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says-and a boy in the group
makes the right suggestion.
With all the words, Mrs.
Weiss goes over the consonantS
and vowels, and stresses proper
pronunciation. The group al
ready knows the particular
phonic hint for saying coat:
when two vowels go walking,
the first one does the talking. "
"Vowels are very polite" Mrs.
Weiss observes.
Reading Next
With the preliminaries out Of
the way, the group will start
reading. Each child takes a
turn reading a sentence or two.
Frequently Mrs. Weiss will ask
questions about the story.
While teaching the small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

ever, the plans were changed
after approval, the Fine Arts
Commission spokesman said,
and the window protruded 8
feet beyond the front of the
building.
The Fine Arts Commission
heard about the change, the
spokesman said, and subse-
quently disapproved the re-
modelling. Mr.. Fingalas asked
that the renovation be approved
as carried out and the Fine
Arts Commission refused, the
spokesman said.
Hearing Requested
Leonard o. Hilder. an inves-
tigator for the House District
Committee, said Mr.. Figalas
talked with Representative Nc.
MILAN, Democrat of South
Carolina, chairman Of the com.
mittee. Mr.. Hilder said Com
mittee Counsel Hayden Gar.
Der requested a hearing on the
matter and the commissioner
agreed.
Mr.. Hilder said he and Mr.
CARRIER appeared at the hearing
today and requested that the
|remodeling be approved. After
the closed hearing, the COM
misSioners announced they hao
approved because the remodel
ing has been in substantial
compliance" with the building
permit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

increased vehicle registration
tax.
THE biggest problem" Mr..
Keith said, will be due to the
fact that the bulk of the costs
lies in the District of Column
bia, while the benefits to be
gained and the resources to pay
for it are distributed widely
over all jurisdictions"
Another speaker. Donald c.
Hyde of the Cleveland Transit
System, said the development
of both highway and transit
systems is essential to Wash
ington. Highway development
alone, he said in a prepared
speech, would strangle the city
in rush hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

do you have? Can you read
the number fact?"
Before long the students are
doing number stories: One
plus two equals three, two plus
one equals three, three take
away two leaves one, three take
away one leaves two.
Their workbook, 1.-TWO by
Two" is very nearly self
explanatory. At the top of one
page are some written prob
lens: TON had three balloons.
He broke one balloon. He has
- balloons left" The page
is entitled Take away from
g." 1t reminds the children
that you Take Away. You
Subtract" Then it presents
some strictly numerical prob
lens in subtraction.
Touch of Science
Social studies and science
still take a backseat in the
second grade. Rarely are books
used with either of them. But
both subjects lend themselves
we'll to class excursions and
| diScuSSionS-aS we'll as to such
projects as the making of an
exhibit on a rocket shot to the
moon.
Emphasis on social studies
is on the community-where
the food and clothing come
from. what sort of transporta-
ton and communications facil-
tiles are available. Topics in
science range from animal hab-
itats to the necessity for
lubricating wheels.
The difference between this
second grade curriculum and
that of the first grade was
clearly illustrated to me one
day when, just before the end
Iof school, I saw a first grade
class playing musical chairs.
The second graders next door
in Mrs. Weiss room were
equally occupied but they
we're busy correcting their days
work.
Tomorrow: The third grade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
The
Rambler
Meets
Some Artists
By JOHN McKELwAY

Art gallery guards gen.
orally look on the Substitute
Rambler as a suspicious per-
son.
They have a way of shad-
owing him around a gallery,
standing just outside a door
with only the tips Of their
shoes showing.
1t is particularly difficult
to note under these condi-
tions how Ell Greco, for ex-
ample, was an "impassioned
expressionist." And 1t is
virtually impossible to lose
yourself in any painting,
realizing you must take the
guard with you.
Walking down Massachu-
sets avenue the other day,
the writer had a feeling an
art gallery guard was close
behind-so he ducked into a
fine, old home at 1900
Twenty-flrst street NV.
which appeared to be open
to the public.
The Phillips Gallery, which
is open to the public, may
possibly be the most private
place in Washington. 1t has
no guards and some wonder
full paintings. 1t is an art
gallery in an old home.
The only disturbing quality
about the place is that for
the first is minutes you ex-
pect someone to grab you by
the elbow and demand:
what are you doing in this
house?" But after that
passes, you are on your own,
usually alone.
Duncan Phillips, who is
now 70, set the gallery up in
1918, in what was then the
family home, built in 1897.
He is still the gallery's "di-
rector" supervising any
change in the arrangement
of the paintings. The COL
lections now number about
1000.
He once described the gall
= lery as an "unpretentiouS,
disarmingly domestic and
frankly undistinguished set
ting" But he added that "at
least there is a sense of art
lived with, worked with and
loved"
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for the more automatically
minded students.
Number Exercises
On top of these is another
assignment: To write out num-
bers to 100 by Is, Is, SIS and los.
The children also know they
can get in the teachers good
graces by reading one of the
books, supplied to all Janney
classes by the public library,
in the back of the room-juSt
in case they do manage to, fin
ish the rest of the work.
They're pretty smart about
these books, too" Mrs. Weiss
told me. She showed me Made
lines Rescue" by Lud wi g
Bemelmans.
"MoSt of them get the humor
in this book" she said. But
they pick it up and read it, of
course, because it doesn't have
much writing-and they still
get a book credit"
Although no homework as
signments are allowed before
the third grade, Mrs. Weiss does
slip her students readers to take
home, with a strong suggestion
that they use them.
The second graders learn
their arithmetic largely through
practical experience. They still
use a dummy clock for under
standing units of time, the
teacher might have a quart jug
and a pint jug for watering
plants and explaining some
units of measurement, they use
dollars and cents for initial
experience with a decimal
point.
Similar Technique
For the straight addition and
subtraction problems, similar
technique is used.
Put six crayons on the top
of your desk and put everything
else away" directs Mrs. Weiss.
Now pick up one crayon.
Add another to it. How many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
.PTA to Pick Group
To Study Dispute
Step Approved
After Debate on
Barring Press

Top District PTA officials
today decided to establish a
special committee to study the
current disagreement with
school officials over the PTA's
role in public education here.
The board Of managers APP
proved this step after getting
a detailed report on the situa-
ton from Mrs. c. Rhodes Cox,
the organizations president
and after a 40-minute debate
on whether or not to bar the
press from the meeting.
The Executive Committee Of
the District Congress of Par
ents and Teachers had decided
last week to bar the press from
today's session of the board Of
managers. The board, however.
chose to exercise its right to
review the executive groups
action.
Members eventually reversed
it, 1911, although several had
attacked the press for its treat
ment of the dispute. which CEN
tiers around local PTAs at Ray
mond and Lovejoy Elementary
Schools. Others had said they
wouldn't be able to hold frank
discussion with newsmen pres
ent and asked for time ito do
a little house cleaning"
COnciIiatOry Tone
After the vote, however, the
actual discussion was OF a
conciliatory nature, centering
on ways to end the dispute.
Members indicated they wanted
school officials to understand
their position-and they, in
turn, wanted to hear about
school officials complaints and
problems involving the PTA.
Mrs. Cox was given author
ity to name members OF the
special committee, all of whom
will be drawn from the board
of managers.
Once formed, the group will
consult with the school admin
istration to seek ways for pre-
venting any further serious
dispute.
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
has banned the Raymond PTA
from meeting in the school
until it gets a new president.
The principal of Lovejoy de-
manded-and gothic resigna-
ton of the president of that
PTA. The group will meet
later this week to elect a new
president.
mot an Adjunct"
Mrs. Cox stressed to the
board that the PTA is an auton-
omous organization and not
an adjunct of the school adj
miniStration.
She said she hoped some
arrangement could be made
for settling any future disputes
within the organization, rather
than having them brought to
school officials.
Mrs. Cox and several other
members suggested the special
committee might come up with
a recommendation for a
grievance" committee, made
up of both school and PTA
representatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
THERE ARE THICK RUGS

THERE ARE THICK RUGS
on the floors and French
provincial furniture to sit in.
As you wander about the
place, you can smoke. There
are no signs directing this
or that. It is quiet. 1t is the
first modern art" museum
in the United States.
Some people come and
stay there all day. Some
have been known to go there,
sit down near a mood-pro-
ducing painting, and read.
Others come in regularly, go
directly to their favorite
painting for awhile.
The gallery is open from II
am. to 6 pm, daily, and I'M
til 10 pm. on Mondays. Sum-
day the hours are 2 pm. to
z pm.
Recently a Smallish woman
sat for at least 80 minutes
in front of Renoir's 1.-THE
Luncheon of the Boating
Party" a painting full of
life and its brighter colors.
Others stayed away until she
had finished. 1t is perhaps
the gallery's "frontispiece. "
It catches the corner of your
eye as you enter the door
and you almost blink in its
brightness.
But there is also, on the
second floor, a Picasso en-
titled 1.-THE Blue Room" A
young lady, nude, stands
near an unmade bed and
the light is eerie.
This was done in Picasso's
blue period" an informed
man told a visitor. AND
if you look up on the wall,
above the bed, you will see
PicaSSo has added a Toulouse
Lautrec poster. 1t was
painted in Paris in 1901"
Nearby, in a hall, hangs
"Bull Fight" another Pleas
so, one of a later period. He
is out of the blue period and
back in Spain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
Federal Funds
Curb Imperi|s
Road Projects
CircumferentiuI
Highway, Cabin John
Bridge Affected
BY CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
Star stan Writer

Strict rationing Of funds un-
der the Federal Highway Act
is threatening scheduled con-
struction starts on several ma
jor projects in the suburban
Washington area, a top Mary
land State Roads Commission
official said today.
Norman M. Pritchett listed
the projects involved in the
tightening Of Federal funds as:
l. The approach roads carry
ing the Washington Circum-
ferential highway across Indian
Head highway to the Jones
Point Bridge.
2. The Washington Circum-
ferential from Georgia avenue
to University boulevard.
3. Cabin John Bridge and
Its approach road.
ALLEGATION Cut
Mr.. Pritchett said the Fed
eral Bureau of Public Roads
several days ago announced
that the State would get %
per cent of its $40 million full
year ALLEGATION for contract
work in the first quarter of
the fiscal year, and IL per cent
in the second quarter.
He said, however, that last
week at a meeting of the
American Association of State
Highway officials in Boston.
Maryland learned that its al
location for the first four
months Through October)
would be only $6.8 million. He
said this was about 81 million
less than had been anticipated
The State has scheduled for
October 81 the advertising of
bids for construction of the
last bridge for the Circumfer-
entail highway between Geor-
Igia avenue and University
boulevard. 1t will carry the
highway over the proposed
northern parkway in the vi
cinity of Sligo Creek Park.
The Indian Head highway
bridge is scheduled for adver-
Using November 3 and the Cir
cumferential between Georgia
and University boulevard De-
cember 8.
Cabin John Bridge "Sad"
Mr.. Pritchett described a.
"sad" the situation involving
1.-THE Cabin John Bridge, which
lis supposed to be open fol
traffic by July, 1861.
Mr.. Pritchett said the Mary.
land Roads Agency had referred
Its dispute with the Nationa
Capital Parks to the Fedora
Roads Bureau in line with thu
law which provides for thu
Secretary of Commerce to di.
rect cooperation between Fed
Ieral agencies when disputes
cannot be resolved.
He said that demands for
longer bridge by the park
agency would have cost Mary
land so per cent more than the
estimated 81 million-plus prof.
lect. He said all of their pro.
posals would cost the Statt
more money, contrary to
claim by one official that saw
ings would be effected by theil
demands.
The Roads Commission hac
planned to advertise for bid'
on the bridge in January. Nov
it looks like it will be February
at the earliest, Mr.. Pritchett
added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

well as myself, were learning
very early in the year that
there is a world of difference
between the first and second
grades-a bigger difference, I
think, than between any other
two grades in the school.
The basic purpose of first
grade is to teach what letters
and numbers are all about. In
the second, the children are
expected to acquire real ability
in using them.
More Arithmetic
They do more reading; they
are introduced to spelling; they
get more work with phonics, or
word sounds; they must master
simple addition and subtrac-
ton, including a certa in
amount of carrying and bor-
rowing: they learn what a
complete sentence is. By the
end of the year they should be
able to write an original. if
short, story.
The regular procedure fol
Mrs. lift and Janney's other
second grade teacher, Mrs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
Restaurant RemodeIinq
OKd Despite Protest

District Commissioners today approved the recent re-
modelling restaurant front the objections
of the Fine Arts Commission
spokesman for the Fine Arts Commission Immediately
charged Commissioners pressued
two investigators from the House District Committee.
restaurant the Hickory House at S21 Market
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
Mobile X-RuY Unit

A mobile chest X-ray unit
will be at the Arlington Towers
Drug Fair, 1701 North Lynn
street, Arlington, from to 8
pm. tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star Staff Writer

The second grade students
were seated in a circle around
their teacher, Mrs. Vera M,
lift.
Suddenly she holds up a
sign: "Sit."
Half the class stands up.
boy, did I get you that
time" she tells the guilty ones.
All of her 81 children at
Janney Elementary School, as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

NV, just off Pennsylvania
avenue, between Eighth and
Ninth streets.
The controversy is the Sec
ond within a week involving
top District officials and the
Fine Arts Commission. Last
Tuesday the Fine Arts Com
mission announced it was
withdrawing its approval of
plans for the Theodore Roose-
welt Bridge because the Dis
trict Highway Department
failed to send the commission
plans for bridge approach
roads.
Commissioner yelling said
the District would proceed with
the bridge plans as scheduled
despite the Fine Arts disap-
proval.
Plans Changed
The District Department oil
Licenses and Inspections sale
Louis Figalas, operator of the
Hickory House, applied in Feb
ruary. 1858, for approval Of
plans to remodel the front Of
his restaurant. The plans were
subsequently approved by the
Fine Arts Commission, which
under the Shipstead-Luce Act
has advisory powers on re-
modelling Of private structures
facing or near public buildings
AS approved. the plans called
for a new window flush with
the front building line. How
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
U. S. Pledge to Repay
State Road Cost Asked
Aiken Asserts Agencies Need
Assurance of Reimbursement

Districts highway chief today asserted that State
agencies need absolute from the Federal
Government that the cost of roads they plan part of the
interstate system will be reimbursed
Harold Aitken director Of the District Highway Depart
ment made the observation at meeting of the American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
Press PorIey Set

President Eisenhower will
hold a news conference at.
1890 am. tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

To find out what kind Of education
the younger generation Of today is
getting, The Stor sent Stoff Writer
Andrew W. Bingham beck to eIe-
mentory school. Today in the third
Of seven articles M. Bingham, q
Harvard graduate, diseIoses what he
learned os q second -sr6de student.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20
For Rapid Transit

In addition to about So billion
for highway development. a
sum of $500 million is necessary
for construction of a rapid
transit system, according to a
survey completed in July by
the National Capital Planning
Commission and the planning
council. Ideally, the system
would be completed by 1880.
Mr.. Keith said the estimate
was not unrealistic.
1--WE are just not accustomed
to looking this far ahead" he
stated. Raising enough local
matching money for these pre-
sent programs appears to be so
difficult that there is little
question but that the new $500
million must come from a new
source of revenue"
Planners have previously
suggested that such money
might be raised from a / per
cent general tax on real estate,
a regional gasoline stax or an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-20

Society of Civil Engineers ir
the Statler Hotel.
He spoke in connection with
the depleted condition of the
Federal highway trust fund
which earlier this year threat
ened sharp curtailment of the
construction programs planned
by State agencies.
Halls County officials
Mr.. Aitken also called on the
society to extend formal COM
mendation to county highway
officials for supporting a Fed
eral interstate road system that
would extend through metro
politan areas.
Mr.. Aitken hailed the posi-
ton of the National Association
of County Oficials which was
stated during today'S discus
sion. 1t was made after ref
erences to recent recommen-
dationS by a White House
committee for reducing Federal
highway aid in metropolitan
and industrial areas.
New Fund Source
Robert A. Keith, project d.
rector of the National Capital
Regional Planning Council yes
terday said Washington will
have to find "a new source Of
revenue" for its transportation
need.
He said about $1.3 billion
probably would be furnished by
the Federal Government, the
District, Maryland and Virginia
to build network of freeways
in the area. An additional $500
million must be raised else
where to meet the need. hi
said.
rThe money would need tt
be 100 per cent locally raised
funds" Mr.. Keith asserted
That is, there would be NJ
Federal aid on the $500 millior
sum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
1tqoney County.

CAMPAIGNING, WESTERN STYLE-With photoeenic omies
poont in politics these doys Thomas M Anderson with euor
takes off candidate surrounded by his youngsters the
to be given Oney Wom Cameron joins with his ukuee right
and Ln Yost wearing bonduno plays the candidates wife The other
children Paul Griffith Ton the oo Ann Cameron flor ef) DoMd
reor) June Griffith lin front of Dovd with
candidates houders)So o Photos by Rosemary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mrs. Audrey Knitfin Won
plonxki announces the en-
gagement Of her daughter
Gayle Adele 10 Lt. Jerrold
M. North. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard 8. North Of
Evanston. III. A June we'd
ding Is planned in Hunts
Vile, Ala.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph q.
Rookie Of South Fort Mitchell.
KY announce the engage
ment Of their daughter Elm
10 Mr.. Hubert M. Snider. son
OF MIR. and Mrs. Hubert ID.
Snider OF Mclean. An August
1 wedding Is planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
Jennison-Burqess

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Ellis Jennison announce the
engagement OF their daugh-
ter Irene Garrett to 1t.
Richard Archie Burgess. jr.,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess
OF Chevy Chase. Md. A
Septem Der wedding is
planned,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Cooley announce the engage
ment Of their daughter Mary
ann Evans 10 Mr.. william
Andrew Burke, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. William +. Burke
OF Syracuse. N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Scott c.
Hartle announce the engage
ment OF their daughter Bev-
erly Lee TO Mr.. Walton White
Sanderson, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walton L. sanderson Of
Bethesda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
Furmon-Wolfe

Mr.. and Mrs. Irving M.
Kaye announce the engage
ment Of her daughter. Miss
Karol Ann Furman, to Mr..
Gerald Wolfe, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Erwin M. Solo,
mon Of Baltimore. A Sep
TENDER wedding is planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
ENGAGEMENTS

foot MiIbank. also Of this
city. He Is the son Of Mr..
Robbins Mllbank OF Hills
brough and San Francisco.
Calf, and the late Mrs.
Mary Lghtfoot Milbank. A
fall wedding Is planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Davis
Malone of Dothan. Ala. an
nounce the engagement Of
their daughter Roberta to
1t. (jg) Ian Yandell Hender-
son. USNR, son Of Professor
and Mrs. Malcolm Colby
Henderson. A summer we'd
ding is planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
Solto-W hitcomb

DR.. and Mrs. /. P. Salto
announce the engagement Of
their daughter Marie to Mr..
George Hubert Whitcomb. son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F. w.
Whitcomb, now of Seoul, Ko-
rea. A mid-September we'd
ding is planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Troy Robert
Easterling Of North Arlington
announce the engagement OF
their daughter Helen Troy TO
Col. Samuel Z. Shoemaker,
son Of Mrs. Frida II. Shoe
maker Of Minneapolis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick J.
Moses, jr., Of Mountain
Lakes, Nj, announce the en-
gagement Of her daughter,
Miss Sally Louise Thomas Of
this city. to Mr.. David Light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-10
Asch-Bright

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman L.
Trier announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss
Adrienne Asch, to Mr.. Burton
X. Bright, son Of MIR. and
Mrs. Herbert L. Bright. A
December wedding is planned.
Kodiak mirror., 1959-12-05
Notices
ANNOUNCEMENT

At the Labor Temple for De- cember and continuing through 1860.
 We will offer without charge weekly dancing instructions We will teach Cha-Cha-Cha, Mamba, Waltz, Fox Trot, Swing and others.
 Also the six basic steps and cor rect position and hold. A former instructor from Arthur Murray's Studio will be at the Labor Tenn pie this Saturday tomorrow from 7-9 pm. 5-1n
Kodiak mirror., 1959-12-05
NOTICE

$250.O0 reward for information leading to the arrest and convic- ton of any person or persons kill ing, stealing or maliciously mo testing livestock owned by any member of the Kodiak Livestock Growers Association.
Kodiak mirror., 1959-12-05
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