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Evening star., 1960-09-25
Tree Labelling
Ceremony Set
In Kensington

A ceremony marking COM
pletion of the first phase a
project to label trees along
KenSington parkway will be
held tomorrow at pm. near
Saul road, sponsored by the
Women's Community Club of
Kensington. DR.. Henry T.
Skinner, director of the Ma
tional Arboretum, will partici-
pate.
Eighteen trees have been
labeled by the clubwomen be-
tween Kent place and Beach
drive. The plan is to mark more
trees later, also to plant more
trees in Kensington. Leaflets
have been prepared for teach
ers and Scout officials to spread
the educational information.
Mrs. John K. Vance is project
chairman. Mrs. H. A. Meyers
burg is chairman of the gar
den department of the club.
Evening star., 1960-09-25
Silver Spring
Show SET

Mrs. Warren Seaton will serve
as chairman of the annual Sill
yer Spring Garden Club garden
show, october Is and 16, al
8787 Georgia avenue. The
theme will be "Suburbia Fall
l960."
The Suburban Record award
Of a silver bowl will be pre-
sented by John r. Steelman,
publisher, for the best show in
the horticultural division.
Best arrangement will be
awarded a silver bowl by
Schwartz Jewelry Co.
An educational exhibit will
be conducted by Brian Finger
assistant county agent, on the
control of weeds common to the
Silver Spring area.
Assisting Mrs. Seaton will be Mr.,
Paul Stadler,. horticulture; Mrs. r. c.
Cornell, entries; Mrs. Aris B. Bacas,
elassiflcation; Mrs. James Beales, jun
iors' exhibits: Mrs. J. Martin Emer-
son, artistic arrangements; Mr.. James
Beales, historian: Mrs. E. D. Herider,
schedules: Miss Lenore Rhodes. stage
chairman; Mrs. Roy o. Rhodes, judges
Mrs. Harry W. Saunders, Judges
aides; Mr.. r. C. Cornell. property: Mrs,
B. S. Won Bernowitz, diSmantling; Mr..
I. z. Fulton, publicity, and Mrs. Anna
Dawson, hostesSes.
Evening star., 1960-09-25
You Can Create
Beauty
With Flowers
Groys and Greens in Contrast
BY MRS. HERBERT H. GREGI

Vacationtime, if it is really
relaxing is usually an unpro-
ductive period for me. 1t is hard
to cross over from a good for
nothing existence and become q
good for something again.
Like the mossy stone that
forgot to roll along, it feels nice
to be just placid.
1t takes some effort to
emerge, brush away all procras-
tination and step over the
threshold.
But, since the torpor of sum-
mertime blew away with the
first criSpness of fall, the old
creative urge begins to Sprout.
The first autumn fog shrouds
the countryside and obliterateS
that which is so familiar that
the mind is closed to it and the
eyes don't see it any more. A
tree here, a gabled barn roof
there, project starkly into the
milky softness and give viviGly
new, surprising and beautiful
effects.
Along the road, M and Ms
accentuate and join the gray
ness and the softnesS. Milk
weed and mullen, snowy and
Evening star., 1960-09-25
WeII-Adopted Roses
For Area Gardens

Washington lacks a munic-
ipal rose garden where people
might go and see many varieties
growing and blooming. How
ever, there are two large gar
dens both under the supervision
and guidance of the Potomac
Rose Society-one at the Shore
ham Hotel; the other, the Ar
lington Memorial Rose Garden
In these gardens all varieties
receive approximately the same
attention, consequently it is
safe to assume that those which
are not as vigorous as the
others probably would not grow
any differently in your owr
garden.
Another approach to this Sc.
lection problem is to visit the
Fall Rose Show of the Potomac
Rose Society which will be held
October 2 in the U. S. Botanic
Garden. Note those varieties
which are entered in the larger
numbers. They are the varieties
that are the more widely plant
ed. And remember that some
one has probably found a way
to handle the more difficult
varieties so that there will be q
bloom or two of most cata-
logued varieties. Nocturne and
Countess Vandal are examples
When happy they are excellent
roses but few ever live to reach
that stage here.
Washington climate and soils
pose restrictions that should
not be ignored because varieties
least adapted to this area are
difficult to grow. AS a sidelight,
the variety trials at the Georgia
Experiment Station have in the
past checked very closely with
local experience.
With the tremendous number
Of rose varieties available there
is little reason to select those
which are least likely to be sat-
isfactory. Most people grow
Peace because of its size. al
though it is more subject to
blackspot than Eclipse, Sister
Therese, or even Suffers Gold.
Goldilocks has not shown up
satisfactorily as a yellow f1ori-
bunda. Gold Cup is much better,
and some will rate Golden De-
light as even better. LoveSong
is a beautiful rose but try and
get it to grow to half the height
of Tiffany. For some reason,
probably the incompatibility
of the rootstock. it is a runt in
local rose gardens as well as in
the nursery at West Grove.
There is not a good white rose
for this area.
These are only examples of
the reasons why rose variety
selection should be taken more
seriously than "oh what a love-
ly color" or isn't that a lovely
shaped bud" With well adapt
ed varieties in the rose garden
their care and culture win be so
much easier.
Evening star., 1960-09-25

in great profuSion, recon-
mended themselves eagerly for
a first arrangement.
/ AS container, an old pewter
serving dish seemed perfect in
regard to color harmony as we'll
as informal quality.
To accentuate the shape of
the milkweed pods. I find it
helps to defoliate the stalks.
Then the varied combinations
of clustered seed pods on each
stalk stand out and almost
group themselves into a SIM
pie design. This design is struc-
turally strong and presents un-
usual textures. The habitual
posture of the milkweed is
stiff1y erect, until frost and
cold gusts have done their best
to break its spine.
/ Mullen, with it's large, soft
and velvety leaves emerges
from the brazen weeds of the
roadside.
/ After you cut or pull this
plant it is a good idea to treat
it to some cool water to which
one teaspoon per quart of
brown sugar has been added.
After some careful grooming,
let the rosettes have a good
soak. and try not to immerse
the leaves. The brown sugar
helps the leaves to stay fresh
and crisp.
/ First the milkweed pods are
arranged into free and erect
group which loosely occupies
the area directly above the
container. Several seedpods are
cut short and grouped into the
center to give strength and de-
velop interest in the local area.
Then, to the left and to the
right the lovely mullen tufts
are placed so that one group
is somewhat higher than the
other. At once. an interesting
and active silhouette is estao-
liShed.
In this arrangement we value
a balanced contrast in textural
quality which gives great varia-
tion in the gray-green values
of the two plant elements.
Evening star., 1960-09-25
GARDEN CLUB
ACTIVITIES

NATIONAL CAPITAL GARDEN CLUB
pumbsrtcn OAKS. 17os fhirty-sscond
street NV. Mrs. Victoria Kasperski
in course series.
NEIGHBORHOOD GARDEN CLUB
OF ARLINGTON, Friday, s pm. card
party and Chinese auction, open to
public. Buffalo Room, woodward &
Lothrop, Seven Corners store.
FIVE HILLS GARDEN CLUB, Tues
day. pm, Vienna firehouse. Ray
mond Rocca will talk on grooming
horticultural specimens for exhibitions.
Tree study OF the month. black gum
and sour gum, by Mrs, Robert Lyons.
Hostesses; Mrs. Albert Jeffries. Mrs
and Mrs. Harvey Kerns
BROOKLAND GARDEN CLUB
/ WORKSHOP, Monday. 8 pm. workshop
on hower arranging, home OF Mrs
Miriam Lee, l11T Lamont street.
! PARKWOOD GARDEN CLUB. Mon
day. $40 pm, 1915 Edgefield road.
Mrs; Jean Covel is hostess. Mrs. Mil
a aarea Holmes to speak on Floral Table
SUNNY ACRES GARDEN CLUB.
Wednesday, 8 pm, Masonville School.
Annandale, Va. Round table discussion
on gardening tips, lawn care and flower
care. Talk by Mrs. Tibbets Of the
and foliage.
! GREENwAY HILLS GARDEN CLUB
OF Falrfax; Tuesday: $50 pm, home
Iane. Mrs Gilbert Butler co-hostesS
LAX Planting for Spring" ]. Morton
HUNTINGTON GARDEN CLUB. Tues.
DAY, $50 pm, 57l5 HUNTINGTON park
way, Bethesda: talk. 'Daffodiis and
Fall Planting," Wilbur H Youngman,
garden editor OF The Star.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK
GARDEN CLUB, Tuesday. 8 pm, home
81 e.6ar Mrs. Mari Marie Allen and Miss Florence
Members will bring plants cultivated
thiS season. Park residents welcome
-, HALF-ACRE GARDEN CLUB Of Fort
washington Forest Tuesday. s pm.
Van Buren, drive. Election.
TAKOMA HORTICULTURAL CLUB.
Monday. Perpetual Building. $40
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring. Md. Col.
William X. Bonnell will discuss lawns
and landScaping. other features: Bras
of trophies. The club will hold its
mum show October 1923 at the Ia
koma School.
BELTsvILLE GARDEN CLUB,
wednesday. : p.m;, Beltsville school,
Or: j. 8 Cooley will discuss growing of
] ~ T.. Z,
mulching: and DR.. p. W. Santelmann.
seeding and weed control in lawns.
SPRINGFIELD GARDEN CLUB of
| Montsomery County. Monday. 1880
m, St Columba's Church. 1901 Al
speak on Landscape Design"
PAINT BRANCH GARDEN CLUB,
Monday, 1880 pm. home OF Mrs.
Richard HutchiSon, club president, at
Laurel Park Farm. Lunch. Program
on native birds presented by Mrs
Frank Parlette.
CARROLLTON GARDEN CLUB. Hy-
attsville. Md, Tuesday, s pm. 6l04
Eighty-flfth avenue. DR.. John creech:
Color Effects of Broad-leaf Ever
XMAN GARDEN CLUB,
| Wednesday. S:l5 pm, home of Mrs.
| Bowden Findley. Lux lane. Rockville.
Nd. L. W. Kephart: "Peonies In the
/ Washington Area" Cohostesses: Mrs
Thomas Wilson; Mrs. Walter Weible,
| WOODBRIDGE GREEN THUMB GAR
DEN CLUB, Wednesday. home Of Mr.
and Mrs; A. G. Hoffman, 1927 Perry
street NE.
BETHESDA COMMUNITY GARDEN
| CLUB. Wednesday, 1890 am. Battery
Park Clubhouse DR.. John George, Fish
and Wildlife Service: "Pesticides" Host
esses for luncheon Mrs Ricnsrd
Rhode, Mrs. Joseph AmShey. Mrs. w.
Earl Armstrong, Mrs. William Nc
CrilliS, Mrs. Robert J. Page, Mrs. Rob-
ert W. Rogers.
Evening star., 1960-02-16

fore the hoard of elections is
from Carl L. Shipley, chairman
of the District Republican State
Committee.
Mr.. Shipley has asked that
the board advise him whether
the following questions can be
placed on the ballot of the Re-
publican primary:
l. Shall delegates to the
Republican national convention
vote as a unit to nominate
Richard M. Nixon as the Repub-
lican candidate for President
Of the United States?
2. Do you favor a vote for
President and Vice President
for residents of the District of
Columbia?
3. Do you favor a legislative
assembly for the District of
Columola TO be elected by local
residents?
Mr.. Shipley said he hoped to
get an opinion from the Board
OF Elections before February %,
because the District Republican
State Committee will meet on
that date to act on the ques-
tionS.
In another development on
the District political front, Mr.,
Wheeler said the Morse for
President headquarters at 923
Eleventh street NV. will be
opened formally next week.
Evening star., 1960-02-16
Record Firm
Paid S27,121,
InquirYHears
By ROBERT E. CLARK
Star Stan Writer

House payola investigators
were told today that one rec
ord distributor made payments
totaling S27,121 ito and for
disc jockeys over a three-yeaI
period.
The firm, Music Suppliers
Inc, of Boston, is one of AZ rec
ord distributors and manufac.
turers which have been charged
by the Federal Trade Commits
sion with making undercovel
payments to disc jockeys tc
promote records.
Another distributor, Dumont
Record Distributing Corp, paid
disc jockeys a total of $3.50
during 1868, according tc
testimony today before the
House Legislative Oversight
Subcommittee.
Total of S4O,472
A third firm, Mutual Dis
tributors, Inc, paid disc jockeys
81, 2,l2l, and a fourth company,
Records, Inc, made payments
totaling $2,850, the committee
was told. This added up to
$40,472 paid to disc jockeys by
four distributors over the three
year period of l957-59.
About 20 disc Jockeys re-
ceived checks from Music Sup
pliers during 1879, a COM
mittee auditor found. The
$27,l21 included $21,634 in di-
rect payments by check, with
the remainder representing
loans and other indirect pay
ments to disc jockeys, he re-
ported.
The committee, which has
been hearing from disc jockeys
and broadcasting officials up to
now, began taking testimony
today from the record COM
panies named as making the
payments.
The FTC is preparing to file
complaints against more dis
tributors and manufacturers.
1t has charged that "payola" is
an unfair trade practice.
The first witness today was
Donald R. Keelan, an auditor
from the Boston Office of the
General Accounting Office, who
is working with the House in
vestigators. He submitted de-
tailed figures gathered during
a check of the books of Music
Suppliers.
Firm Gives Figures
The disc jockey payments by
Dumont were submitted to the
FTC by the company.
The largest single payment
by Music Suppliers was S6,025
to Stan Richards, formerly
with Boston Station WILD. Mr..
Richards admitted receiving
this sum in testifying before
the committee last week. He
described payola as "the Ameri-
can way of life"
Other payments by the rec
ord distributors ranged from as
low as $25 to several thousand
dollars.
Harry Carter, president of
Music Suppliers. Inc, was
scheduled to be the first record
Evening star., 1960-02-16
Elections Board Asked
To Ease Registrations

A. L. Wheeler. chairman of
the District Democratic Central
Committee, appeared before the
Board of Elections today to
appeal for liberalization of
registration procedures.
Mr.. Wheeler, who charged
that the board is "strangling'
registration, was accompanied
by representatives of the COM
mittee.
The Board of Elections was
scheduled to consider a request
by Mr.. Wheeler that it hold
registrations during evening
hours.
The board previously had
rejected a suggestion by Mr..
Wheeler that it send registrars
to organizational meetings and
stores to obtain additional
registrations.
At present, registration for
the May 3 primary election is
being conducted from $50 am.
to 4:30 pm, Monday through
Friday, in room 8 at the Dis
trict Building.
Two branch registrations at
20 locations throughout the
city will be held. one in March
and one in April. both for two
and-a- half day periods.
Mr.. Wheeler has contended
it is impossible for most people
to leave work to register at the
District Building. He also has
called the branch registration
program inadequate.
Another request pending be-
Evening star., 1960-02-16

distributor to testify today. His
doctor submitted a statement.
however, saying that the emo
tional impact Of Mr.. Carter's
testifying in a public hearing
could lead to IAN acute, serious
mental breakdown"
| The committee agreed to
consider the request that Mr..
Carter be permitted to testify
at a closed session, in view of
his health.
Gordon j. DinerStein, vice
president of Music Suppliers,
testified that the firm regarded
the payments to disc jockeys
as compensation for good
will" He said it also covered
promotion of records at record
shops and payment for the
time and attention" given by
disc jockeys in helping evaluate
the records.
Evening star., 1960-02-16


testimony on future space ac-
tivities Of the armed services
Despite reports late last yeaI
that the Secretary of Defense
was virtually cutting the Army
out of space and making the
Air Force the primary service
there, all three services fore.
see a major role in any future
space warfare.
Defense Against Satellites
In the distant future, Gen
Lemnitzer said. 1T may vel
become necessary to extend all
and missile defense systems to
provide defense against hostile
satellites or other space vehi-
cleS.
THE Army's ultimate role
and interest in outer space
including operations on the
land masses of celestial bodies
will be determined by strate-
gic, technical and chronological
considerations that are still
very far in the future.
However. it is reasonable to
assume that there will be an
important role for the Army in
this area-particularly at such
time as we may be able to effect
human Judgements on habitable
celestial bodies"
Secretary Brucked noted that
the Army was the first free
world agency to penetrate out
Evening star., 1960-02-16

er space, to orbit an artificial
earth satellite, to send a satel-
lite to the sun and to send live
monkeys into space and return.
Biggest Immediate Job
The biggest immediate job for
the Army in space, he said. is
development of a satellite COM
munications system to be used
by all services. The Army also
is working on mapping from
space and on support and power
systems.
Gen. LemnitZer said the
Army is making our first real
topographic map of the moon. "
Admiral Arleigh Burke. Chief
of Naval Operations, told the
same committee recently that
the Navy would use space in
the future to support its sea-
borne activities and someday
Evening star., 1960-02-16
CaroIeDenies
Murder Plot
LOS ANGELES, Feb. I6 (AP)

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 (AP)
-Carole Tregoff has testified
she did not kill or plan to xii
Mrs. Barbara Jean Finch.
| The 2S-year-old ex-mode
and DR.. r. Bernard Finch ar
charged with murder and con
spiracy in the shooting of hi!
wife.
Making her first appearance
on the witness stand yesterday
Miss Tregof was asked by he
attorney, Robert A. Neeb, jr.
Did you on or about July
18, 1859, kill Mrs. Barbara Jean
Finch?"
Her voice low. she replied:
Absolutely not"
Mr.. Neeb asked her II ques-
tions concerning the main part
of the States case against her:
That she and the doctor tried
to hire an underworld character
to kill Mrs. Finch, and, when
this failed, they went from Las
Vegas. New, where she was
staying, to the Finch home in
West Covina, a Los Angeles
suburb, to kill the woman.
Miss Tregoff denied all the
States allegations.
Story en- Farley
In prosecution croSS-exami-
nation, Miss Tregoff testified
she and the doctor tried to
talk to his wife about a divorce,
but that Mrs. Finch refused to
discuss it.
What happened next?" the
prosecutor asked.
THE next thing that hap
pened, she had a gun"
How long after she said she
didn't want to talk to you was
it before you saw this gun?"
Tears came to Miss Tregoff' s
eyes.
Just in time for her to turn
around, take the gun out OF
the car and turn around" she
replied.
Then Miss Tregof cried.
Snapped Prosecutor Clifford
Grail yesterday: Il have no in
tention to examine this witness
under these conditions -"
Miss Tregoff interrupted:
I'm okay."
Dabbling at her eyes with a
handkerchief. she continued.
Her attorneys kept secret
until the last minute whether
she would testify in her own
defense.
To Resume Stand
She will take the stand again
today.
The State has charged she
and DR.. Finch plotted to kill
the doctors socialite wife, 36-
year-old Barbara Jean Finch
so they could marry without
losing part of the doctors
wealth in a divorce court.
For more than an hour Miss
Tregoff was under cross-exam-
ination. Mr.. Grail fired his
questions so fast defense attor-
neys complained the witness
wasn't being given a chance to
complete some answers.
Mr.. Grail hit hardest at her
testimony about two items: A
shaving case and an attache
case.
The shaving case was one
in which DR.. Finch testified
he usually kept his .38-caliber
pistol and bullets. The attache
Evening star., 1960-02-16

case is one belonging to the
doctor, and left at the scene OF
Mrs. Finch's death, which the
State calls a "do-it-yourselt
murder kit"
1t contained rope, a knife
flashlight, a hammer, a rub
Der sheet, sleep-inducing drugs
hypodermics-and the shaving
case and bullets.
Pistol Never Found
The pistol normally in it
which DR.. Finch said dis
charged accidentally to kill his
wife-was never found.
Miss Tregoff testified at the
doctors preliminary hearing
that she carried the case UP
the hill to the doctors hillside
home July l8. She was ar
rested after her testimony
Yesterday she repeated the
story-and told how she put
the shaving case into the big
ger case after Mrs. Finch faced
them with the pistol.
Mr.. Grail asked: AT that
moment DR.. Finch made a
lunge for the gun. didn't hep"
I'm not sure" said Mis-,
Tregoff. The next thing
knew, he threw something al
me, and I just grabbed it."
&c. When you saw the CUR
that was pointed at you, didn't
you Immediately at that instant
run out?"
AT about that instant the
case came at me, and I rar
out"
Mr.. Grail asked her why sht
hadn't told police about tht
shaving kit when they ques.
toned her before her arrest
you regarded it as pretty
important the night this wa
thrown to you by DR.. Finch II
the garage. didn't you?" Mr.
Grail asked.
HE told me to take it anc
get out of there, and I did,
she said.
Evening star., 1960-02-16
Two-Term Limit
Repeal Favored
By the Associated Press

Political science professors
voted 53-8 in favor of repeating
the two-term limit on the Presi-
dency. Senator Kefauver, Dem
ocrat of Tennessee. said today.
Senator Kefauver said a poll
by a judiciary subcommittee
he heads showed an "over-
whelming weight of opinion
among the country's political
scientists that the American
people should be legally free
to vote a President into office
for a third term in times of
emergency"
Evening star., 1960-02-16

fighter leader. I came here
but now I don't know why"
Their sons, George, 20, and
David. l6, were in class at
Mountain View Union High
School.
1t. Blake, a graduate of the
University of South Carolina,
was attached to Attack Squad
ron 1853. His father, Vernon
Blake, lives in Circleville, Ohio
1t. Blake is also survived by
his wife, Kay.
Mountain View is about SO
miles south of San Francisco.
Evening star., 1960-02-16
Racket Figures
Deportation OKd
BY the Associated Press

The Board of immigration
Appeals has affirmed a depor-
tation order against Baetano
CTommy) Morgano of Gary,
Ind, who figured in the Senate
Rackets Committee investiga-
tion into organized gambling in
the Gary area last year.
Morgano, SO, was called be-
fore the committee in June,
but claimed the protection of
the Fifth Amendment.
He had previously been de-
scribed in committee testimony
as the operator of a pizza busi-
ness near the campus of VAL
paraiso University and an
agent for Chicago hoodlums.
Evening star., 1960-02-16
Child Wedding Curb

FRANKFORT. KY, Feb. 16
(AP).-The days when a 16-
year-old boy could marry a
14-year-old girl are over in
Kentucky. Gov. Bert Combs
signed a bill raising the mini
mum marriage age for males
from 16 to 18 years and females
from IA to 16.
Evening star., 1960-02-16

would expect to fight in outer
space in order to deny use Of
space to the enemy. And Air
Force leaders have told the
committee of their long stand
ing ambitions TO become an
"aerospace force"
Evening star., 1960-02-16

approached Moffett Naval Air
Station on a training flight.
1t plunged then into a sub
division 5 miles from the
field and just blocks from his
own home. crashing in flames
into the house of Mrs. Mar
garet Halmi. "A.
Her husband, Desc Halmi,
was called from his work as an
electronics engineer at Palo
Alto and found her body in
the wreckage.
With tears streaming down
his face, Mr.. Halmi said: In
Hungary, I was a freedom
Evening star., 1960-02-16
GI Joe May Keep Role
For Army in Space

Army leaders today staked share in future space
operations for doughboys.
Secretary Of the Army Brucker and Army Chief of STAFF
Gen. Lyman Lmntzer made it clear the House Space
Committee that the Army has not been counted out in
operations
Evening star., 1960-02-16
Jet Crashes Into Home
Pilot ondWomon Killed

MOUNTAIN VIEW. Calf, Feb is (AP).-A Navy jet
crashed house yesterday killing both the pilot and the
wife of Hungarian freedom fighter The standing
at her kitchen sink, decapated
1t o. Gordan N Blake &c. had radoed seconds before
the of his A-4D vibrating