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Evening star., 1961-06-04

val-the Pennsylvania Dutch
Folk Festival at Kutztown
July 1-8.
When the fete first was
held in 1850, and housewives
of the area were asked to
prepare typical Dutch dishes
to serve the visitors, the gen.
eral response was "Ach, peo-
pie wouldn't go for that
stuff"
But $4,000 people came the
first year and went for that
stuff" BY last year, as the
word kept spreading, the
crowd had swelled to more
than 100000.
The festival program this
year includes two simultan-
eouS stage presentations daily
"a two-hour pageant of Gay
Dutch folklife and a pano-
rama of horse and buggy
days.
Demonstrations
There will be AmiSh
movies, a folk seminar, jig
ging and hoe-down demon
Stration, free-for-all square
dancing, a folksong fest, and
in six exhibition buildings,
garb of the Plain sects, cook
cry, and folk art displays.
Scheduled are demonstra-
tions of butter churning, soap
boiling, apple mill grinding,
cider making on an 18th
century press, roof thatching,
basket weaving, and-as por-
trayed in the pictures ac-
companying this article-a
"lumpa" party.
The "lumpa" party was a
time of practical fun. 1t be-
gan with a pile of worn-out
clothing, sheets and other old
cloth, and ended with a rag
rug.
The Dutch" country -
they're not Dutch at all, but
of German ancestry sprawls
over a wide area of south
eastern Pennsylvania and
takes in towns and villages
with such intriguing names
as Bird in Hand, Blue Ball,
Paradise, Birdsboro, Womels-
dorf, Intercourse, Hinkletown
and New Hope.
"A World Apart
The plain Dutch" around
the Ephrata area, consist of
such Sects as the Amish, the
Mennonites and the Dunk
ards, most of whom prefer
to live apart from such mod
ern gadgetry as electricity
and automobiles. Most of
them, particularly the Amish
and the Team Mennonites,"
dress in plain but distinctive
garb.
Kutztown is the center of
the Gay Dutch" who live
"in the world" and "of the
world" It is here the traveller
will find colorful geometric
hex signs painted on nest red
Evening star., 1961-06-04
By JACK JONAS
Star Travel Editor

"Koom un bring del friend
mit!"
That spells out the warm
hospitality of the colorful
Pennsylvania Dutch Coun-
try, a short jaunt north from
Washington.
1t is the homogeneous area
Of southeastern Pennsylvania,
the home of the Gay Dutch
and the Plain Dutch, the hex
sign barns, covered bridges,
and delectable food.
Once more the Dutch are
getting ready to show the
public their ways past and
present in what has become
Americas largest folk festi-
Evening star., 1961-06-04

Homestead, Exeter Friends
Westinghouse, and Roadside
America: The second day
covers the Plain Dutch,
through Hopewell Village,
Morgantown, Churchtown,
Blue Ball, Paradise, Inter-
course, Bird in Hand, Smoke
town, Bareville, Farmersville,
Hinkletown and Ephrata.
One highlight is a 2O-item
Pennsylvania Dutch feast
featuring the traditional
seven sweets and seven sours.
And the food? It's won
derful good"
Evening star., 1961-06-04

Lincoln'S great-great-grand-
father settled and built.
In Lititz, at the Lititz Pret-
Eel House, you can try your
hand at bending a pretzel. If
you succeed, you get a grad
uation certificate"
Also in Lititz, you can view
the grave Of John A. Sutter,
on whose California land
came the strike that brought
the Gold Rush Of 1849.
The Pennsylvania Farm
Museum at Lands Valley re-
produces a Pennsylvania
Dutch farmhouse and barn
of the old days, and has such
side exhibits as a gun mu-
scum.
Popular Place
Popularity of the area with
Washingtonians is indicated
in the fact that railways,
with a one-day bus tour of the
Pennsylvania Dutch Coun-
try scheduled for next Sat
urday, will start from here
with at least seven busloads.
This is railways second
such trip this spring, and
three more are scheduled in
the fall.
New this year is a two-day
regular bus tour arranged by
the Pennsylvania Dutch Tour
Associates, with headquarters
in the Berkshire Hotel at
Reading.
First day of the tour takes
in the Gay Dutch country,
with visits to Kutztown, Crys-
tai Cave, the Daniel Boone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
ALL AT SEA
SIS Nassau Is Shifted
To West Coast Route
ALL AT SEA

The SIS Nassau, familiar tc
many Westinghouse through
her trips from New York to the
Bahamas in the past 10 years
will soon be making regular
passenger trips between Los
Angeles and Acapulco.
The vessel is being sold to g
Mexican firm. During her 1C
years of service on the Ba-
hamaS route, the Nassau has
carried more than 10000
passengers.
4 4 +
The SIS Ariadne, one of the
largest cruise vessels to sail
from Washington, will be open
to the public prior to sailing
at 4 pm. October Is at Pier 5
on the Maine avenue wharves.
A nominal charge will be made
with the proceeds going to
charity.
After her cruise to Bermuda,
the ship will head for Miami
for a series of Caribbean
cruises out of there. Caribbean
Cruise Lines of Washington
will be general agent for the
Miami sailings.
4 X +
The Sun Line has extended
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10

into November its schedule Of
cruises aboard the Stella Mari.
from Piraeus to the Greek
Islands and Turkey. Added arr
7-day voyages leaving Novem-
Der 3 and 10. :
= + = y
Pro Orient Lines and Brit
ish Overseas Always Corp. are
offering a series of air-Sea
tours to the Orient this veal
and next. There will be Is de-
parture dates.
& 4 r
Traditional shipboard activi-
ties of bingo, horseracing anc
skeet-Shooting will be toned
down aboard MatSon Line sail
ings to Hawaii this fall
Brought to the fore as paSsen-
ger activities will be rinky-tink
piano, flapper girls, clowns ano
can-can dancers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
Egypt Is Building
Four New Museums

Construction is scheduled to
begin soon on four new muse
ums to house collections of the
antiques of ancient Egypt.
One will be built at Shalalat
Park in Alexandria. Sakkarah
(Memphis) on the outskirts of
Cairo is to be the site of a
museum housing antiquities
discovered in that area. Muse
ums also are to be built in
Port Said and Damascus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
MiumiHote
RemodeIinq

Three downtown Miami
hotels are spending SIS million
getting ready for the high"
tourist season.
At the Everglades, $85O,O0O
is being spent to modernize the
top nine floors, install a dial
telephone system and high
speed automatic elevators, and
add an outdoor lounge to the
rooftop pool area.
The Alcazar Hotel will spend
about 100000 to install air
conditioning and convert the
second floor to convention
facilities.
The McAllister is adding a
health club to it's Ell Centre
restaurant facilities, at a cost
of $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
Europe Trips
On Increase

After a slow start, travel to
Europe in 1861 is picking up
The passport office now
estimates that 100000 Amer
leans will have left for Europe
through October, compared
with 1925 who departed in
January October last year.
Since late in May, following
nearly six months of a very
cratic volume, the number of
(passport) applications received
continues to be consistently
more than the number received
during comparable periods one
year earlier" the passport
office reports.
During the first II working
days of August the volume was
8 per cent above that for a
comparable period in 1860.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10

home from abroad without pay
ing duty.
Except for the amounts
specified, the law is the same
as the former one, which al
lowed a 5000 exemption each
80 days, plus an additional $500
each six months.
But the foibles Of the human
race are expected to make the
transition from old to new
complex. Some will not have
heard of the new law, and there
will be cries Of anguish in the
customs sheds when the inspec-
tors insist on duty. Some never
understood the old law, and
since the new law is basically
the same, there is no reason to
expect they will understand it..
Helping in this trying time
for the American traveller will
be the general Bureau of Gus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
West Virginia
Plans Composites

West Virginia this fall will
try to induce private interests
to build 200 tent and trailer
camping developments across
the State.
Conn erce Commissioner
Hulett c. Smith said there are
now only two dozen areas
offering tent and trailer sites
in West Virginia-nearly all
of them on State and Federal
lands.
ITO properly exploit the ex-
banding traffic in campers, >
he said, I'VE must develop
camping grounds along every
major highway in West Vir-
ginia. A minimum of one camp
ing ground is needed in every
county along every route enter
ing or crossing the State"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10

toms policy of allowing the
homeward bound tourist to gel
away with everything the Law
allows.
Here, specifically, are some
of the things the law does, anc
does not, allow, along with
some suggestions for easing
your way through customs:
Include Everything
You are allowed to bring
home, without paying duty
500 worth of goods if you've
been out of the country 4S
hours or more. You can dc
this once a month. But you
have to include everything you
buy abroad for personal use
even those items which are
being mailed to you later.
Gifts which are mailed to
friends and relatives at home
can still be excluded from your
declaration, provided they cost
no more than $40 each. Only
one gift a day can be mailed to
any one person.
If you're travelling as a fam
lily, you can lump your exemp-
tons. A family of five, fol-
example, is entitled to $500 ex-
Iemption. This does not apply
to group travel other than fam
lilies.
The customs men are not
ogreS. If you have to pay duty
they will help by including the
items with the highest duty in
your exemption. For example
if you buy 500 worth of goods
dutiable at Is per cent, and
another 500 worth dutiable at
Is per cent, the 25 per cent
goods normally will be Jumped
under your exemption.
Cagy Inspectors
But the customs men are
cagy. and educated in the
broad gamut of prices paid for
most tourist items. Many
items are judged at wholesale
value, but don't expect to foo
the customs man with a
watered-down receipt from an
INSCRIPTIONS shopkeeper.
If you're carrying along a
camera, binoculars or a SINH
lar item of foreign make, bet
ter register it with Customs
before you leave, so there'll be
no question about it when you
return.
There has been no change in
the rules regarding the import
ing of liquor. You're still al
lowed a gallon-its cost must
be included in your 500 ex-
emption-as long as the State
where you live has no law bar
ring its importation. A note OF
warning to Maryland residents;
Maryland law forbids import
ing more than a quart each
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
CHAMPIONS
GATHER IN
JONESBORO

A program which the
National Association of
Travel Organizations nom
mates as the most unusual
travel-inducing event in
the country will be held
late this month in the twin
towns of Anna and Jones'
boro, Ill.
It's the state Champ
Duck, Goose and Crow
Calling Contest and Ma
tional Coon Squalling Con-
test"
The travel trade associa-
ton said it should be es-
pecially attractive to tape
worm travellers" - those
who like to record unusual
sounds with portable
sound equipment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
GET UP AND GO!
The American Tourist
Tightens Money Belt
BY JACK JONAS
Star Travel Editor

supplemental crew of United States customs
inspectors made up of Customs employees who nor
maly have other duties, were on duty at ports of
purchases law, which went into effect yesterday
The law is simple. BaSically, it limits to $500
the amount of goods returning traveller can bring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10
Tax in Works

Guatemala is considering a
10 per cent tax on hotel rooms
to help finance a Stepped-up
tourist promotion program.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
P.M.
Thursday

"The Bride Walks Out" 1896. Barbara STAN
v,ick 1000
Anna Karenna," 1885 Greta Garbo 500
"centIeman Jim" 1912. Erro Flynn. ll:2o-9
Whose Redheads From Seattle" 1858. Rhonda
Fleming. ll:3O-|
"co West" 1870 The Marx Brothers. 1:l5-9
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

Members of our BASILIAN CLUB pay dues of one dollar a
month. The money thus collected is used for the building and
maintaining of Catholic Schools in the Missions of the Near
and Middle East. The children educated. in these schools are
those who will carry on and spread our holy faith in the future
many of them as priests, sisters and brothers. Will you be-
come a "BASILIAN"?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

HUT Y at IUHEIHHIHg 10
what money they can, however; in the hope that they will re-
ceive outside assistance they have managed to secure the nec-
essary ground and have begun to level the top of the hill where
they dream that their Church will rise. $4,000 is the amount Of
money needed. Will you send us a donation to help raise this
sum?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03
EAST OF CALCUTTA.

about a distance of "a miles, the village of PULL0ORAMPARA
in INDIA was established in 1929. Since that time this village
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

boys WILL De SOU. Could you finance the educa-
them and share in the merits of his priestly work?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

Hds sIoHH lTUHi OH oIlsLudI pOpuidbiOn
of 80 families TO 264 families number
ing 1850 Catholics. Four years ago
these Catholics pooled all their money
tthe aggregate was a pitifully small
amount) to buy the necessary materials
and with their own hands put up a
building to serve as a Church and a
School. This structure is little more
than a shed and already it is made
quate in every way. They know now
that it will take much more money
than they can raise to erect a suitable
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

STATIONS OF THE CROSS for a Mission church, A dona-
ton of $500 will provide these for a Mission Church. Could
you give such a gift this Lent?
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03
CATERING SERVICE

CHEFS CATERING SERVICE.
Inc. - Parties, Picnics, Coffee
Breaks. Call Louie Finneran,
CA. 1888.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

PEACE AND SOLITUDE which are SO necessary for prayer
and study are provided at the SYRIAN PATRIARCHAL SEM.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-02-03

MARY, situated in the mountains of Leba-
non. GABI GHATTAS and JOSEPH AHMAR
are students at this seminary, preparing for
the great day, when, as ordained priests.
they viii serve Catholics of the Syrian Rite
and begin a ministry particularly dedicated
to winning dissident Syrian Christians back
to the Church. The cost of educating each
one of these boys will be $500. Could you {
ki1vs rf W. NJ %h1vt. ~nl ~harn -. A. ~-x~sk-~ e
Evening star., 1961-11-27
Five Hijock
AirIiner in
Venezuela

CARACAS. Venezuela, Nov.
q AP).-The Venezuelan air
line Avensa announced leftist
students hijacked one of its
passenger liners today and
dropped leaflets on. Caracas as
sailing the government of Pres
ident Romulo Betancourt. Then
the hijackers forced the plane
to land at Curacao, Netherlands
Antilles.
The students, Avensa re-
ported. were among A passen-
gers aboard the four-engine
plane when it took off from
Maiquetia airport here on q
regularly scheduled run for
Maracaibo.
Two Venezuelan air force
bombers took off in an attempt
tc intercept the plane after the
pilot reported by radio that he
was being forced at pistol point
to change his course. They
failed to catch up. however, and
the plane landed at Curacao
where heavily armed police
and marines Immediately sur
rounded it.
The Avensa spokesman here
described the students as Com
munistS and pro-Castro Fl
delistas."
Evening star., 1961-11-27
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

ened to rally his supporters
and indicated he would refuse
to accept another post in the
foreign policy field.
But George w. Ball, the eco
nomic affairs undersecretary
who succeeds Mr.. Bowles, be-
gan taking over many of the
jobs usually handled by the
No. 2 man. Mr.. Bowles became
mainly a high level State De-
partment liaison man with the
field and a defender of Mr..
Kennedy's foreign policy around
the United States.
Walt w. Rostow, a White
House national security ad-
wiser, and Richard Goodwin, a
young specialist in Latin
American affairs also posted on
the White House staff, moveo
frequently to the State Depart
ment to work out policies with
Secretary of State Rusk and
other high State Department
officials. Their new jobs in tht
State Department more ac-
murately reflect what they
have been doing.
Frederick @. Dutton. Cali
fornia Gov. Edmund G.
Browns former assistant and
more recently the Presidents
See POLICY, Page At
Evening star., 1961-11-27
UdoII Opens Up Again
On Capitals S Statues

monument that illuminates,
rather than embalms, history.
Here at the Octagon House
we see not merely the preSer-
vation of DR.. William Thorn
toms architectural talent and
integrity, but we tread the halls
of a Hedging Nation" he told
members of the American In
stitute of Architects, owners OF
the building.
The Octagon House. designed
in 1893 by DR.. Thornton, an
eccentric physician who turned
from medicine to race horses,
inventions, city planning and
architecture, three times has
escaped destruction, once at
the hands of the Ala.
When the British burned
much of Washington, including
the White House. in 1914, they
spared the Octagon House. It's
owner, Col. John Tayloe, one
Of the richest men of the time,
had asked the French Minister
to be his house guest, and the
French flag flew above the
house. President James Madi-
son, later moved into the house.
The house later was used as
"a Union hospital during the
Civil War, a Government hy-
draulic office, a Catholic girls
school and a drafting office.
1t fell into disrepair at the turn
Of the century, when it was in
habited by 10 families and a
rag-Selling establishment.
The American Institute of
Architects bought the house.
at New York avenue and
Eighteenth street, NV, from
the Tayloe heirs in 1902 for
100000. saving it from falling
apart. The house was indian
gered once again when some
members of the Ala wanted to
put up an office building in
its place.
The house, despite its name,
has six sides, not eight.
Evening star., 1961-11-27

do with racial controversy. the
courts comment about main
tanning public schools could
have significant bearing on
the course of desegregation in
Virginia.
Public schools have been
closed in Prince Edward County
since 1859 to avoid integration.
Negro petitioners have sought
to force the reopening Of
schools there, and one of the
issues to be decided by the
State court is the specific
meaning of section 129 of the
State constitution governing
the operation of public schools.
According to the Associated
Press, the unanimous opinion
of the court, written by Chief
Justice John w. Eggleston, said
that section 129 of the State
constitution imposes UPON the
Evening star., 1961-11-27

Interior Secretary Udall to-
day took the occasion of the de-
dication of the Octagon House
as an historic monument to
criticize Washington's Statuary.
Secretary Udall was rebuffed
recently in an attempt to loan"
a statue of DR.. Benjamin Rush,
Revolutionary War physician.
patriot adm abolitionist, to
Hutchinson College in Carlisle,
Pa. After citizens protested,
the Navy refused to let the
statue go. 1t is located on the
grounds of the Navy Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery. Twenty
third and E streets NV.
Secretary Udau declared that
many visitors to Washington
looking for a "waypost on the
road of American history" must
be puzzled when they see a
statute honoring a Gaucho
leader in the Uruguay revolu-
ton for independence, the de-
signer of the screw propeller
or the inventor of wireless
telegraphy.
He described some of the
statues as looking mot unlike
some visitor transfixed for all
time as he consulted his guide
book"
Mr.. Udall asked whether
"the perspective of history" is
sharpened through statues in
Washington while there is none
of Thomas Paine or Nathan
Hale.
He also asked whether I'VE
have really expressed this Ma
tion's respect of poet and
painter" by building monu-
ments only to Dante, Longfel-
low and Francis Davis Millet,
American artist a victim of
the Titanic sea disaster, who is
commemorated by a memorial
fountain.
Mr.. Udall stated. however
that the Octagon House is one
Evening star., 1961-11-27

General Assembly the obliga-
ton to establish and maintain
an efficient system of public
free schools throughout the
State"
The law struck down by the
runng permitted 10 per cent of
the voters in a locality to pc
tition for a referendum on
whether school property is sur
plus and should be disposed of.
If a majority of the voters con-
CURED. the school board would
have to sell the property in
volved.
The law was enacted in 1859
as part Of Virginia's Freedom
of Choice program to cope with
school ,integration-a program
that replaced the former mas
See REFERENDUM, Page AS
Evening star., 1961-11-27

SeScretary of State, but has
agreed to stay on inside the
administration rather than quit
as he previously threatened
we'll informed officials reported
today.
This saves the President from
potentially divisive situation
within the Democratic Party
White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said this morn:
ing he was virtually certain
that he would have a further
announc m e mt about Mr.
Bowles' new assignment before
the day was over.
Mr.. Kennedy's injection OF
trusted White House and non
career advisers into the State
Department formalizes work
ing relationships which have
been in effect for some months
Philosophy Is Same
No changes in philosophy OF
attitudes toward world prob
lens are expected. But Mr.
Kennedy long has been impa-
tent with what he regarded as
sluggishneSS in the State De-
partment bureaucracy and has
been disappointed with the job
Mr.. BowleS was doing admins
tratively in overcoming it.
Mr.. Kennedy temporarily
shelved his plan to move Mr.
Bowles out Of the No. 2 State
Department job four months
ago when Mr.. Bowles threat
Evening star., 1961-11-27
SaiIor,1S,Die,
In Drag Race
Northeast Crush
Injuries z Others

A flaming autocrash ended
a 90-mile-an-hour race here
early today and with it the life
of an 18-year-old East Pines
Md sailor who had been
looking forward to going to sea
this week on his first ship.
Seaman Apprentice John Al
bert Thompson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert T. Thompson of
6614 Powhatan street, was pro-
nounced dead on arrival at
Providence Hospital of injuries
in the crash, which also injured
two other youths, police said.
The dead youth had attended
$50 pm. mass at st. Bernard's
Catholic Church, Riverdale,
Md, and then left his Prince
Georges County home to get a
hamburger at a driven at the
Queenstown Shopping Center
in HyattSville. His father said
Johns 15-day leave from the
Potomac River Naval Command
would have ended at midnight
Wednesday, when he was due
to report aboard the destroyer
Curry at Norfolk.
Two Cars in Race
The sailor was a passenger
in one Of two, cars Inspector
Charles T. Wright said were
engaged in a drag race shortly
after midnight on Michigan
avenue near Thirteenth street.
The car in which young
Thompson was riding was a
souped-up 1855 Chevrolet con-
vertible, driven by Richard
Rusk, %, of 690l Riverdale
road. Riverdale, a carpenter.
Mr.. Rusk is reported in serious
condition at Providence Hos
pital with head. back, side and
internal injuries.
Also riding in the Rusk car,
which was demolished, was
Larry Kerns, II. of 6813 Patter-
son street. Riverdale, who was
treated at Providence for face
See CRASH, Page AS