davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26

Airtronics, Inc, subsidiary of
Scovill Manufacturing Co., for
mally dedicates its $112 million
building today with an open
house at the site, 5221 River rd.,
Bethesda.
The new plant is one of the
few manufacturing plants in
the Washington Metropolitan
built to meet government regu-
area specifically designed and
lations for handling classified
projects.
Joseph E. Butler, president,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26
Named Sales Manager

Judson T. Williams, 9166 Dan
bury rd., Bethesda, has been
named general sales manager
Of Read Plastics of Ward Court,
Washington. Williams was for.
merly with Dupont and Mime,
sofa Mining and Manufactur.
ing in similar sales positions.
Read Plastics is one of the
largest plastics manufacturers
along the Eastern Seaboard.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26

fered annually by the national
magazine to leading builders
throughout the country for us.
ing and promoting national
brand.name products in the con
struction of new homes, was
presented to M. f. Kettler, vice
president of Kettler Brothers,
Inc, builders of the Develop
ment.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26

and engineering. He will con-
tinue to be in charge of the
promotional a activities, pro.
posals and presentations. Gas
pard has been with Vitro since
last December.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26
Old Farm Honored

The Old Farm housing de-
velopment in Bethesda has been
selected as Saturday Evening
Post 1861 Blue Ribbon Home
Award winner. The award, Of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26
Vitro Appoints

George w. Gaspard has been
appointed director of customer
relations for Vitro Electronics,
Silver Spring, according to G..
S. Schultz, vice president, sales
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26
County Business Briefs

semi-automatic ground equip
ment system of the continental
defense.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-26
TERMITES

EAST LANSING, Mich. CUPID
"A building erected on the site
OF an old woodlot, vineyard or
orchard is especially vulnerable
to attack by termites, Michigan
State University Entomologists
report.
Evening star., 1961-12-18

in the last 10 years the
added burden of approxi-
mately $l3.9 billion for edu-
cation. The document says:
This study is not a brief
on behalf of the principle OF
Federal aid to education. But
it would appear undeniable
that so far as the question is
one of policy and not Of con-
stitutional law, II the Federal
Government offers aid to
public education. aid should
similarly be offered to
church-related education"
The memorandum then
tackles the constitutional is
sues and flatly claims sup
port from decisions Of the
Supreme Court of the United
States for its conclusion that
aid to education not directly
related to any sectar:an reli-
gion is constitutional. The
So-called separation of
church and State" it is ar
gued. merely means that our
founding fathers forbade
Congress to make any law es-
tabliShing a preferred religion
and that. if it meant with
holding any aid from church.
related schools. then Con-
greSs in the past and Presi-
dent Kennedy as well as his
predecessors in the White
House have been inconsistent.
For they have advocated Ger
tain forms of aid to church.
related colleges.
Congress has provided
grants, loans, scholarships,
aid to science laboratories,
and tuition grants, irrespec-
tive Of religion. to Korean
veterans and to page boys
OF Congress and of the
Supreme Court itself. Already
expenses for transportation,
police and tire protection,
sewage facilities and similar
aids have been held consti-
tutional, even though given
to church schools.
Decision after decision of
the Supreme Court of the
United States is cited and
quotations given to support
the view that the first
amendment affirms the right
OF free exercise" of religion
and that Congress cannot
put obstacles in the way
by using the separation"
doctrine.
Indeed. the famous deSegre-
cation case of 1854 Is cited
to show that the high court
took into account psychic
logical and cultural factors in
ruling against separate but
Evening star., 1961-12-18
Catholic Statement Significant

equal" school facilities for
whites and Negroes. While
the brief insists that parents
shall not be impeded in their
efforts to give their children
religious training and agrees
that public schools should
not teach Sectarian religion,
the thought is advanced that.
broadly speaking, the public
schools do teach religion
through 1.-The development Of
moral and spiritual values"
The memorandum says:
Notably the Supreme
Court in the Zorach case
made 1t clear that the Con-
stitution does not require in
all respects o separation Of
church and State and that
the State may In numerous
ways accommodate its pro-
grams to the religious in
terests Of It's citizens and
institutions.
THE providing Of secular
education is unquestionably
a public service and may be
financed with public monies.
1t Is equally unquestionable
that secular education Is pro-
vided in private non-profit
schools, church-related as
well as non-denominational.
Here it should be nSted
that the religious aspect in
church-related schooling Is
in addition to, and that it
is not a subtraction from,
basic characterization re-
Quirements."
Emphasis is laid on the
fact that church related
schools meet all the require
mentS Of the States for gen.
eral education, and that re-
ligious teaching is supple
mentary. The contention Is
that the Supreme Court it.
self encouraged supplement
tary religious instruction out
side Of public c-school build
ingS by holding that a "re-
leased time" schedule is con-
stitutional.
In short, the Catholic
memorandum says citizens
must not be Disseminated
against and that, If Federal
money is made available-as
has been done with the sup
port Of the courts-for GER
tain kinds Of education in
church-related colleges, then
it is equally valid to appro-
pirate Federal funds at the
elementary-school level. It is
further pointed out that
massive spending solely for
public schools would in time
result in a critical weaken
ing of church-related schools,
presaging the ultimate clos
ing OF many Of them"
Copyright, 1861
Evening star., 1961-12-18
DAVID LAWRENCE
HCon Affect Election and Have Impact
On Legislative Program of Next Session

An important document
has Just been issued by the
Roman Catholic Church in
America which can have a
significant impact on the
legislative program of the
next session of Congress. 1t
can affect also the battles of
the politicians in the con-
gressional elections next No
vember.
It can have a far-reaching
influence. moreover, on the
size and nature of the finan-
cial aid given to education
by the Federal Government
in the years to come. 1t is a
rebuttal Of the legal analysis
by the United States De-
partment Of Health. Educa-
tion and Welfare submitted
to Congress earlier this year.
The new memorandum,
which is more than 10000
words long, was issued by the
legal department Of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Con-
ference here after it had re-
ceived the independent
critical analysis Of a number
of constitutional scholars and
lawyers.
What is treated is some
thing the same group has not
stressed so much heretofore,
namely. that the argument
for Federal aid to education
as a national policy is based
on nationally felt need" in
the cold war" and on the at
tainment of important objec-
tives at home-the conquer
ing Of disease. and poverty,
the improvement of cities,
the advance Of industry. the
increase of useful invention,
all of which Supply addi-
tional imperatives to Ameri-
cas- new effort to educate its
young"
The idea is emphatically
rebutted that non-State
schools somehow do not
perform a public service" A
warning is given that this
type OF argument points the
way to a totalitarian society"
which could begin by forcing
church-related education out
Of the American scene aid
"the end could be totally
SovietiZed state"
The point is made that
Catholic parochial schools
today "are performing the
public service of educating
1876 per cent of all children
in elementary and secondary
schools" and that taxpayers
generally have been spared
Evening star., 1961-12-18

blocked the Attorney
Generals effort to put Judge
Wright on the Fifth Circuit
Court Of Appeals which
functions in the deep South.
They are party men. on many
questions not illiberal nor in
flexible. But they made it
plain they had no intention of
risking the heat at home and
Senator Long is up for re-
election next year.
Reluctant as he was to
move Judge Wright. Mr.. Ken
nedy has now provided a
vacancy in the District Of
Columbia where the problems
are great but less emotional.
Judge Wright will probably
get a hazing of uncertain
severity when he appears
before the Senate Judiciary
committee and its chairman,
Senator Eastland Of Missis-
sippi. But Senator Eastland
has been rather reasonable of
Evening star., 1961-12-18
Latin Language.
Grants Awarded:
BY the Associated Press

The Office of Education an
nounced today grants OF $40
900 each to five universities to
expand or establish advanced
training centers for Spanish
and Portuguese.
Named in the announcement
by Commissioner of Education
Sterling M. McMurrin were Co.
lumbia University. University
of Florida, University of Texas,
Tulane University and the Uni
versity of California at Los An,
geles. The schools match the
money with funds of their own.
Mr.. McMurrin said this is the
first of several steps to
strengthen the study of Latin
American languages and prob
lens. "a
He said his office would soon
establish a number Of graduate
fellowships in Spanish and
Portuguese and Institutes for
training Of elementary and Sec
ondary teachers. f,
Evening star., 1961-12-18

strengths not pretty. How
ever you parse it, however
you define it or soften it, the
central point comes through
that the Reserve is not of a
mind to do it's duty unless
the Reserve itself can decide
what that duty is to be.
This is a dreadful indict-
ment, it is a shocking in
dictment, however quietly it
is put. For what. really, were
the famous hardships suffered
by these men in the Gallup?
One was an absence of clothes
hangers; another was the in
evitable, the historical. COM
plant of all soldiers at all
times in history about the
quality of the food. And so
on.
Other gripes, Of course, were
not SO childish as this. But
they, too, were mostly the
gripes of petulant men who
ought to know that no mill
tary outfit can possibly meet
the standards either of COM
fort or efficiency that are
common to civilian life.
For these men did not en-
ter the Reserve to be paid
only for occasional drilling;
or, for that matter, to be
even moderately comfortable.
These officers have not re-
tanned their commissions
simply to be eligible in time
for fairly fat Army pensions.
And, most CALLING of all, the
great bulk Of these men have
never known a single hour of
combat, never known thou
sandth of the genuine de-
privation. the real suffering,
so stoically borne by their
elders in the Second World
War and the Korean war.
Sure, it's tough in the
Army: there is a famous un-
printable term. known to
many male generations. about
how tough it is. But it is no
mere cliche to say that the
Army not only builds men
but expects men to be men.
Isn't cold war duty little en-
ough for our present young
men to bear, when so many
before them have borne a va
riety of war duty that was
hot, indeed: Do they want to
spend all their young lives
shutting between over
stuffed office chairs to over
Evening star., 1961-12-18
Dilemma in Civil Rights Field

late. his law partner having
been the first New Frontier
appointment to the Federal
bench.
1t can also be argued that
the promotion will have the
merit in segregationist eyes
OF getting Judge Wright out
Of the South.
1t Is difficult to tell at this
point how many Senators
from the South will 60 to any
length to block a Federal
judgeship on the sole grounds
OF the appointee's views on
integration. All Of them know
very well 1t can only be a rear
guard action. Their con-
Servative principles incline
them instinctively against
tampering with the courts,
even the present Supreme
Court which they dislike.
Most will go only far
enough to protect themselves
politically at home, no
further. But it is far enough
to give the Justice Depart
ment a continuing headache.
Evening star., 1961-12-18
Area Churches
Plan Outdoor
Nativity Pageant

Several Washington area
churches will hold outdoor
Nativity pageants this week.
Christ Lutheran Church, Six
teenth and Gallatin streets
NV. will have presentations
at 7:30, 8. $50 and 9 pm. Fri
day through December 81. On
Christmas eve the pageants will
be after the 7 and 8:l5 pm.
services.
Evening star., 1961-12-18

The Oakton Church of the
Brethren, Route 1873, between
Vienna and Oakton, Va. will
present its pageant at 7:l5 and
g pm. Friday and next Satur-
day and at GAS pm. December
"a.
Performances at st. Andrew
Lutheran Church, 12247 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring, Md, will
be at 7 and 8 pm. Thursday
through Saturday and at S:l5
pm. December "a.
Bethany Lutheran Church,
Groveton, Va, will have pre-
sentations at 7::30. 8 and $50
pm. next Saturday through
December 90.
Evening star., 1961-12-18
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Complaints Throw Doubt on Usefulness
OfMen for Anything Short of Total War

The cry-babyism of some
few among the 100000 Re-
serve officers and soldiers
called up for active duty in
the Berlin crisis has now had
ugly consequences.
The Department of Defense
has been compelled to an
nounce that it can no longer
depend upon these men for
limited service of this kind.
Indeed. it is sadly concluded
that they can hardly be re-
lied upon for anything short
OF total war. And in such a
situation as that-let's face
it-every man who can walk
and carry a rifle will be some
how in there anyhow.
Talk about the old regi-
mental banners. Talk about
the proud fighting traditions
OF this or that outfit. But
talk about them now in SOM
Der tones. For what happens
now to all these values in a
generation whose loud-mouth
minority seems to have soiled
our martial history?
Gen. James Van Fleet is a
tough old commander. But.
like nearly all great" d" troop
leaders. he is also a COM
mander with both respect
and compassion for all men
in uniform. He has found
in an inspection trip to six
training camps that morale
among the great majority Is
magnificent"
All the same. something is
very wrong, and it must be
that well-known case of what
a few bad apples will do to
the whole barrel. And the
gentle way in which that
something has been described
by Roswell l.. Gilpatric, the
Deputy Secretary of Defense,
must only add to sense Of
alarm as to what has hap
pened to this military gen.
Grafton.
Il don't think" he says,
that our Reservists have
oriented themselves to the
thought that they are called
up to prevent a fight, rather
than to fight"
What this means-and it
was not an easy thing for
such a man as Mr.. Gilpatric
to say, in all his devotion to
preparing this country's
Evening star., 1961-12-18
DORIS FLEESON
Judge Wright's Appointment Forces
Decisions by Senators From South

The appointment Of Fed
eral Judge j. Skelly Wright
of New Orleans to the United
States Court Of Appeals here
highlights a real dilemma Of
the Kennedy administration
in the civil rights field.
That dilemma is how to
keep on winning the Federal
court battles on integration
in the South and at the same
time to encourage the Fed
eral judges on the firing line
who must suffer the indigni-
ties inflicted upon them by
the segregatlonists.
Obviously the most direct
and proper encouragement is
promotion to the Federal ap-
pellate courts. Here politics
intervenes, including that
hallowed custom by which
Senators allow fellow-Scna-
tor to block a presidential
appointment on the ground
that the appointee is per
sonally obnoxious"
The Wright case is a classic
instance. For two years the
New Orleans Judge signed
order after order striking
down the efforts Of the Louis
lana Legislature to keep the
States schools segregated.
The attacks on him followed
the usual course. The fiery
cross on his lawn, the loss
OF friends, the mean epithets.
Attorney General Kennedy
recognized early that Wright
had to be rewarded not just
as his due but as an en-
couragement to his colleagues
OF the District courts Of the
South who could expect the
same treatment in the many
trials ahead. Yet, the Justice
Department naturally wanted
to keep him in the area where
he was most valuable for his
bravery and consistency.
Louisiana's Senators Allen
Ellender and Russell Long
Evening star., 1961-12-18
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The United States $l33 million to pro- Communist
Ghana President Nkrumahs slogan Yankee go home-and
write another check"
President Kennedy's three e-day tour of Latin America
was Just right Any longer and they'd call him tourist
Any shorter and he'd rate expert.
Reported motto of Gen. Edwin Walker I'D rather be
extremely right than President"
The Peace Corps is It's been abroad six
months now-and we haven't had over it yet
Evening star., 1961-12-18
Sorry Situation in the Reserves

stuffed sitting room hassocks
before the TV set?
When his troops were be-
ing marshaled in England to
participate in the great ac-
ton in Europe Gen. George
s. Patton thus addressed
them:
Men, bed YOU rather tell
your grandchildren you really
fought in this war, or that
you spent your time shoveling
manure in louisiana"
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Capitol May Get
Outdoor Cafes
For Tourists

Congress may treat tourists
to cafes on the Capitol terraces
before city officials get around
to freeing sidewalk space down.
town for eating in the open air.
Colorful tables shaded by
umbrellas and canopies on both
Senate and House terraces
overlooking the city were en-
visioned yesterday by Senator
Humphrey, Democrat of Mime
sofa.
The Assistant Majority Lead
er said the people pay for the
Capitol building and yet they
cannot find a place where all
of them can eat and rest any
where on Capitol Hill.
The only restaurants open to
the public in the Capitol are
inside and cramped and crowd
ed by congressional members
and their staffS, he said.
Senator Humphrey said he
got the idea after noticing the
efforts of the District Commits
Sioners to authorize sidewalk
cafes.
Public hearings on District
plans have been set for 10 am.
June %.
A decision to convert Capitol
terraces to outdoor cafes rests
with the Senate Rules Commit
tee, headed by Majority Leader
Mansfield, and with House
Speaker Rayburn. .
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Consistency on the Rights Issue

guardians of the pupil"-and
that these tuition payments
may be made directly to the
school or to the parents
the State court held that
such payments to parochial
schools are in violation of the
Federal Constitution. It is
now believed that the Su-
preme Court here failed to
rule on the case primarily
because Of the lack Of ex-
plicitness in the issues. If,
for instance, the grants had
been made to the parents In
stead Of being paid directly
to the schools, it is believed
the case might have been
taken for review by the Su-
preme Court.
Someday another issue
may be raised. It is whether
the personal constitutional
rights of children attending
private schools and Of their
parents are being infringed.
Prof. Francis ]. Brown Of
De Paul University in Chi
cago writes:
IF there is one thing that
the First Amendment was
intended to prevent, it is the
imposition by the Federal
Government of a civil disa-
bility in matters Of religious
conscience. Can there be
any doubt that this is pre-
ciSely what the adminiStra-
ton is guilty of in offering
educational funds only under
conditions repugnant to the
individual conscience of mil
lions of the citizenry?"
The children of all faiths,
it is argued, have the per
sonal constitutional right to
equal protection Of the laws"
and their parents-not neceS-
sarily the institutions-can-
not be denied Federal aid
just because of religious con-
victions.
Certainly, whether Federal
aid is or is not desirable is
one issue, but, once a de-
ciSion has been reached to
grant it, can a constitutional
distinction be made between
parochial schools at one
level and sectarian schools at
another level? And can any
public schools be given Fed
eral aid where any religious
observances or teachings now
are actually being carried on?
This is the question con-
fronting the Department Of
Justice.
(copyright, 1851
Evening star., 1961-05-25
3 jailed in Fight
At Glen Echo

Three Washington men have
been sentenced to so days each
in the Montgomery County jail
for disorderly conduct arising
from a fight at Glen Echo
Amusement Park.
The three, Dannie c. Drake,
20, of the 5000 block Of Eighth
street Sc, Frederick E. Cum
ningham, 10, Of the TOO block
Third street NV; and Michael
E. Drake. 18, Of the 400 block
I street NV, were sentenced
by Judge John B. Diamond of
Bethesda Peoples Court.
He also sentenced Drake to
a one-year term at the Mary
land House of Corrections for
assault and battery. Action is
still pending against a fourth
youth, II.
The four were arrested after
a fight May 6 with a group of
other youths. All persons in
volved are white.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
10 Prisoners
SET 10 Return

MIAMI, Fla, May IS (AP)
The 10-man team Of Cuban
prisoners was back in Miami TO-
day. ready to take results OF
their negotiations to Fidel Cas-
tro.
The prisoners returned from
Washington aboard q Border
Patrol plane yesterday and were
taken to a downtown Miami
hotel. They issued q state
ment which said:
I'VE, the Cuban prisoners,
have reason to feel hopeful
after our trip to Washington to
obtain the 500 tractors that will
cover the indemnification
claimed by the Cuban govern
ment.
TN the coming days we will
return to Cuba to inform the
government Of the outcome Of
our negotiations"
Ulises Carlo. q member Of
the delegation, said no word
had been received from Prime
Minister Castro as to whether
he accepts the arrangements.
Mr.. Carlo said he did not
know when the group would
leave for Cuba. but tomorrow Is
the deadline set by Mr.. Castro
for negotiations.
Mr.. Castro also has not re-
sponded to offers Of a citizens
group to raise money for the
tractors in return for which the
Cuban prime minister had
promised to release 1.214 pris-
oners taken during the unsuc-
cessful invasion last month.
Opposition to the proposed
trade increased in Congress and
among businessmen despite an
appeal by President Kennedy
that Americans contribute to
the fund.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
ADDS IsrueI Service
To Hear GoIdberq

Secretary Of Labor Goldberg
will deliver the address during
a service at $50 pm. tomor-
row in Adas Israel Synagogue,
Connecticut avenue and Porter
street NV.
The service Is an annual
Memorial Day observance and
is sponsored jointly by Adas
Israel Congregation and the
Washington Post So, Jewish
War Veterans.
Evening star., 1961-05-25
Desegregotion Plan
In New Rochelle Hit

would meet the requirements o.
individual pupils and also allow
the board of education to re.
tain administrative control ovel
| the size Of classes and prevent
any overcrowding
The New Rochelle Board ot
Education denies any inten.
tional segregation as alleged
by Judge Kaufman. 1t says the
city has a IN eig h borh o o &
school, policy and that the al
most all-Negro enrolment al
Lincoln School results from the
neighborhood racial pattern
Judge kaufman has ruled that
the board created Lincoln as 6
segregated school and that
after 1949 the board gerry.
wandered school districts tt
continue Lincoln segregated
He said the board thus violated
the constitutional rights o1
Negro children residing withir
the Lincoln School district.
Judge Kaufman's order call:
for desegregation to become ef-
fective in the 1872 schoo
year. The order was issued ir
a suit brought by a group oi
parents of Negro children in the
Lincoln School.
The Justice Department brie1
suggested that Judge Kaufman
not grant the Board of Educa-
ton a stay of his order pend
ing the outcome of an appeal
The brief was filed by Burke
Marshall, Assistant Attorney
General in charge Of the civil
rights section, and Robert M
Morgenthau, United States at