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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Star S Trucks Win
Top Safety Award

For its outstanding" truck
safety record during 1861
which included 1872 million
truck-miles with no fatal &C
cidentS, The Evening Star has
been awarded the top prize in
the annual District of Column
bia Trucking Association safe
ty contest.
The Star yesterday became
the first newspaper publishing
company to be awarded DCTA's
grand trophy, the Trailmobile
Safety Award, for establishing
the leading record among all
classes of truck users.
At the same time The Star
was awarded a plaque for first
place in the private carrier
class.
The awards were presented
at a luncheon in Executive
House by George Ranges,
branch manager of Trailmobile,
Inc, in Baltimore, and George
A. England, District director of
motor vehicles, to John H.
Kaufman, business manager
of The Star.
Other first place class plaque
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Cleveland Park
Group Declines to
Drop Race Ban

The Cleveland Park Citizens
Association has declined to
strike the word white" from
its membership rules.
Although the vote was 90 for
desegretation and Is against,
proposents could not muster
the two-thirds majority neces-
Sary to make the constitutional
change in the groups member
ship requirements. They needed
80 favorable votes.
Desegregating the associa-
ton was first proposed in Jan
uary. 1t is expected to come up
again next fall.
Some Is new association
were present Tuesday
night but because they had not
yet been elected to membership,
they were not permitted to vote,
according to Mrs. Carroll Perry,
secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
8 Businesses in Plaza
Get Relocation Bonuses

Higher claims filed by some
firms, plus an agency estimate
OF the costs to be incurred by
others, was given as juStifica-
ton for the increase in the
amount sought.
The eight firms to share in
the neutrality-suspicious. bonan-
"a were listed by the agency
as follows:
Rodell Productions, Inc.
Documentary Films.
Parkway DelicateSsen.
ESQ Station.
Marge-Ann Beauty Parlor.
Dagmar O'Connor, apartment
house operator.
Edmond Albert, rooming
house operator.
Georges Warehouse.
The Columbia Plaza urban
renewal project area is bounded
by Virginia avenue and Twen-
ty-Third, Twenty-fifth and E
streets NV. Most of the land
was acquired some time ago by
the R e developm e mt Land
Agency, and agreement was
reached to lease it to Column
bia Plaza, Inc, headed by Frank
j. Luchs, a Washington real
estate broker and builder, as a
site for an apartment house and
hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22

A visitor from Colombia.
where he is concertmaster of
the Colombian Symphony Or
chestra and professor of violin
at the National University,
Frank PreuSs made his United
States debut at a recital last
night in the Hall of the Amer
icaS. 1t was a very successful
first hearing.
The Preuss tone is big and
he takes naturally to the
bravura style. There is nothing
really flashy about his playing
but his approach to music is
strong, backed up by solid
muSicianship. He can play with
the utmost delicacy or whip
his strong bow into a frenzied
presto with zest. The full bag
of technical effects is his to
command at will.
The best moments of the
evening came at the beginning
and the end. Robert Paris at
the harpSichord provided ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
DR.. Custis, IS, Dies;
Noted Conservotionist

DR.. Horace Hatch Gusts, ST.,
70, a native Washingtonian and
retired Agriculture Department
chemist, died of heart attack
yesterday at Ormond Beach,
Fla.
For over so years, DR.. Gusts
was active in Capital area con-
servation groups. He worked
for the passage 80 years ago
OF the Capper-Cramton Act es-
tabliShing a continuing pro-
gram of parkland acquisition
and stream valley protection.
He was born in a residence
that stood on the site of the
Supreme Court building. 1t was
the home of his grandfather,
DR.. George Washington Neale
Gusts, a descendant of the
noted Virginia family.
DR.. Gusts was a 1906 gradu-
ate OF Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. He had attended Sidwell
Friends School. Later, he re-
ceived his Pho. degree at
George Washington University.
During World War II, he
was assigned to the War Pro-
duction Board. He retired from
the Agriculture Department
after 80 years service.
DR.. Gusts was a leading
member and past president of
the Sycamore Island Club and
was a member of Lafayette
Lodge.
He leaves his wife, the form
er Corinne Snowden Norment.
of 1925 Worthington street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Church Need
For 1880
Seen Double

A Washington minister pre-
dicted today that churches in
the Metropolitan Area will have
to double in number to accom-
modate the projected 1880
population.
The Rev. Charles A. Elicit.
director of the department of
research and church planning,
National Capital Area Council
of Churches, said the Wash
ington area will grow rapidly
by 1880. The 1860 population
was set at 2 million.
Pointing out that there are
approximately 1900 churches
of major denominations in the
Metropolitan Area, Mr.. Elicit
said 2,400 churches would be
needed by 1880.
He further noted that the
present Protestant and Roman
Catholic Church membership
in the area is approximately
IS per cent lower than the
national average.
Mr.. Elicit felt, however, that
the 1880 goal probably would
not be reached because of the
transient nature of the city's
population and the tendency of
churches to seek members in
the professional and highly
technical levels of society.
He spoke at the opening ses-
sion of an "Ecumenical Long
Range Planning Convocation"
in st. Adams Episcopal Church,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin
avenues NV. Methodist Bishop
John Wesley Lord of Wash
ington is presiding at the two
day meeting being attended by
more than 100 ministers of
several Protestant denomina-
lions.
Bishop Lord will address the
group at $50 o'clock tonight
on "Ecumenicity (Co-operation)
on the Local Level"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Panel Picks
Site Design
In S.W.

A panel of architects has
chosen the winner of an ar
chitectural competition for a
$4,000 apartment and town
house site in Southwest Wash
ington.
The winning firm, which
competed with II others, will
be announced tomorrow after
the Redevelopment Land
Agency's board has an oppor-
tunity to approve the panels
report, Phil A. Doyle, RIA exc
cutive director, said today.
The 4.8-acre site is bounded
by P and Fourth streets, the
Maine avenue waterfront and
a park strip separating it from
Fort McNair. 1t is directly south
OF the Harbor Square develop
ment.
The tract was among those
put up for disposition at a
fixed price of $3.4O a square
foot, with judging on the basis
of design proposals and overall
planning.
In line with the competitions
rules, the 2l1,S63-Square foot
site may be either leased at
6 per cent of the price annually
or purchased outright by the
winning firm.
The project is to contain 272
apartment units plus A units
in flats or "walk-up" structures.
The panel which judged the
competition was composed of
Carl Feiss. Dan Kiley, Hugh
Stubbins. Oskar Stonorov and
Philip Will, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
@. P. Bickford.
80, Realty Man,
Bank Director

Gershon P. Bickford, SO, an
area businessman and former
member of the New Hampshire
State Legislature, died Tues
day. He lived at 1907 Ruatan
street, College Park.
A native of New York City,
Mr.. Bickford moved to Wash
ington as youth and became
a Capitol page at the age of g.
Because of poor health he
moved to New Hampshire after
high school here and entered
the real estate business. There
he was elected to the States
Legislature in which he served
one term.
He returned to Washington
in 1909, remaining in the real
estate field. Soon after he be-
came a storekeeper in College
Park, selling his establish
ment in 1912 to devote full time
to real estate.
Mr.. Bickford later combined
banking activities with his other
interests and was named a di-
rector of the Citizens Bank of
Riverdale (MdD. He was still
active in business upon his
death.
Mr.. Bickford was a member
of the Masonic order having
joined in 1894.
He leaves his wife Aurelia
of the home address and three
children, Mrs. w. P. Sigler,
Byram, Conn; George P. Bick-
ford of Cleveland and John H.
Bickford of Morristown, N. j.
Services will be at l pm. to-
morrow at the Gasch Funeral
Home, 4739 Baltimore avenue,
Hyattsville. Burial will be at
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Miss DiCostunzo,
OF World Bank

Miss Josephine DiCostanzo,
a member of the World Bank
staff here since 1947, died at
her apartment, $40 Twenty
first street NV, Monday of
a heart attack. She was 40.
Miss DiCostanzo worked for
the department of development
services at the bank.
Born in Asperia, Italy, she
moved to New York with her
family in 1924. She was grad
uated from New York State Col
lege for Teachers in Albany
with high honorS in 1914.
She leaves her mother, Mrs.
John D. DiCoStanzo. of Valeria,
N. Y; a sister, Mrs. Edward
Regain of Albany and a brother,
Albert, of Milwaukee, Wis.
Funeral services will be to-
morrow in Valeria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
zoners Weiq1
Barney House
Relocation

A request for permission to
locate a settlement house in
WaShington's Mount Pleasant
Columbia Heights area was I'M
der study today by city coming
officials.
The proposal to move the
Barney Neighborhood House
into new quarters at BIB Six
teenth street NV, drew strong
opposition and support from
residents at a hearing yesterday.
The Board of zoning Adjust
ment, after hearing the con-
flicting viewpoints on the pro-
posed settlement house loca-
ton, took the question under
Amusement. A decision is eX-
pected next week.
The settlement house has
been located at 1888 Eighteenth
street NV, since it was forced
to move from the Southwest
area several years ago to make
way for urban renewal there.
Petition Submitted
At yesterdays hearing in the
District Building, supporters of
the Sixteenth street location
submitted a petition, carrying
SAC names, which urged that
the settlement house be per-
mitted to locate in the Mount
Pleasant Columbia Heights
area. The petition promptly
was challenged by opponents
on the grounds that it did not
specify the specific address on
Sixteenth street.
About so persons stood up at
the hearing in support of the
coming request. with about 20
identifying themselves as prop
erty owners in the area. Then
there also was strong showing
of people in opposition to the
request.
Mrs. Wallace M. Yater, presi-
dent of the Barney Neighbour
hood House board of trustees,
said:
I'VE believe that we would
not be intruders but would
make very good neighbors. We
would cause no additional traf-
fic problems :"
Gets UGF Funds
The settlement house is sup
ported in part by United Givers
Fund money.
A spokesman for opponents
to the Sixteenth street loca-
ton, Attorney A. E. Bindeman,
emphasized that the opposi-
ton was to the proposed loca-
ton. He said that the property
owners he represented favored
the goals of the settlement
house.
Opposing organizations in
cluded the Columbia Heights
and the Mount Pleasant Citi-
zens Associations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22

winners were Kane Transfer
Co., local carriage division; Fed
eral Storage Co., household
movers; B, Frank Joy Co., con-
struction vehicle, and Super
Concrete Co., ready mixed con-
crete.
Seventeen other firms re-
ceived merit awards for safety.
George C. Brown, chairman of
DCTA'S safety committee, in
vited all members and guests
present to help form a safety
patrol to help the organizations
Self-policing efforts against un-
lawful truck driving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Kennedy Names
Cultural Aide

President Kennedy yesterday
appointed Lawrence Langner,
founder of the Theater Guild,
to be a member of the Advisory
Committee of the Arts for the
National Cultural Center.
Mr.. Langner, who long has
been interested in the drama,
is a member of a New York
firm of foreign patent and
trademark specialists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
St. AnseIm Addition
Blessed by Bishop

The site of a $500, 900 addi-
ton to st. Anselm's Abbey was
blessed yesterday by the Most
Rev. Philip M. Hannah, auxil-
larry bishop of Washington.
The new building, to be located
at Fourteenth street and South
Dakota avenue NE, will be
used as living quarters for
about Is Benedictine monks.
The building, due to be COM
pleted by the end of the year,
also will house a chapel, library,
work rooms and a recreation
room for the monks, who oper-
ate Priory School. Abbot Alban
BoultWood assisted Bishop
Hannah at the blessing cere-
monies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22

NV, the home address; five
sons, DR.. Horace H. Gusts, jr.,
31l9 Patterson place NV;
Philip S. Gusts, 2212 South
Culpeper street. Arlington; j.
B. Gregg Gusts, 6124 Twenty
ninth street NV, Norment
Gusts and Robert H. Gusts,
both of 6136 Thirty-first street
NV, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at
2 pm. Saturday in the S. H.
Hines Funeral Home. Burial
will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
Settlement House
Course to Open

A training course for volun-
teer settlement house workers
will start at 8 o'clock tonight
at Fides Neighborhood House,
1854 Eighth street NV.
The course will be con-
Quoted every Thursday evening
through April u.
Instruction in becoming a
group leader for girls and
boys from 6 to II years old will
be given as we'll as help in be-
ing an athletic coach. hobby
group worker. club sponsor and
music teacher.
Milton A. Brown, director of
the D. c. Health and Welfare
Council, will speak on what is
a settlement House? at the
meeting tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
400 Choir Singers
Will Give Recital

A choir of 400 voices from
IA church choirs will present
a recital at 8 pm. tomorrow in
Mount Moriah Baptist Church,
Seventeenth and East Capitol
streets.
Roger Heller, executive vice
president of wilkins Coffee and
Tea Co., will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
By JOHN HASKINS
Contributing Critic

Frank Preuss, violin; Robert
Paris, harpsichord and piano. At
Fan American Union Program:
Sonata No 4 in d, for violin and
continue, Handel; Sonata No. : in
c Minor, Opus 30 No. >, for violin
D Minor, Opus los, for violin and
piano, Brahms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-22
See II Senators
HOME GAME!
FIR EE!

Girls and Boys
IS years of age or under
Are eligible for membership
Membership entities you to free admission and
q seat in special KnothoIe Club reserved section
for any or all Of II Senators Home Games this
season at the new D. C. Stadium
Check the Stars Sports Section for schedule of
Knothoe games and official membership entry
blank
The KnothoIe Club is under the joint sponsorship
Of the Senators Boil Club and The Evening stor
Newspaper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Prince Charles
Faces Duckinq
On 18th Birthday

LONDON, Nov. Is (AP).-
Prince Charles will be IA to-
morrow-which poses a prob
lem for a number of his future
subjects.
Should his Schoolmates al
Gordonstoun duck him in
cold water?
1t will be the first birthday
the heir to the throne will
spend at the tough Scottish
boarding school near the chilly
North Sea. And by custom the
boys at Gordonstoun drag the
birthday boy from his domitorS
and PUNK him in a tub filiec
with cold water.
If custom is follow e d
Charles will then dash back tt
his room in Windmill Lodge anC
change his wet clothes.
Asked if the young Prince
would get the traditiona
ducking, a spokesman at Buck
ingham Palace said: THAT Ii
a purely personal matter"
He pointed out, however, thai
when Queen Elizabeth II anC
Prince Philip sent Charles Il
Gordonstoun, they requested
that he be treated as one o
the boys.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
BY JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star Staff Writer

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba,
Nov. 13.-"zap guns" and rocks
are being used by Cubans to
harass Marines patrolling along
the fence that separates this
United States naval base from
Communist Cuba.
The zap gun" is a spectacu-
lar-looking, but harmless APP
paratus the Cubans use to squirt
what seems to be a carbon diox-
ide spray, such as is used in
fire extinguishers, through the
fence.
Periodically a jeep-load of
Cubans. with a long piece of
pipe mounted on their vehicle,
drives up to the fence and
squirts a puff Of smoke and
foam. The Marines do not dig
nifty the zap-gunners with much
more than a long. hard stare.
The rock-throwing gets the
same treatment. Plans for a
display of armored force today
between the fence and Cuba
to impress Fidel CaStro's mill
tiamen were Cancelled.
A hurried conference was
held in the headquarters of
Rear Admiral Edward J.
ODonnell, the base commander,
after news of the plan was
sent to the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

budget, II was UNDERSTOOD Cooay
it was understood today.
Even if the step-by-ster
technique is adopted, however
the administration wants the
first rate cut to become effec-
tive as of next January !.
Reforms May Be Delayed
The administration also is
studying the idea of delaying
the effective date of tax re-
form or "loophole-closing" pro-
posals until taxes are lowered
Officials say no final deci-
sions have been made on tar
legislation to be recommended
in January. Repeatedly still UP
in the air are the size Of
individual tax cuts to be pro-
posed, the pace of any gradual
approach and items to be dealt
with in the reform section
Another big question mark is
what the administration will
recommend for corporate in
come tax rates.
In the area of individual in
come taxes, there has been talk
of lowering rates at the bot
tom from the present 20 pei
cent to is per cent and those
at the top from the present
81 per cent to SIS per cent.
There has been speculation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

member executive committee OF
the governing Congress Party
in Parliament of propaganda
problem.
He said the Communist Chi
nese are operating a network of
So radio relay centers all along
the Himalayan border to pre-
sent their viewpoints.
Will Install Transmitters
A party spokesman who
briefed newsmen at the end of
the closed meeting said Mr..
Reddi promised to install more
powerful transmitters to relay
the Indian stand.
Thirty women members of
parliament conferred separate
ly under the presidency of Mr..
Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira
Gandhi. They decided to ask
the government controlled ra-
dio network to play martial
songs to infuse enthusiasm
among the masses.
The government, which gets
petroleum products from the
Soviet Union, appealed to the
people to use kerosene spar
ingly. Many Indians use the
oil for cooking and lighting.
Keshav D. Malaviya, Minister
for Oil and Mines, said the
appeal was made not because
of any inadequacy in supplies
but because Of difficulties ir
See INDIA, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
SPECTACULAR, BUT HARMLESS
The Zap Gun Comes Into Play at Guantanamo

sive ordnance" The two
Marines were reported to have
wandered into a mine field, but
Admiral O'Donnell gave no
details.
The Marines, most of whom
were training in California,
North Carolina and in the
Lesser Antilles until three
weeks ago, told of the rock
throwing incidents and the
shouted epithets that cross the
Cactus Curtain.
Until the Cubans throw
something more deadly, one
Leatherneck private limited,
they can probably get away
with it.
A tour of the strong de-
Tense perimeter late yesterday
spread the conviction that it
will take something more than
rocks to dent the Marine front.
The Marines, under Brig. Gen.
r. L. CRip) Collins, AZ, native
Of Washington, D. c., have
come to stay. in the words of
their stocky, gray-haired COM
mander.
Without discussing the num-
Der of Marines or their arma-
ment for security reasons, it can
be said that the Leatherneck
ground forces at Guantanamo
are in more than enough
See TOUR, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

too, that the So per cent cor
porate rate may be cut to Al
per cent, and that corporations
be put on a quarterly pay-as-
you-go basis in line with q
suggestion once preached by
Representative Mills, Demo-
crat of Arkansas, chairman OF
the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Six-MOnth Lag
Corporations now pay their
taxes in quarterly installments,
but there is a six-month lag be-
fore payments are made. If this
gap were bridged in one or two
steps, the Government would
collect a windfall that also
would reduce the immediate
budget impact of the tax bill.
The idea of delaying reform
legislation until reductions are
made was advanced by Secre-
tary of Commerce Hodges, who
said an early tax cut would
stimulate the Nations econ
omy.
Mr.. Hodges suggested at a
recent news conference that
perhaps Congress should enact
a temporary tax cut that would
become permanent when re-
forms take effect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
U. 5. toReprint
Stamp Error
BY the Associated Press


The Post Office Department
moved today to flood the market
with deliberately misprinted
Dag Hammarskjold commem-
orative stamps to wipe out the
inflated value of unintentional
misprints in the hands Of col
lectors.
Postal officials acknowledged
the step was certain to bring
protests from collectors holding
stamps resulting from the orig
inal misprint.
But James F. Kelleher, special
assistant to Postmaster General
j. Edward Day, said new run
offs of the stamp, with its in
verified yellow background. will
be made available in unlimited
quantities to satisfy col
lectorS' demands"
Estimates of the value of the
original misprint ranged a S
high as 100000 for one I'M
broken 50-stamp pane held by a
New Jersey collector.
I'm line with the Postmaster
Generals policy of avoiding
production of rare or over
valued philatelic items" said
an announcement distributed
by Mr.. Kelleher, "the unusual
misprint, exactly as it appears
on the inverted stamp now
known to be in post offices,
will be deliberately reproduced
by the bureau and will carry
the same plate numbers as the
few stamps now in circulation.
Mr.. Kelleher said the Post
Office and the bureau estab-
lished a precedent for today's
move by printing additional
quantities of the nursing COM
memorative stamp earlier this
See STAMPS, Page A-6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
SPRUCE SELECTED
AS WHITE HOUSE
CHRISTMAS TREE

SALIDA, Colo, (AP) A
150-year-old blue spruce, IS
feet high, has been selected
from the San Isabel Ma
tional Forest in Colorado
as this years White House
Christmas tree.
The tree will be loaded
on two railroad flatcars
tomorrow at Salida. 1t was
cut near Cottonwood Creek
at an elevation of $500 feet.
Elaborate precautions to
protect the tree on its jour-
ney include spraying with a
preServative and wrapping
it with 900 yards Of burlap
and 1900 yards of rope.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
BY CHARLES d. PIERCE
Star staff Writer

The District Commissioners
today authorized the prepara-
ton of engineering plans for
a Potomac River freeway Sec
ton which could become a vital
link to the controversial Three
Sisters Bridge.
Harold Aitken, director OF
the District Highway Depart
ment, said the Commissioners
action means we have a COM
mitment to go across the river
but he added: Just how this
will be done has yet to be
decided"
The Commissioners approved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
Mems Room Stolen

STOWE BY CHARTLEY,
England, Nov. Is (AP)-
Thieves dismantled and took
away the mems room from this
unused railroad station over
night. The concrete and iron
Installation weighed 1000
pounds.