 yr.: stock and fixtures S22.-
600. Call UNIVERSITY 7-2749.
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Carry-out DelicateSSen

Owner quotes over $1,000 wkly
Closed Sun. Very profitable fol
good operator. Good lease. Nicely
equipped. Priced reasonably, Small
down payment to responsible peo-
pie Exclusive. Ewes. and Sunday
SHEA CHASEN, RA. 6-543S,
KOGOD & BOOKOFF
412 9Th st. NV. MA. S-937a
RETIRED BUSINESS MAN is in
young married man who ha:
ambitions to go into a particular
chosen business. Please enclose
pertinent facts in first reply.
Confidential. Box 119-E, Star.
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BIG AND COOL

5 BEDRMS., 4 BATHS
Superbly spacious rambler. fully
air conditioned; every convenience
and comfort for the large family:
rec. room, maids room. double
garage. Lovely upper 18th st.
with unbelievably good terms.
Dorothy K. Winston & Co.
ST. 3-055O OIL. 2-2004
BUY OF THE MONTH, Woodley
pl 3-story brick, finished bsmt.,
8 furn bedrms, 3 baths, large LIST
A., property excel. cond. Sell reas.
or rent furn. with option to buy.
For info. call KEACH & PURCELL,
FIX 3-OAIo
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1921 KANSAS AVENUE NV.

VACANI-C IOAl-bUILT SEMIDEIACHED B1ICh HONa
designed living. Tremendous size modern ivir
fireplace dining modern kitchen vii
breakfast TV first hoo
has bedrooms full baths above FIRST foo
full private driveway to built-in
This home will with expectations
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RESTAURANT
WHISKY-BEER

Downtown. Owner quotes over ST..
200 wkly.: i'll, must sell. Closes
1870 pm. daily, closed Sun. and
holidays. Good operators can in
crease business considerably. Large
Govt project due soon in immed
area. Priced reasonably. Small
down payment payment to respon-
sible people, Exclusive.
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ROCK QUARRY

For sale or lease; % miles from
14th st. bridge: good solid stone,
very easy to work as drywall or
masonry; several million tons, all
above grade level. LA $4,000.
SERVICE STATION in the heart Of
Arlington. Fully equip. and doing
good business. Shows profit every
month. Owner leaving town. ia.
S-96l7.
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LIQUOR STORE

MECHANIC, take complete charge
modern fully equip. top brand
cupboard motor repair shop, Ches-
apeake Bay area. unlimited po-
tential for right man, Living quar-
tiers available on site. This is an
those with best OF references viii
be considered. Box l22-E, star.
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1924 WHITTIER STREET NV.

VACANT = SPACIOUS ATTRACTIVE, GROOM BRICK
OME@ bedrooms heated den LIST floor fireplace in living
ON fu-ength porch e-hall PLAN
IN room-many extras. MOVE RIGHT IN
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Semidet. 6-rm. brk. home; powder
rm. on lst FIR; dishwasher. dis
possl in kit. FILA financing.
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426 LONGFELLOW STREET. NV.

SPARKLING CLEAN-you literally eat OF the hoor.
webuilt brick home porch side hall plan
finished
deep back yard; detached garage MOVE RIGHT IN
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SMALL, MOTEL,

SODA FOUNTAIN for lease. Excel
lent luncheon business in modern
drug store, 20 stools. modern IA
cilities Box GAZE, star.
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z Troopers Seek
Fathers Body in
Swollen Potomac

wnLIAMSPoRT. Md. June
a (AP). - Three policemen
searching the rain-swollen Po-
tomac River for the body Of q
Washington Cd. c. fisherman
today have a personal interest
In the hunt.
The missing man is the
father Of two of the oficer;
and the father-in-law of the
third.
Harry s. Bowman. ST.. Of
Williamsport and 232 Eighth
street Sc, Washington, disap-
peared about 4:30 pm. yester-
day while fishing from a small
boat rugged with an cupboard
motor.
He worked at the Nava'
Ordnance Laboratory in Silver
Spring since 1912 and was or
leave this week.
Police speculated that Mr.
Bowman. in tossing out ar
anchor, may have caught his
foot in the anchor line. which
pulled him overheard.
Dragging the. river for his
body are Troopers Harry g.
Bowman. jr.. and Glenn Bow
man, his sons. and Trooper
Allen Martin. all stationed al
Hagerstown.
The Bowmans had planned g
surprise birthday party for Mrs
Bowman last night. Instead
the family spent the night al
the waters edge. waiting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
Mrs. Marvin
Steps Down
AT Hospital

Mrs. Cloyd H. Marvin re-
tired yesterday as president OF
the Women's Board of the
George Washington University
Hospital after % years in the
position.
Mrs. Marvin was honored by
her fellow board members at
the election Of new officers In
the conference room of the
hospital. She is the wife Of
the president emeritus Of the
university.
| Mrs. John Parks. wife OF
the dean Of the George WASH
Iington School Of Medicine, will
succeed Mrs. Marvin as presi-
dent.
Mrs. Marvin will continue to
lplay an active role on the board
in her new capacity as a mem
ber-at-large Of the Executive
Committee.
In appreciation Of her serv-
ices, her fellow board men,
bers gave her a gold friendship
circle Of laurel leaves set with
seed pearls.
A note of appreciation &C.
companying the pin pointed to
the Dorothy Belts Marvin En-
dowment Fund. which she es-
tablished to provide new equip
ment for the hospital.
Mrs. Marvin served as presi-
dent from 1881 to 1894, and
from 1899 until the present.
Besides Mrs. Parks, other
new officers are: First vice
president. Mrs. Barton Rich
wine; second vice president
Mrs. Henry Herzog; third vice
president, Miss Grace Burton;
recording secretary. Mrs. Stan.
LEY L. Sommer; corresponding
secretary. Mrs. Hubert Bisselle;
assistant corresponding secre.
tary, Mrs. Paul Calabrisi,
treasurer. Mrs. Wolfram Leg.
ner; assistant treasurer, Mrs
Paul Bowman.
Elected members at large oi
the Executive Committee were
Mrs. Walter A. Bloedorn. Mrs
Robert w. Bolwell. Mrs. 10.
seph II. Roe and Mrs. Marvin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
Unions Deny
Apprentice
Racial Bias

A District school official said
yesterday that many Negro
youngsters turn away from the
vocational training classes be-
cause of reported racial dis
elimination in the hiring Of
skilled workers.
The statement was made at
q meeting Of the Commission
ers' Human Relations Council,
which also heard denials by
four local construction union
oficials Of racial bias in their
apprenticeship training pro-
grams.
Francis Gregory. assistant
superintendent Of adult and in
dustrial education. said q major
deterrent in attracting able
Negro youths to the school sys-
TENS vocational courses is the
expectation Of facing racially
limited Job opportunities.
Mr.. Gregory added that he
considered the carpenters un-
ion to be an outstanding ex-
ceptiop" in the racial discrim-
nation picture.
Officials of the four con-
struction unions told the
council that race is not a
factor In their on-the-job
training programs. However.
only the carpenters repre-
sentative said that his group
had Negroes on the apprentice
ship rolls.
Nicholas r. Loope Of the
Carpentry Apprenticeship Com
mittee, said there have been
only about a dozen Negro APP
plicants during past years and
that none had completed the
on-the- Job training and school
work requirements. Four were
admitted for training but there
Is only one Negro now working
as an apprentice. he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
GETS NEW SCHOLARSHIP
Faculty Rewards Student

Faculty members at Falls
Church High School in Vir-
ginia surprised a graduating
senior yesterday by presenting
him with q scholarship they
created.
The recipient at q special
school assembly was Raymond
E. Rogers. IT. Of I'LL West
moreland road. Falls Church.
The award was presented by
Mrs. nellie Miles. school guild
ance counselor, on behalf OF
the l06 teachers and stan
members at the school.
Spurred by two Of their
members, Mrs. Elizabeth KEEP
Her and Miss Betty Toone. the
teachers personally contributed
$500 toward a scholarship to
help send Raymond to Roanoke
College in September. They
also interested the college IN
adding another $500 and are
trying to arrange a job for
Raymond 50 he can earn the
rest himself to meet the nearly
$500 tuition and board.
Raymond, who is due to
graduate on Monday with a
class Of 270. might otherwise
not have been able to attend
college, according to Mrs.
Geraldine Lenvin, head Of the
schools English department.
She said he was selected on the
basis Of scholarship and need
and because he has q high
intelligence quotient and ability
in mathematics and science.
The faculty designated its
scholarship as the James
Thomas Allen Memorial Fund,
in honor Of a much-beloved
teacher Of the school who died
a month ago.
The Falls Church Kiwanis
Club has voted to give Raymond
$40 o month spending money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
The
Rambler
-. Goes North
Through Virginia
BY GEORGE KENNEDY
The Rambler took off.

The Rambler took off.
Too long has he kept with
In this self-tied tether.
He went north through Vir-
ginia to Harper's Ferry.
As much west as north, it's
true. All right, northwest.
This above all remains In
his memory:
How green was Virginia
yesterday.
Lush is the word for the
pastures and the fields Of hay
and small grains. Lush and
green.
The trees are still In fresh
leaf and the weeping willows
there are many on the
roadside-are dripping green.
The countryside has been
green all spring. Tuesdays
rain made it greener.
For this long trip (55 miles)
the Rambler tried out a new
Lincoln with air condition.
ing.
1t has an instrument panel
something like an airplane.
One has to be a GE (gadget
engineer) to operate it.
The Rambler had the te-
merity to drive away in it
without being checked out
to use the aviation term-on
the controls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
DOCTOR FINALLY
PINS DOWN WY'S
NOSE TROUBLE

The doctoys said little
Ivy-Marie Montville's runny
nose. o problem since she
was 2. would clear UP by
itself when she was 6.
Last March Ivy-Marie
celebrated her 9Th birthday.
but she still had q runny
nose. Her mother, Mrs.
Robert J. Montville Of the
Pine Lawn Trailer Court.
Fairfax, decided 1t was time
to check again.
Mrs. Montville took her
daughter to a doctor In
Fairfax who, in turn, sent
the little girl to DR.. Henry
Kulesher, a Falls Church
specialist. Mrs. Montville
said the doctor checked her
daughters nose and found
and removed q very cor
roded safety pin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
Traffic Counted
For Bridge PIeo

Twelve housewives equipped
with q card table, printed
forms, q sign proclaiming their
civic association and a few
baby carriages conducted their
own traffic count yesterday on
q Fairfax County bridge they
regard as dangerous.
Frank M. McDermott, O
former president of the Hill
Mar Civic Association, said
later that between 8 and 4
pm. 306 vehicles crossed the
lWestmoreland street bridge
over Pimmit Run. The bridge
is one-lane wide and has a
six-ton load limit. The road
Is five lanes wide.
From z am. to s pm. 20
dump trucks, II tractor trailers
and 48 school buses crossed
the bridge, Mr.. McDermott
said, noting that his civic as
ISOLATION plans to take its
statistics before the Board OF
County Supervisors and the
State Highway Department.
The association wants the bridge
improved.
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NovyGetsOK
For Addition
To Hospital

The National Capital Plan
ming Commission today ap-
proved the Nays request to
build a 81 million addition to
the Bethesda Naval Hospital.
The action paved the way for
final approval by another plan
ming agency. the National Capt.
tai Regional Planning Council.
The six-story addition planned
by the Navy would replace 10
temporary buildings. It would
provide 100 hospital beds. the
same number available in the
tempos.
Construction on the hospital
addition is expected to begin In
about q year.
The NCPC also announced
the acquisition of Fort Marcy
in Fairfax County as an addi-
ton to the George Washington
Memorial parkway. The old
Civil War fort, a 15-acre tract
near the Fairfax Arlington
County line, south of Route 1913,
was purchased from Mrs. Anna
DeLashmutt.
NCPC officials said Fairfax
County paid half of the cost
Of the acquisition and the Fed
eral Government paid the re-
|mainder.
Efforts made so far in study
ling Washington's downtown
parking problems were re-
viewed and the commission was
told that about 2O0.0 900 Federal
lemployes would receive sques-
Itionnaires late this month, ask
ing how they get to work and
where they park.
| The survey Is being made by
an interagency group consist
ing Of the Bureau of the Budg-
ct, General Services Admin
istration. District Government
and the NCPC.
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Trade Board Head
Defends DC. Setup
District Man Killed
In Heod-On Collision

Royale Kenneth Pierson, So.
Of zoos Bryant street Me-, was
killed early today on Route
236, about a mile and a half
east of Annandale, when his
car collided head-on with a
tractor-trailer, police reported.
Driver Of the truck was listed
as c. David Gehret, "a. Of Al
toona, Pa. He was not injured.
Police quoted Mr.. Gehret as
saying the lights Of Mr.. Pier
sons car blinded him. Mr..
Pierson, who was alone, was
pinned in the car. Annandale
Rescue Squadsmen worked
about As minutes to free him.
Mr.. Pierson, q branch chief
with the Interior Department.
was pronounced dead on the
scene. He suffered a broken
neck and other injuries.
Charged with reckless driv-
ing, Mr.. Gehret was being held
In lieu of $1,000 bond.
Mr.. Pierson, who was raised
on a ranch in Montana, came
to Washington In May, 1850.
from Bismarck. N. OAK. after
his appointment as chief Of the
branch Of soil and moisture
conservation operations for the
Interior Departments Bureau
of Land Management.
He had a long background
of technical training and prac-
tical experience in the fields Of
forestry and soil conservation.
At the time Of his transfer here,
he was with the Bureau Of
Reclamation as an agriculturist
responsible for planning and
direction Of programs for land
development in the Missouri
River Basin project area Of
Northeastern Montana and
North Dakota.
Before that he had been an
assistant manager Of a farm
ing and ranching enterprise near
Mesa, Idaho. He had been an
extension forester with the
Idaho Extension Service from
1885 to 1913 and during the
war was q State supervisor for
the emergency farm labor pro-
gram in Boise, Idaho.
Mr.. Pierson was graduated
from the University Of Mon
tana with q B. s. degree and
earned his NJ. s. degree from
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during the regular session.
School Supt. T. c. Williams
said yesterday the new regula-
tons were adopted on his rec
lcmmendation at a closed ses-
sion Of the school board last
month. No public announce
ment Of the change was made
at that time.
He said the plan win enable
the board to hold additional In
tegration attempts In check
at least for this summer-since
no transfers between schools
win be permitted. and no hew
students will be admitted. Z
Others Affected
Also caught by the regula-
tions. however. viii be students
who attended private or paro-
chial schools during the winter.
In past years. many such STU
dents have attended summer
classes in the public schools be-
cause their schools do not offer
summer sessions.
Of this Mr.. Williams said,
I'VE were glad to accommodate
them as long as it created no
additional problem for US. But
the situation now is not nor
NAL. and we can't do what we
normally do"
The superintendent said a
few parents with children now
enrolled In private or parochial
schools have complained about
the new summer session rules.
However, he said. when he ex-
planned the reasons for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04
IT Is A DESERTED

TT is A DESERTED
CITY. The BIO Railroad
made it, the motor highways
emptied 1t. Today it has a
population Of only 500 with
In the city limits and its
total tax revenues are a lit
tie more than $4,000.
Most Of the old part of the
town is owned by Uncle Sam
and the National Park Serv-
ice is doing its best to restore
it. The arsenal and the
armory, the objects Of the
John Brown raid, are gone,
probably forever, destroyed
by retreating Confederates.
But they have restored the
house of Robert Harper who
arrived In 1747 and started
the ferry across the Poto-
mac and a row Of early 10th
century houses alongside.
They will be occupied by NPS
staff members.
They have torn down some
buildings because they were
not there in 1889. They have
removed tons of rubble and
trash. The deserted city is
neat and tidy for visitors who
will crowd 1t this fall.
Frank Anderson, the NPS
ranger in charge, guided us
up the steps to st. Peters
Roman Catholic Church, a
stone Gothic structure which
is now a chapel of a parish
in nearby Charles Town.
Almost alongside it are the
ruins Of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, destroyed by fire
decades ago.
The stone steps continue
to the rock commanding the
view Of the confluence of the
Potomac and the Shenandoah
Of which Thomas jefferson
aaid. 1.-THE scene is worth a
voyage across the Atlantic.
Yet here, as in the neighbor-
hood Of the Natural Bridge,
are people who have passed
their lives within a dozen
miles and have never been to
see these monuments of a
war between the rivers and
mountains which has shaken
the earth to its center"
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Says City Needs
More Realistic
U. S. Payment
BY JOHN A. GILES
a Star STAFF Writer

The incoming president OF
the Washington Board of Trade
said today there Is nothing
wrong with the city's form Of
government that a more
realistic fiscal approach by
Congress would not fix"
E. X. Morris reviewed the
|city's. history and said the
present government, which has
survived for IS years. "can be
said to have been arrived at
by the trial-and-error method.
since it evolved after rejection
by Congress in 1902 of other
types Of government"
Mr.. Morris, president of the
Federal Storage Co. and a lead
er in organizing the United
Givers Fund, addressed the
Junior Chamber of Commerce
in the Burlington Hotel.
Reviews Arguments
There are those who will say
that things are different now,
that this fabulous electronic
and space age has created q
whole new set of circumstances
which make it impossible to
measure the present and the
future by the past" Mr.. Morris
said.
80, let's take just a minute
and enumerate a few of the
unique situations in this Fed
eral City which, I believe, dis
credit the contention that it
should have the same form Of
government as other cities"
He then went on to list "a
items he said add up to q
complicated Federal-city rela-
tionship. He began:
1T is the first city ever to
be conceived. born and raised
as the Capital City of a major
Nation"
He said the District Govern
ment performs all the functions
of city, county and State and
that its income is deposited in
the United States Treasury and
can be withdrawn only for pay
ment Of budget items approved
by Congress.
U. s. Paid 5O%
When the vote for local of
ficials was taken away in 1874.
Mr.. Morris said. Congress rec
ognized that the Federal in
terest here was so great
that the National Government
should pay so per cent of the
cost. which it did until 1921.
He then added that the pay
ments reached a low of 8 per
cent at one time and now are
at a level Of 10 to IL per cent.
mo firmer support for our
conclusion that the transfer Of
revenue and budget funds to
the proposed locally elected
council will be accompanied by
the shrinkage Of the present
inadequate Federal payment has
been made than in the debate
on the House floor, when the
District budget was being con-
sidered." he said.
Members Of the House APP
preparations Committee, in re-
Spouse to questions from the
floor. made no bones of their
belief that If the District got
home rule like other cities, it
would be on the same basis
fiscally as other cities.
This is completely untenable
with the philosophy that the
basic and primary purpose of
the District is to serve as the
seat Of the Government Of our
Nation. The inevitable conse.
quences of emphasizing the
present inadequacy of the Fed
eral payment to reflect the Fed
eral responsibility must be con-
tinued in increasing shortcom-
ings in the District ability to
appropriately fulfill its basic
function and demands upon
District residents and enter
lprises for abnormally high pub
lie support"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-04

the University Of Idaho. major
ing in forestry.
Among other things. he was
"a senior member Of the Society
of American Foresters and q
member Of Sigma XII. Epsilon
Sigma Phi, XII Sigma Pi and
Phi Sigma Fraternities.