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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-11-29

cember l, at p M, in the fire
hall Proceeds will go to the Re-
tarded Childrens fund
Mr.. and Mrs Deane Rush and
son Dana, we're Monday afternoon
visitors of Mrs. Margaret Rush
and Mrs. Deane Schroyer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Thomas
and family we're Monday evening
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Deane
Rush and family
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Seggie and
family attended the circus in Pitts
burgh on Friday afternoon. They
also visited the latter's sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James
Fearer and son, at their new home
near Youngstown, O., during the
weekend.
Miss Patty Friend, of Silver
Spring, visited relatives over the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Clarence Wicklow returned home
after spending a week in Wheel
ing.
Mrs. Ada Kahl was a Thanks
giving dinner guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Randall Kahl, of Mt. Lake
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Georg Wis
tied Mrs Gladys Myers, Miss Es-
Their Myers, and MIR. and Mrs. Ken
meth Myers and children, all of
Meyersdale, on Saturday evening
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-11-29

Burkholder, Flintstone, spent iew
days last week with Mr.. and MIS-
Noah Schrock
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-11-29

Francis Keppel, dean of graduate
school of Education at Harvard,
was named by kennedy as new
of education.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-11-29

A Portuguese military transpon
plane exploded and crashed, killing
IS of 80 persons aboard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-11-29
Its for you! lis Christmas!

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They're nice to gve-so easy to ORDER Just call your
Business Office or ask the the telephone truck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

most damaged. was tainted by
the other youngsters.
A private teacher was en-.
gagged for the periods between
which the boys would return
to the hospital for plastic sur
gerry.
They have had plastic surgery
twice so far, their father said,
The first of Ronnie's returns
to the hospital was for surgery
so that he could close both eyes,
He had had to sleep with one
eye open since the accident.
Face More Surgery
Their father said the boys
still face eight more months of
major plastic surgery and per-
hapS three years of minor work.
The bills eventually will run
to about 100000, he believes.
Mr.. Ward, who works at a
gasoline station across from his
home, said the physicians have
saved the boys lives "severeS
times over" He is relieved, he
said. that he now can begin to
pay them with money from the
first insurance settlements.
People ask my wife how we
have stood the last year." he
said. But we've managed-be-
cause We had to-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

ger. For the next two months,
every sheet and every other
item to come into contact with
the boys was first sterilized with
super-heated steam.
A portable X-ray machine
was utilized to spot difficulties
in Donnie'S chest. What is
known as a thoracotomy tube
was inserted through an in
cision inn the chest wall and
the right lung expanded.
But on June %, Donnie faced
another serious complication,
an ulcer with massive bleeding
Conventional methods could
not stop the flow. So once
again, Donnie was wheeled into
the operating room for life
saving surgery.
Again and again during their
first five months at Children'S
Hospital, the boys were taken
to the operating room. For sew
eral of those months, the boys
received multiple skin gratis.
Death released it's grip, but
the pain of the burns and the
discomfort of catheters, tubes,
intravenous feelings and blood
transfuSions began to tell. A
staff psychiatrist then began
daily visit to attempt to lift the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
FOR NEW FRONTIERsMEN
Airy Gym Tops Justice

An airy Muscle Beach
Boosting magnificent views Of
the Capitol, the Washington
Monument and assorted summing
Secretaries-has been installed
atop the Justice Department.
Inspired by the emphasis on
fitness of Attorney General
Robert Kennedy and other New
Frontiersmen, the departments
Welfare and Recreation Asso-
citation opened the roof for
exercise and summing last week.
Inspired by prudence, the
association also announced that
there was only one locker room
and that the ladies could use it
only on two days a week and
the men on three.
Both sexes can use the roof
any day, however.
On Friday, the secretaries
lounged in deck chairs and
WINGED as a stray volley ball
shot past.
A college athlete working at
Justice for the summer said.
with disappointment, 1T
thought there was going to be
a basketball court"
He turned to a Ginning bar,
pulling himself up, over and
over, with ease. The area also
has weights, a medicine ball
and a one-wheeled exercise
bike.
On the volley bali court, play
ers found it easy to work up a
sweat as the sun was reflected
off the tile roof.
A high link-fence cage sur
rounds the game area to pre-
vent volley balls and players
from tumbling out over the
courtyards or Constitution
avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Tobriner Reported
Backing Freeway
Rockville Girl browns
In Swim Pool Game

A 12-year-oId Rockville (Md0
girl. who was described by her
father as an excellent swimmer,
drowned yesterday in three feet
Of water at a community SWIM
ming pool.
Mary Katherine Neach, of
1903 Thornden road, was in the
Twinbrook Swimming Pool
competing with three young
boys and two other girls to see,
who could stay under water
the longest, police said.
Pool Manager Bill Jones said
that about $50 persons were in
or by the pool at the time of
the drowning. According to
police, one of the girls friends
pulled her up when she had
been under water for some time
and then she went under again.
One of the boys decided some
thing was wrong and called a
lifeguard, Ken Chatham, 16.
The lifeguard pulled her from
the water and gave her mouth
to-mouth resuscitation while
Mr.. Jones called the Rockville
Rescue Squad. The rescue squad
also tried unSuccessfully to re-
vive her.
DR.. Frank j. Brosc a r t,
county medical examiner. pro-
nounced the girl dead at 2:4O
pm, IS minutes after she was
pulled fro mthe pool at 1907
Atlantic avenue.
The victim was the daughter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Hills Addresses
Sigma DeIto Chi

Lee Hills. president of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors and executive editor
Of Knight Newspapers, Inc,
will address the annual in
stallation banquet of the WASH
ington chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, national professional jour-
nalism society, at 8 pm.
Wednesday. at the National
Press Club.
Along with the installation
Of new officers, a Sigma Delta
Chi Fellows award will be pre-
Sented to Lyle c. Wilson, vice
president of United Press In
ternational. Also included on
the program is the presenta-
ton Of the first Herman A.
Lowe journalism award to a
Washington area college stu
dent, given by Mrs. Florence
Lowe, widow of a former Wash
ington newsman.
The following men will be
installed as officers: President,
Ben F. Meyer, Associated Press;
vice president, Dave Secrest,
McGraw Hill Publications:
treasurer, John Cauley, Kansas
City Star, and secretary, Dick
Fitzpatrick, United States In
formation Agency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Five Welfare Centers
To DecentroIize Relief

Twelve workers are assigned
to field stations in public hous-
ing buildings, where, officials
say, they are able to make al
most twice as many contacts and
spend a much higher proper
ton Of their time in home
visits.
The Department of Health
Education and Welfare and the
Housing and Home Finance
Agency have launched a joint
effort to stimulate this kind oil
cooperation on the nationa
level. --.,-..
Bernard w. Scholz, chief Of
the Districts public assistance
division, said that the neigh
borhood-centered program pro-
vides an ideal place for repre-
sentatives of various agencies
concerned with family life, to
pool their resources and knowl-
edge. For example, 10 different
agencies are working together
in East Capitol Dwellings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Burned Brothers, II and 9, Win Battle for Life

Ronnie's body, As per cent Of
Donnie's. Nearly the entire area
Of their upper bodies, including
their faces and hands, were
burned.
The Wards were given little
hope that their sons would sur
vive. With their burns cleaned
and their hands dressed ano
specially splinted, the boys re-
ceived intravenous feeding, an
tibioticS, tetanus toxoid, pain
killers and prayer.
That both boys lived for "a
hours seemed incredible. Medi-
cal and nursing members how
cred over them, keeping the
fluid and chemical balance Of
their bodies carefully regulated
with blood, plasma, salt solu-
ton, and sugar and water.
Ever-Present Danger
/ On June 8, swelling in the
boys faces and necks forced
operations to open their wind
pipes and insert breathing
tubes.
Both boys were treated b!
the exposure method" will
their naked bodies placed OF
sterile sheets. Without the pro
lection of healthy skin, infec
ton was an ever-present dan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

June Z, 1861, was the last
time Donnie and Ronnie Ward
then II and 9, played together
free of pain and anxiety.
Since then, Donnie has "died
a couple of times" his father
says, and at other times has
wanted to.
But last June 7 started hap
PLY. The Ralph Wards were
moving into a home in Wood
bridge, Va. The boys, exploring
the basement, plugged in a
refrigerator.
In an instant, bottled gas
exploded, blowing the house
from it's foundations.
The younger boy was thrown
beneath burning debris, from
which Donnie sought fran
tically to dislodge him. In doing
so, Donnie himself was badly
injured.
Upstairs, the boys sister anc
mother were thrown a bout
and bruised.
Rushed to Hospital
Rushed to Children's Hospi.
tai, the boys were met by foul
waiting doctors.
. Second and third degree
burns covered SO per cent Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

boys morale. The oldest boy,
his father says. was begging to
die"
The boys fears still rise when
they revisit the hospital. But
the psychiatrist helped during
the worst times and daily visits
to the hospitals occupational
therapy rooms took their minds
off themselves.
They tried puppetry and
leather craft and repaired and
redecorated a doll house. This
play and the work of therapists
gradually improved the boys
walking and expanded their
use of arms, fingers and
wrists.
Boys Go Home
The boys went home to 610
Telegraph road, Alexandria,
about six months ago. They
found their sister, 8, who had
been thrown under a bed which
then collapsed, still fearful and
unwilling to enter a room alone.
A fourth child, a baby girl, was
born recently.
The boys soon found that
other children can be as cruel
as fire. Neither boys body had
accepted the skin gratis we'll.
Ronnie, whose face was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The District Public Welfare
Department has opened five
neighborhood centers, three OF
them in churches. to serve re-
lief recipients.
All five, in widely scattered
sections of the city, were oper
for business a half day last
week.
Social workers held office
hours just as they would ir
the Public Assistance Division
Building at 1891 Taylor stree
NV.
But Gerard M. Shea, welfare
director, said considerably
more" recipients came to the
field stations than had come to
the Taylor street building.
10 Seek Counsel
Nineteen, for example, sought
counsel at Shiloh Baptist
Church, 1900 Ninth street NV,
from $3.50 am. to noon We'd
nesday, he said.
Besides Shiloh, Ninth Street
Christian Church, 1872 Ninth
street NE, and First Baptist
Church of Deanwood, 1908
Forty-fifth street NE, are
participating.
Bakers Dozen Youth Center
at 1911 Fourth street NV, a
United GiYers Fund agency, and
FideS Neighborhood House, 1854
Eighth street NV, are the
other centers.
One worker is assigned to
each field station now. Mr.
Shea plans to add more work.
ers and additional field sta
tions. Workers will call on
families in the neighborhood
as well as hold office hours.
b..
Rehabilitation Sought
Commissioner John B. Dun
can, the Commissioner directly
responsible for welfare matters
in the District, has pressed for
the cooperation of churches
and other private agencies and
organizations to help build re-
habilitative services here.
The new program is an ex-
tension of a successful Welfare
Department experiment. with
relief families who live in public
housing. The three-year-old
project was launched at East
Capitol Dwellings and is now
city-wide. It is run co-opera-
lively with the National Capital
Housing Authority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Fuirfux Glasses
To Teach Tennis

The Fairfax County Depart
ment of Recreation will give
tennis lessons, beginning June
Is. They will be held twice a
week for five weeks at AMMAN
dale High School, J.E.B. Stuart
High School, WOODBURY. Ele-
mentary School and at Ameri-
can Legion Courts in Mclean.
The classes, for children and
adults, are So for the series and
should register at the Recrea-
ton Department before June %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
School Loan
Plan Facing
Bleak Future

A proposal by District school
officials that the city seek a
$3.50 million loan for classroom
construction is virtually dead.
City officials assess the stu
alton like this:
The recommendation is al
most certain to be vetoed by
the Commissioners. And even
If the Commissioners should
indorse it, the proposal would
not clear Congress.
Under the recommendation
the city would ask Congress tt
authorize q $3.50 million Treas.
ury interest-free loan.
The money would be spent
during the next six years fol-
school sites, construction and
equipment. The proposal by
Supt. Carl F. Hansen, backed
by the Board of Education, is
that the loan would be repaid
over a period Of years from
available District revenues.
District officials, yesterday,
pointed out that DR.. Hansen's
proposal not only conflicts with
a Commissioners loan request,
but also runs head-on intb
the Commissioners debt ceiling
Congress has been asked by
the Commissioners to allow the
city to borrow SIS million more
from the Treasury for general
construction projects. The
Commissioners proposal and
tat Of DR.. Hansen overlap, for
a substantial percentage of the
SIS million would be ear
marked for schools, officials
said.
AS to the borrowing policy,
the Commissioners have set
this debt ceiling: IL per cent
Of the average assessed value of
the taxable real and tangible
personal property over the last
10 years.
The requested $75 million
would raise the city's debt to
1924 million, which would be
at about the IL per cent CELL
ing, budget officials said. This
means, officials noted, a freeze
out for the $3.50 million loan
proposal by school officials.
In making his proposal last
May, DR.. Hansen said the $3.50
million would be the minimum
needed to match enrolment
estimates.
This loan, he said, seems to
be one of the few ways to fl
nance school constructio n
needs, because city revenues
are not enough to provide the
funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
CAMP FUND FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out your check or
money order to The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp
Fund. Mail it to The Eve
ming Star, Second street
and Virginia avenue Sc,
Washington 3, D. c., or
bring cash to The Star. A
receptionist in the lobby
will direct you to the CASH
ier's office.
The cost -$41.55 for IL
days, SPOTS for six days.
All sums received by The Eve
ming Star Summer Camp Fund go
to Family and Child Services of
Fund agency, for use OF its Sum
mer Outings Committee. Family
and Child Services Is registered
under the District of Columbia
Charitable Solicitations Act No.
6-07-151.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Precinct Democrats
To Hold Reception

The Democrats of Precinct
rs will hold a reception at 8:15
pm. Wednesday for District
Commissioner Walter N. Tob-
riner, members of Congress liv-
ing in the precinct.
The reception will be held in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs,
Lionel Epstein, $500 Oregon
avenue NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

Of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Neach. Survivors also include
her brother, Charles, 16.
The blond girl had been "in
and out of water since she was
knee high" said her father, a
dispatcher for Drinks Armored
Cars in the District. She took
swimming instructions at the
Twinbrook pool a few years ago,
he said. She was in the seventh
grade at Broome Junior High
School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Costs Settled, Boy
Is Ready to Go

When Sylvester's grand
mother asked if he would like
to go to camp, he looked at her
doubtfully.
How much would it cost"
he said.
At 9 years, Sylvester under
stands the value of money.
Sylvester's mother is in a
State hospital. His father de-
serted when he was born.
His grandmother has done
her best to give him the home
his parents failed to provide.
She worries about doing the
right thing for him.
She has worried about his
loneliness in the summer when
friends go on vacations with
their families or are sent to
camp.
She knows how much camp
means.
Assured that it wouldn't cost
the family anything, Sylvester
said, Then I sure would like
to CO."
The workers reason for rec
ommending him was simple but
valid.
Beside reason for referral,"
she wrote:
This hoy wants very much
to go to camp"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Shift Is Linked
To Housing for
Those Ousted
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer

Commissioner Walter N. To-
briner repeatedly is swinging
back behind the Districts ORR
ginal plan for a freeway along
Eleventh street Sc.
His support, however, carries
q stipulation that decent new
quarters must be provided for
the families displaced by the
highway project, it was re-
ported.
This latest move brings the
Board of Commissioners almost
full circle on the controversial
highway question.
Last month Mr.. Tobriner led
the way to a 2-to-1 vote by the
Commissioners to junk the
city's plan for building the
freeway along the Eleventh
street corridor. The proposed
highway would form the east
leg of the Districts inner loop
system. d.
Congressional Meeting
Mr.. Tobriner, however, re-
portedly announced at a recent
congressional conference THAI
he would not oppose the
Eleventh street route If new
housing is guaranteed for the
families who would be dis
placed.
In opposing the Eleventh
street route last month at a
closed House Appropriations
subcommittee session, Mr.. To-
briner's major argument was
that the District should avoid
the displacement Of families
living in the east legs path.
Mr.. Tobriner was joined by
Commissioner John B. Duncan.
Engineer Commissioner Fred
erick j. Clarke stood fast
against changing the route.
Under Mr.. Tobriner's pro-
poSal, the city would study
the feasibility Of building the
freeway along the west bank Of
the AnacoStia River.
Later, the Commissioners an
nounced that city officials wer5
working on new plans to pro-
vide additional public and pri-
vate housing for displaced resi-
dents.
Earlier this month, 1t was
learned, Mr.. Tobriner and
Gen. Clarke conferred on the
east leg question with Repre-
sentative hatcher. Democrat Of
4 Kentucky. who heads the Dis
trict Appropriations Subcom-
mittee.
Housing Guarantee
At this conference, Mr..
Tobriner repeatedly said he
would have no objection to the
Eleventh street route II there
was a legal guarantee that the
families moved out would be
provided decent housing.
The Commissioner, it was
reported, said he wanted thiS
re-housing provision written
into the appropriations legis-
lation.
The Commissioners yester-
day refused comment on this
report. Mr.. hatcher was I'M
available for comment.
Last months 2-to-l vote by
the Commissioners was to ask
for the Eleventh street corridor
project.
The Commissioners also are
backing legislation that would
centralize the city's relocation
services. Under this proposal,
all fmailies moved out by Gov
eminent action would receive
moving expense payments. This
money now goes only to those
displaced by redevelopment
projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Havana Bothered
By Rain, Winds
Hurricane Force

KEY WEST, Fla, June 8
(AP).-Winds of hurricane in
tensity, torrential rain and hail
battered the Havana area for
more than four hours Friday.
Four houses were destroyed and
a man was seriously injured
by lightning.
A broadcaSter described 1t
as one of the worst storms to
strike the Cuban capital in
many years. There were IL
an d slides, some of which
trapped families.
The automobile tunnels I'M
der the Almendares River and
Havana harbor were swamped
and closed to traffic. Water in
the Harbor Tunnel was deep
enough to cover a car, the ra-
dio said.
Havana television, monitored
here, showed city streets flow
ing with water from curb to
curb, pedestrians budding in
doorways and cars and buses
stalled.
The winds, which reached
velocities of IS miles an hour,
did damage in the Havana area
towns Of Guanabacoa, Mari
anao, Santa Fe Beach and
Jaimanitas Beach. The Ma
tional Observatory said more
than 31a inches of rain fell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Spain Arrests
Franco Foes

MADRID, Spain, June 9
(AP).-A wave of arrests was
reported in Spain today in
the wake Of q revival of under
ground activities against the
Franco government. Official
sources said numerous arrests
had been made. Some esti-
mates put the number in the
hundreds.
The breakdown came as the
cabinet, in a step aimed at
curbing Enforcement ele-
ments. suspended for two years
the right Of Spaniards to live
and move as they wish in
Spanish territory.
Two Bombing Incidents
The decision, following two
incidents of bomb explosions
in Madrid and a meeting of
Spanish opposition leaders in
Munich, Germany, revived
speculation that a shakeup was
near in Gen. Francisco Fran
cos cabinet.
Official sources reported
some dissatisfaction on Gen
Francois part with the lack Of
ministerial coordination in
handling a recent strike wave
which continued for more thar
seven weeks and reached 9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
JUDGES

Continued From Page Al
greSsional clearance of the Ju-
venile Court judgeship author
izations. In 1857. Senator Ken
nedy, now the President, tried
to erase language in the bill
defining a residence require
ment that would have disquali-
fled Mrs. Lawson. He wanted
her considered for a judgeship
then.
This amendment was cred
tied with causing the long stall
on court legislation in the
House. The original sponsor,
Representative Davis, Demo-
crat Of Georgia, said in 1858,
after the Kennedy amendment
was adopted. that somebody
had been playing politics"
with the bill and that the Sem
ate had done him a dirty trick,
Mrs. Lawson has not sought
the judgeship. The administra-
ton went to her this year. She
did not go to it, until asked. A
graduate of the University Of
Michigan and Columbia Uni
versity Law School, Mrs. Law
son is a former social worker
for the District Welfare Board