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Evening star., 1961-01-09
$500 DC. Marriages
Set Peocetime Record !

Others, she continued, cant
afford q church wedding and
some merely want to. be mar
ried quickly. .A
Judge Edward A. Beard, the
most marrying Judge in the
courthouse. said there were
m q ny lunchtime weddings
among the 'l77 ceremonies he
performed last year.
Couples come to their we'd
ding dressed in every kind of
way. the Judge said.
He said some bridegrooils
show up in tuxedos and tails.
trying to emulate as closely as
possible q romantic church
wedding. Others come In lums
Der jackets.
Among the more unusual
weddings at which Judge Beard
has oflciated were those con-
Quoted over the telephone,
where the bride sat in his
chamber while the bridegroom,
probably q Serviceman. was
thousands of miles across the
sea. In Cadiz. Spain or Ossan,
Korea.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
Police Fire Shots,
Capture Man at
Service Station

Two warning shots early to-
day ended the flight of a man
charged with attempting to
steal tires from an Amoco sta
ton at Twenty-sixth street and
Virginia avenue NV.
Third precinct Pvts. N. L.
Davis and K. B. Bissett said
they were cruising past the sta
tion at $40 am. when they saw
two men tampering with a tire
rack.
AS the policemen approached,
the men fled up an incline at
the rear of the station. Pvt.
Davis said he fired two high
shots, which caused one of the
men to halt.
Charles Z. Winston, IS, of the
1900 block Of L street NE. was
charged with HOUSEKEEPING.
Police are looking for a second
man. believed Ito have escaped
in q car. y
Evening star., 1961-01-09
Shotgun: Staying
Holds Mon, 28

A 2S-year-old man today was
ordered held, for grand jury
action in the shotgun Staying of
his girl friend.
& A District cororer's, jury or
dered William Blagmon, of the
500 block of Sixty-ninth street
NE, held In connection with
the staying Of Miss Made Lue
Scoot. 80, of the 200 block Of
Warren street NE. s.
Pvt. John p. Wojcik of the
4th precinct testified that he
found Miss Scoot Saturday
night at an apartment In the
200 block Of Sixty-third street
NE, where she had been visit
ing friends. He. testified that
she had been shot In the head
and back with q shotgun.
The police officer. said he
then went to the defendants
home and arrested him. He
said that Blagmon handed over
the shotgun to police.
Pvt, Wojcik testified that
Blaglmon had told him that he
had argued with Miss Scoot
because she put q hex" on him.
District Coroner A. Magruder
McDonald presided.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
Marine Killed
In Fleming
AutoCrush

A Quantico- based Marine
sergeant was killed when his
car crashed into a pole and
caught fire in Stafford County,
Va. last night.
State police said Staff Sergt.
Russell Arthur Price. 80. was
pronounced dead on arrival at
the Naval Hospital at Quantico
from burns and multiple in
juries. - a. .- g.
According to State Trooper
T. B.. Beasley. Sergt. Price was
driving north on u. 8. route I
when he apparently lost con-
troll on q curve and ran off the
road into q utility pole.
The car burst; into flames.
with Sergt. Price trapped inside
until an unidentified passer-by
managed to pull him out, police
reported. The accident hap
pened q mile and q half north
of Stafford Courthouse.
Sergt. Price. a helicopter me-
chanic assigned to duty at
Quantico since December. 1854,
was q veteran of 10 years serv-
ice in the Marine Corps. His
next-of-kin were listed by the
Marine base as his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Price of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Evening star., 1961-01-09

District corporations owe the
city Aon e0f tickets, he said.
The bureau had given drivers
until January. 8 to pay their
fines, before 1T would affect
their tag applications.
George A. England, director
of the Department of. Motor
Vehicles. will send out pink
slips next Monday to the de-
linquent motorists telling them
that befege they can pick up
their tags they must appear in
Room $40 Municipal Court,
Fifth .andsF streets NV, be-
tween Q am. and 4 pm. Nom
day through Saturday.
When the fines are paid,
drivers can get their applica-
tions for their 1854 tags by ap-
pearing at the Special Applica-
ton Counter In the Municipal
Center at Sol c street NV.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
Motorists Denied
Togs Ill Fines Are Paid

Some $3.50 District drivers
win not get their new 1881 II.
cense plates until they pay their
outstanding traffic fines. the
Central Violations Bureau said
today. :,
Wallace D. CumminS the
bureaus chief deputy clerk
said he is sending the drivers
names to the Department Of
Motor Vehicles on Wednesday,
asking that, their tag applica- :
tons be held up.
He said the city Is still owed
at least 472.o00 in fines fig
ure higher than he originally
believed. He had previously
estimated drivers debts at
960, 600.
MIR. Cummins said the $3.50
amassed s,Ss1 parking tickets
last year. In addition, some $50
Evening star., 1961-01-09
1000 MORE PlNTs
or BLOOD NEEDED
BY RED CROSS :.

The Washington Region
I al Blood Center today is
still 1000 pints short of
It's normal supply despite
a special collecting oper-
alton over, the week end.
The center. at 2025 e
street NV, issued an
emergency appeal last
Wednesday, declaring that
q decrease In blood dona-
tions during the Christmas
holiday period had resulted
In @ severe blood shortage.
A total of 267 pints Of
blood were collected at the
center on Saturday and
Sunday. Today, the center's
usual closing hour of S
pm. will be extended to 8
pm.
Beginning at ; pm. to-
day, until the center closes,
girls from a Washington,
modelling school will be on
hand to present each donor.
with a certificate for a self
Improvement lesson.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
- - ~
Two tnfonts Die,
Sd Hurt in Fire

, SEVERNA. PARK, Md, Jan.
3 AP)--A. fire that swept
through . one.room Anne
Arundel County apartment
Saturday night resulted In the
deaths Of two young children
and injuriesN to q third.
d. The victims were l.year -old
pal1iell Somerville. who died
IN the fire. and his 3-year.old
sister Marie Louise, , who died
Sunday at Anne Arundel Gen
eral Hospital in, Annapolis.
The third, child, John Ray.
mond Somerville. jr.. "a months
was reported in fair condition.
Officials said the blaze
started while the mother of
the children, Mrs. Eleanor
Scnerville. was visiting q
neighbor. Cause Of the fire
was undetermined.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
LberoIized Hatch Act
Sought by Byrd, BeoN

or councils. Before long, formal
governments were necessary.
Until formal governments
became necessary. a resident
of one of these suburban com.
munities could serve as a gov
erning official locally" Senator
Beall added. However. once the
formalities Of modern local
governments were imposed, the
Hatch Act imposed its own
limitations. Federal employees
thus are preeluded from taking
an active. part in the funda-
mental practice Of self.govern-
ment."
Senator Beall stressed that
the new. legislation would not
scuttie the Hatch Act. =
1t simply says the commits
sion shall not prevent Federal
employees in the District of
Columbia or in any county Of
Maryland and Virginia contig-
uous to the District from tax
ing an. active part In political
management or political CAM
paigns Of their home communi-
ties.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
! Jumes Norris Quits
MARYLAND Law Post

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 9 (AP).-
The resignation of James H.
f.orris. jr., q special assistant in
the State Law Department
since 1854, was announced yes
terday by Attorney General c.
Ferdinand Sybert. T~''
Mr.. Norris will enter private
law practice with the firm of
Goodman, Meagher g. Enoch
after his resignation, effective
February /.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
PARENTS SLAIN, BROTHER HELD
Boy BewiIdered by Future

HE and his mother were In 4
good ,humor," she said. They
talked shout how Wonderful
Christmas had been, and he
told me about his, new ice
skates. %, ~
~ Il Exhibited instability. 4,
r She said he exhibited some
emotional instability. \
"He could'get excited and oct
on impulse, she said. However,
when angered. he appeared
more likely to isulk quietly than
talk back. she said. i. ~
Police Capt. Elmer Hagner
said Wayne told him the shoot
ing grew out Of q scolding his
parents had given him the
night before when he returned
home late from Q basketball
game.
County Circuit Court Judge
BENJAMIN MichaelSon said
Wayne will be kept at Spring
Grove until the hospital staff
reports ON his mental condi-
tion. He then will appear at q
hearing before Judge Michael
SON some time This week.
H.. Nathan Blaustein, an
associate who shared law Of
fices In the Colorado Building
with Mr. Dresbach, said funeral
services have not yet been
arranged. The bodies are In q
Baltimore funeral home, but
will probably be transferred to
another closer to the Dresbach
home, he said.
A spokesman for Spring Grove
said Wayne "is making a COM
Portable adjustment, with no
problems"
Evening star., 1961-01-09
BY ROBERTA HORNIG
Star stan Writer

Weddings took a leap year
jump In the District hast year
Some $500 couples - more
than in any year since the
post-World War II marriage
boom-exchanged vows during
1860. figures released by the
city's Marriage Bureau show.
Most of the weddings took
place in churches.
But the number Of civil mar
riages. with couples marching
into judges chambers at Num-
cipal Court instead Of down an
aisle, broke all records and
reached an all-time high Of
sos. This Is 95 more ceremonies
than recorded for 1859.
Religion Is the principal rea-
son couples choose to be mar
ried by q Judge. according to
Mrs. Dorothy Miller. who sched-
ules weddings at the court
house.
Some couples have no reli-
gious afiiliation and some have
religious differences. making 1t
difiicult for them to be married
by the clergy, she explained
Evening star., 1961-01-09

Some mention was made 7M
the tragedy, and this upset
Lee" Mrs. Talbert said. y
Police 1t. Lloyd Smith, at
tached to Anne Arundel Cpnn.
tvs Juvenile Court protections
bureau. said his major con-
cern now. Is for Lees. welfare.
HE, wants TO finish school
here. and we are going to try
to work 1t OUT" he said.
Relatives TO Arrive
Relatives of the Dresbach
family, who live in Kansas, are
expected to arrive in Annapolis
this week to help make plans
for Lee.
Meanwhile, the question Of
what led to the deaths Of the
47-year-old attorney and his
wife, 46. still has no satisfac-
tory answer. Mr.. Dresbach, Q
successful Washington attorney
who had an attractive home
facing the bay and owned two
boats, had adopted the brothers
as infants.
Wayne had run away from
home several times and had
been brought to the attention
Of the county Juvenile Proba-
ton Authority. But even to 4
psychiatrist, he had not dis
played any tendencies to vio-
lence.
DIR. Elizabeth Winiarz, q
county health department psy-
chiatrist. said two interviews
with Wayne and his parents
revealed nothing to indicate
the impending tragedy.
She saw him as recently as
December 20, DR.. Winiarz said.
Evening star., 1961-01-09

Friends and officials today
are trying to decide what the
future holds for 14.year-old
Lee Dresbach. the innocent
victim Of q weekend tragedy
which cost the lives of his
foster parents.
The youngster, whose Is
year-old brother. Ralph Wayne
Dresbach, is being held In the
double staying. has been stay
ing with friends since Satur-
day. Lee witnessed part Of the
nightmarish shooting of Mr..
and Mrs, H. Malone Dresbach
on Saturday morning In their
home at Franklin Manor, Md,
on Chesapeake Bay.
Mrs. E. Dallas Talbert, q
neighbor and long -time family
friend who is caring for Lee.
said the youngster himself is
bewildered about his future.
"All day Saturday he kept
asking us what was going to
happen to him." Mrs. Talbert
said.
Brother Awaits Hearing
His brother Is being held at
Spring Grove, State Hospital at
Catonsville. Md. pending q
court hearing. Police say Wayne
admitted pumping a volley Of
.22-calber rifle bullets into the
backs Of his adaptive parents.
Lee told detectives he saw his
father shot, struck out wildly at
brother and then fled upstairs
seconds before his mother was
killed.
Yesterday. Lee attended
church services with the Tai
bertS.
Evening star., 1961-01-09

hoping to have on their side.
Everything in the Maryland
Legislature seems to be going
along all right as it is" Sena-
tor Parran, said.A I'm going to
take q hard. cold look before
7 vote for any changes"
Senator Parran appeared on
Comment. D program on
lWMAL-TV. The Stars televi.
sion station. along with State
Senator Edward 8. Northrop,
Democrat Of Montgomery, and
Prof. Royce Hanson of Amer.
lean University, an official OF
the Maryland Committee for
Pair Representation.
To Present Bin Tonight
Senator N0rthrop and sena-
tor James. Ak Pine. Democrat
Of Baltimore County, plan to
introduce q reapportionment
bin In the legislature tonight.
The bill would add 20 new
seats TO the House of Dele.
gates. One Of these seats would
90 to Charles County, one Of
the four small counties which
would be given additional rep
resentation In an attempt to
swing them toward support of
reapp0rtionment.
The reapportionment bill,
being an amendment to the
State Constitution. requires q
three-fifths vote Of both houses
Of the General Assembly. In
the 20 member Senate, which
is most heavily controlled by
the rural counties, 18 votes
are needed.
The four big suburban coun-
ties and Baltimore City have O
total Of only 10 Senator's. To
get the reapportionment meas
ure though requires Senator
Northrop to find eight more
votes. Last year, when reap
portionment was defeated. the
big counties had difficulty hold
Evening star., 1961-01-09
Senate Freshmen i. ].
Lead for .. Unit
Steering Group
Weighs Choice;
Pell Is in Van J.

Seven freshmen Democatic
Senators today were In the, lead
for selection as d District Com
mittee member. though none
was seeking the post.
Senator Pell, Democrat of
Rhode Island, was considered
the leading prospect after .
two-hour secret session Of the
Democratic Steering Commit
tee.
But one influential member
Of the steering unit, which for
practical purposes fixes com.
mittee membership. said sew
eral names were being consid-
cred and that the decision had
not, been reached this morning.
Others who normally might
be assigned the District ci1ore
are Senators Burdick Of North
Dakota. Hickey Of Wyoming,
Metcalf Of Montana and Neu-
berger Of Oregon.
Two Appointed Senators
There also are two newly
appointed Senator's. who con.
ceivably could be replaced
after an election. They are
Senators Smith Of Massa-
chusetts, named to replace
President-elect Kennedy, and
Blakeley Of Texas, who takes
the seat vacated by vice
President-elect johnson. =@
without an election behind
them, these men might find
themselves in an even less
commanding position than the
others as to committee prefer
ence. So. there was some
speculation that they might
draw membership on the Dis
trict Committee. "a
Senate District Committee
Chairman Bible. Democrat Of
Nevada. gave no indication in
the Steering Committee meet
ing that he hoped or intended
to leave the craftsmanship. The
only apparent. possibility. that
he might-a long chance to
become chairman of the In!
terror Committee - evaporated
with Senator Anderson's re-
ported acceptance Of the major
job on Interior.
Bible C0nsults Pell
Refusing comment on the
possibility that Senator Pell
would assume the District post.
Senator Bible proceeded to the
Senate floor and engaged SEN,
ator Fell in q private converse :
ton for about 10 minutes. he
did all the talking but Senator
Pell repeatedly nodded in
agreement.
The freshman Senator from
Rhode Island is known to be
interested in a spot on the For
'eign Relations Committee. q
plum that Senate leaders prob
ably would be reluctant to give
him unless he could promise
to tend to. some Of the drudgery
|generally assumed to accom-
pany a District Committee as
LSignment.
Evening star., 1961-01-09

LEGISLATION, to permit Fed
eral employees with homes in
nearby Maryland and Virginia
suburbs to take part In local
political. activity was intro
duced today by Senators Beall.
Republican Of Maryland, and
Byrd, Democrat Of Virginia.
Under the proposal, the Civil
Service, Commission would
have broad authority to. draw
up rules for Federal employees
to work in local political cam
paigns or to hold local political
offices. Z.
The theory behind the &C.
ceptance Of a county or mt
nicipal elective post would be
that the job must be one that
would not interfere with the
Federal duties Of the Govern
ment employe.
hatch Act Called Archaic
The commission regulations,
drawn under the authority OF
the present Hatch Act. " have
been criticized by the two Sem
atofS IS too negative. They
stress that Federal employees.
may not do rather than what
they may do under the law
wlnichs generally excludes these
workers. from political activity.
Senator Bealf saidIthe Hatch
Act was archaic.
Twenty years ago upon its
enactment, IL was impossible to
know that millions of people
would leave, the cities and mi
crate to the suburbs. and that
from this migration would arise
hundreds Of communities,
many Of which would achieve
the status OF municipalities In
their own right" Senator Beall
told the Senate.
Self Governrnent Natural
1T is the nature Of the
American people to seek self
government. Suburban resi-
dents set up local committees
Evening star., 1961-01-09


ing : their own legislators to-
|gether. and Senator Louis N.
Phipps. Democrat Of Anne
Arundel. was against the reap
portionment. =
Senator Northrop told Sena-
tor Parran last night that
Charles County Is on the SUBJ
urban fringe and "is bound to
grow, and have the problems
which come with growth" He
said that Charles County should
be interested in reapportion-
|ment." s.s.
Mr. Hanson said that Charles
County "is likely to have o pop
ulation explosion In the next 20
years" -
Reaction TO Comment
His reaction to Senator Par
rams comment that everything
seems 70 be going all right was:
Things always seem to be 60
ing all right in an unrepresen-
tative legislature. No one pays
any attention everything
falls on deaf ears.
Senator Parran said the peo-
pie Of, his county have not In
dicated they are interested In
reappor orticnnient. He said also
that representation In the Leg
isfature should be based on
geographic area and economics
as well as population.
Senator Parran also said that
the suburban. counties and
Baltimore City already hold
most of the top jobs In the
General Assembly and appear
to be doing all right. He noted
that the metropolitan areas
now have the speaker Of the
House. the president Of the
Senate. the majority floor lead
erS Of both houses. and the
chairmen' Of the major COM
Imittees.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
Reopportionnent ! iopes
Of Suburbs Suffer Blow
chories County Senotor indicates
He Viii Vote Against Measure ...s..i
ny PAUL NOPE
Star stan Writer

Suburban county hopes for reapporonment of General
Assembly seats suffered setback last night =
State Senator John Parran Democrat Charles ind.
Gated he win against reappotonnent Charles County
Of the small that reapporonment leaders
Evening star., 1961-01-09

YOU ANOW," ne SAID,
''1've never gone out there
to look At 1t. It. seems . little
out Of the way. -.
But we have q .microfilm
Of 1t here at, the Library.
Mark wrote. Tom Sawyer
without any delays or major
revisions. It took him about
three months. Most Of the
writing was done in the sum-
mer house ; of his wife's
family country home near.
Elmira. It was his second
big book and, like Innocents
Abroad, his first, 1t was an
immediate success. An ear
lier book of short stories
including The Jumping Frog
was published in New York
before Mark came East"
Toward the end Of the last
century Mark owned . house
on Fifth avenue at Ninth
street, Just above Washing
ton Square, in New York.
Anthony Brady, the man
who financed Edison's early
electric light ventures, lived
across the street. Marx was
the hero Of Anthony's son,
Nicholas, who later made q
great fortune in.C Consolida
Edison. Nicholas Brady sAc-
quired the tom Sawyer"
manuscript. His widow, who
was q papal countess, gave
1t to Georgetown.
Evening star., 1961-01-09
] ..ll!ol|k|..Slowed.
0n''N|!s'w Span.
!
/. .Rbossvslt Bridge
Opening Set Back
A Yeor TO 1863
ny GIk.BEKT GIlGBLE
(, star stag Writer

:. Thatsfickle stream, the Poto-
mae River, Il helping to keep
lit tough for Virginia lnotorists
to commune to the District.
Now rs delaying construction
Eof : the Theodore Roosevelt
Bridge. s,s,, /
| The delay has pushed the
opening date for the newt bridge
TO somewhere near the middle
Of 1858. Highway planners had
hoped It would be ready about
q year sooner. (
What. the problem .comes
down to Is the iPotomac's rock
bottom. Here is the situation:
Construction crews ON the
piers that win hold up the
bridge sNperstrueture have to
erect water.tisht cofferdams
into which J the concrete is
poured to form the piers.
Workers sink; steel sheeting
forming q rectansularnframe In
the middle OF the1 stream and
then pump out the water. This
leaves . dry shaft about 3Sl
feet deep that rests on the
rivers rock bottom.
Once the cofferdam Isl
pumped clear Of water and
there are no leaks. the work.
men then may proceed to pour
the concrete into q form. Ill
Mast Ne Dry
Specifications !, require that
the .cofferdaln be completely
dry. II the concrete Is poured
onto mud or grease, the pier
may not grip tightly enough afidj
may evens move. according tol
District ,!Alk hway Director
Harold Z. Aitken. - ;"
He said the Specifications ere
Q requirement bf the: Fedefail
Bureau Of Public Roads, which
isspayins for s0'per cent Of the
cost Of the bridge. -
But Whist. the bridge plaYi-
lnets didn't count ohSwas the
Jagged rock. bed at that point
In the river. ,....., =. 4
In the ease Of oaie OF. 'fhsI
piefs.f which finally has been
| poured. workers had TO do con-
siderably more blasting Of rock
than had been Anticipated, MI.
Aitken said. Fs*'
II took about four months
from April to Ausust-to get
the cofferdam in shape for
pouring.
Fingers Crossed
Mr.. Aitken said everyone Is |
keeping fingers slshossed thatl |
the river won't be causing any
more such headaches. Work isl
now progressing ION piers ferI
the bridge abutments and twoI
piers in the middle Of theI
stream.
Construction crews are tol
start work soon on three other
piers and hope the. river bed
VIII be smoother sol that blast
ing won't be necessary.
Bernard J. ODonnell, theI
District Highway Departments |
supervising engineer on thel
bridge. believes experience isl
now ON the construction crews
Mr.. Aitken won't blame the
river Tor all the delay. how
ever. He pointed out that the
steel strike held up some OF
the work earlier ana that
agreements had to be reached
on. approach roads on both
sides Of the river before final
designs could be drawn. Just
last ween. he said. officials. met
and agreed on final approach
road designs. 49,.