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Evening star., 1960-12-28
DOWN ON THE FARM
Ten-Porty telephone:
Ouch! What q Joy!

It is obviously designed to
drive one beserk. There it sits
on my desk. an innocent looI
on its black and white face,
an instrument Of cunning and
Illustration and torture.
We have a party line. Moth
ing else is available. For this
we have the privilege of pay
ing from $25 to $50 a month,
most of which is for toll
charges.
This doesn't mean that we
are forever calling Atlantic
City or Canada or Gettys-
burg. It does mean we're To-
Gated in the country, and
nearly every phone call is a
toll charge.
It's. all a bit cockeyed. It
costs us nothing to phone
Front Royal. 10 miles from
our farm, but there's a long
distance charge to Flint Hill,
just four miles from us, to
Hume, a few miles east Of us,
and to nearly every other
section Of this area.
So the tolls mount up each
month. And what do we get
for this towering toll struc-
ture?
We get a ten-party line.
That's right, ten families on
one line.
Naturally the line is almost
always busy. You wait and
wait and mutter under your
breath and pace around and
around and still the line is
busy. Finally you give way to
the worst that is in you and
listen, with your hand press
Evening star., 1960-12-28

The FemiIy Council, consists Of o
judge. q psyehiotriss, three clergy
men, three editors and O women's
editor. Each article is q summary
Of q fomiIy disagreement pre-
sented 10 the council. The council
dsols with problems, major and
minor. encountered BY guidance
eounseloY and social workers.
Council editor. AImo Denny.
Evening star., 1960-12-28

stop slandering her son and
daughter-in-law. The two
family setup was Just as hard
on them, and her daughter
in-law took over as unpaid
housekeeper for her.
Time and sober second
thoughts may remedy this
rift. Its cause, after all. isn't
malice but plain human not
very-Smart behavior.
(Copyright 1860, General Features
Corp.)
Tomorrow: Teosed.
Evening star., 1960-12-28
FAMILY COUNCIL
Ma Makes
.BigGesture.
NowWeeps
THE PROBLEM

Mrs. Anna J.-My son and
daughter. r.in-law forced me
out Of my home.
Mrs. Helen She in
sisted we move In with her.
THE DETAILS
Mrs. Anna Jim II and
while I haven't been turned
Evening star., 1960-12-28

Down on The Farm oppeors eaeh
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

/ a m etal container-labeled
household goods" - on the
Carrier Bon Homme Richard
from San Francisco. The con-
tainer, Mr.. Constine said.
was listed as carrying tables,
books, wood carvings and
chairs from the Philippines
and a box of decorative glass.
The attorney said the tables
and chairs we're inside, packed
amid the 504 bottles.
The admiral and Mrs. Erd-
mann already had returned
home aboard the Korean Bear.
312 Other Bottles '
Federal agents who found
the whisky at Admiral Erd-
mann's home said they also dis
covered 312 additional bottles
of choice liquor behind a locked
door leading to the admiral's
private bar.
A tipster, repeatedly an en-
listed man. blew the whistle on
the admiral.
The admiral's attorney, Rich
ard j. MacLaury, said Admiral
Erdmann has expressed willing
ness to pay the tax ever since
the liquor was seized July l..
If convicted, Admiral Erd-
mann faces maximum possible
penalties of IL years in prison
and $35,000 in fines. plus loss
of his $12,150-a-year pension.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Rear Admiral Indicted
In Liquor Smuggling

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. is
(AP) Rear Admiral William
L. Erdmann, newly retired for
mer Navy commander at Guam,
was free under $1,000 bond to-
day after his indictment on
charges of smuggling AZ cases
of untaxed liquor into the
United States.
The indictment was returned
in San Francisco by a Federal
grand jury, the Justice De-
partment announced.
Admiral and Mrs. Erdmann
live in a $4,000 home in a
suburb of San Francisco.
The 57-year-old, much-dec-
GRATED Annapolis graduate said
his indictment on charges that
he brought in 504 bottles last
May instead of two tax-free
gallons was news to me-"
Il can't comment at this
time. but l suppose I'll have my
inning in court" he said.
Arraignment September %
He is scheduled for arraign-
ment in Federal District Court
September %.
Assistant United States At
torney Donald Constine said
the prime label scotch, bourbon.
brandy, gin, cognac and
liqueurs we're bought at the
Navy officers, mess on Guam at
reduced. tax-free prices.
The liquor was shipped in
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Underground
Is Feasible

Construction of q parking
garage under Farragut Square
is feasible from an engineering
standpoint.
This was reported to the Dis
trict Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency by a firm hired to
carry out tests of soil conditions
at the square, at Connecticut
avenue and K street NV.
The firm, DeLeuw, Gather
and Co. Of Chicago, told the
agency that the construction
work would involve only rou-
tine engineering problems, ac-
cording to william D. Heath,
agency director.
Congress, voted funds for the
feasibility study last year. The
next step is for the Chicago
firm to move ahead with studies
of the economic and engineer
ing aspects involved in the un-
derground garage project.
The parking proposal is a
controversial one. Opponents
include Harry T. Thompson,
head of National Capital Parks,
who objects to using park land
for this purpose, and the city's
private parking operators, who
are well represented on the
parking agency's board.
The District Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency's proposed bud
get of $4,000 for the next
fiscal year was announced to-
day. 1t includes 100000 for
setting up a new fringe park
ing lot.
This 3OO-to-500-space lot
would be part of the 10000
car parking area for the Dis
trict Stadium near the East
Capitol street bridge.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Coors' Clothing Found ,
Bones Are Believed His

A truck driver on a target
shooting outing, Edward Green,
30, of Englewood, found the
clothing Sunday. He said he
first found the shoes, about
4 feet apart, then a wadded
pair of pants.
IT kicked at them and heard
a jingling noise. I looked in
the pockets and found 43 cents
and a key chain. There was a
silver pocket knife on the
chain. monogrammed with the
initials 'AC III 1 knew right
away whose they were"
Murderer Was in Denver
Mr.. Green returned to the
Denver area and advised a
policeman friend, who called
the FBI. The FBI did not give
out the information until
yesterday.
Earlier this summer, the
FBI disclosed that an escaped
murderer. Joseph Corbett, jr.,
had lived here for four years
under an assumed name and
left Denver hurriedly the day
after Mr.. Coors disappeared.
Corbett, 81, escaped in 1855
from the Chino (CalifO prison,
where he was serving a term
for murder.
The FBI never has linked
Corbett with the Coors case.
But it reported that an auto
owned by the fugitive was
found burning on a dump near
Atlantic City, N. j., on Febru-
ary 10, 10 days after Mr..
Coors' disappearance.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

mains the property of the Gov
eminent.
After discussing the matter
with a lawyer, Mrs. Gieder sur
rendered her treasure" and
accepted a receipt, declining
the offer Of a genuine penny
from the Secret Service agents.
The penny was delivered to a
laboratory in the mint. where
close examination proved that
it was an ordinary penny which
had been covered with a silver
like metal, perhaps zinc.
Leland Howard, assistant
director of the mint, said he is
awaiting a legal opinion from
the Treasury Department to
determine whether the odd
color of the penny might make
it pasSable as a dime, or
whether the similarity is not
considered strong enough to
warrant its conf1Scation. In
the latter event, the penny may
be returned to Mrs. Gieder.
AS for Mrs. Gieder, she would
like to forget about the whole
thing.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Virginia Floods
Route Families

FRANKLIN, Va, Sept. is
(AP.-Fifteen families we're
evacuated from their homes
in flooded lowland here as the
Blackwater River reached a
crest today.
Town officials said the water
almost covered one or two
houses. They expected the
crest stage to continue for
about two days.
In KingSdale, 4 miles away
in Southampton County, a
few families had to move
from their homes yesterday as
the river flooded lowlands.
Workers at the Union Bag
Camp Paper Corp. plant here
had to be ferried across a
bridge in heavy trucks. Two
feet of water covered the
bridge, blocking it to automo-
biles.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Dealer Insists
He Sold Autos
For 81 Down

A Washington use ID : car
dealer today, contesting Fed
eral Trade Commission charges
of false advertising, said he
actually sold cars for 81 down.
The statement was made by
Gabriel BORROW, president of
@ g. M, Inc, which operates
as Gabby's Auto Discount here.
The FTC has charged that
Mr.. BORROW advertised falsely
in claiming to sell cars for a
81 down payment and to pro-
vide a l0,000-mile guarantee.
Taking the stand before FTC
hearing examiner j. Earl Cox,
Mr.. BORROW said he never ad-
vertised that he would give"
such a guarantee. but only said
Its available"
1000 Sold in a Year
In answer to questions by
FTC Attorney Ames w. Will
liams, the used-car dealer said
his firm sold about 1000 cars
between August, 1858, and
August, 1869, making a gross
income of about a couple of
hundred thousand dollars"
He said that until four or
five months ago he was known
to customers as "Gabby Nc
Coy" using this as a business
name.
The FTC has charged the
advertising used by Mr.. BORROW
gave a false impression about
actual down payments. The
agency said that actually addi-
tional money is paid by GUS
toners after they have gotten
funds from small-loan COM
panieS.
Mr.. Bobrow said today he
never personally took any Gus
toner to a small-loan company
to obtain such pickup money, I"
but that his statesmen or man.
ager might have done so. He
said he did not know what
loan companies they might
have gone to and "I don't
care"
He said contracts signed by
customers did not show inter-
est rates but only the unpaid
balance that had to be f.
nanced.
He added that in 1859 he
sold many" cars at a 81 down
payment, most of them with a
$500 or $500 sales price. At
least SO cars were sold this way,
the dealer said.
He admitted that loans re-
ceived by customers to provide
the pickup payment included
interest rates higher than bank
financing. which is limited to
8 per cent in the District.
During the course of the
hearing, one contract was pro-
duced dated January 81, 1860.
1t included an item, on a $3.50
car, referred to as finance
charge-$212.97." With insur-
ance charges the total balance
came to $1,264, the form
showed.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Two Beotniks Acquitted
OF Mdrihuono Choroes

Two patrons of a so-called
Washington beatnik hangout
were exonerated of marihuana
charges today by District Court
Judge Edward M. Curran on
grounds of entrapment.
The two cleared by Judge
Curran are Joseph F. Johnson,
%, and Marcus H. Hall, jr.. 20,
both of the 500 block of Ken
yon street NV. They had been
patrons of the Coffee NJ Confu-
sion shop in the 900 block of K
street NV. it was testified.
Judge Curran handed down
the acquittal judgment on mo-
ton of Defense Attorneys
Henry Lincoln johnson, jr..
and Curtis P. Mitchell, who
claimed entrapment of their
clients.
In clearing the two men
Judge Curran said it is the first
duty of a police officer to pre-
vent crime and that an officer
is not supposed to create crime
in order to punish.
Indictment Hinted
The judge said that in his
opinion strong evidence" dur
ing the trial tended to show
that Undercover Police Officer
Jose L. Estrada had melted
the offenses as to the two de-
PENDANTS.
The two had been on trial
before a jury. Testimony
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Valuable Rare Penny
Worth Exactly Cent

A penny, which a Silver
Spring coin collector thought
highly valuable because 1t ap-
peared to be a rarity made
through a mistake in the mint,
today turned out to be worth
exactly / cent.
The glamour background of
the odd-looking penny came to
light yesterday when the Secret
Service took it from Mrs. Dor
othy Gieder, of 1929 Eastern
avenue, who had spotted it in
a cash register, and swapped
it for an ordinary penny.
Mrs. Gieder's find looked as
if it were penny made from
a silver dime blank.
News of her coin, which she
had appraised by a coin shop at
500 or more, somehow got to
the Secret Service, which seat
around two agent to interview
Mrs. Gieder in her Office at the
Justice Department.
The agents were interested
in the coin because the Govern
ment contends that any money
made of other than legal metal
is not legally issued and re-
Evening star., 1960-09-15
George McKibbin,
Illinois Ex-Aide

CHICAGO, Sept. IS (AP) -
George B. McKibbin. 70, former
chairman of the Illinois Public
Welfare Commission who served
in several high State posts, died
yesterday, apparently from a
heart attack.
His body was found in an
anteroom of his Chicago law
Office, where he had arrived
before his employees.
Mr.. McKibbin, a Republican.
was State director of finance
from 1941 to 1945, director of
the Illinois Post-W War Planning
Commission from 1945 to 1949.
He ran for Mayor of Chicago
in 1943 but was defeated by the
late Mayor Edward j. Kelly.
Mr.. McKibbin was born in
Keosauqua, Iowa.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

placed unofficially at between
300 and 1000 men.
The army lieutenant's death
was reported by neither Revo-
luton nor El Mundo, both gov
ernment controlled publica-
tions.
Latins Look to Castro"
The newspapers reported
that Latin Americans in New
York, Texas, New Mexico and
California look upon Mr.. Cas-
tro as "the leader of their
aspirations" They gave that
as the reason for United States
State Department travel restric-
tions on Mr.. Castro's visit.
Revolution, organ of the
Castro 26th of July movement,
carried a front-page cartoon
showing the U. N. building-its
windows labeled "Fidel. Nikita,
Sukarno, Tito and Nasser"-
crushing a sweating President
Eisenhower.
Along with Mr.. Khrushchev,
the drawing was designed to
link Mr.. Castro with three
strong nationalist leaders -
Presidents Sukarno of Indo-
nesia, Tito of Yugoslavia and
Nasser of the United Arab Re-
public. All are coming to New
York for the Assembly session.
"ParOxyms" Cited
From Washington the Cuban
governments news agency re-
ported the announcement that
Mr.. Castro was to lead the
Cuban delegation to the United
Nations caused "paroxyms of
hysteria" among the United
States Government officials
and Congressman.
There are fears Fidel will
talk to the North American
people," read the banner head
line in La Gale. The news
paper said Mr.. Castro was be-
ing hamstrung in his move
ments to prevent him from
speaking to Negroes and Latin
Americans in New York.
The newspapers made plain
that the Cuban delegation will
align itself with the Soviet-led
bloc and support, among other
things, Red China for a seat
in the U. N.
There were indications, too,
that Mr.. Castro may take the
opportunity to deliver a speech
at the Assembly denouncing
the United Stations. Revolu-
cion listed Cuba as one of the
issues to be brought up at the
session.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

DENVER, Sept. Is (AP) -
The discovery of the bones of
a six-foot man and the cloth
ing of Adolph Coors III, has
provided the FBI with a possi-
BILE key to the disappearance of
the millionaire brewer seven
months ago.
The discovery was made at
a trash dump in the Rocky
Mountain foothills IL miles
west of Castle Rock, south of
Denver, the FBI announced
yesterday.
This is Is miles from the
rural bridge where Mr.. Coors'
abandoned truck was found
February 9. He had left his
mountain home that morning
. en- route to work at the Adolph
Coors Co. plant at Golden.
The FBI refused to speculate
on whether the bones are those
of the 44-year-old six-footer.
Search Continues
Agents and sheriff's officers
are continuing the search for
the skull and other bones they
said are required for identifi-
cation. A pathologist has said
the bones already found are
those of an adult male about
six feet tall.
The clothing, ripped and
chewed by animals, and per-
sonal items were identified by
a member of the family as those
Mr.. Coors was wearing when he
vanished. Of6cerS and family
spokesmen said at the time they
believed Mr.. Coors had been
kidnapped.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

showed that Police Pvt. Estrada
had bought coffee and a sand
wich and at one time chipped in
to purchase liquor while in
vestigating so-called beatnik
hangouts.
The two defendants had been
charged with illegally trans
ferring five marihuana ciga-
rettes to Pvt. Estrada and
with acquiring the marihuana
without paying tn tax required
by law.
Third Acquitted
The transfer of the cigarettes
was at Fourteenth and U streets
NV. and in rear of the two
defendants home, it was testi-
fled.
The two we're prosecuted by
Assistant U. S. Attorney Fred
erick G. Smithson.
The acquittal brings to three
the total cleared, since indict-
'ments were returned against a
total of IL persons earlier this
year. Two others have pleaded
guilty and one was convicted
after trial.
John F. Stevens, "a. Of the
1000 block of A street NE, who
recently pleaded guilty to OBJ
tanning marihuana without
paying the tax, awaits SEN
tence. Stevens formally was in
charge of the Java Jungle, 2100
block of Pennsylvania avenue
NV, Assistant U. S. Attorney
Thomas A. Flannery said.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Dr.. Joseph CIokey

COVINA, Calif., Sept. IS
(AP.-Dr. Joseph Clokey, 70,
composer of more than 300
choral works and symphonies,
died yesterday of a heart at
tack. One-time dean of arts
at Miami University at oxford,
Ohio, Dr.. Clokey in recent years
was a teacher at Pomona Col
lege.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Jerry GiesIer Suffers
Third Heart Attack

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf,
Sept. Is (AP) Jerry GieSler,
widely known Hollywood at
torney, suffered a severe heart
attack at his home yesterday
But a physician said he was
showing "a good deal of i'm
provement" later at Mount
Sinai Hospital.
This is the third time in a
year the 73-year-old lawyer has
been hoSpitalized because of
heart trouble.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Stanley Aymond,
Ex-Guurdsmun

Stanley j. Aymond, 43, a re-
tired Coast Guard radio elec-
trician, died Monday of cancer
at the United States Public
Health Hospital in Baltimore,
Mr.. Aymond enlisted in the
Coast Guard in 1886. He held
numerous decorations.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Lois
S. Aymond of the home ad-
dress, 6515 Hanover avenue,
Springfield, Va, and a daugh-
ter, Laura Jane, z.
Graveside services were to be
held at 2 pm. today in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-09-15


have been outlined in New
York because of "a desire II
limit the (AmericanD public;
knowledge"
The result, Revolution said
is "a wave of discomfort, ex'
actly the reverse Of what
officials there expected"
The newspaper blamed both
the U. N. and the United States
for what it termed "the illegal
maneuver" of barring the pub
lie from attending the General
Assembly sessions.
Hits Ship Search
Revolucioh also decried as
illegal maneuvering a proposed
search of the Soviet ship Bal
tika when it gets to New York
with Soviet Premier Nikita S
Khrushchev. The paper said
the FBI wants to check the
vessel.
"Confining Khrushchev, Cas-
tro and other national political
leaders to Manhattan reflects
not fear of supposed dangers
to their lives but fear that
their presence would result in
popular demonstrations sup
porting them." it said.
On the home front here, the
independent newspaper Infor-
macion disclosed that a Cuban
army lieutenant has been
killed, apparently in a clash
with insurgept forces in the
Escambray hills of Las Villas
Province.
The announcement said mu-
nicipal authorities at Santa
Clara certified the gunshot
death of 1t. Osvaldo Cortina
Fernandez, 33, member of the
Military Investigation Depart
ment-Castro's secret police.
Many Casualties Reported
1t. Cortina Fernandez was
said to have died after a mid
night conflict in the mountain
GUS area. Information men
toned no other casualties, but
travellers from Las Villas say
a large number Of dead and
wounded Castro militiamen
were brought to a tuberculosis
sanitarium in the Escambray
hills.
Information said it learned
unofficially that many of Mr..
Castro's top military leaders
have gathered at La Campana,
the military headquarters in
Las Villas Province, to direct
operations against the guer-
rillas.
The strength of the anti
Castro bands known to be
operating in, the hills has been
Evening star., 1960-09-15

An all-ClIne nlRn III CRIME
brought a warning today from
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
that the country faces a prob
lem of emergency proportions
unless positive preventive steps
are taken.
The steady rise of serious
offenses was brought out in the
uniform crime reports for
1859. Crime nationally was up
only l per cent above 1853
figures, but that was not the
full story.
For the first half of this yeal
murders, assaults. rapes, armed
robberieS and kindred vicious
crimes scared 9 per cent ma
tionally over the first half Of
last year.
Worse in District \
1t was still worse in the
District, where the increase was
1871 per cent. Similar rises were
experienced in other juriSdic-
tions in the METROPOLITAN Area
An even darker picture was
painted for the longtime trend
There was SO per cent more
major crime last year than in
1859, and 1913 per cent more
than in 1910.
And the outlook is even GRIM
mer, the FBI said, in pointing
out that crime reaches its peak
in December.
This ominous rise in crime
cannot be explained away as
being due to population in
creases," Mr.. Hoover said.
Crime has been rising four
times as fast as population"
Persons Under Is
Again it was persons under
the age of 18 who caused most
concern. OF the more than is
million crimes committed ma
tionally, youths under 18 ac-
counted for "a per cent of auto
theft arrests, So per cent of the
burglaries and 49 per cent of
larceny arrests.
This disturbing 100 per cent
increase in juvenile delinquency
gains even more significance
when compared with a II per
cent rise in adult arrests" MIR.
Hoover said.
In the District area, includ-
ing Montg gomery Prince
Georges, Arlington and Fair
fax Counties, and Alexandria
and Falls Church, there were
1.051.4 serious crimes per 100,-
900 population last year. This
was an increase of .07 over the
981.5 reported in 1858.
At the same time crime in
the Baltimore area--consider-
ably higher than that of Met
ropolitan Washington in 1853
showed a decline.
Comparable Figures
Crimes reported for Wash
ington in 1859 with 1858 figures
in parentheses: Murders IA
60; negligent manslaughters
% Q3); forcible rapes 81 l58l :;
robberies 693 (639); aggravated
assaults 1856 (2,329); bur-
glarieS 4,1S9 (3,316); larcenies
over $50 1880 d,548; under
$50 1922 (5,294); auto thefts
1858 Q,273).
In the United States, the FBI
said, someone is murdered
every hour. The "crime clock
also shows a rape every IS
minutes, a robbery every Z
minutes, an aggravated assault
every 4 minutes and a burglary,
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Hoover Calls for Action
As Crime Sets Record

larceny or auto theft every %
seconds.
Around the Nation $3.50
persons fell victim to murder
ers, and 1850 other would-be
victims were injured. The total
of rapeS reached 1880.
More than $500 million in
loot was carried away by rob-
bers, burglars and others as
they broke into 685, 900 homes
and other buildings. "A total
of 288,300 autos we're stolen.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
u. S. and u. N. AssoiIed
For Castro Restriction

HAVANA Sept is (AP)-Both the United States and the
United blasted today by Revolution for the
Washington orders restricting Minister Fide Castro
three Communist leaders to Manhattan Island when they
attend United Nations General Assembly next week
said excessive precautions
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Home Buyers!

You'll find your best guide to
the home best suited to your
family needs and income in the
years most important event
for house hunters
Evening star., 1960-09-15

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X INTERESTING EDITORIAL STORIES AND PIC
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