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Evening star., 1962-09-27
DEVELOPERS COMEBACK
Federal 'Eyesores' Hit

History apartments between
Macarthur boulevard and the
proposed Washington Memorial
parkway.
Opposition to the Cabin John
project was voiced at last
nights hearing by three citi-
zens groups, who relied on the
backing of the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commissions veto of the
proposal.
The groups contended the re-
zoning would open the entire
Maryland shore of the river to
high density projects and ruin
the Potomac's sylvan appear
ance."
But C. Edward Nicholson,
representing Mr.. Polinger, said
Virginia's controversial Merry
wood case was haunting his ef-
forts to get rezoning in Mary
land.
He said it was very possible"
that the only reason the plan
ming commission opposed Mr.
Polinger's request was because
its vice chairman. j. Newton
Brewer, had been quoted as op-
posing construction along the
river when the Merrywood re-
coming was allowed by the Fair
fax County CVa0 supervisors.
But this is not Merrywood,
Evening star., 1962-09-27
BY WILLIAM DUKE
Star Staff Writer

Congressional critics of apart
ment projects along the Poto-
mac were told last night to
eliminate Federal "eyesores" on
the rivers bank before oppos-
ing private development.
Buford M. Hayden, a land
planning consultant, said some
Congressman and Federal Off
cial have opposed the Merry
wood apartment project on the
Potomac Palisades in Virginia
but had said nothing about
Government construction near
the river.
He said the new Central In
telligence Agency building on
the Virginia shore distracted
from the rivers scenic beauty
as does the Nays Taylor r
Model Basin in Cabin John.
Md.
Mr.. Buford, retained by de-
veloper Milton Polinger, made
the remarks in asking the
Montgomery County Council to
rezone a tract in Cabin John
for an So million, 496 unit
apartment project.
The project, proposed under
the county's high-rise zoning
category, would include twin
Evening star., 1962-09-27
RocioI SIurs Pointed
On Lincoln Memorial

the Reflecting Pool, Mr.. Kloske
said.
The lettering at the memo
rial was discovered by a guard
before daybreak Monday, Dep
uty Chief Murdock reported.
Mr.. Kloske said the guards re-
moved the lettering as best
they could with q cleaning fluid
Monday morning and crews
from his department sand
blasted the. areas later that
day.
The word, "Niggersville. "
smeared on the wall of the
Route so underpass at the west
end Of Memorial Bridge, was
discovered Tuesday night and
cleaned away by crews yester-
day afternoon, Mr.. Kloske said.
Saturday, the centennial of
Lincoln's Emancipation Proc
lamation freeing the slaves was
marked with a ceremony on
the memorial steps.
Evening star., 1962-09-27

Vandals defaced two walls
and a bench at the Lincoln
Memorial and a wall of US. so
underpass at the Memorial
Bridge with racial slurs in
foot-high pink letters, Park
Police reported today.
Deputy Chief Nelson Muir
dock said the memorial was de-
faced some time Sunday night
or early Monday morning. The
underpass was marked Mon
day night.
Robert Kloske, deputy assist
ant regional director of opera
tions and maintenance, said
crews from his department re-
moved the lettering.
The words, "Nigger Lover"
were splashed on the north and
west colonnade walls of the me-
mortal and the word, "Nigger," 3"
was painted on a bench in
front of the memorial facing
Evening star., 1962-09-27

district must be rebuilt because
residents of both the city and
the suburbs depend On It for
essential services and also be-
cause the area should add
rather than 'detract from the
Capital City.
Also in support Of the bill
are District Commissioners
Walter N. Tobriner and Brig.
Gen. Frederick j. Clarke.
Evening star., 1962-09-27
PinboII Machine Poyoff
Nets Fine for Waitress

A College Park (Md.) tavern
waitress today was fined $500
in connection with a payoff
on a type of pinball machine
described as being more like a
slot machine.
Mrs. Hilma Jane MeCleaf, 80,
Of the 1900 block of Queensbury
road, Riverdale. was given the
maximum $500 fine by Upper
Marlboro Peoples Court Judge
William H. McGrath.
Judge McGrath ordered that
if the fine is not paid, a s.
month jail term in the House
of Corrections awaits Mrs. Nc
Cleaf, employed at the STAR
light Inn, in the 8700 block of
Evening star., 1962-09-27
I'm CANS IN SPACE AGE
Navy to Show DESTROYER Story
By PETER A. MASLEY
star staff Writer

A photograph of the original
lPT-i09, believed to be the only
Government picture of Presi-
dent Kennedy's World War II
boat, will be exhibited next
month on the 60th anniversary
Iof United States Navy destroy
ers.
The PT-109 picture, along
with many other destroyer dis
plays, will be on exhibit at the
Truxton-Decatur Naval Mu-
scum, 1910 H street NV, start
ing October 4.
President Kennedy's former
boat, which was sunk by a Jap
anese destroyer August 2. 1s4S,
in the Pacific, was loaded
aboard a transport, the S. S.
Joseph Stanton. on August 20,
1912, at the Navy Yard in
Portsmouth, Va, for ship
ment to the Canal Zone and
then the Pacific theater.
This is the subject of the
National Archives photograph.
An Archives official believes
pictures of PT-109 may be held
in private collections but the
one to be displayed is the only
photograph of the famed boat
in Government files.
The exhibit will tell the de-
stroyer story-from its rag-tag
forerunners to the ship that
pulled Astronaut John Glenn
and his Mercury space capsule
from Atlantic waters.
Much of the exhibit comes
from the private collection Of
the most famous Of all de-
|stroyermen." retired Admiral
Arleigh A. Burke. He earned
the nickname, "3l-knot Burke"
because he pushed his destroy
ers in World War II just under
boiler-bursting speed.
Highly detailed models Of
famous destroyers will be dis
played. One is of the first
American ship sunk in World
War II, two months before
Pearl Harbor. Another model
will show a confederate torpedo
boat from the Civil War, a fore
runner of the modern de-
stroyer.
Well-known Naval battles
will be illustrated through draw
ings and photographs depicting
Evening star., 1962-09-27
BUT HIS EARLY DAYS as

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a sandhog, working under
compressed air are some
thing he shares proudly with
many another man who has
driven tunnels all over the
world for water, oil, sewer
age, trains and autos.
Working as high as 260
feet above ground and TOO
feet below it, Mr.. Naylor re-
called one "close shave" when
he slipped while crossing over
a 110-foot rock-bottom pit.
Falling into space and headed
for certain death, he grabbed
in desperation at a pipe pro-
truding from the side Of the
pit. He caught it and held on.
speaking of retirement now
and looking back over the
conquest of the river by the
shield and compressed air,
and the conquest of the
mountain by machine drill
and dynamite, he knows that
the ocean straits still prevail.
And who can say that one
day he won't be working be-
hind a jumbo drill carriage
and ramming dynamite
charges into rock to subdue
the English Channel, or the
Straits of Gibraltar, or the
Bosporus.
Evening star., 1962-09-27
Police OK
Needed for
Sales Permit

After hearing that so per
cent Of the Districts l.42s
licensed street vendors have
criminal records, the District
Commissioners voted today to
require a police recommended
ton on applicants before they
are given vendors licenses.
Police win fingerprint the
applicants and check for pos
sible criminal records.
The new requirement will
take effect when annual IL
censes are issued November /,
according to C. T. Nottingham,
chief Of the license and permit
division of the Department of
Licenses and Inspections.
At present. vendors are
checked by police after licenses
are issued, Mr.. Nottingham
said.
It is practically impossible"
to suspend the license Of a
vendor, he said. The depart
ment has found licensed ven-
dors who are actually wanted
by police. but 1t is often unable
to serve such vendors with
papers to suspend their licenses
because they are no longer at
the address given on their ap-
plication, he added.
Vendors include persons who
sell anything on the street or
door to door. Mr. Nottingham
explained.
About half of those with
criminal records have been ar
rested and convicted for serious
crimes, Julian P. Green, Mr..
Nottingham's assistant, said.
Practically ali other sales
men and persons dealing with
the public who are licensed by
the department are checked by
the police before licenses are
issued, MFR. Nottingham said.
Evening star., 1962-09-27
LOTTERY LAID
TO MARYLAND
DEMOCRATS

TOWSON, Nd. (AP)-A
Republican candidate for
State Senate says that
State employees are con-
Quoting a lottery at the
State office Building in
Baltimore to raise Demo-
cratic campaign funds.
The candidate. Gordon
G.. Power of Baltimore
County. said the lottery is
being run with the knowl-
edge of Gov. Tawes. He
said he would ask Attorney
General Thomas B. Finan
to investigate it.
Mr.. Power said employees
are being solicited by super
visors to buy IS lottery
tickets, the prize being a
ticket to a Forthcoming
500 : a plate Democratic
fund-raising dinner.
Mr.. Tawes evidently has
no compmction about
raising his own campaign
funds through gambling"
Mr.. Power said, but he
frowns on Southern Mary
land counties raising reve-
nue. through slot machines"
Evening star., 1962-09-27
Counties Add
12,O61 Voters
In Maryland

Recent registration in Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
Counties has added 12,061 new
voters to the list of those eligi-
Bile to participate in the No
vember 6 general elections in
Maryland.
OF this total, 6,232 repre-
sent new voters in Montgomery
and $500 in Prince G orges
County.
Monday was the final day to
register in either county.
The Maryland Non-Partisan
Registration COMMITTEES and
other civic-minded groups have
led a drive to register new vot-
Iers, according to Walter ]. Bier
wagen, chairman of the volun-
teer registration committee.
1.-THE addition of more than
10000 names to the voters lists
of these two counties is a nota-
BILE achievement for our group
and those who worked with
u.s." Mr.. Bierwagen declared.
1T will mean a heightened in
terest in county, State and ma
tional politics, and the election
returns will reflect the at
titudes of a more representa-
tive proportion of our citizens"
Prince Georges County has
a total of 1858 residents
registered to vote November 6,
representing the previous ratio
of more than two-to-one in
favor of Democrats.
Tallies show $500 Demo-
Gratis, 36,O94 Republicans, and
4,834 unaffiliated.
The new total represents an
increase of about 5000 voters
since the primary last May Is.
At that time there were IS 400
Democrats, 34,552 Republicans
and ATS unaffiliated, making
a total of 124,727.
In the last general election
in 1858, there were 1881 ELI
gible voters. A breakdown
showed 68,316 Democrats, 30
800 Republicans and 1886
unaffiliated.
Total registration figures are
not yet available in Montgom-
lery County. Registration books
are being revised, eliminating
some names and transferring
Others, and the tabulation may
take several weeks, according
to Miss Rose Dawson. minor
Iity clerk for the Montgomery
Board of Election Supervisors.
ors.
OF those registered in Mont
gomery between September 4
and Monday during a special
Registration period conducted
by the board, 1894 were Demo-
Gratis; 2,416 were Republicans,
and 422 declined to list a party
affiliation.
Evening star., 1962-09-27
Tuition Act
Tightening
Proposed

Representative Broyhill says
he win seek to tighten the Dis
trict school systems tuition
requirements for nonresident
pupils at the next session Of
Congress.
The Virginia Republican said
he will introduce legislation to
eliminate a section Of the city's
Nonresident Tuition Act.
Under this section, the Board
of Education may exempt pu-
pills from tuition payment in
cases where the person caring
for the nonresident child is
found to be contributing sub
stantial care, and where the
child's parents or guardians
cannot provide this support.
A member of the House Dis
trict Committee, Mr.. Broyhill
was the author Of the act that
became effective January, 1861.
The provision that Mr.. Broy-
hill would attempt to delete was
written into the legislation by
the Senate. :
In q statement yesterday,
Mr.. Broyhill said this law al
ready has saved District tax
payers untold thousands of
dollars"
In the 195S-59 school year,
Z per cent of out-of-town pu-
pills in the District school sys-
tenn paid tuition, he said. This
percentage reflected a loss in
potential tuition payments of
$685., 900 a year. Since his bill
became law, the congressman
said, SO per cent of the nom
resident students paid tuition
during the past school year.
The statement said that 408
pupils withdrew from the Dis
trict school system for non-
compliance, and that this has
meant a huge saving to the
taxpayer. go.
But, Mr., Broyhill said,
abuses are continuing on a
large scale"
Referring to this hardship"
section Of the law, Mr.. Broy-
hill said that District residents
who desire to help an under
privileged child whose parents
live elsewhere could do so more
effectively and probably at less
cost by making a financial con-
tribution to the child's family,
rather than supporting the
child here in Washington.
Evening star., 1962-09-27
District Business Area
Renewed Bill Opposed

Opposition to a bill designed
to revitalize the downtown
Washington business area
cropped up today before a
Senate District subcommittee
The bill, which passed the
House last Monday. grants au-
thority to the District Commits
sioners to apply urban renewal
machinery to the downtown
area.
Under existing law, 1t has
been doubtful whether an
urban renewal project, financed
in part by Federal money,
could be undertaken in down.
town Washington because Of
its purely commercial or non-
residential quality.
Personal Gain
But Harry A. Barbour, speak,
ing as a private citizen, told
the subcommittee that power
full financial interests were
backing the proposal for per-
sonal gain.
What these people have in
mind" he said, "is not reha-
bilitation of a business area,
but a wholesale bulldozing Of
certain sections Of downtown
Washington for the financial
benefit of certain high-powered
real estate and redevelopment
promoters"
He also claimed the bill would
give the Redevelopment Land
Agency the power to declare
almost every downtown COM
mercial structure as being
either slum or blight"
However. the bill was strong
ly indorsed by Charles E.
Phillips, president of the Wash
ington Board of Trade. and
James c. Wilkes, a member of
the Executive Committee of
Downtown Progress. Inc, the
organization of local business
men who have banded together
in an attempt to rebuild the
central core of the city.
Authority Needed
Also, Phil A. Doyle, director
of the RIA, testified that 80
long as the District is without
authority to redevelop blighted
on-residential areas. it will be
impossible to redevelop the
downtown area for non-resi-
Dental purposes"
He said the central business
Evening star., 1962-09-27
Council Fights
Delinquency
Coils for New
Area Approach

A sweeping and unique
demonstration project" in de-
linquency prevention in the
District is being prepared for
presentation to President Ken
nedy's Committee for Juvenile
Delinquency and Youth Crime.
The Rev. Arthur A. Azlein.
speaking at yesterdays MONTH
ly meeting of the District Com
missioners' Youth Council. pro-
posed a "thorough-going grass
roots approach" and a "decen-
tralized network of neighbor-
hood centers" in the new prof.
ect.
He suggested that such a
Federal grassroots" project be
started in an area board with
a record Of solid accomplish
ment. Selecting area P as the
demonstration area, Mr.. Azleir
explained that I'VE want ths
test area TO be large enough
to make findings there applica.
BILE to the whole city"
Area P-bounded by Unior
Station, Anacostia River, East
Capitol street and New York
avenue - comedies with the
ninth police precinct.
The area has the ninth high
est Juvenile offense rate in the
81 area boards, with 1924 Of
fenses per 1000 population in
the 5-to-19 age group. Area K
lin the third police precinct
has the highest 1862 rate
with 1888 offenses.
Mr.. Azlein, of Michigan Park
Christian Church, emphasized
the following features of the
pfoJecb.
/. Promotion Of maximum
citizen participation.
2. A co-ordinating center for
neighborhood programs.
8. Education and training
programs.
4. Decentralized and co-ordi-
mated agency services to pro-
vide the earliest possible detec-
ton Of -delinquents.
5. A police and community
relationship to work together
on preventive corrective pro-
grams.
Evening star., 1962-09-27

DESCENDING into a huge
steel caisson that is used at
the start Of a tunnel drive,
Mr.. MAYORS shouts were re-
duced to whispers. Behind
him the wild screams of
compressed air howled
through a pipe and into the
working area of the tunnels
head to hold back the mud
and the river.
Light bulbs in wire baskets
reflected his form in a
bizarre shadow along the wall
Of the ghostly, unfinished
passage. Hot water dripped
from the sweating walls in
the 140-degree heat.
Mr.. Naylor was always
cautious when using a blow
torch. A flying spark could
turn soaked wood into a
blazing torch because of the
concentrated oxygen in the
compressed air. A fire could
mean mass suffocation, he
says, Another hazard was
in the shape of massive black
machinery with the brute
strength Of hydraulic pres
sure working in the slippery
darkness.
Mr.. Naylor was on one
con1pressed-air job when a
"blow" occurred. Pressure
finds a fissure in the mucky
quieksand and men and ma
terial can be sucked into this
frightening maelstrom. Mr..
Naylor was on hand when a
sandhog was blown through
40 feet of mud, so feet Of
water and hurled Is feet into
the air and lived. other have
never been found again.
TIE quiet man on the Zoo
construction Job remembers
throwing everything into a
gaping "blow" hole to try and
plug it up. He was well aware
that If all the air pressure
exploded through the widen
ing fisSure then the muck
and the river would come
roaring in to drown those
who did not reach safety in
the emergency air lock.
Mr.. Naylor turned to dyna-
miting before the awesome
labor could kill him.
Evening star., 1962-09-27
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The American Society
for In dustrial Security
meets for the fourth day at
the Statler Hilton.
The American Pilots As
sociation closes at the May
flower.
This information is supplied BY
the Convention and Visitors Bu-
reau of the Metropolitan Wash
ington Board of Trade.
Evening star., 1962-09-27

the role of the destroyer, which
has a reputation as the most
efficient warshop, ton for ton.
Charts from Mercury control
headquarters at Cape Canaveral
will be displayed to show how
Evening star., 1962-09-27

destroyers were deployed in the
scare hand rescue operation
for the space capsule. Glenn
and his capsule were pulled
from the Atlantic by a de-
stroyer, the USS Noa.
Evening star., 1962-09-27

The exhibit, free to the pub
lie, is one Of many tributes
being given to the destroyer.
which has earned such nick
names as "greyhounds," small
boys" and "tin cans"
Evening star., 1962-09-27
$21 Million BUDGET
Approved for D. c.
Relief Department
Senate Committee Seeks BoIunce
Of Clean Rolls, Adequate Aid
BY BETTY MILES
Star staff Writer

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved
s236O0 budget for the District Welfare Department de-
signed to provide balance between clean relief rolls and help
to deserving families and children
The budget provides for:
controller job would be to put the Department on
Evening star., 1962-09-27


noisy work Of blasting tun-
nels through mountains and
rivers with sticks of dyna-
mite.
Mr.. MAYORS current as
signment for the A. s. wik-
strom Corporation is driving
q 765-foot tunnel under the
office Of the National Zoolo-
gical Parks director. Theodore
Reed, to clear the path for a
new roadway through Rock
Creek Park. Blasting begins
in about 3 weeks" he says,
"and win contiue for some 9
months. It's a small job"
But this doesn't mean it will
pe TN easy JoD, ne is quick TO
add. IAN construction jobs are
tough" The IS year old
supervisor was speaking softly
In the comfortable surround
ings Of q new wood-paneled
office trailer at the Harvard
street entrance to the Zoo.
But 80 years ago when he
started in the construction
game as q laborer In a Michi-
gan water tunnel his sur
roundings we're a little diff
ferent. In those days he was
part Of that nightmarish
world Of the sandhog that is
like no other place on earth.
Evening star., 1962-09-27

Baltimore boulevard. She was
convicted of operating a gam
bling table.
Judge McGrath granted a
motion by Defense Attorney
Ignatius j. Keane that the same
charge be dismissed against
the president of the corpora
ton operating the Starlight,
Fred F. Monaghan, AZ.
First in Five Years
Today's conviction for gam
bling on a pinball machine is
the first in about five years,
during which alleged pinball
payoffs have become a political
controversy.
The Starlight arrests on
March 20 we're made under a
State gambling statute, and did
not involve a 1859 law making
a Federal gaming stamp prima
facie evidence of gambling In
Prince Georges.
Although six arrests have
been made under the 1859 law,
there have been no convictions.
States Attorney William L.
Kahler feels the statute still
requires him to prove evidence
Of a payoff.
A county police undercover
agent today testified Mrs. Nc
Leaf paid him 50 for 40 games
he ran up on a Wildcat" pin
ball machine on March 18. He
said he had been playing the
machine two days and fed it
approximately $l2.
Resembles Bandit"
Detective Sergt. George C.
Clements, head of the vice
squad, described the machine
as being the closest to the one
armed bandit I've SEEN"
Explaining its operation to
the court, Sergt. Clements said
no balls are involved, only a
panel of lights which flash on
and off as each game is played.
In asking for the $500 maxi
mum fine, Assistant Prince
Georges States Attorney Eu-
gene Pitrof said the machine
was more akin to slot ma
chine was more akin to slot
machines than pinball" and
their use should be discour-
aged by whatever means the
court has in its power"
Evening star., 1962-09-27
Day Care Provided

Day care for youngsters OF
mothers who are still on relief
but are taking job training. The
original Welfare Department
request was for $4,000 for six
months. Senator Byrd said
Welfare Director Gerard M.
Shea informed him last week
that there had been an error in
the Welfare Departments com
putation, and the request should
have been for $27.950. This
amount was approved.
A management survey with
in the Department also was
approved. However. the money
Is not included in the Welfare
budget. The committee ap-
proved three new positions for
this purpose in the Districts
office of General Administra-
ton. The survey will be con-
Evening star., 1962-09-27
Budget Reduced

The overall budget Of s21,-
$4,000 is $487 500 under last
years appropriation and $477,-
500 under this years House.
approved budget.
In its report on the budget,
the committee was critical of
current management OF the
Welfare Department.
"It was brought out very
clearly and conclusively during
the course Of the lengthy hear
lngs that there was a great
need for more effective man.
agement," the report states.
Except in a few instances,
existing personnel we're suffi-
cient to cope with the work.
load; however, there appeared
to be a distressing lack of di-
rection and responsibility. In
centralized control
was also evident"