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3:15 pm, giving them a little
break on the usual hour.
But condition of the roads
slowed buses as well as cars,
caused breakdowns at strategic
points by other vehicles and
delayed more than one dinner.
D. c. Transit's streetcars
were experiencing the usual
ice-in-the-slot trouble this
morning, knocking out about
all but the Mount Pleasant
line. Buses were substituted
where possible. but passengers
had to await their turn.
Trouble calls came into the
American Automobile Associa-
ton at a rate of about 200 an
hour during yesterdays rush
hour. and continued at a rate
Of about 100 an hour from 8
to midnight.
Most of the trouble was on
suburban roads, such as in
Fairfax, where no help could
get to. anyway" Today the
stuck motorists resumed their
pleas for help.
Yesterday, what at first had
appeared to be a rather brief,
snow rain and sleet mixed
storm, finally resolved into a
20-hour nightmare for everyone
including the Weather Bureau.
The disturbance that early
yesterday appeared on its way
to sea. abruptly decided not to
bulge.
And the inches Of snow began
piling onto the other inches
from four previous storms.
This leads to another touchy
situation. Should there be a
couple Of inches Of rain over
the weekend, the Snow-packed
Potomac basin will start run
ming off, the river will rise and
the heavy coating Of ice may
break up in damaging pile-ups.
Officially, Washington got
6.4 inches Of new snow yester-
day. This National Airport
reading ran the total there to
37.l inches this winter still 4
inches under the total Of 1857
So, and far under the record
54.5 inches of 1898.
Many nearby communities
were buried under measure
ments up to IL inches. the Off
cial measurement at Sterling,
Va, near Dulles Airport.
Amounts varied according to
the freakishnesS of the disturb
ance, but at least 8 inches was
the rule rather than the ex-
ception in nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
And some places like Cul-
peper reported II inches. up to
18 inches fell in some Shenan-
doah Valley stretches. COM
pletely closing roads for a time.
Trucks and cars were aban-
Evening star., 1961-02-09
Sofety Violations
Laid to Vienna
Nursing Home

A Virginia State fire inspec-
tor has charged a Vienna CVa.)
nursing home with violating
State fire safety regulations.
The Ayr Hill Nursing Home.
on Ayr Hill avenue. was
charged with keeping bedridden
patients on the second floor
and with failure to keep exits
clear of ice and snow.
Inspector James c. Shipley
made an inspection on Febru-
ary 2 and another on February
6. On the first visit, he said,
three bedridden patients were
upstairs. A bedridden woman
was still there on his second
inspection, he said.
The owner of the home.
Arnold r. Stalker, pleaded not
guilty to the charges at a
hearing today. in Fairfax
County Court. The hearing was
continued to February 81.
Mr.. Stalker said he immedi-
ately moved bedridden patients
from the second floor after
the inspectors visit.
Under State fire regulations,
he said, the home is permitted
to keep ambulatory patients on
the second floor of his building,
but sometimes it's difficult to
know what an ambulatory
patient is"
The bedridden patients on
the second floor had all become
i'll after they were put up there,
he said.
Snow and ice were removed
from all exits.
Evening star., 1961-02-09
The
Rambler
Wunts to
Make Amends
By GEORGE KENNEDY

Right here and now the
Rambler wants to apologize
to William Zeckendorf of
Webb g. Knapp and to the
Redevelopment Land Agency
and to the Commissioners of
the District who have been
so patient about the recon-
Struction of Southwest.
He has been very impa-
tient.
When he witnessed vegeta-
tion growing waist high
where houses however hum
BILE had once stood, he sug-
geSted that a little of the
taxpayers money be recov-
cred by lea sing grazing
rights.
When he saw the plastic
models of the Southwestern
be according to Webb &
Knapp he became a little
cynical. There was no doubt
that this fantastic real estate
firm was spending more than
100000 in preliminary plan
ming and matchmaking. But
it could be they were getting
100000 in publicity in archi-
tectural, construction and
engineering journals about
what they were going to do
in the Nations Capital.
1t took a long time to get
started. But once the start
was made, Jack Bender OF
Blake Construction Co., the
contractor, has done won
ders. 1t was hard to believe,
but easy to accept an invita-
ton to see the first furnished
apartment.
Evening star., 1961-02-09

FOURTH STREET, former
ly Four and One-half street,
one of the few routes to "The
Island" (Southwest) VII n
Constitution avenue was a
canal, will be closed. Land
scaping of the court will be
done by Zion & Breen. They
will have difficulty in i'm
proving on its appearance
yesterday. The court was
blanketed with new-fallen
snow.
This was the site of Dixon's
court, one of the last Of the
scandalous slums within the
shadow of the Nations Capt.
toll" This writer visited it
about 10 years ago. 1t was a
warren, unfit for rappltS.
"They we're all transferred
to comfortable housing" said
Mr.. Murray. He was echoing
the redevelopers' creed, their
answer to the question to
what happens to the people
who paid $12 a month when
they are moved out for peo-
Pile who pay 5000 a month.
I'm not so sure, but they
couldn't be in worse housing
they couldn't be in hous-
ing as bad.
II want you to see our
furnished apartment" said
Mr.. Murray.
It was hard to realize it
was the same room. It's Splen-
did dimensions had beer
made to seem cramped. The
oak parquet floors had been
covered with wall to wall
carpeting. The 7 by 7 plate
glass windows had been
screened by a tapestry wall
and the room had been
crowded with furniture-not
a bit of 1t modern-that can
best be described as "eclec-
tic" - chosen from several
periods.
Why?
Evening star., 1961-02-09
Matthias Appointed
To D. Committee
Republicans
Also Name
Ohioun to Unit

The House District Commit
tee was finally organized to-
day with the appointment Of
two Republican freshmen.
Named by House Republican
leaders were Representative
Matthias of Maryland's 9Th
district and Representative
HTSha, jr., of Ohio.
The selections are subject
to approval by a Republican
caucus scheduled for later to-
day.
One seat on the minority
side of the committee was left
vacant. 1t will probably be
filled later in the year.
Mr.. Matthias, SO, is serving
his first term in Congress. The
Frederick (Md.) lawyer de-
feated John r. Foley, Ken
Sington, Md, Democrat, in
November. Mr.. Foley was also
a member Of the District
Committee.
Harsha Also a Lawyer
Mr.. Harsha, 80, is also a
lawyer. A resident of Ports
mouth, Ohio, he previously has
served as an assistant city
solicitor and also as a prose-
cutting attorney. He is a gradu-
ate of Kenyon College, is mar
ried and has four children.
Mr.. Matthias is a graduate
Of Haverford College and the
University Of Maryland Law
School. He was a member of
the Maryland General Assem-
bly, before his election to Con-
greSS.
Mr.. Matthias, besides his
District Committee assignment,
was also named to the House
Judiciary Committee.
Action Can Start
Today's selection of the two
Congressman means the Dis
trict Committee can finally be-
gin to screen District legiSla-
ton. Representative Mcmillan,
Democrat of South Carolina
and chairman Of the commit
tee. is expected to call a meet
ing Of the committee shortly.
Besides the two freshmen, the
only other change in the lineup
of Republicans on the commit
tee involves Representative
Derounian, Republican of New
York. Mr.. Derounian was
named to other committees.
Another Republican member,
Representative Smith of Kan
sas, retired fro mCongress last
summer.
Other Republicans on the
committee are: Representatives
Auchincloss of New Jersey,
Kearns of Pennsylvania. Broy-
hill of Virginia. Springer Of
Illinois, Nielsen Of Minnesota,
O'Konski of Wisconsin and
Weis Of New York, the only
woman on the committee.
Evening star., 1961-02-09
Ru|ingAwaited
In ReesCase
Search Evidence
Arguments End
By JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star Staff Writer

BALTIMORE, Feb. Gov
ernment prosecutors may learn
today in Federal Court here
whether they may use a pistol
and a written account of the
Jackson family murders against
Melvin D. Rees, jr., at his
kidnapping trial.
Federal Judge RosZel c.
Thomson was expected to rule
in the 10th day of the trial
whether an FBI search of the
home Of Rees' parents in Hy-
attsville was legal. It was this
search, carried out by FBI
agents on June "a, 1860,
which turned up a .38 caliber
pistol and a document purport-
ing to be in the defendants
handwriting.
Defense Attorneys William j.
ODonnell and William j. Evans
moved Tuesday that the key
evidence be quashed on the
grounds that its discovery Ewas
based on illegal search and
seizure. Mr.. ODonnell told re-
porters the Rees home was
searched without search war
rant and declared this consti-
tuted an illegal act.
Permission Indicated
1t was understood, however,
that the FBI men who made the
search of the premises in the
5000 block of Madison street,
Hyattsville, did so with written
permission from Rees' parents.
Those who have followed the
trial closely feel the Govern
ment's Lindbergh Law prosecu-
ton of the 32-year-old musi-
clan hinges principally on the
evidence Of the pistol and note.
If Judge Thomson admits the
evidence after an all-day ses-
sion yesterday out of the pres
ence Of the jury and the press,
the Government is expected to
try to link the pistol found in
the home with a pair Of pistol
grips found near the beaten
and shot body of Carroll v.
jackson.
The note, which the Govern
ment contends is in Rees' hand
writing. describes an abduction
on a lonely road. 1t details
how some members of the
Louisa County, (VaO family
were forced out of the car,
bound and placed in the car
trunk. 1t further tells how Mr..
jackson and one child were
driven to a selected area and
killed. The note describes an
act of perversion performed on
the mother. Then the note
says she was tied and gagged
and led to a place of execution.
Background Given
The family vanished on jan
uary II, 1859, while driving on
Route 500 near Bumpass, Va,
Mr.. Jackson, 90. and Janet, 18
months, were found dead near
Fredericksburg on March 4,
1859. Mrs. Mildred Jackson,
81, and the other child, Susan
Anne, S, were found slain IT
days later in a shallow grave
near Gambrills in Anne Arun-
del County. Md. Rees is on
trial in the kidnapping and
death Of the mother and older
child.
Evening star., 1961-02-09

far. only six dairymen are re-
ported to have dumped milk,
because tank trucks could not
reach them.
But the milk has moved only
behind bulldozers, and the ex-
pense has been increasingly
damaging to the dairy industry
One old-timer. Henry B. Tay-
lor. 81. Of Lincoln. said it has
been worse than the storm OF
1899, which lasted three days.
Evening star., 1961-02-09

sWide down a hill and l hit a
rock and break the Swed."
when snow get real icy you
can try to walk on it and fall
in it," was another grinning
suggestion.
Il like it," said an angelic
looking girl. me and my Sis
Evening star., 1961-02-09

ter make snoWballS and hit
each other"
And there's no quarreling
with the boy who said, "At my
house I jump down a cliff and
fall in the snow and that's more
fun than falling on the ground" I"
1t took an adult to bring
Evening star., 1961-02-09
DAYLIGHT TIME
STARTS APRIL 80

The Commissioners to-
day issued their annual
order putting the city on
daylight saving time from
the last Sunday in April to
the last Sunday in october.
Under this order, the
District will switch to day
light time at 2 am, April
80 and go back to stand
ard time at 2 am, october
20.
Evening star., 1961-02-09

some reason into this ridicu-
lously happy group.
She was their harried teach
er, Sister Helen Clare who
struggling with a wiggling boy
and his boot, said, by the
time they get their clothes on
for recess, it's all over" !
Evening star., 1961-02-09

) AT LAST Mr.. Zeckendorf'S
first apartment building has
rison on the Potomac flats.
This building is almost all
glass. One cannot get away
from the thought that its oc-
cupants should not throw
stones.
It stands on reinforced
concrete stills.
The first floor Of almost all
glass walls is more than 10
feet above the ground. Stone
throwers might be a prob
lem, but not Peeping Toms.
Joe Murray and Bill Shan
non of Shannon & LuchS,
the rental agency. unlocked
the doors. The apartments
are the most stimulating
modern interiors he has ever
Seen.,
Just imagine the corner
apartment in which the liv-
ing room-and dining area
is a 20 by 20 foot square with
oak parquet floors, high CELL
ings and glass walls on two
sides. The glass walls are
window panes of plate glass
7 by 7. They cannot be
opened. Air conditioning
makes that unnecessary.
The views are varied.
I was there during yester-
days snowstorm when visi-
bility was not much more
than a mile. You see st.
Dominic's, a beautiful Gothic
church, the Capitol and the
stacks of PEPCO's Buzzard
Point plant.
On a clear day 1 am sure
that you will be able to look
down the river at the Jones
Point Bridge and with binoc-
ulars, beyond that to Fort
Washington. There are to be
four of these glass houses,
two nearing completion, the
third just getting above the
foundations. They were de-
signed by a Japanese-Ameri-
can, I. M. Pei pronounced
Pay.
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Realty Revue

The Greater Metropolitan
Washington Chapter Of the
Institute of Real Estate Man
agement will elect officers at
its monthly dinner meeting
at 6 pm. Thursday in the
Touchdown Club, 1414 I4street
NV.
Those in nomination for
office are: Joseph c. Murray,
president; Charles NJ. Med
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occupy the former Berens
offices at 34l4 Hamilton
street, West Hyattsville.
Miller Associates
Hires Three for SoIes
Miller Associates, Inc, has
acquired three new sales
people to augment its staff.
They are Harold A. Burch,
Mrs. Margaret M. Tuhy, and
Franklin B. Maphis, all of
whom recently passed the
Maryland examination for
real estate statesmen.
Monte Joins
Suburban Properties
Carl P. Monte has Joined
Suburban Properties Manage
ment, Inc, Realtor, as treas
urer, having purchased one
third share in it's outstanding
capital stock.
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Before joining the firm
here, he was manager of pre-
production systems on the
finance staff of the Ford
Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich.
Mrs. Stone Joins
Miller Sales Staff
Mrs. Dolly COrbin Stone
has joined the sales staff Of
the w. c. g. A. N, Miller
Development Co., the firm
announced this week.
For the last 20 years, Mrs.
Stone has been associated
with the firm of Sandoz, Inc,
with time out for wartime
duty with the office Of
Strategic Services in Algiers
and Italy.
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TrodeFs Plan
December Meet

The Montgomery County
Realtors Trading & Exchange
Club is planning to discuss
Exchanging Larger Prop
critics" during a meeting at
1890 am. December 4 in the
board office, 1918 Fenton
street, Silver Spring.
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Boord President
Names Committee

George w. DeFranceaux,
preSident-elect Of the Wash
ington Real Estate Board,
has announced appointment
Of a number Of executive
committee members.
They are: Charles H. Pur-
cell, first vice president Of the
board: Thomas M. Walsh,
second vice president; How
ard Bernstein, treasurer
elect, and Henry L. BOusca-
rem.
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tive in the real estate field
for the last Is years and is a
member of the Northern Vir-
GINA Real Estate Boards
Million Dollar Sales Club.
She lives in Chevy Chase
and is a member Of Kenwood
Country Club and the Ma
tional Skeet and Trap Club.
The Lingo firm also an
nounced its first breakfast
sales meeting was held last
Monday and that the top
salesman so far this month
is Bob Montgomery Of the
Rockville office.
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Ellis Kossow
Moves Office

The Ellis Kossow Co., Real
tors, announced this week it
has moved its office to new
and larger quarters in the
Investment Building, Fiji
tenth and K streets NV.
The firm is expanding its
property management and
Syndication activities while
continuing in the buying and
selling of homes.
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Bonner Sales
Succeeds BeFens

Banner Sales & Appraisal,
Inc, has succeeded the we'll
known real estate office of
Berens Of Hyattsville, Inc,
Oliver ]. Mcdowell, head of
the new organization, an
nounced this week.
BerenS of HyattSville is
the last of several Berens
affiliateS engages in residen-
tial sales in the area to be
transferred to independent
ownership, Mr.. Mcdowell
said.
The new organization will
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Managers Institute Plans Election

ford, first vice president:
George c. WOhIfarth, second
vice president; Herbert Blum,
secretary. and Frank c. San
dow, treasurer.
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Mrs. Dalton Heods
Lingo Firm SoIes

Mrs. Ruby Dalton, former
sales manager Of the Airing
ton Realty Co., has been
named executive adminiStra-
tor Of sales in the Bethesda
and Rockville offices Of Ted
Lingo, Inc. Ted Lingo an
nounced this week.
Mrs. Dalton has been sc-
Evening star., 1961-03-19

president Of the Potomac River
Line which operates it, had
had filed an application for a
permit to sink pilings for tying
up the four deck vessel.
District licensing officials,
who have been having their
troubles recently with code en-
forcement, gratefully bucked
Mr.. Casey's request to the RIA.
This put Mr.. Casey's case. in
the hands of one Of the men
he has battled in the past about
the FreeStone, John R. Searles,
jr., executive director of the
RIA.
The operators Of the Free
stone want permission to run
their ship on moonlight cruises
from now until June 80 from
the Washington Channel. After
that, according to Mr.. Searles,
the FreeStone will make q
graceful exit from the Washing
ton waterfront. -..
Mr.. Searles said he was sym
pathetic to Mr.. Casey's request,
but would first have to deters
mine whether the Freestone
was, as has been claimed,
bonafide tenant of the water
front.
Ultimately, it will be the Dis
trict Department of Licenses
and Inspections which will
have to issue the building per-
nit for the dock pilings.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

would do something about it,"
Mrs. Blagburn said. Il discov-
cred in my own church there
wasn't one person who knew a
thing about Junior Village.
When the women got there,
they said they had never seen
anything like it.
You can't forget those chill
dren-even at home, I keep
hearing them calling me Nom
my, Mommy."
Homes OVerCrOWded
Junior Village is the city's
home for youngsters who have
no real home, either tempo
rary or permanent.
The exploding population
there has averaged SIS children
this month in an institution de-
signed to accommodate 240.
At Eisenhower Cottage alone,
for toddlers up to 212 year -olds,
an average of IS children is
being housed in a building for
As.
The Welfare Department has
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Freestone, RIA Fight
Heading for q Truce

The S. S. FreeStone and the
Redevelopment Land Agency,
which in the past have been
about as friendly as the Mer-
rimack and the Monitor, are
working on a truce. 1t may en-
able the former gambling ship
to reform to the extent of
taking chaperoned teen-agerS
on moonlight trips down the
Potomac.
The Freestone has been win
tering on the Washington
Channel at the foot of Sew
enth street, much to the dis
tress of District and RIA Of
ficials.
The District accused the
owners Of the ship of dumping
bricks into the channel to
form a mooring point for it's
gangplank while the RIA pro-
tested plans for turning the
FreeStone into a waterfront
restaurant. The RIA said the
ship did not belong on the
new waterfront it plans to
build along the channel.
Last week, when the RIA
gained title to the waterfront,
the question about evicting
the Freestone arouse. When a
couple of RIA officials went
down to take a look at the
Freestone, the ship had gone.
But the District licensing Of
ficials knew the ship would re-
turn because T. J. Casey, jr.,
Evening star., 1961-03-19
POINTS OF INTEREST
Cotton Carnival Due
May 9-13 in Memphis

of Garden Week in various
localities is available free from
Historic Garden Week Head
quarters, Hotel Jefferson, Rich
mond, Va.
ALASKA - Kodiak's King
Crab Festival May ST features
skin diving for crabs, a crab
shaking contest, a crab break
fast, a crab Smorgasbord, a
kiddieS parade. a midway with
booths, dances, and boat and
air tours of the Kodiak area.
TEXAS-Fiesta San Antonio
April 1922, celebrates the an
niversary of the Battle of San
Jacinto, in which Gen. Sam
Houston crushed Mexican Die
tator Santa Anna, a victory
that won Texas its independ-
ence. After solemn pilgrimage
to the Alamo, the festival
opens a round of merriment,
including a river pageant, two
parades, a band festival, and
street dancing.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

ing achievement of 18th-cen-
tury America.
Wilderness Charted
Mason and Dixon worked
from 1853 to 1867. After veri-
flying and completing the pen
insula and junction lines,
they set off into Western will
derness. With them went as
siStant surveyors, dian
guides, axmen, wagon drivers.
The team laid out the line
for 230 miles, 80 miles beyond
Maryland's Westernmost from
tier and almost to Pennsylva-
MAS. At that point the Indians
refused to go on into a hostile
tribal area. But the mission
was accomplished, with results
surprisingly close to modern
calculations.
Mason and Dixon set up 224
stone markers. They left others
along the way to be installed
later. Carved in England, the
fiYe-mile stones bore Penn and
Calvert arms; intermediary
ones, the initials IN" and "P."
Evening star., 1961-03-19
TYRONE IS
A MODERN
GHOST TOWN

What is billed as the
most de luxe ghost town
in the world is at Tyrone,
N. Mex.
1t cost Phelps-Dodge
more than 81 million to
build as a company town
in the early 1900s. The
buildings are conventional
Spanish architecture in
cream-color stucco with
red tile roofs.
They still stand In good
condition, but all but a
handful Of the inhabitants
have left since the mines
played out in the '20s.
Tyrone is 36 miles from
Ell PaSo via Route 1870.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

TENNESSEE - Tennessee S
Cotton Carnival will be held
May 9-13 in Memphis. Prelim-
inaries begin the week end of
May 6 with a Cotton Carnival
Regatta at Mcclellan Lake and
Riverside Park. On Tuesday,
May 9, the Carnival officially
opens with the arrival of the
Royal Barge at the foot Of the
Mississippi River bluffs. High
light is the Grand Carnival
Parade on Saturday night,
May Is.
$50
NEW JERSEY-ASbury Park
is preening for its Easter FASH
ion Pageant on the Boardwalk
Sunday afternoon, April Q. The
resort expects 100000 visitors.
An informed previeW of the
Pageant is scheduled for Palm
Sunday, March 26.
VIRGINIA-Histor:c Garden
Week April 1929 will put many
Of, the Old Dominion's private
homes and gardens on public
view. A booklet giving details
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Line Seeks
Lower Fare
To Europe

Seabosrd & Western Air
lines, currently carrying only
cargo. has asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board to let it
carry passengers to Europe for
fares as low as $133 in a
unique cargo-passenger systeH.
Under the arrangement, the
airline would continue to give
priority to cargo. but would
fill whatever space was left
over after cargo loading with
passenger seats.
The seats, three abreast,
would be loaded aboard in the
same manner that cargo is
loaded. No passenger holding
a ticket would be assured of
a seat until six hours before
departure time.
Seaboard said it wants to
put the plan into effect as
soon as it begins flying the
new Canadian prophet CL-44
aircraft. Estimated flying
time for the cargoliner be-
tween New York and London is
eight hours.
In addition to the $133 New
York-London fare, Seaboard
proposes fares Of $137.25 to
Paris and $l45.80 to Frank
furt. Fares to other European
cities would be based on the
same 3.8 cents-per-mile rate.
The current lowest fare to
London-propeller economy -
is $240.
There would be a baggage
allowance of Sc pounds. No
meals would be served.