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Evening star., 1959-12-22
DRIVER TRAINING
Plan Offers
Free Boost
In Glasses

A major reorganization of the
driver education program in
Montgomery County schools
would-at no extra cost-triple
the number of students receiv-
ing driver training, county
schools heads were told last
night.
A report submitted to the
school board by a citizens ad-
viSory committee appointed last
April strongly urged abandon
ment of the present program
in favor of a multiple-car prac-
tice driving program.
The proposal was warmly
backed by the boards admins
trative staff. Assistant Supt.
John Permenter said adequate
driver training has become a
life or death" necessity. He
added that the report was a
classic example of what can
be accomplished by a lay ad-
visory committee.
DR.. William A. Early, di-
rector of Curriculum Develop
ment. declared the multiple
car plan would cut the per-
pupil cost of driver education
from $40 to between $40 and
$25.
Under the proposed training
an instructor sta
toned in an observation tower
uses an amplifier and loud
speaker to direct as many as
80 student trainees using 10
practice cars in one class
period. The tower overlookS
a special driving range. A stu
dent assistant who is a Ii
cenSed driver is assigned to
each car.
Culbert Laney. chairman of
the committee. said the current
cost of driver education in the
county is $4,000, most of
which is expended for the SAL
aries of l9 driving instructors.
He said the new plan, using
only seven or eight instructors,
would provide training for ap-
proximately 1900 students in
the tenth grade-about three
times the present number of
student trainees.
Committee m bers and
school officials estimated the
would cost $4,000 if
initiated next year. About
S50,000 of this amount would
be used for the construction
of towers and driving ranges.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
County Is Asked
To Bon All But
S-Type Fuses

The Montgomery County
Council today was asked to
outlaw ordinary electrical fuses
in new construction by re-
quiring the installation of S.
type fuses or circuit breakers.
The recommendation was
made by Erwin S. Bucklin,
chief Of the county's Depart
ment Of Inspections. and
Licenses. who said that fire
investigators have estimated
that one-third of all house
fires may be caused by over
loaded electrical circuits. He
said that during the Christmas
season especially, overloaded
circuits are more common.
Council members, noting
that the recommended elec-
trical code amendment might
provoke considerable opposi-
ton, agreed to hold a public
hearing on the proposal at 8
pm. January %, in the County
Office Building, Rockville.
County officials said the
principal advantage of the S.
type fuse is that it prevents
plugging a blown fuse with a
penny.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Abandonment
authorized on
;3Cur Lines

The D. C. Transit System
today has formal authority to
abandon three main Streetcar
lines on January 8 as part Of
its program of conversion to
= an all-bus operation.
. The District Public Utilities
/, Commission yesterday issued
orders permitting the company
to replace the Georgia avenue
Seventh street, Wisconsin ave-
nue. and Cabin John sareetcar
lines. Buses will be operated
along the same routes street.
cars now cover on the Georgia
,avenue-Seventh street and
wisconsin avenue car lines.
Substitute service on the
Cabin John line will involve a
new shuttle bus from Cabin
John to Manning place, where
passengers will be able 70
transfer to the present Glover
Park bus route. A new rush.
hour bus will be operated from
the Manning place terminal to
Ninth street and Constitution
avenue. Another substitute bus
line will operate between Ross
lyn circle and Union Station.
The commission also ordered
that streetcar stops, passenger
loading platforms and safety
zones along the streetcar routes
be removed
The commission released a
letter written to A. M. Sirkin of
6525 Wiscasset road, who along
with other Cabin John resi-
dents opposed the abandon
ment of the streetcar route.
The letter pointed out that the
D. c. Transit franchise requires
complete conversion to bus
operations by August, 1868. The
PUG said no public hearing
will be held at this time, but
If the substituted bus service
proves inadequate a public
hearing may be called later.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Springfield Firemen
Nay Fight Rejection

A battle before the Fairfax
Board Of County Supervisors
was brewing today over the
County Fire Commissions re-
fusal to make the Springfield
Volunteer Fire Department a
full-f1edged fire company.
The commission ruled last
night that the Springfield de-
partment could come into the
fire fighting system as an
auxiliary unit.
Milton Alexander, chairman
Of a committee of the COM
mission, said the Springfield
department should try to
qualify as all l9 other depart
mentS have.
Mr.. Alexander said this
process includes building a
fire house, setting up the
equipment and operating as
an auxiliary for two years to
make sure the department
functions properly.
Robert A. Sloan. president OF
the Springfield department,
charged today that the COM
missions regulations had been
amended three weeks ago spe-
officially to prohibit his depart
ment from coming into the
system as a full-fledged COM
pany.
Mr.. Sloan said his depart
ment in all probability would
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Boord Suspends
Fuirfux Policeman

Fairfax County Police Pvt.
Wayne T. Frakes, 20, was found
guilty yesterday by a police
trial board of being drunk off,
duty and of causing a four car
accident.
County Police Chief William
L. Durrer said the trial board
decided that Pvt. Frakes, a
passenger in a car driven by
County Police Pvt. Billie j.
Lamb, caused the accident by
throwing the car into reverse
while it was travelling at As
miles an hour.
Pvt. Lamb, %, and Pvt.
Frakes, and a third off-duty
policeman, Milton Goff were
among eight persons injured.
Pvt. Lamb was exonerated of
any wrong-doing in the acci-
dent. But the trial board
recommended an official repri-
mand for allowing himself to
become involved, Chief Durrer
said.
Pvt. Frakes was given a To-
day suspension. The board
decided to deduct $187 from
his pay for that period.
Evening star., 1959-12-22

at his home in Mago Vista,
near here.
Fred A. Zoeller, a member Of
the Earleigh Heights ambu-
lance crew, said Mr.. Hilgen-
berg was lying in the hallway
fully clothed when they ar.
rived. He appeared to have
been stricken while preparing
to leave the house, Mr.. Zoeller
said.
Mr.. Hilgenberg operated a
seafood business in Baltimore
and long has been prominent
in city civic affairs and State
Democratic politics. He was a
former head Of the city fire
board.
Gov. Tawes named Mr.. Hill
genberg to a four-year term
as State banking commissioner
May 6 succeeding William H.
Kirkwood, jr., of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Maryland Agents
Seize Another on
Liquor Charge

Maryland alcoholic tax agents
last night charged another man
with importing from the Dis
trict alcoholic beverages on
which there was no State tax
stamp.
Agents identified the man as
Albert Regeon, 81, of the 3700
block of Fortieth avenue. Cot
tage City, a plumber.
Regeon was stopped on
Route so near the Baltimore
parkway while carrying three
cases Of beer and eight
bottles of assorted liquor,
agents said. They said he
posted $3.50 collateral pend
ing hearing January IL in
Hyattsville Police Court.
Altogether, agents have ar
rested three men in Mont
gomery County and two in
Prince Georges during their
annual Christmas breakdown
on the illegal importation of
liquor from the District.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Regional Conference
Appoints Secretary

A 29-year-old man who has
made extensive study of prob
lens Of local government has
been named executive secretary
of the Washington Metropol-
itan Regional Conference.
He is Samuel Humes, whose
appointment by the conference
Steering Committee was an
nounced yesterday by its chair
m an, District Commissioner
Robert E. Mclaughlin.
Mr.. Humes returned to the
United States earlier this month
after having completed studies
for a Ph.D degree at the Uni
versity of Leyden in The Meth
erlands. His speciality was the
study of local government ad-
ministration. His research was
conducted under the auspices
OF the International Union of
Local Authorities.
A native of Williamsport,
Pa, Mr.. Humes has held ad-
ministrative posts in Eau
Claire. Wis, and Mar Pie
Township, Pa. He also served
in the Army for nearly two
years as an instructor at the
Fort Monmouth IN. j. Army
Signal Center.
In 1854 he served briefly
here in Washington as a spe-
cial assistant to the executive
director of the Friends Com
mittee of National Legislation.
Mr.. Humes, whose major
studies have been IN the fields
of political science and gov
ernment. administration, re-
Evening star., 1959-12-22
NAACP Asks Ministers
To Push Negro Voting

RICHMOND. Dec. % (AP).-
Some l,700 Negro ministers
throughout the South are being
asked by the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People to encourage
every church member to become
a registered voter during the
first half of the coming year.
Promotional literature dis
tributed here by Kelly Alex
ander, chairman of the NAACP
Voter Registration Committee,
says:
IF one-half of all the church
in the South were to
become registered voters, over
night we would have more than
3 million Negro voters in the
South. The effect of this num-
Der Of Negro voters upon the
political picture of the Nation
would be tremendous. 1t would
lead to a better way of life for
every segment Of our popula-
ton, black or white"
The committee suggests a
Evening star., 1959-12-22

step-by-Step ogram to
achieve its goal.
First. it asks the minister
to appoint a strong pillar of
your church" to be chairman
of a voter registration COM
mittee.
The NAACP suggests that
the committees next aim
should be to encourage regis
tration and qualifications to
vote among members of the
board of trustees and other
units of the church.
when all members of a
department become qualified
voters" the NAACP suggests,
they will be given special
honor and recognition by the
church"
Once the church leaders are
qualified to vote, the NAACP
recommends the committee
conduct a drive to qualify
voters from among the general
membership.
Evening star., 1959-12-22

quiring localities to put forth
a greater tax effort in order
to participate in greater State
aid to education. "At present."
he added, "a great bulk of
State aid goes back to many
localities making a minimum
of local effort"
Dean Brundage, a teacher
at Arlington's Westinghouse
High School, who lives in Fair
fax County near Forestville,
asked that members of the
Legislature vote themselves a
pay raise from $1,000 to $500
for each 60-day session.
Matt C. Huppuch, member
of the Northern Virginia Re-
gional Park Authority, Sug-
gested that means be found
to obtain more State funds for
public park development in the
area. He said the region is en-
titled to at least 81 million in
assistance.
Robert j. Gerber, Republi-
can candidate for the House
of Delegates last month, did
not appear but advanced two
proposals in a letter to the
State legislators.
He asked for an equitable
distribution of the localities
share of sales tax revenues al
though declaring he does not
believe the levy is warranted at
the present time.
Mr.. Gerber also requested
clarification of the State Sum-
day closing laws governing
businesses.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Gene Krupo, SO, Shares Spotlight
With Teens Idol, Sal Mineo, 20

Not that Mineo was stand
ing by all the while patting
his black curls. The teen-agers
we're interested in him, too. But
the surprising thing was how
interested the teen-agers were
in the man whose drumming
set their parents to jumping.
Mineo said Krupa was his
idol, so that playing him in the
picture amounted to a dream
fulfilled. In the film, Mineo hits
the drums in time to the sound
track Krupa himself made.
Mineo said the hardest thing
about making. the film was
copying Krupa's expressions.
1t would have been hard. too,
for him to copy Krupa's ex-
preston as he left the teen-age
press. conference. 1t was one
OF a man who had discovered
a whole new audience to stir
with such walls as Sing, Sing,
Sing" and Cherokee"
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Pedestrian, 70,
Hurt Critically

A 70-year-old man was in
critical condition in D. C.
General Hospital today after
being struck by a car in the
410O block of Minnesota avenue
NE.
Police said Edward Smith, a
laborer, of 1872 Hickman street
Sc, stepped from behind a
parked car about 7:25 am. and
was struck by an automobile
driven by Robert v. Neary, %,
of the 1900 block of Shepherd
street NE. No charge was
placed against the driver.
Mr.. Smith suffered a leg
fracture and probable internal
injuries, hospital attendants
said.
Evening star., 1959-12-22

Motion Picture Association of
America auditorium as Colum-
bia launched the buildup for
the Krupa picture. 1t will be
shown in Washington Christ
mas Day. The teen-agers were
high school newspaper editors
invited to interview the pair.
Krupa answered all the ques-
tionS with bounce belying his
so years. He said he was salts
fed with the way Mineo por-
trayed him and did think big
bands would come back. He
said pictures such as THE
Gene Krupa Story" would ex-
pose the teen ayers to the
music of the big bands.
And the people who heard
the music of the big bands
years ago." Krupa said, still
like it. So we know it stays. All
we have to do is get the young
folks to hear it. Then I think
they'll like it."
Evening star., 1959-12-22

fight the amendment before the
board of supervisors.
Mr.. Sloan noted that as a
full -t1edged company Spring
field would receive about $25 900
in aid from the county. AS an
auxiliary, he said, the depart
ment would receive only $4,000
and would have no paid fire.
men.
Evening star., 1959-12-22

Gene Krupa, the articulate
drummer, met the children Of
his original fans yesterday.
And the kids interest would
have done any trouper's heart
good.
There he was, age so, sharing
the stage with the teen-agerS'
latest idol, Sal Mineo, age 90.
Yet the teen-agers acted Just
as interested in Mr.. Krupa-
as they called him-as they
we're in Sal.
They wanted to know when
he started playing the drums,
how he broke into the big time
and whether he was satisfied
with the way Sal Mineo por-
trayed him in Columbia Pic
lures THE Gene Krupa Story"
Somebody in the rock and roll
set even asked, with hopeful
ness whether he thought the
big bands could come back.
All this took place in the
Evening star., 1959-12-22

OISLI ACI VI : d1CAl 4CdSIlC1 no
sociationS. offered this five
point program:
/. Support of a retail sales
tax of 2 or 3 per cent with l
per cent returned to the local
tiles.
Mr.. Lightsey called the levy,
which Gov. Almond will submit
to the Legislature next month.
a necessary evil" to meet the
States pressing needs in edu-
cation. But because some South
side Virginia counties have or
are threatening to close their
schools due to racial integra-
ton, Mr.. Lightsey said it would
not be practical to earmark
money returned to the local
tiles for school purposes.
2. Support of an equitable
distribution formula for tax
revenues to the localities. He
suggested distribution based on
school-age population.
8. Support of a withholding
plan for State income taxes. BY
increasing the amount of taxes
collected in this manner, Mr..
Lightsey said, a 2 per cent sales
tax might be adequate.
= 4. Support of increased State
appropriations for public ed
ucation.
5. Support a program re-
Evening star., 1959-12-22

ceived his bachelors degree in
1852 from Williams College
and his masters degree from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Humes will assume his
post, a newly created position,
next week. His Office will be
located in the District Build
ing.
The regional conference is
composed of officials represent
ing the District and surround
ing counties and its purpose
is to coordinate action on
various problems confronting
the region.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
W.F.HiIgenbere,
Maryland Bank
Head Found Dead

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. % (AP).
William F. Hilgenberg, State
banking commissioner, died to-
day. He was Sc.
Mr.. Hilgenberg was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at
Anne Arundel General Hospi-
tai at 9:35 am. DR.. Elmer G.
Linhardt, county medical ex-
aminer. said death apparently
resulted from natural causes,
but that an autopsy will be
necessary to determine the ex-
act cause.
Mr.. Hilgenberg was stricken
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Public Health Grunt

BALTIMORE, Dec. % (AP) .
"A United States Public Health
Service grant Of 81, ,984 has been
awarded to University Hospital,
University of Maryland, for
preliminary studies in the field
Of hospital automation.
Evening star., 1959-12-22
Heoriing on Legislation
Given Tax Proposals
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star stan Writer

public hearing for Arlington citizens legislation to
be offered the Virginia General Assembly record for
brevty last night when only three speakers appeared
Called shortly after a had lightly banketed
the ground the meeting in the courthouse
than 25 minutes.
William M. Lghtsey, director of the Northern Virginia
Evening star., 1959-12-22
ADVERTISEMENT.
Our Richest
Christmas

Q No presents at Christmas?
NOT eUen for 6-year-oId Peter?
That's the way it had to be in
this family, too poor to buy
lights for the tree, or even an
angel But read how Peter
made a present, transformed
the day into 1.-THE richest
Christmas ever"-in January
Readers Digesti
Evening star., 1959-11-04
Five-Day Forecast
For Washington and Vicinity
November 5.10

November $40
Temperatures will average
near normal. Washington nor
mails for the period are SO and
AZ. Warmer tomorrow. colder
and Saturday and
warmer again Sunday or Mon
day. Rain tomorrow and again
Monday will average u inch or
more.
River Report
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers
Ferry and muddy at Great Falls.
Shenandoah cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
Midnight - 40 Noon - - 4S
8 am. 80 8 pm. = : 81
Record Temperatures This Year
Highest 100. on June 90 and 80.
Lowest. II. on January and IT.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours
High, So, at pm.
Low, so, at $40 pm.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
High --- lolsf !Sqsy am. 1i:fS EoTSfsGH a.%
LoI -------- 4:53 am. $50 am
High ------- 10:47 pm. 11:44 pm
Low -------- sos pm. 6:04 pm
For high and low tides at the fol.
lowing points subtract times indicated
from the above
Annapolis, 2 hours: Bloody Poin'
Light, 8 hours: Colonial Beach So.
hours: Deale 3 hours: Solomoni
Island. hours; Point Lookout 6 hours
Evening star., 1959-11-04

the building, one of go scat
tered around the sprawling in
stallation. The other nine had
been sent to a concrete bunker
300 feet away for safety's sake
during the experiment.
Killed was Robert Gravatt'
40. of Marion, the father OF SIX
children. No trace Of his body
was found.
Mr.. Gravatt was operations
sections chief of a solid pro-
pellant pilot plant, located in
the dynamite production area
Coroner Adolph Fluck said
workmen told him Mr.. Gravatt
was in the process Of casting
solid rocket fuel propellant as
part of classified experiments
| for the Government. The op-
Grafton was just about COM
pleted and the other workmer
were poised to return when the
structure vanished in a roal
heard for miles around.
Evening star., 1959-11-04
Worker Dies
In Plant BIust

HERRIN. ILL.,, Nov. 4 (AP) -
A mighty explosion pulverized a
small, isolated building in an
explosives plant yesterday, kill
ing the only person inside
Hundreds Of others were terri
fed by the blast. but no one
was seriously injured.
The explosion, followed by a
huge plume of black smoke, oc-
Cured in an experimental Sec
tion Of the Olin : Mathieson
Chemical Corps in nearby
Ordill.
A coroner, the only person
admitted inside the fenced-in
base, said workmen told him q
small quantity of rocket fuel
blew up. The company would
neither confirm nor deny this
report.
Normally 10 men work ir
Evening star., 1959-11-04

District and vicinity-Cloudy
and warmer with a few show
ers tonight; low. So. Windy and
warm tomorrow with showers
and scattered thunderstorms.
-virginia-Cloudy and warm
er tonight with showers mostly
in the west and north; low
mostly in the sos. Windy and
warmer tomorrow with showers
and scattered thunderstorms.
Maryland - Mild with oc-
casional rain tonight; low in
the SOS except $3.50 in the
mountains. Mostly cloudy,
windy and mild with showers
tomorrow.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Southerly winds OF
16-20 miles per hour tonight
becoming 2o-30 miles per houl
tomorrow. Showers and thun.
derstorms tomorrow possibly
beginning tonight. Visibility
10 miles, dropping somewhat
during showers.
Evening star., 1959-11-04
Girl TeIevision Stor, 9,
IsMissing From Home

HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 4 tAP).
The mother Of well-known
child television actress. Evelyn
Rude. 9, reported to police to-
day that the girl is missing
from the family home.
Mrs. Edith Bernauer said she
put Evelyn to bed at 8 O'Clock
last night and discovered the
girl was missing when she went
to her room about 1880 am.
today.
The mother said the girls
short dark coat also was
missing.
Evelyn, at the age of 6, scored
a hit in 1856 playing the title
role in "Eloise" on Play
house 80.
She has been in many TV
plays and only last Thursday
was on the Groucho Marx
Show.
The actress father is Emery
Bernauer. a publicist and play
wright.
Mrs. Bernauer and her hus-
band said they know Of no rea-
son why Evelyn would leave
home. "She is a most reason
able child" Mrs. Bernauer said.
Sergt. J. w. Scheck Of the
Evening star., 1959-11-04
Van .Doren
Called Friend
ByGurrowuy

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (AP).-
Dave Garroway, NBC television
star. in an emotional statement
on his To-day program this
morning. proclaimed himself
still a friend Of Charles Van
Doren and said he was heart
broken over Mr.. Van Doren's
troubles.
II can only say I'm heart
broken" Mr.. Garroway said In
summing UP his feelings during
a talk of about five minutes
concerning Mr.. Van Doren. a
frequent participant on Today.
Mr.. Garroway's voice broke
several times as he spoke.
I'm sorry to break UP this
way" said Mr.. Garroway. al
luding to the fact that Mr.. Van
Doren's association with the
program is ended. NBC yester-
day revoked Mr.. Van Doren's
$50 ,0OO-a-year contract with
the network after Mr.. Van
Doren admitted he lied about
being fed questions and an
swers on the former Twenty
One quiz program.
"He was one of our family" "
said Mr.. Garroway. I'VE are a
little family on this show,
strange as it may seem.
whatever Charles did wrong
was, of course, wrong. I cannot
condone it or defend it. and I
have no intention Of doing so.
But we will never forget the
non-Euclidean geometry essays,
or the poetry of Sir John Suck
ling which Charles left with
us. >.
What do you want me to
say? I can only say I'm heart
broken"