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Evening star., 1961-08-10
THAT OIL GET UP AND GO
SeIf-Storting Truck
Just Won't Stoy Put

Army sleuths today tried to
solve a "screwball" mystery
created by an empty truck
which persists in starting itself.
The new half-ton vehicle,
locked and parked on a neigh
borhood street in Rockville,
cranked itself up and crashed
into the house of William L,
Rice Of 1907 Bauer drive
around midnight yesterday.
Sergt. James Hartoon, a Fort
Meade soldier who uses the
truck to service Nike installa-
tions, hurried from his home
across the street when he
heard the crash which caused
about $40 damage.
At first, police were leery OF
Sergt. Hartoon's report that the
truck had been locked and
empty when it roved across the
Evening star., 1961-08-10

street. He told them to wait
q few minutes. They waited
less than that before the engine
turned itself on again.
Sergt. Robert Buchta at Fort
Meade, where the truck was
towed for examination yester-
day, said the engine has been
kicking itself on "spasmodi-
cally" ever since.
The Army reasons that a
short in the ignition caused
perhaps by dampness may be
the reason, but no one seemed
certain today.
Montgomery County police
termed the accident "screwball'
and said they prepared a report
of it because 1t is relatively
uncommon for q vehicle to
start ITSELF"
The Army was more terse
Fantastic" it said.
Evening star., 1961-08-10

when Mr.. Hoover was Secretory
Of Commerce. -
The veteran regulation and
licensing authority, in Wash
ington since 1915, presided over
the drafting Of the first fire.
quency assignments for radio
stations in the days when
broadcasting was controlled
largely by gentlemen's agree
ments.
Evening star., 1961-08-10

A speedy robbery suspect
eluded citizens and Washington
police during a wild rush-hour
chase this morning, but finally
was caught.
Detective Jack L. Acree of
the first precinct said the in
|cident began when Mrs. Muletta
G. Ward, 81, a Trans World
Airlines telephone operator, of
|2829 Gainesville street Sc, felt
a tug at her purse on a street.
car at Fourteenth street and
New York avenue NV. She
looked up in time to see q
youth putting her wallet in a
shirt pocket.
"Give me back that wallet" p"
she cried. Police said she
grabbed the suspects arm and
he returned the wallet. Then
Evening star., 1961-08-10
Bill Would Establish
Douglass Memorial


The late Frederick Douglass,
a Negro slave who became q
friend of President Lincoln
and served as District Re-
corder Of Deeds from 1881 to
1889, would be honored by o
memorial authorized to be es-
tablished by legislation intro
duced today in Congress.
Michigan's Democratic SEN
ator Hart and Representative
Diggs sponsored the bill ask
ing that the Douglass home
at 1411 w street Sc. be made
q national historic shrine.
This house has been main-
tanned through voluntary con-
tributions by the National AS
sociation of Colored women's
Clubs headed by DR.. Rosa L.
Gragg Of Detroit, according
to Senator Hart.
Evening star., 1961-08-10
Smithsonian
Asks Clarity
In Zoo Act

A, careful step in the Smith
Sonian Institutions decision to
improve facilities at the Zoo
was taken today.
DR.. lie onard Carmichael,
secretary of the Smithsonian,
asked a House subcommittee on
public buildings to take the
precaution of amending exist
ing legislation to prevent a
possible point of order which
might be raised at some future
date.
DR.. Carmichael pointed out
that Congress has never granted
the Smithsonian specific au-
thorization to undertake CAPT.
tai improvements at the Zoo
He asked that an act of 1890
which placed the direction Of
the Zoo under the Board oi
Regents of the Smithsonian, be
amended so as to nail down
the authorization.
The Smithsonian has decided
to undertake an improvement
program at the Zoo over a pc
riod Of years. It is expected tt
request $3.50, 900 for the Zoo il
fiscal 1868.
In the past, the capital out.
lay program at the Zoo ha!
been included in the District
budget. "a
The Smithsonian decided ir
May to handle capital improve.
ments at the Zoo in its budget
The District, meanwhile, viii be
responsible only for operating
costs.
Mr.. Carmichael's request was
backed by Representative Can
non, Democrat OF Missouri, and
chairman of the House Appro.
priations Committee Mr.. Can
non said the Zoo was sadly in
need" of construction funds.
Evening star., 1961-08-10
District Replacing
20 Tennis Courts


The District is replacing 20
tennis courts in East Potomac
Park with new courts at Six
teenth and Kennedy streets
NV, just off Rock Greek Park
The new courts. costing $780,
305 should be completed by NO
vember 2, a National Capital
Parks spokesman said.
The old ones were lost in con-
struction of approaches to the
new Fourteenth street bridge.
Sixteen other courts lost ir
the same building project were
replaced last year in East Po-
tomac Park.
Evening star., 1961-08-10

to District Court and in 1861
waived 1888 cases. =
The Judge saw merit. on the
other hand, in the House pro.
posal to allow waivers Of ju
veniles charged with misde'
meanors and to handling ir
adult courts youngsters accused
If certain traffic violations.
He referred to the transfer
of the juvenile into the Munic.
lpal Court as the abolition o.
the autonomy of the Juvenile
Court"
Certainly any merger with
the Municipal Court would
|drastically affect the status oi
the hundred loyal and devoted
employees of the Juvenile Court
even those who come down hers
on their vacation" said Judge
Ketcham, in a side reference tc
his legal assistant, Louis Leva-
thes. Mr.. Levathes accompanied
Judge Ketcham to the hearing
although he is on vacation,
The Davis Subcommittee bill
attempts to guarantee Civf
Service protection of Juvenile
Court employees if they are
merged with Municipal Court
employees whose Job security i,
eodified in District law.
Judge Ketcham also sup.
ported in principle another
Hartke bill to establish q juve.
nile rehabilitation center al
Lorton, Va, provided the in.
stitution is separate and dis.
tinct from other correctiona,
facilities.
AS for suggestions sought
by Senator Hartke on pos.
sible public actions to reduce
juvenile delinquency, judge
Ketcham made it clear tha'
Congress should take the ieaC
by establishing a model juye.
nile court here. h,
Evening star., 1961-08-10
Bill to Establish
Gallery Is OKd

The House Administration
Committee has approved a bill
to establish a National Portrait
Gallery in the old Civil Service
Commission Building at Ninth
and F streets NV.
A similar bill has passed the
Senate. "
The bill would permit the
Smithsonian Institution to use
the facilities after the building
is vacated some time next year.
Smithsonian officials have
told Congress the project would
cost approximately $250.000.
Evening star., 1961-08-10
lne
Rambler
. Tours
Golden Strand
By GEORGE KENNEDY

BETHANY BEACH, DEL
From Henlopen Point, a lit
tie north Of Rehoboth, where
the Delaware flows into the
ocean, to Ocean City Inlet is
about 40 miles.
:, A 40-mile strand Of beau
tiful beach gilded by the
August sunshine, a beach
whose gentle descent into
the depths Of the Atlantic
breaks its combers far out, a
beach that is only 12O miles
from Washington, an easy
three-hour drive on the con-
crete highway that is Route
so East.
Yet there are Washington
fans familiar with Florida's
Gold Coast, or Virginia
Beach, or the Jersey shore,
or the frigid waters of Maine,
who have never visited this
Lido right in their own front
yard.
And the Rambler has been
remiss. -Four lost years have
passed since he opened the
season at Rehoboth in June
by plunging into the chilly
surf before breakfast to work
up an appetite.
It's this air conditioned
life that makes us reluctant
to get into a car on a hot
day and drive three hours
to the Atlantic-which is al
ways air conditioned.
p The obvious answer: An
air-conditioned car.
We renewed our intimate
acquaintance with the At
lantic last evening. The
waves were plashy, the Swells
hardly stirred the surface.
The water was stimulating
and invigorating but not
cold.
Evening star., 1961-08-10
JUVENILE
Ketcholn Opposes
Lower Age Limit
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to make this city's Juvenile
Court q model"
Testifying briefly, District
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
avoided taking sides in the
Senate-House differences over
Juvenile Court corrections. He
urged immediate adoption Of a
program to strengthen the court
without specifying the details.
A bill sponsored by District
Committee Chairman Bible,
Democrat Of Nevada, calls for
the appointment of two more
judges. Previously cleared by
the Senate, the proposal has
been blocked in the House.
Numerous community groups
have been pressing for court ex-
pansion for nearly a decade.
Authorizes Two Referees
A bill pushed into the breach
by Senator Hartke authorizing
two referees to assist the court
should not be substituted for
judges, Judge Ketcham said.
But he could envision a new
law allowing referees to help
the court "as deemed neces-
sary,"
Senator Hartke said he well
coined any suggestion for i'm
provement Of his referee bill.
"I introduced it to try to find
some way out Of this wilder
ness" the Senator said.
after 10 years Of trying to
get more Judges, ] believe If we
don't get some action soon, the
Illustration Of the present judge
will be such, that there will be
no hope for something con-
structive." .t-,..5f
Senator Hartke said he knew
some people in the District
wanted two judges or nothing.
II am a very practical man, /"
he added. ITO me, legislation
is not always what we desire.
In seeking perfection, we have
exposed our children for !, 10
years to inadequate treatment
and what we're losing is the
rehabilitation Of children.
Commenting on the contro.
verSial bin drafted by q House
subcommittee headed by Rep
resentative Davis, Democrat Of
Georgia, Judge Ketcharf1 OPP
posed two major provisions,
accepted two minor ones and
pleaded "non-objectivity" on
the overall jurisdictional shift.
Opposes Age Proposal
First, he opposed the reduc.
ton Of the age limit to l6
years on the basis of his expe-
rience on the bench. He said
he was convinced that the
majority of Juveniles referred
to the court between leland IS
years Of age were not beyond
salvage. -
Many Of them are first Of
tenders, lack sophistication, are
not violent, and can benefit
materially from the rehabili-
tation services available within
o Juvenile court setting" Judge
Ketcham testified. ''I do not
want to be a party to any
stigmatization of
every youth over 16 who vio-
lates the law as a criminal
solely on the basis Of his
chronological age"
Second, he said the House
bills recommendations that
the Juvenile Courts authority
to waive jurisdiction to adult
court for juveniles is and over
was unwise. Present law allows
waivers at the age of 16.
Backs Present Setup
II have found this waiver
provision provides the court
with adequate flexibility In
handling older and more ag-
gressive juveniles charged with
felony-type violations" Judge
Ketcham said. In 1860, he
said, he transferred los cases
Evening star., 1961-08-10
Policing Problem
Rises at Library
UndesirubIes,
Drunks Cited
AS Increasing
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

The District Commissioners
were told today that the recent
closing of the public comfort
station at Mount Vernon Square
has created a serious problem
at the city's central library
building there.
Drunks and other undesira-
bles who had been using the
public toilet facilities now are
using the library's rest rooms,
District Librarian Harry N.
Peterson explained.
Mr.. Peterson, along with
other library representatives
and police officials, urged the
Commissioners to reopen the
public comfort station.
Closed Last Month
The city shut down that
station along with the one at
Thirteenth and Pennsylvania
avenues NV. last month as an
economy move. The action was
taken on the recommendation
OF one Of the Commissioners
economy task force groups. The
task force reported that the
closings would save the city
about $4,000 q year.
MFR. Peterson today said that,
If for no other reason, the
central library does not have
the necessary toilet facilities to
serve as a public comfort sta
ton. He added that the library
does not have enough guards
to adequately police the library
now that the public toilet
facilities have closed.
MIR. Peterson said vandalism
and indecent acts are being
committed not only in the L.
brary's rest rooms but in other
parts Of the building and
grounds.
Mr.. Peterson told the COM
missioners that a major point
is that children who patronize
the library now will be coming
in contact with perverts, drug
users and alcoholics, =
Heavy Arrest Rate
Police officials presented sta
tistics showing that the area
produces a heavy arrest rate.
Deputy Police Chief Howard v.
Covell told the Commissioners:
ITS a terrible neighborhood,
there is no question of that"
Commissioner John B. Dun
can said it would be a difficult
task for police or guards to at
tempt to screen out undeSir-
ables. 3
Com m is sio n er Walter N.
Tobriner questioned whether re-
opening Of the comfort station
would have any real benefit.
This would simply switch the
scene" Of undesirable activ-
tiles, Mr.. Tobriner said.
In response to a comment by
Chief Covell that police are
doing everything possible to
maintain order in that area, Mr..
Tobriner said that:
Then the problem shouldn't
exist"
The Commissioner added: "It
seems to me that is a confession
of police inadequacy."
Problem Of Repeaters
To this, Chief Covell said
that efforts would be intensi-
fled. Police officials pointed
out. however, that a high per-
centage of those arrested are
repeaters. so that as soon as
they serve a short term for
drunkenness, or some other Of
fense, they return to the library
area.
Robert w. Atwood, pl esident
of the Board of Library Trus-
tees, said that it simply is not
the function of the central
library to operate a comfort
station. 3. M. McKelway, q
member of the board of tius-
tees, and editor of The Star,
said, in effect, that the budget
savings would not seem suffi-
cient to Justify the problems at
the library stemming from the
comfort stations closing. r.
Evening star., 1961-08-10

eff TT WASN'T for the
Pennsylvania Dutch, we
wouldn't be in business" said
one of the captains. "They
love to. fish"
The fishing has been dis
appointing this year. The
Rambler was asked If it was
the same on the bay. He had
to say yes.
"They say it's because the
water stayed cold through
the spring." said the captain,
II dunno"
The Fenwick Island light,
a white masonry tower, still
beams its flashes to marin
ers. CoaStwiSe shipping
passes very close here.
The light at Henlopen
Point toppled in 1925, a VIC
tim of the ocean cutting the
land away. It is memorial
lied in a mural behind the
bar of the Hotel Henlopen.
The name comes from a
Dutch village and is a re-
n1inder that the Dutch were
the first to settle here.
These lights are not as i'm
portant to mariners in this
day of radar and loran. But
they are kept by the Light
House Service, a part of the
Coast Guard. Every signal
contributes to safety.
Bethany, named for Beth
any, w. Va, where the Rev.
Alexander Campbell founded
the Christian Church dis
ciples), has multiplied its
cottages in recent years. It
started as a resort for men,
hers of that church. The old
octoganal frame tabernacle
still stands but Bethany
Beach today is more secular
than sectarian.
Along this stretch of beach
the cottages bake in the
MONDAY sun. But south of
Bethany a patch Of pine
woods stands behind the
dunes. 1t does not seem to be
developed. That might be a
good place to build.
Evening star., 1961-08-10
New Library Building

The new building of the
Cherrydale Library at 2150
North Military road, Arlington,
will open at 8 am. Monday. A
formal dedication ceremony
will be held late In September. (.
Evening star., 1961-08-10
Senate Gets
Bill 10 Move
Freedmen's S
Approval Expected
After House Posses
Measure, 32l-6l

Freedmen's Hospital. fire.
quently described as a dump"
and plagued by the joint
direction of the Federal Gov
ernment and q private insti-
tuition, today seemed on the
brink Of becoming q major
contributor to the advance of
local medicine.
After a long, hard fight of
more than five years, the House
yesterday passed and sent to
the Senate q bill which author
ICES the transfer of the hospi-
tai to Howard University. The
vote was 321 to 81.
Passage also is expected in
the Senate. Senator Humphrey,
Democrat Of Minnesota, has
introduced a similar bill, to be
screened by the Senate, Edu-
cation and Labor Committee.
The transfer was recon-
mended by a special study COM
mission set up in 1855 under
former Health, Education and
Welfare Secretary Oyeta Culp
Hobby. The commission rec
commended that to assure hospi-
tai discipline, effective CO.
ordination and control of good
business management, the hos
pitfalls ownership and SUPER
vision should be vested in
Howard.
Baked By Employees
But the Federal employees OF
the hospital objected to the
transfer, largely on the grounds
they would lose their civil serv-
ice benefits. Their argument
impressed members Of Congress
and the transfer never took
place.
This year, however, Repre-.
sentative Green, Democrat oi
Oregon, was convinced Federal
employees would lose little in
the transfer, guided the bill
through the House Education
Committee and saw it pass the
House yesterday.
In yesterdays House debate
on the bill, Mrs. Green assured
members that hospital en-
ployes would not have their
salaries reduced, they would
continue their Civil Service re-
tirement programs and they
would retain seniority rights
now enjoyed with service to
the hospital. =
-. 81 N-rf 90 - rag Fsass
Authorizes New Hospital
Even frugal Representative
Gross. Republican of Iowa, had
no objection to the bill, which
authorizes q new 500-bed hos
pital to replace facilities most
recently described by Welfare
Secretary Ribicoff as in the
dump" category.
AS Mrs. Green pointed out
yesterday, Freedmen's is the
only community hospital oper-
ated by the Federal Govern
ment.
This came about as a result
Of q flood Of freed slaves who
arrived in Washington shortly
after the Civil War. Its pur-
pose at that time was to care
for sick and destitute Negroes.
Since that time, its control
has passed among the old War
Department, the Interior De-
partment, the District Govern
ment, the Federal Security
Agency and finally the Depart
ment of HEW.
As Mrs. Green put It yester-
day, the bill gives the Govern
ment an opportunity to get out
Of the business Of operating
what was largely a private hos
pital.
She denied the assertion by
Representative Quie, Republic
an of Minnesota that the sole
purpose of the bill was to free
the Federal Government from
the embarrassment Of operat-
ing a segregated hospital for
Negroes.
Mrs. Green said the hospital
is not segregated and that II
needs new facilities desperate
ly.
Evening star., 1961-08-10

LATER WE MOTORED
down the shore road to
Ocean City, stopping on the
way to ask questions and for
closer observation. .--.
There's much tenting to-
night among the dunes in
.Delaware'S ocean-front State
park. Four years ago there
was only a tent village. Now
it is becoming a tent city.
The superintendent esti-
mates that 1000 persons
sleep under canvas in the
park on an August Saturday
night and 500 more in the
trailer park.
The rates are the same for
tent or trailer-$2 q night,
$12 a week and $40 a month.
Before most of the tenters
were from Wilmington, Del.
This time the superintendent
said:
'Most Of them are from a
town in Maryland called Sill
yer Spring. IT'S near Wash
ington."
Delaware had the good
sense to acquire several miles
of ocean front for her peo-
pie. Maryland let most of her
one great undeveloped shore,
18-mile long Assateague Is
land, 60 to a real estate pro-
moter, who sold 1t off in
small lots. Few have been
built on because he did not
build a bridge.
There is a boat marina at
Indian River Inlet, half way
down the strand. Charter
boats go out and stand over
nearby wrecks while the Gus
toners pull up porgies.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-12-19
GOAL-GETTER

NEW YORK CUPID - Bill
Cook was the New York Rang
ers top goal-getter each year
from 1928 to 1884.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-12-19

TOzES, also at River Bowl,
Spring Sports team rolled a
whopping 681 in the University
scratch league.
Back to Fairlanes University
Red Blaylock of the Silver
Sports team rolled a whopping
681 in the University scratch
league.
At Congressional little Bobby
Densford hit for a 682-actually
Bobby should have had a 700,
but he choked up in the last
frame of the last game.
In the ladies MWBOA Travel
ing League, Amy Scheidt of Ten
Pin Coliseum still is way out
front in average with a 1856. Her
team is also way out - 71a
games ahead of runner-up Fair
Lanes Virginia and Congress.
sional Plaza.
The area tenpin bowlers will
be busy during the holidays.
The Second Annual MWBPA
Mixed Holiday Championship is
scheduled for December 26th
thru December 30th.
Because of the tremendous
growth in tenpins and heighten-
ed interest in tournament com.
petition, the tenpin department
has adopted formal changes for
this years event. Sixty-two
teams will qualify and will be
Joined by Defending Champions
Dot Wiebe, George Engstrom
and last years runner.up Bob
Anger and Marilyn Kuster.
The teams will be paired by
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-12-19
Wheaton Plays Mackin After WI Win
In Prestige Game For County Loop
knights Again
In Fast Play
After Upset
By George Bragaw
Sports Editor

Ray Fox's Wheaton five,
fresh from a 1858 upset of
Walter johnson, is again in
fast company this afternoon
as the Knights play host to
Mackin at 4 pm.
While Mackin is not one of
the top roundball powers of the
metropolitan area, the school is
headed in that direction and
plays all the top area teams.
Prestige of the Montgomery
County League will be riding on
the game and if the Knights
can get by Mackin and all its
height it might give the Whea-
ton boys the confidence they
need to show Blair tougher
front the next time around.
Downtown papers have
already intimated that Blair
looks like something of a shoo-
in for the title after only TAX
ing to the court three times.
Wheaton, who had the Blazers
nine points down before losing,
57-46, has been the only team to
give Blair any trouble thus far.
After the Knights win over
Walter Johnson, a preseason
contender, it looks as if the
Wheaton club is to be reckoned
with despite a lukewarm sea-
son prophecy by Coach Fox.
Defense, said Fox, might be
the Knights undoing. The de-
tense folded in the final quarter
in the loss to Blair, but last Fri
days win over the Green was
of the come.from-behind variety
and the defense was strong
when it had to be.
Dick Wilmer with % points,
Pat Crawley with 16 and Kary
Kelpy with Is led the Knights
in overhauling the Spartans.
WI had a 1923 lead just before
halftime when Wheaton went
into a press and scored eight
points in less than so seconds to
gain a 31-31 halftime tie.
Walter Johnson had four
players in double figures led by
Dave Yates IS points. Steve
Nelson had II, Buddy Borror,
10, and Dean Fitzpatrick, ID.
Bob lombard, a second team
All-County selection in basket
ball last season, limited Bobo
Berger to IL points as Good
Counsel won its second straight.
54-33, over Landon. The Fall
cons had beaten Richard Mont
gomery, 56-39, In the first game
of the season.
lombard himself was limited
to seven points but Steve Will
hanson along with Bob Rush
more picked up the slack with
IL and IL points each.
The Falcons tackle Catholic
University Junior Varsity to.
night at 6.
Walter Johnson entertains
Wilson this afternoon while
Blair is idle. No Montgomery
County Conference games are
scheduled.