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Evening star., 1960-07-27
SEAMS TO ME
It's Question and Answer Time

Q. I have a problem and
have found that the neigh
borhood dreSsmakers do not
know the answer. My right
hip is 1l2 inches higher than
my left. How can a pattern
be adjusted for a straight
skirt so that the skirt doesn't
pull up on one side? Mrs.
P, A. G.
A. If you make one side of
the pattern longer than the
other, your skirt will hang
right.
To alter your pattern.
draw a croSS-wise line about
i've or six inches below the
waistline as in figure of
illustration. Cut along this
line. Raise section at the
side seam until the skirt
length at the side is the same
as your own measurement
figure o. Slip a piece of
paper under the pattern and
pin in place.
y
@. I want to buy a dress
Iesaw made of 1o0 per cent
dacron which has knife
pleats in the skirt. 1t fit per-
fectly except for the length.
! want to know if I could
shorten it at the hemline and
press the pleats in again
without running them. The
owner of the store tells me
! must shorten it from the
waist. Mrs. H. A.
"a. The owner of the store
is right. When. working with
permanently pleated syn
thetic fabrics, you cannot
turn up a hem. The crease
of the pleat has been put in
chemically, which makes it
Evening star., 1960-07-27
By PATRICIA SCOTT

impossible to take out. This
is the beauty of a perma-
nently pleated skirt. If you
turn up the hem, you will
definitely ruin the pleats.
\ \
@. have put together
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Summer Camp To Open

The second girls session at
st. Vincent de Paul Summer
Camp near Abel, Nd, will
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gin a To-day free vacation.
A total Of 900 girls and
boys will be guests Of the
camp during the summer sea-
son. Mrs. Gladys Lloyd is
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Called RIA Function

However. Charles A. Horsky,
president of the Washington
Housing Association, opposed
continuation of this service by
the Welfare Department.
We strongly indorSed the
proposal under which the RIA
would assume the responsibility
for the relocation of people
displaced by other than Title l
activities. for which it is already
responsible, as the best and
easiest way in which this serv-
ice can be provided" said Mr..
HorSky.
Mrs. Herbert S. Marks, a
member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Washington Urban
League, said the continuation
of this relocation service by
the Welfare Department
rather than the adoption of a
real relocation service, with
real incentive to locating hous-
ing and to developing new
sources of housing, is fiscal
waste" "
Arthur Peter, representing
the District Bar Association,
and Nathan H. Olshan, vice
president of the District Insti-
tute of Certified Public Ac-
countants, were two of several
speakers who opposed extension
.of the city's unincorporated
business franchise tax to self
employed professionals.
This is one of the tax-in-
crease proposals included in
budget Offices list Of possible
measures:
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Aitken DiscIoses Plan
For Freewoy Bus Lane

Harold L. Aitken, District
highway director, wants express
bus lanes added to freeways as
a means to more efficient mass
transit in Washington and
other growing urban areas.
At a luncheon meeting of
the D. c. Advisory Committee
of the American Automobile
Association yesterday, Mr..
Aitken reported that his de-
partment is completing plans
for the first such freeway bus
lane.
The lane would be located at
Eleventh and C streets S,W.
on the proposed Washington
Channel Bridge-Twelfth street
expressway connection. The
estimated cost would be $25,00O
and no additional right of way
would be needed, he said.
The stop would be within
walking distance for commut-
Evening star., 1960-10-05

ers working in the Department
of Agriculture and other major
Government buildings in
Southwest.
Mr.. Aitken said informal
checks on the bus lane idea
with the Public Utilities Com
mission and bus company rep
resentativees brought a favor
able response. The project has
not yet been officially cleared,
however.
Mr.. Aitken pointed out that
lanes of this kind would en-
able express buses to pick up
and discharge passengers with
out leaving the freeway sys-
tenn. thus speeding service and
helping to attract more riders.
Passengers could transfer to
local service at the freeway
stops.
Mr.. Aitken said that while
there may be some argument"
against use Of highway funds
for such bus facilities, buses
should be given fair and ra-
tional consideration"
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urged the Commissioners to re-
store funds in the proposed
school budget for employment
of an additional 100 teachers
and 81 counSelors.
She said a study made by
DR.. Ellis Haworth, president
Of the District Education As
sociation. shows the District
spends about 20 per cent of
its total budget on its public
schools.
This ranks the District oath
out of the IS largest cities" she
said. The median amount
spent by the 25 largest cities
on their public schools is 34.4
per cent Of their total budgets.
Commissioners Robert E.
Mclaughlin and Mark Sullivan,
jr., questioned whether it
would be fair to compare Dis
trict expenditures for school
purposes with those in other
cities, since the District has
State as we'll as city functions.
Backs More Taxes
Mrs, Benjamin Schiller, rep
resenting the District League of
Women Voters, said that any
foreseeable increase in the Fed
eral payment would not be suf-
ficient to meet current needs.
I'VE, therefore, reindorse our
position of last year in sup
port of new taxes" she said.
I'VE continue our opposition
to extension of the regresSive
sales tax, but believe that an
increase in a variety of other
taxes must be used"
Frank j. LuchS, president
of the Washington Real Estate
Board. said the board still be-
lieves an increase in the sales
tax would be a more equitable
method of raising additional
revenue to meet the city's needs
than increasing the real es-
tate tax.
He also suggested that city
officials should study the feasi-
bility of imposing a toll on
the users Of inter- jurisdiction
highways to be constructed in
the near future.
Mr.. Luchs said the board
supports the request of the
Welfare Department for ST.
612 to continue operation of
the recently established re-
location service for families dis
placed as result of highway
or other public works construc-
tiOn.
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D. c. Heads Get Advice
On n$286MiIIion Budget

The District Commissioners listened to of
cng advice yesterday what to do about the cys budget
for the next fiscal year.
Most of the approximately so witnesses spoke
aday public hearing the proposed 1886 million spending
program divided into two general groups advocating
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School Cuts Protested

She and seven other spokes-
men for the District Congress
Of Parents and Teachers pro-
tested various cuts in the pro-
posed spending for education or
urged additional funds for
school needs.
Among the speakers in the
"hold-the-line" group was E.
A. Pritchard, representing the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
Mr.. Pritchard, who said his
organization is composed of
400 of the leading business
firms in Washington, declared:
1--WE are appalled, at the
budget estimates and strongly
urge the District Commissioners
to cut back in every way pos
sible in order to get a realistic
budget with which the tax
payers can live"
Mr.. Pritchard urged the Com
missioners ito delete all new
items of capital expenditures
this year and to effect an aus
terity program :"
He said that, despite the
fact that the population of the
District of Columbia has de-
creased every year since 1949.
when we spent about $102 mil
lion. the budget estimates for
1862 are $286 million.
Despite the fact that the
population of the District has
decreased every year since 1949.
we have 5000 more employees
on the Districts payroll than
we han in 1949," he said.
Miss Margaret Moore, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Dis
trict Educational Association,
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holding the line on spending
and the other pressing for more
services.
Among those asking for
more money, the school sup
porters had the most numerous
speakers.
The proposed 1886 million
budget was recommended by
the Commissioners budget
aides after they had Topped off
$20.2 million of the spending
requests originally urged by
the department heads.
Still the budget total is $26.8
million higher than the esti-
mated comparable figure for
the current fiscal year.
Proposals Not Specific
The budget does not recon-
mend specific tax proposals but
lists possible tax increases
which, when combined with a
higher Federal payment, could
bring in an additional SIC mil
lion, the amount needed to bal
ance the budget.
Mrs. C. Rhodes Cox, president
of the District of Columbia
Congress of Parents and Teach
ers, was the first spokesman for
her organization.
This is the time to ask what
Is needed for a sound educa-
tional program, not what the
cost will be-" Mrs. Cox declared.
Whatever the cost, we must
be willing to meet it. We have
no alternative. We have said
many times in the past and we
say again that we are willing
to pay higher taxes for a better
education for our children"
However, she continued, I'VE
are discouraged when we pay
more to stay in the same place.
Any tax increase now would
mean just that unless we also
receive a higher Federal pay
ment."
She urged the Commissioners
to continue their fight for a
full $32 million Federal pay
ment to the District.
Discussing the proposed
budget, she said that in view
of the desperate need for ex-
cellence in education" a fair
er and more realistic percen-
tage of the total city budget"
should be apportioned to
schools.
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pay only $I2 monthly
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performance.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16
Cabin John-Brookmont
BY Sandy ROvner
Oliver 6-8863

The serious injury of a three.
year-old child early this month
has raised a Juror among some
members of the Merrimack
Park Recreation Association
which could result simultane-
ously in a re-hearing of the
Associations coming exemption,
and in private court action, 1t
was revealed last week.
The child, John Montrie, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mon
trie of Calender dr.. in Wilson
Knobs, received a brain concus-
sion and a head wound requir-
eng extensive treatment when
he apparently rode his tricycle.
into an open drainage ditch
near one of the entrances to the
Merrimack swimming pool at
the foot of Callander DIR. (The
pool is operated by the Recrea-
ton Association.) Extent Of the
child's injuries will be deter
mined by q neurological exam
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16
Cabin John-Brookmont
Small Child Falls in
Open Drainage Ditch

ination scheduled for later this
month.
Hyman Shapiro, attorney for
the Montries, revealed that mott
fication Of intent to file suit has
been sent both to the Board OF
Directors of the Association and
to the County Council.
The drainage excavation in
question is approximately II
feet wide and IS feet long. It's
six-to-eight foot depth is lined
with concrete and, in part, with
rubble.
Some question has existed as
to precise ownership of the
ditch. A spokesman for the As
sociation's Board of Directors
told us that according to plat
prepared by certified land sur.
veyors, which is on record with
the County, the edge of the
ditch from which the boy pre-
sumably fell belongs to the
County. However, a letter from
County Construction Engineer
S. L. Powers declares that "this
(ditch) is entirely on private
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16

constructive suggestions will be
welcomed.
One evening recently the choir
of Ashton Methodist Church
presented a concert of religious
as well as secular songs for the
residents of the Asbury Home
for the Aging in Gaithersburg.
Mrs. Margaret Harris is d.
rector of the choir, which now
numbers 35. A bus was hired
for transportation of the group
to Gaithersburg and, after COM
pletion of the concert, a con-
Quoted tour of the very attrac-
tive home was enjoyed by the
choir members.
Karen Louise Wilson, born
June 6, is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Wilson. Her pa
ternal grandparents are Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Wilson, all of
Brighton. The other grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Peake, is here now to
help her daughter with the new
baby and her older brother.
On June %, Thursday, lunch
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16
SundY Spring-Ashfon
Community Council Holds
Meeting On Master Planning

will be served at the Oakdale-
Emory Methodist Church.
Here's a chance for a very good
midday meal for only a dollar
half price for children.
Miss Margaret Elgar Gilpin
of Olney received the Associate
of Arts degree from st. Mary's
Junior College in st. Marys
City on June 5.
While attending st. Mary's,
Miss Gilpin was a member of
the Student Government, the
executive board of the Athletic
Association, and the choir. She
also was very active in sports.
Miss Gilpin is presently en-
ployed by Vitro Laboratories.
DR.. and Mrs. Rudolph Kirk
recently visited briefly with
friends and relatives in Sandy
Spring. They were returning
to their home in Edison,
N. j., after spending a few
days in Williamsburg, Va. On
Friday evening they enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Robert N.
Henderson, Mrs. Charles c.
Tumbleson, Miss Margare
Brooke, and Mrs. Frederick
McReynolds at dinner at Olney
Inn.
DR.. Kirk has recently been
made head of the English De.
partment at Rutgers Univer-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16
WSSC Okays
$682,58l Bid
On w alter Line

"A $682,581 contract for con-
struction of about Az miles of
the Washington Suburban SAM
tary Commissions Potomac
River Water Supply Line in
Montgomery County has been
awarded to the Wright Con-
tracing Co., Inc, of Baltimore.
This portion of the line will
stretch from Norbeck to Der.
wood, just south of Gathers
burg.
Additional contracts for the
12-mile line from the Commits
sion's new Potomac River Fill
tration Plant to Georgia ave.
extended, north Of Norbeck, will
be awarded as rights of way are
acquired. The entire project will
cost approximately $2.4 million.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16

property and the County has no
responsibility whatsoever in
maintenance or correction of
this open ditch condition"
This Associations spokesman
has indicated that a resurvey
will be undertaken.
Powers letter was addressed
to Mrs. Gladys Wescott, unof-
fetal spokesman for residents
of Callander dr., who as mem
bers of the Association, have
been trying for more than a
year to have better safety
measures taken, she said. Mrs.
Wescott declared that "our only
interest is to find the fastest
and most effective way to close
the ditch so that there can be
no more accidents"
She added that Board mem
bers had promised last winter
to solve the problem. (The
Board spokesman explained
that after consultation with
County officials and safety en-
gineers it was determined that,
in accordance with standard
County practice, the open ditch
would be the safest way to deal
with the particular drainage
problem. He added that the
Board was extremely sympa-
thetic to the boys parents and
pointed out that the Associa-
TONS Insurance Carrier had
been notified that the incident
had occurred.)
Meanwhile, E. w. Bucklin,
director of the County's depart
ment of Inspection and Ii
censes, reported that he plans
to investigate the situation at
the earliest opportunity. He indi-
Gated that should the Associa-
ton be shown to have acted in a
manner not in keeping with the
provisions of their zoning ex-
emption, the case could possibly
be sent back to the Zoning
Board of Appeals for a re-hear-
ing.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16

been made. 1t is hoped that
this can be brought about in
order to put an end to the pres
ent spot coming of this rural
area.
Under the auspices of the
North East Montgomery Com
munity Council this subject will
BIZ discussed by Arthur X. Stell-
horn, Director of Planning for
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
The meeting will be open to all
who are interested in the future
CT zoning regulations and the
creation of this master plan and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16
Civil Defense Steps
To Be Discussed Here

The role of the Broome For
ward Treatment Center in civil
defense will be discussed at s
pm. Tuesday at Broome Junior
High School.
Interested citizens have been
urged to attend and enroll in
first aid, Pathological monitor
ing and d e contamina alto n
courses.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16

Annual Symposium of Pi Beta
Phi Sorority and the play, ''The
Crucible" presented by the col
lege dramatic club were among
the activities which she attend
ed on Alumni Day, June 4.
White Elephant Sale: The
American Legion, Norman
Price Post No. 68, is having an
other White Elephant sale at
the Post Home in Brookeville.
1t will be on Saturday, June Is,
beginning at l pm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16

sity, where he has taught for
many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Cormeny
of Layhill are off this week
by air for a European trip.
=
Mrs. John G. Thompson spent
a recent weekend attending her
class reunion and other COM
mencement activities at Buck
nell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
The Alumni Luncheon with
over 1000 alumni present, the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16
By Margaret f. AdelfiO
walker 4-38O3

A meeting of special interest to all Sandy Spring
Ashton neighborhood residents will be held Monday
evening" June 20, at pm. at the Community Library.
detailed master plan for coming in the Northwest
Branch watershed though much discussed has not yet
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-16

On June %, Thursday, lunch
Evening star., 1960-09-18

of after that, DR.. Stewart indi-
Gated.
Space Administrator T. Keith
Glennan spoke earlier this year
of a SIS billion space program
for the 1960-70 decade. In this
context. he was speaking Of
constant dollars" of 1860 value
and was not taking imitation
into account. A three per cent
annual imitation would add an
other billion, approximately, to
this total.
Mr.. Glennan's former asso-
ciate administrator, Richard E.
Horner, evaluated NASA's 10
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out" approach-get Americans
to the moon before the new
Presidents constitutionally
limited tenure ended in 1868?
1T would be touch-and-Ro,"
DR.. Stewart said. I'm all prob
ability. the fruits of an all-out
program under the next Pres
ident would rebound to the
credit Of his successor"
Crash Program Discussed
Starting a crash program
now aimed at the ST. billion
level in 1866 would not yield
any immediate payoff, DR..
Stewart pointed out.
THE first year we would
start expanding facilith at Cape
Canaveral and elsewhere, so
we could build and fly more
Saturns," he said. "The first
couple of years would be used
up in just converting to the
higher level of operation. In
the second couple of years
calendar '63 and '64-we would
start seeing signs Of progress.
"But the effect would be to
compress the time schedule Of
the late 1960s. rather than to
make startling advances right
away"
Would any of the possible
programs - even the extreme
Case No. 31enable the United
States to forge ahead Of the
Russians in the next four or
eight years, in terms of ability
to pu latrge loads ino space?
I'VE have the Saturn coming
up," DR.. Stewart said. "It will
lift bigger loads than anything
the Russians have now. But if
we assume that they have plans
for Improvement - and they
have given ample evidence of
having such plans-then the
important thing is the relative
rate of expansion.
will We be forging ahead
faster than the Russians, or
will they be increasing their
lead over us? I do not think
anyone here knows the answer
to this"
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bl6SS- SlH,4OU
To continue at this spending
rate through the new Presi-
dents second term assuming
his reelection in 1864 would
produce a fiscal 1870 civilian
space budget of SAILS billion
about equal to today's national
defense ALLEGATION. The possible
maximum sum spent in the
present decade in this extreme
case would be $118 billion.
1t is obvious that a cutoff
must occur at some level be-
tween the present $915 million
and the theoretically possible
SAL billion of 1870. Exactly
where that might be, no one is
sure. Current planning calls for
a build-up to about So billion
a year-the level to be reached
in fiscal l963-and a leveling
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Stewart regards as a reason
able" long-term level.
What could be accomplished
in the three cases?
Case No. /, as DR.. Stewart
indicated. would restrict the
American space effort to un-
manned orbiters and probes.
Many Of these would be quite
sophisticated. and would add
greatly to mans knowledge of
the universe, but they would
not put a man into outer space.
Projects like EGO and POGO
heavy orbiting loads of geo.
physical instruments and
GAO, the orbiting astronomical
obServatory-could be carried
out in a billion dollar program.
So could advanced weather and
communications experiments,
and probes to Venus and Mars.
But this would be about all.
Under Case No. 8, the mid
dle-of-the-road approach. the
new President could expect
these as highlights of the civil
ian space program in his first
term:
Impact of an American probe
on the surface Of the moon;
first flight in orbit by a Mer-
curry Astronaut; probes to the
vicinity of Venus and Mars;
the launching Of the hydrogen
powered Centaur and the sup
er-rocket Saturn; orbiting Of
POGO EGO and GAO; the
soft" landing of instruments
on the moon. and possibly an
unnamed, instrumented re-
connaissance of Mars or Venus.
The second term of the new
President (assuming his re-
electionl would see more ad-
vanced space work, much of it
involving men and definitely
aimed at landing humans on
the moon. But under 50 bill
lion spending ceiling, as en-
visioned in Case No. 2, the man
to be elected this November
would certainly be out of the
White House before the first
American lunar expedition en-
barked.
Would Case No. 3-the all
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year plan at about $40 billion.
again in constant dollars. This
was last January, when the
program was first announced.
At about the same time. DR..
Stewart "costed" the program,
item by item. adding an infla-
ton factor. and came up with a
possible maximum Of $50 billion
for the 10-year program.
Case 3: Current Plan
The $2-billion level after
1868 represents Case No. g.
that which NASA actually plans
to carry out, and which. DR..
Evening star., 1960-09-18

Aatien factor of about 3 per
cent--not unjustified on the
basis Of recent history - is
added, the buildup is even more
rapid. From a base of $9l5
million in fiscal 1861, here is
how Case No. 2 would look in
the next Presidents first term,
with and without the 3 per cent
imitation factor (all figures in
Y1oiiliopSO.
Evening star., 1960-09-18

Anything do going regardless of who
elected in November Space Agency Panner Homer Stewart
How depends number factors
above shows feasible with funding increased so
cent each dOdaSh Starvation program
of 81 billion starting Dotted line somewhat higher
level shows likely cOursebdup So billion
constant spending at that rate hereafter-Sar Staff Photo