davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1960-12-26
Survey Finds Smokers
Receive Lower Grades

and cigars exclusively were not
included In the survey because
Of their small number.
DR.. Pumroy's survey was part
of a study to determine the
psychological factors causing
students to conform or not con-
form to accepted patterns Of
society. The psychologist also
reported that the incidence Of
students who drop out Of COL
lege is higher among smokers
than nonsmokers. He added
that about 10 other similar
surveys made since 1909 have
yielded similar results.
DR.. Pumroy commented on
his findings this way: There
are many rules that are laid
down by the adult society and
with which adults say they
and others should conform.
Certainly one rule has to do
with smoking.
"The rule is that children
should not smoke until they
reach particular age. This is
the law in many States. Thus
If a child wants to appear
grown up or to rebel against
the adult culture, then the way
to do it is to smoke.
Society also says that you
should study. To be negative to
society, smoke and don't study"
Evening star., 1960-12-26
By the Associated Press

A University Of Maryland
psychologist reports that Gig
arette-smoking students do not
do as we'll academically on the
average as nonsmokers.
A survey conducted by DR..
Donald K. Pumroy, assistant
professor Of psychology, indi-
Gated that the more a student
smokes the lower his grades are
likely to be. DR.. Pumroy said
the report did not imply that
smoking dulls the mind or en-
thusiasm for study. The psy-
chologist theorized that the
reasons students smoke may be
related to the reasons they
avoid studying.
In DR.. Pumroy'S sample of
204 freshman boys, selected for
the test att random, 119 nom
smokers had an average grade
OF 1893. Under the University Of
Maryland grading system, a
grade OF 200 is equivalent to c.
Those students who smoked a
half pack of cigarettes a day
had an average grade of 1872,
those who smoked from one
half pack to a full pack had q
grade Of l.61. while those who
smoked more than a pack a
day dropped to an average Of
1873.
Students who smoked pipes
Evening star., 1960-12-26
Church Damaged
In $4,000 Fire

Fire last night did an esti-
mated $4,000 damage at the
Morning Star Baptist Church
at 932 Twenty-sixth street NV.
Police said the fire, Of un-
Determined origin, was in the
rear Of the church. which re-
Gently had been renovated.
Firemen reported extensive
water and smoke damage. DisA
trict sand trucks were brought
to the church to handle the
freezing overflow of water.
Firemen also responded to
the Little Sisters of the Poor
Home for the Aged, 220 H
street NE. for a broken water
main. Officials said firemen
pumped more than 5000 gall
Ions from the homes basement.
Police said the break in the s.
inch main caused a brief elec-
trical failure.
In another call yesterday,
firemen found a 37-year-old
man suffering from second and
third-degree burns to the chest
after he apparently had fallen
across a gas stove burner in
his apartment at 1925 Hol-
mead place NE. The victim,
identified as Osborn Connor,
is listed in serious condition at
Washington Hospital Center.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
TAX COLLECTOR
SOON. TO FOLLOW
SANTA CLAUS .

RICHMOND (AP). &C.
w. Glotzbach said Merry
Christmas" to Virginians
yesterday in his own special
way.
Now that the Christmas
card flood is over, you'll
soon be getting something
else in the mail, Mr.. Glotz-
bach announced.
Federal income tax forms
for 1860 will go out to tax
paying Virginians soon.
Mr.. Glotzbach, district
Director Of Internal Reve-
nue., says If you're one of
those people who can't wait
for the mailman to deliver
your tax form. you can pick
one up from his Office.
Evening star., 1960-12-26

associate editor of the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, and DR..
Margaret w. Mangel, director
of the School of Home Eco
nomicS of Missouri University.
Prizes OF $1,000. $500 and
$3.50 went to first, second and
third place winners in the
category Of better women's-in-
tereSt pages. The winners and
their newspapers are:
CLASS l $4,000 circulation
or below - First: Middletowa
IN. " Daily Record. Second:
Raleigh IN. c. Times. Third:
Pompano Beach (Fla.) Sum
Sentinel.
CLASS II (25,OOO to 100000
- First: Charlotte IN. c.
News. Second: Fort Lauderdale
(Fla.) News. Third: Gary
Ind.D Post Tribune.
CLASS III 100000 and up)
First: Miami (FlaD Herald.
Second: Detroit (Mich.) Free
Press. Third: Arizona Republic,
Phoenix.
Evening star., 1960-12-26

but it will take a lot Of plants
to absorb $500 workers.
"A big problem is the achieve
ment Of greater productivity
with fewer people," said the
articulate D.E.S. director. "The
freight yards are handling more
cars than ever, but it's being
done with fewer people. There
has to be some adjustment
factor introduced into this
problem. Maybe a reduction in
the S-hour day is the answer" ."
Program Offered
We're in bad shape" said
]. E. Mullenax, president OF the
Western Maryland Labor Coun-
Gil. His group has proposed a
program which includes:
Extension Of the interstate
highway system through the
area. Interstate 70S cuts north
ward at Hancock in Washing
ton County. leaving the western
tip Of the State without an in
terstate route. Route 40 Is be-
ing improved to Cumberland,
but won't meet the interstate
standards.
Construction Of three dams
by the Federal Government on
the Potomac to control flooding
and provide a water supply for
industry. The projects also
would provide construction jobs.
Establishment of a research
agency by the Federal Govern
ment to develop new uses for
coal.
Import Quotas Asked
Establishment Of import
quotas 10 protect United States
firms against low-cost foreign
goods.
Construction Of adequate
schools. hospitals, housing and
other public facilities. Included
in the latter would be facilities
to reduce pollution OF the Po-
tomac River.
Charles Driner. manager of
the Department of Employment
Security office in Oakland, said
development Of recreational IA
cilities and better roads to get
to them Is one Of Garrett Coun-
tvs major hopes. Deep Greek
Lake, built by the Pennsylvania
Electric Co., gave the county q
big boost in this direction.
Tomorrow: Unemployment in
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
Fashion Writing Award
Given to Stars E|eni

Eleni, fashion editor of The
Star, today was awarded first
prize for fashion writing in the
new j. c. Penney-University Of
Missouri Journalism Award S
competition.
The award earns her a 81 500
all-expense trip to Paris for
one week.
Eleni - the wife Of Sidney
Epstein, city editor of The Star
and winners in other cate
gories will be honored at an
assembly and banquet in Feb
ruary in Columbia, Mo.
Dr.. Earl English, dean of the
University of Missouri School
of Journalism. said the awards
were established last summer
through a yearly grant from
the j. c. Penney Co. to the uni
versity. They honor James C..
Penney, founder of the depart
ment store chain and are in
tended to encourage higher
quality fashion reporting and
stimulate improvem ement of
Women's pages in newspapers.
Today's prizes were the first
to be awarded. The competi-
ton will be conducted annual
ly, Dean English said.
Eleni, a native of Washing
ton, has been fashion editor of
The Star for IA years. She is
a graduate of Eastern High
School, and attended George
Washington University and
summer sessions at Columbia
University.
She is a member of the
Women's National Press Club,
the American Newspaper Wom-
ems Club, the Washington
Fashion Group and the Ad-
vertising Club Of Washington.
Judges were Inez Robb, United
Feature Syndicate column
ist; Dorothy Roe, New York
news columnist; Margot Sher-
man of Accommodation, Inc,
If New York; j. B. Mullaney,
Evening star., 1960-12-26
$4,000 Loss Set
In Arlington Fire

A two-alarm fire at an office
building Of an Arlington build
ing firm caused an estimated
$25, 900 damage today, firemen
reported.
Fire Chief Joseph Clements
said the blaze. at John Nc
Shain. Inc, 1901 North Arling-
ton Ridge road, was discovered
by a police officer in the area.
Five fire companies were sent
to the scene and battled to keep
the fire from spreading to a
nearby lumber yard and other
buildings.
The fire was confined to the
cinder block Office building
within the firms property yard
Chief Clements said. Cause has
not yet been determined.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
PAGEANT PROGRAM


ANC o'tHUut A0SCuHL W
lists these euents:
TODAY
2-3 p.m.-The Air Force Kiltie
Band. Highland Sword Dance
$3.50 p.m.-Puppet Show.
1904 p.m.-Mount Vernon
Guard Fife and Drum Corps,
Christmas at Mount Ver-
non."
4-4:30 p.m.-Puppet Show.
4:30-5 p.m.-Caroling Around
The Yule Log. Friendship
House.
5-6 p.m.-Children's Choir Fes-
tival. Combined Choirs from
Alexandria.
6:30-7 p.m.-Children's Choir
of National City Christian
Church.
7-7:30 p.m.-Marguerite Brice,
Organist. Walter Reed Me-
mortal Chapel.
1903 p.m.-Choral Singing.
$3.50 p.m.-Nativity Play,
darlington n Presbyterian
Church, Alexandria.
$3.50 pm. - Pageant Festival,
Lisner Auditorium.
8 p.m.-Prayer For Peace.
Evening star., 1960-12-26

Program Book
On Sale Soon

The 1861 Oficial Inaugural
Program Book, containing ar
ticles by distinguished writer's
and public officials, goes on
sale early next month.
Among those whose articles
will appear are Robert Frost,
Carl Sandburg. James Niche
ner, Arthur Schlesinger, jr.,
James McGregor Burns, Will
liam S. White and Walter Pres
colt Webb.
Mary McGrory of The Star
has written an article entitled
Campaign Footnotes."
Other contributors include
Charles Bartlett, Mary Van
Rensselaer, Thayer, Elizabeth
Carpenter and Mona Brown.
House Speaker Rayburn and
Edward H. Foley, Inaugural
Committee chairman, also have
written for the 64-page. maga-
zine-Size program.
The program will have q
four-color cover featuring the
50-star flag and the American
eagle. It will sell for SIPS
postpaid and can be ordered
from the Inaugural Program
Committee, Liberty Loan Build
ing. Fourteenth and D streets
S.W.. Washington Is, D. c.
Checks should be made payable
to the Inaugural Program Com
mittee.
Mr.. Foley pointed out that
the program contains no ad-
vertising and money obtained
will go toward defraying in
augural expenses. ANY surplus
will be donated to charity.
After Inauguration Day, a
de luxe edition Of the program,
costing $4.25, will be published.
President elect Kennedy's
own writing will be represented
in quotes from his books and
in an article on the Presidency
based on a speech he made
before the National Press Club.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
Baby Found Dead
In Depot Locker

A baby girl was found dead
early yesterday morning in
a baggage locker at Union
Station.
Police said the girl, about 2
months old. was dressed in a
yellow nightgown and cap and
wrapped in a yellow blanket.
She was colored and possibly
had been in the locker about
three days. police said.
The body was found by a
locker checker about 6 am.
Evening star., 1960-12-26

TOMORROW
2-3 p.m.-United States Navy
Band with The Sea Chanters.
$3.50 p.m.-Glee Club Of the
National Training School for
Boys.
1904 p.m.-Puppet Show.
4-4:30 p.m.-Chapel Choir Of
the Talbot avenue Baptist
Church, Norfolk. Va.
1905 p.m.-Caroling Around
the Yule Log. Chapel Choir
of Norfolk, Va.
5-6 pm. - Madrigal Singers
from the Clarendon Metho-
dist Church, Arlington, Va.
CT p.m.-Women's Chorus of
the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co.
7-7:30 pm. The Wesleyan
Choir of Asbury Methodist
Church.
1903 p.m.-Brookland Bap-
tist Church Choir.
$3.50 pm. Nativity Play.
Fairlington Presbyterian
Church, Alexandria, Va.
p.m.-Prayer for Peace.
Evening star., 1960-12-26

Second OF o Series
pressed western finger Of
Maryland.
It's Christmas season, but the
thousand who lost jobs here
the last two months found II
hard to work up q Yuletide
spirit.
Allegany County and its
county seat Of Cumberland have
$500 out Of work, the local Of
fice Of the Department of EN-
ployment Security estimates.
Isolated Garrett County to the
west has about 1000 jobless.
The total represents about IA
per cent Of the labor force OF
the two counties.
This mountainous tip Of the
State has had severe unem-
ployment for several years, but
the residents still find it hard
to get used to. Community lead
ers are pinning their hopes on
the Federal Government, the
State and their own bootstrapS
to pull their area out Of its de-
pressed condition.
Allegany and Garrett Coun-
ties are part Of the economi-
cally depressed Appalachian re-
gion-the region about which
President-elect Kennedy has
pledged to do something. Ironi-
caIly. the two counties are the
staunchest Republican strong
holds in Maryland.
Three Main Factors
Western Maryland's economic
plight is not as bad as it is in
some areas Of neighboring West
Virginia. But IA per cent un-
employment Is 8 per cent higher
than what Is generally consid-
cred serious. And here 1t has
become q chronic condition.
Three main factors led to
Allegany's and CARROTS eco
nomic decline.
Eleven years ago the areas
big textile plant. Celanese
Corp. Of America, cut its 10000
workers to 5000. Many of its
operations were moved else
where. In the past two months
the flrn has dropped about 500
more workers.
Technological changes in rail-
reading have cut the work force
Of what has been a major in
Evening star., 1960-12-26

car is stopped it is seized by
the agents.
"In the South, moonshiners
try to OUTRAGE us in fast cars
or trucks" one agent said.
Here, they try to slip it in
with old cars, usually with q
woman in the front seat"
MOOnshine Prices
The moonshine Is sold in
cases Of IL half-gallon fruit
jars, and it costs about $50
to buy a case here. On the
retail level, a half-gallon jar
of moonshine costs S. and q
shot costs between Is and IS
cents, depending on whether II
is sold during or after hours.
Agents also point out that
the whisky is often "cut" with
water, reducing the proof from
about 80 to go.
Not only does the customer
drink garbage" one agent said,
"but he's often gypped."
Traditionally, the most active
section Of Washington for the
moonshine trade was South
west, agents said. But since
most of the area has been torn
down, the trade has moved to
the second and thirteenth
precinct areas.
Capt. Scott Meyer Of the
Metropolitan Police gambling
and liquor squad. said most OF
his squads seizure Of moon
shine has been in small
amounts recently, indicating
that there is no big operator
but rather several small in
dependent sellers.
He said he has not noted q
significant increase. but he
said there's no doubt the
'stuff's being sold here"
Most of the moonshine ir
the District. he said, is sold By
people who also sell taxec
whiSkey without a.. license
Sometimes when we raid q
place we find that a mans sold
five or six bottles along with
q case or two of taxed liquor.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
YULE SPIRIT WAIVERS
5000 in Western Maryland
Seek Work as Industry Slips

dustry in the Cumberland area
for many years. Railroad lay
offs accounted for most Of the
other 500 jobs lost in the past
two months.
Mechanization Of mining and
the lessening demands for coal
have cut the work force in that
industry to almost the vanish
ing point in the two counties.
The decline Of the coal indus
try has affected timbering in
Garrett County. Much Of the
timber cut there was for posts
used for supports In mines.
Standing beside a fallen
down "tipple" which handled
thousands Of tons Of coal years
ago. retired miner John A. De-
laney recalled that Eckhart
Mines, Md, q town Of about
1000 once was almost entirely
q coal community. Now there
are 20 on'the local union rolls,
about 20 Of them working. 80
retired and 20 on welfare or hv-
ing with relatives.
Young Men Leave
The young men from the
coal mining areas 60 to Cum
berland or elsewhere to try to
find jobs in other industries.
Many Of the older miners, II
they are not eligible for United
Mine Worker pensions, go on
relief.
Miss Eudora Jochum, who
has worked for the UNIV dis
trict office for Is years. said
there were about 5000 union
coal miners in 1885 in the five-
county district of Maryland
and West Virginia. Now there
are fewer than 500, she said.
Although much Of the two
counties is isolated and noun
famous, Francis Kenney, di-
rector Of the Department of
Employment Security Office in
Cumberland. said the depressed
economic condition sis attribu-
table more to national condi-
tions than local"
Textiles, railroading and
coal mining areas everywhere
are generally on the decline,
and we have all three here, !"
Mr.. Kenney said.
A bright spot is the $50 mil
lion expansion Of the West Vir-
ginia Pulp g. Paper Co. at Luke,
Md. The Allegany Ballistics
Laboratory, operated in nearby
West Virginia by the Hercules
Powder Co. for the Navy, also
is expanding.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
gave the economy a boost a
few years ago by locating a
plant in the Cumberland area,
Evening star., 1960-12-26

manufacturers OF the lllega
brew have moved their stills
farther north to be nearer re-
cent migrants from the South,
What bothers the agents is
not only the loss of tax revenue
but the fact that much of the
moonshine apparently has large
quantities Of lead salts in it
Medical authorities report that
excessive amounts of these
salts can bring death or perma-
nent paralysis.
In recent months, agents say
they have been making on the
average Of one raid every 1C
days on Washington NIP
joints, places which are sci
up clandestinely to sell moon:
shine by the shot or in pint OF
half-pint quantities.
IRIS agents agree that catch
ing a retail seller of moonshine
is a difficult maneuver, so they
concentrate on arresting the
manufacturers. Usually these
are makeshift operations en-
ploying such apparatus as an
old automobile radiator to dis
till the whisky" from fer
mented corn mash.
1t is when something like q
radiator is used, the agents
say, that the lead salts get into
the moonshine. Lead is used
as a solder material in the ra-
diator and seeps into the al
cohol.
Lead Danger Cited .
DR.. A. J. Lehman, director
Of pharmacology for the Food
and Drug Administration, has
stated that ingestion of lead
salts in excessive quantities
causes accumulation of lead in
the body tissues which may
over a period of times result ir
death. paralysis, or blindness.
A recent check by the IRIS
Atlanta Regional Alcohol anC
Tobacco Tax Laboratory anc
the United States Army Lab
oratory at Fort Mcpherson
revealed that 80 per cent OF
samples tested had lead salts
in excess of the amount con-
sidered dangerous.
John D. Lathem, chief OF
the IRIS enforcement branch,
said he believes many deaths
previously attributed to alco-
holism or exposure. may, in
fact, have been caused by lead
poisoning.
Agents familiar with the
Washington area, state that
several stills have been raided
recently in Southern Maryland
Charles and st. Mary's
Counties-and Virginia. These
are generally small operations,
manufacturing about S gallons
a day, they say.
The moonshine is then
transported by car to WASH
ingtoh, where it is sold to
distributors who pass it on to
the public.
Agents say the deliverers of
the moonshine usually drive it
in old jalopieS, since If their
Evening star., 1960-12-26
DC. C.Poisonings Feared
AS Moonshine Flows
Leod Salts Found in IIIegoI Whisky
Mode in Old Automobile Radiators
BY BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Star StaR Writer

Increased quantities Of moonshine lquor-much Of it be-
lived poisonousare being shipped into the Washington
Internal Revenue Service investigations report.
Tradtonaly, moonshine-a rough corn whisky manufac-
ured without tax stamp-has been found almost entirely
the Southeast part of the United States but agents
Evening star., 1960-12-26
By PAUL HOPE
Star Stan Writer

CUMBERLAND. Md, Dec.
26.-The pavements. of this
Queen City Of the Alleghe-
nies" and the ridges of Garrett
County are bitter cold when
you're looking for a job in
December.
And there are few jobs to be
found in the economically de-
Evening star., 1960-12-26
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Business
Writing Association opens
a four-day convention at
the Mayf1ower.
This information is supplied by
the Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau OF the Metropolitan Washing
ton Board OF Trade.
Evening star., 1960-12-26

Second Of o Series
Evening star., 1960-08-26
Eye Surgeon
Losing Sight,
But IsUnfazed

LONDON. Aug. Is (AP).-
Sir Henry Holland, one of the
worlds great eye surgeons, is
going. blind. At IS, it doesn't
distress him.
He leaves today for the Phil
ippines to collect half of a $lO,-
600 Magsaysay Award Tor his
work as a missionary, surgeon
and teacher. Dr.. Ronald Hol-
land, his son, receives the other
half.
They worked together for
years in Asia.
The Magsaysay Award is paid
Evening star., 1960-08-26

President Ramon Magsaysay
who was killed in plane crash
| in 1857.
Sir Henry's researches saved
the sight-his admirers say
of 100000 people. But cataract
trouble is dimming his own.
Yes, I'm losing my sight, "
he admitted with a grin. And
my hearing. And I've got arthri-
tbs in both knees.
1--WE had such a wonderful
life there's nothing to be
gloomy about. I've been the
means of helping-oh, I can't
count how many people. That's
good to look back on"
Son Of a clergyman and win-
ner of a dozen medical awards,
Sir Henry could have settled
into the comfortable life of a
London specialist.
Instead he chose to live with
tribesmen in the northwest
frontier Of what is now PAX
istan. with prayer and disin-
fectant," Sir Henry performed
hundreds of operations.
Evening star., 1960-08-26
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Evening star., 1960-08-26

NEW YORk.-The three
American authors whose works
now are on the desks of the
Nobel Prize award committee
in Stockholm are Thornton
Wilder. Tennessee williams and
Catherine Drinker Bowen. e.
Nathan Leopold, of the Leopold
and Loeb case-who's never
been on a witness stand in his
life-will have to appear for
examination before trial, in his
suit over "Compulsion."
Busby Berkeley's new Broad
way musical. Then to One"
will try a blend of Aim and
theater techniques. It's about
a heavyweight champ who
wants to be ballet dancer. e.
Jean-Louis Barrault and Made
leine Renaud will star in a stage
version of Barrault's best known
movie, "EnfantS du Paradis."
:. Jean Seberg's wedding to
Roman Gary, the diplomat
novelist. must await completion
of her movie deal with her cur
rent Observation-Disclosures.
After Carroll Baker finishes
Something Wild" she'll do a
novel film for MGM: She'll play
an American girl who falls in
love with a Japanese attache
in Washington. Her co-star
will be a real japanese actor, a
sort of Mr.. Butterfly" =.
Pablo Casals, 81, says he no
longer will conduct any orches-
tras. He'll just play his
cello. Barney Balaban, head
of Paramount. will test their
pay-TV project in Queens, the
way he did in Canada.
NOT HAMLET" Jackie
Gleason has persuaded CBS-TV
to let him do Hamlet" as a
spectacular next year. The last
time he tried Hamlet" was in
Boston saloon at 4 am. in
response to a challenge by a
critic. Gleason climbed atop a
table and reeited for two hours,
from memory, to the stunned
patrons of the barroom. Gleason
now remembers the incident
only vaguely.
Although DR.. Leo Szilard is
q patient at Memorial Hospital,
he phoned Simon & Schuster
and arranged to write a book
for them about the scientific
accomplishments of the atomic
age. -. Senator Estes Kefauver,
Democrat of Tennessee. will
start investigating monopoly
practices by show business tai
ent agencies.
Martin MunkasCi, the pho