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Evening star., 1961-07-26
More Luxury Living
Ahead for Sparrow

Enough Of this call-of-the
wild nonsense, a young Wash
ington sparrow has decided.
Three days without his meal
ticket and he's not only home,
manicured toenails and all, but
bound on a free trip to Canada.
Two weeks of soft living after
rescue by the Walfred v. Maxi
family, of 1891 Belt road NV.
apparently convinced Poppy
that a bread and water menu is
better than none.
Found destitute in the front
yard by Terry Maxi, 7, the
fledgling was regaled with
scrambled eggs, which he
spurned in favor Of bread and
water. He was also treated to
earthworms. hand-dug by Terry
and his brother Gary. S, in a
neighbor's yard, until the
brothers concluded this was too
much strain.
Run Of the House
Poppy lived it up in a spa
cious cage, flew around the
house, and posed for snapshots
on the back Of "Blackie," the
family dog.
Then Saturday the freeload-
ing ended. Mrs. Maxi. wife of
an attorney, decided it was in
Peppy's best interest to let him
go. ostensibly to hunt and peck
with his bretheren.
Without a word to the boys
Evening star., 1961-07-26

the Republican choice for Chief
Municipal Court Judge would be
Judge Harry L. Walker of the
Municipal Court.
Other Recommendations
Five other Washington law
yers, two of them women, were
recommended for Municipal
Court if Judges Smith or Myers
left that bench. These we're:
Kitty Blair Frank, 1858
Waterside drive; Margaret A.
Haywood, 2217 Fourteenth
street NV; Leo Schlosberg,
1000 Massachusetts, avenue
NV; Maurice Friedman, 1925
Reno road NV, and C. K.
Brown, jr., 1910 Jackson street
NE.
Chairman Garrett also sug-
gested that judges be reap
pointed upon expiration of
their terms, provided there are
no problems of health or per-
formance prejudicial to the
judiciary.
The Justice Department asked
local Republicans for their rec
concentrations on June 20.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Finishers End
Strike, Return
To Cement Jobs

Cement finishers returned to-
day to building and construc-
ton projects threatened by
their two-day strike. A new
two-year contract eventually
will raise hourly pay Is cents.
The finishers, all members
of the Cement Masons' Local
S9l, had received a minimum
Of $3.77 an hour under their
old contract with local con-
tractors represented by the
Construction Contractors Coun-
Gil. The contract expired April
80.
The contractors offered IS
cents in pay increases over
the two years plus a 10-cent
contribution to union pension
funds, but the finishers pre-
ferred to get all the money as
pay.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
BoyDrowns
In Futile Try
To Save Man

LEONARDTOWN, Md, July
rs (SpeciaD A man and a
boy who went to his aid were
drowned in a St. Marys County
farm pond yesterday.
The victims were Daniel Esh.
%, and Noah Byler, IA. both of
Mechanicsville, Md, according
to State police here.
Both had been working on a
barn off the Mechanicsville-
Chaptico road, a mile north of
Chaptico, when Mr.. Esh de-
cided to take a swim in a near
by pond about $50 PM, police
reported.
He got into water over his
head and shouted for help.
When he did, the boy went
after him in an attempt to
save him, but also went under,
police said.
Their bodies were recovered
about two hours later.
The pond in which. they
drowned is about IL miles
northwest of Leonardtown.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
LINCOLN BUFFS ENTHUSIASTIC
Museum Plan WinsSupport

ised to ask her father. now in
his eighties, to shed some light
on the reason for the under
ground chamber.
National Capital Parks Off
cials have suggested that the
chamber might have resulted
from a builders decision not to
haul in earth to fill around the
pilings which support the
memorial.
IT don't think this was a
builders device" Mr.. Schwen-
gel said, The concrete supports
are too smooth, and the roof
was arched. and alcoves were
made in the walls. I think
somebody had some ideas for
that room"
Both the architect and the
builder of the memorial have
been dead many years.
The Iowa congressman said
his colleagues on Capitol Hill
have been very interested in
the proposal. He said he has
been taking some groups of
congressman on tours Of the
chamber.
Costs Being Explored
Architects of the National
Park Service are now working
to estimate the cost of reno
waiting the chamber for use as
a museum, Mr.. Schwengel said.
Just to make sure I'm pre-
pared he added, II have
drafted a possible resolution
which would provide funds for
drawing up plans and specifi-
cations for the work"
Evening star., 1961-07-26
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star Staff Writer

Suburban planners today ap-
proved construction of an un-
derground parking lot in Chevy
Chase despite protests that it
lies directly in the path of the
projected Wisconsin Avenue
corridor.
The Maryland National Cap
ital Park and Planning Com
mission overuled its staff four
to-one in granting the request
of Woodward & Lothrop de-
partment store.
The firms proposal, to build
a 300-car underground lot be-
meath its present parking area
at Western and Willard avenues,
will be forwarded to the Mont
gomery County Council next
week for further study.
The commission majority
agreed with Chairman j. New
ton Brewer, jr., that the store
should not be penalized for
delays which have clouded the
proposed super highways fu-
ture.
Construction Not Assured
$50 many people have been
fooling around with this corri-
DOR" Mr.. Brewer declared,
that there. is no guarantee
that it is going to be built as
originally proposed. All we know
is they're trying to kill it in
the District"
Noting that the highway
originally was planned to cross
the site now occupied by the
Lord q Taylor department
store across Western avenue in
Washington, Mr.. Brewer said
Woodward g. Lothrop should
not have to revise it's plans
because of what the District
does"
The single desenting vote
was cast by Commissioner
Evening star., 1961-07-26

proposal enthusiastically ano
said they would give it very
serious consideration.
The proposal was made by
Gerald T. Halpin, vice president
Of Atlantic Research Corp. and
president of Commonwealth
Capital, and Rudolph G. Seeley,
who represents the Ulfelder
Farm.
The men are engaged in a
joint venture to develop 269
acres called West Gate at the
intersection of the Circumfer-
ential highway, the Dulles In
ternational Airport access road
and the Mclean bypass.
Offer 10 Acres
They offered to give the
county about 10 acres and
said they would be wiling to
stand the cost of about $50, 900
in preliminary engineering and
architectural estimates to be-
gin development Of the site for
the county.
Mr.. Halpin, who has taken
part in many civic activities in
the county, said the county
seat in Fairfax "is inadequate
and coming years will prove it
more So"
He said "a fine job of plap-
ming could be done" for a civic
center that would house the
county government.
There is obviously personal
gain for the owners in this
area" Mr.. Halpin noted. But
he added, "any gain we would
be willing to share with the
citizens of the area or with
the county"
Mr.. Halpin said the area
perhaps will be the crossroads
of the county some day."
Comprehensive Plan
The original planning for the
West Gate development of Mr..
Halpin and Mr.. Seeley envis-
ages a comprehensive develop
ment of garden and high-rise
apartments. a regional and a
neighborhood shopping center
and several sites for industrial
and commercial office build
ings.
Questioned by reporters on
Evening star., 1961-07-26

vacancy left by the death of
Judge James w. Morris.
David G. Bress or Albert F.
Beasley for the District Court
vacancy created by the retire
ment of Judge F. Dickinson
Let's.
Hood Promotion Asked
Municipal Court of Appeals
Judge Andrew Hood to be
named chief Judge of that
court.
Municipal Court Judge Frank
H. Myers to be named associ-
ate judge of the Municipal
Court of Appeals.
In addition, Clyde D. Garrett,
chairman of the Republican
State Committee Judicial Sc
lections Committee, also asked
Deputy Attorney General By
ron R. White to consider:
harrington D. Parker, "a dis
tinguished Negro lawyer" for
the Morris vacancy; and,
Chief Municipal Court Judge
John Lewis Smith for the Let's
vacancy.
Should Judge Smith be trans
ferred to the District Court,
Evening star., 1961-07-26

the county's new buildings to
house the police department
and school administration, Mr.:
Halpin said if the county con-
tinues to grow, "in 10 or Is
years every building we are
looking at will be inadequate"
The county, he said, could
try to sell the present buildings
to the new City of Fairfax.
Board Chairman Anne Will
kins called the proposal "a
fascinating offer" and added: {:
"It certainly would be nice to
start over"
Supervisor william H. Moss
joined in, calling it "a rather
exciting proposal" Mr.. Moss
said: II would think the board
should take this under very
serious consideration as soon
as possible.
Supervisor John Parrish sec
onded Mr.. Moss motion to
study the proposal and make
a decision by october l..
Cite 1742 Courthouse
A proposed agreement sub
mitted by Mr.. Halpin and Mr..
Seeley cited the county's his
tory Of rapid growth and noted
that it is planning on becoming
a city.
The men explained in a let
ter to the board that Fairfax
County's courthouse once was
situated at Freedom Hill near
Tyson's Corner. The courthouse
was moved there in 1742 from
Colchester.
Freedom Hill was then a log
cabin settlement.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Senate Unit
OK's Space
ForArt

The Senate Rules Committee
today, in effect, ordered equal
protection for art as we'll as
history in a proposed new mu-
scum in the historic Patent Of
flee Building in the heart of
Washington.
A bill of special interest to
historians was approved to re-
serve space in the building for
the National Portrait Gallery,
which would be established as
a bureau Of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Artists Worried
Numerous local artists have
been worried over a proviso
promising the gallery the use
Of the whole or any part
of the building" This could,
squeeze out the National Col
lection Of Fine Arts, already
established in the Smithsonian,
as a display of American ar
tistic accomplishments.
Committee spokesmen said
their report would include a
letter from the Smithsonian
director, DR.. Leonard Car
michael, guaranteeing that the
building will be shared by both
the Portrait Gallery and the
National Collection. The build
ing itself, an architectural
landmark spanning two down.
town blocks between Seventh
and Ninth streets NV, is to
be transferred to the Smith
sonian when vacated by the
Civil Service Commission, prob
ably next year.
Bill Amended
AS reported, the Portrait
Gallery bill was amended to
prevent duplication of displays
of its exhibits with those of
the Library of Congress. The
gallery will be limited to por-
traits and sculptures. Line
drawings and Autographs, his
torical documents and reference
materials about national lead
ers will be kept at the library.
Two Smithsonian regents,
Senators Anderson, Democrat
of New Mexico, and Saltonstall,
Republican of Massachusetts,,
sponsored the reported pro-
posal, expected to clear the
Senate shortly.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Adventists to Hold
Bible Conference

CATONSVILLE, Md, July
26 (AP).-The Chesapeake
Conference of Seventh-day Ad-
ventists will hold its annual
summer Bible conference and
camp meeting at this Balti-
more suburb tomorrow through
Saturday.
AdventistS from Maryland,
Delaware, and parts of Vlr-
ginia and West Virginia will
attend.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Junior
Championships of the
Bowling Proprietors Asso-
citation of America meet
for the second day at the
Willard.
The American AsSocia-
ton of Agricultural College
Editors meets for the
fourth day at the Shore
ham.
The Electronic Mainte-
nance Engineering Asso-
citation closes at the May
flower.
This information is supplied by
the Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau of the Metropolitan wash
inston Board of Trade.
Evening star., 1961-07-26

If adequate congressional
support seems likely, Mr..
Schwengel said, a bill to pay
renovating costs will have to
be submitted to the House Ap-
preparations Committee.
I'm very pleased with the
response so far" the congress-
man said, "One lady has even
offered to head a subscription
drive for the museum in her
city"
Several Features
Under the representative S
proposal, the chamber would
be divided into a museum and
Lincoln library. Some areas
would be reserved for rotating
private collections which would
be loaned to the government.
Another part of the chamber
would be used as an auditorium
where visiting students could
see films and slides on Presi-
dent Lincoln's achievements.
Tourists would pay a small fee
to enter the chamber.
Mr.. Schwengel said. how
ever, he didn't want his plan
to interfere in any way" with
bills recently introduced in the
Senate to create a memorial
to President James Madison
near Capitol Hill.
I'm very enthusiastic about
the Madison memorial idea.
too," Mr.. Schwengel said.
Both of these things would
help us to appreciate our heri-
tage more, and after all that's
what all Of us are interested
in"
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Care Home Owners
Fight Rule Changes
Sprinkler Cost
Called Threut
To Operations

Some 20 operators of institu-
tionalized homes here claimed
today that stricter fire regula-
tions now under study by the
District Commissioners may
force them out of business.
Owners and operators of old
age and convalescent homes
were concerned about forced
installation of sprinkler systems
in buildings which they say al
ready are fireproof.
They appeared at District
Building hearing on proposed
changes in the city's building
code designed to make such
homes more fireproof.
Hearing the complaints were
all three District Commission
ers. The move for stricter reg
ulations stems from a fire last
February at the Mount Ver-
non Nursing home in which
seven persons died.
Council Recommendations
The fire was investigated by
the Citizens Advisory Council
which later recommended,
among other things. installa-
ton of sprinkler systems in
many such establishments. In
cluded in the plan would be a
number of schools, both public
and private, as we'll as institu-
tionalized homes.
Many home operators argued
today that their buildings al
ready are fireproof. even with
out sprinkler systems. The cost
of installing sprinklers, they
continued, would force them to
hike tenants rents, perhaps to
a point where some would be
unable to pay.
R. c. Green, operator of
rooming houses, said the cost
of installing sprinklers would
end up by forcing people out
of the homes, some of them
with no place else to CO."
Mr.. Green said he feels 1t
is "unethical' for District Off
cials to issue permits to operate
homes and fail to tell the
owners what's around the
corner" in terms of stricter re-
gulations.
Some of us have put our
life savings into this business,
and may now be forced to
quit" he added.
Changes Get Support
Reporting that the proposed
changes in the code do not ap-
ply to rooming houses, j. j. n
genfritz, District director of
licenses and inspections, ex-
planned that in cases where Dis
trict officials say sufficient pre-
cautions already exist short Of
installing sprinklers. exceptions
or variances to the new regula-
tions could be made.
Owners, in any case, could
appeal the decisions.
Supporting g the proposed
changes were DR.. Daniel L.
Finucane, public health direc-
tor; Fire Marshal r. C. O'Con-
ner, and Mrs. Elizabeth j. Alex
ander, license officer represent
ing the Welfare Department.
Even though renovations
are expensive and there is an
urgent need to keep rates down.
we still feel patients must be
protected" Mrs. Alexander said.
District officials said a final
decision on the proposed code
changes probably will be an
nounced by the Commissioners
within the next month.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Maryland Localities

ANNAPOLIS, July 26 CAP).-
Local Maryland subdivisions
received nearly $72 million
from the State in income, mo-
tor vehicle and other taxes end
license fees during the last fis-
cal year, the controllers Of
flee said yesterday.
Evening star., 1961-07-26

HENRY SERVED as secre-
tary to his father during the
Civil War when the latter
was our Minister to the Court
of st. James's. That was
when Lord John Russell, the
Foreign Minister, and Glad
stone were plotting to add
the Northern States to
Canada and let Napoleon III
add the South to the Mexi-
can Empire.
He makes no mention of
his wife, who committed sui
eide, but he does mention her
memorial by his friend Au-
gustus st. Gaudens in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
"AS Adams sat there, num-
bers of people came, for the
figure seemed to have be-
come tourist fashion, and all
wanted to know its meaning.
-. The only exceptions were
the clergy who taught a les
son even deeper. One after
another brought companions
there, and apparently fas-
cinated by their own reflec-
ton, broke out passionately
against the expression they
felt in the figure, of despair,
of atheism, of denial. Like
the others, the priest saw
only what he brought. Like
all great artists, st. Gaudens
held up the mirror and no
more"
Evening star., 1961-07-26
HISTORIC SPOT
Foirfox Offered Site
For New County Seat
By JACK KELSO
Star staff Writer

proposal to the Fairfax County seat of
to historic Freedom Hill the site of pioneer courthouse
taken under study today by the Board of County
viSors.
The Supervisors who to feel encced by the city
Of Fairfax where the county seat situated greeted the
Evening star., 1961-07-26
District 6. 0. P. Files
Bench Nominations
King, Powell, Bress and BeusIey
Proposed to Justice Department

The Justice Department today received District Repubi-
cans recommendations for filling judicial vacancies here
Six supported by Republicans also suggested by
the District Bar Association.
They
Preston King John Powell for the District Court
Evening star., 1961-07-26

Representative Schwengel,
an Iowa Republican with a
passion for Lincolnia, has re-
ceived enthusiastic response to
his suggestion that a huge
chamber under the Lincoln
Memorial be turned into a
National museum for the Civil
War president.
Mr.. Schwengel said today he
had received more than so let
ters and kilograms from peo-
pie in many parts of the coun-
try since his proposal was an
nounced last week. Some of
the letter-writers have offered
to donate private collections on
Lincoln lore, he said. Others
have offered to help solve the
mystery of why the chamber
was built.
"The more I see of that
chamber" Mr.. Schehgel said,
"the more I become convinced
that it was constructed for a
specific purpose.
The chamber, which con-
tains more than a million CUBIC
feet of space, is not mentioned
in any Of the known reference
works on the Lincoln memorial.
It is located under the man
memorial building and is about
half as large as the entire me-
mortal.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
The
Rambler
Rereuds
An Autobiography
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Senior citizens of Wash
ington remember the houses
of Henry Adams and his
friend John Hay, romantic
mansions of masonry with
great arched entrances,
which stood on the site of
the Hay Adams Hotel.
This writer read THE Edu-
cation of Henry Adams"
when it was first published
in 1918. 1t puzzled him great
ly. He reread it recently with
more understanding but still
found much to puzzle on.
One of the puzzles is why
Adams did not become a
famous American, have a
great public career. Emerson
is our most famous intellec-
tual. But Adams, born a
generation later, began to
learn where Emerson left off.
He had a truly modern mind.
At the turn of the century
In the last chapter on his life
he is bemused by the contra
dictions of evolution and
Speculating on the new world
that the CurieS' discovery of
radium had started.
NO ONE WOULD ACCUSE
him of serving Mammon.
Mammon served him. Birth
gave him one fortune; mar
riage another. While still
a young man he became Su-
perior to politics. The ed
ucation," which was to place
him posthumously in the
first rank of our writer's, was
privately printed and circu-
lated among his friends. He \
had become such a Snob that
he was superior to fame.
The great grandson of our
second President and grand
son Of the sixth, he was born
on Beacon Hill near the
State House in 1888. He con-
Sidered himself an 18th CEN
tury person. He would have
been comfortable among the
Federalists. He couldn't be
in the Republican Party. 1t
was too vulgar; too much of
the crowd.
He notes with convincing
evidence that the 18th CEN
tury started when he was 6
years old. In 1874 the Cunard
liners appeared in Boston
Harbor, the trains of the
Boston & Albany Railroad
began to roll in from the
West and the telegraph re-
layed the news from Balti-
more that Henry Clay and
James K. Polk had been
nominated for President.
His father was elected to
Congress in 1850 and brought
his 12-year-old son to Wash
ington.
Henry Adams wrote about
himself in the third person:
What struck him most, to
remain fresh in his mind all
his lifetime, was the sudden
change that came over the
world entering a slave State.
=. The mere raggedness of
outline could not have
seemed wholly new, for even
Boston had its ragged edges.
The railroad rambled
through unfenced fields and
woods, through village
streets, among a haphazard
variety of pigs, cows and
Negro babies. This was the
boys impression of what
slavery caused, and for him
all 1t taught.
Coming down in the early
morning from his bedroom in
his grandmother's house in
F street and venturing out
side into the air reeking with
the thick odor of catalpa
trees, he found himself on an
earth road, or village street,
with wheel tracks meander-
ing from the colonnade of the
Treasury hard by, to the
white marble columns of the
Post Office and Patent Of
flee which faced each other
in the distance, like white
Greek temples in the aban-
doned gravel-pits of a de-
serted Syrian city"
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Promising Lead

Mr.. Schengel said he received
telegram from a woman IN
Baton Rouge. La. who claimed
that her father was the con-
struction foreman when the
memorial was built. She prom
Smyrna times., 1961-06-08
Personals

The 1861 Senior Class of Smy-
rna High were guest at a lawn
party given by their classmate
Norma Jane Birmingham, Tues
day evening, June 6, at her
home, l Union Street. Barbe-
cue hamburgs, cokes, cakes and
dancing were enjoyed by all.
Chaperones were Mrs. Virginia
Knussman, Mrs. Edith Reed,
Mrs. Virginia Kruchen, and Mrs.
Gertrude Birmingham.
Capt. and Mrs. Robert c. Kes-
singer (nee Miss Doris Smith)
of Smyrna Landing, have left
for Bermuda where they will
reside for the next four years.
Capt. Kessinger is a pilot for
the weather bureau.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L.Graham,
Jr., of Philadelphia, and Miss
Elizabeth Thornley,, of Balti-
more, spent the weekend at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
M. Guy. Miss Thornley, expects
to spend a month in Europe
this summer with Miss Mar
garet Hill, of Bethesda, Mary
land. Miss Hill is the daughter
of the late Rev. Thomas Getz
Hill, former rector of ST. Peters
Church, and Mrs. Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Smith,
Jr., of FELTON,, Delaware, are
being congratulated on the birth
of son, Robert Barkes, born
May 27, at Kent General Hos
pital at Dover. Mrs. Stanley
Smith, Sr., of Smyrna Landing,
spent two weeks with her son
and daughter-in-law.
Mrs. Howard Shuster was a
visitor with her sisters, Mrs.
Thomas Donnely and Miss Mar
garet Reihm at their home on
Mt. Vernon Street during last
week.
Kenneth H. Smith of Smyrna
Landing, is vacationing in
Weeks, La.
Sidney Robert Smith who is
in the Navy on the U. S. S.
Calcaterra, spent the weekend
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Smith, Sr.
Smyrna times., 1961-06-08

and IL, officials announced this
week.
According to Dep r t m t
Commander Edward w. Clarke,
of Dover, and Auxiliary State
President Nettie Ziegler, of
Bridgeville, the annual gather
ings are expected to attract
more than 400 delegates, alter
mates and visitors. Past State
Commander David S. Hugg. of
Milford, is general chairman for
the two-day. conclave, with
past state commander Miles L.
Frederick, of Wilmington. and
Edmund Gosnell, commander of
the host Rehoboth Beach Post,
as vice chairman. Past state
auxiliary president Florence Gil
lespie. of Milford, heads the