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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Tall Youngster Of 8
Needs Outdoor SkiIIs

She hadn't expected such a
wonderful Christmas, Mrs.
James said.
In fact, she hadn't thought
there would be any Christmas
celebration at all.
With so much sickness in the
family, five children to feed and
only $65 a week in her hus-
bands pay envelope, Mrs,
James had all she could do last
winter to keep the family in
food.
But then soldiers at a nearby
base gave a Christmas party,
and the James children were
invited to attend. Each of the
children was given ice cream
and cake, one small toy, and
clothes.
The clothes were the greatest
gift Of all. Mrs. James was
overwhelmed by this kindness
Such things as underwear and
socks are a luxury in the James
household. The children often
60 without them.
Eight-year-old Earl is tall fol
his age. and rather withdrawn
Because Of his height. he feels
out Of place with the younger
boys, but finds it hard to make
the older boys accept him.
Through pioneer camping
and the craft program at camp
Earl would acquire skills that
would help him find his place
in the neighborhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Woman, 90,
Is Killed by
runsit Bus

A 60-year-old bookkeeper at
the Walter Reed hospital Of
flcers Club was killed yesterday
when run over by a D. C. Tran
sit bus at Fifteenth and K
streets NV.
Miss Cora MacLean. of the
Meridian Hill Hotel. pro-
nounced dead on the scene,
became the city's 34th traffic
fatality Of the year. There had
been "a traffic deaths at this
time last year.
Driver of the bus, Boyd A.
Dillon. SO. OF 93i Longfellow
street NV. was ordered held
for action of a coroner's In
quest at IL am. tomorrow and
was released in custody of a
d. c. Transit inspector.
The accident occurred at the
southwest corner of the inter-
section. where Miss MacLean
had been standing on q safety
island.
A report on file at the Acct
dent Investigation Unit said
1.-The light changed. the opera
tor started of and some one
shouted. The driver felt a
bump. stopped, got out and saw
/ a pedestrian under the bus In
front of the rear wheels"
Miss MacLean had been with
the Walter Reed club four
years. and previously had
worked in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Boy, Charged;
Stabbed Father !
With Arrow

BALTIMORE, June 20 tAP).
"A slight-built 1l-year-old
boy was charged today with
fatally stabbing his father with
an arrow.
Louis Charles Becker. AZ
year-old steelworker. hit his
wife, odell. SO, with his fist.
police said, after she refused
to turn out a hall light. Their
son, Louis Charles jr.. an only
child, watched.
Suddenly, the father grabbed
at his stomach and staggered
down to the basement. Mrs.
Becker went down and found
her husband, pierced by a two
foot, metal-tipped arrow. lying
on a couch. He died at 1885
am. after an emergency opera
ton.
Police said the arrow came
from a toy set owned by the
boy.
Chief Magistrate Joseph 10.
lodny released the boy in the
custody of his mother at an
arraignment in police court.
The States attorney is to set
q date for q further hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Senate Marble Slabs
Are Coming and Going

They're having more trouble
with marble at the new Senate
ONCE Building.
Marble slabs are being fitted
on the wall south Of the build
ling. At the same time. work.
men are prying the squares of
1.-THE wall around the corner or
the west side
This off-again. on-agair
handling Of marble goes almost
unnoticed on Capitol Hill. Leg
islative employees have grown
accustomed to such things as
mail chutes that arrested let.
tiers in flight, public address
systems that buzzed and bells
that didn't ring.
The wall work has been con-
slant enough to become COM
monplace. The wall was finish
ed last fall and is all marble
faced.
What's coming off now Is
marble that has to be laio
straight.
| Contractors maintain the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

marble was Jared askew by
pile driving for the new sub
way between the building and
the Capitol. Chats the Sub
way tunnel that's been flooded
by rain water in recent weeksJ
But the Capitol Architects
once claims the narble-faced
concrete wall was incorrectly
constructed In the first place.
Pile driver operators agree with
the Architect. -
Back on the south side, they
are replacing the same mar
BILE that was stripped from q
wall torn down to make room
for the subway, started after
the wall was finished.
These delays can be expected
in a $25 million building. the
Architects spokesman insist.
and such errors don't cost the
taxpayers q cent.
The marble won't cost tax.
payers q penny either. Unless
contractors refuse to pay for it.
appeal their cases and win. y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

ment. nor did Fish and Wild
life.
So WMAL-Tv offered to foot
the bill. The bear left Fair
banks. Alaska. Friday in q
wire cage and journeyed on
from Seattle yesterday in the
tender care of Stewardesses
Gail Nash and Susan Aspin-
wall. both of Minneapolis.
They said they had no trou-
BILE with the cub except once
passing over Cleveland. when
she fell into a pan Of milk
and then drenched them by
shaking the milk of like q
dog.
Tomorrow the cub will be
presented formally to DR.. Reed
by Fred Houwink. general
manager of WMAL-TV, at 9
am. on the pete and His
Pals" show over Channel Z.
DR.. Reed said the cub will 60
on public display at the Zoo
on Rock Creek Park Day next
Sunday.
Pete Jamerson. who con-
ducts the Pete and His Pals
program, is going to hold Q
contest to let the children Of
Washington IL years or under
find a name for the cub.
The contest will end at mid
night July IL. To enter. con-
testants must send in the name
they have selected for the bear
a. drawing Of a polar bear cub
and their own name, address
and phone number to Polar
Bear. Box 1923, Washington
Is. D. c.
The winner will be an
nounced on Pete Jamerson's
show Monday, July 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
THE 10 WORST JAMS
South Capitol Span, Approaches
Are Conqested at Both Ends

bottleneck at NJ street. Work
is scheduled TO begin on the
overpass in the latter part Of
1860 and is scheduled for
completion about the middle
of 1861.
The Southwest freeway.
which follows the line Of old
r street from Maine avenue
to South Capitol. is now well
under way. This eight-lane
freeway. with temporary ramps
from South Capitol street, is
scheduled for completion late
in 1861.
The freeway will provide a
direct nonstop route to the
Fourteenth Street Bridge and
Maine avenue, reducing the
volume Of traffic now using M
street. between South Capitol
and Maine avenue.
District highway officials ex-
pect the M street oVerpass and
Southwest freeway to speed the
flow Of traffic on South Capitol.
The Anacostia freeway on the
other side of the river viii
separate traffic now regulated
land slowed DOWN by traffic
lights. The Anacostia freeway
Is to be completed in 1868.
New Bridge Due
The new Eleventh street
bridge. scheduled for traffic by
late 1864. will be a four-lane
structure connecting the Ana
costa and Southeast freeways.
When this four-lane bridge is
completed. the District High
way Department hopes to add
q fourth lane to the present
three lane Eleventh street
bridge.
Ultimately, the new bridge
will carry northbound traffic
and the old structure will han
die the southbound traffic flow
The two bridges will connect
with the Southeast freeway at
a four-level interchange near
K street.
! The new Eleventh street
bridge Is expected to reduce
greatly the load now being car
ried by the South Capitol street
span. When the latter spar
was completed in 1850. traffic
on the Eleventh street bridge
dropped from $4,000 to $4,000
cars O day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

unanimously recorded Its com
plete opposition to this pro-
posed memorial"
The memorial Is proposed for
the Nevius tract on the Poto-
mac bluffs between Arlington
Cemetery and the Marine
Memorial. It would be a roof
less enclosure 81 feet high, 378
feet long and 231 feet wide.
It would express American
freedoms in carvings of his
toric sayings on the walls.
Last year, after heated de-
bate and strong opposition
from Arlington, the House Of
Representatives killed a bill
which would have authorized
its construction. A new bill has
been introduced in the House
by Representative Aspinall.
Democrat of Colorado, chair
man Of the Committee on In
terror and Insular Affairs. A
similar bill has been intro
duced in the Senate by Senator
Allott, Republican Of Colorado,
Private Funds Sought
Funds for construction of the
SIS million memorial would
have to be raised by the Ma
tional Freedom Shrine Founda-
ton. a private organization.
when dealing with a mat
ter such as a privately Spon-
sored monument. the Federal
Government should not use it:
powers to impose something
like this on a locality" Mr.
Raul said.
Chairman KrupSaw said the
county gives great weight" to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

agent wistfully holding a dried
fish. Zoo officials. Smokey the
bear Chuman imitation), vari-
Gus unoccupied airline employees
and travellers. and a pretty re-
ceptionist for one Of the
Alaskan Senators.
Also on hand were officials
of The Stars WMAL-TV Sta
ton, which paid the freight
bill that made it possible for
the Fish and Wildlife Service to
give the bear to the National
Geological Park.
Was MOtherless
The cub was found wander
ing motherless near Oliktok,
Alaska, about 100 miles east
of Point Barrow on the Arctic
Ocean by Fish and Wildlife
Service men. The Zoo had no
money to pay for the ship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

recommendations Of Federal
agencies "for this side Of the
river" and said he hoped that
1.-THE people on the other side
Of the river will give considera-
ton to county views before
barging ahead with things like
this"
Four Mile Run
In other business. the board
told the Northern Virginia Re-
gional Park Authority that the
county itself plans to develor
Four-Mile Run into q stream
valley park.
The regional authority hac
offered to undertake develop
|ment of Four Mile Run witt
Federal aid under the Capper-
Cramton Act.
The board appointed PupiiS
Works Director Richard Wirt
as county representative on thu
proposed Regional Sanitary
Board. The advisory agency
win coordinate planning. op'
erations and construction o.
sanitation facilities in the Met
ropolitan Area.
A hearing was set July 10 OF
q rezoning for a tract neal
Arlington Towers Apartment
which would make possible TIN
construction Of a 7-story. s.
million Office building. Owner
of Arlington Towers are pro
posing to construct the build
ing which would face Lynn
street adjacent the presen
Arlington Towers Commercial
area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Polar Cub Arrives;
Contest for Name Set
BY JERRY OLEARY
star stan Writer

tame and fsky female polar bear cub arrived at Ma
tonal Airport yesterday Alaska to be greeted with
small-scae civic reception and "a degrees of heat.
The 4S-pound cub probably born in January rolling
down ramp Northwest Arines plane hatch
Waiting for her were battery of photographers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

drews Air Force Bases. Other
big employers south Of the
Anacostia are the Census Btu
reau, Naval Research Labora-
tory and st. Elizabeths Hos
pital.
Thousands Of others. living
Ii the Anacostia area and
Prince Georges County. drive
north across the river to their
jobs at the Naval Gun Factory
Federal Triangle, Pentagon,
Navy Department and other
Federal and private buildings.
Jams Start Early
Traffic is frequently bumper
to-bumper both ways on the
four-lane bridge as early a.
|6:15 am. Southbound traffic
jams up at the trafic light
where the Suitland parkway
merges with South Capitol
street: the northbound flow il
restricted by left-turning cars
lat M and N streets.
Afternoon rush-hour traffic
is even worse. Cars moving
over the bridge at the rate
of about 1900 cars an hour
overtax the span and jam up
at either end.
Fortunately for commuters
who use the bridge. several big
highway projects are under
way or planned. which will
ease the bottlenecks. The
most important Of these are
the Southwest and Southeast
freeways. an M street overpass,
the Anacostia freeway and a
new Eleventh street bridge.
The NJ street overpass, with
ramps running to South Capt.
toll street, will eliminate the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
BUENOS AIRES
CHEERS D. G.
SYMPHONY

BUENOS AIRES (AP).
- Washington National
Symphony Orchestra re-
ceived a rousing welcome
at the Colon Theater last
night. The group took nine
curtain calls, but Conduc-
tor Howard Mitchell de-
clined an encore.
The orchestra plays its
second and last concert In
Buenos Aires tonight
The Colon Theater was
almost filled to capacity.
There we're no newspaper
comments because news
papers were not published
throughout the country
today, Argentina's flag day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
CounfyCounci|
Questions Md.
Road Program
State Commission
To Meet Other
LocuI Bodies

Montgomery County Council
members will travel in a body
to Baltimore Tuesday to ask
the Maryland State Roads Com
mission to explain local cut
backs in the States tagging
highway program.
Early last month, before all
members of the newly reorgan-
ICED roads commission had been
appointed, the council decided
to bid for such a meeting.
About a week ago.. the SRC
announced the joint meeting
with Montgomery representa-
tives was to be the first in a
series Of agency conferences
with local governing bodies.
In the county, the council
finds itself caught between local
pleas for traffic congestion
relief in the suburbs and the
States recent curtailment of
highway projects previously
scheduled for a 1859 start
Council Member David l..
Cahoon said the council. when
|it confers at Q pm. Tuesday
with the road commissioners
hopes Ito find out what the
program is going to be and see
If we can get the commission
to expedite it."
Projects Questioned
Although council members
declared they viii go to Balti-
more without antagonism.
there has been, in recent weeks,
considerable wondering oui
loud" why the State choice &c
retain certain projects at The
apparent expense OF Others
considered more pressing from
the local point Of view.
The State agency earlier this
year announced that only three
of some is county highway
projects scheduled for 1885
would be undertaken. The sur
viving projects were listed as;
Reconstruction of the Mass
acusetts Avenue Bridge dam.
aged last year by fire, construc.
ton of an interchange at the
intersection of two future high.
ways-the Northern parkway
and the intercounty circumfer.
entail highway and the con.
struction Of an interchange adj
jacent to the Atomic Energy
Commissions Germantown
(Md0 headquarters at the con.
junction of Route l18 and U. S
Route 240.
Others Of More Interest
Several Of the postponed
projects were of greater in
terest to county officials. These
included: The widening of q
l.16-mile section of Colesville
road between the bridge al
Northwest Branch and Sligo
Creek parkway. the widening
and repairing OF Bradley boule.
ward from Wisconsin avenue 70
Goldborough road. the recon.
struction of River road for
seven tenths Of q mile beyond
the District line and the con.
struction Of an additional cir
cumferential highway link be.
tween Georgia avenue and Uni
versity boulevard.
In announcing curtailment Of
the road building program
State official said revenues ear.
marked for highway spending
had proved to be insufficient fol
all scheduled projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Must Repay Holiday

Summer school students in
Arlington public schools must
make up their July 3 holiday
on July II in order to complete
the eight full weeks of instruc-
ton required for course work.
the county school administra-
ton has announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
RIA Shelves Plan
For Market Section
Church Stand,
Money Trouble
Doom Project ,
BY SAM EASTMAN
star star Writer

Plans for construction Of q
second section Of the 81 million
Southwest market center near
st. Dominic's Catholic Church
have been dropped.
Financing has fallen through
for the market facilities planned
on a tract between Fourth and
Sixth streets and E street and
the Southwest expressway.
Construction is underway on
market center buildings be-
tween Second and Fourth
streets.
Church Opposition
Oficials Of the church, at
Sixth and z streets, have op.
posed plans for the second sec
ton on the grounds that it
would generate traffic hazards
for children attending the
parish schools.
The market center mer-
chants, who are being displaced
from the Maine avenue area.
have withdrawn from an agree
ment with the Redevelopment
Land Agency on the second sec
ton project. The merchants
notified RIA that they had had
financing troubles because Of
the latest change in plans.
This leaves RIA with the
task Of beginning a new study
of commercial development
possibilities for the tract.
RIA had revised plans sew
eral times in an unsuccessful
effort to overcome the church's
objections. The latest plan.
which was still opposed by the
church, called for food brokers
Offices and some produce ware
house space.
Financing Doubted
Morris Kraft, of the met-
chants proup. said the cons
bination ofiice-warehouse pro-
posal could not be financed. He
emphasized that money was
available to carry out the orr.
ginal plans for completing the
center's warehouse facilities.
Mr.. Kraft said his group still
hopes to get RIA to sell a 10000
square-foot section at Fourth
and E streets to provide space
for four warehouse merchants
This piece of land, however, i
earmarked for service station
luse.
/ Malcolm A. Burrows, depnt,
director of RIA. said yesterday
that every effort would be made
to come up with new PLAN
which win provide for worth
while development and at ths
same time satisfy st. Dominic'l
and the nearby Fifth Baptisl
Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

at some unexpected place as
always happens when you oncn
UP a new route"
His observation was both
accurate and prophetic.
The South Capitol Street
Bridge and its approaches TO-
day form one of the clty's
worst traffic bottlenecks. the
reasons for The rush hour
traffic jams are two fold: A
tremendous Increase in the
number of cars using the
bridge and an inadequate street
system to carry of the flow OF
traffic once it crosses the
bridge.
Traffic Doubles
When the bridge was COM
pleted. 1t carried about 5000
cars a day over the Anacostia
River on the average work day.
Last year the work day average
was $1,000 cars-more than
twice the 1850 volume.
Much of this traffic is gen.
Grated by military installations.
Thousands of persons living in
the District, Virginia or Mont
gomery County cross the bridge
each day to get to their jobs
at the Anacostia Naval Air
Station and Boiling and An
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Arlington Boord Hits
Freedom WoII' Again
Riverside Memorial Is Condemned
As q Madison Avenue Promotion

The Arlington County Board yesterday urged defeat Of
to authorize erection Of freedom WALL memorial
near Arlington Cemetery
Board member Ralph Raul called the proposed memorial
Madison promotion which is not in the public
interest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
By ALFRED ALIBRANDO
Star star Writer

It took 20 years Of citizen
agitation and 10 years Of plan
ming to build the South Capitol
Street Bridge. And when II
was opened in 1850, Commits
sioner Gordon r. Young said
Il think it probable that
traffic congestion win develop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

Earl James is not his real
name, but his story is true.
After her fine Christmas
surprise, his mother can hardly
believe that people she doesn't
even know will once again give
a wonderful gift, like camp,
to one Of her children.
Such gifts from strangers
spell, for her and her family,
the difference between bare
subsistence and days of Joy
Your gift to The Evening
Star Summer Camp Fund can
make that difference.
Following is a list OF con-
tributions to date:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

This Is Another il q Series About the
Areas 10 Worst Traffic BottIeneeks.
Evening star., 1959-12-02

ish Isles into such alien un-
familiar languages as those
spoken in Israel and Finland.
And such reasonably familiar
dialects of English as Amer
ican, Canadian and Irish.
This wanderlust may well be
the quintessence Of the Guthrie
character. From his beginning
in entertainment. as a stray in
B.B.C.'s corral of creatives, he
has been anti metropolitan,
anti-commercial, and most Of
all anti-conformiSt. He has
worked in London and New
York. but never so happily as
in Edinburgh. Belfast. STRAIT
ford, Ont, and other provincial
areas.
To read "a Life in the The
ater,' an encyclopedia Of CLAM
ourous names whose owners he
discusses with zestful candor,
is to understand how DR.. Guth-
rie alone could have become the
artistic founder Of the Cana
dian Shakespearean Festival.
Nothing could seem more un-
likely that this small, remote
trading center. high on the On
tario plateau. could become the
home of the finest Shakespeare
in the world.
The mere suggestion Of it
as a festival site must have
seemed so preposterous that
anyone else would have sent
Stratford's mild, small Tom
Patterson home with the re-
proof his idea deserved. Not
DR.. Guthrie. The proposal had
about it just the kind of abb
surdity he finds most challeng-
ing. So. with Alec Guinness. he
went to Stratford in Canada to
make Tom Patterson's home
town known around the world.
4
HIS FAILURES GLORIOUS:
Stratford, a brainchild whose
welfare leads him back from
time to time, is but one of many
Guthrie triumphs. Yet. he and
success are not the most con-
genial Of companions. 1t is not
that he sees popularity and ap-
proval as the natural enemies
of the true artist, but rather
that his failures so often have
a more beguiling glory about
them.
This taste for the great near
Evening star., 1959-12-02

miss over the great hit sets him
apart in the theater. It in
Inmates the challenge of the
splendid and the pursuit of the
impossible as the real justiflca-
tions for existence. Still he can
write with reminiscent honesty,
"As with most youngsters in
the theater, my dominant aim
in the early years was to be
successful enough to eat"
From this attitude, it took
decades of grand accomplish
ments and grander failures for
him to reach the present one
which he sums up:
II have reached an age when
for a great deal Of the time II
is pleasantest to look at trees
or at the sea, or to play
patience, or to read a book
which one has read many times
before-an old friend. I &c
about the world setting up
plays partly out of vanity
partly for money, partly out OF
habit-the compulsion to prac-
tice a craft which through the
Evening star., 1959-12-02
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Arena Stage - "Candestine
on the Morning Line; $3.50
pm.
NatiOnal-Dark. THE Pleas
ure of His Company" starts De-
cember 7.
Screen
Ambassador - "A Summer
Place; 1880. 4:05, $40, $40
pm.
Capitol - Beloved Infidel";
11:40 am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 and
$40 pm.
Dupont - "The Cranes Are
Flying; /, 2:45, 4:35, $40.
8:15 and 1905 pm.
Keiths-"Third Man on the
Mountain; 1915, $3.50. $40
and 10 pm.
Macarthur - THE Mouse
That Roared";; 6:l5, sos and
9:55 pm.
Metropolitan - "a Summer
Place; 1880 am, 2. 4:30, 7
and $50 pm.
OntariO-'Pillow Talk; 1:15,
S:20. $50. 1885 and Gas pm.
Palace-"The Wreck Of the
Mary Deare";; 1880 am, 1880.
3:35, 5:35, 7:40 and 9:40 pm.
PlayhOuSe-"The Last Angry
Man; IL. 1:5o. $50. 5:45. 7:45
and $40 pm.
Plaza-"The Lovers; HAS
am, ITO, 2:45, 4:20, 7:55 and
$40 pm.
Town - "TarZan the Ape
Man; 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and
1925 pm.
Trans-Lux-"They Came to
Cordura"; II am, los, 3:15,
$40, 7:25 and 9:35 pm.
UptOwn-"Porgy and Bess";;
2 and $50 pm.
Warner - "The Big Fisher
man; 2 and $3.50 pm.