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Evening star., 1961-12-08
Turner-SuIIivun

Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Tur-
ner of Morris Plains, N. j.,
formerly of Worcester, Mass,
announce the engagement of
their daughter Constance
Anne to Mr.. Donald K. Sui
livan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold j. Sullivan of Be-
theSda, Md.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Henninqs-Dedn

Mrs. Thomas Carey HEM
ings, jr.. announces the en-
gagement of her daughter
Karla Ann to Mr.. John
Wesley Dean III, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Dean, jr., of Green
vile, Pa. Miss Hennings is
also the daughter of the late
Senator Hennings of Mis-
souri,. An early spring we'd
ding is planned.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Dunne-Reese

Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Fran
els Dunno of Chevy Chase,
Md, announce the engage
ment of tn cir daughter
Susan Jean to Mr.. Roger
Michael Reese, son of Mr..
and Mrs. C. Michael Reese of
Beverly Hills, Calf. A sum-
mer wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
ENGAGEMENTS
Albert-Boin

Mr.. and Mrs. George C.
Sherman announce the en-
gagement of her daughter.
Miss Suzanne v. Albert, to
Mr.. Peter D. Balm. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard c.
Balm of Summit, N. j. The
bride-elect is also the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. Frederick
A. Albert, ST. A February
wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
SisterhOod
Sets Party

The SiSterhood of Share
Tefila Congregation will hold
a Chanukah latke party and
square dance at 9 pm. next
Sunday at the Synagogue.
Paul Hartman will be the
caller and a demonstration
will be given of some ad-
vanced steps.
Reservations may be made
by contracting Mrs. Harold
GoldStein.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Shumuker-E Edwards

Mr.. and Mrs. James l..
Shumaker of Vienna. Va. an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Linda jean
cite to Mr.. John Lee Ed
wards, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John w. Edwards, also of
Vienna. A June wedding is
planned.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Make room for q
beautiful
NEW SUIT
in your
holiday wardrobe!
Afer.Christmos
Reductions NOw!

Tweeds, dressy wooIens and
worsteds in the fashionable
demi fit and boxy jacket
silhouettes. black, brown,
bright coIors included at
S99, some fur trims and
costumes but these only at
F Street. Others in branch
store selections.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Tasty Punch

Mrs. J. D. S., Washington
I have been put in charge
of the refreshment commit
tee for our office party and
Evening star., 1961-12-08
Here's How

Reoders' Clearing House is con-
Quoted ENTIRELY THROUGH THE
MAIL as o public service exchange
OF ideos between oreu reoders. The
Stor eonnot accept phone coils per-
toinins to this column. All letters
must beor the writer's full nome and
address. No advertising is printed.
Evening star., 1961-12-08
READERS CLEARING HOUSE
For Those Who Are Alone
J. c., WASHINGTON

Christmas can be very lonely season for those
who have no personal ties in this city
Here at the Young Women'S Christian Associa-
ton, we are most aware of the many people who
either new to Washington or without family and
friends at this season, which should be the years
Evening star., 1961-12-08

l am writing to ask if any
OF you readers has a recipe
Tor a tasty punch mon
alcoholic) which would be
easy to make. 1t will serve
approximately rs people. 1
always seem to get this job
and 1 have now run out of
ideas. I am really interested
IN a punch that is different.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
Frondizi Visit
Very Possible
BY the Associated Press

A visit to Washington by
Argentine President Arturo
FronGizi later this year was
described yesterday as very
possible"
Ambassador Emilio Donate
Del Carril speculated on the
possibility Of a Frondizi visit
after calling at the White
House to see Richard N. Good
win, a presidential aide who
specializes in Latin American
matters.
The Ambassador said MIR
Frondizi is considering a jour.
ney to Canada, Japan, Indit
and Thailand from the end Of
November until late Decem-
ber. He said a brief visit tc
Washington, now under dis
cussion, may be included as {
part of that tour.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
Rosenberg Suit
Asks License

Ross Rosenberg has asked
District Court to order the
District government to issue
him a car Salesman's license.
In a complaint filed with the
court yesterday by his atttor-
ney, Bernard T. Levin, the for
mer used car dealer here dis
puted the District Board of
Appeals and Review action
Monday in holding up issuance
of a license it had previously
authorized for Rosenberg.
The board action was taken
after a request for reconsidera-
ton on the issuance of the
license from Milton D. Kor-
man, acting corporation coun-
sci.
The board decided to issue
the license on August is. But
the corporation counsel then
asked that the issuance be de-
layed until the case can be re-
considered.
The delay was sought on
grounds that the appeal record
is devoid of any evidence
which even remotely tends to
establish Rosenberg'S trust
worthiness in any capacity
connected with the motor We
hicle business"
However, Mr.. Levin, in the
complaint filed with the court
yesterday, said that the rules Of
the board require that decisions
become final on the fifth day
after copies of its rulings are
forwarded to the parties in
volved unless a petition fol
reconsideration is received be.
fore such day.
In holding up issuance of the
license on Monday, the Boarc
of Appeals and Review per.
mitted MI. Rosenberg to keeI
his temporary salesman's Ii
cense until final action is taken
Evening star., 1961-08-24
BY RICHARD L. FORSTALL


North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK, Aug. "a
Which is the biggest city in the
world? London? New York?
Tokyo?
= Or Kiruna, Sweden?
Any and all of these cities
are the biggest in the world.
The confusion results from
the concept city" which no
The author is chief stotistieion for
Rond Mentally & Co.
longer describes the urban
areas of our modern industrial
society.
Indeed, the outdated concept
of a city" actually holds back
urban planning and blurS the
thinking of the public.
Logical Way of Thinking
In this age of sprawling ur-
banization it doesn't make
sense to think of a city in
terms of its corporate limits
It is more logical to think of it
in terms of a metropolitan
Area" consisting of a central
city" plus:
1.-Outlylng communities
with governments distinct
from that of the main city
but physically indistinguish-
able from it due to the growth
of the built-up area.
2.-Those communities tieo
closely to the central city So
cially and economically by such
factors as daily committing
Of a large share of workers
from their homes to jobs ir
the city.
Using this yardstick, the
New York metropolitan ares
comprises the largest city il
the world. Tokyo is second anc
London third.
Los Angeles Second
Among United States cities
Los Angeles is the second larg,
est metropolitan area with {
1860 population of 6.5 million
Chicago, now third with g.
million population, was edgec
out of second place by Los An
geles only within the last two
years. Los Angeles ranks eighth
largest in the world and Chi
cago ninth, preceded by New
York, Tokyo, London, Moscow
Evening star., 1961-08-24

NOW most apparent IN the
United States and Canada, ur-
ban dependence on automobiles
will follow prosperity anywhere,
they predict.
Traffic engineers from the
United States, Switzerland
France, Germany and Brazil
shared these views today in
papers submitted to the inter-
national section of the first
World Traffic Engineering
Conference, meeting at the
State Department.
In other papers, specialists
from the United States, Canada,
Germany, Italy and Sweden
agreed that surface transport
problems have become interna-
tional in scope, worthy of treat
ment on an international scale.
The world conference, the
largest of its kind ever held
here, is a first step in that di-
rection.
New Committing Patterns
In four official languages,
traffic experts from 81 coun-
tries, representing federal, reg
ional and local governments
auto manufacturers and private
research groups, are discussing
ways to avert a future world
wide traffic jam.
They are charged with plan
ming bus, rail and highway sys-
TENS in their respective juris-
dictions. From today's dicus-
sions. it is apparent that the
automobile will monopolize
their attention for decades tc
come.
Frank w. Herring, a New
York Port Authority planner
reported that commuters in
urban areas are making in.
creasing use of cars to estab.
lish new committing patterns.
! Now, he said, commuters gC
in all directions. He sees a no.
ticeable trend toward reverse.
direction" committing from
downtown to suburb, as we'll a,
trends toward suburb-to-sub.
urb travel.
Such scattered patterns dC
not follow rail or bus routes
Mr.. Herring said, and thu
leave their control to the traf
fic engineer and highwa!
builder.
Satellite Towns Backed
D. Grant Mickle. director o
the Automotive Safety Foun
dation'S Traffic Engineerin!
Division, reported that auto
now carry 80 per cent of Amer
ican traffic.
Citing Washington -Baltimorl
area studies, he said some o
this could be shifted to rapid
transit facilities II urbal
. growth could be channeled int,
new satellite towns arount
metropolitan centers.
While such satellites max
. sense, they should complement
! the central city, not compet
with it, asserted Donald c
Wagner. managing director o
transit for Philadelphia.
The international sessions
Evening star., 1961-08-24
The worlds four largest cities.-NANA Maps.

areas and more than 2.5 mil
lion people who are not really
"clty" dwellers at all.
How does Kiruna, Sweden,
get into the act? 1t can claim
being the biggest city in the
world because its corporate lin
its include an area of $4,000
square miles compared to 315
for the City of New York;.
Kiruna's population is only
10000.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
New York, London,
Tokyo Al! Biggest

Osaka Kobe, Shanghai and
Paris.
The New York metropolitan
area includes the City of New
York and other cities reaching
as far northeast as Westport,
Conn, northwest to Hacketts-
town, N. j., south along the
New Jersey shore to Point
Pleasant and eastward to take
in the western three-fifths Of
Long Island.
While New York City in 1860
had only 7,781,984 inhabitants
within it's corporate limits,
there were 15.2 million within
the New York metropolitan
area. In comparison. Tokyo
! had a population Of 8.360.00O
within it's corporate limits
| (575,000 more than New York
proper and l2.5 million in the
Tokyo Yokohama metropolitan
areo.
The London area most close
ly corresponding in government
to the American idea of a city
is the County of London, with
a 1860 population of 3.175,000.
British sources also frequently
cite populations for a larger
area known as Greater Lon
don" population 8,215,000.
Only a Statistical Term
Greater London, however, is
not a political unit and is SIM
ply a convenient statistical
term. Originally, it comprised
all the area within Is miles of
the city's center and thus rep
resented a fair approximation
of the London Metropolitan
Area. But in recent years
suburban development has
sprawled far beyond the Is
mile radius.
If one still likes to think of
a city as something definite,
with specific legal boundaries,
then the largest city in the
world is Shanghai, with a pop
ulation of approximately 10.4
million within its municipal
limits. The Chinese Commu-
nists Judged a little, however,
in extending the city's boun-
diaries to include large rural
Evening star., 1961-08-24

which began today and end
Saturday, are the second half
Of the world conference. The
first half, the 31St annual
meeting Of the Institute of
Traffic Engineers, began Mon
day and ended yesterday.
Next week, many of the con-
ference delegates will go on bus
tours of East Coast cities for
on-the-scene studies of Ameri-
can traffic engineering.
Evening star., 1961-08-24

The outhor is chief stotisticion for
Rond Mentally & Co.
Evening star., 1961-08-24

North American Newspaper Alliance
NEW YORK, Aug. "a
Which is the biggest city in the
world? London? New York?
Tokyo?
Evening star., 1961-08-24

Any and all of these cities
are the biggest in the world.
The confusion results from
the concept city" which no
Evening star., 1961-08-24

Indeed, the outdated concept
of a city" actually holds back
urban planning and blurS the
thinking Of the public.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
10 LARGEST
IN UNITED STATES

Following is how the ten
largest cities in the United
States rank when looked at as
metropolitan areas" - urban
units that overlap legal corpo-
rate boundaries:
Evening star., 1961-08-24

longer describes the urban
areas of our modern industrial
Evening star., 1961-08-24
Traffic Experts Tackle
GIoboI Jam of Future
By HARVEY CLEW
Star staff Writer

Nothing will replace the private automobile city streets
decades come international panel of traffic experts
has decided
Bus and rail systems will share the traffic load but
will be dominated by the auto which has been path
finder opening residential the feel
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31
Wick Byron's Column

Charles Whittier, head of the present
school administrator, has had favorite tune
he has been singing since coming to Mont
gomery County from Florida more than four
years ago. He repeated it again last week to
a group of new teachers
He told these 600 new county citizens
that they were now working in community
which wants and is willing to pay for good
educational program"
DR.. Whittier is perfectly correct. The
citizens of this county do want good edu.
cational program, but it is also true that they
do not want to see money wasted. And this
Is exactly what many observers are beginning
to realize - that money is being wasted in
many areas.
Here is a perfect example. And it is
repeated because the subject matter is some
thing that everyone can understand.
Throw out the statement that Is acres
are in the process of being sodded at the
West Rockville Junior High School at the
corner of Falls I'd. and New Route 24O and
you will get an interesting reaction. Fifteen
acres is tremendous area but it takes on
greater Importance when you're told that it is
being sodded. And to give you a slight idea
of the enormity of the space it is well to point
out that the White House, all other buildings
connected with it, the south lawn and the
front and sides consist of 16 acres.
When officials at the School Board were
asked about this project it was told that this
is the best way to get good grass quickly and
without the fear of wear and tear and reseed-
ing later. The cost of the sodding would run
around $4,000 and if seed had been used it
would have been only $500 cheaper Further,
they had found that sodding was so much
more satisfactory.
Let's look at the situation little closer.
In the first place, it was found that this
particular site on Falls I'd had a fairly good
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31
Junk" in the Attic

think attics or catch-all closets tell more
about people than their living rooms or their
party conversation, and there is nothing so
naked as a family on the move. The next
time you move, or someone to whom you are
close enough to offer assistance moves, just
notice. what happens First there is lot of
groaning about Junk" in the attic, in the
basement or in the garage. Them follow
weeks of conversation, accusations and re-
examinations between all hands about failures
to get that cleanup phase over with. Inevi.
tably moving day draws near, panic sets in
and almost as inevitably decision is reached
TO make a good many trips with the car
crammed full of this Junk" It's so valueless
that it would be downright wasteful to pay
moving men to carry it into truck that
costs, maybe, fifty cents a cubic foot for the
trip, and, besides there just wouldn't be room
for it all without getting another truck And
so on, and so on. -.
And what is it, all this "junk?" What is
the nature of this stuff that any sensible"
person would throw away. Why are we
ashamed to expose it to the caIIous laughter
Of our friends and neighbOrs or the moving
men? For every family it is little different,
and for every member of a family it is diff.
ferent. The common denomination is senti-
ment and emotional content. These are the
milestones of life. Not all of the milestOnes
and sometimes, only fragments at that. But
they are part of u.s. each one a treasured
reminder Of a personally important expert
ence. They mirror the hopes that we have
felt, they register some of the successes.
Some of these valueless bits of paper, wood,
metal or cloth now rlisted, mouldy, cracked,
or faded have an almost luminous quality
when glimpsed by the owner, even in juni-
bled pile somewhere i'm the dark corner of a
dusty attic, because they are a part of our
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31

Thus tax funds satisfac-
torily fly away and the tax.
payers are satisfactorily I'M
happy. Yet perhaps all this
money might more satisfac-
torily have been expended in
medical research, SO that in
time some preventive for this
tree-destroying malady might
emerge, which could be con-
sidered a complete cure. IDS
approve of cutting off finger
of a county employe, or por-
ton thereof, for every tree
destroyed. That would be un.
kind, even impolite. And how
would the employee thereafter
measure his drink? But con-
fidence is widely expressed
that medical research VIII
eventually triumph.
Edwin Bateman Morris, sr.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31
A Few Words
My Day Instead Of Labor Day
Nv Ken, polne-
Labor Day, 1861.

Labor Day, 1861
What does it mean to most of us? Simply
the end of the long drought of holidays which
annually befalls us - from the Fourth of
July to the first Monday of September is the
longest holiday.less period of the year.
To many of us, it means the last trip of
the summer before the children go back to
school.
To some of us. it means the final trip,
according to the National Safety Council,
which predicts such gruesome things as holi-
day fatalities
To certain group of boys in our col
leges, it means the first real day of hard
work as they get into the swing of 1861
football practice
To the youngsters, it means the end of
summer freedom which many of them
welcome as their scholastic discipline is re.
newed the following day
To heat and humidity haters, it means
the beginning of the end of sticky summer
and the welcome return to autumn probably
the prettiest season of the year.
So you can see, it means lot of things
to lot of people
But as tribute to the nations working
people = who used to be called the laboring
class = its meaning has pretty well been
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31
By David scull

experience, they are as much part of us as
a nose or a hand or leg.
This aspect of our lives is so common
that there is an unwritten code surrounding
it. 1t is code of silence and non-action. We
don't make anyone explaine why such-and-
such is important, it couldn't be done anyway,
and we never throw out anything that has
been obviously unanswered surreptitiousIy,
by some member of the family into an attic
or back-closet position What parent could
be so unfeeling as to make an adolescent
young lady say why it is necessary to keep
her first stuffed animal, whose fur was rub
bed smooth by childish, loving hands? No
man-of-the-world college sophomore could
confess the slightest interest in furnished
silver cup, presented to the eight year old
winner of the 25-yard swim at fireman's
summer carnival Who would want to admit
to all of the associations recalled by a little
porcelain college beer mug? And how could
Moher say exactly why she would like to see,
not read again that faded little copy of SCOTS
Lady of the Lake" with the impossibly fine
print.
These things are different for everybody.
They are part of the infinite variety of human
experience. In sense, they are a humble
symbol of the difference between our way of
life and "a brave new order" that would
sweep such rubbish away. Causes that deal
exclusively with humanity leave little room
for human beings, and those who push them
have little eye or appreciation for the rich
mosaic that can be seen in very human life.
Junk" in the attic is an eloquent testi.
monial to the tenaeity of belief in the bed
rock principle of, what is, the fullest and
richest way of life that man has ever known
in his struggle up from the cave That prin-
cple is a reverence for life itself as expressed
in our concern for preserving, inviolate, the
dignity of the individual human being.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31

he'd of grass and it wasn't too uneven. One
exnert on sod said that if this huge field had
been moved from the time construction
started until now the grass would have been
far superior to that being bought today at
sucb high price. Furthermore, If extensive
grading had been necessary, many expert
nurserymen have said grass could have been
started in the fall of 1860 or in the spring Of
1861. Then it would have been unnecessary to
sod any but the areas around the newly con-
structed school,
It has been estimated by experts in the
field that a seeding job would have cost in
the neighborhood of $500 per acre which is
considerably less than the price for sodding
the Is acres.
1t is difficult to understand why little
more planning and thought was not exercised
in this instance and if the money had to be
spent why wasn't some of it used for real
honest-to-goodness landscaping.
1t is completely understandable why
some areas have to be sodded, but this case
of the West Rockville High School presents a
reasoning on someone's part that is hard to
explain.
A study is being conducted to determine
how many other cases there have been in the
past lew years Wnere sou mas Deen uSeu
instead of the sowing of grass seed.
While $4,000 is not much when compared
with million dollars, it is large amount
of money especially when it is spent on some
thing that might not have been necessary if
a little more thought had been given by per-
sonnet of school system that has a real
spirit of spending
1t is true that citizens want fine schools
but we suspect taxpayers want foremost to
see the dollars spent on obtaining good teach
ers and good instruction. Foolish spending
on unnecessary items can shake the conf.
dence of an otherwise willing ctizenry.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-31

In her free-swinging letter
Mrs. Lila D. Sonneman re-
peats many scare-phrases and
slogans, and accuses the adj
ministration of arbitrary inn
position" She also mentions
that democracies shatter
themselves by sheer blindness
and/or refusal to speak out
on national policies" Mrs.
Sonnemann failed to speak of
the problems that have to be
met, and also failed to give
any suggestion of a way to
solve those problems. One can
not cast light on the subject
of governing the United States
or leading the world fight
against Communism without
facing up to the demands and
challenges of the job. 1t does
no good to speak out on ma
tional policies unless one pro-
poses alternative policies or
at least clearly points out the
errors of the present policies
in other terms than emotion
ally-loaded slogans or CATCH
phrases. Honest criticism is al
ways proper, but the foreign
aid issue should not be used
as fuel to provide a political
smoke screen.
A majority in Congress-
agrees with the President that
we must continue foreign aid
to other nations. There are
several reasons for doing this,
but there is one reason that
every American should under.
stand and support, and that