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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
By CASPAR NAMES
Star star Writer

Jehovah'S Witnesses attend
ing the assembly at Griffith
Stadium are giving freely of
their time, labor and goods.
Coming to Washington from
"a States and several overseas
countries, they not only are
paying their way, but are per-
forming chores for which many
ordinarily receive high wages
as workmen.
Plumbers and pipe filters
have assembled $500 feet of
pipe into gas, steam and water
lines; electricians have put
more than 5000 feet of wire
into place to feed power to
equipment and lights; carpen-
tiers have prepared $500 feet
of tables for the improvised
cafeteria beneath the stadium
ana the DleacnerS.
Volunteers for the huge task
of feeding the delegateS-from
1890 for lunch yesterday to an
expected 10000 plus on Sunday
run the gamut from butchers
to women peeling onions and
potatoes. Richard Palms of
Pittsburgh, kitchen manager,
said Is cooks, IS workers pre-
pairing vegetables. 1872 servers
on the cafeteria line, Is salad
makers and so food expediters
(who carry the food from the
kitchen to the line) are giving
their skillS and time free.
The four-day convention,
which opened yesterday and
ends Sunday, should exceed
the 1851 meeting here. That
year $1,000 adherentS attended
the services in Griffith Stadium.
The largest of all Jehovah's
Witnesses assemblies were the
1858 gatherings in New York
simultaneously at Yankee Sta
dunn and the Polo Grounds,
with 253,922 attending.
James A. Hinderer, circuit
supervisor for Southern New
Jersey, told the opening session
yesterday that the denomina-
ton is growing rapidly.
Every member of the denomi-
nation is considered a practic-
ing minister. The society lists
more than 871,700 active men,
bers throughout the world, with
250,900 in the United States.
The present assembly is spon-
sored by the Watchtower Bible
and Tract Society, legal cor
poration for Jehovah's Wit
nesses. Society headquarters is
in New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15

81 duudtCQ A1OLH 0dWICAAOCtA4lC
School last month and enters
Yale University in the fall;
John D., Is, a Choate student,
now at camp in the Bahamas,
and Richard B., 8, now attend
ing Potomac School.
Princeton Graduate
Mr.. Sullivan is a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate Of Princeton
University, but he said he re-
solved that he would not steer
his sons to Princeton because
his father was a Harvard man
and never said a word when
the younger Sullivan went to
Princeton.
About specific District prob
lens, the prospective Commits
sioner is reserving comment
until he has done some home
work. But he pointed out that
as a member of the Citizens
Advisory Council subcommittee
to study tax problems, he join
ed in recommending to the
council that the city's sales tax
be raised from 2 to 3 per cent
as the most equitable and eff
fective way of getting the
funds the city needed.
The Commissioners at first
opposed the sales tax rise, spon-
sored by Chairman Mcmillan OF
the House District Committee,
but later withdrew their OPP
position.
Mr.. Sullivan has this to say
on a real estate tax rise: There
may be merit in some real
estate tax increase, but I know
that somewhere along the line
you can get real estate taxes
too high and more people will
move out Of the city. There
has to be a ceiling"
Before he digs in, he is going
to Bermuda for a weeks vaca-
ton. Then he will spend August
clearing up his affairs to be
ready to go to work in Septem-
Der if confirmed. He will be on
leave of absence from the firm
with which he has been con-
nected since 1888.
Mr.. Sullivan was born in New
York City while his father was
editor of Golfers Magazine
When he was 3 or 4 years old,
the elder Sullivan became a
political columnist and moved
the family to Fredericksburg
Va, from where he committed
to the Capital.
| The SullivanS bought a house
here in 1920 and young Sulli-
van attended Potoma and
Friends Schools and Lawrence
vile School. He was graduated
from Princeton in 1882 ano
took e. job on a ship to South
America, earning a penny q
month as third assistant purser
Former Office Boy
He was anxious to follow ir
his fathers footsteps in the
newspaper business. But the de-
preston was at its depth and
when he was offered a $30-a-
month job as Office boy with
Auchincloss, Parker and Red.
path. he grabbed it.
He went from Office boy into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Sondro Graves Care
By Younger Adults

AS far as Sandra can remem-
Der, the only trip she has ever
had in her life has been one
visit to downtown Washington.
Sandra is IL years old. She
grew up in a three-room house
with IL other children and
other relatives. Her whole
childhood centered around the
effort to get along in this
smothering environment.
Defeated, her mother left the
family for good, after earlier
temporary departures.
Sandra and several brothers
and sisters were taken in by
elderly, well-meaning cousins,
too poorly educated to read or
write, but not insensitive to the
children'S need for a home.
Sandra could hardly believe
a camp exists with friendship,
food and fun, all free. She was
sure she would be expected at
least to bring her own food.
Except for the kindness of
her cousins, so little has ever
been given to Sandra that she
was astounded at a small gift
from a social worker, and asked
unbelievingly. you mean it's
mine?"
Sandra won't really believe
gifts like camp exist until your
contribution to The Evening
Star Summer Camp Fund
helps send her there.
The following contrjhlltiOY,e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
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 cest-$39 30 for IL
days, 1895 for six days.
All sums received by the Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child Serv-
ice of Washington. a United Givers
Fund agency, for the use Of its
Summer Outings Committee. Fam
lily and Child Services is regis
tered under the District Of Co.
lumbia Charitable solicitations
Act No. 6-07-1b1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
Democratic Convention
Reviewed in Sunday Star

DIRECT FROM LOS ANGELES-The shouting is over
and, this Sunday The Stars staff of on-the-Scene
reporters will analyze the problems facing Nominee
Kennedy and the changes in fortune that have
come to number of Democrats. For compre-
hensive follow up of the Democratic convention,
read The Sunday Star.
WORLDS RICHEST MAN. Paul Getty is reputed to
be the worlds wealthieSt man. Recently, he spent
more than million to purchase new home just
outside London. To find out how he figures it will
save him money This Week Magazine.
TEEN-AGER ON THE ARCTIC-A Fairfax youth who
helped scientists solve polar mystery, tells you
what it's like to live in of the remotest parts of
the world The full, interesting story appears in
TEEN Magazine.
ROUGHING IT-FamlieS heading for Americas great
out-of-doors can avoid most of the roughness of
roughing it. To learn what is needed for successful
camp-out read Star Staff Writer John W. Steps
cover story in SUNDAY, The Star Magazine In the
same magazine Jim Birchfied takes you
picture visit to historic Berkeley Springs
in West Virginia, the site of an original George
Washington bath.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
D. c. PRESENTS
HEALTH DIRECTOR
CITATION, $500

Commissioner David B.
Karrick today presented
Dr$ Daniel Leo Finucane,
District Director of Public
Health, a $500 award and
a certificate in recognition
of his outstanding per-
formance' between April /,
1859, and March 81. 1860.
Commissioner K arrick
said in answer to a query,
that no specific reasons for
the award were cited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
SHARP WROTE ABOUT

SHARP WROTE ABOUT
mice and toads and muskrats
and birds. 1 shall never for
get his horror story of the
crows roosting in the pine
stand above Cubby Hollow
who were Topping around
after a below-zero New Eng
land winter night. They were
all blind in one eye. They
sleep with their beak and one
eye under their left wing.
The exposed eyes had frozen.
Rabbit Roads" was his
title to one chapter.
I'm your woods walks"
Sharp wrote, Ibid you ever
notice a little furrow or tun-
mel through the underbrush,
a tiny roadway through the
briers and hackle b cry
bushes? Did you ever try to
follow this path to its begin
ming or end, wondering who
travelled it? You have doubt
less"
The writer has, but not
until after he first read that
paragraph. Sharp's idea was
that Bunny works out a laby-
rinth and it always ends up
in a thick and thorny tangle
of greenbrier.
Such is the tangle of un-
tanned underbrush right
down the hill from this pic
ture. window. AS this was
written four fat quail came
out of it and crossed the
road, fat and confident, still
sounding their shrill Bob
White!" Bob White!" Bob
White!"
Their confidence is not
only in their cover, but an
awareness that one cannot
legally fire a shotgun in
Alexandria, in season or not.
Then Bunny came hopping
back from Mrs. Lamond's
flower garden, one of the
finest this side of the Poto-
mac, where he undoubtedly
had been sampling the vari-
Gus and exotic flavors of the
tender green leaves, and dis
appeared into the brier
patch.
I'm going to buy a beagle
that will give him a run for
it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
Fairfax Federation
Pushes Urban Plan
Campaign Set
To Put Issue
Before Voters

Leaders of the Fairfax Coun-
ty Civic Federation pledged to-
day to start Immediately a pc
tition to put the urban county
plan before the voters "at' the
earliest possible time"
The federation's Executive
Committee voted to use "all
haste and all effort" in a drive
to get the county to adopt the
new form Of government.
Herbert e. Harris, civic fed
Grafton president, said the fed
Grafton saw mo merit" in watt
ing to vote until November.
1862, as the Board of County
Supervisors decided recently
to do.
Signatures Sought
Mr.. Harris placed no time
limit on the campaign to gath
er the signatures of 5000 quail
fed voters to be presented to
the Circuit Court. The court
can order the urban county
plan question placed on the
ballot.
The urban county plan is
aimed at allowing the different
sections of the county to de-
velop at various speeds.
The plan also is designed to
prevent the breakup of the
county through interpretations
of new cities and towns.
Opponents have cited the
| plans lack of a ban against
annexation from without and
within. Some persons have
pushed for the Arlington
County form of government,
which contains a built-in ban
against annexation.
Falls Church is expected to
file suit next week in a effort
to annex as square miles Of
county land including the
Seven Corners Shopping Center.
Tax Loss Noted
Alexandria also has been
making annexation threats
from the other side of the
county. Much of the land in
yolved is the source of sub
stantiai tax revenue.
/ Despite the opposition of the
Board of County Supervisors.
the federation intends to ask
the help of the county's Demo-
cratic and Republican organi-
cations in its campaign, Mr..
Harris said.
The federation president
said his group would solicit
the support of every organiza-
ton in the county.
A special committee, headed
by Joseph Wheeler, former
Federation president, and Ed
ward Ballard, federation sec
ond vice president, has been
formed to spearhead the cam
paign.
Mr.. Harris said the fedora
ton was not aiming specifically
for a November referendum.
The group, he said, hopes to
get the measure to the voters
by February. however, so that
elections could be, held under
the plan in November, 1861.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
CONCRETE FALLS.
S ARE INJURED

Three women and two chill
dren attending the Assembly OF
Jehovah's Witnesses in Griffith
Stadium suffered minor cuts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
SCHOOL CHILDREN to-

SCHOOL CHILDREN to-
day are not even encouraged,
to say nothing Of required,
to read a book like this.
Interest in nature is a little
too U upper class for
Americas present-day dem
ocratic education.
Children can go through
the eighth grade in many
school systems without read
ing a book per Sc.
They read readers" and
then "anthologies."
The eighth-grade anthol-
ogy used in Washington's
schools contains extracts
from Washington Irving and
Dickens, some poetry, Words
worth among others; a letter
to the school children of the
Nation by President Eisen-
hover, and an article on her
experience in rehearsing for
Peter Pan by Mary Martin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
The
Rambler
Rereuds
Dullus Lore Sharp
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Last evening as the swifts
went skimming above the
treetops and Bob White re-
newed his shrill call, Bunny
passed the picture window,
hopping along toward the
Lamonds' house right in the
middle of their access road.
The Lamonds have two
dogs, a collie and a sort of
spaniel. Bunny seemed to be
contemptuously aware that
they were too old to give him
a good run for it on the road,
to say nothing of the under
brush.
It reminded the Rambler
that most Of what he knows
about rabbits was gained
from a thin little book which
was required re ding in
eighth grade, Dallas Lore
Sharp's "a Watcher in the
Woods"
Until he read that book he
thought rabbits liked a hole
in the ground for a hiding
place. No, said Mr.. Sharp,
Bunny's safety is in his hind
legs, in showing enemies a
clean pair of heels. He would
rather lie low through a bliz-
zard on the lee side of a
stone.
With some difiiculty he 10
Gated the little book on the
shelf of the library. Dallas
Lore Sharp was a Methodist
minister at bingham, Mass,
who wrote nature pieces for
the old Youths Companion.
1t was a delight to get into
the little book again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
Other Reports

The superintendent released
two other reports yesterday:
Mrs. Wilhelmina B. Thomas,
principal of Walker Jones
Elementary School, reported
unusually large gains in arith-
metic achievement among stu
dents at the school as a result
of an intensive faculty pro-
gram to emphasize arithmetic.
Miss Nell F. Hiscox, princi-
pal of Janney Elementary
School, reported the >advan-
tages Of organizing f1fth-grade
American history around a
basic text book treating the
subject chronologically, rather
than around various topical
units. Janney's approach will
be used at the experimental
Amidon School in Southwest
Washington.
DR.. Hansen also announced
that 293 applications for Ami
don, scheduled to open for the
first time in September, have
been received from parents
throughout the city. Any child
in the city may attend the
school, which will stress direct
instruction of the fundamen-
tails. About 200 neighborhood
children also will attend it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
SULLIVAN
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
the number one problem in Dis
trict government.
II found it fascinating" he
said, "but I was impressed by
the helplesSneSS of the poor
District in fiscal matters"
He referred to the fact that
the District does not control its
own spending. He cited as an
example the recent pay raise,
which adds millions of dollars
to the District payroll and
leaves the city to scratch its
head over how the money is
to be raised.
His report recommended a
$32 million Federal share in
the Districts budget, which the
Commissioners approved and
which he helped to sell to the
Budget Bureau. Congress au-
thorized the increased Federal
share beginning in fiscal 1859
but has failed to follow through
with appropriations.
Mr.. Sullivan ran into similar
Illustrations with private fund
raising as a member of the
Budget Steering Committee of
the Health and Welfare Serv-
ice Council Of the United Givers
Fund. Again he saw too little
morey being assigned through
private Embarrassing for a big
| Job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
Weighed Acceptance

Once into civic affairs, Mr..
Sullivan maintained his con-
nection by accepting appoint
ment as a member of the Citi-
zens Advisory Council in July,
1858. On the council, he has
served as a member of the law
and legislation subcommittee
and on the public works sub
committee of the Budget Com
mittee.
Mr.. Sullivan said he wrestled
for days with his conscience be-
fore accepting the appointment
as Commissioner, which he did
not seek.
II came to the conclusion
that If the President wanted to
nominate me, in the absence of
insuperable obstacles, I should
say yes. I have enough insight
to realize that the Commits
sioners work hard and that the
job is really quite frustrating
when they don't control the
money. I also considered what
it would do to my firm.
ION the positive side, there
was the challenge and the fact
that we've got a city with
problems. I said to myself
You're part of the city and il
you get tapped on the shoulder
and told that you can help,
think you should give it a try"
Mr.. Sullivan SAID his wife,
the former Martha Sinclair
Davidge, had mixed feelings
about the job.
"She feels like I do that you
have to be a good citizen" Mr.
Sullivan said, but she's worried
about the banquet circuit and
the longer hours"
The Sullivans have been mar
ried since 1888 and have three
boys-Mark III, 10, who was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
Hansen Says
Final Exams
Aided Pupils
Luuds Test Plan
As Constructive;
Teachers Agree
By ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star stan Writer

The final examinations given
in District high schools last
month for the first time in
years proved Every construc-
tive" according to Supt. Carl
F. Hansen.
The superintendent at his
press conference yesterday said
teachers felt the exams, and
the intensive review preceding
them, made for a better use
of the final days of the school
term.
The new examination pro-
gram, he said, represented "a.
very good start" toward a re-
turn to the testing practices
(which proved to be good for
so many years"
There was evidence, he said,
that emphasis on essay ques-
tons proved valuable, and that
perhaps these need to be
stressed still more.
Within Building
The exams for all subjects
except mathematics were made
up on an individual building,
rather than city-wide. basis.
Final exams in math have been
given since 1857.
DR.. Hansen also released a
report by Mrs. Ethel Grubbs,
supervising director Of mathe-
maticS. which cited the advan-
tages of city-wide tests for CO.
ordinating the instruction pro-
gram and establishing grading
standards in her department.
In 1857, Mrs. Grubbs noted,
students could get an A for cor
rectly answering only Is out
of so questions, if they had
certain teachers. Other teach
ers gave AS only to students
getting SO correct.
Her report also showed that
eighth and ninth grade honor
students. taking elementary
and immediate algebra a year
earlier than usual, scored high
er on the exams than ninth
and tenth graders enrolled in
the regular classes. This is
further evidence" DR.. Hansen
said, "of the validity of ability
grouping Of students"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15

The following contributions
have been received: J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15

graduated from Lawrenceville
School last month and enters
Yale University in the fall;
John D., Is, a Choate student,
now at camp in the Bahamas,
and Richard B.. 8, now attend
ing Potomac School.
Evening star., 1960-04-29

a propaganda attack on the
new government. The Peiping
Peoples Daily charged that
Huh Chung was a stooge of the
United States.
THE United States places
another group of puppets in
power to replace Syngman
Rhee in an attempt to main
tain a traitorous regime sub
servient to the United States, "
said the official paper, calling
on the South Korean people to
persist in their struggle"
Mr.. Hubs cabinet, meeting
for the first time, decided on
a wholesale shakeup of provin-
clal governors and police direc-
tors as soon as they can line up
qualified men for replacements.
Key ENJOYS Resign
The designations of two key
ambassadors-You Chan Yang
in Washington and Yiu Tai-ha
in Tokyo-were accepted. Both
were close associates of Mr..
Rhee.
The national police, one of
Evening star., 1960-04-29

the most hated branches of the
old administration, began to
recruit 500 new college gradu-
ates to train as the core of the
new democratic police force"
Police brutality to anti-gov-
ernment voters and demonstra-
tors before and during the
March Is presidential election
was one of the causes of the
street demonstrations and riots
which forced out the 85-year-
old Rhee.
Former Home Minister Choi
In-kyu, who had been missing
since the April 19 bloody Tues
day" that capped the insurrec-
ton, gave himself up last night
to government prosecutors. He
will be formally charged with
responsibility for election ir-
regularitieS in the March voting
as soon as his resignation from
the National Assembly is ac-
cepted. AS a deputy he has
immunity from arrest.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Congress Halls
NepdI King for
Lincoln Quote
BY the Associated Press

King Mahendra of Nepal
made hit with Congress yes
terday. After speaking of world
cares for 20 minutes in his ma
tive tongue. the shy and i'm
passive King quoted from Abra-
ham Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad-
dress in English.
Senators, Representatives
and other Government leaders
had given the monarch of the
Mt. Everest country a warm
reception when he entered the
House chamber for his speech
before a joint session of Con-
greSs.
They clapped again when he
was formally present by Speak
er Rayburn. They applauded
approvingly eight times during
his appeal, which an aide
translated from Nepalese, for
understanding of his young
nation, peace in the world and
help to underdeveloped coun-
tries.
But when he Unexpectedly
switched to English for the
words from Lincoln, their ap-
plause came as thunder burst.
The King quoted that part
of the Gettysburg Address in
which Lincoln declared govern
ment of the people. by the peo-
pie, for the people shall not
perish from the earth.
The visiting King had a 40
minute talk with President Eli
senhoWer at the White House
before going to the Capitol.
In a Joint communique issued
after their talk, Mr.. Eisenhower
and King Mahendra said, ANY
attempt by any nation to i'm
pose its own economic system
or political beliefs on any other
country should be condemned"
No mention was made of the
fact that Nepal has been en-
gagged in a border dispute with
Communist China.
Evening star., 1960-04-29

Moloney and Mervyn Evans,
who also are out to demon
strate the durability of a
certain make of british boots.
DR.. Moore covered about "a
miles yesterday and quit at 3
pm. While the 56-year-old
British h doctor rested, the
sergeants walked. They erased
her ll-mile lead and halted for
the night on Salt Lake City's
southeastern limits, about four
miles ahead of her.
DR.. Moore has had nothing
but scorn for the sergeants.
She maintains she planned this
hike for months and that they
Evening star., 1960-04-29

stole her thunder by starting
a similar trek a day ahead of
her. She vowed to pass them,
and did so on Tuesday as they
slept east of Wendover, Utah.
All three headed up Parley's
Canyon today on the long hike
uphill into the Rocky Noun
tains. At Silver Greek junction,
% miles to the east, they'll go
separate ways. The sergeants
will swing north on U. S.
Highway 189 to U. S. 80, which
they plan to take eastward
through Wyoming. DR.. Moore
will stick to U. S. 40 through
Colorado.
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Cancer, Smoking
Link Discounted

PITTSBURGH, April 90
tAP).-A chemistry professor
says, The further We go the
less we know" in trying to dis
cover if cancer-causing agents
exist in cigarettes.
Testifying for Liggett e.
Myers Tobacco Co. in a civil
trial yesterday. DR.. George 2.
Wright of Toronto, Canada.