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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
Cats Land
Spinster
InCourtroom
BY LANSING LAMONT
Star stan Writer

Cats big ones. little ones
scrawny and untidy ones -
drove an elderly Northwest
woman before the bar of justice
yesterday.
For Miss Mary I. Moriarty OF
1885 Quicy street NV. it was
a long and firing day. The 85-
year-old spinster. a lifelong
resident of Washington, ap-
peared in Municipal Court to
answer charges of violating the
District housing code.
The charges Stemmed from
neighbors' complaints that Miss
Moriarty keeps too many cats
on her premises.
At one time, according to
police, she had as many as Sc
hungry cats around her house
They were just visitors, in
sisted Miss Moriarty, a digni-
fled and erect lady, who ap-
parently can't turn down a cal
in need Of calorieS.
why, I have only one cat
myself, a great-grandmother,
she explained.
Harried District housing in
spectorS have been called out
to check Miss Moriarty's home
at least half a dozen times since
last May.
Neighbors told police some
thing had to be done. One OF
them has repeatedly sold mis-
home and is moving away be-
cause of the blue flies the cats
have attracted.
THE mess is indeScribable. =
said a woman acquaintance OF
Miss Moriarty. You Just can't
go IN the house any longer"
The case bounced in and out
of the corporation counsel's
office until last week, when
Miss Moriarty received a court
warning to clean up her house.
The deadline was set for yes
terday.
And yesterday a housing in
spector went out early to Miss
Moriarty's and found the cats
still hanging around waiting
for handouts.
Miss Moriarty's lawyer asked
Judge Mildred E. Reeves for
leniency and implored the CO.
operation of the city pounds,
to haul away the cats.
II want to go home" said
Miss Moriarty. who had waited
two hours in the courtroom
before her case was called.
Judge Reeves obliged by
giving her a last chance to
clean the situation up" If
she hasn't gotten rid of the
cats by next Tuesday, said the
judge. Miss Moriarty will be
in really serious trouble"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
Six Legislators
Hit Cuts for
|nlpacted Area
Join Opponents.
Of Proposed Slash
In School Funds
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
star stan Writer


star stan Writer
Six United States Repre-
sentatives today added their
opposition to an administra-
ton proposal for reducing aid
to "Federally impacted" school
areas.
The six, all Democrats, added
their weight to the testimony
presented last week to q House
Education subcommittee con-
sidering the measure, which
would reduce the aid program
by SCI MISUNDERSTANDING $3.5
million in Virginia and $2.4
million in Maryland.
1.-THE proposal shows the adj
miniStration's affection for for
mulas and abracadabra to make
problems disappear" said Rep
resentative Miller Of Californis.
There's a sort of reverse
English to it," Representative
Quigiey Of Pennsylvania testi-
fed. "At a time when a Presi-
Dental advisory committee is
urging that the Nation double
its investment in education.
the Presidents administration
!. is proposing that the Fed
eral Government cut its con-
tribution to federally impacted
areas by as much as one-half."
The hearings are SCHEDULED
to continue through tomorrow
and resume next Tuesday and
Wednesday when United States
legislators of Maryland and
Virginia and school officials of
both States are scheduled to
testify against the cutback.
Representatives from Southern
Maryland were among those
who testified last week.
because Of the lengthy hear
ipss and other Education Com
mittee business. the chances
seem slim that subcommittee
members will take any action
on the proposal. which most
of them seem to oppose any,
way.
Other legislators testifying
today were Representatives
Hagen and Saund Of California.
Hardy Of Virginia, and Smith
of Iowa.
All stressed the burden placed
on school systems In their dis
tricts by the large number of
children living there because of
nearby military installations.
They termed the current Fed
eral aid indispensable for car
rying on good educational pro-
grams.
Il hope you take a long look
at this proposal" Mr.. Smith
told Subcommittee Chairman
Bailey, Democrat of West Vir-
GINA. 80 long. in fact. that
Congress will have adjourned
first"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
Air Line Group
Sets Forum for
Jet Plane Safety

Safe dispatching and han
ding Of jet aircraft will be one
Of the main topics when the
Air Line Dispatches AsSocia-
ton International holds its Sec
ond annual jet safety forum
here Friday.
! The meeting, announced to-
day by Association President
Robert E. Commerce, will be
held at $50 am, at the Broy-
hill auditorium, 1920 Lee high
way, Arlington.
Airline flight dispatchers
from Washington, New York.
Denver. Kansas City, Miami
and Winston-Salem will attend.
Representatives of the Federal
Aviation Agency, the Weather
Bureaus Aviation Service, Air
Line Pilots Association, Air
Traffic Controllers Association.
National Business Pilots AS
ISOLATION and the Civil Aero
nauticS Board also will attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
Woman Saves Purse
In Chase dt Noodles

tanning $440, it was found near
Mrs. Cashwell where the thie1
apparently had dropped it as
he fed. He was described as
colored.
Mrs. Garland, a pretty blond
Air Force secretary at the
Pentagon, was asked if the
chase frightened her.
81 wouldn't stand still if
saw my money running dowr
the street." she replied.
Her husband. Thomas Gar
land, was at home baby-Sittine
at the time.
In another pickpocket case
Jacob M. Schuman, so. of 7444
Georgia avenue NV, dis.
covered his wallet, containing
$685., gone after a man jostlec
him on the street.
Police said Mr.. Schuman wa.
approached by a man at Sew.
enth and G streets NV, who
asked him, where's Pennsyl.
vania Station?"
Mr.. Schuman pointed tt
Union Station and walked off
the man following. After beine
jostled several times, Mr.. Schu.
man reached for his wallet anc
found it missing.
The man was described al
white
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04

a citizens group reported. They
come both from District and
out-of-town high schools.
Race is an important part of
the picture. the report notes.
The fact that the majority
are Negro complexities the basic
problem of lack Of skills COM
mon to all drop-outs.
Prepared by a subcommittee
Of the District of Columbia
Committee for the 1860 White
House Conference ON Children
and Youth. the report.
Bridging the Gap between
School and Employment, is
designed to outline the problem
and suggest remedies.
For Project Decision
1t will become one Of i've
project contributions to the ma
tional conference If approved
by the full committee at a
meeting Monday in the District
Building.
Only a change in employer
attitude can remedy the situa-
ton. subcommittee chairman @.
Rowland Shaw believes. This,
he stressed, would mean accept
ing more drop-outs as employees,
regardless Of race, as well as
employing more Negro youth.
Training alone, without oppor-
tunity. will only Illustrate the
children. he says.
Industry must recognize that
the youngsters have something
to offer, and also that this is a
community problem" Mr.. Shaw
said.
To this end. the report pro-
poses that a systematic and
sustained campaign" If posi-
BILE with the help of an employ
ment specialist, be carried out
among leaders of various in
dustries.
Fred Hetzel, director OF
USES for the District, and a
member of the subcommittee,
points out that being out
of a job isn't conducive to good
behavior-it's a source of juve-
nile delinquency"
The situation probably will
get worse before it gets better,
the report states, largely be-
cause Of attenuation and mi
grafton" and the growing
child population.
Other steps suggested are re-
lated to developing new pro-
grams or strengthening exist
ing ones.
They include a plan for al
job conditioning program for
drop-outs that would include
a teacher counselor to help
the youngsters develop good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04

job attitudes and also super
wise their training in sheltered
employment provided by en-
ployers taking part in the pro-
gram.
CCC Plan Urged
Also recommended is a course
for pupils on effective Job hunt,
ing and on-the-job techniques
for pupils still in school and
for job hunters.
The report also urges:
: That vocational guidance be
expanded at the junior high
school level.
That youth work camps, SIM
liar to the old Civilian CollSer-
walton Corps, be set up with the
help of the Federal Govern
ment.
That parents teach thelr
children good work HABITS fiom
their early years. Young people
who have not been asked to ac-
cept responsibility in home and
school are shocked" later when
they join the working force
and reslize that effort and
energy and persistence" are re-
quired daily. the report notes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
The
Rambler
-. Forecasts
Revolution
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

It has been dawning on
this casual newspaper reader
that we are on the verge Of q
revolution in transportation,
especially marine transpor-
tation.
The other day a saucer
like craft 80 feet In diameter,
called the Hovercraft, crossed
the English Channel. The re-
markable thing was that it
was not in the water, but
above 1t, supported by col
umns of air blown against
the surface Of the waves.
Tourists reaching Switzer-
land this summer have been
amazed to see a weird craft
scooting over the water of
Lake Zurich at high speed
without throwing up spray
or leaving a wake.
The Ford Motor Co. re-
Gently announced that it had
developed a vehicle that
could be driven at high speed
on rails-without wheels. Jets
of compressed air lift 1t less
than an inch above the rail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
D.C.Heuds
Hit sCooI to
Thecse~G;ft

Representative Mcdowell
Democrat of Delaware, said to-
day he is surprised and puzzled
by the District Commissioners
apparent reluctance to accept
the Keith's Theater for use as
a civic performing arts center
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin indicated last week
end that the city could not af-
ford to take on the SIS mil
lion mortgage that goes along
with builder Morris Cafritz'
offer of the eight-st~ry Albee
Building, which HOUSES the
theater.
A spokesman for Representa-
tive Mcdowell said the build
ing, at 1926 G street NV,
draws an annual rental of
aout $685., 900, which would go
a long way in paying Of the
mortgage.
Or. the spokesman said, the
city could utilize the buildings
Office space rather than space
it is renting now.
He said the building and
land are appraised at about
$3.8 million.
II don't know how the Dis
trict can afford not to accept, "
he said.
Mr.. Cafritz, through Repre-
sentative Mcdowell, offered
the city the property for use
as a legitimate theater.
The Commissioners have
taken no official action yet,
pending a report on the legal
aspects by Corporation Coun-
sci Chester H. Gray.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04

Kong Teachers Association
Even the government schools
charge 81 to S. a month tut
ton. This is quite a bit for the
laboring class. Many parents
cannot afford it,"
The delegates don't expect
to find any solutions here for
their countries educational
problems. But they all feel
that the annual meeting OF the
WCOTP, which was founded
in Copenhagen in 1852, provides
a valuable opportunity to eX-
change ideas, to report on
progress-and they all say
progress is being made-and to
get to know each other.
East and West
Besides the numerous for
NAL and informal gatherings in
which the teachers are partici-
pating this week, there is also
one topic which they are ell
discussing at the official
WCOTP sessions in the Nation
al Education Association Audi
torium: teaching mutual APP
probation of Eastern and West
ern cultural values.
At the first business session
last Saturday, they heard a de-
tailed report indicating that
Asian and Western children are
acquiring a better understand
ing of different ways of life in
their Schools-but that much
more remains to be done Be-
fore the final session THURS
day evening. delegates VIII pass
resolutions summing ZIP their
thoughts on the subject.
Teachers from Asia, Africa
and Latin America also are
meeting in separate groups TO
discuss some of Lheil more
.ocal:G.d educational problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04

tklcS6 SlLllldTlIleS III COIlSlQeEd-
Bile detail, as well as to attend
the eighth annual meeting
and the first ever to be held j.,
This country--of the World Con-
federation Of Organizations Of
the Teaching Profession.
About TOO strong, they rep
resent over 3 million Of their
fellow teachers in 10 countries
Demand Beyond Means
Any one of them can tell the
same basic story.
IF all my governments re-
sources were to go to education
for the next five years, we still
wouldn't be able to provide a
basic five-year program for al
the children" relates Mrs. Anis
zaidi. principal of a junior COL
lege in Wah Can't, Pakistan.
There is a law in our coun-
try providing for fee-free edu-
cation" says E. Bennett Caul-
ley, general secretary of the
Ghana Union of Teachers,
But we don't have enough
schools for all the children.
And half of our primary school
teachers are in fact pupils who
have just finished primary
school themselves"
"Our classes are overcrowd-
ed" reports Karlheinz Taudien,
a schoolteacher in Munich,
Germany, who also heads the
International Relations Com
mittee of the Bavarian Teach
ers Organization. I'VE would
like to have a maximum of 80
to IS in a room. Now we have
40 to So"
Third in Hong Kong
About one-third o. the
children in Hong Kong do not
go to school," says T.. vi Ying
Ma, president of the Hong
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04

"THE CRAFT ON Lake Zu-
rich operates on what is
called the Labyrinth method.
1t has six revolving fans in
front. They pull in air, which
is thrust against the water.
Another set Of fans picks up
the same air and thrustS it
back against the water. I be-
lieve they use a third set Of
fans to do the same thing.
1.-THE Hovercraft, which
crossed the English Channel,
is very interesting. It uses a
method called annular. You
see, you have to keep this air
you are forcing against the
water from squashing out
and losing much Of its lifting
force. In the annular method,
a fringe of air driven against
the water at very high pres
sure keeps the lifting air,
driven at a lower pressure,
directly under the craft.
"Our method Is called the
plenum. We use a metal skirt
to keep the lifting air under
the craft and we use a very
large fan-six feet across
to drive the air down against
the water.
ut is a method so simple
that it was hard to arrive at;
so hard to accept that earlier
experimenters gave up be-
cause Of flaws that we have
managed TO correct.
1--WE are now building a
larger prototype. We hope to
get a Marine Corps contract.
One Of the Marine functions
is amphibious landings, and
this thing will travel as well
on reasonably smooth land
as on water.
"The S mi hSonian has
asked for our original one. I
hope developments are such
that it will have a place Of
honor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
VirginiaFaces New Suits
In |ntegration Disputes
Pupil Board
Passes Over
Negro Bids

A new round Of legal battles
appeared imminent in Virginia
today after the State Pupil
Placement Board failed to ap-
prove any indignation applica-
tons pending before it.
Applications from "a counties
and cities. including Fairfax
County. Arlington, Alexandria,
Charlottesville, Norfolk, Staun-
ton. Lynchburg and Floyd
County were before the three
yesterday, the Associated Press
reported.
In the past, failure by the
authorities to grant indignation
pleas have been followed by
litigation to overturn their de-
cisions. AL Indignation which
has occurred to date in Vir-
ginia has taken place when
Federal courts overruled State
or local authorities in making
assignments.
State Board Law
Virginia's original placement
law. still In effect, requires
that all student assign
ments be handled by the State
board. In past litigation, how
ever. Federal judges have
looked to local school boards
to make assignments and have
left the State placement board
in a questionable status. Next
year, under Gov. Almonds new
school program designed to
contain indignation, localities
may choose to remove them
selves from the placement
boards authority and handle
their own assignments.
About 5000 applications were
before the board. A majority
of those not involving integra-
ton were approved routinely,
but none was approved where
race-mixing would have been
involved.
/ Fairfax County had for
warded 26 Negro transfer appli-
cations to the board. The Fair
fax School Board recommended
rejection of one because the
applicant lived nearer a Negro
school. but had made no recon-
mendation on the other Is.
First Fairfax Fight
If attorneys for the applicants
go to court-which has been
the practice in similar cases in
1.-THE paSt-it will be the first
school Indignation litigation in
Fairfax County.
Twelve transfer applications
OF Negroes seeking entry in
white Charlottesville schools
were turned down, although the
local school board has recon-
mended that they be granted.
Nine of the Charlottesville
transfers were among those
the city agreed to in court last
winter. Charlottesville is among
localities where Federal courts
have ignored the State place.
ment board. although the local
ity has gone through the mo-
tons Of abiding by the place.
ment law.
A similar situation exists in
Norfolk, where the local school
board. under its own assign
ment plan, had agreed to as
sign two of % Negro applicants
to white classes. This would be
in addition to the II Negro
students already attending
formerly all-white schools. The
placem mt board, however,
did not approve the Norfolk
applications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Dance Masters of
America meet in the Shore
ham Hotel.
Continuing its conven-
ton, the Army and Navy
Legion of Valor of the
United States of America
is headquartered in the
Sheraton-Park Hotel.
The National Education
Association World Confed-
Grafton Of Organizations Of
the Teacher Profession
holds sessions in the May
flower Hotel.
This information supplied hy
the Washington Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
Families Plan Reunion

Some $50 members Of the
King and Burdette families of
Maryland will hold their annual
family reunion beginning at
IL am. Saturday at Wesley
Grove Metropolitan Church in
Woodfield. Members will bring
box lunches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
World I eochers Echo
Same Three Problems
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
star stan Writer

Some distinguished teachers proving to each other
in Washington this week that educational systems all
the free world have three things in
Not enough teachers enough schools enough
money.
Many of them travelled thousands of miles to discuss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04
YEARLY PROBLEM
1000 Drop-Outs
Fail to Get Jobs
BY BETTY MILES
Star stan Writer

About 1000 youngsters who quit high school before grad
uang fail to get jobs each the District it esti-
mated today.
These children about half Of the total number
Of dropous under Is who enter the labor yearly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-04

HERE IN WASHINGTON,
a craft 16 by 8 feet with a
man at the controls pro-
ceeded here and there Just
above the surface of the
Potomac and the Anacostia,
supported by air against the
water, In a demonstration
last November.
1t was a secret demonstra-
ton to this extent: The press
was not notified. 1t was an
attempt to obtain an Army
contract. It was successful
in that the craft walked on
the dater. But the attempt
failed. Army contracts are
hard to get.
The Aluminium Corp. Of
America, which was inter-
ested because lightweight
aluminium is a natural for
the skin Of this type of craft,
suggested to /. the inventor
that publicity might not be
such a bad idea.
They arranged for his APP
pearance on the Dave Caro-
way show and on the Garry
Moore show, 1--WE Got a
Secret"
1t was not long after that
the Rambler, who was reared
on Popular Mechanics and
still tries to keep up, met the
inventor.
His name is Carl w. Boil
lum. He lives at 1912 Parkhill
drive, Bethesda. He has a
laboratory in Bethesda where
he builds models and proto-
types and his Spacetronics,
Inc, has an office in the La
Sale Building near the May
flower with his lawyers, John
Klak and Ted Gerth.
Bollum came in pretty well
exhausted from a conference
with the Navy. He Is a tall
balding man of IS who looks
as though he might have
played tackle or end. He is
from Billings, Mont; went to
the University of Southern
California and was Wernher
Won Braun'S liaison man or
errand boy in the develop
ment Of the Jupiter missile.
He knew what it was all
about.
He stretched himself out
in a chair and said: 1.-THE
time has come when we can
use the surface Of the water
as a highway. That is, We
hicles are on it, not in it.
Displacement is a bad word.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-09
POTOMAC FEVER
By Fletcher KnebeI

Berlin policy Leaders Of both parties unanimously
they won't retreat inch from the position nobody has
discovered yet.
Senator Humphrey addresses midwest Democrats Lib
erals say kind Of Adai Stevenson with dynahow,
hyaNA
Belgium cracks spy ring. Russian agents new plan
to slow down the allies: Steal American secresand trick
the British into using them.
Dick Nixon. watching the revolt against Gov. Rockefel
program. may propose cocktail Rock-on-the
rocks
Defense experts only get few SAC bombers
of the ground in is minutes The rest In Of war? Gull
de-SAC
Question Box. Q-Does Ike get along with newspaper
men? A-ake the broader view and ask YOURSELF Does any
body?
One Senator says he not only has relatives on the
payroll, but doubts he even has any friends on 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-09
DORIS ELEESON
Problem Is How to Combine Politics
And Craftsmanship on Defense Budoet

President Eisenhower took
command Of the executive
legislative conferences on the
Berlin crisis and in crisp
language rare for him out
lineds the dilemma his policy
poses for the loyal opposition.
The question of unity of
purpose does not arise. On
that point the ranks are
closed, us
But the President insisted
this country has ample mill
tary means to back up its
commitment to stand fast in
Berlin against all contingent
cies. The Democratic Con-
gress almost without excep-
ton thinks it has not.
The President regards an
unbalanced budget as more
dangerous to national secu-
rity than the missile gap
existing between the United
States and Russia. The DEM
ocrats do not agree.
The initiative is in the
Presidents hands. But the
elections last fall gave the
Democrats a sweeping man
date they and most observers
translated as a demand for
strong leadership. Their best
politicians Of every ideologi-
cal stripe see their House and
Senate majorities as a call
for action as opposed to
merely holding the line.
In Washington itself the