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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
SPRING WF4IMSEY ON THE CANAL
BATON TWlRLERS
WILL COMPETE
AT FORT MYER !

The North Gym at Fort
Myer will be filled with
guided missiles-of a nom
military type-tomorrow.
when the second annual
Arlington Cherry Blossom
Baton Twirling Contest
gets under way at 9:l5 am.
More than TOO contestants
are expected.
The program will begin
with tiny tots" solo baton
twirling. with corps COM
petition scheduled at $3.50
pm. Fifty-five trophies and
1870 medals will be awarded
at $50 pm.
The contest is sponsored
by the Zonta Club of Ar
lington and the Arlington
County Department of Re-
creation and Parks. Don
Sartell. adjutant Of the Ma
tional Baton Twirling AS
ISOLATION. will be chief
judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Virginia Revenue
Up ST. Million

RICHMOND, Mar. 20 (AP)
State Controller Sidney C.
Day. jr.. reported yesterday
that general fund revenues
during the first eight months
of this fiscal year topped COL
lections for the comparable
period last year by $2.l million
General fund collections
through February totaied s5l.4
million.
Through February, indlvid-
ual income tax collections were
running SIT million ahead of
last years pace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Award Due DR.. Clark,
SO Years in Medicine

A jovial, ruddy-faced, blue
eyed 80-year-old physician, DR..
william Earl Clark. yesterday
received congratulations from
the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs.
Richard M. Nixon, for practic-
ing medicine here for more
than half q century. And he's
still active in his profession.
DR.. Clark on March 80 will re-
ceive the Doctors Day award
of the -Woman'S Auxiliary,
Southern Medical Associations
District chapter.
But inasmuch as Mrs. Nixon
will be out of town then. she
dropped around to the head
quarters of the District Medi-
cal Society at 1718 M street
NV. at 3 pm. yesterday to
offer fluctuations.
Views Plague
Mrs. Nixon posed with DR..
Clark for news photographers
and showed him the plaque he
will receive later. This reads:
ITO DR.. William Earl Clark:
In grateful appreciation Of his
many years Of service to the
medical profession on Doctors
Day, March 80, 1859. From
the District of Columbia
Woman's Auxiliary to the
Southern Medical Association"
DR.. Clark told reporters he
attributes his long. active life
to "the good genes inherited"
and the fact that he has taken
good care of himself. His
father lived to be SO. he re-
called.
Every morning before break
fast. DR.. Clark takes walk
in the National Geological Park.
He's up at 5:45 am. takes his
hike, has breakfast and then
he is down at Doctors Hospital
by $50 am.
Serves Three Generations
He works usually on Wednes-
days until $50 or 6 pm, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
SUNDAYS BEST READING
Mayor of Berlin Gives
Free World a Watchword

AN INSPIRING MESSAGE-Wily Brandt who as
Mayor OF Berlin stands in the hottest spot In the
cold war advises the West to never let the Russians
think you're weak" The courageous mayors first
signed interview for American publication ap-
pears this Sunday in This Week Magazine.
PEOPLE AND PRICES-Most talk of the economic
squeeze on Americas consumer is expressed in terms
Of statistics In SUNDAY, The Star Magazine you're
told about one family from nearby Falls Church,
Va, who developed plan to lick initiation. In
words and pictures you learn what they've
achieved and how they've done it.
SIX TIPS ON TAXES-With April is right around the
corner family finance expert Dexter M. Keezer
offers you six tips that net you important
ingS on your Federal income tax this year. Read
Six Ways to Really Save on Your Tax" in This
Week Magazine
TEEN-AGE ROUGH-N-TUMBLE-Som would call it
an ordeal, but Oxon Hill CMd) High School teen
ayers in athletics submit to rough treatment for
hours and call it fun For the story of Oxon Hills
"Al Sports Night" TEENS cover story this SUM-
day in The Star.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Recess Taken
On Pollution
By JOHN w. STEPP
Star Stan Writer

The House Public Works
Committee hearing on pro-
posed broadening of the Fed
eral anti-pollution grant DO.
gram will be resumed after the
Easter holidays.
The session. concerned
chiefly whit doubling annual
Federal aid to 500 million u
help communities build waste
disposal works, went into re-
cess yesterday after two days
of testimony.
More than a score Of wit
inesses representing a cross
section of expert and lay
public opinion have spoken
overwhelmingly in support of
increased grants. Opposition
testimony has come only FRI "
! in6ustrialists. in the form OF
the National Association OF
Manufacturers.
: Resumption date has beer
tentatively set for April +. A
that time Secretary Flemmins
of Health. Education and Wei
fare may testify.
i Heretofore. Mr.. FlemElinI
has spoken against expandil'
the clean-the-streams gran
program. This reflected tn
viewpoint of the White Hcus'
and the Budget Bureau.
Under present plans, Commit
tee Chairman Blatnik. Demo
crat Of Minnesota. hopes to cal
his group into executive ses'
sion the same week. The bill i:
expected to be reported to the
House by mid-April.
Aside from Mr.. Flemming
the April 8 witnesses will in
clude a number of CongreSSmen
believed to be strong proponents
of extended Federal aid to Ma
tion-wide pollution abatement
programs.
Proponents yesterday in
cluded Commissioner NJ. James
Gleason of the National Assocl-
alton of County Officials. who
asserted this is a vitality
needed assurance that America
may no longer be confronted
with the perils of contaminated
water"
Milton P. Adams of the Mich
igan State Water Resources
Commission, criticiZing tn e
NAM view, testified industry
cuts its own throat when it op
poses anti-pollution measures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

on other days, he quits around
2 pm. But he still makes house
calls for his old patients.
I've worked hard and played
hard" DR.. Clark observed.
DR.. Clark has treated three
generations of patients. He is
proud of the fact that he was
trained under the late famous
DR.. William Gerry Morgan, for
mer president of the American
Medical Association here.
DR.. Clark was president of
the District Medical Society,
l945-46. He received a special
citation in october. 1873, for
giving the society wise and
courageous leadership"
He was born in Philadelphia
attended Corcoran Scientific
School here and was graduated
in medicine from George Wash
ington University IN 1904.
DR.. Clark lives at 1888 Con-
necticut avenue NV, is mar
ried the second time his first
wife died in 1940-and has two
daughters and four srandchil-
dren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
THE RAMBLER WENT in

THE RAMBLER WENT in
for a moment of mental
arithmetic. Two hundred
thousand times "a is 4.8 mil
lion.
THAT would mean that the
gross income of the letter is
more than 81 million a year."
the Rambler exclaimed.
who writes it?" he asked.
Amusement had left him a
little less than tactful.
Il do" said Mr.. Kipiinger,
con that machine"
He pointed to an old No. 5
Underwood clackety-clacker,
on a stand to the left of his
desk. 1t was an unusual item
in the walnut-paneled Office.
Twelve reporters contrib
ute information for the let
ter. But ! write it. I'm at my
desk here working on 1t for
about two and a half days
in the latter part of the
week."
His method risks being
wrong. But he can't afford
to be wrong too often. When
He predicted Dewey's cleo
ton in 1948, he lost circula-
ton and revenue. "The most
expensive mistake l ever
made"
Mr.. Kiplinger also publishes
other letters, a tax letter, an
agricultural letter, ETC.. and
a monthly magazine, Chang
ing Times, which now has a
circulation of TOO, 900. Chang
ing Times costs about 81 mil
lion a year to produce and
brings in a little more than
"a million. 1t broke into the
black last year. He has his
own printing plant and en-
ploys about 400 persons in
Washington, 800 altogether.
While the magazine and
the letter have about the
same gross, there is one diff
ference. The letter doesn't
cost "a million to produce.
The difference between its
production costs and its 81
million income is a confidence
between Mr.. Kiplinger and
the Internal Revenue Service
that the Rambler did not try
to pry into.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20


Of leadership which people willingly follow whether
In Old Testament times the Goth century Christ,
Our Lord and Saviour in His infinite grace and mercy
beckons TO eternal leader if we will but follow
Moses is admired and revered for his temporal
leadership Christ loved each of His people sufficiently
to suffer and die on the cross that all who believe
might join Him in eternal life
1t has been source of personal inspiration to
know that Biblical heritage contains leaders like
Moses and Christ himself. All of should strive
leaders followers, to emulate their qualities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

tribes. A covenant with God was
established and the blood of ami
mails was offered as a sacrifice.
Through Christ's death and
the offering of His body and
blood as a living sacrifice, the
Christian world is bound in a
new covenant of redemption and
forgiveness of sins.
Even as Moses led the chill
dren of Israel to the gates of
the promised land, Christ has
shown us the way to an eternal
promised land through His death
and resurrection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Park Serv-
ice winds up its Raleigh
Hotel interpretive Ranger
Conference.
Continuing its conven-
ton, the Electronics Indus
tries Association meets in
the Statler Hotel.
Headquartered in the
Shoreham Hotel. the Amer
lean Camping Association.
Region 2. holds secondary
sessions.
This information supplied By
the Washington Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
USIA Offers
To Give Books
BacktoCounty
Buyer Interested
In School Texts,
Whittier Advised

Montgomery County school
officials can have their 10000
books back.
George v. Allen, director of
the United States Information
Agency. disclosed today he has
written School Supt. C. Tay-
lor Whittier to find out
whether the school board wants
to reconsider its giveaway off,
which has become a matter Of
controversy.
Mr.. Aliens offer to return
the books follows the disclosure
that at least one book company
representative is interested in
purchasing some Of them
Mr.. Allen asked DR.. Whittier
whether the school board de-
sires to reconsider the offer of
these books to the People-to-
People program"
Suitability Unquestioned
The USIA director empha-
sized that his inquiry does not
concern the question Of whether
the books are suitable for dis
ltrihution To schools systems
overseas.
He thanked the school board
for its interest in the People
to-People program and said
there is a large request" for
books from schools in foreign
countries"
A USIA spokesman said the
books, which had been prepared
for shipment by Washington
area lodges of B,nai Birth, are
now in a Government ware
house.
The USIA is waiting fol-
school officials to decide what
the disposition should be.
Club Voiced Protest
Earlier this week Joseph A
RoSick Of the Barnes g. Noble
Book Co. OF New York City sale
he would like q chance to MAKE
the school board an offer OF
some Of the books.
The book project becam,
controversial several weeks ag'
when members of the Mont
gomery County Conservativ,
Club protested giving ava!
what the group considered
county property.
Some of the books also were
criticized as n-American
and unfit for overseas distri-
button.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20


Island and for a water sports
center beside the Potomac.
Also slashed from the Ma
tional Park Service budget bid
for the year beginning July /
was $l.2 million to acquire Civil
War battlefields. Land at Get
tysburg. Antietam. Fredericks.
burg, Spotsylvania, Harpers
Ferry and Manassas was sought.
The National Capital Plan
ming Commission budget was
stripped of $60l 900 to buy
stream valley parks in Mary.
land, under the Capper Cram
ton Act. The committed AL
lowed $l50.000 to buy stream
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

the mother and the girls To-
yesr-old sister backed up Mr..
Johnson's testimony that ne
had only administered a slap
to the girl.
"A disciplinary slap across
the face would not cause a
black eye," protested Assistant
United States Attorney Maurice
Dunie, The girl fell to the
ground after the blow and the
defendant admitted that her
eye was blackened the next
morning, the prosecutor said.
However. Judge Smith noted
testimony that the girl had
splattered food on the kitchen
floor in a rage and had cursed
the defendant before he took
a swing at her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Erntrt1 ThuughtH
Ny Fovorite Bible Character
And His Significance Today
BY BERT TOLLEFSON, Jr.
Assistant to the Secretary OF Agriculture

Exceeded only by Christ himself, Moses is my
favorite Bible character. Some of the most inspira
tional and dynamic events in the Old Testament are
centered around this dynamic leader of Israel.
Moses-man on a mountain and mountain of
man.
During Lent it is we'll to recall Moses leadership in
building the altar with the IL pillars representing the IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
The
Ram bier
Meets
Man of Letters
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

a ~
Newspaper men in general
are against change. They
don't like innovations.
When PM came along
which did away with date
lines dublin, March l7-AP)
and jumpheads continued
on page S, col. 81 they said 1t
wouldn't 60. They were right.
But they also said the
same thing Of Time maga-
zine. And they were dead
against news broadcasts and
the later telecasts. Some
were honest enough to ex-
press fears that the casts"
would lessen the Importance
of the printed word as the
announcer OF what's new.
There was some division in
their disapproval Of all these
innovations. But they were
all against another form of
communication, the news
letter.
Well, to be cynical, nothing
succeeds in changing peoples
minds like success.
On Thursday evening at a
dinner at the Press Club,
Sigma Delta Chi, the honor
airy fraternity of Journalism,
hung the ribbon Of a fellow,
a high honor, around the
neck Of a man who crosses
more than "a million a year
by writing one news letter a
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

flSt curing an argument In the
family kitchen in the 5000
block OF Tenth place Sc.
This was most unfortunate,
put not a matter for the GRIM
inal courts" ruled the judge.
"A stepfather has some rights
as to disciplinary matters"
Mr.. JohnSon's actions were
possibly not orthodox" the
judge noted. But there was no
evil intent evidenced, he added.
Judge Smith pointed out that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Regents Warn
Tdwes. Against
Larger Board
Letter Sees Lock
Of Confidence in
Bill on University
ny CHARLES u. HOF
Star star Writer

Star star Writer
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 20.-Gov.
Tawes has been advised by
the chairman Of the University
of Maryland's Board Of Regents
that passage Of a bill to in
crease the size Of the board
would be viewed "as an express
sion of lack Of confidence in
the present board"
In a letter to the Governor. |
Chairman Charles p. McCor-
mick said he was speaking for
himself and a majority Of the
|i1-member board.
Disclosure that the Governor
had received the letter followed
q public hearing by the House
Education Committee on q bill
that would increase the board
from IL to Is. provide for geo.
graphical representation and
give university alumni control.
Mr.. Mccormick said the
board and the university adj
ministration "have been under
unjustifled attack by q small
group which has attempted to
have the board take certain
actions which the board, after
thorough and lengthy consid-
Grafton, feels it should not
take
Can't Attend Hearing
Mr.. Mccormick is a Balti-
more civic and business leader
and chairman of the board Of
Mccormick & Co. His letter.
delivered to the Governor yes
terday, was written because
Mr.. Mccormick had to be out
of town and could not attend
the hearing.
The letter was viewed here
as meaning that passage of the
bill might lead to mass resig-
nation by the regents.
The letter came to the Gov
ernor amid reports he had un-
officially indicated he favored
Increasing the membership.
but without a guarantee that
it would be packed with
alumni.
Elkins Scores Bill
University President Wilson
H. Eikins fired back at his crit
les during hearing yesterday |
and scored the bill as an at
tack on university policy
He said increasing he mem
bership lis an attempt to
change policies of the board
and policies of the adminls.ia-
tion." He also tagged as err
roneous the charges that ad-
ministration costs have been
soaring while school ellroll-
ment was dropping.
The full-time enrolment at
the College Park campus has
increased from $3.50 IN 1882
SO, the year before nc took
over, to 8.774 this year. he said.
The university's total enroll
ment. exclusive of its overseas
program. has jumped from
1888 to 1000 during the
same period.
Wilkinson Backs Bill
Proponents of the regents
bill were led by Ralph Shure,
Montgomery attorney and a
leading alumnus.
The bill also was supported
by House Speaker Perry o.
Wilkinson and DELEGATE Hervey
@ Machen, both Prince Georges
Democrats.
/ Joseph H. Deckman, a bitter
critic of the Elkins administra-
ton. touched of DR.. Elkin's
comment by a lengthy state
ment in which he said recent
publicity had put a stigma on
DR.. Elkins. Mr.. Deckman is i'm
mediate past president of the
alumni council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
u Park Program
Cut by S. Million
Amount Includes $3.7 Million
In Projects Requested for Area

IS million left in the Federal parks program To
benefit the Washington region today by the House Appopra
tons Committee. t.E
Committeeman disaowed $37 million in area projects in
GLIDING requests for parking lot the proposed sports
dunn near the Amory for picnic at Fort Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Already Appropriated

900 for this purpose in Mary
land.
Already Appropriated
Virginia officials asked to
participate in the Capper-
Cramton program for the first
time this year. But some STA
million already has been ap.
propriated to acquire such
parklands in Maryland.
The appropriation action
apparently did not jeonardize
the stadium, Fort Washington,
Daningerfeld Island and the
water sports center over the
long run. These items we're
listed incorrectly in one sec
ton of the budget, committee
men said. They took them out
of the wrong section, but cid
not reinsert them in the right
sec ion.
A staff aide explained park
officials could ask for ttem
again next year
The committee recommended
land for eight park tracts.
including the Natl nal Cultural
Center site. should be bought in
the District next year at a cost
of sig million.
S355,OO0 for Center
A 1.2-acre parcel of the nine
acre cultural center site re-
mains in private hands. The
commission now has $355.000
to buy that land
Other approved park pur-
chaSes we're:
Georgetown Recreation Gen.
ter, Thirty-ninth street and
Reservoir road N.W.-property
consists Of 12.5 acres, almost
all undeveloued. just west of
Western High School.
Petworth playground, Eighth
and Taylor streets N.W.-This
will be a small children's play
ground of about ono acre Now.
old frame semidetached houses
occupy the land.
For Teen-Agers
Adams-Morgan demonstra-
ton project playground-De-
signed for teen-agers. this park
will serve youngsters who now
must travel nearly three-quar-
tiers of a mile from their homes
in the neighborhood to recre-
alton areas.
| Wheatley School Northeast
Playground, Monticello avenue
and Morse street NE.-The
tract is circled by one of the
city's most densely populated
areas. Improved property must
be acquired.
North-Sherman avenue park
playground. New Hampshire
avenue and Park road NV
About IL acres will be pur-
chased and developed with
trees, shrubbery and lawns for
adults and small children under
parental care.
Palisades Park - Several
scattered small parcels will be
added to the present l94-acre
park here.
Downtown tract - The land
will be taken so that a land
Scaped area may be retained
south Of E street after it is
extended from Twentieth to
Twenty-firSt streets NV. by
the District Highway Depart
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20
Right Of 'e;sc aiher
10 Discipline Upheld

stepfather has the right quell stepdaughters dis
little force If necessary. Municipal Court
Judge John Lewis Smith. jr, ruled toGif'-.
He acquitted the stepfather. Robert johnson. 49, OF
assault charge brought his attractive brunei stepdaughter
Barbara Jean Reige II
She had accused blackening her left with his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

THIS MOST SUCCESSFUL
letter writer since Paul is
willard M. Kiplinger of the
"Kiplinger Washington Let
ter, Circulated Privately to
Businessmen"
In response to the presen-
tation, Mr.. Kiplinger said
that he had always wanted
to be a reporter. Once a re-
porter, he realized that re-
porters know more than they
can say under the rules of
newspaper publishing. They
can't say, "The bill won't
pass" without quoting some
source.
Il decided that I wanted
TO say what / knew he said,
$50 l started the letter"
That was in 1923.
Yesterday morning. the
Rambler called on Mr.. Kip
linger In his Editors Euild-
ing, 1929 H street NV, 70
delve further into this sue
cess story.
He is q tall, white haired-
man OF So who likes to talk.
The brevity Of his epistola-
tory prose is balanced by his
loquaciousneSs. He hates to
be Feticent but the interroga-
ton brought. him to a point
wnere he would reveal no
more.
The information that the
annual subscription to the
letter Is $Z4 nao ALREADY peen
ELECTED.
"1ts circulation" he coun-
tered. That's a secret. I'm
not going to tell you.
"But / will tell you this.
Persons who have had much
more time and resources to
play sleuth have arrived at
the figure of 100000 have
not denied or confirmed it.
But I will also tell you this.
If that figure were too far
off, l would deny it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-20

parks in Virginia and $780,
900 for this purpose in Mary
land.