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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-15
STILL A SECRET
BY AMELIA YOUNG
star staff Writer

An outstanding interior
designer who plans parties
as q "sideline" came to Wash
ington yesterday with two
sets Of blueprintS for the
National Symphony Ball.
Mr.. Z Billy Munford OF
Richmond, who has reno
waited such places as the
John Rolfe House on Smiths
Plantation in jamestown,
has agreed to do the decora-
tons for the annual benefit
ball to be held October 10
in the Sheraton Park ball
room.
Yesterday morning he gave
the ball committee alter
nate plans to choose from
one for q garden setting.
European in character; the
other for an interior scene
rejecting the late 10th, early
18th centuries.
A Secret
According to Mrs. Carson
Frailey, ball chairman, the
committee win announce its
decision in several weeks.
Mr.. Munford Is donating
his time and talent to the
symphony and it's no mean
gift.
An architect by training,
he first blueprints the party
mapping In everything, in
GLIDING the flowers, the
bars, etc.); m axes scale
drawings; adds the color de-
tails; oversees the set con-
struction, and supervises the
installation.
The project takes weeks.
The final stage, the install
lation, Is q 'round-the-clock
operation that's going to keep
Mr.. Munford UP all night. on
Evening star., 1962-04-11
5 u. S. CeIIists
Reach Finals

MOSCOW, April II (AP).-
Three young American cellists
will compete for top honors in
the finals Of the International
Tchaikovsky competitions here.
The American finalists are
Douglas Lynn Davis of Sun
Valley, Calf; Toby Ellen SakS
Of New York. and Leslie ParnaS
of St. Louis, Mo
Mr.. Davis and Miss Saks are
to give their final performances
of the contest Friday. Mr..
Parnas will perform Saturday
in the last spot on the cello
program.
They are among eight Ameri-
can entries in the cello COM
petitions which began here
April 2.
Six of the eight original
Russian competitors survived
for the finals. Leading Russian
cortenders appeared to be
Mikhail Khomitser, 81, who has
been playing for 18 years, and
Natalia Gutman, l9-year-old
gold medalist in the interna-
tional competition in Prague
last year.
Mr.. Parnas is generally re-
garded as the most promising
American entry. The 31-year-
old first prize winner of the
1857 Casals competitions in
Paris has been r"ceivin" rx-
ravagant praise in the Soviet
press.
Evening star., 1962-04-11

When you take people out of
slums, you should take the
Slums out of people, the Mid
way Civic Association was told
last night by Sterling Tucker.
District Urban League director
Mr.. Tucker cited cases where
underprivileged persons, relo-
Gated by Urban Renewal, were
taught how to keep homes and
yards clean and in good repair.
He said that those families
with a total income of $4,000
per year are forgotten in pres
ent and future planning.
Due to an influx of displaced
persons flocking to the area a
proposed Northeast high school
is overcrowded while still in
the planning stage.
Members were told that in
the Midway area a new office
building and housing in one
block alone will displace 200
children.
Mr.. Tucker said that the Dis
trict is further along in solving
housing problems than many
other cities, due in part to the
District governments sympa-
thetic attitude to the problem.
Members we're told that due
to increasing urgency of the
displacement problem, a petit
Evening star., 1962-04-11
Boost Teaching
Group Is Urged

The Brookland Civic AsSo-
citation was asked last night to
encourage Washington'S youth
to go into teaching.
Arlene Mahoney, a sopho-
more at the D. C. Teachers
College, told the group that
teaching is not an easy job,
but it is one which has great
influence on society,""
She spoke in connection with
the fifth annual Teaching Ca
reer Month.
The group meeting at the
Noyes School, Tenth and
Franklin streets NE, later saw
the film, Money Matters, u
which was produced by the
D. C. Commissioners to point
out the Districts need for in
creased taxes to meet mainte-
nance and future expansion
costs of its public facilities.
Evening star., 1962-04-11
District Crime
Declines Again
From 1861 Level

Serious crimes in the District
declined ga per cent last
month, police report.
This is the fourth month in
the last six during which the
crime rate was lower than the
rate in the corresponding
month a year ago.
The police report said the
number of serious crimes last
month was 1928, drop of 131
from the total for March a year
ago.
Declines in March were re-
ported in the following cate
gories:
Rape, IL as compared to 13
a year ago; robbery, 179 against
203; housebreaking, 419 against
488; grand larceny, 95 against
81, and petty larceny, 708
against 814..
Increases were noted in the
following crimes:
Murder, IL as compared to
IL; aggravated assault. 260
against 227. and auto theft, 237
against 200.
Evening star., 1962-04-11
Official at AU
Honored by City

Stafford H. Cassell, vice
president and administrative
assistant to the president OF
American University, has been
awarGsd the Citizens Recogni-
ton Award of the City of Wild
wood, N. J.
Mr.. CaSsell was given the
award Monday night for his
leadership as an educator. He
has made field trips to the
Wildwood area annually, and
Evening star., 1962-04-11

leges for the present school
year. the number of students
and exact total of loans for
this year have not been tabu-
lated.
The program provides Fed
eral funds to participating COL
leges on the basis of SO Federal
money to 81 college money. A
student may borrow up to 81 900
a year or a total of $4,000.
Repayment must start a year
after completing college work
but may be spread over 10
years. The interest is 3 per
cent.
If a student becomes a teach
er, 10 per cent of his loan
will be cancelled for each year
he teaches - up to a half
the loan total.
Evening star., 1962-04-11
Retiree Benefits
Equality Urged

The Hillcrest Citizens Asso-
citation voted last night to ask
the District Commissioners to
grant retired teachers similar
benefits afforded retiring Fed
eral employees.
In other action, the group
voted to send a letter to the
District Highway Department
asking that a survey be made
of streets in the area.
The meeting was held at St
Timothy's Church, Alabama
and Suitland avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1962-04-11
1000 in Virginia
Borrow 81 Million
U.S.. CoIIeqeF Fund
BY the Associated Press

The United States student
loan program apparently is
proving popular in Virginia.
More than 1000 students
borrowed a total of $2,035,00
since the start of the program
in February, 1859, to last June 8
The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare said
the loans went to students at
% Virginia colleges.
In addition, $I,138.293 has
been allocated to Virginia COL
Evening star., 1962-04-11

over the past II years ap-
proximately 100 students from
there have attended American
University.
The plaque award was pre-
sented to Mr.. Cassell at the
10th annual Wildwood High
School booster dinner.
Evening star., 1962-04-11
Family Training Plan
Called Renewal Factor

tion which originated in the
Midway Civic Association
scheduled at first to obtain
5000 signatures, is now aimed
at 10000. The petition, opposed
to construction of the inner
loop freeway system, also has
been presented to the Fedora
ton of Citizens Association foI
consideration.
The meeting was held at
Morgan School, Eighteenth
and Champlain streets NV.
Evening star., 1962-05-23
President Found PerpIexed Over Lag
In His Program in Congress

ceptions, and noticeably Re-
publican members of Congress
are careful not be be often
sive to the Kennedy family.
But even such strong op-
position has failed to produce
a counter reaction of Demo-
cratic militancy. Democrats
are in large part merely
coasting or picking their
spots.
This is the more striking
because Republicans are not
at all sure that they are TAX
ing the politically popular
course. In fact, while they
think they are right, they
concede already that they
probably won't produce a
President in 1864.
Their congressional goals
this year, as privately stated,
are modest. They will settle
for an extra Senator or two
and a dozen congressman, a
total on which they can base
a comeback claim, especially
if reinforced by gains in the
StatehouSes.
The President displays re-
Straint in discussing the
Democratic personalities who
display eagerness for the
spotlight. patronage and the
social perquisites of power
but fail to put steam behind
his program. This reserve is
not so generally observed by
his political aides who keep
careful books on the actual
voting in committee.
Their evaporation is not
soothed by their conviction
that if major portions of the
program can reach the open
roll-call stage. the sinners
will come marching in with
the saints.
1t appears that the Con-
gress may pay some price for
its dawdling because it con-
Evening star., 1962-05-23
DORIS FLEESON

The big gap in the FORE
front of political discussion
today is that which exists
between President Kennedy's
personal popularity and the
results he is achieving in
Congress.
The President is annoyed
and perplexed by it. He re-
minded a conference of Dem
ocratic women here that he
was getting his bills out of
congressional committees by
one vote only. This. he i'm
piled. was something for the
party workers to work on.
Mr.. Kennedy will not, of
course, be on the ticket this
fall. He will take an active
part in the campaign, he is
helping raise quantities of
money and inspiring the
troops. But history shows
that a President cannot
transfer his popularity to
others or create a trend in
off-yearS.
Normally. it would seem to
be a favor to the party in
power for the challengers to
adopt a general policy Of op-
position to the Presidents
program. The Republicans
have obliged the President by
doing so, in contrast to the
Lyndon Johnson technique
during the Eisenhower years
of blurring the issues. Then
it was often difficult to tell
when President Eisenhower
left off and Senator john
son began. The legislative
grist was minor, but the
technique established Senator
johnson as the most power
full legislative leader in dec
ades.
Republicans seem entirely
willing to bear the onus for
defeating the Kennedy pro-
gram. There are some ex-
Evening star., 1962-05-23
The Goal Is Advocated by All Sides,
But Financing Plan Is at Issue

hardShips upon the wealthy.
Actually. he wasn't. Later on,
in the same speech, he said
the millionaires would not
mind contributing s12 a
month to Social Security and
that. anyway. "the national
Government, through the tax
laws, already takes care of
them. because over IS they
can deduct all their medical
expenses.
The President certainly
wasn't describing a situation
analogous to that which con-
fronts many people. His plan
calls for an increase in So
cial security taxes-in some
cases by as much as II per
cent. The new tax will apply
to IA million persons under
social security.
All this is designed to take
care of the minority who
may get sick in old age and
have to go to a hospital or
nursing home. The new prof.
ect, however, doesn't provide
payments for doctors bills,
but only hospital costs and
nursing care over and above
the first $50. Opponents in
sist that the needy can be
taken care of by a direct ap-
preparation by Congress each
year without raising the So
cial security taxes. The OBJ
lection of the President to
this is that it requires a
means test" or what he
called in his Sunday speech
a "pauper'S oath"
But the fact is that the
document signed by the pa
tient would be confidential.
It's like his income tax re-
Evening star., 1962-05-23
DAVID LAWRENCE

Everybody is for medical
care for the aged. Republi-
cans and Democrats, critics
and advocates Of specific leg
islation alike-all recognize
that the sick must be cared
for always.
The real debate is over
what m e t h cd, what plan,
what m cans Of financing
shall be adopted. Demagog-
uery will not help to find the
solution.
President Kennedy's speech
on Sunday was not an ade-
quate outline of the basic
issues. He talked off-the-cuff
on a television hookup and
said some things he never
would have said If he had
prepared his speech in ad-
vance. There were. for in
stance, sentences like these:
'I visited twice, yesterday
and once today, a hospital,
where doctors labor for a
long time. to visit my IA
ther. It isn't easy-it isn't
easy. He can pay his bills,
but otherwise I would be.
And I'm not as well off as
he is. But what happens to
him and to others when they
put their life savings in, in a
short time?"
1t so happens that the
elder Kennedy is repeatedly
worth more than $100 mil
lion, and the President, him
self, 1t has been estimated in
the press reports, is worth a
sum way UP in the millions
some say $40 million.
The above quotation might
give the impression that the
President was worrying about
Evening star., 1962-05-23
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Kennedy is going after the doctors you'd think
they all owned steel mills.
Asronaut Scott Carpenter will test Army food during his
space flight Don't the rules Of double jeopardy outlaw that
kind Of thng2
Poets paean to culture the New Frontier Culture at
beck and CALL sparkling like waterfall All the incest
forms Of culture not excluding agriculture Echngs Of the
bin and stal-with autographs by Billie Sol"
building is booming The idea is to try to get the
bride the threshold ahead of the highway
Thousands fleeing Red China turned back at the Hong
Kong border Trouble with the world it, Com
munSm won't work-and side won't play.
Evening star., 1962-05-23
DAVID LAWRENCE
The Method of Medical Care

turn. which certainly is not
open to public view.
Many persons who "go on
relief" have to sign certain
papers. They don't seem to
mind a means test" The
Government could, Of course,
designate by another name
the money to cover the needy.
1t could be called a refund"
on previously paid taxes. Per-
sons who are IS years of age
or over and who now are
without means would hardly
object to a refund" of what
they have paid before over
the years to cover a variety
of social-welfare programs of
the Government that didn't
benefit them directly.
There's a law on the stat
ute books now to take care
of the aged who are sick. It
is called the Kerr-Mills Act,
passed in 1860. 1t matches
funds put up by the States
to care for those who cannot
pay their medical bills. It
covers doctors and nursing
as well as hospital bills. 1t is
in operation in many States.
Funds for hospital bills for
the aged can be provided
through private insurance or
from general taxes and thus
avoid another cut in take
home pay" for the workers of
America. The average en-
ploye realistically considers
his "take-home pay as the
net amount available to him
for current expenses, wheth-
er he or she is 81 years old
or so.
The added social security
tax for medical care for the
aged is estimated at $f.6 bill
lion for the first year and
would rise to SIG billion in
five years. This means that
the total "take-home pay" of
the employe and the profits
Of corporations will be cut by
that amount. For the en-
ployer pays half of the extra
social security tax increase.
Also, when an item of SIS
billion is added to wage costs
in the national economy, it
is eventually reflected in
higher wages and higher
prices. Workers are promptly
told by the labor unions that
the cut in "take-home pay"
will be offset by an increase
In wages.
A direct appropriation by
Congress could eventually
mean less expense than the
social security levy. 1t could
be imposed through the gen.
eral tax structure on those
who could best afford to pay
it.
The administration plan,
moreover, doesn't cover ev-
erybody. There are, for in
stance, 8 million persons in
the labor force, including the
self-employed, who are not
covered now by social securi-
ty. Also. about 3 million in
dividuals already IS years of
age or older are not eligible
for social security benefits
and would receive no medi-
cal-care aid under the Ken
nedy plan.
So 1t isn't q case of hard
hearted folks opposing medi-
cal care for the aged. Every
body is In favor of this bene-
fit. But it is a case of hard
headed financing that will
put the least burden on the
middle-aged and the young,
so many of whom for long
hears ahead are going to be
paying to the Government
money for some things their
families may never need. Sys-
TENS of voluntary insurance
are popular nowadays and
are gradually covering more
and more people.
There is supposed to be
political mileage, however,
for the administration in
raising the issue of medical
care for the aged" and CIV
ing the impression that the
critics are cruel persons who
are opposed to providing such
care.
(Convvighk lek9l
Evening star., 1962-05-23
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Evening star., 1962-05-23
DORIS FLEESON
Kennedy's Score in Congress

fronts a really massive legis-
lative jam. It could find
members held here when they
would like to be home cam
paigning or even bring them
back right after the election.
Evening star., 1962-05-23


Soppno CentrL
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Evening star., 1962-05-23
BARRiGiNi

OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS . WASHINGTON:
HYATTSVlLLE: Prince Georges Pozo
Borricin Condy may be charged Diners Club
Evening star., 1962-12-16
Sunday

S0u00y sbVNs
"SUNDoWN JIM" 1912. Routine action
packed western about the marshal against
the whole town. John Kmbroueh. 1:00-5
"THE ACCUSED" le4s. A school teacher
accidentally kills an amorous student Loretta
Young THREE SAILORS AND A GIRL"
1853. Three sailors on leave. Jane Powell,
Gene Nelson. Jack E. Leonard and Gordon
MacRae. l:0O-q
STAND UP AND CHEER" 1884. (First-Run.)
During the hard-pressed years the President
decides to appoint Secretary of Amuse-
ment whose duty is to change the national
disposition from darkness to light Shirley
Temple, Warner Baxter ZOO
"DR. NLDARE'S WEDDING DAY" l94l.
Tragedy interrupts Or. KiIdare's marriage
Lew Ayes and Laraine Day. 2:3o-5
"M0BY DICK" 1855. Herman MeIviIe's
mighty adventure classic of whaling ships and
the men who sail them. Gregory Peck Richard
Basehar and orson Welles. 8:00-7
"IF I'm LUCKY" 1916 crooner Perry runs
for Governor. Perry Como and Vivian Blaine
Fair score plus Harry James. ll:00-5
WILSON" le45. Biography of our World
War President-Woodro~ Wilson, Alexander
Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald lilo
DISTANT DRUMS" 1851 Drama of Semi
mole Indian uprising in Florida is loaded with
action. Gary Cooper. 1l:20-q
BLOOD AND SAND" 1922. tslent Film
Classic) Rudolph Valentino. 11:30-7
Mondoy AN.
" WAS AN ADVENTURES" 1910. Routine
jewel thief tale. Zorina. Peter LORE and
Richard Greene. 1905
Mondoy PM.
THE CRIME OF Or. FORBES" Film which
tries to deal with the subject of mercy
killings Gloria Stuart l:00-5
81 The Sunday Stor TV MOsG1ine. v
Evening star., 1962-12-16

JOHNNY oNE-EYE." 1850. From the Damon
Runyon story of eanester reformed by a
little boy and his dog. Pat oBrien and
Wayne Morris 5:00-o
WEEK END IN HAVANA" lq4l. Musical
made at the time Latin American music was
catching on. Routine. passabIe musical. Alice
Faye and Cesar Romero. 11:10-5
THE BLACKWELL STORY" 1857. A girl
in the 1905 tries to become the first woman
doctor jeanne Dru and Dan o'Herhy.
playhouse eo) 12:5S9
Tuesdoy AN,
NAVY WIFE" 1886 Routine tale of what
the sailors wife must do while he is away.
Claire Trevor. 1905
Tuesdoy P.M,
JOURNEY INTO FEAR" le43. Complicated
but experty made spy meIodrama in the
WelIes manner orson WeIIes. Joseph Gotten
and Dolores Del Rio. 1:00-5
SLAVE GIRL" ls47 often quite funny
satire on adventure films some good laughs
George Brent and YVonne De Carlo. 5:00-q
ROME ELEVEN O'CLOCK" 1852 UtaIianl
The scarcity Of jobs brings hundreds Of girls
in answer to an ad for one typist Lea
Padovan and Lucia Bose ll:l0-5
RACKET BUSTERS" 1888 WelI-acted expose
Of the manner in which rackets are worked on
an unsuspectins public Humphrey Bogart
and George Brent l2:55-q
Wednesday AN.
NEWS IS MADE At NIGHT" 1889. Routine
eomedy-drama with stereOtyped film reporters
saving an innocent man from execution.
Preston Foster and Lynn Bari 1905
Wednesday P.M.
HAVING WONDERFUL CRIME" ls45. Fast
paced. breezy comedy-mystey. Pat o'Brien
and Caroe Lands. l:00-5
WINGS IN THE DARK" 1885. Dramatic
love story between Cary Grant and Myrna
10y is heightened by their adventures in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-06

hope you can tell me is just
where these words came from
and how they got their present
meanings.-N. Hoss, New York.
Answer: Two-thirds of your
question is, in slang terms, for
slang" began as a slang term
itself and its ultimate origin is
in dispute. It is first recorded
in print in 1855 but was prob
ably common in the argot of
the underworld before that
date. One authority credits its
origin to a Norwegian word
"Slengjeord," meaning slang
word" but, in the next breath,
suggests it may be related to
the English word sling" From
the way some people sling
slang around, that last might
be as good a theory as any.
Slang" incidentally, con-
sistS Of two kinds of words:
words regarded as "Substand-
ard" that is inadmissible into
polite and proper use C"cop,"
"ain't," "scramD and words
coined for a fresh, often hui
morous. and usually transient
purpose C"Chinese home run" or
the now-forgotten "whoopee")
"Colloquial" comes from the
Latin con-" together, and
"loquor, to falkland quite
literally means the language
used in talking together, in
conversation. It has been
broadened to include written
language of an informal ma
ture, such as this column.
Vulgar" comes from Latin
also, from "Vulgus." the mob
or the common people. A word
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-06
WORDS, WIT
AND WISDOM
BY WILLIAM MORRIS

Question: In the current
controversy about the new
Webster unabridged dictionary,
much has been made of its
failure to make general use Of
labels like slang" "colloquial"
and vulgar" I think everyone
has a pretty good idea of what
these words mean-and I GER
tainly think it's helpful to have
them used in the dictionary.
But what I don't know and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-06
By Leonard StoFr
By Kenneth Simms

labeled vulgar" need not be
obscene-although all obscene
words are vulgar. A vulgarism
is simply a coarse expression,
characteristic Of the lowest
levels Of society, cultrally
speaking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-04-06

Like my correspondent, I
deplore the abandonment of
these usage" labels by the new
dictionary. It seems to me I'M
likely that any other dictionary
will make the same mistake.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-05-02
Sen. Sum Erwin

LAW CLASSIFICATION -
The Senate subcommittee OIL
Revision and Qualification VI
'he Laws, Of which ! am Chair
man, has several bills before il
e codify laws relating To mill
l"ly law, pay, and allowances;
Improvement of the postal SER
vice code; and IA 954 page cod
ihcttion Of the Canal Zone
-,.ws. The enactment of such
Classification of the laws into
u code is a major project. In
aSmuch as many of the general
avs of the United States which
60 into the United States Code
ar" inconsistent or out-of-date,
thciC has been initiated a con-
thuouS project of revising and
cnaciing the Code. consisting
at 80 titles. and thousands of
sections, into law. title by title
a coCification is limited to the
revision of The existing law
- ~ does not embrace any
chaiiSc III the statutes under
ulS>uSSlon as they now exist.
lat cnactmcntS also serve To
continuously modernize the
permanent laws of the nation.