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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-28
Drunk-Driiviinq
District and AAA
Back Senate Bill

Several representatives of the
District government testified
today in favor of an implied
consent" bill on drunk driving
suspects.
Under this measure a person
who holds a District drivers
license would be considered as
having given his consent tc
take a test to determine the
alcoholic content of his blood
The test would be given if the
driver is arrested on suspicion
of drunken driving.
George England, director of
the Department of Motor
Vehicles, and other District
officials told the Judiciary
Subcommittee of the Senate
District Committee that the
measure would help reduce
drunken driving in the District.
The bill also was supported by
a spokesman for the American
Automobile Association.
The only opposition at the
hearing on the measure was
expressed by a representative
OF the Washington Bar Associa-
ton, who contended that the
measure would violate the
Fourth and Fifth Amendments
of the Constitution.
After the hearing, the sub
committee took the bill under
advisement.
Two other bills also were
considered at the hearing. One
would correct inequities in the
retirement law affecting judges
OF the District Juvenile Court,
Municipal Court and Munich
pal Court of Appeals.
The other measure provides
for incorporation of the Ma
tional Women't Relief Corps
Auxiliary to the Grand Army
of the Republic.
The subcommittee also took
these bills under advisement.
No opposition was expressed to
either bill.
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washington, SAID portions OF
the bill have no justification
for existence"
He specifically opposed a
section which would prohibit
the printing Of a price in a
liquor advertisement.
Addresses Committee
I'm sure this committee. I"
Mr.. Kaufman testified. docs
not wish to protect inefficient
retailing at public expense, nor
does it wish to create for the
liquor industry in this market
an oasis where all normal re-
failing practices are abrogated."
Representative Multer, Dem
ocrat of New York, chairman
of the committee and author
of the bill, broke in to ask Mr..
Kaufman why only IL States
permit liquor retailers to ad-
vertise their prices.
Mr.. Kaufman answered that
other States are mot en-
lightened."
In answer to Mr.. Kaufman's
charge that the bill could
"perpetuate mediocrity" by re-
stricting advertising and plac-
ing a floor on liquor prices, Mr..
Multer answered that the
public interest is uppermost
in the minds of the committee"
But he conceded that in re-
writing the old ABC act, some
body might get hurt"
Another witness, Maurice
Friedman, representing the
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Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, also complained that the
bill would eliminate competi-
ton in the liquor industry
locally and increase the price
to the consumer. But he COM
mended Mr.. Multer for making
an attempt to modernize the
law.
Representing liquor solicitors
who operate as middlemen be-
tween diStilleries and local re-
tailers was Philip P. Nuremberg
an attorney. The bill would
prohibit solicitors from doing
any business with local re-
tailers; they would have to deaI
with wholesalers.
That Part of Bill
Mr.. Nuremberg said he
guessed that section OF the bill
was only to grant the desire
of local wholesalers Ito elm
mate completely any and al,
competition from independent
manufacturers"
Another witness, Martin w
Bell, representing a manu-
facturer in BardstoWn, KY.
opposed a section of the bill
which would make it unlawful
for anyone, other than a public
or common carrier, to trans.
port any wines, spirits or beel
in excess of gallon at any
time into the District.
The hearings resume at II
! am. tomorrow.
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Senate hearings have been
promised on a constitutional
amendment to grant the Dis
trict representation in the
House and Senate.
This followed an attempt in
the Senate yesterday by Sen
ator Bush, Republican of Con-
necticut, to add the amendment
to legislation to outlaw the
poll tax in Federal elections.
Senator Bush offered and
then withdrew the amendment
after Senator Kefauver, Demo-
crat of Tennessee, promised
hearings on the proposal, in
troduced last year. Senator
Kefauver heads a subcommit-
tee on constitutional amend
ments as a member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Called "Simple Equity"
Senator Bush told the SEN
ate it was Simple equity" to
give the District two Senators
and representation in the
House.
He pointed out there are II
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Cab Drivers to Seek
Abolition Of Board
Hackers Agency
Hit as Harsh
And Arbitrary
BY SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

An organization of Wash
ington cab drivers is preparing
to ask Congress to abolish the
Districts hackers board.
A new city agency would
replace this board under the
proposal by the Hackers Asso-
citation of Washington.
Officials of the cab driver
association said they will file
a petition in Congress soon
asking for establishment of a
new agency to take over func-
tionS of the hackers board.
The petition will accuse the
hackers board of acting ar
biGrarily-"without crit e r ia ,
standards or precedents." In
cluded in the complaints are
accusations that the boards
rulings are often harsh and
that they are made behind
closed doors.
Want PUG. Voice
Spokesman for the hackers
association said they want the
District Public Utilities Com
mission and the cab industry
to be represented in the new
agency.
The present membership of
the hackers board is drawn
from the Department Of Motor
Vehicles, Corporation Counsel's
office and Police Department,
with one member designated by
the Commissioners. The fifth
member is a representative of
the Citizens Traffic Board.
The board, whose chairman
is Mrs. Mary Silver, of the
Department of Motor Vehicles,
deals with hacker license cases.
Its findings are subject to re-
view by the Commissioners.
First Petition This Week
Officials of the cab driver as
ISOLATION said a drive will be
launched to get signatures from
Washington hackers in support
of the proposal. The initial petit
ton is to be sent to Congress
by the end of this week. The
signatures obtained later would
be sent to the congressional
committees which would handle
legislation dealing with the
hackers board
There are several hackers as
sociations in Washington.
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rade and make noise in the
streets as they leave the rath-
Skeller.
Of the building, he said, 1--WE
are promised a pretty facade
To me a time bomb does not
become less dangerous if it is
wrapped in tinsel."
At this stage the drama was
still incomplete. It was sched-
uled to close today. The Abe
Board will act as critics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-28
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

The show opened with q
nostalgia sentence or two about
1.-THE Mass" at Princeton and
"the tables down at Mory's."
But H. Strive Hensel made il
quite clear those were the good
old days and he does not care
to have them resurrected neal
his front lawn.
Mr.. Hensel, Of $500 Prospect
street NV, is a protagonist
to Richard j. McCooey's way OF
thinking in a small but tena-
cious off-Broadway production
staged before the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. He
spoke decisively yesterday in
what looks as if it might be
the shows next to last per-
Torrance.
The conflict is essentially
this: Should Mr.. McCooey sell
hard liquor in his nearly COM
Ipleted restaurant at the corner
of Thirty-sixth and Prospect
streets N.W.-near Georgetown
University's Foreign Service
School, Holy Trinity Parochial
School and the residents of
that neighborhood?
Suspense Enters
1t is a long question, and the
buildup to the climax is even
longer in coming. It covers a
period of more than four
months. The central figure is
Mr.. McCooey, a Georgetown
alumnus and the restaurants
proprietor.
The first act takes place last
November. After four days of
charges and counter charges,
Mr.. McCooey wins a license to
sell hard liquor. Suspense en-
tiers, however, because he does
not complete the building; an
occupancy permit is not grant,
ed, and the liquor license can
not go into effect.
Yesterday, playing to two
members of the ABC board and
an audience of 10, the final act
unfolded. II was weakened by
its constant return to the first
act. For example, many lines
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-28
HENSEL TAKES CAFE STAGE
Nostalgia Stirs Hearing

were filled with such well-worn
expressions as: "Is or is not the
building 400 feet from the
aforementioned institution? II
so, are there extenuating cir
cumstances, such as the coming
not applying because the law
does not apply to restaurants
started before 1884, when the
current ABC law was passed?
Attorneys j. E. Bindeman
representing Mr.. McCooey, anc
S. Trowbridge Won Baur, repre-
senting the opposition, did theil
best to speed up this slow act
with a few argumentative
scenes that smacked a trifle OF
upStaging.
At Princeton Himself
They even interjected mo-
ton pictures of the locale and
a pink and yellow chart Of the
area for dramatic effect. But
it was clear that Mr.. Hensel,
a former Assistant Secretary
of Defense, had the best lines.
"As a person who likes to
live quietly and peacefully in
his home, I oppose the restau-
rant as vigorously as I can"
He indicated that Mr.. Nc
Cooey, in proposing a rath-
skeller in his restaurant base
ment, had said he desired to
perpetuate the institutions
which exist at such places as
and Yale. Mr.. Hen
sci said he knew of Mory's by
name and Princeton's Mas
sau" by having been there as
a Princeton undergraduate
himself.
I'm sure I had a sandwich
or two at The Mass but I
can't remember many. One of
the traditions is carving ini-
tials in wooden tables-and
you don't carve initials be-
cause you simply had a bowl
of onion soup. A rathskeller is
concerned more with drinking
than eating"
He said that if the tradi-
tons of THE Mass" and Mory's
were followed, "exhilarated
students" would sing and pa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-28

THERE is GOOD visibility
from the bridge. The engi-
neers have not spoiled it with
concrete walls. The baluS-
trade is of aluminium railing,
square, not round. There is
5000 feet of this railing and
it cost 100000.
We stayed on the Twelfth
street tine of this three
pronged fork until we could
go no farther. That is where
they are taking it over the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.
The work of bridging the
railway is well under way.
We turned back, crossed
Washington Channel again
and came into Washington
on Fourteenth street. Turned
right at Constitution avenue,
turned right again at
Twelfth street and into the
tunnel under the Mall.
We drove as far as we could
and then walked the rest of
the way where tile settlers
and road PAYERS were at work
until we had passed under
independence avenue and
come out in the sunshine just
east of the Agriculture De-
partment.
All that remains to be done
is to dig a cut from indie
pendence avenue through C
street (Which will be closed
permanently to the bridge
under construction over the
railroad tracks. All the diff
ficult things have been done.
With a fair break from the
weather we will be using it in
July.
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Liquor Bill Objections
Listed by Witnesses
House Subcommittee Hearings
Due to Continue Tomorrow
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star Staff Writer

The Muter liquor bill. calling for extensive changes in
District alcoholic beverage control regulations continued to
into trouble today.
AS hearings continued before House District subcom
mittee the bill pictured by witness doing great
damage the American way of life at least to the free
enterprise system.
Henry Kaufman representing the Advertising Club of
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ChiIdren's Art Show

Works of the children at st.
Gertrude's School of Arts and
Crafts will be presented at a
tea from 4 to 6 pm. Sunday
at the school, 1901 Sargent
road NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-28

about 1870 pm. Fremen
fought it for more than an
hour.
George Shuken of 9610 Mer-
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The
Rambler
... Is First
Over and Under
BY GEORGE KENNEDY


The Rambler, who likes to
Drag about such things, has
reason to believe that he is
the first man, except the
construction workers, to cross
the new Washington Chan
mel bridge and to go under
the Mall in the new Twelfth
street tunnel.
Both, as you know, are part
OF the same project, the re-
placement of the old High
way, or Fourteenth street,
bridge and the improvement
Of its approaches.
At any rate he was given
a guided tour of the project
by Dan O'Donnell, the Dis
trict Highway Departments
resident engineer, who is
supervising the construction.
Dan is putting it all over
his identical twin, Bernie
O'Donnell, who is resident
engineer on the new Theodore
Roosevelt bridge which will
not be completed this year.
Target date for completion
of the Washington Channel
bridge and the Twelfth street
tunnel under the Mall is now
July l - and it looks as
though they may very well
make it.
Bridges and tunnels cost a
lot of money. Mr.. ODonnell,
who is a tall, big-boned man
in his vigorous 30s, supplied
these figures. The new south
bound George MaSon)
bridge across the Potomac,
cost $9.2 million. The bridge
across the Washington Chan
mel, $4.25 million. The ap-
proaches and tunnel under
the Mall, $40 million.
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wood lane, Silver Spring, owner
Of the junk yard, estimated
damage at more than $4,000,
according to police.
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4H1S NAA1 SEEW q Dig
price to pay to save a few
minutes on your way from
Virginia to downtown Wash
ington. But the new Wash
ington Channel bridge does
more than that. 1t ends the
Fourteenth street bottleneck
and increases the capacity of
the two Potomac bridges
(Rochambeau, northbound;
George Mason, Southbound)
by SO per cent, from 10000
cars an hour to $4,000 cars
an hour.
We first drove to the Vir-
GINA side on the new
southbound bridge. There
a pedestrian and vehicular
underpaSs is being dug to
provide access to the Marriott
Motor Hotel.
We drove back and off the
highway onto dirt trails when
we got to Hams Point. The
engineers were digging a cut
under the railway. BY July
northbound traffic will go
through this cut under the
railway to reach the Wash
ington Channel bridge.
Under we went following a
big dirt truck and got on
the new bridge. 1t is really
three bridges because it d.
vides into three spans as it
crosses Washington Channel
and approaches the old fish
wharf. One goes north to
the Twelfth street tunnel, one
goes east to the Southwest
freeway, now under construc-
ton, and one goes west into
the freeway as it heads for
Foggy Bottom.
The view from the new
bridge is magnificent. 1t is
a high level bridge, no draw
spans. You can see planes
taking off at National Air
port, look straight down river
to Fort Washington, and as
you descend into the South
west, still a picture Of de-
struction and construction,
you get your first view of the
new Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13

groups which have so far
asked to be heard" Mrs.
Roosevelt said. Anyone is
welcome" she said.
The commission chairman
said she felt the group had
gotten started very well.
There was general agreement
on the way we ought to CO."
Assistant Secretary of La
Dor Esther Peterson, who is
executive vice chairman OF
the commission. said she was
pleased at the wide particle
patton" Of commission men,
bers in the discussion and
the wide thinking on a
whole variety of ideas that
put them in a new context"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
PsAttend
Reception
BIuirs

= One of several parties be-
ing given for the United
States Ambassador to Den
mark and Mrs. William
Mccormick Blair during
their Washington visit was
the large reception given
last night by their old
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. John
H. Sharon.
The huge party in the
observation-disclosures Or stal
Room attracted Capital
SVIPS from the White House,
sSupreme Court, Cabinet,
Congress and diplomatic row.
Mr.. Sharon was one of the
ushers at the Blairs' we'd
ding in Copenhagen last
summer. So the party was,
sin a sense, a big welcome
back" to Washington for the
Blairs. 1t also climaxed a
shappy event in which the
hosts and honor guests
participated earlier in the
sday-the christening of the
kSharons' daughter Laura in
All Souls Episcopal Church,
with Mr.. Blair acting as
godfather.
I Among those at the party
were Postmaster General and
Mrs. Edward Day, Secretary
of Commerce Luther Hodges,
and Senators Mike Mansfield,
Eugene Mccarthy, Hubert
Humphrey and Clair Engle,
land the director of the Peace
SCorps and Mrs. Sargent
aShriver, who is the Presi-
dents sister Eunice. The
Shrivers are giving a dinner
tonight for the Blairs.
Also there were Danish
ambassador and Countess
Knuth- Winterfeldt who are
sgiving a luncheon today in
honor Of the Blairs.
The couple leave here to-
smorrow morning for New
York where they will be sfeted
lat a dinner being given to-
morrow night by Mrs. Mary
Lasker, and another dinner
ION Thursday night by the
United States representative
ito the United Nations Adlai
Stevenson. Ambassador Blair
sformely was executive assist
ant to Mr.. Stevenson when
sthe latter was Governor of
Illinois and afterwards cam
apaigned for him when he
sought the presidential nomi-
nation.
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HELPING THE WHITE HOUSE:
What Priceless Antiques
Should You Send Here3

ing with these family souve-
Mrs, but we feel that where
the national interest is in
volved it must override our
own selfish Joy Of personal
possession.
Anytime the White House
lets us know 1t will pay the
freight bill, We stand ready
to- pack UP our antiques and
send them to Washington.
Look around your own at
tic. Don't you have some
similar priceless antiques
you can contribute, too?, -
One final tip: Remember,
they're tax deductible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
BY HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP).-Are
you doing your bit to help
Mrs. John F. Kennedy's
program to furnish the White
House with antiques of
historic interest?
So far our First Lady has
received about 100 or more
gifts, ranging from a $780,
900 portrait of Ben Franklin
to a pair of 1850 brass and
irons once used by President
Zachary Taylor.
Mrs. Kennedy's goal is a
fine one, but in our opinion
too limited.
AS her idea catches on and
contributions continue to
pour in, we feel that the
White House will hardly hold
lost teeth trying to subdue
them all.
(. Our thought here is that
Congress might authorize an
annex to the White House
and make it a living museum
Of the American past. Then
every family in the nation
could do its patriotic part
by sending in a treasured
heirloom, and thus be repre-
sented in the Capital by
something more enduring
than tax money.
AS we conceive it, this
White House annex-th his
Of the American peo-
ple-would be roughly the
size Of the Pentagon, give
or take 100 rooms.
We have been enthusiast
tlcally srummag1ng among
the family heirlooms in our
own basement, just to get the
ball rolling, and have decided
we can spare Mrs. Kennedy
the following: &
/. A coal mine pick dating
from the 187O's used by my
grandfather, who emigrated
here from Ireland. AS grand
pa had Is children he did
MT spend too much time I'M
derground,' and the pick is in
first-class condition.
2. A walnut desk built
about 1861 by my wife's
great, great uncle which con-
tains a secret compartment
to hide the family fortune
from Civil War raiders. AS
he only had $1.20 in cash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
LoWrenceA rutu
At White House
As UphoIsterer

An upholsterer from West
Barnstable, Mass, has been
quietly living in the White
House since last October 8
going about his profession on
some Of Mrs. Kennedy's newly
acquired antiques for the Ex-
ecutive Mansion.
Mr.. Lawrence Arata, who
has done work for the Mel
Ions and the duPonts, said
he came down for six weeks
but he is still here living on
the third floor Of the White
House.
A man with sparkling blue
eyes and gray hair. Mr.. Arata
works in the broadcast room.
He said Mrs. Kennedy drops
in once in awhile to see the
progress. OF Mrs. Kennedy's
additions to the White House,
the upholsterer said he thinks
the First Lady is doing q
good job.
Z, At the present time, Mr..
Arata is working on several
rosewood chairs for the Lin
coin bedroom. He also up
holstered the newly-acquired
pieces now in the Green
Room.
Mr.. Arata has been in the
business with his brother,
Louis Arata, for 80 years.
The brothers both ap-
prenticed for four years Cat
o dollar q day plus carfare
and lunch) at the Shaw
Furniture Factory. It was
famous for its designs of
French and English furniture.
The factory was founded in
l780 and went out of busi-
ness during the depression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13

at that time, the historic
interest centers around this
question: Why did he spend
three. weeks building a desk
with a secret compartment,
when he could just as well
have hidden the $1.20 in the
crotch of a backyard tree?
3.,A fur stole I bought my
wife in 1916. This stole is
unusual in that it lived rs a
rabbit and dyed q mink. I
quote my wife: IF Mrs.
Kennedy is looking for a real
antique. I can't think of any,
thing that fits the descrip-
ton better than that fur
stole you bought me as a
surprise. 1t still surprises me
everytime I see it,"
4. A, genuine golden oak
chair with cane bottom,
Grand Rapids. 1908. While
you occasionally come across
these chairs, they are getting
scarer. Many Of the finest
homes in America no longer
have one.
S. A molar I broke off while
gnawing on a US. Army
tx" ration chocolate bar in
the back seat Of a jeep in
Tunisia in April of 1913.
While thousands of troops
Army chocolate bars in the
Second World War, most of
them, unfortunately, threw
them away. I saved mine for
a grateful posterity. To the
best Of my knowledge 1t is
the only upper molar SAL
vaged during the African
campaign. Cas-
Naturally, there is a small
tug of heart involved in part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
Kennedy Commission Backs
EquoI-Poy-for-Equo|-Work

pay schedules, and promotion
procedures"
Initial sessions Of the COM
mission, which concludes its
two days of meetings late
this afternoon, have been
devoted to "internal organ.
ization" and efforts to de
fine the scope of our Presi-
dental mandate" the former
First Lady said. Once that
base has been established,
the commission will proceed
through subcommittee to
explore the many topics out
lined by the President for It's
attention, Mrs. Roosevelt
said.
Some subcommittee were
to be established later this
afternoon, she said, and will
start functioning immedi-
ately. The full Remember
commission will meet again
in Washington in a month or
six weeks, she added.
Next Monday
Next Monday afternoon
commission officials will
meet with the presidents of
about 20 large women's Or
CARNATIONS, who have asked
to present their views on
the commissions work, Mrs.
Roosevelt reported.
DR.. Richard A. Lester,
Princeton University profess
sor of economies, who is vice
chairman of this commits
sion, will conduct the ses-
sions next Monday in place
of Mrs. Roosevelt, who is
flying to Europe tonight for
a months visit.
The sessions will not be
a complete meeting of all
groups that nigh. like to
present views to the commits
sion, but is just a prelimi-
nary exploratory meeting of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-13
kreft-ShuffIe

DR.. and Mrs. Charles w.
Shuttle announce the mar
riage of their daughter Sue
Marie to Mr.. John j. Kreft,
son, Of Mr.. Paul H. Kreft and.
the late Mrs. Kreft of San
FTansico, Calf. The we'd
ding took place February .
in Little Falls United Presby-
terrain Church. The couple
will live in NARROW Heights,
Md. +