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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-15
Bus Didn't Stop,
Neither Did Nan

WOOD (AP).-
Nan Martin, Broadway &C
tress. has been deluged with
movie offers since the New
York bound "A Short Happy
Life" opened here at the
Huntington Hartford Thea
ter.
It's a play based on Ernest
Evening star., 1961-12-02
SOLDIER KILLED
ON EXPRESSWAY

A Fort Meade soldier was
fatally injured early today
when the car he was driving
went out of control on the
Baltimore Washington Express
way, threw him out of the
vehicle. then overturned on
him.
State Police at Laurel said
Spa John K. Daley, 25, of
Pennington. Conn. was dead
on arrival at University Hospi-
tai in Baltimore.
Mr.. Daley was travelling
south on the expressway near
its intersection with the Capt.
tai beltway at about 2::30 am.
when he lost control of the car,
police said,
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Welfare Study Unit Called Victim
Of Porkinson's MAKE Work. Law

obligated to report to the or
ganization. and is bound by
its decisions, he said.
Mr.. Gable told a reporter
after the meeting his organiza-
ton wants to have a voice in
the committee.
Not one of the $4,000 men,
bers of the citizens associations
is opposed to welfare as such,
but we are opposed to any well
fare program not related to re-
habilitation," he said.
Mr.. Duncan set up the COM
mittee as part of his efforts to
develop a new approach to
Washington's welfare problems
in the wake of criticism of pos
Sible free leaders on the rolls
by Senator Byrd. Democrat of
West Virginia, and a congress
sional cut in the Welfare De-
partment budget for fiscal 1862.
Senator Byrd has called for
communicative support of Mr..
Duncan in his plan to find ways
to help recipients become self
supporting and to rid the re-
lief rolls of possible violators.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Planning to BePo|itico|
Key Issue, Citizens Told

in the National Capital region.
Warren Jay Vinton, Mayor of
Somerset and outgoing president
of the association, said that
three area master plans recent
ly completed by the M-NCPPC
do not agree with the objectives
Of the plan for the year 1000,
Mr.. Vinton predicted that
planning would be the most
important issue before the elec-
torate when it goes to the polls
next year.
William L. Slayton, commits
sioner of the Urban Renewal
Administration, advised the ad-
vance purchase of land for
both future development and
open space areas.
Ramsay Wood, an economist
for the Federal Reserve Board,
was elected president succeed
ing Mr.. Vinton. who will be a
member of the board of COVER
nors. Mrs. Mary T. Vinton
was elected vice president.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Streetcur
Shutdown
Goal Set

D. C. Transit wants to end
all streetcar operations here by
June II. Two of the four re-
manning streetcar lines make
their final runs shortly after
midnight tonight.
The two routes about to
switch to bus operations are
the Mount Pleasant and Elev-
enth street car lines. This leaves
only the Fourteenth street and
U street trolley routes and
transit company officials are
asking that these be converted
to bus operations by June.
The request has gone to the
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission which will
make a study of the company'S
petition before ruling on the
matter.
Several months ago, the Dis
trict Public Utilities Commis-
sion had ordered that D. C.
Transit's four remaining street.
car lines be converted to bus
operation by June 2.
At that time the P. U. c..
stipulated that the company
must purchase 165 new air
conditioned buses.
When the newly established
transit commission. which took
over regulation of area transit
operations, approved CONVEX
sion of the Mount Pleasant and
Eleventh street lines, it re-
quired the company to buy rs
new buses. These are expected
to be delivered later this
month.
/ 1t is expected that the transit
commission will require pur-
chase of new air-conditioned
equipment if it approves con-
version of the last two street.
car lines.
Evening star., 1961-12-02

Planning will become in
creasingly important for or
derly development in the near
future but also looms as a
major political issue in next
years election, the Montgom-
cry County Citizens Planning
Association was told last night.
Three speakers at the groups
annual meeting emphasized the
Importance of a general land
plan to guide future develop
ment and a network of trans
portation facilities. A land plan
for the year 1000 will be un-
yelled Friday by the Maryland
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission,
G. Darwin StolZenbach. ad-
ministrator of the National
Capital Transportation Agency,
called for an appropriate bal
ance between public and pri-
vate transportation, CO ordi-
mated with land use decisions
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Budget Requests
In Maryland Rise
To $230.9 Million

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2 CAP) -
The budget requests of l40
State agencies for fiscal 1868
total S230.9 million, compared
with S1979 million the same
agencies were appropriated for
the current year.
Ten departments have not
submitted their proposed spend
ing programs to the State De-
partment of Budget and Pro-
curement.
Among the missing budget re-
quests are those of the State
Roads Commission, the General
Assembly and a portion of the
State Department of Educa-
tion's $ll8.9 million program.
Some $9.7 million of the ed
ucation budget. approved
Wednesday by the State Board
of Education. had been sub
mitted to the budget depart
ment earlier this year.
The $230.9 million sought by
the l40 agencies and depart
ments includes $l53.3 million in
general funds, 1852 million in
special funds and 1894 million
in Federal funds.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
1T. GEN. BRADLEY
HURT IN CRASH

1t. Gen. Mark E. Bradley, jr.,
54, deputy chief of staff :or sys-
TENS and logistics at Air Force
headquarters in the Pentagon
was seriously injured yesterday
in a head-on collision on Suit
land parkway near Morning
side, Md.
Two occupants of the other
car were taken to Casualty Hos
pital in undetermined condition.
Gen. Bradley suffered a
broken arm and ribs and facial
bruises. He was admitted to
Andrews Air Force Base Hos
pital.
The general, who lives in
quarters at Boiling Air Force
Base. was driving to The hospi-
tai for a final checkup after
recovery from a virus infection,
according to Pentagon spokes-
man.
The other two accident VIC
TINS were identified by the hos
pital and the Silver Hill Rescue
Squad as Francis Carroll and
Fred Smith. both II and resi-
dents of Upper Marlboro.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Head-0nCrash
Fatal TO Driver
|nWoodbridge
Collision Occurs
On Route !, Scene
Of Safety Drive

A 90 year old Woodbridge
(Va0 man was killed last night
when his car crashed head-on
with a tractor trailer on a
stretch of Route l where resi-
dents have been demanding
Stricter safety measures be.
cause of numerous accidents.
State police at Culpeper said
the victim, Jimmie Lee Hunt,
was dead on arrival at Dewitt
Army Hospital, Fort Belvoir.
Police said Mr.. Hunt was
alone in his car when it crossed
the center line Of the highway
about a half mile south of
Route 1913 and hit the truck.
The driver of the truck, Ar
mand o. Lemarier, 80, of Provi-
dence, R. l., was not injured,
police said.
The accident occurred in the
area where residents had placed
a demolished car beside the
highway to dramatic their
drive for greater safety.
Police said a signal requested
by the residents had been in
stalled Thursday and was
operating. They said speed was
not a factor in the accident,
but police are continuing a
drive on speeding cars in the
area,
Evening star., 1961-12-02
ONCE CHASED BY ANTS
Expedition LeoderHeods Zoo Section

DR.. Roth once studied at Ok
ford.
To Revise Cards
One of his first tasks at the
Zoo will be to help revise the
signs and placards on the cages
of the 1890 specimens so that
people can read them and learn
something. Some of the signs
on bird, animal and reptile
cages at the Zoo are at least 25
years old, they are haphazardly
placed, the type is too small and
they are universally out of date.
DR.. Roth and Zoo Director
Theodore Reed plan to correct
this soon when they can re-
cruit another zoologist to put
in charge of an information and
education program at the Zoo.
Both agree that the signs should
be large enough to read easily
and contain information about
the background of each speci-
men.
ITS no good to display ami
mails for the people if they
can't tell what they are look
ing at" said DR.. Reed.
The new Animal Department
head; whose office is in the
Lion House. was born in Ger
many. studied at oxford and
the University of Vienna and
has degree in veterinary medi-
cine. He was keeper in the
ZOOS at Hanover. and Dusseldorf,
a writer and broadcaster for the
United States Information
Agency. and general manager
of an animal-dealing firm in
New York before undertaking
his monkey procurement job.
He came to the United States
in 1853 under the immigration
quota with his Austrian-born
wife. Helga, and both are now
naturalized citizens. He is a
member of the Primate Com
mittee of the National Academy
of Sciences and his hobby is
photography. What does he
take pictures of?
/ Animals.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
FREIGHT RAMS
CAR, ! KILLED

FREDERICK, Md, Dec. 2
(AP) A Baltimore and Ohio
freight train hit a truck on a
grade crossing 4 miles south
of here yesterday, killing the
driver.
State police said David Phette-
place, 81, of Route /, Hagers-
town, was dead on arrival at
Frederick Memorial Hospital at
3 pm.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Star Staff Photo

Lion of Judah in Adds Ababa
and, aside from some minor
difficulties with the Gala tribe.
experienced no trouble there.
DR.. Roth now speaks nine
languages, including English.
German, French, Thai, Am
haric, West African pidgin, Ital-
liam. kitchen Malay and some
Swahili. His English has Oxon-
ian overtones, doubtless because
Evening star., 1961-12-02

From November, 1860, to this
September, he was in monkey
procurement for the drug man
ufacturing firm of Merck.
Sharp and Dohme, committing
nine times to the land of Halle
Selassie to bring back Abyssin-
ian green monkeys for the lab
oratories. He happened to be
down bush" at the time of the
short-lived revolt against the
Evening star., 1961-12-02
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

Has Commissioner John B.
Duncan's special citizens COM
mittee to explore welfare prob
lens fallen a victim of Parkin-
sons Law?
One member thinks so.
Expounded a few years ago
in a best-selling book by C.
Northcote Parkinson, Parkin-
sons Law says work expands to
fill the time available for its
completion.
Il detect the operation of
Parkinson'S Law here" George
M. Pikser, executive director
of the Jewish Social Service
Agency. told a committee
meeting yesterday.
You have a. committee -
now you have to create a
function big enough for It,"
Mr.. Pikser noted that the
Public Welfare Advisory Conn
Gil already advises the Com
missioners and the director of
the Department of Public
Welfare.
Major Study Completed
IT thought we were advisory,
too," he said, but who are we
advising? Does anybody need
us?"
Mr.. Pikser reminded the
committee that one of its ma
jor functions, a study of the
effect of the recent cut in re-
lief checks for large families
has been completed.
He brought up ParkinSon's
Law after Isadore Seeman
executive director of the Health
and Welfare Council of the Ma
tional Capital Area and also a
committee member, proposed
that subcommittee be ap-
pointed to contact the Depart
Evening star., 1961-12-02

Confusion over Maryland's
saving and loans law arose this
way:
a regulatory law last winter
which was to become effective
June l. This was challenged
by a petition which called for
placing the law on referendum
so the people could vote on it..
To get around this situation
and put the law into effect
Immediately, the Governor
called an emergency session
of the General Assembly in
June and the emergency"
law, similar to the original
one, was passed.
Subsequently, Attorney Cen
eral Finan ruled the refere--
dunn petition was invalid. This
has been disputed in a court
case filed by James H. Pol
lack. a Baltimore Democratic
leader who headed the refer
endum movement.
Examination of Records Hit
The attorneys for Military
Service Savings and Loan con-
tend that since the referendum
has been ruled invalid by the
attorney general, the origina,
law is in effect and that Su-
pervisory officials are actually
operating under the wrong law.
The attorneys also charged
that the States examination of
Military Services records was
neither extensive nor exhaus-
tive and claimed that in fact
1t was inaccurate and errone-
Gus. The attorney generals
receivership action was based
on the examination by State
investigators.
The associations attorneys
also claim e d that Military
Service operated at a profit in
1860 and 1861, contrary to Mr..
Finan's allegation that it oper-
ated at a deficit.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
BY JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Star staff Writer

A bearded German-born
zoologist who has been chased
by soldier ants in Liberia.
caught in a dry stream bed with
a leopard in Thailand and once
made his living committing to
Ethiopia as a monkey procur-
er, has been named to head the
Animal Department at the Ma
tional Geological Park here.
He is DR.. Waldfried T. Roth,
Al, a native of Munster in
Westphalia but now of 3413
Turner lane, Chevy Chase, Md.
DR.. Roth has been in ZOO work
for Is years, many of them as
an organizer of expeditions to
collect animals in the far and
strange places of the earth. In
the course of his adventurous
life he has collected literally
thousands of animals in Ethiop-
ia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liber-
ia, Cameroun, Thailand, Ma
laya. Java. Laos and other
exotic places.
1t was in President William
v. S. Tubman's African repub-
lie that he fled in the path of
an advancing wave of soldier
ants while on collection
Safari. Because of these carniv-
orous insects will devour any,
thing in their path containing
protein, he recalls it was neceS-
sary to move about 60 captured
animals before he could evade
the horde himself.
Mutual SnarIs
His adventure with the leop-
ard in the land of Anna and
the King of Siam happened
when he was walking in a cav
ernouS stream bed during the
dry season and a leopard fell |
in with him.
The leopard apparently con-
Sidered that l had pulled him
into the watercourse, said DR..
Roth. But we just snarled at
each other for while and then |
went our ways"
Evening star., 1961-12-02
GROUP FORMED
TO FIGHT DAM

CHARLES TOWN, W. Va,
Dec. 2, (AP) Organization
was announced yesterday of a
group opposing construction of
a big Federal dam on the
Shenandoah River east of
Charles Town.
The group calls itself the
West Virginia Eastern Pan
handle Land Protective Asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1961-12-02

ment of Health, Education and
Welfare about money or staff
to develop programs in six
areas of rehabilitation and
economy. of special interest to
the Commissioner. Mr.. Duncan
suggested working with HEW.
The subcommittee subsequently
was approved.
J. E. Bindeman, who was
elected permanent chairman of
the Duncan committee. known
as the Community Planning
Committee, also is chairman of
the Public Welfare Advisory
Council. He sees no conflict
between the two groups, he told
the meeting, noting that he be-
lieves Mr.. Duncan'S purpose
was to draw people from both
private and public organiza- =
tionS into plans for welfare
here. The Public Welfare Ad-
viSory Council is made up of
members chosen at large from
the community. It's public as
sistanco committee is repre-
Sented on the Community
Planning Committee.
28 Members
The Community Plannin G
Committee has % members
named by their organizations
as representatives.
Homer F. Gable protested a
ruling of Mr.. Duncan that COM
mittee members actually are
serving as private individuals
Mr.. Gable represents the
Federation of Citizens AsSocia-
tionS. He said his executive
board had instructed him to
inform the committee that the
associations representative "is
not only very much embar-
rassed but finds his position
completely untenable." He is
Evening star., 1961-12-02

association to companies run
by officers of the association,
the attorneys denied Mr..
Finan'S contention that funds
Of the association are being
diverted for the personal gain"
of Military President Murray
Michael.
They asked the Montgomery
County Circuit Court yesterday
to terminate the receivership
and return the firm to it's Off
GERS.
So Million in Savings
Military Service was closed
and its affairs placed in the
hands of a receiver on Novem-
ber 2. 1t had about 800 share
holders who had put approx
mately SO million of savings
into it.
Military Service is one Of
three nearby Maryland savings
and loan companies placed in
receivership during the last
few weeks as a result of Mary
lands new law regulating the
savings and loan industry. Two
others in Baltimore have been
placed in the hands of a court
appointed conservator, al
though remaining open for busi-
ness.
Military's attorneys con-
tended in the court papers filed
yesterday that the law, which
was passed as an emergency
measure in June. is not valid.
They claimed that a similar
regulatory law passed last WIN
ter by the General Assembly
and not the emergency mea-
The General Assembly passed
Sure-is actually the law in
effect.
Although the laws are SINH
lar, James r. Miller, jr., said
the original law provides more
restrictions on the administra-
tor in moving receivership
than does the emergency mea-
sure.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
West Virginians Hit
Potomac Dam P| ans
Loan Firm ChoIIenoes
Validity Of New Law
Maryland Compony's Attorneys
Deny Insolvency, Diversion of Funds
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

Attorneys for Military Service Savings and Loan Associa
ton have challenged the validity of Maryland law which
resulted in the firm being placed in receverhp last month
The attorneys James R. Miller and I also denied that
the savings and loan firm nsovent has been alleged by
Maryland Attorney General Thomas B. Finan.
While admitting that several large loans by
Evening star., 1961-12-02
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
.Series on Bachelor Girls
s
Begins in Sunday Star

THE SINGLE Notwithstanding next Sunday and con-
tnuing every day thereafter except Saturday The
Star will publish the first of 12-part series of vital
interest to every woman and to the in their
lives Entitled The Single Women, it will offer
common-sense practical guide for the who
lives alone.
PACIFIC ALERT 196l-For first-hand eye-wit-
ness report on the state of defenses in the Pa
cific today Jim Berryman'S illustrated story in
SUNDAY, The Star Magazine Via words and pic
tures The Stars Pulitzer prize winning cartooniSt
marks the 20th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
NEW FACES BRIGHTEN TV-SomeWhere among the
faces of today probably is the teevison queen
of tomorrow, and, it could be pretty Mikki Jamison
one of the New Girls TV". Look for her this
Sunday the cover of TV Magazine, which each
week brings you program listings and more
color pages
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Presbytery to Meet

The Potomac Presbytery of
the Presbyterian Church,
U. S. A.. will meet at $50
am. Tuesday in Pilgrims Pres
byterian Church, Twenty-sec-
ond and P streets NV.
Evening star., 1961-12-02
Cite River Bend
DecentruIizinq
AS Alternatives

Spokesman asserted, more
over, that since metropolitan
Washington would be the big
gest beneficiary of any dam
construction program Washing
tonians should be willing to
sacrifice for the benefits.
These were the main senti-
ments voiced by 300 residents
of West Virginia's eastern pam
handle at the latest in the Army
Engineer Corps briefing ses-
sions on tentative dam building
proposals for the Potomac
River Valley.
The delegates came from
Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hamp-
shire, Morgan, jefferson and
Berkeley Counties. On the scene
to emphasize their point was
Representative Staggers, Demo-
crat, whose district encom-
passes all these counties and
who invited all to express their
views.
Alternative: Decentralize
Mr.. Staggers had his own al
tentative to the engineers four
a IT. ern a tie dam construction
plans.
THE program is for the ulti-
mate benefit of Washington.
The Government in Washing
ton should be decentralized."
he said. The Capital, he ex-
planned, is growing too big to
take any more people"
The legislator said he appre-
ciates Washington's present and
future needs for water supply
and pollution abatement. But,
he added, dams that must be
built should not be located in
such fertile farm country as
the lower South Branch and
Shenandoah Rivers or on such
wilderness streams as the
Cacapon.
Most CALLING to the West Vir-
ginians are the dam sites pro-
posed for the South Branch in
the Springfield -Romney area,
the Shenandoah near Charles
Town and the Cacapon near its
confluence with the main stem
of the Potomac.
Standing Vote Taken
To emphasize the opposition
to the Springfield proposal,
William H. Ansel, spokesman
for the Hampshire County
Committee for Development of
the Potomac Basin. asked for
a standing vote. More than
half the crowd stood up.
John T. johnson, State Com
of Agriculture, took
a swipe at opponents to a dam
in the River Bend area near
Washington.
Since the lower areas of
the Potomac will benefit most,
they are the ones that should
make the sacrifices" Mr..
Johnson asserted. Put the
dams where they are needed
most and will do the most
good"
The commissioner pointed
out that some of the proposed
dams would ruin"
some of the best farms and
scenery not only in West Vir-
ginia, but in the whole coun-
try.
Il don't like the attitude
that what's mine is mine and
what's West Virginia's is mine
too," he said.
What Good Is Canal?
Among the many specific
questions raised was one di-
rected, amid applause, to the
National Park Service: "What
is the good of preserving all of
the C81O Canal?" A dam near
River Bend would flood IS
miles of the canal.
Thomas F. Giles, NPS
planner, replied that natural
recreation opportunities would
be enhanced, the canal itself
has significant historic values
and the combination of hoth
so close to a large metropolitan
area such as Washington is
unique.
One proposed dam for West
Virginia came through with
flying colors, at least negatively.
Not a voice was raised to
oppose the site at Royal Glen
near Petersburg. For the most
part only those who live around
Milford chronicle., 1961-11-17
1900 Expected
At University
Parents Day
Program Tomorrow Will
Include A Welcoming
Address By President,
John A. Perkins.

About 1000 parents of Univer-
sity of Delaware freshmen are ex-
pected to attend the annual Par
ents Day which has been sched-
uled for tomorrow, Saturday, No
vember Is.
The program will include well
coming address by President John
A. Perkins, meetings with school
deans, departmental programs
and conferences with Individual
faculty members.
Z Registration will be held from
$3.50 to 1000 a. m. in Carpenter
Field House with the general ses-
sion following in that location.
Roy A. Adams, president of the
Student Government Association,
will preside and will introduce the
president and other deans and ad-
ministrative officials.
Meetings with deans will con-
vene in several campus locations
at IL a. m. and departmental
meetings, beginning at 11:45, will
continue through 2:45 in the af-
ternoon. Luncheon will be served
to parents in both the Student Cen
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