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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
FERVOR STILL STRONG
Maryland Song Neors 100

close school friend Of Mr.. Ran
dall's was among the II citi-
zens killed and many others
wounded. Mr.. Randall, already
deeply convinced that Mary
land should have seeded from
the Union, was incensed over
the reports and could not sleep
that night. b.. d
About midnight arose, lit a
candle and went to my desk, II
he told a friend. Some pow
erful spirit appeared to possess
me and I proceeded to write
My Maryland"
He read the lines to his stu
dents the next day and they
gave his song such an enthu-
siastic response that they per-
Suaded him to send it to a
newspaper, the Orleans Delta,
where it appeared April 26.
Immediately it was reprinted
all over the South. Two Balti-
more sisters, Jennie and Hetty
Cary, adapted the words to the
music of an old German song,
"Lauriger Horatius."
However. it was q young
German music teacher, Charles
Ellerbrock, who set 1t to an
other German song "Tannen-
baum, o Tanenbaum," and ir
this form Randall's song be-
came as famous throughout
the South as Dixie"
Mr.. Randall himself wanted
to enter the Confederate Army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Man Slain, Hurt
In 2 Stobbings
In Prince Georges

One man was killed early to-
day and another seriously
wounded in separate Standings.
Prince Georges County police
report.
William McRae, "a, listed at
1929 Raum street NE, was
stabbed in the chest while sit
ting in a car with two other
men at Forty-f1rst avenue and
Wallace street. North Brent
wood, police reported. He was
dead on arrival at 3:45 am. at
Prince Georges General Hos
pital.
One Of the men ran from the
car but returned a short time
later. Police said they are still
seeking the other man. No
charges have been filed pend
ing further investigation.
The other stabbing victim,
Benny Evans, SO, of Darcy
road, Upper Marlboro, was
found unconscious in front of
his home about l am, police
said. Mr.. Evans, employed at
Evans Grill, in Forestville, is
in fair condition at the hospital
with a stab wound in the chest
His assailant is unknown, po-
lice said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Smithsonian Becomes
School Holiday Refuge

you" Often the picture-taking
ended with father and son
picking up the fiashbulbs that
had spilled out of the new
shoulder bag onto the floor.
But if Washington area par
entS had reason to long for
the reopening Of school, Just
think Of what Mrs. Richard
Rivard of Glenwood City, Wis,
went through during the
Christmas holidays.
3,6OO-Mile Trip
At 3 am. on December II.
her lawyer-husband packed
her and their seven children
into the station wagon and
drove 800 miles to camp in a
State park where the tenn
perature stood at II degrees.
This was the first leg of a
3,600-mile trip which wound
up in Washington on Wednes-
day.
Except for a week with rela-
tives in Miami, she cooked
breakfast each morning over
a camp stove, packed luncheon
sandwiches for the whole gang
and then bent over the same
stove to cook supper.
In Natchez, Miss, the family
wakened with a start to the
shout Of "fore!" There they
were. unknowingly camped in
the middle Of a golf course fair
way.
Just outside New Orleans,
they discovered they had
pitched their 12-by-12-foot
umbrella tent smack in the
middle of a lovers lane. Car
after car drove up all during
the night, spotted the tent and
roared of in the ear-piercing
shift Of gears.
The trip from Miami to
Washington was made in one
36-hour run with the kids lying
sardine-fashion in back of the
station wagon and Mr.. and
Mrs. Rivard taking turns driv-
ing. They had planned to
camp here. too. but I'VE turned
chicken when we saw the snow
and RAIN" Mrs. Rivard said
They are staying in a motel.
Looking amazingly fresh and
happy as she Shepherd the
children around the Smith
sonian, Mrs. Rivard said she
was enjoying the camping
odyssey. But the wear Of II
all showed through when she
was asked how come her hus-
band had the only air mattress
I'm so tired at night I don't
need q mattress"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31

but was sent home because of
i'll health. After the Civil War,
he remained in newspaper
work, where he was a secretary
to several Congressman and q
correspondent for several news
papers.
The famous words to my
Maryland" are considered by
many. according to the Ency-
clopedia Britannica, to be
Americas best martial lyric.
Although Mr.. Randall wrote
q great deal Of verse through
out his life. nothing else be-
came as famous.
After the smoke, and eventu-
ally, the bitter feeling Of the
Civil War subsidized, the song
lost its first identity as the
"Marseillaise Of the Cohfed-
crate cause" and became more
o patriotic symbol.
School children Of today
sing it the same as In 1851:
The deSpot heel Is on thy
shore, Maryland, my
Maryland
His torch Is at thy temple
door, Maryland. my
MGryIGndl
Auenge the patriotic gore
That feck the streets OF
Baltimore,
And be the battle queen OF
yore,
Maryland. MY MhrylGnd!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
The Star Receivers
The Civil War

BACKGROUND TO CONFLICT-1961 ushers in the
centennial Of the Civil War; Because The Star Is
the only surviving Washington newspaper that COW
cred the biggest story of the 18th century 1t will
present each week in Sunday The Star Magazine
the story Of the war reported by The Star of
1875. The first chapter of the SERIES Back
ground to Conflict" appears New Years Day.
"OLD GLORY AT THE CROSSROADS Starting also
Sunday The Star will present new comic section
feature based on the Civil War and bearing this
title The first inStallment brings you up to date on
the events preceding the conflict.
TV COVER GIRI-Nanette Fabray graces the cover of
The Stars TV Magazine. Other features in color
on Tennessee Ernie Ford and Dick Powell team with
more complete program information for the week
beginning Sunday.
THE UNITED STATES AND SPACE-Where have we
been in the space race where are we now and where
are we going? DR.. Wernher Braun takes stock
of Americas position in the space age in This Week
Magazine.
TEENS PICK MAN Of THE-YEAR-Youth looks with
high hopes at 1861. 1t also looks back at 1860 to
pick the man they think contributed most to the
world during the year. TEEN Magazine presents
teen-agers choices.
AIR RESOLUTIONS-Star Travel Editor Jack Jonas
drafts set of New Years resolutions for the airline
that wants to be model carrier
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Accident Mars
Lone Sofety Skein

The Bethesda Chevy Chase
Rescue Squad, which earlier
this month set q million mile
safety record. last night re-
corded its first injury when one
Of its ambulances Skidded on an
icy road and hit tree.
Montgomery County police
said the ambulance was re-
spending to an emergency call
on Bradley boulevard when 1t
skidded on ice in the $500 block
Of Greentree road.
Pvt. Joseph Hansen, 10, q
first aid attendant, suffered
face cuts. He was admitted in
good condition to the National
Naval Medical Center in Be-
thesda.
Police said the ambulance
driver, Sergt. William Lacy, %.
was not charged because the
ambulance was travelling at the
legal speed limit when it went
out Of control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Maryland Coop
Gets $1S,736,O0O
Loon From REA
By the Associated Press

The Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration announced yester-
day a $18.736,000 loan to Sou
them Maryland Electric Co.
operative, Hughesville, Md.
The agency said approx
lnately $l8,366,O0O will be used
to build a $4,000 kilowatt
steam-power plant at Marsh
Point in st. Marys County,
seven miles south of Hughes
vile. The remainder of the
loan will finance construction
Of transmission lines and re.
lated facilities.
The new plant is to start
operation in 1868.
The cooperative serves "a
100 consumers in Calvert
Charles, Prince Georges and St
Marys Counties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
CiviIWor PhotosofD.C
Will Go on Display

A collection of photographs
entitled Washington During
the Civil War" will go on dis
play tomorrow at the Center
Market City.
The opening, which will run
from 3 to Z pm, will be a
special preview for several hun
bred invited guests. Paul ].
Sedgwick, chairman of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Civil War
Centennial Committee. and Viz
gil Darlington Jones, noted
Civil War historian, will open
the display formally at 4 pm.
Includes Star Photos
The collection, over 200 pic
lures in all, will include repro
auctions from The Stars front
pages on significant dates 100
years ago which will be in a
special section of the exhibit.
The majority of the other
photographs. which depict the
local highpoints Of the War
Between the States, were taken
by Mathew Brady, the forerun-
ner Of all war photographers,
and his associates.
The pictures were furnished
by the Columbia Historical So
ciety. which is sponsoring the
exhibit. the Library of Con-
gresS, the National Archives.
National Capital Parks, the
ONCE Of Naval History and
Harris & Ewing, Washington
photo studio.
The scenes range from down.
town Washington with hustled
ladies and uniformed soldiers
Of the Grand Army of the
Republic to the hanging Of the
Lincoln assassination conspira-
tors and the execution Of Con-
federate Capt. Henry Wirz,
commandment of the Anderson
vile prison camp.
Sponsors Listed
The co-sponsors of the ex-
hibit are the D. c. Civil War
Centennial Committee. the
Civil War Roundtable of Wash
lngton. D. c., the Metropolitan
Washington Board of Trade,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Blair Lee Sees
StateApprova
OF New Taxes
Auto, Reel Estate
LeVies Predicted
Fol, Montgomery

Delegate Blair Lee III, chair
man Of the Montgomery County
delegation to Maryland's Cen
eral Assembly. today predicted
approval by the 1861 Legisla-
ture Of two new taxes proposed
for the fast-growing suburban
county.
Mr.. Lee. appearing on the
WTOP-Tv City-Side program.
forecast passage by the Legis-
lature Of a S. motor vehicle tax
and O / per cent tax on real
estate transfers If the county
asks for these powers.
Bills providing for both new
taxes have been drafted by the
county attorneys ONCE for
presentation at the 1861 ses-
sion. which opens Wednesday
In Annapolis.
Mr.. Lee said he thought the
General Assembly would be
willing to give whatever spe-
cific local taxing powers they
montgomery County ofhcialS)
ask for With the exception Of
the income and sales tax"
The State additionally has
been anxious to reserve these
taxes for its own use. THE
poor, old sales tax just can't
have everybody working on it
at the same time" Mr.. Lee said.
County Manager Mason A.
Butcher has said the motor
vehicle tax should yield 500. 900
that could be used to cover
street lighting costs. .
The Councils financial adj
visory committee has estimated
q / per cent real estate transfer
tax would produce $2.1 million
that could Offset rising school
construction costs.
The County Council has given
specific backing to the proposal
for o motor vehicle tax, while
the suggested transfer tax has
been supported by the County's
top appointive officials.
Mr.. Lee said he doubted the
Legislature would grant the
county general powers for local
taxation. County officials have
said they would like to have
the same range Of tax powers
now possessed by Baltimore
City.
In other statements, Mr.. Lee
said the reapportionment plan
advanced by Senator Edward
S. Northrup of Montgomery and
Senator James A. Pine Of Balti-
more County probably repre-
sents the highwater mark Of
what is obtainable."
Even then, Mr.. Lee said, the
Northrup-Pine proposal would
require the backing Of Cover
nor TaweS. The Governor in
the past has supported the
modest approach to reappor-
tionment Of the Walsh plan.
Mr.. Lee said his proposal for
redistricting Of Maryland to
provide an 9Th congressional
seat was, mot looking very well
right now"
The Montgomery County
delegate has suggested taking
his county from the present
9Th district and joining it with
Howard County to create a
new congressional district.
He would also lift Carroll
from the present I'd district
and add it to the present 9Th
district to partially make UP
for the loss to this district Of
Montgomery County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Mrs. Noses
Art and Wit
To Be Shown
BY JEREMY FOSS
Contributing Writer

II look back on my life like
a good days work It was
done and I feel satisfied with
it,"
The simple beauty of the
statement. and the 100 fruitful
years 1t represents, shine
brightly in an exhibition Of
paintings and quotations by
Grandma Moses. on view at
the Fine Arts Gallery Of the
Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and @ streets NV, jan
uary 4 to 81.
The so canvases. selected out
Of more than 1000 Grandma
Moses has painted, come from
distin guished collections
Throughout the country, in
GLIDING that of President Eli
senhower. They were gathered
as a tribute to Grandma Moses
in her Tooth year, by Otto
Kallir. director Of the Galerie
st. Etienne in New York, where
in 1910 the then 80-year-old
artist had her first show. She
had begun painting four years
earlier. at the age Of rs. largely
to find help for an arthritic
condition in her hands.
What was one woman's medi-
cine was the worlds fancy, for
in the years since, Grandma
Moses paintings have been
shown in more than 200 exhi-
billions in the United States and
abroad. bringing prices up to
$1,000 each. Over so million
Grandma Moses Christmas
cards have been sold. The artist
herself received an award from
the Women's National Press
Club for Outstanding accom-
plishment in art" n~1949.
The appeal of Grandma
Moses is readily apparent in the
Washington exhibit; so bright
nostalgia paintings Of the art
lists early farm and village life
are displayed, each footnotec
by an appropriate quote from
her 1852 autobiography.
| The collection, which is WIS.,
iting galleries and museums
throughout the United States
arrived in Washington to ap-
pear in connection with the
White House Conference on Ag.
ing, January 8 to IL.
Members Of the Golden Age
Club of the Jewish Community
Center will serve as hosts fol-
the exhibition. Mrs. Glady,
Kraft, director Of the club
summed up the inspiration OIL
Grandma Moses this way:
Whenever I hear people say
it's too late to begin, I Away.
say Well, just look at Grand.
lima Moses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Negro Appointee
To Board Asked

Richmond, Dec. 81 (AP).-
The executive committee of a
Statewide Negro educators
group has decided to ask Gov.
Almond to appoint a Negro
to the State Board of Educa-
ton.
The Virginia Teachers Asso-
citation (VFA) committee said
it will seek an appointment
with Gov. Almond to make the
request.
There will be one, and per-
haps two, vacancies on the
board when the terms of State
Senators Robert Y. Button Of
Culpepper and Garland Gray
of Waverly expire January 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31

the Association Of Oldest III.
habitants. the Society of Ma
tives Of the District Of Colum-
bia, the George Washington
Chapter of the Association o.
the United States Army anC
the District of Columbia De-
partment of the Reserve OFF,
GERS Association.
After today's grand opening,
the exhibit will be open to the
public, free of charge, from 7
a IN. to 6 pm. daily except
Sunday. The showing will run
throughout January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
BY GEORGE WILSON
Star stan Writer

A scene reminiscent of the
Christmas rush still is being
enacted in the museums in
town.
The harried mother stood In
the entryway of the Smith
sonian Institution, ordered her
string Of children to meet her
at the same museum entrance
in exactly an hour, and retired
gratefully to the car to flip
through a magazine in the
peace and quiet she used to
know before school shut down
for the Christmas holidays.
The men who click in the
number Of visitors to Washing
ton museums said this was
typical and figured heavily in
the current upSurge Of attend
ance. Some Of the visitor count
ers. after looking around to
make sure no one else could
hear. observed that the parents
are more often dragging the
children into the museums than
the other way around.
The Smithsonian's Arts and
Industry Building-where Lind
be1gh's Spirit or st. Louis hangs
-Ias a case in point yesterday
The motherS-like the one in
thu car-more often than not
brought the children into the
museum and then let them
wander on their own. But
hundreds of mentioning fathers
LESS experienced in this sort
of thing-hauled their trains OF
children around the museum
like determined locomotives.
Where Is Lindbergh?
See" said one of these
fathers. straining to read the
|placard under the airplane,
that's the plane Lindbergh
few across the Atlantic all
alone in 1927"
Where is hep" demanded
his son. rs he in there now?'
"Of course not" said the
father.
why not?" persisted the son
Because he's some place
else. that's why. Come on
come on" said the father.
Let's go back here"
And then there were the
fathers who came to rueSthe
fact that they had given their
children flash cameras fol
Christmas.
Stand back further, Pop
said one Of many tireless shut
torbugs. 80 I can got more OF
the Indian in the picture with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Track Costs Cited
In Conversion Row
OutIoys Put at
ST. Million if
TroIIeys Remain

An official of the D. c.
Transit System told the District
Public Utilities Commission yes
terday the company will have
to spend nearly $2.7 million to
maintain existing streetcar
tracks If it is not allowed to
abandon all its streetcar routes.
Parker c. Peterman, financial
assistant to Transit President
o. Roy Chalk, testified at a
fare hearing that the company
continues to plan for CONVEX
sion in January, 1862, to an ALL
bus operation.
Congress recently threw o
cloud over the Streetcar con-
version program that had been
decided upon by the company
and adopted by the P. U. c.
when it ordered a halt in any
further changeover to buses
pending studies by the new
mass transit agency.
The National Capital Trans
portation Agency is to make q
study of possible need for exist
ing Streetcar tracks in the over
all rapid transit system to be
established for the region.
Deadline Doubted
Just a few weeks ago, mem
berS Of the P. U. c. said they
doubted whether D. C. Transit's
plans to carry out complete
conversion by January, 1862,
can be allowed.
Mr.. Peterman told the p. NC.
that the company should be
given consideration for the
track maintenance costs in de-
termining whether q fare in
crease is warranted.
The D. c. Transit officials
said the repair costs, totaling
$2,6 $4,000, would have to be
spent even if the company is
forced to continue it's streetcar
operations for only three addi-
tional months.
Mr.. Peterman testified:
For the last several years
this company's long range plans
have pointed to a January,
1862. conversion. In this con-
nection we have geared our
maintenance program so that
when the last Streetcar runs.
the bit of maintenance on the
rails to keep those cars run
ming to the last minute will
have been performed and
nothing more.
This does not mean we are
deferring maintenance, nor
does it mean that we are run
ming an unsafe system. It
merely means that we are run
ming out the remaining track
and the remaining conductor
bar in the conduit system, for
example"
Fare Change Plan
He said more than half of the
maintenance costs will have to
be spent in the latter half OF
next year if the streetcars are
to be continued.
D. c. Transit wants to be
allowed to sell four tokens for
IS cents instead Of five tokens
for 81. The fare hearing will
resume Wednesday afternoon.
A decision by the P. U. c. IS
expected to be handed down in
about two weeks.
In other testimony yesterday,
Hawley S. Simpson, a Phila-
delphia engineering consultant
for D. C. Transit, said a pro-
posed change in the bus de-
probation allowance for the
company probably would mean
D. C. Transit would extend use
of some buses until they were
Is years old. This he said would
mean the public would be rid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Army Orders Barracks
By the Associated Press

The Army has awarded a
$1,773,600 contract to the ]. D.
Construction Corp, CreSskill,
N. j., for construction Of bar
racks at the Aberdeen, Md,
Proving Ground. Senator Will
liams, Democrat Of N. j., was
informed.
Evening star., 1960-06-05

HERE'S HOW THE DUAL FILTER DOES IT:
l. combines unique inner filter ACTNATED CHARCOAL
definitely make the smoke
wit" pure white outer filter Together they
flavor elements the smoke Tareyons avorbaIance gives you
the best taste of the best tobaccosI
Evening star., 1960-06-05

Bird watchers :. The aN-night beacon atop the
Empire State Building is on again. Why mas it of
from April Is to June l.?
To protect birds during their migration north
ward. When clouds are low, birds sometimes
become disoriented and crash into the building
The beacon will be doused again from September
Is to November l while the birds are heading
back South. -E.E., WASHINGTON, D. C.
Mon wGnsed The Weather Bureau is offering
a job rith free room and board, salary of sos
year and 1922 bonus. What is it looking for?
A man with experience in electronics and no
wife or family to work at the North Pole. Any
takers? MRS. J.K., CLEVELAND
Evening star., 1960-06-05

TubIe money Hoio much does the average FAM
Hy spend ereTy time it goes to market?
$40, according to recent studies. Unplanned
buying accounts for about 1873 per cent or $5.64
of total buying in the average supermarket.
MRS. CHS, MONROvIA, IND.
Gravy -. The Post Office Department loses money
on most of its Services but uhat item does it profit
approximately $50 million year,
On commemorative stamps bought by colec.
tors and never used. -L.B GREAT FALLS, MONT.
NOTE this column Questions
clipping Of
Address: Tom Henry THIS WEEK ABS lexington Avenue New foh " NJ
Unocepted contributions be acknowledged or returned
Evening star., 1960-10-02
She'd Rother Win
Trip to Yellowstone

pears. If it doesn't improve
am sure it won't have third year.
M. M. B.
Many readers tDrite on the same
subject. We pick the most repre-
sentative. As for Mrs. Taylor, tOho
has number of movies to her credit.
you can be sure that If general re-
action is adverse, the role. minor
one, tDiH be dropped. As for Mr..
Taylor hiring Mrs. TGylor-it'S
free country. isn't it.?
Evening star., 1960-10-02
LETTER OF THE WEEK:
HAIL AND FAREWELL

I think CHS deserves a great
deal of credit for its series, Di-
agnosis Unknown. It Is welcome
change from the typical television
program which floods the screen
with all the blood and gore char
acteristic of the gangster era. It's
about time someone started max
ing use of a good plot instead Of
cheap violence to maintain a size
able audience. No wonder the
crime rate is constantly on the
rise when all the youngster of
today has to do Is flip a switch
and get his daily lesson in the art
of destruction. I hope this pro-
gram will endure and maybe
someday we will be able to turn
on a television and get decent
entertainment instead of being
bombarded by violence.
Diagnosis UnlcnO1Dn, q summer
replacement is of nolD and its
cast scattered. 1t could be reUiued,
of course, IT sponsorS-to cite an
erample-should cypress dtssGtis-
faction Dith their neW ShotDs
land I think many tDilU.