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Evening star., 1962-01-30

search, logistical planning and
computer programming. The
rest is from sale of its elec-
tronic computer services.
C-E-I-R's income included
that of several companies ac-
quired during the fiscal year,
Computer Services. Inc, Facts
Consolidated, and American
Research Bureau, Inc. The total
sales represented an increase
of $5,170,478 or 80 per cent
from the previous year.
According to the company's
annual report, a net loss of
$252 ,293 was incurred on total
sales of $9,548,922 in 1860. The
totals include sales and losses
of several firms acquired last
year.
Mr.. Robinson noted that
corporate assets had risen from
81 LILO in September, 1860,
to $12,812,399 a year later, while
fixed investment in machines
and facilities rose from $467,-
931 to $6,446,358 in the same
period.
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TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK (AP)-Noon over the
counter US. Government Treasury bonds,
DID, asked, net change and yield for
Evening star., 1962-01-30

partisan Committee for Eco
nomic Development puts it in
a report on this subject, What
is desired is not to tip the
balance Of power between the
President and the Congress but
to obtain a prompt decision"
on tax reduction "as an anti
recession instrument" If Con-
greSS just amended its rules so
a presidential request for a tax
cut could come up for a vote
without amendment within, say,
go days, this might make the
device usable. Or if congress
Sional policy-makers and the
administration could discuss
and reach agreement on the
form and timing of a tax cut
before a recession hits, this
might be all that is needed.
From a budget viewpoint. an
anti-recession tax cut is more
conservative than an increase
in Government spending pro-
grams. The tax reduction would
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located facility for the federal
Uninsured deposit of their saw
ings at attractive interest rates
as well as for sound guidance
and loan assistance in the fl
nancing of home purchases"
Other organizers named by
Br. Baruch were Leonard r.
Snyder. attorney; Morton Noble,
architect; Staley Brinkley, jr..
executive vice-president, Highs
Dairy Corp: Theodore Nye,
jeweler; Albert H. Davis, real
tor; DR.. Hubert Cafritz, dentist;
DR.. Herman Parmet. optome-
trist; Christopher S. Luchen-
burg, mechanical engineer.
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MUTUAL FUNDS

NEW YORK (AP)
= National Associa.
tion Securities Deal
ers, Ine
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Prince Georges Plaza
Gets Savings 8 Loan

A new federally insured saw
ings and loan association has
received approval from the
Federal Home Loan Bank
to organize for opera
tions in the Prince Georges
Plaza shopping center, it was
announced today by Stanley
Baruch, director of housing for
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the Inter = American Develop
ment Bank.
Mr.. Baruch, who is one OF
the principal organizers of the
new institution, said each ac-
count in the association will be
insured up to $4,000 by the
Federal Savings and Loan In
surance Corp. The association
will open its offices in the CEN
ter sometime in May, he said.
I'm the light of recent Mary
land savings and loan scandals, ;
MIR. Baruch stated, "the people
of this community will surely
welcome a new, conveniently
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Sales Near SIT Million
But C-E-I-R Net Falls

C-E-I-R, Inc, Washington
headquartered research COM
pany, today reported record
sales Of $10,940,358 but a net
loss Of $874,018 for the fiscal
year ending last September 30.
Herbert w. Robinson, presi-
dent and board chairman, at
tributed the deficit to heavy
Intangible investment in ex-
pansion of $l,175,OOO during
the year.
He predicted a profit in 1862
on the assumption that the
company would do $40 million
in sales.
The company receives about
half its income from services
in economics, operations re-
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be temporary and it wouldn't
swell the budget.
Since the catastrophe depres-
sion of the 1930s. we have made
giant strides in the control of
business SlumpS. We're on the
way to developing another
weapon.
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..."SerViCe Benefits"
bring you priceless advantages!

Confidence and trust. Both are present
when you know that delicate surgical skills
are backed up with the finest hospital care
you can get.
And Blue Cross tFService Benefits" are
based on the care you need to get we'll Blue
Cross Service Benefits have no dollar limit
for most covered hospital services ''Service
Benefits" begin with your first dollar of hos
pital expense. And Blue Cross Service Bene-
fits" automatically keep pace with the rising
cost of hospital care. Because they have no
dollar limit, Service Benefits" become more
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OVER COUNTER

Following prices furnished by the Ma
tional Association Of Securities Dealers in
Masnington represent the range within
which locally active securities could have
been bought or sold at II am. Tuesday,
.IanuarN lQ 1910. -e :
Evening star., 1962-01-21

National Capital Parks off,
cials said they were hopeful
Congress would approve the
spending request this year. They
said they felt the need for the
bypass had not been made
clear to the appropriations
committee at the last session.
The total cost of the project
is about $3.2 million. The re-
queSted $2.8 million would pay
for most of the work.
In 1858, the Park Service in
cluded about $265 900 in its
budget to start the project.
Congress approved the fund re-
quest but, because of a dispute
with the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, which operates the ZOO,
the money was spent for other
purposes.
An agreement on the present
construction proposal was
reached in 1860 after the Ma
tional Park Service and the
Smithsonian resumed negotia-
tionS in 1857.
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street line. The cables ran
through conduits beneath the
tracks and moved at a pace of
six miles an hour.
The biggest cable powerhouSe
was constructed on the site of
the present District Building
but in 1897, only five years
after the powerhouse was put
into operation, it was COM
pletely destroyed in a fire.
After the cable cars arrived,
several companies began look
ing into electric power for
Streetcar operations.
Some of the city's early elec-
trio lines were started in 1888
when the lexington and Sol
diers' Home, the Georgetown
and Tennallytown and the
Brightwood rail companies were
formed.
At the time Congress refused
to allow overhead wires to be
used south of Florida avenue,
and that rule held fast so that
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term in Terre Haute, Ind, and
Springfield, Mo-, for mail fraud
and violation of the SEC reg
ulations.
He faces sentence again, now.
In Baltimore Federal Court on
December 8 he pleaded mo
contest" to mail fraud charges
growing out of operation Of the
First Colony Savings & Loan
Association of Prince Frederick,
Md.
On FirSt-Name Basis
1t is the same Edlin who
speaks of Senators and repre-
Sentatives on a first name basis.
He tosSes off the names of
banking greats" in Chicago
with the same aplomb he shows
in peeling off a dollar for a
bellboy's tip.
He recalls his associations
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QrlVe. Inc PROJECT would IN
clude an 800-foot tunnel.
Last year, the House Appro-
priations Committee deleted
the requested funds for the by
pass. The committee said 1t
could see no urgency in the
plan, which is designed to re-
heve traffic congestion.
Bridges VS.. Tunnel
In its report, the committee
said that study should be given
to building bridges across the
fords near the Zoo, instead of
a tunnel.
Park officials, however, de-
cided to try again for congress
sional approval of the highway
project.
They noted yesterday that
the present road through the
park grounds frequently is
closed because of high water
in Rock Creek. And, for the
protection of the Zoo, the pres
ent roadway is closed at dark
The proposed bypass would be
open at all time, officials said
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Main Line Extended

In the following years the
main line was extended to the
M street carbarn in George
town and to the Navy Yard.
Rails soon appeared on Seventh
street from the wharves to
Florida avenue (then known
as Boundary street, and on
Fourteenth street. The fare was
5 cents.
The rail car was more COM
Portable than the omnibus.
More passengers could be car
ried in a bigger coach and the
ride was Smoother-inadequate
street paving gave the free
wheelerS" a bumpy ride.
The Georgetown company is
believed to be the earliest di-
Evening star., 1962-01-21
EdIin, Central Figure in Loan Story,
Between Pills Boosts of His Abi|ity

with C. Oran MenSik and Abra-
ham Teitelbaum.
Mr.. Mensik is the Chicago
and Baltimore savings and loan
tycoon against whom a Federal
judge last Tuesday upheld a
$273,000 fraud penalty on a
$4,000 back income tax bill
filed against him by the In
ternal Revenue Service.
And Mr.. Teitlebaum is a for
mer lawyer for Al Capone, and
self-styled labor "peacemaker"
who in 1851 charged that he
was the victim of a $500,000
"shakedown" plot by a clique
with high Washington con-
nectionS.
Living in Fear
Currently, Edlin says, he is
living in fear-but not of the
heart condition which may be
a topic in the Federal proba-
tion report now beng prepared
in connection with his appear
ance scheduled for February 2
in Federal court.
He has testified and dis
played a subpoena to back UP
his contention-before a Flor
ida grand jury investigating,
repeatedly, associates of a top
labor official in the country.
Each time his chief aide,
William L. Robinson, vice pres
ident of First Continental, left
the suite, either for coffee, or
to bring Edlin his medicines,
or to obtain a document to
support a statement, Mr.. Rob-
inSon would say:
I'm locking the door, Ken.
I'll be back in 10 minutes"
And when he returned, he
! See EDLIN, Page b.
Evening star., 1962-01-21
BY ROBERT GRUENBERG
Star staff Writer

Joseph Kenneth Edlin, who
has emerged as central figure
in a savings and loan story
that has rocked Maryland. drew
himself up to his full 5-feet
7-inches and doomed:
II have always been success
full with money!
mo institution I have ever
been connected with has ever
failed the investor!"
This may be welcome news to
approximately 1000 account
holders of the First Continen-
tai Savings & Loan Association,
whose doors are now locked to
them.
1t is their $3.7 million which
forms the base of the invest
ment of the loan firm, now in
receiverShip.
The 63-year-old, heaVy-Set
Edlin clutched three bottles of
pills in his hand. He un-
corked one, gulped a tablet
for his heart trouble, he said
paced around a chair in a suite
at the Woodner and stormed:
"Ex-COnvict Tag"
They've put an 'ex-convict'
tag on me, have they? Before
this I was known as one of the
sensational young bankers in
the Middle West! My income
was between $350,O00 and $4O0,-
900 a year.
Every situation I touched
was a crisis situation-and
every situation I touched paid
100 cents on the dollar!"
First Continental would, too,
he said, if he controlled it.
This is the man who served
two years of a four-year prison
Evening star., 1962-01-21
New Georgetown Unit
Backs Urban Renewal

present intention is not to IN
clude all the 81 acres within
urban renewal project area
boundaries.
About two-thirds Of 1t would
go in" he said.
Along M street some proper
ties would be excluded, but
other sections of the street, he
said, "are crucial to the eco
nomic life of the city" and
would be included.
Renewal Supersedes, and is
a much finer tool" for upgrad-
ing a neighborhood than zon-
ing, he explained.
Building To Be Bypassed
Probably to be left undis-
turbed by any renewal under
taking, Mr.. Finley said, would
be the Wilkins-Rogers' flour
mills, the Federal heating
plant, the District incinerator
and some other commercial
buildings, though most Of the
property to be excluded would
be of residential character.
Some properties to be in
cluded within the urban re-
newal boundaries would be
marked mot for acquisition"
About Is members Of the Riv-
erside Council participated in
the tour and in questioning
Mr.. Finley.
One member said he was
concerned that planning could
be changed before it reaches
the final agency"
He was assured by Mr.. Fin
ley that the planning commits
sion agency would have to
agree to plan changes.
Regarding the time required
for redevelopment, in case ur-
ban renewal is approved, Mr.,
Finley said he could not make
an estimate. He said ordinarily
a year is needed from the time
boundaries are fixed until a
plan can be completed. Beyond
that point, he said, a project
area can proceed rapidly or
slowly, depending on circum-
stances.
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rect predecessor of D. C. Tran
sit. However. a series of rail
companies then came on the
scene. One, the Metropolitan
Railway started in 1864, began
what was later to be the Mount
Pleasant route.
In 1879 a new omnibus COM
pany was formed called the
Herdic Phaeton Co., and its
coaches included what was a
unique feature-a rear en-
trance. Passengers walked to
the front and put their 5 cents
in a slot. The So-called Her
dies" (their inventor was Peter
H. Herdic) were later used as
livery vehicles.
Evening star., 1962-01-21
School Budqet
For Building
Is SIC Million
Montgomery Gives
Supt. Whittier
What He Requested
BY JOHN STORM
Star Staff Writer

The Montgomery County
Board of Education has given
final approval to a school con-
structicn budget of $16.5 mil
lion-in round numbers, just
what Supt. C. Taylor Whittier
asked for.
After an eight-hour session,
yesterday, however, IA of Dr..
Whittier's original requests for
1962-63 had been revised. Al
together, the board put in
$304,000 and took out $350,975
for a net reduction of $46,975.
The board voted unanimous
ly to allocate $3.8 million for
construction of a new junior
college in Rockville but split,
4 to 3, in approving funds for
a gymnasium at the Takoma
Park campus of the old college.
After lengthy debate, the
board trimmed the gymnasium
request by $4,000 and voted
100000 for its construction. A
proposal for a college library
addition also was passed, out
not until it had been cut by
$4,000 to $150,000.
Morrow Heads Opposition
Board Member Robert E.
Morrow led the opposition to
the gymnasium, calling the
project ill-timed and unneces-
Sary.
In reply, Board President
William R. Thomas argued it
would be illogical to build a
gymnasium at the Rockville
campus and leave the present
college without one.
Joining Mr.. Thomas against
a motion to kill the request
were Mrs. Lucille Maurer. Mrs.
Samuel j. Kicker and Paul C.
Howard. Voting with Mr.. Nor
row were Harold F.. Briemeyer
and DR.. Clifford K. Beck.
The board also acted to re-
lieve transportation problems of
retarded children who now
spend up to two hours a day
committing to special classes
in the Sandy Spring Elemen-
tary School.
Starting next fall, some OF
these pupils will be moved into
four classroomS at Stephen
KnollS Elementary in Wheaton
A plan to build a new school
in the Alta Vista area and open
the present school there to the
retarded children was rejected
Board members agreed that
Stephen Knolls was more con.
veniently situated and woulc
help solve the immediate prob.
lem. The Alta Vista transfer
planned for 1864, had drawn,
protests at a hearing on the
budget last week. b
The board added $139, 900 fol-
a new cafeteria and kitchen al
Damascus High School. Funds
for the project were voted in
addition to $25,344 set aside tc
furnish a new addition.
Planning Funds Provided
Planning funds were written
in for Einstein and Spring
Brook High Schools, North
Kemp Mill Junior High and the
CongressionalHungerford area.
A request for $614,000 tc
build and equip an addition at
White Oak Junior High was
cut by $65, 900 because of saw
ings on a similar project at an
other school.
In other action, the board
deleted $117,810 for a new IL
brary and improvements at
Rock Greek Forest Elementary
and voted $762,220 for a new
"a classroom elementary school
on Farmland drive near Be
thesda.
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A new citizens group in
Georgetown has decided to ia
vor urban renewal for the area,
the head of the organization
said yesterday after a walking
tour joined in by staff men,
bers of the National Capital
Planning Commission.
Robert B. Norris, president of
the Georgetown Canal and Riv-
erside Council, said he thinks
division of opinion IN George
town on the question is more
seeming than real"
Members of his organization
composed Of persons living in
the area south of M street-"do
not fear or oppose urban re-
newal along the selective and
imaginative lines" envisioned
by William E. Finley, the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
missions staff director, he said.
He added:
"Some of the business and
real estate people in the area,
those with the larger and more
strategic land holdings, do, of
course, fear and oppose it for
obvious reasons"
Battle Joined
NCPC staff members have
been requested by the commits
sion to draw up a sketch plan"
for urban renewal within a 81
acre area extending from Rock
Creek to Key Bridge and from
the Potomac waterfront to a
line about 100 feet north of
M street.
Opposing the NCPC staff
proposal for urban renewal are
the Progressive Citizens Asso-
citation of Georgetown and
the newly formed Georgetown
Business Property Owners AS
Sociation. Not yet committed is
the Georgetown Citizens AS
Sociation.
Mr.. Finley, who was among
a number of NCPC employees
on yesterdays walking tour,
told the group at meeting at
Grace Episcopal Church in
Georgetown that the staff'S
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Gable Cars Tried

But by 1890 the Washington
and Georgetown Co. was ready
to try the latest thing in speed
operation. The first
changeover was on the Seventh
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Funds Again Asked
For Tunnel at Zoo
And Park Bypass
$2.S Million Sought for Proie-t
To Relieve Traffic CONGESTION

Congress again has been construction money
for Zoo bypass in Rock Greek Park.
The National Park Service has included So million for
project in its proposed budget fiscal year beginning
July l.
The bypass would parkway and Beach
Evening star., 1962-01-21
Cities
and People
No Flat Tires
In Venice
By ROBERT ]. LEWIS

n book someone gave us a
long time ago, the words per
favore mi ripari questa cam
era d'aria" mean, in Italian,
"Please fix this flat tire"
If you travel in romantic
Venice - celebrated for a
thousand years as one of the
worlds most attractive cities
you'd never need to use
that sentence.
There are no flat tires to
fix in Venice. Nor any cars,
either. Nor motorcycles. Nor
even bicycles.
Once you have arrived over
the long bridge to the out
skirts of Venice, you can go
further only by foot or by
transit service, for which you
pay a fare. AS a pedestrian
city, Venice has a singular
character. It is colorful,
warm, intimate, human, with
a physical structure that
opens its arms to embrace
enchanted millions from all
over the world.
VENICE is A GEM set in
a lagoon at the head of the
Adriatic Sea. 1t was once the
seat of an Empire. 1t is the
port whence Marco Polo set
sail to the Orient; the native
place of Titan, Veronese,
Tintoretto; the site of the in
comparable Piazza San
Marco and it's soaring bell
tower. 1t is a spectacular,
lute-shaped stage set with
Gothic, Byzantine and Rem
aiSsance buildings and 200
ducal palaces-a city of quiet
and repose, of flower-be-
decked balconies, of music in
the squares, of lantern
lighted evenings.
Over hundreds of years, it
has accommodated itself
to progress, yet has retained
an almost dream-like beauty.
How does it keep it's charm
in a changing world?
In Washington this week,
the noted architect, Edward
D. Stone, expressed a theory
about Venice. He said it was
a good city because it has
been able to avoid diSfigure-
ment by cars and highways.
1t has been able to do this,
he implied, because it has a
transit system. Coupled with
parking areas on the out
Skirts-as in Venice-an eff
ficient subway transit sys-
tenn, he said, could similarly
prevent Disagreement of
other cities, including Wash
ington.
"Venice is an excellent pro-
totype for the modern CITY,"
said Mr.. Stone.
How does Venice's transit
system operate?
x 4
MRS. BRUNO LUZZATO
tells us. Her husband Is an
economist with the World
Bank. She is a native of
Venice.
There was a big problem"
she says. What could we do
with all the cars that come
to Venice?
$50 huge parking garages
were built on the outskirts.
I never saw in my life ga
RACES so big. There every
thing stops. From there, you
go into the city by walking,
or in a boat. This place on
the outskirts is a huge
square, at one end of the
Grand Canal. 1t is called
Piazzale Roma.
"You step out of your car,
and park it. Within 100 feet,
you get into the Vaporetto,
or into a gondola, or a motor
boat, or you walk to the
bridges that take you into
the city. You understand"
What is the Vaporetto?
"It means little steamer
and it is like a big bus on
the Grand Canal. 1t is the
cheapest way to go into the
city. If you take a Vaporetto,
it will bring you to the
Piazza San Marco in 40
minutes"
Any bugs in the system?
Sometimes the garages at
the Piazzale Roma do not
hold all the cars. Then you
must have them driven back
across the long bridge and
parked on the mainland.
They cannot be brought into
the city, for they would de-
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Canadians Honored at LeMuy Luncheon

Air Marshal Clarence r.
Dunlap, Royal Canadian
Chief of Air Staff, and Mrs.
Dunlap were honored Tues
day at separate luncheons
given by United States Air
Force Chief of Staff and Mrs.
Curtis E. LeMay.
Attending General LeMay's
Pentagon stag luncheon were
the Air Marshal and Air
Commodore George H. New
some. Canadian Air Attache,
together with members Of
the USAF Air Staff.
At the LeMay quarters at
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Fort Myer. Mrs. Dunlap was
the honor guest at a lunch
con which included Mrs. Eu-
gene NJ. Zuckert, wife Of the
Air Force Secretary, Mrs.
Newsome, Mrs. William c.
Van Camp, wife Of the Ca
madam Assistant Air Attache,
and wives of the USAF Air
Staff members.
This was Air Marshal Dun
laps first visit to Washing
ton since he assumed COM
mand of the RCAF in Sep
TENDER.
He was met at Andrews Air
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Dinner Today

Mr.. Stephen S. Jackson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary Of
Defense. and Mrs. Jackson
are entertaining members Of
their family at a Thanksgiv-
ing dinner at Water Gate
Inn.
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Anniversary
Fete Set

Mr.. and Mrs. Giro Flora
mont will be honored on
their golden wedding ami
versary at a dinner in the
Plantation Room at Evans
Farm Inn, with a following
reception on Sunday.
Co-hosts at the dinner will
be Mr.. and Mrs. Fioramonti's
nine children with their
wives and husbands; their
"a grandchildren will also
be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22

slides given by Mrs. Florence
Carmi. She has chosen as her
topic Let's Give a Party"
and Mrs. James Watts heads
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the committee Of hostesses.
A tour Of the Army Distaff
Hall was part Of the program
for the meeting Of the Army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22

Judge Advocates Wives Club
yesterday. A luncheon fol-
lowed in the Hall dining room.
The wives Of officers of
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Force Base Tuesday morn
ing by Air Force Vice Chief
General William Mckee and
accorded full military honors.
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Officers
Wives
News
By EVELYN NJ. DENT
Contributing Writer

The Operations Directo-
rate, Joint Staff Officers
Wives, are giving their lunch
con on November 20, at Col
ingswood- on-the- Potomac"
Each member has been
asked to donate a Christmas
gift wrapped and marked for
a boy or girl.
These packages then will be
sent to Director, Red Cross
Relief. Guam. The presents
are for the children Of the
members of the armed serv-
ices stationed there.
Following a social hour and
luncheon there will be a fash
sion display of Christmas
at Home Accessories" with
Commentator Emily Keech.
Hostesses for the day will in
clude Mrs. James Mahan
Wright, Mrs. Paul F. Roberts,
Mrs. Shade w. Griffin, Mrs.
Hugh M. Carney, Mrs. Carl
B. Merdahl, and Mrs. Albert
F. Ahrenholz.