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Evening star., 1960-09-22
Drive Seen
Falling for
Referendum

The Fairfax County Civic
Federation's drive for a refer
endum on the urban county
plan today appeared in dan
ger of falling.
Mrs. Ceres GaSkinS, secre-
tary of the county electoral
board, said 25 per cent of the
1000 signatures checked so far
on the federation's petitions
were found to be those of per-
sons not qualified to vote. The
federation submitted approx
mately 5000 signatures in its
petition asking a referendum
November 8 on the urban
county plan.
The federation needs the
signatures of 10 per cent of all
qualified voters to meet the
legal requirements of the ref
erendum request.
Mrs. Gaskins said the elec-
toral board does not plan to
check on the total number OF
qualified voters in the county
1t would take a year to find
out how many Of the county'S
$1,000 registered voters arc
qualified, she said.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
Bottle Warmer Scored
As.Donger to Children

very little contamination left
in the bottle anyway"
He noted the dangers of ac-
cidentally spilling the hot
water on infants and other
young children. A tablespoon
full Of boiling water on an in
fantS skin is enough to cause
death, he said.
DR.. Meyer said that for every
little boy fatally burned in the
Southwestern United States,
five little girls die because of
inf1ammable fabrics in the form
of skirts and nightgownS.
They're usually cheap and
easy to wash" he said.
He was joined by DR.. A. B.
Wallace, head of plastic sur
gerry at the Royal Hospital for
Sick Children in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and DR.. Patrick
WenSley ClarkSon OF Guys
Hospital in London.
DR.. Wallace said the practice
of dressing little girls in
nighties rather than pajamas
is dangerous because they catch
fire more easily.
He deplored advertisements
showing children in skirts and
nightgowns standing next to
open fires, calling them "en-
couragement for death"
Evening star., 1960-09-22

to date, 48 boys and 26 girls
have been reported as violators
of the anti-loitering regulation,
OF these, only two boys and
one girl we're reported as two
time violators. A hearing at
the Youth Aid Division for a
juvenile and his parents is
scheduled only if the juvenile
is picked up twice within a
month period.
A juvenile reported three
times in a year is referred to
Juvenile Court and his or her
parents are summoned to Mu-
nicipal Court.
Although there is every in
dication the law is working out
satisfactorily" Inspector Win
ters said, it is too early to tell
whether the regulation will turn
out to be an effective weapon
Evening star., 1960-09-22
Tobriner Renews Fight
For orMerit-SoIoryLink

The Virginia figures, she said,
are one librarian to every 500
students. at all three levels
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
told the board he has appoint
ed a committee to restudy IL
brary standards, primarily to
update a similar survey made
in 1950-51. The board already
has authorized him to 60 to the
District Commissioners to seek
restoration of funds in the 1862
school budget to hire a library
co-ordinator.
The board approved the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Jennie T
Gross, a teacher at Young Ele-
mentary School, as principal OF
Webb Elementary School.
Mrs. Edna w. Hill, former
Webb principal, was named
principal of Morgan Elemen-
tary. She will replace Mrs
Bernice B. Brown, who will re-
tire September 30.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
Children Get
Gym in Area
or Renewal

The kids in the slum section
of Northeast Washington get a
break today.
The District and Federal
governments took time out
from redeveloping the area to
set aside a warehouse for the
kids to play in until the urban
renewal bulldozers come along.
AS Frank Mckinney, one OF
the oldest residents put it:
The boys with their unerring
aim with rocks can now shoot
at something besides windows. y
Mr.. Mckinney, vice chair
man of the Northeast urban
renewal project under way in
the area bounded by North
Capitol street, the railr o a d
tracks, N and G streets-spoke
at the ceremony marking the
opening of a warehouse gym
nasium at 19 Patterson street
NE.
The District Recreation De-
partment spent about $1,50C
turning the abandoned struc-
ture into an L-shaped play
center housing two basketball
courts and tables for recreation
ranging from painting by tod
dlers to ping pong for teen
ayers.
William Waters, chairman Of
the D. c. Recreation Board
said the whole project, a team
effort by city agencies and the
people themselves, was a won
derful example" of co-opera-
ton.
Andrew Parker, chairman oi
the Redevelopment Lane
Agency which owns the build
ing, said the conversion of the
warehouse for play was a "sig-
nifieant STEP in the resolve tt
consider the human as well as
the physical side of urban re-
newal.
The woman who started it al
is Mrs. Alphonso Williams, g
mother of five who lives acros;
the street from the warehouse
at 40 Patterson street NE
Mrs. Carrie S. Young, RLA''
adviser in the community, sale
the neighbors themselves be-
came enthusiastic about the
idea and did much of the worl
to carry it out-even cleaning
up the warehouse by hand ii
what they called Operation
Purge.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
48 Boys and 26 Girls Picked Up
Since Lettering Ban Was Passed

Two boys and two girls, all
13 or under, were picked up by
police while they roamed a city
street at 2::3O am. one day last
month.
Their excuse: They had been
playing football on the Wash
ington Monument grounds.
The incident and the young
sters' excuse were cited by Po-
lice Inspector John E. Winters
yesterday as typical of the noe
turnal lettering cases encoun-
tered by police since strict en-
forcement of Washington's new
anti-loitering regulations went
into effect August /.
Inspector Winters, head of
the Metropolitan Police De-
partment's Youth Aid Division,
told a Washington Board of
Trade luncheon audience that,
Evening star., 1960-09-22

in the campaign against juVe-
nile delinquency.
But he added that since the
law became effective police
have reported a noticeable de-
crease in the number of 8 to IL
year olds on city streets al
night.
The police official said the
fears of some that the law
would result in police interfer-
ence with the legitimate activi-
ties of juveniles have not been
borne out.
Not a single complaint OF
overzealous police action has
been received, Inspector Win
ters said. Police have received
several letters and telephone
calls commencing them for
conscientious, common-sense"
enforcement of the anti-loiter-
ing rules, he said.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
"OF COURSE WE HAVE

"OF COURSE WE HAVE
DeBrett's Peerage, Knight
hood and Companionage and
Burke's Peerage and Kelly's
Handbook on the Titled,
Landed and Official Glasses, !"
he continued. "The last con-
tains many more names. 1t
is something like your So
ciety bluebook.
1--WE have quite a few in
quirieS from Americans work.
ing on their family'S genealo-
gies. Those give us nc trouble.
If they can tell us they came
from Stow -the-Wald or
some other locality, we refer
them to the parish registrar.
If not, to the Genealogical
Society in London.
Most of the inquiries are
over the telephone and most
are from the press. My role
is that of a prophet. Ameri-
can newspapermen are not
interested in the past or in
the present, but in the flu
ture. The current question is,
Will Macmillan come to the
United Nations?'
II am afraid my answers
are not prophetic; I hope
they are diplomatic.
Difficult question? Well,
not long back a woman asked
the color of the eyes of the
third wife of Henry VIII.
who was his third wife?
I'm almost sure it was Jane
Seymour.
1--WE did a bit of looking
around and were finally able
to tell her they were yellow
Why I asked her, did
YOU aSk?' 49,
"She said, I am writing a
novel
where did we get the in
formation? We found it in q
novel"
Evening star., 1960-09-22
BY JOHN ROSSON
Star STAFF Writer

Walter N. Tobriner, District
School Board president, refus-
ing to give up, called for con-
gressional action to cut off
automatic pay raises for Dis
trict teachers who fail to do
satisfactory work.
The plan, proposed almost a
year ago by the school board
president, was included in a
pay raise bill drafted by the
board last spring. 1t was not
a part of the legislation passed
last month by Congress, how
ever. which gave teachers a
rs per cent raise.
Al teacher whose supervisor
does not see fit to rate him as
satisfactory still can get auto
matte annual increase, accord
ing to Mr.. Tobriner.
This simply is not fair to
the many District teachers who
do earn ratings of satisfactory
or better" he said yesterday
at the monthly meeting of the
board. Mr.. Tobriner called on
| the board to tackle the prob
lem again, this time in a sep
arate bill which one official
said could go to the new Con-
gress next year.
The proposal may reopen for
widespread discussion an issue
which last March proved eX-
plosive.
A decision on the new motion
was postponed until next
month. New members of the
board requested time to give it
more study.
A special report, presented
by Miss Lucille Carmack, librar-
ian at Woodrow Wilson High
School, showed that the District
school system, with 165 schools,
has only % librarians.
Presenting the report on be-
half of the Action Committee
for District School Libraries,
Miss Carmack pointed out that
the District provides one IL
brarian for every 1900 high
school pupils and one for every
$500 junior high school pupils
There are no Librarians at all
at the elementary level.
The comparable figures in
Maryland, she said, are one Ii
brarian for every 400 high
school students and one for
every 400 Junior high students
In Maryland's elementary
schools there is one librarian
for every school with at least
Is teachers, she said.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
BY CHARLES G. BROOKS
Star Stsff Writer

star Stan Writer
Mothers should throw out
their bottle warmers and steri-
lizers to save their children
from possible fatal burns,
noted physician said today.
The use in American house
holds of implements which can
cause death or mutilation was
decried by Dr.. Carl A. Meyer
professor of surgery at the
Washington University School
Of Medicine.
There's, no extra value in
warming up the milk. It's nc
different from cold milk and
merely deludes the infant into
thinking it's mothers milk" he
said.
DR.. Meyer spoke to the First
International Congress on Re-
search on Burns, meeting at
the National Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda.
Get rid of the damned bot
tie warmer" he told mothers
The heck with sterilizing
bottles with boiling water
With modern detergents and
other chemicals there can be
Evening star., 1960-09-22
The
Rambler
Learns jane
Had Yellow Eyes
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Because of our fondneSs for
statistics. Washington m ay
very well be the information
capital of the world.
At any rate, that's the
writer's idea.
During the last war he
served in the Office of Eco
nomic Warfare.
He was amazed at the
amount of statistical data
up-to-date data - that was
available on anything i'm
portant to world economy.
Take fats and oils. There
was an accurate estimate of
the oil that would be proc
eSsed from the current copra
crop (the dried ,coconut meat
from the South Sea islands
that provides coconut oiD,
the rape seed crop in India.
the linseed crop in South
America, what our cotton
seeds were producing, the
amount of oil that would be
proceSsed from our corn crop
and the amount of lard from
our hogs. Estimates and pre-
d!ctions on whale oil were
speculative because of the
Japanese navy'S control of a
portion of the oceans.
World economic statistics
were, and are, tabulated in
the Department of Agricul-
ture, the Department of Conn
merce, the Tariff Commis-
sion, the State Department,
the Labor Department and
the Treasury Department.
At the Board of Economic
Warfare, we selected large
tables of various statistics
which seemed important to
us and played with them a
bit. So did the War and Navy
Departments. This method of
making work in war probably
is continuing in peace.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
HANDSOME AND PROUD
AT Bogpipers Wear
Kits at Boiling Rite

burly, haSSoon voiced drum
major, looked as happy as a
kid in his uniform and tower
ing black fur hat.
We've had the bagpipers
for 10 years and used to just
wear the regular uniforms.
These came directly from Scot
land. It's the Mitchell tartan.
We picked it in honor of tine
late Gen. Billy Mitchell" he
said.
Grasping the 5-foot-long stick
that leads the way in a parade,
Sergt. Cloud said, They throw
these 20 feet in the air."
Gazing ref1ectively at the sky,
he added, IT wouldn't take a
chance with this hat on"
I Thinking more of the hat
than a possible cracked head,
he added reverently, 1T be-
longed to Pipe Maj. Crabb of
the Scots Guard"
Ancestors Scottish
Sergt. Cloud claims Scottish
ancestry. So do most of the
bandsmen. Even Airmen 1/C
William Micenko and Ronald
Soroka brought in a clan or
two on their grandmother's
side.
The members eagerly shouted
for their one native e-born Scot
to show himself-slim SiSergt
George Angus, who's been here
eight years.
He came forth. When asked
if he'd learned to play the bag
pipes in Scotland, he said, mo
I learned in San Francisco, il
you'll believe it. 1t takes q
wee bit of time to learn"
This is the only military
bagpipe band in the country
In the musical retreat cere-
mony yesterday, they were
Joined by the Headquarters
Command Band of Boiling
While the color retreat is g
daily performance, the flag il
front of headquarters is rou-
timely brought down to re-
corded music except OF,
Wednesday, when the COM
mand band performs.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
Benefit Dance Set

A benefit dance for the Con-
gregation of the Sons of the
Holy Family seminary will be
held at 10 pm. tomorrow in
the knights of Columbus Club,
918 Tenth street NV. The af-
fair is being sponsored by the
Holy Family Guild.
Evening star., 1960-09-22

THERE is another source
of information in Washing
ton and that is the embassy
office. One that the Rambler
has telephoned from time to
time and it has never failed
him, is the British Informa-
ton Service in the National
Press Building.
Frank Mitchell, the head
of the Office, answers the
questions genially in a deep
voice that suggests a big
man. Yesterday the Rambler
stopped by to meet him and
have a look at his library.
Well, he is not a big man.
He is a trim man with a
trimmed mustache. and his
voice, which hoems over the
telephone, is low in converse
ton. He is a good stof teller
And his library he was re-
arranging everything, M
cluding the bookcases and
the books-is not impressive.
Her Majesty's servants seem
to carry the, informatiorf in
their heads. III
Mitchell spent 25 years on.
Fleet Street with financial
publications. He @came OUT
IA years ago, just after the
war. He has served in infor-
nation offices In, British con-
Sulates in California before
coming here.
There are the standard
works-Who's Who, the En-
cyclopedia Britannica and
the National Dictionary Of
Biography.
"Crockford's Clerical Di-
rectory is very helpful" he
said. Our volume is a little
outdated, but most of our in
quiries are about bishops and
they don't move around very
much"
Evening star., 1960-09-22
BY MYRk NIacPHERsoN


Sixteen Air Force men
hitched up their skirts and pre-
pared to parade,
Looking handsome. proud
and comfortable. these men,
bers of the USAF bagpipe band
colored Boiling Air Force Base
grounds with the blue. green,
black and red kits of their
new uniforms.
One of them directed a look
darker than yesterdays rain
bloated sky at a bystander
who insisted on calling the
kits skirts" But he kept his
sporran, spatS and bagpipes
pointed straight ahead.
1.-The only other time they
wore their kits was at a cere-
mony in Oklahoma where Nav
lerick (TV's James Garner)
said, Aren't you cute They
may get burned up but they
take it-this is a military Or
ganization." said 1t. John Ma
lezny. in charge of the bands
schedules.
"At last we've got an Off
cial uniform" said Drummer
Thomas Wolfe, whose knees
were famed by a breeze al
though sweat trickled from hi
forehead.
Jacket Hot
/ They're terribly hot in th'
summer he said, looking, a
the heavy wool black jacket
knee-length socks and stole
"but the kits are comfortable
much more so than ber'
mudas."
A rumor that lead weights
were sewed into the kilt hem
to keep them down was dis
carded. "The Sporran holds i
down" said one of the men
pointing to what a watchin;
child called that big purse
like furry thing" hanging from
the belt. The sporran is useC
as a purse; there are no bacl
pockets in kits.
M/Sergt. Ronald Cloud, tn
Evening star., 1960-09-22

Keep OuG CURIOSITY SeekeTS anu
to prevent an occasional violent
patient from trying to escape.
In the old days when these
hearings were held down in
court, they used to, draw bigger
crowds than criminal cases and
many people even brought
lunches. SO they wouldn't lose
their seats" said Fred Thuee.
a lawyer who serves as perma-
nent chairman Of the commits
sion.
To-day we go to the patient
at the hospital, and if he can't
come to the hearing room we go
right to the ward. We've held
hearings in the rest rooms and
over hydrotherapy tubs"
Each patient can be repre-
sented by his own lawyer or a
court appointed attorney and
friends and relatives who may
have knowledge of the case are
asked to attend.
Other Cases Heard
Another young woman was
led from the room shouting
that the pSychiatrists, the at
tendants, and every man or
the outside was attempting tC
seduce her; a Georgetown Uni
versity law student. who ad-
mitted conflding to his minister
and friends a procession o.
weird and wild dreams abou
being followed, had completed!
changed his story and glibl!
tried to argue his legal right
and mental health with tht
/ professional men; a pale littl,
library clerk said it reall.
wasn't true that she had vision
but that she did OCCASIONAL!
make strange noises with he
mouth and pretend to be
\ chicken; another had investi
I gated a man be thought wa
4 a spy and WAS sure he :hal
4 saved the United States iron
stdoorn, and a frightened, tooth
! less 80-year- old man was 8
senile he couldn't even remem
I Der where he was or what b
had for breakfast.
\ DR.. Arcangelo d Am o r
I served ON the reviewing boar
! today with DR.. MaI1and an,
Mr.. Thuee. The two doctor
serve three times a week 70
labput three months and the
are replaced by other doctor
from the nine man commits
sion. Mr.. Thuee serves perma
! nently.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
Plan
On Land Attacked
Upper County
Proposal Hit
By Residents

A proposed residential land
use plan for Montgomery Coun-
ty came under strong attack
last night from residents and
businessmen of the upper coun-
ty area.
The criticism, leveled during
public hearing on the pro-
posal conducted by the Mary
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission. came
from representatives of the
Montgomery County Chamber
of Commerce, the Upper Mont
gomery County Farmers Club,
the Damascus Citizens Associa-
ton and the Damascus Cham
Der of Commerce.
Although two spokesmen for
81 Landowners in two sections
OF the upper county area ex-
pressed approval of the plan,
the commissioners were given
a clear impression that there is
widespread fear that the pro-
posal might be adopted as a
guide for development of the
county's rural sections.
Sees Population Growth
The plan, prepared by the
commissions staff, predicts
that the county's population
will double to about $4,000 by
1880. 1t attempts to determine
where the residential growth
will be.
7 E. Brooke Lee, a founder of
the planning commission and
a former vice chairman, was
so opposed that he spoke twice,
once as a spokesman for the
farmers club and again in his
own behalf.
! Representing the farmers, he
said the plan, if adopted, would
place unusual and drastic
location of homes" in the upper
county by the imposition of
arbitrary" population density
restrictions over vast areas of
land.
5 Predicts ZOning Guide
He challenged the commits
sion'S right to determine where
: people can live and said ap-
proval of the plan would lead
ito its use as a future zoning
guide.
II The plan, he said, would
establish 2 to 20 acre homesite
requirements as a means of
maintaining spaciousness in
the upper county at the
|, economic expense of property
! owners.
y. Newton Brewer, jr., vice
chairman of the commission,
!. assured Mr.. Lee that the plan
is merely a guess by the plan
..Fning staff as to where people
will want to live in the next
!. 20 years, and that the COM
mission would never approve
20-acre lot size restrictions in
. any area.
DR.. Harold A. Knapp, ir..
representing 13 homeowners in
the area adjacent to the val
leyS of Wildcat Branch, Goshen
Branch and Great Seneca
Greek, and Mrs. Davis Bran
denberg, representing eight
landowners in the Clarksburg
area, indorSed the plan as a
n protection for the upper coun-
tvs scenic beauty and natural
y resources.
II Vice Chairman Brewer said
: the commission will hold a
: second hearing on the proposal
o at 8 pm. on October 4 in the
e commissions Silver Spring Of
y flee.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
ECHO PASS DUE
AT 8:JS TONIGHT

The Echo ] satellite viii,
make one, pass over the
Washington area tonight,
1t will be visible, wealth
er permitting, at 8:18 pm,
south of the city, 19 de-
greeS above the horizon,
travelling southeast.
Evening star., 1960-09-22
Car Fruud Session
To Be October II

The District Commissioners
will hold a public hearing on
October IL on proposed regu-
lations aimed at prohibiting
fraud in the sale and financing
of cars.
The hearing will be at 10
am. in Room 500 of the Dis
trict Building.
Evening star., 1960-09-22

the same woman, wearing a
colorful striped dress and a
nervous, frightened smile, sat
in a sunny room at District
General Hospital chatting
amiably with two pSychiatrists
and a lawyer,
The three were members of
the Mental Health Commission
and they were talking with her
| in an effort to decide whether
she should be released, be hos
pitalized for 800 days for obser-
vation, or committed to st.
Elizabeths Hospital for pro-
longed treatment.
Flights Of Fancy
She really didn't say she was
the Statue of Liberty, she in
sisted at first when the ques-
tioning began. But finally,
with a bit of gentle persuasion,
she admitted that "yes, it was
just one of my fanciful no
tions. I'm given to flights OF
fancy"
Then in a hurried and CO.
herent manner she spun a
frightening tale of being driven
insane by hospital attendants
beatings by police and CO.
workers, injections that changed
\ her sex and various other com
4 plants against everyone she
1 has encountered in recent
weeks.
Don't you think it would bt
q better if you stayed here foI
additional treatment SO we car
clear this up asked DR.. Alber
t E. Marland, a member of tht
commission since 1888.
81 think not, really, X
rather not she replied.
But the commission mem
Ibeps agreed that perhaps an
other so days of disqualification
would be in her best interest
And before she was led from
1.-THE locked room, the lawyer
Thomas C. Bell, appointed b,
the court, carefully explaine'
that she could appeal this rec
ommendatien and ask for
trial by judge or jury and /
would be granted
This young woman was on
of nine mental cases screened
by the three commission mem
bers today in a locked room a
the hospital.
The room was locked for twt
reasons they explained: tt
Evening star., 1960-09-22
AT D. c. GENERAL
Mental Patients
Screened Carefully
By BARNARD X. LETTER
Star Staff Writer

when police encountered the tall gaunt bare
footed She she told hem the Statue of Liberty
Her TORCH she insisted had out and they would just
her match to reght she would about her bu
of lighting the day for the tired and hudded
yearning to be free