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Evening star., 1961-04-06

II wouldn't like to live here.
Too much like a fair. 1t doesn't
seem like a city," said Carl.
Across the. tennis shoe COW
cred carpet sat Kathy, a girl
from a consolidated school in
the Pocono Mountains. Pony
tailed, waiting to go home.
shynesS undiSguised in large
brown eyes, Kathy watched her
foot making a figure eight on
the carpet.
Her hand, one finger bur-
denied with the weight of her
boyfriend's class ring and a
whole roll of adhesive tape.
twisted the handle of the in
evitable vanity case.
81 had fun. l liked the places.
But we went to the Casino
Royal last night. I didn't like
the way we had to wait.
We started with 80, but Mary
Jane had a sore throat and she
went back home"
The Antigo group, now finally
assembled in its Is strong en-
tirety, trooped past Kathy and
her class and into the dining
room for their first meal in
Washington.
Three days later-after the
FBI Building, the Monument,
the Capitol, the White House,
Arlington Cemetery-they were
on their last meal.
They were getting a little
tired. A little bored with the
trips" said Mr.. Kujanpaa.
Souvenirs for Home
Mary Catherine said, IT did
get tired riding the bus. but I
enjoyed everything. What did
we do last night? Gee, what
did we do? Oh. va. we saw the
Jefferson. Lincoln Memorial
and the airport.
Il bought a Colonial door
knocker for our door and some
bone china for mother and
some candles and something
else, I can't remember.
And swe went to the House
of Representatives. famine
LaHam, her grandparents know
this page boy and we got real
brave and asked for him and
he showed us where Speaker
Rayburn sits and we saw where
the bullets went when those
men shot up the House. Oh,
/ just loved it,"
Mr.. Kujanpaa said, Some
of the group thought people in
Washington were little cold.
They're used to a small town
where everyone knows their
first names. It's a summer
tourist area, but in a SMALL
way, and everyone needs the
money desperately so they go
out of their way to make
strangers feel at home"
President Notified
In one Antigo suitcase was
a sweater a girls mother knit
to give to Jackie Kennedy.
Il had a hard time explain
ing we just couldn't drop in
and see her." said Mr.. Kujan-
paa.
The boys in the class also
sent a telegram to the Presi-
dent, notifying him of their ar
rival.
The Amigo group said good
by, moving out to make room
for others who will climb the
Monument, eat the balanced
tour meals and then sneak out
for pizza at midnight, sing
Sound Off" loudly as they
march sidewalk full at night.
All through the spring they
will come. They will stream
from the buses that form a
necklace around the Capitol
each morning. They will buy
the silly hats with the foot
high plumeS. And they will
wear them, with grim look.
defying a laugh from a passing
stranger.
The stranger, If he re-
members past things. doesn't
laugh. That's how life is when
you're II.
Evening star., 1961-04-06

Meteorologists said a northwest
wind would keep temperatures
in the sos today. Tomorrow
may be a little cooler still.
Today's principal festival
Evening star., 1961-04-06

talked to some kids from an
other school and they were ac-
tually friendly"
There are many minutes
when life is just one big
catastrophe and the means are
loud and clear:
Those kids left without u.s."
when I think of graduating
in nine weeks I get all nervous.
Are they going to meet us or
what?" II Just know Bob is
going to ask her for a date
instead"
Moods Change
One girl who burned a hole
in her dress with a travelling
iron cried for Is minutes,
wasn't going out, was going
out, wasn't going out. finally
did; a little forlorn in a skirt
and sweater.
She stood next to a boy who
said, when are we going to
eat?" She looked past him to
Carl Berg, whose charm was
contained in no boy from
Antigo-he was from New York.
well, not New York City
but at least New York State I"
Carl also had a white linen
jacket, bought especially for
the trip. He put his hands in
his pockets. then across his
chest, then behind his back,
then in his pockets.
Carl. of Lisbon, N. Y, cleared
his throat and said, About Is
of us came. Fifty per cent of
our class. Oh sure, we're hav-
ing fun. No we haven't met
any other groups. We've seen
'em, though"
Carl bought a pen knife with
Washington, D. c.. written on
the handle.
He also walked UP and down
the Washington Monument
steps, on a dare. To the high
school tourist. it seems the
Monument steps were built ex-
pressly- tor dares; the main
topic at many dinners was who
scorned the elevator both ways,
plus the degree of soreness in
the leg muscles.
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event is the high school band
competition, from 10 am. to
4 pm, in the National Guard
Armory, 2001 East Capitol
street.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Foirfox Board
Seeks Abolition
Of Sanitary Unit
Withdrawal BoreIy Blocked;
Dissolution Favored by 81 Vote
By JOHN LAWSON
Star Staff Writer

The Fairfax Board of County supervisors called yesterday
for the abolition of the Washington Metropolitan Regional
Sanitary Board.
The supervisors voted 6 to ask that the board be dissolved
then within vote of Withdrawing from the group
The action taken the objections Super
Evening star., 1961-04-06
T0GETHERNEss TRIP
Teen Tourists Storm Woshinqton
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star staff Writer

Star staff Writer
The bus doors SwooShed open
in front of the Hamilton Hotel
and "a teen-agers and one adult
from Amigo. Wis. got off.
The girls-a chorus line of
conformity in black slacks, tan
raincoats and white tennis
shoes - followed cameras and
vanity cases through the re-
volving door. The boys followed
the girls.
Minutes later they were back
on the sidewalk, giggling and
moaning in capital letters:
"They JUST put us in the
wrong hotel, that's ALL"
Wen STORM the White
House. Have a ball in the
Green Room, or something"
"Awwww you guys. the suit
cases are at this other hotel.
We gotta go to the Annapolis.
Where's that?"
"The bus TOOK OFF! How
we gonna get there?"
Take a CAB?! Are, you
nuts?"
They started walking in the
late afternoon sunshine. Past
windows filled with Washing
ton Monument salt shakers and
Mount Vernon pennants and
mother" inscribed satin pill
lows.
They continued past WASH
ington workers who looked at
nothing or no one on their
hurried way home. Past other
clumps of teen-agers from AL
toona and Bean Blossom County
and Elk Lake and Little Falls
and Three Rivers and Grand
Blanc and Shaker Heights.
Rooms and Dinner
After catching up with their
luggage and rooms, they
dressed for dinner and Staked a
claim in a tiny corner of the
hotel lobby.
In their rooms water pistols
lay on eSsers, Modern
Screens Debby Reynolds and
Movie Guides Liz Taylor
rested on the same chair, as
anonymously as the neigh
boring high heels and tennis
shoes in closets. /
On the 27-hour train ride
from the Midwest, hearts were
broken often-there were only
eight boys and 16 girls. In
Washington, they were mended
by the law of averages, for in
other groups the ratio was eight
girls and l6 boys.
Mary Catherine Hayes. one
to notice such things, rushed !
into her room, ran for the win
dow, pushed it high, leaned
out, yelled.
I'VE have the greatest room. /
Right on the corner. We yelled
way over there. See? To some
guys in rooms over there. From
New York! We have dates with
them tonight" came the wide
eyed burble.
Amigo is 120 miles north of
Green Bay. in dairy and po-
tato growing land. Many stu
dents start riding in from farms
at $50 am. to get to school
on time. Few had more than
brief glimpses of Milwaukee
or Madison to compare with
Washington.
Few Had S1O7.15
This trip began months ago
when it was first offered to all
sophomores, juniors, seniors. 1t
cost $107.15. Three days, two
nights, the train, the food.
Everything but the souvenirs.
There are about 800 sopho-
mores, Juniors and seniors;
only a few could afford the
trip.
Mary GATHERINGS father owns
a barber shop on Superior
street. He gave her the trip.
Her roommate, Pat Kostelec,
gave up cheerleading and
worked all year after school
in the kitchen of Indigo's hos
pital. Her boy friend, Bill Lutz,
worked down at Ericson's gas
station.
In the high school caste
system. a smile from a senior
is to sophomore like a glance |
from the Queen to her subject. |
Evening star., 1961-04-06
By WILLIAM BASHAM
Star Staff Writer

A number Of Washington
juveniles last night were invited
to attend a meeting which
placed them in an uncom-
Portable cross-fire between par
ents and police officers.
The guests at police head
quarters were youngsters 16
years old and under who made
up three social groups"-the
"Arribas." the Little Mafias''
and the Links" They and
their parents were called in to
talk about the groups drinking
activities of the last six weeks.
Detective Herman g. Miles
stated simply. Enough of this
has come to our attention to
warrant asking you and your
parents to come here for a talk.
We don't want to march you
kids off to Juvenile Court and
give you a record. This meeting
/ is being held to prevent this. -
Detective Miles said several
parties involving beer, malt
liquor and wine were held in a
shack on Good Hope road Sc,
opposite the Naval Receiving
Station, an old house near the
1900 block of w street Sc. and
even below a railroad bridge in
Southeast Washington.
Evening star., 1961-04-06
Called to Explain

A youngster named Bernie
was asked to stand and talk
OF his organization, the Little
Mafias, He told Detective Miles
he had been with the group
for three weeks. No, the Mafias
had no particular purpose and
Evening star., 1961-09-03
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Including heat and hot water,
bright and cross ventilated. lRud-
dry and stoarge. 1900 Georgia
ave. NV. SHANNON & LUCHS
CO., Ma. S-2345.
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WILL DECIDE LATER:
Pope Indicates St. Joseph
Will Be Council Patron

and small of every part of the
world, of every class, every
race, every color, and if a
heavenly protector is indicat-
ed who can call from Heaven
that 'yirtus divina' for pre-
pairing and holding the coun-
Gil -. to none of the heaven
ly personages can this be ap-
piled better than to st.
Joseph, distinguished head of
the Family of Nazareth and
protector Of Holy Church"
While the letter is not
tantamount to a formal pro-
clamation that st. Joseph is
patron of the council, it clear
ly indicates that the Pope in
tends to choose him. 1t is ex-
pected that the Pope will
issue a bull or other docu-
ment at a later date, formally
proclaiming St. Joseph the
patron of the council.
The Pope's letter said; "You
are well aware that the first
phase of the organization of
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Religious Programs

Continued from Page Two
pitfalls can be given a loan,
instead of a grant.
TO DATE, BAPTlSTS have
taken four loans totaIing four
million dollars for hospitals
in Oklahoma City, Montgom-
cry, Ala, Waco, Texas, and
San Antonio, Texas.
The National School Lunch
Program, adopted by Congress
in 1916, permits private and
parochial school pupils 10
benefit equally with public
school pupils in a program
of cash and food to maintain
a satisfactory nutrit lonal
standard.
The cash-about $685. mil
lion this years provided to
states or directly to private
schools to help provide free
or reduced-cost lunches for
needy youngsters.
IN 20 STATES whose con-
situations are interpreted as
f%orbidding the state to chan
mel Federal funds to private
schools, the u. S. Agriculture
Department deals directly
with private schools, often
represented by a cooperative
organization.
The Federal government
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the council is quietly. dill
gently and reassuringly &C
tive. All that the ecumeni-
cal council requires for its
fulflllment and success is the
light of truth and grace, the
discipline of study and of sill
ence, the serene peace of
mind and heart. That is what
is required from our human
side. From above it requires
the help which Christian peo-
pie must invoke with a live
ly cooperation of prayer, with
all effort of exemplary life"
IN CONCLUSION the Pope
announced that st. Joseph's
altar in the Vatican Basilica
where the council will take
place, will be made more i'm
portant and will acquireat
his win a new, greater and
more solemn splendor." 1t
will thereby become a point
of attraction and of religious
piety for individuals and for
countless crowds"
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also distributes some of its
surplus foods. such as butter,
flour and some meat pro-
ducts, to public and private
schools for use in lunch pro
grams.
1t also helps pay the cost of
recess-time milk programs.
In the last fiscal year, S70.9
million in tax funds was
spent to purchase "a billion
pints of milk for children.
The Surplus Property Act,
adopted in 1949 by Congress,
makes available to education
al, health and civil defense
organizations land, buildings
and equipment which the gov
eminent no longer requires.
NO LINE is DRAWN be-
tween eligible public and pri-
vate institutions. About 1923
million in property was dis
posed of this way in the last
fiscal year. About n per cent
went to schools.
For example, a Seventh Day
Adventist school in Beau
mont, Calf, paid $195 for
buildings to house the prin-
cipal's office, storage space
and classrooms. The original
cost to the government was
S28. 1858.
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%Soumiaiot, bargained through
out the night for the lives of
the missioners. Az first the
leaders Of the Cartel wanted
to kill IL Of them and hold
the others for a ransom of
$500 Finally they agreed to
release all 80 missioners for
a ransom of S420.
a ~coNGOLESE PRIEST
with considerable prestige in
the area was able to obtain
two trucks and an escort of
soldiers to take the missioners
to Hindu, where they arrived
late at night on March II.
Al Hindu, troops of the
United Nations forces in the
Congo arranged for their re-
movaF to lesstroubled areas.
The international Red Cross
also offered help to the mis-
sioners.
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INSIDE WASHINCTON:

err focus. But it is not a par
ticularly new observation.
President Kennedy in his talk
to Latin American diplomats
at the White House, and the
Bogota Conference of Septem-
Der, 1860, said about the same
thing in other ways. And,
long before that, Catholic So
cial teaching called attention
to basic principles which
need to be kept in mind in
seeking a solution of problems
in this hemisphere.
Two of these points are. al
the necessity of promoting
the common good Of the peo-
pie, and b. the interdepend-
ence between peoples and ma
tons in working out their sal
walton.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
said he called upon "all the
people of the hemisphere to
join in an alliance, a vast eff
fort, ito satisfy the basic
needs of the American peo-
pie" The Bogota Conference
agreed that the preservation
and Strengthening of the free
and democratic institutions
among the American Repub-
lies demands that a speedy
effort be made in economic
and social progress in a way
to satisfy the legitimate wish
es of the citizens for a better
life"
ST. THOMAS AoUlNAS,
who lived and taught in the
18th Century, pointed out the
close relationship between eco
nonlic and social wellbeing
and the ability of man to live
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a dignified and free life. In
more recent years, Catholic
authorities have steadily
warned that the fight against
communism will not have
lasting results unless the con-
ditlons that make fertile
ground for communism propa-
ganda-poyerty and want,
provoking a longing for a
change are removed and
cured.
Sen. Hickenlooper visited
Guatemala, Ell Salvador, Mic
aragua, Ecuador, Bolivia a,
Peru, Chile. Argentina, Ur-
uguay, Brazil and Venezuela.
He urged that the citizens of
the United States 'stop beat
ing our breasts about the al
legged mistakes we have made
in the past" but they
learn from the past and get
on with doing something con
structive about the future.
He CAUTIONED that il is
a mistake to lump Latin
America into one package"
He pointed out that they are
separate nations, each with its
own national, social and polit-
ical problems and responsible
ties. He added that the Unit
ed States is important to each
Latin America country, and
each of those countries is i'm
portant to us. He urged that
"these relations be put in bet
ter perspective on both sides"
The coming year is likely to
be an especially difficult one
for United States-Latin Amer.
lean nations, he said.
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INSIDE WAsHNCTON.
How DO You Stop Communist Spread?

WASHINGTON-There
is social and political I'M
rest in Latin America,
and the problem is how
ito insulate it from Cas-
troism and communism and
"to guide it into constructive
channels"
This is an opinion given
to the US. Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations by one
of its members who recently
made observations in eleven
Latin American countries. =
WHILE LATIN AMERICA
has been making encouraging
political progress, it has been
beset with mounting social
unrest and with economic
problems of increasing COM
plexity," said Sen. Bourke B.
HickenloOper of Iowa.
"This unrest is indigenous.
Its origins are basically I'M
related to communism or to
Castroism, though in some
countries it springs from So
cial situations resembling
those in pre-Castro Cuba.
Agents of Castro's Cuba,
Khruschev's Russia, and to
some extent of Macs China,
however, are diligently try
ing to shape these restless So
cial forces to their own ends.
That they have not had more
success is a tribute to the in
herent good sense of the peo-
pie of Latin America"
THIS is AN INTERESTING
appraisal, because it is a fur
Their help in putting the situa-
ton in Latin America in prop
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call themselves the Cartel"
and arm themselves with
bows and poisoned arrows.
They believe themselves in
vulnerable because Of their
magic, which involves the
ritual use Of the lungs of
white men.
ON THE MORNING of
March IA a group of the Car
tel arrived by truck in front
of the Bishops house al Ka-
songo. The Bishop Of Kasongo
is a Belgian and a member
Of the White Fathers commu-
nifty, Bishop Richard Cleire.
VIZ. Members Of the Cartel
rounded up all the missionary
priests and Brothers they
could find and lined them up
before the Bishops house.
The missioners we're threat
ened but were not struck.
A large crowd gathered as
if by prearrangement to watch
the 30 missioners mainland
led by the marauders.
At noon the missioners
were taken by truck about 10
miles to a riverside encamp-
ment Of the Cartel. There
they were slapped by adults
and children, accused of
shameful vices and put to
tasks usually reserved for
women. Their white habits
and their faces were smear
ed with charcoal and flour in
grotesque patterns.
AT SIX IN THE EVENING
the missioners, still wearing
the flour-and-charcoal plaster,
were brought back to Ka-
songo.
AS if by chance, the minis
ter of justice of the Kivu pro-
vincial government at Bukavu
arrived at his residence in Ka-
songo in time to see the re-
turn of the bedraggled and
disfigured missloners.
The minister Of justice. Mr..
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VIOLENCE ERUPTS:
VIOLENCE ERUPTS.
Terrorists Again Attack
MissiOners In Congo

"LE0POLDVILLE, The.
C~ongo-Violence against
missionaries has erupted
again in southern KiVu
province, which is occu-
pied by Lumumbist troops and
terrorized by rowing bands Of
armed civilians.
Ii reached a new peak in
the middle Of March, when
30 missionaries in the town
of Kasongo were hauled to
the encampment of a Moslem
Lumumbist band where they
we're slapped repeatedly and
smeared with charcoal and
flour. They were saved from
execution by the Intervention
of an official of the provin-
cial capital Of Kivu, who paid
a ransom for them.
THIS CRISIS CANE March
14-15) a month after mission
aries in southern Kivu a
region known as the Maniema
were brought to Kasango
and imprisoned, beaten and
Inundated. Nuns were among
them.
During the month following
this first peak Of violence the
missioners we're subjected to
threats from armed bands,
and to repeated visits from
police commissioners (real or
imposters). Some we're hauled
before peoples tribunals and
treated as common thieves or
liars.
Exit passes were given the
missioners and then with
drawn before the missioners
could use them. This form of
harassment was repeated sew
eral times. 1t is believed that
the missioners we're deliber-
ately gept in the Maniema
for a roundup scheduled for
the middle of March.
ILLlTERATE MosLEMs
calling themselves police COM
missioners held guns on dioce-
san authorities at Kindu and
forced them to empty the do
cesar stronghold. They took
all the diocesan reserves,
amounting to about $1,000.
Both Kasongo and Kindu
are on the Lualaba River.
Kasongo diocese e m brace S
much of southern Maniema
along the border with Ka-
tanga Province, and Kindu
diocese includes much of
northwestern Maniema along
the border with Kasai Pro-
vince.
As in other parts of the
Congo, rowing groups of arm
ed civilians loyal to the ultra.
nationalist ideas of the late
Premier Patrice Lumumba
have struck terror into the
countryside. Not even Lumum-
Dist troops or officials con-
slider it wise to oppose them.
In the Maniema these bands
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-04-07
WILL DECIDE T
By JAMES C.. o'NEILL

VATICAN CITY, Pope
John XIII has written an
Apostolic Letter to the
World indicating that he
will proclaim St. Joseph
patron of the coming second
Vatican Council.
Pope Johns letter recalls
that his predecessors from
Pope Plus TX on were jealous
in spreading devotion to st.
Joseph.
ut SEEMED TIMELY also
for Us to propose these re-
minders of history and of re-
ligious piety to the devout at
tention of your souls pre-
cisely on March 10, when the
feast of st. Joseph comedies
with the beginning of Passion
Week and prepares us for a
deep familiarity with the most
moving and salutary mysteries
of the sacred liturgy" he
said. writing in Italian.
The Pope noted that ST.
Joseph is always invoked TO
help the Church in its prof.
ects and concerns. He said
that among present-day con-
Germs the first place is held
by the ecumenical council.
Pope John stressed that the
council rouses great expecta-
ton in the hearts of Chris
tians whether they belong
to the Catholic Church or to
one of the different confess
sions separated from it and
yet who are anxious for a
return to unity and peace &C
cording to the teachings of
Christ and His prayer to the
heavenly Father"
THE POPE SAID: "The
council is held for all Chris
tan people interested in it
for a more perfect flowing of
grace and of Christian vital
ity.
Everyone is interested
therefore in the council: &C.
clesiasticS and laymen, great
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-04-07
U.N. Rescues
MISSIOnerS
In Mid-COngo

LEOPOLDVHLE, The Con-
go-Ghanian soldiers serving
in the United Nations forces
have rescued Catholic mis-
sionaries in the central Congo
from a reign of terror under
followers of the late Premier
Patrice Lumumba, it was
learned here.
The terror started when sol
diers from the Lumumbist
strongh hold of Stanleyville
brought news of Lumumba's
death to the northern part of
Kasai province which is in
habited by Batetela, Lumum-
ba's tribe. According to word
reaching here after a two
week news-blackout, the STAN
leyville soldiers and members
of the Lumumbist youth move
ment Immediately began a
campaign of revenge. Seven
Catholic mission stations were
pillaged and destroyed and
homes of the Europeans re-
naming in the region were
wrecked.
The missions destroyed
were those at Tshumbe, the
seat of a diocese served by the
Pa~ssionists; Kole, headquar-
ters of a prefecture apostolic
under the Sacred Heart Faith
ers, and Lodja, Bene-Dibela,
-Ishenga, Lomela and Lotto.