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Evening star., 1960-08-12

A group of Montgomery
County citizens, armed with
p tographs and mimeo-
grsphcd statements. battled
yesterday to keep a gravel pit
from becoming their neXt-door
neighbor.
The occasion was a hearing
before the County Board of Ap-
peals on a request for a spe-
cial permit to operate the pit
near Fairland in the eastern
part of the county.
Opposing the citizens was a
team of lawyers and experts
hired bv the Mars Co., Inc,
which plans to fill in its holes
later so that homes can be
built on the land.
What seemed I. worry the
citizens most were the trucks
that would be needed to carry
the gravel from the pits.
Il have been run off the road
by gravel trucks" said Mrs.
Bruce Wallace of Greencastle
road.
Evening star., 1960-08-12
D. G.. Woman
Found HANGED

A 43-year-old Washington
woman was found hanged yes
terday in the basement of her
brother-in-law's home in the
9400 block of Russell road, Sill
yer Spring.
Montgomery County police
said the body of Mrs. Nora
Marie McLane was found by
her brother-in-law. James F.
Lynazh. when he returned
home about $50 pm.
Police said Mrs. McLane of
the 1000 block of Buchanan
street NE, apparently had
climbed onto a washing ma
chine and attached a length OF
clothesline to a water pipe.
Police said Mrs. McLane,
who was not living with her
husband, had been respondent
Evening star., 1960-08-12
Staff Leaders Norned
For Fairfax Hospital

orthopedic surgery; DR.. Henry
T. Kulesher. Falls Church,
otolarngoloy, and Mr.. Michael
A. Puzak. Arlington. urology.
Earlier yesterday Franklin
P. Iams, hospital administrator
said the institution will open
gradually with about one-third
of its beds In service and one
half of its staff on duty.
Mr.. Iams spoke at a press
luncheon at the Washington
Golf and Country Club in Ar
lington. He said about 95 OF
the total 300 beds will be used
in the beginning.
Emergency facilities will 90
into operation in the begin
ming, he said.
The Sc million hospital is on
Gallows road.
Evening star., 1960-08-12

tain a private foundation grant.
Mr.. Searles will seek the
money from interested groups"
concerned about the future Of
the Southwest section, DR.. Han
sen said.
The public school system
currently supplies no money
for libraries at the elementary
level. Parent-teacher groups
have taken the responsibility
for whatever library facilities
exist. An application had been
filed with the Meyer Founda-
tion for financial aid for the
Amidon library.
A special committee, the Ac-
ton Committee for District
School Libraries. originally
suggested that Amidon, which
is to be operated on an expert
mental basis. be equipped with
adequate library facilities to
point up the difference this can
make in a school program.
School Open to All
Amidon, opening for the first
time next month, eventually
will serve just children in
Southwest. For the time being
= before the redevelopment
projects are completed - en-
rollment is open to any young
ster in the city.
At his press conference to-
Evening star., 1960-08-12
Chain Bridqe
Car PiIe-Up
Injuries Seven

Five children and two adults
were injured today in a pile up
Of cars on the District side of
Chain Bridge.
Injured were Mrs. Mary
Fleury, 80. of 2306 Benjamin
street. Mclean, Va; her five
children. Mimi, 8, George, 7,
Katie. 6. Anne. 4. and Jackie,
2. and Art Beck, "a, Of 80S
Iverson street, Alexandria, Va.
They were taken to George
town University Hospital for
treatment of cuts and bruises.
Pvt. Lewis E. Peters of the
police accident investigation
units said Mrs. Fleury appar-
emily lost control of her car as
she was about to make a right
turn on to Canal road as she
left the bridge.
Her car sideswiped a truck
driven by Edward F.. Gray, 10,
Of 6016 Roseland lane. Rock
vile. Md, which was coming
on to the bridge from Canal
road and then crashed head-on
into a station wagon driven by
Mr.. Beck, Pvt. Peters added.
The pile-up blocked traffic
on the bridge for about 80 min
utes, he said.
Mrs. Fleury, wife of DR..
George Fleury, jr., a surgeon at
Georgetown University Hos
pital, said she was driving to
Chevy Chase to pick up the
daughter Of a friend to spend
the day with her youngsters.
She had left an infant son,
Billy, /, at home.
Pvt. Lewis said both cars
were total wrecks.
Evening star., 1960-08-12
CROP AWAITED
Fornner, 6,
StuvesOff
BuIIdozers.

Arlington County has ordered
its bulldozers to spare a garden
so that a 6-year-old boy can
realize a wish.
The garden at 1880 North
Veitch street stands in a lot
which is being paved for park
ing.
Bulldozers already have lev
eled all trees and sliced away
the topsoil. But they have care
fully avoided a patch of corn,
tomatoes. radishes. string beans
and lettuce cultivated by Dom
aid McDougal Almy, son Of 1t.
Col. and Mrs. D. C. Almy, who
live nearby at 1925 North
Wayne street.
Donald aspires to become a
farmer. The only thing I like
is a farmer because I'm pretty
interested in tractors and I
don't know Of any other good
jobs he says.
So last spring he persuaded
his father to help him plant a
garden on the lot, which then
contained a house occupied by
friends. The garden flourished.
But the county in the mean
time purchased the property
and announced its intention
of converting it into a parking
lot for employees who work at
the courthouse.
Several weeks ago. Mrs. Almy
related the history of the
garden to r. M. Writ, director
of public works, and suggested
Donald would be grateful If it
were allowed to remain long
enough for him to pick the
vegetables. Mr.. Writ promised
to investigate.
Later. when workers arrived,
they revealed they had. orders
to preserve the garden until
all other possible work had
been done.
The patch now seems safe
for another couple of weeks,
which should be long enough
for Donald to gather his first
harvest.
Evening star., 1960-08-12
OUANTICO BURIES
SERGT. UGGS VII
IN POST STADIUM

QUANT1CO, Va. (AP).-
Sergt. Jiggs is dead.
The sergeant, seventh in
a long and illustrious line
Of Marine Corps mascots,
died Of a heart attack We'd
nesday at a Fredericksburg
animal hospital.
The bulldog, affection
ately known as Sergt. Jiggs
VII, was buried in Butler
Stadium on the Marine
post, where he was a ia
miliar spectator at football
games.
The first Jiggs mascot
was enlisted October II,
1922. and since then bull
dogs have served as morale
boosters at many Marine
bases.
Evening star., 1960-08-12
Citizens Group Protests Permit
To Operate Gravel Pit Next Door

The trucks, he said. also
would be hazardous for the
residents children.
The gravel pit. already
partially excavated by another
company under an earlier
three-year permit that expired
recently. is located between the
Fairland-Beltsville road and
the Colesville- -Beltsville road on
the Prince Georges County line.
The company has 384 acres
in all, but only $50 of the land
to be dug up is in Montgomery
County.
After the lawyers, experts
and citizens used up all yes
terday morning debating the
gravel pit issue. the case was
continued by the board for ad-
ditional arguments August Is.
A board aide said opponents
of the gravel pit didn't have
enough time" and wanted to
raise still further objections
before the case goes to the
board for decision.
Evening star., 1960-08-12

You can be run off the road
by hot-rodders, too," coun-
tered vaseleos Colevas, a sand
and gravel man who appeared
as an expert for the Mars firm.
He said nearby residents
probably wouldn't be bothered
by noise from the IL to is
trucks he said would be needed
to haul the gravel away.
He admitted, however, that
the shift from low-low to low
makes what we call the hot
rodding noise"
Israel Putnam. representing
the protesting Columbia Road
Citizens Association, said the
gravel pit would damage COM
munity values.
Nearby homes, he said, will
certainly not gain value by
facing or adjoining an extern
sive tract of increasingly raw
aged ground and a heavy flow
of trucks"
Evening star., 1960-08-12

The new Fairfax Hospital,
due to be opened next winter,
today announced the appoint
ment of IA physicians and one
dentist as department chair
men and section chiefs.
Donald E. Ball, president Of
the board of trustees, said the
selections were made last night
on the recommendations of the
medical advisory committee
headed by DR.. Carl P. Parker.
These doctors will be re-
sponsible for the teaching pro-
gram, general supervision and
coordination of the work of
their departments and advising
the administration on hospital
needs. They. will review the
applications of all other phy-
sicians who have applied and
who will apply for staff
privileges.
The department chairmen
appointed include: DR.. Heinz
Otto Silbersiepe, of Mclean,
anesthesiology; DR.. Carl P.
Parker. jr.. Falls Church. gen.
eral practice: DR.. Thomas E.
O'Brien, Falls Church, interal
medicine: DR.. Peter Soyster,
Mclean, obstetrics and gyne-
cology: DR.. C. Barrie Cook,
Fairfax, pathology; DR.. Ardwin
H. Barsauti, Annandale, pedi-
atrics; DR.. Robert B. Neu,
Arlington. psychiatry, and DR..
Gerard J. Inguagiato, Falls
Church, surgery.
The chiefs of section in sur
gical specialties include: DR..
Lloyd B. Burk, Arlington, gen.
eral surgery; DR.. Garrett M.
Swain, Falls Church, neuro-
surgery: DR.. Robert l.. Nor
ment, Arlington, ophthalmol-
ogy: Dr.. Albert D. Alexander,
Falls Church. oral surgery; DR..
Allen M. Ferry, Arlington,
Evening star., 1960-08-12

than the title companies, should
prepare deeds. render opinions
on titles, interpret the legal ef-
feet Of sales contracts and
make property settlements.
Defendants in the case were
District Title Insurance Co..
Lawyers Title Insurance Co.,
Washington Title Insurance Co.,
Realty Title Insurance Co.,
Inc; Lawyers Title Insurance
Corp. of Richmond and Sub
urban Title & Investment Corp.
Members of the bar aSsocia-
ton said about Is other title
companies halted activities SIM
liar to those mentioned in the
suit when the bar association
asked them to last fall.
Evening star., 1960-08-12

that itself cannot practice law,
was not a proper plaintiff in
the case.
1T seems clear" the Judge
said, that a private corporate
association formed for the pur-
pose of promoting the interests
Of a profession cannot rep
resent dts) members in the
conduct of litigation which con-
Germs their private interests" /"
In rejecting the bar associa-
tion's complaint, Judge Carter
said such a suit must be filed
"in the name of the real party
in interest"
Other Suits Rejected
The Judge noted Maryland
courts have said in other cases
that associations of optome-
trists, chiropractors. naturo-
paths and taxi operators could
not maintain similar suits for
their members.
He said there is no reason
why individual members Of the
| bar association could not MAIN
tain q suit against the title
companies as a class action for
themselves and other county
lawyers.
/ However, the judge denied a
motion. made by the associa-
ton during hearing of the case,
to add names of individual at
torneys as plaintiffs because
rules Of procedure prevented
such a move.
Others Disqualify Selves
Judge Carter, chief Judge of
Maryland's Second Circuit
heard the Montgomery County
case after all regular circuit
court judges in the county dis
qualified themselves.
The association said in the
suit that its members. rather
Evening star., 1960-08-12
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
New Girl in Town Series
Starts in The Sunday Star

STAR EXCLUSIvE-Whats the life Of Government
girl really like? When new girl comes to Washing
ton what happens? How does she actually get
Civil Service job? An apartment? For the answers
to these and other questions read Star Staff Writer
Myra MacPherson's first-person, 5-part series, en-
titled New Girl in Town." beginning this Sunday in
The Star.
AT SEA WITH THE enthusiastically, Star Staff
Writer Jim Birchfield shipped out with 200 Annap-
oils midshipmen their annual training cruise.
In SUNDAY, The Star Magazine, he brings you the
first of a series describing his sea-going expert
ences. This Sunday read the STORY of Pair of
Wobbly Sea-Legs"
THE 1860 POP FAVORITES-The Nations teen layers
have picked their favorte popular singers for 1860
and have come up with big surprise. See the
results of this years Eugene Gilbert music poll in
TEEN Magazine.
THE ROLE OF THE Tv PERFORMER-In the second
of three articles on Ten Years of TV," The Stars
teevson expert, Bernie Harrison, discusses the
changing role of the performer and looks back at
"The Golden Era" of the medium TeleVue
Magazine.
SAVE ON THAT TRIP TO EUROPE-The trans
Atlantic 17-day air excursion fare is expected to
beyond by Is per cent How the wise traveller can
take in many cities at the same fare he would pay
if he flew direct to is explained by Travel Editor
Jack Jonas in the travel pages.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1960-08-12

day. DR.. Hansen said the new
buildings P-TA would still
have to staff the Amidon Ii
brary. even if Mr.. Searles gets
the funds for the books. Foun-
dation aid also had been asked
for $6,575 to provide a profess
sional librarian.
In another matter, the
superintendent acknowledged
great diff1culty in trying to ad-
minister the current non-resi-
dent tuition law for District
schools.
He said the hardship con-
cept he follows-that needy
youngsters who come to the
District to live with people
other than parents or legal
guardian should get a free
education-is not generally ac-
cepted around the country.
Baltimore Law Like d. C.'s
Most jurisdictions have a
tough law stipulating that
children must pay to attend
public schools if they are living
with persons other than these
legally responsible for them.
Baltimore, Dr.. Hansen said, is
one of the few cities with a
law comparable to the Dis
trict's.
Even though the law is "a
headache to administer" DR.,
Hansen said. he does not
favor new legislation to ex-
clude hardship cases from free
schooling. II don't think we
should let the administrative
problems change our view
point" he said.
Evening star., 1960-08-12
The
Rambler
Visits
The Lily Ponds
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

At the Aquatic Gardens
out Kenilworth avenue NE.
they are removing all the
lilies from the largest of the
ponds. A leaf disease has
been turning the pads brown
and making the exhibit I'M
slightly.
These are the native
American lilies that have
been growing there since
Walter Shaw, a Union Civil
War veteran tranSplanted
them from his native Maine
to his swampy farm on the
AnacoStia. That was In the
1880s. Not long after, he
started growing them on a
commercial scale.
"They became a poor
show" said Paul Souder, the
superintendent. I'VE will
plant other varieties that
have more color and are
resistant to the disease"
Laborers in boats were
using spading forks, bent
horizontal, to dig out the
roots.
1T will take them three
long months to clear this
pond" Mr.. Souder said, land
then it will be two or three
years before the pond will be
covered with pads and lilies
again."
But this work Of changing
over the biggest Of the ponds
does not mean that the gar
dens are not putting on a
good show. They are at the
seasonal peak of their floral
beauty.
Evening star., 1960-08-12

MIR. SULLIvAN'S INTER
EST in aquatic plants is
understandable. A SIN all
stream flows through his
property. He damned it to
give his children a wading
pool. They stirred up so
much mud that they had to
have a shower before enter
ing the house.
So he ruled the kids out
and started some goldfish.
Today he has about 100 gold
fish s inches long.
But that's unimportant.
He started some water lilies.
Now he has Is varieties.
It was a wonderful stroll.
The turf walks are 4 feet
wide with palms on either
side. The water lilies are In
bloom. One is called Sunrise.
A good name. 1t suggests
that burst of day that few
of us witness.
Perhaps the Egyptian lotus
Il know I've gone overheard
about the lavender bloom of
the water hyacinth-perhaps
the Egyptian lotus is the
most beautiful bloom in this
world. Comme 81, CONNIE ca.
There was wild rice, grow
ing IL feet tall. And there
were cattails. They mean
the end of summer.
Bongo on the Congo, where
has summer gone?
Evening star., 1960-08-12
Fall Kills Man

A man working as a painter
at the Agriculture Department
Research Center at Beltsville
was pronounced dead on arrival
at Prince Georges General Hos
pital today after q fall from a
35-foot ladder.
He was identified by the hos
pital as Irving Gordan Hutchi-
son, AZ, of Beltsville.
Evening star., 1960-08-12

THERE ARE PLENTY Of
other ponds and they ooze a
tropical atmosphere. 1t was
like the Congo or the ANA
zon yesterday. While the
Rambler has never been on
either river, he is sure that
the hot, damp air, the feel
ing of vegetation growing a
foot an hour, must be the
same as in the rain jungles
near the Equator.
He is of the opinion that
the water hyacinth he saw
there in light lavender bloom
is the most beautiful flower
in his experience.
The hibiscus suggests a
tropical bloom to most of us.
We think of Bermuda or
Florida. But it grows wild in
the lower Potomac Valley
and on the Chesapeake'S
shores.
Not long ago the Rambler
came upon a great profusion
of hibiscus upon Goat Island,
the Maryland landing of the
Jones Point Bridge.
The hibiscus is in splendid
bloom at the Aquatic Gar
dens. Their flower is some
thing like the hollyhock and
has almost as many varia-
tions of color, from white to
pink to dark red.
As for the water lilies, the
time to see them is before 9
in the morning. BY that time
some of the night boomers
start to close.
We were lucky we got there
about 10, and we we're Joined
in a guided tour by George
r. Sullivan, a tall man-6
foot 6-and a stalwart man
weight 210.
Mr.. Sullivan, who is in the
advertising business, novel,
ties and giveaways, lives in
Quaint Acres, Silver Spring.
He said that imprinted
(name of firm) ballpoint
fountain pens are a profit
able item for his firm when
sold at 5 cents apiece.
(As for campaign buttons,
Mr.. Sullivan's report was
that Brown g. Bigelow of st.
Paul, Mimi, the firm that
produced the buttons for Nc
Kinley and Taft, has turned
to other giveawaysD
Evening star., 1960-08-12
Texas Killer Executed

HUNTSVILLE, Tex, Aug. IL
(AP) ).-George Moses, 80, con-
victed of killing a Houston po-
liceman, died in the electric
chair at the State prison early
today.
Evening star., 1960-08-12
SeorIes to Seek $3.50
For Amidon Library
BY ANDREW w. BINGHAM
Star Staff Writer

John Searles, r executive director of the Redeveop
ment Land Agency has agreed to try $3.50 for
library at the Amdon Elementary School Southwest
Washington.
This announced today by School Supt Carl F. Hansen
who explained that the school system had to
Evening star., 1960-08-12
Suit Seeks to Force
Reapportionment
Constitution
Cited by Group
In Maryland
By DANA BULLEN
Star stan Writer

SeeA 0boA "IAtcI
The Maryland Committee for
Fair Representation today fled
a court suit to force reappor-
tionment of the State Legisla-
ture.
The committee challenged in
papers filed in Anne Arundel
County Circuit Court the pres
ent makeup of the General As
sembly and asked court support
for a change.
The main aim of the COM
mittee is to end a system under
which the four larger Mary
land counties and the City Of
Baltimore have 76 per cent Of
the States population but few
er than half the Delegates and
only a third of the Senators
in the General Assembly.
The counties with the lowest
representation in relation to
population are Montgomery.
Prince Georges, Baltimore and
Anne Arundel.
Named as defendants in the
suit are Gov. Tawes, the State
Board of Election Canvassers
and the Anne Arundel County
Board of Election Supervisors.
Maryland's electoral system
could have been challenged in
any county circuit court. Com
mittee spokesmen said Anne
Arundel was chosen because its
county seat, Annapolis, is also
the State capital.
While the court probably
could not successfully order re-
apportionment, a leader in the
representation fight said 1t is
being asked to declare the pres
ent system unconstitutional.
The suit contends the Legis-
lature has denied voters ade-
quate representation by failing
to reapportion its seats and
refusing to call a constitutional
convention to discuss the prob
lem.
/ 10 Bills Killed
! In the last 10 years, said
Royce Hanson, executive vice
president Of the committee, 10
bills to provide some measure
Of reapportionment have been
killed in the General Assembly.
I The latest defeat for groups
seeking more representation
for larger counties came during
the 1860 session, when the
Walsh bill failed in both
houses of the Legislature.
During the same 10 years,
DR.. Hanson said, there have
been six unsuccessful attempts
to have a constitution conven-
tion convened.
The Maryland Committee for
Fair Representation, which
now has 200 members in var
ious parts of the State, was
formed two months ago to con-,
tinue the reapportionment
fight.
! Aims Attack a: 1862
In the suit filed today the
committee has gone beyond
merely asking for a declaratory
judgment on the points of con-
stitutional law involved.
! The suit also seeks an in
junction to prevent any candi-
dates in the 1862 election from
being declared elected unless
they run at large or unless the
Legislature is reapportioned OH
the basis of population.
Should the court grant this
injunction, DR.. Hanson said.
pressure would be strong for
the General Assembly to take
action to reapportlcn itself.
He said he doubted that Dele
gates and Senators would want
to run in an election in which
each candidate had to cam
paign over the entire State.
In the event the Legislature
should call a constitutional con-
vention or pass a reapportion-
ment bill. DR.. Hanson said, the
reorganization still would be
subject to a referendum.
The suit requests that the
Evening star., 1960-08-12
County Bar Loses Suit
Against Six Title Firms
Lawyer Group Isn't Proper Puintiff
In Cose, Montgomery Judge Rules

Circuit Court judge in Montgomery County today
dismissed suit brought by the County Bar Association to stop
what it considered illegal practice Of law by six title insurance
companies.
judge DeWeee Carter said the bar corporation
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-08-11
UNCLE SAM-COMPETITOR
BY George Peck

AS this is being written the
second of our two major politi-
cal parties is in session at Chi
cago to draft platform and
nominate its candidates for
president and vice president.
We can only hope that the
platform it draws up and that
the two men it selects to head
its ticket will not be so far to
left as the platform and the
nominees of the other major
political party which conclu-
ded its, convention on July Is.
Certainly there seems to be
little hope that out of these
two conventions will come
anything constructive toward
getting the Federal Govern
ment out of any of the COM
petition with free enterprise in
which it is now engaged on so
many business and industrial
fronts. What is even worse,
the so-called liberals" seem to
be in control of both parties
which means that we can look
forward to having the Federal
Government expand the many
projects in which it now COM
petes with free enterprise. And
even still worse, the prospect
is that the Washington bureau
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-08-11
Interest Rates Down

serve Board, has undoubtedly affected the
trend, and caused interest rates to recede.
AS long-term proposition, the party
which seeks to ensure low interest rates will
win votes. For the average family, the
largest purchase of lifetime is the pur-
chase of a home. Whether that family pays
four percent or 6R percent, and whether it
pays for twenty or thirty years, are major
financial decisions of the family's lifetime,
and, quite often, make difference of sever
al thousand dollars to the family involved.
Therefore, from the standpoint of the
majority, low interest rates are desirable
One of the goals of our government should be
to provide the average American family with
just and equitable interest rates for home
purchases, and perhaps automobile pur-
chases, and the "little man" is entitled to a
fair break in this regard as he fights the &C.
onomic battle of life and attempts to pay
his not-inconSiderable tax bill