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Evening star., 1962-12-16
Summer School Growth
Stressed in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. is
(AP.-The stereotyped image
Of summer school as q haven
for youngstert who funk In
regular session Is fast fading
from the academic scene, a
teachers spokesman said yes
terday.
Students are coming 10 sum-
mer sessions at Virginia schools
In increasing numbers, said DR..
Robert r. Williams.
His comments were in n
signed editorial In the Decem-
Der Virginia journal Of Edu-
cation" the official publication
OF the Virginia Education AS
sociation. DR.. Williams Is ex-
ecutive secretary Of the associa-
ton.
Mr.. williams said a YEA sur
vey showed one out OF 10 Of
the total Virginia high school
enrolment went 10 summer
school last summer. OF the
States ii6 school divisions, 81
or more than half-held high
school summer sessions.
Time insufficient
Thousands Of Virginia's
teachers and youngsters are
finding increasingly that the
regular school year isn't long
enough for what the school
would like TO do and should
do" DR.. Williams said.
g. The elimination OF
wasteful. do-nothing vacations
for Virginia's children also re-
suits in utilizing more effec-
lively virginias billion dollar
school plant which formerly
was shut down for almost one
fourth of,the year"
The YEA, an organization OF
Evening star., 1962-12-16

TUESDAY Ion Feoturs Poss)
Evening star., 1962-12-16
The Voice of. Williamsburg

The sounds OF Williamsburg all gentle Some exciting The
ofmue the boom the beat drums mostly you hear
nothing noser than the epop Of the horses hooves and the
bamih hammer Here will find colonial city full of the colorful
sights and sounds of the eighteenth century Come Williamsburg
Evening star., 1962-12-16

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Congress Asked
To Add Guards
To Lorton Force

Congress was asked by tha
White House today to augment
the guard force at the Districts
correctional institutions, which
were rocked by riots five weeks,
ago.
Recent serious disturbances
at the Lorton reservation" a,
White House statement said.
indicate that the stating Isl
below the strength required to-
protect life and property"
The request was for an ap-
preparation of $185,0O0 out of
District funds to provide 65I
additional security officers.
Besides the city Jail, the Dis
trict maintains three penal IA
cilities at Lorton, Va.-the
WorShouSe, the Reformatory
and the Youth Center.
Destructive riots occurred at
the center last July 81. and
August 2. Prison officials said
they were fomented by a small
group of prisoners who claimed
to be associated with the Black
Muslin sect. a militant Negro
organization. Some so inmates
were involved.
AT present, "a uniformed COR
rectional officers maintain se-
curity at the Youth Center. A
total Of 384 guards are assigned
to all of the facilities at Lorton.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Grand Jury
Hears 7 in
Drug Thefts

A District Grand Jury in.
vestigating the theft of drug.
from District General HoSpita
yesterday resumed activity anc
heard testimony from sever
witnesses, it was reported.
The witnesses, it was under.
stood, included police investiga-
tors from the District anc
Prince Georges County, Mary
land State investigators anc
several individuals.
The Grand Jury met last
on August Is. The investiga-
ton is expected to be protract.
ed. No Grand Jury session wa.
reported planned for today.
Detectives have been reported
ready to present evidence link
ing at least II drug stores anc
a drug warehouse to an illict
traffic in drugs here.
An audit last week showed
that the hospital can not ac-
count for $91,619 worth OF
drugs. The report said proce-
dureS tended to invite theft
of easily sold anti-bioticS and
other preparations.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
1oxicob Operators Get
Proposal for New Rules

Mr.. Washington said this
change was made as a result of
complaints that traffic bottle
necks were created by cabs
Waiting on the concourse of
Union Station for additional
passengers.
Another concerns the zone
charge when the passengers
destination is an address on a
zone boundary. In some cases,
the chairman said, an addi-
tional zone fare is being charged
if the driver pulls into a pri-
vate driveway, thus crossing the
zone line.
Under the proposed revision,
taxiS would not be able to
charge the additional zone fare
if the street address of the
destination is not across the
zone boundary.
The proposed regulations also
include two items that have
already stirred up controversy
among the independent taxicab
operators. These pertain to
the requirement that independ-
ent taxicabs all be painted
uniform colors and that trade
association names not be dis
| played on independent cabs.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Kennedy Sends Senate
Judgeship Nomination

istration Interpretation, Of re-
peated Senate confirmations OF
such judges. But they admitted
the language of the law was
haZy.
So, Congress this session re-
wrote the law making clear the
need for Senate confirmation
of chief judges not only of the
Juvenile Court, but of the
Municipal Court of Appeals
and Municipal Court. The Pres
ident signed this bill into law
before resubmitting the names
of Mr.. Miller and Mrs. Lawson.
Hearings are expected to be
held before the Senate District
Committee by mid-September
Confirmation appears assured.
Both nominees would serve
for a term of 10 years on the
court expanded from a one
judge bench by the current
Congress,
Evening star., 1962-09-06

President Kennedy today
formally acknowledged the Sen
ate's right, under law, to con-
firm the chief Judge Of District
Juvenile Court.
The nomination of Morris
Miller. as chief judge, and Of
Marjorie Mckenzie Lawson, as
associate Judge, has arrived in
the Senate from the White
House.
In the same nomination
message, President Kennedy
withdrew his August 6 requests
that Mr.. Miller and Mrs. Law
son be confirmed simply as
Judges of the court"
The White House maintained
for nearly a year that the Pres
Iident could designate CHIEF
judges of local courts, without
Senate approval. Congressional
lawyers pointed to the practice
unbroken until the new admin
Evening star., 1962-09-06

The taxicab industry of
Washington today received
copies of a proposed revision
in regulations governing its
operations.
The District Public Utilities
Commission, which drew up the
proposal. announced that it will
hold informal public hearings
on the regulations beginning at
10 am. September 25 at the
District Building.
The changes proposed in the
taxi regulations are mostly of
a clarifying" nature designed
to improve service to the public,
Chairman James A. Washing
ton. jr., explained.
One of the proposed changes,
he said, is designed to reduce
the time passengers have to
wait for a cab to depart from
railway, bus and air terminals
and other large public build
ings. The regulation applies to
group riding" and specifies
that when a taxicab has taken
on a passenger, it cannot delay
departure more than 80 Sec
onds for the purpose of secur-
ing additional passengers"
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Police Discuss
Illegal Purkinq

Police Chief Robert v. Muir
ray and top police aides con-
ferred today with so Washing
ton civic and business leaders
on traffic and parking prob
lens in the city.
A police aide said Chief
Murray and other precinct and
division officers underscored
problems resulting from wide
spread, illegal parking on off
street public space.
A Washington Board OF
Trade spokesman indicated
after the meeting that the
public space parking situation
will be studied by a board COM
mittee.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
8-Lune Plans
For Shirley
To Be Shown

RICHMOND, Sept. 6 (AP).-
A public hearing will be held
next month to present plans
for expanding to eight lanes
the i11-mile section Of Shirley
highway between Springfield
and Washington, D. c.
The State Highway Depart
ment said the hearing will be
held October 4 at 10:30 am
(EDTD in the auditorium OF
Lee High School at Springfield
Cost of the project is expected
to exceed $50 million.
Construction Of a two-lane
reversible expresSway between
two sections of three-lane high
way has been recommended by
the consulting engineers-How-
ard, Needles, Tammen & Ber-
gendoff.
The engineers report offered
alternatives, one Of them call
ing for doubling the width oi
the present highway by ere.
ating two four-lane roads sep.
arated by a median strip.
No decision on the conStruc.
ton plan will be made unit
further study is given the con.
sultants' report, the department
said. Final decisions rest with
the State Highway Commission
and the Bureau of Public
Roads.
The department presented
plans at a hearing last weel
for widening the other 6.7-milt
section of the highway from
four to six lanes between
Woodbridge and Springfield.
The projects advertised in
cluded work in Arlington Coun-
ty on Glebe road-0.72 mile oi
grading and paving two 24-fooi
lanes of limited access roadway
on new location, a bridge where
the new location crosses existing
North Glebe road Estate Route
1900, and ramps to connect the
new location with existing
roads at the crossing, also con-
nections with existing State
Route 120 at each end, between
North Upland street and Chain
Bridge over the Potomac River
Evening star., 1962-09-06

agencies and the people who
know his condition"
County Supervisor Robert G.
Gotten, jr., told the board yes
terday that county staff MEM
bers should find a way Of
strengthening the present law.
Other supervisors agreed.
The gun that killed the Gold
fein boy was bought in the
county by the Vinson youth,
police say.
Gave False Name
VinSon, who looks and acts
far older than his II years,
listed himself as % and gave a
false name and address when
he bought the .38-caliber Smith
& WesSon Special revolver he
used in the Staying, police said.
In his confession Vinson said
the Goldfein youth surprised
him as he was looking in a.
window of the Goldfein home,
Mr.. Gotten said the county
ordinance should require a gum
buyer to be 81 years old, i'm
stead of the present 18. Superb
visor Anne Wilkins suggested
the county also could use q gum
registration law, which it doeS
not have.
Supervisor Adelard Brault
said the sale of guns to any ond
with a record Of mental disl
turbances should be prohibited
Mr.. Fitzgerald said all Of tho
recommendations, except that
dealing with registration, could
be carried out if desired.
Registration, Mr.. Fitzgerald
noted, is limited by State law
to counties with a population
density Of 1000 persons on
more to the square mile. Fair
fax County's density last year
was only half of that.
Representative Sulliya n,
Democrat of Missouri, spoka
out today on the floor Of the
House on the Vinson case, urg-
ing the Judiciary Committee
to study and recommend Iegis-
lation on the problem of. sale
! of guns to mentally disturbed
: persons.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Mayor Is Reelected

LYNCHBURG, Va, Sept. 6
(AP)-The City Council named
william c. Vaughan yesterday
to another two-year term as
mayor but defeated Abe Cohen's
bid for reelection as vice
mayor by a 4-3 vote. Instead,
the council elected A. G. JEFF
ferson to the city's second high
est office.
Evening star., 1962-09-06

said, Vinson was declared to ba
competent. The York County,
Juvenile Court was so notified.
When York County JuvenileI
Judge w. E. Hogg was asked
by the hospital about the case.
he said he had nothing pend
ing in his office" Mr.. Holloway.
the county prosecutor, said.
He himself had believed VIM
son was still at the hospitals
Mr.. Holloway declared. He,
said: What I think happened
is that the warrants followed
the prisoners. There were two
courts and two hospitals in
volved and someone got the
signals crossed"
Returns to County
Vinson, according to Fairfax
court officials. was then reI
turned 10 tnat county's juriS-,
diction.
Mr.. Deierhoi said that all
though it was felt that vinson
still needed resident treatment
for his emotional problems. tho
youth was ineligible for com1
mitment in a State institution
after having been released from
Southwestern.
In such cases, Mr.. Deierhoi,
said, "our hands are more on
less tied" Vinson, however, was
kept on probation and was re-
ceiving regular pSychotherapy
at the Fairfax Child Guidanca
Clinic. The treatment. Mr.,
Deierhoi said, involved visits atl
least once a week to the clinics
psychologist.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
RICHES TO RAGS TO FAME
Bo|IetMoster Recalls Russia

the past. THE Emperor of all
the Russias had been cast
away like a useless thing and
arrested" remembered tn e
young Schwezoff. The world
of Nicolas II, and his palaces
crown and ermine robes, had
collapsed.
Then the Bolshevik Revolu-
ton of Octboer 1917 unseateo
Kerensky and put Lenin and
Trotsky into power.
But the young boy was in
Evening star., 1962-09-06

OF THE $500 licensed cabs
in the District, about 900 are
Diamond and 316 of these are
radio cabs. Lord, if they all
had a set it would drive you
crazy" said Smitty, who has
learned to detect nearly every
radio cab driver by his voice.
even if I don't hear his num-
ber or nothin' I know who's
fout there"
p The 24-hour-a-day 365
days a year service about COM
pletes 1000 calls a day. More
people just stand on corners
and hail cabs than what calls.
1t costs a quarter to call. If
they ever get to the point
where they take that quarter
off there, everybody'd call"
said Smitty.
For relaxation Smitty drives
a cab. Been driving since "a.
Course don't do it much now,
Just enough to care for its up
keep" said Smitty. when I'm
through here I drive a cab or
I go home-and when 1 go
home I don't want anyone
talkin' to me-"
Evening star., 1962-09-06

2 THAT MORNING the
."snowbirds" were calling for
cabs. They're the people who
normally drive, but at the
slightest sign of rain or bad
weather. call for cabs. We get
so many we can't always ham
die them and our regular GUS
toners" said head dispatcher
James r. Porter Jr.
Smitty looked for one second
at the 10 cab slips in front of
him and as Mrs. Margaret
Williams pushed another
through the partition he was
reeling off, ANY one in
Brightwood, Brightwood-33?
Go to 1925 v for Victor for
Wimperpool Capitol Hill,
Capitol Hill, Broadbranch,
Broadbranch, where are you
-109? All right, 100. Gotcha
2o4. 2O4. Nav, it's not an
,apartment-a private home.
1916, we get it every day."
. A note was slipped through
from telephone operator Mrs.
Elizabeth Huntress and Smit-
1ty said, Attention all Dia-
-monds. Anyone have a pas
senger from House Office
Building to State Department
about 12:30p Guy dropped an
envelope"
Relieved by Mr.. Porter so he
could talk, Smitty said, II
been dlSpatchlng six, seven
years. oh, it amt so bad.
Worst thing is when you have
what we call cry babies. Cab
drivers who think they should
have gotten the job and didn't
and then start fussin'. Other
than that it's pretty nice and
peaceful.
well, yes you gotta work
fast. You're sittin' there and
you got them calls put out and
you gotta add up in your head
who's closest to the job. You
gotta know the city. Which is
one ways and which isn't.
Some people are closer, but
it'll take them longer to get
there"
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Redistrictinu
Group Forms
In Virginia
Committee Sets
Goal of Stirring
Public Opinion

Virginia Committee for Fair
Representation was formed last
night to whip up public senti-
ment for giving urban areas
more representation in the
General Assembly.
The group is patterned after
a Maryland committee which
fought successfully for a re-
apportionment Of Maryland's
House of Delegates and is now
pressing for revision Of the
State Senate.
Our objective is to marshal
public opinion throughout Vir-
ginia to support action on all
fronts for fairer legislative rep
resentation in the General
Assembly" said Arlington State
Delegate Harrison Mann, one
Of those attending the meeting
last night.
MaryIander Speaks
Royce Hanson, president Of
the Maryland committee, was
among the speakers who out
lined steps which the Virginis
group should take in a State
wide educational campaign.
The impetus for the move
came from Northern Virginia
and the temporary officer;
named last night are mostly
from the nearby area. Mr.
Mann said, however, thai
meetings will be held in othel
parts of the State within the
next two weeks and that aftel
a six-month organizing, pc
riod permanent officers repre-
Senting various sections of tn,
State will be elected. Some o
the other meetings are plannet
in Norfolk, Lynchburg an,
Leesburg.
The temporary officers are
: Mrs. Dorothy McDiarmid an
Edwin Lynch, former member
y of the House Of Delegates, cC
t chairmen; from Fairfax Count
E ty, j. Fuller Groom of ArlinG
ton. first vice president; Mr.
Ruth Bornn of Norfolk, secon
vice president; Mrs. Ethel F
Mcdonald of Fairfax, secretary
and Mrs. Mary Hackman o
Arlington, treasurer.
Thirty Persons Present
Attending the meeting las
night were about 80 civic anC
business leaders from Northern
Virginia and three members ot
the House Of Delegates, Mrs
Kathryn Stone of Arlington
John C. Webb of Fairfax anc
Mr.. Mann. Former Delegate
Omer L. Hirst Of Annandale, 9
member of the Virginia Com
mission on Reapportionment
also was there.
The urban areas claim the
1862 reapportionment Of the
Virginia General Assembly was
merely a perfunctory act which
left them greatly under-repre.
sented.
A suit has been filed in Fed
eral Court by five persons, in
cluding Mr.. Mann, to have the
reapportionment act declared
unconstitutional. The suit ask;
that the General Assembly bt
ordered to carry out a fair re.
apportionment and if it doesn't
the Federal court should carry
out a reapportionment by it
own decree.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Vinson Faced Charges,
Somehow Went Free

Seventeen year old Johr
Carroll Vinson, jr., accused Of
Staying a former high school
classmate Saturday in Falls
Church, was charged with kid
naping. armed robbery and auto
theft a year ago in York
County, Va, but was never
brought to trial.
Just why the August, 1861,
warrants filed against Vinson
were not acted on when he
was released from a State hos
pital last February was a source
Of mystery to Virginia officials.
Somebody got their signals
crossed" G. Duane Holloway,
Commonwealth's attorney for
York County, said today. I'm
going to try to see that this
doesn't happen again."
Mr.. Holloway said the war
rants have not turned up, but
that he intends either to find
them or to obtain new war
rants charging Vinson with the
three felonieS.
Officials in Fairfax County,
where Vinson was on probation,
could shed no light on the alb
sent warrants.
Somebody GOofed"
Frank L. Deierhoi, director
of court services for Fairfax
County Juvenile Court, de-
clared: ITO my knowledge, we
were never notified of any Of
ficial charges pending" He
added that apparently some
body goofed" down in York
County.
A Virginia State police Of
ficial today said records in Nor
folk show that Vinson and an
other youth, Randall Louis
Coakley, jr., then 18, were ac-
cused of escaping from Eastern
State Hospital at Williamsburg,
Va. (York County,, and steal
ing a taxi at knifepoint on Au-
gust 10, 1861.
Vinson had arrived at the
hospital just two days before
after a period of probation
with the Fairfax County Ju-
venile Court.
State police said Vinson and
Coakley were charged with
robbing Worley B. Edwards, a
Williamsburg CVa.) cab driver,
of SALTS at 11:40 pm. August
19. Two hours later, police
said, they were picked up by
Richmond city police as they
attempted to lock the cab driver
in the trunk of his vehicle.
Two Are Jailed
State troopers brought the
two youths back to Williams
burg, where they were jailed.
Warrants accusing both OF
kidnapping, armed robbery and
grand larceny (auto) were
served on them at the jail on
August 81 and left at the jail,
according to Trooper r. d.
Jones.
Presumably, the trooper said,
the warrants were to accom-
pany the prisoners, who were
transferred to Southwestern
State Hospital. a maximum Sc
curity institution, at Marion,
Va.
Last February %, officials
Evening star., 1962-09-06
Court Is Denied
Vinson's Records
Child Guidance Center Rejects
Order for Youths Case History

The Fairfax County Commonweaths attorney said today
that the County Child Guidance Clinic has refused to honor
court order demanding the records of accused murderer
John Vinson jr.
Commonwealth Attorney Robert c. Fitzgerald said he
first asked the Clinic the records Vinson
Evening star., 1962-09-06

terested in ballet, not revolu.
tions.
"One of those happy acci'
dents that alter the who'll
trend of a life" occurred whel
he went to a dance and de
cided to become a dancer.
You can imagine what m
military family thought abou
their son going into ballet" h
said.
Made Destitute
The revolution put tn,
Schwezoff family into an empty
cold house. There was no heat.
ing, next to no furniture, M
curtains-only wind" They ate
frozen potatoes, gray and
sour" and made biscuits from
the skins. Their clothes were
rags.
From 1924 to 1880 he toured
Russia with dance companies,
But in 1880, after a Communist
trial, the aristocrat had the
feeling that every step of mine
was controlled and observed"
On October q, 1880, he sailed
for Manchuria in a Chinese
junk and away from his native
land forever.
Mr.. Schwezoff came to the
United States with the original
Ballet Russo in 1941 after tour
ing the world with ballet COM
panies as dancer, choreographer
and stage designer.
In New York
His most recent connection
with a ballet company has been
with the Ballet Theatre School
in New York, where he num-
bered most of the ballet's top
stars among his students, in
cluding Lupe Serrano, prima
ballerina of the American Bal
let Theater.
Mr.. Schwezoff prefers the
old classics. He dislikes "tricks
with steps and contortions,
The dance must bring art
forward and not be just a
novelty"
The Washington School,
founded in 1914, has about AIS
students under the direction OF
Miss Mary Day.
The school is owned by the
Washington National Ballet
Foundation which also spon-
sors the Washington Ballet
Evening star., 1962-09-06

one in Brightwood9 Diamond
1188, 1188-94, "a :"
And sometimes the voice
grows impatient and rises to
a high pitch. Take it easy,
man, you're not the only cab
out there, you know"
G Wheeling through a drizzle,
the cab driver turned down
the volume. That's Smitty,
all right. Sometimes we call
him the Round Man 'cuz he's
SO big. He's the only one gets
upset like that. Adams comes
on at night and he's kinda
amusing because he doesn't
have so many calls and he can
cut up. Instead Of saying
Spring Valley he'll say
Swing Valley Stuff like
that"
The cab stopped at 14O4
14th street NV. After climb
ing some narrow stairs to the
second floor, there was the
man who goes with the voice.
D. Well over 200 pounds, Will
bur A. Smith, So, spreads him
self over a swivel chair and
leans two heavy arms. gen.
erously decorated with tattoos,
on his desk. In front of him
are two mikes into which he
pours the endless numbers,
addresses and commands.
1t is to Smitty's credit-and
to the two telephone operators
who take the incoming calls,
write them on a slip Of paper
and pass them through a glass
partition-that almost two
calls per minute are filled.
Evening star., 1962-09-06
The
Rambler
Listens In
On Cob Commander
By MYRA MACPHERSON

Smitty has a voice that
every Diamond Cab rider has
heard-sometimes distressing
ly all too often. It does little
to quiet a hangover and it in
terrupts the last sleep before
getting to the office, as it
relentlessly tracks down emp
ty cabs in which to put pas
sengers.
"Brightwood. Brightwood,
anyone in Brightwood, any