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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
President to Give
Harmon Awards

President Eisenhower Is
scheduled to present the Har-
mon International Trophies
the top awards in aviation, at
ceremonies in the White House
at 10 am. tomorrow.
The Harmon Aviator Trophy
will be awarded to Air Force
Capt. Joseph B. Jordan for pi-
loting a Lockheed F-104C Star
fighter to a new world jet alti-
tude record Of 103,395.5 feet,
and at the same time, setting
the first world time-to-climb
record of IS minutes, 4.92 Sec
onds for 10000 meters.
The Harmon Aeronaut Tro-
ply will be given to Air Force
Capt. Joseph w. Kittinger, jr.,
for completing an open gondola
balloon ascension to "a, 400 feet
and the parachuting from this
height at Holloman Air Force
Base, N. Mex. Recently. he
broke this record by going over
100000 feet and then parachut-
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
7 Girls Held in Plan
To Blast Music School

vagrency charges. Judge Fred
NJ. ,Goodelle ordered them to
undergo psychiatric tests. No
pleas we're entered.
Later today police booked
the two on the more serious
charges of illegal possession
of explosives and intent to
use them. endangering human
life by placing explosives in a
building, conspiracy, and il
legal possession of firearms.
They were ordered held in
the city jail to await arraign-
ment Monday on the new
charges.
Police described the two as
"well-poised and intelligent"
but said they seemed rather
cold and insensitive.
The young women admitted
they stole the dynamite from
a construction site near North
hampton, N. H., in June, police
said. They recently rented =
cottage in Northampton so
they could be away from
Rochester when the explosion
occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct. /
(AP). Two young women
musicians were accused today
of plotting to dynamite the
Eastman School of Music,
where both were students.
Police said they found l25
sticks of dynamite in the
apartment building where one
lived and another three sticks
plus two pistols in an automo-
bile she owned.
The case came to light after
a janitor told police that Miss
Jacqueline Mershon, %, OF
Railway. N. j., had offered him
$1,000 If he would plant dy-
Mantle around the school
building.
Miss Mershon, a second-year
violini& with the Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra and q
graduate student at Eastman,
and Miss Carol Proctor, 10, of
Dedham. Mass, were arrested
Thursday on vagrancy charges.
When they were arraigned
in city court today on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Aunt Sis Marks
10th Birthday

WAYNESVILLE. N. c., Oct.
1 CAP.-Mrs, Matilda (Aunt
Sis Rogers turned ITO today.
She received birthday greet
ings from President Eisen-.
hover, Gov. Luther Hodges of
North Carolina and from peo-.
pie in as States.
Mrs. Rogers said she has re-
ceived greetings from the Pres.
ident every year since she
turned 100. This was the eighth
from President Eisenhower af-
ter two from former President
Truman.
Mrs. Rogers, a widow for A
years, has impaired hearing
but never has worn glasses,
although she has trouble read.
ing fine print. She has five
sons, four daughters, IS grand
children, 70 great grandchil-
dren and l25 great-great
grandchildren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Northern Virginia Tops
State in Teacher Pay

Falls Church. the survey found.
The YEA said the top five.
counties paying the highest
maximum salaries are: Fairfax.
Arlington, $1,000; Prince Will
liam. $4,000; Princess Anne,
SIS, 450; and Henrico, $5,400.
The top five cities in maxi
mum salary are Falls Church;
Alexandria, $1,000; Hampton,
$50; Virginia Beach, SIS, 450; :.
Fredericksburg and Richmond,
each with $5,400.
The lowest five cities in max
imum pay are: Buena Vista and
Harrisonburg, each with $4,500;.
Suffolk, $4,450; Norton, $4,000; :.
Radford, $4,000; and Galax,
$4,000.
The survey said that Airing
ton County. Alexandria. and
Falls Church pay beginning
salaries of $4,500-as much or
more than the maximum SAL
aries of Sc counties and cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Fired CreWmun
Turns Ship About

HONOLULU, Oct. / (AP).-
The American hospital training
ship Hope turned back to Homo
lulu today to put ashore a for
mer crewman who was found
aboard after the ship sailed fol
Jakarta.
The Hope. taking American
medical technicians to Indo-
nesia, was Z hours out when
Meximo M. Whitaker, 48, was
found in the crews quarters
Friday. A wiper in the engine
room, he had been fired because
his work was unsatisfactory,
the ships agent said.
Whitaker told the FBI he
suffered a diabetic spell and
slumped behind a couch, where
he remained until after the
Hope sailed. He was hospital
lied.
The Hope. a former Navy hos
pital ship, is on her maiden
voyage to the Far East as a
medical training vessel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

RICHMOND, Oct. / (AP).-
The Virginia Education Asso-
citation said Saturday changes
this year in the minimum
salary for public school teach
ers In the counties ranged from
no increase in five counties
to $500 in Madison County.
The YEA, in its annual sur
vey of teachers salaries, also
said changes in the maximum
salary for teachers in counties
ranged from no increase in
Carroll County to $700 in
Frederick.
For teachers in the cities,
the minimum salary increases
ranged from 500 in Colonial
Heights, Winchester, and Suf-
folk to $3.50 in Galax. The
maximum salary changes
ranged from no increase in
Alexandria to $500 in Rich
mond, Norfolk, and South Nor
folk.
The YEA. a Statewide Or
ganization of teachers, said the
top salaries for experienced
county teachers vary from $4.-
900 in 10 counties to $7,272 in
Fairfax.
The top salaries for expert
enced city teachers vary from
$4,000 in Galax to $1,000 in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

said, where citizens are pre-
Sented with the nasty job
of trying to parcel out what
is never enough dollars. HWC
budgets United Givers Fund
money to local agencies.
Asked If he thought some
UGF-supported agencies, such
as neighborhood houses,
should be supported by tax
dollars rather than be de-
pendent on voluntary gifts,
Mr.. Sullivan declared:
That is one of the most
difficult problems in the en-
tire field" He said he has
not yet found the answer to
the proper roles for public
support and private charity.
Quizzed whether the Com
missioners should do more
business in public instead OF
in executive or secret session,
the newest Commissioner said
his experience so far has re-
inforced his earlier feeling that
the more business conducted
in public the better.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
DeudIine
On Attest
ToIks Urged
By the Assoeiated Press

Senator Humphrey, Demo
crat of Minnesota, said yeSter-
day that if agreement is not
reached on a nuclear weapons
tests ban by next June the
United States should resume
testing.
The Senator, chairman of the
Senate Disarmament Subcom-
mittee. suggested this deadline
in releasing a 110-page study
Of the Geneva negotiations
that have been under way
among the United States, Great
Britain and Russia since
October 81. 1858.
THE time clock on the ne
gotiationS ana on attempting
to restrict the nuclear club /,
fast running out" Senator
Humphrey said in a statement
accompanying the study COM
piled by the subcommittee staff
Unless the Soviet Union, the
United States and Great Britain
can reach agreement soon or
an effective and Safeguardeo
agreement to ban nucleal
weapons tests" he said, Com
muniSt China and Other
countries will soon be producing
nuclear weapons and adding tt
the worlds nuclear Stockpiles.
Senator Humphrey said he
remains convinced that the
working out Of such an agree.
ment is In the national interest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
2 Richmond
Policemen
Face Action

RICHMOND, Va, Oct.
(AP).-Richmond's safety di-
rector yesterday announced
plans for punitive action against
two policemen In connection
with the city's current probe
into alleged police corruption.
1t is the first action of this
sort in the lengthy investiga-
ton.
w. L. Groth said formal
charges will be placed against
one officer accused Of irregu-
larities and disciplinary action
will be taken against q second,
Name Of the man against
whom formal charges will be
brought was not disclosed. To
be disciplined within the de-
partment is Detective Dalton
r. Duling, who was cleared OF
charges Of corruption but
termed indiscreet in his per-
sonal associations.
Mr.. Groth said it was his
opinion that Detective Duling
committed an indiscretion in
associating with Harry Dono-
van, a convicted numbers gam
bier now in Federal prison.
The safety director recon-
mended to Acting Chief John
M. Wright that the detective
be transferred to a uniformed
division. be suspended for five
payless days. and given five
extra tours Of duty.
Detective Duling had told au-
thorities he once borrowed $3.50
from Donovan, and later repaid
1t. He said they were ole
acquaintance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

In France, five counties In
the southeast along the Rhone
Valley were swept by heavy
rains and floods.
Police and volunteers in both
France and England rescued
many families trapped on up
per floors Of their homes. He'll
copters were used to pick up
some of the stranded.
In Bordeaux, a village near
Valence in Southeast France,
an 87-year-old woman died
when f1oodwaters from the
River Roubion demolished her
small cottage. At the same
place, a couple was feared
drowned when raging waters
swept away the small car in
which they were riding.
An Australian woman, Mrs.
L. Riggs, died Of a heart at
tack after she was rescued from
a flooded house in the South
England village Of Colyton
where she was staying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
TrufficUp
InMoryIond
ForMonth

BALTIMORE. Oct. l (AP).-
Maryland's highways carried
80 per cent more traffic during
August than in the comparable
1859 month, the State Roads
Commission said today.
The accumulated total in
crease for the first eight
months of this year compared
to the same period in 1859 was
AZ per cent, the SRC added.
Traffic was heavier at all but
seven of the 80 permanent
counters operated by the COM
mission. The States four toll
facilities also recorded in
creaseS
The largest increase during
August was noted on the Bal
timore- Harrisburg Expressway,
which carried an average OF
$3.50 vehicles daily compared
to 7.10l for a year ago.
Other highways showing in
creaseS:
U. S. $40, up 10 per cent; u
s. 301. 81 per cent; Richie
highway, is per cent: U. S. SO
at the Patuxent River, 3.8 per
cent: Baltimore Washington
expreSsway. So per cent, U. S
20, 1873 per cent.
The Baltimore Harbor Tun-
mel handled 42.163 vehicles
daily during August. the Sus-
quehanna River Bridge. 81, 681
Chesapeake Bay Bridge 1875
and Potomac River Bridge g.
ABS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Sullivan Open Minded
On Budget Appeals

District Commissioner Mark
Sullivan, jr., said yesterday he
has not "prejudged" any Dis
trict departments budget ap-
peal and will sit in on Com
missioners' hearings this week
with an open mind.
In a statement on Report to
the People on radio station
WWDC, the Commissioner said
he was clarifying his position
because he was afraid remarks
made on the program two
weeks ago might have been
misinterpreted.
At that time, Mr.. Sullivan
said, he expressed sympathy
with the disappointment of the
superintendent of schools N
cuts in his appropriations re-
quests by the budget Office. The
budget for fiscal 1862 which the
budget Office approved will be
reviewed by the Commissioners
at public hearings starting
Tuesday.
Mr.. Sullivan noted that his
remarks on the earlier broad
cast were in response to a re-
porter's request for his opinion
on an article outlining DR.,
Hansen's appeal plans.
District Government budget
problems remind him of his
experience on the Budget Com
mittee Of the Health and We'll
fare Council of the National
Capital area, Mr.. Sullivan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Misery Follows Floods
In France and EnoIond

LONDON, Oct. / (AP).-
Floodwaters receded tonight in
the south of France and Eng
land, leaving behind death,
damage and misery.
In Southeastern France, hit
by torrential rains, an elderly
woman was drowned and two
other persons we're feared dead
One death was reported in
Southern England.
The floods in both countries
followed a day and night of
cloudbursts and steady down.
pours which turned rivers and
streams into angry torrents.
Many roads and rail lines were
cut. homes were flooded and
families marooned or forced to
flee. In some places, whole VIII
lagos were cut off temporarily.
Hardest hit in Southern Eng
land were the resort towns in
Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and
on the Isle Of Wight. Homes
and stores were inundated by
IL feet Of water on the Isle of
Wight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Imperial Bloom Named
Queen of Rose Show

best miniature spray fred Masauerade)
Mr.. Wolf: best Seeding (Show Cir
RubaiyaD. Mr.. Hoffman; best in elias!
405 yellow Golden Showers. Carl c
Richard Henry Hutchinson; best in
class 40s, W. Richard Olsen; best II
class 400. Harold J. Holt: best col
lection Of horibundas.. Herman B
Shinn: best collection Of speeified by;
collection Of hybrid teas by an Ameri'
can Rose Society member, Carl r
Greenberg; high points among entrants
who have not previously exhibited q
rose, Chester Ginder: second high
points. Robert Z. Hicks.
Also, best rose in class Ired New
among entrants who have not pre-
yiously won blue ribbon in q Potomac
second high. Robert E. Hicks; third
high tS,i, Mrs Peter Peer RownR R: best rGs:
Potomac Rose Society (MojaveI, Gin
Glier; high point winners, sweepstakes
Mrs. Smetana; second high, Mr.. Hofi-
man; third high. Harold J. Holt; fourth
B .h Mr.. oI and Mrs: Arp9le and W
Also, hiEh points, classes IOI-las
Irwin H. Gatzke; second high, Miss
Mary Handley: third high, Herman B
nth hish, Mrs, Keneln pailam; hiEh
points, classes 2Ol -29S, Mrs. smetana
second high. Mr.. Holman: third high
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold: fourth high
W. L. johnson; NTH high, Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. McAllister: high points
classes 3O1- 1898. Harold J. Holt: second
high, Mr.. Olsen; third high, Joseph
man; NTH high, Mrs. Adrian J. Rogers
and Henry L. Wolf.
Also. high points for miniature roses.
H. M. Wolf; second high, Mrs. Richard
H. Hutchinson and Mrs. SmetanS
fourth high, Mrs. Fred A. Caudle; ar.
rangements, best (Roses Make a Pic
ture), Mrs. Joe c. Robinson: second
best "a New England sunrisel; Mrs.
Robert A. vI Kaye; t third ,, best by the
high points in arrangement classes,
Mrs. Joe C. Robinson: second high,
Mrs. Robert A. Kaye and Mrs Bernice
Wade fourth high, Mrs. Mary Allen
Ellis. Mrs. Frank z. Watkins and Mrs
CurttsS Werner; best ARRANGEMENT by
garden club "a Basket of Rosesl
stoney Brooke; second best a Baske,
"a Basket of Rosesl. Ayr Hill Club;
Garden Club winners. Falls Church
Garden Club u15l. Takoma Horticul-
tural Society Ul3), Arlington Rose
Foundation 900. Home Gardens Club
Baltimore l67), Cheverly Garden Club
(42l, and Yates Garden Club (42l.
Also, commercial winners. A. GUIDE
Ysstman r son; S@ s Thomas An n.U
B. Hart. Inc. uO). and !. B. Way q
Sons "a: florists Geo. C. Shafier. Inc
C74). Nosegay Flower Shop 1851. J. II
Small and Sons. Inc. 49,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

I light rays down to a point
about an eighth of an inch
wide. A Laser can focus them
down to millionths of an inch
small enough to slice a human
cell the way a butcher slices
baloney.
DR.. Mailman says he is work.
ing only with microwaves and
light rays.
He leaves to your magma
ton what would happen if a
device successfully controlled
heat, ultraviolet or X-rays.
Speculates on Effect
He says his Laser Is so good
at concentrating light rays that
if he had one in a satellite
/ 900 miles high, its beam would
spread over an area, no more
than 200 feet wide on earth. "a
searchlight beam, assuming
there we're one powerful
enough, would spread over an
area of many miles,
A satellite equipped with q
Laser-like device using the
more harmful rays conceivably
would have the world at its
mercy.
Long before a Laser satellite
rises into the sky. however, the
principle will be put to work in
beams Of radiation directed
from earth toward the heavens
Concentrated light and radio
waves will give astronomers
brighter and clearer pictures OF
the moon and the planets than
have ever been obtained.
DR.. Mailman, although only
80. is senior staff physicist of
the Atomic Physics Depart
ment of the new Hughes re-
search laboratory at Mslibu,
Calf.
His Maser and Laser use a
small rod of synthetic ruby to
project radioation.
Light excites the atoms of
the ruby to a higher state of
energy.
The construction of the Mai.
man Laser confines the optical
energy in such a way that it
begins to whirl in unison, or
resonance. When allowed to es-
cape, through a pinpoint hole
in the shielding at the end of
the ruby rod, the bolstered
light bursts forth with greater
force and in parallel instead of
scattered rays.
Some materials make radia-
ton act this way, others don't.
That's one reason it has taken
so long to find the right ma
terialS for these microwave and
light-ray gums"
Amplification Of the deadlier
rays will come when the right
material for each is found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
Inaugural Parade
Timed to the Second

trict Commissioners. mounted
police and the Metropolitan
Police Department Band.
Additional divisions will con-,
sist of a unit from each of the
so States, including the Gov
ernors, a band. float and two
marching attachments.
The final division, the COM
mittee said, will have 80 civic
and veterans organizations
marching units, eight bands.
is floats and additional police
units.
1t. Col. C. S. Macveigh,
chairman of the District In
augural Planning COMMITTEE,
is in charge of construction
contracts for parade boxes,
seats and bleachers.
Col. MacVeigh said $4,000
paid seats will be provided.
There will be ample open space
for non-paying spectators along
the parade route from the
Capitol and Seventh street NV.
and up Pennsylvania avenue.
In the event they are needed,
additional bleachers with a
seating capacity of up to co.
900 will be held on a standby
basis, Col. MacVeigh stated.
Nov. 9 DeadIine
The Pre-Inaugural Commit
tee expects to complete pre-
liminary plans for visitors in
formation, the Inaugural Med
al. the official inaugural pro-
gram and police ano fire pros
lection before November 8. :
| Final decisions will not be
made until the next President
names permanent inaugural
chairman.
Tomorrow night a competi-
ton for the design of the pres
idential reviewing stand will be
held at Howard University. :
Competing will be members
of the Washington Metropolis
tan Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects. VIM
ners of first, second and third
prizes will receive 500, $50
and $25 respectively.
The theme for the design
will be world peace. The win
ming sketch will be autographed
and returned to the architect
by the next President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02

A red Chrysler Imperial rose
was declared the Queen of the
Show and winner Of The Eve
ming Star Trophy in the oath
annual rose show sponsored by
the Potomac Rose Society yes
terday at the U. S. Botanic
Gardens.
The $500 blooms which we're
entered will be on display froel
10 am. until 6 pm. today.
The winning flower was
grown by Mrs. Adrian J. Rogers
Of Baltimore. Silver trophies for
second and third best roses in
the show went to Carl Green
berg of Baltimore for a pink
Tiffany and to Harold j. Holt
of Baltimore for a white Bur-
naby.
Other awards went to the
following:
Best white, J. BENJAMIN williams;
best Crimson Glory. Harold J. Holt;
best hybrid tea with sidebuds pink
Doctor, Mrs. Albert W. Smetsna; best
tni blown hybrid .o tes pink I pO s,sT
hybrid tea (red Charlotte Armstrong;
Mrs. w. Wayne Lamar; third best full
blown hybrid tea (red RubaiyaD, Mrs.
Frank Daniel: best single rose white
Innocence. Albert J. Rissman.
Also. best fioribunda (circusl, Al
bert J. Rissman; second best noribunda
tchatteEl, e; c. schwenkj third best
Mrs, Fred A. Caudle; best grandifiora
fred Montezuma). Joseph r. McKeever;
second best grandiflora pink Queen
Elizabeth, Henry l.. Wolf: third best
grandiflora white June Bride, Henry
L. Wolf; best Queen Elizabeth, Henry
the National Rose Society OF Great
Also, three blooms of different va
rieties evenly matched, best, Joseph
MeKeever: second best, Mr.. McKeever;
third best. W, Richard Olsen: three
blooms Of one variety in different STAGES
Of opening, best (red Josephine Bruce):
Chrysler ImperiaD, Mr.. and Mrs. M. p
Arnold. third best (pink Pink Favor.
ite), Albert J. Rissman; six blooms OF
one variety evenly matched. best (reo
Chrysler Imperials). Mr.. and Mrs. Ar.
mold; second best (red Crimson Glory
Mr. MsSeey EYER; third best sd Au S
rieties, best. Mr.. and Mrs Arnold; sec.
ond best. H. F. Mease: third best
Warren Hoffman.
Also best single bloom miniature
yellow PresunidsJ, Henry L. Wolf;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-02
BY HAYNES JOHNSON
Star stan Writer

Plans for the presidential
Inauguration next January are
reaching the split-second stage.
The traditional parade on the
historic day, for instance. has
been timed-on paper, anyway
so 1t will pass a given point
In exactly 2 hours 81 minutes
and 80 seconds.
At least that's the hope of
the bipartisan Pre-Inaugural
Committee headed by w. John
Kenney and Carl L. Shipley.
In a progress report issued
yesterday, the co-chairmen an
nounced that the General Serv-
ices Administration has pro-
vided ofhcial Inaugural Com
mittee Offices on the fifth floor
of the Liberty Loan Building
Fourteenth and D streets S.W
The committee will begin
using the 1880 square-foot
area on Wednesday.
Bathrooms Reserved
Already, the chairmen said
hotel rooms are being reserved
for the inaugural period begin
ming January II and ending
the goth, the actual day of the
Inauguration.
They added that bathrooms
Of the major hotels have been
reserved for q maximum Of five
simultaneous inaugural balls
and the National Symphony
Orchestra has been asked To
hold January 10 open for the
inaugural concert at ConStitu-
ton Hall.
Other plans include stimuli
taneous nationalities' dinners
and entertainment in hote,
banquet rooms on the 18th anc
the traditional Governors re-
ceptions the next afternoon.
The inaugural parade, al
tentatively outlined by the
committee, will consist of q
presidential division to include
a military escort, the CHIEF
Justice, the cabinet and the
presidential party.
This will be followed by three
divisions made up of service
academy bands and cadet
corps, military units, the Dis