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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
Relocation Housinq
No to Displaced
Builder Cites
High Rent Level,
Bar on Negroes
BY ALFRED ALIBRANDO
Star STAFF Writer

The builder of Washington's
first relocation housing project
financed by a 100 per cent
loan
today said he does not expect
many persons displaced by Stun
clearance to qualify for the
rental apartments.
Albert Chaiken, president of
the Jefferson Realty Co., Alex
andria, builder Of the 94-unlc
Trenton Park project on Mis-
SlSsippl avenue at Sixth street
Sc, also said the apartments
would be restricted to white &C.
cupants.
Frankly, we don't expect
many displaced persons, he
said. THE rents range from
$76.50 to $102.50, in the lower
middle income range. Most of
the people displaced by slum
clearance can't afford these
rents"
The relocation program has
been under fire locally and
nationally for some time.
FILA Criticized
Senator Clark, Democrat of
Pennsylvania, last January
the Federal Housing
Administration hearings on
housing legislation because its
relocation housing program did
not provide housing for dis
placed persons. He said fewer
than 40 displaced families h2d
been housed in an eastern re-
gion where several hundred re-
location units had been built,
At a recent hearing on the
Northwest Urban Renewal
Project, the Washington Hous-
ing Association and othet
groups protested that demoli-
ton of slums without provision
for relocation is working
hardship on hundreds of Dis
trict families. Several grQlNs
also protested that the FHss
relocation housing program
here would not meet the need
for which it was intended. The
program was described as one
chiefly benefting developers
who build the projects.
Urban renewal officials here
have estimated they will need
several thousand units within
the next few years for families
displaced from Southwest and
Northwest slum clearance prof.
ects. More than so per cent Of
the persons displaced will be
Negroes.
Mr.. Chaiken said rental q:
the Trenton Park apartment
probably will begin in about q
week.
Other Apartments Pending
Recently the District a..
proved rezoning of another
Congress Heights tract from
single dwelling to apartment,
dwellings for construction o.
another 900 units by M.
Chaiken.
In addition to these projects,
the District FILA Office recently
that Baltimore Build
ers Ben and Herman Cohen
were preparing to start con-
Struction of 500-unit reloca-
ton housing project at Wheeler
road and Valley avenue Sc.
Under the relocation housing
program the FILA inSures the
full cost of the projects. The
or owner is not per-
to take a profit out of
the project until it is paid off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
PEPCODriIIs to Rattle
Before Prospect House
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star StafY Writer

Historic Prospect House in Georgetown where walls re-
Gently found cracked after underground coputer
ter was installed next door for the Air Force faces
siege today.
For the next two weeks construction workers be drill
ing the street of the fashionable Georgetown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11
D. c. Acts to Acquire
Old Garfield Land
Also Moves TO Obtain Comp Simms
Area for Schools and Housing
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Stah Writer

The District Commissioners today took action toward
qung the old Garfield Hospital land and part of the former
National Guard property Camp SmS for school public
housing sites.
All of the land in question now Federally owned.
The Commissioners today also
Approved request for city school officials to acquire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

I've had three years of ex-
perience in singing profession
ally"
In the last three years. she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-11

has appeared regularly in
clubs and on television in the
Washington area. BY day, how
ever, she supplements her in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-01

SiIieone Aluminium stretch on cover
-. moisture and scorch resistunt
surface will not stain voter
repellent eeIIuIose pod with cushion
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not shift on board. Tailored to fit
oil 81" boards.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-09-10
corn's the Crop
Big Cannery Here
At Season s Peak

The Thomas Foods cannery at Gaithersburg-the
only cannery in Montgomery County-s straining
every metal sinew to can in the few short weeks
before it shuts down in October.
The lights have been burning late at the cannery
and almost all of the hands putting in at least
double shifts. AS soon as the days crop has been
canned, cleaning crews turn on high pressure hoses
and wash down everything literally everything-to
be ready for the next days work.
The place is the home of thousand jets of water,
squirting from 10000 orfces. 1t the con-
crete floor 1t drps from the walls 1t pillows up in
clouds of steam. It's the wettest place in town.
But between the months of May and October the
cannery is Gaithersburgs biggest employer with pay
roll of $50 skilled workers and migratory, unskilled
workers.
Common laborers, many of them women, earn
from ST to SIPS an hour. And when one stops and
considers that not few between SIPS and $3.50
week. an idea of how hard they work be formed.
Right now, they are in the middle of the corn sea-
son at the cannery Their other crop-peas-lasts
only for the month of June
Manager of the cannery is tall, rugged j. William
Pennington whose powerful hands would have no
trouble crushing any of the his plant fills. He
CONTINUED on Page A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
Getting Fed Up

There is considerable reason to
doubt that freer and more vigorous use
of police night sticks would be an effec-
tive antidote to juvenile hoodlumism.
Nevertheless, the New York City Coun-
Gil, by a vote of 81 to 8, has supported
a proposal to this effect, and this, of
itself, is persuasive indication that
the public is getting fed up with the
soft" approach.
The fight in the council for the
nightStick proposal was led by Brook
Ign Democrat, Joseph T. Sharkey. He
says we should forget about the Sob
sisters and the others who have spent
$500 million over 20 years, without sue
cess, to curb crime and delinquency"
Instead, according to Councilman
Sharkey, some "common-sense meas
ures,'" including night sticks, should be
given a trial.
That there actually is much COM
mon sense in this approach is very much
open to question. But the sentiment in
its behalf, as reflected by the council
vote, is hardly surprising in a city in
which the conventional methods have
been tried and found to be sadly
wanting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
The Mess in Michioon

The State of Michigan appears to
have progressed" financially from
point of scheduled collapse to one of
imminent catastrophe.
For the record, collapse day" was
scheduled for last February 15-the day
when the State treasury would have
been bare of money to meet the States
operating costs. The crisis of that mo-
ment was averted, or at least delayed,
when Michigan industry responded to
Governor Williams plea to pay $35 mil
lion in taxes several months in advance
of their due date. BY late summer, the
warning Democratic and Republican
factions who divide responsibility for the
State government Joined in enacting a
new "use" taxa thinly yelled Substi-
tute for an extra sales levy expressly
prohibited by the State constitution. On
october %, the State Supreme Court,
also divided politically, ruled the tax
unconstitutional.
The State controller, James w.
Miller, has now advised Democratic
Governor williams that catastrophe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29

day" Is Just around the corner II new
revenue is not found-quickly. On that
day, Mr.. Miller estimates that $500
State workers must be laid of, nearly
$4,000 college and university students
must be sent home, mental health hos
pitfalls must stop admitting new patients,
prison operations must be "skeletonized"
and virtually all other activities cur
tailed accordingly.
1t is late now to assess blame for the
mess. The State has been living beyond
It's income for several years while obsti-
nate politicians on both sides refused to
face up to the facts Of their responsibility
to the public. Governor Williams, no
more or less blameless than the rest, has
appealed to both parties to throw poll
tics in the ash can" If the voters had
chance right now they probably would
favor throwing the off1ceholders in the
same place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
Rudor Could Save Lives

There is accommodating evidence that
lives could be saved if all airliners were
equipped with storm-detecting radar.
The latest case to be cited officially in
support of the plan is that of the Wis
count crash near Chase, Maryland, last
May Thirty-three persons died in the
midair breakup of the big turbo-prop
transport Ironically, this particular
aircraft was one of the relatively few
equipped with weather radar-but it
was out of order. The Civil Aeronautics
Board believes that if the device had
been working, the ViScount pilot might
have been able to evade a Squall-line
turbulence which presumably wrecked
the plane.
The Federal Aviation Agency re-
Gently asked for aviation industry COM
ments on proposal to require weather
radar on all regular paSsenger-carrying
transports. The proposal evoked mixed
response, with pilots generally indors-
ing the idea and industry representa-
tives suggesting a go-Slow approach. A
considerable investment would be in
volved in any plan for immediate install
lation of radar in all airlinerS. The FAA
has the matter under advisement."
However, the CAB is properly con-
cerned primarily with saving lives, not
dollars. 1t comedies that radar is not in
fallible-as the Viscount case has shown.
And, as the CAB pointed out in its
report on the accident, lit is impossible
to predict precisely the action which
would have been taken by the captain
had the airborne radar been operable."
But the boards Investigators found evil
dence to indicate "the likelihood that
the area of turbulence could have been
avoided" if the pilot had had the advan-
tage of a radar warning of what lay
just ahead.
The board is justified in its conclu-
sion, therefore, that the provision Of
airborne radar on such aircraft would
enhance aviation safety" We hope the
findings in the Viscount case will hasten
the general adoption of airborne radar
by the airlineS-if not by voluntary
action, then by governmental edict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
The Fair Is Up to Paris

The State Department has made
wise move in promptly notifying the
International Bureau of Expeditions in
Paris of tentative American plans for
holding the 1864 Worlds Fair in the
United States. without the approval
of this bureau a truly representative
international exposition would be i'm
possible. This is because the % nations
which are members Of the bureau have
agreed in effect to exhibit only at shows
approved by the bureau.
Although the United States has not
Joined the agency, officials OF the Paris
bureau have indicated to District Com
missioner Mclaughlin that they would
give serious consideration to awarding
the 1864 show to an American city. The
bureau ordinarily deals only with gov
ernmentS of countries negotiating for
fair, so that formal request from the
United States Government is an essen
tial prerequisite to any decision to ap-
prove fair in America.
The State Department SenSibly did
not wait for the presidential commission
on selection of fair site to make up
its mind. BY acting in advance of a
decision, the department has placed the
Paris bureau on notice that America
wants the fair, so that at the bureaus
scheduled meeting early next week the
American bid can be officially conSid-
cred. It is assumed that the bureau
would be content to leave the selection
of the city to the United States Gov
eminent. And that is how the choice
will be made under President EiSen-
hower'S decision to name a commission
to recommend fair SITE
The advisory commission also is
cognizant of the need for haste in
reaching verdict in the case of Wash
ington VS.. New York City VS.. Los Angeles.
1t has notified the White House that
it's recommendation will be ready in the
next few days. In view of the per-
suasive local arguments for holding the
fair in this area, there is reason to
hope that before the bureau convenes
next week it will have been told that
the Presidents choice is the Nations
Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
Happy Birthday, Ladies

The Women'S National Press Club,
despite the repugnance of it's individual
members at this sort of thing, admits
to having reached the age of 40, and
marks the occasion today with lunch
con at the Mayf1ower Hotel The club,
with more characteristic femininity, re-
Trained from mentioning any charter
members who might attend. We are
told, however, that the oldest and larg-
est women's press group in the country
has grown from % to over 400 members
since its formation in 1919-an ample
demonstration of the advancement
which members of their sex have made
in the newspaper field. So, Happy
Birthday, ladies, and an early salutation
to your guest of honor, Mrs. Eisenhower,
who will celebrate birthday of her own
next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
LETTERS TO THE STAR

or poems occurred to her in
the night.)
To the rhythm Of the mu-
sic Of John Browns Body
which Mrs. Howe and her
companions had sung the
previous afternoon, the poem
had developed. 1t was even
tually purchased by the At
lantic Monthly. For it Mrs.
Howe received 81.
Alice Hutchins Drake.
Haskin Information Service
of The Star.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was
the author of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" not the words of 1.-THE
Battle Hymn of the Repub-
lic." Julia Ward Howe wrote
tn e m. Furthermore, Mrs.
Stowe was not the daughter
of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, as the letter stated.
They were brother and sister.
John S. Mayfield.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29

buttons made by various
countries: $325,o00 to Red
Albania, which gave nothing;
SIS million to Red Bulgaria,
which gave nothing; $3.5 mil
lion to Communist China,
which, Of course, gave Moth
ing; $5.6 million went to
Communist CZechoSlovakia,
which contributed $34,722.22;
Communist Poland got $40
million and gave 100000;
Communist Romania got ST
million, gave nothing, and
Tito'S Yugoslavia got $18.2
million and gave 100000.
UNICEF is an organiza-
ton, governmental in char
acter, underwritten by con-
tributions from 81 govern
ments. The United States
Government contributes more
than 80 per cent to its sup
port, and the other 80 ma
lions contribute less than
20 per cent.
Kitty L. Reynolds,
Secretary, Homeowners
Federation of Airing
ton.
A little girl was sent into
the prosperous bars of Wash
ington last Halloween with
a lined shopping bag. In two
nights she earned" over $40,
while her parents waited out
side.
The parents are poor, but
do not realize the harm they
are doing to a precocious
and very pretty child.
The United Nations drive
for milk for the needy chill
dren Of the world is a better
pastime for our children.
Mother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
Making Haste Slowly

1t is hardly surprising that the
Supreme Court has rejected Attorney
General Rogers request that it expedite
final ruling on the validity of the in
junction which has been issued in the
steel strike.
Any unnecessary prolongation Of
the strike will, of course, have conse-
quences adverse to the national econ
omy. But, at this stage of the game, it
seems improbable that delay of per-
haps three days will impose an intoler-
able burden on the country. And it GER
tainly is desirable that the issues raised
IN the unions appeal to the high court
should be decided after appropriate de-
liberation, and without denying, or ap-
pearing to deny, the union adequate
opportunity to present its case. There
is every probability that the court will
reach its decision next week, and this,
In strike which is already in its 10th
day, hardly constitutes an unreasonable
or uncomfortable delay.
The Government goes before the
Supreme Court armed with both a Dis
trict Court and an appellate court find
ing that the Taft-Hartley Act, under
which the injunction was issued, is con-
Stitutional, and that the requisite show
ing of an impending national emergency
has been made. There is in the picture,
however, the dissenting view of Appel
late Judge William HASTE that the in
junction should not have been granted
because it will tend to prejudice rather
than facilitate settlement of the strike
All of these things raise questions
OF great Importance to the country, and
upon which the Supreme Court has not
heretofore had occasion to rule. It
follows that the courts decision will
be one of high significance, and it should
not be reached without full and careful
consideration.
There remains, of course, the posi-
bility that settlement may still be
reached between the union and some
or all of the struck steel companies.
But in any candid appraisal, the hope
which this possibility encourages is a
slim one, and the prospect remains that
the efficacy of the injunction, assuming
Supreme Court approval, will have to
be put to the test of what could be a
bitter experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29

On November 8, Fairfax
County voters will be asked
whether they approve certain
revenue bond issues, slightly
increasing the property tax
rate. Chief interest centers
around the $41a million pro-
posal for parks and recrea-
ton and that of So million
for county libraries.
The League of Women Vot-
ers for years has been urging
that sufficient funds be in
cluded for both purposes in
the county's annual budget.
County land prices are rising
monthly, and timely acquisi-
ton of desirable land is vital
to future orderly develop
ment of the county's master
plan. Recreation and facilities
are becoming more and more
necessary for the fast-grow-
ing population Of this bed
room of the Nations Cap
ital." To the league, these
facilities should include not
only physical equipment and
planned recreation, but large
park areas where families
may enjoy-and use-some OF
the loveliest land in the Met
ropolitan Area.
Sites for such natural
parks, as we'll as community
and stream valley parks, have
been carefully pinpointed by
able county and regional
park authorities. Only funds
for acquisition at today's
prices are lacking. Voters can
ensure the preservation of at
least a portion of Fairfax
County's wooded terrain for
their children's use by ap-
proving the passage of this
bond issue.
Using the same yardStick
of purchasing land while still
available at reasonable prices,
the league has urged acquir-
ing building sites for county
libraries. More than $4,000
school children, to say Moth
, ing of their parents and more
thousands of preschoolers.
need libraries near their
homes and schools, not in Ar
lington, Alexandria, or across
the Potomac River. A head
quarters building has long
been a necessity. The tiny
building where visitors are
now referred. overlooking with
books and reference materials
and no room to sit and read,
is a disgrace to a growing
community.
The county administration
has done an excellent job of
supplying the facts regard
ing the bond issues. Thought
full citizens of the county will
reflect on these considerations
as election day approaches,
The basic issues are: Do we
want to set aside now park
land for the future? Do we
want adequate libraries? We
are willing to pay the small
yearly cost of meeting these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

you can never be quite sure
who he is.
There is the agent provoca-
teur, who says something,
and then goes away and says
you said it.
There is the Super-critical
wight who lies in wait for
sonnet hing wrong, and
springs.
Sometimes he is called in
former, a word of contempt
in any language.
There is the guy who says
one thing, one time, and an
other thing the next time,
so that you are never quite
sure of him, either.
And there is the mean fell
low, the Sadist at heart.
These are a few of the out
standing examples of fearful
persons, with one or all Of
whom the average office
worker becomes acquainted.
There are, however, many
other causes for fear, espe-
cially to newcomers.
Jones remembers what a
time he had telling the diff
ference between two elder
workers.
Actually, they did not look
too much. alike-but they did
to young Temp Jones.
When he went up to one,
and said "Mr. Smith," he
found he was talking to Mr..
Brown, and vice versa.
He finally solved the prob
lem by saying nothing at all.
"a very good solution, in
most such cases.
1t was at least five years
before he managed to tell
the two apart at all times.
A small cause of concern, but
real one.
In Jones salad days, so
called, the Office INDUCED in
a bit of hazing of the new
employee.
No one spoke to him for at
least six weeks, except in line
of duty. -
Maybe they do it better
now, what with personnel
directors, and psychiatrists.
and so on, but 40 years ago
it was different.
Templeton Jones still has
a warm spot in his heart for
the one man who said Good
morning" from the start. He
still does, and that is the big
point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29

This Halloween when your
doorbell rings. some children
will be wearing a gold and
black label the label of
UNICEF. These children have
been asked to forgo trick
or treat" and, instead. will
ask for contributions to the
United Nations Children'S
Fund, better known as UNI
CEF. The emotional appeal of
this project help for the
worlds underprivileged chill
dren-has been great.
The UNICEF financial re-
port for the year ended De-
cember 81. 1856. shows how
some Of the funds were allo-
Gated, along with the contri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-29
Pros and Cons of Fairfax County Bond Issue

Ivy DOHQ Issue
ice demand that is used to
justify the proposed So mil
lion bond issue for building
and equipping a headquar-
tiers library and six branches
arises from the fact that the
school libraries are not doing
the job they should be doing.
There are some 30 to IS
school libraries in Fairfax
County, manned by 81 trained
librarians who are paid a
higher salary scale than the
teachers. Elementary libraries
are open half the school day
and high school libraries just
the 6-hour school day. They
are never open after school, in
the evenings, on Saturdays
or during vacation.
The overwhelming argu-
ment against the 100000
warehouse and courthouse
air-conditioning bond issue
is it deprives the voters OF
the opportunity to pass sepa-
rately on whether they want
to spend 100000 for a county
warehouse and 100000 for
air conditioning the court
house.
The $350,000 for a police
headquarters building is
promised on inadequate
space being available in the
courthouse. Can additional
space be found in the court
house to take care of needs
after the school administra-
ton moves to its new office
building about January /?
The 100000 proposed for
a municipal airport will
hardly buy the land. What
will be the total cost of such
an airport and will it not
compete with and drive out
of business two private air
ports still operating in the
county? Where will it be
located?
The only question about
the $150,000 bond issue for a
fire training center is whether
Fairfax County ought to go
it alone in the construction
and operation of such a center
or whether it would be more
economical to join other
Northern Virginia or metro
politan localities in its con-
struction and operation.
Finally, I would like to
point out that all taxes are
paid out of income and that
the income of local taxpay-
ers is already being heavily
absorbed by Federal and
State governments and the
costs of living. The Federal
debt per capita is now 1871
and the personal debt per
capita, which includes mort
cages and consumer credit,
is 1914. How much longer
can local taxpayers continue
to pay increased taxes, de-
sirable as some of the pro-
posed spending projects may
be?
Harley M. williams.