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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

Whatever its inspiration, the
old ordinance was successfully
invoked by a defense lawyer,
who argued that any policeman
dressed as a woman is an agent
provocateur. And if the i'm
perSonator makes himself so
alluring as to be bothered by
men on the make, well, that
amounts to entrapment. So
said the lawyer.
A chagrined police lieu
tenant, Harold Melleby, said in
Camden County Court he knew
of no such law when he had
the brain wave of costuming
policemen as women to catch
Washers.
1t. Melleby said he felt 1t
was legitimate strategy, and
certainly effective. He added
that he got permission from
Mayor Alfred Pierce before 60
ing ahead.
The 1906 law was dug UP
by an attorney for Angel
Rivera, 81, who was arrested
as a maSher February l by
policeman Donald MCGlencey.
posing as a woman.
Rivera had been sent to jail
tor six months for dlSorderly
conduct. He was appealing the
sentence before Judge Ben
iamin DZick
Judge DZick vacated the SEN
tence, imposed another of 80
days, and suspended that.
Rivera was freed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Unemployment
Up in Maryland

BALTIMORE. Feb. 81 CAP) .
Employment dropped sharply
and unemployment increased
last month in Maryland, but
the Department of Employ
ment Security said today the
picture was still a definite i'm
provement over January 1859.
Robert B. Kimble, executive
director of the department, said
the changes from December to
January reflected seasonal lay
offs in wholesale and retail
trade, construction, government
and service employment.
Some l,002,4O0 Marylanders
were at work last month. That's
$4,000 fewer than in December
but 1920 more than in jan
uary 1859.
The January unemployment
total was 10000 or 6.6 per cent
Of the labor force. The jobless
figure in December was 63.700.
or So per cent of the labor
force, and in January 1859 1t
was $4,000 or 8.3 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Top Surplus
Payments for
Grain Listed
BY the Associated Press

Twenty firms received pay
ments ranging up to S23,470,-
634 for storing and handling
Government surplus grain last
year, a House Appropriations
subcommittee has disclosed.
An Agriculture Department
report made public yesterday by
the subcommittee showed the
top payment wenS to C-G-F
Grain Co. The report covered
the major amounts paid by the
Commodity Credit Corp. for
grain storage in 1859.
Other firms and total pay
mentS included:
Cargill, Inc, S12,lO3,6l5;
Continental Grain Co.. $685.
100; Union Equity Cooperative
Exchange. S6,7l7.599: Archer
Daniels-Midland Co, S6,O76,-
1913; Harvest Queen Mill and
Elevator Co.. $5.884,495: Farm
ers Union Grain Terminal As
ISOLATION. S4.781.426.
Farmers Cooperative Comm
Co., $4,lO2f97;, Good Pasture
Grain and Milling Co. S3.824 =
297; Morrison Quir1; Grain Co,
81, 929,5e8; Norris Grain Co..
$2,889,238; r. H Peavey Co,
S2,806,43l; Burrus Mills, Inc,
S2,787.837.
General Mills. Inc, S2.776.-
1913; Producers Grain Corp,
S2,621,40l; Damien Mills, Inc,
S2,477,522; Bunge Corp, 81
318,773; Sam P. Wallingford
Corp, $2.292.23l: The Pi1ebury
Co. S2,285,8O2: Standard Mill
ing Co., $2,214,8l9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star STAFF Writer

A UNDERSTANDING coalition of
House Republicans and South
ern Democrats is operating as
smoothly and effectively as
ever. in the opinion of a group
of Northern and Western Dem
ocratic liberals.
Notwithstanding signs of
some decline in Southern Dem
ocratic influence in various
congressional areas, the famil-
lar conservative croSS-party
combination still makes itself
felt in the House when the
chips are down.
Despite House Republican
Leader Halleck'S disavowal of
an "unholy alliance" with such
powerful Southerners as Rules
Committee Chairman Smith,
Democrat of Virginia, a COP
Dixie mixture again last week
helped uphold President Essen
hoWer'S veto of a water pollu-
ton control money bill. All but
one of 81 Democrats who
joined 100 Republicans in sup
port of the veto were from
Southern or border States.
Sure of 228 Votes
According to an analysis pre-
pared for approximately 100
House liberals in a Democratic
Study Group, the coalition US
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
TOGETHERNESS
SEEN HARMFUL
IN FAMILY LIFE
BY the Associated Press

TogethernesS may not
always be the best idea for
families. a foundation ex-
ecutive yesterday told del
egates to the forthcoming
White House conference on
children and youth.
August Heckscher. direc-
tor of the goth Century
Fund. urged separate vaca-
tions for parents and chill
dren so each can fulfill
their own interests in a So
Ciety he said tends toward
conformity.
He said tOday's forces
draw everything tightly
toward the home circle
toward the family room, the
patio, the barbecue pit and
the private swimming pool"
Mr.. Heckscher said youth
should have its own forms
of leisure to prevent the
worlds of young people and
adults from coalescing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

ing against q majority Of DEM
ocrats from the rest of the
country.
World War II did not mate
rally weaken the strength of
the coalition especially IN help
ing to enact the Smith anti
strike act, a States rights
armed services voting bill, per-
manent establishment Of the
House Committee on Un-Amer-
lean Activities, and watered-
down measures for price con-
troll and excess profits control"
the memo says. ..
Truman Program Blocked
Much of the Truman admin
istration's legislative program
was blocked by the coalition,
the memo adds.
During the Eisenhower adj
ministration," the memo de-
clares. the coalition has con-
tinued to play a dominant role
1t has won a number of impor-
tant victories in the House.
They include those which.
turned over the offshore oil re-
sources to a few coastal States,
reduced funds for soil conserv-
alton, blocked liberalization Of
unemployment compensation,
watered-doWn several public
housing bills, passed the natu-
raj gas bill, defeated school
construction legislation. wa
tered-doWn a minimum wage
bill, blocked an investigation of
the administrators fiscal and
monetary policies, and blocked
consideration of the commu-
nifty facility loan program"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

toned are the procedural road
blocks in the House legislative
machinery controlled by coali-
ton leaders; the seniority sys-
TEN which assures conservatives
the chairmanships of a ma
jority of committees; the lack
of communication and unity of
purpose among Northern and
Western Democrats: the anti
quated apportionment formulas
in many States which gives
rural areas disproportionate
representation, and the basic
need for a realignment of the
American political system"
Committee Action Studied
The study devotes consider
able discussion to the role
played by Southern Democrats,
not only in voting against their
fellow Democrats on the House
floor, but even more import
antly in committees where
many measures are pigeon
holed or watered down"
1t says this is particularly
true Of the 12-member Rules
Committee, where four of the
eight Democrats are from the
South. 1t complains that the
Rules Committee exercises I'M
due power as a policy-making
body instead of deciding pri-
when and how bills
should be sent 10 the House
floor.
AS far back as 1887 when
House conservatives teamed up
against many New Deal meas
ures, the memo recalls, almost
10 per cent of all House roll
calls showed Republicans and
most Southern Democrats vot-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

and agriculture already are
protected by Government de-
partments, he declares.
The department would guard
family interests particularly
against the stresses which
emanate from Government pol
icieS affecting initiation, unem-
ployment, Selective service and
var"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
Professional Glasses

The professional classes, who
stress companionship and mu-
tual development in marriage,
have a low divorce rate, DR.,
Hill oberveS.
He sees hope for more for
tunate first choices of mar
riage partners in the future if
the members of the Nation S
working forces now moving
from agriculture and manufac-
turing into the service occu-
pations also adopt the attitude
toward marriage of the present
professional classes.
Communities should find
ways to ease poSt-divorce ad-
justment and facilitate success
full remarriages, DR.. Hill be-
lieves.
1--WE are better prepared to
zeal With bereavement Of
widows and widowers than we
are with the adjustments of
the divorced" he adds.
The reversal of the long
term downward trend in the
size of American families seems
a certainty now, he says. even
though today conservative es-
Inmates place the cost of rear
ing a child to age Is al $4,000
and there is still his college
education ahead of him"
Dr.. Hill suggests that a Fed
eral department of family life
be established on behalf Of the
Nations approximately 40 mil
lion families.
Such a department would
strengthen family morale by
protecting its interests, as the
interests of labor, commerce
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28

GIESLER APPEARS IN CAROLE'S DEFENSE
Jerry Geser left who sensational
shakes hands with Tego Angeles
murder trial where Miss TregOf trial with
Bernard Finch charges of Staying Dr. Finc wife
the nominal head the TregO illness
this his first visit to the trial
gold GieSer assOciate-AP WiephOtO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-28
FAMILIES
Continued From First Page


about the fact that people dent
bother to marry. Over 80 per
cent eventually marry in Amer
lea. but only 10 per cent do
in Sweden and Switzerland, and
fewer yet in Ireland"
Divorces on DeCl ne in L. S.
The long-term divorce trend
In America has been upward
since the first census covering
divorce in 1870. DR.. Hill reports.
But "aS Short-term phe-
nomenon the divorce rate fol-
lows the marriage rate"
Divorce reached a high of
one for every two and a half
marriages in lC4". but has de-
clincd to one in five marriages
tthe lowest fi~We since 194l),
In line with the more recent
decline in the marriage rate,
the sociologist says.
Most vulnerable to divorce
during this period have been
the childless, the teen-age cou-
pies, veterans, the grammar
school educated, and low-in-
come groups" he adds.
Not only are grammar
school educated persons more
likely to become divorced (the
rate is twice that of persons
with a college education), but
they end their marriages on
the average nine years earlier
than college people who do
divorce"
Evening star., 1960-04-07
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

SOUVENIR: President Will
liam Mckinley, a man of
innate graciousness, loved
children, relates Margaret
Leech in In the Days Of
Mckinley"
THE East Room of the
White House swarmed with
youngsters of all ages on the
days Of his public receptions.
Some lucky child was sure to
get the bright pink carnation
he habitually wore. The Pres
ident's boutonniere had be-
come a valued souvenir of a
visit to the mansion.
There is a charming story
OF a call paid by one lady
with her two sons. They were
sitting in the Red Room with
Mrs. Mckinley when the
President came in. He found
two expectant little boys;
but he had only one bouton-
Mere.
Taking the flower from
his coat, he gave it to the
elder. Then he selected an
other carnation from the
vase for the younger; but,
before giving it, he wore it
for a moment in his lapel,
SO that the older boy would
not be able to lord it over
his brother"
Evening star., 1960-04-07

saves up all her piano prac-
ticing until $50 and 10
o'clock at night. Then she
bangs on the piano for an
hour straight.
We sometimes like to 60 to
sleep at $50 or 10 because
my husband isn't too well,
but the noise keeps us up.
I have limited to the mother
several times, but she hasn't
taken the hint. We're not the
kind Of folks who fight with
our neighbors. Should I talk
to the girl herself? Or should
I drop the landlord a note?
DISTURBED
Just come right out and
tell the girls mother what is
on your mind. If that doesn't
work, ask the landlord to
speak to the family. That
might strike a responsive
chord!
What's your problem? For
a personal reply, Drite to
Abby In care of The Euenino
Star and incloSe a stamped,
Selt-GddreSSed envelope.
y y =
For Abby'S pamphlet, what
Every Teen-Ager Wants to
KnotD," send rs cents and a
large, Selt-dddreSsed, stamped
envelope in care of The Eve-
ming Star.
distributed by McNaught
Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1960-04-07
DEAR ABBY =.
Every Generation Has Its CIods!
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

high school boy with green
teeth. I really mean it.
1t doesn't seem possible
that in this day and age
an 18-year-old boy could go
around with such neglected
teeth. I swear the inside Of
that boys mouth hasn't felt
a toothbrush in 10 years. And
I'm sure he hasn't seen a
dentist in at least that long.
1t isn't a matter of finances
either because this boy got a
new car from his parents
for his 18th birthday.
What disturbs me is that
my daughter isn't bothered
about it in the least. When
I asked her how she could
stand to kiss him, she said,
"Oh, muuuu-thur!" How in
the world can you wake up
a boy or his family?
DISGUSTED.
Your hints, suggestions or
recommendations would be
neither appreciated nor well
coined. And stop needing
your daughter. She probably
thinks he's Gods gift to wOm-
en- and she's not looking that
gift in the mouth.
y 4
DEAR ABBY: The people
in the apartment next to
ours have a 12-year-old
daughter. She comes home
right after school but she
Evening star., 1960-04-07

I'd like to do. Like join the
Red Cross and be helping
others. What bothers me most
is that I am leading my inno-
cent children down the wrong
road of life.
This probably sounds like
an absurd problem, but it
means everything to me and
my family. I want friends.
How does one get over this
fear Of people and learn how
to get along with others?
Please help me for the sake
of my children. Please do
not print my name. My hus-
band does not know I am
writing. Thank you so very
much. Sincerely. Mrs. x.
EVERY ONCE in a while
I reprint letters similar to
yours because most adjusted
persons haven't the slightest
idea how much suffering goes
on in the minds of people
who complain of chronic anx-
iety state. Outwardly they
may look as healthy and as
happy as you or I; but deep
down, they go through, as
many describe it: "A living
hell"
I wish I might give you
some pat advice that would
Immediately remove your
fears. I can't do that. But
in a general way, I can give
you a good steer.
I think it is most impor-
tant that you continue the
talking sessions" that your
doctor seems so willing to
make time for. Be thankful
you have an understanding
doctor. See him every few
weeks if you can. You must
have someone to lean on.
Your husband means we'll
when he tells you to grow
up"-but you can't pull
yourself up by your own boot
straps.
You need understanding
and guidance, above all. And
please get over the idea that
Evening star., 1960-04-07
Palm Tree
Moving Play

Meade Roberts "a Palm Tree
in a Rose Garden" seemed a
curious choice for Play Of the
Week last night (WTOP 81,
but one can understand pro-
ducer David Susskind's affec-
ton for it after viewing it.
Roberts spins a Hollywood
fable of frustrated. lonely wom-
en-. and it grows on you, with
several brilliantly drawn char
acters. perceptive dialogue and
several first class scenes.
(The technical tape diff
flculties last night unfortu-
nately marred the first act.)
Writing about a woman who
acts, most Of the time, has its
difficulties, even when the set
ting is lotusland. There she
runs a tacky rooming house and
vies with a neighbor for the
reflected glory of having a
roomer get into pictures. She's
tough to take.
Glenda Farrell played it the
right way with sympathy stops
out. thereby easing the irrita-
ton. 1t was when Roberts got
around to the other characters.
the pretty new roomer. the ugly
duckling daughter, the wistful
gossip. and the narcistic juve-
nile, that interest mounted.
Roberts drew these fairly
stock characters we'll and Bar
bara Ann Barrie. I thought.
was almost worth the, weight
on her own.
a II
Evening star., 1960-04-07

threatened by authority but
accepts it in the natural
course of things and tries to
learn from those in power.
Our guess is that if Tom
got his way and opened that
diner he would make a mess
Of it. He thinks he would
enjoy bossing others, but he
would find himself completely
unable to do it. Disciplining
others involves disciplining
ones self, ones own emotions
- and this Tom hasn't
learned to do.
Tom is fortunate in having
a father who understands his
fundamental problem and is
trying to get him to deal with
it. He should set himself the
task Of conquering his child
ishness before taking on more
responsibility than he can
handle.
tcopyriEhs 1860, Gen. Features Corp.
Evening star., 1960-04-07

DEAR ABBY: Please tell
me, have good manners gone
out Of style or not? For 20
years I have been sending
get-well cards, birthday
cards, anniversary cards,
baby cards and many other
kinds of cards. Last year !
sent out 256 cards and only
six people said: II got your
card and thank you"
Another thing, I am called
on to make cookies for this
and cakes for that. They send
a child after it and that's
all I know. And while I am
at it, what about people who
are invited to a tea and don't
bother to call to say they
can't come-they just don't
show up? I gave a tea and
invited % people-only 9
came and I never heard boo
from the others.
What's wrong with people
today. Abby Have they for
gotten how to say thank you?
OLD-FASHIONED
Every generation produces
its share of ill-bred clOds who
haven't the common courtesy
to acknowledge a kindness.
History is merely repeating
itself.
DEAR ABBY: My teen-age
daughter goes steady with a
Evening star., 1960-04-07

offers Of sponsorship because
I insisted that the audience be
built both in size and COM
position :" First sponsor:
Muntz TV, in what Gay de-
scribes as the largest single
time-buy by any one sponsor
in the history of FM.
Gay believes he has the
worlds only one-man radio
station. WGAY-FM is COM
pletely automated using the
Schafer system. L. L. Sonny
Stewart is station manager,
sales staff, program staff, air
staff. engineering staff and the
fellow who goes out for cof-
fee.
Speaking of radio, Norman
Reed reports that the Advertis-
ing Club will salute Radio Day
on May 10. with Kevin B.
Sweeney. president of the Radio
Advertising Bureau, Inc, as
head speaker.
- -
TV Reflections: HitchcOck's
Incident at a Corner" drew
high praise from the APPS
Cynthia Lowry, who described
Tuesdays Startime drama as
lone of the series best
efforts. The story was
simple but chilling" and was
"convincingly acted by a cast
including Vera Miles, George
Peppard, Paul Hartman and
LeOra DANA. E d m o n d
O'Brien'S Johnny Midnight
tuesdays, WRC-4) is a half
hour action show set on Dream
Street-and after about 10
minutes the other night, I
was TV sight of the week:
Dame Judith Anderson doing a
StatueSque Tango on the Arthur
Murray show Il thought
she should have won). The
No. l Jack Paar fan in our
Office now reports her utter
disenchantment. He told
us before how he got that
water-closet story: Tuesday
night. he said he got it from
an NBC executive"
b. HI.
Evening star., 1960-04-07

you are "bothering" your
doctor, that your case is not
as important as that of his
other patients. A broken leg
or a heart attack may be
more dramatic, but the pa
tient suffering from chronic
anxiety deserves, and needs,
all the time the doctor can
spare. If you won't consider
medical attention for your
self, think of your children.
And don't feel hopeless. !
have seen improvement in
nervous patients apparently
more i'll than you are.
DR.. Steincrohn'S leufet,
"PrGctical Pointers for Coro-
nary Patients" tUiu be mailed
on receipt of a stamped, SELF
addressed envelope and 10
cents in coin for handling
charges. Address DR.. Stein
crohn in care of The Evening
Star.
(Released by the Bell syndicate)
Tomorrow: Mononucieosis
Evening star., 1960-04-07

impress anybody and doesn't
have to have cocktail parties
for mobs of people on Satur-
day night. The experience he
and his wife have had is that
a living room, a bedroom and
a kitchen with a table is
about all you need.
THE money you save be-
tween a $4,000 house and
this" Mr.. Bidwell says, will
enable you to pay the trans
portation for your children
and grandchildren to come
a-visiting. It will also pay,
with money left over, for
lodging for the children in
a motel down the road while
you get acquainted with the
grandchildren"
Copyright, 1860. General Featuresp
The Golden Yeors oppeors eoeh
Thursday.
Evening star., 1960-04-07
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Fear of People Her Plant
By DR.. PETER J. sTEINcRoHN
DEAR DIR. STEINCROHN

DEAR DR.. STEINCROHN:
You have helped so many Of
my friends through your
wonderful column, I wonder
If you could please help me.
I am terribly afraid Of peo-
pie, therefore I have no
friends. Even when I go to
the corner store I get so
nervous and tensed up I
start shaking. I ask myself
why I should feel this way.
I'm a little better than aver
age looking and there's moth
ing queer" about me. But
I'm just so afraid that people
are going to laugh at me or
call me an "odd ball"
Also because of these feel
ings I'm making my 5-year-
old girl just the same way.
She is afraid of children and
sits in the back yard rather
than play with the others.
Because Of my feelings. I get
into periods of depression
where I feel I am hopeless.
Doctor, I am % years old
and have a wonderful hus-
band and two great kids.
What in the world should
make me feel like this? My
doctor gave me some pills to
lift up my spirits but they
don't help me get along with
people.
My doctor says I'll get over
It; but I've been this way as
long as I remember. The
doctor and I had two talking
sessions, but I gave up be-
cause I think his other pa
tients need him more than I
do.
Please don't say I need a
mental doctor. because we
definitely couldn't afford one.
My husband tells me to grow
up" He says for people to
like you it is important that
you like them.
But I do feel that I like
people. If I wasn't so afraid of
everything there's so much
Evening star., 1960-04-07
BY THOMAS COLLINS

A man named Frank Bid
well retired in 1858 from a
successful career as a travel
ing salesman. He had a re-
tirement income of $365 a
month. investments of $16,500
and a checking account of
around $400. He and his wife
also owned a $4,000 house
which was paid for.
MY wife had her heart set
on a fine home for our re-
tirement," Mr.. Bidwell says.
II couldn't marshal any good
arguments against her. And.
anyway, since I had been
k-clacking across the
country for all these years
like a gypsy. I longed for a
neat place to rest my weary
frame.
so I agreed we would re-
ward ourselves with a fine
little $25,0OO number perched
on the side of a ravine. It
had glass walls, paneling. a
pink bathroom-the works.
Then They Learn
"Also, since we had taken
$4,000 from my Investments
to pay for the place in cash.
and since our income was
adequate. we could manage.
But how wrong you can be.
"We're in the midst of a
smart-set community that is
driving sports cars. The
people don't know us from
Adam, and care less. Every
Saturday night, as a matter
Of fact, we are night-watch-
men for the community be-
cause everybody else has gone