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or 50 cents a share VS.. S1,8l5,-
557 or So cents in 1860.
Pitts e. West Va. Rwy. in
months ended August 81 had a
loss of $1,529,333 VS.. earnings
Of $102,751 or "a cents in 1860
period.
Dura Corp. in year ended
July 81 earned $245.791 or 43
cents a share VS.. $1,375,073 or
$3.50 in 1860.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-04
Analysts to Hear
FIintkote Chief

G. j. Pecaro, president OF
Flintkote Co., will address the
Washington Society of Invest
ment Analysts at an Occidental
Restaurant luncheon on Tues
day, October 10.
Mr.. Pecaro will discuss pros
poets for the asphalt roofing
and siding company. He is ex-
pected to outline plans to
broaden and further diversity
its earning power through a
heavy program of capital
spending.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-04
Matthias to Propose
COLLEGE Deductions

Representative Matthias, of
Maryland, plans to introduce
legislation in the next Congress
to permit parents to deduct
from taxable income nominal
amounts to set aside for their
children's higher education.
The small annual deductions
would encourage the accumula-
ton of money for this i'm
portant purpose, Mr.. Matthias
said in an address before the
District Estate Planning Coun-
Gil at a Sheraton Carlton din
ner meeting last night.
Mr.. Matthias stressed the
Importance of reapportionine
members of the House of Rep
reSentativeS. He pointed out
that one district in New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-04

has more than / million voters,
while quite a few other dis
tricts have only around 200, 900
voters. In Maryland, he said,
one district has 100000 voters
and another only 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-04
New Alexandria Firm
To Make Circuits for
Spoce-Age Projects
THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. c.
Wednesday, October 4, 1861
BY DONALD B. HADLEY
star Financial Editor

Alexandria firm, Advanced Space Age Products
moved into its plant and will start full operations Monday
manufacturing printed cctry products
for rockets and other space-age projects.
Russell Burroughs former engineer with the United States
of Standards and recently laboratory
Evening star., 1961-03-25
Three Firemen Hurt
In Metal Arts BIoze

Mr.. Pierdon said that there
were 200 gallons of paint in q
vault on the first floor. How
ever, it could not be determined
Immediately whether this paint
had caught fire.
The blaze was reported by
nearby resident. James A. Proc
tor, of 2 L street Sc, at 8:1S
a IN. today.
Twenty-Five fire trucks anc
vehicles were sent to the scene
Firemen brought the blaze
under control in an hour anc
a half.
Fire Chief Sutton said that
a painter had worked at the
building until midnight yester-
day but had left by the time
the fire occurred.
After the fire, Chief Sutton
broadcast q warning over the
Fire Department two-way ra-
dio system that he had learned
acid had been spilled on the
floors of the Metal Arts Fin
ishing Co. during the fire.
He urged firemen who had
| fought the blaze to wash care
fully with soap and water and
to refrain from eating or drink
ing until they had done so
There were no reports of acid
burns at the scene.
Evening star., 1961-03-25

Two. firemen were overcome
by smoke and a third suffered
cuts to his hands while fighting
a two-alarm fire today at the
Metal Arts Finishing Co., IL L
street Sc.
No one was in the building
when the blaze broke out, fire
men said. The two firemen
overcome by smoke are Pvt.
D. B. Jones of Engine Company
13 and 1t. Floyd Yockum of
Engine Company No. Z. Capt.
r.. S. Padgett Of Truck Com
pany No. 10 cut his hands while
fighting the blaze.
All three were taken to
hospitals for treatment.
A. G. Pierdon 1891 Forty
second street NV, president
of the Metal Arts Finishing Co.,
said that the building is valued
at 100000 and was at least part
! ly insured.
Damage was confined to the
second floor, which was COM
! Ipletely gutted, according to Fire
Inspector Paul ]. Lynch.
Cause of the fire, according
to Inspector Lynch, was spon-
taneous combustion in a drum
Of oil rags on the second floor
of the two-story brick building.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
BY q Star staff Writer

RICHMOND, Mar. 25.-Vir-
ginia has a Starvation pro-
gram" in the field of elemen-
tary school libraries, the State
Board Of Education has been
warned by one of it's members.
Another member called the
libraries "pitiful."
Mrs. Gladys v. v. Morton,
told the board at its meeting
here yesterday, I'VE resist GER
tain types of Federal aid to
education but we can't con-
tinue to resist it by maintain
ing starvation programs.
She said only Sis out of 1888
elementary schools in Virginia
have centralized hbraries-that
is a room set aside for library
purposes. She said 348 have
no library facilities and the
rest have books on shelves In
claSSroomS.
Mrs. John Galleher Of Ma.
nassas, board member, agreed
She declared the library situa-
ton in the States elementary
schools Is "pitful."
Supt. Woodrow w. Wilker'
son was requested to prepare
Evening star., 1961-03-25
Arlington
Pupils Begin
TourAbroud

Some 130 Arlington high
school students today began
special classes on the boule-
wards Of Paris or avenues OF
Madrid.
The relatively calm teen
ayers bade farewell to relatively
excited parents yesterday after
noon as they left National Air
port on a transatlantic field
trip to Spain and France, whose
languages they have been
studying.
After sightseeing in Madrid
today. 81 Of the pupils tomor-
row will travel to Granada to
see the Alhambra, Generalife
gardens and gypsy caves.
Later they will observe Holy
Week festivals at Seville, visit
Cordova and Vadepenas, To.
ledo. El Escroial and Gen
Frances valley of the Fallen.
On Easter, before flying back
to the United States, they will
attend a bullfight in Madrid.
In France, 79, of the Ian
guage students from Washing
ton-Lee, Wakefield and York
town High Schools tomorrow
will tour Paris landmarks and
spend several hours at the
Louvre.
Next week, they will travel
TO the chateau country, visit
French schools, Langais, Or
leans, Fountainbleau, and at
tend a ballet. Before leaving
here, the students received
briefingS approximating in de-
tail those which might be giver
an agent about to tunnel intC
the Kremlin.
The teenagers. who paid $685.
each to make the trip, are &C.
companied by 10 faculty repre-.
sentatives and a parent who Il
q doctor.
Last year, Mrs. Frances Wat
ers, a teacher Of French a
Washington-Lee organized /.
similar trip to France. 1t wa,
so successful that she ant
school authorities decided t,
repeat 1t and include Spain il
the travels this year.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
ROCKING CHAIRS
Goodwill Gets Set
For q New 7 rend

He carefully inspects the pa
pers, then features in his own
showroom merchandise that
stores are advertising, on the
theory that long experience
has taught them when things
sell.
Help-wanted ads also tell
something about a town. Mr..
Nelson note. Clerical jobs are
ADVERTISE a d abundantly, but
craftsmen are in less demand,
he thinks.
So he is looking for type
writers and IBM machines on
which handicapped persons can
train. One firm already has
given him q mimeograph ma
chine.
Goodwill's president, Richard
England and other officials
snapped up Mr.. Nelson as ex-
ecutive director when he told
them he was available during a
visit for the White House Con-
ference on Aging last January.
Mr.. England and his asso-
ciates had secured the country
for the right man for months.
A mortgage of about 5000, 900
on Goodwill's new building will
have to be reduced through a
fund drive. Refurbishing and
sales of discarded clothing and
furniture, an operation en-
ploying 800 handle appe d
workers, is about 80 per cent
self sustaining.
Now 81, Mr.. Nelson had just
sold his firm. Nelson Thomas
Co., in San Diego, and W a
planning a trip around tn e
world with his wife.
But March / found the Mel
sons. parents of three grown
children, settled in River House
| in Arlington.
Mr.. Nelson still thinks they
may take that trip one day.
But Mrs. Nelson philosophical
ly threw away the brochures.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
Elementary Libraries
In Stote Called 'PitifuI'

recommendations for inclusion
of funds for more libraries in
the budget for the two years
commencing July /, 1862.
j. G. Blount. finance director,
reported 1881 tuition grants
to the State and localities have
been approved this year at q
cost of $1.6 million.
Last year 4,768 scholarships
were granted, Mr.. Blount said
OF those approved this year
the State paid $972,878 and the
localities $671,871.
Approved yesterday were 81
scholarships for students in
Loudoun, Prince Edward and
Allegheny Counties, which
make no provision for payment
of these funds out of local taS
sources. In such cases the State
pays the whole amount and
deducts the county's share out
of State funds - principally
liquor store profits.
DR.. F. G. Lankford, president
Of Longwood (teachers) Col
lege at Farmville, told the
board it probably will have tc
abandon its graduate program
because Of diminishing de.
mandS.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
States Vying
ToOkoyD.C.
Right toVote

The distance between Dis
trict residents and their right
to vote appeared today to be
about as wide as the slot Of a
ballot box as Kansas and Ohio
moved toward final ratification
of the vote amendment.
Since SO States already have
ratified the constitutional
amendment giving the District
the right to vote for President
and Vice President, the only
real question remaining is
which State will make it Of
ficial.
Floor leaders in the Ohio
Senate have worked out an
agreement which they hope will
give their State the honor OF
making the amendment law
They will bring up the amend
ment for a vote Monday il
Kansas has ratified it in the
meantime. The Ohio House al
ready has voted approval.
But if Kansas delays, the
Ohioans will postpone their
ratification until Thursday
under current strategy. A Sen
ate-passed ratification resolu-
ton is on the calendar in the
Kansas House.
New Hampshire also stands
a chance of being the 38th
State to vote aye. Action ir
that State may come Thursday
Leaders Of the Republican
dominated Senate in Ohio
sounded out G. o. P. National
Chairman Thruston Morton or
getting simultaneous ratifica-
ton by Kansas, Ohio and New
Hampshire. He promised tC
look into the suggestion Wher
he arrives Monday in Topeka
KanS.
Chairman Celler Of The House
Judiciary Committee yesterday
promised to introduce legisla'
tion to implement the suffrage
amendment.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Southern Cooking Viewed
In The Sunday Star

IN DEFENSE OF DIXIE DISHES-one mans view of
restaurant dining in Washington published recently
IN SUNDAY, The Star Magazine, made some Incl
dental criticism OF Southern cooking. This week. in
the same magazine, Mrs Thomas G. Abernethy, wife
Of the Representative from Mississippi defends the
Southern cook and also provides some tasty recipes
THE SECRET OF CANCER MIRACLES"-The 100000
to-1 case in which an "incurable' cancer patient
RECEIVERS completely without treatment offers medi-
cal science hope in Its fight against the disease
This Week Magazine a.-
THE ARTIST WHO DREAMED UP GIRL-1n its
cover story, SUNDAY, The Star Magazine, marks the
annual Newspaper Comics Week little early this
year with word picture visit with Leonard
Starr creator Of The Star comic feature ION Stage
FOR THE LEISURE SPORTSMAN-When 20 million
anglers spend close to $50 million just on fresh
water fishing licenses, that's big business But what
can it cost the individual fisherman to pursue all
branches Of his favorite sport properly equipped?
For startling figure, read outdoor Editor Charles
Covell's column on the Leisure Sports Page.
DATE WITH FABIAN-How does date affect one
Of his most ardent fans? TEEN wanted to know
how Washington girl would react to a real date
with the singing idol and set up way to find out
You can read about it this Sunday in TEEN Maga-
zine.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-03-25
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

If President Kennedy'S pref
erence for rocking chairs
boosts their stock in home
makers eyes, Davis Memorial
Goodwill Industries new exc
cutive director won't be caught
mapping.
Hardly had pictures of the
Chief Executive comforting ir
his office in a rocking chair hit
the street this week wher
Goodwill's director, Richard A
Nelson started moving rockers
to the showroom window al
1918 New Hampshire avenue
NV.
And he ordered a crash pro-
gram in rocking chair refur.
bishing in the Goodwill work
rooms.
1T looks like rocking chail
alley there Mr.. Nelson said.
About a dozen chairs are be-
ing repaired by handicapped
workers employed by Goodwill
while being taught a trade
Some chairs are being caned
some refinished, some tight
ened up.
1--WE want to take the creak,
out Of them," Mr.. Nelson ex'
planned.
The dynamic executive direc'
tor, former owner of an office
equipment firm, predicts a fall
off in contributions of discard
ed rocking chairs to Goodwill
Housewives will find a place o.
honor for them at home, HI
expects.
$50 the ones we have nov
are like little gems" Mr.
Nelson observed.
Mr.. Nelson, the retiring vol
unteer president of Goodwill
sees no reason why moderr
promotion techniques can't bt
applied to merchandise sold II
a worthy cause.
Evening star., 1961-03-25

as the Democratic State Gen.
trail Committee, meeting in
Richmond, received a recon-
mendation from the 10th Dis
trict Democratic Committee
dealing with the same topic
Of party loyalty.
Mrs. Flora Crater of Fair
fax presented the 10th dis
trict recommendation that a
committee be appointed to
study ways to strengthen the
loyalty pledge.
Boyd May Run
And in a third development,
T. Munford Boyd of Char
lottesville, a 61-year-old pro-
fessor of law at the University
of Virginia, confirmed he is
considering the possibility of
entering the race for attorney
general.
Mr.. Boyd would complete a
slate made up of 1t. Gov. A. E.
S. Stephens for Governor and
Mr.. Boothe for lieutenant gov
ernor.
The Byrd Democratic organ
ization has been lining up be-
hind a ticket composed of At
Itorney General Albertis S. Har-
rison, jr., for Governor; State
Senator Mills E. Goodwin for
lieutenant Governor and State
Senator Robert Y. Button for
attorney general.
In his speech at Abingdon in
southwest Virginia, Mr.. Boothe
amplified a campaign issue
first raised by 1t. Gov. Ste
phens on March 13 when he
reaffirmed his intention to re-
main in the race.
Il feel it is the prerogative
Of every individual voter il
every election in which he par.
ticipates to vote for the mar
that he regards as the best
man running in that election,
Mr.. Boothe told Washington
County Democrats. But thi!
privilege Of liberty or license
however you may describe it
does not apply to Democratic
officeholders."
He quoted the pledge o.
Honor" every Democratic can.
didate is required to sign. i
declares the Signer supported
the party's candidates in tht
preceding election and vii
support the Democratic nomi'
nees in the following election
II say the intention Of thii
Pledge Of Honor is clear" Mr.
Boothe said. And I say tina
it obligated every Democrat
Evening star., 1961-03-25
Budget Hit as ordy
In Prince Georges

heads. About so persons at
tended the three-hour fin a
hearing in Hyattsville.
A dozen speakers told the
commissioners to increase the
present tax rate Of $2.42 per
500 assessed valuation If nee
essary to cover requested budg-
cts for schools or libraries.
Mrs. Gladys Spellman, presi-
dent Of the County Council Of
PTAs, said receipt Of the
school budget last Saturday
was "far too late" for her group
to study it.
Small Attendance
She added that the small
turnout at the two budget
hearings is an indication resi-.
dents have confidence in thC
commissioners ability. Fewer
than so persons appeared al
the first hearing Tuesday.
T. Hammond Welsh, a direc.
tor of the local chamber o.
commerce, told the commits.
sioners they have been given 6
sacred trust" and are doins
"a magnificent job"
The greatest support was fol
the $30.5 million school budg.
ct, along with a suggestion thaf
secondary school libraries bC
opened evenings and Satur'
days. The library budget o.
$733,882 received support from
several groups, including thu
League of Women Voters anC
the American Association o.
University Women of botl
Laurel and College Park.
David Goldsmith of tn,
Adelphi Citizens Association
urged that next years bulge
proposal be ready 35 days prio
to the first public hearing.
Mr.. Goldsmith also suggest
ed holding a night hearing ant
leaving the official record opel
for 80 days after the fina
heraing.
Police Budget Questioned
Georeg r. Hammond of tn
traffic safety section of tn
American Automobile Associa
ton asked why the $1.9 milliol
police budget did not contain
funds for an accident investi
CATION unit and a substation il
Oxon Hill.
Police Chief George ]. Pana
goulis said higher pay an,
more men are his most immedi
ate needs. He is asking for
$500 across-the- board increas
in the present scale Of $4,000
5000, the lowest in the area
The chief also wants AZ addi
tional men for the 194-mal
: force.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
New Trial SET
In Mail Fraud
CaseDeadIock
Baltimore Judge
Dismisses Jury
On Job 18 Weeks

BALTIMORE, Mar. 25 (AP)
The Justice Department said
today a new trial will be held
in the mail fraud case involv-
ing Commercial Savings and
Loan Association of Baltimore.
United States District Court
Judge r. Dorsey Watkins de-
clared a mistrial yesterday when
the jury remained deadlocked
after 13 hours of deliberation,
Also charged, in addition to
the company, were Robert F,
Suchman of Baltimore, the
firms president, and C. Oran
Mensik, Chicago financier.
Assistant United States At
torney Arnold M. Weiner said
today a new trial date would be
set and the Justice Department
hoped to get under way by late
spring or early summer.
zone Maverick on Jury"
Mr.. Weiner said he and United
States Attorney Leon H. Pier
son made the decision as Soor
as we knew there was one NAV
erick in the jury, it being clear
to US that it was only a quirk
of fate that kept them (the de-
fendants) from getting con.
victed."
Mr.. Weiner referred to the
lone dissenter in the 12-membel
jury. who opposed conviction
on the ground that the firm.
method of operation was justi'
fled if the association made
money.
The first trial cost the Gov.
ernment an estimated 100000
or more.
The mistrial ended l8 weeks
of testimony and argument in
United States District Court ir
one of the longest Federal hear.
ings ever held here.
II hope the jurors realize
they are throwing away II
weeks of trial. I only assume
they are acting in good faith,
said the judge after rendering
his decision.
Trial Exhausts Judge
The Judge appeared ex'
hauSted after the closing week
Of final argument, and charges
to the jury in the marathon
case involving charges that tn,
company used the mails to de
fraud potential investors.
He received at least thret
notes from the panel during it
two-day deliberation telling hin
it was hopelessly deadlocked
He had sent the jurors homr
Thursday after five hours.
He summoned the jury at on,
point yesterday and asket
whether his instructions hat
been sufficiently clear. Late
he told the panel 1t could re
turn separate verdicts as to tn
individual defendants. But h
could not break the deadlock
The trial. which opened No
vember 26, 1860, and generated
$500 pages Of testimony, wa
itself the climax of severa
years of legal maneuvering.
Postal inspectors began in
vestigating the firm early il
1858, shortly after it was or
ganized.
The indictment in Decem
ber, 1858. was followed by tn
opening Of the trial after thre
postponementS.
Evening star., 1961-03-25

officeholder in last November's
election to vote for John F.
Kennedy for President and for
Lyndon B. johnson (for vice
presidenD. And I say this
pledge given upon their sacred
honor applied with equal force
to those Virginians who re-
spected it and to those who
betrayed it."
At yesterdays Democratic
State Central Committee meet
ing in Richmond. a committee
was created to sponsor another
Embarrassing dinner to wipe
out a party deficit of about
$4,000.
State Chairman Thomas H
Blanton said the committee
was authorized to promote
rather than hinder plans now
being made to invite United
Nations Ambassador Adlai Ste
venSon to speak at a second
dinner this year.
Vote Drive Urged
Proposals advanced by Mrs
Crater for the 10th district in
cluded suggestions for a get.
out-the-vote drive, strengthen.
ing membership in the party
and preparation of a plan o.
action. She did not ask tht
State Central Committee to acr
on the measures yesterday.
In Charlottesville, Mr.. BoyC
said friends from differen
parts of the State and all kind
of political complexion" haC
asked him to run for attorne!
general. Il haven't made VI
my mind" he added. I'm 1
friend of everybody who is il
the race so tar."
Last night in Newport News
Attorney General Harrison, whit
heads the Organization" slatt
which, presumably, would op
pose the ticket Mr.. Boyd nigh
join, was asked about thi
latest development.
Mr.. Harrison paid tribute II
Mr.. Boyd's ability and reputa'
ton as a learned man Of law
Also, in a speech there, Mr.
Harrison said it would be un
realistic to impose a State sale
tax and then take away al
equal amount of revenue b.
: abolishing other taxes.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
BY JAMES b. ROWLAND
Star staff Writer

Re sidents criticized the
Prince Georges County COM
missioners yesterday for being
late in issuing 1961-62 budget
proposals, but then generally
ipdorsed them.
Only three speakers asked
the county heads to hold back
on a proposed 35-cent tax rise
in the record $51.7 million bud
get requested by department
Evening star., 1961-03-25
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Congress
on Surveying and Mapping
and the American Society
of Photogrammetry close
at the Shoreham.
The Grain and Feed
Dealers National Associa-
tion closes at the Statler
Hilton.
The I'd Annual Spring
Festival closes at the
Sheraton-Park.
Evening star., 1961-03-25
Boothe Reps 'DisIoyuI'
In Starting Campaign
Cundidote Stresses Party Ooth
As Obligation of Officeholders
BY ALEX PRESTON
Star staff Writer

Alexandria State Senator Armsead L. Boothe kicked off
campaign for Lieutenant Governor Of Virginia last night
with scang denunciaon of Democratic officehoders who
betrayed their party loyalty by failure to support Pre
dent Kennedy in last years election.
He made first speech of the campaign in Abingdon
Milford chronicle., 1961-07-14
Real Estate Transfers
Made In Sussex County

George H Draper. Jr. and Laura
S. to Richard Haberle. Cedar Greek
HID, Slaughter Beach, lot.
Harold l.. Short and Sara: A.
Floud Short and Bessie; Ethel Kir-
by and Joseph to James B. Weaver
and Lulu NJ, Cedar Greek HID, lot
IL no..
Roy Ash and Annabel L. to Law
renee Graham and or Velma NJ,
North West Fork HID. lot. 175' 70'.
Edward Jacobs and Beatrice to
Elmer Mckinley Brown and Willie
Mae. Nanticoke HID, 10000 50. IT.
VIM. II. Parsons and Sara d. to
L. Audrey Scheible, Seaford Hd..
Parsons Village. lot No. 27 and N.
X of lot No. 2S.
Elizabeth r. Maddox to John
Turner West and Elizabeth Neigh
bors West. Little Creek HID, 49,
472 so. IT, with imp.
Harvey L. Dolby and Dorothy;
Jack II. Dolby and Ethel to Leon
ard +. King and Mary c., Little
Greek HID. lot with imps.
Sara Kirk Banks and Charles
Clarke Banks to Kenneth Fl. White
and Myrtle E.. Little Greek Hd.,
Town of Delmar, lot.
VIM. c. Watson, widower, to Dor
othy Lee Poole, single, Baltimore
HID. lots GA and 6B Delaware and
Mill st.
John L. Craig and Betty G. to
Michael Panco and Ann. Baltimore
HID, lot No. 50. blk. 3. South Beth
any.
Jenny r. Schmidt and George F.
Doris p. Memges and Hurbert T.
to John ]. Prenger and Stella E..
Baltimore HID, lot No. 81. blk. s
South Bethany.
Fred j. Goggin and Margaret j.
to Flossie II. Rust, Georgetown HID.
Bedford ST.. 1-3 acre.