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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Wife Shoots Self,
Dies in Maryland

A 32-year-old housewife died
today from a self-infiicted gun
shot wound in her home in
Cheverly, Maryland State POLES
reported. a \
The victim was identified by
police as Mrs. William B. Nc
Kibben of 1913 Fifty-fourth
avenue, the mother of two
school-age children. She was
shot with a revolver below the
heart. police said. They listed
the death as a suicide.
Police said Mrs. McKibben'S
husband was home when the
shooting occurred just before
IL am. Mrs. McKibben left q
note. but police declined to
reveal its contents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Stadium Construction to Go Ahead
Even If I enonts Are Not Signed Up

THAT means work must begin
next spring"
This determination to pro-
coed injects the project with
riSk-but a calculated one. Real
financial solvency depends on
lease arrangements with the
two major ball clubs.
Both Drop Out
The thinking of stadium
hackers is that club owners
will play their clubs in the new
stadium, but that they may
not agree to final terms months
before final architectural and
financing plans are drawn.
Both Mr.. Marshall and Mr..
Griffith have broken off nego-
tiations in the past year. Mr..
Marshall said in August he'd
given up hope the stadium
would be built. Mr.. Griffith
simply failed to appear at a
bargaining session set UP for
him in February by the Armory
Board. III AKA
But letters vent out to both
men in September to pick up
the talks again with District
Corporation Counsel Chester
Gray.
Mr.. Marshall delegated the
chore to attorney Leo Dorsey.
SIN ready to agree" Mr..
Dorsey said today. II expect
to go over the contract with the
Corporation Counsel whenever
he calls me. So far as we're
concerned, we see 20 reason
why a settlement can't be
reached quite promptly"
Mr.. Griffith has yet to reopen
negotiations. But sources close
to the Senators management
see Mr.. Griffith forced by cir
IcumStanceS to delay.
Three Issues
Major decisions on three is
sues-possible sale of Griffith
stadium, of the ball club Itself
and a Griffith move to another
city-cannot be reached easily
until the Spring.
! Mr.. Griffith owns Griffith
Stadium, which Howard Uni
versity wants to buy. But sale
would depend on a Federal ap-
preparation since the Govern
ment budgets, with congress
sional approval, Howard ex-
penses. The very earliest
Howard could arrange for a
purchase would be July /, the
beginning of the fiscal year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05

AT HIGH NOON, we rolled
through Kenwood and at
River road, we stopped and
sent a "reefer" refrigerator
carr full of peas into the
headquarters of Hot ShoppeS
, Inc.
We highballed-still at Is
miles an hour-through the
dark forests lying west Of
Washington and crossed the
Massachusetts avenue bridge.
At 1920 pm. we were in a
cool, damp tunnel under
Macarthur boulevard. We
made another stop at the
filtration plant and Mr.. Rid
die said a family of black
squirrels live nearby.
We ran high above the old
C&O Canal, crossed it once,
and then swayed lazily down
grade toward Georgetown,
with the Potomac at our
right.
A cat ran ahead of the
train and the whistle scream
ed. Brown and red leaves al
most covered the tracks and
the woods we're silent. A man
padded a canoe toward the
Three Sisters.
AS Key Bridge doomed on
the right, a man said the line
had been built in 1909. Strict
ly for freight, it services the
com m ercial pocket in
Georgetown as well as other
businesses lying west, north
west and north of Washing
ton.
Before we rumbled into
the shadows under the K
street freeway, footing
trucks out of the way, there
was one glimpse of the
ancient city above the river.
1t was 12:45 pm. when the
Substitute Rambler got off
the train at the end of the
line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05

Detailed drawings have been
promised before April by the
syndicate firms, Osborn Engi-
neering of Cleveland. George
Dahl Of Dallas and Ewing En-
cheering Associates of Wash
lington, Mobile, Ala, and
Miami.
Between now and then, Mr..
Shea counts on setting terms
of a bond issue-for. a mini
mum of So million-and re-
opening talks with George P,
Marshall and Calvin Griffith,
owners of the Washington Red
skins and Washington Sena-
tors, respectively. 81
Under a 1858 law, bonds
are guaranteed by the United
States Treasury. If stadium
receipts don't cover the princi-
pal and interest, the Treasury
is pledged to lend enough fol
bond repayments to the District
government. The District, in
turn, must repay the Treasury
loan from tax receipts.
THE government guarantee
means the stadium will be
built" predicted william Nc
Leod, clerk of the House Dis
trict Committee. who has been
the chief watchdog of sta
dium plans for their Legislative
sponsor, Representative Harris
Democrat of Arkansas.
Mr.. Mcleod sat in on all
stadium negotiations Of the
District Armory Board. charged
by law with making the long.
planned facility a reality.
"We're still aiming for COM
pletion by 1861" Mr.. Shea said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Integrotion
Defended by
DR.. Hansen

District School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen fatty denied today that
desegregation here has driven
white families to the suburbs.
at just isn't true" the super
intendent told a group of 700
delegates to a Y-Teen con-
ference of the Young Women's
Christian Association.
He acknowledged that in
1954-the first year of desegre-
gation-four of every 10 pupils
in the District were white. while
last year only 2.60 of 10 were.
But We must be aware OF
the fact" he said, "that We
are living in a time of great
migration from rural areas to
urban centers." Negroes, par
ticularly. are moving from
Southern farms because OF
economic and social conditions,
he noted.
They are being vacuumed
into the major cities because OF
the lack 0f a better place 70
CO." he said.
The superintendent noted
that one Southern city with a
segregated school system re-
ported an increase of 1000 STU
dents in enrolment this year
Nearly all we're Negroes.
Our great problems" said
fDr. Hansen, ARE to provide eco
nomic opportunities. wholesome
living conditions, and education
for these people who have here
tofore been deprived.
DR.. Hansen reiterated most
of his views about desegrega-
ton to the teen-agers meeting
in the Shoreham Hotel. He
cited the necessity to end all
discrimination everywhere and
noted the steadily increasing
achievement levels of District
students since 1854.
The problem still existing
here, he said. are symptoms
"of a deep-seated flaw in the
social structure" and have
nothing to do with desegrega-
ton.
|, Calling attention to the speed
and breadth with which deseg-
regation was accomplished here
DR.. Hansen said there is really
no sense in fussing about q
small, token development in de-
segregation"
Any discrimination, he said
"retards our influence in inter-
national affairs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05

District officials feel some
ball club, perhaps not the
Griffith team, will be ready to
negotiate next summer. Should
Mr.. Griffith move to Mime
apolis, as he repeatedly has
threatened. the American
League still will keep a team
in the Capital, they believe.
Speculation, about a move
has become involved in league
consideration of an expansion
from 8 to 10 teams. League
owners will talk over this pos
sibility at a December meeting
in Miami. They clearly want
one of the 10 to be in Wash
ington. But this realignment
seems impossible until next
summer since Mr.. Griffith has
promised to play here one
more season.
Outside Sale Restricted
!. If Mr.. Griffith wants to sell
his club outside Washington
he can't until July /. H. Ca
briel Murphy, 40 per cent
stockholder, holds the right to
buy Mr.. Griffith's stock if it is
for sale before that date. And
a sale to Mr.. Murphy is con-
sidered almost impossible be-
cause of the bitterness between
the two men. Mr.. Griffith is
more likely to keep his team
and move it out of town, Of
f1cials believe.
July / also is the earliest
date that a sale of the Griffith
Stadium could be actively con-
sidered. Howard University
wants to buy the sports center
from Mr.. Griffith.
But Howard money comes
from congressional appopria-
lions. which could be cleared
at the earliest at the beginning
of the next fiscal year even il
Mr.. Griffith and university Of
flcialS agreed.
This combination of un-
certainties has convinced sta
dunn sponsors that next sum-
mer is the time for a firm
lease with a ball club
Without that lease, taxpayers
face the prospect of keeping
the stadium solvent. The ball
club faces a future limited tc
the drawing power Of the old
Griffith Stadium. In the past
that drawing power has kept
Mr.. Griffith more content than
the prospect of a stadium he
doesn't own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Bible Prophecy
Lectures to Open

A seven-week pre-holiday
lecture series on Bible prophecy,
sponsored by the Takoma Park
Seventh-Day Adventist Church,
will open at 7:45 pm. tomor-
row in the Colesville Elemen-
tary School. 14015 Colesville
road.
The series will continue each
Friday at the same hour with
speakers from Potomac Uni
versity, Takoma Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Rambler
-. Rides
Around Town
BY JOHN McKELwAY

We pulled out of Union
Station at 1890 am. on the
B&o. Somewhere ahead lay
the ancient city of George
town.
The engineer was a grizzled
man and just behind him,
in the baggage compartment.
was a gray French poodle
bound for Pittsburgh in a
box. I
Lurching ahead over the
crisscrosses, the fireman"
called out the signals and the
engineer repeated them. I'VE
hit buzzards sometimes" said
the engineer.
The train hit so miles an
hour and suburbia flashed
past.
We got of at Silver Spring.
10 minutes later. We climbed
into a motor car and travelled
for awhile along a road called
Georgia avenue. Then we
turned of on a dirt road and
came into Georgetown juno
ton"
Diesel switch engine No.
9023 was pulling and showing
freight cars, making up the
train for the 11-mile run to
Georgetown.
Ernest Riddle, As, the con-
ductor. a big blue-eyed man,
was placing the cars along
the freight line which runs
of the main line. He's the
boss of the Georgetown
freight run and has his own
personal cabooSe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Maryland Council Hits
Bill to Enlarge House
By CHARLES L. HOFFMAN
By a Star STAFF Writer

BALTIMORE, Nov 5-A coalition of rural county and
Baltimore City legislators late yesterday dealt heavy blow
to plan to give the big metropolitan area counties more
seats in the Maryland House of Delegates
The nlan which ultimately would enlarge the House from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Labor Building
Genera||y0Kd
Penthouse Plans
To Be Redrown

The National Capital Plan
ming Commission today ap-
proved a broad general plan for
a new Labor Department build
ing at Sixth street and Penn
sylvania avenue NV.
Roland Snyder. General
Services Administration archi-
tect. told the commission that,
at the request of the Fine Arts
Commission. the penthouse to
house mechanical equipment
will be restudied so it will not
ljut above the skyline.
Discussion pointed UP the
need for adequate parking
space for the new building. Mr..
Snyder said plans called for
housing "a cars in the base
ment and SO additional on an
loutdoof lot which the District
government win have to trar1s-
Ter for this use.
Mr.. Snyder said the new
building, along Sixth and c
streets with the entrance on c
street, will be tied in with the
existing building along Penn
sylvania avenue, constructed as
a new central public library but
never used for this purpose. The
building is used by various Dis
trict and Federal Government
agencies.
Agencies to be Housed
In the new building, the
Labor Department wants to
house the local field Office
of the United States Employ
ment Service and the District
Unemployment Compensation
Board.
The new building would be
of modern architecture, har-
monious with the prese n t
structure to which it would be
attached, Mr.. Snyder explained.
He said the Fine Arts Com
mission has generally approved
the architecture, but wants the
Penthouse re-studied so it will
be lower. Under the long-range
plan, the building may be
turned over to the District
Government, he said.
David E. Finley, Fine Arts
Commission chairman. who at
tended today's planning meet
ling, said: 1--WE are trying to
get rid of these pill boxes (pent-
houses. They should put only
mechanical equipment and air.
conditioning on top of the
building and then cover it with
a wall"
Mr.. Snyder observed that ii
is expensive to cover up a pent-
house which houses mechanical
equipment.
John A. Remon, vice chair
man of the planning commits
sion, referring to the existing
building along Pennsylvania
avenue at Sixth street, designed
as a library, called it "the
lousiest building in town."
Tower Plan Dropped
In another matter the COM
mission was told General Serv-
ices Administration agreed tc
withdraw its plan for a pro-
posed water cooling tower fol
air-conditioning buildings ir
the Federal Triangle.
Alexander C. Robinson III o.
Cleveland, chairman of thu
commissions Federal Planning
and Projects Committee, sale
the GSA will withdraw its pro
posal for a temporary cooling
tower south of the Coast GuarC
Building between Thirteenth
and Thirteenth and a hal
streets NV, on Pennsylvania
avenue.
The committee felt that 6
temporary structure would tenc
to delay the ultimate develop
ment of the balance of the per.
manent buildings in the tri'
angle.
Under the long-range plan
the present District Building a
Fourteenth and E streets NV
and the Coast Guard Building
adjacent to it will be torn dowr
to make way for permanent
buildings there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
Transit PIonCoIIed
Tentative by Bible
Arguments Over Specific Routes
Held Premature; Hearings Set
BY GEORGE BEvERIDGE
Star stan Writer

Senator Bible Democrat of Nevada said today that specific
elements Of the Washington areas proposed $25 billion free
subway plan mot sufficiently well studied nal
at this time to justify controversial discussion
Accordingly he residents to soft-pedal con-
specific freeway routes during
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05

MR.. RIDDLE SAID that
from the junction to Con-
necticut avenue it's a down
grade. Then the grade climbs
steadily until the tracks go
under Wisconsin avenue. He
said if you pushed a freight
car at Bethesda, it probably
would roll all the way to
Georgetown if it made the
curve above the canal.
There we're 10 freight cars.
three to be rolled off on sid
ings on the way to George
town. The others were head
ed for the cement, rendering
and heating plants below the
old town. The switch engine
was pulling three cars and
pushing seven when we left
the junction and headed into
rough country on either side
of the track.
We were moving about Is
miles an hour. Then we stop
ped and a white warehouse
could be seen of in the trees.
We rolled into a siding and
left a freight car of beer.
The trainmen said the ''cor-
signee" was the Montgomery
County Liquor Control Board.
They were gentle with the
beer car.
Soon we crossed the great
Rock Creek which was NOV
ing muddy and slow 80 feet
below US.
Rolling again, the East
West highway was off in the
distance to the south. We
rumbled across the danger
Gus pass at Connecticut ave-
niue, then climbed the long
grade through the fair and
rough country of the Column
bia Country Club, and after
that, between expensive back
yards. Sometimes a golfer
will hear the whistle of the
little train at the top of his
backswing.
We rested at Bethesda, in
the freight yards west OF
Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-05
BY GRACE BASSETT
star Stan Writer

Construction of Washington's
new, 50.000-seat stadium will
begin next spring.
But agreements with the
major tenants, the baseball
and football club owners, may
not be closed until well after
the work begins.
This was the consensus today
of the men who are expected
to build, run and maintain the
model sports arena near the
Armory and the Anacostia
river. They include Federal and
District officials, civic leaders
and team owners.
Armory Board Chairman
George F. Shea hopes this week
to finish negotiating a loan Of
about $400, 900 from the Riggs
National Bank. This interim
financing" will pay a syndicate
of architects to draw final
plans and specifications.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-07

DIR. JOHN H. SOLOMON, of
Bethesda, recently gave so
acres of land adjoining his
home in the Cabin John Val
ley to the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning
Commission which will use the
land as a park. The gift was
reputed to be the largest Of
its kind ever made in Mont.
gomery County.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-07
Summer Job
Outlook to
Be Weighed

A panel discussion designed to
be of practical help to students
during the summer months is
being planned for the Tuesday
meeting of the Kensington Jun
ior High PTA at 8 pm. in the
girls gym.
Recreation, education and
work opportunities for the jun.
Tor high students will be the
theme of the discussion with
Principal Willard Shumaker as
moderator. A representative
from the County Recreation De-
partment will discuss that phase
of the program; George More.
land, Director of County Librar-
les will outline the reading and
educational opportunities at the
libraries, DR.. George L. Oster
of the Department Of Education
will describe summer courses
and Miss Miriam Thurman of
the Bureau of Labor Standards
will tell of the work aspects.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-07
POlytrOnics Awarded
$l65,OOO Contract

Polytronics Research, Inc, OF
Rockville, has been awarded a
$165,000 Navy contract for cleo
tronic components, Thomas l..
Thomas, president, announced
yesterday.
The firm has been in Rock
vile for two years and employees
50 persons engaged in the man
ufacture of transformed ampli.
fiers, oscilloscopes, antenna tun-
ers, public address systems, and
other electronic equipment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-15
TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL

1905 am, WGMS AMIN
$50 Kc. and 1888 Mc.)-
Sunday Morning Symphony.
Alceste: Overture by Gluck.
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C
Minor by Beethoven.
HOO am, WASH-FM and
WIDOW 1911 Nc. and 154O
Kc.)-Music of Distinction.
Piano Concerto No. 3 by
Rachmaninoff. Elm Helden-
leben by r. Strauss.
1880, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1885 Mc.)-The Con-
cert Hall. Young Persons
Guide to the Orchestra by
Britten. Slavonic Dance in
A Flat, Opus 70, No. 8 by
Dvorak.
800, WASH-FM and WIDOW
1911 Nc. and 1910 Kc.1-
Sunday Symphony. Tam
hauser Overture and Venns-
berg Music by Wagner. Sim
fonia Concertante, Opus lbs
by Prokofief.
4:O5, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1885 Me- - Ballet
Theatre. Giselle: excerpts
by Adam. In stereophonic
sound.
$500, WASH-FM and WIDOW
(97.1 Nc. and 1910 KEY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-15
Freedom Costly,
Truman Advises
Catholic Youths

KANSAS CITY, Nov. IA (AP)
Harry S. Truman today told
an audience of boys and girls
they would have to make sacri-
fees to keep the United States
the greatest republic in the his
tory of the world.
you can do it you want to-"
the former President said, "but
you can't do it for nothing"
He spoke at a breakfast OF
the National Catholic Youth
Convention, attended by GILT
delegates and their adult spon-
SorS.
Blood, sweat and tears were
spent to get our Government
he added. Its up to you to see
that this Government con-
tinues."
Mr.. Truman got a standing
ovation when he was intro.
duced by the Rev. Thomas A
Carlin, assistant director of the
youth department of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence.
He posed for amateur photo
graphers and recalled an Incl
dent in the Senate when he
signed autographs for a page
boy. He said the youth told
him: when we get four Sen
atorS we can trade 'em for a
movie star"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-15
Israeli Teen-Agers'
Art to Be Shown

A Today exhibition of paint
ings by Israeli teen-agers will
go on display December 8 in the
Cleveland Park Library, Con-
necticut avenue and Macomb
street NV.
The paintings. ranging from
distractions to impressions,
landscapes and portraits, we're
done last summer at the Louise
Waterman Wise Youth Center
in Jerusalem during special
workshops supported by the
American Jewish Congress.
Admission to the exhibition,
which is sponsored by the
America-Israel Society, will be
free. The exhibit is being
circulated by the American
Federation of Arts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-15
SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION
Costs Cut E nroIIments
Of Independent Colleges
BY DIR. BENJAMIN FINE


North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK, Nov. 14,--Amer-
ica's small independent col
leges are in serious trouble.
Because of ever increasing
tuition costs, more students are
going to the relatively free mu-
nicipal or State institutions. A
dangerous imbalance now exists
between public and private COL
lege enrollments.
Ten years ago, more students
attended private colleges than
public ones. Each year since
1949, however, the proportion
of students attending the tax
supported colleges and univer-
stiles has increased. This fall,
1t is estimated, the private COL
leges are only enrolling about
40 per cent Of the total student
body.
BY 1870, United States ONCE
Of Education officials estimate,
the ratio will be 70-30 in favor
Of the public colleges. Educa-
tors are worried that the pri-
vate colleges may lose their
prestige and influence in higher
education If they are over
whelmed by sheer numbers.
Academy" Fate Cited
Some educators warn that the
private and independent COL
leges may go the way of the
private high schools. Less than
a century ago the academies" "
as they were called in New Eng
land, enrolled the vast majority
of boys and girls who sought a
nigh school education. Gradu-
ally, public high schools re-
placed the private ones. Today,
although the private secondary
schools have an important role
to play, they attract less than
5 per cent of the total enroll
ment.
IF we get universal higher
education in this country, the
private colleges may disappear
the way the private high
schools did," says DR.. Ernest
v. Hollis, director of College
and University Administration
for the United States Office of
Education, said.
He added, however, that he
did not expect this to happen
within the next generation or
so.
A study made by the North
American Newspaper Alliance,
which included interviews with
leading educators, indicates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-15
National News

1 The Taft-Hartley Injunction upheld by the Suprene
Court sends the striking eeworkers to their Jobs for
(a) 60 days; (b) 100 days; (c) 80 days
q In its decision the Supreme Court found that the
steel strike had endangered the national a) Health; br
Safety; Co Health and safety.
3 The lone diSsenter in the 8-o1 Supreme Court ruling
was Justice: (a) Douglas (b) Black Co Frankfurter
"A A Governor of many presidential hopefuls lost
prestige when his party failed to capture the
his State He Gov Nelson Rockefeller N " (b) Gov
Robert Meyner, N j.; Co Gov. Edmund Brown, Calf
--5 new Government inquiry of fixed televson quiz
shows initiated by study ordered BY Justice De-
parment b) The Federal Communications Commission c)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation.