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The Republican., 1961-08-24
Horse Shoe Run

Those holding a picnic supper.
recently, at the Farmers Wild Life
Park were Mr.. and Mrs Austin
Schmidt. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Evans
and sons. Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Ev-
ans, Mr.. and Mrs. John Judy and
Janet. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl White
hair and son, Cecil Berry and Lar
ry Stemple.
Allen SraWser, small son of Mr..
and Mrs. Glenn SuaWser, of Egg
lon, is still patient in Garrett
County Memorial hospital, Oakland.
Larry Stemple, Lead Mine, vis-
tied Steve Evans.
Webb Roth, Don Roth. Paul
Bachtel and Glenn Gnegy returned
Tuesday from a weeks vacation in
Canada.
Miss Sue Ann Brick is spending
a couple of weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Kreiling and family at
Cumberland.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Evans
and sons were Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
ford VanMeter, of Close Mountains;
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Stemple and
SON of Lead Mine, Nlr. and MIS-.
Francis Gibson and son, Lead
Mine: Mr.. and Mrs Roy Shahan,
Cleveland, o.. Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Evans, and Mrs. Ruby Judy and
Janet
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Evans spent
the weekend visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Shahan at Cleveland, o.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Judy and
Janet spent the weekend visiting
in Reedsville, W. Va.
Steve Evans spent several days
visiting with Larry Stemplc, Lead
Mine, w. Va.
Visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Carl White
hair we're Bernard Rcmbold and
children. Miss Gailcn Sue Clark,
Of Cleveland. O.; Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Ridder and daughter Gormania,
w. Va.
The Republican., 1961-08-24
Youth Group Meets

The Fairview CBYF. held its
regular meeting Monday, August
2l when plans we're made for COM
pleting a float to be entered in the
Labor Day parade at Oakland.
Also discussed was a youth re-
vival, to be conducted the week of
August % by Rev. Arthur Huna.
of Mcyersdale, Pa
lie will be at Fairview Monday
evening to conduct services begin
ming at 7:3O.
The Republican., 1961-08-24

The quick recovery from the
winter recession was even more
vigorous than previously calcultCd,
the Commerce department re-
ported.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Herndon Medical Center Planned,
May Use Carrier Pigeon Service

been made to the roof of the
George Washington University
Hospital at Washington Circle
downtown. The university has
given permission to the center
to go ahead with future plans
to use homing pigeons to fly
specimens from the center to
the hospital for confirmatory
diagnosis.
The plan, which could mean
swift transportation of the spe-
cimens while avoiding traffic,
has not yet been put into
operation.
With 100000 already raised
provately, the doctors hope to
start 60-bed nursing home
next April. Other plans in
clude a 22-bed general hospital,
a special nursing home and
other units.
Although the medical center,
which operates under the name
Herndon Medico, Inc, is a
private venture, it is working
in cooperation with the Hern-
don Medical Environs Advisory
Board to develop a community
health care plan.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
BY JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star Staff Writer

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va, Sept.
25.-A Virginia jury may decide
this week whether Melvin Davis
Rees, jr., is guilty of killing
Carroll V. Jackson.
This is the setting and these
are the principal characters in
the courtroom drama now en-
tering its second week:
THE SCENE: A 127-year-old
brick building at a Sparsely
populated crossroads calle d
Spotsylvania Courthouse, II
miles southwest of Fredericks-
burg and 81 miles from Wash
ington. Rees commutes to the
courthouse every day from the
Richmond State Penitentiary
under guard of deputy United
States marshals. Four major
Civil War battles were fought
within a few miles of here
charlottesville, Fredericks-
burg, the Wilderness and Spot
sylvania Courthouse.
i Rees sits in a small court
room decorated with the beard
ed pictures of such heroes OF
the Confederacy as Nathan
Bedford Forrest, Robert E. Lee,
James Longstreet, A. P. Hill and
j. E. B. Stuart. Order is pre-
served in the court by Sheriff
B. w. Davis, jr.. who wears a
.38 caliber pistol at his hip, a
six pointed star on his shirt
and toothpick behind his ear
THE DEFENDANT: Rees, q
32-year-old dance band muSi-
clan from Hyattsville, Md, was
Evening star., 1961-09-25
VALUABLE ANTIQUES
Brass CondIesticks
Are Sold in Error

with other antiques on a sale
table.
A woman who obviously
knew good brass-a collector, y
according to the saleSwoman
bought the candlesticks about
3 pm. for S..
Mrs. Rapp hopes she can re-
cover the candleSticks, which
are 18 innches high and weigh
seven to eight pounds each
She said they might be worth
more than $100.
Another of her antiques
smaller and of less sentimental
value, was also sold by mistake
at the fair. This was a hand
made lead-crystal inkwell with
pewter fittings. Mrs. Rapp be.
lieves is was bought by a young
schoolboy for about so cents.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

gray, wavy hair and a pro-
nounced Southern accent. His
father and grandfather before
him were commonwealth at
torneys of rural Spotsylvania
County. He was graduated from
the University of Virginia with
out a law degree. but passed
the bar examination and has
been the chief county prosecu-
tor since 1912.
Mr.. Coleman has conducted
a deadpan, dispassionate prose-
cution of Rees thus far. Assist
ing him are his law partner,
William M. Scaife, jr., an eX-
Marine officer from Fredericks-
burg, and Louisa County Com
monwealth Attorney w. Earle
Crank. The latter has had lit
tie to say in court but Mr.
Scaife has questioned a few of
the States more than 70 wit
neSSeS.
THE DEFENSE: Joseph l.
Savage, jr., is 43 and a native
of Fredericksburg. Once aide
de-camp to Virginia Gov. Fat
tie, he is an Associate Judge
of Fredericksburg Municipal
Court. Both he and his asso-
ciate, Alfred w. Garnett, orig
inally from Culpeper, are court
appointed and working without
a fee.
Mr.. Savage, an infantry of :
ficer in World War II and a
legal officer in the Korean
conflict, does most of the talk
ing for the defense. Mr.. Gar
nett, watchdog of the constitu-
tional questions involved, is a
former Army colonel, a former
prosecutor in Boone County,
w. Va, and once was executive
assistant to a Governor of West
Virginia. He was graduated
from the University of Rich
mond in 1919 and the Univer-
sit yof Virginia Law School in
1922.
THE JURY: Ten men and
two women will decide Rees
fate. Under SpotSylvania prac-
tice, a foreman will not be Sc
lected until the prosecution
and defense have completed
their cases and delivered theil
summations. The jury eats and
rests at recess times in a fire
house behind the court build
ing.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Boy 3, Killed
By Car in
Alexandra

A 3-year-old Alexandria boy
was struck and killed by a car
near his home today, police
reported.
Michael Sven Anderss Johns
son, a native of Sweden, of 2944
Sycamore street, was struck by
a car in the 3100 block of Land
over street. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at Alexandria
Hospital.
Alexandria Police Sergt
James Keene said Michael was
struck as he ran across Land
over street, from a playground
nearby, in pursuit of another
child. Police said Michael suf-
fered a fractured skull.
Sergt. Keene said the driver
was Edward Bryan Sanders
81, of 1908 Landover street
who was travelling Southwest
on Landover, under the speed
limit.
Mr.. Sanders, Sergt. Keene
said, told police he was watch
ing the first child, and did not
see Michael until it was toe
late to stop.
The boy was one of three
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Bertil
Johnson. Mr.. Johnson is a
supervisor at the Group Health
Association, 1925 Vermont ave-
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

scene. However, detectives
noted a screenless window on
the sixth floor and forced their
way into the apartment by US
ing bolt-cutters on the chained
door.
In Mrs. Weiss apartment
Sergt. Schwab said, police found
that the screen had been un-
screwed and removed. He said
there was no note. Mrs. Weiss
according to police, formerly
owned a dress shop in the
1900 block of Connecticut ave-
nue. NV. but was no longer
active in business.
She had just returned from
a shopping trip to New York
last night, police said.
The only immediate survivor
is believed to be son, Henry
Weiss, of New Orleans, police
said.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

A pair of solid brass candle
sticks, about $50 years old,
were sold by mistake Saturday
at the annual parish fair of
st. Johns Episcopal Church,
OXon Hill, Md.
Before the fair, the candle
sticks belonged to Mrs. Her.
bert Frederick Rapp of 1900
Deal Drive, OXon Hill.
Mrs. Rapp received the an
tiques last June as a wedding
present from her sister-in-law
She had loaned them to the
parish fair-for exhibit.
st. Johns rector, the Rev
John Harris, says the candle
sticks, through a number o1
small errors on the part Of
! lseveral people"-were exhibited
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Widow Dies in Plunge
At Apartment House

A 70-year-old woman plunged
to her death today from the
window of her sixth floor
apartment in the Berkshire
42O1 Massachusetts, avenue
NV.
Mrs. Pearl S. Weiss, a widow
who once owned a Connecticut
avenue dress shop, was found
dead on a concrete surface in
a courtyard of the apartment
shortly before 8 am.
Mrs. Weiss lived alone. She
apparently plunged nine stories
according to Homicide Squad
Detective Sergeant Roy Schwab
The terrain at the rear of the
building falls away so that the
first floor is above ground.
Detectives were unable tc
identify the woman at first
The body was clad in blue
pajamas and wore no identifi.
cation when police reached the
Evening star., 1961-09-25

and called the project unique
in this country.
But. he said, if it can work
here, similar projects can be
started elsewhere in the coun-
try to combat Federal inter-
vention in medicine.
DR.. Renner is currently run
ming the center with DR.. Fred
erick w. Hubach. Three others
will take up practice there
after finishing their speciality
training. They are DR.. Joseph
w. Linhart, resident in internal
medicine at Duke University;
DIR. Herbert Gates. resident in
obstetrics in Norfolk, and DR..
Robert Sullivan. resident in
surgery in Denver.
Trained carrier pigeons have
already been obtained on an
experimental basis. Some may
be used by doctors in the Hern-
on area to fly specimens back
to the center or diagnoses. The
center has the services of a
consulting pathologist and
hopes to eventually expand its
laboratory facilities.
A few practice flights have
Evening star., 1961-09-25

A group of George Wash
ington University Medical
School graduates yesterday an
nounced plans for a complete
medical center in Herndon, Va.
which may include pigeon
messenger service to downtown
pathology laboratories.
DR.. John H. Renner, president
of the Herndon Medical Center
told a meeting of nearby
Virginia physicians and cit
izens that the privately fl
nanced project will include a
modern nursing home, a small
general hospital, a diagnostiC
unit, geriatric housing with
meals on wheels" facilities
home nursing care and other
facilities.
The project. which was con-
ceived by six men in medical
school several years ago. is
believed to be the first of its
type in the country.
DR.. John Detar, Milan, Mich.
past president of the American
Academy of General Practice
flew here to address the group
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Virginia Murder Jury May Set
Fate of Rees Before Week End

convicted of kidnapping two
other members of the jack
son family in a five-week trial
in Baltimore Federal Court last
winter. He received a double
life sentence. He is 6 feet 8
inches tall, neatly dressed and
increasingly shows the pallor
of his long confinement. Rees
appears confident, but has little
to say.
His parents attend every ses-
sion of the trial. So do the
relatives of the Louisa County
(Va0, family he is accused of
Staying.
THE JUDGE: John D. Butz-
ner, jr., presiding judge of the
38th Judicial Circuit of Vir-
ginia, has in his jurisdiction
the city of Fredericksburg and
the counties of Spotsylvania,
King George and Stafford. He
is a 43-year-old 6 footer from
Fredericksburg with graying
temples and a penchant fol
bow ties.
Judge Butzner, an affable
man outside his courtroom
tolerates no delays while he
is on the bench and diligently
keeps counsel close to theil
line of questioning. He was
graduated from the University
of Virginia Law School in 1941
and has been a judge for nearly
four years.
THE PROSECUTION: Spot
sylvania Commonwealth At
torney T. Stokeley Coleman
so, and 6-feet-1-inch tall, has
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Howard Nomination
Confirmed by Senate

The Senate today confirmed
the nomination of Andrew j.
Howard, jr., to serve another
10-year term on the bench of
the District Municipal Court.
Judge Howard was appointed
originally by President Truman.
President Kennedy re-nomin-
ated him last Friday and hear
ings were held Saturday with
out dissent by the Senate Dis
trict Committee.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Movie Lecture

Robert Moore. a world traveller
and chief of the editorial staff
of the National Geographic
Society, will illustrate a talk on
Nigeria with color movies at 8
pm. Tuesday at a meeting of
the Middle Atlantic Division of
the Association of American
Geographers. The lecture will
be held in the auditorium of
the National Archives, PennSyl-
vania avenue and Eighth street
NV.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
THEN WE WALK ID
through a portal and looked
down Into the bowl.

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through a portal and looked
down Into the bowl.
It's a remarkable place.
The football field is COM
pletely sodded, about one
third of it a lush green and
the rest tawny. The differ
ence is due to weather con-
ditions when it was laid -
most of it during a dry spell.
Almost all the seats. in
Guiding the banks of seats
that move on rails, are in
place. When the field is
changed over from baseball
to football, the stands be-
hind home plate and along
the third base line are rolled
into left field. The space left
vacant is filled with tempor-
ary seats. This accounts for
the change in capacity, a.
500 for baseball; $4,000 for
football.
Due to the peculiar con-
struction of the roof, on
great cantilever girders of
steel, each one like a capital
L tipped forward, there is
not a pillar in the place.
Lonnie Sciambi, McClos-
keys superintendent of con-
struction, came along.
$50 when you were here
in April" he said referring
to a previous column, "you
had your doubts that we
would be ready for the first
football game. I've got news
for you. (Here he jabbed
Dutch in the ribs) I've still.
got my doubts"
Evening star., 1961-09-25

counties, Baltimore and Mont
gomery, and the balance scat
tered in IL counties.
THE eight counties having a
Negro school population and no
biracial schools are, in gen.
eral, rural and have a high
| proportion of Negroes"
Virginia Tuition Grants
The report reviews the de-
velopment of tuition grants in
Virginia and suggests that
State funds for private schools
may not be an escape from de-
segregation, in the long run,
According to the report, the
issue was decided in Kerr v
Enoch Pratt Free Library in
1945.
In that case, "a private cor
poration that maintained a
school for librarians and re-
ceived large annual grants from
the city of Baltimore, was en-
joined from refusing admis-
sion to a Negro pupil"
The report also quotes Ar
lington's superintendent Of
schools as testifying that in
spite of special tutoring, the
first Negro children admitted
to white schools are working
considerably below the average
of other students.
It discusses the Home Study
Program, Inc, a nonprofit ef-
fort to tutor the children Of
working -claSs Negroes living ir
a pocket community, Ken Gar
between KenSington and Gar.
rett Park, Md.
This program, based on the
volunteer work of college-edu.
Gated tutors, has produced
some improvement in school
work or attitude, or both, plu
. marked decrease in delin
quency, the groups executiv,
secretary reported to the Com
mission.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Safety Talks
Mansfield Lists
ChuIk-tuIk Visits

Inspector Dick Mansfield. di-
rector of The Stars School
Safety Program, will give his
cartoon safety chalk-talks at
the following schools:
Tomorrow: Douglas Mac
Arthur, Alexandria-9:15 and
10:45 am.
Wednesday: Mount Vernon,
AleXandria-9:15 am.
Thursday: Stonewall Jack
son, Alexandria-9:15 am.
Friday: Charles Houston,
Alexandria-9:15 am.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

| l0U negroes expected IN 1orm-
erly white schools in Arlington
and Fairfax Counties, Va, as
compared with II in 1960-61.
In Montgomery County,
Nd" the reports states, the
closing of the last three Negro
schools marks the completion
of a desegregation program by
transfer of 764 Negro pupils to
formerly white schools"
Baltimore Gains Cited
The report also lists Balti-
more, Md, as the only city
known to have adopted a free
choice of school method" for
abandoning segregated schools
Even Baltimore's plan, however,
includes some elements of re-
coming and pupil assignment
plans, the report states.
Baltimore, after six years ot
desegregation, still has Negroes
or whites only attending So pei
cent of its schools, but, says the
report, "a free, private choice
of segregation does not violate
the Constitution"
The report appears to criti-
cize the rulings of the Fourth
Circuit Court in Virginia which
permitted delays in desegrega.
ton in Charlottesville, Va, ano
Norfolk, Va. of the ruling con-
cerning a gradual time schedule
for desegregation in Norfolk
the report says:
Again, no proof was required
to establish the necessity for de.
lay, and no deadline for ulti.
mate, full compliance was set
Under such circumstances il
does not seem to be established
that the board is moving TO-
ward full compliance with full
deliberate speed"
20 Districts Desegregated
On Maryland desegregation
the report states that "all d
the % school districts in Mary
land having a biracial Schoo
enrolment have been desegre
gated as a matter of policy TO,
several years. although only 1!
actually operated biracia
schools opened in Septembe,
1860, 45,943 out of a tota
Negro public school population
in the State of about $4,000
or "a per cent, were in schoo
with white students.
However, 9,206 of the Negro
pupils attending biracial schools
or almost IS per cent, were il
the city of Baltimore. OF tn,
remaining Is per cent, NOR
than half were in two suburban
Evening star., 1961-09-25
District JobIess Pay
Bill Gets New Hope
Labor Leaders
Urge Congress
To Compromise
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

New hope arose today for
passage of a District unem-
ployment compensation bill,
believed dead three days ago
when Senate and House con-
ferees agreed to disagree.
The jobless pay proposal ap-
peared to have another chance,
mainly due to the efforts of
labor leaders over the week
end. Today a tentative compro-
mise appeared on the horizon
as the same conferees said pri-
vately they we're considering
seeking permission to negoti-
ate a fresh compromise.
j. C. Turner and Walter
Mason, local and national AFL-
CIO spokeSmen, respectively,
have been attempting to find a
middle ground on which Rep
IreSentativeS and Senators could
agree.
Morse Formula
House members were reported
ready to hear another argu-
ment for the benefit formula
advanced by Senator Morse,
Democrat of oregon. This
would promise claimants maxi
mum weekly benefits up to SO
per cent of the average wage
of all covered workers. Also,
a maximum payment period of
"a weeks approved by the
Senate was still agreeable to
House conferees. On Friday,
they would go only up to As
per cent, under the Morse
| formula.
The real problem in the last
conference was the disqualifi-
cation question.
House conferees are pre-
pared to accept provisions OF
current law on cancellation OF
benefits for jobleSs diSquali-
fled from full payment be-
cause they quit, were fired or
refused to take suitable jobs.
Banned Payments
The original House bill
banned such payments until
compensation recipients went
back to work and earned eight
times their weekly benefit
amount. The Senate Bill would
simply postpone benefits for
the period that the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board de-
cides to disqualify payments
now, from four to nine weeks.
Present law provides for
maximum payments of $50 a
week up to 26 weeks:
Only two Senators on the
District Committee have re-
manned in town today. They
are Senators Morse and Prouty,
Republican of Vermont, both
members of the unsuccessful
conference committee. They
could speak for conferees, how
ever, as a majority of the three
member Senate contingent.
From the House, three for
mer conferees - Democratic
Representatives Huddelston of
Alabama and st. Germain of
Rhode Island and Republican
Representative Kearns of Penn
Sylvania-were sympathetic to
labor's pleas for improvement
of the compensation law, un-
changed here since 1854.
Yielded to Senate
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican of Virginia, today was
ready to give the proposal an
other try in conference. He said
Friday the conference broke up
after House members had
: yielded to the Senate on bene-
fits, but Senate members re-
, fused to bulge on cancellation
the means the House sees for
! protecting against free riders
: But cancellation requirements
in present law were reported
as agreeable to Mr.. Broyhill.
The other House conferee
Mr.. Davis, may be harder tc
convince.
The leadership is expected tt
7 be asked to appoint another
conference committee before
the days end.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Donkey Game Set

The Boys Club of Silver
Spring will sponsor a donkey
baseball game to be held at the
Club at 8 pm. Saturday. The
Club is located at 1900 Forest
Glen Road, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

CINDER BLOCKS were
being unloaded from trucks
on the right and men were
carrying them into the
bowels of the building-far
below the banks of seats.
Those are probably for
locker rooms" said Dutch.
We'll be about IS per cent
complete for the opening.
We won't have many re-
freshment stands ready but
we will have rs per cent of
the toilets working"
The entrance was filled
with Scaffolding about 4 feet
high covered with plankS.
"How's your back?" Dutch
shouted above the din of
pneumatic tools. You're 60
ing to have to duck"
Duck we did but it was
very unfair. Dutch is not
much more than S feet 6
inches - The Rambler is 6
feet 2 inches. Dutch got
under some of it with a mere
nod of his head. His COM
panion almost had to crawl
on his hands and knees.
This is the ticket office"
Dutch said cheerfully.
There's one thing that will
be finished in a hurry.
George Preston Marshall
considers the ticket office as
important as turf for the
opening game.
Dutch explained that the
stadium would have been 100
per cent complete but for
the severity of last winter.
I'VE lost 80 days." he said,
"and after that inaugural
blizzard a lot of man hours
were spent shoveling snow" "
We walked up a long ramp.
Dutch, who played quarter
back for Notre Dame 40
years ago, moved fast despite
his short stride.
You'll want to see the
football press box, of course, "
said Dutch.
The Rambler, who was
getting winded, would have
preferred to inspect the
baseball dugouts.
1.-The next time you come
here" said Dutch, well
have our three elevators
working" At the top of the
ramp we looked down on the
acres of paved parking space
that will hold almost $4,000
cars.
Ground for the stadium
was broken in July, 1860.
With the parking lot it is
going to cost $22 million.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Nearby Schools Lead
In RocioI Integrotion
Progress in Virginia, Maryland
Tops All Other Areas of South

Schools in nearby Maryland and Virginia have made more
racial inegaon this school than in
other South the United States Commission Civil
Righs reported today
Commission today submitted the second part Of its
1861 report to Congress and the PreSden.
Written shortly before school year began it reports