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Evening star., 1960-03-31
Chinese Junk to Sail Boy

If you see a Chinese junk
with flame-red sails cruising
the Potomac late in May, don't
panic.
It won't be the first wave
of a Red Chinese invasion feet.
1t will just be Joseph E. Jones,
a Washington insurance execu-
tive, fulfilling a boyhood am
bition to be the skipper Of a
junk.
Mr.. Jones says he caught
junk fever as a boy. He has
suffered from it periodically
since he toured the junk the
late Robert E. Ripley of Be
Ilieve 1t or Not" fame brought
to the United States.
But the fever was latent un-
til one night about a year ago,
the night before Easter.
1--WE were at dinner party
with some friends and were
talking about another friend
who is stationed with the Air
Force in Hong Kong" Mr..
Jones said.
1--WE called him and on the
spur of the moment I asked
him to arrange to have a Chi
nese junk built for me-"
The friend negotiated a con-
tract with a shipbuilding firm
! in Hong Kong to build the
junk for Mr.. Jones.
After the plans were ap-
proved. construction began
with an appropriate ceremony
of flrecrackers and Oriental
bleSsings-in January.
"They said we had to have
name before they could start
building-bad luck if you don't
so I held a contest here in
the office" said Mr.. Jones.
"Out of almost 400 names
we picked 'Ho Lee Jo,' which
was submitted by Mrs. Rita
Weeks, an administrative as
sistant." Mr.. Jones said.
The junk will be 40 feet
Evening star., 1960-03-31

veterinarian for a checkup be-
cause his hip seemed sore. as
though a car had hit him.
If the dogs owner doesn't
turn up soon, her next move
will be to try and find "a nice
home for him."
If this dog was a pushovel
for Mrs. Hunt, it may be from
long experience.
Il always see the lost ones,
don't know why-they finc
me-"
In the last five years, she
figures she has picked up more
than three dozen stray dogs
and kittens, some of which
took a lot more work than thil
one did. Most of them have
been returned to their owners
Il don't dare get too fond Of
the dogs-but I hate to SEE
them lost around town ir
traffic." Mrs. Hunt says.
Evening star., 1960-03-31

which includes a 11O-acre lake.
for Is years.
Fred M. Packard, Park Au-
thority Director. called it "a
big step forward" in the coun-
tvs park program.
Negotiations for use of the
land had been held up recently
by an Air Force request to use
part Of the land for a rod and
gun club.
Use of the land for a park
has been considered for several
years.
The lake, fed by Accotink
Greek, once was used by Fort
Belvoir as its source of water,
The fort now gets its supply
from the Alexandria Water Co
1t was the second major tract
of land to be set aside in Fair
fax County for park use in two
weeks. More than 800 acres
were leased to the Federal
Government by the Potomac
Electric Power Co. at Great
Falls last week.
Mr.. Packard said he planned
/ to open the Fort Belvoir area
to sportsmen and campers al
soon as possible.
There already are fish in the
lake and the Park Authority
plans to work with the Virgins
Commission of Game and In
land Fisheries on additional
stocking, Mr.. Packard said.
/ He said the Park Authority
has asked the Board of County
Supervisors for funds to de-
velop the park.
| BY summer the Park Author
ity should have boats on the
lake, Mr.. Packard estimated.
He added that the park alsC
would be open to youth group!
for camping, hiking and pic.
nicking. When the Park Au-
thority gets the money it viii
develop ball fields. picnic area'
and hiking trails. he said.
The Park Authority hopes
eventually to acquire lane
above and below the reservoir
to expand the facilities.
Evening star., 1960-03-31

fulfilling the true vocation of Christian To spread
Gods word ambassador of Jesus Christ.
Then editor of my church newspaper, I accompanied
the rector and other parish leaders quiet day" of
prayer and meditation at rural spot in Northern Vr
ginia.
There, free from the pressures and distractions of
city life, could read and ponder the words of the
Holy Book, opened to the Acts of the Apostles
In this stirring description of the young church in
action one finds the words of ST. Paul Acs xviii 28) that
were meant not for the Ahenans alone but for todays
ambassadors of Christ as we'll
Tomorrow: John E. Tayman
Evening star., 1960-03-31
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star Stah Writer

Census takers move into
hotel lobbieS tonight to count
the transientS.
Everybody registered this
evening in a room that costs
more than $l25 for the night
will be checked. The idea is
that throughout the Nation, all
those on the move will be ac-
counted for at the same time
to avoid duplication.
The thousands of hotel ano
motel guests in the Washing
ton area, won't be considered
part of the Districts popula-
ton,
Evening star., 1960-03-31
BrickIoyer Wins
S2,613 Damages
From Auto Firm

Thomas A. Swami of 6114
Allentown road, Camp Springs,
Md, today won $2,613.20 in
damages in his suit against a
District used car dealer.
A Municipal Court jury
awarded the bricklayer $6l3.20
in compensatory damages and
$4,000 in punitive damages ir
his suit against Bob Wilson
Inc, now trading as Dan
Brown, of the 200 block of K
street NV.
According to Mr.. Swann's
attorney, Thomas B. Lawrence,
the plaintiff negotiated with
the Wilson firm for a 1857 Ford
automobile.
He made a down payment OF
$720 and made an agreement
with the used car dealer that
he would pay a 1894 balance in
"a monthly payments of SAL
each. according to Mr.. Law
renee.
When Mr.. Swan signed the
contract, the attorney said, il
was held in such a way that he
could not see the terms.
Mr.. Swami did not look at
the contract until two days
later. when he noticed monthly
payments were increased to
s66.55 over a two-year period
and the balance of payments
due was listed as 81, l,597.20.
Bernard T. Levin, attorney
for the Bob Wilson, Inc, denied
that the firm has misrepre-
sented itself at the time of the
signing of the contract.
Mr.. Swami left the used-cal
lot with a duplicate of the con-
tract he had signed, Mr.. Levins
said.
Evening star., 1960-03-31
THE SENATOR protested.


II don't know why you
are bringing all this up" he
said. Everyone will think
I'm pugnacious and I don't
think I am. think I was
picked on because I was
smaller.
I'VE were living on w
street then. We we're the
movingest family. Two big
boys we're bullying me. When
I objected, the other boys
decided that I should fight
one of them.
Il picked the smaller one.
We had it out with gloves
in a roped-off space. He gave
me a terrible licking. If I had
picked the bigger one he
probably would have killed
me-"
Foremost in his memories
were the days when they
lived on a gravel road that
went over Meridian Hill and
down into Piney Branch
Valley, a road that later be-
came Sixteenth street. Hen
derson Castle was the only
mansion in the neighbor-
hood.
while I've been back to
Washington from time to
time over the years" he said,
I'm always amazed at how
it has grown.
I'm hoping to take a hell
copied ride. That's the way
to realize how big it is"
Evening star., 1960-03-31

BILE birth, His cruel crucifixion
and His glorious resurrection were
a source of guidance and inspira-
ton for a Christian way of life.
AS teacher l also made gen.
erouS use of the Old Testament
for such stories as Moses in the
bulrusheS, Moses and the burning
bush, and Joseph with a coat of
many colors as source material
in getting the youngsters in my
charge steered in the right di-
rection.
But it was not until recent
years that I found I had missed
Evening star., 1960-03-31

THEY ARE not only ma
tives of Washington. they
are descendants Through
their mother) of Anthony
Holmead, one of the original
proprietors of the District
of Columbia-the term for
those who owned the land
taken over by the Federal
Government for the National
Capital in the 1790S.
Hall Lusk was born on the
northwest corner of Eleventh
and G streets NV, the pres
ent location of a Kresge
store, in 1888. Later he lived
at 719 Eleventh street (across
the street, behind the Palais
Royal.
He went to Franklin School
at Thirteenth and streets
through sixth grade.
He was telling about his
fondness for baseball. Their
father, Charles, played for
the Washington Nationals,
an amateur team that played
teams representing other
cities.
And he was telling about
his fondness for skating. He
remembered skating on the
Potomac all the way to Alex
andria.
Tell him about the fights
you were in," Rufus sug-
gested.
The Senator thought back.
"Oh, yes" he said. "At
Franklin School was caught
in a fight with the son of
the Chilean minister.
"The teacher made me STAY
after school and write 100
times, 1t takes two to make
a fight
Il didn't think it was fair.
The Chilean boy had dip
lomatic immunity and didn't
have to stay after school"
Rufus interrupted.
Il meant when you were
going to that school on
Thirteenth street and they
roped off a squared ring in
the basement"
Evening star., 1960-03-31

place at West River on the
Chesapeake Bay"
Mr.. Jones, a tall, robust man
with graying hair and the
ruddy complexion of a seafarer,
plans to make the Ho Lee 10
the flagship of his fleet. He
already owns a 50-foot fishing
boat.
And what about Mrs. Jones? ?
We'll" he admitted, "she
thinks I'm a little nuts"
Evening star., 1960-03-31
COUNTING STRAY NOSES
Census Staff. Checks
Hotel Guests Toniqht

The names and information
covering the city's overnight
guests will be shipped back to
the thousands of home towns,
where they will be added with
the folks at home.
Tomorrow the census takers
start knocking on doors
throughout the area to make
the big population count. In
about three weeks they are ex-
pected to have completed the
tally. One of the first to be
counted here will be President
Eisenhower. who will be visited
at the White House tomorrow
morning by top census officials.
IS Hotels Tonight
The hotel and motel census
is limited to those having so
units or more. The District
census Office plans to cover
about rs hotels tonight. In
nearby Virginia and Maryland
about 35 to 40 motels will be
enumerated.
This is how the transient
census works:
The census taker sets up
headquarters in the lobby or
some other convenient location
with the cooperation of the
management.
A specially designed individ-
ual census form isl handed out
to every guest according to the
room occupied. If the guest is
not in, the form is left at the
desk for him.
The hotel guest fills out the
form himself and leaves it with
the enumerator or at the desk
to be picked up later.
Sealed Secrets
Secrecy is required by law.
To insure that all answers re-
main secret the census taker
will provide special envelopes
with each form. The guest fill
ing out the form may seal the
envelope before leaving it with
a hotel employe. The census
takers are sworn to keep all
answers secret.
The T-night census ct is for
TRANSIENT will include per-
manent residents living in
hotels. They also will fill out
the individual forms.
If the guest is unable to fill
out the form or has some ques-
tions regarding it, the enum-
orator will lend a hand.
On the night of April 20 the
census takers will count tran
sients in mission houses, hobo
jungles and flop houses. That's
M-night-for mission"
Evening star., 1960-03-31
The
Rambler
SuIutes
Natives Return
By GEORGE KENNEDY

BY GEORGE KENNEDY
The late Thomas Hardy
wrote a novel entitled "The
Return of the Native"
1t must have been a re-
markable story because it is
required reading in courses
on English literature.
But it can't be as remark
able as the story of Hall S.
LuSk, a Washington boy who
made good.
A native of the District,
he left for the West in his
young manhood and re-
turned as a United States
Senator. This writer is un-
aware of another such in
stance in our history.
The Rambler had a little
visit with the new junior
Senator from Oregon yester-
day in his Office in the new
Senate Building.
The circumstances were
favorable. Rufus LuSk, the
longtime champion of the
Washington taxpayer (presi-
dent of the Washington
Taxpayers Association, ar
ranged the introduction. He
is the younger brother Of
Senator LuSk.
The Senator is as spare
and slow-spoken as Rufus is
well-fed and ebullient.
Rufus is one of Washing
tons leading gourmets. He
likes nothing better than to
arrange a $30-a-plate din
ner with vines at a worthy
Washington restaurant.
The Senator, who has lost
touch with that sort of life
since he left Washington for
the West in 1909, is a little
under 5 feet 8 and several
pounds under $50.
Rufus is both taller and
heavier.
Evening star., 1960-03-31
Fort BeIvoir Reservoir
Becomes Foirfox Park
BY JACK KELSO
Star Stan Writer

The Fairfax County Park Authority has been given
troll Of the 22 acre Fort Bevo Reservoir property for public
recreation
This announced today by Representative Broyhl Re-
publican of Virginia. Robertson of Vr
gina.
The has granted the Authority land
Evening star., 1960-03-31
Phone Income
Rise Is Asked
In Maryland
Rute Increase
In D. c. Suburbs
May Be Result
BY PAUL HOPE
Star stan Writer

BALTIMORE. Mar. 81
Higher telephone rates are in
prospect in Maryland if the
Public Service Commission
grants revenue increases re-
quested by the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. of
Maryland.
While not filing a specific
rate request, the utility has
asked that it be allowed to
increase its net income by $6.3
million. 1t was estimated that
this would require about a 10
per cent increase in telephone
bills.
w. Griffin Morrell, vice presi-
dent of the company, testified
before the Public Service Com
mission yesterday that a mini
mus increase of $6.3 million
IN net income is necessary to
achieve the desired level OF
service.
Other spokesmen said gross
revenues, which would come
from increased rates to SUBJ
scribers, would have to go UP
about $13.5 million to produce
the S6.3 million net income in
crease. Taxes would absorb the
difference. the company said
Rudolph A. Carrico. the peo-
pies counsel for the Public
Service Commission, said to-
day the rate increase would
amount simply to lining the
pockets of the stockholders oi
AT&T."
Ask Revised Rate Base
The Cap is a wholly owned
subsidiary of American Tele-
phone and Telegraph.
In my opinion. we can knock
lot Of holes in their case" Mr.
Carrico said. The hearing i:
scheduled to be resumed or
May IL for cross-examinatior
) Of company officials by Carrico
The request for higher earn.
) ings was made during a three
day hearing at which the COM
: pany asked the Public Service
| Commission to revise the firmi
rate base on which earnings
are computed.
! Company officials testified
that the value of the f1rmi
: property-the base for 11gur'
: ing rates-should be pegged a.
$33l.2 million instead of tht
$2897 million set by the Pub
lie Service Commission. J. q
Franklin, telephone compan!
: controller, testified that infla
ton has had a severe impac
and authorized figures do no
reflect the fair value of tn
property.
Raised in 1858
w. F. johnson. secretary
treasurer, told the commission
that the rates should be set II
yield a minimum Of ia pc
cent on the fair value of tn
firms property. The compan,
now is authorized to earn 81
per cent.
The last rate increase wa
authorized in February, 1855
!. Base rates went up then by S
= cents to 80 cents for abou
100000 suburban subscribers il
> , the Washington area. but tn
increase was offset in mos
cases by elimination of man
!. toll charges.
Q A Chesapeake and Potoma
n official in Washington said h
= knew of no plans for asking in
Q creases in either Washington o
p Virginia.
Evening star., 1960-03-31
Erntrn ThnughtH
The Incident Thut Cove Ne
An Appreciation of the Bible
BY MILTON MAGRUDER
vestryman, st. Adams Episcopal Church

In my youth the Bible played an important role as
moved up from "toothless troubadour" in the boys
choir to bearer and server, and to teacher
and superintendent of the church school.
Its familiar and moving stories of our SaVor's hum
Evening star., 1960-03-31
10 New Bus Routes
To Start on Sunday
D. C. Transit
Lines to Open
In Maryland

Sixteen new bus routes will
be inaugurated in suburban
Maryland by D. c. Transit be-
ginning Sunday, the company
announced today.
The lines formerly were
served by the Suburban Transit
?. U. c. Delays Shift Of Streeteors TO
Buses. Poee BIZ
Evening star., 1960-01-04

day afternoon In John solum's
neatly balanced flute recital at
the Phillips Gallery.
Mr.. Solum, a young artist at
the beginning of his career,
is a 1utist of considerable skill
and finesse. He exhibits admi-
rable technical command over
his instrument as well as intel
ligence and sensitivity.
I was especially taken with
the sense Of restraint which
enabled him, once he did at
last let go in the Piston and
Hindemith works, to achieve
genuine eloquence and power
out of what would be merely
an ordinary fortissimo in the
hands Of an inStrumentalist Of
lesser gifts.
Although Mr.. Solum's read
ings Of the E major Bach
sonata and a Telemann-like
piece by Giuseppe Sammartini
from the same period were in
almost every way quite excel
lent, the real core of the con-
cert for me proved to be the
contemporary works.
Walter Piston is, of course,
best known for his Incredible
Flutist." but the comparatively
early flute sonata which pre-
ceded it by quite a few years is
charming music, full of great
Evening star., 1960-01-04

far has failed to trace her
killer.
Last Friday the body of 49,
year-old Pauline Blaney, a
pretty factory worker, was
found In an apartment only
two miles from the hostel. She
had been beaten, strangled and
raped.
Charles James Goodby, A.
a foreman at the factory, gave
himself up the next day.
Police said there were indi-
cations that MISS Blaney's
death was not connected with
the killing of Miss Baird. But
they were not ruling out the
possibility that Miss Baird and
Mrs. Carter were slain by the
same man.
Today Birmingham police
began checking more than TO-
600 men living within three
miles of the murder hostel
Every man between Is and GO
was being asked to account
for his movements on the night
OF December %.
Evening star., 1960-01-04
Moimed Son OnIyLeod
In Third British SIoying

LONDON, Jan. 4 CAP).-
Detectives waited near the hos
pital bedside of 6-year-old
Alan Carter today in the hope
he could tell them who
oludgeoned his mother to death.
The child was in his mothers
bedroom when she was mur-
dered Saturday. Police believe
the killer turned on Alan be-
cause he saw too much, then
left him for dead with savage
head injuries.
Doctors fear that even If
Alan lives. his brain may be
SO badly damaged he will never
speak again.
The brutal Staying of Alan's
mother, 33-year-old Mrs. Ruby
Carter. in her cottage at Cow
bridge, Wales, was the third
such murder in Britain in little
more than a week.
Stephanie Baird, a 29-year-
old unemployed stenographer,
was beheaded in a Birming-
ham YWCA hostel on Decem-
ber %. A Nationwide hunt SO
Evening star., 1960-01-04
LYONS

Continued From Page A-10
Patterson title bout agreed to
put up 100000 each.
Chico Marx drove to Palm
Springs, where his brothers
were giving him a birthday
party. He sighed: II hope they
don't give me the same present
they gave me for my last birth
day. Harpo gave me a sweater,
GrOuch0 gave me a sweater,
and ZeppO and Gummo gave
me sweaters. My brothers don't
quite understand: I'm not going
to freeze to death. I'm going
to starve to death"
Fritz Loewe, composer of
MY. Fair Lady" and "Gigi, r"
who suffered a heart attack.
is needing his doctors warning
against driving in New York's
exasperating traffic Edward
G. Robinson, the onetime Little
Caesar, will portray Daniel
Webster in "The Devil And
Daniel Webster" for NBC-TV
February IA After Hugh
Wyatt carp" O'Brien plays the
title role il "Destry Rides
Again" for one week on Broad
way, he'll take his Wild West
troupe on an Australian tour.
Danny Kaye suddenly be-
came interested in learning to
fly a plane, and last week
finally succeeded in passing
his first solo-f1ight exam. He's
now studying navigation
When his teacher sent Kaye
aloft for the first solo flight,
his advice was brief, and all
encompassing: Danny, don't
get killed"
Evening star., 1960-01-04

Ludwig Olshansky, the young
pianist who gave a recital yes
terday at the Corcoran Gallery,
is a pupil of Irwin Freundlich
and has had his general music
training at the Juilliard School
of Music. His program was evil
dence of his refined and un-
usually cultivated approach to
his art, each of the four So
nataS which made it up being
an especially characteristic rep
resentative of one of the most
important developments of key
board writing-classic harpsi-
chord, early piano, the roman
tic school of Liszt and the ma
ture Viennese piano style of
Schubert and Beethoven.
Mr.. OlShansky is a highly
musical interpreter of these
works and his technical ability
is by no means negligible. 1t
is in the realm of technique
rather than of conception,
however, that in my opinion he
can show improvement. His
legato playing sometimes in
clineS to brittleness; his
phrases are now and then short
of breath and hurried, and his
passage work is not as clear
as it might be.
The overall impression of
his music-making, neverthe-
less, is that he has a good
grasp Of everything he does.
Certainly a man who played
as engroSsngly as he did for
nearly two hours is a welcome
newcomer to Washington
musical life.
. The Schubert B fiat sonata,
perhaps the most moving piano
piece since Beethoven, and the
Mozart sonata are both well
known in recital. The Brahms
F sharp minor sonata is a
grandiloquent piece in the
manner Of List. If it has little
in it, that forecasts the more
discriminating Brahms Of the
later piano music, it neverthe-
theless is an impetuous and
fiery virtuoso sonata that is
interesting to hear for its
novelty. The Scarlatti sonata
in E Oongo 23) is a quiet and
intense work of great harmonic
subtlety and melodic charm.
Evening star., 1960-01-04
NEWS OF MUSIC
Pianist at Corcoron
Shows Refined Taste

heard in significant solo oboe
passages in the Mozart and
RoSsini, and who played the
English horn very expressively
and well in the Sibelius.
The hall was packed. as
usual, and while the audience
reacted tepidly to the Sibelius,
it liked the Mozart and was
practically frantic in its ap-
proval of the Rossini.
Evening star., 1960-01-04

Richard Bales and the Ma
tional Gallery Orchestra re-
turned to the East Garden
Court of the Gallery last
night with an intriguing pro-
gram and with a new high in
ensemble and deftness Of per-
formance.
Mark Ellsworth, the orches-
tra's concertmaster, played
the incidental solos in Mozart's
rarely heard D major serenade
in excellent style.
Another unusual work was
the incidental music to Maeter-
linck's play. "Pelleas and
Melisande. This music is a
world apart from the usual
filmy, exquisite French music
of DebuSsy and Faure usually
associated with the story, or
from the tortured, neurotic
Melisande of Schoenberg. The
eight little pieces are full of
Scandinavian woe, and are
made up Of all the dark colors
in the orchestra. Melisande is
Hedda Gabler, and she, in
turn, is at least a kissing cousin
of Pohjola's daughter.
The concert closed with a
sure-flre rabble rouser, Ros-
sini's captious and diverting
overture to "L'Italiana in
Algieri." This kicks up a de-
lightful rumpus in the loud
places and calls for a deal of
light and delicate playing
otherwise in the woodwinds
and strings.
To mention everyone who
played exceptionally we'll would
be to call the roll Of the orches-
ira, but a special plaudit should
go to Beth Sears, who was
Evening star., 1960-01-04

energy and rhythmic drive in
its fast sections and lovely
lyricism in its slow sections.
Mr.. Solum played it with high
art. and his partner, Mathilde
Mckinney, rose to the occasion
with a solid assist.
Mr.. Solum also did very well
with the Hindemith flute
sonata. a piece written during
the composers most ingratiat-
ing period. 1t Is utterly trans
parent and utterly delightful.
Mr.. Solum, a Kincaid pupil
and a Princeton graduate,
seems to be of to a fine start.
Evening star., 1960-01-04
Youth Survives
EiffeI Tower Dive

PARIS, Jan. 4 (AP0.-A
French youth, IS, plunged 1874
feet from the second to the
first stage Of the Eiffel Tower
yesterday and lived. Suffering
from several fractures, he was
taken to a hospital in critical
condition.
Police reported a letter found
in his clothing said he planned
to commit suicide because of
school difficulties. They with
neld his name.