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flashed a slide on the screen
showing the mass evacuation
routes to be used by residents
of the District "if there is
sufficient warning in advance
of nuclear attack" 1t was a
plan which could be tested
only by a bomb, as the snow
had tested all the city's snow
plans.
The planning question came
UP again when a doctor from
Glenn Dale Hospital presented
a detailed account of how the
plant could be converted to
handle casualties. The doctor
said frankly that at the mo-
ment there is no plan to avac-
uate the hospitals permanent
tubercular patients to make
room for casualties. He did not
explore a community's willing
ness to accept a band of tub
erculosis patients in temporary
quarters.
But the men from Battle
Creek. as well as the Districts
director of civil defense,
George R. Rodericks, did sue
coed in getting over the i'm
preston that civil defense is
not pointless nor. hopeless.
Alternate Setup Needed
Mr.. Rodericks, an effective
speaker, said no plan is 100
per cent correct and that his
department is constantly try
ing to improve the local plan
Of defense. He said, for ex-
ample, his department is now
trying to set up emergency
bases at Lorton Reformatory,
at Glenn Dale Hospital and at
Laurel, Md, to establish COM
munication between the three,
so that the District could be
run from any one. Those
normally in charge Of each in
stallation would take over civil
defense operations until the
Commissioners or Mr.. Roder-
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April Hearing Due

the instructors hopefully said
the shelter idea is catching on
He said a home builder In
Colorado and another in New
Jersey are building shelters ir
each new home.
Another instructor described
the country's vast radar Pro-
lection. He indicated it might
not be too effective against
ICBMs.
Life "Not Too Bad"
A report was given on a fam
lily Of four who lived two weeks
in a typical" 81 400 shelter in
Princeton, N. j., for research
purposes. 1t was not too bad
the family reported. They had
not taken enough into the
shelter to read. and entertain
ment became a problem.
Besides a knowledge of the
national" plan and the local
plan, the instructors said, stu
dents should also design a
family" plan.
What would you do as head
Of the family if a bomb fell
tomorrow" asked an instruc-
tor. Would your wife know
what to do? Where would your
teen-ager go if he was at
school? You ought to have a
plan for the entire family
worked out"
Summing up the course, Mr.
RoderickS asked the students
to help him sell the civil de-
tense effort to the community
Additional courses have been
scheduled in the area.
THE Capital Of the United
States is used to dealing with
tremendous problems" Mr.,
Rodericks said. II have no
doubt that by planning and
subdividing the problems with
in the big problem we can
solve this thing"
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to convince industrialists Of the
need for dispersal of their fac
tories.
In great detail, another in
structor explored the methods
Of getting something done in
a city, like selling the town on
a civil defense plan.
He said the need must be
created: The initiating set
service clubs would be an ex-
ample-must be convinced of
the need; the "legitimizers in
the communicable said a
banker might be one-must be
consulted and won over.
Then the diffusion set
newspapers, radio, television-
could be approached and asked
for help. Then launch the
program, really launch it," said
the instructor.
Disaster Roles Shown
There was a lecture on the
role of civil defense in a natural
disaster and the role of the
Red Cross in the same disaster.
Instructors pointed out that a
big problem in any disaster is
the number of the curious who
converge on the scene.
A member of the class, a rail-
road man, said reporters and
photographers always cause
trouble at the scene of an &C
cident.
The instructor said that with
planning, this can be pre-
vented. If the representatives
of mass media are consulted
before catastrophe occurs.
The instructors-they repre-
sented the Civil Defense Staff
College-passed out at least five
pounds Of leaflets.
One was a booklet showing
how a man can build his own
do 1t yourself" shelter in the
basement of his home. One of
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investigator named on WedneS-
day, Inspector John B. Layton,
will be charged with seeing to
"the absolute cleanliness" of
the police department.
Four policemen last Tuesday
were charged with rape on
complaint of a 31-year-old
houSemaid who allegedly was
assaulted in two scout cars by
the four early Sunday. The case
currently is awaiting a hearing
scheduled in Municipal Court
Tuesday. It has also been pre-
sented to a grand jury.
Named Investigator
Commissioner Mclaughlin
Wednesday announced Inspec-
tor Layton's appointment to
serve directly under Police
Chief Robert v. Murray for in
vestigation of employe miscon-
duct both in and outside the
police department.
Senators at a hearing the
day before the appointment, it
was learned yesterday, urged
immediate steps to counterfeit
the effect of the publicity about
the incident.
Senator Pastore, Democrat of
Rhode Island, who heads the
Senate District Appropriations
8 u b c ON mittee, said the
changes are "scandalous" and
asked what the department
was doing about it. Senator
Bible, chairman of the Senate
District Committee, also said
he was shocked by the case.
Mr.. Pastore asked specific
ally whether the incident was
a reflection on recruiting pro-
cedures.
Commissioner Mclaughlin
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40 Students in I o|ent Quest

A youthful 40-member BRAIN
trust-their eyes on $34 ,2b0 In
scholarships offered in the
Westinghouse Science Talent
Search"-tinkered with test
tubes and atom smasherS at
the Statler-Hilton Hotel here
yesterday.
The assembly Of nine girls
and 81 boys. top winners cho-
sen from an original slate Of
Is, 900 contestants across the
Nation, will know the Judges
decisions at q final banquet
here Monday night.
Today they were busy setting
up their exhibits, which In
cluded studies Of the effects Of
air on plants and construction
Of an atom smasher powerful
enough to be used In studying
the physics Of thermometer
reactions.
Son Of Playwright
The spectacular atom smash.
er was built by Godfrey Dane
Heyworth, 16, Of New York City.
the son Of Edwin Heyworth, .
playwright. Godfrey wants to
become q nuclear physicist.
Nancy Ann Hickman II.
daughter Of a Chicago news
paper printer. took as her prof.
ect the study Of two common
household compounds, boric
acid and borax.
She had wanted to develop
q new rocket fuel. but discov-
cred TO her dismay she'd need
an expensive vacuum machine
so the borax compounds she
planned to work with wouldn't
explode. They do this when ex-
posed to air, she said. Nancy
wants to become o research
chemist.
Planet Study Is Exhibit
Less down to earth is the
project Of Samuel r. Friedman,
a 17-year-old Woodrow Wilson
High School senior who lives
at 1922 Appleton street NV.
His entry in the talent search
is built around detailed obser-
vations, drawings and analysis
Of the planet Saturn.
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Foirfox Vote UPhoIds
School Budget Slash

The overall budget would re-
quire a 90 cent increase in tax
rates.
Commenting on the school
boards budget cuts, Mr.. Thorn
asian said that while all the
items were worthwhile, it was
"just a question of how much
of our desires we can do this
year."
At the public hearing, almost
all of the % persons who adj
dressed the board expressed
concern over the slash, which
reduced proposed teacher SAL
airy increases and eliminated 80
new positions.
An exception was the Fairfax
County Taxpayers Alliance,
which urged the board to hold
the budget to $22.6 million. This
sum, alliance spokesman said,
represented an increase proper.
tional to the number Of new
students.
Soviet Action Noted
Noting that some speakers
had compared teachers SAL
aries with other Jurisdictions.
Mrs. Mary Lou Curtis, an ALI
ance director, said keeping up
with the Joneses" should not be
used as the yardstick to measure
budget items.
Max Reid, spokesman for the
County Council of Parent
Teacher Associations said, I'VE
are more concerned with keep
ing up with Mr.. Khrushchev
and his family than with keep
ing up with the Joneses."
The PTA Council backed a
proposed $4,000 starting SAL
airy for teachers. a greater diff
ferential for teachers holding
advanced degrees and proposals
for an art supervisor and for
is elementary school librarians.
The proposed starting salary.
was cut earlier from $4,000 to
$4,410 by the school board,
which had reduced also the adj
vanced degree differential from
$500 to $500 and Slashed pro-
posals for a curriculum co-ordi-
nator, director of pupil person.
mel, art supervisor, Is new
teachers. two psychologists and
II clerks. The current starting
salary is $4,000.
Russian Gains Cited
Many of the speakers, most
Of whom represented local
PTAs and civic associations,
urged restoration of the art
supervisor post, provision for a
foreign language co-ordinator
and restoration of the slash in
teacher salary increases.
A number of citizens men,
toned Russian educational
techniques, especially intensive
language training, as a reason
why Fairfax should step up its
school program as much as pos.
sible.
Charles Plat, spokesman for
the Mclean PTA, said Fairfax
currently was losing teachers to
other Jurisdictions because Of
overcrowded classes, excessive
work loads and inadequate
salaries.
A number Of the citizens told
the school board they would be
willing to pay increased taxes
to support a stepped-up school
program.
The Fairfax Education Asso-
citation, which represents
teachers and school staff MEM
bers, also supported restoration
of budget cuts made by the
board.
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size that they are making their
case on much more than dete-
rioration of buildings.
Mixed land uses and an
obsolete street pattern are ma
jor conditions requiring urban
renewal" says the Columbia
Plaza plan.
The land uses include SO
homes, two small grocery
stores, q boat shop, two ware
houses. parking lots with space
for 900 cars q vacant CONNER
cial building and an old school
building used since 1910 by the
Washington Society for the
Blind.
The plan proposed by the
public agencies would close all
streets (Twenty-fourth and F.
and alleys in the project area.
Our plan would completely
separate the pedestrian from
the automobile in the plaza"
said a planning commission
architect. "It would create a
restful, pleasant atmosphere
with a swimming pool and
shops around a square on of
Twenty-third street."
Repurchase Plan Cited
Mr.. Finley and John Searles,
director Of the Redevelopment
Land Agency, point out that
ownership in the three square
within the renewal area is still
too scattered (38 small owner
shipS) to permit any significant
street closing under private de-
velopment.
The planning commission and
redevelopment agency had
hoped that the present land
owners in the Columbia Plaza
area would form a redevelop-
ment corporation. In this way
the present owners could buy
back the land after it Is COM
pletely assembled by the rede-
velopment agency and retain
their interests.
1--WE have said" Mr.. Searles,
pointed out, that we would
like all present landowners to
participate in the redevelop-
ment - even those who have
small interests"
Major Role at Stake
However, neither major land
owner wants to settle for q
minority role.
1--WE see no reason" said Mr..
Gould, ito be q minority stock
holder in such q venture when
we now have the single larg-
est holding in the area"
Gen. Milton w. Arnold, for
mer president Of the Air Trans
port Association, who owns or
represents the owners Of about
half an acre Of land. said he
approves the redevelopment
plan presented by the planning
commission but that he and his
associates will not accept O.
minority position.
II think the plan Is quite
reasonable" said Gen. Arnold.
urban renewal is the only
way to proceed. It would take
four times as long to do it
privately on q piecemeal basis"
Gen. Arnold's views are d.
rectly opposed on one point
to the Board Of Trade position.
In approving q resolution urg-
ing private development Of the
Foggy Bottom project, the
trade group was influenced by
arguments that redevelopment
under public auspices takes too
long.
Mr.. Searles said the rede-
velopment process could be
streamlined somewhat in the
Columbia Plaza project and
that construction could be
underway two and a half to
three years from the time
District commissioners author
iZe the redevelopment agency
to apply to the Housing and
Home Finance Agency for Fed
eral funds IN Y1lan the 1r0iert
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AGENCIES, OWNERS VIE
Columbia Plaza
Planners utOdds
BY ALFRED ALBRANDO
Star stan Writer

Should District urban renewal officials step into areas
which private property have big building programs
planned?
This question is the key controversy involving
Sacre the State Department building in Foggy
Bottom.
On side planning redevelopment ocials who
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Police Recruiting
Standards in D. G.
Will Be Reviewed
Special Study Of Procedures Is
Aftermath Of Rope Charges

review OF District police recruiting procedures and stand
ards will be made the aftermath Of charges fled last
week against four police privates.
Commissioner Robert E. Mclaughlin. who promised the
review to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee
last week also told the legislators the Departments special
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Fairfax citizens, many ex-
pressing concern over Russia's
educational advances, urged the
school board unsuccessfully
yesterday to increase its 1861
81 school budget.
The board, at a special meet
ing held after a public hearing
at the county courthouse, voted
Altos against restoring $675,-
900 pared earlier from the SUI
perintendent's proposed $2S
million school budget.
Voting against the restora-
ton were Chairman Theodore
S. Heriot, Hills Lory, Berge
Thomasian and Waldron E..
Leonard. Merton S. Parsons, F.
Merritt Ruhlen and Mrs. Joan
Butler favored the increase.
In q subsequent vote, how
ever, the School Board decided
to add a $4,000 foreign Ian
guage helping teacher and a
$4,000 fence for Annandale
High School to the pared down
$27.3 million school budget,
which goes to the supervisors
on Wednesday.
April Hearing Due
The supervisors are expected
to hold a public hearing April
Is on Fairfax's overall $59.3
million proposed budget. which
includes school expenditures.
Evening star., 1960-10-09

SUNDAY, THE STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON, D. C.. OCT
Evening star., 1960-10-09

Scientific rating of
your heating needs
and cost estimate on
the installation of
the most efficient
boiler for your home.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04
Double Check

News has it that tn e m
Revenue hunting Legislatures
may revive the dead sales tax
and come in dragging the Gov
ernor. am still not for any
sales tax here in Virgiria-ain't
moved a peg nor change one bit.
l got a few more what am agin
It ready to be heard. It's fight
to the end that Virginia may
be spared the sales tax blues.
President Eisenhower enjoys
a most wonderful reception with
all the frills while the loved
ones moan the loss of their
loved ones due to the trip. There
amt much difference between
flddlmg and pushing a golf
bail with a bent stick. only
you don't hear no musick and
boy this is not Rome but she is
sure burning. We may get over
1t but we amt never going 10
look the same.
Democrats are still looking for
a good man to take the place.
We got EN- but they don't want
TO fiddle around with bent sticks
and small balls, SO we have to
hunogate EN- if they take the
job.
You never can tell when YOU
get a package these days if it
an alarm clock or a time bomb.
We are getting a lot of 60
out and get EN- feners like
Ezra Benson. Slim Summer
field boy, they get EN-
told and knock EN- cold. It's
mainly politics.
Along with the weather these
days it amt hard to do
Along with the cows and hogs
We made March |, SO from now
on we might make it,
Thanks for reading.
Yours.
j. Marvin Brown
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04
John Temple Groves
Independent Electors

victory and sOlicltOuS attention
ali thin the framework, as
Gov. Hollins puts it, of an un-
nimparied state Democratic
Party and Congressional seniori-
ty.
The "solicitous attention
from Nixon would come of four
things: % support in 1860, %
needed support in 1864. 80 Re-
publican loss again-and for
good, Of Negro and union labor
votes. and a. final recognition
through years of coalition in
Congress and for the Presidency
Of a mutual philosophy of limit
ed, decentralized, economical
and constitutional government
friendly to competitive private
enterprise socially umpired and
to the American concept of in
dividual. man in an Image.
In my dictionary no independ-
ent Democratic elector will be
effectively independent unless he
means to vote for the Republi-
can if the Democrat won't do.
But, oh. LaWdy, if you can't
hep this sinner,
Please don't you hep t h a t
bear )"
A READER ASKS what I'm
trying to get Nixon to do about
the South.
It's a fair question, and all
important.
Certainly he can't be expect
ed to so segregationist or to
drop Southern Republicans for
Southern Democrats - any more
than Southern Democrats who
vote for him will turn Repugli-
can. Mainly, I think, we might
ask of Mr.. Nixon that he not
hep that bear" in the sense of
becoming as ardently seeker
after Negro and labor votes at
the expense of the South as
Democratic Presidential candi-
dates are
We might ask also-not how
but when and if he is elected
Pre- sident and can dictate his
denomination but not his re-elec-
tion-that he look at the South
cru political problem as not so
simple as merely building up
tine Republican Party here. We
might ask him to understand
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04

Volunteer Expose

ALTHOUGH Act 10 doesn't include
newsmen, figure the press corps is
next in line for special law requiring
an affidavit listing membership in all
organizations.
With that prospect looming on the
horizon, might as we'll list my affili-
ations right now and get it over with.
Here they are:
Amalgamated Society of Coffee Ad-
diets and Cigarette Slaves.
Fellowship of Tax Gripcrs, Inc.
Fraternal Order of Old Joke Tellers.
Anti~Rock and Roll Club of America,
The DTYTSA Don't Take self
Too Seriously Association
Nom Fisherman League.
The CSODSDNW Committee Seeking
Official Designa ton of a Special Do
Nothing Week..
Non-lmportant People Club.
Society for Prevention of Premature
Burial.
Organization to Encourage People to
Quit Organizations.
Society for Suppression of Banquet
Applause.
Affiliation of Innocent Bystanders.
National Association for the Advance
ment of Columnjsts.
The PusL,cg-4o Fraternity.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04
Equal Rights

IN dismissing suit by Negroes against
the school board of Greenboro, N. c.,
a federal judge has made plain that
white citizens are entitled to equal pro-
lection of the law.
U. S. District Judge Edwin M. Stanley
ruled that nothing remained for the
court to decide in a case involving four
Negro children who sought to attend
Caldwell Elementary School in Green's
boro. The plaintiffs already have been
assigned to the school. No attempt was
made to block their admission. It hap
pens, however, that all white students
and teachers have been transferred.
Finding this to be the case, the lawyer
for the Negro children objected to the
transfer of the whites.
The Negroes have no cause for COM
planning. They have been admitted to
the school they wanted to enter. White
teachers and students have taken le-
climate advantage of their right to ac-
cept transfer elsewhere The federal
Judge decided the Negroes could not
exercise the right of transfer and stimuli
taneously deny it to white citizens.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04
Exceeding peace had made
Ben AbOu bold -

oCII aOOu UOlQ
It is monStrOuS to say TIL
lunch-counter aggressions are
ever the first one originated,
they are in their present ex-
tension and menace mostly"
Martin Luther King.
It is this agitator-all peace.
patience and piety in the very
different Montgomery bus boy
colt dayS-who is emboldened
enough now by the brainwash-
ings of Charlotte and Atlanta to
have broadcast that Negroes
must be willing ito fill all the
jails in the South" It is he.
along with the NAACP, whose
endorsement Of the sit-downs
has brought hot-blooded young
people into the situation, turn
ed an excapade into a cause,
sounded an open call to jail
offenses and Undertakings.
1t is not as late as the Rev.
King thinks. He has gone too
far and every state in the South
owes 1t to its still-prevailing
peace, order and good will to
apply against him every letter
Of every law on its books. even
while using every policeman it
owns to protect him from mar
tyr-maklng ridicule.
The situation he has brought
about is that acute.
AS MANY CANDIDATES for
Democratic elector propose to
be independent" you wonder
what each really has in mind.
tn He could mean that in
order to impress the national
party and bargain with the
nominee he will leave his course
nominally open until electoral
college day. and then, without
ever having intended other
| wise, vote for the nominee. That
could be the Talmade idea if
he continues to be determined
never to fail Democratic nomi-
nee.
~ He could mean to join in
a genuine effort to deadlock the
electoral college with a third
candidate "a majority is requir-
ed, not just plurality. That
is what many of us hoped for
in 1913. But today it would only
provoke a ganging-up agains the
South that would elect Nixon
with no Southern credit or stand
ing anywhere, leaving US isolat-
ed as never before and with he'll
soon to pay.
(3) He could mean business.
He could let it be known at
once that he is going to vote
for either the Republican or the
Democratic nominee on a basis
OF overtures or LACK Of them.
| or
(4) He could mean revolution
airy business to fit this revolu-
tionary moment. He could take
his stand for the Republican,
Richard Nixon, Immediately up
on the naming of an unaccept-
able Democrat. assuring Nixon :
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04
Atone For Sins

4 56-year-old father of six children,
who is an outstanding citizen Of Chi
cago Heights, Illinois, has been for
given by the State of Florida.
Jim Morton escaped in 1888 from
a Florida county road camp. When
he escaped, he had eleven months re-
naming on a 5-year sentence for rob-
berry.
Since that time, in 1888, Morton has
lived model life and is considered
an outstanding citizen of Chicago
Heights. In fact. he has been consid-
cred an outstanding citizen in that
community for more than twenty
years.
Recently, Morton's recond was dis
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04
Guinea

Mar. ) Porter DAVIS, Of
Richmond. was a. week end
guest at "HorS du Monde. Beth
Blanton was a Sunday luncheon
guest. Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Blan-
ton were Sunday afternoon
guests.
w. B. Walker. Jr., who spent
some time i'll the Southside
Hospital, came home Friday.
His friends were glad to sec him
at church school, at Guinca
Church. Sunday morning.
Mrs. Thomas Scott was hos
tess to WSCS of Centenary
Church, at the church Tuesday
e-ag.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-04


better that a party in full being
here and in complete control has
come to be nearer to him and
his own party in fundamental
principles and in practical politi-
cal needs and associations than
to the national group which
bears its name. It's power at
home depends on its name
Determination to go on being
Democrats at home even while
voting with Republicans ma
tioEally is no mere sentiment. 1t
is determination not to surrend-
er an inestimably great power.