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Evening star., 1960-08-10

on Washington streets.
The minimum age for a Dis
trict driver is 16.
According to an opinion sub
mitted by Corporation Counsel
Chester H. Gray, the law clearly
permits a nonresident driver
to operate a motor vehicle in
the District without obtaining
a city license if he is permitted
to drive in his home State. The
lone qualification. Mr.. Gray
said, is that this State must
have granted a reciprocal op-
Grating agreement to District
residents.
Maryland also has a driver
age minimum of 16 years. But
in Virginia, as in several other
States, the age is IS.
The Virginia General Assem-
bly, this year authorized cities,
along with counties with a pop
ulaSon of more than 100000
to bar drivers under 16. None
of the Northern Virginia juris-
dictions has done so.
In another opinion, Mr.. Gray
said that in the Districts public
school driver-training program
an instructor or a student, OF
both. may be held liable fol
damages to a city-owned cal
as a result of negligence.
The board of education hac
requested an opinion on thi.
matter as a result of a 1851
traffic accident in which one
of the Districts 13 driver-train.
ing cars was involved.
Mr.. Gray said that in deter.
mining the question of liability
in any particular case. all the
relevant facts would have tc
be considered together with the
controlling principles in the
law of negligence.
The corporation counsel also
noted that Congress recently
passed a law which forbidS the
District to use the defense o1
Government immunity in suit.
growing out Of alleged negli.
gence by a city employe while
operating a motor vehicle or
duty. AS a result of this new
law, Mr.. Gray said, the District
may be held responsible fol
damages to a third party as a
result of the driver-trainine
program.
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Project B

CPros;ect B is the 80-acre
area in Southwest bounded
by K and South Capitol
streets, the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks, E and
Fourth streets. Roger L.
Stevens and James H.
Scheuer of New York in 1856
agreed to develop the land.
They plan to build four
apartment houses with a to-
tai of 1900 units and four
groups of town houses for $50
families. So far. only the first
402-unit apartment house,
Capitol Park Apartments, has
been finished. Eighty-one of
the town houses are under
construction.O
The RIA said getting agree
ment on the location of the
Southwest Expressway, litiga-
tion and the withdrawal of the
original developer for Area B,
Ralph E. Bush of Norfolk, all
caused delays.
The RIA said it had found
it difficult" to get Scheuer and
Stevens into construction. But
it asserted that most of the
delay stemmed from the fact
that Project B was a pilot
project"
Even after the contracts were
all approved and the architec-
tural plans drawn, RIA said
it. had to persuade the John
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Co. to lend the developers
money for the Capitol Park
Apartments.
This Embarrassing progress
LOOK almost a year. COnSe-
quently, construction in the
residential area of Project Area
B was delayed until April, 1858,
when ground was broken for the
Capitol Park Apartments.
when further delays seemed
possible, the Land Agency
threatened Qast january to
withdraw the land from the re-
developer, although under the
Project B disposition contract
there is some question whether
this can be done prior to July
1861, the completion date for
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Conclusion

There are delays inherent
in urban renewal programs at a
number of points which exist
throughout the national urban
renewal program and are not
peculiar to Washington. There
are further delays which may
be peculiar to Washington due
to the separate responsibilities
of the District Commissioners.
National Capital Planning
Commission, National Capital
Housing Authority and our
agency.
I'VE are firmly convinced
that alteration of these respon-
sibilities is a matter for major
study and could be undertaken
only in conjunction with an
overall reorganization of the
District Government. The A.
nancial obligations and legal
responsibilities of the various
agencies involved have been
carefully balanced and devel-
oped. A readjustment would be
a matter of extreme delicacy."
The Ria said Congress could
speed up urban renewal in
Washington by passing the bills
to transfer title of the water
front to RIA and to authorize
the bridging of Ninth street
S.W. The agency added that
Congress could help further by
killing the Rabaut bill, which
would forbid authorization of
new projects until Southwest is
half completed, require COM
petitive bidding and delegate
more urban renewal power to
the District Commissioners.
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c. of c. Chief to Talk

Arthur H. Motley, president
of the United States Chamber
of Commerce, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a Free Enter
prise Rally" which will be held
in Arlington Towers September
10. The rally will be sponsored
by the Council of Northern
Virginia Chambers of Com
merce.
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AND HERE'S ONE that
Gregory Hankin, who used to
be a Public Utilities Com
missioner, tells about Roscoe
Pound, who was dean OF the
Harvard Law School. DR..
Pound, who is in his 8Os and
who recently began to learn
the Chinese language, has
long been a member OF the
Do-It-Yourself School.
One day one of his STU
dents almost stumbled over
the dean, who was sitting be-
meath a big elm on the Cam
bridge bank of the Charles
near the boat houses.
He was painstakingly go
ing through a big stack OF
page proofs and making
notes.
What was he doing?, the
student asked.
His recent lectures were
being published in book
form, the dean explained,
and he was preparing the
index.
The young man could not
conceal his surprise.
with all the legal and
clerical asSistants you have"
he said, Il can't understand
your undertaking such a
task"
The deans reply was:
"I am doing this myself
because of an experience I
once had in looking up the
information available in the
Widener Library on Lord Ell
don.
I'm the index of one VOL
ume I came upon a listing
which 1 thought referred to
something very helpful.
"It was: Lord Eldon-the
great mind of, Page 267.'
"Eldon was Pitts lord
chancellor, the arch-con-
servative who fought change,
the slowest head of the
chancery office in history.
1T was a quote. 1t read:
Lord Eldon (from the
bench), Il have a great mind
to find you in contempt" -"
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RIA Explains Delays, Gives Ideas on Speeding Renewal

Commissioners prepared and
requested Congress to enact
legislation permitting compli-
ance in 1858 and accordingly
S. 1850 was introduced by Mr.
Bible on August 7. 1858. No
further action took place until
the next session of Congress
when Mr.. Bible reintroduced
IS. 1870 on March IL, 1859
which was passed by the Sem
ate. No action has yet been
taken on the Commissioners
request by the House of Repre-
SentativeS."
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Burst Water Main
Diverts Traffic

Traffic was rerouted for near
ly an hour about noon today
after workmen accidentally
broke an 8-inch water main at
Thirteenth street and Michigan
avenue NE, police reported.
A Water Department spokes-
man described the accident as
a routine break, and said water
shot several feet in the air. A
nearby resident said water at
one time nearly reached the
top of the trees.
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delays on three counts, all OF
which may be corrected by
action by the Congress. The
redevelopment plan permits the
bridging of Ninth street by a
major private building and the
transfer of land in the water
front area from the Corps of
Engineers to the District of
Columbia and thence to the
Redevelopment Land Agency,
to be leased for private devel-
opment. The D. C. Corporation
Counsel hes determined that
both of these actions called for
by the approved plan require
additional congressional au-
thoriZatiOn."
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Tax Stamp
Puts Finger
On PinbuII
BY GERALD o. HERNDON
Star stan Writer

The one pinball machine in
the District for which an Inter-
nal Revenue Service gambling
tax stamp was obtained has
been removed from a downtown
pinball palace.
Morals division detectives
said the proprietorS of Capitol
Amusement, 1914 New York
avenue, NV. voluntarily took
the machine off the premises.
Police had begun an investi-
CATION to determine why the
$3.50 gaming stamp had been
acquired for a device which the
arcade operators insisted was
used only for amusement.
Capt. Scott E. Meyer of the
Metropolitan Police gambling
squad said that, during a con-
ference in the United States
Attorneys Office, it was agreed
that no evidence of a gambling
violation existed. He said the
Capitol Amusement proprietors
had been told by a tax collector
to obtain a gambling tax stamp
for the machine because it was
equipped with a device for
multiplying odds.
Eight other machines in the
establishment were found to
be ordinary single play pin
balls.
An Internal Revenue Service
spokesman said a machine is
considered a gaming device"
if it is equipped with a push
button "for releasing free plays
and a meter for registering
plays so released" or If it al
lows players to insert more
than one coin before playing
to increase the odds.
The issuance of a Federal
tax stamp for the one machine
at the New York avenue es-
tablishment was revealed in a
check by The Star of gaming
stamp holders in Maryland and
the District.
The only stamp listed in the
District was issued to Gem,
Inc, the firm which operates
the New York avenue amuse-
ment arcade.
A District licensing official
said there currently are some
1880 licensed pinball machines
in the District. All are pre-
sumed to be operated for
amusement only"-that is free
games won can not be convert
ed into cash.
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The
Rambler
Recalls Corn
On KenduII Green
By GEORGE KENNEDY


The final speaker at the
dinner of the Alumni ASso-
citation of Gallaudet College
in the new Student Union
Building last Sunday eve
ming was DR.. Harley Drake.
who is in his 80s.
Years ago DR.. Drake taught
agriculture at the college
and ran the farm on the
nearly 100-acre area on
Florida avenue NE. known
as Kendall Green.
Today the college has no
agriculture course. Almost
$40 million worth of new
buildings have been con-
structed on the green and
the farm is now a campus.
But Amos Kendall'S old
mansion and the huge barn
behind it, which were built
before the Civil War and
which are among Washing
tons most valuable antiques,
are still standing and will be
preserved.
Kendall, who had been
JackSon'S Postmaster Cen
eral and the most influential
member of his Kitchen cab
met" made a fortune as bus
mess manager of Samuel F.
B. Morse's telegraph compa-
ny. There was deafness in
his family and that had a lot
to do with his bringing young
Edward Miner Gallaudet
from Hartford to head the
school for the deaf which he
was founding.
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The Senate District COM
mittee on July 20 asked the
RedeUelopment Land Agency
hoW the Washington urban
reneWal program could be
accelerated. The RIA is the
agency charged 1Dith erecut-
ing urban rene,Udl. projects
approved BY the District Com
miSSionerS and the National
Capital Planning Commission.
This is a partial tert of the
RLA'S dnSUer, released yes
terday, to the Senate'S letter
OF inquiry. 1t WdS signed by
Gordon E. HoUard, who 1DaS
acting erecutiUe director OF
the RIA Uhile John r.
SedrleS, jr., tDaS on uacation.
IT believe that any impair
tial appraisal Of the speed of
urban renewal in Washington
has to be made in the light Of
comparable programs in other
parts of the country =.
THE Commissioner of Ur-
ban Renewal. Mr.. David M.
Walker stated before tn e
Board of Trade last spring
that progress in the Wash
ington program was not un-
usually slow but was compa-
rable to that in other COM
munitieS.
Therefore, this agency feels
that, although there have been
delays, which will be men
toned below, and there may be
ways of expediting progress,
which will also be mentioned,
the redevelopment of South
west Washington has not been
unusually slow. There have
been few faster projects, none
larger and many slower"
Before citing specific reasons
for delays on Southwest urban
renewal projects. the RIA en-
phasized that, in general
planning, legal squabbles and
relocation of businesses and in
dividuals in project areas take
considerable time. Mr.. Howard
said planning can take any
where from six months on
small projects to 10 months on
big ones.
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Project c

FroJeCt -
project C is a 440-acre
area taking in most of the
Southwest. The New York
realty firm of Webb g.
Knapp, headed by William
Zeckendorf. is committed to
building the Town Center
and Plaza within the area,
as we'll as other residential
units. The Town Center
bounded by M, Sixth, I and
Third streets - already is
under construction. Two
apartment houses, called
Town Center Towers East,
and a shopping center al
ready are well along. Ground
has not been broken in the
Plaza area, bounded by
Tenth, D and Sixth streets
and the new Southwest eX-
preSsWay. Webb g. Knapp
plans to build in the Plaza
area a 1,000-room hotel, a
world communications center
of 100000 square feet, office
buildings providing is mil
lion square feet of space and
a 1,000-seat movie theaterD
Project Area C was planned
in 1854 and 1855. The majo,
planning delay in the prepara
ton of this project concerned
the possibility of placing tn,
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Uniform Firm Burns

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 10 (AP)
"A 100000 fire wrecked the
Princess Anne Uniform Corp.
today. throwing 140 employees
out of work. The firm manu-
factureS uniforms for nurses
and mattresses.
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RIA GIVES SENATE GROUP
TARGET DATES ON PROJECTS

The Redeveopment Land Agency gave the fol-
lowing figures on the Southwest urban renewal prof.
ects to the Senate. Completion means the sale
lease of all the land not necessarily completion OF the
new buildings on it.
Area Area Area C-1
Acre.se 30 44l4 30.5
Net Project Cost - $8635 O42 $6O,785,584 $2868,651
Loan and Grant
ALLEGATION Date April, 53 January, ST May, ST
Target Completion
Date Original - April '56 January, ST Oct, SO
Current - Dec. so December '65 June, 80
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Narcotics Rinq
HereCracked
ByU. 5. Agents
Accused Supplier
In So, ,000-o-Week
Operation Seized

Federal agents have cracked
a narcotics ring that was
pocketing $4,000 to $4,000
weekly in heroin sales, Leroy
Morrison. chief of the Wash
ington field Office of the
Bureau of Narcotics, said today.
From 5000 to 5000 capsules
| of the narcotic were coming
into the Washington Baltimore
area each week from a New
York source, the agent said.
Disclosure of the operation,
under surveillance since De-
cember, followed the arrest of
Thomas P. Haley, 43, of the
HOO block of Chapel Oaks
drive, Chapel Oaks, in Prince
Georges County.
Indicted July 19
Haley had been named in an
11-count Baltimore indictment
July 19 as supply narcotics to
distributors. Three men charged
in District indictments with
pushing" the heroin were ar
rested here in July.
They are Aaron F. Rodgers
35, of the TOO block of Vermont
avenue NV; James A. Blount
Is. of the $500 block of Holmeao
place NV. and George w
Byers. 38, Of the 1000 block ol
Quebec place NV.
Mr.. Morrison said agent.
first traced Haley to a room il
the Harlem section of New
York, but that he escaped {
net and fed to a small Penn
Sylvania town before disap'
pearing again.
On July % Haley entered
District General Hospital undel
an alias for treatment of drus
addiction. Monday he was re
leased. only to be greeted at hi
home by agents who made tn,
arrest.
Mr.. Morrison said Haley hac
vowed never to be taken alive
but he surrendered meekl,
without reaching for a loaded
.32-caliber revolver. Haley wa!
held in $4,000 bond in a Balti,
more arraignment.
New York Trips Cited
The Baltimore indictment &C.
cuses Haley of supplying the
other three, and charges Byer.
: and Rodgers with accompany
ing Haley to New York in con
nection with the drug opera,
ton. Haley is accused o.
, offering to pay Byers $100 o.
100 heroin capsules for helping
him buy and take heroin t.
this area.
Only Haley is charged il
the Baltimore indictment. bu
the others are named as re-
ceiving the drug. The othel
three are charged in the Dis
: trict with from 8 to IL case
of possessing and selling.
Mr.. Morrison called tht
) operation one of the largeSt
unearthed in this area.
Evening star., 1960-08-10

so THE ALUMNI-there
were $50 at the tableS-were
interested in what the old
gentleman, who retired years
ago and is living on his own
farm in Ohio, would have to
say about the campus. He
talked both vocally and digi-
tally.
He spoke of the old build
ings and the houses on the
campus and told who occu-
pied them. He was bothered
at the loss of the trees
he remembered. Hurricane
Hazel whisked through the
campus and knocked down
q trees.)
But he was most pleased
shout the growth of a fig tree
he had planted. 1t is a large
tree today, he said, and laden
with fruit.
As if to prove it, he pro-
duced a branch he had cut
from it. The branch was
heavy with green figs that
locked luscious.
1t reminded him OF a story,
he said, a story about a
preacher.
This preacher wrote out his
sermons but did not memo
rize them. He read them
from the pulpit.
One Sunday he put his SER
mon on the lectern OF the
pulpit before services and
left the church. The vino
blew the first page of the
stack.
He began his sermon from
memory.
LAS Adam said to Eve" he
intoned, glanced down at the
manuscript and stopped.
"As Adam said to Eve" he
began again as he shufied
the papers, there's a leaf
miSsing!"
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District Weighs Ban
On Drivers Not Yet 16
Legislation to Be Sought to Clarity
Stutus of Youths From Other Areas
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Rtaf Writer

District Commissioners expected to seek legislation
year youths under the OF 6 from
driving in Washington.
Commissioners told by their chief legal adviser
yesterday would legislation to keep drivers
who have the right to operate their States from
Evening star., 1960-08-10

the project G,200 days after
the start of Capitol Park"
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Larger Computer
Starts to Work
At.C-E-I-R, Inc.

A high-speed IBM 709e elec-
tronic computer began operat-
ing today at the Arlington Re-
search Center of C-E-I-R, Inc.
The 1000 data processing sys-
TEN is the 18th delivered by
1BM, and the first commercial
installation in the country to
provide both computer time and
programming services to COM
mercial and Government users
on an hourly or job basis. The
first II systems are being used
exclusively for defense pur-
poses.
DR.. Herbert w. Robinson,
president of C-E-I-R, stated
that time on the new computer
will be divided about equally
between Government and COM
mercial users.
The transiStorized 1000 COM
puteS at a speed five times
faster than its predecessor, the
IBM 709. This increased speed,
DR.. Robinson said, will result
in the solution of problems at
a significantly lower cost than
ever before. and will bring the
advantages of electronic COM
putation and data processing
within the financial means of
many more organizations and
firms, especially in the greater
Washington business, financial
and Government community.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Teletroy Faces Fight
In Deal for Audio

Negotiations for merger of
Teletray Electronic Systems,
Inc, of Silver Spring, Md,
and Audio-Dynamics Corp. of
Washington could end in an
empasse or a proxy fight, it
was learned today.
Edward j. Myerson, president
Of Teletray, announced that
his company had options on
about 40 per cent of Audio-
Dynamics stock for a exchange
of two shares of Teletray for
each five shares of Audio-
Dynamics.
Paul Schuyler, president of
Audio-D -Dynamics countere d
with an emphatic statement
that he had not recommended
to his directors a two-for- five
exchange Of stock to permit a
merger. In the event Of a
merger, Audio-Dynamics stock
holders are entitled to greater
consideration, he said in a
statement relayed to news
papers through Stephen E.
Balogh, president of Balogh &
Co., original underwriters for
the Audio stock.
Mr.. Schnyder affirmed Mr..
Myerson's announcement that
negotiations are going on be-
tween the two firms, however.
In his earlier statement, Mr..
Myerson said he felt a public
statement was advisable in
view of the many rumors being
circulated concerning negotia-
tions between the companies.
"Teletray is considering a
proposal of merger to Audio-
Dynamics," he said. Whether
or not such a proposal will be
made will depend primarily
upon an audit of the books of
Audio-Dynamics, now in pro-
cess. and also on opinion by
counsel concerning tax and
other cosequences of the pro-
posal.
Some of the major stock
holders of Audio-Dynamics
Evening star., 1960-08-17
6 OF BUSINESS
TALKING OF BUSINESS
. MoyfIower's Mack Finds Chance
1 Career PerpetuoIIy Interesting
BY WILLIAM MaeDOUGALL

By WILLIAM MaeDOUGALL
Star Stan Writer
sThe guests were hopping
mad and hopping barefoot that
day in 1925.
sAnd the management Of the
newly opened Mayf1ower Hotel
was temporarily at a loss.
Corneal j. Mack, then a
bookkeeper at the hotel, re-
members the incident well.
"It was our first big conven-
tion. the international Parlia-
mentary Union" he explained,
"and most of the members
were foreigners.
"True to their custom, they
had gone to bed the night be-
fore after putting their shoes
in the hall to be shined-as
they do in Europe.
"But our help then was in
experienced, and not knowing
quite what to do. collected the
shoes in laundry bag. When
We found out what had hap
pened, we notified the guests,
spread out the shoes on the
ballroom floor and let them
come down and collect them"
Time for Joke
The Mayflower can tell that
joke on itself because in sue
ceeding years the hotel has sue
cessfully entertained kings,
prime ministers and presidents.
Its 300 employes-nine of whom
have worked there since the
opening - speak 19 languages,
and one caterer alone speaks
five.
Last year 100000 persons
spent an average of 2la nights
each at the hotel. which is un-
officially reported to have re-
Evening star., 1960-08-17
MUTUAL FUNDS

NEW YORK. Aug II (APl.-Na-
tional Association Securities Dealers.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Mideust Governments
Face Oil Royalty Cuts

LONDON, Aug. II (AP.-
A surplus of crude oil soon may
cut revenues of several Mideast
governments, according to A.
nancial authorities.
Three of the worlds largest
oil companies-Shell, ESQ and
British Petroleum already
have reduced their Mideast
crude oil prices. Experts expect
other oil companies to follow
suit quickly.
Oil royalties are the main
source of revenue for a number
of Mideast governments, among
them Iraq, Iran and Saudi
Arabia.
Evening star., 1960-08-17
Steel Upturn
Still Appears
Uncertuin

NEW YORK, Aug. IT (AP).
Steel operations will have to
increase sooner or later despite
the current disappointing order
rate, Iron Age magazine said
today.
steel is being consumed at
a higher rate than new orders, "
the publication said, land an
upturn in business is on the
way. But the immediate pic
ture does not show when the
upturn will come.
September orders as yet do
not show the expected strength
and nothing in the order books
now shows anything Of a gain
in momentum"
The metal working weekly
summarized market factors
this way:
steel inventories are still
large. While this is surprising,
it is true. Many steel users
will continue to reduce inven-
tories for some weeks.
Demand for railroad and
construction steel is off.
"Tinplate releases have fallen
of and there have been some
cancellations of orders.
steel consumption has
fallen off-mors than had been
expected from seasonal and
economic factors.
warehouses are loaded with
steel and are not ordering in
any strength. There is little
reason to expect a change soon.
"Automotive orderings of
steel is disappointing-up to
now"
Evening star., 1960-08-17

have executed options to Tele-
tray, subject to certain condi-
tionS, for the acquisition Of
their stock on an approxi-
mately five to two basis;
others, on a basis not involving
the issuance of common stock.
The total amount of presently
optioned stock is approximately
40 per cent. Other options are
pending" he added.
"Teletray is not obligated to
exercise these options, and will
determine whether or not it
will exercise them after it has
received and studied the re-
ports of auditors and counsel.
The proposal still is to be
placed before and considered
by the board of directors of
Audio-Dynamics Corps"