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Smyrna times., 1961-01-26
KcntOn

Kenton Homem k ers Club
will meet in the recreation room
of the church on Thursday, jan
uary 26, at $50 p. m. Mrs. Hell
en- Rowlinson will preside over
the meeting which is preceded
by a covered dish supper. Mrs.
Florence Smith. County Leader,
will be a guest at the event.
Hostesses include Mrs. Virgie
Alexander and Mrs. Susan
Knotts. The group asks that
members are to bring table SER
vice.
Miss Ethel Geiser is visiting
in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Nelson Dill is recuperat-
ing at home after undergoing
surgery at the Kent General
Hospital.
Smyrna times., 1961-01-26

aware can give convincing evid-
ence of moving with the growth
of knowledge, the likelihood of
retaining its best faculty is not
good, DR.. Perkins asserts.
THE job opportunities offer
ed our faculty by other univer-
sites, industry and government
were sharply on the increase
last year. In most cases it was
the most distinguished or the
most promising of our faculty
who were sought. Under pres
ent highly competitive circum-
stances, such quality as an in
stitution has could disappear in
a hurryl"
For the future, DIR. Perkins
calls for the recruitment of
magnetic Intellectual frontiers
men"-professors who by their
distinction as scholar-research-
ers will attract capable graduate
students who can be employed
to teach undergraduates while
pursuing their own G a du a tie
studies.
"Such professors of ability"
he concludes, "also attract grants
in support of their teaching and
research from industry, founda-
tions and government. BY max
ing this approach, Delaware can
have a university of distinction
and at no greater cost"
Evening star., 1961-04-10

a last resort to keep their rates
down, and their averages in
tact.
Although insurance commits
sioners in the Washington area
say complaints about cancella-
ton have become less numerous
in recent months, the problem
is something for every policy
holder to consider when switch
ing companies or buying new
insurance.
Some insurance companies
advertise plainly that they
deal with safe drivers. Their
rates are based on the average
number of accidents safe driv-
ers can be expected to have
If you are covered by such a
company and start having a
series of accidents. there is a
good possibility you will be
cancelled.
Other companies have a wide
range of risk classes for drivers,
with premiums to match. These
firms are more likely to keep a
policyholder on the books,
charging him a higher rate, if
he becomes a worse risk.
There are also the so-called
non-cancellable policies which
sell at higher rates. These
policies generally cannot be
Cancelled for five years except
for specified reaSons-usually
the same ones which force other
companies to cancel.
Regardless of the reasons,
policy cancellation today is one
thing that can put any driver
in the middle of an insurance
squeeze.
TOMORROW: What happens If
you're eunceIed?
Evening star., 1961-04-10
! DEAD, 3 SAVED
IN PLANE CRASH

PEARISBURG, Va, April 1C
(AP) "A light plane in which
four Mormons planned to fly
to a church meeting crashed
upside down into the New River
here yesterday moments after
takeoff One of its occupants
drowned.
Frank Dowdy, 37-year-old
father of four from Giles
County, was the crash victim
He will be buried tomorrow
with the pilot of the Inflated
plane, Mormon Elder Paul Hep
Ter, serving as one of the Of
ficiating ministers.
Elder Hepler, a Pearisburg
auto dealer; Frank OFarrell
of Pearisburg, and Mickey Ble-
wins of Ripplemeand clambered
out the submerged door of the
plane after the crash and were
rescued by a farmer in a row.
boat.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Carver Fire Points Up
Vandalism Problems

The arsonists who set fire
last night to George Carver
Elementary School, Forty-fifth
and Lee streets NE, causing
100000 damage. succeeded in
doing two things:
They set the stage for a
school board study of what il
will take to end such acts OF
vandalism and in dramatic
fashion, they brought the facts
about the annual cost of school
vandalism to public attention
Last year, for instance, van
dalism perpetrated on District
school buildings cost the city
and thus the taxpayer-ar
estimated 100000. Included
were bfeak-ins of all types ano
the smashing of windows. Thi'
money would have paid for {
new gymnasium or three we'll
equipped classrooms.
Supt. Carl F. Hansen and AS.
siStant Supt. John M. Rieck'
said today the Carver fire
which destroyed more thar
half of the schools classroom.
already has set off a new
study of what can be done tt
halt such costly acts.
The Carver fire mo doubt
will lead to a request in tht
next school budget 1859 foI
Evening star., 1961-04-10

an estimated $122,0OO to put
an alarm system in every
school in the city, one official
said today.
Another spokesman sug-
gested that the school board
may have to order the lights
left on at night, but this
would cost a fantastic amount
of money" he added.
Alarmed at the increasing
amount of vandalism, school
officials about a year ago Sc
cretly installed a burglar alarm
system at Simmons Elementary
School as a test, Mr.. Riecks di-
vulged today. while the stu
dents did not know at first
that the system. which cost
about $3.50, was put in, there
nevertheless we're no break-ins
during the entire period" he
said.
At present, only a few
schools have all-night custo-
dian protection. The argu-
ment against them in the past
has been that custodians, like
burglar alarm systems cost
money. and the District Com
missionerS and Congress just
do not approve enough funds
each year to pay for more
night watchmen. The Distrie1
| has 162 schools.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

veStigation reports cost between
$3.50 and $3.50 each.
The use of the investigation
report is widespread in the
Washington area. Ten firms
here offer their investigative
services for this purpose, and
one of the largest keeps so men
in the field. The investigators
get their information from
neighbors, friends and employ
ers Of the policyholder.
Besides determining how the
insured car is being used, these
reports try to determine what
kind of moral risk" the policy
holder is. They want to know
if the driver has been seen
driving while drunk or if he
likes to hot-rod around the
neighborhood, or engage in any
illegal business.
If the insurance company
determines that the mans
conduct would tend to make
him a bad driving risk, the pol
icy will probably be Cancelled,
and the driver will not know
why. He may call the COM
pany's head office or button
hole brokers and agents, but he
won't learn the reasons. Com
pany policy says that no rea-
sons will be given. They feel
telling them would leave the
firms wide open for suits.
After all, insurance is a
private business, lone agent
said. I'VE have a right to pick
up policyholders and weed out
bad risks. We have to protect
our own business and also the
other policyholders."
AS result, all insurance
companies use cancellation as
Evening star., 1961-04-10

record and have an inveStiga-
ton report made. These reports
which aren't too thorough
may indicate that the applicant
is a good risk. But after his first
serious accident, we order an
other investigation report. This
one is more thorough and may
uncover many things which
force us to admit the policy
holder is really a bad risk"
The insurance men contacted
said that one of the purposes
Iof the investigation report is
to determine if an applicant
had lied to the company when
applying for insurance. The in
vestigators learn how the in
sured car is being used, and by
whom.
If the insurance applicant has
said that all drivers are over
rs, and the investigators learn
that his 18-year-old son is using
the car all the time, this will
be reported. Depending on how
the company operates, it will
either cancel the applicant or
place him in the proper pre-
MUM rate category.
One agent said his firm would
probably cancel under those
circumstances. I'VE feel that if
he lied on an application re-
port, he wouldn't be above lying
on an accident report, which
would hurt the company's case
in any court action"
Most companies order an in
vestigation and traffic report
on every new applicant. Others
spot-check applicants. Th e
traffic record can be obtained
from local motor vehicle de-
partments for 81, and the in
Evening star., 1961-04-10

Cancelled every day, most OF
them for Immediately recog-
nizable reasons, some for rea-
sons apparent only to insurance
underwriters.
At a time when District
Maryland and Virginia laws
have put the finger on unin-
sured drivers, policy cancella-
tion can be a serious and ex-
pensive event. A cancellation
may force a motorist to pay
$165 for basic liability coverage
with a firm handling substand-
ard risks. This same motorist
may have paid $54 for the same
coverage with a standard CON-
pany specializing in good risks
The regular rate with a stand
ard company would be about
$50.
There are mitigating circum-
stances, Of course, but cancella.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
INSURANCE REPORT
Cancellation Serious for Both Driver and Company

tion can even affect motorists
who feel they have a clean traf-
fic record, and have had no
accidents.
"One thing you have to get
straight" said George Peery,
vice president of the Govern
ment Employees Insurance Co.
Insurance companies don't
cancel without reason. Every
company loses money when it
cancels and can make money
only when the premiums come
rolling in"
But Mr.. Peery and the other
brokers, agents and company
officials questioned by The
Star agreed that there is wide
spread public misunderstand-
ing about policy cancellation.
They agreed that one possible
reason for the misunderstand-
ing is the fact that insurance
companies never tell policy
holders why they have been
Cancelled.
Insurance men in the Wash
ington area said, however, that
the reasons can fall into three
categories: The driver has dem
onStrated he is a bad risk, OF
indications show he is poten-
TALLY a bad risk. Some are
Cancelled for non-payment OF
premium.
Insurance is based on aver
ages. A company sets rates and
takes clients by knowing the
average number of accidents
and average amount of claims
they can expect to pay for a
group of drivers. If a policy
holder has a string of acci-
dents or traffic violations, he
Evening star., 1961-04-10
$4,000 Fire Laid
To 12-Yeur-OId

A 12-year-old boy last night
was charged with setting a
$4,000, two-alarm fire at Kay's
store, 1885 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc.
Fire Investigator 1t. An
thony B. Mileo said Police Pvt.
John Paul of the 11th pre-
cinct, became suspicious of the
boy when questioning a group
of youngsters watching the fire
earlier last night. The boy
showed a bit too much interest,
1t. Mileo said. and upon ques-
tioning admitted setting the
fire.
II set the fire because I like
to hear the fire engines rum"
1t. Mileo quoted the boy as
saying.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

is at variance with the average
for his group and has to be
put in another group or can
celed.
Insurance underwriters have
this law of averages down to
a science. They feel it should
be self-evident that a driver
with several bad accidents on
his record or convictions for
drunken or reckless driving
should expect to be Cancelled
from a company giving dis
counts to safe drivers.
But what about the driver
who says, 1--WE been with that
company for many years, and
I have one accident and they
drop me-"
Mr.. Peery answered that one
"To my knowledge, no company
can afford to cancel a policy
holder because of a single ac-
cident. 1t doesn't make sense
My company figures on having
35 accidents of varying de-
grees for each 100 policies. II
we Cancelled because of one ac-
cident, we'd have to lose a
third Of our business"
The key to this type of can
collation. is the So-called in
vestigation report. Insurance
companies use the report to
determine if a policyholder is
being truthful with the COM
pany and whether he is a good
moral risk"
A Maryland insurance man
explained why some people feel
they have been Cancelled be-
cause of a single accident:
when a policyholder is taken
on" he said. most insurance
companies check his traffic
Evening star., 1961-04-10
D. G. Heads
CooIonMove
ToCityHoII

The District Commissioners
repeatedly rejected today, at
least for the time being, their
proposed move to the old City
Hall Building at 45l Indiana
avenue NV.
The move was discussed at a
closed session of the Commits
sioners and none of them would
disclose later what decision had
been reached.
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin has been advocating
the move from the District
Building, Fourteenth and E
streets NV. The General Serv-
ices Administration agreed last
year to make the Indiana
avenue building, now occupied
by the Selective Service, avail
able to the Commissioners next
January.
However, Commissioner Wal
ter N. Tobriner is known to be
opposed to the move on the
grounds that cost of renovating
the old building has been esti-
mated at 100000.
This money would be spent
for painting, repairs and Struc-
tural alterations to accommo-
date the Commissioners and
key city departments.
Commissioner Mclaughlin
has favored the move because
he has said, it would make
available additional space in
the District Building for other
District departments now rent
ing offices.
Commissioner Mclaughlin
also has said that use of the
old City Hall Building would
fit into the long-range plans OF
the District government.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

today because of the weather,
but the crowded school seemed
to adapt quickly to the new
influx.
Box lunches were provided
for the children.
We're trying to salvage sup
plies from Carver" Miss Lyons
said. If we can't get enough
Wen borrow from the other
schools"
She expressed gratitude for
the cooperation of the chill
dren's parents in the emer-
gency, and predicted that all
but four classes would be back
in the undamaged portion OF
Carver in a few days.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

exactly what was going on"
The children seemed to enjoy
their new quarters. although
there were some frantic mo-
mentS as they tried to locate
the lavatorieS.
This is nicer than our old
school," observed a third
grader. To a kindergarten pu-
pill, the biggest fire loss was the
fact that they burned up my
crayons.
Trucks brought extra furni-
ture to Burrville, while text
books and other supplies were
borrowed from the schools
stock.
Recess had to be held inside
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Rambler
Loses
Member of Family
By GEORGE KENNEDY

By GEORGE KENNEDY
504 Robinson Court,
Alexandria, Va.
TIE. 6-7047
This is a house of mourn
ing.
On Friday morning, Kelly,
our parakeet, flew out the
front door. He hasn't been
seen since.
We were forewarned. Still
it is hard to believe that we
could have become so at
tached to a green ball of
feathers weighing only a
little more than an ounce. He
was a chatterbox. He talked
his way into our hearts.
Kelly Kelledy," he usta call
himself, or "Mama's little
doodle, doodle, doodle bug"
Only two days before we
had been worried about him.
1t was all too evident that he
did not feel well; he pecked
at the extended finger in
stead of hopping on it. He
had eaten something that
didn't agree with him. He
sampled everything in the
house, but he recovered be-
fore the end Of the day and
on Friday morning he was as
clipper as could be.
He fought to get a peck at
my grapefruit and over and
over again he kept saying,
"let's 60 beddy-by." We were
never able to teach him how
inappropriate that was at
Z in the morning - just
after getting up had been
achieved.
i About 9 o'clock, Mrs. RS
mother went to the front
door leaving him chattering
in the kitchen. AS she opened
the door to go out he flew at
her from behind, shot over
her left shoulder and was
gone.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

Another Picture and Story on Pe. Al
School, Division avenue and
Hayes street N. E., when the
first of the Carver students be-
gan arriving there at $3.50 am.
The children assembled in
the auditorium, most of their
books and supplies lacking. The
Carver fire came at the end
of the Easter vacation, and few
students had taken books home
for the holiday.
The job of redistricting the
displaced children fell on Mrs.
Thema J. Bryant, Burrville
principal; on Miss Edith Lyons,
assistant superintendent for
elementary schools, and on
Mrs. Josephine c. Smith, di-
rector of administration for
elementary schools.
AS children and their parents
filled the auditorium, the three
women huddled near the stage,
together with Carver's 81
teachers.
Seven classes were dispatched
to the nearby Alton and Mer-
ritt Schools, leaving Is classes
of 100 children to add to Burr
ville's 606 students.
Lets see, we have -four
classes in the sub-basement and
two in the lunchrooms," unused
Miss Lyons, "but now we're out
of single rooms"
why don't we put the Sec
ond and third grades together
for a few days" Mrs. Smith
suggested. After this was done
a first grade was sent to an
upstairs room, Carver's kinder
garten classes merged with
Burrville's, and the auditorium
was partitioned to take five
classes.
BY 1920 am, relative peace
had returned to the auditorium
enforced by a teachers firm Or
der for mo more talking
None"
They were really well-be-
haved," a teacher said later
considering that nobody knew
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Civil War Literature

James H. Reid, assistant dean
of the University of Maryland
College of Business and Public
Administration, will discuss the
literature of the Civil War at
8 pm. Wednesday in Falls
Church High School. The talk
is the seventh in a series OF
Civil War Centennial lectures
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Seniors Plan Lunch

A senior citizens group, some
of whom are almost 80 years of
age, will prepare and serve a
luncheon tomorrow for the
Prince Georges Section of the
National Council of Jewish
Women. A Queen for Day
will be selected at the 1890
pm. meeting in the Parklawn
Recreation Center.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
By WILLIAM DUKE
Star Staff Writer

"Eighty-five per cent of our
auto insurance policyholders are
never in trouble and don't have
to worry about cancellation, u
a Washington insurance broker
said, "ond only S of the re-
manning Is per cent make any
noise about the cancellation
program"
Regardless Of these percent
age estimates, however, automo-
bile liability policies in the
metropolitan area are being
Evening star., 1961-04-10
A CALAMITY
Carver Fire Forces Shifts

The burne d-out Carver
School was still smoldering
this morning as harried ad-
ministrators tried to find new
claSSrooms for the schools 547
pupils.
Its a mess, a calamity"
said a teacher at the Burrville
Evening star., 1961-04-10
HE WAS IN THE HABIT of

HE WAS IN THE HABIT OF
flying to her shoulder when
she walked away from him.
Kelly had been taught to
come when called. And called
he was after he went out the
door. But freedom is heady
stuff, especially in a high
wind. He probably was a long
way away in a few minutes.
Unlike pigeons, parakeets
have no homing instincts.
That night was a rather
sad one.
The family had taken little
comfort in my assurance
that parakeets can stand
cold, that they sometimes
live above the snow line in
the Andes.
Kelly, they knew, was not
conditioned to temperatures
in the 30s. Every night a
sweater had been pla C e d
around his cage.
And how would he eat?
How would he find small
seeds in this period of bios
SONS?
Sugar Patches, the neigh
bors' cat, was bowling around
the house that night. That
gave rise to a horrib lie
thought.
Sugar Patches can't catch
birds. I've watched him try.
He's too well fed, too fat and
too lazy, but he likes to try.
He will stalk them in the
high weeds when they are
feeding on the lawn.
He will make his pounce
with great energy. But when
he lands the birds are in the
air, out of reach. But Kelly
Is different. He's a bird who's
been conditioned not to fear
anything. Suppose. No, we
put that thought away.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Buses Foes Defend
Streetcar Retention
4 Die, 2 From District, ,
In AirpIone Crashes

Four persons, including two
Washington / S d e N is, were
killed in two separate light
plane crashes Is minutes apart
on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land yesterday.
Killed we're:
Miss Sarah Schmulman, 33,
of 1926 Tunlaw road NV.
Victor Y. Damon, 80, of 925
Twenty-fifth street NV.
Maryland State Police Troop
er 1/c Arthur w. Plummer, 36,
of Berlin, Md.
Theodore Purnell, 35, Of
Ocean City, Md.
Miss Schmulman was an oc-
cupational therapiSt with the
National Institute of Mental
Health at the National InSti-
tutes of Health in Bethesda,
Md, where she had been en-
ployed for four years. Neigh
bors said she had flown to New
York Saturday morning in Mr..
Danon's single-engine plane.
The crash occurred near Ches-
tertown, Md, near Route 20
at about 7:l5 pm, yesterday.
Employed by USIA
Mr.. Damon, a native of Israel
who came to this country at
the age of eight, was a writer
in the Latin American Section
Of the United States Informa-
ton Agency. He had been in
Washington about five years,
according to neighbors, and
had learned to fly three years
ago.
State police said the Damon
plane had just broadcast a dis
tresS signal, heard by the Coast
Guard in Annapolis, when the
pilot apparently attempted a
forced landing. The plane
struck an oak tree and crashed
into a field. the Associated
Press reported. a
Miss Schmulman leaves her
mother, Mrs. Ethel Menaker of
Los Angeles, Calf; a sister,
Mrs. Samuel Myman of Los
Angeles, and another sister,
Mrs. Edie Kessler of Palo Alto,
Calf.
Dead at the Scene
I Miss Schmulman was re-
ported dead on the scene. Mr..
Damon died in Kent-Queen
AnneS Hospital about three
hours after the crash.
DR.. Damon was.the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Damon of New
York.
! During college Mr.. Damon
was a reporter for the Syracuse
Post Standard. Before entering
the Army in 1855 he was assist
ant to the advertising manager
OF the Hecht Co. for a time.
State Police reported Trooper
Plummer and Mr.. Purnell
crashed while taking off about
7 pm. from Assateague Island.
The men had flown to ASA
league to aid the search for a
Providence (R. H. man who
had been reported missing.
The Associated Press said
they repeatedly spotted the
mans car and landed the
plane.
Entangled in Power Lines
Worcester County Deputy
Sheriff, Rhem Lane, who also
was on the isolated island
searching for Mr.. Olivera, said
! he became alarmed when he
didn't see the plane take to
, the air. He said he found the
; craft entangled in utility lines
! on the beach.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

This is the second Of five articles on
automobile insurance. commodity
for which Wushinaton oreo cor
owners poy more than $40 million
wear.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

THE NEXT MORNING
there was no Kelly pecking
at the grapefruit, just re-
minders of him-the empty
cage, the chrome plated
breadbox where he spent so
much time trying to feed the
bird in its mirrored surface,
the window box where he de-
stroyed so many plants by
eating their leaves and the
little vase on which he was
wont to perch.
sKeIly's disappearance was
unfortunate in another way.
I had been working on a
biography of the bird, taking
down everything he said with
the fidelity of Boswell re-
porting DR.. Johnson.
I had been planning to
send it to a publisher in an
other year. /
You see there are 10 mil
lion parakeet owners in the
United States. If only l per
cent would buy the Life of
Kelly, Parakeet Extraordi-
nary" that would take care
Of a first printing of 100000
copies.
We hope that Kelly has
found another home with
some family that will appre-
ciate his remarkable quail
ties and give him his seed
in the morning and his
Treat in the afternoon.
It is not improbable. He
Is just as likely to fly on
someone's shoulder, saying
"Whassa matter?" He makes
no exceptions of strangers.
He likes people. They're all
the same to him.
And, we hope against hope,
whoever has him will read
this and send Kelly back
home.
Evening star., 1961-04-10

leaves his wife and four chill
dren.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Entangled in Power Lines

Worcester County Deputy
Sheriff, Rhem Lane. who also
was on the isolated island
searching for Mr.. Olivera, said
he became alarmed when he
didn't see the plane take to
the air. He said he found the
craft entangled in utility lines
on the beach.
Trooper Plummer, who had
been stationed for 10 years al
Ocean City, leaves his wife anc
a son and daughter. Mr.. Purnel
Evening star., 1961-04-10

Another Picture and Story on Pe. A.