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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
BY DAN GOTTLIEB
Star staff Writer

The street cars are gone but
the tracks will linger on for
four more years-creating traf-
fic. legal and financial prob
lens.
Drivers and pedestrians are
suing the District, alleging in
jurieS and damages from faulty
maintenance in track areas.
One man claimed his car
sailed through the air after
hitting q hole on Wisconsin
avenue where an underground
conduit cover should have been.
The Corporation Counsel
says d. C. Transit System Inc.
is responsible for maintenance
and damages. The bus COM
pany says the city is re-
SponSible.
More Suits Expected
Were lucky someone has
not been killed." declared
John A. Earnest. assistant cor
poration counsel as he re-
called "seven or eight" suits
the city has been served since
D. C. Transit converted to an
all-buS operation. He expects
more and more suits as the
track structure deteriorates.
They're Objectionable to
traffic." according to the city'S
deputy highway director,
Thomas F.. Airs, who is CO.
ordinating the track covering
and removal program with
D. C. Transit. Cars just can't
use the streets to the fullest
extent"
Washington got rid of its
streetcars in January without
directly spending a cent (the
burden Of purchasing more
buses fell on D. c. Transit),
but the city estimates it will
need $2.250, 900 to pay its share
of the four-year track covering
and removal program. D. C.
Transit's share is estimated at
81 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
Principal Ends
30-Yeur Career

Mrs. Mae Van Meter, prin-
.cipal of Arlington's Patrick
Henry Elementary School, is
retiring after nearly 80 years
with the school system.
Mrs. Van Meter, wife of Ar
lington Lawyer Ellsworth E.
Van Meter, cited medical rea-
sons for her retirement.
She has been active in COM
munity activities and is a past
president of the Arlington
Soroptimist Club and a past
president of the Arlington Tu-
berculoSiS Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
to Erect
Anti-Theft Fence
DC. General
Moves to Save
Drug Supplies
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

District General Hospital,
plagued with drug thefts and
steady pilfering, soon will have
a l0-foot-high fence around
the grounds.
The recently revealed theft
of drugs is far from being the
hospitals only larceny prob
lem. DR.. John D. Schultz. the
medical director. told a Senate
subcommittee last night.
Summing up the situation at
the hospital at a budget ses-
sion before the Senate District
Appropriations subcommittee.
DR.. Schultz said: Its hor-
rible."
Backing up his statement.
the medical director told the
subcommittee chairman, SEN
ator Robert Byrd, Democrat of
West Virginia, that it took Is
pages to list the thefts from
the hospital last year.
10000 Cost
The chain link fence will cost
$4,000. DR.. Schultz said. He
told Senator Byrd that the
hospital has funds for the Job.
The medical directors state
ments were made in answer to
a question from Senator Byrd
on what moves have been made
since the discovery last April
that drugs were missing.
The investigation of the drug
thefts uncovered evidence link
ing II drug stores and a drug
warehouse to the traffic in
illicit prescription drugs. The
case is about to go to a District
grand jury.
DR.. Schultz reported that two
more employees at the hospitals
pharmacy have been suspended,
bringing the number to three.
The last two are not tied in as
directly as the first with the
missing drugs. but instead have
been suspended for loose oper-
ations," he said.
Improved System
Other controls include devel-
opment of a better system of
keeping tabs on the flow of
supplies through the hospital
and changing locks on drug
safes, he said. The hospital also
is considering installation of
burglar alarms, the doctor re-
ported.
But. DR.. Schultz added, thu
hospital has 90 building,
scattered over IS acres and
only five guards.
I'VE can't lock all our doors, "
he declared.
The thieves work both inside
the buildings and out, Dr..
Schultz said, but the parked
cars are the prime targets.
particularly those of the hos
pital staff doctors.
Hearing Recessed
After yesterdays session. the
hearings on the Districts
spending and revenue requests
for the current fiscal year were
recessed until about Septem-
Der /.
This recess was called for
two reasons. Senator Byrd ex-
planned. One is to wait for
several welfare reports, and
the other is to give District
officials the time to bring in
new welfare proposals, "in light
of the disclosures (of relief
cheating) made at this hear
ing"
AS passed last June by the
House, the city'S budget totals
$290.1 million. The District
Commissioners had asked for
1892 million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
Linked to Paving Jobs

District funds are involved
even though D. c. Transit has
been, since 1856, charging 81
million per year at the expense
of the farepayers toward a $10.4
million reserve fund to cover
the cost of full track removal
and repaving. This was the
figure allowed by the Public
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
WITH THE BULLDOZER

WITH HE bOLLDOAEh
now being played down, and
conservation" and "rehabi-
litation" of homes being
played up, a new set of con-
ditions faces the Urban Re-
newal Administration.
What means can be used
to change unattractive city
neighborhoods into attractive
ones through rehabilitation?
The approach to answer
ing this question seems still
to be in the tentative stage,
partly because of the pres
sure of other less basic issues.
Great amounts of money
are properly being spent on
planning studies, economic
surveys and consultants' ad-
vice on technical matters, it
seems, while the question of
the ultimate appearance of a
rehabilitated neighborhood is
getting little attention and
is to be left largely to chance.
To follow this course is to
abandon much of the oppor-
tunity to make city neigh
borhoods attractive to people.
The risks for urban re-
newal of such a course are
great. In view of this, now
would seem to be the time, at
long last, TO seek the percep-
tive help of experienced
architects. Properly chosen,
they can light the way and
illumine the goal, before it
is too late.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
Fate of Children
Concern Of Byrd
By BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

be cut off relief rolls in District
welfare are the chief concern
Of Senator Robert C. Byrd, the
man who brought about the re-
forms.
Moreover, the Senator feels
it is now up to the community
to insure not only a balanced
program of aid to the deserving
but to continue the breakdown
on welfare cheaters.
In an interview following
nine days of hearings on the
welfare budget, Senator Byrd
confessed to a religious zeal"
in his concern for the children's
future.
Saving money by exposing
cheaters is only one goal of the
reforms, he asid. The continued
saving Of lives through a bal
anced relief program is the
other.
Must Not Suffer
Hungry children must be
fed" he declared.
Children must not suffer be-
cause they have bad mothers,
he stressed. But neither should
the community be diverted from
cutting delinquent parents off
the rolls because of their chill
dren.
The city will have to care for /
some of the youngsters thus de-
prived.
Senator Byrd is receptive to
more foster homes, as well as
group foster homes that can
house larger numbers of chill |
dren, a program that would
combine care and juvenile de-
linquency prevention. He also
favorS expansion of Junior Viii
lage, If necessary.
Plans for the children's care
must be made now, he feels. But
a crash program isn't necessary
because it will take time to
build up the large investigative
force needed, and all cheating
caretakers won't be discovered
at once.
The Senator said it cannot be
assumed that children removed
from the rolls have no income,
or that children on the rolls
are getting the benefit of relief
, money.
Improper Use
Parents don't always use re-
lief money for food for their
children, he feels.
A special investigation he or
dered last year revealed that
81 per cent of the families
checked in the laid to depen-
dent children" category had
other sources of income besides
relief.
Paramours or husbands con-
tributed to the support of sup
posedly fatherleSs, needy fami-
lies. Mothers had full time jobs
and were drawing assistance,
too.
The General Accounting Of
flee, that conducted the special
investigation along with well
fare investigation, reporte d
some mothers led double lives
and lied to the Welfare Depart
ment to get relief.
The GAO also reported that
81 of the 1874 mothers cut off
the rolls had police records; AZ
of their husbands had a total
of 358 arrests, and 40 other
males involved had a total of
PAT arrests.
Gives Guidelines
Some children unquestion-
=. ably would be better off away
from their homes, Senator Byrd
believes.
The money the city would
spend for their care would be
less than that thrown away on
delinquent parents.
The Senator, who is chair
man of the Senate District
Appropriations Subcommittee,
gave these guidelineS for a bal
anced program:
Increase stable the number
of investigators to police the
rolls.
Turn over to investigators
responsibility for checking ELI
gibility when recipients first
apply.
i Don't hire more social work.
ers, but increase their salaries,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12
Cities
end People
Attractive or
Unuttructive?
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS

GA@A De LEWIS
THIS THING CALLED
- urban renewal has be-
come such a monStrously
complex Government activ-
ity, on such a far-flung field
Of operations, that what
should have been its essen
TALLY simple goal seems to
have got obscured a bit.
The m lain purpose, it
seemed to most people, was to
make city neighborhoods de-
Sirable, once again, as places
in which average Americans
would really want to live.
From the beginning it was
clear a first step was to con-
slider what is necessary to
make a city neighborhood
attractive.
If neighborhoods attract,
they will draw people into
them Of their own free will.
Making city neighborhoods
desirable to people who can
choose where they want to
live is the key to city revival.
If what the urban renewal
people are engaged in has
city revival as its essential
goal, there is, then, one
simple question they can ask
themselves to test any quail
itative decision they are
obliged to make.
The question is, obviously:
''IS this going to make the
neighborhood attractive, or
unattractive, to average
Americans?"
ONE REASON WHY urban
renewal activity has been
subjected to so much criti-
cism in the past is that there
was so little accomplish
ment to show for all the
work that had been done.
Part of this criticism arose
as a result of public I'M
derestimation of the time
needed OF get RACED areas
rebuilt.
With all of Southwest
Washington torn down and
little reconstruction COM
pleted, even former Housing
Administrator Norman Ma
son could concede-and have
many people agree with him
that it was a mistake to
have demolished almost all
the existing buildings.
But today, with a great
deal more accomplishment
there for all to see, the bull
dozer approach has been
largely displaced as a source
of criticism, and a truer ba-
sis of judgment Of the worth
of the project is beginning
TO emerge.
Instead of inveighing
against the bulldozer, people
are beginning to ask: Does
the new Southwest look
good, or does it look bad?
What can be done to make
it look better?"
The largely extraneous is
sues that plagued this prof.
ect-and which continue to
haunt others throughout
the country-are giving way
to the more central question
that will affect the future Of
urban renewal more than
any other.
The central question, quite
clearly, is: Has the work
that was done made the
neighborhood attractive, or
unattractive, to average
Americana"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-12

When the current program is
completed in 1866 the track
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

At nCarlICr hearing Fair
cloth told a coroncr'S jury h"
did not stop when the accident
occurred "beCauSc | was too
sCarCd."
The third car was driven by
Johnson. HCndrlck was apaS-
Scngcr.
The boys had been indicted
oE charges If Cd Involuntary
nanSiauEhtcr; ca Reckless
Homicide and ca AUTOMOBILES
racing.
ESSic Euflkiu, operator of d
STATE Line night spot. won Il
directed ayqulttal ON a charge
OF murder.
The imGictmcn, grew out OF
the fatal shooting OF Clyd,
Fowler last Jan. ) ut ESSic's
Place on State Line. She con-
tended he tried to break into
rel place and that She shot
Kim as hc tried To force opCc
4 locked door.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

areas of life: and | am COIL
N.uCcd ,hGt when we live the
All pledge and measure our
lives by the i'll motto we can
10 sure that the future in Al
CLUB work, here and every
where, is as great as our imag-
ination and our Willingness t.
work To make our imagination
come true.
Ill CLUB FACTS
Th2 i'll Club Organization
.. part of the North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Servic,
with headquarters in RirSs
Lall. North Carolina State Col
t.gc, Raleigh, North Caroline
md IS conducted in cooperation
with n. {. State College, thr
L. =. Department 60 Agricul,-
"rC. and all counties in North
Gar lima. rha IN program IS
conducted by county apvicui,-
ursl and Lnm, economies ana
assistant ;@ontS in ell leo co.
untlcS.
Columbus Cotu'y has IS orr
nHilrr communities in the fol-
owing locations: Chadbouru
Cherry Grove. Evergreen
HaiISbor". NIshop Springs
Pleasant Plains. Prosper. San
Cy Plains, Tabor City. Western
Prong, White Marsh. William
Lebanon. and North WhitcvilIr.
Mrs. MolliC Duncan of Clark
ton WAS the Saturday guest of
hCr brother. MIR. and Mrs. NJ. &.
Fay OF OlyphiC.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21
Tabor, Horny
Youths Fined
In Death Race

Six yoUt"s - one from Ia
Dor City and five from Horrv
County - were sentenced 70
5000 fines OF SIX months in
jill in General Sessions Cour,
las. week as the rcSul, of the
outo death of Conway man
Four OF the youths - Allan
F. MCLain. j.. OF Tabor City:
Bobby FalrCloth. Bobby Hud-
son and Freddie Hughes -
pleaded guilty 10 r;cing on the
highway after the other two
> Hung men - Howard John
son and Jimmy Hcndrick -
were found guilty by a Jury
Of aiding and abbctting the
defendants"
The indictments grew out of
The death of John c. Singleton.
Jr" 20. on Jan. 81. Singleton
Vas kid when The car in
which he was riding crashed
h.aC-on with q tuck north o:
Conway. Hughes Mas driving
inc car. owned by NcLain.
Law enforcement officers ar
rested Fdircloth the day after
tbs accident. He admitted be
IN. the driver of the car which
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21
By l.. X. HARRlEJL
State l-N Club Agent

There are many lntcrcStIn.,
things and events that have
contributed t. the success ana
grcatnI 81 of the Ali program
during its fifty years OF grow
ii, and development i'll North
Carolina. However. we Shouid
not uy To measure the trug
worth of the program by actlv-
tiles OF events because the real
worth OF this or my other pre-
gram is in thC lives of the poo
pie in the program ~ rather. i'll
the Way they make use of the
program Ia enrich their own
lives and the lives of others.
And let us never forget THAI
We 60 not live III reflected
glory of past achievements but.
rather. use these rs Stcpp;ng
stones To- greater achievement
III the future.
The past history of i'll is
a golden As the reflected glUry
of an autumn sunset and tie
future rs fresh 2ad blight a,
the sunrise IN Spriugtimc. with
opportunities as IrCat as our
imagination and our willing
tess 10 work to make our ina
Cinat!On come true.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

Mr.. and Mrs. TOmInic Norris
"i Bethel were Sunday guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Earnest Smith
a Singing d1nvcntiin was
held at the Ash Free Will Bap-
list Church Sunday afternoon
March 18th with Vance Smith
rs guest speaker. The next
singing convention will be held
with Frccland Free Will Ban.
list Church Sunday afternoon
April 18th at 200 pm. The
pubic is invited TO attend this
service.
MIR. and Mrs. Ivory Rigp,
and daughter of High poin,
we're Saturday guests of her
grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs
Jesse VI. Benton Of Pircway,
Visiting Mrs. Graaic Gore
Sunday wee Mrs. Matte Du-
val and Mr.. and Mrs. Earle
EldcTdicc,
Scott Lowrimorc a student n;
state College Raleigh spent the
week end with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Lundy Lowrimorc and
family Of Pircway.
Mrs. Rcnnia Duncan Of
Whitcvillc was the Friday guest
Of her brother. Mr.. VI. e. RAY.
Jack Chestnut stationed with
the L. ;. Navy at Charleston
;. {. 5 bcnt the week end with
Mrs. i Juisc Chestnut of DIV
phic. and Mr.. and Mrs. Nolan
l.. Chestnut of PirCway.
Visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Austin
G.. Long Sunday were Earle
Elderdice aud Harvey Buck.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

Army Pvt. Eugene Causey,
son Of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan ID.
CaCuSey. Route |. Myrtle
Beach. :. C., recently YVES
graduated from the Send Air
borne Division Jump School ut
Fort BraGg, y. &. CauScy re-
crived his paratroOprr wings
aiirr completing three weeks
ot intensive ground and aerial
training which included five
Strategic Army Corps
tSTRAC) unit. maintains an
Inmc date readiness force for
sirbCrnc dcpIoymcnt to any
area i'll the world. CauScy cnt-
cred the Army i'm July 1861.
completed basic training at
Fort Jackson. :. C.. and was
stationed at Fort sill. Okla.
before his assignment To For,
HragG. The I7-Ycar-oid sold
i'r attended Myrtle Ecach High
School.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

Mr.. ami Mrs Vernon Ben
ten ni LoriS, 8. c. were visiting
relatives here SUNDAY
Miss Annette Buc!, Of Hamp-
ton. va. spent the week end
with friCnd5 and relatives here.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-03-21

go away: Tor If | 20 not away.
the Comforter will not come
unto YOU: but II depart. | will
se"c mum unto you John 49,
:.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
Compiled by
JOHN w. STEPP
Star Staff Writer
Background

TUST AFTER THE war
began, Federal Commo-
dore Charles S. McCauley,
head of Norfolk Navy Yard,
did a messy job-from the
Union standpoint-of spoil
ing things for the secession
list Virginians. Seemingly,
said one observer, the old
commodore was "stupefied,
bewildered and wholly un-
able to act" Encouraging his
state of bewilderment and
stupefaction we're a staff and
work force with strong seces-
sionist tendencies. They were
not about to help him keep
the Federal ships and shore
facilities out of Southern
hands. In the resulting con-
fusion, only part of the shore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
THE OFFICIAL
DISPATCHES.

The MerrInaGc RetireS from the
Fight in q Sinking Coadi-
ton Efficiency of the
Monitor The FrigGte Min
neSotG SGfe.
MARCH 9, P.M.-The fol-
lowing was tonight received by
Maj. General Mcclellan from Ma
jor General Wool, dated
FORTRESS MONROE, March
9th, 6 P.M.-Two hours after dis
patch to the Secretary of War last
evening the Monitor arrived. She
Immediately went to the assist
ance Of the Minnesota, which was
aground, and continued so until
a few minutes since.
Early this morning the Mont
tor was attacked by the Merrimac,
jamestown and Yorktown. After
a five hours contest they were
driven off and the Merrimac was
tOwed by the jamestown, York
town and several smaller boats
towards Norfolk, no doubt for
the purpose, if possible, to get
her in the dry dock for repairs.
The Minnesota is afloat, and
is being tOwed toward Fortress
Monroe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
THE CIVIL WAR AS REPORTED BY THE STAR 100 YEARS AGO.
First Battle Between Ire

few feet above water. So con-
structed, and sporting a ram
on her prov and cannons
around her sides, she could
devastate the wooden-hulled
ships blockading Norfolk
harbOr at Hampton Roads.
She might even menace Fed
eral shipping farther afield,
too.
The remodeling of the
Merrimack, with all its i'm
plicationS, was not lost on the
Lincoln Administration. Aft
er a grinding of executive
and legislative wheels, the
Federal Government con-
cluded that it should forth
with devise a counter
weapon. John Ericsson, a
SwediSh-born marine en-
gineer, was called in. An in
ventOr of refinements in
naval armament and innova-
tor of screw-propelled war
ships, Ericsson developed
the strangest of all his naval
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

facilities was destroyed by
the departing Federals. The
flames that had been set
among the ships in the Navy
Yard had consumed much,
but much that was left was
disable. Among the remains
were the hull and machinery
of the steam frigate Merri-
mack.
The ship had been named
for the Merrimack River
not the town of Merrimac-o
northeastern Massachusetts,.
In the newspaper accounts
that would relate her career,
the "k" in "Merrimack" would
be dropped, although official
Navy usage would preserve
it. None of the spelling prob
lem mattered to the Confed-
eracy. The weird new draft
being shaped from the one
time frigate would bear the
name Virginia.
Whatever her name, the
ship had been pulled out of
the mud at Norfolk and, un-
der the direction of Stephen
Russell Mallory, Secretary of
Navy, CSA, was being re-
built with iron rails and
plates protecting her slOped
sides. She would ride only a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

March 8, z p.m.-The tele-
graph line to Fortress Monroe
was completed this evening, and
the following dispatch, has Just
been received by the govern.
ment:
FORTRESS MONROE, March
9, pm. The Ericsson iron-clad
gunbOat Monitor arrived here
last night. Early this morning she
was attacked by the three vessels,
the Merrimac, jamestown and
Yorktown. After five hours con.
test, they were driven off-the
Merrimac in sinking condition.
A couple Of HeutenGnts
commanded in the battle of
revolutionary craft: C0tesby
Roger Gp Jones on the Con-
tederGte iTon-cLdd; John Lor-
inner Worden on the Monitor.
Flag Officer Fr0nItIin Buch-
GrIG'l had been in command
of MeTim0ck during the
Saturday dsck-shoot among
Federal ships. Wounded dur
ing that action, he turned
the ship ouer to Jones. Wor-
den had charge of the Mont
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

tor during most Of the Sun
day engagement, but ,Ohen
he became disabled handed
command Over to 1t. S. D.
Greene.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11

creations. So strange was the
product that it would be
derisively branded as "Erics-
sons Folly" "cheeSe-box on
a raft" and such. The ship he
sold the Government rode
lower in the water than even
the Merrimack. 1t was con-
structed entirely of iron
plate. The bit of metal that
showed above water made a
poor target.
The Confederate iron
clad emerged from her berth
up the Elizabeth River on
Saturday, March 8, and be-
gan wreaking the kind of
havoc Onthe Federal ships in
Hampton Roads that Secre-
tary Mallory had intended.
Panic spread through the
Federal command all the way
to Washington. Next day,
none too soon, Ericsson's
folly" the Monitor, creased
the waves off Fortress Mon
roe, the end of a two-day run
from New York.
From The Evening Star, Monday,
March 10, 1852:
FUNXMXC a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-11
THE LATEST FROM
OLD POINT,

Arrival Of the Federal Iron-cLad
GI1boGt Monitor-She is
Attacked by the Mer7Imac,
jamestown and Yorktown
I oRo