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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08

rooms to wake his brother Billy,
81, and Billy's stepson, Ron
ME, 10.
Billy Proffitt's wife was at
work at the time. The family
hurriedly escaped from the
burning structure.
The family is staying with
relatives at Chantilly.
County Fire Inspector Quen-
tin VAIL said the fire APP
parently was caused by an over
heated furnace flue.
The house is owned by Ar
lington County, which had pur-
chased it for the right-of-
way needed to extend North
Twenty-first street to Stafford
street, the County Highway De-
partment said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
By BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The District Commissioners
will ask Congress to allow the
city to take part in the Fed
eral-State matching program
for medical aid to the aged.
The city heads will request
that the Districts one-year
r esidence requirement for
health services for the medi-
cally INDECENT be lifted for per-
sons IS and over. The program
affects the need who are not
eligible for relief.
The Federal program, enact
ed in 1860, gives States con-
siderable latitude in deciding
the scope of their services. But
it bars Federal funds to any
jurisdiction which has a resi-
dence requirement.
Officials point out that the
Federal money could bring sew
eral hundred thousand dollars
to the city's already existing
health program for the needy.
Medical care for men and
women made eligible by re-
moval Of the residence require
ment could be absorbed with
out adding more District
dollars, they say.
New Language Asked
The Commissioners asked
Congress to change the Ian
guage in the appropriations bill
in the last session but failed to
win approval.
A city program taking adj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Starting Census
Shows 100000
Here This Year

A team of volunteer bird
watchers has just finished the
annual count of starlings in
Washington. The estimate:
2O2, 300.
THE population may be up a
little, but we can't prove it,"
explained Miss Shirley A.
Briggs, of 1901 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, who heads the
team tracking the starlings for
the annual bird count of the
Audubon Naturalist Society.
Last year, she explained, a
more thorough count was
made because the night of the
census was warmer" and I'VE
had more people," The count
then was 10000.
ut was a rather cold job
this year." she said. The count
was made the night of Deem
Der 80. BY counting birds on
a few Lodges on key buildings
and multiplying by a factor
ineligible only to veteran
startling census takers, the team
came up with the higher figure,
Miss Briggs explained.
This year the Raleigh Hotel
had more starlings than the
Willard (18,20O to $4,000, a re-
versal of the position the two
hotels held last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Gordon Gray to Head
Federal City Council

Gordon Gray, former Secre-
tary OF the Army and special
assistant to President Eisen-
hover for national security af-
fairs, today was elected presi-
dent of the Federal City
Council.
The council, a group of civic
minded leaders working for
community development in the
Nations Capital, named him
to the post at a meeting of its
board of trustees.
Mr.. Gray, So, succeeds,
George A. Garrett, chairman
of the council, who also has
been serving as acting presi-
dent. William c. Foster re-
signed from the presidency in
Septem Der after President
Kennedy appointed him direc-
tor of the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
Mr.. Gray became Secretary
of the Army in 1949 after serv-
ing as Assistant Secretary and
Undersecretary for two years.
In 1850 he became president
Of the University of North
Carolina.
He was named Assistant
Secretary OF Defense for In
ternatlonal Security Affairs in
1855 and held that post for
two years before becoming di-
rector of the Office of Defense
Mobilization in 1857. After
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had to break a window to get
to the youth.
Hand Is Burned
The trooper burned his hand
and was treated at Alexandria
Hospital.
The car belonged to Daniels
Stepfather, Myron A. Cupp, a
salesman for the Akers Odds
mobile Cadillac Co. in Alexan-
dria, Trooper Slater said.
The dead youth had no
drivers permit in his possess
sion, according to Trooper
Slater, who learned the youth s
identity later by tracing the
license number on the car.
His stepfather said Daniel
took the car out without the
knowledge of his family.
Daniel had been a member
of the Springfield Methodist
Church and the Methodist
Youth Fellowship. his family
said.
The youth also leaves his
mother, Mrs. Mary E. Cupp
and a brother, Bobby, Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Blaze in Home Elects
Arlington Family Of 6

Fire early today routed a
family of six from their Airing
ton home.
The fire broke out shortly
after midnight in the firSt-floor
furnace room of the two-story
Stucco house at 2045 North
Stafford street. 1t was discov-
cred by Mrs. Mary Proffitt, 81,
who smelled smoke and woke
her husband, Jesse. Y.
Mr.. Proffitt, 2e-year-old en-
ploye Of the County Highway
Department, told his wife to
grab their two children, Brenda,
Is months old, and Jesse. jr.,
2 months old.
Mr.. Proffitt hurried into an
other Of the Second-floor bed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Suspect Caught
By Bonoccorsy in
Chase on Train

Police Capt. Nunzio Bonac-
corsy was relaxing in the club
car of a Baltimore & Ohio spe-
cial returning from Charles
Town race track when a voice
cried out:
Get your hand out of my
pocket"
In a trice Capt. Bonaccorsy
was out of his seat and pursu-
ing a man through three or
four cars of the train. He found
him in a mems room and
turned him over to Road
Patrolmar Austin L. Reese.
Thomas Anderson, 81, of
Baltimore, was charged with
attempted burglary for ap-
pearance in a Baltimore court
today.
He was accused of slipping a
hand into the pocket of Ver-
non F. Hart, jr., 36, owner of
the Hart Welding Co. of Balti-
more, while Mr.. Hart was oc-
cupied with a hot dog and coke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Second Girl Dies
Of Fire Injuries

A 3-year-old girl died yester-
day of burns suffered in a fire
that caused the death of her
younger sister Friday, police
reported,
The older girl, Patricia Peter
back, daughter of Mrs. Leila Y,
Peterback of 121 Eleventh street
NE, died in Casualty Hospital
Patricia's sister, Ennissa, 2,
died in the blaze that swept
the family apartment.
Deputy Fire Marshal Warren
C. Kelly said the fire is still
under investigation. The blaze
occurred while the mother was
standing outside the house. The
two sisters were in a bedroom,
Mr.. Kelly said, when smoke
began pouring out of the house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08

serving as head of ODM for
more than year, Mr.. Gray
was named in 1858 as a spe-
cial presidential assistant, re-
signing upon the change of
administrations.
Mr.. Gray said he feels
Washington should exemplify
our highest standards for ur-
ban development, and I well
come the opportunity to con-
tribute to this effort"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Cuban Refugee Shot
At Party in Northwest

A 21-year-old Cuban refugee
whose family long has been
prominent in diplomatic circles
here was shot and wounded
critically early today at a party
in a Northwest Washington
apartment.
The victim, identified By
police as Evelio A. Sera, lives
at 1923 Kenyon street NV,
next door to his uncle, Jose
Sera, former Cuban consul
general, who served here for
80 years.
The youth was reported in
satisfactory condition at the
Washington Hospital Center
after surgery for a bullet wound
in the left side of his chest.
Homicide Squad Detective
Bernard F. Kelly said the
shooting took place shortly
after 4 am. in a basement
apartment in the 1900 block of
California street NV, a
neighborhood where many of
Washington'S Latin American
colony live.
Police issued a lookout for a
28-year-old Puerto Rican de-
scribed as having thick black
hair and a black moustache, &C
cording to Detective Kelly.
The detective, who speaks no
Spanish, said the investigation
was hampered by the language
barrier but he reconstructed the
shooting this way:
The Puerto Rican suspect,
accompanied by a girl, arrived
at the California street apart
ment, where about eight Span
ish-speaking persons had gath
cred. Witnesses told Detective
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Airport Boord
Ties Reduction
To Greater Use
By CHARLES YARBROUGH
Star Staff Writer

Baltimore is offering the air.
lines the possibility of reduced
landing fees at Friendship air.
port in return for increased
service.
The offer, made to the car
rierS by letter from Charles P.
Crane, chairman of the Balti-
more Airport Board, gives the
airlines a big club to carry into
negotiation meetings this week
with the Federal Aviation
Agency on the use of Dulles
International Airport at Chan
tilly, Va. Dulles is to open in
October.
The parley, principal STUN
bling block of which likely will
be the landing fees proposed
for Dulles, is scheduled for to-
morrow and Wednesday.
No Airline Committed
AS yet, no airline has for
mally Signified that it plans to
use Dulles, but only last week
Northwest Airlines filed an
application with the Civil
Aercnautics Board to discon-
tinue use of Friendship on its
Seattle-Portland jet flights. In
stead it wants to have Wash
ington designated as the east
ern terminus.
While the Baltimore reduced
fee offer can be considered a
hefty weapon for the airlines
in tomorrow'S meeting, observ-
ers consider Northwest's action
as a possible log-jam breaker.
They thecrize that once a
single carrier makes the move
for Dulles others will have to
follow.
Only last week, Stuart G.
Upton, president of the Air
Transport Association, said sit
would be extremely difficult in
this age for an airline to over
fly a community if reasonable
terms for airport use are not
reached" His feeling is that
airline users should not be
charged with full responsibility
for airport support.
Landing Fees Listed
The landing fee proposed for
Dulles is between Is and 35
cents per 1000 pounds of air.
craft weight. Baltimore's pres
ent fee is 14.75 cents per 1000
pounds.
Mr.. Crane says he is "reluc-
tant" to believe that the air.
lines will be lured by Dulles
prestige" at the cost of higher
landing fees.
He cited Friendships Inter
mediate" location between Bal
timore and Washington. The
Baltimore airport is BIG miles
from the Hotel Statler. Dulles
is 81 miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Arlington Woman
Dies of Burns

An Arlington woman died in
Arlington Hospital last night
as a result of burns received
a month ago when her house
coat caught fire while she was
burning trash in her back yard.
She was Mrs. Nell v. Byers,
So, of 1904 North Washington
boulevard.
Mrs. Byers, who died at 11:15
pm, had been a patient at the
hospital since the accident on
December Z.
She was found unconscious
near the fire with her house
coat aflame. A dog refused to
let anyone help her until fire
men arrived and the dog was
collared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
City Plans to Ask U. S.
ForMedicoI AidtoAqed

vantage of another aspect of
the 1860 law, liberalized Fed
eral payments for medical care
for the aged on relief, has
earned $136,267 in Federal dol
lars in the first five months of
fiscal 1862, and is expected to
bring in about 100000 before
the year is over.
This is $260,O0O more than
the Federal Government pro-
vided in matching money last
year.
Under a plan approved in
April by the Commissioners, the
city'S health and welfare de-
partmentS have expanded their
medical services to men and
women over IS who ere an old
age assistance. The Districts
one-year residence requirement
is no bar to this program.
Programs Expanded
More funds are available be-
cause the Federal Govern
ment today matches dollar
for dollar, more local money
than it matched formerly. To
take advantage of this, the Dis
trict is channeling both health
and welfare money spent for
medical care for the aged on
relief into special public as
siStance fund that qualities for
matching Federal money.
The expanded program is
being provided with the in
creased Federal funds. No ad-
ditional local money is being
spent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
.Air|ines Offered Cut
In Baltimore Fees
Car Paced by Trooper
Hits Bridge, Youth Dies

A faSt-moving car which po-
lice said they were pacing for
speed crashed into a bridge
abutment on Shirley highway
yesterday, killing its 16-year-
old driver.
Virginia State police said the
car driven by Daniel E. Thayer,
of 7709 Loisdale road, Spring.
field, was being clicked at more
than 10 miles an hour when it
crashed into the abutment at
the Pohick road overpass and
caught fire.
The trooper who was pacing
the car, James L. Slater, AZ,
suffered a badly burned right
hand pulling the youth from
the flaming wreckage.
Daniel, a student at Fairfax
County'S Lee High School, was
pronounced dead on arrival at
Alexandria Hospital from in
ternal injuries and multiple
cuts of the face, police reported.
Trooper Slater, who lives at
37l0 Norwood drive, Engleside,
said he first spotted the 1861
compact-model car just north
of Springfield. He said the car
was headed south on Shirley
highway at what he thought
was a high rate of speed.
PAGES Death Car
Trooper Slater said he got
behind the car and paced it
for three or four miles. He was
getting ready to overtake it
when the crash occurred short
ly after Sis pm, he reported.
The trooper said the youth
had pulled out of the outside
lane to pass a string of cars
and apparently lost control
when he pulled back to the
right after passing them. The
car, the trooper said, continued
to the right, left the highway,
and struck the abutment, burst
ing into flames.
Trooper Slater said he and
two other motorists tried to
open the door on the drivers
side but couldn't and finally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
2CityChiefs
Scan Blight
At Boiling

Two OF the Districts three
Commissioners toured the Boil
ling-AnacoStia airfield area to-
day, but said later they were
still unable to decide whether
it is sufficiently blighted to
warrant development under the
city's urban renewal laws.
After inspecting the two
military airportS, Commits
sicnerS Walter N. Tobriner and
John B. Duncan said they
would have to give the matter
further study. Mr.. Tobriner
said he would have to weigh
what he saw against the blight
standards provided in the Dis
trict laws for urban redevelop-
ment projects.
Clarke Undecided Too
Engineer Commissioner Fred
erick ]. Clarke. who previously
had inspected the area, also is
undecided about whether it
should be an urban renewal
project.
The remaining operations in
the Bolling-Anacostia area will
cease in September. The Dis
trict has been told it can have
the property for urban renewal,
if it wishes, by about Novem-
Der.
The Budget Bureau wrote
Commissioner Clarke last week
that the Department of Defense
will cease operations, indicating
but not definitely stating -
that the Air Force intends to
abandon Boiling Field, except
for some office buildings. The
Anacostia section already has
been written off by the Navy
as an aircraft base.
Could Sell to Investors
The Budget Bureau has indi-
Gated that the General Services
Administrations could either
sell the land to private inves-
tors for development or sell the
to the District gov
for urban renewal.
If the property is sold to the
District, the area would be re-
sold to private investors who
would agree to build along a
plan to be drawn up by the
District.
If the Commissioners decide
the area can't be covered by
present District renewal law.
they could ask Congress for ad-
1itional renewal authority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
Urbanske Set
To Run Again
With Wi|t'sAid
Richards Says
Arlington ABC
Would Name Him
BY JOHN BARRON
Star Staff Writer

Arlington County Board
member Leo Urbanske has de-
cided to seek reelection this
year.
His candidacy will be strongly
assisted by board chairman
Ernest wilt, an independent
who heretofore has remained
neutral in local campaigns
fought by the county's three
political factions.
A formal announcement from
MIR. Urbanske, who belongs to
the nonpartisan coalition, Ar
lingtonians for a Better County,
probably will not be made for
several weeks. However, he al
ready has advised friends that
he will enter the ABC con-
vention contest in May.
He could encounter some OPP
position in the convention from
the most liberal faction of the
coalition. But board member
Thomas Richards, whose past
predictions Of ABC actions have
been accurate, asserts that the
coalition will welcome the op-
portunity to nominate and re-
elect him."
Brown Decision Awaited
Disclosure of Mr.. Urbanske's
plans followed a week of in
creaSing discussion about for
nation Of an independent
ticket next year composed of
Mr.. Wilt and Herbert Brown.
who retired from the board last
month.
Although the 1868 election
seems remote, Democratic, Re-
publican and ABC leaders all
would like to elicit a state
ment Of intentions from MIR.
Brown and Mr.. Wilt within the
next few months. For a deci-
sion by them to run together
as independents could result in
continuation of nonpartisan,
though not necessarily Abe
controlled, local government
for most Of this decade.
Mr.. Urbanske, a S8-year-old
telephone company employee
and former labor leader, gen.
orally was considered a liberal
when elected as an ABC candi-
date in 1858.
On the board, Of which he
was chairman last year, he has
supported increased expendi-
lures for public schools, &C
ceptance of and peaceful adj
justment to desegregation or
derS, long-range planning, bond
issues for capital improve
ments and preservation of the
residential character of Airing
ton.
Mr.. Wilt intends to tell con-
servatives and commercial in
tereStS with whom he has ties
that Mr.. Urbanske's voting
record also has been that of
a moderate willing to extend
all reasonable government help
to responsible businessmen re-
questing coming changes and
other official cooperation.
Democrat to Run
The Democratic Executive
Committee, after a series of
close votes, the decisive one
being 80 to 81, last month
committed itself to conduct a
primary and choose a board
candidate this year. Attorneys
L. Lee Bean and William Wet
more have been mentioned as
possible selections.
The Republicans thus far
have reached no formal con-
clusion about whether to fight
for the one seat which will be
at issue in November.
Both parties, though, are
looking toward 1863 when two
vacancies will be created by ex-
piration of the terms of Mr..
Wilt and Ralph Raul.
Leaders of diverse political
perSuaSions privately have ex-
pressed belief that an alliance
between Mr.. Brown and Mr..
Wilt might appear so formid-
able that no one would care to
challenge it next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08
The
Ra T1lbIer
-. Recalls Early
Congo Trouble
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Early in this century the
spotlight of public interest
was on the Congo.
This was due to the report
OF the British consul at
Bona. 1t is in the Library of
Congress, a thin volume of
large sheetS-larger than our
picture magazines.
The title page gives the
date, Printed for His Maj
esty's Stationery Office by
Harrison g. Sons, 1904"
The consul was Roger
Easement, a young Ulster
man who had become one of
the experts on Africa in the
British consular service.
In 1887, only 10 years after
the navigability of the Congo
had been discovered by Henry
Stanley, Easement had gone
up the river on an expedition
financed by an American,
Henry Shelton Sanford. He
later made a trip to America
and lectured on the Congo.
His 1904 report was on the
rubber trade in the Upper
Congo and was based on an
inspection trip of two and
one half months, largely in
a chartered steamer.
The first thing he noted
was the loss of population.
Villages on the Stanley Pool
with a total of 5000 inhabit-
ants II years before had lit
tie more than 100 altogether.
Leopold II of Belgium had
made himself the personal
proprietor of the area by
forming the International
Association for the Explora-
ton and Civilization of the
Congo and becoming its pres
ident not long after Stanley's
discovery. ~ Leopold en-
couraged concessionaire COM
panies to take over the
civilization"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08

EASEMENTS REPORT
was an international Sensa-
ton. The Irish World in New
York charged that Britain
was trying to take over the
Congo. The Belgians charged
that Easement, a Protestant,
was derogating a Catholic
colony.
Later Easement made a
similar inspection of the
Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Co. s
method of gathering rubber.
1t was the same story. In
dams who did not make their
quota were staked to the
ground and flogged.
1t was the domination of
the unarmed by the armed.
It was a new form of mans
inhumanity to man, based
on competitive commerce. 1t
was worse than slavery be-
cause forced labor caused
starvation. An owner never
wanted to lose his slaves.
This report was a bigger
sensation. Easement was
knighted.
Sir Roger Easement retired
and went back to Ulster. He
became a Sim Feiner, a mill
tant Irish nationalist. When
the war broke out he re-
garded it as an opportunity
for Irish independence. He
went to Berlin.
In April, 1916, shortly after
the Easter uprising, he was
arrested while trying to land
a shipment of arms on the
Kerry coast. He was taken
to London, lodged in the
Tower, convicted of high
treason and hanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-08

MICHELIN'S INVENTION
of the pneumatic tire, the
bicycle craze and the grow
ing number of automobiles
to say nothing of rubber
boots had caused a great
world demand for rubber.
The profits of the conces-
sions were enormous. So
were the returns to the Congo
government from its fleet of
so river steamers which had a
monopoly on transportation
on the river. Leopold was
considered the richest man in
the world.
Easement soon found the
cause of the depletion Of
population. Whole tribes had
migrated north across the
river to the French controlled
areas to get away from their
oppresSorS.
In one village Easement
came upon 10 women roped
together with loops around
their neckS and manacled to-
gether hand and hand. Three
had infants at the breast,
four were expecting.
The native soldier guarding
them explained that their
husbands had failed to meet
their rubber quotas. The
husbands were in the jungle
getting rubber to ransom
them. This was much better,
the soldier explained, than
making the husbands prison.
ers. Prisoners can't gather
rubber.
He came upon refugees who
told of a white officer who
lined natives who failed to
make their quotas in files,
back to belly, and put a rifle
bullet through them.
Agriculture was neglected
in the enforced search for
rubber. Starvation resulted.
Navajo times., 1962-01-03
|Myopinion
This weeks question:

This weeks question:
What is your 1862 New Years
Resolution2
The answers:
SUTTON PIC)
Tillie Sutton. Secretary to Chair
man Paul Jones: Keep a bigger ball
of string in MIR. Jones pocket. so
can keep better track of him.
CURTIS PIC)
Vern Curtis, Clerk. BIA: To be
more active in public life.
(MCLEMORE PIC)
Marian McLemore, Secretary: l
may not keep this. but I'll try. Not
to overeat in 1862.
(MONTOYA PIC)
Tom Montoya, File Clerk: Come to
work on time for 81
Jessen's weekly., 1962-06-13
JJnWelconne Guest
BOthers Porters
On GLADYS Show

Pete Porter recalls the unsettling
occasion when he and Gladys had
rid the household of a college stu
dent boarder only 10 have her
nephew, Bruce, move in for the
duration of the five-year course IN
the UCLA medical school on Pete
and Gladys" Monday at 7:30 on
KTVF, Channel Eleven.
Harry Morgan, co-starring as the
harassed Pes. blanched when
Bruce announced the length of this
stay at Westwood and then subtly
plotted to find the young student
new lodgings.
Also starring in the episode is
Cara Williams as Gladys. Featured
in the cast are Bill Hinnant as
Bruce; Steve Terrell as Gary Forbes,
the former boarder; Charles La
Tore as the waiter; Bart Patton as
Joel, one of Bruce's classmates, and
Larry Blake as the policeman.