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next week by the House Judici-
airy Committee differ widely in
substance as we'll as in scope,
Both bills face delaying tactics
strong opposition and proceed
ural obstacles in their respec-
tive branches.
Might Kill Disputed Section
A combination of Republican
and Southern Democratic votes
on the House committee might
knock out the especially con-
troversial provision allowing
the Attorney General to apply
for Federal court injunctions
on behalf of persons or groups
complaining they were denied
legal protection of the law by
reason of race, color, religion
or national origin.
It's supporters said they be-
lieve that, in such an event,
the House itself would vote to
restore that Title III.
That provision, requested by
the administration in 1857 but
rejected by the Senate, was
not included in the admins
tration's recommendations this
year for continuing the Civil
Rights Commission and broad
ening and strengthening the
Civil Rights Act of 1857.
Nor was it included in the
bill voted out. 4-3, yesterday
by the Senate subcommittee
This measure contains q
watered down version of only
two of the administrators
seven proposals in the already
considerably revised House bill,
Would Extend Commission
The Senate subcommittee
bill would merely extend the
Civil Rights Commission for
another Is months to January
81, 1861, and make some provi-
sion for preservation of election
records by State officials. 1t
would require records such as
registration cards and poll
books to be kept for three years.
Ballots cast on election day
would not have to be preserved
more than 18 months.
Such records would not be
made available to Federal
authorities except by mutual
agreement"
Even if the Title III relating
to Federal civil suits were
eliminated the House bill might
encounter delays and a hard
fight, advocates and opponents
say. It's first high hurdle after
getting out of the full House
Judiciary Committee, as seems
probable by next Thursday or
Friday, would be the Rules
Committee headed by Repre-
sentative Smith, Democrat of
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with the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People against three arresting
patrolmen-Ralph S heprow,
Edward Sherry and George
Langrerh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-16
Enforcement Authority
Held Keyto Rights Bill
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star Star Writer

The fate of the civil rights legislation this depends
largely what happens to proposal that the Attorney
be given authority to file civil suits for enforcement
both sides in the battle agreed today.
two-poin bill reported out yesterday by Senate Judc
subcommittee and eghtpont to be acted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
l5OOAIcohoIics RehobiIitoted Here:
Program Saves District $4,000

persons who appeared in court
last year on drunk charges.
Another $4,000 elected to for
felt collateral and forego hear
ings in drunk court.
These 1900 non-rearrests
demonstrate the infant pro-
gram has already accomplished
more than SIS per cent effective
ness, according to officials.
The report also showed that
Washington'S Negro and white
populations are equally respon-
sible by proportion for alco-
holism in the District.
OF those arrested last year,
I12,445 were Negroes; 10,465
were whites.
Male arrests totalled 20,936;
female arrests, 1874.
'DryOut" in Jail
Probation Director Robert j,
Conner, ST., based his savings
report on the following esti-
mates:
Most of the / 500 successful
graduates of the program ORR
ginally were given a suspended
sentence and released on per-
sonal bond. A few were released
on probation to the court. All
would otherwise have drawn an
average 25-day sentence each
at Occoquan. Under the pro-
gram, they each spent about
four days drying out" in the
District Jail before starting re-
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to add a case supervisor, three
probation officers and a clerk
stenographer to Mr.. Corners
Office. After that, the newly
formed ARU took effect.
Now, according to the report.
plans are in the thinking
stage" to further extend the
units activities. The probation
officers want to-:
/. Interview men in the Dis
trict Jail, who have been SEN
fenced to specific terms and
who have a drinking problem.
Such men, if they were willing
to help themselves, could have
their terms suspended in order
to join the ARU program.
2. Help those men who have
just been released from Deco
guam after serving two-to-six-
month terms and who are re-
turned to the city without
funds. adequate clothes. a job
or even a place to live.
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store and the food Store-all
part of the social studies work
in the primary grades.
Signifying the difference, it
is no longer given in the after
moons, when the children are
most tired and do least work; it
is scheduled for an hour of
prime morning time, from $50
to 1920.
Other Regions Studied
Aside from the Chesapeake
Bay, the contingencies must
also study three other regions
from this selection: A noun
famous country Norway, Swift
zerland or Greece; a delta
mississippi, Rhine or Nile); a
desert Sahara, or Libyan-or,
of all places, Greenland, which
is apparently a cold DESERT; a
hot, wet area equatorial for
ests of the Congo, or equatorial
jungle of the Amazon), and the
Mississippi Valley Gas a rich,
inland plain.
This curriculum sets the pat
tern for the year: The en-
phasis is on the acquisition of
information - new facts -
rather than on the learning of
basic skillS.
There is no one textbook
used for social studies; the
teacher encourages the children
to use whatever relevant books
they can find.
Never a Shortage
eve never have a shortage
of them" says Mrs. Leckie.
THE students bring in books
and books; sometimes I think
we'll never get through them. :"
AS often as possible, she
makes the reading lesson tie
in with the social studies work.
Fourth grade readers, for
tunately, reflect the switch in
the years emphasis by concen-
trating less on the reading and
more on content.
I accompanied Mrs. Leckie's
class one day to the auditorium
to see a movie about menhaden
fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Before we went, Mrs. Leckie
put "menhaden" on the board
and asked what it meant.
Fortunately, when none of
the children replied, she did
not ask me. Because I didn't
know, either.
knowledge Still HAY
Even after the movie my
knowledge was still somewhat
hazy; Janney has an attrac-
tive auditorium, and a good
protector and screen. But ii
has a terrible loudspeaker.
After the showing, Mrs
Leckie observed that "You
should understand now how. in
a way, we're dependent on the
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plants in the water. Without
them, there would be no mem
haden, and no nice products. p"
I think the nice products she
was talking about include fer
tilizers and chicken feed. The
movie certainly showed the fish
going through the wringers;
they come out as powder.
That night, the children'S
homework assignment was to
write a paragraph about some
aspect of menhaden fishing.
i bet most of them had to look
up some information in the
encyclopedia before starting to
work.
While encouraged to do as
much as possible with their
social studies, the fourth grad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
CHATTING WITH MAI.

CHATTING WITH MAI.
HOWELL and Sergt. Dunn
can be interesting. For ex-
ample:
The approach and with
draWal from the White House
lawn is not any particular
challenge to a pilot-though
the major did say he was
aware each tree probably
has a pedigree"
Maj. Howell resembles the
late Enrol Flynn.
One helicopter pilot at the
base can't hear the high
whine of his autos broken
speedometer cable, having
lost part of his hearing next
to the clatter of 'copters.
Sergt. Dunn was reared on
a farm and has been fixing
engines ever since.
The "sputter" of a hell
copter is just the slapping of
air by the flexible rotor
blades and is nothing to
worry about.
The Substitute Rambler,
beginning to feel much better
about the President up in the
air, suddenly had an anxious
moment.
Across the field Strolled a
captain, his right arm in a
cast. He seemed entirely too
nonchalant and was identi-
fed as Capt. James w.
Manchmann, 36, the main
tenance officer" at Dawson.
your arm there" the
worrier asked, what hap
pened?"
Il broke it in a potato sack
race at a picnic" said Capt
Manchmann.
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CITY SETS UP
NEWS OFFICE

A public information Of
flee for the District gov
eminent was formally es-
tablished today by the
Commissioners.
The unit, set up as part
of the Commissioners ex-
ecutive Office, is headed by
Truman j. Keesey, a city
Health Department infor-
nation officer since 1854.
Mr.. Keesey, whose new
title is public information
officer, will have a staff of
four-a secretary, two pho
tographerS and a film edi-
tor.
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'ers do get a lot of work with
more familiar subjects, too.
Shaky on Sentence Structure
The spelling words - shade,
shape, sheet. chain, church,
cheese, thread, threw, tenth,
wheat, which - and tests are
kept up. Added to this regular
list each week are five tricky
words frequently misSpelled in
elementary school. These are
called demons. Some typical
ones are: Country. doctor, does,
read and ready.
The language drills also are
still very much in evidence and
they do very we'll.
They are much shaker on
sentence structure. In Janney's
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DOWN THE HATCH
Capitol Hill
SubwoyGets
Its First Car

The first of four sleek, new
two-tone gray subway cars for
Capitol Hill arrived today in
the rain.
1t came on a truck. Both
the curious and the creators
clustered under umbrallas to
watch an unloading operation
nowhere near as speedy as the
car itself.
Once set on tracks between
the Capitol and the new Sem
ate Office Building, the car will
travel at 20 miles per hour. A
one-way run will take SIS
seconds.
But lowering the midget unit
from it's truck through a hole
in the ground near the Capitol
took hours.
Workmen had to lift the ear
with a rope loop hoiSted by a
crane. Then they planned to
bolt the car on an angle to a
support allowing them to ease
the seventeen, $4,000 car
through the opening onto tracks
in the newly completed sub
way tunnel.
Capitol Architect j. George
Stewart expects to schedule the
first trial runs in the new sub
way next month. The service
formally opens January 6 with
the start of the second session
of the seth Congress.
All four cars, designed and
custom made by the American
Car & Foundry Co. of Ber-
wick, Pa, will be on hand by
then. Two will run between
the new Office building and two
will service the old Office build
ing.
Eighteen Senators, riding
three abreast, can fit easily in
to each car, according to Mr..
Stewart.
An operator, with practically
nothing to do, will be seated
in the center of each car.
There are switches for him to
pull and buttons for him to
push. But should he become
incapacitated, doors of pas
senger compartments will open
and close automatically and
electric motors will start and
stop.
The tunnel stops short Of
the Capitol Building itself.
Senator Douglas, Democrat of
Illinois, a sharp critic of this
subway without terminal.
earlier paced off 10 steps the
Senators must take from the
end of the tracks through a
walkway to the Capitol elevator.
AS Mr.. Stewart walks there
are 70 steps. But, he said, even
this short walk will be elm
mated within another year
after the tunnel is extended to
a proposed terminal beneath
Senate wing steps, now being
torn down.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Supreme Council.
Southern Jurisdiction, of
the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freema-
sonry continues its conven-
ton in the Statler Hotel.
In its fifth day, the
American Society of Civil
Engineers is headquartered
in the Statler Hotel.
The National Catholic
Cemetery Conference meets
in the Mayflower Hotel.
The American Society of
Military Controllers holds
a one-day special meeting
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
BaItimorean
prospect
For K-9Corps
Trained Police Dogs
There. in Richmond
And Philadelphia

L. Wilson Davis, the man who
trained Baltimore's police dogs,
is the leading candidate to
form the K-9 corps which has
been authorized for the Wash
ington Police Department.
Mr.. Davis, a retired Marine
Corps major, also trained dogs
for the Richmond (VaD police
and the Fairmont Park guards
in Philadelphia.
Dog training has been both
a business and a hobby with
Mr.. Davis for 80 years. He
currently heads the K-9 Train
ing Agency in Baltimore.
During World War II he
trained dogs for scouting and
sentry duty with the Marine
Corps in the Pacific.
Can Start Quickly
Mr.. Davis, So, is reluctant to
talk about himself before he
receives official notice that he
has the job. However. he said
he can start to work on a
Washington dog corps within
two or three days after his ap-
pointment is announced.
He would not hazard a guess
as to how long it would take
to get the police dogs on the
beat.
Sometimes people expect too
much" he said. 1T shouldn't
take too awfully long. 1t de-
ponds a great deal on the type
of animal"
He said he has had lone or
two" meetings with District
Commissioner Mclaughlin, Po-
lice Chief Murray, and Inspec-
tor Archie Winfree. head of the
police training school, to dis
cuss a Washington police dog
corps.
To Live in Baltimore
If he gets the Washington
job, Mr.. Davis said, he and his
wife will continue to live in
Baltimore. He has a son and
daughter, both married, and
four grandchildren.
Formation of the corps OF
German shepherd dogs was au-
thorized last September 80 by
Commissioner Mclaughlin. A
site for the training school has
not yet been picked.
The Commissioner and Chief
Murray, who had been consider
ing the fove for nearly two
years. made the decision after
watching a demonstration OF
dogs trained by Mr.. Davis in
Baltimore.
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CLASSROOM
intermediate Fourth Graders Leap Forward in Social Studies

lots of trees and on a branch
there was a swing.
THE princess has very pretty
golden hair"
The children for the first
time can take music lessons
from the special teacher who
comes to the school once a
week.
Assume Responsibilities
They also take on certain
amount of responsibility for the
smooth operation of the school.
They serve as junior messen-
gers, taking notices and other
material to the various class
rooms, and as members of the
Grass Patrol, in charge of keep
ling youngsters from needlessly
walking across the grass.
Mrs. Leckie's class this year
is called an honors section, in
accordance with the recent
school board decision estab-
fishing a formal ability-group-
ling system in the intermediate
grades.
1t covers, however, the same
work during the year as Mrs.
Koch's class. The only differ
ence is that the students are
meant to get more opportu-
mites for enrichment and
creativity.
They are getting such oppor-
tunities now in the preparation
of an original operetta on the
Chesapeake Bay as the culmi-
nation of their study of the
region. Mrs. Koch also will
provide some sort of culmina-
ton for her class-but it will
be of a less ambitious nature.
Mrs. Leckie's children already
have completed the words and
music for the opening song. 1t
goes like this:
Indians on Chesapeake Bay
Like to swim and like to play.
AS they fish and hunt and play
They feed their families every
day :.
AS they go on, maize just grows
on
Then they had a feast.
Howl"
Tomorrow: The fifth grade.
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three. Very quickly they find
out why it's not considered pri-
mary.
The big difference is in So
cial studies which, for the first
time, becomes a significant
part of their work. In fact,
most of the other subjects seem
to revolve around it.
On the bulletin board in
Mrs. Madeleine v. Leckie's
classroom, I expected to see
some pleasant, edifying display
probably prepared by the
teacher.
13 Difficult Questions
But instead there was a list
of Is tough questions, under
the title. THE Chesapeake
Bay Region:
where is this region? What
kinds of water and land are
in it? Why is it a good vaca.
ton land? What occupation.
are in it? What cities have
grown in this area? Why arr
fishing and farming important
why was the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge built? Who liveC
here long ago? Why are eli
mate and weather important
What are some of the interest
ing places? Why are conserva'
ton laws needed? How do W.
depend on this region?
Clearly fourth-graderS are
above worrying about the mail
man, the streetcar, the clothin,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
Children Seek Funds

Children from the % play
grounds and four teen centerS
of the Arlington County Rec
reation Department will solicit
funds for United National Chill
dren's Fund between 4 and $50
o m. next Wednesday.
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other fourth grade, Mrs. Glade
Koch, once tried asking what
a semicolon is. In succession
she got these replies:
Question mark" "A colon or
something like that" "a
comma"
This was one time I myself
could have given the right an
swer. AS it turned out, Mrs.
Koch had to give it.
Fourth graders continue their
study of arithmetic which, with
spelling, still provides the bulk
of specific homework assign
mentS-about 20 minutes each
weekday night-given them.
They learn their multiplied
ton tables through 9, and learn
how to multiply-but not di-
vide-with two-digit numbers
They are also meant to become
familiar with four-digit num-
bers in addition and subtrac-
ton.
They are getting, = moreover
some experience in doing easy
problems mentally. Thus. a
page of their workbook will
start off with this:
"To subtract SO from 100,
John first subtracted 40 from
100, leaving so. Then he added
/ to so. Why? So 100 minus SO
equals?"
Continue Book Reports
Then they are told: do not
use a pencil to find these an
swers: Peter has So cents. How
much will he have left if he
spends 20 cents? 81 cents? %
cents?
Fourth graders are also ex-
pected to continue making reg
ular book reportS-written, as
all fourth grade work must be,
in longhand.
Here's a typical one, written
about 1.-The Plain Princess"
Il liked the Plain Princess
because the princess was so
pretty. At first she was mean
but then she was so kind. The
king and. Queen we're very
proud of her. The little prin-
cess even had a pony of her
own. The little princess had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
BY LANSING LAMONT
Star STAFF Writer

District taxpayers were saved
an estimated $260,000 last year
under the city's accelerated
alcoholic rehabilitation pro-
gram, a report revealed today
The saving represents what
taxpayers would have said to
support some $500 alcoholics
in Occuquan.
The report covers the first
year of operation, from Sep
TENDER 10, 1858 to September
80, 1859, of the expanded
rehabilitation program.
The enlarged program
started with a $4,000 Govern
ment appropriation in Septem-
Der, 1858. The money was
used to extend the Municipal
Courts one-man probation Of
flee in an effort to help some
of the $4,000 persons arrested
yearly in the District for
drunkenness.
The 1900 alcoholics, said the
report, were those not rear
rested In the District for
drunkenness after having been
treated under the alcoholic
rehabilitation program.
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school VINO is now Delng PAID
by the Youth Councils Maxi
mum Benefits Project.
Mrs. Trevvett told the council
that only one out of six kinder
garten students at Thomson
School shows no problems upon
entering.
In Second Precinct
The school is located in the
second police precinct at
Twelfth and l. streets NV. The
Maximum Benefits Project is
designed to preve ntdelinquency
by providing proper services IN
elementary schools.
Thomson School was selected
because of it's location in the
End precinct, one of the city's
poorest.
For the past year, kindergar-
ten and first grade students at
Thomson have been studied by
the Maximum Benefits Project.
In the first report on find
ings from this study, Mrs. Trev-
vett reported on SO children in
that group from SO families.
Example Cited
She cited an example of fam
lilies in the area, adding that
the story was not unusual but
instead was typical.
She told of a very apathetic
7-year-old boy whose mother
has been a prostitute. The
family, a mother and three
children, all live and sleep
in one room. The mother cooks
in a filthy gas kitchen" ada
cent to the room. She and two
of the children share a double
bed.
Mrs. Trevvett described the
woman as a thoroughly lonely
and abandoned person. She
said the mother receives $40 a
week from the children's father,
from whom she is separated.
She said this family and others
she described, need help in
many ways.
Private Aid Needed
Mrs. Trivvett suggested that
private welfare agencies might
help residents of such a de-
prived area more than they are
helping at the present time.
Welfare Director Gerard M
Shea and Fred Hetzel, director
of the District Office of the
United States Employment
Service, stressed that the city's
leaders in business and other
walks of life must accept the
shocking" conditions that ex-
list here.
Mr.. Hetzel said that 80 tt
go per cent of the applicants
for jobs at USES. are not
white, while only 20 per cent
of the placements in jobs are
not white.
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The
Rambler
Feels Better
About HeIicopters
BY JOHN McKELWAY

The Washington area is
filled with men who carry
wesome responsibilities.
Some quietly fold after a
time; others thrive under the
load.
A good example of the lat
ter is a lean, tall man from
Georgia who has blue eyes
and red hair. He was found
the other day, sitting in the
cockpit of a helicopter. He
vibrated slightly and seemed
as much a part of the ship
as it's rotors.
He climbed down and in
PRODUCED himself as Sergt.
Henry @. Dunn, 40, a native
of Fitzgerald, Ga, and a
veteran of 20 years in the
Army. He has been involved
with helicopters since 1850
after having been, as he says,
drafted out of the MPs."
Besides his role as the
father of eight children, the
sergeant is the man who
must decide which helicopter
to dispatch to the lawn of
the White House, or Pentagon
if a flight to Camp David,
Md, or a Gettysburg farm is
called for from that point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star staff Writer

When children get to the
fourth grade at Janney Ele-
mentary School, they begin the
second phase of their formal
education.
Officially they are in an in
termediate grade-the first of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-22
School SocioIAides
Urged in Poor Area
Youth Council Told of Need
In City's Depressed Sections

Schools in the city sections should have social workers
part of their stats the District Commissioners Youth Co
Gil told today
Mrs Nina B. Trevvett the councils executive director
gesed that the council consider asking the District public
schools ptrovd he salary for he social worker the Thomson