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Evening star., 1960-03-09

understand why he was over
looked in the Oscar nomina-
tions for DIARY Of Anne
Frank" Joe played the part
for years on stage before the
movie was made. I'm sure
Shelley Winters will win for
her supporting role In this pic
ture. But Shelley supporting
Millie Perkins-that's q laugh!
Evening star., 1960-03-09

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Evening star., 1960-01-26
Home Rule
Group Seeks
House Vote

Forty-two home rule sup
porters lunched today at the
Capitol in an effort to alert
Representatives to the need for
new signatures on a petition
to win a House vote on an
elected form of District gov
ernment.
Seven Representatives Of
both parties attended the
luncheon in the Speakers
dining room. Community lead
ers representing the Parent
Teacher Association, the Junior
Chamber Of Commerce. the
Americans for Democratic Ac-
ton, the District League Of
Women Voters and the National
Council of Jewish Women
came to the luncheon.
Gerhard P. Van Arkel, chair
man Of the Board of Directors
of the Washington Home Rule
Committee, saluted representa-
tives who have spearheaded the
home rule drive for their "un-
selfish efforts in project that
cannot benefit them in their
home districts.
Between las and $50 mem
bers of the House have signed
a discharge petition to pry the
self government legislation
from the House District Com
mittee. A total Of 2l9 sigma
lures is needed.
Evening star., 1960-01-26
Graves Says Colleges Steri|ize Poets

Robert Graves, 64-year-old
English poet-novelist, today
said colleges have sterilized
American poets.
Contemporary poetry taught
in colleges and schools is
analyzed, digested and tabu-
lated" he said. The result is
that your young poets develop
superb technique. But they
have nothing to say. They are
Synthesizing poets of the past.
THE colleges have killed
poetry as free exercise with
these courses. They have taken
the imagination out of poetry.
That is wrong. Poetry is q.
not a Synthesis of techniques,"
he said.
Mr.. Graves came to the
United States to talk with his
old friend, Robert Frost, and
accept the Gold Medal of the
Poetry Society Of America. He
received the medal in New York
last Thursday. He also will
lecture in various cities between
now and February /, when he
departs for London.
He will speak on THE Virgil
Cult" at 8:45 pm. tomorrow in
the Interior Department au-
ditorium under the auspices of
the Institute Of Contemporary
Arts.
Evening star., 1960-01-26
Brentwood Man
Air Crash Victim
In California

A Brentwood CMdO man re-
turning home from Korea was
one of three persons killed in
a plane crash last night at
Berkeley, Calf.
He was Salvatore H. Mes
sina of 4l03 Forty first street,
Brentwood, a civilian employe
of the Army Engineer Corps,
who had just finished a tour
of service in Korea and was
coming back for reassignment.
Also killed were the pilot of
the small plane, Charles E.
Edinger, A, of Danville, Calf :,
and a l2-year-old girl, Bertha
M. Marenich of Wichita, Kans.
Two other passengers were
injured. They were the girls
mother, Mrs. Connie Marenich.
and Mrs. Cora Glandon, 35, of
Columbus, Ohio.
According to the Associated
Press. the twin-engine Piper
Apache was ferrying passengers
from Travis Air Force Base to
San Francisco when it crashed
in a grove of trees on a rain
swept hill overlooking Berkeley.
Travis is so miles from San
Francisco International Airport.
Berkeley is just across the bay
from San Francisco.
The passengers had left
Tokyo yesterday morning for
the United States on a Military
Air Transport Service plane.
The one which crashed was
owned by the Travis Air
Service.
Evening star., 1960-01-26
Dutch Discount
Racial Factor in
Embossy's Move

Netherland Ambassador J. H.
van Roijen today said his gov
ernment is looking for new en-
bassy quarters in Washington
because "the present building
is falling around our ears" not
because the neighborhood of
the present Dutch Embassy at
l470 Euclid street NV. is pre-
dominantly Negro.
His statement followed one
earlier today in The Hague by
Foreign Minister Joseph Luns
in answer to questions raised in
Parliament. Members of Par
lament indicated they thought
the government wanted to
move it's embassy in Wash
ington because of the influx of
Negro residents.
The fact that the majority
of the inhabitants is formed by
American citizens of a race
other than earlier inhabitants. "
Mr.. LunS said, sis. of course,
no reason to prefer another
part Of the city"
The Ambassador said the EN-
baSsy here was completed in
1926 as both a residence and
Offices. He said the conversion
of the building to Offices ex-
clusively had not worked out
very satisfactorily"
Evening star., 1960-01-26
Traffic Kills
Man, Child;
Toll Now 10

District traffic fatalities
climbed to 10 last night with
the deaths of a 65-year-old
man, who was injured Friday.
and a 7-year-old boy, who was
struck by a car in the 800 block
of Upshur street NV, yester.
day afternoon. police reported.
The man. Merrill G. Mays of
1924 Park road NV, was
struck at Fourteenth street and
Park road by a streetcar
operated by Franklin R. Johns.
"a, of 2800 Shipley terrace Sc,
police said. Mr.. Johns was
not charged. 1t was ruled an
accident by Coroner A. Ma
eruder Macdonald.
Mr.. Mays was pronounced
deaf at 7 pm. yesterday at
Casualty Hospital of multiple
head and face cuts and a
broken left leg.
The boy, Michael Young, Of
40l5 New Hampshire avenue
NV, died at Childrens' Hos
pital at 1855 pm, about three
hours after he was struck by a
car driven by Theodore r. Hill,
80, of 1905 Thirteenth street
NV, police said.
Michael. who police said was
crossing Upshur street between
intersections, suffered head in
juries and a broken right arm.
Mr.. Hill was given a ticket for
colliding. A coroner's inquest Is
scheduled for IL am. tomor-
row.
At this time last year, there
had been six traffic deaths re-
corded.
Evening star., 1960-01-26

trict Eduration Association, and
Mrs. ROLAND o. Lamensdorf Of
Murch Home and School Asso-
citation, who described herself
as a one-time first year stu
dent there.
Mr.. Pree said a promise of a
higher school budget had been
implied" Mr.. Santangelo re-
sponded that this committee
certainly never made any such
promise" and also said the Fed
eral payment last year was
raised from $40 million to SGT
million. Afte ra brief exchange
with fellow committee mem
bers he corrected this to S25
million. Congress has theoreti-
cally authorized $32 million,
which the city is seeking again
this year.
Other Witnesses
Other hearing witnesses in.
cluded: Mrs. Frances Berger,
representing a special citizens
action committee, urging a new
junior high school at South
Dakota avenue and Hamilton
street NE; Mrs. Moreno Mar
tin of the National Parking
Association. attacking a pro-
posed public garage at Far
ragut Square; E. A. Pritchard,
chairman Of Downtown Park &
Shop, Inc, opposing city-built
parking facilities; Maurice
Rosenbloom, of the Connecticut
avenue group, urging parking
facilities in the Farragut Square
area.
Bernard I. Nordlinger, chair
man Of the Health and Welfare
Council. supporting budget re-
quests of the Welfare and
Health Departments; Rear Ad-
miral Neill Phillips, chairman
OF the Committee of 100 on
the Federal City, backing a $32
million Federal payment; Mrs.
Silver Tesone of Sharpe Health
School PTA, seeking more
pupil transportation funds:
Mark Winkler, chairman of the
Public Health Advisory Council,
urging more health funds.
Also, Alexander ]. Faik. vice
president of Palisades Citizens
Association, urging a new
branch library; William H,
Waters, chairman of the Citi-
zens Committee for Hardy
Recreation Center, urging de-
velopment of a proposed play
area; Hilliard Goodman, of the
Citizens Transit Improvement
Association, who urged adding
more rail- rapid transit to city
transportation plans; Milton
c. Denbo of the District Mem
tai Health Association, urging
a larger city mental health
staff; Mrs. James Dawson.
Washington Home for Incur
ables, seeking an increase in
medical charities funds.
Also, Maurice A. Gersing, Ma.
tional Planning Council, who
backed the Commissioners
budget estimates, and Don B
Goodloe, Of the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers; Loui2
kornhawser, Elementary Schoot
Principals Association: Mrs. Ar.
mold c. Sternberg, Lafayette
Home and School Association.
and Mrs. Laverne Williams. DR..
Ellis Haworth. DR.. Robert Mar
tin, Mrs. Arthur Bressler and
Robert Fields, for the PTA
Congress, all on school items.
Evening star., 1960-01-26

Q-DO YOU HAVE ANY
IDEA when diapers were first
used?
A-That's an interesting
question. If I ever get the
time, hope to do some re-
search on it.
Q-Are you now, or have
you ever been a member of
the NIDS?
Ayes.
Q-Do you have any idea
what NIDS is?
A-Why Of course. That's
the National Institute of Dia-
per Services. 1t started up in
1910. I was one of the found
ers. 1t was an effort to set
up certain standards for the
industry. Working with doc
tors and chemists we arrived
at a standard that all mem
berS must meet. Members
must send their diapers in
at regular intervals to a
laboratory in Philadelphia
Tor chemical analysis.
Q-What's new in diapers?
A-Not a great deal. The
cut of the cloth used to be
square. Now, we have diapers
curved to fit the baby.
The hearing adjourned for
lunch and then was post
poned indefinitely.
Evening star., 1960-01-26
By GEORGE BEVERIDGE
Star stan Writer

One of the disturbing trends"
in urban renewal projects is
the relatively high cost of the
new housing they produce, a
Federal official said yesterday.
James E. Mccormack, direc-
tor of the Federal Urban Re-
newal Administrators land
branch, said he felt new tech
niques are needed to develop
housing in which rents are
more in line with the rents
being eliminated" in old neigh
borhoods.
He made the comment in
answer to a question as to
whether the emphasis on the
grade Of housing had not
changed in Washington's big
Southwest project.
Mr.. Mccormack said that it
had changed from the initial
thinking and that Federal
housing officials are CON
cerned about this trend" to-
ward high rental housing in
projects.
No Easy Answer
He did not propose steps.
however, to reverse the trend.
Asked what could be done
about it, he said: Il wish I
knew"
At the same time. the off,
cial predicted that rehabilita-
ton and conservation of exist
ing Observation-Disclosures than
the drastic clearance and re-
building technique employed
in the Southwest-will become
the principal method of re-
claiming cities through urban
renewal"
Mr.. Mccormack participated
in a panel discussion on the
subject, rs Real Estate Being
Condemned to DEATH" at the
Statler-Hilton Hotel in con-
nection with the National As
sociation Of Real Estate Boards
convention.
Another panelist, Stanley W.
Arnheim, Pittsburgh real estate
man, said the greatest inequity
OF urban renewal is the ham
dicap it causes property owners
because Of the great delay"
between the designation of a
renewal project and the time
property is taken for it.
Fringe Approach
Lloyd Hanford. San Fran
cisco real estate man, attacked
the increasing hardship which
new Federal construction is
causing on local communities
throughout the country. He
proposed that the Federal Gov
ernment:
/. Locate. wherever possible,
Evening star., 1960-01-26
Fare Rise
Indicated in
P. u. &. Stand

A fare increase for D. c.
Transit System was considered
practically a certainty today
following testimony by a top
P blic Utilities Commission
staff member that the COM
pany is entitled to one.
Chief Accountant ]. William
Falk suggested to the P. U. c.
yesterday that new fare struc-
.ture should be adopted which
would include a IS cent cash
fare and a package fare of five
tokens for 81.
Tokens are now used by D. c.
Transit, but are sold at the
regular 20 cent cash fare. They
sold for l9 cents per token prior
to a fare increase in August
1858.
Mr.. Falk's testimony yester-
day ended a presentation by
the P. U. C. staff opposing
D. c. Transit's bid for a two
stage fare increase.
The company has petitioned
the P. U, c. for a 25-cent fare
to start next November.
Resumption of the hearing
has been postponed until Feb
ruary when the P. U. C. staff
witnesses will be cross-ex-
amined.
Mr.. Falk testified that, ac-
cording to his estimates, D. c..
Transit would earn a net op-
Grating income of $660,l46 this
year If the company is not
granted any fare increase at
all.
The PUG. staff member then
added:
In my opinion this prospec-
tive level OF earnings cannot
be considered as a fair rate of
return for D. C. Transit and
the company is entitled to some
increase in revenue If it is to
be maintained in a sound
financial condition"
Evening star., 1960-01-26

too much money" She said he
almost died from an operation
a month ago and must take
it easy on this trip. And as for
money. "he doesn't need that
back in Majorca."
Mr.. Graves said writing
novels. for him. is like raising
dogs to keep a cat" His pre-
Evening star., 1960-01-26
SOUTHWEST TOUR
Russians
Study D. c.
Housing
By GEORGE WILSON
Star Staff Writer

Russia, the nation which re,
built whole cities during Worlc
War II, took a leaf from Wash.
ington'S rebuilding book yes.
terday.
Thirteen Russian construc.
ton engineers studied every.
thing including the kitcher
sink in the houses rising from
the rubble of Southwest Wash.
ington.
Guests of the Redevelopment
Land Agency, the studious Rus
slams saw the good and the bad
the old and the new in housing
When the tour was over, they
admitted they had learned
something.
Nobody said anything about
the moon. Instead. there were
questions from the Russians
about such down to earth
problems of getting cars in and
out of the city; building decent
housing at low cost, and find
ing quarters for people bull
dozed out of the slums.
All in all. it could have been
l3 engineers from Philadelphia
instead of Moscow. There were
five women in the group. but
not the muscle-bound variety
In fact, one Russian woman
happily primped before a spa
cious mirror in one of the
Capitol Park Apartments al
800 Fourth street S.W.
No one acted shocked when
James G. Banks. chief of the
projects management division
of RIA, showed the Russians
broken slums standing of
bottle-stewn alleys in the
Southwest. Instead, the tour
ing engineers said they had
more of the same back home
in Russia.
The Russians seemed to like
the new public housing units
where rents range from $28 to
S72 a month, depending on in
come. The women specifically
mentioned the large windows
and smooth walls. They said
Russia relies more on pre-
fabrication, however, in its
housing programs. The engi-
neers said the prefabrication is
so we'll developed that a project
the size of Capitol Park Apart
ments can be completed ir
about a month.
Evening star., 1960-01-26

ferred medium is poetry, but
he said he knows the novels
bring in the money.
He said he has no works
underway, but added his poetry
will keep coming out in a
constant stream.
1T doesn't seem to get either
better or worse" he said.
Evening star., 1960-01-26
Renewal Housing Hit
For High Cost Trend

on the fringes Of urban areas,
where its impact would be less
than in the centerS Of cities.
2. Share financially in the
increased costs of schools, roads
and other public facilities for
which they develop needs.
3. In considering the housing
plight of low-income families,
consider individual subsidiza-
ton" instead of moving them
into "ghettoeS" Of public hous-
ing.
Evening star., 1960-01-26

Accompanying the author OF
such popular novels as "I,
Claudius," Hercules," my
Shipmate" and King Jesus" is
his daughter, Mrs. Jenny Mic
holson Crosse of Rome, herself
a writer.
I'm along" she said, ito
make sure Dad doesn't make
Evening star., 1960-01-26


send prospective teachers to
private Washington colleges on
scholarships.
District citizens will get a
second chance tonight to give
their views on the city's next
budget to subcommittee.
Thirty-one spokesmen for
PTAs, civic and business groups
paraded for 31a hours before
members Of the key unit last
night. Tonight's session, sched-
uled for 7 o'clock in the Old
House Office Building, has a
witness list of some two dozen
more.
The District has submitted
spending estimates totaling a
little under $235 million to Con-
gress for the fiscal year begin
ming July /. The House unit
expects to report blue-penciled
recommendations to its parent
group by February S as a pre-
liminary to House and later
Senate action.
Spar Over Parking
Representative Rabout, DEM
ocrat of Michigan, subcommit-
tee chairman, gave witnesses
a largely noncommittal recep-
ton at last nights session
Most talking on the subcom-
mittee's side was done by
Representative Santangelo, who
tangled verbally with several
witnesses over statistical and
fiscal matters.
Much of the hearing was
taken up by sparring among
spokesmen for groups opposing
and favoring a recently un-
veiled plan Of city officials for
an underground parking garage
at Farragut Square, which is
not yet even a budget item,
The subcommittee was told the
plan might produce a suple-
mental appropriation request
however, and the critics and
proponents were obviously bent
on getting their viewpoints be-
fore the unit in good season,
since suplementals normally are
handled without public hear
ings.
Mr.. Santangelo directed sal
lies at witnesses urging SUBJ
committee sympathy for school
budget requests. particularly
more teachers and new class
rooms.
He asked Joseph Mccormick
one Of nine spokesmen for the
District Congress of Parents
and Teachers, and later Mrs
c. Rhodes Cox, president of the
PTA group, where the school
system expected to recruit the
extra teachers.
Tart Response
The New York legislator also
challenged a statement by
Riddick H. Pree, another PTA
witness, that Congress had
failed to keep a promise" to
boost the school budget if it
raised District taxes and tossed
a tart response to a suggestion
that legislators ought to come
through with a higher annual
Federal payment. A number
of proposed tax rises are due
to go to Congress shortly,
largely at the Rabaut units
urging.
Mrs. Cox told the Congress
member what the teacher COL
lege needs most is a new build
ing.
The college also won sup
port from Miss Margaret Moore,
executive secretary Of the Dis
Evening star., 1960-01-26

day, indicates that the adop-
ton of Gov. Almonds tax pro-
gram would make Virginia one
OF the highest taxed States in
the Union in terms of direct
State levies on the individual
taxpayer"
More volleys were expected
shortly from other segments of
the school segregation bloc who
were defeated by Almond forces
at last years special session
of the Legislature when the
State turned to a more moder-
ate program on desegregation.
If the Governors tax pro-
gram is adopted" Senator Byrd
said, Virginia would be one of
only five States to have an in
come tax which does not per-
NIT the deduction of the Fed
eral income tax while simul-
taneously having a 3 per cent
sales tax which does not ex-
empt food"
The Governors proposal in
cludes both food and drugs
within its scope.
New Bill Offered
Senator Byrd, who did not
make any alternative tax pro-
poSal Of his own. issued his
statement yesterday shortly
after another sales tax bill,
with greater advantages to
fast-growing areas such as the
Washington ID. c. suburbs.
was introduced.
Delegate Sam Pope of South
ampton County offered a bill
to impose a 3 per cent sales
tax. but which would return
$6O.2 mtllion-instead Of $45
million-to the localities.
OF interest to the rapidly
growing areas such as North
ern Virginia was a provision in
the Pope bill to distribute the
$50 million on the basis of
school-age population figures.
Gov. Almonds distribution
would be based on the 1860
census which, unless changed
by later Legislatures, would not
take into account population
growth in subsequent years.
Calls Formula Fair
While the Governors bill
would return $45 million to To-
calities and keep $97 million
to the State. Mr.. Pope's bill
would divide net additional
revenue Of $l20.4 million equal
ly between the State and the
localities. The reason the two
bills do not provide the same
amount of total revenue is that
Mr.. Pope suggests greater
benefits for income tax payers
as well as different Dement'S in
business categories.
Mr.. Pope. for example, would
give income tax payers bene-
fits amounting to $50 in the
lowest brackets Chose with a
net taxable income of $4,000 or
less) whether single or mar
ried.
Benefits Graduated
On the other hand, Gov.
Almonds income benefits are
graduated so that a single tax
payer in the $4,000 bracket
would get. only a $40 benefit
and a married taxpayer IN that
bracket would get $40. The
maximum benefit allowed by
the Governors proposal would
be $50-that is, for the married
person whose taxable income
exceeds $4,000 a year. If he
were single, the maximum ben
eft would be $25.
Evening star., 1960-01-26
City Urged to Drop
Teachers College
SontoneeIo Sees Budget Saving
Of Millions in Substitute Plan
BY JAMES G. DEANE
Star stah Writer

The District might millions" if it abandoned
District Teachers College, New York Congressman said
last night at House District Appropriations Subcommittee
hearings on the budget for the next fiscal year.
Representative Sanangeo, Democrat questioning the
value of the teachers college, suggested that the District
Evening star., 1960-01-26

hearing follows:
Cts wonderful to have
you here with us this morn
ing Mr.. Schimpff. Now,
exactly what does "Dy-Dee"
mean?
A-For some reason, peo-
pie have always called a dia-
per a di-dee. I don't know
why.
Q-Yes, I've noticed that.
Strange. Where do you live?
AIN College Park +.
next to Curly Byrd.
Q-How did you get into
the diaper business?
A-Well, that's a long
story. I'm from Pennsylvania
and a graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
I lost my job in the Depres-
sion. I got a job in Wash
ington as a collector for the
Commercial Investmen t
Trust Co. But I wanted to
go into business for myself.
I heard about a man in
Chicago-a stock and bond
salesman named Alfred Lau
who had started a diaper
service called Dy-Dee Wash.
He apparently got the idea
during a bridge game In a
house where a young mother
was tired of doing all the
diapers.
Well, Mr.. Lau sold the
right to use the name Dy-Dee
Wash to me and I was in
business. We started in 1888.
Q-How did you overcome
the fear of grandmothers
that the grandbaby might be
using someone else'S dianers9
A-Of course we ran into
that. We still do. But think
that fear is gradually dying
out. In the beginning, 1
pointed out to the customer
worried about such a pos
sibility that I would stamp
the same number on all the
diapers ordered by the Gus
toner. The whole batch,
then, would be numbered.
But we, don't stamp the dia-
pers anymore. Now we put
the batch in a knitted bag
and wash them all together.
Q-After, shall we say
Baby-A, stopped using dia-
pers, would it not be possible
for Baby-B, just home from
the hospital, to get the batch
originally used by Baby-A.
Ayes. That's entirely pos
sible. But l would like to
point out that grandmothers
rarely, if ever, question the
origin of diapers used IN
hospitals.
Q-Where does the term
di-dee-I'm sorry; where does
the term diaper come from?
A-"Diaper" A is a goemetri-
cal pattern-a diamond pat
tern woven into the fabric.