Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-20

greSSional recess aimed AT CO.
ordinating education and ju-
venile delinquency measures.
Senate District Committee
Chairman Bible, Democrat Of
Nevada. left behind orders to
evaluate these proposals:
/. To separate sightseeing
and mass transit operations OF
d. c. Transit. The bill was
reported by the House Com
merce Committee. House &C
ton is awaiting a Public Utili-
ties Commission report in jan
uary on the prudence Of start
ing to regulate sightseeing
companies.
The Senate District Com
mittee backed away from a
report after Senator Morse,
Democrat Of Oregon, warned
that legislation might amount
to a breach of contract" by
tampering with the congress
sional franchise granted D. C..
Transit President o. Roy Chalk.
More letters were received in
Congress last year on this bill
than on any other local meas
ure, aides reported. Gray Line
officials have been vocal in OPP
posing D. G.. Transit's sight
seeing operations.
2. To free all other Wash
ington area transit firms from
the same taxes Congress al
ready has ruled D. c. Transit
needn't pay. The District tax
loss would be about S24,200.
The House unanimously
passed the bill to benefit six
companies. But the measure,
introduced by Representative
Broyhill, Republican Of Vir-
ginia, was held up by Senator
MorSe's insistence that all tran
sit measures be eyed together.
8. To require the District to
pay D. c. Transit the difference
between the 10-cent school
children's fares and the 20
cent adults tickets totaled
every year. Commissioner Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin favored the
move as equitable" because
D. c. Transit hauled youngsters
to public schools at a loss, thus
performing a service to the
city.
November Hearings Set
But the bill trailed far behind
all other transit measures in its
march through Congress. A
House District Subcommittee
killed 1t in April. The twin
Senate unit saw little point in
hearings before the November
sessions.
These hearings, scheduled
for November 8. Q and 10, are
heralded as the congressional
highlight Of the recess for
Washington area residents.
Recommended by a congress
sionally-authorized study is a
20-year, $2.4 billion system Of
freeways, subways and express
buses. Senator Bible, as C hair
man Of a Joint Congressional
Com mittee on Metropolitan
Problems. has invited the pub
lie to tell committeeman what
they think Of the idea.
Area planners almost have
ignored the pending private
bills as "short-range" solutions
to immediate problems. They
have drafted their "long-
range" blueprint without solic-
iting advice Of private transit
operators.
For this reason. Mr.. Chalk
has attacked the plan as vision
airy. It fails to consider a CO.
operative private-public ap-
proach to solving highway and
transit congestion, he claimed,
and needs to be made practical,
Georgetown on Agenda
The only single piece of legis-
lation now pending in Congress
contemplated by the big study
is a proposal to establish a
Washington Transit Authority
to regulate private firms oper-
ating across State lines.
Although not before the Sen
ate District Committee, it is
bound to figure in the overall
between sessions study.
During the recess. the Senate
committee aides also plan to
take a close look at proposed
legislation to preserve Old
Georgetown. The idea is to
create a committee of George
town residents. working with
the Fine Arts Commission. This
committee would vote on plans
to rehabilitate, raze or construct
buildings IN a specified area to
be established in law as a his
torical neighborhood. Commits.
,sioners would be bound to con.
slider the committee views in
granting or rejecting building
permits.
An anti-loitering law is to be
drafted, also on orders of Sena-
tor Bible. He wants language
that may make it a crime fol
juveniles, as we'll as adults, tc
stray through city streets. He
conceives Of the proposal as a
substitute for a less desirable
curfew law.
Senator Morse wants a House
passed bill to give coaches and
other teachers extra pay for
extra work attached to an over
all teachers pay increase, I'M
derstood to be Forthcoming
from the Board Of Education.
JoblesS Benefits Eyed
He also hopes to revive a bill
to increase benefits for WASH
ington's jobless from a present
maximum Of $50 for 26 weeks
to a possible high of $50 fol-
80 weeks. Both this bill and q