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Evening star., 1960-08-24
A Store Designed with YOU in
Mind

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Mind
With you in mind. Mrs. Consumer,
we have sent our buyers into the
oreo to find out whot YOU
wonted US to stock in our store.
After tobuloting the returns, we
were able to do whot we call per
sonoIized buying" When you
visit our store you will SEE THE
RESULTS. National bronds, top
quoIity meats and an unusually
large selection of form fresh
produce selected by experts to as
sure YOU the best in quoIity at
greater savings.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
$50 Military Pay Was $500 Million
In Area, 10 Pct. of Personal Income

more than active military per-
sonnel. The civilian payrolls
totaled 1882 million, while
servicemen earned 1854 million
Army Payroll Leads
The Army topped all serv-
ices with a total payroll OF
1921 million. The Navy ranked
second with $173 million, and
the Air Force third with $142
million.
An official estimated that at
least three-quarters of serv-
icemen's earnings was spent in
the Metropolitan area. Nearly
all the civilian payroll was be-
lieved to be locally spent, he
said.
The Defense Department
listed other costs which totaleo
500 million. National Guard
units, local purchases ano
maintenance of military install
lations were included in that
figure.
The earnings of Servicemer
and civilians employed by the
armed forces accounted fol
one-third of the Federal Gov
ernment's SITS billion payroll
in 1859. All personal income in
the Washington area during
Evening star., 1960-03-02
PEOPLE
BUSINESS

C. F. Craigie of Alexandria
Va, has been named Eastern
regional manager for the Ma
tional LF-Gas Council, with Of
fees at TIL Fourteenth stree
NV.
Gerald G. LOehr has beer
appointed manager of contracts
and negotiation in the Wash
ington Office of Aerojet General
Corp which is a subsidiary OF
General Tire g. Rubber Co.
DR.. Fahim I. Qubain, Middle
Eastern scholar and author. has
Joined the staff of Middle East
Research Associates, with Of
fees at 121 South Royal street,
Alexandria, Va.
Robert j. Greiner has become
radio and television director
for Earle Palmer Brown & AS
sociates. public relations and
advertising firm.
Erica Karr has joined the
staff of Larrabee Associates Ad-
vertising. She formerly was ad-
vertising promotion manager of
American Aviation Publications.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Teamsters End
Peoples Strike

Truck drivers for the Peoples
Drug Stores reached a settle
ment with the company on
wages last night, ending a
strike of nearly three weeks.
The agreement brought the
35 members Of TeamSters Local
639 an immediate hourly wage
level of $2.221a. The drivers
had received a 10-cent an hour
raise on January / and the ad-
ditional increase is retroactive
to that date.
The new three-year contract
also calls for two more in
creases Of 121z-cents an hour
effective at the start of 1861
and 1862.
Spokesman for both the
Teamsters and the company
said that members of the Sign,
Pictorial and Display Workers
Union Local 1929 will probably
reach a separate agreement
with Peoples within the week.
The sign painters have been on
strike for about three weeks.
Negotiations were conducted
for the union yesterday by
Charles J. Bell, president of
Local 639; James Mills, the
locals business agent, and John
j. McBurney, It's attorney.
Representing the company were
Peoples Vice President Fred M.
Downey, his assistant, w. E.
Disney, and Nicholas Penni-
man, the company'S counsel.
The union had demanded an
immediate 26-cent an hour in
crease.
Evening star., 1960-03-02

the year amounted to about
$50 billion. according to the
Board Of Trade.
In December, 1859, a board
official said, $4,000 civilians
were employed by the Federal
Government in Metropolitan
Washington.
$1,000 Military on Rolls
The Board estimated that
about $4,000 active military
personnel work in the Wash
ington area. approximately
10000 are employed in the Dis
trict, a board official said.
In addition, he added, about
$4,000 civilians are employed
by military forces in the Met
ropolitan area. Both groups &C
count for about Is per cent of
the total employment in this
area. he said.
Federal employment is
obviously very important to
the area" he concluded. 1T
has been responsible for con-
centrating here the best-ed-
ucated population with the
highest incomes of any Met
ropolitan area and has given
the city a deserved reputation
as being depression proof"
Evening star., 1960-03-02
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star STAFF Writer

Military payrolls in the
Washington area totaled 5000
million in 1859 or about 10
per cent of all personal in
Nome, The Star learned today
Defense Department esti-
mates, released for the first
time in recent years, also dis
closed that about $675 million
was spent in, the area by armed
forces and their personnel.
The estimate, for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1859, in
cluded spending in the District,
Montgomery, Prince Georges,
Arlington and Fairfax Counties,
alexandria and Falls Church.
Military construction was a
relatively small item in the
estimate. accounting for some
$23 million. Contracts for
goods and services, however
totaled $98 million. Some of
those contracts, a Defense Of
f1cial pointed out, overlapped
into other years, and some
previous contracts were per-
formed in 1859.
According to Defense figures,
civilians employed by the armed
forces were paid considerably
Evening star., 1960-03-02
l00-Pound Candy Bur
Donated to Children

A 100-pound candy bar was
presented yesterday to the
children's center at Laurel, Md,
and the Friends of Forest
Haven by the Jumbo Food
Stores unit at 2400 East Univer-
sity lane, Adelphi, Md. The bar
was to be cut into 1150 pieces
and distributed to $50 children.
Morris Rubin, store manager,
presided at the gift giving, also
E. Dauenhauer, buyer; John j.
Noones jr., superintendent at
Forest Haven; Neil Estes, Cur
tbs Candy Co. district manager,
and Mrs. Herman Finkel Secre-
tary Of Friends of Forest Haven.
Evening star., 1960-03-02

Delta Airlines' cargo man.
ager John POgue is looking fol-
a monkey which vanished from
a consignment of IL simians
shipped from a pet farm ir
Miami to a pet shop in Dallas
American Airlines took q
live sand shark (encased in a
plastic bag full of sea water)
aboard one of its Boeing TOTS
from New York to San Fran
cisco.
Flora, a live puma and new
mascot for HMS Puma of the
Royal Navy, was flown from
Monterey to London aboard
one Of Pan Americans 7O7s.
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Newest issue Of parking !"
magazine of the parking in
dustry published here with
Moreno Martin as editor, car
ries photos of award-winning
attendants of Colonial Parking
Inc. Graduates Of the Parking
Attendants School sponsored
by the Parking Association,
they were Irving Presley, Mel
win Bibbs, Andrew Evans, Gas
ton Paige and Wilbur Edwards.
The annual winner, for a Sl0O
check, was Andrew Evans.
-
Richard w. Fera, named as
one of l26 top Plymouth sales
men in 1859 who are gathering
here tomorrow for a four-day
all-expense-paid trip, lives ir
Rockville and sells for Ana.
costa Chysler-PIymOuth, l7OS
Good Hope road. A. Left.
wich Sinclair, jr., author o.
History of the Automobile
IN the District of Columbia
and long identified with the
annual auto shows, has beer
reappointed to the policy ano
bylaws committee of the Ma.
tiOnal Automobile Dealers As
sOciatiOn. Maurice III. Ora.
ham, who has seen the new
models come and go for &c
years, is the new sales man.
ager Of Steuart Motor Com
pany, Sixth street and New
York avenue NV. The
Civil AerOnautics Board is 60
ing to throw some new rules
at airlines which fail to notify
passengers promptly when
flights are overlooked (seats
sold above capacity of the
plahe). West Virginia be-
comes the ninth State to adopt
reflective auto license plates
visible up to 1000 feet in the
headlight beams OF other cars
Lear, Inc, of Santa Monica
has the contract for supplying
Allegheny Airlines Convair $40
turboprops with autopilots and
dual flight director systems
Renault sent a record
108,926 cars to the United
States during 1859. with &c.
579 coming in through New
York but only 385 through
Baltimore. In the face of
shutdowns elsewhere, Ameri-
can Motors will hire 500 more
employees to meet round-the-
clock Rambler production.
Evening star., 1960-03-02

Finally, one day, Charles boss got
the word. So he invited C & P Service
Engineer to come in and get at the root
of the trouble. AS a result of this ex-
pert's survey, they now have precisely
the kind of communications equipment
they need to take care of complete Gus
toner needs (and, incidentally, cut ex-
penses). Needless to say, business is
booming around Charles shop again.
Charles happy-so are his customers.
Perhaps a c & P Service Engineer
can do big things for your business, too.
His survey costs you nothing. Just call
our Business'Office.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
AutoOutput
Below Hopes
In February

DETROIT, Mar. 2 (AP).-
American automakers built
659,303 cars in February-les.
than they expected but still
enough to keep the 1860 tota
ahead of 1855 all-time recorc
pace.
So far this year domestic
auto production totals 1,347, ,98t
cars compared with l,335.O0:
for the first two months of 1855
The month just ended wa:
an all-time record for Amer
ican Motors which built 43,l36
ears and the best since before
World War II for the Ford
Division of Ford Motor Co.
1t also marked a high to date
for Chrysler's compact Valiant
-24,4l7 assemblies.
All companies except Stude-
baker-Packard showed sizable
gains over February of 1859,
with ChrySler showing the big
gest. Last year, Chrysler was
Just emerging from the effects
Of a prolonged glass strike.
The five car-building divi-
sions OF General Motors pro-
duced 318,978 cars compared
with 256,459 in February of last
year; Ford built l75,704 cars
compared with 1882; Chrys-
Ter 108,592 compared with 26.-
1870; American Motors 43,l36
compared with 30,374 and
Stu d e b ke r-Packard 1888
compared with 1858. Total
production in February a year
ago was 482,518.
Original production Sched-
ules for February called fol-
700, 900 cars.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Copper Prices Ease

NEW YORK, Mar. 2 (AP) -
Copper scrap prices eased again
falling "a cent to rs cents a
pound. Metal refined from this
material will be available early
in June at 3Ola cents a pound
Metal dealers, meanwhile, re-
duced their asking price for
April delivery copper about "a
cent to 341a cents a pound.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Why customers no longer hang up on Charlie Jackson

1t was a crime the way they used to
slam the receiver down. Yet you
couldn't blame them. These customers
just plain got tired of waiting to talk
to Charlie when the line was busy.
1t wasn't Charles fault, either. Ac-
tually, he was a darned good salesman
alert, courteous, to the point In fact,
that was the whole trouble. Business
got so good that, before anybody real
lied it, his company had outgrown
their communications facilities. That's
when the bottlenecks set in.
Then business started to get bad.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Retreuding Firm
Gets Navy Contract

Upon completion of a new
$150,000 plant on Stamp Road
in Silver Hill, Md, Johnston
Tires, Inc, has qualified with
the Navy Department to han
die re-treading of conventional
and jet-type aircraft tires.
President Herbert N. John
ston reported his firm had been
notified of its qualification and
received its first contract for
this type of work.
It's first contract is from the
Marine Base at Cherry Point,
N. c.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Experts to Discuss
Areo Development

Economic development of the
Washington Metropolitan Area
and problems related to it will
be discussed by an impressive
group Of experts at a confer
ence of the Washington Board
of Trade at the Statler Hilton
Hotel next Wednesday morn
ing, March 9.
William Boucher III, execu-
tive director of the Greater
Baltimore Committee. William
E. Finley, director of the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission, and Richard H. Kraft
director of the National Capt.
tai Regional Planning Council
will be among the speakers.
Senator Alan Bible of Ne
vada, who is chairman of the
Evening star., 1960-03-02

joint Congressional commit
tee on Washington Metropoli-
tan problems, will be the first
speaker at the morning ses-
sion, which starts at 1915 am
He will be introduced by
Donald M. Bernard, chairman
of the Economic Development
Council of the Board of Trade,
which is sponsoring the con-
ference.
Russell c. Chase, district
sales manager for Shell Oil Co.,
also will address the session
Walter H. Wheeler, jr., presi-
dent of Pitney-BoweS, Inc,
and a member of the Commit
tee for Economic Development
will speak at a luncheon clos
ing the conference.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
Sofewoy Opens
Seventh Store
In Springfield

A new Safeway Store with
10000 square feet of space
opened today at 6851 Spring
field Plaza, Springfield, Va.
1t was the seventh store
opened by the chains Wash
ington Division this year.
A mechanical package pick
up arrangement is one of the
features of the stores modern
equipment. Murlyn Lee Bart
lett is manager and Gene EN-
Evening star., 1960-03-02
METAL PRICES

NEW YORK. Mar. 2 (AP).-Spot
nonferrouS metal prices today: Copper
33 cents pound, Connecticut Valley,
Lead IL cents a pound. New York
Zinc, l3 cents pound, East st. Louis.
Tin Sl.Ol pound. New York.
Foreign silver Ola cents per troy
ounce. New York. Pittsburgh scrap
Age at 3S.OO-39 90.
Evening star., 1960-03-02
WINGS & WHEELS
An Idea Car of the Future
BY CHARLES YARsRouGH

Chrysler popped the lid on a
vell-kept secret with unveiling
Of a new Plymouth idea car
called the XNR, named for
Styling Director Virgil NJ. Ex-
uer.
You can't buy it, but it's sure
to make a good conversation
piece.
A waist-high roadster, pow
cred by a six-cylinder engine
and styled by CHA in Turin,
Italy, it is capable of carrying
the driver and one passenger,
but it is more specifically sug-
gested for the driver only.
Slightly over 16 feet long, its
streamlining features-an air.
scoop at the front to the tradi-
tioral Exner stabilizing fin at
the rear-are placed left of
center directly behind the driv-
er.
Harry E. ChesebrOugh, Chrys-
Ter vice president and general
manager of the PlymOuth-De
Soto Valiant division, said it
first:
"We asked Mr.. Exner to show
us what could be done with a
Plymouth of the future which
would be highly personalized
car.
"I've never seen anything
like it."
But from such experimental
tions come the designs of to-
morrow.
No better proof could be found
than in the ancestry of the
Valiant, some of the features
Of which showed up in Chrysler
experimentals dating back to
the famed K31O designed back
in 1851; the Adventurer of 1853
and the Flight Sweeps of 1855.
Washington based Capital
Airlines is going through the
throes Of a new corporate iden-
tity program, designed by Lip
pincOtt e. Margulies and that
means a lot more than re-doing
the insignia on the airplanes.
Months of work, research and
testing went into the new
graphics being applied to all
visual media - aircraft, signs,
advertising, promotion and let
terheads.
The familiar Capital red
changes to blue, save for a sin
gle red, longitudinal line on
the feet. Insignia changes to a
flowing oval" design. The
change will be gradual, begin
ming with planes brought IN
for major overhauls here. But
Capitals new L0ckheed Electras
due in May will be delivered
with the new look, as will the
DC-6Bs and the COnvair 88Os,
due in the fall.
+
Something new in the auto
business comes to town next
Tuesday and Wednesday when
Manhattan Auto and Britain's
ROOtes Group stage a Wake
Up Your Car s-Engine" clinic.
Free to owners of HiIlman,
Sunbeam Rapier, Sunbeam Al
pine and Humber automobiles,
the clinic puts the cars through
electronic engine-testing equip
ment supplied and operated by
the Sun Electric Corp. After
the test, each car is given a
written prescription" outlin-
ing the cars needs, II any.
Seventeen items are on the list
for electronic examination,
scheduled only at Manhattan's
Seventh and r streets NV.
shop.
y
How's the air cargo busi-
ness? Here's how:
Evening star., 1960-03-02
FOREIGN EXCH'GE

NEW YORK. Mar. CAPl-Foreigu
exchange rates Great Britain in dol
lars others in cents and decimalS oil q
cent?:
Today Prev Day
Canada in N. Y.
/ ureeD -------- lO5 1891 l05 1891
Evening star., 1960-03-02

How's the air cargo busi-
ness? Here's how:
Evening star., 1960-12-09

No printed circuifs-tuH
range hi fidelity FIN
sound. Ne,c buiIt.in uni.
pole antenna push-puH,
On-olf sipitch.
Arizona tribune., 1960-07-01

YOU CAN REGISTER until
JULY 8 to be eligible to vote
in the primary elections on
Sept. 18th. Listed below are
a few of the registration
places.
BETHUNE 1414 S. 18th Ave
CARVER HIGH 726 S. End ST.
DUNBAR & LOWELL none
Go to 113 W. Jefferson.
GRANT 921 S. Montezuma
HIGHWAY 1920 W. jefferson
JULIAN 2137 E. Broadway
LINCOLN 92O E. MOhave
LONGFELLOW 1929 E.
Monroe.
Arizona tribune., 1960-07-01
VNB No. "a OPENS

Modern flOOr-tO-ceiling
expanses of glass, "tear-drop
shaped" drive-in teller sta
tions and lightning" free
form concrete pillars shading
west wall create ultra-modern
atmo sphere at Valley National
Banks Park Central Office.
Located directly opposite
Park Central shopping center,
the new bank was opened for
business on Monday June 27.
Arizona tribune., 1960-07-01

ROSSIE E. THURMAN, Chief Antler of the Past Exalted
Rulers Council SO of Arizona has spent IA in Ekdom
He started esteemed loyal king and advanced to the
exalted rulers chair for two terms.
Mr.. Turman is active in the William H. Patterson
Lodge 477 Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of
the World He feels that this organization has done for
civil rights and equal opportunities than credit has given
city employee for than 18 Mr.. TWman feels
that people should take advantage the work
portunities offered by the City of Phoenix
He and his wife Clydia reside at TIT E. Madison St.
Tribune photo Ed Banks
Arizona tribune., 1960-07-01
SAVE
SELLING OUT

Must sell this E rooms Of modern
furniture plus appliances TO
responsible party.
FULL PRICE $265.
Group includes II piece bedroom
10 piece living room, table,
lamps. bunk beds, twin beds, pic
tures, 3 rugs, spreads, linens,
tronsistor radio, stove, refrig.,
TV, automatic washer, dishes,
5 piece dinette, etc. SIS On. de-
Iivers, Damaged Frt. Warehouse
1850 W. Jackson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31

There's a good chance many
Washington area residents will
greet the New Year tonight with
dry Threats and wet feet.
Celebrants who plan to VEL
come 1861 in taverns and night
clubs will find their drinks un-
tremendously whisked away q
few minutes before midnight to
comply with liquor laws.
Then, according to the
weather forecast, they can ex-
pect a further indignity in the
form of rain or snow as they
wend their way homeward.
Fog was general in the ares
during the day, contributing to
some traffic accidents and dis
rupting air traffic at National
Airport. The ceiling was below
operational minimums inter-
mittently throughout the day
but fortunately the days holt
day traffic was light.
In Montgomery County the
fog contributed to a furry
LOT minor accidents this morn.
ling. police said.
Many motorists jound II
necessary to use headlights fol
safety during morning com.
muting hours.
! Despite the. grumblings Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Holiday Traffic
Toll Reaches AZ
By the Associated Press

Multiple fatalities. including
seven in one accident, gave a
grim boost to the number of
trafflc deaths in the early hours
of the long New Years week
end. =
A young mother and her two
babies were among the seven
persons killed in a SCATTERING
two-car crash on a rain-slicked
highway near Alamogordo, N.
Mex. Two other persons were
critically injured. 49,
In other multiple fatalities,
three young persons died in a
two-car crash in Wisconsin and
two sisters were killed in an
accident near Bethesda, Md.
In all. Al persons were killed
on the Nations highways since
the count began at 6 pm. Fri
day. Twelve others died in
fires. and six in miscellaneous
accidents for a total of IS. The
78-hour holiday period extends
until midnight Monday.
The National Safety Council
estimated $40 persons might be
killed during the period and
safety campaigners pleaded for
caution by travellers and holi-
day jewellers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
HAY VIEW OF WORLD
CoIIegions Hunk q Quiz

Elvis Presley than Charles de
Gaulle, and more knew who
Pogo was than could identify
David Ben Gurion.
DR.. Garai polled students at
his own school and at four
others: Juilliard School of
Music, New York University's
School of Commerce, Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn and
Hunter College. Except for a
slight misrepresentation of
sophomores, the students were
fairly we'll distributed among
the four undergraduate classes.
The students were asked 121
questions. Most required identi-
fication of persons, places or
other features of modern life.
Forty others called for esti-
mates of populations of States,
countries and special groups.
such as Catholics in the United
States" and mental patients
in United States hospitals"
The widest guesses came in
such categories as the number
of dope addicts and prison
inmates in this country. The
former number was overesti-
mated by 1920 per cent and
the latter by 1890 per cent,
on the average.
"(This) probably reflects the
influence of the continuous
overemphasiS Of certain news
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
Potients Escape
In Hospital Fire

PORT ARTHUR, Tex. Dec
81 (AP.-Fire of undetermined
origin swept through the mod.
ern. Park Place Hospital neal
dawn today. No injuries were
reported. although the hospita.
was totally evacuated.
Police dispatcher Bill Stup.
zenburg said the blaze, which
broke out around $50 am, ap.
parently would demolish the
building.
Fire units at Port Arthur
Beaumont. Orange and Other
nearby towns were rushed to the
scene.
The hospital, In the north
ern section Of the Gulf port city
is a single story building anC
owned and operated by q grour
Of doctors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31

media on these negative
aspects Of our life." DR.. Garai
said.
But the educator could
hardly blame the students
ignorance on too much news
paper reading. He found that
when he instituted a course OF
compulsory newspaper reading,
with quizzes to back it up, his
students average grade on
monthly information tests
rose from 10 per cent at the
outset to 80 per cent three
months later.
THE results of this study
strongly indicate the need for
certain revisions in our college
curriccula," DR.. Garai said.
Colleges and universities can
no longer disregard the wide
spread lack of familiarity with
current affairs among college
students.
Specific courses should be
scheduled with a view to i'm
parting to the future leaders
of our country a broader and
more profound knowledge of
the many important issues and
problems of this rapidly
changing world. To achieve
this purpose, the firm establish
ment of the habit of reading a
good daily newspaper should
be one of the foremost aims Of
. modern college education"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-12-31
New Years Forecast:
Dry Throots, Wet Feet

tavern owners, the laws re.
quiring that all alcoholic bever-
ages be of the tables by mid
night on Saturday will not be
broken, or even bent a little
even though it's New Years
eve.
Earlier this year, Congress
ignored the pleas Of District
night club owners to stretch
the midnight deadline to 2
am. the regular week might
closing time.
The situation is the same
In the nearby Maryland and
Virginia counties.
Forecasters expect the last
hours of 1860 and the first Of
1861 to be rather miserable
Rain, possibly mixed with sleet
Is expected to begin late to-
night. and then change to snow
before ending sometime to-
morrow.
A bureau spokesman said
he can't tell yet how much
snow will fall. A storm Is head
ing here from the south, and
cold air is moving in from the
north. When the two collide
the snow will fly.
There's some Of the coolest
air Of the season poised north
Of u.s." he said, cheerfully.
Happy New Year.