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Evening star., 1959-10-06

'ciple OF proper taxation" ana
spur a flight of professional
people to the suburbs.
Walter A. Slowinski. chair
man of q tax committee of the
bar group. contended the fran
chise move would be discrimi-
natory. He labeled it "in fact
an income tax and "a radical
departure" from present law.
CPAs Add Criticism
The plan also was criticized
by Paul Lambert, jr., president
of the District Institute of Ger
titled Public Accountants, who
said the present tax was never
intended to apply to salaries
or income from professional
services but only to that de-
rived from capital investment.
The District now levies the
franchise tax on nonincorpo-
rated businesses but exempts
physicians, registered archi-
tects and dentists as well as
lawyers and other professionals.
Court decisions have freed pro-
fessional engineers from the
levy and life insurance agents
are now seeking similar ex-
emption through litigation.
The broadening of the fran
chise tax is part of a tax-rise
program recommended by city
fiscal officers and now under
consideration by the District
Commissioners sor next year
Budget officials have contended
it is inequitable to exempt pro-
fessionals when retail mer-
chants and other unin-
corporated businessmen must
pay.
Mr.. Ballard said the taS
move would discriminate
against professions that are for
hidden to incorporate. He also
Evening star., 1959-10-06
ruffic-Free
Shopping Area
Is Proposed
BY ALFRED EICHNER
Star Staf Writer

District Commissioner Robert
E. Mclaughlin would like to
turn part Of the downtown r
and G streets shopping area
into a fiower,lined pedestrian
mall"
Motor vehicle traffic would be
banned from the grass-covered
area he emissions.
II intend to suggest such an
idea to the National Capital
Downtown Committee some
time soon," the Commissioner
said.
The Downtown Committee is
made up of Washington busi-
nessmen with a 100000 budget
who aim to rejuvenate, the Dis
trict's central shopping area.
Mr.. Mclaughlin suggested
that special shoppers buses or
even moving sidewalks" be
used to transport shoppers from
store to store.
Impressed on Trip
"Of course, I don't think it
would hurt people to walk
either" he said. 1T might cure
some neuroses."
The Commissioner said he
and John Searles, executive di-
rector of the Redevelopment
Land Agency, were favorably
impressed when they saw a
pedestrian mall" while visiting
Rotterdam, the Netherlands,
two years ago. The RIA admin
listers Washington's urban re-
newal programs.
"The feasibility of such a
thing for the District certainly
suggests ITSELF" said Mr.. Nc
Laughlin. IF a great deal of
imagination goes into rebuild
ing the downtown area, it will
be able to draw shoppers from
the suburbs"
Mr.. Searles is enthusiastic
about the pedestrian mall"
idea for Washington.
II would most assuredly sup
port such a plan," he said.
He suggested closing off F
and @ streets to motor traffic,
as well as several cross streets.
Cross streets that are not closed
off should go either under or
over the pedestrian mall, he
added.
Other Cities Cited
"This would have amazing
results in terms of increased
business" he said, pointing to
the experience OF Hanover and
Kiel, Germany, and Kalama-
zoo, Mich, as well as Rotter-
dam.
Both the Commissioner and
the RIA director say studies
should be undertaken before
making their suggestion of a
pedestrian mall more specific.
"In particular" Mr.. Nc
Laughlin said. we've got to
know how this will affect traf-
fic."
A subway, with its main ter
minal under the mall, might
well solve most of the traffic
problems, he remarked.
Mr.. Searles added:
This is an idea which would
work to everyone's benefit, and
when it's to everyone's benefit.
there should be some way Of
doing it,"
Evening star., 1959-10-06
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Associa-
ton of Orthodontists con-
tinues its Middle Atlantic
regional meeting in the
Shoreham Hotel.
Ending a three-day con-
vention, the American As
sociation of Passenger
Traffic Officers holds final
sessions in the Shoreham
Hotel.
This information supplied by
the WASHINGTON Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
Evening star., 1959-10-06
School Rules
Are Tigltened
In Alexandra
Policy of Pushing
SIow-Leurners
Ahead CurtuiIed
BY DAN POOLE
star Stan Writer

Alexandria pupils-no matter
how much bigger they might
be than their classmates-will
find it much harder to get pro-
NOTED this year, If their work
doesn't measure up.
School officials are cutting
out so-called social promo
tions" which occasion allyl
pushed slow-learning students
ahead just because they were
getting too big or too old for
their classmates.
In a new "get tough" policy
on promotion, Alexandria
school officials hope to tighten
academic standards by being
stricter with pupils whose
grades are below the passing
mark.
Its related to our new read
mess centers for slow-maturing |
6-year -olds who cannot take
first-grade work." explained
Assistant School Supt. Ray
mond F. Sanger. IF a student
doesn't pass in any grade, he |
just plain won't get promoted"
Border-Line Pupils
He said that in some instances
previously there have been So
| C allied social promotions"
where a border-line student
was passed on to the next grade
simply because he already was
older than his classmates
through prior failures.
And in some cases slow
learning pupils were promoted
because they were getting so
much bigger than their class
mates they didn't seem to fit in
with them, he said.
These practices will be dis
continued" Mr.. Sanger said.
1.-THE administration has de-
cided that all students must
measure up in their class work
in order to pass on to the next
grade"
Rather than carrying the
lslow : learners. along, he said,
school officials now will require
them to take remedial work to
bring their grades up to stand
ard or they may be assigned
to special classes for retarded
students.
In another move resulting
from frightened academic re-
quirements. Alexandria schools
will open five readiness
classes" within a week for
about 100 6-year-olds termed
too immature for first grade
work.
Mr.. Sanger said acceptance
of the new program. the first
of its kind in this area, has
been generally good. He said
he does not know yet how
many parents will send their
children to the special centerS.
They have an option of en-
rolling them. keeping them at
home or sending them to
private schools.
Tests Decisive
Parents of Ill potential first
graders were notified yesterday
and today that their children
were ineligible for regular
school work this year, but that
they could attend special readi-
ness centers being set up to
prepare them for entering the
first grade next year.
Prohibited from entering the
first grade are children who
scored a mental age of AZ years
old or less on two maturity
tests given last month.
Children assigned to the
special classes will attend the
same hours, 9 am. to 2 p.m.,
as the regular first grade
students. They will be divided
into groups of about 20 in each
class.
Evening star., 1959-10-06
D. c. Bar, Accountants
Franchise Tax Plan
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star Staff Writer

Proposed extension of the Districts unncorporated business
franchise lawyers and other professionals aSsaed
today by spokesmen for the District Bar Association and
ganized Washington public accountants.
Frederick Ballard bar association president charged at
public hearing that the would violate prin
Evening star., 1959-10-06
Emergency Drive Set
By ChiIdren's S Hospital

Chdrens Hospital which is in need Of funds, will hold
emergency campaign for public support and be forced
to go the courts to break nearly 81 million in endow
ment funds
Robert B. Swope president Of the hospital board said
ue chip" campaign to sign sustaining members Of the
Evening star., 1959-12-20
Program Listines

7-lowrenee WeIk. Variety.
Hour. Yuletide porty with the
wives and children OF the Cham
poone Music Makers.
9-MV. Lucky. Adventure.
A prominent citizen resorts TO
deodlY measures when his wife
loses heavily aboard Lucky's
gambling ship. John ViNdn.
$3.50
Alive Fingers. Intrigue.
I Hour. "Operotion Romrod."
David Hsdison, Luciano Poluzzi.
5-Don Owens JomboFee.
Country music.
9-Hove Gun, Will TFoVeI.
Polodin is hired by o notorious
gang chief to escort him and his
fonnlly TO new town. Richard
Boone. jones Coburn.
1000
5-Stor Performance. Dromo.
Dovid NiVen stors.
7-Jubilee U. 5. A. Variety.
Hour. Red Foley. host. George
Homil,on ", visits.
9-Gunsmoke. Western.
When two friends and ranch
poTtners hove follino out, Mott
hos them drow cords to settle
the dispute. Jones Arness.
1890
Alt Could Be You.
Bill Leyden, host.
5-PIoyhouse Five. Movies.
IA Hours. Beyond Tomorrow.
1870 Richord CorIson.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
SATURDAY
9-Ten-Thirty Theoter.

9-Ten-Thirty Theoter.
I Hour, so Min. key Loroo."
l948 Edword 6. Robinson,
Humphrey Booor.
1900
4-News. Sports.
Sprooue. Michael.
7-SotuFdoy Night Movie.
IA Hours. "Dork Victory"
1889 Bette Dovis, George Brent.
9-News. Weather. Sports.
Barber. Douglas. Doniels.
ll:15
4-comeo TheoteT. Drama.
! Hour. "The Long, Long
Louoh." June Lockhor.
9-Ten-T Thirty TheoteT.
Continuation Of "Key Lorao."
1900
5-Diek Powell Show. Dromo.
l2:l5
4-Feoture Festival. Movie.
Approximately " Hours. "Hor-
Dor of Missing Men," l949.
Richard Dennino, Barbara Fuller.
1890
7-GIeneonnon. Comedy.
Thomas Mitchell.
l2:35
9-Shoek! MQVie.
! Hour. IS Min. The Mon
Who Lived Twice" 1886.
Rolph BelIomy, Morion Marsh.
900
9-Meditotion. Weather.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
December 26
EVENING"

500
4-Annie 0Gklsy. Western.
Coil DoVis.
7-AiT Power.
6:l5
9-citixen Soldier. Army.
$50
4-Troffie Court. Triol.
7-Stota Trooper. Police.
Rod Cameron stors.
6:45
s-seturday News speeioI.
TOO
4-BoFdeT Patrol. Adventure.
5-Hishwoy Petrol. Crime.
7-Seo Hunt. Adventure.
Lloyd Bridges
9-Shotsun SIade. Detective.
Starring Scott Brody.
1880
4-Rononzo. Color.
HeuT. Poiute War" A
troder osSouIts two lndion women
and then ottempts to shift the
bIome for the incident TO Adom
Cartwright. Lome Green, Per
nell Roberts. tRepeot.l
Stroller Derby. Sport.
Z Hours. Video toped. From
New York.
7-Diek cIork Show. Voriety.
o-PeFVY Mosen. Mystery.
! Hour. THE Cose OF the
Moth-Eoten Mink" Perry steps
in when on ottroctiVe wotress Is
frightened by o patron ond runs
out OF the restaurant where he
is dining. Raymond Burr. 6or-
boro Hole. tRepeot.l
$500
7-John GuntheV's High ROsd.
"Jomoico. Herb Shriner and
his fomilY toke viewers on tour
Of this islond in the West Indies.
John 6unther, narrator.
$50
Anon and The Challenge.
The Visitors" Borton and his
associates ore mistoken for creo-
tures from Mors. George Noder.
1-leoYe II TO Beaver. Com'dy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21

rector appointed. The players
worked out the action together.
Ground Zero" already has
had one performance, at CAL
vary Baptist Church. 1t played
last night at st. Marks.
It's schedule for the next
month calls for performances
at six more Episcopal churches
and at two Presbyterian
churches. This is the schedule:
st. Michael and All Angels,
tomorrow; st. Paul's, Rock
Creek, March /; st. Luke's,
March 8; Ascension, March
10; Bethesda Presbyterian and
Irwin Memorial Presbyterian.
both on March is; Ascension
and st. Agnes, March II, and
st. Patrick'S, March ID.
AT each church, the play is
given as part of a regular wor-
ship service. The actors enter
with the professional and take
places with the choir during
the prayers. At some of the
churches the service is preceded
by a lenten dinner.
Mr.. Baxter believes that
chancel drama is an important
part of lenten education. In
the plays, he says, "a deeper
dimension of reality than a
sermon can reveal is brought
before the altar as an offering
of the people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Big Statue
Dedication

Washington cathedrals
heroic equestrian statue oi
George Washington will be
dedicated at 4 pm. tomorrow
in the plaza at the foot Of the
Pilgrim Steps on the Cathedral
grounds.
Colgate w. Darden. jr., presi-
dent OF the University of vir-
ginia, will deliver the address
at the ceremony. The Right
Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop OF
Washington. will officiate at
the dedication service.
A large group Of Govern
ment and civic officials, mill
tary, patriotic and veterans
organizations and the United
States Army Band are expected
to participate.
Canon Luther d. Miller will
preach at the Cathedral's IL
am. prayer service.
Holly Communion will be
celebrated at 8 am. in st.
Mary's Chapel by the Rev.
Jones B. Shannon and at $50
am. in Bethlehem Chapel by
Canon Robert A. George.
New Hampshire will be re-
membered in Cathedral prayers
tomorrow and the State flag
viii be carried in the ecclesias-
teal professions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Pastor to Give
Final Sermons

The Rev. Emo K. Lohr-
mann will preach his final SER
mons at $3.50 and II am. to-
morrow as pastor of the Pilgrim
Lutheran Church, $500 Mas
Isachusetts avenue, Bethesda.
Pastor Lohrmann, who has
been at Pilgrim for seven-and-
a-half years. is leaving to be-
come the first chaplain at the
Spring Grove State Hospital at
Gainesville, Md, where he will
be concerned with the role of
the Christian faith in over
coming mental illness.
Pilgrims interim pastor after
his departure will be the Rev.
Walter E. Kraemer, associate
secretary Of the Lutheran Serv-
ice Commission and assistant
executive secretary of the
Armed Services Commission of
the Lutheran Church. Missouri
Synod.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Church Offered
Board Truct

The Methodist Board OF Tenn.
perance has volunteered to sur.
render title Of its lsla-acrt
tract at Massachusetts anc
Nebraska avenues NV. TO the
Methodist Church If the church
wants It for a future headquar-
ters and religious center.
Known as the "Wire tract,
the property is adjacent to
Metropolitan Methodist Church
and opposite the campuses OF
two Methodist schools-Ameri-
can University and Wesley
Theological Seminary.
Transfer of the property Is
subject to action by the 1860
Methodist Conference. The
Board Of Temperatures resolu-
ton states 1t will surrender
title, rights and benefits In
exchange for its investment. 1t
originally paid Sis million for
the property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Cycle of Lenten Plays
Presented in Churches

play without author script director is playing to
church audiences throughout the Washington this enen
season.
The Joint effort of young people at ST. Marks
Episcopal Church. 301 Sc, the play has been
performed twice and booked for eight engagements
The project began with the Rev. William M Baxter young
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Clergy to Hear
Judaism Talks

The Washington Hebrew
Congregation will hold its an
nual Institute on Judaism fol-
the Christian clergy at IL am
Tuesday at the temple, Massa-
chusetts avenue and Macomh
street NV.
DR.. Harry OrlinSky, profess
sor Of Bible at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion, Cincinnati and
New York, will give the prin-
cipal address on Jewish In
fluences on Christian Transla-
lions Of the Bible" He also
will speak at a 1915 pm.
luncheon on "Translating the
New Protestant and Jewish
Versions of the Bible"
During the luncheon there
also will be the presentation
of an award to Secretary Of
Commerce Lewis l.. Strauss for
contributions to religious un-
derstanding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
ELIGIOUS
VS.
Guests Will Preach
From Areo PuIpits
/ q

Guest speakers will preach
from the pulpits Of q number
OF Washington area churches
tomorrow.
The Right Rev. Lewis Mervyn
Charles-E Edwards, Bishop of
Worcester. England, win speak
at two churches here tomorrow
Bishop Charles Edwards is a
former rector Of st. Martin-in-
the-Fields and has been chap
lain to King George vi and to
Queen Elizabeth.
The bishop will speak at the
IL am. service in st. Johns
Episcopal Church, Lafayette
Square, and at 8 pm. in the
Episcopal Church Of the Epiph-
any, 1917 @ street NV.
The Fifth Baptist Church,
500 E street S.W.. will have two
guest speakers tomorrow. The
Rev. DR.. Charles Wesley Lowry.
executive director of the Foun-
dalton for Religious Action in
the Social and Civil Order, will
preach at the II am. service.
At 7::30 pm, DR.. w. Onacewicz,
Of the Library of Congress, a
former colonel In the Polish
Army, will address the congre-
CATION.
The Rev. Henry j. Smith of
Skillman, NJ, pastor emeritus
'of Bethany Baptist Church,
Fourteenth street and Colorado
avenue NV, will return to his
former pulpit to speak at the
IL am. service on the Presence
of God"
DR.. j. Raymond Schmidt,
general superintendent of the
National Civic League and
associate editor of the National
Voice, will speak on as It
Nothing to You?" at the III
am. service of the Franklin
p. Nash Memorial Methodist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21

Church, U street and Lincoln
road NE.
Belford v. Lawson, Washing.
ton lawyer, will speak at the
10:45 am. service of EbenezeI
Methodist Church. Fourth anc
D streets Sc, which is observ-
ing Mems Day.
Hosny Gaber. assistant direc-
tor of the Islamic Center here,
will speak on "a Comparison
of Unitarianism With Islam
at 10:45 am. before the Rock
vile Unitarian Center, which
meets in the West Rockville
Elementary School.
Mrs. Bonaro Wilkinson Over
street, philosopher, psychologist
and poet, will speak at the
1890 am. service in the Annap-
oils Unitarian Church, Chesa-
peake avenue and Sixth street,
Annapolis.
l.. D. MacIntyre of Bethesda,
president of the American
Ethical Union, will speak on
Secular Saints" at II am. be-
fore the Washington Ethical
Society, 1922 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Y Crossroads Talk

Judge Luther A. Smith, a
sovereign grand commander in
the Scottish Rite Of Free
masonry will speak on wash
ington's Ideas Are Still Best
for America" at the Inter-
national Crossroads Sunday
Morning Breakfast at 9 am. to-
morrow at the Central YM.C.A.,
1855 O street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Physicist-Priest
To Address Meeting

The Rev. William G. Pollard,
well-known nuclear physicist
and a priest of the Episcopal
Church in Oakridge, Tenn, will
speak on THE Christian and
the Greed in the World Today"
at the annual Washington's
Birthday Breakfast Of the
Washington Episcopal Diocese
at 8 am. Monday at the Ma
tional Press Club.
A corporate communion, cele-
brated by the Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop Of Washington, at the
Church of the Epiphany, 1917
g street NV, will precede the
breakfast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21
Film on Life of Christ

"Golgotha," a film on the life
Of Christ. will be shown at 3
and 8 pm. tomorrow at st.
Hugh's Catholic Church, Greens
belt, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21

rector at st. Marks. Mr..
Baxter, who believes that
drama can sometimes succeed
where sermons fail, four years
ago originated a lenten play
cycle among several Episcopal
churches in the area. Church
groups prepared plays and per-
formed them in one another's
churches during the season.
This year eight churches are
putting on plays as part of the
cycle.
Subject Is Responsibility
st. Marks play is called
Ground Zero" It's subject is
Christian responsibility in the
nuclear age. Its setting is a
mythical convention called to
unveil a new super-missile. the
MARS"
Mr.. Baxter got the idea from
a magazine article and asked
some Of the members Of his
congregation if they would Gre
ate a play on the subject.
One of the group, a young
lawyer, wrote a first draft of
the play. That was five weeks
ago. Then everyone took a hand
at revising it.
Six More Performances
Each of the seven players
contributed ideas for changes
and they came so thick and
fast that the final version never
got written down. The script
exists only in the memories of
the players. Nor was any di-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-21

NATIONAL TABERNACLE
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-04-09
longtime 'GrOUe' Mayor,
l. L. McCathran, is Dead
Turn to Page A-4)

He attended Mckinley High
School and was a graduate OF
the National University where
he earned a masters degree,
his doctorate Of laws and doc
torate in patent law.
He maintained offices in the
McLachlin Bank bldg. at 100
10th st. NV. In the District.
Mr.. McCathran's interest In
music led him to form band
that toured the State during
World War 1 war bond drives.
Hist first wife, Mrs. Sarah
Osborne McCathran, died In
1856. They had one son, Donald
Leroy McCathran.
A second wife, Mrs. Marie
Lawlor McCathran, OF the
home address, Ill Maple I'd,
survives him as does a sister,
Mrs. Myra McCathran Myers,
of the District, and nine grand.
children.
Funeral services were TO be
held at 2 pm. today at the
Gsrtner Funeral Home, Cal.
thersburg, and burial was to
follow In Forest Oak Gene
terry, Gaithersburg.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-04-09
Fruit Farm
Rezoning
Is Okayed

Rockville City Heads
granted quarter-acre, single
family coming for SO acres
of the Rockville Fruit Farm
on Tuesday. Industrial and
apartment zoning requests
for 81 acres of the land were
withdrawn In a move to avoid
denial and, consequently, a
12-month coming freeze on
the property.
The quarter-acre lots, former.
ly zoned half-acre, will be ad-
jacent to the proposed Richie
Highway, but off both Seven
Locks I'd. and Falls I'd.
The council, Tuesday night,
accepted the withdrawal In or.
der TO give the owners a chance
TO revise their plans. The vote
was 3 to 2 with Mayor Alexan.
der j. Greene and Councilman
Charles w. Prettyman voting
to disallow the withdrawal.
Greene and Prettyman de-
cIared no form of industry would
be acceptable ut this location
and that they were against eva
sion of the years zoning stale
mate.
Owners of the land are West
End Inc, Rockville Fruit Farm
end Columbia Rpaoialtlas.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-04-09
Htch-hike
CrackdOUn
Ordered

Growing numbers Of children
observed hitchhiking In the
county's streets or roads have
led Police Superintendent
James S. McAuliffe to order a
breakdown by the county'S
three police stations.
He ordered police to start
making arrests under the anti.
hitch-hiking law passed by the
County Council last year,
Offenders can be fined up to
$40 or be detained In jail up to
II hours.
The law is aimed at stopping
thumbers from leaving the curb
or road shoulder to solicit rides
from motorists waiting for traf.
fic lights. Until now, police
have merely warned them.
II arrested, juveniles Will be
taken to police station where
a report will be made. That
report will go on to Juvenile
Court for disposition. The juve
nile offenders will be released
TO their parents wherever pos
sibla.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-04-09
7OO-Hone
Project
Disclosed

Plans for a planned COM
munity of about 700 houses
and apartments came to
light this week with news of
the sale of 81 acres of the
so-called Westward tract
bordering new US. 240 in
Rockville.
Buyer of the acreage was
Morris Kanfer, Washington at
torney, who already owns the
large Milor tract abutting the
WESTWARD tract. Development
would take place on both tracts.
A spokesman for the Samuel
E. Bogley Realty Company in
Rockville said Kanfer paid $175,.
600 for the land formerly owned
by Porter G. Ward.
Monroe Warren, president of
the Meadowbrook, Inc, a subdi-
vision builder, said he had con.
tracts to buy lots from Kanfer
and build a Colonial-type sub
division.
He estimated that 200 houses
and 300 apartments will be built
on the Milor tract and guessed
that about 200 houses will 90 up
on the Ward tract.
He also said that Kanfer has
tried to buy the old Anderson
farm near the proposed develop
ment, now owned by Circuit
Court Judge Thomas M. Ander.
son, but has not met with sue
cess.
Lawyer Barnard T. Welsh,
heir to the neighboring Welsh
tract Of 30-odd acres, said he
has no plans now TO sell.