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Evening star., 1962-01-25
Experts Urge
Dams to Boost
River Flow

Two speakers at the Potomac
River Commission meeting here
today agreed that dams will be
needed to increase the flow in
the Potomac River by approx
mately 2.5 billion gallons daily
for pollution control alone.
They are Abel Wolman, a
noted sanitary engineering
authority and former head of
the sanitary engineering de-
partment at Johns Hopkins
University, and William A.
Rosenkrantz, chief of water
resources development, water
supply and control division Of
the United States Public Health
Service.
DR.. Wolman said that the
tremendous additional flow Of
water will be needed because Of
the sluggish nature of the river
in the Washington area.
DR.. Wolman, who has re-
Gently completed a study OF
waste disposal in the Wash
ington area for the Regional
Sanitary Board, also said con-
struction of 5000 million worth
of main sewer trunk lines and
treatment plants will be re-
quired in the Washington area
within the next so years.
Ellis Tisdale, director Of the
Potomac River Commission,
said tremendous progress" has
been made in reducing pollu-
ton in the river.
He said that since 1856 COM
munities in the Potomac Basin
have spent 1892 million, in
cluding $50 million in Federal
grants, on So pollution reduc-
ton projects.
During the next six or seven
years, Mr.. TiSdale continued,
Washington, in cooperation
with surrounding areas Of
Maryland and Virginia plans
ito spend a total Of $71 million
to improve the existing sever
age and another $28 million
has been authorized by Con-
greSs for construction of a
Potomac interceptor sewer from
the District line to the Dulles
International Airport.
Evening star., 1962-01-25

National Association of Hous-
ing and Redevelopment Off
cials. He became staff director
two years ago.
President of the National
Capital Downtown Committee,
Inc, since its inception in July,
1859, has been Robert c. Baker,
president of the American Sc
curity & Trust Co.
The committee was formed
under auspices of a joint COM
mittee of the Federal City
Council and the National Cap
ital Planning Commission, with
Robert H. Levi, president of the
Hecht Co., as chairman. For a
year and = a half before the
Downtown Progress group was
established, the joint commit
tee had studied ways to enliven
the downtown area and prepare
it for a more important eco
nomic role in the future.
Evening star., 1962-01-25
STREETS
Public Hearing Set
On Troffic Plans

Twelfth street subway line, but
Downtown Progress planners
say this route location is not
as firm as the G street line.
They point out that the Ma
tional Capital Transportation
Agency staff has worked close
ly with them in developing the
plan, but that the agency will
not release its own recommen-
dations until later this year.
The Downtown report esti-
mated that public action need
ed to institute the traffic plan
would cost $33 million, exclud-
ing cost of freeways, and sub
ways. This would cover cost
of such items as underpasses,
street improvements and relo-
cation of sewer and water
lines.
1870 on Mass Transit
In estimating the needs for
future traffic, the planners de-
termined that rs per cent of
all those coming into down.
town by 1880 will use mass
transit. 1t will mean that 27,-
900 parking spaces will be
needed then, compared to 22,.
900 available in 1860.
The plan urges completion
of the underpasses, freeway
system and subway for down.
town in the next 10 years. The
report recognizes completion
within a decade will require
relentless and continuing ef-
fort"
Construction of the down
town underpasseS and subway
should be CARED out together.
the report noted, since under
the plan the underpases would
be tied in with a G street
subway.
Evening star., 1962-01-25
The
Rambler
Notes
An Anniversary
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Two hundred and three
years ago today in a peasants
cottage near Ayr. Scotland, a
great poet was born-Robert
Burns.
Last night the local st.
Andrews Society observed
this anniversary, as did
Scotch groups in other Amer
lean and Canadian cities, in
Britain, Ireland, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, and
probably in any nom
English-speaking nations, by
eating the haggis, that
thrifty combination of NUT
ton and oatmeal baked in a
sleeps stomach.
The Scotch will yield to no
nation on their poet - nor
should they.
1t is not generally known
that one of the greatest
libraries of Burnsiana-many
consider it second only to
that in the Mitchell Library
in Edinburgh - is here in
Washington. 1t is the collec-
ton of william Smith, a man
proud of his Scotch descent,
who was director of the
Washington Botanical Gar
denS.
Andrew Carnegie was an
executor of his will. Some
thing about the wording of
the bequest, possibly that all
the books should be kept
together and not distributed
in the stacks, caused the
Library of Congress to refuse
it.
Evening star., 1962-01-25
Joycees Offer Steps
To Halt Delinquency

make a major contribution by
providing jobs for these young
people without regard. to race,
the report declared.
Job Factor Cited
1--WE think that one of the
chief causes of delinquency is
the fact that many jobs are
not opened to colored people
because of their race" the re-
port declares.
Businessmen too might help
settlement houses and boys
clubs. Sometimes, the report
said, a small amount of money
in the hands of a case worker
can be crucial in an anti-de-
linquency effort.
Business might establish an
ii delinquency funds with
which athletic equipment and
other items could be bought
for needy boys.
Eric Cox, chairman of the
Jaycees' Crime Study Commit
tee, told a press conference to-
day 1--WE are advocating basic
ally that those who are edu-
Gated and Stable come to the
aid of those who are not"
Mr.. Cox said the next step
is for Jaycee members to work
in the community to implement
the study.
Church women's groups are
urged to set up intensive coun-
selling programs for young
mothers of illegitimate chill
dren. According to the vital
statistics summary of the Dis
trict Health Department, in
1860 there were 1,480 teen-age
girls who gave birth to an lille
gitimate child. If by a pro-
gram of kind and understand
ing help churchwomen were
able to influence young moth
ers so many would have no
more illegitimate children, a
community service "of great
proportion" would have been
performed, the report said.
Evening star., 1962-01-25
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The Junior Chamber of Com
merce of the District has called
the Commissioners and the
community to turn the tide in
juvenile delinquency growth
here by a broad program of
prevention.
The Jaycees today released a
study on juvenile delinquency
in the Nations Capital. The
study was a year in the max
ing.
They urged the city heads to
use trained volunteers as as
sistants to professional case
workers in the Welfare Depart
ment.
Five Suggestions
This recommendation was
one of five made specifically to
the District Commissioners.
Others include a call for vigor-
GUS effort to train youth who
have dropped out of school,
possibly through setting up
trade and employment schools
designed for dropouts; a crash
program to help multi-problem
families; establishment of a
central register so agencies
could coordinate help for fam
lilies, and compilation of a list
of children believed to be po-
tential delinquents.
In its call to the community
at large, the report looks to
churches and businesses as po-
tential major sources of help.
Churches are urged to reach
out to help problem ridden
families. I'VE make a special
plea for the congregations of
suburban churches to involve
themselves directly in such
measures" the report declares.
This can be done in many
ways. An ideal way would be
to help settlement houses in
deprived areas, the report said.
The business community can
Evening star., 1962-01-25
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streets, would free the central
area of through traffic.
1t would enable 2 and G
streets to he free for pedes-
trian traffic and a slow-mov-
ing 10-psssenger vehicle that
would cruise along designated
downtown loops connecting de-
partment stores, employment
centers and Federal conpleXes.
Bus-ROute Change
Once the one-Way street pat
tern is approved, local bus
routes should be changed to
conform to the fast traffic
pattern and ruSh-hour bus
routes should be worked out
to get the public started on
a mass transit habit, the re-
port suggests.
Construction should also be
started as soon as possible on
the Center Leg, the planners
urge, stating that the express.
way is essential to bringing ir
express buses and tourist traf.
fic and providing a by-pas:
for through traffic. They
strongly urge completion oi
the Inner Loop freeway sys-
tenn.
>. Parking garages would be 10.
Gated on the Center Leg anC
. a large Visitors Center woulc
be located near the expressway
Underpasses for north-soutt
traffic on Fourteenth, Thir.
teenth, Ninth and Sixth street,
would help save the heart Of
downtown from congestion anC
ultimately, the underpasses
could connect with tunnels tt
stores for service deliveries.
Includes Subway
Key element to the down
, town transportation plan is fol
/ a subway line along G street
, with stations located a leve
; below the underpasses so thai
transit connections betweer
express and local buses anc
, the subways would be con-
venient.
The plan also includes 8
Evening star., 1962-01-25
DOWNTOWN
City Modernizotion
Program Prepared

be expected, the organization
estimates.
Besides spelling out steps for
Federal and District partici-
patton the action plan" fore
casts needs of the central city
for the next 20 years and sets
up a framework within which
some private investors can go
ahead at once.
Already there's been a real
awakening of interest on the
part of private developers, and
quite a few land-assemblage
operations have taken place."
Mr.. Banner said.
To avoid having its program
turn out to be "just another
plan"-prepared and then for
gotten - the National Capital
Downtown Committee, Inc,
otherwise known as Downtown
Progress, intends to keep its
nine-man staff intact for at
least the next two years.
The staff will thus be avail
able to advance the concept,
help work for its fulfillment on
many levels, and be ready with
day-to-day professional advice
during the critical discussion
period.
Legislation Needed
One obstacle which sponsors
must overcome. is the lack of
clear legal authority for use
of Federal urban renewal pow
ers in a predominantly busi-
ness area within the District.
New legislation is, thus, an
element of the plan.
AS now conceived, the pro-
gram could also be wrecked by
inSistence, in any new law, up
on sale of property by the Re-
development Land Agency only
through competitive bidding.
Recently Chairman Smith of
the House Rules Committee,
and of a House District sub
committee handling urban re-
neWal legislation, said he would
support no legislative changes
governing urban renewal here
without a guarantee of COM
petitive bidding for land.
Substantial official agree
ment with detectives set forth
in the plan appears to exist,
since the framework rests on
earlier decisions by the Ma
tional Capital Planning Com
mission and the District Gov
ernment.
More than 80 local and ma
tional groups and agencies are
listed as advisory and partici-
pating organizations.
Downtown Progress gives
strong support to the Inner
Loop highway concept in its
entirety, including the contro-
versial Center Leg.
FavOrs Action
Initial District government
reaction was expressed by En-
gineer Commissioner Fred
erick j. Clarke, who said he
favored enactment enabling
legislation for urban renewal
and an early decision on the
Center Leg.
Evening star., 1962-01-25

Ilandscaping are suggested as
part Of this shopping environ
ment.
2. The blocks around the in
tersection of New York avenue
and Eleventh street where, says
the plan, potential exists for
development of new private and
Federal office space" A new
square is proposed for this area.
8. East along the north side
of Pennsylvania avenue, be-
ginning at Fourteenth street
a strip viewed as appropriate
for new Federal and private Of
flee buildings.
4. A section Of Eighth street
south Of Mount Vernon Square,
considered to be appealing as
an apartment area. It would be
inviting, also, for high-quality
commercial exploitation, the re-
port explains.
5. A wedge e-shaped area east
Of Mount Vernon Square and
bounded by Massachusetts, and
New York avenues, viewed as
having potential" as a new
residential neighborhood.
6. East of the Center Leg
expressway, along Massachu-
sets avenue and south of a
proposed Visitors Center, con-
sidered desirable for new mo-
tells catering to visitors enter
ing the city by way of the
expressway.
In addition to new legisla-
tion for urban renewal, the plan
also will require changes in
zoning regulations and in the
building code, and possible
amendment of the Shipstead-
Luce Act and the building
height limitation act before il
could be fully realized as out
lined. Both acts would hold
heights below the 130-foot lim-
it proposed for some areas by
the plan.
The program envisages 8
Washington population total
ing 3.4 million by 1980-about
IA million more than at pres
ent-and 100, 900 more employe:
in the Metro Center area, o1
whom 1000 are expected to be
working within the downtown
area covered by the plan.
Also within 20 years, the
study estimates, 35 million per-
sons will be visiting Washing
ton every year for four hours
or more, in contrast to fewer
than half that many today. Oi
this total, 13 million every yeal
are expected to stay overnight
thus creating a need for great
ly increased hotel, shopping anc
Entertainment facilities Of
varying types.
The city must also prepare
for a yearly increase in down.
town retail sales of 26 per cent
or $105 million-by 1880, the
report concludes.
Form Basis of Plan
Work of the Downtown Prog
ress staff, plus studies carried
out by consultant firms, form
the basis Of the recommenda-
tions.
Mr.. Banner, once director oi
the Little Rock (Ark0 Housing
l.l acknowledgements A,,kIHa,.ifxy
Evening star., 1962-01-25

THEODORE w. MOVES,
editor of The Star, was con-
suited and it was decided to
place the collection in the
Scottish Rite Temple at Six
teenth and S streets NV.
Burns had been a Free
Mason. There it is-a Mecca
for Burns scholars.
Burns lived to be only 81,
but he is as immortal as
Alexander, who died at about
the same age.
What a singer! The first
of Burns songs that comes
to mind is:
My loUe Is like a red red
rose.
That's ne,Dly sprung In
June.
NM IoUe is like the melodie
That's saoeetly played in
tune.
So tatr art thou, my bonnie
lass,
So deep in loUe am /:
And I tpil lone thee still,
my dear,
Till a. the seas gang dry.
How often do we hear the
same sentiments sung on the
radio or TV? But have any of
the lyricists since equaled
that simple expression OF
love?
He was taught to read and
to write-little more. He was
a man who thought. How
that is to be taught, no one
knows.
In this day of threats,
warnings and fall-out shell
ters, his verses entitled ITO
a Mouse On Turning Her
Up With the Plow, November,
1885," are significant.
Evening star., 1962-01-25

One Of the surprises of the
action plan was its proposal
for a relatively small increase
in the number of off-street
parking spaces over the next 20
years. AS against present 22,-
600 spaces, the report calls for
only 5000 additional spaces by
1880.
Assumed, however, is that the
27 900 total in the future, will
be provided more logically in
garages related to traffic ar
teries. Specifically proposed in
the plan is construction of two
parking terminals to span the
proposed Center Leg expressway
right-of-way, with the posi-
bility that heliport might op-
crate on the roof of one such
building.
Minimization of downtown
parking needs Is related, the
report explained, to the expec-
tation that by 1880 as many
as rs per cent of the people
coming into the downtown Sec
ton will travel by subway or
bus.
Besides blueprinting a course
Of action through urban re-
newal powers, which would
make possible assembly of land
for large and small projects
the action plan is expected to
lead to private study Of rede-
velopment possibilities.
Opportunities Listed
Opportunities are available ir
almost every block" the re-
port suggests. Six major areas
are listed, as follows:
/. The downtown core
centered on F and G strees
where existing owners and mer.
chants may be expected to play
an important part in redevel.
opment. Vari-colored sidewalks
benches, covered walkways, anc
Evening star., 1962-01-25
HERE ARE two stanzaS:

Thou sato the fields laid
bare and D1Ste,
And 1Ueary 1Ointer com1in'
fast,
An cosie here beneath the
blast,
Thou thought to dtoell,
Till crash! The cruel
coulter past
Out'thro' thy cell. ..
But, Mousie, thou art no
thy lane (Glone),
In proping foresight may
be pain:
The best laid schemes OF
mice an men
Gang aft G-gley faStrdV
An leGUe us nGught but
grief and pain
For promiS'd joy.
He almost took passage to
Jamaica. That was when he
wrote, "Adieu my native
banks of Ayr" to Mary-per-
haps Mary Morrison. But he
changed his mind. His grand
tour took him to the neigh
borhood of the English bor-
der and to the east and the
west shires of Scotland.
The verses above were in
his book published in 1786.
He was paid 20 pounds. And
he was lionized in Edinburgh.
Republication the next year
with added poems brought
400 pounds. He had less than
10 years to live. They were
not happy years. He took
refuge with the bottle. But
before he died he gave the
English-speaking world a
song that is sung at the end
of festive occasions when
everyone hates to go home.
Should Guld acquaintance
be forgot,
And neDer brought to
min?
Should Guld acquaintance
be forgot,
And days o. lang syne?
Evening star., 1962-01-25
Would Yield Taxes

Such a volume of construc-
ton would yield a net annual
increase in realty tax revenues
of $4.3 million, plus 50 million
additionally each year in sales
taxes on the trade that could
Evening star., 1962-01-25

sketch showing
streets at Fourteenth Thirteenth Ninth Sixth Tunnels would
provided
from Downtown Progress by Paul Sprehegen
Evening star., 1962-01-25


increased and streets through diversion
hailed Wdened sidewalks benches ndscapng
Plans n
Evening star., 1962-01-25
Form Basis Of Plan

Work of the Downtown Prog
ress staff, plus studies carried
out by consultant firms, form
the basis Of the recommenda-
tior1s.
Mr.. Banner, once director of
the Little Rock (Ark0 Housing
and Redevelopment Authority,
is a former president of the
Evening star., 1962-05-13

u 10 an ovthoritosivo
illvssrutod monvol with
oil the onswors . the
only pvblieqtion Of its
kind devoted exelv-
siVoly 10 the nosvFe and
core Of soil and plqnss
common TO This cree.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-03-23

F. Allen, insurance man. Plans
were made for the Wives and
Sweethearts party which will be
held this year on June 8.
Entertain Debutantes' Parents
The Cameo Club Debutantes Ball
committee was host Sunday even
ing to an informal cocktail party
for parents Of the IS debutantes
who are to be presented at the
annual Cotillion Ball at the Hotel
RadissOn on June 30 which this
year will be a dinner-dance.
The parents get-to-gether was
held at the home of Mrs. Jas H.
Rideaux, 765 Marshall Av., from
Z to 10 pm. This years chairman
Of the annual event is Mrs. Lii
liam Balenger. Net proceeds will
go to Crispus Attucks Home for
the aged.
Next Meeting: The next meet
ing of the Pragmateia Sorority
will be held at the home Of Mrs.
Arlee Hallowell, 1O14 Carroll Av.
Back From Trip: Robert Pat
St. Paul recorder., 1962-03-23
ST. PAUL BIRTHDAYS

March 22-Judy Jones, TOT West
Central Av.; Mrs. Matilda Goss
869 Fuller Av. and Staycie Eliz-
abeth Hickman, Inkster, Mich.
March % - Gordon Kirk, 145
Arch ST.; Lloyd Gambol, Jr., Los
Angeles, Calf; Willie Phelps, 721
Iglehart Av.; Cynthia Jean Rus
sell, 500 Iglehart Av.
March "a - Roland Mcfarland
1016 Rondo Av.; Thomas Light
661 West Central Av.; Howard
Johnson, TAO St. Anthony Av.;
Frank Waldron Schine, Washing
ton, D. c., and Keith Edward Hol-
loman, 932 Iglehart Av.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-03-23
Ruling Agoinst
InfendcioI Housing
AdunfS judge

Washington (ANP) - A circuit
court judge who ruled against a
private company that had planned
to develope an interracial housing
project in the Chicago suburb of
Deerfield, may find that his de-
cision blocking is his appointment
to the Federal bench.
The name of Waukegan Circuit
Court Judge Bernard NJ. Decker, a
Republican, was sent to the White
House several weeks ago, but no
further action has been taken.
Throwing the roadbloCk in the
way of President Kennedys desire
to appoint a Republican to the re-
naming vacancy on the Chicago
Federal bench is Sen. Paul H.
Douglas d., M.
Decker had been cleared by the
Justice Department before his
name was submitted to the Presi-
dent.
Douglas made no bones about his
feelings in the matter. In a state
ment issued a Chicago newspaper,
he said:
II favor the appointment of a
Democrat to the federal district
judgeship still vacant in the north
ern district of Illinois.
Tin Illinois, Republicans still
hold a majority of federal judicial
positions in the state. think we
need to balance the political COM
position of the bench in Illinois
and there are many, many superb
ly qualified candidates.
Douglas is also known to be
displeased with Decker for ruling
against the private development
company that had planned to build
houses for Negroes in suburban
Deerfield.
Decker, SO, has been a judge of
the 10th Circuit (Lake and NC
Henry counties) since 1851.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-03-23
Jack And JiIIs
Prepare For Their
National Convention

Jack and Jill members of the
Twin Cities are knee deep in MAX
ing plans for the forthcoming con-
Vention of the 100 chapter nation
al organization which meets in the
Twin Cities in July this year.
Representatives of each chapter
are expected to attend the meet
ing plus other officials and vis-
itors to the convention.
Headquarters for the convention
are to be the Radisson Hotel in
Minneapolis. All sessions will take
place there.
Theme of the 9Th annual con-
Vention will be - Blueprint for
Broader Horizons"
The convention opens with reg
istration and a scenic bus tour of
the Twin Cities on Friday, July
10. An evening meeting open to
the public will be held, followed
by a smorgasbord reception on
Friday.
Other events scheduled are
workshops, a luncheon with ma
tonally known speaker and TIE
usual group business sessions to
take up organizational affairs.
A number of social events are
planned for the delegates by mem
bers and their families. The con-
ference closes on Sunday, July %.
Local co-chairmen of the con-
Vention are: Dorisella Freeze, and
Junauld Braddock. Committees
and their chairmen are finance:
Helen Reed; hotel Accommodations,
Virginia Lewis; program, Jean
Coins; entertainment, Bernice
Hendon; publicity, Meriel Will
liams; art, Myrtle Royster and
children's activities, Lois Young.