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Evening star., 1959-12-11

autoiSt a continuous ride
without the need for stopping
from one end of his ride to
the other, thereby saving him
travel time. Would someone
please enlighten me how a
pedestrian is supposed to
safely cross the street under
these circumstances, even
where there are lights2 This
procedure will cause much un-
necessary and illegal speed
ing besides entire disregard
for the life and limbs of the
poor pedestrian" - who
should know enough to
always give the auto right of
way-even though it might
mean camping on a street
corner for hours.
It is too bad when a city
government does not recog-
nize its obligations to the
publicly running public
transportation for the benefit
of the riding public-rather
than to kow-tow to an in
dividual transit owner. The
city should be responsible to
its taxpayers to see that they
have adequate public service
at a reasonable fee. The
riding public of Washington
has many times cited logical
and legitimate reasons as to
why trolleys should not be
removed-but is any atten-
ton paid to them? No! Mr..
Chalk wouldn't like that! He
has proposed raising the
fares in rush hours-so that
those of us who must ride to
our jobs and are the ones
who can least afford the in
crease, will pay through the
nose.
Is this to become a town of
plutocrats only, where the
proletariat, after being gassed
by bus exhaust fumes, has
no rights?
H.L.H.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Misplaced Emphasis

If Representative Davis, Democrat
OF Georgia, really has not made UP his
mind about the need for additional
Juvenile Court judges, as he says he has
not, then by all means further evidence
should be heard. To our mind, the case
for two more judges has been proved
so abundantly that anyone who listens
effectively to the facts will concur.
The direction taken by Mr.. Davis
House District subcommittee in its
broadened probe of Juvenile Court
problems, however, all too clearly is
steering the inquiry away from the
heart of the matter.
The approach upon which Mr.. Davis
apparently has embarked is that it
might not be necessary to combat the
critically overcrowded Juvenile Court
docket with direct action. He seems
particularly impressed with reports that
the backlog of cases is declining, and
suggests that by further leSsening the
load the problem may be solved. These
arguments are SpeciouS, however, for the
backlog still remains, and the proposals
advanced for reducing it are unsound.
The major palliative, for example,
proposed by Mr.. Davis and by Police
Inspector John Winters, is to reduce the
age limit of offenders sent to Juvenile
Court from 18 to 16 years. Such a
change, Mr.. Davis says, would prevent
older Steen-agers "who commit murders,
robberieS and yokings" from being
"patted on the back and told to be
good mama's boys" This, of course, is a
fagrant Misrepresentation of the facts.
For, as members of the subcommittee
must know, the Juvenile Court already
has the authority to refer such serious
cases to the District Court for criminal
proSecution-and indeed such referrals
have reached proportions which cause
concern in the adult court. These
referralS, moreover, are and should
remain discretionary, according to the
nature of the offenSe and of the offender
in each instance, in order to avoid
unnecessary criminal actions against
youths for relatively minor violations.
Ironically, a substantial portion Of
the initial subcommittee testimony dealt
with charges which never get before
strongly that in many instances youths
erroneouSly escape court hearing be-
cause their cases are disposed of admin
iStratively. Any change in this area, of
course, would automatically compound
the dilemma of the single Judge who
now preSideS
Another thing which seems to be
bothering Mr.. Davis is that additional
judges might not be the total" solution.
Few solutions, indeed, do meet that
criterion, and any number of other re-
forms may also be desirable. But the
consensus of all who have studied this
problem, including the United States
Senate, is that additional judges are
the No. priority need. 1t is incon-
ceivable that the House subcommittee
should long remain the sole holdout
against more expeditions handling Of
the juvenile problem.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Bitter Pill

Last month I thought that
we had reached the depths
when some well-fed New
York butchers were caught
stealing meat from the
mouths of the poor by tip
ping the scales.
This crime yields pride Of
place to a new practice,
bravely opposed by Senator
Kefauver, where greedy in
dividuals in the drug indus
try allegedly have learned to
grow fat upon the misery of
other human beings.
One has confidence that
these abuses will be stopped
by government. The abuses
of the poor! Indeed, If the
poor are not from time to
time given relief in public,
notorious cases, they soon
learn to despise government.
And where are we then?
Old Timer.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Strophongers Lament Passing of TroIIeys

Transit riders should stop
q minute and ask who is
going to pay for Washing
tons "big switch to buses"
on the No. 20 Cabin John
line, No. 80 Friendship
Heights line, and the No. 10
Georgia avenue line, this
January 3.
Who else but transit rid
ers, with a 25-cent fare. And
who is going to benefit?
Motorists will, as they are
promised a saving of a cou-
pie of minutes driving time
on Wisconsin avenue and on
other streets where street.
car islands are removed. The
motorist is promised benefits
but at the transit riders ex-
pense.
This ridiculous situation
can be stopped only if every
trolley rider will write to
Senator Alan Bible, Chair
man, Joint Com mittee
on Washington Metropolitan
Problems, New Senate Office
Building, and urge the waste
full abandonment of trolleys
be stopped Immediately, be-
fore conversion date of jan
uary 8.
If we don't act now, we'll
see the 25-cent fare fought
for (the transit company has
to pay money for new buses
and track removaD. Well
see more big buses swinging
from lane to lane over our
streets. And we'll see Wash
ington in the springtime with
the sweet smell of lilacS and
magnolia blossoms fighting
it out with big blue clouds
of diesel fumes. This is
hardly a bargain.
Trolley riders arise!
william E. Barrett, Jr.
= 4 4
Away on business in North
Carolina, I have been advised
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Differs on Goals

On December l, Constan-
tine Brown addressed him
self to the question of
whether peace is one Of our
national goals, and con-
cluded that it is at best
secondary to honor, justice,
and freedom, and often
directly in conflict with those
worthy aims. His argument
was based on several fan
tastic and misleading as
Sumptions which cry aloud
for rebuttal.
How can any sane man in
this day and age believe
that war can either defend
justice and freedom or be
pursued in honor? Con-
stantine Brown feels that to
disarm will lay us open to
conquest by -"atheistic ma
terialism," and that we must
remain armed to the teeth
for purposes Of defense
against this fate worse than
death. The only trouble is
that it is precisely the arms
race, and its implicit horrors
Of nuclear war, which pre-
vent men from fighting for
freedom and honor. When,
for example, the HungarianS
rose for freedoms sake, we
had to sit quietly by as they
were crushed by the Rus
slams. Why? Because we had
no intention of getting our
selves obliterated for the
sake of anyone's freedom.
This, if you please, was
Christian materialism."
BY the same token, we are
not going to lift a muscle to
help any of the satellite ma
tions, nor are we going to
let our consciences bother US
too much about the plight
of the hapless victims Of such
bully boys on our side as
Rhee, Chang, Franco, or
Trujillo. 1t is doubtful that
honor ever had much to do
with why any major nation
went to war, but it is un-
questionable today that nu-
clear weapons have made
honor totally irrelevant as a
reason to start shooting. If
we decide to defend our in
terests by making the world
uninhabitable, it is obvious
that there will be neither
honor nor sense in 1t.
If Constantine Brown
really wants to see a world
in which nations can
struggle for freedom with
honor, let him advocate COM
plete disarmament down to
a real police level, with the
power to settle disputes
vested in the United Nations.
Warren w. Morse,
President, Washington
Committee for a Sane
Nuclear Policy,
Evening star., 1959-12-11
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

"Rehoboth Beach, Del.
Dear Sir:
"We have fed birds for
years. Since my husband re-
tired and we came here to
live, we have a variety Of
birds. Our house is beside a
small grove of pine trees.
1--WE have a number Of
feeders, but the one all the
birds seem to prefer is an
open platform nailed to a
large branch Of a cherry tree.
Lately, when / have taken
food out in the morning, the
platform is full Of dry 1ibrous
pellets Of straw or grass.
Can you tell us where
these come from?
I'VE at first thought it
must be from small barn
owls, though we have never
seen them about, but the
pellets are not Of bone or fur.
Very sincerely, B. w. W."
Our private beach boy says
these must be the empty seed
heads of a sedgelike grass
that grows on the dunes.
There are still farmlike
areas in that vicinity, so the
late winds of fall can blow
the empty heads all around.
The fiat feeding platform
would allow them to be blown
onto 1t easily, and there would
be enough of them to make
sure Of a representation.
The world of the sandy
beach has been written about
in several good books in
recent years.
These may be found at the
best book stores and are very
worth while to any one. but
especially to the person liv-
ing at the beach.
= =
Retirement to an Atlantic
beach has always been the
secret dream Of our friend
Templeton Jones.
In his saner moments, if
any, he knows he will never
do it.
Still, he likes to think about
it, in the way that many older
people think about Florida.
Actually, they realize they
will never go.
They have heard about the
mildew, and the giant cent?
pedeS, and the spiders as big
as teacups, and the hurri-
canes, and they wonder If
they would like it, especially
the centipedes.
So they stay home, and
are happy that they have
Evening star., 1959-12-11

Of the impending conversion
Of three main streetcar lines
to bus service. AS far as the
Friendship Heights and the
Georgia avenue lines are con-
cerned, it is a conversion
indeed. But this is not true
with regard to the Cabin
John line. The bus from
Union Station replacing the
streetcar is scheduled to
end at Key Bridge-Rosslyn
circle. The rest of the street.
car line to Cabin John is
simply dropped, and the un-
fortunate people of this area
are referred to the miserable
service of bus D-4. The "new"
busline from the vicinity"
of Cabin John is, in fact, not
a new busline, but an extern
sion of D-6, following from
Macomb street an entirely
different route, and so taking
transportation away from one
area and shifting it to an
other section of the city.
The public is, therefore.
grossly misled, when in the
official handout it is told that
the Cabin John car is ere
placed" by two bus routes. AS
the public had the right to
expect conversion means what
it says, the dropping of the
Cabin John route from Key
Bridge on must be called an
act of bad faith, and WASH
ington's newspapers should
have every reason to take a
strong stand against such
schemes, sailing under the
false sign of progress"
Ernst Breisacher,
Greensboro, N. c.
= =
I note, in reference to the
diScontinuance of the trolley
cars on Wisconsin avenue
that traffic lights are to be
changed and the timing stag
gered in order to give the
Evening star., 1959-12-11

this refuge left from the
dangers that confront the
Nation. as vividly pictured in
q brochure handed to them
recently by the postman.
-
The big map shows the
evacuation zone, and how
you are to flee the city in
case Of need.
1t doesn't say how you are
to make the long lines Of
cars move.
In everyday life, even If
one car gets out Of step, the
whole avenue is thrown into
immobility for half an hour
at a time.
What is it going to be like
when everybody and every
body and everybody, as the
lady said, and everybody's
pet dog and parakeet, are on
the lam, as the crooks say?
Nothing and nobody will
move.
How about evacuation
then?
What good will the "es-
Sential survival items" as
they are cheerily called, be
then, when miles and miles
OF cars are motionless, with
no hope of ever getting them
moving again?
Let us HE to the beaches.
then, while there is yet time.
Probably an Atlantic Ocean
beach is about as safe a place
as there will be in the dismal
world of the future.
Nobody but nobody but no.
body will waste warheads
costing a million dollars each
on a sandy beach, except by
misadventure. and there will
be plenty of that,
At the beach, the nature
lover can watch the intercon-
tinental missiles go over, and
while away the time between
blasts by counting the num-
Der of abandoned seed heads
on his bird feeding station
each morning.
1t is going to be fun, isn't
it?
The sun will still come up.
and the sensible bird viii
take cover, and the fishes
will swim down to the bot
tom of the ocean, and the
beasts of the forest will cover
amid the leaves.
It's going to be a grand day
and the worst part of it is
that there seems to be Moth
ing we can do about it except
pray to G cd. We don't trust
civil defense plans much.
Evening star., 1959-12-11

Chaturanga. 1t is mentioned
in Hindu literature at least
5000 years before Christ. II
spread through Burma to
Tibet, Siam, China, Malacca.
Java, and Borneo, and was
taken from China to Japan.
1t came westward through
Constantinople probably in
the sixth century. The Arabs
passed it to Syria, during the
seventh century. It was car
ried to Scandinavia and the
north and gradually spread
through Europe, by way Of
the Bosporus and the Danube
n @. Is there a term ror pne
earth corresponding to "at-
mosphere" for air?-F. C.
A. The solid earth is called
the atmosphere; the water is
called the hydrosphere. From
the Greek, lltho- and hydro
are combining forms meaning
stone" and water"
Evening star., 1959-12-11
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Earthquake Rocked AIosko Unnoted
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

Three-mile-high ice-capped
mountains literally danced"
Waters Of q small bay were
thrown 1900 feet up q noun
tainside in a titantic deluge
which swept away great
forests as If the trees were
match sticks. A great glacier
was hurled over a high noun
tain range like q white flying
carpet. Ships were tossed Is
feet or more out Of the
water. Over an area of $50
square miles the soil boiled in
sand craters, and there were
great landslides.
Such is the fantastic pic
ture pieced together mostly
from the testimony of four
eyewitnesses, by scientists of
the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey Of one Of the greatest
earthquakes in world history
which occurred last year in q
remote region of southeast
ern Alaska. 1t was almost un-
noted by the rest Of the
world, although slight effects
were reported as far away as
Hawaii and Valparaiso, Chile.
Evidence Confirms Stories
The nearly incredible sto-
ries Of the four living wit
nesses finally have been
checked bit by bit. They are,
for the most part, confirmed
by the physical evidence, re-
ports Capt. Elliot Roberts,
Coast and Geodetic Survey
earthquake expert, and the
extremely grotesque event
can be recorded as history.
1t is one of the Surveys jobs
to check on sizeable Quakes
wherever they happen in
United States territory. This
turns out to have been the
fourth largest. 1t might well
have been one of the major
catastrophes of history, ex-
cept that it was in q very
sparsely inhabited area.
There usually are plenty
Of witnesses to such a
spectacular event. This time,
however, the only close wit
nesses were a fisherman and
his wife and another fisher
man and his small son who
were fishing in Lituya Bay.
a six-mile- deep indentation
into the base Of the Fair
weather mountain range in
southeastern Alaska. Miracu-
lousy these four got out
alive. Two others-one a new
bride-who were fishing in
the bay at the time never
were seen again.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
Neat Wrop-Up

THANK you Tor Mary Nc
Grory's article on your Sum-
day book page, IAN Abject
Episode in Our Intellectual
Life" exploring the Van
Doren quiz show matter. In
a few glowingly indignant
paragraphs, she has wrapped
up everything that should be
said Of this sordid affair.
william E. S. FlOry.
Evening star., 1959-12-11

Survey experts locate the
so-called epicenter of the
disturbance, its point Of
origin, as about nine miles
under the Fairweathers. This
is quite shallow. as earth
quakes go. The average point
Of origin is about 80 miles
below the surface. There have
been instances, Capt. Roberts
says, Of as much as 500 miles.
AS a result Of stresses Of some
sort, perhaps due to a postu-
lated "wrinkling" of the
earth's skin. the relatively
light rocks fracture. Forces
involved are titanic. Earth
shaking waves are sent out
in all directions, even COM
pletely through the center
Of the planet. The EARTH
quake is the rebound" Of
the crust when tension Is
released by the fracture.
There are fair comparisons
OF this earthquake with the
greatest in history, such as
that centered at New Madrid,
Mo-, in 1911, when 5000
square miles Of Mississippi
Valley bottom land sank
about Is feet; that which
swept away a large part Of
Charleston, s. c., in 1886; or
the great San Francisco
quake of 1906. This quake
was as big as any Of them,
Capt. Roberts says.
Area Hit Before
This particular Alaskan
area appears to be an earth
quake fayorite. There must
have been an enormous one
there about 1858. Geodetic
Survey engineers found
young trees on about the first
500 feet of the mountain
slopes, with older trees above,
Their conclusion, which
seemed at the time too fan
tast:c to be true, was that
waters of the bay must have
risen 500 feet with great vio-
lence and completely swept
away the old forest on the
lower levels. They fixed ap-
proximate dates by means of
tree rings, for there was no
record of the quake.
But now, Capt. Roberts
says, doubters must be con-
vinced. The last quake left
the mountain slopes bare to
heights Of from 1900 to 1900
feet. 1t also swept away the
soil and left only bare rock.
Eventually soil will reform
and trees grow again. This,
he says, was by far the great
est rise Of water in history.
Evening star., 1959-12-11
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry sOrtterS correct
names and addresses. An
letters are subject to conden-
sdtion.
Evening star., 1959-12-11

@. How old is the custom
Of shaking hands to bind a
bargain?-A. w.
A. There is a reference to
this custom in Bible days
in II Kings, 10th chapter,
18th verse. Jehu saw Jehon-
adab coming to meet him,
and saluted him with the
question "Is thine heart
right, as my heart is with
thy hearth" Jehonadab an
swered, "It is. If 1t be, give
me thine hand" Jehu then
gave Jehonadab his hand and
took him up to him into the
chariot"
@. Who invented the game
of chesS?-G. Y.
A. No one knows when or
where chess originated. 1t
may have been a Chinese
game, or it may have orig1-
mated in India, where its
primitive form was called
Evening star., 1959-12-11
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Milford chronicle., 1959-11-06

cable requirements for the Defense
Missile Program as well as supply
ing all cables for the Chrysler
Tank Plant in Newark which are
used on the M60 tanks.
Jan Electronics employ many To-
cal people even though their ship
ments are made all over the free
world and they enjoy great
amount of business from electron-
les manufacturers. J. C. Thatcher
is chief engineer for the plant.
Another extremely important ad-
junct to their business is the sup
plying of special design cables for
radar early warming project to
RCA, General Electric and West
ern Electrical Co.
Thespian Troop No. 1921 of the
Lewes High School has selected its
first production of the present
school year, and will present a
comedy, Operation Ice Cube" in
the school auditorium on Dec. 4th.
Rehearsais WI start shortly for
the play, satire on an Eskimo
family 'sThe Squeezums Tickets
are being handled by all members
of the troop of approximately fifty
members.
The cast of Is is headed by Marty
Stango in the leading role. The
director is Mrs. Charles Warren of
the faculty, assisted by Miss Cathy
Stack.
The chairman of costumes is Car
oil Ritter Sets are being arranged
by Karen Cole. Others working on
the production staff are Carole
Ann Palmer, makeup; E mily
Truitt, chairman of tickets; Bundy
Heal, posters; Helen Foley, pro-
grams; Raymond Moore, lighting;
Suellen Maull, properties; Jane
Ingram, chairman of publicity.
The stage crew consists of Billy
Kuneman and Barry Snyder.
Delaware Archaeological Board
has announced that it has engaged
Mr.. Bert Salwen to make an arch
geological survey of Hercules Pow
der Company properties near Lew
es. The 800-acre Sussex County site
was bought by Hercules a year ago
for possible future expansion, but
since the company has no immed-
late plans for the site, permission
was granted the Delaware Archae-
illogical Board to conduct "digg-
ings" on the site.
DR.. Allen G. Schiek, chairman of
the Delaware Archaeological Board,
stated that the survey of the Her
cules lands would be undertaken
Immediately following the harvest
ing of the crops which are now
planted
Mr.. Salwen, who holds a degree
in mechanical engineering is pre-
sently research associate in arch
aeology in the Department of An
thropology of Columbia University.
where he is completing work for
his doctors degree in archaeology.
During the past summer he was
the field assistant with the Univer-
sity of Kansas Archaeology Expedi-
tion in South Dakota.
Mrs. Charles d. Baker of 713 Sa-
vannah Road, Lewes, has been ap-
pointed chairman of solicitors in
Milford chronicle., 1959-11-06

the 1853 Muscular Dystrophy Drive
by Harold Newcomb, the committee
chairman for the Lewes campaign
which will be held during the
month of November.
The appointee will coordinate
efforts with the campaign commit
tee chairman in recruiting .volun-
teers for the drive, assigning areas
to be covered and otherwise COM
pleting plans for the house-to-
house canvass from November 16
to November 20.
Mrs. Sadie Marshall of Lewes
will serve as campaign treasurer
for the.Lewes area. Volunteers are
asked to contact Mrs. Baker at her
home, if they can serve in the can
vass, or telephone her at Lewes
1859.
Ray ]. Bryan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Bryan, Lewes, who enlisted
in the Air Force September 18th,
has finished his basic training at
Lockland Air Force Base in Texas.
and is now going to the school of
electronics at the Keesler Air
Force Base in Mississippi.
Army Pvt. James L. Scott, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Benny Clark, Lewes,
participated with the 101st Air
borne Divisions 18th Infantry in
special STRAC strategic Army
Corps alert at Fort Campbell, KY,
October 10-17.
The 101st Airborne Division, a
major STRAC unit, constantly
maintains an immediate readiness
force for airborne deployment to
any area in the world. The first
company can be ready in one hour.
Within six hours, reinforced
battle group of 1,700 men can be
airborne.
Scott, an automatic rifleman in
the infantry's Company E., entered
the Army last January and received
basic training at Fort Jackson, S. C.
The 18-year-old soldier attended
William G. Jason High School in
Georgetown.
Howard o. Greene, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard o. Green, Sr.,
of 156 Kings Highway, Lewes, is a