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Evening star., 1960-09-04
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star stan Writer

Congress. with it's mind on
politics, nevertheless took time
to adopt a regional, instead Of
a community, approach to
Washington area problems in
the closing hours of the session
last week.
The major accomplishment
in this relatively new method
Of dealing with the differences
of separate communities with
in one metropolitan area came
in the approval of a wash
ington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission"
The idea Of the commission,
born some 10 years ago, had
the approval of the States Of
Virginia and Maryland and the
District Commissioners. Once
formed, it will regulate the
various transit systems within
the Metro area.
The second step in this ap-
proach was in the creation OF
the National Capital Trans
portation Agency"
The agency-which was vot-
ed an appropriation of $3.50, 900
just before adjournment-will
be responsible for implement
ing a rapid transit system for
the area. A director Of The
agency-H. Holmes Vogel-as
well as five members of the
agency's advisory board have
been selected. The Senate ad-
journed before approving the
appointments, however.
Pay Rises Approved
A third development for the
Metro area came in the agree
ment between Federal. District
and Virginia officials on the
construction of a sewer line
from Dulles international Air
port. The line will run from
the airport to the Districts
treatment plant at Blue Plains
But if Congress adopted 6
new attitude toward regiona
problems, it held on to it's ole
ways of dealing with the Dis
trict.
While granting pay rises fol
the city's teachers, police anc
firemen, it failed to approve ar
increase in the sales tax. asked
by District officials to help pay
for the salary increases as wei
as the $40 million public work.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

program which won approval.
Again, the Federal payment
remained at $25 million al
though $32 million was author
lied. A last-minute effort to
boost the figure to $28 million
failed.
The Senate refused to take
action also on the appoint
ments of a District Commis-
sioner, Mark Sullivan. jr.; a
member of the RIA board, Ne
vile Miller, and a Domestic Re-
lations Court judge, Joseph M
Ryan, jr. The men, all Re-
publicans, faced a Democratic
controlled Senate and District
Committee.
Repair Fraud Bill Passed
But in the final weeks of its
session, Congress:
/. Established a legal aid
agency with an appropriation
of $4,000. The agency will
provide counsel for indigents.
2. Passed a bill to regulate
home improvement contractors
3. Passed a bill requiring the
licensing Of practical nurses.
4. Authorized the Board OF
Education to determine the
amount of. tuition to be paid
by nonresident students at
tending District schools.
S. Raised the amount the
city can borrow to meet the
Evening star., 1960-09-04
FIRST YOU PITCH PENNIES
Can't Resist the Suckers Play?
Then Try GombIers' Anonymous

and sensed I was In trouble, I
guess. She told me she had
learned to live one day at a
time.
II asked her what she meant,
and she told me that was the
A. A. philosophy. She asked me
and my wife to attend a meet
ing, telling me to mentally
substitute gambling for alco-
holism in the opening step,
which is to admit that you are
powerless and that your life
has become unmanageable."
There are two Gamblers
Anonymous groups-one in New
York and one in California.
After attending A. A. meetings
in Washington, Fred went to
one meeting in New York.
1.-THE people were like those
in A. A. I met doctors. lawyers,
businessmen, shipping clerks,
laborers. Compulsive gambling
takes money and self-respect
from the rich man as well as
the little guy. In the last month
I've been helping q doctor who
is betting his life away.
Like an alcoholic, the COM
pulsive gambler has to express
a desire for help. The impor-
tant thing is to draw him out.
make him talk. He has no one
to talk to. I've tried pSychia-
tristS, mental health clinics
They don't understand because
they've never been there.
"If a guy calls and says he's
| going to the track. I'll say,
Hold of Just a day, buddy?'
If he does, I'll be over there
THAT night to talk to him.
This area is ripe for the
compulsive gambler - Laurel
Shenandoah, Charleston, the
gambling joints Il look around
Fyou. I want to start something
that will help him. Have them
call ia. 5-9168. If there's NO
answer, tell them to keep try
ing"
Evening star., 1960-09-04
JUST SMALL SLAM
Bridge Spoken Here-ExcIusiveIy

thing he should not have failed
to do.
The more earnest players
mulled over basic ground rules
at their appointed card tables.
When people have seldom
played together they have to
get their signals straight, much
the same as a baseball catcher
pitcher duo.
Mrs. Carroll B. Hodges wor-
riedly clicked of to her new
partner, William Gilbert:
Should I say five spades and
one no trump-that is eight in
cluding distribution-I'm gonna
say three spades If we're
playing Stayman-two spades,
five spades; all right, I'll say
well, will you still know I have
eight points?-I'll never go to
three unless I have a flve-card
suit-Gerber over no trump"
That, at least. is what it
sounded like.
An emotional man and his
partner appeared close to blows
before the tourney started as
the man gesticulated. leaned
across the table and said, "you
go exactly the same way >.
knotO you can do it If you play
bridget"
A large man with a voice to
match shouted for everyone to
take their places and the water
fall Of talk slowed to drizzle
as the game started.
One man glared at his wife
who had come in late. A wom-
an whispered, II can't raise
your spades. You have to say
three spades to raise" adding
through clenched teeth, "dar-
ling"
The group adjourned foI
dinner to talk bridge and then
resumed to play more bridge
until midnight.
After listening to several
conversations one elevator
operator said, 81 can't under
stand how there can be so
many good players-and SO
many poor partners"
Evening star., 1960-09-04

IT can name so jobs without
exaggeration. When I gambled
it away and mother asked
where the check was I'd say
it fell out Of my pocket or I
was getting paid double next
week.
"You don't think about the
money. You always think, this
is the day I'll get lucky A
compulsive gambler will play
even when he knows a game
is crooked, If it happens to be
the only game in town"
Fred saved some money
while in the service.
II got out in '46. The money
went as soon as I hit a track. :"
Fred married, had a son,
opened his own business.
"The gambling was worse
than ever. It was a real COM
pulsion by then. I could be
dying on my feet. exhausted
from a days work, but I'd
come to life as soon as I'd get
to Shenandoah Downs.
"I was always smart enough
to make money, but not smart
enough to keep 1t. My business
was hurting. My marriage
started to crumple the last
five years.
"A compulsive gambler goes
through as much mental and
even physical torture - as an
alcoholic. You think how could
you take the money from your
home?' How could you Lie
about it?'
Getting in with bookies is
the worst thing. They can spot
a compulsive gambler and most
Of them prey on you. They can
tell the way you bet-20 horses
in a day. It's like the alcoholic
who downs them faster than
they're put in front Of him.
1.-TWO years ago I told my
wife it would be better for her
if she left. Those years were
horrible, but she didn't go. She
was about to when I went to
A. A."
Fred was introduced to A. A.
lby an attractive 40-year-old
woman who told him she was
an alcoholic by the time she
was a freshman in college.
"She's cured now and happi-
| ly married. I met her and hel
husband through business
! They noticed my restlessness
Evening star., 1960-09-04
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Stan Writer

This week end the Mayfiower
Hotel is a tight little island
where only bridge is spoken.
Through the lobbies and the
bathrooms jammed with card
tables flow the natives with
their talk of no-trumping and
spades and diamonds and clubs.
In a confusing system. the
complexities Of which are clear
to island inhabitants, a couple
managed to beat several other
couples who all played 26
boards Of bridge in yesterday
afternoons mixed-pairs con-
test in the 18th annual Mid
Atlantic Fall Regionals.
Prior to game time, contest
ants from Maryland. the Dis
trict, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, mustered distinguish
able hellos before launching
into their native tongue:
"I opened one club and Tom
says two diamonds and I said
two no trump"
"You outsmarted US on two
hands last night the one
was where someone bid four
diamonds and :"
-Four hands later I bid no.
trump and she puts me in three
no-trump with IA points"
w. Kilby Brown Of Richmond
wore a warm glow that came
from having just become a life
master. This is the beginning
bridge players goal-like a
tenderfoot becoming an Eagle
Scout.
One player, obviously not a
life master, shifted. "It's not
so much your ability to play
as it is your ability to travel
around the country. You have
to go all over to rack UP the
points at the big tournaments"
Mr.. Brown and his wife, who |
is a life master who's taught |
Evening star., 1960-09-04

For % years Fred was a man
who couldn't say no to a race
track.
He plotted, schemed, lied,
cheated, even robbed his own
till to get fingers on betting
money.
Fred, until II weeks ago, was
one of an estimated 6 million
compulsive gamblers in the
country. Six million men and
women addicted to dice, the
sound of clicking poker chips, q
lpin-ball machine. a bookie's
voice.
Eleven weeks ago Fred went
to his first Alcoholics Anony-
nous meeting.
1.-THE pattern is the same. A
compulsive gambler can only be
helped by someone who knows
his problem"
Fred knows the problem. He
wants to start Gamblers Anon
Iymous.
His road to G. A. is paved
with dice games, lost jobs, ar
almost bankrupt business anc
marriage.
II was a gambler at age 7
I38 years ago. Dice, cards.
Lived in New York. On tn
East Side. A fairly rough neigh
borhood. A lot of kids gam
bled.
First you pitch pennies
Then you graduate to cards ant
ldice and then the $64 900 pla
teau-the race track.
I'VE moved to Brooklyn wher
I was 9. Playing hockey wa
one of my habits. I went cart
playing with the boys. It wa
stimulating, exciting.
"I always made money.
Lived in a tenement district ant
we didn't have phones and II
hang around the candy store
when people called for tenant
I'd hear the candy store owne,
say, Who, Mrs. Ginsberg?'
Mrs. Wilson, ana I'd run anC
get them. I'd get a penny o,
two. And then I delivered TO-
a bakery and a tailor.
MON and dad knew I playet
hockey and cards but they wer'
too busy with six kids to d.
much"
Fred left school at IA ant
went to work, always will
lgambling money on his mind
He delivered furs, sold ic,
cream at the entrance to
shipyard. worked for Western
Union, sold encyclopedias.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

projects, said he welcomes this
new interest by Congress.
AS for specific recommenda-
tions for reorganizing the ur-
ban renewal setup. the agencies
themselves purposely refrained
from making any when asked
to do so by the Senate District
Committee.
At the suggestion Of Senator
Hartke, Democrat of Indiana,
the committee requested reor-
ganization ideas from the Dis
trict Board Of Commissioners,
National Capital Housing Au-
thority, National Capital Plan
ming Commission, Redevelop-
ment Land Agency and Urban
Renewal Administration.
Recommendations were few,
perhaps on the theory that re-
organization recommendations
would slow down the progress
/ of Washington urban renewal
bills in Congress.
AS it turned out, the bills
got through all right-though
not unscathed. Congress passed
bills enabling the RIA to de-
velop the water front and to
permit the bridging Of Ninth
street S.W. by a hotel in Will
liam Zeckendorf's Tenth Street
Mall and Plaza.
Congress refused, however. to
write a new definition Of blight
into the urban renewal law OF
to make it clear that redevelop-
ment could be undertaken ir
business as well as residential
areas.
Even so, Mr.. Searles Of thu
RIA said yesterday that Con-
gres gave urban renewal agen'
cies all the authority they meet
to proceed with the redevelop'
ment of the Southwest. HI
added that there are still man!
major planning problems to b'
solved in Southwest, such al
how to handle the traffic OF
the Tenth Street Mall and hov
to rebuild the water front.
Now Congress, too, has
planning problem: How to maxi
urban renewal machinery worl
better. Urban renewal leader
the Nation over are interested
in what the Senate recommend
for Washington at the end o.
its coming investigations.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
PIuSterer
Takes Cut
To Teach

Arthur c. Shipp, Al. Of 3100
Twenty-fourth street Sc. Is
a plasterer no more.
After 10 years of patching
and plastering walls from one
end of the District to another,
he has decided to call it quits
and go back to teaching schools.
When the bells ring We'd
nesday to mark the beginning
of the new fall term, Mr.. Shipp,
shy but determined, will appear
at Richardson School, Fifty
third and Blaine streets Sc, to
take charge of his first District
class-a group Of fourth, fifth
and sixth graders.
Why the switch at the age Of
Al?
A modest man, Mr.. Shipp was
slow with the answers, SO his
wife, a classmate in their high
school days in North Carolina,
provided them for him.
HE was doing some plaster
ing in one of the city's schools
earlier this year." she said.
when all of a sudden he de-
cided he ought to go back to
teaching" something he hadn't
done since 1910. "Just being in
a school must have done it,"
HE was graduated from a
wonderful teachers college in
North Carolina and even taught
for awhile before he came to
the District" Mrs. Shipp ex-
planned, "but when the war
came along in 1941 he moved
to Washington and became a
plasterer because the money
was so good. He's been painting
and plastering ever since. But
teaching is his first love-"
To school officials, however,
it goes deeper than that.
when a man gives up a job
paying a darn good salary for
another one with less money. Z"
one of them declared, "it shows
real dedication, and dedication
is exactly what we're looking
for in the Districts teaching
staff"
AS a full-time plasterer, Mr..
Ships monthly take-home
pay-according to the industry
probably was $780,"
As a beginning teacher in
the District, it will be about
! $400.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
ECHO'S SCHEDULE
FOR TONIGHT

Here is the schedule Of
times at which the Echo
satellite may be seen pass
ing through the skies over
Washington area tonight
and early tomorrow morn
ing:
1854 pm, north, 81 de-
greeS over the horizon, 60
ing southeast.
IL pm, north, SO de-
greeS over the horizon, 60
ing southeast.
1:10 am, south, % de-
grees over the horizon, 60
ing southeast.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

committee will conduct the. In
quiry for the Senate. The Fed
eral City Council, a Washing
ton citizens group, is being
asked to do the job for the
House.
Insiders expect some realign-
ment of District urban renewal
agencies to result from the twin
studies. Already, District OH
cials are talking among them
selves about how the compli-
Gated urban machinery could
be redesigned to make opera
ton smoother.
Suggested Changes
One thought Is to make the
Redevelopment Land Agency
the directing authority with the
Districts ONCE Of Urban Re-
newal and the National Capt.
tai Planning Commission CO.
ordinating their efforts with it
Under this proposal, the NCPC
would concern itself with long
range planning rather than
current urban renewal projects
Representative Rabaut, Dem
ocrat of Michigan, who has
the most to say about how the
District spends its money
wants a reorganization which
would put the full responsible.
lity for the urban renewal pro-
gram in the hands of the Dis.
trict Commissioners. His bill
to do this passed the House or
June 27 by a 348-35 vote.
The Senate did not act or
the Rabaut bill on the grounds
Its investigation should bt
completed first. The staff o.
the Senate District Commit
tee Is gathering material nov
for that investigation. expected
to start early in 1861.
The Federal City Council
came into the picture when thu
House. District Committee, jus
before Congress adjourned, de-
cided to ask the organization
of prominent Washingtonian
to look into the urban renewa
setup. The council is waiting
to receive the formal request
New Interest by Congress
All this adds up to a grea
deal of congressional interes
in Washington's urban renewa
program. John r. Searles, jr.
executive director Of the RIA
which executes urban renewa
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Virqiniun Chosen

Frank S. Kaulback, jr.. dean
of the McIntire School of Com
merce of the University Of Vir-
ginia, was elected vice presi-
dent of the American Account
ing Association at . meeting
Of the group last week in CO.
lumbus, Ohio.
Evening star., 1960-09-04

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pay costs Of constructing the
shrine as well as for the re-
enactment and other events
connected with the centennial,
will begin soon by the First
Manassas Corp, a non-pront
organization.
The group is headed by v. C.
(Pat) Jones Of Centreville and
has as its honorary chairman.
Representative Smith, Demo-
crat of Virginia. The battle
re-enactment is scheduled for
July % and %.
R0tunda and Wings
The shrine would be on the
%, ,000-acre national park at
Bull Run. It would consist Of a
central rotunda with two main
wings, one to the north dedi-
Gated to Union troops and the
other to the south to troops
of the Confederacy.
The central rotunda would
include "a columns on the ex-
terror, representing the num-
ber of States in the Union at
the time of the outbreak OF
war. There would be % col
umns in, the interior, repre-
senting the States whose troops
participated in the battle.
A smaller addition to the
West would contain a library
and museum.
Mai. Gen. James c. Fry.
USA (retireO of Falls Church
who led the 88th Division in
World War II, is executive di.
rector of the sponsoring group
Endorsements, Inc, which put
on the war bond drive of World
War II and which conducted
the campaign for the So millior
Navy-Marine Corps Memoria
Stadium at the Naval Academy
Annapolis, has been retained
to conduct the drive for the
memorial.
Revenue Ruling Sought
Mr.. Jones said a ruling Il
being sought from the Interna
Revenue Service on whether
contributions will be tax ex.
empt. The sponsors met with
the National Park Service II
Washington last week and have
another meeting scheduled fol
Tuesday.
The Park Service has mo-
yet approved the project but
Mr.. Jones said the shrine
would be erected somewhere
in Northern Virginia, perhap!
in Arlington" if the Govern
ment turns down the Bull Rur
site.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
Urbon Renewal Studies
To Bring Vast Changes
Entire Machinery Muy Be Redesigned
As Result Of Congressional Action
BY GEORGE WILSON
star stan Writer

The s6th Congress took action that may lead to the
redesgnng of Washingtons urban renewal machinery.
The action the closing days Of the 1850 session
in decisions by both the Senate and House District
Committees to investigate the cys renewal program.
The District Committees Business and Commerce Sub
Evening star., 1960-09-04

1000 bridge players, have been
married 35 years. They play
bridge all the time.
But we say goodnight before
we start playing because we
Evening star., 1960-09-04

aren't speaking AFTER" said
Mrs. Brown, with a laugh. "One
time Kilby failed to give me
the upper cut" she said, with
a look that meant this is some
Evening star., 1960-09-04
War Shrine
Proposed for
Manassas Park
Nationwide Drive
Planned to Ruise
81 Million Fund
By . star stan writer

MANASSAS, Va, Sept. 81
The National Park Service has
received a proposal for q So
million Civil War shrine at
Manassas Battlefield National
Park from a group sponsoring
the centennial re-enactment OF
the First Battle of. Manassas.
A nationwide campaign to
raise "a million. which would
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ira, and had lead roles with
the Lancaster Opera Workshop
in two Clan Carlo Menotti
operas, as the mother in
"Amahl and the Night Visitors
and in the title role of 1.-The
Medium" She also conducted
a musical television program
for children. Stories in Music,
broadcast by a Lancaster sta
ton.
Here, she sang with the
Washington Cathedral Chorus,
in the chorus for several pro-
auctions of the Washington
Opera Society, and in the choir
of her husbands church.
Besides her husband, she
leaves a daughter, Cheryle Ann,
8, and two sons, David McKen-
dree. 6, and Stuart McKendree,
8. and her father, Walter F.
Brow, all of the home address.
3244 Chestnut street NV.
Services will be at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the Sixth Presbyte-
rian Church. Interment will be
in Lancaster.
The family requests that tok-
ems of sympathy be in the form
of contributions to the Memo
rial Fund of the Sixth Presby-
terrain Church.
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Max Million, 7o,
Retired Carpenter

Max MILAN. 10, a native of
Austria and a Washington area
resident for 10 years, died of a
heart attack yesterday at the
Rock Creek Convalescent Home.
A retired carpenter, Mr.. Mil
Ian lived at 4007 Highview
drive, Silver Spring.
He leaves his wife, Amelia,
and a daughter, Mrs. William
B. Salyards of the home ad-
dress; six other daughters, Mai
Mary A. MILAN, USAF, of Boil
ing Air Force Base; Mrs. John
Kozik and Mrs. Stanley Cush-
man of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Ferrill
Liscomb of Fairfax; Mrs. Henry
Gross, l0803 Indigo road, Silver
Spring; and Mrs. Quentin
keenan, of Clinton, Md; a son
Elmer of Manassas; Is grand
children and six great grand
children.
Requiem mass will be said at
10 am. Saturday in st. Cath
crime Laboure Catholic Church
in Wheaton. Burial will be in
Parklawn Cemetery.
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Memorial Rites
For 1t. MOODY,
Lost on FLIGHT

Memorial services were to
be held today in the Marine
Air Base chapel at Beaufort
S. c. for LIST 1t. Bryce Eugene
Moody, "a.
The Marine Reserve pilot
was lost at sea Monday when
his F8U jet plane crashed after
colliding with another of Beau
fort. The other plane was dam
aged, but managed to return
safely to the base.
1t. Moody was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph E. Moody
Of BOAT Glendale road, Chevy
Chase. Md. A native of Hart
ford. Conn. he attended Leland
Junior High School in Chevy
Chase and Mercersberg Aca-
deny in Pennsylvania. He en-
listed in the Marines in 1858
and was commissioned in 1857
when he was graduated from
Dartmouth College.
Besides his parents, he leaves
his wife, the former Sarah
Wernz, and a son. David E..
both of Beaufort; three sisters,
Miss Margaret E. Moody. of
the Chevy Chase address, Mrs.
Robert Sewers of Cinninati and
Mrs. Donald Gates of Anselmo.
Cal,
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Richard Wolf,
G & P EmDIoye

Richard A. Wolf, an employe
Of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. for 10 years,
died Monday of a heart all
ment at his home, 24l4 Evans
drive, Silver Spring.
Mr.. Wolf. a native of Altoona
Pa. served with the Navy in
both the European and Pacific
theaters during World War II.
After the war, he returned
to the telephone company as
a central Office repairman. a
position he held until his death
Mr.. Wolf was a member OF
Washington Centennial Lodge
No. IA, the Albert Pike Con-
siStory and the Theological In
stitute of America.
He leaves his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Adam E. Wolf of
Altoona; a brother. James A.
Wolf also of Altoona, and two
sisters, Mrs. William C. Bauer
and Mrs. Edwin Hetrick, both
of York. Pa.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete