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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
House Unit Okays
Teacher Pay Bill
D. c. Stadium
Access Roads
Also Approved
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star Stan Writer

The House District Commit
tee today favorably reported
bills to authorize additional
pay for some District school
teachers performing extra
duties and to permit the In
terror Department to build
parking lots and access roads
for the projected District
stadium.
The teacher pay legislation
leaves it to the District Com
mlssioners and the Board of
Education to work out the
specific pay to be given to
coaches, yearbook and news
paper advisors and other teach
ers for after-school assign
ments and other extra RESPONSE
bilitieS.
Schedule Proposed
Teacher groups had pro-
posed a schedule ranging from
5000 to 5000 for various activi-
ties during the school year.
The committee substituted
general language for the .spe-
cific proposals.
The favorable action on the
pay legislation marked a major
accomplishment for school
groups, particularly coaches,
who have long complained Of
inadequate compensation for
their extra activities.
The stadium measure is in
tended to cope with a refusal
by he House Appropriations
Committee to permit Federal
expenditure for the parking and
road facilities under existing
law. Stadium leaders recently
told the District Committee the
entire project would be virtu-
ally killed unless the corrective
legislation were passed.
Spending Permitted
The bill, sponsored by Repre-
sentative Harris, Democrat Of
Arkansas, permits the Interior
Department to spend up to
$2.660,000 for parking, road.
sidewalk and lighting facilities
and landscaping.
The committee also approved
bills directing a study of hell
ports, eXempting certain PEN
sion and other trusts from laws
concerning perpetuitieS, aliena-
ton and accumulation of in
come, permitting paregoric to
be dispensed on oral prescrip-
ton, revising the present law
controlling placement of chill
dren in foster homes and alter
ing present law with respect to
fees for transcripts of birth and
death records.
The unit decided to hold a
public hearing on bill spon-
sored by Representative Dowdy.
| Democrat of Texas, which
would tighten the Districts law
on indecent publications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06

abroad. Foreigners, he said, find
the situation inconsistent with
Americas traditional role as
a representative democracy.
Taking everything into con-
sideration, the Senator de-
clared, I'VE can't delay any
longer granting home rule"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
Methodists Meet

The Goth session of the
Washington District Confer
ence, Washington Annual
Methodist Conference, Balti-
more Area, will open at 8
o'clock tonight in st. Luke's
Methodist Church, Meadows,
Md. The meeting will run
through Sunday. Bishop Edgar
A. Love is resident bishop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
Teachers Workshop

More than 100 Fairfax Coun-
ty teachers have registered for
a workshop in the use of teach
ing materials August 10 at the
Oakton School in Fairfax. The
workshop, sponsored by the
University of Virginia, is to be
directed by staff of audio-
visual education consultants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06

1lS OCAloNOA WIN O WV
High School that Il am not too
optimistic about passage this
year."
He repeated his view that
District citizens should obtain
FIRST class rights" by obtaining
home rule, eventual representa-
ton in Congress and a formula
for dependable Federal pay
ments to the city.
The District, he said. should
receive annual payments OF 40
per cent of its budget from the
Government. That would
amount at present to about SOS
million, he added. He said the
city now receives about IA per
cent from the Government.
Would Support Loans
He said he would support a
bill providing the District the
power to borrow from the
Treasury wnen Congress re-
fused to grant the full 40 pei
cent.
II became somewhat tired
and irritated," he said, lin re-
gard to funds for the District
rof Columbia. 1t just is not true
that the people of the District
are inadequately taxed"
He chided Congress for its
attitude on District finances
declaring:
Congress ought to be willing
to pay its fair share. I am
ashamed for my colleagues in
Congress. I am ashamed for
my Nation"
Senator Morse said there is
no question that Congress has
the power to grant self govern
Iment to the District.
Race Issue Raised
Some people, he said. are
opposed to home rule because
they think it would result in
the election of a Negro Mayor.
He stated:
lone of the reasons we ought
to have home rule in the Dis
trict of Columbia is that the
American right of franchise
has no color bar with it,"
The Senator. a veteran mem
Der of the Senate District Com
mittee, told the rally. Spon-
sored by the VotelesS Citizens
Committee. that Washington
ianS should be able to elect
their own mayor and city
council.
The Senator is sponsor of q
bill to grant the District this
type of home rule.
Prefers Own Bill
Senator Morse said he would
never abandon his personal op-
position to the territorial bill
He said he will fight in. the
Senate for his own propose
for an elected mayor and city
council.
Should the territorial bill
clear the House, however, Sen
! ator Morse said he would no
: block a Senate-House confer
ence on the Home Rule issue.
Instead, he will carry hi
fight for an elected chief exec
: utive of the city into thu
/ conference. He was hopeful
/ some compromise between thu
4. mayor-council and the Gov
: ernor-legislative- asSembly bill
: could be reached before thu
end of next year.
Privately, Senate Distric
, Committee m e m berS, whit
, steered the mayor bill through
, the Senate, are peSsimistiC
> about any House action on thu
territorial bill.
Senator Morse observed tina
! Washington's votelesS statu
is a constant source of EN-
, barraSsment to American
/
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06

golden clock, f1anked by a dove
and an eagle over the House
Speakers desk obscured the
view from the gallery.
Undaunted by opposition, the
commission was on the record
against the long disputed Con-
stitution Avenue Bridge - it
would "detroy the beauty and
the unity of this remarkable
landscape from Theodore
Roosevelt island to land north
of Memorial Bridge" according
to the report.
The bridge, since authorized
with funds granted by Congress,
still has not been built.
RemOdeling Okayed
Commission members troopeo
through the White House in
1851 before assuring President
Truman that treatment con-
Sidered for remodeling the East
Green, Blue, Red, Dining ano
Lincoln rooms was excellent"
The President asked fol-
commission clearance of a
bronze plaque before the Blail
House only 10 days before the
dedication ceremony in 1852
however. The ordinarily DELHI
crate commission told the Pres
ident to go ahead with the dedi-
cation of the plaque honoring
Leslie Coffelt, an officer who
died defending the Presidents
life in 1850, even though only
one architect member had seer
the design.
Approved Buildings
Memorials for American
cemeteries all over the WORLD
were reviewed by the commits
sion. 1t also cleared local police
and school buildings, fought
coming ordinances, and in 1858
handed President Eisenhower
voluminous recommendations
for improving Government art
activities.
Georgetown's M street must
be made healthy and attrac-
tive, the commission warned.
Its report said the street
light on one side and dark or
the other, is only half alive"
Congress also was advised in
the illustrated report to be
printed at public expense that;
In 1852, a commission Sec
rotary was presented a silver
bowl in appreciation of 81
years service.
And in 1850, the Capito,
architect gave the commission
a gavel made of wood from ar
elm tree said to have beer
planted by George Washington
on the Capitol grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
The
Rambler
-. Comes Upon
American Herodotus
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Benson J. LOSING was a
historian who followed in
the footsteps of Herodotus.
Herodotus travelled "the
realms Of gold" in the 5th
century before Christ, less
than a millennium after the
fall Of Troy, jotted down
what oldsters told him and
became the father Of his
tory.
LOSING started out in 1848,
81 years after Yorktown, to
visit the battlefields of the
Revolution and explore local
memories. Harper g. Bros.
financed the venture.
BY Decem Der he had
reached Annapolis and ITO
ward the decline of a bril-
liant afternoon" he wrote,
~ left for Washington City.
1.-THE highway was the
county road, yet it passed
almost the whole distance
from Annapolis to WASH
ington, through plantations
like a private wagon path
without enclosure.
Wherever the division
fences of fields crossed the
road, private interest had
created a barred gate to
keep out intrusive cattle,
and these the traveller was
obliged to open. Being my
own footman, I was exer-
cised in limbs and patience
to my hearts content; for
during a drive of IS miles
that evening, I opened IS
gates; who closed them I
have never aScertained."
He crossed the Patuxent
at 7 and stayed that
night in Queen Anne. There
was no tavern He procured
supper and com fortab BILE
lodgings at the post office.
(There are still a few houses
and a wooden bridge at
Queen Anne, but no post
office.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06

AS TO HIS ASSIGNMENT,
he had to report that wash
ington City has no Revolu-
tionary history of it's own"
But" he continued, my
first evening was spent in
the company of the veneer
able widow Of Gen. Alexan-
der Hamilton, a daughter OF
Gen. Philip Schuyler.
Mrs. Hamilton was then
90 years of age, and yet her
mind seemed to have all the
elasticity of a woman OF 60.
She is, I believe, the last
of the bellies of the Revolu-
tion-the last of those who
graced the social gatherings
honored by the presence OF
Washington and his lady
during the struggle for indie
pendence."
Two years ago we observed
the bicentenary of Alexander
Hamilton, born on the island
of Nevis in the West Indies.
His statue stands before the
Treasury.
The bi-centenary put sew
eral historical researchers to
work. None of them could
ma any evidence that Ham,
fiton had ever been in Wash
ington.
But LosSing'S Pictorial
Field Book of the Revolu-
tion," the pictures all his own
engravings from his own
sketches, leaves no doubt that
Hamilton's widow was living
here in midEcentury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
Fine Arts Commission
Tells of1948-54Work
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star STAFF Writer

Congress learned today how the Fine Arts Commission has
guarded artistic values in the Nations Capital for six years
What the report just sent to the printers misses in time
ness makes in detail Reported activities from 948
through 1854 The bound chronicle is inches thick
Commission Chairman David E. Finley deferred to his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
Approval of Home Rule
Predicted by Morse
Tells RuIIy He Foresees Passage
Next Year After About Fight

Congress will approve home rule for the District some
time year. Senator Morse Democrat of Oregon pre-
dicted last night.
He added however that passage depends the amount
of pressure which Washngtonians and their friends outside
the District apply to Congress.
The Senator told Votes for D. c. rally at Roosevelt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-06
HE RESUMED HIS JOUR-

HE RESUMED HIS JOUR-
NEY the next day and re-
corded that in the So miles
he had opened SO gates.
unlike the doors and win
dows of the people of the
South" he wrote, II found
them all shut"
From the brow of a hill
8 miles from Washing
ton, I had my first view Of
the Capitol dome"
ut was the old dome COM
pleted in 1927. 1t was 100
feet high. The reconStruc-
ton that elevated the pres
ent dome was started in
1855. 1t was finished at the
end of the Civil War;
Losing had a patriotic
eye. He took no note of the
primitive conditions of the
American Capital that
Charles Dickens, on his
visit six years before, had
reported.
II went up to the Capt.
tol," Losing wrote in his
account of a subsequent
day, land peeped in on the
sages of the Senate and the
House of Representatives,
who seemed busily engaged
in preparing to do some
thing in the way of legisla-
ton.
"An English gentleman
who accompanied me to
both chambers, assured me
that he had often sat in the
gallery of the House of Com
mons of England, of the
Chamber of Deputies OF
France, and of the Diet OF
Frankfort and other Ger
manic legislatures, and not
one of them could rival in
apparent talent, wisdom,
decorum and faithfulneSs to
their constituents, the mem
bers of the Senate and
House of Representatives OF
the United States, in listen
ing to whose debates he had
spent many weeks during
three consecutive sessions"
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20
S P Q R 7 N E w S
From
MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL
By EMMITTE WINSUOW

Manteo started it's practice ses-
sion for baseball by cleaning up
the field on Tuesday and Wednes-
day of last week and started
throwing on Thursday. Coach Ay-
ers figures on about 80 boys re-
porting to practice. He is looking
forward to a good baseball season
with IL players back from last
wear. They are as follows: Horace
Hooper. Ralph Jones. Gary Meek
ms. Billy Brown, Billy Monnette,
Thomas Baum. Jeffrey Midget,
Dixie Daniels. Bill Dough, Merrill
Winslow. Arnold Tolson. and CLYDE
Hassell. There are eight seniors,
five juniors, four sophomores, and
thirteen freshmen out for the
team.
Work on the ball diamond has
been moving smoothly except for
the fact that someone in an auto
mobile has been running over the
field and destroying all that the
boys have done.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20
COUNTY
REPORT
DAVID STICK
Dore County Commissioner,
Ailontie township

Soon after our new Board of
Commissioners took office last
December we were presented a Pc
tition signed by number of prop
rty owners in the Mays Head area
asking the county to apply for
Civil Defense funds with which to
combat erosion along the ocean
front.
After conference with Civil De-
Tense officials the Board desig-
mated me as spokesman on such
matters, and instructed me to ap-
ply for Federal assistance. A
Dare County project, calling for
$4,000 of erosion control work
along the oceanfront, and an addi-
tional $4,000 for removing debris
from the main ditch in Hatteras
village has now been approved,
and an engineering firm is prepar-
ing specifications from which we
will advertise for bids.
There are very definite limita-
tions on how this money can be
spent, and it seems to me impor-
tant that every property owner in
Dare County concerned about ero-
sion should have a full under
standing of the matter.
Back in the 1905 when the
Federal Government, through the
Park Service and WPA, was
spending Millions of dollars on the
Dare coast to build protective
dunes and plant grass, the great
majority of the cottage owners in
the Mays Head-Kitty Hawk area
strongly objected to having sand
fences, dunes and grass placed in
front of their cottages. Suisse
quently the beach built out in
some places and cut away in 9TH
er, and after three hurricanes and
two severe northeasters in 1856
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20
CATHOLICS PLAN
EASTER SERVICES
IN DARE COUNTY
Services at Both Cape Ha+feras
and Kill Devil Hills Announced
by Pastor Denges

KILL DEVIL HILLS. - The
Feast of the Resurrection of
Christ, the greatest Christian fes-
tival. will be solemnly observed in
Holy Redeemer Catholic Church of
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina,
at the Midnight High Mass and
at the ten o'clock Mass on Easter
Sunday morning. An afternoon
Easter Mass will be celebrated at
four o'clock, 1000, at the Naval
Facility of Cape Hatteras. Buxton,
North Carolina.
Mrs. Julian Oneto of Mays Head
will direct the singing while Mrs.
Harold A. Glynn will preside at
the console of the Lost Colony
electric organ. Mrs. George R.
Frank will play the organ at the
ten o'clock Mass on Easter Sunday
morning. The choir consists of Jul
ian Oneto of Mays Head, Harold
A. Glynn of Manteo, Mrs. Jesse A.
Farley of Point Harbor, Mrs.
George B. Sides of Mays Head,
Mrs. Herbert A. Greet. Jr., of
Manteo, James T. Raymondjack of
Manteo and Miss Nancy Helen
Glynn of Manteo.
The Altar Boys for Holy Week
and Easter are Jan Oneto of Mays
Head, Michael and George Frank
of Kill Devil Hills and Dennis Pat
rick McGinnis of Manteo.
Police Chief George R. Frank of
Kill Devil Hills will direct the
traffic and he will be assisted by
Jesse A. Farley, Jr., and Paul r.
Farley, of Point Harbor.
Julian Oneto of Mays Head will
read the Passion of Christ on
Palm Sunday as well as on Good
Friday. James T. Raymondjack OF
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20
WANcHEsE PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Williams
and children of Norfolk visited Mr.
and Mrs. Woodrow Stetson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Greet and
children Denese and Lester Lee
of Norfolk visited Mrs. Lucy Mid
gett.
Rowena Midget on Monday Wis
tied her uncle, C. P. Midget. a
patient in the Albemarle Hospital
Rena Midget and Laura Joan
Daniels of Norfolk were week end
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Daniels.
Mrs. Charlie Ward Of Norfolk
spent the week end here with her
sister, Mrs. Terrah Midget.
Mrs. Earl Tillett is visiting her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Capaccio in Newark, N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson P. Mer-
rift have returned after visiting in
Long Island, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reggie Tillett
spent the week end in Norfolk.
Morris, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kalb Daniels, received medical
treatment at Norfolk General Hos
pital. ~,
Ronald Cox and Miss Lou Til
lett spent the week end in Wash
ington, D. C. with friends.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20
BUXTON HID CLUB MEETS

The Buxton Home Club met
March 9th at the home of Mrs
Joyce Gray. There were thirty
members and guests present. Mrs
Irma Lange, president, called the
meeting to order by asking all
members to read "The Collect fol
Club Women" Mrs. Lois Moore
read a short Bible story called
"The Meaning of the Resurrec-
ton" and Mrs. Cynthia Robinson
led in prayer.
Mrs. Fran Cullis, home agent
gave demonstration of "Low cal.
orie diets" For the All College
Club Fund, the Buxton Home Clut
collected $62.75. The drive was
made in Buxton by Mrs. Mary
Stamey, Mrs. Evelyn Midget
Mrs. Carolyn Fowler and Mrs
Christian Kinsey.
One of the highlights of the
meeting was a health report by
Mrs. Helen Sckroki. Ems. R. l.
Smith of the Naval Facility pre-.
scented a moving color and sound
picture Living Insurance." per,
tanning to cancer.
Several members will meet at
the Cape Hatteras Anglers Clut
house to learn and make copper
planters" Mrs. Mary Stamey will
be the instructor.
Mrs. Lois Moore, project leader
on home Identification, suggested
having a drive on cleaning up
property before the Pirates Jam
boree. Last year the club worked
on the Cape Hatteras Health Cen.
ter grounds.
After the demonstration the
hostess, Mrs. Joyce Gray, Mrs
Marlyn Ward and Mrs. Mary Dor.
esky served refreshments to all
present.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20
EASTER EGG HUNT IS
BIRTHDAY PARTY FEATURE

Susan Meekins on her seventh
birthday, March 16, was hostess
at a party at the home of her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Francis w.
Meekins near Manteo. An Easter
egg hunt was followed by games.
The Easter theme was carried out
in refreshments and favors, with a
color scheme of pink, yellow and
green. The birthday cake was in
the shape of an Easter basket,
decorated with chickens, rabbits
and eggs, and topped with seven
white candles. 1t was served with
pink ice cream and pink lemonade.
Favors were candy-filled Easter
baskets and Easter party hats.
Fifteen little folk were present.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20

20-21, 1868. State engineers have
estimated that the total of such
damaged dunes and fences amount
ed to approximately $1,000 lin.
feet. Further investigation shows
that of this total approximately
1900 lin. feet of dunes were to-
tally destroyed, and the remain
der damaged.
applicant has been informed
that funds under this project can
be used only for replacing dunes
and fences which were totally de-
stroyed, and the application is for
Z, 200 lin. feet of such work. at an
estimated cost of $1.00 per foot for
dunes and $0.35 per foot for
fences, a total of $9,720.00."
That is the story to date. Civil
Defense officials refused to con-
slider any beach erosion work on
Hatteras Island, where the Park
Service is engaged in a very ex-
tensive erosion control project. I
did not feel justified in signing
my name to an application for
dunes and fences in areas where
the beach is so steep that their con-
struction might prove more harm
full than helpful, or where it was
certain they would be washed out
with the next high tide.
The result is that only destroyed
dunes and fences are to be re-
placed, and only where there is a
chance of their doing some good.
Practically all of this work will be
done in the Mays Head area, but
in some instances it will probably
be necessary to secure easements
from property owners, and these
easements will have to be provid-
ed on voluntary basis before
work can be started.
Unfortunately some of the most
seriously eroded sections. in parts
of Kitty Hawk Beach for example
where cottages are now perched
on the brink of sand cliffs, ready
to fall overheard if a severe storm
strikes-cannot be helped at all
with these Civil Defense funds.
Neither can anything be done with
State funds since the only place
where the State can spend money
on erosion control at the present
time is where the highway is act
ually threatened; and in the one
instance where the Highway De-
partment did step in something
like $4,000. was spent on expert
mental asphalt groins which went
to pieces in the next storm.
For those areas in which the
temporary Civil Defense measures
can not be used effectively, the
only recourse seems to be with the
county and the individual proper
ty owners. Since at this point the
county has neither the money nor
the authorization to spend for such
purposes the property owners will
either have to do something them
selves, or wait and hope that the
State Legislature will come up
with new plan and some money
to go along with it.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20

Manteo will direct the Holy Week
ceremonies.
Father Peter Martin Denges,
pastor of the Catholic beach
church, cordially invites the public
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-03-20

to attend the Holy Week services
on Holy Thursday and Good FRI
day at 5 pm, on Holy Saturday
at Ills PM, and all Easter serv-
ices.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1959-02-19

Glenn DeGroft,, who has lived
in Geauga County since 1927, is
observing is 21st year as an en-
ployee at Carlson's Hardware
store.
Born in Sandusky County, h e
first came to Geauga to operate
a Hambden farm for w. G. Gra-
yes. Prior to that he had been
employed at the agricultural ex-
perimental station at st. Cairs-
vile.
DeGroft got started on his ca
reer in agriculture when he att
ended Ohio University, Athens,
where he spent three years stu
dying the field. 1t was there he
met his wife, Elsie, originally
from Parkersburg, w. Va.
The couple now live at 1i8
Water st., Chardon. They have
one daughter, Jean (Mrs. Rich
ard) Giles of Parkman, and two
granddaughters.
What was once a profession
has now become a hobby for
DeGroft, who still likes to G t
out into the backyard of their
Water st. home where he has a
small garden.
Mr.. and Mrs. DeGroft are me-
mbers of the Hambden Grange
and the Pilgrim Christian chur-
ch.