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Evening star., 1961-07-18
Ex-Restuuruteur
Held in Sloying
Of BuItirnoreM Man

BALTIMORE, July 18 (AP)
Police have charged a AZ
'year-old former restaurant
owner with the Staying of Ed
ward J. CaStranda, who was
shot four times as he sat in his
car here Saturday.
Charged was Orlando Perrera
who surrendered to police sew
eral hours after the shooting.
Officers were still seeking his
54-year-old brother in connec-
ton with the death of Castran-
da. a 29-year-old used-ca1
salesman.
Investigators have yet to dis
close any link between the slay-
ing and the current investiga-
ton of the city's night club dis
trict, where Castranda was re-
portedly well-known.
Authorities say he did not un-
derge questioning by the grand
jury, which together with the
States attorneys office, has
been conducting the rackets
probe.
Evening star., 1961-07-18
Anne Arundel Police
Still Hunting Official

County Police Chief Wilbur
c. Wade said: 1--WE don't know
what to think at this point"
He said an intensive investi-
cation by police has failed tc
disclose that the missing Miller.
vile (Md0 resident had finan-
cial difficulties of any sort OF
that he had been spending ar
excessive amount of money"
Mr.. Thumel, a member oi
the commission staff since 1855
was last seen at the Northway
restaurant on Grain highway
at $40 am. Thursday, Chiei
Wade said. The missing treas.
urer was seen at the same res
taurant two hours earlier, the
chief said.
A missing person lookout de.
scribed Mr.. Thumel as 5 foot
II inches; weight, 180 pounds
wearing when last seen gray
pants and a sports shirt. He i,
married and the father of three
children.
Evening star., 1961-07-18
HALABY FAVORS
CORPORATE SETUPI

TeStifying before a House
Commerce subcommittee today
in favor of a bill to create a
Federal corporation for opera
ton of National and Dulles
airports, N. E. Halaby, Federal
Aviation Administrator, said a
corporate setup would produce
better service for passengers
and airlines.
He said it also would put
the two airportS on a sound
business basis. Currently the
two facilities are being oper-
ated by the Bureau of National
Capital Airports. The new
measure would establish an OPP
Grafton similar to the New
York Port Authority. -
Mr.. Halaby called for a ma
tional aviation system extend
ing from doorstep to door,
step" He said I'VE want the
passenger to think of an airway
as beginning at his home. or
office, and extending to where
he wants to go, instead of
thinking of going from airport
to airport.
This means" he added, "re-
gional planning of airportS,
heliports, access roads and
highways, all designed to pro-
duce greater mobility"
Evening star., 1961-07-18

ANNAPOLIS, July 10 (Spe-
ciaD Anne Arundel County
authorities today declared no
definite trace has been found
Of Orvie B. ThumeJ, jr., treas
urer of the county sanitary
commission, who disappeared
five days ago.
Police said the 34-year-old
treasurer was last seen Thurs
day morning at an all-night
drive-in restaurant a mile from
his home. Later that morning
Mr.. Tunnels sanitary commits
sion car was discovered parked
on a South Baltimore street.
Commission officials and
county heads held two closed
meetings yesterday to discuss
the treasurer's absence.
John Demyan, jr., the COM
mission counsel, said a Balti-
more firm Of public accountants
is checking the commissions s
books today.
Evening star., 1961-07-18
Rhododendron Rhuborb
Still RonkIes Grower

Frank S. La Bar, a Strouds-
burg (PaD nurSeryman, has
come to Washington to attend
a nurserymen's convention anci
unload a gripe.
Mr.. La Bar is the man who
lost the bid for rhododendron
shrubs around the White
House after The Star reported
that the White House had Or
dered the plants to shield
Caroline Kennedy from the
public view.
"It's not losing the business
that bothers me. It's the way
it was lost-the way the White
House has tried to cover the
whole thing up," Mr.. La Ban
said.
Visit Nursery
Mr.. La Bar reported that
A. j. Barrett, chief horticul-
turist for National Capital
Parks, wrote his firm-report-
edly the largest rhododendron
supplier in the Nation - and
Evening star., 1961-07-18
NOSE BEE STING
CAUSES DEATH
OF PHA AIDE

A bee sting on the nose
while pruning shrubbery at
his home in Silver Spring
has caused the death of
Herbert E. BergquiSt. so,
an official of the Public
Housing Administration
here.
Mr.. Bergquist died Sum
day evening en- route to the
Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park, after col
lapSing on the front steps
Of his home at 716 Edel-
blut street. Burnt Mills
Hills.
According to DR.. Frank
j. BroSchart, deputy medi-
cal examiner for Montgom-
cry County, death was due
to anaphylactic shock, a
highly allergic reaction to
the type of poison in the
bee sting.
Mr.. Bergquist had re-
turned home last WedneS-
day after a 57-day vaca-
ton trip to Europe with
his wife, Eva.
Evening star., 1961-07-18
DAY TO REMEMBER
Weary Live-ln Pupils!
Welcome First 'Tops'

ton to the junior-grade ex-
plorers.
The schedule at Monocacy
actually begins with reville
blown live" by a student
bugler at tbs am, and con-
tinues through outdoor study,
library work, meals and games
until everybody Surrenders at
9 pm.
Sleep Came Hard
The campers were too ex-
cited over their new surround
ings to sleep much the first
night they arrived, on Sunday
but the staff noted with con-
siderable relief that they were
ready to give up without a
struggle right on schedule last
night.
All hands agreed that the
visitors should return to wit
ness the survival of the fittest
at the last session on July %
Evening star., 1961-07-18
rePorpoise
Bones Found
Miocene Product
Cheers Scientist
BY HERMAN F. SCHADEN
Star Staff Writer

Something rare and weird
in the way of bones-the skele-
ton of a long-beaked porpoiSe
perhaps 20 million years old
has been discovered in a dig
ging three miles west of Upper
Marlboro, Md.
1T may not be earth-shaking, ~
said DR.. Frank Whitmore of
the United States Geological
Survey, but it probably is the
first found so far inland and
will make a, valuable contribu-
ton to the study of evolution
This fellow had a 2-foot
beak, with teeth all along it,
and it is hard to see how it
could maneuver at all"
The well-preserved remains
of the beak and skull, about
2l2 feet in all, came to light
during bridge construction on
Maryland Route 4. The engi-
neer in charge, Stanley w
Bless of 8-H Research road
Greenbelt, passed the word
along to DR.. Whitmore.
There were some other
things-part of a whale skull
the usual sharks teeth and ar
unidentified fish-but the most
perfect specimen was the por.
poise," said DR.. Whitmore.
There have been S or 6 Of
them found in the last so OF
so years, most of them along
the Calvert cliffs of Chesapeake
Bay near Prince Frederick"
DR.. Whitmore said it was not
too surprising that the por-
poise turned up this far inland
since the clayey deposit of the
bay area extends to the Distric,
line.
"The porpoise will be valu-
able in the study of evolution
the more specimens on hand
the BETTER" DR.. Whitmore said
1t will be turned over to the
Vertebrate Paleontology Labo-
ratory of the Smithsonian In
stitution.
DR.. Whitmore believes the
porpoiSe is a product of the
Miocene Age. or about the mid
die period of the Age of Nam
mails and that the deposit
formed in a shallow sea OF
large bay of salt or brackish
water.
Similar porpoises are still
SplaShing around in the Gan
geS River, DR.. Whitmore said
Evening star., 1961-07-18

THERE WAS DELAY as the
French prepared a diplomatic
reply and courted the Indians
friendly to the English with
presents and firewater. And
winter was setting in.
George had his men count
the canoes and bateaux on
the stream. There were more
than so. It was evident the
French intended to descend
to the Ohio in the spring.
Finally on December 16
they started back with the
French reply in two canoes
supplied by the French.
George was in a hurry to get
to Williamsburg. With GiSt
and an Indian guide he took
a short cut through the
woods on foot in the dead OF
winter during Christmas
week.
The Indian wanted scalps.
He turned while leading and
fired at them but missed.
They grabbed him while he
was reloading. Gist wanted
to kill him but George said
let him go.
They had hoped that the
Allegheny would be frozen
but it was still open. With
one hatchet they spent two
days building a raft. They
fell into the river in the rap
ids and had to swim to an
island. Their only protection
against froStbite was their
frozen clothes.
But George got to Williams
burg by January 16 - one
month"; remarkable feat.
His reception among the bur-
gesSes was disappointing.
What did they have to do
with what was going on be-
yond the mountains, they
asked.
We continue from Water
ford to tour the Lake Erie
shore. One thing puzzles the
Imagination. Perhaps it is due
to sitting caused by two CEN
turies of agriculture. But the
stream that launched the ar
mada of canoes and bateaux
that almost won control of
the North American CONT
nent is only four feet wide.
Evening star., 1961-07-18

asked if it could supply 226
plants.
The nurseryman said Mr..
Barrett and an associate then
visited the firms nursery in
North Carolina and decided the
species of rhododendrons origi-
nally sought would not provide
heavy enough screen"
Mr.. La Bar said he then was
asked to bid on "rhododendron
maximum" which comes in
heavier clumps and which
would provide a better shield.
He said it was Immediately
after he mailed his new bid to
Mr.. Barrett that the news
paper story broke. Then
silence"
Mr.. La Bar said that after
another firm planted rhodo-
dendrons around the east and
west fence in the south White
House grounds, ne wrote Mr..
Barrett to find out why he had
lost the contract.
Inspects Paintings
I'VE believe to the best of
our knowledge and will continue
to believe that we were the low
est bidders" Mr.. La Bar said.
I'm not a cry baby. I don't
have to have their business.
II thought they might have
had the courtesy to tell me what
happened. I'm used to better
dealings than that"
Mr.. La Bar said he has taken
a walk around the White House
fence to view the planted rho
dodendrons. He said the new
paintings consist of a hybrid
rhododendron of a few carolin-
iamum and catawbienSe species
and some of the maximum rho
dodendron.
Evening star., 1961-07-18

operations at National in the
immediate future"
The FAA has not had time
to analyze data obtained from
trial flights of a pure jet
United Air Lines Caravelle at
National last Saturday, but he
said the readings we got on
those flights we're favorable" !"
October '62 Target
Mr.. Halaby said progress is
encouraging" at Dulles, now
under construction at Chan
tilly, Va, and added, I'VE are
hopeful we can have the first
scheduled operation there in
October of 1862.
The administrator opened
the press conference with an
announcement that he has
warned the airlines about let
ting passenger on an aircraft
when it appears he has been
drinking"
He said he was very much
disturbed" that there are no
Federal statutes covering seri-
GUS crimes in flight and cited
two recent incidents when
drunken fools in flight" be-
came diSorderly to the point
of aSSaulting members of the
crew.
The only action that can be
taken in such cases, he ex-
planned, is by authorities in
the State where the crime is
committed after the plane
lands or by the FAA in a suit
for a civil penalty.
Mr.. Halaby said he has taken
such civil action on both the
recent cases, asking for fines
of $1,000 in each case. He also
said a bill to cover such viola
tions is to be presented on
Capitol Hill "in the early fu-
| ture."
Hydraulics Analysed
His press conference touched
on these other subjects:
Further reports of malfunc-
tioning of the hydraulic systems
on the DC-8 jetliners, such as
the one destroyed by fire at
Evening star., 1961-07-18
Five Schools Get
New Principals

The District Schol Board to-
day named new principals at
five elementary schools.
They are Robert C. Hogan
Blow-Pierce Elementary; Mrs
Aminda K. Young, Burrville
Elementary; Mrs. Henrietta G
Avant, Powell Elementary; Mrs
Marjorie P. Savage, Slater.
Langston Elementary, and Mrs
Emma M. George temporary
Bruce and Military Road Ele-
mentaries.
The board also named Mrs
Lucille N. Polk as assistant
principal at Cardoza Senior
High, and Mrs. Grace Hunter
Smith as supervisor of the de.
partment of supervision and in.
Istruction for elementary schools
Evening star., 1961-07-18
The
Rambler
Follows
Woshineton's Troll
By GEORGE KENNEDY

On entering the PennSyl-
vania Turnpike at Bedford
we ask how far west is the
Oliver Hazard Perry Highway
to Erie.
About 100 miles, we are
told.
For the rest of the day,
while speeding along super
highways, we will be more or
less following the trail of
George Washington on his
remarkable penetration of
the wilderness in the winter
of 1753-54.
George was 81, going on %,
and a major in the militia.
Gov. Dinwiddie at Will
liamsburg gave him this i'm
portant mission because he
was one of the few young
gentlemen of Tidewater Vir-
ginia who had been over the
mountains.
The mission was to serve
notice on the French that in
penetrating the country
south of the Great Lakes,
they were invading the terri
tory of the King of Great
Britain.
We roll along the turnpike
at IS with cars constantly
passing us.
Evening star., 1961-07-18

Denver last Tuesday with a
death toll of 16. He made pub
lie a summary of 43 reports on
deficiencies and malfunctions"
in the DC-8 hydraulic system.
But he also pointed out that
the FAA still is receiving mall
function reports on the hy-
draulic systems of the DC-3,
which has been flying Is years.
Plans to expedite construc-
tion near active runways, even
to the point of running two
or three shift work crews to
hasten the work. Construction
is going on now at Denver's
Stapleton Field and at National
Airport near active runwayS.
Evening star., 1961-07-18
BY ANNE CHRISTMAS
Star Staff Writer

There was no sweeter sound
than taps" to 48 youngsters
who last night wound up their
first "a hours in Montgomery
County's experimental live-in
summer school near Dickerson.
Exhausted but happy, IL
girls and 36 boys, ranging from
10 to 13 years, were ready to
call it a day at 9 pm. shortly
before the recorded bugle call
marked the end of day most
would never forget.
The children were chosen
from among 100 applicants
who expressed their eagerness
to take part in an unusual sum-
mer program sponsored by the
Montgomery County school
board, at the newly constructed
Monocacy Elementary School,
almost in the shadow of Sugar
Loaf Mountain.
Surely no proSaic program of
customary subjects could have
been greeted with more en-
thusiasm than this rollicking
group displayed as they COB
bled up everything from nature
lore to spaghetti in their OPEN
ing day.
$40 Per Head
The live-in school at Mono
cacy was the product of COL
lective planning by principals
and supervisors from seven
Upper Montgomery County
elementary schools which send
their graduates to Gathers
burg and Poolesville Junior
High School.
Parents paid $40 per child
and the school board provided
several scholarships for those
who might not have been able
to attend otherwise.
In the group are many blend
ingS of intelligence quotients,
income brackets and interests.
Although the EN- p h aSis
throughout the course is on
nature study, only a small per-
centage of the campers had
shown a predetermined interest
in outdoor life.
individuals Studied
| The idea is to study each in
dividual and find out how to
capitalize on his interests to
motlVate his learning" ex-
planned Miss Martha Satter-
field, elementary supervisor
who is in charge of the school.
1--WE have a library designed
to provide answers to the
questions that will arise in
their minds as we take hikes
or tour the countryside in
buses. Many landowners are
Opening their farms and barns
for us to visit"
A visit to the library re-
vealed an expensive collection
of books on birds, plants, ami
mails. geology and dozens of
related scientific subjects, to
provide background informa-
Evening star., 1961-07-18
NEITHER ALLEGHENY

NEITHER r ALLEGHENY
Mountain nor Laurel Hill,
which were so difficult for
George, give us pause. We
speed under them in tunnels
a mile long.
We bypass Pittsburgh to
the north. Should George be
able to revisit the area today,
he would be surprised when
told that acres of multi
Storied buildings had been
pulled down to make a park
of the triangle at the conflu-
ence of the rivers, he had
recommended for a fort.
Despite a stop for gasoline
we complete the 100 miles in
exactly two hours and turn
north. Soon we are crossing
and recroSsing a winding lit
tie creek. The French called
1t the Riviere au Boef (the
river of cattle, probably DEER
and it is still called French
creek. We come to Venange
where George and his guide,
Christopher Gist, and Jacob
Won Braam, a young Dutch
man who could speak French,
and friendly Indians, en-
countered the French. They
were told that the comman-
der was at Fort LIE Boeuf at
the headwaters of the stream.
We continue for IS miles,
still recroSsing the dimin-
ishing creek, and come to
Waterford, Pa, Is miles
south Of Erie. In the heart of
that little village a museum
stands on the site of the old
French fort.
There on December IL,
1853, George delivered Gov.
Dinwiddie'S letter to the
French commander, Sieur Le-
gardeur de st. Pierre de
Repentigny, Knight of st.
Louis. He told George that
the Ohio country was French
territory because La Sale
had discovered it almost a
century before. George had
never heard of La Sale.
Evening star., 1961-07-18
Limited Jet Usoqe
Seen for National
Dutu Obtoined on TrioI Flights
Of CuruVeIIe Called Favorable
By CHARLES YARBROUGH
Star staff Writer

possible that jet airners will be using National Air
port under certain condition before the opening of Dulles
International in october of next year.
This acknowledged during conference yester-
day by N E. Haaby4 Federal Aviation Administrator He
emphasized that have idea of permitting jet
Evening star., 1961-07-18
Camp Fund
Contributions

The following contributions
to the Evening Star Summer
Camp Fund are gratefully
acknowledged:
Milford chronicle., 1961-10-13
University News

Vice President George M. Wor-
rilow of the University OF Della
ware this week announced the APP
pointment of DR.. Edward S. Over
man as director of the newly
established urban services project
He will head a pioneering effort
by the university to help Della
ware communities deal effectively
with problems associated with the
states tremendous popu a
growth and industrial expansion.
DIR. Overman will be adminiS-
tratively responsible TO DR.. Wor-
rilow, vice president for university
affairs. A 100000 grant from the
Ford Foundation will finance the
project over an initial five-year
period, President John A. Perkins
has announced.
DR.. Overman comes to the uni
versity from Tennessee, where he
was professor of political science
and associate director of the Uni
versity of TenneSsee's bureau of
public administration He directed
research, service and training ac-
tivities on behalf of Tennessee
state and local government units,
and served as chairman of the
council of the university's Munich
pal Technical Advisory Service.
Vice President WorrilOw OBJ
served that establishment of the
urban services project represents
major step for the university in
fulfilling its role as a landgrant
university in an urban society.
I'VE believe that the goal of a
total university serving a total
state population should be fore
most. Our agricultural research
and extension programs long have
made the university's resources a
valuable to rural people. This ur-
ban counterpart of that success
full program will help us better
serve all the people of Delaware.
DR.. Overman's demonstrated lead
ership and his wide range of eX-
perience in metropolitan and ur-
ban problems made him an apprO-
pirate choice for this assignment" +"
the vice preSluent Sdlu.
He indicated that the new pro-
ject will permit an attack on Del
aware's urban problems through
consulting and advisory services
by urban extension specialists, and
research activities.
Examples of the kinds of urban
related problems that demand at
tention are:
/. Lack of adequate water sup
plies for future domestic and in
dustrial use.
2 Inadequate recreatiOnal t a.
cilities to keep abreast of pOpula-
tion growth and increasing public
demands.
3. Problems of increasing mag
nitude related to transportation.
4. Need in many communities
for improved means of handling
sewage and refuse.
5. Polygot urbanization n d
strip development, and the need for
more adequate planning and zon-
ing TO cope with these problems.
6. General lack of knowledge on
the part of the public about
sources OF information and prOce-
dures for getting effective group
action TO bear on urban problems
There are. of course. many
more problems and needs relating
TO urban expansion in Delaware
than we can hope to solve in the
initial 5-year period" DR.. Worri-
low said "At fhp Same time We
expect to move vigorously ahead
Milford chronicle., 1961-10-13
Skiing Gorb
Goes Nautical

AP Newsieatures
The sea language has been "a
dopted as ski language.
International code flags used by
sailors for visual communication
across the waters, were success
fully employed recently by a
sportswear manufacturer as boat
jacket designs.
Now the same manufacturer is
using the nautical signals on ski
jackets so that one
snow bird can signal impending dis
aster to another. or at least to
identify each other from slope to
slope.
The quilted nylon, dacron-filled
Jackets are lightweight and hooded.
And in the event that the skier
finds himself on a snowy highway
instead of byway, the jacket
contains toll ticket holder
Milford chronicle., 1961-10-13
HAWAII GATHERS FISH

HONOLULU (AP) - Two bio
logists from the Hawaii Fish and
Game Division will spend six weeks
on Moorea in the Society Islands
collecting fish for introduction 10
Hawaiian waters.
Biologists Harry Kami and Isaac
Ikehara said they plan to take 5000
fish, primarily shallow water snap
pers and groupers not found In
Hawaii. The fish, to be placed in
large tanks, will be taken to Hon
olulu by the u. S. Fish and Wild
life Service.
Kani said the snappers and
groupers should improve sports
fishing and commercial catches in
Hawaii wherever they are found
in the islands of the central and
western Pacific" he said. They
seem TO attract large numbers OF
game and commercial fish,
Milford chronicle., 1961-10-13
Disservice To
The Consumer

The Secretary of Agriculture
has proposed resembling an order
which permits Federally inspected
meat packers to produce modern
tender smoked hams. And that. in
the view of the American Meat In
stitute, would be "a disservice to
the American consumer and the
swine producer
1t is worth noting that, if this
order goes into effect and is main
tanned in force, it will overrule
the recommendations made by the
Department of Agriculture tech
nical experts after a long and care
full study of the problem of pro-
ducing and merchandising hams
that meet the wants of today's con-
sumers. The background story rs
a simple one. AS recent Depart
ment public hearings demonstrate
ed, the demand on the part of the
public for modrn, more tender
hams, with somewhat larger
moisture content, is greater than
for the fashioned, drier type of
ham. SO, as the Institute puts the
problm. I'VE believe that the Fed
eral government should aid rather
than hamper the livestock and
meat industry in it's efforts to pro-
vide for the public the variety of
wholesome ham products for
which there is public demand" 1t
is certainly obvious that if the in
dustry is forbidden to produce
these wanted ham products ham
sales and consumption will drop.
to the loss of all concerned
There is no question of santa
tion or any related matters in this.
1t concerns. rather. the right of
the housewife to purchase the type
of ham she prefers, whether mod
rn or old-fashioned. Certainly. if
she does want the modern type,
she should not be denied the beni-
fits Of federal inspection. But that
is what will happn if the pro-
posed order stands.