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Evening star., 1960-09-04

| tions. Transfer students are
eligible, providing they meet
the same general requirements
that have been established for
all. You would need the ap-
proval Of the person in charge
of loans and scholarships at
your new institution. AS a fu-
ture teacher, you can expect
a SO per cent rebate Of your
student loan, 10 per cent a year
for five years. You have 10
years in which to complete all
payments of your Federal loan.
A low rate Of interest is
charged.
QuestiOn-We have a son in
grade z, who has been q reason
ably good student. We have q
limited amount Of money set
aside for his education. Should
we save the college tuition fund
and have our boy attend o
public high school in Lakewood,
Ohio, or shall we use the money
for a good college preparatory
school? Where can I get in
formation on. high standing
preparatory schools?
Answer-In my opinion 1t
would be wiser to save your
money for your sons college
tuition. Many public schools
are as good, If not better, than
private schools. 1t also depends.
to a large extent, on the boy.
Some believe that q boy in
grade Z, who is probably 13
years Of age. is too young to
be sent away to a boarding
school. But I'm not arguing
the relative values of public
versus private schools. Both
types have their rightful place
in American education. I have
found that students who do
well in public high schools have
little difficulty in entering the
best colleges. If a choice has to
be made between a private
high school and no college, or
a public high school and q coll
lege, I would strongly recon-
mend the latter.
! North American NeWspaper AlIiancel
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biology and science. Where can
I get more information about
student loans?
Answer: If you are already
in college you must work
through your guidance counse-
lor or the admissions officer or
bursar. Find out whether Alle-
gheny is under the Federal
loan program (because Of the
Federal requirement that all
recipients must sign a loyalty
oath, some so colleges have
withdrawn. Then find out
whether you are eligible under
the regulations set up by the
Government and the college.
In general, you must show
need and must be attending
college on a full-time basis t12
credits per semester or more) I.
Question: I have read about
loans made available to stu
dents who enter the teaching
profession. I have just finished
two years at the University of
Minnesota, and now plan to
enter the Moukato State
Teachers College as a math
major for my next two years.
AS a transfer student will I be
eligible for the loan? And as a
future teacher. will I get any
special benefits?
Answer: Yes, to both ques-
Evening star., 1960-09-04
$3MiIIion BoIIou School
ToOpen in Southeast

Prior TO his assignment at
Coolidge, he served for q time
as acting assistant principal at
Woodrow Wilson High.
Final Touches
Begun in the fall of 1858, Bal
lou is getting its final touches
this week end. Its exterior is
of facing brick. cinder block
and pre-fab tile. Located on
16 acres of Nichols avenue. the
plant includes an SO0-seat au-
ditoriuin, q 6,O00-seat stadium.
q 600-seat cafeteria, a double
gymnasium, an armory, an in-
door rife range. q greenhouse,
an athletic field house, two gen.
eral shops, q food laboratory,
complete kitchens for home eco
nomics students, biology and
chemistry laboratories filed
with the latest in equipment,
and q business machine class
room.
It was built by the ]. d.
Hedin Construction Co..
Ballou's design marks q de-
parture from former policy re-
garding school architecture.
There is no other school In
the city that looks like this
one, even remotely" one ON
cial explained. He pointed
out that municipal architects
formerly handled school design,
"and consequently, they all
seem to look alike"
Ballou, he continued. was de-
signed by a private architect.
Here you see the result -
something entirely different" +"
The ringing of school bells
Wednesday also will mark the
opening Of a new elementary
school in the District and ad-
ditions to two existing ones.
Inspected and approved last
week was the new Maude Alton
Elementary at Forty-ninth and
Foote streets NE, which will
relieve overcrowding in that
area. The price tag is $917,226.
The additions have been
made at Burroughs Elementary.
Eighteenth and Monroe streets,
NE, and at Langdon Elemen-
tary, Twentieth and Franklin
streets NE, giving the system
20 new clasSrooms. Burroughs
will accommodate about 1000
students, 200 more than last
year, and Langdon 750, about
$50 more than last year.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
EDUCATION
FORUM
sy BENJAMIN FINE

Question: A year from now,
my daughter will be ready for
college. She wants to 60 into
the field Of commercial art. Are
there any scholarships avail
able in this field? To whom
shall I apply?
Answer: Scholarships are
available in many fields, includ-
ing commercial and industrial
art. The United States ONCE
of Education has prepared a
book that lists the various
scholarships. You might write
to the department in Washing
ton, D. c. Information con.
cerning scholarships is listed in
"You Can Win a Scholarship"
published by Barrow's Educa-
tional Series, or in my own
book, American College Coun-
selor and Guide" published by
Prentice-Hall.
Question: In a recent article
you suggested that all quail
fed students should be per-
mitted to go to college. Who
'is to judge whether a boy or
girl is qualified? My son has
an average between C and D
in high school. Should he be
kept out of college in favor Of
a boy who has a 90 average? I
cannot score below 100 when
playing 18 holes of golf. Should
I be barred from the golf
course because of this? 1t
seems to me that the D student
needs more education, and
should be encouraged to con-
tinue.
Answer: You raise a very
challenging point. Do we place
too much emphasis upon
marks? If a boy does his best,
and is a c student or less,
shouldn't we find some kind of
college or university training
that would help him? If we
concede that education is i'm
portant in the development OF
a persons character as we'll as
his intellect, we are doing the
average student an injustice by
slamming the doors Of higher
education in his face. I would
like to see some alert college
accept the below-average high
school graduate on an expert
mental basis. In today's atomic
world, we need as many edu-
Gated men and women as we
can possibly get. And we can
get them by giving all who seek
learning an opportunity to get
It, on their own level.
Question: You have mem
toned. in the Education Fo-
rum. that loans are available
through the Federal Govern
ment. I am junior at Allie
gheny College and am taking
secondary education to teach
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trants are disqualified in the
South than in any other part
Of the country. The Army re-
quires a minimum Of four years
schooling for acceptance. Below
that the Army considers a per-
son "illiterate."
In the 1858 selective service
tests, Montana had only SO pei
cent of its potential servicemen
rejected because Of illiteracy
leading the Nation. South Ca
rolina, with a rejection rate o1
58.5 per cent, was at the bottom
of the list.
The number of high school
students who drop out before
completing their four years Of
school is greater in the South
than in any other part of the
nation. Wisconsin, with a reten-
ton rate of 94.5 per cent. lee
the country, while South Caro-.
lima, with a rate of Al per cent
was at the bottom.
Little Money Available
On balance, what does this
add up to? For one thing. the
Southern States do not have
as much money to spend or
education as do the other
States. But, on the other hand
the South is making a greater
financial effort - within its
limitations - than the rest oi
the country. In 1858 Californis
had a per capita total tax col.
lection of $247.17 compared
with $102.68 for Alabama. The
ten lowest States in terms OF
available tax funds are in the
South.
Other indications of ability
to pay for schools are the pei
capita personal income and the
personal income per child OF
school age. On both these
counts the Southern States are
at a disadvantage.
Connecticut leads in pei
capita personal income with
$2,817. Mississippi is last with
1858. On personal income pei
child of school age, Connecticut
is again first with $12,607. Mis-
sissippi is again last with
$3.722. In other words, Con-
necticut has four times as much
income per child as Mississippi
Even though these are seri-
Gus problems and their solu-
ton remains in the future, it
is comforting that Southern
educational leaders today rec
ognize their basic school needs.
In the interest Of the national
economy 1t Is to be hoped that
the next decade will witness q
continued narrowing of the
educational gap between the
South and the rest Of the rest
of the country.
Meanwhile. the Southern
States are to be commended
for the tremendous job they
are doing to strengthen their
school and college programs.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Ry RENIAMIN FINE

North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK. Sept. 3.-The
segregation battle isn't the
only story in Southern educa-
ton worth reporting these
days. The SCHOOLS Of the
South - forgetting the race
question for q while - have
made dramatic advances dur
ing the rast few years. They
may not yet be on a par with
Northern ones, but neither are
they so far behind as they once
were.
There are ceveral gauges for
measuring the improvements
Uf Southern education:
/. Expenditures for higher
education in the South have
increased from $520,072, 900 in
1853 to more than 81 billion
this year.
2. Since 1850 the South has
awarded more doctor Of phi
losoply degrees than in its
entire previous history. South
ern institutions are now grant,
ing some 1900 Ph.D.'s a year.
8. Expenditures for research
in publicly supported institu-
tions have increased from $23
million 10 $50 million since
1854.
4. Junior colleges have be-
come more numerous in the
South. This means that many
youngsters who never intended
going to college can now extend
their education beyond high.
school for two years.
5. A survey Of 10 large State
universities in the South shows
Evening star., 1960-09-04
BY JOHN M. ROSSON
star stan writer

otaE 1thh WtlscE
"He was an unassuming man,
not one to think of buildings
being named for him, but If he
knew. I'm certain he'd be
proud"
A former colleague Of the
late DR.. Frank w. Ballou. SUI
perintendent Of District schools
from 1920 to 1943. thus re-
ferred to the naming of the
first new senior high school to
be built in the District in
eight years.
Under construction the past
two years at Nichols avenue
and Fourth street Sc. Ballou
Senior High is scheduled to
open Wednesday when some
121 400 District students re-
turn to the city's classrooms
for the new fall term.
Schools in Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties in
Maryland and in Alexandria,
Va, will open Tuesday. Paroch-
ial schools under jurisdiction
of the Catholic Archdiocese of
Washington will open on vary
ing dates. Schools in Arling-
ton. Fairfax County, Falls
Church and Loudoun County
opened last Thursday.
DR.. Ballou, who retired in
1943 and died in 1855, would be
amazed at the school that bears
his name.
Cost Questioned
The only complaints regis
tered last week when the build
ing was officially inspected
concerned the possibility, as
one offcial put it, that 'it GER
tainly has everything, and
maybe too much" The refer.
ence was to a small room where
Ballou's future. athletes can get
a warm-water bath in special
tubs to relieve aches and pains.
Described as an example of
the --latest in school design"
Ballou's price tag is slightly
more than $3.1 million, includ-
ing equipment. Even so, officials
point out, it cost about $400,-
600 less than Spingarn, the
Districts last new high school,
built in 1852.
The difference, they ex-
planned, is in the materials
undertakings on stairways are
made of iron pipe instead of
aluminium, and the new build
ing's ceilings are some two feet
lower. Ballou also makes ex-
tensive use Of prefabricated and
cinder block walls instead of
tile.
Immediate benefactors of the
ultra-modern plant will be some
$50 10th and 18th graders who
will make up the first Ballou
classes. The building probably
will reach its full capacity Of
1900 students in about two
years. The first graduating class
will be the class Of 1862.
Under Capacity
Ballou is designed to relieve
overcrowding at Anacostia and
Spingarn high schools.
"Spingarn, for instance, will
be under capacity for the first
time since it opened" School
Supt. Carl F. Hansen said.
Ballou's boundaries will be
Suitland parkway. the Potomac
and Anacostia Rivers and the
District line. Twelfth graders
in the area will continue at
their former schools.
Most Ballou students, at
least this first year. will come
from Anacostia High" DR..
Hansen said.
Ballou's principal will be
Joseph P. Carlo, 45-year-old
former assistant principal at,
Coolidge High. where he served
for seven years.
Mr.. Carlo, who lives at 121
West Cameron road, Falls
Church. received his bachelor
Of arts degree at American Uni
versity here and his masters
degree at Pennsylvania State.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION
Southern Schools Make
Many Dramatic Advances

cent more money than in 1850.
Georgia spends 95 per cent
more.
Lowest Salaries
Regarding salaries, seven
Southern States are among the
10 States paying the lowest scale
to its teachers and school ad-
ninistrators. The Nationwide
salary average in 1959-60 was
$3.50. Alaska topped the list
with $4,000; Mississippi was low
est with $3,175. Here are the
top 10 and bottom 10 States:
TOP TEN
Evening star., 1960-09-04
TOP TEN

Here, again. Mississippi made
spectacular gains in average
school salaries. From 1949-50
to 1959-6O Mississippi increased
its salaries 1877 per cent. the
greatest gain registered by any
State in the Nation. Georgia,
Arkansas, Virginia and Ala
bama were among the top 10
in rate of improvement.
Another measure of the edu-
cational program is the selec-
tive service testing program. A
far higher proportion of regis
Evening star., 1960-09-04

These statistics don't tell the
whole story, though. The South
has greatly increased It's ex-
penditures per pupil during the
past decade. Mississippi. for
example, now spends 162 per
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that entrance requirements are
becoming stricter.
Negative Picture
This is the bright side Of the
Southern school picture. There
is a dark side. too. A report
from the National Education
Association shows that the
South still has the highest IL
literacy rates, the fewest high
school graduates, the lowest
salary schedule for teachers,
the smallest expenditure per
pupil.
A good measuring rod is the
expenditure per pupil in aver
age daily attendance. New York
is In top place with an expendi-
ture Of $3.50; Arkansas is at the
bottom with $191. The national
average is 1869 per child.
Here are the top 10 and the
bottom 10 States:
Evening star., 1960-09-04

The outhor, q Pulitzer Prize reporter.
is education editor Of the North
American Newspaper Alliance. Ques-
tons Regarding education and CO.
reers should be addressed to him at
BIS Brower ovenue. Rockville Centre.
Long Island.
Evening star., 1960-04-25
Pay Order Given
Rockville Firm

BALTIMORE, April Is (AP)
"A federal Judge has issued a
decree permanently enjoining
a Rockville Md firm from
violations of the Federal fair
labor standards act.
United States District Court
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut issued
the order to the Ruben Curtis
Corp. The United States De-
partment Of Labor said the firm
agreed to the entry of the de-
cree which requires it to pay
time-and-a-half for overtime.
The Department said the
company is subject to Federal
wage-hour regulations because
it is engaged in the manufac-
ture and installation Of store
fixtures in interstate commerce.
The Department also an
nounced the filing of a suit
under the wage-hour law
against Lighthouse Inc, a boat
building firm located at Acco-
keek, Prince Georges County.
The action, taken in the
name of the secretary of labor.
alleges the firm failed to pay
$1,539 in Sovertime compensa-
ton to seven employees.
Evening star., 1960-04-25

be worked out, the program
will be carried by one or more
of the national networks.
Questions by Mail
The hour-long program will
be aired sometime between Z
pm. and 10 pm, depending
largely on what programming
the networks might want.
The two candidates will be
asked questions mailed in by
the public. The editorial board
of the Charleston Gazette will
screen the queries to select
those which it considers deal
most directly with campaign
issues.
Apparently each candidate
will be free to Jump in imme-
diately to differ with the other
during the course of the ques-
tion-answer session.
There will be no audience.
The program will be televised
from a WCHS-TV Charleston
studio.
A side-by-side television ap-
pearance by both candidates
also is scheduled for the eve
ming of May 9-election eve
over WSAz-TV, Huntington.
This will be a panel-type pro-
gram, with newsmen firing
questions separately to the two.
Evening star., 1960-04-25
riPIe Service Flows.
Cited by ConsuItont

curity problems. He appeared
today before the Senate Sub
committee on National Policy
Machinery.
Mr.. Perkins recommended
changes in the organization of
both the State and Defense De-
partments. The State Depart
ment, he said. seems unaware
that foreign policy and mill
tary policy "are inextricably
linked" This has led to some
acute practical difficulties. &"
For instance" he said, "the
as an automatic reply to any
Russian aggression seemed to
ignore completely the existence
and implications of a Russian
strike capability."
He recommended that an as
SiStant secretary for military
affairs be appointed in the
State Department, that regular
military brief1ngs for State De-
partment officers be held and
that at least two dozen
middle-grade officers a year"
should be sent to the National
War College.
Evening star., 1960-04-25
GroupCoIIs ForeignAid
Illegal, Asks Big Slash

Many suggestions to the
contrary" he added. they are
not and never have been iso-
lationists.
In asking that the Presi-
dents foreign aid requests be
cut to 50 billion, Mr.. Harnisch-
feger said this recommenda-
ton is made with a view to
the termination of foreign aid
at the close of fiscal year 1862,
with the exception of limited
military assistance to countries
and areas directly threatened
by Red aggression"
Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers,
retired. testified as vice chair
man and national director of
the citizens committee. He said
foreign aid. except in instances
such as Korea, Formosa and
Berlin, has run its course.
Gen. Fellers said "it is high
time that those of our allies
who have now become prosper
GUS, stand on their own. Our
foreign handouts have con-
tributed little to our defense or
to that of the free world"
Evening star., 1960-04-25
Poll Lists
Nixon Slump
In Indiana
By the Associated Press

Vice President Nixon's sup
porters yesterday released a
poll indicating Mr.. Nixon will
run behind Senator Kennedy
in the May 3 Indiana presi-
Dental preference primaries.
Each is running without oppo-
sition in his own party.
The same poll of Indiana
voters, however, Mr.. Nixon's
aides said, showed the Vice
President ahead of Senator
Kennedy and some other
Democratic rivals for the presi-
dency as of now.
They attribute the primary
election outlook to the polls
indications that-because of
many party contests down the
line-58 per cent Of those turn
ing out will vote Democratic,
AZ per cent Republican.
The poll figures that if the
presidential election were held
now. Mr.. Nixon would be ia
vored over Senator Kennedy,
his nearest rival, by a margin
of 50 to 48 per cent.
The pollsters reported that
in other trial heats" Mr..
Nixon led Senator Symington
Of Missouri, 54 to 46 per cent;
Adlai E. Stevenson, 81 to 43
per cent, and Senator johnson
of Texas, 81 to 43 per cent.
No test was made of the
strength of Senator Humphrey
OF Minnesota, another Demo-
cratic candidate. ....
The poll gave the Democrats
a 56 to Al per cent preference
among voters in congressional
races, as compared with what
Mr.. Nixon's people said was a
"a to 46 Democratic preference
in 1858 when the Democrats
won 8 House seats to 3 for the
Republicans.
Evening star., 1960-04-25
Gross Keeping Watch
On FriIIs in House Bills
By the Associated Press

More and more. the House is
learning it has to reckon with
g slight, mild looking man
from Iowa.
Representative Gross, a stern
foe of frills in Government and
errors in procedure, has sharp
eye for spotting both.
Armed with a House rule
book and a vast amount of in
formation on every bill brought
to the floor, he poses a vexa-
tious problem for the legislator
who rises to debate unprepared.
His points of order, parlia-
mentary inquiries and questions
have forced more than one bill
back to committee for revision,
and in some cases have knocked
them completely of the CAL
endar
Not Dear to G. o. p.
Mr.. Gross is a Republican,
but his strong streak of inde-
pendence has not endeared him
to the House G. o. P. leader
ship. When he's against some
thing, he doesn't care who is
for it.
But if his uncompromising
conduct has not won him pop
ularity. it has earned him wide
respect among the members. A
surprising number of them will
admit privately that Mr.. Gross
is performing a valuable serv-
ice in forcing adherence to
House rules and in keeping a
sharp eye on Government
spending.
Representatives. Skies. Demo-
crat of Florida, recently praised
him on the floor for the dill
gence with which he pursues
his self-appointed task. And in
an earlier debate, when Mr..
Gross rose to challenge Repre-
sentative Vinson, Democrat of
Georgia, the Georgian re-
sponded with relish:
There is really no good de-
bate unless the gentleman from
Iowa is in it,"
Mr.. Gross, a 60-year-old ex-
newSpaperman and radio broad
caster, has been in Congress IL
years, but started his various
disruptive maneuvers only dur
ing this session.
II don't get any particular
pleasure out of doing these
things" he said. But I've seen
a growing tendency toward
sloppy legislation-appropriat-
ing committees writing legisla-
ton, and money being appro-
priated without authorization
If they get away with it. it's
just going to get worse. Well,
I'm not going to let them get
away with it"
Mr.. GroSs's' successes are
few, mostly temporary and
Evening star., 1960-04-25
go Luuterbuch Award
Given to Editor McGiII

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April
Is (AP).-Ralph McGill, editor
of the Atlanta Constitution
and syndicated columnist, was
honored today with the 1860
Lauterbach award "for dis
tinguished service in the field
of civil liberties"
He was cited as "a dedicated
journalist, undaunted against
demagoguery, unfailing in pa
tience, unstinting in constant
striving for the basic rights of
all Americans"
The Lauterbach Awards were
established by friends of Rich
ard E. Lauterbach, author and
Journalist, upon his death in
1850 and placed in custody of
the Nieman fellowship at Har-
ward for presentation.
Evening star., 1960-04-25
BY the Associated Press

The Citizens Foreign Aid
Committee today termed the
foreign aid program illegal and
asked that President Eisen-
hower's SALTS. 100000 aid re-
quests be slashed to 81 billion.
In testimony to the House
Appropriations Subcommittee
on Foreign Operations, Walter
Harnischfeger, head of the
citizens group, said:
THE Mutual Security Act of
1859 is one of the greatest pieces
Of pork barrel legislation ever
conceived. Neither this nor any
other Congress will reduce or
restrain spending at home so
long as it votes colossal foreign
handouts"
Mr.. Harnischfeger, chairman
Of the board of the Harnisch-
feger Corp. of Milwaukee, told
the subcommittee that members
OF his group "are men of world
wide experience in foreign af-
fairs. in business, in govern
ment, in education and in the
'egal and military professions. -