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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Chairman
Named for
Morse Club

A. L. Wheeler, chairman of
the District Democratic Central
Committee. yesterday was
elected permanent chairman of
the D. C. Morse for President
Club.
The election was held at the
clubs new HEADQUARTERS at 923
Eleventh street NV.
George B. Parks was elected
club secretary and WoolSey w.
Hall was named treasurer.
Mr.. Wheeler said that ap-
proximately rs persons attended
the meeting. He said that VOL
unteers were selected to head
precinct organizations.
The headquarters will be for
mally opened at II am. Tues
day. Senator Morse, Democrat
of Oregon, will speak at that
time.
Meanwhile seymour M.
Chase, president of the Draft
Stevenson Committee, reported
that his organization now has
leaders and workers in more
than half of the 68 precincts set
up by the Board Of Elections
for the May 3 primary.
Among the precinct leaders
already signed up, he said. are
lawyers, housewives, teachers,
a former Congressman, and
others in various trades and
occupations.
THE basic mission of the
leaders and their workers is,
Of course, to round up Steven
son supporters, see that they
are registered to vote, and then
to make sure that they do vote
on May g." Mr.. Chase said.
THE reservoir of Stevenson
backing here is always full;
our precinct organization is de-
voted to making sure that the
people who prefer Stevenson
don't pass up their only chance
to express their preference at
the ballot box"
The Draft Stevenson Com
mittee has announced that it
will enter in the primary a
slate of candidates for dele
gates pledged to vote for Adlai
E. Stevenson at the Demo-
cratic national convention in
July at Los Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22

been unable to register because
they could not complete the
blank form. Fairfax County
and Alexandria registrars say
they have had few, if any,
such failures.
A bill to permit voter regis
tration on printed forms was
introduced last week by Al
delegates. Chief patrons of the
measure are Delegates Willard
J. Moody and Donald H. Sandie
of Portsmouth. Many COM
munities used printed registra-
ton forms before the blank
paper law was adopted.
The 1858 General Assembly
ended the practice of using
printed forms for registering
voters. Sponsors of that
measure said the Constitution
didn't permit printed forms.
Must Answer Questions
Under the registration law
adopted in 1858, potential
voters must answer short
list of questions on a blank
sheet of paper. Registrars
vary on whether they may have
the questions before them or
must write out the answers
from memory.
Fairfax County Registrar
Waneta Buckley commented it
would be wonderful" if the
State would do away with the
blank paper registrations. She
said it would be easier and
quicker to use the old printed
forms, but added that the new
policy has kept few persons in
Fairfax from registering.
/ Alexandria Registrar Fred
Petit said the proposed change
would have little or no effect
on the operation of his office.
He said the new blank sheet
requirement has not kept any
body in Alexandria from reg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Firm to Build 51Houses
For Sale in Southwest

Club at Sixth and I streets
S.W.
The 81 homes are the first
Of 300 town houses" which
Webb & Knapp hopes to build
in the Southwest. Last month,
the firm, headed by William
Zeckendorf, broke ground on
commercial buildings and
apartments in the Town Gen.
ter" area of the Southwest.
Mr.. Slayton said the Sixth
street development will be the
first single-family homes to be
built according to a plan in
the Southwest since $780,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
O'NeiI Promoted

Emil L. O'Neil, formerly with
the Montgomery County Police
Department, has been promoted
to the post of assistant to the
deputy director of Civil Defense
for Montgomery County. He
succeeds Joseph M. O'Connell,
who resigned in September to
enter private industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
The
Rambler
Visits no of
The Cincinnati
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

why don't you stop in the
Larz Anderson House and 60
through the museum of the
Society Of the Cincinnati?"
a member of that distin-
guiShed organization asked.
THE Washington items
might provide you with a
piece for Washington's
Birthday"
That's how the Rambler
happened to meet ]. o.
DENLY, a member of the
society and curator of the
museum. Mr.. DENLY, a slight
man in his early COS, seemed
to enjoy showing the house.
It's a good show, open to
the public with no charge
from 2 to 4 pm. on weekdays.
Right across Massachusetts,
avenue from the Cosmos
Club, it was Washington'S
most impressive private resi-
dence until it was given to
the society in 1888 by Mrs.
Anderson, with its furnish
ingS, books and works of art.
Her husband had died in
1897.
"Only one member of a
family headed by an officer
who served the American
cause in the Revolution is
eligible for membership"
Mr.. DENLY said, preferably
the oldest son of the oldest
sons in the male line.
when it was formed as a
military order under Gen.
Washington right after the
Revolution it had a mem
bership of 2,4OO. Today there
are 1900 members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Hundreds Get in Line
For Holiday Borqoins

Hundreds of persons lined up
on city sidewalks this morning
to get that buy of a lifetime"
in the annual Washington's
Birthday sale.
Many determined souls stood
all night in order to get first
choice of everything from SO
automobiles to 99-cent type
writer's.
There was, for example,
Michael Disregard, 16, of 4601
North Thirty-third sire e t,
Arlington, who braved the snow
and cold and stood in front
of a pawn shop from II o'clock
last night until 1880 this
morning when the doors opened,
He wore duck hunters
clothes and seemed to think
his bargain hunting was worth
all that waiting as he charged
home with a SIG press camera
under his arm.
They Joke and Sing
Other teen-agers however,
waited until as late as 3 am
before posting themselves in
front of stores advertising spe-
cial sales.
Sports and appliance stores
were especially popular with
the early birds, many of whom
joked and sang through the
cold, gray hours.
William Woodward, II, OF
3512 Ely place S. E. was in
this group-"I'm going to get
some bowling shoes. cheap, ]
hope. He took his place in
line at 3 am.
The sales also proved to be
a tourist attraction. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank H. Ditto, of Mays
Landing, N. j., were among
those lined up in front of an
! appliance store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
BY JOHN BARRON
Star STAFF Writer

A winsome little girl who
m stored Turkish, Arabic
French ard Armenian before
she was eight shouldn't have
much trouble in school.
But Lillian ChaglaSsin die
last fall when she enrolled in
Arlingtons Wilson Elementary
School. The trouble was that
none of her classes were con-
Quoted in Turkish. Arabic
French or Armenian.
Unable to communicate in
English, she and five other
bright foreign children found
school in America frightening
and lonely.
Now, however, their Difficult
ties rapidly are evaporating
partly because a librarian
turned Samaritan.
Saddened when the children
merely sat in the library and
stared. Mrs. Shirley Bollinger
determined to help them. She
gave up her free time during
the day and even remained
after school to offer private
English lessons.
OvercOmeS Logic"
The results have been swift
and rewarding for all concerned
But before achieving them
Mrs. Bollinger had to overcome
some effective childish logic.
Catherine Chapat. II, whose
native language is French, de-
manded to know by what queer
rules the word live could mean
both to live and to be alive.
Mrs. Bollinger's explanation
elected only a Gallo shrug.
Using a picture dictionary,
Mrs. Bollinger induced her
pupils to discourse about topics
that fascinated them most. The
favorite of 9-year-old Manuel
Whyte was his native Spain.
1T is so beeg," he said.
Much beeger than, much
beeger than"
Much bigger than WHAT"
Mrs. Bollinger asked.
"Mucho beeger than the
United States" Manuel ex:
planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22

THE LAST WAS ONE of
many oak panels in the long
second-f1oor gallery leading
to the dining room. Press a
certain one of the bosses OF
the border and it swings
open. Mr.. Anderson could
disappear through it and
watch his guests arriving
from the recess of a balcony
or avoid them by going
through an. escape corridor.
A genealogical work in the
library gave the key to the
family story. The immi-
grant came to Virginia from
England in the 18th century.
A Capt. Richard G. Anderson
was in the first boat crossing
the Delaware for Washing
tons raid on Trenton, N. j.
He later became a member
of the society and ancestor
of the ambassador. The
Maj. Anderson who COM
manded Fort Sumter was a
member of the family.
Larz Anderson was a great
grandson of Nicholas Long
worth of Cincinnati, the
wealthiest man west of the
Hudson in pre-Civil War
days. And Larz Anderson
married Miss Isabel Weld
Perkins of Boston who had
inherited SIT million largely
from the Weld fortune made
in clipper ships.
They built the house in
1905 and there was general
agreement that America had
no finer hosts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
THERE is A FRENCH

THERE is A FRENCH
BRANCH of the order with
headquarters in Paris and
200 members, descendants of
the officers who fought under
Gen. Rochambeau or Admi-
raj de GrasSe.
THE name of the society
comes from CincinnatuS, one
of the nobleSt Romans of
them all. He had retired to
his farm in the 5th Century
BIC. and was blowing when
notified that Rome was in
danger from an invading
tribe. He left his pillow in the
field, became dictator and
saved the day. The crisis
over, he went back to his
farm.
After the Revolution,
officers were entitled to take
up land grants in the West.
Many did so in the Ohio
valley, and that's how Gin
cinnati got its name"
The Washington items on
display include a Gilbert
Stuart portrait, the emblem
of the society which Wash
ington presented to his aide,
Tench Tilghman of Mary
land.
But George Washington
and Mount Vernon faded
into the background as the
Rambler became more and
more interested in the
wonders of the Anderson
House and the story of the
Anderson family.
The great hall-two stories
high with its spiral columns
of porphyry (red marble)-is
probably not to be compared
with the great hall of the
Temple of Karnak. But this
one is a surprising expanSe
of grandeur to come upon in
a private residence.
The house was a museum
even when the AnderSons
lived in it 18th Century
Brussels tapestries, Japanese
panels (he was our Ambas-
sador to Japan in 1922, a
choir stall, beautifully carved
in a dark wood, from a
Neapolitan church, and a
secret door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22

since the State Roads Commits
sion spends its half share there
and none in the city.
Legislative leaders hope to
start moving late this week on
the main reason for this ses-
sion-the budget. Once that is
cleared, and no real trouble is
anticipated, there will be a
rush to clean out any backlog
of bills and go home.
Major Bills
School teachers pay raises
and a speed-up of construction
OF major highways are expected
to be two of the first admin
lstration- backed bills to reach
Gov. Tawes' desk for signature
this week.
There also will be floor action
on two other major bills-to
give larger counties more mem
bership in the House of Dele
gates and to add two more
judges to the five-judge Court
of Appeals.
Finance leaders also report
they will be ready to bring the
Governors budget to the floor
by Thursday. It's expected to
be trimed only slightly from the
$476. 758.352 total he submitted
opening day.
Meanwhile, committees will
continue blowing through the
legislation already before them.
Judiciary Hearing
Senate judiciary has set a
herring for 1890 am. on a con-
troversial bill by Senator John
Sanford. Democratic of Wor-
ceSter, to punish women who
have more than two Legitimate
children. Penalties would in
clude Jail terms, fines lossof
welfare payments and sterili-
cation.
House Ways and Means has
set an l1:30 am. hearing that
same day on a bill to let the
TldeWater Fisheries Commits
sion license and regulate all
power boats and sail boats.
House judiciary will rold a
hearing Wednesday on levying
a State gross receipts tax for
closed circuit boxing and
wrestling telecasts and on
Thursday will hear arguments
on a bill to outlaw racial dis
elimination in public places.
The school teacher pay raise,
which started out as one of
the big issues of the session
February 3. may bet settled
finally and without much
bloodshed on the Senate floor
tonight.
Gov. Tawes is expected to
win.
The House has already ap-
proved his program of limited
raises of $500 for public scnool
teachers with more than A.
years experience. The Senate
has pushed an identical bill to
within a step of passage and
decisively beat off an attempt
to substitute the broader range
Of increases sought by the
teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Planning Session

The Northern Virginia Re-
gional Planning and Economic
Development Commission will
hold its next regular meeting
at 8 pm. Thursday in its offices
at $3.50 Wilson boulevard,
Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22

legislature although there are
only 10 days remaining in the
session. After tonight bills may
be introduced only with per-
mission of three-fifths of the
members.
Although Gov. Tawes wanted
to hold of the highway fund
distribution decision until next
year. some delegates we're re-
ported ready to push for it
this time.
The heart of the proposal is
to base distribution of revenues
from gasoline taxes and regis
tration fees on the number of
motor vehicles registered in
each county and Baltimore
City.
The most populated counties.
Baltimore, Anne Arundel,
Montgomery and Prime e
Georges. would benefit from in
creased funds under the regis
tration formula.
100000 Loss
Baltimore City would be the
loser to the tune of an esti-
mated 100000 if the change
were made this year.
The counties would be guar.
anteed no less money than they
would receive under the present
system. This provides that the
State keeps half of the revenue
gives Baltimore City 80 pei
cent and allocates the remain.
ing 20 to the counties on the
basis of their road mileage.
Baltimore City has protested
the formula change. 1t claims
that while it receives 80 pei
cent of the revenues. 10 pei
cent winds up in the counties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Suburbon's Campaign
Reaches SIS, 500

Pledges from residential
areas to Suburban Hospitals
building fund have reached
S58,500 of the S65.OO0 goal, it
was announced today.
The fund drive is part of an
advance gifts campaign to A.
nance the hospitals expansion
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Language Veil Lifted
For Six Lonely Pupils

Il believe you are wrong, but
let's see," the librarian said
opening an atlas.
Here, Mrs. Bollinger con-
feSses, she committed an ire
vocable error.
The atlas depicted the entire
United States on one page. 1t
also represented Spain on a
single page. Spain appeared
appreciably larger.
His dark eyes glistening in
triumph. Manual point e d
proudly and said, You see!"
Speed Embarrassing
The children have absorbed
English with embarrassing ra-
pidity. Six-year-old bin Chin,
whose first language is Chi
nese, now is the best reader in
his f1rst-grade class. A young
Turk, Orhan Uysal, who is 8.
and Fernando Burbano, a Z
year-old Spaniard, also have
done we'll.
But if there is single star
among the six it probably is
Lillian, who after only four
months of study speaks. just
like a little American"
Her poise matches her lin
guistic talent. This is perhaps
because, by her own account,
she was very much in the
social whirl back in her native
Lebanon.
Il do not have many friends
here" she confided. But in
Lebanon I had many, many
friends. Why, I knew everybody
in Lebanon"
Beginning to Like U. S.
Now able to converse with
their contemporaries, the chill
dren are beginning to like
America, to which their parents
have come for diplomatic or
business reasons.
Manuel says: Il weel not say
anything against my country.
But I believe it is better here.
We have a nice school and a
large playground to which
many children come"
Then he said as an after
Thought: And. of course, I am
learning another language"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22

The Prince Georges County
Council for Exceptional Chill
dren will meet at 8 pm, Thurs
day at the University Park Ele-
mentary School. 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Maryland Faces Fight
In Late Tax Split Bill

ANNAPOLIS Feb % (AP-Freedom to introduce bills ends
tonight for the Maryland legislators may
introduce the last possible oubemake the 3Oday session.
bill Incorporating study commission report recommend
ing change in the motor vehicle up among
the State counties and cities received
Gov. TaWeS has tentatively submission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Vote Law Repeal
Sentiment Seen
Northern Virginia Officials Differ
On Blank Paper Registration
BY DAN POOLE
Star Stan Writer

Northern Virginia registrars generally are in favor of
proposal to repeal the States blank paper registration
law enacted in the last the General Assembly
They vary, however, the effect law-supposedy
designed to make difficult Negroes to yote-has
had the number of registrations
In Arlington than 100 persons mostly white have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
BY GEORGE BEVERIDGE
Star stan Writer

The first new housing to be
offered for sale In the South
west redevelopment area will
get under construction ION OF
before August /. 1860" the
firm of Webb g. Knapp today.
William L. Slayton, Webb G.
Knapp vice president, said the
firm is nearing completion of
a contract with the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency for purchase
of most of a two-block area at
Sixth and G streets S.W. on
which 81 row town houses"
will be built.
The area now is virtually
cleared of old structures, and
officials estimated about five
months will be required before
it can be turned over to the
developers for building. gre
The 81 houses will include
two, three and four-bedroom
units, fully air conditioned,
each with two bath. flreplaces
and individuals walled gardens.
Of street parking will be pro-
vided, and some houses will
have garages, Mr.. Slayton said.
The houses will be built in
five large blocks. surround a
park like common" area in
the center.
Prices Not Set
Prices have not yet been Sc,
he said.
All other land disposed of in
the Southwest to private de-
velopers for rebuilding has been
leased by RIA. Purchase of
the land by Webb & Knapp will
permit buyers of the houses to
own their lots, Mr.. Slayton
said.
Officials said the announce
ment of an August construction
date was cleared by Webb &
Knapp's agreement to pay the
RIA price of $1.80 a square
foot for the entire residential
area. Webb & Knapp said this
figures to a land cost to the
firm Of $4,000.
Under the redevelopment
plan, a maximum density of 70
homes could have been built in
the area to be purchased, &C
cording to John R. Searles, jr.,
RIA director. He said Webb &
Knapp felt that no more than
81 houses could be built with
out sacrificing elements Of
their plan, however.
Block Described
The large "super-block" or
which the houses will be built
formed by closing Fifth and H
cfraafe G VIZ /. ko,,-Lal - ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
Block Described

The large "super-block" on
which the houses will be built,
formed by closing Fifth and H
streets S.W.. is bounded on the
west by Sixth, on the north by
G., on the east by the District
of Columbia recreation area
west of Fourth street, and on
the south by the new Boys
Evening star., 1960-08-03
Teen-Age Drivers
To Compete Here

Fifty-one of the Nations top
teen-age drivers will compete
for honors here Sunday through
next Thursday in the ninth
annual National Teen-Age Safe
Driving Road-e-o.
During their five-day stay
the drivers will be put through
a series of tough tests, includ-
ing a road check in Washing
ton traffic ard skill driving
tests on the floor of the Ma
tional Guard Armory.
The top three winners will
be announced at an awards
dinner next Thursday in the
Statler Hilton Hotel. First
prize is a $4,000 scholarship;
second prize, a $500 scholar
ship, and third prize, a $1,000
scholarship.
Evening star., 1960-08-03
Modest Rise
In Jobs Seen
Next Month
BY the Associated Press

The Labor Department pre-
diets a modest upswing in en-
ployment by mid-September,
trend normal for that time of
the year.
After taking a national sur
vey the department said yes
terday the moderate increases
would come principally in auto
centers as work starts on 1861
cars and trucks.
Payrolls in about half of
major steel areas are expected
to move up in line with re-
newed demand from the auto
industry.
Other Gains Seen
Gains also are expected in
fabricated metals, electrical
machinery. food containers,
radio-TV and electronics and
communications equipment.
Despite fast activity in the
missile field. major aircraft
producers expected a continual
ton Of their decline in employ
ment.
The department said the
study showed about six out of
seven of the survey areas an
ticipate gains and about five
look for manufacturing in
creases.
The Labor Department also
added q footnote to the soaring
totals of both employed and
unemployed reported earlier for
June. The greatest summer
time outpouring of young job
seekers from schools pushed
employment up IA million to a
record 68.579,0O0. And jobless-
ness increased by nearly /
million to "A million, leaving
5l2 per cent of the civilian
labor force looking for work.
Offsets Noted
Yesterdays report said the
survey indicated the recent
gains in area employment were
mainly seasonal and in many
areas were Offset by manu-
featuring cutbacks. chiefly in
durable goods industries.
In connection with the rise
of unemployment brought on
by the influx Of school-age job
seekers, the survey showed
State insured unemployment
declined 10 per cent between
May and June. The depart
ment said this indicated more
favorable employment oppor-
tunities for experienced adult
workers.
Evening star., 1960-08-03
Steel Strike
Notice Given

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 3 (AP)
The United Steelworkers
Union has served notice 1t will
strike the Pittsburgh Steel Co.
next Sunday in a dispute over
incentive wage scales.
The company, l4th largest
steel producer in the Nation,
Immediately began an orderly
shutdown of its five main
plants yesterday after receiv-
ing the unions five-day strike
notice.
Company and union negoti-
ations have been battling over
the incentive wage scale ques-
ton for months.
The company said its rates
have pushed the firms labor
costs 46 cents an hour above
the industry average.
A strike would idle some
7,700 workers at Monessen ard
Allenport. Pa; Warren ard
Akron, Ohio, and Worcester,
Mass.
Shortly after an agreement
was reached in the Nation
wide steel strike last January,
Pittsburgh Steel and the USW
established a joint committee
to study the possibility of re-
vising the firms incentive wage
scales.
The committee handed down
its recommendations on July S.
The company accepted the
proposals, but the union re-
jected them.
Then last week the company
notified the USW that it plan
ned to cutback incentive wage
rates effective August 7. The
union had so days in which to
decide whether to accept the
cutback or go on strike.
Evening star., 1960-08-03
Official May Take
Philadelphia Post

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 3
(AP DIR. Eugene A. Gillis, of
the United States Public Health
Service, has agreed to become
public health commissioner of
Philadelphia if the salary is
raised to $4,000.
A special committee chosen
by Mayor Richardson Dilworth
chose DR.. Gillis for the $4,000
a year post. which has been va
cant since May, 1859.
DR., Gillis, 81, now makes
$l7,500 a year as regional
United States Public Health
Medical Director with head
quarters in Charlottesville, Va.