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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
Duckett Asked to Hear
Senate Issue Thursday

portionment of the House
adding 10 seats for the benefit
Of metropolitan areas.
Called Irrational"
The committee commended ir
its motion for further argu,
ments today that there is NJ
rational pattern or policy II
the present representation" b!
which each county gets ont
Senator and Baltimore City ha
six. 1t said there is even dis
elimination between Baltimor
County, which has one Senate
for some 100000 population
and Baltimore City, which ha
six for slightly more than 900.
900 people.
1t also reStated arguments i
had made previously that l!
per cent Of the States popula'
ton are represented by a ma
jority of Senators and thai
there is no relation between
the makeup Of the State Legis.
lature and the two Houses Of
Congress, where the United
States Senate is based purely
on geography.
Judge Bowie bucket saiC
earlier he is ready to hear ar
guments for reapportionment
of the Maryland Senate tomor-
row If both sides are ready.
The Judge indicated he
wants to make a judgement as
Soon>as possible.
Earlier, Judge Duckett had
given an informal comment
that he thought the Senate is
properly constituted along geo.
graphic lines.
But they (the Committee
for Fair Representation might
have some new arguments that
could change my mind" Judge
.Duckett said today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
Big Things in Store forWoshington Zoo

cages near the Bird House to
Rock Creek.
Home for Platypuses
High on DR.. Reeds list for
enhancing the menagerie is his
plan for establishing a "platy-
pusary." This, in case you didn't
know, is a home for duck-billed
platypuses - Strang e little
aquatic creatures from Aus
tralia who burrow in the earth
and feed almost entirely on
earthworms. DR.. Reed figures
he will have to start raising his
own earthworms, a task he is
perfectly ready to take on.
Other plans include:
A complete remodeling Of the
bear line, and assembly of a
colony of polar bears.
Extensive revisionS of the
Bird House, one of the newest
buildings at the Zoo but still
dating back to 1926.
y Barring vehicular tr attic
from the east-west roadway
from Harvard street to Con-
necticut avenue and using it as
a strolling way for pedestrians.
An 800-foot tunnel under the
hill where the administration
building now stands to remove
all traffic from the central zoo
sector and connect sections of
| the Rock Greek Parkway above
and below the ZOO.
A new parking lot at the
Connecticut avenue entrance.
/ A bypass road on the east
side Of Rock Greek extending
through the old elk pens and
joining the existing Beach
drive. This project would Gre
ate a peripheral road around
the Zoo that would be open
to traffic around the clock. At
present motorists may drive
through the Zoo only during
the hours it is normally open
to the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
Grady Names Furber

BALTIMORE, June II tAP)
= DR.. Robert E. Farber has
been named by Mayor j. Har-
old Grady as Baltimore's new
health commissioner, succeed
ing DR.. Huntington Williams
who retires June 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
BY JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
star Staff Writer

Sea elephants and platy-
puses, manatees and moose
and scores of other rare ami
mails never before seen in
Washington are all going to be
established at the National
Geological Park as part Of the
10-year improvement program.
DR.. Theodore Reed, director
of the 167-acre park emissions
both a plant and a collection
of animals, reptiles and birds
that will make the zoo the
finest in the world. His plans
moreover, are no longer dreams
now that the zoo is to be fl
nanced by the Smithsonian In
stitution instead Of the District.
The SIT million program will
change the appearance Of the
Zoo, with the demolition of
three major buildings, the Lion
House, the Monkey House and
the Antelope House, which are
obsolete.
The Antelope House is con-
sidered so unsafe that it has
been closed to the public for
more than two years. The
Monkey House, as any visitor
can testify, is poorely lighted
and badly ventilated. The Lion
House is both ancient and un-
suitable. ...
DR. Reed said he has no plans !
for replacing the administra-
ton building at this time, al
though it once contained so
many termites that a taman-
dua-a South American ant
eater-waS brought in to de-
your them.
New Beaver Valley
High on the list for expand
ing and improving the Zoos
facilities, DR.. Reed said, is the
construction of a Beaver VAL
ley in a 500-foot long ravine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

Billy, a bridge for passing from
what was, to what will be, with
good friends and wise coun-
SelorS to speed the way.
Your gift to The Evening
Star Summer Camp Fund can
build that bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
State Tribunal
Finds Election
To Be Valid
By ALEX r. PRESTON
Star Staff Writer

RICHMOND, June 1.-THE
Virginia Supreme Court of APP
peals today affirmed a Fairfax
County Circuit Court decision
upholding the legality of a SIP
million Falls Church issue,
which a group Of taxpayers
had contested.
The unanimous opinion, writ
ten by Associate Justice Harold
F. Snead of Richmond, said:
I'VE find no substantial de-
fects. material errors and omis-
sions in the incidents of the
bond ordinance election"
Issuance of the $l.2 million
in bonds, approved by the voters
in November. 1860, had been
held up by court action since
that date. Todaay's ruling APP
parently clears the way for
sale of the issue.
The bonds included 1855, 900
for improvements to George
Mason High School and James
Madison Elementary School,
$4,000 for street improve
ments and $108,000 for storm
drainage facilities.
Court Upheld Bonds
Last August, Fairfax County
Circuit Court Judge Calvin Van
Dyck upheld the bond issue.
He rejected a challenge by, the
city's Taxpayers League that
irregularities in the election
made it invalid.
The Taxpayers League also
contended in the suit that
voters were not permitted to
ballot separately for the various
bond issues and that the re-
quired distinction between free
holders and non-property
owners was not made in some
cases.
The league also had argued
in Judge Van Dyck's court that
use Of voting machines in the
referendum invalidated the
issue.
The city's response was that
the election was legally held
and that a city charter distinc-
ton between freeholders and
non-freeholders was uncon-
stitutional.
Judge Van Dyck dismissed
the city's contention that its
charter provision was uncon-
stitutional because, he said,
"the city is precluded in this
suit from attempting to i'm
peach its own charter"
He upheld use of voting ma
chimes and ruled the machines
properly distinguished free
holders from other persons vot-
ing.
Separate Vote Issue
He also had overruled the
Taxpayers Leagues arguments
that voters should have been
permitted to vote separately on
different bond issues.
The Court of Appeals deci-
sion today found the Taxpayers
Associations challenge of ir-
Irregularities at the polls I'M
founded.
The court noted the city
charter allows for inclusion "of
several capital improvement
projects in one ordinance and
does not require each of the
projects to be stated separately
on the ballot" as the challeng-
ers had claimed. The court also
said:
I'VE hold that by the use Of
the voting machines, a proper
canvass could be and was made
of the votes cast"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
REPORT CARD-62
Shortage of CIossrooms Hampers
Thousands of District YOUNGSTERS

building funds, I'VE didn't do
so WE'LL" he said. The Board
of Education asked for $18
million. and the Commissioners
allowed So Million" he said.
Four Buildings Past 80
Furthermore, he added, these
funds do not take into account
obsoleScence. We have four
buildings from 80 to 80 years
old"
School figures show that in
addition to the elementary
classroom shortage, the junior
high schools today need space
for 1000 boys and girls, or the
equivalent of more than three
new schools. This is not to
mention the equivalent Of still
another junior high school
needed to house almost 1000
additional students expected in
September.
They also will be almost 1000
more elementary youngsters in
September than officials had
figured on a year ago.
Furthermore, enrolment FORE
casts for the next six years
indicate an annual increase of
between 5000 and 5000 to a
total of 10000 in all schools by
1868. This means a jump of
about $1,000 students over this
years enrolment Of 128,482.
Elementary schools would bear
the brunt of the increase.
DR.. Hansen said that the
current appropriations rate
simply could not keep up with
the pressure. He therefore pro-
posed last month to ask Con-
'gress for a $3.50 million interest
free loan to finance a revised
six-year construction program.
Chances Seen Slim
The Board of Education APP
proved the request, but Com
missioner Walter N. Tohriner
said he regarded the proposals
congressional chances as slim.
Mr.. Tobriner put forward a
SIS million borrowing package
which is before the House.
About half of this capital out
lay money would be for new
schools.
The word encouraging" is
not one DR.. Hansen gets to
overwork in discussing the
state Of the school system.
But he said he was encour-
aged by a number of victories
in Skirmishes during the year.
For a time, it looked as if
Congress delay in passing a
revenue bill would mean the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
By DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

Thousands of youngsters in
the Nations Capital will leave
school for the summer with
out realizing they've been
hort-changed.
An 8-year-old can't be ex-
pected to grasp how his part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

ANNAPOLIS, June IL (AP)
Judge o. Bowie Duckett was
asked today to hear further ar
guments Thursday on whether
Maryland's State Senate should
be reapportioned.
The formal motion for a
rehearing of the question was
filed by the Maryland Commit
tee for Fair Representation. It
followed a Court of Appeals Or
der last Friday directing Anne
Arundel County Circuit Court
to determine the issue.
Judge Duckett said at the
time he would decide the ques-
ton with or without further
arguments as counsel for the
committee and the State might
wish.
Alfred L. Seaman, chief
counsel for the citizens group
fighting for more seats in the
Legislature for large counties,
filed a motion today asking
that the Senate question be set
for rehearing ION Thursday,
June IA, 1862, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon Of that day. or
as soon thereafter as counsel
may be heard"
Left Issue Open
Judge Duckett had left the
Senate question open in his
opinion Of May "a which held
that the House Of Delegates
was malapportioned in viola
ton of the constitutional rights
of metropolitan residents.
He indicated in that opinion
he did not think distribution
of Senate seats would have to
be related to population, but
reserved the right to make a
final determination later.
Gov. Tawes then called the
Legislature into special session
and it acted only on reap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

With the closing Of schools in the
Washington oreo. students ore tok-
ing home their report cards for the
year. But how did education itself
fofe5 This is the second Of seven
orioles assessing accomplishments
during the 1857 public school yeor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

everything in winter-when
George Kennedy is III. He will resume
his column on his return.
we're closed and somebody
else is worrying about the
production" said Mrs. Israel
Field, who spends every night
at Window 5, the box office
trouble window"
She has energy and a sense
of humor, two attributes you
can't have too much of in her
job. Mrs. Field was pressed
into service on a part-time
basis 10 years ago when her
husband and his brother
took over the empty amphi-
theater they saw growing
up IN WeeuS.
Window 5 is the only one
to handle advanced sales and
complaints. AS Mrs. Field
describes it:
"The ones at the other win
dows nod their heads and
say yes, uh-huh, uh-huh'
and hand out tickets but as
soon as the conversation gets
any more involved than yes,
uh-huh,' they say See Win
dow s."
"One time they referred a
woman to me who got so
angry she said, I'm going to
report you, to that woman
downtown The next day she
came into our downtown Of
flee, 1850 F street NV, and
reported me-to me. I work
there from 10 until 4 pm.
She didn't recognize me and
started telling me how hor-
rible that woman out there
was so I soothed her with
Well, you know how summer
help is.'
"On the nights we're not
sold out, everything goes
wrong: The dog ate the
tickets, the tickets went to
the laundry, the kids took
them to school with them
One couple came up saying.
The tickets blew out the win
dow on our way here OF
course, not one of them ever
remembers the ticket or row
number"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

George Kennedy is III. He will resume
his column on his return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11
The
Rambler
-. Goes Buckstuee
AT Carter Barron
By MYRA MACPHERSON

Carter Barron Amphithe-
alter opened last night and
from now until the end Of
summer, a small blond
woman will go there every
performing night and never
see the show.
81 enjoy plays, musicals,
everything in winter-when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

cages near the Bird House to
Rock Creek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-11

building funds, I'VE didn't do
so WE'LL" he said. The Board
of Education asked for $18
million, and the Commissioners
allowed So Million" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-25
YULE CARD TRADITIONS

Christmas almost upon and again the thrill of
receiving seasonal cords and the horror wondering whether
have forgotten your best friend The local stores filled with
Christmas cards to delight every and here brief somPng
Arizona sun., 1962-05-24
Offers To Send BigoIs
To South Africa

Chicago art dealer, Richard L.
Feigen has set aside $4,000 to be
used to transport Bigots to South
Africa. He feels that it is more
logical to face the country of a
white-supremist minority than to
aid the South of their victims Gas
the New Orleans White Citizens
Council is attempting to do; Feig-
ner extended his offer to any mem
ber of the White Citizens Council
who would contract to relinquish
his U. S. citizenship and agree
to become a permanent resident
of nation where white supremacy
is the official policy.
Arizona sun., 1962-05-24
NY. State NAACP
Leaders Uphold New
Appointments There

AMITYVILLE, N. Y. - DR.. Eu-
gene Reed, president of the New
York, State NAACP Conference,
has hailed Governor Nelson A..
Rockefeller on his appointment of
Lloyd L. Hurst of Rochester and
Ruperto Ruiz of New York City
to the newly expanded State Com
mission for Human Rights.
In a telegram to the Governor,
DR.. Reed expressed the view that
these appointments of representa-
tives of minority groups would
contribute to easing the prob
lens of racial and ethnic discrim-
ination in the state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23
Behind the Urban Plans Defeat

ton to at least five other de-
partments or agencies of the
Federal Government.
The fallacy of the ap-
proach heretofore to the
problems of administrative
reform and reorganization is
that broad subjects-agricul-
ture, labor and commerce
have been confused with sim
pie tasks which are designed
to make sure that Federal
funds are spent for the OBJ
jectives stipulated in the ap-
preparation laws passed by
Congress.
The Federal Government
is growing as population
grows. And while the fun
damental structure of the
Government here can be i'm
proved and modernized. the
basic principles laid down in
the Constitution are still val
id - namely, that self-rule
must be maintained, as well
as a reliance on the States
and cities and counties to ex-
ercise full responsibility for
their own systems of gov
eminent.
What is needed in Gov
eminent today is decentrali-
cation instead of more CEN
tralization. The States and
cities are not all equal in
financial capacity, and some
Federal aid becomes essen
tial. The doctrine, however,
that the Federal Government
shall extract from taxpayers
in New York State, for eX-
ample, money to pay for the
projects of the State of IL
linois, which has the re-
sources to finance it's own
needs, cannot be persuasively
defended. The President said
in his press conference the
other day that 80 per cent
of the American people now
live in cities, and offered
this as a justification for
supervision of urban affairs
by a department of the Fed
eral Government. But this
might readily lead to an
abandonment of Self-rule
and a concentration of po-
litical power in the Execu-
tive branch of the Federal
Government - a formula
that could make the White
House in the future a bigger
source of political power and
boss rule than a dozen Tam
many Halls combined.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23
Bank Suspect
Added to FBI
Most Wanted List
BY the Associated Press

Bobby Randell Wilcoxson,
described as trigger-happy and
extremely dangerous, was added
today to the FBIs list of 10
most wanted fugitives.
The FBI said Wilcoxson had
been identified as the machine
gun-carrying bandit who killed
a bank guard and wounded a
policeman in the $4,000 rob-
berry of the Lafayette National
Bank in Brooklyn, N. Y, last
December Is.
WilcoXSon also has been
charged with robberies totaling
$l25.000 from a bank and a
savings and loan association in
Buffalo, N. Y, and the Bank
of Com cree .BrightWood
Branch here.
The FBI said Wilcoxson is
believed to be a native of Duke,
Okla. He is 80, about S feet 8,
weighs about $50 and is of
medium build. He has a ruddy
complexion, dark brown hair
and brown eyes. The right eye
is artificial.
He has a burn scar on the
left wrist and a scar on his
right forearm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23

himself, repeatedly interviewed
yesterday and recommended
that, meeting of the full To-
member Democratic State
Policy Committee scheduled for
today be postponed until next
week. All participants agreed
a week of negotiations might
change the picture. rrs|
Seven Republican county
chairmen, saying they noted a
rising sentiment for Represerl-
tative William w. Scranton as
a compromise G. o. P. candi-
date, sent kilograms to Senator
Scott and Judge Woodside urg-
ing them to withdraw to avoid
a primary fight. Both have
said previously they are in the
race to stay. Senator Scott
has said that he would not
withdraw unless former Presi-'
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower
asked him to.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23

between Senator Hugh Scott
and Pennsylvania Superior
Court Judge Robert E. Wood
side. Both have announced as
candidates for the guberna-
torial nomination.
The meeting of Democratic
leaders-the third and last
failed again to recommend any
candidate. Richardson Dill
worth, who resigned as Mayor
of Philadelphia to seek the
nomination, was again blocked
by Representative William j.
Green. jr., Philadelphia Demo-
cratic chairman.
Mayor Dilworth said he in
tends to run with or without
organization backing. Mr..
Green, who claims Mr.. Dill
worth cannot win in November,
repeatedly is ready to slate his
own candidate should the
mayor get organization backing.
Gov. David L. Lawrence, a
Democrat who cannot succeed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23
Withholding Approved
On Dividends, Interest

income, but they still would be
required to pay any taxes due
in the regular manner. Persons
between 18 and IS could OBJ
tain quarterly refunds of with
held taxes if the withheld
amounts exceeded their tax
liabilities.
In another action today, the
committee also approved a sec
ton of the bill providing for
taxation of patronage dividends
by co-operatives.
ScheGaled for consideration
Monday are sections of the bill
designed to tighten taxation of
income earned abroad by sub
salaries or branches of Amer
lean companies.
MOdernizatiOn Spurred
The most important section
of the bill, approved by the
committee earlier this week, is
designed to encourage compa-
MES to increase purchases of
modern equipment by giving
them a tax credit. President
Kennedy originally proposed
other provisions to offset the
I$1.8 billion of revenue that
would be lost through this in
vestment tax credit, but
changes made by the commit
tee have reduced the potential
pickup of revenue by several
hundrd million dollars.
Provisions with wide impact,
in addition to the withholding
section include a tightening of
rules for tax deductibility of
business expenses.
| The tax writers, going part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23
DAVID LAWRENCE

Despite the fact that the
House of Representatives
overwhelmingly defeated the
administrations latest reor-
ganization plan, President
Kennedy predicts that the
establishment of a Depart
ment of Urban Affairs, which
he unsuccesssfully advocated,
is an inevitable development.
But the President, unhap-
PLY, has not analysed the
real reason for the setback.
1t wasn't personal. 1t wasn't
based, as he suggests. on OPP
position from rural areas to
giving aid to cities. 1t wasn't
motivated by the ill-advised
intersection of a racial issue
in the announcement that
Robert c. Weaver, a Negro,
would be appointed to head
the new department. The re-
fusal of Congress to go along
was due primarily to a deep
seated revolt against the
concept of a centralized
government which could
conceivably convert the
White House into the most
powerful political machine
this country has ever known.
For if a Department Of
Urban Affairs is needed to
work with municipal govern
ments, it is just as logical
to ask for the creation of
two other departments-one
covering all relations be-
tween the Federal Govern
ment and State governments,
and another to embrace all
relations with county govern
ments. Likewise, it can be
argued that the Department
of Health, Education and
Welfare has too broad a
scope, and that it should be
separated into two depart
ments. so that one can spe-
cialize in education.
But the basic mistake is
in the concept that a new
department is needed for
urban affairs, just because
city problems have increased.
Fundamentally-if the Fed
eral Gov ernmen is to
maintain the constitutional
principle of State, city and
county systems, as separated
from the Federal system -
what is desirable is not several
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-23

The House Ways and Means
Committee today approved leg
islation to withhold taxes at
the source on income from
dividends and most kinds of
interest.
BY Withholding taxes instead
of depending entirely on recip-
tents to declare this income,
the Treasury Department has
estimated, the Government will
increase its revenues by $500
million a year.
The withholding provision is
a key part of the administra-
ton tax bill now proceeding
through final stages of con-
sideration by the committee.
Final action may be taken next
Monday, with House debate
expected early in March.
Withholding on dividends
and interest would work on the
same general principles as
withholding of taxes on wages
and salaries.
Corporations paying dividends
and banks paying interest would
automatically deduct 20 per
cent and send the money to
the Internal Revenue Service
When the taxpayer filled out
his tax return he would add
the withheld sum to his de-
clared income and claim credit
for the amount.
Some Exempted
Children under 10 and per-
sons IS or over could apply fol
certificates exempting them
from withholding on interest