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Evening star., 1960-11-09
Somputers Lotched
Onto Kennedy EorIy

NEW YORK Nov. (AP) Except for couple of pre-
ary isces the great eectronics compuers Of network
Mission early hoped on Senator Kennedy the winner
Yesterdays presidential selection.
by abOait pm EST a three rival computers used by
setw0Fks we're forecastng Democratic victory though
Evening star., 1960-11-09

these two committees. How
ever, freshman legislators are
normally assigned to the Dis
trict Committees.
Evening star., 1960-11-09

The schedule suggests q series
Of announcements concerning
both foreign and domestic
affairs is in preparation.
Evening star., 1960-11-09

This od only provides space list fraction Of the hundreds of
wonderful deos you will display You will find the newest
most wanted styles for every your home prices that
make most realistic for have home looking its beau
tu best for the approaching holidays and throughout the
to
Kodiak mirror., 1960-12-24
ards Give Assist 10
 YuIe Decor

Christmas cards can be an important and attractive part of the Christmas decor, espe- cially for those who must close ly watch the budget when planning Yule decorations. Here are some suggestions:
 Remove books from the bookcase and stand cards in their place.
 With straight pins, attach cards to lengths of wide ribbon or felt tackled on wall or door
 Slip cards under glass of glass-topped tables.
 Place cards on an inexpen- sive wood or paper screen. Add Christmas ornaments or pine cones and frame with greenery.
 Cut a large sheet of green oilcloth or felt in the form of holly leaf or tree, tack to the wall, and paste or pin cards to 1t.
 Spray sturdy twigs with white paint and place in vase. Hang cards from the branches.
 Bend wire coat hangers in various forms and tape one to another to make hanging card mobile. Spray with a Christmas color and suspend from ceiling or light fixture.
 Use a garland Of greenery strung with cards to decorate the staircase bannister.
 Dye a clothes line a Christ mas color. Tack 1t between two walls and dangle cards from it with bright plastic clothes pins.
Kodiak mirror., 1960-12-24
Commuters Like
 Playing Santa

DUNELLEN, N. J. (AP)--A friendly wave started a Christ mas tradition five years ago for 8 trainload of commuters and 8 half-dozen roadside workers.
 Every year a few days be- fore Christmas, the Reading Railroads crack Wall Street Express" stops briefly on the outskirts. of town. A commuter dressed as Santa Claus hops out with a bagful of money and wishes a Merry Christ mas" to the men who work for a nearby type foundry.
 The practice has been going on since the commuters no- ticed the overall clad men waving at them every morn- ing. rain or shine
 "It's the happiest commut- ing day of the year for us" says James s, Morgan of Wyn- cote, Pa. oae Of the com- muters
Evening star., 1960-03-17
Two luncheons
To Be Staged

Two prelude lecture lunch
cons, preceding matinee per-
formances of the National
Symphony Orchestra, re-
main on the spring agenda.
Tickets cancelled March 3
due to weather will be hon.
ored March %, preceding the
program featuring Eugene
1stomin, who will perform
the Beethoven Emperor Con-
certo.
Mrs. Howard Mitchell will
be guest of honor at the April
7 event, when the concert
will feature pianist Glenn
Gould. Both luncheons be-
gin at II noon in the Palla-
dian Room of the Shoreham
Hotel.
Evening star., 1960-03-17
1T TAKES TWO
TO TANGO

Two children from the
Costo Ricon Embassy,
EIbo Sanchez. 8 years
old, and John Fonseco,
9, try out their dance
for the international
ChiIdren's Theoter
Festival, " to be held
March 70 OF Roosevelt
High School oudito-
rum. Children and
grandchildren of Dip
lomots and presiden-
tioI hopefuIs we're
present ot the reheor-
sol Porty yesterday
afternoon in the Sen
ote Caucus Room
Stor Stoff Photo by
Rosemary.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
Gun Booms, Dedicotes
Potomac Sewer Project

the noiseless bridge-dedication
ceremony.
The I'd Army Band from Fort
Meade played a little ragtime
music and a few martial airs,
Commissioner yelling talked
about the project, but mostly
about the guns and then in
troduced the guests.
100 Attend Ceremony
Representatives Rabaut Of
Michigan, Blatnik of Mime
sofa, and Lankford of Mary
land. all Democrats, told the
100 guests that this was IAN
historic moment" for the Dis.
trict.
Later after they had pushed
the buttons and the cannon
responded, Mr.. Rabaut told
the crowd he believed the only
reason Commissioner yelling
asked them to push the but
tons was 80 he'd have some
one to blame it on if the guns
didn't go off,"
Work on the sewer line
which will run from the Dis
trict line to the treatment
plant at Blue Plains, has been
started below two of the east
approach ramps to the Theo-
dore Roosevelt Bridge.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
McDOWELL'S PLAN t,

McDOWELL'S PLAN to
turn the Confederate'S left
by crossing the run above
the stone bridge becomes un-
derStandable.
The ranger presses an
other button and you see
where the Union forces were
stopped. 1t was on a slight
rise just outside.
1t was there that Gen. Bee
of South Carolina, who was
killed, gave a fellow officer
an unforgettable name. Bee
rallied his troops by shout
ing, Look at Jackson, he's
standing like a stone wall" "
The Park Service ranger
will press another button and
show how the Union forces
fell back on that little stone
bridge. An ammunition
wagon broke down on the
bridge, he will tell you,
blocking the retreat of the
Yankees. That caused a re-
treat to become a panic and
a rout.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
BY JOHN M. McKELWAY
Star stan Writer

1t may have been that
Thomas UStick Walter, Archi-
tect of the Capitol, thoughtful-
lily tugged the tip of his beard
and decided to have a cere-
mony.
1t is not known precisely
why. What was about to hap
pen marked neither the begin
ming nor the end. Nevertheless
ne apparently set the occasion
for November %, 1860.
The Evening Star of that
date remarked that there are
fewer members of Congress now
in Washington than we ever
before knew in the middle of a
week preceding the opening OF
a session." But Mr.. Walter
went ahead with his plan.
Thanksgiving was the next
day. If the minds of the city
were not on the approaching
observance, they were probably
too concerned with talk OF
secession to take note of the
little gathering at the Capitol
The newspapers, at least, ig-
nored it and there is no written
record of it elsewhere-only the
photograph.
Mr.. Walter possibly had the
urge to celebrate out of sheer
relief, for the first columns
from Cockeysville, Md, hac
arrived.
Perhaps, as he invited his
guests, there was the same
trace of excitement one car
Evening star., 1960-06-29

year ending June 80, 1868,
provided the necessary appro-
priations are made"
The job. which included the
replacement of the dome by
the present cast iron struc-
ture, was completed in 1866.
But at least Cockeysville had
come through, if slightly late.
So it was-proba bly-that
Mr.. Walter had arranged for
the group to see the setting of
one of the shafts. With him,
it is believed, was Jefferson
Davis, at that time the Sen
tor from Mississippi, who had
previously served, from 1858
to 1857, as Secretary of War.
He had been closely associated
with the work at the Capitol.
To settle a squable, President
Pierce had placed construc-
tion and improvements of the
Capitol under that office.
By 1865, the two men had
left the Hill permanently. JEFF
Davis interest in the extension
in the Capital was forgotten.
But two years ago Mr.. Wal
ter's views on the same subject
were remembered. Before he
retired in 1864, he had written:
Now that the new dome and
the wings of the Capitol are
approaching completion, it
must be apparent to everyone
that the extension of the Gen.
ter building, on the east, to
the line of the new wings be-
comes an architectural neces-
sity :"
Evening star., 1960-06-29
TWoinHo
Bar Action
On Canal

Two House members, Repre-
sentatives Rogers of Texas,
and Saund of California, both
Democrats, today blocked COM
mittee action on a bill to es-
tablish a Chesapeake and Ohio
National Park Historical Park.
The stripped-down measure,
passed by the Senate last week
in a last-ditch move to save the
park plan from being pigeon
holed for this year, had been
scheduled for consideration by
the House Interior Committee,
Representative Pfost. Demo-
crat of Idaho, voiced hope later
that the bill still can be pushed
through the committee before
adjournment. But Chairman
Aspinall, Democrat of Colorado
was noncommittal on the pros
poets.
The Senate-passed bill omits
authorization for Government
purchase of 10000 acres along
165 miles of the canal between
Great Falls and Cumberland
Md. as well as a 25-mile park
way at the upper end.
The Senate, in dropping the
land and road provisions from
a bill which failed to win House
approval earlier, also stipulated
that creation of the park would
not bar future congressional
action providing for flood con-
troll, power, water, drainage OF
navigation development in the
affected area.
Representative Rogers said
he felt the park plan was typi-
cal of efforts to develop prof.
ects in the Washington-area at
the expense of taxpayers else
where.
Evening star., 1960-06-29

On that same day, another
Washington newspaper, the
Intelligencer, reported the fol-
lowing:
"The question as to whether
the columns of the Capitol ex-
tension can be obtained in
monolithic shafts, of American
marble, seems to have been
definitely settled by the rapid
delivery of these shafts from
a quarry in Baltimore County
in the State of Maryland
Twenty of these columns have
already been delivered in single
pieces. Three of them are
finished. placed in the build
ing. and crowned with their
beautiful capitals. :"
Mr.. Walter and his group
apparently watched the setting
Of the fourth.
The next day, another loca,
paper, the Constitution, wrote
that 1--WE watched with some
degree of interest the hoisting
of one of the truly magnificent
columns to its pedestal on the
Extension. =" But there was
no mention of any ceremony
The Evening Star, unfortunate
ly, observed Thanksgiving by
not publishing.
AS the Intelligencer indicated
the architect, Mr.. Walter, hac
good reason to be of good mooc
over the Cockeysville shafts.
Back in 1852-Mr. Walter hac
been appointed in 1851 - the
Government had entered int
Evening star., 1960-06-29
Capitol Column Up Again as 1860 Scene Is Reenocted

hear today when j. George
Stewart. the present Architect
of the Capitol, announces that
the last column on the east
front extension will be placed
or that finally the white paint
for the dome has arrived.
Architects of the Capitol are
like that. Most Of them have
been roundly criticized along
with the way they have wanted
to change the 160-year-old
building. To succeed despite
so many suggeStions-so many
bosses-has made it difficult to
hide a sense of accomplish
ment.
Some time on the 28th, then
Mr.. Walter and his guests are
thought to have assembled or
a ledge outside the connecting
corridor between the old cham
ber Of the House of Representa-
tives and the present House
chamber which, though occu-
pied, was still under construc-
tion.
They Ntched the placement
of a 17-tl column of marble
fluted and If the Corinthian
order, cut from the Cockeys-
vile quarry.
The group paused while the
picture was taken, looking, as
was the custom, directly at the
camera. Later. the photo
graph was deposited in the
files of the architects Office
Its date was jotted down and
that was that. Even the
photographer failed to let il
be known who took the picture
Evening star., 1960-06-29
Waterfront
Speed Urged
By RLAAide

George F. Riseling, general
counsel of the Redevelopment
Land Agency. today urged a
House District subcommittee
to report out the Senate-passed
version of the bill to redevelop
the Washington waterfront.
The bill would clear the way
for the rebuilding of the water
front by transferring title OF
the land between Fourteenth
street S.W. and Fort McNaiI
to the RIA.
Several members of the
House District Subcommittee
headed by Representative
Dowdy, Democrat of Texas
expressed concern over finding
new quarters for displaced
waterfront businessmen.
Mr.. Riseling said existing
! laws assured that these busi-
nessmen would get priority.
Other pleas for speedy House
action on the waterfront bill
came from Watson B. Rulon,
jr., an owner of Hogate's
Restaurant on the waterfront,
and Yates Cook, executive di-
rector of the Federal City
Council.
Mr.. Rulon hopes to relocate
his restaurant on the rede-
veloped waterfront. But he
said unless the bill clears Con-
gress this year, his restaurant
will be bulldozed away by high
way construction long before
he can open on the new site.
Thomas l.. Miller, owner of a
tug and salvage firm at 400
Maine avenue S.W., said little
men aren't going to have a
chance" under the waterfront
development envisioned by RIA.
Evening star., 1960-06-29

a contract with some Philadel-
phia businessmen for furnish.
ing the marble to be used ii
the House and Senate wings
The marble was to be cut from
the Lee Quarry in, surprisingly
Massachusetts,. Included in the
order, was the item for 10C
columns.
But by 1857, it was apparent
that the quarry was running
out of marble-at least of the
type that could be used fol
columns. At one point, it was
almost decided to order the
marble from Italy although il
would have delayed the entire
expansion project from four to
five years.
But by 1859, after an inspec-
ton of a number of quarries
in the United States, the
Cockeysville marble was located
and the 100 columns were Or
dered.
BY November 6, 1860, Capt
w. B. Franklin, a Typographical
engineer in the War Depart
ment, working with Mr.. Walter
on the extension, was able tc
report that:
"The whole number o.
columns GO0) should be de.
livered during this fiscal veal
and the next, or the compile.
ton of the work will be delayed
If the whole number be de.
livered in this time, there is
I think, no doubt that the
Capitol extension will be com
pleted by the end of the fisca
Evening star., 1960-06-29

The Senate, on August IA,
1858, almost 100 years later,
agreed-by voting d'wn a bill
which would have required
further study" of M :. Walters
suggestion. Work on the 80 "a
foot extension of the east front
proceeded shortly afterward.
Today, another simple cere-
mony was held at the same
spot on the ledge between the
main building and the House
The same Cockeysville column
was lifted to its pedestal.
1t had been taken down,
with seven others, in 1858, and
carefully stored until today
when it was returned to mark
the last setting of all the 80
marble columns on the ex-
tended east front. 1t was not
supplanted as were the "a col
umns of sandstone which had
stood in the central portico
since the early 1820s. These
have been replaced by columns
of Georgia white marble.
Today, another architect of
the Capitol, Mr.. Stewart, saw
the CockeySville shaft, huted
and of the Corinthian order,
in place.
He invited a few friends to
witness the setting. They in
cluded Vice President Nixon,
Speaker of the House Rayburn
and the former Speaker of the
House, Representative Joseph
Martin.
There were no speeches.
Photographs were taken.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
The
Rambler
-. Suggests Tours
To the ButtIefieIds
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Now that the centenary of
the Civil War is approaching
(Fort Sumter was fired upon
April IL, 1861, it might be
well for the Washingtonian
who has an automobile at
his command - and who
doesn't?-to visit the battle
fields.
This area was backwoods
during the Revolution. Ours
is a new city along the East
Coast. 1t had its start at the
beginning of the 10th CEN
tury.
One of the engagements of
the War of 1912 was fought
at BladenSburg. But it was
all SO humiliating-the burn
ings of the Capitol and the
Executive Mansion, the fight
of the PreSident-that it
does not call for memorial
days.
When it comes to the Civil
War, all was not quiet on the
Potomac.
You can drive here and
there and see the terrain and
have some idea of what
happened almost 100 years
ago.
Gettysburg is less than a
three-hour drive. There you
can see how the Confed-
crates swept across the
Eisenhower farm-the name
OF the owner in 1868 escapes
me-and got into trouble at
the slopes to the east, Little
Round Top, Cemetery Ridge
and the peach orchard.
Antietam Creek is nearer.
There the bloodiest engage
ment of the war was fought
on September II, 1862.
Directly south of Washing
ton is Fredericksburg, less
than so miles way, where the
rise above the village on the
west bank of the Rappahan-
mock and the sunken road
and the stone wall tell all too
well why Burnside'S men
were unable to achieve their
objective.
And near Fredericksburg is
Ch hancellorsv lille, where
Thomas Jonathan Stone
wall" Jackson was killed by
his own men, and the battle
ground called the Wilderness
and Spotsylvania Court
House, famous for its Bloody
Angle" in which Sedgwick
fell.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
BY BERNARD LETTER
Star Stan Writer

Three Congressman pressed
buttons, 3-inch saluting can
non roared five times and Brig.
Gen. A. c. yelling beamed
triumphantly.
The $75 million Potomac
River sewer construction prof.
ect was officially dedicated
and with a bang just the way
Engineer Commissioner yelling
had planned.
That roaring cannon today
had special significance to
Commissioner yelling. The
last time he tried a boom
dedication the cannon didn't
cooperate. That was at the
dedication in May of the Theo-
dose Roosevelt Bridge across
the Potomac River. The can
mons firing pin was broken.
Two Guns Available
Commissioner yelling wasn't
taking any chances today.
There were two saluting can
non on hand (only one was
needed, however) from the Sd
Infantry at Fort Myer, and the
Commissioner personally in
spected them before the cere-
mony.
He was further treasured by
1t. Robert QuackenbuSh, COM
mander of the saluting battery,
that both guns would function.
The lieutenant also reminded
the Commissioner that it
wasn't his outfit that had failed
the last time.
Today's ceremony was near
the intersection of Constitution
avenue and Rock Creek park
way. not far from the site of
Evening star., 1960-06-29
CAMP FUND
FACTS

How to send a kid Co
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail to The Evening
Star. Second street and
Virginia avenue Sc, or
bring cash to The Star
cashier. A receptionist in
the lobby will direct you to
the cashiers office.
The cost-$39.30 for IL
days, $19.95 for six days.
All funds received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund
will go to Family and Child SerV-
ice of Washington, a United Civ
ers Fund agency. for the use Of
its Summer OUTINGS Committee.
Family and Child Services is reg
istered under the District of CO.
lumbia Charitable Solicitations
Act No. 6-07-l5l.
Evening star., 1960-06-29

BUT NEAREST OF ALL is
Bull Run, Is miles west of the
Potomac.
There two battles were
fought, in July, 1861, and
August, 1862, and the Con-
federates won both.
You need only drive out
Route 211, a bit beyond Gen.
treville in Fairfax County,
and view the wide plain that
lies below to realize that the
Bull Run Valley was bound to
be a battle-ground.
The run itself seems incon-
Sequential. In the Middle
West it would be called a
creek or a brook. But any
military man will realize it's
value as a line of defense
in the Civil War.
AS you cross it on 211,
which is a modern dual high
way most of the distance to
Warrenton, you will see the
reconstructed stone bridge
to your right.
After you cross the run,
you turn to the left into the
battlefield park maintained
by the National Park Serv-
ice. There, in a recently
constructed stone building, a
park ranger will show you
the progress of the battle by
pushing buttons on an elec-
trio map.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
SEND A KID TO CAMP
First Vacation
For Gallant Girl

Dolores came to the neigh
bor's phone when the worker
called her mother about camp.
"They told me I could 60 this
year." she exclaimed. "I've
been waiting to hear from
you
Eleven-year-old Dolores is
her mothers contact with the
world. For her mother, who is
Puerto Rican, can neither read
nor write.
Since her husbands disap-
pearance, she has leaned more
and more on her daughter.
Dolores accompanied her
brother to an interview with
a camp worker to act as inter-
prefer.
She happily translated the
workers assurance that camp
would be free.
Although she will find it
hard to get along without Do
lores' help with the younger
children, her mother wants Do
loreS to go to camp.
Since she heard she's going,
she's been even a g0Oder girl at
home" Dolores, mother said.
Life in a cramped basement
apartment is not most peoples
idea of childhood, but Dolores
makes the most of it and of
every good thing that comes
her way.
Your gift to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund will help
give a gallant little girl her
first vacation.
The following contributions have
pO.i a Z
Evening star., 1960-06-29
Navy Bond to PIoy

The suite from George Bizet's
opera Carmen" and Tchai-
kowski's "Capriccio Italien" will
be among the works performed
by the United States Navy Band
at the Watergate at $3.50 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1960-06-29
ROTC Pilot Costs

The Air Force and Army
could continue to pay costs
of training college seniors as
cadet pilots for the next four
years under a bill passed by
the Senate yesterday and sent
to the President. The college
and university pilots are mem
bers of the Reserve Officer
Training Corps who qualify for
flight training in their senior
year.
Evening star., 1960-06-29

The following contributions have
been -ece'ved
Previously acknowledged 81 40! IS