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Evening star., 1960-04-20
BY CHARLES YARBROUGH
Star Stan Writer

A bureau originally formed
to operate National and Dulles
International Airports has beer
handed responsibility for plan
ming the big civil jet base al
Chantilly, Va.
The Fed eral Aviation
Agency's realignment moves
the responsibility to the Bureau
Of National Capital Airports
headed by L. w. Burton, from
the FAA's Dulles division of the
Bureau of Facilities and Ma
teriel.
The Facilities and Materiel
Bureau will continue to provide
engineering supervision over
construction and supply tech
nical advice and assistance in
development or review of op-
Grafton requirements.
In essence, the realignment
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Prince Georges Sets
Pre-SchooI Siqn-up

The Prince Georges County
Board of Education has desig-
mated May 6 and June 3 as
registration dates for pre-
school children.
Children may be registered
at the nearest elementary from
9 am. to $3.50 pm. on either
day. They must be six years of
age on or before January /,
1861. Birth certificates, as
we'll as proof of vaccination
and diphtheria immunization,
should be presented at the time
of registration.
Evening star., 1960-04-20

/ PlifACSC uCCIlSc LAX. PROPOSALS
for a business tax have been
defeated twice in the past by
one-vote margins of the Board
OF County Supervisors.
The business tax proposal
seems to have a better chance
Of passage this time according
to one Official because of an ap-
parent change of sentiment of
some board members.
Board Chairman Anne Will
kinS agreed that it was well
recognized by everybody that
the personal property tax is un-
fair because not everybody pays
it." Every other Northern Vir-
ginia jurisdiction has business
license taxes.
| Mr.. Cotten'S proposal was
referred to County Executive
Carlton c. Massey for his
recommendations.
"Simplifies" Auto Tax
The personal property tax
still would apply to automobiles
under Mr.. Cotten's proposal.
Noting that elimination of
the personal property tax on
household effects would cost
the county about three-quarters
OF a million dollars, Mr.. Gotten
said real estate taxes could be
increased to make up this
amount if a business license tax
were not passed.
During a recess in the board
meeting, Mrs. wilkins sug-
gested that the county might
adopt the Arlington plan to
prevent land grabs by neigh
boring Jurisdictions. Under the
Arlington plan, city might
annex the entire county but
could not annex part of it.
Mrs. Wilkins said.
Cites Urban County Plan
Mrs. Wilkins noted that the
Urban County Plan, long dis
cuSsed in the county and au-
Evening star., 1960-04-20
MdnnUrges
Sewage Ban

Arlington Delegate Harrison
Mann today asked the Virginia
Water Control Board to bar
the Federal Government from
dumping sewage from Dulles
international Airport into the
Potomac River above Wash
ington area water intake.
In a letter to the board, Mr..
Mann said, 1T is imperative
that the State of Virginia re-
fuse to permit the Federal
Government to further con-
taminate the water supply of
a quarter of a million Virginia
citizens"
Elmer B. Stats, deputy di-
rector of the Federal Budget
Bureau, said yesterday the only
alternative to the sewage dump
ing would be to delay the air.
port opening. due July l, 1861.
"As far as I am concerned
they can keep the airport closed
or use outhouSes," Mr.. Mann
said, in a statement. The
interests of a million people
are a whole lot more important
than opening Dulles :"
The sewage would be dumped
at the intake of water system
serving more than a million
Metropolitan Area residents.
The problem arose when Con-
greSS last year rejected a $3.2
million plan to pipe waste from
the airport site at Chantilly to
the Districts Blue Plains treat
ment plant.
Mr.. Stats said the sewage
would have to be dumped above
the intake for an indefinite
period until a permanent solu-
ton is found.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Mcmillan Comments

Representative MILAN,
chairman of the House District
Committee, said he wanted ito
walk across this bridge some
day" and spoke of his efforts
to secure legislation for the
span.
Ceremonies were held in some
wooden stands built by Ma
tional Capital Parks and at a
point just downriver from the
bridge site. A crowd of several
hundred was on hand for the
dedication.
And many, after it was all
over, walked around and looked
at the Fort Myer cannon, which
rested harmlessly in a roped-
off area and may be retired
shortly.
Perhaps the Smithsonian
can use it.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Petworth Unit Sets
Suffrage Plan Study

The Petworth Citizens Asso-
citation last night voted to set
up a committee to study legiS-
lation to give voting rights and
representation in Congress to
District residents.
The group also decided to
support the Washington chap
ter of the American Cancer
Society with donations.
Mrs. Andrew Weaver presided
over the meeting in the home
Of Miss Helen M. Smith, 1921
Ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1960-04-20

"out of debate" to be placed
into action"
Potomac Compromise"
Gen. yelling said the ap-
proval of the span seemed to
have broken something of a
logjam~ Of legislation and
pointed to the impending con-
struction of a Cabin John
bridge. an "intercepter" to re-
move raw sewage from the
river, an underpass at Wash
ington circle and the Culture
Center.
Robert E. Mclaughlin, chair
man Of the Board of Commits
sioners, called the bridge, its
start at least, a tribute to the
reasonableness" of the men anc
agencies involved in its site
He suggested as its subtitle, the
Potomac Compromise"
Commissioner David B. Kar-
rick said he never expected
to live to see the start of its
construction"
Undersecretary of the Inte-
rior Elmer Bennett said il
should always be remembered
that the City of Washington
belongs to all Americans"
Senator Frear, Democrat oi
Delaware, a member of the
District Committee, said it was
always a pleasure to see prog
reSS"
Evening star., 1960-04-20

qualified himself from voting
explaining that his real estate
firm was handling the asphalt
! company'S land transaction
Mayor Leroy S. Bendheim voted
against the rezoning and II
it failed on a 5-to-1 vote.
At the end of that meeting
Mr.. Duncan asked that the re-
quest be reconsidered. He ak
planned that he no longer had
a financial interest in the
matter.
On April II, public hearing
was held, after which Council
man James T. Luckett moved
that the rezoning be granted.
Mr.. Duncan's affirmative vote
gave the necessary 6 votes to
pass it. with Mayor Bendheim
again voting no.
Firm Dropped
Mr.. Duncan explained today
that when the rezoning failed
to pass the first time, he no
longer had any interest in the
property because his real estate
firm lost out as agent for the
applicant. He said the firm
had been retained on the basis
of getting the rezoning and was
dropped when it didn't.
Mr.. Duncan said he then
conferred with the city attor-
ney and was advised that he
could legally participate in the
case.
Il didn't want to see the
city lose a 100000 payroll -
Mr.. Duncan said.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Lions to Roast Bull

The Suburban Lions Club of
Glen Dale. Md, will hold its
semiannual bull roast" in the
cafeteria Of Bowie Race Tracks
club house at l pm. Sunday.
Proceeds will be used to sup
port charities.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Palsy Fund Meeting

An organizational meeting Of
the Northern Virginia cerebral
palsy fund raising campaign
will be held at 8 pm. tomorrow
at the United Cerebral Palsy
Center, Ill North Cherry street,
Falls Church, Va.
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Personal Property Tax
Hit by Foirfox Official
BY JACK KELSO
Star stan Writer

Fairfax County Supervisor Robert c. Gotten jr proposed
effects
MT Gotten called the tax unQuestionaby most unfair
hequtaoe and dproportonaey burdensome on the rec
ord books of Fairfax County"
He suggested that the county enact instead business
Evening star., 1960-04-20
Mighty Cannon Is Mute Witness
AT Roosevelt Bridge Ceremony

a pile driver did begineto drive
piles at the same time. But
the cannon did nothing.
Navajo times., 1960-12-01
Group


CHICAGO CUPID = The Univer-
sity of Chicago will ask Indian
groups in the United States and
Canada this month to present pro-
posals for an American Indian
Charter.
Sol Tax, head of the university's
department of anthropOlogy, will
coordinate the American Indian
Charter convention to be held here
June 1920, 1861.
The convention will be based on
the fright of Democratic self-de-
termination" Tax said. It will |
help Indian groups develop their
own statement of Indian condi-
tions and recommendations for
the future.
An estimated 800 to 500 dele
gates from various indian Tribes
will work with another 500 lex
perts' on Indian affairs anthrO-
biologists, missionaries, lawyers
and government administrators.
The participating scholars will
Ework On the premise 'that any
Eplan for Indians must first Of all
satisfy Indians and serve their in
terestS," Tax said.
Oliver LaFarge of Santa Fe
Pulitzer prize winner and presi-
dent of the Association Of Indian
! Affairs, said he had not heard
Navajo times., 1960-12-01

of the convention, but he com.
mended Tax S past work with In
dians.
The association advocates a self
determination program for Indi-
ans.
1T is hoped that this Indian
made program will be acceptable
to the American people as a new
basis for public and private CO.
operation with the Indian people"
Navajo times., 1960-12-01

Tax said.
Its reort will go to the Presi-
dent of the United States, he said.
Indian groups will be asked
this month to submit proposals
and documents to the charter. The
first draft will be mailed to them
about May. l.
Tax directed the Darwin Centen-
nial program at the Chicago cam.
pus last spring.
Navajo times., 1960-12-01


$4OO, 600 year for scholarship
grants, awarded on competitive
basis to high school graduates.
Three of every five Navajo fam
lilies own battery-powered radios,
and they are constantly bonn
barded with tribal-spOnsored in
formation programs in their nat
i've tongue from four Off-reserva-
ton stations.
In addition, Navajo specialists
in a variety of fields regularly
visit virtually every hogan on the
reservation by plane, car, truck,
horseback and foot to spread the
gospel of enlightment.
Paved highways have opened
vast areas of the reservation
once visited by only the most dar-
ing travellers, and tourism soon
is expected to rank second only
to oil as a source of tribal in
come.
The tribe recent, dedicated a
$166, 900 observatory in Monument
Valley, a pallette-hued expanse of
huge, sandstone cliffs, carved into
fantastic figurines by the gales of
time.
Seven other tribal parks are
planned and the creation of Lake
Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam
on the Colorado River will give
the Navajos 100 miles of shoreline,
to be developed at a cost of sew
eral millions.
We've got some of the Wild
est country in Mort hAmerica
here" says John McPhee, admin
istrative assistant to the council
chairman land much of it is un-
surpassed in beauty.
1.-The Navajos have great at
tachment to this land" adds Nc
Phee, one of the few white men
in the tribal hierarchy, land the
land. in its magnitude and Harsh
ness, has had a great influence
on the Navajo.
These are an aesthetic people.
They are gentle, philosophical peo-
pie. But | think what I'm trying
to say is summed up rather nice
ly in the words of their night
chant:
" With beauty, walk.
" With beauty before me, l
walk.
=" With beauty behind me, |
walk.
4" With beauty above me. l
walk.
s. With beauty all arOjnd me
walk.
:" with beauty within me, l
walk.
." 1t is finished in beauty"
Navajo times., 1960-12-01

01Oland - nuge SpI awning, OIteH
fOrbidding country - is stirring
from its centuries-long sleep.
Jarring it out of slumber are
the noises of the pounding drill
Of an Oil crew, the whirr of
rubber wheels over asphalt roads
and the blare of a radio playing
rock n roll.
But the sleep was sound, and
the awakening is difficult.
The Navajo Reservation is the
largest in the United States,
spreading across about $4,000
square miles of northeastern Ari-
zOna, southern Utah and north
western New Mexico.
Larger than West Virginia, this
lonely and beautiful land is the
ancestral home of 10000 Indians,
the largest tribe in the country,
and, less than q decade ago, one
Of the poorest.
Today the NavajOs, collectively,
are among the wealthiest Indians
in the country, but the tribe still
is plagued by the old problems
Of ilIiteracy. disease and poverty.
The 10th Century bypassed the
isolated land of the NavajOS until
the end of World War ii when
hundreds of young men returned
TO the reservation from military
service with new vision of the
future.
Their hopes, however, were sty-
mied for several years by lack
Of money to develop the resources
of their eroded, drOuth-stricken
and over-grazed land.
Instead of progressing the Ma
vajos sank even deeper into pow
erty.
Then, in 1850, a Congress arOus-
ed by public indignation passed
the long-range, $S8 million Navajo
Hopi Rehabilitation Act. Five
years later came the discovery Of
oil and natural gas on the reser-
walton. Population is booming in
the area - for instance Farming
ton, NM, On the eatern edge of
the reservation has increased ten
fold in 10 years.
Since 1855, petroleum companies
have paid the tribe an estimated
$500 million in lease fees and
royalties. About half of this has
been spent, the remainder placed
in a federal trust fund.
All income from reservation re-
sources is controlled by a "a
member council, elected by the
tribe and headed by Paul Jones,
a 65-year-old Navajo with the
shrewdness of a big city banker.
Most of the money spent by
the council has gone for public
works programs. development of
resources and other projects de-
signed to benefit the tribe as a
whole.
"We want some of that money
for babes yet unborn" says Jones,
explaining the councils fiscal pO-
Icy, land we want, in the mean
time, to bring up the level OF
opportunity for our people SO they
will not have to face a machine
age working only with Their
hands"
In addition to the money the
tribe itself spends, the fedora
government pumps about $50 mil
lion a year into the reservation
over and above expenditures un
der the Rehabilitation Act. The 0i
industry pays an estimated 81
million annually in royalties.
The government has pave'
roads. built irrigation and recla
NATION projects and greatly ex
banded health education and wei
fare programs.
These massive spending pro
grams have created land o
naradoxies a land where yeSter
Navajo times., 1960-12-01
= THE NAVAJO TIMES - DECEMBER, 1850
Riches of Oil Bring New Life
Observation-Disclosures

To the hungry corners Of the
world, the discovery of oil has
meant the end of poverty, the
dawn of prosperity. Surprisingly,
just such an Oil soaked rags to
riches miracle is taking place
amid the great wealth of the Uni
ted States. Striking it rich are
those long forgotten Americans,
the Navajo Indians.
Navajo times., 1960-12-01

pOWOerS ner nose uemurely ID a
plush tribal office while a few
miles away another woman, dress
ed in calico, grindS corn at the
door of her hogan, small, round,
windowless but of mud and tim
Der.
An elderly Navajo, accepting a
ride from a tourist, climbs into
the car, points down the road,
grunts, me keams kahnyon, me
keams kahn-yon," and then laps
es into wary silence for the next
20 miles.
Another elderly Indian, his hair
tied with strands of wool in bun
behind his head, rises in council
meeting to describe to his fellow
politicians the advantages of auto
mating the tribes accounting de-
partment.
Perhaps typical is Gene Price,
25-year-old high school graduate,
ex-Marine and commercial photo
grapher.
Price, son of a. sheepherder and
grandson of a medicine man,
leaned back in a swivel chair in
his cluttered office at Window
Rock recently and took cauti-
Gus sip from cup of steaming
black coffee.
boy, I'm tired" he sighed.
Il just got back from a Squaw
dance and I'll bet | haven't had
more than a couple of hours
sleep in the past three days.
A squaw dance, Price explained,
is complex but ordered social
event involving, amont other
things, horse races, gift exchang-
es, eating, singing and, of course,
dancing.
Most Anglos think a squaw
dance is just a boy-meet-girl sort
of thing" he said. We'll, that's
true - | mean that's part of it.
But there's more to it than that.
This one was for the ex-GIs.
At night the medicine man and
the rest of us moved off a ways
from the women and children and
Sang the old songs the old chants
around a campfire -
After a while. a guy gets kind
of hypnotized by the music and
iorgets what's bothering him. It's
kind of like - what do you call
It psychOtherapy.
I'VE don't have any psychia-
trists up here, you know"
AS Price talked, a radio in his
office almost drowned his voice
in a sea of harsh sound. He in
terrupted himself and changed the
station, saying:
Il can't stand that rock n roll
stuff, can you? Give me some
good jazz or the old swing bands
now there was real music!'
This curious intermingling of
the old and the new is spreading
throughout Navajoland as the pat
terms of the past are changed by
the kaleidoscope of progress.
Il feel this is the most rapid
cultural and social change exper-
fenced by any group in this coun-
try or abroad since the war;" says
Jones. But we've still got lot
of problems.
"The biggest = and contribut-
ing in large degree to many of
the others - is lack of educa-
ton. Conquering this, we feel, is
the key to the solution of most
of our troubles
Eighty-five percent of the Nav
ajos are illiterate. Many do not
have even the simplest job skills.
Thousands are ignorant of the
need for proper sanitation in COM
batting disease.
But it is in the field of edu-
cation that the greatest strides
have been made by the tribe and
Evening star., 1960-05-05
By MARY L. VAUGHAN

nome Furnishings writer
Mrs. Kitty Robinson of
New York, a consultant to
silver manufacturers in
America, can talk unceas-
ingly on the matter of Inner
personality" involved in
choosing a silver pattern.
She visited Washington re-
Gently to point out, as con-
Sultant to the Sterling Silver
smiths of America. that
Sterling Silver Week" runs
from May 9 through May 16.
Mrs. Robinson has evolved
a visual method of tying up
silver place setting patterns
into categorieS with chairs,
bridal gowns, china an d
house architecture.
"a lot of people are split
down the line, they are
neither formal nor informal.
Some like elegant styles,
some sporty. I ask them ques-
tions on their preferences
and they come out some
where in the middle" she
asserts.
Does that mean the major
ity of brides fall into a non-
personality classification? No
indeed, she answered, they
are girls with distinct, direct
personalities.
To solve the problem of
personality, Mrs. Robinson
has set up photo charts
divided into the four cate
gories.
Il always lead of with
Clothes" she explained point
Evening star., 1960-05-05
BY FRANCES LIDE
Star STAG Writer

A year-long controversy in
the Women's City Club end
ed abruptly last night with
the election and installation
of a new administration
headed by Miss Marjorie
Fraser Webster, founder and
president of the Marjorie
Webster Junior College.
In contrast to the stormy
sessions held in recent
months, harmony was the
watchword last night as the
new officers were sworn in
by Judge Burnits Shelton
Matthews, a long time mem
ber.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, as
second vice president, pre-
sided at the meeting after
word was received from the
retiring president, Mrs. Nc
Call Henderson lines, that
she would not be present.
Membership Drive
In her inaugural remarks,
Miss Webster proposed an
intensive and extensive"
membership drive to help
make the organization a real
Women's City Club" repre-
sentative of women of vary
ing interests in the National
Capital.
The membership backed
her up by voting to waive
the $40 initiation fee during
a period ending with observ-
ance of the clubs anniver-
sary in November.
The first order of business,
however, was passage of a
motion to take whatever
steps are necessary to put the
club in good standing with
the District Federation of
Women's Clubs and its par
ent organization. the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's
Clubs.
This reversed the action
taken by the clubs board
last December in voting to
withdraw the organization
from the District Federation
the move which spanked
the dispute which has ragged
since January.
The federation refused to
accept the resignation on the
grounds that the withdrawal
was illegal" At a subsequent
meeting, however, the club
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Silver Choice Can Reveal
Your Inner Personality

ing to four styles of wedding
gowns" The left photos are
formal the other side infor-
NAL, the top photos are ira
ditional, the bottom ones
modern"
For example, the first is
a Queen, the other a Shep-
herdesS. while the comparable
chair style is a Louis XIV,
made for a Queen; the rock
ing chair next to it was just
made for a New England
hearthSide."
Most choose the same style
right on through" she
stressed, IF they pick the
elegant Queen wedding gown
they follow by choosing the
Louis XIV chair, the elaborate
CHINA pattern ana the formal
house style"
For those who don't flt into
the four pattern formula,
Mrs. Richardson has the an
Swer in a fifth photo chart.
This board (of photos) is
devoted to people with such
direct tastes they want a
house to look like a house, a
chair to look like a chair"
she pointed out. THE girl
who chooses these styles is
really a purist - she likes
things simple"
These purist styles. she
added, can't be called classic,
neo-claSsic or Greek but
everlasting and eternal"
Mrs. Robinson said student
silversmiths today create
simple, modern patterns be-
Evening star., 1960-05-05

cause they haven't been
trained to design in the
rococo fashion.
They feel the mood of to-
day-flrst, we're rushed. Sec
ondly, this is the space age
and designers have a feeling
for space" she added.
1t was because Paul Revere
was a busy, rushed man, she
asserted, that his silver pat
terms were so simple and
beautiful"
The spacious, Oriental
trends to home furnishings in
America are having no visible
effects on new silver patterns,
Mrs. Richardson responded to
a query.
After ALL" she said, they
use chopsticks."
Evening star., 1960-05-05
Meeting
OF NWCA
Held

The Young Women's Chris
tian Association held its 55th
annual meeting and luncheon
yesterday in the Grand Ball
room of the Mayflower Hotel.
Immediately preceding the
luncheon a reception was held
in the Chinese Room.
Receiving the members of
the YWCA and their guests
were the president of the
board Of directors, Mrs. Fred
erick B. Lee, and former
presidents of the board of
directors, including Mrs. Wal
dron Faulkner, Mrs. Albert
w. Atwood, Mrs. Walter H.
Judd. Mrs. Thomas Clark
Matthews and Mrs. William
Adams Slade.
n COlOrIul annual report
was at each place, emphasiz-
ing that the v. I. P. in the
YWCA is the individual-the
club leader, the volunteer, the
board or committee member
these persons, 80, 900 strong,
who make up the member
ship of the YWCA. Miss
Mabel R. Cook. executive di-
rector of the YWCA, shared
with the membership some of
the highlights of her recent
trip around the world. She
spoke of her pride in the
YWCA wherever she saw it
at work, and its dedicated
leaders.
Election results were an
nounced. Reelected to the
board of directors for a term