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Evening star., 1962-03-31
The FAA Gave Its Word

Inc National capital Regional Plan
ming Council has good cause to protest
any move by the National Park Service
to take over control of the Dulles Air
port access highway upon it's compile
ton. For implicit in the pending agree
ment between the Park Service and the
faith with the council and with Fairfax
County in connection with planned con-
Struction of commuter- traffic roads on
each side of the limited-acc ex-
pressway
One of the conditions on which the
council agreed to support the FAA's ex-
pressway project was that land would
be made available on the right of way
for roads to serve local traffic, which
the FAA insisted on excluding from the
eXpreSsway itself In a letter outlining
the program, the FAA in 1859 told the
council that ultimately an additional
four lanes can be added, two on each
side of the express lanes, to provide a
limited-access highway for the local
areas traverSed by the acceSS-highway
route" Former Federal Aviation Ad-
ministrator Quesada and the present ad-
miniStrator, Najeeb Halaby, have told
committees of Congress about this
agreement.
But apparently the FAA is under
going change of heart, for officials
now say the agency is mot committed"
to granting use of the land for local
roads and that it is the present think
ing" of the FAA that the expressway
and its bordering strips would be better
maintained" by the Park Service And
park officials have said that use of the
land for roadways would be "incon-
SiStent with park policy"
inconsistent or not, the Park Service,
II 1t should be given control of the
expreSSway and of Federally owned
bordering land, should not put the Gov
ernment in the position of reneging on
its implied promises that strips would
be set aside for "commuter roads," For
the new airport already has begun to
spawn new developments which will
generate near-intolerable traffic loads
for existing roads in the area. If relief
for these extra loads cannot be gained
through opening the expressway to local
traffic, the only alternative is to build
additional roads-and the logical place
is on the strips earmarked for such
traffic in the original FAA plans.
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Keep the Status Quo

The proposed Glover Archbold
Parkway is as dead for the foreseeable
future as highway to the moon. Con-
sequently there is no reason for Con-
gress to enact the bill introduced by
Senate Majority Leader Mansfield to
transfer District ownership of a 100
foot-wide strip of land through Glover
Archbold to the National Park Service
There is, however, compelling reason
why this bill should not be passed.
That reason, simply stated, is that
no one can say with the slightest degree
of certainty today that road through
this largely unused stretch of land will
not one day become both desirable and
necessary There is little question in our
mind that such need will become in
creaSingly acute, and that one day
Glover -Archbold Park will serve not Just
the handful of neighborS who now enjoy
it, but the entire community. In any
event, as the District, Commissioners
point out, it would be foolish to take a
needless action now which might
preclude such a possibility in the future
The irony of this situation is that
the Glover-Archbold right way at
issue is not prize which the pirates of
the Highway Department have suddenly
decided to seize for a road. This wide
strip of land was conveyed to the Dis
trict for highway purposes in 1893. AS
recently as Is years ago the Park Serv-
ice was in firm agreement that park
way should be built there. Now park
officials have changed their minds. Is
it not conceivable that judgments may
change again in another Is years, when
the need for a parkway assuredly will
be greater? Why not maintain the
status QUO?
Evening star., 1962-03-31

tacularly with the addition of
Chinese characters and such
symbols as #, %. >, &, C,
etc., the trouble is that the
dial has only ten holes in it.
The mechanism can tell
which hole the user pushed
around, but it can't tell which
of several symbols in the
same hole that the user had
in mind. So it would be diff
ficult to distinguish between
BABcock numbers and ACAd-
emy numbers, as proposed.
And persons dialing Zenith
numbers would be connected
to the operator at the very
outset.
So, back to the old slide
rule.
Archie ID. Davis.
X 4 Il y
A recent letter to The Star
claimed that the telephone
company did not have to
abandon the use of office
names in dialing telephone
numbers. According to the
letter-writer, there are 4,2OO or
more usable exchange names
in which the first three let
ters are distinctive, hence the
telephone people are stupid
when they claim that they
must abandon the use of Of
flee names. While there are
undoubtedly 4,2O0 or more
pronounceable names, not
more than around $50 of
these names can be used in a
metropolitan area such as
London, New York or Wash
ington.
This limit in usable names
is because the letters which
appear in any one dial open
ing are completely indiStin-
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Freedoms Travel Bureau

A West German news magazine, Der
Spiegel, has disclosed some fiction-like
details of a remarkable underground or
ganization calling itself Travel Bureau,
Inc" which is credited with helping
more than 900 East Berliners, many of
them students, to gain freedom. The
revelations as reported in the New York
Times, explain why a number of West
ern students were arrested and held for
varying periods in East Berlin before
being released. They had been suspected
of completely in the escape operations.
The underground railroad" plot
began last August, when the Reds first
closed the East-West border to East
BerlinerS. Students at West BerlinS Free
University decided to help fellow stu
dents slip across the border from East
Berlin with forged identification cards.
They carried many such cards across
the line and, frequently with the help
of sympathetic East Berliners, gave
them to students who wished to return
to the university. The plot was dis
covered after week or so, however, and
the border then was closed to all West
Berliners. Since foreign students were
not barred, a number of the Western
students, including several Americans,
Britons and Swiss, agreed to join in tte
bureaus plans. By this time the pro-
gram had been Widened to include not
only students but others wishing to
escape Red oppression.
AS result, the magazine said
numerous groups of refugees were
guided through East Berlin sewers into
West Berlin. Several tunnels were dug
beneath the wall and large groups also
escaped, literally underground, through
these hastily dug routes The attempts
were not always successful, of course
But the story of Travel Bureau, Inc"
is as dramatic and inspiring as any
which came out of World War II, with
its French underground that rescued
Allied flyers and helped them to escape.
No wonder the Communists decided
that the only way to combat this urge
for freedom was to build a wall, replete
with barbed wire and armed guards
Evening star., 1962-03-31

shifts. No other solution
was presented to the board.
Before choosing between
the two alternat atives the
school board requested the
professional counsel of E. c.
Funderburk, superintendent
OF schools. His reply was in
effect that a double shift for
more than three months vas
the least desirable solution.
In view of the probability
that Marshall School would
not be completed at an early
date, the school board unani-
mously decided to avoid
double shifts, retain present
district boundaries, and thus
not transfer the overage from
Madison and Falls Church
High Schools to Mclean High.
The decision is not a favor
to the Mclean community.
1t represents simple justice
to the children in all of the
communities served by Madi-
son, Falls Church, and Nc
Lean High Schools. We agree
with Supt. Funderburk that
double shifting amounts to
shortchanging our students.
We oppose double shifting.
Give L. DuVal,
Chairman, Mclean Commu-
nifty Committee.
y 4 Il
Regarding the Fairfax
County school controversy,
here are the facts concerning
the Mclean area:
The proposed George Mar
shall High School is to be
located south and east of Nc
Lean on Route 7 near Falls
Church. but the school board,
on recommendation of the
county planning staff, select
ed the area north and west
of Mclean to supply the bulk
OF pupils for the new school.
Thus, the bulk of pupils for
the new school will travel
through the Mclean High
School district to get to Mar
shall. To further compound
the farce of the school dis
tricts, pupils from Falls
Church who are close to or
equidiStant from Mclean and
Marshall have been assigned
to Mclean while west Nc
Lean area pupils who are
within walking distance of
Mclean High have been as
signed to Marshall which is
several miles away.
Last year, the school board
attempted to assign Falls
Church students who were
attending Mclean High to
Falls Church High until the
new Marshall School was
built. Falls Church High
had temporary claSsrooms
for these students. Parents
objected to moves to two diff
ferent schools in successive
years. So $4,000 of taxpay-
erS' money was spent to move
the temporary claSSrooms to
Mclean High to accommo-
date the expansion of student
Evening star., 1962-03-31
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Alexander Graham Bell Started All This

guishable from each other
from an electrical signal
standpoint. Thus if the
name BABcock is used,
which utilizes the numerical
code 222, such names as
Academy, ABBEY and CAB
in, can not be used in the
same area because they must
use the identical numerical
code. BY changing one of the
digits from a letter to a num-
ber, thereby making all of the
dial openings available for
the numeral digit, the max
imum capacity is increased
to 8X8X10 or $40 code COM
binations of which some $40
are uSable name combina-
tions. This is the system
which has been used in the
United States for a great
many years.
In changing over to all
number-calling, the number
of offices in an area can be
increased still further, but it
is true that the quantity of 3
digit number combinations
is not limitless. Thus if the
number zero" is not used as
a starting digit, there can
only be 900 offices in any one
metropolitan area. However,
by the time any areas are
approaching the 900 office
size we can rest assured that
the industry will have pro-
duced more sophisticated
calling mechanisms than the
comparatively simple 10 pulse
dial.
AS an engineer who re-
tired from the telephone
business 10 years ago, 1 am
sorry to see the telephone
industry unfairly criticized.
Rand s. Bailey.
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Fairfax County School Controversy

The Mclean Community
Committee, representing nine
citizens associations in the
Mclean area, reaffirms its
support for the decision of
the Fairfax County School
Board to retain the present
boundaries of the Mclean
High School for the year
1923. The plan adopted
is superior and fairer to all
the students than the alter
native plan rejected by the
board, which would have
placed more than 3.100 stu
dents on double shift at Nc
Lean High for at least one
half year.
The school board decision
and the Mclean community
have been unjustifiably criti-
cized because of widely pub
lished reports that George
Marshall High School, now
under construction, will be
completed "by fall" or "by
Thanksgiving" and that the
school board decision will
result in locking up a COM
pleted high school for the
balance of the school year.
If these reports were true,
we would abhor the situation
as much as anyone else for
we, too, pay taxes and want
our schools used with maxi
mum efficiency. But the best
information we have been
able to obtain indicates they
are not true.
On March 20, 1862, for ex-
ample, the assistant super
intendent of schools, George
Pope, informed the school
board in a memorandum
that Marshall High may be-"
uSable "by Christmas or
mid-year." Other expert esti-
mates are that construction
may not be completed until
we'll into the next semester
of the next school year,
March or April, 1868. Con-
struction of the school has
just begun. Past experience
shows that one full year is a
sonable construction
period.
The other crucial fact /!
that the school board wa.
therefore faced with the
problem of handling the pres.
ent overload in three high
schools (McLean, Madison
and Falls church, for the
part of the 1923 school,
year when the new Marshal
School would still be under
construction.
The only alternative woulc
be moving more than 800
students from Madison anc
Falls Church high school,
scheduled for transfer tt
Marshall High School, tt
Mclean High instead, anc
putting the entire McLear
student body of more thar
3,100 students on double
Evening star., 1962-03-31

body and leave the Falls
Church students at Mclean.
However, this year when re-
dlstrlcting came up the Falls
Church students who are
close to the newly proposed
Marshall High we're left at
Mclean and pupils who were
already several miles from
Mclean were assigned to
Marshall, which is several
miles further from them.
Marshall High is not yet
under construction, though
the site has been cleared.
Construction will probably
take about a year. If this
school were begun imme-
diately and no delays en-
countered, completion would
be April, 1868, and not Sep
tember or Thanksgiving, 1862,
as alleged by Mr.. Heriot.
At the open meeting on
Mclean High redistricting,
two pertinent questions were
asked: On what basis were
the school districts made?
Why was the Falls Church
site for Marshall High picked
rather than a West Mclean
site which would serve the
greater need? These ques-
tions were admittedly evaded.
Citizens at the meeting
asked for a new high school
Immediately in the West
Mclean area where it is
needed. Such a high school
is proposed for 1864. Mr..
Heriot stated the school
board had only enough funds
at present to purchase land
and do preliminary engineer
ing for such a school and
that construction would be
out of the question until an
other school bond issue would
be approved. However. the
Greater Mclean School Com
mittee found the school board
had So million for construc-
ton that the school board
was unaware of!
Moving to a new school
while remaining at the same
home address is regrettable
but necessary in a growing
and expanding community.
Leaving a recognized high
school that has a high aca-
demic standing with the
colleges throughout the land
for a new school that is un-
proved is also regrettable,
but the same caliber of stu
dents. parents and teachers
will prove the new school in
a short time and make it
also outstanding.
When a school board
gerrymanderS school dis
trict for school that obvi-
ously will not be completed
within a reasonable time for
a school year. with utter dis
regard and justice for the
pupils concerned, the parents
and responsible citizens are
bound to protest.
Harrison L. HinsOn.
Evening star., 1962-03-31

L. I. Hutchinson's ingeni-
Gus solution of the telephone
company's numbering prob
lem set my mind to work.
What new gains, I wondered,
would follow this major
breakthrough?
If numbers and letters are
Interchangeable in the ex-
change portion of a telephone
number, why could letters not
be substituted for the tradi-
tionally numerical portion?
If. for example, Mr.. Hutchin-
sons number were KENO
phobia 5678, then why could
this not be expressed as Y3M-
J6PT or WDM-KN7V? BY
making calculations similar
to his, found that there were
1884 ways to dial my own
telephone.
A test made from the cor
ner drugstore, although in
conclusive, tended to sub
stantiate my theory. Out of
827 test calls placed, 1 was
able to reach my home 639
times. Seventeen calls went
to random telephones and
eight times I reached a man
with a remarkably unscien-
tific mind. One hundred and
sixty-three calls were not an
swered at all, not a Surpris-
ingly high figure in view of
my wife'S perfunctory atti-
tude toward my project. The
experiment was terminated
at this point due to a critical
shortage of dimes.
Unfortunately, this re-
search led me to suspect a
flaw in the Hutchinson plan.
While there are 25 letters and
10 digits on a telephone dial
(this could be increased spec
Evening star., 1962-03-31
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Portable X-Roy for Troops in Field
By THOMAS r. HENRY

Chicago. The new tablet COM
bines two drugs used sepa-
rately in the past for ma
laria Observation-Disclosures
and primaquine, both devel-
oped since World War II.
Easy to Administer
Soldiers in m lariouS areas
will be given one pill a week.
The new pill is described as a
great improvement over pre-
vious treatment methods.
largely because it is SO easy
to administer. Standard
treatment in recent years has
been a weekly dose of chloro-
quine to suppress the recurring
chills and fever of malaria,
caused by malaria parasites
in the blood cells of persons
bitten by Misunderstanding
mosquitoes. Upon leaving a
malariouS area troops were
then given primaquine for IA
consecutive days. This drug
kills the parasites which
otherwise could persist in the
liver and other tissues, cauS-
ing frequent relapses.
Chloroquine is described as
an excellent repressant. but
no cure. Soldiers have used it
in malarious areas since the
start of the Korean war in
doses of one tablet a week,
without unpleasant side ef-
fects. 1t replaced World War
lis atabrine and quinine
which had to be taken daily.
Both tended to produce
nausea and headache.
Primaquine was first intro
duced 10 years ago. 1t was an
actual malaria cure but was
administered only under close
supervision for a period of
two weeks or more. The new
pill will largely eliminate all
this. It has not yet been
given a name.
Evening star., 1962-03-31

A new X-ray apparatus
able to make chest X-rays
in a thousandth of a second
has been developed by the
Army's Medical Department.
1t is completely portable
and for the first time will
provide Army doctors with
an apparatus that can be
used in a combat zone during
military operations. With it
field medical units can make
on-the-spot diagnoses of for
eign bodies in wounds, frac-
lures and certain internal
organs.
Battery-operated, the ap-
paratuS weighs only IS
pounds, and is designed to
replace the 1,000-pound unit
now used by field medical
units. 1t also can use cur
rent from batteries of mill
tary vehicles, field generators,
or any conventional electrical
outlets available.
Work on Field Developer
In addition to the new
X-ray unit, a companion
field developer is currently
under development, accord
ing to an Army report. This
developer will process X-ray
films within seconds after
the shots are made under
field conditions.
The new apparatus was in
vented, under a Medical
Corps contract, by DR.. w. P.
Dyke of the Field Mission
Corp. of McMinnville, Greg.
Its value to the Army and
Navy is quite obvious. Even
tually, however, it may be of
even greater benefit to civil
ian communities in case of
atomic bombardment, con-
ventional air bombings, or
great natural disasters such
as earthquakes.
= + 4
A new anti-malaria pill
which promises to be the
most effective drug against
this disease thus far known
has been developed by the
Army Medical Department.
This is announced by 1t.
Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, the
Army surgeon general. He
stresses its Importance from
the fact that malaria caused
the disqualification of more
than 100000 soldiers during
the last war.
1t results from Army-sup-
ported studies by DR.. Alf S.
Alving of the University of
Evening star., 1962-03-31

If the Democrats had any
hope that Republican Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York was going to withdraw
from the gubernatorial race
next fall, those hopes have
now passed into thin air. His
appointment Of a campaign
manager and his flat aSSer-
tion that he will run and
win big" have been the final
answer to widely discussed
rumors that because of his
divorce he would retire from
the field of public service and
politics. Indeed. he expects
to win by a bigger margin
than he did in 1858, when he
defeated Democratic former
Gov. Averell Hartman by
more than half-a-million
votes.
Gov. Rockefeller has dur
ing his first four years in
office made a remarkable
record one the Democrats
will have great difficulty at
tacking. Taking over the
State government and facing
a deficit of $700 million left
by the Hartman administra-
ton, he adopted a pay-as-
you-go progrA1n resulting in
four years of balanced budg-
cts, wiped out the deficit and
has kept the State finances
constantly in the black. He
put through a tax increase
in his first year, but in 1860
he brought about a 10 per cent
acroSs-the-board tax reduc-
tion. He is finishing up his
fourth legislative session, with
additional legislation which
is particularly helpful to the
school system, adding $42
million of State aid to the
schools of New York City. The
other items for improved and
increased government serv-
ices are many.
The Governor will remain
in Albany and New York City
for a month, to give careful
scrutiny and approval or dis
approval to the large mass
of bills put through the legis-
lature in it's final weeks. Then
he will take to the hustings.
He has promised to see and
talk to more constituents
than any other candidate has
done in the past-including
himself.
Democratic Qualification Due
The Democrats have still
to clarity their own polit-
ical situation. They can
scarcely afford to wait until
September when the State
nominating conventions for
Governor, Senator, and other
officers chosen in State
wide elections are made.
Mayor Bob Wagner of New
York still is regarded as the
probable selection for Gov
ernor, although there is talk
of grooming Paul Screvane,
elected president of the
City Council on the so-called
reform ticket along with Mr..
Wagner. Mr.. Screvane is of
Italian blood, and the Ital-
ians form a large bloc of
voters in the big city.
And some are speaking of
Edward Cavanaugh, former
fire commissioner and now
deputy mayor by Mr.. Wag-
ner's choice. representative
Samuel S. STRAIT on, an up
State Democrat Che halls
from Schenectady, is an
announced candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination.
None of the three is widely
known, and if one is to be
the party standard bearer,
some decision must be made
before long
Evening star., 1962-03-31
Answers to Questions
By THE HASKIN SERVICE

@. Who owns the Suez
Canal? K. P.
A. The canal became the
uncontested property of the
United Arab Republic Egypt
and SYRIA on July 13, 1858,
with the signing of a COM
pensation agreement between
the UAR and the old Suez
Canal Company.