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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-13

so wOmens Summer Dresses. Compore to 4e8-l799 euo
ity. Many coors styles. Sizes 412------l 1000
WOMEN'S DRESSES-WdShington Langley Park, Second
Floor; Shrttngton, First Floor
sorted e0IOrs styles 0oeons poyester or cotton Size; 10
BUDGET DRESSES-Washington Langley Park
Second Floor; Shirlington, First Floor
$50 Misses Summer Dresses Compare to II ees quality
Sheer eottons DocronS Poeste Brief oveoee $40 1000
MISSES DRESSES-Washington, Langley Park
Second Floor; Shrlington, First Floor
50 Misses Long and Short Formes Compare to Is oo-499S
quality White and postels, 86--------------Sl5-S25
so Misses Street and cOeto Dresses Compare to $500
STARLIGHT ROOM-WaShington, Langley Park,
Second Floor; Shirlington First Floor
80 A-WoOI j. Spring Toppers compore to 90 ouo
ty Wrop, button styles dork posteIs Washington ony-9.SS
"a Lost Yeors Jr Winter Goats Compore 80 90 80 90
quality Button clutch styles. 95 Washington only
40 Junior Summer Dresses Compare 1928 90 quoI
PosteIs in sheoth and full 90
80 One Two-Pieee Dresses compore to 498-I7e8
quoy Some cotton blends Many styles. 7l5------l000
JUNIOR WoRLD-Washington, Langley Park Second Floor
Shrltngton, First Floor
300 cosuo Summer Dresses Compare o98 4eS quoIy
eosy-eore fobrcs, dork and postes 500
CASUAL Observation-Disclosures, Langley Park,
Second Floor; Shirlington. First Floor
400 Drip-D Dry Shtwost Dresses Compore to SO ouoIv
Posels no iron cotton. Sizes 90
500 Washable Wrop- Round Dresses. Compare to 800
quality Assorted colors. For work pIoy 02o----20O
400 Daytime Cotton Blend Froeks Compare to 5oo-6e8
quolty Assorted coor styles Sizes l2-2o. l2h22h 400
$50 Misses WOmens Cotton Dresses Compore to ees-Oe8
quality Royons, cottons. l2-2o 2h-22h----SOO
500 PIon and Foney Short Aprons Compore 80 quoy
Many styles coIors some bb-tops 90
$50 Two-Peee RoyOn FuIe Suits. Compare 698 quality
l2-20, l4h-22R recommendation 4 90
$50 Cotton HopIn Suits Compare 800 quoiy Elastic
StroiQht O.
DAYTIME DRESSES AND RoBES-Washtnqton
Third Floor; Langley Park, Second Floor
Shthngton, First Floor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-13

so Doeron9 PoIyester and Cotton Skirts Comparable to 5o8
quolN Toupe and green, sheath styles. l0-2o------Sl
50 TorpOon Poid Vests Compare to 1913 quality Easy
Goey and Lord Torpoon --------. ---- soc
so Junior Cotton Skirts Compore to 598 quoty Solids
novelty pIods, stripes It's 49, Z 90
BETTER SPORTSWEAR-WdShinuto Second Floor:
LanQLeu Park and ShirLinaton First Floor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-13

500 Cotton Botiste Seepweor Comparable to 81 quoIy
Woltz gowns, poomos sleep coots. S. N, L--------2oo
500 Cotton sotste Long Gowns Comparable S4 ond S.
quality. Dip-dy floros Sizes 81 to "A ------- 90
300 No Iron NyOn Tieot SIipsCompoobe SOS quoliy
White, posteIs, vWds. Sizes 324o in group 80
600 No Iron Nylon TrieOt Briefs Comparable 79c quality
ToiIored, white pink blue. to 7-- see co., Z pv 81
Observation-Disclosures Third Floor;
Langley Park, Shirlinqton, First Floor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-13

300 Famous Lonsbrook Tropical Suits Comparable 70 1925
quality and 2-trouser suits. Cheeks pIods---- SO 80
zoo FamouMoke Mems Shirts Compore S. to SOS quoI
ty Assorted fobrics, collar styles. l4-l7-----39 80
zoo Mems Affection Broodeoh Shirts Compare to Is quail
N Fomous moke, short sleeves Assorted collars 80
zoo Mems Cotton BroodeIoth Shirts Compoe 2oo quality
Regular or button down coIor short sleeves 80
Mems Summer EoyCore Poiomos Compore to 81 to SIS quo
W Fomous short sleeves, knee length A. B, C. D. 299
Mems Eomous-Moke Poumus Compare to 299 quality Knee
length, 1909 cotton bloodcOth: 3, c-----~ ! 80
MEMS Observation-Disclosures, Street Floor;
LanqLeu Park. ShirLinqton. First Floor
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Police Luuded
For Handling
Of Integfotion

In handling school integra-
ton here, Washington police
did an excellent job, Louis
Radelet, director of the Com
mission on Community Organi-
zation, National Conference of
Christians and Jews, declared
here yesterday.
\ He addressed a Howard Uni
versity seminar, part of a two
week biracial workshop that be-
gan Monday.
Mr.. Radelet said that in spite
of their own personal views, the
police of the Nation in racial
disputes can be depended upon
to uphold the. law in an in
creasing number of cases. He
said that police are increas-
ingly able to separate their own
personal prejudice from their
professional behavior.
The police themselves are
working on the problem. he
said, and this is an index of
progress. He cited reports on
a six-year program by the con-
ference in developing police
leadership in community rela-
tionS.
Evening star., 1960-06-22


second and third grade levels
would be dropped in favor Of
an ungraded program.
School officials, Mr.. Wood
son said. hope the plan will
better facilitate the continuous
achievement of each child at
his own rate" The mechanics
of the present grading system,
he said, make this continuous
development more difficult to
achieve"
At the request of w. Harold
Ford, assistant superintendent
in charge of instruction, the
board last night agreed to hear
a presentation of the proposal
at a special meeting July IA.
The program has been used
in a number of school systems
throughout the country. Mr.
Ford said.
The Fairfax program has
been quietly under way on a
pilot basis for the last yeaI
at two schools-Hollin Hall
and Fairfax Elementary Schools
where it has proved success
full, he said.
Under the plan, a child's
training during the first three
years would be divided into
Evening star., 1960-06-22
SIDE SPLITTING STORY
Stitchin Time Saves Police

apart at the seams. There he
is in the middle of the street.
Everyone is looking. What
does he do now - put in a
hasty call to headquarters or
ask the nearby White House
for a needle and thread?
Mr.. VESSELS Shuddered. Be-
fore awarding the contract to
the low bidder Mr.. Vessels in
sisted on getting a sample of
his pants material.
Then he required that six
sample pairs of trousers be
sent for inspection.
So far, so good. The con-
tractor appeared to be meeting
the required standards.
Then on June the first
shipment of trousers arrived.
Officials of the Police Uni
form Board and the District
Procurement Office bustled
down to inspect them. They
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Geographic
ToE Erect
New Building

The National Geographic
Society will build a SIS million
headquarters building at Seven
teenth and NJ streets NV, DR..
Melville Bell Grosvenor, the
society's president and editor,
has announced.
The History building, de-
signed by Architect Edward
Dureu Stone, who designed the
United States Embassy in New
Delhi, India, will be of marble,
limestone, reinforced concrete
and glass.
DR.. Grosvenor said the build
ing will be of the contemporary
design for which Mr.. Stone is
noted. But wide-hanging caves
on the 18th. floor will give the
building slightly renaissance
look, he added.
The soeiety's present build
.ings at Sixteenth and M streets
NV. viii be retained and will
not be disturbed by the new
construction.
Demolition already has started
at the Seventeenth and M
streets site. The Emerson a.
Orrne Building win be torn
down within the next so days,
as will two old brick garages
on the alley between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets.
Construction will begin as
promptly as possible. The
Charles H. TompkinS Co. will
be the builder.
The first floor of the new
headquarters building will house
Explorers Hall with museum
pieces and mementoes from
National Geographic Society
expeditions throughout the
world. There also will be an
auditorium seating several
hundred people.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
BY CHARLES ID. PIERCE
/. Star stan writer

Washington's policem e n
have just been spared the one
humiliation a blushing law Of
ficer can never live down -
splitting pants.
Credit is due to the sharp
eyed District procurement Of
flee and the Police Uniform
Board.
1t all started with an order
for 1.400 pairs of police sum-
mer pants.
Rexford Vessels, the Dis
trict procurement officer, i'm
mediately visualized a police
man directing traffic at Fif-
teenth and New York avenue
NV, for example.
The spick and span police
man is the picture of the
majesty of the law. but sud-
denly his pants start coming
Evening star., 1960-06-22
BY BARNARD LETTER
Star stan Writer

A. r. Patterson went to sea
today ina trim, little cardboard
boat. 81
He took a pump, some cotton
wadding and a prodigious
amount of hope.
Mr.. Patterson, As, of 3O3 Mil
burn street, Fairfax, Va, hopes
his little cardboard craft will
hold out an the way to Florida
his destination.
Seemed. UnwOrried
Actually, he didn't seem to
be worried despite the COM
ments of skeptics who were on
hand at Jacks boathouse, near
Key Bridge, to see him off.
The 14-foot craft is built of
the waterproof cardboard his
firm. ControlPax Corp. Of Ar
lington, uses to build water
proof corrugated boxes and
other containers.
Mr.. Patterson is making the
trip alone and plans to make
stops en- route calling on pro-
spective customers at cities
such as Portsmouth, Va; Nor
folk. Moorehead City. N. c.;
Brunswick, Ca, and Jackson
vile. to sell boxes.
Powered by outboard
The light craft, powered by
a 10-horsepower johnson out
board motor, will make about
go miles a day, Mr.. Patterson
said.
II plan to camp out at night
or stop over in hotels" he ex-
planned. "I hope to be in
Florida in 212 to 3 weeks"
The pump and cotton wad-
Evening star., 1960-06-22

were disturbed to find that the
garments failed to meet the
standards.
Mr.. Vessels said the pants
were stitched with cotton
thread instead of the required
silk. Some of the stitching was
already coming apart.
Mr.. Vessels was distressed.
He ordered the trousers sent
back to the manufacturer, who
that a subcontractor
had made the mistake. He
promised to take all the cotton
stitching out and replace it
with silk thread.
Most of the restitched pants
are due back here next We'd
nesday. Meanwhile, Mr.. Wes-
sells said. Washington's police
men will just have to get along
with their old summer pants.
But the spectacle of police
men in split britches has been
averted.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
T runsit Bill
PossogeSeen
ByCongress

Washington's rapid transit
legislation moved swiftly toward
congressional floor action to-
day, with its sponsors opti-
miStic.
The transit measure, in
dorsed with two changes by the
Senate District Committee yes
terday, is due before the House
District Committee tomorrow.
If approved, as expected, it will
go to the House floor Monday.
Early Senate action also is
expected.
Supporters of private auto
mobile committing won a sub
stantial victory when the
Senate unit cut to two years a
proposed temporary freeze on
major new freeway and park
way projects in upper North
west.
The original freeway ban
would have applied until a
"fair trial" had been given to
new rail facilities.
Washington l. Cleveland,
American Automobile Associa-
ton official. called the action
"a triumph" adding: 1T takes
care of everything as far as we
are concerned"
The AAA's local division has
worked hard against the freeze.
Mr.. Cleveland said no highway
construction will occur within
the affected area within the
next two years anyway.
Under the change made by
the committee, the parkway
freeze would apply until July
l, 1862. and the new agency
would be required to submit a
recommendation to Congress by
January 10, 1862, as to whether
any major freeway or parkway
should be built in the affected
area.
The freeze, under terms of
the recommended measure,
technically would bar any new
major highway projects west
of Twelfth street NV. except
in the downtown area and
along the Potomac River.
The Budget Bureau won a
victory when the committee
decided to leave approval of
transit projects to the appro-
priations process, rather than
adding a requirement for sep
arate authorizing legislation.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
SEND A KID TO CAMP
John and Nell HeIp
Mother Walk Again

1t was slow going for Mrs.
Smith as she struggled to the
camp workers desk on a cane.
She settled heavily into a
chair and told the worker she
had come to talk about the
clothes her children would
need if they went to camp,
and to double-check on their
chances of going.
Mrs. Smith was totally par
alyzed after her third child
was born. After her husband
deserted her, the baby was
placed in a foster home until
she could care for it.
John, now IL, and Nell, 1o,
acted as their mothers legs
and hands while she got well.
They took on much of the
housework and shopping.
Neighbors and a visiting nurse
helped, too, as the mother
fought to regain her strength.
Gradually she improved. She
was able to leave her sickbed
for a wheelchair. Then she
learned to walk on crutches,
and finally with cane.
AS soon as she could, Mrs.
Smith brought her baby home.
Anxious to do something spe-
cial for her older children who
have helped so much, she told
the welfare worker that camp
would be the perfect reward.
If she could, Mrs. Smith
would send the children her.
! self, but she counts on an Aid
to Dependent Children grant
which barely covers life's neces-
sites.
Mrs. Smith is not her real
name, but her story is true.
Your gift to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund would
help bring a wonderful sum-
mer holiday to a home where
money-but not loyalty or love
is in short supply.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
PUMP, WADDING AND HOPE
Man Starts Voyage
In Cardboard Boot

ding are safety measures just
in case 1 sprElg a leak" Mr..
Patterson explained.
The craft, designed by Mr..
Patterson and Fendall Mar
bury, jr., a naval architect,
weighs 10 pounds less than
Mr.. Patterson. a stocky 160-
FOUNDER. Its cardboard skin
is about one quarter of an inch
thick and is glued and pasted
on a light wooden frame.
I'VE put some plastic foam
between the skin and the frame
to help make the boat float, -
he said. But actually it would
float without it."
Inland Waterway Route
Mr.. Patterson will travel by
the Inland Waterway and will
be in sight Of land almost all
the time
II guess the Chesapeake Bay
and Albemarle Sound are the
two biggest bodies of water III
crosSs' he said. Actually the
sound is the only one I'll have
to cross where ] won't be in
sight of land"
I'm told its pretty rough. y
he added.
Mr.. Patterson said his son
Tommy, 10, and daughter
Brenda, .13, were pretty en-
thusiastic about the trip.
They would like to have
gone along, but instead they
are in summer camp" he said
And what about his wife?
"Well, like all wives, she
thinks I'm kinda crazy"
Evening star., 1960-06-22
SWede Guilty
In Fund Theft
At Embassy

Per AXE Skantze, the former
Chancellor and a Vice Consul
at Sweden's Embassy here, to-
day was convicted on 18
charges involving $4,000 in
missing Swedish funds.
A District Court jury deliber-
ated 212 hours before finding
the 59-year-old d eff e n d a n t
guilty of nine counts of false
pretenses and nine of grand
larceny.
Mr.. Skantze was taken into
custody after Judge F. Dickin-
son Let's denied a request by
his attorney that Mr.. Skantze
be allowed to remain free on
bond before sentencing to ar
range for care of his children
The 9-year-old daughter and
14-year-old son have been stay
ing with friends of their father
since he has been on trial.
Judge Let's asked for a report
on the defendants past by the
courts probation Office before
sentencing. There was trial
testimony that Sweden would
seek Skantze's deportation
back to Sweden if he was SEN
fenced to over a year in Jail.
An Embassy spokesman today
said his government had not
decided on any action as yet
against the defendant. He said
his government had not de-
cided what to do about the
children either.
The boy is a Swedish subject,
but the daughter was born here
and therefore would have dual
citizenship, the spokesman said
Defense Attorney Robert
Reiter said he did not know if
he would appeal the verdict.
Mr.. Skantze, SO, yesterday was
described as a father who had
borrowed and begged" and now
must live in a rent-free room
with his two children.
HE has had a hard time y
said his attorney, Robert Rel
ter. noting that Mr.. Skantze di-
vorced his wife several years
ago on grounds of adultery ano
then lost a farm he had ac-
quired with borrowed funds.
The prosecutor, Edward P
Troxell, answered that an hum.
BILE background can be no ex.
cuse for the missing $4,000
which Embassy officials charge
Mr.. Skantze stole.
Mr.. Skantze now works as {
janitor in a hotel in the small
town of Benedict. on Mary.
lands Eastern Shore. He hac
served as bookkeeper with the
title of Vice Consul from 1914
to 1858 at the Embassy, 224!
R street NV.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

support of the Commissioners
bill this morning.
This authority is indispen-
sable to redevelopment of
downtown Washington" Gen.
yelling maintained. 1T is
comparable to that exercised
by Pittsburgh for redevelop-
ment of the Golden Triangle
and by Baltimore in Charles
Center"
Mr.. McManuS stressed that
the bill would flash the green
light" for development of the
Tenth Street Mall, a grassy
tract to be flanked by both
public and private showplace
offices.
How would it do this?" he
asked, and answered: by pro-
viding for the bridging of pub
lie streets.
This sounds rather unim-
portant, but it is actually vi
tally significant to the $75
million project to construct
L'Enfant Plaza along the Tenth
Street Mall, he said in state
ment submitted for the record.
Mr.. Searles said he Joined
the Commissioners and the
National Capital Planning
Commission in urging passage
of this bill which "corrects
several technical difficulties
encountered in the execu-
tion of our urban renewal pro-
gram"
The bill would permit Mr..
Searles to lean heavily on his
right to eliminate conditions
injurious to the public health,
safety, welfare and morals" as
: justification for renewing
blighted areas. The new defini-
ton of blighted areas in the
bill follows:
Residential or non-resi-
dental areas, or any combina-
ton thereof Cincluding slum
: areas, with buildings or i'm
r provements which. by reason
of deterioration, dilapidation,
= bsoles scence, overcrowd-
l ing. faulty arrangement of
= design, lack of ventilation,
light and sanitary facilities,
: excessive land coverage, dele
: terious land use or obsolete
/ land use, or any combination
S of these factors, are of such
1 extent or nature as to be det-
l rimental to the safety, health,
t morals or welfare of the COM
munity."
), Mr.. Searles would not need,
!. under the bill, to define a
= project area for redevelopment.
He could proceed in blighted
z areas.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

THAT'S HOW Bill Harry's
falcon was recovered. And
I'm glad not only for Bill, but
for me. Some day we are to
go coursing birds, and he has
even offered to let his falcon
fly from my wrist. Naturally
that sort of thing appeals to
the romantic in the Rambler.
My first awareness that
this sort of thing was still
going on hearaboutS had to
do with an assignment right
across the street from the old
Star building.
That was way back during
the war (World War ID.
Something was wrong with
the Post Office clock. One of
the weights, about 500
pounds OF metal, fell from
its chains and almost conked
a lawyer several floors be-
low. Or maybe that was
later. At any rate something
was wrong with the Post
Office clock.
The writer dutiful1y
climbed the stairs. He has
been UP in the Washington
Monument, 555 feet; the
Eiffel Tower, 9S4 feet, 8
inches. and the Empire State
Building, 1,472 feet. All have
chicken wire or something
to make it difficult to jump.
But the Post Office tower has
nothing to reassure the per-
son with acrophobia - and
that's yours truly.
Evening star., 1960-06-22

eight stages instead of the pres
ent three grades.
The length of time it takes a
child to move through a stage
would vary with the individual,
he said. Some may complete
three stages in six months and
others may take a year to finish
two.
The eight stages would be
completed by most children in
three years. In addition, he
said, the number of children
able to advance to the fourth
grade at the end of three years
would be greater than at pres
ent, because the program would
permit children who are slow
at first to catch up in the later
stages.
Since no children would be
promoted or failed, the pro-
gram has a built-in opportu-
nifty for each child to advance
freely according to his own ma
turity," Mr.. Ford said.
Extension Seen
If it succeeds, he said, the
plan may later be extended to
the upper three primary grades.
Under the program, the
grouping of children, teaching
methods and materials would
be virtually the same as used
under the present grading sys-
tem," Mr.. Woodson said.
Schools would adopt the plan
slowly, he said. The school
board would decide how many
schools are to use the plan this
fall. Others would follow next
year.
In other action, the board
agreed to reconsider a policy
adopted earlier this month
which would sharply curtail use
of public schools by churches.
A group of clergymen and
church representatives pro-
tested that the new policy would
harm new congregations which
are struggling to raise money
for a church building in their
formative stages. Such con-
gregations frequently use school
facilities.
Under the policy, church
groups would not be allowed
to use elementary school class
rooms, or to use any facilities
for longer than three years.
The board agreed that Chair
man Theodore s. Heriot would
meet with a representative Of
the churches to discuss the
problem.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
Medical Anniversary

BALTIMORE, June % (AP)
The 18th anniversary of the
founding of the Maryland State
Veterinary Medical Association
will be observed at the groups
annual summer convention at
Ocean City tomorrow and Fri
day.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
CAMP FUND
FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail to The Evening
Star, Second street and
Virginia avenue Sc, or
bring cash to The Star
cashier. A receptionist in
the lobby will direct you to
the cashiers office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days, $19.95 for six days.
All funds received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child Serv-
ice of Washington, United Civ
ers Fund agency, for the use of
Its Summer OUTINGS Committee.
Family and Child Services is reg
istered under the District Of Co
lumbia Charitable Solicitations
Act No. 6-07-151.
Evening star., 1960-06-22
WHILE WITHDRAWING

WHILE WITHDRAWING
with horror from the brink
of the dizzy height, he
noticed something. 1t was a
funnel trap, made of the
chicken wire he so missed
about the edge of the plat
form.
A funnel trap is much the
same whether it is to en-
trap birds or is sunk in the
sea to catch Holsters or crabs
or fish. The victims enter
the wide end of a funnel, at
tracted by bait inside, and
then fail to find the narrow
door out.
That's how they caught
the falcon that lived up
here" said the guide whose
duty it was to keep the Post
Ofice clock on time. They
baited it with a live pigeon"
1t was hard to believe, but
not long after that a man
with a hooded falcon on his
wrist appeared in the city
room on the seventh floor of
the old Star building.
II trapped this falcon in
the tower across the way"
he said. Gasoline rationing
doesn't let me get out into
the country to let him course
birds. I'm going up on your
roof to release him. Do you
want to come along?"
Up we went. He took the
hood off the birds head and
it made a crows flight, only
much faster, across Pennsyl-
vania avenue to the tower.
There, much more than
Alexander Selkirk on his
desert isle, that bird of prey
was monarch of all he sur
veyed."
Hungry? A dive and WHAM
he had a pigeon for lunch,
or if it we're breakfast or
supper, a startling.