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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

did the late Speaker Rayburn
of Texas.
Observers generally gave the
petition little chance of success
so late in the session.
In the Senate, the District
Committee, probably at It's next
meeting, will act on President
Kennedy's version of District
home rule. an elected Mayor
and seven-member city council.
Senate Committee Chairman
Bible, Democrat of Nevada, has
put his name on the Kennedy
bill and on a Federal payment
formula, to yield the city $40
million annually. His commit
tee must decide whether to re-
port the payment formula sep
arately, incorporate it in the
home rule bill or send a sep
arate formula and an incor-
porated one to the Senate.
Senate passage of some home
rule measure is expected pri-
marily because the White House
wants the local issue to move
through Congress at least as
far as it did under the Eisen-
hover administration. Then,
the Senate passed a bill, al
though not the Eisenhower
bill. The House committee
buried all home rule proposals
and a discharge petition failed
to force one to The floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
BY HUGH WELLS
Star Staff Writer

With the echo of Sverige,
Sverige" (Sweden, Sweden) still
rolling across his terraced lawn,
Swedish Ambassador Gunnar
Earring was musing today about
one of the strangest visits in
his diplomatic career.
The faces of the IS Swedish
tourists who serenaded him yes
terday were not those of the
usual well fed, well heeled
traveller. They were as deep
lined as the burrows they had
so often followed. and they had
the ingrained. tan of a dusty
road. ~t
Three years ago in the tiny
village of Langasjo, population
l 200, an adult study group was
reading about the emigration
during the years 1853 to 1910
that sent half the people of
the village to America. Lam
CASIO was poor and the New
World prosperity was wooing
the peasants.
Recently, Bertil FranSSon,
who had spent his 40-some
years bending his 110-pound
frame over 10 acres of oats and
potatoes decided he wanted to
see what these emigrants had
found. What was America
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Boy, 5, Wakes Family
AS Apartment Burns

Mr.. williams said he emp
tied the contents of three fire
extinguishers on the flames,
which were spreading to other
parts of the room and into the
hall of the terrace apartment.
Three Prince Georges County
fire companies, Mount Rainier,
Brentwood, and Chillum-A del-
phi, answered the alarm at
SAT am. and extinguished the
fire by 1909 am.
All the furniture and cloth
ing in the boys bedroom was
destroyed, and there was
smoke damage throughout the
apartment, Mr.. Williams said.
He could make no immediate
estimate of the total loss.
Mr.. Williams said the fire
started near an air condi-
toner.
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REPORT CARD-62
FIexibiIity and Depth to Keynote
Program in Arlington Junior Hiqhs

sters. and I think they respond
we'll"
For Arlington, this year has
been one Of solidifying i'm
provements designed for better
learning, diScarding a few that
haven't measured up and plan
ming new ones.
AS a result Of extensive plan
ming this year, the county's
junior high schools will take
on a new form next fall. The
idea is to provide what school
authorities believe to be a
much-needed flexibility to suit
the needs Of individual stu
dents.
Educators over the Nation
have taken a searching look at
the junior high school, he
points out, lest I'VE allow our
selves to drift into a junior
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ancient trunk was brought back
from Chicago in 1885 by one of
the 20 per cent who returned
with new prosperity to buy a
farm or a store in the old
country.
Inside the trunk are gifts
that the group will leave along
the way and a 40-minute film
they have made about life in
Smaland to show to their coun-
trymen.
Yesterday at a reception in
the Ambassadors home, the
group presented him with a
vase of clear glass etched with
the figures of two emigrants
poised over a replica of the first
ship. Beneath it said, Greet
ings from the Langasjo study
group"
Last night Mai. Harold A.
Swanson, a second cousin to
one of them, invited the group
to his home in Arlington for
coffee.
AS the last of several women
dressed in the bright reds and
blues of their native costumes
disappeared into the buses,
Ambassador Gunnar Earring
could still hear the last line of
the national anthem, II want
to live and die in the north"
1t had come from the heart Of
his homeland.
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CAMP FUND FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail it to The Eve
ming Star, Second street
and Virginia avenue Sc,
Washington 8, D. c., or
bring cash to The Star. A
receptionist in the lobby
will direct you to the CASH
ier's office.
The cost -$41.55 for IL
days, $20.78 for six days.
All sums received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund go
to Family and Child Services Of
Fund agency, for use Of its Sum
mer Outings Committee. Family
and Child Services is registered
under the District Of Columbia
Charitable Solicitations Act No.
6-07-151.
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McCormack Is Factor

A 5-year-old Chillum, Md,
boy early today saved his fam
lily from possible death when
he smelled smoke from a fire
that destroyed one bedroom Of
their home.
Firemen said the early warn
ing also prevented the blaze
from spreading to other apart
ments in the building.
Russell L. Williams, 80, 5427
Sixteenth avenue, LaSalle Park
Apartments, said he was awak-
ened by his two sons. Mark, 5,
and Philip, 8. about $50 am.
Mark had aroused Philip a few
seconds earlier after being
awakened by the fire which
had started in a closet Of the
boys bedroom.
Their two sisters, aged Z and
3, were sleeping in another bed
room with a house guest.
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CountyArrests
NH EmpIoye as
Numbers Writer

A District man suspected of
being a numbers writer at the
National Institutes Of Health
in Bethesda was arrested by
Montgomery County detectives
yesterday on a charge of pos
sesSing lottery slips.
Detectives Marvin Gulick and
Baird Cowell seized Herman
Carl Hall, 40, Of the 1900 block
of Maryland avenue NE, just
after he emerged from a pay
telephone booth in the Chevy
Chase Lake shopping area in
the $500 block Of Connecticut
avenue. They said he was car
rying a quantity of numbers
slips and more than $500 in
cash.
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YESTERDAY THERE were

YESTERDAY THERE were
two obsolete observation cars
at track 4, set up for a noon
press conference and lunch
con. Some people got on at
II am.
1--WE thought it a little
funny, but we didn't bother
them" said public relations
girl Lucy Cummings. AFTER
sitting there a while, they
asked if they might be served,
and I said, not until noon
One of the walters who was
passing by said, you might
as well serve them. They
think they're going to the
race track We had to eX-
plain to them they had the
wrong train-that car wasn't
going anywhere"
In the observation car Mr..
Lockwood was holding forth
on the mysteries of aging
whisky.
TITS a fascinating product.
There it sits in a key for
years. A keg is a precision
product. It's wood must be all
straight grain. 1t is charred
on the inside and it must be
Just the right thickness,
about one-eighth of an inch.
What takes place in the bar
rel during these years OF
aging is one of the mysteries
of nature"
Meanwhile, back at the
barrel, a press agent was
shifting away at natures lit
tie mystery, and he came up
with the uncontested worst
pun of the day:
"You know, we should have
arranged to have music play
as this bung lifts up Say,
something like the 'Whiffen
proof Song"
At that, the Rambler left.
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A-Rama. They brought six
barrels of bourbon in various
stages of aging, plus the COM
pany's vice president, Paul E.
Lockwood, to open a two
week display.
The kegs have lucite fronts
for peering purposes. The
first barrel shows the liquid
when it is first put in and it
looks like water, If you can
imagine such a thing. After
it sits in the keg for four
years it's darker, and then in
the 10-year-old keg is that
real dark brown stuff.
Mr.. Lockwood, who looks
like the executives executive
with his gray suit and match
ing mustache, did his level
best to compete with his
product, but his explanations
about how age makes the
difference in whisky were
lost on a large portion of the
audience who wanted to sniff
the stuff. .-...
Attached to two of the
kegs are foot pedals. When
pressed, a motor lifts a
bung on top Of the keg and
a fan blows out a strong
blast of eau de bourbon.
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high which is just a little
senior high"
In this transitional level be-
tween elementary school and
high school, he believes, 1--WE
need to get into a little deeper
meaning in discipline and yet
provide more flexibility, more
music, more art, a more varied
program.
II think we've got a pretty
good program set up for next
year, In which children viii
have a chance to choose" he
said. He explained that
students will have a wider
choice Of electives, with more
range Of subject and more
academic depth.
One thing that startled some
observers was the scheduling
of American history in eighth
grade as an elective, rather
than a requirement.
But I maintain we only
transferred the responsibility
for choosing from the school to
the home" Mr.. Reid says. "The
course is there" American his
tory is taught both in elemen-
tary and high school.
Under the new system, en-
'richment classes will be
scheduled on alternating days,
three and two times a week,
rather than every day. Certain
courses will be given on a
semester basis. And reading
will become a formal class,
offered in both remedial and
developmental courses.
Program for Gifted
Also in the junior high field,
the year marked an extension
of the program Of special at
tention for gifted children to
Stratford Junior High School,
to provide continuity for the
children coming up from Taylor
School, which has had a pro-
gram for the gifted for three or
four years,
These kids were coming out
of elementary school with no
provision for particular atten-
ton at junior high level" Mr..
Reid explains.
Special provisions for gifted
children are being extended
now to jamestown and Oak
Ridge Schools, and this will re-
suit in a similar progression Of
the work at Williamsburg and
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ONE MAN TIMoRousLY

ONE MAN TIMoR0USLY
approached the 4-year-old
keg, which has much more
of a kick than the mellow
1O-year-old barrel. After one
Whit he leaned on the keg
and said, 81 was just passing
through and I thought I'd
get a little lift"
There to explain the sense
of smell was DR.. James w.
Johnston, ir., associate pro-
lessor of physiology at
Georg etown University
School of Medicine and Den
tistry. His pupils were easily
distracted to the barrels.
which formed q backdrop for
the professor.
He said, At have developed
a good sense Of smell. You
can develop odor memory If
you learn to concentrate on
a given odor."
He said you can sometimes
ruin the bouquet by tasting
the liquid You smell, a state
ment which probably did not
endear him to the Schenley
people.
Then he said there are
some people who can't smell
anything. The professor calls
them "anosmiacs." Those
with a weak sense of smell
are "microsmatics" and those
with a keen sense of smell
are "macrosmatics."
Company representatives
were asked why they picked
the concourse for the display,
and one said simply, I'VE
thought it a good gimmick.
Besides, commuters don't
have to drive themselves
home after they sniff"
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hiking and outdoor living and
all the things city homes and
streets can't provide.
Johnny has shown that good
experiences can win him back
from delinquency. Going to
day and night camp" will be
another important step in the
road to manhood.
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BY JAMES b. ROWLAND
Star staff Writer

The Prince Georges county
Independent Democrats, who
camapigned in the primary
against closed meetings, decided
last night they need one to
work on a platform.
AL candidates were supposed
to discuss q proposed six-page
platform last night, but talk
was quickly postponed when it
was apparent that the audience
included a newspaper reporter,
defeated Democrats, and both
Independent and old guard
workers.
The platform proposal is es-
sentially the same that indie
pendents used in their bitter
and vigorous primary campaign
against the organization Demo-
Gratis, who had controlled the
party for 80 years. The Inde-
pendents won a majority Of the
nominations.
James j. Casey, an Independ-
ent and chairman of the CEN
trail committee, said last nights
meeting was intended to be
closed to all but candidates,
and that others were there "by
mistake"
Left to Committee
Mr.. Casey named a five
member platform committee to
work on suggested revisions that
may be voiced later by candi-
dates. Before any candidates
could accept Mr.. Casey's in
vitation to speak last night, a
motion was passed to let the
platform committee handle all
recommendations.
Dennis H. Marshall, candi-
date for the House of Dele
gates, then called for a closed
candidate and platform meet
ing with no newspapers pres
ent."
1--WE must resolve some mis-
apprehenSions in the party"
he said.
The motion carried and Mr..
Casey then asked another COM
mittee member, L. Harold
Sothoron, organization n"
spokesman, if both groups were
going to work together.
81 think we're on the right
road" Mr.. Sothoron replied.
Organization Gets Voice
Primary organization candi-
dates met Tuesday to elect Mr..
Sothoron their chairman and
indorse the Democratic ticket,
Independents included. But
MIR. Sothoron then expressed
concern that the Independents
were spending too much time
on platform trivialities instead
of organizing the campaign.
Mr.. Casey later said Mr..
Sothoron was assured the or
ganization will have a voice in
campaign matters. Two organ
ization candidates, County
Commissioner Frank j. Lastner
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move at a morning session.
They hope to present the petit
ton to the House by next
Tuesday. 1t will remain on the
Speakers desk.
If 219 members sign, the
Multer bill will have first pre-
cedence among all items of
House business.
There are AIT members of
the House. 263 Democrats and
TIA Republicans. The need
for a bipartisan approach is
clear in the count of some "a
or IS Southern Democrats who
are sure to reject the petition.
Poses Big Question
The big question for home
rule advocates is whether they
can push signatures beyond
about $50 or 100 regarded as
fairly certain.
George Pendleton, of the
Washington Home Rule Com
mittee, said his members would
write to citizens and organiza-
tons throughout the country
asking them to urge their Con-
greSsmen to sign the petition.
The Multer bill is modelled
after proposal submitted by
the Eisenhower administration
The President would appoint a
governor. District residents
would elect Is members of a
. legislative assembly.
Together, the governor and
assemblymen would take over
functions of the present Board
of Commissioners, subject tc
constant review from Congress
and the absolute veto power Of
the President. 49,
/ Mr.. Multer introduced thu
: bill January %, 1861. It hal
: been in committee without &C
:. ton since. The House Distric
Committee plans no hearings
The petition is an unusual par.
liamentary procedure TO wresl
bills from committees which
gives them no attention.
Mccormack Is Factor
Speaker Mccormack Of Mas
sachusetts could be a powerful
influence in the success or fail
ure of the petition. He has de-
cided that active support Of 9
means to change regular House
procedures would conflict with
his role as Speaker. On the
other hand, he will not dis
courage potential signers as
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Inner Loop Delay
Urged by Planners
Cite Concern
Over Family
Displacement
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

District planners agreed
unanimously today that more
time is needed before final de-
cisions can be made on the In
ner Loop highway system for
Washington.
This was taken generally to
mean planners want an oppor-
tunity to hear proposals, due in
November, for a rail-transit
system.
After a two-hour wrangle,
anti expressway members OF
the National Capital Planning
Commission won q battle, with
out a dissenting vote. to en-
phasize concern over the dis
placement of families in the
path of expressway construc-
ton.
Acting to clarity its position
in response to a request by a
House subcommittee, the plan
ming commission adopted a res
olution which said:
Every action we take neces-
sarily has an impact on people,
and when we are asked to ap-
prove a plan that will diSplace
thousands of people from their
homes, we must be sure that
our decision is taken only after
we have had an opportunity to
examine alternatives to the
solution of the transportation
problem"
Sought Qualification
Two days ago, Chairman
Whitener of the House District
Subcommittee on Traffic,
Streets and Highways requested
a Qualification Of the commits
sion's position.
Today's resolution conceded
the agency previously had ap-
proved the Inner Loop proposal
lin principle" But it pointed
out that specific locations were
not approved, and that later
the need for parts of the sys-
tenn were questioned owing to
changing conditions"
Such changes. the resolution
introduced by Walter G. Louch-
helm, jr., stated, included au-
thorization by Congress Of a
mass-transportation study to
be made by the National Cap
ital Transportation Agency, as
well as new Information on the
number of people to be dis
placed by in-town expreSswayS
and interchanges.
Express Concern
The report of the transport
tation study by Meta is due
in November. The problem of
relocation of displaced families
recently has been brought to
the fore as a result of concern
expressed by citizens organiza-
tions, the District Central COM
mittees of both the Republican
and Democratic parties and
Others. The relocation problem
also was mentioned in connec-
ton with the attitude of Dis
trict Commissioners Tobriner
and Duncan. expressed before a
Congressional committee, re-.
garding the East leg of the
Inner Loop and a large South
east Washington interchange.
In replying to Chairman
Whitener, Mrs. James H. Rowe,
jr., NCPC chairman, WIS also
directed to say the planning
commission recognizes that
its responsibilities for COM
prehensive planning transcend
consideration of traffic projec-
tions and transportation alone,
and require dedication to both
definition and achievement of
desirable goals for the Nations
Capital and residents"
Speaking in opposition to de-
lay of Inner Loop construction,
Brig. Gen. Frederick j. Clarke,
District Engineer Commits
sioner, told members that he
and the other two District
Commissioners are ''acutely
aware" Of the problems of re-
locating people displaced by
highways.
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Move Planned to Force
Vote on Home Rule Bill
Discharge Petition to Be Filed
In House by Bi-Purtisun Group

Bipartisan House supporters Of District home rule today
decided to resort to discharge petition to try to force
floor vote on the issue this session.
spokesman for Representative Multer, Democrat Of
New senior srategist said the petition would be filed
on compromise territorial bill.
Some eight Democrats eight Republicans planned the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

Arlington School Supt. Ray
E. Reid, for one. thinks kids
are better than ever.
He holds no brief for those
who fear that this generation
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TV as Supplement

learning is educational televi-
sion, which Mr.. Reid sees not
as a shortcut, a substitute for
teachers or a money-saving de-
vice, but as a way to make edu-
cation more effective.
The school system has in
creased its budget for sets and
for equipment of schools to re-
ceive television, the superin-
tendent reports. In addition, he
is communicating with the
Commission on Educ ational
Television of Virginia, pointing
out the desirability of expand
ing the medium in Northern
Virginia.
No major construction is in
progress in Arlington, but work
in planning or under way will
complete the construction of
multi-purpose rooms for Ar
llngton schools. This is the
last year for the Marshall
Elementary School, pinched
between two major highways.
It is being merged with two
other schools, Taylor and Not
tingham, which are being en-
larged.
Mr.. Reid, in looking back
over the school year, has warm
praise for the work of the Cur
riculum Advisory Council, a
group of citizens appointed by
the school board to advise with
it and help with specific studies.
Tomorrow: Mon & o m y
County.
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With the closing Of schools in the
Washington oreo, students ore tok-
ing home their report cords for the
year. But how did education itself
fore2 This is the fifth Of seven
orioles assessing accomplishments
during the 1872 public school yeor.
sS<~---~S----r--
won't measure up to the needs
Of the society into which they
are maturing.
81 believe they WILL" says
this veteran educator. II think
we demand q lot of our young
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Gunston Junior High Schools.
In the high school area, Ar
lington inaugurated this year
a nationally recognized or
ganizational idea for little
schools within a school," At
Wakefield High School, each
grade was made a division with
its own administrative head,
two guidance counselors and a
secretary.
Mr.. Reid says this is an
organization that gets closer
to the teacher. 1t will continue
at Wakefield for the time being
Respects Differences
Many things will be tried
here and there before becom-
ing system-wide, the superin-
tendent remarks. Various
schools differ q little in their
PHILOSOPHERS and backgrounds.
He respects that, and also is
against imposing not-yet-ac-
cepted ideas on the schools.
Two experiments will be
dropped with this school ses-
sion. One is the seven-period
day in senior high school, in
augurated at Wakefield last
year, dropped there and oper-
ated at Yorktown this year. 1t
offered students a chance to
take an additional course vol
unfairly.
THE children had to make
an unhappy choice" Mr.. Reid
finds. ut was a period added
to the end of the day. Many
were interested and wanted to
take that extra class, but were
also tremendously busy with
other aspects of school activ-
ity.
1T is my considered opinion
that the only way we can add
to the school day for any chill
dren is to add it for ALL" he
says. II am not at this time
proposing that"
Also being dropped is the ex-
tended opening of senior high
school libraries evenings and
Saturday morning, started last
year in the hopes of encourag-
ing student use.
1.-The children didn't use it, {"
Mr.. Reid reports. by prac-
tice, they expressed a prefer
ence for the public library"
Counted a success, and slated
for expansion next year, is the
employment of educational sec
retaries in the schools, last year
at Kenmore Junior High, this
year at Wakefield High, and
next year at Yorktown High
School.
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The
Rambler
Shifts
Eau de Bourbon
By MYRA MACPHERSON

By MYRA MACPHERSON
There is all this whisky in
Union Station concourse. You
can't sample it, but you can
smell it and that can be the
next best-or worst-thing,
depending on your nose.
The ad boys came up with
the idea of a Schenley Scent
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George Kennedy is III. He will resume
his column on his return.