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Evening star., 1962-01-05
GRANDMOTHER AT ALI CLUB
S. Corpsmen Train Here

The Washington area has
acquired its first Peace Corps
training camp.
At All Club national head
quarters, TOO Connecticut ave-
nue.. Chevy Chase, SIS Peace
Corps volunteers are beginning
a six-week training course.
Eventually they will land in
rural Brazil for a two-year
assignment.
At opening ceremonies in
Chevy Chase last night, Law
renee E. Dennis, associate di-
rector of the Peace Corps, well
coined the group of 20 women
and IS men to Washington.
He and All leaders of the
project spoke in the main ad-
ministration building-a hand
some, rambling, reconstructed
Colonial hotel of red brick and
white pillars.
"In the late 180Os people
from Washington used to take
the train out here to spend the
week end much as they go now
to Rehoboth," remarked one of
the headquarters staff. Later
lit housed the Chevy Chase
Junior College for many years.
Here the Peace Corps volun-
teerS are billeted two to a
room in dormitory fashion.
Widow Of IS
Members come from 26
States. They include three Ne
groes and six Puerto Ricans.
All recruits have some rural
experience" some in All clubs,
others in the All International
Farm Youth Exchange pro-
gram for living on farms all
over the world.
Most are in their middle
twenties. But their number also
includes Mrs. jamie Fletcher,
aged 65, a widow for % years,
grandmother of six and agri-
cultural extension worker in
home making from Panhandle.
Tex. By official reckoning she
is the oldest volunteer ever ac-
cepted for Peace Corps train
ing.
The National All Club
Foundation has received almost
100000 from the Peace Corps
for the whole project. It's aim
is to teach and train All clubs
Called AS clubs" ttere) in
rural Brazil.
Warren E. Schmidt, chief All
leader of the project, has set UP
a stiff training course here. It
includes lectures from profess
Sors in the area on American
and Brazilian studies, on com.
muniSm, work groups on All,
methods and "crosS-cultural
adjustment"
"Our main problem is the
language" said Mr.. Schmidt.
Only one Of the SIS volunteers
already speaks Portuguese-the
Evening star., 1962-01-05
The
Ram bier
Looks for
Lost Memorial
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

The Rambler regrets to
report that he has run into
another instance of the In
terror Departments scandal
Gus disregard for memorials.
Where is the memorial to
Senator James Mcmillan of
Michigan, a beautiful foun-
tain designed by Herbert
Adams and Charles A. Platt,
which adorned the marge of
the Mcmillan Reservoir?
The reservoir is on First
street NV, between the
Soldiers Home grounds and
the campus OF Howard
University.
It's one thing to Danish
William Jennings Bryan to
his Illinois birthplace. But
Senator Mcmillan did more
than anyone since Pierre
L'Enfant to make this Ma
tion's Capital beautiful. We
need his like today.
The memorial was a gift
from the people of Michigan.
They ought to protest its
disappearance.
Senator Mcmillan was one
of the Wealthiest men in the
Senate even in the days
when Western mining and
Eastern industrial fortunes
caused it to be called the
Millionaires' Club.
During the Civil War he
became associated with John
G. Newberry of Detroit in
the manufacture Of railway
cars.
He came to the Senate in
1889. He had already be-
come interested in parks as a
member of the Detroit Park
Commission. He arranged for
the city to purchase Belle
Isle in the Detroit River for
100000 and engaged Fred
erick Law Olmsted, jr., son of
the man who designed Gen.
trail Park, New York, to make
1t one of the most beautiful
parks in the world.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
Noughton to Head
County Fund Drive

Leo j. Naughton. a senior
vice president of the Suburban
Trust Co., has been named cam
paign charmean for the 1862
campaign of the Heart Associa-
ton of Prince Georges County
Mr.. Naughton, who lives in
University Park. served as vice
chairman in last years fund
drive. He is treasurer of the
Prince Georges County Tuber-
culosis Association, a member
of the Salvation Army, Prince
Georges County Advisory Board,
and an area chairman of the
March of Dimes. The county
campaign will begin February l.
Evening star., 1962-01-05

think I can better serve the
cause Of peace by teaching in
the Peace Corps than by carry
ing a rifle in Uncle Sans
Army" was his frank reply.
Priscilla Thorsrud, a pretty
coed, thought her sex would
not be a handicap in backwoods
Brazil. Brazilian men would
accept an American woman
more equally" than they
would a Brazilian woman, she
said.
On the other hand, she said
her chief task in Brazil would
be teaching home-making to
Brazilian women.
Evening star., 1962-01-05

language of Brazil-although
the Spanish spoken by the
Puerto Ricans gives them a
head-Start.
"Not knowing the language
is definitely a handicap, because
you can only reach the unedu-
Gated people through interpre-
terS," conceded David Dodge, a
24-year-old rancher from Rock
River, Wyo. He had already
spent AZ months in rural
Pakistan on the Farm Youth
Exchange Program, and knew
a "few words" of Urdu.
Why had he volunteered for
this program? Because
Evening star., 1962-01-05

Two pedestrians died after
separate Southeast Washington
accidents last night-the Dis
trict's first two traffic fatalities
of 1862.
The dead were Lowell R
Carter, 81, of 348-A v street
NV, an elevator operator al
the Government Printing Of
flee, and Frank G. Gaines, A
of 321 Seventeenth street Sc.
Mr.. Carter was struck at ia;
pm. at Potomac avenue ant
Thirteenth street Sc. He wa
pronounced dead at Districr
General Hospital at 1925 pm.
LabOrer Charged
Accident Investigation Unit
policemen said the auto thai
hit Mr.. Carter as he was walk
ing from the southeast to the
northeast corner of the inter
section was driven by Louis c
Simpson, 40, a General Service!
Administration laborer, Of the
1900 block Of Forty-fifth street
NE.
In Municipal Court today
Simpson was held under $1,000
bond on a charge of negligent
h omicide and five traffic
charges-driving under the in
fluence of alcohol, reckless driv-
ing, leaving after colliding
failure to yield right of way tc
a pedestrian and driving on the
wrong side of the street. A
hearing was continued to jan
uary II.
AIU Police Pvts. H. N. Wyn-
koop and R. j. Rohrlack said
he had retained his operators
license ION appeal" after q
notice of revocation. They said
he had accumulated over eight
points for driving offenses.
Police said that after the car
struck the pedestrian, the driv-
er continued on but abandoned
his car a short distance away
Minutes later he was arrested
Evening star., 1962-01-05
L'ENFANT HAD ENVIS-

L'ENFANT HAD ENVlS-
AGED a plaza north of the
Capitol. But the old Botanic
Garden had been constructed
there. Mcmillan got Congress
to move them to their pres
ent location southwest of the
Capitol, enabling clearing the
ground for a broad plaza ex-
tending all the way to the
station. The beautiful foun-
tain that adorns it was one
of the committees recon-
mendationS.
The committee recommen-
dations, piece by piece, were
followed but the plan was
grossly violated in the World
War I period by the erection
of two huge temporary build
ings Navy and Munitions)
and during World War II by
the construction of scores of
small tempos in West Poto-
mac Park.
The committee brought in
its report in January, 1902.
There was much opposition
the old conflict of big issues
and small minds. Senator
Mcmillan championed the re-
port and successfully sought
its adoption. He died in Au-
gust of that year.
Mcmillan r e servoir was
named for him and the
memorial fountain erected.
In 1910 work began on en-
1arging the reservoir and the
fountain was dismantled and
placed in storage. And that's
where it is today.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
Financial Review Section
In This Sundays Star

A YEAR-END REPORT-The Star this Sunday will
present its annual Business and Financial Review
Section. A review Of Washington area DEVELOPMENTS
will be given, along with year-end predictions of
area business and financial leaders for 1862
ON INCOME TAX RETURNS-In This Week Magazine
Tax Commissioner Mortimer Capln explains what
the new tax machines will mean to you; and Model
Expert Eileen Ford gives some tips on how to use
makeup to achieve beautiful face.
NEW SUNDAY COMIC-For some chuckles at the an
tics Of the teen-age SET look for "Ponytai" new
comic feature which debutS this Sunday in The
Stars color comic section.
MD-WINTER TRAVEL-To help readers begin plan
ming their 1862 vacations. The Star presents this
Sunday its special Mid-winter Travel Section.
SPRING FASHION REPORT-Starting this Sunday
with picture preview and forecast story, and con-
tinung thereafter in The Evening Star Fashion Edi-
tor Eleni will devote her Fashion Notebook" to the
New York Designers Spring Collection. To learn
what you will be wearing during the coming season.
look for ElenS reports with New York datelne-
Society Home Section.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1962-01-05
Fire Breaks Out
In Baggage Car

BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (AP).-
Fire broke out today in a bag
gage car of a 15-car Pennsyl-
vania passenger train the
Potomac, en- route from Wash
ington to New York.
No one was injured, and no
passengers had to leave the
train. The fire ruined a con-
siderable amount of mail and
baggage, but the car was not
destroyed.
The train left Washington
at 7 am. and Baltimore at 7:45,
The fire broke out 10 miles
from Baltimore. The train
had been scheduled to arrive
! in New York at 1855 am.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
Beer Sale Extended

RICHMOND, Jan. 5 (AP)-
The State Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board yesterday au-
thorized an extension from II
pm. to midnight in the hours
for selling beer and wine in
Roanoke, effective January %.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
WASHINGTON WAS A

WASHINGTON AS A
GOOD deal of a mess when
he arrived here and con-
tinued so for more than a
decade. 1t was the 1900 CEN
tenary of the moving of the
Nations Capital to the banks
of the Potomac that enabled
him to obtain passage of a
resolution authorizing the
employment of a committee
of experts to recommend the
future development of the
city.
All the committee members
were architects and artists,
Daniel Hudson Burnham of
Chicago, C. F. McKim of Nc
Kim, Mead & White of New
York, F. L. Olmsted, jr., and
Augustus st. Gaudens.
The committee turned to
the L'Enfant plan, which had
been almost forgotten except
for the layout of streets.
L'Enfant's Grand Avenue
from the Capitol to the
Washington Monument had
never been built. The COM
mittee recommended the
Mall, a broad carpet of grass
bordered on each side with
four rows of elms and it's con-
tinuation to the site of the
Lincoln Memorial.
There was much work to
be done. The Center Market
and the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Station (on the site of
National Gallery OF Art) had
to be cleared away.
Senator Mcmillan under
took to persuade the railroads
to build a Union Station
north of the Capitol and in
this he received much help
from the Pennsylvania
president, A. J. Cassatt, a
man who must have had an
aesthetic side because his sis
ter, Mary Cassatt, still ranks
as one of Americas greatest
artists.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
Home Improvement
Fraud Bill Drafted
Maryland Law
Held Needed
To Hit Abuses

A bill calling for tight re-
strictions and heavy penalties
for fraud in the home improve
ment business has been drafted
by a Maryland commission.
Delegate H. Kemp Mac
Daniel, Democrat of Baltimore
County, who heads the COM
mission, said a bill to curb
abuses in the business should
be introduced in the General
Assembly, which begins its 1862
session next month.
1.-The commission has now
concluded that home improve
ment legislation is both neces-
sary and desirable, and that the
public interest requires State
wide legislation in the forth
coming session ;" Mr.. Mac
Daniel wrote Gov. Tawes.
The MacDaniel commission
was appointed by Gov. Tawes
last year at the request of the
General Assembly.
Hearing Slated
A hearing on the prelimi-
nary draft of the commissions
proposed legislation will be
held at 10 am. January II in
Room 801 at the State Office
Building in Baltimore.
Abuses in the home improve
ment business were exposed in
stories in The Star in June,
1860, leading to a tightening
iof regulations in the District
of Columbia.
The Maryland bill would re-
quire licensing of all home i'm
provement contractors, sales
men and home finance agen-
cies." The latter is defined to
mean any person, other than a
contractor, engaged in "pur-
chasing, acquiring, soliciting or
arranging" home improvement
contracts or obligations.
In order to get a license, the
applicant would have to file
detailed information on his
background and the activities
of his company. Names of
owners, stockholders and other
persons connected with the
firm could be required by the
agency set up to administer
the law.
The bill would provide a
three-year prison term and/or
a $4,000 fine for conviction
on charges of willfully using
money put up for home i'm
provements for any other pur-
pose when the job is incom-
plete.
Contracts Specified
A written contract or sales
agreement would be required
| for any home improvement
costing more than 5000.
Charging of an interest rate
on home improvement loans
which exceeds the State
authorized limit would be
grounds for revocation of a
"home finance agency" license.
Participation in any home i'm
provement transaction known
to be fraudulent or in violation
of the law also would be among
several grounds for revocation
Of the financing agency'S
license.
A home improvement con-
tractors license could be re-
fused or revoked for failing to
complete job without justifi-
cation, diversion of money for
other uses, misrepresentation
of facts to obtain a license,
failing to keep proper records,
and Is other reasons.
Any "alesman or contractor
who willfully engaged in the
home improvement business
without obtaining a license
would be subject to a $4,000
fine or three years in prison.
No contractor would be al
lowed to construct, repair or
remodel any fallout shelter un-
less the work conformed to
standards set up by the State
Office OF Civil Defense.
Evening star., 1962-01-05
4O-Year Plan
Denounced as
ScFlizop|1renic
Expert and Clarke
Split on Highways;
RodioI Ideo Scored
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

One of the Nations leading
city planners today called the
Year 1000 Plan for Washington
metropolitan development "a
little plan, full of inherent con-
tradiction, and schizophrenic.
In a blistering criticism, VIC
tor Gruen told a Metropolitan
Washington Board of Trade
conference that 'radial corri-
dorS" proposed by the plan for
suburban development are
nothing but a Schematic draw
ing of the growth pattern which
our metropolitan areas have
followed in the past"
He said the National Capital
Planning Commissions plan
for development in the next 40
years lis killing, from the out
set, any chance of reshaping
the metro center into a truly
compact organism.
Mr.. Gruen, whose city plan
ming projects over the last dec
ade have been influential
throughout the country, spoke
at the second annual Com
munity Appearance Conference
sponsored by the Metropolitan
Washington Board of Trade in
cooperation with more than 40
area civic groups. Sessions
were held in the auditorium of
the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
Clarke Defends Road Plans
On the same program, Dis
trict Engineer Commissioner
Frederick j. Clarke defended
the District highway program
and explained recent steps to
improve the city's appearance.
I'm my opinion, traffic is
more unSightly in congested
streets of a neighborhood than
1t is on expresSways screened
from the eye and ear" Gen.
Clarke said.
Answering a request for COM
ment on Mr.. Gruen's criticism
Of NCPC's 40-year area devel-
opment program, Gen. Clarke
smiled. and said:
Il did not hear all that Mr..
Gruen said, but I am afraid
that he and I do not see eye to
eye on this" He added:
Il am prepared to support
the concepts outlined in the
Year 1000 Plan"
Mr.. Gruen was critical of the
emphasis in the Washington
area on large amounts of high
way construction.
Competing Transport Seen
He said the National Capital
Planning Commissions plan
processes" that only public
transportation can fully serve
the central area, but added
that it proposes new super
highways from the corridor
towns, thus putting the two
modes Of transportation into
direct competition"
Quoting the plan as saying
most automobile users will be
converted to a transit system
only after congestion on the
highways reaches intolerable
levels" Mr.. Gruen commented:
"1t seems to follow that if
the highways would not be
built at all, then the rapid
transit system would have a
chance to exist economically
before intolerable levels of
traffic on the highways are
reached"
Evening star., 1962-01-05
Medion Value of Homes
In Area Put at $17,100
Census Figures Show $1,000 Rise
Over Ten-Yeur Period From 1850

The medan value of homes in the Washington was
$17OO in the 1860 compared with $4,000 1850
the Census Bureau reported today.
This figure based the price owners of oneunit
dwellings would receive for their property the market of
April, 1860.
At the time the medan gross housing units
Evening star., 1962-01-05

The Committee of 100 on the
Federal City wants planners to
go ahead with further study of
Georgetown urban renewal.
After spirited debate yester-
day afternoon, the organiza-
ton withheld commendation
for last October's staff report
of the National Capital Plan
ming Commission outlining ini-
tial proposals for the renewal
program.
At the same time, the influ-
entail civic group urged that
the scope of the study be mod
flied and carried on under Ger
tain restrictions.
But a move to have action
postponed entirely was decisive
ly voted down.
what we have done," said
Neill Phillips, president of the
organization, "is to approve ex-
ploring the idea of urban re-
newal, with certain restrictions
and emphasizing the desirable
ity of Fine Arts Commission
controls"
Evening star., 1962-01-05
Citizen Views Split

Though less sweeping an in
dorsement than originally was
proposed, the committees &C
tion was viewed as a victory
by urban renewal advocates.
The debate disclosed sharp
Evening star., 1962-01-05

Defense Attorney Myer Koonin
said he plans to appeal.
Mr.. Bowden, 38, testified he
was attacked by two men after
he finished part of his third
martini and started to leave.
He said he did not know who
hit him.
Two Navy officers in the club
said the two employees scuffled
with the chemist inside and
took him outside. A passerby
testified he saw them beat Mr..
Bowden in an alley.
First Precinct Pvt. Earl L..
Drescher said he found the
victim lying semiconscious in
drainage water in the alley.
Mr.. Bowden was arrested for
drunkenness shortly afterward
and forfeited $40 collateral at
the first precinct station. His
attorney, David N. Webster,
said the chemist may have ap-
peared incoherent because of
a concussion suffered in the
beating.
Mr.. Koonin said Mr.. Bow
den was elected because he an
noyed a waitress, another
women and the other customers
by failing around like a zom-
bie."
Waitress Testifies
The waitress, Mrs. Lucienne
Copeland, "a, said she served
the chemist at least four dou-
BILE martins before he began
acting up, a charge he denied.
Even if he had done so, said
Assistant United States At
torney Harold j. Sullivan, such
"a brutal beating" was mex
cuSable.
Taking the stand in his own
defense, the maitre d'hotel said
Mr.. Bowden swung at him when
asked to leave. :
Il guess I got a little hot
tempered" Pergantis said. HE
put up a nice fight. That man
is not a small man"
After the verdict, Chief Mu-
nicipal Court Judge John Lewis
Smith, jr., deferred sentencing
until January 81 for a proba-
ton report. Both men were con-
tinued on $500 bond.
Evening star., 1962-12-24
HOUSES TO SHARE

NEED MAN TO share house near
Pentagon in S. Arlington with
same. Call 0S4-729S.
Evening star., 1962-12-24
Capitol Cadillac-OldS Co.

Areas Largest Pontiac Dealer
$500 14th st. NV. 462-3700
Evening star., 1962-12-24

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8 and 4 bedrm. homes avail. Some
for immediate occupancy. some
with option 70 buy Call" or
write " g4a-S44O. MANOVIIL
REALTY CORP. 25l6 University
blvd. West. wheaton. Maryland.
Evening star., 1962-12-24
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

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BUICK, $50 II st. ne. II. 6-O267,
BUlCK-You can get q better used
car a. STEWART BUICK, INC.
Evening star., 1962-12-24
HOUSES WANTED TO RENT

MOUNT VERNON or Alexandria,
ranch or split desired near Poto-
mac, schools, 3 to 5 bedrooms.
Occupy February. S175 to S225
per month. Reply p. o. Box 1853,
Glen Head, New York.
Evening star., 1962-12-24

TRADE what you have and don't
want for what you want and can
use. M. W. SIMMONS, Sr., PO.
2-4500. PO. 2-3424.
Evening star., 1962-12-24

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stately old trees forms the setting
For a look-see. Just call us at
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Evening star., 1962-12-24

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Milford chronicle., 1962-12-14

In a borrowed suite in a swank
New York hotel, the 38-year-old
athlete modestly presents her first
collection.
There it is" She waves if
handedly at some white garments
in closet. "They don't look like
much on a hanger"
But on Gussie, a 1.-THE size s,
they look great as she proceeds to
bounce in and out of the bedroom
like tennis ball changing from
one to another.
Pastels, Too
Wimbledon will appreciate that
her samples are white, although
the new sportswear designer does
not see why they should be, and
has more back in the sewing
rooms in other hues.
She conforms with such Forest
Hills tennis taboos as spaghetti
straps and bare shoulders. Her
costumes are round or V-necked,
double-breasted a n d
low waisted, and in both long and
short skirt versions. Under those
short skirts are matching pants
with a little gathering at the leg,
but no ruffles.
"In all these years you'd think
I'd come up with some good re-
tort" says Gussie. swinging her
feet in white sneakers onto h e
sofa. But / still don't know what
to say when people ask me about
those ruffled panties"
Mothers Needle
Gussie to this day swears they
we're not her idea Teddy Tingling
who wrote a fashion column de-
signed and presented her with
tennis dress. 1t had a big bertha
collar, which Gussie disliked, and
4 wide short skirt which required
more. Hence. the fancy
pants with a ruffled band of lace
came into being.
Milford chronicle., 1962-12-14
UnruffIed Gussie
Turns Style Pro
BY JEAN SPRAIN WILSON
AP Fashion Writer

NEW YORK (AP) ~ Gertrude
Moran, otherwise known S
Gorgeous Gussie and the Tennis
Temptress, has turned fashion pro.
However, neither ruffle nor a
fluff of lace is anywhere on her
brand new line of tennis costumes.
Wimbledon officials ought to be
relieved to know this.
AS an amateur some doze n
years ago Gussie's style prowess
was so influential that the staid
London club hasn't gotten over it
yet
Only recently Wimbledon Of
ficials issued fashion ultimatums
limiting tennis costumes to white
Three years before that, til e y
barred anything daring or sem
sational." Both bans might not
have been, if Gussie hadn't ap-
peared there in her lacy britches
in 194S.
After that, tennis stars tried to
beat Gussie at her own game of
fancy pants, even showing up in
gold lame or the confederate flag.
Even so. the eyes remained fo-
cused on Gussie to be sure what
the score was in tennis fashions.
Fashion Doubles
With all that, you'd think she'd
have turned fashion pro earlier.
She did volley the idea around a
bit even wrote a column about
il for a tennis magazine. But until
last spring sports broadcasting
and a few unsuccessful tries at
marriage kept her preoccupied.
Then Augusta Bullock, west
coast fashion pro. suggested
team.