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reason for placing such EN-
phasis on the authority of the
Federal agency was the recent
circulation of a legislative
draft, prepared by Columbia
University, which would instill
broader powers in the Federal
corporation than State officials
will accept. He was assured
that this draft does not repre-
sent the thinking of the Senate
House committee.
The Arlington Senator said
the most immediate problem is
to get the Federal Bureau of
Public Roads to agree to the
provision of rights-of-way in
the middle of Federal aid free
ways now being built in Mary
land and Virginia, in which
either rail transit or express
buses can operate later.
He urged the committee to
help bring the Bureau of Public
Roads to follow this course Of
action.
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give up the same amount Of
sovereignty as do other sigma
tories. Mr.. Spear claimed the
whole commission would coll
lapse legally.
90. . A Dead Duck"
This compact is a dead
duck" Mr.. Spear concluded.
ut will waste time and create
legal complications" The tram
sit counsel did not mention the
opposition to the compact leg
islation expressed throughout
last year by the transit union.
Union leaders are fearful that
work rights will be jeopardized
by control of the commission
created by compact.
The union position might
have influenced the transit
management's arguments, al
though no binding verbal
agreements could have been
made. The company has just
settled a new three-year con-
tract granting a 20-cent-an-
hour wage increase.
Mr.. Spear was one of three
transit company aides who fur
nished the committee with
expert testimony aimed at
scuttling the whole transpor-
tation survey.
Economically speaking, Mr..
Nathan scored the survey for
failing to interrelate plans with
cost, and the transportation
facilities with location of Fed.
eral buildings, water supply.
sewage systems and general
land uses.
S. Billion Cost Seen
Mr.. Flanagan, who handles
the transit company's finances,
estimated the total cost of the
transportation system proposed
by committee aides would be
closer to IS billion than $2.5
billion. Survey planners based
their guesses on 1858 costs. Mr..
Flanagan noted that D. C.
Transit labor costs have in
creased 14.5 per cent in the
last four years, streetcar prices
have doubled in the last Is
years and bus costs have
tripled in the last 20 years.
His alternate financing plan
was that private ownership be
subsidized by public funds to
make up unavoidable losses on
desirable but productive
transit lines. Highways must
be planned for transit vehicles
as well as automobiles, accord
ing to Mr.. Flanagan, who got
in another plug for transit
median strips in new freeways.
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enough to require resubmission.
Among points made in the
22-page ICC report, not here
tofore made public, was opposi-
ton to a provision which would
permit changes to be mace in
the compact without congress
sional approval. The report
said this might seriously modi-
fy ICC powers, and also COM
planned that unsatisfactory"
Jurisdictions would be estab-
lished between ICC and the
compact organization.
Attacked by d. C. Transit
Mr.. Foley also made public
a bitter attack on the legality
of the compact by the D. C.
Transit System, Inc. This re-
port was submitted last month
to the House Judiciary Com
mittee, which is considering
the compact legislation.
The D. c. Transit statement
consisted of a lengthy legal
brief charging that the COM
pact will be illegal even if
Congress approves it. Among
other contentious was a charge
that Congress first would have
to amend numerous statutes
governing transit operations
here in order to make the COM
pact effective.
Transit Attorney Spear ex-
panded on the argument that
the pending legislation to set
up an interstate compact to
regulate transit was unconsti-
tutional.
Powers Questioned
The bill calls for an i'm
proper delegation" of congress
sional powers to legiSlate ex-
clusively over the District, he
claimed. Through the COM
pact, Congress would give up
some of such powers to Virginia
and Maryland.
The Supreme Court has held
that the District was created by
Congress for the benefit of all
States, he argued. The COM
pact would give Virginia and
Maryland special benefits stem
ming from the Federal City
according to the transit argu-
ment.
Further, Mr.. Spear said, Vir-
ginia's objection to the regu-
lation of any transportation
within that State by a COM
pact commission also renders
the compact unconstitutional.
If Virginia, as one of the sigma
tories to the compact, fails to
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DURING THE WAR he had

DURING THE WAR he had
blind mans stand" in the
Navy Annex. There he met
his wife, Maxine, who was a
clerk in the Casualty Rec
ords Section of the Marine
Corps. She was a widow
with a 6-year-old daughter.
That daughter has grown up
and married, but two more
little girls have come along,
now IL and IA years old.
Neither wears glasses.
After his marriage he was
employed a number of years
in the Workshop for the
Blind at Charlottesville.
Apparently in our econom-
ically determined society,
the blind are not supposed
to marry unless they succeed
in competition with the
sighted. Employees in shell
tered workshops don't make
enough to support a family.
With their handcrafts they
are competing with ma
chimes. Attenuation is mar
rowing the market for the
products of these institu-
tions. The machines are
getting better.
He has had just a touch of
that mo business like show
business" has experienced
the thrill of applause. The
best job he ever had was as
disc Jockey in a Little Rock
radio station. He mastered
the complicated controls and
pitched the commercials.
One night while he was
waiting to go on, a thunder
storm knocked out the lights.
He took over an hour ahead
of time, kept the station
going.
Il didn't notice anything
different" he said. But I'm
telling you one thing.
There's no future for the
street musician. I've got to
get a job"
~ NJ
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transit owner said they only
had been completed within the
last few days and he had not
had time to do so although he
intended to as soon as possible.
Senator Bible noted that
earlier testimony had brought
out that short monorail systems
exist in Disneyland, and in
Seattle to serve the fair pro-
posed there. He asked a Lock-
heed official whether any other
systems are functioning profit
ably in this country.
He was told there is short
line in Dallas and several ex-
perimental projects, but that
the only other monorail he
knows of is one in Germany,
established in 1901.
Asks Guaranteed Loans
Financial assistance to pri-
vate enterprise could be in the
form of guaranteed loans to
encourage private investment,
Mr.. Chalk said. This plan
would entail but a fraction of
the expenditure contemplated
by the transportation survey.
according to Mr.. Chalk, and
would involve no direct expen-
diture by the Government.
Mr.. Chalk brought with him
to the witness table Attorney
Harvey Spear, Economist Rob-
ert Nathan, Company Vice
President James Flanagan and
Lockheed's division manager for
monorail system, Legler Paxton,
to answe committeemen's
questions.
At the outset, Senator Bible
assured Mr.. Chalk that mem
bers felt consideration must be
given in the overall plan to
private as we'll as public IA
cilitieS.
I'VE hope you will tell us
what part you can play in a
plan for the whole region, "
Senator Bible said.
Focuses on Compact
Representative Foley, con-
centrating his testimony on the
interstate compact to regulate
transit, said he was seriously
concerned about the recent ICC
report suggesting a number of
changes in the legislation. He
noted that the ICC stated that
acceptance of it's revisions
might require submission of
the compact to the neighbor-
ing States. Mr.. Foley also has
suggested a number of minor
changes, but maintains that
their nature is not substantive
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CATARACTS AND GLAU-

COMA had made it impos-
sible for him to read by the
time he reached school age.
So he was sent to the Vir-
ginia School for the Blind
and the Deaf at Staunton.
He mastered Braille, but
like most schoolboys he was
just as interested in sports.
He was a good athlete star
ring in putting the 12-pound
shot and in the standing
broad Jump. And he, was
tops in the sprintS.
Here's how they do it.
Piano wires are stretched
taut about 4 feet from the
ground the entire length of
the course. Each wire has a
ring on it. The runner holds
the ring with his left hand.
That guides him. He did the
100 yards in a little over II
seconds; thinks he would
have been able to do it much
closer to 10 if he had had
enough sight to start from a
crouching position and pump
his arms.
He was so determined to
learn how to get along with
the sighted that he attended
public high school at ST..
Charles, Va, near his home,
one school year. He read his
lessons in Braille then did
his school work on a type
writer. He got good marks.
Whatever school he at
tended, he was always active
in music, organizing a band,
singing tenor in the glee
club. He has a rich noun
tain accent which he culti-
Yates a bit.
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The
Rambler
-. Hears q
Blind Mans Story
By GEORGE KENNEDY

On a recent sunny Satur-
day morning, a good-looking
young man approached the
bus stop at King and WASH
ington streets in Alexandria.
He had the broad-shoul-
dered build of an athlete.
He was bareheaded, blond
and blue eyed. He had a
guitar slung over one shoul-
der and he was walking
slowly and cautiously. He
was holding a white cane
out in front.
Most people seem to think
that because blind persons
get along remarkably well
on their own-they don't
appreciate help. That's not
been the Rambler's expert
ence. They do appreciate it.
He took the man by the arm
and asked If he could be of
assistance.
The man said he wanted
to get a bus into Washing
ton, so we went in together.
He was on his way in to
provide the shopping district
with street music. His name
in Clyde Bennett. He is So
years old and here is his
story:
1t is the story of a blind
person whose entire exist
ence has been a struggle
successful one on the whole
to live a normal life.
He was born in Kentucky
in a coal-mining family and
brought up in the mountain
Gus area of Southwestern
Virginia-never far from the
mine shaft.
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the primary purpose OF the
Federal body should be to get
construction of the system un-
der way within the District of
Columbia.
An account of his testimony
in The Star indicated that the
Virginian would oppose any ac-
tivities of the corporation which
Iextended beyond the limits of
the District.
Senator Fenwick explained
today that his concern about
powers of the proposed Federal
agency did not go that far. He
said the agency should co-ordi-
nate rapid transit planning for
the entire region, and that
possibly it might even institute
construction in the suburbs if
Maryland and Virginia ap-
proved in each instance.
Reluctant Concurrence
This was the recommenda-
tion of Washington's mass
transportation survey report in
which Senator Fenwick con-
Cured.
He said that suburban Off
cials concurred reluctantly"
in this provision, however. and
that the Federal corporation
was deemed essential as an
interim agency in order to re-
ceve Federal funds for con-
struction of the expensive por-
ton of the transit system within
the District.
He told the Senate House
committee the corporation must
be succeeded by a regional
group formed by interstate
compact. AS to the future. he
asserted:
Gives Reasons
"The representatives of Mary
land and Virginia were en-
phatic in their position that,
under no circumstances would
they be willing to give the
Federal corporation power to
carry out the mass transpor-
tation plan. which probably
would include acquisition of
rightS-of-way by eminent do
main, the levying of taxes and
control of highways"
Senator Fenwick said his
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Libruriun to Speak

ROANOKE, Va, Nov. IL
(AP) DIR. Benjamin E. Powell,
Duke University librarian and
president of the American Lii
brary Association, will be the
principal speaker at the OPEN
ing session of the annual con-
ference of the Virginia Library
Association at Hotel Roanoke
November 20.
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Airport Puzzle

The original forecast for the
next f1ve-year period was IT,
500. That forecast was made in
1855.
The effect on the county of
the Dulles International Air
port at Chantilly "has me
buffaloed," Mr.. Walker said,
asking: Where are the people
who work at the airport going
to live?"
"We are attempting to make
a guess on the town of Herndon
and environs," he said, but
declined to elaborate just what
the plans were.
He said theI next flve-year
program, which will be ready
about the first of the year, "is
going to have to deal with the
secondary school program in
stead of elementary schools. +"
Costly Factor
"ThiS is factor that makes
it more costly" he said. He ex-
planned that the children born
during World War II now are
attaining secondary school age. ="
Mr.. Walker said he expects
the enrolment of secondary
schools to "stay at a higher
level for the next several
years."
There was a jump of 800
students in the eighth grade
this past year, he said. Next
year there probably will be
another increase of about 200,
he added.
The original forecast for
1880 children at the end of
the next five years was based
on a mathematical formula of
seven-tenthS Of a child in each
single family house.
He noted that the original
estimate of $40 million needed
in school bonds next spring
was based on the old 77,500
figure.
Sites Not Figured
The $40 million did not in
clude needed site improvement
on existing schools or purchase
of new sites for the following
f1ve-year period. He said he
could give no estimate on how
much would be needed in bond
money.
The county has IS schools
now, and "of course" will need
more in the future, Mr.. Walker
said, pointing out that some
expansion will be handled
through additions to present
schools.
The county will have six new
intermediate schools by Sep
tember of 1860 and two more in
1861. Money for these already
has been allocated, and some
of the contracts have been
awarded. A final figure on the
number of schools needed has
not yet been determined.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The International Rub
ber Conference continues in
the Shoreham and Shera-
ton-Park Hotels.
Opening a three day
convention, the National
Lumber Manufacturers As
ISOLATION is headquartered
in the Statler Hotel.
The Conference on EX-
perimental Clinical Cancer
Chemotherapy meets in the
Statler Hotel.
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TRANSIT
116-Mi|e Monorai| Here
Is Proposed by Chalk
Continued From First Page

fiscatory and unconstitutional"
he declared.
He said he was we'll aware
that his first alternative-al-
most exclusive use of downtown
streets by private transit
would be far from painless"
He said:
1T would necessitate adjust
ment and adaptation by the
public, and doubtless would be
met by violent objections from
automotive and petroleum in
dustries. their suppliers and
automobile associations.
an our Judgment, to trade
a prospective $2.5 billion cx-
penditure and 'the certainty Of
endless deficit financing for the
courage and intestinal forth
tude needed to espouse such a
program would be in the best
tradition of enlightened public
service" he said.
On the other hand, Mr..
Chalk said. if it were decided
to proceed with less courage
he would still recommend "in-
itiative, imagination and a
spirit Of innovation" in trans
portation thinking.
The transportation plan be-
fore the committee lacks these
features, he insisted. He said
it would perpetuate stale pro-
posals instead of a truly mod
ern system.
Stresses Special System
"It is no secret that the ex-
perience and studies of D. C.
Transit lead it to the conclu-
sion that the only truly mod
ern system is an attractive,
safe, high-speed monorail," he
added.
Survey engineers investigat-
ed a monorail system but found
it unsuitable for Washington.
But that is not the system Mr..
Chalk said he favored.
Instead, he urged a system
designed by the Lockheed Air
craft Corp.
Mr.. Chalk backed up his
testimony with three elaborate
brochures and a monorail
model prepared by Lockheed.
The model showed a car rid
ing astride rail about 20 feet
above ground.
The 116-mile monorail sys-
tenn suggested would include
2 miles in tunnels through the
downtown Washington area
and another 81 miles in an un-
covered cut belowground. Mr..
Chalk said if it were desired
to include these sections the
total system cost might ap-
proach $3.50 million.
Two Lines Proposed
Two major lines were pro-
posed, intersecting at some un-
designated point downtown.
One would extend from Viers
Mill in Montgomery County
and would pass down Seventh
street NV. in Washington with
branches to Andrews Field,
Jones Point, Alexandria, and
the new Central Intelligenceu
Agency headquarters and Dull
les International Airport in
Virginia.
The second route would be
U shaped, extending from
Rockville west of the Seventh
street line to Fort Meade and
Friendship International Air
port in Maryland.
Mr.. Chalk recommended first
priority for the Seventh street
line with a single branch pass
ing by the Pentagon and Falls
Church to Dulles Airport.
This system is substantially
the same as that recommended
by Mr.. Chalk in a preliminary
presentation to the District
Commissioners several months
ago.
Cleared by Fine Arts
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican of Virginia, raised the
question of esthetic objections
to the monorail in the Capital
and asked Mr.. Chalk whether
he had cleared his plans with
| the Fine Arts Commission. The
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Cleared by Fine Arts

Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican of Virginia, raised the
question of esthetic objections
to the monorail in the Capital
and asked Mr.. Chalk whether
he had cleared his plans with
| the Fine Arts Commission. The
Evening star., 1959-11-12
Fenwick Seeks Agency
To Coordinate Transit

Virginia State Senator Charles R. Fenwck emphasized
today that strongly formation of Federal
tion get rapid transit system "o the ground" in the
Washington area.
Tesfying before the SenateHouse Committee Washing
ton Metropolitan yesterday Fenwck said
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$4,000 Pupils
AreForecast
For Fairfax
5-Yeur Estimate
Raises Amount
Of Funds Needed
BY JACK KELSO
star STAFF Writer

Fairfax County school enroll
ment probably will rise to oter
80, 900 in the next five years.
That would mean the school
construction bond issue pro-
posed for next spring would
need to be greater than the
$40 million originally suggested.
This forecast was made yes
terday by Assistant School
Supt. Robert B. Walker, who is
working with a school board
committee on a study of the
entire problem of school needs
in Fairfax County, one of the
Nations fastest growing areas.
The county now has $4,000
children in public schools. In
another five years, Mr.. Walker
said, the county will have some
where between 10000 and
SO, 900.
Chances are, he said, it will
be a compromise in the middle
of that range. I'm the final
analysis. it's up to the school
board" to decide on the figure,
he added,
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Knights Joust
At St. Mury's

Barbecued chicken, corn
kernal bingo, and jousting
tournament knights" shared
the spotlight yesterday at the
80th annual picnic at st.
Mary's Church in GAINESVILLE,
Md.
The church picnic, an upper
Montgomery tradition. at
tracted more than 1900 visi-
tors, including chicken gour-
NETS, politicians, farm folk and
four-year-old riders of the
Shetland pony ring.
Working from 9:15 am. to
shutdown, picnic cooks led by
Gordon Umstead Of Olney,
broiled 1000 half chickens over
"a 40-foot long charcoal pit.
First prize for professional
riders in the jousting tourney
was won by Wayne Tucker of
Jefferson, Md, riding as the
Knight of Beauty. Second and
third place awards went to
Leon Enfield. Knoxville, Md,
and Richard Shoemaker, ST.,
WilliamSport, Md.
Amateur class awards were
won by Mr.. Shoemaker, first;
Michael Umstead, Poolesville,
second; and Richard Shoemak-
er, jr., third. Novice class nrizes
were captured by Lloyd Shoe
maker, jr- Hagerstown, and
Michael Umstead and Motley
Offutt, GAINESVILLE.
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100 Youths Invited
To Safety Farley

More than 100 teen-agers
are expected at the University
of Maryland today for the first
Maryland Youth Traffic Safety
Conference.
The three-day session will be
launched with a picnic and
panel discussion on the moral
aspects of traffic safety. The
delegates were selected by high
school principals on the basis
of their scholastic standing,
and interest in driving and
traffic safety.
Awards will be given con-
ference members cited for out
standing achievement in traffic
safety.
The event is sponsored by
the Maryland Law Enforce
ment Officers, Inc. in corpora
ton with the Maryland Youth
Safety Advisers, Inc.
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neSSes are open on Sundays.
The committee was created
to determine which businesses
fall within the category of nee
cesSary activities excluded from
the Sunday ban.
Mr.. Schnabel was named to
the committee along with Mr..
Kinney. Other members are:
The Rev. Sidney Loyett, Rock
Springs CONGREGATIONAL church; the
Rev. James W. Bright, jr., Bethel Con-
gregational and Reformed Church,;
the Rev. George H. Yount, First Pres
byterian Church: the Rev. Ross Allen
Weston, Arlington Unitarian Church;
the Rev. John. J. Munley, st. Agnes
Catholic Church.
Also. Richard d Gibbs. secretary
Peoples Drug Stores. Inc; Joseph Nc
Mullen president. Northern Virginia
Real Estate Board; Frank C. Kim
ball; vice president; Hot Shoppes, Inc
Matthews, Tops Drive-in Restaurants.
sh 6:0 R eyaFd Eaas aV4 res es
Moe, lay members Of the Council Of
Churches: W. Travis Smith and L. W.
Holverstott, both Of the Seventh Day
Adventists: Jerome ]. Dick, past
president, Arlington-Fairfax Jewish
Center.
Also, Edmund D. Campbell. attorney;
Wynn Alley, lay member. Calvary
Methodist Church: Thomas J. Broyhill.
real estate developer: Hubert J. Ander-
son and Warren Cox. lay members, Of
the Arlington Methodist Church. Rirh-
ard Kinder. sign manufacturer. and
two persons recommended by the
Arlington Chamber of Commerce. Rob-
ert Hawthorn Of Furniture. Inc, and
William Backus. of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co.
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tative surplus Of $l1.6 million.
OF this amount, the General
Assebly voted to use $l.2 mil
lion to balance the 1860 budget
leaving an unencumbered ex-
cess Of $10.4 million.
This was some So million
more than had been anticipated
by the Board Of Revenue Esti-
mates when the Legislature was
in session last month.
Maryland political leaders
are hopeful that the States
sound financial position as
compared with the problems of
other States may strengthen
Maryland's voice in national
politics.
Maryland's 1860 budget pro-
vides for nearly $205 million In
expenditures compared with
earlier estimates of revenues at
about 1902 million.
Normal budget growth in re-
cent years has been about SIS
million a year, according to
Fiscal Research Director John
s. Shriver.
Revenues normally have risen
about 81 million a year without
raising taxes. Because of the
bright economic outlook, this
conservatively can be expected
to reach $40 million during the
next year.
Mr.. GoldStein and his aides
agreed the state has bounced
back quicker from the recession
than we anticipated"
"Maryland's fiscal set up is
extremely sound and Is a model
for other states" Mr.. Goldstein
said.
Under Maryland law the
budget adopted by the legisla-