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Evening star., 1961-12-15

AT THE END of the dem
onstration-pigeons had been
taught to circle and to fight
and to wait 10 seconds before
pecking the disk for food,
and a child had been taught
to identify simple words
Charles CollingWood asked:
Does not this indicate, DR..
Skinner, that man, like ami
mails, is controlled by his
environment; that he has no
more free will than a mole
cule?"
DR.. SINNERS answer was
something to the effect that
this seems to be the goal we
are approaching"
So free will, the liberum
aritrium of the schoolmen, is
under attack again.
Does man possess moral
freedom-the power of real
choice to mould his own
character?
Are the noble qualities
generosity, kindness, charity
-environmental ph e n o M
epa?
In the days of the theolo-
gians, st. Augustine, e, st.
Thomas AquinaS, Luther and
Calvin, it was the develop
ment of Gods omniScience
that led to argument over
free will.
God knew all, past, present
and future. There was still
room in this future. which
God knew, for men to choose
between good and evil, said
the Schoolmen. The future
was predetermined, said the
reformerS.
Now free will is being
denied in the development
of the omniscience of science.
Evening star., 1961-12-15

clerks, two accounting clerks,
three payroll clerks, three typ
lists, one telephone operator,
one property and supply clerk,
one messenger, two clerks for
registration and files and "a
debating machine transcribers.
He bases his estimates on a
demonstration project on ADO
families conducted in the Dis
trict from February !, 1858,
to March 81, 1854.
Three workers, selected for
training, experience and skill,
were given, monthly caseloads
averaging 62 each.
In all, 24O families were in
volved.
According to the project re-
port, the status of 141 families
was improved.
Project Helped
There was general agree
ment that the project
strengthened and supported the
primary purpose of ADO,
namely, to enable children to
have the same opportunity
as children fully supported by
their parents to develop into
useful citizens" the report
states.
Attempts were made to put
this specialized approach into
general practice, but relief rolls
began to rise so rapidly it had
to be abandoned
There are now 1895 public
assistance cases in the District,
involving 33,7l6 persons. ADO
cases total 5,607, involving
25,932 persons, about three
fourths of them children.
Evening star., 1961-12-15
D. G. Reversal Gives
Rosenberg His Permit

trict's Board Of Appeals and
Review and we intend to DO so
as soon as we receive the
boards ruling in writing"
License Good to February %
Mr.. Ilgenfritz would not
comment on why the depart
ment had changed its mind.
He said he expects to receive
the written ruling later today.
The license Mr.. Rosenberg
has won permits him to sell
cars until february 28. 1862,
when that licensing year ex-
pires. He will then have to
reapply to the Licensing De-
partment for next years
license. The board turned down
his request for a dealers
license last summer.
Today's decision by licensing
officials marks the end of the
case which was the center of
spectacular board hearings last
August. During the hearings
Chairman Mcmillan of the
House District Committee was
accused by Appeals and Review
Board Chairman Frederick j.
Haller of interfering in the
Rosenberg matter.
Bribery Charged
Then, during hearings. Mr..
Rosenberg leveled charges ac-
cusing a licensing official of
taking bribes. A police probe
cleared the official Of the
charge.
Mr.. Rosenberg since last
June has worked as a salesman
at Nationwide Auto Sales,
Twelfth and K streets NV, on
a temporary permit.
Evening star., 1961-12-15
u. S. Insists
On Highway
ProjectsHere

The Federal Budget Bureau
has rejected a request by the
National Capital Transporta-
ton Agency chief to kill Dis
trict spending requests for two
major highway projects.
The Budget Bureau instead
backed city highway officials
on their spending proposals for
the Three Sisters Island bridge
and a huge Inner Loop inter-
change in Southeast Washing
ton.
This decision. reported by
top officials involved in the
controversy, means that the
city's proposed budget items
will be included in the Districts
total recommended spending
program when it is submitted
to Congress next month by the
White House.
Conference Held Monday
The Federal bureaus posi-
ton on the two disputed con-
struction projects repeatedly
was made clear at a confer
ence last Monday. Present at
the session were C. Darwin
Stolzenbach. administrator of
the National Transportation
Agency; District Commission
ers Walter N. Tobriner and
Brig. Gen. Frederick J. Clarke:
Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, chairman
of the National Capital Plan
ming Commission, and Phillip
S. Hughes, a Budget Bureau
official.
During a recent debate be-
fore the planning commission
on the city'S work on the pro-
posed Inner Loop freeway sys-
tenn, Mr.. StolZenbach had called
for a year-long delay on the
Three Sisters Island bridge and
the interchange C projects.
This propose interchange
would connect the south and
east legs of the loop. The pro-
posed bridge would span the
Potomac River Just upstream
from Key Bridge.
Views at Variance
Later, Mr.. Stolzenbach had
indicated that he would take
his fight for a delay to the
Federal Budget Bureau.
Mr.. Stolzenbach's basic argu-
ment was that the delay would
enable his agency to develop a
detailed transportation plan
before a commitment is made
to move ahead on the two high
way projects. The counter ar
gument from city highway Of
ficials is that there is a clear
need for the two projects. and
that Mr.. Stolzenbach's study
will not produce anything
major in the way of new in
formation.
The Districts propos d
budget for the fiscal year be-
ginning next July l includes
items for both planning and
construction of the bridge and
an item for construction of the
Interchange C.
Evening star., 1961-12-15
BY WALTER GOLD
Star staff Writer

A veteran Army sergeant is
in critical condition today at
the Walter Reed Army Medical
Center with head wounds suf-
fered in a gun battle with
Takoma Park, Md, police.
Sergt. l/c Henry D. Stahl, 33
a medical technician at Walter
Reeds Forest Glen, Md, Sec
ton, underwent surgery last
night for wounds inflicted by a
shotgun blast which struck him
in the head and ended the siege
of his home.
The battle began shortly
before l pm. yesterday when
two Takoma Park police
men, Pvts. John w. Saunders
and Kenneth Stafford, went to
the Stahl home at 7101 Wood
land avenue to serve an assault
and battery warrant, sworn by
Sergt. Stahl's wife against him
1t ended l hour and 5 minutes
later with Sergt. Stahl lying
unconscious as police closed in
after an exchange of 10 shots.
Chief Fired Shotgun
Police Chief Samuel A. Fos-
ter said he fired a blast with
a .l2-sauge shotgun which ap-
parently hit Sergt. Stahl after
police used persuasion and then
tear gas in an effort to get
the man to surrender. He said
one of five shots fired al
police by Sergt. Stahl singed
his ear, but did not break the
skin.
The sergeant's sons, Randy
4, and Ronnie. 3, aimed toy
guns out of the windows at
police from time to time dur.
ing the gun fight. apparently
under the impression their
father was playing a game
Chief Foster said he and his
men had to use extreme eau.
ton to avoid hitting the chill
dren.
Chief Foster said the wounded
soldier will face the original
assault charge upon recovery
as we'll as other possible
charges being prepared in con-
nection with the shooting.
The veteran of IS years
Army service and his wife have
Evening star., 1961-12-15

stressed the Importance OF
services in announcing 10 ad-
ministrative changes in Federal
relief rules Monday. He en-
phasized programs that promote
rehabilitation and a family
centered approach, and give
children adequate protection
and a maximum opportunity to
become responsible citizens.
Goals for welfare for the
1960s, Mr.. Ribicoff said, are to
eliminate whatever abuses have
crept in, and to develop more
constructive approaches to get
people off assistance and into
useful roles in society.
Would Top 81 Million
The new Federal regulations
require visits every thre e
months for most families re-
ceiving aid TO dependent chill
dren support. Because workers
carry such heavy caseloads
here about 1875 cases each
ZONES can be visited only once
2 year, Mr.. Shea said. The ex-
panded program would reduce
caseloadS to so per worker.
4 The total cost would be
S1,029,000. with the balance
made up in Federal matching
money.
Mr.. Shea breaks down the
staff needed this way: OF the
143, there would be 81 profess
sional workers. They would in
clude 78 caseworkers, two Sec
ton chiefs and II supervisors
In addition, there would be
So persons as "supportive
staff:
Eleven unit clerks, two ste
nographers, two administrative
Evening star., 1961-12-15
The
Rambler
Takes Issue
With Psychologists
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Why, at this weeks end, he
should be quarreling with an
educational film as he walks
from point to point in his
daily orbit, the Rambler
finds hard to understand.
That's what he's been doing.
The film was an enter
tainment item at the confer
ence of the computer people
at the Sheraton-Park. Be-
cause the reading of impor-
tant papers on programming
for the giant computers that
act, If not think, much faster
than human beings, tends to
become rather heavy fare,
the committee on arrange
mentS scheduled an optional
afternoon session of movies.
The one that got the Ram
bier into a peripatetic de-
bate was a demonstration of
applied psychology at Har-
ward. Charles Collingwood,
the news commentator, was
interviewing DR.. B. F. Skin
ner, as that noted pSychol-
ogiSt demonstrated what he
could do with pigeons.
BY reWarding or "reinforc-
ing" them with immediate
availability of food when
they did what he wanted, DR..
Skinner showed that pigeons
can learn very fast. 1t did
not take many instances of
trial and error for a pigeon
to learn that pecking a shiny
disk with a zero on it was
futile, but that pecking one
with a cross on it paid off.
Evening star., 1961-12-15
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
PIT 1O9' Series Begins
In The Star This Sunday

TKUE-LlFE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES this Sunday The
Star Will publish the first of 49, part illustrated
series, entitled "PT 109" the story of John F. Ken
nedy in World War H. For vivid factually detailed
reconstruction of six months in the life of our
President when he Naval lieutenant read
PIT 1O9".
HAVE FUN AND KEEP Filth This Week Magazine
Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy tells how the Attorney
Generals family lives and plays; John E. Gibson
reveals What You Don't Know About Dreams; and
Governor Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico explains
how I'VE Can Save Latin America from Castro"
AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS-If you believe that
the observance of Christmas has lost some of its
old-tme flavor you will enjoy visiting with the Blair
Lee family of nearby Montgomery County to see how
they celebrate their tradition filled holiday The full
word and picture story appears in SUNDAY, The
Star Magazine
FOR TV FANS-Lovely Gwen Verdon who will be seen
on the Garry Moore show next Tuesday is the sub
ject of this Sundays story in TV Magazine
which each week brings you television listngs
and more pages of color.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-12-15
Shea Says Welfare
Must Hire 743 to
Meet u. S. Rules
Drive to RehubiIitote Families
Seen Costing District $630,000
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The District would have to spend $63O0oO for 143
workers provide the services children relief that
Federal regulations stress
Gerard NJ Shea welfare director says 78 would di-
rectly with families to help solve their problems
toward rehabilitation and independence.
Secretary Of Health Education and Welfare Ribcoff
Evening star., 1961-12-15
UNDERSTAND 1T this

AS UNDERSTAND 1T this
whole business of objective
or applied psychology was
started in the 1905 by Ivan
Petrovitch Pavlov, a Russian
physiologiSt. He showed that
a dogs refleXes could be
conditioned; that a dog, fed
again and again, after the
ringing of a bell, would sail
Vate at the sound of the bell.
So an animal could be
made to share a human eX-
perience-the dinner bell.
At Harvard they are ap-
plying the education method
found successful with pi-
geons on human beings, chill
dren and adults.
After the demonstrations
with the pigeons were COM
pleted a pretty little girl of
5 or 6 was shown operating
a machine with the same
symbols. There were three
tracks unwinding before her.
Each one had an TX" or 90"
The one in the center was
the one to be identified.
There were three knobs to
press which had changing
symbols. If there was an *"
in the center of the unwind
ing rolls and she pressed the
knob with an *" on it, the
machine unrolled and she
could play again. That was
her reinforcement.
Pretty soon instead of
symbols there were pictures
with words below them.
There was a picture of a dog
in the center with dog
below it. One of the knobs
showed those same letters,
If she pressed that, the ma
chine went on showing pic
lures of cats or COWS. She
was learning to read.
AS l said she seemed to be
5 or 6 and she was left
handed although I doubt
that makes any difference.
But an infant of 2 could be
trained to identify simple
words with that machine.
Evening star., 1961-12-15

Pvt, Stafford raced 70 the po-
lice car and radioed a Sigma
l3' policeman-in-trouble call.
The two MPs and Mrs. Stahl
also climbed out of the military
car and hid behind the We
hicle.
Street Blocked Off
Pvt. Saunders yelled for
Sergt. Stahl to give up and
come out of the house. Mean
while. reinforcements arrived.
The normally quiet suburban
street was blocked off, curious
paSsersby and neighbors were
herded to a safe distance. Chief
Foster dispersed his men
around the house. With him
by this time were Pvts. ROLAND
L. Edwards. Russell S. Merson,
jr.; Detective Sergt. William
T. Lane. Pvt. John r. Nc
Gathey and two Montgomery
County officers.
Chief Foster took up a posi-
ton on the porch of a house
next door and yelled through a
megGphone:
Come out of the rouse! We
want to talk to you!"
mo, no." Sergt. Stahl shouted
back. Il want to see my chap
lain"
Chief Foster sent for a chap
lain from the post. In about
80 minutes, Protestant chap
lain, 1t. Col. Walter G. Mcleod
arrived and began pleading
with the sergeant to give him
self up.
Asked for Wife
He said Sergt. Stahl re-
peatedly asked for his wife and
said the soldier promised, Il
won't hurt you"
However, the chaplain said
Sergt. Stahl's eyes looked
glazed and he brandiShed the
rifle before the talking stopped
and the shooting started.
Sergt. Lane fired a tear gas
shell through a rear window
of the house but Sergt. Stahl
hurled the smoking shell out
into the back yard.
A blaze of fire then erupted
from both sides. Chief Foster
fired twice with his shotgun.
the second blast apparently be-
ing the one which felled Sergt.
Stahl.
When the police Gordon heard
the falling body inside the
house, Chief Foster said they
closed in on the house and
kicked open the wooden front
door. They found the sergeant
lying on the floor. He was
still holding a rifle in which
there was a nine-Shot clip con-
tanning four shells.
Children With Mother
The children, crying, Daddy.
Daddy" were taken by Mrs.
Stahl who remained at the
hospital late last night but
could not be located by report
ers today.
Sergt. Stahl is a native of
Monroe, Greg, the Army said.
He was assigned to duty be-
tween II pm. and 7 am. at
Forest Glen and held an out
side job as evening manager
at the Coop Service Station,
5000 New Hampshire avenue,
Takoma Park.
Police were not able to de-
termine what prompted the in
cident. The Army said Sergt.
Stahl was not undergoing any
mental treatment. A fellow
worker at the filling station
said he seemed to be "a nice
guy"
An Army source also said it
was understood the sergeant
also held a second civilian job
but did not know what it was.
Reporters were told the
Stahls had quarreled the night
before the shooting and that
Sergt. Stahl, who was not
known to own a gun, went out
yesterday morning and re-
turned with q long Uranped
Evening star., 1961-04-16
King Arrested
By-King

James H. King arrested
James H. King yesterday. And
that's no typographical error.
Twelfth Precinct Private
James H. (for Henry King,
80. stopped a truck yesterday
for a routine traffic viilation.
When James H. (for Henry
discovered the truck, which
contained potatoes, had been
reported missing from the front
of 1892 Fifth street NE, he
arrested the four occupants
and charged them with un-
authorized use of the truck and
grand larceny.
When time come to fill out
the papers. one of those ar
rested identified himself as
James H. (for HaroldD King,
38. of the 1900 block Of Ken
yon street NV.
It's not hard to tell them
apart. James H. (for Henry is
the one who's smiling.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
I'd Hearing Set
On Naming Of
Holmes as Envoy
BY the Associated Press

The Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee has scheduled
for Thursday a second hear
ing on Julius c. Holmes con-
tested nomination as Ambas-
Sador to Iran.
Senator Williams, Republi-
can of Delaware, said he would
make an all-out-fight in an
effort to prevent confirmation
of Mr.. Holmes, a long time
foreign service officer.
At public hearings Monday
Senator Williams questioned
Mr.. Holmes on his role in the
purchase of eight surplus
tanker ships from the Mari
time Commission more than a
decade ago. The ships were
then chartered and later sold
at large profits to Greek and
Nationalist Chinese dominated
companies.
Mr.. Holmes, associated in
the tanker purchase with
among others, Joseph E. Casey
former Democratic Reresenta-
tive from Massachusetts,, said
he did nothing wrong"
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Gallery Official
ToGiVe Lecture

Henri Dora, assistant direc-
tor Of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, will lecture on "The Amer
ican Muse" at $40 pm. Thurs
day at the gallery.
Several years ago Mr.. Dora
organized an exhibit on THE
American Muse" which showed
the characteristic trends run
ming through literature and
painting in America. Mr.. Dora
will discuss these trends Thurs
day.
During the summer he will
give the lecture in London,
Paris, Germany, Italy and
Greece under the sponsorship
of the State Department.
The lecture is open to gal
lery members and their guests
Evening star., 1961-04-16

Jewish Social Service Agency,
The Washington Self Help Ex-
change and other organiza-
tionS.
Mrs. Goldsmith'S son. Ralph,
a recently retired president Of
Lansburgh's, and her daughter,
Mrs. William Thalheimer of
Richmond, Va, have also fol-
lowed their mother in char
liable work.
Mrs. Goldsmith, who fixes her
hair herself but goes to the
beauty parlor, "Oh for a mani
cure now and then" is always
fashionably dressed, quick and
so alert she makes everyone
around her feel lazy.
Active Fund Raiser
She has countless times
called on friends and acquaint-
ances to raise funds for the
Hebrew Home for the Aged,
United Jewish Appeal, United
tGivers Fund, Jewish Social
Service Agency. Jewish Com
munity Center Day Camp, etc,
They always give. They are
very responsive" says the per-
suasive Mrs. Goldsmith.
Tonight at $50 pm. more
than 1000 of these friends will
honor her with a 18th annual
birthday party at the Sheraton
Park Hotel.
They're two days early
they're rushing it." says Mrs
Goldsmith.
They will read a telegram OF
best wishes sent by President
Kennedy. Her friend, Meyer
Davis, has donated his time
and orchestra to play for the
party.
/ And, as is typical Of Mrs
Goldsmith. it will be a fund
raising party with proceeds 60
ing to the Esther Sonneborn
Nursing Fund, Hebrew Home
for the Aged.
Evening star., 1961-04-16

a well-manicured hand and
"Oh that's not important"
Is Only 80 Years Old
Mrs Goldsmith thinks always
of her work and the future:
I'm only 80 I've got 80
years more work to do"
She looks a good 25 years
younger than she is and still
goes to many meetings of the
organizations she supports. She
still gets scraps Of cloth and
material from department
stores to make doll clothes for
dolls she donates to the Red
Cross and crochets afghans for
the Hebrew Home for the Aged.
Touching one of the beauti-
fully hand-sewa doll dresses,
Mrs. Goldsmith said, Look at
this awful winter? What would
I have done If I didn't sew;
twiddle my thumbs?"
She began sewing "as a very
young girl when I sewed babies
clothes for st. Aloysius Church
Married at 16
Mrs. Goldsmith was only 16
when she organized city-wide
collection Of funds. food and
clothing for the victims Of the
Johnstown, Pa. flood.
One of the oldest of nine
children, Mrs. Goldsmith never
finished high school. Il had tc
stay home and help with the
babies"
She married her husband
Charles, before she was twenty
raised two children, five grand
children, and IA great grand
children and still kept up hel
work.
Until his death in 1914, hel
husband. a former vice-presi-
dent of Lansburgh and Bro. de-
partment store, worked with
his wife. helping her to found
the Community Chest, the
Evening star., 1961-04-16
DR.. Leese to Lecture

DR.. Chester Leese of the
George Washington Medical
School will present a series of
lectures on neurophySiology at
7 pm. Monday through Thurs
day in the preview room of the
Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center. The lee
lures are sponsored by the Dis
trict Occupational Therapy and
Physical Therapy Associations.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
HHFA Transit
Plans Worry
Highway Aides

Federal highway officials are
concerned about features Of a
mass urban transportation bill
that would provide the Housing
and Home Finance Agency $75
million for transit planning.
They fear that the HHFA
might be given principal control
of planning for highways and
other mass transit facilities in
urban areas.
The bill in question is spon-
sored by Senator Williams,
Democrat of New Jersey, and
provides for an additional $3.50
million revolving loan fund to
develop mass transit facilities.
Loan Fund Backed
Officials of the Commerce
Department and Bureau OF
Public Roads emphasize they
are not opposed to the loan
fund aspects of the bill.
They say, however, that the
planning funds, which the
HHFA would give out as grants
to metropolitan areas, could re-
suit in highway planners "be-
ing left out in the cold"
Federal road officials deal
directly with state highway
agencies on road programs.
The principal road program
now underway is the 41,000-
mile interstate highway system
which will eventually link every
major metropolitan area in the
country.
I'VE want to be sure that
interstate highway construc-
ton is coordinated with urbar
transit plans" emphasized one
Bureau of Public Roads official
But we don't want to find that
other agencies are making
highway plans without our be,
ing in on them"
Coordination Issue
Coordination between urbar
renewal and highway planner'
has been a goal that some Fed
eral officials feel is gradually
being reached.
A Joint steering committee fol
urban planning has been es
tablished by Commerce De.
! partment and HHFA officials
and regional meetings are nov
underway providing closer CO
: ordination.
If the Williams bill, which
; has the support Of eight Dem
; ocrats and five Republicans
would recognize the Commerce
Departments role in highwa!
; and transit planning. it woulC
| remedy much of the objection
: to it, one official said.
Meanwhile, bill is expected
to be sent by the White Houso
to Congress tomorrow concern
ing urban affairs.
A special message may go tt
; Congress from the White Housr
later concerning urban trans
portation. A special study groul
has been exploring the prob
lens for the past several week
and a preliminary report wa
to be submitted to the Whit
House this weekend.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Smith College Gets
$6 Million in Gifts

Gifts totaling Sc million
have been received by Smith
College in a 13-month develop
ment fund campaign.
The college, in Northampton,
Evening star., 1961-04-16

Mass, is seeking $40 million in
endowment and building G
funds by June, 1862. Mrs. Fred
erick B. Lee of Mclean is
Evening star., 1961-04-16

chairman for the area cam
paign.
District area gifts thus far
total $109,012.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Mrs. Goldsmith, at 90,
Sees 30 Years Ahead

Nostalgia is not for Minnie Goldsmith who will be
80 Tuesday.
This woman who has done much for Washington
organizations avoids talk Of the past almost
much as she does the first person singular pronoun.
off the past and personal questions with