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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
Civic Unit Seeks
To End Blight
In HiIIsduIe Area

The HillSdale Civic Associa-
ton last night sought to keep
its neighborhood from becom-
ing an urban renewal project
area.
Seeking to make any razing
unnecessary, the association
voted to sponsor a cleanup
fiXup campaign from May
through June l in the Barry
Farms area of AnacoStia.
The association plans to urge
local residents to remodel their
homes and property to elimi-
nate traces Of blight.
The group also plans to write
a letter to National Capital
Parks urging consideration of
the development of a wooded
area bounded by Stanton and
Pomeroy roads, Sayles place
and Sheraton road for use as
a park.
To further beauty the area,
the association is going to urge
the District Board of Education
to discontinue use of the Birney
School annex in the $500 block
of Nichols avenue Sc. so that
it can be RACED to allow de-
velopment of the land there fol
a future playground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
Cab Drivers Question
Agency's Jurisdiction

tory party and a point in the
jurisdiction of another sigma,
tory party" Of the compact.
The compact was signed BY
the District Commissioners
Gov. Tawes of Maryland anc
Gov. Almond of Virginia.
Mr.. Bartsch said the lack OF
any Government signature in
the compact automatically ex-
cluded the transit commissions
control from regulating rates
that were in a jurisdiction
that was not included in the
compact"
Others Ask Rate
The taxicab executive quoted
from a congressional act of
October. 1915, that gave the
Government almost complete
control of the airport. In rati-
flying the act in February, 1916,
Virginia gained the right of
taxing gasoline, oil and alco-
holic beverages. but turned over
all other regulatory powers to
the Federal Government.
Representatives of about half
the cab drivers in the District.
attending the transit commits
sion's first hearing in it's new
board room at 722 jackson
place NV, later petitioned the
commission to establish a basic
SITS one-pasSenger rate be-
tween the District and the
airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12

/ But plastics will make the
guides jobs harder. They and
the IL other technician- demon
strators are grinding away this
week at general plastics studies.
Later, each will specialize and
try to learn one area of the
industry in some depth. :.
Next week they will tour q
plastics works in Springfield,
Mass. Shortly thereafter they
will cram on Russian words
used in the industry. =
They found the Russians can
ask some tough questions. But
not all of the queries, they
know, will be about plastics. =
Questions about race prob
lens are expected. Mr.. French
said they learned last trip that
1.-The worst you can do is deny
the problem. But we can EN-.
phasize the progress" =
Personal examples, they also
learned, are the best way to
counter misconceptions.
The exhibit will open in
Kiev, Moscow and Tbilisi, the
capital of Georgia. Neither
Kiev nor Tbilisi has seen Amer
lean exchange exhibitions be-
fore.
But in Moscow" Tatiana
said with a smile, "well be
looking for familiar faces"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12

A District cab drivers asso.
citation today challenged the
right of the newly formed
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission to regu-
late taxicab rates between the
District and Washington Ma
tional Airport.
Henry G. BartSch, executive
secretary of the Hackers Asso-
citation of Washington, ques-
toned the commissions au-
thority during a hearing called
by the commission to sound
out the views of the cab COM
panies on proposed fare regu-
lationS. Mr.. BartSch'S associa-
ton represents more than 500
District cab drivers.
Mr.. Bartsch pointed out that
the compact that empowers the
transit commission does not
include the signature of any
government jurisdiction that
controls the airport.
Reads From Act
Reading from the congress
sional act that officially estab-
lished the transit commission
last month, Mr.. Bartsch point
ed out that Congress specified
the power of the transit COM
mission to establish rates ex-
listed for transportation by
taxicab only between a point
in the Jurisdiction of one sigma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
Author Pans L'Enfont
And City He Laid Out

ford terms the L'Enfant plan
a bold conception" hut quick.
ly adds that it was "rrutally
massacred; and, as if that were
not sufficient. it was, in, time,
usually disrupted and oefiled
by a wide scattering Of UNI
kempt and irrelevant build
ings." e
The area around the Capt.
toll, says Mr.. Mumford, is spot
ted by an outbreak of urban
eczema" >
"L'Enfant's plan, by its very
invitation of traffic, has now
proved its own worst enemy"
License to Destroy" y
"The assumed right Of the
private motor car to go to any
place in the city and park any
where is nothing less than a
license to destroy the city"
Already it is plain in Wash
ington-and will become palmer
as the city receives the inunda-
ton of new expressways. which
recklessly spoil every view and
defile every approach to its
finest urban proSpects-that
when traffic takes precedence
over all other urban functions;
it can no longer perform its
own role, that of facilitating
meeting and intercourse" :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
IerAddresses
Jewish Appeal

Representative Celler, Demo-.
crat of New York, was guest
speaker last night at a special
Embarrassing meeting Of the.
United Jewish Appeal Of Met,
ropolitan Washington.
The appeal is campaigning.
to raise SIG million to help.
Jewish refugees everywhere.
and local groups, including the.
Washington Armed Services
Committee, the Jewish Com
mittee Council and part of the
work of the Jewish Social Serv-.
ice Agency. 3
Appeal representatives re-
ported the campaign, which,
started March &c. is well past
the halfway mark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
BrookIund Hears
Assessment Talk

Property improvements to
comply with building codes
will not necessarily increase
the property's assessment
value, District official has
assured citizens of the Brook
land area.
Walter Lahde. supervisor of
realestate assessment for the.
District Finance Office, spohr
last night before the Brooks
land Civic Association. :
The group, which met at
Noyes Elementary School, voted
to seek police action on noise
and rubbish problems in this
1900 and 1000 blocks of w st:
NE. One side OF this street is
zoned commercial, the other
residential. :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
BY ROBERT LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

Lewis Mumford, who for 40
years has been an irascible
critic of cities and their MAX
erS, today hurled a few brick
bats at the city of Washington
and its environs.
Starting with Mai. Pierre
Charles L'Enfant's plan, and
ending with present-day high
way building, Mr.. Mumford
implied, the whole city is
slightly defective.
His criticisms came in his
newest book, The City in His
tory" published today by Har-
court. Brace & World.
OF L'Enfant, who laid out the
city in 1891. Mr.. Mumford said:
The design he brought forth
for the new capital was in
every respect what the archi-
tectS and servants of despotism
had originally conceived.
Land Wastage Charged
He could only carry over
into the new age the static
image that had been dictated
by centralized control"
Mr.. Mumford added that
1'Enfant was guilty of "reck-
less wastage of precious land"
He said the French officers
positioning of the Mall and
Pennsylvania avenue was sad
ly overblown."
L'Enfant's conception of the
Mall itself, he said, reveals 1.-The
Sterility of a purely visual APP
proach to planning when it has
no foundation in the functions
that it serves: The Mall is &C
tually a greenbelt, at best a
fire barrier, which keeps segre-
gated and apart areas that
should, in, fact, be more closely
joined"
A BOLD Conception"
Other Mumford paragraphs
charged L'Enfant forgot" the
limits of his job, that he "over-
looked the fact that he could
not build the city he had
planned" that he forgot, in
fact, that time is a fatal handi-
cap to the baroque conception
Of the world :" 81,
At another point, Mr.. Num-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
PIostics Show Sendinq
otiona Back to Russia

Pretty, blond Tatiana Akho-
min is prepared to be pitied
when she goes back to Moscow
this summer.
The 23-year-old Washing
tonian remembers how as a
guide for the United States ex-
hibition in Moscow two sum-
merS ago she received lots of
well-meant tips from Russian
women on how to gain weight.
Now she's been picked as a
technician demonstration for
"Plastics-U. S. A." and she
figures she will get more Of
the same.
Miss Akhonln, who lives at
1922 Sherrier place NV,
doesn't mind. THE Russian
women" she says, live a diff
ferent kind of life and are
huskier. They think I'm skinny
and underfed looking"
She was most pleased by an
exception-an old woman who
came up to say she looked
slender and young.
And Russian men liked
Tatiana fine" recalled Donald
T. French, 80, of 1888 Hobart
street NV. He, Miss Akhonin
and George Humphrey, 25, of
2100 S street NV. all are max
ing a second attempt to dent
the Iron Curtain through ex-
change exhibits.
They are buried in plastics
this week in classes at the
United States Information
Agency here. In a break, George
Humphrey twirled a piece of
Silly Putty and admitted, 1--WE
didn't realize the broad scope
of American plastics."
when you see them all the
time" said Don French, you
take them for granted" Rus
slams use plastics in industry,
he said, but many of America S
plastic consumer goods may
come as a surprise.
The choice of plastics for an
American exhibit is a good one,
the three agreed. Mechanical
devices and working models
made the big hits at the 1859
Moscow fair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12

WILLYS WAGON 81: r and h.
6-cyl. with overdrive, better than
good cond.: S325. JE. 3-O41S.
CORRECTION!
The ad which appeared in the sun
day and Monday Star for CAPT.
Toll CADILLAC-OLDS CO., l222
22nd st. NV, advertising a 1851
Cadillac for S4,l95, should have
been a 1850 Cadillac at $4,195.
The Star regrets the error.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
MAJOR IMPORTS
81 VOLKSWAGENS

81 VOLKSWAGENS
Sedans, sunroofs and CHA coupes
in stock and available for immedi-
ate delivery; bank financing
available with $3.50 down, cash
or trade. Sedan prices start at
S1,595. Buy with confidence from
your factory-franchised SIMCA
dealer.
FOREIGN IMPORTS
1924 WILSON BOULEVARD
Arlington, Va. ia. S-661S
Open Daily. 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
Garden Contest
Open to Area

The Kalorama Citizens Asso-.
citation last night announced
its annual garden contest Is
open to area residents.
Entries end May Is with
Judging the last week in May.
The garden editors of the three
Washington newspapers will be
judges. .
The association also is TAX.
ing nominations for entries in.
the House Beautiful Contest.
as part of Community Devel-.
opment Week, May IT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE
ffONTINllEnl

MERCURY SO Montclair hardtop
coupe: Mercomatic, r. and h.. let
black. Wv. tires; very clean:
S195.
PAUL BROS. (OLDS)
Wis. and Ellieott NV. KE. 7-13OS
NERO. SO Montclair 2-dr. hardtop;
s sntS Ds Sy1sr SAID a doG a, n spaT
ia $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
PONTIAC 80

Catalina Vista hardtop sedan: au-
tomato, radio. heater, power
steering. power brakes. Wv. tires;
beautiful copper tone and white
finish with matching interior.
looks and runs like new.
C1 700
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
VolksWagen 81

Available for immediate delivery;
cash, trade or terms. Also avail
able, two 1860 Volkswagens, one
sunroof and one sedan; both low
mileage cars; bank financing avail
able: prices start at Sl,595.
MAJOR IMPORTS
Corner Wilson Blvd. and N. 10th st.
Arlington. Va. IA. 4-66O7
vOLKSWAGEN 50 Kombi bus:
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economical. new clutch, brakes:
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bet. 9-5 pm. wkdays
VOLKSWAGEN 1855; / owner, like
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
White House
Seeks Waiver
On Wheat Bill
BY DAVID S. BRODER
Star staff Writer

StoA DhoAA "AllC4
The Kennedy administration
has decided to ask Congress tt
waive its right to participate ir
drafting wheat legislation fol
1862.
Informed sources said today
the administrators genera
farm bill, scheduled for trans.
mission to Congress next Mon.
day, will propose that the Secre.
tary of Agriculture, working
with an advisory committee Of
wheat growers, draft emer.
gency legislation to cope with
the biggest surplus problem.
The program, under the ad.
ministration's proposal, Woulc
be submitted to wheat growers
in a referendum and if APP
proved by a two-thirds VOTE
would become law.
InformantS said Congress
will have to decide on the ad-
ministration's plea in the near
future or take steps to draft
an alternative wheat program
of its own.
Plans Is Variation
The administration wheat
plan is a variation from the
general approach to farm legis-
Ilation President Kennedy out
lined in his farm message a
month ago.
Normally, programs drafted
by commodity groups and ap-
proved in referenda would be
subject to congressional veto
within go days. InformantS
said the necessity for speed in
drafting legislation for the
1862 wheat crop would require
Congress to waive its veto right
in this instance.
The rest of the farm bill is
Expected to follow the policy
lines laid down by President
Kennedy in his message of
March 16. 1t will call for con-
troll of production through
marketing orders and quotas, a
variety of price support me-
chaniSms, including compensa-
tory payments, and moves to
expand the market for farm
goods.
80 Per Cent Of Parity
Informed sources said the
maximum price supports under
the Kennedy program will be
go per cent of parity and
growers of any commodity who
refused to limit their produc-
ton could receive price sup
ports of no more than so per
cent of parity.
The farm bill also is expected
to call for a five-year extension
of the overseas surplus food
disposal program and embody
amendments recommended by
Food for Peace Administrator
George McGovern.
These, it is reported, will in
clude authorization for estab-
lishment of national food re-
serves in underdeveloped coun-
tries, and expansion of foreign
currency sales of American
farm goods to SIS billion a
year and broader use of the
funds gained from such sales
to aid economic development
in the poorer countries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

PLYMOUTH IS blue and white
Terms, S25 down ROPER, LA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-12
OPEL SO station wagon; show.
room condition; S1.295.
GRADY

Mercury- Comet-EngliSh Ford
1909 Wis. Ave. Beth, OIL. $4,000
PACKARD SO Custom sedan; looks
and runs splendid only 1878
Terms, SIS down. S23 month.
ROPER, LA. 6-2700.
PEUGEoT so 4-dr.: r. and h,
10000 miles; sacrifice; Sl.095.
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Marine Reserves Drill
And Talk Mobilization

skies from dawn to dark on
missions to improve their
bombing, strafing. rocket fir
ing, aerobatics, formation fly
ing and navigation. Under 1t.
Col. Carol v. Morris Of 730
South Royal street, Alexandria,
an airline pilot in civilian life,
the pilots and ground crews are
operating just as they would
If war conditions prevailed.
In conjunction with the fly
ing activities, Mai. Melvin
Flaherty of 909 Locust street,
Falls Church, Va, has his
men of Marine Air Control
Squadron "a at the radar
scopes guiding the pilots to
enemy" planes on ground-con-
trolled interceptions.
The big air-ground mock
war Operation Patriot" will
be held tomorrow through
Wednesday at Camp Lejeune,
N. c., involving thousands of
aviation and ground Marine
reserve units from east Of the
Mississippi.
The maneuvers end next
Saturday when the reservists
are scheduled to head home
and return to their civilian oc-
cupations.
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Montgomery to Stage
3-Doy Space Exhibit

shows tracking operations in
the van.
The satellite will pass over
head in the evening at S. $50
and $3.50 pm. Thursday.
Also on display will be Q
model of the Transit 4-A, which
was developed by Johns Hop
kins for the Bureau of Naval
Weapons.
Other exhibits will include
the Mercury space capsule.
navigational satellites, q model
atomic power plant and q mod
el Of the first atomic powered
merchant ship, the N. IS.
Savannah.
Eugene w. Wasielewski, as
"sociate director of the National
Aeronautics and Space Agency's
Goddard Space Flight Center,
viii open the showcase at 1890
pm. Thursday. The exhibit viii
be open free to the public from
l to 9 pm. Thursday and Fri
day and 10 am. to 6 pm. Satur-
day.
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Area UGF Names
8 Drive Leaders

The United Givers Fund to-
day announced the appoint
ment Of three leaders in next
falls campaign.
Benjamin. F. Childs. special
project engineer for the Wash
ington Gas Light Co., will direct
solicitations in business and Of
flee buildings in the downtown
area. Mr.. Childs Of 1922 Bran
dywine street NV, assisted in
office building solicitations in
last years drive.
G. Elroy Mcneil, secretary
Of Federal Storage Co., was
named chairman of the divi-
sion which will solicit business
firms which are located in the
central part of the city and
employ less than 100 persons.
He lives at 59o5 Walton road,
Bethesda.
Theodore E. Lombard, a part
ner in the law firm Of Inter-
donator. Lombard and Reilly,
viii be in charge of solicita-
tions in offices which are in
the western part of the city and
which employ less than 100
persons. Mr.. Lombard, who
lives at 7421 Lacona street,
Berkshire, Md, served as COM
mittee chairman in the 1853
and 1860 campaigns.
Evening star., 1961-07-23

The Montgomery County
Government and Silver Spring
Board of Trade will sponsor an
elaborate space exhibit at the
Silver Spring Armory Thurs
day through Saturday.
Thirty Federal Government
and private scientific agencies
will participate in the county's
first annual Science Industry
Showcase. The purpose of the
exhibit Is to attract more SCI
ence facilities to the county.
One of the major displays
will be sponsored by the John
Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory, which will
have a van tracking the Tran
sit 4-A satellite, the first to
have its transmitters operated
by a nuclear powered genera
tor.
The van will broadcast sig
mails directly into the exhibit
hall from the satellite as it
passes overhead, while a tele-
vision monitor in the hall
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Hardy Gets
Top Position
.AtOccoquon

Kenneth L. Hardy, assistant
superintendent Of the Youth
Center in Lorton, Va, has beer
appointed superintendent oi
the Virginia Reformatory fol
Women at Occoquan.
A native of the District, Mr.
Hardy became associated with
correctional work in 1948 as @
parole officer with the District
parole board. From 1851 tc
1855 he was a clemency and
parole case analyst for the
joint Army and Air Force Pa.
role Board.
Mr.. Hardy joined the Dis.
trict Department Of Corrections
in 1855 as a correctional social
worker. In 1856 and 1857 he
designed and administered the
present correctional social work
system at the District Work.
house. He was subsequently as.
signed as chief of correctional
social work services at Lortor
Reformatory and appointed tc
the assistant superintendent
position at Lorton a year ago
A graduate of Howard Uni.
versity, Mr.. Hardy has taken
graduate work in psychology
social work and sociology al
Howard, American and George
Washington Universities. He
is a World War II Army vet
eran, having served with the
93d Infantry.
Mr.. Hardy and his wife, a
career statistician with the
United States Public Health
Services, live at 1924 Aspen
street NV. He will assume his
new duties at Occoquan in
September.
Evening star., 1961-07-23
By JERRY OLEARY, JR.
star staff Writer


CHERRY POINT, N. c., July
22.-Rumors Of q possible mo-
bilization are the chief topic
Of conversation among zoe
members Of the Marine Corps
Air Reserve from Washington,
Maryland and Virginia now on
summer training duty at this
Sprawling Marine Corps air
base. fas
The officers and men are
members of Marine Attack
Squadron 321, Marine Air Con-
troll Squadron "a and Marine
Air Reserve Group z who COM
pleted the first of two weeks
of maneuvers today.
Many Of these Washington
area men already have gone to
war twice as Marine Corps re-
servists-in World War II and
the Korean conflict.
Each one Of these reserve
Marines carries in his wallet
a sobering card called Official
Mobilization Orders. These or
ders give each officer and man
q given number Of days to re-
port to certain Marine Corps
bases in event Of mobilization.
One man might have 20 days
to report to Cherry Point; an
other five days to report to El
Toro, Calf, and SO on. The
cards constitute automatic or
ders to report in event Of an
enemy attack on the United
States or in event Of a general
mobilization.
Two CategOries
The United States has two
general categories of reserves:
The Ready and the Standby.
Ready Reservists may be called
to the colors by the President
alone through the act of de-
claring a national emergency.
Standby Reservists cannot be
called without approval OF
Congress.
Every member of the WASH
ington area Marine air reserve
is in the ready" category-the
youngsters because they have
not served the obligatory length
Of time and the veterans be-
cause they volunteered.
Over the Nation, there are
thousands Of Marine air and
ground reservists in both active
and inactive status but the
Ready reservists could be as
simulated in regular Marine
units virtually overnight be-
cause of the year-around
training programs.
This situation guarantees
that most of the 200 Washing
ton men now training here will
be close to a TV set Tuesday
night when President Kennedy
is expected to discuss plans for
snoring up national defense.
Work Goes On ''
But, meanwhile, there is
work to be done. The pilots are
flying their ADS Skyraider
planes through the Carolina
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Howard Graduate
Joins Peace Corps

Clennie Murphy, jr., Is, q
graduate Of Howard Univer-
sity, has Joined the executive
secretariat Of the Peace Corps
where he will head the plan
ming and maintenance Of the
directors files in the Maiatico
building, 800 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV.