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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-03-20
open! sUOmen's store I22I-25 street

At the
fashions
convenience of shopping Helms
Thursday .PhoneDL
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policies and budgetary al
lotments may be influ.
enced by the chorused
voice of interested
citizens.
AS for the PTA'S OBJ
jectiveS, as listed on the
back of the membership
card, the first is ITO pro-
mote the welfare of chill
dren and youth in the
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home, school, church and
community" The images
here evoked-Of decent
mons and dads, healthy
youngsters, religious
brotherhood, and the
Red, White and Blue
are knowingly American
and balm to the social
conscience. The second
object, ITO raise the
standards of home life"
is only slightly more pre-
tentiouS.
My standards of
home life" took two giant
steps backward last year,
when l suffered an attack
of self-sacrifice and &C.
cepted a suddenly va
Gated post on the execu-
tive board of our local or
ganizatiOn. My days, once
orderly and productive,
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WIN OLA Su1AL-AAuuCu
II years l resisted &C.
tive participation in the
PTA. I told each in my sue
ceSSion of three hot-eyed
and eager public school
ers that Mommy mould
rather eat soap and die
than serve time in the
Association.
For six years my chill
dren received this an
nouncement with panied
. establishment. They were
primed afreSh each Sep
TENDER for a kind of par
entail hallelujah chorus,
followed by a fast buck
and-wing to Daddy's wal
let for the 81 family dues
that would insure a year.
full of happy parents and
teachers-all doing Good
Works and spiraling ever
upward together in a de-
lirium of mutual affection
and glee.
l have to cOncede the
PTA's reputation for Good
Works, and l certainly
can't deny its good inten-
ti0nS. Among its achieve
mentS the Parent Teach
ers Association can list
the purchase of library
books and such special
aids to education as
movie and slide projec-
tors and films. In some
localities, the PTA has
equipped shelter areas,
and it has provided play
ground equipment and
trees and shrubs, and the
volunteer labor for install
ling them-for the i'm
provement of school
grounds. Most important,
the association has pro-
vided a permanent and
necessary link between
parents and teachers and
between schools and the
Board of Education, or
similar agency, whose
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fell apart under the
subtle preSSures of tor
ture-by-telephone and my
nights drained off in
meetings and reports.
There's something
about PTA meetings that
makes many good parents
prefer to stay at home. It
may be the prOgramming,
which generally runs to
lectures and panel dis
cuSSionS on subjects of
limited appeal. It may be
that interested and INTEL
igent parents have too
often seen the most pro-
vocative subjects laid
waste by inept or anna
flourish presentation. l
recall in particular a
panel discussion that be-
came a tw0-hour mono
logue when the first panel
member wandered into a
17-page report on educa-
tional problems in Cali
fornia. The man drOned
and stumbled through a
seemingly endless Sahara
of statistics, and when he
finally returned to the
original tOpic-One of
real local concern he
found that half his audi
ence had gone home, and
the remaining half had
gone into coma.
It isn't always the
speaker or his material
that paralyzes PTA assem-
blies. Some parents, hell
bent on Self-expreSSiOn
and Il SuSpect) restrained
from speaking out at
home or work, become
marathon takers in the
democratic atmosphere
of a general meeting
They completely domi.
nate question and an
swer" periods, injecting
their personal problems
and opinions into the dis
cussion in massive ir-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-18

SUNDAY MAGAZINE THE WASHINGTON STAR AUGUST 1893
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KEY FOR NEW PROPOSAL
Transit Vote Affects Decision on Route 90

Ohio Railroad tracks from
Union Station through Silver
Spring. Design for a proposed
Interstate highway Route 70-S
and 95) may call for another
policy decision by Federal bu-
reaus to keep open the question
of later installation of a rapid
transit line.
Unless some action is taken
to keep the Route Sc line open
for rapid transit, a decision by
default" may occur. The high
way officials might be forced
to conclude that funds will not
be available for the extra land
and may have to proceed with
their alternate plan without al
lowing for rapid transit.
A broader decision, over the
ultimate size and nature of an
urban transportation system
may come later. 1t may be
made by whatever regional
transportation planning pro-
cess is developed for the Wash
ington area. Undoubtedly, the
air will be filled with alternate
proposals in the next few days
on what to do.
A proposal for some congress.
Sional action-either permis.
sion to purchase some Of thu
right of-way with money al
ready appropriated, or outrigh
! refusal-is needed to clear the all
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In the midst of all the tur-
moil over the setback for the
$500 million transit proposal.
there are several things which
officials feel can be done to
salvage key parts of the plan.
Of absolutely immediate i'm
portance is permission for the
National Capital Trans
portation Agency to buy an ex-
tra-wide right-of-way for In
terState Route IS.
The Virginia Highway De-
partment has two plans to de-
velop for this highway within
Arlington County. One proposal
calls for a 24-foot-wide median
strip, and the other calls for a
much wider strip between so
and rs feet. to permit later in
stallation of q rapid transit
line.
The decision on which of the
two designs should be selected
already has been pending for
several months, because of the
failure of Congress to indicate
its position on the rail transit
proposals. The Virginia high
way officials can go either way,
and are about ready to start
acquiring their extra property
needed in Arlington County.
The difference between the
with rapid transit room" and
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Pedestrian, 81,
Former ice Aide,
Is Killed by Car

James s. Hawley, 80, of 1916
Thirity-second street NV. was
killed when struck by a car as
he crossed the street in the
5000 block of Wisconsin avenue
last night, police reported.
Police said 1t was the 88th
District traffic fatality this
year as compared with So dur
ing the same period last year
A total Of IS persons died in
traffic accidents in the District
in 1862.
Police identified John Ross
Campbell. 10, of 1906 Benton
street NV. as the driver of the
car which struck Mr.. Hawley
He was not charged.
Mr.. Hawley retired in April,
1850, as assistant director OF
the Interstate Commerce Com
missions Bureau of Safety. He
worked for the ICC for 38 years
after his discharge from the
Army as a major after World
War I.
When he retired from the
ICC, Mr.. Hawley became ad-
ministrator Of St. Adams
Parish.
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Downtown
BARRIERS Put
Price at 81

Downtown Washington bar
bers, who complain that they
are the lowest-paid tradesmen
in the city, will start charging
50 for a haircut next Monday.
Some $50 union shops in the
Washington area are expected
to follow the lead of the 30
downtown shops in raising
prices from the SITS charged
now.
Some of the BARRIERS around
town, specially the downtown
BARRIERS, want a raise, and the
public will have to pay" Ray
'mond w. Griffith, a downtown
barber, said today.
Mr.. Griffith, who headed a
committee studying the posi-
bility of a raise. said most
BARRIERS work 10 hours a day,
six days a week. which he said
makes them the lowest-paid
trades people in the District.
Their last raise, from $50
to SITS, was five years ago.
Under the present union con-
tract, haircut prices are set by
the individual shop owners who
give journeymen BARRIERS 81 to
IS per cent of what they take
in. The BARRIERS are guaranteed
a $50 minimum weekly salary.
Hubert Fink, president of
BARRIERS Union Local 239, said
all the shops would have to
raise prices if they are to stay
lin business.
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Bob Kennedy
Helps Stort
Playground
BY T. w. TIRANA
Star Staff Writer

Attorney General Kennedy
helped break ground today for
a new playground at Sixth and
o streets NV. which will in
clude two retired airplanes, a
tank, a harbor tug and a run
way for soap box racers and
sledS.
After the ceremony, Mr..
Kennedy, two aides and Mr..
Kennedy's large black dog,
Brumus, walked three-quarters
of a mile down Seventh street
back to the Justice Department.
They were followed by three
Second Precinct detectives.
Brumus attracted more at
tention than the Attorney Cen
eral. He had to be pulled away
from a pet shop at 704 Seventh
street, and policeman on the
corner Of d street tried to tell
Mr.. Kennedy that the dog
should be kept on q leash. One
Of the detectives restrained the
policeman.
The playground, to be built
with $4,000 collected by the
National Committee on Play
grounds for Young America,
Inc, was Mr.. Kennedy's idea.
1t is expected to be completed
this spring.
Commissioner Walter N. To-
briner at the ground breaking
said the playground represents
what can be done for the city
with the happy joining Of
private and municipal in
terestS."
The playground will be run
for one year by the National
Committee on Fairgrounds and
then turned over to the District
Recreation Department. Milo
F. Christensen, head of the de-
partment, said the annual cost
of running the playground
seven days a week would be
$27,50
o. Roy Chalk. president Of
the D. c. Transit System and
chairman of the Playground
Committee, said the recreation
facility will serve as a model
for others to be built around
the country.
Bobby Mitchell, halfback for
the Washington Redskins. told
1876 students from Shaw Junior
High School attending the cere-
mony, I'm seeing something I
wanted to see when I was
young" He explained there
were no Fairgrounds where he
grew up.
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real estate poses two problems.
The Congressional appropria-
tons committees which pre-
viouSly appropriated STA million
for acquisition of land for
rapid transit facilities have
stipulated that the money
should be expended only with
the certainty that these areas
will be used for future express
transit facilities"
A second problem is that
even with the $1.3 million still
available, around 50 million
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-11
Arts Center
Gets Grant
Of$500,0Oo

A grant of $1,000 by the
Old Dominion Foundation to
the National Cultural Center
was announced today by Roger
L. Stevens, chairman of the
center trustees, and Paul Mel
Ion, founder and chairman of
the trustees of the foundation.
The gift came on the eve of
an unprecedented joint meet
ing tomorrow of the Senate
and House Public Works Com
mittees to consider proposals to
dedicate the center to the
memory of President Kennedy.
The meeting could bring to-
gether as many as 81 members
of botn committees. 1t will be
at 10 am. in Room 1852 of the
Cannon House Office Building
An administration bill has
been introduced with broad BIZ
partisan support in both houses
of Congress to change the name
Of the center to the John Fitz-
gerald Kennedy Memorial Gen.
ter and provide Federal funds
to match private contributions
dollar for dollar.
Indications today were that
two amendments to the bill
would probably be offered dur
ing tomorrow's hearing. One
change would make the name
of the center the John Fitz-
gerald Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
This means the center prob
ably would come to be known
as the Kennedy Center rather
than as the Kennedy Memorial.
The other change would place
a ceiling-probably of $25 mil
lion-on Federal contributions
to the center.
Nearly half Of the $50 mil
lion needed to build the center
has already been raised, so
congressional approval Of the
center bill would permit an
early start On construction.
The center is to be built on
a 13-acre site on the edge of
the Potomac near the new
Roosevelt Bridge.
Yesterday, the proposal to
dedicate the center to the
memory of Mr.. Kennedy was
Endorsed by yet another agency,
the District of Columbia Recre-
alton Board.
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In the l8-acre Foggy Bottom site
wanted to. they could be Sc
lected as the redevelopment
group to carry out an urban
renewal plan for that site.
DR.. F. Antonelli, jr., and
Kingdom Gould, jr., the two
Washington real estate men
who are also active in parking
lot operations. testified they
had not known anything about
the so per cent rule"
Mr.. Antoneli disputed MIR.
Searles' statement that Mr.,
Searles was sure that Mr.. Anto-
nelli and Mr.. Gould were aware
of the ruling during the COM
pick negotiations over Column
bia Plaza.
The hearings we're conducted
by Representative Dowdy, DEM
ocrat Of Texas, chairman Of a
House District subcommittee
which has been holding hear
ings o nurban renewal for the
past nine months.
Mr.. Dowdy spent three hours
today asking Mr.. Searles about
the complex details of the con-
troversial Columbia Plaza urban
renewal project. Mr.. Searles
explained that he was positive
he had discussed the so per
cent rule with previous owners
in the plaza site, a four-block
area between Twenty third,
Twenty fifth. E and 6 streets
NV.
II am sure they didn't mean
to conflict with my testimony"
Mr.. Searels said, referring to
Mr.. Antonelli and Mr.. Gould.
After the hearing Mr.. An
tonelli explained that he had
not heard about the so per
cent rule until May II, 1860,
just as he was in the last de-
tails Of negotiating an agree
ment to sell land owned by
himself and Mr.. Gould to a
redevelopment corporation or
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1T WAS IN 1879, while
working on the frieze around
the rotunda, that he slipped
from the scaffolding. He
managed to hang on to the
framework until help ar
rived.
He was never the same.
In the last four months of
his life, he sketched in por-
lions of the frieze and turned
his work over to another
artist, Filippo Costaggini.
He died in 1880. Congress,
finally recognizing the mi
chelangelo of the U. S. Cap
itol" put up the funds for
his burial.
He was buried in an I'M
marked grave in Glenwood
Cemetery and it was not I'M
til 1851 that Congress oppro-
priated $500 for a bronze
marker at the site.
His signature is seldom
seen. But on one of his
paintings, C. Brumidi labeled
it the work of: &c. Brumidi,
artist, citizen of the United
States"
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ganized by representatives of
the Washington real estate
firm of Shannon & Luchs.
Mr.. Searles told Mr.. Dowdy
that If Mr.. Antonelli and Mr..
Gould had been willing to re-
develop the plaza project un-
der the urban renewal plan
approved by the National Cap
ital Planning Commission
they would have had no trou-
BILE in being selected as re-
developers"
Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Antonel-
Ii we're majority owners Of
privately owned land in the
project area. They joined
forces with the redevelopment
corporation after first having
vigorously opposed urban re-
newal in the area.
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more will have to be appropri-
ated..
The crisis over the Route Sc
median strip is not inSignifi-
cant. The forces which have
been left aghast at the land
slide vote for recommital and
more study for rapid transit
proposals may be able to use
this as a rallying point.
Another decision to be made
in the next few months Is over
the right-of-way for a transit
line using he Baltimore &
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the narrower median strip, is
about $3.5 million in cost.
The difference in planning
terms is between keeping the
door open for later considera-
ton of rapid transit or some
other form of transportation,
or giving this idea up. probably
for good. Once a narrow right
of-way is selected, the decision
will be sealed permanently in
the concrete Of the adjoining
highway.
The purchase of the extra
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-11
Franklin PTA Quits
Stute Unit in Dispute

RICHMOND, Dec. II (AP).-
The Franklin (city) Parent
Teacher Association has with
drawn from the Virginia Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers,
charging that the State or
ganization Endorsed Federal aid
to education.
The State Congress approved
the legislative program of the
national organization, including
a provision on Federal aid, at
its convention in Roanoke
october 2.
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The .
Rambler
... Learns
Of Brumidi
By JOHN MeKELWAY

One Of the personalities
that keeps cropping up in
the new book on the Capt.
tol, I'VE, The People" is a
man named Constantine
Brumidi.
There is a sad story be-
hind the man -.
Little is known of his
early years. But in 1852 he
arrived in the United States
after running into political
troubles in his native land,
Italy.
1t is known that the artist
painted THE Crucifixion"
for st. Stephens Church in
New York and THE Holy
Trinity" for a cathedral in
Mexico City.
Somehow, Capt. Montgom-
cry c. Meigs, who in the
l850s was in charge of put
ting the Capitol together,
heard of the Italian and
hired him.
He remarked, shortly after
he had been commissioned
to decorate the Capitol:
II no longer have any de-
sire for fame or fortune. My
one ambition and my daily
prayer is that 1 may live
long enough to make beauti-
full the Capitol of the one
country on earth in which
there is liberty"
Mr.. Brumidi then set out
to decorate the Capitol and
he worked at it for the next
Is years.
Within three years he was
severely criticized for his
work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-11

the full Senate rejected by
decisive votes jobless parent
relief. opposed by Senator
Byrd. The item never has been
formally considered by either
the House Appropriations
Committee or the House itself.
Seen As Tools
These technicalities amount
to negotiating tools. Nobody
predicts that the House, if
selected as final Judge, would
vote a controversial program
already refused by the tradi-
tionally more liberal Senate.
The real issue is how many
educational and welfare work
ers Senate conferees will drop,
under continued strong pres
sure from House conference
members.
OF So Senate-approved
school positions, A are grade
school teachers and Is are
teachers for severely retarded
children. Nine drivers and
eight attendants for the retard-
ed school program make up the
rest of the total.
Foster Homes Needed
OF the SO welfare workers, 81
would recruit and maintain
new foster homes to reduce the
population at Junior Village
Forty-two investigators would
check all new welfare appli-
cants and investigate surplu:
food distribution. The total also
includes seven administrator
and three social workers X
help mothers find jobs.
The senior high school pro
ject, apparently in dispute, is
new building at Fiftieth anC
Grant streets NE. The Senatt
allowed Sill million. The are;
now served by Spingarn ant
Eastern High Schools will neec
space for 1900 new pupils BY
1866.
There appeared to be room
for negotiation on elementary
school plans. The Senate added
six grade-school projects. some
additions, some new building
and some sites.
Junior Village Space
The school building at Junior
Village would serve 500 chill
dren. Youngsters now have
classroom capacity for only
$50. About 200 children have
been going to outside public
schools. Glasses are held in
overcrowded cottages in half
day sessions at the children'S
home.
The average daily population
of Junior Village has been
estimated at 910 for the cur
rent budget year.
The new cottage at Junior
Village, asked by the Senate
but not the House, was request
ed by the late President Ken
needy after the House had
passed its first budget. The
amount involved is $248, 900.
Another conference may be
held this week. Mr.. hatcher
was tied up today on other
committee business in the
House. Both he and Senator
Byrd were understood to be
clarifying their positions under
the rules on the jobless-parent
item.
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Little Chorus Concert

The Little Chorus of Wash
ington will give a concert Of
Christian music and carols at
$3.50 pm, Friday in Wesley
Methodist Church, Connecticut
avenue and J0nifer street NV.
The recital is being sponsored
by the Wesley Chancel Choir.
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elementary schools, one senior
high school and q school and
cottage for children at Junior
Village. These were added by
the Senate.
Compromises are possible on
both the new positions and the
capital outlay in dispute.
How much the House can
chip away from the Senate
budget appears to depand on
the size of the club welded by
House conferees.
Welfare Program at Stake
That club takes the form Of
the new Federally aided well
fare program for children Of
jobless parents. Representative
hatcher, Democrat of Ken
lucky, has maintained this is a
Every important item" The
chief Senate conferee. Senator
Robert C. Byrd, Democrat Of
West virginia, insists the
welfare program. which he
opposes is not negotiable,
under conference rules.
Conferees walked away from
unfinished budget talks yester-
day to rearm themselves with
parliamentarian's rulings on
whether the jobless-parent
program can be considered in
conference.
The Senate rule is compare
lively simple. 1t says conferees
shall not report matters absent
from either the original House
or Senate budget. If they do
this new matter" may be
deleted by an objection of any
Senator on the floor. The
president Of the Senate woulc
honor the Senator's objection
on a finding by the chair thai
the matter was new"
House Rule Broader
The House rule permits
conferees to substitute a ger
name modification" for q
disputed item. Ultimately, the
House, not its Speaker, would
decide the "germaneness" Of an
item.
Wide discretion has been
given House conferees. who. in
the past, have protested whole
sections Of Senate bills. But the
House rule also bars from
conference reports matter not
committed to the conference
committee by either house"
The welfare item is not in
either the Senate or the House
budget.
The District Commissioners
asked for it. The Senate APP
preparations Committee and
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2Former Owners DENY
Knowing Rule on Plaza
BY LEE FLOR
Star staff Writer

conflict in testimony developed today between John
Saes former executive director Of the Redeeopment Land
Agency and two real estate and redeeopers in their
at congressional hearings urban renewal
Mr. Seares said his agency had established per
rule" for the Columbia Plaza project.
This meant that majority
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District Budget Stalled
By Conference Dispute
Chief Issue Involves Funds to Hire
Additional Teachers, Welfare Workers
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

District budget negotiations stalled hopelessy
deadlocked in Congress
At So teachers and other school employees and
social workers and welfare Investigators conferees
to hire these people House conerees want them
from the budget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-11
Niqeriuns Set Dance

The Nigerian Student Union
in America, Inc, will hold its
annual Christmas dance from
9 to 2 a.. December 81 at the
Hotel Washington.