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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
7 ronsit Seeks to Void
District Fuel Toxes

The D. c. Transit System to-
day asked the Public Utilities
Commission to change its
formula for determining the
firms profit base, so that it
would not be liable for pay
ment of about $380,O00 in mo-
tor vehicle fuel taxes.
The transit petition asked
that the present rate base
method be abandoned for an
operating ratio method of de-
termining the profit base.
The company said that I'M
der the rate base method it
will be liable for the taxes.
On Friday the company re-
leased income figures showing
an 81 per cent increase in net
operating income for the IL
month period ending last
month.
P. U. C. officials also said
the income figures indicate
that the firm would be liable
for the full taxes. This would
be the first time Transit has
had to pay the full taxes since
o. Roy Chalk acquired the
company.
The P. U. c. determines II
the net operating income in a
12-month period amounts to
6.5 per cent of the rae base.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

The present rate base is $l4.5
million, the value placed on
the firms tangible property.
Gross operating revenues -
which the firm is asking the
P. U. c. to use instead as the
basis for calculating profits -
amount to $25 million.
Special assistant Corporation
Counsel Lloyd Harrison said
that the P. U. c. has no au-
thority to grant the transit
firms request to change the
profit formula except when it
is considering a proposed change
in the fare schedule.
When D. C. Transit asked
and was granted a new fare
schedule last year, the PUG.
used the rate base method as
the basis for its decision.
The PUG. earlier this year
informed the company that be-
fore it would shift to a gross
operating revenue method it
would require the company to
abandon at least SIS per cent
of it's street car tracks as part
of its conversion to bus opera
ton.
D. C. Transit said in its petit
ton today that this point in
track work is expected by De-
rember 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

each offense. too great a range
between the petty violation
and the gross violation of the
same law to justify a fixed
bond or collateral.
You won't get good law en-
forcement this way" he said.
Notes Inequities
Mr.. King said his Office could
live with a standardized list Of
minimum bond f1xings. as in
traffic court. But the new list
carries no minimums, only a
fixed figure for each offense.
He noted several categories
where inequities in bond-fixing
might be most fragrant" under
the new listing: industrial
safety standards, building vio-
lations, disorderly conduct,
child-placing agency licenses
and minimum wages.
Mr.. King voiced particular
concern over the child-placing
agency license category. This
is the area in which so-called
"baby brokers" flourish. The
maximum penalty for some
violations in this category
wouldn't be enough" he said.
Judge Smith, as the courts
judicial spokesman although
the decision for a uniform list
was made during former Chief
Judge Leonard P. Walsh's ten
ure), agrees with Mr.. King to
this extent.
He is concerned that the
really big operators" under
the new system will post only
minimum bonds and collateral.
the same as the small operator.
But he points out that the
large, well-heeled operator is
less likely to Jump bond any
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

portunity comes every mans
way once in his lifetime. This
was our opportunity and we
grabbed it.
I'VE both made our living
by working on machinery and
heavy construction jobs. We
didn't have any money but we
figured we might have enough
know-how to take the gamble. "
The next day the two boarded
the African Queen. They
watched patiently as watermen
continued stripping the ship,
At nightfall. when the water
men moved away, Mr.. Little
and Mr.. DER stayed. The
watermen returned the next
day to find them waiting with
shotguns.
1--WE let them know we meant
business. Under international
law the ship was ours and we
meant to keep it," Mr.. Little
said.
Backing Found
They first planned to dis
assemble the vessel and sell
it piece by piece. But soon
they began to feel they could
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

lations, to insure thigh quality
and purity" of milk here.
Conference Held
The proposed changes grew
out of an industry-wide con.
ference held a few months ago
to determine what revisions
should be made. The confer
ence brought together the
Maryland-Virginia Milk Pro-
ducerS Association with repre-
sentatives of Sealtest and 9TH
er diaries.
The Maryland-Vir dairy
farmers coop for the most
part is indorsing the %pro-
posed changes.
In his statement, DR.. Finu-
cane said that changes in
required minimum bacteria
counts and refrigeration re-
quirementS give IAN added
safeguard" He explained that
"a low bacterial count in milk
is measure of its high quality
and purity and adds to its
shelf-life."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
Pepper-HurIing Suspect
Captured by Bus Driver

A would-be robber was cap
tured in a wild melee aboard a
D. c. Transit System bus early
today after he threw pepper
in the drivers eyes, police said.
Joseph Taylor, 80. of 1908
Annapolis road. Hyattsville,
Md. said he was sitting in his
bus parked at Sixtieth and East
Capitol streets shortly after
midnight when a man climbed
aboard and asked change for
a quarter.
AS Mr.. Taylor was about tc
hand him the change, the mar
tossed a handful of pepper in
his eyes. Mr.. Taylor struck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
Strietness Urged
On Youth Crimes

District Judge Alexander
Holtzoff today urged that
young criminals" not be treat
ed as misunderstood persons
but as "the lawbreakers they
obviously are"
The jurist's comments were
in an address prepared for de-
livery today at the Institute of
Federal Probation Off1cers
meeting at Indiana University,
Bloomington.
After outlining with approval
the stricter discipline enforced
at home and at school a gen.
Grafton ago. Judge Holtzof de-
clared:
Further discipline was i'm
posed by the police, who had
more leeway a generation ago
to curb crime than the police
are allowed today. Young
criminals were not treated as
a group apart. They were not
considered as misunderstood
persons, but were regarded as
lawbreakers, which is what they
obviously are"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
The
Rambler
-. Is Tripped Up
By Homecoming
BY MICHAEL MOK


There's a world of diff
ference between going to
school in Annapolis and at
Annapolis.
Those who went in prob
ably attended st. Johns Col
lege founded 1880, a small
liberal arts school, while the
at faction invariably were
graduated from a certain
service academy.
1t would have been a fine
week end to visit the town
for the Substitute Rambler,
who went to school in
Annapolis, if:
The academy had not
chosen that very Saturday
to dedicate a sports stadium
for the development Of
latent leadership potential;
They had not been so tact
less as to usurp the time of
our visit as Homecoming
Week End;
They had not won their
football contest;
The midshipmen and their
girls had looked Just a little
less fresh, bright-eyed and
alive;
And the red-haired lass
who took the ramble with
us had not asked: What's
tn at place across tn e
street?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

1t also ended the Corpor-
alton Counsel's prerogative OF
fixing bond and collateral for
other law violations.
Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Clark F. King has chal-
lenged the legality of the judges
to prescribe bond and collateral
flxings without first seeing a
defendant or hearing the mer-
its of an individual case.
He has also condemned the
new standardized list as com
pletely iniexible."
The list is not yet completed.
When revised and approved by
the judges, it will list fixed
bonds and collateral for some
400 District violations ranging
from failure to pay sales taxes
to keeping pigeons without a
permit.
Aims for Uniformity
It's purpose, according to
Chief Judge John L. Smith. jr.,
is to take the discretion of set
ting bopds and collateral "out
of the hands of the police" and
to place it under judicial aus
pieces where it belongs"
The new list, he adds, will
bring uniformity to bond
fixing. Hitherto, the various
precincts frequently set differ
ent bonds and collateral for
cases involving the same type
of offense.
THE purpose Of fixing bond
or collateral is not to punish,
remember" said Judge Smith,
but simply to guarantee a
mans appearance in court"
The judges desire for uni
formity. however, paradoxically
has brought on Mr.. Kings
charges of ineQuity.
He feels there are too many
shades in the seriousness Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

the assailant, knocking him
onto a seat. and jumped on
him.
Two youths passing got a
board and helped Mr.. Taylor
hold the suspect until police
arrived.
Iii the struggle, Mr.. Taylor
was bitten on the chest and
struck several times in the
face, police said. He was treated
at District General Hospital.
The suspect was identified
as John Coates. 80, of the 500
block of East Capitol street.
He was charged with assault
with intent to commit robbery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

do so because of its control Of
the Washington milkshed.
He was the first of about II
witnesses representing Sealtest
scheduled to testify on pro-
posed changes in the Districts
milk regulations. He said that
despite the changes, which
would update part of the
milk code, the regulations re-
main "a trade barrier" in this
market.
He said the Districts milk
regulations force Sealtest to pay
the coop the high prices it de-
mandS.
"The proposed regulations
will perpetuate this situation, "
Mr.. Brawner said.
$40 Minimum Price
He pointed out that a Fed
eral market order here has es-
abolished $40 as the minimum
price for a hundredweight GAG
quarts) of raw milk. The
MISUNDERSTANDING coop has
charged an additional 40 cents
as premium on high quality
milk.
This premium payment de-
mand triggered a bitter milk
war between the coop and sew
eral diaries here, led by Seal
test, earlier this year.
District Health Director
Daniel L. Finucane today urged
the Commissioners to adopt
the revisions in the milk regu-
lations. some of which are
stricter than the existing regu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

ON THE WAY we told her
that st. Johns had no sports
events with other schools, as
the students are too busy
coping with the New
Program.
The program is called new
because it was launched
some 20 years ago. Actually
it was pretty old hat when
John Milton was teething on
a Greek grammar.
1t consists Of reading most
of the classics of the West
ern world, many Of them in
their original languages. On
the lighter side, the under
graduates spend hours in the
laboratory, attending lee
lures, and discussing the
good, the true and the beau
tiful in seminars.
Between times, they attend
language and mathematics
tutorials. These groups are
small and are led by pipe
smoking tutors, who appar-
emily want to prepare their
charges for an intellectual
life in the smog of Los
Angeles.
We attained the inner
precincts of the Naval Acad-
envy just in time to watch
evening formation. Rosy
checked lads in starched
whites took leave of their
loved ones with enough So
lemnity to make US think an
icebreaker was waiting on
the tide.
Faster than you can say
"anchors aweigh," about
1000 of them were lined up
by companies in the dank
stone courtyard.
A sharp word of command
set the entire formation into
motion; the band struck up
a brave air, and the young
men began marching up the
steps and into the medieval
building.
AS she watched the white
hats vanishing in the
vaulted doorways, the red
head was moved to take her
companions hand.
II think that's very
beautiful" she said.
1t was, indeed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
ITS A TRADE SCHOOL

ITS A TRADE SCHOOL
they teach plumbing or some
SUCH" we replied, resuming
our fascinating narrative of
cats dissected long ago. We
were standing in the center
of st. Johns campus, which
Is slightly larger than a
pocket handkerchief.
But what's that noise?"
she insisted, referrin 6
perhaps to the thunderous
cheers booming from the
Naval Academy.
Probably demonstrations
against the food-they serve
beans quite often over there"
we countered, and tried to
distract here with reminis-
cences of a beard and the
struggles with Plato and
Aristotle. (The beard was
pretty much of a failure, as
1t RESENT led nothing so
much as the sprouts that
come from a sweet potato
stuck in waterD
II just bet they're having
a football game over there, I"
the redhead said petulantly.
Then the Substitute RAM
bier admitted having seen
signs saying BEAT Sidwell
Friends"
You're fibbing-Friends is
a high school,"
slippery Rock State
Teachers College?"
Nothing would do but
what we had to go into the
enemy mp and look
around. It was small conso-
lation that she got her spike
heel wedged between two
cobblestones crossing the
street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

sible 50 to SO million fortune.
In the six months since
March they completed a task
the experts said was impossible.
They raised the African
Queen from the boot-shaped
Atlantic shoal which wrecked
her December 80, 1858.
And they kept her afioat dur
ing q 103-mile voyage to Nor
folk which port officials feel
has never been duplicated.
Aching and groggy from lack
of sleep, the amateur salvagers
reeled from deck to bunk to
deck again.
They could spare only a few
minutes from the pumps which
kept the sea from claiming the
Queen again.
Hundreds of Norfolk resi-
dents stayed awake to greet
the Tidewater Virginia SAL
vagers as the tugs inched the
tanker to dockside early yes
terday.
Their wives ignored sweat,
CRIME and whiskers to embrace
them.
Eve Made II"
One of the men sobbed to
his wife: "Oh God, we made it.
but I could never do it again."
The drama began when the
Sc million Liberian tanker
crashed into the shoal 10 miles
of Ocean City. Md. with a
blow that tore away her bow.
The frightened crew was
hoisted ashore by an air lift
provided by the military serv-
ices.
Owners of the vessel, African
Enterprises. called in profess
sional salvagers to raise the
three-year-old German built
ship. After days of study, the
international salvage syndicates
declined the job as too risky.
Two months later, the owners
officially abandoned the vessel
and watermen from Ocean City
and LeweS. Del, swarmed
aboard to claim an estimated
$250,000 in supplies, furniture
and movable machinery.
One waterman, Lewis Bert
rand of Lewes, was drowned
while trying to salvage the 200
foot bow section which had
ripped away from the 400 foot
stern.
Salvage Planned
Reading of Mr.. Bertrand's
death in the newspapers, Lloyd
DER and Belden Little of
Holland, Va, decided to salvage
the tanker's giant stern.
1--WE knew that the mans
death would scare other SAL
vagers and we decided that
this was the time to make a
move.
I'VE figured it this way: OPP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

ROANOKE, Va, Sept. % (AP).
DIR. Lawrence G. Derthick.
United States Commissioner of
Education, will make the key
note speech at the annual con-
vention of the Virginia Congress
of Parents and Teachers at Ho-
tel Roanoke, october 12-14.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
NINE EXPECT TO SPLIT 81 MILLION
African Queen Salvage Is Sea Saga
BY GENE ROBERTS
Contributing Writer

NORFOLK. Va, Sept. o.
Two armed men crawled up the
jagged plating of a rusting
ghost ship on a chilly after
noon in March.
Today they and seven others
are waiting to collect a pos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
BuIIet Course Set

Weekly lessons in pre-ballet
and ballet for children 4 years
Of age and older will begin Oc-
tober 8 at the Kensington Co.
operative Nursery School, 1902
Decatur avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
SeoItest BIomes Coop
For High Milk Prices
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star stan Writer

The Maryland Virginia dairy farmers cooperative
attacked today by spokesman for Chestnut Farms Seae
Dairy for charging diaries high price for milk
At hearing before the District Commissioners David NJ
Browner representing Seatest Foods said the has in
sisted setting prices arbitrarily and unlateray" and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
Fixed Collateral
Ruling Stirs Row
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Challenges Courts Decision
BY LANSING LAMONT
star star Writer

Legal sparks have begun to fly in Municipal Court
decision last week by its Judges to Ak all bonds and collateral
for minor oenses in the District under uniform listing
The decision ended 4O-year practice of letting precinct
police set bond and collateral for such msdeameanos nox
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

raise the ship and float 1t to
shore.
They persuaded real estate
man A. E. Sadler and appli-
ance dealer Paul Brady, both
of Suffolk, to back the VEN
ture.
Their wives recruited per-
sonnet for the job.
Workers Pearley Strait of
Portsmouth, Henley Doughtie
of Holland, Maurice Sermons
of Norfolk, Woodrow Grips of
Washington, N. C. and Mack
Duncan of Suffolk agreed to
work for a $40 per week salary
plus a minimum $1,000 bonus
if the venture succeeded.
1t took six weeks to build
an 11-ton patch to At over
a gaping hole in the starboard
side.
Almost two months of diving
operations were required to
lower the patch and bolt it in
place.
This was the key to the
whole operation" said Mr..
Strait. DER figured out how
to do 1t. That guy is a me-
chanical genius. If it hadn't
been for him the entire opera
ton would have failed"
Lived on Board
Meanwhile the men lived on
board the vessel, doing their
own cooking and washing. They
slept in rooms covered with
slime left by the vessels 21.000-
ton cargo Of crude oil. The
cargo was washed away by the
sea.
Every wave broke over the
tanker's low deck. The men
had to swing from the forward
to after cabin by ropes sus-
pended from booms-like sea-
faring TarZans.
Few people along the Mary
land coast thought the men
could make 1t.
But out there we didn't
worry and we didn't get lonely"
said Mr.. Strait. 1--WE worked
until we dropped and we went
to sleep talking about ways to
bring the ship to shore"
In mid-September, the patch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

was in place. On September 81,
after days of pumping, the ship
wallowed off the shoal.
After the ship began to float,
sleep came only rarely. The
bearded men worked the pumps
around the clock. averaging
two hours sleep per day.
Slept Standing Up
Mr.. DER went to sleep stand
ing up. The men led him to
bed time after time. But he
refused to go to sleep.
Il can't make myself" he
said. Its a crazy feeling but
I can't make myself lie down. "
The tug Mary L. McAllister
took the Queen in tow at 4 pm.
Thursday.
The men continued working
at the pumps. fearing that
Hurricane Oracle would storm
up the coast.
AS the tug crawled along at
2 miles an hour. the men lived
in constant fear they would
exhaust fuel for the generator
which powered the pumps.
AS the corpse of the ship
neared the harbor, the men
were too weary to celebrate
boisteriously.
Mr.. Duncan could only say:
I'm glad to see the shore.
Man, you Just don't know how
glad I am"
Brady Breathed Easier
Mr.. Brady, who hopes to sell
the ship for 50 to So million to
a firm wanting to put 1t back
in service again, breathed
easier.
For six months now, I've
felt like I've had a bull by the
horns" he said. II couldn't
let go.
Frankly, I jumped into this
thing without a lot of thought,
pretty soon I had so much
money invested I couldn't quit.
"I'll be honest with you,
there were many times I wished
I had never entered this
venture.
I'll tell you this, when I
get back to my appliance bust
ness I'll stay there. No more
salvaging for me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28

Editors note: Gene Roberts wos the
only reporter aboard the Afrieon
Queen while il was being towed ITO
miles from off oeeon City. Nd, to
Norfolk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-28
Hansen Puts
School Dispute
Up toPTA
Hopes to Lift Curb
On Activities of
Raymond Unit

District School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen said today it was up to
the city's parent-teacher Or
CARNATIONS to solve a situation
at Raymond Elementary School
which he said forced him to
ban the schools PTA from
meeting in the building.
DR.. Hansen said he was
obliged to take the step be-
cause the schools PTA leader
ship was getting in the way OF
the normal instruction of chill
dren.
THE correction Of the situa-
ton" DR.. Hansen said, "has to
be made by the PTA organiza-
ton. We want to reactivate
the program as soon as we
can"
DR.. Hansen's action followed
a long string Of disputes be.
tween the principal of the
school, Miss Edith M. Williams
and the president Of the
schools PTA, Mrs. Henry
Thomas.
President Reflected
Mrs. Thomas served a.
president of the organization
last year and was reelected
last spring to another term
Her child. however, due to 9
rezoning of school boundaries
was required to attend Powell
Elementary School this year
Raymond is located at Tenth
and Spring road NV. Powell
is at Upshur street between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets NV.
Miss Williams said today "it
was not possible with the inter-
ference of the present leader.
ship of the PTA to fulfill my
responsibility to the children.
She said it was her hope tc
have a fine PTA at the
school," She reported no diff
Guilty with most of the parents
DR.. Hansen said Miss Will
liams was an outstanding
principal and was supported
by the teachers of the school.
She has been principal for two
and one-half years.
PTA to Investigate
Mrs. c. Rhodes Cox, presi.
dent of the District Congress
Of Parents and Teachers, said
she would investigate the situ-
alton Immediately. She prom
ised a statement later today,
She indicated she would work
for some agreement between
the principal and the president,
Mrs. Cox added that the
Board of Managers of the PTA
the group which determines
city-wide policy on school mat.
tiers, was powerlesS to direct
any action in the case.
She said the Raymond Schoo
PTA was autonomous"
Mrs. Thomas was not avail
able for comment and was re.
ported by a resident in hel
home. 1908 Quincy street NV.
to be somewhere in Mary
land"
Wife Of Union Man
She is the wife of a former
president Of the Building
Laborers' Union, Local "a. Ir
December Of 1850, Mr.. Thomas
appeared before the House Un.
American Activities Committee
and testified he had Joined the
Communist Party in 1887 but
had resigned in the spring Of
1913.
One source told The Star
that one cause of the trouble
between Mrs. Thomas and Miss
Williams has been the PTA
presidents refusal to consult
with the principal before calling
meetings.
1t was also learned that
during the tenure of a previous
principal, parents we're giver
the run of the school," The
practice, the source reported
was ended by Miss Williams.
Otherwise, both school anc
PTA officials refused to say
what specifically has resulted
in the split between the two
individuals.