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Evening star., 1960-09-15
Howard Students Urged
To Press for Integrotion

people" Most of the student
body is Negro.
Howard's history, he con-
tinued, has been one of con-
tinually expanding service to
the Negro people. This has,
in fact, been made necessary
by the segregated system of life
in the Southern States-a sys-
tenn which exists in other States
to some extent as we'll"
Praising the 1854 Supreme
Court ruling against Segrega-
ton in public schools. the uni
versity president, nevertheless,
scored its slow implementation.
I'm many of the Southern
States" he declared. there
still is only token compliance
after six years.
Indeed" he continued,
there are five States in which
there is no compliance at all"
So slowly is the desegrega-
ton process proceeding, DR..
Nabrit said. that complete de-
struction Of race barriers" in
the United States "is some dis
tance in the future"
But DR.. Nabrit also looked to
the future.
"The university must, at the
same time, however, look to the
day when segregation is COM
pletely abolished, and we must
make our own personal contri-
button to the destruction Of
this segregation system"
Most Howard classes will be
in full session on Monday.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
BY JOHN ROSSON
Star Staf Writer

DR.. James M. Nabrit, jr.
president of Howard University
today urged his students to
dedicate their lives to the de
struction of race segregation
in American life.
In a speech marking the be-
ginning of the university's fall
terms, the new president told
some 5000 students that How
ard will continue to direct a
large part of its efforts toward
the training and development
of young men and women who
have been handicapped by seq
regation.
"And each of you" he added,
must make your own personal
contribution toward the goal.
DR.. Nabrit, a teacher for "a
years, was named president of
Howard last July. He succeeded
the retiring DR.. Mordecai john
son. His speech today was
aimed primarily at welcoming
new students.
Addressing the student body
in Rankin Chapel, he told his
listeners that Howard is open
to all students without regard
to race. creed or nationality.
He added, however, that the
university's primary purpose
just as it was in 1867 when it
was established-is to serve the
newly emancipated Negro
Evening star., 1960-09-15

here are "jampacked and are
constantly turning people away
because Of lack of space"
He said that the union is
seeking establishment of a PEN
sion fund for it's members be-
cause hotel workers in other
major cities have had pension
funds for years.
Mr.. Levine said that the
union is also asking that the
present health and welfare
programs be administered by a
board of trustees with equal
representation between man
agement and employees.
Mr.. Levine said that the
management estimate that the
union is asking for a 26 per
cent overall money increase is
somewhat high"
The five union locals involved
in the negotiations are: Wait
ers Local 781, Mattresses Local
507, Hotel Service Workers
Local 80, Cooks and Kitchen
Employees Local 209 and Bar
tenders Local rs.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
BY JOHN LAWSON
Star STAFF Writer

LURAY, Va. Sept. Is. = A
piece of an old elm tree that
George Washington once stood
under is on sale here this week
along with. a piece of the rope
that hanged John Brown and
an antique Snood.
These items and a couple of
thousand of other pieces of the
past will be dispersed under the
auctioneerS' gavel in the inter-
est of progress.
The collection, carefully ac-
cumulated during a century
and on display since 1889 by
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Ferdinand
Zerkel. will be hauled away
piece By piece.
The auction, which began
y e sterday and continues
through Saturday. will dispose
of such things as a three-legged
spider, two teeth and a bone Of
"Col. Ashby's horse" a hand
made ball and chain, Stonewall
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Geographic Displays
Sketch of New BuiIdinq

society also has arranged to
acquire the building at 1920
M street NV, now occupied
by the State Departments
records management division.
Although certain details re-
main TO be decided, the trans
action involves purchase by the
Geographic of the Realty
Building at 1424 K street NV.
for a reported price of $1.3
million. The James w. Orme
estates received this in ex-
change for it's property at 1920
M street. The M street property.
which adjoins the land to be
occupied by the new building,
will be used for parking and
landscaping.
The society's present build
ing at Sixteenth and M streets
NV. will be retained and will
not be disturbed by the new
construction.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Mother, IT, Held
In Buby Desertion

A 17-year-old mother today
was charged by police with
abandoning her 9-month-old
infant daughter at a Northeast
Washington home in care Of a
babysitter.
Police Women's Bureau In
vestigator Barbara Pascoe con-
ferred with the Corporation
Counsel's Office and the papers
were sent to Juvenile Court.
The mother, a waitress, who
is 4 feet 10 inches tall, was
picked up by police at a bus
terminal Monday. Police said
she had left the blond, blue
eyed infant in care of a licensed
babysitter last week and failed
to return for her child.
The baby is in Junior Village.
The mother is at the Receiving
Home.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Marathon Hotel Talks Held in Effort
To Avert Strike Set for Midniqht

overall 26 per cent money
increase, Is per cent in wages
and II per cent in fringe
benefits.
1T is impossible for us to
consider such a large increase, Z"
he said. He added that this is
the main factor blocking agree
ment in the negotiations.
Mr.. Danzansky said that
since the last contract was
signed in. 1857 with the hotel
workers locals, many addi-
tional sleeping beds have been
provided in the Washington
area through construction of
new motels.
He added that the motel en-
ployeS are non-union.
Therefore" he said, "the
hotels are caught in a squeeze
between the union demands
and the increasing competition
from the non-union motels."
MOtels Discounted
He added that hotel occu-
pany here is down 2 per cent
since the last contract was
signed.
Samuel Levine, attorney rep
resenting the five locals of the
Hotel Workers Union, said that
wages paid hotel workers here
are about Is per cent below the
national average of $1.22 an
hour for hotel employees.
Mr.. Levine said that compe-
tition from motels is not a
serious factor since the hotels
Evening star., 1960-09-15
AT MUSEUM IN LURAY
Relics FromAmericon History on Sale

Barnum Show was in town.
She added minerals. Indian
relics and other historical
items.
After her death in 1888, her
son, Mr.. Zerkel, moved the col
lection to an old house in Luray
and opened it to the public.
The house, built partly with
logs, was erected in, 1918 and
additions were made in 1912.
1t has served as a tavern,
terminus for the Winchester
Luray Stage Line, a court house
and private home.
But the land on which it
was built on the main street
of town was valuable. Parking
for museum customers was
difficult, and customers were
few. Finally. the owners de-
cided to raze it and build q
modern commercial building.
Mr.. Zerke, IA, who had been
supporting the museum out of
Evening star., 1960-09-15

Jackson's old camp stove and
the chips of rock the General
leaned on after he was shot.
There also will be quantity of
civil war guns and bullets, a
piece of wood from King Tut's
tomb, bracelets of Pocahontas,
a canteen of Confederate SOL
dier who noted that he carried
it when times were "only toll
cradle" and a still from the
Blue Ridge Mountains.
All of It is part of the Luray
Museum, begun as a private
collection 100 years ago by a
l5-year-old girl who saw the
battle of New Market from her
attic window.
The child, Mollie Zeiler Zer-
kel, took wounded soldiers from
North and South into her home
and nursed them. From the
battlefield she picked up relics
which began her collection.
She added the boot which
Tom Thumb gave her three
years earlier when the P. T.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

The National Geographic
Society today released an archi-
tect's drawing of its new 10
story administrative and edi-
torial Office building. to be
erected at Seventeenth and
M streets NV.
The decision to construct the
building was announced last
June % by DR.. Melville Bell
Grosvenor, the society's presi-
dent and editor.
The design is by Edward
Durell Stone, New York archi-
tect. The Chas. H. Tompkins
Co., of Washington. will start
construction some time next
spring.
The new building will be on
the site previously occupied by
the Emerson & Orme, Inc,
sales and service garage, which
the National Geographic So
ciety bought in 1859. The
Evening star., 1960-09-15

his earnings as a realtor. and
his wife, Helen, who for years
managed the attraction, could
find no other home for the
museum.
Yesterday an Edison cylinder
phonograph brought $36. A
spinning wheel was sold to the
Mayor for Sis.
Some of the collection, in
cluding 485 volumes of early
German and Dutch books, was
disposed of earlier.
The greatest interest prob
ably will come tomorrow, when
museum representatives and
and Civil War buffs Sirom
throughout the country appear
to vie for vast collection of
remnants from the Civil War.
'I'm afraid" said Mrs. zerkle
wearily as she stood amid piles
of items, that you can't get
rid of a whole museum in four
days. Well have a thousand
things left. I don't know what
we will do with them"
Evening star., 1960-09-15

With an eye on the midnight
deadline, negotia a t ors today
launched a final, marathon bar
gaining session in an attempt
to avert a Washington hotel
strike authorized last night by
an overwhelming vote of the
unionized employees.
During a mass meeting at the
Capitol Arena, members of five
locals voted 2,557 to 80 to au-
thorize their leaders to call a
strike unless a new agreement
is worked out before the old
three-year contract expires at
midnight.
"GOing Is Tough"
Federal Mediator Gilbert S.
McCutcheon was cautiously OPP
timistic about a settlement, but
admitted the going was
tough" in trying to get an
agreement out of representa-
tiveS of about 80 hotels and
more than 5000 employees.
Mr.. McCutcheon met with
leaders of both sides yesterday
in a session which lasted more
than IL hours.
The two groups were meeting
separately today at opposite
ends of the Sheraton-Park
Hotel. Mr.. McCutcheon was
comforting alternately with
each side.
Joseph B. Danzansky, attor-
ney for the hotels. said that
the union has asked for an
Evening star., 1960-09-15
CityApproves
Mild Curb on
Auto Fumes

The District Commissioners
today shelved the stringent
proposals by former Engineer
Commissioner A. c. yelling for
reducing traffic c-generated air
pollution.
During a closed meeting, the
Commissioners instead ap-
proved relatively mild moves
toward cutting back on exhaust
fume Smog.
Acting on the recommenda-
tions of Assistant Engineer
Commissioner Charles S. Mac
Weigh. the commissioners voted
to ban excessive idling of buses.
Specifically, the new regulation
will set a 3-minute motor idling
limit for buses. except during
cold days. .
Before Gen. yelling was
transferred from the Engineer
Commissioners post. at the end
of July. he announced a three
point program to help reduce
air pollution from traffic ex-
haust fumes.
Under Gen. Welling's pro-
gram, new motor vehicles,
registered in the District, be-
ginning with the 1862 models,
would have been equipped with
a "blow-by" device to cut down
on escaping combustion gases.
He had also proposed that
the motor idling limit be ap-
piled to all vehicles and that
the present regulation forbid
ding excessive fumes" be
frightened up to ban fumes that
are visible.
Today the Commissioners
decided to adopt a wait-and-
see attitude or how the
mechanical devices work out
in California.
The Commissioners also
voted to tighten up somewhat
on a regulation forbidding ex-
cessive fumes.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

from the Washington Channel
The Ninth street eXpressway
will be a three-lane, partially
depressed roadway with service
roads leading into it connect
ing with major downtown
streets. Planning will be aimed
first at that section of the
eXpressway from Independence
avenue to the Southwest free
way.
Widening and repaving of M
street Sc. from South Capitol
street to Eleventh street, at a
cost of $330.000 also was rec
commended. This would make
M street six lanes and match
similar Improvements under
taken by the Redevelopment
Land Agency west of South
Capitol street to the water
front.
There will be some widening,
at a cost of $4,000, of Thir-
teenth street from Florida ave-
nue. to Clifton street NV. to
improve handling of four lanes
of traffic. 1t also will be re-
surfaced.
Other resurfacing and paving
improvements are planned for
Kansas avenue NV, from
Georgia avenue to Sherman
circle, at a cost of 100000:
Sixteenth street NV, from U
street to Columbia road, $210,-
600; Fourth street NE, from
Franklin street to Michigan
avenue, $4,000.
Budget officials also recon-
mended six-year program for
saving trees under the highway
departments jurisdiction. The
total amount for the entire
maintenance program would be
$766,272. The program would
include trimming of trees, re-
moval of dead trees and re-
planting new ones.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

MIR. ROOT WENT ON to
note that the Wright brothers
we're sons of a minister, He
told of his own experience on
a high-wheeled bicycle. He
got around to describing the
flight, and I sincerely regret
that there is not room here
to give his account word for
word. His conclusion was:
when Columbus dis
covered America he did not
know what the outcome
would be, and no one at that
time knew; and I doubt that
the widest enthusiast caught
a glimpse of what really did
come of his discovery.
I'm like manner, these two
brothers have probably not
even a faint glimpse of what
their discovery Is going TO
bring to the children Of men.
No one living can give guess
of what is coming along this
line much better than any
one living could conjecture
the final outcome of Colum-
bus experiment. when he
pushed through the track
less waters"
AS you have probably
gathered, this is not what we
call newspaper reporting. An
experienced newSpaperman, a
reporter of the Dayton News,
was keeping track of the
Wright brothers activities.
About that time he called
Orville on the telephone and
asked how the brothers were
doing. Orville told him that
they had made a circular
hight-got back to the start
ing point.
Fine" said the reporter,
keep me informed"
Evening star., 1960-09-15

SIT ,925 ,073, which mcluoeS SIX
other street improvement prof.
ects.
The total cost of the new
Eleventh street bridge and ap-
proaches will be more than $8.3
million.
Highway officials point out
that the new bridge will serve
increasing traffic volume result
ing from the opening of the
Anacostia freeway and the new
Woodrow Wilson Bridge cross
ing the Potomac River at Jones
Point.
The new bridge will provide
a direct connection with the
proposed Inner Loop and the
Anacostia freeway. 1t will be
a twin to the present structure
and will handle inbound traf-
fic. Unlike the present draw
bridge at Eleventh street, the
new structure will be a fixed
span type.
Highway planners have de-
cided to go ahead with the
bridge substructure, using Dis
trict highway funds, and hope
Federal aid money will be cred
tied toward the cost later. Fed
eral funds are not now avail
able for the bridge. which quail
ifles for a Federal contribution
of 80 per cent of the total cost.
District officials feel the
bridge will be needed urgently
when the traffic volume jumps
and thus decided not to delay
getting it under construction.
1t is to be finished in late 1864.
Highway planners also re-
ceived budget Office approval
of 100000 in planning money
for the Ninth street expressway
to connect Constitution avenue
with the Southwest freeway.
Ultimately it will complement
the Twelfth street expressway,
now under construction, which
will handle northbound traffic
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Optometry Board
Gives Licenses to 3

The D. C. Board Of Optome-
try has granted licenses to
three persons who passed the
boards examination which was
given August 4 and S.
The three are Louis Brilliant,
of 1911 East-West highway,
Silver Spring; Charles Copper
thwaite. of 4439 South Thirty
first street, Arlington, and
Jacob Lipsitz, of Baltimore, Md.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
The
Rambler
Learns About
Huffmon's Posture
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

On December II, 1908, a
plane with a gasoline motor
and one of the Wright
brothers slid down the skidS
from a sand dune at Kitty
Hawk, N. c., and made a short
forward flight.
How much the motor
helped the glider is still dis
puted. But one thing is Ger
tain; that short fight had
something in common with
the long voyage of Columbus
in 1892. 1t was not long after
each of these events that
things began to happen.
The Wright brothers went
back to Dayton, Ohio. The
years between Kitty Hawk
and their arrival at Fort
Myer in 1908 to demonstrate
their machine to the Army
were not much noted in the
public prints. But they were
not uneventful.
They leased a field from a
man named Huffman. He was
a banker in Dayton. This
field was ample for their pur-
poses. 1t stretched about a
half mile in either direction.
1t was a pasture and Huffman
retained grazing rights.
On September 20, 1904, one
of the brothers, lying prone
on the lower wing, took off,
circled the field and came
back to the starting point.
Circling the field and arriv-
ing back at the starting
point was a great advance
over the brief forward flight
at Kitty Hawk.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
ECHODUE TO MAKE
2 PASSES TONIGHT

The Echo I balloon satel-
lite will make two passes
over the Washington area
tonight that may be visible
to residents. The National
Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration said the satel-
lite will pass through area
skies at:
8:55 pm. in the south,
81 degrees above the hor-
izon, going southeast.
11:06 pm. in the south,
2 degrees above the hor-,
izon, going southeast.
Evening star., 1960-09-15
Scrivner Gives Talk

The District Department of
the American Legion installed
officers last night at a recep-
ton at the National Press Club.
Errett P. Scrivner. Deputy
Assistant Secretary Of Defense,
spoke at the reception.
Evening star., 1960-09-15

THIS FLIGHT was wit
messed by A. I. Root. editor of
GleaningS in Bee Culture,
published bi-weekly at Me-
dina, Ohio. There can be no
doubt as to the authenticity
Of his report because Orville
Wright noted in his diary
that Mr.. Root was present.
His story appeared in the
January l, 1905, issue of his
publication. 1t appeared be-
tween book covers for the
first time this summer in a
history of aviation by Charles
H. Gibbs-Smith, published in
London by Her Majesty's
Stationery office. 1t was
headed The First Eye
witness Account of a Powered
Aeroplane Flight 5000"
The Rambler has reason to
believe that = the ensuing
abridgement will be its first
publication in a daily news
paper-56 years after the
cent. This is due to his dill
gnIlt research. He noted. this
interesting item in a review
of Gibbs Smiths book in the
Manchester Guardian. Then
he went to that remarkable
institution, the Library Of
Congress and asked for the
January /, 1905, issue of
Gleahings of Bee Culture. Up
came a bound volume with
all the issues of that year.
The heading of the article
was What Hath God
Observation-Disclosures 1928"
Dear friends" Mr.. Root
wrote, IT have a wonderful
story to tell you-a story that
in some respects outrivals the
Arabian Nights fables. -.
God in his great mercy has
permitted me to be at least
somewhat instrumental in
ushering In and introducing
to the great world an inven-
ton that may outrank the
electric cars, the automobile,
and all other methods of
travel, and one which may
fairly take a place beside the
telephone and wireless tele-
graphy."
Evening star., 1960-09-15
EorIy Start Asked
On 17th St. BRIDGE

start on construction Anacosta River bridge
at Eleventh scheduled by District highway planners
year budget requests being sent to the
Commissioners.
Budget officials approved $25600O0 souht for con-
structon the subsructure of the four-ane bridge.
part overall proposed highway budget OF
Evening star., 1960-12-11

Were there any movies planned for
Stevens, who made so films with
modest success before becoming a
televiSion sensation as Peter Gum?
mo, l just can't squeeze out
enough time" he said.
What about the TV plans for next
season?
well, Blake Edwards, the pro-
ducer, has been thinking of a few
things-doing many of the shows with
a foreign location, possibly putting it
in color. We could do great things
with the mood of our show in color.
AT one time, too, Blake was even
thinking of going to an hour show,
but don't see how l could do that
1t would be terrific load to carry"
Mention of color brought up the fact
that ABC is not tinting its programs
"Our contract with ABC," Stevens
said, sis for this season. When it runs
out our contract with the sponsor also
runs out. We would be free to make
some suggestions.
Stevens personal contract with
Peter Gum" is in the third year of
five-year pact.
ola, Herschel Bernardo and
everybody else are in the same posi-
tion," Stevens explained.
When the five years are up, Stevens
said, it probably will be the end of
Peter Gum" production. Then the
show would go on the rerun circuit
That would give Stevens the time
to do what he longs to do, Broad
way show.
But what about money?
II own fair share of the company
and would profit from the rerun
sale," he said.
Peter Gum is no fool.
And neither, obviously, is Craig
Evening star., 1960-12-11

Imagine Pete having to take a
wife along on trips like that" Stevens
said. Ridiculous!
Miss Albright was asked about her
views on the subject.
"Edie and Peter are fond of each
other, but they'll never marry" she
said. II guess the only word to de-
scribe their relationship is to call it
adult"
Miss Albright sees Edie as "a per-
son who is very warm and very much
a woman"
That's precisely the way millions
of male viewers describe Lola Al
bright, the daughter of Akron, o..
evangelistic singers.
Shifting from Cupid to continuity,
Stevens was asked what's ahead for
Peter Gunn.''
well, he said, I'VE plan to take
the show to England and do our last
several programs there.
THE show is now seen in Canada,
Australia and Japan as well as the
United States. Next spring it will be
showing in England. If things work
out according to plan, we'll give it a
big sendoff for its English audience"
Asked about his personal plans,
Stevens said that he has committed
himself to four, and possibly six,
shows for Dinah Shore.
He and Gene bat Masterson"
Barry were big hits in their guest
appearances as song and dance men
on Miss Shores NBC program last
season.
II might do a show for Dinah in
England" he said. They've been
featuring foreign locations this sea-
son. My first show for Dinah is slated
for Feb. IL. Then I'll probably do