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Smyrna times., 1959-07-02
Carl L. Wright
Lists Transfers

The office of Carl L. Wright,
Realtor, reports the following
real estate transfers for the first
six months of 1859: sold for MIR.
and Mrs. William E. Pearce,
house near Kenton, Delaware, to
MIR. and Mrs. Lee w. Stanley;
sold for MIR. and Mrs. Alvin H.
Rankin, home in Como Gardens
to Mr.. Harry Cloud; for Dover
Home Builders, house to Mr.. and
Mrs. William Durant; for Walter
Green, house near Townsend to
Mr.. and Mrs. David Ottaviani;
for Mrs. Marjorie Speakman, lot
on Welfare Home Road to Mr..
and Mrs. James w. Webb; for
MIR. and Mrs. Mahlon Stutzman,
farm near Kenton to Mr.. and
Mrs. Millard Legar; for Mrs.
Paul Santow, lot near Blackbird
to MIR. and Mrs. Albert Guilfoil;
for MIR. Vernon Westfall, lot
near Blackbird to Mr.. and Mrs.
Preston ]. White; for MIR. Rynear
Slaughter, lot in Smyrna Heights
to MIR. and Mrs. Roy Collier, Sr.;
for MIR. John Shallenberger,
house on Welfare Home Road to
MIR. and Mrs. Theodore R. Par
sell; for Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Pat
rick, farm near Townsend to Mr..
and Mrs. William Frederick; sold
for Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Thom-
as, house on Washington ST.,
Clayton to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Patrick; for Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Lednum, house at 424 w. Com
merce St. to Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Mattiford; for Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Smith house at 205 South
ST., Smyrna, to MIR. and Mrs.
Terrence Hughes; for Major and
Mrs. Robert H. Oechsler house
in Cedarbrook Acres Develop
ment on Welfare Home Road to
MIR. and Mrs. John w. Scott; for
MIR. and Mrs. Noah Byler and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Yoder,
Church building in Kenton to
John Frazer, Jr., Incorporated;
for Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Rag
aims home on Smyrna-Clayton
Boulevard to Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les Milby; for Mrs. Paul Santow,
lot near Blackbird to Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward BilletdeauX; for
Mrs. Paul Santow lot to Mr.. and
Mrs. Gail Rice; for Mrs. Santow
lot to Mr.. James Ryan; for Mrs.
Santow lot to MIR. and Mrs. Juli-
us Tilley; for Mr.. Isaac Fleming
building at Commerce & High |
Sts., to Mr.. Earl A. Davis; for
Mr.. Bassett Ferguson & DR.. Eliz-
abeth Phillips, $40 acre farm at |
Blackbird Landing to MIR. and
Mrs. Allen Jackson of Chester, |
Pa; for Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Hitch, house at corner of Glenn
ent & Cummins st. in Smyrna |
Heights to MIR. and Mrs. James
L. Hewes; sold for Carl L.
Wright, house and 312 acres on
Welfare Home Road, to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Nyman of Southamp-
ton. N. Y.
Smyrna times., 1959-07-02

To remove burned crusts from
bread quickly and easily, rub the
bread with a vegetable crater.
Evening star., 1959-12-12
BY JOHN BARRON
Star Stan Writer

Arlington County has just
undergone a complete physical
examination and found that it
Is at a turning point in it's life.
The county'S planning direc-
tor, Tom Moore, said that a
comprehensive land use study
released today shows that Ar
lington is near the end of an
era of developing vacant land"
The study reveals that only
about Az per cent of the coun-
tvs 1880 acres remain suit
able for construction of new
homes, apartments or busi-
nesses.
"Henceforth, our growth will
occur primarily in the form
of redevelopment of older, OBJ
Solete structures that are no
longer productive" Mr.. Moore
said.
Divergent Paths
Arlington thus becomes dis
tinguished from its suburban
contemporaries. Alexandria,
Fairfax, Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties.
The latter three possess am
pie empty space for the new
Alexandria, as a consequence
of its annexation of part of
Fairfax in 1852. still has con-
siderable vacant land and is
Evening star., 1959-12-12
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
Full Christmas Package
In Sunday Women's World

GIFTS, FASHIONS AND HOME DECOR-In The Sim
DAY stars Women'S Section, the holiday spirit takes
over as Jack and Daisy Cleland give you their con-
traStng ideas on Christmas preparations Appear
ing in the same section gift suggestions a look
IN on the Christmas decor of Washington home
plus glamour fur fashions for Yuletide giving
ON CHRISTMAS CARDS-When and by whom was the
first Christmas card sent? What did it look like?
you'll learn the answers in SUNDAY, The Star
Magazine, along with a look into "The Religious
Revival in Christmas Cards"
TEEN-AGERS AND THE BOMB-Do todays teen-apers
think an atomic war would mean the end of the
world? Do they think todayS leaders will "let" an
al-out war happen? What their feelings about
the bomb? For the answers, see TEEN
ROME AND THE OLYMPICS-Rome the scene of
many Spectacles throughout its long history is pre-
pairing for another big next year-the 1860
Olympic Games, What the city is doing to get
ready for the event is discussed in The Sunday
Stars Travel Pages.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1959-12-12
Capitol Pages Selected
For School Youth est

District School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen has announced the one
District school which will par
ticipate next March in a Ma
tion-wide testing program to
find out lbout American youth.
1t is Capitol Page School.
The surprise selection was
made by directors of the pro-
gram. known as Project Talent
and supported largely by the
Office of Education. About so
of the schools 80 students come
from other parts of the coun-
try. All of them are pages at
the Capitol and Supreme Court.
DR.. John T. Daley, the pro-
gram director, said the school
was picked by the same random
method as all the others par
ticipating in the project. No
one school, he said, is meant to
be representative of anything
smaller than one-eighth of the
country"
The project. it is hoped, will
provide an inventory of the
Evening star., 1959-12-12
4-Cur rFuirfux
Crash Injuries
3 Policemen

Nine persons, three of them
of duty Fairfax County police
men. were injured last night in
a tangled four-car wreck on
Route ! near Bargain City,
Fairfax County police reported.
Detective Capt. Grafton Wells
said a car driven by Police Pvt.
Billie j. Lamb. %, of Pill
Campbell drive, Fairfax County.
was travelling north when it
apparently went out of control
and hit a southbound car
driven by Leonard M. Quinn,
81, of 2l6 Laurel road, Alex
andria.
Two other policemen and
another man. Milton R. Norton.
81, OF 306 Laverne avenue.
Alexandria. were passengers in
the Lamb car.
Capt. Wells said the Quinn
car was knocked into another
southbound car driven by Bruce
w. Dye, %, soldier stationed
at Fort Belvoir.
Two pedestrians, Joseph E.
Woods, 43, and Earl Morgan,
35, both of the Temple Trailer
Village on Route l. went to
help the injured from Officer
Lambs car. A car driven by
Robert L. Haas, 81. of 1920
Abingdon avenue. Alexandria,
sideswiped the Lamb car and
the Lamb car knocked down
the pedestrians. Capt. Wells
said.
The injured were taken to
Alexandria Hospital. where all
except two were treated and
released.
Those admitted were Mr..
Quinn. with a fractured ankle
and mouth cuts, and Police
Pvt. Milton R. Goff. 80, of 1856
Pennington drive. Fairfax
County. Officer Golf was re-
ported in fair condition with
head injuries.
Others injured included Po-
lice Pvt. Wayne Frakes, 90, of
$40 Rollins drive. Fairfax
County; Mr.. Norton, Mr.. Haas,
Mr.. Dye, Pvt. Lamb. Mr.. Woods
and Mr.. Morgan.
Capt. Wells said the inves-
tigation was continuing.
Evening star., 1959-12-12

talents and achievements of
American youth. Follow-up
studies lasting more than 20
years are also planned for each
of the 100000 high school stu
dents taking the tests.
DR.. Daley noted that the
inclusion of the very unusual
Page School will make no "dife
ference whatever in the SAM
pling." His staff, however, had
thought the school was a pri-
vate one. He said: Its car
ried that way by the Office of
Education"
Funds for the schools oper-
alton are provided directly by
Congress in the appropriations
for operating expenses of the
legislative branch of Govern
ment. The school is admins
tered. however. by the District
Public School System.
About 100 students at Ana
costa High School are sched-
uled to take a "dry-run" of the
March tests in January, DR..
Hansen also announced.
Evening star., 1959-12-12

heIlIleQy SdlQ Cne united states
must be willing to bear the
burden" of helping other
countries if the battle against
communism is to be won.
In a press interview before
his address at the Indian
Spring Country Club in Mont
gomery County, Senator Ken
nedy said he could not assess
the effect of the birth control
controversy on his presidential
nomination hopes.
Senator Kennedy, a Catholic,
did say, however, that the
presidency would be decided
ION the issues" rather than on
religion.
Senator Kennedy received a
hearty welcome last night from
several political leaders in the
State. where he is expected to
enter the presidential prefer
ence primary in May.
Last Talk Before Decision
He said last nights speech is
the last on his schedule before
he makes an announcement
early in January on whether
he will be q candidate for the
Democratic nomination.
Baltimore Mayor j. Harold
Grady introduced Senator Ken
nedy as a man who will GER
tainly be in the forefront of
those under consideration" at
the national Democratic con-
vention.
Gov. Tawes, who once was
cool to Senator Kennedy'S en-
tering the Maryland primary,
was not present. Thomas B.
Finan, chairman of the Mary
land Democratic Committee,
said the Governor had made a
prior commitment to attend
another function.
Last August, after a four
hour session with Senator Ken
nedy. Gov. Tawes said he had
no objections to the Senator
entering the primary. Earlier
the Governor had stated he
would rather take Maryland's
Evening star., 1959-12-12
Arlington Study Finds
Vacant Land Era at End

considering acquiring more by
annexation.
This means that the prob
lens of Arlington and the other
suburban jurisdictions are like
ly to become increasingly diff
ferent.
The land use study. under
taken as part of Arlington's
forthcoming master plan, indi-
Gates, however, that under ex-
listing coming the remaining
usable vacancies could accom-
modate as many as $4,000 per-
sons.
$4,000 Residents
Mr.. Moore estimates there
are now $4,000 residents in
the county.
According to the inventory
Of Arlington's land, about 9
per cent is vacant. but terrain
and other considerations make
about half Of this economically
unsuitable for new develop
ment.
Mr.. Moore said the latter
half most usefully could be
devoted to parks and flood
control.
The study does not attempt
to suggest how land should be
used or zoned in the future.
However, it will form a basis
for further studies which will
make such recommendations.
Evening star., 1959-12-12

replace low-density coming in
the plan and pack in more
houses on small lots"
Cushing Daniel, representing
the Suburban Maryland Build
erS Association, said that if the
plan were adopted, "only one
family in 10 could hope to own
"a home in this valley" He
said the area would become a
rich mans valley Of king
sized lots"
Philip Click, representing the
County Soil Conservation Dis
trict and the Rock Greek
Watershed Association-"Both
agencies are very much in ia
vor Of the plan it will inn
mensely improve our oppor-
tunity for Federal assistance
for construction of the dams"
Robert c. Horne, a National
Capital Parks official-"This is
far-sighted and wise planning
in our opinion and we strongly
indorse the open type Of de-
velopment."
Over -CrOwding Seen
Seymour Friedman, vice
president of the Carl M. Free
man Associates building firm,
said the plans flaw is in its
low-density concept, which
would squeeze more people
than ever into already crowded
wheaton and Silver Spring
areas" creating a new sea of
houses"
A. j. Pickali. a Maryland
Forestry Department official
Rock Creek is sick it is
apt to require extensive meas
ures to restore it to health"
Warren j. Vinton, president
OF the county Citizens Planning
Association-"The plan is an
absolutely necessary prelude to
the conservation effort"
Mrs John Merrill, repre-
senting the County League of
Women Voters-"While we
think the plan might well have
provided for even lower den-
stiles we recognize that long
range plans must accommodate
/. future population pres
sureS."
Robert S. Marvin. president
OF the County Civic Federation.
speaking for the federation's
executive and advisory COM
mittees-"We urge adoption of
the plan and stringent adher-
ence to the low-density prin-
cipal"
Evening star., 1959-12-12
"COPPER" RIPS HOUSE
Painter Tells Of Dodqinq Blade

A huge. two-rotor Army hell
copter crashed-landed in an
Alexandria subdivision yester-
day. sending a piece of blade
knitting into the side of an
empty house and another hur-
tling Just over the head of a
house painter.
No one was injured when the
craft, with three crewmen, lost
power and dropped into a va
cant lot, bounced, and fell on
its side.
Richard E. Beck, 38, of l39
Oakwood street, Franconia, Va,
was painting house IL doors
from the vacant lot when the
H-21 transport helicopter came
down.
When he heard the coughing
Of the helicopter motor shortly
before 2 pm, Mr.. Beck said.
he watched it make a half
circle and land on the empty
lot Just of Shirley highway.
Then he suddenly saw a speck
speeding toward him like a
baseball. He dived to the
ground Just as the 2-foot piece
of the shattered blade whizzed
over his head. It hit the dirt
a few feet away.
IF I had not kept watching
that helicopter, that piece
would have hit me right in the
back Of the head for sure" Mr..
Beck said shakily.
House Sliced
Neither Mr.. Beck nor the
pilot and two crewmen aboard
the helicopter was injured. An
other section of a blade sliced
through the side of a nearby
house, but no one was home at
the time.
The pilot, Chief Warrant
Officer Carlos E. Sheets. 90, was
returning from the Pentagon to
Fort Belvoir's Dawson Air Field
when his engine began to miss.
He spotted the empty lot amid
the cluster of Split-level homes
and attempted to land there.
He hit the center of the
muddy lot at l:50 pm. but the
helicopter bounced into a de-
pressed dirt roadway and over
turned. AS it turned onto its
side, the whirling blades struck
the dirt and shattered. Pieces
of the six rotor blades, each %
feet long, few through the
neighborhood like. shrapnel.
An 18-foot piece of blade
sailed into the home of Army
Col. Edward H. Kurth of 1913
Taney avenue. The front 6
feet of the blade sliced through
the wall of an upstairs bed
room, leaving a jagged tear 4
inches across in places. The
rest of the blade dangled down
the side of the house like a
harmless kite tail.
Change in Routine
Larry Kurth. 5, ordinarily
would have been taking a nap
in the room at the time. But
the youngest of the three
Kurth boys, John, 2, developed
an earache yesterday, so his
mother took him and Larry to
the Fort Myer dispensary at
1920 pm. The third boy, Ed
Evening star., 1959-12-12

substituting its own Judgment
as to the creditability of wit
nesses of that of the trial
judge.
Intervention Doubted
The issue on this appeal is
whether we can properly dis
turb the determination of guilt
made by an experienced trial
judge on evidence, which, if
believed, amply supports, and
which he found so completely
convincing. I think it is thor
oughly settled that we have no
such authority" Judge Miller
wrote.
In the abortion case. in
which the defense had pleaded
insanity, the court majority
held the prosecution had not
shown beyond a reasonable
doubt that the accused had no
mental disease or defect at the
time of the crime.
Unless the Government. with
out unreasonable delay" tells
District Court it can meet the
burden of proof at a new trial,
the defendant is to be acquit-
ted on insanity grounds and
sent to st. Elizabeths Hospital,
the appellate majority ruled.
The central figure in the
case is Catherine Hopkins, Is,
of the 5100 block of Astor place
NV. She was convicted by
Federal Judge Joseph R. Jack
son and sentenced to serve S
to Is years for attempted abor-
ton. The alleged victim died.
In reversing the conviction,
the court majority declared "in
the present case the evidence
of insanity was plainly sub
stantiated."
In his dissent, Judge Bastian
said:
That appellate courts should
be extremely chary in disturb
ing a verdict of the tryer of
facts is ncontrovertible
this would seem to be particu-
larly true with respect to find
ings which rest on the CREDIBLE
ity of witnesses" Judge Bastian
said he was in accord with the
viewpoints expressed on this
issue by Judge Miller in the
rape case.
Evening star., 1959-12-12

AAo0 DCcI LOuIlu SuIiCy OF aC-
tempted abortion.
The majority in the rape
case was composed of Judges
Henry w. Edgerton and Charles
Fahy. Judge Wilbur K. Miller
dissented. Comprising the ma
jority in the abortion case were
Judges Edgerton and George
#. Washington, with Judge
Walter M. Bastian dissenting
/ In many past cases, the
judges comprising yesterdays
majority have been found on
the so-called liberal" side. The
two dissenters have been found
more often with the "conserv-
atives."
In both cases yesterday. the
defendants had waived juries
and were tried by judges alone
who found them guilty.
In both instances, the appel
late majority held that the
evidence was such that "a
reasonable mind must have
had a reasonable doubt" as to
culpability.
The trial judges, the minor
ity pointed out, observed the
demeanor of the witnesses,
evaluated the testimony and
arrived at conclusions of guilt.
For the appellate court to
set aside findings thus arrived
at would be to substitute the
appellate majority opinion as
to the credibility of wit
nesseS for that of the trial
judges, the dissenters stated.
Legality Questioned
This, said the dissenters, was
beyond the legal authority of
the appellate tribunal.
The rape decision reversed
the conviction of Pleasant D.
Farrar, %, who had been found
guilty by District Judge Henry
A. Schweinhaut and sentenced
to two to six years.
His alleged victim, an 49,
year-old girl, said she had been
accosted at night by Farrar in
the street and forced at knife
point to accompany him to his
apartment.
There, she said. she was
forced to submit twice to sexual
relations after being threatened
with the knife. However, she
admitted she never saw the
knife but only felt it against
her throat.
The defense contended that
the girl submitted voluntarily,
tnen cried rape when she be-
came angered at not being paid,
it was asserted.
1T is nearly or quite incredi-
BILE that appellant could have
used a knife as extensively as
the girl said he did without her
ever seeing it. 1t is so nearly
incredible that a reasonable in
ference, if not the only reason
able inference is that ap-
pellant did not use a knife :"
the majority stated.
In his dissent, Judge Miller
declared the court majority was
Evening star., 1959-12-12
Hearing Ends
On Piedmont
PIuneCrush
By CHARLES YARBROUGH
Star Stsh Writer


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Dec.
l2.-Capt. George Lavrinc of
Alexandria. pilot of the Pied
mont Airlines DC-3 which
crashed into a mountain near
here october 80. was consid-
cred exceptionally competent"
in radio navigation.
This testimony from Pied
mont's chief pilot. Capt. Frank
Nicholson, went into the record
yesterday as the Civil Aero
nautics Board ended a two-day
hearing into the cause of the
accident.
The plane, out of Washing
ton for Roanoke. struck Bucks
Elbow Mountain 13 miles west
of here in the early evening
with a loss of 26 lives. There
was one survivor.
Evaluation of the mass Of
testimony gathered during the
hearing begins Monday, with a
decision as to probable cause of
the accident months away.
1t presents one of the CABS
most difficult cases in spite of
meticulouS investigation.
Piedmont pilot reports docu-
mented erratic behavior of a
company-owned radio naviga-
ton aid near the Charlottes-
Vile airport. yet two Govern
ment agencies tested the ia
cility and found no fault.
Possibility that another radio
signal might have "overridden"
the Charlottesville homing
beacon, leading the plane well
west of its normal course, also
was injected into the hearing,
yet expert testimony said the
beacon's signal was predomi-
nant.
The weather was not good.
but was well above the COM
pany minimums for landing at
Charlottesville. Medical reports
have ruled out the possibility
of pilot Interpretation.
Even total radio failure was
conjectured, but it was found
to be unlikely. Piedmont Capt.
M. H. Payne, who flew the
same DC-3 into Washington
the day of the crash, said
that in event of radio failure
and under weather conditions
existing at the time of the
crash II would not have tried
an approach under any cir
cumstanceS."
The CABS examination of
the wreckage indicated there
was no malfunction of the air.
craft itself, but an electronics
expert testified that it was
impossible to tell if there had
been an electrical failure be-
fore the crash.
The lone survivor, Ernest P.
Bradley of Clifton Forge, Va,
in a bedside deposition, said
the cabin lights were on at the
time Of the crash and that the
seat belt warning light was on.
Evening star., 1959-12-12

plan for development of the
l9.000-acre watershed Just be-
yond the county's suburban
fringe.
Citizen groups. defending
the plan, leveled their fight on
the real estate SPECTATORS.
Builders and developers re-
taliated by declaring that the
plan would backfire and create
precisely what it seeks to pre-
vent - row after row of
cracker-box dwellings, a sea of
houses.
The hearing was recessed
just before midnight and was
to be resumed at 9 am. today.
At stake is the pattern of
growth in the watershed, a
28-square-mile area north of
Rockville. bordered by the
towns of Washington Grove.
Laytonsville, Olney and Nor
beck.
S3,400 Residents Seen
The planners, who hope the
region eventually will be re-
zoned in a single action by the
County Council, have mapped
out 1880 acres of parkland and
l5.600 acres Of residential land
divided into two-acre, one-acre
half-acre and 9.0o0-square-foot
lot zones.
These residential zones are
divided to provide space for an
ultimate population in the
watershed Of s3.400 by about
the year 1000. OF the total
residential area, a 8.9OO-acre
portion is recommended for
low density rural residential
development-the R-R or half
acre zone.
Inere also would be 2,609
acres of two acre minimum
lots, 2,l71 acres of one-acre
lots, but only 1881 acres of
9,000-square-foot lots.
At the heart Of the plan are
two proposed food control
dams on the two major
branches Of Upper Rock Greek.
County officials and Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Com
mission officers have already
appropriated initial funds and
have taken other preliminary
steps toward construction Of
the dams.
Spectators" Hit
Here are comments made by
some of the % speakers last
night:
George A. Pughe, Mayor of
Washington Grove-"Real es-.
tate spectators" will try to
Evening star., 1959-12-12
Hit-Run Phantom

BALTIMORE, Dec. IL (AP)
Baltimore police sought a
new type of hit-run driver
yesterday.
Ralph P. Montour reported
that shortly after midnight he
was awakened when a tractor
trailer sidewiped his bedroom
window, tore of part of the
house roof and kept going.
Evening star., 1959-12-12

Is votes into the nominating
convention uncommitted.
Senator Kennedy said last
night he considers Maryland g
key State" because of its
geographic location and po-
litical history"
So far, none Of the other
frontrunnerS for the Demo-
cratic nomination have indi-
Gated they will file for the
Maryland primary.
Speaking to more than soc
persons at the dinner suon-
sored by the Kensington-
Wheaton and Western Subur-
ban Democratic Clubs. Senator
Kennedy said the major issue
facing the Nation is the "rela-
tive decline" of the power of
the United States.
Says Nation Drifted
He said the Nation has
"drifted" since 1858 while Rus
Sia was taking away "our pres
tige and our influence and even
our power in the world COM
While I applaud the Presi-
dent for his speeches in India,
l believe they will not mean
very much unless he comes
back and recommends a real
plan to help India. Africa and
Latin America to overcome
their problems"
Goodwill journies are i'm
portant but mean little unless
is willing to bear the
burden of helping these coun-
tries for the next is to 20
years"
During his press conference.
Senator Kennedy declined to
comment further on a report
that he Cancelled an appearance
at an interfaith meeting in 1850
in response to a Roman Catho-
lie cardinals order. Senator
Kennedy S Office said the report
was inaccurate" and the Sem
ator said last night he intends
to "let it go at that"