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TO HEAR
Music

South African folk singer
Miriam Makeba at Ritchie
Coliseum. University Of Mary
land. College Park. Nd, $3.50
pm. Tickets in student union.
Washington-L High
School Choir, Florence Booker,
director. at the school, 1900
North Quincy street. Arling-
ton. $3.50 pm. 81, adults; so
cents, students.
Where Are We Going and
What Are We Doing?" concert
in sounds by John Cage. In
connection with The Popular
Image" exhibit at Washing
ton Gallery Of Modern Art,
1903 Twenty-first street NV.
8:45 pm. Tickets sold at gall
lery enable holder TO attend
all five events planned In con-
junction with art show.
Lectures
Merrill d. Beal, chief park
naturalist Of Grand Canyon
National Park. Ariz.. tells
about, shows slides OF little
seen areas Of park. 8 pm,
Interior Department Audito-
rum. Nineteenth and c
streets NV. Free.
Three lectures at Catholic
University: Prof. Paul Levy,
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris,
on mathematics. $3.50 pm. In
Nursing Auditorium: Prof.
Kazuo Takayanagi. Saitama
University. Japan, on physics.
4 pm, ii0 Keane Hall. and
Prof. Arthur 8. Link. Prince
ton University. on writing
contemporary history, 9 pm.
Caldwell Auditorium.
TO DO
Tour
GEORGETOWN Garden Tour.
noon TO 8 pm. Gardens open:
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Fortas,
Representative and Mrs. Peter
Frelinghuysen. jr.. Mr.. and
Mrs. orosvenor Chapman.
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Of State and Mrs. Richard
Hallock Davis. Mr.. and Mrs.
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Air Museum Fete to Honor
Famed Lufuyette EseodriIIe

Fine Arts, 92l Seventeenth
street NV.
Art Galleries
THE Popular Image
everyday objects (including
the beer can, dashboard. TV
set) incorporated into works
Of art by IL Americans with
a new thesis-Washington
Gallery Of Modern Art, 1903
Twenty-flrSt street NV.
Open IL a.m.-6 pm.
Primitive Painters Of
America" Pan American
Union Art Gallery. Seven
teenth street and Constitu-
ton avenue NV. $3.50 am
4 pm.
At the National Gallery Of
Art, Renoir's "A Girl With q
Watering Can" Is Painting
OF the Week. Gallery SO. noon
to 2 pm. Sixth street and
Constitution avenue NV.
Tour Of the Week: "Stylis-
tic Inspirations from Artists
Of the Past" Begins pm.
from the Rotunda.
Richard Lahey. 18th in the
Washington Artists Series.
at Corcoran Gallery OF Art.
Seventeenth street and New
York avenue NV. Through
May 5. Gallery open 10 am.
TO 4:30 pm.
Landscapes by Yuan Chang
and His School at Freer CAL
lery, Twelfth street and In
dependence avenue S.W. Open
0 am. 10 $3.50 pm. Through
May 81.
inns
Washington Film Society
presents Devils Wanton"
(i94D and THE Gift" (l96D,
S:45 pm. American Associa-
ton Of University Women,
240l Virginia avenue NV.
Contribution at door.
Exhibits
A wide variety at Library
OF Congress. First street and
independence avenue Sc,
and Smithsonian Institution,
Ninth street and jefferson
drive S.W.
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Andrew Keck. Mrs. Tilghman
Leigh. Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
CARRIER, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Wisner. Henry Jenkins, jr.,
Senator and Mrs. Hugh Scott,
DR.. David Seidel.. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert Greenway.
Benefit Georgetown Chill
dren's House. a day-care CEN
ter. Tickets at Francis Scott
Key and Saville Bookshops,
AAA, Willard Hotel. George
town Pharmacy. Morgan's
Pharmacy. Lad Mills Service
Station. Georgetown Chill
dren's House and at gardens
tomorrow.
Outings
River boat excursions:
George Washington sails from
Pier 4 at Maine avenue and
N street S.W,. 2 pm. for
Mount Vernon. Costs: S2.25
round trip plus rs cents
admission 10 grounds and
mansion for adults: $50 for
children.
6ailings 10 Marshall Hall,
the amusement park, at e:l5
pm, daily. Costs: $3.50 adults,
$50 children under IL.
Canoeing on the Potomac
River: Thompson Boat Gem
ter. foot OF Virginia avenue,
Rock Greek and Potomac
parkway. Opens Q am.
Maximum three persons 10 q
canoe. Prices: ti.b0 first
hour: 81 for 8 hours 10 Z pm;
SO. 8 10 1880 pm.
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The only regular contact
with the mainland is by the
paSsenger-mail boat "Dorolena
II" that leaves Crisfield with
a load of perishable food for
the islanders at 1890 pm.
week days. Docking overnight.
she returns at 8 am. the next
morning with q cargo Of Tan
gier soft-shell crabs. Captain
Eulice Thomas. IS, has been
running the boat since his
youth. Before this his father
ran the ferry for many years.
The 1-way trip lasts 11a hours.
Overnight tourist accommo-
dations are available here at
Nellie Crockett's Boarding
House where o huge home style
Shore seafood dinner is done
up in the grand manner. An
other boarding house, the
Islander Tourist Home, is run
by the postmaster.
The early islanders raked
the deep waters of Tangier
Sound for oysters during the
"R" months In 2-masted log
canoes, and sailed TO the port
Of Baltimore with watermelon
cargoes.
Before MethOdism brought
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
DISTRICTS REALTY TAX RATE
LIKELY TO STAY UNCHANGED

The District Commissioners are expected to decid
this week against raising the cys real estate tax rate
for this fiscal year.
The Commissioners must set the rate this week in
order to permit the finance office to get tax bills in
time. 81
Waller N Tobriner president of the District Board of
Commissioners has said he opposes increasing the real
estate tax from its present rate Of $3.50 500 Of
seSSed valuation.
The Commissioners several months ago had proposed
increasing the property levy by 20 as part Of the
citys share of overall package recommended
by President Kennedy.
However, since Congress is not expected to pass the
package outlined by the President Mr. Tobrner
said he feels the Commissioners have obligation to
boost the real estate tax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04

ing together wire crab traps
and nylon fishing nets. The
women wear starched sun bon
nets and white aprons and are
known for their fig preserves
and vegetable gardens. The
young mothers are very re-
served and mind their well-be-
haved children.
There are q few small auto
mobiles. The Islander Taxi"
is a World War jeep with no
top and no windshield, and
the doctor drives a Volks-
wagon. Most Of the natives
ride bicycles, even the Mayor,
William Parks. The town SER
geant upholds the law (the
one-man Jail is rarely filed
and used to collect the gar
bage when he wasn't fishing.
Garbage and sewage disposal
is the major problem on the
island.
With no supermarket or de-
partment store, most shopping
is done by mail-order cata-
logue. The Grand motion pic
ture house has been closed
for some time. and there Is no
bank. saloon, drugstore. beauty
parlor or hardware store. The
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and buzz pedestrians with mo-
tor scooters to create a Paris
like confusion along the l2-foot
wide Main street. At the towns
only soda fountain the youths
dance the "Thunderbird" to a
blaring jukebox. And there are
organized baseball games three
times a week at a sandy field.
The Tangier Sound oysters,
with the distinctive red moss
covering, were the best in the
world until the beds were strip
ped dry q few years ago. Huge
iron oyster rakes are ruSting
and lie tangled in the weeds
near the piers.
Now the watermen are going
after hard crabs to market at
Crisfield. Nd, IA miles away
from Tangier. Soft -shelled
crabs are harvested throughout
the day and night from ''live"
boxes floating in the harbor.
Other islanders work with
Menhaden fishing fleets.
Tangier's small brightly
painted homes suggest q sort
Of toy town. The older men are
all called captain" and work
in the neat front yards stitch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
Pickens Hits
New Proposal
For Road Aid

The Metropolitan Washington
Council Of Governments is not
needed to qualify the WASH
ington area for Federal high
way aid, Alexandria City C,oun-
Gilman John K. Pickens said
yesterday.
Mr.. Pickens. who also is q
member of the Northern Vir-
ginia Regional Planning and
Economic Development Com
mission, said this group had
proposed a technical advisory
committee Of nine persons to
undertake regional transporta-
ton planning.
The Federal aid highway act
Of 1862 requires q cooperative
transportation planning process
in metropolitan areas, or high
way aid VIII be cut of. Virginia
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick last week said getting the
funds was a major reason for
the move by the Council Of
Governments for a congress
sional charter.
The Northern Virginia plan
ners and members Of the Ma
tional Capital Regional Plan
ming Council have been in q
dispute for several months
over the planning roles Of both
councils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
BY DAN GOTTLIEB
Star staff Writer

In an unusual exercise Of It's
powers, the District Public
Utilities Commission last week
temporarily rejected a reduce
ton in rates offered by the
Potomac Electric Power Co. and
ordered a full-scale investiga-
ton into it's rates, services,
charges and profits.
The company offer Of q
100000 annual reduction fol-
lowed several months Of dis
cussions with the company
over its profit levels. The
PUG. said they appeared to
be higher than previously de-
termined to be fair and reason
able.
PUG. figures show that over
the past three years the COM
pany has collected about $18
million more from its custom
ers than it would have II rates
had been reduced to bring its
profit levels down to the levels
set by the PUG. in 1854 and
reaffirmed in 1859 when 1t
granted rate increases.
The $18 million does not rep
resent any improper overcharge
by the company. It has been
billing its approximately AGO.
900 customers in the metropoh-
tan area according to the rates
authorized BY the PUG. and
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the camp-meeting revivals that
occasionally ended in panic
with "the devil hard after
them" the people believed in
witchcraft and in ghosts
haunting their isolated island.
The Methodist church, founded
in 1885, almost made Method
ism the established religion
until q split occurred in 1916
and created the New Tesla
ment Congregation.
Today, most Of the islanders
enjoy the modern conveniences
in this community that resem-
bles q 18th Century English
fishing village. There is school
ing for grades 1-to-12 and a
newly constructed health CEN.
ter. A bucket brigade, however,
forms the only fire department.
A crisfield undertaken sails
his low-slung vessel, the king
Tut" to Tangier for the dead
and returns them for family
burial under tombstones in the
front yards along Main street.
The islanders maintain the old
tradition Of sitting up all night
with the dead.
The American Gothic" types
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04

was confirmed when they
checked the Belgian Embassy.
Up to that time, the authori-
ties were sure they had solved
the ocelot problem. After re-
ceiving some complaints from
neighbors, they had scratched
around until they found a stat
ute buried in the Virginia Code
that said no wild animals could
be imported without certain
procedures.
The authorities still are de-
termined to relieve Mrs. Huret
Of her cats. On Monday the
wardens will confer with VIII
liam ]. Hassan. Common
wealth's Attorney.
It will be his Job to notify
the State Department who win
then confer with the Belgians.
The ocelot affair began when
Elizabeth who has been with
Mrs. Huret at 1915 North Stat
ford street for only six months,
escaped over the fence.
"She likes anybody" ex-
planned Mrs. Huret. when In
spector Cole came to my housed
put Elizabeth in his arms and
all she did was lick his face. I"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
Pet OceIots Become
international Incident

An Arlington neighborhood
stir over two pet ocelots has
blossomed into something Of an
international affair.
Mrs. Raymonde Huret, q
secretary at the Belgian EN-
bassy, has claimed diplomatic
immunity for the pair Of
spotted cats which share her
North Stafford street home.
She tearfully rebuffed the
polite efforts of State and local
game wardens and two police
officers in their efforts to con-
fiscate Sabu and Elizabeth
Friday night after they finally
located a State law which
seemed TO make the pets pres
ence In Virginia illegal.
Lawton B. Gresham, Arling-
ton dog warden, admitted he
and Walter Flory, Virginia
game warden, and Inspector
Raymond s. Cole OF the Ar
lington Police were a bit taken
aback by Mrs. Huret's claim.
They came EARNED with q
search warrant and hardly
expected an international
incident.
Her diplomatic immunity
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islands few general stores are
small and ancient, though well
stocked.
Sighted in 1908 by Capt.
John Smith, Tangier was set
tied in 1885 by the Crocketts
after it was purchased from
the Pocomoke Indians for two
overcoats. Even today, nearly
all the inhabitants are named
Crockett, Parks, Die, Evans
and Pruitt.
Tracing their descent to
these early settlers, they are
a proud but extremely sensi-
tive people. They resent the
photographing of the old, sea-
worn homes (preferring that
pictures be taken of the
painted ones) and on one oc-
casion they dumped q stub
born newspaperman's camera
in the bay and ran him off
the island.
The Elizabethan dialect Is
fascinating and most notice.
able in the younger children
and older residents. "Yeer's We
sum water" means Here's
some water for you" for ex-
ample. and the mail boat Is
called the Mile" Boat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
By JOHN SHERWOOD
star staff Writer

TANGIER ISLAND, Va, Aug.
ga Shadowy sky the color
Of gray driftwood fingers mys-
teriously over this lonely fish
ing village at eventide. It cloaks
the stark clapboard homes
along the edge Of the marsh
land in a Surrealistic light
against the darkening horizon.
Seagulls ride the wind cur
rents in the darkening sky and
the cricketS begin their chorus
as If on cue. From inside Swain
Memorial Methodist Church
Come adoleScent voices singing
'shymns, and in the frame houses
adults gather in quiet, dark
parlors for the television hour.
2 But although these 900 is
landers, living in isolation in
the lower Chesapeake Bay still
speak with q Chaucerian dia-
lect and live off the sea in
much the same. way as their
ancestors from Cornwall, Eng
land. did 275 years ago. the
winds Of change are coming.
At nightfall the teenagers
turn on their transistor radios
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04

who live here rarely need eye
glasses and few smoke tobacco.
The dogs are as strangely quiet
as the children, and seldom
bark. And once island-born.
says Sid Parks, the unofficial
historian here, you never forget
it. you can take the boy out
Of Tangier, but you can't take
Tangier out Of the boy"
Leaving here aboard the mail
boat, one passes by the spotless
white working fleet and the
round-stern "ducktail'' fishing
boats. There are the Nellie
Jane" the alice Ann" and
many others tied up in the
Tangier harbor.
AS the Dorolena carefully fol-
lows the small channel out Of
the colorful harbor and back
to the land Of attenuation be-
yond Crisfield's Little Anne
messex River, the smile long
island dominated by the church
steeple seems an anachronism
in retrospect.
It's somewhat like abandon
ing a strange ship stranded in
the middle Of the ocean to be
buffeted by tropical storms and
locked in by the Ice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
Hearing Set on Tunnels
Under Bosin, Memorial

It will be financed from the
Federal Highway Trust Fund,
from gasoline taxes paid by
motorists and trucking firms.
The normal practice is for the
District to pay 10 per cent of
the costs and for the match
ing 80 per cent to come from
the Federal trust fund.
Because this is land owned
by the National Park Service,
the District will not have to
pay any part Of the total cost,
but it will be involved in the
administration and engineer
ing phases Of the projects.
Information Offered
The District Commissioners
will hold the hearing at 10
am. September S in the board
room in the District Building,
Fourteenth and e streets NV.
The District announcement
said further information on
the project before the hearing
may be obtained from the De-
partment Of Highways and
Traffic, District Building,
Washington 4, d. c.
In December the District and
the Park Service announced
completion Of an agreement on
the South Leg freeway, and
scheduled a hearing. Then the
question Of the second tunel
under the basin came up, and
the District had to cancel that
hearing.
The hearing is required by
law before the Commissioners
can receive planning funds for
the freeway segment. No for
NAL decision has been made on
the basin tunnel. but APP
parently informal decisions
have been reached in secret
sessions with the Park Service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
FIJI Asked to Probe
Cherry Bomb Sales

vestigators at Delaware First
State Fireworks contained ex-
actly the same markings, even
to the extent Of identical flaws
in the mold. as those manu-
featured at Capital Fireworks
Before Mr.. Semel was called
to testify. the subcommittee
heard testimony from Law
renee r. Wolff. fire marshal of
Prince Georges County, and
j. c. Robertson of Baltimore,
assistant fire marshal Of Mary
land.
They said the manufacture
of cherry bombs was not illegal
in Maryland, but that their sale
is prohibited by State law. They
suggested Federal legislation to
prohibit their manufacture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04
BY LEE FLOR
Star Staff Writer

A public hearing has been
set for September 5 on pro-
posals to build tunnels to carry
Inner Loop freeway traffic
under the Tidal Basin and the
Lincoln Memorial, the District
Commissioners announced yes
terday.
The tunnel beneath the tt
dial Basin would be built be-
tween the existing bridge
which carries eastbound
Independence avenue traffic
and the north bank Of the
basin, according to q map also
released yesterday.
The announcement Of the
hearing did not contain q price
tag for the basin tunnel. How
ever, the map shows it would
be about as long as the SIS
million tunnel beneath the
Lincoln Memorial. and appar-
emily the total cost Of that
freeway section now is between
$50 million and $40 million.
Scope Of Hearing
The hearing will be for the
portion Of the South Leg free
way between Constitution ave-
nue. Ito a connection with the
Southwest freeway and Maine
avenue" the announcement
said.
The tunnels will adequately
serve traffic and at the same
time preserve and enhance
the monumental character and
park atmosphere" Of the Me-
mortal and basin areas, the
announcement said.
The South Leg freeway will
be q six-lane highway. open
to auto traffic but closed to
truck and bus traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3 (AP).-
An assistant United States at
torney for Maryland said today
he has asked the FBI to inves-
tigate the shipment Of Mary
handmade plastic cherry
bombs" into other States.
Prosecutor Stephen H. Sachs
said q Federal law prohibits
shipment of fireworks into q
State where they are illegal,
and that he wants the FBI to
determine whether this law is
being violated.
Mr.. Sachs acted after Ber-
nsrd j. Semel, described as the
inventor of the plastic cherry
bombs. refused to testify before
a Senate Juvenile Delinquency
subcommittee in Washington
The hearing was recessed for
an indefinite period.
Fifth Amendment Invoked
Mr.. Scmel. who subcommittee
aides said holds patents on the
powerful fireworks devices
pleaded the Fifth Amendment
when asked to testify. Mr.. Semel
at one time was general man.
ager of Capital Fireworks. Inc,
at Brandywine, Md, where the
plastic covered bombs are man.
ufactured
Maryland authorities revoked
the plants license in Novem-
Der. 1862.
The subcommittee chairman
Senator Dodd. Democrat of
Connecticut. said that after the
company's license was taken
away, the manufacture of the
cherry bomb was transferred tc
Delaware First State Fireworks
at Elkton. Md.
Similar Markings Noted
II think IL Is significant, /"
Senator Dodd said, that the
plastic castings found by our In.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-04

the regulatory authorities Of
Maryland and Virginia.
To explore what the upcom-
ing investigation might mean
to area residents, The Star
spoke with PUG. officials and
examined both PUG. and Fed
eral Power Commission rec
ords. The company declined to
comment on the investigation
or give its side Of the story for
this article.
The average PEPCO residen-
tial user pays about $82 per
year in electric bills or $3.50
monthly for $50 killowatt hours
This is the amount Of electricity
normally used in q home for
lighting, various small apph-
ances, refrigeration and cook
ing.
The 500 XVIII user, who might
have an electric water heater
in addition to the other appli-
ances q $50 XVIII customer uses,
pays $11.59 monthly.
The 1000 XVIII user, typically
someone with air conditioning
or other heavy electrical appli-
ances added on, pays $20.59.
Under U. s. Average
The $50 XVIII bill from PEPCO
is So cents lower than the Us,
average and fifth lowest among
10 of the largest metropolitan
areas served by private power
companies. Nationwide compar-
isons for those who use more
electricity are not readily avail
able.
Vice Chairman Edgar H.
Bernstein Of the PUG. said he
feels the rates for smaller con-
sumers are In line, but that the
rate above 800 XVIII is a fairly
outrageous price" PEPCO's res
idential rates are as cents for
the first 40 XVIII; 1888 cents for
the next $50 and l.8 cents for
everything over 800. The last
rate bloc in other areas aver
ages about Ia to l.5 cents II
the customer has electric heat
ing. Mr.. Bernstein said.
Mr.. Bernstein fastened TO
add. however, that the p. u. c.
does not set electric rates by
comparison with other areas,
but uses them as aids. The
FPC cautions in reporting on
electric rates that there are
many factors which operate
TO produce differences in unit
costs or differences in the
level of bills" How far a CON-
pany has to transport its fue'
in PEPCO's case coal-usec
to produce electricity Is one
factor II mentions.
The key figure which the
p. U. c. looks at in determin-
ing what are fair rates 70
charge PEPCO's customers Ii
how much profit those rates
produce. Profits must be high
enough TO make the business