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Evening star., 1963-05-19
DR.. Gerald Yookom,
Educator, Author, Dies

DR.. Gerald Yoakam, educator,
author. and researcher of a
District schools report died
Friday at Washington Hospital
Center after a short illness. He
was 76.
Author Of several textbooks
used in the public schools, DR..
Yoakam was hired by DR..
George T. Strayer to survey
the elementary school system
here with funds from Con-
gress. The 1948-1949 study
analyzed school needs here in
cluding building and educa-
tional needs.
The educator, who worked
most of his life in the Midwest
and Pennsylvania, moved to
Clinton, Md, when he retired
in 1855.
Born in Eagle Grove, Iowa,
DR.. Yoakam earned his bache-
lor's, masters and doctoral de-
grees at the University of Iowa.
Principal in Iowa
He was a school principal in
Iowa County from 1910-1920,
then moved to Kearney, Nebr.,
where he was director of teach
er training for three years.
In 1923, DR.. Yoakam became
head of the department of ele-
mentary education at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh. He was
promoted later to director of
course work and remained
there until his retirement.
DR.. Yoakam's books include
several readers and spoilers, in
cluding the "Laidlaw Basic
Readers" which he co-au-
thored.
Two weeks ago the Interna-
tional Reading Association
presented him with a certifi-
cate of merit at its convention
in Miami.
Was Consulting Editor
DR.. Yoakam was consulting
editor of MY Weekly Reader"
a publication distributed in
Evening star., 1963-05-19
0AS Mission
Leaving Haiti

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti,
May 18 (AP).-An inter-Amer-
ican mission investigating the
Haitian crisis prepared today
to leave for the Dominican
Republic after a day of talks
here with foreign minister Rene
Chalmers and several Latin
American diplomats.
The swift departure of the
mission sent here by the Or
ganization of American States
in Washington caused a ripple
Of surprise among some diplo-
mats. They said they were not
impressed by the MISSIONS
overnight call.
The mission, headed by
Alberto Zuleta Angel of Co.
lombia, met for two hours with
Mr.. Chalmers. Mr.. Zuleta said
the meeting was generally
helpful" He said there hac
been no plans to see President
Francois Duvalier.
He said the mission would
remain in the Dominican cap
ital of Santo Domingo for two
or three days before returning
to Washington.
The mission was sent here to
offer its services in solving a
dispute between Haiti and Do
minican Republic, which share
the Caribbean island of His
PAMELA. Dominican President
Juan Bosch on several occasions
threatened to invade Haiti be-
cause, he charged, Haitians
had threatened Duvalier op-
ponents who had taken refuge
in the Dominican embassy.
But the heated tempers OF
the crisis have cooled down.
Mr.. Zuleta said he did not
consider the missions task here
completed. He mentioned nc
plans to return, however.
This shabby capital, mean
while. was closed down in OBJ
servance Of Haiti's flag day
Thousands of Haitians con-
verged on the little town ol
Arcahaie, 18 miles northwest
Of here, where the red and blut
Haitian flag was designed b!
Jean Jacques Dessalines, one o.
the founding fathers, in 1903.
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Center Reports
2,1o7 Blood Pints
Are Distributed

A total Of 2,197 pints of blood
were distributed in the District
and other areas last week, the
Washington Regional Red Cross
Blood Center reports.
The center reports that 1924
pints of blood were distributed
in the District, AGO in Mary
land, 518 in Virginia, 81 in West
Virginia and 1873 outside these
area.
Area donors may give blood
from / to 8:45 pm. tomorrow
and 8 am. to 4:45 pm. Tues
day through Friday at the re-
gional center at 2O25 E street
NV.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be in the following loca-
tions this week:
OmOrrOw-Montgome Junior Col
lege, Takoma ave; and woodbury. dTy
pa1Gms pm eass Red Cross nOVR tS
Columbia Park rd., Landover. Nd. 10
am. to 3:45 p.m.; Woodstock lva;)
Fire Hall, 10 am. to 3:45 pm. (ESTD.
Tuesday-Departme Of Just Ice.
Great Hall, Constitution. ave. between
9th and 10th SITS. NV, 10 Am. to
3:45 pm; Chapter House, 1888 Ar
lington blvd, Arlington. 10 Am. to
3:45 pm; Episcopal Parish House.
l34 West Boscawen St, Winchester,
Va. 10 am. TO 2:45 pm. (EST).
Wednesday - Pentagon, Room ga
$50, $3.50 am. to 2:45 pm: Main
Navy. Constitution ave. ct 18th. 81.
NV. Room 2541, $3.50 Am. TO 2:45
pm; Health, Education and welfare,
300 Independence ave. s.w.. Rooms
G-751 and 755. GAS am. to 3:45 pm.
Thursday-St. James Parish House,
Warrenton, Va, 10 am, to 3:45 pm.
(EST) Health, Education and We'll
fare, 800 Independence ave. s.w.,
Rooms G-751 and 755. 9:45 am. to
3:45 pm: Church OF the Brethren,
Nokesville, Va, IL noon to 5:45 pm.
FrIday-Andrews Air Force Base,
Service Club No, I. Camp Springs.
Md. 8 am. TO 2:15 pm; ouantico
Marine Corps School. DAILY Hall,
Quantico, Va, 8 am. to 2:45 pm;
Federal Post Office, New Post Office
Building. Room 5041. 18th st. and
Pennsylvania ave. NV. 10 am. TO
Evening star., 1963-05-19
'Hord-to-Reoch' Youth
Target for New cam

A new team Of youth work.
ers will reinforce the Cardozo
project this summer to help an
estimated 600 hard-to-reach
youngsters "join the system"
and stay in it, if the requested
funds are granted.
The youth wokers will go
out to recruit the potentially
delinquent teenagers whom
service agencies are concerned
about but who are hardest to
contact.
Under a $59,500 fund re-
quest, the Recreation Depart
ment will add the team Of
four rowing leaders and a su-
pervisor. The request is pend
ing in the Department Of
Health, Education and We'll
fare, but approval is expected.
System Gains Praise
The rowing leader system
has gained the respect of Rep
resentative Green, Democrat Of
Oregon, who has been critical
of too much study and not
enough action in the national
juvenile delinquency program.
AS part of the Cardozo area
summer job program, which
Attorney General Kennedy and
other high officials outlined in
detail Tuesday, the rowing
leader team will:
Contact youths outside the
usual organization activity and
associations.
Help the teenagers get leads
on summer jobs, including jobs
from among the goal of 1000
set for the summer project.
Cooperative effort among Fed
eral. District and business en-
ployers is developing the jobs.
Encourage those recruited to
stick with their jobs, and keep
tabs on them through employ
ers.
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Anti-Custro Bond
Reported QueIIed

HAVANA, May 18 (AP).-
The government announced to-
day it has smashed another
counterrevolutionary guerrilla
band in Matanzas Province. It
was the second such claim in a
week.
An official account said
army and security forces had
seized the leader of the band
and his four lieutenants in a
cave near Mangulto, 112 air
miles southeast of Havana.
The account said the guerril-
las killed four peasants in raids
The same dragnet netted an
other group of insurgents near
Jaguey Grande, west of Man
quito, the announcement said.
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Bus in Florida
Falls in Canal,
Drowning IT

PAHOKEE, Fla. May 1S
(AP) AT least 81 men, wom-
en- and children drowned today
in a farm workers bus that
flipped into a canal after a
collision.
Fifteen struggled to safety
from Florida's worst traffic ac-
cident within police officers
memory.
Four of the dead were found
in the HillSboro Canal more
than three hours after bodies
of % victims ranging in age
from about 6 to 65 years were
taken by divers from the canal
and from the wreck Of the bus
after it was hauled out of 20
foot depth by a wrecking truck.
All the bus occupants were said
to have been Negroes living in
the Pahokee-Belle Glade mar
ket farming area 80 miles north
of Miami.
Bumpers Hook
Florida Highway Patrol
Trooper Glenn Blocker said a
light truck, passing the bus on
State route 827, cut back in on
the bus and the two vehicles
bumpers hooked. The bus
plunged into the 50-foot-wide
canal that parallels the road.
James Tulley Sconyers, "a,
white, of Belle Glade was
booked on charges of man
slaugter and improper passing.
Bond was set at a total of $2,-
800.
Sconyers said in a signed
statement that I'VE hung
bumpers and the bus went into
the canal"
Farm folk clustered silently
near the tragedy scene while
victims were being extricated.
Outside the Belle Glade
Armory hundreds Of people
stood in lkne waiting to iden-
tify five women, eight men, 10
boys and three girls whose
bodies lay in the guard room.
Police let them in one at a
time. Occasionally a scream
could be heard as someone
identified a m e m ber of the
family.
Swan Out Window
Outside the armory, Ernest
Lee Howe, IL, one Of the Is
who escaped, described how he
got out of the bus:
II just climbed through a
broken window and swan out"
Tears were rolling down the
boys cheek and he bit his lips
as he stood with two women
who brought him to identify
his mother and two sisters, re-
portedly dead and inside.
Van Randolph said his Is
year-old son was missing.
His son was not in the
morgue, "but I'm afraid there
are more bodies in the canal"
he said.
The bus driver was identified
as Edgar Lee Anderson. His
wife also was among those who
managed to scramble to safety
from the bus, which bore on its
| front end in crude lettering
Poor Boy Sims bus"
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Vernon Buckers
Plan 'Hootenunny'

Richard e. Vernon, a Demo-
cratic primary candidate for
the Fairfax County Board Of
Supervisors, is going for the
grass roots vote. His support
ers are holding O. "hootenanny"
Of folk music for him today.
Mr.. Vernon is seeking the
Democratic nomination in the
Falls Church district. His OPP
ponent is Fred A. Babson, jr.
The "hoot" will be held at
3 pm. at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William w. Thomas, jr.,
2l2 Devon drive, Falls Church.
Evening star., 1963-05-19
SHAGGY BIRD STORY TOUCHES
PARLIAMENT, 1T PASSES BILL

LONDON, May 18 AP).-De-tarring a shag is by
no means easy either for the de-tarrer the shag
So said Anthony Bourne-Acton, Conservative
member Of the House of Commons during debate
last night bill to tighten the laws against oil
pollution Of the sea.
He said many Of his seaside holidays had been
ruined by calls for help in cleaning up bathers, birds
and animals smeared by the filth drifting in with the
tide.
"As tar-remover my best bag consisted of one
WIFE four children two females various Dachshund
one seagull and a shag."
Did you say shag?" asked a bewildered fellow
member.
"The shag" explained Mr.. Bourne-Acton 'is a sea
bird perhaps better known as cormorant.
Even after the laborious business of smearing the
bird with tar-remover and on the shag is so smelly
no other shag will speak to it for weeks"
Touched by the shaggy bird story, the House ap-
proved the bill unanimously.
Evening star., 1963-05-19

heated debate, with some COM
missioners (delegates) from
other parts of the country con-
fusing the question of the local
church building with a pro-
jected National Presbyterian
center to be based in Washing
ton.
John H. Grosvenor, moder-
ator Of the Washington City
Presbytery and an elder Of
National Presbyterian Church,
and the Rev. Russell c. Stroup,
minister of Georgetown Presby-
terian Church, led the DEBATE in
clarifying the distinction be-
tween the building of a new
church by the local congrega-
ton and the proposed program
of the center.
One stumbling block for some
commissioners was provision
in the resolution allocating
$4,000 from the budget OF the
General Assembly to forward
the program of the National
Presbyterian Center including
the early employment Of a
director who shall be respon-
sible to the council for the
National Presbyterian Church
and Center"
This point was clarified by
Mr.. Grosvenor who pointed out
I'VE want to make the Center
something that represents our
church in Washington. This
will be under control of the
council for the General AS
sembly."
Frank L. McCluer, chairman
of the committee presenting
the resolution, told the $40
elder and ministerial commits
sionerS, "if we are to have
funds to support it and to have
a full time director to give it
significance"
According to officials of the
National Presbyterian Church,
tentative plans have been made
to build a new church on the
over 16 acres on Massachusetts,
avenue, bought from part of
the Glover estate in 1859 at a
cost Of SO million. An aehitect,
Harold Waggoner of Philadel-
phia, has been chosen. His de-
signs are expected to take
about a year to complete with |
two more years to build the
church.
Mr.. Grosvenor explained that
funds for the church will come
from resources of the local
congregation. The Massachu-
sets avenue church still has
a mortgage of 1925 900 but he
noted assets on hand are more
than enough to cover this
amount.
Sufficient money for the new
structure, he further added
will come from sale Of the
present properties at Connect
icut avenue and Eighteen street
N. w.
As presently envisioned, the
proposed church will have a
sanctuary seating 1000 wor-
shippers in the nave plus an
other 500 in transepts and
galleries. A chapel, accommo-
dating about 200 persons, is
also contemplated as well as a
chancel for 100 voices and forty
instrumentalistS.
Also being considered is a
church hall, which would seat
500 persons at meals or be
made into an auditorium with
stage accommodating about 750
people.
Programs stemming from
the National Presbyterian CEN
ter are already under way,
with other projects anticipated
for the future. One of the
former is the Woodrow lee
tureship, to be a series Of eight
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Army in Australia
Has Big Problem

CANBERRA (AP). - Army
workshop craftsman Douglas
Freeman Joined the Australian
Army in June, 1861. He's still
waiting for his uniform.
Reason is he has a 49-inch
chest, 50-inch waist, and weighs
314 pounds, so nothing in stock
will fit him. The army is hav-
ing a special uniform made,
but it explains it didn't hurry
because Freeman wears overalls
most Of the time anyway.
Evening star., 1963-05-19


weekly sessions on matters rag
ing from appearance and be-
havior to how they spend their
money.
Return To School
Steer the summer workers
back into school and skill train
ing next fall if they are drop
outs, and make sure others
stay in school.
The program is designed for
16 to 18-year-olds, regarded as
the most difficult age group
to keep in school, and the least
employable in the labor mar
ket.
Central clearing house for
the project is the Juvenile De-
linquency Planning Board,
which is conducting a long
range youth employment pro-
gram in the Cardoza High
School district in Northwest
Washington with funds from
the Presidents Committee on
Juvenile Delinquency.
Delinquency board officials
will concentrate on guiding
youths to the training they
need to fill surveyed job op-
portunities, then help them
in securing the jobs.
I'VE are trying to get these
people into the system" said
Jack r. Goldberg, executive di-
rector of the JDPB.
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Entrance Exon Set

District Of Columbia Teach
ers College will hold its regu-
lar entrance examination for
summer and fall applicants at
the Wilson Building, Eleventh
and Harvard street NV. at o
am. May rs.
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Presbyterions Approve
New National Church
BY CASPAR NAMES
Star Staff Writer

DEs MONIES, Iowa. May 19-The National Presbyterian
Church given the ahead signal yesterday by the Gen.
era Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church. u S. A. to
build church or itself" at 1890 Massachusetts,
NV
The action came after more than an hour of sometimes
Evening star., 1963-05-19
Beouty Assuoses Sorrow

Sometimes TO the sorrowful, there seems To
be no letup, no lessening Of emotional pres
sures from personal loss It is during these
troubled hours that the natural beauty of
flowers is able to work its silent, fragrant
message OF compassion. Sending flowers dur
ing bereavement has long been a custom. But
It is much more than a custom; 1t is truly
the most thoughtful and understanding way
OF tightening the yoke Of sorrow.
Listen TO your heart and send Flowers
Evening star., 1963-05-19

For high and low tides at the fol-
from the above: Annapolis. ga hours;
Bloody Point Light, 4la hours; Colonial
Peach. & hours; Deale. 4h hours:
solomons Island, ga hours: Point
Lookout; 7ls hours, A., No.
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22

The rejection of the Administrations
wheat referendum leaves many with the
question in mind "just what will be
next?" Some dire predictions were made
before the vote and some were from
sources not directly concerned with a
Yes vote.
Tuesday evening North Dakota's gov
ernor William Guy gave his views on the
overwhelming No vote and we were a
little surprised with the way he put his
point across. He said North Dakotans
would now have to do more research
with wheat and its uses, expand uses of
irrigation; look to other crops and in
general employ more efficient farm prac-
tees. 1t made it sound that it took a NO
vote to bring about something that
should have already been undertaken.
Was the referendum strictly a battle
between the Farmers Union and the
Farm Bureau? Early in the campaign"
the vote wa shaped up by many as a
battle between these two giant organi-
cations. There's no question that both
organizations threw all they had into
this wheat referendum. But not all in
both groups were in accord with their
parent organization.
There are economic implications whose
effect will not be felt for some time. We
feel the Administration and the Depart
ment of Agriculture did more harm than
good for their program by trying to
'ram" it down the Threats of the voters.
Never before in the history of a refer
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22
Letters to the Editor >.
Reader Gives Goals OF
Young Peoples Group

along with William F. Buckley,
Jr., Mr.. Edgar Eisenhower,
Gen. Mark w. Clark, John
Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Charles
Edison, Russell Kirk, William
F. Knowland and a host of
others serve on the National
Advisory Board of YAF.
The Montana Advisory Board
of YAF includes such distin-
guished conservatives as Gov.
Tim Babcock, former Congress
man Wesley D'Ewart, State
Planning Director Tom Collins,
Rep. Jim Battin, Mr.. Wayne
Montgomery and many others.
Both nationally and locally,
YAF is supported by and has
members from both major pol
itical parties. 1t is non-political
in the sense that it is not a
part of any political party. The
group does not endorse nor is
it endorsed by any other politi-
cal group. 1t is an independent
organization of young people
who have banded together be-
cause they are alarmed at the
spread and growth of the fed
eral government at home and
of communism abroad.
YAF members believe that if
the United States does not now
begin to take the initiative in
world affairs against commun-
list aggression, we may soon
loose our freedoms. YAFers be-
lieve that communist DONNA
ton of Cuba, only 90 miles
from our shore, is intolerabIe
and should be removed i'm
mediately. The YAF does not
support US. participation in
the United Nations and believes
that the most effective foreign
policy for our country is a
strong US. policy directed by
a State Department that has the
twill to win"
Sincerely,
James Dullenty
State Chairman, YAF
MiSSoula
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22
Auxiliary
Poppy Day
Set For Nav Is
(Contributed)

On Saturday, May Is, all of
us will be asked to wear a red
memorial poppy. AS most of
you certainly know, once each
year Americans observe Poppy
Day which is a voluntary trih-
ute to our dead and disabled
servicemen.
By accepting one of these
peoples from a member of the
American Legion Auxiliary or
some other volunteer we aid
the living victims of the past
three wars while honoring our
dead. The poppy grew in the
battlefields of France and Bel
GUM where American service
men have fallen during the two
World Wars. In the years fol-
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22
To the Editor:

Many people do not under
stand and are misinformed
about the goals and activities
of Young Americans for Free
dom. 1 think it is about time
some of these misconceptions
are Strengthened out.
Young Americans for Free
dom is a national non-partisan
conservative youth action or
ganization which was started
in 1860 at Sharon, Conn. with
less than 100 members. Today,
the group numbers close to
$4,000 with chapters in all SO
states. Montana has eight YAF
chapters, two in colleges and
six in high schools. There are
YAF chapters at Montana State
University, where the first
chapter was started in Mon
tana in May, 1861, at Western
Montana College Dillon, at
Lewistown, Helena, where there
are two chapters, Missoula
County High School, KalispeIl
and Whitefish. Other chapters
are forming.
Dedicated to preserving con-
stitutional liberties, these young
people have only two require
ments for membership in the
organization: that you be I'm
der 80 years of age and that
you abide by the principles
adopted in the Sharon State
ment, a Recommendation of be-
liefs of YAF. Adults may be-
come honorary members of
YAF by making financial con-
tributions to the group. In Mon
tana there are over 700 honor
airy members.
The Sharon Statement stres-
ses individual action as opposed
to Intervention by the federal
government. These young Am
orleans believe in a determined
and aggressive foreign policy
aimed at winning, not ending
the Cold War. Sen. Barry Gold
water and Sen. John Tower
best exemplify their beliefs on
a national level. Both men,
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22
Up And Down Main Street
by Cliff Urseth

The Herald is currently in the process
of conducting a poll among county COP
chairmen to learn their preference for
the presidential candidate in the coming
'64 election. We started about three
weeks ago and still have a few counties
to hear from.
We expect to have the final tabulations
ready by the weekend and should be able
to bring you the results and other back
ground material on the poll by next
week. Some of the county chairmen
made comments about their choice and
have some interesting observations.
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22

including cities up to 10000.
The award rates the local ag-
ency as second most effective
and best operated collection Of
flee from among 1873 competi-
tors in cities below 10000.
The Pacific Northwest area,
Region 10 of ABC, is composed
of five states and three Cana
dian Provinces. Competition in
Guided entries from Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska,
Montana, Saskatchewan, AL
berta and British Columbia.
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22
Gets in Last
Lick on Wheat
Referendum
Dear Editor:

DOoA
Today is Monday. Tomorrow
as farmers vote on the wheat
referendum. Some will vote
yes and some no. What the
outcome will be, no one knows,
but l hope that no one was
mislead by some of the err
roneous statements made in
the last few months. 1 would
like to draw your attention to
one example in last weeks Sid
ney Herald, quoting Merrill
Larson who said, 81 must real
ize 500 per acre from my
land" Now, I would like to
quote MIR. Alfred Anderson
from the same page of the
Sidney Herald who made the
statement that the proponents
of a "no' vote did not use facts.
He said, "Such tactics are al
ways used when the facts are
lacking" Now let us go into
the facts of Merrill Larsons
500 an acre return for wheat.
I called the ASC office and
asked for the highest yield
granted ON irrigated land for
wheat. This was 37.2 bu. per
acre. Let us assume the wheat
referendum carries. Mr.. Lar
son then receives 300 support
ed at $1.80 for Richland County.
This would give him an income
of approximately $3.50 per
acre from certificate wheat.
He would then have to produce
an additional 1877 bushels at
a $1.20 per bushel to give him
his 500 per acre income. There
would have to be am average
annual yield on Mr.. Larsons,
farm of almost 70 bushels per
acre.
I have had many years of
experience in irrigated and dry
land farming and this is an
utter impossibility to average
70 bushels per acre under irri-
cation in this county. l quote
Mr. Anderson again when he
said, "Such tactics r always
used when facts are lacking"
Henry Nollmeyer,
Savage, Montana
The Sidney herald., 1963-05-22
Cemetery Road
To Be Surfaced

Local organizations, interest
ed individuals, and cemetery
lot owners, as well as property
owners along the route, are
working together to surface the
road from the city limits to
the North Cemetery in the i'm
mediate future.
Property owners along the
route, Lalonde Co., Richland
County, and all interested par
ties are working together to
bring the project to early COM
pletiOn.