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Evening star., 1960-04-10

The announcement Of her
engagement Is one of the
biggest thrills a young
woman has in her lifetime.
With the summer bridal
months" so very close and
engagement announcements
coming thick and fast, it is
well to remember that there
are certain traditions to be
followed to make sure that
everything is done in a digni-
fed manner.
The harbinger of the we'd
ding to come is, of course,
the engagement announce
ment. The following is an
outline of the accepted way
to go about making it known
to friends and acquaintance
alike that the all-important
decision has been made.
According to old traditions,
q young man always ap-
proched the father of the
woman Of his heart, and
asked permission to plead his
case to her. Today it's usually
all decided between the cou-
pie before mentioning it to
the parents! However, the
man will still show considera-
ton and good breeding if he
goes to the father of the girl
after he has been accepted.
Welcome Her
The parents of the man
should Immediately call upon
the family of the girl even
If they already know each
other. If they live in differ
ent cities, his mother should
write to the girl welcoming
her into their family.
When living in the same
city. the parents of the BRIDE
elect and she herself must
return the call upon the
mans family with a few days.
While this may seem to be
OVERRIDING the amenities, it
Is to be remembered that it
is not a mere formality but a
matter of great Importance.
1t is highly desirable that
the two families become ac-
quainted. After all it is a
junction between them and
the course of true love will
run smoother for the young
couple if a foundation of
congenial relations can be
reached between the two
families.
Formal announc e ment
through the social columns
of the newspaper should be
made by the parents of the
bride to be. If both parents
are deceased, a close relative
should do so.
The announcement may
read in the following manner:
"Mr. and Mrs. P hilip
John Doe" announce the
Evening star., 1960-04-10

lem that eonfuses me. I am q
fashion artist and use my
maiden name in business. I
am married and my question
Is how to introduce my hus-
band to my business &C
quaintances. If I use the cor
rect form May I present my
husband" without mention
ing his name, it is completely
Evening star., 1960-04-10

confusing. What do you ad-
wise? MRS. J. P. 7.
Answer-It is perfectly cor
rect. and sensible, in this
case to say May I present
my husband, Mr.. Jones'" Ma
turally only confusion will
result unless you make it
clear, both from the relation
ship and the name angle.
CResistered o. 9. Patent onace)
Evening star., 1960-04-10
MODERN
MANNERS
Traditions Should Be Followed
In Announcing Engagements
By CAROLYN HAGNER SHAW

engagement of their daugh-
ter. Margaret Ann, to Mr..
Richard Phillips, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Brown Phil
lips" A brief resume Of the
schools both attended, and
pertinent facts about their
families may be included If
desired.
Sign It
This announcement, signed
by a parent, should be sent
TO the newspapers several
days ahead Of when you wish
it to appear, and the release
date should be stated clearly
on the story.
Entertaining at a party to
announce an engagement Is
not obligatory. The formal
announcement in the news
papers is sufficient. But If
one does decide to give an
engagement party, it may
take the form of either a
luncheon, tea, reception or
evening affair. In most in
stances the celebration is
held a day or so before
the formal announcement is
made.
1t is considered very bad
taste to make the announce
ment on engraved or printed
cards. If there are relatives
or close friends who live out
of town. or those that one
wishes to know about the
engagement before it is made
public, the gracious thing to
do is to write a personal note
telling them the good tidings.
Questions, Answers
Question: am a young
man Is years Of age. I am
going to attend a wedding
soon and will escort my
Evening star., 1960-04-10
Questions, Answers

Question: am a young
man Is years Of age. I am
going to attend a wedding
soon and will escort my
Evening star., 1960-05-08
Mr.. CATHOLIC U.
IHUR .. CURLING, INC,

RIGGS PARK, 62I Jefferson st.
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with powder rm. on lst floor,
beautiful rec. rm, nice yard. FHA
finance. Low down payment, easy
monthly payment for q oualified
person.
NE. S-422S. EN-. 2-1756.
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ANAC0STIA-3-bedrm., Ia bath,
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COLORED

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RE. 7-0676.
Evening star., 1960-05-08
HOUSES FOR SALE-s.E.
(coNTINUEp)
JOSEPH FILIPPO

- REALTY CO. OFFERS
3527 M ST. nr. Branch ave
overlooking Capitol, det Capt
Cod BUNGALOW; 8 rms, 3 bedrms
family rm-, modern kit. with
disposal, rec. I'm. above ground
level; patio. large wooded lot
HfILcREsT, on Bra Branch Ave. -
Practically new detached bricL
large rooms, 3 bedrms., LIST fiool
powder rm., knotty pine rec. rm.
large landscsped lot. Completely
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-4-year-old lge. brick rambler.
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Ice. family rm., ciubrm., maid 4
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Both AND PA. AVE, nr public and
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oil h.-w.h. Large level lot. BY
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bedrm., full bsmt. w/rec. rm
Only $500 dn.
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Evening star., 1960-05-08

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designed for the professional
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rooms, 3 baths, suite OF ofices
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air cond.: many outstanding fea-
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ARTHUR L. CURLING, INC.
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$16,95O

1913 Fort Baker Drive S.E.-De-
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fireplace, din. rm.. kitchen. .
oedrms.. bath, bsmt. and EaraEe
LsTse well-landseaped lot. Shown
by appt. only.
Evening star., 1960-05-08
HOUSE FOR sALE-H.W.

COLORED-I4 MADISON ST
Attention doctors. Cor. det.. 3
bedTm., ga baths, dble. gar; once
entr., no sale comm. ia. 9-24l3.
Evening star., 1960-02-21

weapons systems 1t needs to full
fill these functions" he said.
This, he believes, could not be
done under any merger Of the
armed forces, an idea that still
Is being pushed despite repeated
regulations by Congress.
On speaking of the idea of a
single service the admiral once
told news conference:
Il see no tendency to merge
all newspapers of this country
under one newspaper. It has been
done in some countries, and tnen
you could have common editorial
policy and a common supply ar
rangement and you could run
your paper cheaper. Now just
think that overw
Although he doesn't list it as
such, seapower and its Importance
remains Nimitz hobby.
He likes to recall that a naval
force-of French ships-forced
the surrender of CORVALLIS at
Yorktown. And he points out, too,
that the Union Navy, in operating
against foe without fleet, helped
shorten the Civil War by blockad-
ing Confederate ports, lombard
ing forts and controlling the Mis-
sissippi.
Diplomo-After A Years
The Nimitz career began when
he left high school. before grad
uation. to enter the Naval Acad-
emy in 1901. Forty y-four years and
two world wars later he returned
to his home town of Fredericks-
burg, Tex, and finally got his
diploma-in his fleet admiralS
uniform.
1t is said that he first had his
eye on West Point, even though
his grandfather had been a sea
captain. And after his first salt
water experience young Chet Nj
mltz must have wondered about
entering the naval service. While
in an Annapolis prep school he
once sailed across the bay to Kent
Island.
Il got frightfully seasick," he
Evening star., 1960-02-21

ernment employees totaling 837,
exclusive Of those in the Central
Intelligence and National Security
Agencies, we're receiving instruc-
ton in Russian as of September
30, 1858 either on a full or part
time basis. At present, nine Gov
eminent officials are doing 80
hours of classroom work a week
for nine months to a year at the
Foreign Service Institute and
another Is take a years course at
1880 am. each day for an hour
and a quarter on their own time.
Even wives Of foreign service
officers headed for a Russian
speaking post voluntarily join in
the full-time course. Many Gov
ernment employees, who have
learned beginning Russian, either
take correspondence courses or
work at home on tape recordings.
The Fovorite Method
The trend in the teaching of
Russian in schools, colleges, and
on TV is by the audio-lingual
method. This is the process of
learning a modern foreign Ian
guage by initiating and memoriz-
ing conversational patterns in
stead of using the grammar trans
lation approach. The new pro-
cedure is first hearing, then
speaking, reading and writing the
language. In this method major
use is made Of sound films, film
strips. tape recordings and phono-
graph records.
The extraordinarily rapid growth
Of the study of Russian plus the
increasing use Of the audio-lingual
method has created a serious
shortage of teachers and inStruc-
ton materials. At present there
is need for several hundred COL
lege teachers of Russian. The
lack of teachers also has limited
Cllc uulIIDCI VI IllBIl SCIlOOlS I1dJ
can offer Russian. AS a result
Of the shortage many schools are
forced to employ Russian teachers
either with marginal qualiflca-
tions or who utilize outmoded
teaching methods.
Government programs under
the National Defense Education
Act of 1858 are partially meeting
the teacher problem. Sixty-nine
fellowships for graduate work in
Russian were awarded last year
under the act and this year the
number will be at least doubled
in order to provide more college
teachers.
Evening star., 1960-02-21

for only two years In order to
learn Russian.
The largest number of elemen-
tary school children in this area
studying Russian is in Mont
gomery County, Md, where seven
schools offer extra curricular
courses sponsored by the local
Parent-Teacher Association. Next
year Russian will be a regular
school course.
In nearby Virginia there was
such pressure from the teen-age
children themselves to learn Rus
sian that three high schools,
Fairfax. Annandale and Falls
Church, organized a Russian Ian
guage program outside of school
hours for a hundred students.
What's happening in the Wash
ington area is typical of the
rapidly increasing study of Rus
Evening star., 1960-02-21

Democratic Party before the
public.
This time, however, publica-
ton of Editor Yalman's paper,
"Vatan," was suspended for a
month and two of his colleagues
were sentenced to Is months in
Jail.
When the appeals court handed
down its verdict, Mr.. Yalman was
visiting Pakistan. In character
istic Turkish fashion, he rushed
home to fight the case, instead
Of sitting it out in Karachi.
Protests From Institute
The International Press Insti-
tute, an organization of the free
world press based in Zurich. had
protested more than year before
to the Turkish government about
its trampling on press freedom.
Complaining that the situation,
if anything, worsened throughout
1852" IPI organized a demonstra-
ton of world press solidarity on
behalf of the threatened Turkish
newSmen.
The IPI statement appealed to
newspaper editors Ito join with
this institute in exposing the
present grave threat to press free
dom in Turkey and in uttering
a protest in the strongest pos
sible terms against a situation
which should surely have no place
in a country to which all states
men of the free world, including
President Eisenhower. constantly
extend the hand of friendship as
a democratic partner"
Turkish authorities Immediately
got court order prohibiting pub
lication of the IPI statement in
side the country. Two papers got
onto the street with their editions
before the order reached them.
Four Istanbul newspapers carried
blank spaces on their front pages
where the offending type had been
lifted out at the last moment.
Turkeys Ministers of Justice
and of Press, Radio and Tourism
issued a joint declaration:
I'VE consider that every action
or initiative aimed at protesting
against decision taken in appli-
cation of law voted by the Grand
National Assembly, which consti-
tutes the unique and real repre-
sentation Of the Turkish nation,
and pronounced by the Turkish
courts, which exercise justice IN
the name of the Turkish people,
as being above all an interference
with our internal affairs. In fact
there is no doubt that such a move
is directed against Turkish laws
and therefore against the Grand
National Assembly or against our
countrys judicial apparatus"
Evening star., 1960-02-21
NEARBY VOTES

Following are the votes of Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia
members of Congress on major roll
calls last week.
SENATE
Civil Rights Proposals. Morse,
Democrat of Oregon, resolution to
discharge the Senate Judiciary
Committee of further considera.
tion of subcommittee approved
civil rights bill effective February
25, 1860.
FOR: None
AGAINST: Beall Republican sf Maryland,
Democrat ''tHTH Of Virsinis "a Robsrtson Benz: p
oCrst Of Virginia: Byrd, Democrat OF
West virginia. Randolph, Democrat Of
West Virginia
HOUSE
HR 1851. Authorize the Federal
Government to withhold city pay
roll taxes from salaries of Federal
employees in cities of $4,000 or
more population that levy such
taxes.
FOR: Brewster. Democrat Of MARYLAND,
Fsllon, Democrat OF Maryland FoIev.
Democrat OF MARYLAND: Friedel. Dem
ocrst OF Maryland. Garmatz, Democrat
Of Maryland. johnson, Democrat OF
Maryland. Tankford. Democrat Of Mary
land. Abhitt, Democrat Of Virginia:
Hardy, Democrat OF Virginia; Harrison,
Democrat Of Virginia; Smith, Democrat
NJ Virginia. Tuck, Democrat Of Virginia;
Kee Democrat Of west virginia Slack.
Democrat Of West Virginia, StaEgerA
Democrat Of West Virginia.
AGAINST: BroyhilI Republican Of Vir-
ginia: Pnf, Republican Of Virginia;
Bailey, Democrat OF West Virginia.
Hechler. Democrat of West Virginia:
Moore, Republican Of West Virginia.
Compiled by Congressional Quarterly
Evening star., 1960-02-21

wrote later. "and must confess to
some chilling of enthusiasm for
the sea-"
AS an ensign Admiral Nimitz
had an experience that probably
made the odds prohibitive against
his ever becoming Chief of Naval
Operations.
In 1907 I was in command Of
a destroyer. the USS Decatur. On
dark night 1 ran it onto a mud
bank in Manila Bay. 1t was dark.
I didn't know we we're in mud.
Anyway, there was a court-martial
and the committee decided on a
reprimand"
Importance of Morale
This experience may very well
have helped shape his attitude
toward subordinates. Although
firm, he has always been warm
hearted. AS commander in chief,
Pacific Fleet, job he got two
weeks after Pearl Harbor when
President Roosevelt vaulted him
over % senior admirals, he said
in an order:
You can't make a soundman
listen or a lookout look or a radar-
man radiate information by get
ting tough or putting him on
report. You've got to instill morale
an eager desire to do the job not
we'll, but perfectly"
AS he nears IS the admiral
continues his devotion to fresh air
and the vigorous life. He likes to
hike over the hills around Berke-
ley and watch the ships come in
and out of San Francisco Bay,
from where he first sailed in 1905.
He attends concerts given by
the San Francisco Symphony Or
chestra, for which Mrs. Nimitz
helps raise funds. (She did the
same for the National Symphony
when they lived here.)
"All members of my family are
musical but me, and 1 am a good
listener" the admiral said. Il
have to sit up front in the third
row because my hearing is not so
good anymore"
Evening star., 1960-02-21

Even High School Volunteers Study Russian Now

sian in schools all over the coun-
try, according to Prof. Helen B.
YakobSon, executive officer of
George Washington University's
Department Of Slavic Languages
and Literature and chairman of
the National Committee for the
promotion Of Slavic languages in
secondary schools.
RuSsian-TV courses, given by
colleges and high schools through
out the Nation, have been one of
the most significant developments
in spreading public study of the
Russian language.
Language Over the TV
Just Q year ago George Wash
ington University started a half
hour Russian TV program at
$50 am. three times a week. OF
the 1904 offlcially registered stu
dents, all but 81 took the course
on a noncredit basis. The entire
listening audience for the IS ses-
sions was estimated at some
10000. In the second semester Of
the one-year course which has
Just been completed, the num-
Der Of registered students has
dropped. probably due to the
early hour.
Prof. Yakobson, who also di-
rectS the TV course, noted that
most students who took it for
college credit did better in their
grades and knowledge Of the basic
material than her college stu
dents taking a similar Russian
course on the campus. Seven
members of one Herndon, Va.
family-the parents and five chill
dren from 6 to II years old-all
studied the beginners TV course
together.
Other universities that have
been giving TV courses are
Harvard. University Of PennSyl-
vania, University of Washington,
OAl4fCl olJy Va AldUdLIld, dIlu WSSI-
ern Reserve. All are operated as
university extension courses and
two are sponsored by scientific
organizations.
Last year Pittsburgh ran a l.
hour TV-Russian program three
times a week, financed by the
Ford Foundation, for SO of the
city's high schools.
In addition to TV courses in
Russian now telecast in more than
a dozen cities, community and
fraternal organizations are help
ing to satisfy the public demand
to study at least elementary
Russian. In the Washington area
there are about half a dozen of
these study groups.
The study of Russian is being
pushed in the Government
especially in the State and De-
fense Departments. Federal Gov
Evening star., 1960-02-21
Struggles for Free Press Turn
On Complex Issues in Turkey

The statement noted IPI is
nothing more than a private
group and added: 1T would suf-
fer from delusions if it believed
that it could attribute to itself
powers superior to the national
will and to the administration of
a county . or if it thought
it could establish some sort of a
tutelage over Turkey"
1t wound up with a warning OF
Turkeys intention to break" any
intervention from inside or out
side. The right which every
citizen has to be protected against
insult exists in Turkey, as well as
liberty"
The Turkish press law equates
criticism of government leaders
with Sedition against the state.
In this way. at least, the law is
not different from one passed by
the United States Congress in the
early 10Th century, when this
country found its democratic form
of government in the same shaky
position the Turks now believe
theirs is in, after only So years as
democracy. The American law
was the Alien and Sedition Act.
which officials here concede sounds
quite similar in some respects to
the Turkish press law. Twenty five
Americans were tried under it and
10 were sent to Jail.
The hope here is, however, that
both the press and the democratic
process in Turkey will soon mature
so that well-founded criticism of
the government can be regular
feature of the Turkish scene.
The NATO preamble, to which
Turkey SubscribeS, proclaimS that
the first objective of the member
governments is "to safeguard the
freedom. common heritage and
civilization of their peoples,
founded on the principles of
democracy, individual liberty and
the rule of law"
The concept of freedom and
democracy both have traditionally
embraced free press.
Evening star., 1960-02-21

after a summer institute course,
will be available for college teach
ing.
Perhaps the most significant as.
pect in the remarkable growth Of
Russian language study in the last
few years is that it is spontaneous.
Public, not Government, pressure
has been responsible. AS Senator
Humphrey. Democrat of Mime
sofa, whose Senate subcommittee
made special report on the Fed
eral Governments foreign Ian
guage program, has observed, the
stimulus has come from our young
people. They understand the kind
of world in which they will live.
Mrs. Marjorie Percy Bowen,
supervising director of foreign
languages in the District public
schools, points out that school
children want to study Russian
for the following reasons: For pro-
feSsional use. because some are
language specialists, some on ac-
count of their Slavic background,
and because many feel knowledge
of the language will provide them
with a means of understanding
and communicating with the So
Wet people.
George Washington University
conducted a survey among those
who took the Russian TV course
and found that the largest group
were housewives, the next largest
scientists. Prof Yakobson feels
that the housewives, mostly in the
suburbs, found that taking Rus
sian on TV satisfied their starva-
ton for knowledge. Many said
that professional advantage was
their reason for enrolling and al
most as many stated they were
concerned about the growth Of
Russia as a world power of in
creaSing Importance.
Although there are some indi-
cations that the widespread urge
TO learn Russian may be a fad,
many who have worked with STU
dents both in school and adult
courses are inclined to doubt il.
Actually, since the popularity of
Russian is only a few years old,
it's probably too early to tell.
How much Russian can a stu
dent learn in a high school
course? After a four year pro-
gram, useful competency in the
language can be achieved includ-
ing the four basic skills: Listen
ing comprehension, speaking abil-
lty, reading and writing. A two
year course of study gives a stu
dent general understanding Of
the spoken language. And pro-
ponentS of the TV course claim
that years intensive study will
achieve working knowledge of
Russian-enough at least to read
newspapers and get the sense of
the spoken and written language.