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Evening star., 1960-01-25

the boy, the ice broke again
and the priest also plunged in.
While the boy and the priest
foundered in the icy pond,
Navy Comdr. John Long Of
1108 Kingwood drive, Falls
Church, drove by with his wife
and three children.
Rescued by Officer
Mrs. Long noticed Tommy's
blue hat in the middle of Mr..
Storms pond.
Comdr. Long stopped the car
jumped out, ripped board of
a fence and managed to work
his way first to Tommy.
The commander said he
learned the rescue technique in
the Navy.
Another passerby, William
H. Kilmer. 26. of the Cherry
Hill Trailer Park in College
Park. Md, also stopped. He
crawled out on a board and
pulled the priest from the pond
as the ice was beginning the
crack.
Mr.. Kilmer, a Western Elec-
trio Co. employe. was on his
way to Culpeper with his wife,
two children and Mrs. Kilmer's
father, Mrs. Kilmer said.
The boy and the priest, shiv-
ering from the cold, were taken
to Arlington Hospital, where
they were treated for exposure
and released.
Tommy. a seventh grader at
Lemon Road Elem m tary
School, went of to school
today. His mother said he was
in fine shape.
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CLluS assuring passage py CnaL
body.
An identical Senate bill car
ried five of the 40 Senators as
patrons.
The measures, drafted by the
Virginia Advisory Legislative
Council. is much stronger than
minimum billboard require
ments of the Federal Govern
ment for States to be entitled
to a bonus of one half of one
per cent Of construction costs
Of interstate highways.
Official Signs OK'd
Under the Interstate High
way Act the Federal Govern
ment pays 80 per cent and the
State 10 per cent of the costs.
Permitted along interstate
highways would be only official
signs, including historical
markers and those indicating
availability of services to mo-
torists; signs on private prop
critics within the 660-foot pro-
hibited zone. advertising sale
or services on those properties.
and markers giving information
about public places, historical
sites and picnic areas.
Also offered today was a bill
by Delegate Sam Pope of
Southampton County imposing
a 3 per cent retail sales tax
but distributing so per cent of
the net revenue to the locali-
ties.
Coupled with it would be
elimination of the 2 per cent
tax on the first $4,000 on in
come.
Last week Gov. Almond sub
mitted a 3 per cent sales tax
which would return $45 mil
lion-nearly one-third of the
net yield-to the localities over
the next two years.
Mr.. Pope's bill calls for a
distribution formula to the To-
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calities based on the most re-
cent school population census.
He also wrote in a provision
setting up collection brackets
for the tax.
Teacher Aid Bill
Delegate D. French Slaughter
of Culpeper today said he will
offer legislation providing spe-
cial summer courses, for up
grading teachers, at State ex-
penSe.
He will offer an amendment
to the budget bill, now before
the House Appropriations Com
mittee. authorizing STA mil
lion for the program.
Mr.. Slaughter served as vice
chairman of special commits
sion which reported to the
General Assembly on school
curriculum needs. State SEN
ator William B. Spong, jr., of
Portsmouth, headed the COM
mittee.
The commission studies found
that increasing teachers SAL
ares is not the complete an
swer to raising standards In
Virginia's high schools.
Free Summer Courses
The proposed $1.4 million
would implement a recon-
mendation that free summer
courses be offered instructors
to improve teaching techniques
in the fields of mathematics,
science, foreign languages and
government. Improvement of
standards is particularly nee
essary in this atomic age, the
report said.
Senator Spong said he and
Mr.. Slaughter will meet today
with a number of school Off
cials from throughout the
State and representatives of
the State Council of Parent
Teacher Associations.
Evening star., 1960-01-25
Cut Price Proposed
On Transit Tokens
Would Relieve
Regular Riders
After Fare Rise

A witness for the District
Public Utilities Commission
staff today proposed that bus
and streetcar riders pay a 25-
cent cash fare but be allowed
to buy tokens cheaper.
Edward A. Roberts, a Flush
ing IN. " consulting engi-
neer, testified at the opening
of the P. U. C. staff's presenta-
ton of its ideas concerning
D. c. Transit's proposal for a
fare increase.
D. c. Transit has requested
that it be allowed to charge a
25-cent fare during rush hours,
which would become a straight
25-cent fare at all hours next
November
Mr.. Roberts suggested that
the cash fare be raised from its
present 20 cents to Is cents but
that tokens be sold five for 81
at all hours. Presently tokens
are sold at the same 20 cents
cash rate. Mr.. Roberts pointed
out that under his proposal the
casual rider would be paying an
increase in fare but the regular
rider, taking advantage of the
token package price, would pay
the current fare.
Disputes Loss of Fares
Mr.. Roberts, a transporta-
tion specialist who has been
familiar with District mass
transportation problems since
1917, said his proposal would
produce enough revenue for
D. c. Transit to meet its oper-
ating expenses and have
enough left over for a fair
profit.
He took issue with earlier
statements by D. c. Transit
Vice President James Flanagan
concerning the number of pas
sengers who would stop riding
streetcarS or buses.
The company official had es-
timated 10 per cent of the
rush-hour passengers would
switch to non-rush hours if
they could continue to pay the
lower fare. Mr.. Roberts testi-
fled that only S per cent would
make the switch, since most
rush-hour riders have to use
the company's facilities to get
to and from work.
The company had also esti-
mated that there would be a
loss of 8.3 per cent of passen-
gers as result of the fare
increase, but Mr.. Roberts said
the loss would be no more than
5 per cent. He based his esti-
mate on the same necessity to
ride buses and streetcars.
Estimate Called Low
Mr.. Roberts said the COM
estimate of increased
passenger revenue, based on it's
own proposals is too low, con-
sidering the overestimate in the
number of passengers lost.
The company has estimated
its increase to be about $1.9
Mr.. Roberts said his
computations show the COM
pany increase at SIS million.
On the other hand, the
P. U. c. witness said, his own
fare proposal involving 2O-cent
tokens would bring the COM
pany an estimated $1.3 million
additional revenue in 1860.
He said this would be enough
to cover the company's operat-
ing expenses and provide a fair
return.
Mr.. Roberts suggested that
one Of the problems in the
company's rush-hour fare in
crease would be the constant
cost changes faced by passen-
gers during a given weekday.
This. he said, would involve
the problem of breaking the
public in"
Mr.. Roberts estimated that
10 per cent of the total num-
Der of passengers would use
the 20-cent tokens and 80 per
cent would pay the 25-cent
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Assembly Gets z Bills
Curling Billboard Ads
Measures Would Ban Advertising
Within 600 Feet of Interstate Roads
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star stan Writer

RICHMOND. Jan. 25-Legisation banning billboard ad-
versng within $50 feet of Federal interstate highway
Virginia introduced in both branches Of the General
Assembly today.
The House BILL whose chief patron Delegate Frost
Of Waenton co-sponsoed by SO of the 100 members
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Food Additives
StudyAsked
By President
By the Associated Press

President Eisenhower has
asked scientists in three diff
ferent Government agencies to
make reports to him on the
use of chemical additives in
food.
Asked the reason for the re-
ports. White House Press Sec
Rotary James c. Hagerty said
the President wants to find
out the various problems in
the whole field and asked these
scientists to make this inves-
tigation."
The formal announcement
yesterday said, "the request for
these reports has no relation
to the enforcement of appro-
PIRATE laws by the Department
Of Health, Education and We'll
fare. These laws were enacted
for the protection Of the con-
sumerS of the Nation and will
continue to be strictly en-
Forced."
Congress now is studying an
amendment to the food and
drug law to control food colorS.
The most controversial feature
of the proposed law is a COM
plete BAL on any chemical
agent that can cause cancer in
man or animals.
The Food and Drug Admins
tration. which is part Of HEW,
backs this fiat ban on cancer
agents. Aside from cancer, how
ever, it has asked Congress to
allow 1t to set tolerance levels
for colors that might be harm
full in large amounts, but not
in tiny amounts.
Under the present law, FDA
has no recourse but to ban a
number Of lipstick colors that
have been found to be harmful
when fed to laboratory animals
in large amounts. Lipstick man
ufacturers have fought the ban.
The cancer provision is not in
volved in this dispute.
Arthur S. Fleming, Secretary
Of Health, Education and Well
fare, has run into opposition in
his enforcement of the chem
ical food additives law, as in
the cranberry scare last fall.
Recently a group of farm Or
CARNATIONS called at the White
House in an attempt to obtain
less strict enforcement of this
law. They did not see the
President.
Mr.. Eisenhower asked for re-
ports from scientists of HEW.
the Department of Agriculture
and the Presidents Science Ac-
visory Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
NEGROES PROTEST
IN NORFOLK

HAMPTON. Va, Feb. 13
(AP).-A Negro sitdown pro-
test against segregated lunch
counter seating spread to a
second Hampton store and into
the neighboring city Of Norfolk
late yesterday.
A Woolworth's luncheon
counter in Norfolk closed just
before 6 pm. with some SO
Negroes waiting to be served
The Negroes filed out a few
minutes later as mattresses
calmly cleaned up.
White cmtomers left quietly
when CLOSED" signs were placed
Ion the counter. Elsewhere ir
the store, which remained open
until 9 pm, things were normal.
At nearby Hampton, a
demonstration at another
Woolworth's lunch counter
ended earlier in the day with
the closing Of the facility. The
sitdown there began Wednes-
day.
The Negroes in the Norfolk
demonstration carried school
books and some wore ROTC
uniforms from the Norfolk divi-
sion of Virginia State College
The Hampton demonstrators
were believed from Hampton
Institute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Black Refuses
Chessmun Stuy
BY the Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Hugo
Black today denied Author
Caryl Chessman another stay
of execution so he could make
his l4th appeal to the high
court.
This means Chessman still
faces death next Friday in
CALIFORNIA; San Quentin Prison
gas chamber.
A. L. Wirin. a lawyer for the
American Civil Liberties Union,
last Tuesday mailed Justice
Black the request for a stay
of execution. He said then he
would ask for a certificate OF
probable cause of appeal-a
preliminary to a formal appeal
to the whole nine-man court.
Chessman was sentenced to
death in 1948 for kidnapping
robbery and perverted sexual
assaults against two women
He has been in death row
nearly II years and has
escaped seven earlier execu-
ton dates through various
legal moves.
A new appeal by Chessman
however. will be considered by
the ninth circuit United States
Court of Appeals on Monday
1t will act on a plea that the
court set aside last Mondays
decision by Chief Judge Rich
ard H. Chambers, who rejected
an appeal by Chessman from
a lower court ruling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Johnson Cited
As Rights Foe
By Republicans

Republicans charge that Sem
ate Democratic Leader johnson
of Texas, has "20-year voting
record against minority rights
but now says he favors civil
rights legislation.
Battle Line" a Republican
National Committee publica-
ton, made its attack on Sena-
tor Johnson's record in this
field Just before what is ex-
pected to be a prolonged Senate
debate on civil rights starting
Monday.
The G. o. P. publication said
the Texan recently boosted to
Tammany Hall Democrats that
he got through Congress a civil
rights bill in 1857 although
Democratic Presidents Roose-
welt and Truman had been un-
able to do so.
One big reason the Demo-
cratic Presidents never sue
ceeded, of course" said the
G. o. P. statement. sis the fact
that Lyndon Johnson and a
majority of other Democrats
consistently voted against civil
rights in Congress-"
1t then listed a series of six
Johnson votes between 1910
and 1850, in both the House
and Senate, in which it said he
was recorded against a variety
of civil rights bills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Snow
and sleet accommodating to sew
eral inches tonight with the
low near %; snow ending to-
morrow and continued cold.
Virginia-Snow tonight with
lows in the 20s in the noun
tains and 30s on the coast;
cloudy, windy and some snow
expected tomorrow. turning to
rain along the coast; highs in
the 20s in the mountains and
in the 40s along the coast.
-s Maryland - Heavy snow in
land tonight may accumulate
to six inches or more in the
west and central section with
lows 10 to Is in the west and
26 to "a in the east; snow end
ing tomorrow and continued
cold.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Small craft warn
ings displayed; northeasterly
winds 20 to IS miles per hour
tonight and tomorrow; some
snow, probably mixed with rain
in the southern Bay area, and
cloudy; visibility variable and
sometimes down to 0 in snow;
tides 2 to 3l2 feet above
normal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Poles Name 4 in u. S.
To Science Academy

science in his address and told
the new Polish academicians:
Science places in our hands
the means that can be used for
war and untold destruction or
peace and the good life to-
gether."
Prof. Adams, responding for
the four Americans, took note
Of what Poland has done (sci-
entifically) in the last IS years
in all disciplines Of learning"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Morton Declares
Democrats Seek
To BeIittIe u. S.

NEW YORK, Feb. Is CAP).
Republican National Chair
man Thruston B. Morton saws
Soviet leaders knew the strength
of the United States better
than some Democrats-and that
this was fortunate for world
peace.
The Kentucky Senator said
in a speech for a Lincoln Day
dinner last night that these
Democrats, unnamed, were wa
ging a Observation-Disclosures ef-
fort to depict the United States
as a second-rate power.
ITO hear them tell it, Russia
has either overtaken us or is
threatening to outstrip us in
virtually every field of human
endeavor," Senator Morton said.
Fortunately for the peacs
and security of the world, the
leaders Of the Soviet Union
know better.
/ They know, and they know
beyond a shadow of a doubt,
that the United States possesses
the most powerful total striking
force in the world today. They
know an attack upon tbs
United StateS-even a surprise
attack which might inflict heavy
damage upon this country
would bring immediate retail.
iation and with it near ami
hilation."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13

Four distinguished American
educators have been inaugu-
rated into the Polish Academy
of Sciences in a Polish bid for
East-West scientific co-opera-
ton.
Presentation of diplomas to
the four Americans was made
last night by the Polish Am
baSador. DR.. Romauld Spasow-
ski, himself a noted physicist
DR.. Spasowski stressed the
currently important historical
role of science in his brief pres
entation address.
The ceremony took place at
the Polish Embassy, 2640 Six
tenth street NV. Honored as
new academicians of the Polish
scientific group we're:
DR.. Roger Adams, professor
emeritus of chemistry at the
University of Illinois; DR.
Roman Jacobson, professor Of
Slavic languages and literature
at Harvard; DR.. William Pra-
ger. professor of applied me-
chanicS at Brown. and DR.
Antoni zygmund, professor OF
mathematics at the University
Of Chicago.
DR.. Spasowski emphasized
the International character OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Husband Faces
Bond or Jail

A Washington aeronauticaI
engineer has been ordered tc
put up $4,000 peace bond or
spend 1870 days in jail for
threatening to kill his wife.
Municipal Court Judge Ed
ward A. Beard decided on the
penalty against James Lee
johnson, 33. of 1888 F street
NE.
Judge Beard was told that
johnson had called his wife
yesterday morning and threat
ened to kill her. Detective
Thomas j. Donohue said that
he was listening in on the
phone when the threats were
made to Mrs. Carrie L. John
son, 81.
The detective said that he
and his partner, Detective
Frank Eccles, had been pro-
viding Mrs. johnson with po-
lice protection since January
81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Eisenhower
Sees David
Lead Team

GETTYSBURG. Pa, Feb. 10
(AP). - President Eisenhower
proudly watched his grandson
David lead his basketball team
in scoring today. with six of
"a points.
I But even the Presidents sub
dued if obvious roofing failed
to pull the Tigers through to
victory over the Lions in a six
team schoolboy league game.
Eleven-year-old David starred
for the Tigers, who lost. IA
to Is.
Mr.. Eisenhower sat on the
sldelines in the Gettysburg
High School gymnasium. He
beamed and smiled every time
David plunked in a basket. The
four teams of youngsters play
ing in the tournament were far
more interested in their games
than in the President of the
United States-at least that
was the word from tournament
officials.
The Chief Executives pres
ence didn't become generally
known until he had returned to
his farm. Mr.. Eisenhower got
up early on a cold morning
and by 8:15 am. was on his
way to the gym.
He stopped on his way to
pick up his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. John Eisenhower, at her
nome at a corner of the farm.
David and two of his SIS
tiers. Barbara Anne and Susan,
attend Kefauver Elementary
School. The basketball league
sponsored by the Gettysburg
.OptimistS Club, uses the high
school floor every Saturday.
This was the third game for
the Lions. They had won both
thelr previous starts and were
tied for the league lead before
today's defeat.
Boys 9 to II, some Negroes
included, make up the teams.
They are distributed by ages
among the teams in order to
get balance.
The President is spending a
quiet week end at his farm
He'll return to the White
House tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Police Soy Man
Stole Jewels on
New York Visits

NEW YORK, Feb. Is (AP)
Police have arrested a we'll
dressed Cleveland man who
they said few here regularly
on week ends to rob penthouses
of jewels and furs.
Thomas Pitten, As. was
seized yesterday as he walked
out of an apartment house
with a suitcase full Of mink
and a pocketful of jewels.
Police said Pitten and a
friend spent their week ends
in New York, sometimes visit
ing fashionable night clubs
and restaurants to size up
prospective victims, and then
returned to Cleveland to dis
pose Of the loot.
The pair stole at least half
a million dollars worth of loot
in more than rs robberies since
last summer, police said.
Two detectives noticed Pit
ten and his friend idling in
front of the apartment house
and watched Pitten enter the
building. The companion,
identified only as "Iggy," fed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Ship Romance
High|ights Trial

BOSTON. Feb. IS CAP).-
The trial of radio operator Will
lem Van RE, charged with
shipboard murder of a pretty
passenger, resumes Monday.
Assistant District Attorney
John F. McAuliffe, the prose-
cutor, says he plans to call as
witnesses some of the officers
Of the Dutch freighter Utrecht,
on which Lynn Kaufman al
legedly was slain, plus a harbor
pilot and the skipper Of a tug.
The pilot is Capt. Sheldon
Collins, who guided the Utrecht
out the harbor the night Of
September 10 when she left
for New York on the last leg Of
a round-the-world voyage.
The tow boat master is Capt.
Frank Sullivan, who started the
Utrecht on her way by moving
her out from Commonwealth
pier, where she had been tied
up after arrival from Singapore
and other Far Eastern ports.
Mr.. McAuliffe has told an
all-male jury it will be shown
the wirelessman not only en-
gagged in a romance with Miss
Kaufman but with two other
women before he beat the VIC
tim and threw her into Boston
Harbor to drown.
The Utrecht was A days
reaching Boston from Singa-
pore. According to Mr.. Nc
Auliffe. Van Rie's romance with
Miss Kaufman began the day
the freighter reached Columbo,
Ceylon.
Mr.. McAuliffe has promised
to show "our handsome de-
PENDANT" posed as a bachelor
while wooing Miss Kaufman,
a petite divorce. Actually, he
was married and his dark-eyed
wife Nella, 81. has been an
attentive spectator at the pro-
ceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13

spread to South Carolina
Florida and Virginia since
starting in Greensboro, N. c.,
February /.
In nearly every instance, the
stores involved have shut their
lunch counters and posted no
trespaSsing signs.
George R. Greene. Negro
lawyer representing some OF
the students arrested in Raj
eigh, promised to take the
cases to the United States Su-
preme Court if necessary. He
contended the trespass charges
were unconstitutional.
The arrests were made in
Raleigh's shopping and resi-
dental center, Cameron VIII
lage, on sidewalks and parking
areas near the F. w. Woolworth
store.
William Worth, vice presi-
dent of Cameron Village, Inc,
said he called officers after
the Negroes failed to heed his
warning to leave.
. The students were released
under $50 bond each for trial
February rs in Raleigh city
court. AS they left the police
station, Mr.. Greene advised
mo more sitdowns."
= Support for the campaign, in
which Negro college students
have sought seated service at
lunch counters customarily for
whites only, was voiced last
night at a meeting of the
Winston-Salem chapter of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
- Another Endorsement came
from DR.. Clifford Earle, an
official Of the United Presby-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-13
Brown Vows Foirness
To All at Convention

FRESNO, Calf, Feb. II
(AP).-Democratic presidential
contenders have it straight
from Gov. Edmund G. Brown:
They'll get a fair shake out
of the California delegation at
the Los Angeles convention.
Senator Kennedy Of Massa-
chusetts heard the Governor
tell the California Democratic
Council Convention last night
/ of plans for Gov. Browns ia
vorite son slate-so far uncon-
tested.
Gov. Brown, who has re-
nounced serious ambitions OF
his own. said:
I'VE are building the most
broadly based and fully rep
IreSentative delegation ever put
together in Americas political
history"
Senator Kennedy told a news
conference he hadn't any rea-
son to believe he wouldn't re-
ceive fair treatment when the
delegation is put together.
Biggest Single Prize
California will send 1872 dele
gates, each with a half vote, to
the party's national convention
in July. The 81 votes represent
the biggest single prize of any
presidential primary.
Senator Kennedy acknowl-
edged it would be difficult to
win the nomination without
some support from California.
He noted that Senator johnson
of Texas is "in a position" to
corral about $50 of the 76l
votes needed to nomination.
The New England Senator
reiterated, however, he won't
decide until mid-March wheth-
er to enter CALIFORNIA; June 7
primary. He weighed the lure
of the States votes against the
dangers of a party fight.
Senator Kennedy was the
first of three possible candi-
dates to take a bow before the
$500 delegates of the Demo-
cratic Club movement. Senator
Humphrey of Minnesota speaks
tonight and Senator Syming-
ton of Missouri tomorrow.
Gov. Brown listed all the po-
tential Democratic candidates.
Stevenson Applause Heavy
Mention of Adlai Stevenson
drew the heaviest applause,
followed by Representative
Bowles of Connecticut, Sena-
tors Kennedy and Humphrey.
Senator Johnson's name drew
booS.
Senator Kennedy and Gov
Brown assailed campaign tao
tics they ascribed to Vice Presi-
dent Nixon but urged Demo-
Gratis not to follow suit.
The Senator cautioned his
party it would commit a grave
error IF it ever tried to out
Nixon Nixon"
He said:
Merely because Mr.. Nixon is