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Evening star., 1961-09-17
SIX ECHO VISITS
SCHEDULED HERE

The Echo I satellite will
pass over the Washington
area at the following times
this week:
Tuesday: 6:36 am, south
of the city, 10 degrees above
the horizon, moving north
east.
Wednesday: 5::53 am,
south of the city, 10 degrees
above the horizon, moving
northeast.
Thursday: $40 am,
south of the city, 2 degrees
above the horizon, moving
northeast.
Friday: 6:39 am, south
of the city. A degrees above
the horizon, moving north
east.
Saturday,: 5:57 am,
south of the city, 81 de-
grees above the horizon,
moving northeast.
Sunday: STA am, south
of the city, 20 degrees above
the horizon.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

earlier hearings when the re-
quests we're dismissed on tech
uicalities.
At a hearing Friday, the
schools request was dismissed
because people living near the
school site said they had only
been given IA days notice of the
hearing-not the required Is
days. The board of appeals had
the notices prepared in time,
it was reported, but mailed
them out one day late.
The ballet society wants the
school in an addition to a struc-
ture at 9816 River road.
Mrs. Riddell said that George
Balanchine, director of the
New York City Ballett, will be
associated with the school, and
will send promising students to
help teach at the Washington
school.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
HOURS ADDED
AT LINCOLN
MEMORIAL

Record breaking crowds
have caused the Interior
Department to extend the
hours of the Lincoln Me-
morial.'
Starting today, the me-
memorial will be open
every day from 8 am. until
midnight. Hours formerly
: were from 9 am. to 10 pm.
During July and August,
as an experiment the
shrine was kept open "a
hours a day TO see how
the greatest number of
visitors could be accommo-
dated.
Up to September /, a
record 2,294,822 people had
been counted visiting the
memorial this year, an
increase of 13 per cent over
the old record set last year.
AS many as $4,000 visitors
went through the me-
mortal in a single day, the
Interior Department re-
ported.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

way ramp dispute. officials
said.
On the District side, the
plans are for highway con-
struction along the river that
will tie in the bridge with the
west leg of the city's proposed
inner loop" freeway system.
Construction of the bridge
and the highway connections
would cost about $28.5 million.
The Government would put up
about 80 per cent and the city
the balance. The District wants
to spend about $5.5 million
during the current fiscal year
to set the work under way.
Evening star., 1961-09-17
UGF Workers
Rally Is Set
Hodge to Leud
Tuesday Session

Secretary of CONNER
Hodges will preside at a pre-
campaign rally Tuesday for
Government workers who will
participate in the 1861 United
Givers Fund campaign in the
Washington area.
The rally will be held at noon
Tuesday in Constitution Hall
Besides Secretary Hodges, who
is chairman of the UGF Gov
ernment Unit, Federal officials
who will attend the gathering
include Postmaster General j
Edward Day, who will deliver
the rally's keynote address.
The annual fall campaign will
begin officially at a kickoff
dinner in the Statler- Hilton
Hotel on october 2. The UGF
goal this year is a record $7.S
million.
Thousands Volunteer
More than 10000 Capital ares
volunteers will give their serv.
ices in the united Embarrassing
effort, which provides the fl
nancial mainstay for 148 health
and welfare agencies.
Donald s. Bittinger, presi.
dent of the Washington Ga'
Light Co., is general chairman
of the 1861 single package
charity and welfare drive. A!
head Of the campaigns Majol
Firms Unit In 1860, Mr.. Bit.
finger directed a drive which
yielded more than the units
goal.
Government Unit volunteer
this year will number 10000
The unit has exceeded it's goa
for the past three years.
Units and Leaders
| Major campaign units anc
their chairmen are:
Major Firms, William Gallo.
miris; Advance Gifts, MARI
Sullivan, jr.; Government, Sec.
retary Hodges; District of Co.
lumbia, Wade L. Rothgeb; Vir.
ginia, Stephen g. Yeonas, arc
Maryland, Warren D. Haley
and Ernest N. Cory, jr.
UGF officials have disclosed
that the October 2 kickoff
rally will be televised by al
four Washington TV stations
The telecast schedules are to be
announced in the near future.
Evening star., 1961-09-17

the span, Just upstream from
Key Bridge, and the George
Washington Memorial parkway
in Virginia. Opposed is Conrad
L. Wirth, National Park Serv-
ice director, who believes that
commuter traffic should be
kept off parkways.
Limit on Width
If the bridge-parkway con-
nections are barred, the Dis
trict may we'll be ordered by
Federal highway officials to
hold the width to six lanes,
according to Engineer Com
missioner Frederick j, Clarke
With no parkway traffic, the
Bureau of Public Roads prob
ably would rule that an eight
lane bridge is not justified, &C
cording to city highway Off
cials. The Districts position
however, is that it would be
a mistake to hold the width tc
six lanes even if the bridge
parkway ramps are vetoed
Gen. Clarke said.
The engineer commissioner
recently said that the Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge, now under
construction, should have hac
eight lanes, rather than six
The plan by the District
highway department for the
Three Sisters Islands crossing
calls for ramps connections
between the bridge and the
upstream section of Virginia''
George Washington Memoria
parkway.
No Official Voice
The District has no officia
say in the decision on the
road connections on the Vir'
ginia side.
The proposed span is SLATED
as a heavy-duty bridge, anc
was to be the city's first eight
lane Potomac River bridge.
On the Virginia side. tht
bridges main chore will be tx
take traffic from Interstate
Route 66, both cars and tn,
trucks will be barred from tht
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.
The recently announced plal
from the Highway Department
showed Route Sc connecting
with Three Sisters Island
Bridge by way of Spout Run
parkway. This plan is beinl
restudied by Virginia highwa!
officials, however, and the de-
cision on this connection ma!
have an impact on the park,
Evening star., 1961-09-17
Porkwoys Dispute
MoyHoId 3 Sisters
To 6-Lone Bridge
Districts Aim of 8 Strips Moy Be
Denied if Connections Are Barred
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

The District may to settle for sx-lane Potomac
River Three Sisters Islands rather than eight
lane span, officials reported yesterday.
The width of the proposed bridge apparently rides
the outcome of dispute the road connections the
Virginia side
District highway officials traffic tie-in between
Evening star., 1961-04-02
Group
To Honor
Envoys

Ambassadors and their
wives from countries affili-
ated with the International
Federation Of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs
will be honored at a 5 to 7
pm. reception Thursday at
the groups national execu-
tive offices.
The Executive Committee
of the National Federation
will be hoStesses for the occa-
sion, which marks the 31st
anniversary of the Inter-
national Federation.
Countries affiliated with
Evening star., 1961-04-02

The following questions,
selected at random from let
ters I have received from
those who have become grand
parents, seem important to
me. While it is an honored
and wonderful position to be
in, it does have its problems.
know. I'm one myself. Eight
times over.
Should grandparents allow
their grandchildren to call
them by their first names?
Usually I am against any
child calling an adult by their
first name. However, in this
case it is a little different.
When a baby first starts to
talk and has both maternal
and paternal grandparents. he
is very apt to call one pair
"Grannie and Grandad." Nat
urally it becomes confusing to
him when he meets the others.
Usually it ends up by his
picking out his own names for
the other two.
Such is the case with me.
I am "Cawie" to them all,
because the first one gave me
this name. I do not think this
disrespectful because I know
the reason for it. AS a matter
Of fact I love it!
Should a gift be taken every
time you visit the youngsters?
I feel mo" very strongly about
this. On special occasions
"yes" but for the everyday
relationship, it only fosters
the idea in a child's mind
that you always mean a
present. His love for you will
naturally be based more on
this concept than on you
yourself.
Should we offer to "baby
sit"? Yes, within reason.
Let's face it. Young people
can be rather thoughtless
and take advantage of you
if you are not careful. Don't
always be ION CALI. Let it
be known that once in a while
you will be glad to oblige, but
you want to know about it
ahead Of time so you can
plan for it. The job of baby
sitting" should be one of
fairness on both sides. Just
refuse to be taken for grant
ed at all times.
How far do you go when it
comes to giving advice on the
upbringing of your grand
children? The answer is mo
place.! If specifically asked
for advice about some par
Evening star., 1961-04-02

Mrs. Brooks frequently at
tended White House func-
tions. She covered, among
other stellar events there,
the wedding of Alice Lee
Roosevelt president Theo-
dore Roosevelt'S daughter)
to Nicholas Longworth in
February, 1906.
Mrs. Brooks was elected
the president of the first Or
ganization of women of the
working press, the Society
Editors Association, founded
in the early days Of the Will
son Administration. And she
also was chosen to be the
first president of the Amer
lean Newspaper Women's
Club when it was organized
20 years ago. The latter club
Evening star., 1961-04-02
Mrs. Brooks to Meet
Her 10Th First LQdv

When Mrs. Kate Scott
Brooks goes to the White
House a week from Tuesday,
she will be meeting her 10th
First Lady and her goth
White House hostess.
Mrs. Brooks, who will be
SO on May "a, is the dean
emeritus of the $50 Washing
ton newswomen invited to
luncheon April II by Mrs.
Kennedy.
Her encounters with First
Ladies go all the way back
to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes,
only three administrations
after Abraham Lincoln's.
Mrs. Brooks was a school
girl of about IA when she
made her first trip to the
White House during the
Hayes tenure. She went with
her mother on a simple, So
cial call, a proper thing for
a young lady to do in those
days. According to her
daughter, Miss Katharine M.
Brooks, Mrs. Hayes was "at
home" every Saturday after
noon to anyone who wished
to make a visit.
Tim eS and customs
changed. But in the course
Of her long career as a So
ciety writer and editor, and
since her retirement, she has
met every chatelaine of the
Executive Mansion since Mrs.
Hayes.
List of Famed HOSteSSeS
These included Mrs. James
A. Garfield, Mrs. John Nc
Elroy (siSter of widower Pres
ident Chester Arthur, Rose
Elizabeth Cleveland (siSter Of
President Grover Cleveland,
who served as his hostess dur
ing his first term when he
was a bachelor, the first
Mrs. BENJAMIN Harrison, Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Will
liam Mckinley, Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Mrs. William
Howard Taft and Mrs. Louise
More (Mrs. Taft's sister, who
often acted as White House
hostess during the First
Lady's illness, the first Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, her daugh-
ter Margaret (who took over
the duties when her mother
diedD, the second Mrs. Will
son, Mrs. Warren G. Harding,
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Mrs.
Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harry
S. Truman and Mrs. Eisen-
hover.
When Mrs. Brooks met the
last Presidents wife she said,
I'm the oldest newspaper
woman in the world" DO
you have proof" replied Mrs.
Eisenhower. You don't look
it to me-"
One of the First Ladies in
Evening star., 1961-04-02

this long line-up-Mrs. Ben
jamin Harrison - was Mrs.
Brooks aunt. Caroline La
vinia Scott Harrison was the
sister of John Neal Scott,
Mrs. Brooks father. So it
was during that administra-
ton that she visited the Ex-
ecutiVe Mansion most often.
She also was related to
President Hayes on her pa
ternal side.
Mrs. Brooks, who made
her first White House visit
while a student at Mrs. SOM
mers Private School Cnow
the Mount Vernon Semi.
nary, had come to Wash
ington from her native Shell
byville, Ind.
She stayed on here to con-
tinue her study of voice, be-
gan to sing professionally
and established herself as a
leading soloist with local
singing groups, then married
Mr.. Hobart Brooks, corre-
spondent for the New York
Herald.
After her marriage Mrs.
Brooks became Washington's
first woman music critic.
Her career as a journalist
continued until she was past
10 and included service with
the Baltimore Sun for 18
years, the Detroit Free Press
for % years, the Indianapo-
lis News, Is years; the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, the Chicago
Tribune and the Boston
Herald for a score or so of
years, The Washington Star.
the Washington Herald and
the Washington Post.
AS society editor of the
Herald. and later Of the Post,
Evening star., 1961-04-02
Answers

Question - Is it necessary
to send a thank you note, or
cards, to those who you have
thanked personally at a
shower given in honor of
your expected baby? 1 re-
ceived wonderful gifts and
expressed my appreciation
verbally to each and every
person.
Mrs. H. M. P.
Answer - The personal,
verbal thanks are sufficient
in this case. However, be
sure you write a note of ap-
probation to the hostess of
the party. Verbally expressed
thanks are not enough here.
y 4 y
Question - When a man is
sitting on a sofa with two
women, should he sit in the
middle between tn e m, or
should he sit on the end? I
always feel awkward when
sitting in the middle and
turning from side to side, but
a friend says the other idea
is wrong? What do you
think?
Mr.. T. B. P.
Answer - Either approach
is perfectly correct. However,
I agree with you that sitting
on the end Of the sofa, and
turning sideways so you face
both the ladies without turn
ing from side to side, is far
more conducive to easy con-
versation.
(Registersd Q. s. Patent Office
Evening star., 1961-04-02
Author to Speak

The co-author of MY
Thirty Years .Backstairs at
the White House" Mrs.
Frances Spatz Leighton, will
speak at a meeting of the
Georgetown Business and
Professional Women's Club at
4 pm. Tuesday at Billy Mar
tins Carriage House.
Evening star., 1961-04-02

has made her honorary pres
ident for life.
Mrs. Brooks is looking for
ward to her meeting with the
new First Lady April II and
has told a friend just what
she plans to wear-her IA
vorite lavender dress with a
touch of old lace, once worn
by her Aunt Carrie Mrs.
HarriSon) in the White
House, a lace handkerchief
embroidered with her aunt's
initials, &C. S. H." and a few
pieces of jewelry which are
family heirlooms.
Evening star., 1961-04-02

the international Federation
are Australia, Austria, Bel
GUM. Canada, Ceylon, Den
mark, Finland, France, Ger
many, Great Britain, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, PskiStan, Philip
pines, Sweden, Switzerland
and the Union of South
Africa.
Evening star., 1961-04-02
MODERN
MANNERS
Being q GrundPorent
Is Wonderful, but
By CAROLYN HAGNER SHAW

ticular thing, give it to the
best of your ability. Other
wise, NUNS the word. Your
children have to make their
own decisions about their
children. You didn't want
unasked- = f or suggestions
when you we're bringing up
yours-remember?
Is it all right to take the
attitude that Il couldn't spoil
my own youngsters, now I
will have fun spelling my
grandchildren? To me, this
is definitely the wrong ap-
proach. 1t just isn't fair to
their parents to have your
fun" spelling them.
Fellow grandparents, what
are your opinions on this
subject? Write me and let
me know if you agree-or
diSagree-With my ideas.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-27
Controlling the Pesticides

Efforts to modify government pest
spraying programs, so as to safe.
guard public health and minimize
damage to wildlife, are making some
progress. But the recklessness of of
ficial pest-control agencies is only
part of the problem.
Government uses but a small frac-
ton of the estimated three to four
billion pounds of the so-called "econ-
omic poisons" that are being spread
annually, and in increasing volume,
across the American landscape. Most
of the new, potent chemicals are
sprayed or broadcast privately by
farmers or householders with little
thought given to the effects upon
to the consequences of a
build-up of poisons in the soil, or the
dangers of runoff into streams and
reservoirs.
Drenching trees and the soil be-
meath them with DOT has been high
" destructive to bird life in many
communities, while failing to halt
The spread of Dutch elm disease.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-27
Congress Wars On Frauds :.
Food and Medical Quucks
Blk Public Of ST Billion

most prominent fraudulent activity
conducted through the u. S. mails to-
day'-and he branded that as 'the
most heartless of hundreds of bilking
schemes now operating throughout
our land"
Summing up, DR.. Leonard w. Lar
son, ANA president, pledged his or
ganization to "war" against quack-
cry. Also spokesman for federal agen-
cies indicated they would push more
effective law enforcement in an eff
fort to stamp out quackery.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-27
80, 600 Disabled Vets
Placed In MonfaFm Jobs

WASHINGTON, d. C.-More than
$4,000 disabled veterans were placed
in nonfarm jobs through the United
States Employment Service during
the period from July 1, 1860 through
June 80, 1861, according to a publ
cation just issued by the Veterans
Employment Service of the Depart
ment of Labor's Bureau of Employ
ment Security.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-27
Officials Pay
Scale: Unions
vs.. Corporations

The nations press is quick to pub
lish the salaries of top union officials
as soon as they are made public, as
required by the Landrum- Griffin law,
by the Labor Department Bureau of
Acknowledgements Reports. But for
some reason it has never been equal
ly industrious in printing the earn
ings of top corporation officials which
are filed with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.
Maybe this is the reason: The aver
age salary received by 20 AFL-CIO
executive council members from their
respective unions last year was $27,-
555. The average salary, plus bonuses
and other extras not granted to union
officials, of the highest paid 29 cor
poration officials was $375,683. That
does not include the stock option GIN
mick for Big Businessmen which gives
company executives the right to buy
company stock at below-the-market |
price and to sell it at the current |
market price for big profit. Nor
does it include dividend units many
corporation bosses receive.
For instance, Chairman Arthur
Homer of Bethlehem Steel was paid
100000 in salary last year. But he
also received 1854 dividend units"
This means that he will receive every
year for the rest of his life payments
equal to the dividends he would get
f he actually owned 1854 shares of
Bethlehem stock.-COPE MEMO. !.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-27

There is evidence that some insect
problems have grown worse with the
use of chemicals, the effects of which
are not yet fully known.
Federal and state studies of stream
pollution show a growing number of
instances where fish have been killed
by agricultural poisons. In one ex-
ample cited by the U. S. Public Health
Service, fish kills occurred in fifteen
different tributaries of the Tennessee
River Valley following the applica-
ton of an insecticide to cotton fields
in eight Alabama counties.
To meet this difficult and growing
problem two things are necessary:
The first is more intensive research
into safe control methods and more
specific poisons, i.e., materials that
will kill the pest without damaging
variety of other living forms.
The second need is for adequate
information to the public about the
dangers.
At present no agency of the feder-
al government, and probably none in
most states, has been given authority
or direction to instruct the public in
safe methods of applying pesticides
and in the hazards of misuse. If the
industry fails to assume its own re-
'ponsibility, government may have to
step in with controls MONTANA
NEWS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-10-27

| WASHINGTON, ID, C.-LABOR)
Americans are robbed of at least
a billion dollars year by quacks in
the fields of drugs, foods and cos.
metics. That claim was made at q
Congress of Quackery", held in
Washington recently under the joint
sponsorship of the American Medical
Association and the u. S. Food and
Drug Administration.
Federal agencies and the ANA have
often been at odds on other issues,
but in fighting quackery, they made
it clear, they stand united.
Commissioner George P. Larrick of
the Food and Drug Administration
was among the speakers who told the
gathering that Consumers spend
more than 81 billion a year need
lessly on falsely represented drugs,
foods and cosmetics
About half of this spending, he
said, goes for needless vitamins and
fake "health foods. 'NThe most wide
spread and expensive type of quack-
cry in the U. S. today" DR.. Larrick
asserted, "is in the promotion of vita
min products, special dietary foods
and food supplements" most of
which, he said, are worthless.
"WOODS ARE FULL"
On the same point, DIR. Frederick
]. Stare, chairman of the department
of nutrition at Harvard's School of
Public Health, declared that "the
woods are full of food faddists and
crackpots on the subject of nutrition"
Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare Abraham Ribicoff stressed
chat while he has often disagreed with
The ANA, he does see eye to eye with
The organization on "the menace of |
Quackery's "cost in dollars" is only
part of the problem. Ribicoff said. |
In terms of false hopes raised, ugly |
lelusions fostered, and tinkering with
human life itself, the costs cannot be
neasured,' he declared.
DR.. R. w. Lamont-Havers, medical
director of the Arthritis and Rheuma-
ism Foundation, cited estimates that
n the arthritis field alone quacks
'mulct the public of some $3.50 mil
ion year"
DR.. L. Henry Garland of San Fran
isco, leader in the fight against
ANGER quackery, told the congress
hat quacks are very active in this
ield and they're often hard to recog-
ize as frauds. He suggested series
f methods, however, for detecting
he cancer quacks.
Postmaster General j. Edward Day
Did of the hard fight his department
lust wage to curb use of the mails
y the quacks. He declared that ssthe {
eddling of fake medical cures is the j