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Evening star., 1960-06-21
YOUTHS STOLEN AUTO RAMS
POLICE CAR; JOYRIDE ENDS

Two boys went joyride last night in stolen
But they headed in the wrong dectionStraight into the
of police
The youths, Is and 16 stole the in the 400 block
of Sixth street S.W and began driving toward police
headquarters at Third street and Indiana NV.
scout had just left headquarters when an alert
sounded for the stolen vehicle. Seconds later the
chase and the joyride ended The stolen car
smashed into the police car
The youths from the car across parking lot near
headquarters. One boy hid in hedge, but to no avail
Police looking from the window directed officers on the
ground. E5t-t. ..'
The boys quickly rounded up and charged with
unauthorized Of auto and traffic violations
Evening star., 1960-06-21

perhaps the most significant
portion" of the bill is the one
which would require the Rede-
velopment Land Agency to dis
pose of slum-cleared land by
competitive bidding.
Detailed Plans Called For
Also, instead of relying on a
private developer to come up
with a plan for an area, the
Rabaut bill would require urban
renewal officials to come up
with a detailed construction
plan and then let builders bid
on it.
Such a plan" the committee
report said, will enable every
potential developer desiring to
bid to have before him a spe-
cif1c figure for planning costs
to consider in his bid on the
project and also to estimate the
cost for brick, mortar, steel,
equipment and labor. and thus
to present a bid to the RIA at
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Fairfax 0Ks
Apartments
l75-Acre Project
To Cost $40 Million

The biggest apartment prof.
ect ever proposed in Fairfax
County was approved last night
by the County Planning Com
mission.
The application, for which
there was no opposition. goes
to the Board of County Super
visors July 20. The project is
proposed on land set aside in
the county's preliminary mas
ter plan for apartments.
Fairfax Delegate John C.
Webb, an owner, said the prof.
ect would cost over $40 million
and would have more than
1000 apartment units.
The project is % be situated
west of Annandale at the in
tersection of Route 236 little
River turnpike) and the cir
cumferential highway.
The apartments are to be
built on ITS acres. Another 70
acres we're not recommended
for approval at this time by the
commission.
The commission decided the
70 acres could be used later,
when an access road to Brad
dock road and the circumfer-
ential highway can be built.
At the same time. the COM
mission approved an applica-
ton for a 12-acre shopping
center in the middle of the
apartment development.
The entire project is to have
four church sites bordering the
shopping center, a f1ve-acre
recreation site with a commu-
nifty building and As acres of
land for parks, Fairgrounds
and swimming pools.
Construction is to start some
time this year.
Evening star., 1960-06-21

continued until tomorrow to
permit the policemen to make
arrangements for further legal
counsel.
The board had convened at
10 am. to hear charges against
9th Precinct Pvts. Bobbie B.
Campbell and Owen w. Cum
ningham, two of the four Met
ropolitan policemen who had
been accused Of raping a 30
year-old housemaid last Feb
ruary %. The four officers were
acquitted in District Court last
May.
Pvts. Campbell and Cum
ningham, both 80, were to face
four disciplinary charges at
the board hearing - conduct
unbecoming a policeman. con-
duct prejudicial to the repu-
tation and good order of the
police department, making un-
truthful statements and diso-
bedience.
Their attorneys, Kenneth D.
Wood and Paul H. Weinstein,
abruptly excused themselves
from the hearing after Mr..
Wood stated that the District
Commissioners had denied a
motion for a civilian panel at
the hearing.
Mr.. Wood said that Com
missioner Mclaughlin had
made unfair remarks to the
press" in connection with the
earlier charges against the po-
licemen. He cited an article in
The Evening Star on March /
and another in the Washington
Post on March 3. In the for
mer. Mr.. Wood said, Mr.. Nc
Laughlin was quoted as saying
that he felt the presence of
four policemen in uniform con-
stituted implied force
Mr.. Wood told the three
trial board officers that his mo-
ton for the appointment of a
civilian panel to hear the dis
ciplinary charges was based, in
part, on what he described as
an atmosphere of prejudice"
and, in part, on the fact that
the complaint against the po-
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Census Rates
Metro Area
10th largest
Authority Centralized

The Washington Metropoli-
tan Area is now the 10th larg-
est in the country, according to
Census Bureau figures released
yesterday.
The Districts suburbs grew
total of 84.6 per cent during
the past 10 years, brin ging the
suburban population up to
1,221,604 from the previous
1911. The city remained
the Nations ninth largest, al
though dwindling SO per cent
to 746,958 residents. Total
population for the entire area
is now 1868, ,562, an increase of
34.5 per cent.
New York remained the Ma
tion's largest metropolitan area
with a population of 10,545, 300.
Los Angeles followed with
6,690,069 and Chicago dropped
to third with 6,150,532.
Evening star., 1960-06-21

creases Of 9 per cent. The
Board of Education sought 16
per cent raises.
Seven Other Bills
In a closed session today the
Senate Committee postponed
action on legislation to abolish
mandatory death penalties for
f1rst-degree murderers but re-
ported seven other bills. They
would:
Establish a one-year resi-
dence requirement and in
crease family responsibility for
persons drawing welfare bene-
fits in all categories.
Substitute a tax reporting
system for tax stamps on liquor
sold in the district.
Exempt from $4,000 in real
estate taxes the American AS
sociation of University Women
Educational Foundation at
Twenty-fourth and Virginia
avenue NV.
Free from $4,000 in proper
ty taxes the Army Distaff
Foundation upon the date of
completion of its proposed
headquarters on grounds of a
former estate at 5000 Nebraska
avenue. NV.
Permit District Commission
ers to transfer title of water
front property held by the
United States to the District
Redevelopment Land Agency.
Without permission, redevelop-
ment Of the waterfront along
Maine avenue S.W. would be
halted.
Allow the District Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board to
pay back the Federal Treasury
for advances made to local
jobless under terms of a 1858
emergency law. The District
has reserves Of $50 million on
which to draw these payments.
Unity the law for the transfer
of securities to and by fiduci-
aries in the District.
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Shortage Seen
In Dormitories
AtMdry|andU.
82l Men Students
Will Lack Quarters,
President Predicts

The University of Maryland
faces a critical shortage in dor
mitory accommodations next
fall, DR.. Wilson H. Elkins,
university president, said today.
THE university is exploring
all means to try to accommo-
date a large number of stu
dents for whom we do not have
ROOM" DR.. Elkins told a board
of regents meeting at College
Park.
BY next october, he said, the
university'S undergraduate en-
rollment probably will be 10000
AN increase of II per cent.
AS of now there will be 1881
students without on-campuS
accommodations, the board was
told. DR.. Elkins said the uni,
versity is considering, among
other things, temporarily con-
verting mems dormitories to
women'S.
I'VE are hopeful we can work
something out by the fall" DR..
Elkins said, but perhaps it will
not be an ideal solution to our
problems"
DR.. Elkins estimated that
there should be space for ap-
proXimately $50 men students
within normal committing
range of the campus. This
would leave, however. 821 stu
dents still without dormitory
space.
Explaining the reasons for
what he called unusual in
crease" in the student popula-
ton, DR.. Elkins said while
other universities are growing
at 5-per-cent-a-year rate, last
year Maryland increased 9
per cent and next fall it will
go up about IL per cent.
The university is building
dormitories at present, he
stated. but they will not be
sufficient to meet the needs
The board also was told of
plans to build additional dor
mitories on the campus for the
1872 school year.
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Rambler
ReIives Pony
Express Doys
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Until a few days ago the
Rambler did not know that
the Post Office had opened
a small historical museum in
its headquarters building at
Twelfth and the avenue.
On exhibit are photographs
of the early days of the air
mail, a scale model (half
size) of a Wells Fargo stage
coach and some mementos
Of the pony express.
One item in a frame is an
ad from a San Francisco
newspaper of 1860. 1t reads:
"WANTED-Young skinny,
wiry fellows not over 18-
must be expert riders, willing
to risk death daily, orphans
preferred, wages $25 a week
apply Central Overland
Express, Alta Bldg, Mont
gomery street"
Another display gives the
record run. The news of
Lincoln'S election in 1860 was
carried from st. Joseph, Mo-,
over the Rocky Mountains to
Sacramento, Calf, a distance
of 1850 miles, in seven days
and II hours. Seven times
"a is 1853. Seventeen added
makes 1875 hours-more than
10 miles an hour, across
deserts and through noun
tain passes without a SEM
blance of a road.
1t called to mind Mark
Twain'S paragraphs on the
pony express in "Roughing
It." With his older brother
Orion, who had been ap-
pointed secretary to the ter
ritorial governor of Nevada,
Mark started west in 1861.
They went to st. 10 by river
steamer and purchased stage
Goa ch transportation for
$3.50 each.
Evening star., 1960-06-21
BOTH RIDER and horse

BOTH RIDER and horse
went flying light He
carried no armS-he carried
nothing that was not abso-
lutely necessary, for even the
postage on his literary freight
was worth SIS a letter. -.
THE stage coach travelled
about 125 miles a day ga
hours, the pony-rider's mail
bag about $50.
There were about 80
pony-riders in the saddle all
the time, day and night, 40
flying eastward and 40 to-
ward the west, among them
making 400 gallant horses
earn a stirring livelihood and
see a deal of scenery every
day in the year.
Presently the driver ex-
claimed: HERE HE COMESp
Every neck is stretched
furt her, and every eye
strained wider. Away across
the endless dead level of the
prairie a black speck appears
against the sky, and it is
plain that it moves.
I'm a second or two it be-
comes a horse and rider,
rising and falling, rising and
falling-sweeping toward us
nearer and nearer-growing
more and more distinct. more
and more sharply defined
nearer and nearer and the
futter of the hoofs comes
1alntly 10 the ear-anoCner
instant and a whoop and a
hurrah from our upper deck,
a wave of the riders hand
but no reply, and man and
horse burst past our excited
faces, and 60 winging away
like a belated fragment of a
storm.
80 sudden is it all, and so
like a flash of unreal fancy,
that but for the flake of
white foam left quivering
and perishing on a mail sack
after the vision had flashed
by and disappeared, we
might have doubted whether
we had seen any actual
horse and man at all
maybe"
Evening star., 1960-06-21
CAMP FUND
FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail to The Evening
Star, Second street and
Virginia avenue Sc, or
bring cash to The Star
cashier. A reeeptionist in
the lobby will direct you to
the cashiers Office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days, $19.95 for six days.
All funds received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child Serv-
ice of Washington, United Civ
ers Fund agency, for the use Of
its Summer Outings Committee.
Family and Child Services is req
istered under the District Of Co.
lumbia Charitable Solicitations
Act No, 6-O7-l5l
Evening star., 1960-06-21

a square-foot price for the
area"
Washington urban renewal
agencies oppose dispoSing of
slum-cleared land strictly on a
bid basis. They contend bidding
often results in a second rate
project and has proved unsat-
isfactory in areas where it has
been tried.
Authority Centralized
The Rabaut bill would CEN
tralize authority for urban re-
newal projects within the Dis
trict Board of Commissioners
rather than follow the present
| system of dividing much of the
responsibility with the National
Capital Planning Commission.
The House District Com
mittee feels that much of the
delay that has been experienced
in the Southwest redevelopment
project in the District of Co.
lumbia is directly attributable
to the cumbersome mechanics
authorized in the original leg
iSlation," the report said.
The bill also would require
more public hearings on re-
development projects and Lott
fication of affected property
owners by mail.
The bill would forbid new
urban wal projects in
Washington until the South
west redevelopment is so per
cent completed. The commit
tee report called this provision
imperative in view of the un-
justifiable delay that has been
experienced in that area to
date"
Mr.. Rabaut also said today
that he would not oppose the
bill to transfer to the RIA title
of the waterfront land between
Fourteenth street S.W. and
Fort McNair. Representative
Rabaut is in the key post of
chairman of the House District
of Columbia Appropriations
subcommittee, so his opposi-
ton to the waterfront bill could
have been big stumbling block
Evening star., 1960-06-21

TWO DAYS and more than
200 miles later, he wrote,
"All interest was taken up in
stretching our necks and
watching for the pony
rider He usually was a little
bit of a man brimful of spirit
and endurance.
NO matter what time of
the day or night his watch
came on, and no matter
whether it was winter or
summer, raining, showing,
hailing or sleeting or wheth-
er his beat was a level
straight road or a crazy trail
over mountain crags and
precipices, or whether it led
through peaceful regions or
regions that swarmed with
hostile Indians, he must be
always ready to leap into the
saddle and be off like the
wind.
He rode so miles without
stopping by daylight, moon
light, starlight, or through
the blackneSs of darkness.
He rode a splendid horse
that had been bred for a
racer and fed like a gentle
man, kept him at his utmost
speed for 10 miles and then,
as he came crashing up to
the station where stood two
men holding fast a fresh
horse, the transfer of rider
and mail bags was made in
the twinkling of an eye, and
away flew the eager pair and
were out of sight before the
spectator could get hardly
the ghost of a look.
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Teachers Pay Boost
OKd by Senate Unit

A pay increase for District
school teachers today started
its ride through Congress or
political pressures that left be-
hind a coaches salary bill.
The Senate District Commit.
tee reported a rs per cent sal
ary raise for teachers to paral-
lei the same percentage in
crease just cleared by Congress;
for Federal and District CLASH
fed employees.
Legislators are gambling that
a presidential veto, expected
shortly on Federal pay, can be
overridden. The same reasoning
sent the teachers pay proposal
out of committee to the Senate
floor.
This action is likely to spur
efforts in the House District
Committee to urge rs per cent
raises for police and firemen as
we'll.
Inconsistency Feared
The Senate-reported meas
ure was expected to include
provisions Of a House-passed
bill promising extra pay fol-
extra work by teachers, pri-
marily coaches.
But the District committee
men figured that this coaches
clause would identify the Dis
trict proposal as legislation in
consistent with the straight
Federal rs per cent raise and
endanger the acroSs-the-boar
increase for all teachers.
AS reported, the Senate bill
would raise starting salaries fol
teachers with bachelor degree,
from $500 to $4,836. Ther
the percentage increases woulc
apply in all the following steps
Some 1900 teachers woulc
benefit. Raises would cost $2.t
million. This compares with ar
original recommendation of thu
District Commissioners, blocked
by the White House, for So:
million to cover salary in
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Woman Draws
Term for Staying

A Montgomery County Cir
cult Court jury yesterday found
Helen Louise Martin. 81, of the
100 block of North street, Rock
vile, guilty of second degree
murder in the pairing knife
stabbing of a man on a Rock
vile street last August.
Judge James H. Pugh SEN
fenced her to l8 years in prison,
the maximum for second de-
gree murder.
Slain was Frank H. johnson,
38, of the same address, an
.employe Of Chestnut Lodge
Sanitarium.
Evening star., 1960-06-21

liceman was first lodged by a
civilian. He added that the at
torneys' motion was denied in
a letter from the D. c. Com
misSioners which he received
only this morning, shortly be-
fore the trial board convened.
Mr.. Wood said that under
the circumstances Il don't feel
that we can be Of any service
to these gentlemen" referring
to the policemen.
At this point, the Govern
ment's argument on the motion
was restated by Assistant
Corporation Counsel Robert D.
Wise. The two policemen, he
said, are not entitled to a spe-
cial trial board or a civilian
panel because the specific COM
plant to be heard by the trial
board was lodged not by a
civilian, but by Police Chief
Robert E. Murray.
Deputy Chief Wallrodt, be-
fore recesSing the hearing, said
the trial board would like TO
rule on the motion" He then
announced that the board
denies the motion"
The two other policemen
charged in the alleged Feb
ruary % assault, Pvts. Graham
B. Pennington, "a, and Ray
mond F. Vernon. jr., 80, have
resigned from the Police De-
partment and were therefore
not called before the trial
board.
The charges grew out of a
complaint by the 30-year-o old
woman that the four police
men assaulted her in two
scout cars in the early morning
Of February % in the vicinity
of Twentysfourth street and
Benning road NE. She charged
that she was in a parked car
with a man who was taking
her home from a friends house.
The man she was with, William
H. Smith, was also charged
with rape. but the charge was
later dropped.
Evening star., 1960-06-21
CLASSIFIED AID
SALUTES WIFE
ON ANNIVERSARY

Mrs. Peter B. Ferrara of
72l Chesapeake avenue,
Silver Spring. Md, got a
classified ad in The Star
for her wedding anniver-
sary.
Adopting the style but
not the content of mes
Sages inserted in the Per-
sonal columns by husbands
who are having trouble
with their spouses, Mr..
Ferrara inserted this paean
for his wife:
Evening star., 1960-06-21
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Deserted Boy Didn't
Find Needed Love

Life can hurt a gentle boy.
Deserted by both parents. IL
year-old Russell was taken in
by an aunt who knew all about
cleanliness and nothing about
love.
Raising a boy was beyond
her. Over-strict. she expected
Russell to stay spic and span,
like a doll in a corner, all day
long.
When he didn't live up to
her expectations, she reminded
him how good she was to him,
told him how grateful he
should be, although an aid to
dependent children grant was
paying for Russell's keep.
Becomes Withdrawn
A boy who needs to be shown
often how much he is loved.
under any circumstances, Rus
sell withered in his aunt's un-
smiling household.
He didn't fight her after a
while. He just kept to him
self, lonely and withdrawn.
Welfare workers who took
over when Russell's home broke
up decided placement with his
relative hadn't worked. They
moved him to a foster home,
where he did much better.
But years of uncertainty
about belonging have hurt the
boy.
Remains Shy
He is still shy. He pulls
away from arguments rather
than risk a row.
He still must learn about the
give and take that are as much
part of growing up in a nor
NAL home as eating and sleep
ing.
Camp would be a wonderful
classroom.
The following contributions
have been received:
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Urban Renewal Vote
Due Monday in House

Representative Rabaut, Democrat of Michigan today said
his bill to revamp urban renewal procedures in the District
will be called up for vote in the House Monday
He predicted it would pass the House overwhelmingly
The bill faces Senate since
is close.
The House District Committees report on the Rabaut bill
released today The committee its report said that
Evening star., 1960-06-21
Police TrioI Recesses
As Attorneys Walk Out
Luwyers for 2 of a Accused Charge
Mclaughlin Preiudiced Hearing
BY G. o. HERNDON
Star stan Writer

Washington police trial board recessed in confusion today
when attorneys representing two policemen Unexpectedly walked
out Of the hearing charging that earlier statements by Com
missioner Robert Mclaughlin had preudced the proceeding
Deputy Chief George Warodt chairman of the disciplinary
panel recessed the hearing until pm today 1t then
Evening star., 1960-06-21

II AM RESPONSIBLE for all
debts and obligations Of my
wife, Verla, both present and
future, and am deliehted 20 be
the provider for a woman who
has borne me three fine chill
dren, listened patiently to all
my eripes and with an over
abundance Of love and care
made the. past Is years of my
liIe l the h hapPiest ! naye eve ever
ding anniversary, l am proud
licly. PETER B. FERRARk" A."
Evening star., 1960-06-21

Mrs. Ferrara, who mar
ried her husband in Pratt,
KanS., said she was tickled
with the present. Mr..
Ferrara, who works for the
Diamond Ordnance Fuze
Laboratory at the Bureau
of Standards, and his wife
have three young Ferraras
Vincent. l3; Janice, II,
and Peter B., jr. 8.
Evening star., 1960-08-11

The smaller. dointier Tompon in.
one Super Absorbent" size.
Greater protection much
greater comfor. lubricoted tip
for eosier insertion.
Evening star., 1960-08-11
BY George Tusko

ing about this phrase which,
incidentally. belongs more to
the slang of your fathers gen.
eration-the 1890s-than to
your own.
"Skiddoo" is simply a variant
form Of the slang term "ske-
daddle." a popular item in SOL
dier slang of the Civil War
period. Scholars have traced the
origin Of "skedaddle" to o sim
liar North British dialect term
but its popularity in our coun-
try dates only to the 1860s.
Twenty three" according to
H. L. Mencken, had its origin
in the theater. A very popular
play Of the late 10th century
was THE Only Way" a dram
atization of Dickens "Tale of
Two Cities" In the climac-
tic scene. victim after VIC
tim mounts the guillotine and
loses his head. AS this process
sion continues, Nine. Defarge
calls out Number /, 2, 81. :"
and SO on. The hero, Sydney
Carton, Is "23"-and his death,
Of course. brings the play to an
end.
So "23" became theatrical
Evening star., 1960-08-11
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Question: Would you please
clue me in on the origin of "23
skiddoo"? Also its significance,
Of course. I am So years old,
have been acquainted with the
expression since I was 4 or 5,
have wondered about it since
my early 20s. and haven't been
able to get an answer from DR..
Mario Pei or Frank Colby, who
used to write a column similar
to yours. or any of the other
word experts I have known or
heard Of.
The "skiddoo" means get
along, scram or beat it. But are
there any old-timers around
who might know how this word
evolved? And, above all, where
in the world does "23" come
from?-John E. Worden, Wash
ington, D. C.
Answer: The long search is
ending, friend, for I think we
have an answer to your wonder
Evening star., 1960-08-11
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Evening star., 1960-08-11
By Al Smith

slang for a dramatic exit. Later,
as Mencken puts it, "skiddoo
was added for the enlighten-
ment Of any who hadn't seen
the play"
Evening star., 1960-08-11
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Evening star., 1960-08-11

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with purchases In eur
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