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Evening star., 1961-12-27
Building Put
Into Order
After Flood

Workmen today began the job
Of restoring operating equip
ment at the Peoples Life In
surance Co. after the last of the
million gallons of water that
had flooded the basement was
pumped out.
Only a skeleton crew reported
to work today in the unheated
building at COL New Hampshire
avenue NV. but a sign on the
door indicated the company
hopes to reopen for business to-
morrow.
Second Battalion Fire Chief
Wayne L. Summerville said
crews of six firemen worked on
shifts for 81 hours to clear the
water from the building after
the flooding was discovered at
8 am. Christmas Day by a
building engineer. Work today
was turned over to a private
company.
Chief Summerville said his
company found about 10 feet of
water in the insurance COM
pany'S Sub-basement, where op-
Grating equipment is stored, and
about three feet in the base
ment, where there is some .oper-
ating equipment and a few
offices and storage rooms. A
company spokesman, mean
while. said no documents were
destroyed.
Chief Summerville said the
flooding was caused when a plug
blew out in the insurance firms
heating system.
Evening star., 1961-12-27

will give more intensive care
sooner" Judge LovelesS said.
Heavy Case Load
Evaluations at the Chlidren's
Center are limited to 80 days.
Follow-up treatment, if recon-
mended, cannot be given by the
health department without a
wait of 3 to 6 months because
of the heavy case load now
existing.
Under the new program,
evaluation and testing will be
done in the home, court office
or at Cheverly. These will de-
termine the type of detention
or treatment necessary and
whether it should be individual
or group therapy.
During consultation, Judge
LoveleSs, with evaluation re-
ports in hand, will meet with
the juveniles and probation
workers.
Some of the reports we re-
ceive from the Children's Gen.
ter contain different viewpoints,
and the consultation will give
us a chance to map out the
best course for the youngsters"
Judge Loveless said.
The court also will conduct
an in-service training program
for probation workers to ia
miliarize them with various as
poets of mental health testing
and treatment.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
SuIted Snow
Streuks Streets

The white streaks now vis-
ibe on some District streets
were left by rock salt scat
tered over the week end to melt
ice, a District official said yes
terday.
William F. Roeder, deputy
superintendent of the Santa
ton Division, explained that the
salt residue is more easily seen
after a light snowfall such as
the one last week end.
He said that when temper
atures rise sufficiently above
freezing the salt residue will be
flushed away because it has a
harmful effect on concrete if
allowed to remain indefinitely.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
House Committee
Has As Per Cent
Private Meetinos

The House District Commit
tee held As per cent of its
meetings behind closed doors
during the last session of
Congress.
The figure is contained in a
statistical study of closed-door
meetings compiled by Congress
sional Quarterly.
On the other side, the Senate
District Committee went into
executive session only 18 per
cent of the time.
The study did not include
meetings of the House Ap-
preparations Committee. All of
it's meetings are behind closed
doors because Representative
Cannon, chairman of the COM
mittee, believes, the Quarterly
said, that the committee gets
more work done and makes
better use of little office space.
Also not included were in
formal meetings and telephone
polls of committee members, a
practice of the House District
Committee.
Fhe House District Commit
tee held 62 meetings; the Sem
ate committee, A.
Evening star., 1961-12-27

in fair condition but recovering
today.
The poison apparently was
morphine. according to State
police at Salisbury, and was
administered by hypodermic
needle. but where the drug
came from was not Immediately
determined. Police quoted DR..
Heffner as saying he kept no
morphine in the house.
An autopsy was to be per-
formed today on Mrs. Heffner
by DR.. Stephen Pymkiw at the
Deer's Head Hospital in Sails
bury.
A resident of the island,
Wayne Evans, said the children
are Mrs. Heffner's by a former
marriage. The mother and
daughters lived in Salisbury
because there is no high school
for the girls to attend on Smith
Island.
Came for. Holidays
Mr.. Evans said the mother
and girls had come to the
island. which can be reached
only by boat or helicopter, to
spend the Christmas holidays
with DR.. Heffner.
He said an attempt also had
been made to kill the family
dog. The dog showed signs of
being i'll when the tragedy was
discovered, Mr.. Evans said, but
now appears to be recovering.
Trooper John Somers said
DR.. Heffner came to Smith
Island about two years ago.
The island, rs miles from Wash
ington. has about TOO residents,
most Of them making their liv-
ing from products of the bay.
1t is periodically isolated from
the Eastern Shore and the
Maryland mainland by pack ice
on Chesapeake Bay in the
winter.
DR.. Heffner, As, is a native of
Gilbertville, Mass, and the son
of a former Veterans Admins
tration psychiatrist, DR.. Will
liam j. Heffner. He received his
Bachelor of Arts degree from
Duke University in 1886 and was
graduated from Georgetown
University Medical School in
1910.
He served in the Army as a
doctor from 1941 to 1945, win
Evening star., 1961-12-27
Trdffic Bill Hits
Chronic VioIutor

RICHMOND, Dec. 81 (AP)
"A Richmond legislator said
yesterday he will introduce in
the General Assembly next
month a bill which would have
the record of the chronic traf-
fic violator brought to the at
tention of a sentencing judge
Delegate Fred G.. Pollard said
the bill would require courts to
obtain and consider the entire
traffic violation record of GER
tain defendants before the
judge passed sentence. The bill
would apply to those charged
with speeding, drunken driving,
reckless driving, hit-and-run
driving or driving after permit
revocation or suspension.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

Not far from the downtown
gift exchange counters another
post Christmas rush is in full
stride.
Dignified reading rooms OF
the Library of Congress filled
up to the waiting benches yes
terday with the annual holiday
onslaught of college term paper
authors.
Students put away yuletide
visions of sugar plums for a
mage sale variety of
weightier topics from prehis-
toric man in Ireland to the
sociological aspects of drinking
in college.
The hustle in the bookStacks
was lost on scholars poring
over their borrowed tones in
the calm of the main reading
room.
In his stocking feet, Ted
HanScom of Manassas, Va, a
senior at Duke University, read
a book in Spanish for his paper
on the influence of militarism
on politics in Latin America.
Stephanie Raushenbush of
1903 Lowell street NV, a soph-
omore at Radcliffe, caught
herself dozirsg at least once as
she waded through a stack of SO
books on her subject: French
poetry from the resistance in
World War II.
Navy Research
Annapolis First Classman
Thomas C. Roberts of 1926
Third street North, Arlington,
had about decided he had "a
Frankenstein monster" by the
tail. He looked forward rue
fully to coming back tomorrow
and the next day and the next
day" to complete research for
his English paper.
Evening star., 1961-12-27

ming three Silver Stars, two
Purple Hearts, two Bronze Stars
and a Croix De Guerre, among
other decorations.
He practiced medicine here
from 1945 to 1855 and then
moved to Knoxville, Tenn, and
later to Oklahoma, before TAX
ing the Smith Island assign
ment.
Evening star., 1961-12-27

ALL WE LEARNED about
Burke at school was that he
was a member of DR.. john
sons circle, a friend of the
colonies in parliamentary
debate and that, as the
Encyclopedia Britannica puts
it, "He was one of the great
masters of the high and diff
cult art of elaborate compost
ton"
We knew that because we
were called upon in high
school to give recitationS
from his speeches. There was
one colorful one, probably
from the trial of Warren
Hastings, filled with wonder
full Indian words like Hydera-
bad and Muny Begun. We
didn't know what it was all
about. Nobody told us. But
it was one of our favoriteS.
Does anyone remember?
"It is now 16 or II years
since I saw the Queen of
France, then the Dauphiness,
at Versailles, and surely
never lighted on this orb,
which she hardly seemed to
touch, a more delightful
vision.
II saw her just above the
horizon, decorating and
cheering the elevated sphere
she had just begun to move in
-glittering like the morning
star full of life and splendor
and Joy -.
II thought ten thousand
swords must have leaped in
their scabbards to avenge
even a look that threatened
her with insult.
But the age Of chivalry is
gone; that of Sor alSters,
economists and calculators
has succeeded.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
Wheels Jam,
Plane With 9
Lands Safely

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27 (AP)
"A pilot carrying eight rela-
tiveS, five of them from the
Washington area, in a twin
engine plane made a safe crash
landing on snow-coated run
way at Greater Pittsburgh Air
port yesterday after circling for
hours with a faulty landing
gear. Nobody was hurt.
The pilot, Frank Balcar, As,
of st. Clairsville, Ohio, was
directed to land his Beechcraft
on a newly constructed runway
because it was coated with
snow that would cushion the
While firemen waited with
seven pieces of equipment, the
plane glided in. touched the
runway and skidded $500 feet,
throwing up a cloud of snow.
The only visible damage to
the plane was a bent propeller
and dented flaps on the trailing
edges of the wings.
Aboard the plane with Mr..
Balcar were his three sons,
IT; Mark, 9, and Paul,
Is; his sisters and brothers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil F.
Paroulek of 1925 Fort Scott
drive, Arlington, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul w. Harpold of s707
Haven place, Falls Church. and
the ParoulekS' 3-year-old son,
Joe.
Il knew right after takeoff
that the landing gear wasn't
up" Mr.. Balcar said.
Mr.. Balcar, Bruce and Mr..
Paroulek tried ip vain to COR
rect the trouble. The plane
swung low over Ohio County
Airport at Wheeling, w. Va,
and the control tower radioed
the plane that the left wheel
was entirely retracted but the
right wheel was jammed part
way up.
Mr.. Balcar's wife was wait
ing at the Pittsburgh airport
and saw the landing. She had
heard of the planes difficulty
and flew here from st. Glars
vile with a friend. Other
relatives of Mr.. Balcar drove
here from st. Clairsville and
saw the landing.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
Pharmacist Dies
OF Gun Wound

A 52-year-old pharmacist
died yesterday at the WASH
ington Hospital Center shortly
after being admitted with a
gunshot wound in the chest.
Homicide squad detectives
said the dead man, David
Kaliner, of 1852 Argonne place
NV, was found in the hall
way of his home with a chest
wound inflicted by a .32-cal-
iber revolver.
A death certificate was with
held pending completion of an
autopsy today. According to
Detective Capt. Lawrence A.
Hartnett. police found a note
in which Mr.. Kaliner wrote
that he was depressed.
Evening star., 1961-12-27

Patty. She and John have been
taking about three breaks at
the snack bar and going out to
dinner while working at the
library.
Side by Side
Working side by side on sepa-
rate papers were William
Walsh, 11O9 South Nineteenth
street, Arlington, a sophomore
at Boston College, and Judy
Avin, 2931 South Columbus
street, Arlington, a freshman
at American. Friends in high
school days, they recently met
again at a Hot Shoppe.
I'm doing a term paper for
my philosophy course on exis-
tentialism." said William, who
also was working on a law pa
per about the birth control law
in Connecticut.
The humor of Will Rogers
was Judy's topic, but she was
a bit concerned over the nom
appearance of one of her source
papers.
Lawrence washington, su-
pervisor of the central desk,
admitted the waiting period for
books had stretched a little
with the rush of holiday stu
dents.
I'VE encourage readers nor
mally to complain after 80
minutes" he said. But it's
running from 80 to As minutes
now"
Both Mr.. Washington and
Mr.. Patterson observed that the
student crowds were a little
slower arriving this year than
last.
Usually by 9:15 on the day
after Christmas you can't get
a seat" Mr.. Washington re-
ported. 1T was a quarter of
10 this morning before it began
filling up"
Evening star., 1961-12-27

Mr.. Bemis, professor emeritus
of history at Yale, twice a
Pulitzer Priez winner and presi-
dent of the association.
BY far the most useful func-
ton the association performs,
he feels, is winnowing and Or
ganizing the vast annual pro-
duction of historical publica-
tions. Even with the best
efforts, however, a recent COM
pilation of 10000 titles was
criticized by some professional
historians for leaving out too
much.
At any rate, Prof. Bemis'
biography of John Quincy
Adams was in one important
10-title photography this year
"a list of the Presidents IA
vorite books reported in Life
Magazine. The biography,
which is said to be well marked
in the margins, was termed the
Presidents favorite American
book.
Sessions to Open
Prof. 'Bemis won his second
Pulitzer Prize in 1850 with an
earlier study. John Quincy
Adams and the Foundations of
American Foreign Policy"
The Presidents heavy re-
cruiting from universities is en-
couraging to Prof. Bemis.
What other administration
has done so much?" he asks.
Some 5000 AHA members
will begin sessions of their 18th
annual meeting tomorrow in
the Shoreham and Sheraton
Park Hotels. The meeting ends
Saturday.
Evening star., 1961-12-27

uucC q program MADE up OF
three partS-evaluation, treat
ment and consultation.
The two new personnel will
raise to four each the number
Of psychiatrists and psycholo-
gists in the County Health De-
partment who will work with
Juvenile Court.
A psychiatrist and psycholo-
gist will be in the Upper Marl-
boro Court three full days a
week. Personnel will be assigned
depending on the type of cases
on the days docket.
Long Needed
The other six will be avail
able at the County Health De-
partment in Cheverly, accord
ing to Circuit Court Judge
Ernest A. Loveless, jr., who pre-
sides over juvenile cases.
Judge LovelesS, who planned
the new program, said it will
provide a long-needed service,
particularly to girls.
Much of the courts psychiat-
ric evaluations are done at the
Children's Center, a State in
stitution for boys near Balti-
more. Others are done by the
County Health Department, the
Federal Mental Health Study
Center in Langley Park, and,
for girls, at the House of the
Good Shepherd in Baltimore.
These facilities still will be
used but the new program
Evening star., 1961-12-27
THE HISTORIANS are not

THE HISTORIANS are not
at all behind the literary
sleuths and they are follow
ing an older tradition of
American scholarship. 1t is
now well over a century ago
that John Lothrop Motley
learned more about the
Dutch Republic than any
Dutchman and Washington
Irving and William Hickling
Prescott knew more about the
court of Ferdinand and Isa-
bella and about New Spain
than any Spaniard.
Rich fare is offered at the
meetings which started this
morning. The Rambler may
try to take some of them in.
But his reportorial expert
ence reminds him that Schol-
ars are like all writer's only
more so in this: That each
writes for his favorite reader,
who, of course, Is himself.
They assume that their hear
erS know everything in their
chosen field except the very
latest developments.
There will be papers on
ancient Greece and ancient
Rome, Western Europe in the
Middle Ages, Eastern Europe
in the Middle Ages; on Lord
Acton and Benedetto Croce;
on Napoleon III in Italy; on
the Wars of the South Ameri-
can Republics; on warrior
kings of England; on Negro
slavery in America; on Popu-
lism; on the Nineteen-twen-
ties, on the New Deal, on
Pearl Harbor, on apartheid
in South Africa. You take
your choice.
Tomorrow morning two
papers will be read on Ed
mund Burke, "The Burke
Revival" by Carl B. Cone of
the University of Kentucky,
who has published his first
volume of his biography of
Burke; and Burke as Histo-
rian,' by Thomas Mahoney
of NIT.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
ANNUAL ONSLAUGHT
Students Flock to Library

He had chosen to challenge
the necessity of sending lend
lease supplies to Russia by con-
voys to Murmansk and Arch
angel in the early 1940s. These
were very costly. he said.
Better people than l
thought it was necessary" he
is finding.
Romance was present but sub
dued, as companionable heads
here and there bent over books
and periodicals from the Ma
tion'S top repository of knowl-
edge.
I'VE had quite a few boys
and girls come in together, "
said Gordon w. Patterson, chief
of stacks, and readers, but he
said there were few behavior
problems.
Mostly Serious
Since we stopped taking high
school students. we seldom run
into college students who are
not serious about their work. -
John Bohraus, 502l Sentinel
drive, Bethesda, Md, an Amer
ican University sophomore, had
Patty Den, 1882 Garfield ter
race NV, a sophomore at
Trinity College, as a helper in
his research on why people
vote the way they do" Their
notes were neatly categorized
under such headings as "reli-
gion," race" and women.
Women" said John, ARE
erratic in their voting. But
more times than not, they vote
the way their husbands do"
The couple has been working
since last Thursday on Johns
research and after tomorrow
will start on a biology paper
Patty will write.
"It'S not so much fun when
you work by yourself" said
Evening star., 1961-12-27
Chief DeyIe Honored

BALTIMORE, Dec. 27 (AP).
Police Chief Gilbert L. Deyle
of Baltimore County has been
named Policeman of the Year"
by the Maryland Crime Investi-
eating Committee.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
ANNUAL PAGEANT OF PEACE
EVENTS ON THE ELLIPSE

TODAY
PM-United States Marine Corps Band on stage.
P.M.-St. Peters Hand Bell Choir and Youth Choir
st. Peters Lutheran Church, Allentown Pa. on stage
Daniel Hermany, director.
PM.-Washngton Society of Ancient instruments.
on stage, Willis Gault, leader
P.M.-Men'S Chorus Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co., on STAGE Gertrude Mockbee, accompanist
P.M.-Boy's Choir of Our Lady of Lourde5 Church,
on stage the Rev. Robert p WINNER, leader
P.M.-Prayer for Peace
TOMORROW
PM-La Estudiantina Choir of Madrid Spain,
stage at EIipse.
$3.50 PM-Return engagement belringers and youth
choir of st. Peters Church, Allentown Pa.
Evening star., 1961-12-27
Youth Court Builds
Mental Program
Prince Georges PIon includes
Improved Service for Girls
BY JAMES ROWLAND
Star Staff Writer

An expanded and thorough mental health program
including improved service for girls will begin month in
the Prince Georges County Juvenile Court.
Funds for additional psychatrist psychologist
been authorized by the help eghman team
Evening star., 1961-12-27
The
Rambler
Makes Votive
Offering to Clio
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Christmas week, for obvious
reasons, is a favorite time for
professors to come to Wash
ington and read learned
papers.
The American Historical
Association convened today
at the Shoreham and Shera-
ton Park.
The Rambler obtained a
program and what a fare!
Rich, man, rich.
Europe and the other con-
tinents, but especially Europe,
Is being gone over with a fine
tooth comb by American re-
search scholars.
European scho GLARS are
often more than a little dis
turbed by what Americans
find in fields that have been
searched for generations.
There was Leslie Hotson of
Yale who found a transcript
of a 10th Century coroner's
inquest into a public house
brawl in which one Christie
pher Marlowe had been killed.
There was Newman Ivy
White of Duke, who in going
through early 10Th Century
vital statistics in Naples
came upon this interesting
item: The record of the birth
of a male child to Claire
Clairmont (who had been
Byron's mistress), father:
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Evening star., 1961-05-10

posal to make it easier to curb
filibuSterS.
The filibuster has been used
effectively in the past by South
ern Senators who used their
right Of unlimited debate to
stall off action on civil rights
legislation.
Relying on Present Laws
Mr.. Salinger said Mr.. Ken
nedy's position Is to exercise
all possibilities under legisla-
ton already in effect, employ
ing all the powers of the Execu-
tive to force an end to racial
discrimination.
This authority already has
been used by the President in
connection with employment
in the Government and hiring
by contractors of the Federal
Government, Mr.. Salinger said.
He also noted that Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy is
seeking court permission for
Evening star., 1961-05-10

Democrat of Pennsylvania, and
Representative Celler, Republi-
can of New York.
Senator Clark and Mr.. Celler
submitted a package of six pro-
poSals. including one designed
to hasten the end of school
segregation. Mr.. Kennedy had
designated the two lawmakers
last September to draft legis-
lation to carry out the civil
rights plank Of the Democratic
platform.
However, Mr.. Salinger said,
the Clark Celler bills ARE not
administration backed bills" F."
He said the measures were in
troduced by them and are their
bills"
Senate Democratic Leader
Mansfield Of Montana has in
dicated the bills will not come
up for Senate action until:
l. The majority of the ad-
ministration program has
cleared Congress.
2. The Senate acts on q pro-
Evening star., 1961-05-10

verdict against Mrs. Norma
Wisnick. 40. and Charles o.
Clarke. %. both Of the 14O0
block Of Chaplin street NV.
Clarke was was found guilty
by the jury of tranSportating
a female within the District for
purposes of prostitution and
Evening star., 1961-05-10

the Federal Government to
step into the school desegrega-
ton dispute in Prince Edward
County, Va.
The Government seeks to
force Prince Edward County to
reopen its public schools with
out segregation. Currently there
are no public schools operating
in the county.
Evening star., 1961-05-10

placing her in a house Of pros
titution operated by his mother.
Mrs. Wisnick was convicted
Of accepting earnings from this
girl. which she had gained
through prostitution.
Assistant United States At
torney Thomas Flannery pros
ecuted the pair.
Evening star., 1961-05-10
Woman, Son
Found Guilty

A Washington woman and
her son were convicted yester-
day Of violation Of District pros
titution laws by q District
Court jury here.
The jury brought In its
Evening star., 1961-05-10
Kennedy Not Seeking
New Civil Rights Laws
By the Associated Press

President Kennedy does not consider it at this
time to enact civil rights legislation He wants
time to try enforcement of laws already the books
White House Press Secretary Pierre Sainger explained
the Presidents position yesterday in to questions about
civil rights introduced in CONGRESS BY Senator Clark
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Zroket-Conus

Miss Agnes NJ. Poland an
nounces the marriage of her
niece, Miss Shirley Ann Cam
us, to Mr.. Charles Anthony
Zraket, son of Mr.. Habib
Zraket of Lawrence. Mass,
and the late Mrs. zraket. The
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Shine-TimIin

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A.
Timlin of Arlington, Va, an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Marguerite Anne to
Mr.. Henry Martin Shine, jr.,
son of Mr.. Shine of Los
Angeles. Calf. and the late
Mrs. Shine. The wedding took
place September 80 in the
chapel of Andrews Air Force
Base. The couple will live in
this city.
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WEDDINGS

bride is the daughter Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. F. Edward
Camus. The wedding took
place October Is at st. Pat
rick's Cathedral in New York.
The couple will live in Boston.
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HiehIe-Crocker

Mr.. and Mrs. William Lee
Thomas Croker of Mont
gomery. w. Va, announce the
marriage of their daughter
Dorothy Lee to 1t. Comdr.
Frank Gustav Hiehle. jr..
USN, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiehle of Fairmont, w. Va.
The wedding took place Oc-
tober Is at the Montgomery
Presbyterian Church in
Montgomery, w. Va. The
couple will live in Norfolk,
Va.
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Duncon-OWen

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Alt
sheler Owen. ST., Of Chevy
Chase, Md, announce the
marriage Of their daughter
Ann Flynn to Mr.. Harold Lee
Duncan, jr., son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Duncan of Portland.
Greg. The Wedding took
place September 29 at the
home of the brides parents.
The couple will live in Seat
tie, Wash.