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Evening star., 1960-08-30
Roosevelt Memorial
Issue Pushed in Senate

Senate champions of a The
odore Roosevelt memorial on
the island in the Potomac be-
tween Washington and Vir-
ginia are still driving for con-
gresSional clearance Of the pro-
poSal this week.
An amendment to the House.
passed memorial bill was filed
formally by Republican Sen
ators Case of South Dakota
and Javits and Heating Of New
York. They put the Senate on
notice last week that the
amendment was coming.
1t would require the approval
of the design by the living
children Of Theodore Roose-
velt." There are three-Mrs
Alice Roosevelt Longworth OF
Washington, Mrs. Ethel Roose-
velt Darby of Vermont ano
Archibald Roosevelt Of New
York.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

their names being offered by
this group.
Goldwater Not Hurt
Senator Goldwater said at
the press conference his feel
ings weren't hurt by yester-
days action and added:
Il don't feel the United
States would be safe with a
third party regardless Of who
the candidates are. I hope
they give 1t up altogether"
Questioned about Mr.. Nixon's
disqualification for a knee in
jury and the effect that it will
have on the campaign. the
Senator declared. "Dick Nixon,
fiat on his back in bed, is a
better candidate than Kennedy
walking all over the United
States"
Evening star., 1960-08-30

Archibald Roosevelt reported
ly favors a lion. An animal
preferably an American animal,
not African. would be appro-
pirate, Mrs. Longworth has
agreed. But the only thing on
which the family is firmly
united is that the celestial
sphere" design proposed under
legislation now pending in the
Senate would not be appro-
pirate.
Last week, the Senate agreed
by refusing to pass, without
debate. the memorial legisla-
ton. The bill does not specify
a design. But a huge sphere
beside a rejecting pond has
been approved by the National
Capital Planning Commission
the Fine Arts Commission ano
the National Park Service. The
bill requires clearance by these
agencies Of any design.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
ECHO SATELLITE
DUE TONIGHT

The Echo I balloon satel-
lite will make four visible
trips through the skies over
the Washington area to-
night and early tomorrow.
Weather permitting, the
satellite may be seen at:
8:43 pm. in the north,
Sc degrees over the horizon,
going northeast.
10:48 pm, in the north,
56 degrees over the horizon,
going southeast.
1855 am, in the south
n degrees over the horizon,
going southeast.
3:06 am, in the south,
9 degrees over the horizon,
going southeast.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

MOVING THE TURF
areas in the parks and
alongside the parkways costs
$275,OOO a year.
During a peak period -
April showers or these re-
cent rainy weeks of July and
August - $50 men are en-
gagged in grass cutting. They
are paid about So an hour.
They use $50 pieces of me-
chanical equipment, every
thing from 10-inch trimmers
to 31-inch rotary mowers to
tractors with five and seven
gang arrangements of reel
mowers.
The 31-inch rotary mower
costs 1856 bucks. That's more
than you would want to pay
for your mower, but it pays
for itself by reducing labor
costs. A tractor with a five
gang reel mower arrange
ment costs $4,500. The larg-
er tractor with a seven
gang reel arrangement costs
$500.
In all, the equipment used
for grass cutting is an in
vestment of $35o,0OO.
Mr.. Kloske is delighted
that the grass is green. He
is a little concerned about
the neglect of other park
work, the pruning and so
forth.
He sees one ray of hope for
the future. This is the use
of a bio-chemical growth re-
tarder, a hormone. 1t allows
the grass to be as green as
rain or artificial sprinkling
can make it but discourages
1t from growing and invit-
ing the lawn mower weekly
or semiweekly.
1t has been used with
great success on embank-
ments of the reservoir at
Fort Slocum, in the vicinity
Of Oglethorpe and Second
streets NV.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

this afternoon and then dedi-
cate the State G. o. P. head
Quarters in Richmond and ad-
dress a rally there tonight.
At a press conference at the
Norfolk Airport this morning
Senator Goldwater was asked
to comment on the statement
by Senator Byrd at his picnic
in Berryville Saturday to the
effect that sometimes he felt
silence is golden" with respect
to indorsing the nominees for
President.
Finds Byrd's Silence Loud
Il don't think Senator Byrd
has been SILENT" the Arizona
Senator said. He has made q
very loud declaration against
the Democratic platform and ]
must assume also against the
people pledged to uphold that
platform"
Senator Goldwater said Sen
ator Byrd's opposition to the
plank promising repeal of right
to-work laws in 20 States, in
Guiding Virginia, is the most
eloquent testimony for Dick
Nixon you could think Of"
The attitude of Senator
Byrd, leader of the dominant
wing of the State Democratic
organization. lis very helpful tc
the Republicans" the Senator
said, adding. Il hope he will
keep up with that kind oi
silence.
Given Airport Greeting
About 40 Tidewater area Re-
publicans. including Louis B
Fine, candidate for Congress
against Representative Hardy
Democrat, and a bevy of Nixon
Girls" in straw hats greeted
Senator Goldwater at the air.
port. He was accompanied BY
Republican State Chairman I
Lee Potter of Arlington.
The Senator drew a Grove
of about TOO at a rally in {
downtown theater. He was tolc
there we're a number of Dem
ocrats in the audience.
Il suggest to you Democrats,
he said, that you try to gel
your party back and put it il
the hands of men like Byrt
and Russell (the Senator from
Georgia."
Yesterday the Conservative
Party of Virginia announced Il
was dropping the names o
Senator Byrd for President ant
Senator Goldwater for Vic
President from its third part.
movement but promised tt
come up with other candidates
Both Senators were opposed tt
Evening star., 1960-08-30
The
Rambler
Examines
A Big Problem
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

You think you've had diffi-
Guilty moving your bit of
lawn these last few weeks.
Give a thought to National
Capital Parks. OF $500 acres
of improved park land, 2,100
acres are turf. They have to
be moved.
Like your lawn, at this
writing, they are beautiful
greenSward.
1t all brings to mind a
happy bit of verse by Kings
ley:
"Oh that we, too, we're
Maying."
Memory fails me here, but
I think the next lines sug-
gest the slope of a sheep
clipped down.
In the 18th century, sheep
moved the lawns of the Eng
lish parks and Scotch golf
courses.
You know how it is done
today-with a power lawn
mower that probably calls
for more effort to get 1t out
of the basement and start it
(few of them have self
Starters) than 1t would to
push an old-fashioned lawn
mower around your eighth of
an acre.
Yesterday the Rambler
called on Robert Kloske. as
Sistant chief of National
Capital Parks division of
maintenance.
Like everyone with a real
big problem, he was inclined
to minimize it.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Whittier Asks
For Dogs 10
Guard Schools
Montgomery Told
Animals Would
Help Curb VonduIs

Montgomery County School
Supt. C. Taylor Whittier last
night suggested use Of police
dogs to cut down vandalism at
county schools.
Mr.. Whittier asked the school
board to consider buying a dog
for each of the county's larger
schools. The dogs. which would
cost 81 900 each, would be used
with night watchmen.
The superintendent told the
board police dogs have been
used at Columbia University in
New York to prevent vandal-
ism. He learned about the pro-
gram at a work conference this
summer at Columbia.
Just the demonstration OF
police dogs to the students
would be a deterrent to van
dalism, Mr.. Whittier said.
New Building Bids Asked
In other business. the board
asked for new bids on the pro-
posed West Bethesda High
School, in hopes of saving up
to $150.000.
The original bids. received
August II. were thrown out
after the low bidder. John
Tester g. Sons. Co.. asked per-
mission to withdraw a $3.139,-
900 bid. The board voided the
bids because Of obvious me-
chanical errors" in the low bid.
The board asked the archi-
tect to make some changes,
aimed at cost reduction. before
new bids are received Septem-
ber q.
Mr.. Whittier said the delay in
constructing the school may
mean some double shifts at
Walter johnson and Bethesda
Chevy Chase High Schools at
the beginning Of the 1851 term,
when the new school was orig
inally scheduled for compile
ton.
Mr.. Whittier also proposed
use Of paperback textbooks. He
said the lower cost would make
it possible for students to keep
the books and improve the
students study techniques. He
suggested students could under
line pertinent passages and
make marginal notes If they
owned the books.
Appointments Announced
The board named william
A. Early. IS. Of $500 Charlotte
road. Bethesda. director Of per-
sonnel for county schools at
a salary OF $13,100. He pre-
viously was director Of curri-
culum development and COM
munity relations. at the same
salary.
The board named William I.
Brennan assistant supervisor Of
secondary education, transferred
Maurice c. Ward from assistant
principal Of Poolesville High
School to assistant principal Of
Northwood High, and named
Edward J. Mulhern to replace
Mr.. Ward at Poolesville.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
O'Mohoney Hits
Rute Curb System
Old. Insurance

Senator O'Mahoney, Demo-
crat of Wyoming, traditional
foe of monopoly, has aimed his
final Senate speech as price
fixing" Of insurance in the
District.
The Senator, who is retiring
at the end of this session, in
troduced legislation last night
to give local insurance COM
panies more leeway in deter
mining charges to their in
sured. He delivered a 30-minute
speech defending the princi-
pies Of free competition when
he submitted the bill.
He does not expect passage
this session. AS one of his last
legislative acts, he indicated he
simply wanted to alert the Sen
ate to the threat of too much
control over insurance rates
here.
Specifically, the O'Mahoney
bill would eliminate the re-
quirement that fire and casu-
atty insurance companies be-
long to a rating bureau. Now
members represent about SOC
companies and draw up rates
to be charged. Insurance Supt
Albert Jordan must approve
those rates before they are
charged.
Senator O'Mahoney sug-
gested that companies ought
to file rates independently OF
competitors to be subject to
Mr.. Jordan's approval. He
claimed that in the last decade
the bureau opposition to vary
ing rates had caused charges
in the District to increase more
than In the States.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

SURE" HE SAID" the
August rains called for a lot
Of grass cutting. We are just
catching up with ourselves.
Instead of a two-week
cycle, we have been cutting
grass every three or four
days.
Its as simple as this:
Everyone has to turn to and
cut grass.
Trash removal, tree prun-
ing and Shrubbery culture
are neglected for the time
being"
He turned to a map on the
wall. The largest turf area
is Hams Point.
That's no problem" he
said, Lane Loeff1er, who has
the golf course concession,
cuts most of that.
I'VE have 900 acres of turf
on the Washington -Balti-
more parkway along the
Federal Governments %
miles of maintenance to
JeSsup, Md.
I'VE have 489 acres of turf
along the George Washing
ton Memorial boulevard and
230 acres of turf on the Suit
land parkway.
There is quite a bit Of
grass cutting to be done in
Rock Creek Park and the
parks about the Civil War
forts - Fort Dupont, Fort
Stevens, Fort Reno, etc. And
there are many little parks
like Garfield Park in front
of your new Evening Star
building in Southeast Wash
ington."
With National Parks
modern cost accounting, he
was able to answer all the
Rambler's questions with a
flip of the page, a telephone
call or a minute at the elec-
trio computer beside his
desk.
Evening star., 1960-08-30

Then members cleared with the
full District Committee their
decision to hold up the bill
pending a broad study of the
whole renewal program.
The full committee will ask
the Federal City Council,
an organization of prominent
Washington civic leaders, to
investigate city-wide redevel-
opment and renewal activities
and report to Congress in jan
Iuary, according to Represent
ative Broyhill, Republican of
Virginia, who suggested the in
quiry. It would mean two sep
arate Investigations of the
RIA would be going on at the
same time. The Senate District
Committee recently decided to
make a similar investigation.
Findings by the Federal City
Council would be given House
committeeman about the same
time the Senate study is due
to be finished.
Caught by Surprise
At the hearing, Mr.. Searles
was caught by surprise by three
protesting witnesses, G. M.
Koockogey, Dallas Irvine and
Kathleen Joy Chaimas. They
said they represented about
600 citizens.
This bills language is a
gimmick to divert attention
from the real issue of renewal"
Mr.. Irvine said, speaking for
the Kalorama Citizens Associa-
ton. That issue is whether
renewal is to be carried on for
the benefit of the business COM
munity. And that is a broad
issue deserving of broad study"
! Mrs. ChaimaS, of 1888 Kill
borne place NV, said she saw
no objection to restricting the
language to allow spanning of
Ninth street S.W. only. But
blanket authority would open
the floodgates to all kinds of
iniquities." she added.
The citizens were unmoved
by Mr.. Searles' promises that
spanning of streets would be
done only in Southwest. If that
is the case, they said, that is
the way the bill should be writ
ten.
Mr.. Searles said he conferred
with Engineer Commissioner
Frederick j. Clarke after the
subcommittee failed to act on
the bill and the two agreed to
attempt to win a limited ver-
sion. He also contacted Repre-
sentative Rabaut, Democrat of
Michigan. and discussed posi-
bilities of getting the House to
iact on such substitute.
Rabaut Critical
Mr.. Rabaut said he was
doubtful the House would have
time to act on the measure.
The House previously had
passed a broader bill sponsored
by Mr.. Rabaut which would
, have revamped the District
. urban renewal system. central
/ izing more authority in the
Commissioners and hating re-
development anywhere in the
city until half the big South
west area is rebuilt.
The Senate substituted It's
bill for the House-passed meas
ure. 1t also ordered the Dis
CrlcC CommltCee TO make its
investigation.
Mr.. Rabaut said yesterday he;
, didn't think it cricket" for the
Senate to drop his bill, passed
by the House, and then send
over separate bill, announcing
at the same time it was going
to make an investigation.
However, Mr.. Rabaut asserted
he had no opinion on the SEN
ate-passed bill because he was
not familiar with its details. He
} said no one had taken up the
Senate bill with him prior to-
yesterday morning. Mr.. Rabaut
: attended yesterdays hearing.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Byrd, by Silence, Helps
Nixon, Go|dwoter Says
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star stan Writer

NORFOLK Va. Aug 3o.-senator Goldwater, Republican
Of Arizona said today Senator Byrds golden silence is elo
quent testimony the Nixon-Lodge ticket in Virginia.
Senator arrived here this morning to begin three
cities Of Virginia to launch formally the Republican
presidential drive in the Old Dominion.
He was to fly to Charlottesville luncheon and rally
Evening star., 1960-08-30
Senate Rejects
Sales Tax Rise
For District
Revenue Rider
Defeated as Fire,
Police Pay Get OK
BY GRACE BASSETT
star stan Writer

Opponents Of the District
sales tax last night won their
first and perhaps a decisive VIC
tory on the Senate floor.
In a showdown vote. the Sen
ate defeated a move to increase
the tax from Q to 3 per cent.
Senator Williams, Republican
of Delaware. proposed the tax
increase as a rider on a police
fire pay bill which sailed
through without the revenue
attachment.
Even consideration of the tax
measure was unexpected. Sen
ator Morse. Democrat Of Ore
gon, has promised to use every
means at his command to kill
the House-passed 3 per cent
tax.
His weapons are % amend
ments he is ready to propose
If the tax bill is called up for
debate on it's own merits.
Thirteen of the Morse changes
would invalidate the tax on the
31st of each successive month
beginning December, 1860, up
to December, 1861. The re-
naming nine each would raise
the tax one-tenth of a point
starting at 81 per cent and
ending at 2.9 per cent.
Last nights debate typified
the mood of the Senate in its
closing days. Members con-
tinued to be receptive to spend
ing proposals for the District
but were cold to revenue meas
ures to pay the bills.
| Congress is expected to leave
town with SIT million in public
works and salary expenses
added to current budgets. Only
! SO million in surpluses is ir
sight to cover the cost. So, the
! District probably will be about
So million short.
| This So million would shrinl
by SIS million if the Senat,
were to pass the sales tax thiI
week. A SO million Fedora,
payment request already hai
been turned down by the Sen
ate. which reasoned that tn,
House wouldn't take it ever
if the Senate approved.
The sales tax may come W
again.
If the Senate is going tt
vote these pay raises. it has ,
responsibility to provide the
money" Senator William in
sisted last night. He charged
the Senate was irresponsible
and negligent" in failing Il
provide tax revenue to pay Dis
trict employees better salaries
District workers all are du,
for a rs per cent pay boost
The salary bills have cleared
the House. Only the pay in
crease for teachers is left be
fore the Senate.
Also on the spending side O
the ledger, the $40 million il
public works is being debatet
in a Senate-House conferenc,
today. The Senate yesterda,
afternoon voted for the projec
including 81 new buildings an,
four sewer lines. Earlier, tn
items were deleted from tn
House money bill on a point O
order which held that no none,
was allowed to pay for them.
The Senate got around thi
hurdle by appropriating som
SO million in current Surplu
to cover work spending.
The last money bill, now il
) conference, also carries $500, 90
/ to run the new National Capi
tai Transportation Agency, $50,
600 for four special masters t
hear Juvenile Court cases an
$4,000 for the first year opera
) ton of a legal aid agency t
| help INDECENT defendants. Thes
, were approved by the Senate
The House was less generous.
Evening star., 1960-08-30
1T PERFORMS
Miniature
Circus Has
Glamour
BY JOHN LAWSON
Star Stan Writer

1t was just like the great old
days when they had circuses
that we're really circuses
Everything went wrong.
First the trailer carrying
Ernie Palmquist's 50,000-piece
model of the Ringing Broth
ers' Circus hit a rut and turned
over 200 miles south of Airing
ton.
Ernie had to abandon the
trailer and load the circus into
his truck.
Then, when he reached Ar.
lington Sunday night, he found
a score of pieces were broken
He stayed up all night repair
ing them.
When he finally got things
going yesterday. the electrical
inspectors showed up and shut
him down.
Elephants Do the Hula
But the show finally went
on-and the elephants finally
did the hula and the swallow.
er swallowed his sword and the
Ipickpocket picked pockets and
all the other performers per.
formed like troupers.
This is the way they usec
to look" said Ernie. Its tht
only way children Of today car
see what a circus really was.
Ernie admits to three diff.
Iferences between his mechan'
lied miniature circus and thu
giant ones of the good old days
His is wooden, it is doing 9
better business. and it is free
The display is being spon'
sored by the Parkington Mer'
chants Association and tht
show is to 60 on in the parking
lot in the rear of the Hecht
Co., Wilson boulevard and Gleb'
road, through Saturday.
For the 53-year-old eX-bant
leader and composer who ha!
been hauling the circus arounc
for l6 years, the project repre-
sents a lifetime of work. H
carved everyone of the $4,000
pieces. His wife Virginia. al
ex-Ziegfeld Follies girl, mad
the tents and costumes.
Many of the figures wer
carved while Ernie was travel
ing the country with a band
The band was put togethe
in 1927. and Ernie wrote
song for it called The Musi
Goes Round and Round.
The band played it of and Of
until 1885. when it swept tn
country. And then three othe
people claimed they wrote it.
I'VE went to court" Erni
, said. Il got 13 band leader
, who all testified they'd hear
,, me play it in 1880. I won.
Gives Up Leading Band
After World War II, Erni
decided to give up band leadin
as a dying art. THE ballroom
were disappearing. Night club
weren't doing well.
They wrote a story abou
my hobby of carving circu
figures in Milwaukee. Next da
, a lady called and said sh
wanted to pay me to displa
the circus in a department
. store. 1 said, Lady. you'v
hired yourself a circus Z
Silnce then Ernie has beel
touring the country with hi
circus and his wife and some
times his three sons - eXcep
for one period when he mad
models of 30 circus train car
so that Cecil B. DeMille coul
smash them up in THE Great
est Show on Earth"
The circus is operated by 8
motors and insured by Lloyd
of London for 100000. 1t in
cludes scale models of ever
Ringing Brothers star of tn
last 80 years-including EN-
NETT Kelly, who donated som
of his hair to make things real
istic.
Since the circus is protecte,
only by a tent, Ernie spends hi
nights sleeping alongside hi
project.
Il can't afford to TAX
chances. Once in a while some
one tries to get in. Fortunately
though. I've studied jujitsu.
: haven't lost a thing"
Evening star., 1960-08-30
RIA Tries to Save
Part Of Renewal Bill.
Parker to Urge Grant Of Power
To Permit Big Southwest Hotel

Andrew Parker chairman of the District Redeveopement
Land Agency today planned to make last minute plea
Congress in effort to resurrect part of the urban renewal
bill buried by the House.
The BILL which passed the Senate without protest, met
opposition hearing before the House District Committee
Evening star., 1960-08-30

yesterday and was indefinitely
postponed by the unit. The bill
would allow the bridging of
Ninth street S.W. by a hotel
planned as part of the $50 mil
lion Tenth street Mall and
Plaza project.
Mr.. Parker said the Tenth
Street Mall and Plaza could not
procede without Congressional
authority to bridge Ninth street.
Will See Leaders
The RIA chairman said he
would call on the heads of
the Senate and House District
Committees today and ask
them to do everything possible
to get at least the bridging
authority through Congress
this year. The bill would pro-
vide additional help for the
Washington urban renewal
effort, but at this late hour
RIA officials are willing to set
tie for the bridging authority.
John R. Searles, jr.. execu-
tive director of the RIA, said
he saw the limited bill as the
only crack in the door" which
the House shut on the agency
yesterday.
However, despite Mr.. Searles'
efforts to reach various con-
gressional leaders yesterday to
urge passage of the limited ver-
sion, House leaders appeared
reluctant to press for such a
bill.
Faces Citizen Foes
Mr.. Searles also is faced with
opposition Of Northwest Wash
ington citizens who fear giving
the RIA any broader authority
than it has now. The citizen
views came in testimony before
a House District subcommittee
yesterday on a Senate-passed
bill.
The bill. urged by the Dis
trict Commissioners, would have
allowed the RIA to work ir
commercial as well as residen.
tial areas and use public space
above and below streets.
For Mr.. Searlts, tie lattel
provision would have applied tt
the Southwest projecs. Some
citizens. however. feared i
would be applied anywhere IL
the city.
The subcommittee refused tt
act on the Senate measure
Evening star., 1960-04-08
Hordinq-Keefe

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester R.
Harding of Arlington an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Donna Dean
to Mr.. Joseph r. Keefe, son
of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Keefe
and the late Mr.. Thomas j.
Keefe. A July wedding is
planned,
Evening star., 1960-04-08
BerIiont-KopIon

Mr.. and Mrs. David L. Ber-
liant of Alexandria announce
the engagement of their
daughter Deena LiSbeth to
1t. Jerome A. Kaplan, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles I.
Kaplan. An early summer
wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1960-04-08
Bradford Sullivan

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L.
Bradford of Bethesda an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Elizabeth Ann
to Mr.. Thomas H. Sullivan,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
T. Sullivan of North Chevy
Chase. A June wedding is
planned.
Evening star., 1960-04-08

Mrs. Madge Jones Hughes
of Columbus, Ga, announces
the engagement Of her
daughter Eleanor to Cadet
Frederic Benjamin Hall III,
USMA. son of Col. Hall, II,
USA, and Mrs. Hall of Fort
Belvoir. Miss Hughes is also