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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17

Police today arrested the
general manager and an as
sistant manager of the new
Government Employees Mart in
Alexandria.
The two department store
officials were charged with vio-
lating Virginia's "blue law
which bans transaction Of all
but essential business on Sun
day.
The manager, Joseph A.
Marcus, and his assistant,
Stephen j. Westheimer. volun-
tarily appeared at police head
quarters and were released aft
er posting $500 bond each.
Warrants for their arrest
were issued after Alexandria
Police 1t. Warren w. thinner
man said he bought two pillow
cases yesterday at the store
which opened last Thursday
at Duke and Pickett streets
near Lincolnia.
Claims Exemption
The G. E. M. sells only to
Government employees and ac-
tive members of the armed
forces who must pay a registra-
ton fee to become customers.
It has commended that be-
cause it is not open to the gen.
eral public it is exempt from
provisions of the States Sum-
day Law prohibiting non-es-
sential business on Sunday.
Mr.. Marcus said today that
G. E. M. would conduct a refer
endum in october among its
more than 10000 .>registrants
to determine if they wish it to
continue to open on Sundays.
Officials Warned
He reported that an earlier
survey showed that many Of
them did so desire because on
Sunday families can shop to-
gether.
1--WE think Virginia's blue laws
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
Police Pension Bill
Given Slim Chance
DC. Boy,7, browns
In Neighbor's Pool

A 7-year-old boy drowned
here last night In q neighbours
swimming pool after gaining
entrance through q gate on
which the lock was broken.
Detective Lionel Couture Of
the Police Homicide Squad said
the dead boy Is Charles Cor
don Crabtree, 2, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul L. Crabtree Of
1885 King place NV.
The policeman said Mrs.
Robert E. .Sanner told him the
Crabtree boy was playing in
her yard with her son Steven.
4. when she noticed the boys
had disappeared.
Boy Brings News
She said that, at 8 pm,
Steven came running home
crying that Charles had fallen
into the pool behind the home
of Samuel j. Lanahan Of 2211
King place. Mrs. Lanahan is
the daughter of the hate novel;
list, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Sanner jumped into the
pool several times trying to
reach the child's body in about
i've feet Of water.
Her cries brought her hus-
band. who pulled the child out
Of the pool and tried unsuccess-
fully to revive him with mouth
to-mouth artificial respiration.
Efforts Of Rescue Squad No. ]
to revive the boy also failed.
Charles was grounded dead
at $40 pm. by DR.. Russell
Tilley.
Pool Gate Unlocked
Detective Couture said Mr..
and Mrs. Lanahan were not
home at the time of the Incl
dent. He said they later told
him the lock to the gate in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
Rail Bridge
OnAnucostiu
Stirs Bouters
BY JOHN w. STEPP
Star Stan Writer

Washington is getting an
other bridge controversy.
The newest involves no
cleaning granite structure
across the noble Potomac, but q
rickety old railroad bridge that
barely clears the miserably
brown Anacostia River.
The disagreement is between
smau-boat owners using the
new Prince Georges Marina at
Bladensburg and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. which owns
the 87-year-old museum piece
crossing the Anacostia near
District General Hospital.
Boatmen whose craft are
more than 8 feet above water
have grown steadily more in
censed at having to wait too
long too often for the bridges
draw span to be lifted so they
can get through. With the span
down, the clearances beneath
the bridge are only 8 feet at
low tide and 5 feet at. high,
The railroad, on the other
hand, feels it has to open the
draw too much as 1t is. The old
timber structure, though it
may shake and rattle with the
passage of every train, hap
pens to carry Pennsy's main
north-south freight-about 100
trains daily-through WASH
ington.
The railroad feels so strong
ly about what it regards AZ
the small-boat nuisance that it
has requested the Washington
Engineer District of the Army
Engineer Corps to change the
bridge-opening regulations in
its favor.
Instead Of lifting the spar
approximately every time ar
eight-foot or high vessel
sounds its signal, the railroad
has requested that 1t be re-
quired to open UP only one hour
in the morning and one hour in
the afternoon on Saturdays
Sundays and holidays during
the summer months, and only
after "a hours notice has been
given the bridge tender.
Boat-owners and officials OF
the Washington Suburban San
itary Commission, which oper-
ates the marina, feel that If the
railroads request Is granted
the bigger boats will only rarely
use the new port facilities up
stream from the bridge.
To resolve the differences
Col. George B. Sumner, Wash
ington District Engineer. today
gave notice that a public hear
ing will be held at 1880 pm. on
September II in the WSSC au-
ditoriurn, 4017 Hamilton street
Hyattsville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17

IT TURNED OUT that be-
cause of his illness he was
not courant on the beatniks
- had never read BEAT"
Walkers Potomac Review"
I promised to send it to him.
80 they don't hesitate to
use obscenity," he said.
Neither did Pound. I'm
afraid I'm a Victorian.
Except for my illness,
everything is fine. Mrs.
Tenant is looking wonder
full; comes here every day.
I'VE live on my old-age
pension, $3.50 a month. The
rent is $40 but we have had
very substantial help from
one Of my patrons, a woman
of "a. She has called on me
several times at the house.
She makes me ashamed of
myself = cracking up at 70.
Here's the poem ! was
selling. I never thought it
would apply to me-"
It went: $50 If you have
the ears to hear The robins
joyous call; Remember
there are those who live/
And never hear at ALL III
you can see the sunshine/
And flowers in the park;/
Just think of those who can
not see, ITO them it's always
dark III you can take a
daily stroll/In sunshine or
in rain; Just don't forget
the millions/Who will never
walk again."
He moved his legs a bit.
"I'll never be able to sell
door-to-door again." he said,
and added with a wink:
"I'l have to think up some
other racket"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
DRIVERS UTOPIA. A PUZZLE
MANY Seek to Aid Porkers

IlOIlS, replacing the 1o-man
police staff now assigned to
such duty. That. too, is a plan
which has been suggested by
Mr.. Barr in other cities. When
women were hired for the job,
he calls them meter maids"
Aside from the revenues of
the parking garages and lots,
parking is big business. Park
ing fines bring in about 81 mil
lion a year; meter collections
are expected to' total about
1925, 900 this year.
Mr.. Heath says the agency
Is making some field studies
and discussing the possibility
Of installing meters where two
hour free parking zones now
exist, such as those near the
Hotel Statler.
Private business has some
$64 million invested in WASH
ington parking lots and garages
and still has growing pains, y
Mr.. Barr says. He readily agrees
that people still resent the
parking lot or garage because
most ofus can remember when
we used to park free"
L. B. Doggett, jr., former
president of the Washington
Parking Association and one Of
the largest downtown parking
operators, quickly agrees with
Mr.. Barr on the walking habits
the parker.
Areas Vary
"Washingtonians will have to
realize they can't park next
to where they're going-what
with real estate at $50 a square
foot in the tight areas. Some
AREAS are over-stocked in park
ing, such as around Sixth an6
D streets N. w., where there
is more parking space available
than parkers."
Many lots and garages have
the filled up" signs out during
some hours, but could take
fleets of parkers at other times
he pointed out.
'As is well known" he said
some garages in the congested
areas have high all-day rates
developed specifically to handle
the short-term. transient bust
ness. You can't sit all Gay on
$50 or $85 real estate siiy more
than you'd stand in Garfinckel's
door all day.
Take the 100 per cent area
around Fourteenth street and
New York avenue NV, where
real estate costs are high and
a high density exists.
walk east or north and for
each block you 60, The rate
comes down an average of rs
cents.
Spaces Analysed
An April survey by the Park
ing Agency showed a total of
40,576 parking spaces in an
area bounded by Second and
Twenty-third streets and Con-
stitution and Massachusetts
avenues NV. The figure in
cludes only the public lots and
garages those operated by bust
nesses for their customers and
small open-air lots for en-
ployeS.
It does not include metered
or free zones.
Washington has EOS, 900 reg
istered autos and another ESQ.,
900 enter the city daily.
And you have parking prob
lens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17

parking meter spaces contract
and expand.
More basic is what Mr.. Barr
terms the human nature" of
the motorist. Were creatures
of habit" he has frequently OBJ
served in addresses to citizen
groups In over 200 cities.
I'VE drive downtown every
day over the same route. 60 to
the same parking place and If
it is full, we're convinced there
isn't a parking place left down.
town.
I'VE drive around the same
block several times looking for
an open meter space. We finally
find one, get out and learn
there is 20 minutes still on
the meter.
Many Shun "Fringes"
Its the biggest thing that
has happened to US all day."
The motorist sometimes OBJ
jects to walking even short dis
tances If his destination is tout
Of sight around the corner, .
Mr.. Barr believes. But he'll
park in one Of the suburban
shopping centers and walk
twice the distance, comforted
by the actual sight of his des-
tination."
Too many downtown-bound
drivers shy away from the free,
fringe-parking concept. Gar
field Kass, charter member of
the Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency, real estate developer
and financier, who owns the
huge Seven Corners (Va.) shop
ping center, resigned from the
agency over what he termed
failure OF the fringe parking
program"
Agency figures show that last
Monday, for a typical instance,
600 cars used the three fringe
parking lots, leaving 325 spaces
vacant. On the basis of a FIVE
day week, the three fringe lots
handled 150,719 autos during
sile last fiscal year.
Thus, the overall parking
picture comes to four avail
ables:
The Government lots, al
ready 100. per cent full; the
parking meters; the privately
operated lots and garages, and
facilities provided by the stores
themselves.
Meter Spaces Fluctuate
At the end Of July, Washing
ton had 1859 meter spaces.
compared to 1850 a year ago,
but there is a constant loss of
meters to regulatory changes,
new construction and the like.
The city installed 407 new
ones. but lost over 100, accord
ing to William D. Heath, execu-
tive director of the Parking
Agency.
Loss of metered parking
space" he said, sis something
we have to face. When the
meter space becomes a deter
rent to traffic flow, out comes
the meter"
He and Mr.. Barr are in firm
/ agreement on the menace of
the "meter-feeder," but Mr..
Heath cited the changeover to
the 10-cent meter as a help in
chasing out the meter-feeder.
| Mr.. Barr believes that tire
chalking is one big answer to
the meter-feeder and one that
has "been quite successful in
Washington, where we have a
special department for that
very purpose.
But in other cities, a police
man would rather be out chas-
ing robbers than playing tic
tac-toe with automobiles" he
said.
In June, the Commissioners
asked the Bureau of the Budget
for funds to hire civilian work.
ers to enforce parking regula-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
The
bier
-. Coils on
Sick Friend
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Last week the Rambler got
q telephone call that sent
him to Medicine 4" In the
District General Hospital.
It was from Gilbert Crow
ther Tenant, the distin-
guished- looking poet who has
been selling his verse from
door to door for years.
"I've been laid up since
February" he said. LEGS
paralyzed."
The fourth floor of Medi-
cine 4 Is o big ward for men
mostly elderly men. At
first I did not recognize the
poet, although ! had had q
delightful visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Tenant in their little
house at 615 Morris place
NE. two years ago In which
we chatted over the coffee
cups about Ezra Pound.
The failure was UNDER
standable because since he
was incapacitated he has
grown an enormous beard of
the Papa" Hemingway -exu-
berance. Not that it makes
him look like Hemingway.
He still is the sensitive type,
the balding relic (high-
domed) of the romantic
lead who used to sing in
Shubert m usicals before
World War I.
George" he said, you
know I was a good salesman.
I made my calls and I don't
give up easy"
I can testify to that. The
extent Of territory he would
cover amazed me. He went
at it like ca young man
working his way through
college," I could follow him
all over town, because when
ever he went some purchaser
of his verses would send
them to the Rambler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Army and Navy Lee
gion of Valor Of the United
States of America continues
its convention in the
Sheraton-Park Hotel.
This information supplied BY
the Washington Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
BY CHARLES J. YARBROUGH
star stan writer

| ~ SAA<AANSASO % u AASASAsOO4AA
Star star writer
utopia would be where
everyone can park next door to
where he wants to CO."
In that concise observation,
William g. Barr, executive d.
rector Of the National Parking
Association, will find 100 per
cent agreement among WASH
ington's harried parkers.
He also win find about the
same amount Of disagreement
on how that Utopia could be
attained.
Despite what you may think
as you drive around seeking
q place to park for 10 minutes.
an hour or all day. more people
are worried about your park
ing problems than you realize.
Picture Unclear
No one, up to this point, can
document the precise need.
Your troubles in finding a
parking place where you want
1t and when you need 1t are
infinitesimal compared to the
official search for an answer to
the overall problem.
The current approach is OH
cially two-phased.
In October or early Novem-
Der. the Districts Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency. created by
Congress as a doctor for the
parking ailment. takes to the
air to make a diagnosis.
Aerial photos will be taken
from about 1000 feet over the
city, interpreted and the spaces
counted. This was tried about
q year ago, but someone used
the wrong lens and the result
was an estimate, rather than q
factual count.
Data Being Studied
The agency also is working
on origin-and- destination data
gathered by the Department of
Highways to get information on
the parker's zone Of desire
and the distance walked.
The second major project I'M
der way is the Budget Bureaus
survey Of 117,000 Government
workers in the downtown area.
Results Of the interdepartmeh-
tai survey have not been COM
piled.
Full Of more variables than
the basic constantly growing
auto population, the parking
potential changes almost from
month to month. In today's
Washington building boom, an
old structure comes down; q
parking lot springs up. A new
building goes UP on a former
parking lot. Streets are closed
ioff by new construction and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17

HIS METHOD was to leave
an envelope containing a
few printed sheets of verse
and return the next day to
see if he had made a sale.
The only thing that bother
ed him was that some people,
whose conservation revealed
they had not read his offer
ings, would give him money.
Like every writer he wanted
to get his stuff read-and he
hated to think that to some
people he was a beggar.
81 began to notice that
fatigue was slowing me
down." he said. "Then one
day I collapsed on the
street. I got up and kept go
ing. The next day I used a
cane.
about two weeks later I
collapsed for a third time.
I was way out Wisconsin
avenue. I got home by street.
car and bus, but how I did
1t I'll never know.
1.-THE next day I couldn't
get up. My legs were para
lyzed. They're not completely
paralyzed; I can move them
in bed. See? (He demon
strated). But I can't walk.
"A doctor was called and
he found that ! was a dia-
bette, something I had never
known. I am taking insulin.
"They can't account for
the paralysis. It has nothing
to do with the other, they
say. I was at home until two
weeks ago, when they sent
me here for physical therapy.
Flows Ezra Pound?"
I said that as far as I
knew (which is only from
the newspapers he is living
happily in Italy.
"A great talent" said Gil
bert, "but I always thought
he was a bit nuts"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-20
Schinnerer
Hits Suburban
Tax Burdens

Residents and businesses in
suburban Maryland and Vir-
ginia are rapidly reaching the
point where they are being
taxed Ito the limit Of their
ability to pay" says Victor o.
Schinnerer, president Of the
Washington Board of Trade.
He told a meeting Of the
Purchasing Agents Association
here last night that increasing
revenue needs among the out
lying counties will approximate
SIS million more for the next
fiscal year. @This is about 20
per cent more than the present
cost of operations" Mr.. Schin-
nerer said.
The answer to these tax
needs, he said, is to attract
more business operations
(which will pay into the county
substantially more in taxes
than the county is required to
spend for the services required. +"
John j. Rooney, purchasing
agent for Melpar. Inc. was
elected president Of the associ-
alton. He. has been with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-20
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, May 90 (APl tUsDA) -
Hogs, 10000; fairly active. uneven.
steady to 90 higher on butchers: sows
steady; butchers under 210 lbs. con-
tinue relatively scarce; 2-3 mixed grade
190-230-lb. butchers, 16.75-l7 %; sew
eral hundred mixed grade, mostly liz,
l90-220 lbs, ~ 25-l5 65, and several
"a IS; 225head Is 2l5 lbs, With primal
lbs, 16.50-16.S5; few lots ! 2 230-235
lbs, 17.O0-17 25. mixed grade 2-3 $50
go lbs, 16.00-16.65, mostly 1925 and
above; mixed grade 2-3 270-300 lbs,
l5.50-16.25; mixed grade 330-425-lb.
sows, 10 25-14.25: few small lots, down
TO 800 lbs, Up 10 1906 mixed grade
425-550 lbs, . O0-l3.2b,
Cattle, 10000; calves, 100; SLAUGHTER
steers l.1o0 lbs. and heavier slow,
lower on weights over 1850 lbs; steers
below 1,100 lbs. and heifers moderately
active, steady; cows fully steady; bulls
strong to 25 higher: vealers STEADY;
stockers and feeders steady: load prime
l,1S0-lb. slaughter steers. 34.00i high
choice and mixed choice and prime
I.O50-1 ,350-lb. slaughter steers, 20. 75-
80 so; load around 1000 lbs, 81 so;
good 20 average choice 20. 59;
load high choice. and prime l,l00-lb.
heifers, 5000; most good to choice.
20 .00-29 50; utility and commercial
cows. 10 .00-22 90; few standard, 20 30
"a 90; Gamers and cutters, 1880
1878. utility and commercial bulsl,
% .50-25.00: few heavy Holstein bulls,
$3.50; standard and good yealers,
26.0O-36,00:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-20
Conner Heads
Capital Bank
Fiducidries

James E. Connor, trust officer
of American Security a. Trust
Co., was elected chairman of
the Fiduciaries Section of the
District Bankers Association at
the annual spring meeting at
Washington Golf and Country
Club last night.
Mr.. Conner served as vice
chairman in the last year and
succeeds Melville w. Stuart Of
Union Trust Co.
Robert p. Hid Of Riggs Ma
tional Bank became vice chair
man of the Fiduciaries Section
and P. Baxter Davis of Ma
tional Bank of Washington
became secretary treasurer,
Thomas S. Lawson Of Union
Trust Co. was added to the
executive council and Sidney
c. Cousins. jr.. of National
Savings a. Trust was renamed
to the council. Mr.. Stuart. the
retiring chairman, will be ex-
off1cio member of the council.
In two and a half years since
establishment of the District
Domestic Relations Court, pro-
cedures have been developed
to make sure that easy and
quick divorces are not granted,
Judge Godfrey L. Munter Of
that court. told the bank Sec
ton.
Compulsory appearances Of
the principals before trial and
a cooling of period Of at least
80 days after filing of a petit
ton are two basic requirements,
he said. Residents Of at least
one year and no decision for
six months are others.
What happens to the chill
dren is of major concern be-
cause so per cent of the ones
appearing in Juvenile Court are
from broken homes, he de-
clared.
The new national law for re-
ciprocal enforcement Of sup
port laws is saving welfare pay
ments by forcing Maynard hus-
bands to contribute to their
families, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-20
Peoples Drug
Plans to0ffer
Public Shares

Peoples Drug Stores, Inc,
yesterday filed with the Sc
curities and Exchange a pro-
posal for the public offering
of .121. 900 shares of common
stock to be offered for public
sale through an underwriting
group headed by Alex. Brown
a. Sons and Kidder. Peabody
a. Co.
The offering price and un-
derwriting terms will be sup
piled by amendment.
The company operates a
chain of 178 retail drug stores,
Of which more than half are
located in the Washington
Metropolitan Area. 1t has
plans for opening SO self
service stores during 1852
1860. all of which will be
leased.
1t is expected that capital
expenditures for furniture, FIX
lures and equipment. in con-
nection with these plans, will
cost approximately $3.3 mil
lion. The company estimates
the increased inventory re-
quiremsnts for the new stores
will amount to $2.S million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-20
PEOPLE
BUSINESS

J. willard Marriott, pfesi-
dent of Hot Shoppes. Inc.
will receive an Outstanding
Achievement Award" from the
University Of Utah's College Of
Business Friday night.
Erskine Stewart was named
director Of research and edu-
cation for the National Assoc
citation Of Wholesalers here He
formerly was with the National
Retail Merchants Association.
william F. Sigmund has re-
ceived a certificate Of appreci-
alton" from the Art Directors
Club Of Metropolitan Washing
ton as "the man who brought
advertising art shows to WASH
ington."
Ernie Tanner was named To-
cal sales manager Of Station
WTTG-TV. He joined the sta
ton staff last January
James p. Fulford of Fulford's
Colony Radio a. TV Co. was
elected a trustee of the National
Foundation of Consumer Credit.
CORTLAND d. Ferguson, Inc,
was appointed to handle adver-
Using and public relations for
Walker 81 Dunlop. Inc, mort
gage bankers and realtors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-20
Pordoe Paid Tribute
On NS6T Retirement

Many washington business
and banking leaders joined with
directors and officers Of Ma
tional Savings a. Trust co. last
night In honoring w. HiIes
Pardoe. senior vice president,
upon his retirement after IS
years Of service.
Many fellow past presidents
OF the District Bankers Associa-
ton were among some $50 per-
sons attending the affair in the
board room and library Of Ma
tional Savings. Mr.. Pardoe
headed the a association in
1o55-56.
Bruce Baird. board chairman
and president Of the bank, paid
tribute to Mr.. Pardoe's long
service and presented a 81, 1000
savings bond as a gift from the
Dank. he announced that n
acceding to Mr.. Pardoe's re-
quest for retirement. directors
had granted him a leave Of abb
sence at full salary until the
end of 1859.
Ernest w. Greene, board
member, presented a silver tray
engraved with signatures of
directors.
Mr.. Pardoe completed As
years with National Savings
yesterday. having started as a
vault custodian on May 10.
1914. He also was bookkeeper
and note teller before election
as assistant treasurer in 1925.
He became real estate officer in
1888, vice president and real
estate officer in l943. and vice