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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-15

1tLMS 70 LeSpOnsIDIs party.
40 BUILDING LOTS, close to Car
rollton. Water and sewer avail
able. Priced low. Each lot is ap-
proXimately S0x100. Asking ST.
800 per lot.
Evening star., 1962-01-31

Special store hours this week only.
Sears closed at 2 pm. today for
inventory. Shop Thursday and Fri-
day 10 to 9, Saturday 10 TO 6. Free
Parking! Eia
Evening star., 1962-01-31

Oil Bladensburg Rd NE. 1900
Wise. Ave. at Albemarle NV. Q63----362-ll22
28OO Wilson Blvd, Arlington 527-49OO
Alabama Ave. at Naylor Rd. Sc. (2O)--583-9OIO
BASS Colesyille Rd, Silver Spring -589-9OlO
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Stylish 2-Light
Ceiling Fixture

Ae S' "'->--------~ ~eVO
3-day savings. l2xl2-in. with
glass shade that's designed
to give cut glass look.
Sears Stores
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Slight Kitchen
Ceiling Fixture
NO MONEY DOWN

Regular $8.95--------6sS4
3-day $2.0l savings begin to.
morrow. Black-metal perfor.
ated shade gives twinkling g
light effect. Canopy available
in brass, copper or chrome
finish.
Sears Stores
Evening star., 1962-01-22

Rain forecast the Middle
States Southern California tonight
Upper New England States westward through the Great Lakes
the Ohio Valley the Central Mississippi Valley portions of the Southern
Plains and nOrthward through the Rockies 1t will be the
Atlantic State colder the sOuhwesward through
tne Texas Panhandle.-AP WhephOtO Map
Evening star., 1962-01-22
BY the Associated Press

A Fort Meade soldier was
killed and three others we're
injured one seriously - early
yesterday in an auto accident
about az miles from the Army
base.
A. spokesman at Fort Meade
identified the man killed as
Specialist 4th Class Norwood
Morris, 81, of Tallahassee, Fla,
who died of a ruptured liver.
In critical condition in Kim
brough Army Hospital on the
base was Pvt. Kenneth N. Cole,
%. of Nashville, Tenn. He suf-
fered a ruptured bronchial tube
and compound finger fractures.
Also injured, not seriously,
were Pvt. Robert L. Forman,
%. of East Moline, ILL.,, who re-
ceived a broken hip, and Pvt.
Joseph D. Allen, 10, of Okla
homa City, Okla, admitted for
observation with cuts and
bruises.
All four were members Of the
502d Transportation Company.
! The spokesman said Pvt. Cole
apparently was the driver and
lost control of the car, which
ran off the right side of the
road, striking a utility pole and
a tree. The accident happened
at 500 a m. on Maryland Route
ITS, two miles west of it's inter-
section with Maryland Route 3.
Evening star., 1962-01-22
; HURT IN CRASH
NEAR WHEATON

Three persons were hurt and
a fourth shaken up when a
1861 compact-model car crashed
into a tree along Inwood avenue
just south of University
boulevard near Wheaton last
night. @~fg
One of those injured was
reported in critical condition
at Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park, after his head
went through the cars wind
shield. He was Lawrence P.
Allen, jr., of 10603 Inwood
avenue, Silver Spring. admitted
to the hospital with head and
chest injuries.
In serious condition there
was Nathaniel C. Floyd, jr., AZ,
also of the Inwood avenue
address.
Both were passengers in a car
driven by Patrick A. Donnelly,
26, of 1135 Linden avenue,
Takoma Park, according to
Montgomery County police. Mr..
Donnelly was treated at the
same hospital for three broken
teeth and cuts. A fourth
occupant. police said, was Miss
Sharon G. Stanley, 81, of 10000
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring,
who declined treatment.
Evening star., 1962-01-22

Washington Metropolitan Area
rose from 38,345 In 1850 to
52,078 in 1860. The 1860 census
put this areas total population
at 2,053, 800.
Thus the area. grew at the
rate Of about Is babies per
1000 population in 1860.
The New York City area had
219,056 births in 1860, COM
pared to 185,48 in 1850; the
Baltimore areas births were
1924 in 1860 and 31,052 in
1860.
OF the total national births,
4,257,8 $50, in 1860. about SAL, 900
were in the East Coast metro
areas of Boston, New York,
Newark. Patterson -Clifton-Pas-
sale. Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington.
The Public Health Service
figures, based on a so per cent
sample, showed 100000 infants
were born in the New York
Northeastern New Jersey area
alone-as many new babies,
that is, as the total population
of Norfolk, Va.
Births by counties ranged
from none in Kalawao County,
Hawaii. to 139,960 in Los An
geleS County.
Births per year jumped from
54,205 to 1880 in Maryland in
the decade and from 82,021 to
95,534 in Virginia.
Evening star., 1962-01-22
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Rain
tonight with low about 40. To-
morrow, considerable cloudi-
ness and colder.
Maryland-Rain tonight with
snow flurries in mountains. Low
Of 25 to 80 in extreme west;
near so on coast. Tomorrow,
mostly cloudy and colder with
snow flurries in mountains.
Virginia - Possible scattered
thunderstorms tonight. Low in
30s in mountains; low sos along
coast. Tomorrow, rain in south
east ending in morning, cloudy,
colder.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Small craft warn
ings are displayed. Winds south
to southwest Is to Is knots to-
night. Tomorrow, northwest
winds 10 to 20 knots. Showers
tonight and over lower Bay to-
morrow morning. Visibility 3
to 6 miles.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST
District and Vicinity
January 1927
Temperatures will average
Evening star., 1962-01-22
TUTORS FOR GIFTED
Virginia u. Revises
Engineer Training
CHARLOTTESVILLE,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Jan. % (AP).-A new honors
program for gifted students
will be inaugurated next fall by
the University of Virginia
School of Engineering.
DR.. Lawrence r. Quarles,
dean Of the engineering school,
said the program will be a
major departure in the tradi-
tional American method Of
training engineers" and should
greatly increase the perform
ance of the honors course
students.
Students selected for the pro-
gram will work largely on their
own and at their own fast rate
of Learning. Each will work
under the guidance Of a tutor.
The students will not be re-
quired to complete traditional
formal classroom courses.
The honors student will; how
Evening star., 1962-01-22

ever. be required to devote
about one-fifth of his studies
to the humanities. The engi-
neering school already lays
heavy emphasis on literature,
English, and other branches of
the humanities.
Dean Quarles said so far as
the university has been able to
determine mo other engineer
ing school in the Nation has
a similar program. The new
honors program will differ
from those in nearly all other
engineering schools because of
the one-to-one relationship of
student and tutor to be es-
tablished."
The honors program will be
limited to about S per cent Of
Evening star., 1962-01-22

doubled, jumping from 5,l52 to
1852 in the same decade.
Births in Alexandria, in
creased from 1899 to 1850 to
2,618 in 1860.
But Fairfax County scored
highest with an increase from
1922 to 6,448 births annually
in the same decade.
Arlington County birth. how
ever, increased from 3,717 in
1850 to only 4,102 in 1860.
Only 46 more children were
born in 1860 in Washington
than in 1850. when 1926
babies were born.
And in Falls Church, accord
ing to the survey, births
dropped from 846 in 1850 to
312 in 1860.
Nationally, one-third Of all
1860 births were to residents
Of "a metropolitan areas with
a million or more inhabitants
each. The concentration of
births in these areas followed
an increasing concentration of
populations in these large
areas. the PHS explained.
The Minneapolis = st. Paul
area had the highest birth rate
per population (271a babies per
1000 persons) of all the "a
large metropolitan areas. The
Patterson -Clifton-Passaic area
of New Jersey had the lowest
per 1000 population rate, 2O.2.
The number of births in the
Evening star., 1962-01-22
Adult Glasses Slated
In Civil Defense

An adult education course in
civil defense, home prepared
ness and Pathological ronitor-
ing will begin at 7:30 pm.
January 20, at the North Be
thesda Junior High School.
The free course is being con-
Quoted in cooperation with
the Montgomery County Office
of Civil Defense. The school is
at Johnson avenue and Ewing
street.
Evening star., 1962-01-22
Antietum Battlefield
Center Is Started

SHARPSBURG, Md, Jan. %
(AP).-Work has begun on a
new visitors center at the
Antietam battlefield.
Benjamin H. Davis of the
National Park Service said it
is hoped the center will open
before the centennial of the
Battle of Antietam in Septem-
ber. 1t will serve as admins
tration and information center
for the battlefield area.
Evening star., 1962-01-22
WOMAN INJURED
AS CAR HITS TREE

An Arlington woman was re-
ported in poor condition at
Fairfax County Hospital today
after a accident yesterday in
which a car, driven by her hus-
band, collided with a bus and
then careened into a tree near
Centreville, Va.
Mrs. Alice Langhorne, 56,
Evening star., 1962-01-22
Fl. Meade Soldier Dies,
Three Hurt in Crash

of 1911 North Ode street, Arl-
ington, suffered compound frac-
lures Of both legs and facial
cuts. according to a hospital
spokesman.
She was admitted at 4:30
pm, about a half-hour after
the accident on Routes 29-211,
a mile east of Centreville in
Fairfax County.
Her Husband, Keene Lang
horne. SIS, was treated for head
and facial cuts and dismissed.
Evening star., 1962-01-22
General Suburban Plan
Effectiveness Debated

1t may be possible to require
two-thirds of a local govern
ing body to approve any coming
change contrary to an accepted
master plan. In most cases now,
a simple majority will do.
Mr.. Brewers concern with
the cost of the plan-in time
and money-is borne out by
files of the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
$11,6OO Plus
Salaries for craftsmen work.
ing on the plan amounted to
| I$l1 800 during the year it was
put together. This figure in
cludes $1,000 in overtime. All
the money went to regular
commission employes-the men
who have to draw the lines
and color the spaces to rep
resent the ideas of the
planners.
Planning engineers of the
commission earned $21 900
while working on the general
plan. An additional $4,000 in
overtime was paid to planners
in the park section Of the
commission.
On top Of this, the commission
paid $21,60 for the services of
consultants, including the firm
of Harlan Bartholomew & As
sociates of Washington.
But commission staff mem
bers said the total cost cannot
yet be estimated. The plan is
now just a staff recommended
ton, and the scores of maps
and charts and explanatory
material still has to be written,
edited and printed before it is
presented to both county gov
ernments for official approval.
Sees Their Worth
Arthur K. Stellhorn, planning
director of M-NCPPC, said that
in most cases long-range plans
are worth the time and study
they require. He said that as
a general rule, if a plan is a
good one, it will have a sub
stantial effect on the future on
an area and on individual zon-
ing decisions.
He mentioned that the plan
for the Cabin John area in
Montgomery County has been
followed very closely. Some
other plans cause a lot me-
controversy" he added.
Whether the general plan for
the entire suburban area will
cause hot dispute will be
learned when the commission
starts to hold hearings this
spring and then presents it to
the local governments.
The question of the effective
ness of this type of plan may
not be answered at these hear
ings, but planners and elected
officials expect the question to
be asked.
Evening star., 1962-01-22
BY WILLIAM DUKE
Star Staff Writer

Suburban Maryland's new
general plan, which already has
cost the planners a year in
overtime work and close to
100000 in salaries and fees, has
raised the chronic question !:
Just how effective can a long
range plan be?
j. Newton Brewer, chairman
Of the Montgomery County
Planning Board, has suggested
that new regulations are needed
to give such a plan integrity"
He said that plans of this type
are expensive and should be
given some force of law to pro-
tect them from change by zon-
ing hearing.
A spot check of members of
the Montgomery County Coun-
Gil and the Prince George S
County Board of Commission
ers indicated that elected Off
cials feel that elected officials
should have the last word in
guiding the growth of any area
and that new regulations are
not urgently needed.
The consensus is that elected
leaders are sensitive to the de-
Sires of the people and should
be able to make changes the
people want.
Force Of Law
David L. Cahoon, president
Iof the Montgomery Council,
said that as a practical mat
ter, master plans already have
"some force of law" without
the suggested regulations.
He said the State Court of
Appeals-the body which has
the final word on zoning deci-
sions - makes county govern
ments explain in detail their
motives when they approve re-
zoning not in accordance with
a master plan.
Mr.. Brewer, however, feels
that carefully drawn plan
which attempt to make the best
use of land over a long period
should be given legal backing
on the front line-in local zon-
ing decisions. He suggested that
Evening star., 1962-01-22

the student body Of the en-
gineering school. A small num-
ber Of highly qualified students
will be chosen at the end of
their second year of study to
Evening star., 1962-01-22
Birth Rate in Suburbs
Old. Nearly Doubles

Suburban Washington births nearly doubled in the
past decade while the District birth rate remained stable the
Public Health Service reported today.
In Montgomery County for instance, births registered In
1860 were 8054, nearly doubling 1950's 4673 births
In Prince Georges County, annual births than
Evening star., 1962-01-22

participate in the program.
Selection will be on the basis
not only of high grades but for
maturity, creative potential and
enthusiasm.
Evening star., 1962-06-26
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

MERCURY 50 Parklane, fun pow
er. excellent condition. new tires
| Sl.395. H. 6-5Ig3
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AUTOMOBILES EnR SALE

FORD 1855 conV. VS. Fairlane. p
ana H.. pS. p.b., auto. trans,
Enite with black inter. Can after
Evening star., 1962-06-26
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

FALCON 81 Tudor. fire engine
red finish, =. and h, auto. trans.
very low mileage. Special sale
Evening star., 1962-06-26
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

C0RVAIR 81 Sports Mona. power
glide, fully equipped. one owner.
good cond. 81 900 or best offer
wa 7-0339. ewes. after $50.
C0RVAIR Monza, 'oI 4-df.. Ssh D.
eng, Asp. trans. bucket seats,
excel eond., SI,650. UN. 4-5192
After 3.
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

CHEVROLET 'sI Inpala 2-door
radio and heater, arctic white
finish with red interior. very low
mileage. Ike new beauty buyl Ne.
31Q5A g2IQ5
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AUTOMOBILES FoR SALE
CHEVROLETS
FORDS, PONTIACS

STRAIGHT STICK SPECIALS
80 PONTIAC GRAND PRIx. ss.5e5
on the floor, 3-2s. poSitraetion,
beAut. white finish, white interior,
5000 orig. MI, showroom cond.
'62 CHEVROLET TMPAI,A 50. .Ie5
"4Oe," 4-speed on the floor, beaut.
black finish. red interior, abso-
lutely showroom condition.
81 CORVETTE -- IS. .3e5
Beautiful red finish, 4-speed on
the tloor, gas engine. immaculate
condition.
81 cHEV. nGPALA -S 50 SOS
Straight stick on the floor, 3-2s,
rolled and plested. beaut. black
Iinlsn' showroom condition.
'e1 CHEW. IMPALA So. .4p5
4 speed on the floor, 3-2s, beaut.
white finish, showroom eond.
'61 FORD sTARLINER So, ,e95
401 engine with overdrive, beaut.
white finish, showroom condition.
go CORVETTE --- S2,se5
on the floor, two 4 barrels, sTO
engine, beaut. blue finish.
go CHEW. I4PALA S1.se5
1885 engine beautiful red fin
ish, showroom condition.
'5s CHEW. MPALA -- 81, ,S95
2-dr. hArdtop VS., slick black
finish.
SIS CHEW. BIscANYE s1.Os5
VS. 2-dr, sedan, real fine tranSp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

home, meats and any products
derived from animal fats con-
tain the heaviest residues
of chlorinated hydrocarbons.
This is because these chemicals
are soluble in fat. Residues
on fruits and vegetables tend
to be somewhat less. These
are little affected by washing
the only remedy is to remove
and discard all outsides leaves
of such vegetables as lettuce
or cabbage. to peel fruit and
to use no skins or outer cover
ing whatever. Cooking does
not destroy residues.
Milk is one Of the few
foods in which no pesticide
residues are permitted by Food
and Drug Administration reg
|ulations. In actual fact, how
ever, residues turn up when
ever a check is made. They
are heaviest in butter and
other manufactured dairy
products. A check of 461
samples of such products in
1860 showed that a third con-
tanned residues, a situation
which the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration characterized as
FAR from encouraging"
To find a diet free from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

test this assumption, a scien-
tific team from the United
States Public Health Service
sampled restaurant and insti-
tutional meals. Every meal
sampled contained DOT. From
this the Investigators con-
cluded, reasonably enough,
that few If any foods can
be relied upon to be "ntirely
free of DDT."
The quantities in such meals
may be enormous, In a sepa-
rate Public Health Service
study. analysis Of prison meals
disclosed such items as stewed
dried fruit containing 500
parts per million and bread
containing 1909 parts per mil
lion of DDTl
In the diet Of the average
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

almost universal spraying or
busting of agricultural crops
with these poisons.
If the farmer scrupulously
follows the instructions on the
labels, his use of agricultural
chemicals will produce no resi-
dues larger than are permitted
by the Food and Drug Admin
istration.
Leaving aside for the mo-
ment the question whether
these legal residues are as
safe" as they are represented
to be, there remains the we'll
known fact that farmers very
frequently exceed the pre-
scribed dosages, use the chem
ical too close to the time OF
harvest, use several insecti-
cides where one would do, and
in other ways display the COM
mon human failure to read
the fine print.
Copyright, 1862. by Rachel Carson
Published by Houghton Mifflin CO.
TOMORROW: The Humon Fuetcr.
The Stars I2-port seriOIizotion
Of Silent Spring" began Sunday.
November rs. Back copies mcy be
ordered by phoning the Circulation
Department, Lincoln $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04
SILENT SPRING
Packaqed Poisons Sold Like Soap

lDDT or any similar material
[ in their tissues.
Samples of body fat col
lected from the general popu-
lation between 1854 and 1856
averaged from 5.3 to IA parts
per million of dot. There is
some evidence that the average
level has risen since then to
a consistently higher figure,
and individuals with occupa-
tional or other special ex-
posures to insecticides OF
course store even more.
DOT Found in Food
Among the general popula-
ton with no known gross eX-
posures to insecticides it may
be assumed that much of the
DOT stored in fat deposits has
entered the body in food. To
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

DOT and related chemicals. it
seems one must go to a remote
and primitive land. still lack
ing the amenities Of civiliza-
ton. Such a land appears to
exist, at least marginally. on
the far Arctic shores Of Alaska
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

although even there one
may see the approaching
shadow.
The fact that every meal We
eat carries its load of chlori-
mated hydrocarbons is the in
evitable consequence Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04

away the hardest stone, this
birth-to-death contact with
dangerous chemicals may in
the end prove disastrous.
Each of these recurrent ex-
posures, no matter how slight
contributes to the progressive
buildup of chemicals in our
bodies and so to cumulative
poisoning. Probably no person
is immune to contact with this
spreading contamination I'M
less he lives in the most
isolated situation imaginable
Lulled by the soft sell and the
hidden persuader, the average
citizen is seldom aware of the
deadly materials with which he
is surrounding himself; indeed,
he may not realize he is using
them at all.
So thoroughly has the age
of poisons become established
that anyone may walk into a
store and, without questions
being asked. buy substances of
far greater death-d e a lin g
power than the medicinal drug
for which he may be required
to sign a poison book" in the
pharmacy next door.
A few minutes research in
any supermarket is enough to
alarm the most stout-hearted
customer-provided, that is, he
has even a rudimentary knowl-
edge of the chemicals presented
for his choice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04
SILENT SPRING
BY RACHEL CARSON

The contamination Of ouI
world is not alone a matter OF
mass spraying. Indeed, for
most Of us this is Of less i'm
portance than the innumerable
small-scale exposures to which
we are subjected day by day,
year after year.
Like the constant dripping
of water that in turn wears
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04
Doctors Worry

We can polish. our floors
with a wax guaranteed to kill
any insect that walks over 1t.
We can hang strips impreg-
mated with the chemical
lindane in our closets and
garment bags or place them in
our bureau drawers for a hall
years freedom from worry
over moth damage. The adver-
tisements contain no sugges-
ton that lindane is dangerous
Neither do the ads for an
electronic device that dispenses
lindane fumes-we are told
that II is safe and odorless
Yet the truth OF the matter is
that the American Medical
Association considers lindane
vaporizers so dangerous that
II conducted an extended
campaign against them in IL
journal.
The Department of Agri-
culture, in a Home and Garden
Bulletin, advises us TO spray
our clothing with oil solutions
OF DOT. dieldrin. chlordane, OF
any Of several other moth
killers. II excessive spraying
results in a white deposit OF
insecticide on the fabric. this
may be removed by brushing
the department says, emitting
10 caution us 10 be careful
where and how the brushing
is done. All these matters at
tended TO, we may round out
our day with insecticides by
going 10 sleep under a moth
proof blanket impreenated
with dieldrin.
Gardening is now firmly
linked with the super poisons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-04
Crobaross Must Go

Yet little is said about the
hazards of the fad OF garden
ing by poisons, or Of inSecti-
cides used in the home; warn
ings on the labels are printed
so inconspicuously in small
type that few take the trouble
to read or follow them. An
industrial firm recently under
took to find out just how few.
Its survey indicated that fewer
than is people out of a hun
dred of those using insecticide
aerosols and sprays are even
aware of the warnings on the
containers.
The mores OF suburbia now
dictate that crabgTass must go
at whatever cost. Sacks con-
tanning chemicals designed to
rid the lawn Of such despised
vegetation have become al
most a status symbol.
These weed-kllling chemi-
Gals are sold under brand
names that never suggest their
identity or nature. To learn
that they contain chlordane
or dieldrin one must read ex-
ceedingly fine print placed on
the least conspicuous part OF
the sack. The descriptive
Literature that may be picked
up In any hardware or garden
supply store seldom II ever
reveals the true hazard in
volved in handling or apply
ing the material. Instead. the
typical illustration portrays a
happy family scene, father and
son smilingly preparing TO
apply the chemical TO the
lawn, small children tumbling
over the grass with a dog.
The question OF chemical
residues on the food we eat is
a holly debated issue. The ex-
istence OF such residues is
either played down by the in
dustry as unimportant or is
fatty denied. simultaneously
there is a strong tendency TO
brand as fanatics or cultists
all who are so perverse as 10
demand that their food be free
OF insect poisons. In all this
cloud Of controversy. what are
the actual facts2
II has been medically
established that. as common
sense would tell us. persons
who lived and died before the
dawn of the DOT era about
1922 coneined no trace OF