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Evening star., 1960-09-28

Some readers have written
about Calls elopement in
May and they seem to think
that I will play the unfor-
giving parent. Not true. I
roar the loudest and melt the
quickest. No one can play the
wounded lion with the artist
ny I can summon when, on a
rare occasion, I find myself
in the right.
AFTER Is MINUTES, the
kids see through me and
burst into laughter. Then I
really blow up. Sometimes, I
find things out from third
parties. For example, Virginia
Lee seldom brings her babies
to the house. I learned, from
someone outside the family,
that she is always afraid that
the babies will break ashtrays,
pull up flowers. f
This hurts. II my four
grandchildren pulled the roof
down over my head, it would
Abe all right with me. I'd just
smile and send the bill to
their father.
When Gail and Frank APP
preached me one evening re-
Gently and said: WED like
to talk to you," I guessed the
whole truth before I took
them into another room for a
confidential chat. I froze in
side, smiled, and said: Lets
sgo inside"
: Since Elinor's death, I've
been a father and a mother
to a teen-age girl, and this is
not as simple as it sounds.
] think now that I failed at
both jobs.
I do not understand women.
I've been trying through most
of a lifetime. and I know less
now than when / was 20.
They are creatures who think
with their hearts instead Of
their heads, and when they
are in love, they despise logic.
They are soulful, sincere and
stupid.
Who am I to criticize? My
goal in married life was to
bring the girls up properly,
and Elinor did the job well.
Both Of them know right
from wrong. and no new
speeches from me will help.
Therefore, if an elopement
was in the cards, so be it.
Still, I will not be deprived
Evening star., 1960-09-28
Hackers Lose
InspeetiOnFight

District Court Judge Alexan-
der Holtzoff has dismissed a
suit by a group Of cab drivers
which sought to set aside a
Public Utilities Commission
regulation.
The PUG. ruling forbidS
hauling passengers in cabs
which have failed to pass in
spection until repairs are made.
The United Hackers Of D. c.
had asked the court to void
the commission regulation of
last April, which stopped the
Today grace period for hauling
passengers in cabs which funk
the annual District inspection.
Judge Holtzoff, in dismissing
the complaint yesterday, up
held a contention of Assistant
Corporation Counsel Andrew
c. Conlyn, who argued the deci-
sion of the commission was
in the form of a promulgated
regulation. AS such, Mr.. Con-
lyn argued, it was not an order
appealable to court.
The United Hackers, counsel
said, represent more than 200
cab drivers in the District.
Mr.. Conlyn told newsmen a
proposal has been made to the
commission that yellow stick
ers, instead of the customary
red ones, be placed on cabs
which have failed to pass in
spection for some minor cause.
Drivers of taxis receiving yel-
low stickers would have the
right to haul passengers up to
10 days before getting the nee
essary repairs or adjustments.
Evening star., 1960-09-28

in the same house for over
rs years-it was awfully hard
to leave. But I did. What
was the good of living in a
palace when 1t was a strug-
gle to catch every breath?
And think of how much
misery I brought to my chill
dren and wife who watched
me suffer?
Eyes, sir, doctor. A mans
q fool to allow his family
and home to influence him
when he needs q change to
save his life. AS for me, if
1 had to, I'd live in a tent
just so I could continue to
stay in Florida and feel so
much better"
80 80
Mr.. T. T. of Mobile, Ala,
writes: II just heard that
it's possible to have an at
tack Of acute appendicitis
on the left side. I told my
friend it's ridiculous. Never
heard Of it. Is it true?"
IF YOU HAVE MADE a
bet on 1t, better pay up. It's
possible, but not likely. In
certain cases of "right-sided
heart" there is a complete
"transposition of the vis-
cera." Everything is on the
opposite side. Heart is on
the right, liver on the left,
appendix on the left, etc.
For all practical purposes.
however, forget about left
sided appendicitis pain.
= 4
Write to DR.. Steincrohn in
care OF The EUenin0 Star for
the Hon to Overcome Your
Child's Greatest Menace: Ac-
cidentS." IncloSe 10 cents in
a long. stamped, self = Gd-
dressed envelope.
CReleased by The Bell syndicate)
Tomorrow: Grief.
Evening star., 1960-09-28
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER
.Wounded Lion Says, so Be IT.

OF a church wedding. I would
have preferred a big one.
such as Ginny had, but I will
settle for a small one. When
the moonlight fades from the
honeymoon, they'll be glad
they have a Third Party with
them.
Frank Gerace is 81. He is
short and slender and polite;
a kid with dark hair and
laughing eyes. He works at
racing stables, and would like
to be a jockey, but so far no
one has given him a chance.
I know his mother and father
and they're nice people. The
wall Of the parent is always
the same: They could have
done worse.
I wonder now what Frank
Dunning thought when I
married his daughter. He
must have choked. Twas a
cub reorter getting $25 a
week. a short, slick smart
aleck who knew everything
about everything. Elinor was
his only child and, when We
broke the news to him, he
just stared at me, stuck his
hand out, grunted, and went
back to his newspaper.
THIS WEEK, for the last
time, I will give a bride away.
I will give the kids a little
stake, and a start in life. The
rest is up to them. They will
get no interference from me
because, If the youngsters are
old enough for marriage and
Evening star., 1960-09-28

apartment at Lons-le-Sau-
nier when a beautiful pheas-
ant flew in the window. 1t
was being chased by a buz-
zard and broke several glasses
and plates before Julliard
could catch it.
paris Presse, Paris)
A THIEF who was caught
picking pockets on a Cairo
bus was arrested and hand
cuffed by a policeman. De-
spite the handouts he man
aged to steal another wallet
before he was taken out of
the vehicle. - (La Depeche,
Tunis.O
Evening star., 1960-09-28
New Mission
Trend Urged

A leading church official says
Protestant churches must re-
evaluate their approach to mis-
sions.
1--WE must think Of home mis-
sions in new terms" declared
DR.. Robert w. Spike of New
York, general secretary for pro-
gram, Board of Home Missions,
Congregational and Christian
Churches. "Categories familiar
to church people no longer
apply. The real frontiers of
home missionary work must be
directed at the centers of mass
communication and influence
today"
DR.. Spike spoke yesterday at
the annual fall workshop of
the National Capital Area Coun-
Gil of Churches at Mount Ver-
non Place Methodist Church,
900 Massachusetts avenue NV.
The two-day meeting, which
concluded yesterday, had "The
Church in All the World" as
its theme.
"There is nothing inherently
wrong with the new society in
which we live" DIR. Spike con-
tended. Our job is to recog-
nize Christ in the midst of this
world. The mission of the
church is to be in the midst
of secular society. It's greatest
problem is getting out of its
self Enclosed structure so that
it, can live the gospel in the
secular world"
Mrs. Ralph D. Smith. presi-
dent Of United Church Women.
National Capital Area, presided
at the general assembly. The
service was conducted by the
Rev, William E. Basom, persi-
dent of the Washington Min
isterial Union.
Evening star., 1960-09-28

parenthood. then they are
old enough to make their own
decisions.
Marriage, sadly enough. Is
bills and babies and bargains
and belligerence and bitter
ness, and such nice things
as love and forgiveness and
God and laughter and schools
and pride in each other. I
hope they get enough of each
to last a lifetime.
Copyright. 1860, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.
Evening star., 1960-09-28
WORLD ECHOES
North American Newspaper Alliance


Odd items from the world
press:
THERE HAVE BEEN no
births, marriages or deaths in
La Bataille population 12D
for the past eight years. This
has got to STOP" said the
postmistress and proposed
matrimony to the mayors as
siStant. He agreed.
LA Montague,
Clermont Ferrand)
ROGER JULLIARD was
dining in his fourth-fioor
Evening star., 1960-07-10
A-BIost Detectors Ring &C.

phenomena such as lightning
or the rays of the sun.
Once the nuclear pattern is
picked up the electronic COM
ponents of the device trigger
the signal that a nuclear blast
has taken place.
In seconds a red light flashes
on display panels and an alarm
sounds in each of the six con-
troll centers-the White House,
the Joint Chiefs of Staff war
room" in the Pentagon, the
underground alternate COM
mand center at Fort Ritchie,
Md; the Air Force command
post in the Pentagon, the Stra-
tegic Air Command headquar-
ters at Offutt Air Force Base
in Omaha, and the North
American Air Defense Com
mand headquarters at Colo
rado Springs, Colo.
A Western Union spokesman
said the seven detectors in the
Washington area are tested
regularly by electronic devices
that simulate the light pattern
for nuclear flashes.
The seven are scattered over
a wide area so that at least
one probably would be able to
send out the signal in the in
terval between the striking of
the light wave and the slower
shock waves.
Evening star., 1960-07-10

dinary utility poles and the
alarm signals are sent over
C pm ercial communica-
ton wire to six key officials
and military control centers
around the country.
The Air Force ordered the
project and Western Union de-
veloped it. Western Union is
also handling operations and
maintenance at a cost to the
Government of about 50 mil
lion a year.
About 100 critical target
areas throughout the Nation
are coming within the auto
matte bomb alarm system.
More may be included at a
later date.
Basically the nuclear bomb
detector works like a photog-
rapher'S photoelectric cell light
meter.
All "Seeing" Eye
The device is a tube about
18 inches long with a ball-like
lens on top of it. The lens con-
tains several photoelectric cells
so that the detector can "see"
III all directions.
The device is designed to re-
act only to light patterns of a
nuclear blast. These patterns
are unique and are not
matched by any other natural
Evening star., 1960-07-10
CAMP FUND
FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail to The Evening
Star, Second street and
Virginia avenue Sc, or
bring cash to The Star
cashier. A receptionist in
the lobby will direct you to
the cashiers office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days, $19.95 for six days.
All sums received by the Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child Sery-
Ice OF Washington, q United Giyers
Eund agency, for the use OF its
summer Outings Committee. Fam
lly and Child Services is regis
tered under the District of Co.
lumbia Charitable Solicitations
Act No. 6-07-151.
Evening star., 1960-07-10
By GEORGE WILSON
Star staff Writer

Go up the carpeted stairs to
Architect Charles M. Good
mans second floor Office at
814 Eighteenth street NV. Ask
him how his Southwest Wash
ington housing project is COM
ing along. And then get set
for a gusher of opinions about
how to save dying cities.
Right off, he tags the auto4
mobile as the boa constructor
squeezing the life out of the
American city. And he thinks
it is high time for fellow archi-
tects and city officials to fight
back.
To show what architects
could do, he strobe over to his
display table and thumped
down the drawings of River
Park Co-operative-the COM
plex OF apartments and town
houses he has designed for
Reynolds Metals Co.
No Auto Driveways
The strikingly modern town
houses and apartment building
will go up on the 111a acres
OF slum cleared land in South
west Washington bounded by
Fourth, P, Delaware avenue
and N streets. They will be
Evening star., 1960-07-10

ment insures almost the whole
mortgage.
Varied Community Seen
Monthly payments at the
Reynolds project in Southwest
are expected to range from
about $92 for an efficiency
apartment to $3.50 for a three
bedroom town house. The Fed
eral Housing Administration
right now is studying the pre-
liminary working drawings OF
the project.
The plan calls for 400 apart
ments in a single high rise
building, 43 two-bedroom and
80 three-bedroom town houses
There will be a 248-car park
ing space, play areas-one of
which is longer than two foot
ball fleldS-and a community
center.
The Greenbelt Cooperative
will handle the sales of the
apartments and town houses.
The idea is to have a commu-
nifty Of various interests, in
comes, ages and family sizes
Although ground will not be
broken until late fall or win
ter and construction is expect
ed to take 10 months, subur-
banites repeatedly are showing
a lot Of interest in River Park
Cooperative already.
You'd be surprised at the
number Of calls I get about
the place from people who want
to move back to the city," Mr..
Goodman said. Most of them
are professional people. 1t looks
like we're going to have a real
egg-head community"
Evening star., 1960-07-10
NO CARS WILL MAR PROJECT
Co-operotives to Rise in Southwest

cooperative units - meaninc
that families living there will
own them. Their rent builds
up their equity in their apart.
ment or town house.
Mr.. Goodman is proudest Of
the way he has put the auto.
mobile in its place. you won't
even see the damn things" he
said with finality. "Yet nc
front door in the whole project
will be more than 100 feet
from where the car is parked"
He considers the homes and
play areas the oasis, with cars
kept outside it. "At no time .
said Mr.. Goodman, will the
people living in the houses
have to walk across driveways
where they or their children
could get struck by cars"
Cars an Annoyance
He contends this is an ad-
vantage which cannot be over
emphasized. THE car is the
greatest source of annoyance
to the city today" he said.
People moved out in the sub
urbS to get away from cars.
But it didn't work. The way
cars are routed out there peo-
pie are still afraid of their
children getting hit"
Aside from the safety haz-
Evening star., 1960-07-10

ard, Mr.. Goodman said cars
run right over ones physical
and mental privacy. THE
cars" he added, even have
ruined Georgetown. They have
destroyed it's individuality and
small-scale, quiet type OF
living"
About this point, the So
year-old architect slowed down
his attack on automobiles and
became philosophical about
them.
What is happening in this
country" he said earnestly, "is
that Americans are putting
away their shiny toys and
taking up grown-up intellec-
tual pursuits" He pointed to
the soaring sales of hi-fi sets
and symphonic records as one
sign of this.
In Mr.. Goodman's view, this
longing for culture can affect
the rebirth of the city. I'VE
now have it within our power,
through urban renewal and
good planning" he said, ito
make the city attractive to
people. Cities never have been
designed for people. The off,
cials always worried more about
the traffic. People are inarticu-
late about it, but they want the
culture of the city-the IL
braries, concert halls and thea
ters."
Mr.. Goodman's own entry for
making city living attractive
will cost Reynolds Metals Co.
about So million to build.
The houses with their COL
ored aluminium panels will show
what can be done with the
metal in this type Of building
and also, it is hoped, give a
push to the Federal Govern
ment's Section 213 cooperative
housing program.
Under Section 213, people can
buy cooperative apartments
and houses with little down
payment because the Govern
Evening star., 1960-07-10
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Outing Is Salvation
To Boy Minus an Arm

Martyrs mother works as q
scrub woman at night and a
domestic worker during the day
to support her brood of ten.
The tremendous economic
pressure in his home and his
mothers determination to be
self-supporting leave little time
for attention to emotional
wounds.
Martyrs mother understood,
but she was unable to help her
11-year-old son get over the
loss of an arm in an accident.
Camp helped to heal the
wound.
Marty was shy during his
first week there - afraid the
other kids would put him down
as an outsider because he was
different.
To his delight, he found they
simply overlooked his handi-
cap.
Marty thus took the first
great step on the road back to
a normal. boyhood.
He gets along fine with his
artificial arm now.
He is looking forward eagerly
to camp this year.
For Marty, camp is fun and
a vacation, and the special
place where he learned that
life for him had not really
ended before it began.
The following contributions
Evening star., 1960-07-10
Wheeler Named

William B. Wheeler has been
selected to represent the Wash
.lngton Suburban Sanitary
Commission, Maryland's BIZ
county water sewer Agency. on
the newly-established Mont
gomery county Governmental
.Co-ordinating Committee. Mr..
Wheeler lives on Edelblut drive,
Burnt Mills Hills, Silver Spring.
Md.
Evening star., 1960-07-10
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star Stan Writer

A ring of electronic detec-
tors, which can automatically
report a nuclear explosion Sec
onds after the blast goes off,
now surround the Washington
area.
The devices have been COM
pletely installed and opera
tional for about two months.
Although it seems like lock-
ing the barn door after the
horse has been stolen, the
alarm system has an impor-
tant purpose: To enable key
command posts to get reports
of bombing and pinpoint the
locations moments after they
have taken place.
Kicked OFF By Blast
The alarm is kicked off only
if there is a nuclear blast. 1t
is a "fail-safe" system - in
other words, if something
should go haywire with its
mechanism or if someone
should cut a wire. the detector
reports itself out of commits
sion and repair crew is rushed
out.
Seven detectors have been
installed in the area atop or
Evening star., 1960-07-10

told the House on June %, "
do not think that those people
are going to be driven ou
before they have time to re-
locate. 1t may take three year
or in some cases, five years.
!. Apparently, one of the fac
tors that caused Mr.. Rayburl
to move so quickly was tn,
plan Of the Republicans tt
construct a Seven-story Re
publican Center on First stree
between Independence ant
Representative AuchincloSs
Republican of New Jersey, hat
announced earlier in the yea
plans for the $3.5 million cen
ter on the site of the presen
Capitol Hill Club. A local Re
publican said that the valut
of the Capitol Hill Club is nov
about $750,000, but "if we haC
gotten our center up, it woulC
have been in the millions"
Carroll.
This may have been wha
Mr.. Rayburn was alluding II
when he told the House, 9TH,
appraisal of this property 9Th,
two square blocks wa
something in the neighborhooC
Of SIS million In two o.
three or five years from now i
will be $40 million or maybe
SIS million"
Tax Windfall Lost
This same Republican sale
that plans for the center nov
have been put aside until an.
other site can be located. "Anc
prices are really high" HI
added.
! Although the purchase Of thu
land now may save Congress.
money, it annoys the District
tax officials, who would have
collected even higher taxes al
land values rose.
Milton L. Elsberg, president
Of Drug Fair, Inc, said hi.
company paid 100000 to oper
its store at the corner of In.
dependence avenue and FRS
street Sc. 1t is the largest
single establishment in the
area and has been open only 9
few months. According to 6
statement Mr.. Elsberg made II
a Senate Appropriations Com.
mittee hearing, the store will
have minimum gross of $780,
900 for the first year. He sale
that in a few years it probably
would exceed 81 million.
Edward Gruis, an attorney
who represents the Capitol Hill
Merchants Association, said his
clients. representing "a bus
ineSses exclusive of Drug Fair,
have invested $525, 900 in their
stores, money which will be
lost when their stores are de-
moliShed.
Because all but two of the
businesses only lease their
space, the Government will not
pay them anything.
Real estate brokers said that
as a result of Congress action
there has been a "definited up
surge" in the value of Capitol
Hill real estate.
Evening star., 1960-07-10
Aged Home Bids Due

RICHMOND, July 9 (AP).-
Bids will be opened about No
vember l for the Virginia
Methodist Conferences SO mil
lion Home for the Aged, ac-
cording to architects who de-
signed the building.
Evening star., 1960-07-10

new Sue lot lCS proposed Ne-
publican Center.
"It's not the taking of the
land which bothers us sc
much" one District tax off1cia,
said last week. 1T was the way
Congress went about it. They
announced they wanted the
land only in June, and before
we could get together a report
to submit to Congress, analyz-
ing how much we'll lose, the
bill was passed"
Businesses Gain Exemptions
What particularly aggra.
Yates the tax people is the be-
lief that despite statements tc
the contrary from the Capito,
Architects Office, local busi-
neSsmen will be allowed to rur
their stores on lease from the
Government for about three
years at least.
I'VE don't think it is fair
the official said, that busi-
nesses go on making profits
but do not have to pay the Dis
trict any real estate tax, be-
cause they operate on Govern
ment property"
Under present law, as soon as
property is condemned by the
Government, the Government
becomes the owner of the prop
erty. 1t pays the property
owner a "fair" price, and then
can either demolish it, or as
in the case Of the Congressional
Hotel, lease it back to a busi-
ness already there.
District Loses Taxes
According to the real estate
tax rolls, the District will lose
more than $40, 900 a year in real
estate revenue from the af-
fected area, which is bounded
by Independence avenue, First,
Second and C streets Sc.
Carroll street Sc. bisects the
area.
In the last year, the area
(known for tax purposes as
Square 1922 had a tax value of
$1,741,767; in 1859 it was
$1,418,416. and in 1878 it was
$1,406,416.
Income from real estate taxes,
however, account for less than
half the loss to the District.
Once the Federal Government
demolishes the Is places of
business In the area, the Dis
trict will lose more than $4,000
in montreal estate taxes. The
principal montreal estate tax is
the 2 per cent sales tax, which
may be increased to 3 per cent
next year.
Most businessmen in the area
would like to know when they
will be forced to vacate, but so
far nothing definite has come
from Congress. A spokesman
for the Capitol Architects Of
f1ce said last week that the
Government would move at the
earliest possible moment"
Speaker Rayburn, however,