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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-14

MR tranquil, deeply wooded
2Y0 area in West Rockville,
heart of Montgomery County Gov
eminent. A charming, modern city,
stepped in the traditions of gracious
Maryland living, with roots deep in
a rich and nostalgia past.
1t is Montgomery County's prime
new suburban location. The most
astute real estate experts and bust
ness executives have invested heavily
in this area, developing solidly-built
residential communities.
Vital research organizations and
prestige business institutions, in
Guiding Vitro, Acc, IBM and the
new Bureau of Standards, have re-
located just minutes from this invit-
ing residential area.
Upon completion of the new Cabin
John Bridge (now under construc-
tion), GA and other strategic Vir-
ginia points will be only minutes
away from suburban Woodley
Gardens.
Wonderfully located, this area is
spanned by super highways. 1t is just
off Interstate Highway #7O, Gu. S.
240), Frederick Road. Supremacy
residential, yet only a brief drive
from everything you want in the
city.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
BY JOHN STORM
Star Staff Writer

A Montgomery County plan
ming hearing erupted into q
conflict of interest debate last
night in which two county
planners were singled out fol
attack.
j. Newton Brewer, jr., and
Donald E. Gingery should dis
qualify themselves whenever
the commission is dealing with
apartment zoning," Darius v,
Phillips, a Bethesda business
man-engineer, declared.
He made the statement at a
hearing after placing on record
a Citizens Planning Association
report that named the two
planners as well as a third, w
Lawson King, in a chapter en-
titled Conflict of Interest
Mr.. Phillips is a member of the
associations executive board.
Referring to alleged private
holdings of Mr.. Gingery ano
Mr.. Brewer, who is vice chair.
man of the commission, Mr.
Phillips said you should pro.
tect yourselves from these con-
flicting pressures.
Whatever you do, you are
open to criticism. If you deny
an apartment zoning request
you can be accused of running
a monopoly. If you approve it
you can be accused of giving
in to other builders pressure.
At this point Mr.. Brewer
broke in heatedly. This whole
thing is unworthy of comment,
Evening star., 1962-04-18

Detective Leroy w. Barnes
Of the Fifth Precinct said the
woman told him she did it be-
cause her relief check was late
and she and her two children
were hungry.
Mrs. ,McCrarys whose hus-
band left her last fall, was
charged with breaking into
Tiny's Market, 1929 Indepen-
dence avenue Sc, on March 6.
Abraham Kraft, 46, the stores
owner, listed as stolen six
pounds Of spiced ham, four
pounds of bologna, 10 pairs of
ladies' stocking and some cigar
cites.
Police were puzzled by the
break until March IA, when Pvt.
M. w. Mckinney arrested Mrs.
McCrary at her home on q
disorderly conduct charge. In
formants said she had broken
into the store.
After her first court appear
Evening star., 1962-04-18

drivers and found one who be-
lieves he let Mrs. Minard off at
the stop shortly before the
time she was found hanging
over a fence, bleeding from hel
wounds.
2 Wounds in Heart
Deputy Coroner Richard L
Whelton revealed TINT Mrs. Mi
nard died of two wounds tc
the heart inflicted by a sharp
instrument. She also had three
other wounds.
In a desperate effort to save
her life, teams of surgeons mas
Saged Mrs. Minard'S heart after
sewing up the wounds.
Mrs. Minard was widely
known for her activities in the
American Legion, Veterans Of
Foreign Wars, the Esther Re-
bekah Lodge Of the Odd Eel
lows and the capitol Hill Pres
byterian Church.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
Foirfox Board Allows
Shift Of Negro Pupils

The Fairfax School Boarc
last night approved the trans,
fer of 108 Negro children intC
schools attended primarily BY
white children.
1t did so after making il
clear that Negro children being
graduated from integratec
schools at one level should con-
tinue in integrated schools at
the next level and not be placed
back in Negro schools.
In approving the transfers,
the board acted on recon-
mendations of school officials
who said that 127 Negro chill
dren had applied for transfers.
A total of 19 were denied be-
cause the children lived closer
to Negro schools, officials said.
The school administration
was accused last week of re
segregation" of a number of
Negro children because some
being graduated from desegre-
gated elementary or inter-
mediate schools this year were
assigned back to Negro schools
for the next school year.
Assistant School Supt. George
Pope told the board last night
Evening star., 1962-04-18

those placements were made
because the board had decided
earlier the attendance area for
the county's only Negro Junior
senior high school would be the
whole county.
Under the assignments ap-
proved last night. all children
who objected to transfers back
to Negro schools were reas-
signed to integrated schools, he
said, except for a few who
lived closer to Negro schools.
Asked if it would be legal to
adopt a policy under which
children in integrated schools
would be promoted automat-
ically to other integrated
schools. Mr.. Pope said he
didn't know.
Board members instructed
him to consult the boards at
torney in order to get an opin-
ion from the State attorney
general.
Last nights action means II
new schools will become deseg-
regated. A total Of "a Negro
children are attending formerly
all-white schools this year.
Evening star., 1962-04-18

ance, she was sent for mental
observation to District General
Hospital. where she was dag.
nosed as competent, but "emo-
tionally unstable" and "bas.
ically immature"
In court today, her attorney
Arve E. Hancock, said she
would not talk to him or testify
in her own defense. When her
son Douglas entered the court
room Mrs. McCrary broke away
from marshals and embraced
him. Mother and son were al
lowed a brief reunion in the
cell block before trial.
Mr.. Barnes told Assistant
United States Attorney Robert
A. Levetown that Douglas said
his mother threw a brick
through the stores front door
window and ordered him to
pass food out through the
opening.
Evening star., 1962-04-18

COMING BACK we used
301, a broad dual highway
for the most part. At inter-
walls we got on the new high
way, 95, an even better dual
highway, largely under con-
struction, which parallels
3O1 for miles.
Why two dual highways?
It seems that the highway
act of 1856 made Federal
funds available for 80 per
cent of the cost of inter-
state highways with con-
trolled access. Good old 301
has gas stations and motels
along it with access to the
highway. Since it would
cost more to clear these
easements than to build a
new highway, the latter is
what the States set out to
do. Route 95 will parallel
existing highways from Mi
ami to Maine.
On the way back we went
to mass at a small Roman
Catholic church in Fayette-
vile, N. c. It was Palm Sun
day.
The pastor is a tall hand
some Irishman, the Rev. w.
H. Lynch, O.M.I. (Oblates of
Mary Immaculate). One of
the two altar boys assisting
him was a Negro.
The layman who read in
English the long gospel, the
Passion of cur Lord accord
ing to st. Matthew, and read
it beautifully, was a Negro.
About one-sixth of those in
attendance were Negroes.
You see, there are things
about "the new South" that
one cannot resist reporting
Evening star., 1962-04-18

borhood and talking to citizens.
Mrs. Minard was attacked
at Thirty first and K streets
Sc. as she was walking home
from a bus stop. Police be-
lieve she was the victim of an
unsuccessful pocketbook snatch.
ing. She died four hours later
at District General Hospital
Alibi Stands Up
For a time last night police
thought they had a possible
suspect when they arrested a
man for pocketbook snatching
in a Southeast area some dis
tance from the Minard stab
bling.
He had a police record and
admitted following women from
buses. But he had an alibi for
Monday night, and after con-
to a lie detector ex-
animation, was cleared of SUI
Spicion in the murder.
Police still are convinced Mrs.
Minard was slain by a frus-
trated street prowler, who
probably slashed with a knife
after he failed to wreSt away
her pocketbook.
They believe she left a bus
at Minnesota avenue and
street Sc. about
two blocks from her home, after
a downtown Easter shopping
tour.
Midway to her home she
probably was accosted by the
man. Mrs. Minard, who had
expressed fear of being on the
street at night, was in a habit
Of wearing her purse with
straps wound around her upper
arm, an held close to her body.
Police questioned four bus
Evening star., 1962-04-18

sought advice for District Gov
eminent actions needed before
the project can get underway.
The sponsor of the develop
ment is a Rome-baSed firm
known as Societa Generate I'm
mobiliare, which already owns
the 10-acre site valued at ap-
proximately 81 million.
Full approval of the design
and planning has been given by
the National Capital Planning
Commission, which has recon-
mended to the District Zoning
Commission that it approver
zoning changes in the triangu-
lar area bounded by Virginia
avenue. New Hampshire ave-
nue. and Rock Greek Parkway,
NV.
The development would have
400 units in three apartments
buildings, plus a hotel and
office building, on the site
overlooking the Potomac River,
just north of the proposed site
of the National Cultural Center.
Design ITO Dramatic"
Fine Arts members oppose
the architectural design as too
dramatic, and contend it "in-
vites a chaotic disharmony to
the architectural growth of the
city plan. not only for this
location but for other parts of
Washington as we'll"
The proposed design would
include some curvilinear build
ingS designed to conform with
the curving section of the
Inner Loop ExpreSSway at this
point.
THE sponsors of this de-
velopment have planed it in
full coordination with the
staff of the National Capital
Planning Commission" Gen.
Clarke pointed out to members
Of the Fine Arts group.
He said the zoning commits
sion is willing to approve a
l30-foot height for the build
ings and the District is willing
to authorize needed street clos
Evening star., 1962-04-18
Receivership
for
Thrift S&L
By ROBERT GRUENBERG
Star Staff Writer

The Maryland Attorney Cen
erals office today asked that
the Maryland Thrift Savings
& Loan Association, Inc, be
put into receivership.
The request was made of
Montgomery County Circuit
Judge Ralph G. Shure in q
14-page petition which said the
association is in an "insolvent
condition"
Maryland Thrift has its
main office at 8417 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring, with q
branch in Baltimore.
Although the petition did
not list the number of share
holders, a report made last
year to the Department of As
SessmentS and Taxation showed
it had 533 free share accounts.
After an hour-long confer
ence with Assistant Attorneys
General James P. Garland and
Gerard w. Wittstadt and
Maryland Thrift Counsel
Keith L. Seegmiller, Judge
Shure restricted the firms op-
erations as follows:
I. All Withdrawals and pay
mentS by Maryland Thrift
must have the approval of AL
bert w. Ward. State Director
of Assessments and Taxation.
2. The association is pro-
hibited from accepting any new
accounts.
8. None Of its assets may be
sold or transferred.
4. 1t may not enter into any
contracts or obligations with
out Mr.. Wards approval.
Judge Shure set April 26 for
an answer to be filed by the
firm to show cause why a re-
ceiver should not be appointed,
and scheduled May / for a
hearing on the action.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
Interest Conflict Issue
Raised in Montgomery

he said. II don't own any land
except my own home"
Charging that Mr.. Phillips
had his own vested interests in
Bethesda, Mr.. Brewer asserted: !:
my integrity will measure up
to yours anyday."
Mr.. Phillips, well past the
witnesses 10 minute time limit,
was cut short in his reply and
stalked out of the hearing,
which originally had been
called to discuss a West Chevy
Chase master plan.
Under the conflict-of-inter
section of the State law gov
erning the Maryland-National
Capital Parks and Planning
Commission, planners are re-
quired to declare any "pecu-
mary interests" in a case before
the agency and refrain from
voting on it.
Mr.. Brewer, Mr.. Gingery and
Mr.. King pointed out last night
that they have adhered to this
requirement scrupulouSly.
Mr.. Brewers wife and broth
er-in-law own the 384-acre
Corby tract in North Bethesda.
Much of the tract has been
rezoned for apartment de-
velopment under the recently
adopted master plan for that
area.
Mr.. Brewer emphasized, how
ever, that the only portion of
the tract he himself owns is
the land on which his home
stands.
Mr.. Gingery, who character
lied Mr.. Phillips accusations
as "too insipid for comment, {"
said he owns go acres of apart
mentS and business property
in Montgomery County and
some 10 acres in Prince
Georges.
Of the 60 acres in Mont
gomery. So fall within the city
limits of Rockville, which has
its own planning agency and
is not under the bi-county
commissions authority.
The eight remaining acres
The Northgate Shopping Gen.
ter-are located in Wheaton,
Mr.. Gingery said.
Mr.. King. whose term expires
next June, owns several dairy
farms, covering 1,100 acres be-
tween Rockville and Gathers
burg, as we'll as apartments and
commercial property in Gath
] erSburg.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
The
II. Tours
The South
By GEORGE KENNEDY

BY GEORGE KENNEDY
Journalists have been writ
ing about "the new South"
ever since the Civil War.
The South is so different
that it doesn't take an ex-
tended visit to write about 1t.
It's irresistible. Even tour
ing through it at 70 m.p.h.
on the way to Florida and
hack calls for a few obserVa-
tons.
The most impressive thing
about the new South as seen
from U. s. l and U. S. 301 is
the reforeStation.
In Northern Florida and
Eastern Georgia you ride for
more than 100 miles on
highways largely bordered
by man-made forests of
pine.
= Some are stands of trees
more than 80 feet high
which are being harvested
as pulpwood.
Trucks loaded with cords
Of wood are going up and
down the highway, taking
their loads to woodyards on
the railroad track where
they are loaded onto flat
cars.
Evening star., 1962-04-18

wouldn't live there for all the
money in the world"
And yet there are people who
are willing to live among tine
people of Laos.
"One of the finest persons
I have ever met was a Russian
Communist in Laos" Father
Menger said. Il asked him how
long he was going to stay, as
suming that, like our own peo-
pie. he had a short, definite
tour of duty.
He didn't seem to know
what I meant. Il have come
here to make Laos a Commu-
mist country he told me. I will
stay until the job is DONE"
Since his return to the
United States, Father Men
ger has delivered 231 lectures,
appeared on 80 television pro-
grams and been interviewed on
nearly that many radio sta
tions.
One Of the purposes of the
lecture series is to ask for
contributions to 100000 fund
to build an orphanage-the first
in Laos-and a girls vocational
school.
In every one of his lectures.
he said, several women have
been unable to listen to his
descriptions of some of the
things he has seen in Laos.
Family Tortured
A family in Father Menger's
pastorate was captured by
Communists, who demanded
they make a choice between
communism and Christianity.
When they chose Christianity,
a 4-year-old daughter was
Evening star., 1962-04-18
Hotel Guest Wins
Court Injunction

District Court Judge George
l.. Hart today granted a pre-
liminary injunction against the
"bugging" of a California law
yer's hotel suite here by three
private Investigators.
The judge took this action at
the request of Paul R. Con-
molly. jr., representing NAL
colin T. DUNCAN of San Fran
cisco.
Evening star., 1962-04-18

SIGNS ALONG the road
show that these man-made
forests are owned by the big
paper companies, such as
West Virginia Pulp & Paper
and Union Bag g. Paper.
The latter has a big plant
on the river at Savannah.
There are other plants at
Brunswick which make the
air odorous with Sulphide,
worse than the smell of
malt from a brewery.
other large areas along
the highway were planted
only two or three years ago.
The trees are only waist
high.
1t was Franklin D. RooSe-
welt who started this refor-
eStation. When he regis
tered to vote in 1892 he listed
his occupation as "tree grow
err" In his first administra-
ton the CCC boys were busy
planting trees in the nation
al forests.
But it was not until after
the war that the big paper
companies realized that the
best way to get pulpwood
was to grow it..
Their first paintings are
now being harvested. The
original intention was to cut
it all off at the pulpwood
stage, but now the compa-
nies realize that If they OBJ
tain the pulpwood by thin
ming they will soon have
valuable lumber in their
trees.
There is a big market for
lumber in booming Florida.
That's where most Of the
product of Georgia sawmillS
60.
Today the South is pro-
ducing go per cent of our
pulpwood (imports exclud-
ed. Last year more than a
million acres were planted
with more than a billion
trees.
Further north in Eastern,
North Carolina and Virginia
vast areas of worthless scrub
oak are being cleared to
Craze beef cattle. The per-
centage of woodland is de-
clining-in the rest of the
South it is on the increase.
This is due to the use of
huge bulldozers, which can
clear an acre a day and can
be rented for $100 a day
one Of the great changes of
our time. 1t took the pio-
neers a generation to clear
a farm. Now it is a matter
of days.
Evening star., 1962-04-18

brutally beaten and thrown in
the mud.
When they still refused to
renounce Christianity, they
were buried in the village
square with only their heads
protruding. A plow was hitched
to a water buffalo and the
Communists circles the buried
family. When they still refused
to become Communists, the
plow was run over the members
of the family, one by one.
Although he seldom goes out
on military patrols, Father
Menger frequently works close
to the vague front line of the
strange Laotian war.
Spikes Kill
THE Communists bury
barbed spikes in the ground" he
said, land then lure their en-
emleS across the mined area.
"One day We were walking
in a column and the boy in
front of me stepped on one of
the spikes. He let out a yell and
fell to the ground-on a bed
of spikes. 1t was like falling on
a bed of icepickS. He was dead
in two minutes"
Father Menger clearly feels
that Laos is the key to South
east Asia and that what is
being done now to have 1t is
not enough.
Asked what he thought the
odds are that the United States
will take effective steps soon
enough to save the country, he
shook his head and said:
Il know there is no reason
why We should lose Laos. But I
just don't know whether we will
do what needs to be done to
avoid it."
Evening star., 1962-04-18

ings to get the development
underway.
Doubts Created
Objections of the commission,
filed at recent Zoning hear
ing. the Commissioner said,
have created doubt among zon-
ing commission members as to
the course of action they should
take.
Member Ralph Walker told
Gen. Clarke today:
This space would be very
nice for a park"
Gen. Clarke replied. smiling,
Eyes. but who's going to buy
it? It's in private ownership
now"
Has any effort been made
to have Congress consider buy
ing it for park purpoSes?"
Chairman David E. Findley
asked.
The general said the District
Governments feeling was that
the sponsor is giving us some
thing more than they are re-
quired to give under present
zoning."
Hope for Solution
Member Douglas w. Orr in
terjected: Hes getting back
more than he's giving"
The Commissioner said he
hoped that the problem could
be resolved quickly, since many
previous delays had been en-
countered by the developer in
an effort to obtain official ap-
proval from many Government
agencies involved.
Two commission members to-
day agreed to meet with archi-
tectS for the development on
April "a in New York, to 60
over, in detail. the architec-
tural objections. The meeting
will be held in New York at
the office of Mr.. Walker at l0l
Park avenue. Attending, in the
commissions behalf, will be
Mr.. Orr and Mr.. Walker.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
A JOB FOR DEDICATED PEOPLE
Missionary Says Sacrifices Can Save Laos

A tall stranger, his khakis
Sweat-stained, his bare feet
covered with mud, entered a
Laotian village, greeted the in
habitantS in their own tongue
and sat down to share their
simple menu.
This stranger from another
world was the first white man
ever seen by the inhabitants
of the village and of some 40
other Laotian villages.
The stranger, the Rev. Ma
thias Menger, a 30-year -old
native of San Antonio, Tex,
told here today how, in his first
three years in Laos, he had
walked 5000 miles to get to
know the people he will serve
for the rest of his life.
Father Menger. an Oblate
missionary, went to Laos, with
headquarters in Vientiane, six
years ago. In January, he re-
turned to the United States
for an eight-month visit and
will return to Laos in Septem-
ber.
Conquered Native Food
In an experience remarkably
similar to that of the fictitious
Father Finnian" in THE Ugly
American" the controversial
book about American policy in
Southeast Asia, Father Menger
learned to eat Laotian food by
suffering through attacks of
dysentery until his system had
built up its defenses.
I'm a few weeks" he said,
II lost 35 pounds"
If Laos is not to become a
Communist nation, he said,
more Americans will have to
make the same kind of sacri-
fices.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
$40 POSTER FINE
WARNING ISSUED
TO CAMPAIGNERS

BALTIMORE (AP). -
Francis B. Burch, Balti-
more solicitor, warned po-
litical candidates that they
can be fined $40 every
time. their align
posters are tackled up
without permission of the
property owners.
Mr.. Burch said the An
notated Code of Maryland
makes the candidate him
self liable for the fine even
if the poster was put up
by someone else.
Evening star., 1962-04-18
Problems ofDesiqn
ImPeriI $50MiIIion
Wotergote Project
Fine Arts Commission Labels
Italians Plan Too Dramatic
By ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star Staff Write

Sweeping objections by the Fine Arts Commission have
snagged the spending $50 million Watergate apartment
DEVELOPMENT that have be completely redesigned
or klld altogether
That became clear at meeting of the commission today
at which Frederick j. Clarke District Engineer Commissioner
Evening star., 1962-04-18
Police Quiz SO, Lack
Clue to Widows Death

After questioning than so persons police still
without clue today in the knife Staying of Mrs Olive Mnard
65-year-old Southeast Washington widow.
Mrs Mnard stabbed fatally Monday night a block
from her home 1922 Massachusetts, Squads of
detectives have worked examining the neigh
Evening star., 1962-04-18
BROKE SHOP WINDOW
Helped Son, 10, Rob
Grocery Mother Says

woman who said she hoited her 1Oyear- through
grocey broken window to steal food for hungry children
was sentenced today to rs days in jail
Municipal Court Judge Austin Fking passed sentence
Mrs Gwendolyn McCrary 49, of the 100 block Twelfth
SE after she said II don't plan to do again. might
Evening star., 1962-04-18

1--WE need dedicated people, "
he added. mo purely human
motive is sufficient for a per-
son to live in Laos. If I didn't
have a spiritual motive, I
Evening star., 1962-04-18

Il understand very we'll why
our people are not going out
there to live" he said. IF I
were married, I wouldn't go out
and live in a jungle.
Evening star., 1962-04-18

ings to get the development
underway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-16

ter Patty is going to be a law
yer, and fish Baldrige who
rushed in in a sheath of
sapphire sequins late for din
ner because she had been de-
tanned at the White House.
Said fish, who was hear
ing nothing but praises for
Mrs. Kennedy's unfaltering
rhetoric, relaxed delivery and
excellent memory as demon
strated on the TV show
Wednesday night, it took
from 10 am. until 7 pm. to
tape the hour show because
OF moving the equipment
around. When someone said
that the First Lady's voice
sounded like that of a culti-
waited Marilyn Monroe, Miss
Baldridge chuckled and said
she would have to relay that
comment on to Mrs. Kennedy
who would be amused by it.
The ebullient and amusing