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Navajo times., 1961-05-03
May 8, 1961--THE NAVAJO TIMEs--Page z
the bill calls for only 10000 acre
feet of diversion.

the Dill calls tOr only 11U,UUO acre
feet of diversion.
Witnesses were questioned by
Rep. Craig Hosmer, R-CaIif., on
the availability of water for the
projects. He said New Mexico in
terests were asing their claims on
a tota ALLEGATION under the COM
paCts without regard to provisions
that lower basin requirements had
prior claim TO Upper Colorado Riv-
er water.
John Fl. Bliss, Upper Colorado
River cOmmi SSioner for New Mex
leo, sat at the witness table with
Olson and from time to time sup
piled data to support his views.
Ho m er mum b er of times
raised the question whether New
Mexico was meeting the compact
obligations with Texas regarding
division of waters of the Rio Grande
He wanted to know if some of the
water diverted from the Colorado
River might be relea sed to Texas
in settlement of a deficit which the
New Mexican acknowledged exists
at present.
New Mexico witnesses respon-
ded that this would bel possible ply
sically since the Chama is tribu-
tary of the Rio Grande, but that it
was not ont m plated and that it
would take approval of the secre-
tary of the interior for such releas-
es to be made.
Navajo times., 1961-05-03


cont e ntion that there was, not
enough water for both projects. He
noted that under the Colorado River
Compacts New Mexico wa entitled
to $780, GOO acre feet of water an
nually. The diversion would take
only 10000 acre feet under the
authorization bill.
MeChem told the subcommittee
Chronic distress of the Navajo
people--the most populous Indian
tribe in the United States--has S long
been matter of national concern. ="
M echem added there were now
$1,000 Navajos on the reservation
and they were increas sing at rate
of about 2.25 per cent a year.
McCabe testified that the pro-
ject would provide 112O family
farms for Navajos. He said related
service activities would give
livelihood to 224O more families,
providing decent living standard
for 1900 Indians.
lhe state of New Mexico S we'll
as the Indians would also benefit by
the project, M Mechem said.
THE initial stage of the San
Juan-Chama Project to divert
10000 acre feet of water from the
San Juan into the water deficient
Rio Grande Basin is essential to
the economic development of our
state" Mechem said. About 80, 900
acre feet a year of the imported
water would be used, by exchange,
on irrigation units in the Rio
Grande Basin in northern New
Mexico.
These irrigation units are
desperately needed to stabilize and
expand the agricultural economy of
Taos, Rio Arriba and Santa Fe
countless" M echem said.
The governor added that about
14.5 per cent of all the people in
those counties were on public as
SiStanCe rolls. He said the cost of
this relief was about $4.8 million
a year.
The city of Albuquerque, also
short of municipal water, would re-
ceive bout 1000 acre feet an
nually from the project.
McCabe told the subcommittee
the Indians would be willing to take
over m ainte e nance and operation
costs once the is year project was
completed. Hepredicted the project
would provide enough benefits for
the tribe as a whole to enable it
to do this.
In an swer to questions from
Rep. Jack Westland, R-Wash. that
if the choic e were his, McCabe
Navajo times., 1961-05-03

The House Interior Subcommic-
tee Monday heard the proposed
Navajo Irrigation prof ect de-
scribed as an opportunity for the
Navajo tribe to emancipate itself
from its old ways.
The subcommittee also heard
conflicting views on whether there
would be sufficient water in the San
Juan River Ba sin to justify diver
sion of 10000 acre feet annually
TO the Middle Rio Grande valley.
Testimony was taken by the sub
committee on bill to authorize the
giant $221 millio o Navajo Irriga-
rion and San Juan-Chama diversion
projects. The measure has already
been approved by the Senate.
]. Maurice McCabe, executive
secretary told the committee the
irrigation portion of the project
would irrigate 112O Indian farms
and would bring the Navajos into
community way of life.
''In the FUTURE" McCabe said,
''We expect to pay our taxes and
contribute our share of the costs
of this and other prof ects in the
state"
Governor Edwin l.. Mechem
earlier told the subc ommittee the
proposed irrigation project would
give the Navajos chance to earn
a decent living. AS leadoff witness
he also spoke strongly in favor of
the diversionportion of the project.
Will a m Utton of Aztec, vice
president of the San Juan county
farm and live stock bureau, said
that while his organization suppor-
ted the irrigation unit of the pro-
Ject it was opposedto the diversion
unit.
Th e are two entirely sep
arate projects and only tied togeth-
er by paper work." Utton said.
Our position is that there is not
suffici ient water for both pro-
JectS
The San Juan-Cham ma unit, ac-
cording to Utton, would bring tragic
consequences to their area. ''The
future development of the San Juan
River Basin would be seriously
curtailed, and would not be in the
best interests of the State of New
Mexico or the United States ="
l. J. Coury, Pennington, NM,
chairman of the New Mexico Inter-
state Stream Commission, disa-
greed with all llconclusions of Utton.
He estimated more than Copper cent
of the people of the San Juan Ba sin
favored the diversion unit as we'll
IS the irrigation unit.
un
Evening star., 1961-01-25
ANOTHER STRIKEOUT
Arts Fails
To Save Old BuiIdino

FAC had recommended denial,
Mr.. Finley said.
In all eight cases where the
Federal agency had urged that
the owner not be permitted to
raze, the houses were of the
Colonial or federal period, he
said.
The Commissioners did not
comment on the statistics.
After hearing statements from
both sides on today's case. the
Commissioners went into ex-
.ecutive session. They promptly
voted to override the FAC's
advice and to grant the re-
quested permit.
Today's case involved q va
cant house at 1888 Thirty-fifth
street NV. Two builders,
Lawrence Brandt and Nathan
Landow, want to tear it down
and put up three row houses on
the site.
Their lawyer, F. Joseph
Donohue, referred to the
building as an "eyesore," and
read letters from three archi-
tects who reported that the
building wasn't worth saving,
from their standpoint. Mr..
Donohue, a former District
c o m m issioner, moved to
Georgetown about a year ago.
Evening star., 1961-01-25

Helen o. Olson. They have
two grown sons, Theodore j.
and Peter c. Wirth. Theodore
works as a landscape archi-
tect for the park service in
San Francisco and Peter is an
Air Force jet pilot in Germany.
The director lives at 1908
Leland street. Chevy Chase,
Md. He received the National
Civil Service League career
Service Award for 1859 and
many other honors, degrees
and awards.
Mr.. Wirth is a life member
of the board of trustees of the
National Geographic Society.
He is taking an active part in
Mission sc, a 10-year Develop
ment and protection program
eliminating in 1866, the 50th
anniversary of the National
Park Service, to meet the needs
of the increasing population for
recreation,
Evening star., 1961-01-25

The Federal Fine Arts Com
mission today kept unblemished
its 10-year record Of failure on
recommendations to save old
Georgetown houses.
But the District Commits
sioners again overrode the
C o m mission's advice and
granted a requested permit to
raze a Georgetown building.
During arguments on today's
case, Chairman David E. Fin
ley Of the Fine Arts Commits
sion said his agency finds it
self with a batting average Of
zero in this advisory area.
Mr.. Finley told the District
Commissioners that the arts
group has advised on 122 ap-
plications for permits to tear
down buildings in Georgetown
since it was given this respon-
sibility under the 1850 Old
Georgetown Act.
OF the l22. he said, the
Federal commission has recon-
mended granting Of the permits
in 113 cases and denial in eight
cases. One application was
withdrawn. With the excep-
ton of this one case, the Com
missioners have issued the
permits in every case where the
Evening star., 1961-01-25
Kennedy Keeps Wirth
As Park Service Chief

President Kennedy today an
nounced that Conrad L. Wirth,
director of the National Park
Service, is being retained in
that post.
Mr.. Wirth has played an i'm
portant role in development of
projects in this area. A career
civil servant, Mr.. Wirth is a
member of the National Capital
Planning Commission. National
Capital Parks comes under his
jurisdiction.
He came to Washington in
1928 as a landscape architect
with the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, as
1t was then called. He became
director of the National Park
Service in December. 1851. He
has held top administrative
positions since joining the serv-
ice in 1881 as an assistant di-
rector in charge of land plant
ing.
In the early days of the
Roosevelt administration, one
of Mr.. Wirth's first jobs was
supervising the work of the
Civilian Conservation Corps in
State, county and metropolitan
parks. In 1885 this work, CIV
ing young men an opportunity
to work out of doors, was ex-
tended to the national parks.
He became associate director
early in 1851.
Mr.. Wirth was born in 1899
in Hartford, Conn.,, where his
father. Theodore Wirth, was
superintendent of parks. The
family soon moved to Minneap-
oils, where the elder Mr.. Wirth
earned the title of Father of
the Minneapolis park system"
Mr.. Wirth studied landscape
architecture at Massachusetts,
Agricultural College, now the
University of Massachusetts,.
In 1926 he married Miss
Evening star., 1961-01-25
HYATTSVILLE IS YEARS LATE
CLAIMING BELL, JUDGE RULES

The City of Hyattsvile waited IS years too long to
try to get back its old 500pound fire bell, Municipal
Court Judge Mary Barlow ruled today.
The Hyattsvile bell since last summer has been the
subject of tug ofwar between the city and the Ace
Wrecking & Building Material Co., 4002 Minnesota
avenue NE.
The bell. Hyattsvie charged, dropped from sight
some time between 1918 and 1925.
1t was uncovered about three years ago when the
Ace company razed church in the Southwest WASH
ington redevelopment program The firm put the bell
up for sale.
Mayor Joseph Lilly went to court today to get the
bell back for HyattSvie.
His effort thwarted, however, after the Ace
company lawyer. Nathan Slberberg introduced memo
randum written June 80 1925 by Hyattsve city fathers
The memo reads in part: 1T has just come to our
attention that the fire department. without knowledge of
the Mayor or the Common Council. has sold the bell
which stored in the Municipal Building to Negro
church in Southwest Washington"
Though the memo went to state that the city
repudiated the SALE Judge Barlow said it should have
taken action at that time.
Evening star., 1961-01-25
Find to Aid
Restoring Of
Lincoln Site

Plans to restore Ford's The
ater, scene Of, the Lincoln
assassination, have been aided
by discovery Of prints showing
authentic arrangement Of the
orchestra and parquet sections.
; Executed BY Baltimore lithog-
raphess In 1865, the floor plan
will ai&e q Bic LIT to the res
toratioii being undertaken by
the National Park Service Mis-
sion 66 program.
The plan was uncovered in
the Harvard College Library
Theater Collection after STAN
ley w. Mcclure, Lincoln Mu-
scum historian, began checking
into some old correspondence.
Up to then. the restorers
thought they would have to
rely on a floor plan drawn from
memory of the theater's found
er. John T. Ford. presumably
after President Lincoln fell un-
der John Wilkes Booths bullet
April IA, 1865.
Earlier it was believed that
the plan in the Harvard col
lection was that of the dress
circle. which already is in the
Lincoln Museum collection and
was the only section of the
floor plans automatically known
to the restorers.
The new find is invaluable
for it not only specifies doors
and stairways, but gives the
exact number of seats in the
orchestra and parquet sections.
There were 315 orchestra
seats in nine rows (selling for
81 each the night of the assas-
sination) and seven parquet
rows with 287 seats (going at
rs cents.
Dress circle (first balcony
seats also went for rs cents
while family circle (second bal
cony) seats were sold for Is
cents. The dress circle had 421
seats in eight rows. Still the
object of a search is a plan OF
the family circle floor.
National Park Service Direc-
tor Conrad L. Wirth said the
search would be concentrated
on records of the Baltimore
lithographer's firm.
1t is hoped it will turn up
another plan such as the one
just discovered. titled: plan
of the Seats in Orchestra and
Parquette of Ford's New Thea
tire, 10th Street, Washington,
I'D. c."
Evening star., 1961-01-25
Plaza Plans
Ready Soon

The Columbia Plaza urban
renewal project in Foggy Bot
tom will be off the drawing
board by the end of next month,
the National Capital Planning
Commission said today.
The overall design would make
the project unique in Wash
ington. 1t calls for about 800
luxury apartments and a 400
room hotel built atop a giant
garage. The garage will house
l 500 cars. &s
Donald F. Bozarth. chief Of
the planning cptnmissionis ur-
ban renewal division, said the
current schedule calls for plac-
ing the redeyelopment plan
before the planning commission
on March 2. The plan will then
go before the District Commits
sioners, who will hold a public
nearing on lt%DlStrict approval
is hoped for by April.
A syndicate being organized
by James F. Salkeld of Shan
non g. Luchs realty firm is
negotiating with the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency to build the
Columbia Plaza project.
Columbia Plaza is the area
bounded by Twenty-third. E,
Twenty fifth and G streets and
Virginia avenue NV the west
leg of the Inner Loop express
way will go through the western
portion of that area.
RIA stafferS currently are
interviewing Columbia Plaza
residents to find out where
they want to relocate. The RIA
expects to start buying up
houses and vacant land this
fall.
Evening star., 1961-01-25
HE PRODUCED A LIST of

HE PRODUCED A LIST of
81 industries and Govern
ment departments Com
merce, Army, Air Force, Navy
which employ 10 or more
graduate mathematicians.
Industry began demand
ing mathematicians back in
the days when the Manhat-
tan Project was working to
achieve chain reaction. Later
rockets and satellites, es-
pecially Sputnik, upped the
demand.
But today the biggest de-
mand for mathematicians is
due to the computer ma
chimes. At a recent meeting
we were told that 10000
graduate mathematicians will
be needed to do the pro-
gramming for these machines
in the next few years"
Evening star., 1961-01-25
$4,000 IN STATE
TOGET MORE FOOD

BALTIMORE, Jan. Is (AP)
-Maryland's chief welfare Of
ficial said yesterday more than
$4,000 residents of Washing
ton County and Baltimore City
will benefit from the strength
ening Of the Federal Govern
ment's food distribution pro-
gram.
Thomas j.. S. Waxter, direc-
tor of the State Department
of Public Welfare. said only
those two subdivisions make
use of the foodstuffs made
available by the Department of
Agriculture.
Evening star., 1961-01-25
The
Rambler
Finds
Einstein Was Right
BY GEORGE KENNEDY


Happy though it was, re-
'grets will crop up as one
looks back on a long life.
The Rambler experienced
one yesterday that had not
occurred to him for decades.
He is sorry he flunked out
of differential calculus.
Yesterday he came to real
ize that that was an unfor-
tunate incident-one of those
many Us along the highway
where he took the wrong
turn.
He thought he was good
at math. For him geometry
had no terrors. Euclid was
one of his heroes. Like the
master he could demonstrate
at the drop Of a hat that the
square of the hypotenuse of
a right angle triangle is equal
to the sum of the squares Of
the two sides @. e. D.
Trigonometry or triangula-
ton was a delight, sine,
coSine and tangent. Give
him a theodolite and a sur
veyor's chain and in S min
utes he would give you the
height of the Washington
Monument, SIS feet, 51s
inches. Napier's logarithms
were fun because it is much
easier to add than to multi
ply.
But after the first few
days of calculus he found
that he was unable to tell
the differentials from the
derivatives. He dropped out.
He should have gone to a
tutor, boned up and gotten
over the hump. He found
that out yesterday when he
dropped in on the convention
Of the American Mathemati-
cal Society in the willard.
Evening star., 1961-01-25
Areowide Snow Plan
Studied by Officials

ordinate regional snow battling
efforts.
During q storm, the jurisdic-
tionS would exchange informa-
ton through radio communica-
ton. judging from yesterdays
discussion. the chances are
that the existing civil defense
radio setup would be used.
One benefit from this cen
trail headquarters, Gen. Clarke
said. would be the pooling Of
information on blocked streets
in the area. This could lead
a far more effective direction
of traffic away from the trou-
BILE spots, he said.
Standby Crews
The Engineer Commissioners
third major recommendation
involved the crucial period
when a big storm apparently
is moving in toward the area
and is threatening to cause a
substantial traffic problem.
Under this plan, key officials
responsible for road conditions
in the nearby areas would be
notified as soon as the District
decides to. mobilize its forces
for a threatened storm. They
would follow the Districts lead
in sending men and equipment
to critical highway points on
a standby basis.
Gen. Clarke said the pro-
poSals boil down to "a little
earlier effort and a better COM
munications tie-.n."
His proposals, Gen. Clarke
said, were not intended as
criticisms, but instead were
aimed at avoiding any more
massive traffic tie-ups owing
to bad weather.
The problem last Thursday
he said, was on the periphery
how to break the roadblocks
around the city, The visitors
here for the inaugural made ur
a group that was churnine
within the city" and added tc
the traffic headaches but was
not responsible for the big
jams. he said.
Other suggestions discussed
at yesterdays meeting included
recommendations to intensity
efforts to get abandoned car!
off the streets and to make
arrangements with service sta.
tions for such emergency call!
for motorists who have deae
batteries or are out Of gas
Another was for an intensiv,
education program on how tt
drive during snowstorms.
Evening star., 1961-01-25
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

Proposals for a co-ordinated
effort to avoid major traffic
snarls during snowstorsaS here
were under study today by
Washington area officials.
The recommendations, In
clliding extension OF some OF
The city's snow emergency reg
ulations to the suburbs, were
presented yesterday by Engi-
neer Commissioner Frederick ],
Clarke.
The reaction by area off,
cialS, who heard the proposals
at a special meeting on the
traffic snowstorm problem, was
generally favorable. The meet
ing, held in Gen. Clarke's Of
flee, was called in the wake
Of the record traffic jam from
last Thursdays storm.
Gen. Clarke's first proposal
was that the nearby areas in
Maryland and Virginia adopt
three of the Districts emer-
gency snow plans.
Already Under Study
One subjects a motorist to
arrest If his car stalls or blocks
traffic on certain key streets
and is not equipped with ef-
fective chains or snow tires.
Another bans parking on speci-
fled major arteries and a third
is a general warning to motor
lists to cancel nonessential
trips.
Several of the nearby juris-
dictions already have been
studying the feasibility OF
adopting the snow regulations
Arlington has been waiting for
| q report on its legal authority
TO take such action. County
!, 'anager A. T. Lundberg noted
y <erday.
! lother proposal by Gen.
Clarke was that the District
set up a central snowstorm
headquarters" named by city
highway officials to help CO.
Evening star., 1961-01-25

reserves needed for living ex-
penses and job hunting. Often,
he noted, jobs must be sought
out of town, with room and
board paid elsewhere while
homes are maintained here.
Additional costs in the cur
rent fiscal year will depend
upon the speed with which the
program Is put into effect.
Evening star., 1961-01-25
4,467 BURIALS
AT ARLINGTON
IN PAST YEAR

More than 2.7 million
visitors paid their respects
at Arlington Cemetery and
4,467 servicemen, service
women and members of
their families were buried
there in 1860.
The cemetery's annual
report shows $500 persons
visited the national shrine
on an average day.
The total number of per-
sons buried there rose to-
100000. The cemetery. es-
tablished in 1864, has 109
employees.
Evening star., 1961-01-25

The food is stored In q ware
house in Southwest Washing
ton. It is distributed at 20
churches and settlement houses
here.
Butter in Prospect
Dried eggs. as well as dried
milk, corn meal, flour, rice and
lard are being distributed in
Washington now, with butter
to be available again next
month. An Agriculture Depart
ment spokesman said yesterday
dried eggs, announced as a new
item, are not in stock generally
around the country.
Liberalizing income stand
ards would help strike at the
Districts problem of many
self-supporting families who
hover at subsistence levels.
AS to the unemployed, Mr..
Shea said they should not be
expected to deplete small cash
Evening star., 1961-01-25

HE WAS TOLD the press
room was on the second
floor. There he got into a
line of mathematicians who
all greeted him as doctor"
It must have been the beard.
They thought he was a doctor
Of philosophy in mathe-
matics, not a physician.
Everyone knows that psysi-
clans no longer wear boards
not even on television.
They began handing him
offers Of employment. If
you have the degree, you don't
have to travel. Catholic Uni
versity wants a professor of
mathematics at $4,000 for
nine months plus $1,000 for
teaching a six week summer
course, sabbatical leave every
seventh year and all that.
Georgetown and George
Washington Universities are
making similar offerings.
But you can get more If
you have the degree and are
willing to travel. Philco wants
a mathematician at its West
Coast laboratories. It's listing
ing states that the salary is
open" The Rambler was
told that industry pays $15,-
900 to $4,000 for mathemati-
cal Ph.D.s.
The Rambler found that he
wasn't in the press room
at all but in the convention
office of the Mathematical
Sciences Employment Regis
ter.
The woman in charge said:
For the first time I think
we will have as many appli-
cants as jobs. We have 280
offerings of jobs, about 220
from the universities and
about 60 from industry and
Government. So far we have
had about $50 applicants, but
we are just starting and are
sure to have more"
He met DR.. J. s. Frame, a
professor of mathematics at
Michigan State, who started
the employment register
eight years ago at a meeting
at Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore.
Things have changed" he
said. There we're about Is
job offerings on our first
register.
"Mathematicians are in
very short supply, especially
on the Ph.D. level. There are
only $500 of them in this
country and Canada and
only 300 more earn the de-
gree each year. There are
seven jobs waiting for each"
Evening star., 1961-01-25
Surplus Food Program
Calls for D. c. Funds
Sheu's Plan for Fiscal 1862 Backed
By Advisers, Roises Income Ceilings
BY BETTY MILES
Star Stan Writer

District Commissioners will asked this week for
additional fiscal 1862 enable the city to take part
the expanded national surplus food Better quality
would given low income families here under
the plan.
The Public Welfare Advisory yesterday approved