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Evening star., 1962-01-30
Land Gifts Help Save
View Of Mount Vernon

Another step to preserve the
view across the Potomac River
from Mount Vernon was taken
today by the Interior Depart
ment.
Secretary Udall announced
the department has started
negotiations to accept 600 acres
of land, just opposite Mount
Vernon, from two private
foundations.
The acreage lies in a narrow
strip of land along the Potomac
River and Piscataway Greek,
roughly bounded by Marshall
Hall in Charles County and
Calvert Manor in Prince
Georges County, Md.
The lands are being donated
by the Accokeek and Alice Fer
guson Foundations. They will
preserve the area as it was
when George Washington lived
at Mount Vernon and when
Fort Washington served as a
defense fortification for Wash
ington, Mr.. Udall said.
Congress last autumn au-
thorized the department to ac-
Evening star., 1962-01-30
House Unit OKs
District Sale of
Potomac Land

The District today asked
Congress for permission to sell
455 acres of land bordering on
the Potomac River at Cherry
Hill in Prince William County,
Va.
The request was contained in
a bill reviewed today by a
House District subcommittee.
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative Smith, Demo-
crat of Virginia, later favorably
reported the bill to the full
committee.
Thomas S. Meyer, Assistant
Corporation Counsel, testified
that the District purchased the
land in 1927 for a garbage-re-
duction plant. The plant has
since been dismantled and the
city has been operating a sani-
tary land fill in a swampy area
of the property.
The Board of Supervisors of
Prince William County hopes
to acquire the land so that it
may be developed as an indus
trial park. The District, mean
while, would be permitted to
continue land-fill operations on
approximately 25 acres.
The cost of the land is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The land would be purchased
by the Cockpit Point Nom
Profit Development Corp.
c. Lacey Compton, a Prince
William attorney, testified the
corporation is an organization
of businessmen who, working
with the Board of Supervisors.
hope to stimulate industrial
development of the areaI
Evening star., 1962-01-30
City Heads Okoy
Sidewalk Cafe

The Commissioners today ap-
proved a request by the Silver
Spur Restaurant, 924 E street
NV, for permission to open
a sidewalk cafe.
Today's request was the third
approved by the Commissioners
since the city adopted regula-
tionS authorizing the establish
ment of the outdoor cafes.
The Silver Spur Restaurant
plans seven tables.
Evening star., 1962-01-30
BY HARVEY CLEW
Star Staff Writer

District Tax Court Judge 10
v. Morgan has served notice
on the District to revise its tax
computation methods or face
continued body blows to the
pocketbook.
In a lengthy opinion, the
judge yesterday ordered the
District to refund, with 4 per
cent interest, $4,000 in cor
porate taxes he said it "erron-
eously" collected from General
Motors Corp. for 1957-58.
He said District regulations
provide IAN inequitable and
unavoidable" formula for COM
putting the S per cent corporate
income and franchise taxes on
interstate firms doing business
both inside and outside the
District.
1t errs in considering only
sales in relation to net income,
he said. 1t should consider pay
rolls and property as we'll, he
went on, because the "unitary"
nature of General Motors busi-
ness makes net taxable income
dependent on all three factors.
Levy Appealed q
General Motors claimed that
manufacturing and admins
trative activities, not sales, pro-
duced its net income. It paid
corporate taxes of $500 here
for 1878.
The District said only sales
result in net income and came
up with a tax bill for the same
period of $483, 900. General Mo-
tors paid it on May 20, 1860,
and appealed to the one-judge
District Tax Court.
Judge Morgan, citing previ-
Gus cases, computed the bill at
He said only the
three-factor formula fit the
case.
General Motors appeal also
Evening star., 1962-01-30
BY ROBERT GRUENBERG
Star Staff Writer

Four persons recounted tales
Of disappointment, Illustration
and savings gone a-glimmering
during the savings and loan
hearing before Federal Judge
Harrison L. Winter yesterday
in Baltimore Federal Court.
They are part of the group
of nine shareholders seeking
to wrest the administration of
the Mutual Security Savings &
Loan Association from Silver
Spring receiver Paul M. Cough
Ian. They want to place it in
Federal bankruptcy, believing
that under United States ad-
ministration they eventually
will fare better.
Mutual Security's doors were
closed November "a by order
of the Montgomery County Cir
cult Court, with $13 million in
savings credited to 7,O00-8, 900
persons.
eff I had known I
wouldn't have done it," was
the continual refrain at the
hearing as Attorney Charles
Docter of Washington asked
each one if they knew of Mu-
tual Security's investments in
second and third mortgages,
now deemed nearly worthless.
Couple Had $1S,6S5
I'm a pauper now," William
H. Youngson, Sc, of 5507 Darrell
drive, Suitland, Md, a retired
Government employe, fairly
shouted to the audience of
about so persons in the small
courtroom.
Mr.. Youngson said that he
and his wife, Sylvia, put $13,-
635.52 Gin cash-not including
dividends"-in Mutual Secur-
ity's Golfers.
II asked the manager if the
money was safe and he said,
Don't worry-it's safe up to
100000" This apparently was
a reference to private loan in
surance. However, Mr.. Cough
Ian said later after court was
over that no savings insurance
had been carried by the firm.
Mr.. Youngson said he and his
wife attempted to draw $8,500
out for a down payment on
a home. He was instructed by
the association to return in 80
days, he said. This took place
last fall when the newspapers
began unfolding the story of
Maryland's savings and loan
troubles.
When Mutual eventually al
lowed payments of up to 5000,
Evening star., 1962-01-30
Mutual Security Depositors Ask
U. S. Court for Bankruptcy Ru|inq

he was told, Mr.. Youngston
added, that he couldn't draw
that sum either because he had
already filed for the larger
amount.
But they gave me a form
to fill out" he said. He deter
mined by reading the applica-
tion, he cried angrily, that
they would charge me 6 per
cent for my own money!"
Samuel Polito, jr., 80, of az
Arcturus lane IN Alexandria,
hobbled to the witness chair
on crutches.
Early in September, 1861, said
the airline ground crewman,
he put $182.08 into Mutual Sc
curity. This was followed on
September 8 by $7,316.92. He
added:
Il withdrew from an insured
savings and loan association
that is, a $3.50 dividend was
sent me and I put that in, too,
for a total of $7,533.80"
Paid S Pet"
Why did he do it?
"They were insured accounts
and paid 5 per cent. I always
put my money in savings and
loan associations" he replied.
When he tried to Withdraw
his money Mutual Security de-
Quoted $3.50 from his account
to pay for a TV set which had
been his premium, he explained.
Maryland Deputy Attorney
General Joseph Kaufman, seek
ing to keep the receivership in
State hands. quietly pressed Mr..
Polito, who lives in Virginia, on
why he deposited money in the
EaStover branch Prince|
Georges County, of the Mary
land institution.
"One of the fellows at work
mentioned to me that they (the
savings and loan firm) were
Evening star., 1962-01-30
The
Rambler
i. Learns About
ChiIdren's Hour
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

; Certainly no administra-
tion in its first year has
caused the publication of as
many books as this one.
One would think every
angle, the White House cui-
sine, Mrs. Kennedy'S clothes,
her love of animals, the Pres
ident's rocking chair, Caro-
lines ducks, ETC., had been
covered as well as the angles
of political, social and eco
nomic significance.
But a young New York
writer, Bill Adler, who is in
tereSted in children and who
was recently appointed by
Mayor Robert F. Wagner as
a member of the New York
City Youth Board, came down
here and scored a minor
scoop.
He went to the White House
and obtained permission to
read the mail from children.
He discovered that there is
a "children's room" in the
White House mail section
which is in the old State,
War, Navy Building across
West Executive avenue from
the White House offices.
Evening star., 1962-01-30
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Nutritional Educa-
tional Conference meets for
the secord day at the Will
lard.
The Legislative Confer
ence Of the United States
Savings and Loan League
closes at the Statler Hilton.
Evening star., 1962-01-30
D. c. to Boost Rate
OnAr|ingtonW Water
County to Absorb
Without Raising
Cost to Users
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

The Commissioners voted to-
day to- raise the Districts
wholesale water charge to Ar
llngton County by about 5 per
cent.
Arlington County Manager A.
T. Lundberg and Falls Church
City Manager Lewis z. john
ston, jr., both said the new
water rate would be absorbed
without additional costs to
customers.
The Commissioners indorsed
a proposal by the Army Corps
OF Engineers to increase the
price from $l00 per million gal
Ions to $l05.32.
Technically, today's action is
not final, for it requires ap-
proval by the Secretary of De-
fenSe. But for practical pur-
poses. this approval is a virtual
certainty.
Communities Resell
Arlington County gets most
of its water from the Dalecarlia
filter plant through pipes at
Chain Bridge. The county, in
turn, supplies Falls Church
with water. Falls Church not
only supplies its own residents
but sells to about $4,000 in
Fairfax County.
Under the present system,
the District is supplying water,
directly or indirectly, to about
100000 Northern Virginia resi-
dents. The District last year
sold Arlington County close to
7.6 billion gallons at a cost of
about $788,000. The proposed
wholesale price increase voted
today would bring in about
$4,000 a year more to the Dis
trict, officials said.
The Commissioners today
were told that the 5 per cent
increase in the wholesale water
price to Arlington is designed
to bring this rate into line with
the Commissioners proposed
increase in the water bills Of
city residents. The District
has asked Congress to au-
thorize a Is per cent increase in
the water rate to city residents.
City officials have explained
that the District would limit
the actual water rate increases
to about one-third of the au-
thorized increase.
Equals 8 Pct. Increase
David v. Aud, the head of
the Districts Department of
Sanitary Engineering, ex-
planned that, taking into &C
count some technical factors,
the proposed S per cent whole
sale increase would be COM
parable to a planned water
rate increase to city customers
OF about 8 per cent.
The effective date for the
higher rate to Arlington will be
June l, the anniversary of the
semiannual billing period, Mr..
Auld said.
Today's action by the Com
miSsioners also will mean a
sharper increase in the whole
sale water price to the Penta-
gon and National Airport. The
reason for this higher percent
age increase, from about $151
per million gallons to about
$179, is that these installations
are located in a section of the
county where water service
costs are higher.
Arlington now resells water to
Falls Church at $1e5 per million
gallons, officials said. Falls
Church resells to it's customers
at about four times the price
it pays Arlington.
Falls Church has put in a
new water pipeline at new Lit
tie Falls Dam to increase it's
supply from the District.
Evening star., 1962-01-30
u. S. Witnesses Testify
In Alvey Kidnop Case
Prosecutor Says SoIeswomon Saw
Defendant in Store With Condetti Boy
BY JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star staff Writer

BALTIMORE, JAN 30-The Government intends to pro-
duce aleswpman from the Palmer Shopping Center
who recalls seeing Joseph H. Alvey with 7yearold Michael
Conde United States Attorney Joseph D. Tydngs declared
today
In his opening statement to the jury the second day
Evening star., 1962-01-30

today.
In his opening statement
of Alvey's kidnapping trial, Mr.
Tydings did not ask for the
death penalty. But he stated
"The welfare and safety of oul
community is at stake. I ask
that justice be done.
Mr.. Tydings declared that the
witness recalls the little boy
who was looking for a book bag
because he was so courteous.
This boy told the woman
about his big brother in the
Boy Scouts and described the
book bag he wanted" Mr.. Ty-
dings said. The witness will tes-
tify, he added, that the boy
was accompanied by a man
who did not act as a father
should, being rude to both the
boy and two saleswomen.
Lineup Described
These witnesses, according
to Mr.. Tydings, described Alvey
long before he was arrested last
November in Miami. On NO
vember 6, 1861, one Of the
saleswomen positively identified
Alvey in a lineup as the man
she had seen with Michael on
November IA, 1860, Mr.. Tydings
declared.
The prosecutor told the jury
of 10 men and two women that
the 42-year-old defendant vol
UNFAIRLY agreed to re-enact the
crime from the moment he al
legedly met Michael in Brent
wood Village until Michael's
nearly nude body was left in
the woods near Ardmore, In
Prince Georges County, Md,
The Government contends
Michael was taken from Brent
wood Village to Palmer Park
and then to Ardmore.
Mr.. Tydings said Alvey, a
one-time auto body repairman
and newspaper vendor, showed
FBI agents the bus stop near
Fourteenth street and Rhode
Island avenue Me- where
Michael and a man got on a
bus.
He said Alvey traced the
route with agents to a transfer
point in Mount Rainier, Nd,
and another at Cheverly Hos
pital. After pointing out the
store in Palmer Park, Alvey led
FBI agents to the woods and
described the attack that
caused Michael's death, Mr..
Tydings said.
Parents in Court
The prosecutor said Alvey
told questioners he didn't know
the boy was dead, that he just
wanted to get out without
being seen. Mr.. Tydings said
it was not until Alvey read the
that he realized
the boy was Michael Condettl.
The prosecutor told the court
Alvey was living and working
in Mount Rainier, on the day
of the crime and had come
INTO the District, where liquor
IS cheaper, to buy a bottle in
Brentwood Village.
The slain boys parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Augustine j. Con-
letti, were in court today
when the prosecutor outlined
he basis of the Governments
Iindberg Law indie TIM e n t
against Alvey.
Mrs. Condetti, a slim bru-
1ette, dabbed her eyes with a
handkerchief as the United
States Attorney recited the
vents that led to her sons
leath. The boys father stared
yrimly ahead.
Brothers Walk Home
That day, Mr.. Tydings told
he jury, was like any other in
typical American family.
'Mikey" took his lunch to his
econd-grade class at st. An
hony's Parochial School and
waited for his older brother,
Evening star., 1962-01-30

OF THE 10000 letters on
the average that the Presi-
dent receives each week more
than 1000 are from children.
Letters from very young cor
respondents are sorted in the
children's room. They are
forwarded to the White House
correspondence section where
skilled letter writer's answer
them on behalf of the Presi-
dent and in accordance with
his instructions.
Bill Adler spent several
days panning nuggets from
the huge accumulation. The
resulting little book, "Kids'
Letters to President Ken
nedy," 100 pages, William
Morrow & Co., New York, is
not a book for children.
Children are very sensitive
and quick to realize that
their age group is being
laughed at.
Rather it is a light item
that will delight any adult
reader-ideal for a sick-bed
gift.
Children in this postwar
world of orbital and moon
shots and rocket testing are
not the carefree little things
that we once were.
Here is a letter from a
9-year-old boy:
Dear Mr.. President:
II do not know if you got
my last letter. I said in it
that I want to be the first
man to go to the moon in IL
more years.
"I know you may not be
President then, but If your
brother Bob Kennedy is, give
this letter to him.
THANK you,
Stanley r."
Evening star., 1962-01-30
A 9-YEAR-OLD girl, Laura

A 9-YEAR-OLD girl, Laura
D., wrote the President to say
that II found your speech
hard to understand. I think
one day in the near future
you should dedicate a speech
about what is going on in the
world to children and make it
easy for us to understand"
From a 10-year-old boy:
II was born after World
War II. And many, many
more children were, too.
These children never lived
through a war. I know I
haven't had to. I also scare
easy. Also your address to
the Nation scared me. Please
don't have a war.
"An American,
Lloyd j."
"I am II years old, and
every night I worry. I worry
about what will happen to-
morrow, not so much as to-
morrow, but as the future.
What will be left of this
wonderful world in 10 years
if someone presses the but
ton? What will be left of you
and your family? All I'm
asking is please think before
you press the button, please.
Sincerely yours,
Roger N"
Not such light reading at
that. My fault. I have Sc
lected the serious ones.
Lionel H"
But most of them are the
happy kid letters like:
do you like the White
House? I am 7 years old. I
like school very much. My
mother and dad bought me
a new bike. Do you want to
see it?
Love,
Mitchell T."
Evening star., 1962-01-30

to the jury on the second day
Chris, 13, whom he much ad-
mired.
Chris and Mikey walked
home together, Mr.. Tydings
declared, and the younger boy
badgered his mother to let him
go look at some Boy Scout
knapsack bookbags like the one
his brother had.
At $3.50 pm, the prosecutor
said. English-born Joan Con.
detti allowed Michael to 60 tc
the Brentwood Village Shop.
ping Center. That was the last
time she saw him alive.
Hunter Finds Body
Three days later, a hunter
found the boys body. Ar
autopsy showed he had died
of Strangulation by a combi-
nation of leaves and dirt III
his mouth and nose and a
crucifix chain twisted around
his neck.
When Mr.. Tydings had COM
pleted his half-hour opening
statement, j. Carl Hill, defense
attorney, spoke on behalf OF
the defendant. He asked the
jury to consider several ques-
tions: Would Alvey have had
time to transfer three times
on District buses and three
more times on W.M.SsA. buses
in order to take Michael to
Ardmore? Was the boy killed
at Ardmore or was he already
dead when he was brought
there?
Car Suggested
Implying that a car would
have had to be used, Mr.. Hill
said he would prove Alvey
didn't know how to drive.
IT think the FBI thought ar
automobile was used until the
moment Alvey was arrested
Mr.. Hill said. "This is one OF
the most horrible crimes ever
committed, and I wish it was
only a nightmare. There has
never been punishment great
enough for this type of crime
I say this as a lawyer and as
a father"
He asked the jury to remem-
ber that the burden of proof
lies with the Government and
that Alvey is presumed to be
innocent throughout the trial.
Then Mr.. TydingS called to
the stand the first of more
than Is witnesses the Govern
ment will use in what is ex-
pected to be about a week and
a half of trial. The witness was
Delano S. Agpoa, Is, a District
highway inspector, who lives
near Ardmore and who dis
covered Michael's body.
Tire Marks Described
Prince Georges County Police
Pvt. William E. Barr testified
that he was the first policeman
to arrive at the scene of the
crime.
Under cross examination by
Mr.. Hill, Pvt. Barr said 1t
would be possible to have
driven a car up the path to
the spot where Michael was
found and said he noted tire
tracks in the dirt.
The third Government wit
ness, Prince Georges County
Detective 1t. Earl j. Huber,
testified he arrived soon after
the discovery was reported and
noted that a Catholic scapu-
lar on a beaded chain appeared
to be twisted tightly around the
boys neck.
He described the clothing
that was found at the scene
and this was passed gingerly
among the jurors.
1t. Huber estimated it would
take about 40 minutes to walk
to the scene of the crime from
Palmer Park.
1t. Huber declared, under
eros s-examination, that he
noted one tire track at three
places on the trail
leading to the murder scene
and said plaster casts were
made of it. He said the treads
appeared to be made by snow
tires.
Evening star., 1962-01-30
Defendant Quiet

All through the tedious day
long process of selecting a jury,
yesterday, Alvey sat quietly be-
tween two burly deputy United
States marshals. Occasionally
he approached the bench with
everyone else when there was a
conference with Judge Roszel C.
Thomson but be never spoke
and rarely looked to the right
or left.
He departed as quietly as he
came shortly after 4 pm. when
opposing counsel finally agreed
on a jury of 10 men and two
women plus one man and one
woman alternate.
The court examined 83 jurors
throughout the day before the
prosecution and defense began
striking alternately one by one
the names of those they did not
want. Joy John Brooke Duvall,
jr., 48. vice president of the Bal
timore Transit Co., was named
foreman of the jury which will
determine Alvey's fate under
the Lindbergh law.
Evening star., 1962-01-30
Brothers Walk Home

That day, Mr.. Tydings told
the jury, was like any other in
a typical American family.
"Mikey" took his lunch to his
second grade class at st. An
thongs Parochial School and
waited for his older brother,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-12-21

Council may be discontinued
in school. We ask you to re-
mind your people, especially
the children, from time to
time, to pray for the Holy
Father and the Council, and
to encourage the sick and in
firm to offer up their pray
ers and sufferings particular
ly for the continued health
of the Pope. Truly, our
prayer now must be: "The
Lord preserve him."
A little souvenir of the
Council is on its way to our
priests. / had hoped, but now
am doubtful, that it would
arrive before Christmas. I
add my best wishes and as
surance of my prayers that
you may enjoy a Blessed
Christmas, and that the true
peace of the Prince of Peace
may be in your souls during
the coming year.
With my blessing, I am
Faithfully yours in Christ
+ Clarence G.. Issenmann
Bishop of Columbus
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-12-21
Mother Maria
named prioress
at Carmel

Reverend Mother Maria of
the Virgin Mother, OCD, was
elected prioress of the Mon
astery of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, 2065 Barton
Pl. in Columbus, at the Car
melites' trienniel cleo tion,
Dec. IL.
Mother Albert of the Moth
er of God, OCD, was re-
elected subprioress. Mother
Marie Genevieve of the Holy
Face, OCD, founder and first
prioress of the monastery,
was elected first councillor.
The other councillors, or
clavaries, are Mother Al
bert, second councillor, and
Sister John of the Cross,
OCD, third councillor.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1962-12-21
To celebrate the New Year
Bishop writes .

result. These hopes of re-
union were seen to be ground
less, even before the Council
began.
1t is not so at the Second
Vatican Council. The East
ern and Protestant Churches
were represented through
their observers, inc
two Orthodox Russians from
Russia and two from our
own country. They have been
impressed by being invited,
by the hospitality, by the
frankness of discussion in
the Council. We and they
have come to understand
one another better.
No one is so optimistic as
to predict immediate results
from these human efforts,
except for the influence of
Gods grace. But Pope John
has taken the initiative, the
groundwork is being prepar-
ed, and the future results
will be witnessed by those
who come after us.