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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
District to Study Ways
Of Increasing Revenue

equivalent to all the taxes it
would pay if the Federal Gov
eminent was a private business
in Washington. This would
amount to about SAT million,
Mr.. Tobriner said that no
decision has been made at this
time as to which taxes would
be raised if a tax boost be-
comes necessary.
However, he said, he would
not like to increase again taxes
which were boosted last year.
Among the taxes which he
said the Commissioners might
consider recommending to
Congress for an increase are
the income and cigarette taxes.
However" he said, IT think
it would be premature at this
time for me to indicate which
taxes might be increased"
Mr.. Tobriner said he could
not rule out the possibility that
it might be necessary for the
Commissioners to recommend
imposition of some new type
Of tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
British Foundry Casts First Five
Of CothedroI's New 1O-BeII Ring

one bell was donated by the
people of the State of Kansas
and the rest was from individ-
ual donors.
The 53-bell carlton, also to
be installed in the tower, will
cost 5000, 900, Dean Sayre said.
The bells are expected to be
assembled next year and
shipped here.
The carillon's bells will weigh
a total of so tons. The smallest
will be 6 inches in diameter and
the largest will be 8 feet, 8
inches across the mouth and
weigh II tons.
Money for the carlton comes
from a bequest in the will OF
Miss Bessie Juliet Kibbey. an
official of the Washington
Home for Incurables, who died
in 1949.
Her will specified that the
carlton be in memory Of her
grandparents, William B. and
Sarah A. Kibbey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
At Our Grass-Roots-
The Split-Level Politician

SUBURBIA'S SOFT-SELL POLITICKING-With Elec-
ton Day almost upon us, SUNDAY, The Star Mag
azine probes what it takes to bring home the
political bacon from suburba. To wage modern
campaign for modern SuburbaniteS" you should
know all there's to know about sewers septic tanks,
coming and the effectiveness of teaching Russian in
kindergarten. Even then your chances of winning
are considerably below those of your calling it quits
. because of campaign luncheon gastritiS and
coffee klatch over-exposure. In The Sunday Star,
CAPSULE 1868 AUTO SHOW-The Stars This Week
Magazine brings you well-rounded guide to car
buying and car care along with preview of the
new fun cars and "tipS on keeping modern car
tip-top" There's candid article by the former
warden of San Quentin on prison Problem That
Nobody Talks About" The prominent penoogSt
saws massive sexual Illustration lies at the root OF
most prison riots and violence His solution is
startling
AND IN THE STARS TV MAGAZINE-Talented Edie
Adams takes the cover spotlight occasioned by her
forthcoming premiere in the first OF a series OF
music and comedy specials. Along with complete
rogram listings, Tv movie repviews and supporting
articles.
Phone Lincoln $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19

The District Budget Office
will offer several alternative
tax increase proposals when
the recommended city budget
for fiscal 1864 is submitted to
the District Commissioners
next week, it was learned yes
terday.
Commissioner Walter N. To-
briner said, however, that the
Commissioners have not decid-
ed yet whether it will be abb
solutely necessary to boost
taxes.
"There Is a very remote pos
Sibility that we could escape
a tax raise if, when Congress
returns, it grants the SIS mil
lion borrowing authority and
approves the Senator Bible
formula on the Federal pay
ment," Mr.. Tobriner said.
Congress rejected the Dis
trict's request for authority to
borrow an additional SIS mil
lion at its last session.
Under the Bible formula,
the Federal Government would
give the District an amount
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
High Court
Bars School
Order Delay

The Supreme Court last
night refused to postpone the
order of the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals requiring en-
rollment in white schools Of II
Negro elementary pupils Of
Charlottesville.
The high courts action came
in an order by Chief Justice
Warren turning down a stay
request filed in the case, now
before the Supreme Court, by
lawyers for the Charlottesville
school board.
The board had asked the high
court to review the Fourth Cir.
cult Courts ruling last month
which upset the minority trans
fer provision Of the Virginia
city'S public school desegrega.
ton plan.
The Federal appellate court,
by a 80 vote, ordered the ad.
mission Of the II Negroes to
the white elementary schools
But. in this ruling, the Court Of
Appeals ordered a temporary
stay of its mandate to permit
the school board to take the
case to the Supreme Court.
The Court of Appeals said
its stay was not intended to
continue in effect until the high
court decided whether to re-
view the case, but only until
the Supreme Court. or one Of
its justics, acted upon an ap-
plication for a further stay.
Rejection Of the boards re-
quest for an additional post
ponement came as somewhat
of a surprise because the high
court recently agreed to review
a Knoxville (Tenn.) case in-
volving the same kind Of mi.
lnority transfer plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19

The first five bells Of a new
10-bell ring for Washington's
Episcopal Cathedral were cast
this week at Britain'S famed
and ancient Whitechapel Bel
Foundry.
The Very Rev. Francis B
Sayre, jr., dean Of the Wash
ington Cathedral, said the
complete ring of 10 bells viii
make it possible to ring 1928
800 different changes. A
change is a combination Of
notes struck by a set OF bells
He said to go through the
entire repertoire would take
los days of continuous ringing
Dean Sayre said another
British firm has been contract
ed to cast and assemble 9
53-bell carlton for the Ca
thedral.
When the 10-bell ring anc
carlton are installed, he said
the Cathedral will be the only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19

one in the world with both sets
of bells.
The five bells cast yesterday
are made of pure copper and
tin. The largest is 4 feet Z
inches in diameter across the
mouth and weighs 3,415 pounds
The smallest is 2 feet 4 inches
across and weighs $50 pounds
The bells were blessed by
Bishop Stephen Bayne, an
American liaison officer be-
tween the Anglican Commun-
ions of Britain and the United
States.
Work on the bells, according
to the dean, should be COM
pleted next spring. They will
be shipped here then.
Dean Sayre said due to con-
struction of the tower at the
Cathedral, the bells will not be
installed until September.
The total cost of the 10 bells,
he said, is $65. Money for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
A GENTLE BULLY
Kaye Evokes Sweet Notes

Rapping on the music rack
with his baton, guest conductor
Danny Kaye gave "his" orches-
ira a pre-rehearsal pep-talk:
"All right fellas, tonight we are
going to strive for imperfec-
ton"
With that the redhead led the
National Symphony Orchestra
through a wild rehearsal for
tonight's benefit performance in
Constitution Hall.
When he wanted the musi-
clans to stop, he stuck two
fingers in his mouth and blew
them to a halt. When he
wanted to go back over a pas
sage, he had to hum his way
there because he had never
learned to read music. When he
wanted the violins to soften,
since both hands were busy
conducting the rest Of the or
chestra, he kicked at them with
his left foot.
The incredible thing is that
everyone knew what he was
doing.
Although occasionally look
| ing like a little boy who had
been given a pencil and was
standing in the aisle initiating
a conductor, he led with sur
prising authority.
His directions, however, were
a little unorthodox:: IF you don't
play like angels. I'll stab you"
Brass, I want you to blow your
brains out"
To the first horn player, after
humming a very difficult passage,
Mr.. Kaye said, eff you play that
without a clinker, I'm going to
put you in the Smithsonian"
When the player complied with
a clinker, Mr.. Kaye gTinned
happily and shouted, "See. ! told
you you would"
Watching the show conductor,
DR.. Howard Mitchell grinned and
said, Anybody could play with
that man. He's got a real beat.
He even looks like a conductor"
Just then Mr.. Kaye, who had
been flinging his arms around
wildly, and doing his best to get
his short red hair falling into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
ButcherKnife
Bandit Gets
Prison Term

Roy Mitchell, the districts
butcher knife bandit, was SEN
fenced today to five to Il
years in prison by District
Court Judge Edward N. Cur
ran.
A few minutes later Charles
Nimmons, who had bean con-
victed last May of one Of
Mitchell's robberies, vas set
free.
Mitchell was arrested three
weeks after Mr.. Nimmens' con-
viction. His arrest ended a frus-
trating three year manhunt
for the man who is believed to
have Melted over $500 in a
total of 48 Washington area
robberies.
Mr.. Nirnmons, who Ives in
the 5000 block of Blains street
NE, had pleaded not guilty to
robbing a store in thu $500
block of Dix street NJ. last
September. Police said tfe man
who held up the store wore a
stocking mask, carried hutch
err knife and threatened 10 cut
a woman's throat.
Three witnesses idertified
Mr.. NimmonS as the bandit at
his trial, and a boy testified he
saw Mr.. Nimmons discard a
mask and knife after the
holdup.
Mitchell, 90, a truck Drivers
assistant, lived in the 200 Hook
of Thirty-seventh place ST. at
the time of his arrest. Pdice
described him as a Md
hammered family man.
In sentencing Mitchell, JUICE
Curran imposed one senteice
on the whole six-count indiG-
ment, rather than separate
terms for each count TO whih
he was convicted. In so doirg,
the Judge cited Mitchell's CT
operation with the Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
FINALLY, I ASKED wha

FINALLY, I ASKED what
his most difficult sign had
been. He quickly answered
it was zone Lane East
Bound, Two Lanes West
Bound" He said 1t had
taken over two years to
write.
IT finished it in a bar in
Havana, Cuba in a hur-
ricane," he added. He
smiled in deep recollection.
Merge" his great sign of
the 194Os, is his proudest
achievement.
with Merge" he said,
81 think I recaptured the
thing I had lost after Stop
"The 193Os were particu-
larly barren years, I feel.
I accomplished little with
construction Work Ahead, !"
"No U Turn" Speed Limit
3d." "Do Not Block Inter
section" do Not Enter, +"
''No Trucks" and School"
"I must add" the old fell
low said, chuckling, "that I
had sheer fun writing Men
Working In Trees and Deer
Crossing But they had
rather limited distribution. ="
I asked him how he would
90 about preparing the
Three Sisters signs and he
said he would be camping
there, above the Potomac,
for the next few months,
soaking up the atmosphere.
I said good-by and his last
words were:
Call me oskins if you
like"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
THE OLD GENTLEMAN

THE OLD GENTLEMAN
was dressed in tweeds. He
wore a tweed shirt, tweed
socks and shoes, a tweed
necktie and two tweed cuff
links. He smoked a pipe,
made Of tweed. He even
looked like a writer.
"The Three Sisters" he
said after some time, may
be my greatest challenge.
SIN finding it more diff
ficult to write. But they
keep asking for more"
Somewhat emotionally, I
found myself hurting out to
the old sign writer how
much I had enjoyed his
trilogy, Squeeze Right"
yield" and Fright Lane
Only"
He apparently appreciated
my comments and shortly
revealed he had done most
of his research in the poetry
room of the Library OF
Congress.
Gingerly, I introduced the
subject of his sign, "Stay Off
Median Divider." 1t was
published in the late 195Os.
Sign critics said it was pos
sibly the sloppiest bit of sign
writing they had ever seen
and even suggested DR.. Soft
Shoulder had had it printed
privately.
81 was trying for some
thing different" the author
said. II was frankly tired OF
taking a middle-of- the-road
approach, however popular.
Perhaps I failed"
We sat for sometime in
silence then, above the river.
I thought I saw a kayak
moving among the Three
Sisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
The
Rambler
Meets q
Great Author
By JOHN McKELwAY

I was quite surprised to
learn that DR.. Oskins Soft
Shoulder was still writing.
I found the authorize is
110-sitting on a rock above
the Potomac and looking
down intently on the Three
Sisters, that archipelago
above Key Bridge over which
a new river crossing will be
built.
With the recent decision
by Congress to go ahead and
build the bridge, DR.. Soft
Shoulder Immediately was
hired as a consultant and
will be spending a few years
here in Washington writing
the signs for the bridge ap-
proaches. Later, he'll go to
work on the tunnel under
the Lincoln Memorial.
Few writer's have had such
a saturating effect on so
many lives over so many
years.
Who can forget his memo
rable mo Left Turn"
brought out in the early
190Os and instantly accepted
as the high-water mark of
clarity and simple directnesS.
Unlike SO many writers
who fail miserably after a
triumph, he quickly followed
s.No Left Turn" with "Stop,"
considered by many to be his
finest effort and one still in
great demand throughout the
world. 1t has been trans
lated in 10 foreign Ian
guages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19

his face while leading the Or
chestra in "Bolero," stuck his
fingers in his mouth and stopped
the action with a whistle which
was probably the loudeSt instru-
ment in the hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-19
Messenger! S|ugs
83, at Door
Screams Chase
Intruder; Four
Prevent Entry

An 83-year-old woman was
slugged with a metal pipe early
today when she opened her
apartment door to a man who
said he had a telegram. Her
screams frightened off the In
truder.
Detective Inspector Nunzio
Bonaccorsy said the same man
tried q similar technique at
four other women's apartments
over q two-hour span but the
other women refused to open
their doors.
Mrs. Fannie Dobkin, who
lives alone In q ninth
floor apartment at 1000 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, was
treated at Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital for face cuts and
released.
FIees with Screams
She told police the man
knocked at her door at about
$3.50 am. pretending he had Q
telegram. Mrs. Dobkin said she
got a glimpse of a short Negro
man with a brown handkerz
chief over his face just as be
slugged her with what she
thought was q length Of pipe.
He fled when she fell scream
ing,
Mrs. Dobkin's son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Hynar,
Goldman, who live in the ad-
joining apartment, came to
her aid and called police. Mr..
Goldman is president Of the
Standard Tobacco Co. He said
Mrs. Dobkin did not get a good
look at the attacker.
Nearly an hour later, a man
believed to be the same one
knocked at the apartment Of
Mrs. Benson Timmons. at 2601
Woodley place NV. and said.
Telegram" Mrs. Timmons
kept the chain on the door and
told the man to hand the mes
sage through. She said he In
sisted it had to be signed for
but she refused to open the
door and the man left.
Got Into Auto
| Mrs. Timmons said she looked
out her window soon after
wards and saw q man getting
into a car.
About is policemen and
Canine Corps teams, headed
by Inspector Bonaccorsy and
Deputy Chief George Wallrodt,
were one jump behind the man
as he moved through the
Northwest section but never
were able to catch up with him.
The first incident happened
about 2:40 am. when a man
knocked at the apartment Of
Miss Florence PerraS, 35, at
Brunswick House, 1414 Seven
tenth street NV. Miss Perras
said he went away when she
refused to open the door.
A few minutes later, he
knocked at the door Of Erika
Kuhn, 38, In the same apart
ment building. The woman said
she heard him say, Telegram"
but looked through the peep
hole and refused to open her
door when she saw the man.
Next, the man knocked at
the door Of Anne Feldman, 40,
at 1901 Cathedral avenue NV.
at 3:15 am. She. too, kept the
chain attached and asked him
to hand the telegram through
the partly opened door. The man
grabbed her hand when she
tried to hand a quarter through
the crack in the door but she
snatched her hand free and
slammed the door.
From there he apparently
went to the Dobkin and Tim
mons apartments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-26
Area Of Brain
Frozen inCure
0fParkinsOn's
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

CHICAGO, June 26.-The
tremor and rigidity of dreaded
Parkinson's disease can be
stopped permanently by freez-
ing a small area of the brain, a
surgeon told the American
Medical Association here today.
DR.. Irving S. Cooper de-
scribed how he has used a
frigid pointed stylus in a spe-
cial operating room at st.
Barnabus Hospital in New
York to freeze. rather than re-
move or cut, brain tissue. He
said he also has frozen brain
tumors so that they destroy
themselves.
In the treatment Of Park
inson's and similar disorders,
DR.. Cooper keeps the patient
conscious as he opens his skull
and inserts the stylus to a
small area deep in the brain.
He cools the stylus by feeding
liquid nitrogen through tubes
inside it. All the stylus except
its point is insulated so that
only the selected tissue is
frozen.
If the patients tremors and
rigidity subside as he cools the
stylus, DR.. Cooper knows he is
chilling the right spot and
continues the treatment for
three to five minutes, produc-
ing a permanent change in the |
tissue so that the nerve which |
caused the symptoms is
blocked.
The new technique has been
successful in IS per cent of the
Parkinson's cases on which DR..
Cooper has used it, he reported.
The risk of death is less than
l per cent, DR.. Cooper said.
Unlike conventional surgery,
the freezing technique is safe
for patients in their 70S and
80S, DR.. Cooper told the AMA'S
annual meeting.
Parkinson's is often a disease
of advancing years. Once known
as shaking palsy" it afflicts
about 100000 persons in the
United States.
Plans are now under way to
design special surgical equip
ment for the freezing technique
so that it can be used in many
hospitals, DR.. Cooper said. He
hopes such equipment will cost
$1,000 or less.
DR.. Cooper said the same
technique seems promising for
killing, instead of cutting out,
deep brain tumors. In conven-
tional surgery, permanent dam
age to the brain often is caused
in cutting through normal
tissue to reach a tumor.
DR.. Cooper said the use of
the cold knife" against brain
tumors can avoid this destruc-
ton. But he emphasized that
his tumor technique is still ex-
perimental and that more time
is required to see if it is effec-
tive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-26
1900 Awarded
To BOYS Club

The board of the Health and
Welfare Council of the Nation
al Capital Area has given the
Boys Club of Greater Wash
ington $1,000 so it can reduce
dues at its Southeast branch.
A proposal. for this action
was Shelved at last months
meeting after George G. Flem-
ing, a Negro board member,
commended that the Boys Club
still has a basic policy of seq
regation. The Boys Club ap-
pealed HWC'S ALLEGATION of
United Givers Fund money for
1862
Mr.. Fleming himself made
the motion to grant the $1,000
at yesterdays meeting. He in
dicated he is satisfied that the
larger question of segregation
in UGF-supported agencies will
be pursued by the new HWC
committee on racial discrimin-
alton.
Since this committee is now
formed and functioning, he
withdrew his objection to the
Boys Club request. |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-26
Steel Ordered
To List Funds
By the Associated Press


The Justice Department has
demanded expense account and
other information from steel
company executives in continu-
ing a probe into April's on
and-off steel price raise.
Informed sources said yester-
day subpoenas for information
from some executives went out
about three weeks ago in con-
nection with department efforts
to determine whether the price
boost involved collision.
The U. S. Steel Corp. said in
New York that the Government
had subpoenaed telephone num-
bers and expense account in
formation of some executives.
The Dow-Jones Business News
Service reported from Pitts
burgh that similar records were
subpoenaed from Bethlehem
Steel Corp. and Wheeling Steel
Corp. and that Jones & Laugh
lin Steel Corp. was understood
to have been served.
A grand jury investigation
into steel prices was ordered
April IL by Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy after seven
companies announced Sc a ton
price increases. The inquiry
continued after the hike was
reScinded in the face of admin
istration protests.
A Justice Department source
said the subpoenas were part of
the continuing inquiry and do
not represent any new investi-
cation. Mr.. Kennedy declined
comment.
The search into expense ac-
count information repeatedly
extends back to June, 1861.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-26
WHAT TO DO

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Evening star., 1962-09-15
Dramatic Surprise

DR.. Paul Galloway, noted or
ganist and choirmaster Of
washington Cathedral. had a
dramatic surprise recently.
Returning from his vacation,
he wandered through the ca
thedral and came to a place
where the sun streamed
through a stained glass win
dow.
He looked several times at
the window. 1t was plain when
he left, and here it was a
beautiful stained glass window.
He looked even more closely at
the face in the window and
was startled to find his own
portrait, made up Of crumbled
bits of vari-colored glass, en-
bodied in the left lancet. Fur
ther, the artist had included as
part Of the windows design a
real baton, real organ pipes, a
treble cleft with musical notes
scattered here and there.
Another Tribute
The right lancet paid tribute
to Richard Dirksen. associate
organist at the cathedral. To
carry this out further, Mr..
Dirksen's work with the cathe-
dral choir, junior choir and
glee clubs Of the cathedral
schools were also portrayed in
the window.
The puzzled cathedral Of
ficials finally learned that Jon
Arterton, a 16-year-old senior
at st. Adams School and one
of the cathedral's crucifers, had
put the stained-glass window
Evening star., 1962-09-15
Churchman'S
15Oth Year

The 15oth anniversary Of the
founding Of st. Bartholomew's
Episcopal Church. Laytonsville
Nd, viii be celebrated tomor-
row at a 4 pm. service.
The Rev. David Lord. pastor
of the historic church will con-
duct the service and the Right
Rev. William F. Creighton,
Bishop Of the Diocese Of Wash
ington, will preach.
Sometime around 1850 a
chapel Of ease within Prince
Georges Parish. known as Haw-
lings River Chapel. was built
at Crowtown, now Brighton. In
1912 the Rawlings congregation
received permission to eStab-
lish a separate parish.
Land was donated by Thomas
Griffith on a site overlooking
the Rawlings River and the
Laytonsville- Unity road. How
ever. in the early 1900s the
church moved into Laytonsvillt
and the cornerstone Of the
present structure was laid II
1909.
Evening star., 1962-09-15
Marriage Volume

C. Stanley Lowell. associate
director Of Protestants and
Other Americans United fol
Separation Of Church and
State, is the author Of a book
on interfaith marriage, Prot
estant-C Catholic Marriage"
The volume, published by the
Broadman Press of the Baptist
Sunday School Board, Southern
Baptist Convention. is set fol
release next month.
Mr.. Lowell, a former pastor
Of Wesley Methodist Church
Washington, served as a Navy
chaplain during World War II
He is widely known as teacher
and lecturer in the field OF
Protestant Catholic relations.