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Evening star., 1961-06-19

annual Fathers Day event for
the Negro residents of Harlem.
At the scheduled hour Of de-
parture. 8 am, the 134th
street pier was swarming with
gaily dressed people in a holi-
day mood.
Too many people, in fact.
Among the 1000 were 1000
unwilling holders of counter
felt tickets. Some began to stir
unessily when they noticed the
crowd was larger than it had
been a year ago.
Pickets Delay Sailing
Then, too, the Hudson Belle
hadn't shown up. She was
still at the Wilson Lines pier
In Jersey City, N. j., delayed
by a 200-man picket line Of
the National Maritime Union.
The line and the NMU are
involved in an organizing dis
pute. The picketS had been
pursuing the Hudson Belle
since Thursday in a craft of
their own, radioing ahead for
picket lines whenever she
sought to land. in Jersey City.
Manhattan or Brooklyn.
And when the Hudson Belle
showed off an hour late yes
terday to pick up the excur-
sionists in Manhattan, a picket
boat tailed along. with II jeer-
ing seamen in the bow.
On the pier, the excursion
lists became increasingly ex-
cited as word spread among
them that some we're holders
of bogus SO tickets.
40 Police on Duty
Forty policemen were on
hand when the Hudson Belle
dropped her gangplankS. The
throng surged forward and the
rioting began. Nine persons
were carried off to hospital
Evening star., 1961-06-19

hail in Is minutes. famed by
hurricane-force winds of rs
miles per hour. The tempera-
ture dropped 29 degrees in 10
minutes to 48. Some farm
buildings were damaged and
some trees uprooted. No one
was hurt.
Evening star., 1961-06-19
tuberculosis Bottle

KUALA LUMPUR-Aided by
five Australian medical tec.l-
nicians. the Federation of Ma
laya will launch a national
drive against tuberculosis,
starting this summer. Clinics
will be established and X-ray
equipment installed.
Evening star., 1961-06-19
Purkers Are Parents

SANTA BARBARA, Calf,
June 19 (AP).-Actor Fess
Parker and his wife are the
parents of newborn FesS Elisha
Parker III. The 8-pound IA
ounce boy. their first child.
was born Saturday night to the
former Marcie Reinhart. Mr..
and Mrs. Parker were married
in January, 1860.
Evening star., 1961-06-19
YMCA's Comp Let's
Reports Vacancies

Camp Let's, operated by the
YMCA near Mayo, Md, has
vacancies available for its first
two-week period, which begins
Saturday.
Parents Of children 8-l6
years of age who wish to at
tend can apply at the Metro
politan Camp Office at the Y.
Evening star., 1961-06-19
Bogus Tickets Convert
Excursion Into Riot

NEW YORK. June 19 (AP).-What started a Hudson
River excursion by 5000 Harlemtes turned into riot yesterday
when 1000 holders of counterfeit tickets showed up the pier
More than so persons tainted trampled in rush
to board the excursion boat the Hudson Belle
injured, but all were sent home after treatment.
The trip uprver Bear Mountain, was planned as an
Evening star., 1961-06-19
Tornado, 1O-Inch Rain
Batter Texas Areas

GALVESTON, Tex, June 10 (AP)-A whirled
eaden skies during 10 inches of last night njurng five
and destroying two units of public housing project
Elsewhere in Texas floods from prolonged heavy rains drove
several hundred people from their homes for while
Its mess out there" policeman said he watched
Evening star., 1961-04-09

Air India on May 4 will
'inaugurate weekly direct Jet
service from New York to
Prague. On the same date, the
airline will increase its trans
atlantic jet service to five
flights a week.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
End of Track
Trip Planned

Washington railfans will 20
about as far north as they can
go by rail during a trip next
August.
The 6,400-mile rail journey
heads for the END of Track"
at Moosonee on James Bay
and Churchill on Hudson Bay
IN Northern Canada August S,
with a return scheduled for
August 20.
The trip heads north to
Montreal through Philadelphia,
New York, New Haven, Hart
ford, Springfield, White River
junction and st. Albans. The
return trip is via Buffalo.
Tourist sleeping cars will be
used for the Canadian portion
OF the trip over lines of the
Canadian National, Ontario
Northland, and Algoma Central
g. Hudson Bay Railways. The
excursion is being planned by
the Washington Chapter of the
National Railway Historical
Society. Fares run from Sale
to $465.
Brochures and a route mar
are available from Henry S
Libby, Worldwide, Mercury
Building, Twentieth and 4
streets NV, Washington s
ID. c.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Blue Ridge Parkway Due
To Begin Its 18th Year

ROANOKE, Va. (AP).-The
Blue Ridge Parkway will Off
cially begin its 25th year May 1.
The 469-mile sightseer's par
adise already is unofficially
open to traffic.
Howard B. Sticklin, assistant
parkway supervisor, said the
camp grounds and concession
facilities will not open until
May /. The areas will remain
open until about November /.
Mr.. Stricklin said the road
is actually open the year round
except during periods of bad
weather. Spring has arrived
much earlier than usual, he
said.
Karl Gilbert, chief ranger
said the parkway usually is not
clear of snow in certain areas
until the middle Of April. How
Evening star., 1961-04-09

ever, there has been no snow
on most of it for we'll over a
Only three sections of the
road between Shenandoah Ma
tional Park and the Great
Smoky Mountains National
Park have not been started.
The 15-mile Roanoke bypass
and the 15-mile Asheville
IN. CO. bypass have not been
started, although the right OF
way has been purchased.
The Roanoke program is
scheduled to begin in 1868 and
is expected to take two years
to complete.
No right of way has beer
purchased around Grandfath-
er's Mountain in North Caro-
lima. The 5-mile strip probably
will be the last to be COM
'pleted.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
SEEKING THE EASY LIFE?
TRY RENTING HOUSEBOAT

vacation idea that purports to eliminate housing.
transportation and parking worries is available
in Miami
1t is houseboat which go from water to land
and back again. A hitch the boat and rust proof
wheels turn it into housetrailer which be
attached to
When you're ready to set sail. you load a
compact car on the cabin roof and take off for weer
pastures.
The 35-foot floating homes be rented or bought
Rentals range from $35 day to $525 month The
cabin contains bunks table and benches and galley
There is outdoor shower.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
GET UP AND GO!
Pinehurst Follows 7 rend
Toward q Longer Season

$40 for a full day. A double
team with driver goes at $40
for the halliday or SIS for a
full day.
Greens fees are IS q round
before 3 pm, So after that, or
$21 a week with a round a day
permitted.
Southern Pines, next door
neighbor to Pinehurst at 6
miles. away, has similar sporty
activities. Although the major
hotels and clubs open and close
with the winter season, there
are motels and inns which stay
open all year.
Race Meet
Steeplechasers and thorough
breds go through winter train
ing there, and the one-day
Stoneybrook Race Meeting each
March at Stoneybrook Farm is
a major event Of the hunt sea-
son.
The Sandhills country is
pleasant country in early
spring, with flowers and flower
ing shrubs providing a pro-
fusion Of color against q back
drop Of long-needled pines. The
blooms are two or three weeks
ahead of those in the WASH
ington area.
The resort area is reached
from Washington by U. s.
Route /: by Seaboard Air Line
Railroad (the stop is at South
ern Pines). or by air to Raleigh
and a 70-mile drive in a rented
car.
Knollwood Airport, serving
both towns, has facilities for
handling private planes.
And il you want to bring
your own horse, there are
boarding facilities.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
By JACK JONAS
Star Travel Editor

PINEHURST, N. C.-After SIS
years of lolling idly in the hot
summer sun, the Holly Inn this
year will prepare itself to hustle
along the whole year through.
Air conditioning and a swim
ming pool are to be installed.
Next year, plans are to keep
the Holly Inn open the year
around.
This will be an innovation
for the facilities Of Pinehurst,
Inc, the noted golfing resort
in North Cardinals Sandhills.
In seasons past they have
closed their doors in late May
and sent the millionaireS back
North for the summer.
But golfers have been COM
ing in increasing numbers to
play while the horses are away
at the track in summer. In the
Pinehurst- Southern Pines area,
they can find seven 18-hole
golf courses and one 9-hole
course within 6 miles of one
another.
The Tufts family, apparent
ly weary Of the raw New Eng
land winters, came South to the
bracing air Of the Sandhills in
1895 and set up Pinehurst as
a winter resort. A resort is has
remained.
The severe winter storms
which struck the East Coast
this year brought a trace OF
New England to Pinehurst in
the form Of sleet and ice, but
in the main it is blessed with
the sunshine that keeps golf
popular in the late winter and
early spring.
Sandy and Hilly
Shortly after you pass the
sign on U. s. Route / which
tells you that you are "enter-
ing the Sandhills," you begin
to see from whence came the
name. The soil is sandy and
the topography a mite hilly.
Despite the number Of rock
ing chairs on Pinehurst's hotel
verandas, there is an energetic
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Penn Dutch Tour
Set by TruiIwuys

A one-day excursion into the
Pennsylvania Dutch country
has been planned by railways
for May 20 and June 10.
The Saturday bus tours leave
Washington at 8 am. and are
scheduled for return at 8:45
pm. Stops will be made at the
Farmers Market in Lancaster,
at Wheatland, home Of Presi-
dent Buchanan: an AmiSh
home, the Lands Valley Mu-
scum, and an Amish school,
house.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Modern Innovations
Invade St. Peters

Even st. Peters, the largest
church in Christendom, occa-
sionally gets a new look.
Time has not dirnmed the
splendors Of the majestic ba-
silica built in Rome 1886 years
ago over the tomb Of the Cali
lean fisherman, the National
Geographic Society says.
A masterpiece Of the Italian
Renaissance, the church rep
resents the composite skills of
some of Italy'S greatest artists,
including Michelangelo, Ra-
phael, Bramante and Bernini.
In recent months, however
st. Peters has undertaken a
program Of interior innova-
ton: metal stands to replace
the cumbersome old wooden
structures put up for audi
ences of more than 10000; in
direct lighting; a new electri-
cal system controlling the
bells; a new organ and a new
elevator.
The old elevator had lifted
an estimated 20 million pill
grims about $50 feet closer to
paradise, their immediate des-
tination being the roof of the
basilica.
Archive of History
st. Peters attracts visitors
of many faiths, because it is
not merely a Roman Catholic
shrine but an archive of his
tory recorded in hundreds of
monuments, sarcophagi, in
scriptions, statues and mosaic
murals. Three queens are
buried there - Christina OF
Sweden, Charlotte of Cyprus
and Clementina, the mother OF
Bonnie Prince Charlie.
The church's massive .foun-
dations dig into soil which
was a place of soothsayine
(vaticinatio) in pagan times
Nero built his Circus at the
foot of Vatican Hill. Chris
tians were tortured there anc
burned alive. Tradition says
the Apostle Peter was cruel.
fled head down in the arena
Roman Catholics have al.
ways believed that Peter was
buried on Vatican Hill, but
proof was not forthcoming un-
til a decade ago. At Christmas
1850, the late Pope Plus XII
announced that excavator.
had found Peters tomb pre-
cisely where it was assumed
to be-beneath the papal altar
of the church.
Peters resting place was 6
simple grave buried under thu
sandwiched debris of altarl
and other shrines that haG
Evening star., 1961-04-09
AIR FARE
Economy Class Due
To South America

way Of Trinidad, Curacao,
Aruba, Jamaica and other
Caribbean islands at a slightly
higher fare. An example: Econ
omy class passengers taking
the Caribbean routing would
pay $38 20 more than the regu-
lar economy round trip fare
to Rome.
Northwest Orient Airlines
has retired from service the
last of its non-pressurized air.
craft-the four-engine DC-4.
Scandinavian Airlines Sys-
tenn has opened a new "Ameri-
can Visitors" department in
Glasgow, to offer aid to the
traveller who wants to plan
local sightseeing, buy souvenirs
or rent golf clubs.
y y.
Icelandic Airlines has pur-
chased another DC-6B from
Pan American World Airways
to add to its fleet of transat-
lantic aircraft.
More than $4,000 passengers
have flown 38.2 million miles
on Allegheny Airlines' "com-
muter" flights since the in
auguration of. the service in
October, 1859. It features in
flight ticketing and streamlined
passenger and baggage han
ding, and is operated on
Allegheny's Pittsburgh-P -Phila-
delphia - Providence Boston
route.
This is "Air France Month"
on Continental Airlines, a COM
pany which serves western
communities. Air France Serv-
ice features are being offered
on the domestic lines jet
flights serving Chicago, Los
Angeles, Kansas City, Denver.
Houston and Ell Paso. This
includes imported champagne,
French wine and pastries, Par
isian food and French music.
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The Play of the Month
Guild, in cooperation with
Irish Airlines and Theater
Abroad, Inc, has set up a IT.
day package tour highlighting
opera, ballet and theater in
London, Paris and Dublin. De-
parture dates from New York
are May 26, August 4 and
August IL. The cost is $874.
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Air India on May 4 will
Finaugurate weekly direct jet
service from New York to
Prague. On the same date, the
airline will increase its trans
atlantic jet service to five
flights a week.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
GET UP AND GO!

enthusiasm for play, and the
conversation is about equally
divided between golf and horses.
Facilities at the Pinehurst
Country Club include four 18-
hole courses designed by the
Scottish golf architect Donald
Ross, who came here in 1901.
This is the scene of the an
nual North and South Amateur
Championship for Men and the
North and South Invitation
Championship for Women. Next
year, the USGA Am a e u r
Championship will be held on
the clubs No. 2 championship
course.
Horses are the second major
attraction in the area, and al
though this is an important
winter training headquarters
for trotters and PAGERS, there
are, oddly, no formal race
tracks in North Carolina.
Watching the Horses
But watching the horses in
training is a visitor lure, and
there are informal horse shows,
gymkhanas and fox hunting.
Saddle horses, buggies, and
double teams are available for
hire.
In addition to the Holly Inn
and the. Pinehurst Country
Club, Pinehurst, Inc, operates
1.-THE 265-room Carolina, North
Carolina's largest resort hotel
Independent hotels are the
Pine Crest and the Manor, and
there are numerous guest
houses and cottages.
If you're planning on a last
fling before the resorts close
shop, bring along between $14
and $40 for a single room OF
$28 to $42 for a double room
with meals included.
Saddle horses are available
at $4 for the first hour. with
rates decreasing for subsequent
hours. You can get riding in
struction by paying for the
hire Of q second horse.
You can hire a horse and
buggy (no driver) for So for a
morning or afternoon spin, OF
Evening star., 1961-04-09

been erected over 1t since his
martyrdom in about 81 AID.
In the 3O0s, the Emperor
Constantine raised the first
large baSilica over Peters
grave. BY the 18th century, the
church was collapsing in ruins.
When Pope Nicholas v resolved
to give Rome a face lifting for
a holy year, he decided to tear
down the crumbling structure
and replace it with the most
magnificent church that NOR
tai man could create.
Work Began in 1906
Nicholas had been in. his
grave for half a century before
the cornerstone was finally laid
In 1906. Work continued inter-
mittently for 100 years. Several
popes gave their personal for
tunes to construction Of the
church, but it was the extraor-
binary warrior pope, Julius II
who bulldozed the project. He
commandeered the brightest
artists Of the time and drove
them nearly to despair.
Michelangelo designed the
gilt and mosaic dome, which
scars 435 feet above the papa
altar. The altar is crowned
with Bernini's 95-foot-higt
baldachin, a bronze canopy
held aloft by four spira
columns.
In 1928 Urban VIII conse-
Grated the mountainous church
whose main aisle stretches fol
one-eighth of a mile. Yet the
proportions are so harmonious
that things seem smaller thar
they are. On approaching the
holy water stoups, visitors art
surprised to find that the stone
cherubs holding them are more
than 6 feet tall.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
AIR FARE

New economy fares the air.
lines hope to institute May Is
will cut $685. from the present
Jet fares between New York
and Buenos Aires.
The new fares were set up by
the international Air Trans
port Association during its
recent meeting in Bermuda.
Pan American World Air
ways points to two other ex-
amples Of the reduced South
American rates. The present
tourist fare from New York to
Rio is $790.20; the economy
fare would be 1894. From New
York to Montevideo the tourist
fare now is $919; the economy
fare would be $500.
The IATA meeting also ap-
proved an eight-day excursion
fare to Bermuda beginning
October 81. The jet fare from
New York would go down from
$154 to $134 first class, and
from Sis to $95 economy.
Lower fares also were estab-
lished for Caribbean points.
ALI the fares are subject to
approval by the governments
involved.
Passengers travelling by Ma
tional Airlines jet from New
York International Airport
(Idlewild) can now get free
helicopter transportation from
the airport at Newark. Out-of-
town passengers arriving at
LaGuardia Airport, where Ma
tional does not operate, will
receive helicopter transporta-
ton to Idlewild at no extra
cost, if they hold National
tickets to Tampa. Miami, Fort
Lauderdale or Jacksonville.
British Overseas AirwayS
S C hedule of flights from
Friendship International Air
port to London has been moved
up from June 2 to June /, and
will begin daily flights that day
instead of June 8, as announced
earlier.
Departure time at the air.
port near Baltimore has beer
changed to 7 pm, a half hour
later than planned originally
Despite the later departure
time, BOAC officials said, the
flights will arrive in London
earlier than previously planned
because time on the ground in
Boston or New York will be cut
by 80 minutes, and flying times
will be faster than estimated.
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kim Royal Dutch Airlines
has set up an Atlantic circle
route" which permits passen-
gers crossing the Atlantic from
New York to go one way by
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Alpine Tunnel.
Will Replace
Snowy Roads

ENTREVES, Italy. - After
decades Of detouring around
obstacles Of nature and politics,
the French and Italian govern
mentS are busily removing an
ages-old roadblock.
The problem has been that
there is no good natural road
bed for a direct highway be-
tween Paris and Rome. From
November to May, when snow
chokes the torturous Alpine
passes. motorists have to de-
tour by way Of the Rhone
Valley or the Riviera. Even
during good driving weather,
the steep, winding roa d S
through the Alps make the
going slow and dangerous.
To put an end to all this,
the French and Italians are
burrowing an eight-mile-lo long
tunnel in the vicinity of Mont
Blanc. the highest mountain
Of Europe. This tunnel. when
completed in 1868, will cut 200
miles-and a full days drive
off the auto trip.
Working from opposite ends
the French at Chamonix and
the Italians at Entreves, the
builders expect to link up by
the end Of the year. After
that the 23-foot-wide tunnel
way will have to be surfaced
ventilated. lighted. and gener-
ally put into shape for heavy
duty usage.
Cost High
Cost Of the project is ex-
pected to run around $32 mil.
lion, of which nearly all will
be paid by the French anc
italian governments. Tht
Swiss have thrown in SIS mil
lion as a gesture toward the
benefit they will derive also.
Although the road will bt
only two lanes wide, a stag.
gered system Of turnoffs anc
emergency repair zones is ex-
pected to keep traffic moving
About $50 cars an hour will
be average, but in peak tour.
ing season the tunnel will
probably be bumper to-bumper
French and Italian border
stations will be established al
the north and south ends o.
the tunnel.
All Day Work
Crews on both sides are
working on round-the-clocl
shifts to speed the work Al
fast as possible. Italian crew
are working at a disadvantage
however, compared to theil
French counterparts.
Their lighter equipment
makes progress slower, anC
diesel fumes from trucks havt
already presented a dangerous
problem. When the Italian'
first started digging at En-
treves, they hit crumbly schist
like coal. and rock pockets o.
water. r..
Evening star., 1961-04-09
STAR TRAVEL CONTEST HAS
SIX MORE WEEKS TO GO

You still have time to enter The Star Travel Contest
and chance to win the $3.50 grand prize.
-Four weekly winners already have been chosen, and
there six to be selected during the next six
weeks From these 10 will the winner of the grand
prize, chosen by board Of travel experts.
There is still time to enter the fifth weekly contest
the deadne is Tuesday For list of the rules the Off
ca entry blank and further details how to enter
the story about this weeks winner on Page F-6
Evening star., 1961-03-11
Policeman Fined
$50 in Escape

A Metropolitan Police trial
board yesterday found a 5th
precinct private guilty of neg
ligence in the escape of a pris-
oner from D. c. General Hos
pital February II. The board
fined him $50.
Pvt. John 1. Dancil, 36, testi-
fled that he had assumed
that an injured prisoner
brought in on a drunk charge
to the hospitals emergency
room had been treated and ad-
mitted. Actually, the investi-
CATION showed the prisoner had
been handcuffed to a leather
strap on a treatment table and
had cut himself loose when left
alone.
The prisoner, James w. Ian
caster, 81, of the 600 block OF
Portland street Sc, told police
he went home. He later turned
himself in to a guard at the
St. Elizabeths Hospital.
Evening star., 1961-03-11
Eisenhower Set
For FISHING Trip

PALM SPRINGS, Calf, Mar.
II (AP). - Former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower swings
south of the border today for
some deep-sea fishing in the
bright-blue waters of the Gulf
of California.
Charles Jones, president of
Richfield Oil Co. and a frequent
golfing companion, will be Mr..
EiSenhSwer's companion for the
nine-day stay near La PaZ, a
charming fishing resort near
the end of the Baja California
Peninsula.
Mr.. Jones private plane was
to be used for the flight from
Palm Springs. The two men
will stay at Rancho Las Cruces,
a guest ranch 20 miles south
east of La PaZ.
Marlin, SailfiSh, SWordfiSh
and tuna abound in the Bay Of
La Paz and in the Gulf Of
California, which the Mexicans
still call the Sea of Cortez.
Evening star., 1961-03-11
House Group Approves
Dominican Sugar Cut

not mentioned by name in the
bill, which authorizes the Ken
nedy administration not to
allocate Windfall purchases OF
sugar to countries which have
no diplomatic relations with
the United States.
Secretary Of State Rusk made
two trips to closed door COM
mittee meetings yesterday tt
appeal for this action against
the Dominican Republic. He
said it was in line with policies
approved by other Hemisphere
Republics last year when they
condemned the Dominican re-
gime for a plot on the life o.
President Romulo Betancour
of Venezuela.
Evening star., 1961-03-11
No Cynics in the Peace Corps

graduates, train them in the
summer, and thereby ready
several hundred for duty this
fall. 1t is estimated these
pioneers will be largely teach
ers and that perhaps so per
cent of them will instruct in
English.
They will go abroad to live
as do those doing the same
jobs in the country where
they are assigned. They will
not go as propagandistS, save
that jobs well done always
create good will and respect.
The fundamental idea is that
America, with a surplus Of
talent, will maA> a contri-
butior of it to these areas
of the world community
which lack it. They will,
therefore. be very real mis-
Sionaries of the great heart
and good will of this country.
The idea is daring, exciting
and pretty sure to produce
some failures. But it has
magnificent possibilities for
inspiring success stories.