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testified he was ready to offer
100000 in cash. James l.
McCallister, District property
supervisor, said another offer
had also come in.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Smith, Democrat OF
Massachusetts, will study the
situation.
A bill, subject of yesterdays
hearing, asks Congress to au-
thorize the District to sell the
land. A similar proposal is
before the full House District
Committee.
The Smith committee also
received testimony on another
bill which would exempt the
Army Distaff Foundation from
real estate taxes. Loss to the
city would be about $23, 900 il
the measure is passed by the
Senate. House approval came
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
Two Runnino
In Rockville
Mayor Race

Frank A. Ecker, Budget Blu
reau employee, last night was
nominated for Mayor of Rock
vile by a convention of the
nonpartisan Citizens for Good
Government.
He was the only Mayor can
didate presented by the Com
mittee on Candidates.
In an unexpected develop
ment, John M. Rausch, whose
name was to have been pro-
posed to the convention as a
nominee for the city council
disclosed his candidacy for
Mayor.
In a letter read to the con-
vention by outgoing Mayor
Alexander Greene Mr.. Rausch
said:
I'VE need in Rockville an
other citizens forum aside
from the CGG) whereby public
opinion may be formulated and
crystalized into constructive
political action. The need
is great and the time is now
I am ready to act"
Mr.. Rausch, thus far the
only opponent to Mr.. Ecker in
the April 80 election, is a Vet.
Grams administration attorney
Most of last nights So.
hour convention was devoted
to selecting nominees for the
council.
About 100 delegates required
IL ballots to name the follow
ing four nominees from a field
of 10.
Achilles M. Tuchtan, General
Services Administration pro-
gram management officer;
Ralph E. Williams, a partner
in the R. P. Clarke Co. Of
Washington; Edward J. Mack
administration manager at the
Pneumo Dynamics Corp, ano
L. Ross Roberts, managing Of
ficer of the County Federal
Savings & Loan Association oil
Rockville.
Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Tuch-
tan are incumbentS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
Nine Enter
House Race
In Maryland

ANNAPOLIS. Mar. 8 (AP).-
Nine candidates entered Mary
land congressional races yester-
day. Filing deadline for the
May Is primary is midnight
Monday.
Representative Matthias, Re-
publican, was the only incum-
bent among the stream of can
didates who posted 500 filing
fees with Chester F. Tucker,
Deputy Secretary of State.
Mr.. Matthias, from Frederick
was accompanied by his wife
and about 20 supporters from
the Western Maryland 9th dis
trict.
Former Representative John
r. Foley, Democrat, whom Mr.
Matthias defeated in the 1860
election, filed for the Demo.
cratic primary. t-
Mr.. Matthias and Samuel N
Friedel, 7th district Democrat
are the only incumbentS still.
without primary opposition.
No Republicans have filed in
the Sd, 4th and 5th districts
Others who filed yesterday
included:
First district - Howard C
Eley, go, of Queen Anne, ar
Eastern Shore businessman anc
industrialiSt who said he woulc
campaign as a conservative
Democrat" in his first bid fol
public office.
| Second district - Republican
George H. c. Arrowsmith, Al, 9
cattle breeder from Upperco
Baltimore County. Three G. o
P. candidates and four Demo.
Gratis have filed for the seal
being vacated by Representa-
tive Daniel B. Brewster, whC
is running for the Senate or
the ticket headed by Gov
TaWes.
Fifth district-Victor A. Su.
lin, Sc, a farmer from Severn
and State tobacco inspector
filed to oppose Representative
Landlord in the Democratic
primary. Mr.. Sulin was Mr.
Landlords campaign treasurer
in 1860.
Sixth district-Sidney Silver.
man, a Rockville pharmacist
joined Mr.. Foley and John H
Douglas of Chevy Chase in the
Democratic primary.
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not only a bright-red missile
gantry crane, but an orange
elevator with a blue-helmeted
man going up in it.
Charles Robinson, also 6, de-
picted a red-and-blue capsule,
with a hatch, at a point when
part of the rocket went back to
EARTH"
But Felicia Britt, S, is shy,
according to Mrs. Blackmon.
She caught an important ele-
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think it will die in the rurally-
controlled Senate.
The reapportionment bill pro-
vides that Is delegates will be
taken away from 10 small coun-
ties and given to five big coun-
ties.
The city delegation decided
not to try to exempt Baltimore
from the terms of a proposed
public Accommodations bill which
which would bar discrimina-
ton in hotels and restaurants.
The legislation is expected to
come up at a special session to
be called next Friday by the
Governor.
A bill to exempt cigarettes
from the sales tax was defeated
in the Senate. Senators from
the tobacco growing areas
claimed that high taxes on
cigarettes are hurting sales in
Maryland.
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CityForms Plan to Sell
Prince William Land

District officials have asked
Congress for guidance in SELL
ing ass acres of land in Prince
William County.
Up until yesterday the Com
missioners were prepared to
offer the land to the Cockpit
Point Non-Profit Industrial
Corp. at a sale price of ap-
proximately $4,000.
The corporation, formed by
county officials and business
men, saw in the land an op-
portunity to develop it as an
industrial park. An agreement
worked out between the county
and the District, would enable
the city to continue to use some
80 acres as a sanitary land fill
But, in testimony before a
Senate District subcommittee
yesterday, city officials revealed
they had now received two
offers for the land from other
sources.
Thomas Newton, an attorney
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ment of the launch with a pic
ture saying This man won't go
in the rocket. He's scared to go
in the rocket" A greenland
orange man near the missile is
plainly unhappy.
The youngsters later did
paintings of the capsule recov-
cry, Col. Glenn's return to the
carrier Randolph in a helicop-
ter and his parade in Wash
ington.
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Hostess Group
Needs Volunteers

The Armed Forces Hostess
Association needs more volun-
teers. according to the groups
newly elected president, Mrs.
John Garvin.
The association, composed
of the wives of military officers
in the Washington area, &C
quaintS newly-arrived officers
and their wives with the city.
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the family, Mrs. Eleanor Jones
48, a daughter, Carol, 16, and
a son, Gerald, IA, will accom-
pany the bodies to Pittsburg,
where Mr.. Jones mother, Mrs.
Elmer R. Jones, lives.
The father died in a vain
attempt to rescue his three
sons when he returned from a
paren t-teacher association
meeting in La Plata and found
the house ablaze. The other
victims were John. IL; Douglas
S, and Mark, 9 months. Mrs
Jones, a teacher of handi-
capped children in Waldorf
cut her hands and Gerald suf-
fered a burned face in their
efforts to save the other chill
dren.
Red Cross Helps
Meanwhile, the Charles
County chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross disclosed it has
located an apartment for Mrs
Jones and her two surviving
children in Waldorf. Mrs. For
rest Coakley, chairman of vol
unteers, said the Red Cross
will pay the rent and alsc
plans to help the Joneses fur.
Inish the apartment.
The chapter is accepting
contributions of cash, clothins
and food for Mrs. jones anc
the children, who lost every.
thing in the olaze. The house
was a hollow, blackened shell,
after Charles and Prince
Georges County firemen put
out the fire after a four-houl
struggle.
Charles County Fire Marsha
Joseph Nc Donagh said the
cause of the blaze has not beer
determined but investigator.
continued to probe the charrec
wreckage of the house today
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Odds have done this every morn
ing since Mondays homecom-
ing parade.
Their paintings demonstrate
that undergraduates may I'M
derstand more about orbital
flights than some of their
elders do. Ulysses Williams, S,
has a later painting with Col.
Glenn in his capsule in orbit,
by the light of a purple moon.
Vivian Bradley, 6, painted
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kindergarten Artists Inspired by Genn's Space Flight

spouting yellow flame, is lifting
from the pad with Col. Glenn
aboard.
The three poster color
works clearly show that Kin
dergarten b. at the Districts
Cooling Elementary School
hardly missed a trick from
count-down to triumphal pa
rade on the Nations first
orbital success.
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
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development authorities the
power of urban renewal. Com
mittee amendments have re-
moved condemnation powers to
meet objections of the Virginia
Real Estate Association, Mr..
Thomson said.
"A major operation has been
performed on this BILL" Mr..
Thomson said. "All that is left
is the appendix and the patient
has died"
The bill had drawn wide
spread opposition because of
its general application through
out the State.
Delegate Lewis A. McMurran
of Newport News, chairman of
the committee that had first
killed but later revived the bill
said the measure would make
possible Federal contributions
of two-thirds of the cost Of
purchasing, rehabilitating Of
tearing down slum areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
BY ALEX r. PRESTON
Star Stair Writer

RICHMOND, Mar. 3-Legis-
lation to bring to life the CO.
lonial seaport of Alexandria
and a bill to restore it's historic
downtown areas have passed
the halfway mark in the Gen.
eral Assembly.
Both measures were dras-
tically amended to remove ex-
tensive powers to condemn
property.
An Alexandria Port Author
ity measure, offered by State
Senator Armistead L. Boothe,
passed the Senate, 20 to 6,
yesterday after amendments
prompted him to describe it as
a much cut, shad-treated bill"
In legislative parlance here, the
"shad-treatment" means that
its inSides have been removed
Still Serves Purpose
Mr.. Boothe told a reporter
later that he believes enough
of the bill remains to accom-
plish its original purpose. Thai
purpose, he told the Senate, sis
to have the Federal Govern
ment dredge the Potomac chan.
mel from Point Lookout tc
Alexandria. a."
The Army Corps of Engineers
has been surveying the problem
of deepening the channel fol
the last six years, he said.
mot long ago." Mr.. Boothe
said, they told the Alexandria
City Council it would not be
economically feasible unless
they were assured some facility
would be there to take fuel tc
the Dulles International Air
port by way of a pipeline"
He then referred to plans oil
the Potomac Public Service Co
to bring jet aviation fuel to the
airport by pipeline from Bal
timore.
He emphasized Alexandra
does not intend to exercise the
authority to build the pipeline
to Dulles unless private com.
mercial interests fail to provide
the service from the port o.
Alexandria.
Delegate James M. Thomson
obtained approval of the House
by a vote of 40 to 80, of his bill
extending to housing and re.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
Police Investigate Fire
Fatal to Two Children

Prince Georges County po-
lice today are investigating the
cause of a fire which took the
lives of two children yesterday
after they were trapped in a
Second-floor bedroom of their
frame Oaklawn MD home.
The two victims were identi-
fled as Karen Wilson, l, and
her 3-year-old brother, George
The bodies of the Wilson
children were found in their
bedroom about 80 minutes
after firemen from four Prince
Georges County fire depart
ments brought the blaze under
control.
Warned by Scream
Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, AZ, the
mother, told police she was do
ing housework on the first floor
of the house at 6784 Allentown
road shortly after 2 pm. when
she heard the screams of he1
daughter.
Both children had eaten
lunch and had been taking a
customary afternoon nap, Mrs
Wilson reported.
She said she ran up the
smoke-filled stairway leading
to the converted attic bedroom
but heat and flames prevented
her from getting past the bed
room door.
Il couldn't get past the fire
near the door," Mrs. Wilson
said last night. She said she
could see Karen's crib was in
volved in "a mass of flames.
Several passing motorists
stopped and ran to Mrs. Will
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yesterday showed off a port
folio, in kindergarten con-
temporary style, done by the
Cooling youngsters, who rushed
from a television set to their
paints on the big day.
Yesterday morning they asked
to march around the class
room again to the Marine
Hymn" played on the piano
by their teacher, Mrs. Alma
Blackmon. The 5 and 6 year
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Services Set Tomorrow
F or 4 Victims of Fire

Funeral services will be held
tomorrow in Waldorf, Md, for
Edward L. Jones and his three
sons who died in a fire that
virtually destroyed their home
at Bennsville Thursday night.
The Rev. Richard johnson
will conduct the services at 2
pm. in the Calvary Methodist
Church, to which the Jones
family belonged. Then the
bodies of the 47-year-old
Naval Research Laboratory
chemist and his boys will go
by train to Pittsburg, Kans.,
for burial.
The surviving members of
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sons aid, but also were blockec
in their efforts to rescue the
children.
They even tried to tear
down the cardboard bedroom
wall with their bare hands,"
Mrs. Wilson said. 1.-THE fire had
the door blocked, but had they
been able to tear down the
wall, they might have gotten
to the crib"
Mrs. Wilson said she could
neigher hear not see her son
George, who was in a bed in
the front of the room.
There was so much smole
:. it was just black it
burned my face and hands just
standing there, helpless" Mrs.
Wilson said.
The interior of the house was
completely destroyed by the
fire. Mrs. Wilson said she was
only able to save two $1,000
insurance policies which COW
cred the lives of the two chill
dren.
Two other children by a pre-
viouS marriage, Orval Reckard,
II, and his brother, Harry, a.
were not at home at the time
of the blaze.
The men who had attempted
to break through the bedroom
wall abandoned their rescue eff
forts and tried to enter the
room through the lone door,
way, using watered-doWn bed
spreads and blankets for pro-
lection.
Driven Away
! One would-be rescuer, iden-
titled as Ray Hamburg, a Clin-
ton fireman, who reached the
burning home in his own car
before other county firemen ar
rived, attempted to enter the
bedroom by placing a ladder
against the roof.
Mrs. Wilson, who said her
37-year-old husband, Earl, had
left her about a year ago. re-
ceives assistance from the
county welfare department, &C
cording to Detective Sergt
Ralph E. Bond.
Mrs. Wilson and her two sons
by her previous marriage are
staying at the home of her
sister. Mrs. Daisy House, at
6l23 Oaklawn road. All of their
belongings were destroyed in
the fire, police said.
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z Democrats File
At Rockville for
County Council

Two more Democratic aspi-
rants for the Montgomery
County Council were among
candidates who filed at Rock
vile yesterday, on the next-to-
last day filing deadline.
One was Frank Bliss. jr., of
Rockville, who became the sec
ond candidate to file for the
Bird District seat due to be re-
lniquished by David Cahoon.
Mr.. Bliss faces a May is pri-
mary contest with William A.
Linthicum, jr., also of Rock
vile.
The other is Edwin Collier
Silver Spring attorney, who be-
came the seventh man to file
for the two at-large seats or
the council.
Mr.. Bliss and Mr.. Collier
filed jointly as part of the
county'S so-called Blair Lee
Ticket"
Mr.. Bliss is president of Ban
ner Glass, Inc, of Silver Spring
and Hyattsville. He is a former
president of the county's Youns
Democrats. He is 81 and live!
in the Twinbrook development
Mr.. Carson, 38. is a past ma.
tional committeeman for Youns
Democratic Clubs of Maryland
and is chairman of the Youns
Democratic Advisory Council tt
the State Central Committee
He lives at HOO Carson street
Silver Spring.
Others filing yesterday in
cluded four as delegates to thu
Democratic State convention
They are James A. Barker Of
Bethesda, DR.. Austin B. Rohr.
baugh, jr., of Chevy Chase
Sherman Levy of Silver Spring
and Rourke j. Sheehan of Be-
| theSda.
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expected 10 move TO the House
Monday.
The first item on Gov.
Tawes's top priority legislature
list cleared the General Assem-
bly, last night. This was a
measure to increase the number
of signatures required to a bill
passed by the General Assembly
started last spring after refer
endum actions were taken
against several bills passed at
the 1861 legislative session.
Bill Watered Down
The new measure, which is
before the Governor for sigma
ture, required that at least
three per cent of the number
of voters who cast ballots in
the previous gubenatorial cleo
ton must sign the referendum
partition. This amounts now
to about $4,000 signatures. IN
der the old law, only 10000
were needed.
The bill was watered down
from it's original form, which
would have required signatures
of 10 per cent of the voters.
Opponents of the stronger pro-
vision said this would prac-
tically abolish the right of
referendum because it would
be difficult to get that many
signatures.
Meanwhile, the Baltimore
city delegation gave a boost
yesterday to reapportionment
and public accommodations
legislation.
During a tense two-hour
meeting, city delegates agreed
to support reapportionment
provided that none of the city's
six legislative districts lose any
House members.
Senate Defeat Seen
AS presently drawn, the re-
apportionment bill would re-
suit in three of the city's dis
tricts losing delegates to other
city districts after the 1870
census.
The 36-member city delega-
ton agreed to submit an
amendment calling for redis-
tricting of city districts to give
them approximately equal pop
ulation. This would enable
each district to retain it's pres
ent six delegates under the
population formula set up in
the reapportionment bill.
A vote on reapportionment
was stalled again in the House
yesterday when Eastern Shore
lawmakers used another par
liamentary tactic to delay it.
Supporters are now predicting
the bill will pass the House
when it finally comes to a vote,
probably Monday. But they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

"Col. Glenn's wife is watch
ing him get into the rocket
Theresa.
1.-THE rocket isn't ready to &C
off yet. They have to wait
until it's time"-Steven.
This rocket is blasting off,
Ulysses. And there's no ques-
ton about it from the drawing
A monstrous black rocket,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR:
The Riviera, the Pyramids
Or Quaint Quebec?

WASHINGTON-GATEWAY TO WORLD TRAVEL
The Sunday Stars special International Travel
Section Is the vacation-bound globerotters foreign
travel primer. Europe, the Orient Latin America
and Canada are included in this survey of inter-
national tourist attractions There is also advice for
the thrifty vacatoner exemplified by Washington
mothers report on how she and her three children
managed an auto camping tour of Europe at cost
OF just $267 day per person.
THE PARADOX OF EMPTY, IDLE SCHOOLS-Staff
Writer Jim Birchfeld examines the effects of three
years without public schools on Virginia's Prince
Edward County, in SUNDAY, The Star Magazine In
the same issue, a rare word-and- picture look at
Leningrad and its priceless art treasures and full
color front page view of the Speaker Sam Rose"
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV-seen through the eyes of his
Son-in-law in This Week, The Sunday Star supple
ment. The Kremlin Boss personal habits and diet
are described candidly by Izvestia Editor Adzhube
the Soviet neWsman with a knack for making news
himself. Also in This Week. leading fashion design
ers speculate on what the well-dreSsed woman of
2O62 might wear.
IN THE STARS TV MAGAZINE-Inger Stevens is the
glamorouS girl and there's pictorial preview
of the Milton Berle Show, along with complete TV
program hstings and supporting features
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-03
Georgetown Prep
Holds Prom TONIGHT

Georgetown Preparatory
School will hold its Senior
Prom from $50 to 1870 O'Clock
tonight in the schools South
Room.
Comdr. William R. Anderson.
skipper of the nuclear-powered
submarine Nautilus, will attend
as chaperon.
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Maryland Budget
Is Expected to Get
Senate Approval
Assembly Meeting Today
AS End of Session Neurs
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

ANNAPOLIS Mar. 3.-The Maryland General Assembly
went into its first Saturday session today effort
up business before next Thursdays adjournment deaine
The major item the agenda start 1854
million budget its through the Legislature APP
prova is expected with few changes the budget bill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-25
The Fall Election

Mr.. Kennedy said later that
the defeat was not so much hts
administrations but rather one
for the Nation and the cities,
where, he claimed, ITO to rs to
30 per cent" of our population
live.
Il think there is going to be
an urban department sooner
or later" he declared.
1t is generally agreed that Re-
publicans in the House opposed
the plan on the ground that 1t
was a further extension of the
hand of the Federal Government
into local affairs, something they
feel should be averted. 2
Should the COP. pick up ad-
ditional House seats in Novem-
Der, thereby following the nor
NAL turn of events in an off-year
election, the urban department is
likely to come later rather than
sooner.
AS for Mr.. Weaver's future, the
President let 60 an opportunity
at his news conference to say
whether he would appoint the
housing chief to a cabinet post,
although he observed that there
were no vacancies at present.
All in all, 1t would appear that
the Democrats did not pick up
a major profitable campaign is
sue for November. On the con-
trary, the Republicans may be
able to turn the urban depart
ment affair to their own advan-
tage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-25
Federal Pay:
New Approach

President Kennedy last week
sent to Congress a new ST.
billion Federal pay-reform- pay
raise plan affecting 1.6 million
Government employees.
ITO pay more than this is to
be unfair to the taxpayers to pay
less is to degrade the public serv-
ice and endanger our national
security"
Thus did the President urge
upon Congress the adoption Of
a wholly new approach" to the
matter of Government salaries,
an approach he asserted was vital
if the Nation is ito achieve and
maintain proficiency in the Fed
eral Government"
The President sought to en-
phasize the reform" rather than
the raise" aspect of the plan.
His new approach has two prin-
cipal features:
1t would tie Federal pay for the
first time to comparable salaries
in private business.
1t would establish equal pay for
equal work within and among the
several statutory salary systems
in the Government, narrowing the
differentials between grades in the
process.