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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
WATER LINE
Aluminium Stable
Material for Boots

The Walter Wellman polar
expedition in 1894 was fitted
with several aluminium surf
boats 10 feet in length. The
metal utilities weighed BIS
pounds as compared to LOO
pounds for their wood counter
parts. These first American
built metal boats withstood the
cutting effects of skim ice well,
but they were subject to ex-
cessive corrosion.
In 1881, British development
of um-magnesium-man-
ganese alloy gave increased
strength and vastly improved
corroSion resistance. Further
developments occurred during
World War II, but unfortu-
nately after the war, many
builders used surplus aircraft
aluminium sheet to build
pleasure boats. This metal was
easy to obtain but the alloy
was not meant for marine use.
Some metal boats literally fell
apart and aluminium boats in
general got black eye.
Within the last 10 years new
alloys have been developed
specifically for small craft con-
struction. Sheets Of this ma /.
terial universally used in tie
boat industry today have been
exposed for seven years to both
marine atmosphere and con-
slant salt and fresh water i'm
mersion. No stress corrosion
failures or loss of strength have
occurred.
The principal advantages of
aluminium are its light weight,
great strength, fire resistance,
freedom from shrinking, SWELL
ing and absorption of water
and dry or wet rot.
There is, unfortunately, no
perfect boat building material.
Wood, metal and plastics in
current use all offer advantages
and disadvantages. OF the
group metal has been the target
for a number Of objections:
Noisiness, lack Of inherent
flotation and heat.
The first complaint may or
may not be valid depending
upon the manufacturer and the
intent Of the builder. If an
aluminium boat is designed to
be car-top carried and is made
extremely lightweight in the
interest Of portability, it will
unquestionably reflect sound
from the tapping of waves or
motor vibrations.
However, larger, more heavily
constructed aluminium hulls
can be and usually are sound
dampened by spraying the in
terror. particularly the bilge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
By HANK BOWMAN

area, with an acoustical mastic.
If the noise level is important
to you, look for this feature.
No metal boat without arti-
fetal buoyant provision will
float. Metal boat manufacturers
are well aware of this and there
is scarcely a metal boat built
today that does not have more
than adequate artificial flota-
ton in the form of air-tight
compartments, styrofoam in
serts or foamed-in-place multi
cellular plastic.
-
Aluminium boats Just aren't
hot. Aluminium is an excellent
conductor of heat and if the
surfaces are implanted or un-
coated with plastic, they reflect
rather than absorb heat. Since
water is almost inevitably cooler
than the atmosphere, alumni
NUNS heat conductivity char
acteristic tends rapidly to dis
Sipate warmth to the water
through which it moves and
metal boats may be expected
to be as cool or cooler than
either their wood or fiberglass
counterparts.
Most aluminium boats are Of
riveted construction. To pre-
vent leaks, mating surfaces
should be fitted with some form
Of notwithstanding compressible
gasket such as neoprene or one
of the recently developed poly
sulphide bedding compounds.
The advantages Of low
weight aluminium in most boat
designs are higher speed per
developed horsepower and econ
omy, since equivalent speed
may be attained at lower throt-
tie settings.
The light weight also has its
disadvantages for, by contrast
to hulls built of heavier ma
terials, aluminium hulls may be
more tender to weight shifts
and less stable under nasty
weather conditions.
Perhaps the most important
characteristic is that the
aluminium will have the same
durability and corrosion re-
sistance regardless Of the sup
plier, since it is a controlled
material produced to specific
standards.
Copyright. 1861. Hank BOwmsn)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
FISHING
FISHING
MoneyRock'
Again Await
BoyAnqIers

The ghost Of Diamond Jim, it
seems. still is lowering over
Chesapeake Bay.
Diamond Jim was the rock
fish with q diamond tag that
an unemployed Baltimorean
caught, you remember, Just
above the Bay Bridge, and
thereby earned himself $25, 900
from q brewery.
For the same publicity pur-
poses, three more money fish"
are going into the Bay some
where off Tilghman Island.
They are being tagged and re-
leased in connection with the
1862 edition Of the Chesapeake
Bay Fishing Fair, now In proc
ess Of reorganization.
These rockfish, won't be
worth any $4,000. though. To
the anglers who boat them,
they will return $500, 5000 and
500 respectively.
The $500 award is being put
up by q Baltimore firm while
the others are sponsored by
the fairs host port of Thigh
man Island, The fairs Grand
Contest will take place there
August 24-26.
st. Mary's County also is
having q fishing fair or derby
Friday, Saturday and next
Sunday. Beams Fishing Center
on Smiths Greek is head
quarters and along with sky
diving by stunt flyers both
Saturday and Sunday, cupboard
racing at 2 pm. Sunday and
drum and bugle corps enter
tainment, anglers will have a
contest.
Prizes will be awarded late
Sunday for the largest fish OF
any kind except sting rays,
sharks or skates, largest rock,
blue, trout, hardhead, spot,
perch or founder and to the
woman angler getting the big
gest fish.
/ - a
Sol Edlavitch, Joe Klein and
Meyer Barwess of Silver Spring
went out recently with Capt.
Charles Ash and caught rs
bonito and bluefish off Indian
River Inlet.
One Of the youngest and
most enthusiastic anglers in
the vicinity is Sherry Weaver
who won't be 5 until Wednes-
day.
Sherry has been fishing with
her grandfather, Dick Schaeffer
of Alexandria, for about a year,
he says, and the other day
caught a one pound, 11-ounce
smallmouth all by herself.
They were fishing in the rain
from the bank below whitewater
on the Potomac and after catch
! ing the bass Sherry couldn't
wait for her grandfather to put
a nightcrawler on her hook.
He says she wanted to bite
it in MCDOWELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
JULY SPECIAIS

1859 25' Owens Marrauder
1862 25' Owens Marquessa
1860 Revel Craft with 81 75-hp
johnson motor, cockpit covers, con-
trolls and trailer.
Storage available. All types Of boat
LORD CALVERT MARINE
Solomons, Md. Phi Elk 3-263s
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CHRIS-CRAFTS
USED BOATS

27' Dble. PIX. mahos. IS owens EXP.
25' Richardson Exp.-4-sleeper
81 Owens OBJ Cruiser
19' Carter Craft-Volvo pow, 2-sleep
IT Chris-Craft mahog. Runabout
VIM. J. LITTLE, INC.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Stuys in Family

Dartmouth graduate Jack
Riley coached the Unite d
States hockey team to the 1860
Olympic title. Eddie jeremiah,
also from Dartmouth, will
coach the 1864 team.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22
Storm Improves Fishing

0IOTm improves flSn1ng
Often a northeaster is good
for surf fishing, Preston says,
because it pushed the bait fish
toward the beach and the blues
follow. If the waves create a
tumbling action and the surf
muddies, then an entirely diff
ferent situation exists.
The blues will be gone but
kingfish or sea mullet, as they
are called along the Outer
Banks, will take their place
Kings are summertime favorites
of surf anglers and delicious
eating.
Usually there is a fair to
good run of speckled sea trout
along our nearby beaches in
the fall. If you can find a ban
just offshore, with shallow wa.
ter inside, fish it at dead low
tide. Preston says it will be
ideal.
OF course, the channel bass
Is the big prize Of surf fisher.
man. That win have to wait
until fall. The best run should
be IN November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-22

USED oUTBOARD MOTORS
Sc MARINE SALES
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SPEED BOAT-1S-ft. Century, Arabian
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Excel, cond. throughout. Call HU.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04

the Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin. Others cited for
the awards were Mrs. Frances Elizabeth
Willis, United States Ambassador to
Ceylon; Howard B. Andervont, formerly
of the National Cancer Institute; DR.. A.
Ross Ecker, Deputy Director of Census;
William H. Godel, Defense Department;
DR.. Wayne C.. Grover, Archivist of the
United States; Bertrand M. Harding,
Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue; Phillip S. Hughes, Bureau of
the Budget; DR.. Abe Silverstein, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration,
and Leo r. Werts, Department of Labor.
The leagues awards are but a part
of its commendable program for
stimulating interest in a Government
career and in improving the civil service
generally.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
FROM THE STAR FILES. .

chain which the enemy had
stretched across the Missis-
sippi still remains, although
the Missouri end is in the
bottom of the river. At
the time of the evacuation
there were 10000 troops in
and around the place, the
entire force commanded by
Gen. (LeonidaS) Polk. :"
Lincoln had been President
one year on March 4, 1862.
The Boston Journal was
quoted by The Star as say
ing: What a difference in
the situation of public af-
fairs then and now! One
year ago the ship of state
might be said to have been
totally dismantled, rolling
and threatening to go to
pieces. Long before the
year is out the rebellion will
have been given over into
the hands of the hiStori-
ans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
Pay As You Play

President Kennedy has proposed to
Congress pay-as-you-play recreational
program that should appeal alike to
those who wish to conserve our natural
resources and those who wish to con-
serve the Nations credit. The admins
tration'S far reaching, billion dollar
proposal is designed to pay its own way
from fees charged users of the recrea-
tional areas and from revenues accruing
from number of other sources. Thus,
$500 million in initial loans which would
be made by the Treasury to begin land
acquisition and development would, in
the end, be fully repaid.
The recreational area program was
outlined in broad message covering
varied aspects Of Federal activities and
planning in the field of natural conser-
walton. Most of the other plans already
had been presented in recent years.
Most newsworthy, however, was the
Presidents proposal for providing more
space for outdoor recreation - from
camping and canoeing to hunting and
fiShing-on lands now threatened with
industrial or other exploitation. The
time to preserve these lands, he stressed,
is now, before they are lost to this and
further generations.
In addition to offering matching
funds to States and cities for recrea-
tional development, the Federal Gov
eminent would buy vast acreage that
would be earmarked for the enjoyment
Of those who love the out-of-doors. The
limited fee system now authorized for a
few National parks would be extended
to all the new recreational areas, the
receipts to be turned back to the Treas
ury to curtail the loans. In addition, the
recreation fund would receive revenues
from gasoline taxes paid by motorboat
users, boating fees on Federal waters,
proceeds from sales of surplus Federal
lands and from several other appro-
pirate sources.
AS corollary of the recreational
program, Mr.. Kennedy urged Congress
to pass the pending Wilderness" bill,
which would establish as a national
policy the preservation of wilderness
areas in their natural state. In these
times of burgeoning cities and metro
politan satellites, the presidential con-
Servation program assumes special i'm
portance. And the self-iquidating aspect
OF the plan should help to smooth the
way for congressional approval.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04

nauts to members of Con-
gress, including the then
Senator Lyndon B. johnson.
NASA, under the Eisen-
hover administration, was
maintained as a non-politi-
cal scientific agency with
much Of the Nations tech
biological and scientific flu
ture depending on it's efforts.
If Col. Glenn's life had been
lost in the orbital flight
and, since this is a risk pro-
gram, this possibility on all
such flights is not remote
I wonder if the Democratic
Party under Mr.. Bailey would
have been willing to accept
the national and interna-
tional repercussions that
would have ensued.
Even though I am a can
didate for the office of United
States Senator, I certainly
will not make any political
comments regarding future
space failures or successes.
These developments depend
on technical, not political,
judgments.
I hope the present admin
iStration will permit NASA
to stay non-political. Your
editorial helps.
James P. Gleason.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
50 Years Ago

Man took another leap
ahead in the still-infant "air
age" so years ago when for
the first time in the history
Of "heavier-than-air flying"
a parachute jump was made.
The Star of March 2, 1912,
reported from st. Louis that
Capt. Albert Berry had
achieved this distinction in a
demonstration over a field at
Jefferson Barracks. The story
said: Beneath the machine,
in a specially constructed
case, was a large parachute
similar to those with which
aeronautS leap. Berry was
first seen to leave his seat
in the machine, piloted by
another, at perhaps 800 feet.
Berry, who has made many
parachute drops from bal
looms, aStonished soldiers
watching below as he climbed
to a trapeze bar. There was
a quick jerk of a rope, a knife
slash, and man and para
chute plunged downward.
while the aeroplane, bound
ing up like a cork, suddenly
poised and steadied itself
Sud denly the parachute.
trailing Berry in a long snakv
line, popped open; the rapid
ity OF the descent was check
ed, and. amid cheers, the
first aviator to make such
an attempt reached the
ground safely :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
Orderly Research

In November Secretary Ribicoff, as
part OF an economy" measure, ordered
$60-million cutback in funds author
lied by Congress this year for the Ma
tional Institutes of Health. Over con-
gresSional objections, he insisted that
the cut would not impair the Govern
ment'S medical research program. Now,
in his health message to Congress, the
President says NH needs for the year
starting July will increase by "more
than 500 million"
The need for such an increase, to
say the least, seems to have developed
with unusual speed
According to HEW officials, the new
budget does not contemplate a sharp
increase in new medical research grants.
They say the money requested for new
project grants next year, for example,
is precisely the amount being spent cur
rently for that purpose. A substantial
portion Of the additional $104 million
repeatedly will be needed to continue
worthy projects begun in previous years.
But even so, an increase of this proper
ton should receive close scrutiny from
Congress-
One proposal about which we are
particularly dubious is the request of
the President for removal of any
limitation on the So-called indirect
costs" which are paid by NH to uni
verSitieS and other institutions to rec
ompense them for the costs they incur
in housing and otherwise supporting re-
search projects financed by NH grants.
At present, these overhead payments
may equal Is per cent of the grant
amounts. Certainly Congress should
look with suspicion, as it has done in
the past. on the removal of any limita-
ton on these extra dividend payments.
But Congress can perform a more
valuable service if it will curb its own
overzealouSneSS in smothering the NH
with kindness. For its practice in recent
years has been to grant this agency
more money than it had asked for or
could wisely use. This year, for example,
the NH appropriation exceeded the ad-
ministration request by $155 million
providing an excess of funds which no
doubt figured in the cutback ordered
hv Mr.. Ribicoff. An ample supply of
Federal funds to further medical re-
search in all fields is not only justifiable.
but essential. However, the programs
conducted by the NH are exceedingly
complex, and 1t is important to their
orderly development and growth that
the necessary funds flow only in
amounts which can be wisely spent.
Certainly the requests of the admins
tration in this respect should be treated
as a maximunl-not, as has been the
case in the past, as starting point of
irresponsible hikes by Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
Speaking of BIockmoiI

The men of the Kremlin have lost
no time in spurning President Kennedy's
offer to cancel his portentous decision
on nuclear testing if they will only
sign-before the end of next month-an
effectively policed treaty banning all
such detonationS. Thus, speaking
through Tass with monumental effron-
terry and in typical upside-down Ian
guage, they have attacked the decision
as an aggressive action" and they have
branded the offer as something that
resembles "blackmail."
To put it mildly, all this comes with
Ill grace from the people who last
September, in an act of Notwithstanding
bad faith, suddenly violated the testing
moratorium with an unprecedented
and exceedingly ominous series of
above-ground explosions in the high
megaton range. That was the real
aggressive action" and that was the
real "blackmail" that made it des-
perately imperative for the President
to decide as he has. Yet he has done
so with the "fervent hope" that the
projected American Shots-Scheduled to
begin in the atmosphere at the end
OF April-will be rendered unnecessary
by Soviet acceptance of his proposal.
Judging from the Tass statement, how
ever, that hope is forlorn, for "the
Soviet Union rejects the system of
inspection proposed by the United
States and Britain as completely I'M
acceptable"
Perhaps this is not the last Soviet
word on the subject. Perhaps Nikita
Khrushchev may have something more
affirmative to say at any moment. In
any event, the President has made clear
that our country-aS it must for sur
vivalS sake-will go forward with the
spring tests unless, meanwhile, the
Kremlin joins in a test-ban accord
establishing inspection verification and
general policing of sort offering genu-
inely trustworthy guarantees against
cheating or clandestine violations or
evasions. Certainly, to stop testing in
the absence of such guarantees would
be folly of suicidal kind for the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
Banking the Fires

In announcing pattern of CO.
operation between public and private
utilities" last week, Secretary of Interior
Udall said he hoped that it would "bank
the fires" Of the public-vs- private power
fight in Congress and across the Nation.
We hope, in turn, that his hope is
fulfilled and, on its face, there seems
to be considerable merit in his proposed
pattern.
In brief, the formula approved by
the Interior Department provides that
group of private utilities will transmit
power for the five-State Colorado River
Storage Project. Use of the private
transmission lines, Mr.. Udall explained,
will mean reduction of $27 million in
the Federal investment for the trans
mission grid in the five-State area and,
over the 'pay-out PERIOD" will add as
much as SIT million to funds available
to the Upper Colorado Storage Basin
fund All major dams and reclamation
projects in the basin are to be financed
out of this fund, and the estimated. saw
ingS through use of privately financed
lines will release more money for these
parts of the project. At the same time,
the department said that the co-opera-
tive plan would protect customer service
Eat the lowest possible rates." and that
the Federal power system would be
strengthened through interconnections
with facilities of private power COM
panieS.
Except for those who consider the
public-vS.- private-power fight an ideo-
logical issue, Mr.. Udall's plan seems to
be strictly a common-SenSe one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
Indian Affairs

I read with deep interest
and concern the article III
the editorial section of the
Sunday Star, titled 1.-THE
Vanishing Race, by Lee
Lorick Prina.
I take issue with the build
up Of the expanding policy
of the new Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.
The Indian has not re-
ceived a square deal or his
inherent and simple sacred
rights under the Constltu-
ton and the Bill of Rights.
His arbitrary "wardship"
status has brought shame on
our Nation!
The Indian Bureau should
be abolished! Instead Of
Federal aid to Indians,
Federal aid to the Indian
Bureau" is the real object in
the growing budget! That
has been the official verdict
Of every. official investiga-
ton Of Congress during the
last 20 or more years. This
has been the policy Of the
Indian Bureau through all
administrations.
I know intimately Indian
problems throughout Cali
fornia. The services and the
things which you credit the
Indian Bureau with doing
for Indians living on reserva-
lions, are not being done in
California. None of the Cali
fornia Indians receive Gov
eminent aid, welfare, public
schools, disqualification or
medical care, sanitation or
housing, ETC., and there is
not one Indian Bureau po-
liceman in the State. All
law enforcement in Califor-
mia, among Indians who re-
side on their (self-owneO
restricted lands or those liv-
ing as individuals throughout
the State, is under State law.
California Indians legally
have all the rights and are
meeting all the responsible
ties of full American citizen
ship. These rights were won
in the courts, mostly, and not
by local, State or Federal
political efforts.
Now, the new Bureau
policy is to expand its power
and control over California
Indians.
Senate Report No. 80,
of the 18th Congress is the
most comprehensive, con-
Structive and accurate report
on all phases of our relation
with the Indians of our Ma
ton. 1t demanded abolish
ment Of the Indian Bureau
and showed how this could
be done, mostly by transferr-
ing to States various services
assumed and carried on by
the bureau. Congress can not
and it must not fail this
challenge.
Purl Willis,
Counselor
The Mission Indian Fedora
ton, Inc.
FL CaJon, Calf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-04
Unusual Award

The 81-year-old National Civil
Service League has paid its respects to
many employees of the Federal Govern
ment in years past, but it has taken an
unusual step in honoring David v.
Aud, District director of sanitary en-
cheering, for his efforts to protect
Washington's water supply from pollu-
ton.
Mr.. Aud was one of 10 civil servants
selected for the leagues annual Career
Service Awards. He was given recogni-
ton for his work both as supervisor of
the District sewage disposal and water
supply programs and as member of