davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1960-10-20
Memorial Bridge
Traffic SHOWS
Large Increase

Traffic zoomed upward by
more than 100000 vehicles over
Delaware Memorial Bridge dur
ing September compared to the
same period in 1859, Frank j.
Horty, general manager, states
in his monthly report.
The Delaware Interstate High
way Division, which operates
the bridge, was informed that
this is jump of ll.6 per cent
for the period, and brings the
four month total for the l960-6l
fiscal year to 4,440,6l0 vehicles.
This represents a 7.9 per cent
advance over the June l, thro-
ugh September 30, 1859 period.
During that time 4,ll6,004 We
hicles were counted.
For the month of September
there were 965, 485 crossings as
compared to 864,76l a year
earlier, or an increase of l00,-
724 vehicles. Of that number,
84,534 represented an increase
in passenger traffic; 1881 were
trucks in all categories and non
revenue vehicles increased by
239 because of extraordinary
activities on the span in erect
ing new signal lights and other
necessary work.
Revenue received in Septem-
Der amounted to $363,07l.70, as
compared to $522, 79l.O5 in Sep
TENDER, 1859, or a drop of BOG
per cent. The two reductions
in 1959-60 account for the diff
ferential. During the four month
fiscal period collections have to-
tailed $1,617,679.80 compared to
$2,437, 1925, a decrease OF
$82O,053.55, or 1877 per cent.
In the monthly efficiency con-
test among toll collectors, En-
orty Postles received the first
award of a $50 U. S. Savings
Bond. Francis Riley, in second
place. received a $25 bond.
Smyrna times., 1960-10-20

ches; and daffodils six to eight
inches.
Due to heavy soil conditions,
people in the Wilmington area
should reduce these planting
depths by one-third.
Smyrna times., 1960-10-20

TB is caught from someone
who already has the disease. A
cough, a sneeze, a kiss, or an
eating utensil can transmit the
TB germ.
Smyrna times., 1960-10-20

Proper rest, sleep, and nutri-
ton are important health prac-
tees in peventing tuberculosis.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Sergeant to Protest
Garbage Dump Beat

Arlington Police Sergt. Rus
sell Runyon will appeal to the
County Board next Saturday to
relieve him Of the duties which
he says consist of guarding a
garbage dump.
The County Civil Service
Commission ruled Friday that
it does not have authority to
judge the propriety of the as
signment received by the con-
troversial former detective last
month after he returned from
two years of disability retire
ment.
Announcing the appeal to the
County Board. Attorney Oren
Lewis, jr., charged that County
Manager A. T. Lundberg and
Police Chief William Fawver
are jeopardizing the civil serv-
ice system by ordering Sergt.
Runyon to walk a night beat
at the county property yard.
THE unlimited power to as
sign a man to any position, re-
gardless of his civil service
status, is the power to fire
without cause" he declared. IF
a department head capriciously
or vindictively can do anything
he wants with a civil service
employe he can destroy both
the employe and the civil serv-
ice system"
During his retirement, Sergt.
Runyon twice campaigned for
election TO the County Board
on platforms denouncing Mr..
Lundberg and Maj. Fawver as
incompetent, and demanding
their custer.
The two officials last month
told the commission they or
dered the often-decorated po-
liceman to walk a beat after
his reinstatement so that he
Evening star., 1960-09-18
z Men Injured
In Crash Near
BeltsviIIe

Two men were hospitalized
yesterday after their car drove
partially under a tractor-trailer
truck, stuck the rear wheels,
and bounced across the road
into a car getting gas at a
service station on U. S. Route l
in Beltsville, Md.
Members of the Beltsville
Rescue Squad worked nearly 30
minutes to remove the driver of
the car from under the dash
board, according to Prince
Georges police Pvt. Lawrence
o. Brady. He said a hitchhiker
was thrown about go feet to
the pavement from the car.
The driver of the car was
identified by police as Mason
Hill, 38. of 1114 F street NE.
He was admitted to Prince
Georges General Hospital IN
fair condition with a broken
arm and internal injuries.
The hitchhiker, Robert
Groves. 56. of Baltimore, was
admitted to Leland Memorial
Hospital with severe head cuts
and a possible spinal injury.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

the idea in 1857, Maryland law
makers in 1858 and Congress,
acting for the District, in 1860.
Contrary to the popular be-
lief that congressional action
assured regional regulation, the
real work has yet to be done.
Congress and the State Legisla-
lures said merely, Proceed"
Here are some Of the prob
lens facing officials who now
will proceed under a clear di-
rective to form a Metropolitan
compact, bound to be a pilot
for the Nations other urban
centerS.
The compact agreement as
approved by lawmaking bodies
is to become effective 80 days
after adoption by the sigma
tories" Signatories are State
Governors. who already have
signed, and the District Com
miSSionerS, who have not.
So the Commissioners are in
a position to decide when the
80 days will start to run, ac-
cording to District legal officers.
They may delay the starting
Evening star., 1960-09-18
GroupHoIds
CountyCon
Outflow Bias

A resolution contending the
Montgomery County Council
has the power to enact an anti
discrimination ordinance was
passed yesterday by the County
Committee on Democratic Prac-
tices.
The committee named three
a attorneys. Joseph Forer,
Charles Horskey and Charles
Duncan, to write a legal opin-
ion backing his contention. The
legal opinion is to be forwarded
to the County Council.
Mr.. Forer, a Washington at
torney. told the committee he
believed the County Council
has the power to pass a law
prohibiting racial diScrimina-
ton by places of public accom-
mediation.
Anti discrimination pickets
have marched at Glen Echo
amusement park, a restaurant
and a movie theater in an effort
to break racial bars.
Mr.. Forer said the County
Council could act under its
police powers. which give the
council the right to legislate to
protect the health, welfare and
morals Of the citizens of the
county.
The committee also passed
a resolution commencing the
recently = appointed County
Commission on Human Rela-
tions for its work SO far in
civil rights.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

pend, in great degree, the ulti-
mate success of another neo-
phite transportation agency just
created by Congress.
The latter, the Regional
Transportation Agency, is to
develop a Metro transportation
plan. including subways and
lanes for rapid transit on free
ways. Eventually. if this plan
is approved by Congress, the
agency would become a COM
bined operating and regulatory
body.
Thus, 1t could be expected to
succeed the new regulatory
commission, soon to begin OPP
erationS. But the transfer of
functions will be accomplished
in the future only if the regu-
latory commission is able to
unite area officials and citizens.
The regulatory commission
will be the real test of whether
delicate and difficult problems
Of intergovernmental relations
can be solved in the key area Of
transportation.
Chalk Fights Compact
Another test for the COM
mission will be its success in
dealing with o. Roy Chalk,
president Of the D. c. Transit
System, the major transit car
rier in the Washington area.
The commission is charged
by the compact with encourag-
ing private enterprise. Private
enterprise is primarily Mr..
Chalk.
Yet Mr.. Chalk opposed COM
pact legislation and argued
constitutional law against it..
If the transit president per-
sists in his view, law suits test
ing the authority of the COM
pact commission are likely to
arise.
Mr.. Chalk argues that regu-
lation Of his system by the
commission would alter the
congresSionally granted fran
chise under which he operates
now in the District and there
fore would be unconstitutional.
He also contends that the
new commission regulation
would be a violation of the So
called District clause" of the
Constitution.
This clause grants Congress
power to exercise exclusive ju-
risdiction in all cases whatso-
ever" over the District.
The eyes Of leaders from
growing metropolitan areas
throughout the Nation will be
fixed on the efforts Of the test
tube commission which soon
will tackle all interstate transit
regulation in the Washington
Metro area.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

could gain experience that
would qualify him to organize
a new squad for protection Of
public parks and property.
They conceded they did not
reveal their intention to Sergt.
Runyon and have not drafted
any specific plan for the new
squad which previously had
not been mentioned publicly.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
REGISTER NOW

Deodlines
Maryland, September rs; Viz
sinio, October 8.
Qualifications
Maryland. resident Of Stots one
year; Of county six months.
Virsinio, resident Of Stots one
yeor, Of county six months,
Of precinct 30 doyS: oil os-
sessed poll toxes must be
paid up as Of last Moy 7.
Where to Register
Registrars offices at the build
inss where the scots Of gov
eminent ore locoted in eoeh
Jurisdiction. Also, BY op-
pointment with precinct reg
istrors in Arlington ond
Foirfox.
Registrars offices open during
regular business hours Of
county or city offices in seeh
jurisdiction Monday through
Fridey.
Speciol registration hours will be
held from s to 9 pm. Tues
days and Fridays at the
County Service Building,
HyGttsviIIs. from ! 10 9 pm.
at AIexondrio City HoII, and
from 7 to 9 pm. Tuesdays
ond Thursdays ot the ArIins-
ron Central Registrars office,
204s North Fifteenth street
Copposits eourthouse). In
Montgomery County tomor-
row, from Z to 5 pm. ond
7:so to $50 pm, at Weller
Rood Elementary School,
Wheoton, and Bethesdo-
Chevy Chose High School.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
COP. Headquarters
Opens In Alexandra

The Alexandria Nixon-Lodge-
Broyhill headquarters will be
officially opened at 7 pm. Mon
day in the Rose Room Of the
George Mason Hotel, WASH
ington street, Alexandria.
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican candidate for re-elec-
ton. will open the headquar-
ters. Among others who plan
to attend is J. r. Pat German,
chairman Of the National
Nixon-Lodge Club.
Evening star., 1960-09-18
Transit Pact Draws Near;
Many Problems Unsettled

date for a number of reasons
The illness of Robert E. Me-
Laughlin, president of the
board. who pioneered the re-
gional approach, and the need
to agree on precisely what will
be regulated, as we'll as to
transfer and print records and
to find money to pay for the
job.
Engineer Commissioner Fred
erick Clarke said he will confer
with State Spokesmen and le-
gal advisers informally to settle
stating and financial questions
before the Commissioners for
mally sign
3-Man Commission
No District funds are ear
marked for the regulatory
function. Col. Clarke believes
available revenue can be chan
neled into the work this fiscal
year and then budgeted next
year. Costs, to be divided ac-
cording to population in the
region, are expected to amount
to about $35 900 from the Dis
trict and Maryland and $25, 900
from Virginia.
The compact calls on the
! Governors and the Commits
sioners to appoint members Of
a three-man Washington Met
ropolitan Area Transit Com
mission, the new regulatory
body. Members must currently
serve the utility regulating
bodies of Maryland, Virginia
and the District.
/ Most likely to be asked be-
cause of their past regional
work are Judge Lester Hooker
from Virginia and Albert M.
Sklar from Maryland. Other
members Of the Virginia State
Corporation are Ralph T. Cat
terall and Jesse w. Dillon.
Other members of the Mary
land Public Service Commits
sion are Stanford Hoff and
Francis S. Dupont.
Judge Hooker said he doubt
ed he would have time to
serve. He predicted that COM
mission members designated by
State Governors would dele
gate the regional regulatory
job to staff members, who
would sit at utility hearings
and participate in decisions of
the new Metropolitan COM
mission.
Must Get Certificates
Once the District Commits
sionerS have signed and the
new commission members have
been named. public carriers
crossing political boundaries of
Washington and surrounding
cities and counties must apply
within 80 days for permission
to continue operations. The
new commission. the chairman
of which will be elected by
members, will issue certificates
allowing continued operation if
it decides routes and fares are
in the public interest.
If that decision cannot be
reached in 80 days. presently
operating companies may con-
tinue pending permanent is
suance of certificates of re-
lection of their applications.
These procedural problems
are expected to complicate the
commissions existence only in
its infancy.
But much more serious.
policy decisions will challenge
the commission as it natures.
Regional Agency Created
On the smooth operation Of
= the new commission will de-
Evening star., 1960-09-18
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Stad Writer

With the permission Of Con-
gress and the President. trans
portation regulation is entering
a historic era in the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area.
The District, Virginia and
Maryland are about to agree
on a compact to regulate transit
without regard to political
boundaries around the Capital.
Area officials have sought the
compact for a decade. The
Virginia Legislature approved
Evening star., 1960-09-18

His condition was listed as sat-
isfactory.
The car at the service sta
ton was owned by Francis x.
Gaegler, sr., of 6812 Calverton
drive, College Park, father of
one of the county'S assistant
state attornies. One fender was
damaged.
Police said the truck driver
was Marvin L. Honeycutt, jr.,
81, of Durham, N. C.
Evening star., 1960-04-27

there really is no business like
show business for pleasant peo-
pie, the ones who earn prizes
voted by their fellow profess
sionals.
y = 4
BOB AND GEORGE: There
was a telephone call from Rich
mond at the house the other
night (The Stars operators
are the diplomats of the world
in handling unlisted number
callS), but we couldn't return
it. 1t was from Bob Porterfield.
the Barter Theater genius. His
name was written clear enough,
but the wife who had taken the
number for the return call
had been playing golf and no
one ever saw such garbled,
blurred writing.
So, we couldn't call back to
see what was on Bob's lively
mind. -E'
Today, however, we learned
what he wanted, namely to tell
us that George Abbott has won
this years annual Barter
Theater award. This goes to the
man who makes the outstand-
ing contribution to the stage
during the year. Mr.. Abbott,
Evening star., 1960-04-27

with it the opportunity to see
Sound of Music" then brand
new.
We were going alone, mean
ing that we would have an ex-
ira seat and, as usual when he
is not working, Hume Cronyn
seemed the ideal companion to
fill the odd seat. Hume is a
pleasant chap to have around,
on a stage or of. so we called
Jessie to get their home tele-
phone in New York.
"Hme's right here" Jessie
said. III put him on"
She did and we started right
of explaining that what we
had called about was obviously
all of since the four of us,
husbands and wives, are the
last four to intrude upon do
mestic relations.
Hume said not to be in a
hurry, he'd ask Jessie, and
maybe she would say for him
to go on back to New York
and catch the musical. This is
exactly what she did say. So,
we went to New York and, after
dinner at Sardi's (where else?)
Evening star., 1960-04-27
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage
Arena Stage Ring Round
the Moon" $50 pm.
National - Mary Stuart" 4"
2 and $50 pm.
Screen
Ambassador - "Visit to a
Small Planet" 1870, 4:50 and
$40 pm. The Tall Story" 8,
$40 and $50 pm.
Apex - when Comedy Was
King" /, 2;4O, 4:3O, $40, $40
and 9:55 pm.
Capitol - please Don't Eat
the Daisies" 1l:25 am. 1880,
3:35. $40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Dupont - BLACK Orpheus, 4"
lilo. $40, $40. 1880, 9:40 pm.
Keith's - The Unforgiven. &"
11:45 am, 2:l5, 4:50, 7:25 and
9:55 pm.
Macarthur - "The Magi-
cian," sos, 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan - Visit to a
Small Planet" 1880 am, 2:20,
5;25 and 8:25 pm. Tall Story,
1850. $50, $50 and $50 pm.
Ontario - Our Man in Ha-
vana," /, 3:05, $40, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
Palace-"The Fugitive Kind, "
l0:45 am, 1855, sos, Sis,
7:25 and $40 pm.
Rosemary, IL,
l:55. $50, 5:45, 7:40 and $50
pm.
Plaza - Nights of Shame"
ll:45 am. Ills. 2:35. 1855,
Sis, 6:45, $40 and $50 pm.
Town - Around the World
In 80 Days" 4:45 and $3.50 pm.
Trans-Lux - Suddenly Last
Summer" 1915 am, 1890.
2:50. $40. 7:30 and $50 pm.
Warner -" en-Hur," / and
8 pm.
Evening star., 1960-04-27
THE LYONS DEN
Footnote on Mrs. Mesto
By LEONARD LYONS

enstein's recently offered him
S475.000 for that painting.
Lewyt refused to accept the
offer: AFTER all. if 1 were to
sell my Gauguin, what would
l ever do with that hole in the
Wall?"
MOVIES: Shelley Winters,
the Academy Award winner.
has set herself a busy schedule,
before rehearsing in the Arthur
LaurentS play for Broadway:
She'll attend the Cannes Film
Festival, do a summer tour in
Two for the See-Saw." and
play the mother in the film
version Of Lolita" She's been
assured of either Laurence
Olivier or Peter Ustinov as the
leading man. and Tuesday
Weld doing the title role. The
problem is the script, and Miss
Yields growing-up all too
quickly.
Evening star., 1960-04-27

NEW YORK.-Pearl Mesta' s
new autobiography tells Of her
tenure as United States Minis
ter to Luxembourg, but omitted
the final detail: When a Presi-
dent leaves Office. all his diplo-
matte ENJOYS traditionally sub
NIT their designations to him
so that his successor is free to
appoint new ones. On President
Truman's final day in Office. he
accepted all the designations
except Pearl Mesta's. Let him
accept it." said Truman. re-
ferring to Eisenhower, who'd
been a close friend Of Nine.
Mesta's. President Eisenhower
waited a while, and accepted
her resignation.
THEATER NOTE: Hal Hol-
brook has been touring the
country in his one-man show,
Mark Twain Tonight" He had
to enter a hospital for treat
ment of a slipped disc, but told
the surgeon he was determined
to resume his tour Immediately.
The doctor nodded. and sighed:
There are three things no one
can stop - death, taxes and
actors"
FINANCE NOTE: Huntington
Hartford, the A6P heir who is
donating a museum and a Gen.
trail Park restaurant to the City
Of New York. always has had a
casual air about money. Nat
urally, with all those millions.
But he never has been an idler.
He worked as a reporter for
PM. After his first half-year
there, Hartford received a
notice from the newspapers
treasurer asking him to please
to stop by and pick up his 26
salary checks.
ART NOTE: Alex Lewyt, the
industrialist. started his private
art collection a few years ago.
1t includes a Gauguin. for
which he paid $175,000. Wild
Evening star., 1960-04-27

playwright, actor, producer and
director, wins for his direction
of "Fiorello!"
AS Barter's best, Mr.. Abbott
gets an acre of land near Abing-
don, Va. a ham, a platter for
the ham, and-best of all-the
right to name two young actors
who get a years work under the
tutelage of Bob Porterfield
himself.
Heretofore, the award has
been made at an affair in New
York. This year, that will
change. The dinner will be held
in Washington on May 3, an
ideal meal at which to pass out
hams to non-hams, and the alb
Solutely perfect place in which
to hold a dinner.
Evening star., 1960-04-27

we went to see Sound of Mu-
SIC"
Evening star., 1960-04-27

we went to see Sound of Mu-
SIC"
WITH LOVE TO MARY:
With no diminution in our af-
fection for Mary Martin. Hume
and we found ourselves back at
Sardi's after the performance,
delighted with precisely the
same thing.
This was not Mary's per-
formance, nor the production,
nor the music, nor the book,
but Patricia Neway's singing of
the role of the Mother Superior.
Our word for Miss Neway that
night was magnificent" nor
for the least reason that she
could play a Mother Superior
with such a smiling, wise, and
understanding heart but be-
cause she surrendered so little
of the glory of her voice in
singing the relatively small
lyrics of the score.
Miss Neway did not come
down vocally to the size of such
phrases as those which urged
us all, Mary particularly, to
follow the rainbow to the end
of your dream" Instead, she
brought it, and similar lyrical
simplicitieS up to the level of a
soaringly lovely voice.
She was still so visibly the
actress who could play the har-
ried heroine of the demanding.
complexly written character
in Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The
Consul" a few years before.
And sing it with all the passion
and fire Mr.. Menotti expects
of the vocal artists for whom
he creates.
y \
END OF STORY: Neither of
us said so-there were so many
performances still to come-but
this was a prizeworthy job
that could be beaten only by
an approximate miracle.
Last Sunday nights Tony
awards made it clear that Miss
Neway's remained the nearest
thing to an approximate mir
acle of the season. Just as was
intimated that night at Sound
of Music"
The Tony awards, as the
best always are. are the vote of
ones fellow professionals. This
gives them the best of mean
ings, and the most satisfying.
Over the brief course of the
current spring. there have been
so many Of these. Most of them
have been agreeable. Or at
least acceptable, including the
block-busting II for Ben Hur."
But, of all the prizes awarded,
or to come, the one which gives
us the most satisfaction because
it seems the most deserved will
seem to us to be Miss Neway's.
And, in our mind, it even
seems a wonderful kind of
womanly foresight and gen.
erosity on the part of Jessie
Tandy to have let Hume go
back to New York with us to
see the performance that earned
it.
Even allowing for an oc-
casionally disgruntled actor,
Evening star., 1960-04-27
THE PASSING SHOW
Of All the Awards,
We Like Pats Best
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

This correspondents most successful ointment
performance of the 1s5s6O with telephone call
to Tandy She the time in Five Finger
Exercise" staying at the Jefferson
developed calling us to New York and
Evening star., 1960-08-22
SHEINWOLD
ON BRIDGE
Get Out of Way
To Help Purtner
By ALFRED SHEINWoLD

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make mistakes. They will tell
you so themselves, If you hap
pen to ask them. They occa-
sionally make an unlucky
play.
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Evening star., 1960-08-22
WORD GAME
Find 20 or more words in
BE S I &c X

meaning ito stick all over" "
Average mark, II words; time
Limit 20 minutes.
Rules of the game: | Words must be
OF four or more letters. :" Words which
acquire four letters ny the addition of
s." such as bats, cats" are not
used. 3. Only one form of a word is
used. 4. Proper rames are not used
Answer to BANDELET
bane. band. bald. bate, bade, bale
beaten, bend, beet, beta, belt, bean
beadle, bead, been. bland. blade. bleat
bleed, blend, blat able. abet. alec, ante
need, neat, dale, date. dental, dean
debate debt. dent, delta, dele. eaten
elated. Gland, elan, enabled, lane, land
late. laden. leaden, lent, leaned, tael
tale, table, teal, teen, tend, teed
tenable.