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Evening star., 1960-06-19
Teacher Fingerprinting Hit

Board at an early meeting, pos
sibly next week.
Mr.. Whittier and Mr.. Hardy
are at odds on the probable
effectiveness of fingerprint
checking.
The States Attorney said
two teachers within the past
three years have been convicted
for homosexuality. A school
janitor, later acquitted and
subsequently rehired. was in
dicted last year for alleged
possession of narcotics.
The school superintendent
said he thought this was a
pretty good record for a school
system that employs about 5000
teachers. Mr.. Hardy said even
one case of this type is too
much.
Mr.. Whittier said many pros
pective teachers are women who
have never been fingerprinted.
He said this type of check
would not reveal unreported
sex offenses and would only
cover the years prior to hiring.
Held Adequate
The superintendent said he
thinks the type of investiga-
ton now conducted by school
officials is adequate.
Under the present practice,
former employers of prospective
teachers are queried and the
applicants own instructors in
college are contacted.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
yelling
AWurd From
Mosby Unit

District Engineer Commits
sioner Alvin C. yelling yester-
day was commissioned an hon
orary colonel in the 43d Bat
talon of Mosby'S Rangers, an
honor unit of the 310th Logis-
tical Command, Army Reserve,
in Alexandria.
Gen. yelling, cited by the
Rangers as their man of the
month";" was described by Alex
andria Mayor Leroy S. Bend
helm as "a very outstanding
man and a very astute and
learned administrator"
The engineer commissioner
was awarded an inscribed
plaque in addition to his hon
orary rank, by Col. Lowell j
Bradford, acting rangers COM
mander.
Gen. yelling, the plaque
noted, "has successfully retain
ed the coveted spirit of a true
Southern gentleman"
The inscription noted, in ad-
ditlon, that he has "at all times
retained a Semblance of the
punctilious pride and bearing
so reflected by the Gray
Ghost" Col John S. Mosby
founder of the rangers.
Presented with an engraved
swagger stick by Col. Bradford
in recognition of "meritorious
achievements in military and
civilian life" Gen. yelling
said:
In this job in such a COM
.plex organization as the Dis
trict there's nothing a fel-
low needs as much as a stick. -
The general added, I'm going
to put a bridge across that
river.
"I'll watch all the rat-holes
in the city. and whenever a rat
pokes his head out, I'll smack
him with it. -"
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Scientist to Speak
On Anturcticu

DR.. Carl Eklund, a scientific
leader of Wilkes Station, one
of the United States bases in
Antarctica, will narrate two
Showings of a film on the In
ternational Geophysical Year
this week.
A Wednesday showing will
be at Lloyd Hall, Mount Ver-
non Seminary, 2100 Foxhall
road NV, and q Thursday
showing will be in the Carnegie
Institution auditorium, 1880 P
street NV. Both will begin at
$3.50 pm. Proceeds will aid
Chilean earthquake victims.
Evening star., 1960-06-19

was a blacksmith, built the
shop about 1890.
Through no fault of his,
people began to leave the city.
Over the years they have come
closer and closer to Olney,
building their antique ram
blers and split levels and COM
muting back and forth.
They grew little but grass
and children and had no need
of a horse.
One would think Mr.. Finney-
frock was born too late. One
would think the quaint old
blacksmith shop with forge
would have been replaced by
"a comfnunity center. One would
think Mf Elnneyfrock would
be forgotten By now.
Business is Good
But, like so many things,
this is not the case. ~
Mr.. Finneyfrock is thriving.
Suburbia bothers him little.
His son, Dudley, %, a man who
could feel the approach of
suburbia, is running the shop
now.
You come to "Finneyfrock's"
on the right of Route % just
beyond the Olney Inn. The
barn-like building dominates
the setting, largely because it
is surrounded by ultra-modern
gas stations. 1t is painted
white and trimmed in blue.
There is the spreading tree in
the yard-a maple, not chest
nut.
The last time a horse went
into the building was about 10
years ago. There was no cere-
mony and no one remembers the
incident too we'll.
AS Dudley explained the
other day, by then we had
started to get power mowers" :"
Mowers Keep Coming
Neither Mr.. Finneyfrock nor
his son asked for mowers. They
just started coming. And the
elder Mr.. Finneyfrock discov-
cred he could fix one..
Today, the Finneyfrocks re-
pair more than 1000 powered
grass cutters a year. Today,
Evening star., 1960-06-19

seat each.
The big losers will be New
York and Pennsylvania. The
preliminary count shows each
losing three seats, New York
dropping to 40 and Pennsylva-
MIA to 81.
Close Count
Under the reapportionment
formula, both New York and
Pennsylvania are close to the
border line between holding and
losing one of the seats. 1t would
not take too much of a change
in the final census figures to
save one seat for either State.
The same is true of Massa-
chusettS, which stands to lose
two seats and drop to IL. The
only other prospective two-seat
loser, Arkansas, will drop to
four seats.
Besides Maryland, the States
which are likely to pick up one
seat each, if the preliminary
count is a good gauge, are:
Arizona with three seats in
prospect, Hawaii with two,
Michigan 10, New Jersey Is,
Ohio "a, and Texas %.
States which stand to lose
one seat each, as of the present.
are: Alabama with 8 instead of
9, Illinois with "a, Iowa z, Kan
sas S. Kentucky 7, Maine 2.
Minnesota 8, Mississippi 5, Ne
praska 3, North Carolina II,
and West Virginia S.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Plan She|ved
For Rush Hour
Bus Lanes
McMiIIun's S Stand
Results in Shift
By Commissioners
Y Commissioners

The District Commissioners
have shelved their plan to es-
tabliSh rush-hour bus lanes on
downtown Tenth and Twelfth
streets NV. at the request OF
Chairman Mcmillan of the
House District Committee.
A recent order by the Com
missioners to reserve a curb
lane on both streets for buses
during peak hours has been
Cancelled because of opposition
by Mr.. Mcmillan. Democrat, of
South Carolina.
The plan was to establish a
bus lane on Tenth street from
F to K streets and on Twelfth
street from F to I streets.
Legality Questioned
The bus lane proposal had
been approved at the request
of city highway officials. 1t was
backed by a traffic study on
auto and bus volume.
Repeatedly, Mr.. Mcmillan
asked the Commissioners to
hold back on establishment of
the bus lanes on the basis of
several objections.
One was that the Congress-
man had doubts as to the le-
gality of forbidding drivers
from using a portion of a street
that is open to bus use.
A second point, it was re-
ported, was that this proposal
is not fair to tax-paying resi-
dents.
The inconvenience to prop
erty owners on the two streets
also was cited by Mr.. Mcmillan
in letter to the Commissioners,
it was reported.
AS a result of this stand. an
order to publish a legal notice
OF the bus lane regulations was
withdrawn by the Commits
Sioners late this week.
Only One Reserved Lane
Under the plan, Tenth street,
which is one-way for south
bound traffic, would have had
a reserved bus lane on tie west
side. The lane would have
been on the east side of the
one-way northbound Tenth
street.
The only reserved bus lane
in the District now is on Thir-
teenth street NV. between F
and H streets. These special
lanes were tried out on two
other thoroughfares beyond
the downtown section, on Eigh-
teenth and Nineteenth streets
NV, but were dropped as i'm
practicable.
The D. C. Transit System
repeatedly has asked the city
to give its buses special lanes
to speed service.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
GoIIoudet Students
To Present TV Show

Gallaudet College students
will become television per-
formers next Sunday when the
National Broadcasting Com
pany televises scenes from the
Students sign language pro-
duction of Shakespeare S
"Othello."
The half-hour program will
be shown over a Nationwide
hookup at $50 pm, EDIT. A
faculty member will serve as
oral reader for the students,
all of whom are deaf.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
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 Vir-
ginia avenue Sc. or bring
cash to The Star cashier.
A receptionist in the lobby
will direct you to the CASH
ier's Office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days. $19.65 for six days.
All funds received By The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child 6erV-
ice Of Washington, q United CIV
ers Fund agency, for the use Of
its Summer Outings Committee.
Family and Child Services is
registered under the District Of
Columbia Charitable Solicitations
Act, No. 6-07-15l.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Driving Instruction
To Sturt Tomorrow

Two automobile driving in
struction courses will be offered
by the Central Branch of the
WMCA starting at 7:15 pm
tomorrow at the Central Branch
Building, 1876 G street NV.
A beginners course will in
clude four hours of class in
struction and five hours OF
driving. while a refresher course
will consist of four hours OF
class instruction and two hours
of driving.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
BrusweII to Direct
YMCA's Comp Let's

James A. Braswell, former
manager of the Fairfax-Falls
Church branch YMCA family
center pool, has been named
director of YMCA's Camp Let's
Two hundred boys, 8 to 16
years of age, are expected Sat-
urday to open the camps 1866
season, which will run for four
two-week periods through Au-
gust 81. The 219-acre camp is
located on the Rhode River
near Mayo, Md.
Evening star., 1960-06-19


States would be involved in any
later shifts, the Associated
Press reported.
Virginia is one of two States
which are not affected on the
basis of the preliminary count
but are fairly close to losing
one seat each, though they
probably will not. The other is
Missouri.
Area Would Benefit
An increase in Maryland's
seats from seven to eight like
| ly would benefit the heavily
populated Washington subur-
ban area. The 9Th district of
Maryland, which includ e S
Montgomery County, and the
5th district, which includes
Prince Georges. are two of the
biggest congressional districts
in the Nation.
Preliminary census figures
show that Maryland popula-
tion has grown 31.l per cent
III the past 10 years to a total
of 3,O72,999.
Virginia also has grown, but
not as fast as Maryland. Vir-
ginia'S total is 3,898,772, a gain
of TIA per cent.
When the Census Bureau
made its most recent estimate
II months ago. it said 18 States
were likely to gain or lose
seats. However. an Associated
Press computation based on
the official formula shows that
the preliminary count indicates
these changes since the last
official estimate:
Fast growing California
will gain one more seat than
had been expected, eight in
stead of seven.
New Jersey, Ohio as well
as Maryland, are likely to pick
up one seat each, a develop
me2t not anticipated hereto
fore.
Texas and Michigan prob
ably will pick up only one new
seat each, instead of two as
was estimated by the bureau
earlier.
Illinois, Nebraska and Ken
lucky, which were supposed tc
be unaffected, are likely to lose
one seat each.
Georgia probably won't lose
the one seat chat 1as believed
in jeopardy.
Effective in 1862
| The Census Bureau mus
transmit to President Eisen
hover by December the fina
population figures for eacl
State, together with the ba,
treau's plan for reapportioninI
! the House. Mr.. Eisenhower viii
send the prospective reap.
portionment to Congress early
} in January and the changes
will 60 into effect with the
1862 congressional elections
I Congress may make changes ir
the reapportionment plan
however.
Census officials say they ex.
pect to send Mr.. Eisenhower
the final figures and reap
portionment plan early ir
October.
California without doubt will,
be the big winner in the re-
juggling of House seats. The
Golden State stands to move
up from 80 to 38 seats, on the
basis of the preliminary censu;
count.
Florida will follow, picking ur
four seats for a total of IL.
AS of now, no other State.
, figure to gain more than one
Evening star., 1960-06-19
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Technical Associa-
ton of Graphic Arts
opens a four-day conven-
tion at the Sheraton-P Park
Hotel.
This information is supplied BY
the Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau of the Metropolitan Wash
ington Board of Trade.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Charlie, II, Wants
To Be q Doctor

There is no room for books
in the two-room shack where
Charlie lives. There is no family
tradition to spur the 11-year-
old on to a life of professional
achievement.
But Charlie knows what he
wants. He wants to be a doctor.
Charlie is an excellent stu
dent, outstanding in class and
admired by his teachers.
His grandmother, especially,
encourages him. The boy slips
off to the comparative spa
ciousness Of her modest home
to do his schoolwork.
Privacy is impossible in his
own home, where one room
serves as a kitchen, living room
and bedroom. A daybed opens
out to sleep two there. while a
second room contains two
double beds.
Charles father is dead. He
lives with his mother and four
other children. The welfare de-
partment supplements the
money Charles mother makes
as a domestic worker.
Being a doctor is a big
dream, close to impossible for
Charlie to realize.
Camp should be possible.
But one is as inaccessible as
another for Charlie. Only your
gift to The Evening Star Sum-
mer Camp Fund can make this
dream, at least, come true.
alaF mn ~
Evening star., 1960-06-19
A BIT OF YEsTERYEAR
Ye Suburban Smithy
Undounted by SIickers
BY JOHN M. McKELWAY
Star Staff Writer

Weep not for Finneyfrock.
There those who would be inclined to, but they
shouldn't.
Samuel Josiah Finneyfrock, u.s. blacksmith He has
practiced his trade for than half century frame
building beside the road in Oney Md His father also
Evening star., 1960-06-19

In addition, police records are
checked on applicants for jani-
tor and bus driver positions.
Most of these persons Mr..
Whittier said have been in this
area some time and are well
known.
All job seekers, including
teachers, now fill out a notar-
ized form that asks if they
have ever been convicted of a
crime. For 95 per cent of the
people this will suffice" said
Mr.. Whittier. mo system is
foolproof."
COnnOtatiOns Hit
The superintendent said he
would not agree with some that
the mere fact an applicant had
been in trouble should require
mandatory rejection.
The States Attorney said he
thought one reason school Of
f1cials object to f1ngerprinting
is that they don't want to get
mixed up with the police"
"Fingerprinting connotes a
police state or GeStapo activity
to some people," he said.
II can't see it. I just can't
understand why anybody with
nothing to hide woulo object. "
Mr.. Hardy. pointed out that
service men, other county work.
ers, Federal employees and atom
age scientists all are screened
in this way.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
1-Seot House Gain
Seen for Maryland
Census to Leove Vireinio's
10-Mun DELEGATION Unchanged

Maryland likely to pick another seat in the House OF
Representatives result of the 1860 tabuatlon
by the Associated Press revealed yesterday.
On of preliminary population figures announced
week. will lose seats, the tabuation
The final figures could change this but is doubtful
Evening star., 1960-06-19

80
Evening star., 1960-04-17

she will not accept any treaty linn
itation on her own research and
development. Gen. de Gaulle,
who visits the United States this
coming week, repeatedly will raise
the matter of atom sharing anew,
but there is no sign he will get
results. So serious gap looms
in the treaty.
Moreover, Red China volun-
teered once again last week that
she would not be bound by any
agreement to which she was not
a party - the clear implication
being that she would have to he
given a seat in the U. N. and or
the disarmament control organ if
she were to participate in a test
ban.
If this is indeed her price, the
Eisenhower administration may
have to face a difficult and en-
barrassing domestic issue just be-
fore a presidential election. But
there has been little or no pre-
paratory exploration here - little
or no effort to find out exactly
what Red China terms for acces-
sion would be.
Easter. 1860, therefore, finds
the West busily mapping its ap-
proach to the summit in the dark,
without any real knowledge of
whether the world dare hope for
resurrection from fear, hatred,
suspicion and rivalry.
Evening star., 1960-04-17

delegate to the Geneva conference
on disarmament, when Friedrich
M Eaton, his American counter
part. offered to end production of
nuclear weapons and to station
international inspectors at all it's
nuclear plants, provided that the
Soviet Union does the same.
With the swift Soviet brushoff
of this latest Western proposal,
the Geneva talks were stuck in
the same old groove they occupied
a week ago. Mr.. Zorin, after the
initial Western rejection of the
Soviet complete disarmament
within four years" proposal, had
offered a new" package that the
Westerners called the same iden-
tical program in a new basket.
On the Western side, the en-
phasis is still on controls and
inspection. Mr.. Eaton rejected a
Zorin proposal that the two
power blocs sign an agreement
mot to be the first" to use
nuclear weapons in the event of
war. The rejection, made because
this as we'll as the other Soviet
proposals thus far have omitted
positive guarantees of controls.
moved Mr.. Zorin to imply, but
not to state, that the United
States might have some secret
aggressive plans.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Civil Rights:
End in Sight

House leaders last week
scheduled a final vote on the
civil rights bill for April 21.
The civil rights issue has hung
over Congress since the new ses-
sion convened last January 6. But
the end is now in sight.
If all goes according to plan,
the civil rights bill, which is large
ly a vehicle for aiding Negroes
to vote in the South, will be sent
on its way to the White House
some time in the afternoon of
next Thursday.
This is the plan announced by
House Speaker Rayburn, who told
reporters the Senate version will
be called up with a recommenda-
ton to accept all of the upper
chambers amendments to the
original House approved bill. The
House is expected to approve it
promptly and send it to President
Eisenhower for his signature.
Meanwhile. the Governor of
South Carolina and leading Of
fetal of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People apparently agree that the
new legislation will not change
things very much.
Gov. E. F. Hollings asserted
that the measure will have little
impact on this State" Thurgood
Marshall, an NAACP lawyer, de-
clared that it isn't worth the
paper it's written on"
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Same Deadlock

The Soviet demand that nuclear
weapons be prohibited and all
stockpfles abolished has brought
only an American rejoinder that
such an agreement could not be
comfortable within present SCI
entific knowledge" Neither side
has budged from its initial posi-
ton taken when the talks began,
and there is little likelihood that
the deadlock will be broken be-
fore the Geneva summit meeting
next month.
There was disturbing evidence
last week that something less
than complete rapport existed be-
tween Mr.. Eaton and his i'm
mediate superior, Secretary of
State Herter. After Herter
statement at a Washington news
conference had been labeled a
misunderstanding" in Geneva,
the Secretary let it be known
that he was not at all pleased
at Mr.. Eaton's agreement with
the Soviet side to recess the talks
April 80 through May and into
the second week of June. At
Evening star., 1960-04-17
Its Marking Time at Geneva Por|eys, Too

preliminary answers to both of
these questions. They could have
explored such things as the Ra-
packi plan, disengagement in Eu-
rope, zones of inspection, etc, all
of which are, or could be, related
to Berlin and Germany.
The conferences were, indeed,
originally conceived of, in part at
.leaSt. as a means of probing be-
meath the surface of Soviet in
tentions and finding out what lay
behind all the talk of peaceful
co-exiStence in Moscow. They
were to have been pre-summit
explorations in the truest sense of
the term.
But they have not ponned out
that way. Barring some totally
unexpected Soviet move. the
larger of these two meetings
the donation disarmament con-
ference-is over. There will be
another two weeks of propaganda
exchanges, but no one in the
West expects any real business
to be transacted.
The West will go on laying cut
it's disarmament smorgasbord and
inviting Soviet Delegate Valerian
zorin to sample it. But Mr.. Zorin
has shown no interest in any one
item. He has continued to insist
it all be eaten at one four-year
sitting, along with the plates and
napkins-an idea which gives the
West a serious case of intellectual
indigestion.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
South Africu:
A New Strike?

The OutIawed African Ma.
tiOnal Congress called on South
Africa's Bantu workers to "stay
home" this week in a renewed
protest of the pass-bOOk system.
Mimeogrsphed leaflets appeared
mysteriously in Negro areas
around Johannesburg Thursday
and Friday urging all Bantu work.
ers to stop work for a week, be-
ginning tomorrow, in reply to "the
savage attack the government has
made on us and our leaders"
The strike would also protest
the jailing of African leaders, the
renewal of the hated pass-book
system under which all Negroes
must carry special government
permission to move about outside
the Bantu segregated areas, and
the ban on the African National
Congress and the more militant
Pan-AfricaniSt Congress.
After the bloody rioting at
Sharpville and other places last
month, a Negro stay-at-home
campaign, apparently spontane-
Gus. tied up an estimated 80 per
cent of Johannesburg industry
and commerce. But government
authorities predict that the new
call for a strike will be far less
effective. Tough crackdowns on
Negro areas. the imprisonment Of
almost all leaders of the anti
apartheid movement, both white
and colored, and the terror in
duced in some Negro quarters by
steady police raids and arrests
will, officials say, weaken the
strike movement.
Evening star., 1960-04-17
What to Expect

Significantly, Western diplomats
were noting glumly that, with the
existence of such differences be-
tween the allies themselves, it was
unrealistic to expect very much
of the summit talks with Mr..
KhTushchev. Even the most OPP
tlmistic were saying only that the
May summit meeting might be
the door opener, the occasion when
East and West might at least
agree on general principles and
goals. Then later summit talks
might be able to make concrete
progress on specific problems.
One possible area of accom-
plishment was mentioned: If Mr..
Khrushchev is sincerely interested
in an East-West detente. it said,
then the summit talks might bring
about the conditions for measur-
able progress at the Geneva dis
armament conference, and at the
Geneva talks on a nuclear test
ban.
The foreign ministers did re-
portedly agree on a common ap-
proach to the Berlin problem when
the chiefs-of state gather around
the summit table. But the policy
they decided to espouse, namely
the status quo in West Berlin in
the absence of certain guarantees,
is admittedly almost certain to be
rejected by the Soviet leader. The
determined pressure of West Ger
man Chancellor Adenauer, again
placed on the Big Three by Bonn's
Foreign Minister Heinrich Won
Brentano in the Washington talks,
was believed to have influenced
the ministers to decide that the
Vests opening gambit on Berlin
and the German question should
at least approximate the Adenauer
position.