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Evening star., 1960-02-27

SuperlnJenoentS budget by
nearly twice that amount.
Funds are provided in the
new budget for rehiring a
school psychologist and two
elementary school librarians.
These positions, together with
two physical education teach
ers and the audio-visual in
structor, were among those
eliminated during last years
controversial economy drive by
the majority then in control
of the school board.
A remedial reading teacher
for the elementary grades. a
fourth grade teacher and five
high school teachers. including
one for slow learners, also will
be added to the teaching staff
next fall under the new budget.
Althoug the board did not
specifically reject Mr.. Schmitt's
request for a speech cCrrec-
zionist and a teaching ma
terials supervisor, a $4,000 cut
in overall Institutional costs
was understood to apply to
these jobs.
The board agreed to a tenta-
tive teacher salary scale of
$4,500-$7 200 in IA steps for
B.A. degree holders. This is a
5000 across-the board pay boost.
The final pay range will not
be approved until after the city
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Bethesda Youth
Shot in Stomach

A 16-year-old Bethesda boy
playing cops and robbers" with
"a l4-year-old companion was
shot in the stomach yesterday
by a bullet from a gun thought
to be empty, police reported.
The youth, James A. Burke,
jr., of 5705 Wilson lane, was
listed in fair condition at Sub
urban Hospital.
Montgomery County Detec-
tive 1t. Fred Thrailkill said the
Burke youth and the younger
boy, who was not identified,
were "horsing around" with
the gun in the formers home.
The weapon. a .32-caliber auto
matte. was bought by the To-
year-old from another boy, the
lieutenant said.
When the youths father dis
covered the pistol, police said,
he hid it but the boy found the
hiding place. The accident
yesterday occurred when James,
who had hidden behind a door
leading to the basement, sud-
denly leaped out at the younger
boy.
The 14-year-old, who was
holding the pistol, pulled the
trigger in a reflex action"
not realizing a bullet was in the
pistols firing chamber, police
said.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Colleges Draw 43 Pct.
Of'59D. Graduates

More than 43 per cent Of last
June's District high school
graduates are continuing their
formal education this year,
Supt. Carl F. Hansen reported
yesterday.
The 1879 students are at
tending 279 institutions. in
cluding virtually every WE'LL
known college in the country,
he said.
The largest group of grad
yates chose to go to local in
stitutions. Howard University
has 225 of them and George
Washington University has
$50. The other most popular
schools are District Teachers
College, 1871: University of
Maryland, 104; American Uni
versity, 81; Montgomery Junior
College, IS; Morgan State, 19;
Central State, 18, and George
town and Penn State Univer-
sites, both II.
Last June 3,l76 students
graduated from District high
schools. The 43.4 per cent con-
tinuing their education COM
pares to the national average
Of about SO per cent.
At his press conference yes
terday, the superintendent also
observed that nearby counties
are moving fast" in efforts to
raise teacher salaries.
The District School Board
has approved pay increases
which would provide a top sal
ary of $1,000. But the Com
missioners so far have taken no
action on the proposal.
The superintendent also re-
leased more details on the final
exams scheduled in senior high
school for the first time in
many years this June. All the
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Bockers Cling to Hope
For Reopportionment

III. Democrat of Montgomery.
The House passed and sent
to the Senate the Governors
S477 million operational bud
get for fiscal 1960-61.
The House also passed a bill
which would increase the
Court of Appeals from five to
seven members. 1t already
has passed the Senate and was
sent to the Governor for sigma
ture. Prince Georges County
is expected to get one of the
judgeships.
The Senate passed and sent
to the Governor a House bill
sponsored by Delegate Edgar
P. Silver, Democrat of Balti-
more City, which increases the
minimum penalty for hit-and-
run driving involving an in
jury from 80 days to l year
and the maximum penalty
from l year to 3 years.
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council takes final action on the
school budget in May.
Other salary scales proposed
for teachers with bachelors S
degrees next year in the area
are: Prince Georges County,
$4,000 to $1,000; Fairfax
County, $4,410 to S6.522; Alex
andria, S4.400 to $1,000; the
District, $4,000 to S8.lO0; Ar
lington, $4,000 to $1,000. and
Montgomery County, S4,500 to
$1,000 (plus merit pay).
The 196O-196l Falls Church
school budget is an increase of
over $4,000 over last year. The
city appropriation is slated to
be $697,377, $4,000 higher
than in 1959-1960.
Although the board agreed to
defer action on five-year
school construction budget un-
til next Tuesday, there were
strong indications that the
board will ask the council to
provide funds in the coming
year for additions to George
Mason High School and Madi-
son Elementary School. A SINH
lar school bond request was re-
jected by the city council three
years ago. Since that time,
council control has shifted to
members elected on a school,
improvement platform.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
APOLOGETIC NOTE IS LEFT
ON STOLEN CAR BY THIEF

A car stolen in North Carolina was found in WASH
ngton early today with apoogetc note addressed to
its owner.
Police Pvts John F. Warner and Michael L. Abel
note the windshield of the 1860 car at Con-
necticut and street NV. 1t advised them:
"Stoen Report to police"
On the other side of the paper the note to the
which apologlzed for stealing the But the
thief said, Circumstances were urgent that I get to
gas-not train"
The thief advised that he had used only the best
gasoline and didn't speed I'm sorry again, but you
shouldn't leave the keys like that" 1t unsigned
Police checked the ownership and called E. Kenneth
Muls of Lancaster. S. c.. who said the stolen
last night while he in hotel in Rocky Mount N c.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Ethics Code
Supported in
Montgomery

A proposed Code of Govern
mental Ethics recommended by
the Montgomery County Com
mittee on Conflicts of Interest
drew widespread support from
county political and civic groups
last night in Rockville.
Irving A. Levine, president of
the KenSington- Wheaton Dem
ocratic Club, and Phillip Thor
son. chairman of the issues
committee of the Western Sub
urban Democratic Club, both
indorSed the proposed code at
a public hearing conducted by
the county council.
The conflicts" committee
last November wound up a
nine-month study by recon-
mending adoption of the code
and the creation of a local
Commission on Ethical Stand
ards in Government. The
study was undertaken as the
result of a bitter 1858 Demo-
cratic primary in which two
party factions debated alleged
conflicts of interest on the part
of key county officials.
About 80 persons attended
last nights hearing. Nearly
half of those present issued
statements. Other speakers
who in general favored the
proposed code included Mrs.
Thomas G. Casey, president of
the County League of Women
Voters; Phillip Marcus, repre-
Senting the Allied Civic Group
OF Silver Spring; Robert S.
Marvin, president of the Coun-
ty Civic Federation, and
Charles A. Horsky, a Silver
Spring attorney.
Councilman Joe M. Kyle
and David L. Cahoon declared
during the hearing they ques-
toned the committees defni-
tion of a conflict of interest.
Evening star., 1960-02-27

her at the crucial time" he said.
Shortly after taking office
last month. Prince William
County Sheriff Ralph G.
Shumate reopened the case at
the request of the families of
both the husband and wife and
because he was not convinced
that the original investigation
had revealed the entire story.
He requested the aid of Vir-
ginia State Police.
Detectives took Mrs. Chas-
tain to Fairfax County police
headquarters for a lie detector
test. At this point, investiga-
tors said, she told them for the
first time that she had shot
her husband after an argument
over family finances.
Mrs. Chastain was jailed in
Manassas in lieu of $4,000
bond. A hearing is scheduled
March 4 in Prince William
County Court. Her four chill
dren, taken by the County We'll
fare Department when she vas
arrested, are going to Staunton,
Va, to live with her parents.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
District Man
Sentenced in Rape

Circuit Court Judge Emery
N. Hosmer yesterday sentenced
Leroy Flack, "a. of the 1900
block of Fairmont street NV e.,
to a f1ve-year prison term for
the statutory rape of a 13-year-
old girl in Arlington last No
vember.
The Judge suspended three
years of the five-year sentence.
Earlier, two other men arrested
in the case were freed after
Flack testified he had taken
them home before assaulting
the girl, whom they met at a
dance in Glen Arden, Nd.
A fourth man is scheduled to
be tried on a statutory rape
charge Thursday.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
SLOT MACHINES
MOVED AFTER
CLERGY PROTEST

CAMBRIDGE. Md. CAP).
Slot machines disap-
peared yesterday from six
private clubs in the Cam
bridge are after the Dor
chester County Ministerial
Association complained to
officials.
States Attorney C. Bur-
nam Mace ordered the
clubs to get rid of the slots
Immediately or face court
action.
One club said it had
them on the premises for
at least seven years, al
though they are illegal in
the county. Other organi-
cations have had them
longer, it was reported.
The Rev. Daniel Hasten,
vice president of the min
isterial association, said
ministers had been told
that a 9-year-old Cam
bridge boy recently hit the
Jackpot" on a slot ma
chine at a private club.
This payoff prompted the
latest action against the
devices.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Mother Confesses She, Not Child,
Fired Gun Killing Her Husband

"She had gotten to the point
where she had to tell some
body" a Virginia police in
vestigator said today of a
Prince William County house
wife charged with Staying her
husband eight months ago.
State Investigator Jack Hall
said Mrs. Lillian Chastain, 90
of Bristow, admitted the fatal
shooting of her husband, Tru-
EFT, during an argument about
family finances. The wife had
told police last June IL that
her husband was slain acci-
dentally by their two-year-old
daughter.
The case was broken Thurs
day when Mrs. Chastain
changed her story after a lie
deteCtor test, Investigator Hall
said.
Her first version was that her
husband was shot to death as
he lay in bed playing with the
child in the house he built
with his own hands.
The death of the 31-year-old
Evening star., 1960-02-27

bulldoZer operator had been
ruled a suicide, however, be-
cause medical examiners and
police were unable to believe
that a 2-year-old child could
fire a .32-caliber pistol with
a 12-pound pull. Mr.. Chastain
died of a single bullet wound
in the chest.
For eight months, according
to police, Mrs. Chastain had
maintained that she heard a
shot while she was preparing
breakfast, rushed upstairs and
found her daughter holding the
pistol as her husband lay in
bed dying.
One shot had been fired, Of
ficers said. The gun repeatedly
had been bought by the hus-
band for protection after the
mass murder of the Jackson
family of Louisa County. Va.
Mr.. Hall said he thought
Mrs. Chastain changed her
story because "she had gotten
to the point where she had to
tell somebody"
Il just happened to get to
Evening star., 1960-02-27
6 D. c. Priority Bills
Face Uncertain Fate

mittee report from Representa-
tive Davis, Democrat of Geor-
gia, before or on that day.
however. And Mr.. Davis has
made no promises.
Taxes-The Commissioners
S8-million bundle of seven new
taxes has not been presented
in legislative language to either
house. The initiative will have
to come from Representative
Smith, Democrat of Virginia,
who heads the District Fiscal
Subcommittee. He is occupied
with the civil rights dispute.
Another possible block to quick
action is a Mcmillan proposal
to substitute a l per cent sales
tax increase for all seven of
the Commissioners proposed
taxes.
Civil defense-A Senate sub
committee is due to complete
hearings Monday on this bill
to expand the Commissioners
powers during emergencies.
The House is awaiting Senate
action.
Unemployment compensation
Next to home rule, this job
less pay bill probably is the
most controversial on the Com
missioners' list. They want to
compromise differences be-
tween employers and employees.
Employers, who have the ear
of key House committeeman,
want to raise maximum weekly
benefits from $50 to $36 but
keep the present duration of
payments at 26 weeks. Union
Spokesmen favor a bill spon-
sored by Senator Morse, Dem
ocrat of Oregon, tying benefits
to a formula that could pro-
vide maximum weekly benefits
of 500 for up to SO weeks.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Teen-Agers
Rob, Injure
Womon,67

A 67-year-old woman suf-
fered a broken hip last night
when four teen-agers knocked
her down and escaped with her
purse and $21.
Police said Mrs. Lena Ware,
of 20l7 Vermont avenue NV,
was walking in front of 1906
Tenth street NV. about $40
pm. when she was attacked.
She was taken to Casualty Hos
.pital.
Police are looking for four
young colored teen-agerS with
fatigue jackets, caps and tennis
shoes.
Joseph Webb, 40, of 230l Fif-
teenth street NV, was yoked
and robbed of $50 by two men
and a teen-ager about 8 o'clock
last night in the 1400 block of
w street NV, police reported.
A lookout was issued for a
colored man about 80, 5 feet
8 inches tall, weighing $50
pounds, and a 15-year-old COL
ored youth. A third man also
is being sought.
In another robbery a man
and a woman escaped with $50
in a purse belonging to Mrs,
Edith Richards, 81, of 1924
Harvard street NV Police
said Mrs. Richards was walk
ing in the 1900 block of Four:
teenth street NV. when the
couple grabbed her purse and
fled.
Police are looking for a Is
year-old colored woman, slim
and weighing about 120 pounds,
and a 25-year-old man about
5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing
140 pounds and wearing a dark
green coat.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
By GRACE BASSET
Star Stan Writer

Six pieces of legislation la
beled priority" by the District
Commissioners in a message to
Congress awaited an uncertain
fate today.
They are bills on home rule,
area transportation regulation,
Juvenile Court judges, taxes,
Civil Defense and unemploy-
ment compensation.
OF the six, only two-those
to establish an elected munich
pal government and to add two
judges to the Juvenile Court
bench-have cleared the Sem
ate. None has been passed by
the House.
And the Commissioners have
lost their chance to stress per-
sonally the need for the whole
package. Their State-of-the-
Nation's-Capital message, sent
to all members of Congress yes
terday, arrived too late in the
session to justify hearings, ac-
cording to both Senate and
House District Committee
chairmen.
Senator Bible, Democrat of
Nevada, said any formal hear
ing before a joint committee
would be "anti-climactic," since
all the proposals have been
made in previous years. Rep
Iresentative Mcmillan, Demo-
crat of South Carolina, also
saw no reason for hearings, but
pledged his efforts to steer
priority measures through the
House.
Briefly, the legislative situa-
ton is this on the six items:
Home rule-The Senate bill
creating an elected mayor-city
council form of District gov
ernment apparently is trapped
in the House committee. A dis
charge petition to dislodge the
Commissioner-supported bill
for a territorial government
from the committee has COL
lected about $50 of a required
219 signatures needed to force
floor vote.
Transportation regulation -
A resolution setting up an
agency to oversee transit in
Washington and Maryland and
Virginia suburbs is due for a
House hearing next Thursday.
Both Maryland and Virginia
Legislatures have approved the
proposal. 1t has not moved in
the Senate.
Juvenile Court Judges-Mr.
Mcmillan hopes to report a
much h-amended version of the
Senate bill at a committee
meeting next Wednesday. Ac-
ton would require a subcom-
Evening star., 1960-02-27
Women Assaulted
By Intruder

A 52-year-old woman was as
Saulted in her bedroom early
today by an unidentified assail-
ant who broke into her rambler
in University Park through a
kitchen window, Prince Georges
County police reported.
The victim, who lives alone,
suffered scratches and bruises
and was choked by the attacker,
according to Detective Sergt.
Frank Thompson. He said the
man forced the woman to COM
init an indecent act before he
took Sc from her wallet and
fed.
The incident occurred in to-
tai darkness at about 2::30 am.
Evening star., 1960-02-27
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Stah Writer

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 27.-Re-
apportionment has suffered
another blow in the General
Assembly, but proponents are
still hopeful of mastering
enough support to get a meas
ure through the current session.
The Senate yesterday turned
down the Walsh reapportion-
ment bill which would have
given four suburban counties
and Baltimore City more repre-
sentation in the House of Dele
gates. The House defeated the
bill earlier this week.
Despite attempts by Senator
Edward S. Northrop, Democrat
of Montgomery, to save the
Walsh bill, the Senate turned
it down by a 1912 vote.
But even in defeat, reappor-
tionment proponents saw a
hopeful sign. The vote was
closer than many expected and
the suburban county-Baltimore
City legislators said they may
be able to convert enough Sena-
tors to pass another reappor-
tionment bill which has not yet
reached the Senate.
The other reapportionment
measure is a bill introduced in
the House by Delegate Jerome
Robinson, Democrat of Balti-
more City, which calls for a
constitutional convention to
handle the reapportionment
question.
Action on the Robinson bill
was stalled again yesterday in
the House when opponents
from the Eastern Shore con-
tinued their delaying tactics
which have prevented it from
coming to a vote for the past
two days. More parliamentary
maneuvers to put a vote off
until Monday are likely to be
made today.
Senator Northrop, majority
floor leader, told his colleagues
that the suburban-city areas
come here hat in hand" ask
ing for more representation
His pleas met retorts of city
slicker" from rural county leg
islators.
In other legislative activities,
Senate and House fiscal COM
mittees added funds to the
Governors capital improve
ment budget for construction
of three dormitories and a
dining hall at the University
of Maryland.
The new buildings, aimed at
easing extreme overcrowding
at the university, would cost
SIS million. The State would
finance S1.3 million with a
bond issue and the remaining
S1.2 million would come from
increased dormitory fees to
students.
The House gave tentative ap-
proval to a bill which would
increase salaries of legislators
from $1,000 to $500 a year.
The bill, which probably will
come up for a final House vote
! today or Monday, was spon-
sored by Delegate Blair Lee,
Evening star., 1960-02-27
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
Adlai Stevenson Urges
New Kind of Campaign

DARING PROPOSALS present presidential
election system of primaries and "stumpng" the
country the best way to clarity the issues? Adla
Stevenson says no" You can read his plan for
better election in two part article beginning
this Sunday in This Week Magazine
MARINES MARINE"-That term describes Gen
David M Shoup, Medal of Honor winner and new
boss of the Marine Corps For word and picture
visit with Gen. Shoup who recently became the
22d Marine Corps Commandant see SUNDAY, The
Star Magazine
picture takers in this decade? Among other
things, it is predicted that photographers will take
almost twice many pictures per year as they did
in 1859. Alexander j. Wedderburn, editor of Cam
era Angles" brings you the full report on this
Sunday Stars Hobby Page
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL SECTION-Each year. in
increasing numbers WashingtonianS head for Eu-
rope Canada Mexico, the Caribbean South Amer
lea and the Far East. To learn about these exotic
spots how to get free guides and review of the
latest travel books the International Travel
Section in The Sunday Star
THE "FEATHERBEDDING" DISPUTE-Raiway man
agement accuses labor of ''featherbedding"
work rules to maintain unnecessary jobs the unions
say the disputed rules needed for safety. The
result is the threat of Nationwide rail strike. To
put this crucial dispute INTO focus, The Star will
begin Sunday a series of three articles on the
"featherbedding" issue
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Evening star., 1960-02-27
School Board Votes
Falls Church Budqet
Request for Sl,o2S, ,S05 Provides
Extru Personnel, Teacher Ruise

The Falls Church School Board last night unanimously
adopted 9606 school budget 81 8O5 which contem-
plates higher teacher salaries and additional
The new budget is $29424 figure requested
by Sup Irwin H. Schmt year. the board sashed the
Evening star., 1960-02-27

tests, lasting two periods, or 90
minutes. will be given between
June 7 and Is. Elementary
algebra will be the only one
given on a city-wioe basis.
Evening star., 1960-01-24

OF their daughter Frances
Marion to Mr.. Richard Lee
Brown, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick E. Brown. The
wedding took place January
l6 at st. Philips Church in
Camp Springs, Md. The
couple will live in NARROW
Heights, Md,
Evening star., 1960-01-24
WEDDINGS
Becker-Lenkin

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Len
kin announce the marriage
of their daughter Rita Lor-
ralne to Mr.. Stanley Leonard
Becker. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Becker Of Baltimore.
The wedding took place De-
cember 20 at Beth Sholom
Synagogue. The couple will
live in Baltimore.
Sunner-Gorgon
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael v.
Gargan of Silver Spring an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Joy Judith to Mr..
John William Sumner, jr.,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sumner,
also Of Silver Spring. The
wedding took place Decem-
ber 26 at st. Michael's Cath
olic Church in Silver Spring.
LIoyd-Croom
Mr.. and Mrs. William Pur-
year Groom, III, of Alexan-
dria announce the marriage
Of their daughter Virginia
Lynn to Mr.. Robert Myrt-
land Lloyd, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Lynwood Lloyd
Of Rockville, Va. The we'd
ding took place January l at
the Christian Church Of
Rockville, Md.
Schulien-Cinotti
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony L.
Cinotti announce the marri-
age Of their daughter Con-
cetta Regina to Cpl. John
j. Schulien, USMC, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Schu-
lien Of Lima. Ohio. The we'd
ding took place January 8
at st. Joseph's Catholic
Church. The couple will live
in Silver Spring.
West-Hoee
Mr.. and Mrs. william Tick
nor Reed Of Chevy Chase,
Md. announce the marriage
of their daughter Mrs. Alden
Reed Hoge to Capt. Hugh
Sterling West, USMC, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Eugene
Evening star., 1960-01-24
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Evening star., 1960-01-24

West of Arlington. The we'd
ding took place January Is
at the Navy Chapel. The
couple will live in Lexington
Park, Md.
Brown-West
Evening star., 1960-01-24
3rOWn-WeSt

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred George
West announce the marriage