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Evening star., 1962-05-18
Police Seek 8
In $678 HoIdup
Of D. 6. Store

Police searched today for
three persons who took $678
yesterday from the I. c. Fur
niture Store, 500 H street NE,
after tying up the manager and
two others.
Lewis Wiener, 81. Of S504
Sixteenth street, Silver Spring
the manager, was treated at
Providence Hospital and re-
LEASED. He had tainted during
the holdup.
Others who were tied up with
clothesline were a friend, Jacl
Brman, 80, Of 110l0 Horde
street, Wheaton, Md, ant
George L. Sims, 81. Of 423 Mar
riot place NV.
Three suspects were PURSUED
by Pvt. George Carette of tn
ninth precinct to an alley be
hind the 400 block Of Fourtl
street NE. One man later wa
arrested in the area, but wa
cleared and released.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Student Drivers to Use
New EIectronic Device

actual auto instruction to quail
ify young drivers for lower
insurance rates, explained that
the new program will entail
only 31a hours Of driving a car
But students will need II
hours with the simulator, which
includes IL mockups of auto
control panels and steerinl
wheels, a movie protector anc
a device to test pupil reactions
instruction in the simulatol
will supplement that given ir
the county's five driver-trainine
cars.
The school board, in another
action, agreed to hold a con-
ference on whether to use Negro
teachers in predominately white
schools.
The action had been re-
quested by the Executive Com
mittee of the Wakefield High
School Parent Teacher Associa'
ton, which has stated previ
ously that it had no objection
to white children being taught
by properly qualified Negrt
| teachers"
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Hansen Book Praises
Amidon Plan Results

part of a activity unit" and
mixing up chocolate pudding as
a first-grade reading-arithme-
tic project.
Explains Purpose
What the Amidon plan has
sought successfully to do, he
said, is to achieve a new step
toward the fusion of two main
streams in American educa-
tional thought: The bringing
together of the best that has
been discovered about the
learning process, and selected
logically organized subject
matter"
In test results last spring, he
points out, rs per cent of Ami
don achievement scores topped
national norms.
The superintendent admit:
that some principals and teach
ers have dragged their feet ir
responding to the Amidon sp-
proach, which he is seeking tt
expand city-wide and into jun
ior high schools.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
D. c. Heads Map Steps
ToUnify Relocation Aid

this second category do not get
the moving fees.
Today, the Commissioners
announced that they would
take one of two courses in
pressing for congressional ap-
proval of a central relocation
service.
Bills Success Is Key
One possibility hinges on
pending legislation that would
give the Commissioners a
stronger hand in controlling
urban renewal projects. If this
bill passes, the announcement
said, the Commissioners will
combine two existing reloca-
ton services into one.
If the bill does not pass,
the Commissioners will submit
to Congress new legislation to
establish the central agency.
Today's announcement en-
phasized that a major provi-
sion in the Commissioners
plan is to win congressional
approval for equal moving ex-
pense payments for all persons
displaced by Government ac-
ton.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Park Memorial
To FDR Offered

Landscaping West Potomac
Park with flowers, fountains
and maybe small statues to
honor Franklin Delano Roose-
velt was proposed today in
Congress.
The bill. by Representative
Widnall, Republican of New
Jersey, was offered as an alter
native to a giant slab memorial.
Mr.. Widnall called the slabs
weird" and said they would
overshadow the monuments to
Washington, Jefferson and Lin
coin.
The Widnall bill seems as
Sured of hearings before the
House Administration Commit
tee. The committee already
has received legislation from
Representative Keogh, Demo-
crat of New York, to permit
the Roosevelt Memorial Com
mission to raise funds for the
slab memorial. Another slab
supporter, Senator Humphrey
Democrat of Minnesota, has a
companion bill in the Senate
Consideration of the slab
measure will carry along with
it at least a look at the park
proposal.
Mr.. Widnall has the support
of the District Recreation
Board, which on May 8 votec
unanimously to fight the slat
design for the 27-acre park.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
New Pipe Line
May Color Water

Some water discoloration
may occur in the Bethesda area
off Old Georgetown road today
due to a new pipeline being put
into use.
The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Com mission an
nounced that it would start
service in the afternoon along
a 36-inch feeder line from Til
den lane, in the Luxmanor Sec
tor, to the Alta Vista area.
A commission spokesman said
the water may be discolored be-
cause of stirred up sediment in
the pipe but said the water will
be safe to use. The condition
will last only a few hours, ne
predicted.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Maryland U.
Establishes
SpuceCenter

University of Maryland Off
cials announced today the
setting up of a center OF at
mospheric and space physics
within the university's newly
renamed department of physics
and astronomy.
The center will encompass
the present space research
group directed by Prof. S. Fred
Singer. who will become the
center's director when he re-
turns from. a leave Of absence
in September. 1868. DR.. Singer
has pioneered in United States
space research and rocket use
During DR.. Singers absence
DR.. Howard Laster, associate
chairman of the department
will serve as acting director ot
the center.
DR.. Ernst Opik, professor o
astrophysics. also will be
senior faculty member of tn
new center.
The first-year staff Of th'
center will also include AS
sistant Prof. Kaichi Mazda anc
Research Associates Richard
Bettinger. Allen Lenchek anc
E. H. Walker.
Ten students have been ap-
pointed for the center by the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
The university's old depart
ment Of physics will officially
become the department oi
physics and astronomy on July
/. This will mark the begin
ming of academic programs
leading to bachelors, master;
and doctoral degrees in as
tronomy.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Primary Result Unchanged

surgents was States attorney
candidate Arthur A. Marshall,
jr., who received 1855 votes.
The top organization vote
was cast for incumbent treas
urer Charles E. Callow, with
1880 votes.
The Independents won six of
seven seats in the Maryland
Assembly, five of seven spots
or the policy-making central
committee, the sheriff and
State attorneys offices and ma
jorities in the Orphans Court
and the delegation to the State
convention. Still in organiza-
ton hands, in addition to the
county commissioner majority,
are offices of the treasurer and
registrar. of wills.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
NLRB Moves Aqoinst
EmpIoye Lie Testing

ganize employees of the Seven
Eleven Stores.
Questions Listed
Both parties in the case, the
NLRB examiner stated. agreed
that in July and August of 1861
the company referred some 81
prospective employees for poly
graph examination and that
from May IA, 1861, to August
7, 1861, the company referred
for tests % employees suspected
of misconduct.
Jobs applicants were ques-
toned as to their accident rec
ordS, their drinking, use OF
narcotics, arrests, history OF
mental illness, involvement in
homosexual practices and, ir
addition, were asked: Have you
ever been active in any type
of employees union? Do you in
tend to engage in union activi-
ties if employed by Seven
Eleven?
Evening star., 1962-05-18

Mr.. Brooke's margin was in
creased to 218 votes by the can
vass.
During the study of votes
that ended at 3 am. today, "a
absentee ballots were added to
the tallies. Election officials
said 70 absentee forms were
mailed out.
Other tallies did not change
results nounce early
Wednesday after unofficial tab
ulation ballots for both local
and State offices.
State Senator H. Winship
Wheatley, jr., remained the
Independents top vote-getter
with a total of 14,448, an in
crease Of Sc over unofficial re-
suits. Runner-up for the in
Evening star., 1962-05-18

The Commissioners moved
ahead today with plans to es-
tablish a central service to aid
families moved out of their
homes by Government action.
The long-studied proposal to
set up a central relocation serv-
ice was Endorsed by the Com
missioners last month.
Congressional approval is
needed. The idea is to provide
the same help, including NOV
ing expense payments, to all
displaced residents.
Aid Services Split
The District now has two
major services for family relo-
cation. The District Redevel-
opment Land Agency helps the
families it displaces for rede-
velopment work. This agency's
services include the moving
payments.
The families forced to make
way for such municipal project.
as highway and school con
struction and enforcement ot
the city's housing code are
helped by a relocation service
established within the welfare
Department. The families il
Evening star., 1962-05-18
WeitzeIIH
Opposition to
Zoning Plan

E. C. Weitzell, chairman Of
the Alexandria City Planning
Commission, said yesterday
that he was "astonished by the
recent undisciplined attacks"
on the City Planning Depart
ment over a controversial land
use plan.
The plan, which will go before
the City Council next Tuesday
is the result of deliberate
judgement" of the commission,
he said.
The Alexandria Chamber oi
Commerce, which has attacked
the plan, made mo unusual
presentations" at the four pub
lie hearings held on the plar
during the past six months, he
said.
/ Mr.. Weitzell's statement was
( in answer to charges made
earlier this week by Edward
S. Holland, president of thu
Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Holland said that the plar
would guarantee a constan
annual increase of taxes"
The plan replaces needed in
dustrial and high-rise apart
ment zoning with unsuitable
single-family residences, Mr.
Holland said.
Mr.. Weitzell replied, 1T is II
be expected that objections will
be voiced by special interes
groups. This is always the cas-
where specific interests mus
give way to the general wei
fare"
The plan is a guide to tn
city's development over tn
next 20 years. Adoption of
plan is required to obtain Fed
eral aid for the city's pending
urban renewal projects.
Evening star., 1962-05-18

An electronic simulator will
be used in driver training in
struction in the Arlington
school system starting in Sep
tember. 1t will be the first one
in the Washington area.
The machine will be installed
in a trailer which can be moved
from school to school, but will
be used in only two schools
next year-Washington-Lee and
Yorktown High Schools.
Purchase of the driver train
ing machine, which can teach
fundamentals to IL pupils at a
time and record their reactions,
was authorized by the Airing
ton School Board last night,
Including the trailer, it will
cost $4,000.
The simulator, developed by
the Aetna Insurance Co., is in
tended to reduce the cost OF
driver training in schools. It
also will cut the number OF
hours of behind -the-wheel in
Struction in cars.
School officials, noting that
II hours are required now fol
Evening star., 1962-05-18
BruuIt to Head
Fuirfux Bur Unit

Adelard L. Brault, Fairfax
attorney, has been elected presi-
dent of the Fairfax Bar Asso-
citation.
Mr.. Brault replaces John H.
Aylor as head of the associa-
ton which represents lawyers
in both the city and county
of Fairfax.
Elected vice president at the
meeting held this week was
Edgar A. Prichard. The neW
secretary is Quin s. Elson, an
assistant commemorative at
torney, and Charles F. Ges-
chickter. jr., was chosen as
treasurer.
Evening star., 1962-05-18

A Washington area grocery
chains practice of giving lie
detector tests to employees to
determine their views on unions
has been declared unfair and
illegal by a Federal trial
examiner.
Named in the ruling by a
National Labor Relations Board
examiner was the Southland
Corp, which operates some 65
Seven-Eleven Stores in the
Washington area.
The ruling was issued We'd
nesday by Arthur Left, a NLRB
examiner, who found that the
chains polygraph tests for en-
ployes had an inherently
coercive character"
The trial examiners findings
and recommended orders will
be adopted by the board itself
if they are unchallenged within
20 days. If the Seven-Eleven
store chain files exceptions, the
board will review the case.
Included in the NLRB exam
iner's 19-page opinion was g
ruling that the chain hao
illegally discharged an employt
after he signed a union mem.
bership card last fall.
Calls for Rehiring
The examiners recommended
order calls for the chain to Of
l fer to rehire the employe, Ray
mond Boyd, and to compenSat
S him fully for loss Of pay sine
= his discharge last November Z
i Mr.. Boyd was a manager traine
S assigned to the store at Amman
= dale, Va.
= Shortly before his discharge
the NLRB ruling noted, MI
> Boyd had won a 1892 prize il
a chain-wide competition il
which the various stores werI
: judged on the basis of cleanli
, ness, lack of shortages, lack O.
, office correction on reports anC
lack of personnel turnover. Hi
store won the competition.
The complaint which init
, ated NLRB scrutiny Of tn,
chains practices was filed b.
, Retail Store Employees Loca
, Union 400 (AFL-CIO), whicl
has been attempting to or
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Boxwood Concerts
To Sturt Sunday

The first in the series Of an
nual Boxwood Concerts will be
held at $3.50 pm. Sunday in the
outdoor amphitheater Of the
Mount Vernon Unitarian
Church, featuring Charlie Byrd
and his Trio.
The church is located at 1875
Fort Hunt road, south Of Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
New Phase
Planned in
WeIfareStudy
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The special committee look
ing into cheating on District
relief rolls will meet early next
week to map the next step Of a
two-part investigation that to
date has seen So per cent of
welfare recipients checked turn
up ineligible.
Donald Brewer, chairman of
the Public Welfare Investiga-
ton Committee and acting di-
rector of the department, is
calling members together to lay
ground rules for the investi-
cation of the General Public
Assistance category.
This category provides re-
lief for the temporarily dis
abled. The District does not
give relief to unemployed en-
ployables"-thoSe out Of work
but ruled physically and men,
tally aDle 10 hold jobs.
The first part of the check,
sampling of Aid to Dependent
Children cases, is near compile
ton. Federal and District in
veStigatorS have covered all
280 cases assigned to them
a random sampling of 5 per
cent of the September Ado
rolls-and the Welfare Depart
ment's Public Assistance Diyi-
sion is winding up action on
them.
Shows So Pet.
A report released yesterday
by Senator Byrd, Democrat Of
West Virginia and chairman of
the Senate District Appropri-
ationS Subcommittee, showed
SO per cent of the cases acted
upon were ineligible.
Senator Byrd asked that both
categories be Investigated last
summer after budget hearings.
A vital element in the ADO
investigation has been the man
in-the-home rule. Of those
ruled ineligible, 42.2 per cent
were eliminated for that rea-
son. The District gives Ado
aid only to youngsters whose
fathers are dead, absent or in
capacitated. If a woman has a
continuing relationship with a
man, he is assumed to be acting
as a husband and father and
the family ruled ineligible.
The new check will revolve
around other factors, including
employability. medical status,
living arrangements, family re-
sources and surreptitious job
holding.
Overcharging PrObed
Senator Byrd has asked spe-
officially that investigators ex-
: plore certain practices relat-
4 ing to the payment Of rentals
by the welfare recipients"
He was referring to reports
! so far unconfirmed, that some
welfare clients are overcharged
by landlords. Rental money is
'' included in welfare checks &C
$ cording to needs based on the
! size of the family. Some clients
D have complained about exploi-
tation.
A 10 per cent sample Of the
= GPA caseload is expected to be
e taken. There we're 1872 cases
= in that category April l. Mos
y involve only one person. The
n average grant for March wa'
: $76.92.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Bowman Resigns

WOODSTOCK, Va, May Ia
(AP). Marvin w. Bowman
chairman of the Shenandoah
County Board Of Supervisors
has resigned. Mr.. Bowman
has been a board member fol-
the past 18 years.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Church Surrenders
School Site to Aid
Huge Ria Project
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS
star staff Writer

Southwest Washington church is willing to give up
site for high school and auditorium, Wjlam
Zeckendor build huge office building for lease to the
Government
learned today another church playing
key role in proposed development preparing
Evening star., 1962-05-18
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

District School Supt. Carl F.
Hansen says in a book pub
lished today that the Amidon
school plan has paid off hand
somely.
DR.. Hansen put the two-year
demonstration of basic ed
ucation on the line as an
answer to the "life-adjustment"
school of thought among some
educators.
His pronouncement is set
forth in his new book, THE
Amidon Elementary School: A
Successful Demonstration in
Basic Education" published by
Prentice Hall.
The book, highly critical OF
loosely organized permissive ed
ucation, appears likely to send
ripples through the ranks of
several generations Of educators
nurtured in the tradition OF
what is called child-centereo
education.
Praised by Council
The book already has re-
ceived acclaim from one educa.
ton organization, the Council
for Basic Education.
THE whole Amidon plar
could be a lesson for the rest o.
the country" said Mortimer
Smith, the councils executive
director. Mr.. Smith added thai
"Dr. Hansen is certainly no re-
dictionary. He recognizes all thu
value of modern psychology.
hope that the child-orientec
people will read the book care
fully"
Sterling M. McMurrin, UniteC
States Commissioner of Educa'
ton, said he had not read al
advance copy Of the book, bu
that he was very favorabl!
impressed" by what he saw IL
, a recent visit to the Amidol
School at Fourth and I stree
S.W.
The Amidon plan is basel
upon a closely organized teach
ing day, with heavy emphasi
upon direct teaching TO tn,
! whole class instead Of instruc
ton to small sub-groups. ia
vored by many educators il
recent years.
Reading Stressed
The Amidon plan also streSse
teaching children at the earlieS
possible opportunity to learl
to read by learning the letter
and sounds from which word
are constructed. The approach
is taken through the phonic
r system, using a phono-visus
8 method of daily drill fror
= classroom charts.
:, DR.. Hansen in his first full
q dress report on the Amido
plan emphasizes the success c
4 this language skill approach a
!, the cornerstone Of the plaI
t DR.. Hansen is strongly skepti
: cal Of the .look-say" techniqu
6 of teaching reading. which h
feels gives a child nothin
h more than an idea Of a word
k shape.
.e DR.. Hansen, in his boo
d frowns even more upon what /
= calls adding "chair-shufflinl
to the curriculum through VIII
n he regards as time-wasting II
" struction in small groups.
= In the matter of permissi'
h teaching, he cites such instru
as ton content as shoe-shining
Evening star., 1962-05-18

Fifth Baptist's pastor. said the
congregation hopes to have de-
tails of RLA'S offer by the time
the church holds a business
meeting next Wednesday. He
said the question Of the sale
and acceptance Of an alterna-
tive site will have to be voted
on by the 350-member congre-
cation.
Mr.. Zeckendorf has sub
mitted a bid. along with IA
other firms and individuals. to
provide up to a million square
feet of office space for the
General Services Administra-
ton to be rented to the Federal
Government for 20 years.
The New Workers. bid was
made to provide a building on
a site which he has not yet
leased from RIA, but which the
agency has agreed to turn over
to him in case the two churches
acquieSce.
Disclosure of the private
negotiations between RIA and
Mr.. Zeckendorf, and also those
involving the churches, was
brought to light after the New
Workers. bid to GSA under the
name of "9l35l Corp" was re-
vealed a week ago.
Offer Undecided
The alternative site for the
Fifth Baptist Church would be
in the vicinity Of Maine avenue
and / street S.W. Not yet de-
termined is how much RIA will
offer the church for its present
property.
Church officials said they
have retained an architect,
Samuel K. Beck, to estimate
the cost of a new church struc-
ture.
They indicated their decision
would hinge on whether the
amount received from RIA for
their present property would be
sufficient to permit the church
to acquire the alternate site
and construct an adequate
church building that is as
equally we'll equipped as the
one now occupied at SIKH and
E streets S.W.
RIA is reported to be now
in the process Of obtaining q
new appraisal of the church
edifice and its approximately
!; $4,000 square-foot site. On the
basis of such an appraisal, al
. offer will be made, RIA said.
4 Since originally it was RIA
e intention to permit Fifth Bap
tist to remain where it is, ant
E add about $4,000 feet to it
= site, the new location to be Of
fered may contain around 49,
! 900 feet, officials said.
The alternate site for the
parochial school, high schoo
and auditorium of st. Domi'
MICS is Immediately north Of
Thomas Jefferson Junior High
School. The location is
, bounded Ivy Seventh, Ninth and
G streets and by the Southwest
, Expressway. 1t contains $4,000
square feet - approximately
, Sc. 900 more than the church
, would have received at the
school site it is willing to give
ruO.
Evening star., 1962-05-18

slider a proposal that it sell the
church edifice it has occupied
for about IS years so the site
can be cleared.
The Redevelopment L an d
Agency has received assurance
St. Dominic's Church is ready
to relinquish its claim to pur-
chase about 10000 square feet
Of land adjacent to its church
and priory at 439 Sixth street
S.W. for school use.
RIA would provide an alter
native school site north Of
Thomas jefferson Junior High
School.
Land wanted by the New
York developer is loc ate d
within the block bounded by
Seventh. Sixth. D and E streets
S.W.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
TODAYS WEATHER REPORT

River Report
Potomac River clear at Harpers
Ferry and clear at Great Falls. Snen-
anaoah clear at Harpers Ferry.
The Sun and the Moon
Rises Sets
Sun TODAY 5:53 am. S:l6 pm
Sun tomorrow ODD am. s:aa pm
Moon today 7:23 pm. o:3o am
Automobile lights must be turned on
"a hour after sunset
Evening star., 1962-05-18

District ana Vlclnlty-Clear
and warm tonight with low in
upper COS. Tomorrow will be
fair and hot.
Maryland-Fajr and warm
tonight with low in COS. To-
morrow. mostly sunny, high Of
86 to "a.
Virginia-Fair tonight with
low in COS except upper sos in
mountains. Tomorrow will be
mostly sunny with high Of 86
to "a.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay Light variable
winds tonight will become S to
Is knots tomorrow. Fair wealth.
er with visibility over six miles
FIVE-DAY FORECAST
District and Vicinity
May 1928
Temperature for period will
average 5 to 10 degrees above
the normal high of rs and low
of 81. Quite warm over weel
end. some cooling likely Tues
day or Wednesday. Precipita'
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Temperatures for Yesterday

For high and low tides at the TOT.
lowing points subtract times injected
Bloody Point Light, 4i3 hours; Colonial
Beach, 6 hours; Deale, 4l2 hours;
Solomon's Island, ga hours; Point
Lookout. IA hours.
Evening star., 1962-05-18

Mder the MdAtantc region
generally fair skies the remainder of the Nation except for few
thunderShOweS the Central Mississippi
Continued temperatures
predicted the Ohio Valleys the southern tier
pected in the Northern ROckies.-AP Wirephoto Map.
Evening star., 1962-05-18

ton, in the form Of scattered
showers Monday or Tuesday
should average less than "a inch.
Evening star., 1962-05-18
Meeting Wednesday

Now also occupying part Of
the site is the Fifth Baptist
Church. which the redevelop-
ment agency has proposed to
buy outright so that. with the
land which was to have gone
10 St. Dominic's. the entile
block may be leased to Mr..
Leckendorf.
The Rev. Porter H. Harrison,
Evening star., 1962-05-18

ganize employees of the Seven
Eleven Stores.