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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
McKeIdin Joins Roce
For Baltimore Moyor

ernor. -Four Democrats already
have filed and two more are
expected TO join the race.
When he learned Of Mr.. Nc
Keldin's decision Friday night,
Mr.. Culotta said, I'm staying
in and I'm going TO fight very
hard for the Republican Party
and for myself"
Mr.. Culotta, a former mem
Der OF the Maryland House OF
Delegates. was unsuccessful In
his bid for a State Senate seat
In last months election.
Mr.. McKeldin will run on a
ticket including Attorney Rob-
ert j. Gerstung for city council
president and w. Rae Dempsey,
jr., for controller.
The announcement by Mr..
McKeldin came after the Re-
publican City Committee petit
toned him 10 seek the nomina-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
BY HUGH WELLS
Star Staff Writer

Anyone would think that
when an elephant we're great
with child, she would be really
great. After all. how can a gal
keep her shape when bearing
a 250-pound bundle of joy?
But it amt necessarily so.
When the little mother (be-
tween two and three tons) is in
that delicate condition, it is
apparently so delicate that
four doctors equipped with
modern electronics can't tell If
she is in the family way.
If Ambika, the National
Geological Parks Asiatic Ele-
plant, only had morning sick
ness, the problem would be
simple. But yesterday. doctors
from the Cardiology Depart
ment OF George Washington
University Hospital and the
Heart Control Program Of the
United States Public Health
Service swarmed all over Am
bika. wiring her for sound. try
ing to pick up the beat Of a
baby elephants heart.
Hardly Cooperative
Ambika was hardly co-opera-
tive. And who can blame her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
Bus Driver and Woman
Killed Near EIkridoe

The driver of a Washington
bound Greyhound bus and a
woman passenger were killed
yesterday when a horse van
collided with the bus on snow
covered U. S. Route near
ElkIidge, Md.
State police at Laurel iden-
titled the bus driver as Mon
roe c. Hardesty, 48, of 9506
wellington street, Seabrook, in
Prince Georges County. Also
killed was Mrs. Dorothy Six, So,
of 100 Sixth street, Laurel.
Police said the horse van,
headed north on the four-lane
highway, slid out of control
on a hill, its trailer skidding
into the front of the bus.
The impact threw the bus
into the showroom OF an auto
mobile agency. killing the driver
and Mrs. Six as the front OF
the bus was smashed in.
Seven Of its 20 passengers
suffered minor injuries and
were taken to Baltimore hos
pitfalls. About is statesmen and
customers in the showroom es-
capped injury as we'll as the
truck driver, Herbert Vaughan
Of Chester, Pa.
Greyhound authorities sale
Mr.. Hardesty had been with
the company for % years anc
had an excellent driving record
Until recently he drove from
Washington to Annapolis anc
only a few weeks ago switched
TO the Baltimore run.
He leaves his wife, Margaret
and a l6-year-old son, Larry
both Of the home address. An.
other son is a Navy yeomar
stationed aboard the USS We.
sole in the Caribbean.
Relatives said Mrs. Six wal
returning on the bus aftei
Christmas shopping in Balti,
more. She had been employed
as a business analyst in thu
antitrust division OF the Jus,
tice Department for the pas
10 years and had previously
served In other Government
agencies.
She leaves her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Wells. OF thu
home address, and a daughter
Mrs. Warren White. OF An,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22

BALTIMORE. Dec. % (AP)
Former Gov. Theodore r.
McKeldin hit the political
comeback trail today and
Joined the growing list OF can
didates seeking 10 become the
next Mayor Of Baltimore.
Mr.. McKeldin, 81. has been
on the sidelines since losing
his bid for the mayoralty in
1859 TO Democrat j. Harold
Grady four months after COM
pleting his second term as
Governor. He was the only
Republican ever elected TO more
than one term.
The veteran Republican
served as Mayor OF Baltimore
from l943 10 l947.
The only other candidate 10
file for the q. o. p. nomination
thus far is Samuel Culotta. who
was an aide to Mr.. McKeldin
during his first term as Gov
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
PAGEANT
PROGRAM

The annual PAGEANT Of Peace
Observance on the Eillpse lists
these events.
TODAY
pm. Potomac Field Music,
Pile and Drum Corps.
. pm, OOnxaRa High School
Band
$3.50 pm. "chflstmas Fantasy Of
SONG and Drama" BY
Fairfax Junior Theater.
o pm. willis oaull strlng In.
kemUle
y pm, Prayer for Peace
TOMORROW
3 pm. Musical Review By Con-
tlnental Boys, Pile and
Drum Corps, God save
Great Washington
$3.50 pm, salvation Army Nation
al Band.
$3.50 pm. Wlilsons wassaiisrs,
p pm. Prayer for Peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22

if she is 81 months pregnant,
as suspected.
The doctors we're generally
wary. But not DR.. Irene Hsu
rhymes with zoo). The tiny
heart specialist five feet, 100
pounds) tipped around the
ponderous pachyderm as If she
were in the maternity ward at
the hospital.
To everyone's chagrin, no
matter where the electrodes
were placed no heart beat
could be diScerned. Just when
the doctors would think they
saw something on the graph,
Ambika would shake a chain
laden leg and an earthquake
would register on the cardio-
gram.
The CESSATION period for an
elephant is 81 to % months ac-
cording to curator DR.. Ted w.
Roth. Ambika would give birth,
at the latest, in January II she
Is pregnant.
The interest in Ambika's
state is high for several rea-
sons. Only two elephants have
been born in captivity in the
U. s. in the past "A years-and
these just last summer in Port
land, oregon.
Some Of the keepers in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
$500 Fire Hits
TeIevision Shop

Fire caused an estimated S.
500 damage today in a televi-
sion shop over a Montgomery
County Liquor Dispensary in
the Chevy Chase shopping
center, but there was no dam
age to liquor stocks.
The blaze apparently started
about 3 am. in an electric sign
at Blair's TV, 1922 Western
avenue, according to the Chevy
Chase Fire Department.
Flames burned through the
roof Of the store on the second
floor Of the brick building.
Firemen estimated damage to
the building at 5000 and
about $500 to the contents.
A clerk at the dispensary
said 1t would be open as usual
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
Eleven Forced
To Floor in
Cafe HoIdup

Eleven employees and Gus
toners were forced to lie on the
floor at the Aldo Cafe, 1143
New Hampshire avenue, early
today by two bandits with a
sawed-off shotgun.
They forced one of the own
ers, Henry Pratt, 80. of 10209
Farnham drive. Bethesda, to
open the safe and hand over
about 81 900 in bills and checks.
They knocked out the manager,
Theodore Banbac, 48, of 2218
Washington avenue, Silver
Spring.
The bandits entered a rear
door around closing time at
2 am, according to Inspector
Nunzio Bonaccorsy, midnight
supervisor at the Metropolitan
Police Detective Bureau.
Three customers and nine
employees were in the restaurant
when the men entered. They
wore women's stockings over
their heads.
Another employee was chang
ing his clothes in a locker room
and was unaware the robbery
was going on.
Inspector Bonaccorsy said the
manager was hit on the head
wher he turned toward the
bandit with the shotgun.
Mr.. Banbac was treated at
George Washington Hospital for
cuts on the head and released.
The police lookout described
one of the Negro bandits as
20 to rs years old, lao pounds.
5 feet IL inches, light skinned
and wearing a brown cap and
dark brown gloves. The other
was described as IS to 80 years,
6 feet and las pounds,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
COUPLE INJURED
IN 2-CAR CRASH

A Pennsylvania woman was
reported in critical condition
and her husband in fair con-
dition today at Prince Georges
Hospital after a two-car COL
lision near Waldorf, Md.
The woman, identified as
Mrs. Julianna Irdenieks, so, of
Malvern, Pa, suffered head in
juries. cuts and possible inter-
nal injuries, a hospital spokes-
man said. The husband, Ansis
Irdenieks, so, was cut about the
face.
State police said that they
were passengers in a car. driven
by Harold ks, of Route 2,
Waldorf, that collided head-on
last night with a car driven
by William Floyd Flick of Balti-
more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22

reduced. They said they wanted
this list as a guide when they
review the budget. DR.. Whit
tier took them at their word,
but spent much space in the
report urging retention of the
present average class size for
mula and of travelling teachers
and specialists.
He said that free kinder
garten could be eliminated or
some sort of different setup
could be instituted, If the board
so desired.
The superintendent list in
cluded no reduction or freeze
Of salaries. But If all items he
listed were cut, which Is not
considered likely, GIT positions
either now In existence or re-
quested in the new $55.5 mil
lion budget would be elimi-
mated.
Major Items
Some of the major items
listed, and the priority given
them by DR.. Whittier are:
A reduction of so per cent
In the county's contribution
to Washington's educational
televiSion station, saving $24,-
900: seventh in priority.
Changing eligibility require
ments for children riding
school buses back to those in
effect in 1860, saving $146, 900,
eleventh in priority.
Reduction in the number of
travelling teachers and special
lists by So, saving $546, 592, 18th
in priority. Most Of these posi-
tons, including all Of the in
strumental music and special
resource teachers are presently
under contract and would have
to be reaSSigned.
Elimination of all 20 new po-
SitionS-including one of as
sistant superintendent for bust
ness and finance-requested by
the central school administra-
tive staff, saving $150,O00, 22d
in priority.
Elimination Of nine new stu
dent counselor positions, saw
ing $4,000 but increasing the
ratio Of students to counselors
from l to 315,, to / to 4l3.
Elimination of the elemen-
tary school foreign language
program to save $3.50, 900, 30th
in priority.
The kindergarten and in
creased class size items were
last and next to last on the SUI
perintendent's priority list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22

faced with the superintendent
suggested IS million increase
over the current budget, asked
him to put a priority tag on
items that might be trimmed.
Yesterday, the superintendent
reluctantly turned over a list
Of SO items, which, if deleted,
would produce a $5,0l7.168 cut.
In supporting statements, the
superintendent made his feel
ings plain that if all items
we're cut the result would be
lower teacher morale, elimina-
ton Of desirable programs, diff
ficulties in teacher recruitment,
and possibly false economy.
Not Recommendation
The list, he said, should not
be construed as a recommended
ton on the part of the super
intendent for their removal
from the budget as originally
prepared" But the majority Of
the new board. elected on a
platform to hold down school
spending, wants all the help
it can get to fulfill this pledge.
The four board members they
defeated ran on their record Of
last year which included a
37-cent increase in school taxes.
Given highest priority by the
superintendent for any elimina-
ton were such routine items as
Ia $4,000 fund for building
rental; $500 for "a new tele-
vision sets, and $4,000 for
special field trips.
But the items needed to make
up the IS million suggested by
the board were low in priority,
and clearly without any back
ing from the superintendent.
These included $1,170,000 for
kindergarten; $1,550,000 to keep
down class sizes; $258,698 for
driver education, and $546,592
for travelling high school read
ing teachers.
The county, the superintend-
ent said, has been working
hard to move away from mass
education. For this reason
increasing class size has been
given a very low priority on
this list. Had there been &C
ceptable alternatives, this item
would not have been on the list
at ALL"
Serves as Guide
The new school board hal
stressed that the existence o
a priority list does not NEAR
all items will be cut or ever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
ELEpHANTINE PROBLEM
Pregnancy Is Unconfirmed

elephant house swear they
have seen the baby-elephant
kick. But DR.. Roth Just signs
and explains, The digestion
process of herbivorous grass
eating) animals often creates
gas bubbles that might look
like kicking"
Almost Gives Up
DR.. Roth said they have al
most given up hope. He said
the heart beat should be OBJ
vious at this advanced .tage.
The elephant was bred in India
before being sent here under
the gift swapping project.
Share Your Birthday" Foun-
dalton Of Philadelphia. She
arrived here last year on April
IA.
Yesterdays 2H2-hour attempt
to find a heart beat was the
second try this week. On We'd
nesday, five doctors tried for
315 hours, all to no avail.
IF she has a baby, we will
still make you godmother." DR..
Roth said TO DR.. Hsu, who was
visibly disappointed.
Il have TO say goodby TO my
patient" said DR.. Hsu. She's
been so very. very good" And
DR.. HSu went into the cage
again and rubbed Ambika's
trunk. Ambika appeared to
forgive her for all the indig-
mites.
Also present at what could
have been the worlds largest
and most difficult electrocardi-
ogram reading we're DR.. Cesar
CacereS and DR.. Robert Dobrow
Of the United States Public
Health Service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22

napoliS Junction road in Jes-
Sups.
In another accident yester-
day near Hagerstown, Md.
a Greyhound bus went out of
control and hit an embank-
ment, injuring three persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
Serves as Guide

The new school board has
stressed that the existence of
a priority list does not mean
all items will be cut or even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-22
School Board Gets
PriorityLi to Cut
Montgomery Costs
Elimination of Munv Services
Elimination Of Many Services,
Larger Class Size Included
BY WILLIAM DUKE
Star staff Writer

Kindergarten driver education and foreign language classes
In elementary schools will have to be eliminated all class
sizes increased Montgomery County wants to avoid
school spending next year.
This is the of supt c. Taylor Winters report to
the school board yesterday board
Evening star., 1962-10-21
Lost Employment
/. Blasting Begins
In Zoo Area for
Parkway Tunnel

! Dynamite blasts were heard
Z on the grounds of the Zoo FRI
7 day as blasting began on the
8 tunnel for the Rock Greek and
! Potomac Parkway.
The tunnel will permit mo-
! torists to avoid the torturous
bottlenecks of the parkways
: present looping path through
Z National Geological Park.
: "It's an ideal place to blast" Z"
said George Naylor, neral
! supervisor of the project. The
nearest buildings and animal
! cages of the ZOO are more than
1000 feet away. At that dis
! tance, the blast sounds like a
struck rumbling by on the
street, Mr.. Naylor said.
Z "You know, the word dyna-
! mite gets an awful lot of peo-
yple excited, but with all the
precautions that are taken,
there's really nothing to it,
Z he said.
: Mr.. Naylor expects that cut
ting the tunnel through will
take about five months, wealth
ser permitting, and that lining
sthe tunnel with concrete will
take another three months.
Evening star., 1962-10-21
White House Gift
Of Prize Pumpkin
Sent to Orphans

A huge pumpkin sent to
Caroline Kennedy by a Con-
gresham indicted this week for
conspiracy and conflict of in
terest has been sent along to
an orphanage! Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said yesterday.
The 121-pound pumpkin won
a prize at the Farm and Home
Show in Salisbury, Md, last
week and Representa- i've
Thomas F. johnson, Democrat
of Maryland, promised the
grower. Paul Phillips, he would
have it sent to the White House.
Mr.. Salinger told the Asso-
ciated Press in Chicago that
the pumpkin arrived at the
White House earlier this week
and was sent to an orphanage
as is customary for all gifts
of food received by the White
House.
Evening star., 1962-10-21
Museums PurIey
To Hear Harrison

The Southeastern Museums
Conference of the American
Association of Museums will
hold its 18th annual conven-
ton Thursday through Satur-
day in Richmond.
The convention will open
with a welcoming address by
Virginia Gov. Albertis S. Har-
rison. jr. Jay r. Broussard of
the Louisiana State Art Com
mission and president of the
association will preside.
Under the general theme,
"The Museum Educates," the
conference convention will in
clude panel discussions by
leading museum officials from
the II member States.
Featured speakers will in
clude Hiram r. Haggett of the
Office of Educational Programs
and Services of the National
Aeronautics and Space Admini-
stration.
Evening star., 1962-10-21
Bandit Gets
$1,oooFrom
Loan Office

A gunman stole more than
$1,000 Friday night from Mary
land Cash Loans, the third
Mount Rainier loan company
to be held up in three weeks,
police reported.
Police said a young man
wearing dark glasses walked
into the loan company office at
1921 Rhode Island avenue, a
few minutes before 8 pm. and
pointed a small automatic pis-
tol at three employees preparing
to close the office.
Mrs. Grace Wells, the cashier,
acting on the gunman's orders,
laid the cash tray on the
counter and the man scooped
out its contents, according to
Thomas Hickey, the manager.
The only other person in the
establishment was Benjamin
Cowley, the collection manager
There was nothing dramat-
Evening star., 1962-10-21
THE UGF AT WORK
Special Glasses Aid
Victims of Cotorocts

A'man who had always been
self supporting discovered in
his early COS that his sight was
failing. He eventually lost his
job because he couldn't see.
When he came to the society
for help he had very little sight
in either eye.
He had incurred heavy med
ical expense that had drained
most of his savings. Trapped
in a vicious cycle, he was un-
able to work because of his
vision and because he couldn't
work, he was unable to support
his family.
The Prevention of Blindness
Society helped him arrange for
surgery within his limited
means. He had both eyes oper-
ated on and now has 1920
vision in both eyes. The society
loaned him temporary glasses
while he was recovering. and is
paying for his permanent pair
to help him get back on his
feet economically. He will re-
pay the loan when he is inde-
pendent again.
The society welcomes dona-
tions of used cataract glasses
that can be measured and
loaned to others.
Benefit to Community
Miss Demary regards work
with cataract patients as one
OF the most important of the
society's many activities. Many
people develop cataracts as
they grow older, but if they are
fortunate. the cataracts do not
progress sufficiently to inter-
fere with vision, she said. But
for those who are threatened
with blindness from cataracts,
surgery and special glasses re-
store vision in more than 80
per cent of the cases, she
added.
Men and women throughout
the Washington area who might
have ended their lives without
sight are enjoying a happy,
useful existence because the
Prevention of Blindness Society
at GIT Fifteenth street NV,
was able to help them. Your
gift to the United Givers Fund
will insure that the society's
valuable work will continue.
Evening star., 1962-10-21

ic," Mr.. Hickey said. "He just
took the money and left"
Before leaving, the bandit or
dered the three employees not
to leave the building for five
minutes, according to Mr..
Hickey. Then he fled by foot on
Rhode Island avenue toward
the District line.
Mount Rainier police issued
"a lookout for a light-skinned
Negro in his early 20s, 5 feet
6, about las pounds, wearing
a dark sport coat, flowered vest
and dark glasses.
Evening star., 1962-10-21
To Honor Youth

B'nai Israel Congregation,
Sixtee enth and Crittenden
streets, NV, will honor its
young people at a service at
$3.50 pm. Friday. Members of
youth groups, students of its
school, and past campers at
Camp Ramha and U.S.Y. Camp
will participate in the service
and in a following Youth Oneg
Shabbat.
Evening star., 1962-10-21

One of the most valuable
circulating libraries in town is
the lending library of cataract
glasses of the Prevention of
Blindness Society.
AS of today, 325 pairs arc
on loan to men and women
who have had cataract opera
tions.
The Society, a United Givers
Fund agency, provides the
glasses for temporary use after
surgery, before the eyes are
ready for a final prescription.
A cataract is a cloudiness of
the lens inside the eye. Vision
depends on the fress passage
of light through the lens.
In a cataract operation, Vi
sion is restored by removing
the cloudy lens. Glasses provide
a new lens to focus light on
the retina.
Eyes Change Rapidly
After the expense of the op-
Grafton, many people can afford
only one pair of glasses, which
may cost $50 to $75 a pair. But
the eyes change after cataract
surgery and are not ready for
the final prescription for a few
weeks or even months.
In the meanwhile, the patient
may not realize the good re-
suit of the successful operation,
or be able to benefit from the
restored sight, Miss Helen De-
mary, executive director of the
Prevention of Blindness Society,
points out. Temporary glasses
spare a patient months of un-
necessary sightlessness and
help him to take care of him
self.
Miss Demary recalls an
elderly patient who could only
see the movement of her hand
in front of her eyes before her
operation. At that, she saw just
a suggestion of a moving object
and couldn't distinguish one
finger from another.
Lost Employment
After an operation on one
eye, she enjoyed 20/20-or nor
mal-vision with glasses.
She is wearing temporary
glasses from the Prevention of
Blindness Society now, and
soon will have her own perma-
nent pair.
The Sidney herald., 1962-05-23

spent the week end in Helena,
where Mr. Anderson looked after
business matters.
MIR. and Mrs. John Strand and
Christie of Williston were week
end guests at the home of Mrs.
Strands parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Delamore.
AXel Person, who has been as
signed as consulting engineer
with the bureau of Reclamation
at the Regional office in Billings,
returned last week end from an
assignment receiving a new pro-
posed irrigation development, OPP
GRAFTON and maintenance problems
Cn projects under the supervision
by the Bureau.
MIR. and Mrs. Don Morey and
daughter Donna, and Donna's girl
friend, Ginger Balko, of Great
Falls, will be week end guests al
the home of Mrs. Morey's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack HarniSh.
MIR. and Mrs. John Daehn at
tended a state Medical Techni-
clan convention in Bozeman last
week and on their return trip en-
joyed a day in the capital city
where they visited the state capt.
al and other places of interest.
Mrs. Alex Getty of Newell, S.
Oak, visited this past week end
at the home of her niece and hus-
band, Mr.. and Mrs. Lon Frost.