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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-10-05

| IdINC IuOtUlllS Ill IldVIG.
On t e second constitutional
amendment to be before the voters
November 6, providing for extending
the terms of county attorneys from
two to four years, the Clerks also
voiced opposition. Reasoning on this
is that electing county attorneys
every two years gives the voters less
delay in expressing their dissatisfac-
tion in case such officials don't
measure up.
Five candidates for state and fed
eral offices were given the Clerks
endorsement. These candidates are:
Congress, first district: Rep. Arnold
Olsen;
Congress, second district: Leo
Graybill, Jr.;
State Auditor: Sen. Robert Dur
kee;
Associate Justice No. L: Judge |
Hugh Adair, and
Associate Justice No. 2: Gordon |
Bennett.
No candidate for Railroad and
Public Service Commissioner received
Clerks approval Concensus was that
neither Comm. Jack Holmes or his
opponent, Art Watson,
were worthy of the support of or
ganized labor.
RULES TALKED
Principal speaker at the meeting
Ill - b. I'll
federal rail retirement board field
office. Cole briefly reviewed the
present rail retirement and unem- i
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-10-05

We plan to have comprehen-
sive report on the Western Water
e. Power Conference held in Port
land this week, in next weeks
VOICE. Watch for it.-EDITOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

sit in that teepee over there, "
said the shows chairman,
Adolph Guide, Jr.
Something else new for this
years show is a six-foot alliga-
tor which appeared very much
a flower hater yesterday.
eve caught him in the Ever
glades Saturday. especially for
the show" said Jim Griffin,
who, along with partner John
Hutton, has had a Florida
Nurseryman and Growers AS
ISOLATION display for seven
years.
eve lassoed him." said Mr.
Griffin, staring at the glarine
alligator whose mouth was tied
"We will have him secured
very securely in the pool. VIZ
will have water heaters to keer
him warm. Don't worry; he'd
be a fool to leave it and gel
lout in this cold weather."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

grows under it and when the
leaves fall you're supposed to
leave them there so we're
shucking off the leaves and
placing them under the bam-
boo. And we have these grey
rocks. Japan is a volcanic is
land, dear, and the rocks are
grey. This display will teach
Americans the authenticity of
the japanese designs, it will be
peaceful, quiet, calm, serene as
in Japan. Oh, isn't it wonder
ful?" said Mrs. John B. Her.
veg.
Nearby was the space where
club members will set up table.
and floral arrangements fit fol
a President. They will pattern
the display in the style of six
First Ladies preparing to en-
terrain at a White House din
ner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Flower Show Scotters Spring Over Armory

In the growing forest of
green and pink and red and
yellow were the workers.
Women from garden clubs:
A fur coat over Stacks, a hand
on hip, an eye on the top of a
tree and cts fitting, I think"
A scarf over a head, a paint
brush in hand, a generals
command of the situation and
you help the girls over there
paint that lattice"
A knee in the dirt, a hand
placing a slab of stone.
Hands shocking bamboo
shoots of their small leaves and
the voice of a nearby inter-
prefer.
We're Ikebana Interna-
tional club. This display is an
authentic design, dear, as the
Japanese would do it, dear.
When bamboo grows, nothing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
The
Rambler
Writes
About q Centenary
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Tomorrow is the centenary
of an event that shook the
world.
1t was the battle of the
Monitor and the Merrimac.
The Naval Historical Mu-
scum at 1910 H street NV,
the old stable behind Decatur
House, is preparing a spe-
cial exhibit.
The museum has borrowed
the Smithsonian's model of
the Merrimac, which the
ConfederateS renamed the
Virginia. A new model of the
Monitor made by one of the
last of the great ship model
makers, Floyd Houston of
Sag Harbor, N. Y, has just
arrived.
The visitor may find it
hard to understand it's i'm
portance.
But the battle between the
"cheeSe box on a raft" and
the old frigate covered with
railroad iron ended an era.
The era was that of the
wooden wall"
After the battle of Their
mopolae in 48O B. c., The
miStocles persuaded the
Athenians to abandon their
city to the invading Persians
and man the wooden wall. !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

There were the perennialS:
DR.. Edgar McPeak, a radiologiSt
who started growing orchids as
a hobby in 1889, now sells to
florists.
He smiled happily at his
beautiful, fragile blooms and
said, II don't think there's such
thing as a natural green
thumb. It's all trial and error. p"
And there were the late
boomers: This is our first
year." said an absorbed Bers
nard NeeS of Garden Gate
Nursery, Inc. 1--WE wanted to
make sure everything went
right. We started at 6 pm
Monday and stayed until 3 pm
Tuesday. We slept for a few
hours in the car"
This Egyptian display is
new and we have a flower
filled carousel which is new
and the Girl Scouts will baby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

was being threatened II South
ern Maryland Senators report
the bill.
There have been reports cir
culating at the Statehouse that
Eastern Shore legislators fight
ing reapportionment are trying
to keep Southern Maryland
Senators on their side by
threatening to introduce leg
islation to abolish slot machines
in a special session tomorrow.
Legal in 4 Counties
Slot machines are legal in
four Southern Maryland coun-
ties and legislators from those
counties strongly opposed eff
forts to outlaw them.
The Assembly, faced with a
backlog of other bills, is press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

were in Virginia and 434 in
Maryland.
All service in the District has
been restored. Complete resto-
ration in Virginia and Mary
land is expected by tonight.
Here was the situation today
as reported by the various util-
tiles:
Potomac Electric Power Co.
Were in excellent shape ex-
cept for very few scattered
customers in Southern Prince
Georges County," said Vice
President R. w. Wilson. He
added that service will be re-
stored to these customers to-
day.
Virginia Electric & Power
Cove have most everyone
in the Metropolitan Area back
in service except about 200 Gus
toners in Fairfax County" said
David E. Diamond, assistant to
the Potomac district manager.
More than 1000 customers in
the snow battered Warrenton
and Leesburg area are still
without service, however, but
crews are working around the
clock, he said.
Southern Maryland Electric
Cooperative We're coming
along slowly" a spokesman
said. An estimated 5000 to
1000 customers in the Charles,
Calvert, lower Prince Georges
and st. Mary's Counties we're
still out today, but service is
expected to be restored by to-
morrow, he said.
Three schools in Prince
Georges were closed today be-
cause of lack of electric power.
They were the Baden, Brandy
wine and Orme schools, all in
the Brandywine area.
Schools in outlying Virginia
counties such as Fauquier, LOU
doun and Culpeper are still
closed because of deep snow
and in some cases, power fail
ureS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Wishing Well Appears
For Maryland Planners

This led to speculation that
perhaps applicants for new
coming were Tipping an occas-
ional penny into the pond for
good luck, enroute upstairs to
the meeting.
The small body of water is
located near a side entrance to
the Commissions headquarters,
a building which has won sew
eral architectural awards since
its construction in 1857.
Obviously designed to keep
pace with the planners con-
ceptS of preserving green
spaces, the pond is located be-
meath a flight of stairs and is
surrounded by pebbles, stones
and indoor plants ranging from
ferns to less identifiable flora.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
BY MYRA MAC PHERSON
Star Staff Writer

The gentle touch of spring
weighed about 200 tons of dirt
and came in with the ele-
phantine rumble of trucks. It
was coaxed along by brawny
men who looked as if they
would be at home on a football
field.
But by yesterday afternoon,
spring was there, making the
National Armory look better
and smell sweeter than it had
since last March.
Beautiful flowers and trees,
pampered to blossom early
were being set in peat moss
and dirt for today's opening OF
the 18th annual National Cap
ital Flower and Garden Show,
which will run through next
Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

ing ahead for adjournment to-
day.
The special session is being
called by Gov. TaweS to deal
with legislation to prohibit
racial discrimination in hotels
and restaurants. However,
there is no limit on what leg
islators may try to introduce.
There have been many re-
ports of threats about what will
happen in the special session
in regard to slot machines"
said Senator Pine when the en-
battled reapportionment bill
came to the Senate floor last
night.
Two Senators from slot ma
chine counties lined up against
the bill and two gave condi-
tional support.
Senators Edward T. Hall,
Republican of Calvert, and
Louis N. Phipps, Democrat of
Anne Arundel, voted against
the bill when it squeaked by it's
preliminary test in the Senate
last night.
Senators John Thomas Par
ran, Democrat of Charles, and
Walter B. Dorsey, Democrat of
st. Marys, Indicated they will
support the measure in a final
vote if certain amendments are
made.
Senator Dorsey said he will
offer an amendment that
would nullify most of the
effect the reapportionment bill
would have on the unit vote
rule which governs primary
elections. The unit rule, which
gives unit votes to counties in
proportion to their General
Assembly represent tion,
weights primary elections in
favor of the small counties.
Senator Parran, like several
Of his colleagues, said he will
support the bill if an amend
ment is approved to provide
that big counties be divided
into legislative districts from
which House members would be
elected.
Delaying Tactics"
Senator Pine labeled the pro-
posed amendments as nothing
but delaying tactics designed to
kill the bill" He said reappor-
tionment legislation is the
most important question
before the Senate this session."
The bill would take IS dele
gates away from 10 small
counties and give them to S big
ones. Montgomery and Prince
Georges would get three each,
Senator Harry R. Phoebus,
Republican of rural Somerset
County, told his county COL
leagues that if they voted for
the bill the next move would
be to take some Senators away
from the rural areas. He told
them they would be signing
thelr death war; hey
voted for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Bible BuIks
AtTrunsit
Study

Senator Bible, Democrat of
Nevada, congressional father of
the National Capital Transport
tation Agency, today questioned
whether the agency was asking
to spend money Congress has
not authorized.
He said he still was "both-
cred" about the ultimate bill
lion-dollar expense of a mass
transit system to be planned
by the agency, as well. If Con-
gress must realize the full price
tag, the matter should be
re-examined at Senate Appro-
priations Subcommittee hear
ings on agency budget requests
for the year beginning July /.
The agency director, c. OAR
win Stolzenbach, wanted $780,
900 for preliminary engineer
ing" to be Incorporated in de-
velopment plan to go to Presi-
dent Kennedy next November.
Senator Bible couldn't find spe-
cific authorization for this ex-
pense in the law he steered
through Congress to create the
agency.
'It sounds to me like he has
confidence in his plan and he's
betting our money that he's
right" added Senator Mundt,
Republican of South Dakota.
He said the request was "spec-
ulation with taxpayers money"
Mr.. Stolzenbach promised to
bring the subcommittee a new
estimate of how much of the
100000 was essential to give
the President and Congress an
understandable report of tram
sit routes, stations, costs and
financing by fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

is expected to arrive here
Sunday. However, the Weather
Bureau believes that the at
mosphere will be warmed
enough by then to produce
only rain.
The sunny weather today will
be followed by temperatures in
the upper 20s tonight.
Some Parks Flooded
Meanwhile, high tides on the
rain-and-snoW-gorged Potomac
River went over the seawalls in
Anacostia and East Potomac
Parks and flooded a low sec
ton in Alexandria.
Alexandria police blocked off
traffic from a waterfront area
six blocks long between Duke
and Oronoco streets because of
flooding.
The Seaport Inn and Dock
side Sales, merchandise i'm
porterS, at the foot of King
street in Alexandria, were both
flooded with a foot or more
of water, Alexandria police re-
ported.
The high tides also COM
pletely covered the marina and
two swimming pools in front of
the Hunting Towers Apartment
High tides all along shores
of the Chesapeake Bay, the
PatuXent and other tributary
streams also caused some flood
ing and excavations.
In North Beach, Md, a few
families were evacuated to the
fire department headquarters
by boat after flood waters sur
rounded their homes.
Rush Power Repairs
Meanwhile, telephone an Id
power companies we're busy re-
storing service which had been
knocked out by the earlier
snow.
The Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. reported thai
only 687 of it's phones were still
: out of service. OF this total, 25;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08

Maryland planners frequent
ly get things without planning
for them-and the latest is a
wishing well, right in their
own building in Silver Spring.
A split-level pond was in
cluded as part of the decor in
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commits
Sion's offices at 8787 Georgia
avenue, but nobody paid much
attention to the attractive little
indoor park until pennies began
appearing recently in the pond.
The source of the pennies is
unknown, but a first-floor
employee did observe that
the number of them increased
noticeably on the Commissions
regular meeting day, every
other Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Mccormack Bill
Moves Ahead in
House Committee

Speaker Mccormack won a
minor test this morning in a
closed District Committee meet
ing.
Committeeman reported a
Nc Cr~rg7ack bill granting $2.5
milnc,. in Federal matching
funds to help finance a 100
bed addition to the George
Washington University Hos
pital. Committee aides said the
vote was unanimous.
The same committee had al
most killed the bill at its last
meeting on the subject and
averted a clash with the
Speaker by poStponing action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
AT THE TIME Britain was

AT THE TIME Britain was
considering intervention.
The news of the battle of
the iron clads did not en-
courage that idea.
Henry Adams, who's e
father was our American
minister in London, wrote
from the legation to his
brother in America:
@Only a fortnight ago they
1.-THE BRITISH discovered their
whole wooden navy was use
less; rather a weakness than
a strength.
ITO me they seem be-
wildered by all this. I don't
think as yet they have dared
to look their position in the
face.
People begin to talk
vaguely about the end of war
and eternal peace, just as
though human nature was
changed by the fact that
Great Britain's sea power is
knocked on the head. ).
But from my private
point, I think I see a thing
or two. One of these is that
our good country, the United
States, is left to a career that
is positively unlimited except
by the powers of magma
ton.
"You may think all this
nonsense, but I tell you these
are great times. Man has
mounted science and is now
run away with.
II firmly believe that be-
fore many centuries more
science will be the master OF
man.
1.-THE engines he will have
invented will be beyond his
strength to control.
"Someday science may
have the existence of man
kind in its power and the
human race will commit
suicide by blowing up the
world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
THE WOODEN WALL was

THE WOODEN WALL wal
the Greek fleet.
In the naval battle off the
island of Salamis, the Per-
sian fleet was destroyed and
XerxeS had to withdraw his
army to Asia.
What happened 100 years
ago in Hampton Roads made
the heads of maritime pow
erS realize that their wooden
walls were worthless.
The Merrimac was a
wooden hulled frigate of sail
and steam. When the Con-
federates took Norfolk, the
Union Navy scuttled her.
In the fall of 1861 the Con-
federates raised her and
started to cover her with
iron above the water line.
Great fears were relayed by
the commander of the Union
ships in the Roads.
1t was then that John
Ericsson, a naturalized citi-
zen from Sweden, was COM
misSioned to build his IRON
clad in 100 days. He had been
trying to get favorable at
tention for his design for
years.
The Monitor was launched
at Greenpoint, Long Island,
January 30, 1852. A month
later she proceeded down the
coast to the Virginia Capes
under her own power.
Her arrival was melo-
dramatic. On March 8 the
much feared Merrimac had
come into the Roads and at
tackled the American ships.
She sank the Cumberland.
When she returned to fin
ish her prey the next day
she encountered the Monitor.
Despite the modern ap-
pearance of the Monitors
revolving gun turret, the
guns were muzzle leaders.
They were 11-inch guns.
Every time they were fired,
the turret was turned away
from the enemy and the
guns were drawn into the
turret for reloading.
They battled away for four
hours. The solid shot just
bounced off the iron armor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
PERILOUS LANDINGS
HeIicoPter Rescues
4 SnoWbound Women

! word to the farmhouse so that
a landing strip could be pre-.
pared. Luckily phone service
was restored for a few hours
Wednesday morning. When Mr.
Baridon reached his wife, she
told him that Thomas Good
man, who lives IN another house
on the Baridon farm, hac
reached the house with fire.
wood. 1--WE were just deciding
to cut up the furniture" Mrs
Baridon recalled.
Mr.. Goodman used a tractor
to clear a small patch of snow
about 200 feet from the house
The snow was so deep he had
to use a shovel to empty it
from the tractor pillow at times,
Mrs. Baridon related.
In gusty winds, Pilot Ray
Chaisson of the Washington
Baltimore Helicopter Service
set down his craft on sloping
terrain, lodging utility wires,
snow banks, the house and tall
trees.
Picks Up Nurse
Picking up Mrs. Ayres, the
pilot took off with her to an
other area farther away from
the house, which Mr.. Good
man had cleared. There he
picked up the nurse. The pilot
was afraid to load both pas
Sengers near the house because
he feared the added weight
would endanger the takeoff
The pilot ferried the two
women to the KenWood Coun-
try Club parking lot near the
Baridon home.
The pilot then made two
more rounds to the farm. Or
one, he picked up Richard ano
his mother, and flew them tc
a parking lot in Culpepel
where they boarded a train
for Washington. The Mayor Of
Culpeper happened to be driv-
ing by and learned that the
helicopter needed gasoline fol
the return trip to the farm
He drove into town to get it
On the last trip, the pilot
picked up the maid.
Mrs. Baridon had nothins
but praise for her neighbor
MI. Goodman, who stayed or
at the farm with his wife anc
two young children. Richard
had nothing but praise for thu
pilot. 1T was a very danger,
GUS landing. He could have
very well wrecked" he said.
We've Weathered many {
! snow storm down there" MI
Baridon said. 1T never wa.
like this before" said Mrs
Baridon, exhausted from TIN
experience. You can be sur
: that we will have an auxiliar,
! generator there now" she said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
By DAN GOTTLIEB
Star Staff Writer

A helicopter landing on 6
mountain slope, a neighbor'!
struggle through drifted snow
with firewood, and a mayors
delivery of gasoline all played
parts in the rescue of foul
Bethesda women from a snow
bound farmhouse y e Sterd a
about 10 miles west of Cul.
pepper, Va.
One of the women, rs, was
Just recuperating from pneu-
monia and was confined tt
bed. Tuesdays snow storm
caused a power failure which
cut off the farms lights, water
and central heating for more
than 20 hours before the women
were reached by a commercial
helicopter.
The helicopter had to land
dangerously close to trees, piled
snow, utility wires and other
hazards in order to make the
rescue.
II don't know what we would
have done" said Mrs. Clarke
Baridon, So, of COOL Massa-
chusetts avenue, Bethesda, last
night after reaching home
safely She, her mother, Mrs
Molla Ayers, rs, a nurse, Miss
Anne Fornoni, and a maid
Miss Dora High, 81, became
stranded Tuesday at the nine.
room, 150-year-old farmhouse
on a mountain slope. The snow
storm also knocked out theil
telephone service.
Husband Returns
Mr.. Baridon, who had taker
the women to the farm ovel
the week end, along with hi
son, Richard, of 1882 Parl
avenue, Bethesda, came bacl
home Monday with his sol
to go to work.
When he left there was NJ
snow at the farm, Mr.. Baridor
said. He talked to his wife
by phone Monday night, anc
she told him there had been {
nice snow" but that the farm
had heat and everything wa!
"cozy and beautiful"
When reports of Tuesday
snow storm started, Mr.. Baridol
tried to reach his wife by tele
phone but was unable to do SC
When he talked with a powe
company representative in Cul
pepper he learned that electricit
probably would not be restoreu
to the area for several days. d"
really CO. worried then" h
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Final Maryland Vote
On Appointment Set
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

ANNAPOLIS, Mar 8-LegSation to reapportion MEMBER
ship the House of Delegates scheduled for final vote
today amid charges that rural county delegates playing
dirty pool on the issue.
the night Democratic Floor Leader James
alluded reports that anti-Slot machine legislation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Two More Storms
Reported HEADING
For This Section
Potomac OverfIows Its Banks
In District and Alexandria

Two new and rain storms heading today the
Washington area which slowly recovering from phone and
failures caused by heavy earlier this
One Storm expected to hit here tomorrow afternoon
moving eastward the United States 1t expected
to dump snow or rain on the National Capital area.
After brief respite Saturday. another storm from Canada
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-08
Tractor Clears Patch

He and his son decided Tues
day night to charter a helicop-
ter. The problem was to get
The Adak sun., 1962-05-21
ADAK SUN
A N N 0 U N C E M E N I

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 FOR SALEs 1858 Edse1. My car is lone- some for the lower 48. For S75O. % you can take this fine car home wi tn you. It vii provide you wi tn excellent Transportat tion and you i'll be making my car very happy. 344-J Evenings. TAINTED: Brownie Uni form. Call l94-J. NOTICE: The National Federation of Fed- eral Employees will hold their monthly meeting at the Buildings main meeting room. Monday May 2l, at 1880 hours. It is urged that all members be there.
 NOTICEs The Pot Luck Dinner scheduled for Monday 2l Nay at the Club Caribou has been cancelled, because the date conflicts wi tn other meetings previous ly scheduled.
 NOT ICEs The Navy Relief needs and des- arves your help this time of the year when it's campaign for funds is con- ducted. Give generously.