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Arizona tribune., 1961-04-28
GSM 1860 REPORT
SHOWS GAINS

Los ANGELES--Benefit paw.
ments totaling $l.2 million OF
health insurance claims lastyeal
accounted for over half the tota
amount paid in benefits to policy
owners and beneficiaries of Col
den State Mutual Life Insurance
Co. in 1860. Norman o. Houston,
president of the firm, announced
this week.
Commenting on the company S
just released 36th Annual Report,
he said death benefits, amounting
to $4l5, 1898 during the year, rep
res ented only about l7.o per cent
Of the $2.3 million in total ben
efits distributed, with the re-
mainder accounted for by living
policyowner benefits.
Matured endoWments claimed
$lo4, 400 of the total, and owners
of life policies received $l65 .3Ol
in dividends for 1860, extending
the company's unbroken string of
dividend-paying years to 81. To-
tai benefits paid by the company
since its organization passed the
$40 million mark, the GSM exec
utive revealed.
Insurance in force with GSM
reached $l46.8 million during the
year from 1882 million in 1859
for 1912 per cent gain. Assets
rose by $l.2 million to l7.6 mil
lion, a IA per cent increase.
Mortgage loan investments at
the end of 1860 stood at $7.o
million. 9.5 per cent higher than
at the end of 1859, and accounted
for nearly half of GSM's total
investments. Mortgage loan in
vestments are made primarily
in residential properties, en-
couraging home ownership.
Among the highlights of CSM's
activities during 1860, Houston
noted in his annual message to
company policyowners were the
expansion Of company operations
TO the states of Michioan and In
diana and vast Improvements in
its employee training and devel-
opment programs. GSM now has
offices in eight states to serve
more than 257, 900 policyowners.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-28
GRANGER SPEAKS

Lester B. Granger, executive
director of National Urban
League. addressed a full house
at the 10th annual meeting of the
Phoenix Urban League, last
Thursday. at the local YMCA.
He stated that problems faced
in race relations were rising to
the surface more than 20 years
ago. He told an attentive aud
ience that qualified and interested
pers omel could keep Urban
League alive in the area.
In a previous speech to the
Phoenix Press Club, he remarked
that America must solve the
problems, not because of what
others think of us but because
it is the right thing to do"
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-28

Hesa Nidiot thought tn feller
who fiddled with his whiskers
played a tune.
Many a gals heart throb is
only a pain in tn neck.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-28
MORTGAGE FOR SALE

GOOD FIRST MORTGAGE FOR
SALE, Sill, ,7OO--6% interest. Dis
count IL l/2%. CHARLES M.
PIERCE. Casa Grande, Arizona.
Temple 6-52O2.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-28

FIRST INSTITUTIONAL BAPTIST CHURCH, E. Jefferson
Rev. A. G. Kendrick, pastor.
Church chors presented their second monthly program
last Sunday night Participants Choraers
Chorus, Male Chorus, the Senior Choir.
TAYLOR MEMORIAL nTTERRACHL SPIRITUAL, ,ST CHURCH
l245 W. Watkins, Rev. Nellye Niaye Taylor, pastor
Everyone services: Lyceum Sunday
School 1000 IN, regular worship 2:3O pm.
Arizona tribune., 1961-04-28

Pictured above Mashie
Golf Club which will host the
Assn tourney May IA Seated John Ward
Solomon Frank Huff, Mrs. George Standing
left Robert Banks. Ananas Mason, William Gckey.
Frank Huff Lee Jones. j. Jones, David McCammy Harry
Sessions, and George
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Tech High Grads
Of SO to Hold
Reunion Nav Is

Tech High School graduates
of a quarter-century ago will
reassemble two weeks from to-
day at a 25th anniversary din
ner-dance in Bethesda.
Those who we're graduated
from the District school in
1886 will meet at 7::30 pm. May
13 at the Westwood Inn, on
westward avenue between River
road and Massachusetts ave-
nue..
Elmer P. (Hap) Hardell,
coach of numerous champion
ship football and track teams
at Tech three and four de-
cades ago, will be a guest. He
now is track coach at George
town University.
Reservations can be made
through Mrs. Lowell E. Fun
dom. the former Edna Pleitner,
of 10608 New Hampshire ave-
nue., Hillandale, Md, or Mrs.
Ferdinand R. Peick, the former
Shirley Peters, of 5310 Forty
first street NV.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Wheaton Plaza
Free Shopping
Buses Okuyed

Free bus service between the
Wheaton Plaza shopping center
and several Montgomery County
Subdivisions will be provided
beginning Monday.
There will be three daily
round trip rides over five
routes under an arrangement
between D. c. Transit System
and the Wheaton Plaza Mer-
chants Association.
The shopper bus service was
approved yesterday by the
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Commission.
The commission also made
perm lament an intra-S State
Maryland fare rise granted the
VIVA Transit Co.. last August
on a temporary basis.
The fare increase order by
the Maryland Public Service
Commission, which was effec-
tive through tomorrow, pro-
videS for a jump from Is to 90
cents for the first zone of travel
and from 5 to 10 cents for the
second zone. The company had
asked for a l0-cent first-zone
increase and a scent increase
for the second.
1t was also announced after
yesterdays meeting that the
commission will move its Of
fices, Monday, from 722 Jack
son place NV. to 1901 Moore
street, Arlington.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Alumni Set
Honor for
Vote Bucker

North Cardinals Ed Kemp,
who fought for passage in his
State Legislature of the 23d
Amendment granting Washing
tonians the right to vote for
President and Vice President,
will be honored by his college
alumni association of the
Washington area tonight.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Kemp,
graduates of High Point Col
lege, are coming from North
Carolina to join High Point
alumni from Washington, Bal
timore and Wilmington at the
Villa Rosa Restaurant in Silver
Spring, Md.
Mr.. Kemp sponsored the Dis
trict suffrage amendment in
the North Carolina House and
succeeded in steering it onto
the floor for a vote. But the
House routed the vote reform
back to committee.
The amendment became q
part of the Constitution before
North Carolina could act and
the amendment never moved
out of the committee.
Mr.. Kemp's efforts received
considerable attention because
action by North Carolina would
have cut into the otherwise
almost solid opposition In
Southern States.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
CD Test Uncovers
Emergency D. c. Cash

Thanks to their parents and
teachers, plus generous prop
erty owner. the Murch students
have a first-rate air raid shell
ter described by officials as the
best in the city made available
to school children.
Yesterday the Murch stu
dents - kindergarten through
sixth grade-made use of the
shelter in the first full scale
drill in a District school to
take the youngsters out of their
building an into the safety of
a reinforced cellar.
The drill, led by their prin-
cipal, Miss Miriam Kaufman,
conceded with yesterdays Ma
ton wide Operation Alert"
The alarm bell rang at ITO
pm, and half the 735 students
taking part in the drill filed
out of the building in less than
80 seconds.
Quiet and grim faced, they
marched a block and one half
to the huge underground gar
age at the Essex House, a mod
ern apartment building at 474O
Connecticut avenue NV.
Use of the Essex House ga
rage, described by civil defense
officials as an excellent shelter,
was brought about by a Coop
erative neighborhood effort.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Girl of 20 Dies,
8 Persons Flee
AS House Burns

A 20-year-old Prince Georges
County girl was burned fatally
in her bedroom early today, in
a blaze which fire officials said
apparently started by smoking
in bed.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Brawner
of 1928 Old Fort road, Chapel
Hill, Md. was pronounced dead
at $40 am. by DR.. James 1.
Boyd, County medical ex-
aminer.
-Four adults and four chill
dren fled from the frame, two
story house, according to
Detective Sergt. Robert N.
Cabral. He said a neighbor re-
ported the fire about 4:3O am.
The flames destroyed the
second story of the house be-
fore they were extinguished by
volunteer firemen from Ac-
cokeek, Clinton, Oxon Hill and
Allentown road.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
KENNEDY HEARD
ON CONELRAD

I'VE do not expect war, -
President Kennedy told Ameri-
cans during yesterdays Nation
wide Civil Defense exercise, but
he urged that individual Amer
leans be ready should an en-
emy thrust war upon U.S."
Mr.. Kennedy's taped message
was broadcast over the emerg-
ency CONELRAD system at $40
and 1910 radio wavelengths.
Within a minute after the
first shrek of sirens at 4 pm.
yesterday, New York came to a
Standstill. Cars and trucks
stopped and people lodged into
Subway entrances and shelter
areas.
About SIS pacifists protested
the exercise in front of New
York's city hall. Some students
staged sitdown demonstrations
at Columbia University and
City College.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Local Oriental Home
Described in Sunday Star

MODERN HOUSE FROM THE PAST-out on 1Jniver-
slty Terrace, there's bit of old Japan in Wash
lngton. It's the home of a District Court Justice
and It's built to the chaSte and simple lines that are
hallmark of Japanese tradition For an interest,"
ing Word-and-picture visit to this home see SUN
DAY, The Star Magazines cover story
RULES FOR TEMPER ER-TAMING-After eight wears in
the demanding post of Presidential Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty reveals in This Week Magazine
some OF his most nerve-raCking moments along
with three tricks he learned to tame his temper In
the same magazine top fashion designers
offer you advice on how to stay in style.
THE COMEDY OF CAROL BURNETT-Carol Burnett.
the TV and stage star who can mpersonate lust
about anybody is the subject of the cover story this
week in TV Magazine which each Sunday brings
you more teevision program liStngs and more pages
of color pictures
THE MAGIC MONTH OF MAY-Thats when the real
Chesapeake Bay fishing starts What are the pros
poets for rockfish hardhead spots? outdoor Editor
Charles Covel supplies the answers on the Leisure
Sports Page this Sunday in the Sports section.
IT'S CHEAPER THAN YOU THINK-Star Travel Editor
Jack Jonas explodeS the theory that travel in the
United States requires suitcase of money If you
forego orchestra seats and breast of guinea hen
under glass, pleasure travel be cheaper than you
think. For proof, read the travel pages in The
Sunday Star.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Sees System
Leading to
Mediocrity
By ALEX r. PRESTON
Star Staff Writer

RICHMOND, April ga
former president of the Uni
versity of Virginia has warned
the State Board of Education
that inadequate graduate pro-
grams in colleges are leading
to unbelievable mediocrity" in
the teaching profession.
Colgate w. Darden, jr., who
also is a former Governor of
Virginia, told the board yes
terday:
you've got a big stake in
this because teacher pay scales
are based on degrees. You've
got faculties with a string of
degrees behind their names
that is little short of a fraud"
Mr.. Darden recently was ap-
pointed to the State Board of
Education by Gov. Almond.
Yesterday was the first time
he has participated in discus
sionS to any great extent.
His comments, which were
concurred in by other members
of the board, came during re-
marks by DR.. William H. Nc
Farlane, executive director of
the State Council on Higher
Education, on defining the roles
of Virginia-s supported colleges.
Not Automatic
Leonard G. Muse, board
president. said: We've reached
the point where we're assuming
every holder of a Ph.D. is a
competent teacher. That's a
whale of an assumption"
Its a terrible assumption"
interjeCted Mr.. Darden.
Because of inadequate train
ing in some colleges in graduate
work. some administrators
would rather not have Ph.D.s
on their staff, DR.. McFarlane
said.
DR.. McFarlane said this is
a problem he hopes can be
solved by a new advisory COM
mittee which will hold its first
meeting in Charlottesville on
May Is and IS.
The State Board O. Education
decided to take a closer look
during the next 80 days at "ex-
tracurricular" activities con-
Quoted during regular school
hours in the public schools.
This followed a report by
State Supt. Woodrow w. Will
kerSon tnat more than Al per
cent of club meetings are held
during school nurs. In athletics.
his report showed, 3 per cent of
"at home" games are held dur,
ing school hours, and 8 per
cent of away from home"
games.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
CLOCK MOVES UP
HOUR SUNDAY FOR
DAYLIGHT SAVING

Time moves ahead one
hour tonight for residents
of the District and nearby
areas of Maryland and
Virginia.
The official beginning
of Daylight Saving Time is
at 2 am. tomorrow, when
the correct time will be-
come 3 am. The lost hour
will be recovered when
Standard Time returns
next fall.
The District will be
joined by II States in the
switch to Daylight Time.
Maryland and Virginia,
however, are among II
States in which the time
change goes into effect
only in some areas.
Evening star., 1961-04-29

with handouts which had Just
been snapped on him.
Pvt. Kaponin pulled out his
pistol and fired four times at
his assailant. missing each
time. Then the man sur
rendered. The other gunman
started running and Pvt. Van
Dnsen shot the man once in
the leg when he ignored an
order to halt. The wounded
man also was seized.
Pvt. Kaponin was treated for
head cuts at Suburban Hos
pital. One of the suspects, Roy
E. Calhoun, 30. of Baltimore.
also was treated for the wound
in his leg. Both Calhoun and
the other suspect, Dorset c..
Calp. 81, also of Baltimore,
were charged by police with
kidnapping and robbery.
In the gunfire, Mr.. Burford
remembers that he plunged
behind a pile of cinder blocks.
When the holdup men were
Subdued moment later, he, too,
was suspected of being an &C
complice, and one policeman
showed him unceremoniously
into a nearby sand pile.
Don't shoot me; I'm the
one who got robbed!" Mr.. Bur-
ford yelled.
At this point. Art Moreland,
carpenter superintendent for
Norair Engineering Corp, ran
out and identified Mr.. Burford
as a trusted employe.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
THE BANDS PLAYED ON
Chill Rain, Hail PeIt
Apple Blossom Parade

Miss Judy Sue Williams of
Berryville was selected from 13
beauty and personality entrants
as Miss Shenandoah Apple
Blossom. Runners-up were
Marjorie Ellen Loving of Hot
Springs, Va. and Patricia Ann
Rockenbaugh of Harpers Ferry,
W. Va.
Prize winners of the grand
feature parade were:
College bands--l. Radford College
Highlanders, Radford, Va >, State
Teachers College, Frostburs, Md
Macon Academy, Front Royal, va. d;
,, staunton Military Academy, staun-
High school cadet bands-l. John
Marshall. Richmond; >, George Wythe,
HlEh school bands up through SO
pieces-l, Independence VA Hirh;
,, Highland Springs High, Richmond
High school bands 81 pieces and up
IL. Newport News Typhoon Marching
Drum and bugle corps, Lees
Lieutenants Junior Drum and Bugle
Corps, American Legion Post 1875.
Richmond; , University Of Virginia
Academy; >, CO. S. Pershing Rifles,
West Virginia University,
Drum majors, Glen KalnaSy,
Staunton Military Academy >, Ken
meth Hoover, Central HiSh, Martins
Drum majorettes-I. sharon Walsh,
Mclean tva0 Highlanders Band: >,
Diana, Decker, Waynesboro (Pa) High
School Band.
out-of-town communities and or
ganizstionS, professionally built,
Pureellville Wa, Lions Club $3.50.
cuItts West yirFinif college 9i Beauty
Communities and ORGANIZATIONS. nom
VA Lions Club iS156j. ,, st9sTts
Draft CVa.l Woman,s Club $500.
Business firms, professionally built
World BOOK Baltimore SS1e SSi505. 3,
Chamber of Commerce, Front Royal,
Business firms, non-professionally
built, Buckroe Beach VA Busi-
Park Par nefTy Bef4yviiie sioW Va cS5owS watermelon
In, town organizations. profession
ally built Lions Club (Sl5OI. 2,
Kiwanis Club $3.50.
Business firms, professionally built
J.. Howard Johnson's Restaurant
tSl5O). ,, Duffs Rebel Restaurant
Business firms, non-p professionally
buiit-l, National Fruit Products Co.
tSl5O. ?, Culligan Water Condi-
Additional recognition for Civil War
theme floats, Duff's Rebel Restau-
rant, Winchester. 9, Shenandoah h
valley Motel Association, Winchester.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
BY JEREMY B. FOSS
Star Staff Writer

WINCHESTER, Va, April 90,
- Hail yesterday interrupted
the Shenandoah Apple Bios
som Festivals biggest event
the Grand Feature Parade
but both marcherS and spec
tators had their finest hour.
The 211 units in the parade
lined up for hours, had just
outwaited a light drizzle. The
sun had broken through the
clouds, changing an atmos-
phere of gloom to one of hap
pinesS.
Lovely princesses, scattered
like rose petals over 81 floats,
were smiling.
Stirring music began as the
first of 80 bands turned the
corner of Loudoun street.
Torrent of Rain
The queens float, with
Katherine Greech perched high
on her throne, had just rounded
the corner of South Washing
ton street when suddenly the
sky opened and a torrent of
rain fell like a brick on the
floats, the marcherS and the
spectators.
Within a minute the sheet
Of rain had turned, unbeliev-
ably to ice, and pebbles of hail
pummeled everyone. There were
screams of shock as the crowds
ran for cover and the princeses
tried to protect themselves,
some jumping from their floats
The parade staggered and
lurched, but the music played
on.
Cold and Wet
And there were the girls,
teeth chattering as they smiled,
their handsome gowns and their
curled hair soaking wet.
The hail turned to rain and
the queen and her court were
hustled to safety in a nearby
home. But the bands played
on.
And then, from under the
awnings and doorways and
into the rain, the crowd start
ed coming out.
Soon the 3-mile parade route
was lined with cheering peo-
pie.
The parade ended an hour
later. The flags had never
wavered, and the old and the
very young stood fast along
the way.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Darden Criticizes
College Programs
Registration Card Lack
FoiIs $500 HoIdup

Only his failure to produce
registration card after his
truck went through a stop sign
saved 40-year-old Thomas Bur-
ford from being the victim of a
ST 500 robbery yesterday.
Even so, the National In
Stitutes of Health construction
worker wound up in the middle
of a bullet-punctuated battle
between Montgomery County
police and two robbery sus-
poets.
Mr.. Burford was sitting in
the truck, flanked by two
armed men when two police
men saw the traffic violation
and ended up thwarting the
holdup.
Mr.. Burford is from Mount
Carbon, w. Va, and lives in a
trailer court in Frederick, Md.
He commutes daily to NH
with five friends who take
turns driving. He borrowed a
pickup truck, owned by one of
the car pool, to make his
customary run to Bethesda yes
terday for a $500 payroll for
81 men, including his own sal
ary. Then, he said;
When l got in the truck
with the payroll in the 7400
block of Wisconsin avenue, the
door opened and a gun poked
into it. A man said, This is a
holdup.'
Victim Grabs Gun
Il grabbed the gun, but he
said not to bother because
there was another armed man
on the other side. First they
showed me down on the floor
boards and took the money.
That was my worst moment.
Right after that. the police
stopped us. l was sitting be-
tween the two men then. All
I could do was pray that some
thing would happen about that
registration card"
1t did. Montgomery County
Pvts. Demetrius G. Kaponin
and Duane Van Dusen saw the
truck go through stop sign
at West and Montgomery lanes
and asked for the registration
card. Mr.. Burford said it was
at the NH and the police said
they would follow him out there
to get it
"All the way out to NH, the
two holdup men kept warning
me not to tip anybody off. One
guy kept saying, I'll kill you
because if they catch me, I'm
a dead duck anyway"
When the strange assortment
arrived at NH, one robber &C
companied Mr.. Burford to the
fifth floor of a large building
under construction to pick up
the registration card. Because
elevators are not yet installed,
the odd twoSome had to walk,
and Mr.. Buford recalls that his
companion kept muttering that
he should not tip my mitt.~
/ He kept punching me with
his elbow, all the way up Mr..
Burford recalled ruefully, He
kept his gun in his coat, but
I knew it was there"
JOShed BY Friends
When he asked his friend for
the registration card, his CO.
workers kidded him about a
potential traffic ticket.
What do you look so pale
for, Tommy" one of them
asked. That policeman isn't
going to lock you up"
Meanwhile, the two police
men waited downstairs and ex-
amined the insides of the truck.
One policeman spotted the bags
of payroll money on the truck
floor. When the others emerged
from the building. one police
man, suspicious, asked if they
had been to the bank yet.
mo, we we're on our way
there when you stopped us"
one of the would-be robbers
renlied.
It was just then that Police
Pvt. Van Dusen heard cries
for help from his companion,
Pvt. Kaporin. The bandit had
hit Pvt. Kaponin over the head
Evening star., 1961-04-29
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

The District Commissioners.
who haven't been too success
full in getting money or per-
mission to borrow money in re-
cent visits to Capitol Hill, found
a million-dollar loophofe yes
terday.
Relocated temporarily at Lor-
ton, Va, for Civil Defense's OPP
Grafton Alert, 1861, Commits
sionerS Robert E. Mclaughlin
and Frederick J. Clarke ouizzed
CD and District officials about
what moneys they could spend
in a real emergency.
They discovered that they
could ignore all contracts and
spend the limit of the money
on hand. What then?" said
Mr.. Mclaughlin, putting on
his pipe.
An aide said there is a World
War II law still in effect which
would permit the borrowing Of
81 million to So million in an
emergency.
Let's sign that declaration
Of emergency paper right
now" said Mr.. Mclaughlin,
wishfully.
By HeIicOpter
Most of the Commissioners
special meeting yesterday was
spent on a more serious brief
ing on Washington's readiness
for attack. Brig. Gen. Clarke,
the Board of Commissioners
secretary, Geoffrey M. Thor
nett; the boards assistant sec
retary, Francis L. TimmonS,
jr., and Fire Chief Millard H.
Sutton arrived by helicopter
from Boiling Air Force Base at
about 2 pm.
Commissioner Mclaughlin ar
rived by car, with plans to go
on to his farm to view my
fine new white-faced bull"
Commissioner Walter To-
briner gamely remained in the
city at a conflicting meeting.
The 'copter descended onto
a lawn marked by smoke. The
occupants moved into the Lor-
ton Youth Center aministra-
tion building as white clad
youths watched from nearby
dormitories.
They heard reports that:
I. The relocation center was
linked by radio to the PreSi-
dents secret command center
and to various centers around
the United States.
2. From these centers, infor-
nation would be received out
| lining the Nations destruction.
3. District hospitals, with
5000 beds normally, could ex-
pand to $1,000 if left standing.
Otherwise, stockpiles of medi-
cal supplies and hospital equip
ment we're ready in areas sur
rounding the District.
Tour Headquarters
The Commissioners toured
the relocation headquarters and
talked with some of about $50
persons who were to work until
about noon today in the alert
exercise.
AS the evening wore on. 1t
was discovered that Washing
ton had been spared any di-
rect hits.
But one missile had hit"
near Dulles International Air
port and another, aimed at
Andrews Air Force Base, had
burst in the air three miles
west of Upper Marlboro. An
drewS was still destroyed by
the blast, however, and there
were many casualties in South
east Washington.
There were total of 26,800
deaths in the Washington area
and $1,000 casualties, 10000
Of which required hospitaliza-
Evening star., 1961-04-29
Benefit Cord Party

The Fathers of Mercy Sem
mary Guild will sponsor a card
party at 8 pm. Friday at the
corner of Bradley boulevard
and River road Bethesda, to
benefit young men training for
tn hpriesthood.
Evening star., 1961-04-29
MURCH PUPILS
TEST SHELTER

The 735 students at Ben
Murch Elementary School,
Thirty sixth and Davenport
streets NV, were the best
protected public school pupils
in the District yesterday.A