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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
Civil Engineer
Feared Drowned
In Potomac

A 23-year-old civil engineer
doing surveying work in con-
nection with the Potomac in
tercepter sewer project above
Great Falls was missing and
presumed drowned after fall
ing into the river yesterday.
The missing man was iden-
titled by Montgomery County
police as Donald Kennedy, of
Alton, Ill. an employee of the
Black & Veatch firm of con-
sulting engineers, 4840 Mac
Arthur boulevard NV.
A spokesman for the firm
said Mr.. Kennedy had been
working here for the past six
months and lived during that
time in an apartment at the
Macarthur boulevard address. /
He was last seen about S
pm. in the water with the
current carrying him down.
stream toward the falls, &C.
cording to Cabin John firemen.
He slipped into the water as
he and another engineer, Will
liam Sweeney of Baltimore, a
foreman for Intercounty Con-
struction Co. of Hyattsville,
were walking along a water
covered ledge at the bottom of
a sloping dam near the sewer
project. They were using a rope
to guide them when Mr.. Ken
nedy lost his footing.
Mr.. Sweeney, who tried to
rescue Mr.. Kennedy, also
slipped into the churning,
deeper water, but managed to
save himself as the other man
disappeared from sight, fire
men reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

A BARTENDER said, "The
man who's Seagram's dis
tributor on the East Coast
says resorts are in bad shape
all along the coast. It's slow
here but I never hear any Of
the businessmen say bust
ness is bad. A lot of Gus
toners said even on the day
they were driving down they
wondered If they should
come and they were sur
prised when they got here to
find so much had been
done"
And at the far end Of the
beach, the chi-chi Henlopen
Hotel was in the process of
becoming more so. In the
blue-green lobby, a woman
held a self-consciouS pose for
a portrait sketched in chalk.
Outside workmen on scat
folds scaled the white walls
and chung there like flies.
The owner, Michael Fa-.
brizio, said, I'VE want to
think about the future, not
the disaster. The all-new din
ing room is now the Persian
Room and the cocktail
lounge is now the Alibi
Lounge. Also new is the Cafe
des Plances-boardwalk cafe
in parenthesis, for people
who don't know French.
We are enjoying a very
successful season. People are
comparing our new rooms
! to those on the Italian Rivi
era" he said as we walked
through the slick black and
,cerise bar. I'VE have a very
fine crowd and they are
spending Just as much
money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

ACROSS THE STREET,
Nick Pacetis was in his new
confectionery store. With
buzz saws playing back
ground music, he said, Were
part up. There was the apart
ment in the middle and a
lunch bar. No, I am not
scared to rebuild. If the water
takes, I'll put back again.
This is my 50th season
around seaShores. I see
plenty come and CO."
Farther down the board
walk, C.~uy music of a
quickly err ted miniature
amusement pa carrousel
was drowned by he sound
of machines driving fling
into the sand. The water
gushed and swirled around
as the pile was driven far
Their into the earth. The
machine went kathump, ka-
thump and the sun warmed
the backs of four boys and
five adults watching and
leaning on the rail.
Behind, in what was once
his kitchen and now doubles
as a kitchen and refresh
ment stand, Pete Stephens
was dispensing hamburgers.
He shouted over the noise Of
the machines.
MY brother and I had six
storeS-candy, novelty place,
amuSementS, speciality shop,
restaurant. Had an Al
place. $2OO,OOO-all went in
the water. Been here q
years and now we have the
catastrophe. No, we are not
scared to rebuild, but I think
they should put up a seawall
or jetties to still the water
to protect for the future"
In the darkness Of the
Town House bar, a few peo-
pie sat at the counter. 1t had
that midafternoon, half
used look with tables and
dance floor empty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
Alexandria Cuts
Sewage CHARGE

The Alexandria Sanitation
Authority has approved a 10
per cent reduction in sewage
disposal charges.
Under the new scale, the bill
Of the average single-family
residence will be reduced So to
$3.50 per year.
The rate reduction, called for
in the authority's preliminary
1923 fiscal budget, will be
placed in effect ION or about
October l." officials said.
1t is being made possible "by
a combination of increased
revenues from new connections
to the sewage-disposal system
and reduced debt service re-
they added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
Fall Off Diving Board
Breaks Boys Wrists

Donald Bloom, 10, of $50
Sixteenth street, Silver Spring,
suffered fractures of both
wrists when he fell yesterday
from a high diving board at
the swimming pool of his
apartment development.
He was taken to WASHINGTON
Sanitarium in Takoma Park
after the accident about 3:15
pm. at the Summit Hill
Apartments. Silver Spring fire
men reported that he slipped
on the diving board and used
his arms to break the plunge.
He landed on a concrase apron
about IA feet below, firemen
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27


beautiful girl, a young man
and a 10-year-old Chinese
Huckleberry Finn" said Msgr.
Romaniello. The title comes
from an old Chinese saying:
You can't prevent the bird of
sorrow from flying over your
head, but YOU can keep it
from nesting in your hair
"The book came out in 1856
in a hard cover. and now it's
just coming out as a paper
back. They changed the title
to Escape From Red China
Don't ask my why"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

cluSion Of a Seven-day trial on
the receivership action filed by
F. Douglass Sears, State insur-
ance commissioner. A full opin-
ion will be filed later.
Security financial had been
the only commercial company
with a State charter writing
insurance on accounts in saw
ings and loan associations.
Reserve Ordered
Mr.. Sears had ordered the
firm to set up reserves against
any claims which might be filed
by associations it had insured
and which themselves face
liquidation. The insurance
commissioner commended that
If the reserve were established.
Security Financial would be-
come inSolvent.
Earlier this year, Mr.. Sears
fined the company for trying
to change its premium system
without his approval. He re-
fused to renew the firms an
nual license on July l. After
that, the company notified
about two dozen savings and
loan associations that it was
no longer writing insurance.
Security Financial has been
in the spotlight since it was
disclosed in 1860 that the firm
was incorporated a year before
by A. Gordon Boone, a Towson
lawyer and Democratic floor
leader of the House of Dele
gates. Mr.. Boone said he had
set up the corporation with
money given him by a Chicago
lawyer.
Other Political Figures
Two other Baltimore County
/ nar44cNfotin dnl0r,afae khs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
Liquidation Is Ordered
For Security Financial
Maryland Insurance Official Named
Receiver for Suvines-Loun Insurer

BALTIMORE July 81 (AP The stormy corporate life Of
the Security Financial Insurance Corp. nearing end
Circuit Judge j. Gilbert Prendergast ordered the three
yearod firm into State receiveShp yesterday and named
John H Coppage Maryands deputy insurance commissioner
to carry out the liquidation.
Judge Prendergast after the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

VPletuFe on Poee A-U
dents every word. And they
asked some direct, searching
questions.
How did you get into this
line of work." asked Essie Hall,
10. Of Los Angeles.
The President laughed and
replied that politics was the
family tradition.
do you think your children
will follow in your footsteps?"
asked Loretta Rouse, IA, of San
Diego.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

President Kennedy got some
close scrutiny today from a
group of blind teen-agers from
California.
They shook his hand, said
hello and hung on the Presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
Action Seen Near
On 2 Judgeships
Posts Moy Be
Filled Before
Adjournment
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star Staff Writer

There is hope that vacancies
on the District Court and the
United States Court of Appeals
benches here viii be filled be-
fore Congress adjourns. a JUS
tice Department spokesman re-
vealed yesterday.
He said screening of non1i-
nees by the Kennedy admins
tration for the appellate court
judgeShip is farther along than
is the case of those being con-
sidered to fill the District Court
vacancy. However, he said that
the nomination for the Dis
trict Court judgeship could well
be Speeded up.
This information came in the
wake of reliable reports that
Charles T. Duncan, 37-year-old
principal Assistant United
States Attorney, is one Of sew
eral candidates being consid-
cred for the District Court
judge nomination. If he re-
ceives the nod from the Justice
Department and the White
House, Mr.. Duncan could be-
come the first Negro to serve
on the District bench here and
join a company of four other
Negroes now serving as Federal
judges.
These forecasts of possible
action in the near future to-
ward filling the two vacancies
involved should bring cheer to
the judges-particularly on the
District Court-who have had
to assume the burden Of work
resulting from the death al
most two years ago of Judge
James w. Morris. This Is the
gap that must be filled on the
District Court.
And Judge Henry w. Edger-
ton of the appellate court has
announced his retirement. eff
fective when a successor is
nominated and approved by the
Senate.
Other Vacancies
The vacancies here are among
% that must be filled by the
Kennedy administration to pro-
vide Federal judges who will
serve lifetime tenure out Of a
total of 408 such judges across
the country.
The District Court vacancy
here has been in existence long
err than almost any other Fed
eral judgeship in the country.
However, the Kennedy ad-
ministration has not been idle
in its appointments. Last year
the President nominated and
the Senate affirmed So ap-
pointeeS to the Federal bench,
and this year there have been
A nominations and affirma-
tons, with nine affirmations
pending.
Normally. appointment Of a
Federal judge takes about six
months from the time a vacan-
cy occurs, and it involves a
thorough process of screening.
This chore is largely handled
by Deputy Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach and the
Assistant Deputy Attorney
General, Joseph F. Dolan.
To One Name
Eventually. the screening
process works down to one
name, and the American Bar
Association is asked for an
enlarged formal" report on
the potential nominee. Usually
an FBI check is undertaken at
the same time the ABA Is re-
queSted to make its formal in
quiries. This formal check in
cludes a personal interview
with the potential nominee by
an ABA judicial selections COM
mittee member.
This final step in the choos-
ing of a Federal judge actually
takes about three weeks, &C
cording to Justice Department
sources.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
The
Rambler
Finds Rehoboth
Is Going Up Again
By MYRA MACPHERSON

In half-completed build
ings, popcorn and ham,
burgers are sold up front
while hammers go to it in
the back, as reconstruction
Of Rehoboth goes on every
hour of the day.
The construction business
certainly is profiting by last
springs storm. There are
nearly as many construction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27
HouseGroup
Kills Fund for
FBI Building
Geological Survey.
GSA Center Also
Hit by Cutbuck

Funds for a site for a new
Federal Bureau of Investigation
building were knocked out of
an $1l billion money bill by
the House Appropriations Com
mittee today.
Also deleted were similar re-
quests from the General Serv-
ices Administration for site
money for a GSA record center
and a new Geological Survey
building. both to have been
located in the District.
The committee, in handling
the bill which covers spending
requests of some 26 Govern
ment agencies, commented that
the three construction items
were being delayed because
substantial construction" al
ready is planned or under way
IN the DlSCr1ct.
Study Lease Program
The committee also said it
was concerned with GSA's lease
construction program.
Under the arrangement, GSA
has agreed to lease space in
privately constructed buildings
for 10 to is years.
The committee emphasized
it felt the Government should
build its own buildings and
added it felt lease construction
is clearly the most expensive
method Of providing Govern
ment space.
Airport Gets Funds
Written into the money bill
was q limitation on the use of
funds for such projects costing
over 100000.
In other action, the commit
tee allowed 50 million for new
construction at Washington
National Airport. This will in
clude construction Of a new
heliport.
Also the committee approved
So million for the operation
and maintenance of Dulles In
ternational Airport, which is
expected to open this fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

George Kennedy is ia. He will
resume writing The RombIer on his
return 10 work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

Tor Blind in Los Angeles and
70 Lions Clubs across the coun-
try. The trip to Washington
is sponsored by the Camp
Springs MD Lions Club.
What made the White House
tour de luxe was not just the
attention of a special White
House guide, or the fact thai
each blind child was escorted
by a Lion. 1t was the presenc,
of one Of the longest resident
of the Executive Mansion; Rep.
resentative James Roosevelt o.
Los Angeles.
Tidbits Of Information
Mr.. Roosevelt spent most OF
his time signing autographs for
the youngsters. but he also took
occasion to add a few tidbits OF
information about the house
where he spent so many years
Despite their handicap, the
blind children got just as big
a thrill from their White House
tour as sighted visitors do.
They touched everything they
could, from the damask wall
covering Of the Red. Blue and
Green Rooms, to the marble
head of Lincoln in the down.
stairs corridor.
And they drank in every word
Inspector Kenneth Burke said
on the 30-minute tour. They
took a singular interest in the
colors of the rooms and fur
nishings as they passed through
them.
Takes Braille Notes
The busiest one of all was
Essie Hall. the groups histor-
ian. She took shorthand notes
in braille with a special slate
and stylus.
I'll never catch up" she
sighed as the group moved
from one room to another.
Here we are in the Red Room
and I'm still taking notes on
the Blue Room"
The group of blind children
will be in the Capital until
Tuesday. when they resume
their Nationwide tour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

Police today issued this
sketch of a man sought
in connection with the
stabbing of Miss Mary Lou
KOSterlitzky, IS, in st.
Peters Catholic Church
in Southeast Washington
last. Monday. Miss Roster
litzky, a COngressman's
aide, is recovering from
nine stab wounds in Casu-
atty Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

picture on Pose Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-27

Other Political Figures
Two other Baltimore County
Democratic delegates. the
Evening star., 1962-04-19

Choose from q sensotionoI selection
Of eoiIy-coored woven boskefs thot
you con fill from Drug Foir's condX
gross ond toy selection.
Evening star., 1962-04-19

Luscious voniIo or chocolate butter
creom-filled chocoIote-covered Eoster
eggs with the eoIden-yoIk center
-. in eIitterine gift wrop.
Evening star., 1962-04-19

So fine, so famous, so sure 10
please, Whitmon's Chocolates
moke fine Foster gifts. See the new
packages and new ossortments
at Drug Foir!
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28
Boat Noise Detrimental To
Residents at Welfare Home

1t was voted to authorize Town
Manager Rex D. Gilmore to pro-
ceed with work on conversion of
the primary electric system.
The first phase would convert
half the town; the balance, the
second phase would be com :
pleted within II months.
Bids for Locust Street paving
had been checked and twas de-
cided to award the contract to
Hoskinson Brothers, low bid
der, specifying Alternate B, use
of tar and chips.
John E. Wilson III requested
electric service for Cottage
Dale Acres 8. The town will
furnish current subject to the
rules and regulations of the
towns electric schedule. The
town attorney will attend the
meeting on July 5.
Gilmore reported that letter
had been received from General
Service Administrator in
reference to the Post Office, the
use of which had been requested
for town hall. The town was
asked to submit their plans.
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28
Lake Como
Popular
Spot Here

Attendance has been very
good all during the season at
the municipal beach at Lake
Como, according to the life
guards who are hired by the
Town of Smyrna. The beach is
crowded every day, and on Sat-
urdays and Sundays people from
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Maryland join the local people
there. The visitors bring many
young children, and boys and
girls from Smyrna may be seen
at the beach and swimming ev-
cry day.
There are boaters on the lake,
with water skiing also being en-
joyed.
The water is great" so far
this season. The TWO guards on
duty are Robert Pritchard and
Ben Solloway who are exper-
fenced In their work. The beach
facilities were packed during
the weekend with many out of
state visitors.
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28

Open For
Summer

Officials of the Smyrna Spe-
cial School District wish to
remind students and parents
that the Libraries of the Dis
trict are again open this sum :
mer but are on a changed sched-
ule of hours from that of last
year. The Smyrna Elementary
Library will be open on We'd
nesdays during the day and
Friday evenings. The High
School Library will only be o.
pen on Friday evenings.
Last year the Elementary
School Library received tre-
mendous use while the High
School Library was visited by
fewer students. Programs in
both schools, however, were
called "highly successful" 1t
is felt, however, that the
changed hours may allow more
pupils to use the facilities.
The Smyrna Elementary
School Library will be open on
Wednesdays from 1912 in the
morning, l-3 In the afternoon,
and then on Fridays from 90
pm. The High School Library
will be open only on Friday
evenings from 6-9p.m. Evening
hours have been set to coincide
with store hours In Town so
that parents and older students
who wish to do shopping may
stop off at the school library
Continued on Page Twol
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28
Enlarge
Electric
System

A crash program will be
started by the Town of Smyr-
ma on July 9 to convert half
its power distribution system
for handling increased voltage.
The second half of the system
will be converted next year,
according to Town Manager Rex
D. Gilmore.
Smyrna is near the limit of
its present electricity distri-
button system, said Gilmore,
and voltage flucuates under
heavy loads, particularly mo-
mentary heavy loads.
Delaware Power & Light Co.
is adding a sub-station to give
AGO volts in addition to the
1900 volts from the present
sub station.
Smyrna, which buys power
wholesale from Delaware Po-
wer & Light for resale to $500
customers, will spend $4,000
converting half its lines to the
higher voltage. The cost of con-
verting the other half will come
out of next years voltage.
August first is the dead
line for this years work, Gil
more said, to prepare the sys-
tenn for the expected heavy use
of air conditioners in August.
Smyrna is adding one wire
to the three wires now used
In the distribution system. This,
and the larger sub-station, will
help eliminate power line losses
due to lengthy runs, Gilmore
said.
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28
Council
Endorses
Route l3
Change

Delaware Travel Council will
most likely endorse the chang
ing of US. Route l3 to US.
Route S, according to President
Glen Thierwechter, of Dover.
The Council was contacted by
the Ocean Hiway Association
promoters of Route l3. urging
that 1t back the proposal. The
change is sought since many
people consider "l3" an un-
lucky number and refuse to
travel over it.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Tunnel Commission, over which
the route will pass, favors the
move, which would extend US.
Route 5from the Canadian Dor :
der, cutting across Connecticut
and then south, including a por :
ton of Route II In Virginia.
Thierwechter said that mem =
bers of the Delaware State
Highway Department have vo :
iced no opposition to the change.
If a majority of the states vote
favorabley,
favorably, the highway de-
partment has no objection to the
change.
According to Ocean Hiway
Association officials, of which
Vernon B. Derrickson, Dover,
is chairman of the board of dir
ectors, assurance has been
given that Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida will vote for US. Route
S.
The Travel Council annlun-
ced at its Rehoboth Beach meet
ing Friday night that billboards
will be erected about July 10
which will direct vacationers to
the Atlantic Coastal area, and
others will urge visits to Del
aware's historic spots. Thier-
wechter said this will be the
''first concrete example of what
cooperation by Travel Council
members can do In the field
of promotion"
The Council also heard a re-
port from David S. Hugg, in
formation officer of the Del
aware State Development De-
parment, In which he said the
state had received much fa-
orable publicity through the
visit of travel editors to Re-
hoboth Beach last month. A
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28
Four Are q
GoIdey Beoeo m
Stud ents To
Graduate Fri.

Four students from Smyrna
are among the members of the
graduating class of Goldey Bea :
com School of Business, VIII
mington. Outdoor exercises will
be held in Rockford Park on
Friday, June 29. Students are:
Carol R. Gordon, daughter of
Mrs. Jean S. Stottlemyer of
430 West Commerce Street;
Robert M. Keen, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank o. Keen of
So Sunnyside Road; Susan j.
Price, daughter ofMr. andMrs.
Henry T. Price of ll9 North
Main Street;and Betty Elaine
Severson, daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. Charles Severson, $50
Lake Como Circle.
The class consists of 800 STU
dents, and the principal speaker
at the ceremonies will be DR..
Ernest V. Hollis of the US.
Office of Education.
Miss Price will be one of
twenty-one students to receive
the Honor Gradute In Business
Award.
Smyrna times., 1962-06-28
Local VFW To Stage
Fireworks Display

public is invited and there is
no admittance charge.
There is adequate parking on
the field, and it is requested
that there be no parking on the
road.
The veterans will have the
cooperation of the Clayton Fire
Company, the Citizens Hose
Company, Smyrna; the state
police and local police.
This will be a larger display
than the one held last Novem :
ber.
On Saturday the VFW pre-
sented the Little League with
an American flag. The presen-
tation was made by Merritt Hal
ey, past commander and the flag
was raised by the Color Guard
of the VFW in uniform.