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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28
CAB rs SEEKING
CLUES IN FATAL
AIRLINE CRASH

BALTIMORE (AP).-An
appeal was made by the
Civil Aeronautics Board
yesterday for anyone find-
ing parts of a crashed air.
liner to turn them over to
investigators.
The CAB is seeking the
cause of a midair blast
which blew apart a Cap
ital Airlines plane and sent
81 persons to their death
May IL. Wreckage was
scattered over a wide area
near Baltimore.
Edward Slattery, CAB
spokesman. said there are
some important pieces of
the plane missing which
could shed light on the
cause of the crash which
occurred during a heavy
thunderstorm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28
Tour of Rock Creek Park Supplies
Solution for Watershed Delegates
Conference
Action Backs
Conservation

Sick little Rock Creek was
swarming with people offering
prescriptions for its recovery
yesterday.
But while the lay and pro-
lfessional consultants were sure
they had some cures. they were
stumped by the eternal ques-
tion: Who's to pay the patients
bills?
The creek and park. for dec
AIDES among the worlds most
renowned. was examined from
Its mouth in Georgetown to its
headsprings in upper Mont
gomery County by more than
200 delegates and guests of the
National Watershed Congress,
It was a telling climax to the
three-day watershed parley de-
voted to improving small.
streams and their surrounding
lands under the Federal Small
Watersheds Act. For if ever
a small supposedly decorative
stream needed help to save its
reputation, Rock Creek is it.
The recreation haven for
millions of users from metro
politan Washington, the Nation
and all parts Of the world,
Rock Creek and the vast park
that adjoins it most of its 18-
mile length has become the
victim of the people it serves.
Brown From Floods
Where it once was a clean
and well-behaved stream q
century ago, it is now an un-
lovely brown over most of its
length most of the year. Logs,
sticks and fallen treese are
jammed among the rocks. Its
banks are eroded. Mud and
gravel bars rise from the creek
bed. The rocks themselves are
stained brown.
The cause of the mess?
Floods. The cause of the floods?
Big city sprawl.
ConServationists point out
the evidence for the tourists
noted that in the last two
years alone the amount of ur-
BANKED area in the 77-mile
watershed has jumped from Sc
per cent to nearly so per cent.
With more farmlands being
surrendered to housing develop
ments every month, the urbani-
cation rate is increasing at
about the same pace. Every acre
of farmland that disappears IN
this fashion means proportion
ately more and faster rainwater
lrun-off into the creek and its
tributaries.
Lathrop e. Smith, president |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28

East Montgomery avenue to
Bridge street.
At IL am. the CiSsel-Saxon
American Legion Post Al will
hold q service in front of the
Silver Spring Armory. Ralph
G. Shure, newly appointed to
the Montgomery County Cir
cult Court. will be the main
speaker.
In Prince Georges County
music and marching groups
will take part in a ceremony to-
morrow night at the Prince
Georges Plaza shopping center,
beginning at $50 pm.
In nearby Virginia a cere-
mony sponsored by the Airing
ton County Council of Ameri-
can Legion Posts will be held at
the County Courthouse begin
ming at IL am.
A Commute parade will
start at 4 pm. from Lee high
way and North Sycamore street,
move along Lee highway
through Falls Church and dis
'perse in the Falls Church fair
grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28
COL. MONROE JOHNSON

COL. MONROE JOHNSON
of South Carolina, who was
chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Com miSsio n
during World War II, was
introduced. The colonel. who
is 81, made a rip-roaring
speech as if to prove that old
soldiers don't fade away.
Judge Holtzoff of District
Court, a World War I Legion
naire, was introduced but he
didn't make a speech.
Neither did Mai. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey of Selective
Service nor Paul Griffith,
formerly of Uniontown, Pa,
now of Potomac, Md, and
formerly national command
er OF the Legion.
Judge Tom Scalley of
Municipal Court, whose World
War I experience was similar
to the writer's also didn't
make a speech, nor did How
ard Covell, deputy chief of
the Metropolitan Police force,
who is too young to have
participated in World War L.
He is So.
The dinner was veal seal
lopini with domestic still
wines and a huge birthday
cake with 40 candles and
French champagne. All in all
the old soldiers, veterans of
the forgotten war, enjoyed
themselves.
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there is snag, however. To
be entitled to Federal aid, the
project would have to be JUS
titled in terms of benefits re-
sulting from the flood protec-
ton provided for downstream
park areas.
The difficulty lies in express
ing in terms of dollars, the
benefits that would result from
preventing the extensive play
areas from being flooded per-
iodically and left with a resi-
due of mud and debris, the de-
lays in travel stemming from
flooded roads and the esthetiC
unpleasantness Of viewing q
chronically brown flow Of wa
ter. IA
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Usual Weekend Traffic Due, Few
Get Extro Time Off for Holiday

Ceremonies and parades
nonoring the war dead Of
America, highlighted by tradi-
tional services at Arlington
Cemetery. will mark a subduec
Memorial Day observance in
the Washington area on Sat-
urday.
The usual holiday weekend
exodus is not expected, as Fed
eral and District government
employees will not receive ar
extra day of.
Municipal employees in Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
Counties-except school per-
sonnel-will be given tomor-
row of. District and all near
by Virginia municipal employees
will work tomorrow, and all
schools will be open.
The American Automobile
Association said travel from
the area is not expected to be
any heavier than on a normal
spring week end.
Businesses to Close
Nearly all businesses in the
District and surrounding
counties will be closed on Sat-
urday.
A warm, humid day, with
showers possible, is forecast
for the series of wreath-layine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28
HE HAD FLAsHBACK to

HE HAD A FLASHBACK to
standing on the curb on May
30th and watching the thin
ming line of blue march on its
way to the cemetery to dec
crate graves.
1t couldn't be. They were so
old.
He did a little mental
arithmetic. That was in 1910
when he was 10 years old and
that was IS years after APP
pomattox. This is 40 years
after the Armistice-but it
won't be long now.
Paul McGahan of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer's Washing
ton Bureau, who was on his
right, was saying:
1.-THE GIs of World War II
ana Korea don't take to the
Legion like we did. For one
thing everything has been
done for them by the Con-
gress at the prompting of the
veterans organizations before
they got out. They had the
CT Bill of Rights, back-to-
the old-job rights, Civil Serv-
ice preference and all that.
Ask Herbert Jacoby what
happened to our District
Legion clubhouse"
Mr.. Jacoby, a patent lawyer
and deputy National Com
mander of the Legion, was
on the left. He said:
I'm 1941 we purchased the
large house on Fifteenth
street facing Meridian Hill
Park which Mrs. Henderson
of Henderson Castle had
built for a home for the Vice
President of the United
States. That was in the 20S
and Congress turned down
the gift.
THE house was empty
when we bought it for $780,
600, $4,000 down. In 1851 we
sold it to the CzechoSlovak-
ian Embassy for $125,O00.
1--WE purchased the old
Scottish Rite Temple at Third
and E streets NV. for $685.
900. Perpetual Building As
ISOLATION had a SGT, 900 first
trust. A few weeks ago the
building was auctioned off
in a foreclosure sale. The
corporation formed by the
Legion to operate it was bad
ly in arrears. A bid of $685.
900 purchased it. So all we
realized on the sale of the
Fifteenth street club is gone. +"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28
The
Rambler
Goes Hinky
Dinky PurIez vous
by GEORGE KENNEDY

It's the forgotten war: 1t
certainly is. What young per-
son today-or middle aged,
under so that is-could tell
you anything about Chemin
des Danes, Scissors, Chateau
Thierry, Belleau Wood. Saint
Mihiel or Meuse-Argonne.
This occurred to the Ram
bier last evening as he fitted
his World War / service pin
in his lapel (for very brief
service on this side Of the
water) to 60 to an informal
dinner marking the 40th an
niversary Of the founding Of
the American Legion.
The dinner was at Frank
Abbo's Roma Restaurant on
Connecticut avenue and as
speaker after speaker pointed
out, it also marked the 10th
anniversary of Franks en-
trance into the restaurant
business.
Frank, a young immigrant
from the mountain country
near Genoa, had a railroad
Job by day and a night job
sleeping in a bed in a depart
ment store window when the
draft came along and whisked
him out of the window. He
became a cook in the Army.
So after the war he opened
q little downtown restaurant
with a big spaghetti pot and
six tables.
During the singing OF Mao
emoiselle from Armentieres,
Madelon and Roses Of Pic
ardy, the Rambler looked
around the table and it sud-
denly occurred to him:
"Here we are just where the
Grand Army of the Republic
was when I was a boy"
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of the Rock Greek Watershed
Association. which is trying to
preserve the stream, had a re-
signed characterization for the
dwindling number of farms.
you have to look at them as
the raw material for a future
CITY," he said.
The rural-urban demarcation
line is Rockville Norbeck road.
To the south of it are the rows
and rows of new houses march,
ing up and down the hillsides,
the unfinished developments,
broad gashes of raw clay, tons
of which are dumped into the
creek with every downpour. To
the north toward Laytonsville.
farms even now are for sale, re-
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coming application signs are up
and farmers on the move to
outer lands. with a pocketful
of profit from selling to the
subdividers.
The construction of two small
dams retain at least part of the
flood run-off on the creeks
main stem and north branch
have been proposed. The sites
would form high water reser-
voirs that would back up one
or two miles to Muncaster Mill
road near Gaithersburg.
Money Problem
The structures themselves
would cost more than 100000,
While the cost seems moderate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28
MaIIorYB Bill
Cleared for
House Action
Measure Allows
Confession Use
Despite Delay

The House bill to clarity the
Supreme Courts Mallory de-
cision. which barred trial use
of a confession because of delay
between arrest and arraign-
ment, today was cleared for
early floor action.
The Rules Committee acted
favorably on the floor move
after hearing Representative
Willis, Democrat of Louisiana,
sponsor of the measure. The
committee had scheduled two
hours of debate.
Mallory legislation also is
pending in the Senate.
The Willis proposal would
bar courts from excluding con-
LESSONS as evidence solely be-
cause of delay between arrest
and arraignment.
Conviction Reversed
Both the House and Senate
measures are intended to cope
with the 1857 Supreme Court
decision reversing a rape con-
viction in Federal District
Court here. The convicted man,
Andrew r. Mallory, had been
sentenced to death.
The reversal was based on a
finding that he was held by
police for an unreasonable time
before formal arraignment and
that the delay affected the
voluntary character Of his
statement.
Law enforcement officials
have commended since the deci-
sion that the Supreme Court
position constituted an impede
ment to the successful prosecu-
ton of suspected criminals.
Senate Bills
A bill sponsored by Senator
Heating. Republican of New
York, is identical to the Willis
measure. Another Senate bill,
sponsored by Senators East
land of Mississippi, and O'Ma-
honey of Wyoming, Democrats,
adds the word reasonable" in
barring delay as the sole
ground for excluding a confess
sion as evidence.
Both houses passed bills
aimed at the same end last
year, but they died when Con-
gress adjourned without APP
proving the conference agree
ment.
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ments include a new pipe line
under the Potomac River to the
Districts Dalecarlia reservoir.
The county now gets its water
from pipelines now crossing
the river on Chain Bridge.
Parks and Recreation
Recreation and park facil-
ties would include new build
ings. additional Fairgrounds
and acquisition and parklands
along stream valleys such as
-Four Mile Run and Pimmit
Run.
Mr.. Krupsaw said that in
addition to the $50 million for
general Improvements. about So
million to SO million would be
spent for school Improvement.
Building of new schools has
about come to an end in Ar
lington with the leveling off OF
population, but considerable
playground space is needed at
some of the schools and build
ings improvements are needed
at others.
He said breakdown of spe-
cific projects probably will not
be available for several weeks.
He said county officials now are
putting together the results OF
the committees studies.
The board chairman said the
program will be a new approach
to capital improvement budget
ing. He said income and bor-
rowing capacity and estimated
expenditures for both admins
trative operations and capital
improvements will be projected
in one package which will show
the public what is planned and
how much it will cost each
year.
He said the projection will
show that Arlington will be
able to finance in stride be-
tween now and 1870 over $50
million in long-range capital
improvements"
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the l0-year period in the pres
ent 1884 real estate levy the
major source Of county income
A major portion of the pro-
gram would be financed
through bond issues, he indi-
Gated.
Exceeds Past 20 Years
He said the program called
for more construction-except
for schools - than Arlington
has done in the past 20 years,
Mr.. Krupsaw said the pro-
gram had been developed over
the past several months by a
committee consisting of him
self, County Manager A. T.
Lundberg; School Supt. Ray E,
Reid; Finance Director Edgar
Smith and Assistant School
Supt. E. j. Braun.
One of the major projects
will be secondary treatment
facilities for the county's sew
age plant, Mr.. Krupsaw said
Arlington has been heavily
criticized for contributing to
pollution of the Potomac River
by not providing more treat
ment of its sewage.
Mr.. Krupsaw said the pro-
gram also would involve "a
complete system of Libraries
including central library, a
fire headquarters and addi-
tional fire stations, sidewalks
storm sewers, water system
Improvements, road improve
ments, recreation and park
facilities, health facilities and
redevelopment of some run
down areas"
The water system improve
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Institute of Internal
Auditors closes a five-day
Shoreham Hotel conven-
ton.
This information supplied by
the Washington Convention and
Visitors Bureau
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Arlington Plans
$50 Million Project
l0-Yeur Building Program
Unveiled at ABC Meeting
BY PAUL HOPE
Star stan Writer

$50 million capital Improvement program over the next
10 years Is being planned for Arlington County
The huge building program disclosed last night by
County Board Chairman David L. Krupsaw convention Of
the Arlngtonians for Better County.
Mr. Krupsaw said the program plus normal increases In
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county 0pefatlonaI expenses
could be carried out with less
than a 25 per cent increase in
the tax rate"
He said this would mean
about an So-cent increase over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-28

KouI. Krupsow Renomed at ABc
Convention. Page b.
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BIRTHS

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Quid-
ley of Manteo a daughter, six
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
ROANOKE SCHOOL TO
HAVE ENLARGED STAGE
Organizations. Companies and Individ-
uals Contribute to Assist PTA
Of Roanoke School

The Roanoke p. T. A. is most
grateful to all the people, organi-
cations and companies who have
donated to the recent p. L. A.
Membership and Goodwill Drive.
The total raised was $32S.00. The
money will be used to provide adj
ditional necessities within the Roa-
noke school. The first project is to
extend the present stage and pro-
vide curtains for the stage. This
project is already underway and
the curtains will be installed dur
ing the first week in February.
With the tpye of support re-
ceived from many citizens of the
county the P. T. A. feels it is their
desire as well as the desire of the
P. T. A. to help in the promotion
of better education and the building
among the students, better citizens
for Dare County.
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DISASTER FOLLOWS
MUCH DEPENDE
ON U. S. BOUNTY
Paralysis and Starvation Gan
Come AS Now Threatens Chin
colleague and Vicinity
By .HARDTIMES, HUNT


Chincoteague.-This story must
he written in the first person be-
cause the first person is being in
creasingly involved in the post
failure hassle; also, its moral -
which might not become clear by
story's end and is therefore given
in the beginnings 81 was right
all along. :" The story is about
the sudden closing of Chincoteague
(Va.) Naval Air Station and the
resultant disaster-effect on the
area:
Over 800 civilian employees
worked at the base. Maybe one in
400 was money-saver, a system
attic calculator setting aside week
ly sums to offset loss of employ
ment from any one of any rea-
sons. All the rest were buying
something, paying out of salary
for automobiles, or homes, or
room in a clearinghouse plus
nightly beer-saturation. Everybody
spent salaries for what appeared
to be life's must useful necessi-
ties. And on Dec. 10, 1853
week before Christmas-definite
orders came, "Lay off half the
civilian employees by Feb. Is and
close the base by June 80. :"
The result was cancellation of
Christmas orders, cancellation of
peace-of-mind and h.appine S.
Chincoteague Island depends heav-
lily on Base paychecks; so does
Pocomoke, Md, Is miles north;
so do businesses and breadwinners
as far as Onancock, 80 miles
south. People went into panic dis
cussions and shortly after into
orderly meetings. A "Save Chin
colleague" group met frequently,
sorting representatives for the
saving-never altering the original
theme =.
To PARKWAY, disinterested per-
son Cne perpetual 1in0iiS
seemed silly, ludicrous. To near
by spectator it was pitiful-to
those overtaken by insecurity 1t
was tragic. Because for 20 years
the Base had seemed so perma-
nent, so ever-productive of Fri
days paychecks, that (maybe)
one in 400 had prepared for
change of occupation, OF no occu-
patton.
Chincoteague Island itself used
to thrive within itself. Seafood,
deep sea fishing, jumping broil-
er industry, bodybuilding, private
small industries-but increasingly,
since 20 years ago individual en-
terprise has dwindled. AS OF now
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the island has three main revenue
sources; the base payroll, Social
Security checks and the Fireman's
annual Pony Penning. Oyster
shuckers hire few people seas
onally but clustering hasn't been
so good this year. Chicken raisers
merely work on commission for
the feed manufacturers.
So the aforementioned cutlery,
coming out of tragedy, became
steadily reiterated stories of eco
nomic damage to the area. Over
and over, stories of tragedy, howls
of sorrow. Some far-distant peo-
pie lost patience, said the Navy
had it's stations for the nation
not for substituting communities.
But the theme never changed,
never altered. People struck by
misfortune think that's a good
reason to ask for misfortune's re-
lief.
Well, briefly, representatives
were selected and sent to Wash
ington. The senior senator from
Virginia and lesser-luminaries
from the counties went to see the
Navy Secretary-to tell him that
the Chincoteague area needed the
money from base wages.
l wrote prophetic letter to a
metropolitan paper saying that
the finance-m minded senator and
the lesser dignitaries had an al
ready prepare d-and-suggested
story which would insure non-re-
opening-the story of economic
hardship in the adjacent small
area. Because anybody, near or
far, needed only to think in I'M
biased manner to see that the
Navy couldn't maintain communi-
ty-subsidizing stations for econ
onry reasons alone-because after
all, an Air Base is for defense,
mostly. So the effort failed. Be-
cause the method was wrong.
Nobody said the method was
wrong except me. After presenta-
ton of reasons to the Navy Sec'y
(who said "no dice") the Sen.
said 'I'm not satisfied. with Nays
excuse (for closing)" and less
weighty individuals echoed
we amt satisfied either" = so
there we were. The peoples rep
resentatives had made the try,
voters were miserable about out
come but assuaged and content
that the try had been a full-sized
one-nobody blamed anybody for
My prophesy, saying
they'd try something they knew
would fail, was fulfilled - and
when people realized that they
began to blame somebody :.
I'd tried to make big people
mad, hoping they'd try more eff
cient reasoning-but little people
appropriated the ire, told me many
things even unto the third and
fourth generation (back). It's no
cause for shame to rouse madness
if it causes accomplishment, but
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MANTEO PERSONALS

Mrs. Barron Daniels of Ports
mouth, Va, is visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Shannon.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Twiford of
Virginia Beach visited in Manteo
Tuesday.
Miss Elaine Brickhouse spent
the week end in Norfolk, Va, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Smith. She
accompanied her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland Baum of
Wanchese, parents of Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. Beatrice Brickhouse Joined
them Sunday afternoon, and visited
her son, Caleb Myers Brickhouse,
who is a student at William and
Mary College.
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it's shameful to make people mad
for no reason, no purpose. I'm
sorry the needing misfired, made
the wrong set unhappy. 1t was a
waste of mad :.
So the closing of Chincoteague
Base has resulted in no visible
good. Only unhappiness, discon-
tent, anger. It's because people
had got to depend on the base too
firmly, to think of it as perpetual
industry-and because they'd got
to depend on me for light, fantas-
tic stories; not predictions of fail
ure, disaster
1t amt we'll for a community
to let itself grow to depend on a
government facility-or writer
for perpetual support. One is
about as unpredictable as the 9TH
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
SCRANTON PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brick
house of Columbia visited the Dan
Midgetts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merret Bridgman
of Newport, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Morris of Pioneer, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Bell.
Mrs. ]. B. Bridgman returned
Saturday after visiting her son
Merret in Newport News.
George Ross visited his broth
er, Will Rose, near New Holland.
Mrs. Blanch Spencer is now at
her home in Fortescue Creek after
visiting her mother.