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Evening star., 1960-09-06
Hurricane Flood Toll
Is Heavy in Puerto Rico

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. AP)-Hurricane Donnas death toll
mounted today in raging foods in the wake Of the big Atlantic
storm.
Defense onicas reported Puerto Ricans were
dead and than 200 missing. ~.
Flood and high tides hit coastal towns all around
Evening star., 1960-09-06

in schedule c. But the asp- aon long the type Of
ton Is that the csc will jobs involved qualfy under
operate with the admins the schedule standards
Evening star., 1960-01-18

If it is true that after an
eight-year sojourn in Germany,
Maria StoesSer has returned
to Washington for longer than
a visit, the news should be a
glad tiding to all music lovers.
Miss StoesSer, who gave a re-
cital last night at the National
Gallery, is a virtuoSo pianist
and an artist with an unusual
knack for public appeal,
The most striking piece on
her varied and well-considered
: program was the Spanish
Rhapsody of Franz List. 1t is
not particularly Spanish and
the textbooks would never call
it great" music, but I call it
great music great salon music.
1t is a piece of a type fallen
into I hope temporary dis
repute. Superficial in melody.
harmony and for, it was des-
igned to show off the facility of
a drawing room favorite. and
there must have been few other
than List, or Thalberg, or
Chopin who could make the
piece come alive, for it is excep-
tionally difficult. Whatever else
the music may lack, it shows
that characteristic to which
Liszt was the last to hold the
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Lost Truck
PostPones
Vienna Show

About $500 people yesterday
were hit with the full impact
of that old Viennese saying:
you can't play a tuba with
out a tuba"
It happened in Constitution
Hall. about $40 pm.
Patrick Hayes, impressario,
walked out of the wings and
announced that all the per-
formers for Vienna on Pa
rade" were ready and eager
to perform.
But, he went on bravely, they
had nothing to perform with.
A truck carrying costumes,
music, tubaS and other instru-
ments was missing. So was its
driver. 1t was trying to find
Washington after leaving Bal
timore.
There was nothing for $500
people to do but go on home,
back to reality.
Before the truck eventually
showed up-about 4 p.m.-Mr.
Hayes was forced to reschedule
Vienna on Parade" for 3 pm.
March 20. Yesterdays stubs
will admit the holder, or can
be used for refunds, or for an
other concert staged by Mr..
Hayes, who. by that time, may
take up truck driving.
Evening star., 1960-01-18

Dorothy Bullock, a pianist
whose background is unknown
to me, gave a recital of ro-
mantle and impresSioniStic
music yesterday afternoon at
the Phillips Gallery. I heard
the program with mixed reac-
tionS.
Miss Bullock is a pianist
who has obviously worked hard
and been, for the most part,
we'll taught. But whether from
nervousness, or an unsympa-
thetic instrument, or a luke
warm audience, she did not
often get her program in mo-
ton. Now and then, there
we're flashes of real artistry,
but these were eventually lost
in wrong notes, climaxes that
did not quite come off, or a
generally energetic and deter
mined effort to get the piece
over.
The opening Brahms Ballade
went pretty we'll, but the
Capriccio that followed, which
I have always thought to be
one of Brahms most engaging
and humorous little pieces, was
tepid in tempo and too full Of
metronomic accents, in small
even numbers, two to the bar.
Only at the last was the model
ing of the legato inner voice
against the echo Of the main
theme plastic and delightful.
The Scherzo got a sound
drubbing.
The somewhat unmanegeable
Fantasie of Schumann was
sometimes good, sometimes not.
The slow, emotional last section
seemed an anticlimaX.
The second half of the pro-
gram was rather better. The
Debussy was too brittle in the
first and last movements, but
the intervening Sarabande was
poetic enough; the little show
piece that TauSig arranged
came of with considerable
eclat: and the Critics Scherzo
gained rather than lost from
the absence of the usual wistful
and tear -dimmed eye.
hope Miss Bullock was just
having an unfriendly day. They
happen. I kept feeling, all
through the recital, that she
was a much better pianist and
musician than she sounded.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Lost Mountain Island
Found in Ocean Depths

an extinct volcanic cone, re-
ported Robert D. Gerard, who
was scientist chief when the
discovery was made.
May StraddIe Volcanoes
In fact, its proximity to
another sea mountain $50
miles westward suggests the
possibility that they straddle
a line of ancient volcano ac-
tivity, said DR.. Maurice Ewing,
director Of the Lamont Geo.
logical Observatory, which op-
crates the Vienna.
The island measures about
5 miles across its top and 35
miles at the base. 1t extended
above the ocen's surface during
the last glacial period when
Evening star., 1960-01-18
NEWS OF MUSIC
Fans Hail Return
Of Mario Stoesser

key-perfect adaptation to the
piano, with never a note too
many and every note sounding
exactly right.
The works by the other COM
poSers represented are all fa-
miliar to concert audiences and
need no comment. Miss Stoesser
plays everything with eXcep-
tional StyliStic understanding
and an amazing lapse-free
technique. Missed notes are not
the most serious flaw in a piano
recital. but it is nice when they
are absent. 1t has been some
time since I have heard a
recital as ambitious as this one
in which missed notes. if they
were there, were so inaudible.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Merchant Ship
Aid Is Urged
BY the Associated Press

Drastic steps are needed to
halt deterioration of the United
States merchant marine, an
advisory panel of the National
Academy of Sciences says.
The groups 84-page report
yesterday cautioned that the
United States flag fleet is 'in
danger of becoming unable to
meet the challenges of the
cold war"
I'm the event of a limited
war, the report said, the mer-
chant fleet would be "qualita-
lively deficient because of
inadequate speed, relatively low
cargo handling rates and lack
of over the beach capability-
coupled with obsolenscence."
The nine-member panel
headed by retired Admiral Ar
thur w. Radford, former chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, gave this broad advice:
IF the United States intends
to preclude complete depend
ence on foreign controlled
shipping for the maintenance
of it's military and commercial
lifelineS, the only realistic solu-
ton lies in a drastic improve
ment in cargo handling and
ship operating efficiency, to-
gether with significant ad-
vances in future ship design
and construction"
The panel said that by 1856
the Sino-Soviet bloc maritime
fleets will double in capacity
compared with 1858. 1t added
that there is always a posi-
bility that the bloc could or
would use its fleets as instru-
ments of economic warfare
rather than primarily as ma
tional services"
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Ceramic Artist Killed
By ExpIosion-Fire

LAGUNA BEACH, Calf, Jan.
18 (AP).-An explosion fire in
his home killed ceramic artist
Walter Sharpless Gather, 40,
a nephew of novelist Villa
Gather.
Mrs. Helen Gather found her
husbands body when she re-
turned from a shopping trip
Saturday with the couples two
daughters, Villa, 8, and Margot,
6.
Investigators said the ex-
plosion evidently took place as
Mr.. Gather was lighting an
oven in the kitchen.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
Air Base for Sale

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (AP).-
Sampson Air. Force Base near
Geneva, N. Y, is up for sale.
The 1,900-acre property will be
offered in IL parcels and no
deadline is set for bidding, the
General Services Administra-
ton said yesterday.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
By JOHN BARBOUR
Associated Press Science Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. I8 (AP) -
A lost mountain island that
rose proudly from the South
Atlantic perhaps 10000 years
ago has been found completely
under water by geologistS chart
ing the ocean deepS.
Its peak, rising 1890 feet
from the ocean floor, comes to
within l20 feet of the ocean
surface. 1t was charted about
$50 miles west of the Cape of
Good Hope, South Africa, by
Columbia University Scientists
sailing the oceanographic re-
search ship Vienna.
The mountain is most likely
Evening star., 1960-01-18

much Of the earth's water was
frozen in the Northern Hemi-
sphere.
AS the glaciers began to
melt, perhaps 80 centuries ago,
the rising waters of the At
lantic swallowed up the island.
The Vienna found the sub
mered island with it's precision
depth recorder.
The scientists said they made
no attempt to trawl the island
surface for underwater life be-
cause its rough coral and heavy
brown seaweed would have
fouled the nets.
Mud Slides Indicated
To the east scientists found
traces of sand and fossils of
shallow water animals, indi-
eating that huge mud slides
occur in the ocean depths.
The periodic landslides move
very quickly out to sea. There
are two types, according to DR..
Evening star., 1960-01-18

Bruce Heezen. One type of
landslide is caused by earth
quakes, and the other is caused
by heavy water flows from the
mouths of rivers.
This latest evidence of land
slides was found a few hundred
miles from the mouth of the
Orange River, which forms the
border between Southwest
Africa and the Union of South
Africa.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
DOROTHY BULLOCK
CONCERT HEARD
By Wendell Margrave
Contributing Critic

Dorothy Bullock, piano. At the
Phillips Gallery. Program: Ballade,
Opus 10, No. 2. Brahms; Capriccio,
Opus rs, No. ., Brahms, ScherZo,
Opus 4, Brahms: FantaSie, OPUS II,
Schumann; Pour lie Piano, DebuSsy:
Der Contrabandiste, Schumann-
TausiK, ScherZo, Critics.
Evening star., 1960-01-18
By DAY THORPE
atar Music Critic

Maria stoesser, piano. National
Gallery Of Art. Program: Sonata No.
8, Opus 2S, Prokof1eff; Adagio in
B minor, K540, Mozart; Handel
Variations, Brahms; Suite, Opus IA,
Bartok; Spanish Rhapsody, Liszt.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Montgomery
Citizens Back
SmuIIerLots

A citizen advisory board 49,
night urged the Montgomery
County Board of Education to
back q proposal for average
lot" coming.
The County Council is con-
sidering this suggestion, which
would permit developers to re-
duce lot sizes so they could save
open space for schools and
parks.
The proposal was backed last
night by the Board of Educa-
tion's subcommittee on sites
and planning. This group is
a unit of the advisory COM
mittee on school building con-
Struction. which earlier de-
clined to back the coming
proposal.
The subcommittee also called
for close cooperation between
school officials and planners in
studying proposals for new
subdivisions.
S. E. Sanders, a member of
the subcommittee, noted that
in Prince Georges the Planning
Board will not consider SUBJ
divisions plans until school
officials have approved them.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Montgomery Packages
School Leave Policy

The Montgo gomery County
Board of Education early today
approved a new set of leave
policies for school personnel.
Officials said the action,
which came at l am, was the
first time leave policy for teach
ers and other school workers
had ever been pulled together
into a single document.
The new package provides
for:
Unlimited accumulation of
sick leave for personal illness
at the rate of one day per
month of service.
Payment by the Board of
Education of health and acci-
dent insurance premiums and
fees for retirement for teachers
who want to continue their
education while on leave.
Accumulation of up to 20
days vacation which can be
added to the normal yearly 20
days of vacation. This changes
the present rule which allows
employees to save up to so days
of leave.
Evening star., 1960-07-01

Political leave for employees
who want to campaign or hold
Office.
The board also approved pay
raises for workers in the school
system that will equal raises
given county employees earlier
this week that averaged ap-
proximately 5 per cent.
The a d ditional $279,000
needed to accommodate these
raises would be attained, school
officials said, by delaying filling
new positions created in the
1960-61 budget.
The board granted sabbatical
leave for five teachers. Off1clals
said this was the first time
that this type of leave had ever
been granted although it has
been available since 1856.
Pay raises were also approved
for IA top administrators and
principals who will now earn
between $4,000 and $4,000 a
year.
The following appointments
were made:
Earnest w. Snodgrass, SUPER
visor Of secondary education;
Rufus c. Browning, assistant
director Of personnel; James C.
Craig, director of elementary
education; T. &. Muellen, su-
pervisor of elementary educa-
tion, and Miss Sue M. Brett,
supervisor of elementary edu-
cation.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Soil Samples
Tested Free

Washington area gardeners
can take their samples to
Wheaton Plaza and have a
test made without cost,
The soil testing is part of
a travelling show put on by the
Ford Motor Co., called Design
for Country Living"
In taking a sample of soil
for this test, be sure to take a
vertical slice to a depth of six
inches-a pint of soil should
be adequate. Place it in q
cheese carton, plastic bag or
bottle to prevent drying.
The test will give the degree
of acidity, the nitrogen, phos-
phate, and potash in the soil
available to the plants. The
people conducting the tests will
be glad to discuss your prob
lem but they do not make
recommendations on the basis
of the tests. That should be
done by local people who are
acquainted with local condi-
tions.
This service is available 10
anyone visiting the plaza until
the close of the doors July 8.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Urban Renewal
Survey Sought

A staff of the Senate Dis
trict Committee has been asked
to survey the views of govern
mental agencies on the Dis
trict's urban renewal program.
Senator Hartke, Democrat of
Indiana, yesterday asked staff
members to obtain reports from
all agencies involved in the
slum clearance program on
speeding the program, which
has been under fire for delays.
The Indiana Senator, a COM
mittee member, said he was
concerned about slow progress
and thought the agencies con-
cerned should report to the
committee on corrective action.
Progress has been made, but
I think it is time for Congress
to re-evaluate the program to
see whether or not assistance is
necessary and also what
changes if any can accelerate
redevelopment of our Nations
Capital" the Senator declared.
Representative Rabaut, DEM
ocrat Of Michigan, is sponsor
ing other legislation, opposed
by city officials to retamp the
renewal program.
Evening star., 1960-07-01

Office worker for a suburban
Washington construction firm,
was denied the notary's COM
mission when he refused to
take an oath affirming his be-
lief in God.
Mr.. Torcaso said earlier that
he planned to take the case
to the United States Supreme
Court if the Maryland Court
of Appeals ruled against him.
However, he said today that he
wants to go over the decision
with his attorney before max
ing a final decision.
Maryland's Attorney General
c. Ferdinand Sybert said today
that the requirement of a be-
lief in God for performance of
public duty is deeply rooted in
the Maryland Constitution"
II cannot believe that the
Supreme Court would say that
Maryland cannot set the quail
ficationS for those who serve in
public Office" Mr.. Sybert said.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Maryland Bars Atheist
From Public Office

=, ANNAPOLIS, July / (AP).-
: The Maryland Court of Appeals
held yesterday that a person
who does not believe in God is
incompetent to hold public
Office, give testimony or serve
as juror"
The Maryland high court up
held a Montgomery County Cir
cult Court decision which said
Roy r. Torcaso, an atheist who
lives at 3708 Brightview street,
Wheaton, must declare belief
in God in order to hold a notary
public's commission.
In affirming the lower court
decision the Court of Appeals
said "it seems clear that under
our Constitution disbelief in
a supreme being, and the de-
,nial of any moral account
ability for conduct, not only
renders a person incompetent
to hold public Office, but to
give testimony, or serve as a
juror"
Mr.. Torcaso, a 48-year-old
Evening star., 1960-07-01

jackson. 90, and causing the
death of 18-month-old Janet
Jackson. who was suffocated.
The bodies of the father and
Janet were found in a woods
near Fredericksburg. Va. on
March 4. 1859. The mother
and the other daughter were
beaten to death and buried
in a shallow grave near Gam
Drills. where two boys found
them on March 81, 1859.
Hyattsville attorney Walter
L. Green, retained by Rees'
parents to represent their son.
will ask for a pSychiatric ex-
animation of the suspect upon
his return to Baltimore next
week. He said it was too early
to say whether an insanity plea
would be entered for the de-
fendant.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Census Opposes
VIVA Fare Rise

The director of the Census
Bureau has opposed a request
ed fare increase by the VIVA,
Transit Co.
Robert w. Burgess, in a let
ter to the Maryland Public
Service Commission, said the
fare raise will impose un-
reasonable high transportation
costs on the approximately 500
employees in Suitland. He said
the increase would build up
public resistance to transit
patronage.
The proposed increase rang.
ing from 5 to 10 cents is re-
queSted to begin July II. The
transit firm serves points be-
tween the District and Prince
Georges County communities
of Seat Pleasant, Kent Village.
Radiant Valley, Andrews Air
Force Base, HillcreSt Heights,
NARROW Heights, Temple Hills,
Oxen Hills, and Camp Springs,
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Rees May Be Removed
To Baltimore by Auto

Melvin Davis Rees. jr., the
Washington jazz musician ac-
cused of five murders in Mary
land and Virginia, may be
moved to Baltimore for trial
next week by car, handcuffed
and in leg chains.
United States Marshal George
Harrison told the Associated
Press in Memphis, Tenn, where
Rees is being held. that at least
two deputy marshals would
drive with Rees when he is re-
turned to Baltimore after a re-
moval hearing next Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Chief District
Federal Judge RoSzel c. Thom-
sen has ordered Rees held in
custody without bond on the
indictment charging the mu-
slcian with the kidnap-murder
of Mrs. Mildred Jackson and
her 5-year-old daughter, Susan
Ann.
The jurist acted in Baltimore
as the Federal Government pre-
pared to extradite the 31-year-
old suspect from Memphis for
prosecution,
Rees now is in Shelby County
Jail in Memphis in default Of
100000 bond awaiting hearings
next Wednesday on charges
that he murdered the four
members of the Carroll v. Jack
son family and fatally shot
Mrs. Margaret v. Harold.
The husky musician was ar
rested by the FBI in West
Memphis, Ark, a week ago on
a warrant charging unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution in
connection with the June 26.
1857, murder of the 36-year- old
Mrs. Harold.
Twenty-four hours after ReeS
was seized in the Arkansas
music store where he had been
employed, the FBI charged him
with the kidnap-murder of the
27-year-old Mrs. Jackson. an
Apple Grove (Va.) housewife,
and Susan Ann.
The State of Virginia has
charged Rees with shooting MI.
Evening star., 1960-07-01

Arlington's next major bond
referendum should be delayed
until November. 1861. County
Manager A. T. Lundberg be-
lieves.
There have been suggestions
that Arlington voters, who un-
expectedly rejected a SIS mill
lion bond issue May II. might
be asked to approve a lesser
one this fall.
But in a letter to the County
Board, Mr.. Lundberg advocated
the postponement so that de-
tailed cost estimates and plans
for construction projects could
be prepared.
He did not specify how large
he thinks the next bond issue
should be.
Lists Many Needs
He indicated it should be
sufficient to pay for new high
ways, health clinics, libraries,
fire headquarters, recreation
centers, sidewalks and storm
sewers.
These two projects would
have been financed by the bor-
rowing program disapproved in
May.
After its defeat, county
board member Lucas H. Blew
inS said he would propose a
SIS million bond referendum
be conducted this November.
Mr.. Lundberg's letter was in
response to DR.. Blevins' re-
quest for a list Of items the
county manager believed should
be included in such an issue.
School Job Delayed
Defeat of the bond issue in
May. stymied school board ef-
forts to build a 19-room ad-
dition to the Drew-Kemper
School where crowding has
forced Negro pupils to attend
half day sessions.
Asked if construction of the
addition could be delayed until
after 1861, School Superintend-
ent Ray Reid said today: "The
Evening star., 1960-07-01
BIoze Damages
Welding Shop

A fire caused more than
$4,000 damage at the B&E
Welding Co. in Merrifield or
Lee highway in Fairfax County
yesterday.
The blaze, apparently started
by a spark from a welding
torch, occurred in building
where structural steel is fab
ricated.
Mrs. T. F. Burkholder, one
of the owners, said flames vir-
tually demolished the frame
roof and also damaged welding
equipment.
Six fire companies quickly
extinguiShed the fire about 4
pm. No one was injured.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Arlington Bond Vote
Delay Till 81 Asked

Drew-Kemper situation is one
of urgent need. Whether it is
the viii Of the people to wait
until after next year to meet
it is something they will have
to determine.
Mr.. Lundberg advised the
County Board to adhere to
previous plans to seek voter
approval this November of a
$2.8 million bond issue for ex-
pansion of the Arlington water
and sewerage systems. Such
issues have been non-contro-
versial in the past. They are
financed by charges to utility
users.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
TobrinerGets
School Board
Post Again

The Board Of Education
unanimously reelected Walter
N. Tobriner as president today.
At a brief organizational
meeting for the new fiscal year
the board also selected Wesley
S. Williams as vice president.
Mr.. Tobriner, a local attor-
ney, has been board president
for the past three years. Last
month he was elected president
of the Washington Hospital
Center's Board of Trustees. He
is a member of the Democratic
State Committee for the Dis
trict and delegate to the ma
tional convention.
Both Men Attorneys
Mr.. Williams is also an at
torney. He has served on the
school board since 1851. Last
month the District Court judges
Ireappointed him for another
three-year term. He succeeds
as vice president Mrs. Frank
s. Phillips, who did not seek
reappointment to the board
when her term expired.
Col. West A. Hamilton tried
vainly to prevent a contest
from developing for the vice
presidency. He withdrew his
own name from consideration
after Mr.. Williams had been
nominated.
This is a very small or
ganization," he explained. Il
do not think we should spend
our time running for Office" ("
Since Mr.. williams "has am
billions" for the post, Col.
Hamilton said, he was with
drawing his name from con-
sideration. After his announce
ment, however, Mrs. John L..
Steele nominated Carl c..
Smuck for the position.
Vote Results
In the final voting, Mr.. Will
liams received five votes, Mr..
Smuck. two, and Col. Hamil-
ton - despite his announce
ment-one vote. The newly
appointed ninth board mem
ber, Mrs. Charles H. Roberts,
did not vote. She has not yet
been sworn into Office.
The school board today ap-
proved the retirement of four
teachers. They are Mrs. Agnes
T. Beckwith of Western High;
Mrs. Isabella B. Krey, a coun-
Selor at Coolidge High; H.
Franklin Lehr of Western, and
Mrs. Gladys T. Woods of Dun
bar High.
Evening star., 1960-07-01
Tire BIost Injuries
Gas Station Worker

Jack Grove, 81, a filling sta
tion worker, of 11613 Dewey
road, Silver Spring, was seri-
ously injured today when a
car tire exploded in his face.
A fellow employe at the Viers
Mill ESQ Service Center said
Mr.. Grove was repairing the
tire when the accident oc-
CURED. Mr.. Grove was taken
to Suburban Hospital, where
he was to be operated on for
head injuries.