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Evening star., 1961-12-28

The mess is the mess OF
workm n who traditionally
mysteriously, leave until the
last minute colossal piles OF
wires and paint buckets as il
to toy with employers con-
cerned with approaching dead
lines.
The deadline in this case is
January 10. At that time, Con-
gresS goes back into session to
take up Berlin and a critical
examination Of the interior OF
the East Front. The forecast is
that the job will be finished
with the possible exception OF
two fine reception rooms just
off the Senate and House
floors.
But the East Fronts princi-
pal architect, Mr.. Rayburn, will
be among the missing. He
would have found his new Of
flee big and bright, off the
rotunda on the House side with
a view towards the Library OF
Congress.
1t was Speaker Rayburn who
took a personal interest in
guiding the controversial $2l
million East Front project
through Congress in 1858.
The extension provides criti-
cally needed space - partic-
ularly for the hard pressed
members of the Senate docu-
ment room who have worked in
attic-like surroundings without
any control over the vast liter
ature of The Hill.
But the most striking room
may prove to be the new cen
trail lobby, located on the
ground, or first floor of the
building, beneath the central
steps which lead to the rotunda
entrance.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

picking a giant of future his
tory, he. like others, gamely
suggested a comparable era OF
crisis. He said:
II think there have been
numerous periods in the past
when people thought the world
was falling in all around. them
The comfort we can take from
history is that there were other
times like this - we tend to
think we are the only people
having some hard luck.
For instance, my own period
part of it being the American
Revolution. I'm sure the people
who became tories or loyalists
thought the times were just as
bad as our people DO today"
Here are some of the other
historian. ; choices for the man
and the hour:
Professor Frederick B. Artz OF
Oberlin College, a specialist in
European history from the
Renaissance, and in the history
Of ideas:
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Airline Talks
OnDuIIesAre
Set Jan. 0-1O
BY CHARLES YARBROUGH
Star Staff Writer

Sh"A SNo4A " AVA
The Government and the air.
lines will get together January
9 and 10 to discuss the alloca-
ton of space in the terminal
building at Dulles international
Airport.
G.. Ward Hobbs, director of
the Bureau of National Capital
Airports, which will operate the
big civil jet base at Chantilly,
Va. said the discussions also
may take up the subject of
landing fees which the airline
users will be charged.
At the moment, no airline
has formally announced that it
will use the ulti-million-dollar
facility.
Informal negotiations have
generated considerable heat,
particularly after a statement
in New York last week by N. E.
Halaby. Federal aviation ad-
ministrator, that he would give
the airlines two weeks to speak
up for the space they will need
in the terminal building.
An FAA advisory panel on
art. architecture and land
scaping gave enthusiastic ap-
proval Of the airport after a
tour yesterday.
The panel, appointed by Mr..
Halaby some weeks ago, is
headed by Mrs. George Y.
Wheeler, II. and includes Mrs.
Zero Saarinen, widow of the
designer of the airport.
Other members are Andrew
Ritchie of the Yale University
art gallery; Gordon BunShaft,
New York architect, and Will
liam Walton, Georgetown artist.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
THE HISTORIANS HISTORY-MAKER
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

Who in today's news head
lines will live longest in the
history books of tomorrow?
Winston Churchill? Nikita
Khrushchev? Pandit Nehru?
Harry Truman? John F. Ken
nedy? Or T. S. Eliot?
All of these names came up
in a random sampling of his
torians convened for the 18th
annual meeting of the American
Historical Association at the
Shoreham and Sheraton-Park
Hotels.
And what era in history is
most reminiscent of today'S
turbulence for men who have
made career of second-gueSs-
ing mans past folly and wis
dom?
The Renaissance? The Re-
formation? The French Revolu-
tion and Napoleonic era? The
American Revolution? Or nc
time at all?
Historians are cautious about
prognoSticating. None was ca
ger to get out on a limb on
either question. AS Prof. Carl
Bridenbaugh of the University
of California, Berkeley, vice
president of the association, put
it:
Historians write about the
past. They do not make pre-
dictions about the future. II
they do, they become prophets
The great virtue of history is
perSpe C tive. Contemporaries
never are able, really, to assess
their own times accurately"
But although Prof. Briden-
baugh, whose field is the Amer
ican colonial period, baked al
Evening star., 1961-12-28

The Winston Churchill
I think, because of the great
length of his career and be-
cause he was in a supreme po-
sition at a great turning point.
Consider his influence in the
second world war, when for one
year England faced Germany
alone. He prevailed in a long
period of politics of very great
Importance.
The hour - History doesn't
repeat itself; just the historians
do the repeating. We're suffer-
ing from too much history.
More important things seem to
happen in one year than hap
pened in any 10 before. I sup
pose it is like the crisis that
followed the French Revolution,
the era from 1889 to 1915,
t through Napoleon. Events
crowd on top of each other so,
"a pidly accelerated changes
that will leave their mark in
later years.
Prof. Max Savelle of the Uni
Evening star., 1961-12-28

project that, 1t Is roughly eStl-
mated, would provide a 40-foot
extension on the back" of the
Capitol at a cost of about $25
million.
The west front - the side
facing the slopes of Capitol
Hill-could be extended to give
lawmakers another AZ acres
of working floor space COM
pared with the pa acres that
were gained by the east front
extension.
But the big question Is
whether the new leadership on
Capitol Hill will want to &c
through with the plans. 1t is
understood that the late
Speaker Rayburn favored the
Improvement.
Mr.. Rayburn also had given
the Capitol architect permis-
sion during the east front con-
struction to sink the new foun-
dations deep enough to permit
building a four-level under
ground garage beneath the
plaza some day.
The reinforced concre tie
foundation will not have to be
touched should the new ga
rage ultimately be built. The
garage would hold nearly 1000
cars and free the plaza Of the
clutter of parked autos that
fills it each day. 1t would cost
about $50 million.
If it is built, it would have
to be done in time for the rext
Inauguration. But If planning
doesn't get under way imme-
diately the garage project
probably would have to be held
over until after 1864.
AS for the east front, there
is 3212 feet of mess-and a
certain sadness-behind its
sparkling, marble facade.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

Experts Choose Their Man of the Hour Cite Comparable Eros

am concerned. Democracy will
eventually triumph in a modi-
fled form, and he is willing to
modify past institutions In
such a manner that they can
endure. He has the flexibility
to modify existing institutions,
not cling to a dead past, and
therefore democratic institu-
tions will live and his name,
also, for making them live.
The hour-The present. 1t is
like no period in past history,
because of the greater destruc-
tiveness of weapons. Wars were
possible in the past, but are
impossible today, for survival.
Prof. Lawrence H. GipsOn Of
Lehigh University, whose field
is the British Empire before
the American Revolution:
The mani imagine Wins
ton Churchill, because of his
commanding contribution to
the salvation of the free world,
and the fact that he is a great
historian, parliamentarian, Or
ator, and a great man in a
number of fields. He energized
the British people at the time
of the threatened invasion of
England, at the collapse of
resistance in France and at
Dunkirk.
The hour-I suppose it is the
period of the great revolution
airy movement in France and
its spread into the rest of Eu-
rope and to Latin America, up
to 1920, because of the disloca-
ton of what had been the
established standards in con-
nection with political systems.
the great fermentation in the
minds of the people, the struv-
gle between conservatism and
radicalism.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
The
Rambler
: Oysters
Are Scarce
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

In this continent of embar-
rassing and increasing sur
pluSeS there is one crop that
is becoming more and more
a shortage.
There are not enough
oysters.
Last year it was explained
that the high prices were due
to the weather. That was
understandable. The Chesa-
peake and its tributary rivers
where oysters thrive were
frozen over at times and at
other times high winds made
harvesting too dangerous if
not impossible.
This winter has been a
mild and open one. But the
prices are higher than ever.
Furthermore there is no
demanding a Chincoteague
or a Toms Cove. Even hotel
and restaurant buyers who
know oysters take what they
can get.
The Rambler learned this
yesterday at Claxton's, the
wholesale fish house in
Southwest Washington.
A barrel of oysters in the
shell had just been opened.
The man who sold me
these" said Ed Claxton, "as-
sured me they were Chinco-
leagues or Toms Coves or
from the ocean side of the
Eastern Shore. But from
their appearance, I would
say they came from the Pa
tuxent."
He opened a few. It's easy
to open oysters once you
know how. The Rambler
hasn't learned yet, but he's
working on it.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Light Snow
Fails to Tie
Traffic Here

A lgnt snowfall slowed Dut
did not seriously delay Wash
ington area ruSh-hour traffic
this morning as temperatures
skidded sharply downward from
yesterdays unseasonal 55-de-
gree high.
The snowfall depth varied
I from q trace" at National
Airport to 3 inches in portions
of nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia north and west of the
city. In Montgomery County
beyond the thickly populated
suburbs-almost 2 inches fell.
Similar depths were reported
in parts of Fairfax and Lou
doun Counties, with the depths
increasing to the north and
west. Outside the City of Fair
fax, a fire official estimated
that 2 inches of snow had
accumulated.
The Weather Bureau said
very light" snow flurries would
continue in the Metropolitan
area this afternoon. Clearing
and colder was the outlook for
tonight.
Charles Town CW. Va race
track officials Cancelled today's
program after 5 inches of snow
fell in the vicinity of the track
during the night, causing
"treacherouS" road conditions.
The West Virginia track is
about go miles northwest of
the District.
County officials in nearby
Maryland and Virginia said
nearly all thoroughfares were
navigable. Sanding crews in
both areas had been busy since
before dawn.
Today's high in the District
was expected to be no more
than SO or "a degrees sharp
downturn from yesterday after
moons peak of SIS degrees. To-
nights low is expected to be
near 20.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

NEXT / CALLED John
Glude, chief of the shellfish
branch of Fish and Wildlife
Service in the Department
of the Interior. He said:
you are right, there are
not enough oysters.
"A few years ago a disease
in Delaware Bay caused, we
tn ink, by some micro
organism between the fungi
and the bacilli, killed 90 per
cent of the oysters in Della
ware Bay. Then it killed 60
per cent Of the oysters in the
Lower Virginia waters of
Chesapeake Bay and it's trib-
utarieS.
'"The oystermen seem to be
assured OF nigh prices Tor
some time to come except
for, the possibility of Japa-
nese competition.
1.-THE Japanese have de-
veloped an efficient way of
growing oysters. You re-
member they developed the
cultured pearl and since then
pearls nave been left out of
the category of rare stones.
THE japanese grow oysters
by drilling a hole in an old
oyster shell. After a cluster
of spats or infant oysters is
attached to it, they hook a
wire through the shell and
hang it along with hundreds
Of others from a raft.
This suspendS the grow
ing oysters at a level where
food is more plentiful and
protects them from the
enemies of the oysters, which
are crawling creatures, crabs
and snails.
I'VE tried it at our expert
mental station at Woods
Hole, ON Cape Cod. We found
that in two years we could
produce a big oyster that
would take four years in
nature.
"The question is, can we
afford the manpower. The
Japanese are ready to send
us frozen oysters. I am told
they are delicious. They only
await an OK from our Food
and Drug Administration,
similar to the arrangement
we have with Canada"
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Welfare Center OKd

HAGERSTOWN, Dec. %
(AP).-The Board of County
Commissioners approved yes
terday construction of a new
Washington County Welfare
Center. Bids will be called for
next week.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Capitol West Front
Extension Weighed
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star Staff Writer

Now that the multi million dollar extension of
front of the Capitol has reached the stage final
thoughts Capitol Hill turning to similar project for
the west front.
The architect Of the Capitol has favored improvement
Evening star., 1961-12-28
$49.7Mi||ionAsked
For County Schools
Montgomery
Board Gets
Budget Request

An operating budget Of $49.7
million for 1923 was recon-
mended today to the Mont
gomery County Board of Edu-
ton by School Supt. c. Taylor
Whittier.
The proposals for boosts in
teacher salaries, enrolment
and improvement in quality
of education" were urged By
DR.. Whittier as part of a 81
per cent increase over the cur
rent year.
The superintendent's total
budget requests will be $66.2
million including a capital
budget of $16.5 million, which
he presented to the school
board early in December.
Also included in DR.. Whit
tiers overall proposals was
$3.5 million in funds not paid
by Montgomery County tax
payers. The main expenditures
are set aside for such self-sup-
porting activities as school
cafeterias. where the expense
is refunded.
Three Increase Factors
DR.. Whittier told the board
that his request for about SO
million over the present fiscal
year is based on three factors:
/. The anticipated increase
in enrolment, which accounts
for $3.6 million more than the
present budget.
2. Salary boosts totaling $2.9.
million, which would raise the
average teachers salary from
$6,703 to $7,457 for 10 months
service. ,
| 3. Improvements in qaulity
of education, as recommended
recently by a citizen committee
which made an exhaustive
study of offerings in the school
system, and suggestions for
beefing up the curriculum.
Included in the salary sche-
dule are 6,453 new positions,
or a IA per cent increase over
the present staff. DR.. Whittier
said many of them are re-
lated to the increased quality
program recommended"
Among the new teachers pro-
posed by DR.. Whittier were:
Ten additional teachers for
an optional seventh instruc-
tional period in selected second
airy schools. This could extend
the day from its present $3.50
pm. closing time until about
4:20 pm. in some secondary
schools.
rs More Librarians
An additional 26 Librarians
and books. which would cost
$53,276.
A total of SO teaching spe-
cialists," 13 of whom would i'm
plement foreign language
instruction. Three others would
teach a new course in "radia-
tion biology" as they Travelled
around the school system.
Additional positions for spe-
cial education of handicapped
youngsters, totaling $4,000.
An additional $13,95O to the
Greater Washington Education
al Television Association, plus
an appropriation of 100000 for
new teievision receivers.
Several additional counsel
lors, whose salaries would total
about $4,000.
Support for adult education,
with $4,000 provided.
Bolstering of the summer
school program. to the extent
og $l68,000.
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Problem Youth Given
Freedom on Parole
Ketchum Comedies Calculated Risk,
Won't Send Boy to Reformutory

17yearold District youth today early release from
the National Training School in spite of the fact he is
behavior problem.
Juvenile Court Judge Orm w. Ketcham turned down the
schools request to transfer the youth to Petersburg Va
Federal Reformatory and freed him indefinite probation
The iudge said probation is "a calculated risk" and
Evening star., 1961-12-28
Judge Has Power
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

The National Cultural Cen
ter will have a big part to play
in the work of Washington
cultural groups, even though its
objectives are national in scope
Roger L. Stevens, chairman
of the center's board, yesterday
told representatives of such or
ganizations that the center's
facilities emphatically will be
available to all of the resident
cultural groups, both public and
private"
After a meeting with a num-
ber of organizations of this
character in the offices Of the
center at 718 Jackson place
NV, Mr.. Stevens said:
THE meeting was very fruit
full in helping to get an idea
of the extensive cultural activ-
ltleS already under way in the
Nations Capital.
To Hear Plans
The purpose of the session, at
which is persons were present,
was to hear reports from the
organizations concerning their
present activities and their
plans and projections for use
of the facilities of the center
when it is a going concern" he
said.
The policy of the center's
trustees. he said, would be to
encourage and stimulate"
activity here, and to welcome
Evening star., 1961-12-28

WHETHER from Chinco-
league or Toms Cove, those
oysters were wonderful. They
were cold enough, too. The
room was just about freezing.
After lunch I telephoned
Joe Manning, director of
Maryland Tidewater Fish
cries at Annapolis. He said
that he thought December
production would be better
than last year, Jecause of
the open weather. Maryland
produced 1.6 million bushels.
Virginia produced more.
But that is nothing. In
1870 the Bay produced Is
million bushels of oysters.
Joe is a little doubtful about
that figure, but for several
years after that he is sure
there were crops of 10 mil
lion bushels. Everyone in
this area ate oysters. They
weren't a luxury. They were
food.
He felt sure there would
be a marked increase in a
few years. Maryland has been
putting shells back in the
Bay to make new oyster bars.
Years ago they were used to
make roads. Much of the
Neutrality-suspicious. road
now known as Old U. S. l was
ballasted with oyster shells.
Last spring and summer the
State dumped 6 million
bushels of shells in the Bay.
This has been going on for
several years. In the next
two or three years bigger
crops should result.
Evening star., 1961-12-28

precedent for future cases, but
the only alternative he could
see under existing laws.
Committed to the school in
November, 1860, after stealing
two cars. the youth was due for
release next January "a, his
18th birthday.
13 Violations Cited
In recent years the judge has
followed a policy of committing
young offenders for 18 months
or until their 18th birthday,
whichever is longer, to avoid
legal entanglements of this sort.
Citing 13 disciplinary viola
tions involving fighting, pro-
family toward guards and re-
fuSal to work. the school last
month decided to move the IT.
year-old to Petersburg's stricter
confines.
1t thus provoked an old legal
conflict which has persisted
since 1941. when Congress en-
powered the Justice Depart
ment to transfer prisoners
among Federal institutions for
disciplinary or other reasons.
Judge Has Power
But under the Juvenile Court
Ac., the court has Continuing
jurisdiction" of young Offend
ers. The judge has interpreted
this to mean they cannot be
Evening star., 1961-04-10

A uniformed chauffeur to
drive you in your own car.
in emergencies, on special
occasions or on your regular
chauffeur's day off. Rates:
$1o.5o for first two hours
(minimum), s4.oo per hour for
the following five hours and
$500 per hour for each hour
thereafter.
Diners Club and American
Express Cards honored.
For information and reseNa.
tions, phone re 3-52oo Ext.
$50. Or write chauffeurs Un-
limited, D. C. Transit System,
Inc, $500 M ST., N. W., WASH
ington 7, DC.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
More Tax Funds to Go
To Maryland Localities

the disparity in pay scales be-
tween the wealthy and poorer
counties.
The additional aid from the
State is certain to have a sub
stantial effect on the tax rates
in some counties.
John 8. Shriver. chief Of the
Fiscal Research Bureau, said
IL counties now are making up
their budgets.
Breakdown Of Estimates
Mr.. Shriver gave this break
down for the counties and Bal
timore City under the revised
estimates:
Allegany $554,681; Anne
Arundel $1,5O9,257; Baltimore
city $3,262,519; Baltimore
County $1.047, $40; Calvert
$153,873; Caroline $180,016;
Carroll $247,408; Cecil $347,-
982; Charles $282, ,286; Dorches-
ter $209,094; Frederick $685.
933; Garrett, $159319; Hartford,
$436,042.
Also Howard $255,959; Kent
$106.6l8; Montgomery $1,544,-
241; Prince Georges $2,385, ,221;
Queen Annes $122,895: ST.
Marys $3l7.327; Som merse
$194,38 Talbot $130, ,706;
Washington $540.356; Wicom-
leo $338,31I;" Worcester $163,-
260.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
BRIEFS
Hearing Set
On Island
Bridge Bills
ANNAPOLIS

ANNAPOLIS, April 10 (AP)
Gov. Tawes has set a public
hearing for 2::3O p. m. April rs
on two bills calling for State
Worcester County participation
in building a bridge to As
sateague Island.
The hearing was requested
by w. E. Green of Snow Hill,
who contends the SIS million
span to the coastal strip below
Ocean City will be a waste
Of taxpayers money" if it is
not accompanied by a more
comprehensive plan for de-
velopment of the island.
Mr.. Green, who long has
sought creation of a public
authority to develop water,
street and sewer facilities for
the island as well as build a
bridge, urged the Governor to
grant a hearing before signing
the bills.
The retired heating con-
tractor contends he was denied
a request for a hearing when
the bills were before the Leg
iSlature.
Evening star., 1961-04-10
Boby Swallows Button
Becomes q N Star

Donna Queen will become a
televfSion star tonight, and all
because of a button.
She admits she's a little bit
surprised with her sudden rise
to stardom. She feels she got
her big break doing what comes
naturally. She just saw the
button and swallowed it. What
else could a 23-month-o -old gal
do?
Donna, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles M. Queen,
$40 Oneida place NE, will ap-
pear on WTTG at $50 tonight
'on one of a series of Medical
Special Events" programs.
Howard Whitman, the shows
producer, said Donna's appear
ance will make a television
first" because X-ray motion
pictures of the removal of the
button from Donna'S bronchial
tube will be shown. They will
be the first such films show
on TV, Mr.. Whitman said.
The entire show, and Donna's
part in it, is designed to inform
the public about the services
and techniques used by pedia-
tricianS. The show is supported
by the Upjohn Co., pharmaceu-
tical manufacturers, and CO.
sponsored by the American
Academy of Pediatrists. 1t is
timed for showing on the first
Evening star., 1961-04-10

The Halifax County deaths
came in a head-on collision of
a tractor trailer and an auto
mobile with seven occupants
which was rushing a sick child
to a South Boston hospital.
All those who died were in
the automobile which State
police said tried to pass an
other car near the top of a
hill on Route 304, some 31a
miles east of South Boston,
and met the truck at the crest.
Killed instantly were Reanza
Ferrell, 38; jamie Johnson
Sadler, %; Johnny Junior
Sadler. S, and 10, Ann Sadler,
312. The driver of the car,
Robert D. Blanks, died at mid
night-some 51a hours after
the collision-in the hospital.
All were from Red Oak, Va.
Two others in the Blanks
car, Kathleen Hatcher, IS, and
Georgia Lynn Moore. 10, also
of the Red Oak community in
Charlotte County. were hospi-
.talized in critical condition.
The truck driver was unin-
jured.
State trooper George Foster
said Mr.. Blanks was driving
the 5-year-old Sadler boy to
the hospital in South Boston
because the child had been
having commissions.