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Evening star., 1960-04-03

to set our sights higher and
achieve the fulfillment Of
George Washington's dream"
The speaker pointed out that
President Washington envi-
stoned his new National Capt.
tai as a center of government
and a cultural center. Mr..
Flemming said certainly it
has become the center of gov
eminent, but we have a long
way to travel before Washing
ton becomes a real cultural
center"
The league also heard Edward
Durell Stone, architect of the
National Cultural Center, de-
clare that I'VE must not let
Frank Sinatra and the Can-Can
represent our culture before
the world" Achievement of the
center here is mandatory for
national prestige" Mr.. Stone
asserted.
He told the league that the
National Cultural Center here
will have a great advantage
over the Lincoln Center in New
York, because here companies
from all over the world will
come to perform at the center.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Bridge Now Proposed
For English Channel

shipping interests was ex-
pected.
But we are quite satisfied
that the bridge would present
no dangerous obstacle to ship
ping in the main channel, or
to coastal traffic" Mr.. Pain
said.
Advocates of a channel tun-
mel remained extremely active,
however. Detailed plans were
submitted to the study group
today by another affiliation OF
British, American and French
contractors.
Three Tunnel Schemes
The British firm in the part
nership, Richard Costain, Ltd.
announced that three schemes
varying in cost, were submitted
One calls for a tunnel Al fee
in diameter to cost an esti.
mated 5000 million, another
with a diameter of A fee
would cost $2l5 million and 6
third with a 53-foot diameter
would cost 1859 million. Tht
work would take about 81
years.
In the tunnel planning stage
American interests are repre-.
sented by Hyperion Construc'
tors and Kaiser Engineers anc
Constructors. Inc, with which
are associated the Delone
Corp, Healy Tibbets Construc.
ton Co.. Macco Corp, Petel
Kiewit Sons Co., Raymond
International. Inc, and thu
Tavares Construction Co.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Travellers Aid
ToConvene Here

The National Travellers Aid
Association will holds it's
11th biennial convention from
Wednesday until Friday at the
Shoreham Hotel.
At the convention, repre-
sentatives of l01 Travellers Aid
Societies throughout the coun-
try will seek new ways to pro-
vide services for mobile people
in the fast-moving sixties"
A member of the United
Givers Fund, the society last
year served 1869 people. This
is the groups 43rd anniversary.
Speakers at the convention
will include Secretaries Mitchell
and Fleming, representatives
of other Government agencies
and departments. and trade
associations, according to Mrs.
Frederick S. Lee. president Of
the Washington branch of the
society.
Mrs. William S. Anderson, a
board member of the Washing
ton society, is chairman Of
the local arrangements for the
convention.
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FIemming Emphasizes
eedofCuIture Center

Welfare Secretary Flemming
yesterday said the country
needs the National Cultural
Center here to stir creative
leadership in the performing
arts and in other fields.
Mr.. Fleming. chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the
center, declared he has no
doubt that in a reasonable
time the necessary S75 million
will be received from private
sources to make the center a
living reality. Site of the
center is projected at the
Potomac River end of New
Hampshire avenue.
The secretary told the Ma
tional League of American
Pen Women at the Willard
Hotel I'VE will not settle fol-
a second-rate cultural center in
our National Capital, but will
insist on one that will reflect
the determination of our Ma
ton to lead in the creative arts,
A Washington resident fol
more than 80 years, Mr.. Flem-
ming said he appreciates the
tremendous advantage this
city offers in the cultural arts
But, he emphasized, I'VE neec
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Floods Hit BroziI Area
Twice Size of Texas

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 2
CAP) Floods spread in North
east Brazil today, ravaging an
area more than twice the size
of Texas. A week of floods SC
far has taken 80 lives, officials
said.
Engineers battled to save an
earthen dam at Banabuiu
about so miles northeast OF
Oros, where raging waters ear
lier took out part of big earth
dam.
The Banabuiu, second largest
drought project in the north
east. was menaced by waters
from three rain-swollen rivers
upstream. Water was only
about three feet from the TOP
of the 1,000-foot-long dam.
Engineers worked to open a
second spillway to ease pressure
on the dam. Rain had ceased
falling in the upstream head
waters and they expressed hope
the dam could be saved.
Ample advance warnings have
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empnaSlZeQ JnaJ some scientists
believe development of the
earth's two great unexplore6
regions-the Arctic and Ant
arctic-may pay bigger divi-
dends than outer space explor-
alton. Vast resources are re-
ported to underlie these colder
regions.
But DR.. w. David Kingery
head of MIT's new Ice Research
Laboratory, says development
of these regions can only come
after men stop paSSively fight
ing the Arctic environment anc
start using it positively.
That means, for instance
learning how to use ice anC
snow "the most plentiful anc
so far the least useful" sub.
stances on earth. Behind the
new research is a Zig United
States Government agency.
DR.. Kingery is an associate
professor of ceramics in the
NIT Metallurgy Department
Why the link between ice and
metallurgy? Scientists say you
might think of ice as a meta,
"a metal which melts at about
80 degrees fahrenheit.
The trouble is, it is a pretty
weak metal in its natural state
1t has a tensile strength Of
Evening star., 1960-04-03

only about 200 pounds per
square inch. But by mixing in
a small amount of glaSS-type
fibers. NJ. 1. T. researchers al
ready have developed an ice
alloy with a tensile strength of
some 1000 pounds per square
inch. They say a stick of the
new ice alloy only a quarter Of
an inch in diameter can bear
the weight of a man.
Another material the ice re-
searchers are using is alcohol.
They are lubricating ice grains
with it-so that they will At
together better.
The NJ. l. T. laboratory is
sponsored by the geophysics re-
search directorate Of the Air
Force Cambridge Research
Center. Field activities which
fit into the M. l. T. program
are carried out by the Arctic
Institute of North America.
Part of the research has been
done IN cooperation with the
Arctic Research Laboratory,
Point Barrow, Alaska; the cli-
matte laboratory at Eglin Air
Force Base, Eglin, Fla, and the
ElleSmere ice shelf project Of
the Air Force Cambridge Re-
search Center.
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kept down the death toll in the
flood area. But hundreds of
thousands of Brazilians, many
of them farmers impoverished
by drought, are homeless.
Floods from one to six feet
deep spread along river valleys
in the eight northeastern
states.
Refugees huddled on hill
sides, in make-shift shelters, or
were quartered in government
buildings, schools and churches.
Rains in some areas have
been falling at the rate of about
a foot every 48 hours, the worst
downpours within the memory
of those living in the drought
country.
over the whole area hung
the threat of epidemics. Many
districts we're short of typhoid
vaccine.
Helicopters from the United
States icebreaker Glacier flew
relief supplies into the state of
Ceara. United States seamen
unloaded tons of food, powdered
milk and medicine.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

LONDON, April 2 (AP).-
The English Channel tunnel
study group, financiers and en-
gineers investigating problems
of digging an underwater con-
nection between England and
France, got a new suggestion
today-build a bridge.
A contention that a 21-mile
bridge is a better idea than a
tunnel was submitted by a
British engineering firm, Dor
man Long, Ltd. 1t worked out
its plans in collaboration with
an American firm. the Merritt
Chapman and Scott Corp, and
a French company, Francaise
d d'Enterprises.
Such a bridge, high enough
that ships could pass under it,
would cost about $3.50 million,
perhaps double the cost of a
tunnel. But it could handle
more traffic, and present fewer
problems of maintenance, its
proponents contended.
$50 Piers Planned
Dorman Long engineers, who
discussed their projects at a
news conference, said the
bridge ought to be about 11C
feet wide, supported by about
$50 piers. Most piers would be
TAO feet apart, but two spans
Of about 1,500 feet would en-
able the largest ships afloat to
navigate the channel without
difficulty.
ut would be larger than any
other bridge over water, but it's
no pipe dream" said J. E. Pain
manager of the bridge depart
ment of Dorman Long. the firm
which erected the 3,770-foot
long bridge over the harbor in
Sydney, Australia. A channel
bridge, Mr.. Pain said, should
present no impossible techni-
cal difficulties.
He said plans provide for q
f1ve-lane highway 49 feet wide
for motor cars, two overhang-
ing lanes on either side fol-
bicycles and motorcycles anc
rail tracks. Building, Mr.. Pair
said. would require about five
years.
100000 Tons of Steel Needed
1t was proposed the Ameri.
can company do the under
water work, laying foundations
for piers, and that the British
and French companies make
the superstructure. It wa!
estimated that about 800.0Ot
tons of structural steel woulC
be needed.
! Some objection from eceal
Evening star., 1960-04-03

nal member Of the Alexandria
Library Company and a lieu
tenant in the Silver-Grey Com
pany, a gentleman's militia
group.
When George Washington
died in December 1899, Col
Marsteller was the only one OF
the honorary pallbearers who
was not a Mason.
The colonel and his wife sat
for their portraits by Frymire
in July of 1900. He died -four
years later.
Paintings Removed
The paintings were later
moved to the Marsteller farm
between Manassas and Warren
ton, Va. During the Civil War,
Aclpfar A. Marsteller, a young
scout for Confederate Gen. j
E. B. Stuart, was trapped in
the farmhouse by Northern
cavalrymen. He managed to es-
cape, but a Yankee bullet
pierced the hilt of the sword
on the coloneis portrait.
The paintings restorer, DR.
John w. Page. director of the
medical film section of the Bu-
reau of Medicine. U. S. Navy
a restorer by hobby, wanted to
repair the bullet hole. But
Capt. A. A. MarSteller insisted
it be left.
The portrait will be on dis
play next month in an exhibit
American painters of the
South" at the Corcoran Gallery
opening April %. Another Fry
mire work of the colopel'S
grandson, Samuel Marstener
will also be in the exhibition
It was painted in 1900 and i;
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Elias
E. Gray Of 400 Princeton
! boulevard, Alexandria.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

Marsteller, a Revolutionary
War patriot and mayor of
Alexandria, and his wife, Mary.
They belong to his great-great-
grandson, Capt. A. A. Marstel-
Ter, USN retired of 1905 Black
thorn street, Chevy Chase, and
have been tentatively valued
by an expert at $4,000 apiece.
Only II works by Frymire
have been identified in this
country. Little is known Of the
artist. who produced seven
paintings during the year 1900
in Alexandria.
His work, which is considered
among the best American folk
art" is that of a local crafts
man without academic artistic
training. He may well have
been an itinerate portrait or
sign painter. He is known to
have worked in Winchester,
Va, and Kentucky as well as
in Alexandria.
Hand on Sword
The artist portrayed Col.
Marsteller in uniform, standing
proudly with his hand on the
hilt of his sword, with his hat
cooked over one eye.
The colonel was born IN
Philadelphia in 1742 and later
moved to Lancaster County,
Pa. He received a commenda-
tion from George Washington
for the work he did supplying
-four to the French feet during
the Revolution.
The colonel became a close
friend of Washington and
settled in Alexandria after the
war to be near him. He was a
commission and auction mer-
chant by profession and was
mayor of the city from 1890
to 1892. He was also an origi-
Evening star., 1960-04-03
D. c. Lawyer Heads
Neoro COLLEGE, Drive

Charles A. Horsky. a Wash
ington attorney, heads the
United Negro College Funds
1860 appeal in the Washington
area.
The seventeenth annual ap-
peal, running through June
seeks to raise 10 per cent OF
yearly operating costs of 80
privately supported Negro col
leges and universities, all but
one located in the South.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Business School
To Give Scholarships

Three area high school seniors
will receive full-day secretarial
scholarships during an open
house from 3 to $50 pm.
Wednesday at the Gardner
School of Business, 8605 Cam
eron street, Silver Spring. Md.
Present and former students.
their parents and friends are
invited to the affair, which will
include a display Of Office
equipment, information on new
courses, and a demonstration
of speed tipping by Richard
Krisher.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
u. S. ANNOUNCES Plans
For 7 Buildings Here

be designed by the Washington
architectural firm of Satterlee
and Smith. 1t will be three
stories high and will cost about
SIT million.
Construction is expected to
start in the summer of 1861.
When completed, the building
will provide quarters for the
administrative staff of National
Capital Parks, now housed in
the Interior Building; the
United States Park Police, now
in a temporary building at 625
Independence avenue S. W.. and
a number of other park activi-
ties spread through the Wash
ington area.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
VunduIs Runsuck
MONTGOMERY School

Vandals broke into the New
Hampshire Estates Elementary
School yesterday and ran
sacked several rooms. Mont
gomery County police said.
Windows we're broken, desks
overturned. pictures were
ripped from the walls and pa
pers were scattered and burned
police said.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Medical Talk Set

DR.. r. H. Parrot will speak
on Medical Writing" at the
meeting of the District Chap
ter of the American Physical
Therapy Association at 8 pm.
Tuesday in the auditorium of
Childrens Hospital, 2l25 Thir-
teenth street NV. The date
was incorrectly stated yester-
day in The Star. I.
Evening star., 1960-04-03

I
A law approved last year by
Congress, which is effective
July 1, provides higher pay
ments for eligible persons with
low incomes and lower pay
ments to those with higher in
comes.
No one has to shift to the
new system. but once the
change is made, a beneficiary
cannot go back to the old basis,
There is no deadline for the
choice to be made, but if a ben
eficiary feels the new system is
best, the change should be ef-
fected promptly so the in
creased payment will become
effective July /. Persons COM
ing on the rolls after July l,
will be under the new system,
Help Offered Beneficiaries
The VA says it has informed
each beneficiary of the details
Of the new law. 1t also has
provided the necessary cards to
be used to make a change, and
is prepared to assist those on
the rolls in reaching the deci-
sion that is best for them.
Accredited representatives of
national veterans organizations
have been given special courses
so that they also may assist
benef1ciaries in reaching their
decisions. And in many States,
official State agencies which
handle veterans affairs also
are ready to help.
| A VA spokesman says there
is no need for any beneficiary
to consult an attorney. But ii
he does, the legal fee generally
should not exceed $40 under
existing regulations and law.
The big problem for recipi-
ents involves estimating their
probable income in future
years. A person with low in
come now could qualify for q
larger pension under the new
system. but an income increase
in the future could result in q
lower pension than is now be.
ing received.
The changes effective July
also make it possible for ar
estimated 277,000 additiona
persons to qualify for pension!
who could not do so previously
TAO Widows and Children
About IA per cent of thest
will be widows and children o.
veterans of World War II anc
the Korean conflict. They have
been made eligible by elimina'
ton of a requirement that they
had to submit evidence the vet.
eran had a service-connecteo
disability.
The other 26 per cent will be
living veterans, widows anc
children made eligible by ar
increase in the maximum in.
come limitations.
President Eisenhower's budg.
ct message said the net effect
of the new cases made eligible
by the new law was to add ar
estimated SO billion to pension
costs over the next 40 years.
VA is now preparing infor'
nation to help the prospective
beneflciaries get on the rolls 81
they can draw their frs
checks for July.
The new law has nothing b
do with service-connected com
pensation.
The agency figures tina
about 10 per cent Of the vet.
Grams now getting pensions will
get increases July / if the.
shift to the new system, bu
urges close consideration of tn,
long-range outlook.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
How New Benefit Plan
For Veterans Works
By the Associated Press

1t is decision time for about is million veterans and
widows and children Of deceased veterans who are receiving
pensions from the Veterans Administration.
They have choice between continuing to receive bene-
fits under the present system Of fiat payments shifting to
system that benefits financial need Of recpients
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Restoration Uncovers
Artists Work of 1900
BY ROBERT L. PELL
Star stan Writer

works Of lttleknown early American folk artist
recently in Chevy Chase when retired Navy
captain had two rather battered and anceorial portraits
restored
The signatures of the artist Jacob Fymie uncovered
during the restoration. The paintings of Col Phillip
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Ice Alloys Developed
To Aid Polar Resorch

BOSTON, April CAP).-When the United States starts
largescale building the Arctic Antarctic develop
the vast wealth of those regions will plenty of new
strong and cheap building maerialsce aoys-scientists
revealed today
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology announcement
Evening star., 1960-04-03
Mormons SET
3-Day Farley
Al Salt Lake

SALT LAKE CITY, April 2
(AP).-To the worlds one and
one-half million Mormons, a
most solemn moment of the
year comes at 10 am. tomorrow
with the start of a general
conference in the citadel OF
their faith.
This 130th annual Mormon
meeting, with thousands COM
| ing by special train. plane, bus
and car pool, is designed to re-
new devotion, consider the fu-
ture and take stock of the past.
The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Dsy Saints is among
the fastest-growing denomina-
tionS.
Amid some of the most i'm
posing ecclesiastical real estate
outside of Rome, Mormons
from home and abroad find
new zeal in spiritual meetings
with their Salt Lake brethren
whose oppressed forefathers
survived great adversely and
made theirs the States largest
and wealthiest sect.
The three-day meeting in
massive, block-size Temple
Square - site of the famed
tabernacle-in the heart of the
city will attract the Governor
and the entire Utah congress
sional delegation - Mornons
all.
Sessions Broadcast
Thousands more, unable to
jam into the 8,000-seat taber-
nacle, or make the trip here,
will see and hear general ses-
sions through a special church.
arranged network of As radio
and televiSion stations.
In predominantly Mormon
Utah, conferences--condu
twice each year-are by far the
biggest convention business OF
the year for all but bars and
taverns. Every available room,
from the church-owned Hotel
Utah to the most modest mo-
tel, is taken up. Restaurants
lay in extra stores of orange
Juice and coffee substitutes for
the faithful, who are COM
manded by doctrine to abstain
from stimulants and tobacco.
The church Joseph Smith
founded 100 years ago in New
York is engaged in the most
lfar-reaching growth since
Brigham Young brought fol-
lowers west because of persecu-
tion in New England and the
Midwest. found peace in this
stark valley and said of it
This is the place"
Growth Noted
New church units are being
established constantly, not only
in America, but in Europe, the
South Pacific, New Zealand and
Australia. The spadework is
done by 5000 unpaid mission
aries in 81 areas abroad.
/ Presiding over the semian-
nual conferences is President
David o. Mckay, Sc, the silver
haired ninth leader of the
Mormons, along with two coun-
selors, J. Reuben Clark, SO
former United States Ambas-
Sador to Mexico, and Henry D
Moyle. prominent attorney anc
businessman. Ranking just be-
low them is the Council Of
Twelve Apostles. whose most
famous member is United
States Agriculture Secretary
Ezra Taft Benson.
Evening star., 1960-04-03
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The Sidney herald., 1960-07-20
SAVAGE Area News

joyed a picnic dinner in the park
at Miles City on Sunday. They
visited with their uncle, Pete Mon
tano in the Veterans Hospital in
the afternoon. Johns parents, of
Laurel joined them there, and
took Miss Maschera and John
back to Laurel with them.
Mrs. Warren Trevost and fami-
ly Of Glendive visited at the home
of her sister mad brother-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hagler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry johnson Of
Pasadena, California are now hv=
ing at their farm home near Saw
age.
Mr.. A. c. Miller, who has been
making his home in Savage, has
recently moved to an apartment
in Sidney.
Oscar Crumpacker's sister and
brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Ike
Harper Of Seattle, and his broth
er and siSter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard Crumpacker of Port An
geles, Washington, spent a few
days visiting here.
MIR. and Mrs. Walter Kaiser OF
Colville, Washington are visiting
at the Leo Kappel and Nils Herig-
stad homes.
Miss Marian Drury, who is at
tending summer school at Boze-
man, spent last week end visiting
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Dade Drury.